The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-02 00:00:00

TO THE FREE BURGESSES OF IPSWICH.
tONTLTWEA.
AREINIRT having been circulated that we
'me withdrawn from oirerins ourselves as Candidates
to r.Tre4ent the Borough of Irma ich In the ensiling Parlia-
ment. we think i. right ivisitively to assure son. that honing
met with the most Ilatterimr and encouraging stireesa at Ips-
wich. I..milon. and all parts of the rountry. it is our lived
and 'inalterable determination to persevere he the contest.
slide the enemy is in the field. until every. Freeman
shall have had an opportunity of e‘errisittg his elective
franchise.

•;Inw• the honour to hr. with great reweet, yonr rev,
obanlirat and humble en aura.

TIMM tit BARRETT. I.ENNARD,
W 11.1.1 ‘M BALD:M.IND.

ON. ('hnneer)-lane.
Tor Committee in the interest of Mr. Leonard snit Mr.
lishlints ever) its) at No. Mi. Chatsertl -lane, and No.
*1.4. Cateston-strert.

CANDLES on an IMPROVED PRINCIPI.V.—M. P.
v !Es. At ST. MARTIN L.okt. opposite `Sew
Slairlitee".• Toffee-1 ..... Ninntilaturer ill the Imperiel
Pared Wick Nlonhl (*oodles. n !Orli wre stni%ersall% alonetl
to horn equal to WIVC. deems it net-eatery to emotion the
Nfthilitt nod families against the base attempts or p.,,,n4
adtertisiar. its none are g ' btot those had at his
Warehouse as •bove. or No. ISt Fleet-street.—Fine
Sperm I'nn4llr4. is. 4.1. per lb.: Palaee Wax Lights soil
long Wax Piece+. 34. Sit per lb.: Imperial Wsce.l Wirk
Catiillec, I Is. (hi. per dozen : best Store Candle..
Ilk. per 'loan: Nlottleil Soap. from 914. en flPis. per ewt.:
Yellow Seri. *N. to Ms. per rut.; line Cord Soap. Defs.
per rat.: Windsor and Palm Soap. is. 411. to *n. per Ih.;
Drown Windsor 34c. to tit. fid. per lb.; Fancy Snarl. Its.
per dozen : Sealing Was. 101. till, to is. per lb.; Gar Sp •rni
Oil. is. OA. per gallon; l'onsuirms OIL 4s. per gallon.—
N. R. Orders forwarded to all parts of WWII. anti easefully
packed for the country.

THIRTY PER CENT. UNDER ANY HAT WARE-

HOUSE IN EMiL
CJACKSON, Hat Manufacturer, SR, R.-trbican,
• near the City Repository. has constantly on sale •
most eateesive assortment °revery deseription of lists and
Beaver Lawn ; also a great variety of Gold colour Neal
Turbans.—Likewise Boys Cloth Prussian Caps of aupertine
cloth. oak 4•.—Leather lists mad Caps from 9d.—The Pub-
lic will find • great sari.; by pareltasing as aboys.—silaek-
' sons' New invested treble, severed best superfine Sealer
Hats et only Mh.—they arc decidedly the cheapest arid most
elegant Rats ever offered layabe public.—The new improved
Patent Water-proof Hat. alk and Beaver. at only 13s. ;
this hat will wear three times as long as those imitations
' now selling from le s. to Ilia. sad upwards. b shoos; every
Ratter; many of them call themselves manufacturers.—The
Trade supplied as usual.
N. B. Old lists covered with silk, and made equal is Bows

