The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-21 00:00:00

MAJOR CARTWRIGHT'S BILL.

The fallowing proposition for islie Meeting,
with as view of petitioning Parliament to adept
Major C•turvotowee Kill, is taken from the Argot,
• patriotic hostas! of Birmingham ; and oseeting. es
it does, with oar approbation, "Debase thought pre.
per to reprint it In the ST/T&SM.IN:—
" It is Much to be Isosentorl that no general play
has yet been recommended to the Reformers, for the
missing campaign, against the Arrow Usurpers.—
Withoot a bold and systematic oppositioo to tb
they may be 'trebled to bolster op the tottering sys-
tem of &lariats some years longer. I would to God
that every city, town, and village In the United
Kingdom would join in some pilotsl pito for orgiog
op., Parliament the necessity of • Reform at the
approach of every Session ; and would make some
advancing movement
" It is true that in the Session of 1816, mars they
a million of aggrieved sten—doubtless speaking the
sense of other millions—peiltion-d and demand-
ed their rights. Bat those Petit ices were mere verbal
prop,siiinos, which only served the slaves of the
system, both Whigs and Tories, to carp at, basely
to misrepresent, and to designate the Petitioners as
madmen sod fools.

" Ten years ago, Sir Francis Barlett fregSehrly
remarked to his peliticsl friends, that A BILL, for
a Radical Refe►s, (matt In ho hr. se ht late the
noose, exhibiting an entire delineation of the pro-
pored Referee; ut order that what was soeght to be
obtained alight be seen and understood by all men.
After this acknowledgment of Sir Frauds, it is mach
to be regretted that two entire *sleets of Psrlia-
seat have passed away whitest thich-e Hill from his
baud.

"If ascii a Bill had hem' mo►ed in Parliament,
mast know what d first would hove been its fate.
The circumstance, however. • f its rejection would
have provided matte, for each an appeal to the as.
ties, as casn4 not have tailed tt• have shaken, likeaw
*animist*, ell the crazy palate or orreption. This
'meld have been a er,nd Intranet": movement. in.!
eressios the numbers end uit.taimity of the radical
aldermen. Seth a Bill might to have been co drsarn
(which, in tact, hag been accomplished by Major
ean'right), as to have mood the test of the severest
*cal most perverse ctiticism; as to have set at deb-
mote all sophistry. and to have been a fit rallying
oa•tdard to this radical Reformers ; by tho very pro•
dot-lion of which, they w 1111i4 hate laughed to metal
the soiled factions of corruptioo anti despotism. !
"That Bill ougl.t to hate been such (the Majo►'s is!
certainly oath) :tat when tither of the faction, talked!
of the impro lirobildp of unl I Election Ding,
annually el-mired sailboat universal confosion. the
Common sense of its clauses should have reposed t►e
drioell.reg sonsease; or when they wetted the in
possibility of oirJerly Elections, when a whole patios
should, et lb* same hour, be mstomonod to a poll,
the falsehood should have berm "made as amaifeet, es
the het, that no dianrder ensues from a whole patios
atteedies at the ,111110 hour to hear DWI*, Service.
" The radical liebirmers, in their p►titions, have
hitherto been r • CPSI4 lily confined to graertailiss, end
to words. llotween words and things, however, be.
tweets verbal gateralifies, and edam ersergefic wee.
er►we, ill aroYfirrq pa'rintigm, owe is
&teem Inerefore, with such a Bill to work upon,
an ad:••rncing worenteal in our patriot warfare might,
doebtleas, he made wiui 'treat via happy effect.
" The Mojor'a Bill it, in let t, tha very !mediae
IleiSttre, which em;•rares all the radical Reformer
aim at ; • bile, at lh.• same time, it eacledos all sky
Jo not aim at ; ore then may Ito foetid every ales
to animate And to unite them in the greet pencil for
rernseting their libel fume.
_ _

" Although the prineipks need in their
former pe;i•inns were quite 'terabit, yet they
were still abstract peepoeilimes. They were mere
fo•u,s of mord:, callieg for a measure of ealvation;
but ti•' Hill would hate ►een the measure called for,
in supp..it of which every man would pet forth his
used. If,, muds MOM would this actual measure
of salvation mite in the cation a determined spirit
of persevering patriotism, thin those mere verbal
propositiuns,, which did call forth more than a mil.
;ion of men to declare their sentiments and demand
their netts!
" The Major's Da is a concentration of his re.
Ileetions on she subject fur forty years, and was
published prior to the last Sos.iun of parliament.—
It might hese been, and would have been mowed,
had there been in that A•vemblt ONE. MEM nEit
dedroes of doing it. Bet as there was sot one
tech Member, and that prohshly there may not be
one in the new Pediment, let the PEOPLE, if
the Bill be the very utmost, they want, declare t►at
it is'".

