The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-07-01 00:00:00

.31R. CO RB E TT. FROM CORLETT'S POLITTCAL REGISTER. " Let high Birth triumph. Whit ran be more greet ? 11thilig but Nierit in a lur• e,tate." Yorxa. LIP I.VDE^C.VDENT PEOPLE of 11.1.VPSIIIRE. THE COURT MARTIAL. [Concluded from oar Paper of Yesterday.] !loch is the erne history of this affair, which, had the'pub -1 .. robbers given it as it stood, unmniilated, Dot a word should I ever have puhli-hrd by way ot - defence, or explana tion. At the time when I was writing against Pitt nod 'Mel ville, the robbers then tailed of e.rposirig me with the account of this transaction, which I never M ished, nor had any reason to %kb, to keep a secret, and whin I then called upon them to make known to Cie world. "There i,," I, "nothing that I should like lactic', that, your pull! shing Vie whole of the documents relating to that at dr. You have not only my free leave to do it, but my request to do it."—They knew better. They knew, that, with whomsoever should read ell those documents, I could not fail to rise iu esteem; berate tLey proved me to have been, hi all titles of lire, an (me aty to public rubbers, whether on a great or a small scale. mark what these robbers have now door. The intelligent realer will And out, who the rribbers are; awl 1 beg him to mark how they have acted in this Instance.—Of WENTY SEVEN Letters, written by me, these miscreants have pub lished FIVE, and those of the least imponance. My peti tion, in the form of a letter, to the King ; my letter to Mr. Pitt, as long ns floe half of all the ten ; my last totter to the Judge Advocate: all my letters to the Secretary at War; all the Chnrges, occupying the space of several pages : all these are suppressed, and with them, all the grounds and motivesof m y coming forward; all the transmittances that 1 made against the discoatrogrinent I met o ith ; all the conditiens. upon which I pledged myself to prove guilt ; and, finally, all the reasons which I gave for not appearing, when those con dition; bad been s itilated.—This is the way, is it, that these public robbers make use of documents, which arc committed to their hand, This is their honourable" conduct, is it ? And these :are the publications, are they, that the Clergy at Winchester circulate gratis I—When 1 first saw Ct• affair of the Couit-isartial advertised, I was at the hors-e of a friend, and upon bis Owning , me the advertisement, I said, "now, if the rascals do bat publish el my letters, what honour they will do 113 t• t" They took care not to do that. They dare not do that; the facts and the sentiments therein contained would be found to cut too dose : and, besides, those lett r-, if all published complete, would da me so much honour, the reader of them would, at every seuterce, exclaim: " here are Cie ante iniod and the same: principles, that we End in him at the preseut day."—There arc not, I am fully persuaded, in ! any country, such maen and 41117 wretches as our public rub- ! ben. Bonaparte has nothing in his dominions that is not manly and dignified, compared to our gong. Ile may have peuthe, who would kad a man a sly blow in the dark, if they fm d Liar too hard for them wit' his pen; but I do not think that Cte:c is in all Europe, not even among the Sicilians or Portuguese, a set of creatures so mean and despicable in their spite's oar public robbers ; a set of " tame cheaters ;" the poison of a•ps is under their lips, but they want the cou rage of a worm. One would wonder where they would find the assurance to free me, or to face the public, after having suppressed thew twenty-Iw., letters. Why, the truth is, they dare not fare me, or any body else. Then dare look no part of the public in the fact. They skulk from the light. Sot a Dian of them dares put his newt to the puhlicatine, upon which I have been remarking. They are consciuus of their villaiooas deeds : theyktl, even now, the dread of that pu• nislunent which their manifold robberies us richly merit : they feel OM they are Met safe while my pen is in action. This inspires thole with deadly haired ; and that hatred urges theta onto that mixture of malignity and folly visible la this their late predation. The object of the pamphlet, which the public robbers have so iodustriousir circulated, is to cause it to be believed that I brought aisles accusation against the parties, that I knew it to be false, and that, when the hour of trial came. I skulked away. But, what sense %mild there have been In such a proceeding t What motive could I have had for doing a thing so very silly / Can it be believed that I would have pat myself to the expenen of a two or three months living 10 London, when my etreurestaams so loudly called me away, and that I would have taken the pains to write twenty-seven letters, and to &Intl: atteadaaee as many times at the Horse fivards?