The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-23 00:00:00

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Pus - Irvin 6' 1/".' Mr. BROUGHAM aid, the Right House Oeatleman 1 THE METROPOLITAN and CENTRAL
"Able that they were making any encrillee.—(Hear.)—
species of tactics
...._ JONI MITI:EI; lire the satisfaction to annotem that
I .1
Ile would refer them to the preamble of the Bill itself,' Mr. Canning)* in none of a
to show that it
's s a great infringement of the liberties of which he has so often gives an etansple, baring ,MI init:744referai.l7::: san:siinfrr 'ger"( the
.17.P:0P Orr'
foiled the speech of his 116 E. and Learned Friend, if amo:iirts at present to rather mote than Two T7settares;
of the press; he left it with them to say. whether
a Hill, having such an effect, was to be Nerdy dealt Pot•NDS.
with. It was, in truth, not a little curious to see the nut unanswerable. rather awkward to approach, had nix Ili.
!Vet. respectable as I, this amomit. flowing as it has from Prime Minister of the House of Brunswick at the pre- fallen back upon other topics. A hill was passed in
thee spontaneous (relin of an inoilted,Natien. the Commit-
sent day, taking every opportunity of decrying every 1799, not to be named is the same day mho degree, sot ter feel It their Linty to state that it falls shorter the densamis;
step of that party which placed the family epos the eves to be pissed in the same rank as to m , with ' and that increased scathe. and further exertions on the
throne.—(Hear!)--Did they so soon forget the services the present Bills, bet which contained a considerable pert of the Friends of Justice and Ilamanity, are requiem
of those men who stood by them in the hour of danger,' innovation on the law (which if he had been a Member , to eta complete Erect to the publ:e wishes, and secure nue-
br compelling is teem to the object in whirls the Committee and the Subscribers
or was it the policy now, when there was.* longer teem ! of the. House he would have opposed),
for apprehension, to cast them away ?—(llear, heir !)—• all satesprinters to furnish ens care against themselves. I hay' a common interval.
This was nut ail. A Right lion. Gentleman opposite They were compelled to enrol their names at the staz , To prove the inadequacy of the present Fund for itr pur-
loot in his happy style gone so fur as to call them "My ()see, to keep a copy of "Ivy paper they rip poses. it is simply necessary to state that it is already ascer-
tainedmore , thrsttaiii.4•BleLdniwronofahpeezzsabl;ally womided. and
Lords the Wings," and lie seemed to search with great • so that there was never a difficulty is getting evidence
industry for any precedents amongst the sets of those ,of the writer, or the person who was responsible ~,
. iiENDIIIHres" snit Tlttirrir i of these, many:st .
received l'isa.obrae
proscribed Whip, who fur upwards of sixty years hail 1 fur the writer. of evert' libel In each Meta- It I wounds. whirls tnteo their tomes. ofi amgered Free.
for more than three or four years occupied the was however on the efficiency of these measures that he 1 terry, and 'torrid ere disabled fur the remoinder of their
benches at the other side of the House. lie lutist, how. :in great part relied as an argument against the present ' lives.
ever, on this occasion, look for precedents to a more con- , Bilk. Was it nothing that such an act as that of 1799 : An Inaderieste Contribution of Fire Pewnsts to rat+ would
genial source. The Nesbit Lord had said, that this Bill ' had passed—had it armed the Government with so ttsereAirr Oh; :mist% exhaust the whole Amount of the Sub-
would not operate against the press, but merely ■gainst I power ?—(Hear !)--Ilet because that Bill had been ; scriptioa; and it has *mimeo the Committee. that they bare
the printers and publishers. He was at a loss to I passed, was it not a strange argument to say that the , not hitherto felt themselves warranted in disbursing more
bow t::e distinction could be drawn. lie + ad iI important powers thus granted to the Government, M uti an Fire lli soars Poss for this Finney object.
same,
considered them the me, sad the greatest ornaimintt
, formed a reason for passing another measure carrying , Nearly FORTS' other persons. the victims of abused Ass.
