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e .° :• PATRzone clianlcrisps. 'f! let let Mr. Wilkes's private character be what it may, this at kaet is certain, that circumstanced as he is with re. geed to the peldic, eves ills vices plead for him. The people elikagland here too much discernment to stiffer your Grace to take advantage of the failings of a private character, to establish a precedent by Wilk+ the public liberty is affected, and which yea may hereafter with env's, ease and satisfac tion employ to the ruin of the best men iu the kindgdom" JUNIUS') CO L TTTTT TO TULL DUEL or Oa•FION. The principle above laid down by Junius, that the " Laws of England should not be violated even to oppress a sinuer,"—and that the Government of the day should not be permitted to do a public wrong, under the mask of visiting the private mis deeds of the individual in whom a question elect- Ing i the rights of the people came to he tried—is Consistent with the true spirit of the Minsk Cowin tution, aud may be supported in every point of view in which it can be taken. If a point of law arise, on the trial of the most atrocious murderer that ever was 'brought to the bar to meet the sentence of justice, it is better that he, haviug the advantage of the law, should he suffered te escape un punished, than that, by wresting it ever so little from its estabiished course, lie should be consigned to the fate he merited, and a precedent given for future deviations from the &fined line. Impunity to one or mane- villains, is an evil not to be men tioned, when put in competition with• a practice that might subvert the lives and liberties of gene rations of Britons yet unborn. But the Reformers of our days have made this just principle the foundation of a superstructure so absurd, end have carried their conclusions to • length so extravagant, that we cannot refrain frost requesting the public attention to their exposure. In trying the public question of the Middlesex Election, against Mr. Luttrell, the private vices of Wilkes might plead for him, because they gave his opponents an advantage over him, utterly uncon nected with the cause itself; hut it would he carry ing this aortrine too far, were it to be contended, that in no possible case that could occur in which au itidividual stood foraard in the garb of Patriotism. an) at.ention was to he paid to his private diame ter. It is a common and generally acknowledged maxim, th•it the man who comes into Court as an accuser, should eider it with clean heeds; and it is recommended to us from the h:ghest Authority that mortal can appeal to, pluck the beam out of our own eye, before we trke the mete out of our neighbour i s.—Yet the pseudo-patnots of modern time* have the boldness to tell us, that we have no thing to do with the private characters of their lea 1. re, and that we are only to look to their pub lic services. Such a position cannot surely be for one moment defended ; and we must coarse that h has snuck us with considerable surplice that ever it should have Lieu taken up. To combat so ridicu lous a theory may seem to be waging war against a shadow ;.hut when it it recollected how muds of the adverse party's cause depends upon it, the task as. mimes the appearance of greater utility and impor- Mace. Let it be remembered, that the text of these Reformers is " Look only at their public services !—we have nothing to do with the private sices or motives ant r chieftains." Notwithstandingthi , aiertion, it appears to us to be very strong prima fucie evidence of a bad mum, if we see only bad men engaged iii promot ing it. If • person Cr persons notoriously wicked are earnest in advising us to adopt 'any particular measure, we are not only incliutd to examine into it most scrupulously, but, (tom suspecting that such min cen oaly act from Moister motives, and have on laudable design, we are tempted to take • course directly opposite to what they recominend. tr , Sliest me your company, and I will tell what you are f " is a very wise saying; and mignt. with equal • . justice, be emended to " shew me your character, and I will tell the nature of yonr designs."