The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4ND-IRD.

Sir.,—One of your Liverpool contemporaries of Friday last,
whom it would be too much honour to distinguish by name,
acknowledges the receipt of a letter. signed . ti. (quere,
117. A.?) giving an account of some dinners in this parish, and
which, in strict accordance with the taste and spirit of these sa-
pient correspondents, is styled " The last kick of the Tories."
In order that the sensible poition of the public may be set right
on this point, I wish to state that such of the freeholders of this
parish as gave their votes to Sir Thomas Hesketh, at the late
county election, were promised a dinner at the expense of the
gentlemen of the district, who promoted and conducted the Can-
vass, similar to the dinners given at Wigan and other places;
and Tuesday, the 18th instant, was the day fixed upon for that
purpose, when substantial dinners of roast beef and plum-pud-
ding, &c., with plenty-. of Mr. Harriott's strong ale, were given
Mr. Priest's, the Union hotel, and Mr. Ilaifev's, the Bold
Arms Hotel, Southport ; at Mr. Carroll's, the Hesketh Arms,
Churchtown ; and at Mr. Hugh Gregson's Inn, at Crossens ;
when and where upwards of 170 persons regaled themselves,
and all passed off in good fellowship, harmony, and conviviality,
worthy of Englishmen and the agricultural portion of this pa-
rish. I dined with the freeholders at Mr. Priest's Union Ho-
tel, and truth bears me out in stating that nothing of
.party
feeling existed at that table; on the contrary, the chanmelt
deprecated any such intention from his chair. The healths of
the King and Queen were drank, as was also the health of Sir
Thomas Hesketh : beyond this nothing of a party nature oc-
curred, if we except a song, composed and sung upon the occa-
sion, of which I enclose you a copy, and should like to hear if
any Englishman is disposed to cavil with a single sentiment.
contained in that trite version of the principles of the majority
of the parish.
But if you, Mr. Editor, will allow me a portion of your co-
lumns for the purpose, I wish to reason a little with these re-
forming but intolerant sprigs, who would fain drive older head;
into their way of thinking, or rather talking, by clamour, abuse,
and vituperation. Admitting, for argument's sake, that these
dinners were " Tory" dinners, is it not possible for such Torie 3
to have the welfare, prosperity, and peace of their native land
as much at heart as those who assail them with the epithet?.
Have they not as much, or more, at stake in the country than
those who rail against them? Are they not content in their
station—not given to change?
To all of these pestionsi will answer for them in the atTirma-
tive. If it be a mark of Toryism to be neighbourly, social, and
peaceable, then are the parishioners of North Meols Tories!
They voted for Sir Thomas Hesketh because he was a man of
land.ed property, and consequently identified with the agricul-
tural interests, in contradistinction to Mr. Wood, who was sup..
ported and returned by the subscriptions of the manufacturing
and commercial interests ;
.end, surely, the agricultural interests
have as much right to be represented as the commercial and.
manufacturing interests. What would Mr. Wood and his con-
stituency of Manchester manufacturers du in the. event of Ilia
corn laws being abolished •Why, iu proportion as the farm-
, iug produce of this country became reduced, they would rejnee
the wages of their workmen, and thus the farmer and mechanic
would Suffer, whilst the free traders were amassing riches. Has
not Mr. Wood intimated, in his place in the House of Com-
mons, that that could not be termed a district of distress where
men were earning 10s. per week to support themselves and
? Is not this a foretaste of what they would reduce the
labouring population of aid England to ? is it not a fact, that
low wages produce want and distress upon both the middling
and labouring classes of the community ? I pause fur a replif
to these home questions.
I am afraid, Mr. Editor, that certain individuals are more in-
terested in dividing the people of England by idle clamour,
gross misrepresentations, and wild theories, than is apparent to
many. The tanner of the present -day pays the same rent he'
has done for years, when his produce was of higher price.; but
he aims at no revolutionary convulsion; he, ill fact, hoped that.
the present administration and parliament would lighten his
hurthens in taxes, instead of which they are putting a dead
weight of .V. 800,000 per annum upon hiin, in taxes,, for the pui-
pose of emancipating the negioes ; they are setting up the dan-
gerous proposition of foreign interference in our own affairs, by
sanctioning and supporting one tyrant brother's revolt against
his brother tyrant—they are setting flue examples of Christian
morality, by cabinet consultatious, upon Sabbath-days, and by
Rev. Deans advocating the opening of the Metropolitan Zoo-
logical Gardens during the whole of Sunday. They are doing
all this, and much more, in open defiance of the laws cf bout
God stud man—in direct violation of their prefessed faith, awl,
thousand-times repeated pledges to the coati u: y 1 I then auk
the people of England, fi otu .such measures; ce' bustu?
Yours, &e.
Southport, June 24, 18.13. J. S.

