The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-10 00:00:00

THE S 1 ATESMAN.

rIFFEr."f.VI; THE Qt.'ECS
AND Cilf-NTRY.
Notwitlistuttling the Latiporarily superior interest
• filch the persecotion of the Queen confers on her
ale in preference to every other. strong symptoms of
toe declining state of the Country will ham themselves
upon public, attention. The universal complaint',
ethonrt the Fermiers, of the manners in which the
osertv% are taken, the everywhere declining market.,
and the renewed attempts to retest) the custom of sell-
itig corn exclusively by the Winchester measure, are
all rytnptotels of this kind, exhibiting the embarrassed
vat, of the Agricultural interest ; whilst, on the
uther hand, the infamous tricks which have been de-
tected,. in procuring false returns, so :Is to affect the
opening of the ports unduly, and in opposition to the
spirit of the existing lams, together with the com-
plaints of loss of trade now becoming g I. prove
the accumulating distresses under which the torn.
niercial world at present labours. Of the state of the
creel Manufacturing concerns we want no other
ymptum than the known inability of the master to
alord his aurknont (as in some branches of the cotton-
trade) higher st.les than from Nix to eight and ten
shillings r week for the maintenance of a family
But, of all the alarming proofs of national decay
reeently exhibited, the accurately ascertained state
..f the Thole and immense population of Birmingham
and itt neighbourhood claims a frightful pre-eminence.
:;either the quarter from which the information came
respecting the sitsatton of that groat boon, the man-
ner in which it has been procured, nor the nature of
the evidence, can he objected to. What are published
are evidently Tat-Ill'a—truths no doubt of a most
electrifying kind, but TSUTIIS Nrc::so.titir to us
xtrowx, whether as th .t knowledge may be explawl.
tory if the ramie of almost incredible distress, ur con-
tributory to its relief.
" Your Committee are concerned to report," says
the public statement. " that in almost every instance
they hare found to exist a most abtrn.ing fliminotion Of
,t.araptian in all the articles cons:ouch by the lower
a,rf classes of the population oldie town. The
general average of the answers *Lich your Committee
are 'Twelves' is. that the consumption of beer and
rreat anal other net . ins has fallen off more than
one.tltir4l in the last taro corn! It is with grief that
your Coninntteenek-nowledge that, even in the article
4.f nal- to, nearly a similar falling off of con• omption
a..pears to have taken place.--" It is is also with
• h rear. t that your Committee Report that a great
:et u • the present redo,rdeirosiniiption In this ton n is
4.••:y ouppii.tral upon credit : the laneksters, grocers,
seal other tradeiwople, hating found thesoodvel emu.
ye!!ed, in most instances, either to serve the working
'amts urn credit or not to since them at all; and in
way great numbers of respertable individuals have
q the exhausted the capital which hail been al'eallatt.
rated by years of succeasfill industry ill better times.
...he extent to which this systmn appears to be carried
I
V•reatens the most tliaastemus consequences to the
e. entry : for It is evident that. when the labour of
working-chasses4ineralii Weenies thus mortgaged
t soy considerable sitgreo. fieir onoti-es to oasis: is
.s p•iterra•io,• ooe:af order mast be materially di-
etil which at all time. is much to be
regretted, and in the present inonientnom stoic of thin/f