—We have not the faith necessary to expect purity (tom a polluted source, nor can we readily believe that lunch good will result from doing evil. Grapes are not produced from briars. 10 the questions involving the privileges of the blouse of Cumming, between the House and Sir Fr.enci4 Burdt tt, and between the House and John Gale June., the private characters of these itirlivi duels have nothing to do more than the characters of any other men ; fur these are abstract lineations, in which the whole people of England are concern ed, and they must therefore be tried on their own . merits, without reference to the persons of the indi sirloals in whom they arise. But it is not so in the general cause of Reform ; in which, from the gr /head arguments we have adduced, it appears to be not only right, hut indiveniehly necessary, to look minutely into tke oharacters of those who are most prominent in advising us to do some act by which we shell amigo of present c o ndition. When Mr. %%calk_ stood forwmil as the resti **gator or the Duke or'York fur Incontinence liatiiirlity to his anerriagewows, we ccrtiqTy should not hove given hisn so much credit for the marility of his lecture, hod we known that be himself, father of a legitimate family, was nightly lulled to. teat its the artns cf a Delilah. The rpseitst reproach of Swim rr:.roriag sig, woultt have occurred to ua se 'methly. that we Peer we shatild hare bcoctitcd very little brim the hypocritical cant. When Bur dett preache. trmt•erste Reform-I , llou' tiotip , nt otimends 111 , 611,11 --when Wirithma pariegy runs Proliity—viteti Horne Tookt instils Deyotion ...when Rifler phases Liberality, or Mallet Charity, to politicalnp ponents--so suspicious are we of our advisers, that we almost fear there lurks something vicious even in these virtues. Of this we are convinced, that the intentions of their eulogists are most corrolit. We put the precept mud the example together—we tak their lives for the context of their doctrines—and we come to this conclusiou—that they are, to ay the least, not the men who " Alive to brighter worlds, sod lad Me way." In fine, admitting that there was something rotten in the state, we would not intrust its repairs to per sons whose whole lives give the lie to their precepts. Who would intrust the management of I►is af fairs to bankrupts in rime and fortune ? Who would eorwinit the dear trtrits of wife, daughter, or sister, to the keeping of notorious adulterers? Who would regulate his conduct by the dictums of those whose lives were a series of offences against all laws, human and divine? And yet all these irrecon cileshle inconsistence, are involved in the assertion —that we arc not to look to the private characters of those by whom we arched, and %Omie opinions we espouse. What is there in the silly enthusiasm of a Burdett that can reconcile us to the mischievous designs of Despards, O'Connors, and the dregs of wretches whom no example can wean from the vile principles they adopted at the period of the French Revolution ? What is there in the dark machina tions of a Tooke, the garrulous inaninity of a Cartwright, the brooding revenge of a Waithmort, or the conspiratorial talents of a Wardle, that can bribe us to forego the blessings we enjoy. end plunge into the wide and dangerous ocean of Re form, under the direction of such pilots? Surely, before we embark on so hazardous a voyage, we would be right to convince ourselves that vice and folly were not our steersmen ! • But these people are entitled to our thanks fur their public services. We may love the treason, though we abhor the traitor—we may ptixe the service, though we despise and detset the instru ment by *lnch it is performed. This