The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-11 00:00:00

DIED.

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On Saturday, the 24th ult., aged 33, after a few days' illness, greatly
regretted, Anne, wife of Mr. Thomas Allen, Macclesfield, 2d daugh-
ter of Mr. Potts, New Ferry, Cheshire.
Falmouth, Dec. 3..—We have this day the painful task of announc-
ing the death, after a short illness, of M. Hyde Villiers, Esq., Secre-
tary of the Board of- Control, and nephew of Lord Morley. The
melancholy event took
__place this morning, at Carelew House, near
Penryn, the seat of Sir C. Lemon, Bart., M. P. His arrival was only
about a fortnight since, in the capacity of candidate for representing
the united boroughs of Penrhyn and Falmouth in the ensuing Par-
liament.
On the 17th July last, at Calcutta, Streynshan Legh Master, son of
Captain Master, It. N., Bath.
On the 3d instant, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Jamas Damp-
son, printer, Mrs. Ann Basnett, aged 69. She had been confined to
her bed two years and five months.
On the 30th ult., aged 18, Catherine, youngest daughter of Mr.
Miles Bowman.

On the 29th ult., Mrs. Elizabeth Fendler, Soho-street, aged 60.
On the 28th ult., at Caslletown, Isle of Man, his Excellency Cor-
nelius Smelt, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island, aged 87.
On the 24th ult., at Holland Grove, near Wigan, James Alexander
Hodson, Esq„ aged 44.
On the 23d ult., at Homerton, Mary, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Pye
Smith, aged 63.
On the 22d ult„ at Southport, aged 16, John Peter, eldest son of
the late Philip Antrobus, Es q., of Bollington.
On the 21st ult., at Toxteth-park, after a protracted illness, Mr.
John Mossman, late of the Dock Surveyor's-office.
On the 13th ult., at her residence, Oswestrv, aged 61,
Miss Sarah
Gill, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Gill, Esq., of Prescot.
On the 31st October, at her seat, Annermills, near Clonmel, Ire-
land, Sarah, relict of the late John Grubb, Esq., one of the Society
of. Friends. This truly venerable, benevolent, and-amiable lady was
in the 86th year of her age, having survived her husband forty-eight
years. Upwards of forty carriages were in the procession, wlalch
accompanied herireznaine t 9 the Friends' burial-ground,'

Vottrn.

TO A FRIEND IN AFFLICTION.

Grieve' not, my friend—why so distre&s'd ?
Though thou halt lost a child,
The little innocent's at rest,
Its pureness undefiled :
Its heritage, of sinful clay,
Wash'd at the sacred fount away.
Thy Selfish hopes no more regret,
Think on a fathers fearS ;
How know'st thou but its sun had set
In darkness and in tears ?
And now thou haat a cherub, where
Thou do'st prefer thy• daily pidyer.

WRITTEN IR ADDITION TO THE LINES, BY HERRICK, ADDRESSED TO

' BLossonil.”.

krievous, and how hard, to see
The blossoms soil'd by rain, • .' .
And the winds' dusty stain,
To watch the creeping canker worm
The pretty leaves.deform,
Gives the heart pain.
The vermeil bads of InTanek,
That seek an early grave,
And that we pine to save--
Do elsewhere, safely, brightly, blow,
Where is nor rain, nor snow,
Nor tempests rave: '

The ripeii'd fruits, we often see
Their early promise fail ; ,
Rather for suchbewaii,.• .
Than these, which in our memory
Still live, and do defy
Alrchinge, or ail !

SONG.
(From Heath's Book of Beauty.)

Our early years—our early years,
Recal them not again ;
The memory of fornier joy,
The pang of former pain.

Where is our childhood? Where are they
The playmates of the heart,
Whose first sweet lesson was to love,
Whose second was to part !

The dead are with the past ; for them
How fruitless our despair ;
Unkindness, auger, foudness, grief
Alike are buried there.

Alas ! such thoughts can only weep
The hearts' most bitter pain :
Our early years—our early years,
Weal them not again.

SONNET.
Sleep, silence, child, sweet father of soft reest,
Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings,
Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings,
Sole comforter of minds which are
,opprest.
Lo ! by thycharrning,rod all breathing things
Lie "slumbering, with forgetfulness possest,
And yet o'er Me to spread thy drowsy wings
Thou spar'st, alas, who cannot be thy guest.
Since I am thine, 0 come, but with that face
Tn inward light Which thou art wont to show,
With feigneu solace ease a true-felt woe ;
Or if, deaf god, thou do deny.that grace,
Come as thou Wilt, 'and what thou wilt bequeath,
I long to kiss the image of my death.
DitIIII3IONO of ILIWTHORNDEN.

cori.ams.PONDENCE.

INTIMIDATION.

