The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-18 00:00:00

THE STATESI

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of thel riglionshavi.prOchsimed that a• very few men
ir4 coOrerned it clsariging the ancient order
.ut things,
and for this reason nobody ',light to obey ns. Yon
know to what a degree they are deceived, or seek to
deceive, brcau as you know perfectly well with what
rapidity the cry which you raised if repeated on every
side. 'Do not fear ! In Lisbon you are considered
as heroes and true patriots; and its inhabitants, who
•clesirs to imitate you in the calmness with which you
protlaimed your independence, only expect the ap-
proach of souse force to declare themselves, without
fear of suffering any evils, and without seeing them-
selves under the necessity of indicting them. Citizens
of Oporto, we have the means of supporting our
taus.. It is just ; it is also the cause of our neigh-
bours the Spaniards: and fur this reason their troops
already occupy our frontiers towards liallicia, where
they are ready to assist our indetion-lence. We should
wi-li to owe to our own exertions alone the liberty
which we ate going to enjoy ; hut the enemies of the
nation even in this desire to ohs roue the glory to which
it has 50 many titles. Citizens of Oporto, fear no-
I thini.,... thal is with us.
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(Sigl:rd) " timvittn.t Pox) tDA
FIiNCECA, President.
" SictiAsTlAN DRAG( VALENTE DE

Bniro CAsukltuivVice-Prebidriat,
" Oporto, in the Palare of the Government, Sept. 2."

The Provisional Junta has called on the i'ustmo-
home to furnish them with all the money they pos-
sessed, which was complied with. The latest ad-
•ices which had reached Oporto front Lisbon were
of the 25th ultimo. All was then quiet there. The
proclamations transmitted from Oporto had been
placarded in the principal streets. The people, it is
said, read and applauded them, but manifested t•
disposition to sublet-I the Regency by violent means,
and the latter, it is asserted, satisfied themselves
with remaining on the defensis:-, cautiously avoiding
all measures which might exasperate the feelings of
the people. This state of thins, however, was not
expected to last for any length of time. The re-
sult of the impending conflict between the troops
of Oporto atoi Count d'Amarante would, it was sup-
posed, determine whether the Government should
submit to the wishes of the great majority of the
nation, or enter upon a rigorous system of ethertion.
ADDRESSES TO Milt MAJESTY.

Her lfajoity returned the following gracious Answer
to the .lddre%• from i'arikle

I accept, w ith many thanks, this tribute of regard .
from the Inhabitants of the. City of Carlisle and its vici-
nity. My hopes have often teen frustrated, and my .
confidence has often been betrayed ; but I ane convinces'
that the trust I place in the affectionate attachment of:
the British people nill never prose illusory, and that
they will estimate the attempt which is marking to pol-
lute toy character by the known malignity of my adver-
saries, and the little creilihilitv that is due to the wit-
nesses who have beeu produced iu support of their elley
gations.
It is difficult to conceive how much the vilification of
what has been recently passing in the 'louse of Lords
may affect the morals-of the country ; but it cannot he
supposed that so much impurity can have been vireo-
latish in the public jsrints, and diffused suer every part
of the. kingdom, without having some vitiating effects.
But if ill,. sentiment of delicacy should have been of-
ten offended—and, indeed, if the most revolting die-
gnat should sometimes have been felt, the fault mint he
ascribed to those who encouraged the invention of this
accumulated obscenity. It most have grieved the good
and the wise, of all elasses, to have had all the newspa-
pers filled, for two or three weeks, with a imps of insleeets-
cies unfit to he read by any modest eye', or to be heard
by any modest ears; and to behold the highest judica-
ture in the kingdom, io sonic degree, ministering to the
distribution of this moral poison among all classes of the
I eornumnity. Of this extraordinary mischief, whatever
may have been the contaminating infinenee, the blame
cannot rest with me—it must be imputed to the malice
of my adversaries.
Iler Majesty returned the following gracious An-
swer to the Address from Ross :

