The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

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I can peollese those Gentlemen, that, if '
their object, they will he os vigilantly
heir predecessors, by the Independent
constitutional freedom. Shall T, however
from the merits of Mr. Brougham, in .
endeatoors to wsest from the grasp of lord)
the'pro'perty of tile poor, because, in his da
to Stay fancy - dso osants.go.—

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At, orttey• General l—Shell (invidiously
character of that good many Mr. Bennett, or vilify
his meritorious exertions to alleviate the miseries of
imprisonmeot, because be generally votes with a
/,arty? Or shall I disturb the ashes of • Romilly,
•nd taint thefait lame which he acquired by his en-
deavours to lessen the horrors of our Criminal Law,
because his voice was usually raised from the benches
Of the regular Opposition? Sooner would I cut off
this right hand, than be guilty of any such injustice.
But thus mach I must be permitted to say, on he.
til( of the Concentric Society, that rbilst we dero.
gale not from the merits of others, • still higher
pie PO of praise is, in our opinion, due to that man
vita, in the integrity of his Parliantentarx conduct,
looks for on reward but the still small vorcsof
ppproving conscience, and, it may be, ar. ikrity .4
be, the approbation of the intelligent m1.00,1*
boos.
6• Gentlemen, en these grounds, I now call upon
yea to give expression to your feelings of respect
end esteem for the Parliamentary conduct of the
I3arooet, by drinking his health, nlib three
times three cheers."

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-41 14 r•i4oa 4.4VG11 P4PERS.
-i(inson• • ) le, • •.
Pisan, 11.—Yesterday (Thorwlay) Ike 10th
December, 1818, the King opened the Session of the
tChembers in the Hell of the Chamber of Deputies.
4141 a Majesty set out frosts the Palace of the 'f huilleries
St 'so o'elock in greet state.
la the Kiog's carriages were remarked the Peers
of freugeitheMersliels, the Chevaliers of the Royal
..00141us the Gelled Geosses of the Royal and Mili-
,taey Order of SC Loeb, of the Royal Order of the
.14/ioa of :Honour, do Grand Officers of this Order,
end the Commanders of the Order St. Louis.
. Tie National Guard, the Royal Guard, and 'Viol
troops of the line in praises at Paris, formed a
*sae along the King's passage.
• Salvoes of artillery announced the arrival and
.departure of his Majesty. A Deputation of twelve
Peer., and one of twenty-five Members of the
Chamber of Deputies, received the King at the foot'
of the staircase of the Grand Peristyle.
The King placed himself on his Throne, haring
„Monsieur nu his right trend, sod the Duke of Berri
on hip left. The Duke of Orleans was on the right
of the King, next to Monsieur. The Duchess of
:Berri, the Duchess of Orleans, and Mademoiselle
d'Orleans. occupied a tribune in front of the King's
Throne. The Assembly rose, and was uncovered.
,The King said, " Messieurs, the Peers, take your
mats." The Chancellor of France, in the name of
ids Majesty, gave the Deputies permission to sit. Ail
being seated, the King pronounced his speech.
[His Majeste's Speech was • published in • the
AriTESSI4 IV of yesterday.]
, His Majesty's Speech was beard with a profonaill
And respectful intention ; but w hen his Majesty pro.
moroced the words, " I depend on your concurrence
to repel those pernicious principles which, under the
,mask of liberty, attack social order, conduct by
anarchy to absolute power, arid whose fatal success
has cost the world so much blood nod tears," a
spontaneous and general burst, acclamations and cries
.of " Vice le Roi!" a thousand times repeated, corn.
yelled his Majesty to suspend his Speech.
When the King rose to retire, acclamations burst
forth anew,artd cries of Vire le Roii Vine los !jean-.
bons! were heard from every quarter of .the Hall.—
(tlentileur.)
• The Commission named by the Allied Menarche
tra.regelate at Frankfort the different affairs of Ger.
inskny, not yet terminated, will be composed on the
feet of Austria by the Baron de Wesseuberg ; on
that of Rassis by the Baron d'A 00,11 ; on that of
lorgland by Lord Clanrarty ; rite,oathatof Prussia
by the Baron d'Humboldt.
Freock Funds, Dec. 10.—Five per Cuts. 65 f. 70c.
W• eak Stock, 1545 f.

