The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR.U;

A RECIPE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF A COUNTRY.—In order
to prepare the body politic, and put it into the best possible order
for taking the following dose, it. must be kept fur some time pre-
vious.to the administering of it in considerable heat and agitation.
This-will be greatly promoted by keeping the spirits in a ferment
by exciting opposite and contending passions. The different
sentiments and views of different friends, some strongly urging
one line of conduct, others proposing one diametrically oppo-
site: one party preaching patience and submission, the other
rousing the spirits and exciting to revenge; and all urging their
opinions with zeal, with vehemence, and with obstinacy. These
circumstances will greatly contribute to put the patient into the
desired state. Hence will ensue a certain restlessness and dis-
quietude, yet accompanied by indolence and love of ease—an incli-
nation to change, in hopes that some favourable circumstance may
thence ensue, yet an aversion to personal exertion in our own behalf,
an expectation and reliance that fate will do for us that which we
are unwilling to do for ourselves. No Knight of the Lancet, nor of
the Pestle and Mortar, need ever hope to find a paient more pre-
pared for his operations,than our patient is now for complete ruin :
ti Ozs: self sufficiency. 8 ditto ignorance or inexperience.
3 ditto doubt or indecision. Mix these three ingredients care-
fully together till they are completely amalgamated and incor-
porated with each other, then pour them into a quart of mix-
ture, one part milk, and three parts water, and let it boil well
on a slow fire for eight hours. In the meantime, you must
carefully fling into the liquor, every half hour, one quarter of
an ounce of a powder made up of the following ingredients, all
in equal quantity, viz.: pomp, flippancy, and passion; after this
mixture has boilded for some time, it will be reduced to a thin
poor jelly of weak substance ! Let it be well sweetened by a pro-
portionate quantity of places, pensions, and reversions of places,
and ornamented on the surface with painted emblems of candour,
flattery, and smiles—openness of conduct and gentle manners, from
gentle bluid! This jelly, though thus sweetened and decorated,
will suit hut few palates, it must be therefore forced down the
throats of unwilling patients, by great and high sounding pro-
fessions and assurances—even then it will not always be quietly
taken. In that case it must be reduced to the shape of pins, and
covered with a double coat of leaf gold. The dose is sure to
take effect, at least several eminent, physicians have assured
me they never knew it to fail. It operates at first gently and
kindly—it spreads itself over the whole frame, soothing its
cares and assuaging its pains ; but at the same time, it weakens
and enervates prodigiously! Soon, however, its effects grow
quick, painful, and terrible. Colics and gripings ensue, and
the strength of the frame being already impaired-, the constitu-
tion is unable to make any effectual resistance, till at last a
violent dysentery succeeds. and the patients, as Parker says, go
off in a state of COLLAPSE.—Jamaica Paper.

EPIGRAM.
STANLEY ON THE BUDGET.
(ALTHORP loquitur.)
" Pray what does Budget come from, Ned ?
About that word I racked my head.
While trying to arrange it."
Why man, you haven't far to go ;
From budge, to move, or shift you know,
You always have to change it."
Edinbuigh Evening Post, JUVENAL, Jun.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

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ing, and dispassionate men—both of those who heard
him, and of those who have read—the language which
he employed—and a large majority of such men, hold
opinions the reverse of his own.
Was it evidence of temper or of discretion to ransack the
vocabulary of opprobrious epithets, and selecting the most
violent that it afforded, or of which the forms of the house
would permit the use, to apply them in rapid succession
to a body of men absent from the discussion, and there-
fore incapable of defending themselves, but as respecta-
ble in all the relations of life as the right hon. gentleman
himself ? Was this wise, was it discreet, was it just
There are men who, beset by the grievous sins of self-
avowed
sanctity—of hot-headed zeal—of craving vanity
—and a never-satisfied appetite for false and mock popu-
larity—there are men of this cast, and but few of them,
we would hope, who would come down to the house,
" sweltering in their venom," and there, reckless of con-
sequences to the world, if their point could be but carried,
would have indulged with freedom in language like that
to which we refer. Such men there are—but that Mr.
Stanley should expose himself to the chance of being
placed upon a level with persons of that character, is a
matter which his greatest enemies could hardly desire,
and which his friends grieve to witness.
We will not, on the present occasion, enter upon the
argumentative part of the right honourable gentleman's
statement. That is a course which, is open to us with
more leisure to undertake, and, as we think, accomplish
the refutation, as we know we can show the exaggeration
of many points on which he seemed to rely.
The Guardian is essentially a /commercial. paper. It
is our duty to watch the commercial interests of the coun-
try. No question of equal importance has presented R-
I self for discussion since the journal was established; and
we are, therefore, satisfied that we shall stand excused in
the estimation of our subscribers if we return frequently
to the affairs of the colonies. Our next article will pro-
bably be an analysis of the "minutes of proceedings be-
tween his Majesty's government and the West India bo-
dy ;" which, as it is the immediate antecedent to Mr.
Stanley's expose, will be referred to in the after proceed-
ings, as embodying the general sentiments of both
parties.

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SAVINGS' BANK.

ABSCONDING OF MR. GIBSON.

