The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-18 00:00:00

STATEStIAN.

ration of the county, which he held for '27 years,
and upon his resignation the county was turned
over to Lord Dorstey, who his not held it, more
dm three months; and now, Gentlemen, mark the
dreadful dilemma in which that party is placed, and
which they little especttal would arrive so soon :
' they cannot bring the earthy Admiral foroard
again, for he" fretv•the ab.‘olate necessiN of ez•crly
person being at his post at this important crisis,"
and the next brother is not of age.— [Some of the
Freeholders here observed thst he was of age.]—
Then, I suepose, they thought it too soon to bi tug
biut forward, and therefore support Mr. Dutton, as,
in all probability, from the age of Lord Sherburne,
at nu very distant period, the county will revert to '
the same channel again, if me. Dutton soce,th to
the representation of it ; and so we are, for the
present, to ring a change with the Peers. - Gentle-
men, it really strikes me, that after the great con.
test, 31 years ago, the two great Peers of this
county, heartily tired of the expence and trouble
,attending Contested Electioos, had a meeting to-
gether, and exclaimed, " Brother, Brother, ue
are both in the lc rong, in thus opposing each
other, it will save us a great deal of anxiety, and
a great deal of expellee, if we keep it as a snug
borough in our own families, and whichever family
makes a vacaney4 one of the same family shall suc-
ceed him ;" and it has been my Uncle; and my
Nephew, and my Brother ever since. This, Gen.
tlemen, has been submitted to for the last 2U years,
Sander the idle and childish, the vain and frivolous
pretence of preserving the peace of the county ;
that things had much better remain as they are, than
' disturb the. peace of the county—expressions more
lit for a company of timid old women than the
Freeholders of such a, county as this (laughter).
You may well laugh; Gentlemen, but such ex.
presaions have actually been made use of by those
who, front ,their rank mot education, ought to have
been ashamed to have used them. But, Gentlemen,
it seems the Duke was a little more grasping than
the Earl, and attempted to bring in another Bro-
ther for the city ; though, " to be sure, the city
:Jos not in the bond:" but the independent Free.
men of this ancient city treated it with the contempt
it deserved, and compelled my Brother Arthur
to retire from the field, after three day's ineffectual
contest. Here, Gentlemen, is a noble example,
well worthy your imitation ; and I trust that these,
and other considerations, will induce you to come
forward to support the worthy and respectable
Baronet, to whom the county is under the high.
est obligations, for giving it an opportunity of
asserting its long lost rights*. If you succeed,
which I am fully convinced you must, if there is
the last spark of independence in the county, I
recommend you to keep the anniversary of it as a
real Jubilee fur ever! that when your children grow
t up, and ask you the occasion of it, you may inform
them it was you who canto forward to rescue the
county from the disgraceful. state of thraldom in
which it had been so long retained ; at the same
time, teach them to support our glorious constitu-
tion in church and state ; but above all, impress
upon tneir minds, in the strongest manner, the ab-
solute necessity of respecting the purity and inde-
pendence of Elections, as the surest preservative of
both. In the mean time, gentlemen, I recommend
you to establish an Independent Club, in imits.
thou of Staffordshire, and other counties, *ho li
have come forward to resist the aristocratical in-
fluence Of the Peen, I do not mean to oppose all
Peers; only those who du not understand the Con.
stitution, or if they do, act diametrically opposite
to the principles of it ; for we have au it:stance well
known in this place, of an illustrious Peer+, who
considers it his highest gratification to come forward
as an advocate for the tights of the people. Some
Gentlemen misunderstand me in supposing that I
meant a subscription, for that the worthy Baronet
would be the first to discourage; but ['mean a club
to collect the voters together, and convey them to
the poll ourselves, without any expence to tha
candidate.
" Now, Gentlemen, I have done. You per.
ceive I have made use of very plain language, fur,
in my opinion, it suits the subject best, and I wish.
to be understood by every Yeoman, as well as by
those of more refined education. • I have only to
observe, that if you support the worthy Baronet,
you support yourselves and the cause of indepen-
dence; if not, you only rivet your own fetters the
stronger, and deserve to wear them for ever."
* :Since I spoke at the Ciinatv Meeting, I have seen a Red
Book. wherein the county of Gloucester is classed under the
list of Boroughs, in the hands of ten noble P.cer,; surely,
Gentlemen, it is it melaneholys reAection for any Freeholder,
with the least spark of indepeudence, to bee his native county
so degraded.
+ Duke of Norfolk.

