The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-08 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

half of Mr. Fauntleroy's friends is extremely unwise, as it
may goad us to this extremity, anal the beseeching, for
his sate, that the subject me), drop, and that no further
bets may be forced from us that may tem! still more
strongly to in:ercept the Royal mercy. We shall thus ap-
pear to act from a feeling of humanity ; and should the
public feeling in his bAiall fail in procuring from the Royal
mercy a mitigation of his ntence, to a punishment 'hat
of death, let but the article in your paper work its tied,
let it only produce the impression intended, ail the penally
of his life is token—our purpose i 3 answered."
That all this has passed, in substance, will instantly
strike evcty man ut common peretration ; but we will not
leave it here, we will roe Tel, pint by ;:nint, and trace it
as it stands in proof.
A convietion was fast spreading if on the pnblic mind,
that the article which bad appeared in the Times, purport-
ing to he a concise history of itir. FAVNTLE ROY'S private
life, having been discovered to contains tissue of fain hoods,
fabricated for the worst of purposes, it became the tratecend-
ent and peremptory duty of thatdournel to exculpate itself by
giving up the writer. This feeling grew every day stronger,
and the expression of it became daily more pointed and
more pressing. At length the following notice was, on
Thursday last, forwanitd for irsertion, and appeared ac-
cordingly in the Jannl4:s b V. I.iCll it was respectively trans-
mitted
" We rce,.,est the public to prape^:! thvir jndernent as to us,
until we shall have parr -I nir casmipntion upon oath before the
Cotru:::,sio::crs, which will takt: place on the Ilth Member nest'
" W. M. Mattatt.
" J. 11. STRACP.T.
s. 0. E. tlaAtims."
It is somewhat singular, and the fact is worthy of re-
mark, that this rt quest did ae.i appear its the Trues!
In lien of it, however, the following letter appeared, the
object of which, and Me yammer from which, it proceeded,
it is not difficult to discover. We would entreat the reader,
while he peruses it, to bear in mind Me exposition we have
given in the outset :

TO THE 1:DITOR OF THE TIMER.
'SIR,-1 contels that the imputations at liberally inettlred in
by certain journals against characters which, for auF,ht I know, may
.te irreproachable, dots surprise me in this • thinkter country,' for
so we ate Iticatitt to call it.
•• Year resp:rtahie .naptr is, as *skid be repeetrd, an hoonurable
exception. They *meat to be tieing their utmost to urge the
partners in the late Ilerver's-street bar.k to reply to hfr.Farmtkroy's
deface. That there may be no want of stimulus. one talks of
partici/n*sex is crime ; thus magnifying even the prisoner's charge
of partielpaihns in profits: the character of whicit participation de-
, mo. ds altogether on the knowledge or ruspicion that the funds are
Impromrly obtained, or on the belief that they come in the regular
course of busier's.
" They are urging* these gentlemea to rtpty to that defence.
when the prisoner has heard front his judge that mercy. though
improbable, is not impossible: they are urging them to rodeo:oar
to deprive him of the slender hope of lip gamed, by shakier. if
they can, the only ground on which he relies upon for merry, '017.:
that he did not forge for selfish marrows—that he had had years of
anxious core owing to mime-used finances, and was, personally,
of econontical habits. Surely th:s coarse is very thoughtless. to
say the least of it. In my Intercourse with legal men, there ap.
pears but one opininn--that the partners would make themselves
justly liable to the severest cot:mitre, were they. in v•ticr to clear
their characters a neck or fintaight sooner, to preindict the rhamses
of tics uatiolanotr nwa, such as they
.art, or suet( as he ray eon.
alder them. Ile relies almgc•her en for defer.re. Are they, then,
to seal his doom by possibly depriving his statement q' the charoeter
of truth, The statement may be trite; bat, surely. It in untosgal
thus to adopt interested statements, made by a:nrxe:ify crest end
practised ofeadc..s. All that I know is, that the Bank of Croglar.o,
who must have hail opportunities of investigation, appear by the
Attorneylieneral's speech, to have entertained no such idea*. I
feel no right. then, et present, to suppose "milt ow their part. I
might certainly, sine in my own cone. It, say that they. 11% well as
Butte Donk of hot7land,
is hal been uver-earrldfn;-,h tPren r-Prrlrsit.
his after-wo.doin chem. It leurislarpeur adthr rvid:nce of
the arilamses to character, tort flits ttn:Mtorate now had pcssessed
the art of kepi, amfidencr in his int.;:zrito ;a no COMMON degree.
" It seems the part of the public press, combining mercy and
humarity with its acknowledged power, to imp lure the partite.: to
be patient for atchile, rather than to irritate theps into making
statements or di...closures which may tt.fßet the life of a Juilat
JN-
low-creelam. Such, at least, are the vines of
" .t LAW STCDENT.

