The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-30 00:00:00

THE STATFS.:NI.I

( coolness: we shall, however, venture to try bow
far we are endowed with that virtue, and endeavour
to examine, without t xaggeration, what has been
gained and lost on the side of the Ministers, and
on that of the people. The Ministers have attained
cue point of considerable importance. The meet-
ing of the !Cita of August has been pronounced
'• materiel." This, their supporters now Aim I
was the only olject which they had in view.'
; Thin is nut true. Their object was to prove;
that the meeting- was not only illegal, but that
it fray riotous, that the public pence eras brotten,l
anti broken with *melt riedesee, and by such nun.-
tern. that the only means of safety consisted in
calling in the militate.'. !n this object they laurel
failed. All their efforts to establish that part oil
. their case have terminated in demonstrating the!
tel'erse. therefere. the cause of the people I
has gained an advantage, which more than coun-
terbalances that obtained by the Ministers. The
meeting of the lc:h of August has been proved, to
the satisfaction of the honest and impartial Judge
himself. to have been most l eaceakle and orderly,
till the arriral of Me military." This was his
declaration to the Jury : and he even went so far
as to remind them. that putilic business had not
been interrupted. durin,► the meeting. that the
might determine whether the alleged degree of
alarm had existed at Manchester. He attrltinted
the statements made to the coatrary, by one of the
Magistrites. to want of coolness at the time when
he c.meeived a heavy responsibility lay upon him.
i and to his being placed iu an unfavourable situation
for observing what was really passing. lie de-
clared" that there was no etielence of Actelin'it
inability to execute the warrant," without the aid
of the military, and expressed his sierpri,v that Nadia
himself had not been called to justify his application.
osr the other Mini trates examiakd to contirm the
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slalom-Ist that that application had be: a made.—
" To say that they were in attendance," he added.
'• would not do—the f::et was, that they hog not!
been examined .1" What the upright Judge wished
the Jury to infer frem this observation. we shall
not attempt to inquire. Hut it must strike every
impartial man, that when a vital point is lett
unsupported by the evidence of those who had
been represented as able to substantiate its
nature, considerable doni,ts mast arise. or ra-
ther few cal remain, at to 1/ii. capacity. or
incapacity of those witnesses whom it has not
been thought prudent to produce. To this we are
answered, that they were in attendance. but that
it was not thought necesslry to ell' them. We
usigist reply in the words of the halite himself .• this
will not do ;" but we will ask the Prosecutor host
*he could entertain such an opinion when he
iaW tho tern which the trial was taildiq.., and
I the little effect produced by Mr. HI:I.TON'ti soiitary
evidence t How came he, who, in his official ca-
pacity. must have been eager to give his ease crery
yarterrt which could lead to a successful terntina-
lion, to be less vigilant Win the Judge hine.t.if;
who sat to adminhater justice to both sides of the
question I Let hini answer in a ,stisfaciory man-
ner—let hits recollect, that if his former reply
Hwould awl do," in the opikton ut the Judge and
Jury, it is still less calculated to satisfy the country,
who will now, more than ever, think herself en-
titled to demand a serious inquiry into the tniss;ae-
tious of the 16th of August.

Colonel P. W. draat, of Grant, has brill nti.snien. comely
re-elected Representative in Pailianseut fur the ('utility of
Elgin.
On the nth current, Lieutenant-lieneral thy lion.
Sir Alexander Hope was On:lnilosesoisly sr-6.691rd 'tepee.
:tentative iu Parliament fur the Caney of
1 The Sheriff of Wigtowleire has appuisetrel Teeursday,
the Slltle in :tint, for the eiretion of aßeprevintatire for
,that eunnty in Parliament, when it is neuleroood Colo-
net Blair, thinskev. trill ler nesanimoisly re-elected.
Un Thursday the nicht floe. Archibald t'ulepetsuie.
Lord Register of Scollatel. ass mi.aiimeiedv re-rlected
3lember of Parliasurest fur the County of bunsbartun,
for the fifth time. Afire. the election the Lord Itriister
'aeldressed :hit Freeholders in an eloquent speech, and
returned thanks fur the honour confrere', on him.
Te.,selay the Duke of Volta heft a military lever, at
his 'Mice, in be florae tin tells, as C emenanner-en-Chief.
It is reported that the Constitutional Army of
the Isle of Leon, commanded by Quirora. entered
Cadiz before they bad intelligence of the Revolu-
tion effected at Madrid.
, It appears, by helices from Hambeirgh, that the
' Legislative Body has recejnized the admissibility
of Catholics and Cal' ds, who have hitherto
been excluded, to official sitwations. The destruc-
tion of the fortifications of that city is also fully re-
solved upon.
Nut three months and a half Dun the rable
Realer, or Exchequer Bills of Spain, were at a dis-
Count oT 80 per cent., and even at this rate they
could not then have been negoelattd ; but nu sovner
was the Constitution proclaimed in La Isla than
they rose to 71. and the subsequent wants in Co-
, rutin& brouzlit them to 01, at w bide prior they were
when the last advit.es crone away, NA It *is et-
peeled the discount would still rapidly diminish.
It is generally believed mow, the merchants in
the City connected with the NOrth of that
no orders were sent over to this country, as stated.
I lor the neg,ociation of a luau of 60,0U01. sterling,
under the security of sixteen hours iu Cerunna: Iron
if such a limn had been wanted, it would ele.ilv have
been obtained on the spot truth half the siTuaturiss. ;
Thee Constitution of Spain rxpre.ssly thAlares
I that the King cauuot alienate. cede,ur a‘change
any province, city, burg, o: t Jews, nor any part,.!
however small, of the Spanish territor) : speeify-!
iieg, at the same time, the prhicipsl parts of that!
territory, and distinctly reentiortic the two Irlo-1
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