A NEW SONG,
Sung at Mr. Prieafx Union 11914, .S'outhpyrt, Julie lath, IU3.

TUNR—"O! AND I 1.1. Cobb TO TR,

("Aline, cheer up, ye Britons, who honor Tru,..
To your country and colour be honest and true :
Let the liin4; and the laws he supported by: yeti.
Our faith, our country, and rights, too
Let no idle schemes of equilitv's gang,
Nor mobs rendered mad, by seditious harangue,
Nor Cultic's, nor Hunt's idle blisplicinons shtng,
Induce you to join such a black clew I

United and lOyal, Blues firmly will stand,
l u defence of their counlry, their OW n zien-girt land.
They will boldly defeat,--this invincible hand
Each wild and rebellious faction
The noblest of bonds Ls our country's good,
Cemented by justice, by lonux, and blood.
The designs of all foes it bath ever withstwd.
By union and strent;th when in action.

Then join not dissentious of faith, nor of rule,
Steer clear of the Idle. and radical sellout,
Let Joni Bull never yoke with au infidel tool,
1n pulling doWn the ;old Constitution :
But rally like true ones. and join heart with hand,
In support of your freedom, your own native land,
And Gnnly, and boldly, for ever withstand
Ditordci and uu.silltovlutioal I

ort'o Corntr,.

CADWILLON TO HIS RARE.
The Welsh have a tradition that Davydd-y-Gaye'-wen, one cf their
celebrated bards, when on his death-bed called for his harp, and
composed the sweet melancholy air which still bears his name,
requesting that it might, be performed at his funeral. To this air
the following verses are adapted :
'lv harp! the last hour of thy minstrel is nigh,
Ells pulse faintly beats, and his eyes dimly see.
His tongue, faltering, tremblingly tells he must die—
'Then thy last strain of sorrow awaken for me !
Dear harp of my country! I've treasur'd thee long.
At her woes have thy wild chords been oft strung by me;
iler weal and her woe have alike tun'd thy song,
But now be thy bard's death-dirge warbled by thee !
Mute will soon be his tongue, whence soft cadences fell.
Pale, icy, and wan soon Cadwallon will be :
Let sorne.bard o'er his grave in sweet melody tell,
"That Cadwallon died true to his countryand thee :
That thy strains were his solace—her glory his pride—
His heart, like thy soft notes, irnpassion'd and free;
That a patriot minstrel he lived and he died,
And his last, fondest pray'r was for Cambria and thee."
And now to another thy chords I resign,
May the hand that hereafter awakes thee be free!
May th 7 strains at his touch be as sweet as at mine ;
And bless Heaven, my country, her minstrels, and thee I
Merthyr Guardian.

LITERATURE.

Observations on Professions,. Literature, Manners, and
Emierration, in die United States and Canada. By
the Rev. ISAAC T' IDLER. London : Whittaker & Co.

The Reverend Author of this.amusing and instructive
volume left England in the year 1831, and his motives
for doing so were "dissatisfaction with the government
and the state of things in his own country, by whicli,he
had, as he concluded, been hitherto keptback in his fortune,
and diappointed in his aims__, together with a high ad-
miration of the American Republic." These "formed
the foundation of his reasons for emigrating."
With a cargo of these opinions ballasted "bv a more
than ordinary share of Greek, liebiew, and ganscric
Mr. Fidler arrives with his lady and servant in New
York, where the latter leaves him, "having discovered
the value of a dollar, and how many make a pound." In

