The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-25 00:00:00

its duty ea Monday. The Old Mmes. always ibe
worst amongst the bad, kept quite silent daring Mon-
day. Tuesday. and IgigintAlminrit endured our
thumping for ibyee three days as quietly as a wool-
pack. It seems to have been wishing to rival, is this
passive quality, a pair of shoulders not very distaMly
connected with It. At last; bat not before, it has to
announce, that Me criminal hal fled from jeatice.
But. let us hear the old thing. and then remark a
little upon what it says for itself.

" An exposure of monstrous depravity has taken place
within these few days, all allusimi to whieh we hove
" hitherto suppressed. Mingled feelings of sorrow,
" himeiliation, and disgust, have been in part the einem'
"of our silence ; and the respect lee ors V. pub-
" lie denary might still have induced as to per...
" were in oar , if we could have thereby checked
" the horrible tale in its progress to notoriety amongst
" ell ages and both sexes, which ice fear it hes already
"attained to. The person amused of being the chief
" criminal—P. Jocelyn, Bishop of Clogher—has, it is
" affirmed, forfeited his bail, and quitted for ever the
" ministry which bin presence bad polluted. Hail in
" seek a case! What sum could be named which the
" wretch would not have 'sacrificed ?. We know nor
" whether to rejoin or grieve that he hasfledjkomire-
" Hee. We know not whether the trial of such a criminal
" for such a crimes might not have cost more in the way
" of corruption, than even his death by law. mild have
" paid in the way of satisfaction to good morals. It is
" dreadful to renumber, that a poor and perhaps ins*-
" cent man was sentenced to transporantion from his
" country, on the oath of this mitred reprobate, far
" only threatening to charge him with that which he
" now stands (by his flight) confessedly convicted. It
" is more dreadful to think how the church of Hod has
"ban scandalized and disgraced."
Thos. as the peblic.will see, the Old Timms cam
speak, when the bird has flown ; which he might
not have done if the Morning papers of Monday had
done their duty. This Paper can now tell us that this
is a mitred reprobate. It can tell us about the mss
that was punished on his account in leased. It
knows, now, all abort the waiter, but it could say not
a word about it until Thurs.lay morning, though, the
principal facts were stated in the Obsereerst Sunday;
and Omagh it is perfectly notorious to every holy in
London that that paper is condoeted in a mannernot
to leave the smallest doubt of the trash of thine facts.
The old hack eau sow exclaim, too : " hail in such
case!" Yes, and you hew it on Sunday morning
last as well as we did. If your pretended 'crapu-
lousness about indeceney prevented 'yea from serrat-
ing the facts ; it cor.lii not prevent, for the public has
cow seen that the whole case can be communicated to
it with perfect fidelity mid yet without a single hint
to give offence to .he most fastidious delicacy ; this
scald not have ?revolted you from giving a faithful
aceountrof the transaction, rite sufficient to answer
all NI purposes of justice and fair dealing; bat if,
after all, you found yonrself so *tepid, so wholly des-
titute of Pleat as not to be able to speak upon such a
subject without being guilty of grossaess too offensive
to be endeared by the politic, did *hat peevsat yeti
from speakiag of the bail ? Hypocricy may *erre
you elsewhere; but it cannot serve yes here. There
is nothing indelicate in the word bail! When you
were speaking. of the rere•street Chug, who were com-
paratively poor devil., and poor devils are always your
aversion; poverty Is always sin eating+ of itself is I
your eyes: when you were speaking of the ti ere-street
Gang. you very justly indeed, but post vebemeatly,
aad without the smallest delicacy in the world, gave
oarratlve• of the transactions ; but if you be grown
delicate, all at once, sad if that delicacy is of such a
strange complexion that it blushes when you have to
speak of the conduct of a Bishop, and is hardened
as brass when you have to speak of what you call the
sedition. conduct of Mrs. CaaLii.s and her sister, for
out tearing whom out of their houses you blamed the
Government : If your delicacy be of this strange com-
plexion, what bad delicacy to do with the buil !----
Now that the wretch has fled; now that your publi-
cations can do him on harm ; sow that be laughs at
your paragraphs ; now you can exclaim " bail in are/
" a ease!" Now, that you have ,tone all that you can
do for him by your silence ; now you have seen the cat
jump away, and have ton, seen which way public opinion
jumps, and having, betides, felt, in your sale (where
alone you have feeling) now yea can begin to juin in
and is a few days, we should not wonder to see you
begisning some foul-mouthed attack upon those whim.
you will choose to deem guilty of suffering this es-
cape. We beg the public to watch you, upon this oc-
casion. Yon do net well know what to do, but your
workings will be matter of great curiosity, at any
rate.

As to your concluding remark, about the disgrace
brought upon the Church of God, it belongs to that
species of bla.phentous cant, for which you are so fa-
mous; but, it weighs not a feather lu wiping oft' the
disgrace of three days' silence with regard to such a
t lion. 7he effect of this silence you Isere al-
ready felt, to our certain kuowleoge; sod the fuother
effects are to come.

. If it be true that the Bishop; that the Right Be-
'reread Pother in lied, the Lord Bishop of Clue User is
gone oar of the kingdom never to return, es everted
in this vile old paper, whirls appears to know a prat
great more about the matter of going away than we
do: if this be taste, rho: is to become of the Bishop-
ric' Is the Bishop still to receive the immense re-
venues of that Bishopric which have beers stated at
thirteen thousand pounds a•year, and which are pro-
bably touch more ? Is there to be no Bishop to sop-
ply
me place? is he to have a deputy ? It would be
Itteensed blasphemous to say that Bishops are of no
use ; it would be deemed revolutionary and treason-
able. We must not, therefore, say that; and yet it
could be hard to say what use a Bithop is to be of, if
he can live out of the country all his li`e time.
We know, not, however, of any her, by which a
man he unbiehoped, or have his revenues taken front
him, We do know, however. that a law ram Le grade to
do it, and for the honour of the country we do hope
thatthe Parliament will nut separate whitest taking.
this matter up. We are not to be told, that the Par.
!lament cannot Interfere in legal peueertlive already
CONSWISCed. We have a case; a vase in point as to
every thing but the nature of the Act. *toes of
clergymen of the Church of England were informed
against for non-residence in 1799. Actions were
brought against them agreeably to the 21st (we think
it-was) of Hairy VIII. Now nand, here were legal
proceedings against many Clergymen of the Church.
—The law was clear. There was as quirk