The Statesman.
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of his
44eltete.
, But, Get limes, _ .__ stteeks .. A the prin.
(Aphis of freeilote, I Vkigaid es tine most dangerous.,
the eesploymeat of hired Spies acid Inforeeen—of
wretches whose baldness it is to worm theseselies impel
the confidence of their neighbour to effect his (lest rocIN
e,
tins—of men who sit at the cobvivial boa* la ,
amidst the 'abased rites of hospitility, spark out.,
victims whom they intend, for the wages iif bi ~
to consign to the ecaffold. Look et the premed/4e
of Oliver. That mati, if, he is entitled to the nam
of man, visited this town. He visited Leeds—hel
visited Wakefield—be visited Manchester. Where
he found an intelligiint population he could do nwi
mischief. But be visited a corner of Derbyshire
where he found a number of ignorant, starirAng, sod'
desperate men. Hard upon this visit followed the
rising, for which three individuals atoned with the
forfeit of their lives. Two of these wretched men
charged Oliver with having instigated them to the
treason, for which they were about to suffer. How
far this was the case is in a train of investigation.—
In the wen time, ope thing is certain, that though
it is stated in the Report of the Papers submitted to,
a Committee of the House of Lords, that the Spies
of Ministers have exceeded their. commission, in ser
gosling the mischief which they were employed mere-
ly to discover, not one of them has been penished for
so doing.
Gentlemen, this enamerstims of fact., most, I op.
prebend, bear me oat in the assertion, that of late
years, great encroachments have been in this country
made: and others attempted, upon the freedom of the
subject. The conclusion I would draw from it I
have already intimated. Let us be vigilant to coun-
teract any further encroachments. Let us emend an
active and liberal assistance to the victims of oilprei-
Si4lii. Let us according to the utmost of our ability,
endeavour In enlighten,and let as availnurselvesof pass-
ing incidents to iii fiuence to good the public mind. Let us
1. tICOU rage with due applause and generous eoefidence,
the defenders of our rights in either House of Portia-
sent. Let us protest against actual or meditated in-
vasions of our privileges, by the importonity of pe.
litioning. Dofective as is the composition of the
House of Commons, the fate of the Income 'Tea
shows, that that House is impressible by public opi-
nion ; and that, it Britons were as jealous of their
liberty as of their property, the invaders of their free-
glom would meet with defeat and disgrace instead of
triumph.
I am well snare that the times are full of peril to
those who act upon the maaims which I nm now in.
culcating. But what liberties should we have had to
defend, if our ancestors had shrunk from peril ?—r
Let us emulate their examples. As to myself, I
could, were I sn minded, amuse myself with the por.
suits of literature. We can all, if we please, retire
to the inglorious ease of fireside enjoyments. But
I am sure that I strike a respousive chord in the
heart of every one that hears tne, when I say, in the
generous words of Wooler, if the present wretched
Ministers are to make still further inroads on our
freedom, " I had rather become their martyr thin
their slave."

tit tfie It
of this Opposition
In order in punish him for his delinquencies, .
decrease his indium& in a Ces►aty Election, The Mi•
&sten of the day attempted, by /akin/ admit*, of
r the legal masim, " males teaspes laletaus regi," to
rob him of a considerable landed estate. By this
proceeding, a blow was aimed, net at thw Duke of
Portland only, but at the great body of the Nebility
of the realm. who, if this conspiracy had succeeded,
dreading an ioqeisition into the titles of their estates,
all of. which were originally granted by the crown,
would have stood within the peril, and consequently
would have been compliant with the will, of the Mi-
nistry of the day. True, this conspiracy did not
succeed; bet no thanks to Ministers for that. In
hatching and nurturing it, they showed their regard
for the rights of property.
li, the case of John Wilkes; they manifested their
tender solicitude for the liberty of the subject. I
allude to the celebrated case of General Warrants,
in which Ministers endeavooied to establish a pro.
ces. whereby they might authorize their myrmidons
r to break into the hence of any one they might think
it proper to assail, and seise his person and papers.
They did seize John, and sent him to the Tower.—
Hui he was too volatile to stay there long. He was
liberated by process of law ; and to the firmness of
J,,hst, in counteracting the tyrannical project of the
existing Ministers, are we indebted for salvation from
General Warrants—from Warrants directed against
no one, and executable against every one.
In the progre,s of their persecution of Wilkes,
Ministers next minced their respect for the Freedom
of Election. They caused him to be expelled from
the House of Commons; and when his constituents.
returned him again, they not only again expelled
him, but substituted Colonel Luttrell in his place ;
thus robbing the Country of Middlesex of its fran-
chises. J'say Ministers did this ; because it is a
well-known fact, that, at that time, whatever im-
provements may have since taken place, Ministers,
and the majority of the House of Commons, were
OPP.

