The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-30 00:00:00

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At Hamilton, the lfith of Nev. 11420, being a gene-
ral meeting of the Noblemen, Freeholders, Justiets of
Peace, end Commissioners of Supply for the shire of
Lanark.
Which dap Sir James Stewart, Bart. laid bergs the
meetings &port of the t'oettnittee, named by ttl stem
of a general meeting of the county, held at Lentjk on
tio Ist of May last, relative to Mr. Oweres..plon for
roalierelies the mod-Aims of the *eating elutes, of
the ...illeumag tenor :---
" In obedience to the remit from the county of La-
nark at their meeting on the first day of May last,
your Commitee embraced an early opportunity of heat-
ing Mr. Owen at great length, open the nature add
details of the plan recommended by him for the relief
of the distresses of the country. Your Committee
feel relieved from the necessity of reporting their opi.
nion on the principles which are at the foundation of
Mr. Owen's system, as that individual has, with the
same liberality which has uniformly marked his con-
duct, agreed on the suggestion of your Committee, to
print for the information of the gentlemen of the coun-
ty those detailed statements which have been laid in
manuscript before your Committee ; and, indeed, with-
out an opportunity of individually and deliberately
considering those statements, your Committee would
not feel warranted in recommending for adoption a
system which, in many of its prominent features, is
acknowledged by Mr. Owen himself to be at variance
with those principles, which are sanetioned by the
approbation of some of the most enlightened piliiical
economists of ;be age; and your Committee are of
opinion that. by being submitted to the ordeal of pub-
lic discussion, this system will undergo that full and
candid scrutiny which is indispensible either to its ul-
timate adoption or rejection. With regard to many
of the m- practical parts, your Committee arc of
opinion thht in a variety of situations they may be
acted upon with great advantage to the mumatittity.
Vase Committee more partirulArly allude to the ex-
, Missies of the spade husbandry, the besefieial rosette
of which are so clearly elucidated by Mr. Owes, sad
proved by the documents to be submitted in an sp-
irituelle to his detailed statements; and on this point
your Committee are of opinion that a few cooperative
experiments, au however small a stale, atemstiseiVeneri
,ducted and reported by practical ogriceitwiesia did
West parts of the county, woold go fat to ildwlttbsib
the value of a mode of agriculture wide! Our Caw
kotteacanort help asoceivinie is.frearlit *lthiettiert-
ant advantages to the agrieu!tural and otamillatturing
population. Your Committee cannot cowhide this
brief report without expressing the Petrels, mtisfac-
titan, which they experienced on visiting the highly
interesting establishment, under the more immediate
direction of Mr. Owen. There the benmoleace of
that individual and his partners is pourtrayed in
the most pleasing features, and an inspection of
the splendid manufactory at New Lanark must
convince the most scoptical to how greet an
extent the amelioration of the condition of the mann-
factoring population may be carried, when the,
views of the Managers are governed by that spirit of
philambropy which actuate the partners of the New
Lanark works, whose means of control over their popu-
lation are only exceeded by their de-ire to direct them
to the most valuable purpose, that of promoting the
comfort and independence of the parenta, and of train-
ing up die children from their earliest infancy by
such a gentle, but at the game time systematic coarse
of education, as in the opinion of your Committee,
cannot fail to render them very valuable members of
society. Your Committee should perhaps apologite
for this seeming digression, and which the personal
observed°n of most of the individuals for whose is-
spection this report is intended, may have readerbd
unnecessary; but they could not help spiting the far-
vourable opportunity of bearing the most unqualified
I testimony to the internal regulations which have been
so modems's, and benevolently instituted at New La-
nark Cottons Mills, for the comfort of the parent, and
the amelioration of the rising generation ; and which
I they humbly conceive might, in various degrees, be
advantageously adopted in most large manufactories,
and which would go far to mitigate mast' of the evils
which have been found to result from the extension of
mannfiseturing establishments, anti the subsequent
concentration of so large a proportion of the popu-
lation of the United Respire. Your Committee are at
the same time credibly informed, that these arrange-
ments, instead of involving any pecuniary iescrili..e,
are found to operate beneficially in a commercial point
of view.
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Which having been read to the Meeting, Sir J.
Stewart moved, that as Mr. Owen's publication alluded
to in the above report, was now in the prems, with
the viewof being circulated throughout the country,
he (Mr. Owen) should be allowed to add the repast
as an appendix thereto, and the motion having been
seconded, the same was unanimously agreed to.
Sir J. Stewart next laid Ix fore the Meeting a
proposal by a respecteble gentles/Ilan of the county,
fur granting a lease of ground sufficient La the
purpose of making trial of the plan in conte
plation, of the following tenor:—•• With a view to
facilitate the formation of an establishment as Mr.
Owen's Plan, which *mold :verse* Ms :weenie),
wee iats w iridearell for the musty. Mr. Hamilton. of
Daltell. submits to the Meeting, a proposal to let
from 500 to 700 acres of land, privet for this purpose,
ion the billowiag cuaditioas That the Lod shalt

