The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF 'TIP SUN.

SIR,
The public
_condo& of public men is a lair suble&
of animadversiOn, and, therefore, no apology : can
be due. to Mr. WAnDLE ; and az,ile has by accident
obtained a certain species of pOpeilarity, not indeed of
an enviable nayareee..very- man has a right to examine
lice.v far' ire entitled to it. I shall not g)e'colate
peon hi; motives, nor 'is it necescary, for the public
will drawr 'their own Conclusions upon thia subjea ;
t3;.4. I preivane that-l'nose eonchisions Will hardly•he oft'
tht:: tavourablenature. The Speech of NI r. Hus-
-1:1*0::11 has so ably refuted all thatMr.-WERDLi ad-
iiinced in his attempt to demonstrate the praaicatAity
yt his plan for xclieving the public •bitrthens, that it
may seem rash, as well as officious, to offer
any t:)ing farther on the - subjoa. But
;a feW
Observations on the conduct of Mr. Wattpu,..”
"fell as on hih plan, cannot be useless, since he
heen:held' up as-the-Idolof a party Who prOfesS to' be
to ri_!forM the ,Constitution, White it is evi-
(ltill-i.bv 111.0 principles which. they maintain, that
their oelt7iview, is to destroy it.. Mr. `Y ARDLE boasted
he had a plan to propose, Which would effea a
:saving of 'eleven millions in the annual expenditure
r>f2thN3.iiOn: Foaolouisll his reasoning proved?
it is evAent that he must have taken great pains to
become acquainted with the mtiltiplicity of topics
,vilich he introduced,, though he manifested. so de=
an ignorance of all. Was ;it then suitable
c the clignityof_ a British- Senator, or consistent
with the duty of a patriot,• to make his first com-:
muntcation rtn So important a subject is a Tavern, at-
a Party meeting ? Surely he Must have digested his
nl4 such :as it .was, at .the, time. when, he anz
Ouriced it at that place, and though the period was
too late for Parliamentary investigatiOn, on the eve
of .the SessiOn; he would have shewn some regard
to'f'ropriety in- subenittin, bis'Tideas-and inieritkonSin
the first instance, to theßaironal Reptesent:tives.ra::
flier than to the turbulent followers of a Party, at'a
public dinner.. . Buentlat, *hen he thOeght pro Per
intioduce his plan to the Rouse of Conlincris; he
declared that it was not his intention to make- any
proposition .to the House chiring that 'Session. So,,
that while
~heatfeaed to lament the 'hrisartliens that
oppressed the Pbople, and which hesaid might easily
be lessened to the amount of not less than eleven
millions, he 'was disposed. to let them continue to
-groan under the weight which he so patheti-
cally deplored till another SeatiOn 1 But this point
was so ably argued by Mr. BDsKtssoN, in the ex-
eellept report of his Speech which appeared in your
Paper, that I must refer the Public to that report,
which may well:be read again and again, since it is
f;t? admirably cakulated to remove the. veil froth a
_pretence to an 'extraordinary degree .of patriotism
'mid 'solicitude for the public welfare-. But 'Mr.
• WARDLE declared -that the first time that he wasstruck with his sublime Conception of the great -re-
trenchment • which. e.ould be. made in the National
i'xpenees, was on; observing: that in the 'annual ac-
-eirirs; the total expenditure of-Great Britain in the
:ric:nr, ending 14e .sth was seventy-.
One rotillions,A and that lb' the year ending the sth of
1809, it was seventy-iiiriernilliong.‘• lle
then at once jumped to. a-conclusion, thaCihe in-
creased .mast be unnecessary,
thereldr2'prot)ose3 to make a retrenchment of eleven,
Without condescendieg to enqiii re. what Might:have
(Ic.lsiontl. the augmentation, or taking the, teouble
to ret-lz•a vu its possible neCessity.' Wenlati there-
fore infer, Mr. Editor, that if this -wonderful Finan-
diet- had heVn the fa',:ou'rite of •a- Party meeting, at
the time when he first made hi's boaSted discovery,. he
• would hat e itasteneti to thimil with the miglitysecret of
his Platt, rattier than have subinitted it to th-die who,
if it had beet predicable and expedient-, would have
cirried it into-etfed io relieve •the burthens of the
Mr. HUSKISSON has' so 'fully 'and 'so satis-
; faetcrily accounted tor' the 'increased expenditure in
the tatter yeaf, that I must again refer to his Speech,
and shall for the preSenutake lenie.of the subjea.
• ' • AN OLD ENDLISIinAN.

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QUIS AUDZA7

LONDON,

7:: "LpAY, JULY 4, 1.:09.

We hlve the satisfaaion ,of stating, that Captain
WINTER, •of the Cadmus, arrived this morning at
•
11,p Azimirnltri—witivtirt, intaigence of the defeat.
cif -8000 ench troops, under 'Marshal' Nvi; on
'the I 2111' ult. in three att!t.npts to pass the Li idge .of
'P.idron; in GalliCia, by the brave Patriots.undeii
the comin.-.lnd-of General CAREE • •

• The aaj'eet of, General INEYi it. was supposed,.was
to make an attack upon Vigo ; btit whatever his
'objecl. Was, it wal 'completely frustrated.' • '
four hundred of the Enemy v.'ere killed
law:lg vliom was,a General Qfficer, magnifi-
cent- trappings,-rnostly-of massy gold, are brought t 6
.I'..:nglaA Lys Captain t ivrEtz, who was present at
and reports that the Spaniards behaved
most

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l'al BALLAST&I:OS got ritifO tO Gijon, and it is
c,u
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no _.d the greater-part of his at-my- was clisper,sed

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A6.tbe accou►it yr tile Capture of, Ferrol and .Co.

zo-ria did not recch Fly mouth till yesterday worn-
cannot a expedcd in town till to-
tt
Ilas been qt)pposedixy 'some of our Con-
f!.,.iiiorari)2:; that the,lrcricA. volunt3;:ly evactt_
Of ccuctl7.

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