The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-05 00:00:00

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IV R. TIIE STATESMAN.
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To TAP COMMONALTY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
1 have long noticed the sufferings of the lower or.
ders among you, and have frequently advocated their
cause through the medium of- the Press, though 4
deemed it expedient, during the late war, to slackee'
my efforts a title, from a conviction that it was -oar 1
dirty, as lov.al 'objects, to submit to temporary de- i
privations at so eventful a period, as a means of con,
tributing I no ards a speedy re-establishment of Peace,
a hich fortunate event has• at length taken place,
though it has not as yet been attended with those
blessings or advantages which we naturally expittled to
derive fr.,ar it ; now, therefore, ii the time to retieW
your suspended labours in the great work. of Re- ,
form : for, arthe garden of the sluggard is suffered l
to he overrun with thorns .and thistles, and thereby.
rendered of no value,.so, in like manner, all that is
excellent in our •LAWS and Constitution is in danger
of being choked up and destroyed by the gross and
scandalous abuses which have crept into almost every
department of the State, and nre daily increasing to
lan alarming degree, for which, be assured, my cowl-
-1 trymen, there is no effectual remedy, under God, but
a radical Reform in Parliament, as I will presently
i endeavour to make appear.
This nation being considered by our ancestors as
one large family, the members of which had become
i too numerous •to assemble together in person, for
1 the discussion of subjects affecting their general in-
-1 terest, they selected a certain number of wise and
discreet persons from among themselves, as their
Representatives or Advocates to support their in-
terest, and to protect their rights and privileges. from
the encroachments of the Executive and Aristocratic
Order, subjecting them however to certain restrict-
-1 lions, which were afterwards treacherously broken i
MIDDLES EX. SESSIONS.
1 through by the passing of the infamous Septennial I
i Act, in direct violation of the Bill of Rights (which 1 —saws—
Bill of Rights is the principal title deed of the House ' These Sessions consmeoc.ed yesterday before Wm.
of Brunswick to these realms); and you, the people, MAINWARING, Esq. u Minoan, and a full bench
ever since this unwarrantable attack on the title of of Magistrates.
that illustrious House, and on your own rights, as a Thomas Perry was indicted for amen
free people,, have been treated more like slaves than Mainwaring, Esq. on the Pith of
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freemen, apparently without your being conscious of th,er was also a cross-indictmentrt
Patch was indicted for assaulting Thos.
this degradation, inasmuch as- you have been con-
your liberties with a yoke about
scantly boasting of
same day.
your necks, and while smarting under the lath of your •ft appeared from the etitioncti.tbat
own servants, who, by an act of premeditated tree- mentioned, Mr. 14111swasing was Ilia
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chery, contrived to become your taskmasters ; nor need Hampstead road, followed by Patch,
groan), when they were met by
you ever expect to be
until'eved from this state of Egyp-
Perry, who is a baker, and who was
tianAike bondage; every man Among you who is
harrow along the midst of the road,
compelled to pay taxes of any sort, has the privilege
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!Of voting in the choice of a Representative to serve close tit' Me. Mainwaring s horse, ti..
in Parliament. Happy am I. however, to find that became restive and reared up, by which
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the glorious Tromp of TRUTH has of late been sound-
waring's safety was endangered Nt
eelwith such effect h) that faithful and indefatigable taken of this, however, and the baker
assertor of your rights, the venerable Major Ciirr Nye the barrow close against the groom'
WRIGLIT, and his enlightened coadjutors, 81 seems to the groom remonstrated, and Mr. Mat
leave awakened you to a sense of your degraded state, tag back saw Perry' seize his servant
and to have enabled you to perceive clearly that the strike him several times, this induced M
present ferment about _the Corn Laws is solely at.
beck and remonstrate with him on his
tributable to the defective state of the elective branch upon this seized Mr. Meinwaring's horse,
of our Legislature. If the Assembly bearing ing him by the collar, attempted to pull
the name of !louse of Commons really deserves, horse. Two gentlemen who were
in its present s; at 0, to be so called, or if indeed it is time, interferer! and rescued Mr. Midi
#O/St il„use, as ttcl4 tiame imports, and the indivi- the grit* of the baker, whot however,
attack.eed succeeded its unhorsing him,
duals composing it so willingly acknowledge in words,
why do they not aim.) acknowledge it by their odious? attain rescued from him ; the witnesses
Why do they nt t manifest their fidelity by a respect- Perry's conduct as the most cattrageou:
fat attention to yVI, I Petitions and remonstrances? Ibe imagined.
'Fite spot which we occepy on the surface of this On the part of Perry, Mr. ALLEY oil
terraqueoos globe is so situated, that our lands, how. t"
him, Provo that Patch committed the il
and horee-whipped him most severel
ever well coltivated, can never be made to yield an
increase proportionable to aim lands of our more Perry struck him.
southern neighbours. It was not, therefore from rr.e Jury found Perry guilty of
the raw onmanufaotured produce of oar toil, that Mr. Mainwariug, and Patch guilty of
our wonderful pie-eminence mong the nations of the Perry. •
earth aro*, but from oar having wisely foitered the
Want commeree, until it acquired Herculean size
and strength, and enabled our fleets to ride at anchor,
and our arms to triumph in every quarter of the
globe. Is it then possible that your public servants
can be so infatuated as to attempt the destruction of
thiaptelladiam of our glory and reisown, by offering
it up as a sacrifice at the shrine of the landed interest ?
It cannot be denied that by advancing dr keeping
up the price of bread, and continuing the war taxes,
or introducing new ones in their stead, the price of
labour must be advanced also ; and then our mane.
facturers and merchants must of necessity charge such
exorbitant prices for their commodities at foreign
markets, as will have the effect of prohibiting their
sale, whereby other commercial States, less griev-
ously oppressed by taxation and monopoly will gain
all the advantages to themselves, and triumph by oat
downfall.

