The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-17 00:00:00

TUE XING r. ‘1.)1q), RWIERTS. AND DVI%

The defendants, who had been convicted at the last
.hives of a conspirac►' to extort nahney
J. Roberts, sen., by falsely charging his son,
.1. Roberts, jun., with an unnatural crime, were
1.7 ,fight up for judgment.
The Lord l'utr.►-Jus rice having read over his notes
r.f the trial.

Mr. ticasET, fur the crown, addressee! their l.or•I-
-s::ips. lie co mm ruled mr the aggravated nature of
the offence committed by the prisoners, characterizing
n% a malignant conspiracy conducted with the great-
e,; deliberation.

The Judges consulted together fur few :minutes,
after which

3lr. Justice BATLEY sentence!' Wood to 20 months
icapliqonment in the Chelmsford Douse of Correction:
sod Roberts and Day severally to 9 months' imprison-
ment in the wane Iloube of Correction.

CORRESPOADENI*R
IiXTWEIN Tilt SIICRIPFII or AIIDDLLSA% ..Nll MAJOR

CAP:VNILIGUT.

The following enrreoposidence Isar taken place be-
tty ecii the Sheriffs and Major l'artsvright, iu rouse-
s's:l lice oldie refusal of the former to convene a Meeting
of the County of Middlesex on Reform, as stated in
their answer, which we published last nevi( :

•• Tu Robert Waltham. Esq. ■nd James Williams, Esq.
tiiieriffs or Anthill-q.v.

" Burton C t, Saturday. Nov. 11, 1820.

" fientletnen—You hare taken a bold step--a very
bold step. When Jefferies was Recorder of London,
he did nut venture to go quite so far, but y,-t the House
of Commons of that diy toted that the c.uluct of that
person, and others, was a betraying of the rights of the
subject, and considerable severities followed on the
passin of the vote.

" Being very reluctant to exhibit to the world any
thing which the enemies of public liberty might re-
present, as a token of disunion among those who pro-
fess to be its friends, l hope that in your si.•ws of
what yesterday passed in the Bowie of Lords, you
may see such a change of cirennastancei as may have
materially changed yonr idea of the expediency of
refusing to the Freeholders of this Comity the poser
of assembling for exercising the right of petitioti-
ing Parliament fur a redress of the createst of all
grievances.
" As one who have joined in the application to yore,
I shall therefore wait to see whether pm shall, or
shall not, forthwith p:y with the requisition for
that purpose which yon have ter..ived, before 1 pro-
ceed in the course, w hil', in the case of non-compli-
ance, appears to he a public ditty.
" 1 have the honour to be,
s' headmen.
" Your obedient servant,
" JOHN CARTIVRIWIT."
" Robt. Waltham Esq."

" reply to your's of this day, we hare to
observP, that regardless of any menace, we shall run-
tiaue to act from our sense of public dnty. We have
given our answer to the gentlemen who waited upon
us, and we have neither time nor inclinatien, nor
would it become us, to cuter into any personal Otto-
cation.
" We remain, Sir,
" Your obedient Servants,
" ROBERT WAITIIMAN, ?Sheriff of
S " JAMES WILLIAMS, Middlesex
Landes, November 11, Ifl2o.
John Cartwright, Esq."

" To Robert Weidman, EMI. and lames Williams, Esq.
Sheriffs of Middlesex."

November IS. 11410.
00111411111N-•••-1 have never bad, from the first,
ant desire ftAr personal Altercation. All thus has tak.n
place between ns has been forced upon me by the dif-
ficulties presented to the requisitionists, in their legal
application for ability to exercise their riglit of pe-
titioning.

" !tieing now necessary to tuske their appli-ation
to the Duke of Portland, as Lord Lieutenant of the
County, I request that you will either rtturn toe the
original requisition, to be I,tid before ids Wail', to-
getber with your letter addressed on the Nth inst., to
Messrs. Mills and Lloyd. or that you will furnish me
with an authenticated copy of the form of requisition,

THE ST,

.ogether with all the names subscribed to the *feral
forms, certified by von to be a tree copy, that, without
more loss of time, his Orare may be applied to for the
meeting which you have refused to convene.
`• I remain, Gentlemen,
" Your obedient .errant,
" JOHN CART% MOUT."

" would he improper for us to give up
those papers, which you term reqntsitions, and it
limn- no Mart of our dnty to furnish or to certify co-
pies of theism ; besides the papers mentioned, nine in
nittuber, and delivered to us at different times, we have
had several written and souse Fereunal communications
WI the subject : instead of which, the plain and oh-
%lulus coarse would have bent (and no .me ought to
understand it better than yourself) for a deputation to
have presented a requisition to. Sheriffs, and re-
ceived his answer thereto ; and the parties themselves,
it they deemed it necessary, should have kept a copy.
" Why then are we rept:red to dctiate trusts the
mode of ptuceedingc Why are we to Ilikve dif-
ticultie4 imposed Noon us, anilat a time when it was
known to you that insli•pett-,ahle official duties de-
'Handed our whole time and attention ?

