The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-03 00:00:00

" The Cause for which HAMPDEN fell in the Field, end SYDNEY died on the &gold!"

THE LONDON NIAGAZINE, No. 111., FOR

Pub'Med by Baidvin; era dock, and Joy,

•
Contains the following Articles:—Notices of some of the
eery French Poets ; News from Rome; Tne Phenomena of
Diveased In ; A Literary Hem ; On the ('ompsrative
Red:semen' of tile. Age that preceded, and that which followed
the Commonwealth; The Priestess of Vesta; On Duman
Perfeetahlt;t), and the Progress of Society ; The f.ast dung ;
The Traveller. No. III.; Charles V. and a Monk; Living
Authors, Nn. If, Wordsworth; Sentimentalities on the Fine
Arta. No. li ; Midnight Hours, No. II; Postscript to the
Newt from Rome; The Collector. No. 11l ; Extract from
lord Rs roo's Journal; The Contrast; the Drama; Report
of Mn,ic: Notices of the Fine Arts; Meanings (tom the
Foreign Journals, Medical Report ; Rural Economics ;
Commercial Report; Critical Notices of New Hooks, I.
Poems h) lore. It. Poems by Smart, the Translator of
Harare; Literary and Scientific Intelligence; Historkal
%visionary of Public Events—llia late Majesty'. Reign ;
Colony,' Intelligence; Public Documents ; News, foreign
and sintive4tie : Works preparing for Publication, and looks
reemitly published, &c. &c.

