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LETTER to the EARL of LIVERPOOL. NUAIBF,R IL . March IT , hns. Lottn,—Aware of the prejudices'entertain zed by many, even of theanore-sensible . and well informed members 6f society, :against the Plan detailed in my last communication on tilt - subject o f st or i ng and warehousing Corn hi. SCRUMS of 'superabnridant plenty, in order to re-issue time same in le s s fruitful years, foe the. nurliose of levelling stud equalizing the markets, and thereby, prevent .. _ing that tinreasonalile fluctuation so injurious to the and Coneet valuation of all property, it wa my intention-to devote the present letter, to the many and powerful . arguments .which so readily offeethemseltes in refutation of .the vul gar error with respect-. to the injurious' effects zuppoEed to ensue sfroin,the interteience of Go ‘ernment in the Corn market, than which I think nothing can be tn:Fne idle and groundless; but the storm which - -has so :unexpeeted,ly Aliso in the political heansiilicre,two ominous, so portentous in its aspect, and of:lnt.. , iniportateso paramount in its nature andptiobable,..conmqwees as to the Allancial acid politicArsituatiott this - countrv, has swallowed up and?zibsotheteyer a y minor Con- - sideration in its overwhelming vortex. And, in deed, I feel the more reconciled to the suspen sion of the subject for the present, as the wisdom of the Legislature, unawed by the clamours of a misjudging mob, has passed into a law those sa lutary regulations which cannot fail of producing the mot beneficial results. with respect to the future supprf.-the public, markets and most sincerely 'chi - otmgratulate your Lordship on that . displayof clear-Sighted titniness'whicll has enabled you with so much justice to assert " Muititudinisjawiiti non reformidojudicinin." - Gloomy aa the . pre§nect .presets` itself to our view at the present„titontept„ , iind arduous as the contest in which ,We4unst iiie - vt!ably be engaged will prove; and deeplras I lant;en . e consequent. expenditure of blood atetreasure t tli r liieh it must necessarily involve us, 1' cannot help issuming to myself some degree of credit for time prophetic foresight which led me to anticipate the dread ful consequences of suffering . the blood -stained Corsican to escape.the 'punishment which every law both human and divine so justly awarded to his manifold initluifies.' At the very moment . when such unseasonable an d ill judged lenity was shewn to this demon. in human shape, I foresaw the evils which the rest less and perturbed spirit of the Gallic Nero would prepare for those, whose folly permitted such a sanguinary and unrepenting Monster to escape the scaffold. The infa Nation of the Confederates' was a 4 much beyond my comprehension then, as is now the ideotic imbecility of those who would contend that we have no interest in the struggle nd that France has a right to choose its own waster, without our daring to interfere in die decision. But - you, my Lord, will. not be found amongst the Special Pleaders in abstract theories, " Gallia causidicos docuit facienda Britannos." You will judge with more acute discrimination, and with sounder policy ; you will know and feel that nothing but immediate and most vigorous ex ertions can. remedy the gross and unpardonable negligence, which, whether it originated in the primary error of suffering him to exist, or in the more recent neglect of preventing his escape, has let Noose on the world a train of evils, more nu merous and more pregnant with misery than-ever Pandora".i Box was fabled to contain. If France alone were to be the sufferer for re-: ceiviug the ITsurpsi,',richly inda 'would she_ de serv2 it ; and J•shotild,bohe fiNt io . advoca'te the principle of.non,ii4eliferencetill• she had dram; the vely dregs of itc§ppti,sni t')(Foliffessive ty ranny,- tar bet:-stupid apathy anriiilantaus ingra titude to a Mondieh only too exceleni for such a race 4).f brotiSh slaves, who seem"to eieroik: no Judgment for themselves, but with the variable velocity of the weathercock, to turn and Waver with every, gale that blows • "lion est qui judicat vere, . confihnt in nihilo, lo4untur writates, coneeperunt laborem, pepeterunt iniquitatow." But; myLord, the fate of Europe is too deeply inbolved in that of France to leave the Allies any