Star.
London, England, 1802-11-11 00:00:00

to Ills EDitoit eP esruk

Sia—fo your Paper; dillinguiflied by in-
difference to Party, I beg your permifftori to con-
fign a few remarks on Mr. CO/15E1'T% Poktical Re-
gßer. You will, I truft; obferve in them that
impartiality which will recommend theth to your
approbation.

That man is a mixed charaelet, a compound of
good and bad qualities, is an obfervation confirm-
ed by daily experience. The principal difficulty
in forming a juft eftimate arifes from the *ant of
a proper difcrimination of both, of !kill or incli-
nation to obferve the preponderance of either.—
Writings, proceeding from the charader of their
author, are fubjed to the fame difficulty of judg-
ment.

When it is confidered what importanCe Mr.
COSIETT'S political works have acquired, what
influence they have on the public mind, I fhall
not be accufed of beginning my remarks in a ftyle
too formal for the fubjest. I have, fence the pub-
lication of his Political Regyler, obferved minutely
its merit and its defects ; and I muff acknowledge,
that the former confiderably outweigh the latter,
a concedion which muff infure his candid attention
to the obfervations which I am addreffing to him
by your favour. _ _

. Mr. Cotner-es public fentiments cannot but be
diOated by a high fpirit of independence, a fin-
cere loyalty to his King, an alive affeetion to
his Country. The report that he receives Alli-
ance from fome public chandlers of exalted genius
and deep fagacity, is rather a proof of his merit
than a detradion from his abilities. His fenti-
ments on the terms, and on the confequences of
the Treaty of Peace, however at fizff reprobated
by affedation, are now embraced by conviaion.—
When I inform you, that they have been not only
followed, but preceded, by my own—when I
afure you that I have confidered that Treaty, in
the words of a Gentleman of this town, at a
Meeting to addrefs his Majefly, as merely " a fut.-
penfion of arms, obtained by Bonaparte to deprive
us of our conquefts, and to confolidate and extend
his own," you will conclude that I mean not to
cenfure Mr. C.ossir is condua on that fubjet, or
oppofe the. pultrac cattle in which he is engaged.
His expreffions are violent, but I can " forgive
his tranfports on a theme like this." What I
cannot fuller with patience, what I cannot behold
without indignation, is his perfonal abnfe of Mr.
Army o TOW. With an illiberal partiality he ob.
ferves aaions, and fancies and proclaims them
all to be crimes. If ever he throws a veil over
that Minifter, it is that of contempt. But pub-
lic candour will remove that veil, and difcover
his features alfuming, on clofer infpetlien, a re-
gularly increafing power of commanding love
and admiration.

Mr. ADDINGTON left a &nation in which he was
at liberty to tulle the fweets of domellie, and the
charms of focial life, for which the qualities of his
heart are fo peculiarly adapted. In that fituation
he enjoyed, without danger of oppofition, that
univerfal confidence, that unqualified fupport,
which the qualities of his mind fo forcibly de-
mand. In that lunation he could fear no rival;
but he was induced by the moft difinterefted mo-
tives to faaifice his private happinefs to his public
duty, at the relate of his King, at the call of his
country. Could that King or that Country,
confiftently with gratitude or juftice, fuller his
family to incur the danger of Ipfing the honour-
able reward of his labours by thofe Cabinet Re-
volutions which precipitated even the Fir/1 WIL-
LIAM PITT from that eminence to which the
public voice had railed him ?
When an atilkilful pilot had almoft :lathed the
vefel of the State on the rocks of defpair, and
taken to the-long-boat to avoid the impending
wreck, Mr. ADDINGTON refolutely took the helm,
and by his judicious manceuvres,. proved himfelf
to be indeed "the Pilot that weathered the Storm."
—Soon after, a place of honour and emolument
became vacant, and was conferred, after many
ftruggles on his part, upon his family. Is this a
fabjed for cenfure and invective ? If fo, let all
places be in future bellowed according to' the
chances of the Lottery wheels in Guildhall !
The eldek fon of Mr. ADDINGTON is a young
man • but the Warden of Winchefter College,
who Las concluded him in the career of literature,
and who admires the ftrength of his genius and
the extent of his abilities, will tell Mr. COBBITT
that he is not " teen playing at marbles under the
cloillers of Weilminfter Abbey." With equal
delicacy and truth the Weekly Politician informs
I his Readers, that the 66 Simpletons of Reading
have bellowed on the new Clerk of. the Pells the
honorary title of Captain of Volunteers." You
may, Mr. Editor, allure the Readers of the STAR,
that it
at was propofed to Mr. ADDINGTON, who has
aided during the whole war with the moll ex-
emplary zeal and punatiality, as Captain Com-
mandant of the Woodley Cavalry, to compliment
his fon with a Corsetey in that refpeaable Corps
—a Corps compofed of the moft ;Hilarious cha-
raaers for property and public fpirit in the neigh-
bourhood of Reading: you may %afore your
Readers that this offer was declined—that Mr.
HisltY ADDINGTON was propofed as a Private,
and that the ballot will molt probably confirm his
admilEen at the next meeting of the Woodley
Cavalry.
Thefe are fads on which I will make no
comment. I cannot (loop to the ufe of oppro-
brious epithets and unmanly invedive.—ln a fu-
ture Letter I (hall trouble you with tome obferva-
dons on the attack which has been made on a Ball
given by the Crown Club at Reading ; and per-
haps with a fliort 'ketch of tome of Mr. ADDING-
TON'S public fcrvices.
I am, Sir, your molt obedient Servant,
Realm, Nov. 4, 1802. CANDIDUS.

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