The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-06-10 00:00:00

- .1•••• .- TO CLERICCS. [Viola Tag WOWING MIRIURT ll—. May 214, Mag. Rex's:wenn Ste,—l feel Battered by your notice of my letter of the 14th inst, although you seem to have mis understood my meaning on souse points. I have pe. rnsed my letter again, and can discover ia it no cause for a supposition, that I desired to favour one class of the commanity to the injury of another. In all the feeble exertions I have ever made to serve my country, I have pordinusly avoided Party, and never intended to act partially towards any one, at the same time. I was xar.., it would not secure friends to any great dearer; Whiga as we:l as Tories, like none hut thivk and (Mal Party -rote, and you probably know, that Reformers harbour too much jealosisy of rack other to draw well together. If you had not said, "we Parsons," I should not have taken you for one of that class, as you seen' to entertain some liberal sentiments towards what are " the louver orders." Yet, notwithstanding YOU are a Minister of the Established Church, you must be told, that parsons as well as landowners, and those inter ested in the soil, together with fundowaers, lawyers, merchants, mechanics, and others, with some honorable exceptions. have not of late stood forward manfully, in asserting the RIGHTS or THE PEOPLE, and have lams pretty active in encouraging bloody fears and tyre:limited sae %sears. Yet, Mr. Clericus, Ido not approve of that rant of your letter. which has a tendency to keep alive ,jealousies that must impede, as it has done for years, that Rtu num pull altogether, which we want, and without i-hich we might as well contend against the lightning of heavers, as against the Borough system.—As to any pyrepattly from me, for those " Country Gentlemen who . voted in favour of one of the degraded Grenville party," I slid not perceive that it was in we, nor can I credit It, a.. few men are less indebted to that place-hunting Crew, that, myself, and none can hold them in greater abhor- Terser.. (Inc of the party was, some years ace, for day. i re.; El, Mar., to es poll like a drove of Welch Leasts, and it is said, at tire instigation of his sneering cousin. illy (edifies accord with your own, in the hope of see ing the prices of our necessary articles of life, on a level . with those of Francs; hut, Sir, I do not think the blame rests pith the Fanner, that you 11 are at present charged Is. per lb. for fresh butter." Ile, I apprehend, sells at or !std. per lb.; and has long sold his fat sheep at 3d. per lb. and sinks the offal, when you, and Your fellow inhabitants of Newbury, have given 41d. and sd. The blame, I suspect, rests with them and you, for suffering yoinselves to he imposed upon by Isigglers and others. All, tenet, will be right, ere long, but a little patience may not he amiss; the gond things are in the had, and • if Lot nipped, or lan-peeled, you may enjoy fruit in due season. " Aye! but your pity is excited for the farmer." Aye, to Ire sure it is—why should it mot? If you sserea good Slot true Christian Parson, your pity would be excited for the former, and for all mankind. My pity too, ex tends to vat parsons, though God knows you. and your clerical brethren have displayed aro good will towards • i.e Reformers. flow can any man withhold his tom -111.3,:i0a ashen Ise reads that part of Mr. Lockhart's speech, where he is reported to have said, that "the Clerzw. that gr, ,, t arid etnerabk body of urea, was re. fl Arced to th , re;,‘" We pity you, and the !blithers of your Cloth, for your blindness in not per ceiving that to support Ministers upon all occasions, or to refuse art aid in maintaining the Ri_4 - hts of the Peo ple. is not only very foolish, but very wicked. Rouse, therefore, my good Mr. Parson, the whole of your sable has, head them yourself, show a bold black front a t Reading, in favor of Reform, and the very darkness of their aspect will strike death and terror to Corruption, and all its direful herd. Let them suspead all thoughts of loaves rind fishes ; they cannot ail be provided for, as Pa..,e.a Illy was; let them do their duty as a body, as you', Mr. Clericus, individually seem inclined. You s,iy, " must suffer for joining bad company," meaning " the Land-owners who urged the Minister to carry nn a most unjust and unnecessary war, and armed their dependants, who sabred the people at Manchester and other places ;"—now, Mr. Clerk, I should like to know when this junction took place? I knew not; there has been between me and them, for years, a most determined cat, as if mutually agreed upon. You must he..l/,lair Parson, a very clever fellow, and I should like to be better acq uainted