The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-16 00:00:00

Ti AL STATESMAN,

hive boon rondored both andenleblo end natoriool

1.:4111 nile which bate thence •risen, hats been wen
in the •hope of war% not merely saiteeessaryvbet

hi; with ootioollsolotiNtyi owl With Whale ioht t•

the public ielerests—or a „succession Of socoasoits.
%lona' lees, which bite Issidlausly abridged public
liberty, es well as of as unceasing accsoulatian of
oppressive Trays, unjustly howling private property.
Puns an acutefrolinsof thausessapliested evils,

ti• MI for e Radical Reform io the R;preqeotatiort of the
Commons of the Reeks, signed sr we belle., by more
thee s million of the aggrieved People, end epeoklog,

is we believe, the testiments of , were

presented to the last Commons' WAS*, bet present•
eel in vain. Here your Complainsets beg leave to
uU year attentien In a eirreasstance, •hirh mist
,sbear, and place in a strong light the lonrrid Hestia.,
the maestros, treatment which the Petitioners on

test etession riperkneetl, awl iv Melt treallbe at re.

wised all possible eggravation when It is recollected
that titer prayed not for a yds'', dee to themselves

alone, bit to the •hole •RSeteveJ nation.

" The ciree•steoee alleded to Is this—tkt ie
•atters teechlig the Elective of Members to scree

for the Commons in ParHimont, poor Ilan. Homo
dais, to be, anti ',etches the powers of • Count of

Jedicat,ort, hieing missile jorisrlietioo.
" Then occasional tribunals for trylog cootorted
Elections. that for that lento of your Ilion.

llooso (which has the permaseet power of emoting
end deposit% them to ilso•act that port of the besi•
ness) ere so fir from disproriog the Horses claim,
alit they coolies end elecidele it.
" Those unrest& aro ea other then selections of
Members of its own body, to whom It commits the
. .

@incise of its jeticlicsl functions, and that it ob.
tains the convenience of carry's* on sari.les trials at
once, without loterraptiug its other proceedings. Its
Elective Committees are, therefore, mere juridical

representatives, or dainties by shoo it set., sod bit
the acts ere its •un, is seen in this, that no .10.
chino of an Dretion Coutoittay bath any ,d.ct until

report►d to end confirmed by the Mole.
" By the Statute ender *bleb those iribonsls are
oothnrize,l, it less contrived to ennfer nn time Homo,
"MO it n bad before. a kW sanction of its

claim, to bat a Coed of Judicature, while lo this
very sanction, the Statute both of necessity imposed
on it not truly the atitihoter, bat tiro duties of sick a
Coact ; for if it base the perm, it most also have the
responsibility of I Court of Jedicatoro. The law
being in England the ',presto arbiter of parry man's
life, liberty, and properly, Courts of Judicature most
at ill times be open to she so ject. sod the law most
be drily administered thetedo. The emphatic words
of Magog Cholla, spoken in the Firms's of the King,
ire these : vs will not deny or defer to soy man
leitLer Justice or Right. —Blacks I. 141.
" neon your Remonstrsots are authorised in mis-
leading, that an English Court of Joel:more, when
duly appealed to for justice. hsth no option. either to
toy or net to trs an is.ue, no choice by which it east
either deny or defer to injured tight In legal remedy ;
nor to withh hi from s. ch as are rofforing under any
dreadful grievance, their yr.•per rightfol redress.
$6 DliCfetiOtlier rearms, I hsrietyrislic of despo-
tism its.h ever be• rt nornlisr, batefel to that free mind
and high spirit of ErselanA—An English Curt of
Jedicatere cannot, like an Asiatic Prater, trills
with a visitor. by saying, 4 go tht way for this time,
Iwhen I have a convenient season, 1 will send for
thee.' _ _