is true, but with some limitation - R. While human nature is constituted as it is, we must be content to subscribe to this not very ennobling doctrine, nor expect mankind to etnulate the virtuous Roman, who, de testing alike the traitor and the treason, the ser vice and the servant, restored to the inhabitants of the town he was besieging, their children, who had been put into his power by the perfidy of their schoolmaster. We do not look for sentiments equally honourable to be generally adopted in our days ; and are, therefore, constrained to concur iu the opinion (which good minds, however, can en tertain with but little complacency), that we must commend the work, though we disapprove of the agency. But we will not be led oue step further— we will not grant one other atom of concession— we will not, from the lustre of the service done, steal a single ray to brighten the deformity of the agent employed. It is this consideration that should render us very cautious even how we applauded the service itself; for it is with great difficulty that men can feel delighted with an act, without also approving of the actor, stid of the means em ploye.] to .attain the encl. It is not easy to sepa rate the means taken, from the accomplishment of the object ; and it is of this difficulty that oar ad versaries avail themselves, and call upon as to sanc tion, by our approbation, the whole conduct. as well as the result of their leaders' plans. Hut, though the confusion so insidiously introduced may impose on the vulgar, illiterate, and unde scenting, the discriminating mind will detect and despise the fallaciousness of such ressoniug. The mind that eon compare and decide, will reject the sophistical argument ; and, though it may not pos sess virtue or strength sufficient to consign to equal ignominy the act, the actor, and the vile,meins he employs, it will yet come to a just conclusion on the two latter points of its investigation. and at least determine that the means are detestable, and the ector unworthy or future trust, as of recompence fur the past. In what we have advanced on this point, it will appear, tbat *e have taken it for granted that real services are ;serf:wined, u asserted by these Re formers, and have argued in this respect on their own principles. This is, however, a doctrine which we would } pasta ourselves against being thought to subscribe to in point sof fact. It is indeed a qnes tion which every onan's bosom must decide; but if we have been snceessful in chewing, even to those who think the end justifiable, that the actors and means are infamous; how much more f wciloly most one opinions apply to the judgment of those who hold, that the objects in view ore and have been as atrocious, as the motives of the actors, or the deists ritv of the oceans. Were our greatest enemy in the world basely assassinated bye wretch on whom he had conferred mihy &roars, could we be so lost to every lione4 feeling, as to thank the murderer,or praise the horrid deed or would nut our indigos:dims be roused to the higkort pitch against both, while we denounced dreadrod crime, and hurled our i•nprecations at Aktilain's head ? Frote the same clams of feelings it is that we can not 'weir the man who would rob another of his good Italy by stdiornation. treachery. and perjury, even thongh by th.t a•t we shotild reap the most unbounded brittle& Far less cau we bc4tow our approbation on the detestable crime of subornotion, treachery, and perjury by which this act is accom plished—far lest Call we be prevailed opon.to pit( , our trust to that our i's sleeve, or ever to esp,ct any good result from a character so abhorrent to every'! holiest or manly heart! But the I limits of a newspaper forbid ottr,parti- colorizing the various mistrusts we would have in such men and their accomplices, in other species of what they call Reform. 