The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-22 00:00:00

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injurious to the best. interests of this country

of getting the arrears due by the manufacturers paid
up, furnished them with more bread. Thousands of al-
most famished men, women,,and children, who, for
want of sufficiency of food to nourish them, were
reduced to skeletons—crteping into puberty in
forMs more like the puny inhabitants of Hindostan
than like these of Englishmen, were once more
cheered and re-animate&with enough to satisfy the
cravings of nature. Such a glad day had not for a
long time past been seen in this country. Even the
battles and slaughters of our enemies at the Nile, at
Trafalgar, and the seizure of the fleet of our Ally at
Copenhagen did not excite such pleasurable sense-
tions. But what must be the contrast when the
news reaches the country that Ministers have deluded
Mr. BuovdnAm, and those who gave their support
is his motion ; and that the Orders in Council will
not be repealed, except on conditions which, it is
I perfectly well known, the American Government
wilt not accept of, who will therefore neither take
! our goods, nor give us their flour ? We may go to
war with America to be sure ; we may capture a
few of her ships, and batter down some of her
towns ; but this will only stimulate her anger,
and as she possesses within herself all the ma-
terials for manufactures of every kind, she may
I, form the resolution of laying enormous duties
! on oar goods which, even in time of peace, will ex-
elude our products for ever. Such then is the preci-
ipica on which this nation stands—such is the condi-
tion to which it has been reduced by the wretched
policy of our Rulers. We must conciliate America,
or our poor Manufacturers must continue to be pau-
pers as long as charity can be extended to them ; and
then they will be left to rob and murder, for which
they will undoubtedly be hanged or shot.

—a system that has enabled the enemy to ef-
fect his great object of turning the attention of

the people of the Continent from Maritime to
internal commerce,
,where it is unassailable by our
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navy-y•-a system which has enabled BONIPARTE to
break there people of (heir old and almost riveted
hatlts—the use of colonial produce and our manu-
factures; which has caused them to use substitutes
for the first, and to set them to spinning and weav-
ing the latter—objects which not ten thousand of
NAPOLEON'S vapid Decrees could, in one hundred

years,have accomplished, unaided by our most perni-
cious Orders in Council—a system which has in
material degree turned the American States from an
agricultural to a Manufacturing nation, and lost us,
perhaps for ever, a vent to that country for our ma-

nufactures to the amount of at least twelve millions

per annum, and m hicli was naturally increasing in the

ratio of the increase of their population and wealth

—a system which his thrown our manufactures into
a state of almost total stagnation, and is causing the
starvation, by inches, of thousands and thousands of

our ingenious and dexterous artizaos.—No wonder,
indeed, that the authors and supporters of this most
impolitic system now skulk oft; and hang down their

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heads with mortification and shame.—No wonder that

the father of this pernicious system, Mr. Stamen,
should have declined being present in the House of

Commons to witness the condemnation of a =ea.

sure, and that, too, without a single argument be-

ing adduced hi its defence? which) we will venture to
assert, has produced more national and individual dis.

ress, than it was possible for the enemy to havaintlict-

ed on as in 100 years, even with such Ministersas we

ha re at the head of ourGovernmenpe condemnation
of the Orders in Council by Parliament, is most em-
phatically the deunnciation of their authors and sup-

[We had intended to pursue the subject somewhat
further, but our limits compel us to delay this till
another opportunity.]

