The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-12 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN;

their plat= by making an unconstitutional, or at
least, a very tenantable division bets eels the King and
his people. But a union of the King with the people
would prove a death blow to their hopes of power and
profit, and hence in some measnre proceeds an unne-
cessary distrust lin a connexion so essential to the
interests of both ; are the high spirited and independent
citizens of London, inferior in loyalty and importance
to the Orange Corporation of Dublin, an ignorant
junta who feel pleasure as they have done in giving
repeated insults to the KING by spurning his admo-
nitions, and actually refusing to toast his health, ex-
cept with marks of disrespect ? Arc the Hanoverian
Boar-hunters superior in intellect or affection to the
people of the first metropolis in the world. If they
are, they merit the high distinction of his MAJESTY,
and his conlinned protection. If, on the contrary,
the City of London has been entitled to the honour
and respect of his MAJISTY when PRINCE Re-
GENT, and to the respect of the Royal visitors
who cost the country such immense sums of money
to entertain in the year 1814, what have they
done since to forfeit the special notice of his Mensvr ?
This is a question of vital importance to the country,
and should be also answered. The citizens of Lon-
don, most certainly petitioned for a redress of griev-
ances, and complained of placemen, pensioners, and
ezpectants thriving under a system of Rotten-boroughs;
they addressed his MAJESTY'S wife and cousin, on her
defeating the most wicked and unnatural conspiracy
that ever was formed against a mortal being, and they
endeavoured to drive peculation, fraud, and public
robbery out of the City Institutions, but this conduct
was not agreeable to his MAJESTY'S Ministers. The
Citizens wished to pay a last token of respect to the
remains of a persecuted victim; they reprobated a
conspiracy that followed a brave woman even to the
tomb. These, we are led to believe, are the causes
which produced Royal neglect and Royal dislike.—
Whether it be more honourable to the Citizens of
London or the KING'S Ministers, is a. matter easily
decided : and whether the Citizens of London are en-
titled to less respect than Irish Orangemen or Han°.
rerian boar-hunters, will become a subject of future
consideration.

The last week, which has been distinguished by the
return of the KING from his Hanoverian dominions
to his native country, is not less distinguished by the
recurrence of anniversaries of events which hold a con-
spicuous place in the annals of Britain. The 4th of
November is the anniversary of a Royal birth, which,
however, it may be perverted, by a despotic faction in
Ireland, to irritate the great majority of the population
of that kingdom who were losers in the scale of in
-
datums by that Kzxo's success, will always be hailed
by every Briton who can appreciate the value of a de-
liverance from popish tyranny, the abolition of the:
insulting dogmas of divine right and passive °Wiese%
and tie recognition of the clams of the people. "ed
choose a Ooverament for themselves. The sth of No-
vember has been remembered, for ages, as the day
when a foul conspiracy for overthrowing the Protest-
ant establishments of the klureom, and for the de-
struction of its Prince and principal men, was happily
detected and defeated. Whether the nature and origin
of this plot were such as have been alleged, or whether
they were like that of Thistlewood and Co., we shall
not stop to enquire; but the day has, at a more re-
cent period, acquired additional claims to notice, from
its being that on which another project, scarcely less
hostile to political and personal liberty, was trium-
phantly frustrated by the acquittal of the first of
those State prisoners who were tried in the year 1794,
for promoting the great cause of Parliamentary Re-
form. Those who remember the emotions which this
last occurrence excited in the breasts of all who
cherished the principles and rights of Englishmen.
will not be surprised to learn that the anniversary of
the event should be celebrated with ardour. A meet-
ing for this purpose took place on Monday last, at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, and with-
out the stimulus of public advertisement, was attended
by above two hundred friends of civil and religious
freedom. The omission of this announcement, though
it may have prevented the meeting obtaining the usual
notice such assemblages receive from the public jour-
teals, did not deprive it of any portion of the public
spirit that was suited to the occasion. The occasion
itself was inspiring ; and if any thing more was ne-
cessary to animate the feelings of the company. the
presence of the persons who were objects of the dire-
ful persecution of the day, was fully sufficient for the
purpose. These persons were Messrs. HARDY, Tau-
WALL, BAITER and RICITIR, time only four, we be-
lieve, surviving of the twelve who were arraigned.—
Mr. HARDY, of whose acquittal the day was the anni-
verary. did not, as be observed, endeavour to express
his sentiments on the occasion in language sufficiently
impressive to do justice to his feelings. Never. it
deed, among all the State trials that have taken place
in our age, has there been one in which more of public
interest was involved ; for. as Mr. BAITRa justly said,
had the trials, the result of which they had met to ce-
!sheet., succeeded in the way in which those who
promoted them desired, they would not have had
the opportunity of any public meeting, and perhaps
the name of liberty itself would have been proscribed.
To the energy and eloquence of Mr. (now Lord) Er-
skine on the occasion, great acknowledgments were
doubtless due. He made these great exertions, and
he sacrificed the whole emoluments of his term at that
critical period, to resist, as he told a personal acquain-
tance, the daring efforts of vindicti►e boroughuseagers,
who attempted to make that treason which was not
treason. Next to him, and to the independent up-
right juries of the day. was the defeat to be ascribed
to the character of Mr. HARDY himself. It was per-
haps well, as Mr. Txssw•t.t. remarked, that hewn first
selected fur the prosecution. for if hottest men were to
be run down, it was fortunate that they attacked one
who was not liable to reproach. Of each may the
Apostles of Reform for ever costsist.—(Conetitetion.)

