The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 7STATESMAN. SI R,—ln your Paper of Friday last, I observe you copied a paragraph from the Morning Chronicle . the preceding day, relating to that celebrated chts. - icier, L. GOLDSMITH, which excited my attention, and has induced me to trouble you with a few re larks upon the subject. I have often been surprised that the enlightened :olumns of the Chronicle shoald give circulatton to the writings of a man, whose detestable conduct has placed him in the lowest stage of human degrada. tien. I have heard that many of the gentry in Italy are in the habit of countenancing the heroes of the sti letto, but I could never have supposed that charac ters equally depraved would have been countenanced in this kingdom. It seems, however, that Mr. Natty has condescended to adorn his Paper with Extracts from the ,Intigallican, and has assigned a reason for so doing, which, I must confess, is not very satisfac tory to me. Perhaps Mr. PERRY felt it necessary, for the good of his own character, to make this statement to the world ; because, when an honourable man has, by some indiscretion of conduct, been seen in company with a directly opposite character, he will naturally feel a little uneasiness for the purity of his awn fentei Mr. PERRY says, " we have again and again copied from Mr. GoEnssurn's Register the accounts that he has given of a most disgraceful mission to the Northern Courts, in which we suspect he was him self employed." This is very extraordinary language for a copyist to use towards the original ! But it seems Mr. PERRY gives as much credit to Mr. Gotessurn as MILTON does to the Devil ;—he supposes him to speak truth when it suits the base purpose of his heart ; for he continues, " we , have copied them, because we believe the narratives to be genuine :" and he farther says, " Mr. GOLD SMITH has the countenance of the Earl of YARMovTia in what he has done." Will the Noble Earl feel the same obligation to Mr. PERRY, for thus coupling his name with that of an acknowledged traitor, as he did when that Gentleman joined the common i • herd of Ministerial writers in giving the Noble . Earl's letter, in contradiction to a statement in the ! Gazette de France, after such letter was rendered unnecessary, from the circumstance of the Editor of that Paper's having himself had the honour to contradict such impeachment of the Noble Earl's character in his succeeding number. Mr. PERRY likewise joined the herd, about the time alluded to, in using his negative endeavours to withhold from the ' eyes of Englishmen the Petition to the PRINCE RE GENT, of his oppressed and distressed countrymen, who are confined at Longwy, in France. Mr. PERRY could copy the Noble Earl's unnecessary letter from the Courier, while be accuses its author of having violated his honour in having " betrayed, through a public Journal, the secret instructions which he re ceived from the Court that employed him ;" and he I could copy articles from the writings of a man whom he proclaims as a traitor, because he thinks those ar tides ""to be genuine;" but the feeling]) written Petition from his unfortunate captive countrymen its France, which appeared in the STATESMAN, and some other Papers, he neglected to copy, not, surely, be cause he thought such Petition was not " genuine," for it was signed by upwards of sixty of those unfortunate individuals, whose names were well known .to thousands of his readers. If the sup posed genuineness of an article is the criterion hich guides Mr. PERRE's judgment in copying it, independent of every consideration which should influence the sympathising heart, he is paying but an ill compliment to his own understanding; for he prefers the testimony of a man whom he dignifies as a traitor, while the testimonies of sixty-four men, who have filled honourable stations in life, are theug!.t unworthy of his notice. Nor is the contrast tery honourable to his feelings as a man, in particu lar when his principles are so professedly designated by the name of parka The whole position forms a two-edged sword, and Mr. NM may chuse that which suits him best. But what mighty circumstance is it which is brought to light by the aid of a traitor's peg ? Ac cording to the credit given it by Mr. PEARY, it is this—The Rums* Butrzron and the Kings of Pans• CIA and SWEDEN had agreed to act in conjunction with this country against BONAPARTE ; but when , the two latter of the Northern Monarchs found that the PRINCE REGENT had committed the management of the Government to such men as a CASTLEREAGH and I VANSITTAR;, that they no longer saw any depend- .nce to be placed upon the faith of the REGENT'S Go. rernment, which induced both of them to secede from he coalition, and one to join the contrary side.