The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-30 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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AT a MEETING of the BURGESSES and
INHA BIT ANTS of the County-Borough of 'CAR-
MARTHEN, convened at the Guildhall, on Monday, the
'23d of April, 1810, in conformity to a Requisition for that
purpose,
J. JONES, Esq. Mayor, in the Clair,
It was resnlied Unammotisly,
That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that Civil Liberty,
the basis of our admirable Constitution, is the birth-right of
every Englishman; and that on longer than the free enjoy-
ment of personal security, personal liberty, and private pro-
perty, remains inviolate, tan we be free.
That every mart owes obedience to the laws; laws definite
and distiact, not left to the capri:e of power, but governed by-
that sacred and solemn palladium of liberty—Magna Charta,
which expressly and explicitly declares, "That no Freeman
shall he taken or impristlned but by
_the lawful judgment of
his equals, or by the law of the land. '
That u e have observed with alarm and sorrow the late acts
of the House of Commons, which has assumed to itself unde-
fined privileges, and constituted itself the accuser and judge
of supposed breaches of the same, thereby claiming a power
which cannot be legally assumed by the highest branch of
our Constitution, and which violates the I reedom of the
Subject. his rigid to a Trial by his Peers, and the Liberty of
the Press.
Whilst we fully acknowledge the competency and right of
the House of Commons to remove all obstructions to its De-
bates, to punish prevarichtions and contempts, and to adopt
aint'exercise pan er which necessity may require in unusual
mid unforeseen cases, we tievertheless do declare, that it
cannot legally coustitute itself a Judge of Law or Fact in any
case wherein the ordinary Tribunals of the kingdom are com-
petent to decide.
That a Judge and Jury are the only competent and proper
Tribunal tic try and aseertaia sshettierany publication he li-
bellous or net, and to punish the convicted author of such li-
bellous publication: and whilst we protest in the strongest
terms as,itirist the touctions of a Judge and Jury being exer-
ciAl by the House of Cumulous on such an occasion, still
more do we deprecate the ineasurc; adopted by that House
of arresting and imprisoning ma' of its Members for such an
alleged °matey. and thereby depriving part of the community
Of its Iteprercotative in Parliament.
Tact the meal's resorted to by the servants of the slid
I !now, in order to carry into esecitt:n the Resolutions eo-
tetra cab ciao t:•;.•0 soltjects, appear to us highly uneoublittt-
tiona;, iiisciinuc, as the tlwellin -house of a fellow-subject has
been violated under pretence of enforcing a warrant to is hick
the King was nut a party—a violation in direct opposition to
the well-known maxim—" That an Englishman's. home is his
castle."
Tliat every independcot Member of Parliament, who, iu
the honest and couscientious discharge of his ditty, delivers
his sentiments openly and without dread to his Constituents,
deserves the respect and approbatiou of every honourable
I man.

Resolved,
That, convinced of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT's konoul..
able motives aml conduct, we cannot hut join in the syni-
wally o: every true-hearted flritun; and whilst we lament
the loss which the Country sostains by his detention at this
momentous crisis from Patliament, earnestly hope that the
House of Cumulous will, in conformity with the setee and
wishes of the people, quickly restore to the Country a zea-
lous and inflexible friend.
That we beg leave to return to Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DErI' our unqualified thanks fur his manly and Constitu-
tional conduct nn an occasion, and to express a strong hope,
amounting even to confidence, ;hat the integrity of a British
Judge, and the impartiality of a British Jury, will secure to
him his Rights, and with them the Rights of Britons.
JOHN JONES, Chairman.

Resolved Unanimously, That the Thanks of this :Meeting
be given to the Chairman, fur his impartial conduct in the
Chair.
That the Chairman he requested to inform Sir FRANCIS
of the result of this Meeting.
That these Resulutions he printed in nit: STATESMAN,
The Carmarthen Journal, The Cambrian, The Star, Courier,
and Morning Chronicle, Lqudon Papers, and one of the Bris-
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