The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-28 00:00:00

in de Field, end SYDNEY died on the Searad!"

ULTRA-LOYAL MISTING AT BANA'3TAOLB•

. In pursuance of a Requisition, signed by several
Clergymen, Half-pay Officers, and Members of the
Corporation of Barnstaple, a Meeting was held in the
liaildball there, on Friday last, for the purpose of send-
ing a loyal Address to the King :—'Thomas Cosner,
Esq. Mayor, in the Chair. The independent and;
thinking part of the town had previously determined
to leave the requisitionists to run their own course,
and cubsequently, no opposition was intended to be
made to the progress of the feelivagly loyal.—An Ad-
dress full of complaints of the seditious press, the cant
words of the enemies of liberty, was prepared by a re-
verend divine, and would, of iourse, have been carried
unanimously, but accidentally and unconeerted, about
hay' down other °enflames happened to come into
th Flail, and Jeceph.Davie Bassett, Esq. of Water-
mouth, than whom there is no one more Conversant
with theConstitn don, after remarking that it ill became
the Corporation of Barnstaple, with the proceedings
in Parliament hanging over their heads for gross bri-
bery and corrnption in returning Members to Parlia-
ment, to send up such an .':.!dress, proposed that ne
Address should be presented, and moved the previous
question. He was answered by Col. Cutrlitft, iu his
usually violent language and vehement style ; and
after a few more observations froth Captains, who
would he Admirals, the question .vas put, upon the
amendment of• Mr. Bassett, which was supported
the Her. Charles Ilern, Clerk, Mr. 'fauslyu, the
Conveyancer, and some others, but was, of course,
lost, and the original Address was carried by the Di-
vines upon sraelepey—the Heroes of Talavera, Wa-
terloo, &e. upon hay:pay—ead the Members of the
Corporation upon ell-pay. It is believed that this pe-
litho, will be signed by very few hot the parties pie-
sent, and, perhaps, some one or two others who are
I wafted by every wind. In time* like these, th.st man
dues but ill consult the true happiness of the King,
who approaches him with the language of zumplinient.
In times like their, the true friend of his King and
country will boldly step forward aud sell him, what
have keen the canoes of the preseat situation of the
I country, and what is the remedy to be appiied. The
voice of the Country cries aloud for a Reenlist in the
Commons House of Parliament; and every well-wisher
to his conotry most desire, that that reform slum' he
effected by the constituted authorities. Durham and
the Northern counties are taking the lead in petiti.tos
.o this effect; and we trust, that we shall witness in
the int.sbitants of this great and reslie,:table couuty,a
noble instance of attaehment to the British Constitu-
tion and the liberties of Englishmen. A word to the
gontleoseu upon half-pay—they are maintained from
taxes paid ley the people; mod she tales so applied to
the brave defenders of our country, are paid with.
cheerfulness, and their application to this purpose me-
ter has excited toy this; but the most hearty approval.
If they do nut fret themes-Ives quite safe is supporting
the voice of the people, let them at east stay away
from the public meetings, and not make themselves
the tools of laity particular officer of rank, whose only
object is to earub himself by the command of a regi-
ment or a Ileet. The economy which a reformed House
of Commons would introduce into the finances, would
add stability to the securities for half-pay and merited
pensions.—(eitiretl).

AGRICULFURR.
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The following is a copy of the petition which has
been sen; to the Agricultural AssociAtinna, and pro-
posed for their approbation and acceptance, by the
Chairman of the Central Committee, (!rotes Webb
Eay,

To the Iltinonreble the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The
lininhle Petition of the severaloecupiers of Lands in the
county of whose names are hereunto
subscribed,
Su aw art —That in the last seasion of. Parliament on-
wards of 240 petitions, signed by upwards of 100,000
petitioners, occupying no less than four millions
of acres of land, were presented to your House, set-
ting forth, "'That the soil of the United Kingdom
w.:s competent and fully adequate to thu supply of its
population, even if it were much more numerous than
it is, with all the production of the soil of the United
Kingdom, that is to say—with all corn, meal, flour,
rye, oats, peas, beans, barley, bare or big', wool,
Aar, hemp, hides, tallow, seeds, butter, cheese, poul-
try, vegetables of all kinds, natural to the taste, op-
iate and pears. 'llsotessolo petitions were with ail ho-
stility submitted to the consideration and wisdom's of
peer Honorable House, that, as the soil of the United
and its production are the prime source of
tooter': indostry. an I of revenue, if
this allegation be true, to admit any /., o,:u, :inns, s:;1
oiler to those of unr we soil and cam ite, iota `hp
arantry, duty fret, until the cultivici •tt of our won
Mil should have eltended itself to its utmost liaaktot;
but that whether such allegations be correct is all
parts or rot, it is unjust to the occupiers of soil In
adroit such productions duty free. ioastuoch as rent
admission loario.le disable the occupiers, of the asp
from payment* their rent, tithes, taxes, and nape ;
.bile it leaves them subject to all the poise and N.
softies incurred by the omission to make good any of
these payments."
khat the seal several petitions were refe:red to a
Iseldtt mmuntittee, to consider tha matter thereof, owl
report their opinion thereno to the Hems; hut that
it was afterwards soured and carried by a usejorliy.
Thrift in an iostroctiou to the said comusatteet to
Ivanhoe their inquiry to this mode of ascertaining, re-
mud calciaiating the overage rice oflonipin
(melee maritisins trostricts, under the provishore at
•'i sr ewe War% anti to any, frauds that inn, be
4 at tiolteinnlof sine, elf the prosiskar et the
That such referent!e and report it such
-efiliteeditive44l4 reciaanl, aad is thy eta.%
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%yrs."