other alternative than that of instant and un bounded energy of action —every nerve must be strained, every possible exertion must .be put iii iitunediate force, to quash the evil ere" it gets too strlSngly rooted; and then, I trust, the result will he ultimately inure beneficial to .the general wel fare titan if it had never happened—the good will be selected front the ill-disposed ; and France, in cOMMOO with the rest of Eur Ope, will benefit by the externiivatiou of a nest of Traitors, fostered in her maternal bosom to the deadly prejudice of all her best and iearest interests ; and which ought to have been -swept from the face of the . earth, with their infamous Master, at the moment when the Allies were in possession of the Gallic Capital. The error, however, obvious as it was, even at the time, to every etenr-sighted judgment, has been committed, anti it now remains only to re medy the conseqaences with all , the expedition, and with all the energy in our power to exert. Fortunately, the lawful Monarch, instead of giving up the contest tamely., and returning to this ... peaceful and secure asylum, has taken the wiser and more manly step of placing himself on the frontier of his kingdom, 'and near at hand to our valiant and untonquerable troops in Belgium, and 11) the line for receiving constant and powerful succour from the rest of the.Allits ; and soon hope to hear of our illustrious Chief resuming his rapid and victorious march into the northern pro viiices, and establishing a nucleus for the parti-• sms of loyalty to, form artditally round'. In the West, too, let us trnet therelt a considerable pro - Portion of loyal pcfptilaticin, who woold declare themselvet for their Itv.iftti Sovereign, w h enever thee should be secure of such effectual support as to render it safe and possible to embody an army on die- side. .43 4 t j confess to you, my lord.. that I have liMe_reliftrice on the natives. whilst unsupported by the- atiiitanee of a powerful ct.mt , - .;*"Fur tht correctnnticipAtion of what bog htpperted, vide Lotvr I. Mst.•Jaiiiitry, 1314. Pamphleteer, ,ice. 6, pages 4, and 5. - t t2oF p . 0,404. bination of the other Enropean tingdoms ; for, however illiberatit may seem at first sight to libel a whole nation, l hardly know a Frenehnian who is to be trusted, - after the damning proofs of trea thery and black ingratitude., in . Ney;• Massena; and, in short, almost all the kingdom, to their amiable and too confiding Sovereign. The present struggle sVill, however, prove a discriminating Test between the faithful and the .faithless; and it will become the imperative duty of the Allies, to let no ill-placed clemency seduce them a second time into the deadly error of suffer ing the criminals to escape again Unpunished. ' There is but too much truth in the observation of BUR KE, that '' Kings will be tyrants front poll ey, when subjects_are..4e4els .from • principle."— Let tor,-therefore, the same thamgli amialile fear of inflicting punishment, agitin be suffered to prevail ; but ",where the guilt is, let the great axe fall." Perhaps, to yield up every traitor to condign punishment the moment he is taken in arms against, his lawful Sovereign, Wright, under the present circumstances, be the means of consigning many an innocent loyalist to the re taliating fury oldie bloody Roscius . ; but. it would certainly be right,. instead ,of releasing.rebels on a parole which they never mean to keep,• to.send them either to Siberia, to Van Diemena Land, or to some such! distant and insulated place o f e x il e , as should entir e ly preclude every possibility of es caping for the purpose of future mischief.. Neither should the nation, which, has so tame ly, if not so treacherously, allowed the Corsican to usurp his master's seat a second - time, be now treated with the same liberal forbearance aril in dulgent policy which marked the conduct of the Allied Ppwers in their former irruption , into the French .territories ; both principle and expedience now call for the support of the invading armies at the, eXpence of_ the invaded. Corporal retribu ii.on intest,be„exacted,from those .);• who are found in arms against their Sovereign, and pecuniary requisition from the " imbelleet inutile valgus ;" the low-minded herd who yielded up their alle giance without r 4 struggle. France must be