The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-06 00:00:00

'IIIIE S'ritTEIIAIAN.

==:;z1r,...........--..T-::N.•"--tkiui,,„ni,,. voice from Me crowd'—The Honourable Gentle-
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kind. i man again approved
sentiments like this, and men
doe by threats o,"""sittutionit • convulsion or blood-
Petitioners, for averting . .
„inmost ; capable of u
axiiipt:eo„4o.r.itotiownredafiacat:
1. {ark)
..•[f -- - -hel
uttering them were worthy of that li-
despotleat of indawrY fin
braro 4
shed, anarchy, or the hale
aapEagid ealeaaiTiaing.woenlibeashathilsir:peszreeditititteniFar
aint.Argr.cacritelUlT. berty which it was the object of the Meeting to ob..
wassioeuftdparliamentt
the
epc er pur r
et v
ea s
resent
n ni,
rather
i at
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resentation, co-extensive w . yr Woo prayt h a t best mode o f tendering
we g Government—but
afraid
i—edmTibteh embers of warm,
"iv:
"eufera"be°lfr
or
artriehlvtiseinsrteactir:frenrt;liiire rcoM'inaiontyrolltnt i
'amnia of a, &ratios not
may
tiemcare
to
eul ; tba . _. ,
cp:mrlsetanutcesof,
these aguntioubltd itattsti: hill of Rights was left imperfect and
' burthensome to the country. The Honourable Geh-
-1 tibnyilris' tired,anthz.blirtao(!„.w Peel
dontwea KIP" and 1 d established ; and ,
the °ill be at length foils? complete. and
with , tieman
ctercarli..-9112caiititohoa•• voce rise from its own ashes,"
I ogtliee Ntiac:iaonn
tahcosetualnelyeasinioo•oac.seanslyonie.
than thanked the Meeting fat tOo- stereos
rem — 4 for the benefit, the ra - : with which they had heard him. He. would tres-
rneuce life age improve energy,
pass on it but a very short time longer, and it
spiffily, i would be to recommend milder measures than those
et time.
, proposed' to their consideration, as more likely to
gcliourdyeodf ourthe croeuedatriyegi to tehef
teheund..
, attain the object they had in view.—C/Warnsurs.l—
Tau. Ilti7us. Pinhia
st :viiatiguoductdbo:actia
ma
lace, he again addressed them : . :He would recommend to petition Parliament, first
in now read to you the _ ,to enquire into the State of General Representation.
411°Gnsenotlf etmleenr hPay.
wtoluochblewr we rthaopotsei '
submittingl—[lfarmurs.]—Differiag, as he did, from them in
to Parliament,peltihtiaovne
do not think petitioning will have the effect which' many Instances, he would not, however, give his
blot* Cartwright thinks it will have, although cer..
vote against the proposition. He thought that the
of : right of deciding on questions of that nature, be-
tgre oievannly constitutional ienitiftourtmtha node
isl
opiio we
nfrhveoamthe ;
longed more properly to the Inhabitants of this part
statalutilig it
ouri the
circumstances of my having been present at a debate, lof the Empire._[&-evell....The Hon. Gentleman
erten our worthy and honourable Member, Sir Fran- i then withdrew, after again thanking the Meeting for
cis Burdett, moved au Address to his Royal Highness 1 the patient hearing with which they bad favoured
the Prince Regent, and did, not find one Member to him. ,
seceud his motion. When we have seen such conduct Sir FRANCIS %Rani then came forward to the
as this, and witnessed such squabbles about who front of the hustings, amid the loud cheers and ac-
should have places and command, when his Royal clamations of the crowd and uestaddressed them.—
Highness the Prince Regent applied to different per.. Gentlemen, said he, after the very able speech you
sons in the state to till the office of Chancellor of the have heard at the opening of this business, from my
Exchequer, what have we have to expect from such friend near me, the valuable and constant patronlzer
men ? We have found that those very men, who were of all attempts to, obtain Reform In Parliametit,
deemed by his Royal Highness as fit to till that and IF Major Cartwright; and under the circumstances of
other situations in the Government, would not come f the unfavourable 'weather, which are exceedingly in-
fornard to assist their country in its present danger-1 convenient to yourselves, it was not my iutekiou
ens predicament, any otherwise than being the ito trouble you with any speech of mine upon's sub-
leaders of the whole. They have denied their assist- • ject with which you are too well acquainted, to reli-
ance, merely because they themselves could not be 1
i der it necessary upon' this occasiou, had it not been
placed at the head of their parties. When we have for the observations which have just now been made
seen that the Prince Regent has been under the ne- I
. by an Honourable Member from the neighbouring
cmsity of referring to those very' Ministers who were ' eoeptr--y1
used who, I am happy to observe, we alt
declared by both Houses of Parliament incapable of . listened to with ,that attention he deserves. As to
managing the affairs of the nation, and that they
' that' Gentleman, I must say, I feel a particular
have come forward again, backed by the borough-, degree of gratitude for his coming manfully forward
mongering faction, declaring those men to be caPa- • before the public of England, and acknowledging
ble who were formerly voted incapable, what benefit ' those opinions and sentiments which he honestly en-
is likely to result from petitioning such a House of tertains, and which, with great propriety, undoubt-
Commons? I did not intend to trespass upon your edly, he may maintain and' did maintain. It is a
time ; but my only wish is to impress upon your compliment to the English public—that Gentlemen
minds, notwithstanding these obstacles, the necessity . from the Sister Kingdom, Ireland, a part of his Ma-
of petitioning, from all quarters, to protect your-. 'jesty's dominions, so important and interesting to us
selves front tke oligarchic faction within, and that all, on a variety of accounts, should thps come forward
deadly enemy abroad, Bonaparte. If we have not before the English public, to diseass that great and
Parliamentary Reform, we must submit to the con-
., important question of public right and liberty; and,
temptible Borough-faction, or consent to be the I although Ido not agree with that Gentleman, yet I
slaves of the Foreign Enemy. Upon these grounds I 1
mast say, he seems to come to the discussion before
I
second the Petition. you with that degree of candour, and honesty of mind,