—Can It be believed, that I, who was capable of se riling these letter', and who was so well acquainted with the law as aril s the facts of the case—can it be believed, that i should have pot myself to nll this trouble and evpence merely fur the purpose oT bringing a parcel of officers and soldiers to London and making fouls of them? Besides. if this had been the ease, how clines it, that I have remained in England now, for nine years, aati have never been called upon by any of the accused partics to uosay what I said of them in 179'2. True, it is NOW so long as seventeen years since the changes nere preferred; but, it was only eight years, wheal returned to Eoglaod. if, therefore, either the parties or the government had had any reason to complain of me, why did they not do it Immediately upon my return? They knew very well where I was. They could not help knowing tt Nay they knew where I was and all about me while I arm to Americo, where I published an account of my haring been the Serieaut-Major of the 54th regiment, and of my having left hunch a year. The pamphlet, in which this was stated, was published io England, in 1796, fwaY fear Year' after the Court-Martial was held; it was publubed, too, at the express desire of Mr. Canning, who was theta as Uadev- Secretary of State in loin's Miaistry. This being the aloes would mot the pante% if they bad really felt themselves wronged by me; if they had really wished to he confronted with me, would not they, even while I was in Amerita, have foutid the mesas of °barging tee with hay* male a accusation against thus? Would they, under sueb cir cumstances. have suffered me to rest in quiet. And, the go vernment too, who, is the ease drawn up Iler the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, said I had deceived the Crown ; the government, who appeared to be so angry at use for having made a " mockery of justice I" how came the go vernment not to call upon me, when, runs years ago, I re tiros d to England 1 They all talked very big when they und me safe pent; bin, none of them tinniest proper to cis illenge met.) the proof when I chase hark. The Meaty r:: the transaction, drawn up to be laid before the thaw M torney aid Solicitor General, muftis. It kept oetedsight tae circumstance of thers-fearthe of my Merges Hering 'Mum • uppressed, and the still more important eimunetanee try the ;i: , tetal books end papers not having beanfeast-ed. ateord i..: to my desire, so often and so earnestly expressed. If these tarts had bees related to Sir J. Seett and hie J. Waned; if they bad had all my 27 letters before Om., their opinion wimil have twin very different train what it was. They n•iuld, indeed, have POOL that it MU those who had thrown okstacles in my way, who had been guilty of "deceiving the 4 r.iwo and making a markers; of invoice. But, at any rate, if tor panic- had really thought they had ground, of *Ohms • ate, how came .key not to Ziriig these aliens, when I r• t..rued to Logland, nine wean ago; especially as it would Lave THE S' Wonted thrift so charm log an opportunity of vindicating their character, and fixing a stigma upon that of their arcs' ow, whom they mu,t necessarily hate, and, ot course, wish to expose and to puili.h ? flow came they not to bring those action► ? How came bath they and the Government to remain sa quiet? —The fact is, they ol! knew my charges to be true ; they were all glad that the matter was gut over so quietly ; they bad not the smallest desire to stir the coals again i and, it is that state of itesperatiim, ii which the ;misfit robbers now are, that ho- induced them to re!nrt to this old transaction, in the hop! of fronting a charge against me, which, owing to the long lapse of time, I slimed hod it diacult completely to tt:utc. T.iese robbers, portico] tray those of them who cone the county of Hants with their pre- - once or interference, eudeavour to represent me as a /se pen m en ; a person of no consequence ; I a person by whom the morns ought to ashamed to be led. —ln the tint place, I have not the flllltsptioa to wish to lend the county, though I have a very strong desire to as-1,1 in rescuing it, property tram the Lugs of publie-robbers, and its people from the Intolerable disgrace of being the tool, of a set of tas-gatherers and political priests.