The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-25 00:00:00

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Vrekbell. - The Gentleman then took the liberty of t
asking Mr. Alleh what were the Charge( against
'themes Riley ? lie immediately teplird, they hat(
no charge against him t but that en order had enveit
down from Loudon for his apprehension, iiiid unfit
he bad received farther inforeastiou from the Secretary
of State he could do nothiog; the charges being la d
thews I have already 'fitted this was en Wed.
'wacky, the 2d July ; now, on Friday; the 4th
of July, through the mediern,4l Mr. Oakley, 'M.P.,
you received Mr. Addingtun's gnawer, milting there
was no charge against Thomas Itileyi and that he eat
not detained by order of the Secretary Of State; and
that-if he was demised it was by thu local • Masi-
gistrates its the plate where
.he leas apprehended.
As with abhorrence I view Awse vexatious and edd-
tradirtory statementsogow on this same day, Friday,
the 4th of July,-M!. B. H. Allen committed my
brother to York Goth; and on the f'diutsinf &V he
was sent to the -Counks,Jail, under's strong patent
of yeatnenry caveley, after being kept at Ileddera
field near three 'leek% during all. a Bich time his die- .
tressed wife and tionavious family •wert denied well
access to or correspondence with him. Oe the 11th
duly, he was furnished with a copy of the cherge's
which were stated would be•preferted against him at
Llhomiseirig,„Assises i bet, in the interim, a detainer
was obtained from the derretary.of Stile, they being
well aware that they could not criminate before.%
Jury of his country." si. s.
When application was made to know ath, digit
man had bees imprisoned, the Magistrates had said
it was by order of Lord Sidmooth. It was Paid that
orders had come from London for his apprehenaioo,
and till farther orders, no alteration-could be made
in his confinement. When application was made ne
the subject in London, lineeter, it. wag said ilea
there was no charge alpinist him there, and lie was
certainly confined by the local Magistrates. It
could be proved upon oath, that the head anti fright
of that mete* offending was neither • more near less,
that, that Oliver bad Itsiotan•ti mats of the Home of
Diego'', to whom he commuoicated that there was
to be a great rising, and that Dawson, telling this to
Riley, he had told it to some other petters.. Riley
was as innocent as any man, !le (Mr. Favell) was
convinced that be himself deserved confiliernesit ten
thousand times more than that intincent Than, for he
had attended many Meetings in that !lett and elsewhere.
He tes'il not forbear telliog them that it was frosts the
very boards oti which he stood, that 4 brave man, fee
daring to ask the Lord Mayor to petition for a new
Parliament, had been taken upend throe° into prison.
Indeed, if ever theaCorporatien should vote another
statue, it should be for that man, and then he enti
Beck ford would see one snot hei--(Applause). IN
I did not mean to say thing against a scarlet gown, but
that Mall had only a plain blue one; though he wooly!
say that bad he lived at ilie present day, only a Brien.
' draper and shopkeeper as he was, he should have
. thought it right to send him to Parliament.—(efp.
//lutist.) They would soon come to sotnethiog like
a day of reckoning, end Owe it might not be amiss
to put a few sober and c.minon.place questiOns to
the Members. He had the greatest:respett Nethem;
but as they .had said that four could do very little
against six hundred, be' would silt iehetitei ting Cite
paid no more Twits than in the proportion of four Its
Itis hundred?—•( Applause.) When every Constable
was liable to damages from Ravine imprisoned fidgety.
1 what slid they deserve who had :Wien the occaaion of
the false imprisonment of so many? The Worthy
Gentleman concluded. his speech by obser rice, that if
'their Members were not what they wished, they
' might look out for four more honest met'.
Mr. &fell then moved th- Itesolu.ions, which
will be seen in another part of our Paper.
Mr. Witerebee rose to second this inntion. This
was not, be said, • question of argument, fur no
mats, except the grossest and most corrupt dupe,
doubted that Ministers took advantage of the -situa-
tion of the People, in a frVllllOll of great diatrear,
to suspend their liberties, and in that manner slide
their irresistible complaints.—(flear, hear!)—To
justify this measure no arguments had been made,
nor cueld any be anticipated; mine, therefore, were
required from the advocates of the People in support
of their natural rights. Ile cousidered that the Lew
of the Land was fully sufficient for the preaeivatien
of the public tranquillity, when the Ministers
thought proper. to call for fresh posers. If the
Constitution were only to have existence when every
thing was quiet, where was the necessity of calling
on People to defend the rights it gave, if they
were refused the exercise of them in the only m's.
meut they could want them—a season of grievance
and complaint ?—(Applause:)..-The complaint of
I the Livery, last )ear, was against the Sespen.
aims Act; in addition to this, they had now to coin.
plain of the conduct of Ministers during the Saf-
I pension. They had to complain that hundreds of
their fellow-subjects were torn from their families—
' pet in dungeons and in irons—and kept so for shuntha,
I to their ruin, and then discharged, untried and site
heard. It mattered little that some of these men
were of a low station in life, or what their nom•
bees were; the trial of the liberty of the subject was
brought to issue its the caae of a single individual,
I like that of Mr. Jenks, as much as if 1,000 had
suffered.—( Ilear, hear !)—W hat defence hart Mi.
tasters to make for burn conduct? The new edition
of the Green ling—( Laughter)—marl come out feat
'light ill the House of Lords, and it did not distlose
a single fact or circumstance that the Public were not
*heady in possession of. The plats of Ministers was
eidirely eapioded by the discovery of the hired spies,
on whose information so many beings had been in.
carcerated. if it had not been for the fortunate dis-
covery. of Oliver and his plot, poor men might have
beets put ou trial upon their evidence, and perhaps
convicted. The discovery, however, defeated this
porpoise. The same farce had been yla.sed of 20
beau ago, but then the actors were more skilful than
the present one', for they kept the machinery wholly
out of sight,- inter; and a tauvls] —The late
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Nisfpetifluit Act imaged certainly at an unprecedented
period in every respect, and et no former perioll
was so much oppression sod injustice exertised under
,it--it wag exercised in a manner as wanton as it was
cruel, for 'the unfortunate sufferers were "charge!"
when it was found by the explosion of the by See-
tem that they coold•not be brought to trial--net as
they oegist to have been discharged, in an Wee." -
doted Maaner, bet upon haraesieg recognizant's.—
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After lii moan. Great Bag Committee seas

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