The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-19 00:00:00

THE IiTA

and destroy his arnty.• Six of the coopiraturs have
been shot.—lieu. Murillo has a strong force at Vene-
tuela. The Patriots have polsession of Santa Fe :
but two Spanish divisions have advanced to oppose
them. Cutuana and Barcelona are quiet, and in pos-
session of the King's troops.
It was reported at Porto Carello, that General Boli-
var had gut Lack from Santa Fe, and was at Achattat
supposed with a fresh supply of men and money. The
Patriot General Paez war at St. Fernando with his ad-
vance. General Murillo** head-quarters was at Va-
lencia : and General Morales was at Calaboso.

Accounts from the Spanish Main state, that the
Independent troops had fortified Rio de la Marie, and
that a large detachment has gone against St. Jlartlia,
the Independent fleet co-operating in its reduction.

NEW YORK, JUNE, 12.—A letter from II
state., that the Spanish General Renorales died in
the Meru Castle ; he had been arrested, with several
other officers, on a charge of having attempted a con-
spiracy to overthrow the present Government, and esta-
blish the independence of Cuba.

The following Papers have been received thi4 morn-
ing.:—Huston. 2.. kl June ; New York, 14th June:
Norfolk, 17th June : Palembang. I;th Jane Phila-
delphia, 16th June: Halifax, 16th June; St. John's,
13th June.

Private letters from New York, of the I.lth of June.
state, that three slave ♦essels have been raptured ■nd
carried into New• York, and they were expected to be
condemned.

AMERICAN CAPTIEER.—It appears, by au official cor-
respondence in the Notional Intelligesteer, that our Mi-
nister at the Court of Madrid has of the liberation
of American captives immured in Spanish dungeons,
thereby restoring to their country and their families
numbers who, from principle and patriotism, had taken
part with the Independents of South America.

In the House of Lords last night, the Alien Bin was
strenuously opposed by several of the few Noble Meni-
brut ulto attended the debate, and the spee.cle of Lord
llou.as to, though unsuccessful in checking its passage
through the House, cannot fall, we should expect, to
mollify the exercise of its powers. The principle of
the Bill his Lordship clearly ,hewed was as inconsistent
with the spirit of the Constitution. as its operation
was with sonnd and proper policy, and with the rota-
fort and convenience of individuals. By tiOs inhos-
pitable and insulting Art. Britain is nit longer what
it was, the refuge of the persecuted, and the asylum of
the distressed ; the revenge uf foreign do spots is ex-
changed for the surveillance of an English Secre-
tary of State t ad the liberty of every letrangere

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which had been secured to him by the general laws
of the country, is now left at the mercy of a single
intlividoial, invested, towards him, with an arbitrary
authority : fur the exercise of which. whatever be
the injury, no redress can be obtained lt is in
vain to urge that this authority is geld exercised,
and hitherto not chargeable with blame. From its
very nature, it must be liable to abuse : and even
while its inflictions are suspended, it cannot fail
to be injurious. With all the forbearance and
fair dealing that have been professed. it cannot fail
to have effect upon the transactions of the present
crisis. The minds of aliens most be ronstructed of
materials much stronger than we conceive, if they can
be equally unembarrassed as witnesses defending the 1
party acensed, apd as supporting the cause that is I
prosecuted by Government. The renewal of this I
odious measure was again imputed, as it bad fee- I
fluently been before, to it r: suggestion of WM!
Foreign Councils. But the spirit of the measure I
is, alas ! no longer foreign to the Councils of our
country. Every year and : month, the aye-
tern of our Govermnent approaches n to the
policy of the continental States. No longer do oar
Haters glory as being the Ministers ofa free and high-
minded nation, but as the Ministers of arbitrary and $
military power. No longer do they glory in pro- 1
touting the prosperity of their country, but in labour-
ing
to suppress the discontent produced by its dis-
tresses. No longer do they glory in opening new
resources for the industry and enterprize of a
suffering people. but in building barracks for bear is-
tinsidation, and training up a soldiery, apart Own the
habits of citizens, fur the purpose of their coercion.
In proportion as they approximate to alien habits,
they forget, however, that they are removing from tier
native habits of their fellow countrymen. The ex-
periment they are rnaking is of a desperate hind t it
betrays their weakness, and may accelerate their over-
throw. The danger of their policy is obvious, eves to
their sappo.rters; and the admonitions of Mr. Lawn-
nAltT,.. in the House of Commons, last night, Ole
them seasonable warning. A secluded Esiglish sol-
diery is, to an English Uovernment, a
~two-edged
sword.
Ivor since the commencement of the itoromilitills
against lief M&JUTIN we have dose what we mai to
direct public attention to two great points: firm, the
ebbs* dose to the forms and prieriples of jester ;
mot/ licit, the anode apes pablie liberty. Courreg
%these, every other consideration miuseeltd wltittlik
!oaramif trial, is of secondary uterus;, From the
warms that has been punned. ' •
boy Se some design to destroy
virtiectratiess in which

