The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-12 00:00:00

zwitereott,
demand that bisaticre Amid be restored to that
position whets* he bad been drawely bit Lordship's
premise of security. •
Bet the crime of M aeon nista only in snivels.
Hon, to which those who are acquainted with the mo-
tility of the Fritsch Police must feel themselves bound
'not to pay the slightest regard until the facts have
been publicly proved spinet the prisoner.--Thy
lorpritatiou does not at all discharge Lord KIWDAIOD
from his responsibility towards MARINIST•••••CODS4I.
glettlty it does not at all discharge Lord KINNAIRD
from the Imperious duty of demanding the release of
the prisoner. He has acted honourably, therefore,
in making this demand, and jedicioesly, in his
choice of the channel through which the demand was
The same praise must be given to the honest
and-vigorous expression of the sentiments which ac.
company his applicatios for justice.
But there is a question quite distinct from that part
of the *lair which concerns his Lordship's responsi-
bility towards Mr. MAIUNNT. On chat groundsdid
Lord KINNAIRD thick that be might promise a sale
conduct to the inforteant
Lord KINNAIRD tells us, 'that after Mr. CHAD,
Secretary of the British Embassy at the Court of
Brussels, had endeavoured to obtain from him the
name of the informant without any previous grooms.
tee, and had endeasettvedin vain, Mr. CHAD did then
produce a letter from the Doke of WILLINGTON,
the sight of v. hick persuaded both the Doke of Blot;
SIOND and Lord KINNAIRD. that MAMMYS might go
to Pettis without any risk of molestation.
Dipsii4flievident, first, that the letter was written
for the purpose of knowing, and, if necessary, mak.
log use of the said informant. Secondly, That as
the letter was meant to be an inducement to the in.
forment• to crime forward, it was also meant to be
taken as an osmium, of safe coadect, for any thing
short of safe conduct would have been futile.
• Varsity, Thu the Beim- of KICUUOND and Lord
liveneums, most hawir advised the jeureey to Paris,
and NI antsce undertaken it, in consequence of has.
lug regarded the letter in that light anti in no other.
There can, we say, be no doubt, that the letter was
meant by the writer to be token Is an assurance of
safe conduct, whether it was meant to be acted upon
as a safe conduct or not. Mr. CUAD'S original ree
serve shows this beyond a shadow of mistake, for, if
it contained no assurance on which Lord KINNAICD
and the informant might think themselves safe in pro-
ceeding, Mr. Cu to need not have reserved the letter
as the last resource of diplomacy. If he had not
thought that hesompromiseti the Duke of WELLING.
TON to do something by showing his letter, he would
have shown it at once. It is true, Mr. CHAD said, he
will not authorised officially to announce, that MA-
RIVET might reckon upon a rate conduct from the
Duke of WELLINGTON. Certainly not. The official
mansmonication was superfluous, if the letter was sof.
&tient ; and who knows, but that if the letter had
not been considered sufficient, OUtlssres had been
taken to offer a positive official goaratitee, either on
the lout of the French Government,or of the Duke of
Wat.t.ivirrom ? The first reserve of Mr. CnAn
makes it extremely probable, that it had been misty.
ed at Paris to get as much information es postibitti
as small a price as possible, and that the hackweed•
ness of the Worming woo:d have extracted any
concession.
However this may be, It Is clear, that the words of
the Duke of WkLLINOTON that " the French Go-
vernment was actually retail to treat :rids the infor-
mant," were intended by tlie writer to be taken Clan
saiurasce, to induce the informant to think Mattel/
•ate in coming forward. Whether the nuke of
WsLLINOTIIN badideatelf any reserves—whether be
. thought his Wads biting served one purpose with
MANINET might toe afterwards to interpreted as to
semi another with the French Police—whether he
meant that Lord KINNAIRD aid the informant should
be deceived by a phrase, capable of a double mean-
ing—are • questions which we will not presume to
anawer.
We will, however, confess, that we should have
thought it possible that such reserves might exist,
that such loop-holes of retreat might be found, and
that the Mali who did not interfere to prevent the in-
fraction el• a Convention solemnly established and
signed by himself in the face of the whole world,
might *silly veconlite k to his conscience not to in.
slat open the ratification of a premise conveyed only
in o private letter.
• With'illis persuasion, we should not have thought
• the assurance given in the Duke of WELLINGTOS'S
letter a sufficient gustantee against the violence and
• treachery of the French Police. According to out
humble jodowtier.ii yet remains for Lord Kismatao
• to show why be did think the Duke's assurance suf-
. 'deist ;- and we hopo.tkat his Lordship will attend to
OW well-meant request, that he will lose no t 1
•4w ferowing she Publie with the grounds of be tie+

