The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION OFFICE.

Under the abO,ie title, in a paper of Monday, is a second
letter, signed "A Shipowner." We have the honour of be-
ing somewhat abused by the writer ; which only convinces us
of one fact,—that in our last article the shoe pinched in the
right place. We repeat it, the disguise of a " Shipowner"
is too flimsy to conceal the author of these letters. The go-
vernment agent, Lieut. Low, is in a situation to be able to bear
all the abuse which an intriguing and vulgar mind can direct
against him. But when charges are made against a deserving
individual, whose only fault is that he has done his duty, which
charges are wholly and absolutely false, it is time to put a stop
to that sort of prcceeding.

Lieut. Low is charged with having created interruptions and
obstacles to the shipping interest. Let the writer appeal to the
authorities for a decision on this head; and he will find that,
from the officers of the Customs here up to the Colonial Secre-
tary in London, there is only one feeling—that Lieut. Low
has done his duty—calmly, considerately, and firmly. That
respectable houses,—and there are many houses highly respect-
able connected with emigration ships,—have ever been as
prompt to conform to the laws and regulations applicable to the
arrangement of these ships as he has been to suggest them, is
not doubted; and it is only a set of fellows whose proceedings
are already sufficiently before the public, and whose object is
to entrap the unwary into their clutches, who find fault with his
proceedings.
The " Shipowner" labours to exculpate himself from the
charge of being at all " concerned in the ship Cumberland."
This is a shallow pretence again. No man capable of reading
the English language could construe what we said before into
such a declaration, direct or by imputation. However, we will
afford him an opportunity of satisfying himself of the justice of
all our remarks upon this subject, by referring him to the Moun-
taineer ; a vessel which was engaged to sail in August last, and
is now, on the 6th December, still in the river, If a " Ship-
owner" should have any desire to witness a disgraceful picture
of misery, and is ignorant of any one of the facts connected with
the Mountaineer, about which we must beg leave to express very
strong doubts, let him go on board that vessel, and spend half-
an-hour in the investigation of the state of the ship and passen-
gers. As soon as he has satisfied himself of the actual position
of Affairs on board, let him confer with the respectable gentle-
men who are now here from Bristol, some of the guardians of
the poor of that city, and ask them what arrangements are go-
ing forward between themselves and a certain "Shipowner" for
the removal of the Bristol paupers from such a scene of disgrace
and misery as the Mountaineer presents. When he has done
all that, if he wish to hear anything more on the subject, and
will intimate his desire to us, we will endeavour to afford him
every satisfaction.

FIELD SPORTS : ANCIENT AND MODERN.

No. IV.
(Written. expressly for the Lirerpool Standard.)

This morning's mail, Mr. Editor, brought me your letter-
inclosing the extravaganza of your Cynthian correspondent.
No editor in his right senses should think of slighting so
powerful a dispenser of amusement as this giddy votary of the
worshipful Dian. You do right to submit her appeal to your
friends the country gentlemen—those main pillars of our free
constitution ! Happy the man who may secure for himself
such a blessing—cognizant of hounds and foxes, and every
kind of game, as well as of all useful points of rural economy I
Consider, sir squire, what advantages you may enjoy in such a
partner of your bed 'and board. At once a watcher of your
"lands of higher and lower fertility;" a corrector of the pedi-
grees of your dogs and horses; an adept at setting a spring
gun; a complete vermin-killer;—woe unto ye of genus Falco,
with all badgers, martin-cats, rats, polecats, and weasels !—a
pepperer at the legs of real poachers, while your worship is
engaged in committing to the custody of our lord the King all
suspected ones; and, to crown the whole, one who will, doubt-
less, in all good time, present the state with sundry red-coated
descendants, loyal as subjects, and illustribus as sons of Nimrod.
Yet, hang it! what a masculine daughter of Venation ! How
she "throws the broad ditch behind her !" Registered, too,
with the clerk of the peace ! A double-barrelled Purdy ! Affect-
ing wild boars, swords, spears, and javelins ! ! Honest STRABO,
forgive us that we doubt thee. Thou cans' t deny the existence of
the Amazons no longer.
But, Mr. Editor, to our review. Your fair correspondent,
in her really elegant outline of her tutelary goddess of the
chase, skilfully hides from 'view' the less attractive attributes
of the Sylvan Queen. Milton tells us,

" Gods and men
Fear'd her stern frown."

No deity amongst the heathens was more terrible than the
vengeful daughter of Latona. The reader will call to recol-
lection the death of the unfortunate son of Antonoe, and the
desolation of the well-cultivated vineyard of Cgneus, at the hand
Dian. " Have a care," squire ! The shows of wild beasts in
the Roman circus were generally designed for her honour;
"and for their support, in splendid variety, the whole world
was ransacked for its rarest and most savage animals." But,
worse than all, when Typho waged war against the gods, she is
said to have metamorphosed herself into a cat! Beware the
claws, squire! and listen what Biographia Britannica, in its
amusingly severe strictures on the renowned Juliana Barnes,
says about these incongruous occupations. The dame, too,
was no ordinary personage—" heroica mailer ingeniosa virago;
and her compilation of Venery, to her immortal honour, the
first that issued from the English press. Yet only harken how
they trounce her. "There appears such a motley masquerade,
such an indistinctness of petticoat and breeches, such a prob-
lenrarrd concorporation of sexes, according to the image that
arises out of the several representations of this religious sports-
woman, or virago, that one can scarcely consider it, without
thinking Sir Tristram, the old monkish forester, and Juliana,
the matron of the nuns, had united to confirm John Cleveland's
'Canonical Hermaphrodite.' "
As an impartial reviewer, it is incumbent upon me to inform
your readers, that, in her hunting costume, the Queen of Portu-
gal, alluded to by fair " Venatrix," almost defied the powers of
description :—" She sat astride, as was the universal custom in
Portugal, and wore English leather breeches, frequently black,
over which she threw a petticoat." With respect to the other
"crowned head," as a "man of feeling," it is no less incum-
bent upon me to infer, that a woman who could take delight in
the scene of blood which is represented, must, in a nreasure,
have already deadened those feelings which, under a more
happy guidance, might, perhaps, have pleaded with success in
behalf of her favourite, the Earl of Essex, or of her ill-fated
relation, Mary, Queen of Scots. As to the spearing of the boar,
this seems, no doubt, a most pleasing and feminine accomplish-
ment—very becoming the delicacy of the sex, and equal in
elegance to that of killing a pig !
N ow, friend Editor, as you respect yourself, and as you value
my future correspondence, betray me not. None is less patient
of affront than " Den Sylvarum, —seevis et inzmica,—and then
the "brothers." Think of an appearance on the Chalk Farm
stage, and the mischievous pellets fc.iy rammed down. Both
of them are dead shots, and determined fire-eaters, by repute.
Think!—think!—only think of the horrors of a message: of me,
a very Falstaff, required to make up my mind—never could I do
it—to stand the hazard of a die with a man perhaps thin
enough to split a bullet! Be cautious as you live, else may
LEPORICIDUS be forced reluctantly to "go out,"

" And leave the world to darkness and to thee."
Bracebridge Hall, Saturday Night.