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on Lcorerstasitixtho, iwittiors: They absolutely travelled
out of their Way, •is 'edit to defame the great securi-
ties interposed by the wisdom and public spirit of our
ancestors between the subject and 'the brutal exercise
of power. If it he their wish to invest the Crown
with larger powers in State trials than it possesses
at present, they way consider it as a proof of
political address to have commenced the etperiment
upon the first subject and most popular person
in the kingdom. Their success against so illustrious
an individual, in spite of the entire weight of public
opposition, would lay the remaining energies of the
nation prostrate at their feet ; and a Bill of Pains and
Penalties could be resorted to in every instance in
which the Government might wish to get rid of an
ohnosione suliref. The course they have taken, so
irregular, so open to censure, and so certain to excite
the whole for. of national sympathy in favour of the
accused, cannot be comprehended Oil any other princi-
ple. It would show madness to tread upon such dan-
genius ground, and afterwards recede. It would be
the extreme of political foUy to attempt to carry by
irregularity an object, which, if at all attainable, might
be accomplished in a way liable to no objection. If
the grEEN•3I accusers had proofs of her guilt, why
have they taken the devious path in which they are
proceediug The public bare uu other wish but to
see justice fairly, honestly, and constitutionally Ad-
ministered ; and Ministers, it really seems, would set
no value spoil a conviction, unless they could get it in
a way that should at once outrage public feeling, and
gratify their. arbitrary principles. It is therefore
hardly necessary to say, how mach the country is in-
terested in this question ; for, besides the idea, so re-
pulsive and alarming to every mind, of seeing inno-
cence offered up as a sacrifice so the insolence of power,
if may be the means of conferring upon the Crown, iu
State prosecutions, a degree of commal that would,
in most eases, render trial and condemnation words of
equal import.
The next great point connected with the prosecution
of her M \JEITI is the violence it offers to public
!wily. It was commenced in defiance of the clearest

manifestation of puhlk feeling that we recollect to
have ever witm.ssed. It is persevered in. in spite of
the loud disapprobation of at least nine-tenths of the
nation. The prosecutors treat with the same disdain
the warnings of the wise, the anxiety of moderate
men, and the remonatrances•of the high-minded. From

such condect, it is evident that the present party in
power have made it a fundamental part of their policy
to treat public opinion with coetesapt. They appear to
think that the people haver other iatereet in the
Uovernment but to obey. We have no hesitation
to say that a Uovernment, which should uniformly act
upon such a principle, would be the most odious awl
intolerable that could be conceived. A liberal des-
potism would take care not to do any act that might
soleod the great body of the people. A limited Govern-
ment, even where it was right, would yield to the voice
of the nation. An oligarchy alone, whether right or
wrung, seldom concedes ; and when it does give way.
it is with a reluctance that betrays the extreme of Ingo-
knee. Also it would sooner give up a good than
a bad measure. It is ridiculous therefore in our si-
tuation to speak of limits to power, and particularly
of the force of public opinion, if Mit:lister, follow no
other rule but their own will,. or, what is exactly the
sante, the votes of an obsequious Senate. A Govern-
ment like ours, when it obstinately resists, even spun
a &atollsl point of policy, the wishes of the people,
violates in the must indecent manner the relations
subsisting,• between both. But if it were to persevere
in a pernicious manner, in spite of the retnonstranees
of the country, it would be clear that it aimed at i
tyranny.