with you, for you tell me. " if it had so happene, that you (meaning me ) had placed your money in the funds instead of land, you would have been one of the Brat to have laughed at the well merited sufferings of the Land-ateliers." Really, this sort of keen ledge is very wonderful, and you deserve a patent for the invention. Au if, however, is upon many occasions, a most powerful ally. Give me an if, and I r nniul conquer the world, and pay off tire national debt. if you walked upon your head, you would not dirty your stockings, that is if you arc in the habit of wear leg stockings. if your Annt had been born a boy, she 1.0.1 have been your Uncle. /fit had been a Fund -1 std. instead of a Landlord, I might have been &Jew B."( er, as you may be for any thing J know to the contrary, fur Parsons do sometimes gamble in the Alley, as well as other great folks; in that case, I might have Lad a heart to laugh at the sufferings of my fellow creatures. if I know yon, Mr. Clericus,you have too much charity in you to laugh at the sufferings of any one, even your greatest opponents. I am for pardoning all those who will turn from their wicked ways. Let us laugh, althengh I hold no fund, at disappointments, if you will, so they do not amount to real sufferings. De fretted expectations, which were to have been eujoyed at the expense of the people, is fair game; and alien en gendered by pride or avarice, deserve no pity, but all the contempt and derision we can muster.—"'lt was the Land-owners who incurred tire debt." No, my worthy Priest, not so altogether. They might have prevented it, so might some other classes, if they had been united, parsons, lawyers, ti.e. The Boroughmongers were the fellows that secured tire accursed thing. Keep your eye fixed upon them, and pray. Clericals, do not suffer your spleen tp carry you beyond bounds.—Stick to the 110- BOULIIIMONDERS, and nothing but Beroughsaua geriap. "No shuffling out of the debt." I don't like that word ;it stinks so of a shop—l mean a law yer's shop : but, for the present, let it pass. I agree— no ehutiling—no unfair dealing—no tricks—" Justice requires its foil payment:"—No question, Mr. Parson— but pray. Reverend Sir, what do you mean by the word fell' titi 11, I should consider to mean, thefall afieleat was borrowed, or else you or I do not comprehend the true meaning of the word " Justice,"—and one or the other of us ought to be sent back to school to he re-whipped. You never, to be sure, can so mistake the meaning as to contend, that if I were to borrow of you a stone, and call it an apple, when I could not exchange it for an ap pleat my pleasure, that then " Justice" would require " me to pay the debt in a nice nonpareil. If, indeed, the dose would have produced me half a nice nonpareil when von lest it me, then " Justice" requires its full payment; hat not the full or whole apple ;—No, Sir, the full half apple. So, if 1 had borrowed a piece of rag, and that rag called a Bank note of the value of 20s. when iu reality it would produce only ten shillings worth of beead or butter, my notion of Justice would carry me no further than to !say yon lOs. for your note — so honest into ought to look tor mere. "No slauali ng out of the debt"—nor into the de/t, say I—" Justice requires its fall paymant"—Justice requires not its DOWILZ PAY. mine, Mr. Parson. There are, Mr. Clerics., some " shallow and designing men" who suppose, or pretend to suppose, that our lands stand mortgaged for the pay ment of the debt, called national—for a moment, and only ._~_ __ " w g - P••7oKr‘- . o ~-r, __:.:~ rnr. s• • FIAIVI A N alinement. we will set you doyen fel ore of thoseltoot:de• of a horse Of 111-fause, is fast sinking into eternal sight, iuded c r eatures. Pray, then, M r . ILL, have the goodness still preserves, after its power of enjoyment are passed, to extract the clause from the Act which conveyed our prime of its turpitude and uacleanness. TI ii• hied for that purpote—sliew me your bond—" Rio ' la° *ling"—"- Justice requires it." If you caietot tlo this wretched old thing, like mother Cole, coming from the ' hew The where, or by what clause. you *chilli) the Tabernacle, seems to have taken a dram of late, as it .10(.11 on our neressary articles of life at a security for the debt—show emir liond — " No sliufiling."