' In re-considering that great principle of this charter.
" w free man shall be," &c. we shall ask a few questions,
lon the power now and then exercised by the Homo of
Commons over the liberty of the subject. We will not
disguise it we write under the impression that Mr.
Hohboose has not been justly treated ; and we are more
strongly perhaps induced to examine this matter than
we should have done, had not his case occurred ; but,
with the exception of one point, we shall ask our ques-
tion', a. generally, that they will apply to any former or
foam instance ut Coinnions' commitments. 'That point
is the one hearing Mr. llohhouse in his defence. Eng-
lishmeneen have hut one opinion upon this, via.: that he
ongbi to have been heard. Our questions', then, are
these wsieet. What is the limit of the power of the Honse
to essonniti in other words, what limit do they set them-
, selve4? foe, according to the Chief Justice of the King's
Renck, they are the only judges of what is or is not con-
I tempt tett their own body. This involves that most wi-
nos align considerations fur a country supposed to be
free, whether the whole or greater of the laws are nut in
the power of one holly of the legislature, and may not he
usurped and overpowered by their conduct'? for we find
that the Co 000000 tins have even sentenced men to the pil-
lory for forgery. Are we to suppose that we have only
trial by jury When the !lunge of Common's ',teases; or is
the House of Colo 00000 no' saying that an action or a writ-
ing is a crime, to niake it one T—'2d. The alternative of
Magna Charta being. that a man shall he tried by the
jusigisoot of his Peers, or by the law of the land, ought
any man, on the one hand, construing this strictly, to
lw tried by the House of C 00000 mons but their own mem-
bers; and, on the other, ought what is merely the dic-
tums itiol mandate of one branch of the legislature to be
taken for the authority and passing of the whole ?
M. Taking it (or granted that the rules and cooduct of
the Homo of I'unstoons are the law of the land, are not
:also the decisions of the House of Lords and the Pro.
rlaniations of the King the law of the land ? and is nut,
therefore, the law of the laud of five sorts
law, and written law—the latter, the law passed by
Kin" Lords, and l'o tttttt iiiss--and the law of King by
himself, law of Lords by themselves, and law of Com-
ttt ns by themselves ? last three, we conceive, will
he owlioned tracossonna law ; so that the laws of Eng-
land may in future be called common law, statute law,
and nneonimon law, the principal part of the last
of which consists of Commons' law'.—These are fines-
, dim* that arise immediately out of Mr. Ilsibhouse's
..411P, but they apply to all, and they were so Mr-
% Ant to Magna Charts, that we tl gist it was better
ii, say sonsething on them before we proceeded to other
10.1rts of our subject. Considering the chance of the
good principles of Magna Charta becoming domed, we
think it would hr a wise and wholesome regulation if
some periods. Member wood,' annually propose a sta-
tute confirmatory of its principles. It might have the
.gosid pifect of using rorruption into an avoidance of
many Ilagrant innovations. it would, prrivers, keep
down this spirit of cos ttttt itsisent as 161111'11 J.. anv regula-
tion of the Moist' I'olllll Ohl. Certain it is that so. He
1111'3114 1111011 50 In- used fsr iletiiiing the river of the
House of Cieuiloons, and they would he wise to attempt
it, and to his themselves to their sirthlition for, as it ix,
they y take Ka, for any pr rasa or isecaossa, mad runsatit
as or teem to Stir Fl-et par nay Mime whalers?, fur
thr, are "le jM,I, ra V'ectret is a roars ,apt against thew-
latter.: -

