The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

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crown and Anchar Tavern, Feb. 16, 1816.
SlR,—The Committee, in submitting to your no.
tire, and calling your ittentiou psitsideration
of the annexed Resolutions, are permitted that al-
though the claims ow your humanity and patriotism
at this time are numerous, none of,them partake .of
the character and importance of that which is the
subject of this appeatto your feelings awl understand-
ing.
When we find all the barriers of oer liberties
either undermined or destroyed, and a system of
Goverumentuntmnittingly puritueth which must end
in establishing a DESPOTISM, not of one, but of a
BAND of Tijrants, it becomes as. to shake off all
calpable apathy, and arouse ourselves to a considera.
tion of the evils that, surrottad us.
If a BoroughsnoegeriarOuttAecsair, taking ad-
vantage of the deep.alistreasitvey have brought upon
the country, endeavour tkrosigb the medium of 111 RED
Spies and Incendiaries, to delude and excile men to
illegal actacihaa they miy the more effectually rivet
the chains, they had forged. If they assume the
power to impose Laws
.which at ono bloc susegno
the Conalilts4ion,. site. AHHIHILATE for a time the
boasted freedom of EThrland; militia is to prevent
them from sloing.so for EvEs? If they can do the
one with impunity, what security have we that they
will not attempt the other?
The direful experience of the last twelve months
demonstrates with what a cruel and utsreleittingle-
rocity such a power may be used over innocent melt,
when granted only for a feu. months. How, may
we ask wolves, would it be eaercised if permanently
ESTABLISHED? To entertain such a thought,
evens ifo prospect, is two appalling. The danger
vlsould le met with a united firmness and energy cor-
responding to its magnitude. It strikes at the
vidual safety and happiness of every man ; and every
man in the State hound and ought to be ready to
avert so great a calamit v.
flow is this to he "dune, but by a steady per.
severance its constitutionally seeking a 'recovery of
our Rictus, awl etiolating all the protection we can
to those MEN who, in sn doing, may become the
Vicrists of Tiiruanical they ate to be
abandoned, who will be bold enough to mount the
breach single-banded, and ittick the Citadel of Cor-
ruption? the conduct to be p-uraued is therefore plain
and obvious: our &Oyu GOP ROollity and 'enlargers
point out the neeessity of succouring those 'men, in
whose persons our desrtst rights hive been slolated. .
At far, then,las an oppressive and ruinous has.
Lion will permit, let or, in the name of sod, make
some sacrifice upon the altar of our casualty. Let
us its doing so, proclaim throughout the kingdom
that men seeking in a legal and proper manner, for
the recovery of their natural and inalienable RIGHTS,
may rely with confidence oil the protection and sup-
port of every friend of freedom, of Justice, and of
humanity in the station.
By Order of the Committee,
THOMAS CILARY, Secretary
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RECORDS OF PERSECUTION.

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or ate. RIL,E.Y.
Stu,—l am a little surprised, Mr. K.litor, that a
case of individual suffering which took ptice in
Yorkshire, under the late Suspension Act, should
have never been communicated to the Public, either
through the Press, or at the !Meeting held at the
Crown and Anchor ; and I am the more astonished
at this case being annoticed, because the man's suf-
ferings only terminated with his existence, under the
most horrifying circumstances, I shall now proceed
to state the facts as briefly as possible.
The unfortunate man's name was Riley ; he lived
a short distance from Huddersfield, on the Manchester
road, at a place called Crossland Moor Bottom—he
was by trade a tailor, but I believe only worked as
journeyman; he had a wife and eight or nine chil-
dren, whose only dependence for a little bread and
clothing was upon his industry, o which they had
never looked in vain, until the poor man became the
object of Ministerial persecution. The latter part
of June, or early in July last (I was on the swot at
the time), he, with many others, was diriggPd from
his home and family to a prison, put in irons, and
there detained ; this treatment, together with the
destitute situation his wife and large family was lett
in. was more than the man's mind could sustain. Be
had been but a very short time confined before he
became so deranged, that it was with ditliculty lie was
prevented from committing an act of violence upon
himself;—he remained in this style a cousidernye
time, before he could be examined by the local Ma.
gistrate ; he at length, however, recovered his in-
tellects sufficiently to appear before him, and was
(after being brought up and remanded several limes,
as it is termed) committed to York Castle, to take
his trial, with others, far High Treason.
The Public is already acquainted with the melt of
those trials; how ever4it woos the pious Lord Sid-
month was of. opinion this man had not satficiently
atoned for sins which no one but his Lordship could
discover ; Gor immediately on his ac7iiittul, instead
of the poor man being allowed to return to the.sup-
port of his family, which hail subsisted all his absence
•a parochial relief, a Secretary of State's warrant
lays hold of him, drags him heck to a dungeon again,
it'd horrid to relate, a short time afterwards he was
ineinft.deidin bed, from an act of self-violence, corn.
milted no doubt in a fit of desperation occasioned by
bib unmerited suffering.' 'fhe terminating catastrophe
I was informed of by The public Papers, particularly
the C;oarier, being in town at the time it happened.
I shall be glad to communicate any thing more in my
power on the above subject, if required; and re-
main, Sir, your constant Reader.
Clearing-cross, Feb. 9. 'T. B.

We are sorry to state, that Mrs. TRACKERAY, vrhn
was a patient of the late Sir R. CROFT at the lime of
his shocking death, died, yesterday, at the house of
her sister. Miss COTTori, in Wimpole-street. Had this
(Ay died sooner, her death would have bt•en im-
puted to Sir Et.—Dr. TIIACKERAy is Provost of
King's College, Cambridge.
A roan galloway, belonging to Mr. Adams, of
Broad-street, St. James's, aged 11 years, trotted
14 miles within an hour yesterday, on the Ashford-
road, for 100 pions. The match was won by six
seconds only. The gelding was rode by feather
weight-6 to 4on lime.