The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

toed, and threatened to shoot with's% and his

wpanion, if he could lay hold of his fire-arms.
fl r. Salmon staid about twenty minutes milli the

I'rn.s•examined-•The threat to shoot reason the Satur-
d.►►, the 3d of June, in the garden. Ile was very
%.o.lent from the time witness came into the house,
until he left on the Sunday night, as often as he raw
14111. (*mild not say that he observed any particular
arts of insanity ; he was muttering and speaking to
liiniself ; did nut discover his insanity until the Satur-,
da►• : not on the Friday, though he thotight he uas
insane at the time. Plaintiff was not violent on Sun-
day eveninz when he left him; reme►nbered asking
the plaintiff for some supper that night. They went
an ay of their oa•n accord.

James Type 4poke to the plaintiff,' insanity in May,
• I!1, having been employed as one of his keepers; he
him three months, the plaintiff was es-
ti-, 3111 ly violent ; lie used to speak of evil spirits
were coming for him, and paid lie should like

Mr. Salmon's certificate of the plaintiffs insanity,
the :id of ,Inne, was then tendered in evidence.

plaintiffsfhe Counsel objected that this piece of
esidenee could not be received. The trespass was al-
leged to have taken place on the 2.1 of June, whereas
ertilicate was dated on the 3d of Jon., after the
trespass. There was no proof that it existed before
the trespass. The objection was, however, waved. It
%%as proved thou. Mi. Salmnu was the Visiting Surgeon
of li.e defendant's house ; it was a lucrative employ.
writ.

The defendant's ease here elo.•ed.
The finuerrowlizmnstst. then addressed the Jury
las an able and powerful reply.
The l'utr.r Jr %tU t S ttttt med up the rase fur the
Jura• with great minuteness and impartiality.
The Jury retired fur about half au hour, awl found
a veatlict fur the plaintiff—Damages, 3001.

TB E QUEEN.

3tELTING.

Yesterdav a very nun...nous and respertahlr tneetinc
of the Par:shof 51auy-le-lione, was held at Poly's I owls
Manufactory, Great Portland-street, fur the purpose
of tasking into consideration the propri,ty of presert-
hag an Addres. of Cuing•ratulation to her Majc•ty ; as
Cso fur the purpose of presenting a Petition to the
king, to dismiss his present 31inisters.
About' balf-post one o'clock, Mr. Heron!, M.P., Mr,
Joseph House, M.P., and Mr. I'. Moore, M.P., and
several Gentlemen who comp—rut the Parochial Com-
o.itte", appeared at the hustings, and were loudly

tl erred.
On the motion of alt. Peter Moore, Mr. Ilernal was
called to the 1.11 .
• The Hon. Gentleman, on taking the Chair, shortly
aslaressed the Ilecting. It was but lately that the
larxe and respectable parish of Nlary-le-hone had begun
to bold political meetings: since, however, they had
begun, they acted with the decorum, spirit, and in-
dependence whirls WAS worthy their chars( ter. Ile
had no doubt hut thAt the same admirable qualities
"wild mark the proceedings of that day ; by firmness
and ttod-t.ttion they would give effect and dignity to
llic:r dectsions. lie laid only to say, that as Chair-
loam, he was roatly to hear the opinions of every lien-
Gewalt who Hai lit be disposed to address the meeting.
As it was, Imo ever. but a Parish Meeting, he hoped
that none but Parishioners would present themselves.
'Else Hun. Chairman then read the Requisition for
calling the Meeting, signed by about three hundred
InhabPant Householders, which had been presented
to Lord Kenyon, the Clitirchwarslen. His Lordship,
eu receiving the Requisition, addressed a letter in
answer thereto to f4ir Gerard Noel, Bert., which con-
tained the following passage For my own part, as
a lit er, having had much gratification in opposing the
Bill of Pains and Penalties against her Majesty, which,
under all the 'lrene/Istria' es, I considered odious, ttn-

just. and ienchriNtiasi. I should think that I must over-
look soy own duty, if I took any part on the subject
nut of Parliament. Had the consent of the Church.
scardens been ncc rrrrr v, to enable the Parish of St.
Mary-le-bone to hold the Meeting. I should not have
acenpled to give my consent.-1 son, kc." (Applause.)
04„/Iatsmi. next came forward to move the first Re-
-0911111c*,0,11lie Resolution was one against which, lie
hoped. oqi Air objection could be made ; it carefully
alcolsaptdevery harsh expression against the ronsti-
4041vorities of the country. For his own part
be svould+say, and he thought be might ray the same
for, the lientlemen who surrounded him, that they were
as free from factious principles--as much opposed to
dangerous innovations—as perfectly loyal, as those
who met in secret, and who claimed to themselves ex-
clusive loyalty.—(Applanse.)—He hoped that a loyal
man might still look the situation of his country in the
face, and might, without danger, proclaim her wrongs
to the world. What was the state of that country ?
Ifo would not observe upon the manlier in which the late

war was conducted—he would confine his observations
to the time since the war euded. The Hou.oentleman
. then proceeded to take a very enlarged view of the po-
htici of this country fur the last three years. He did
not, however, mention any frets with which the public
are out already acquainted ; but when he took notice