DINSER TO MR. HUBHOLSE.
-..,...-

The great room at the Crown and Anchor Tavern was
completely tilled yesterday, to celebrate the liberation
of Mr. liolshonse from Newpite. The company was
13,rbly respectable, and in excellent spirits. They all
seemed excited by the same emotions of seal and attarh-
meld toward the individual who was the cause of their
assetohlap.
At b o clock he made his entrance, accompanied by
Sir Francis linrslett, the Chairman, amidst the most en-
thesi.ustie acclamations. Four hundred persons sat down
to dinner; at which time several patriotic airs were
played, by a hand stationed in the gallery.
After the cloth was removed the following toasts
were proposed. and drank with three times darter.—
" The People, the only source of legitimate power."—
Tune, " Britons, strike home."
" The King—may he always remember the principles
whi.it caused- his Fa.ruily to be seated on the Throne. 1—
i
Tune, " Rule Britannia."
To this snrceeded the following popular toast :
u The only remedy for all our grin ances, a thorough
Reform's in liarliament."
This toast was received with rapturous applause,
which continued souse moments.—Air, ‘• Kirk the
Hoge. s out."
The Cu siestas' now rose, and said it would he need-
less fov him to make any remark ots the next toast which
he had to propose, as the very mention of it would be
enough to declare its merits, and to excite the enthu-
siasm of all present. He should, therefore, without far-
ther preface, propose the health of " John Cam Hob-
house, Esq. the vigorous and able defender of the
people and may he, by the unbought and uninfluenced
ears of the electors of Wessuinster, be placed face to face
with Isis persecutors."
This toast was drank with reiterated shouts of op
planse, which continued for a considerable time. Silence
heiusr obtained,
Mr. floanottse rose, and commenced by represent(
his sincere thanks for the honour they bad done him
When Government was at variance with the hest in-
terests of the people, it was very natural that those who
ere persecuted should rather enjoy the confidence of
the people than those who indicted punishment.—(Rp
planiw.)—There was an old maxim inseparahly as.
nested with the British system of jurisprisslenene bit
which, however, had been violated in his person—that
there was no wrong without a remedy. This .s*t
had been entirely disregarded by his persecutors—or,
be ought rather to have said, the persecutors of the
nation.—(Applause.)—He had, as it were, been put out
of the pale of the law, and found no remedy for his
wron i g n those quarters where he hail the greatest right
to expect it. Yet there was still a place where he found
redress; he found it with the people—with the devoted
friends whom he now addressed. From them he expe-
rienced that justice which those denied who sought only
to indict on hint, and on the people generally, every in-
jury which a British subject could be made to suffer.—
(Cheers.)—So long as he hail this remedy to resort to,
he had nothing to fear; and he knew that the people
would always he ready to stand up in support of that
man who should come to the people for his best reward.
—(Applause.)—lt had been observed by a great mats,
hut whose maxims were now, perhaps, thought of little
weight by the authorities of the present day—it bad
been said by the Lord Keeper Finch, that though the
Romans, the Danes, the Saxons, and other invaders, had
conquered the people, still that they could never con-
quer the free laws of England ;—yet what neither the
Romans, who were the must polished tyrants in the
universe, nor the Saxons. nor the barbarians of the
North could effect, was reserved to be the fatal conquest
of these times. But, alas! to what a degraded state
were the Nobles of England reduced—to what a de-
plorable degree of subjugation was the manly spirit of
Englishmen brought, when a gang of spies and inform-
ers, who paid no respect even to the Sovereign on the
Throw, sought to overturn, by arts of fraud and perfidy,
what whole ages were not able to destroy.—(Cheers.)--
Yet they were not to depend for victory on such means,
nor was England to fall by such hands. Even here, this
assembly, which was met to protest against their mea-
sures, proved that the country was not to be subdued in
the base manner they proposed. Nor could he for a mo-
ment hriug himself to believe, that it would be sithjn-
gated by force, because the firmness of the people would
ineariahly resist any open attack. The great apprehen-
sion was, from the fraud and subtlety with which the
Government would endeavour to turn the very virtues of
the people against themselves. Wherever there was a
great object to be attained, it was uatural that there
should be a proportionate anxiety in pursuit of it, and
this not unfrequently led to excesses, which were to he
deplored. Yet of such excesses the Government was in-
variably prepared to take advantage, and the fact was
exemplified in a recent tragical event. The public mind
received a shock ; but the people were not disposed to
pronounce judgment in the first instance on the unfortu-
nate parties accused. They knew, however, that a great
*rime had been committed, and they felt regret inconse-
quence, because the truest advocates of liberty were the
best friends to order. But it was not so with the
flovernnient, who made a traffic of popular excesses,
while those who supported the cause of freedom were
always sorry when any thing was done of an equivocal
nature. It was a barefaced outrage upon the laws of
England, which presumed every man innocent till his
guilt was established in a Court of Justice, that Minis-
ters had put into the mouth of their Sovereign a verdict
of "Guilty" against the persons taken up, before any trial
condewine:d them to punishment.—(Cries of Shame's)
—This premature sentence came from the seat of mercy,
because it was suggested by the advisers of the Crown;
this emanated from the very source of justice.—ln fact
this, as it had been well observed by a journal, was

