The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-13 00:00:00

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A titisate Bot mu) be hod eiglatly. ea applicarino to Mr.
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TO THE PROPRIETOIti OF EAST INDIA STOCK.

1.401E0 0010 GENTLEMEN,
UDER. the particular cirCensalances in which I
tail loyvel i,h,etl. and with the ktioa ledge 1 have of eta-
gv:ements, vubvi,l:..g in f :Your of nnother candidate, I do
aol lief iny•elf justified in urging the Literal:tore and exertion
sdamfrien.l4 in a e.lilett at tilt present inconvenient season of
the vt lir.
My twertivio.i (twit the ballot, whirls is to take place on the
15111 net. will 41-1, 1 I.w-4, ol.ertite otherwise than favourably
vie ti my future susses to the rvtituaition or Proprieinis whose
'as:qv, I have to expect no my personal presensiorts only,
• site the combated mitttort cgtbe magi; friends a fin sinterest
13,11-414,4•6 in n,y Itch 11f, an ttilikof others-Whom the
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pre•ent ele.tion will vrt free, look . look forward with
rvvddrnce In the attainment of . eel ..f aty ambition on the
f ,I • .elfn y a inch may occur, a en if if my filed delefiniail-
IWO to pvered to the bell..t.
I have the h,=3 ur !i) remain,
Lidi... and Cvel.tlrmett
Your obedient amt faithrtil servant,
WILLIAM CRAW FORD.

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A NEW PATENT HAT.
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SILK HAT. conshinsoit every requi.ioe ft Hat ought
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estrisite tsehver„ is eqn-illv light, will nent twice as lung,
sat is of a better .':ape, Which it ret:tims to the last ; it will
tower chance its enlnur, which is the moist he %utiful mor
low it. glom, it worn f'..r .even years t no weather will ever in.
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Nirrthanb sad Deatein,whn wish for niperinr Silk Hats, w ill
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and therefore citedthe accused's ' country.'—' This
---..-- , (says Selded) was the trial wherein the people of -•
this nation were made happy shove all other peopt*,
(FROM TRE TYNE MERCURY.] I and whereby the free Men, as they had the legislative
On Friday last, at noon, a numerous and respect. • power, so likewise had the juridical, and thereby, '
able company assembled in the large room at the neat under God, an absolute dominion over them.
Queen's Head, in this town, to hear a lecture from ' selves and their estates ; and the Sheriff was chigrei
John Cartwright, Esq. on the legislative branch of in the county court, called' Fulknote, by the ,
the English Constftution. 1 of the freeholders.' - • •
The worthy Major coinmenced Ms lecture by ob- • *" Among the most remarkable Of 'the &eon Tile, •
serving, that 44 it is on all hands felt and acknow- Blackstone mentions, es of :prime , importance, Ili
!edged, that from the calamity of an overwhelming ' election of their Magistrates by the people, their
debt, and its burthensome taxation, a State is Horelocks, their Sheriffs,' &c. and here we see the
brought lute an extremity of danger. Bat If the necessity of the latter officer being so eleCted in or.
Coostitotion of •our country be in reality so perfect der that Juries might be faithfully ImPannelled. r
as it has bele represented, how comes it to pass that i '‘ Althoughafter the Pori fountain of Satins jets:
we experience those evils, and are sensible of this Lice had been poisoned by Norman ma=ims, t* I
danger ? - Li. WEE, he said, a principal object of the English Justinian, Edward I. restoredgo the people
preont diecosiree, to give a true answer to this goes- ! the lost elections of their Sheriffs, *l7 retained
Lion. It was intended to point out the cause which • them not tong; for in the very nest reign, :.bip.•
has prevented the noble machine of oar Constitution statute 9 Edward 11. they were transferred to ilso
doing its office, according to the intentment of that , Crown ;—a violation which greatly affects the admi.
justice and wisdom in which it originated. To this' nistration of justice.
end, it would be necessary to explain the simple ! 46 Such (said Major Cartwright) we define and
means by which that cause'of our calamities may he : explain to be the English Constitution, by ithicit
removed, as well as to show that those means are in i our nation has conseuttd to be preened. Here is
the hands of the people themselves." I the definition, hut where is the thing defined? Hero
After observing, that on the present occasion the lis the title.deed, but where is the estate ? Here is
people had merely to give their attention to a few UR.. 1 the soul, but where, alas ! is the ;Witting be, ?