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Colonel MARTIN (Member of. Parliament for the
County of Galway) nest addressed the Meeting.'
Ile was a friend to the cause of Reform, although he
did not altogethei approve the means by which it i
was intended to be brought forward. In one thing,
however, he did perfectly agree ; and that was, in ,
the censure passed on those public men, who, in times
of danger, had refused to rally round their King and
their Constitution. Ile was happy to submit his opi-
nions en that subject to a Meeting so enlightened,
and so characterized for their good sense ; for he '
was sure that no popular assembly, in the British
Empire, could boast of so mach sense and so much
knowledge.—[Bravo]—He was sure, in conse-
quence, that they would livo him an impartial hear-
ing ; for although he might disapprove of some of the
menus, still he was friendly to the aim they had in view.
[Bravo.]—The lion. Gent. then adverted to the la.,
mentable want of public spirit in public men, which
had been so justly condemned by the Gentleman who
had addressed them before. In that case, he thought
the Ins and Outs were equally blameable, as both
parties had refused to sacrifice their private animosi-
ties to the welfare of the State ; not thinking of the
praises to which the party first making such a sacri-
fice, would be entitled to from a grateful country.—
Ile adverted to that celebrated answer of a Grecian
General, who, threatened with a blow by his poli-
cal antagonist, whose arm was already raised to
strike him, calmly answered, " Strike, but hear I
me." That Grecian General, thus threatened with !
an ignominious and dangerous blow, seemed to
have forgotten all personal considerations in the in. I
terest of this country. His laconic apostrophe clear-
ly
implied—" Let us first think how we shall resist I
the common enemy, and we shall afterwards think of
our private wrongs."—Such was not the conduct of ;
public men in the present day. Such was, for in-
stance, the conduct of Lord Castlereagh and Mr.
Canning. lie did not say that either of those Gen-1
tlemen should yield to the other—but he was sure,
that both should have yielded to the interests of their
country. But supposing the Petition was adopted,
what would be the consequence? There had been a
general and too true complaint of the want of public I
virtue in public men, but it had not been shewn that
the radical Reform proposed would make public men'
more virtuous. If it was shewn to him, not to a de-1
monstration, but with some degree of probability, he
should then vote for the proposed radical Reform,—
[Murmurs and groans.]—He hoped the meeting
would hear him to the last ; and the disposition they
had already manifested, in this respect, entitled them
to the highest credit ; for they well knew, that, al- I
though they differed with him in some points, he was
ready to swim or float with them. laugh.] As to
the mode of annual elections, which was submitted I
to the consideration of the meeting, he thought that it
would only make them lose more of the time which
on those occasions they took from their usual avoca.
tjons, and increase the anarchy too prevalent at ge.
neral elections.—[Seine murmurs.]—lie had voted!
for Parliameutary Reform in Ireland—bat in that
country grievances had come to a height, to which',
nothing existing in England could surely be com-
pared—for it was calculaled, that the right of re-
turning more than two-thirds of the Members of
the Irish Parliament, was the patrimony of a few'
families. Notwithstanding the annual elections,
still men of opaleace would be returned.--(4
voice front the erocad, 46 Aye, but honest our."}—
The Ron. Gentleman approved the seutiments.
the person who jail spoken from the - vd—but
such , were the constant and arduous
Membei of Parliament, that no man ,
take to fulfil them, unless he Aid an
fes!,une.r—t" Welt give *kg sopetieing,
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as should entitle Mm not only to that handsome re-
ception you gave him, but to the thanks of the pub-
tic at large. [Loud appleuses.] Wben I consider
this subject, 1 cannot help taking a melancholy view
of the circumstances attending it, seeing that there
are men who form, as I may say, a direct contrast
to the opinion of those who entertain real feelings of
public liberty, and who are sodead to all thoie feel-
ings of such liberty which animate Gentlemen who
come hero, that they actually seem to abandon their
natural position in society, and to become as it were
the tools of that system of corruption, which I (net
agreeing with him) think will be and can be only re-
medied by a Reform of the Representation of the
People in Parliament. Some Gentlemen of England
seem as if they took no interest in the land, and for
ought I see, that consequence may well ensue, as