I am enrich gratified by this honest tribute of regard
from the Inhabitants of the Town of Ross and its Neigh-
bourhood. Ilad I a heart of stone, it would, ere this,
have been softened into one of flesh, by the multiplied
proofs of sympathizing tenderness which the people of
these realms have manifested in my adversity. lint, es
it pleased the Author of my being to endow me with a
bosom of more than ordinary sensibility, I cannot ex.
press how much I have been affected by the vivid de-
monstrat;ons of zealous attachment which I have re-
ceived since. I first quitted the inhospitabi• coast of
France to throw myself on the generosity of the Eng-
lish people. I knew the magnanimous character of F..ns,-
lishuu•a too well not to know that my A ilversarici wonld
constitute a strong claim to their regani, and that the
sympathy I should excite would he in proportion to the
afflictions by oleic+ I was visited, the injuries by which
I was oppressed, and the rancour with which I was per-
secuted. - _ -

An .f,ddre•s has been presented to her Majesty from
tiro Inhabitants of Halifax, to which her Majesty re-
turne•d the folluw•ing Answer :
" I am unfeignedly obliged to the Inhabitants of
Halifax and its Vicinity. for this affectionate Ai-

" The present conspiracy against my honour and me '
rights issues from the same trunk of malice- as that in
1t,t16; and it is prosecuted with the same views, and coo-
ducted by the same means. ff
"My adversaries first attempted to depress my cha.
racter by such an accumulation of slanders as might '
cause me to be condemned before I was heard, and to be
punished only, because I had been reviled. lint thoriels
11
the corrupt poison, which the 8E8.11,1011 ?ACTION had slit..
fused through all parts of the State, has impaired that ,
respect fur justice which hail formerly *hallowed shrine
in almost every bosom in this country, still, in nnrue-
runs instances, nature has risen superior to every sordid
artifice ; and the injustice, which I hare experienced
has excited general indignation.
" In this country the friends of truth and josticel—of t
civil and religious liberty. when banished from other
parts of the world, were wont to be protected as an in-;
violable sanctuary. Here they fled as to a sure resting-
place. Here they might repose after the pelting of the
pitiless storm. here they experiences! not only tranquil
security, but honourable encouragement. They' were
respected and admired. But, were the spirit of justice,
in all its purity, again to descend upon the earth and
choose her favourite residence among the nations of our
hemisphere, it may be doubted whether England would
be preferred for her abode. And if England were her
choice I shall leave it to persons better versed in mo•
ml calculations to determine whether a spirit so encl.
dated, so impartial in her views, and so nehiessed in her
decisions. would venture to exhibit the presence of her
resplendent attributes. where both tyres.). end injustice
have formed an incorporate anion in the lona of a Bill t
of Pains and Penalties."

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Yoeig,
her Mi

•*er :

Asldre.s presented to- her Idijetilip kora tlo
len, loliabit)lnts, of the t'ily.of Herekir&
sty returned the following gracious Au

"I derive much pleasure from this Address from this
Young Men,• Inhabitants of the City of Hereford.
" Youth is the season of generous sentiments, anti
when erety act of iajastige and inhumanity excites thi
most vivid indignation.
" The Young Men of Hereford have proved that their
sympathies are powerfully interested in favour of theit
much injured Queen. Indeed I am convinced that,
among the youth of the three l'aited Kingdoms, tiler.
is hardly a heart that does not beat in my favour, or a
band that, if it were requisite, would not be raised in
my defence. I may have enemies among the corrupt
and venal ; hut I can have none among those over whom
the vitiating influence of the seLvisu escriord • has no!
vet spread the mildew of depravity, or cankered that in-
dependenre which is natural to youth.'
" Beneficence is Virtue's imperial crown ; but Irene-
licence must be regulated by the means of the indivi-
duals. It is difficult to know which is most to blame—
the selfishness of youth or the prodigality of age. Both
are odious in themselves at any time • anti when they arc
respectively attached to these periods of life, they have
a double incongruity. It is wise to be economists
both of our money and our time. The fir.t pre.
us from dependence, and the last renders life our
own."

