The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-28 00:00:00

THE SI ATE4MAN.

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et Majeatr? Amongst others the charge of dancing
and of resting on a couch in a hot country where they
had no cliairs--44 laugh) ;—and *there was another
charge,. that a person who was a faithful servant
ha& tit down at table with her. Now what,
he would ask. bad the people of England to do
with all 'hi• How were they concerned in it ?
Why should they interfere in it ? Suppose a person
Lad last year come from Brighton, and stated, "1
hare seen a couple of scullions come out of a cer-
t .in place there, and they assured me that a certain
i.re3t MOM hail sat down on the bare floor to eat beef-
..o,th• with his cook at half-past one o'clock in the
vorning"—(much laughter). Suppose that he (Mr.
15.1 was told he ought to bring this matter before Par-
r .ment as a question of national importance. Why,
he would tell the person who would suggest it, that
he was a dirty tale-bearer—(applause'.) Though,
perhaps. it would he as well if that great Person had
not played high life below stairs--(a laugh!) Yet
Mill he saw no great harm in descending from the
Throne to the kitchen—it was affable in a Monarch,
it proved that he was sot at all times a King, but
sometimes condescended to be a man--(applause!).
He thought the charge unfair--he thought it a vulgar
topic, and he never joined on that occasion in a sneer
against that illustrious man—(applause!)—but he
mow joined in indignation with the people of England.
that similar charges. or rather, indeed, not half so
b.ol---not half so undignified, should be made the sub-
ject of a crime against the most persecuted. anti the
most unfortunate woman in the world---(loud ap-
plause'). Was it not extraordinary, that watched as
she was in every step, asleep or awake, standing or
Oting. moving, and at rest by her own familiar ser-
• int, in the hours of retirement and confidence ; still
that nothing of a positive nature could be proved
against her—(applause!) Was it not in evidence
that those spying servants had even looked through
the key-holes—had peeped through the curtains, but
after all, nothing could be proved, hut that her Ma-
jesty sat with her arms round a man's neck where it
seas necessary to do so in order to prevent from tum-
bling off the caution on which they sat. The proceed-
ing, absurd as it was, would go on, the Noble Lords
who had tasted the dainty dish, would not sleep till
tltey hail swallowed it all. He was convinced that the
Bill would pass. though it was now said that the King
did not care about it —nobody cared about it. The
Solicitor-General declared so, and appealed to Ood and
1.54 ronscienre. He thought it was not fair to join them
both together—(a laugh). For Liverpool declared so in
the House of Lords, and Lord Castlereagh declared the
same thing in the House of Commons. Nobody then
wished it—nobody began it—and nobody would end it.
(Much laughter.)—here they Wit then, in a carious
predicament—public time was lost—public money was
eapended----public meetings were held—all done by
robatly, for nobody. and for nothing.—(Continued
laughter.)—lt seemed that the Divorce was to be
given up, because Lord Liverpool declared that be was
willing to do so. He (Mr. II.) thought that, in order
to save ti .1 e, it would be better if the Noble Lord
*would just read a paper to the House. stating what he
intended and wished to have; this plan world save a
great deal of trouble---(A laugh.)----The Bill might
indeed be altered--perhaps they would not even de-
grade the Queen ; but because her Majesty appeared
to prefer honest men before rogues---as 'pie was in the
habit of disconntenancine spies and informers--as
she was in the habit of sitting down under calumny
and oppression, they might declare that she was there-
fore very unfit to receive persons of quality at Carlton-
hoose.--(Much laughter.)---Then would the Bill be
sent down to the other House—that pure and inde-
pendent House, who would not, never did inflict any
at of oppression or injustice.----(A laugh.)--They
c^yer did in yet, but it was not too late to begin, and
it was his opinion, that if they had not a precedent they
of h 1 mal.e one.--(llear !)--They will be told that
they need not go to the trouble of examining wit-
nesses----that they cannot examine on oath, though by
the way a hint was given, that for this special
()emotion they might be invested with that power.
• And here was more of the farce. Who could
stawse that an oath would have any effect with
such witnesses ? Few of their description care for the
solemnity of the oath. where temporal punishment is
put out of the question. Well, then, to save trouble, a
Select Comrtittee would be appointed, of some Mom-
bers impartially collected—yet composed of Honour-
able Oen letnen who hare a great opinion of those
' who s'o on the right band of the Speaker. The Com-
mittee would then report, that what was done was
most independent anti most impartial, and the Com-
mons ottOit to follow in their footsteps.—(Applause.)
—Let not the people then suppose that notwithstand-
ing the 41;ffcrent meetings that had been held, and the
atidre=se4 that had been preseetetl, that this Dill would
not Ita:a. They would be told that their Addr•sses
and P•titions amonnteri to soloing—that their cam-
idle. '1 he Oovernment pa:tera and the
Ooso•-lim .tit orators would say, that in the Yanetiester
famine.* much more was said than in the case of the
Qee. n they would say, that in that case there were
meetings in Yorkshire and in other places attended by
the great Lords, end that they ended in nothing; that
in the present case no aristocrat is to be found ; that
the meetings in favour of the Queen are only held in
the towns attended by the artisans and the women;
they will say that they are not afraid of this petition-
ing people, for the people of England do nothing but
petition: they are " all cry and little wool ;" but yet
the sheering has been so long going on, that the sheep
and even the swinish multitude will bite at last.—
(Applause).--Ood forbid that he should prompt them;
time, °cation. and oppression will du it of themselves
--(Hear, lime, hear )__What remains for them, it
might be' asked ? Let them remonstrate. however
vain, however hopeless; still let the people raise their
voices against those who meditate despotism. Let
them diked as well as they were able, to shelter the in-
tended victim. Let thew bold up their shields to pro-
tect immense*, under oppression. Let them, at all
ream, if they could do no more, leave behind them a
record that they were not accomplices to the basett
act of injustice that the world ever beheld ; so that
postethg might learn that if the voice of the people
were attended to, the Queen of England would not be
oppressed. and the Constitution would iot have been
sivevtitrowai—ile. Hobhouse concluded sit elotptfut
speeds' maklat rural applause.