— Chia places the herd of Ministerial writers In a trange dilemma, who have constantly eulogized kLExszrozn for his wisdom in destroying hia towns, ities, and magazines, and leaving his country to .he ravages of the enemy ; while the -true reason eems to have been the defection of his two Northern neighbours; and the root of such defection is riretted ► pen our Ministers themselves. What will the herd “ty to Mr. GOLDSMITH, for thus eiposing a man whom they have long borne en their wings of fame, rnd who was patronized by their idol, Mr. PERCE.., ' ►4? They will, no doubt, say, that this man, not •ith standing his professions, and the wages he has iceived in common with themselves, is a traitor M. Yours ; acc. ottbamptoo, September We. GIMOR. ' t STNITSMAN, PUBLIC DINNER TO AIR. .131 i OUGII4OI. or the Miiiiter orl the day... , hi s s l a y" an d depends what manner the Delegates, *ere received by bht nits— to lie says; "do this and they do it,i' .Representati% es. Why, the two Generals mare Id The following Speech was delitered by the Ref. it tote this and they vote it." Hence we draw the occupied in other pursuits that they could do rte. Mr. Seeman at the Dinner given in bottour of cenClusions that no real responsibility on the part of thing to further the rescinding of the Ordets in Costes Mr. BaouoHAM at Liverpool : Ministers will be effected—that no correction Of cil. .Our D..legates were reduced to the net:CORY, of GENTLEMEN,—If an individual so homble as my- laluses will be. Practicable ) till Parliament is re- applying to Mr. Brougham: lie took up oaf cruse. self might he permitted to borrow a phrase from au forated—rthat Is ) till isa have something approaching He dedicated to it the whole strength of his powerful ornament t o the episcopal bench (I mean the Bishop I tea full, fair, and .free representatio n of the people: faculties. lie grappled with the adversary, and card. of Norwich), I should be inclined to say, as he l a t e ly li n th e lime of Commons. ' j.ried en the contest till he gained a complete and glo• said to the Catholic delegates, " this is the prondest I In short, when we consider the extensive and, Altus fiver/. day of my life." It is indeed truly gratifying to m y , growing patronage arising from the army, the nary, ! Gentlemen, the inhabitants of Airnaitighani f of feelings to have my name coupled With a tribute of/ the hise, the church, and from the collection and t Manchester, Gird ofotfierictinis which hate benefited respect to the Friends of Freedom in Liverpool ; es•l distribution of the revenue, we c.lneurin the opi- . by his exertions, have testified theirgratitude by every pecially when this is done at the suggestion of a gen , i idol) once solemnly promulgated by the Rouse of method which lay within their' power: They have demos of the character of our Chairman ; of whom Commons itself—that " The iutluence of the Crown given public entertainments, in his honour. So far it May justly be said, that it is difficult to determifie has increased, is increasinS, and ought to be dimi- all is well., The applause Olds fellow citizens is to whether he stands more eminently distinguished by niched," and that by throwing an additional weight a man of ingenuous mind, a.inivierfni stimulant to 'it-- the soundness of his understanding, or by the purity • ; tuous exertions. But permit trte to tetklitow would th e Intothe scale of our popular representation of his heart. " The very head and front of our °Betiding I gratitude of these towns hare beet" manifested, had But, Gentlemen, I must apprize you, that you " Itath th is extent, nu mierr,"— they enjoyed the privilege of sending Members to .Bove, in drinking this toast, taken upon yourselves ; finless, indeed, it be an aggravation of our political Parliament ? Why, this would have put . Mr. seerious responsibility, and have committed your. offences that we humbly venture to be of opinion„. Brougham into the painful situatirio of making his Valves farther than you are perhaps aware. The pro- that those laws are not very salutary. which pre. 'option which of these he would choose to represent. ceedings of such of us as in the town of Liverpool elude his Majesty from availing himself of the brit- Gentlemen, my native town is more happily cir. have been commonly designated by the name of the very and wisdom of a large portion of his subjects, eunistanced than those to which I have alluded, and Friends of Freedom, have been made the subject of merely because they happen to profess the Roman . I hope our conduct will correspond with our cirenst. severe criticism and comments. Our principles have Catholic religion—the religion of their ancestors, , stances. We are assembled here this evening to dies been misrepresented—our motives have been ques- and also of our's. press our gratitude to Mr. Brougham. But I trust tioned—.our v i ew s have been calumniated. lam For this have we been vilified. For this have we our gratitude will not Feat here. After the hint which therefore anxious, in this great and respectable, but , been calumniated. For this• have we been held up dropt from Mr. Roscoe, add the still more plain in. in some respects miscellaneous, assembly, to give a as objects of reproach. But calumny and reproach-! timatlon so happily mode by my Lord Sefton, faith briefabstrectw( our principles-4 say, Gentlemen, a Asti ssothhoke us from. our fixed resolve. COII9I.IOUS ! not restrain myself—bet will take the liberty'of brief abstract, and not a defence—for I flatter myself ,at least of the integrity of our views, we will perse. pressing my onlent wish, a wish which I am per. that their statement will carry their vindication along . were in the course upon which we have entered. It suaded I feel in Unison with a large majority of my in the cote.