To the Address from the Provost, Magistrates, Bur-
gesses Tradesmen, and Citizens, of the Burgh of
Montrose, presented to her Majesty by Joseph Hume,
Esq. Member of Parliament for Montrose, her Ma-
jesty returned the following gracious Answer:---
•'
I request the Protest, Magistrates, and Borresscs
of Guild, Trades and Citizens of the Royal linrgh of
Montrose, to accept my cordial thanks for this /Sec
tionate Address.

" The sympathy of persons, so enlightened and re-
spectable, exhilirates my spirits and enlivens my mind.
" timid principles are often established in bail times ;
and the abuses of tyranny sometimes prove favonrable to
the recovery of liberty. The present unconstitutional
attack neon my honour and my rights will I trust, in its
results, co-ntierate with other reuses in improving the
decayed fabric of the Constitution, and in adding to do
general stock of liberty, and of happiness.
"The Provost, Magistrates, Burgesses, and Citizens
of Montrose, have hail ample experience of the disastrous
consequences that must, sooner or later, be visible in
those institutions in which reformation is &laved.
Sovereigns who seldnm like to part with any power that
has come within their grasp, will not readily be im-
pressed with the urgent necessity of reforming inveterate
abuses, and of truing before, rather than of lingering
behind, the light of the age. lint in these times, ti
Reforms are not begun quietly from within, they will
ultimately be forced from without ; and both justice and
policy, which can never be disjoined, concur in recom.
menifing the adaptation of ancient establishments to the
increased light and the advance.' civilization of modern
times. _ _

" The Inhabitants of Alontrose enjoy a degree of po-
litical independence, anti of municipal liberty, which
Inv of their entititty.men possess. For this possession
they are principally indebted to their own manly and
constitutional exertions; awl if other burghs have not
been equally successful in obtaining the same advan-
tages, I still cherish the hope that the cense of Reform
in :Scotland will finally triumph over its opponents.
When his Majesty's Government thought proper to
strike my name out of the Liturgy, their conduct was
most unwarrantable; for, as I had never been tried, the
:_legal presumption was, and the moral conclusion might
tat have linen, that I was innoceent. If the Government
could thus dispense with any of the forms of the Liturgy,
with respect to the Queen, why might they not dispense
with other forum; and, in short, imitate t)ie example of
Scotland, which has exhibited such a splendid proof
that the religion and the morals of a people are not all
dependant on the ceremonial of an expensive establish-
. meet?

"M Providence sometimes hangs the greatest weight
upon the smallest threads, I may, perhaps, be an humble
instrument in promoting sone gracious purpov.e of the
Divine Administration. Whatever may ha my destiny,
I shall rejoice if my sufferings can in any way contri-
bute to the national prosperity."

LIST OF .IDDRESSES PIIKSENTED ro HER

M. 1.1 ES rY.

The f ,11Jtving is a list of the Addresses already
presented to her Majesty, together with a statement
of the unn►bers by which some of them have been
signed. Twenty Aildreutes from Other places will be
proeented to her Majesty en Monday next, at Bran-
denburg!) Muse. Requisitions fur calling meetings
are preparine. in various parts both of town and
country

Biped.

-. . sou

Alder gate
ilaton
Ayleghtiry
Banta-ft-Castle
Rath (I.atlir,)
Rath
Bedford . . llnt or
Herwiek-upon-Tweedlia%
Bethnal-green . 700
Bolton . .
Roston . Choi fItINIS
Rridpnrt
Bristol (l. 0111.•.) 11,030
British. Seamen of
MldcSesex
Cembrrwell
Canterbury
Ceriiale . .
Caatir Dnnington .
Chippenhant .
Clerkenwell • . 1400
l'ripplewate ‘Vittiont
Dalkeith, (Deacon and
Member* of 1114m-
mrr Men Society) I)eacon
Derby . . . 4.300
Doter . . . 0,000
Exeter (Ladies)
Exeter . . . 11.000
Greenwich Chnrchwardena

