The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-15 00:00:00

THE STAT

Tise Queues Letter to his Mainly, has mired
with redoubled %ekortence, all the Jest and terrine

feelings which her sufferings and noble Wad had so
strongly excited. It is not our intention to add any
thing to what we said yesterday. to express our sista
of its strong and eloquent reasoning. Nor owl we
occupy any part of oar columns now, i■ vindicating
the cause of the QUERN against her semen sad
their vile associates. Every step of her own conduct,
in her defence, has been her vindication ; and we
have no public to win in her behalf, for they are won
already by herself, and are wholly hers. A duty, not-
withstanding, remains for us to perform ; and bow-
evrr hopeless may seem the attempt to discharge it.
we shall not suffer ourselves to be silehced by despair.
We, therefore, address ourselves to that House which
is called upon, in the first initance, to sit iu judgment
upon her MAJ6STT ; and if that assemblage of Nobles
is not to be appalled by the danger which threasees
itself, with the whole aristocracy of the realm, the
Nouse of Commons may be induced to arrest the
progress of this evil when its portentuous gloom shall
come to overshadow its sittings.

The first thing for the House of Peers to look sted-
featly at is, the temper of the nation respecting these
proceedings, and respecting themselves as involved
in these proceedings. It is saying only half the ttuth,
to state that the great majority detest the proceedings,
and that no rank screens the persons concerned in
them from a concurrent hatred. If the nation were
utterly wrong, still the Peers of this Realm would be
unfit to stand in the rank where fortune has placed
them, if they persisted against 'o generals feeling as
that which condemns only the Querv's enemies.
Thrones are seldom upheld against the will of a raised
and incensed nation, and cannot be so upheld but by
one arm whirl► now no wise mail will rely on solely
for safety. Is it impossible to induce the Lords to
look at this fielly P And is it possible they shall go
on, when they have felt the fearful magnitude of this
single argument ? But it is not only prudence which
demands concession, under circumstances such as we

have just glanced at. itrATlCEramkes the acme demand ;
and if Justice were even silent on the subject, gees-
rosity to 6 people to whom the Throne and the Anis.
tocrary are uncounted obligations, 'that gejsposity
Would say—". (live them this boon, pour in cost to you,
but every thing to their warm and whir hearts."
There eat be no error in this reasoning. Who shall
lose by the concession we ask of tht tlovernment and
the Peers N.—not the nation, for th.erere the elaituaslit
of matey here (we cell it mercy fur the argument*,

ftke)--not the Sovereign, for be has deviated the
fruition to be no lours personal, by his refusing to
.soliod ' wake the QCP:BN:11 letter is bin personal capacity oti
sad a moik-sArlterhits is to he luhatel IoP.
Itillatesio• ? The safety of the state may be end**
peed by a contrary coarse ; and who has more to loio
with the overthrow of the state, than the Moose of
Peers ? .
If this cannot be ugliest against us thus far, and we
lidilak it cannot, will any one hew bold an to say the
:Ilissatisfactioao• against there prweediugs, is: not that
of the Nation, but of a Party? Why! that will make
a sort of an argument for Ministerial papers, when
they can get nothing else; and they do resort to it,
because they can get nothing . better. But no sober
and honest man will say, that the Natioh does not al-
most universally detest the very name of all Vila am.
oven supposed to be enemies to the QvaeN. Amu*
the multitudes of the high and low and middle classes,
who associated so cry up the Monarchy, and frightened
us with their iti-rin* for Its safety, none are famioll
back Ministers in their present fearful proteedings, ii
ear paper of yesterday, we gave an instance of -whit
are the honest feelings on this %abject, ci,f_ the. ia
pendent men who lately supported *vestment:that ‘,
when they thought the state Silo in danger. Sir
'Donato NoeL's letter to Lord LreitaeooL, is a perfei4
specimen of the feelings generally, of our Gentry oa
this aalsappy topic.
If the Peers, therefore, have shut their eyes or earss
or both, in this contest, let us hope the (ousts/ are
irlser. We do very firmly entertain rush hope. We
believe the Capstone an pot to be duped ; and we do
.think their true hageroarr will be as saw by slum, as
*Stake hi/Irene' fly up and leave the other teak pros.
piliarating. Sir ellitAllb Noel. lied sot fear the
being found in a. minority on this occasion. His
patriotism and good sense will rally w assembligeof
Statesmen round him, whom danger and well-grounded
fear have made trim.
The above would almost seem to have bees written
In answer to The Courier of last night. It was, haw-
se's, written previous to oar having seen that paper.
• The Courier cannot be so ignorant as ft preseadalo
be, when it asserts that her MAJESTT "dies for pro-
.Wetion and acquittal to the rabble." If the writer
will go into the places of resort which are frequented
by persons of property, and of old and tried loyalty,
be will scarcely find one voice in behalf of the Qvasn's
innissers in any any one of them. It is a noiseless
10, which has cast a most serious alarm amongst the
property and loyalty of the country, that the hotrod
manifested against the rum. proceedings is ia, othel
public meetings and private assemblies, is oar etiode,
our houses, and ergo in our places if worship: fr his
feeling is not to be aigmatised by 'the pets
scandalously heaped upon it by The Cowley.. ilfili
the Ministerial Papers allay any port of the alas*

