The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

lit was contrary ?cp the charter. Sumr J. pnties, ssirr:

he, are of opinion, that einre the charter has beet.
given, all powers must proceed from it. That is cer-
tainly true; but the maim is susceptible of some im-
portant explanations. Powers preceded the charter.
and it would be eery extraordinary were the charter

to prevent the passing of a law intended to secure re-
spect to the very authority by which the charter was
given. What has been the consequence of the silence
of repressive laws on this subject? That serious at-
tacks have been directed against the royal authority,

with reference to times anterior to the concession of
the charter, and French juries hare been found, with

pain it most be stated—(i(.lloller and murmurs on the
left)—French juries have been found, who, adopting
the strange and pernicious sophism, by means of
which it had Leen attempted to establish a distinction
between the constitutional authority, properly so
called, and the authority which preceded the promul-
gation of the charter, have acquitted persons whose
criminal doctrines it would be impossible to, repeat
here. M. de Peyronuet proceeded to defend tho ar-
ticle of the project for punishing libels on classes of
persons. which be considered as just as the punish.
meat of libels on iodividuals. With regard to the
question of confiscation, be argued that no confisca-
tion could take place when nothing was forfeited to
the Exchequer. To suppress a journal was the same
thing as putting down any establishment in a town'
which might be injurious to the iababitants ; Of as iris
ing goods un the frontiers which might introduce cOu-
tagion. The amendment of the committee he (Amerced,'
which refers the offences of the press to the judgment of
the Royal Court has been made the subject of re-
p►oach against the Ministers of the King, and per-
haps against tl.e King himself. The present Minis-
ters, however, were subject to the laws, and would al-
ways govern by the laws. They would act with strict
impartiality, and that moderation which the laws pre-
scribe ; but they would employ the force which the
laws g►anted them, and which bad citizens only could
wish to refuse them. The Minister descended from
the tribune amidst marks of approbation from the
right.
M. Devatix spoke against the project. Ile took for
his test one of Paces maxims ; namely, that the li-
berty of man consists in thonght. Ile regarded the
suppression of the jury for offences of the prom, as
egni►alent to the ancient parliament jurisprudence.
which condemned a man without expressing tie
grounds of the condemnation. The whole law was
reducible to this—that the jusroals of the OppositloC
might be suppressed at pleasure, and that no jottroal4
should be allowed except such ware written in thb
manner the Ministers approve.
The debate was then adjourned to the Imo Oil
when
M. Kergorlay supported the project, and malolained
that the system of Juries was good only i• the
of society, and that Judges assured of their rank
ing their lives are preferable. He cited differessi
English Authors, who alledged that the decisions of
Juries aro not conformable to justice.
N. Human followed, and in a discoirse of consider-
able length opposed the project.
General Donnadien expressed his determination to
'vote for it altogether.

M. Bignon argued against the project, in an able
speech. in which, in obvious reference to France, be
took occasion to quote the words of Mr. Fox, in 179 A,
in a discussion on seditious writings—" What would
the Stuarts have dune," said Mr. A., "if they had been
replaced on the throne? They would have favoured the
Catholic at the expense of the Protestant Religion ;
they would have destroyed the institution of Juries;
they would have annihilated the Liberty of the Press."
If these, said M. Bignn, are the traits of counter-revo-
lotion, judge, Gentlemen, where we are? Mr. Fox,
continued be, added, " They would have abolished
Parliament." In France, Gentlemen, continued AL 8.,
the Chambers are not abolished ; they are but de-aa-
Ilionslised.
li. Corbiere, the Minister of the interior, proceeded
iis answer the objections that had been made to the
project of law, and was followed by Al. Foyer d'Ar-
gensoo, who spoke for its rejection. At Five o'clock
the discussion was closed, and the reporter, Al. Clsif-
fiet, not being prepared to speak, the sitting was ad-
journei to Friday.
The accounts from Madrid come down to the 14th
instant, but contain little more than what appears is
another part of our paper. There Is nothing new
respecting Greece, on ing to the continuance of unfa-
vourable weather, which has prevented the arrival of
any vessel in the ports either of Marseilles or Toulon.
The Sieurs Tellier and Vatbled, Adjutant-Sub-
officer and Sergeant-Major of the 29th regiment. who
after the discovery of their plot, had Aed to Porreatrui,
have been delivered up by the Grand ![silly. The arti-
cles found in the house of the Sieur Petit-Jean, advo-
cate of Belfort, consist of too lei-coloured flags, and
the cravats which were detached from them, 17 cock
tides with silver edges, GOO woollen cockades, a coun-
ter epaulette of a chief of battalion, 400 balls, and
about 1,200 cartridges. Some new sabres were found
in the streets of Belfort, which hall been left there by
the men who wished to elude the investigations of the
police on the failure of the plot. The son of the Sheer
Petit-Jean has led, and the candler of persons now
arrested amounts to 37.
Fe Knelt FL N u., J a N. 24.—Five per Cents. 86f. 35e.
Bank Actions, 1540 f.

