The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-16 00:00:00

'CBE STATESMAN.

lis his custom. I believe the lloaceshire Magistrates
—I beg leave to make • few olfeervatiolas respect- i
I, nu), be 'applied, end that by the breath of brother
Bragge who is the Castroßomdorum of that Costar
log the first Parliamentary proceedings in the present :.Paiatine. . But entire Magisteetes unpaid. of Is there so
Session. Is the Regret's speech, which is of coarse the pay in his account but reedy money ? Is there me el.
composition of Moisten. it is sold a spirit is sow folly relation ? Are all the Spiritual Magistrates who have
wsealfeeted urn* blaitile to the Constitution of this been lately se on the sleet, labourers for Christ's sake?
Kingdom, ad ly at the cheer of those Happy country, in which Church and State are met only
political lest; hitherto constituted the united, but identified, and whose Magistrates are zealous,
pride and , bet at the subversion wise, Jum, sad unpaid. This is the reason that we shall
of die rights of . all order In society.— hare no inquiry ; end this is the time that Mr. Canning
Tits dread sentence . et the reforming people; says there was " a very revoking disposition to presume
,ad '
yet if the eye mold lafert its focally, and see its in favour of the lower, against the higher dasees."—
soli dark mansion, otherxwould be convicted of those When, where. in what part of the earth has this been
very Dienes imputed to the people. What was the the feeling of the Goverment, or of those who presume
pride and security of the country? Its liberty; positive to give that tone to pulse.- opinion? No, that never has
as to itself, corporative is respect to others. Yet who been; a few, occesiocally indignant and desperate. &deo-
will say that the lestitotions of this country are not de- ate the people's cause, as the roar:chi, yet was Tiberius
lapidited slate 1793, and that while the freedom of Etig. Breeches murdered by the patrie. ans. Mr. Banks, &man
laud has retrogaded, that of France and America hes wise in his generation, cells the murder of this man, is
r;draored. To talk also of the threstesed subversion of his ,' History of Rome," " a very questionable loomi- •
OA rights of property is equally bloating. Who are dole." It Ins the foulest murder. Yet, in my mind, it I
mow proprietor'? Preeflotnrs, in reasonable Iseguege, , was questiouable and unimportant to the massacre at
are the profitable holders fraud and Mock. This lad- ; 31ancliester, which is dreadfnl, it is II be prodigious is i
ad; is not common, nor *ample, nor prorioeiat law; and history, and as it has been treated by Magistrates and!
lathe East the Semlndars are pronounced piaprietora, the Miaistry and Parliament. :t is ominous and fatal;
wee, the Bast iediu company receives many tiles mare for no inquiry shall be bad, though four bemired inane
be the lam thou they. ido not meth „„y.' however, 'ideals were !tilled ne inutile.; ed.
eat our Isodlorde are so degraded. The 'metropolitan In this debate much was announced respecting bias-
estate pasta a prerogative to its proprietors, yet still phemotts publications tending to the spread of infidelity
• they are inferior as profitable holders, to those who are and irrelieion. For what purpose has this bees intro-
supported by tension. The total amount of the income diced ? is not the common law, that mysterious iodefi-
et which the Property Tax was muted is 1810 did not site thing, sufficiently comprehensive. Carlile has been
exceed 51,818,4131. yet this is less than the present convicted, sentenced to three years distant imprison-
taxation, sad rellils less than what the Ministry would meat, his shop closed, his wife and family without the
exact, could diag..possibly gratify their desires. They means of living, what more can be devised, except the
milt of a provision imaginary snareemon if property, good old times, when the fire shortened what the prises
who have in this war of monarchs not only subverted, now prolongs, misery in dying. Again, why are Islas-
hut eetiogoished a gnat portion of the national sub- phemy and reform connected ? To make reform odious;
stance, brought rein and cooksion is every department and the coupling of infidelity with reform is proof that
of industry and traffic, reduced ordinary land to sterility, the people are esteemed religious; nay, apt to be duped.
bed the protective soils to insufferable distress. In through their religious seal. It is said, three thousand
Stourbridge the pears' rates are 40 shillineo on the sere; copies of Paine's " Age of Reasom" have been sold, at
' IN Dewsbury SO shillings os the acre. Pituperism has 10e. 61. each; the people do not deal in books of that
...