Thi4 wo•hl certainly he an adoexcing wore-
elara of the •term imporiat.cr. It would eieit•
hnr, praornto esti. It. iarreaie the number of coasts.
ton. oat Reformers, and add to their phalsna both
strength and en@ ri)•.

6. lii thug ',sal4.'4in( there would be a perfect
cowistency of princylo and enadoct. The Ball
would be referred to, as In strict ceafamily with

the Constitution and the Rights of Eng Haste. It
would illustrate their peat Petitions, end esitildfs I.
detail, the very minutia of their views; 'es ;MI as
the simple and practicable mode of carrying them
into execution, with perfect order and Arsturillity.
It would pet to shame all adherents of the vices.
brutalities, and infamies of our present Elections ;
and wneld do, iu the space of Iwo or three years,
mere for morality, than in twice as easy aeoleries
will otherwise be done by the o hole clerical beet.
" After the ozisleace of sock a 0W being no-
tired in a Petition and Remosistesoms, sod lie cha-
meter tliseested, its adoption by Perliemeet might
be prayed fur. By these means, is addition to what
might be done In Resoletioes of Idemisige, sseh a
knowledge of the Bill, as contsinbsg whatever is ott-
I teaser, to full and equal Representetien, to Free.
dew of Election, to s Reform and the Independence
of Parliamen`t, rai4ht be brought before the Public,
as mast rosiere ample dismal'''.
" Jut the same degree as it became familiarly
knowo, it • mid be proportionably difficult for any
Bil!. palpably inferior to it, to be pointed open the
Public es a Reform of the Commons Home; an ob-
ject certainly of troll consequence! Bet without
leech a known standard to refer to as a criterion,
very defecure a hems may plausibly be rec.. •nend.
ed, and obtain mach approbation. Wen a defec-
tive thing which happens to be •he best of its kind IV
offered foe adoption, those who have seen Wising
superior, end oho are nut well informed on the sub-
ject, are disposed to receive It with thaelfulneas.
" Such is the great skill end talent with which the
Father of Reform Ms dream bit Mil, that it stands
invelemable to attack. To he sere there Ms been
arrayed mg .iirst it ens of the Bornoghnsonger hater.
nil, who writes for the Ediabarjh Kevin:, one,
who is di.t:ngoished for his spirit, ability, learning,
and eloquence ; but be has not pointed out a single
error in principle, a single defect in demonstration,
nr a single *minion of arrangement.
" As it is intended to call a Public Meeting in
Birmingham, for the purpose of considering pen-
priiity of petitioning Parliament to adept the Alsjet's
Bill, the.. ca. be but little docht lit that the es.
ample will DP followed by the nthor • •en which
bare distingeisned themselves by their petrielistb.—
Also, it may prevent the Baronet, oar leader In
Parliament, from ellowiag another Session to pass
away without moving a specific plan of Befuran.—
rio must either adopt lb. Bill, or produce a better,
or provoke a discussion which, in the end, will give
es what we demand, and know to he our right.
" Ws ere threatened by the dependents and ad.
hermits of the Borpegh Usurpers, with seethe. Cue.
Bali, which will place the necwaries of life still fur.
tker.from the revieb.ef the starling seecbmic and
labourer, tied which is likely to prose more destruc-
tive tg the poor, throve( starvation, than was suf-
fer'', by Meet through the passing of the last Corn
Bill. The threatened attempt a 11l show to the Re-
formers the urgent necessity that esists for striking
at the root of the evil, which is to be found in the
corrupt stale of the Noose of Commons. Let es but
once secure a fslily elected Representation, and there
is a certain end, not only 5° Corn Laws, sad Caning
lA•s, bet to laws of ferry description, which girl-
Isle the liberty and happiness of the 141..111.•
4' The line of inoceeding now seggested may, per-
baps, be consideled •ts • ' that can be at present
edopird, short of , hstcal force. Let us hope such
a Pehlic Vole, wIII be called forth, at to render
physical force aline. essary to the reservation of
Public Liberty !"