A strong sensation was created in Manchester and
its neighbourhood last week, by the sudden disappearance
of Mr. William Gibson, the agent of the Savings' Bank,
and of his son, Mr. William Gibson, jun., who was em-
ployed by his father as a clerk in the bank.
As Mr. Gibson, up to the time when his departure was
known, had maintained an excellent character for in-
tegrity in all his dealings, and possessed the full confi-
dence of the committee of the Savings' Bank, no small
surprise and alarm was created amongst that body, when,
on Monday last, their usual day of meeting, a letter ad-
dressed by Mr. Gibson to a relative residing in this town
was laid before them, announcing in very incoherent
terms, that his misconduct had compelled him to leave
home, and that he had appropriated to his own use a sum
of £lOO belonging to the bank, which he was allowed to
keep.in his own hands as a fund to answer any contin-
gencies which might arise. As soon as a sufficient num-
ber of the committee had assembled, they determined to
make arrangements for carrying on the business of the
bank without interruption; but, on inquiring for the
keys of the safe, they were informed that those had been
carried away by Mr. William Gibson, junior, and that he
had not since made his appearance at the bank. They
also found, on further inquiry, that on Saturday, Mr.
'Gibson, jun., had received a parcel (since ascertained to
have been sent by hisiather),4after which he appeared to
suffer under a very great depression of spirits. At the con-
clusion of the business on Saturday, he had locked up the
safe in the usual manner ; and the other clerks employed
entertained no doubt that he had deposited in it the cash
which. had been received from depositors on.that day, and
which appeared from the cash book to be about £630.
The committee immediately sent for a workman to break
open the safe ; and he was proceeding to do so, when the
duplicate keys, which had been in the possession of Mr.
Gibson, sen., and had been sent with the letter which
conveyed the first intimation of his departure, were
brought to the bank. On opening the safe, it was found
to contain no money ; and it seems probable that the
younger Gibson had not deposited the receipts in the safe
when he appeared to do so, but had carried them away
with him.

Under these circumstances, the natural impression of
the committee in the first instance, was, that the disap-
pearance of the father and son, and the carrying off of
the respective sums with which they had been entrusted,
arose out of a deliberate plan which had been formed be-
tween them ; but a little consideration of the circumstan-
ces, and especially of Mr. Gibson's letter, tended to re-
move that impression. The letter, as we have already
stated, was written in the most rambling and incoherent
manner, and filled.no less- than 17 pages of letter-paper.
It bore no date, except the word " Saturday," written at
the head of the 13th page, but, from other circumstances,
it seems to have been begun at Liverpool on the 9th of
May, the day after Mr. Gibson's departure from home,
and continued at-different intervals, and probably in dif:
ferent places, until it was finally despatched in a parcel
from Dumfries, and brought by the Carlisle mail to Man.
chester on Monday morning.
The extreme length of this letter, and the many repe-
titions and frequent allusions to family affairs contained
in it, must prevent us inserting it at length ; but we shall
give a few extracts from it, tending to tf.row some light
on the real nature of Mr. Gibson's delinquency. In the
first place, however, it may be as well to state, that the
parcel contained what appeared to be part of a letter ad-
dressed by Mr. Gibson to his son William, and which the
Writer had in all probability mixed by mistake with the
sheets composing his other letter, and which, as it is of
moderate length, we give entire, suppressing only a few
names, and a few lines relating to his family, the publi-
cation of which might give unnecessary pain to the
parties.

Liverpool, May 8, 1833.
My dear William,—l hardly know how to write to you ; I
cannot state my feelings; but here I am, not knowing my future
destination, but I have for some time been so circumstanced that
misery has been my portion, though I have endeavoured to ap-
pear cheerful ; but want of economy has brought on my present
distress, and distress to all my family—not being able to find
Steele's books, I was obliged to ransack my cash books for ent.
ries, and I found to my utter, astonishment that I was indebted
to his assignees far more than I expected—l thought the balance
against me was £3O or £4O, but found it much more, and the
heavy penalty attached for keeping above £lOO being so great,
and which I was liable to, would have increased it so much that
I could not have paid it, and I had not confidence to appear be-
fore the commissioners this day—l had no alternative but to live
disgraced in Manchester or leave it; the latter alternative I have
in-an evil hour taken. I have not taken any part of the money
belonging to the bank, except the £lOO I had for contingencies
—my account against B. and M. will be considerable, say about
£6O; this will go against any deficiency there may be in the
other estates, the money of which I have received. Mr.
and

estate. In the accounts I left in my desk, it appears I
still owe them about £74 ; but the attornies in London want
more than £lOO. Mr. has to pay the other £3O; he will
write to his agents respecting it. I have written to them by this
post, saying t was detained in the country. I feel now how un-
worthily I have acted ; I should-.have faced the situation I was
placed in as a man, instead of shrinking from it as a fool, but my
evil genius prevailed; and I ant now an outcast from my dear
family and friends. Oh how my heart bleeds when lam think-
ing of your dear mother and children ; how I now feel for your
bereavement far worse than death, and shall I never see you
again; n0,.1 tun not worthy of .your tender regards; row nrust