The intelligence which has arrived fres the conti-
nent since oar last, contains a repetition of the old ac-
counts of the marches oftlse Medals and Turkish troops.
Accordims to the Brussels papers, advises from Odessa

state that the Russian array in the Ukraine had re-
ceived erders to proceed to the Pruth ; whilst accounts
from Hermanstadt announce that the Turks bad also
advanced to the tanks of that river, and that the out-
posts of both armies were once more in sight of each
other. It is again confidently asserted that a Haiti
Scheriff, calling all the Mussulmans to arms, bad been
issued by the Grand Seignor, and even the places of
rendezvous for the muster of this new kind of miiitia
are pointed out with minuteness. The Hamburgh
Papers contain an account of the ceremonies on the 31st
of October, attending the consecration of the monu-
ment erected at Wittenberg in honour of Martin Luther.
The thy being extremely fine, the concourse of people
was very great, and the whole was conducte.l with a
degree of order and solemnity suitable to the occasion,
and which made a profound impression on the specta-
tors. Before the statue Was uncovered, the ancient
and celebrated hymn, Finlfeste Bnrg ist miser OOTT,
was sung in chorus, and had a surprisingly-sublime
effect. Dr. Nitschthen delivered a suitable discourse,
at the conclusion of which, a signal being given, the
covering of the monument fell, and disclosed this
noble work. Many of the spectators, overpowered In
their feelings, fell en their knees in adoration of the
ALMIGHTY, who+ gave them this great man. The preacher
then put up a solemn prayer, concluding with the
Loan's prayer ; after which the whole assembly
sung the hymn, " The Lynn appeared, and restored
to us hls work through his servant." In the
evening a bright fire was kindled in an iron basket
placed round the monument, and was kept up the
whole night. All the houses. not excepting the small-
est cottage, were illuminated : the Town-honse, the
Lyceum, the emote, and the Barracks, were distin-
guished by suitable inscriptions, and a lofty illumin-
ated inscription between the towers announced the
sense in which the inhabitants of Luther's birth-place
honoured his memory. The students from Halle, Ber-
lin, and l.eipsir, conducted themselves in the most ex-
emplary manner, and went, at eleven at night, to the
market-place, where they sung several academic songs.
Madrid papers to the 29th ult., which arrived last
night, we regret to find, do not confirm the statement
of the French journals of the cessation of the fatal fe-
ver at Barcelonelta. They on'T announce that the
number of deaths could not be ascertained on account
of the illness of all the physicians at that place. At
Barcelona the fever continued to rage with unabated
violence, and from the returns from other towns which
had sot yet been mentioned as infected, it appears evi-
dent that notwithstanding all the prec tutions taken to
stop its progress, the contagion is gaining ground in
various parts of Spain. At Madrid tranquillity pre-
vailed, and the Cortes carried on their labours with-
loot any interruption from the populace. In the Sit-
ing of the 26th Oct., Mr. Paul, an American member,
moved that the Minister of the Colonies be directed to
present as soon as possible, a statement ofthe meittlekt
wbidb be considered best adapted to effect the tran-
quillity and happiness of the Americans. This motion
*tame a long an/ Ishanumat.delmanPkaa-ake yank',
were so nearly balanced that it was only carried by a
majority of one, the numbers being 7S for the mo-
tion, and 77 against it.—. The intelligence from Bar-
celona, in the French papers to the 9th, is more fa-
vourable than that contained in the Madrid journals,
and announces that a considerable diminution bad
taken place in the member of deaths. An article
from Vienna in these journals states that the Turks
baying landed a strong corps on the shores of the
Gulf of Lepanto, bad drives the Greeks from their
intrenchments, and burnt to the ground the town
of Galaxidi, whose population bad retired with its
defenders to the mountains. But the same article
adds, that a Turkish division, lately arrived from
Macedonia, was completely defeated in an attempt
to penetrate into the Mores through the isthmus of
Corinth. The Weeks, it appears, have secured that
important position, by erecting several lines of strong
intreschments across the whole of the Isthmus.—
Them they courageously defended, with Prince De.
metrics Ypsilanti at their head, against the repeated
attacks of the Turks; and the latter, threatened in their
rear by the assembling of a Greek force in Livadia,
were compelled to make a precipitate retreat.—The
lifoniteur contains a Royal Ordounance, appointing
the Cardinal de Bausseta Minister of State, and &Mem.
bur of the Privy Council. The Chamber of Peers on
Tuesday appointed a Special Committee, to prepare an
ddress to the King. The Deputies were occupied in
the appointment of the Bureaux and other preliminary
forms. The Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday. on
proceeding, after some observations from different
Member,. to the Appel Nominal, it was found that
there were only 207 Deputies at present in Paris, and
214 being the number required before the Chamber
can enter upon any deliberation. an adjournment con-
sequently took place.
Fenticn Furens.—Five per Cents. (according to the
papers.) 89f. 40c.—(According to private accoeste,)
I b9f. 75e.
to-

New Tone, OCT. 13.—The Albion, from Liver-
pool is arrived, bringing the Chevalier D'Anduago,
Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain, to the United
States.
EXTRACT Or • LETTER FROM WASHINGTON, OCT. 61
The great scarcity of stoney experienced here, as wet
as every where else since the restoration of a sound cur-
reney, and the increased difficulty of obtainingit, made
it probable that a corresponding increase of suits would
I be instituted as the present term, but we are glad to find
that so far is this being the case, the number of actions for
debt it not half sogreat as has been ksown in termer terms-
The number introduced. by the Banks especially is
greatly reduced. The Branch Banks of the United
States for example have not found it necessary to sue
more than a dozen notes. This augers well for the re-
turn of better times.
A letter from Vera Cruz of the 18th August, via
ifavannah states that in consequence of an agresseeat
between General Santana and the Vice Roy (issuer
O'Doseja. the gates if Vets Cm: were %brews spa,
sad a free oostassaiesties am permitted be the bib-
bissitiasi the misery ; at she sass dose she psisame
pis bedtsides vete liberseed.