309 29TH OCTOBER, 1831. in-w JAY 66 66 nocent. Many of you will remember that, on the 11th of May 1809, Mr. MADDOX made a motion on for leave to produce proof at the bar of the House of Commons that PERCEVAL and CASTLEbat" reason, then, can I have for EBAGH had sold a seat in that House to Mr. QUINTEN DICK. A great majority doing any thing against, the BARINGS, of the House declared that they believed other than some public reason? When the parties innocent of all blame; but LOVELL and Cook were up at Kensington that same great majority voted that they on the day before My and SIR THOMAS would not hear the evidence produced, DENMAN's trial; and, when they were Those who are of my age, or above about to give me an account of the thirty years, can recollect the unani-transactions which formed the subject mous indignation which that vote ex-of the affidavits which they made, and eted throughout the country and which will be found inserted in the pub. there is no man who is at all ac-lished account of the trial, I said, to quainted with these things who does LovELL in particular, "Now, Lovell, mind, I hate the Barings; and, therenot well know that that refusal to "fore, do not you say any-thing that hear the proof offered by Mr. MADDOX, << you may think will please me: 'tis was a blow which that House has never "not necessary that I should tell you recovered. It is my desire, and it shall be my en-" why I hate them; but it is right for me thus to put you upon your guard; deavour, to lay the whole of this matter before you with perfect fairness and im-" and, as you work for the BARINGS, partiality; and before I enter upon it," and apparently find them good masters je it seems to me necessary that I should" to you, tell them what I say if you satisfy you that I have not, in this case, any personal motive whatsoever, arising out of any reason that I have to have any particular liking or disliking for either of the parties, I think this necessary, because I have been informed that the BARINGS have given it out that I have some personal grudge against them; and I believe that they have thus given it out, because I see it stated in the Morning Chronicle, in a paragraph in abatement of any thing that you parporting to be a report of a speech of shall find bear against them in this ALEXANDER BARING, that "a powerful paper which I am now about to write. "writer" (meaning me) "had stated have always, since I had understanding, that he would ruin the BARINGS." of these matters, hated public loanNow, I once received a very short and makers; because I know full well that civil letter from Sir THOMAS BARING, their works have been the ruin of my which I immediately answered in a country; that these works have caused most satisfactory manner and with equal misery indescribable to the people of ility, touching a mortgage of which this kingdom; that at this moment, he became the manager, in consequence these works cause more than one half of his having become the executor of of the tax upon malt, upon hops, upon the mortgagee. With this exception I sugar, upon all that we consume; beever wrote to a man of the name of cause I know, in short, that they have BING, nor received a letter from a made this England, the working peopleof that name; I never, to my know- of which were once the best fed and ge, saw a man of the name of BARING; best clad in the world, the seat of a race, ach less did I ever speak to one, in the of miserable ragged beings with half a. " please. I have never disguised my dislike to them; and have never desired that any-thing that I said about them should not experience any abatement that this well-known dislike might entitle it to. But, my friends, though I did not think it necessary to tell LOVELL the if like, go, you reason why I hated the BARINGS, I will tell you; and then let it I Much less would I be thought to re commerce is the prime source of nations Rect upon the fair merchant, whose liber wealth. 1 esteem his occupation, and re spect his character. Speech of the gre Earl of CHATHAM in the House of Lords, o the 22d of November, 1770. and best deserved, the care and protection the Parliament. He expressed his detesta in this description of men of all these contractors and jobbers and remitters, whom e contradistinguished from the fair mer chant and honest and industrious tradesman, whose occupation he esteemed and whose Now, I have never character he respected. belly full of victuals. My friends, told show you that this is no new opinion of mines and to show you also that the greatest and most Virtuous statesman that this country has Known for two hundred years entertained a similar These were the opinions of the last really hatrededtowards-loan-makers, to will wise and upright statesman that England ha heres insert part of a speech of the had. He detested these money-lenders, Whe great "Lord CHATHAM 7289 38de in this ther walking on foot or drawn by six horses House of Lords on the 22nd of Novem- he called their immense profits plunder he charged thein with living in riot and luxur ber, 1770, that is to say, sixty-one years проп and to show you how long this centre plunde who stood in most need the ignorant, the inno ago; hatred has existed in my bosom, I will take this part of the speech