The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-20 00:00:00

Tilr, STATEHNI AN.

soy looser. H► enntleded in recommending Omelet-
flron of Mr. Assley.
Mr. CALLLY said, It was not whet this Mil or that
bill contained, those paltry poblicatious are en.
worthy Dunce; It is the mati's ammeter we 'avoid
look Ins and Im thoeght Mr. Borten heal the fairest
char► of inners among the imdeletsd►nt pert of th►
ceinieseldly. If Mr. kills, bad served ao long in the
aniline, Mr. Sen►at had been a yeoman in the coon.
ty many yeas., end one was equally honourable as
tM other : trod Mr. 13►nen bed mainlein►d • charac-
ter equally agre►able to the prioriples of freedoms
awl philanthropy.
The Ilion Sututri they, called for a show of
beads, when the majority appeared do fewest of Mr.
Pietley, upon which Ms.. *eon immediately de-
Mended a poll, and the High Sheriff announced that
Mir poll would cesmence on the Nib libelant (yes-
ditty).

GERMANY.

—wow—
The Diet of Wittenberg anteesh%itit erg
on the 19. h instaot. The eleetioss to tasted on
the Sitt, and the result was la general satisfactory.—
Bet that which seems •a •+rre happy sugary to the
friends of etrnsiitidernal liberty, is the certainty of ill
. paccpss which thew parsons are threaten►d with who
.sfndesvost to make the King depart frosts his liberal
system in f of the Liberty of lite Prow That,

Is every reason to believe, that the Niece bas declared, I
la the most fires and candid manner, that the Liberty
of the Press Is a necessary element of Representative
Government; that .o human ioitioutien can be wholly
swept front Inc aaaaa loners; bat that is this the a-
untie/es evidently preponderate. It is Dammed, in
consequence, that the publication of periodical writ-
ings will no Inner reclaim the petioles authorize.
lion of the Council; the other dispositioes of this
gotstlon will be settled by the new Charter. It is
thought that no series@ risealty can Ward the adop-
tion of the Pr.jeet premised by the King. When
the Representative System shall be that established in
the centre of Germaay, it is easy to see that the voice
at the People, mid the interest of Princes, will caste
Its energetic isitteace to aimed emend.

TO tORRESPCiN DENTS-
0.0 Time newt whiles to we the Author of the Poetry which
was Nottaited for Ms day's S 'hot, to rewire a dif-
lenity upon one OWL The wbek Select's@ *all them be
ribliebed Inge-bet.

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THA STATESMAN.

LONDON:
VIESDAY. SCLY 20, 1819.

' As the h.. eleeermbliog appreackes, the tools of
Government vs Irpedon, earl in that tied of mo-
'Hon whose impeller, le this Instance, we sincerely be-
lieve is not communicated to t►em from the Members
of tbe Cabinet ; who, to do them bet common justice,
seem to act with a notion we should hardly !metres-
' " '

peeled from them. They bare skews a wise forbear
Gate, sot only in their answer to the Loan MATOS,
•ad in declining to Inured his Lordship bow to set
•s this occasion ; bet as we are snared they refer
sow and !ken to the spirit and dictstee of the Con-
siltation, when one of their number is urgent to pro-
ceed toe " vigour beyond the kV."
It is very easy to tlireeten Mr Huns, or any other
Reformer, who distinguishes himself either at Smith-
field, or on a similar occasion, with a warrant, which
may lead to s seven years' transportation !!! Where
is tie warrant to come free ? Wks Is to sestence to
a seven years' transportatiew ? Not the Loss
Matoa—sot a Jury, at the diets• of a warrant.—
Theis writers appear bereaved of their seises. Now,
although such Meetings are not !Peeled, nor even at-
compenied by any distinguished, Members, of what
may, without any invidious allesion or application of
tke term, be denominated the Aristocracy, yet are
Ibey instigated by the most natural, fieriest, end
open impulses and incitements. They meet to throw
off intolerable borthens, to devise means for Worn.
log comforts to themselves, and to secure their rights
le their posterity. Are they then to be threaten-
ed with warrants and transportation for cum-
plainiog. If our heart were mot wrong with a sense
of the wrote'', and Inuits of oar fellow.reen and coon-
tryrotre, we should laugh at those puerile menaces
What, because the PRINCS Rama has been advised
to say in his Speech that the Reformers aim at the
sobtersinn of the Constitution, is the Pobllc thought
to be stupid enough to take it for granted? Is it not
known who invented that calumny upon the whole
body of Reformers his well to apprise our Readers
what other persons la remote situations say of these
things and proceedings, and for that purpose we have
chosen en eatrsct from a Provincial Journal greatly
esteemed for its good reuse and patriotic sentiments.
The writer refers particularly to the almost treason-
Ole delusion pet upon the person now exercising the
Sovereignty of these kingdoms by his Ministers:—
" The Speech of the PRISM' RIOTS; Os the pro-
rogation of Parliament to the t4lb Airiest, will be
read with an interest corresponding to the critical
nature of the times. Every one knows, that the
regal authority is little else than a rug to cover the
measures of the Oligarchies, and that, though the
Crown be nominally responsible, yet Ministers are
really se; we therefore deem it no breach of respect
to the regal dignity to say, that the Speech from the
Throne, though it does ant disappoint hopes that

