The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

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Powers, roligiousi, 'Civil and military !
to *salons ingainitt Grangenieiii.aniiho
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cad,ta .Protest. spit jfaatershilar 44f of Ire Intellpted 0
do away the Protestant Chireh; then, inileff, there
• is some iiiirieliftalking aboilt falttlitritatellolllllelF
omen. • Otherwise it is nonsense to • talk of any such
• . Mr. Ilums.'it proposition for taking-awityalta-
Wes in Ireland is. the thing that sltpws " vigour a!'
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thtiltt
Cockey next comes to our Foreign A ffa airs,
hasis full as profoundly read as in other matters. •-a
" The oh:loges in the administration, both, ae. Ptaa',l
" relate to Ireland and to England, and as &est inc l.
" our foreiga and domestieepolicy, appear however to
" Wag iii, same degree the secirisiles of am. lime. LORD
" WELL/41.611'h go vestment is unquestionably directed •
" against that exclusive principle which hss been so
" fatal to Inland, while Mr.;Csxpitso'sministerial acts
" consist better with, the frre sentiments et the country •
" than did those of his unfortunate predecessor. We.
," refer to Naples, and to Spain and Portugal; as ex-
!' bibiting the traits to, which we aikido, Italy was
". surrendered to the despotism of the Holy Minute°.
" Ga the contrary, ow counsels have been, it shout 4,
".seem, employed, and rick lea, in prevoing the siklarAS
"of From viper spains. •. • . • .. • •• '
Do you know what " stectiag-the • requisites of
time" may mean! Do you understand what he means
by "free sesthinciets of the country !" However, it
is the man's Orofound ignoraiteets.lo the fact : it is
this. that we have to ‘notice here. You see that, though
it is notorious that France isactspally preparing to in--
vade Spain ;, thOugh it is equally natoriOns that our
government openly declares that Prance hat a right
to do this; though it is notorious, that. our government
is acting almost in a hostile owner against the Cortes :
notwithstanding all this, Cockey, repeetatg the old
ten-times refuted assertions of the. StocK-Jobbing
prints of London, very coolly says, that " our counsels.
have been, it troadd seem, '. employed with effect, in
preventing the attacks of France upon Spain!" Oh!
' it would 'seem," would it! It would seem, Mr. 817.
con, thit thpu art a precious ninny! And what "at-
tacks" dos[ thou mean I • Thou art, verily, st_hapeful
pilot to the politicians of Norfolk.
The fact is, as to this. matter, those who Willi hed‘
the greatest influence with the vile press in London,
-were deeply interested in keeping up the preee et'
Spanish &stk. • Thousands upon thousands have, I
dare say, been paid for paragraphs tending to this
effect. And, the good of it is, that Cockey Bacon lies
not oily swallowed: these- paragraphs as rxmlaining
gospel truths, bat he keeps prumpipg them up after
they are laughed at in London, even by the jobbing
prints. from whom he took them.. Thousands of per-
sons have been ruined by these paragraphs. The
SrettssiAN did its best to prevent this; but, ttiaboured I
almost in vain for many weeks. Now, indeed, the
public sees the value of its endeavours, and, accord-
ingly, looks towards it with confidenee.:'
Such, .-Gentlemen, is the " iferkie of Coekey
Bacon! ignorance equal to hii is rarely to be found ;.
but, it is by no means inferiotin poiut of -magnitude a°
his malice. In. his last Saturday's paper he hulk
commentary on the proceedings of the'lete County'
Meeting. I shall insert the whole of this commen-
tary ; and then offer you Soma i
- few remarks on t,
Igter quoting a long and abusive pessage from the
:rage and last-siaketig OLD Tulsa, Coekey Bacon
proceeds thus :*
" We bare cited the above passage from the
.1-st of
" the English Journals, " Tot Tates," (and the Times
" is by so means alone in deseriNag the scorn and ridicule
" which justly light upon the County) in order to shrew.