—ln the nest place, as to being a low person, I never, in point of birth, pretended to be a high one; I never put on any airs; I never attempt to dictate at any public meeting ; I never shun any man on ac count of his poverty, or low rank in life; I ant ant a seeker after the nobility, and those a ho call themselves great men. Therefore, any reproach of this sort does not apply to me.— Het, as to behig low in point of ciarterer,or is point of weight es a public man, I am persuaded that there are very few per sons, who will not laugh at the idea, especially when codes voured to be inculcated by these very robbers, whom, it is notorious, I make tremble for their cheese, and who are more afraid of me than ever rat was afraid of a terrier. I am, and always have been, for psylag respect to rank and title, even to etre birth, unaccompanied with any other con ideratioo ; because, such distinction in society appears to me to be pro ductive of many good erects, which I need not so dwell upon. But, I think, there can be Uss question, that great endowments of the mind, without any of the circumstances of title or fa mily, must, if properly used, be considered asgiviog the pos sessor an elevated place in society. Why are Clergymen. Medical men, and Lawyers, coisidered as geollessen 1 Nut because they are persons of high birth; for many of Hoon,and especially the Clergy, are bred at charity 'chortle; but, be cause their profession argues them to possess considerable mental endowments. In short, as it is mini alone which raises man above the brutes and giv:s him the command of them, so it is superiority of mind that raises one mu above another, and gives him, in one way or another, more or less of coat i mend over biro.—Therefore, when the 'Nattier% and the par t son Wu ideocks and the Mr. Portals cry out, " what a shame it is for the County to be led by Cuhbett," the County has only to ask, whether I appear to have more or less mind than the Poulters, and the parson Woodcocks, and the Mr. Portal..—That is the only question: a it whether I have more or less of load, but is !tether I have more or less of Waif ; and I , then, whether I hose inn e or less of truth on my side, than they have on theirs. These are tb • questions for the county to ask ; aryl, if it were divosed to put one more question, it might be this: which has most merit; o Welt has shewo the greatest capacity ; which is, on account of Ms acquirements, whether of mind or property, entitled to the greatest respect- Mr. Poulter, who (Inman he possesses to the luck of having a Bishop fur a brother-in-law; or, Mr Cobbett, who ewes all lie possesses to his own talents and industry liut, Gentlemen, this attempt to represent me as a tow and in,ignOcant person, besides the folly of it, L an iostaace of hypocrisy welt worthy of notice. There is scarcely a man mooniest those who nut appear to be united together for the purpose of &crying me, who has nut. upon some occasion or other, paid his court to toe, sought toy ae quaintaore, asked of me soinethiug or other, either fur himself ur for some relation or friend. I was told, a few weeks ago, that Dent a member of parliament, should say, that he wnedprrd the gentlemen in Hampshire did not pot nu down. Why, this Dent is one of the scores of Inch men, whom I have shut my door against. lie wanted to introduce himself to me, while I livel in Duke-street, Westminster, which I thsoistely would not permit him to da. Ile called I several times, and sent me up very respectful messages, 'till, at last, the servant had orders to tell him. that I a mild not see hint. I did not like Dent, and I would not be acquainted with him. I have mentioned him in particular here, be cause I recollect, that Mr. Windl&m was in my study cue of the times when he sent up his card ; and yet tlits um hos now the assurance to talk of me as a low person, who ought to have nothing to say is a county !