The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-29 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

LOATON :
TUESDAY, HAY 29, 1810.
B:2° RESTO a 111' I 0 friday of the Public-Offices.

Tuts morniog arrived three Gottenburgh mails.
The following is the only intelligence they bring:

HELIIINCIDORO, M•tr 10.—The enemy's privateers pro..
raise to be inure numerous than dating the last summer ; two,
►owever, have been put hart de combat by the Fisgard
frigate. _ _ .

aorrisinuann, MAY 18.—The Tribune frigate bad a se-
vere brash off the Norge a few days since with four heavy
Danish gun-brigs, carrying from 16 to 2021-pounders. After
maintaining an action of entaidtralde length, they made of,
but not till they had killed 9 of the Tribune's men, and
wounded 19. She is considerably cut up in her rigging.

YLITZRDAT the Anniversary of the birthday
of the late Mr. Pitt was celebrated at the London
Tavern. The company, consisting
.of persons of
the first distinction, was so numerous as to 1111 the
large ball.room and the adjoining apartment. The
dinner was sumptuous, and the day passed with
that solemn and decorous feeling which naturally
belonged to the occasion. We have no doubt,
that the persons who were present greatly admired
the talents and character of Mr. PITT, and sin.
cerely lament his loss. It would be a monstrous
violation of all principle and feeUng, if they did
pot. To the fostering hand of his splendid ge.
nius, many of them owe their wealth, their rank,
and their elevated station; and if the world could
be made up entirely of melt who live only to feed
on enjoyment, then all men would be the friends
of Mr. PITT, and all men would celebrate his
"me, and dignify his birth-day with solemn
ackweledgnitot of his greatness. We, there.
fore, 4o nut complain that great Comp:inks meet
to dine on this occasion. But it is our duty to
guard another part of the Nation against an error
that may be fatal to their country—to that country
which we know they love. We are not speaking
of the poor labourer, or the more oppressed part
of the middling ranks of society. • The great bulk

of them understand the whole of Mr. PITT'S cha.

ratter ; for he recorded it on their hearts himself!
• But many who mingle with no political dinners,
and who wish to eat no bread at any man's ex.
,pence, who arc as independent in their principles
as in their purse, arc deceived by the artifices first'
used by Mr. PITT, to preserve himself at the
helm of affairs, and 'since kept in play by this
very kind of dinners.—" The Pilot that wea-
thered the :torn." That toast may be fatal
to England. There is no exaggeration, no
folly I 9 POO supposition. Nations have often
owed, their ribt..ll mparativvly insignificant

curses. But there is no insignificancy in this—it
. is connoted with • display of talent that asto-
uitheti even Mr. pifr*Frinies, and with a gra-
titude in the colliery at large that sorrow[ he
di 1 sic it from tioo:vorst of its foes, and the
most fearfel of evils—iron) anarchy, and the
minstrels who would allies us With it. The ad-
miration, therefore, the love that attended upon
Mr. Pier's 111111 e" was and ,is natural, tinder
the delusion nthien overhung, and may over-
sslieki this country. It is time, however,
that lEe de!usion were past. The country had

energies, at the time it fell under the delusion,
tba has borne it up to this moment, and may
bear it thr.itsgh. We arc anxious, therefore, lo
bring the persons we have described, and are ad.
dressing, to a right understanding of this important
point. Mr. PlreS conduct consists of two parts :
first, his policy to put down a faction, supposed
to exist is this country ; and steamily) his system