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of the inroad. lately made on the liberty of discussion.
and of the Acts of Parliament passed preventing meet-
ings, except inparis hes, be observed, that now if aly in-
.ditf illttal calling himself a Magistrate, thought fit to in-
terrupt a public meeting, no matter on what occasion
it might have been called—no 'matter how urgent its
object—no matter bow peaceful, bow regular, and
how decorous its proceedings—if any one Magistrate
desired them to be gone, they could not say one word
more. They should desist, or if they persevered. they
should do so •t their peril, and subject themselves to
all the severities and penalties -of the law. The peo-
pld of England were not to supposelhat they had the
right to meet to consider of their grievances and to
•indicate their rights. That right, indeed, their fa-
thers possessed. They once possessed it themselves,
but they had it no more. They met only • by permis-
sion. To such a point, at length, was the boasted
liberty of Englishmen reduced—(Lund murmurs.)—
The Press bad also now shackles put on it. Any per-
son who might make a statement of perfect truth, yet
if it were construed to be disrespectful to certain indi-,

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victuals, he might be fined awl imprisoned for the first
ettrenee and trar•pol ted for the seeond—(Cries of
" shame '..)—The fieutleman next observed with I
much aisimation on the late triumphant efforts of
Spain, Portugal, and Naples, and said that it was dis-
graceful to Aliaisters loot to► have tendered their assist-
ance at least, to the two latter States. which were
more immediately witliiii their reach. He next con-
trasted the present military establishments with those
of 1792. At present the military establishment cost
eleven millions; its 1792, it amounted to sixteen hun-
dred thousaml pounds. The nary in 1792 cost two
millions too hundred thousand pounds, at pre-
sent it cost six millions and a half; although
there were but fifteen thousand sailors, a smaller
number than was ever known in Englaud since
the American war. The fact was, that the public
money was toot expended on the brave tars of
England, but It was expended on Admiralty
Courts, useless Boards and Commissioners. The
people toed not he surprised that some impotent
attempts hail been made to uphold the odious
power of Ministers--•-no oar could be surprised at
that, when it was cuu,isle►rrl that there were no less
than two millions and a half paid in pensions, and four
millions and a half paid to tax-gatherers, and three
millions and a half paid to half-pay officers (to the last
class, who deserved well of their country, he dill not
object to those receiving a recotnpcnce from their
country, but many of :hs•w, unfortunately, praised the
hand that paid, and not the pe that supplied the
motley.) There was also another class, a class too
important to he overlooked, be meant the Clergy—
the Clerey received of the public money about five
minim's awl a half. Ile hoped be had stated enough
to induce the Meeting to think with him, that men
who had brought so much misfortune upon the coun-
try, ought 1111 longer to continue in the public runnel's
—they woo hl there-foie petition the King for their
dismissal-2(Applause!).—Bat they should not stop
there, they should demand that salutary and necessary
Reform which alone %twilit strike at the root of the
• 11—(Iirrat applause !).—I f the people had a reformed
Parliament, HU one would say that the country would
have so muels to deplore ; the people would not have
to witness such an jut tease to their Wahines—such
daring attacks on their remaining liberties, and such
an heartless ir.diffeseure to the public nikfortun-s.
The Itevolutiou ass then pot, and carried uualti-
:Dowdy.
P 5.11.11 %wail next came forward to move the
Address to Isis %lajest• for the dismissal of kis :Mi-
nisters. Ile was tee-rive,' in a very flattering man•
tier. It was, he said, because lie had at all times
alone hi• dotty that lie was so received. On the for-
mer occasion the meeting hail all that was fair as well
as all that teas wanly. Ile regretted that a more ill-
merous assemblage of Ladies was not present ; the
Ladies, throughout the contest, had done their
duty—thr sawn would continue to do theirs—
, (Applause). His Iluoourable Friend had turned.
Ministers inside silt ; there was another wit to
he accomplished, whirli could only he accomplished by
the l's•opls•. Whilst the Ministers remained in power,
there was no hope—no security for the people. He
would say to thesis, in the language of the Impe►ial
General when he tool, lientsa, its 1746, " if you do
not get rid of them, they will leave yon nothing but
your eyes to behold vonr miserirs--(Applause)." For
himself, lie nab no Pew:inner or Plaresuan ; he might
have beets bolls—lse lit hate participated in the
, plunder of the country pith those drones who op-
pressed it, lead he consented to give tip his c wit integ-
rity and Isis love for England—(Applause). The