—I do not like to say so much of mysAf; but, to do it this once appears due to the cause, if out to myself. And, I think, I may venture to i say, that the lives of very few men have been marked with stronger proofs of merit of every sort In my' regiment, I was every thing: the whole corps was under my martini : I rendered services, not only in the regiment, but in the pro vinces where we were stationed, such as no one but myself would have thought of. I remember a set of Commissioners being sent mot from England, a part of whose business it was to make a statement and report of the population, &c. dm. iof the province. They lived about our quarters for same time; they had some jovial carousings with our °Gerrit but, i l it was / who made out their statement. and drew up their re ' port to be sent home to the King; for which, by the kye, I they never gave me even their thanks. This statement, which, I as was the ease with every thing that I meddled with, was done iu so clear, correct, aisil, in point of penmanship, en beautifol a manner. that I have been told, the Duke of Kent, when be afterwards became Commander-inn-Chief in those provinces, had it copied ; and took away the original in a curiosity. This was the way in which I did every thing. I was, of course, very much envied and hated by the weak ad the wicked, and as was natural to expect, I did Not, amongst people whom, though my superiors in rank, I maid Dot help despising, bear myself is ith mach modeie 800. From niseteca to tweoty-seven is not mach of an age tsar moderation, especially with those, who most necessarily despise all around them. But. the fame of my services awl talents ran through the whole roentry. Every good man re spected me. I was invited to visit people in all parts of the 1 provices. While we lay at Fredericton in New Brunswick, I had the settling, or rather the preventing, of eight or nine law-suits. I bad the slain of a whole regiment to attend to; all its accounts. its parades, its guards, its every thing. I found, however, time for studying English and French gram mar ; I learnt geosnelry and fortification; I built a barrack for four hundred men, without the aid of either daughtsmas, carpenter, tor bricklayer, the soldiers ender me cut down the timber and dig the shows. and I was the architect; I went through a tract of woods, of above a hundred miles, where no usaa had ever ventnred before to go alone; and this I did for the parpose of potting a stop to dcsenion, by show ing the regiment that I osysslf was able to follow the fugi tives, sad, areesdisity, after that we had no more desertion to the Vatted Stases. With all thew occupations (of which I meotion only a few particulars that occur to me at the inn mew), I found time for 'Plaiting, fishing, shooting, and all the other sports of the country, of which, whet, 1 left it, I had seen. and knew, more thou any other man. There is i some little difernsee. I think, between such a man as I and such a man as Mr. Prather ! I might surely say to him, as Voltaire said to the Monk : " Yes, se's, mm doubt, you are a as, as well as I ; hut, niv friend, there are tars sorts of men."--Wbv, I always had weight and power. Wherever I. •..... , • keep their due, that isio say. as iaferini place. In every wag la which we can be compared, accept as to mere metal. I am their saystriiiet and yoti may be awed, Geodes's. 1.111 Mit, if thrypersevere in their Opposition to narlisodalski undertaking, and if I have say life and health, fail to make their fact. I Anse, is spite of all provocation, allstakoll from slating this 'sedate t t the pablie Lir its pwantl sof I have nleatideed it low ea my own aerosol i hot I seeing that the close Is to et attacked throu:b me, It Is mess imey for me to take este Is glittrd the channel. The ogee OP Reform has hers, and radioed? Is, Identified with my reps. tation; therefore it is necessary for me se show that those are the vilest of hypocrites sad calumniator, who attack that re: putatioo. The Lag, I was well Informed, expressed the highest approbation of the work I have been speaking of. lie was sot, I dare say, told wbp was the author, nor was it we rosary that he should be; for t wanted nothing a bum by way of reward, nu not even a " thaiskyon"—Bat I mast con fess that, ear I do think, the Kistg ewes me sounellsksg; sad thus I humbly conceive he ought to pay met he ought, I *Mak, to order his nsioisters to ease this Letter to be circu lated lit the same way that the little Pamphlet was; or, white I sheold prefer, to order them to elm:late ill that maser is, text Letter upon the subject of Parliamentary Refire*. The little Pamphlet did, I verily h-liere, proince mere deed YI this country than had bees produced by al Other publics tines put together fur years before.