The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-08 00:00:00

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The defeats and contempt which the Treasury Can
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ditlates hare met with in the present popular Elec-
tions must be held as a complete proof of the general
dissatisfaction .which the measures of Administration
hue created.' Ministers might learn. a useful and
salutary lesson from the events which have followed
the dissolution. Their misdeeds had not only ap-
palled the hearts of the People, but had shaken asunder
the best foundation of their liberties. Yet had the
violators of their country's laws and the enslavers of
foreign States proudly rocked themselves into the
slumber of security, relying on the presumptuous
hope that their power, and the exhausted state of the
People's finances, would enable them to rivet the
chains of oppression for another seven years. In
this unchristian eXpectation the Ministers of the
PRINCE REGENT ire destined to be disappointed,
and we congratulate the inhabitants of this long
injured. and subservient country which, in its
adulation to a wicked set of Ministers, has mis-
taken obedience to their measures for the loyalty
due to the nation, the Sovereign, end the laws,
on that returning sense of virtue, character, and feel-
ing which has re-asserted the Rights of the People,
and established a principle, not alone of partial good
but of universal efficacy, on which the happiness of
the community at large was and must ever be mainly
dependant. It is only where the tyrannic influence
of aristocratic dominion and the power of corruption
remain unshaken, from the interrupted progress of
that prosperity which ought to hare been the lot of
every indisidual of this country, and is the parent of
independence and awry manly 81111 patriotic 11001.
anent,---it is only where these ungenial obstacles pre.
Tad that the system of the present Government has
obtained any triumphs. The solitary example of a
single rouoty, far less one in the situvion of
Westmorlarol domineered, over by a family in
the interest of the Court, ,4 proud as Ap.dlo
on forked hill," will avail but little when
put in coomparison with the unequivocally express-
ed setirintoots of the majority of the inhabitants
of the kingdom. As to ‘Vestmorland, where the
spirit of independence has been suppressed by the
most iodefoosible means, and from whence ell the
sophistry of the Courier fails to extract a triumph,
it is well known that that County has been
virtu-Illy shut up for half a century, end degrad-
ed to the rank of a close Borough ; one powerful
family having, from time immemorial, named both its
Representatives; so much so that an Election for
that County has, for many years, been as unmeaning
a form as an election of a Bishop, by the Dean and
Chapter, under the King's writ of Gouge d'Elire.—
The Freeholders are in effect disfranchised ; but
the spirit of independence, though long repressed,
was not extinguished, and it has recently burst
forth with uncommon energy. It is not easy, indeed,
to appreciate the Went and influence of the Low-
Vita family, or to conceive the numberless ave.
roues by which they can make an appeal to the We-
lt, to the hopes, and the fears of an immense
tmber of Freeholders. The whole Clergy of the
tablished Church are in their interest—every man
to hopes for preferment, for himself or for his
trtds, at the hand of Government, Must become
?ir decided partizan : nor is it easy to calculate the
Imber of those who, on account of their private
.erest, would be induced to vote for them, how-
,er repugnant such a vote might be to their own
dings. It required, therefore, no ordinary de-
Ite of moral courage to venture on a contest in
%rich so many private interests were arrayed against
,em ; and, under these circumstances, the exertions
tat have been made reflect infinite honour on
to independence, the patriotism, and the magna-
imity of the Freeholders of Westmorland.—
.so the temporary success of the resistance to the pro-
;Tess of independent principles in Westmorland, we
)fight oppose the signal triumph obtained to the
cause of the People and sound Constitutional policy
in Devon, where Lord EBILINGTON and Mr. BAS
•ARD have been returned upon principles avowedly
'he reverse of those that have guided the present Ad.
ministration, and Sir THOMAS ACLAND, a Seconder
tf Addresses to Royalty, *and a supporter of the late
war, has been cast back like a loathsome thing,
on account of his public principles alone. Sir Trip-
us, in seconding and supporting the wishes of those
who have sunk this nation and the People of others