__ with it. I flatter myself also, that, if you will in- seems to he the destiny of human nature that ca dulge me with a few minutes' patient hearing, I shall lumny must be ever active. She is busy at this very be able to demonstrate to your satisfaction, that this moment. She is directing her envenomed shafts abstract isso far from being irrelevant to the imme- against this assembly. I shall not, be at all surprised diate object of our present meeting, that it naturally to hear it circulated to-morrow in the town of Liver grows out of it, and has upon it a direct and manifest pool, that the Noble Lords who have this evening bearing. honoured us with their presence, have met us for the In the mean time, Gentlemen, when in so numer- purpose of digesting a diabolical plot for the equati ons an assemblage as the present we ever touch upon zation of property—Nay, I shall not be astonished the detail of politics, it is idle to expect that we shall if some of our sapient Common Councilmen should be all of one mind. There is, however, an Italian profess their belief that Mr. Roacoe has been disclos proverb which intimates, that they who ale friends to ing to us a deep-laid scheme for the levelling of in the same individual ought to be friends to each other. tellect. Let this be the ruling principle of this evening's pro- Gentlemen, the circumstances in which we are met ceedings. On whatever other topics we may difer, together mince the expediency, if not the necessity, in this we are unanimous—that we entertain the most of an addition to the popular part of Cur representa friendly sentiments towards the distinguished iudivi- tion. We are honoured with the company of very dual, in whose honour we are now met together.— respectable Gentlemen from Manchester, Birming- Let this be a bond of 'union between ourselves—let ham, Bolton, Leeds, and other extensive manufac this be to us a link of mutual friendship—and in the turing towns, the inhabitants of which, during the spirit of that friendship, whatever differences of opi- course of the last spring suffered extreme distress in nion may subsist amongst us, let them be stated consequence of the operation of the Orders iu Coun with candour, and received with liberality and good cil. Exhausted by privations, these communities temper. I determined to state their case to Parliament. For In my own name then, and on behalf of those in- this purpose they sent delegates to London. And habitants of the town of Liverpool and its vicinity, I when these delegates arrived there, to whom had with whom I have lately had the honour to actin po- they to apply ? They had no Representatives of their Utica, 1 solemnly profess in the presence of this most own. They were then oblb.;ed to go out into • the respectable assembly, that we venerate the British . highways and hedges to find any one who would Constitution as established in king, Lords,and Cent- listen to their complaints. Among others, it is not mons—that we have been taught to regard this con- impossible that they applied themselves to the Mem. stitution as a well contrived system of checks and hers for Old Sarum. For strange as it may seem, it balances. We admire the wise maxim of our antes- is no less true, that whilst the sal y asses that browse tors, that the King can do no wrong; but that bis ' upon the thistles which grow upon the ruins of Old . Ministers are responsible, not only to their master, Sarum ase represented, and for ought I know (for but also to their country, for every act of state.— really I have not the honour of being acquainted Above all are we taught to believe, that it is the; with the Honourable Gentlemen), very fairly and boanden duty of the House of Commons to restrain ! properly represented in Pailiamant, the populous the prodigality of Ministers, and to curb them, towns of Birmingham, Manchester, Bolton, and should they unfortunately d ev iate f r om the path of Leeds, have not a Representative amongst them.— rectitude, and attempt to run a career of wickedness In this extremity the delegates from these towns ap. or of folly. , plied themselves to Mr. Brougham, upon whom how- So do we " find it nominated in the bond."