The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-25 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

CORN BILL.

spective rangers of a very trilling comparative value,
and which, from their well-known generosity and
patriotism, they would, nu doubt, readily relinquish
for the purpose of accomplishing a great national
good—this sacrifice, if it should be deemed a sacri-
fice, is no less due from the sons of the Sovereign
than from affluent private subjects; and wltenever the
principles advanced in this letter are adopted, and
acted upon by Government, the country will nett.
have occasion to apply to the Baltic, to Flanders, to
France, or
America,
for its subsistence, nor its Mi.
nisters to interdict the importation of foreign grain.
I am, Sir, your humble servant,
March 15, 1815. COMMON SENSE.

LA* INTHLLIGENGE.

COURT OF KING'., 131•NC1$ MAllcii Its
VIE KING V. 11ILL, OF noon-LUit, LONDOIt.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
•
StR,-Tjle Gentlemen who so obstinately and im-
prudently contend for the offensive measure of the
Corn Bill, forget the very principle upon which the
entire fabric of civil society is built; and whatever
clamour my doctrine may excite, it will be found
upon serious investigation to be founded in truth.-
Sir, land is every where the common property of the
inhabitants of the earth, and its being distributed in
various portions to different individuals does not in- " NOTICE. TO CREDITORS.
validate this right-it merely implies that they
" The Creditors of William Wigney, of Steins.
have been acquired by the combined efforts of; • .._...-e-mee—.-.....,es lane, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Dealer in
industry and economy, or held by inheritance ; ROYAL !CAD EMY. Blankets, are requested to meet at the ON Ship lon,
and hence the wi,dom of those laws which guarantee --aes-
Mr. Soave concluded on Thursday night his in Brighton, on Wednesday next, the 17th instant,
the possession of the ditlerent allotments to their
eloquent and instructive series of Lectures on Ar. when a state of his affairs will be produced, and a
respective owners ; but if these Gentlemen suppose
that this protection extends to the immeasurable ! chitecture. The discourse was of a miscellaneous composition offered in full satisfaction of his debt.
length of authorising them to impose what price ;
nature, and comprehended a brief recapitulation of Dat (Stalled) " IiitOOKEIL hod COLL:An:IL
:the subjects which he had before discussed. He : ed " 11th Aug. HD." •
they please on the indispensible article of Bread
touched upon the supposed origin of thepointed, To this indictment the Defendant has pleaded,
Corn, it may not be amiss to inform them that a '
conduct so contrary to justice, to sound policy, Sot .
and lor Gothic arch, on bridges, columns, &c. In the , Mr. p
• course of his Lecture he gave a very humorous ' defiler'ofthe J
A ItRE.-May it please your Lordship, Gen.
to humanity, may lead to results the most ruinous
I account of the removal and raising of TRAJ:tri'S J, II •
ury,-Mr. Campbell has stated to his
to themselves and to the State; it may ultimately
1 famous Pillar, during the Papal Government.-this Defendant al*
lead to the resumption of those lands; which,Oi( i tip, and to you, the particular libel on which
is in icted ; but it is impossible frota•
being destined by the Creator for the support of i The POrit it seems, not only bestowed his bone- . that short statement that you can form any thing like
! diction on- FONTANA, the Architect, who, after an adequate
roan, the Proprietor has no other property in
; many years of consultation, was selected for thenotion of the gross infamy of the De.
than the use, fruit, or produce, the amount de. . fendant (if he
raanded for which ought never to exceed a .ease's.: important office of elevating the celebrated column, ; to him) till such
time as I shall state more minutely
able compensation for his industry and expences. • but on the many hundreds of workmen who were . the circumstances. When [.peak of a member of
The discussions in Parliament on this subject employed on the occasion, as well as on all•the the profession, an Attorney of this Court, as being
have, with very few exceptions - , run wide of the machines, &c. But that all possible care and eau 'th • ; e who has d, his conduct is rendered,
mark, as if it were meant to bewilder men's minds lion might attend this august and solemn under- ; stillperson more infamous;so andacte although I lament that such
by au inundation of words without ideas, and fa- taking, punishment as well as reward was held forth !a person must be found guilty, Ido so merely on ae.
tips) them into an acquiescence with a law which is' to insure success. A gibbet was erected upon i count of his family, for in such a case he cannot re•
evidently meant for the exclusive benefit of the land- , the spot, the hangman and his attendants graced the main long on the roll of the profession. Mr. Wigney,:
holder, the miller, and corn-factor. Lord Govt. ' ceremony, and the poor Architect, as well ns his , tea
. prosecutor in this
pause, is a most respectabla.
nue, very highly to his credit, has admonished Par.'.