porters, and the time has been, and may arrive again,
when such men would not only have been instantly I
discarded from all offices of trust, bat would w
havel Government have received dispatches from the Earl
of \Yes-lc:roe, dated the 3d instant, but we un-
been made substantially responsible for mal-admini- derstand they contain no intelligence of importance.
stration. Those Orders in Council have been pro- Recent letters from Lisbon mention, that a fleet
flounced and protested against by ford EasxlNre 1 of transports was fitting out in the Tagus, to proceed
and several other Noble Lords, as unconstitutional; i through the Straits, for the purpose of takiag on
and we appeal to the soberer common sense of the 'hoard the Spanish troops which had been trained and
nation, whether it is fitting that men, whose , disciplined at Majorca. They were then either to
be landed in Catalonia, to form a junction with the
policy has not only been ruinous, but unconsti-
-1 force under the Baron D'Eaor.es and General LACY,'
tutional, and which they, after the injury has !or by making occasional descents on the coast, when
been done to the nation, have ungraciously abaci- : favourable opportunities should arise, to keep Secure
Boned themselves—we ask honest men of all par- in a state of alarm, and to prevent him from sending
ties, whether it is titling or decent, that each men reinforcements to Soel.T.
should be again entstwed with the important desti- Government has permitted a Danish vessel (Vrey.
den) to carry out provisions and other necessaries to
'lies of this Empire ? Are we, after what we know
of them, again to put into their hands the national laud.
the Moravian settlements of that nation in Green.,,
The settlements as well as the colonists,
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parse, and permit men, who have failed in all their I have, been in great distress for provisions for two or
wild and . weak experiments, to try others on u;,' three years past, and have subsisted on small her-
which will, beyond all doubt, prove equally ruinous ? ! riegs, muscles, and sea-grass. The Vreyden is
loading at Leith.
The necessity of the abrogation of the Orders in 1
, The following is from our Correspondent at Ash-
Commit, has been acknowledg,el by all. The proxi-
~ton, dated June 16, 1812 : --•••44 On Sunday morn-
mate object at (daft is, by effecting a reconciliation ± ing last, about eleven o'clock, between 2 and 30411
with the American States, to obtain a vent for our I Luddites assembled suddenly, like cross coming
accnmulated and, at present) useless stork of manu_ ; overfields, hedges, und.ditehet, upon Hough Hill,
factures, and thereby afford employment and bread lin the vicinity of Newton and Staley-Bridge, which
commands a view of the country to Manchester,
for our idle and famishing who have been
workmen, , and several miles round. They formed tnem-
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driven by hunger to the most daring acts of despera- , selves into ranks, two or three deep, and ap-
tion,.and for which many misguided, but once in- I peered at a distance to he performing some
dustrious.heings are now suffering the infliction of the military evolutions. No stranger was permitted to ap-
bayonet and the halter. What higher or more coin. , preach them. One man in getting over a stone wall
mendable objects under Heaven can any that may for this purpose, was ordered by the out post to retire,
and though he was very obstinate, they soon corn-
truly be called Statesmen have, than the preservation
pelted him to retreat. The particular object of the
of peace with a nation with, which it is so decidedly meeting is not known to any, except that description
our interest to be in terms of friendship, and likewise of persons who formed it. They seemed to enter into
the alleviation of the distresses of our owe people ? close conversation ; and it is said a piper was read by
The annunciation of the understanding with Ali- one of the company. After continuing together
nisters in Parliament, that the Orders in Council
about three quarters of au hour, they dispersed by
the signal of a gun or a pistol being fired, the report
would be unequievocally repealed, was receivedwhich
, 1of was heard through the neighbourhood.—
in the Manufacturing districts, and indeed all , 1
—lf they merely intended to alarm the Magistrates,
over the country, with feelings of more real , and bring some dragoons from Manchester, their ob-
joy than any event that has occurred for 1 ject is accomplished; for messengers were sent off
years. One Correspondent writes, that the moment immediately to that place, and early on Mondey
morning, a party of the Scot's Greys arrived at Ash..l
the intelligence, which was received by express on
, ton. During the last week, scarcely a night bas'
Thursday morning, reached the Staffordshire' Pot- I elapsed without fire-arms being collected in this
teries, it " diffused the most lively joy throughout, neighbourhood by the Luddilis. They suddenly ap. ,
that populous district, which hails the grand deride-1 pear at the door of the hoese, but do not break in, •
ratusn of a renewed trade with America, as being t without previously demanding entrance; if resistance
the dawn of a fresh era of prosperity to these menu- I be made, instai nt death is declared to be the coast-
, quence ; but f the arms be peaceably delivered up,
factures." From Liverpool, we learn, that such i they use no violence, and in some instances Mee
was " the piomptitude of men in business on Friday i promised to restore them in a very short time."
last, that a great many American ships have been ' We leans from Stockport, that in consequence of
placarded this morning in the Exchange, in expec- the great success of the Luddites in prosuring arms
tation of beneficial freights, from the confidence with ! by nocturnal visits, gr. Hens, and other Alegi-
which the merchants will look for the abrogation of : strateas in the sicinity ofillanchester, hove been au.
• thorized by Government to grant Warrants to the
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the Restriction Law on the other side of the Atlantic. ,
1 High Constable,'Mr. CARTWRIGIST, to enable him,
At Leeds, on Saturday, " the beneficial effects of the, with proper assistance, to seize arms of every de.
repeal of the Orders in Council are already apparent , seripsion belonging to the inhabitants, wherever they
in the impulse given to the woollen trade. Bates I might be found, as the only means of preventing them
of cloth, which bare been stored in the warehouses; from falling into the hands of the disaltected. The
of the American merchants for months in somein-
s High Constable commenced his rounds on Thursdays
escorted by the Stockport Horse patrole.
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stances we may say for years, are now in transit to 1 : On Tuesday night last, the Luddites obtained a
the place of their destination; and we are peculiaryl considerable quantity of arms. From the.widow of
happy to state, that there were more purchasers ire' an officer they procured eight swords. The gun/
the Leeds Cloth-halls this morning, than there has . consisted of about 100, and they were beaded by a
been on any market-day since the enactment of the person who, from all appearance, was much superior;
celebrated Orders in Couucil." From a Gentleman in rank to a mechanic. They continue to practice
their military exercise under cover of night. Last
who arrived in town this morning, we are informed
Sunday, at day-break, a body of upwards of 2000
that, immediately after the news reached Man-. were observed breaking up in different directions on
cheater and Yorkshire, manufactured goods of all' a moor, about sin miles from Stockport, where they.
description rose at least 20 per cent. and many of bad assembled during the night.
those wkb were out of 'employment were home- i ',otters from Yorkshire state, " that the system of
stealing arms and lead, in the neighbourhood of
diately set to work. As soon as the Recounts al . .
were received at Birmingham and its neighbourhood,assemblages of between two and these hundred men
the reviving sound of the hao*ner, the anvils and' the have bben seen on different nights, in repot* places;
-es mete again beard.- The baker, seeing thspreekes% going thrones aim militarystereieee!
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