The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-24 00:00:00

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forpoor Ireland. Here, in England, there is a mass of
good old stuff, so strong and so tou,Th as for the new
(angled notions imported from the Continent never to
tear quite to pieces. We say serer. for Jo what they
may, there will always be enough left of this stub-
born stuff to prevent us from becoming downright
slaves. This stuff has in its very nature a spirit of
resistance
is assailing it, and has long been assailing it, will
itself crumble to pierce, before the week of complete
tearing to atoms shall be accomplished. In this, in-
deed, consists the only security that the country has
for not being brought claws to be the moat contemp-
tible ooentry upon the face of the earth. But in
Ireland there is none of this stuff. There the miser-
able, the starving people, lie prostrate, without the
possibility of being placed in a better state, eseept by
sums great change to he accomplished in England.
" PURITT7OITCLICCTION."
Yesterday, the anniversary of the thing under Ibis
whimsical title was celebrated at the Crown and
Anchor. by a dinner, at which Sir FRANCIS BUILDEET
presided, surrosaded, as it would appear, from The
Mornimq Chtoeicle, by a more respectable mooperis
than on any former occasion. Thbilon. Ramon does,
indeed, seem to have been joined, on this *cession,
by some very coosiderable Allies of the "HiOer
Orders ;" amongst whom were Lord NUIIBN7 and Lord
BURTNOTON. The Baronet did not fail to notice this
circumstance in ilia speech, aid observed " that many
" others would have been present but from parties-
" kr eirerioutoneee," which, however, he does wet
appear to have described. Mr. Hesse, Mr. !Imam)°,
Mr. KINNAIRD, Sir R. WILSON, L AAAAA TTIE BRUCE,
Esq., and PETER Mooart, were amongst the Compeer
Upon the whole, if the thing was flat, it did, at least,
discover a little more modesty than usual. We heard
nethiag about that purity, heretofore such a tedious
theme. Mr. STL,ltce, as usual, proposed the health of the
Baronet; but not a word about either " Iresimisisier's
" Pride"or " goglealr glory." It was now, the"steady
" opposer of Tyranny and Oppression ; thecoostaat ad-
" Tecate of Parliamentary Reform, their truly hottest
" representative, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT." Mr.
Sreace coeld not well say less of the subject of the
toast than he did ; and we are not aware of his haviag
said a great deal too much, except in the way of
apology for the Baronet. He said, that lie had sever
suffered a Session to pass witboat some effort la be-
half of the liberties of the people ; and. that, if those
efforts had not always been successful, that was not
the Ratenet's fault. We should be glad if Mr. STURCII
would point oat anyone instance in which those efforts
had been successful. And, if be would endeavour to
show as how it is possible. that the country should
have been in its present state, if a member for West-
minter, or any other place, bad been warning the
country of the present dangers for the last flfteea
years, and ringing the warning in their ears, as be
might have done from one end of every Session to the
other. We are anticipating here, but we really won-
der that Mr. HODHOUIII should not have perceived the
inevitable application of the following select piece si
poetry which be embodied in his speech .
" Thus Ilicrlegoix extolled his horse,
" Good in field, in road, and course :
" Ose halt he bri-ra Wit
And what was that? dad."
Thee Baronet's speech appears to bare heels rather
short for the occasion, and not very prolifi.' in point
of interest or novelty. He congratulated the meeting
on p t appearances, and said that the prospects
were now jar brighter than ever. What lie matted
precisely, it would be difficult to say; hut, seeing that
he afterwards observed that the difficulties of the
country were daily eocreasing; that a political crisis
was at hand ; that no Minister, 'till now, bad the
boldness to avow that political corruption was neces-
sary ; that corruption appeared to have rapidly won
upon their affections; that corruption and profligacy
were every where conspicuous ; that the blessings of
providence were converted into a curse epos society;
that the Colonial system was in the same state; that the
state of Ireland was still weir ; that the evils of mis-
government had accumulated them to an almost in-
tolerable extent; and that the time was approaching
when the Church must lose its tithes and the land-
lords their rents: seeing, that these propositione came
after the congratulatory passage before mentioned,
one might naturally be led to conclude that the
" bag 'it prospect" of the Hon. Baronet could be
really neither more nor less than a fair prospect of
universal havoc and confusion. What he probably
waned was, however, that the prospect of getting a
Reform was brighter than ever. We do not think the
Baronet is correct here, if another part of his speech
be to be taken in its literal sense; for he there would
seem to disapprove of the workings of Pext.'s Bill;
and we are quite satisfied that we shall never have
Reform, without convulsion, except through the
workings of that Bill. The Baronet seems to' wish
that the Country Gentlemen, as he calls them, would
interfere to prevent their estates being taken away.
We thank Bud that they cannot prevent It by
any other means than that of joining the. peo-
ple; and we believe that the estates will be gone
long before they will so far get the better of
their stupid pride as to take one step towards
doing the people justice. There was one passage of
the Baronet's speech at which we were not a little
surprised. He has been in the habit, at these West-
minster dinners of noticing some speech or other of
Mr. CANNING ; and, upon this occasion, he noticed a ,
speech made by that gentleman the other day, at the
Literary Feed dinner. He did it with great modesty,
indeed, in a very measured manner; without any
thing personal; but still, it was a going out of the
way to hunt after and pick at a silly bourbastical effu-
sion of that great Cock u-too of the highflying fac-
tion. Mr. CANNING had complimented the French
Amu tSSA non, who was formerly a sentimental Novel-
writer,tbe well-known CIIATICAURICIAND, and this took
place at the humbug Literary Pend dinner. Ile bad
complimented him as the defender of Christianity ;
bad congratulated England upon having such a
defender sent to it, and. the very- next moment,
toasted the Envoy from Tripoli, who was also at the
humbug. This was a thing to laugh at, but not a
thing to be mentioned in a speech upon an occasion
like this, and to lead the orator into a disquisition
relative to the principles of Christianity compared
with those of Monarchy, while it seemed very much
like cant, bordering, too, a little upon the prophane,
to talk of ""the great teacher of Christianity *seri-
"ilmag himself for the good of mankiod, while Me.

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