Mr. Rtutaansox then read an ;►ddress to- her
jest• founded on the Resolutions, which Was seconded.
and agreed to, to be presented by Sir Fraticis Bur-
dett and Mr. Gobhause, attended by such Ladies .and'
Gentlemen as might s 611 to go up ►with the sat* to
her Majesty. • .1
It was at•o resolved, that the address should he pre-
sented on the same day:. as that of the 3letropolitan
Meeting agreed to at Freemasons'
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
Meeting adjourned.

1'111: Q l'E ES.

HER MAJESTY'S ANSW ERS TO ADDRESSES.

TO THE LAI•ILR (IF P‘DHINF;TON.
heart has been touched by this loyal and of
Address from the )tarried Female. of the Parish
of Paddington.
In toy return to England, I felt the sacred cause of in-
sulted honour and of calumniated innocence. To have
remained abroad after such arc laird indignities and
wrongs as I haul experienced, would have been to con-
fess myself guilty of every crime laid to toy charge, and
to have prostrated toy character at the feet of my got-
. mies. But while I was unconscious of pill, I w.as is-
' accessible to fear. While I was strong iniategrity,
I felt it impossible to hr weak in cowardice.
I was deeply grieved during the late examinations he-
fore the House of Lords at the monstrous mass of inde-
cency that was dailyelieiteil from the 1111 l 'nits of such
witnesses as would have produced a mural loathing in
any Court in Christendom. Modesty migi.t well hang
its head at such disgusting recitals, and even patriotism
might blush to think that the highest judicature in this
great kingdom should suffer itself to he louitiliated, in
the eyes of Europe, by its minute attention to ribaldry,
in its grossest tales, and to obscenity in its most offensive
particularities. No proceeding has, perhaps, ever tended
so much to lower the character of England and to lessen
the dignity of Englishmen in the estimate of other
nations.

