The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-06 00:00:00

HE NATIONAL REGISTER. gp . . . 4 , ~, r' Our mg, eloastitution, anb iLatno. SteNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1809. No.:S4. youTicAL N Mlrr. R Elt; a T wo. TO COLOti WARDLE. • SIR, It requires a certain dignity of mind and, superior ity. of intellect to. bear reproof witt.tot a sense of.indigna4ion ;. with this lototedge, I experience lesm surprise than regnet when I hear that you and Sir B scHaan PHlLLips , readzmy last Letter with symptoms of violent irritation. If my .anger should get •the better of my ronteinpt,. Sir ittocanu,ivill pad that what I haFp said respectipg him is perfe.cl modera- UoK, sad that his best secutity is in the,gnildness of aidispo 7 *kiwi MA easily provoked. I teel no gratification in contra- Acting the falshoods he uttered on Sunday morningovhen his nudity friend skewed him Tim Nag-tor/AL RantsTEH, pied I . appeal to his gener*l character for the degree of cre . 44 that is.to be affurcied to any thing he may 'atm . U would be sufficient to refer to Wm evidepce in the. Court of King's Bench, if the gai:eral tenor of his life wanted ahy corroboration of the principle ; or rather the total want of _ . principle, by which it is directed. ' It is no fault of mitre, that You'donot both sink into that. obliviOn fruni whie4 .. ._:. . you will never be'restered by your virtues, and that you do not gracefully eye,/ 'Without those convulsive struggles which only add to youriTsairace, and perpetuate your in famy. The indiscreet_t,eat,of your political friends only elicits new traits of your character to render -it less estiina-,. 1 hie, and to close every done-through which yOniniglit thsil return to the future good opi of a credulous and ever to be deluded public. If yo . ir d i race has rendered you • more susceptible of advice, do not refuse that wh ich I give; and surely when you-are led by such men 'as Sir IIreKARD and the Lineti Draper, it will be infinitely less a matter of humiliation in you to receive it- than in me to oiler it. Impose silence upon your City Advcicates, and slicltcr yourself in some obscure retirement from the absurdities of your defenders. Whatever interest others may have to deceive you, I have none. This is the only way in which you can , hope to save the wretched remains of a ruined reputation. Posterity, perhaps, may judge your conduct .with more kindness, when its real worth, or demerit is -not estimated by the foolish fulsome panegyrics of some, or the violent abuse of others. But if sou ate advised to brave the " pitiless pelting storm" of public indignation, at least pursue those national objects which you have declared to have always been in your view, (and - which so many were weak and credulous enough to believe) •by means, open, direct, and honest; vice arid disingenuity invariably pro duce corresponding effects; dishonourable and disgraceful . courses arc followed by events of . simi:ar nature, as cer- tainly as the shadow follows the Sun. The partizans with whom you are nosy identified will not suffer you to pursue this line of conduct, and the flattery of self-love aml vanity will incline you to follow their advice, and ultimately lead you to inexpiable ruin.—Having once beheld and gloried Or*i. 11.. 4 44 4 . LX XXI v. PRICE 94. • in the bright n►eridian lustre, they cannot . but see with anouish the setting Sun shorn of his beams, a: RI the . anti cipate not without horror and dismay that eternal night of oblivion which is about- to close around you. But, sir, there is an inconsistency and imprudence in their defence inure unfavoutable to your cause than even the grossest absAirdity df your own conduct; and your _ . character ..is injured ell-lost as fatally. by the defence of your friends as by .the.imputations.of your mimic,. But it is not the.. inconsistency, -or , abaucdity whidi the nature of this dofencenceessarily involuts,to which Monell ohjoct. 4 .l4iese. things . may, •exl,ure • with. the,. insignificant cbject ithielkgase theinsPit thy .bet the.y Are coupled with ark.en .(kaVO' Uf •to crajii , .dowe thlaiats principles pregnant with the.wocet infinitely Are qtrtniog than the single Instr . /sic/4 of:. iniseondua or folly which They were employed to•palliates and Alitiend, 1.1: is , siot% by . kind) doc trines as have been broached' in the Comdion:CorinCil by , the pseudo Qrakors -tO theist ittf . -Temple Bar :`'it is mit 1.4 that equivocal iirorality which , theytaverreathed, .that .your conduct can 4e justified. They aresleplorably s i*ndrL ant if Alley think-Abe people of4his country -fit'Subjects• ' for such impositions to.work upon. Silly , devices 'to 'cure blunders. are generallygllbildren - of the saineimbeeiltity -that cv mitred . them; asst FOIL!III of ToralAri• tut a Feeble defence for gross-impropriety of .conduel.- • Mr. GOODBefittiE .. might hatte contended that It sionld be derogatory to .tlsPconsisteticy of the Court to scind the reselution. - in your favour he Might hayii dwelt with a malicious' pleasure upon the perseverance ;and infinite pains you had employed in 'iriakine 'dii coveries so important to the country' but why, did . you antler him lo outrage our understandings tly , the contemptible nonsense of your baying been actilatM by no private views—by no sinister motives. When ' as well known that . yonr best qualifioation for a P a t r i o t and a Reformer Was your poverty:and the remunerallou you expected was not so . much the gratification l, f : our private malignity as the promise you . received froni the • **" of 4 .' l ** of the place of Secreta;'y at Wir;, when he should lac appointed Commander in Chief. (rile history ~tf all these facts will certainly come out in goon time). Why were we surfeited with the repeated declaration that yOu had made great sacrifices of your private fdrAune ? is it not a fact that Dow) paid half the bill for &Or. ? rfAl is it not equally true thaVyou told Mrs. CLARKS whom you was to be reimbnrsed the several sums of 50/: and 201. thdt von advanced previous to, and duriag the investi4ation, in order to make her appear as creditable as she was a credible witness? Is the going about with the Secretary of the man two virtuous for the age he Lves in, Trial his del , * GLENNIT, and with " a Inall pilloried in one hemispihnere; n and pensioned in another," to rake for acesatory molter against the NIKE (41'0RK, in brothels and bawdy-lionsest (which you did). You descended to the meanest species of intrigue with the servant at well as the mistress, and was this too done in the same spirit of patriotism, and all for the love of 'your—Country t Is this to be dignified with the