" what arc the firatthoughts of all honest men concern-1
" ing this disgraceful husinesi. The• termination of
our Coenty Meeting has filled Norfolk with shame
" and indignation, and the rest of the kingdom with
" laughter pod contempt. It is an vain that the
' majority of those present declare they knew nothirg of
" whet was proposed to them—it is vain that they re-
" present it to be impossible that any set of men,
" except asindicrs and thieves, could be brought
" to assent to propositions involving the abso-
" lute' stoppage of every asan's coneerns, and tali-
" versed plunder and civil conwisotion—the fact is
" recorded. Mr. COKE and Mr. WODENDUSE, and
" thousands of people beside, could not prevent the
" conclusion they so positively deny. Cobhett hay-
" ing no connection with the county, but by his pub-
" licatioos —no means of power or persuasion but his
" talents, of whatever kind they arc, had the address
" to procure a majority against she weight of charac-
" ter opposed to him in the person of the one Mem-
" her, whose life and/Ur/ow have been devoted to the
" service of agriculture and of the county—against
" the personal regard and public estimation which at-
" tend the other, and all their connections, and indeed
" against common sense and common honesty. The
" more unnatural and absurd all this appears, the
" peeler the ascendancy of Cobbett's bare name and
" designs. It is tnis very fact that makes the matter
" so much the more important. —There is no disputing
" llic filet—so it is—the High Sheriff's signature is at
" the foot of Cobbett's petition ,/air revolution, and it is
" become the petition of the County of Norfolk in
" County Meeting assembled. The real strength of
" the County—the mond majority, and a great majority
" it will be found to be, are however taking imMediate
" steps anew& i everting this triumph of fraud, impudence,
" and fully, obtained in the novae of- the -Colony.- -Mini-
" Bred ineedicigs ore raising, ' to disclaim aM participation
" in the proceedings of Friday the 3d, sod to tirot3,t
" against the unjust, fraudulent, and revolutionary
" doctrines' contained in Cobbett's petition. Let
" not the great proprietors nor any others imagine
" that they can escape under the evasion that they
" were not present. If any set of men usurp their
" places and use their names for infamous ends. they
" assent to those ends so long as they permit such use
"of their authority. In this ease indeed they become
" accessories both before and after the fact—acces-
" sories they are to all intents and purposes, every
" man of them, front the Duke of Norfolk to the ocou-
" pant of half a dozen acres. Either the ruin under
" which agriculturists groan is false or the complaints
"of the sinking tenantry:9ot only as amatter of ha-
" hour and humanity, have a title to the- itioq earnest
" attention from the proprietors of thy soil, but as a
" matter of policy, these most useful of all men osighr
oto hare been listened to, and supported by the presence
" and assisted by the counsel of their landlords. Both
" are embarked in one 'Tsui. and they sink er swim
" together. Gentlemen shall now see what they gain I.y
" delivering their tenants over to the guidance of suca
" politicians as Cobhett. Indeed we have the authoWy
"of Noblemen and Geittli men of the highest rc-

othing is

" spectability for sa3ing they regret exceedingly
" they were not present to have assisted in re-
" versi►7g this *weeding, Which cutlers glee coney
" with infigruy so long as it vet :Italia uneontradie/ed.—
"We shall put this thing very plainly. There is not
" a man of any sense or any honesty in Norfolk who
" who would not gladly reverse this proceeding. The
,o whole inspultititnt of the county is looking up to thei ,

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liffEllrfoollai'lliwor:To-'"""471
tr nah.r4l ishhol/4 atid elm) slut d-lt Atte,.tiliii vs,ti.tl
reels AI j'lSt indignstinn at being thus herd tip to lite
world as a Caul arjanave. so he reckons upon ll e
" just sympathy of all those wiles° characters Rrt• CVt'il
." if nossittic more deeply concerned the n Is s owe.