PRICE SZVEN PICNCR.

mien and experience of your petitioners, can sever
sheet the slightest alleviations of any of the
grievances of which your petitioners complain ; as
the *miasmal degradation of every 'peeler of peer
demand the contintied and ascumulating iitagitaaios -
for the demand of every description of labour, tir ri•
cultural, commercial, and manufacturing, will timbale
testify. Wherefore your petitioners most hatnhiir
pray, that, as the agricaltuee of the United Kingdom
is the fountain from which every source of industry
receives its supplies, and by which every other branch
of national iodnstry is principally encouraged, ma;n-
tained, and supported, it may be referred to a co ii-
mittee of your Honourable House, to examine, con-
trast, and report to the House, the several pr.,-
tecting and prohibitory duties, by which, error ling to
she Laws DOW in forst. the throe flireitt irsailme
national industry and of revenue, Cis. Agriculture.,
Commerce, and Manufactures, are severally protected
Or omitted to be protected ; that such alterations and
amendments may be made in such laws •n.l regu-
lations, and snch additional duties imposed on the im-
port of all the prods lions of our own cull, as to the
wisdom of your Honourable House may seem meet,
for restoring that equilibrium to the whole, without
which neither of the said branches of industry esti
duly prosper.
And your petitioners itill ever pray, &c.

coLnsUmrs BIRTII-D.4 V.
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On Wednesday. the 29th tilt. the anniiersary
our great national Poet, Goldsmith, was celebrated
with great festivity, at Hallymahon, in the county of
Longford, in the immediate vicinity of whit h the Port
was born. in the house of his maternal granilfsther.
the Hew. Oliver J0n..., Citrate of Forney, on the 29t4
of NOV. 1725.

Upon this national occasion several letters were read.
We select the following extracts

