The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-12 00:00:00

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.11YSITRY of thc SEIfifIOUS ItiNADILLS

• Our Readers will recollect the minute details which we
iverteil in "Toe Si. I ES11.01." oil Teesilay, respect-
;ig the arrest and extraordinary escape f 31r. Frank-
ii•t; qliqs Fletcher. We now insert the account of the
-;uric affair as given by- Tic Moraiak Net. We shall
/ware the public to make their own c 11111 l writs in com-
p 'ring the meagre, incorrect, and unintelligible state-
oomt of The Purr, with the full and explicit details in
ur columns. To-morrow we shall present our readers
ith The New Times' version the same transaction,
t,,gether with the reflections of Tip. rt,arire. Hut we
teg that our readers will not conceive that we ialtad
imply any thing tortieolur from these.

(011 this letter 'Ede 3tpreitig ebroosiele has utie the foliv*-
log nomads.]

We itt•ert a letter from Mt. Denis OltryeM--we I
were tli•poseil to say, on the subject of the late sedi-1
lions published for the good of Ooverti-
ittent ; but on perusing. his letter, we see that it has
no reference to the main body Of that subject, but Je-
tties some particulars of a very sabordinate impottance.
Allowing Mr. triiryen fall credit for the truth of
what he his denied, we infer only that he could not
deny more, becalms it eras nut in his power—that is,
with the saute regard to truth as is *hewn in these
unimportant negations. liete, therefore, the matter
must rest till a further lecal Investigation, or souse
new diseusteay brings it before the coautry again.
[The following are the oh lions on the same attic{ by
The Times.]
We have inserted a letter from Mr. D..nis O'lleyen,
titerittett, he says, •• to rorreel thefolselsuds" contained
in the liow-etreet intelligence of our paper of Tiles-
, day last.
On that letter we shall offer no comment. We may
observe, however, that the most material statement is
the liow-street report, regarding Mr. O'Bryett, namely,
his connection with Mr. Franklin, and that hr declared
most vehemently that ha did not even know Mr.
resoklin, although Mr. Franklin his been traced into
Mr. O'llryen's house constantly during the last three
years, and although Mr. Williams, upon his examina-
tion, admitted that he had met the aforesaid Mr. It.
01Iryeu at this unknown Mr. Franklin's h0n..% has not
been noticed by him. We mav also obserte, that theta
may be a difference between a Sinecure place and a
• 1 appointment executed by deputy, but assay
porous will be unable to perceive ally.