was stated by Major Cartwr;ght, that they will some
day or another, sit at home and suffer their estates to
be taken from under their noses, withoutvaising their
voices against that system of taxation, net as it exists
at the present day, but as it will exist when carried
to that extent' which is now threatened; namely, a
taxation upon Capital as it is called, together with
the sale of taxes, Which is the last resort of a profli-
gate Government; 1 suppose that/ notwithstanding
that profligacy, we would find such persons sitting
at home and seeing their estates sold under their
noses, without the smallest exertion to investigate
the propriety of such a system of taxation, and ac-
quiescing in it rather than opposing it, lest the people
of the country should resume their rights and their
consequence in the kingdom, rights for AV Itich,in former
times, the Gentlemen of landed property in England
were disposed to sacrifice their blood to support. I
cannot agree with the sentiments of the Hon.
Gentleman who lately addressed you, .when he
stated, that if Parliamentary Reform would tend to
make public men more honest, lie should then raise
his. voice for that kleform, that Constitutional Re-
form, that Reform which is consistent with,the old
Laws of England. Wedo not contend that that Re-
form will render such men more honest, but we con-
tend,' that, whether it rendered them more honest or
not, it will at least render it more dangerous to,
knaves, and that Is flas only security the people cast,
have for their rights and liberties. Whoever tram-
pies upon them, after such Reform, does it nt the
risk of his own neck. He supposed that which was
natural, namely, that men of property would be
the most likely to be returned as Members to Parlia-
ment. I presume that it is thereby interred Chet-that
Ilouse is at present composed of men of properCy,
and therefore you would get nothing in that respect
by reforthing it • I contend that that is not the case,
but that, on the contrary, they came into the House,
to get the property of the public, and then to
insult the' people of the country with their ill-nrquie.
ed wealth.—[,duels 'applause.] It is amongst other
things to stop that system, that we desire Parliamen-
tary Reform. There would be, after that was ac-
quired, no occasion to give any man property who
came into Parliament, but the people would find
that these who are %turned by the great balk of the
voices of the country, would not only not be look-
ing after those modes of making fortunes, nor stu-
dying Parliamentary tactics, but that they would be
rendering short accounts, which is what may he called
a homely way of doing.—[More Applanset Agaiust
those Who have entrusted them with their purses,
they would not only net make these attempts, but if
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point of view, a system underetwiutthiticrh3in,tihsitemrs7ineoficnia:biliit;
poneiwtheerropfrapotepcotiinotninfgoranytheeirffipeiropertm;
Ministers
bare
for their rights and liberties ; nor his thed
theo
totsh etstances
sppcpeople
conduct
po slgueac
nhttiohy
prerogatives,
only
treoi
fianott
the
hweethhiiecsi
uic protectors
noi
tabisi
i tWe
hyi: see
bj
uujudgment,
gt ithmaaetl this
is to
as
s
Ifplermrrtsioeenrsls,yawnpdhlaoecer daerePQ.
deprives
eeceylis'lttsoroffevd aneti;:islapmentei irdrahl tgleohtelcti'''a.ur:°rinri:yl
on the affairs of the country ,and enj
of the people at large, by which cou7idinegnctel the croult ty'r
would be best able to carry on the contest '
leeoin ir
we aro engaged with success. These Gentlenea
call themselves, or rather miscall themselven, ;h,
guardians of the public purse—the purse keeper,.
they should rather be called the cut-purses of th't
public. It would be better for us to bare o
person to hold the parse open to every thief than to
have any sash guardians at all [Applauscs]. lye
hear a great deal of foreign dangers from the aggrar,
dieing power of France, dangers which I own are
great; but I am one of those who entertain much
more apprehension of danger from the inroads made
upon the Constitution at home, than any likely
arise from foreign foes, however formidable those
foes may appear. Shall we then, under these cit.
comstauces, not guard against those dangers pressin,
uponus ? Shall we only lodk to the extremities, and
apply no shield upon our hearts ? Shall we allow the
Vital part to corrupt, while we are attending only to
..arose parts which surround it ? Shall we permit the
vital principles of the country to fall into decay, or
to become deranged, and turn our eyes only to fo.
reign dangers ? Or can we be So absurd as to think,
that by so doing we are to render ourselves secure
.egainst the destruction of the country ? By country
I mean the liberty of the country, not the mere
homes, (or the land, nor the people; nor that the