making "an unnatural use of the power of the Crown."
None would suspect the friends of liberty of any wish to
screen the persons accused from justice, they only waited
the decision of an impartial jury, before they offered any
opinion "pen their guilt or innocence. They only dm
sired, that the first authority in the realm should hot
agree to the previous condemnation.—(Cheers.)—Let
oot the wretches go forth before the public with the
verdict of their Sovereign stamped on their foreheads.
Force he knew could not avail the Ministers, but fraud
and cunning would do much towards effecting their ne-
farious purpose. He should therefore caution the friends
of liberty not to let them insinuate themselves into their
confidence, that they might the more easily despoil them
of those rights which were purchased by the precious
blood of their ancestors. There was at last a breathing
time, fur Parliament had expired. He hardly knew how
to write an epitaph for the dead—(a he
• hardly think himself an impartial chronicler ; yet
he email not forbear saying something en the merits of
A* late Parliament. We had in this coantrzzany bad
tirrusnwota. They bad bean aeasateand time to
time to cheat the people out of whatever degree of liberty
they bad obtained by the Revolution. But the annals of
England did not supply one iustance of any Parliament
having done so much towards the overthrow of freedom,
as the late wicked and most corrupt Parliament bad done
is a few months.—(4 h: Bring.)—He might say, in the
language of their truly noble and independent represen-
tative Sir Fr4ncis Buriett, that children might complain
of the mere exercise of the power claimed under the pre-
sent system, but it was nut for turn to complain of it.
Yet at the same time, he (Mr. Ilobhouse) could not a. a
man belp complaining of it. In the late short Parlia-
ment, every thing was done that could possibly be done
to destroy all the remaining liberties of the people of
England. The press was attacked, the right of having
arum was attacked, and, by the new laws, for a wan to
hold converse with his neighbour was an offence, which
was liable to a must severe punishment.—(Cries of hear,
hear!)—ln short, no man arose in the morning without
expecting to see in the papers something which was an
afringruient on the freedom of Britons. The statutes
which secured our liberties were abolished, and the vic-
tims were left to congratulate themselves upon the igno-
miny of only wearing their chains for five years. It
was observe that nothing bad might to be said of the
dead, but he should say with more justice, as was said
before him by a great moralist, that we ought to say no-
thing of them but what was true. It appeared to hiui
most extraordinary, that men should be found willing
enough in sober sadness to support such a system; yet
a great deal had been said in the late debates about the
magic of the Constitution, and by one good young man
in particular, Lord John Russell, who thought that this
magic lamp ought not to be changed because such won-
ders had been effected by it—because fine palaces hail
been built by it—because Corinthian capitals and Tns-
con columns were reared by its influence to the amaze-
ment of all, who were surprised how they got there, and
did not know how long they might be allowed to stay
there.—(Laughter.)--Ifut Lorl John Russell, though he
eras by no means it Ming is change the lamp, still thought
that something might be dons to "cower it.—(Laugh-
s )-ant nee. moo who had read the Aenlitso /WOW
lintertaiwasesit4, knew the disastrons consequence of
'cowering Alladin's lamp. When that renowned character
attempted to scower his lamp, he instantly called forth the
sieve of the lamp, and it was broken in pieces; thus
when Lord J. Russell endeavoured to scower his magic
lamp, he instantly excited the Lord Chancellor and the
other Cabinet servants to the utter discomfiture of hit
hopes and his purpose.—(Laughter.)—But he would
cease this allegory. Ile would ask any one who heard
him if he was wrong when he stated that no man would
feel the least interest in Lord John Russell's motion, ex-
cept Mr. Perry. Ile must end as he began ; but the mis-
fortune was, that the good which was done in the first
part was done away in the second. The magic was now
done away—it was only to be found in the story-hook.
In fact, the obl battered walls of the Constitution only
reminded him of those old ruins which he had sees at
Home, and which did not serve to beep out the water,
but to (lam it up, and rather hastened than retarded the
progress of dilapidation.—(Cheers.)—lt was said, for-
sooth, that the people were to have no voice in the Le-
gislature, because they were said to barn no understand-
ing; yet it was some credit to their understanding, that
the higher orders were beginning to adopt their opi-
nions. The Whigs at Norwich, in the North, and at
Bristol, now allowed that there could be nu perusanent
security to the State, without a Parliamentary Reform.
But though the people were willing to give them all
the merit they deserved for this approximation in Sen-
timent, while they ought
eatertainerl these opinions, only because they found
them deposited with the people.—(land applanse.)—
He had read of many struggles against the en-
croaching power of Parliaments; against septennial
Parliaments; against the Excise Laws, and various
other obnoxious proceedings ; vet all this was only a
in•re name, compared with the Memoratiffo of the late
Parliament. Ile there found it stated, he the eloquent
Member for Liverpool, the Right lion. 'Mr. Canning,
that if the nation attire stripped of the nobility, the cler.
gy, and all the distinguished orders, the thing which
remained would be no more like the people, than the
hied of Iliozenes was like the man of Plato. But if lie
(Alr. Hoblionse) hail been in Parliament at the time the
eloquent tientleuian wade 106 an assertion, he would,
in his humble way, have offered a word or two In fa-
vour of that poor two-legged +Weathered thing the pro-
plc.-0 loud laugh and cheers.)—Vet they took care,
however, that when it wits to he thrown down, none
should have the pinching of it hot theinseive..—(rion-
tinned laughter.)—lts splendid plumage was stripped by
their ruthless hands, and they well knew how to traffic
with the feathers. But though they had stripped them
so closely, still there was something left to command and
and ensure respect. It was to this people we must
look for whatever of manly spirit could be found any
where, for in no country in the universe did it at this
moment exist hut in England.—(Cheers.)—Among this
people only was to be sought that earnest perseverance
in the cause of reform, which alone could be the salva-
tion of our unhappy country. He had no doubt but
they would ultimately rise triumphant over their op-
pressors, and confound the projects they had formed for
the destruction of national and social freedom. During
the time he had been in confinement, he had received
addresses from that poor featherless two-legged thing,
the people, which might have done honour even to the
Right lion. Member for Liverpool. He meant this
only as it regarded style and composition, for he could
nor suppose that in any other respect Mr. Canning
could write any thing such as the people of England
would write or approve of.-{Applause.)—The kind-
ness of that people, he (Mr. Hobhouse) should newer
forget ; and whether in or out of Parliament, he still
Should write and speak libels against the House