Wreck, sot 'merely the lower orders of society, lot eves Prim. Suppose they were sold at the price of a ballad.
Owe wins had bees esteemed superior to the casualties of What then ? mast every copy represent a congregatios
--eheoma. The ministry may talk of a hypothetical ash. of infidels. This does not evince much confidence in
scales qf roiseet, „of of oil order iss „ow! , they the truth, particularly who we read of millions of bibles
' lA. have onieweed the society to two nrders7.tees, circulated and circulating. If any measure could shake
wtinessin•ilhe ten es. and those who struggle and rajah the belief of the people, such state rosnotions would
.In rim, *WI' produce that effect. Without them Paine would have
stint &posed of the speech of the Ministry, and been little keowe, but the proaecotious of William.
..prookig 'over eke udigitry., aibignitios of their own Eaton, and particularly this of Carlile, have multiplied
speech. duly deelseed by the Meese and Seconder of the work, which would be suppvzssed, through dm
I the Aiimes. we reamato Lord tastiereagh's exposition. I vomitus its of a hundred presses, and tirade the topics of
. It is mnimmly eltimeeteristin it his Lomisides style, cm'. dispute fausiliar to millions of pet.ple. who, otherwise.
coae.eerbest, *yam wish, spew inotophoe, that which had utter heard of Paine, or been awaked- from theirs
was a menettfomia an, is IBIS is stomped in the mint 1 implicit absolute belief. There is, however, mo proof,
of alliiisieehd phgusookont kfloceuotioa. I may notice 1 bat the contrary, that infidelity and reform are fraternal.
• mall discrepancy bottoms the Mover's °Olio's and 1 Something Wein:moue was uttered by some suspicious
his Lordship's. The formes said, " these Meetings were, characters at tea of the many public meetings in Soug-
ht his mind. the wore &aggress. because he sad in them Ned and Scotland, and chip attempt was instantly sup-
-an attempt to abide by the letter of the law, with the in- preset-I. The fast is, that The danger is not from heft,
testi, a esentreveolog is spirit. He was not.prepesed delity, but puritanism; this was the grievance in the
toelf that even the letter of the law was adhered to in 17th ceutory ; sad now lau persuaded the church dread
' a recent imstemee of such Meetings." The Mover doubts much more methodism and its hundred sects, than Paine
bet Lord Castlereagh is confident of its illegality; and and Palmer.
t! ,m the Minister's! Gentlemen, in consequence, all pro- I Suppose, however, that there are infidels, will promel
mounted it illegal. "Against what law," said Mr. Hume, cations ai•ate their zeal? They never Lave dome se.
t.t it tramsgreur - Ilere was cer•ainly no statute," 1 they add to the interest of opinions right or wrong, and
- replied Mr. Warne. "if that was any satisfaction to ;if men seer without shrinking. es is commonly the
the Honcuratle Centime:an, bet his Right ileneurahle ; cite, many draw a favueralde inference of :hese opt-
Frierol bad argued that the Meetieg was illegal on the ' niool;, which have bees resolutely supported. If tte
f r'ReiFieS tlttit.e cosine's kit." In aid of the Chief •Ins- : Government were wise, such disquisitions should be left
t: te of Chester, the Solicitor-Bowen! said. "it was laid o t,, termsei,es. J Southeote had souse th aaaa edei
beam by many writers, and by one whale mine would l, of believers. Dr. Fleece vouched frr the pregnare:. -..:
ren4•r the quotation of others nisecessary, I 'hie( Jots- , the old prophetess ; the lice. Mr. User had his chapel, 1
Cce Hutt, that if persons assemble, ender such unusual in which he preached the Advent. New surely this was i
' ernmstances, as to excite tenor, it war not limply ao las otiensive as Palmer' Tract, had the Aacrney-the
illegel Meteor, but a tint." These moot are rice"ns, metal, or the Society for the Seppression of Vice inter-
mit by what they do, but by what others feel, and sense terferecl. it is not improbable hut this 'tendering light
tintless in this men is the me sure of (bet man's deem would have now become a fixed star.
