The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-06-15 00:00:00

cmplot ed the exi ressions ascribed si Ti.
lie had done,and ;is soon ns other AVW,'IliOl).4 allowed
he had received from that Hon. Geinlele„,,
smelt an answer as completely satisfied him (Ilr.
C.) that he (rlr. H.) could not have used those ex.
-presets:en; tlinegli imt.liaving seen the newspapse
lie could not speak as povitteely as he'ekpeeted ro
be able VI do after reading the report. Ile (MT.
L;(4 hod sent the paper to that Hon. Gentlertaii,
and a Noble Friend of hie had brought from ',ins a
most elev. honourable, andsatisfactory
In consequelice of this, he had given notice t . s.,
Hon. Member, last Saturday, that being
the fault rested with the newspaper, be atior:.:
bring this abuse of the privileges and- indato
of the House beture its consideration. on nintla.,
when he must request his presence. The Hoes.,
he trusted, would see that he was not infliteocA
by any motive uf personal interest or Um:rile:l.
Ile might indeed have felt hurt had the attack
proceeded from a respectable quarter, but ree.,
ing on such authority, as it now did, it was
below Ins profoundest contempt. He hail, homesci,
rt. duly to perform to many !Members in the Haan..
who were not so hardened as himself against sea,
attacks, and who would rather hear them 1;1 stltere
-thaei expope themselves to a repetition of them lie
noticing *beta. It was in their Lehaif that ie.
came forward. Libels like the prere:it were rtie
more despicable, because the wretch a l,n wrote tinna,
did not stood forth openly, but placed& trepeesselle,
Mein ber of the hleinc before him as a covet—tlistar4 •.!
It was thus in the power Of any map who hestrialiS.
debates, aid marked the absence of certain, Mem-
bers, to put in the mouth of others the foulest libels,
on the absent. What course was open tor hint to
pursue in search of a remer:y ? The law would Inia
been good for nothing. If he hod carried his ewe-
plaint to the Chart of King's Bench, be Might tire
convicted the Editor of The Times of a libel, lei:
without bring satisfied that he had proceeded ag asst
the right quarter. It would have afforded no means
o of ascertaining whether the Ilon. Gentleman het
used the offensive espressions. He would late
punished the act, lint perleapa oil the is r:meta e-r.
1 mu. If lie hail laid hie compleint before the floe,
he should not have known, as he now did, the., t,•
whole blame was et'ached to the newspaper. lie
had, therefore, no alternative left, but a Perseus;
application to the Honourable Member. Was e;
not, thereto; e, his duty, he wonlil ask, to tasee,e,
that such an offence should .lit be repeated
For even then he might have made Lis sppe.l
vain. He might nut have bad the goad firione to
deal with such a Gentleman us the Hon. Nlcielst,
He might have met with tete alto, on the yin:-
ciole admitted by many to dtstniss from tl tar
' minds all they have spoken, might have
that he knew nothing of newspaper repsr:..,
that he (M r. C. must judge for hitaseir. 'PA ,:ct
of slander was new in tbe annals of liceonne-,-
loess. It was calculated to place iudividuals ;i; sit !t
a situation that they would have no enema; ire seit
the extremity to which he had been cotnpol!eil to lege
recourse; and WhiCh might ItoctilitlysTeuiliice tee
same results. In !eying the: siesspaper before "tie
House, be trusted it would be semethat lie was nut
geatifying any feeling of self-revenge. For
self, Isc was perfettly standee, but fbr the Home'
collectively, fur the diguity.of its dictates, mot the
security cornmunication to the tanitit.ar
lie eutreated the House to take the offence nom it.
moat setioniv consideretion. He shoul I lint reeis
that in IN same iresesiiapir of this (14, th J,B
appeared what he presumed was meant for in: ITO-
logy. This apoligy commenced in the fr,:i,ariee.
inaitoer :—" hire request to state, that a crineiteraVe
error crept into on account of Mr. Flumes vetch on
*ringing rip the Report of the Committee on tie
Finance Resolutions Tuesday evening." A consi-
derable error ! The interpolation of a whole sen-
tence, and nut of out sentence only, but of a voltaic
series ! It then proceeded—" In the greet t:l4ss of
1 metier which must every night he got ready for the
firers, after the debates in the two Houses are cod-
ed, or wink they are going on, it is impossible the:
mistakes should not sometimes occur. We :as
only say, that it is our most anxious desire to
forth a just and impartial representation of
passed; and whenever we fail of 111.1CCA, such ore
Mill the pains we take, that we should hardly pate
to solicit indulgence upon the plea of incurnela-
our failure must be laid to the inverfectints of
nor common mature, s hangman, prawn card are.
lam' Mr. Flume spoke with much feeling and aoi-
motion of the distresses of the poor, and übitrr'AlS.
an we miderstond by our Reporter, a smile altos the
!Ministerial Hunches, is represented by us as tag'lsq
only one Right Hon. Gent, (Mr. Canning) with :o-
dulging iis leughter on so serious a subject. The
Right Hon. Gelb:. we have since learned, was not
present. We shall pot now relent the riffessille
passage for the sake of correcting it ; suffice it
to say, that Mr. Canning was out attacked us di.-
ocribedin net report. We are enabled. from the
most authentic source, to lay before our r,itrit
the passage which was so misunderstood by vat
Reporter:"—To this wits subjoined tie mine r+-
port, which the lloriourahle Gentleman tiad !Ad
the goodness to send him as a correct ,tioci-
ment of what he had said_ If the case of sdnert tie
nninnloinod were one of omission or mistake, ne
should ialt have thought it entitled to so mud]
notice. But what did the report state ? arse a
not calculated to create a belief that he. brio::
present, had joineri.i. *laugh) at the sufferings cf
the People, and whilst iss a long artificial sentence
reproaches had been uttered almost pest
beariag, that heoritsing in that House, and will; .!,it
smile still aickeviog on his lips hid had the ie-s-
-nese not to my one ward in Ins
( /leuratear.)--.This coo nei he at tribut ril to ruie-
take or to common misrepteriefitation. It was awl
one of those noolsereencies *hid] irreuri9
He was more ready to citiircaa that it might be lt•
tribated to the imperfections of human nature
for falsehood was one of its imperfections, aid ITO'.
'ligni ty another.—(Neer, hear-) ottY
seemed to him even more than the me in!
offence, to requite the notice of the. House ;
ceuse instead of @Bowing that ratljantent 10 .+.
right to complain of accidenisk eaten, it
sunned that it oeghti to be gratefitt for 01!
accarocy with which the debates were revel.
ed. If this were admitted, Honourable Mrin-
bees wadd have no right to complain if they
were unjustly seat farts to the detestatino. of
the country;. He hid also to remark that the
°ire* 41 lime gmingsittej en Weillieraley