this country ; Milton was of the same opinion, is the :to excess in degree the principle of the fernier Act, and , thorny. have also claims let loth-mint) on the Committet,
work entitled " A Speech on the Liberty of Printing." ' introducieg.besisles a new principle in the legislation of • and "'thew. in the limited state of the Funds, It has not been
This he considered the greatest guard and bulwark to the reentry, The night Hon. Gent. bad said, that the, risible to assign more than Tu I/ Ile Nonaa and Furls
our libertito.—(Henr!)--Tbe Noble Lord, who, from Bill would not touch the sound part of the press. lint ""r*
the circumstances of his birth knew nothing of the would any bookseller subject himself to the penalties of In the „asran time, sad", s 114'est end Conflattelt oaPems's
means by which young men rise to the first places in the Genf., and any printer to 6001. more, for a friendless, and bare expoern the enitlitttre to rris fu.r MAW? NEVE%
state by the exertion of their talents, had said that there as was too ofien the case, peanyirss author? The book- i tleiret it Pt
C: :viCienvithtilleat hialsethieles.i‘ghPat ofrt w't :LS° (hal:2lll7i I;.ii; would be ni. (lit& ulty in these persons getting securities. sellers who crowded the table with their petitions said be" felt
That argument bail been so ably answered by his Hu- they would not. They had been told often in the course ! In the direction of the LEGAL PaGrEEDINGA the Commie-
nourable Friend the Member for Westmioster, that it of This discussion, that it was to the tendency oldie ac- tee fret it prom to state, that the ~.al in n'itien wise ant
was useless for him now to address himself to it. 1/id lions of men, and tint to their motive that they must good men of en parties participate. to bring the perpetra.
the Stlble Lord forget that it was not of a single work I look • that the intention was evidenced by the tendeney, tors of she literal Outrages at Manchester to sedy Justice,
they were now speaking, but of periodical publications; and ;hat they should not inquire further. In the caseof has been tempered and eoserned by the adytee of expert-
and any man at all conversant is nth the practice of the the verdicts, for instance, in the case of Mr. Hone, raced Solicitors, assisted by able ('ounsel. It Is, of course.
law, or the verdicts of Juries, must bare known bow a Learned woon'
les', had risen in the House and said Impossible fur the Committee, without injury to the ran.,,
tlidcult it was to procure securities, trim amongst the that God forbid he shonlil impute any had motive to in lain+ the) arc impted, to Oeseiope the state and pr„.
author's hest friends. This more particularly, if the; those Juries, but that the tendency of their acts was to'
...n......„Fseas of the proceedings whirls, under ads ire, the) ha:"
person happened to be a man of genius, and no other , sap the foundations of our religious establishments. '"'",'";,,' but,i:tit:Tears: tim(
ran I.4,tileh-li'l claim . s
.; : :
was worth mentioning. Serb a person would, in spite , Then again, as to the sithscrihers for Mr. Hone after hie I ever; white dais feeling dye dein-moo of. theirit persons
iesplonsihilits. of hiinself, unless be was a Were slate. he committal", , acquittal (ibouoh. ley the bye, he was ill along 'Pit"! ito the distinguished body of subicribers. for 'shorn ths.
himself in each number in sncli a way, as could be ler- ' of as if he load been ronviceol), they were spoken of set, the% hose been desirous, in no respect, to exceed the
tared into an offetwe by the law.—(llear, hear !)—There ' in the seine manner as the Juries, being as much bee' bounds of a sound oli,cretion.
was, however, a class .if impotent adversaries, uith u horn praised and as sto took censureil.—(A laugh.)—Their; This capoaili,a of Facts win, it is to he hoped, gnome
it would he found epsy to deal. In despotic Governments 'moire, no doubt, was *charity—a thing almost as sacred **Treasurers or Local nutescrlptians to apprise the Corn-
there was a species of hyperholical suhsercience, width as the verdict of a Jury, but the teudeney of their act i twitter of the Amout Is is their hands. and stimulate the Ite-
was railed the Asiatic style, hut which he thouoist tight' was most mischievous. In the same manlier he should f *evolve' sod Patriotic, la every part cf the Empire. to pro.
