The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-27 00:00:00

i'ESMAN.

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`.ti TRACT 0? 4 !ATTU( F*QM AM orrtern AT QUI-
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Proclamation for dissolving the Palma, ' j"- -'
Travencore, I take the liberty 'as it may not prove publ,c advertisement. Aft , co"'' e 4
of informing yoe of the daner my, .etillz If th
i ttiainterestieg, . •
Afton tee Niece Pr e„,
self, and every_Earopeen Officer In Quilon, have
, es- ne:.t had 4,,
read, and the previ
taped. [mint commence ke telling you, that we the Noble
ens necessary furies VV.. gn
base had, as State prisosers, a Devan• of Trav through, Lord ader.-ssod i• • Irre '
4n- following effect, to a . "re'" •(5 14 core, lntely for some misdetneanour depesed ; also anumerous and highly irca 01
able body of
men called the Pyche Rajah. These together, by
had corrupted a native 'Officer Of the 14th Goniamcx, Electors of the Comity f L 't.'
c! re
regiment of. infantry, and they engaged him to bring .e.
ter,--4 now present myself I),f/ere you i ' .
into their plans the greatest part of the native fed,
with the public noticelva ' , 11 C
tech I have given to'
troops of Qulloa, and I am sorry to say, ill ft to pay my respects to yo •u, collectively -,
great measure they succeeded. The Rajah, the as individually, and to express to yon the lins •
duct in
prime instigator of the Whole plot, proposed, that • which, my view c: the present state (,:- ~,.
when sufficient numbers of, sepoys came into country, it is necessary that a Member of p ;:'
their views to attempt the muider of all the Euro-
9ment should pursue, in the situatiouweich h. li •
in the olds
peen Officers in the place, and to be accomplished Legislature of the country. I arn IT,
he great resoonsibilit • ' • •. ' IT ,re of
in the following manner :—They hat heard that t - • ' 1 which is attached to the im.
the 18th regiment wale to be reviewed on a portaut office in the House of Commons ; and •
certain day, and that every Offm Member, previously to er in the canton- my opinion, every as, la
his balm
chosen by his should give ment, the Resident included, were to dine at our constituents, apultlie a,r
mess in the evening. The conspirators'were to fall frank declaration of his principles, lam now a e
upon es when assembled, and to strike oft the head
e pared to avow to you, the grounds t
on which it.
of when this horrible murder was accom- , presumption:t rests, in offering myself as one of (tie
plished, they were to remain quiet till morning, on , ,epresentatives for this great. and populous countv,
the appearance of which, the drains were to heat to Gentlemen, my conduct in Parliameut, whoa I tr.
presented the borough of Presto h b .
arms, and
wash, three caps were to be thus disposed ere re, as et n phteed
you. , I trust that the same
of—mne o march to the southern lines, anothorl: —' principles of ie.
to the northern, mend „the third to the, Areingliaut dependence will direct me in my future political ea.
Pass, for the pur of prereeting tlie.tiinch of seer, should Ibe so pre-eminently honoured by yo„
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troops into the country:. Several battalions were . as to be returned for the county of I. !teeter.-
[L d 012 applause.] .
Gentlemen, I am pert'. I •
also to he Iminedlitely raised, and by these means 'p
atios s mar,
.of the diaerence betwixt the representati
they expected to keep possession of' Travaecere: 1 . on 0 a bo.
must tell
.you, that to accomplish the intent.ed . . .
, • rough and that of n county I The latter require% a.
at necessarily embraces a much wider sphere, elm
massacre, and to make it the more easy, the lines , . a 1.
were to be fired ; and if the Officers left the mess- tional energy, exertion, and application to theme
house, which they expected they would do, they in. merous objects with which o everyc Anty asst he
tended tm bayonet them •as they came out. This '
.
connected From the extensive 'scale on which tilt
array
and atrocious design was prevented manufactories of the county of Lancaster are
ent on, aof opinion, that the Members for the
only by the absence of one man, who bad pro- '
county should devote the utmost attention to this
mired to make his appeerance witn fifty associates. important subject—[Loud applause:l—Connected
y It was, two,days after, found out by a sepoy, who
as our manufactories ace with the meet substantiall
I overheard a few of the conspirators talking of the . •
interests of Great Britain.--[Applause.]--Gentle„
business, and lamenting why it was not accom-
i • men, in this grated point, perhaps *mere neceitMY 6
plished, and appointing the next public party, .