from my own Register, inwwhich I inserted it as inotto on the 25th of January; 4806, long before the BARINGS Became conspicuous in a hundredth part of the degree that they have now become con spicuous; and long before their loans expressed detestation of the BARINGS; I have making transactions had even been a Beyer spoken of them in terms a hundredth been a part so harsh as this great nobleman spoke of subject of observation with me. Now, the whole race. If these were his sentiments then, take the words of this famous then, how would he have expressed himself Have I not, then, a right to have my English statesmantel maid of 9110p91 There is a set 1M hrs opinions, and my feelings with regard to this of men, my my Lords, in the race of men as well as he or anybody else? city of London, who are known to live in riot This family, the very beginner of which has and luxury upon the plunder of the ignorant, not had his name known to the public more the innocent, the helpless; upon that part than about thirty-four years, and who was a of the community which stands most in, mere merchant's clerk, or something of that need of, and that best deserves, thie care sort, about forty-six years ago; the very fa and protection of the legislature. To me, ther of all this race would not now, if he were my Lords, whether they be miserable jobbers alive, be able to claim a standing in society of Change Alley, or the lofty Asiatic plun- for more than thirty-five or thirty-six year derers of Leadenhall-street, they are all at the utmost; and this family, who have equally detestable. I care but little whether twenty-eight thousand acres of land in one spot a man walks on foot, or is drawn by eight in Hampshire, have, in England, "horses or six horses; if his luxury he sup- rightly informed, upwards of a hundred and ported by the plunder of his country, I de- twenty thousand acres of land, besides houses spise and detest him. My Lords, while I countless in number; besides mills; beside had the honour of serving his Majesty, church livings. In short, they possess half never ventured to look at the Treasury but dozen lords estates; and though I accuse "at a distance: It is a business I am unfit for, them of nothing unlawful in getting all this and to which I could never have submitted, though I impute to them nothing that is called "The little I know of it has not served to cheating or robbing or swindling, or any thi raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called unlawful, I am sorry that they have lau "the Monied Interest; I mean that blood-hate and abhor the system of Government sucker, that muck-worm, that calls itself der which they could have acquired it, with "the friend of government that pretends to out any talent beyond that of mere ordinary "serve this or that administration, and may tradesmen; without having performed sy be purchased, on the same terms, by any one thing meriting public gratitude or ape administration; advances money to govern- plause; without any one of them having done ment, and takes special care of its own any-thing to benefit or reflect honour upon emoluments. Under this description I in- the country or its institutions. If I be asked <clude the whole race of commissaries, job- what is it to me how many estates they have, bers, contracters, clothiers, and remitters. and how many noblemen and gentlemen they "Yet I do not deny, that, even with those have supplanted, I say, It is something to me <creatures, some management may be ne- and a good deal too. I have a right to feel ❝cessary; and I hope, my Lords, that nothing concerned for the good and the honour of the "I have said will be understood to extend to country. I know that there can be no go "the honest industrious tradesman, who holds and happy community, aye, and no real free the middle rank, and has given repeated dom, unless the people be governed by that "proofs, that he prefers law and liberty to natural magistracy which grows out of long great, against these calumnies: in short, I see them | handcuffs, small handcuffs as well as innocent and defenceless, and attacked by men were sent from the jail of Winchester to bring who have power in their hands; and then it them to that jail. Two magistrates, FRANCIS is, and not till then, that I take up their cause. T. BARING, Son of THOMAS, and BINGHAM Is not, therefore, my conduct straight and BARING, son of ALEXANDER, accompanied by consistent? What am I doing but acting ROBERT WRIGHT, a parson, Captain NEVILL upon the precept which I have constantly and of Easton, one SEAGRIM, an attorney, and sedulously taught, and as constantly made Mr. DEANE, a banker of Winchester, went off the rule of my conduct? And what is to become of defenceless innocence, if talent the bringing to jail of these two innocent per- V on horseback to assist in the capture and in will not step forward in its defence when at- sons. I assert them to be innocent, because tacked by powerful mend the lady bas never been brought to any trialfor the pretended offence, and acquitted, at all, and because Mr. DEACLE was indicted without producing any evidence of his own; acquitted at once, in consequence of the evideuce given by his accusers' witnesses; all which you will please to bear in mind; and of course