— were to envi frame, to support it a orate its decayieg " Jnstive requires it." The aa aa sett taxes, I will little longer and enable it to lye to the last. We told admit, have always been considered a aectult! for the Fends, but nothine beyond. Half a loa f ft said to our readers, some weeks age, to watch it. We said that be better than no bread; hot half the debt would produce it was waiting to see which way the cat jumped, that more than double the loaf when the debt was contracted. it . , . , . *s i g h t might jump along wi th her . a molting *bat *sign Faith : faith ! faith ! Mr. Parson ;hut not all the faith now escape our notice, it has ;t last ventured to jump, on one side, if you please, good Sir. Are you a Reformer." or are yon not? If you be, and there be truth in what „a our rea d ers s h a ll new me mho manner it ha in d as Ors said, b %l cs a u s glt anr stalls a t .! h t a a t fair , "a"1 u Pa c r a i n i a b m e eli n t o w i l ier " performed beex Pi loft ; they being so 1 0 . former to admit that a Parliament so constrnyted, with bear in mind, that this notorious prostitute has. dab Moyers and setters, could mottletage the soil of the united we believe, two scores of years, been ouiforruly on the Kingdom to !man-jobbers sod Jews. Kkk would be re- side of every species of oppression; and particularly establishing Jerusalem in right earnest. e, No—you do know better, my master. Come, come—Ve honest-- loud and clamorous beyond measare for the imprison. recollect you are a Clericus. meat and punishment of "jacobisis and radicals ;" than As to tithes, von bad no right to hint that i expected they would he purchased out of the taxes. 1 only wept it has invariably given its countenance to every act of an eyitable commutation, and this, I have long thought, power, whether in England or is France, that has been would he beneficial to the country, sad to all, parties levelled against the freedom of mankind, and that has concerned. You're quite correct i a considering me Ns aallidnit of been marked by the shedding of i saw t blood,for wile& Mr. Cobbctt. i wish you, the Parsons, and ethers, bad it'llas always appeared to thirst as the droves off Pori read and attended to what lie bas so ably written Ca the subject of the currency for shove twenty veers. and this thirst for the dews of the beavens.—This print, on the country would mil be in its present lireetl(l3l plight. N o sth of this month,has an article upon the conduct of the return of the paper, pray. As far as it would disturb • andvowne all dealings made s i nce 1819 , i t m i g ht b e m i ned R„, irs, from which we take the following elver neer 711 E Tnntn. The great cure for all our grievances &ions. It accuses them of having supported an extra would he, an EFFUCTUAL REMANI IN PARMA/LE:VI, *agent exnenditure for thirty years past ; it accuses when a final adjustment would take place, sad if one v them of a desire new to enrich themselves at Abe ex . class of society should be a little injured, it would •be consoled in the persuasion. that the country could soccer pence of the country; it charges them with support return to its present ealas.itons elate. ing a corrupt House of Commons after corrupt Hou se I have the honour to be , mr. Cleri cus, Your most obedient servant, H. of Commons up to the present. in the commissios of P.S. One word more about the bill—which .ora would all manner of wrong, even to that of voting direct and throw entirely upon the landowner, and contrary to the notorious falsehoods (such as that a pound note sad a justice you contend for—you, probably, forget, that the landlord's rent was reduced to half its value from 1797. shilling were equal to a guinea); and says that it ; lie bad covenants which, he thought, gave him his rent would be unjust that they should do this without suf in " the current coin of the realm," a power to distrait) , or recover po ion of his land ; little dr eamin g , that firing any kind of ill•conseqnence. It tells them that any set of men could cancel solemn covenants, or en- this would be contrary to the laws of prudence, which lagements, that were constantly talking about the save " ve have sinned. and be ye sure your sin will /aith of Parliament. So it.was, and he ha d p a p er rents • - instead of rents in coin forced upon him, still lam will- " god you set." It jeers them and says it is too late ing he should pay his fair proportion of the bill, though to talk now when they find the land simply staggers ac he might, as I did, oppose the entertainment—the feast, der what they themselves have pot epos it. Says it is or more properly speaking the gluttony and iaturicatioe. was enjoyed by all classes, all ages, and all sexes ; 'they their dotty to support those whom they have brought all therefore must now pay the bill. If you were Pre- to the parish. It discovers that pauperism has rep ident of some renowned loyal dinner, and a majority larly increased with taxation, and it upbraids the land were to forget the sanctity of their divine Chairman. and get beastly drunk, an incident not altogether without a lords with having stigmatised those , who calle d fo r precedent, I would maintain, that all the company, a redaction of taxes, with the names of jacobine and whether sober or not, should " pay the bill." But avoid such a repast in future. radicals.