From the Rev. T. Ileudcoek, Rector of Kilmakaa.
near New Ross.
I learn from a Provincial Print, that there is an is.
tendon of reviving and perpetuating, by souse pubic
monnuirnt, the memory of Oliver Goldsmith. I
have always regretted that no such monument existed
in the coantry, of whirl' that great poet teas the pride
and orthituent. and, therefore, I beg you to enrol use as
a zealous advocate for the measure. I wish you would
now think of writing an authentic biography of the
man. the history of whose birth and earlier years it so
little known. I could supply you with much of the
raw material, having been, more than thirty sears
ago, employed by Dr. Cauipbell, author of the Phila.
sophical Survey, to collect it upon the spot, where I
found sonic pereous still liviag who had been the com-
p panions or acquaintance of hie boyhood—as as old
l blacksmith, who had tanght hie the accoutplisbusest
of throwing the sledge, of which he tins as vain as be
was of his skill in music. His very old schoolmistress.
Mrs. Dunbar, or lhanloy. or some such name, assured
we she was the first person who had ever pat a bock
into his hand. and gave use no great iinpressien of his
rarly.abilitirs. Frew those,. and other such persons,
I drew many small documents of him; but, from his
sisters. Hudson and Johnson, sod his sister-in-law,
Goldsmith, (the widow of the !ter. Henry Goldsmith.
of Lissom.) I ha.: acquired larger outlines, until his
departure from his family to Scotland, in a year or
two after when they tort all knowledge of bits, until
after having taken the trot of Ettrope on foot, he be-
came a public writer in Loudon. My sep,,rt to Dr.
Campbell, through Cooper Walker, may be among the
Doctor's papers. Ile ,lief before he elfertiviled his
purpose, and I lost di.- .opy in die Reheliion, with all
may other ps,ers, but I retais in memory, I believe,
.the principal particulars. flow 'delighted wt.uld lbe
in attending your wetting at liallyinalion, but the
great distance preclitiles the possibility of it, and there,
as in the neighbour,...g town of my nativity, I should
sew appear almost a total stranger.
Freon John flogs., of Animus. Esq. :
Circuinstaareeleil we in the early part of my lifts
• to the knowledge of part of Goldsmith's family. a
to the acquaintance of his nephew, Mr. William Had-
son, whose beautiful elagy on the death of ',semi
members of hi+ family, iorloiliug the Poet, bears the
strongest marks of hereditary grains, (see The Owe
tleausa's .41vosime for February. 1014, page Ink)
and the last stanza of which I stake no doubt vlbvigs
able to recoser. You any suppose L hermits Lotsreat•
ed in every tbiag belongiug to the Poet. When I set-
tled on the spot, I attempted to replace some at the
almost toegotten idertitics that delighted zootig
years since. I rebuilt his " Three Jolly ..
restored his " 'l' wel . e good Italie, and Rapid , id
Goose ;" jacketed Ilia " Illavrthorp Twee," militi
sot away by the devotitei of the literary pilgeissa
Adernwr
mon to it I 1 oleo pleated his favoarite ,11111. Wore
I.i.noy gatit--eta; spot which prorated to his eye the
must artstaisis lumisosist 'nature ; aid, bed hei fa-
lsity attains Lod me to rftide in Ragland fee VW
years, I eboold have Jose a great deal sorer gp
gratify .orisif, oral to point out the localities
ed the eliarmieg scene of 04 As. ikeertsd Village'
Soma yours pot, a lietoosouut owed Newell, a Fej-
low of hisofifiriga College, ease over hare oa • lily-
nary ittet,eael stretched shoes ices** elieJsii se .4 the
Pens, with great truth nod spirit. ()obis num sa,
Illiglami he partial/41 an aditioe 14 GelilsatitiCa
-Nom is Waterline, embellished by awe views" sad
euriebed by eagles. Notes es u The Atoesied ri:-
Joire.- prietieg the scenery ed legeirte have.bees sp-
pension 40salso Poets min.! whiletseeapetiag it. He.
sweet le love willweed this up tgso4citias sahourig.
dues lac Aerie penelie. &militants'''. la,, site aseraory A 1
thaitiseaith, Is the spurt of 4111K:asehrted 11/4m"
owl mos wi 0101 figtoPt *l* Airlsgamh m kick Le
iremiiimi 'MU' m opsh..gpabodimig 4.1/10 of ifs
iettos i bet 31r. Nee *lelf 410 iIidIANA,OIOI4OI4II4O-
- Ilia wish. .: .avfir,. o:itsi lie xlist-ey• or •
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TAR LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE PRESS r