11'e will not stilp to ask whether the latv that " nu
mass shall be lined to his titter min- is strirtly adhered
to in these. civilized times. 31 en have often, olonlitless.
hems lineal for more than they tier had, sir vier woold
have in the %%sold ; but that is by no means a contra-
vention of the principle, w WOlllll say nor most eoasti-
fsaionot/ lawyers, Iwcausr it could not he alle.l ruin to a
man to have a decree against him that caudal ucser Isa
fulfilled, and because, according to a worthy law otheer's
ilisetrine, whirls we shall consider fnllt lay and by, is
was a constiteitiotsal ordinance that all men should be
imprisoneol till goond rause was *boats %I lay they should
be suffered to go at large!
Wr come now to what all the cringers may well rail
a dangerous doctrine in these times—ltzsiacr a NI
do not mean to reconinirnal the resistance allotted by
31agisa Chartn, because, thank. in the provident spins
of suy Lord Castlereagh and Isis colleagues, we CA 000000 t,
consistently with one of the new arts, s ty that any alte-
ration can he matle in chore's or state "otherwise shall
by lawful means," and we suppose it is nut certain hot
that the law of Attorney-lieneral Clifford nil! make the
law of Magna Charta unlawful.
It is already established, that reatistatice oloained
Magna 'hal ta. That charter, though obtained by force.
was afterwards worded to lw "pion the Mar's um-H/lee
will," in order that it might pro shown to polarity as not
injured in the least by its forcilale acopiirentent be. the
barons. The following most ex tr.sosr:limary rev oacouti 0000
of the right of 11..404111'e manes in the cla.arter
thrill put yourself tam of I •• my lAMI, y not cats
hinder us front quoting what is matter of history, with
ass historical 00000 live: we shall see I 0000 v we. can rem Al
your lordship and poor rolleagoes afterwards :
" Tisk is the Coils of the security for keeping peace
and the lilwrties los-taint the king and this kind . The
barons shall choose tive-aioldwenty barons of the realm,
Wilnllk they trill thrums •Ives, Nam wl 't .11411 Its in-
cumbent. that aids all tlerir might they observe atwl
keep. 31141 cause tat be ohs...ryed anal kept. the pence and
lilwrties which the king has gr.ssiteil to them, and cow
firmed by Isis charts r; to wit, That if the king, or his
justices, or bailiff's, or ally of his ministers, offend any
person, contrary to any of Ow said articles, air trans-
gress any ariele of this peace anal security, anal that
such offence he turd,. known to four of the said tire-
and-twenty barons; those four barons shall gas to the
king or to his justiciary, if the king Iw out of the realm,
declariug to him that such an abuse has hero com-
mitted, and shall desire him to cause it speedily to he
redressed. And if the king, or (if hr be out of the
realm) Isis justiciary, do not resit-efts it, those four barons
shall, within a reasonable time, to be limited in the
charter, refer the matter to the residue of the lire-anal-
twenty barons. And those tire-and-twenty barons,
with the commosatity of the land, shall distress the
king all the ways they can, to wit, by seizing his
castles, his lands, and possessions, anal by what other
means they can, till it he redressed according to their
good liking, saving the person of our lord the king, and
of the queen, and of their children. ilnal when it is re-
dressed, they shall be subject to the king as before.' "
Our readers will exercise their own wisdom upon this.
The Attorney-General would say that it refers to King
John, and we will not rootradict him. We can only ar-
gue, but he can fine; we ran only deny, but he can im-
prison. Using the language which Mr. Philpotts not
loot ago took oat of the swath of a wise Kaman to ap.

TO THE EDITOR:
SlinzAlways obtrude on public attenti.to
any discussion applying to myself, I hart allowed maw,
upilerolent attacks, through the mediate of the Dress, id
pass aseptic-eft in the same channel; although It is ne•
impossible but some of them may meet with attention io
another way. Hat, hoseever &limes I be to Artoll
coming forwanl as I now do, I rennet submit to my ou
wishes whim the Livery of London (whose senior lilientf
I am, by priority of election, and confirmed ht *Ow
ipient resolution) are in any degree slighted or insulteo
in my person, as their representative. I have the happ -
or's to be conscious of having acted in the performatii
of toy official duties on constitutional principles; taking
for my guide the admirable charter of this city. and Ti •
true meaning and intent of my high offit•ei without low—
ing for favour or approbation, except from my rooait, - •
eats and my own cimscience. Thus actuated. I has.•
made it my chief study to attend to the aubstuntial ex.
cuti of the office, and at the same time 1 have bee
anxious not to reduce the efficient character of Sheriff t-t-
Lomb,' and Middlesex,to that of a mere porede etietrilari
on the various frivolowe oreasisaa which absurd innot A-
tkins have introdneed,and id le custom continued omit nun,
in conducting. the 117 business. It has, therefore. alive% s
been my studious desire to avoid connecting myself wine
petty corporation affairs, or tactics, with which my ii,t•
tits as Sheriff have very little or no cenntotii.n, am( c 0..-
settently, when urged at different times to sc.-0p( 11, •
Sheriff's seat in the Common Council, I hare steadfast' •
objected, not choosing to he placed like Cog or Ma;r..
(which would be the case with all Sheriffs who hare n. •
the and Annear of being an Alderman), *lawns
invited to attend by above thirty official notices, besides
by the personal applications of several Aldermen ;or I
members of the Common Council. Ton may jotl4
then, Sir, of my surprise at ending in your pro
Tuesday, in the report of the proceedings of the l',••• -
mon I 'mined. held on Monday last, that Mr. T. W. W: •
hams (who, I hare since learnt, is an attorney of t 1;:.
Mayors Court, that distinguished himself in a tont, t
With the late Lord Mayor Atkins), said, " It was matt'.
fest that Mr. Sheriff Parkins never expteted to he put -
mitted to sit in that Court, for he had sorer present. I
himself. He was now bronght forwanl to -be throat
'toos their throats. There was more in the resolnitt.a
proposed than was meant to meet the eve. He (31 .
Williams) for one, thought the offer orltisstfiff mos'
witfully degraded. All the business had been left to :II •
other Sheriff, and now a message was brought in. th.it
the ('mitt must comply with Mr. Parkins '+ rid, to sit
gat them." I have only to say, it would hate
strange for me to expert and wish fin what I hail always
resisted, and what I was wholly ignorant of living pro•
posed, until subsequently informed, that whilst 1 was
waiting in an a•ljoiiiing room to deliver his Majr.oc
Message, a 'motion liar me to he called to take the Sheritr a
seat had been Mile by Mr. Patten, no doubt with t!1 •
first intentions, but entirely without my sanction. or alt -
communication whatever with ine. As to the other par's
of Mr. Williams's remarks, I think them beneath n y
notice.

