The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-20 00:00:00

THE OLD MAN'S RELICS.

I hare been young, and wild, and gay,
To all but beauty blind :
And sighed all night and sung all day,
To ladies stern or kind;
I've told my tale in manly prose,
I've written it in rhyme ;
And now I'm crowed with age's snows,
The scent of yonder withered rose
Recalls that pleasant time.

O then were hopes that chased my sleep,
And fears that made me thin ;
And many subtle wiles and deep
My proud one's heart to win ;
And raptures past the poet's guess
To wear so sweet a chain ;
And now, perforce, content with less,
A gleam from yonder golden tress
Revives it all again.

O then were feasts in lighted halls,
And vows beneath the moon,
And fairy taleS and madrigals
In garden bowers at noon :
And wandering with my ladye love
Around the haunted hill ;
And now my hand can hardly move,
It needs but touch the broidered glove,
And she's beside me still.

Yon smile at all these simple thin 3,1
I hold in treasured store ;
You ask the worth of flowers and rings
When love exists no more :
I wish to-morrow were my last,
If cold or careless grown,
To flame or wind I dared to cast
The precious relies of the past.
And joys for ever gone I

[FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.)

To view Niagara's fall one day

A priest and tailor took their way ;
The parson cries, while wrapt in wonder,
And listening to the cataract's thunder—
'. Lord, how thy works amaze our eyes,
'• And fill our hearts with vast surprise
The tailor merely made this note—

" Lord,. what a place to 51,...,rke a coat !."

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

It has been our duty on frequent oe.,esions to call at-
tention to the_ gross mismanagement•and bad-government
practised in the Island of Mauritius, but the acts of op-
pression which .we. have recorded fall infinitely short in
turpitude of the later details that we are now in posses-
sion of from that colony. In fact Vie news that we re-
ceive is of such a description that it almost exceeds be-
lief: Every act of vengeance of Mr. Jeremie has been
succeeded by one still more execrable. After having
caused the removal from the island of many English ci-
tizens and foreigners,—after having imprisoned without
,an order of the judge many resident citizens,—after hay-
iug th..! governor and the council succumb to his
he -7:solved to get rid of the press, which alone stood
h way. In pursuance of this intent he made a law
Anpre severe than the censorship, since no person can now
print without the permission of the governor, and the
transgressions of the press will be tried by Judge Red-
die. A• member of the council; who would not give his
sanction to this iniquitous regulation, sent in his resig-
nation, and was replaced by a person who was formerly a
cook ! Mr. Jeremie refused to execute the judgments of
the court. The bar having demanded the execution of
them, two advocates were suspended from the exercise of
their functions. A superior magistrate has been threat-
ened and insulted by Mr. Jeremie, who, holding his fist
up to his face, told him that he wished " that one half of
the population was destroyed by the other." Five great
landholdets have been arrested, and put in prison with-
out judgment. The inhabitants are ill-treated, ruined,
and oppressed in every shape; they asked for the neces-
sary authority to meet, in order to present a petition to
the King. This authority was refused to them ! Spies
and incendiary agents are spread all over the island. The
governor has unblushingly and perfidiously published the
five resolutions of Parliament, before he even knew whe-
ther the House of Lords approved of them; the inhabi-
tants have seen in them only incentives to create distur-
bances. Mr. Jeremie h established a journal, which is
distributed gratis, and in which he indulges in the, most
brutal invective against the inhabitants. In fact it may
be said, that the local government has orders to provoke
the colonists to revolt, or organize civil or servile war in
the island of Mauritius. The emissaries of the Sovereign
were spreading a. report that Sir Charles Colville and M.
A. d'Epinay were confined in the tower of London.
There certainly is not in the whole surface of the
globe a country treated with greater barbarity than the
island of Mauritius. Let it suffice to mention as a last
feature of the tyranny exercised in this unfortunate and
ill-governed colony, that -ten persons cannot now meet
without the anthoiity of the governor, and that at the
postoffice it is prohibited to deliver the letters of the
deputy of the island of Mauritius to his fellow country-
mee.—Guardian and Public Ledger.