NAPOLEON Asn rnr TILINSACTIONS AT
Sr. II 11. E

The refusal to investigate the complaints from the
prisoners at St. Helena, is the most powerful proof
of the justice of the charge, anti the most damning
'eidetice of the esistence of grouse/lions there, shish
will not bear the light. Innoceoce courts enquiry,
it n►rer shuns it ; guilt &pints the prying eye of cu.
rlosity, shrinks into the shades of darkness, and hues
the day. hi these evil Hasa, tyranny forget, anew
ha fetters, wires stain its supers:None, and tram-
ples un liberty. Oar once sable resentry„ conde-
scends to be the lackey of Continetitil D•-pots, and
the escutcheon of her fair fame is blotted by unholy
decals. Whom Napoleon was on the pinnacle of am-
bition, be showed the world that his mind was of
that second-rate order, that profess the gessgant of
crowns end sceptrt a, perple robes, and splendid
thrones, before the bigb inviolate'', privilege of bcing
the benefactor of mankind. Principally was be dis•
tinguieted as a ravening conqueror and desolating
hero, and it is necessary to become almost a brute
before such titles can he acquired. The man who
wades through blood and slaught►r to glory, may ap-
pear as a demigod to little minds, bet to the sage he
is but a pistillate..., and a murderer on a larger scale.
Yet Napoleon was a patron of the arts, s lover of
science, a foe to superstition, and in his civil caps-
' city, a Prince indeed, in comparison with the petti.
rost.making and boatshenting Monarch•. Ile now
writhes bayeatli lbw wheel of fortune, who anew was
seated on its top, and was caeght in his fall in the
arms of miserable matullins, shine souls were niter
warmed by a gleam from the fire of genies; over
their sueface never spread a noble idea; on the springs
of the action of whose hearts, never did a genainas
Impulse beat. he esk►d for protection, sod they
ntast.d him s prison ; he sought for mercy, and be
found restage. In the transports of their *saltation,
they mocked the fallen foe, sad pursuing the petty,
peddling pnliry which marks their carper, they eon.
signed him to the rock in the orean, that futurity
night leers to appreciate their magnintimity. Bel
what can ho *tweeted from •hem ? What can be es
pedal from a bud directed by Lord Castlereagh ?

" Cat, -we ppm, grapes tram thorns, or its fro*
?" Cu, we Witmer geed from the caper 61‘,ir
WOOS of aNUMMI', ft obtaia sit•or from the r•oeibie
is Wad hdoposited .e thing but clay ? Con w• • err
the fret,. heart by sir, light el the iv.' filmes,
err illuebtate worlds *BIS the War•flrnref's elan?
Ceti we dreg the Wk.. urnt's proving' rtore from the
bowel. of the spider., or learn tire wl.rlom of ihe sage
itt the midst of the folly of Courts ! Who tr• kir ftr
the steerage of the lion in tire timid fsee, or the era.
gacity of the *ler Got is the mad wallowisog platypus?
Who would hope for any tido' grand or beastilvi
in the speeches, or writings, or setirras of the Mi-
nisters of the pgeseet day ? ignorsnee is their best
mese, imbecilitteheir streogeat pies. Did air aso.
angers witness sock sondem' in the esinirres et Go-
veroasent, as the Papers have recorded ? Did FAtelish.
men, in better time., condescend to play Inch parts?
Weald the proud-hassled Britons of past days have
tore a poor prisoner's chariot to pieces, 'niter the po-
tence of bunting for letters? Wield they have beer%
the tools of sects miserable m•snoess. es to odd
ia-
salt to injury, and Injury to Insult ? No! No
they would hare scorned to hare administered to the
bier passions of such Mons nod in the *undoes* et
*heir hear s, tire) would Witt shown kindness to the
essfortonate; they would have told Lord Castleresgh
mad Co. to rafters their own coders, if they.
vearored 10 direct thous to do that. which malice
dictates, and revenge approves. Hersh measures
are employed to irritate; the giants are increased;
the range is narrowed ; the rhysician„ because he
will not become a spy, is withdrawn ; confinement
fellows; disease is tee r onseqsauert ; fed It requires
no ghost from the grave to toil us the censeqeence of
disease. There is sometimes • Ira less in action,
that seems to deprive •troc ty of its blackness. TA*
crookbacled Rickard scot the Printer to Ike Toxot
Bet revenge never seats its. If in a noble soul : the
man who hopes to be forgiven, should rernens.
her, that he ought to forgive Mardoniee, one tat
the Generals of Xerxes. advised that Print* to
beef the dead body of on a gallows.
Afterward., when hiardonioc r slabs, a citsama
of /ruins, orced.Paessniss to revenge the oast eon.,
rloict of Mordonies by soin.lar nsiscondoct; the cid.
see added, that Paemniss waded them gratify the
muses of lb. Laced.,,nlios who fell at Ti mrso.
pylse. " Cares thy bilk .00n.16.14 to 'he :-/ro)esido
Psossniati), if the esters of the l' • role of Akins is
to he purchased by su a proreeding, I irn cc et
with that of the Lacedensonianc nit ; thew nairtsc
ervconc, and are rook r • • display I h*i. c.drtrencif
ton .rr d their greatest enemies." re tO. •••• days, wit.
dem sad talent were the necinsars pastorals to Go.
verenseet ; new interest end ignoreece nppty-their
place A philosopher is the Cabiset weeds' be like
the fairy of instruction in the valley of the .bnisa
noes, who laughed when she told them, " that the
boondarres of their region were not the ends of the
world." I. would peasie tae knowing fairy to telt
how many •rores of nor Ministers would make olio
Pa•sania., and how many thousands of them would
be oteces.ary to form one NM, like the wise sea of
them.