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Signed.
irwes. Constables
Liverpool . . 30,000
London (Married La-
dies) . . . 8,300
Inndoa, Mechanics
of. . . . 40,308
Lord Mayor and Com-
mon Council, Lord Mayor
Lord Alder-
men, and Lis ery
Lord Marnr
i.ndlow. . . 860

. 15.1100

Chairman

Marylabooe(Nlarried
Ladl?s) . 9,700
Marylehoaa . 7,300
Nl.wpeth . . 9641
Newbury . . Mayor
Newritatle-upon-Tyoe 3,900
Northarepton.Trades-
menand Artificers of 1,600
North Shields . . 1,230
Norwich . . Aldermen
Nottingham (Ladies) 7.000
Nottingham . . 7.100
Preatou, Borough of 3,300'
ftole . 900
3.1100
Reef ter Chalnetui

floss
Sandwich . . 480
Shaftesbury
lihefßaid (Ladles) . 11.100
%Wield . . 4.0110
Lisunard's Shoroditeh

and Vestry Clerk
Glocester City . 1.700
Hovel Church. Pcrlmea 1,000
Haddington
Ilalilts% (Ladies) . 11:110
Ila . 2,000
Hammersmith ,
Hereford (Yo mg Men)
Ilesham . . 700
High Wycombe . 400
Ilohester . High Bailie
Kimpton and (irately 90
Leeds (Ladles) . Chairman
Lea& . . Changan
LIMO . . .
LaitsilleiNt (Pri.
90194 . goo

St. Sitiolll . .
st.titephen-by-Lsun-
cellos . . 400
Stockport . . 3,000
Ssndertantl .
Wakeeekt . . 1.440
Westminster Mirk Ratliff
Whltcchspel (Parish) 4,000
Worcester .
York . . . Alava,

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Tiff QUEEN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN,
rTER xxv.

" At what ease •
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
To swear againt you 1"
liasr lou a ruffian that will error-
- rob, murder, and commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of stay
Re happy, he will trouble you no snore ;
England shall (habit yitd his treble guilt."

St a,—At the present stage of the proceeding's fur ai
sacrifice of the Queen (to call it a trial would be a 'lois
comer,) it behoves the country at large to ettprets the:r
sentiments, u ithout waiting for the evidence in fay..n
rf her Majesty, in order to show that it is their ei •
uiun her persecutors have, by their own evidene.
proved her Majesty's innocence. But it is not 'as.
•:ient that they should address the Queen : it is sem-
sary that they should also petition the King, cad re.
tuonstrate with the two Houses of Parliament. Atli
this is unquestionably by far the most proper time fur
adopting such acourse of proceeding. The witnessos,
whose testimony, if true, could have been of any ma-
sequence, have all refuted themselves. In my lattlet-
ter, I have shown them to be generally so unworthy.
of credit, from the money and promises they hare re-
el • from the drilling they have manifestly Eider-
gone, and from their not being sworn according tette
firms of deposition held most binding among them-
selves, that the cause would not have lasted an hoar
before any ordinary or honest jury. All the witne.s.s
have also severally, by the impossibilities, contra,lir•
tiuns and absurdities with which their evidence
abounds, rendered themselves utterly unworthy of
credit, respecting any particular point. These ha-
possibilities, contradictions, and absurdities, I shall,