were sever ciliated, certainly afroula nothing of toe-
soletion et this jostler,. 't%e ran perceive in it no
heeling balm, nothing irmellsolit to aot,the the irri-
.etiois of a long-suffellng lbs
. Palace
Repent Is made to soy „that the new tam Inns as•
lieietly es possible upon the country, consideriug the
necessity of our hardens. Now we deny both the
major used the minor of this. When we contetn.
I plate the hundreds of thousands of pounds that ore
wrong by the iron and inexorable grasp of elation
frees the vitals of the courmeniry, in order to pamper
pride, and bloat oat the bloated, we cannot conceive
the necessity ; nor can we perceive bow tales upon
the n • of life are the most tolerable of ell
burdens. The Foreign Powers are said to be friendly
,to this country ; and the lugging of them in thus, into
the Speolch, when no one ever harboured a contrary
idea, makes us very strongly suspect, that the domes.
tic situation of the coststry is not tech as to shed the
Whence of poppies over our raters, nor to make
tbs. repose on ' beds of rues.' la referring to tilt
elate of some of the manufacturing districts, his Royal
Highness is mode to express en opinion, that the
distress is merely local Merely local !
his Bpi Highness have it 'Vended to iribei.
, le& Because the . extremity of misery does not
antietce this, is that a ground of congratulation ?
We, is well as his Hoyt! Highness, and those pee.
sons that are called his servants, know fell well, that
all the people of the reentry ate not 'within ender
the tortures both of mind and body—of despair sod
want. Is soy proof requisite, apply to the rest book,
the infamous red-book, and there you will see how
the product of the industry of millions is expended on
the worthlessness and extravagances of a few toad.
eating favoorites and their dependents. We agree
that the mansfacterlog districts are discontented ;
cud it would be very strange were they not. But
this discontent was primarily occasioned by Mioit.
tees themselves and their predecessors.

" We challenge his Royal Highness, or his ad.
visors, In adduce a single instance of popular and
general discontent, when the interest of the govern.
ell, rather than that of the governors, was fairly corr-
elated. It is the immutable decree of Providence.
that bad measures, by producing discontent should
have a tendency to cure themselves ; in the same
manner that, in the physical world, the steppe rstion
of a wound is nature's mode of care, and of a rents.
mien of parts. In speaking of the Reformers, his
greclosi Highness designates them as men who' bare
really no other object bet the subversion of our
happy Constiletiun.' ' Things es they are,' are, to
some people, of Wry desirable contingence ; but the
discontented People west be stigmatised as disloyal
because they are such enemies of Innovation that they
warst.things as they tram The People, indeed, de
want rut Constitution rather thin that order of
things w bids the Pas wee, per a:Miswrote suppose,
terms ' ova happy Constitatiort' La the Permit
take hit happy Constitrtioas ; bet let him not deny
the People theirs ; and thee, we believe, there would
be no love lost."—(Carlisle Journal )

The old phrase (filmy jargon, se Msjor CART.
WRIGHT TIT, properly called it) of " the Consist..
Hon es by law established," is now and then mode use
of again by those writers who wrest say something
about the Meotiugs taking place for the discussion of
public grievesces. Heaven forbid Met oar Coned-
Lotion were to be established by the laws bet our
Parliament would coact. The Coastitotion prescribes
to toe u , s*, and not the Lew to the Coostitution.—
Any Law passed contrary to the spirit even of the
Constitution may, by some persons, be thought bind-
ing, trot the HONIVIT PATRIOT sill consider such a
Lew as of no authority, bat an Oligarchal tyranny.
FUNDS AT HALF-PAST TWO.

Oer Readers, at a distsoce from the MOW, would
be at a lou for the reason of the Stocks rising to.
day. The plain sod tree the is, that the Bears have
overreached themselvire, and DOW MO ■ske up itir
serpent. Osmium essence at 21 and 3 pr. ; but at
the 'bore beer teas 21. Console for settling 694.