more properly he calleil.the despotic style. It was lei the Committee by
means %Ail tittle power.
consider the conduct of the Ministers ; their conduct, I mote mle:tend the pecon'ar) resources of
the nattor- of man to run into arse extremes ; for,when with respect to the pow, had been most pernicious in 1 every'
the mind felt indignant at as act of the fierernment.l its tenilenev, though Clod forbid he should say any thing At the close of the Subscription. or at any desired period,
about which it was afraid to express itself, it naturally, , of their motives.—(.l laugh.)—lle had already mentioss- the Committee propose to submit te the Subscribers a de-
under the influence of the momentary excitation, took j el to the House some itioanees of the lengthto which tailed areount of the need's's and Expeoeliture. to-comps-
die other side with as much seal, anti perliar. as "ill ' the licentiou-oose of the luress hail been carried. lie hied Ilrh elid"''innlin they important WT.* /611'41164 thefft.i.7,
• trig confided o
I, i no-slily, as if it had Caviled the first motions without ;bay been told by some, that it has imreilible such things the
umier Th tale: i iitZsCrtiolut . andt lorIt4,1)•
interruption. He then adverted to another argument of! meld be w.inen in obi, country, lie too should have
Aubseriptis•es already aolserti.e.l P 2778 6 Pj
the Noble Lord, that the Hill would only operatespinst been inereduloits as 1.• the existence of such se ritinga, i
blasphemous libellers. He would ask, what was to he- hut for the es Wetter of his eves. In one of these prel Illineingliam Commis.- ocbseripti..nsfrom New-
rouir of that large class of printers who were unable to . ductions (Sherwin) the question of resistance was seri- tee,
u,: R. Knight' 19. ramie-upon-Tyne-1' 23 I:
s .I•VO 6 A first Subscription
enter into recognizances, or what would be the oblarot °lisle discover.' under a series of discourses, not eat- &oft,. ttoh„e,,,•,. from the Friends h.
of their hes wising jourtieymen. when the market ail iv the matter a• in lova lation. bet applying it as Ist Arndt to ace...
...c.711 16 ' ilumaidt: and L.-
been lost for the sale of the.r labour '?
—(Hear'.)..-; to the present times, and the present rulers., under Canterbury Indepestil- (miry. in Ipswich said
In the end they would he driven to sedi support from the head, " The foly of Petitioning Parliament."— eat cit.0............n o its Tleinity .........10 0
the parish, and be a burtlirn to the community After' It was not in this publication (Sherwin's) alone. that tireonsi Setiseript.on A few Friends. White
all the question came to this, would it militate again! I it I Bear. Bride-lane,
such ilortrines were to lw hotrod ; there was as infernal from lends. 16
the objects of the Bill to make it a temporary 'mason'. constellation—[a laugh]--isf such writers—The Cap of Mrs. F. niellIon••• •• ••6 0 1 Fletoo-5treet......... I A
He was convinced, if an/ disposition sass shown to con- , Liberty. the Medusa, the 1 inrguti, he. mid surely never Suisse' fissions are recoiled be Mr. P. Bro. he. I ith St-oond;
cession on the olive wile, that his lion, Friend would , were mimes better adapted to the things. All mere nut Mr, lh no, Wardour-strect, and tin. Strand; Mr. tiles. 3,
not stickle for the precise terms of his motion. If the I alike; the holder tried Ilse way, and when impunity was W:seh--treet ; Mr. Haskell. 131 York-street, Wesrminster ;
Noble Lord woold only let it ha in forme fur four or five
; deemed secure by experience, others followed. In ISI7, 11,1'. ra.ph(;t:tit It, ",'.`4,-asblreetl-aillk..7.en;ir,'.3renorf Mr. Pea-
years, that itself would not he so objectionable. He there were hut two orithree tin 11•419, 10 or 17.' had sprung
'l.l e..st-st ) t.r. -Sprilt.eal-fh•ls•!7; NI-rmWooler. 711, Flett-ystreet ; ai
wool.; again ask, would they thus hastfly pass a preen- I up. The. uestion of assassination %%% then alluded to. s. a v.r. 6.1
toe ()wire off
,dr .-TAS fait Vs. 191, Siva, I : Mr. Ilarri.. t;.