• be attended to than any other, since it forms the
which they expected would he on the 4th of June, . t turns the h "' * ' •
.... pevo upon which appmem or misery of to
as the day of business. The Commanding Officer many thousands" of industridue people, 1 prUniin
was informed of the whole by this _man. The bri- most faithfully to exert iny humble abilities and men
notesdwas immediately ordered out, for what purpose .
teens, and, by every Meant within my reach, to tee.
n Officer knew. The native Officer above- Herat/ the condition of' the manufacturing ' masses of
mentioned was called to the front, with about 30 people.--[Great applause.]--Gentlemen, in tom
sepoys, by name; these were from. the 14th regi. with . mon .you all, 1 most .sincerely and deeply de.
1 ment, and were immediately put in irons, and sent plore the lamentable condition iii which tie manu•
to the mainemnrd. A Field Officer, •ene Captain,
! factories O
f the county areplaced, en • conseeneure
and two subalterns, were immediately ordered on of the protracted war in which we have memo.
duty, and it was then that the Officers knew the nattily been so long eng d [A 1 age . pp artscs.].-Geu.
extent of the danger' they had providentially • tlemen, I trust the
period is not fir distant, elm
esciped, but never dreamed that more of the na• Ministers will accede. to terms of accommodation
1 five troops were concerned. The following with America—on a good understanding e:th item
morning a Board of Officers was held, and a the prosperity of the manufactures of e ait, anei I d d
g
i few sepoys turned King's evidence. The • y In- .
more particularly of this extensive meanly so much
: formed the Committee of what I have already told depends.
Gentlemen, I em of opinion that Minitel
you, but did not implicate another person. It did not go far enough in their late negociatinns with
was thmight strange that so few 'humid have thole- A •
menet', to produce a conciliatory disposition on Lev
naerity, withnut o'ber assistance, to attempt such a part. When we coasider of how much Importance
vile murder ; but the following morning a Fakeer, it
was that England should keep upon goo,l terms
and one or two other persons, were taken up on sus- with America, from the very extensive scale on
*ion ; and when the Committee had met, they gave which we have hitherto carried on our commercid
'in evidence that two-thirds of the troops, with the affairs wite her, we should have len the first to
native Officers, were concerned. The Fakeer called have offered her reasonable terms of accomniodatior,
out a great number by name from the 14th (native and the last to have refused the adoption of those paci•
Officers), five from the 18th, two or three from the' fic measures, which the state of the country with leo
filth and 9th ; implicated some of. the Resident's: ,
rence to its trade and commerce, to imperious.ydM
Peons, natives of the place, and s venal Officers • mended. Gentlemen, I pledge myself to oppose in Var.
servants ; he also said nearly all the Sepoys of liament every measure which may be brought forward,
the 14th, and several from the other corps, were , which has for its object the widenhig of the firma,
engaged in 'the plot; anti, 'that the man in charge which, unfortunately for us, now exists between Great
of the .public cattle had been bribed, and 'Many ;
, Britain and America; as well as to support every
Others. The danger was now thought very great, motion, having for its
,basis the termination of our
and Quilon was in great agitation and alarm. It : hostilities with the United States. Where, Gentlr.