It is to be hoped that not many days will elapse afte,
the meeting of Parliament before some member will
inquire what becomes of the £50,000 per annum which
his majesty, King Leopold, has hitherto derived from
the people of England, and which Earl Grey informed
the House of Commons was to be no longer received
than might be necessary for discharging out of it the
debts then owing by the Belgian Sovereign. As Kings
are, by the laws of the country, not held personally
responsible for what they do, or omit to do, we would
on this occasion extend the rule to a foreign Sovereign,
especially to one heretofore so nearly allied to England,
and that on a subject exclusively English. In what
we say, therefore, oui remarks apply to Leopold's advisers,
and not to himself. We say, then, that there are nu-
merous persons in this country who shrewdly suspect
that from the economical scale of living adopted in
King. Leopold's household, both at Claremont amd Pall-
mall, it is scarcely possible he could have any debts
to discharge—that at any rate such demands, if they
really existed, must have beer, long since discharged
unless the money has been otherwise diverted. There
is one, and but one way, •in which such a diverting
can have taken place, which I.vflizld he at all satisfac-
tory to the public of this country and that is, if it can
be shown, that, instead of appe•optiating it to his own
use, his Belgian majesty has assigned the whole or
the greater portion of it to the eoVorts- and the splen-
dour of his Royal sister arid niece. Even such ar
appropriation would be a breach of faith rith the

try. _ .
; yet such, perhaps, as it would readily 1,
Assuming this, however, not to have been the
how must the matter stand, provided the money is
received from the English Treasury, but that Leopold,
the should-be independent King of Belgium, and the
sonin-law of the wealthiest individual in Europe, is
nevertheless the pensioner of England> That Leopold
did right in leaving a peaceful and splendid retreat in
this country for the far less peaceful, even if more splen-
did cares of royalty, no one, now at least, is, we believe;
insane enough to think; but having renounced this
country, and having, at the same time, formally re-
nounced an income incompatible with the independence
of a foreign.. crowned head, the peopte.of this country
are naturally anxious, and surely have a right to know
whether this latter condition has been complied with,
and if not, why not ?—.lforning Herald.

BERWICKSHIRE EtecTros.—We published in our last
the very temperate and judicious address of Sir Hugh
Purves Hume Campbell to the Electors of Berwickshire.
Sir Hugh is the only candidate yet in the field, nor
does there appear much chance that he will encoun-
ter any opposition on the part of the Whigs. The elec-
tion for Berwickshire last year, like most of the other
Scottish counties, was carried by means which could only
operate as long as delusion and excitement about
Reform could be kept up. Happily for the country, the
same means cannot now be resorted to with the slightest
hope of success. The short experience of a single Ses-
sion of Parliament has taught the Electors throughout
the three kingdoms a lesson, which, though it may have
cost them dear, they are ,ot likely soon to forget. Ac-
cordingly a re-action has dtnidedly taken place in favour
of Conservative principles, wherever constituencies
have been allowed the free and unfettered expression of
their sentiments. - This is eminently the case in Ber-
wickshire, where all parties seem confidently to antici-
pate an undisputed triumph for the present candidate.
flat the Tories should congratulate themselves on so
fu; ering aprospect of success for their cause is quite na-
teral; but we confess it puzzles us exceedingly to con-
je'eture why the Whigs should caper for joy, and "crow
chanticleers," in Unticipttion of a defeat. What
a change has come o'er the spirit of their politics since
last y vat-, when they' sounded the tocsin from the hustings.
Any thing but a 7 orb ! This we admit is an " agree-
able surprise" to us, though it reminds us of sly Reynard
in the fable, who made a virtue of necessity, and only
changed his mind when he could not attain the object he
wanted. Some of our contemporaries who boasted that
they bad trampled out the last spark of Toryism, and laid
the whole faction quietly in the grave twelve months
ago, have now found out their mistake, and pretend in-
expressible delight at the idea of " unanimity" being
restored between them and their political opponents.
But their endenrments do not end here; they declare
that a Conservative is in every respect " the most fit,
ting person whom the county of Berwick could Foss;
bly select as its Representative"—that " his Majesty,
Government intend to give him their full support"—and
that " it is most probable he will walk over the course !"
What a contrast does this exhibit between the language
and opinions of the Whigs in December 1832 and those

-.lber 1833. It must have cost them much bitter
n. and many a struggle of conscience, ere they
n resolution enough to express satisfaction at
ed triumph of their " Tory friends." They
o _represent Sir Hugh as a disciple of their
device will not answer. His address is a
retti,,,,,va of the charge ; and the high character which
he hears is our best assurance that he will steadily main-
tain in Parliament those principles of devoted attach-
ment to the institutions of the' country on which he has
claimed the suffrages of the county. We observe by the
Gazette of Friday last, that the day of election is 'fixed
for the 27th instant.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

DII. WARDLAW-MR. APWEEN

To the Editor of the Glasgow Courier.