66 Neither is an English Court of Judicature pri.
rileged to substitute its own will for law, its win co •
price for the Constitution, awn less to prefer the
corrupt interests of i.s own members, or of their pa.
Irons, to the undoubted rights and liberties, the per-
manent interests of the whole nation.
" If any mailer of expediency retold embark, the
shutting against the People, all ether Courts of Judi-
cature, in o►der that fora more sure protection, se
►xclurive soil obsolete jurisdiction, *Wield be con-
(erred on any single Court, in which were wilted the
*Wiest with the lexislsiive toortiour, we an elan.
ordinary confidence must add to the obligation of
promptness and tirlelity, in the redress of pleasures,
lan increase of metal force, ten times too fold. But
should she b►trayed People gad that a lines* of Com-
mons hod clandestinely obtained the powers of se
ezclusivejeditature ever their elections; not to pro-
tect, hut to rinslsee them—not to rend asunder, het
to diet the battlel chains of an eriotecratic oligarchy ;
not to defeat, but to give elect to the most virulent
treason by which their country was ever violated;
It is for your lloooorable Ilnese to ruminate on
what might be the consequeace of such a con-
viction in the politic mind. How therefore t►e
late House of Commons, either as cloturing the
office end attributes of a Court -of Jedicatere, or
the character of a faithful R••preseatative of the
Commons, mid be capable, in contempt of the
Constitution, ht breech of duty, in violation of jug.
lice. in defiance of right, and la treachery to public
freedom, net merely of turning a deaf ear to an
aggrieved People, applying for redress of a wrong
producing unspeakable miseries; but likewise ofjeln-
ing in aggravating that wrong, and adding to those
miseries, by a system of terror sad oetrsgeous per-
secede* for perpetrating the tyranny and all its hor-
rid evils,—•an only be understood by those who
knew that the Hoes* slid not Represent the Com-
mons of the Realm; bet too preponderating *veal,
consisted of swiping oppressors and their corrupt
accomplices, who, being judges in their own cause,
acted as such men (with a lest of pillage io their
hearts, and sobridled pewee in their beads), never
fail to act.
" Your Complainants have not been enolowneat
of that georrelliag of ropes, in Barnstaple, Penryn,
Cemellord, and Grampound, which hails recently
caused the disgusting wickedness and the grovelling
depravity practised in returning Members to your
lionoureble Home to attract attention ; nor can they
omit to remonstrate against the course which has
thereon been taken, as utterly inadequate to core, or I
even palliate, the moral disease, and its direful conse-
quence to the State.
't The infamy that ►as been thus accid►ntelly vs-
pawl, is by no mass confined to a few vile outs of
iniquity ; it is the characteristic of all those sinks of
cot !optima called open boroughs. And although in
those called close, the depravity assumes another
shape, and wears another garb, yet there it is still
mote malignant towards nor democratic freedom, in-
amid as ell dose borne despotism, Is unmated

aristocratic usurpation, onositigatod hostility to pub.
Ile liberey. I
•
" TO odorless and bo►rid mass ohm,/ epee
Borniwili are wade close ►ate boos receitly eases•
pliliud at lichnier, where, to the reprisals of this.,
in which Iris Ike, hark bun exhibited a tpectacie

■ast inflames sod most brutal; but truly c►irsctsr.
lain' tho deadly borough contagion, w►ic► as a de
solatory pettilence, threatems to sweep from t►e land
all moral healt►, all freedom, and every vestige of
the manly virtues of a free People. The prircipal
proprietor in that town (w►n, is 1801, was voted
inespabla of r►present's, Wheeler, because of his
gross bribery sad corruption) was not, it seems,
satisfied with ►aring on that occasion reduced the
•amber of Electors, by having polled down about al
hundred ►ouses, and drives tito wretc►ed house.
►olders t►us disfranchised, by ►eing paupers, iota s
great •wort•►osae, which ha had prepared for t►e
Immo*, ; for the said proprietor did again lately, at
an inclement season, namely, in January last, cause
to be ejected from he said work-hour, and termed
into the street, all she said peepers, regardless of

age, ;adroit'', or helpless latency, being 163 bursas
beings; and tiros he henceforth hoped to raids a
redden tyrant over the desolation be bad made, that
he aright, by his sovereign will, as lord and master of
a depopolated Borough, appoint two of the Members
of your Honourable Hesse, then to sit, and tots as
the deputies of his despotism.
" The head which sickens not at ibis tale of bar.
barity, which throbs set with ludignation at this
bretcliiy, and which revolts not at Ibis Setsuic mode
of forging the worst IRA in the gelling chain of our
thraldom, must be as sniveling as the monster him-
I „ We grope theta is not Saab a heart in your Ito.
mulishly !loose.