So much, Gentlemen, for liberty and property.—
to descend to a period nearer to the present time :
in the trial of Thomas Hardy, Ministers endeavour-1
ed, by asserting the doctrine of cumulative and con-
structive treason, to lay at their mercy the life of
every active friend of freedom in the United King-
dom. True, they were defeated by the wonderful
efforts of Lord Erskine operating upon the ,inielli-
gence and firmness of en English Jury. But the
speech of the Attorney-General, and the Charge of
the Lard Chief Justice Eyee, remain upon record, as
proofs of the constitutional principles which those
Law Officers had instilled into the Piloting Cabinet.
I am not Lawyer enough, Gentlemen, to know,
and I have forgotten to enquire, at what period his
Majesty's Attorney-General became vested with the
power of filing ex-olicio informations against the
authors of writings, which be, in his wisdom, or
his folly, may deem seditious. The power itself
is a formidable one, and liable togreat abuse. But
it is withiu these few years, that this p-wer has been
armed with additional terrors by a clause in an Act
uf Parliament, which authorizes the Attorney• Ge. —.
vend to hold to bail—that is, in many cases, to POLICE.
imprison before conviction,—the unfortunate an- --wiam.....
thors whose lucubration' may fall under his high di.. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday George Taylor, a pot.
pleasure. ter employed at the Golden-cross Inn, Chering.crois,
To vest with this power the Attorney. General, appeared to a summons, charging him with an offence
who, by his rank, education, and office, must he, at under the porterage-act, in neglecting to deliver a
least well versed in law, it seems that au Act of Podia- parcel containing game, &c. in due time after its
went was requisite. But, by the portentous Circular arrival in London, to which the Defendant pleaded—
of Lord Sidmouth, the whole body of our Magistracy Nut Guilty.
have lately been invited to assume a similar power. Mr. Wicken Hodges, of Grafton.street, Fitzroy.
Why, Gentlemen, what was the tendency of this Cir• . square, stated, that on Sunday last, the 28th Wt. he
eider, but to establish in every district of the kingdom received a basket of game, &c. at hie bootie, when it
e set of political Despots?—Gentlemen,donettnistake was past 5 o'clock, which bed been brought to Lou.
my meaning. I do not here mean to speak of the Ms- dolt by the Gloucester mail-coach, which had arrived
gistracy of the country, for whom I entertain a gin: ere early the same morning.
respect. Indeed, I should with an ill grace, speak 'I he Defendant admitted that the parcel by the'
evil of them in the presence of my worthy friend, wile, Gloucester mail-coach arrived at the inn before lo
so frequently appears upon the bench with the highest • o'clock on Sunday morning,. sad
.his defence for not
credit w himself, and the greatest utility to the l'ub. , having taken the parcel as directed sooner was, that
tic. I speak of the intentions and wishes of Minis- he was not obliged to deliver it on that day, being
ters. As to the Magistrates of the realm, to their Sunday. The Act, however, making no provision
eternal honour be it spoken, they have not taken for the observance of the Sabbath, and not admitting
the Lint. They are cautious of learning the law from any excuse, the Defendant wits convicted in the
(ford Sidmouth. Ido not believe that his Lordship's penalty, with costs.
Circular has been acted upon in half a dozen instance:. A NOVEL CASE. •
In one of them, the operator, a Rev. Staffordshire MARLSOROUGH-STREET.—A Mr. Brown applied
to the Magistrate on behalf of a poor girl 12 years of
Divine, has sevverely burnt his fingers. Let us hope
age, whose sex was discovered in the person of a
that Ministers will apply to his wounds a proper
liniment. sweep. Mr. Brown had seat to Westwood, a sweep
of St. Pancras, to have his chimney swept. The
Gentlemen, we know to our regret, bow fie.
clumsily during the present reign, we bare tweio de• sweep sq:.etided the chimney, habited as • boy, and
prised of that grand security of civil liberty, the having performed the job, told Mr. Brown, he never
had Isis chimney swept so well by such another
habeas Corpus Act. Under the iospenasion of that
Act, how many of our fellow-subjects have pined, sweep. She discovered her sex, and stated that her
and are now pining in Prison ? The mercy of the uncle had turned her out of doors to look for work,
law provides, that certain Magistrates shall, from sod she had engaged herself to a sweep rather than be
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time to time, visit the jails of the kingdom, to pro- chid, as she could get no other work-
' tect their unfortunate inmates from oppression. Bur, Ilapron-eaanzs.----Yesterday Mary Andrew, a
its defiance of an express Statute; Ministers forbid. „stomata who cohabits with a ebiatteeresweop•weethee
the access of these Magistrates to those whom they name of Thomas Westoo4 at Somers'-toss was
have incarcerated under the Suspension Bill. Now brought up along with her daughter, a girl, 13
what class.of prisoners are so liable to oppression as years of age, by the beadle, who stated that the
Stale Prisoners? From personal observation I can women had for several years past dressed the girl in
myself testify how ohnozious they are to a series of buy's clothes, and sent her out with the boys to
petty persecutions, which add additional irksomeness sweelychimneys, and that she used to sleep on the
sacks in the cellar. The mother was questioned what
to the galling chain of imprisonment. And yet these
are the persons whom Ministers wish to deprive of could induce her to treat her child in so. unnatural a
manner, when she answered the Magistrate in a
the safeguard of the lAw. let op hope that the
spirited benevolence of Lord Folkestone, will pro. very impertinent manner : lie severely reprimanded
wide them with other protection than the piety of her, and ordered the beadle to take the child home,
Lord Sidmouth or the tender mercies of Lord Castle- and see that she was properly cleaned from the soot,
rolls. and clothed in the dress belonging to her.sez.
True, these assumptions of power are sanctioned UNIOi4-HALL.—Yesterday the ,!river of the hack-
by, Crown Lawyers. But what of that? The levy. nay coach, N 0.817, was summoned before the Ma.
gistrates for conduct unusually outrageous, ip refs's-
log of ship-money was sanctioned by Crown Law-
yers. The dispensing power claimed by James IL ing to stop when lie was desired by a lady who had
was sanctioned by Crown Lawyers. The projected hired his coach, and with assaulting her and several
robbery of the Duke of Portland was sanctioned by gentlemen who stopped the coach.
Crown Lawyers. The issuing of general warrants Mrs. Jane Smith, of 71, Berner's-street, Oxford.-
was sanctioned by Crown Lawyers. No politiCal street, stated, that on Saturday last sty. hired the Dee
abuse can be mentioned which has not been sanctioned fendaut's coach, at the Stags, Lambeth, and ordered
by a Crown lawyer. The law is in itself a liberal r him to drive to the Elephant end Castle; the coach.
profession. That profession has, from time to time, man was very much intoxicated, and drove so furiel
produced the brightest ornaments of the country.— ously that she called to him to stop before he arrived
Bat, of all species of vermin which infest the State,. at the place to which she had desired him to drive,
the most noxious is the Crown Lawyer, who pores heirs; afraid that some accident would happen ; he
over obsolete Statutes, or exerts his talents to the look no notice whatever of her cries or entreaties,
perverting of the wholesome dicta oldie law, for the but continued to drive on. When he. arrived at the