The suppression the Convents in the Dmar4-
.ments of Genoa, &c. &c.• is one of those good
things which lirmita.t wet occasirmally does, not
from any just or honourable motive,. but purely be-
cause it happens to suit his selfish purposes. The
suppression of the Inquisition iii Spain, together
with the abolition of several feudal burthen:,, w ere
solely designed to break that opposition by an ap-
pearance of conciliation which he found it more
difficult than he hid imagined to remove by arms.
These proceedings, however, may be attended with
vast advantages at a future 'period, when the state
of the world shall have become inure settled. A
great number of abuses will be destroyed, which
had.they not been thus violently overthrown, might
through the weakness and prejudices of old Co.
vernments hive subsisted for centuries. It is thus,
that even the bad passion of NirotEoN may in
many respects prove of no little .bettetit to the
[moan race.

Yesterday morning, a Mr. Wilson, of No. 9,
Lambeth-road, fell from a two.pair of stairs wilt_
duw, and was killed un the spo►.
The Nubility, Gentry, Chills, and Societies,
are respectfully informed by IfourtsßY and Co.
that the State Lottery wilt be drawn TO-MOB-
ROW. lintoissv and Cu. solicit the faeours of
the Public on the present occasion, un which Day
they hope to dibble among those who honour thcui
with their commands, a large proportion of the
Twu Hundred Thousan►l Pounds Prize Money.
The First-drawn 20,0001. Pr;ze, and the last-
drawn 20,0001. were shared and sold by 11011NSZY
and CO. at No. 26, Curnl►ils anti St. Margaret's.
hill: Borough.

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Yesterday, Richariklarrou, • hay aild st,
salesman in St. Jacneti's • Market, was bon
fore Mr. READ, the Sitting Magistrate, te,
mons, for Alin, on' the tit9th of September
to James Gaunt, in Witoriort-stret.t, 54 tras,4l
straw, 30 of wbiO•wittre of bad quality in the inside.
George Kern., of the Cuck, its the Ilayrasrit,
attended fur the lkfeutlatit, and pleaded t,
Guilty."
William Hale, Clerk to Jameq Gaunt, said ,n
he was present on the 29:6 of September, ei„
,414 Defendant sold 54 trrissus of straw in St. jaw
Haymarket, to James Gaunt, and he has hr,
when the same straw was brought home Is
Gaunt's yard, in Wigmore-street ; where, on„,„
ing some of the trusses and finding them badrs;
the insides, the carter was desired to wait till ill
Clerk of the Market was sent (or.

'William Stevens, Deputy Clerk of the Mirk
said, that on the t 9th of September he was Natl
to Mr. Gaunt's yard, when he opened and tzi
ined 4 trusses of straw, 30 of which were
iu
insides, of inferior goodness to what the °soil
appeared Itu be, being composed of short sin
thistles, and ►weds ; that sonic of the Onset I
more of it than others.