1. 111111BEZZLIMINT.
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MOUTRAYL AND OTEIERS V. LEWIS.
Sit S. Bounty in this case, on behalf of the
Plaintiff's,, moved for an orderfor transferring, in the
books of the Governor and Comipainy of the Bank
of Engl and ; to the name and 'ciedit of the Plaintiffs,
twelarttrat sums in the 3 per' Cad. Consolidated
Bilitk &Multi's, amounting to a sum of about ten•
thousand pounds, which., with other sums; had been
I test r in the stocks for the security of certain an.
1 nuii es, by the testator, Mr. Mooiham, in this cause,
1 created' to pay four hundred pounds a-yeir to his
I only son; three hundred i-year to his eldest daggb-
Ages one batlike.) awyear to. his youngest gaper-
ter,..ind the like suavity 'to a Mrs. Gillingham,
another annuitant. The Learned Counsel stated,
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that Mr. Lewis was *now out of the jurisdiction of
this Court, having been the confidential attorney
and trustee with the wife of the testator, who is not
executrix. Be was aware of the objection to this
motion, on the ground of want of notice to Ms.
LeWis personally, a circumstance not practicable un-
der existing circumstances, but trusted the documents
in supply of such notice were sufficient, this being
ell of tile eatensiee property of the testator, that
Mr. Lewis had *some Anne ago absconded with, that
was fortuitously secured from the general wreck or
embezzlement of the fortune by Mr. Lewis.
The motion was opposed by Mr. LEACU and Mr.
RAITIIIIX, on she grounds of novelty and informs-
- fity ; upon which his Lordship, to give Mr. Leach
time to read certain papers, deferred judgment tilt
Tbdrsday neat.

• THE SING V. COHEN.
This was an indictment against the
dealer in marine stores, for having in
200 cwt. of copper, with the King's tut
• The Defendant was seen on the
last, by one of the Thames Police 01
a cart, containing marked copper, _
°rots. The Officer asked what he, had
and he said he did not know. He had '
ed, he said, by a person named King,
taldrive the cart to Charing-cross, and
his arrival. That did not, however, '
the fact, and under all the circamstances
found him Guilty.
Several other Defendants were found
coarse of the day, for hoeing King's
possession.

Yesterday as a gentleman' was riding
hum road, his horse startled at smnethi•
la sudden spring, by which he was thy
saddle, and 'enfortonathly. killed on
OPERA-not:qr.—The Opera Le Heroines di Raab body was removed to the Windmill publi
has been rewired at this house, and was last night th. Coroner's Inquest.
presented for the first time these four years. The. Monday night, a poor Waterman,
character of the piece is that of love, mingled with the coach-stand between St. Clement'
heroic action, which is imparted through the agrees- Temple Bar, whilst standing watering ,
ble medium of some very pleasing music. The scenery one of the hackney-coaches, they took
and dresses are new am) very splendid,. and the galloped away, knocking the poor mr
Opera, we think, bids fair of being a favourite with one of the wheilspaseing over both hi
the public. Madame SEM greatly distinguished her- them in a shocking manner. He was
self in the support of her character, Ago, both as to Bartholomew's Hospital, where it was
power and sweetness of voiee, and her judicious ex. nary to amputate one of them.
ecution of several very difficult passages,, which cep- Yesterday an Inquisition was takem,
peared to electrify her audience, who eucoved her son, Coroner for Middlesex, at the Kit
perfortiauce,.and honoured her with repeated bursts Paddington, on the body of a man (oat
of applause. Signor Riont, Signor GEM, and who was found drowned in the. Canal
LE VAssEutt, were also happy in the delineation of Ile was dressed in a blue coat, yf
their characters, and nag itt good voice, and with buff waistcoat, and dark velveteen breeci
great attention to thetnutic. Lc Prince Troubadour a bill for carpenter's work, done in Sly
again presented the Corps de Ballet in all the agree- in his pocket, but wititeut a name.
able variety of attitude, which renders this piece such .Drotened.
a favourite with the Audience, who were fashionable i PARISIAN MODES, Mantis 31.--'„
and very namereus. wwd a half of the hats now in use are
A Si/MOLAR PHENOMENON..-- Whilst the Lady Ropier or of crape. Very few straw
Louisa packet, CaPtabi Gibbon, which arrived at L4ac and white yellow straw and greet
Falmouth on Sunday Tait fail the Brazils • was on jonquil are the prevailing ice:dour'. Tf
her voyage home, her decks, spies, *des, dc. were riblurnata are etripedfreen, rose colour
soddenly and completely covered •(lo some Pieces fe urge and deeded oaw white ground.
the thickness of belts* inch); with. A yellow dist. —I- tasty townies Ire redeark the pansy., in
An explanation of this extritordiftry eircemstehoe date *Wheat lames; real leaves, vrltl
has been attempted, by lirtywoshig it to be the V. evertaseing flowers, and emelt flowrets
feet of a violent eruption of -a volcano on the :Whorl oblong, erifh the form of
coast of Africaraithettigh the iisdcbt was at /ant ode • inlsith aro Shielded like grapes. A
thousand miles distant from all had when 1111111Nilt Gentlemen' coats for long champ, col(
ocearrod. l with a collar of a shawl and trimmed , ,

XENOCRATEL
Brick-court, Temple, March 16, 1515.

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