• lot be solfivi,ntly deplored:'-- From all the
Jo pities your Consmittee have bent able to make, and
!islet. the best judgment they have been able to form,
th'y are 4.‘ opinion that the distress and dimioution
of tiveindiplititi 14,-44.-3444.••• the _....M.sriefirete, /mg arid
itt tu:rns aro/ 11114tliell V. the roontry ji at
444 11141'Al. To via r oaten exists IN B111311Xi.:11t31.••
An these the " eherti.ty peospeeta of the /stare."
o4iol Lord Castlereagh and his colleagues openly
e.el e.i in Pariiatuent. near too years ago? Ara
11:4o: the ti•tuor try :r otsitions to a state of peace
fr..m a state ut u tr n bid) has ceased nearly sir years ?
A-e tt.rse rout; of politic il wisdom in the governors,
or of prosiority in the governed ? Is it any conso-
lation to tic starvioy manufacturers, or to the sinking
soot rattiarrized .diddle Classes, to know that Mini-
sters (as tenadotta of th..ir places amidst all this
ry of their creation as of their lives) riot in the
erjsrsuomit of salaries as ample, a .d of places more
alate.dato and expensive to the country, than during
war'---or that a Minister has been able to buy op
SW'S a potion of the Cutiot he is said tat represent,
or tbat his Lady, covered with jewels at the Cotigress.
resider its MIS.' Chan would port base a German Prins
oil aiity. excited at once th.• astonishment anal indigna-
tion of Europe ? •• It is fir the good of nations, and
not fur the emolument or aeLtrendisetneut of partico.
Car in.itvidaals, that a Hot ernment ought to he eNt4-
I.li,7hcii„ 311.1 that teatthind ate at the a xpeoce of •ttp-
portieg it. Dahl Lord Erskine, in his admirable speech
in the yeir 17V2. What a load of present raillery
might have been spared t • the great mass of the pro-
pie of this country. if this incontrovertible truth
bad been a.,bnatatilc toolormed to by those who have
bad tkedireml it ut Pettish rounrils since that time.
or if the pit...ltr f.ntolic upiuiuu, ensaiiating from a
due sense a ,femoral interest, had comp lied its prac-
tical o..eertance ! But, mil:‘,! without genuine, de•
voi.e4l, and tto..or rapt channel for the regular eaves.
biau of the will ut the people un objects of primary
impo:tatace to their own welfare, or, in other word., !
at ithoo• t!,.• sill anal the interests of the People at
large Lein; fairly, ,lusilly, honestly, and mu-. solici-
tously r..pres,tited in the Legisleture of the Nation,—
public of. ki.lll 11111.1 he more of a come,ler than a
pert-74014er •44t1 the People must ever be doomed to
sillier, anal •he tranquillity of the State be endangered.
before ro.utrion justice ran be rendered them.
This instrnetioti of Representatives, in this country,
is tar the must part, and for any valuable purpose, be-
come (and is treated as) a mere farce—a sere sign that
the rept cieet•rtiee is independent of the reprraented,
and that the interests of the latter are, as ale have
roostantiv of late seen thew to be, ;m4.664-4.41 to
those of the former. "Thus it is that. in this country.
the great mass of the ;work, though the most
intrlli-
grata the most industrious, the moat deserving tin the
face of the earth, are doomed everlastimekv to labour
either whit their heads or their hands—to eat the
bewail of carefulness, anal to till the earth with the
• eat of their brows; whilst such a portion of the
proceeds of their to:I is taken by Ilorernasest, or goes
W swell the overgrown wealth of tile Capitalist, that
a precarinas lirehihu xl. iasatheient provielon tar feast-

