The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-18 00:00:00

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TO TIIE EDITOR
,OF THE STATESMAN.
1' tray--insensible to tsar while 'perforosiitg a duty
—unnsolted by threats when unconscious of error—
and equally determined to exercise the inherent
right of an Englishman, as to maintain a becoming'
decorum, I claim' your serious attention to a sub.
ject.vitally connected with the interest and happi.
ness of every 'individual in hi's ilassekies dunsi.
Glans..
At a P,riod when a *edam Is' distracted by do.
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snide uPresilin, when s People IS burthened and
'groaning with taxes, when e deliberate conspiracy
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exists against a tree recall and when every man,
who dare tell the truth, Is torn from his wife, his
family, arid peace.(ul home, and immured for years
in the intaTubrious walls of a prison; it becomes a
matter of anxious auspence to discover where these
acts will terminam, and what the end of all this
will be : but, in spite of these dreadful reflections,
and in defiance of this 'truly British sympathy, there
Is a subject of that awful nature, which can make'
k)ke People of England forget fur a moment the aut.
tering, of Mr. Coast-yr, Mr. Lovett, and other
Patriots; nay, even forget him, who, with a feeble
frame and lamented debility, is confined hi a House
of CORRECTION fur libelling a King's Minh-
ter, and turn their lunging eyes to thut great and
grandest of aTfitsbjects, the continued sulpensiost
of the :Ezemitivi Power
Our sapient Ministers would seem to have
imagined themselves like Admirals, who are author
sized to act as occasion may in their minds require,
and fait the ocean with 'unlimited orders ; but let
them recollect there is more than one instance
where the Admiral has tried experimeots, in defi-
ance of reason and of justice, and has been cued
to a CoUrt-Martial to be tried for his life for so
doing. What has been the conduct of out' 4dmi.
nistration ? They have not received, bat AUUKIIIII
in Unwarrantable and despotic power, and have
been actually trying the most daring experiments
upon that venerable Constitutiou, granted at the
immortal ,Runnyiesde, and obtained with 'the blood
of our ancestors I—But there is a tribunal to which
they shall be brought—a tribunal which knows
nu specious reasoning or legal .sophistry—where
equity and justice are always found—the bat of
that people who are the origin of all just powai.
The, eyes of the Nation are now fiked upon the:
Paz sex; not only because he has the tight of see.
cession, but as they view him with confidence and
esteem. It is enough ear the people. that he his
declarea:hie warm attachment to the principles of
the British Constitution, as maintained by his ever--
lamented friend, Mr. Fox, because he was known
to be a man of sound distrimination and judgment',
and one, whole principles if they now characterised

the mousse us rennin's:or, 'mufti farucurzwar, verso
satisfy tfie People. —Same persons attempt to deny
the right of the PEINEE to fill the Executive Power
what a Minimsl ignorance they betray of their own
laws! Tho writer of this Address can tell them,. at
tiro:and-twenty, that their assertion is fallacious
and false, at it is wholly repugnant to the prin.
civics of the Constitution. Luok to the Statute
25 Edward 111. and it is there said, " that to coin.
pass or conspire the death of the Prince, is as much
high 11-61100 as to conspire thedeath Of (lie King, be-
cause the Prince is next in successiun to the Crown."
Ia souther place it is said, " the King's
eldest son is made Pam* of WALES and Earl of.
CUESEILEtt by especial creation and investiture, be-
cause he is the HEIR APPARENT to the
Crown." Certain ,learned gentlemen may denomi-
nate this curious reasoning, but it is constitutional
argument ; and, if the Coustitotion has ought to do
With the subject, bold are the men whio dare violate
it. Why is this curious reasoning 1 Because it tends
to injure the cause of a party who act first, for
Place and Profit, and make their consciences a sc.
ccindary consideration. What then is the natural
and obvious meaning of these Statutes ? Every ra-
tional man answers, that by law, equity, honour,
justice, and right, the PRINCE matt have 'the un-
fettered and uncontroulud exercise of the Sovereign ,
functions. His Parliament will direct his meastiretis''
his conscience shall guide his actions, the voice of
a faithful people will receive a just and candid
hearing, and peace succeed our long-protracted
warfare.
But it is said we ought to place confidence in flit)
Administrationi as some of them are eminently,
pious and religious characters. Awful hypocrisy!
If these are pious men, I refer them to a Wai.
cheren tragedy ; and after they 'have attempted to
justify that, I feel no..hesitation in asserting, they
carry their infamy into the sanctuary of the Loan,
and with a trembling hand and reproving conscience,
rob* the cup to their lips, and eulemuly libel the'
peered name of Gov V

To rattan to our loadintaabject it is naturally
said, what a dreadful fact it is, that a nation like
England should cleat without a Sovereign ! Why,
what is it hut Republicanism ? There is no Govern-
ment and no Parliament, becauseit is not aemplete ;
it is neither legal nor valid; and it is Father uncoil:
stitnttunal, or we have no Cunstitutioo it all I. What
dlothey say in France,' when every English .I.lurnal
tells them the British Throne is yet vacant? What
a pretty thing to record in the histoil of our coun-
try ! A child who is bora at this tiool wilco seine

