The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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TILE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

VIDNUIDAT. JANUARY SO, 1819.

The spirit that animated the Meeting, yesterday,
at the Crown and Anchor, accorded well with the
occasion. One lively, cordial, and expressive senti-
ment of validation pervaded as numernaa and re.
spectsble a company as could be expected to assemble
simultaneously et such a sudden notice. None who
witnessed its enthosissm, and are acquainted with the
feelings that prevail through the Metropolis, ran en.
tertain a doubt, that had en adequate interval been
afforded for circulating the notice of this celebration,
that the largest room of the Tavern would have been
losaficient to contain the persons who would have
I peeped to join in it. Even as it happened, although
ebe colic. was so short, and two days only inter-
vened between the occurrence end the celebration,
above 150tentlemen were present, and the room
that was prqgWed for their accommodation very
early overflowed.
The 'saltation that prevailed was universal, and
unalloyed with any feeling that was not cordially
congenial with joy, escept the feeling of indignation
that could netarally arise from the injuries that or.
easioned the redress and triumph which the company
had ailseintited to c.tebrate. W• iecollect the tri.
ampha of the Friend' of Liberty on the acquittal of
Maar, Tooxt, and itztwatt; and we have
joined in the evjuicings that have taken place at
later periods ou the viodication of the victims of
viulated liberty ; we have mingled with congenial
tpi ti ll in many others of tile commemorations which,
in our times, have lien deemed worthy of beitie
celebrated by the Friends of Freedom—hut we re-
member ouue that have afforded gratifications more
ermined and consplet• than the celebration of yes-
terday. It was not the commemoration of an Decor.
tense passed away, nor the progress or triumphs of
truth, justice, or liberty, in the abstract, nor the
bare acquittal cud escape of a persecuted astute,'
who had provoked the flagrance of corruption by
I having deserved well of his country. It was the
celebration of the triumphs of an injured man,
whose prison was in company before us, who pre-
sented himself to notice, not as an " acqmilled felon,"
but as a character without fault, and without suspi-
cion. Ile bad been not only completely vindicated,
bet in some degree redressed; had been rotivoled
with compensation for the wrongs he had been made
to suffer, and avenged by the law on the libeller of
his reputation ; had brought to silence the tongues
of his false accusers, and espied to shame and in.
dignatiun the pretence, of his individual persecutors,
and the delusions they had spread throughout the
land to justify the exercise of arbitrary and op-
pressive power. The impression produced upon
the Public mind by the issue of his trial on
Saturday, will not easily be elfaceri.—The import.
mace of It is evident, end is confessed by she ad-
vocates of Ministers themselves in the defences they
are nuking in the Journals devoted to
their cause. The courier had asserted that the con-
shut of *roisters was in no sap comprehended in
OW verdict which established the innocence of ‘‘. Ann ;
and, last night, it put forth an elaborate and ap.
paiently desiii-oflicial article, to prove that Sinsistees,
sheath they had made much more serious charges spinet
WAIID than even those in CLeasame's libel, were per-
fectly exonerated from the effect of the disproval so
satifacturily established by WARD—that Ministers
were sutler uo necessity of clearing themselves, for
they were justifird in allowiag their instrument to be
sactifized by the special Act which they had for.
tonstely obtained for their own protection,—
end that the Jury was therefore actually jii.ti•
bed in bringing in a verdict against Ct.EIIVIT.
" .I'lol could, in fact," ujs the Courier,
" have done nothing else, beset's, the publication
was proved against him, and he put in no justi-
fication of. the troth"—For one obvious reason,
*c suppose, because there nos do 'intb in the Libel