TO JOHN SHAND, ESQ.
Sin,---I feel myself publicly called upon, in consequence of
Mr. Penlington's last letter addressed to you, to state that he
did, in my presence, and in the presence of another person with
whom I am not acquainted, fully acknowledge you had not
Used intimidating language towards him, for the purpose of
gaining his vote in the electioh now pending, and that such an
assertion was entirely without his concurrence.--Yours, &c.
Lathom, Dec. 10th, 1832. RICH. BATTERSBY.

ON CONDITIONAL PROMISES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.FIND✓IRD.

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Sta,--The Saturday's Advertiser of last week contains a letter
signed Justus, on the subject of promises; an order to give
greater force to his argument, the writer takes the trouble to
transcribe the sentiments of the distinguished Dr. Paley.
Though I eannot but admire the strictest integrity in keeping
promises, as well as the ingenuity by which they are sometimes
inculcated, yet, in the present instance, Justus appears to have
misunderstood his argumentative author, or at least has omitted
to compare two parallel passages ; for surely there is little or
no difference between saying, " It is my present intention," or
" I intend at present to vote for a certain candidate," especially
as Dr. Paley admits that the latter expression allows a change
of sentiment.

As to the cases in which promises are not binding, it would
be irrelevant to my present purpose to treat thereon : suffice it
then to say, that very few of the conditional votes promised to
Mr. Ewart, will, I trust, be withheld from Sir Howard Douglas,
on the supposition that such a transference is not accordant
with Paley's reasoning, or does not suit the present predilec-
tions of his conscientious commentator, Justus.—X9urs,

JUSTiTIA.

MR. EWART AND OUR TOO-ARISTOCRATICAL

INSTITUTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.INDARD.

Si K,—Emboldened by the readiness with which you admitted
a former communication of mine, I will venture to iisk 'for
'bom in your paper for a few remarks upon another part of Mr.
Ewart's address to the electors of Liverpool : I coUld, howeVer,
have wished that the subject had been discossedby an abler pen,:
and at an earlier-period..

have already disposed of his views on religion—that it stands
in need of purification and disenthraltnent. 1 Will noirt advert to
his declaration, that the other institutions of the country are
too aristocratical ; an expression of vague generality, by which,
if Mr. Ewart means any thing, beyond the mere, high-sounding
turn of a sentence, be must mean the unsettling of that form 0
government, administered by a King, Lords, and Commons,
each estate with powers well-defined, which has hitherto been.
the pride of. Britons and the envy of the world.

For here I must again try Mr. Ewart by the well-known opi-
.nionspf the individual, with whose interests in the. present
tleCticiti 'ifriiggles; Mr. Ewart's friends, if hot himself, bare
chosen to identify his. Mr. Thornely is said to ;have declated;
that if he were a member of the House 'of Coirnrions, ancl'a
motion should be made for the abolition Of th6Peerage, it Would
hare his cordial and active support. If gr. Thornely has Co
Used these;wOrds, he is too manly to deny that they are legiti-.
'mately drmin from his avowed' democratical sentiments. Arid
,these.are the a•pient statesmen who aspire to' i'epreSe'nt an'en-1
ligliterked community in parliament ! I had hoped better thingi
iirMr..Ewart. He is a Man of edudation,, and his friends claim
'for him the'reiiutation of ability : he might to have been above
the use of so -vulgar an Openi to mob-prejudices. He is also a
member of a learned profession, to qualify himself for which
he must have studied the British constitution, 'which in its 'pre-
sent state the soundest lawyers hare -united to applaud and
uphold. An acquaintance with our history, at least as I read it;
.should have taught him, that the periods when public Commo-
tion has disturbed or, overthrown the balance of the different
estates of the realm, have not been the most favourable to
rational fredcitn, and that political convulsions invariably tend
-to the stern quietude of 'despotism. I would also appeal to
Mr. 'Ewart's classical recollections, and ask, whether be
would'exchange the too aristocratical institutions of Britain fol'
•the turbulent dembcracies of Greece and Rome ; and under
which form of government property; and liberty, nay life itself .
is most secure ? _

-I;;ICW2M:Other word to Mr. Ewart himself. Knows he of a
.country, wherein an individual, coming into a large commercial
town, a mere youth, without fortune, and without friends; was
enabled, by persevering industry and by directing the entire
energies of a slirewd mind to one darling 'ptirsnit, to amass
princely wealth, and to leave the-undisturbed enjoyment of it
.to his family ; during his lifetime to educate his sons, on terms
of perfect equality among the nobles of the land, and to open 'to
.two.of 'them, (and to all if he had so pleased,) all the prospectS
of those liberal professions, which have conducted the children
"even' of:ptasants to a seata`mong the'Howiirds,. the Percies, the
Talbots, and the Stanleys ? If Mr. 'Ewart knows of such a
country, can he revile, without a blush, its institutions as too
,aristocratical? Or, is his mind so contracted, that he cannot
appeal, except to the baser passions of human nature • as before'to the love of gain, so now to the low appetite which seeks to
reduce to its Own le,vel every thing that is good ann great ?
I air, Sir, tour's, &C.
December 8, 1832. C.