(FROM THil elalle11).
The Country grows sick at heart—the Constitution
hdters—the house of Brunswick is in danger; but
when are the Mahler. of so much mischief ? . Lct us
are.—The Loyalists, as they term,thetuselves—toss many
ut' whom mean by loyalty a seleible commodity, to be
slit neeti of for their own advantage—these lovalitts
attribute the evils ender which the asountry labours to,
t. 'e Peen !—Not to the moon, or the magnet—not to 1
solar influence. or mysterious magic. but to the !lentil-
-10:O Prue.' Did the licentious Press beget the late
horrible war? Did the licentious Press increase taxa.
t:on? Does the licentious Press overload the sinews of
ti e farmer ? Does the licentious Press support the go-
y-rutnent by the sword ? Does the licentious Press grind
i.! •wn the nerves u(the mechanic and the labourer ? Did
t': ? li centiottsPress suggest the iufunious Ragging Ili Hs ?
Vol the licentious Press propose the Holy Alliance
against mankind ? Dial the the licentious Press
r..tince the tyranny of Ferdivand, or the depotism
et FrAleric 1 Did the licentious Press destroy
Alexander's just opinions and fill their place with the
Cisgusting notions lately instilled ? Did the Hewl-
ett% Press blow up the Spanish frigate in time of
peace—bombard Copenhagea to prove out friend-
%. ip to the Danes—pay the Neapolitaus for fight.
!••: for Murat, and the Sicilians for fighting against
Lin ? Did th:. licentious Press teach Louis that he had
i _en nineteen years King a France ? hid the licentious
cress generate the loathsome herd of contractors and
s;neeurists, which, like so many cancers, devour the
body politic? Did the licentiousness of the Press draw
t-om the suffering nation its hard-eased treasures, to
s.:bsidize the banditti of Russia, Austria, and Prussia?
Dial the lirentioss Press cut off the springs of trade?
Did the licentious Press produce that countless host of 1
p ;Mica% ills which make the people miserable, hope- I
less, and diszontenteal? Or, in truth and in fact, are
rot all these ills the fruits of thy errors ar of the
crimes of Ministers? Are they nut the consequence
of their tyrannical system—the results of their mad
?Sart, and base designs? To set the danger and
conceal the iacendiaries may be loyaltg, but it is not
yartite. To witness the wrongs, and abuse the suf.
trrers is cruelty: it is worse than the ignorance of
el.l, which heaped upon some poor. but innocent 1
w3inan, the curers of human brutes, for the murrain
of their cattle or the blights of their harvest ; and I
'pest es whoe and as rational as the witch pursuers
a f past age, are the equally benighted tracers of I
the causes of national calamity to the use of the
urenty.foue letters! If we examine all the precious de-
clarations which have been hatched in bye places by the
trumpeter' of loyalty, to deceive their Royal Master, I
they strike the same string. and draw forth the same
tone; to the Ltrartriocsmess or rata Paces, and to
81-1•4P11114T, with their hair on end and uplifted
h ands. the devoted sons of cupidity and loyalty as. I
a titre oar danger. There, at the most, four or fire
Writers, who, according to the cant of the day, are
odions blasphemers ; and Cobbctt is the only one
amongst them whose talent exceeds the ordinary
compass of the human mind. These four or five •
spreaders of blasphemy. by which is not meant an
'Ol-speaking of the Deity, bat attacks principally on 1
the forms and etaretsooies with which religion Is esta-
blished
in this coontry—these four or five naughty
ones frighten the land. There are about thirty or
tarty thousand persons, tinder the denomination of
Bishops, Priests, anal Deacons, Ministers, Preachers.,
and Teachers, whose lives are devoted to the proniul- '
ration of tree religion; and yet these thirty or forty
thousand persons, who have teeth on their side, and
ace well paid for their services. are dreadfully alarmed
lest trete% should be conquered by falsehoods—and I
falsehood emanating from the peas of four or five per-1
sons assailing the froth as it falls from the pens or the
sermons of the thirty sr forty thousand. Of all the
emir's upon the Ministers of the Oospel, this is the'
severest ! Armies well trained and disciplined, taught
to use the weapons of argument from their infancy, :
ire pnt to flight by four or tire persons. armed
only with the straws of Nesuend opinions. This
host, well paid, well fed. well taught, covered with the
sacred panoply of treth,ranuot hear the tickling of these)
little straws, and throw away their spears and their
ormolu in terror and amazement. This is a miracle. i
and a miracle too that requires . nplanation. As to 1
the licentiousness of the press, if at be licentious, that I
very licentiousness defeats its purpose. A licentious i
press cannot long support a bad sense ; its very Ikea-
Ribasnees destroys its support. Bat thee, persons who
talk so loudly about torrents of blasphemy and se-
ditto*, would be puzzled to Gad a little rivulet really
peiseseette : their torrents are like the tiger's tail,
which at first was three yards long, and at last was
ordered to two feet ! The Statute Book teems with
hairs more ever, than Draeo's bloody code so repress
liceadoassess I and stales these silly ',esteem wish
far a eitteership, they comet devise an additional
Illinishment, writhed increasing the malady of which
'hey complain. Let them establish a etavorehip,
sad dews would fall at once the prerogatives of the
kill, the privileges of the peers, aid the immunities
of the Priesthood. The secret sapping would be users
difigerous than the open :tusk. The establishment
oT a restriction epos thought would cause It to operate
snare powerfully* and, is proportioi is it was ems-
pressed, it would overturn. Do they sigh for this dot
itttotion ? Would they put all at toward to justify
@heir silly notions? Would they tie the pillions of i
freedom with cobwebs, aid fetter the arms of liberty 1
*with chains of gossamer? Silly meal the spirit el'
the age will eitiegaish the folly of mordent I the
• spirit of the age will triumph over the mummeries serf
surentition, and the prejudice of .aerate Mid immet- •
ell Miadt. The attistpts Mide bribe lesions Willits
'vi Olesew and Herefetd: of Bristol tad . alawater4
to ealnmnlate the great aid might/SW of the
- _ : their author's' eir":11.
Not to "sok whir
and of sibs*?
Arson foible itilltittellef
flatlif part of SW*
ivith Govetemeint by the
that they lire itspi
Of these is taw be Mel/
politics are teilelf‘g and
With these toe world
who support the Mils.

Se reinmenow .....• rw---- -
bate exposed the imbecility et I
tercel them with disguise. X
I these teisealreletieg•layelisA
whteh are as appeihotas tilers
' I i% 'evident that tie IMMO
eyelets are cooseeted fth Wet
I tie of pereottal• totem% 'Wt.-di
hi for the feeder of the Oat.' t
said; that tiselt *pillows Olt r
comiegeently Of little vales.
1 wain, highly heararable men,
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