The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-16 00:00:00

SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1809.

No. 68.

.POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

NUMBER SIXTY-SIX.

LARD VISCOUNT CASTLERLAGII:

" Infamy must attich somewhere on, the accuser or accused."

It does attach strongly and indelibly to the persons who
!lave merited it : and, like the•harbed arrow, the more ef-
forts are made to extract it, the faster it sticks, the more
incurable it renders the wound 4--r, 17aeret lethalis Arundo."

Let the infamous fly from that community their conduct
has dishonoured ; and into whatever haunt a distracted
- conscience, and the exacrations of their fellow-citizens may
drive them, they carry with them an excruciating sting,
which will *render solitude intolerable. This is the triumph
of retributive justice ; and we bow down in silent, respect-
ful admiration, at the dispensations of that'Powta, who,
ultimately, however slowly, never fails to detect dishonour
and to clear innocence. The menaces and insults which
were Weld out to Mr. WARDLE, have made no impression
on a bosom armed with integrity; but they have reverbe-
rated with tenfold violence on the persons who had the at-
trocity to cast them. The more we reflect on this entire
business, the more We are astonished and indignant. The

persons, who were most noisy and brow-heating on the
occasion, who expressed the greatest indignation at the
idea of a person high in office being guilty of corruption,

or connivskoet, lave added hypocrisy to insolence, effron-
tery to falsebOod.; for they knew but too well, that men,
filling the highest ostensible situations, have been guilty of

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vicei Lord CLANCART T has rendered the corintry, , Hn.ctl
could induce his patron to compromise himself, degrade
the Ministet, and vicila'e the Constitution, in order to pro-
cure him a seat in Parliament. IF he be a Nobleman of
such conspicuous merit and integrity, it would certainly
be possible to enjoy the benefit of his talents ankl virtue in
the Senate, without pursu.ng do dangerous and reprehen-
sible a course as has been chosen. The electors of the
United Kingdom are wit so indifferent to a display of great
qualities, as to overlook them in the case of tf.;l Nobleman.
But if he happened to possess no other pretension to so dis-
tinguished au honour, than a servile acquiescence in the
views of the Minister svho patronized tiini—ne may then
have some idea of the magnitude and danger of the abuses,
which degrade the administration, and menace the existence
of the country. We never entertained a very exalted opi-
nion of Lord CASTAA.REAGWS principles, aid have, there-
fore, never been much astonished. nor evil- offended. at the
part he has uniform)y payed in pub!ic but we regret-
ted, and condemned, and wept in silence. O,.:er tne preju-
dice's and obstinacy which obi ruded lii Lordship into a rank
he is, in no one sense, qualified to fill. We never were
dazzled by the splendour, nor amazed at the-comprehen-
siveness of his genius ; but we did not, at the same time,
entertain that contemptible notion of his prudence and un-
derstanding, as to think he Avouid betray such ignorance
and contempt of the Constitution, as he manifested during
that infamous transaction.

Tit *base herd of i;arking wretches, who cringe and wag
to every man who tins the distri!-;otiott of tninisterial loaiTe
and fishes, halve kept up, for years, an unceasing din about

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saitiug IMO 1116111:31. USICUSI MC SILUiLLRHIS, iia% c 'men gouty Of . ‘
e conspiracy against the inst:tu-
the grossest malpractices. The reason is tinaliy come out, the xistence of a dangerous
done of the, country. Their clamour his been too severely
why such a horrid, stunning yell was kept up, when the
torch of investi ation was brouht near the den of corrup condemned, and their advice inadvertently sl:ghied : It dues
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unfortunately exist, and tts so 1 alarming an extent, as to lion. The hideous ghastly spectre's of jaeobinism and Con- ,
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raise very justifiable doubts about the prole..bility of res:st-
spiracy were let loose, to terriry the bold adventurer from • it
in e• success u • ••f ll They were partly in the sweet ; they *',
approaching ;—the light reflected on one recess, might illu-
. 4 wrtnessed the machinations;- they ware emPloyed as the se-
mine the secrete of the rest.
condary agents; but they artliilly concealed its tendency
• Who are now the conspirators, the jacobins;—the ene- and authors. The alarm was reprobated by the thinking •
plies of the Throne and people ? Who undermine the Con- and honest, as only contribtit;rg to excite unnecessary
ititution, and contaminate its most vital parts? Answer anxiety ; whilst the conspirators were beeping faggot i wont
that question, my Lord CASTLEREAGII ! you are silent ; quite .
fars-,,0t, addincr ode pitch barre! to another, until some mo-
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chop-fallen! Not a subterfuge, not even a sophistry, not
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dern Guy Faux should be found to set fire to the noblest 1
a single word at your command, .to extricate yOu from the
monument ever erected by thew Aion and *galas of ages.
dilemma. How abashed does a guilty conscience. or rather • .
A select cominit!ee of those wretches sat at Gloucest;Ts . , .
detection in a crime, render the most unblushing, the most plar.-,; ;mother met in Leadenhhil-street ; a third', is: the ..
callous. You will now grow sensible to the truth and pro- Dais,
vicinity of llampton-court ; and Iteiiiiig and s, with '4' :
_., priety, however insensible to the beauty, of the adar,— iti ~
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their noblc,' associates, formed a foorth. . .
,: 44 That honesty is the hest policy." The negoeiation with
•- In listening to the iniquitous proposals of a despicable,
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4 Recline, has excluded von for ever, unless a reyolation take .. • i
Reding needy adventurer, whom Lord CA4TLEREA6II confesses
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place in this country, from official honours and rewards. neither to have heard of, nor seen, before,—of a scouldrel t,i, ofi
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Should such an event occur, it is impossible to fore:.el what •
and rank imposter, as he is emphatically ealled 'by Mr ,ii,•
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rank you may fill in the new order of th;er,;•s; for it is un- LvsniNc.Tos, another dabbler in the infamous barter 1 i to.,
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'deniable that nothing can contribute. so efficaciously to the ‘.41(1,
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of writerships for seats in Parliameut,—in doing 30 his , I
.subversion of Government, and to promote the designs of Lordlhip chewed neither the dignity of the Peer, the discre- , I
the cnettly, than the malpractices Sou have been found
guilty of.
It would not be amiss to enquire Ivilat extraordinary ler-
oe ll`--tie. Ldp.'''.
of triderst ing, to con-
What inanity of feelincr, as well as . . and
fide in the discretion of such a fedols I to listen with pa-
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