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into a state bordering ors despair, like many °therein
the late imbecile Parliament, sadly mistook the road
to glory, Well may the supporters of the mew.
slues which have brought this ignominious glory
upon us, in the insincerity of their sinister hearts,
acknowledge the conviction of the errors they
have committed.--But will their quibbling
confessions of ignorance and mistake remove
or atone for the evils which their political
conduct has occasioned ? Glory indeed! Is there
any glory in the disgusting view of Great Britain, the
queen of isles, the patroness of freedom, the bene-
factress of the world, leagued with despots, as
the champions of intolerance, the friend of su-
perstition, the foe of liberal notions and generous
ideas ?--And what has she gained in the successes
she has to boast? The friendship (mighty bless-
ing !) of all the imbecile and profligate Princes
end Governments of Europe, and the curses of
myriads of its inhabitants! She has gained glory;
glory arising from death and desolation, destruction
and murder; not that true glory, inestimable in
value, which eurroonds the benefactors of mankind.
Whether we trace the self-named deliverers from the
smoking ruins of Moscow, to the field of Waterloo,
wailing through blood, with terror in their front, and
cotiquest, famine, and desolation in their rear, on
the march of deliverance, attended by the groans of
thousands, and the execration of millions, to the gates
of Paris—we ask in vein what objects favourable to the
interests and happiness of mankind have beet; accom-
plished by the mighty coalition which lays claim to
our praise and future suffrage. • They promised to
deliver France from the tyranny of NAPOLEON ; and
to evince their sincerity, have deposed a Ruler of the
People's choice, and placed upon the Throne one
of their own.--Bosarawrs hes been hurled
from his Throne—but France has been made
to drain from the cup of misery and humilia-
tion, a more bitter draught, than was ever forced
upon her by the Exile of St. Helens. She has been
delivered, and is ruined. The National Guards
have yielded to Cossacks; and the Legion of 110-
I Door is supplanted by the troops of WELLINGTON.—
They promised to restore Poland, and liberate Spain.
The laud of koscrosso is parcelled into military
districts, to feed the rapacity of her conquerors;;
and the Holy Inquisition is revived, to indemnify the
Spaniel& for their loyalty. They promised to
emancipate Europe, and secure the peace of the Con-
tinent. Accordingly, we see the Autocrat of all the
Hussies, with an army of 600,000 men, ready to I
suppress the first symptoms of discontent, and watch-1
ing with anxious solicitude over the liberties of Swe-
den, Prussia, and Denmark ; securing to vassals the
right of toiling : and to Princes the right of reaping,
unmolested, the fruits of their labour.
Such is the condition of Continental Europe;
while Ettgland, who has been the most prominent 1
agent in this business, finds herself, after a long and
desperate struggle, 6' up to the ears in glory and in
debt I"—Her Treasury is exhausted—her People,
oppressed with a load of taxes, have been driven to a
state of desperation. They have laid their grim".
ances before Parliament; but, instead of redress,
hey met with insult added to injury. This is glory,
ruly —Reader, " How do you like it ?"

French Papers to the sth inst. have reached us.—
They contain no direct notice of the conspiracy by
the warm friends of the Monarchy, the Ultras, to
depose the King. but the signs of hustle and appre-
hension about the Court are too obvious to avoid
remask. The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at Paris
on Thursday, and was the neat day closeted sue.
cessively with the Duke of RICHELIEU, and all the
Ministers of the Allied Courts. The National Guards
of several districts in the Department of the Seine
have been ordered up to the Chateau of St. Cloud,
there to du what is termed the King's duty, while his
Majesty remains at the Pilace.

A Mail from Holland brings Papers and Letters
to the 4th instant. it is positively stated, in accounts
from the French frontiers, thatthe Austrian and Ba.
Tarim' detachments of the Army of Occupation have
actually return.d borne.

GREENLAND FISIIERY.—FIRST ARRIVAL.
HULL, JULY 6.--The first arrival from the Fishery
is this morning. The Prince of Brazil, Capt. TODD,
arrived in the Humber from Greenland—a fall ship.
Captain TODD has not seen any ship since the 3d of
May up to that date. Ile reports as follows :
North Briton, 8 6sh I Duneonthe, 3 fi,h
Jane. 3
Aurora, 3 Wolker. 2
Esnomth. I I Neptune. L
Lord Barham, 1 Lord %i ellington, I
Gilder, I Shannon, I.

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More American Papers have this day reached us;
hut they do not contain any news of importance.
THE QUEEN, &c.—Although the account of the
state of her MAJESTY was no more favourable than
that " the QUEEN was a little better," yet we are
happy to say she was so much relieved on Monday
as to be thought able to receive the Princess ADE.
LAINE of BilEl/41NGEN. and the Duchess her mother.
The Princess and the Duchess, attended by the Coun-
tess MUNSTER, left Grillon's hotel yesterday about.
one o'clock in one of the PRINCE REGENT'S carriages
and four, with oot-r:ders, and proceeded to Kew Pa-
lace, where they arrived about two o'clock. About
1 the same time the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE
walked across the lawn from their house on Kew-
green to the Palace. The Princess of NlEtHttsceat
and the Duchess were conducted to the QUEEN'S pri.
date apartment, where they were introduced to her
MAJESTY by the Counts MUNSTER, arid were most
graciously received.

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-.... . GgNgitAL BLECTION: .
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mENIRF.II9 RETURNED.
titutzu (C 6.)—James Dreintnond.
STATE OF POLLS IN THE COUNTRY.
URNS, JULY 6. DIOGIIEDA, JULY S.
Neville 1086 Ogle .... 156
ondas .. 10-e IM2 Wallace .... 149
D allett ... 495 COUNTY OF LN'S, JULY 2.
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RRECONSHIRM, int* 3. !mooch ... 527
Wood .... 575 C
.... 317
lements .. 464
Morgan .... 517 While
QV CHM'S COUNTY, omit 3. COUNTY Of ARMAGH, JULY 2.
W. W. Pole .... XO6B. Brownlow .. !,39
Parnell 1979 ! Richardson .... 699
Come .... 12.5 A i Caulfield .... 506
Donne 557
COUNTY OP TI rrEaANY, COUNTY OF LIMERICK. 2d Day,
JULY 2. Gross Pull.
Cahir 621 Fitzgibbon
Mathew .. 577 Qnin ....
Prittie .. 218 O'Grady • •
COUNTY OF WEXFORD, JULY I.
Carew .... 836 CITY Or MINNICK. 2d Day,
Colcloogb .... 816 Gross Pull thi- Evening.
Stopford .... 758 Vereker .... 51
Valeutia .. • 7'14 Rice .. 48
---- The Poll has closed 84follow a:—