" It is put a getitiort &Hoven landlord and teasel,
bet bet fetes enpsintipled •tarpon, cad the wronged
Commons of the Reel., that we cell t. the recell.t.

'inn of y eat Illnaserable Mass Ibislleb.atereara ;for
therein, as a faithful mirror, may bo seen raveled

the ire; lunge of a widespread cOn•piracy, operating
he a deadly crime against the life of the State • a
crime no other than that of a premeditated, srdel,
and even active taeason : to the proof of which as-
collation yogi Complainants solicit the serious atten-
tion of ,oar Honooratile Noose.
" Treason is the ei.latioe of Sovereigely.
" In the English Constitution there ere three ale•
fleet species of S ignty, stariely—that of the
Nation ; that of the Parliament ; end that the King.
The definition of Someigety is in its having, in rela-
tion to Its object or objects, erg impeder.
" The objects of the nation ere self-presetestion,
freedom, and happinets ; its Seistreignty is origleal,
underfeed, inherent, and necessarily absolote. The
nation accordingly willed, adopted, and ordsieed a
Constitution, with its organisation of necessary As-
thorities for the rnynegonsest of its affsin ; or, le
other words, for its gowernmeat, to the ends of its
o•n p atlon, freedom, and happiness. The
Sever ivy of the Pediment is not original, bet
dependant ; not et:derived, bat a deputation ; not
inherent, bet conferred ; not absolute, beta trust ; '
a treat limited for the service of the Bathe, to the
following ends and ol jeets, namely, to the perform-
, ing, as occe•fon may regeire, Continuities's; Legis-
j for controlling Executive Pewee in all hod..
penmen's sod ran.ifications ; and for officiating is
general as conservator of the Constitutive, as Pro-
tector of the People against illegal power,tty tidies,-
ing those grievances • hid none olso will or can rm.
dress. _

" In these saffien of Government, the Putnam
having no sup/rice, is Severeigo.
44 Th, sovervignry of the Keil is still more limit-
ed, being confined to 'torching the emotive some.
Al of the State, in which basin; no superior, be is
of course &nervily,.
" Hut the sovereignty of Parliament being divid-
ed between the King, a few lords, and the Cons-
mons Hoerr, which last ought to represent the en-
tire nation, with the reception only of the King
and than few Lords, it is evident that the Com-
mons' liner, in respect of the life of the State, is the
most vital organ and the very heed of its legislative
sovereignty.
" It is, therefore, manifest, that whoever stab.
this heart—this vital orris of the nation's freedom,
by personally slurping a single seat in your Hos.
Hover, or by piecing therein by force, freed, or
corruption, any other usurper, is undeniably guilty
of treason in therein violating the sovereignty of the
People.
" It ninetiatily follows, that every evert set for
despotically, crittopily, or by intimidstloo violating
the freedom of election for influencing seen a mg&
vote, in returning a Member to your Iroinerable
House, is as incipient act of treeson.
" For the Stasis of your Hesourable Hone, hav-
ing so inclusive juridical authority is all matters of
election, it is argued, shot if the Courts of Law were
permitted to take cognition of them, then the Lords,
as having by appeal a fins! jurisdiction, might some.
times ultimately obtain a power over those elections ;
so both the liberty of the Commons, and the iede-
pendenceof their House might Le endangered.
•' Bat as the repetition, the property, sad the
lives of the People are constitatieually under the pro-
tection of Juries, in the ordisary Courts, it were con-
trary to reason to toggles that the goodness nr bold-
ness of a few votes at se elective, might not be safely
left in see► bands ; considoing this, seder rational
pommies., en appeal to the Lords, once is a ten.
tory, were not to be ezpected, and indeed might be
forb;rldes by Statute.
" 11 hen, ►owever, this pretence of such a shadowy
danger is found in the mouths of those who cannot be
ignorant of the Interior's feet, that licitly five hun-
dred of the seats in your HoeouraLle House are
actually usurped by Lords, and world-be•Lorrle ; a
sourpatinn which,ss it should seem, bath completely
subverted our once free Government, sod revels-
donned it into an Oliesreby, It were as unnecessary
as impossible to egress the feelings of your Com-
plainants on an hypocrisy so disgusting, or rather an
effrontery so unparalleled, especially whore sorb pre-
tence prrc.eds from the lips of criminal rearms
lbeniselera.

