The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-03 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We thank "J. B." for his communication of yesterday.
The circumstances to which he alludes, concerning an
individual residing in, one of the subilrbs of Liverpool,
have„ been known to us for some time, though not so
copiously in detail. We are at all times averse to
bringing the characters of individuals before the
public ; but should the scurrility and unprovoked per-
sonal attacks to which "J. B." alludes continue, we
pledge ourselves to comply with his request, in most
fully exposing the base, profligate, and. hypocritical
conduct of the person mentioned in his letter.
The second letter of "A JAMAICA MAN," upon white emigra-
tion to the WeSt Indies, will appear in 'our next.
We have been compelled to postpone the insertion of two ad-
mirable letters on the subject of the "Bill Of' Eniry Bice."
A " RATE PAYER'S" letter, owing to the strong personal allu-
sions which, it contains, must stand over. for the present.
We, at the same time, perfectly agree with our correspon-
dent, that if the Commissioners of the .Night Watch can
afford to keep in their employment a person who has suf-
ficient time to write personal and scurrilous invectives in
some of the low papers about town, it is time that their
patronage, and the conduct of their servant, should be in-
quired into. We have no wish to deprive any man, not even
a constable, of his bread; but the Rate Payers have a Tight
to inquire how the professional duties of that man are dis-
charged, who has leisure to libel individuals who contribute
largely to the payment of his salary. '

Ebt Eibtrpool atantiartt.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1833.

The prevalent contrary winds of the last few days
have prevented us from receiving any late advises from
America or the West Indies. Even from Lisbon the
last news' was only to the 20th August, and that did not
supply any thing which we did not receive by our arrivals
of the 17th.

The Belgic papers are filled,with angry discussions in
the Chambers of that unfortunate country, and those of
France contain the preparatory particulars of an in-
tended visit .of *LOUIS PHILIPPE to the seacoast. The
little Queen, DONNA MARIA, was to; leat7e
.for. Lisbon
forthwith. •

The report of the death of the King of SPAIN has not
been confirmed.

In our second edition of Friday we: .Were enabled to
print a copy of his MAJESTY'S speech, delivered at the
prorogation of Parliament on the day- previous, and we
reprint it in our present number for the benefit of those
readers who do not see our second editionS:
The speech of course is that of his MAJESTY'S minis-
ters; but for dulness and the usual dash-of inane stupi-
dity, seasoned with conceit and covert falsehood, it might
pass for the joint production of Lord ALTHoRP and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL. • But as Lord GREY estimates the political
and literary talents of these illustrious statesmen as hum-
bly as we do, we are bound to infer that the royal oration
has a more general and extensive parentage. - If the rea-
der would take the pains to peruse the-several. paragraphs
in the speech, upwards or downward's, beginning either
at the middle, the bottom; or the cominenceinent, just as
he feelsinclined, he will find that it is of no consequence
at all which paragraph stands first or last. Bearing
this in mind, and taking into consideration the in-
dependent position which each minister occupies in the
Cabinet, particularly when Lord BROUGHAM is in good
temper, there will be no difficulty in arriving at the fol-
lowing conclusions. First, that each Member wrote a pa-
ragraph relative to the subject which•camemore particu-
larly within his own department, upon a scrap of paper.
which scrap was dropped most probably into Lord JOHN'S
hat. Secondly, the scraps being thus :collected, and form-
ing the collective wisdom of the Cabinet, were well shaken
by the noble paymaster, and afterwards drawn by the
Premier with his eyes blindfolded, and consequently_
drawn with the strictest ithpartiality. The first-drawn.
scrap formed, as a matter of course, the first paragraph in
the KING'S speech, and so on with all the rest. We do
not absolutely vouch for the fact, but such, we. take it,
from the intrinsic crudity of the articles, and the total
absence of combination in the paragraphs, was the way
in whiCh the first prorogation address to the reformed
Parliament, was concocted by his MAJESTY'S ministers.
Who will deny that it is an ingenious plan, and worthy
of the Whigs ? The time was, we admit, when -Lord
BROUGHAM, a writer in the Edinburgh Review, at the
rate of ten guineas a sheet, could have indited a much
more brilliant oration, and when the LORD ADVOCATE
himself, then BROUGHAM'S master, could' have dictated
better sense in fewer words ; but, alas! that time has

gone by, never to return ! •
But we do not cavil about the words. They are as
mawkish and slip-slop as any to be found in Lord JoßN's
history, or the Penny Magazine. Still we do not quar-
rel about words, but come directly to the allegations.
His MAJESTY is made to say, that he continues to re-
ceive " from ALL foreign powers • assurances of their
friendly disposition." This is followed, in admirable
consistency, by a strong expression of " REGRET" that
no definitive arrangement between Holland and Belgium
has yet taken place;• and-by an " ASSURANCE" that his
MAJESTY looks • " with the greatest anxiety to the mo-
ment when the POrtuguese monarchy may be restored to
a state of peace." • •

This is a singular demonstration of a friendly dispo-
sition between the parties. Who the King or Queen of
Portugal is, at the present moment, it would perplex a
necromancer, or any
.other political seer, to divine, and
surely ministers do not wish us to believe that his MA-
JESTY has received " friendly assurances" from Don
MIGUEL, or would accept "friendly assurances" from
Don PEDRO ? The King of the Netherlands, if he be
still recognised by the Whigs as one of the "foreign
powers," must be an accommodating gentleman indeed,
and generous to a fault, if he can entertain any friend-
ship for a government which assisted in wresting from
him the half of his dominions. Of the " friendly" dis-
position of King LEOPOLD of Belgium we admit that
little doubt can be entertained, inasmuch as that exem-
plary prince, continues to do England the honour to re-
ceive from.
her his pension of £50,000 a-year ; but that

we make bold to say is, as times go, and considering
the state of
would be our finances, a sort of friendship which
more honoured in the breach than the obser-

vance.