—Let us stop here. Let us 'tall upon oar rea- Let us have afair bill, and pay it. and I will pay my dal who have been observers of the conduct of this proportion as cheerfully as some of those wise feasted. infamous newspaper, to recollect the conduct of this There is a fund called originally a Sinking Fund, but newspaper at the time of the restoration of the Boor lately a Huatuve, established under a pretext of redeem- hose, ad in the 1817. At el t i year t te former period, ing the Debt, but in reality to keep up the price of what ~ • this p• ter cattail for the execution of all those that it is called Stock, that is, a share of the thlat. How would You like it, if there were a Sinking Fund, or humbug, called the jacobins of France ; and it blamed the for the purpose of buying op corn at Mark-lane, and French Goverotnent for not preventing the massacre sinking it in the river Thames, to raise the price of our of the protestant& at Nimes, Gy hanging. beforehead, land ? One woad not be more unfajr than Gil l other, those that were massacred. and that, too, upon the *ad thaaltds I shook' gain by each a 'way*" arid r !" charge of their being jecobins. This will he found in its probate it as sod as yon could. prostituted columns, by reference to them of sot many days before the sth September, 1915. A t that time this bloody paper called aloud for the destruction, the ac tual murder, of a very considerable portion of the peo ple of France; and upon the express ground of their having been jacobies ; and yet it now says that the landlords are deserving of no pity because they once called the petitioners for reduction of taxation, jaco bins and radicals. Let us now proceed with the Dew doctrine of this prostituted hag of a newspaper. It charges the landlords with having tarried unjust laws in order to stifle the voice of the people. It charges them with baying made Englishmen give sureties or go to jail for untried offences. Let as stop here again. This infamous print did every thing in its power in 1817 to exaggerate and misrepresent the coo duct of the Reformers. It inflamed the public mind : it filled the people of London with affright, as to the designs of the poor wretched Spenceans ; and we repeat. that it actually abused the Govern ment ; loaded it with the foulest reproaches for not dispensing with law and proceeding to military exe cution. Every act of severity seemed to come too late for it. Let its columns of that day he examined, and the reader's blood will curdle as lie reads. It %vas at that period that came out in this very Old Times newspaper, a foal and most detestable attack upon the most popular and efficient writer in the cause of re form ; and (let the public mark it) a recent quarrel be twice Stoddart and Walter have brought out the fact (or at least, Walter's assertion) that the circulation of that attack was at the expellee of the Government itself. And this is the paper that now makes it crime io the landlords for having given their support to those measures which sent men to jail without trial, measures which its poisonous columns tended more strongly to produce than any other circumstance then existing in the country. Let us proceed now a little further with the pretest language of this paper of match less Nepal:rich addresses the landlords in the following vulgar and brutal manner " But stop ; soft and fairly, " gentleinen ; let as look full in your faces if you " please: and now, we think you hare been is court " before." Then it proceeds to ask them if they are sot those who volu d for the war, and who pro mised to spend their last shilling and the last drop of their blood.—Yes, thou old prostituted mother Cole, they might, but who can tell but they were of thy se- duction ? During the whole of the French war, did you not cry war of extermination ? And, as to the last American war, that coat us seventy millions, were you not the great and constant trumpeter ? Did you not, in an article some few days prior to the sixth July, 1814, say that there was no compromise with Ame ries ; that the " arch conspirators of whom Maddison was the ostensible sod Jefferson the real head, must " be cut off; that it was idle to talk of disputing with them about principles; that they must be crusif d to " atoms; that we had then to do with America alone, " sod that we ought to strike while the iron was hot." Did you not say, in an article about three weeks pre vious to ibis, that the American Government mutt Le destroyed ; sad that there was no safety fur regular Government in Europe while this example of success ful democratic rebellion was suilered to exist ?