The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-30 00:00:00

-rilE STATESMAN;

representation of the kingdom at, the same hour and
on he sante day.'
" They said, • Theta General Electiol fnr thew hole
itinedom utiebt be conducted eillsout tumult or es-
pence. and completed in a few lipurs ; and that in
Witte the F.lections tuiAht be TRIENNI %:.. SIEN(IAE.
or trete ANNIiAL, Ai !MY WERE IN tt.I.NER TIMM
Members et 4 Parliament who acted Notated), would
be geutrelly re.chosen ; but it is neither safe nor
cp.,.:iintionol to leave any •Represeotative very long
out of the Whit of hi.: Constituents.'

the King's sons and darglibtes,* which Pitt had re-
fused 40 410 ; they levied new taxes upon the People
to pay this .em, bevies., as they would have per-
suedes' the People, the King was himself tee peer to
provide fur his children.
" Besidos lidding 60001. a year to the Incomes of
the Dukes of Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Senn, '
and tambrille, they gave to those Dukes from the
Admiralty Droils (from the money which in fairness
should have been divided among oar sailors) no less a
sum than 75 0001.
"They who had vehemently condemned a profess
espenditure *flit. public money, when oat of office,
were mere profuse and more extravagant than these
they had justly condemned.
" They granted more pensions, end to a larger
amount ; they crammed more Ninety sycophants with
the public moitey,t than had ever before been done io
• the same space of time.
"'They seized 'iron sinew's, and all other cor-
rupt sources of emolument for themselves end their
followers, with a ravenossoess, which surprised even
the bloorl-surkers they pulled off.
" They maioteined that a sioecure (Ace was as
much a man's property as his freehold.
"They tokl the People that ritt'scoodect was 4 rule-
nes, destructive of liberty, execrable, instuisitorial,lo-
- famous; that the system be pursued justified rebel-
lion: bet, when they got into power, they told the
People, by the mouth of their leeder,' that they never
voted in their lives with more satisfaction, than they
should do for the payment of Mr.Pitt'a debts (with the
People's money), because it was a tribute dee to de-
lparted worth, the reward of a munificent notion to
• a meritorious public servant: Thus treacherously
I and basely het) ing their own assertions—thee intl.-
' manly Wooing the substance of the People on se.
count of him, whom they had declared to be the
Nuttiest enemy of that very People.
" They made Lind Cremate (the co.adjutor of
i'itt. the associate of him and Dandas in all their
proceedings egsiost the liberty, the property, and
i the hap;•iness of the People) the auditor of his owo
Strovnt•!
" They made him First Lord of the Tressery.
" They made an Act to enable him to hold a
sinecure of 10001. a year, with a place of 60001. a
year.
! They made the Chief Jestice Ellenboroegh a
Member of the Kinu's Csbinet Council. This, so
: far as depended on them, was an attempt to destroy
the independence of • Joke.
'• They placed a Judge in a situation to decide
on Uri)igitsg a man to trial in that very Coast, where
I one of the Miuistera whom Ise hail perhaps accused,
and irritated, would preside, and preside sot merely
•
i to direct and ieflettoce the Jury, bet eventually, in
• I his own person, to award the amsuot of his fine, end
I I the duration of his imprisonment.':
1 " Titus menifestiog their hatred of liberty—their
, hatred of a free Press ; thus end ing to destroy
• both ; thus taking strides towards arbitrary power,
I which Pitt and Dendas had never dared to take."
• Slat. 46 G. 111.
Vs.le Apperghi.
t Vide Speed. of the E sr! of Bristol, Part. Debates, vol.
vi. so. SA