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The Irish papers received this scorning brinz intel-
ligence of en encounter of a serious na:ure, which tw.k
lase in the county of Cork, between a party of mill
tart', commanded by Lord BANTEIV, and a lumber of.
armed peasantry. The following particulars are from
Fle Dublin Fre.nia;.• Post:—

" On Monday, Mr. Iir:DOES Erne and Lord !lAN-
Tar, learning that a num nnnnn assemblage of banditti
occupied some heights in the vicinity of Macroom•
county Cork, mustered about two hundred troops,
whom they divided into different parties, and sent in
different directions to encompass them. 31r. Era►
and Lord DSNIRY, with about fifty of the troop,
attacked the banditti; they were full SOO in number,
and all armed. A heavy fire fiom so commanding a
situation obliged the troops to retire, and before they
could carry off a wounded soldier the villains rushed
from the heights, and ing his head from his body
placed it in triumph on a pole, carrying it along with
them. They dispersed before the other troops could
act."
.The Cork papers confirm the melancholy news,
and communicate details forwhich we have net room.
Mr. NOBCOTT, surveyor of Customs, at Clonkilty has
published an account of the unfortunate affair
in which Mr. Ilvzsc EP FORD was concerned.—
'• The moment," says Mr. NOROOTT. " we commenced
moving the seizure, the mob commenced throwing
stones in showers on our party ; the prisoners were
in front of the party, and were placed there thinking
the mob would be cautious how they would throw on
the party, for fear of injnrisg the prisoners. Mr.
Hungerfurd had great forbearance, and never fired
until I collies of stones were let fiy at as. At
last, the constable gave positive directions (according
to my orders) to fire on the mob. While the pri-
were making their escape to their own party.
one of them was shot, and, I am told, expired in the
course of the day. There were some more lives lost
and a number wounded, which is sot acknowledged by
the country people.—l never witnessed so lawless or
so rebellions a business in my life; and were it not
for determination and coolness we would have been
all murdered."

The enemies of freedom are pnrsuiog their %tribal-
, lowed object with a pertinacity and zeal which is with.
out example. That Haisnatued Monster the Holy 41.
Ranee, has done its work completely in Naples. But
they have their subordinate agents in every country
where the freedom of the Press , still, in some
degree. remains ; and it becomes the friends of
liberty and of human nature to watch their proceed-
isle with unremitting diligence. The hireling Press
kilt& main instrument; and amongst those who et •
ittrifie their trade of destroying the freedom of the
Prim. the Ultra paper, yelepl the Slop Pally is the
most conspicuous. This journal has laboured indefa-
tigably to support the new Ministry of France, the
Ultra Royalists, in their endeavours to destroy the
*llll4 remnant of freedom in France by annihilating
the freedom of the Press in that country. The two
pnyets of the present French Ministers Moen to the
Press, woold have been scooted a very abort time
sines, both in the two Chambers and throughout all
France. But a great change appears to have bees
wrought in that country, and despotism is making its
strides there with uncommon rapidity. One of the ,
objectaof these projets is to withdraw the protection of
a Jury from persons accused of libel in the French
Journals. If the protection of a Jury bad been with-
drawn from persons accused of libel here, what would
be the state of the English Press at this moment ?
Writers who maintained all that is dear to English.
men in supporting their rights, would have been de-
livered over to the decision and to the mercy of interested
individuals. Would the Ultra Editor venture to say
in each a case, that any freedom of discussion would
remain? Nothing would remain upon the face of any
of our journals but such adulation, of power and such
blasphemies against the freedom of Englishmen as are
found in the Ultra, The Courier, and other Minis-
'torts! papers. The Ultra has been adroit in his manage-
Potent of the warfare he has carried on against the liber-
ties of Europe 4 and while he pretends to be guiding
against the return of the revolutionists in France. he
is, in effect, preparing for the Holy Alliance to march
over the liberties of France, of Spain. of Portugal,
and of England. He is preparing the way for the
ultra royalists of France ; and he knows what their
purpose is. He says, speaking of an insiduous arti-
cle in the Journal des Detats—"The writer intimates