1:10113 one eiemplei and the main argnmeut upheld in this essay—that we are bound to look at men's characters, motives, and measures, before we either applaud them for the past, or put confidence in them fur the future, it will be easy to make the application to every other class of impostors. If a party of persons of broken fortunes are found to hr the sole upholders and par tizans of the wild cry of B. form—:f we discover in those who now insult their Sovereign by their pre tended lorilty and attachment, the same men who for the last IG years have endeavoured to subvert his Throne, an I have denied him the possession of any single virtue, estimable quality, or fitness for rule—if only those who have made them>rlvee oh notion; to the laws of the country, rail ngainst the Constitution and corruptions of the Government— it behoves us to suspect—it is our duty to expos-- it is our dearest muterest to resist the dangerous .1. SEVENTH TIME. TITEATRIS-ROVA L. 11 41Y-MIURKFT: TUIS EVENING, SATI: DAY., Aps' s, will be peeurined a Mew cnnirdy, in RI e pets, cullt d FILCH LIE* Hi 'PH F. CITY. The Principal Chirasters by Fir. Madsen.. Mr. Jitney, Mr. gyre, Mr. Holland. Mr. Grove, Mr (:arr. Mr RA). Mr. Liston. Mrs. (Hoerr, Misa De Camp, Mr.. lE)re. :111s. Len t:ail, and Mrs. Gibbs. he Prato:nc to be spoken by Mr. Stanley, the Epilogue by Mrs Glower. To which will he added, the Mimics! Entertainment of THE REVIEW; or, THE WAGS OF WINDSOR. COO; Choiseul, Mr. Mathews; John Lamp, Mr. Liston. Grace Ga)luve, Ms. Gibbs; Lucy, Mrs Liston. On Monday, the Ihnibtful Son ; with High Life Below Stairs. On Tuesday, the Spoird Child ; with the 11:tt le of Witham: aftr.r • 13101. n new Burlesque Tragic Opera iu one act, rafted, BouiliAstes Faring°. NEW MELO.9ILAME--.THIRTEENTH NIGH C. LYCEUM TIMATRE.--..RNGLISH OPERA.- THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, August 4, be per forturil (17th tirne) Ole Crank Opera of TRICKS UP44N THAvv.l.LErts. The Principal Characters by Mr. Prusoa, Mr. philqw, Mr. Horu, Mr. Kniebt, Mr. Sinith, Mr.J. Swills, Mr Oa. Wiry, and Mr ‘Vertivr. Miss Muir, Mrs. Osgcr, Mass heily, s ul *ll. Healey. After Hoe • Opera, A SPANISH DIVER. VISENIF.NT. Principal Dancers—Mr. libardiii, Mr. NOW* ' KW Lap pin°, Miss &milt, Miss Bristow, Mi.s Twane.ey,Miss Davis, Aliso Tow, Miss Grtea, Miss Prtu, Miw Duitsetts, auJ tha whole Corps de Ballet. With hr Use 13th limit) • New Melo-Drausatic Eatertaia . mcnt, called TWENTY YEARS AGO. The Principal Characters by %Sc. ILsynitisei, Mr. Eeriest, Mr J. Smith, Mr. Dos ton. Miss E. button, 3litrelly. The slewlu-Dramatic F.ntertair iiiii Twenty Years Apo, continuing to be revived wit► uuiveml bursts of ap plause Aunt weery part oldie Theatre, will be repeated every (writing °vet week. thi Mnadny , Oh this Lose ! or, The Manaciadcrs.—Ou Tuesday, Faint Alarms ou Monday t►e 'Jib inst. will he perfiorrned (iii time) a New Grand Retitle Serio•Ctwuie Paatorninie, called Jack the Giant Kilter ; in a bieb Mr. Etradhary will wake ►ie first appearance as this Theatre. TH BRITISTrPRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY. Auuun 4. A Mail from Jamaica arrived yeigerday, with Letters and Papers to the 24th of June. They do not contain any important news. The Assembly of the Island had been further prorogued to the 24th of July. We have received American Papers to the 4th ult. from which we have extracted the followiug article : •• sorrow, .rocs O. " The EMBARoo.—There seem elidently to be indications in the Court Party papers, that the fatal measure of the Embargo it to be revived. All the prints, beginning with the National Intelligenter, and ending with the Nee Ila.nrchire Patriot, are throwing out allusions to the wisdom of the policy which adopted it, and fling at the fataldelusiou by which it was discontinued. " Such being the indication of the Court papers, it will become the Federalists to paint the fatal el fects which resulted front it, in the most glaring co leurs ; to shew the present evils resulting from the Non-intercourse Act, were evil, created by the Court Party ; and evince, that the policy of the Country Party would have led to safety and inst.. peorlence, had the Government possessed the mag nanimity to have adopted it." k Several transports have arrive] at Plymouth, with sick troops and French prisoners, from Lisbon. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived last morning. Its contents confirm the report, that the recent capture of part of the homeward-bound fleet was the result of a preconcerted plan, tenon information trear•h. erously given by a neutral to the Danes at Chris. tiaustsdt. The remains of the CaowN PILINGS were interred od the 13th fast. The latest accounts from Cadiz state, that the position of the enemy was so strong, as to preclude any hope of •t tacking it with the least prospect of success. The gsrrisou of the isle of Leon pobteised the rime advantages; the works thrown upf.sr its defence were so formidable as to leave no room for apprehension. With the Pxceptioil of e re A4rm a l tiring from Matagorda and l'untales, there was . no appeartute of hostilities. •• • .. • , - cat c cHALMVIIAM ARRIP.Mt Lord Adair, Lady Murray, Lady Cranky, Ha. i s qs A bereromby, Sir 'trill lam Johnson, M r J . Mangum. General and Sirs. Milford, Admiral and Mrs Glisol and Amity, Col. Bilbao', Col. Willingtos. Ca mut Mr s , Slackcimie, Lieut.-Col and Mrs b 50,,,, M`Vair,'Lieut..Cul. Alston, Lieni..Coi. Major Nichol, Alsjor Ihnson, !Major Darning, Capt. 15,,,,' IL N. Capt. and Mn.. Capt. Leighton, c ~,* Capt. Smith, Capt. Scutt. thipt. Tomb,. Mason. Capt. Murray, Dr and 'Um. blWorall, Ur , g";;;:; gory, Dr. Lee, Dr. Maurice, Rev. Mr. and Alm. Mow.. Rev. Mr. and Asia' Burton, Res. J. H. Coles, Rev. W, f;rren, Rev. H. Weinman, Rev. Mr. !lowlands, t;,. and Mrs !linnet', Mr. and Mrs. P. Jackson, Mr. and Mi, Whitworth, Mr. and Mrs. Savage, Mr. and Mrs m oo, Mr. and Mn. Ilradalior, Mr. mid Mn.. D s , son, btu and Mrs. Granger, Mr. mid Mrs. Mack, Mi. Wall, Mr. Alrock, Mr. Kellerman Mr. Stanley, Mr. *ohms, Mr. Green, Mr. Temple, M r Story. Mr. lade. Harr, Mr. Dyett, Mr. H. Dytit, Mr. Forbes, Mr. p rocky, Mr. D. Crawfaril, Mr. Cowper. Mr. blansfi..4.3 l , 1V bitter, Mr. Annulus, 31r Startnii, Mr Rich, Mr. final, Mr. Macon, Mr. Fossil, Mr. Willkewley, Mr. It 1... ad“. wood, Mr Eli',,,, Mr T. Loeb, Mr. M•Mskon, Mr Eitah, Mr. Sliding, Mr. Saville, Mr. Ayery, Mr. Wilklos, gh . Talbot, Mr. M ',Num Mr. Brawdmi, Mr. Cannata, NI, Powell, Mr. Eldertoo, Mr. hilor4ter, Mr. Meal. , H, 11'hyriniatts, Mr. Swiabourne, Mr. Ramsey, Mr. W. H. Man.lirld, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Walcut, Mr. Asir, Mr. eak, Mr. Granger, /Or. Knowles, Mr. 'frown, Mr. shut, Steele, Mr. fox, Mr. isilty . Mr. Fensie ' Mr. J 0..., M i. Grote, Mr. Lao, Mr. MabinKtan, Mr. IS.lleard, Mr. Mt... grin, Mr. COL/Call, Mr tValaier, Mr. Atistrobar, Mr. Dr. le.n, Mr. 11'atson, Mr . Thommi, Mr. IVikion, Mr. i t,,,,. Mr. kiiloy, Mrs. audit Misers Hainertnes, Mrs had M. Luria. 31is. am! Mims Stewart, Mn. De Is blather, Mrs. Nes to:t, Mr.. Seymour, Mn. W'ars,m, Lug s ,. Mrs tVilliarns, Mrs. Real, Mn.. Lanais!, Mns Waters, bli‘s Hedges, Mira Knowles, Mos rooluoli, blargais,3lmi 'llonarss, Miss Williams, Slit , Des t, dm. &e. On Thursday, Hta MAJESTY t.n.k hii usual nior.i. ;nen airing on horseback, with Pruitt Antall-4 and Somme, with their usual attendants, 4114.1 accompanied by Lady COLLYER,Crener.ils 4101, CABTIAItIGOT. and WYS YARD, MO Col. TAII.OI, till twtlvit o'clock; and in the evening walked cp the Terrace, with Princen A uGuara, till tigiit cs'avek. with usual attendants. Yenterd ty intoning, Its NIAJEiTY, the Duke of KENT, Priuces.es AUGUSTA and SOPUI "c m. puttied by Lady CoLLyust, Generals G attn. and %VT m ARO, rode in the Great WIG(401 till twelve o'clock. Princess An ell.). is so much h. trer es to le.lL'e to he takers into her gssrilen, when the weather alit petwir, si here 8 isaviiiire is pitklicil fur Ler is. certion. His !toys] Highness the Prinee of WALES is es• peered to knee town this (Ivy, for linghton. The Countess of -LOME intends, oest week, to return to her seat M Yorkshire. Stmement of Earl 851142 .EY'S he.dth, received ytetrtddy— BULLETIN. " Resat :Iry csailr, Aar. 9, ISM. " Earl Berkeley is worse today alma yesterday. (Signet) EDWARD JENNER " At the time th.