people are merely to crawl upon the face of the earth
like worms, and not even allowed to turn, or if tney
do, it is only to find additional apprehensions ofgri.e.
ances which they must tolerate without redress. Triers
are those, however, who attach to the word country&
different signification. If Napoleon himself were here
iu this square, if he were to conquer us, the argument
of these Gentlemen would still prevail, as the coon.
try would still exist, and they themselves would mill
by fattening their pigs, or attending to their enjoy.
ments without paying any regard to the conduct of
those under whose care, or rather mismanagement,
the country had fallen. This town, might be as pros.
porous, perhaps, as it is uow under such circiim.
stances as those I have noticed, but that would not
alter the propriety of my construction of the word
country; that which I call country, that which every
Englishman considers his country, is liberty, without
which his country would be a country of weeds,
producing nothing profitable to man. If then ea
see that the country, or rather that the liberty of tks
' country, is more likely to be destroyed by men
usurping the power of the people, and assumiug the
prerogatives of the King, traffickers upon the nation,
who equally trade upon the Crown and the People,
I than by a foreign foe, what ought to be more desirable
than toput an end to such an unjustifiable traffic, which
is so likely to involve us in therein of our rights and li-
berties ? This does not appear paradoxical ; for it
has been rendered palpable to every man since we
found that Parliament put what restraint they
pleased upon the hands of the Executive Govern.,
I ment, till they found that the Executive Power vos
fit to be worked upon for their, purposes, aiti
ascertained what inclinations the Personage who tie
to occupy it might have, they kept him in a state of
restriction till they thought fit to loosen his hands.
These things are fresh in the minds of every one
present, so that I need not enlarge upon that port
lof the subject. Every Minister, in the present state
of things, as soon as a new Parliament assembles,
may address it as Joseph does the Egyplians: "
lie-
holl, I have both you and your land" this day for
l_Pharoah." The only difference is, that that Prime
IMinister gave bread to the People for their freedom;
but, in our day, the Ministers take the bread and
I. deprive the people of their freedom into the bar-
gain.--(Much applause.]—The People are bought by
• l their twit money. How long that system will con-
tinue I cannot pretend to determine; but I can as•
sure you that, whatever means are in my power
shall be used in hostility to it, to the destrue-
, tion of it, and to the consequent revival of the
I ancient laws of the country, which Y hope and trust
will be revived ; towards the accomplishment of this
end, no effort of mine shall at any time be wanting.
[More upplauses.]—Before I conclude, I may men-
tion this circumstance, that my Honourable Col-
league, Lord Cochrane, would have been present
last day in the House of Commons to second the
Address I proposed, for the purpose of laying the
affairs of the nation, and the grievances we labour
under, before the Prince Regent, but wan, prevented
from attending through indisposition ; and I have to
add, 'Mat if that illness did not still continue, he
would have been present upon this occasion. leV
not aware that any thing else was mentioned by the
Honourable Member who addressed you, against the
ptan of Parliamentary Reform, which calls for par.
ticular notice, except that observation he made as to
Annual Parliaments ; and his saying, that even a
Sr:Ptehnial Parliament threw the country, into a state
of confusion, thereby inferring, that if Parliaments
were annual the confusion would, by being more
frequent, become an intolerable grievance. Noir,
Gentlemen, my opinion upon this point e the
very reverse—l am persuaded that it is not oning
to the election, but to the circumstance of no elec..
tion taking place, that the confusion complained of
arises. It was the contest occasioned by the eager
desire of candidates to represent places in which there
was still some freedom of election ; and the eishes
of the borough-mongering faction to usurp even these
seats which created the contests. But when once the
noMination should be vested, as it ought to be, ill
the people at large, there could be no contest, for
the majority against the faction was so great, that
they would have nothing left worth contending fer.
Besides, what could prevent the votes from being
received at the respective parishes, instead of drat
the voters to a greater distance from home ; and
would obviate every apprehended issconve-
thnienesecyejectfeepoustheZeistaunrnbean anneal,
I See no
reasoningel whyectiiots
weld net bit taken in pariilies witheut