per Cent "My -
India Rondo 79
Long Ann.
Exchequer ellh 16 10 p
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rested in these prosecutions as was generally sop
posed,sud that its practice in this respect was founded
on the most merciful considerations. Really, this is a
modest assertion after the numberless prosecutions
and executions that the Public have witnessed for
forgeries on the Threadneedle-strert paper. The
Bsuk has indeed taken especial care to soffer as little
as possible by the imitation of its Notes ; but if it
is so little interested in the prosecutions—if the re-
tail traders (shame to its considerations!) ore the
persons in general who take the forged Notes, end
suffer by them, how does the Bank always appear in
the indictment as the prosecutor and the sufferer ?
and if such an assertion be acknowledged to be false,
how can such an indictment stand ? The Bank is
not the sufferer in any case of forgery ; and, there-
fore, not the prosecutor, if justice were not cor-
rupted in all her sources. Let it not, however, be
supposed we advocate the cause of Forgers. No ;
let item be detected—brought to justice—and con.
victed on rood and sufficient evidence; but 'let no
humanity be outraged by mock trials and the esi
deuce of " oracles."
The French Papers to the 12th inst. have been re-
ceived. They are nearly filled with the details of the
opening of the Legislative Session by the King in
person. A copy of the King's Speech appeared in
our Paper of yesterday. The Chambers were to
meet yesterday for the dispatch of business. It is
said that one of the first measures to be proposed will
be a prosisional law to continue the existing imposts
till the Budget for 1819 shall have been adopted by
them. The Duke of Racuer.ten, we are sorry to
learn, has beets for some days seriously ill. The
French Funds continue to decline. The closing
price on Thursday was 65f. 70c. On Saturday (ac-
cording to an express received in the City yesterday)
they fell sO low as 634 (some accounts say GOD;
but it is added, that when the express left Paris, at
five o'clock in the afternoon, they had rallied con-
siderably, add left off et 65.

Dutch am) Hamburg,' Mails, with Papers from
Brussels, have also arrived. It is affirmed, on the
authority of letters from Paris, the propriety of suf.
feting thoestorn of the Eailes incioded in the Pali-,
mince of Banishment,, his been discussed In tlfig
Prench Cabinet ; and At yersbel Sort.T, MOWN
of Doogy, and AestAol,,Aiws to be 'allowed to re-
turn. CAuctois .I.elleitjte, one of these exiles, has
published at the Hague a bold Petition to the Second
Chamber of the Slates General, in which he says
that a duty has been imposed on her to teach the
People hut la read their rivressots. Count
F•
B ERNST qi the Prussian Minister for Foreign
Affairs, i is said, to proceed to Brussels, to re.
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SUMP the n °dation, for a cession of territory by
1 the kingdom of the Netherlands in favour of Prussia.
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Wtmovon, DEC. 14.—The Bishop of Lownom went
not of waitivg on Saturday, from having the care of
the Kix°, mid left here. His Lordship was relieved
by Lord ARDEN. Soon after breakfast on Saturday
morning, the Duchess of GLOCCEsThIt left the Castle
and proceeded to her residence at lisgshot.pirk,
where her Royal Highness remained some time view.
ing the repairs, alterations, and improvem•nls that
have been going on for some months post ; llfternards
her Royal Highness returned here to dinner. The
Princevi SOPHIA'S health is much improved. Iler
Royal Highness rides out in her carriage daily, ex-
cept when prevented by the weather. The Duke of
YORK arrived at the Castle on S.ttorday, anon after
two o'clock, on ot visit 111 his Royal Sisters, arid
afterwards proceeded to Oallands.
Yesterday, soon after one o'clock's tbe Duke of
Yodw arrived at his Molise in St. Jailefll Plitt', from
Oatlands. 0 .

Colonel JOSEPH *BATLEY k appointed Grnom of
the Bedchamber, in the room of the late Colonel
BRADYLL.

The complements Ivf thit tibis ten. brigs employed on
home service ere ordered to be incroaaed to their foil
war ritiblishment,• which• will employ an addi-
tional Lieutenant and nine moo in each of theme•

!tear-Admiral the Hon. Sir HENRY BLACKWOOD,
flirt. it is Said, will succeed Sir ittcnAun Klntsi:l
Bart. as Commander-in-Chief in the Kist I odies.l,o'
Lord ELLENDOIROCCII was the son of Dr. LAM",
formerly Bishop of Carlisle. After rising In some
eminence at the bar, he was appointed Atturney•
General in 1801 (without baring previorrsly been So.
' licitor•General,in Consequence of both offices becom-
ing vacant at the sometime), and the next year, in con.
sequence of the death Of Lord K mom. he was ap-
pointed to the distinguished situation of Odor JOI ice,
of England. On the lat April, 1802, he was created
a Peer by. the 'title of Lord Ellenborough, Bar4n
Of Ellenhorough, in the county of Cumberland. lie
was also a GoverrroV of the Charter.houce, and
F.S.A. lie married in October, 1782, Miss 'town's',
daughter of GEORGE PHILLIPS 'Poway, Esq. by
whom he had issue, 1. Eirwonn (a Member a the
House of Commons in the 14.4 Parliament), now I,,vril
' 14kr.vraoitoucn, who married December 11, 1813,
(.arty OCTAVI A STEWABT tioughter of the Marquis
of Lonnonticeler; 'end sisturto Lord CAirmaKracti
—2. CuAwl.thc'Ew/LN, married May et, 1811,
ELIZABETH Sopela'Malepor Sir CH AN Lel RTHEIATON
NIOIMPIGALE, haft:-B.Meutir.-4.Joame-6. ELI.
s ABETH-6. ANNE—and 7.1 daughter; bora Jab uo ry
11, 1812.