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.21 FEMALE SPVINDLER.
A successful scheme was practised a fortuigltt ago
*Oa landlord and seeeral tradesmen, in Ow 14'40.
6011 'hoed of WeStetinster, by a woman of geuteel
appearaticel be,f management of the business,
proves 'her to be a person of no ordinary lats.'''s
and exPerieece is her profession. She took tie her
abOdd at the King's Arms Tavern,' stating, that she
was a Widow with futir daughters, .two of the
grown up; and that bor husband had lately died,
leaviiig a handsome competence far herself and Ws.
dress, all of whom were with bee at the isine.-e.
They were all attired-in mourning, which gave a
plausibility to the stury ;„ and not the least doubt
was entertained of her veracity. She pretended to
.be a eeranger iu Londue, And seemed anasons to
make the lapdlord her friend and confidant,
..sr horn
she consulted on mitres; eciaaiiiiass as to tha
means of turuing her property to Ilse must profit.
able account. hhe had, particularly, an annuity
to the amount of tOdle its. 3d. per annum, that she
was desirous first to dispose of, to pay for Some no.
canary articles of domestic concerns, and sub*
matters in the mean while,the lady and her daughters
k-„.'" fared sumptuously every day," and being females,
and not accustomed to consume much wine, as she
said, she occasionally pressed the landlurd to help
thette off with the bottle, " fur the good of the hoiree."
She was elan so kind and civil to the host, as to give
haw an uppurtenity DtigrAlalDelidtl/6 Diay trademark
to her *hum he might wish to oblige, and happened
to deal in such articles ai she was in want of. It so:
fell out, however, that she wanted almost every
thing; a , little plate for the sideboard,
dashery, linen-drapery, hosiery, shoes, die. With
all these things she wait furnished; but as she did
not like, above all things, to remain long in deilt,
for it.was the way of her husband to make "short
reckonings," hi order to keep ". lung friends,*
she was quite uneasy till the lendlord sent to the
City for a "Stock-broker," to advise about the
disposal. Of. the anuuity, that she 'night get out
of debt. The Citizen attended, and 46 for the
good of the house" he joined in a glass or two of
wine, while the business ef the annuity was talking
over. Every thing being arranged, the morning
wag appointed fur the lady to atteed the Bank, in
Order. to sip the transfer. Oa her departure she
Ordered a substantial dinner, es the City air, she
'said, 66 might be sharp, and would create an app..
tite;”' and as the ride might do Betsey and Mary,
the two youngest children, good, they should stc.
company her Su a coach. Off they set, but instead
of proceeding to the City, no doubt they repaired
to the place of rendezvous fixed on with the two
eldest daughters left behind, who shortly quitted
the tavern after their mother, under pretence of
taking a walk in the Park. Since which time, none
of this hopeful family has been heard of by the
suffering party.

B.277teIOIWIN4RY ROBBERY.
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A circumstance that engrosses as well the eon.
versation as the astonishment of the !fashionable
World, h a rubbery committed on Tuesday last, at .
Lady ficathcote's, in Grosvenur-sqaare. During
the afternoon her Ladyship had taken her usual
ride, but had prolonged. it till six o'clock, when
returning to her dressing.room, she discovered that
her casket of jewels had been robbed of a superb
pearl and diamond necklace, of thb value of one
thatusaittl guineasi, and as no one but Ihe servants
had been in the house during her absence, shit
is most certain on 9 of them has committed ',this
theft. Via however singular, that from this casket
which contained other jewels to the amount of
it least 10,000 guineas, this necklace should alone
be selected. Mr. Conan t, the Magistrate, has beers
most assiduous in the examtuati,ru of the servants,
and a reward of. b 0 guineas has been offered, but
hitherto without the desired effect. Her LntlyahW's
solicittide to discover the guilty person, is only to tfa
equalled by her anxiety to relieve the minds of
those whom by long and faithful servitude she is
persuaded are itinurent. This mysterious affair,
cannot long remain undeveloped, as the most arc.
tual means are etout to be adopted to discover the
perpetrator of the theft. A valuable gold watch
was stolen from her Ladyship in a similar matinee
about three months since.
easse.-....mismetwer
The Duke of Notteout, will give a grand diunet
this day) at aia house iu st. Jaums's.hvare. .

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Wiik itslege, watld naturally answer, " /mai
born in the year Owe was no. ingr." T only
difference is, we should reply, "no Executive
Poser." I. respect 'Mr..-Wutitiniii nut! Sir
trilAN.Cti BURDLTT, but I wilts to ask them• why
they sanction an unconstitutional assemblage by
.their *presence ? Ministers have taken all into the*
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'own hands. Tho Scripture has an apt illustration •
of the present times, where it says —" In those days
there was no King in Israel, and every Tan did
that which was ri4lit in his win eyes."' Now, if
for Israel we read England, and fur man, We sob.
stitute Ministers, the passage is strict,sii
But, I must forbear pleasantry !—I call upon the.
House of Commons to go back to their Cud.
stitnents, and ask them ' when the gency
should be vested ? 1 demand my birta.right
as an Englishman! I demand the Cunstitu.
tion, all and every part of the Constitution, I
Want no more ! .1 venerate, I esteem, and I love it !
I am too much of au Englishman to forget it 1 if I
were asked what I valued neat to my Bible? 1 au.
ewer—the British Constitution. .1 warnhimisters
of. their danger. 1 tell them, *den not, if they
mill act consistentlye. and try to save a sinking na.
titan, the people ;rill support thou, they..wi II up.
bold and protect them ; but if they teal tarn the -
warning voice, if they will not du thehrilaty,' hal •
them the People are yet the People at Enairsidi.
apathy shall become actistty, 'AM irerrwigidibt •
lions shalt see we yet retain one Gi.ciitioitt. SeAsit