The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-11 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

of thirty shillings a week; but this leading actor
is the formidable conspiracy, ;sever received more
than fourteen shillings and texpenee. Another.
leader, after great interest was made and repeated
applications for the loan of Nasty shillings,
could not at first, like some of our loan contrac-
tors
ed on to advance so much, but
a t
lasotf thein ddiatry,
ib:idp:envd
net,
however, without a display
of sound fivaucial knowledge; for he actually suc-
ceeded in obtaining one shilling discount for prompt
payment! Such is the result of an investigation
which, at first sight, threatened to disclose a conspi-
racy so formidable as to endanger the safety of the
throne, and subvert the liberty bf the people, if they
are supposed to possess any. Such the Internal state
of the country, which the hireling Journals of
'the day contended, was sufficient to justify the
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ! ! We
have often had occasion to charge the present
Ministers with weakness and imbecility ; but we do
not know any circumstance in the whole course of
their political career, which renders them more con.
temptible than this. They have, in fact, 'reached
the climax of fatuity ; and, in common life, instead
of being considered capable of managing the domes-
tic concerns of a family, they would run the risk of
having a sentence of ideotcy passed against there.
How infatuated then must that people be wile de
do not come forward,' as with one veice; and
call, loudly call, en the Parries REGENT to
dismiss such men from his councils—men who,
in every publidact,are bringing disgrace on his Royal
Highness's Government, and who will assuredly
bring ruin on the country,if they are permitted to re-
main much longer in power. With regard to the
proposed alteration in the Riot Act, we protest
against it ; because the law as it stands is sufficient
to check, and has already checked,the disorders c om-
plained off; because, though several of the country
Magistrates have not been so active as Ministers seem
to have wished in suppressing riots, any extension
of power would be dangerous in the hands of others,
who are well kuown to be disposed to exercise a
rigour beyond the law ; and finally, because the
Orders in Council, the existence of which deprived-
our manufacturers of bread, and led to internal tu-
mults, are now repealed, which must revive trade,
and, of course, remove the cause which gave birth to
this disordered state of things. We trust, therefore,
whatever regard Ministers may have for their own
characters, that those Members in the House of
Commons who ha% e frequently defeated their uncon-
stitutional measures, will stand forward on the pre-
sent occasion, and prevent this new innovation on
oar liberties and our laws. • •

Accounts have been received from the D• wns, &-
tailing the particulars of a gallant attempt Capella
Lemmas, in the Ravels sloop, off th, m.:heldt, to
destroy the enemy's flotilla, consisting ••f 14 sail,
when practising on the 3d inst. dr,• in their own
port. He succeeded in cutting off seven, tl:ree of
which he totally destroyed, the ether four sought
protection under a battery. The enemy's naval force,
now ready for sea in the Scheldt, consists of 18 sail
of the line and five frigates.
It was very currently reported yesterday, That Mi-
nisters had come to the determination of granti►i a
Loan to Sweden.

A ►etter was yesterday received from Salem) which'
mentions that intelligence had arrived there of the
consent of the British Minister to a Committee of.
Enquiry respecting the Orders in Council, and that
it had tended greatly to tranquillize the public mind
its America.

By the Madeira bag, which reached town yester-
day, we find that the outward-bound India deer, un-
der convoy of the Janont was off that island on the
lath ult. all well.

