The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-09 00:00:00

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me fr; speak any thing ill of the" dead = -bat, I can.
not avoid, fora 4.l.nnent, referring to the wee
Wiodhain. There was a curiae' debate yesterday
in the House of Commons, in which the name of
that Gentleman was mentioned. Much as I differ
from the system of politics which influenced the
mind of Mr. Windham) I certatinly-could-Uut but
'admire him for his great attd splendid talesits.—iint '
what I wish to observe is, that we find Lord Mil.,
ton and Mr. Canning grounding their arguments'.
against Reform, upon the circesitstance that Mr.
Windham was returned to Parliament by. a rotten
borough. I believe theto is no one thing at avhich.
Mr. Windham would have spurned with so much
indignation, as the assertion that ho had: been re.
jected by the People of an independent county as
their Representative, add had sneaked iato.Patlia.
merit under the borough system.. The Orator
concluded his observations, by referring to the
conduct of Mr. Yorke, the indignant rejection of
that person by the rreeholders of Cembridgeskire,
the resignation, by his brothers of a rotteu:bo.l
rough, in his fatruur—inferrieg from thence, that
Mr. Yorke was sitting its the House of Commons,
in opposition to the wishes of his former Consti.
tuents, in defiance of the free Dater, of the'
Country, and in consequence of that corrupt sys-
tem, which it was the object and deterieisratiou of
every Patriot to enjoy.
' Mr. BENTLEY said, he was sure that after
what thy Meeting hail heard so eloquently expres.
sed, they would excuse him for saying a very few
words with reference to their deportment towards
I the opponents who on former occasions had endea-
voured to address them—they had furnished argu-
ments against their own cause—they had pet into
the hands of their adversaries the most powerful
weapon they had been able to use.—.He could nut
avoid suggesting to the Freeholders of Midtileaex,
that before they presumed to teach others to go-
'ere, they ought to learn to govern. thendselres ;
before they cried out against disorder, they ought
to preserve order—liefure they complained of per.:l
suns being prosecuted without trial, they . ought
themselves to refrain from condeinfting others
without a hearing. lie thought elicit of .thEir
success, depended on the example they would set
this day, and he trusted they would patiently at-
tend to every one—he did not mean to insinuate
that they should not express their own sentiments,
or that they should !withhold their disapprobation
from those, who, In appealing to them, made use
of terms which were insulting to their under.
standings, and altogether opposite to their prin7
ciples ;—;-but, he United, that if any persons
should so address them, they would give credit to
'heir own friends for ability, integrity, and talent
to answer them. He professed, that in coMing
forward, hid only object was to second the Motion
which had been submitted by his respectable Mend
Mr. Clifford. He observed, that though their op-
posers had been deficient in argument, they had
nut boon deficient iu manceurrei. It behoved him
to point out briefly in what these manceuvret con:
sisted. You have, said he, been 'designated in
the House of Cumulous as a rabble, as pick.
pockets, and assassins. Who is the Gentleman, I
will sot call him Honourable, who has so &sera).
ed you ? Who is the man, who has dared to come
forward in the Muse Of Commons to libel and in.
suit, and attempt to degrade those he ought to
have rttspected? I will tell you Who tic.is. !leis
Mr. Jacob. Who is Mr. Jacob? He was one'
who formerly fought in your ranks, but he joined
your ranks to betray you, and he quitted them in
order to destroy you. [Great appiaosel lle is,!
odd of those men, who wanting a seat in Parlia.
,
merit, have only to go down to a rotten borough
in a stage coach, pinning a label un their backs,
with the words "from the 11.easury," and they
are sure to obtain it. . Gentlemen, 1 fear no matt.
I regard no mass's resentment, and I will speak of
every mail as I think he deserves. - Twill tell you
what this Mr. Jacob is, this public libeller, who
has disgraced himself by the base and unworthy
sentiments to which .he has given
.uttearnee. I
will expose him in his true and genuine colours.
I will unmask and exhibit him in all his Odious
deformity. [Shouts of applause.] Will you
believe it,
.Freeholders of Middlesex, I have
known this Honourable Gentleman, as he is falsely
cal4d—l ktre known him, its a. public room,
draw frost .1111 pocket a book written for, the ex:,
pross.porpose of decrying the :sacred religion. of
our'country, that kevelation. on
11h1O11 we .build our hO'pes hereafter, Mid ,triutp.
phantly exclaiming, "this is my creed." 'Etc
He, horriblc."l—What I am stating to-• yoa,Ven.
tlemen, it itrictly tiue, and I shell shock,you,r;llll
snore, by stating Itiat bar* heard, this Saute Mr.