•• Tbe Nontri Awhile cells his pamphlet a Defence
of
'he %% hip. *tat a miserabledefeuce is that which
ip oblipted to Ivaakell these matters unnoticed. and to
sePi itself upon • 4eolaresion of The pest difficulty
of soddenly eriginesimg and maturing any systematic
and general chance in:the Representation!
••. The Society of tits Friends of the People say,
• After lung ritliberatiora.4• have hoed on • specific
rten and declared it wistolost eeeee ve.'—Yet we are
now told that we vs 'sold 6 Soddenly originate unit ma-
ture a plats ;* and for this Me are to be condemned
I) the Whip, by those eh• having aboadoutd all
flair (wear preeposinns, stare with wonder at ditto.
serifsc that they Hisao longer popular. They were
popular a !MI they were Renton Ens.—They are bat-
ed by the People now they are soothing bet Wutos.
•• Ile tells us that the criminal, dangerous. end
licrir ions imp' of some of the Reformers, induced
the Government in 1791 to seise their porn, and to
imprison some of their persons ; that the Whip on
Most occasion were serviceable to the cause of free-
dom. by their opposition to the proceedings of Mi-
nister.. This praise will be denied them by no man,
bet it is, after all, only • negative service they ren.
limed In the mantes ; they had themselves set the
eprople of constituting Corresponding Societies, and
they had met over and over again in convention, as
*deputies fries counties and towns ;' had in that ca-
pacity puhlished resnletions, and • declaration •
quite as • 'mention' as any published by the British
Gmvention, or by either the Constiterional or Coe.
teepontling Societies, although his Lordship now
chooses to stigmatise the one as ' criminal and danger.
rotor.' while be passes over in silence the act of the
Whets.
"Too witch praise nu be Peen to the Noble
Author, for his exertions daring the Steve Trials, in
1 79 I. Nn one will ever dredge the splendid triumph
he obtatoed on the acquittal of Mr. Hardy, after a
trial of trine days, when in the month of November,
and slurring one of the heaviest 1.11, of rain ever wit.
si•capil PhiScoulitry. he was draws. by the populace
from rho Old Bailey to his residence, accompanied
by dm ',cast...Onus and benedictions of perhaps as
large an ct,seenblap of the People, at ever were col-
lected together no any riccatlon Istiassever. Bet
every one must reg•er, that this vert, .ircemstance,
whirr' elevated biro to • heic;ii he would otherwise
never I,c.va reached, did not preve:it him from Wens-
i!rg a Men.her of an Administration, which we shall
prove to have bee. by far the most peruicieses of any
this country ever sew.
" Althor applaud. the Whig and Gren.
•ille Costition ; hp praises the Whits for having abo-
tithed the Stave Trade ; bet he says nut one word on
tt.e other nets of their administration, striders and
• voyientc.' as those-acts were. I The nominations before the Secret Committee of
" Let U' take a I J pil glance at their acts and deeds the House of Commons, for enquiry into the state of
in the oi.e stint year in their actoris.istestion, and ohs Bank, tenanted on Friday. In the Hope of
thus i t .erne measure supply tt.c detidnocies of the • Lords' Committee, the eseasiutions are not yet cosi-
Nom., Author. • I eluded.
" t;rcnville was one of the fathers of the iOn Friday, by an unanimous vote of a full Conn.
Art to suspend the II rheas Corpus Act—lit Gaping cation, the University Seat of Osford was affixed to
Act —the now-far.z!ed Tre on Art—the principal petitions to be presented to Parliament, preying timt
;nominee of the war against hamais freedom its 1993 the laws by which persons professing the Roman
e unfelt. eee it ix persecutor of Reformer, at all Catholic religion are precluded from sitting in Perlis-
titan ; yet Item the love of pone, end desire of mem, and from holding certain civil and military
emolument. the Whigs bowed down under the Peo- ; offices, may not be repealed.
liir.s adversaries, and submitted to be picked oat man ' An estraordinary case offend end credulity was
by win by Lord Grenville• , investigated on Wednesday list, at Leeds. A young
" With the Grenville* and the Windlass, with' man, aimed David Marvel, who had been serving in
those aiuoae most conspicuous attribute wage Nantes ; Lord Wellington's army, returned home, in MIS,
rage against all Ileform, they made common nose. I with his constitatioo mach impaired, and having lost
" They reprobated the sates purified by Pitt. the use of his limb,. His father having heard of the
end Grenville. and Windham, and Dentin; they fame of a snrt of necromancer, who styled himself
