The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-21 00:00:00

me, nor a single allegation which was not capable
proof.
Mr. J. fistavrras said, that in voting for the late Ad-
ress, he would contend he had done no more than every
Rood son was bound to do when Ise saw his father's ser-
rants acting wrong. Ile thought they had done wrong.
and he did not skulk into boles and corners to tell them
so—having done so he was satisfied, and would rote fur
the ameadosent.
Mr. Jury supported the original motion. The peti-
tion had been hours under consideration in the Commit-
tee, and was in all respects manly, dignified, and re-
spectful.
Mr. OLDHAM spoke for the original motion. He had
witnessed with astonishment and indignation the con-
duct of a Noble Duke wile had fought the battles of his
country, and a Nelble Marquis, who stood by with a
broad grin on their faces during the whole time the
petition was read, thus at once offering an indignity to
the King, and an limit to the people. Ile was much
mistaken if such conduct as this. and the general cha-
racter of the measures pursued by administration, were
likely to reconcile the people to the Uoverninent of the
country.
Mr. Cn.tnLea Paansos opposed the Amendment, be.
cause he considered that it was calculated to mislead his
klajesty by an affectation of submission to the caprice
of his Ministers which was not sincere, and that it would
Lying discredit upon the Corporation, and dishonour
upon the character, which, as Englishmen, they ought
to preserve. He had carefully read over the Address
since these obser-ations had been made, and he could
not find one expression in the Address of which, both
in matter and in language, he did not most highly ap-
prove. The Address was strong, he granted; and ought
It not to be The circumstances that called for that
Address were novel and unprecedented. lie defied the
lion. gentleman on the other side to point out an ex-
pression in the Address which betrays such a contempt
of the ordinary rules of respect which govern cis nisei!
society, as one of them whirli d ecisgraces the answer that
has been eulogised by som.y of the Members. It will be
observed, that strong as may he the expressions of the
d:ssatisfication of the Corporation at the measures !
adopted by the Ministers, the Address does not impugn
the motives of those who have, by their actions, brought •
the country to the very brink sof ruin. Whereas, the
Address ',resumes to attack the intentions of the authors
of the Addres- with a want of ceremony, supposed to be
inconsistent with the conthirt of a public officer, as of a
private gentlentan. Mr. Pearson observed, that it was
as possible for a person to assert an affirmative proposi-
tion, and at the same time to give double force by the
negative latignage in which it might be clothed. " I
da sot know (observed the Minister), the motives of the
trainers of the Address, but its tendency is to aggravate the
e;:le with which we have to contend." A sentence which,
while it asks the question, gives more than an answer—it
impugns the motives of the Corporation, and were it not!
resr.nteil by sock a motion as we have now before us,
would mash Its as the veriest slaves of servility and syco-
phancy. Mr. Pearson also remarked upon the ohserea-
Lou a one of the speakers on the door of the Court, who
Ii id objected to the Address because it imputed to the
Ministers conduct intended to excite truisms and seili-
ti•oi. This hail been properly reset by the Honorable
.11.1erniais, who had disdained such an inference from
ally part of the Address ; but who had contended that
toe recent detection of the Placard Conspiracy would
have justified such an assertion. He (Mr. Pearson)
sateaded, that there were not evidence to trace this
house directly to the Ministers, still their midis& after-
wariLs, and the conduct of their officers was trite sioli-
cient to supply the want of proof 1111011 this point. The
Ministers, by themselves, by their officers. their !sliest
magistrates, their supple lawyers. had contrived to get
np and remove from the purposes of public jetstiee all the
evidences d this man's gnilt whirls came within their
power; and seeing a certain Alderman in his place, he
(lir. Pearson) called ups* him to answer for his con-
duct. in massifs*. from the Mansion House all the
placards and hand-hills which, during his mayoralty,
were brought by the officers to the office ; and haying
been deposited there, were no more his property than
the sword or the mace on the table. He (Mr. Pearson)
thought, perhaps, that it might he too great an eneroach-
meat upon the Alderinan's sensibility to call upon him
to say where the bend-bills and placards came from,
but it was nut too much to expect bins to say where
they were goue to.
Alderman ATitiNs said, that having been engaged in
conversation with a Bristlier Alderman, be had but im-
perfectly beard the charge against bins, and begged that
it might be repeated.
Mr. PBAKSOM was very sorry that to a gentleman
of the Alderman's penetration he could not make him-
self unildrittlotl ; but he repeated his request in still
more forcible terms.

Alderman ATK.ren (amid loud calls fur him to come
forward), said,that if he might gather the charge against
him from a report in a newspaper of what passed at $
recent Common Hall, he could only say that he (Alder-
man A.) did never, muffled up in a great coat, give any
useetin ; to a strauger—that tile statement was entirely
untrue, and that, although he had received several
anonymous letters, inviting hint to such an interview.
he never went, and that perhaps the Honourable
tiontletnan gained his information from the writer of
those letters.
dlr. PRAILION complimented the Alderman's ingenuity,
but be said that it must be at the 'manic° of his candour.
The Alderman had affected to answer a statement of
what be (Mr. P.) was supposed to have said at some
other Meeting, where the Alderman was present ; but
left unanswered a plais question which he (Air. P.) hall
then pat to him to his face. He (Mr. P.) had never
said that the Alderman went to the meeting in question
" mailed up," but that he went to meet " the mysterious
stranger who was muffled up in a great coat, fix. ;" and
for the truth of this he bad, to be sore, no other gulp
canoe thaa.thr Alderman's word (hear, bear!). lint ^
lie (Mr. P.) again repeated the gender's—what has the
worthy Alderman dose with the placards and hand-bills,
about which at the time he made so much noise, and
which have now di ed from the Mansion House ?
Alderman Avut=ttly replied, that a great many
of the band-bills be certainly posseoused, also touch in-
formation upon the subject. The statements which he
had made at the time, relating to the plot against the
city and its inhabitants, bad been verified by the end of
q'histlewood sad his companions.—(Hear, hear ! and a
1 ugh.)
The Loan MAYOR observed, that the present discus•
skin had perhaps takes a wider range than it ought to
have done, and he treated geatleesee would abstain from
all personal observations.
Mr. PRARROR said, the Worthy Alderman had Off-
Niel,' costrived very detteroesly to elude the question
whit be bad pet to him. He had scrtainly stated on a
Termer emission that be had had an interview sigh •
peruse meilwi top la disguise. If the Worthy Ahlernmee
could est Worm the Goan from whence the hand-MHO
came, be eight tan them, perhaps. whither they had
Mr. Mr. Alderman Mutes laid, ohm way respectable
persons had ems t• bliss ender lite lelleeece of alarm,
at the dere et Thistly end's het be never had as
was ter-
lebitteferw with a person hi ' . There
Wily ea Jimmie arew 0 Us is his posses-
else.

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