'" For what is the distinction lb itch tit.: Weller
" orders most affect!. •tV nice sotise of Isonnor. if
'" then they sit' silted • deem_ and aetetieseej j tja,i_,.
"griftexTeren and , r tiTerbir; can kulemeaster Chet
"they are dead to•eharacter, i addict Pat in iheithe tic
attheir.canaexiokesrvantent to cadre-thc-hissamstasit .;
.c most desesseditFor,n. rather lhlk.-P!c."s4'`lhe he-
" coming dullest Or their cantinas.; so a Sr" rt,. "ha; ~
"Ithey tack tlitrbistioslf,; di; 'knoiviedie:' the itlyi`goi
it
" tend tlle,aefivtty that otOtt ereflehploditat lt# mak,
:" Mier fik, Opet'rem d' to :Sweatt:n*4hr, ar,voellocs-iat
4.'idereatitlis„, To sii/ that dertnall AP PrirAtOPl4l,44
" those. el. Cahhcars pot Coo. c WI Quit -Olillasti-
" dote, or that puma Ant/ail wortAsoltite ton east Arius.
" such a mem, will 'be represented, writ be taken tystia;
",end is a were evasion. Ths,R.oent) has Armor,
" proper to meet, Mr. Coto: has declared that tt wsa
"most fitting-for the yeomanry to sign the requittitirm.
" in order to shod the tsaissersality'of the distress sad
" of tho-molive to petition. • A committese.ot sabssan-
" tial farmers prepare.' a set of resolutions, which Le
" approved; and winch Mr. Wodchouse sat not met! so
" to accept with a reservation alas wane ismocly-wordort
" clause. Ail these goentlamou at least arc .ptirectimilir
" committed, and along with them, are committed ad
" the sense, and all tlyshatioug,and all the hammered'
" the comity, There •eirstiadeed be little dislM Mir •
" that Cobbett has eter-rejakil kis pisrpoic, for an alaA '
".eati .1101 w 'deAgits'ilesieff the' **Sires
.of Cobbett',;
"'ildefritics;withont pre diiimineidensclf a rrtultitkoii,t.,
" in the very worst sense °rifle Aerie. istaiely„,in Oat
" sense by which a.,revolutioaist is diatinettiehed,a I,
" the elusticree who, wou4l pil4age the crews, the churn,.
" and the public creditor, and throw the whole sortelis,
" ite, callus*. This. point Cobbett has settled e.t-
-" finitkely."
Let me take this crying commentary in 'thO'llyifte.
i in which it lies befo e me; thatch my ienaiiielus,l
not, I promise you, fientlemt n, be very Imigi..-The
first thing is an atbmspt to make you 1 eieve,,lthat
the Petition is bad, because the Old Times and tilhe'-.-
kesdon priests abus.e,,it. Should yea think the wOrgi,
of any act of yours because it was censured by men
whom you despised -1 -I will next- week (I have-tin:-
time nowt make, kW* hut eihiltslicin of this Londe:,
press ; I wall make-oink a display of it a shall
1
make a mut' Of stay Ibeling shedder 'at the b VV.
thouv,ht of being trailed by it. I will p ,lt of it.
math ; sand then the vile thin., will be ahle to do'nlo
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teweikann.
Tpne Would think this man in•.d." Witg, " a ill-.
',rot Present," sad not able to bold their,bandal,
A astmority " against the Petition, anti yet isulferst,
tovasal. What! were they spell-bound! Wereibrf
bewitched! Alt'! Gentletnen, we need not care med.-Ili
about this heel ached majority. Qh! what sad pork 4
There was Mr. Coke; :theta Was Mr. Waskittraws:
the " natural leaders" of-the County ; and yel,Bls!
horrible ! there was Cobbett ; there ants Mr. ate
" whose- life and fortune have beessi:deniteer.its;
your sen-ige.r.—Stop!—Hort bas. M. Coke
devoted lift and fortune to yogi! He has bees
living a very pleasant. life ;, you have gime kilt • a
seat marrimment for many„ many years ; and our
have h none of his pilaw ;.jse has it yet, and yon
would now prevent him from loaing it. That matter
is square, thee. - • There wassMr. Celts! There was
Mr. Workhouse, amnerable and beloved !..' There
were your "natural leaders !" And there was CS Pet!.
liming no connection with the' cOttntry,-Having no
'pewees of pelt uasion,; havitsgeothingetknyferhisr—
top—" nothing but his pebtlemeions and Ii a talent, .''"
