The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-28 00:00:00

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• vu:, sten will not be deterred by any clamour' for 'coon.
ar reform. These were the principal topics of
domestic complaint, but they were urged only by
persons to whom economy seemed any species of re-
trenchment, and reform any species of change.—
When the latter consideration comes before the
noose, I shalt be prepared to espress the causes of
my dissent from the chimeras that are coiled Perlis.
ropirticy-Illeforir
Th. Mewls of LANSDOWNE could base wish-
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met occasion, as tolietre enabled him to give it his
—eseqsalified approbesion. There were parts of it.
which erre unobjectionable, and which he was fully,
prepared to support; but it contained, at the Male'
time, some topics which be footed it impossible to
allow to pass. ennosieed. Without impede, any blew&
to the Noble Lowls wie-moved and *wooded ehre
.; Address, or those who might Imre eoggested
tdtil
topics to-which fie alluded, be must say that, bed 11J
,bests possible to separate them from the expresii*
of their Lordships' regret for that severe calamitel
• which bad ailicted the natioo, he ihoald have feH
great pleasure is jeioleg in the onanimity of the veto
• which most harshen gives on that subject. How
that efllietion bed beer regarded, was known from
- the wank in which it had, in the metropolis, and
all over ibis- busy country, isterrepted the active
pursuits of, ow Never had soy occurrence cast so
• deep a !IWO* eler fie public mind as this melarachely
. ts . event, wisieliiised impressed so sad * gloom, not only
. on ihe presoak; but the &tete prospects of the court.
• . try. Meter ebere hod been en occasion os which
• •feeliesseei yoke a People were ueasimoosly
express 4, kited sectored in this Country in cons.-
. 4watuse Of the calamity they had experienced. Those
..indlegs, sod that voice, had green manifested in the
most general and strongest manneri and had: been
cooteyed in accents of .condelance to the foot of the
Throtte, and in prayers to the foot of the altar.—
Before leasing this melancholy-subject, he must lake
the liberty of remarking, that the remit they had so
deplore had afforded • the strongest
• proof wonting, of the sincere, up.
Mentes attechmeut of the People of
incip'es of .the Act of Settlement,
of Brunswick was called to the
Constitutioesi Monarchy of the
tho.ordee succession which had
Haring mad this much, it wagon.
assert: their lordships, that the
relating to that event which had
universal sorrow bad his most unqua.
With regard to other parts of
be could not give them his COli•
RS sot his iutention to propose
was, however, impossible for
supposed that one topic could
or indirectly his approbation.—
of the Address in which was int-
, Iller tranquillity could have been
ebteitted enderi the usual operation of the Coustitee
•• • .lion, if there had not been a change in the situation.
11w country. Was it possible for their levdshipt,
.sew toetitertaitt any sush doubt, after all °that blot
-ietted4ast Session, and ell they bad learned since?
.Where bid these been
.any appearance of a censpi-
racy, for the suppression of which the laws. were in.
uderaseie ? After- all the trials and investigations
oshiebited token place, their Lordships might ask
theetiehres whether they bed discovered evidence of
soy thing like en organised conspiracy, which called
for the setting said. the Constitution ; and whether
surdisconteet which had•existed, was manifested in
-such &manner, .or porcessed such a levee, that the
.wrilinety and fair admiaistraties of the laws could
atethave suppressed it r He should expect Ministers
soliAserrdiltinctly, not only that. there had been a
zatreplesiy,• but :that the number and character of
dam :persons engaged in k were such as to
rti-
gain, eitraordinttry measures for •its suppression.--'
He would maintain that they had not produced litl
the lest Session of Parliament a tittle of evidence asl
to the 'Marini the conspiracy. They bad asserted
*bat it had ramifications throughout the country ;
but is the trials at Derby, where it was the business
and the particular wish of the Attorney• General to
pour that the discontented there had a correspon-
dence with others in different quarters, he completely
failed. He could not prove that la any pail of the
country there had been the slightest connection with
these conspirators. This terrible conspirecy,• too,
was suppressed without the slightest difficulty by 18
&agoosi He was satisfied that the men engaged in
that transaction were very properly brought to trial,
and justly convicted ; bet it was the only thing
Ministers bad to bring forward as an apology for
their measures. It was natural that the Attorney-
General should have exerted all his great ability to
prove, ,if he eould, the existence of communications
between these conspirators and others In different
- parts of the country ; for the only chance Of an ac-
quittal depattled es the actual insigelficanceof the
strait. The -teemed Counsel for the Crown bad,
however, established no connection whatever. No-
thing could more decidedly demonstrate the absurdity
of this conspiracy then the evidence of .what had been
riechired by the Leader, or Nottingham Captain-
Oeuerai as ha was called, •who had been described to
have declared to his followers, that France, Eng.'
lat.d, and Ireland, and taste from the North, would
assist them iti their insurrection : but, after all, the
insurrection required no force to meet it, and might
hate been suppressed by s few parish constables.—
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It was tint the Suspension of .the Habeas Corpus
that put down the insurrection, or the conspiracy,
hich evee it ,might be. called : it had been
extinguished by the due administration of the la w—
hy.apprehending and bringing the persons accused to
and she same law could have been applied
pith equal efficiency, though the Habeas Corpus Act
had remained in force. At the saute time it was to
be observed, that' there was no proof of arty con-
spiracy hostile to the institutions -of she Cloaintry.—
Tbe whole disturbance sprung- from Initial *Nettie.
tent, with which thereat body of tie populathiti' of
the place where it broke est wain' 'untainted.'
is thusery villages threegit which the insurgents
peseed,...the people tan amity from. them end
Agee( the country- was therissoy mecca to' be found'
.of the a cnnepiestry-•tes.eiter
th s-
• 'fiesertterent... lie must therefore cootie** to, erode-
. -.Ohio, thew the grovels en, which the Sap/Watt-of the
:OW Ilineweipleaueit fir dq dli ifiefeei
trirely sefierrded, and that the measure was altogether

much reason to deploy
. -forger, were any proo
t ittikised, and °ostlers
—41114 nation to the prii
• tly -ORO the House
Thrtine—to the Co.
ggieetry, *lid to thki
-.Jaen established. II
411fessary for him to
pert of the Address r
cessieued such moire
• ed s,rprehatlots. '
• Address, though
allitrence,• yet it wsi
. any emendewitt. It
• blot to allow it to be
hese either directly o
, • ,He meant that part o
,•' • piled a doubt, whet'
nhtained nuclei this et