The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-31 00:00:00

" AN APPEAL Tr) PUBLIC rErusa.

" The Journeymen %Weavers of Carlisle and neigh.
boerhuod beg to call the attention of the Public to
the following simple truths. We are now arrived
at • pitch of wretchedness and misery, tech, we sin.
misty believe, as never esisred in any country in
time of profnend peace, except visited by a natural
famine. We are a powerful People, and yet we
want strength. SS are an industrious People, and
yet we want breed ; whatever the cause may be, we
will toot at this moment pretend to determine, bet
the effects ere dreadful to be contemplated, and
still more horrible I. @aperient,. Only for a mo-
ment let any rational and reesimable being amongst
you lay it to hit own heart, and there, at the tribunal
of that principle that dictates between right and
erne', imagine es, if he can. labouring in a place
ltecalia,ly en wholesnme from its domes, and damps,
where the air is impregnited with nosiova matter, so
that what we inhale is little better than • fetid gas;
which, though inseparable from the nature of the
work itself, is nevertheless a particular aggravating
of oar misery. and ell this for the reward of • shilling
• day, and fed chiefly on potatoes, the proper food
only for hogs; yet our miserable, half-famished
children wait with nations desire for the scanty
n 101144 of those provisions, end the fond mother, the
last of all to complain, soninioning ell her resolution
together to hide the poignancy of her grief (rum lour
%treacly die late partner; her child perhaps at
her breast feebly sucking that nourishment that ne-
gate almost refines to bestow. If this he not the
very climax of human miser), tell us in 'that does
human misery consist I Wives aad children heart.
broken and an rags, and plunged altogether in hdp.
less, almost hopeless, and to all appearance quite
irremediable rein ; we have only one gleam of
hope left us, which is, that the Legislature will
take our distresses into consideratioo.—We hav-
ing petitioned *sr Prince and the Parliament to
Fare es conveyed to Canada, or some of the northern
colonies (the petitions were each signed by nearly a
thousand peranns), that over families may yet hope to
sem,e the wreck of misery that we are now involved
in, and is apparently still getting nearer the Anal
goal of destrectinn, for we are folly convinced that
trade is near its consummation ; that a severe winter,
or • failing harvest, would introdete a fever that
would not be easily eradicated. We are likewise
convinced that the Public in general kanw that
every principle of philosophy, justice, end soend
policy, imperiously demands that din poor be
protec.ed, since the immutable and • sill,
laws of nature have an blended the fate of all
class.. of society together, that whatever makes
against the poor meat, in the end, prove the draftee-
' lion of the greet. In our present unparalleled die.
tresses, it is not too much to demand, with • voice
of thunder, the adoption of a system of economy,
end the stripping the undeserving of their ill-merited
pendent. We have no peculiar affection for one de-
urintowition of public men more than another. Both
higs and Toties have, in their torn, cajoled the
People, and prcfitcd by their credulity ; but ea.
perieece boa opened the eyes or the public mind to
principles rather than to men ; anal ate swear upon
the altar of the Constitirtion—by the bravery of our
forefathers, and by the hinorl shed by them in assert.
in; the immutable rights of human nature, that
we are their legitimate sons. and that our conduct
shalt never belie their ancient fame!"

They hail, yeste►day, upon the Sands, e g I
meeting, including deputations (rum the loons of
%Vireo's, Brampton, Longtoon, Penrith, and all the
intermediate villages, to the mount of shoot seven-
teen hundred in number ; but vie do not tintlerrtand
that any thing definitive it settled spon.—Their pro.
cession through the rt., in ►egeler filet, their mourn-
ful silence, and the laurel bough• that many of them
routed in token of •heir peace•hle intentions, whilst
gave the lie practical to the professed object of th►
Tilt Cluh nies.ttete, gave a melancholy interest In the
scene, that could not he resisted by hearts participat-
mg in the feelings of our common nature.

I cIIII PA VPRIM—We ■re informed from aothentie
en eeee 4, that there are no less than 1111111Wi lIU
man Irish peepers shoot to be passed home. soder
the lase Act, frost only five polishes Is the Borosgh
of Sostheaels !!!!

Saturday morning, shoot three o'clock, a fire
lunke net snow the premises of Messrs 'Taylor and
Co. •rmy.clothiers, 113, Long.acre, allich, after
demolishing the work.ships, was fortes's'', sap.
pressed without doing any farther dantar.

Coal, I scu utrc. M•Ilf 3! —Our Market wu liberal's
tappli.d w eth 11 heal t,..414%. tor which there 11,114 it brIA de.
;mod, am, for that of hoe pa.tlitt 1.11 tk. per quartet more was
obtained tb.tn no gni. day we el..— l'ineNlaltise Salle, ..0.1 of
higher no tag to the rho. gr in the weather ; there 5i0.1.11... nr
'her mot. 4,tiweltil for grooltag 11..01et wraith dearer.—
Out. ate I, higher that. 1... t week, frnh Corn irreg., rtes mat
todias.re.--Ite B-nu. and Pr..; mu alterotlAt.
1% twat haallaat 1;4 71 i they Pao 40 44
New ditto
Om.. t Forrogn) 3:1 711 Old de. ...
ityP
Berle,
he w>.... ...... 1 ine dn
46 0) • Masud de.......... '2l 17
41 bite POW yJ is reed do lO 14
Ni,w ditto ...... - - Find I low* !At 55
1).!to 43 41 Second.

!..ittitirtcs.nMArritr. N1A•31.—(1.• Market th... on,rnmg
r.• wrll .66.1piirof WI VOW, 71.. d ;Mt!, remnrt r.or ty
in week, tbe tr.sar.r awl bro.k.-51ctt.atand rlieup. r.
Veal and Pork t•ni.i 0.11.
1I e bush"•.. in the H•.v 1,1 •rket /wiper% tke SAW a 1414
111.4. urd but kw Le).rt.-I.liiver CA. per Slum at tars
week's pliers.
T tisk the Otrul.
«...1.. 01 M.

per !trine .f RIO%
Lead ..; UPS d 3,
2.110
!Poen 11.ambe ...... Sri
C. 111.9 29
231
ARKI.T
el. n.. ra.
(14. g. il. CI. N.
Vit. to VI. Isl. Va.

Ut. St t.:.
...Zs Ut. t.. 6.. 61.
Por• —.3... 04. I. st. 11.
Lai5b....6.. 03. to 7. 04.
114 v 0..
Clover.... 61. Cs.
WSW .... 21. 10..