The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-25 00:00:00

those who do not lure the Constitution come to

hate Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and therefore are is
baste to abuse him at every step be takes. But
then, these persons du pretend to revere the Con.
allusion, and diareters shut theneselees out ot
any argument arising frees his tee great mode.
ration, or eves from his timidity, If ho •is Cei%
gable of any such thing as fear. Their deems.;
nation, is a good JARODSNICAL declamation,
but is a very hail LOYA L declaspatieu. However,
leaving all this absurdity to their better thoughts,
let as look a little at what we may call their argu.
meet. They say, that Sir Flutters knew very
well that such an immense concourse of people
could not be assembled on such an occasion, with.
out the dagger of -accidents, or of blood being
shed, and yet permits thaprocession to be pre.
pared. /first of all, before they make use of that
statement, they ought to know that Sir FRANCIS
BURDITT inn permit that assemblage, although
they could not he sepposed to know that hedid not
give any permission in the case. But the danger was
not the danger of accident happening from the im.
ntense assemblage of people. As great -assemblages
have been heretofore without accident ; and, from
thodisposition of the people assembled towards each
other, it Is probable no accident would have hap.
pened. The persons we are now writing to, the
Treasury persons, know where the danger lay,
and where it did not lie. They know ion what
the.danger was ; of what nature, and in what
it consisted. Indeed, they have slipped a word,
which shows where their thoughts were, when
they talked of the danger. They speak of the
danger of blood being shed; and as they couple
the proposition with the danger of .accidents,
they speak ridiculously enough. But, if
does show, upon what their eyes and thoughts
were fixed. It is now pretty will ascertained,
how and in what form the danger and mischief
would arrive. The populace, after their triumph
(there was no danger in that merely), would have
'demanded a general illumination—the Treasury
would hays refused it at any cost. Here was
matter for danger and mischief, quite sufficient,
either for the finsND or Dtsconn, if there be
any such, or the Fans DI Or DESPOTISM, of whom
ibers are many I—Tho Treasury Prints spoke
with exaltation, and with commendation of
Ministoral of time ereparations to preserve the
00119stalitty of the metropolis. We are not ig-
norant °fun/rut of those PREPA RATIONS. They
were.well cutset!ived for their and; aud Ministers
had every wit about them but owe—namely, the
wit to suspect that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT would
himself preserve the tranquillity of the metropolis
by nealtalbing that lIIIKENSIE ASVESIULAGR, which
no man on earth could prevent from meeting to
bail his liberation. They made the small mistake
'of overlooking the possibility of the course taken
by Sir F. Buttnrrr ; but the mistake was natural
to them, for how should they find REACH for
sum a THOUGHT ? It now, however, pretty
well known, that, had it happened Ow 'the
mind •of Sir FRANCIS was formed -on their
mould, the Metropolis, at this instant, would
have been a scene of general mourning for
VCATtts ; and the cense of Reform, of ra.
dental, legal Reform, would have been c tST RACE)
nobody can say how many years, but fOr an age
(in seeming, at least) to the feelings of those who
are most impatient for Reform.—Rage on, there-
', fore! yc who have lust by this" severe miss of a
Pairponement of ltEream, and arc maddened by
; a disappointed thirst fur what shall we say ?
You have named it yourselves—and for ever be
the guilt of the wish on your bead I

The Signatures for an Address of Thanks to Sir
Fa a vas BunnETT, in Manchester and neighbour.'
hood, are now tintless than nearly 11,100.
Sir.Fitaxcts BUR nETT, immediately after his
arrival at Wimbledon front the Tower, waited on
his friend, Mr. Ilounc TOOKL, who, though un.
able to sit up in his bed to speak to him, enjoys
his mamal faculties in !VI vigour. When Sir
FnAnias iuthrtned the veteran that he declined
I gobs with the procession, he observed, 66 you
i will.be abused by the inconsiderate, 'Fiilyekiltilif
lacted perfectly .right." Mr. BOSTII.LE, `Mr.
I num), and other' particular friends of Sir
i navies, UCHDETT, did not sippear in the pro.
i cession, as Mated in some of the public prints. _

