The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-29 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

flee. 19, J. Marley, Clifton, Gloucestershire, merchant, at
Guildhall—Dec. i 3, H. How nee, liruton-street. Roud-street,
milliner. at Guildhall—Der. 23, J. P. 11. Hagedorn, Old
Broad-street, merchant, at Guildhall—Dee. 27, W. Dale,
Bieheimesd. Yorkshire, woollen-draper, at the Court-house.
Londe—Dec. 90. T. Lawton and S. Roe, Stayley-bridge,
"AdMits.ander-I.ine, Laecashire, machine-makers, at the
Whlen Bear lan, Manchester.i)ec. 19, J. S. Vey? see. Rat-
' dillit Highway, grocer, at tinildhall—Dee. 23, B. Hilton,
jera.Masbreenh. Ruthann,. Yorkshire, iron-founder. at the
Crown Inn, Rotheram—Dee. 23, B. Gray, Liverpool, mer-
Chant. at the George Ina, Liverpool—Dee. 19, N. Skinner,
Warp's-haildinge. Rosemary-lane, slop-seller, at Guildhall
—Dec. 19, J. Jones, Upper 'Oros:A-street, Grosvenor-square,
tailor, at Guildhall—Der. 19, G. Thistlewood, Muscovy-
Mort, Tower-bill. Sour-factor, at Guildhall—Dec. 19, T.
111aedonald, Rallabonc-place, Oxford-street, print-seller, at
Unildhall—Dee. 2, T. Haggett, Bermondsey-street, Iler-
Inondatty, grocer, at Guildhall—Dec. 19, J. Peel. C. Hard-
ing, and W. Willeck. Fazeley, Tantworth. Staffordshire, ma-
nufacturers, at Gulldhail--Dee. IL R. Williams„ Salisbury,
Wiltshire, linen-draper. at Guildhall—Dee. 10, S. Ausharst,
11111rk-street, Westminster, and W. Fari.igh, Kent, brewer.
Wed copper sad from-manufacturer, at Guildhall—Dee. 23,
T. Brennand. Bread-street, Cheapside, warehouseman, at
Guildhall—Dee. IS, T. Clarke. West Pennard, Somerset-
Shire, cheese-dealer, at the Somerset Hotel. Wells, Somerso-
- 112, H. ilauestek and J. B. Iloffnieyer. New-
Itastle-uport-Tyne, merchants, at the George Inn, Newcas-
lin—Dee. tO, E. Bern, 13Irminghein, woollen-draper, at the
Royal Hotel. Birmingham—Dec. 19. M. Penny. Shepten-
Somersehhire, corn-factor, at the Georee Ina,
Shepton-Nlailett-4Dee. 19, R. M. Morton. Sheron-Mallett.
Somerset hire, grocer, at the George Inn, Shepton-Hallett
—Dec. 23. J. Spence. Bishop-Weernionth. Durham, dealer,
at the Commission-Room, flunderbutd—Dee. 20, T. Gib-
bins, jun. Flat, Westbrry-upon-Severn, Gloucestershire.
master-mariner. at the °See of Messrs. Bowyer. Glouces-
ter—Dec.26i T. Cramp, and T. Hill, jam. Kidderminster.
Worcestershire, carpet-manufacturer s, at the White Hart
Inn, Hartle/tory, Worcesteiahlre—Doe. 27. W. tftmlth. Lei-
cester, woisiaMpler, at the Saracen's Head lon, Lekesber.
VIERTWICATES--Dac. 19.
H. 'Thornton, late of Road-lane, upholder—W. W•ffell.
Doe ton, Wiltshire, liaen-draper—T. Rigs. Nubbin 111111.
Halifax. Yorkshire. eotten-splenera—T. iilaedosseld, Rath-
boots-Mace. Oxford-strost. prlntseller—J. Holt. Manchester.
free—S. Francis. Norwich, inanufacturer—R. Nerds, Bury.
shire, eettemosplasser.
illTllllllll II I PS DISSOLT It D.
R. W. Grow, J. Parrott, J. Rises, and J. Berridge. Lei-
cester, lace-mannlbeturets.—D. Low and J. Boyd. Itellidey.
Middlesex. asslara la old sbip-thaber.--11. O. Holdason and

