The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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You mistake inflation for inspiration—like other dealer•
in fiction.

The portrait, as drawn by yourself, is nnnatnrally large,
every feature is distorted, the contour is altogether out of
drawing, and your attitudes are affected and unnatural;
look at what you really are, a man of base and mean
origin, who made his debut in the ranks as a common
soldier. Possessed of some natural abilities, he soon set
about turning them to advantage; and, practising the
usual arts, be was soon promoted to be a serjeant.
The natural turbulence of his disposition led him to
feel very uneasy under the necessary controul of his su-
periors,
and the discipline of the army in a remote sta-
tion in America being lax, he began to collect materials
for revenging the slights of his officers, upon his return to
England. Connected by that similarity of disposition which
is necessary to friendship with the traitor Frreorasen, he
planned the destruction of several officers in his regiment,
and obtained his discharge through the interest of this
Irish traitor for that purpose. Without principle or ink-
gray, he carries on the farce of a court martial, and prac-
tices the most villainous artifices to remove, at the same time
a groat number of the loyal part of the regiment, under pre-
tence of being necessary witnesses. But whether a suspicion
of his real design, 'I% itti entertained, or whether the fear of
being prosecuted for sedition were really and truly felt, so
it is, this same accuser absconded to France the day before
the trial I Ile has since endeavoured to justify this atroci-
ous conduct by a gross and infamous libel upon the Laws
and Administration of Justice in this Country, and assert-
ing that he had made promises not to bring forward an
evidence who actually was brought forward and examined—
by asserting that the regimental books were in the hands
of the prosecuted, which necessary evidence, was not secur-
ed, so es to be brought forward upon the day of trial, but
which books actually were produced at such trial and ex-
amined—by asserting that twenty-two letters which would
have established these Charges, have been suppressed, of
the existence of which letters there is no proof but this
man's assertion, contradicted by the internal evidence of the
letters really produced—by asserting that if the charges
were true, the Government would have prosecuted him for
this. mockery of justice, when it is notorious that the
opinions of Sir J. Scope and Sir J. MITFORD were grounded
upon a technical objection to the form of prosecution that
least be adopted, and not at all depending upon the gnilt
respecting which no doubt was entertained—by asserting
that it the charge made against him were true, the in-
jured party might have prosecuted him in a civil action,
when we know at the same time that he was protected by
the Statute of Limitations from any such nction—bv assert-
ing that all he wished was to make the transaction noto-
rious, and to provoke investigation ; when it is not°.
rioay the fact that he carefully suppressed every thing
which relates to the Court Martial, in what he has given
to the public as his life--when it is equally notorious that
he dared not rehire to England till Foseeee was dead; and
that when he did return, he vaunted his services to
this country whilst in Ain erica, and began immedi-
ately to make an Gin fllde honourable, and to conci-
liate the Government here by associating wit h its de-
fenders, and affecting to become one of its most violent
pirtizans ; and when from these circumstances, coupled
with the ow insignificanee of the fellow, Government were
either induced to overlook his former conduct, or what ix
more likely, that the obscurity and meanness of the man
atibrded him a more ignoble security, he has now the im-
pudence to plead that very lenity (if it he lenity) as
proof (oh, monstrous) of his innocence.

have but one word more upon this part of the stibiect.
Nobody, Sir, ever thought of identifying our person or
popularity with the Cause of Reform. it is 30u,
who arc endeavouring to write yourself into notice by
doing it.
_ _ _

You are trying to sap the foundation of tl:e good
scale Rod integrity of the people of Ilampsitirc, by ad-

JULY 2.

rainisteting exasperating irritants to their passions upon
the popular subjects of the day ; and you are doing this,
Sir, with the vain and futile hope of becoming* their repre-
sentative. With so many men of really superior mind and
intellect, united with truth, consistency, and character, the
County of llaats must exhibit a deplorable state of &gra-
dation indeed, if it were to select such a low miscreant
from the ranks to represent them. A house of Commons,
composed of such materials, would be a " Kabt Ic Par-
liament" indeed. When such silly men as the 'V.'s and B.'s
are excepted from your general censure of we.alc minds and
miserable intellects, it requires no great share of judg-
ment to discover the cause. It is the rule of nature, that
fools arc first the (litres, and then the ready tools of
KNA I.IS.

I hid' conclude with a few of your own words, " we shall
now hear what he hp.s to snv avinst these stubborn farts;
though, I imagine he will be found to have little to say
except iii the way of abuse."

A MonritATE IlEtoattri.

TOBEIC.I

FROM THE Dil PAPER.