For the proceedings respecting the liberation of
Sir Faints BURDETT, we refer to our Private
CDOeSpoudcnt, and extracts from the London
jaspers, and congrattelate oar readers that the
worthy Baronet has followed the advice of his
friends, in repairing privately to his own house.
The forestallers of riot are thus grievously dis.
39poi,tted ; whilst those, who, hoping for another
• ~pportistity to raise the cry of revolution, are
struck dumb with vexation. Sir FRANCSS, it ap.
pears, will not be the tool of any party.—(Front
the Itgekinkhans.) •
The 13u burr family is of Yorkshire extraction, I
and of considerable antiquity. Dirtiewaitcalall;
in the Wesf.tiding, "(es formerly the.f slay re-_
silence. FaA Nets BuRDETT, sun. of FRANcIIi
BURDETT, Esq. by Er= Amen! ,dnighterfvf Ft.D-
brtf.ANDo Lean, tsq..of Middleton, near Leeds,
was created i Baronet the 25th of July, 1665. lie
died in the year 1720, and was. succeeded by his
son FRANCIS, who died at York in 1747, and was
ituried in ttothwell Church, near that town.
Sir Fiusos RuRDETT on Saturday last oiotri.
toiled brad a.qd Chceke, and, Doerr to all Om poor
of tiro parish of Wimbledun, •
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A Letter, doted Gibraltar, Jerre 6, says—
" We badsevend arrivals from she Eastward., Thiugs ap-
pear to be going on is the woad way. and the shirusi,liing Is
very slararal. 1a Ambilasli, if we may believe the Spa-
Wards, the &rub lose men by handfeds in a day. ACCIMIIIO
istecomuntly arriving of the enemy being cut ed. by and
lea a date, *ad Weltered liamedidlely without obesity. We
have eves tome them to wink bearbirposeetioa."
The fallowihg, from Cadiz, ilopplies some into.
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resting information
.CADIZ, Jena S.
" A well has been dug here. and grater discovered for
360.0(k) owls, at the rate of fmir quarts perday. We are salt
en abundant in provisions now as we may be shard,. An
agreement has beat entered ieto with Algiers. Tunis, .and
some other African ports. to supply us "'obis two months 1
with 511.000 barrels of flour.
" The French entered Murcia on the lei of April. after a
sharp conduct, but thri only took a peep Vri into alituress.
and marched off out respect to the garrison of 310413 novo.
O'DosneL is successful in the East, anti he is the only man
who knows how ta mourners. the eatalans. BALLASTCRoS
has been forced to retreat, after sustaining suer discomfiture
at Zalotnia."
By ad vices from limaburgh of the 4th inst.
we learn, that the only. American ship in the Iu ir..
boor of Datitzie had been seized, and with her
cargo subsequently confiscated. Two French
Officers of the Legion of Honour were lately ar.
rested in Hanover on a charge of desertion. The
Heligoland trade continues in almost total 'need.
vity. Letters fruits Embilen mentism, that the
t law to prohibit intercourse wit!. the English, had
I been extended to that neighbourhood, and that
any merchants or others charged with disobeying
I this mandate, were to he tried by a military corn.
mission. The etthsegteent paragraph will show
the oppression of the French system in the depen.
ii dent states:—

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"FUIIA.Mw2B.
" I have had all Irtit year toatreggirwith the Itvdra of
the Converiptiathalthongh my time I. occupied with the dos-
tees of it Pchonlinaster. They have at last vurreeded. orwl I
have been obliged to ptev for it sob.tiutte ttt.: sum of 500 dol.
Len. I 1.1: IS rester the :weer:4ly of presenting to the teispee!he
no fewer than five substitutes, four of thug I prupoved baring
been rejected."

The retirement of Captain FOSKET?, whose case
was lately the subject of parliamentary discussion,
from the 151 h regiment of Light Dragoons, is an-
nounced in S iturday's Gazette.
A letter from an Officer at Gibraltar, dated the
Bth of May, states, that 600 deserters, consist-
ing of French and .subsidiary foreign troops, in
the pay of France, had arrived at the garrison of
Alicant, and that 500 more were upon their march
fur the.same destination.