was deemed necessary to make an immediate example
;nt :men, in the present convulsed state' of Europe, tail
Officers who
of one or- twhad been implicated from oof the ringleaders. A
Ithel thediifer "at'
eve you find a market for your glutted manufacture,
unless the ports of America be re-rmened to the
corps were sent off to Trichinopely that day, under commerce of England ? What is to become of the
the guard of fifty of the Resident's Peons, and the thousands--the many thousands of the lower class's
whole under the charge of an o!.icer.. of the 14th. of peoplitivhen the deteriorated state of our manc•
The 14th itself was ordered to leave Quilon, with its factures shall throw them out of employ ? Gentl.•
European Officers, the following morning, and to
men, I turn now from this picture of gloom nod
march to the same place; but they march in the
wretchedness; at the same time, however, assurim
course of this day instead, as twelve hours was rather , 4en that, whether I shall be so fortunate as to se-
tao short a notice. On the same day that this infer, , laare m_
y election for the county or not, my best ca-
rnation was received (the day before yesterday), the! ertions shall. be directed, when the new Parliament
troops were. ordered under arms, and formed a Ilan' tiles eto this very imortant and interesting stde
in brigade at five o'clock. Three guns were ad:
ject—a subject which, aril involves the fate of n
vanced to the front of the line, about one him. large
4 pprtion of the community, must be.interest•
deed paces from the centre; also a e r
- —" from ' lug to every Briton. With-respect to a piece with
each flank the same distance. - The latter were
lof that the question should bs
France, am opinion,
Primed and loaded with grape-shot, and pointed t pat to the test, by Immediately enterhlg on a negori•
esoseesimethe-bettaiion, as- it was expected the se. ation for that purpose. The storm, which has so
poys would make some opposition'to the severe mea..
long been impending over us, brought on by a 'me
sures in contemplation. Two of the guns- in thet~s I sion of calamities and internal misfortunes, slum
centre were only loaded with powder. Two pri- I
iin the due course of nature, shortly crush us, unless
Boners, the Jemidar that I first mentioned, and al
iwe strain every nerve to ward it off.—A poor
writer who had been most geilty, were brought for-
,. I even for a short period, would do wonders our
ward, and 'without ceremony
were 'leshedeech I, manufactures would pass through their former chafe
the muezle of a gun. The troops, upon seeing this, ' nels*of commerce—the country would recover floe
were still as-death—not a mumur, no not even a y has
the shocks, which a war of such continuance,
breath was to be, heard—and at this aW ! ful crisis,
!given it—our resources, spirit, and energies woe:
Balmain, Brigade-Major, read over the sentence , revive. [Hear, 'hear!] lt is impossible we ct
that , had been awarded the prisoners: by the ,
much longer exist as a great nation, unless we put&
1•Board of Officers which sat in the morning; and : . • war in which we are engae.
• stop to toe expensive
the Colonel gave the words, " Ready I Fire!"—
In addition to the 10 per Cent. ou the properly Tate
An involuntary shudder 'ran through. the whole
for which we have to thank that immortal Statesman,
line, but nothing more. The Colonel then inform-
WILLIAM Perm the Ceescumen. of tee Too
0.
eel the troops why he was obliged:to have recourse
Quilt has intimated to the country, hi: ititeittion f
to this severe measure, and ordered the whole. line taxis all cap ital ,
in the amount of 24 per Ceni.--..
to march round 'the bodies, and return tto their
g
Gentlemen, 1 ant quite confident such a ineasure,.4
110
, baeraCkVbslllllc:n"'- • proposed,
would meat with the opposition sr ,
• • oaiws-- and that the Rood
* Such a sweeping clause deserves, .
.711.•-,.......-.,m,--.
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Ue. as
AdmirarTlOipic, tine of +fie Lords' df the Admiralty, sense of the country would rise superior to s
'will have the corn- unparalleled is gone To the Baltic, where he paralleled imposition..—Gentlemen, if the SAI
le
to modify the ~.
emend of the fleet during the absence of Sir JAMES CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER were
to
each vela
liantkaatz, ' Who' is Corning home.; in conseimience of come Tax, upon a stale
proportionatethe middling than
tee death of his daughter. Admiral Home has hoist. income, exactieg less 'from .
t would, la*
eel his Hag in the Beliona, 74, in' the Downs, and from the
the
of adding to
''retains his seat at the Admiralty board. confident, supercede the necessity _
• ed von
.
insupportable burthens of this iieur.
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A hundred and thirty miners and sippers, fro* already
the Iditirnr: /bed fibers,. are' immediately to reinforce try.—Gentlemen, would,
il:II•;•••
: "ci m the pawn, *h.; !I•2
' • ' ' *- 'de; with the Neural of IVSLIANGTON. SMART'S i.taati, IL, .
,take
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