The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-12 00:00:00

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(CITiaCT OP A ;ATTIE DATZD. JAN. 10; I8!1).
The Canning Cycle have at last acted in a way
which, had it proceeded from a better motive, would
have shed sonic faint I'►stre on that opaque body. On
Saturday those worthies held a privy council to deviee
the most efficient means of preserving the pre&
peace ! On Monday they held a meeting at the
KING'S Anus INN, and this asonting, to the deliglat
of every LOYAL and well-disposed inhabitant, the
Ltv carom, COURIER proclaimed that the lonely and
disconsolate squad had resolved to ABSTAIN from the
TOWN WESTIN.; announced to take place this day!
Of all possible means of preserving the rases
of the town, this, which ensured the Ansyscs
of the ato•rous and DISORDEELT, was the most effi-
cient! The most salutary effects flowed from this wise
resolution. The Meeting was numerously and MOST
RESPECTABLY attended, the speakers were numerous,
an-t never more eloquent. The auditors hailed with
rnthusiastn every passage remarkable for its pointed
reprobation of those men and measures, under which
this empire has been brought to the verge of ruin, and
its annals sullied by a persecution of a virtuous Queen,
the moral ravages of wl►ich are irreparable, as its
stains are IN DSLIBLS.

On Monday the following Circular was issued by the
Canning cycle, namely :
! " are respectfully requested to attend
meeting, to he held at the KING'S ARMS, Water-street,
on Monday next, the Silt inst. at one o'clock in the af-
ternoon, on business of importance, connected with the
peace of the town.
Liverpool, Jan. 6, 1;.21."
On Monday the little angry Squads laid their heads
together, and their slavish, dependents talked loudly
of the Msroa having been requested to have the
MILITARY in REAMINISS, and to swear in a large
body of SPECIAL CONSTABLES of course, every body
else laughed at these forebodings, and as to the3lsvou,
he knew the Cycle much too radically to be rendered
! the dupe or' Instruments of their factious purposes.
To add to their confusion, the real friends of the
Mo.eAßcuY, those who would fain banish from the
King's presence those incapable men, whose .1 won-
!
stututional rule have shorn the Crown of much of its
lustre, end so deeply impaired the sprillfrs of public
liberty, invited in their placards, announcing the'
meeting at the TLysis Canty for this day, per-
sons of any or all political o;linions to attend,
and promised them a fair and impartial bearing, and
the most perfect protection anti personal security. In
fact, the public feeling was worked to sudi a pitch
of indignation at the trick th..t the ;Iltra-party had
played off, in sending a horde of abject ruffians to
cause the last meeting to be prematurely dissolved,
that the schemers
.durst no nm.. attempt that
inanutuvre : and as to their entertaining any hope of
roping with the talent and patriotism embodied on
the popular side, feeble as are their intellectual powers,
they hail still sense enough to see the precipice, and
keep away. It was therefore in their cowardice and
despair that the following useouTtoss were publish-
ed in their lArliteur, the Liverpool Courier, i. e.
"That the Mayor having refused to convene a meet-,
; In( or to preside, theolbjeiFt ToihellegiNg of this day ;
that public assemblies ought to be eonvehod be pirblic
Magistrates—that in the Reformer's requisition there
did not appear the name of any Magistrate: that the
sense of thus great town is not to be deduced from seat
a meeting ; that if numerous, it may create animosity,
inflame the minds of the ignorant ! and endanger tie
public peace : that they Moak the Msvoa for declining
to attend or to preside; and TUERIFORE they think it
I.7NYIKESSARY to attend themselves :"

Certainly a very wisa resolution, although their
Fs ttt was the parent of their wisdom.

LOYAL ADDRESS ff the COUNTY of DUBLIV.

(rRoM (ARRICK.S MORNINI; POST.)

The Address of the 'ounty of Dublin, agreed to una-
nimously, by the Freeholders, Lord l.'lonenrr• in the
Chair, has been signed by his Lordship, as Chairman of
the County Meeting, awl forwarded to his Grace the
Duke of Leinster, who will present it at the next Levee.
We observe by the Government Papers, that a certain.
loyal Address, purporting to he (y. the county, is left for
signature at one of the Newspaper Offices. This is very
ridiculous ! As well might Sir Richard Steele, call him-
self the Goecrnment : or Sir Harcourt Lees set himself
down as the (1/4lrrh, as the getters up of this mock Ad-
dress miscall it the Address of the Count•.

We have good reason to believe that the worthy High
Sheriff (he should be dubbed the Sheriff par exrdtptere)
of the County will be put upon his own resources, for
defence against certain law proceedings, which any
Freeholder, or every Freeholder present in the County
Court, on the memorable occasion, when the Sheriff ac-
quired for himself immortal fame, may institute against
him. The 001.cm:tient will disown the act; and what
is still worse, his own snug little party say, that the She
conduct was that of a man bereft of all reason and
presence of mind.
The truth is, now that the affair is over, they are all
ashamed. Some, perhaps, are disconcerted at the result
not being similar to what it was at Manchester, on the
great day of Peter Loo.
We have received an immense number of letters and
applications, requiring of us to state, who, and what,
and what countryman, this Sir Richard Steele is; we
answer we don't know--we have never heard of the man
before.
We understand that Lord Cloncnrry, immediately
after the outrage committed upon him at the County
Meeting, addressed a letter on the subject to Eati
Talbot. The Lord Lieutenant's answer was to the effect
" that the law was open to every aggrieved party."
Colonel Talbot offers a lame excuse for his desertion
of the Freeholders ;—" he will go any where, or de any
thing, that his Constituents may require." This would
be correct enough, if it was an invitation to dinner—but
a man in the circumstances of Colonel Talbot. should
Wel, and not be drivels; or else have the candour to de-
clare his dissent, if he differed from his Constituents.
He has lost the County.
ADDRESS TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT.
The Address and Remonstrance agreed to at the Ad-
journed -Meeting, at the Corn Exchange Tavern, on
Thursday, wasadmoted his Excellency the. Lord
Liesiessel, on ay last, by Lord Closcwrry.