—There are abbot cisme thousand Clergymen in Knead and Wales, slid my radio lief Is, that all of them together, it the whole of the prod ' ing eleven years, had not, whether by siritiog or preaelsiogi moved the people so much as I moved them is one sink week. l trust. therefore, that his Majesty will be pleased to give his sadism to the circaLating of one of my Miters. I should, I think, prefer the next Letter upon Parliamentary Reform. I will certainly make the application, io a prow way, nad, if the King follows his owo opinion, he will, I as certain, grant my request. I have mow. Gentleness, to apologise for the Ingglit df this Letter. I could not curtail it, without leaving oat somethiag material : and yet, I am aware, that it may be thought more titan any man, under any circumstances, ought to my of him elf. Had it not been for the pub& ciubc,4lot a word 'hada any of them vile attacks have draws fmm me. What I have done seemed to be due to my friends, private as well as poli al ; beeathe, those who would be silent to my lace, would out scruple to taunt them. I mast, however, express any ear nest hope, that no friend of mine will, in future, expect of ale, that I waste any part of my time or paper In the an swering of perosal attacks. At any rate, lam resolved not to d.. it ; unless by hardy stating, in a short seotenee, that such a thing is true, or is false. There will be thousands of lie, against me; bat that is what I have to expect ; and, really, the good opinion is worth hut little of that man, who can lend an ear to the assertions of wretches, who, in pre mediae to give a true history of a transaction, could suppress 'I? documents out of El, and invert only qich as tended to thriiw no light at all upon the inerils of the ease. After this iactance of falsehood, baseness, meantime, and dirtinms, on the part of my assailants, no one can think it necessary for me to answer any of their future attacks, except by a mare affirmatiao or emotion; such, therefore, it all the answer they shall, is failure, receive. 1 am, gentlemen, your friend, Bot llth June, 1809. '%?l. COBSETI'. EXPEDITION. The following is 'MA to be an accurate :laic: meat of the effective strength of the Corps to be employed in this Expedition CAVALRY. 'Ow's Genet Liepihtt,' 241 Light Dragoons 3d Licht Dractados, 3 Strihdroas . Bth Licht 1)floonno. 3 Numb-oat . Mb Light Dragooss . . . INFANTRY. lit Foot Gaards, Ist Battalion . . Ditto . . . . 3d Battalion . Flank Companies, ditto . . King's German Legion, Ist Light Battalion Ditto 2d, or Queens . 3d, or Royals, 3d Battalion 4th Foot, lst Battalion Id Battalion sth . . lit Battalion 6th . . lst Battalion Ptb . . 2d Battalion 9th . . lst Battalion 11th . . '2d Battalion 14th . . Yd Battalion 90th Regiment 23d . Ilmialioo 16th . . I.t Battalion Vitlt Regiment . . . fri'd . I.t Battalion kith . . 24 Battalion 3Oth . . lit Battalion 99th . . Jct Battalion 42d . . I-I Battalion 43d . . Yd Battalion Stith . . ISt Battalion .51qt Regiment . . rat . . 9d Battalion 59th . . Yd Battalion • . . '2d Battalion 69th Light Infantry . . 71st . . Ist Battalion 76th Foot . . . . 7;th Regiment . . . 79th . . Ist Battalion . . Yd Battalion Fed . . ld Battalion 84th . . Yd Battalion 85th Regiment . . . 914 t . . Ist Battalion • . . lst Battalion 95th Rifle, Eight Companies Two ditto . Am• . • • 440 • • 480 • . 760 . 111!0 . 1100 • 650 • 809 • 1000 . 1000 . 900 • 950 • 850 . 1 100 • 950 • 775 . 1000 . . . . . . • 59u • 794 • loop • 6(X) 400 • 406 • 673 • If() I • 700 • 560 • l ow • iS7 • ICW • 664 • g 3 • 7.60 Total effective rank and 6k • 51,403 When the artillery, engineers, &c. are added to this force, the amount wilt, as we have already stated, he nut less than 40,000 men complete, Among the nnmcrous reports on the Continent, of a tendency unfavourable to the French interest, the following account has reached this country, the authenticity of which rests solely upon its own authority. Great discontents prevail in the French armies in Spain. The Poles, Italians, and Germans joined the standard of BotraeAserc for the sake of plunder, urged by representations of the immense wealth of the Nobility end Clergy in Spain, which would become the property of the invaders. The work of pleader has since been carried to its utmost extent, and the temptation no longer exists. A quarrel took place lately at Ferrol, between the French and German Officers at a f east it having been proposed by the fug tocr to drink the health of King Josern, the toast was rejected hv the latter, finless the same Com. pliment were laid to the Archduke Cu &IMES. A scuffle ensued, snort's we;e dr..