heavily amerced for her disloyal apathy, her more than negatively guilty indo lence ; and I ant almost tempted, to say, that if ever a nation could deserve the fate of Poland, it should, rather be the Gallic 'territories that I mourn subject to :partition ; all power of future aggression should be totally and, inevitably pre cluded. The weak. and the desponding, "the feeble minded tribe of Croakers, will tell to you, my Lord, .as they Itaye.told to me, that the Usurper is so firmly seated on his throne at' to be imunove, able; that the Apies have no chance of penetrating into France ; and that, .according to :their. silly expression; " the game is up :" but do these deep judging statesmen' ever take into their„ considera tion, the widely difiering circmnsrances of the Corsican's situation,ditring his farmer triumphant career, awl his present desperate, bat i m p o t en t attempt to renew it. Surrounded as he then was by the Confederation 'Of the Rhine, with one brother on ,the throne of_ Holland, another in Westphalia, and - a third in Spain ; with almost every Power in Europe, either in his alliance, or at least in apparent neutrality ; and at one time only Britain in a state of open enmity. He haS, at this moment, not a single friend in any corner of the glObe, unless, indeed, one should be found in Italy. His legions, Which before wtre swelled with Germans, Poles, Hollanders, and Italians, must now be recruited front the territories of France alone, and dragged fi•oin the bosom of an unwil, ling and diminished population. Ban4rupt, in tinailce, where are again his hoards of plunder to be rarisled ? pent up and circum scribed within his Own limits ; forced to provide his armies from his own exhausted resources ; and most probably seeing the victorious forces of his assailants living at flee quarters within the terri tories on 'which he depends for his own supplies ; hOw is he now tOsupport with greater strength that contest under which he bent before. is his reputation as a varrior and a statesman 'so im proved .by his - abdication of the throne be had usurped, and by the numerous battles in which be bad been foiled by the superior skill and mas terly manceuvring of the Allied Generals, that his name should now be more " a tower of sttength" than it was when he fought with yet unblighted laurels on his brow ? Is he still '' the uncon quered ford, of pleasure and of pain," as when, like another Charles the Xllth. be marched " on MoseOw's wails," to see his " standards fly" My Lord, he has no chance of ultimate success, unleSs it should be afforded to him by the supine ness of his adversaries. Some persons affeci.to laugh at the possibility of tike Allies getting again to Paris ; my Lord, they have done so once ; they will accomplish it again, and that at no very distant period; and brilliant and truly praiseworthy were the motives of their clemency and their forbearance then; they will now take ample vengeance, and terrible will be the sacrifice they extort for violated faith and slighted pardon. Wellington yet lives, and has bad sufficient breathing time from his laborious triumphs, and Blucher, Wrede, and Schwartzenberg are in his steps. The troops they have to lead are those who are well acquainted with the road to Paris; and their bosoms beat high - with the expectation of revisiting the Gallic metropolis. To anah h men, my Lord, ,nothing is too difficult, nothing is impossible ; and what they have once accom plished they %rill find an easy task to repeat. From all the best and latest intelligence which I have been able to glean front those who are just arrived from Paris, I am inclined to think that the inhabitants of that city are decidedly in fa vour of their lawful Prince, if, unawed by the presence of a licentious soldiery, they dareti to deefare their real sentiments. By those an whom I can best depend, I am informed that a gloomy and distrustful silence prevails throughout the city of Paris; even the Spectacles are almost de serted; and instead of the heartfelt rapture with . which the restoration of their legal Sovereign and .the return of peace were proclaimed—whenever • Of the leaders who have so basely betrayed their .easy, fatuous Monarch, and especialty'of Souit and Ney, those first of fraituti and foul ditgralce to the hon6urable name of soldier, the punishment