• 1.1 . )0Ve i%a..C.lt cif, these was boy little hope of his Lorchhip's recote y. The Duchess Dowager of Wirt AND and sea. forums touts , of Eashionables visited Vauxhall Go. dens lost right. The Earl of ESSCX will give a grand diluter to. morrow at Cashiobtory tlw tgarchtutteqt of Silts. suitY and the Ladies Cam are expected to be present. WheitMr.Bouwe declaimed an vehemently on the digeity of birth." be little concei;td how soon harbours would be placed on the footia4 ut tit uu• rooms, where none could be whitened but sou..lt produced a certificate of urigia ! On 'Thursday Sir 11. Doan, Stehe and family left town for Tittenhouge. near St. Albans. Yesterday the llanourahle Mrs. Or. Gat:v I.ft town fur Corsham-house, the seat of P. C. Mw 'Bourn, Erg. Some of the Papers have accused the ptople of Ireland with ingratitude. It is very tt.ttur.il for grams chililres to foie' their Fatter-tatlu is! The Earl of WifirSOICLVID gores grand dinar yesterday. at his boost is tirosvenur-stpure. to Use Earls of Cuayst.tte. WINCHEL%IRA. and Y AUVOUTnt Vi*Culitit PALIIIIIIITUN, and oeveral other rrsoas of dettitieth.n. . . Notwitlistaticliog the encomiums lavishly bestow ed by the French on the superior beauty of their Empress, the English ladies will not patiently ado nut to " the judgment of Paris." General Saeoauto and a select party dined siti Mr. Crtuuts. at his house iu th-liability. 0 1 Thursday. Tne General dined with Sir itoeut Wtt.sox on Wednesday. Mr. FOSTER has d. dared la potatoes to be t:c favourite food of the people of Ireland." They are so in the same manner that the inhabitants ot Holland prefer the delicacies of shell tivh. They mast even - t eal them or share. Mrs. Normw gave a grand ball and topper lost night, at her house in Portland-place. Col. WARDLE being asked, on Tuesday. at the Crown and Anchor. why he had assumed the imine of BROWN, at the Cadogan Coffer-house, sacred. aa Why these Mock Patriots have wend me until 1 sot become Brevaiv."—Vide Joe Viscount Mwt.vit.bit is now on a visit to his Grace the Duke of PORTLAND, at Fullartoo house, Ayrshire. Extract of a letter from Hamborgh :—" The architect who erected the building of the Avow') Ambassador at Paris, in which the late lie oc curred, has been put under arrest, until the remilt of the misfortune shall be fully ascertained. T i iiroservation of His Majesty the Eterreor, that occasion, was must nor:willows. lie must hate 1.-rished, had it not been that he sit near the doer. We hear. by letters just received, that sere's l per sons who were scorched have died, and few of thew have 'recovered that were braised and tram at pled upon. its consequence of the fall of the beam the &or." A sad accident occurred a few days ago io the town of Thad's. io Ireland. A woma n a 1..) be come frantic iii codoequence of jealousy. its a 5t &apes/ditto, bad recourse to the horrid act of .11 • Ling h er child's load, in revenge for prised injury. i The E there 11.10. Mr. A h of 01 that i plea C 17 italit on, he n id be iI for to pi coin Mme al' ) stair I rid pan iwutr. 7,0'111114 1, 011 , 1 11100000. .01 11l till , lit hem r Orin- key we th Mr. 1 e Ca: e Fir iaber, ttliug The Mr. I war p id the Mr. d fUgn Lni le P.m H. 11 this 'MEW! Mr. the I D Se It I rhert I/ hip . “ pr Mt. E rinatiO 311, to s,nofl I order th 'Mars, nfi htince r Btu, port , [ fr f tit:Ot lulu 111 x; fie Na:11 of 141 11;11 tt!it tri R'4 at f nee pr, h o 114* rui 1 016, hetere se 114. a L', , • Wet i;11 .1 • (:-.41 !It *lto tof Itw Lrl4 rrt 't 9 , * • :.:; ce ;.