that there are precipitate winds who would wish hli-
nisters to proceed with greater violence. There are
individuals (and of this we a►e well aware) who Isar-

ing been persecuted for their loyalty, think the time
come for repairing the injuries they hare sustained.—
le short they desire a readier which would assuredly
render proUcioatical the permanence of the Ministry,
and perhaps the peace of the country. These persons,
however, are few in number, and reflection will teach
them to pat a restraint on their feelings."—Te use a
vulgar, but significant expression, the ultra E litor
has here "let the cat ort of the Gag." A re-action is
wanted by the ultras of Fr me, and by the ultras of
ExcLaten too. But the ultra Editor quickly recovyrs

his prudence, after the lapse of the words re-adios,'
wed Me tine brims come for repoitiog of i.jorits,
sad teaches his friends to put arceent restraint upon
their feelings. Assuredly, if they did not, he well
knows there would soon be an end both to th• perusa•
woce of the present French Ministry, and even of the
:tease of France. " The people of France (exclaims

lie) are weary of revolutions." And we will add',
are weary too of the old regime of France, and of the
an.l new priestcraft of France. He, however, think.
that 6i. friends the okras in France will be supported
by the " great majority of a Chamber in which their
antagonists, he says, are as accurately appreci-
ate.l as WOOD, and PETER MOORE. EMI Jos MI Heim,
and IV tt ruware have been in our House of Commons."
Notwithitantling the surprising progress which the
ultra royalists of France have recently made, we
think the ultra Editor will find himself mistaken in
his calculations respecting the temper of the Cheadle;
of Deputies: and we trust the new ministry and de.
wo:isin will soon be hooted oat of France. The
ultra Editor has chiefly confined his speculation, for
many dap, to the discussion of the question we have
been noticing, but be occasionally wanders to ether
topics which be can make subservient to his main
purposes. Speaking of the Agricultural distresses
he says—" the real relief to the Agriculturist* must
arise from a different measure. The general sofa sof
the national imposts nut remain nearly the same.—
A tax pressing heavily on the Agriculturists may be
taken off, and another more directly affecting a differ.
eat class class of Society may be imposed." Here, the
fraud that lurks through all his reasonings, is most
apparent. The friends of this country agree that
economy is the public expenditure, and retrench.
ment its the public expenditure, aid reduction ef
taxes, are the only remedies for Agricultural dk.
t . The ultra proposes a shifting of the birdies
frees one shoulder to another, wad not its entire re.
moral and annihilation. But surely be will not say
that be can find one spot of the political body to
which he can remove any one tax that may be taken
off Agricultural distress or any other distress la the
country. He says, the friends of retrenchment in ear
public expenditure are for "cutting down oar cap
blishments to the scale of the United Stoics." Bet
they mean no such thing. They are willing to allow
a necessary dignity and grandeur to their Km.: ;
but they know that peculation and wrong add notbiag
to the real dignity of the crown, though they add totbe
Agriculteral distresses and all the other distresses of
this country.

Ministers have tried every Alum to effect their pur-
poses and strengthen their party on the approaching
crisis, and their old co-adjutors in Threadneedle-street.
have not been idle spectators. They played off a fo-
midabk Reese de geese, in order to second the hopes
of the Vaa leader. Last Noreuaber, Cora, meat, ire
tumbled down so rapidly in prices, that their Lon!-
ship, in tire RAG TRAD6, male proclamation that the
standing role for the regulation of discosats would be
dispensed with ; that Bills at 95, instead of 65 da)-.
would be discounted. which see waders wilt sbservest