should be ium,tediate, .17:m1111:try, and terrible.. the sullen Despot himself in public, a few faint civas are all which the utmost exertions of his sycophants and sutellites can draw forth front the thinly scattered spectators . But hard as it may seem,,there is now no alternative remaining; and the war against the ,Tyrant and his banditti must be carried on at the cost of those whO'have not resisted his return to potri'er—and to their own indolence.,and. guilty apathy must he attributed the miseries which a'conquered country must ne cessarily undergo —to this must he imputed the future ravages of the Cossacks, and the. plunder ings and burnings of the Croats and Pandours— to this.the cc Barbeiricis jaceant quot•vzaisia jlaninds, " Quas niilai Mtfinus .strages,quantlinique cruoris, quautis eputrittur coqibus hydri." FALKLAND. . . * * l' For the former letters, part of which were first pub lished in'Tur.Trms and part inTric 4(.1s Newspaper, during the course of the year 1814, see-the Collection of Tracts pub lished und er th e ti t l e of The Pamphleteer (Numbers 6 and 7), in which they were admitted to .I.ld re-printed by the. Edi tor of that admirably useful publication ; and for the Bth Letter of this series, detailing a 'plan for the storing and warehousing of Corn for the more regular supply of the Marbets ; and for the 10th Lettvr, in which the financial Mea sures to be pursued, in consequence of the renewal of the Continental disturbances, are treated of, see the 10th Num ber of The Pamphleteer, in which they will make their first PPPearance, together with a re-print of the prizsent com- Munication. • ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE CROWN. LAMBeTII POLICE-OFFICE.--Yos'terdav Mar .garet Moore was brought before Sir DANIEL WIL-: LIAMS!i; the. Sitting Magistrate ; and underwent, a sec;on(l,examivation, charged with an attempt to steal the King's Crown from the 'rower, on Fri thly, . the 31st of. March last. Elizabeth Eloisa Sraeiling, Deputy-keeper of the Regalia in the Tower, deposed, that she was a widow-; about one o'clock in_the afternoon of the day mentioned, the prisoner came and asked to see the regalia=--the usual charge made for such exhibition is , . eighteen pence, but the . prisoner having offered_a slriiliug, and. s oe supposing her, "bei• aPpearance,.to .be a soldier's wife, con sented to take•it': • - ''She pi l oceedeid to slim her tile' regalia in the usual way.,.. until she came. to the last article, the crown.; conoined in a case, and is ne - ke'r taken out ; she opened the case, and held it with . both hands, on the' ledge of a table, except-when she was obliged to disengage - one hand, and point ,outparticular jewel s . She. had just been describing the ague minora, a jewel of great value, when the prisonet stared, and in an instant thrust her hand through the centre bar of the railings or _grating placed there, and seizing hold of the centre bow of the crown, pulled with great Violence 'to draW it forth. Witness put her hand at die `top of the bcl'.v and bottoth of the crown, to preserve it, while the prisoner kept strugg:fng with still .greater violence to g et it away. This struggling c on tin u ed for about five minutes, and she at length got the crown from her grasp., She then put the crown at a distance be hindher ; and instantly slipt the bolt of the en trance, secured the prisoner, and called for assist ance.' • ‘Vhen help was obtained, she sent for the Governor„but.the Ward7keeper,having come in, a constable was also sent for,who soon a r r i ve d and took the prisoner` i n t o custody. She was searched, and 'abont - 5/: in money %vas found upon her ; .there were also some.papers. In the strug gle between the witness and the prisoner, there were two bows of the crown b ro k en f rom the socket ; a string of pearls was also'broken, which rolled upon the. floor, some inside - the railing, anti solve outside, where the prisoner was. These were stibieyiently picked up by the witness, as sisted by the GOvernos,„ .The prisoner being called upon for her defence, said, that she was a single woman, residing at No. 3, Union-street, Apollo-gardens ; she was a milk-woman, and had a g irl o f a b out 13 years of age,ie residing with h er; s h e was a lrdaughter, widow, her husband was a labouring man, and was dead about 11 years ; is not acquainted with a soldier, nor was she ever in company with one, or at the Tower in her lite before the day in ques tion. Being asked by the Magistrate why she came so far from home she replied, she v e ry often Avant to Thames-stre e t t o buy salt herrings. Then, said the Magistrate, what induced you to go to - the Tower ?