A. letter from an Officer on board the gyperion
brig, oft St. Domingo-, gives some particulars re-
specting the squadrons of flise rival Chiefs of that
island. CURISTOPOE'S, it is said, rottSistll of ninel
vessels; two ships, about the size of British slurps'
of war ; five brigs, one schooner, and a Mall
PETIONN COOSiSIa Of seven vessels, two corvettes,
four brigs, aunt a three masted schooner ; thulium.
ber of guns in each squadron, is nearly equal,
about 125. These squadrons had rerunning tight
on the 28th March, but Pelson's vessels avoided
a general action, and from thtir superior sailing
were enabled to do so. CIIICISTOVITE was before
the Mole the beginning of Mary; his troops had
invested the place for 16 months : on his arrival, lb.
stormed two places nearly adjoining the town, and
was determined to carry it by assault if it slid not
surrender.

It is stated in a Dominica paper., maim! on
Saturday, that the President of that island having
eceived information that a camp of runaway
negroes had been formed amongst the heights of
Grand Day, a party of the 40th regiment was dis.
patched under the orders of Lieutenant CA-LIME
to surprise it. After marching all night, tient.
CAUDER arrived at the place at day.break, but
owing to the premature discharge of a musket,
only six negroes were takes; two aden, a man
and woman, were shot in attempting to escape;
the wretched woman's bead Wu cut off and ear.
tied to Roseau, and there noosed on a pole In
the market.place for two days! Fer eaploit
the Legislatore voted 50 rsineas to Lient. Cu..
nca, 8 dollars to the non.conseassioned officer,
awl 4 dollars to each of the privates of 'lns party,
in addition to the rewards allowed by law.
The letters by itni t l*try that the Swedish
Government had expressed MOO dissatisfaction at
the conduct of Sir JAMES SAUMARES, is wrest.
ing the entrance of such ships as were not provid.
ed with English licences into the ports of that king.
dom. As a measare of .retaliatiets, an order was
issued that no vessels should he permitted to sm.
load ; in cous•quence of which a
.great numbor
had gone to the Baltic to sett for ports in which
they could deposit their cargoes. Several, we
understand, had sailed for Cronst alt, which port,
it is-reported, they were allowed to cuter.
The hopes that lately prevailed at St. Peters.
burgh of an accommodation with this country,
were extinguished by demi-official assurances that
no uegociatioe to that effect was either on foot or
in contemplation. The exchange in consequence
began to look downwards again. It continued,
however, to be the opinion of some of the best in.
forme4 persons-in-that the ern-
ment ere long would be under the necessity of en.
Wring iota some arrangement with this country.
Mr. Coxes Sheep.shearing Anniversary coin.
menses this day at Belk ham, when the progressive
improvements in Norfolk husbandry will be va-
rieusly displayed its the course of the week to a
numerous assemblage of the most distinguished
Agriculturists from all countries.
Mr. PERCEVAL takes especial pains to entitle
himself to the warm support of his Profession, by
skewing his determination to fill all places, oven of
mere state and honour, with Lawyers. The ap.
pointmeut of Mr. KENkICK to he Master of the
Household, is a pledge of his intentiuns in their
favour.
The heavy taxes laid upon the Press in Ireland,'
byll r. FOSTER' the Irish Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, has been the severest blow ever sustained
by Newspaper Property in that part of the United
Kingdom. Instead of the taxes being productive,.
''`they will stiffer, we have no doieht, •a serious de.
Meadow besides being the ruin, probably, of,
many industrious lodividualv.
Serjeant Meeey, of the West Norfolk Militia,
who was the principal evidence against ,S'enb-
bing, tried at. the late Norwich Quarter Sessions,
for utte‘ing s.editionl langnagclhaa been rewarded
(or hks loyalty by an ensigncy in the 4th errison
at g.( •