%sie, and sixteen Officers were seriously hurt. 1i hen the garrison was c.iltd out next morning, it "as il.scorered that the gunnel Ltd extended itself to the privates, and that' 000 Germans descried to th.: SpaniSh forces under the Bliffrail DE LA 1(011:ANA. ~A•TLSMAI I was, I was a feeder, and would it ant bra base abaadon meat of the claims which notary and habit hart given use, to pretend that 1 am nothing more than such a man, for instance, as Parson Woodcock, %lune mental endowments are disci vered in his turning off those or bit tradesmen, who Meant the Requisition for a County &feettng to Omsk ft r. Wardle! 1 cannot help again reverting to this newlysthringhtsof scheme of representing me as a low and insignificant ;mason. - As a proof of the estimation in which I was held, ss bile id the army, I still mention, that about foarteen years ages General Carleton, brother of the late Lord Dnrchester. aid now Lord Dorchester himself I believe, came to ml eons/ to see me, and ta remind me, that he had the pleasure of know ing me in New Bronseick. lie was our reviewing General; and he knew me, my character and services well. lie had, however, never known me in any other capacity than that of Serjeant-Major ; and Generals are not mach in the habit of going to see Serjeaat-Majors, sinless there be something very particular about them. gentleman had been governor; upon the very spot where t was with my regiment fur fuer years; and his visit to me in England, was, it will be ob served, after my return from America the last time, after the affair of the Court-Martial of course ; and of that affair he must have been well acqaainted with all the circumstances, s:eing that his own name, as a reviewing Grimm!, who had been impo-cd upon by a false return, was mentioned in oae of t h e charges. 11it visit to Inc was a pretty good proof, that he had perceived nothing dishonourable it. conduct. But, this is, altogether the foolishest charge that even the robbers ever invented.—Why, on my return from America, having stopped at Halifax in Nova Scotia, the Duke of Neat, who requested to see me, talked to me about my regiment and all its ataln. He must have known all about the Court Martial. Mr. Windham and Mr. Yorke have been, biota my return, and the former was before, Secretaries at War; they had the whole history iu their office; and yet nobody in the country has ever spoken, and, I believe, thought better of we, than Mr. Windham and Mr. Yorke have. I remem ber, that in dining with Mr. Pitt, at Mr. Windhent's, in Au gust, 1800, the former asked me about Lord Edward Tit:- profit We talked about him a good deal. I gave the coin pally present (of which Mr. Canning was one) an account of his conduct, while at the regiment ; I spoke in very high terms of his zeal for the service, and I told Mr. Pitt, that Lord Edward was the truly sober and the only honest officer, I had ever known in the army. 1 did the; for the expres purpose of leading bite on to talk about the Court Martial ; but, It was ;avoids:l. la fact, they an well knew that what I had complained of was true, and that I had been balled in my attempts to ohmin jastice, only because I had neither camel nor friends. The same is known to those who now are publishing and cirenlating thi false account of that transac tion ; but, what they hare i 3 view, is not truth; it is, in short, to preserve their plunder, which they think ilia imminent danger, unless they can destiny my credit with the public. They naturally hate me. They have abundant reason so to do; bus, of late, their hatred must haie ieceived fresh supplies. Many of the gentlemen connected with tke press have d. alt the robbers some deadly blows; bit, from the nature of my publication; from my bring able to devote tbecchak of my pages to the tbing, I have certainly hit them harder them any !may else, amid the mealovre of their , hatred is accordingly. It is true, that one would Imagine, that nobody could be so foolish as not to see, that, when detected in such shamettl rutting as to suppress 22 out of 27 docu ments, and especially to suppress everydocument, upon which the real merits of the case turned ; one would