dhitely interested. We are
by the langur used by

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form or practice estabHlhed by law, or esseforming tsl
die spirit of the Constitution. In the first place, a ram.
mission, unauthorised and unselected by the respessible
1 Advisers of the Crown, was sent filigreed to collect
evidence. Here was a flagrant innovation ; and, we
presume, every man engaged in it has catmints! a liirh
misdemeanour: end perhaps treason. In the next place•
vast sums of the public money, withdut the sanction of
Parliament, have bee. e*peeded ; and here we hare an.
other mischievous and daring novelty. Again, the fire
subject of this country is enthroned trith epics, without
any inssructions from a competent andidrity; rad she is
surrounded on every side by Snares Witlimit the least is-
dmatiou of her danger. Her servants are bribed to he.
tray their niktrees, and to pervert to the purposes 4
their base employers every unguarded word sr act that
might escape from her in the consciousness if petters
purity. blorrover, a titled scoundrel. aadilllieg an oh,„
vial situation of high importance, to which he may hate
been appointed for the execrable part he was afterwArds
to am, receive. instructions to u heedie himself ieu her
eesildence, awl to take advantage of the opportniew,
.teirich the sacred rites of hospitality 'timid afford hint, to
fah his generous and unsuspecting entertainer of her pi.
per,. We conceive this to be another illegal act. fie 6,
already seliced the conduct of her enemies, from bee If -
thol In the essatry down to the termination of the so
geelation ; and such a tissue of inconsisiesey and bien-
nia as marked the interval, has uo parallel in public
Lions.
At last her enemies, driven to desperation by the in.
iestibility of this high-minded woman, bare recourse to
a measure, which puts the lival stamp of reprobation
.imassac
upon their conduct ; which prosperity will harii!T
credit ; and which, from its palpable violeseeemnst preys
harmless to the accused, though, we true, it will re•
bound upon her accusers. Without bearing a sing:,
witness, without haring it in their power to substantiate
the truth ilia single charge ; from papers collected be
her enemies, and containing depositions made hr the
scum otmankind—a Secret Committee, consisting in part
of the Queest's accusers, fritter away the hosonr of a
high-born woman, and reconsinend a course of legisie-
, live proceedings, which, for aught they know, tuight
terminate in die loss of her life, as well as of Innis.
sour. Prom a report founded upon such base materials,
die Ministers of the KlaG introduce a Hill of pilot,
&Are rwsrirtiva, and contrary to every kaolin poem
dent; thus offering the greatest violence to law, justice,
and the common feelings of mankind, that has my
' been perpetrated. it is sufficient to say that the rest et
the proceedings have the same character; and the nfasal
1 to furnish a list of the witnesses winds up in a manner
so revolting this scandalous transaction, that we should
only weaken the impression on the public mine br the
strongest language of reproach we could employ. 'This
circumstance, we fear, may produce an eternal list el
separation between Terliament and the ration; sad,
after these &ring facts. to disttrust the Queen's hoe-
, cease, or t esistersce of a informal A*
against her honour, would cetresse of weak.
pops or if ingegacy. Ilex ' ban Gradea deg,.
40~ i:—lrsat stern them.
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de elieial return se ea a the Son id Gap
mese states the total 4•0111111“ of payments made is dt
Commissioners foe die Reduction of the National Debt.
by the Trustees ot Savings Basks In England, from
Aug. 6. 1817, to July t,, 1820, both indissier, at
3,361,102/. Oa. 3d.; and the total stock purchased
with the mosey es reeeived. st 3,1126,3711/.
BalTlail N•allisirNitalea.-011 Saturday last, the
Royal Assent was given to the Act to allow tintbre,
fit for naval purposes, to be imported Into Orrat Bri.
tam and Ireland, flee of duty, until March 1821, free
the Kings colonies in North America. •
II
A House of Reform for Lancashire is about to be
established at Prestos, for the reception of discharged
criminals of both sexes, under the patroller of the
1 Llttl Lieutenant and all the nobility and gentry If
that county.
'llonsirs llintoff, a wearer, at Thirby, in Iforfokire.
who had been married tie times, died there a few days
ago, his sixth wife 'arriving hies—exactly the slum-