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forth/rifler% voting for Churriswarriette in ; Preseered.• The march of the army hoes Bowes upon *lino,:
or trouble,
Vestries. They a!ight in fact retie far-ao! aatthe :IPA from -tiding awn Duoaberg and Minsk, has obliged the
abandon the basks of the Niemen, and remiered this
If these elections seek- in.. i twat), tor
ether at the same time. •
anal, there would net enly be •no Confusiotig but i river free, by which numerous convoys arrive at Kownu.
We have at this moment mere than 150,000 (pion& of mid,
foto no anarchyvand perhaps ev:tn no Contest: The 12
that in /rein
na he had yefect rot, :, .0tX),.000 'Vinous Of biscuit, 600,003 galena of tips, &e. The
yinn. Member says, aaeceed each caber with rapidity, the Niemen is toyer-
Reform in Parliament ; but he ads, that then the . od wni tiViShea
IS.
state of the Irish representation was worse Chad even ' Thep, .of the Niemen took place on the tAtliid e
an the
it is now here. You know to what that ante of the (many entered Wilna on the Vitt. 'The. Army of tite Welt,
;presentation led; it led to this, that after having mauded by the Broperot Alexander, Is comp of nine divi.
plunged that unfortunate country in bloinl, that sett. : nous of infantry, and four of cavalry. Driven from Part to
inademned Parliament, after introducing tortures into Post, It now occupies the intrenched camp at Dr .hi whieb
that country, at which bureau nature shudders, and 'the. Kiag of Naples, with the corps of Alerted,' the 'bukes nt
et a hich we have reason to blush, were compeiled to . Etehlag4l lot! IttKeio,' several divisions of the lit corps, and
the cover Corps . ' y of Counts Nansonty and,hlentbrun keep it.
ibwroy themselves, that is to annihilate that Partin-' The
lit Ifd Army, commanded by Print* Bagration, was, On the
',.„r. We ought to take a warning.from • the Tate of
Kobrin, where it had collected.. Tdedth int!
..t Parliament, and to take acre that we are not in. . 13th00.3.°1(' at
volrtd in similar scenes in this country; aid that :On thel first s naio,feulnidi er.G:aeofralm Torrisasow, were still farther of,
larliameat itself may not be ended in a similar don put hi If ing motionee toe march. upcige anthilieibiNai he, elf ed
.03y. Ho, however, was mistaken in point of fact, his junction will' Platotr's Cossack', who were petite tectrosti -
for the fact was, that the Irish • Representation was no. Arrived upon the top of 11w Ivie, he learned that the road
folly as good as this is now. It Appears from papers to Wilda was shut agaimit him. lie diseOvered that the excels-
'before the House, that 151 persons, Rerough Fro- ' tiers of the orders he-bad received would be rash, and cause his
rails. .hanbotnickl, Trahoor, , oc-
`prieturs, return the actual majority of the English :
eled try General Grouchy's, General Baron Pajol, and the
y;ouse of Commons. 'these ihdividuals, or whilt I
foroMkee of Eckmuhrs corps; he, therefore, retrograded, and
call the Oligarchy, are eitiicr Peers, or persons deal:* dlree: iou ()i:Bitish, but, arrived mid-way towartistbat
jug in Boroughs, for it is a traffic carr.eil on through.. town, he f edthe
out the country, both by wholesale and retail ; ands again retrograded.le° From Prince
r rtioefftf Ehcok fonsorubcl lead enteredlu it ;he
by that means they rest' aim as they please the !tier- from thence upon llobriusk, from whence be will lbavei:k' and
o other
civ., of the King's Prerogative, and iucrease the tax- resoureethaa that of passing the Barysthine. Thus the two ar-
ation on the property of the subject. We are called's mies aro
ietance of an hundred impel. completely being
divided separated, there between
upon to endere this for fear of something worse; . them ad • •
' •-- • '
but,
,I
ask
what cart be worse, what ciam,,,..egill be Pduce Eckatuhl has seized apes the strong place of Btaativ,
upon the Bonsina, W,uoollis. of powder, 16 pieces of beiegleg
More complete, when we are neither safe in our per.
: artillery, and some hospitals have fallen imo his power. Con-
Join nor.our property? A corrupt H t*. House of Co
15 d era_ bit maitazis w're set m fires a Port, was, however,
mons is the worst of evils. A corrupt ',lodge is bad,.
but a Corrupt Law is mereirremediable than a cor. i
rapt Judge; the one. may be punished, but the I
toactori of the other cannot, and there fore it becomes
sore dangeroas that a House of doe mons should be
corrupt, than that all the
.Courts in Westminster I
were co. To the House of Commons we are taught
16 look by the Constitution of the• country, for the ;.
'edit., of vier) description of the gritventers of the I
people; but when that House itself becomes a Brie.
/ranee, and, instead of redressing, rejects all petitions
for redress on Ile part of those who refer to them ;
`ithen you complain of grievances, the only thing ,
they do is to make that grievaitce legal, up to what-
ever
time they please, by what they dettoroinate au !
Alt of Pairliament--an Act of Parliament, wanting '
that comment which is necesstyry toward making a .;
law, as it is well known that the people of the i
Country ore under no power but that which is i
stilmiated by contract between the • King amid;
the people, which they voluntarily agreed tod
and flinch gives to it all its sanction and authority. '
'illy friend near me, Major Cartwright, made one
observation, which is coutaiped in the Resolution
bbich has been read, to which I do not perfectly
agree, namely, that the people of England do not de- I
serve to have their property confiscated ; and still fur- i
ther, if any Minister should venture to tax capital, I
he thinks the people of England do not merit that
thastisement, unless it is that they have so long sub-
mitted to vexation, and sanctioned it without any
relaxation. The people have twitting to do with it ;1
It is not in their power to controul it. lid.embera !
theetAind vote a taxation, without the people agree- I
111 to it. They stow their dissent from that oppres-
sion under which they laisonr. I should as soon
thiuk of reproaching the people wlm are in gaol for
tot shakiugpff their fetters, walking out, and being
tree, rts the pedple of England, for not getting quit
pf that situation of Couch they complain. 'Fliey
can only do It in the manner which we are now 1
oloptiug. If this conduct en your part shall be
bteu es eh example by the people of the country ;
if. tile people thtoughout the laud shall meet and pa..
'Whin, and, 'by one Voice 7 • t whit•l cannot he misun•
shistood by the Houte of Commons; and if they
Stall be nude to believe, that it is the voice of the 1
Diatom ; and, as devils, if they are to believe and
trenihle too, theu, I say, until that take place from I,
the and of the island to the other, the House ~e
Commons wills I- am persuaded, never yield tow ra..l
evil iteforra. I have to express a hope, therefore,'
-that this example whiCh.harbeeset by n
Woto)lnster, anti which uniformly is set by them,
the ,:lire; 'lt has been zalledfor, will be the means of
vb.il•
, .s.itg a permanent redress of the • grievances that
Ire complained of.