lies, privirlions or downright pauperisai, with the heart-
ache :antiprematitie exhatwinti of the powers of
tore, are their sole i:ilwritan-e. Is this as it ought
to be ? Is this as it it ould he, if the great noels of the
people, on whom C.,. Ytait lkpewls fur support. really,
truly, and fairly in in thrir own affairs for them-
selves. thron.Ci nie.s.!l:: of their real Representa-
tives, chosen free;y, yip:ill, and unbiessedly, or
thr m.rh the agency of !owl) p..rsons as eonsitleretl the
business of their pr,ll..ipils to he their proper busi-
ness, and the intere•N of whose r 1111 l mission they
bear to b.. their own pryer and paramount interest ?
."f here is somehing," s.vs the Historian of the Mid-
dle Aces. " more s terra than the prerocative or even
the ronstitution,—Tll:; 1.1:01.1.* tve.st.,:•/r which all
powers are granted, and to which they most all be re-
ferred."

It is very taste. as is rout eloquently observed in tier
I Answer of the Queen tee the Addressor the. Inhabitants
of Coventry., that " in this age, when knowledge is
generalised, and i:Nreiry unrestrained, the pourer eel I
publir opinion is lee, oesee ado great, that every other
'nest tivally bend its decrees.- Not only is this true,
but it is just also; vet. as trivet's to tier trageqiiillity
and repose of the contatry, most earnestly do we desire
to see tier people is such a political state as to be table
effeetually to express tlerir opinion, " to which all
others must finally bend,- tit roulth the ',trillion of
I th,ir Ittpreacatotiver 1,. Porlimmeat asseoshlcd, rather
that, individually or collectively congregated in groat
meetings suddenly called, and held mure as matter of
emergency and necessity, than in the regular, ordi-
nary, and desirable course of things. Nothing can
show more strongly the necessity which exists for a
thorough Parliamentary Reform, than the ferment
into which the country is ver:oelically thrown by the
meetings which take place .en any great public ques-
tion for installrV, as on the present momen-
tous proceedings which leave taken place respecting
the Queen. tier great body of tier people were really
represented, on all such occasions the Represcntativrs
would speak the seeeeiturrees of their Constituents, or
they might be quietly, regularly, and peaceably bi-
ll:T(11'W where there seas any apprehended necessity—
all this would lee deem., awl (Lose effectually, without
eteelanzering the public oe tee and without agitating
violently the pellelie. tunnel.
It is therefitee those who oppose reform, or the
establishment of such a state of things us would insure
the sense of the gnat bee :y of the people being cor-
rectly and leotre•rly spoken and acted upon in Parlia-
intent, that err the real voewiri to the peace and Iran-
'sillily of ;lee couNtry. Ity opposing refome, by ob-
I jecting to the Co ons' 'loose of Parliament being
that which it: very re.ime as weil as its spirit and
constitution implies, they throw the power, sooner
or later, into the hands of the great mass of the
people, and compel Nee )4 to 1;)r theasseleca. The
absurd as well as illegal coneletct of the Anti-Re-
formers goes to make all the ditterenve, in this country,
between the whole people of a country assembling
anti acting in person, and the whole people being di-
vided into properly apportioueel and known diadem,
and deputing the power of aping for them to iminpa-
ratively a few individuals. In tine. those who oppose
Parliamentary Retinae. and caletniniate its frienis, rut
every thing to hazard, in a country like this t they
are not only thee Ignorant lot thee artful enemies of
Reform, but they are tl.e best frien.ll and surest hope
of Revolution. '1 he occurrence.% of every day, in this
must ey Netted period, discover to es, more and wore,
the truth of Mr. Pitt's solemn declaration that the
present state of the Representation is the " national
disease." Corruption has made enormous progress In
the bodly politic since the date of that declaration ;
amt if those who are t interested in the real pro-
perty of the country and in the preservation of
ate peace and tranquillity rot:tiner tee look on
with their accustomed apatite and criminal, set.risttLt
criminal, neglect, that which Mr. Pitt predicated, as
political o:sr:Asc, this a e will hoer h, 'mane as
tiro? Dv I,TII. "No honest loan can, mailer the system
at present pursued, continue 31inister," said that saga-
Mous s'atesenan. What right has the Country, there-
fore, to affect woueler at the proceedings nisi-deer
against the Queen or the People ?—And what better
than those consequent-es which have resul'ed, and
which may further result therefrom, have any of us a
right to expect ?

PRE IWSPED PROTN.II* OF MR DUKE OF
UHL

A west eurioug and extr.iormlinuy paper has been
recently circulated in Fr ince, p or/mill-tint( to hr a
Pretest by 11. S. 11. the Duke of Orleans against the
lagititirmey of the Priory lately born. as the premiums-
dye heir to the French Throne. It is positively
Died to be genuine, as indeed out readers will rim.
elude (tutu the test, as well ag tram its being iaron-
rigtent whim the atsoi.mble rharaeter of the illustrious
Mike: but it sheirg time spirit of the time.; tie ex-
treme pains Lye been taken to circulate it in *very
!rut of France, and mph.% of it fiat* been sAilterted to
the Anshaaaatiors of every ermeneil !lead in Etatope.
34 if to lay a foundation for acting upon the allega-
tions it contain% hereafter.
PanTri4TATION DE A IR C . .