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introductioa, became en integral part of that Cos-
siltation.
It weeld be no answer to me to spy, that the MI.
.gists Corpus M creature of Parliimerst—that whit.
Ilmer Parliaaseat resolves, Parliament condi...l4
'IW the power which makes can unmake:--Seth a
maxim is but a general troth, deriving its proofsfrom
its receptions. A child is not more a vital part of his,
father's family, thee the Habeas Corpus a vital part
of the British Constitution : and the author of a
child's eseeteoce can as rightfully suspend its life, sod
endanger its being. as Parliament can suspend or
abolish, for a single moment, this vital provision foe,
the personal freedom of Englishmen.
The Habeas Corpus, purely a political, not a je-
tidies% or moral provision of our national economy,
did not grow out of considerations of justice, as ap-
plying to the relations of private life, of subject with
subject; but in its essence, principle, and meaning,
was acompact between the Public and the constitotedi
Authorities—between the People sag the Emotive.
It was intended as an adamantine be r—a bar ere perm-
Wits—placed by Freedom between the Riders and the
ruled ; s bar by which she said to King, Lords, and
Commons—" So far shalt thou go, and no-further."
And to question its sacred permanency, or iatevtopt
its darter& inviolability (using the licence Ate new
Impression) upon the ground that, like other Acti, it
is bet a Parliamentary enactment, it Is to subject'
every other pert of our Constitution to the liability
to sospension.—to expo,e to suspension the title of
the ruing family.--to subject. the REGENT to sus-
pension, et the pleasure of Lords and Consumes, his
Parliamentary creators—and even to awe their
right of susptudlog the incomes voted, from time to
tire, fee the support of Royalty.
I therefore, Sir, maintain, with the Noble and clay
sleet writer in the Independent Whig, that every
suspension of the Habeas corpus dct, it is a palpa-
ble infringement. of a YUNOAMENTAL and POSITIVE
POLITICAL RIGIIT. Farther I think, that should
another attempt, ender any pretest whaiever be
made, to dispense with that branch of tier liberty
which I consider to be as sacred and es unalienable
as property or life, we shell owe it to ourselves, to
our children, and to our posterity, to resist such
attempt.
I am, Sir, your's respectively,
A BARRISTRR—AND A CONTANT RPADRII OF
YOUR PATRIOTIC AND EXCRIA.I6NT PAPIblt.
Gray's Iwo. May 7, 11418.

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lest *teeing,
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_ Ring' ilk SIOSMini ,
the MelPefre Castle, Ralph, for Bengal; and Pa.
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teen% Connate, for &Moon'.
1 PORTSMOUTH MAY 1 1 .—Tbe Governer Hare
court, from Deg:entre for Leadoff, passed up Chan-
eel—sailed 2d of April. eh well.7—The brig Rapid.
arrived yesterday from Hamburgh for Plymouth, is
placed under worm:gine for sot having bills of health
for her previous voyage from the Mediterranean.—
lolled his Majesty's ship Corlew, for the Cape of
good Hope end the East Indies.
Towsot Ay 1 I.... Arrived test inning the Sylvia,
Of London, Morton, from Rio Janeiro, for orders.—
, Passed at the beck of the island, the Lord Welting-1
ten (free trader) from Calcutta—left the Cape Stb .1
March.; also the Broke, of Greenock, Coward,
Master, from Jamaica—oat 40 days • and the ship
derive. from St. Vincent's—oet 30 days.
FALMOUTH, MAY 9.-- Arrived the Duke of Mari.,
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borough packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, in niM
Bays ; also the Fortune. Wilson, from Jamaica, Le ,
six weeks,' for Hull. The Fos tune put Is here tta
-bed the crew of the ship Pallet, Robinson, of and
from Greenock, for Mirsesichi, whirls vessel they
'fell in with on the 29th nit. in lat. 47. 2. long. 33.
SO, laying on her beam.ends, and hi a sinking stint,'
being sear?, fell of water. The crew, 30 in number,
fivers raved. 'She pissed on the 30'h March, the ship
;Medina, Kennedy; and Tollock Castle, Gallen, off
the raft end of Jamaica, bound to London, all well.
On the 28th olt. spoke the brig Porten., Tomball,
of Liverpool, in lat. 47. 00. long. 34. 30. outward
bound, she had lost her maln.top.mast the same day.
'On the sth May spoke the Suffolk, Sleightholoi, from
Liverpool, for Newfoundland, the wind being then
N. W. ; end on the 6th spoke the Treaty, Robinson,
all well, in lat. 49. 3s. long. 13. 30, from London,
for Quebec.
Lie "SPOOL, MAT 10.—A I rived the Lucy, Coulson,
from B4hia • sailed the 12th March; on the 2d May,
in lat. 50. long. 15. 30. spoke the Lack. —. from
Liverpool for Newfoundland.— Alio arrived she Wil-
liam Neilson, Browne, from Demerits; sailed the
24th March, in company with the Waterloo, for
Liverpool; the Diana, for • Liverpool'; Governor
Harcourt, for London ; and the Margaret Bogle,
for Glasgow, were to Pin' the 25th March ; the Ann,
for Llierpnol, and Caroline, for London, sailed the
19th March; on the lst May, le lit. Pao-m.ll. 27.