Vfi
deniable propositions for becoming acquainted with I " Keeping these prominent features of ninon
in mind, there will ever be seen a clear distinctionthose rights on which their liberties depend; and
' then to make known to those who exercise the legis-
between the Constitution, and all such law as the
lative authority what those rights are, as well as the Legislature, agreeably to its trust, both authority
;
iiolations by which the enjoyment of them is ob. to make. The means are also afforded ofdistin.
eructed, and to claim redress in peaceful petitions:B°4l'l"gs not only between such statutes as are dee
of right, the Major proceeded as follows:—" In : "gat"Y to, or in support of the ii.tlits and liberties
of the people,—such as are within a justifisble ever-
political science it has become an admitted maxim,
that all government depends on public opinion. of else of legislative authority,—hut also such as being
course, the force of public opinion must be at its inconsistent with the principles of the Constitution,
and agaitett justice, and violating those rights told
maximum, when its basis is self-evident truth, and
1,,,3 liberties, are consequently nullities and void.
i truth on which depends the liberty of a nation,
every thing that can interest the heart of man. Be. : " Respecting such pretended laws, so attempted
fore such a public opinion, provided only it be stir-
. to be made. against Justice and principle,' we have
ficiently general, no usurpation, no illegal power, • maxims by which Judges, and by which Juries too,
no despotism, simple or compounded, can stand ;...... • if they regard their duty, or respect the sacred foun.
neither corruption nor the sword can long resist the, taro of jurisprudence, the law of nature, will ever,
omnipotence of truth. as smatter of conscience, regulate their conduct.--
The books say, that ' such pretended lowa be not
" While we talk of our Constitution, we feel we
know why it is ;--schy Constitutions have any where statutes, but corruptions :'—that ' whatever Is de. • •
existed, or do exist; and how Constitutions are to • structive of law cannot itself be law, for there the
he distinguished from mere statutes. Without hay. law would be fern de to :'—that 'whatever is con-
ing furnished themselves with this knowledge, the
teary to the rights of nature, or the principles of the
Constitution, is in its own nature void, rind shall
advocates for Parliamentary Reform, according to
the Constitution, would be but little entitled to re-
be holden for nought,'—witty many other maxims a
spect—that reform being the means, of Which a corn-' like import."
plots recovery of the Coostitutios in the reinstalisent l The Major then'adverted to Blitiserme, whew be
of our rights, laws, and liberties, is tbe tad. I stated not to have perceived the esseetial slitfarencet,-
between the Liss. end/ft C6llllfrOthieis—" Dazzled
" A free people agree upon a Constitution, by !
which, as a criterion of political rectitude, as a law by appearances," continued the Lecturer, " which
were at least as much the effect of the invention as
to the legislature, as a limit which that legislature is
never to pass, and as on all occasions an indispensa. of printing, and the cousequent diffusion of know.
ble rule of government, they consent their affairs
ledge, as of a respect for liberty end virtuous legi..
shall be managed. The end and object of a Consti.
station; Blackstone perceived not the hollowness of
tution therefore is, that liberty, general and indivi-
! the apparent pri.sperity of his ceentty, for, learued
dual of the communit and of the citizen shall
as he was in the law, his notion's of the Constitution
ever,
be held sacred. This y ,
is the vital principle, this were very confused. Hence he seeinial not to suspect
is the true, the proper, and (abstractedly considered) that the most important part of that'' work of ge.
the sole cause of national security, the basis of pros. iterations' for redeeming the aticient liberties of our
petity ; for individual freedom is the material of which nation, of which he so feelingly spoke, remained
alone the
still to he performed, in the recovery of a free
general freedom is composed; and conse.
Par-
quently national freedom is that aggregate, that
lument truly representing a free people. 'this work
of redemption, which began with Magna Charts Ira
whole, of which the separate freedom of each citi.
ten is a part.—How sacred then is personal free- : 1215, has now been the labour of 600 years; and
dom !" reflecting on the discussi4n of the particular subject
of Parliamentary Reform for eight-and-thirty years
Having premised this much on Constitutions in the
past,—on the imperious necessity of a radical Re.
general, Mr. Cartwright then entered upon all en-.
form tor the salvation of the State, on the resistless
quiry into the English Constitution in particular, influence of truth, and on the (nice of public °pi-
! which he defined thus ;—%4 A Constitution whereof
Ilion, daily growing stronger gad stroller, and kept
I the spirit consists of all those principles on which po-
tremblingly awake by the incessant, calls of the tax-
i Mical liberty depends ; amid the body, or material
gatherer, I trust, and indeed that trust is of the na..