[From the Morning Post of 'ruesday.)
man, named William Franklin, was taken into
r tstoily on Sunday, at his bousc, in Cante...place,
charged with being an accomplice in eirealatiag hand-
bids of an inflammatory nature, in the mato of the
tioten's Plate Society. Mr. Pearson, Sir Gerard
Noel, Mr. Millie, and stone other gentlemen attended
at How-street ; but Franklin, who was permitted to
Yo at lugs, in promise f appearing yeaterday 'nurs-
ing at the office, was not forthcoming. The Magis-
trates ordered Vickery, th,: officer, to use due diligence
ta apprehend him.
[From the Morning Past of )esterda).]
On Saturday and Monday, as we have already
stated, examinations were held at Bow-street, relative
to a hand-bill of a highly sedition, tendency, pretend-
ing to come from the Qtseen's Plate Cot ttttt ittee, and
which had been distributed by a poor lacy, who was
tempted to distribute them by a shilling given to him
by a person of very genteel appearance not known to
him. This band-bill Mr. Pearson. an Attorney. one .
ui that Committee, said he hail traced it to a Mr.!
Franklin, a gentleman of fortune, living at Ilaida- The processions which we no tired yesterday on
bill. Ou this representation a warrant was hissed their progte,s towards Brandenburg,. lions.', were hut
.2 ainet Mr. F., and he was apprehend...l at his house a portion of the number that attended as prtoenta-
by Mr. Pearson, accompanied by a !tidier .t Ter. t tion of .Addresses to the Queen in the emirse of the
/icing brought before Sir H. Baker, an 01,1 and r. tore- l day. Ily twelve o'clock upwards of 2.00 carriages,
table inhabitant of St. Martin's-lane, attended to at- some with six horseo. and the greater part nit!► four,
test his responsibility, and he was rle.tool on an tin- the postiiiot,s fancifully sire-sett, had passed Hyde-,
derstanding, that he should appear, on Monday, at! park-corner, tilled with ladies and gentlemen, from
Itow-street. It was nut admitted by 3lr. W. that he • diffesent parts of the metropolis and the country, pro-1
mole himself answerable for Ilk spitearallee. Mr. F. cee,ling to oiler to her 31ajesiy the trihote of their
h .seerer, did not appear. Mr. Pears''n said he hail sympathy and respect. The business haviug been fur
it:lmitation, that he WAS at the house oI Mr. D. some time aliflotllleed, it seemed as though almost the:
I Fttgyen, in Craven-swot, to which Mr. P. said he whale population of the metropolis hail agreed to c.tle-;
Lad often been traced. Mr. 04iryen's house was brats- it as a holiday. The principal streets leading to
mediately searched, but Mr. Franklin was not found. the great western road were so thronged wi:h pedes-
Thus the affair rests at present. triau-, that it was difficult to move alitue, with them
The following article did not reach us until half- even so early as ten o'clock in the morning, and the
past ore o'clock this morning; but by tat-am, of our whole road from Hyde-park-cortscr to Hammersmith
re-print we are enabled to give it ins. rtion:— was frequently. in the course of the day, literally
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORN'S() CIIRONICI.F.. blocked up with horse, foot, and carriages. lin no oc-
-11. erdre*-dirre—Pust Midnight —t)rt• luia, it 421- casino of a similar kind were greater crowds assem-1
Sta—'l‘, air oeeopation en spenk Ursides pay- bled, and the acclatwations with which the several!
in to 8)46441, at ('haring-cross, the fell price
fir never less, generally for more. than two Morning • processions were hailed in their passage through. the!
Papers, independent of divers Evening am, weekly • streets surpassed all former precedent.
Papers, my regular custom is, to have The Old Time* I The following were the addresses presented by
and Morning Chronicle from the Craven toffee-house in appointment to her Majesty vestertlay:—Frotn Ely-
t'is street, at heyrierief ; hitt being ugly at half price, place Liberty, liolhorn ; Croydon, H andsworth. St.
condition is, that these prints are never delivered to Ann's (Lituelimoie), Farring.lon Within, Portio*els
ins till midnight. This fact is stated in order to Ward, llorselytlown, Christ-church (Surrey), Winches- •
a, coma for my addressing von at so late an hour, for the ter, Oxford, St. lye's, Hereford, Stockton-on-Tees, Car-I
s•ale purpose of irking from such of your readers as hap- 'lilt Leicester, North Petherton, Taunton, T'rnro, Sedge-
pen to know me, the simple justice of preserviug their Irv, Colebrook, Milford, Surrey, Kendal, Atuhleside,
minds unitteuenced by the mode in which my name is Kirby'-Lunsdale, Aliluthrop, the Letter-press Printers,
irtroduced in your Bow-street Intelligesi,... or this day, Eveshsto, 31anchester. Ilinekley, Leicester, heeds. Mao-,
n-til I send to you, to-morrow, a further cotatuunica- gow, ttuildries of Perth, Banff, St. John's (SoothwarL).
Car, for your publication of Thursolity. • and Coventry.
'
I most in seminar, here pretuise, that from your ;:a-
floe first address which arrived at Brandenbargh-
serlion to-morrow of this letter, neither eomprom house was that from the inhabitants of time Parish of St.
ise is to
religion consisted of forty-
for your soakage Upon me, nt
be lettered, nor bar implied, against my seeking redress "• "`' Kensington. The
et. law sus_ two carr_tars, and chiefly tiled with ladies of the first
7tabstity. They were /curtly dressed in whi