— • ever, if I may be allowed to adopt a happy expres. Thus do we find it written in the great charter of our sion of my Lord Sefton, they had not 64 a shadow liberties. These are the lessons which we learn from of a claim." But pardon me, Gentlemen, let me the perusal of the writings of L oc ke, o f De Lolme, retract that assertion. They had a claim—the claim Blackstone, and other luminaries of the law, from which distress ever has upon a liberal and ingenuous whom, and from whom alone, we derive our notions mind. That claim they did not urge in vain. Mr. of. the principles of the British Constitution. Brougham undertook their cause ; and he undertook Such, Gentlemen, is the theory—But what is the it in a manner which will entitle him to their grad fact ? Alas !if we refer to the history of our times, tude to the latest moment of his life. But after all, we shall find, that not one disastrous series of mea- I would appeal to the Gentlemen here present, who cures has been entered upon—that not one ill- may be regarded as delegates to the meeting from the planned and fatal expedition has been undertaken, towns I have just mentioned, whether it would not y any set of Ministers whatsoever; that does not bare been not only pleasant, but useful, to them had .abed vindicated upon the Journals of the House of they possessed Representatives whom they might have Commons. In proof of this I may appeal to the had a right fully to instruct, and whom they might whole course of our parliamentary history, from the , have called upon to plead , their cause in the great passing of the Boston Port Bill, which lost his Ma- Council of the Nation. jesty the sovereignty over thirteen flourishing co- , Gentlernen, the operation of the Orders in Coun lonics, to the Walcheren expedition, that blot on our cil weighed heavily upon the town of Liverpool.- • country'. annals, which brought deep and indelible Our trade was suspended—our commerce was well disgrace—not indeed upon the arms, but certainly nigh extinct. Alarmed by this state of affairs, a upon the councils, of Britain. ! number of our most respectable Merchants resolved And, Gentlemen, on mentioning the Walcheren to represent their situation to the House of Com expedition, permit me to remind you, that the first mons. With a view, I suppose of doing this with time our honoured friend Mr. Brougham raised his some degree of eclat, they applied to our present voice in Parliament, he raised it in reprobation of Chief Magistrate, requesting him to call a public that expedition. And well indeed he might so repro. meeting for that purpose. Gentlemen, when I ap. bate it, for so gross was the ignorance of its planners, ! preach so august a character as the Mayor of Li. that though its principal object was the capture 4 serpool, I am sensible that I tread on very deli the dock-yards of Antwerp, they absolutely did net tato ground. I have always been anxious to think know where those dock-yards were to be found.' highly of constituted Authorities. Mr. Pope has . For after Lord Chatham, the Commander in Chief , said, of the expedition, had been a full fortnight on the 1 " A Saint in cra p e, is twice a saw in lairs.° island of Walcheren, we find him gravely entering ; In the, spirit of the idea, it has long been a part of in his journal the following memorandum, " Every , my creed, that the Chief Magisterial gown of Liver information stated, that the naval establishments' pool is so imbued, so saturated, so double dyed (if and docks at Antwerp were between the citadel and you will) with wisdom and discretinal that, upon the town, which had not been so understood."—! whose shoulders soever this mysterious mantle is Gentlemen, notwithstanding this ignorance and its ! placed, he becomes at once wise and discreet. In 1 melancholy results, it was decided by a vote of the ; speaking of Mr. Mayor, then, I shall speak of him majority of the House of Commons, that this expe- ;as of a little King, at least at important as one of dition was planned in wisdom and executed with ' Bonaparte's creation, and shall say, that not he him ability. self—but that his advisers, are gravely responsible So much, Gentlemen, as to the House of Com. for the measures which were too successfully adopt. moos being a restraint upon foolish measures. As ed to frustrate the design of the respectable Mer. to its beinga check upon the prodigality of Ministers, I chants to whom I have alluded. For we well know I suppose the effects of its vigilance on this head are that when the tale of sorrow was disclosed, the to be found in the swelling of the national debt to Reese of Commons was deeply.affected. Ministers the portentous amount of 1300 millions—they are to gave way—and the Orders in,Council were rescinded. be found in the extensive ramifications of taxation— What then would bare been the ooesequence had they are to be found in the assessed taxes, and in the • thin tale been told, and had the Ordersteen rescinded which WO give credence to - sooner ? Why, instead.of beteg in a state fellow burgesses, that the day may soon come wheit we shall see. Mr. Brougham elevated to the august station of Representative of the ancient and loyal Borough of Liverpool.