Pile Thanks ed the Meeting were then successively
"to'd to Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Cochrane, to
the II;gh Bailiff, and to Major Cartwright, after which
the Meeting closed.

Hued.
On the ltith, General Labour hiatthourg sent the division of
light cavalry, commanded by General Ro►sicki, towards bier.
It met the enemy's rear-gnerd at a short distance from that town.
A very brisk engagement took place. Notwithstanding the
in-
feriority.of the Polish divides in numbers, it remained master
of the held. The General of Cossacks, Grigoriew, was killed,
and UM Russians were killed and wounded. Oar loss, at the
utmost, nits not mare thaw bOO. The Pali.* light cavalry fought
ith the grentest intrepidity, and its courage supplied the want
of numbers. The ►acne daN we entered Mer.

On the Pith the King of Westphalia had his head-quarters at
Aisvy. The Viceroy ON arrived at Dockehelsoui. The Bava-
rians, commanded by Geo. Count St. Cyr, were reviewed, on
the 14th, at Wilna, by the Emperor. Deroy and Wrede's di.
vision are very fine. These -troops hue marched on Slouhoke.
The Diet at Warsaw being constituted into a General Confeder-
ation a( Poland, has pruned Prince Adam Caartorenoki for it:
President. This Prince, aged eighty years, has for fifty years
been Mrtrzhal of the Diet of Poland. The first act of the Diet
was to declare the kingdom Of Poland re-established. A dept.
tatios froth the Confederation was presented to kis Majesty at
Wilna, and sobaitted to his approbation and protection the
Aet of Coofederatien, July 16.
To the Act of Coofederation his Majesty replied as follows :
" Gentlemen Deputies of the Confederation of Poland, 1 have
beard with interest what Ott have related to me.
" Poles, I would have thooght and acted like you; like you
I would have voted in the Assembly of Warsaw ; love of the
country is the first duty of eivilised man.
" In my situation I have many interests to conciliate, and
many duties to perform. Had I reigned during the first, se-
cowl, and third partition of Poland, I would have armed all
my people to support you. Immediately the victory enabled me
to restore your ancient laws to your capita), and a part of your
petyloces, I did it, without pectiongiag a war which would
►ave continued to spill the blood of my subjects. 1 love your
nation; for sixteen years I have seen your soldiers by my side,
in the fiords of Italy as well as those of Spain.
',6 I reftplaud all you have done; I authorise the elforts,you
with to make. 1 will du every thiug,that depends on me to se-
cond your resolutions.
if your efforts are unanimous, you may conceive the hope of
reducing your enemies to acknowledge your rights ; but in these
i countries so di,tant and extensive, n is entirely upon the ottani-
; mity of the efforts of the population which covers them, that you
Imust found your hope. of success. _ _ .