" The fact of the eserpalon being notorious, and
the treason of it twin as eedertiable as twine's,' ear
Complainants cannot bet remonstrate aisi%st snot
floaroirage Hasse Isting, in the corns el filmstrip'',
Porn Rod Granipoood, proceeded as if she con.

'Wed criminals bad beee‘eilly„ of ...sly • minor of.
fesa,Nstkpatolkeh*Witaw•Nen a pulpt& pa ttio.ipa-
if
ilete in t e *Wm vevaaetup Tauatox.
•+ Nut cam gyp r etusieeets refral i from an es•
pension of theta In tidied, that whether ynor do-
moerable BOW claim tie sacred office of a Court of
iedicatere, ..t 'he sacred character of a Represents.
site of the Commutes of the IC dm. or both, it is be.
vend all probability of a d.. 00, an lediapen•tble
duty incontheet on it —vet to tau per end t la. • illa
Si infernal conaoit.ci, dicta-II) oretating i• &rut),
the freedom and soseseign•s of I 1 e °wino ; but t .tally
to eradicate the treasuesblo atorpatioo of the file
ceospirato rt.
" Seeing, !weever, that the 'istentrr rf the Stale
contioles le rays with enalittd 'indents, fl.resten-
lag a ettastrreplie the most to al, while yet a.. ..uta
Member of pier lineourahla Bins, his hitherto pro.
posed any manta in the nature of • complete rime.
dy ; this omission on their part, considering they are
OAS in somber, is en 03.i.sioe awfully atasmie4 ; and
your Complainants bops ii will plead their own ape-
logy for the libetty of segeostitig that in their bumble
judgment, year Ilooostable Mose sai4ht Lid a fall
'said aCCitele delineation of soeb a measure In lie
diet of a 1111, which previous to the last Se•sioe of
the lest Parliament was. and coming's to ha sold in
London, entitled-- A Billet &gists aid Liberties,
. by Meier Cartwright.'
" In that draft of a Bill, as it seems Is your
Complainants, ate clearly shown the ties principles
1 of Repreomtation, as well as the m.ules of ricoly
applying them; and a correct theory of Nig...ion,
top.lier with a sati•fsetory delineation of all tee nee
century details in practice, for ewe/rise ellicieney,
traoquillity, and fiefdom ; the pl.. being easy of
emotion, bevies., according to dm simplicity ans.
tore. The Bill spoken of demonstrates that the
choke aed morn of an retire Commons' Hesse may
be accomplished in Goa and the same day, and that
the business of electioe, instead of eshillting, as en-
der err present shorking system it doe. exhibit, all
that is t Ideas, degrading, and disgusting, world naves-
sorely be conducted as bedtime a sir. d wise peo-
ple, in lb* performser• of a pious ditty to their country.
Nor could it be con.idered as the least recommenda-
ties of that Bill, that while the outer natives oil both
sides of the Atlantic, are at tl.is estibtetted epoch,
osoloosly improving their civil inaisotions. sow-
ably to their tespectiae attainments in po!itical boom,.
ledge, especial l! in reference to rriorseosseispo ; Ilse
adoptioe of the Bill in gamins, by rho Parlilment
of Engles& wool.l by one and the same act ',mob*,
from the reproach of a lament•ble degenerscy, and
place her one* more at the htal of I.,tions, for the
science aed the practise of bre, of jest. tied wise Goa•
loresoot, sole cause of prow-My end toippioers.
" Your Complainants, ltroonostrauts, sad Pea.