But admitting, for the sake of the argument, that

ministers are guiltless of any misrepresentation as re-
spects Holland and Portugal, we nevertheless make
our stand upon the case of Turkey, in which the gross-
est delusion is practised, the most pitiful shuffling dis-
played, and the most artful falsehood recorded. It is
not many nights ago, when-Lord PALMERSTON admitted
in the House of Commons th4t the Sultan, only in Octo-
ber last, implored the assistance of his " ancient, ally,"
the King of England, and sent an envoy extraordinary
to represent the urgent necessity for the presence of an
English fleet, in order to prevent the dismemberment
of the Ottoman empire. Lord PALMERSTON admitted
that the aid required—the assistance demanded upon the
faith of treaties—was peremptorily refused by the Bri-
tish government! The European territories of the Sul-
tan were menaced with invasion—his Asiatic territories
were overrun and subjugated—the enemy was at his
gate—nothing could save him from destruction but the
interposition of one of the great powers of Europe, and
to that power, hitherto his faithful ally, and more
bound than any other to assist him, he applied, he de-
manded, he implored—AND WAS REFUSED
These being the plain and simple facts, is it not some-
thing like an insult to our understanding to be told that
any "friendly disposition" can exist between the false
friend and the deserted ally ? It is a fraud upon the
British nation, whose honour has hitherto been untar-
nished, whose gallantry has hitherto been above suspicion,
whose justice has hitherto been unsullied—it is a fraud
upon that nation, we say, to tell the people, in a speech
from the throne, that any "friendly disposition" can sub-
: sist between parties thus divided by a violation of.
treaties on the one part, and a sacrifice of independence
upon the other. The SULTAN thus deserted—thus placed at
the mercy of an insolent rebel—who had been encouraged
in his ambitious designs by the destruction of the
Turkish fleet at Navarino—the SULTAN thus left in the
lurch by his ancient ally of England, had no alternative
but to invoke the ready aid of Russia. Forsaken by .his
pretended friends, he had to appeal to the honour and
chivalry of his avowed enemies. The Emperor NICHOLAS,
thus invoked, marched his legions and saved Constanti-
nople from the grasp of the treacherous Paella of EGYPT,
but saved it by demonstrating to the whole world that the
European dominions of the SULTAN existed only by suf-
ferance, and could be wrested from him, at any time, by
his northern neighbours. Lord PALMERSTON, the re-
Sponsible minister for foreign affairs, from apathy, from
ignorance, from incapacity, or from something much less
excusable than all these reasons put together, allowed
Russia to interpose in a quarrel which involved the safety
of our Indian empire, which closed the Dardanelles
against Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM, which excluded the
British fleet from the Black Sea, which has deranged all
our trade at the top of the Mediterranean, which has
rendered 'insecure every possession we have in that
quarter of the world, which has given a triumph to the
arms and influence of the autocrat, and opened a high-
way to the Indus and the confines of India.

And what is the miserable excuse for all this folly anti
incapacity ? We give it in Lord PALMERSTON'S words,
and we write it under -feelings of shalne,
and disgust. The noble lord states, in his defence, that
at the time when the Ottoman- Porte demanded assistance,

the fleets of England were so much engaged that not a
ship could be spared from the Royal Navy. And why
could they not be spared ? They were employed in
straining their sails and cordage in the winter storms of
the North Sea—in blockading the coasts of Holland—in
pursuing and capturing Dutch merchantmen—in chasing
herring-boats—in making war upon poor fishermen—in
carrying into Rainsgatennarmed smacks laden with cod-
fish—in short, they were employed in levying .a sort of
" black mail" upon broad-breeched Dutchmen who never
dreamt that the red-cross flag of England could descend
to cover deeds so unworthy of our renown. This. is the
only excuse which Lord PALMERSTON offers. He could
not fulfil the obligations
.of treaties, nor assist Turkey,
solely because he. was assisting the French in' reducing
the citadel of Antwerp, and wringing from Holland those
territories which the power and resources and blood of
England had been expended in wresting from France.
Shallow minister! worthless cause! The man and the
work—the means and the object—were like each other..
An old. ally was left at the mercy of an inveterate foe,`
merely because the heroes of the Nile and Trafalgar
were seeking glory among the fishing craft of WILLIAm
of the Netherlands ! The term we admit has long been
laughed at; but now it has reached the climax of ridi-
eine ; and we hope we shall never again read -in any
King's speech of the "friendly disposition of all foreign
powers."
But we musileave the . foreign and attend fora brief
moment to the home department of his MAJESTY'S speech.
The next clause which claims our notice is obviously one
of those written upon the lottery ticket of the Loan
CHANCELLOR. The KING is advised to say what fol..