The following article is extracted from the Lisbon
Gazette, of the tOth of June :—" We have received
an account that General Mix had been betrayed by
two renegado Spaniards. Lodging one night in
Per*les, the house in which he was, was surrounded
by 20 French 6—goons, and he owed his escape to
his personal valor, ..nd that of the few soldiers'who
were in the house. 'flits traitors were the next day
hanged."
It was reported yestri day that Gen. PHILIPPON
had been taken • but we rm..eived a letter from a Gen-
tleman at Brighton, date.i on Thursday, slating, that
Gen. PMILIPPON, dressed like a journeymen hotelier,
accompanied by a shabby-looking fellow, who spoke
tolerable good English, took ,ip their abide in a barn
near that town on Friday night, and the parties kad
embarked not tar from thence.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR gave a grand. Turtle ,
Feast, at Kew, to the Dukes of Censeat.Ane, Sus-
URI CAMBRIDGE, GLOIICY-iTER, and a large party of
persons of distinction.
Mr. MARK thee, late of the Police, who arrested
Lord FINGALL, has for that service just got a place
of only 8001. per annum—Secretary to the new Mi-
litary Board!!!
COOKS, the Actor, is arrived io town from his
dramatic excursion in America; and yesterday; re...ac-
oepted a command in the Covent-garden Bride, un-
der his steady friend, Field-Mershatilaaats.
Yesterday, about noon, a Geatletion.shot himself
in Kensington-gardens, in the box opposite the great ,
gravel walk, leading to the Palace. Over the box
is written in pencil, 66 Stop—consider what you are
going to do.' These words were in large: tetters,,,.
and in a very confused manner, and are 'sok:Wail to
bare been writtea by the unfortunate man.
The Apothecaries are about to send in Petitions
from all quarters, against the Glass Tax : and
threaten, if the bow Cnsncera.ou of the Exams's&
refuse to prescribe an emollient for them on this oc-
casion, that after blistering him, they will peer all their
phials of indignation on his financial had.
A respectable Oilman, in the neiabourhood of
Aldgate, committed suicide yesterday/m.9W% by
• buil% himself,
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LIBERTY OF THE PRESS AND FREE.,
DOM OP DISCUSSION.

ildlowlag is a more ample Report of Mr. Nterrnsaames
lipsseh, at the Crown and Anchor, on Thursday, than what ap
pored la the iltrassaws yeste;do) .3
“ Cull mid Religious Liberty all over the world."

Upon this toast being given, 1
The Rev. Mr. NIGHTINGALIC role, and addressed
the meeting at some length, on the natural union of
civil and religious liberty, and on that connection
which experience has 'hewed us subsists between
bigotry,intolerance, superstition, court tyranny, and
corruption. We had often beard of the association
lof ideas, and here, in the toast before us, we had
the association of principles and practices ; " for,"
the Rev. Gentleman °boned, " it,will be found,
that thole who advocate the cause of civil liberty,
also espouse that of religious liberty. Bigotry and
tyranny are of the same family—[applause]—cha-
rity and freedom belong to the same class of public
virtues. The 'No Popery' Alarmists, to use a vul-
gar expression, the enemies to the constitutional
claims of the English Dissenters, and to the Irish Ca-
tholics, are the enemies of liberty, of your Chairman,
and of the cause which we are this day met to cele-
brate." [Laud applause.] The Rev. Gentleman j
' then proceeded to exhort the meeting to do every
thing that lay in their power to diffuse the priuci-
ples of civil liberty, because in so doing they would
be materially promoting the-great interests of reli- I
gious freedom and universal charity. 64 But, it is
not generally known," he continued, " to what ex-
tent religious bigotry and intolerance are carried by
the existing laws of this country. It is not generally
I known, that there exists at this time a very large and
respectable class of Christians, who are debarred from I
almost evety advantage of civil and religious right
and protection. The 17th Clause of the Toleration
Act, if so intolerant an instrument merit such a title,
totally excludes two classes of Christians from ' all
ease and benefit' resulting to other Christains
from the rest of the clauses io that Act ; these
classes are Popish recusants, and some other per-
sons, who do not hold certain mysterious opinions,
concerning which the greatest, the wisest, and tho
best of men have always differed, and concerning
which great, wise, and good men always will differ,
because those opinions are confessedly mysterious
and incomprehensible. Yet, because persons do not
hold these opinions, they are liable to be punished with
the utmost severity ; and, were the laws acted upon,
and could the principles, of these persons be legally
known, they could not maintain an action at law,
nor be allowed the exercise of that right of free dis.
cussion, for the support of which. we are now as-
sembled. A hand of soldiers might be admitted into
this room to drag many of us from our seats, and
destroy the harmony of our meetieg." Mr. N.
then observed, that Lord Stanhope had been accused
of eccentricity, we bad all been so accused, be-
cause we did not move hv the common circle ; but
Lord Stanhope had nevertheless shewn in the House
of Lordst that there still existed in the religious code nu-
meroas absurd and cruel statutes. Adverting to what
had been said respecting Mr. Eaton, Mr. N. remarked,
that it was the duty of all tree Christians to mark
their disapprobation of his unchristian punishment, by
rendering him every assistance in their power. For
his own part, though he was convinced there were
many things in Mr. Eaton's book inimical to Chris-
tianity, and though be himself was a humble sup-
porter of that Religion, as far as lay in his power,
yet he must enter his solemn protest against Mr.
Eaton's punishment ;and concluded, by again recom-
mending that unfortunate and persecuted man to the
tiotice and support of every Christian present. This
address was followed by loud applause:,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

