The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-18 00:00:00

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Powerw•suert, Ayes. 17.—Arsi•441 the Z ;Aye
tsessiport, Irons Fwoslorlsod.—Seiletl the Star trans.
poll, to th*ossistsreld,
Aua. I7.—Come clown from eh. River 4nd
e.itod the t'ss fe l'Psotraboco.
—Artissl t • Volusia, Ilnbhs, from Mtl:a.
Vstosoutat. AVG. 15 —Arsismcl the Will's'',
J .hiss. Clio to in 13 thy,: 'be I).k. of NI art-
nmott-h, J4l• s!, ISO%J..ht.'t.NPW nflifliW
ick,
in 3) days: spoke ol 'he 12t.t lost. shoot 40 ...Acme
In she woo 4.lsd of 5..i11), the brig Asuisy, for ileii4.
fir, with troop'.

The fullaelnl Ir• et one Pea R 4 II (.114,neicA)
Gaulle, of the 3.1 JO. A rep ao nig hr.,'
aflnal its tleis c;iy f.,r that Spain hail
retied the Island of Ceha to Gr,ai
for which she was to receive tt e Wand of '1 iinidada
and the Snathrin Colonies serrendeied to es hy the
Data). There appeals to he a consider ibl•doeit
of
the correctness of the report, sad we are Ui•p iseal Is
believe that it may pass.hly be founded on she ac.
counts published in dilf.rent Papers of the United

.
S a'es ou that sohject."
We noticed in the SrAri.r.w4v of yesterday, that
Mr. Russrt.t., of Warwick, its I been prosecuted and
found guitty of publishing, ablut IS months since, a
Parody upon the I.lotity. Noe, although this sae
one of those three 1'41.11144 for ssoic4 Mr. liner woe
tried and acquitted its Lotsulfin. • W• 4 ..... It Jury has
ttioaght proper to find fio4s ELI. Guilti W , are en.
appsi-e I of any cicceoistins es i.s tole case which
could distingeilt it from she usher, sod it is .ere eel-
deist stoat the same act cannot be reit:visa' in Were
wiukshirr, and a miner of mere lods*.sonce in Low.
dun. Three cii•tiorr Luies, campus...Nl of men as re.
wettish!, as soy n .b. coy of Land.ot—who were as
capable as any others of rstimusiog 'tie pato spioerfeaos
of such publicstirms—snd as tot •illsog so ..I &slier the
security of the Church and St•tu., do I.r d on their
oath., thatiu their unanimous no runts', s ch It* i'l'e*'•
linos were not csicsisted to &doe* the stehiti•y of *hi
churrlyor in weaken theempito of tell/lon •ssil sottish y
in thhcountry. They believed that the publoationt
were not more misch estop; than other proilorsiona of a
similar kind, Inuits'; born the witty pen of ill• Cso-
moo, and other disitogoished Parodists, who did not
hthoste to make the solemnify of Scriptural ant tee*
administer to their political assisonsitive. They Ward
[of them in the light of po Hold squib*, calculated
possibly to turn certain of the Ministers into sidicule,
bet ono frsoght with any danger to the Constitution,
whether Ertlegiestical ur Civil ; and being too intelli-
gent to confound the personal feelings or Interests of
a sot of Ministers, whose public actions 1141 e open to
I antossdaersion and satire, with the stability of the
Donne a• d the a sfety of net invitations, they or.
apnoea the Defendant. We do not, however., soma
to coals,* the conduct of the Warwickshire Jury.—
The show of sincerity upon the port of the prow*.
'ion might deceive, in the present Instance, the in.
suspecting Jurors. The imposing solemnity of the
proceeding, the ingenuil of Counsel, anti the sothoo
rity of the Learned Judge on the Bench, who told
them that the ptabliratith wet a libel, and thus decid-
ed the point which it wits their duty to try—conspiera
to bewilder and n.istrad them, and they too doubt be.
bowed they were valendiog th.ie urns to shiebf the
doctutoes of the Church from obloquy and ridicule,
at the very moment wises, in their un.utpecting coo-
&few, they were becoutirg the instruments of polio
.ficsl vengeance.
But can it be imputed that the nrdisisry castle of
judicial proceedings will continue to secure the esteem
sod reverence a the People, it so i hot be mire sl-
otted that they cannot look to it with 'nosily and
coisfidence ? To their minds so distinction will Le
down between the determination of 4 July and the
alktlate of law, and when they b shoistisit tea pronnence
log on she same ease opistiotts d smelt irony opposod
tneollt other---see one lath three limes triumphantly
, acquitted —distinguished by personal milks of re-
utrect soul Nester by some of the most eminent kid:•
vidwals in the country, soil rising from pov•rty to
opulency, sod when they turn their eyes to mambo
tow of the country, and there perceive a second iutlio.•
.!owl dessootired as 4 ctiminel for the ssme act, I ete
rsosi igli..mtoi.rosty to the receptacle of felnns—hione
%,.11 eat.. .pit in it it e burro's of prolonged calOititTO
issue s.f Isis futn.ity she with *fief or consleassied to
*l•lrt.P.'ne-4 and want—will they tint conclude Oct
the le* ss toot Iti aid Urpreiajap, that it,e tamp n't
.ore 5.1 i ...tit ass not meted sot to all, and that stool,
i• on se. wiry in tt'y Taal by Jury, which their are
restore bad foolishly scgsrded as tie beet asteroid
of the sulikes's Ithrtl). and WI b. queathed to l"'r
sons 44 1114. east valuable inheritasice ? If this idol
.hould become /general, hot little objection "'ell
p.ohohly be esperientoot from the greet body r 1 Its
Pimple in any attempt to remove the itstitutioo of
Trial by Jury altogether.