-I.et our readers refer. if they can refer, to the cuttonne of this base sod prostituted news papers of the lomat MAI ARR. OVE. 2 Dublin - 0 2 Wsterford - O G. & Jersey - 0 O I.ishon - 9 O Guttenburg - 0 WS. •R DU$. 11. I Holland - - 0 I ilarobro' - - 0 I France - - 0 I Flanders - - Ii PRICE OF STOCKS. AT C Bank Stock pr Ct. Red.. ...... 78.11/ 3 , per et. Cons • • 3, per Cent. 4 per Cents.. ... New Fours 913 i INE O'CLOCK. THIS DAY. Imila Stock. Ditto Bonds s. 475. pm South Sea stork ' South Sea Oid Ann Ex.lllllSd rn „,. Is. dis. Is par. """` 3 perCeut ..... 20 1-04 .0. Is. pm. I. prin. Irish b exr Cent is Se. i. PU'• Cwt. ter Acet . • 80iii Lett. Tickets 211. Ott atattontan. " THE 112111111 STATILIMILN" IS iscoaroiwne WIT* " STATISMAS. LONDON: MON DAT lIISIIINII, JUN II 10, 1844. STOCK EXCIIANGK, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is not much business doing. The report published on Saturday of Peace between the Russians am& Turks being finally settled is mach discredited on Change ; as it is thought if it was true, the Conti nental Powers would have no occasion for a Congress at Florence. The idea of intelligent persons is that some preliminary articles to prevent the effusion of blood have been proposed by the mediating parties to the Porte and adopted. But the final settlement of the disputes will be left to the Congress. Indeed the Market proves the beat criterion. for Consols are 13011 for the Account ; and Reduced 794 e• Letters from Odessa, received this morning, to the 15th ult. are silent in every respect as to the affairs of Russia and Turkey. _ FOREIGN MARKET. Chili Stock is still in demand as well as Old Sp• nish Bonds. Russia Stock, owing to the report of peace with the Porte, has had a splint. Columbia Stock is on the rise.. Chill - - Russia - - Spanish, Old - -- New Prussian Danish Neapolitan - Coiumbia - New - 82 little demand. - fit - 811 - 86 11 - 831 1 7 04 - 83 MOST HORRIBLE DEPRAVITY. Amoogs: the " signs of the times," and particu- larly as applicable to the case of the unfortunate land lords, is a case of most horrible depravity which has just met our eyes in the conduct of a Laotian News paper, which, when we say it has long been hacksied in the way. of prostitation, we need not name the Old Tines, a thing which, though like an old billeted keeper ~*~.:.~ •• rr- of bray, Jane and July. NI ; and thee let th em think of its pelmet revilings of the landlorde hecano 'hey were adoestes fhr tear; dad then say ic ass , thing so inkiness as this print was ever before heard of is the world. Must not that he a base man w i does root hold such a Hat in detestation? And let it be well observed, too, that the print has not changed proprietors nor conductors; but that the same people, the same sordid wretches that gained by hallooing the nation' ea to war with America in 1'414, now hope to gain Ley reeding the landlords for having been the ad. vocates far warl—One more word upon the charge aphis* the laadlords that they edeccated measures for r he power of the people to eoraplaia. What a charg e to be made by this atrocious print, which no longer them about IS err 20 months ago, expressed its singeig vied scrtiefeeriort, that Major Cartwrigo, Woollor, Mr. Edmorsda and Mr. Maddest:list...l Leer • found ,guilty by the Special Jury as Warwick. Like those cowardly aid ravage animals that sever fall bat upon the wounded and the crippled ; like the base, lurking cur, that never attacks any that is not already over-posveted, this infamous print fell upon those gen tlemen tbe moment it heard of their coavictioe, and endeavoured to moths , their punis'.sent a: severe as possible, mod, if possible, to deprive theta of all coos pitiless Mem their countrymen. Who bas not wit. and who, with a soul in his hody bee not been indignant', at the coadect of this mercenary, this mean, this detestable print, towards Mrs. cum. awl her sister ? What in its power has it neglected; what has it left Handed to endeavour to add to their suffer. ings of every description? It seems to bare pursued them asif its own louse existence had depended on their vsr,i hilation. The, indium's monster who has conductel it appears to have thought that his own personal welfarede. pendedonthelastof tomcats being inflicted upon them. Two women, and two women, also, who had never given him offeace in their lives; who, at the very most, bad only been in error, as to matters upon which a vent large part of mankind disagree in opinion, and against whose moral character or conduct, neither he nor say one else had any thing to impute. Why, the