The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE' LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Pray, Mr. Editor, can you inform his anxious townsmen
whether a certain Liverpool radical who attended the whit'
dinner given to the defeated Candidates' Messrs. Biddulph and
Maddocks, on Friday last, at Denbigh, be yet alive?
The radical alluded to—who is an "out and outer" of the
genus socinian—had (in consequence of the destructive senti-
inents he uttered) the alternative offered him by the highly
respectable conservative whigs present, either to be pitched out
of the window—thrown down .stairs—or behave himself as a
gentleman; and not exactlx ;knowing which choice he made,
perhaps you can give the desired information, whether this bril-
liant specimen of the Liverpool liberals has been permitted by
the ancient Britons to return to his weeping friends alive.

TO THE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF LIVERPOOL
AND THE PARTS ADJACENT.

THE HUMBLE PETITION OP H- H., OF. ALPHABET-HALL, IN
THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ESQ.,
Humbly showeth,—that your unfortunate petitioner, in most
societies in England, has always been treated with the greatest
respect and attention, which he cannot but dee' his due, as his
descent is of great antiquity, and his relations of unquestionable
respectability. In divers parts of Lancashire, however, but
particularly in your ancient and honourable town, your peti-
tioner has been, and is, treated with great indignity by persons
of all occupations, trades, characters, and dispositions—either
totally forsaken or associated with strangers with whom he has
no feeling, affection, or sympathy in common, and in whose
company he is afraid he cuts a most contemptible and unenvia-
ble figure. In proof of which:your petitioner submits the
following facts to your most gracious consideration:—
. A young lady to whom
i your unhappy petitioner, notwith-
standing her cruel usage, s distressingly attached, observed to
him, (she being somewhat inclined to romance,) that " the igh
ills made a very pretty contrast with the valleys—that the ouses
and uts were sweetly hintetspersed among the auging woods—
that she, was fond of eating the howls oot in the hevening—
that the urn of the ive-ieing bee was cheering in the hautum,
when the timid hair was redolent of oney, (honey-water, I sup-
pose,) when the alf-ushed breete breathed the balmy hinfluence
of the appy hhour hover abitation, millet, hearth, hand hocean---
a time which she haiways ailed with artfelt hem ition and oly
"hadiiiiration."
The lady's flights are not always, however, so transcendental.
Her nerves are delicate, and her course of reading has not tend-
ed to strengthen them. She is orirbly hafraid of the prancing
ofan ol se, yet fears nal() shoot harrows at susceptible arts,
(at mine, for instance.) Notieitstanding herdelicacy, she—how
shall I write the odious confession ?—she absolutely malts with
her cheese, drinks Hockfober hale, and otAe (but this wants
confirmation) she had the ardiood to heat ot hartichokes with-
out receiving any arm from them ! , She doats on the arbour of i
Liverpool, but ates ot weather. Athough very himiable, she
purchases, as she herself told me, cloth hell-wide. She has fine
air, which, once upon a time, she told me in familiar conver-
sation, she was in the abit of happlying " thine hincom-
parable hoil, Macassar." I do not know -where she got the
quotation. Her heyes are piercing, hears quick ; she has deli-
cate harms, and a good art. A andsome usband, ealth, and
appiness ere hand ereafter, are her hearnest wishes; and this
very morning, meeting a gentleman rather lightly dressed, who
happens to he no favourite with her, and who has an unhappy pe-
culiarity in his gait, the hops like a Magpie in a wheat stubble,)
she told him that. be. was oppinghabout quite hairy.
To detail all the slights and insults which your distressed
petitioner receives, has received, and will receive, if his petition
be not attended to, would be endless.
He, therefore, most humbly requests that the ladies and gen-
tlemen of Liverpool, of the hamlets adjacent, and the vicinities
thereof, respectively, will take his heart-rending case into their
most gracious considerition, restore him to his proper place in
the society of his friends and-equals, which he is not conscious
of having ever forfeited, hnd also cease to associate him with
beings whom he despises, always remembering that not one of
them can be truly happy without him. And their grateful
petitioner will ever aspirate, H.

PETER HESEETH FLEETWOOD, ESQ., M.P., AND THE LI-
VERPOOL. MERCURY.—This paper of Friday last states that Mr.
Fleetwood was "a liberal" at Preston, and "a tory" in North
Meols. This is not true. Mr. Fleetwood made no public de-
claration of his political principles in Preston which he could
not consistently assimilate and blend with his conservative
conduct as one of the Lords of the Manor of North Meols.—
Will the Mercury have the honesty to point out one single in-
stance of such inconsistency ? It cannot; and will be silent.
The report of Mr. Fleetwood's speech, reprinted at Ormskirk,
was literally copied froM a report printed at Preston ! So much
for the veracity of the Mercury's paragraph-makers.—From a
Correspondent.

Ladies connected with the peerage or commoners used here-
tofore, as may be remembered, to have the opportunity, such as
it was, of hearing the debates of the House of Commons by
sitting round the ventilator in the roof of the old house, which
afforded accommodation or "peep holes" for sixteen ladies In
the present house there is tit) accommodation in the root or else-
where,