—A. 1 ,went on Friday pur posely to seethe lions—no one was with me—l then went to see the crown. Q., flow came you to snatch that article from the keeper thought it a pity that so valuable a thing should remain there, while half the nation was starving for want of bread ! - 1 wished , also, at the time, to take the' whole of what was there, - and give it to the public • Q. Who told you to do this; or who was it put 'that good' thought in your head I had no adviser whatever. Upon being asked by the Magistrate to state a little More particularly %rho she'was, She'sai'd"she was a Welch woman, from the county. of Car marthen, and had been ',)rought iip in the, princi ples of the ‘ Church of England. About 10 years since, she purchased some ground from Mr. Henry Hooper, of Apollo Gardens and about five years ago built a small house, in which she resides, and which already cost her 1201. She was to have hail 1501. Her other houses and property . _ Ivere - stolen from her by eiecttnents', exe ctitions, &c. and her losses amounted at least to 5001. ! She never bad any idea of- stealing. the Crown until she saw it, and.. then was only im pelled by the motive already stated. • Does not recollect that she ever thought of providing for the poor until then. Mr. Swift, the Keeper of the Jewels in the Tower, was then called, but it was stated that he was out of town, and would not return before Sunday or Monday. The evidence of this witness, however, being deemed necessary, the prisoner was remanded for a final examination. At Chelmsford Assizes a pauper of Greenstead recovered three hundred pounds in damages, for the Injury he had sustained from the want of skill of a surgeon in reducing a fracture Of t!de thigh bone, by which the man wits incapable of per torutiug 4is dairat6ur. • OLD BAILEY. Lor d The Se§sions coinmenced ELLEI4OROUGH, Mr. Justice CIIAMBRII, th e MAYOR, and City Officers. ' die ted HORSE-STEALING.--Richard Nayler w as „ 113 „ ,or of for feloniously stealing a horse, the 12 1 :,, n r — i815. , Mr. Maul, surgeon, in Piccadilly, in NeY' ot her The prisoner was in confinennnt on ~ 4 1: yesterday beffirtiop charge of, felony, when he w a s identifieu r se, weeks since. At the time of stealing th ‘ , is p i s rit• he bad a temporary residence at No- 42 , u ' as ooe lane, and. taking a f anc y to t h e anima" Y which would suit his niece, lie sent his go' ° t t he the house of the prosecutor to enquire ' tbc)u r rils' docility of the h orse , &c. and to reques t P er ot's sion to have - a trial in the Park. Th e prosec u lex t servant took* the h orse to P ar k-lane t he ot hir L morning, when he sat ' the pisoner and n io rse Gentleman a t t h e d oor . Nagy desired th e nar e might be taken t o H o w e ' s li ver y sta bles ) P i re „r a or tory to th e tr i a l, .( w h ere - h e sa id . . he ;ler° eleven other horses standinff,) and 11 ; 5 ° a te were complied w i t h. Th e next day he sent t 4en v'ro'' missory note,. 'payable at se v en claps, tm seeutor, .which, to use his own words , p a k' opened his eyes r and on sending to.V!., 0 ,0 lane, instead of finding Nayler, the 11 " se eeer full of clamorous creditors. heard ;of his horse since. Thep annual W as ' o pil about half an hour in Howe's liver -.stables, rsc i so far from the prisoner having any stand of l l° ' there, he was not even known to the ostle r ' tltA Lord ELLENEOROUGH laid down the la%itly to obtain the hofk by'frand and deceptint„'' i tte out actual sale, constituted felony. Death. ice is The roseentor tot Mr. Maul having nothing rumple üblic jus ti " v ri• view in this prosecution, rded ti le 1. soner to the merciful consideration of the C )( o , g s JJ'm. Olrlfield, a genteel young man of 24 iii';11 0 charged with f e l on i ous l y ravishing EH". under ten years of age.. The CO nst i the prose cu ti on su b m i tte d to the Bench, tb 3 t to minor under ten' year's of age cannot c" se ,,t il ect s the violation o f her person, . as the law P ry : cr est her infan c y.. Thi