The National Register.
London, England, 1809-08-06 00:00:00

SteNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1809.

No.:S4.

youTicAL

N Mlrr. R Elt; a T wo.

TO COLOti WARDLE.

• SIR,
It requires a certain dignity of mind and, superior ity. of
intellect to. bear reproof witt.tot a sense of.indigna4ion ;.
with this lototedge, I experience lesm surprise than regnet
when I hear that you and Sir B scHaan PHlLLips,readzmy
last Letter with symptoms of violent irritation. If my .anger
should get •the better of my ronteinpt,. Sir ittocanu,ivill
pad that what I haFp said respectipg him is perfe.cl modera-
UoK, sad that his best secutity is in the,gnildness of aidispo7
*kiwi MA easily provoked. I teel no gratification in contra-
Acting the falshoods he uttered on Sunday morningovhen
his nudity friend skewed him Tim Nag-tor/AL RantsTEH,
pied I. appeal to his gener*l character for the degree of cre-
. 44 that is.to be affurcied to any thing he may 'atm. U
would be sufficient to refer to Wm evidepce in the. Court ofKing's Bench, if the gai:eral tenor of his life wanted ahy
corroboration of the principle; or rather the total want of

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principle, by which it is directed. ' It is no fault of mitre,
that You'donot both sink into that. obliviOn fruni whie4
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you will never be'restered by your virtues, and that you
do not gracefully eye,/ 'Without those convulsive struggles
which only add to youriTsairace, and perpetuate your in-
famy. The indiscreet_t,eat,of your political friends only
elicits new traits of your character to render -it less estiina-,.1
hie, and to close every done-through which yOniniglit
thsil
return to the future good opi of a credulous and ever
to be deluded public. If yo.ir di race has rendered you
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more susceptible of advice, do not refuse that which I give;
and surely when you-are led by such men 'as Sir IIreKARD
and the Lineti Draper, it will be infinitely less a matter of
humiliation in you to receive it- than in me to oiler it.
Impose silence upon your City Advcicates, and slicltcr
yourself in some obscure retirement from the absurdities
of your defenders. Whatever interest others may have to
deceive you, I have none. This is the only way in which
you can,hope to save the wretched remains of a ruined
reputation. Posterity, perhaps, may judge your conduct
.with more kindness, when its real worth, or demerit is -not
estimated by the foolish fulsome panegyrics of some, or the
violent abuse of others. But if sou ate advised to brave
the " pitiless pelting storm" of public indignation, at least
pursue those national objects which you have declared to
have always been in your view, (and -which so many were
weak and credulous enough to believe) •by means, open,
direct, and honest; vice arid disingenuity invariably pro-
duce corresponding effects; dishonourable and disgraceful
.courses arc followed by events of . simi:ar nature, as cer-

tainly as the shadow follows the Sun. The partizans with
whom you are nosy identified will not suffer you to pursue
this line of conduct, and the flattery of self-love aml vanity
will incline you to follow their advice, and ultimately lead
you to inexpiable ruin.—Having once beheld and gloried
Or*i. 11..4444. LX XXI v.

PRICE 94.

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in the bright n►eridian lustre, they cannot. but see with

anouish the setting Sun shorn of his beams, a: RI the . anti-
cipate not without horror and dismay that eternal night of
oblivion which is about- to close around you.
But, sir, there is an inconsistency and imprudence in
their defence inure unfavoutable to your cause than even
the grossest absAirdity df your own conduct; and your

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character
..is injured ell-lost as fatally. by the defence of
your friends as by .the.imputations.of your mimic,. But
it is not the.. inconsistency, -or ,abaucdity whidi the nature
of this dofencenceessarily involuts,to which Monell ohjoct.

4.l4iese. things. may, •exl,ure • with. the,. insignificant cbject
ithielkgase theinsPit thy .bet the.y Are coupled with ark.en-
.(kaVO' Uf •to crajii,.dowe thlaiats principles pregnant
with the.wocet infinitely Are qtrtniog than
the single Instr./sic/4 of:. iniseondua or folly which They were
employed to•palliates and Alitiend, 1.1: is ,siot% by. kind) doc-
trines as have been broached' in the Comdion:CorinCil by,
the pseudo Qrakors -tO theist ittf .-Temple Bar :`'it is mit
1.4 that equivocal iirorality which ,theytaverreathed, .that
.your conduct can 4e justified. They aresleplorablysi*ndrL
ant if Alley think-Abe people of4his country -fit'Subjects• '
for such impositions to.work upon. Silly ,devices 'to 'cure
blunders. are generallygllbildren-of the saineimbeeiltity -that
cv mitred. them; asst FOIL!III of ToralAri• tut a
Feeble defence for gross-impropriety of .conduel.- •
Mr. GOODBefittiE.. might hatte contended that It sionld
be derogatory to .tlsPconsisteticy of the Court to
scind the reselution.-in your favour he Might hayii
dwelt with a malicious' pleasure upon the perseverance
;and infinite pains you had employed in 'iriakine 'dii-
coveries so important to the country' but why,
did. you antler him lo outrage our understandings tly,
the contemptible nonsense of your baying been actilatM
by no private views—by no sinister motives. When '
as well known that
.yonr best qualifioation for a Patriot
and a Reformer Was your poverty:and the remunerallou
you expected was not so. much the gratification l,f : our
private malignity as the promise you .received froni the •
**" of 4.'l** of the place of Secreta;'y at Wir;, when he
should lac appointed Commander in Chief. (rile history ~tf
all these facts will certainly come out in goon time). Why
were we surfeited with the repeated declaration that yOu
had made great sacrifices of your private fdrAune ? is it
not a fact that Dow) paid half the bill for &Or. ? rfAl is it
not equally true thaVyou told Mrs. CLARKS whom you
was to be reimbnrsed the several sums of 50/: and 201. thdt
von advanced previous to, and duriag the investi4ation,
in order to make her appear as creditable as she was a
credible witness? Is the going about with the Secretary of
the man two virtuous for the age he Lves in, Trial his del,*
GLENNIT, and with " a Inall pilloried in one hemispihnere;
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and pensioned in another," to rake for acesatory molter
against the NIKE (41'0RK, in brothels and bawdy-lionsest
(which you did). You descended to the meanest species of
intrigue with the servant at well as the mistress, and was
this too done in the same spirit of patriotism, and all for the
love of 'your—Country t Is this to be dignified with the