PILICI SZVRN Peace.

of Commons.—(finmense applause and laugh'er.)—
The only difference would be, that if in Parliament lie
shodld speak more libels than he should write. Bat he
wished not to be misunderstood by libels, he meant
truths; for he knew if hr spoke falsehood the House of
Commons would never molest him. He then proceeded
to notice the circumstances connected with the charge
upon which he had been confined. Ms Hon. Member of
the Hoes* of Commons, be said, was of opinion, like the
character in JoeepA Andrews, that because the pamphlet
which he had written had a Greek motto in the title

page, therefore the book itself must contain treason
against the State. Yet be, Mr. ['calaboose, would not
have used that Hon. Member so harshly, nor would be
open such slight ground impeach either his purpose or
hts judgment ; he would not have said of him, that he
was a stupid booby of a Yorkshire squire, who wrote
stuff which no one could comprehend.—(A laugh.)--e
That person, speaking of the pamphlet which he (Mr.
Hobhouse) had written, used the contemptuous words,
“ These radicals," and misinterpreted the garbled ex-
tweets be had .read. Ohl is the style of a Yorkshire
gentleman. But was it, lie would ask, upon inch grounds
that the people of England were to be sent to prison ?
He would ask those who heard him, if they would bas e
sent Mr. Stuart Wortley to prisoa for having so ante I
towards him ? No, they would rather have sent hint t
school.—(A laugh.)—There was one only assembly lit
Europe that would bare sent him (Mr. lloidmuse) t•
prison upon such grounds—the English House of C. m-
mons. Mr. Courtenay and his brother, the Secretary to
Mr. Canning, felt that they obeyed the dictates of their
conscience when they voted for his imprisonment.—
it might have been so, but the fact looked somewhat
suspicious. In Parliament, if, in the listlessness of a te-
dious hour, any Member sought to pass it away by doing
a man an injury, he had nothing else to do hut stand up
in his place, lake a pamphlet out of his pocket, and call
the attention of the House to such passages as be might
please to consider objectionable—asserting, at the same
tome, that the people had no riht to use such langnage
against the House. He would-be sure not to find one
man only, bat many, all ready to join him, all eager kr
the prey. Not only Mr. Wynne would be prompt upui
the occasion, but every idle Member who could find no
better way of passing his time. Not only would the
man who was looking to the Speaker's chair, and
as a qualification, had read from one end to the nth. r
the first volume of Hatsell ; toot only would this man.
who was a precedent poacher, be alert at conolemnatioot,
but he would even adduce precedents to show why the
writer of the obnoxious work should not even be place I
on a horse with his face to the tail ; and, in fact. he (Mr.
Hobhousr) might consider himself well off, in having
been sent to prison, as he might have been conchoortei
to a ride.—(A laugh.)--After a few more observations,
he concluded his speech, of seventyminstes, by assuring
the Meeting of his earnest wish to devote himself to
their service, whenever occasion should call for his ex-
ertions.