sisetSYDNEY die 4 on the Beareial!"

be let tee a long lease, at a grain rent, to be fixed by
any competent person or persons, to be named by
tree county. Id. That the county shall adtance a
sum not exceeding 40,000/. to be expended in
forming the establishment. Sd. That after the first
year, intcrest shall be paid for the said sum at the
late at which the same way be borrowed by the coun-
try. 4th. That the proprietor of the land shall be,
bound to repay thi. capital at the end of twenty years,
►ut that he shall be permitted to refund it at any in-
termediate period. sth. That for the benefit of the
musty, such delinquents as would otherwise be sent
to Bridewell, shall be received into the establishment,

under regulations to be afterwards agreed upon. Mr.
Huailtou, is willing, being assisted by the authet of
the plan, to superintend the whole withoar charge to
the County."
Which having been likewise read, and a plan
of the ground therewith produced shown to the
Meeting. Sir James Stewart farther moved that Mr.
Owen should, in like manner, be allowed to print bath
the proposal and the plan as an appendix to his re•
port and the motion having been seconded, the same
was likewise unanimously agreed to. The Meeting
agreisl that after Mr. Owen's report is printed and
circulated, and due time allowed for deliberating
thereon, the same should be taken into the considera-
tion of a subsequent Meeting of the County to be spe-
cially called for the purpose.
Extracted from the ulinntes of the Meeting.
(Signed) Jostx Lana, Clerk.

SPRECE of Mr.NORTHOUSS, at the MRETING
qf sr. PAUL'S, COVENT-GARDEN.

—ono—
[Cowladed Iron' oar last.]

I call upon you, upon the country, to bury all
minor distinctions, and as all Whigs are f. iends
to reform, let all friends to reform place confidence
in the Whigs, What, will an Erskine desert you
a Rolland desert you? a Urey desirt you? a Rus-
sell desert you? a Redford desert you? a Tier-
rey desert you ? never, never! They are a party,
it is true, but yea remember ihe fable. tie the
sticks up 'together and you cannot break the bundle
aulaose it. and each stick may be broken by itself.—
Rat some have urged, that an efficient administration
cannot be formed out of the opposition. What, will
they dare to compare the present weak, wretched, and
vacillating administration, with their energetic, ta-
lented, mad patriotic opponents? Will they dare to
compare the mole-eyed accuracy of an Eldest, with
the emmprehonaive eagle-eyed Erskine ? lb* pow
'poem loasitp ids WoUtogtoo, the
pettiest., of a Bedford? The affected and made
_up
candour of a LiverpoßlL wish the Mai aid ixpe-
float driereir F The petty, shuffling. and Insidious
ceasing of a eaqtlereogia, pith the manly, upright,
and comprehensive pulley of • Lansdowne? The
canting sad Cocker-like soul of a Vansittart, with the
scats, discriminating, and financial Tierney? The
harlegninade eloquence of a Canning, with the rhetori-
cal
richness of a Mackintosh ? The apostate and Je-
suitical casuistry of a Copley, with the majestic plead-
ing of a Denman ? or the intellectual obliquity and ob-
truseness of a Gifford, with the ingenious and in-
genuous advocacy of a Bronghani ? Let us therefore
hear no more of the paucity of talent in the ranks of
opposition. as as argument to prevent the dismissal of
the Ministers.