this city lie discovers too, that
"The persod, at whos'e house we had taken lodgings, was an
Englishman, a painter, who informed me that he had lived
some years in Liverpool;. but that from the heavy weight of
rates, tithes, and taxes, he had not been able to gain a living.
He still had a shop there, and intended to return it' the Reform
Bill should pass. He so often spoke with contempt and bit-
terness of kings, nobility, priests, and taxes, that it was evident
at once under what denomination he might be classed. He
was a radical, a gambler, a frequenter of Tammany Hall,'
and of the lowest society. I blushed to think that such a per-
son and myself should li.ave entertained similar sentiments on
6uch a subject. He had gone to America to improve his con-
dition, but had not found that improvement realized. He hated,
and cordially railed at, the American people, their manners,
and the prejudices they entertained against the English. His
wife, a most worthy and industrious woman, told us, that had
her husband been industrious and careful, they might have
saved money, and been independent, but that they could, with
the same means, have been much more comfortable in Liver-

pool."
Disappointed in obtaining clerical employment,
" I called on an American bookseller, to whom I had a letter
of introduction, and requested he would inform me if I might
be able to get something in Sanscrit printed. Ile answered,
that even Greek printing, nuich more Sanscrit, of which he had
never before heard mention, could with difficult); he executed ;
and that, if I would even pay him for importing Sanscrit types
into the States, and pay also for warehouse room, he would not
take them in. Both they, and books in that language, would
be worse than useless lumber. I had similar conversations with
other persons, confirming the above statement; and was in-
formed, that if I commenced any such work-in the States, from
any apparent encouragement, or from subscriptions of profes-
tionNl men, I might depend upon ruining myself. Many, I
was told, are ready to subscribe to, or encourage literature,
but hang back at the time of payment. I was also assured
by some, from their personal knowledge, that subscriptions
for any work, from which no profit could be gained, un-
less advanced before hand would never be paid. The only
method of preventing disappointment in collecting subscrip-
tion-money, is the getting it in advance "fhe clergy and
literary 'nen of this country,' said they, 'are notoriously poor,
and the worst payers in the world. You will find them
ready in promises and encouragements, but backward
in discharging them. Their salaries and incomes are of-
ten so small, as not to enable them to pay their bills, and
many of them are frequently years in arrears.' This state-
ment was confirmed by the testimony of so many, that no
doubt remains in my mind of its truth. A minister in New
York had raised, a sfiort time before our arrival, a large col-
lection among his hearers, to defray the accounts of his trades-
men, which had been accumulating for years."
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Our next quotation we recommend to the especial
attention of clerical Church reformers.
" The annals of pauperism scarcely contain more distressing
cases than those which poor superanuuted American ministers
sometimes exhibit, it' I have been veraciously informed. I
hope, however, such instances are rare. Yet no American
clergyman can look forward to support in old age, independent
of what he may have laid up in the season of activity. Parish-
ioners in general are either unable or unwilling to bear any
burden. He must prepare in youth and manhood for old age,
or else, suffer the consequences of his own improvidence, with
none to give him sympathy.
" I was informed that in large towns, a clergyman was sel-
dom suffered to divide his time between clerical and scholastic
duties. The people also, who are jealous of professional and
priestly wealth, and who imagine that the clerical character
should be that of poverty, abstinence, and self-denial, du not
wish that even the talents of a minister should obtain other
pecuniary recompense than what arises from his preaching. _A
clergyman of acknowledged abilities would, in England, add
lustre to his character, by sending shining scholars to our
universities or public schools. Americans view things in a
different light. Shining scholars, with them, are neither known
nor wanted. And every one there is fully persuaded that dol-
lars shine brightest in his own purse.
In a conversation with an Englishman who had settled
in America as a school-master, lie asks
" Have you a mixed school of boys and girls ?" "Yes," re-
plied he; " and two rooms for them ; or, more properly speak-
ing, one large room, which I have made into two, by suspend-
ing a curtain across the middle of it. I have been at a great ex-
pense in fitting up my school with forms and tables, so that,
laitherto, my savings have been trifling. I now have hopes,
that the up-hill part of my life is already past ; and look for-
ward to the future with brightening expectations._
"But But how is it," observed I, "that nothing is saved, from so
large a school ?"
"I have told von," he replied, "that house-rent is excessive.
My expenses, also, in fitting up, have been great. ' And besides
all this, no person in America, in any kind of business, expects
to obtain all his dues. Many, parents never pay at all; and
the bills of others I am often otaig,ed to take out in shop goods,
wi s perhaps some addition to ready money prices laid on them.
In short, I get paid as I can. Biit Ido not complain of this;
for my success, m this respect, equals that of most people. But
there is one very remarkable circumstance, which befalls all
English people who settle here. Ido not recollect a single in-
stance of any Englishman succeeding in the States, who had not
first been freed from all his English money. • There is a kind of
pride about persons from " the old country," which prevents
their stooping to the, practices of this, till compelled to do so by
absolute want. When they have found, that either compliance,
or starvation, is the consequence, they prefer the less of two
evils, and turn Americans in seif-defence. And, indeed, we of-
ten find them lending their endeavours, in their turn, to assist such
as come with money in their pockets, to become Americans as soon
us possible."
In noticing the brutal conduct of Americans towards
such as speak lightly of their government, Mr. Fidler
says that