imagine, that even the Poulters would have been able to tell the compile», that a publication like this must defeat its own purpoie, and teat. in the end, in place of injuring me, it mast do me a great deal of good. Bat, the truth is. that in such circumstances, men's minds are shut against all reasooing. Ueletted lo their robberies, they jump from the roof. They break their peeks on the pavement, in order to save them freest!» balm,. The purpose, at present, of all the public rubbers, of every description, is to prevent the success of endeavours to bring about a Re/'erns in the Borne of Contmot's ; for unless they can effect that ; unless they can prevent such a Reform from taking place. they must experience such a change as will compel them to rare their livings honestly, or live upon their sr» means; and, this is what they appear resolved not to do, if they can avoid it. Mr. Wardle has pledged himself to prove, that a Reform in the House of Commons would render the Income Tax unnecessary; and 1, who have considered every part of the subject with great attention, and Who sun acquaiated with every branch of revenue as well as of expen diture, am not only convinced that this saving could and would be made ; but, that a much greater saving would be made, and without any injury whatever to any part of the public service, while it swat be manifest that such a saving would prevent, in a considerably degree, the further depreci ation in the value of funded property. All this the whole gang of public robbers deny—flatly deny. Herr, thee, is a great question to be decided ; and, as I have taken a leading part in the discussion, the robbers, as to a desperate remedy, have been driven to personal attacks upon roe. For the sake of the cause, therefore, it became necessary fur me to show bow base, how detestable, are the conduct and the evident motives of our enemies. Those who publish these things against me, well know how false they are ; but, at h when they affect to comfier me as a low insignifkant person—it i; then that they are the greatest hypocrites. I could mention, if I were to take a day or two to consider, a thousand in stances, in which peruses, who are eacsnies to P ar —4/Ple ...are Reform, and who are considered as great mem, have availed themselves, or endeavoured to avail themselves, of my sup port. But, there is one instance, which now occurs to me, and which, under the present circumstances, I cannot refrain from stating. Each of you, Gentlemen, will probably recol lect, that, much about this time of the year, six years ago— that is to say, in the summer 180% at a time when dime was a geared fear of Salvation, a publication was issued by the tie verninant, was sent to an the towhees, was distributed la the churches, and was read from the several pulpits. This paper was entitled: ImPORTAIST CONSIDIMATIoNS rolt PEOPLE or ruts KINGDOK:” It was, in the newspapers, attributed to Lord Hawkesbury ; afterwards to Dr. Horsley. Dr. Rennet], and other learned and eloquent men; but the real ainhor of it was myself. • I wrote it ; offered it to Mr. Addington, through Mr. Yorke; be accepted of it, in which he showed his sense of duty to be above party pique ; and it was published and distributed at the expense of several thousands of pounds. Now, though the Reverend Messrs. Poulter and Woodcock may be ready to bite their tongues upon reflecting that they once read, even from the pulpit, a praductiati of mine, that will not do away the fact.—They would fain represent me as a /ow and insignifirant person ; Lut let them efface it they can the fact, that a production of mine. when its author was unknown, was by the periodical publications of the day, aye by that Morning Post and that Courier which now abate me, ascribed to Dr. Horsley Oust, and Owe to Dr. Rennet] ; and that this publicatioa was seat to every parish throsgboat the kingdom under Gamesmen( authorityand at the public c.rpnece. When Mr. Punnet. or Mr. Woodcock or Mr. Portal, or any of those who attempt to Inver me in tbs. estimation of the people of this coonty ; when any of them shall have produced arty thing to he sn ho enured as this production of mice, and shall have refused (as dial) to take any comprosation for it; when they than have given such irrefragable proofs of ability, poblicapirit and den intemtedoess, then let them pretend to plater themselves upon an equal footing with me; bat tint before; till thee let tires I r