once, threw 50 per Cent. more cash into the marker.
This was, no doubt, a deep thing, and might ostareUT
be supposed, would, according to co,unton calculation,
give a fillip to the price, of articles of the first neces-
sity. The Ministers were not entirely wrong is the
plot ; for nottwithstandiug that 'there was no rase, still
there was no fall, and so far was the end answered.--
Along with this essential proposal, came that of sends;
gold to any part of the country is sums not less thee
30001. carriage free. This was a deeper scheme than the
former; for it is well known that there are no cone.
try bankers that do not issue their own notes, escept
at Liverpool and Manchester. Therefore, where s
local circulation of country bank notes were in credit,
the bankers would not prove themselves such bed-
!mites as to resort a circulation of the precious mesh,
when a few shilliegs worth of soft paper would answer
the same purpose ; they being able to distribute it
with the same facility. All the plans recently adopted
under colour of commercial conveniences, are but the
old things over again ;—creating a false capital from
the facility of discounts, and giving a spar to
speculation, nithout a probable chance of a owl
market. The only measures that can p'erent the people
from falling into a state of pauperism, are a Radical
change in the Represetration of tile people, and a sac•
ing of 70 per Cent. in the public expenditure. The
pensions of 5511,women mostly North of the Twecl
must be lopped off ; the Placeillapatiid Ministers them-
selves must give up half; we must have no sinecure!:
all omit be broke down ; the masts must be rut ar,;.,
to wee Me ship, or demi she gore 'Pith colour:if:lisp
Peddling, Niggling, or humbugging, will not do oat
longer; a change must be made, and if there is 31
ignorant wretch, who eau hold a doubt en the kalif**
let him read the report of the late Norwich reit!):
tion of the Anniversary of the birth-day of the 1p
Mr. Fox ; let them peruse it coref,lig ; there
itself bore testimony of what we have been so We.
ringing in the ears of the puhlic to so little purl'.
until at last they find the clouds ready to bar,r
their beads. Neither the Ministers, nor the 104.1 i
nrearliredle-street can stop it; if taxes are •
aid, it must be from new sources, as the old ours b.or
; whether the Bulls and Hears or the Lor,t• t
the soil suffer, is of little etasequence to the peol..
they have equally supported the system, and should
suffer equally. Both landholders and landholders kot
themselves to the Pilot that gathered the stow. red
as they have not made a bed of Roses for their repo.
let then' lie on the thorns. The persecuted and abuta
Jacobins, Levellers, and Radicals, as they have Vas
called, will at last be proved the real friends of the
Kam; and Constitution of the Country. Bat we bar
I .deed a I °petal picture of once happy England. the
,;loriuttslegari ofthe glorious and immortal DurcoP,

led the iIgATEN-1101124, the glorious legacy of Prosti-
tote despots and their imbecile journeymen. We see
(,e bold Vetimanry of England in a state of beggary ;
ise parish palaces crammed with decent tradesmen and
losers ; Ireland, the right arm of the United King-
dom, driven to distraction, by tyranny, misrule, rack-
volt, and merciless tythe dealers.—The ruling ruffians
I who hare so long goaded that people to resistaace, now
are openly insulting and abasing the representation of
'Royalty. and even using epithets the most abominable
to the KING himself. The persecutions eluded on, in
that unfortunate country, for tythes alone, are enough
to osier the Parsons an abomination instead of a bless-
i to the people. With such a combination of public
cslareilies what can Ministers expect ?—A majority
no doubt. They will not give up while a stick of the
(Attie holds together over their heads. But it is
either folly or madness to suppose things can last as
they are. We shall as usual hear a great deal about
people need not hope for any
State necessity ! The
wires at the bands of those who have dose so much
mischief. But lop off the useless salaries and sinecures
sail where will then be their majorities?

