The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-05-11 00:00:00

DL7CFI COIIIIItSIONIRS.

IPPEtA •
Or M. m Ritira.T, IN TIM ilorsE Or COMMONS,
• ON THr. Ist MAT, Iso9, It rill D)IJ ATE rittrICTIZO

•
.4 MR. SPF. 1K FIR-1 am an arc, Sir, that 1 am oboist ID
volunteer spoil a 1114.1614Arduons service, for I really Yloswith a
vie* of offering atm- words in behalf of that arc" anti-jaewe
bin, Mr Jolter-Bowles. In r.l doing, it is right 1 should pro.
mew, that I can be iafluroced.hy no coasideratious of a per-
visual nature; fur soy acquaintance with Mr. Bottles is MO
slight, that 1 never was iii his house, nor be in mine : hut I
atu influenced by those feeling., of slick every man of a
liberal mint must partake, -.Alien he hears sock outrageous
abuse lavished on a person who is isot present to defrost him-
self. This simile bast-woe with the a mat grace imaginable,
'front the Honourable Gentleman who has most indulged its
it; fur, if party zeal and ptrty spirit he a aim he may well
eaclaiin ti ith Falstaff, Lord help the wicked." The Ho-
sonicah'e Gentleman kept his temper perfertly well, till be
tout lied ititttit the thirty pamphlets skirls he attributes to
the two of 31r. Bowles ; hat at the locution of these pain•
all Isis wrath was awakened, and I ass therefore jos-
!died its poesumiug that he mans to visit the sins of the
painpleteer, upon the head of the Dutch (7inumissioner. I
maintain, Sir, that 31r. BOITIr. tins as is right to publish
his stadium-Fon oar a.iy political lLyirr, or on the public con-
duct of any 'mink men as she Hootturatilc Gentleman him-
self. If the Ilinioural;ls Gentleman disapproved the senti-
ments contained io those pamphlets, he was at liberty to
gamer them. Nay, for aught I know, he may hare answered'
theta, fur he is alto is pamphleteer; and thin, perhaps,
Remounts fur the extraordinary asperity Ur shies he has
indwiged..nuiiist Mr. Hordes, for two of a trade, they say,
ran never agree. Wits arc sione.cocks to one another ; awl
the Ilutiourahle Gentleman has really crowed must toot-
mgronsly loud, considering that his antagonist was not
within hearing. He accuses Mr. Bowles of having invaded
the silent retreats of the dead, in his retlectioas upon the
charm tar of the late Duke of Br dford. lam no friend, Sir,
to rrtlections either upon the dead, -or the absent; but I
most iihservi., to the Hunoitrahle Gentleman, that he was
at the stair moan id committing that very fault of which he
accused 11r. bow lea He too iuraded this sliest retreats of
the dead ; a:al calumniated Ike rammer of Mr. Pith whim
hr charged I • aWs having appointed' sir. Bowie% one of
the thatch Comm.-aioners„ as a reward for his haring writ-
ten these au political pamphlets. NO grosser aosiehronisin,
Sir, was ever camistittial, by a man who sutlers his resentment
to gut the better of his reilertloll j for a comparison of dates
will inntiediattietl:err, that Mr. Motive's appinutusent took
years
place yea any of the pamphlets t.. whirls he has
Minded were written. I hare heard, Sir, and that from an..
dimity on which I can rely, that 11r. Bowles aas first intro-
duced to the notice of Mr. Pitt, in tonempumee of the ap-
pearance of no anonymous Assail: to Mr. t 0.,, fain 's Age
of Reasou. Tina work *tirade.) Mr.. Pitt's attention, and
led bun to inquire the name of the author ; he then soul for
Mr. DO% les, and told him that he should be happy to NAVe
wlrevecer a tit opportunity arcant, its ronsidaratiou of
the essential service which he had renders,: to the cause oft-di-
gital anti government by that pc • .eatiou I sits pm swatted, Sir,
that every gentleman who hears me, sill think that to pro-
vide au antidote fur tho tu.isoo remained in the Age of
Benson, was a Ineritiainu• office; and I mention this mice-
dote, folio. honour both of 31r Pitt arid Mr. Hooks.