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place of destination be Waled to stop, haciendas&
'at her and whipped his horses on is the meet Whs.
euin and notrageowe wanner. Sheba:ems very mech.
Manned, iiitalliftia's di4.4) the windows, ealkd oat
to the potions pisslog by to stop the hones and
ragpialows how her dsogeroes *sada. Twe gentle. •
rite, at file risk of,their,lives„.stoppesl the hones sad
helped ber from.thecoarb.4 The eoachesas thereof*.
menced a issaiA upon bet and the gestiletees;
who protected ber. 'Webed been ill eget Mae%
Mr. Denman of No. Prospect.place, combo;
rated the evidence of the tor Met witness and stated
In addition, that the language of the eseehshie was
more violent and geese titan soy he hidiever
As he was conducting the lady to his beam the .
coichmau followed, ponies forth torten's o(sdoese,
teased a mo'b of between 2 and 300 p”..1, to
nsemble. The moment theladystOte'red hisr ue
she fainted away, and wawa very eensideribie die
before she was well enough to proceed booze.
Several respectable persons attested the teeth of
the above statements.
The Magistrate (Mr. Cnsuseas) sahl, that conduct
so atrocities deserved to be visited by the most stem.
plaiy punishment. 11e should therefore go to the
statist event that the law allowed. The coachman
was convicted in the penalty of WI and in delimit of
payment committed to the Hesse of Curie-Mb to
hard labour for three months.