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To rag EDIIOIC or ras !Ark:S.IMA%

1515,Aittiall4h net of a ran(oin• tone of mind
general') , I coon° resift the 410111 of hope, Imo cu-
b lent assurance, that the illy of r.forso, sod the
entanciperi 41 of Fel4lltili•tl from their present state
of dersrlation tool coo. qv tt misery, is not far
distant. Such 'flossiest, each general, sod such
harmonious Meeting., with respect to principles in
a close of troth, of jo.tice, end of necessity, ego-
ism, I think, fail of proving spat trines; arid the
event mum neer 9 ho greatly accelerated by tech
en entire agreement as to the CAW!, of net present
dept role title, and the ale•SerPS by which slue
it
is capable of being permanently corrected The
grievances of the People are now gni fly ad-
mitted to hap. resat ed from the People not being
dal, roireseutod in Parliament ; to create then, as
the it formers are now &anti, such a general and
entire coirleolence of sentiment and principle upon
sn.,alentnus sus jest, is of the first eon.
*N00n.... and which, when eni ity ascertained
nod tett, •ill be e miirletely effective of its object,
for who is he, or what ;weer is there strong enough
to /PO t the voice of troth and jetties., urged sod de.
noneroot Mt united Austin& ? The People's cause is
ever right ! it is no 'tight injury that weakens a
nation to compleint.—no slight series of wrongs or
114'1161141s itet rouser t em from that state of (pietas!,
which intlostry indices, to look into their civil con-
dition, and 'inspire the castes of their suffering and
degradation. A nation may complain, bet it never
resume to violence pins( its Government, till re-
iterated corop'aints, remonstrances, and represented-
ens have lost their efTect,ind proved latterly unavailing.
May this not prove theca'e in this unfortenete country,
atnl may its Prince,white it is yet time, possess the wit.
dom to 'spoone the cute of the People, in opposition
to-the 'penny of a faction, and resolve to be the
cioinvion of the People's liberty, their prosperity,
and Uteri h wines,. What can be more reasonable,
owe equitable, more proper in the natare of things
then that the People, who sustain the weight and
Larder of Government, sboeld have a doe share and
concorrrot voice in all its measures. Ile who says
they should not, is an alien end enemy to his nu—
e fool to be pitied, a wretch to be compassionated
or ezecrsted. L.tt as rejoice that every boniest min
in the country is either become, or is becoming stn.
tittle that be is entitled, it not by the letter of the
Constitution, by a far better and superior
sutho-
toy.—by the voice of Neter., the voice of GOD, to
a vote for • Representative of his person, his pro.
perry, his wilt, his industry, his interests, in the oa.
floral Government. Every men in the amour is
also becoming convinced that the only means of ob.
taioiug and merits( the enjoyment of his rights, is
by joining bout and hand in effecting Anneal Par.
lisments, by Uoiverssi Voting by Ballot. Let this
cotivicilon, Sir, go on to gain ground for another
trio...moth es it has done lot the last, and in
all probability Government will have to decide
bet seen concession to the cause of sacred right, or in.
cot it)e risk of an alternative which I shall not same.
The bold sod energetic linguae that pervade' the
Politic Meetings generally, is highly gratifying to the
Frieod of Freedom and bosun happiness, and por-
tends well of the event of the contest. May sorb
just and generous, sentiments as are elicited at the
Peblic Meetings warm the bosoms and pervade the
Wads of the mass of the indestrioes ChM!, and may
they be fearlessly declared epos every opporteolty.
Notwithstanding, Sir, the supineness, the apparently
servile acquiescence of themajority of the trading and
commercial classes of the commenity, in the present
vicious state of the Representation, the Increase of
tuition, the ethasstioo of trade end resume of
ladastry, and the cusequent distress of their less
fortunate countrymen, it is not to be doubted that
vast numbers of tradesmen and hoeseholders who ere
perfectly inactive, are yet favourable to the cam of
Reform, and are constrained only by dreamiest:ft
from the avowal of their sentiments. It does not
admit a doubt that the umber of the passive well.
•ishers to Reform is very great, and that a large
proportion of thews wield become the active agents
of it could they do so wish an atlentios to the die.
tate' of prudence as respects their connection in trade,
or the immediate means of personal or family sup-
port. The strength of despotism is the dependency
of the different classes of society upon each ether.—
The journeyman scarcely dare avow his sentiments
in opposition to those of his employer ; and the late
ter, if in trade. can horsily venture to controvert
those of his customer; and thus the chain of de.
pendency running through society impedes the
*dunce of Reform. though it is not sollicieet-
ly powerfel to arrest its general progress,
which is decided, and will, ere long, preponderate
against every opposing interest. It behoves every
inn who would befriend himself, his family, or his
country, to nett his utmost power and his best
judgment, to lessen the operation of this principle of
individual preservation in a corrupt state of things,
as opposed to an active co.opetatton in those just
and neeecssry measures toward a reformed and re-
novated one. blany persons of property remain
passive lookers on, not merely from a fear of of.
fee/ling those with whom Usti are immediately con-
nected, or upon whew they easy in a great mume
depend, bet free se apprehension of the snow