TO THE KCVO.
Sine—tith the most profound respect for the dig-
nity of your office, and every constitutional 'afftctieW
for your August person, I venture to address your,
Majesty; for in these momentous tint,. silence is cri-
minal, and It is the paramount duty of every Free-
man to address the Throne, even though the gracious
lips of Majesty may murmur at the honesty
which prompts it.

From a late royal, (t would fain have said gr aci-
ous) reply, it is more than ever apparent, that your
Majesty Is enrelloped in the atmosphere of bad men,
who cloud your kindness from the subject, and cast
a gloom even over the proverbial affability of your
presence.

There are men, my liege, whom it might be li-
bellous to name, who are either too weak to discover
truth, or too wicked to support it, or what is more pro-
bable, are egregiously foolish enough to doubt
whether honesty is the best policy of mankind. These
men, your Majesty's penetration will doubtless point
out, bet there is one, whom I will designate by more
particular remark, one whom I will hereaftet arraign
at the bar of reason, and his own conscience, and who
if a latent, though mouldering spark of honesty be
left, shall burn with shame at the remembrance of
himself, and stand convicted even to his own most par-
tial imagination. It is one who marked his entrance
into political notoriety, by a triumph over the consti•
tutioual freedom of his coiiii!ry, and who has succes-
sively trampled upon all the barriers with which liberty
opposed his progress. He is a hero, in the annals of
despotic power, and rose like a cloud of smoke :rout
the dismal conflagration of his country. I shall not,
however, attempt to stir up Irish animosity by a mor-
tifying picture of past and glorious freedom, nor will
I rake up the ashes of an once happy constitution, or
mark the hand which stabbed the infant liberty of
Ireland. I will not do these things, my liege, least I
should disturb the tranquillity of your Majesty. I
shall out notice the early friends trodden under foot
by this noble Lord, in ascending the ladder of politi-
cal power ; these I shall leave fur his own closet-
thoughts, if he be not too busy, or too fearful to ven-
ture upon private reflection. I shall pass over his
rising and nieredian fame, and treat only of that part,
which I hope to Otid I may prophetically term the
setting of his political career.

We are told, I know not with what trlth, hnt what
for the honour of your Majesty I believe, that your
Majesty's feelin;v in no wiy pr,rupt the proceedings
against the Queen. lle.ievinq this, as I feel bound to

t tits, I most humbly offer a compliment to your filijc itv
urn Ako pinieleof your heart, and sincerely congra-
ftlitela" coniitiy iti possessing a Sore-eign whose
min i is superior to the feelings of malice, and whose
' gallantry revolts at female persecution. As the proceed-
ing does not originate with your Majesty, with whom
ran it commence; is Lord the origin; I hope, for
i the sake of his posterity, he is not; but if lie is, what
motive could prompt him to the act? it could not be
to please your Majesty, for the King most nobly dis-
t claims all party feeling un the subject. It cannot be
I private resentment, for his Lordship has nothing to
resent ; it cannot be for the benefit of the people, for
the country spurns at any rood they may derive; it
cannot be for justice, or tho evidence would have been
'more impartially collected, and the good and the bad
would have been equally received by the Commis-
' sioners. As these are not the motives, what in the
1 name of Ood is the reason why the public papers are
to teem with gross indelicacy, which would
I Why is your Majesty to be insulted in the person of
; the Queen, or the honour of the country to be com-
promised for ever ? Report says, this disgusting
• proceeding will be again commenced ; yonr Majesty
. has the power to stop it. By listening tv the voice of
your people you will serfire the affections of the
country, but should a fleet ear be turned to their re-
monstrances, I shall never cease to pray for your Ma-
jesty, though fear to think on the dreadful conse-
quences, w hich it is more than probable may take
place.
Let me entreat, nay implore you, Sire, to consider
the man or motive which prow. Ices this daring tura-
sae ; for whether it be a most igooble Vacs, or a 'nest
Noble 4 Lord, it is equally prejudicial to your Majesty's
popularltr.
The Musistey„ with all patronage at their heelfOrave
nut yet been able to trample upon royalty, thoughthey
have alo a toot more cloven, than the most malicious
radieal, Rd far more ready for the desperate attempt,
Here my Liege, let us pause, to view die horrors
which may attend a renewal of the Bill of
Nip' and Penalties, flay your Majesty reflect
ere it be too late, and by reflection, retain the
love of your subjects while the power is yet within
your reach. Though the Min:stry may have les-
sened the popultHey of your Majesty, the people yet
think that the Ring eau do no wrong: and I entreat
Iyou, Sire, by onr sacred Constitution, to stop this ruinous
; undertaking and avert that dreadful calamity r,c,i-
-; aminotion which with deference to your exalted viitues
' might lead the ignorant to suppose that the Monarch
was only infallible in idea, or that the person and
1 office of the Sovereign are not equally immaculate.
And here, while I congratulate your Majesty on the
happy maxim, by which the venal vices of the best of
I Princes may be thrust on the shoulders of a servant,
I i yet condole with my Sovereign, when I find he is
reciprocally made to bear the adhesive infamy of
Ministers. If the Queen be not guilty, I call upon
you, Sire, in the name of an injured people, to dismiss
the men who have insulted your Majesty, your Lords,
and Commons; and if she is guilty, these my Liege,
,we not the 1110 to prove her pop: their very oppositfon
implies her lanocence, for "Sires of prey, prey nut
on each *dm" VI maws.

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