The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-29 00:00:00

-STATOMAI4.

To ras'EDITOR or ozsi-Sr4TESMAN,

.Stn,—As your Paper is always open to the com-
plaints of public abuses and imposition, perhaps you
will let this letter have insertion. We are charged
an additional two-pence in this street on all letters
by the General Post. The postman assigns as the
reason, " because it is off the stones ;" to be sure
there are some 20 or 30 yards of the street unpaved.
For this additional charge we at least have a right to
expect that our letters should be delivered in time, to
answer them by return of post, if necessary ; but this
is frequently not the case. On Monday se'nuight, it
was past six o'clock in the when the postman
• brought me a single letter, but which being charged
doable postage, I gave him the cover to take to the
office and demand the return of the overcharge. Two
days afterwards he returned me the cover, saying,
that if I would call at the General Post Office myself
might receive back the overcharge. As I had se.
veral times before been overcharged I went to the
General Post Office yesterday morning, and on ap-
I plying at the window, where is wrote up " Office for
liveturn of overcharge of postage," I received for an-
swer, that I must " call later in the dug" (it was then
past ten o'clock). Business detaining me in the City,
again called at the Office betwixt five and six o'clock,
I when I was told that I must " call at an earlier
hour in the day." This, Sir, was all the redress I ob-
tained ; and I mast submit to the imposition, for it is
not worth while to go again to Lombard-street, nearly
four miles hence. The postage of letters is already suffi-
ciently high; but as it is about to be increased, I
hope that some regulation will be adopted, for the
public to receive back any overcharge, without
being obliged to go (perhaps several times) from the
most distant parts of London to the General Post
Office, in Lombard-street.

To the EDIIVR of the-in'iITES.VIN.

Sln,—lt may afford some information to part of
the Readers of your valuable raper, if you will in-
sert the oath taken by Privy Coancillon, when they
enter the office, which is in these words—
" I will advise the Krso to the best of my can-
ning and discretion. I will advise for the KING'S
honour, and good of the public, without partiality ;
through affection, love, meed, doubt, or dread, I
will keep the KING'S Counsel strict. I will avoid
corruption. I will help and strengthen the execu-
tion of what shall be there resolved, and withstand
all persons who would attempt the contrary; and I
will, in general, observe, keep, and do all that a
good and true Councillor ought to do to his Sovereign
Lord."

If Ministers would keep this oath inviolable, what
a happy nation would Old England be.

LEI ANGLI&.

PROPOSED INSCRIPTION FOR THE LID OF A
CHEST IN THE ♦RCHIVES OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.

Beneath, are deposited
all that remains of the once celebrated
ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
Circumscribed by this narrow boundary,
and reduced tit a few shreds
of worthless parchment.
those haughty and innovating Decrees,
which, in their life-time, convoked Empires,
and tore the scanty morsel
from the grasp of starving Millions,
now repose to harmlen obscurity.
Thro' the baser passions of the Isamu; bury
the moral Cearalogist
may perhaps trace their origin to a remote distance ;
bat their immediate progenitors, were •
Malignity and Infatuatioss
Fostered by unremitting parental care,
and the Laborious exertions of their nearest relatives,
Sophitry and Falsehood,
they rapidly attained
a formidable and disgraceful maturity.
During a disastroas period
of Sig Years,
they exercised an uncontroulled oppression
over the Industry an Reaoerces of the Poor ;
Polluted the National Repntatioa for Commercial Integrity
with the most loathsome vill .iMes g
Cherished the infant Manufaveres of our Rivals ;
and insulted the Publi; Rights at Mankind.
by a long series of hateful and aggressive Depredations.
Their career was at length arrested
by the awakened energies of their victims ;
and after a resistance
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which only prose-elthecruninecowirdice of Tyranny
when opposed to the united effort. of
Rectitude and Patricrisin
overwhelmed by the contempt of the Wise,
and the execrations of the Goad,
they expired June !nth, 181 V.
Oa the same day,
their only legitimate descendant,
Tux Lacr%ce Svsrzw,
shared the fat of its guiltv parents;
and their death is thus recoruted
By a British Public,
al an Event
awfully instructive to futttre Legislators,
and wrongly Wound e
of the consolatory and important Troth,
that it is essential to the very ?tutors of Evil,
to issue in-its own Destruction.

LEEDS, JUNE 27. We had last week the plea-
sure to state, that the measures taken by the British
Government for -repealing the Orders in Council,
had produced a very beneficial effect upon the York-
shire Cloth Markets of that day ; and we have new
to add, that the satisfactory Declaration issued by
our Government has still further increased the de.

mand, and more goods in the market hare been sold
to-day than on any single market-day for the last

seven years.

A very extraordinary interruption, was last Mon.
day night given by a number of Constables and
others, to a company of about BO persons, princi-
pally mechanics, who had. met at the King's Read
public-house, in this town, to celebrate tie libera-
tion of Sir Francis Burdett and that too, in a way
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