s case exc i te d mucll amongst the auditory., The prosecutri s child one week under the age of ten'," ° , ll l s eli 26th of February t h e p r i soner met h er at '-'3rbear and after inquiring into the situation of ii= ,le-o pre father and mother,, he a ll ure d. h er , by t ` f le ;1 0° Mist: of Som e silver, to an un fi n i s hed b ons- 'ore s ' ated'adjoining a lane leading from Bromine' be M cent, on th e groun d s o f a r. Dennis, " 41° 0E 6 ' accomplished his purpose. We' forbear nod into any farther particulars, would be offended. The c hild gave her under symptoms of grief a nd s h a me, w ili h c a lft" cited the most lively sens:gions in her E f t ; 1 4 ' The facts were extracted from her by DREWS with much pains, assisted occasion'' isbe the interference of Lord EL L E b NIES 0 1 1 11 0 1 ::: wept bitterly, and was twice taken out n `, Gue itg to recover herself.—The prisoner was 10 04 • —Death.. •Na s t, A hoary misc rean t,- a 'workhouse pail' no to' f capitally convi c t e d o f a cr i me at wilic l/ , shudders, not a syllable of the evidence O il f we can 'stat e . or g e" Elizabeth Young was capitally stealing a q uant i t y o f lace and otier a rtio- , convielbose' o ploperty o f Ch ar l es Di nes, i n his dwelling YORKSHIRE ASSIZES. 1,1 . 0 616 ALL isoN . , Nova RREi and;others.----Tb e ha d ' who is a respectable solicitor at fludders6elN in the year 1811, insured the life of hi s , in s i 113 , the Norwich - Union Fire Office, for I °'", Fi r i 1813, Mrs. A. died, and the Directors of " - Li hsw Office refused to pay, alledging that her deaf been . occasioned by intemperance : but thl being established by the evidence,' the lu l l, a verdict for the plaintiff, dantaots 10001' • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-Yesterday 1g0324- laghan was indi c ted f o r a v i o l ent a ssaalt, ° „boas e Lawless, and imp r i son i ng hi m i n the 0 4 ,", at on th e I st o f A ug ust le s ,, ( ca s i defendant pl ea d e d gu il ty, and urge d as 8 3Je that he had be en rejo i c i ng * t h roug h the was very much i n t ox i cate d . Th e Court sell r;nC e( iti v te a him to six months i m p r i sonment a nd I° ll. in the House olC orre e t i on. r e PWKING POCK E T S IN THE CIIUBC.•• •• rV e , (1 day George Rowley was examined at t ile poid el t Office, Worship-street, c h arge d by a i‘lri; 511°r with pickin g hi s poc k et on Sunday las t ' ditch Church. Willi am B arret t, a cons ° pilti c d i ' posed; that he observed th e Prisoners ° , sr"( and followed him through the congreg ati l:etsl him several times attempt to pick the 'l )4/- different gentlemen, and actually take out 3 cca tor; kerchief, before he came up with the Pr °s v ita e : s i whose handkerchief he had I fs° tal", e9 p s 5171 then took him into custody and found 5- ,: e t tea' handkerchiefs in hispockei. , ----FUIIY " e INQUEST.—Yesterday an Inquest was or: , oli o the Crown at Hendon, before iNir. ll ° v , s .o o ‘7 (l of Middle oven of the Coroners for the County the body of Mr. Thomas French, who w ? tl by a fall from his horse, on Tuesday la'; Tyburn road: Verdict—Accidental ,Deabl' COM.: MARKET, Araii. 5 * ',fie' -. 63 ' Ships at Market. Ship 4 s 2 ..405. 6" sold. di. tto 6:, °lf( • " 4 9 Sumterland ' the Ludy ore, On Monday, the 3d inst ß . l i ß n T A H lf S red-place , - ( 1 Be Aro s rti . 0 11 of Cilpt. Wallace, King's Dragoon c?;l ar La On the 261 April, at Edinburgh, the itight nedy, of'a daughter. ---------'— Or Sh i o i . MARRIED. 1 1 . e j 6 •lit't Eiq.YSterday, at Windleshani, in SurreY, "- - , n a, cla" t pe M. P. for Westbury, to Mary, the youngest di ' o f the late Joseph Ewart, Esq. ' ,be . ',„ f .„ flr# . P 9 ,1 Lately, at Usk, Franck. Wollett, Es(P ".." 'so'l % OP' only daughter and sole heiress of Edsvard Pr: coin Usk, the only surviving branch of the Protect r 11 11 1)1E1). On 3d friends, .1v alma IVa/ker, Esc of Cliftoo-14°" -7 - - 0 00' and Livth, Notts, in the (.;6th l y . .elr of his OP Tuksday hit, in the 44 Ih ‘ year of 1713 al° - Cnnstmas (oozu - ue, Esq. of East Barnet. universally lamoted by I.).isse.ll-111):011.r:cf: n! , --- C( 3 ' clo -------' —•-------_,,‘„ .so. o, rioo i ONDON : Prilorrl by J. D, CARST:1111,:'1; of Xiit.crtir imildingq ; and Ifithlis!)eil 1)v \i'. .A.• Cit ll)7 . ''' e `'. 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