IMAN.

mated by the proceedings of which the QCIIII,I COW
plains? The language of The Courier, in speaking.

of the Qualm's letter, is coarse aid furious, and is as
ill-calculated as its arguments to serve the cause
which bas the misfortune to be defended by such an
advocate.

The hour is fast approaching when t'arliument will
re-assemble ; and for what? To promote the tran-
quillity and prosperity of the nation ? to remedy the
disastrous consequences of war ? to alleviate the bur-I
then+ of taxation ? to remove the embarrassments of

Mein? a fresh scope to industry? to relieve the
wants of the poor? 0! no. The only object aimed
at is that from which no benefit to the people can pos-
sibly result; by which the nation is convulsed, for the
purpose of allaying a mere personal irritation ; and a
Queen is to be persecuted to vindicate the honour of a
King. This object, which had occupied the time of
Parliament almost from its commencement, is now
about to consume it till the termination of a Session.
The consideration of the gravest questions of po-
licy has been entirely neglected, in consequence of the
proceedings against her Majesty ; and an entire session
has been worse than wasted, merely to gratify some
of the worst feelings of the human heart, and to set
another example of the studied contempt in which pub-
.4c opiuiois is held by certain pe.sons in this country.
Neither the thundering see of reform abroad, nor the
piercing cries of distress at home, could make any
impression on minds, too long used to a false and
stubborn course, to be capable of moving in the
straight road, though the greatest perils beset the
former. The pleasure of pursuing, even to ruin, a
person justly dear to the nation, has overcome the
dictates of prudence, and the plainest considerations
of safety. Though the distresses of the labouring
classes are as severe as they are unprecedented, it has
been deemed of more importance to employ the
powers of the government for the dettradation of au
illustrious, injured, and helpless female, than for the
relief of a suffering nation.
It is not possible for any man, whose means of in-
formation ate confined to the metropolis, to have a
correct idea of the misery that is spread over the
greater part of the kingdom, particularly the mane.
factoring districts. The sums,
.which are expendell,
beyond the fair proportion, in the metropolis, aro
withdrawn from the use and succour of the remote
parts of the kingdom. Bat the forced animation,
which is thus given to the heart, increases tire
debility of the rest, and is nrging on that crisis,
which the rich and the great would have most cause
to deplore ; thank they ate making no adequate
efforts to avert it..

The lower class of Englishmen, instead of being
that enviable class they had been long and justly re-
petered, are sot, by many degrees, as well a as
the same class in France and the Netherlands. Per-
haps there would no exaggeration if they were re-
presented as the most miserable at this moment la
Europe. What a light ayes this circumstance these/
epee the policy that has been pursued for years at
the expense of so much treasure, and with so much
injury to the .oonstialtion ! It shows also the 4us-
'Ece as well as the modesty of these souiding stada*
to national gratitude, which are occasionally put
iieeth by Ministers. It proves at the same time the
peopriety of' agitating one of the roust exasperating
4esstious, whilst the public mind is sore from the
jpessere of accumulated distress. The powers, how-
Wet, of delusion, are passing away rapidly ; and the
time is as fast approaching, when Oorertintenis will
be strictly judged by their acts and sot by their pro-
fessions.