Sir,—Permit me to request that you will republish the follow-
ing letter, which .1 addressed to the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, through
your columns, on the 15th of August last, omitting, for the sake
of brevity, the two first and the last paragraphs :
" In your_reply to Mr. Croil, some years ago, you, in refer-
ence to the state of personal bondage established by law by
Great Britain in the West Indies, say. lat once avow, that,
with my present views of my fellow-creatures, as brethren of the
same great family, whom their common parent has made of
one blood' over all the earth, and with my present sensibilities
towards them, as vot only brethren in nature, but fellow-sinners
and fellbw-infiiihrtals, this of itself, apart from all details, is
enough, and more than enough, to affect my mind with itiex-
pressiole indignation and horror. At present, I enter, with my
whole soul, into the poet's sentiment:—
Dear as freedom is, and in my heart's
First estimation, prized above all price,
I had much rather be nny•el'. the slave,
And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.'

" would not like to have this tone of feeling lowered, _be-
cause I am satisfied it is what every Christian man and woman
ought to cherish. My prayer, therefore, is, lead me not into
temptation,' &c.'
" f his, it not very fine, is certainly very sentimental writing.
Let us put its value to the proof; and, passing over the Jesuitism,
in the words 'present views,' 'at present,' &c., let us judge you
from your own lips and by your own judgment.
" Vour uncle, Nil-. Fisher, at his death, left an estate and
slaves in Jamaica, the value of which, by his will, was given to
your father and his family, and to a relative of your own, a gen-
ilemau of great respectability, now residing not far from this
city. To enable you all to get the money, this relative agreed
tw-buy, and you, on your varts, consented to sell, the lands and
e, of this property: '1 he bargain was soon completed—each
got 1, share—you got yours, above £2,000 sterling. I have
the
the deed signed by-yourself and the otheis. I have seen
the hills 'for the amount of your share, granted to yourself; and
vtiik h were duly paid. They lay in the hands of a merchant in
'`ibis city, a friend-of your own. I have also seen, the letter to
the purchaser from. your father, and in which you join him in
congratulating yourselves upon the sale, and wishing him good
luck in his bargain. All this took place in, I think, 1799 and
1800, and after you had made choice of the ministry as a pro-
fession!

" You took the value of the property because it was legally
yours; you realised, the value, although you had paid nothing
to any one for it. You then legally sold your •fellow-crea-
tures —your brethren of the same great family—fellow-
sinners and fellow-immortals,' and pocketed the price• with con-
gratulations anti satisfaction ! And if it were lawful and just
in you, nuclei the circumstances of that case, to do this, I ask,
how canlyon show it to be unlawful and sinful in others of your
fellow-creatares' to claim the value of the same description of
property from and your countrymen, to whom they had
paid the value or it, when these countrymen with you cry out,
and decide to take it away ? No man has worked harder than
you have done to accomplish this object; to make this sacrifice,
as you and your coadjutors proclaim it, to justice • and no one
has done more to destroy the characters, to describe and to ren-
der one hundred thousand of your' brethren of the same great
your fa/ore-sinners,' if 'you will, and your fellow-coun-
trymen, in every thing your equals, outcasts of society, and cri-
minals and beggars, than you have. There is a text in the
bible, where the God of Christians says, (Isaiah, c. lxi., v. 8,)
'I, the Lcird, love judgment—l bate robbery for burntoffering,
&c. It applies strictly to your conduct and your case, particu-
larly as leagued with other Anti-Colonial persecutors in your
unjust and spoliation crusade against the British Tropical Colo-
nies.