in a future letter, more fully indicate. Theobject °fine
present address, is to repeat, what I have already so often
insisted upon, the gross turpitude, the abominable
tyranny of the present proceedings, upon general prin-
ciples, and even without reference to the particular
case and persecution of the Queen. Without refer-
ence to the unexampled profligacy of this rase, Bills
of Pains and Penalties are always and necessarily an
odious exertion of despotism. I roundly, and in an
unqualified manner assert, that they nut only are not
and never can be necessary, but that they are always
and invariably unjustifiable and tyrannical. They are
merely a mode of destroying an obnoxious, and most
probably a meritorious individual, (and where :itch
despotism is suffered, every individual of a commanity
may be destroyed in his turn), who cannot he rearbed
by the ordinary processes of the law. If a Bill of
Pains and Penalties be *justifiable in the case of any
one individual, it is justifiable in the case of eery
other. There is not one of us who sloes not occasionally
commit some offence that does not come under asy
known description of crime, and is not punishable by
any established law. It would then, if such a nude
of proceeding were at all recogreieed, be better Now
pereede the law of the land entirely, and to wish
every individual offence by a Bill of Pains and Pe.
nalties. Thus punishments might be apportioned to
the degrees of delinquency. Various degrees of im-
prisonment, of transportation, of dogging, &c. might
be applied, from one day, or one hour, to a men* a
year, or a life time, and from one lash to a hundred
thousand. This would also bare the groat advantage
that persons could be dogged to death, or transported
for their lives, who had egregiously offended any it
our privileged individuals or classes, so as to prevent
their ever offending in a similar manner again, without
rousing the indignation of the people at large, as de-
viations from the usual modes of proceeding now do.
This mode of applying an cs port feet. law to every
particular ease, would els) hare the advantage of
affording( perpetual employment meat great and vene-
rable law-givers, and a thousand other advantages, of
which the world is unfortunately likely to be deprived,
by the annihilation of the holy Inquisition. If the Fria-
ciple would not be justifiable, when so extended,
I maintain that it cannat be justifiable in any rase, or
under any circumstances. It is, then, against the
principle itself, even snore than its horrid application
in the case of her most gracious 3lajesty, that we
ought to contend. If we tlo not now make a stand
upon this gronani, if we do not immediately addreas
the King and the two Douses of Paalianient *gait's'
the principal of :his measure a if we do not art prompt-
ly, universally, and vigorously, we shall undoubtedly
be, as we rklily deserve to he, enslaved, The matter
i; so perfectly Hear, so itrikingly palpable, that I
should he ashanwil of my countm , if I thought that
any farther arguments were necessary to show the is-
me:mu-Able importance of their making an immediate
and decided stand. few, that beiore this day fort-
night, meetings will be held for the purposes which I
have stated, in every part of the United kingdom. If
we neglect to do our duty upon dale oreasios, it is
nay sincere and decided belief that her lejasty will lfe
sat•riliet tl, despotism established, and the ruin of the
country completed in !eta than three months. Bat if,
on the contrary, we yierforns our duty like men, and
like Britons, our Queen will he saved. onr liberties sc•
cured, and the enemies of mankind will be vanquishe'.
The :use is very clear: there is but one of two al-
ternatives ; the Ministry and drepotiean most fall, and
the Queen and freedom must prevail (it is downright
nonsense to suppose that the struggle is merely for the
sacrifice of the individual), or Miniatry and despotism
must prevail, and the Queen and freedom must fall.
For God's rake, then, and for the sake of our Queen-
of the Throw itself pf our own lihnrtire, and of those
of our Wier's, let us meet forthwith, and send forth
salenameelimislations, petitions, and rewastrances,
seigable is Oils *tension. t~Rtnvit' r.
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TIM fliffttlufts to the address of the *rasing and
tneehitsies of Manchester to the Queen. unstinted to
sottouty:tiareo tboasanti. The adder.s was furwavitell to
Major enrtsrtight'on Thu.' et evening.

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LONDON:
lIJNDAT EVENING, SEPTIMIER Is, IS•20.

STOCK EXCHANGE, One o'clock.
The Fends, Ur from improving are still upon the
ictiine, Cossets dosed on Saturday at 66i fur the
t,onnt, awe °riled this morning at the same price
bct this was not of long continuance as owing to a
r•petition of those sales we mentioned on Saturday.
Consols devolved to 63f fur the account, and Omninm
to Spec cent. discount for the payment. The market
Wks very heavy as the public have materially in-
eceuced the price by selling very largely this morning.