etteneY: and such is Lord litenberottglt.4 dictum en lf there be infidelity. it is not to be controlled by pro-
Idol. Now suppose these legal interpreters of the sub- seeutium, moll Ler,: Cottlereagh'sappealing to Mew's-
' j'et's liberty to be right (aiod mark, man) lawyers here se:enco. sour by Mr. Canning repeating the appeal.
denied or doubted its ilica..l'ty), what is this in jot.- , (tliough it skews the power of religion on harmonising
fitstion of cutting down men, women, and children ? : these belligerents so perfectly, that they use in the same
or how does this criminate the assemblage at Man- • debate, the catch words of each others phraseology) not
• chester? How were the individuals is know that their Iby building churches at • trillion expense, nor by trees•
meeting lies illegal ? OE, the principles of tee common i forming a hundred thausand rowels annually from the
8110 wen to teach them. 'lodge 110114 011‘iisii was to I people to the clergy, with tithes aed titles—if these were
be their aremitor. Why the people are fold by a bun- necessary to religion. christiatody could not have mis-
deed writers, that every man appears In parliament Tired its promulgation.
either is femme or by his representative. and as mall As it wes said, that many trete infidel. ao it was u-
nsure' declare, that tazatiou without repent-Vatic'', N serted that very many were disloyal, disloyalty sad vs.
iniquitous- These opinions are conimon nod universal, form bring held syn.:mignon,. Where is the proor Of
yet the Ministry and the Croon and the Legislature i disloyalty ? It will be recorded amongst extraordinary
hear .them, read them, yet hold them not, and are sot , cirennistances of this eventful period, that the people
crimioated for supporting the contrary, yet the pro- I though distressed is the extreme, though taunted by a
ple, because they do mot know the priaejples of the 11.ireling press as rascals and rabble, though urged by
excesses, here--observe. mot a statute, mot a law, but the spice soil informers, though mighty in apparent physical
pvisciples of as old eewrittea neglected engem, be- strength, did not betray a disposition to disloyalty; they
cause they have sot boned of Holt's *pillion, which the hare. when hf:y thousand strong. suffered the wayward.
learned Solicitor sought and found, a thousand times, ness of magietretre, the presumption of constables, the
they are criminal sod justly subjeettel to carnage.— i fury of the military, not merely with temperance, but'
But the law. repeats Mr. Coonlog, is the Perfection of with the tranquility of the first martyrs.
reasou—there is to be murdered reballase• Suppose This, then, is the conclusion : a few years ago the
the law to be as stated, the people had reason to drink it I people petitioned fur Reform—they were repelied; they
was one of those sleeping stand's which "two the long i petitioned numerously, and the Ilabeas• Corpus Act sod
dormitories of the code. A meeting had been held in
! and via; ;lux !tills were the reply.—lrolividuals pi& I
SosithirM of great members, and with similar Parade. 1, tioned tut redress for the evils wantonly inflicted on
* that meotiog was not condemned as illegal, and the 1 them under the Suspension, they were ro pelted, be-
e had Merriam arrested on the hustings, ; 'lei, and jeered, by Mr. Canning, who prosecutes that en-
indisposed 0 use any mean) in ' viable temper to be merriest on the most reelanehol)
assembly. Neither have Mali' ' oreasiens. The people finding their petitions rejected,
ensigns, been dispersed by the and their sufferings seemed—for the Rouse of Confront
• that at Coventry assailed by tolormol 31e. Canning's pi-aeantry—they met in various
illegal; os the contrary. the ma-; po .. .0 tese-ore the wee:l:nes that thee- petitions
anedit wadi their presence.yet there ~v.: et titiousiy sigesel. that they wc.e fabricated in
What, says Mr. Canning, question Li.. 11,100, and d.t! :.,t ex-,tress -Le sense of tho people:
edit. country 1 and then. turning • time met :i. vori•nit p-ozes in treat numbers, totwith-
Peeuntry la thee unpaid Pa"' me-cling ever; effort •.:1.-eve4 their assembling and to
wire ,:etruyet! ter. rever be mp- ,-01. t.,.: I the rw.tv•irst.. !') I .-tr.. Arad what has 1.• -
•g:.; a tee .'....0.-I.ssy tropes, as . 0., it teal et oaf of tee largeet of tau tt:::1:7e---..*:

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TO TIM SD/TOR OF THE ST AI

natutimps at Manchester. Lord Carleresgh preteadi to
lament that day; " he trusted the !loose wooed give him
credit for sincerity, when he assured them that no loan
could lament muse thin uttnself melancholy sod Al-
tman/lig ortarrences at Manchester." When is :he proof
of Ibis sorrow? Are we to recur to his Lordship', ad-
ministration in !reload, to persuade us of his aching.