THE WALE INHABITANTR OF PADOINnToN.
I am particularly gratified by this loyal and affer•
tionate 4‘lll.lre%s from the Inhabitants of the Parish ail
Paddington.
I am not unmindful that I was myself once a resident
in this parish ; and this circumstance, though combined
with some painful as well as pl • Lle recollections.
tends to place me in a eta!, of choler proximity to the in-
terests of the inhabitants than if I had Lien a total
stranger to the locality.
As the people of Paddington have once been my neigh-
bours, l still consider myself as united to them by the
charities of neighbourhood. The ties of friendship,
when once formed, ought, if possible, to be indissoluble;
sod even those relations, which arise merely out of local
contiguity, are apt to spread the fine net-work, of a
thousand nameless associations over the memory, mud
thus, in a variety of ways, to bra-time iiitertsvined with
the affections. Life has it:twiny 441 many dark inter-
vals, that it is our duty nut to overlook any associated
circumstances, or to reject any possible auxiliaries
that can assist in adding to the number of its satiny
hours.
The sympathy which tie inhabitants of Paddington
express for the sail variety of my domestic afflictieas, is
very acceptable to my heart. There are circanistances
in which a sense of obligation is humiliating to the indi-
vidual: tint gratitude to those whom we esteem is rather
an elevating than a depressing sentiment. As mercy
blesses both him who gives and him who taken, so gra
titude, whilst it is a delicious feeling in the heart of loin;
who has received the benefit, reflects a pleasurable sen-
sation on him by u hum it was conferred. I owe more to
the people of England than I can ever repay ; but they
are a people of an many amiable anal so many noble
characteristics, that I am convinced they will ever con-
rider a grateful consciousness of the debt as a discharge
from the obligation.
The good wishes which this Address conveys to me
from the people of Paddington. anti which I am daily
receiving from all parts of the kingdom, are not empty
sounds or airy professions, but the realities of affection
and regard.
The oppressor and the tyrant may be greeted with
the fulsome incence of extravagant praise ; but its very
extravagance will prove its insincerity. Very different
is that tone of approbation which is perceivable, and
thatcheering voiceof sympathy which is heard when the
feelings of the people unfeignedly harmonise with the
joys or the sorrows, with the good or the bad fortunes
o( their genuine friends. and their undissenibled bene-
factors.
THE INHAHIT•NTS Or THE TOWN OF STROUD, IN
tanucervaesittne.
I receive with cordial satisfaction this loyal and af-
fectionate Address f the Inhabitants o( the Town
of Stroud and its vicinity, in the County of Gloucester-
shire.
The sympathies of the people with my wrongs and my
sufferings have been so uni Ily manifested, as to
make my adversaries pause in their career of oppression,
and politically to hesitate when they do not morally
relent.
I have experienced adversity in many of its most dis-
tressing calamities, and in some of its darkest hours; but
I have always found that it never has praised away with-
out leaving some moral benefit behind. Adversity mu-
ally compensates its immediate evils by its subsequent
good, 411.1 its uses are, in monerona instances, so pre-
chid., CIA it nosy often be regarded as prosperity under
another name.
I Baer he en at times sunk in the depth of alb:4os s •
but from those chlitlis I have been raised by the invisible
hand of the All-Merci:ol, to rejoice in the dawn of hap-
pier days, anti to comemplate a futurity of hope fur my-
self sn, fur mankind.
Whatever inay hare been the will of Omnipotence
with respect to my destiny in time past, I acknowledge
it to hare been both wise and good ; and I trust that my
safety will be protected by the same wisdom, sad my
happiness he promoted by the same goodness, in the
time to come. These sentiments are my cheerio, asso-
ciates during the day, and at night they smooth the pil-
low of nay repose.
COVENTRY.
I am particularly Wilted by this loyal awl affectionate
Address from the Inhabitants of the City and County of
the City of Coventry. I cannot be insensible to the ten-
derness with which they lament the sad chasm that death
has made in my kindred relations; nor can I readily
forget the warmth with which they resent the numerous
indignities that I have experienced.
My ramie.' have now mails out the best mule they
could in support of their Bill of Palos and Penalties;
but who will venture to assert that the testimony they
have produced, even if its validity were km auspicious
than it appears, is sufficient to justify the monis* in the
preamble of the Bill? But the very measure *kith My
enemies designed as fatal not only to the honour of the
Queen, hut to the liberty of the nation; islikely Wynn
favourable to troth. It has united all parties, and made
those. niy friends who might °them', lava boas my
enemies. .
Principles are iodaslritelibl•—alli,aairrfaio 1-feel a
vivitrasanrince that, Wine I coatedfor spelt rather
`that fort salt Maslen litmus, • t'saill. idsiumely

triumph over my tnenties.—Those principles which are
most sacred to my conscience and dearest to my hear‘!
are those of truth, of justice, and of liberty. Those
principles are better calculated than any others to pro• I
usote the general happiness of mankind; and while I
maintain them with unshaken constancy, not more fur I
my own good than.for that of the nation, I am convinc- I
r.l that, in the generous support of all classes of the
community, I shall be able to oppose an invulnerable
I shield to the violence, the ferocity, and the malice of my
enemies.
In this age, when knowledge is generalized and in-
quiry unrestrained, the power of public opinion is be-
come so great, that every other mast finally bend to its
decrees. A temporary resistance may. be made to the I
measures it suggests, or the conduct it prescribes; but
as long as the Press preserves only a moderate degree
of liberty, public opinion must be ultimately omnipo-
tent and it is in vain to oppose its commands as it
would be to order the earth not to revolve upon its axis.
When tiod gave the power of thought to man, be
evidently designed it to be free. Tyranny may fetter
the legs, handcuff the arms, but it cannot impose chains
on the interior operations of the mind. It may restrain
the freedom of intellectual agency through the medium
of the Press; but, in the present condition of man, no
restraint of this kind can well be efficacious; and my
heart vibrates with joy when I reelect that tyranny itself
is on the point of expiring in almost every part of the
Ruropean world. The Holy Alliance, though made for
the purpose, can hardly keep it alive. Its extinction is
decreed; and some member of the sztrisii rAcrton may
have leisure to write its epitaph.