Ilis Serene Highness the hike of Orleans declares
hy these present+, that he protest+, b►' all itinnotr of
right, against the procel terlcil, dated the tyth sep.„
tenant., 1320, whirl► ptirpult+ to establish that the
itsfant, named H►sas Ilt.►at.t.s I'►:uiii'tNu
BIY.NI►U\NK ig the imtitral and legitimate sun of her
!loyal Iligl►ue+s 31adatite the Dotrlietbs of Ile RV.

The Itti-ke of Orleans will produce, at the proper
time anti plat..., the witnesses who Call snake known the
origin and true mother of the sail, infant. He will
exhibit all the uee 44 Arr y road* to make it manifest thlt
the Duchess of 'Jerry was never cwritiatr after the un-
happy death of her hipihntill . and he will point out
the authars of the enaelsitistioil of which this very fee-
ble Princess was the ;Lott unieut.

Until the t'avunra6lr ~,,, went 411:111 arrive to make
smelt a disclosure. the Duke of Ortrams cannot avoid
calling attention to the taistastie ceue which the
*hove Proves Verbsl states to have been exhibited at
the Pavilion de Marian.

TheJunrital de Pas is, which all the world news to
tu be a confidential Journal, apinuuneeJ, un the fifth
of August last, the aerwerAcmpost in the fallowing
tenon :—" PerfoUl wlw Lye the humour tu approach

t'.e Princes. assure u., that the ac•enecbrMUMt of her
Royal Ilighne.s will not take place till between the
30th and •P4th September nest.-
When the 2tifli of September arrived, what passed at
the Dochea.'s hotel

la the itig:tt of the 2t4th or 2911 t, at two o'clock in
the sacwoinL:, all the family were in bed, and thelights
extinguished. At half an hour past two the Princess
called, but the Dame tie Vallsaire, her first femme de
ehosollec, was asleep; the Dante Dougesil, her ordinary
femme Jr elision-1% was asleep; the Dante Le 3loine,
bet nurse, absent; and the Sirur Doneux, the
aerioweieur, was undrebt.

Then the scene was changed; the Dame Donrgesil
lighted a candle, avid all the persons who arrived in
the chainlki of the Duchess, •aw there au infant, not
diem &ludic(' jiona its Oneher.
But how was this infant placed

1 he Physician, 11.trom declares, that he saw the in-
fant /time...lon its mother, ansFunt detached from her.
The Sorze on, llotigon, derl.tres. that the infant was
placed on its mother, and was still attached to her by
the umbilical cord.

These two medical practitioners are aware him
important it is not to explain more particularly in
what manner the infant was placed on its mother ;
but Umlau►e the Duchess of Reggio has made the
lot-
luw declaration :—" I was made acquainted ear le
Champ that her Royal Highness felt the pains of child-
bearing ; I hurried to the chamber on the instant even,
and en entering. I saw. the infant on Me Ged, nut yet
detached from its mother."

Thus the infan: was laying on Me bed, the Ditehesi
is' the bed, and the umbilical cord introduced under
the coverlet of the bed.

Hetnark what was observed by the Sieur Donets,
the Accondieur, who at half past two was itiforstiel
that the Duchess felt the pains of child-birth, who
run on Out instant, without taking time to dress him-
self wholly, to the apartment of the Princess, whom he
found in her bed, and he heard the child cry.
iteuiark what Madame de Goulard says, who at half
after two etas apprised that the Duchess felt the pains
of child-birth, who went inimetliteely and heard the
first cry of :he child.
Newark what was seen by the Sieur Franque, the
Garde de Corps of lutasieur., who was on duty at the
door of her lto:.al Highness, who was the first person
informed of the event by a Lady who desired him to
enter.