" Sometimes a few observations are made, but they always
end abruptly, unless rendered palatable by flattery. X physi-
cian of some eminence boarded at the same house and ate at
the same table with ourselves; he one day asserted that litera-
ture and scholars in America were infinitely raised above those
of Europe, and of England in particular. 1 mentioned to him
my experience in America and what I had noticed at Boston.
He grew rather warns at my narrations and remarks, and said
' You must admit, at least, that American physicians are above
those of England in sound knowledge and in physic?' I
could hardly conceive,' I replied, that, in a country so re-
cently peopled, and so sparing in pecuniary and honorary re-
cocipense
to professional talent, any first-rate physicians could
lie found. tti ere American institutions on so excellent a plan
as to produce attainments of sufficient brilliancy to shine in
England, their jmssessors would never be satisfied with the
state of thinga in their own country, but would emigrate to
climates more congenial to their acquired perceptions, where.
their talents might be appreciated and rewarded.' You
have slandered our country, he indignantly exclaimed, ' and
could never gain a comfortable living in it.' Some of your
own clergy and professors were of a different opinion,' said I,
• and encouraged me to open a school at respectable terms. I
have contented myself with making inquiries respecting pro-
fessions in general, and my own in particular, and have dis-
covered that America has nothing to confer which could allure
my stay.' He shortly after left the table, and for three days
seated himself at another place, where he could exchange
neither words nor looks.
Such is the narrow and illiberal spirit which infuses itself
into alnioit every untravelled republican; and which never
can be exterminated under their present system of government,
and during the unrequited energies of literary men. A state of
things which fosters such a spirit mustbe prohibitive of American
greatness;_ but it sufficiently accounts.for the degrading flattery
Which prudent emigrants will furnish. The republican ear is
never satisfied with praise and adulation ; nothing is too fulsome
or extravagant. There is nothing which tyrannic power,
equal to the gods, when flattered and extolled, cannot credit of
itself.' This part of the American character is, I believe, the
most offensive to an honourable man. He dares nit speak
openly his own sentiments; he feels himself in a strange coun-
try, where true freedom is unknown, and where unconditional
surrender of conscience and unbounded and unceasing appro-
bation are rigorously extorted from him. I have no hesitation
in affirming that no gentleman who can sustain himself with
credit in Europe will reside permanently in the states.
" Did this narrowness of spirit arise from mere vanity; it
might be more excusable. Its origin is in vanity, blended with
deadly hatred to England. America resembles a young girl
just liberated from a severe foster-mother, and introduced Into
the world; all nations praise and admire her, and she is filled
with vanity • all nations persuade her that she has been cruelly
treated; and is filled wit* animosity and hatred; the refuse
of all nations tell her that inveterate rancour is becoming her
station, and that her most engaging forms:are republican, and
she becomes, as a gentleman of great eminence in Canada told
ineonore democratic every hour, and neither forgets nor for-
gives. That she has attained, iu some things, almost the lowest
depths of abstirdity' it is my firm opinion ; and many, even of
Americans themselves, are disposed to believe it. She has not
yet acquired sufficient insight into other government and in-
stitutions to perceive their merits or her own deficiencies. She
flatters herself that she has culled all the excellencies of others,
withwat their imperfections; and has extirpated frOna; herself
every blemish, and cherished her perfections only; and that a
judicious amalgaination of these perfections and ex:elie,n,cies
has rendered her sepremely lovely and supremely great.. Had
she contented herself with such a vanity as Dr. Franklin
speaks of in his lif. , she night, with him, have enumerated it
among legitimate sources of enjoyment, and have given thanks
to providence for the blessing.

• A place mrhero the Tower and more restless prders Inetn todiseaga
political and religioua questions, and not a f,nr of wboag freqneuters•
as I was informad, are professed AtheisN.