In the discharge of my duty, I ought here to place
before you all the iniquitous, all the impolitic, all the
unconstitutional acts of Administration, since they
ease into power; bat the lungs of Stentor, and the
pen of Johnson would be exhausted before either
could get through half of them. In their foreign
policy they have pompously declaimed about the glory
of Bri►ain, and the necessity of making her respected
by foreign powers. Is she so? Is not Prance laugh-
ing at us, Spain laughing at us, Portugal laughing
at as, Naples laughing at us, Sicily laughing at us ?
In fact have we not for 20 yctirs been fighting against
democratic principles, and although we have been
victorious, is there not now more democracy in go-
vernments than was ever known before ? But I deny
the principle, I deny that pomp and splendour are
constituent qualities of a good government.
What constitutes a state
Not bays and broad arm'; ports.
Where rolling in their strength rich navies rid. ;
Not starr'd and spangled courts,
When low b►ed baseness homage pays to pride.
Rut mew, high-minded men,
Man who their duties know,
And know their rights, sad knowing dare maintain,
Protein the ley;-aised blow,
And eras; the tyrant while they read the chain
Those constitute a Mate.
I need not, I cannot go into their little tricking,
miserable, domestic policy, with their schemes of
finance, of espionage, of mock-treason, and in some
instances, to use their own language, of blood and
terror—suffice it to look at the edicts on the conn►ry,
after six year's peace. The kingdom is on the eve of
I bankruptcy—every tax which it was solemnly declared
when passed, should not bi permanent, yet continues,
and not only continues, but has been multiplied to a
tremendous excess. Trade, instead of growing better,
lia* beets getting worse, and there are mi•re bankrupts,
*ore insolvents, snore compounding tradesmen, more
cfiminals. Name paupers, and less commerce, less busi-
ness, less employment, less contentment, than has been
known for the last thirty years. The most beautiful,
ingenious, industrious country in the world, the gar-
den of Europe, and once her envy and admiration, by
the measures of these men, has been converted into a
moral la:4r-house, an universal poor-honse, au arena,
whore loyalty and virtue is for ever contending with
the, temptation of poverty to rebellion, and misery to
dishonesty.
The caw of the Queen completes the climax of their
ceirnioal Itnpolley.—Poor woman! A tender trbe,
reared in a foreign dime, transrlanted to a wore
ge-
alai garden, in order to be united to a dashing young

oak. the expectaacy of the
sorted by the broaches t►at
that cling in all fickleness,
wind to an adjacent myrtle
the spas-tree of calumny :
while hemlocks and nightshades.
thistles sad nettles, and
their poisons at it ; the
pence upon its imooosot
sane a Roble oak, the glory
tens it from their biting
most branch is cat down
the other breaches bold it
the spas, the nightshade,
their own poison der
would protect your akin from
teflon from violations, your
treachery, dossed the
baps eves DOW as the spii
nisteriag towels to their
the immortal Russell, be
(viable offering co the Awaits

For, 1 Ibwe be
A ellOrtbeavee
I% the a libert
From thedAeart the bleeds
Ter, even now his beatified
these walls animating his
scendant while he remained
give a ray of hope
artisan, a glow of deli,
the manufacturer; if
pristine liurity the princij
—if you would make
a rich, respected, and
dismissal of these men—let
mean, or of too little consequence
let all recollect that they -
society, and while they are
petition, let each :Which
heart and all, on the altar

MEETING OF bT. J

Yesterday evening there
bitants of the Pariah of '
the purpose of considering
an Address of Congratulat
the abandonment of the Bil
of expressing, as the Itetit,
of the malignant and cruel
has bees subjected. This
rously and respectably
Paris:, church was literati;
we observed a vest number
appeared peculiarly enthusiastic
the assembly was convened.
The Churchwardens, Messrs.
took the Chair about six
that, we are unable to
tation of the manly, ester/
the several Gentlemen by

Mr. Nte NoLsoN, who
gratuluted the Meeting, t
upon the triunyh which .
it was through the operation
power of which, was in
superior to any authority
the persecutors of the Queen
their prey—(Applauses.)—
this occasion demonstrated,
a limit to corruption, and 0.
in which arbitrary power
planscs,)—for such decided
oppression, the people
called, Radicals ; bat he
trymen called by any mune
reprobate, than that they f
called slaves, or the pander
dies.)—Rather should
objects of the abhorrence,
revenge of tyrants, than '
instruments of their will
injustice. The Wortley
proposing the first Result
4sy Mr. Scott, was carried
The Meeting was also
Beckwith,Lowther, Hayes,
Reid, and Thorpe, all of
ta• Mr. Nicholson.

