The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-07 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. BEAUMONT.
We give the following from the Newcastle eltronick of
Saturday, which may be considered official on this sub-

yet :
It was net our wish to have again alluded to subjects connected
with the late election for Northumberland ; and certainly the ridi-
culous attentpts which the partizans of Mr. Beaumont are now
staking to hold up the pmbishisp of the correspondence which has
Ist!tuprpeared, and not the ass fang, as the proper object of me
pupae adignatioe, would not have induced us to act contrary to
that wish. But there appeared in the last number of the Tyree
Mercury, in the midst of a most disgraceful and violent attack
upon Earl Orgy, an apparently authorized assertion, respecting
the publishing of that correspondence, which we feel ourwlves
called upon MOW decidedly to contradict. It is there said, "We
can now state positively, that the publication In question woe reside
seithost the rousetil or kttossedge qf Sir Jolts Sotiolutrar." (The
indica are theft own.) Now this is not the fact. We can assert
boldly. that as soon as the publication of the correspondence was
thought neeensaay, Sir J. Swinburne was formally apprised of
such intention; and that worthy Baronet and his family were fully
informed on the subject, we had positive evidence, t of only in con-
versations with members of the family, but also in a message from
Capheaton, communicated to this office before the
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to the effect that Sir John Swinburne would
either one way or the other in the matter. We can go further, and
say (and in doing so, we trust we shall not be considered as stating
any thing improper,) that not one step has been taken with regard
to the publication of the correspondence. without the sanction, and
we believe, direction, of a very near relation of the family ; the
Noble Earl, who is so grossly libelled in the article alluded to, not
being wiling to trust his own judgment in a case in which his
feelings might possibly mislead hint. Of the manner in which his
Lordship is attacked in that article, we know nut how sufficiently
to express out detestation. Nothing during the contest lass ap.
peered to us MOWS (11S4r4CCilli than the language which has !seen
addressed and been suffered to be addressed to a nobleman of Lord
tirey• unaullied character and acknowledged north. We do not
bel eve that in any other county in England, his Lordship would
have experienced the treatment be has met with in his native
county. Bad, however, at former language was, it sinks into in.
significance compared with that which is addressed to his Lordship
in the article in question. We could not have believed it possible
that any being, wearing the outward form of man, could have up.
sited such language to Earl Grey; but it seems we had not a just
conception of the degradation to which men can he reduced when
they abandon themselves to the guidance of their baser passions.
Happily such language is altogether harmless, except to its author;
for. like the viper in the fable, he onl injures himself by his
attackson that character which is far above his envious breAth.