Honourable Gentleman, after :adverting, its the
strongest terms of reprobation, to the Corn Hill,
which he called ass infamous law to starve the country.
proceeded to say, that the late proceedings against
her Majesty, were, its fact, intended as au indemnity
for Itlinisteis ; they had sounded themselves by leav-
ing leer Majesty's name out of the Liturgy ; they saw
the consequences of their own act when it was too late
to remedy it—hence the necessity of a Parliamentary
indemnity, hence the trial, which was falsely called
the trial of her Jlajrsty—(.lpplause). The People,
throughout the struggle, had remained faithful to the
Queen, and, lie neighs add, to themselves. ,Without
the People, be. would give little credit to her Ma-
jesty's Counsel, or to the ninety-five Noble Loids ;
without the powerful voice of the people, their efforts
would have beets unavailing, and her slajrsty would
have been saerifieeil.—(Applause.)—After dwelling
on many of the faults of Ministers, he c pared them
to a celebrated Ueneral, who once declared that he
would spare the people nothing but their tears. Those
Ministers had brunght the country down to the lowest
pitch of national distress; they answered the public
complaints by fresh burthens—they surrounded the
Throne, and kept from the knowledge of his Majesty
the real state of his subjects. Kings were generally
disliked, but they were often themselves the vie-
tines of falsehood and deception. King James
the First, on his arrival in England, was sur-
rounded by the different powerful parties in the
State ; he entertained, however, a great distrust of
them all, and perhaps in that he was very rightes—
langh.)---One trailer proposed one line of acting,l
another proposed a different course. They offered a
speech to his Majesty to deliver before the Parliament.'
" No," said the King, " I shall deliver one of our
own." He did so; and after making some observations
on the state of the country, he added there memorable
words:--" But shove all, preserve to use the *tree-
tions of the people.—•(Ureat applause.)---Let Die be
on good terms with the people—let use live in their
bearts—(Loud applause.)—fur I know full well that
the people cats do without a Kiug, but a King cannot
do withotst the people."--(Applause.)—This, said the
Honourable (Sentleman, ass language worthy of a
King ; and it was to be !uncross' that Kingsof Eugland
did not always, like James the First, speak their
own sentiments and judge fur themselves. But the
object of had Ministers was to cut off all communica-
tion between the Sovereign and, his people, the better
to carry on measures which were often iojuriows to
both ; they had gone on front one step to another to
impoverish and enslave the people of England, who,
if properly treated, would have been the richest as
well as the happiest and freest people on earth. The
purest and 'nest independent public men were selected
out as the victim.' of oppression. Such was the case of
that illustrious patriot, Sir F. Burdett-.—(Great cheers).

—Did the powers that rule.; care for his body ?
No, but they wished to withdraw his mind from the
public cause; they wished, by placing him in a pri-
son, to deprive the cause of liberty of the aid of Isis
splendid talents, his high character, his bold, manly,
unchangeable independence.—(Applanse.)—After
some other observations, the Hon. Gentleman concluded
by moving a Petition to his Majesty, praying, that he
would be pleased to dismiss his present Ministers from
his presence and counsels fur ever, which was read,
and unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Prrsosctisl.D moved the next Resolution, which
he introduced with a speech of considerable length.
Mr. Ctittactisess moved the Resolution fur an Ati-
dress to her Majesty.
The Addre!s was then read and moved by Mr.
Heel nest, and unanimously adopted.
Thanks were then voted to Sir G. Noel, and to the
independent part of the Public Press.
The Resolution of Thanks to Mr. 111111iC and Mr. P.
Moore was next pnt and carried.
Mr. P. Moose returned thanks.

Mr. Ikea RIM/ begged to return Lk acknowledg-
filelliS to the Meeting. The llouuurahle Gentleman
took siczasion to observe, that he would always put the
highest value upon the public declarations of his
countrymen. The thanks of Englishmen could only
be purchased by integrity; nu arts, no influence, no,
not the influence of Kings, could otherwise obtain it
—(Applausr). Ile could not, he said, retire from the
luting without taking notice of the wanner in which
the City of London had been lately received at the
Fours, and, Without cundessosing, as he sincerely did,
•tlac insolent language which on that occasion Mem-
bers had put into the mouth of the King—(.tpplause).
If his .11.,je•ty were to act Com himself, different no
demist would have been his language to the first city
in the w"rld, not sully fur wealth and power, but for
honour, independence, and virtue—(Applause). It
was the part of Ministers to insult, and if possible, to
irritate every class of Isis Majesty's subjects.