CHRISTMAS. •
December's ebtling blasts to 'beer,
What jay w hen Christmas doe. appear
Them we chace dglf etre and woe,
And klss beneath the mistletoe.
The sexes each, with imbues care.
Wish to adorn, with taste, their hair,
Wiere on the head's bA,ren,nii,
Use ROW LAND'S fasted MACASSAR. Oita
'Twill make the Hair profotely grow;
Aod stime and el•lance bestow;
And irthe Colours Red or Grey,.
Which does oat Beauty well clispliy,
Thea. if to rhooge it you desire, • •• •
Marcum of ROWLINDI ESSOict of TYR&
Bads Oil and Rweace ;ste will meet
At No. I, la Klrbpsittok.

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MARRIED , • , .
On the Ist Instant, Lieut.-Colonel BeenViaqv dyr Nord
African Regiment, •te Margaret Anne, widow of the late hins
Allen Olson. &.q. of Barbadoe..
Oa she Ilth ult,ato. Mr. William Careless. of* Limonite to
Mi.e Mary Ann Ilewhtntl. of the same place. Tae happy cou-
ple imatesiiately left town for Bath.

DIVE
On the 31st ultimo, at her residence iq the Ehemarc-road,
Rebecca, the wife of Hear-Admiral Charles Dudley hater,
aged 94-
t Cheltenham, on the 461 b anima, Alezantler.Peterkith Nog,
bf Chatham, in the Island of Jamaica, and of Greshope, is the
minty of florray. North Britain. •
On thetJth ultimo, in the 16th year or .his are. after a short
Mans of three days, Itnturt, eldest son of Robert Aunesky,
Esq. of York-place, City road.
On the Ath.ult. is the 8.14 year of Wage, Mn Fanny Xieg,
of Whitwell, In the Isle of Wight.

The following Letter has appeared in 'evert! Moralog rho
pens
TO THE EIHTOIC OF THE CONSTITUTIOH.
" Sta,—Otrwryiae t purturaph is 'oar Paper respecting the
cure of as Hernia, performed (of le large his.) by the Mettles!
Board, eit Charlatte-house, Girt! C itirloofe-stieet, Rine kf. tars.
renal, injustire, Sir, to Ittetan. Cooper and Co. I be: to add
Inv pes squat testimony. Having I•een.alliaced near /0 years.
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and deemed incurable by eminent gorgeous, I patiently biro
ass Affliction, es greeting every hour to he my last; Ist tratelli
applied to the Medic-il .lioard, and have reason to 'prey for
that eseelleat fir ulihou.;l) I am war, 80. was
perfectly erred in it few weeks. and anal Malik Gad, coley
te .11h. 1 think, Mr. Editor, nil who know me will allow
that 1 ran ,hlve au other motive for ibis caninoinicatioo than&
pubiic beta 111.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" C. CLEVELitib;
" Dog end Stile. m.o. London-reed,
St. Orb, ice's • net ds. Oct. 18 a.-
Mess's. Coarse u.al Co are emoulted daily until nioep
nicht, in jetrticutor ironitlitinti, and claim the attention of it.,vw
who bate heel. improperly 'rented. itiopttired p aie.ds ottani
at Charlott,..h.ai.e, on Mondays and Fe trill's, and at Wood.
stack-h o.e on Wednemdays„ who are ra lically cured no wimp.
Sc and -anatomical priociples, is it haat surgical opei.itian ur
the Iria.4 rartoriedi 0000 . Patient.; at a ditillaare deteribiog shell
rate, may nave the curative process seat In any part alba
kits him, by whirls means they may obtain a radical Care.—
Letters entatainiag an enclomre immediately aileaded to.