moan. feeling and most ferocious of mesa view cases of this sort with compassion ; but compassion was never knows to those who hare bad the conducting of this paper, which has now been, for about thirty years at least, the great deluder, the great corrupter, the great Idebaser of the minds and the hearts of the people of this metropolic This print, as we observed before, has watched for the joinping of the cat, and we were watching It. We said that we should ass it become ' radical ; but this base thing ; this prostituted old hag is sever to wipe away her.sins, do what she may. So often as she venture forth with her fawsings spathe reformers, so often will we drag the old Hag back iced mike her look into the glass of the last thiety years.— We deem it a moral offence io any man or any worn to give countenance to this prostituted jearinl. We have ourselves the merit of having supplanted it in hundreds of cases; and we call upon all those who ate really in sprout in their professions of regard foe the interests of the country, to co-operate with es in the performance of what we deem a inosteacred duty. As we observed before, this print sever NM an original thought. All that it has of good you may have else where toe ;before. It originates merlin; it answers teething; -ht dismisses mane( ; it conveys no informa tion cot as Trite and as threadbare at quotatisots from plays rod t i erces. in the New Times; in the Courier; in the a towiek; and in all other mints that we know any 'thing of, there is, at any rata a smoothies; from whim! more or less may be gathered, first or lan. If they o) pose us, they elicit argument in the way of defence. ' ['key do something, that turns to accent: fe souse wa y or other; but in this wretched thing, un less it steal from other prints, there is never any thing worthy of the attention of any human being. sad its very existence is a great and standing scandal es the coon try.—Even as to Parliamentary Report.. where one would think that nothing was wanted b.; the money to purchase the commodity. Even as to these, the Ciro/side, or the New Times or the IlcreLl far surpass this battered old thing, where you ha indeed, great masses of matter ; great masses of kilo? , pots:, as the fainters call it; but, there wants the olearness of arrangement. The points are left out is numerous cases. There appears to want judgment is the selection of the talents necessary for such an us. dertakiog. We, who are peculiarly interested in this matter, speak from experience ; and, always mintier, to get as qaiekly as we can at the su6stenee of the several speeches in a debate, we are necessarily led ta those papers which furnish as with that substance. We have frequently, when we bare been desirous of making comparison, in order to get the best inform ation possible, examined this Old Times newspaper. and have almost in every case found it so confused and unintelligible as to be of no use to us. The per sons employed by the Old Times do not appear to um decanted any thing of the subjects. without which it is impossible to do justice to any debate. Nor can we rely upon the fidelity of this paper in point of lett , don ; for it is quite capable of mulisavousing to gra- tify its malignity even is the report of the ;perdu, of members of Parliament, of which the public had a re markable instance when this paper put into the month of Mr. flume, expressions with regard to Mr. Can. niog, which were so offensive to the latter, that he sent the ether something very much in the shape of challenge. What was the result? A fellow by tLe name of Collyer came before the Won, act:mm ledgcd that he wrote the report, and took the what 'louse generously upon hioasej: This the filthy old hag trumpeted forth as mealy enrolect in I oll)er. Cunning did not press the thing hard ; bat he hire very well who was at the bottom n! the m isrepreen• cation, Ile took it all upon hinmelf, this bully" Ilia , and the Mouse forgave bins, to be sure, jest as we for a buy a good sound horse-whipping that would be due to a man, or just as we put a yuaug strumpet lets the Magdalen when we would pot an old bawd into Bride well. Every one saw at the ear, that Wearer a very wonderful thing ; that it was perfectly presto %isms that Collyer should have heard words that as other reporter heard, a: .1 that Mr. (fume declared _be never uttered. CollyeeS Ill Out have been el' eery singular were. We thought at the time diet his memory got reiresiod when Ire got home to b *thee. In short, it was an attack upon Ceasing witt! h ! the author knew Ise did not dare to make in th t . 2 the auputs. of a ITIPIII.Pf here of a paragraph of his own , and th er efore of i b e d u elnPiimr: - i r h r , ' 1 •