Upon a Resolution proposed
scriptive of the general
nieces, and particularly
of the massacre at Manchester.
excessive taxation, some
Berry, of the Six Clerks 06ce,
Printer to the Association
Knowledge, of which the .
Liverpool are the principal
opposition was, that these
hended within the term -
ground, too, Mr. Steadman
to sign the Resolution if
Ile said, indeed, that he
in that shape, and his colleague,
the Secretary of the Mendicif
in this sentiment. After
conversation, the passages
withdrawn apes the sag'
cholson, with a view to conciliate
those by whom they were opposed,
very few, not more indeed
original Resolution was
this ground, that if the .
the Queen were folly milk
pat be discredited, aad
,iaially disregarded.
Ten rely spirited and
Address founded upon ,
y, and the Resolutions
meted is TheMerniny Chrexicle,
Iftttiiptr, SZATILIMAN, Welt

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the place, beholding Itself de-
kat should have supported it.
or., as waved by the incoostant A.
Me or a seducing vise, having
1y breaking Ilea its fair Caine. VP
ghishades. and all the petty
i I • I
I nauseous weed* were *Woe
elements darting their ren-
ted head, unprotected by all.
Tory of the garden which shel-
fury, and although the top-
t by the ruthless axe of death,
it in their sinewy strength, and
de, and the hemlock, have
goy tlanneeives. Oh if ria
n from pollution. year nest,
slur hearths from perjury ant
dismissal of these met. Per-
pirits of the just ate mails mi-
if descendants, the illesteiren.,
r who laid down his life, an sr-
i
genie's el liberty mod of virtue,
this earthly sphere,
heaves Weds *tear,
n liberty draws
Moods sod kinks in her erase.
sod epiell.ppey have been in
his ant: 1e eat jpetelegherie-
laiiied with us. iT post "skpolsi
to the sunken eye of die
ight to the pallid. cheek of
yon would rester. t. their
nciples of your Constitution.
e your revisory once ma...,
mighty nation, demand the
—let no man think he is to)
isequence in Isis esmtieno; bet
.y arc units in the sun. total
are putting their hands to the
rides! exclaim, " there it
ar of the country."
JAMES. CLERKILN WELL
ere was a Meeting of the Inba-
r St. Jame's, Clerkenwell, fur
log the propriety of presenting
dation to her Majesty.
,opoti
Bill of Pains and Penalties. and
.qnksition stated, au abhoereece
ruel persecution to which she
his electing was most ewe&
r attended. 7he body of the
ally full. mid iota* gag*, . 4
see of well-dressed fensales, who
iniastic In the cause for which
med. •
Messrs. Steadman sad Bodkiee
six o'clock. and we lament
to give an adequate represen-
ergetic eloquence displayed by
y whom it was addressed.
to opened the business. con- e-
, as well as the public at large.
the Queen had obtained; 1;1. •
Tation of public opinion, the
in this instance proved to ha •
ty existing in the country, that
Queen had been scared front
I.)—The people had, indeed, on
that in England there was
id that this was not discounter
er could be cstablished--(Ap-
ided resistance to injustice and •
alight be, as they had been •
se should rather bare his man-
uals° which tyrants chose to
hey should ever deserve to be
niters of tyranny-04nd plan-
he bare his countrynnen the
ce, or even the victims of the
in they should ever become the
rill, or the advocates of their
y Gentleman concluded with
• which, being seconded
ied unanimously.
~ add il by Messes. Searell,
yes, Jones, Price, Court, Hogan,
fwhom spoke in the same strain
reposed by Mr, Lowrie'. de-
cuts inct aid character of Ili-
r with respect wad, onwelies
ichester, and their support of
•
r dissent wee expressed by Mr.
is Office, and Mr. (Albert, the
ton fur Propagating Christian
Ise Bishop of London and Lord
ipal patrons. Tie ground of
hese topics were sot compe-
-lof the Requisition. On .this
man expressed his intent/4e not
f carried with these passages.
t would nut put the Resolution
olleague, Mr. Bodkin, who is
Mendicity Society, concurred
After a long and itestiltety
wages objected to Inge
r suggestion of Mr.
conciliate unanimity, although
re opposed. were comearatively
Teed than five perso Vie She
as opposed princii.ally upon
r character of the accusers it(
ate knee. their accusation
sd their verdict against her
I impressive Resolution. with
them, were greeds. umisii-
thins were ordered to' he in-
Are/aide, Mies, Morsieg
id T. isei air. •
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