Remark whet was seen by the Sim* Laine, Garde
Natione:, who was on duty at the gate of the Pavilion
tie Marsatt, who was des;red by a Lady to ascend, and
who instantly went up, and was introduced into the
chamber of the Princess, where there was only the
Sii or ihienx, and another person of the household,
and who, at the moment when he entered, observed
that the cluck was at Nu hours thirty-fire minutes.
Remark what was ,cen !.y the Physician, Baron, who
arrived at thirty-lice minutes past two, sad by tl:e
Surgeon Bon4ou, uhu arrived some instants after the
Sieur Baron.
Remark what was seen by Marshal Sachet, who was
lodged, by order of the King, at the Pavilion sin Plonk
who, at the fi:st nwere which was given to him of
the pains felt by her Moyal Highness, hastened to
proceed to her apartment, but who did sot arrive till
forty-fit e minutes past two, and who was called upon
to notice the cutting of the .umbilical cord some
minitcs afterwards.
Remark what %Imola have been seen by Marshal de
roigny, who lodged by order of the King, in the
Tlsuillerics, who was called when her Royal Highness
was delivered, who hastened to proceed to her apart-
ment, Lot who did net arrive till the moment when
the cuttiug of the umbilical curd, which had talsen
place.
Remark, lastly, what was seen by all the persons
who were introduced after half pa-st two, until the mo-
agent of rotting the umbilical cord, which took place
*INC snioctites st4avintni to
.16)1,y:fire smashes past

Rut where then were the relations of the Princess
during this scene, a hit+ lasted at tenAt mirsiftest
Why, during. SO lung a space of time, did they affect
to abandon her to the hands of strangers—to
those of sentinels, and of military of all ranks ?
Is not this at.ecitairto of abandonment precisely
the must complete proof of a manifest and gross
fraud ? Is it nut evident, that after having arranged
the piece, they withdrew at half past lieu, and that,'
placing in an adjoining aputment, they waited the
moment fur themselves entering on the scene, and
playing the characters whieli were assigned to them
Yor in the night, even when a f•usale, of whatever
class of society, it may be supposed, would be attended
upon at the critical period of child-birth, was it ever
seen that the lights were extinguished—that the fe-
male attendants were asleep—that she who was speci-
ally charged to take care of her was at a distance—
that her treeurtrierrit was tvolressed—and that her fa-
mily, who resided under the same roof, and alustAt
in the saute apartment, remained upwards of berets
alirriPs without giving the 1-ost sign of presence or of
osisv.itee.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans is con-
vince," that the Frends Atm, and all the Sovereigns
of Europe, nil' feel all the dangerous consequences
of a (taus' so audacious, and so contrary to the prin-
ciples of herrditu • y and feritimair stsessarchy.
Aiteady France anti rus or have been the victim, of
this usurpation of Hunaparte. Certainly a new usur-
pation of a pretended Henry V. would bring bask the
saute misfortunes to El.Aser and to Europe.
Mae at Parip, the 3'104 Srptrusber. Itklth

The I,4)rd Mayor hao calle►l a Court of Common
Council for 310n41.ay nest, to c •nsider a petition to the
house of Cu►unions against entertaining the Bill of
Paius and Penalties, should it !smooth, Lords.

We ate requosted to state that the tlrneral Benefit Ih-
mtraoce t) e, IY9, Aldersgate.street, is upon daily traits
ten to three. and from sic to eight, for insuring weekly
Awesome) and usedie.ll assistanes during sickness.
tisanes of money at deaths, and many other important be-
•rW•. This company have a permanent subscribed ca.
pital of fifty thousand pannds,itidependent of what is paid
loy Insurers, whose monthly contributions are far less in
amount than the a:Mace• of lieurtit Club*. Books eo•.
twining the plies may be had at the 'See. No Asia of
entrance miff.