French Papers of the 18th instant bare arrived,
bat they minks nothing worth estreeting.
Sir CIIARLCS W01311411' is arrived in Loads*,
front which circemstence it is presumed be will at.
tend the Meeting in Smithfield to-morrow. The es.
rellent Patriot Major Caavwatorrr, too, is refereed'
to town, on which ground also the Reformers bop
the proceedings will be dignified by his presence. If
the enemies to Reform and to the People will still
strive to keep the venerable Friend to Liberty from
corking in the lendable pursuit at one end, it is
equally feasible to proceed in it from the other. The
attention, however, must be Radical : nothing lots
will content the honest and sensible part of the us-
lion.
On Saturday last Mr. Bunsen kid an interview
with Lord Liveeroot., at Fife.hosse, end succeeded
in removing his Lordship's objections to the new
plan of carrying the Malls in light carriages without
any passengers, at the rate of 11 miles an hour.—
There will be an additional postage; but letters may
be sent at the present rite by the coaches with pas-
wagers. The new arrangement is to be immediately
carried into effect. It will save a day in the trans-
mission of letters from London to Edinburgh and
Glasgow.—(Caledonista Merl-aryl.)
The present population of Sicily newton, accord-
ing to a French Journal, to 1.681,983, distributed
es follows: The Valley of Palermo hes 437,852 in-
habitants, of whom 140,549 reside in the city of
Palermo, and 32,263 in its suberbs and dependencies ;
the Valley of Messina 25,5114; that of Goiania
292,282; that of Girgente 198,536 ; that of Spa-
case 187,718 ; tbst of Trapani 146,408; and that of
ICaltauisetta 161,113.

The Theca Las adopted a habit of Iste, of replying
In all Or templaints and proceedings of the Re-
formers, b/ sneers and 000000 Ole, and critical com•

ments.9ll their eilinpwitiom, or 'bitter denooeletloos
of cheteeter oolong the most bury advocates of Re-

ftirm.` It world he astonisbioc in the abstract, to
ffnd one of the moat considerable ef the peblic Jew.

nets, passing by the enormous end unegasi mischiefs
re nor political system, for the spite of tottering squibs
and Isuorts against those who ere discontented with
it. The foci, sod its prevelency is the newspaper
departments, could •lone assure us of its existence.
The count') Papers ate filled with statements, which
prose distress and di.tractinn, ere regularly height.
ening to a degree which most speedily shake the
frame of society asunder ; end the London F.ditors,

.._ ,
It! em losing themselves with pageontries of wit, which
would here dishonoured the good old times of Louts to
GRAND, in the fatuity of risible self conceit. Whst
has the chs,seter of Mr. Cosarrr, or the sooner

and language of the 'Wormers generally, sap•
peeing thedi to be as depraved as the industrious
siteperetion of the Times would make them,

what we ask, have these to do wish the necessity

of Refoom ?

1 there Dot miseltirf eoough

work, already sitheet any efforts to inernse it en
the part of the Landon press? I the increase of
want, and tam, and larbaletiee, and almost toiler•

sal discontent, all happening at one juncture, an in.
aufli:ient reason for repressing the tenuity of instill.
ing j .ors? Is there any want of proof in the admire
dreadful end manifold fact, that Reform Is indispen.
Bible; and if there is such lark of proof In this, which
Is enmesh In contemplation to make any men shudder
for the probable resells, is the opposite argument
rendered more forcible by adding deriginn to the lace-
, reties and lima which misrule bas ledieted ? The

yeti...jellify of these writers profen the utmost anxiety
for the preservation of the pehlic pent, tad imam-
iliately proceed to ass their scholarly ingeneity for the
;toupee* of egeravatieg miseries d►ady intolerable;
the People ore fleeced, end eta reed, and maddened by
the system, sod now they most be goaded in their very
sores, because their complaints are not in accord-
ance with the precepts of Lovatxut, and the twat.
site lots of fashionable life. liew far does this differ