"Au attack of a ditfereut kind hits been made tioo• Mr.
&Mks, by the Kith, Ilinenrable Gentleman (Mr. Pim-
sinthyl who hasiiist sat down. Ile lout tierfuruird the task
of a reviewer, Mild entertained tht Home with • eery in;e.
Lams critique uu cuiulis passages from one of Mr. Bowles's
paruphlets. From this specimen, Sir, I should not be stir-
Riaed tome • sew Item We start up ;sud the Twit nary
Review may perhaps Heal even the I:thalamic*, Review, but,
in that rase, I fear we should hare a schoito among tlie'Ciesi-
,
!Insets oppwite to me, and thst the House might be split
into entne parties that it is already divvied into.
" Dismissing M.. John Bowles it, character,
I shall now say something of him as a Hutch Commissioner.
It-appears by the report of the Committee, that upwardtof
too claims were referred to (Le uf those Comm's-
shiners. Several of thme claims avec unite my muusge-
meut, as Areal fur ration, Cm rivpouilriita to mow in the
United States of America ; and my flu ;04.1,10.11
tMni, were pi Limpidly rairied on with Mi. ItOWNP, who, za
prufisstooal man, hail the direction ofthat department
Fruin the oliserratioils which I Lad then an uppuetunity uf.
making use the conduit of 31r. Books, I tan hear enures to
the zeal and ability with a Lich he managed that poi of llse
miner-4u ; and I sin prrsaadeil, Alio lay hisusihdatieable at-
tention, and legal alb fa lUlill.ltilN, Me infinite smuttier uf It-
seat LOIS were rendei eil unnecessary, and %mil. ex prose saved
both to the parties concerned; sad to the &Laic. . Ilia pro-
feu:Moat exertions continued to be 'seminary, Mill after all
the mercantile exertions of the Commies.° :era were alt R.,
cud, in consequent's of the lawsuit with lby l'utlerwrit
which was only decided last year. lf, therefore, particular
consideration be due to am one of these Commishauers, more
than to another, that pit secular consideration is due to the
Serric of Mr. Bowles.

nth respect to the general condnet of the Commis-
sioners, ass body of men, I think it CLi11:101 'if wholly justi-
Ord; and my sentitorlits upon M seems: very much with
those of the 00000 notice, whose report is now before the
House. The aceounts, however, ham: sot ),,.t bee folly
examined nor 11. the case fully before I's. I thick, there-
fore, that the whole' matter ought to be oi demi to the As-
dillies of Public Accounts, in seder thst the investigation
Ala, be cowrie. fed. before we eodettake In pronounce oar
pollgoient. 'f he object of the interfere's, e bf I'ailiamuttt
might to be practical good; which silt not he promoted
rotmg theoretical propositions, containing retketione
upon Government iu areeral, such as fun. the Innis of the
krsnlution now proposed. I-therefore concur in the amend-
ment moved lay the Chancellor of the Eschequer, and shall
'tote for the prt•viims question."

• rim ENHIRITIo.V.
11R. ILDR•RD BIRD./ PtCTL&I er"ceso Nrws."

It has fur teeny years been ',cry jostly remarked, thnt the
Enghsl, are vot aiueh a 1111110111 tit of thvlnvelvrt, .t. 4 never to
tie vnlon,vel until they hare proem...l port' ait.:•or their wives
and children, nny, even the ter' ent most not he
hot-meted, as linear domestic No;maim isn• tisoally grouped
with the human figeres which erne-wow such family per.
foriennces ; Inrt if any thing weer smiting, to prove ilia jos-
cof this remark, the annual display at Wom'e'n i 1 otllle
litforolv amilicir n 1 proof limo h to, wrot portral i. the mar
tribe day, se the walls are name than half hued a ith perforni-
liners et' thirt description. This gaunt) of Arinu., banterer,
is by uu means attrilintahle to any dearth of taleut in our
artists, ulits %rookd tench rather prefer she nobler walks of
paialting it is the motional ratio, if farte it esu h, called,
which obliges the artist to quit the path of red ernisat fox
the dry uwl'itieipid trite). of pmiroie peietirg, from whence
he ran :thine ?mime that rceonlance alba+ his real nbilitin
would bare cumin:RM.:ll. (If the perforwineces in the prre-
sent Exhibition, there arc some particelaeiy iutriestirect bat
that of which se now mooed to treat, is the offepring of a=t '
Niue who is totally a stranger to the )letroprilis, beingenti-
tied " Geed News i" a production flow the reed of use Mr.
EDWARD ISIRD, of &old ; %he has given millivient proof
that we •ry nut deficient Oil the score attic high finishiug of
the Dutch, our the characteristic troth of the fictio.ii School.
The group in rho. picture eons:sir of eleven Arms', *lnch
at the first glance, convince one that they are every one rare
reel datum-at Sam of nature; hoe need se ash a !localise toe.
evening the as the toga ear...able speaks the 'abject in-
tended to be represented a ill each pecill ieremergy, that 'Good
News breathes through every line of the pertolininef. To
the right of the picture appears Min pirst.liiiy, a iping the per-
spiration from his fare, and tereivini a gin.% of gin from a
young worum, whore countermove sod general oirroar are so
managed, that although it is intended to represent the in-
habitant of an ale-house, yet elegance of romapi.,ition hue nut
beta urgleeteil by the paieter ; for if we divem the musk of
her tottige garb, th:tre is infinite Comae it the whole 'ratline
Mike figure. The wife of the landlord of this bowie, with
the child leaning meanest her lap, mad pre.eist throisielveri,
being pourtrayed with peculiar rare, and au expectation .4
placid attention to all that is *Ong fora:nil, w Welt is ail.
mitahly calculated to contrast with the energetic unanerrsof
the husband, also is seated lit her .We, bolding a fire. IN% in
One hand, and, with the other extended, is tier...rim:tole
overuse upon the Geed Nver4 just 11 t. is. J ; while • Max us