: chief agents, were to be executed immediately, in I man, carrying on business as a banker, at a bank in
liament of " the dangerof legislating on the price ' case of failure. Happily the attempt, hovrever,t Brighton, called the New Bank, which has been ex-
of huntan food;" and those who coincide with his succeeded, and, therefore, the recompense, instead isting for a considerable number of years. 1 observ.
Lordship in this view of the question, have alone .of vengeance, was the result. The Architect was ed. when my Friend opened this indictment, that the,
formed an accurate opinion on the subject. It eras made Knight of the Holy Ghost, and other honours call:eg this Prosecutor a Dealer in Blankets, excited.
been attempted to make a comparison between the,, and rewards attended him. This narrative, founded some degree of astonishment; but I shall prove to you:
agriculturist and manufacturer, the object of which on rare but authentic documents, afforded high en- ; that he is no more a dealer in blankets, than 1 or
seems to be to create jealousies between two descrip.' tertainment to the audience. any of you are. It seems, that some time ago, -
tions of People whose respective claims to legislative The Lecturer particularly inculcated the neces. tain persons being indebted to this batik of Bright
protection are founded on a very differeet basis to site of employing none but the best materials, in received greet indulgencies from Mr. Wigney, for
that which the champions for the offensive measure order to secure durability to the edifice, and, Rai wards of a twelvemonth; but, at length, he and
have offered in excuse for their officious and mis- usual, integrated his discourse with accurate and' partners thinking,they were trifled with, insisted'
chievous interference, iu a matter they would have beautiful drawings. the debt should be paid, and it ultimately was
done well to have left to its own of.erl'iClllS. it : - lt should, however, be observed, that this was effect,,
may be good policy to give a protection to the ma. As there appear to be some doubts in the public ed without resorting to legal proceedings. This •
nufacturer and artist, because it ensures reward, as mind, whether Lord Castlereagh was a party to the i cumstance created in the minds of these peopl
well as protection, to genius; but to extend this pre- Treaty of. Fontainbleau, and as his Lordship's friends Iconsiderable rancour against Mr. IVigney and
tection on the same principle to the landholder, who are most active in endeavouring to exculpate his 1 partners, and this person, Hill, seems to hate,jobsed
is alone to be regarded as the grower of Corn, and not Lordship front being. a party to the establishment of these individuals in the attempts they made to car
the tenant oppressed by exorbitant rents, would Bonaparte at the ISLAND of Er,a.t, we publish the fol. ,on a scheme to effect the rein and discredit of .
be an act pf most barbarous and insupportable I.)wing official document, laid before Parliament last house, and particularly of Mr.Wigney,the Prosecutor
tyranny to the whole population of. the country, be- year :- I I will now state under what circumstances the libel'
cause it would be making the many dependent for COPY OF A DISPATCH FROM LORD CAgTLERE %MI TO • question was published. There is a newspaper
their subsistence en the tery questiooable humanity emu, BATHURST, DATED PARIS, 27TH OF APRIL, listed iu London, called the Statesman, in that
of a few. Sir, the natural sustenance of man ought 1814. I per, on the 12th of August last, the libel-in go,
never to be a contingency on the bounty, or even in. MY LORD,--I have the honour to transmit to your tion was published. It bears date the 14th of August,
dustry, of any description of men ;.and a Govern- Lordship an Act, which I have this day executed I but the Printer corrects that iu the newspaper, and •
meat cepable of discriminating between power and here, eonteiniog the accessiee. of . Great Britisin to : that correction it is dated the 11th. The libel ,
duty, antl tritti-itscattide eisougir-vo prtiftsitt% COW iterikilis pdsire-of the Treaty lately concluded, with re-1 to, this effect :-" Notice to Creditors. The Credi
to persa•ial aggrandizement, will .stake it the first *poet to 'Abe family and pecon of Napoleon Bona.' of Wm. Wigney, of Sussex, Dealer in' *Wets.
object of their care to provide sufficient nourishment parteo-I am, &c. &c. Now as to tis expressiarsrit imemethat art of-
far those who are u.ttlei ee protection, or at least t ...1. . .......: -...- 4-4Liesteetle -e - CASTLEREAGH. was intended to be thrown upon the banls.jud ,
• l'isnari hatburs6 do dlec. ate. .
the extent of the means in their power. It ip co .