ber that Henry VIII. boasted of baring led to the
altar-
- Three Kates—me Naas--sad one dam Jane
Two Deten—two Flembas—mad two ilegisberless limited;
From two I was dtremed—tero 1 b
nee died its ebild•bed—eed ewe meell=" A
lighter, wish 6.5 last et wheat. fee lie "1414*
Rae, loading at fee Leaden. ea 4th hobos.
, soak off liolsteitriltigtir3s lasts saved, and the red
It is plain that the sufferings of the WREN have arisen expected to be recovered.
front no fault of her own—from no guilty act on her Conx•Recuanoe. Jett 111.—Owing to the W
sepphtM it .
part; bet kern some unaccountable dislike which the heavy rains' and a "mitinsline` of abort
Wheat, the detnsod was tolerably brisk this merging
independent-, of her chancier, and the weadalteeeted ,
1 for fine samples, and an advance of ?J. per quarter, oa
tone of her feelings, have provoked in totters. Her an-
.si
°essa _ ,_ ,y s prices, was readily obtairied.—Oats are
fall
fire dignity did mot suit certain perverted tastes;
sad, i Is. per quarter dearer, from the above causes.—diried-
perhaps, her strong and dear tinderstandiag overawed I lug Barley being eeme.a. is also Is. per loons, higher;
the feeble and (Hushes minds of her persecutors. Where sad smos and,.. pens sold on full as good terms i' ea
frivolity and liceutiousness alternately prevailed. the mwaday. • • •
ataaesee of a weenies so highly gifted es the Qvgax• On Sunday morning, daring the berry stem sr'
week! be a source of pain as well as ensbarrassusesL compenied by thunder and lightningiisasporzi AS
But it would be bard, indeed, if a bail or prosiest taste was killed by the Incur, al West-tad, Ye
were to decide unalterably upset matters of the greatest big taken the insprolleut same et esekletr 000 ibill
importance; and could destroy at pleasure the happioese the storm soder a tee. ,
ter honour of a beam being, and that being of the first lIIIIIMIS. +
order of illustrious and accomplished muses. la a Oat tire lath last. st bee father's home, /fierthele, flelo4
Anderson, Rsq. of a
country where freedom and morals prevailed, such an 1 lilloallel, bust.Tbl at Axon Howe, arnobs. , tie lap •
attempt would be an unpardonable outrage, and would 1 of cut. Mow eta deoptier.
be more insulting to the nation than to the iateaded ab. 1 OM Varealorked. Mrs. Salsesa Weise. eif 11.1se"."'*11111‘ ,''i
ildds. et a . . ,
jeet. If the former did MA feel it. they would have no , okk, dm ilrt. as pus,. the Rightsonenside WI
lard feelings ; and if they did net resent it, they would' les of a seu.
Pp insensible to their own safety, it will (*Mild)? for. I TheradaYs,al DT Cctlirter Cbaelmo t 604 al
•alailiall Coh of a
f, se infallible criteria& of the matioaal character; and, If J Tuesday'pask ;It &me, soned=t-oitest. lb.
bar itaJaill'S sneaks trials* British iadepeadeace : lily of It'.L. Illaelses. Req. H. P. of 1 ~,.
Aid less of justice will be words smareyieg the meet ' ,
*ter intay. The degradaties.of her 414.1111111. weed- 1, oo eh. wok ow. et alies. of •MO de'
mei Bre.
tag to the proems that hes been eshopiet, and wlstelis ' slime. Jaime** gitiees, MY ii
....,....._ef ilit.e
decidedly averse from the legal and reastitatiestel peat- i Lamers./Passisti;sfelhinel iblrito 7s 2 s (.2 111WIIAZI:.1
den of she eeastry, ovoid settle at mope the &spate whit- ! lasiss.nitt, reejautela. aged fit
titer the people of Ilia country In tree, or the saltines I At Pena. ell Ile nth W. Is the OM yee, erlW.lledisse..*
Alsomeamier This lady at SW lilegboli us
'of -a despotic Oevernmest. If due mealiest indivilinsi i traas.46.464.t's, rads.
I. the hood could be punished In this way, the moral I as ebb inestahlg n
ot pow, lost, et Clerbell. asp
wad she constitution scow . owe. Um. Uminp. *lb of Cape. James limbos.
is wine. a alichierees ' Owed% is the INN pear et her sge.
ate free Goveramilltriirs 3 Musk poluenie sad Pabadled at at OW 11 .
* Ashes fielliii' '' • • :,:i Tim fie* , " amis. Tats Cessrittaimmeistee" moo
R tio fitreml.
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eiltl'i , tills ," .a, iv ' „ je,..111. sto wham di OP'
C"..1111009 1 'll Slagle "1
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As. ere ropteded to be silials4

valiatl s!""14
_5" rook week' be die aerie all
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wroy go** prudes i miaow frlweedili ete
the Crewe • lihr be 1004. tai coif eervii rivet d
re maimed le• Ole jeleiglies Nihon
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