heart: To the tortur,:•gs u^d scourging, that were per-
petoally practised openly, :toil not prevented iii that 11.1-
fated laud'? Are we to infer his sincerity from an ad-
ditional 10,000 military. and to new Bills to hamper the
press obstruct freedom ? Are we to read the siocerity
of his espreisiori for the rerlaneholy occurrences at M an-
ehester in the 'otter Sitlinouth. and authorised
by his Lordship, 'r whirl, the gado( Derby is requested
" to express to t:.c l!atz'strates of the County Palatine
of Lancaster, who attended or 'hat clay. the great
astir-
fiction derives! by his !'loyal Ilighness from their prompt,
decisive, and einriNit measures, fur the prescry aim: of
the public tranquillity." This is the true commentary
ou his Lordship's sinrority and sorrow for the occnr-
rences at Manchester. ;Ant, is t the preservation
of public tranquillity which the new ..tr now to as-
sist? Is this murder of turn, women, a:/1 cliildmv, a
topic to draw forth greet see:firsirn 14 it Cr, d;liie--
is it pqw.ible sure Srtitinirnts could be expressed ? The
historian who r.,mrted Ilia Nero haviog feed the city
retired to a bjty tower, and there sang to his lyre the
horning of Troy Li pure eti;oyment of the scene, has
been contradicted merely on %kr monstrous cruelty of
the imputation. Yet huw, in this free cnlighteted
country, in this Christian community.—yet all these pro-
ceeditags are auttiocise.i, just tied by a triumphant nudes
rity of the Douse of cmilicstos, tool this (louse is tit
to he reformed. " No." was Mr. Causing. "it may net
sqnare with theorele.l p. ',ninon. but it works tea'
He liked the Maze NI at present esl4l;skod,
Inane he thoarht it pt tathaiill beneficial to o.c coon-
' try." Aye. cheer him, he a worthy flatterer, aced repay
him in Lied. matchless orator ! incomparable auditory'
The House of Co---ory. is practically beneicial, it jest,. I
lies every set of Ministers and Magistrates, it raises
more mosey from the people than ever was reacted by
any Governmcnt in any period of the world, and. while
under its sanction, a few fetrilirt and their demombint
ere gorged with places, pensions, and pluralities, rag
are famished, many are mendicant or emigrate, aid
more than one-tenth of the remaining population am,
paupers; yet is the Monte cf Commons roctieetly keno.
Ada/ to the country, for n ,at area million of paupers,
and another n illion, who struggle on the precipice of
want, to the consuiners--what are the productive classes
of society to a few destructive -familles--ntoter is the
awn, chirpiog crickets -r erfield amidst the lordly oxen
that Crust on if: !WIC:. :.ye, cheer him till yes
ast,.viol the groun.iliop, honour his sentiment% and se-
erre ronr reward. Infatuation precedes perdition.
Your ottio.ent servant.
Ardress. Pez. 4, ISO. litotes &riot.

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Meet be no ingnity. What
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