He was convicted in the penalty of is, cult fi
30 trusses, amounting to 11. 10s. and 7, GA
MA N SION HOUSE.
Folkard was yesterday conveyed to the
House, before the usual time of trawling -I.);
lice business, and privately examined. The do,
Prisonerw
Breu aitlGli.c‘Alvs,Rasse:Lu, i
lain
(tell
Ab:nuirty.
oilddrui
tnesuoloyi
diAtl
fts
Ifti,etioul:s
yesterday brought befure the
:LORD MATOR
entered the
OlSAPliCti7Aohflchramv nag
stole thereout a large mahogany portable d.
and a leather portfolio, containing a great watt
of private papers of considerable importance.
It appeared that the robbery was cunning( at
the night of the lath of September, and that ad.
mission was gained into the house by the mean if
a back window, which communicated with tit
leads of an oat-house, on which any peruse*
base got by means of• a ladder, from a coast ills
back of the street. When the robbery wars
covered on the ensuing morning, bills were faits
diately circulated, and every expedient resonsi
for the detection of the offenders, but in Tajo;
were any tidings heard of the property Ontario.
day last,- when a man named James Brown *
on the Alderman, and informed him that lei
been at the Prisoners' lodgings in Braekleyatati
Golden-lane, on Mondiy evening, and theta*
the fragments of a ntaliogany desk, %Ouch, lass
told by the wife of the' Prisoner, had been An
from a counting-house in Austin-fries, Mid
brought there was full of papers, which, IN
' found useless, were destroyed. After *leg
avoid detection, the deoi was broken up. Hal*
heard of the robbety that had been committed st
the house of Mr. Alderman Atkins, Jte condstled
this was the desk which • was *gilded to in the bill
that had beets published,. and went the next toot
ing to give an account of what he had seen.
Officers were immediately sent fur, who at.
companies, Brown to the Prisoners' lodgings, an
there found the articles described, which; toget
with the Prisoners, they conveyed to the Cove,
On the production of the fragments of (beds
yesterday, and other articles which had bee
hat the Piisoners' 'apartment, Mr. Alderman It
kips, after a elm scrutiny, recognized them Iva
his property.
Lawrence, on being asked how he had obnisi
possession of the prooerty, told the old tail of
having purchased it from a man in the street. li
wife was prepared with a similar story. They an
Committed fur further examination.
The male Prisoner has already served ail appro.
ticeship on board the hulks at Woolwich, Werth
was confined fur an outrageous assault and robbery
committed on a fishmonger in the city, absat eitit
years since.
• M ItbIIOI2OIMR- STRF.V.T.
A NOTIISR MONSTER. Were:trot that the pats
ment lately inflicted on offenders suns to hall
had hut little effect in the preveution of a reel
offence. A mail' of genteel appearance, of tht
name of Richard Cambridge, was yestertiay chug.,
ed at this Office, by Thotwai Mills, with altti(Diti
assault in Hyde Park ; and the disgitslimurrittrsi
was such, that the Prisoner way committed. Ti
Prisoner, who was formerly boiler to Mr. sine
b 2, Harley-Meet, but who is now a Clerk oral
aAecucgoeurnatst,thweasOcffioctie of
veyed?e Comptroller
withdinicui,; (f A
from
James's Walch.house, amidst an infuriated
salutedowffheonsive wealii)iomn tulinstliilr t,
hisf
sticks,eaturefiss nu,
bernib!e. After his examination, a Genders:o
Mary.le.botie-st reet, and another of (Flea Anstreet, offered themselves-for hail ; but the tic'
sought refuge in the office until a-late hoar, to
an iietiseiatit mob waiting at the front and
,
ileor of the office.e4reni nut i
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MALMO, ,
On 'Werinesdny senniglit, Joules West, Esq. of EeneY'r
111.isue11, I.yonnigio7, Ilan's,
I.ati.l), the Rem. ltnb rt Fountain Liiuin, in %ZI
Murt lug Blake, eldest tiaitt:ltt.,.r of Thomas Bloke, Eml•
George's 'lambi:sod. to Norwits'
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DIED. •
Oa Tuesday the 9th at-Weymatith: John Arbstt
Cioveivorof Korth l'acsaottett, old oat of Ms lasioW
Justices of the l'eare for the County of D9roei•
Ow the 19th list. at ihe Lhder3.nitbriltiitarke,
Mrs. Catharine 'rreoseohrere. mixt of Mt. Tieuideltelii":
okay of that town, 4:lliiiter.
Tharsdtq I:tst, at LiltsvangitaniCardigiushirel
Esq. Ationritf of the %intr. rst
Oa Titursdny 104, ffnverfardwmt, Mn. Colthu
Lady of John Colthurst, 1:44. and wi,kpe.ef the jess-Thow
Jones; Esq. rf Canorerthro. • home
!Early un Turainy touraint, the ldtfr lost.
at
Ilart-street, -11loatne.urv-squarr, John B,lstide%t t or,
T•erVit,' Lannon, and tit linibtauke Lodge, nea 1
Ousrx, ill hts Tit:t Neat.

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