" Nov. 3, 1024."
The key to this letter we have furnished above ; it sup-
plies us moreover with a clue to the omission in the Times
of the request on the part of the firm of Marsh and Co.,
which found its way intuall the other papers. The request
made by Me partners through the medium of the public
Press, was, that they would postpone their judgment till
the Nth of December ; whereas the Tints, having its euv
from the eery same parties, broadly and insultingly affirms
that "it se(ms the pa►t or THE rustic Pates, to im-
plore the e•r.l NEON to be patient fir a while, rather than
to irritate them into making statements or disclosures which
may affret the life of a ,folks creature! !!" It was ob-
viously impossible to introduce both into the same venal co-
lumns ; and as the letter was subservient to a purpose,
and could not be dispensed with, the official document was

omitted.
The first and the fnest feature in the character of Eng-
lishmen is, their sympathy with the oppressed,—their in-
stinctive love of justice, which suffers no man to be sacri-
iii
deed. It is this that makes an Englishman proud of his
country, and in no instance has it been more fervently ma-
nifested, than in the strong public feeling in favour of the
unhappy individual, against whom these foul and false
aspersions have been sent forth. Front the instant the in-
famous drift of them was seen through, the cry became
loud and general against the Journal that could lend itself
to be the vehicle of falsehoods so malignant, and so fatal,
in every way. to the object of them. How does the 77n/es
answer this appeal ? This question brings us to their
leading (Wide of Friday last, in which, in a tone of vul-
gar effrontery, they affect to carry off the afiair with an
assumed unconcern.
.` A foolisii outcry is now raised against this paper bemuse we
do not come forward to reply to an injudicious challebge of persons
who jitney thonvires to be friends of !411r. FAUxTurnov. As
far as we are r ,ncerned we are very little disturLed by the ribidiwg

of o:me unwh,e persons."
But this arrogant aTeetation of indiXerence will not be
suffertd to pass. Not only the friends of the unhappy
Mr. lit !tali F•crTLEttott, but the public voice demands,
that the Times should openly, unequivocally, and at once
give up the author of that pretended history of bus pirate
life, which, at this tm.meatons and aulsi crisis, it has deli-
berately published against burn ; and this demand the
Times will in vain endeavour to shuffle from or escape.
The base and contemptible afttetation of anxiety lest the
partners should be irritated to make disclosures and alal r-
me at, which may ezd the liii?pf a jillmr-creature
in
I too shallow a pretext for evasion to impose on the cow-
soonest understanding. The article proceeds thus—
But it may, perhar, be wcchy of remark, as a curiosity in
!hr history orb n up(♦ orini In. that the runic ideutica/ article which
is now minted as a cruel attach apron the character of Mr. ',auntie-
toy was at ling derma:v.4 in the court mon; al,nrett terms as a
eland;iii a..tl mu unprincipled attemr, in cscite compusion for a
crimlral whme conduct ought-it was raid—to bass been descriimi
in terms of untlitigated reprehation."
The Times here attonpts to turn to its own advantage.
the s, ry circitinsUnce which forms the worst awl mos'
wicked feature in it.; libel on thl private life of Mr.
I FAL. strt ,:nov. The article artfully mingled here and there
an expression of liminess towards him, to give it, in the
first !lace, the appearance of candour, and, in the next, to
furnish the subject of a second &lack, under an assumed
respect for property and public morals ; for where is it that
e find this :date ittent;ca/ article ileuctinect: as a masdlif: