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

'THE STATESMAN.

sited to a public dinner, which he politely declined,
moil was moiled upon bs s Committee of the Citizens
with a respectfal Address, to which he returned the
following ins :- _

" tiles been very gratifying to me, in the dis.
ebargo of what I have considered an important public
duty, to have bell it in my pOwer to visit the town
of Plymouth; fet the kind reception wbirh yes hese
Riven me en your own part, sad in behalf of your
tellow.eitieens, accept my most grateful ease*.
lodgment. It is impossible to look bark to our greet
reveletionary etrugele, without receindilit es of
events the most interesting, and eliciting feelings
which it is proper to cherish ; the zeal which ant-
meted me in that cause, of which yoe love generously
expressed a feeoureble sentiment, ■as common to our
fellow•eitizens in every part of nor Union. The
blessings which we now enjoy, the off.pring of that
glorious election, will never be leis prized, nor less
sigorrresly and ably defended, by a free, virtuous,
and enlightened People.

4. JAMES MONROF.."

WUIT M .—lle si tbe Pt'Wit Ofim.

THE STATESAI AN.

LONDON:

MONDAY. MAT 31, 1819.

Every d.y brings fresh and serious reflection to
the mind of the Patriot. The condition of the
country is critical. The g►eet, the noncoms, the
intermediate body of the People, the Winos, have
certainly the weight, the strength, to carry the object
of Reform to that wholesome, that beeeficial extent,
which would satisfy the mind+ of the nisch more
nemeroes body—rut Prone; whets all might be
well. Every man being satisfied that his political
rights a►e secured to him, he would freely, not
mercenarily, !mare. his life at the cell of his c•un.
try. There would be no °cession for a Staodieg
Amy which eats op the routings and relit of
trade, and converts the citizen into the slave. No
nation, with a just, honest, and paternal Govern.
mint, can he in danger of foes from within or with.
uot, for it would be the Interest as well as the kali-
nation of every man living under it, to bawd his
life, rather than lose what he would posies. Under
a better system of rule, with a practical economy le
the several institutions of the Government, vs might

say or sing—
" Joy glnds Ihe settling and, slissdaset trips
Thr mph all the town", the elite., sod She plains;
All that we i-h e hale—how well we fare!
he Code prefer. N.! 'leaven'. permits, rum.'
fist as the indigosot author of the Wrongs of Melt
asks—

" Sar. übre rearielvelar ehiltlrra wait, ei seesi.
Cep yes clualw puma, for Ow jovo• rea feel
.ob ',airfoil benne exalt the wo.ler of praise.
Aid otiao your soverrare• 1...411. of J 0..)"

No ! it is impossible; the hearts of the People of
Great Britain hare been afflicted with ssffe►ings from
the abuses of th• Government, and their eyes are
tamed towards those who hays tho means of relieving
them : nor will their bands he cordially and woefully
employed till the necessary allesiation of their cala-
mities is offered them.

It iv carious to hear the note langoage repeated
from day to day of the danger of paralysing the
energies of the Bank by insisting on Cash Payments:
of injeting the interests of the coentry gentlemen,
the farmer, mod the labourer, by constraining the
Bank to 'badge the went of their accommodation
to the banker, merchant, &c. with an endless phrase.
clog, of the eame hied. In short, the Bank wspit to
'possess a disc-Mimicry poser to do what it-pleases
with the People In the war of poper-lesolion.
What, if Lord LIVIRPOOL did say that.the Musk had
long stood at the heed of the cirrelatiew of the coon-
try ; it is not denied to be tree, sbd 44 pity It is 'tie
troe"—Lord GortevlLLE has sib, laid, the system of
the Bank is a paper beebb/4„” that is true also;
sod grievously pitiable is it that it is Wm.

Yesterday we received the Paris Papers of Thus-
day. In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday ■
,greet number of Petitions were reported. One from
Limoges prayed for the carrying into lien the
laws sesinst suicide. The Reporter observed, that
there was no existing law relative to suicide. The
Petitioner mast, therefore, have alleded to the encl.
eot laws on the subject ; but before they be revived
it would be well to enquire whether they would be
capable of presenting or restraining the evil ; wire.
tiler the measures that have been invented for that
purpose have not the effect of injuring u precious sen-
sibility ; of diminishing the respect due to the instil-
' mate remains of a human being, end of visiting en the
innocent the penishmeat designed for a criminal
whom we cannot reach. These powerful considera-
tions, the Reporter, hare no doubt contributed
to produce the silence of our Penal Code on this
topic.

Coont de FLOIRAC aid the madness of suicide
was making the greatest ravages in France.--
'lts one single town the Journals announced the
commission of four :suicides in one day. Some years
since the number of suicides in the City of Paris
during five months, esceeded 300. In another de-
partment it was computed that daring one year more
than one a day bad occurred. Legislation was in.
sufficient to arrest this disorder ; Religion only could
give that costar* which enabled wen to support mis-
fortunes othersi.e intolerably. lie moved that the
Petition be referred to the alitsisser of Justine.
U. DI. Melt:maxi censideled the realists of the

previous speaker as the more important from being
blooded en fact,. The mania of suicide was one of
the greatest emerges that afflicted thl country.—
Every day revealed a wee disaster ; every day drew
forth the sorrows of the man of virtue, by the reci-
tal of one of those crimes which are equally lamented
by relition and society.
On being pet to the vote, the Petition was got rid
of by passing on to the Order of the llsy.

A Petition in she name of two bemired French.
men, creditors of the Spanish Government, prayed
for the intervention of the Chamber to obtain the
payment of their debts. M. BIGIION moved that
this claim should be referred to the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, which proposal was adopted by the
Chamber.
Another from the Widows and Heirs of several
Authors, praying for the revocation of the law which
limits to ten years after the death of the authors or
compere's, the copyright of their heirs, was referred
to the Minister of the Interior.

The ditension of the nedget woo then resented.
M. of SALMI spoke In f of the Projet of the
Commission.

M. Gummi defended Ihe system of colonizatine,
and comparing Femme, as she is, with what she was
when she had rich and powerful colonies, was asto-
nished that say blame should attend the attempts of
th. G went to restore this source of prosperity.
M. CONNIT D' IPCOURT contended lhat beih ports
of the Budget should be discussedat the same
How meld the expeaces be kited, if the resources are
ankisown ? How vete for the first without knowing
any thing of the second ? The decision on the grit
necessarily determined the second. Some indiscreet
Petitions, said he, and there are 'bondage, of this
sort, have requested us to assign • salary to the De.
p•ties; others hose protested against the sitting of
Public Functionaries in the Chamber. These too
propositions were. one inconvenient, the other ow.
constitetionsi. Nevertheless, a proposition may be
wade very Numerable to the lanciiooaries who sit
in this Assesby : it is, that beiot culled to a..to bete
with us, they should with us partite the beeper of
foregoing any salary dosing the Session. The era.
tor went on to justify the eapencies intoned by keep.
ing the Swiss troops. end by the missions throsgh
Franey to propsgete the Gospel.

M. DfLESIZIT preposed three amendments. one
of whkb was, In gram, for 1819. a soot of 1400,000
franca to the Legion of Honor:. The debate was
adjourned.
PARIS, MAT 2G —The King this day presided at
a Council of ',Unite's.
Letters from Brit, state that the inhabitants of that
town are 'boat to build • unnnoment to the memory
of Marshal Brune. their illustrious townmen. They
have also addressed a letter of condolence to his
widow.
=TRACT 07 A LETTER !lON Y.%Rts, HAT 27.

" There is nothing either good or bad, which the
prestige' of a false eloquence say nut mole appear
directly the reverse; who, for *:ample„ world have
thought that the eloquent N. KERATRY, the author
of the most !obligee work of moral philosophy since
the days of Lockt; a man alike distinguished foi his
Immlifte at • scholor, sod his patting's.) as a even,
•lln. we repeat it, would capers to And sorb a man,
the apologist of the esperable jam* (otter) of the
Minister of Justice? Numerous petitions demanded
the revel of the hanishodosliew Desgantorho on other
occasions has merited well of his country, and re-
claimed never shall the regicides be recalled, and it
is this "serer" which 761. liza•ray defends
Now, what says the Constitutional Charter? "All re.
hes as to opinions or votes emitted previous to ,
the Restoration are interdicted; she some oblivion is 1
commanded the tribunals and citizens." It is a
creel mockery to talk of a constitutional Government
sod a national Representatioo, when the caprice of
j despotism is 'avoided by Ilse natural guardians of the
liberties o(tbe People • when laws openly violating
the Charter'are proposed and passed as • mere lea.
porasy suspension of the undoubted rights of the
People, and then endeavoured to be perpetusted,l
even when lb. circomstances which gave With in the
suspension bass been proved false, r.r ceased to
ealst. One thing Is certain, according to the 14 w the
persons 'ailed had as much right to demand the banish- 1
went of the King us he had to pronounce theirs, for j
all parties have equal rights seder a free Constitntion,
and the French is so, at least notch:6lly. It is then
an insult to talk of clenrcncy where the most sacred
rights exist. N. KENATRY wished to pleaseall parties;
his heart pleaded nobly the CONDO( misfortune, while
the recent fumes of a Ministerial dinner prevented
his forgetting the hospitality of the K terms of the
SEALS—No wish be bad chosen any other secs:ion of
showing his gratitude. We should like to we the
constitetional question bird by an suite returning to
France without permission; he must be oriel) for It,
and ill as we think of the Tribunals, we think 'Ley
would not have effrontery etioegh to go spinet the
principles of the Constitution, when invoked by the
magic eloquence of a BERRTIR. a DuriN, a blau•
aim, a Mumma, mMla CLA VEAU. We cannot to.
(nisi citing an admirable trait of M. f.t..tvg•u, con-
vinced of Cistretra.ox's innocence, in the ridiculous
affair of Ww.marox; he went to his poi•on, of-
fered his services, found his starving, and supported
him io poison. This generous act was regsided as •
crime, and M. CrAvrati was cited b,fore the Cutto•
cis of Discipline of the Bar,and ly reptimotled
1 for his conduct. What will the lace big wigs say
now, that CANTILLON is proved innocent ? There is
a very waggish caricature of the Duke of; WEL-
: !micron's carriage driving into the gateway."

The cause of the Ist. Mr. as taken op in the
Clubs, must sorely be a bankrupt cause, from the
n►cessity of the Loan CISANCELLOI..I MI tieing pot
to the proceedings.
A letter from Melte, dated April 9, commonirstes
some alarming pirticolers relative to the p:stgoe,
which it was leered world be introduced nonionic of
the neighhooting islands. A small verse], last from
Sims, the crew consisting only of the Master and five
other persons, put into an nst.port on the `l3th
March. 'I•wo of the crew, who were boy., sickened
and died en the voyage. and three others after their
artital,ef a disorder evidently resembling the 1•lagor.
Every pternstion was taken to prevent the commit.
nication of the infection ; the heading and clothes of
the sailors were burnt, and even the vessel in which
&bey bad arrived.