Deli( 'erasure of restriction on the English free press.— lin an expression "tie bountiful interposition of l'rovi- Norton-street. Portland-road: Mr. Earrowelif. 6, Fish-
elear!)—When Lord Grenville brought in his celebtated ! deuce by the assistance of John Bellingham." The street-bill, and to. Drury-Noe; at the Crown and 'lncisor
Dill fur doing away the right of judication at elections. : question was started in another paper, as to the manner Tavern, Strand ; and hr the Treasnrer, Major Cartwright,
which was a great abuse, it received the benefit of a trial . in which the people, when a Reform in Parliament took 37. Burton-ereseent : Sir Hobert Wilmot. M. P. 47. Charles-
before the measure was generally applied. Ile did net place, would qiiestion the person who received a mil- street. Beach:l-4quart. ; and Mr. A. Galloway, 66, Hi:sti
mean to say that this It as a of little consequence: lion and a half fur tioinginothing ; " whose office was, by I Hatboro.
bet when viewed with regard to this, it was ei,mpara- . the rule of the law, executed by deputy.- In another i Subscriptions incorrectly elated win :.e immediately icor-
Beek• amino'. importance. Would the House then, in ; instance, on the occasion of a nientorable death, which meted. on application to the Seen nosy. tat the I town ant
license which was the stay of our liberties,
and which i he thought had united all the country in a common sot-; Anchor Tavern. any day betweiro Mesta and Two o'clock.
had contributed to make dais country the envy and the • row (that of the Princess ( barlotte), the writer instill- .
admiration of the world—woulsl they hesitate only to . pated a disputed suc,ssion, and diseusseil the qualifies-
MAILA
ass, DI 1 .
slake an experiment ?—(llear. hear 35—T00 little ergs- lions of Monarchs. We had, lie said, experience that a , tt,min
went, it appeared to liilll, hall been used to make the 1 King might he a fool, and an idiot; that the mote au- I Guernsey
I
measure palatal& to the country. Its the instance of . prineipled the man, the better the Sovereign ; that he 0 (i„mwy and Jam, .
the Seditious Meetings' Bill, as that had for precedent . ought to be a villain, or the monarchial establishment I tionsisnurgn ' 0
an Act of 1793, it was not so necessary to ..Pailif, it, lust of England would fall from its reputation.—(llearl) U Ilsinbureh 9
with re;:aril to this 13111, as no ialriugeotent hod been ' On Sept. :lA. 1%14, another subject was treated uf, " ill.-
made Oil til,' liberties of the press since the time of Wil- servatitins on the Murders to he committed at thee Old
Ham the 3d, some plausibility at least shoald he terra 1 Bailer," meaning the trials for capital 'deuces at the
to :lir present measure. The Moo. Member then cots- 1 Sessions. 'file world was not left in the dark as to what
eluded, by accounting for the inutlention to the liberty the writes thought of she Jethro ; " The keine, on the
of the press in the Bill of Rights, by 'stink that there - Ilene+ it ill not Nil to say," tee. Vet this man, whether
DO notice was taken of any thing, tut the abase of pre- I prosecute) or no, had been brought to trial ; and
rogati• eon the part of the Crown, and that in fart the Ile Isla, there was nut even one information. Front
measures which afterwards took place so favourable to these extracts lie felt that the observation of his Learned
the press, were entirely in the spirit of the Hill of ' Friend was pet feetly justifiable, namely, that no new laws
Rights.—(lle sat down amid loud cheering from both should be enacted to invest those withnew powers who
sides of the House.] • had so eoregiously misemploved the powers which Is.