Liters are in town front Bayonne of the 9th. cis
Nri., which do not bring any information concerning'
t!..• u.assacre at Lisbon—nor do the accounts from
P. 2;:, of the I:ith, mention any thing on the subject.
L•:ters have also been received from Madrid of the
;•:. September, which state, that Uen•.ral RIFGO and
t..' tiovernor of Madrid have been exiled, and have
set off for Oviedo. French Funds—Five per cents.
;11. 20c. -

31arshal litt.untatax. Duke de Vainly, died at Paris
on the 13th inst. An English Courier who left Naples
or. the 31st tilt. has conveyed several dispatches to :lir
. Stewart at Paris. The Courier has since proceeded
re: his route to London. He is supposed to be the
bearer of diplomatic news of great importance.
'1 be heat, it is said. has been so escessive this year in
Sardinia, that animals have frequently descended from
tLe mountains and plunged into the sea, where they
babe remained several hours together.

We received this morning Baltimore papers to the
li;th August, and Halifax to the 19th August.

FROM Till NEW YORK ETENING PuST.

YELLOW FEVER.—We are sorry to learn, that the
yellow fever has made it► appearance again in I'Lila•
delpbia : letters received this morning state, that there
were three deaths there of that disease yesterday morn.
in.:, and vet the Board of Health and the newspapers
of that city are as silent on the subject as the grAve.
Extract of a letter front Philadelphia, three o'clock
yesterday afternoon :---Threc new cases of fever this
forenoon, 2 d.. 4 ..d buried siuce 11 o'clock,
and the other dangerous.

11.st.tvs•, Itt.—Tbe sloop Ilex, Lemantl,
arrived at Quebec, on the 31th ult. scn works
from tirenock, with 313 valuable settlers, many of
them people of property ; also the brig Hart front
Londonderry, with 171 settlers. The brig Brown,
from London for Quebec, took up 5 of the crew of a
schooner wrecked on the Labrador coast ; ?.7 passen-
gers nnfortunately perished.

S JULY I.—There is at present a pros-
pect of the Cod Fishery being very successful this
season, the boats from this harbour came in loaded
every night for more than a week past with very fine
fish ; and accounts from the southward and westward
are evally favourible.

The Commons meet to day ; and, as we should not
think of anticipating proceedings, which will, in a
few hours, he under the. eves of our readers, we should
be at a loss for s.woething to say, bad not that Pro-
vidence, i‘hieli is ever kind to us all, sent us a sub-
j• ct in the person of " The Rev. J. W. CUMNINOII.III,
of Harrow-on-the-IEII. This (lentleman has, it would
wens, thought proper to address a public letter to Mr.
Wurrearso, the respectable Member fur Middlesex,
upon his conduct, with reference to the Paddington
Meeting. Our readers will peruse the Letter, which
has, by the bye, more of political ranconr than we
could wish to see in the work of any maim of education,
ani especially of a Clergyman ; and our readers will
also IN ruse the short, temperate, lied west gentlemanly
an%tter of Mr. 11.1tri Dugan.

So often, and so strongly have Clergymen been in-
treated, by the respectable part of their docks, not to in-
terfere with politics, because such an interference inva-
fably strips them of their 1 ttttt ourable and sacred cha-
r icter ; and so awn, with pain we say it, have the gene-
rality of the Clergy di.regarded that intreaty, that we
cannot affect surprise at the appearance of a Clergyman,
as an actor on the political stage ; a situation the last
of all others, in n hich he should ever be seen. Th•
Ker. Mr. J. W. CeuNtNun.sm, of Harrow-on-the-Hill,

ILA evidently, himself, a little misgiving on this sub-
ject ; and, as from that misgiving, we collect the letter
in question to be his first political essay, we, in charity,
hope it will be Isis last. To get over the difficulty, he
lobours to prs.ce that tlse business of the Wrest is not
political. This is flimsy enough; bet an objection to
his interference at all, occurs to u on a perusal of his
first sentence. He writes principally in the character
pf a Minister of a parieb " fpordcrior," upon that of