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• HAIIWICU, MAY 11.—ArthOO the
packet, with a bl ail from iloliond; and the Castle-
Nigh packet, with ditto, from Cothaven.

Mx. HUNT 410 ran COURIER.
trews ?nu CORK soirrstEno Imogene.]
That a Meetteg is to take place at Spa. 6.ids, in the
vicinity of London, on Monday nest, we have el.
reedy apprised our readers, by having inserted in our
number of Tuesday, the authorised advertisement,
published in some of the London Papers, calling the
Meeting. it appears, however, that another notice,
very differently worded, and of quite opposite ants
port, has been circulated through the Metropolis,
said, a view we have is doubt, to render the Meeting
odious in the estimation of even those persons who
its favourable to Reform. The latter the Courier
published is its number of last Monday, accompanied
with some observations, which the reader will find in
a preceding column, although the writer knew well
at the time, that the notice upon which be was es.
pending so mach gall, was a fabricated decrement,
fabricated too, by some of his own friends, for the
purpose of bringing the Meeting into disrepute, or
.afterwards affording a pretest for " vigorous mea-
sures." It will be seen that the notice purports to he
'signed by 66 Henry Host, Esq. Cheirsaao," whom the
Vourier occurs of Wag then employed in fomenting the
passions ofd he mob, antiother w ise @still ug to actinides-
'peration and guilt. It is ore of the most apt and illus.
yeti's commentaries that could'possibly be furnished
upon the principles of that Journal, its total dist*.
gird or truth sod individual citaractOr when either
a private or political object is to be attained, that at
the moment it was thee attributing to Mr. Hunt all
the evil dedgas it enurnersterr, that individual was
quietly loirneying to this country, and actually or.
rivedin this Cities. Thursday eVening frogs Youghat,
where the Blucher, Government Bristol packet, Cap-
tain Cooke, had pot in that morning ! We have not
beard that any additional iteeseres of precaution
have bees taken for the preservation of the peace of
the City, in Consequence of. Mr.
_Hunt's presence;
' nor have we heard of asy children being frightene
as his appearance, which is somewhat• rrinufkaWs
too, as be it the here of 01 the bugaboo nursery
stories got up by the Courier to keep the naughty
boys in order. Mr. Hunt has private affairs to at-
tend to as well as other people, and his journey to
this country, we have beard, is connected with
transaction in which considerable property is in.
trotted.
Mr. Hunt left . town this morning so his way te
Killarney.
Roth the 66 Kentish-Men" end the" Men of Kent"
\• have been highly favoured by Fortune in the lest Lot.
tery.• We perceive by Baeg's Attentive:mints that
they *Maisel from him se less than Sit Shares of
£30,000 Prises, two of which want to Canterbury,
use to Malktollll9 01110 to Sandwich, one to Dartford,
sod one to Tembriage, besides other Shares of smaller
Capitals • is short, his Prizes were almost as plenti-
ful is that gouty as hope.

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