in feeling from the celebrated application of pepper
and sett to the back of • nagged negro? It is re-
views to speculate en the effects which might confi-
dently be anticipated wore their own principle of
personal ch•racter and College learniug to be insisted
on among all the persons connected with the con.
tituted Authorities. If the Times requires so much
erudition and integrity among those who oppose the
, the Administration, surely he is bound every way to
substantiate the characters of all the Government
, people both for morals and knowledge; if bad style
tie fatal to the pleas of lb. Reformers, it ought fo be
dou,.i) so to the wiessores of a (Internment, wherein
tithes ,la ores or togoes arm in the smallest degree coo•
rerned. •Ve hare weighed the cruelty of these
&ills hems : hely, then, Is the logic of this
case.—Ths "huts will hardly assume that there
is no bad sty '1 the 'log f the Hesse of
Commons, sine it: lack of grammatical skill is not
aeon the least parts of Its reputation, and as to the
morels of many of its Members, '6 the least said is
soonest mended ;" one example is often as good as •
Ithousand :--A Senator was brought out ontse Fleet
Prison mod constituted a guardian of these lows which
be bad broken, by taking more goods from trades.
teen than he could pay far. Until, therefore, • vote
i of that hones shall be considered void on moos' of

one immoral person having divided on it, while Sir
WII CLIITIS is considered a constitutional orator,
and Lord CAST AAAAA Gila pure rhetorician, the Mies
1.1014 nothing to answer the melancholy reasonings of
a reined People, by utilising the composition of their
complJints. and reviling their characters.
D'Evenava's larsion.—Gen. D'Eve-
ntvz will hold a Military Levee to•morrow at three
o'clockiat Monution's Great Room, Mason-street,
• hen be is to present the colours to the Lancer Re-
giment. Several ladies have intimated their Wien-
thin of being present.
A splendid Public Dinner is to be gine to Geo.
D'Evancrx, at Monntson's, on Monday neat. It
will be attended by slumbers of the most respectable
of oar Fellow-Citizens, oho justly appreciate the
services of the General in the nose of Liberty, and
in promoting what most ultimately prove so bench•
cial In the commercial interests of the British empire
et torment' particularly to lreland.—{Dublin Even.
Post, July 17 )
The Chaulotte, CASIMIR, with J. C. COURTENAT
Vuc Lsrrra, Esq. owner, sailed from this harbour
yesterday earplug for South America, having en
board Col. Maxim and the officers and men raids re-
giment, the first Riau of Gen. D'Evsartra's Irish
Legion. It is to he hoped they will arrive in time to
second the efforts of those Patriots who are atrog•
gliog to obtain deliverance from the tyranny of the
advisers of FERDINAND, whose councils have so long
kept that errantry in a state of thraldom, at once de.
grading to themselves, sod iujorious to free com-
merce and rational liberty.—(Heffert New Letter.)
COL. 141‘DIRMOTT'S M'DEe•
uorr has nearly completed his Regiment. The first
division will sail on Wednesday neat for, it is said,
New Granada.
This morning, Liestenants Goaatx and WILICIN.•
SUN, Sal off to join Col. M'Denisorr's corps. 'they
were accompanied by Mr. Rator. These hoe young
fellows went off in possession of the esteem sod
wsrm-hearted wishes of their fellow-citreens for their
recces.—( Limerick Evening Post )
COMMOTION or SCORER IitOTAL BURG:II.—Ou
Tuesday a General Convention took place in the
aisle of the High Church, Edinburgh, of Commis.
dopers hom the Royal Bergh. of Scotland. Several
proceedings, connected with local Interest took
place; and, on the motion of Provost Bunter, se-
conded by the Provost of Annan, and warmly cup.
ported by the Lord Provost of Chigoe, it was
unanimously resolved to abolish the Harp's, Oath
throughout all the Royal Burghs. Notice was given
of a motion for an application In Parliament, is fa-
veer of a portal Reform in the Scotch Bergh..
The Rocs:Avon family are expected to augment
their large hereditary possessions nearly 40,0001. per
annum, by the recent decision in Chanc►ry, which
has decreed that the leases granted by the late Duke
of QuegnsezenT on personsl fines, paid to timiele,
ere null end void.

4

lillt7ltUYAL IIibINCV rots PRINCE
4:‘,-sva%. 41100:111P.

Sen.—The Ministers who now caroled your at.
fairs have persuaded you, that a large hr•rly in this
nation aim et overturniag the Government, end wish
to riot amid the ►ein and destruction of their country.
Admit ing this, for a moment, to be true, it can only
demonstrate the Buster necessity for Reform. Per.
sit me to call y our Royal Highness's attention to
a few events. The Reformists have encressed amaze
ingly, and even moderate men admit the necessity
of a change, though they differ as to the event
Poblic feeling, Sir, lies been, it teems, only dead.ord
' for a time to burst outflow with tenfold signer; and
there is a c►ain of communication eatetsd:ng over
large districts of the country which ►enders the cause
of Reform invincible. 1 leave these pcints for
your Royal Highness's ccosideration : it is needless
to melte any comment. But, Sir, if there be men
base end wicked enough to clo.k their designs
against the religion and liberties of their country
under the specious pretence of Reform, co the
abuses its our Governmeut, end they will sink in dis-
may before the authority of a Legislature founded
on the wishes of a People. Let me assure your
Royal Highness most solemnly, that in my opinion
the present system of skit. must n►cestarily lead
to revolution. Ti.i. is sio time for niter, : I shall
use 000 e. This nation, Sit, has bee me deadened
Into disgust, and nothing hut a e inplete change of
measeres will content the People.

