The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-27 00:00:00

ALBION CANDOUR. AND MODESTY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.IND/IRD.
was forcibly struck this morning, on reading the
Albion newspaper, by the extreme virulence with which the
editor attacks those who conscientiously differ from him " on
matters of public interest." I could really hardly have be-
lieved that the respectable portion of the community here, who
do not profess the doctrines of this gentleman, could have been
spoken of in a way so ungentlemanly and indecorous. These
Whigs will not allow the least honour or uprightness to belong
to their political opponents. They would monopolise all the
correctness and. propriety of conduct, which I think pretty
equally (to say the very least of it) divided at the present day.
The editors of our local papers are continually attacking all
those whose doctrines they dissent from, in no measured
terms,; whilst, at the same time, they cannot hear the least re-
joinder to their own attacks, but instantly show the cloven
foot. These reflections were suggested to me, as I before re-
marked, on reading the Albion of this day. I pass over the
criticism of your new paper. This may be all fair ; but when
this editor descends to personal scurrifity—when he slanders
without measure those who do not stand en need of his praise—
and when he holds up, by name, men of known chalacter in
this town to the people as deserving of the brick-bat and blud-
geon system of the elegant London Times—then, Sic, I think
he becomes an object of disgust to those who aught previonsq
have thought well of him.
'those gentlemen who venture to think a Tory or Conserva_
. tive paper congenial with their views, and who so thinking,
offered their purses for its introduction, are. attacked as belong-
lug to a " 2ory Gazette and Slave Owners' Journal." Very
elegant truly ! They are a set of. besotted individuals. They,
forsooth, " are most respectfully (these besotted ignoramusses !)
advised to leave politics and literature to men who understand
such subjects! !" So that this editor is vastly well informed,
by his own account. But "self-praise," &c. &c. Mr. Robert-
son Gladstone (whom they must be jealous of), Mr. '1 hotuas
Tobin, Sir George Drinkwater, and others, are most impu-
dently maligned and vilified. In another page Mr. .`7_,hand is
the object of attack. He, I suppose, is one of those who has
no business to meddle in electioneering politics. hh ! no. The
Tories have no right to bestir themselves. Ihe Radicals and
Ultra-Radicals only have a right to canvass. Property is de-
barred its lawful and just influence by this "malaen wector."
1 should like to know whether Mr. liathbone, Mr. loonies
Bolton, and others of that kidney, do not use their influence
amongst those they consider in any way inuebted to them ?
U elitist idea! They to use any influence with their tradesmen !
To imagine any thing so improper would indeed be a libel on
those gentlemen ! But let theta put their hands on their hearts
and say, if' they can, they have nut endeavoured to make
others vote as they would wish; and then I, for one, readily
agree that their's is " purification" of electioneering, and the
"disenthralment" of their friends from all ties. Every success
to your Standard, Sir. It is unfurled in a good cause ; and,
rest assured, will easily overcome all attempts to overthrow it.
Those lines, commencing with the words "Aims conscia recti,"
are applicable to its suture undoubted success.
I am,, Sir, your W ell-Wisher,
Liverpool, Nov. 26, 1832.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER, FRIDAY, Nov.
23.—The King v. Doherty.—Mr. J. Williams *(with whom was
Mr. Tonilinson) prayed the judgment of the Court on the de-
fendant (John Doherty) for a libel on the Rev. Martin Gilpin,
a clergyman, of Stockwell, in Lancashire, charging him with
having been concerned in the disinterment of a dead body.—
An affidavit of the defendant was put in; stating, that the facts
which lie had published had been furnished to him by a person
of the name of Worsley. He did not now aflilm the truth of
the statement,- which had been denied by the affidavit of the
prosecutor on moving for the rule for a criminal information.—
Mr. D. Wakefield implored the mercy of the Court for the de-
fendant, on the ground that he had already undergone impri-
sonment, and been put to considerable expense.—'l he Court,
taking all the circumstances into consideration, thought that a
.slight punishment would satisfy the justice of the case, am!
sentenced the defendant to one month's imprisonment in the
county palatine of Chester, and to enter into a recognizance to
keep Use peace and be of good behaviour fur five years, himself
£lOO, and two sureties in #:111 each.