The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-08 00:00:00

The CHIA 'twits, after returning thanks: said, that
vletermitted not to be " nipp'fin the bed," Ite felt
great pleasure in the honour which had that deyikeeit
conferred on him, by placing him in the Chair,. and
he would avail himself of that °lvo/Unsay' erf con"-*
tradicting the insidious attack of that Rev. Author;
who, though at perfect liberty-to pervert his:name,
and otherwise amuse himself at his espence. ought
not in 4o public a manner to- have-charged him with
revolutionary sentiments, for he was, and had ever
-ibeen• of opinion with the recorded sentiments of
Prince Eugene, " That nothing is ever gained by a
revolution., hymen people knew not what to set up
in the place of that they have destroyed—that a rest).
latiun requires crimes, which made one shudder, and
without %%Nett rebels ate only laughed al." Rot a
lieforto tends to and is certainly the only means of
Preventing a revolution ; but the Reverend Author
Inight possibly look with an equal rye on revolution
and reformation.
Song—Come listen awhile nod tell you a tale.
Of a We.ituereock Portion there is in the Vale,
Tune, Heiry Down.
how the Pne,ao kall'd his rot, for not changing
Tne tint h be mid been towed in..
Mr. IlAt.t.s.Tr proposed the health of Sir Francis
13erdeit and the Independent Electors of Westminster,
who voted for him,. (drank with much applause).--
Ile frosted at some future Meeting, he should be able
with consistency to add the name of his Colleague.
Sir S. Romiliy wa4 a very good man, an able lawyer,
and might be called an enlightened and upright Mem.
her of the late Parliament, so-might many Whigs
and Tosiea, but Sir Samuel bad never worked for
Reform. It might not have been by him considered
clelicate towards a patron of a rotten Borough, whets
appointed to sit in
-the House of Commons; bat when
.elected by a body of free citizens, justice is due to
them, to obey their wishes, or the meaning of the
.word Representation is sadly perverted.
" Britoes strike Onme," by the &rd.
The Members for the C. linty.
" Ah ! sure a pair was oeverseen," by the Band.
Siosig.—" He would be in P aliment the sweet Welty's."
raiaphiased.—" Hui when got to the Poll. Teddy Doll Tiddy'o.
- He nief that h td mallet, the tirm Squire Hallett
Who tent him • C packing with old Snwnet'o."
4ohn Johnson, Esq. of Seymour Court, Maritsa,. and thaoka
'foe his Constitutional publocutiuuss—Song—" liitatitioof Eng-
land !"
The venerable Major Cartwriztit, the strenuous advocate of
a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament.
Thomas Northenisre, Esq. mid the Minority of 293 Electors
.of At!. Cits of Ex. tee, who voted for hirti.
Mr. HALLETT took occasion of recommend
-ing the Letter just published, addressed to the Elec.
--tors of Exeter, and now selling by Mr. Morris,
.printer, in the Market-place, Newbury.
Mr. Dean of Sueenhainland. Success lo the Iron Foundry,
And thanks fur the e.tatilishaterit of his pressing wheels for
- wheat sowing on closer lily. 800 of then having within thee.
.four dears been sold iiiid now use 1 by fanners alibis, 2) miles
of New holy.
The Company sat till a late hour and concluded
the evening with the utmost conviviality.

FRENCH PAPERS.

Pants, OcT. 4 —The Princes are returned from I
Compeigne. The Duke of Angouleme arrived at
the Thuilleries, yesterday, at eleven o'clock in the
morning.
Monsieur god Madame visited the Duchess of
Berri in the afternonn, at the Elysee-13ourbon.
It i t stated. that M. Pont) di Borgo will set out,
this day. from Paris, for Aia•la-Chapelle.
M. Rao., Bishop of St. Floor, has just died at
„. .
_Paris.
It is said, that on the 26th of last month, Cap.
Again Traeot presenter) a petition- to the King, for
the lil•eratioU of the General, his father, from impri-
son:neat -
M. Jomard, the Commissioner appointed by the
"'Government to superintend the publication of the
. great work upon Egypt, which is to be printed at
the expence of the Rai al Treasury, has been elected
to a seat in the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles
Lettres. in the room of the late M. Visconti.
The Duke of Orleans, who permanently resides at
-Seuilly, comes to Paris three times a week ; the re.
pairs at his palace will be finished at the end of the
' -month, and his Royal Highness will remove to the
• capital et rite beginning of November.
The Duke of Richelieu has remitted to M. Cite-
' -vier, • notary of Paris. a thrwn'', francs, for the
fortonate persons who suffeted by fire on the Mount
Sul pice.
'4.M.Biot and Immo, both 111entbeas of the French
Iflnstitute and of the Board of Longitude, are set out
''for Dunkirk, for the purpose of meeting some
-I:4ltglishmen of science, and concerting the means
of measuring the earth by aiiroporiiical operation.—
it will be remembered, that last year M. Blot went
-as far am the Shetland Islands for the same object,
greatly to the injury of his health. Ile every where
met with every possible aid, wherever he passed,
• 'from the Public Authorities and the inhabitants. Of
Phis he gave the MOO frank aed toochitig acknow-
` ;lodgment in a Memoir not lona since read by him
'in the Academy of Sciencee. But oar G“veroment
ere not behind hand. All necessary orders have
been gives to ensure the astronomers every possible
'aid it, the eeeerition of their important mission; M.
Arago, the colleague of M. Blot, is one of our most
distingoished wont ref learning, a Professor in the
Polytechnic School, and has produced not only
learned books, but learned scholars. He was one
of the astronomers who went to intend the triangles
for measuring Ike eatth,-as far as the extremity of
• 'Spain. The King has given him the decoration of
'the Legion of llonour.
We lay before our Readers a fact winch does ho-
' nour to the Mend of Guadatoope. The principal
inhabitants joined with the Civil and Military Au-
thorities et the edged, have sent.a‘sum of 16,067 fr.
19 ants, in aid of the House of Education established
.by the paternal Association of the Knights of St.
Louis. The Central Committee of the Institution
lost no time in laying the list of the contributors
before Madame, Patroness of the Association, and
the Duke de Berri, its Supreme President. At the
head of the list were observed the names of Count
Lerdenay, Governor of the island; Chevalier Mail-
' Tian, Vice-President of the Colonial Committee:
Colonel Bellange, of the 89th Regiment (of Guade-
loupe), and ell the officers employed in the colony.
FRANKFORT, SEPT. 30.—The military organiza-
tion of Germany is delayed only by the difficulty of
classing the contingents of each ..Member of the? Con.
federation, by. their differeot corps d'armees.
It
seems decided that the Powers foroishing the strongest