" Having pockited the thing which you call `the accursed
thing,' there are only, by your own shewing, two ways which
remain, by which you can become a 'Christian man' namely—
First, to return the money, principal and interest, to him from
whom you got it; or, else, if you keep the money, to step out to
Jamaica with your whole family, and, on the estate in question,
slip on, accoraing as you have described it, the slave chain on
your neck; in the room of so many of the blacks, to an equal
value as you sold, and there remain till the compensation be
given, and the apprenticeships shall by law cease, when you will
become legally, and, with some degree of honesty, free. If you
decline to do either, more especially the latter, the public will
judge of
.you accordingly, and affix to your conduct a name
which it is unnecessary for me to mention," &c. &c.
To this plain saternent of facts, neither the Doctor nor any
of his friends have hitherto attempted to make either reply or
observation, unless the public are left to consider the following
audacious statement as one, made in his own chapel, by his
jackal and champion, George Thompson, during his American
lecture on the evening of -Tuesday last. The statement, ac-
cording to the report, such as the "Glasgow Chronicle" gives,
runs thus:—" Before they parted, he would remark shortly on
some recent attacks, made by a journal in this city, on a wor-
thy individual who had exerted himself in the cause of truth
and justice. They all knew to what journal he alluded; and
they would readily believe him when he said, that the charge
alluded to was unmixed falsehood, and that the source from
which it sprung was irremediably corrupted."
To this statement, fulminated- with more than Thompsonian
arrogance and insolence, I reply by a reference to the letter, in
all its parts, now republished, with this addition, that the rela-
tive to whom Dr. Wardlaw sold the estate, consisting of lands,
buildings, slaves, and cattle, the live'and dead stock in Jamaica,
was Witter Ewing M‘Lea, Esq., of Cathkin, in whose posses•
sion the deed of bald, executed by Dr. Wardlaw himself, the
bills granted to himself and paid, together with the congratula-
tory letter on the sale which had been effected, remain, and are
to be seen in the counting-house, Ingram-street, in this city,
where his business is transacted. The whole of these docu-
ments were put into my hands ; I saw them, I read them, and
they are what I state them to be. It would indeed be a waste
of time to reply to, nr to notice farther, one syllable that may be
uttered on this subject, from this compound of venal insolence
and promulgator of the most daring falsehoods, Mr. Thompson.
The specimen which I have given, and the truth of which, if
any farther proof be wanting, can be so readily obtained and
ascertained, may be taken as a just criterion by which to judge
of the other statements which this piece of anti-colonial ma-
chinery has been commissioned, and is put forward to make.
Your various correspondents are, I believe, quite competent to
defend themselves against every Wardlaw or Thompsonian at-
tack. The low, contemptible ribaldry which, I have been
informed, the latter would-be anti-colonial boa-constrictor
thought proper to vomit forth against myself, I treat with the
utmost scorn; but when he, or any of his gang, ventures to
print and to publish that which I have been told his tongue
ventured to utter within the walls of a building, where the less
of that which too frequently takes place within it is known the
better, he and his admirers and supporters, silly and contempti-
ble though they be, may probably find themselves noticed as
they merit, and receive the " castigation" which they deserve.
I can easily conceive that men and women of the mental
calibre who assemble in that school of error and wrong—men
such as Simeal, Murray, &c. &c., and George Thompson, "who
put his hand to the p!ough and turned back," (in such men no
amendment is to be hoped for,) do not, and cannot, understand
what "blasphemy" is, or means; but all who read their bible
can and do comprehend it without assistance or explanation
given by them. The " right. hand of God," the place where
Wardlaw placed George Thompson, is a station which no
created might or counsel has the power or the right to bestow.-
Our great Redeemer himself tells us that "THE FATHER,"
the Almighty God, reserves to himself alone the power to con-
fer that hiOest of all h'inours; and from the same authority
we learn teat it r conferred on any being " who
-..th and

night quit the foul-mouthed de-
.:ry stupid and very silly people,
and convulse a country; but that the
. ..i.bompson and his tail, composed of
tate Mate and four female, should take into
their ..._dos that they are th.l machines which can tear up and
sweep:awa.lc,--1 7 the evil whit h exists in this world, and a state
of goe.tety nich bus existed through all preceding ages, and
yet exists, atiptig.st 8,30,000,0 i of human beings, is a delusion
as wild and as dcrigerbus as that which took possession of the
brains of thosil crizylanatics, who lately amongst us bragged
they could want upon the' water, and raise the dead unto life !
The fact is; that 'it is senseless individuals, such as those which
we have alluded*, whose self-love, self-interest, personal am-
bition; and incurable and silly vanity, spread and maintain evil
and irj...hief, wider and stronger, amongst. men.—l am, &c.,
13th Dee., 1833. -JAMES M'QUEEN.