It is painful, Sir, for sn Englishman to view his
country fast spproaching tells declension—to see those
ties of affection shich should bind es to your Ito)al
Highness, loosened or brok.u—to perceive that Fa-
mily around you, which ought to be the support and
credit of your Throne, despised, or worse. My
language fails ■e, Sir, whets I would glee vent to my
feelings on a subject like this. Bet it is in waits I at.
tempt to stifle the mingled sentiments of horror and disw
gust which burst oat. in spite of in) self, whets I thiok
en the conduct of Ministers. Are they drterroinetl
is goad this Nallos on to insurrection? And are
they resolved to seal their other proceedings with the
ruin and misery of their country Some of these men,
Sir, in their private life, err amtab'e and respectable;
'tis their public conduct I condemn.
Yost Royal Highness will not suffer this brass
—this great—ibis still, I hope, moral Nation,
which has been the gm and wonder of the world,
to be plunged lobo all the eskeries of a civil
war. What language, as hat entreaties shall rise,
!that may induce you to evert s I•erilous con-
Ljaactore like this? Call together, I implore you,
this Parliament, have end noworlhy as it is—let the
whole interest of (dorernment bAy..ined with the few
advocates of the Poop!, in r, forming the mintier of
electing our Repres►ntatives. Your Royal Iliehness
has now no other possible men's' of reroverio; the
confidence of your People. In amending our It:-
presentation, I should wiab the conduct of I'arlia•
meat to be as free on the one band from a slsais't at-
tention to what some term the interest of poor
Crown, as it should be fret float licerViot.sness on
the other. Let thorn sterr the middle course—i i rs-
tremes are fetal. I only wish health, Sir. to he restored
to the Constitution—to hear the rott►n parts cat
sassy, and then we aright indeed be said to be

Librata pander.baa .a es.
I as unwilling to 9%f:fit this Loiter any more—[

will not distract your 1(n) al Bighorn's at,entinn—l
have laid °ion before you my arn.iments, in lan.
gent, which, I believe, is fitting au Erglishroan to
use, sad a British Prince to boor.

TACITUS.

We base bees truly surprised at the treatment
which Lard Bison's name and character hue re.
reseed from a celebrated Sunday Paper, under the
supposition that he is the author of the new poem,
Don ISOM The Editor presumes that he is perfectly
in the secret of this hook, and dotal!, a great many
mare eeeee which were played off regardi..g it, rte.
flees to its publication, the whole foundation for
irbicb is laid in art most idle rumours belonging to
the book trade. IVe defy this writer to show one
proof snore than we or the Peblie genitally possess,
for insisting on it that Lord Orson is the sailor,
and yet has he proceeded to denounce his Iteldship's
habits and principles with as little reremsay sea
mitigation as the most 'slyer libeller. This is
a sad (simple of the Litpirty of the Press, and
is not in the least justified by the writer's
zealous professions of motali,y ; for this is pee-
dsely the wretched reason adduced for the foulest
system et libels that the country is at present pester-
ed with. As the case now stands, to tell a Noble-
men, whose works have sslnnlshed the world by their
intellectual splendour, of his " embruted mind,"
merely on a suspicion of having written a book desti-
tute of fashionable morality, is, according to our
apprehension, the most depraved esample of imam-
rality that can be sprcified, int.:otling, as it does, a
ruthless instance cf injustice and inferential false-
hood.—Bor, suppose, atter all, that the book
is not a production of Lord litnom's, which we site.
eerily Wise,. Not ft .irn the irregularity of its pub-
lication, (a circumstance which has close been able to
make this writer pause io assigning it le him,) bet
the spirit of the rowiposition, mad the level of its wit
are, as it stapes's toes, palpably below his Lordships
stsiirlard of writing and inirtlecteal ereteness, nee
con we find any decided reason Int waling it to
him from the common tandersr•nding of the omegas!
. !efforts of the slime mind at diffetesst issietealt, We
I suspect the work to be a happy imitation of his Lind•
ship and no more : hot I. •hontsomr the authorship
belongs no apology can in say way befurnished for
the scandal *lidded to,