The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-15 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAV, FEBRUARY 14, 1820.

" The Omar for which HAMPDEN fell in

GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.
Leedom, Feb. 14, IWO.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a SPECIAL
COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY
will be held on Wednesday. the lit day of March [telt, at
Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, at tho Calms and Amnion
TAVERN, in the Strand, in the County of Middlewx,. for the
purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of con-
firming a Call upon the Shares of the last orw Capital.

B) Order of the Conn of Direetori:

JOHN PEDIHiIt. Secretary.
N.B. The Chair will be taken at Twelve n'elfica p►eol4ely.

Field, and STONEY died on the Scaffold!"

his commission ender Irk:rem% was denied, and his!
bills from APAilantare derided—and who now, after his
fatigue and his fever, and expenditure. stands branded
by the adherents of IJ'Everong as a renegade and a de-
serter. I quote a published proclamation of Colonel
.Aylinor, calling those who returned deserters, and un-
worthy the appellation of his countrymen. Sir, Colonel
Young and the other witnesses have declared themselves
ready to authenticate those tarts by affidavits. To use,
their honour is quite sufficient. Colonel Young says,
lacteal, his rank was acknowledged, not because he
brought any commission from D'Evereux, but because '
he brought out 200 men ; and Mr. Hiekie tells von that
any of D'Everens's pretended Captains and i.olooels
who landed had muskets put into their hands as
common soldier*. Driven to their last shift, the
partizans of D'Evereux pretend this was all in con-
sequence of the removal of Arismendi (roes the tau-
veriturship. Tell me, I beseech you, how does this
tally with the pretemleol dispatch sent by D'Ev
.through Colonel Young, to English, who denied
bald. deadnassod him, Hot, Sir, it cannot be, fur
all the officers tell you distinctly that the removal of
Arismenoli caused no revolution whatever of authorities
on the island. Sir, doing our duty to the public, elicit-
ing those farts we hare been perpetually impeded—the
partisans of General D'Evereux have interfered—and
that tery clamuurunsly. Thee have even branded the
Committee as partial ; they have threatened us with
Counsel and agent ; all because we have tried to do our
duty to our injured fellow-eonnteyinett. They have even
ask.ed, will we condemn an absent titan ; God of Heaven,
why tinder such charges is Ac absent .! Ile had pottier
wide as the public press—of these charges ; nay, he
even sent one of the Committee a composed justification
uu oae tlav, and the next days post desired. him to sum-
maid/ate It! One of his partisans egistia, Ise will he
here; another says be is sick; s third aays he will set
oat on, easy stages of mikes dos, frost the Tavistock
Hotel to Hoak Ilea (toll miles), and, of course, we may
expecelsiist about the time of Circuit; and, to crown the
juke, Colonel Young tells you, that • lt•puty
Commissary AP:Namara- wrote to him, that he wonkl
meet him un au evening, to account for one of the
" humbug" bills, and that at the very hour of his ap-
pointimint, he was himself sting on board a packet! Sir,
I will be no party to this delusion. Every step we take
we are interrupted; nay, almost personalty iusulnd. I
never are au insult—l. will not brook one ; and I wilt
not sitbere and see our Coinouittee Diode a hear garden,
under pretence of doing justice to the public. I should
have beenjust as anxious to adva ewe tieneral D'Evereux's
defence as I hare been forward too scrutinize his accusa-
tion; bat hisfriends—leisjordicieue friends, have inter-
rupted es—perhaps they hail their reasons ; they best
know theta. Sir, fur my part, 1 never impasse Nom Ely
country:nett ; I will not he instrumental in tins mockery
of an investigation. I will not sit here to listen to either
Counsel or •ttornry retained, as if to act ag.aivat won
chosen by.tir COVritry; I will not, as ham been attempted,
res:rain lay questions within the rigid Uthnic.ilitirs of a
.Corrt isfijoil* I will lie guided. is my decision, UF one
belief of a man like Colonel Young, who was at Mar-
Krritta ; who kn"w D'Etereux. Brian, English, anal
Guinea. and who tells you on his honour, and if von ask
it, on hisnath, that kis conscience is satisfied iienerel
D'Evereux had nut the authority to act as he slid. Sir,
I will not delude the public. I appeal to the persons
present, whether we ran proceed io this investigation,
interrupted as it is, without a mockery upon that public.
Its awful priatitiltrie rase was every moment advancing;
thane who have interrupted it, know best why they did
so. Por nay WWII part. I would have zealously aides) the
,lefenes of the accused, as I have considered it my duty
to scrutinize his accusers ; but it is not permitted me.
I have sat every day ; I have not spared myself ; even on
this slay, I have remained seven hours in succession, and
we all present have dune this in the continued absence
, of four getatlemen who were nominated, who ought not
, to have been nominated without their concurrence, and
who, if they concurred, ought to have attended. Sir,
under such circumstances, I shall tit here no longer ; I
, cannot do so in justice to the public; 1 ranool do so in
justice to the young lumen who allege, that they Isere
I been deceived and plundered ; I cannot du so in justice
to the parents who allege, that their children have been
, murdered and calumniated.