Mooed vivere ',dere vita.--•M Anil L.
" We is only Life, when blest with Health."
rrii E *west System of Ethics is to confine width'
X, due bound-. tvid thud. to regulate the Pobi..OS sure-
,trained and insultnininate they impeosously destroy those bar-
rier which Religion and M,rality have made sacred; to curb
but tail annihilate them Appears the lesson of prudence, bell
calculated to limit their effervescence. .
Every di,orgnisization of the human frame requires great me-
dical knowkdge in remedy, and she welfare is promoted
when prfletreiounl men.(slisregarding Vie suggestions of the en-
vim., and inieirsied) devnie their. studies to the trenttaetu.uf
throe complaimp generated by impru,leime. and use ebullition
of, the oassi•mo at an mous ded moment. •• The strength of a
nal ini) coasios in ilie health of the People ;"bat, ,it is racism-
crisply to reflect on thellaily sacrifice to 'he igoariloce of isr.feel-
ing impyricis“.. nod In crienteract.its far :a pasible its futtlwr
savages, we offer to Ps(Pri haaritalv. the result .:f Our
espeii.lacein the voriami daseolsei of Debility. The unwary
victim of solitary vice (early acquired *1 school, before rears
has married her right over the wind), will, is ciinseinylaiing
his 11.1Werlell Male, become 1110Trialihle or enlivening setesatioos.
in knowing that the most croinpliemed sta,e of esbmsstimi hutY
' be roused into rnatili energy.— )tilense pintly—iMinoticeale hos.
iat)—tona residence is tropleatClimes. and swag Mover .sags.
ill Ire idly demure tb Nervous System; in sack. cases wo
can hold aml an nibs-war of re-antm 'lion, or. tome ire wrgest
have long answered the sanguine hopes of Patiesilli of
Sexes.
That bane In human hapuinesi LU !A V Hisi BR eau sow
be treated fearlessly. she improved ware of Medical Selene.
having divested if antidote of those dioresplng prapeoties this
so long rrodered its exiiibition uncertain and hoonadag.
Rua
bust r a plain our method by observing to P silents ',bunt Ong. ion.-
der Mallay,. that is few d:tas nnty are required for she
mud of early 4y mptines ; that the mast inveterate case
wiT
yield to oar rentedie• within n month, and that in a penis's who
only suspects toussi•lf iiijurroi„ she disease truly he preveaspd,all
together fromappraridg ; smtilar remark applies le MI:
usher deraneemega. or she generative sistem. 49 WillkareP,
cerationi. Fr. e•avriallw strictures, ahslinalle cameo of a high are
daily removed without the use of cot,tic ar atimulhati.
peculiarities liwid,otal to thy sof-er set hare Hot vseaped arc
atteiniali s in tattiest mildews". combined with efficacy, km so-
peiseded the 'steam usually ado; fed. in line, our system is
unique. pee itliarly energetic, And rmisienel successful!, •
Edurased in this our nutuve city ; in our proferainuar
attnianrou by its splendid Medical c:haiacters; sold having *irk
able. pertatiolb. to rnmpaie with samiratirto the littlish Sec-
glen, practice with the Continental, our isouessions 10 superi- •
owls (la a broach we have selected) are matured by esperiences
which bet lowed by the doily applications we receive, even from
distant countries. GOSS owl Co. M. R. C. Sargettio'.. •
19. floaverle•street, Fleet-street, Loudon.
fo• Fume the
_general aecommodatlea we duo ant bait 110.
selves to Matettpert.44.4 practice, btu arty he cormulted
teasanable boors.—Country Patients are requested to describe
iniontelv their symptistbs. Ike. ware tileiliriitaa. with outiffe:.
will be inuaroliately fprestrded loony port of the K *dome-.
' A bank-note Wes pea ted to acconapaol the ruse.

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