The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-10 00:00:00

Tu W. H. C. FLOYER, Esq.

SlR—Were the effects of the rashness and folly. which
have uu so many occasions marke.l your conduct, felt only
by yourself, you might be suffered to proceed in your career
without remark, and to contribute, in your proper sphere,
to the amusement of old women and the continuo gossips of
the day; hot when your caprices, like the tricks of a
monkey, become mischievous an well as absurd, it is tillle to
treat them with doe chastisement, and to preveut their re-
currence, if possible, by the terror of the lash.
A collection of your hasty and intemperate actions, for
'Lime years back, would furnish ample nuderials for A se-
cond past of the drama of " Th. Choleric Mau." Your
love of contention noel publicity has become a passion in
you of an predominant a nature, that, like Dim Quixote,
you traverse the colony), to seek occasions to display your
valour and your zeal. That amiable hefted aberral.
were, however, always in the true spirit of chivalry—kitid
in intention, and virtuous in meaning; and while we pity
his extravagance, we respect his person. Your exploits, on
the contrary, call forth nothing buil reprobation, they are
at ouce vicious and ridiculous. If we feel ourselves for a
moment disposed to commiserate the weakness from which
they proceed, the appareut miller of tin ur object some
changes that feeling into one of indignation. in another
point of comihirisim tam' the Knight of La Mancha must
lets. justice done him. He
of hue enterprises, but lured them the inure for the
Your merit is ot another stamp. Yuu retain the notoriety
with care, and skilfully avoid the personal risk.

In the public and private (panel* of this county, your
fur the last Olivet' Of eight yearn, bay made a egnopj.
couua figure. A private dispute, or ibe enure dignified al-
tercations sif a Broth of Justices, a fiix-huntiog squabble,
or an electiou cuistrat, are fields equally adapted for she
display of your spirit and genius. Mr. Floyer is for ever
found ss a principal or au abettor of feuds and discord ;
bat server as a calm interceder' or a sober pacificator. It
fiery mailers out on which side his zeal ranges itself; doll
the wrong, he will ceriaiuly keep it so; if WI the right. he
will be sure ere long to make it the worst ciao. Of vio-
lcure and illikerslity be is never found deficieui, of temper
and judgement always.
Yonr iwitreedings in the late election at Tamwnrth furnish
specitu o. of volgarity, nitleness, and gross abase, which
lov!-11,Ait of scueritity and 1.44(1i0u41, clectioueering

To have reasoned then, however, would have implied
coolness and reflection, and it desire iu you to mitigate the
faults of your neighbor; but these were reffisoleral
which never enteral your mind when your pride was
to lie ;catlike!, aud the vehemence of your temper us.
it is difficult to (Ileac the motives which have actuated
you hr this affair. Your act' s are all of so capricious a
deseriptiou, that it is as hard to assevi au adequate cause
for theft), as of those of a wayward 11•11. I. D4d the desire to
restore the freedom of choice to the Electurs of Tamwordh
excite your pit riotisus ?—Certainly not. For it appears you
have not ilie least elijo ciao to deprive them of all choice
whatever, provided Sir Robert Peel he male a parry to the
traissactimi in the manlier you would dictate. That your
erllrladf Was tint impelled by that sudden dash of langur'.
t ion which heroic minds feel ut the bare mention of a die-
hot ttttt fable deed, is pretty n vilest; where else, permit me
to ask, was that hie', mid delicate seitse of honour, a sup.
lamed breach of wive!' as much offends you Su another,
wirers you could stoop to the pitiful 1111..laarliS of detailing
a private conversation, to sustain the *rakers.; of ass
exaggerated report, propagated for the purpose of a
ParlY
Rot the most shameless and molar ions piece of effrou-
li y you have yet essayed, is contained la your last publi.
cat' of the eterrespotoleme between y be' and Mr.
William Peel, where you threaten an appeal to the laws fur
his haring dared to challenge you in a tether% cause.
IVltta! you, who have repeatedly broken the laws in
breads of the peace our the most frivolous and foolish pre-
tences, i• it for your to shelter yourself under the arin of a
power you have so little respected ? Is it for you, I say, to
urge a disparity of age and family ties as reasons fur refus.
ilia to give satisfaction to a Mills whose hest fertilizes you
had wounded?—Hate yon aunts 1.1.11:allen your men con-
duct to Sir Henry Every, whom you insii;:ited in the must
insnitiuc manner to light a duel—with odium? yourself?
No, but with a man ttttt named, and his junior by twenty
years. Sir ['vary 1.1,/ was Ilse father of a family, tiny 111011,,
of a family just then become neutherlon. Yet Mr. Ploys
thought MI delicacy dire to hints, either 114 a gentleman or a
parent; but, as the public well remembers, displayed his
arrogance, 4011 that occasion, ill all Is yours the
only case in which age arid family are to he a protection
from the just resentment tit Horse you injure? Give me
leave to observe to you, that the really brave never shrink
from the danger and responsibility ituey have once incurred,
arid scorn even the soggesti tttt of a paltry subterfuge.
Are you wink enough to imagine, that you are privileged
in this land of equal justice and liberty, to brimil non with
dishonour, to libel their characters, ILI disturb the pence of
families, and to violate the decorum. of social life out, no.
purity? If so, it is rime to nieleceive you, sal to tell you,
that the world will out suffer rue outrageous character to
ilium it from its bias, nor permit an example of unbridled
ferocity to exist without the bars of a useusgerie.
I now take nay leave of you, Sir, and l hope you will
seriously set about curbing the impetuosity of your temper,
and restraining that haughtiness which is the bane of all
virtue. Brood out over your own importance till your ima-
gination becomes bewildered; nor, in your formed great.
IMMO, lose sight of the rights, privileges, and feelings of
other men. Nature has given you talents and qualities to
render you respectable, and even amiable; but they must
first be cleared from the duns of self-conceit and vanity.
You have much time to make up in your eJuversion, and it
behoves you to art about it without delay.
I am, &c. &c.
Tamororth, June 2tl, ISIS. CASTIGATOR.

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