.. certain people had got a cant name forlhe• note!
tended that this country cannot produce wheat enough o't -. D COPY OF Tfl • ACT OF ACCESSION ON TUE . this hank, and even the associates of it, in calli
TIFIEE -
for its cousumption,-he troth of this assertion le • • •'t them Blankets. There were a number of their not
I • PART OF GREAT BRITAIN TO THE TREATY WITH nit-' .
more than questionable. It has also been ad vaNceel i • I which came* tram diry-to day with the word 11//
t met TO NAPOLEON
. BONAPARTE, APRIL 27, 1814. f
by a novel description of assessors, called surveyors, I• * • !Lets tvritteu upon them. It then goes to state, "
, teas, their Imperial and Royal Majesties the ;
to whom the vices of the times and the avarice and in, requested to meet at the Old Ship Inn, at Bright
Emperor of• Austria, King of Htfogary arid Rohe. I
&dolma of the landholders belie giveo, birth, pod ' on the 17th hog. when a state or the affairs of
mitt ; the Emperor of all the Russiasandthe King .
;
unless the quarters loaf •is at sixteen-twee' coign. of Prussia, h • I said William Wigney will be produced, and act
Mare entered into a Treaty concluded at ..
lion will cease-that the farmer (who, by-the-40lb is • position offered in satisfaction of his debts,"-t
arts on the 11th of April, of the present year, for' t . . .
merely a scape-goat,pr kind of skreen for a merciless the'
purpose
of granting for such respective periods as 1
is a dividend made, This purports to be signed
landlord) will he ruined, and cannot, by the utmost said Treat are mentioned, to the Person anti Fa.l .
Messrs. Brooker and Colbatch, the solicitors of
efforts of industry, pay his resit, or have a living milt' of i Wigney, who are very respectable persons resit
poleon Bonaparte, the possession in so- 1 ,
profit ; and while rents continue at their present-ex- vereignty of the Island . r Elba, and the Duchies of la` Brighton, and it' was thereby intended to give
orbitaitt price, and these earveyors, who have been • Parma, . ,Advet tisement the appearance of having been dont
Placentia, and Guastalla, and for all other'
a principal cause of the mischief, and made fortunes llllr. Wigney's own solicitors. 1 his was, put into
• Treaty has been communicated perposes; whichto ,
by their false valuations of lands,. I cast.serg Ameily the Prince Regent of the United
Kingdom of Great ; •
I Statesman newspaper on the 12th of August,
believe that nine.teuthe of the commonity must do ' • of course, •ti on the 13th of August down comes
Britain and Ireland, by the Ministers of their Impe-1 p . ,• ,
hard penance for the aggrandizement of the .remain. rial and Royal Majesties,the
newspaper to Brighton. The sante post that bre
ing tenth ; but let the landholder dismiss his assess* 'King of Hungary and Bohemia ;_ the Emperor of all
this newspaper, brings also a letter, purporting tk
it% surveyor, who is maintained out of our gear- • the Rossias • andthe King
of Prussia, who, in the.; written by Mr. Bicknell, the Solicitor to Isis •Ro.
tern loaves ; let him lower his rents' to a deeent . Iliehness the Prince Regent, calling upon Mr. W'
name-of their' respective Sovereigns, have jointly in- *
standerd, and not be above letting on lease his wwri ' ney to come immediately to town upon very phrticr
vited the Prince Regent to accede to the same, in ; - . .
acres to his neighbours, and there will be no nears.* 1 busine,s ; the urgency indeed appeared so great,
the name and on the behalf of Iris I • Ma jes • t
y.
site for applying to Parliament to impose oppressive - Nis Royal
is Highness the Prince Regent, having i .
• 'he orders his carriage to the door, and is just abi
Testrictioes to secure a. supply of foed.--Withte., f i ed ;e Setting off to London, when, at the moment he
= u l knowler ge of rho contents of the Treaty, ac- I
sped. to the insufficiency of land in the coutitret - about to depart, a friend of his came running wit
cedes to the ramie, in the name and on the behalf of =
raise Bread Corn for the inhabitants, I have l.
, his Majesty, as far as respects the stipulations rein- !
ready questioned • the veracity of the stet t • •that itcontained a .
.nAdvertisement calling a meeti;
' bye to the possession in sovereignty of the island of
but admitting the fact, it becomes the ddty zt iof his creditors. This was the means of stopping
,Elba end also of the Duchies of Parma, Placentia, , .
for he then began to suspect the schemes
of the Legislature to compel the propriet4 acrd (1
nastnila. But his Royal Highness is not to be ' Journey,
of the numerous packs throughout the kingdom, . considered, by this act of Accession, to have
be-the
bad gone off to town upon that occasion, it wet
throw a considerable portion of them into imusedhstle, come • have been reported that he had gone off from Brit
a party, in the name of his Majesty, to any !
cultivation. The wisdom of allowing of any time kAf the other •• •
er provisions and stipulations contained . ton for the purpose of avoiding his creditors. 1
a populous nation like this so much land to remeatt, th . one of the deepest-laid schemes that ever I heard
useless, merely for the polo') and luxury of a few its. I .