Oh! ob.! eity.be heuk these, then! Aye, and go, as
Mr. Coke and Mr. Wodebluse bad not these, von
made a mistake,' and took me for the " natural lee; trer-
in/dead of them ! What a mistake! Well ; but why
cry about it $ Have another County-Meeting, awl
then the m'atithe can be rectified, you know, Mr.
Bacon. But, none of your." Handled-Meetings" !
none of your hole-and-c waer meetings, like those bell
by parsons and tax-eaters against the poor Queen!
No-:e of .h.s unless you wish to be a jest for everlasti,r4
God 'bless us! The T, in .Cockey-lane,lave not only
a majority of the Coun'y, but a Majority of those
who were Frescnt ; and they leave the " whale pram-.
lotion ;" and ye: (Jockey Bacon cries aloud for hide-
anfii-vrner Mee ins?
With such ravings it is waste of flue to attempt
to reason. But, Gentlemen, pray mark the direct
falsehoods: the direct and malicious falsehoods cf
this article. Your Petition is called revolutionary ;
and it most explicitly declares your anxious, wish
that the constitution of your fathers may descend to
your children. You are accused -s .wbbies ti
plunder the Crown ; mitt dike, because yon Imuest,
that certain estat2s, in which the king Mullis aMily
have no property, from which they receive sot a
farthing, which have been transfernd from the
Crown to the public nearly a hundred
,ymrs, and
which you suggest may be sold in order to heirs
pay of the public 'Debt, instead of being kept to,
yield the public next ti nothing!--You are accused
of a wish to plunder the Chum's: and this beraustt
you suggest, that a part of the public, property, com-
monly called Church proper.y,- may ho applied to
help to pay q• the pab!ic Dee, knowing, as you do,
that it is at public property, that the Parliament
I hes, at different time;, taken parts of it from the
Church, that a part of the titl:el are now private
property, that the Duke of Devenshii e owns the tither
of twenty parishes in Ireland, and knew:ng, too, that
Mr. HUME made a motion, during the last Session, for
appropriating the ;Ad.: of the Church property in Ire-
land, and means to mike anuthei snch motion during
the ensuing Sessi n. You know, that, when the tithe'
were first gi ante I, the Clem v maintained the puoc
1 out Qt. them. Yi.o know we.! that, they do not do
I this note. And yet, you are accused of a wi,,b to
pleader the Church, became you baggest that a par:.
of this immense mass of public property nifty ho
applied to the liquidation of the Public Leta.—
You are accused of oishing to phender the public
Creditor; hocause you suggest 'hat an " equitably
• adjustment" of his claims ought 'o take place. Yuu
before suggest that he may be partly paid off by an
appropriation to that purpose of Church and Crone
estates. Yon only call for an " equitable attjun-
meet ;" Mr. WESTERN contends for a deduction front
him of one-half at least. Mr. Woemsotnet agrees
wills 11/r. Western. Mr. Tninerrie calls for a dy•
duction from the fiutdholder. You ask for nothing
but " an equitable adjustment of his claims." Cocke
Bacon praises Mr: Wousuouss and Mr. THURTEI.L,
and cars you phorterers!..--Lastly, you wish for an
" equitable acYustntent of all contracts between man
and man ;" and to give time for this, you pray, that:,
for one year, the farmer and mortgager may .remain
u» disturbed by the tievere presses of diStrapit and