sari any subject of less importance than
politics, this dilemma would be of little conseqateses
to the Public. If any of your ingersioea.Ceeest
spondettis affirmed and undertook to prove that snow
n ithin the Arctic Circle fell red from the clouds, con.
trading that colour from the rays of the eon being
condensed by the cold, aed mixed with the flocutiof
such snow, some of your Readers of such an analysis
of a new phenomenon might he amused, and none of
them injured in their feelings ; hut in the case which
makes me now addre,ts ou it is very different....
With respect to the necessity of a REFORM, I be.
Here from my soul, that a very large majority of the
People are now agreed in, and not the smallest per.
lion of that majority insist, that to be effectual in
saving the Stale from dissolution, or at least from a
violent convulsion, it moat not be long deferred..._.
There is no doubt then but that in the approaching
meeting of Parliament the important ;abject will be
earnestly taken up ; on which occasion we may es.
pea that the enemies of the People's freedom will
offer their old objection to taking up the question,
by seeing, " it is idle and wain to enter upon the
discussion of this topic of dangerous innovation and
experiment, for the very Reformers themselves are
not agreed about what they wish for or want. " Leave
them (it will be said) to exhaust their arguMents
and their oratory against one another, and let us
pass to the order of the day, or some more feasible
subject." How much then must the real friend le
freedom be mortified to see such able disputantsas
Timoxice TRUEMAN (this, however, is only the now
d. guerre of this able and eloquent warrior against
despotism and tyranny, he is a Gentleman of consider.
able furlone, es e ell as of learning, in the county
of Btu ks) and Major CARTWRIGHT, employing their
lime and exhausting their energy in endeavouring to
reconcile each other to dissimilar measures, or to
convince each the other how far the subject of Reform
should go.
I will undertake to say, that although the former
inclines to stnpat a nearer point in carry ieg the Elec.
tire Franchise, yst is he equally honest and sincere
in his desires of benefiting the oppressed pert of the
community. Ilis benevolence towards this class of
sufferers and complainants, has been manifested over
and over again in his former writings, from the first
of them down to that Leiter which celled up the
;gin rags ardour of the veteran Major, who hes nem
tte•one Moment chased to deserve well of his country,
since the castigation of the Doke of NEWCASTLIC,
then Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nottingham.
In perusing the letters before alluded to between
these Champions for Freedom, who can help re.
gretting that so much philosophical fire is not fut.
mintied against the 'common enemy of man's rights,
rather than spent in a cross direction, which wounds
and disheartens their friends, and emboldens their foes.
Allow me therefore, Sir, through your Paper, to ad-
jure these worthies not to continue to operate that
mischief which they in their philanthropic minds will
not fail to deplore.

I know these able disputants well, and have an
equal respect for both. I could have listened with
complacent attention to their contrary opinions epee
the length to which the Elective Franchise ought to
go ; if delivered in a private room, the effect would
then have been transitory, the Impression upon the
hearers evanescent and harmles4,,Bet literae scripts
manent. The opposers of all:Reform will throw
the record of their disunion inAseir teeth, and affirm
that nothing consistent or solitlweee arise out of such
discordant principles.

One comfort however remain*, should I and other
mutual friends not be able to reconcile these eminent
disputants, and that is, that TRUTH, the emanation
from divine intelligence, is now *wakened, and has
taken her stand (a bbeil, as the French more woo.
ly eipress it), wed viiWfinally adjudicate fer the be.-
tiefit of mankind."' In the:mean time it may not be
amiss in me, perhaps older than oat of the pleaders
in dispute, and not a great many years !conger than
the other (being more than magenaire), to request
them to suspend their argamentshew tar the Reformers
ought to go for the benefit of the present enslaved
millions, tilt they have at least commenced their
journey, since none bat the moat wicked, west be-
sotted, selfish misanthrope srift openly declare we
ought to stead still any longer. e--4N
And now'Sfr,in jllustiptionOf witit are said as
twoto men of equal worth in sntiety,aud w -meaning
in politiee, hot entertahltbig foi the momen? different
propositions, feel myself strpoity impaid to relate
what pato/dander the roof of (hit ferret's ble Father cf
hom all, as by consent, poy a marked
deference. amiat fd
A short IA Vitiront half an hour in the
company of en. . P. who touched upon
the subject us •Rs heart of every patriot
who sympathiaes witit bll sunring countrymen ; and
who in the course of conversation observed, that he
thought if the Reformers would he contented with
eaterlding the Elective Franchise to hnuseholderc,
that great numbers in the House of Commons onot
cordially enter into the question ; adding, that if
more were kought for, be could not bee the day when
it would be obtained.
I communicated
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othis,occuirence to the first of our
Champions m
in .a way that he understood
it to be my own opinion o:so : and with an indignant
warmth, which further raised him in my esteem and

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