" I have held to you the same language since my first ap-
pearance in Poland. I must add here, that I have guaranteed
to the Emperor of Austria the integrity of his dominions, and
that I cannot nuiction any manseuvre, or any movement, which
may tend to trouble the peaceable possession of what remain, to
him of the Polish province. Let Lithuania, Sonsogitia, Welts-
pok, Polotock, Ntohiluw,lhynu, the Ukraine, and Podolia,
be animated with the muse spirit which I have seen in Great
Poland, and Providence will erne a with success your holy
came. Ile will recompense that devotion to yaw. country
which has"rendered you so interestiog, and acquired you so
many claims to my esteem std protection, upon which you may
depend under every circusustauce."--4Munileue, July W.)

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I PRICR'OF STOCKS Till 1* DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK.
Bank ' ladle Roads 8 9 dis.
_.........._._. - , 9 perVont. Coo!. 541 Exchequer Bills 30.1 2 db.
tifil NiArrsTil lit/LLETIN OF TIM !MA N 1) ARMY. 1 •9 per Iletit. Red. Stif 7 Ditto. 94d. 4 5 pr
Itiil;ajmy has created, upon the right bank ,of the Villa, an t Ornatunt ?if
Istir t per Cents. 73h
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neh4.d camp, surrounded by redoubts, mid constructed a ! silert.e.riellitssil 54g . Lowery Tickets
cicada Upon the mountain On which was the ancient Palace of i
/tritons. Two bridges Ivan piles are being _constructed; !Lir-.
three bridges upon rafts are already estahlthed. On the Bth his
Nujewy reviewed a part of his Guard, composed of Laborde
•110 itoqu.tss divisioos, commanded by Marshal the blthesof , =0..• -
Treei.o, and the old Gnard, under the orders of Marshal the LO 100 N t
Duke of Dnattie, in frobt of the intreacied camp The fine 211CalltAs. AUGUST 0, 1 Rlt.
pl.t J ram. of these tarps excited genets! odmiratioa. . ...-wsw..--...
Os the 4th, Marshal the Duke of Tarento act out from his , When Tyranny has well fitted her chains ttptm
bealquanets in Rossi( a, the capital of Slino.goto, one of the 1
)14"*.nitiftt and most .fertile providers in Poland, „H Gi
a ,h, , i the objects of her vengeance, her folly or caprice,
tu.r.i of lirlcide Baron Rivard, with a port of the 7th disi. i to them the whole or the Creation becomes a blank.
6.i4n, to march upon Poocewlez I the Russian sierra! laical The SUB rites upon them, but to enable them the
tad been sent upon Chavvie, and the Russian Brigadier de Jean- 1
*.Gehl, with moonier Russian brigade, upon Teich. These three i better to behold their miserable estate, and dark,uess
rictieralviataa arrived at their destinations. Geaecal-Kleist was :is not accompanied by Its attendant repose. They,
f'DlY4ble to re.wh a stogie ftbulan hussar, the enemy having . look around, and set' nothing but the hand that op• I
hastily evacuated Chawle, after setting the magazines on fire. •
&octal lUc.ud arrived, early In the rooming fai. the sth, M . presses them—they shrink hack with fear and tuts
w sea ;
Pouce • be had the good fortune of saving the magazines' bang, or rush upon the object that bathe cause of their
t
,hick were is it, and which contained soap quiets/a of meal. : sufferings, armed with atlas terrors of desperate re-
-3k 005 iso prisonen, among whom were fuer officers. This' agents, of arch
"Peditiou does the greatest twroor to the detach:tient of the ' venge. The initigators, as well as the h
°rum, jua Death/foam, who w charged with the'execution * systematic oppression,.sbould alwayakeep watchmen
of it. His Maje.ty has bestowed the Legion of Hoene to the at thelrdoors ;forzrhsa their skeet are not gotterneerkg
Iliernmaad,., :tpof It, to. Lieutenant De. Rave", to 841b2,111",",_ 'wagon, 09=9 of et its dictates ia their tura. Eat ...
-- al emcnerott, and estgadier Grahoasai, who 10 tots
ell.ir distinguished themselves. - 1 lishmen however, hate 'not yet reached this goal
1 .
,Ille inhabitants of the province of fisesogitle are dirtiognisted of either mental or bodily depravity--though they
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dit patriotism, they were free, their country was rich, bat have sunk in the grand .scale of manly consideration
"lei ebtluies changed with the Lill of Poland. The rester and
e'er Parts of the country were given by Catharine 6 smbow; they are still Inner, a • notable proof of which was
1:11: P"irtritr free as they were, were compelled to become • yesterday exhibited in Neer Palace-yard,. where a
ha:. The esak 113"egmeot made by tbe litro blAmilnha. Meetiut was held by the el-envier, Citizens of West-
or turned this fine province, tt will be orthe atom utility ._ ..
to it,,,,r muster, so cowl ides of the best' possible Means of
ilk 1, army Two thousand bones ase ea Their match to *Pair
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PAPERS.

StArESMAN.