taics itself, in'this-country, In opposition. t;• the united
machinations of incendiaries and cut-throats.
DENI 4 O'BRTIN.
P.S. The Printer of The Moroimg Chronic*. ridden:
rr ding the abate, informed the writer, that he at halt-
past osets'eloeit was too late fur the insertion of this let-
ter in the paper of this slay.
2.1 P.S. The like answer was given at The Times, at
a- hour certain!) later, the letter being also there lia-
r
IT: r following Latter from Mr. O'llryen has appeared Ibis
morning in T.... Times and Morning Chronicle.]
TV TUE VDITeR,
San-1 shall proceed, with all possible brevity, and
whitest ay preface, to 'correct the falsehoods contaiti-
eil in your Bow-street account of Monday last regard.
k g myself.
lit, it is false that I held, or told a sinecure place
entice she present government. The only office which
1 pawns is a colonial appointment, conferred upon me
by Les' Grey (when his Lordship was First Lord of
th:.Admiralty), at the instance of Mr. Fox.
Sd, It is false that I am a writer for a certain morn-
i- • paper. Were I such, 1 should not offer ap01027
explanation fur such a disposition of myself. ha
f • c', inewevervisi that although is the course of top
life. and still an decasional correspondent of several
papers (The ?Ides and Chronicle included) like thou-
sands of eithener J Peer bad either property, manage-
Lent, engagement, employment, or concern iu any
cmrspoper, slice the hoar of my birth.
31. It is. Woe
.flat distivguislied characters con-
se red with the siitisterial press are in habits of ustet-i
is.g at my house. Uptso the most accurate retrospect
•f alsich my memory i capable, lelo not recollect any
penlenian now contented with any possible paper to
bare been inside iffy threshold for the last 12 months.
Sorb an incident may hare:occurred, as there are gen-
tlemen. is that line of vocation whom 1 know and
highlr esteem; bat I • bare not the slightest remelts-
b-ince of such a visitor for a full year past.
ftb, That Pearson ind Vickery were refused admit-
tante by the aereint happens to be fact, though found
in the said stattatent ; but the complexion given to
that irk's! 14 at false as the three first heads. The
truth is.,.tias't I tun very m I
pinch annoyed by applicants,
in real et pPeteaded want; and that I have, tiering my
4t yeas' eialdence in this street, bees obliged, per-
haps 421 scores of tinges, to threaten my servants With
di anissaL ots the scoot •of receiving loggia( littera,
awl admitting strangers.' It is to the discipline thaw
arising, eoupliA with sicking for-a mar utdomarlt to
tboae Mr n•nseil• visitant; that they refused is
open the demi s ilistast that i. who was getting
sort fo‘hod,4swelarti. the -ems* as& object of vierati,
pßipiolkho hottefeiratiniateldhatrix subiaittod to
r'esoorei. I shall not add- another word.
Ceaves-etreet, Oct. It. wet% DENIS O'BRYIEN.

PR ESEAT.ITION vy .411 DR ESSES to the QUEEN.

respect-_ elegantly 1. tith
and wore her Majesty's medals, suspended from theft
Necklaces. The address was seder the immediate cars
of Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M. P., Sir lierarol Noel, Bart..
ALP., Mr. P. Moore, M.P., Mr. Hume, AI.P., T. Mien,
Ks+ t lie Chairman, and several other independent gen*
denten. The deputation hail the honour of firing intrm
dared to her Majesty at one o'clock. The Queen was
in excellent health, anti reeeived the deputation in her
usual gracious and condescending manner.
Mr. A'Beekett rend the address, to which her Majes-
ty returned a must gracious answer.
The Address was signed by 3,5;6 inhabitants. We
regret that we have not room fur the address and
answer ; the latter we will insert to-morrow. The
bells a'. Kensington were ringing all tbe day.
Mr. Bente then presented the addremes from files-
Row (signed by :17,01Mf perann.), that from the United,
tiuildries of Barth. and from Banff, to all of which her
Majesty was pleased to return the most gratifying am.
swers.
Mr. Whitbread also presented an address, very nuns*:
rowdy signed, from Totness, in Devonshire.
WiNcIIESTRIL—Tro Parishes.—A post chaise cad
four. Address presented by John Earl, Esq.
ST. JoHN.I HORSILTDe:WW, vita 110101:011 og
sno.enwamn.--Sixteen open carriages and four, The
Address presented by Mr. Downing, the priacirsi.
churchwarden and read by Mr. Barnett.
Cats/num.—A long string of carriages and fear
preceded by a stage coach covered with musicians,
playing " Bute Britannia," and drawn by a number
of stout fellows wearing white ribbons. and carrying,
laurel boughs.
ST. Aseree, Lisintocsa.—Between thirty and forty
open carriages, and preceded by the parish office's.
Amman est. COMMON Cooxcit., AND ILITINV or Tyr,
W•en or Poursttett.—"lbirty open carriages and
four. The Address was presented by AWerusau
James Shaw. and read by Thomas Annie Parsons,
Esq. Sir James Shaw being introduced loiter Ma.
jesty, by Mr. Alderman Wood.
The Alauchester Male and Female Second Ad-
dresses ; Leeds Male and Female ; and Hinckley, its
ILeicemersbire, was presented by $ deputation, consist-
Ilbg of Major Cartwright, Mr. W. U. Lewis. and Mr.
Wuoler. The worthy veteran, Cartwright, appeared
on this occasion in the fun regimental ariforso of the
Nottingham Militia, of which he formerly:l4ler.
Sr. leas, MAU •I 7 '1,1.2.—J bitkitenti
by Lord John Rumen. .
TACPITUN,IITIP"
RM.
Atmenatatt's
Lugar or 742-
[Twenty eairifitti
Pinder Rissi"CMl6*,
was read by Mr.
I Smith. was prevented