—wow—
PORTSMOUTH, Jinx 10.

Arrived the Latona frigate with the remainder of the Lisbon
convoy_, • and the DementDeent sloop of war from a cruise. , •
&aka his Majesty's ship Cormorant, on a cruise. •
kik Majesty's ship Mentor is appointed convoy for Spals;Por-
tugal, and the Mediterranean; and the Attack, for the Dew's.
DEAL, Jour 10.
Came down at the River his hlajesty's ship Ardent, and
sailed with the Elephant for Portunouil ; aim came down the
Fos _ .

Sailed the Calliope, for of Flushing t nod the Locust for the
French coast.

PLYMOUTH, ince 9.
Arrived the Matilda transport, with 397 prisoners taken in the
Rivoli and other ships la the Mediterranean.
The Yietorions's convoy passed sop Channel last erenktg, u
der convoy of a sloop of war.
Sailed the Macedonian frigate to the westward.

IRISH CATHOLIC BOARIU—CAPTAIN BMTAH in
the Chair.—On the 4th of July, Mr. KEOGH moved,
and it was unanimously resolved, "that the paragraphs
inserted in the Loudon ministerial newspaper called
the Courier, of the 30th of June and lit of July,
,lekertiug a-differeium of opiniess in :he Catholic.
Body as to the Resolutions of the late Aggregate
Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, are totally false, I
and destitute of the slightest foundation in fact, and i
are calculated for the worst purposes." ,
On Wednesday last a middle-aged woman, who
was brought up before the Magistrates of Ilatton-;
garden Police-office, on a charge of an assault, I
was locked up for want of bail. A short timeafter-
wards an officer went to the lock-up room, when
he discovered the poor woman hanging, being sns- '
pended by a ribbon, which she bad taken from her 1
bonnet; he cut her down immediately nearly dead,'
I.but was recovered, by surgical assistance being NI
sorted to, ad was afterwards liberated.
Statement of the Quantity of Porter brewed by
`the twelve principal Rouses, ending July, 5, 1811, ,
and July 5, 1812:
:- 1811. 1114. [
Barrels. Barrels '
Bard-ay, Perkins, and Co. . 264,166 00±fri
Moos, Reid, and Co. . . 340 ,095 188,079
Truman, Roxbury, and Co.- - • ' 142.179 150.164
Whitbread and Co. - . 124316 122,446
Fells Calvert and Co. - 105.887 108,212
,_ , linty hteustand Co. . 103,15.2 102,493
Jambe Delafield, and Cm . - 81,764 100,814
i 1 Goodwin and Co. . ...., 84,181 81,013 '
.
[ Elton - KM 58,036
Cocks and Campbell (IMe Brown and Parry) 72,167 41,274
Taylor mid Co. . . 45,291 51,7/0 '
Clowes and Co. . 36,512 34,010
PLYMOUTH, JOLT B.—A et's Inquest was
taken yesterday on the b OrMr. Ilyne and his I
i two children. The Jniy returned a verdict of-
-1 Labouring under Mental Derangement.--Mrs. Ilyne
is much better? and great here entertained lif per
recOver,Y.