The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-23 00:00:00

Lility had ais:gned them. You have misiakeu craft for
sense, and low cunning for understanding ; you have, un-
fortunately for yourself, but fortunately for the public,
exercised these qualities tipcn a person better gifted than
you are, and have been fairly beat at your own weapons.
You exhibit, the uncommon picture of a patriot without
popularity, and a half corrupted courtier without a place
(kinc illce lachrpnce). Flushed with an imaginary power
over the undarstandings of the people, and exasperated by'
defeat, you have, in the language of Airs. CLARK E'S Ad-
dress, "lost your prudence with your temper," and I as's
dared to vilify the proceedings of the Court of Kilig4
Bench, by saying that a verdict was obtained by perj:iry,
and to injure the characters of our most eminent counsel-
lors, by denying that they would not follow your adrice.
your advice! Oh dear, Mr. WARDLE, your advice! Re-
member that 1

And in the new reforming regime which you propose to
introduce, pray render the recurrence of such a circum.
stance impossible. But really, Sir, the pill is too lame to
be swallowed. We are not so gross as to take words for
facts, or assertions for proofs. However sacred and infal-
lible the word of a patriot and a reformer may be within a
certain pale, the people of the United Kingdom must have
better and more substantial proofs of a divine mission,
before they receive your dogmas as articles of faith. Rea-
son and experience are not to be discarded in a moment ;.
we owe them too many obligations, and jou will find them
the best searchers of Ike hearts ;Ind Wort of ihe
There is something ridiculous in your distress which
would excite our compassion it' it. were not folly or some-
thing worse to pity you. In the confusion of defeat you have
intemperately appealed from the jury to the people, and the
people have decided against you. You have done this
intemperately : but men's manners as Shakespear well ob-
serves, like their judgment , are a parcel If Mali. fortunes.
—.An adventurer accidentally raised from obscurity, to
a state of popularity, you have not been able either by your
virtue.; or by your abilitif2s, lo maintain the sl-:!tion, and arc
BOW a fallen man stru%glilit: betwee:i hope and despair to re.
cover what you have lost, and lost for ever.
It 1.; acknowledged to be the peculiar privilege of the
Almighty to b:ing good out of cvii, and the uablushieg
eirrontecf, coupled with the incontestible meanness of your
conduct, has had this happy effect —it has. opened 'the eyes
of many whom party had blinded, or disappointment ex-
asperated, aml has turned the resentment and indignation of
the people against the man who had deceived them with a
distended and outrageous portrait of himself.—l do not
eq)ect that I shall b e able to persuade you, or those Rho
are influenced by the prejudices of party, that such has
been your conduct,—aud that such is your present situa•
tion. Ido not even expect to gain the attention of such,
much less do I attempt their convection. Time and an ex-
perience of themselves and you, will do that by degrees
which no argument can effect. Of these the well-intenti-
oned wilt sooner or later return to their natural bias, and
others will in turn become as you have done, first the
tools, afterwards the dupes, and ultimately-the vicCna of