The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-21 00:00:00

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illviitve, ohich in its horrible progress boars down
all before is. This is the sad and deplorable condi.
tion in which we aro placod, after a destructive war
of family years a war said to be for the preservation
of social ina", bat in reality commenced for the
role putpove of crushing the spirit of liberty in
From... mid ',foregoing all necessary and salutary
pols.irfal trforosetinn at home. _ _

" We are Dow in the fifth year of peace; hut, in-
stead of any iseprovenseet taking place in our con-
dition, we are continually genitor/from bed to worse :
it is Owlets', manifest that no relief is to be expect.
ed -tender the present system of speculation and mis-
✓ule, more especially as, instead of reducing lass-
Sion. they are about, if possible, to increase it. That
our Petitions end Remonstrances for redress arrive.
sloes.* have only been met by taunts, threats, insults,
and by snspencEng the fundamental principles of nor
Constitution, filling ow gloomy and solitary duo.
gengslli and transporting and even beheading some of
the most industrious end wretched of our population.
" That from ell these facts, it is clearly manifest,
that all appliratinns in the shape of Petitions or Re.
m..nstrance to the Hasson( Commons will eel beat.
leaded with any good effect : and, is the Home Se-
cretory ewers to be an insuperable impediment in
the way if truth reaching the Regent's ear, and as
it Ls- jothipessishly necessary to effect an alteration
let ktbuttetilig our condition. we deem it a duty we
ott to eff.riollos to call the People of Ibis afflicted
cosysil lojsysippento wish es In every constitutional
•ffelre, • to pm with the present cerrept system
offtypeenlefic?, lsy effecting the substitution of
liimehalj.kfqinfe. Annual. Parliaments, and Elec-
tion b' Whiff fn lie plate. To produce so desir.
stft Is Ames wp bep lam to recommend the forma.
Mod of Arninistocieties in "very town sod village in
the itinstlem, for the purpose of acquiring and dif-
le-slogionlitlesi information, and oleo the frequent
hokil64o;of public and district meetings, in order to
cisiesOct, cposplete, sod harmonize our political on•
aritandlisit sad Nang.
-48 It If‘sires *sly the removal of villa! Igoe.
lance to bow that the present s)stem of legislation
is only caleolated to enrich the few at the eapence of
the many, by !Wag immense taxes spun the People,
end then squandering them away by thousands, and
even tens of thousands, to wcrthiess, if not wicked
individuals; by making laws to ethane. the price of
the poor man's necessaries, in order to increase the
rich man's rent-roll, in propping up Mr. Berke's
corintbian pillar, by sinking its pedestal into the
mirth.

" Oer condition has become desperste. Oar very
ezietence Is at itch ; for although we have glutted
every market with our labours, yet we ourselves Can.
not get enough. The blame then lies not with
the labourers, but with the Legislators. Say then to
these unfeeling monsters in the shape of me., the
llornoglimongers, that, if we most di* either by
,sta traitor' or in the defence of oar inalienable rights,
we cloned hesitate to prefer the latter."
t • [This Address was signed by the Chairmen, in be-
'hell of the Meeting of Deputies. The Deputies
from each and every place, esplicitly and indivi-
dually stated to the hireling, that Universal Suffrage,
Anneal ellfilSllltfli., and Election by BMW, were
the principle; approved at their respective places.]
After Mr. Willits had reed the Declaration, be
adder!, it was stated some time ego, that there was not
a Reformer in Leeds. Whether there are or not it
is for you to answer, if there ere any Reformers, sow
give the positive answer.--( Loud cheering )
JAMS M ANN, one of the persons lately detained,
In prison ender the Habeas Corpus Sespension Am.
by trade a cloth-dresser, to which be has added the
business of a political pamphlet-dealer, then rose and
said :—" Gentlemen, our country has arrived at
sock a state, that can we he any longer silent or
negligent of our country's wrongs--Things hive at.
rived at such • height as to deny the poor mem
the necessaries of life, while hundreds of India*
duals who live on legation are rioting in !usury.
It is oar duty to espress our sentiments in strong
Ind energetic language seeing that a corrupt
Heave of Commons has brought our country to
its present deplorable situation, lifter 2.5 years of war,
which was waged to destroy the liberties of France;
and, after they have spent hundreds of millions of
nor Money, end after sbeddins rivers of blood is the
tame of tyranny end oppression, we are told that
war was waged for indemnity for the past, and secu-
rity for the Teter,. What much, for our famishing
country have they obtained ? It behoves os to en-
Asir, Imo our country's grievances. They have
now remelted to that state that they cannot be @O-
mitted to tiny longer. I have to inform you, that
Unions on the principles of Radical Reform, are
formed in almost every part of England ; and with.
out a Radical Reform our country will be rained.
At the conclusion of this speech. Mr. Willan reed
e letter from the Society of Political Prole:loas in
Hell to James Mann, in Leeds, in which the writer,
after mongratolations on the progress of their instils.
lion in Leeds, Wakefield, de. declaims strongly
egoism " Borough-mongers" end " the Mark hypo.
crises of our fhlse Priests," to whom he attributes all
oar State maladies.
Mr. Graeae 'Petal (from London), then ad-
dressed Ilse Meeting in • speech of considerable
length. He attacked. in the language of gross in.
'wive, the present Government ; and he was equal.
ly free in his Center') upon the Church ; the follow.
ing specimens will give a sufficient ides of the ten.
(limey of this address :—" Let but ilia whole nation
iteietly and peaceably tell their rulers that they will
owl must have their rights; and let it be supposed
that out of seventeen millions, sls millions of male
adelts wiii no longer be imposed upon ; that they are
determined to be free; then the fabric of Govern-
ment shall fall, not by bloodshed, but by their own
Bawd; then their tyrannical rulers will begin to see
that their rogueries and impositlont ere esposed, and
Volt the People ars determined no looker to permit
the bands of Priestcraft, and every other species of
srperstitiee to be upon their eyes," bit that they. re
resolved and determined to have their rights.
• •
If you think you are wronged, stand up like men,
and vindicate your wrong. If you think you are
not wronged, why do you grumble ? Too have the
power to vindicate your wrongs. What are a few
troops of men assembled under the idea, of, guards,
of horsemen, or soldiery ? What aretrilleyksif the'
ceurstriii deterfnined to stand open tuliailudaammous?
—What have you to do with the military if yea ate

Peaceable and quiet ?—bear them not. They dere
not molest you. Now you are hero assem►led,
should • smell troop of horsemen come from that ;
field, would you ran ? Aland like mew, you bave,
toenail'd ne crime. Look at t►e Irish Rebellions I
the greeted of which I say nothing of ; and the pro-
priety of which I say nothing of ; but the conduct
of the men is what I would wish to hold out
as en •sample. They Clew like cowards. There
is no greater victory can be obtaiued over you,
than for you to shrink from your own cause.—
When yes feel your Petitions have no weight, form
yourselves, when you can spare a convenient hour,
' (and I am afraid many here present have too matey
leisure hours,) as at this time, with regular order,
with due circumspection, and with friendly inter-
course, as men who would wish to be free, not has.
lug your country's destruction in your view. D •
Revolution should take place, would you be happy?
No! as I said before, if any person could look upon
a Revelation wish peace and quietness, I might, not
having father or mother, brother, or sister. Reed
the *adage of Reformers, and form yourseive•
agreeably to them. Ignorance is what has blinded
ages. I would not wish to insinuate into your minds
any thing against the sacred writings.—Whatever my
opinion may be. yes are at liberty to judge for your.
selves. What I would advise you is, that you most
strictly guard against priestcraft in all its shapes end
forms. It is net 'now pgh for you to confine your observe.
lions to thegleringabsurditiesle hich presentlbeesslves
in the national church ; but look *pun him with so eye
of motley, who poops oil weekly nonsense by the
hour, as great a villain, end as groat a destroyer of
your rights and privileges, as even he who has seven
er eight rotten boroughs at his disposal. Vain Weald
it be for me to vindicate or condemn any particular
sect •f men forming theossrlres under the idea of Ma-
gic.. bodies; but such who reeks a continual prac-
tice of insineating into the People's minds that the
laws are not only jest, het by God's appointment,
and their superiors by his all-wise appointment set
ever them, is es muds as to say, they must bear the
lead without grumbling.
" I recommend, by frequently assembling your.
Men in bodies, that you show the trembling atoms
of corruption, who may be wandering afar off, the
Immense body of freemen which stand before thews,
not by arms or petitions, that will not do. Nothing
bat assembling yourselves in bodies, heartily, ottani.
mously, end quietly, in the Cause of Reform, will
ever rein's' you (Tomtit* bonds of the Boroo4h.men.
geeing faction."
James Mists again presented himself and said—
" Mee I mourned from one of Sidmouth's solitary
dungeons, the tools of corruption hoped that I *tumid
give up advocating the coos* of Reform; bet I have
satisfaction in saying. that I have done more to pro-1
1 mote the cause of Reform, since my return frog his
solitary dungeon, than ever I did in my life. lIRVe.
now hid defiance to either Sulinneth or his blood-
hounds. The tended of the Reformers is, sod ever
will be, open. We set theta tools of corruption at
defiance; and the Reformers in this town are more
numerous and strong than at any former period.—
Tim Declaration which hes b►en read to you will be
inserted in Woofer's Dwarf. Re concluded by
proposing that the Declaration which was passed at
the Oldham kleetiist should be adopted by the pro.
sent.

--- The following Res°letioes were then read, sad
carried eseelawsedy :
Resolved. Id. That the Declaration posted at the Oldham
Mewing be adapted by the prevent.
Sti, That Englard bus bees lasktlved in a wet roiliest, ex-
pensive. and ettoecemary war, for a gems" Oa century.
M. That a. far as we cwt desetner. iss abject was the petre•
taii• el the tythe sate', awl legitimacy. sad vet the welfare
and. happiness If she pktdoctive chk.es.
4th, Ibis the teppnrsers of she mattes. the apriceltorista. she
merchant.. artist,. masiefarturerv, and artistes, were repeatedly
swami that tokamak, (..r the paid, and Kathy for the future,
were the Mikes, of said hi...ay war.
51h. Tbut from the cireemeowees which are now taking
place, the above *Weis are politely lent sight oft the revels
a she mug gat.illed, and the only hope of reward fee stontewl
envois* (ea awe held forts as indorrenpois lo patine. waelleriegl,
a knetatiog of she nodes& harden., k d shed from es wish mon,
nail our distresses thereby treated *kb ddseek.
&h. That an redress ems be obtained but free atieseives. that
we amply the seam. aid if we fall to adept ohm with
'Maur, aai moletely to persevere. we shalt mere every prise-
tine which we may hats to endure. and deserve she detestatina
of peettrfty. le whew we shall leave she prelim lesser of
tyreary and cowardice that was ever haraearaell by use proc-
eeds' to mother.
704 That she 'allowing Declaration besieged by all who are
datermised sot to &tome 'passive .Ime., and truseatiked to
Unworn Suttee. as Speaker of the Homan which he presides,
far the lafermatine of when It may element.
Sth, Thal these Resnlatieso and
Decintailkos be advertised
iu she Cenr• the Shrubs: Post, nod I. sae Loyal Paper
in each eats be (wand isweb tearyto dainty
the corm* I •
The bodiless of the evening was concluded by the
perusal and adoption the follo•ing
LI : RATION.
" We, the Uad .-.
, %wing bad oar fell share
of the barden oft ~_ki, lief o support, were led to
espeet that Isa 77.0 d have beta attended
with a reelucti, •
=';. - • ' -
fed, as we were told,
by the King, ' ' 'T ~ for Ike lawinitipnce.pf a
just and a contest ; that MI f fro this being
the case, we have betas*, every dypolftien en the part
of this Government end orlescei no, to continue all
the war 1•1•11 in time of.,peace, end to perpeteate 1
every **pence which the wee. had engendered, and
that neither 'tumour nor retrenchment hare formed
any restate in their character, nor obtained any place
is their Councils, eacept when forced thereto by the
groans of a starving multitude. That hem the pro-
sent attempt to increase the burdens with which we
are overwhelmed, we have no expectation of escaping
by a vote of the Legislature. The Members of the
noes. of Commons not being ear Representatives,
neither haying performed the office of geardiaaf of
our rights and liberties, and protestors of our pro.
perry. That from these
premises we consider it a
duly which we owe to oar country, ourselves, end
oar posterity, to @Wale from the use of spirit,, beer,
tobacco, tea, and every other tailed article net abso-
lutely necessary to the support of our ealstence, DO-
. til pot in possession of the right of electing in ear
own districts, Representatives In Parliament."

Private letter free Jessie, state, that the C.
vernment there had forbidden striely the 'sped
previsions to the Spanish Main, thereby seeking to
deprive the Patriot, of all f PSOVFIII. A Meeting of
the mereheats and traders there eel to take piece. to
memorial the (Governor, the Doke of MANCIILSTER,
to rescind the order sad tonal the Pretlanation
I which onfortiti it.

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