The House of Lords meets this day pursuant to
adjournment; and the day, it is hoped, will not pass
over without a question being put to his Majesty's
Ministers as to their interference with the despotic
Courts of the Continent, against the efforts of the
people who are struggling fur a Representative 410.
vernuient. Rumours of a policy fatal to the peace and
credit of this country are abroad—and it is material
that at a moment of suckiesseraal disturbance, the
public mind should not be alarmed by accounts of sob-
sidles, sad of interference with continental disputes,
that would to a mural certaioty•plunge us into the
guiph of bankruptcy.
- The I,llsigouiss frigate. Captain Hyde Parker, is or-
dered to sea aid* sealed order.. The occasion Ira
deemed so preseisig, that orders were given o send her
books (for the payment of the accounts) to London
by express. and to be returned by the same bearers. It
would he idle to speculate on the purpiAe of this otter
but, few will learn the fact, without conjectures and re-
inues's the most, grriopi.;

Orders were received itt Portsmouth dock-yard on Fri-
day. to lay down ninurings of liiighton for the three
royal yachts, which at present remain at Spithead. Sir
C,•Paget has a week's leave of absence. His Majesty is
expected to embark at Portsmouth shout Thursday
next.
Wises alums are hegineing to be entertained for
the fate of feiratenant Parry and the ether adventurers
teitarsis the North Pole. It is shout certain that they
cannot have discovered sad made good a passage through
any of the Straits, ss, if so, we- should have heard tidings
of these before sow from China. The supposition is,
that the vessels took shelter in some core out of the
reach of drifting ire, and that, on the opening of the
sea main,, they have persevered in their search, est of
the line of the whale fishery ; otherwise some of the
ships that are returard woulsi have brought us accounts.
of them.

Outworn, August B.—The following are the
names of the is soldiers, who have beta committed to
our jail as guilty actors. or art and part, of the homi-
cides is the fatal occorresce of Satarthty ste'onight :
John Massey, Robert Sarrage, Patrick Lynch, Joseph
Elliot, John Back, and Malachi Clinton. The other
'Poems apprehended along with these immediately after
the outrage has since the precognition been liberated,
being fora that he was no way concerti/it in it.
The icer•, noa-cumatissioned officers, and privates
of the lith'rtgleiest at Stirliair, have liberally w►-
acribod 1091. for the relief of the families of shoot who
bit their lived oa the above melancholy 'owlet',
whisk was transmitted on Saturday by Colossi WA.
limes to the Chief Magistrate of tireenock, acme-.
plaice by a laser eapreuing the deep regret *very is-
dleidaol•iti the regiment felt at thaw:imams ft-
cntsr•aa.

FIUMBNTATIOII OF ?HZ 11.11DLICSMIL
TO ?HS 4VITON.
This morning the lial:rdery. of Middlosesi ecIIV
dent ie the site of London, prepoOint to aura 44111
the Address to the Queen, assetehled ie enerieri is
Bridge-stieet, Blackfriars: and about 11 o'elbelt, pc:
ceded by two horsemen, and Mt, Sherif Perth* lei hit
state chariot, proceeded to Brandenburg!' House: ?het
mover and seconder of the address, in the emelt et owe
of these gentlemen, immediately followed the Sherif,'
and were accompanied by open landaus; diewe by four
horses, and other carriages tilled with Freeholders. Tie
surnber of landau. amounted to ten or t‘‘ ere, and the.
oarriages altogether to nearly twenty. In this order
they passed through Temple Bar ;long the Stroud,
and in St. Clemente Church-yard were hailed with•
repeated hntras by a nurnerons crowd ; and p
intr by Charing-Cross throngh Pall-mall, the mold
collected in the vicinity saluted them as they rime
by Carlton-Palace, with cheers that made the weildc
ring. No otherwise citren‘ite sound', however, were
uttered as they passed the Royal Manion ; and they
continued their route with similar reception at differ-
ent points as they proceeded up St. Jaturres-ytteet: tls
Hyde-park corner. There the cavalcade was picot'
by a numerous body of Freeholders in similar feta
riages from the west end of the town, and wee pro.
reeding in the 41rne auspicious manner when out
reporter left them.

PRESENTATION OF TILE ADORES, OF prig-
DUSTRIOUS MECHANICS TO THE QU . •
About 11 o'clock this forenoon, the Deputation of
the Ibrovsratous StecitA:vics or THE NCTROIPOLSII, ,
appointed to present the Address to theQuains, erred
to attbe Meeting held is Boswell-street, met at the
Assemble-room in Holborn, opposite oathatriptoter
street, and proceeding down Lbaneery-lane, reached
St. Cleoient's Lbureft-yard soon after the cataleadre
of the Freeholders bad passed. They amounted to SG •
or 60, and walked inpairs, distinguished by a whitu ro-
sette in their bosoms, and preceded by two personotcor-
rying on a pole between them their Address, ou.whlth
was marked in legible characters the number of
the signatures annexed to the Address, 2976. On
reaching the New Church, in the Strand, the
rziueet ded up Drury-lane, and through High-street
shiny, to Ov4od—treet, and down flondostreetto
Piccadilly, where they pursued the direct route to
Brandenburgh-hous 't heir nrocossion of sang at_
tracted in its progress a vim y onzattoid rood ;
such was the respectability ut their ..ppearaftee, Duda"
strict decorum they ob erred, that the grOalsit origv
was preserved among the populace that fiellow-ii 'hew:
nest they were left by our Reporter at Hyde-e'arbr
Corner, pnrsulng, as they commenced, the oolock4o-
tenor of their way.
BSTTING At f477ERSALL'4. Aro. IC
DONCASTER T. LEsEtt.
9 to I eget Marquis of Eristeel-T4,400410.
17 to 2 asst Mr. Loftin's Woodbiak.
II to I agst Cavalier.
II to I agst Athena.
20 to I agst St.
The friends of
the 16th day of August
Union School room.
ceded by some of the
Lees, dressed in
male and female
female pupils of the
street, Manchester.