EAST I.N•DIA HOUSE.

•
Yesterday a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors
was held at the East India House. The Minutes of
the proceedings at the last Court having been read,
The CHAIRMAN moved that a Resolution of the
Court of Directors, granting a pension of 10001. per
annum to R. Barnard, senior clerk in the Coast and
Surat Warehouse, in consequence of a reduction
having taken place in the department to which he
belonged, he approved by this Court.
Mr. Hum t. rose with no view of opposing the present
motion, though lie could not but regret that the Court
of Directors had not remunerated the services of a
meritorious servant, who was still capable of active
service, by finding him some other employment, in-
stead of placing him upon the pension list. Ile ap-
proved of the reduction which had taken place in the
commercial establishment of the Company, though
that reduction was still far from being proportioned
to the degree of their commercial embarrassments.
The report of the Company proved the folly of at-
tempting to compete with the British manufactures in
the cotton and cloth trade. In the cloth trade alone,
the loss which the Company had sustained, amounted
to not less than 411 per cent. If their whole commerce
was reduced one-sixth, the expenees of their commer-
cial establishment ought to be reduced in the same
proportion. He had no objection to the motion before
the Court, but he repeated, that the Court of Directors
would have better consulted the interests of the Com-
pany, if they had provided an active and meritorious
officer with employment in some other department.
Mr. Meal thought that at a period of great public
calamity, when the distress was general and unprece-
dented in every part of the country, pensions ought
not to he hastily granted to individuals, arrived at a
time of life which required no extraordinary indul-
gence, and which was, in fact, best calculated for
artier service. Me did net, however, mean to reflect
upon the conduct of the Directors in the present in-
stance, and it was not his intention to oppose the
motiou.
Mr. LowNDIS regretted that the Court of Directors
had not provided Mr. Barnard with some other situa-
tion. He was persuaded that this course would have
been wore gratifying to the feelings of that indi-
vidual, who must necessarily feel hurt at the idea of
being placed on the pension list, after having spent
35 years in their service, as if he were a useless mem-
ber of the Company. He was still in the prime of
life, and the best way of rewarding him would have
been to give him an opportunity of rendering further
services to the Company. He thought so large a sum
of money as 1,0001. a year, ought not to be voted
away in a Court consisting of 14 or 15 Proprietors.
It would be well if a rule were adopted, that the Court
should consist of a certain number of Proprietors
'whenever any large sums of money were to he granted.
In the present state of the Court, which reminded him
of the congregation of Dr. Swift and his clerk, when
the facetious Dean ir.is reduced to the necessity of
saying, " the Scriptuie moves you and we in sundry
places," it appeared more like an understanding he-
tweeu the Chairman and a few friends, than the
voluntary grant of 2000 Proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN said that as an ob tion of an
Honourable Proprietor (Mr. tinine) appeared to refer
to what had fallen from an Honourable Director at a
former Court, he would venture to say, in the absence
of that tientlenian, that hr had never denied that in
certain articles of commerce the Company were likely
to sustain some loss. He was too well acquainted
with the state of the British manufacture in the fabric
of cloth, not to be aware that the trade of India ii
muslin' and calicoes would at last be entirely drives
out of the market. At the %lime time he differed with
the Honourable Proprietor with respect to the exile. •
diency of giving up all competition with British pro-
duce. The Court of Directors had ahewn their readi-
ness
to abandon any article of commerce which was
not profitable to the Company. With respect to the i
motion before the Court, an Honourable Proprietor
(Mr. Rigby) bad admitted that his objections were
not applicable to it, and he thought, therefore, that
those objections might just as well have been spared.
Mr. Rum explained. He had made the observe-
tiosoo, which were considered irrevelant by the Chair-
Vials, with a view to the future condact of the Court
of Directors. At the same time he thought the pre-
sent grant ought to be limited in some manner, either
to the period of his continuing out of employment, or
his residence in the British dominions, for it might
happen that Mr. Barnard might embark in some rival
commercial speculation in India, and employ the
ability and experience which he had acquired in a way
Awhieh might prove highly detrimental to the interests
of the Company.
Mr. Immo thought the *practice pursued by
Clovertment might be advantageously adopted on this
oreisiotk The 'pensions of 4be widows of general
Ulcers and others ceased, if they acquired •a found