Here, then, I cast aside tions about private inalice and denunciations these imputa. of ruin: let the BARINGS howl, or rather, growl, like the animal whose head they take for their crest: let them talk about motives as long as they please; and let me, my friends, now go into the merits of this case in as plain a manner as I can consistently with the necessary brevity. On the 23rd of November last, the rioting and machine-breaking took place in the parishes round about Marwell, where Mr. DEACLE lived on a farm which he rented of Mrs. LONG. The rioters, or rather, the working people who were demanding a rise of wages, went to Mr. DEACLE's, broke his thrashing-machine, pressed his men to join them, and made him give them two pounds in money. From his house they went to that of his neighbour SMITH, another farmer, whither Mr. DEACLE followed them, in order to prevent them from doing acts of violence to his neighbours. Being in Mr. SMITH's house along with other farmers who had joined them, they, in Mr. SMITH's parlour, drew up a paper, to be signed by landowners and land-occupiers, the former promising to reduce rents and tithes, and the latter to give the men twelve shillings a week. This paper was shown to the men in order to quiet them; and, at the desire of the whole, it was carried round by Farmer BOYES to the several farmers and gentlemen's houses that the people went to. Mr. DEACLE went as far as Mrs. Long's, and, when the paper had been signed there he went away. By fifty credible witnesses, it can be proved that this was the conduct of Mr. DEACLE, on the 23d of November, and that this was all that he had had to do with the matter. As to Mrs. DEACLE, she was out taking a ride, and she rode, out of curiosity, to see what the mob were doing. One charge against her was, that she sat upon a horse looking at them and smiling. I know of no law, either from the pen of ELLENBOROUGH, LANSDOWN, or PEEL, to forbid smiling. Such was the conduct of these two parties, doing no one thing that was either unlawful or unneighbourly during the whole of the day, being greatly injured in their property, but humanely submitting to the injury, from reflecting on the starving state of the labourers. Notwithstanding this inoffensive conduct, the next day warrants were issued against them and for apprehending them, upon depositions that have never yet been produced; and three constables, with a coal-cart and these are two persons who have been falsely if we were to stop here; but we have now to Now, observe, I was not in Court when thi evidence was given; but such is the evidence, according to the report published in all the The jury gave a verdict of fifty newspapers. pounds against BINGHAM BARING, and nothing against any of the rest. Such was the evidrace in the Court given upon the oaths of these witnesses; there was much more, but this was the substance of it. Now, we gol to the petition of Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE, which they presented in consequence of the atrocious slanders put forth against them by the newspapers, under the title of the report of speeches in Parliament. They say that BINGHAM BARING seized Mr. DEACLE by the collar, that he then held one of his arms, that FRANCIA BARING held another, and that the parson held him by the skirts, while LEWING Tex, by the positive order of BINGHAM BARING, put the band cuff upon ove, of the bands of Mr. DEACLE; that Mrs. DEACLE was sitting in another part of the room; that FRAN CIS BARING went and hauled her up to have her hand put in the other part of the same hand. caff, so as to have them fastened together; that after this, in pulling her along to get them out of the house, Mrs. DEACLE's hand came out of the hand-cuff, and that it was FRANCIS BARING, and not BINGHAM, that dragged her and carried her across the yard to the cart, into which NEVILL, captain in the Davy, got, in order to pull her up. There is this difference between the evidence in Court and this statement in the petition; that the servantgirl ascribed the carrying and the dragging to BINGHAM, and not to FRANCIS BARING; but the girl had never seen either of them before, and did not know one from the other. It is not denied that the cart was made to trot in a very rough road; it is not denied that the Constable, SWITZER, pledged himself to be answerable for Mrs. DEACLE, if they would let her ride her horse; and that they refused this. When the cart arrived at Winchester Hill, there was the jailer, BECKETT, in a postchaise, and into that chaise they were put along with this common jailer, who took them to the jail, where they were treated as feloui ous malefactors. Now, observe, as far as relates to this statement of Mr. and Mrs. DEACLE, the statement at present rests upon their word only. We Cannot say the same, by any means, with regard to the evidence in Court, for that evideace was given upon oath before a judge and jury, and the jury found a verdict against BINGHAM BARING at any rate; and we are to herve also, that the constables were persons is the employ of these magistrates; that they depended upon them, in some measure, for their bread, and that their evidence had always been thought very good, when given unst persons that were prosecuted. (To be continued.) |