Jacob declare in a pudic Meeting; this ltrocioup
sentiment," May thelast Otßlngs be stratsled with
the guts of the last of lktits.": E" Preo,e(f#.
indy- shocking' rriole.nt e.spreisiOlits eJ koteos‘
and indignation."] Yet this is the man who has
a seat among the IteprestmtatiVeS of the country,
and is clatlin the rubes o f Magistracy. What was
to be expected from a se an who had so apostatized
from his God and his .!ikittg ? Could any thing be
expected from so impure a ponce ? .[" No, no,"
es•claincd numerous 'yokes.] It was impossible,
Gentlemen, to supra° that a Jacob would have
done this !—A man 'so sacrificing his principles as
an Englishman, for lucre, must rather be coin.
pared to Esau, whits sold his birth-right for a mess
of pottage. He then'reforred to the business now
immediately before the Meeting, namely, the Pri.
'lieges claimed by the House of Commons—and
made a variety of very judicious remarks and ar.
gunients, from which the evident inference was,
that these Privtloges were unjust and uticonstitu.
tional. Ile thim adverted to the questipn of Par.
liamentary Retorm ; and chewed, that if the sub.,
ject had bead. attended to at an earlier poried,'
this country 'would neither have been Introit* in
the Ainerielti-war, by which England ,sought to
oppress by arbitrary taxation a people' who vote
unrepresented, or that fatal war, which had ad.
ded so much to the calamities of the eoentry.--•
Then, in order to strew the absolute necesvity of
a Reform in Parliament, he mentioned the follow-
ing circumstances, which certainly produced a very
great sensation in the minds of the *hole AliSeril.
bly. He stated, 'from an account presented to
the house of L;osnmuns that on the Bth of Junes

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1809, there had been paid out of the public mo.
ney,' to P. W. Follett, Esq. for the fens on create
ing General !laird a Baronet, five hundred pounds.
[" Shameful, shameful."] Thin in November
there had been pai,t to the said William Follett,
fur the ft :5 of a patent creating Lord Wellington
a Peer, eight hundred pounds. 1" Dreagful,
tde
need not wonder at our tates."] That on July
29; ihere had been paid for the investiture of Ge-
nerals Beckwith, Hope, Spetimr, and Baird, with
the Order of the Bith, 15151. . [General ex,
presqions of indig,nutiQn and sorrow.] Now,
said he, what is all this money paid for,*this 15151. ?
It is givdis for no other service than that of liang•
ing a red sash, consisting, Of four or five yr, rill of
ribbon, over four Gesitleuvoi4s shoulders. ["Rube
ber,y, absolu4 robbery.','] Mat uow, said he,
let us contrast this with wheat has been done ii, tlic•
Sister Kingdom. I will sbew you how things are
managed in Ireland. There is in the same account
this Origge—latob Paid tf-A4',4l,4iiiii, for in
strutting the female weavers of ---1 its the
use of the. tly-ibuttlei" You will observe, that
it is for initructing them In that branch of menu.
faeture *hie!' is the staple commodity of the
Island. Whajt.de you think, after having
heard
the rewards whieh are givenlor laying a sash over
these four ineO's shoulder', was the reguener""
niade to Mr. Quinn. for instructiug the females
of an iinmensely large district, hiss bsencis of nos.
nufacture, on which the existence of the people
dep'entled ?—why ten poundsts. [Violent marmot's,
and universal expressions of indignation and re-
sentment.] The orator then enumerated three or
four other items of a similar nature, and it appear.
ed by them, that the artists► whose names he
mentioned, bad, for' traversing large . districts,
slid instructing a numerous population in various
branches of the manufactures of Ireland, N-
edra altogether a sum not amounting. to more
than forty ;pound? t This clotail was heard with
extreme emotion, by-the Freeholders, Mid every
countenance seemed to express a convict' of the
necessity of radical Reform in the Cunstittition.