The following is the speech of Mr. Northonse, at,
the above Meeting. We only gave a brief outline of,
it vesterday ;
The Noble Lord has well said that the object of your
meeting is of a two•fuld nature,--the congratulation of
innocence, and the condemnation of go It. These,
however, are matters, individually speaking,of infinitely
minor consideration. It is not because a woman, and
that woman of Royal rank, had been calumniated and
persecuted—it is not because a system of espoinage
mare infamous than any hitherto recorded in the an-
nals of Machiavilism has been used against her—it is
not because the ambassadors of other natiaris had been
seduced, and the perjurers of other countries suborned
to destroy her,—it 14 not because a monarch had
evinced a carelessness for the contempt of the present,
anal the derision of all fntiire ages, In permitting him-
se,o ha be made a being " for the hand of scorn to
point tis Slowly moving Anger at." No, no, these
circumstances might, and doubtless would, excite every
generous sympathy of their hearts, every chivalrous
emotion of your souls, every indignant feeling and
expression of which you individually are capable; bat
these are not the reasons why you are called upon to
solicit the dismissal of men connected with your vital
interests, men who have held the helm of your politi-
cal vessel amid all the storms, the coins:lotions, and
convulsions, that have distracted Europe for the last
20 years (principally attributable to themselves), it is
not an attempt at individual oppression that would
cause, that would justify such an important request,
imi it is because the intended victim of that oppres-
,ion was the representative of yourselves, your wives,
rd yo .r children,—it is because in her persona blow,
a d, sperata blow was strut r at your laws, your liber-
ties, and v ins religion,—it is because the principles'
of a constitu ion, the wise precedents of a judicature.,
the bolt prt epts of a sublime faith, were at one too-
ment expo ed with her to violation, if not destruction—
it is because her fate was indissolubly linked with yours.
In her defeat you foresaw the defilement of your altars,
you saw priests who profeeril only the convenient
parts of Christianity, preparing an elm!' throne for
the triumph of the wily infidel,—you saw your domes-
tic hearths, yet, thank God, the abodes of hearty'
friendship anal honest companionship, occupied by
the insidious spy and the demon-hearted perjurer,
" places for toads end loathsome things to knot and gen-
der in." YOG saw the holy rites of marriage, the connu-
bial bower to which you hoped to transplant the lilies 1
you had reared in the paternal hut,—you saw its wisest
principles, its most sacred insitutions, hazarded in the 11
person of yonr Queen,—you saw your 'sisters, your
daughters, no longer protected by the laws of their I
country, and the hoary-headed debauchee, the sated
volts:yet Ins; hatching conspiracies against them ;
and notwithstanding the defiant and frequent infideli-
ties of their husbands, you saw them driven from con-
jugal and social intercourse, deserted, despised, and
degraded for ever,—it was for this that the proud
spirit of our country was roused,—it was for this that
the whole nation armed itself with its panoply of
mind, to defeat the intended act that would have de-
stroyed them. An act which, had it succeeded, would
have made a new era in the annals of despotism, a
land-mark of tyranny, a dial to count its ages by.

Such an act.
That blurs the grace at 1 blush of modesty ;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes of the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
A% (else as dicers' oaths : Oh! such a deed,
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very• soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words.

This, however, is only what might have been : let
us examine what has been the result of this impoli-
tic proceeding. Ilas the State suffered no injury al-
ready ? Has the temple of the. Constitution lost none
of its pillars ? Is thete the same devoted attachment
to the King? The same awful regard and veneration
fur his distinguished office ? The same pious and pro-
found attachment for the head of the church, the same
respectful submission to the judicial characer which
existed before the enquiry? Can any man lay his
hand on his heart, and fearlessly state there is ? What,
after the Monarch has been dragged by his Ministers
before the public gaze, after they hate scandalously
abused his name and power, in offering a bribe to his
wife, for continuing her imputed &dither-41s inter-
course throughout the whole world, except where he
was ? Could they suppose the same feelings of awe,
of respect, and of veneration to exist in the country
towards him which once existed ? Impossible : sonic-
body bad well said that a hero is a hero to all the
world, except his own valet. What, then, can we say
of a King, whose servants have publicly exposed, as
being desirous of proving, the infidelity of his own
wife,the impurity of his own sheets; that filthy oariirre,
"pioneers, and all had tasted her sweet body." Oh!
shame, where is thy blush ? What an act, what a
delicate refined act for the first gentleman in Europe !
But no, I will not believe it of my Monarch; I cannot
believe that the early companion of Fox, of Sheridan,
of tirey, of Erskine, men who threw the splendour of
their concentrated radiance upon his princely head,
until the jewels of the coronet and the crown were lost
in the mighty effulgence of mental glory—l cannot be-
lieve that such a monarch, with the bright halo of his
former days hovering over his recullectione, could per-
form such an act. No, the Minister said truly, that
the King had nothing to do with it. He said truly,
that it was his own act and deed, and upon that volun-
tary confession, whatever evil, whatever degradation
the Monartb, the Constitution, or the people may suffer,
let the punishment be upon his own and his colleagues,
beads. Have they not Dearly destroyed the moral in-
flation of the Crown ? Lord Bacon, the illustrious
father of iinglicb philosophy, has well said that pub-
lic opinion Is lb. best security of a state. Yes, a Mo-
narch may be es rich as Crmsus, as potent as Cesar.