Mr. CANNING thought the whole of the lie.. and longed to them according to the old laws of the land.-1
Learned Gentleman's argnuients would go to oppose 1 For with those powers, which were quite sufficient for
sort of regulation regyeeting the press. He a the suppression of evil, they had allowed the pahllego
that it was matter of regret when any restraint wee lion of works in f of blasphemy. setlitioets ond gee
foun.! necessary to he placed on any portion of the sassination. To prate that they had overlooked the Mos
liberties of the community ; lint such restraist was disguised preaching of the doctrine of assassination, the
sometimes DeCraMill to be Placed on, a part. with a vim Mee. and Learned Gentleman read on extract from Sheer
to the protection of the whole. It hail been said, when win's Register, of last spring, distinctly slating, that if
the press was regulated in 17119, that it would prevent any one of the confederacy, as the writer called it, of
the exercise of genius and talent ; but no use mild say Kliegs and Tait-gatherers, should attempt to annoy time
it had that effect ; nor that it had suppressed free caw people, it would he lawful. to pot bile to death, with
sass of all the measures of Parliament, or fair and open sword or pistol, with dagger or spade. Yet this publi-
discussion. His llononrahle and Learned Friend had cation was entirely overlooked by those faithful, active,
drawn an animated picture of a young man eateries, equal, and just tors of the laws, who never re-'
like himself and his Honourable Friend. on a career slaked from Parliament so much additional power.—
of literatnre, to which be looked up as his only pro* Snot the legal agents of the Crown overlooked, the
pees in life, and stopped on his outset ; brit he world Learned Gentleman took occasion to contrast with what
say, that the history of literature did not bear him out they had prosecuted. Forinstanee, about eight or nine
la that exiseetation. Ile slid not believe there was ever 1 yearn ago they prosecuted a paragraph in a newspaper, I
a period when booksellers were more disposed to *pea a *bogeying that the Prism Regent had a glorious pros-1
trey to the young aspirant iii literature. Bat the hook- ; peet before him by adopting certain measures; but, in-1
sellers most, like the rest of the community, take their i stead of first preceediug against the paper is cinch I
leltare of the inconvenience which must be horse for the this paragraph originally appeared, they prosecuted a
I good of the whole nation. He was convinced the Muse paper into which it bad been copied; and this
' had heard nothing to make them enact this Bill as a was acquitted to the satisfaction a the entire Coarl:
temporary measure. The pnaishment of banishment eluding the Judge himself.
was not unknown to our law; but if it had never exist- We regret that we &reusable to give the conclusion of
ed before in this country, what danger could there be la Mr. Brougham's able speech, as well as the of
exiling a man who sought to destroy the country and Messrs. Plunkett. Tierney. and the Aftonseyroches eral.
constitution which hid -cherished his ? The press had
The House hating divided, thenumbers
were—
gained a great boon within& Pew years, namely, thesis..
lition of the punishmesit of the pillory—a puoishment For the datum
far more severe and degrading than banishment for any Against it
length of time. It was said that they ought not to drive Majority against it . 11111
the people to despair. What were the people?— a com-
munity formed of fair orders end degrees. But the After a few words from Lord CASTIMIZA4III. Ilfr.
writers sad orators who prostituted the word People, BIU/Valail, Mr. W. SWIM and Mr. Cowman., the

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THORBD.►Y, DECEMBER 23, 1819.

The Paris Papers of Sunday contain the address
of the Deputies to the KIND.
It expresses their thanks to his Majesty for hacks(
effaced the traces of civil troubles by acts of clemency
and conciliation ; it proceeds to state, that the people
are enemies to the factions which agitate the State, anti
that they only aspire to the peaceful enjoym nt of the
blessings of a legal government. It concludes by as-
suring the King, that the Hepatic.s will continne to de-
fend his august dynasty and the public rights, anal to
give to all the interests guaranteed by the Charter, that
security which alone can insure the happiness of his
Majesty, and the prosperity of France. llis Majesty
retuned an appropriate and gracious Answer.
French Funds (Saturday) Five per Cents. 69 f. Mc.
There is no blow which tyrannic Kings or Prisms,
or despotic Alinisters, can strike so fatally against
liberty as the subduing their subjects in the name
of law. This is the system practised at this time
by oar Court and Cabinet. If the late Lord CMAT•
HAD were again alive, be would think our Legisla-
tors were all mad, or strock with. the Mal of