meet in the yard
where a Dirge or
in memory of his ,
To Contras+ BA.
titularly requested to caution the public again* an
imposter who has been lately attempting to +defraud
several country bankers in the county of And, by
means of fictitious cheques and billsi Que-of the bills.
which Iran tendered to the writer of this tinkle, was
drawn from Bruxelles on Messrs. Dunlop and Co..
Glasgow, by whom it is pretended to he areepted.riy-
able at the house of Sir P. Pole and Co. banker*, Lon-
don, who have pronounced it to be a fiction, by
stating that " they have no account with nay .firTs
of the name of Dunlop and Co , Glasgow." Ili, much
to be feared this fellow may in some instaosea have
nucreetted in his villainous mode of supporting. hie,-
self, and we feel it a duty (hoping other Elitnts will
follow our example) to lend a helpial hand.te: wars
the public against such sort ofdefrot ; t accomplish
which, more effectually, we shall proceed to give a
4cription of this swindler's ler on. lie appears to
be about 3fi years of age, stout make (rather fat), a
fine florid complexion, the very picture of heal h.
round visage, with somewhat of an imam
dark curly hair, about five feet wen inches in heights
was well dressed in a new brae trot* cottons! huff
: waistcoat, is altogether good looking. and Mo much
the appearance of a gentleman.. fie was acctimpaniod
by a female of dashing appearance. appapintip,ehout
his own age, bat by no means of lady-libidos*, on.
rather a pretty woman. and having a MS* am.
I accent. This couple was last beard of ntrOSt9ll4llll6.
on the 9th of this month, where they passalidshilan

Mil wife. as Mr. sad Mrs. Harvey. - • . ion,.
• Commas's Isnonsv.—We are eltremirtfatf In
helinounce, that Jerks Ansastrong, stsisom wii lob-boot
'viand to bare been shot by a soldier of• the 414 Ca-
r lately quartered in this plate, died 1. *vise-
queue thereof on Wednesday last 1 a aostittation
having. slate mar last, taken Owe. Time rewind of
the unfortuaate man were intrrted yiiteriagetektninsa
and we regret to learn, that • widow and twwsorphollis
have to bewail the nwlaisakoly monk. Anseasteti+
inqaeo was yesterdqg belt on the Sandy. mist edler
an investigation of some • bane% asst kw 411.1100101101
of several witnesses., a verdict of wdritf vaktMbistans
returned against the soldier Ashorst foeltboissliones.
-.-4. Garlick JonritiA) .
Sunday evening 'boat hag-past" nine 4'4014 as
Captain Watson, of the Royal Naw.,. was retard:*
home to his residence, No. 41, nelson-sqaarva lest as
be turned round by the Rev. &twitted Hiftt•Ulaapei,
belsappened to make a false step, *bee* pelts* cabs
suapfeatnay, atlft.tispaelitwotitedtdslerYarterilitrtbe're t Cali 1011).". W's.
'Patti', gold dials. seals, wnd key. • L.
: has
Riven notietet the Pellee4.llSce, whtetsr "heVari,.
Ar
metes will be tacos ti appligftwil ' .. Ii
.sigile aced was whin gm igWi Pilo li
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iciness.
It. Patrick. •
reform at Oldham, blve triton en
August sett, to meet lit titer Wither
Q. Neu-stmt. from .witt:lntaL
' the comrades of the late . )ohei
deep mourning, the scholars VT fits- .
schools, fuilowed by the teak' Intl-.
the Union Schools in Ororge Ugh-
m, will proceed to the place
of the Parochial Chapel et Pelian,..
• Kelpie= will be smug by thiolithfrth
awful fatt.—rMiochestrr Pori-)
BANKaas AND Oreras.—We