CURIA T CHURCH, Syrtaxv.—Thirty open carriages'
All four, preceded by the Committee in three open
carriages, drawn by six grey horses each. The
' Address was read by the Rev. William Campbell
Kidd, A.M.
UNITED FR lEN DI.T Soctertes.—This pret•ession
was admitted through the gardens on to the lawn be-
tween the mansion and the river, and when they had
arranged themselves (a work of no little time and la-
bour) her Majesty al.peared upon the balcony amidst
their reiterated acclamations, their bands at the same
time striking up " The White Cockade." Afterwards
a deportation of the different Committees, amounting to
nearly 400 persons, were admitted into the great draw-
ing-room, where they were addressed by Mr. Alder-
Ulan Wood, who inforated them that in consequence
of some misunderstanding, her Majesty was not pre-
pared to expect them that day. She would, however.
receive their Addre.s, and an answer should be sent to
their Secretary in a slay or two. The worthy Alderman
! also 'minted out to them the great length of time it
would occupy should her Majesty admit every
vielnal in such a vast hotly to the honour of kissing
ham's, anal he trustee' they would at once see the pro-
priety of dispensing with that ceremony.
These remarks of Mr. Alderman flood appeared to
lee very well rece:vc.l, and in a few minutes her Ma-
jesty entered the room and took her place on the plat-
form. The :Idelress was then read by the Secretary,
w:tich her Majesty received mist go aciuttsly ; and the
Depatati.m retired to the tuaitt body on the lawn ;
IfINHIS whence they marched oir in tine style on their
way bark to town.

L.:TT Eft-Pit I ass PRINTERS' .% Itnlt E'!.—TheJleputa.
tioon appointed to carry up this Address occupied
twenty-three carriag-s. It was preceded by a person
on 'tor...back hearits; a ..ohite satin banner, on which
w. 14 eatsr:::o in a los..au!ifitl large tyre, " Printer's
Adslrests.- Another white !fanner was displayed from
ons•sof the carri.zes, isosscriltesl" Liberty of thy• Plus."
'll he Address itsoelf is printed un beautiful white
satin, rd_t•d with uhite silk trin=e, and purple satin
hack. mounted, on au ivory roller, with appropriate
orn:o twist.

The typ.tzraph'.e II execution is considered a 4 -
perhet to assy thing re. r yet st..ets. It represeuts a tri-
unerleal arch, supported I. pillars. and Mounted on a
pcslestcl. The ke",-stone is a eroten, see?tre, and
cushion. 4 11.1 the tops of the pillars. " Com-
mons." At the b "Krli ion,""
1•111%.." On the
pedestal, right•ltand side. "Truth ;" side,
44 Justice." In the centre, a finely executed repre•
sentation of a Printing Press. Within the ar. It is
placed the .Ithlress. The %%hale surrounded by a
hAn ;solute border.