The nest toast was--" The only remaining security
of linwlish liberty—Trial by Jury.'` Tune—" Old Eni:-
lantl, to threlf be trove."
_ _ _

A Mr. Murphy smog a song composed for the wa-
viest, taisams—ivrillse -ensuing eleetTon, to Hie tune at
•• Scots wha bac." He song It in ■n admirable style,
and was encored.

Mr. Rourolthwait next proposed, " Sir Francis Bar-
tlett, our inc ))))) parable advocate; may a British Jury
vindicate his noble address on theManciiesterinassacre. '
Tone—. While happy in my nati►e land."

The lion. Baronet rose amidst thg loudest cheering.
After remarking on the pleasure which he ban in
meeting such an asssembly as the present, and the great
necessity of Parliamentary he proceeded to
vindicate the claim of Mr. Hobhouse for Westminster.
He congratulated them on the further acquaintance they
had acquired of the character and abilities of the grew-
soon whom it was their wish to make his colleague.—
Ile then referred to Mr. Lamb. In looking over the
Chronicle of that day, be said he bad been struck by
an advertisement of 7a very extraordinary nature, I.'
which be thought that the attention of Mr. O. Lamb
ought to be called. It stated, that any gentletnan
wishing to have a seat for an ancient borough might 1.1
accommodated by applying at a certain number in Ta-
cistork-street, Covent-garden. If Mr. Lamb attended to
this recommendation, he would have a better chance ot ob-
taining a scat in an honourable assembly than he woti,d
have by giving himself all the trouble which he did abort;
the electors of Westminster. Much as the principles ot
Reform had increased elsewhere, they had increased no
where more than in Scotland. Those pries, iples had been
recently introduced into the capital of that country by one
who had hero a great luminary here, but who had uri •
Finally come from that country, whose public service-,
in spite of some observation., email never he forgotten ;
he meant Lord Erskine—(loud applause)—a man, who,
as he was in l"20 the same ni..n as he was in 171111,1ez s
r.ot to be confounded with the coininun herd of Lands.
(Chrers.)—He then went over most of the arguments
used by Lurd Erskine at the Winner given to h;rii at
Edinburgh, and spoke of thesis in terms of warm pane-
gyric. He then described the principles upon which he
hail opposed the late Bills, and observed, that they were
generally held by honest men, whether Whigs or la-
nes, aids very little difference. This was not extraut-
dinary, because, in point of truth and fact, little Jitter-
ence of opinion could exist amongst honourable men,
no matter how they were denominated, as to the great
and vital question. whether a Government should be
carried on by corruption or by pure and eonstititional
means. Fur his own part lie Lod alwars heeidesitoit
that these two nick-names, envied in spite by one party
to another, should he entirely dropped and forgotten—
they no longer had any intelligible Mr:ailing.
The circumstances which gale rise to them had been
forgotten, and he wished the names themselves to be
obliterated from the minds of men. And yet there were
brings so insensible to the alteration of circumvent...,
so blind to the present state of society, that they wou:.%
if possible, perpetuate acrimonious f;elings, founded riti
a distinction so foolish as that tis which he had adverted.
Those who were assembled on this occasion recognized
no such difference. They proceeded on the principles
of just feeling' and true reason—feelings about which ow
two unbiassed men could fall out. Ihe only sensible,
the only impartial distinction between men in this coun-
try, at present, was to be found existing between tio,se
who endeavoured to justify and to uphold the notorious,
the acknowledged, the openly-ronfessed corruption ot
the House of Commons—corruption confessed by the
Members of that House themselves,—and those who
wished to hare an independent and incorrupt House or
Commons—emanating from the bulk of the scion—
emanating from those who were the support of the throne
and of the government—a House of Costumers, Lasing
the same interests, and being susceptible of tie seme
feelings, as those by which* be people were imine,,,d. _
a House of Commons that should be, in troth sad Lot is