eslitel that sssietes • woinnu., inqui,otorial, electable, I Dr. John Bird, called him in to visit hiand4ted
diabolical, destructive of liberty they said inter. sum The impostor's first cep was to impress this
vetting against it was a duty, the performance of I simple family with the belief that the young man was
Which dirty was merely a question of prudence; yet j bewitched, or, as he expressed it, had a bad wish
they took place under the Glenville* to carry on the en him, to remove Which he required eight shillings
very system against which Insetieseion was a ilelY• ' for two bottles of .s/seff, and thirty shillings for his
4, They talked of the estrevegesice of the Pitt and advice, with two more for the heart of • black hen
Grenville Administrator' ;—•of the enormous load of without a white feather. The family, whin was
debt and lases which bent the People to the earth ; ' poor. could hardly procure the means of satisfying
yet no sooner were they in power than they mallet the Dodoes cupidity, but his demands were inn.
large sums to the debt, essal increased the tales enor- orsble. Every 'reeled art was successively fowled
measly. to, bottle after bottle of Slse infallible palaces was
" They called the Income Taw. a tall' worthy its. swallowed, others were applied esteraslly, het stn
ly of the I, qei•iants'--yet they raised that ' high- benefit revolted to the patient. The Doctor then
way mares in' frets 61 to 10 per cent. finding that the bad Gish was too point for remedy
•• I hey it a wee Audit in hi: power to make in this world, assured his dupes that he could mem-
tech niterdela Cit Ais expenditure dad thetAx would thetas be of the utmost service to them in the nest,
sat ..selletLAFlA;ea might fsa Mite filaillire by preventing his patient from sinking with the curse
edirce passel! ; he lived on the nun ri oon. for elan him into hell, which weed certainly take piece
inifunce• 661Zni lIMIntS To ins 6140160; if he if he died with it on him, and if no sepernateral
revs ell ihrslCOND VLoolit area", he might MOUNT steps were taken to make him secure of heaven.—
" the attic STORY.- he only who • sae dead" • Credulity however hes its limits. The eyes of Marvel
Pond in illee4.l.he' was alone t• be meseted• sod his hinds were opened. They charged Bird
"They increased the Assessed Tens. I with being • second Nary Bateman. lie was taken
"I'M 14411'11 no lass then seven millions of Wes, before the Magistrates, and having undergone ass es.
which tI. the enrage of the preceding years, was eteinadoo. was sentenced to be (logged on Ssiortlay,
twice as much es Pitt had laid on.. at twelve, in frost of the Court-home, es a rogue
" .I*.ey tared the inao4ll9 of widows end °minus, and vagabond.
sod soldiers mid sailers, to per cent. They screwed Oa Tuesday night. the begs of letters from Ches.
.one pound out of every ten periods from their pit. ter to Shrewsbury, Oserestry. end I.lsorgollen, awe
terns. and they eleatPted She ettnrosOut property stolen out of the mail-cart, which was Woken open,
which the Kin; had placed in the funds from ell as while changing bones at the Eagles Inn, Wrexham,
hatoser, This money, which from its having been the feir.day. The begs were r„uud early she next
4,,er.1, was proved soot ter have been oetessery to sop- morning in a iehl near the new huriel.grounil,Wrea-
p ,st the Pplendoer of dm Throne—this mustily, there- ham, with the greater part of the letters opened ;
f "'s ho"Cvsverii9 wrung fros the P•ettle in tiles— from which it 'Tweet, that hills and reinittatires to
this tn.itry, which had been lest to the Grovetemeni to a considerable amount have been stolen In ogre letter,
rat Iv on wars and to promote corruption; for the into. it is said, there were bins to the emnint 0(9001.; hut
nfthismoney the) compelled tire Peopleto pi) late& the, say he stepped. The robbers were ilisinrheil
at the inoWeet they elvitt;d•ti the king's motley from while searching the letters, its those contni tt itt e
the ray, they made every one el,' pay they added
'lances were only partially opened. Three urn one
on ler" a sum than 51 ,OUtil. a year to the incomes of taken up on suspicion.
Yesterday the prisoners were removed from New
Prison, Ilorsemosseer.laise, to Kingston. The Ca-
lendar was scarcely ever remembered to be so heavy ;
there are several mica! offences, amongst them Dralt,
who, our {traders will recollect, in October last, was
charged with the mender of a chart named
414eit, lisitT, iu Th‘sass-street, Keol.road.

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