Mows, therefore claiming on behalf of themselves
and their countrymen, their full birthright liberty,
sad girolettioe spinet any empetatio's 'her -from, or
say abridgesest thereof whatsoever, st diteshieu
of ignosatit, corrupt, or tyranuicel auto, 'murkily
pray, yogi. Ilosourable House will speedily pass
lots) a law some Bill for securing the N Won's Rights
sod Liberties, a hich sh-11 at least be oat inferior to
that to which Mort have alluded."
r The foltowing Rs:missions were then proposed
lead passed seanimously
" Resolvesl, stii. That the Complaint, Rmeens-
strauce, sod Pv•iiinii. which has beeu read, is adopt-
ed as the act of this Meeting.
" Resolved, 6th. That for patting nn a new sod
equitable jou, their jest and se'lenieble light la a
fell enjoy repot of 6. stewed LAWS, WIER-
Ti ES, sod FREE CUSTOMS' of their roomette. as
' largely and wholly' as they Goghs In be e•jsry eel,
• tie said Ishabitants of Buressoghem *ill no. forth..
frith proceed to elect one Gewleasen, in ohm they
can con 6 or, es their Legivietorial Attorney mod Re-
eresentative, in whore pelvis, they 491 try she flees-
tion of their Right to Parliententery Repressoole:i se;
and who shall be Instructed to claim en their behalf,
admission into the Costumes' House. as a Member
hereof. And in the event of his being acknowledged
and received as their It.presesisaive arc/144'141y,
then sod there to use his inmost todeavoert 'awards
emits* equal and complete :gestic* to the Coalmines
f the Realm unsrei.sily, by seceriag be them as
Annul Election of begislaterial Representatives, tie
be elected by ballot.
" Resulted, 7th. That Sir Charles Wolseley, of
Wolseley, in the county of Stallard, Bart is elected
Legislatorial Attorney and Representative of the Is-
habitants of Dlrminghans, Isstrected end Neighs, ea
their behalf, by letter to the Right Ronoterable the
Speaker of the !loose of Commons, admiselue into
that Home as a Member thereof ; as well es I. cow-
musicale es the occasion ile• present and the ism,-
distely foregoing Resolve of this Meeting, to be by
the said Speaker laid before the Reese.
"Resolved, Sib. That our said respeciedßepresam
taller, in the event of his being admitted as sash, to
a seat is the I.:omegas' Bow, is hereby instrected to
move for the adoption of the aletessid Bill of Rights
and Liberties; bet in a contrary event, to provide a
proper usesascript draught of the ,set., and use his
utmost eadeayserslor hart* it proposed is Nan.
sent by some other Member.
" Resolved, 9th. That a Depsietion consisting d
the Chairmso and such pershos as he may think
proper, do wait upon Sir Cherie. Wolseley, with the
Resolutions appoint* him to removal the inhabitants
of Birmingham in Parliament ; and that Major Cart.
aright hid Mr. Wooler he requested to a.:compesy
the Deputation to join their phloem' entirely to in-
duce his compliance with the withes of Ibis Meeting.'"
We have not time to say more at Ftetent nn this
interesting sstjoct, out of revert to which. we hese
been obliged to make other °ejects give way. WI
trust that the pare Constitetion %1 spirit of the shove
Itivrolusinnsand Remonstrance will ‘ierfaderhermaleg
Mwropolitaii Myron( on Wednesday neat, and them
the railing and +cunt% of 'sqib,'
.end co/replies
will be harmless.

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Mnetissg loss IteNl hese tlis .t.niott. oc Mat- I
Grosse. The w•wtwt of p-ssons was out.
ouNly *visited at •ia to sight ttt.wsand, • n saw
bet b, no Min./ as ■irr t Imo liv.n olireto.ll
lawn it 11 knosit ti•• Wroth,' ..td ill .a.• •djse 6.11
plecti its thickly inhabited, clime, by hurt ism's;