‘Vhatever permnal claim :%lajor Cartwright may
roar .ice himself emitle.l tu, we ran only on Nuels an
urcas.uu, know him as a frerholder, and act with the
lathe impartiality as to °them

•• have already wore than once given an explicit
answer, and as,itpted our reasons. We have stated,
• that fully► appr►ciating the sacred right of petition-
ing,' we shall feel it to be our duty to convene a Meet-
ing of the count•, whenever we are called upon h% a
requisition regularly and respectably •igned for tliat
purpose; but the papers delivered to us a pi,e,ir to have
been circulated and signed, is a manner so unusual and
irregular, that we donut feel ourselves justified in con-
% ening the great body of freeholders of this count•
thereon,' and we now repeat, • that regardless of ally
menace, we shall continue to act front our sense of pub-
lic fluty;

" Stone of those irregularities we pointed out ; a ith
other•, we presume, you cannot be unacquainted.
It appeared that those nine papers, containing toge-
ther about 199 names, had been in circulation for sig-
natures, et it fortnight, and others three week,:
that one-half of the names had no place of residence
attached to the' a ; that several nausea were not in the
riting of those whose signatures they purported
to be ; that the names of the same persons were signed
snore than once; that even your 111Wil Mile stood
upon three of the papers, and upon two of them
not in your outs hand-writing ; that several of the
litanies ter- Lot to lie found in the Freeholders Book,
beagles other irregnlarities.
" rpon such pape:s, however dignified by the name
of requisitions, we are content to Irate it to all impar-
tial met to say, whether any 'public offirer would he
justified in calling evcis a 1)&11o:hi:II meeting, lunels
less a nseeting of the metropolitan county, coototaitaing
so many tl 1111 l ooatools oof f ovhoslolers.

ROl ma 11'1,11'11111N, J 1111...4 WILLI 1113,
Writs ut

" London, %oT. 13, IWO.
'.:Major Cartwright,

THE QUI:EA.

Yestertlav a Meeting of the Inhabitant Householders
of the Parish of Short-14A, was held in the Parish
Chitral to :ahe into rousialeration the propriety of pre-
Negating an Address of l'ungratulatiun to her Majesty on
her late gloriuns triumph, and aisu to take hitt, cousi-
aleration the propriety of presenting an Address to his
Majesty, israyang hint to disaliss (tutu his Councils his
present 31i:sisters.
After some ;preliminary business,
Mr. Sta.a; rose to 'e the Resolutions. Ile said lie
congratulated the Vestry on the result of the proceed-
ings against the Queen. When lie recollected the power
she had opposed- -that bloe stemmed the torrent of cur-
minion anal venality—he had Olbly to say, float he ad-
mired her firmness as lie gloried in her triumph. It
was truly gratifying as it was honourable to the coon-
try, to see the thousands that had pressed forward to
support the Queen. What the feelings of the King's
Ministers were he dial not presume to say; but this lie
would say, that since they came into power they always
proved themselves the comics of the people, the sup-
porters of every measure fatal tar the honour and the li-
berties of !togland.— (Applause.) Their odious
measures had brought the country into a state which it
was distressing to consider, anal difficult to correct. Ile
knew lint one way of saving the country—it was to ad.
dress his Majesty to dismiss them fur ever front his
Councils. He concluded by moving a string. of Reso-
lutions, which were received with match applause.
11r. letwarmca said, that the 3lreting met tinder
different feelings from those whirl, were entertained un
a farmer oreasnan. On that erosion, as at the present
t, the people, indeed, were persuaded of the in-
vitee of her Majesty, then it was all anxiety for her
safety—it was now all delight and trill tipl. at her suc-
cess. 'l' he individuals who had prosecuted her, did so,
not front a sense of her guilt, but fair the gratiliration
of a certain personage who should be nameless. When
he considered the power of her enemies—the means
thee had resorted to—when lie considered tbilit hired
agents in every part of liorupe had been retiisird—aud
above all, when a host of perjured witnesses mail hewn
brought forward to support charges against her Maps.
ty, lie could not help considering that she was marked
ant as the victim of unrelealisag persecution. Her
Majesty had been charged wath actioas all of them ins-
probahle—all of them infamous—and many of them
physically itupossible. Anil by whom were those
charges attempted to be sustained? Hy wretches whose
lives were infamous as false -
aeandalous.—(.l pplanse.,
tire, who, unfortunately
In power, be remembered
struck to the heart of tl

membered the history of
put down the liberty of .
their power—he could not
their country. They had b
attacks against the Conatif
lied, at length defeated.-
the great cause of their
been by the people.
her Majesty were I
could not help saying,
this country had been
was by tisi4 proreeding
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might fall, would nut ligh.
duet would be looked upon with admiration as her
sufferings were looked on n ith deep and universal sem-
pathy.•--(dpplrttse.)-»The proreedim," against Ler
were unjust, unconstitutional, and if successful would
have been fatal to the liberties of the country. lie
t hen allutied to the supporters of the Bill. 1 here were

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their testimonyivas false and
.) With revive-le the Minis-
' fur the country,4Nit still found
:4 many acts of skim men that
the Constitiitioniunchen he re-
the lire Acts attempts to
the press--ital ery act of
not but call them neniies of
id been hut too as al in their
atitution, but they r, thank
.—(Applausr.) Two 41seen
it defeat, siipporteslias.alie lied
The pruoeedl against
before the wound lie
that if ever I e hy in
.n brought into Zmin, it
r: but contempt, 104 it
light on the Queen. her con-