—[Great and continued ap plause.] Mrs, MOUNTAIN has quite recovered froth her alarming indisposition, and fully able to resma her professional labours. The following is an extract of a letter from Wrex. ham, dated Sept. 10, 1812:--." Wheat has fallen to 151. the bushel of 18 quarts in this market to-day.-- Corn is expected to yield particularly well." The price of corn and flour has experienced a re* Auction in various parts of the country within the last week. We are happy to say, that the peck loaf was last week reduced fourpence in this city; end a farther reduction must, from the abundance of the crops and the fineness of the weather, shortly take place, to the unspeakable comfort of the lower orders.--(Or. ford Paper.) One of the Treasury Prints says—" Call Minis ters by what name the Opposition please, • What's a name" Call them the Household Troops—we have no objection to the title; the Household Troops shallbe our Household Gods."—This is all fair in the way of trade: these Household Gods supply the print in question with its Household Loaf. The following is a Table of the Population of - England and Wales throughout the last century : In 1700 —8,475,00 D 1780 7,951,000 171 J 6,110,000 1785 6,01640 • 1720 8,694,000 1790 8,675.010 1790 5,796.000 1795 9,05:000 1740 6,054.000 1801 —9,168,0 Y) 1750 6,567.000 1905-6 9.828.0J0 1760 7./11,030 1811 18,458,0 - Jo 1 1770 7,4.28,000 . . AGentleman in the Country having a quarrel witk lawyer, who, he conceived, had injured him, after running through a long cata!ogue of opprobrious epithets, thundered a whole broadfide in these em phatic words—" In short you are every thing that is --nut actiendok." I . There is now on board the flagship at Spithead, a seaman, win) has been sent home from Lisbon, sus pected to have been accessary to the horrible murders at itatclif-highway. Thursday a boy fell into the harbour, opposite North Leith Toll, and would have inevitably pe; rished but for the humane exertions of Capt. Cum mings, of the Stockton packet, who witnessed the accident from the opposite side, and who immediate ! leaped intathewater and reached the spot, just is 'time to save the boy from perishing. The old Parliament House of Perth was lately taken down to make room for a new house. Last week the workmen, who were employed in digging a vault for the intended structure, discovered a large 'quantity of silver coins, about 18 inches below the 1 surface of the street. They were in a state of oxyda tint), and many of them adhering together in a lump. They seem to be chiefly English and Scotch pennies of the 13th century. Among them is a coinof Joke Baliol. TO THE EDITOR. Surrey Theatre. 11,01.15, 1819. Sia,—l perceive, by your Paper of yesterday s , that some." good-natured friend" has furnished you Kith an allusion to a fracas which took place at this Theatre a week ago, between Mr. Elliston and Mr. DeCamp ; and in such a form as greatly to misre. present the circumstances.—Mr. Elliston is at CheTe tenham; and, at this moment, I have no means, of consulting with him, whether any notice should he taken of such a mis-statement or tot. As I, how ever, am very unfairly referred to, I think it right, ha justice to myself, as well as to Mr. Elliston and Mr. De Camp, to say that the facts were simply these. A dlssention did occur at the theatre on the erening•of Tuesday, the Bth instant, between Mr. Elliston and Mr. De Camp, in which some hasty expres s ions were used on both.sides : and whieit,for a single moment, did occasion a slight personal encounter. The effect of this was a meeting at an early hour the neit morn► htg, on Dulwich Common; where Mr. Elliston was accompanied by my self, and Mr. De Camp by one of his friends. Mr. Ellistowand Mr. De Camp exchanged shots: and then, on the interpysition of Mr. De Camp's friend and myself they were prevail. ed upon to shake hands. No persons in, such a situation could conduct themselves more properly, In reference to the allusion to myself, I haveio add, that the quarrel was not produced by. any act or ex. pressinn of mine; and that, so far &Ms fomenting Income tax—to . ___,, if . are _ i some months , _ . _ the ominous croaking, of the Chancellor of the :- :ef hostility, we should have been in a state of nenCi - any difference between the parties, every possible chequer, we shall shortly have added a tax upon . liation with America. .. . ...effort was used by me to reconcile them daring the capital. . . 1 In process of time, however", thelehierthents did • . the progress of the disputq, and before they proceeded Gentlemen, in i t apVities -Mines of these . what wise men usually dot they !seat the to' the kit extremity. I. am sorry I have heat will, Igo think arm Iwo iseovnted . ,chif of those transaction •of their ewe bourn. -,' obliged to intrude upon yes ; and I remain, Sir, onuses In the fact, that the' Ensue df 'Comp, e legates to. London, to s'iltn , lll4r , , ribren . t. 1 • Your moil obedient servant, **nods In places= and pensioners, the creatures And here,' Gentlemeni it .6. ivrimirun la I SAM. TKO. RUSSZILL. „7, km•...• 1•• .. . • •• • i , 1 1' I ~; I i ii • • , • k l i g li It I I N i A \ , „ 1 ,