The Statesman. — 1818-12-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—Sunday evening, bet wren sit and seven o'clock, Mr. Moore, the landlord of the Bull's Head Tarim, corner of Jerusrdem.parts. age, Ayleshury-street, Clerkenwelt, in a fit of insanity, committed the dreadful act of self-destroc• (ion. lie went from the bar to the water-closot, which is upon the ground.floor. A person passing by a few minutes after, saw him reel out of the closet, and fall upon the floor, with his throat dreadfully cut. 'l' he family were alarmed, and the unfortunate man was carried to his bed, and medical aid was sent for. A knife was found lying on the ground, near the place where the deceased fell, which was supposed to have been the instrument he perpetrated the deed with; but, upon farther search, a razor was found, covered with blood, in the watercloset. He had lately been in the habit of drinking to excess, particularly brandy, and it had deranged his intellects. Ile died yesterday morning, at eight s' ock, leaving a wife and several children. Sunday night the coach-house of the Rev. A. C. Onslow, Rector of Newington, was broke open and robbed of a set of chaise-harness and a riding saddle. Sheffield and its neighbourhood were 'jailed on Thursday, the 3d inst. by a most tremendous storm of thunder and lighloireg, which caused the greatest alarm throughout the town and its vicinity. The lightning appeared one vast brillitist sheet. It passed over the Bracco into the valley beneath, where it struck a strong brick wall fiat to the ground, tore up pert of the foundation, and drove out a sash window fr m • house, sod carried it to the oppoo 2;,fi, side of the room: fortunately no person received the least injury.  To rzE EDITOR or rms STATESMAN,   have this thotaeut read your Paper of last Thursday, containing a Getter written by Major CAZTWRIGHT, and addressed to the Duke of BED  ►ORD, in which the writer states certain objections to  _ . my two Letters published in your Psper of the 30th SepteMber and 15th October last, on the subject of the distressed Lshnorers and Manufacturers. As 1 am at present upon a •isiit of some continuance to a  particular friend, it is impossible for me either to re.  consider my own Letters, or reply to the Major's objections; but as soon as I return hotne,*hich pro. bably will not he till after the 116lidaya, I will carefully re-peruse both the one and the; onto; and if I find that I have fallen into any error will 4e very re,dy to retract it. Having enlisted myself under the banners of TRUTH and LIBERTY, I should really  think that I disgraced my colours if I were not open to conviction. At the same time I beg leave to say, that I will never desert a cause which I have once adopted from principle, so long as that cause continuos to appear just and right in my estimation.— To the name of CARTWRIGHT I am willing to piy the tribute of respect, but not authority. Though that Gentleman appears in the light of a political opponent, yet 1 trust that I may still regard him as my friend. Ile very well knows that I write hastily and negligently, and likewise that I feel strongly; he must be aware, therefore, how difficult it is fur one under such circumstance', so to regulate and measure his expressions, that a larger meaning can never be ' applied to his words than what he himself wished and intended them to have : and therefore I must request  that if any expressions, in any of my four Letters on the above subject should appear to him too harsh, he will accept this declaration as a suflicient apology, that nothing unkind or unfriendly was mitten led.— I am enovinced that we both mean well to the cause of the poor distressed Manufacturers, Labourers, Artificers, &r. consequently, in our competition of measures to befriend that cause, and the reas,tning And inve•tigatinu to which that amicable competition may lead, I can conceive nothing hot good likely to result to the cause itself. Let the subject be sift.el to the bottom, and the parties concerned be enabled to form an accurate judgment which exped'ent is most likely to afford them relief from oppression, the Major's or mine. But my friend says, that shove a million of persons hare already declared by their petitions their decided opinion, that they regard Universal Suffrage ert the hest remedy for their case. To this I reply, that these persons were then in a state of political darkness. They did not kenw what their ancestors had done for them—they were ignorant of the laws and customs of the laud having already extended to them a powerful protection against all tazatinn whatever ; neither did they consider that the King, by his Coronation Oath, swears to govern according to these ancient lams and customs, which no Minister can controvert without great personal danger to himself. These laws were dormant but not abrogated: sad alt the humble merit I aspire to is that of bringing them into public notice, convinces' that this alone is sufficient to give them efficacy. Ott the other hand, the Universal Suffrage for which these persons prey, or have prayed, would take from them this Cotistrerettomar. snier.o, and brinz them within the power and controul of legitimate taxation. I therefore pray, on my part, my friend, seriously to consider the temper of the times, and the disposition of the People of this coentry, in which CORRUPTION rules predominant, and bee nearly defaced every remaining vestige of REAL REPitasENTA• ?low. What analogy can now be said to exist hetween the present days, and the days of oar ancestors as referred to in my last hotter, when the Representatives of the People conceived they bad no right whatever to giveaway the money of their constituents without their formal consent first bad and obtained ? Look among the Reformers MN, and see if they offer to the People such a kind of Representation.— There are but two instances I know of : one is the Gent tertian of this house by w hose hospitable fire-side I am now writing, who told the Electors of Berkshire that " his onlyambition was to he their &amend faithful Representative, and as loth to follow the SENSE of his constituents, not only respecting ltrform, but upon all other important occasions." The other instance is that of a worthy patriot in the West. who I have also the honour to call my hind.- and who made a similar declaration to the Electors of Exeter; hut what was the result ? Alas ! both these Gentlemen lost their election. Let the worthy Major there. fore consider ,when he proposes to extend Represen. tatinn as a protection against oppressive Taxation, what Representation wow ir, and that the very minds of the People most undergo a change before it will, Of can be, rendered a REALITY instead of a DELUSION, I remain. for the present, • Sir, your's, &c.,. i\