Contrasting the liberslity isod profusion on the one
hand, with the penury on.tlia other, he \vas con.
vinced that this alows.Welf sufficient to she* the re.
eessity of a iteforM. 'the Ministry, lie observed,
were driving the people into beggary, in order
that they might afterwards drive them into bun.
dige. Ile then referred to other items in the
accounts, from which taken the former
statements, and pointed out an let of peen.
liar oppression with regarsl,.to a pour woman of
the name of Lynch. `. Ile, theu adverted to whist
he described the Siete hobbyhorse, the Sinking
Fund, and he entered into a calculation fur the
purpose of shewing what expectations the public
haul from that system. As these calculations are
matters of, figures, and may be known by all whit
chuse to examine theaecounts, we forbear enter.
ing upon them. -IN) result Of his observations was,
that the operatiou of the Sinking Fund bore no
sort of proportion to the increasing expenditure.
of the country. Then he most aptly elucitlatod hit
,argument by saying, suppose a ship* Lt sea, ma(
she springs a leak, of course all hands are or.,
dered to the pumps immediately;—suppose she
makes an hundred gallons ef stater withiu a given;
time, and wily fifty gallons can be pumped out
of leer—what must be the consequence
nothing can keep the ship (coin sinking's-44W
means than pumping most be reststted,,tst—t: •
master of the ship, (rho wished to so rte, hot (from
sinking, would order. the eiscpeutors .to ;her.bot.l
toin to find out and repair her leak.orthe State, is.
that vessel— it is leaky in, every: pate, it is in dan-
ger' of destruction—in vaip you trust to your
Sinking Fund foto; Statesmen must apply them.•
selves to Correcting the abuses of the, *ate;
•i hem do so,, aid we will apply ostfmtisea,tomspport,
the eXpenees of the repairs. . i•
Captain BLAKE preseoAted. hippolk oink how..
ever happy we'should'he..to girss, publicity to, the
obierrations and arguments of Any 109ntleman.,
whatever might be his sseatiments, ;Op, in coin-
ing forward. up:in I public mu:adopt evinced these.
abilities Which alone can entitle a mats to respeeti
we •cettiinly do not feel sseraclacs at all called
upon to imitate the patience of ,the Irre4holders
Middlesex, by Writing, that itraals.,they stiPred
themselves to hear; fur Attathing could be more
contemptible, or more intuiting ,to:puchn body as
'the Freiholders of Middlesex, . tboo thee petty et.
fort of this same Mr. Blake, as .an , atilvocate cal
support. of the Privileges cuntendell for sty the
Douse of Commons. He. professed his Wootton
ofespirkag to that Profession of which Mr. Clif-
ford wee Onetuber ;.:Itt!t
.410 us 4,411 respect-
„able 104;iitildier, we Can 14,,arp hies, that no one
will eve'(' be able to apply to bini the observation
',Tam M T arti am Mercurio. lie seemed to be
speaking against time, and repeated much of that
,trash.wttleh we on Thursday heard trona a gentle.
man of the name of Jacks, in the Common outsell,
making partial quotations from Lord 4,4 and
Justice Blackstone, and referring to ihole,periodis
of our history when the People wvre as torch en-
slaved as they are likely' to bib if they do not
exert themselves in the same, way their. Ancestor,:
formerly did. if this contemptible ofatot, and we.
call him so because it it iklly necessary to melte.
a distinction between public, speakers uf. ability,
and those who aro ai bed Oriturii• es Mourn
Codrus was a poet, thinkabis Speech of iisipurt,.,
ance enough to be detailed to the public, he:nittst
report ilhimself.
Thu Rev. Mi. .DR*PElL—Gentlemen, You
have heard auflicieut of ohl obsolete law (coin the
last person who addressed you, and
.it is now
necessary you should hear,. a little .maser.-11
every thing is to be decided 'by precestent, if no
are on all occasion, to . appeal to our, ancestors)
.1 am afraid, l.sowevei we may venerate their gene,.
rat conduct,' we.should find ,ipstaneAs sto-justify
any act, even the most op.prtssive and unconstitus
Outset. With respect to the realms
,oases it it
clear, that the noose of Cominomoterp.inrested,
with their Privileges for the purpose Oprotectiug,
the people, against. the danger qfifisak,
which *al must likely to assail Alton, .!Qf ,course
I Mean the 'Monarchy. It ',epic, was, in con,,,
temptation that the Privileges gratsteil. tn..the. Ito.,
prese,ntatives 9f the People, would. exerted
againit such of the Pcoyle., as weft? Mantling forth