The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-20 00:00:00

THE MARQUIS'S ANSWrIt.

" The sentiments you have just expressed, I can
only consider as an ailditional instance of that gene-
rosity, ,with which I have observed the inhabitants
of this part of the Empire never fail to estimate the
exertions, and to construe the motives of such per-
sons as have the good fortune to be connected with
them; aird even of those *hose merit consists chiefly
in anxiety to sere ;ORM.
" Earnest;us my w 3 hex ere for the proiperity of
this Country, and proceeding from feelings, which
feu will illow me to say, are of ,a somewhat Meier
ancrtetter nature thin thoseof Interest alone, I hale
long' been persuaded, that I could ttot:consult those,
wicks more effectually, Than by contributing, as fir
as it .could be in the power of an individual to con-.
tribute, to, the removal of those civil distinctions,
vitiCh have too long' prevailed among the inbabi-
tanti'of the same soil, and members of the same
" 4 That the diffusion of itaowledgei, which, while
it extitigUithes the cause of all policitical jealousy, is,
at tl e !aim time,,,Ahe.best amt. most powerful cor-
rective of those altgry,, feelings which. it engenders,
may reOrove,erpry obstacle to the attainment of this
rest
ulkject, anti of your just desires, wiliever con-
finite to be my sincere wish and prayer. • .
"-Zrentlemen,l request you will accept my Wirth-
e—st iliaitks for the very nattering attention with which
you have hatiOured me."

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Mr. FITTAERALDI it.is conjectured,. wilt succeed.'
PY et as the Poet.Laureat. • •
C ktrAtzr O'Butaa.--Thris Gentleman, who died
last ik•ek,sedtiertly, Was first brought intrimoried by
a dispute. shout Mrs. Hartley, at Vauxhall, in
which Lord Lyttlelon, Captain Crofts, and a Gen.:
tleman known by the name of fs,,,htinge Fitzgerald,
and who- was afterwards hanged, were engaged.—
Oa the part Captain O'Byrne took fel. Lord I4yttle-
ton, he first became acquainted with that Nobleman,
by whop' he was afterwards patronised, as long as his
Lordship lived ; and he was amongst those who were
present at the last scene of Lord Lyttleton's life,
when, in consequence of the prediction of the ghost
hich.he fancied he saw in hlill-street, Lord Lyttle.
ton fell a victim to a nervous spasm, which attacked
Lim within the time appointed by the ghost, at Pitt-
place, near Epsom. The persons then present were
Lord
•Forteßcne, Admiral Wolseles', and Captain
O'Byrne, the. first of whom is the only one now re..
mining to attest the story.
When the late Earl Haws,. witetwavtitty
able for his presence of mind, was Captain of the
Magi:airline, during a maize on the coast of France,
a heavy gale obliged him to anchor, and depend
solely on his ground-tackle. It was on a lee-shore,
and the night was extremely dark and tempestuous.
Captain llowe, at this time laid up with the gout,
was reading in his cabin, when, on a sudden, the
Lieutenant of the watch came in, with a counte-
nance fraught witbalarm, and said, he was sorry to
inform him that the anchors came home.—" 17tey
are much in the right of it,!' coolly replied the Cap-
tain ; " I don't :know rah° could slag out such a
night this." , •
lluyeg White, -wise suffered the sentence of the
law on Friday last-for robbing the Leeds mail, was.
one ,‘f the grea*depridators on the towd for.many
years past.. Ile was attachesl to plugs of robbers,
consistingsef hOusebreakerqamohg -%t horn he was an
expert'. wokkman, he having.- first embarked in this
systent.of robbery) pickpotketsj: mail robbers, &c.
lie was a man whose facie did Ise by' any meads be-
tray Ilid profession, and:. he tra.trisemerkehle for his
silence and easy manner. He its considered a very
tempr.rate man, and, is iaid never to Vave injured the
person of any one in his depredatory .cagier, hut, on
the contrary, refused to be concerned with, any ac-
complices who indulged in assaults on the person.—
White j> said to have disregarded the Scaffold, and it
seems he listened but little to'the eaboey4ons of the
‘' Clergymen, who on askinchim if he could administer
any sort of comfort to him, was answerer'--.only by
betting some othetatan to be hanged for liimt •
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