Allow one non', Sir, to allude to some eirrmaistanr.,.
that preceded and took place whets the 'lei vitaiion frost
the City attended to present the Addresses to his los•
jesty.
After the 31st of January, when these Addresses loa I
been lilted, and during the regretted indisposition Isl.
COP lithe. I made a point of mice, and sometimes to is e
a day, Unwiring personally at the Palace reispectiosz
hi. Ad j..sty's health, until Saturday night, 'Nth
when his pleasure was officially nosole_known to Hu-,
a. line of the Sheriffs, to attend Otis Majesty at the.
o'clock on Sunday last, on n-hich day 1 wren to Carltio,
palace in • ue form, and WAS, some time afterwards, fol-
lowed "sy my colleague, where we had the honour of a.'
audience lit three or font minutes. The King receives!
its :sloop, standing; shoring which my colleague maul,
rather inslistinctly, from a carol, that the Sheriffs lohst
waited upon Isis ilajesty, to know his ple4sure when be.
would receive the Addresses fr the City of Loudon,
to which his 31ajeilly, with that polite manner for which
he is so joostly eeleuratell, graciously answered that h.-
ounlil receive the Addresses on the morrow (Monday J.
at four by &lomat' . Ily rolleaeuro wh••
seemed not folly to ionslerstaml his Nsjesty, though is s.
clearly expressed Is' If, was *how to ask another
question respecting the Addresses, when his Majesty
repeated 11541 hr would receive them both hy olcwitatisso
on the morrow, at four o'clock, and immediately tuner"
to a gentleman who hail entered the room with n., ant
sloonou him cordially by the hand. We then retired.
Ihoring this short interview I stood within two yard,
in front of his Al ajesty, and viewed him with partkolar
atteitti 0000 ; and it was with infinite satkfaetios I per-
ceived I to look ly well, eussikleting She
unparalleled trials he has been recently =to en-
dnre, in lio.h hotly :soul mind. Nis Males him.
self with great firmness :Ins! ; his Ythitlws fittest
I letter than is usual 1111 leaving • skk twins ht
limits retained their usual tine proportion and Isis eye
retained all its wonted vivacity : so dm', with tine re-
spect to his Majesty's physicians, I lair leave to shires.
from dorm in reapect to his Majesty's health anal roust--
tuition, and repeat the opinion to the world uloich I gate
to the citizens assembled in the Conrwil-room, " that I
think his Majesty is one of the most robust-looking owls
of his ago in the kingdom; and I hope, for its
that liod will long p -e his life, and ronfonnil 164
enemies, if he has logy, either private or public • and 1114•
the friends of our free Constitution and of go:ad order
willolnriesit a popular reign, reap the advantartof his
superior understanding- mations, by experience. '
I am, your's, &c.
(Signed) J. W. PARKINS, Sheriff.
York-hotel, March I, Itolo.

By a letter from Malta, of the 13th January, the
trial of Capt. Delano and his crew, for piracy, 1t.t.1
been postponed till the nth of that month. 11,1.1 it
was doubtful whether a Jury could be tinned then •
in which case the prisoners would be wet to
land.