A Ikputation from the Rihh in Wearers of C'oren-
try, row-isting •tf the Alt-tubers fir that City. together
with Mr. Thorpe and Mr. Morrison, were also intro-
duvet!, anti presented a liwintity of ribbon beautifully
and furiously wrought with the Croivn and C. It. al-
ternately, in Queen's purple on a starlet ground. This
unique present was played in an envelope of white
satin fringed with
number of other Addresses were also presented
we bittlevic by deputations of sinzle but
we are not vet able to state their particulars.
The following is her lajesty's Answer to the Ati.
dress of the Letter-press Printers:—

I am highly gratified by thi4 loyal anti affertionate
Asidreas flow the Letter-press Priniers of London and
its tinvimng.

It is public opinion which has supported me in the
otherwise nominal conflict with numerous adversaries,
who not only possess undoubted resources. but who have
never scrupled any means by which their vengeance
could lw gratified. This public opinion is the concen-
trates! force of many enlightened minds, operating
through the medium of the Press. Bence the public
sentiment has been directed, and the public feeling ex-
. rites!, till the people have risen up, like one man, in viol•
slication of my rights. The conviction, with few excep-
tions, has become universal, that I am the victim of a
foul eonspiraey, and that I have for years been persecuted
be the most flagrant iltostice and inhumanity.
There is a part of t le Press n bids leas been busily
employed in fabricating the most atrocious slanders
against myself, and all who have manifested any zeal
or ability in my defence. Base natures cannot endure
mauves of a higher outlet. They loathe the moral and
I intellectwol superiority that Oley 1111 never reach. hence
calumny is the tax that worthlessnesss is perpetually
levying upon worth. It is the Bill of Pains and Penal-
ties that envy and malevolence are ever !rosily labouring
to pass, in order to degrade virtue and talents to their
own contemptible inferiority. lint when I consider Lisa
ley adversaries are invested with all the patronage of
the ronutry, and possess such extensive means of inti-
midation and corruption, I ant not surprised that I
should have been vilified by a few of their unprincipled
ourreenaties. tly surprise is, that the greater 'part of
the persons enlraged in the conduct of the Press should
have remained incorrapt and incorruptible. It is a great
honour to be honest in any tissues—hut, to be honest ito
had times, is a species of panegyric which no man need
rbluslo upon his tomb.

The Pres. is at this moment the only •tronx. hold that
liberty has left. If w•e lose this, w•e loge all. We have
no other rampart at an implacable for.

The Press is not only the best security against the
inroads of despotism, but it is itself a power that is per-
petually checlang the progress of tyranny, and ttt
tug the number of its adherents. The tom never rises
which dors not, before it sets, Iselsold some addition to
the Mends of Liberty. Tu what is this owing? To
what 11114 it 11V owing,.but to the a/enee of the Press
The fore, of trolls is nltimately irresistible ; but truth,
without some adventitious aid, mores with a slow pare,
Mod sometisises its motion is so slow as to be impercep-
tible. The Press is its accelerating power. The Press
gives it wings. The Press sloes more fur troth in a day.
than more oral teaching could in a century.
What Is it that has mule the members of the linty
Allispare tarn pale with dread is that the Preis has
the lore of Liberty even in the sword.

fluts.oatia.L.—Catherine Carpenter, a woman about
40 year, of a:z., and who stated I►ersmlf as know• to
house of a Mrs.
near Fle
yesterday before Mr.
being found witb
fire stettlu
past oat o'clock
friars-Bridge, which it
'the ebild watt

the priu►srr was
further isepiry 'sight

IltIA, of which ha was formedyliAlor• I sad' occasionally slapping at the 11,
ii.a asp Fillll.4.—Prosontind hillitinfel ith, in • little court in Holborn,
• -a stet:
____k • _-.. .
Itamell.
a L -am .&_AL, wpm anongnt np Mr examination yrin
IVOJNlNlll.—Pronontenoy--rrNOPIPP. (imam Birch, in consetorner of 11
41114. appnreftly about font •or fi,
clps... .1" t two glaarblittrota, at half an hour
ill ani y asibint!wo.
10., ...A vsat co:Ras:
T & foster•:ar morning on BlacUriarii-i
Gls ilit last. , The bersaii, hals• refirelad she ihtedind• es drown.
etvie
1114114;: presented AL..
..,s Adarell,frit 404 'to be taken rife of, and
r. Herring. 1110-klettsihse • .J• 'Yeiganded till ba-lbotrow, that tarthe
tented from attending, by Nimes. be mule.