of exterior splendour in the Government, including
his war and taxing operations. As to the first,
we mean to speak unequivocally and broadly—if
there be a faction, at any time, meaning to over.
throw, injure, or impair the Constitution, that
faction is to be put down, and at any price. In
similar dilemmas, there is a parity of reasoning ;
and the argument we have already used relative to
the burtbens of the country, and the necessity of
removing them being the first thing to be attended
to, applies to this case, of a faction to de- •
stroy the Constitution. If you mean to save the
Constitution, you must strangle tho faction,
whether, in the conflict and the convulsion, you
recover all your former station and advantage, or
not. But, although we say—" Save the Consti-
tution at any price: that is, save it from the
nearest danger, if great as well as imminent, even
at the hazard of losing it in another direction"—
although we .say that, surely it does nut fol.
low that a statesman is to throw the Con-
stitution wantonly, or insidiously and wicked-
ly, into dangers of *an opposite extreme! But
this Mr. PITT did. His motives are now tin.
necessary to look into. Whether the error
of his policy arose out of arrogance of tem-
per, inflated by power, or the necessity of
making sacrifices to an Aristocracy to preserve
that power, or wherever it arose, ho did not hus.
band the Constitution in his means and practices,
of saving it from a real or a fancied danger. Did
his apprehensions call upon him to plunge Eng-
land into war with France, and successively with
every Power in the world, thereby wearing out
our resources, and putting us almost within the
grasp of the foreign enemy ? Did his fear compel
him to shift the seat of Government, which
ought to be sacred and unpolluted, even as
the Holy Temple ; did it compel him to shift
that to the ROTUNDA at the RANK, which, if
it were not matter of fact, would be a subject of
ridicule? Did his terrors justly invite him to
change that happy medium and mean of prospe.
rity in this country, where none were poor, and
but few over-rich„ to the monstrous thing it is
now, where all are poor, except the favoured
)(ANT who support his sad system ? Where
none smile but those who smile at the tears of
others ? Finally, did the necessity he fan.
tied he laboured under, call upon him to change
and undo that Constitution he pretended to
save? It is now time to come to an understanding
about all these things, and we do incite the friends
of Mr. Purr, who are independent of his post.
humous Mtntaxs, to meet us on the bare fact,
and be with the COUNTRY, or nut, from this very
day. It then will be seen, if they open th.ir eyes
to the fact, how easy it is to save the Cunstitu.
tion from every enemyi and the Country from
every foe, without endangering even its temporary
health and safety.

TUE SHERITY of BERKSHIRE has called a Meet.
ing of the Copoty of Llerks, for Tuesday next, the
sth of June, at ten o'clock, on a Requisition,
signed by upwards of e6O of the most respectable
and opulent Freeholders. The object is the same
as that of other County and City Meetings, which
is the object of every Englishman—a remonstrance
to the (louse of Commons, on its late proceedings.

AMONG other important privileges, that of the
Solicitor to the Treasury may probably be called

in question.
To the action brought against the SPEALZR, that
Gentleman has appeared and pleaded " by HENRY
CHARLES LITCHFIELD, his .4ttorney." If this same
HENRY CHARLES LITCHFIELD be the present Soli.
citor to the Treasury, it is doubtful whether he was
admitted an Attorney under the Act for theßegula.
tion of Solicitors. On the contrary, before ho was
appointed Solicitor to the T?easury, he was a
respectable practising Barrister. And though the,
Actalluded to does not extend to Solicitors for the
Treasury, or any other branch of the revenue,
and permits them to practice in their respective
offices, as they might have done before, yet it does
not authorize them to act out of their offices asAt.
tornies for private individuals, unless they have
been previously admitted Attornies under that Act
of Parliament ; and though a person, not an At.
torney, might heretofore have been admitted by
the Court to• act as such in a particular cause.
yet, since the Stat. 2. Geo. 11. c. 23, it is pre.
sumed it cannot now be done. Probably, there-
fore, it, the present case, application may be
made to the Court, with the view of obtaining its
opinion on the point.

LORD Houvvn lately moved certain Resolu.
lions relative to the TENTHS anti FIRST FRUITS
of the Church ; his object being to make those
sacred solaces available, as they ought to be, for
the improving the condition of the Pooh Cr.euay.
The following are former Resolutions of the Honso
of Commons, together with a clause of an Act
of Parliassept, on thig subject ; and we give them
with a view 19 make game comments on them to.
morrow :

Resolved, lsdy, That -II ILa MAJESTY waverseiotarly pleased,
at the commencers,* pithe present gnaw, to recornnered to
two ROWS of Parliament So mum the comideratio, of