Wise, is oar last number, we invited the friends of
freedom is be of good cheer, we seem, from succeeding
.n.arrenees, to hate been prophetic in our language.
No day passes, without accession of strength to the
pod party in the country, anti accumulation of dis-
grace and confosiorif to the evil doers who have brought
the country to the very brink of destruction. The
scan that are developing at the Victualling-office
are, is this poist of view, of the most important na-
ture. It is Dow acknowledged, oc all sides, (except
the perverse people who lire on the spoils of the na-
tion) that retrenchment in the public expenditure,
and csateinent reductive of taxes, can aloes produce
the halm which is to heal the agricultural and all
the other distresses of the country. Our enemies, the
sonnies of freedom, cry out—" Where can you mike
mow retrenchments ?" They said so, relative to the
'Wattles sf the army, mad yet, they could still further
Morose military establishments, sad did still fur-
ther redoes them. The same persons sow exclaim—
re would reduce our national establishments to
the lowest scale of the flaked States. We say
as; even the poverty of Englasd, great as that
poverty is to which you have reduced her,
Lies pot demand that homilistiag sacrifice. But
there is still room for reduction in your establish-
meats and expenditure, leavieg splendour enough to
adorn the greatest theme in the world. Bat it
is not esly in the reduction of expressive es-
tahlisbraeuts that owl is to be feusd to enable
the Goreniment to recluses the taxes. Such mosey
is to be found also, and In a superior degree,
le the abolition of fraud and peculation* is those who
administer the affairs of the country. The millioss
that are given away, or permitted to be stolen, by vile
peralations of public men, if saved, as they ought to
be, would immediately reduce the taxes that rest
epos industry and the poor, is the degree desired. It
no appears that in the single department of the Vie-
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emom'tttal In that office are In the course of WOOS& I
tion, and we will not anticipate aaJ i‘.lllsll
frightfal melte of that enquiry. iffid the
instance of the Victatalling-eflice evinces that
relation to an enormous extent exists in our
public departments, and we are Dot too bold when we
ear, annihilate those peculation. and you will at once
produce a Yana which is to enable you to abolish the
tales which most press on the poor, and upon the
poor a!ricoltaral populatioe. The taxes on salt, soap,
candles. leather, malt, Sgc., may be thus wiped off in
oar iastant. This is the true remedy for agricultural
distresses, and all the other distresses with which this
nation is overwhelmed. In the discovery of the seat
of a disease lies the great skill of a physician. With-
rut skill, and without common honesty, the men who
hare the management of our public affairs bare fallool
spen a knowlecize of our disease, or rather have begs
compelled openly to acknowledge what they before
hues'. So far, then, we are right; and it will go
hard with us if we do not come, wholly right from
mita thisdetestable labyrinth. Sot it is not only lathe
detection of crime that we have bees fortunate. &rely
day (as we have said) gives accession of strength to the
good and virtuous of the mules. The late Fox dio-
aer in Norfolk, is a proof of this. We are not going
to eulogise the Winn FACTION. They have lent thole
bind to the dismemberment of our happy constitution.
They have been profuse in the public expenditure, they
bare been profuse among the profuse. They have shared
le plunder and have been eminent in their distribution
of plueder among their dependants. Yet at such a
dinners' thatwe have just mentioned, men will throng
who are distinguished for their public virtues; and
they do thus make some compensation for the crimes
of their associates. It is a soothing thing to see such
dinners thronged as was the late dingier at Norwich.
It is consoling also to find the PITT dinners declining
es they do in every part of the country. Excepting
este dignified or beneficed Clergy, some Government
Ceatractors, and some Lords of the T yor Bed'
thaininsr, or some such Lords, you find nobody now
at a l'ir I dinner. The Pirr system has fallen into
utter decay, and stinks in the nostrils even of its ad-
liemils The Country Gentlemen, who were so long
duped by the PITT system, and its follies and vices,
hare sinHenly awakened as from a long and dangerous
dream. The topics which graced the tables at a Purr
dinner, have laded away, sod nobody has courage to
gabble them over, as heretofore, in the intervals of their
Bless, s. Elea many eminent men who were made the
lion..st dupes of Mr. Pitt's followers, have nut only
I-en their error, but have come forward in the fullness
of 'heir hearty, openly to acknowledge the error. We
do not mention ti,dividnals, though the mention of
inch individuals would be an honour, to their names,
notaith,tan.lia; the deepness of their former mistake.
We revere their good sense and integrity in the tic-
k or% ledge:tient of their absurdities, and we hope to see
their numbers increase daily. Indeed, we are sure
limy will hourly increase. Ihe country le emerging
from a train of almost fatal errors; and it is emerging
in time to save itself. To the country, to all the honest
in it, use still say—be of good cheer ; you are passing
the sea that opens its waves on each side before you.
and you will pass safely on dry-land.—(Conetifution
Sentti!„ l'erpr )