SORIL CITII.- • H _
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Freemen l5 Pt
Freeholders l5 3
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COUNTY OF DUBLIN.—FIrrif DAY.
DueLis, JULY 4.—Tois Election has terminated
most unexpectedly. The law of the case, as regulat-
ed by Act of Parliametit, 57th Geo. 111., requires,
that after the fourth day of Election. twenty votes
should be received in each Barony ; in consequence
of this enactment, out of nine Baronies, which com-
pose the County of D 'Win, eight were yesterday
closed for want of sufficient votes. The Barony of
Balrothery alone remained open.
The numbers polled } esterday were—
Hamilton... —.145 1 Tal hat . 1411 White .39
The gross Pull stood thus—
Hamilton 753 1 Tolhot 724 1 White ..... 330
The Poll closed without any observation from the
Candidates, and it was by many expected that it
would this day be renewed.

COUNTY GALWAY.
Thursday, soon After twelve o'clock, the Coonty
Sherds, the Candidates, and their friends, proceeded
to the County Hall, for the purpose of electing two
Members to serve in the ensuing Parliament. After
the usual formalities had been gone through. lames
Daly, of Dursandle, Esq. was prrposed as a fit and
proper person to Represent this County; D. R. Daly,
Eq. of Dalystown ; and Richard Martin, of Clare.
Esq. There was no polling, and the Meeting
adjourned till eleven o'clock on Friday.

The PRINCE REGENT left town yesterday after-
noon, about lialf•past four o'clock, to attend the
QUEEN at Krw.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCE'S OF
HMI:ATOM-
BURG.—There has been sonic disrespect shown by
some person or persons in (Alice in France, to the 1
Prince and Princess of lIEssE.HomnuEG. They ar•
rived in the Royal yacht off Calais on Monday
afternoon, and it being low water, they were put
on shore in an open boat about four o'clock, 14:1Pii
the only military honour the amiable Princess Emz A•
BETH, the daughter of the King and Quern of Great
Britain, the sister of the PRINCE REGENT, received,
consisted of three soldiers and a corporal in undtess,
and they did not even present arms, and did not pay
attention to the Illustrious Personages ; whereas,
when the Grand Duke Micitatt. arrived there, he
was received will, a discharge of cannon, and as is
the case when an Ambassador passes through. The
Prince and Princess remained at an hotel till twelve
' o'clock the nest day, and there was no guard of

honour at their door.
It is the opinion of persons most conversant with
the routine of Parliamentary Business, that it will
be necessary for the new Parliament to meet about
the end of October or beginning of November.—
This opinion is grounded upon te premptio
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that there will be a great number of Petitions
against the returns to the House of Commons,
which will necessarily divide the attention of the
House with the ordinary public business, and re-
quire en early arrangement. The Minister will
also have to feel the pulse of the New Members,
and ascertain whether they be amiable or not, prior
to the introduction of any favourite and important
measure. The House will present the old scene,
but there will be manly new actors; and it is ne-
cessary to be acquainted with their talents before
he can cast the parts. The late company had de-
clined sadly in wit and eirquence. %We trust that
a large portion of both, to make up for the defi-
ciency, will be found in the new recruits.
Papers from Canada to the Ist of June, state that
considerable discontent prevails in that province.—
The whole district of Niagara, having adopted the
principles and proceeded according to the advice of M r.
GOURLEY, in an address to the resident Landholders,
every township held meetings, and have each chosen a
Representative. These Repreeentatives( I 5 in number,
among whom ire several Magistrates) have met, and
chosen four to represent the district in the Provincial
Convention, appointed to meet at York. Uppt'r
Canada, on the Gth of July, in order to send Com-
missioners to England. w ith an address to his Royal
Highness the PRINCE REGENT, respecting the conduct
of the Local Government. The Committee of Nia-
gara District have invited others to follow their ex-
ample. Saturday, the 6th of June, was appointed
for Township Meetings, to nominate Township Re.
presentatives. Much injury hail beets done by tires
in Lower Canada, in the woods. At the German
Settlement of the Claudiere, and in that of the
Seigniory of St. Gabriel, several houses and a quantity
of corn had been destroyed.
The King of DENMARK has published an Ordinance,
for regulating the provisions of the Law of Libel in
that country, with regard to writings that might he
deemed offensive to Sovereigns maintaining relation.
of Amity with the Court of Copenhagen. The
Ordinance renders those responsible who cause the
offensive writings of others to be printed.
Costs EXCHANGE, JULY B.—We have had several
arrivals of Wheat and Oats since Monday, and there
being but few buyers at Market, it was with difficulty
that Menday's prices could be obtained.-11srley is
also dull sale, and nothing but prime samples fetched
last day's prices.—Beans stud Peas are hob), sale and
rather cheaper.

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