• form whereof, consists of the four institutions which . •
ture of conviction, that we are at length on the eve
. for the State's self-preservation, for the means of Ile. •
of that consummation so de•eutly to be wished."
icessnry legislation, for the purpose of matlstracy,
, ...
land for the security of personal freedom, alb equally
•
indispensible: these four institutions being—lst, A ! It is stated, that when the British Commissary
national militia that consists of the whole physical went to the Royal Library at Paris, to claim certain
• strength of the community, from the Duke to the books as belonging to other nations, the Insrector
i peasant, suitably organised, the same being from its informed him, that the works could only be permit.
• übiquity and resistless force all-potent, in police, by ted to be taken by force; and for that purpose it was
! preventing the possibility of dangerous riots ; in go- necessary he should come attended with art escort of
('eminent, by preventing the possibility of serious soldiers. The Commissary enquired if 20 were suf.
insurrection or rebellion ; and in war, by preventing ficient ; the answer was, one hundred would not do,
the possibility of successful invasion.—td, A legis- as there were numbers of students at hand who might
Ware of King, Lords, amid Representatives of the not choose to be passive whilst the books were re.
Commons; such legislature for securing a right ma- moving. The'Commissary upon this went away,
nageraeut of public affairs, being entrusted with a bat soon returned with 300 attendants, and the books
controul over all magistracy and the guardianship of were thee taken possession of. The Austrians had
the public purse; and with authority also, as cir- still more trouble in obtaining possession of the Co.
cumstances may require, of enacting such statute rinthian horses belonging to Venice. They were ep.
law, and such only, as shall not have the nature.of plied for in the night, in order to attract less notice,
fern de se, by violating any fundamental principle of and by their removal to create less disturbance.—
the Constitution, the conservation of which Consti- 'Five Austrian Commissary was attended by an Hun-
lotion is this sum of the duties of the legislature. garian force, amid two pieces of cannon, notwith.
• 311, An executive magistracy its the King, his person standing which the National Guard on duty refused
1 being inviolable, his Ministers responsible.-4th, their being taken sway without the positive order of
Trial by Jurv. that public liberty may not be stabbed the king, and threatened to oppose force to force in
through the sides of the private citizen, by any in- : case the Austrians persbaed. After repeated 'poi.
justice which might endanger his property, his per- cations the King issued an order to prevent blood-
moil freedom, his life or reputation ; and that the shed, bet protested against its being with his own
individual, equa!ly with the aggregate of the tom- consent.
mutiity, may repose in tranquillity, protected by the. Vir:countess MALI, ss died yesterday morning, at
Constitution and the law. . Cholmnrideley House, Piccadilly, after a lung not
I 6' it being vital to the Constitution that law, for s..rere illness. tier Ladyship, who was ser ‘ri
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the use amid benefit of the nation, he made by Repre. daughter of the late Gen. Catkin:l:Lt., Deputy Go.
Subscriptions received in Mr. Alderman Wood. Falcon.
iglu:ire, I.•,)•icel ; Samin-I 13,001,,, Lsq. Strand; Mr. Ridgway,- sentatives, and for the protection of the individual 'Omar of Gibraltar, was niac,ied to Viscount
li"k" il'e• l'''''''"" ; ‘l'• " ". New ii"""41-"1". 67" v" 1,
eitiZeti, be administered by Representatives, an MALPAI, eldest son of Mar; its CnotmoNnEktv,
m Mt. A moves; . (:.:It-bra). 11..1b,.,11; Mr, 11:11., SiLlistoury. .
biglishmau charged with a crime cannot be even put' about two years ago. lit's' ,dythip has died w Rh-
sqwire, Eke! wert ; Mr. tin.a., Fiert-dreet ; an the Her of
she croon aol anchor T.,vera, Smord ; t:,e ()tete of the on hji irial but by one Jury, to be again drawn, out issue, in tint above the 20th year of her age.-.
STATICSIIAN Newsp.per; an 4 by the Secretary, 0, Lang- by the Sheriff from the people; nor tried but by! Her remains will he i:!terred in the family vault, at •
suede, S.uthwat/. • ......
J. A. JUCKES, Jun. kaolin,. - - et.uther Jury, to be again dtQwu from the people, Malpas, in Cheshire.