The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-01 00:00:00

LONDON:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, Mit
By the arrival of a Heligoland Mail this forenoon,
the following intelligence has come to hand :
HELIGOLAND, JULY!?.

REGENT,which had for its object to sound the trumpet
of truth in the Royal ear. One man there was to
advocate, but not one to second the cause of truth'
What, not one? No, not one !!! It is true that many
of them were absent—they were retired to their
cenatry-seats. This may be an excuse for them, sr
fares absence can constitute an excuse ; but did they
of know, that Sir FaANcis intended to bring Air
important business forward? They must have knows
U; because the rules of the House enjoined him uv
give previous notice of his intention. But no ex.
cuse can be found for the Members present, for nr
supporting the Motion of the patriotic Baronet, excel
their delicacy, which prevents them from going th,
whale length with Sir FRANCIS. And what is the friar.
ful length that ho proposed to go ? Were it to sap 0,
1 foundation of the Crown—to deprive it of its preroge.
tives and splendour—to rob the people of their rights
Ne ;with this the basest sycophant among the hirelir
writers of an imbecile Ministry dare not charge hil
Then, why was not his motion supported? The an.
swer is plain. The bold truths which it contained
i put corruption to the blush ! And what were the,
bold, these daring truths, from supporting of will
' every Member shrank, as Macbeth shrank back
the sight of Banque's ghost 2 He proposed to
Corm the PRINCE, that a vote of the House of Com.
1 mons, which had declared it as their opinion, that
the Ministers of the Crown were incompetent to fil'
with national honour and safety, those high stations
for which they had been collected, and net selected,*
occupy—that, not only had the beneficial conse.
quenoes been lost to the country which ought to have
emanated from such vote of incapacity, but that
°Hamby, ever on the watch to pounce upon its prey,
had taken advantage of this single act of patriotism
on the part of the House of ehmmons to fritter a.
the rights of the Crown, as it had done the libel
of the people—that the Ministers of the Crown .
rashly and lamentably cast away the glorious oppor.
tunity of making an honourable peace with
FEENcn Burma, on the flimsy pretext of a Treaty
of Alliance between his MAJESTY and Fatten('
the VII. when in truth no such Treaty was in
istence—that the circumstance of rejecting

late overtures for peace was the more to
regretted in consequence of our being about
to engage in a war with 'America, which w,
deprive thousands of industrious mechanics aid,
tans of thi'means of subsisting by their labour,
also deprive us, its a nation, of the last means
support in case or an unfavourable harvest—that
money is voted out of the pockets of the poi.,
by those who do not, represent them, and often given
to men who had not the sanction of public service—.

that While taxes had arisen from fifteen to near seventy
millions sterlingannually, tax-gatherers had multii
in a like proportion, whose insolent, and almost dail,
visits placed the property of every man in a constant
state of insulting requisition, producing crimes,
&liodrpige, and misery of every description.
. Sir FRANCIS next made a strong allusion to
stanner in which justice is dispensed in the Cow
King's Bench; and represented the Ex-officio
formations, as forming a substitute for the WA.
and tyrannicat practice of the Star Chamber; which
contributed to bring Cs ant.za I. to the block.
FRANCIS concluded by recommending to the Pal
to use every legal means in his power to pro'
such a Reform in the Commons House of Pal
I ment, as will make the voice of the people be
in that House, which, he judiciously conch
would remove the toregoing, and many
crying grievances, of which we have such
cause to complain. As we stated in the
ginning of these remarks, no one Member
i sent had the virtue to second the Motion of
Worthy Baronet; of course, in that House,
to the ground; but it will live to the end of time
monument of gratitude in the heart of every honest
. man. Ho did his duty, and we barely do ours'
cording the merits of his laudable endeavours.

The following letter from Portsmouth, of
morning, has a most warlike appearance, and
that Ministers are now determined not to lea\
business to chance—had they done so sooner,
and our anxieties would have been spared on this
firitinite subject.
Jvcv 31,
Sailed with dispatches, for North America,
ClogsseUe, 24 guns, Captain SIMPSON.
-Ibis Morning orders were received to take posses•
lion of all American property in this port ; in
sequence of .which Admiral Sir R. BICHERTOI
Prize-Masters on board several ships of that
in our harbour; and all the men of war in commis:
don recalled ciders to fit for foreign service.

YARIIIOI77III, ham 31.—Sailed the Aquilog
sateiivjtk Lard CAT/WM; for St. Petersburgh.
1 at a Gentleman, who has just arrived from
deb we learn, that the intelligence of the pacification
with Great Britain had been received with
warmed expression of joy, by all ranks and
pf society, lad that the inhabitants looked to
Bawer with this country as the only means of
j?reissfietity, atd of their restoration to the eminence
iptrwhielt they formerly stood with relation
other states of Europe. It was believed that
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