as profuse as Heliogabulus, the wealth of either Ind
may fill his coffers, the diamonds of Golconda may
glitter on his Crown, the splendidly equipped myriads
of Darius may surround his throne, and yet, withou.
public opinion. the sword of Damocles will flicker
above his head, sustained by the slightest of silks
Ain I not right then in calling fur the dismissal of
those men who bad destroyed the moral influence of
my King, who have endangered the security of his
throne, and who have endeavoured to brand him with
a term of eternal reproach, from which the meanest and
the poorest of you would shrink with disdain. the
Ministers must surely know that our late, much loved.
much venerated, much lamented Monarch, had stolen
into his subjects' hearts ; not for wisdom, fur lie was
'inimitably deficient in it, not for the excellencies of
his advisers, for no King was ever so badly advised ;
hut because he was a great moral pattern for his sub-
jects, he was a good father, a good husband, and a
good man ; and as his son Itai
.beten styled the first gen-
tleman in Europe, he deserves the still prouder title
of being the beet citizen in his own kingdom. It was
this that bound his subjects to him ; it was this that
rendered his throne secure when tremendous political
earthquakes shook other states to their very centre.
Nay, it was this which made the nation lend their
energies, their wealth, their lives, to assist the mad
and despotic schemes of that utubiti..us Minister, anti
shameless apostate, the late Mr. Pitt, thinking that so
their good King willed it. Talk the; of radicals,
of democrats, of demagogues, nho so radical, s demo-
cratic, so revolutionaq, as theuiselves ? When t:id
the seditious press, as they are pleased to term the
organ of liberal sentiments, wake monarchy appear
so despicable, or tnal:e its tenure so hazardous as they
have done by this Bill ? Could your Cubbett'e, your
Hunts', your Hones', your Woolen'', *kb the whole
army en ream of pamphlet writers have indicted so
severe a blow on his Majesty as this vile measure has
done? If these petty scribblers are prosecutel for
every strung expression, fined for every disrespectfal
word, and incarcerated for every ultra-liberal sen-
timent, what shall be done to those who have attempted
to fix an indelible stain nit the escutcheon of their
King, to risque ell th.! Itorro.s of an iuteitine coal-
motion, and to bestow upon the first gentlemau i
Europe, the m ist odious, the most indelicate app.e•
Wiwi F. Fur our own sakes, if uut fur our CII.A.
let us call far the dismissal of these men, even if w •
had no better reason for it than that of a servant to
the notvrious Kell Gwyn, who was protected by
Charles the Second. This distinguished deuticep
once observed her footman covered with blood, and
surprised at the sight, inquired the reason of it.
*101s: Madam," said John, " a vile fellow called sour
Ladyship a whore, and I have been fighting to p.-uve
that you were not a whore." " Nay, good John,"
she replied, " you need set d• Shier Imes's, you
know there are some little circumstances, Ctrs e-
fore I beg you will not fight about it again. Let them
call me whore as much as they like." " Well,
Madam," rejoined John, " I have no objection if your
Ladyship agrees to be called whore, but I'll be hanged
before they shall call me footman to a
There is another point of view in which Ministers
have fully despised their dismissal, and that is the
baneful influence which the progress of this Bill has
bad upon religion and morals. Christianity Isas beta
well said by its glorified bead to be founded upon a
rock, and that the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it; yet, it may also be said, that its enemies
are of its own household, and that for a time they
may work its woe. In this country, however, it was
so well supported, the errors whi,•ls ignorance had
associated with it so completely dis Felled, the asperities
and cruelties of fanaticism and supetstition so entirely
blunted, that its friends confidently hors:, the Nlre
dove hail at last found a resting place for her Ift4.v
wings; that while the ark of human nature was sari :s-
-wing about in the chaotic ocean of mental darkness, now
striking against the rocks of pride, and now finking in
the quicksands of prejudice, she had Lund a leaf
in our little island, which testified that we had risen
above the deluge that had desolated the rest of the
spiritual world. In order to secure the future purity
of the faith, we have erected a noble establishment,
created divers disinterested, devout and learned men to
be pastors, and above all, placer! a bench of Bishops„
the essence of all that is holy le ; i •ty, fervent in
faith, anal snbliwe in the Christian's aspirations, in
order that they might be spiritual directors and go-
vernors of the rest. " A kingdom divided against
itself cannot stand( what shall we say then to any
man, or set of men, who dares to divide, and c.inse-
qeently hazards the destruction of this holy establiih-
meta ? What shall we say to the statesmen who in-
troduce any measure which may produce such vital
disunion among our theological governors, as to cease
one to declare certain opinions consistent with the
gospel, while another says they are lot ? Aid :et
this fatal Bill has dune still more to the injury of oar
Church.-011! had that talented infidel, the relebratid
I'ultaire, been present at the scene ; could his basilisk
eye hare caught, and his poison-dipped pen have er-
pirated this most ominous controversy, mor.., tea
times inner than ever yet has been done by our nioder s
Titans in their war with !leaven, would then hate
been effected. Gracious God I shat a sight for the
doubting Christiau—perplexed by the futile, of fana-
ticism on one side, and the easuistries of infidelity
on the wiser, lie has thrown himself into the body of
our Church—a conituuniun professing a religion of
faith and of realism —a read:maws boasting of tint
learning of its advocates, :he purity of it. principle%
and the ra•iunality of its Ass:trines; atm the firs. thing
he ohs , is a f0.m..1 diseutatiun beta een th: Attu-
bishops of the Church as to the reading of cue plaits st
texts and precepts of Scriptnre, a•id aka sees,
strange to tell, an abandoned but titled debaucher,
loaning the holy pastors right by a quotation thry•kail
forgot us no More sof your petty scri...ble.s %he

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