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*ensure w sow the veternat Major Cnniwasewr
take the lend sin this occasion, who has grown grey
in his. countryts caulC! ; and.who, like &Room of
, .
I Aid, would lease.the world In an ecittacy of delight,
if be could see the work, which forms the principle,
lobject of his ardent soul, accomplished.

The day was unpropitious on account of the
rain; but this did not prevent a very respectable
attendance of persons, whose hearts seemed ty glow
at the idea of having our country politically redeem-
ed by the salutary Means of PAILIAMENTARS 111-
WORM.
This vital subject Ints been so often and so ably
discussed, and so little, in point of argument, has
been advanted against it, that it is next to impossible
for language to present an association of ideas to the
Readet) Which can illustrate it anew.
By Reform, we mean a restoration of those laws,
whether statute or common, which were framed by our
ancestors to secure to the subjed a salutary purticipa-
tiost in the exercise of the functions of the state ; which
lad" farmed the Constitution, and which Constitu-'
lion hat beets taken from us In proportion, as those,
laws have been abrogatet or suffered to fall
into disuse.—CAtsmt and TAcans both inform'
as, that the ancient -Britons were I free people,
zealous for liberty ; and, not like the' Gauts go,
verned by laws made by the great mane but bW those
made by themselves. This system formed the basis
of our Constitution, nor have the convulsions of Suc-
ceeding ages, or the iron grasp of tyranny been able
to efface it from r British heart. For the sake of
giving energy to the Executive, our forefathers per-
mitted a King to have a share in the government ;
but, by the parks] of the representative system, and
the frequency of election, they prevented him or his
ministers from either entering upon wars contrary to
their inelination,or narrowing down their rights. While
a controuling poser lies in the hands of the people,
through the medium of their representatives—repre-
sentatives not nominally, but really so—and those re-
preseatatives have to depend for the honour at•
tending their exalted stations dpon the general
approull of their conduct by their constituents,
the wheels of the State must turn aright—the people
must be happy, or the fault will be their own. But
have they such controul ? or have they not been most
scandalously plundered of 'ft by the three branches

of the Legislature assuming to themselves an autho-
rity, without consulting the People, to rob them of
their rights. The Septennial. AA orlgbsited in the
Lords, and was approved of by the Commons, when
they had not received the slightest authority from
those they r,lresented, to approve of such a mea•
sure; indeed, how is it likely they should, except we
can suppose a Master will authorize his servant to
set fire to, or otherwise destroy his estate.
To restore the laws, thus unjustly abrogated, is
the object of those who agitate the question of Put.
liamentary Reform f such was the object which called,
forth the Friends of Freedom yesterdny, in West-
minster; and to promote this object, we hope to hear
or similar Meeetiugs in every part of the kingdom.
Manly exertions will destroy our internal enemy—
Corruption,—and, when that is destroyed, we shall
have no enemy to fear.

Paris Papers* which arrived this morning, bars
brought us the Seventh Bulletin of the Grand Army,
and a variety of other interesting articles from the
seat of war, relative to the organization of the king-
dom of Poland. But our fixed determination to do
ample justice to the Speeches of the Gentlemen who
attended the Hustings at the Westminster Meeting,
yesterday, prevents us from giving any more of their
contents to-dey than the Bulletin, and N.teotto;i's
answer to the Address of the Deputies of the Polish
Confederation,, who waited upon- him at Wane.
this reply he positively denies them per-
mission to interfere with that part of Poland
which was consigned to Austria at. the late par-
tition of that kingdom.--This circumstance is
more to be lamented than wondered at ; for Aoitria
must be gratified with thiti limb of Poland, as a small
compensation for the vast extent of. territory . which
has been wrested from her by Franca, or perhaps she
might be induced to think the friendship of the latter
a curse rather than a bleiOng,"and take measures
accordingly at this moment,: which-is pregnant with
the destinkes of Europe. • .
Ifoactonnt of a general suction between the' eon-
teteding Powers in the North.has yet come to hand t
the Resents continue to retreat, And the French to
advance, with a caution,. howirer,• untisual_to• the'
French; though this seems more owing to the dill.
catty of bringing supplies from 'se great a' disk
tattoo necessary to support 'seek a meet artily ;
and to the desire of BowkeArta to canattlidate the
-Poles, than to any obstacles which the gush,*
can out in their way.—One thing is very re-1
markable in the Bulletin, which la, fhe Prussian

troops are fighting in the French service wltits cot-
tage equal to what they ever displayed its
ortheir lawful Monlirch.
A Gibraltar has. jolt broiled • the fBlWirii
log r-. k ,
(lizahpiAtt, Nair
the Ikeet,it AM within *lst dl the rod 43 thew
forte is stated at 0000 infantry and 400 catairlotne
der General 'Lk it. Their objectia.to cut 09 en:
nerel Batt.aSTB.ll,llfrog lb. rgill."l/411/htilit
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