The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-15 00:00:00

CHARGE OF CRUELTY.

The followinc is a letter from Lieut. Crellia,
to the &lour 4,t Tic heeds Inte

SlR—Through the medium of whir Paper, I think it ne-
cessatv, assn °ewer at !Ise Si WI Wags:ion Guards (as whirls
I a a brought before tie public by the Editor of The Leeds
Itcreory), to cnistradir. a paragraph which appeared in his
Paper this d ay. I fe I r hentation id declaring. that the
whole of is is fake and unfounded ita ever. particular; and
from t:, •, assailer in winch I hare been represented by that
Editor, We tin doubt, ;n my mind, th .t hes intestines to-
wards me wire Miner 1 a d mantilla*, ,sad meant to stig-
matize my enaracter ai an officer, by imputing to me au art
of excernive .erneity. which, en my boom's., ad MI officer and
a gentleman. I did ant en omit.--It h emsectisan, at pre-
sent. to state any p •rticulars no the subject. being deter-
naLed to mate au elampl- of the !Akin, as far as the law
of ins country will :Amt. J. C. VRICLLI
Leeds, Sept. t. 1809. Lieut. dint Drag. Guards.

The following has 'appeared is lite Leeds tiler.',
curs, in answer to the above, to which we also
think it our duty to give insertion :
re oe.THIS gen ha miaow GUARDS.
*letter, beating y or signature, inserted is The
Leas latifligeassr of .this week. yna have tnioaght it So no-
tradict a paragraph in the last Pfera, relvting to
the
and
your horse, and very positively to t.lace-, that " the whole
of Can paragraph i, false and arsiosesdest fa every pentrider."
The uuly isneeirt.un particulars in that paragraph are theses
Ilse time in leech you rode the horse from the Race-
ground York to Leads on Saturday—the esteem, agony
the animal you rode sobsequattly entered—and its conse-
quent death on the Tuesday following. Allow me to ask if
you tie in to assert, on your " humour as an °dicer and a
tietalinnan"-
Ist. Teat you (lid not yourself declare, that you rode the
mum from the nand at York to Leeds/ is as boor
and twenty misotes, I-clotting the time taken fur a halt on
he road ?
td. Do zoo assert, upon your honour, that the mare did
not exbltrt symptoms of extreme agony, soul Tuesday
might ?
34. Do you mean to ptedge your word, that the gnat hoot
dead ?
if yam can show that these, the lending particulars in the
paragraph allotted S., ate false, I shall, must gladly, eosin-
Mite whatever heals my power to abate (Mt reefing of ia-
dig,vtloo wh;els !met been excited is the politic mind, by a
view of the poor animal, Imeg before the observation is my
['Ayer of last Saturday made Its appearance.
Yoe impe3e to me a malicious motive towards yogi. This
I patitivt y disclaim. I neither knew y •its pent= nor your
merle before your espiriag horse attracted eav notices and
far the charade. of a British Otlker, as such, no persoa can
Live h.gbor trend than myself having the houoar to
nalk many of them amoog.st my pvrticolar kierhloi. In mak-
ing Sae ieserdas alluded to, therefore, humanity and a•
• 0.....a.0f pvtill.e duty, those motives which may u fortnight
befo••• indoced in. to censure, in strong ter-rF, two men wao
It oh mallard toot Itilkd) taw of xotey,regimental horses, :slow
irer..att.l sty conduct. Couvioced, as ever:. uoprelailiced
mod must he, of the trarityof my motive, I can vonuJently
rest the le-.,l new* Aces of that ht./1n...a the far-famed
Ihertv of Coe Etaglisti pm.; and as to your threats, Ise as-
larva; they late Italy that share of my regard width they
merit. EDITOR.

From the Qaebec Mercury, of the 3d July :
Luinbcr imported from Canada has always been
pre'erred to the isaportauon from the United
Mail, and Government, as well as individosts,
have 13tely found that the Canada staves and tim-
ber answer every purpose of, and ere in many re-
spects superior to the same articles imported frum
Vie Baltic, as encouraging the growth of Dar own
colonies hipreference to the productions of other
countries, besides the great advantage to be de.
'Weed from the encreaied somber of British ship.
ping employed thereby. We sbalishortly become.
quite itidepend:ot of foreign supplies. It will
therefore give us sincere pleasure to bear of the,
future iticrease and prosperity of the infest city,
the foundation of which is announced in the fol.l
lowing extract:
" On Friday last was sunk, in the Basin of the
River Chdudiere, in eighteen feet water, a Wharf
which, when completed, will afford a surface of
four thousand superfivial feet, and be capable of
receiving nearly twenty vessels afloat, completely
sheltered from Easterly winds ; which will enable
them to load at all times of tide and in the must
tempi-mum': weather.
" A large warehouse is to be erected -
end of the *hart, capable of eoataissins ens

dred thousand bta•hels of wheat.
4 4 We understand that the ts hole Is to be ..
and delivered to the Lessees, Messrs George
William Ilatuilton, tni the first of May nest
66 'llse Province Is indebted, fur this
undertaking, to the lion. Henry Caldwell,
veld°, of the Seigniory, through whioh the
Chaudlire ruuslotu the Hirer St. Lawns:cc.

tresety steep

rugged,

on each' .pint surprises the eeeiny, according to their --;;;L:760.;
ime hais. .todete, had kiediell alteloag the liwes might here 1:1; wow
tide` to esplot TA*,1003,4 bmri elattsed. tiny mod the caterpthe
[milked stare 4 ieSsis4Aled-seinig. aneinied it.
mile and,' Alb arduous pert ofd' fl e' tVesos New *yi town"
at. toldeqd ate s eir ple„..itetarhiseui for
spirited ahtirtin Piga intiteditied approtuiti
11, Pm. ey ia,trie,ll 0.f., pg,biig as •Wec! we
le River in the e &Ott, &Ft( 4,•rou. to a bigb plan es int
e. tremely steep and rugged, and occasionally in.