1 Given under my hand and seal, at Paris, this 27th :1 he
" letter which I have alluded to, as calling him
dividuals, may well be doubted ; and the questiott aj town, was to the following effect :-" Spring G
ay of April, in the year of our Lord, 1814.
might be pushed farther, by denying the right of in• i By • 1 dens, 12th of August, 1814." This is where
command of his Royal Highness, the Prince ; .
dividuals to withhold extensive portions of this pro. ~
stegent acting in the name and on the behalf of his in t
• Bicknell the Solicitor for his Royal Highness's
perry from the general stock ; for we niust never . I fairs the county of Cornwall, lives.-": 1
Majesty.
lose sight, Sir, of this incontrovertible truth, that j - (Siesed) . . ,
. . CASTLEREAGH. I directed by Col. Bloomfield, who is commanded
the earth is the common pm °pert") of all Mankind,' (A true copy)-.o.assuarialti...; , • 1 his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to reqk
and that their claim to its being employed for their i . - ?, i that you will be at my house is Spring Garde=
general sustenance cannot he disputed. It is on this, HUMANITY TOWARDS itritstar.s.:-The Rev. John NVestminster, on Sunday morning next, vs de,
principle I maintaii. that individuals have no right tesi Troup, Rector of St. Minikes, in Cornwall, the o'clock, his Royal Hiigliness wishing some Lifor
reserve thousands of acres from cultivation, and tliet.i celebrated classical Editor, presented an amiable and Lion, which (it is said) you can give ; and as the
it is the duty of legislation to fence the communist remarkable example of kiudness to dumb animals.- siness is of a very delicate stature, it is his Roy
against an abuse of this species of property, as wig; The children of his tenants were restrained from ; Highness's wish your journey may be kept a in
as against a violation of it. If A. has a right to de-: taking birds' nests on his extensive glebe of St. Mar found secret." 'f ids letter and this newspaper c •
vote 5 or 10,000 acres of valuable land to welds! tin's, as well es from confining birds in cages: the down to Brighton on Saturday, the 13th ==f Aug,
splendour, so has 8., C., D., &c. ; and in mopes- ,' cow that bad long supplied his family with milk was The advertisement had appeared in the wipe'
tion to the scarcity of arable laud in the cogistilltsi preserved 'from being killed, and supported during Friday at London, and oil Saturday, .at Bright,
this worst species of unjustifiable monopoly of wheel her old age with the tenderest care; and the faithful and this letter was to have brought him to Lem
Heaven destined for our support, imperiously callsV dog, who had for years guarded his court-yard, on.the Situday morning, as he was to set off imtn
for legislative interference. Let Key,
.Gardeos when too old to mem the office of keeper of the pre- dlately on receipt of it, and he actually ordered ,
with Richmond, Bushy, and Hampton Court Park : mises, was admitted .to the comforts of the parlour, carriage, taking it for granted that this was Mr. j3icts.
be thrown into tillage, and from average crops ,o : which he enjoyed till he died. This pleasing trait of nell's writing. He was accordinel • y
nbe=4.10.142.9'
three or five years, a tolerable correct calculation = character was associated with all the higher virtues. when a friend comes in and says to him, !',lierir„.
be made of the quantity of Bread Corn that may be reit Mr. Troup was as religious as he was learned ; and .newspape g , r statin a Meeting of your creditors,
'covered for general consumption, by bringing *their exemplified the Christian graces which he taught to that you are a ruined man.' Upon this Mr. Wigney
waste lands of that description throughout ibelivel ethers, in his own conduct. He died 19th of Ja- . says, "This is a trap," and immediately produced
dom into culture. Such an application of them IEOO4 , nuary, 1785, Hot less regretted by the world of this letter. The trick was discovered, and he tern-
be far more beneficial to the State than leaving tb7.4):11 letters, than by the more confined sphere of his pa- not go to London, but had bills immediately print
their present unprofitable, not to say ruineusa
' rishoners and friends, who benefited .
i had by his and put up throughout Brighton, signed by flrosater
=
dition, yielding no advantage except. to Allele re 4 example. ' and Colbatch, stating, that they never put ins such -

Mr. CAMPBELL opened the indictment. lie stated
that it proceeded on the prosecution of Mr. William
Wigney, against Joseph Hill, an Attorney of this
Court ; that the Prosecutor lived as a Banker at
Brighton, and that the Defendant, intending to ruin
him, and make him insolvent, published a libel in a
certain paper called the Stalcsman, is the folloning
words :•••-.

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