'thanks were next voted to the Chairman, Mr. BER-
N IL.—The lion. Gentleman, in returning thanks,
twat occasion to observe, that he had never been pre-
sent at a Sleeting which hail been conducted with so
snitch decorum and good order. The people acting
thud would ultimately triumph in a rightful cause.
The tiovernment Press might describe them as unshorn
mechanics—so it described one of the most respect-
able 3leetings that had ever been held in the county
of ; but the people would despise language
which was at once foolish and indecent. They would
pursue their course with a calm, manly, and unbend-
ing spirit. if he (Mr. Bernal) coma be of any fu-
ture service to his fellow parishioners, whether as
Chairman, or as an humble but lie hoped not
a useless, member of the general body, they might
always command his services, and rely upon his fidelity
and his zeal---(.Applause.)--He then dissolved the
Meeting.

CORPORATIONS reraw: CIVIL, !ARNIM awl
PCRIAC PROSPERITY.

SECOND SERIES.-LETTLR 1.

At home surrounded by n servile crowd,
Prompt to 1111/11!tr, and in detraction load ;
Abroad begirt with men, and swords, and spears.
llis ver) state acknowledging bib fears.

Pitinie.

Sie—The nation must needs be in a miserable con-
dition, when it is thought necessary to surround nut
only the Chief Magistrate, but the Senate, with sol-
diers ; and when even the petty tyrants of corporations
ate desirous of being placed in similar security.
Finding that their hopes of seeing the ardor of the
people, in the cause of their Queen, of justice, and of
freed , abate with the roll, and descend to Zero by
the Meeting of Parliament, on the 211 of January, the
Green Bat; administration have now turned their great
powers of mind to the creating what they call a re-
action of those canker-worms, or rather those cancers
of the ronstitation, called privileged corporations, in
favor of themselves, and against public freedom.
The base language of these bodies, as well as their
baser sentiments, bring all derived from the same
cognition stock, are necessarily all of the same tenor.
They consist of expressions of their exclusive loyalty,
and their exclusive attachment to every abuse; of their
great concern at beholding the progress of insnburtli-
nation and discontent ; and imputing all these evils,
not to themselves and their I atrons, but to " factious
and designing men," and to the " abuse of the liber-
ty of the Press." It is not, however, that kind of
abuse, which is practised by The (eerier, 17te Post,
sad New Timers, against the Queen and the People,
but the abuse, which is made of it by a part of the
Press, against the amiable corruptions, to which we
have been so long accustomed. All these bodies,
in their corporate raped ties. from the A Idermanie band
of the Metropolis, to the Mayor, Bailiffs and Burgesses
of the meanest borough, are In site of understanding,
disinteresteduess, and integrity, upon a perfect level.
They are coosequently equally well qualified to instruct
his Majesty, and to lecture the public upon their respec-
tive duties. Ito these despieable bodies, then, testily
think (ifilm operations of their mind can indeed be called
thinking) that either the king or the people are to be
any longer imposed upon by their feigned apprehensions
of danger, by their hypocritical cant about factions and
designing men, or their unmeauing jargon of the Con-
stitution in danger, the Constitution as by Castlereagh
and Cm established, "Me earN snerovading mations,
and Mr admirathin Vthe world. '
We have already had soineu hat too much of this, and
the trick. is by much too stale to be any longer capable
of deceiving any but fools; for, the very persons, who
utter such nonsense, although they may, bur their private
gains, hope to deceive others, are by uo means deceived
themselves. They do not, and cannot believe, that
either the king or the country stands in need of, or can
be benefited by their support. any more than a sound
man could be henefited by a cancer, or a horse go the
swifter of being heavily laden. 'this, I say, thev cannot
believe, if they have the smallest particle of ttoderstand-
ing, even a gdwinering of common sense; and, there-
fore, although they may perfectly well understand the
distinct and separate interests of their corporations, they
are, in respect to the public good, in a state of thorough
ignorance, or deliberate impostors. But, their assurance
and insolence are extreme, in presenting to attempt to
identify their own interests with dune of the biog.
whose safety and whose throne they have done more
to undermine than eve• the base mee who are nnhap-
pity his ministers. It is by the aid of those empires
within empires, of those diseased clusters on the surface