The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-09 00:00:00

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to. Mr. Henry Thornton's sly insinuation,
having rational views, all those who seek any
atble menus of redress.
~ientlemen, I leave you and Mr. Henry 'Thornton
to ponder on these think. In the mean time I shall
st rive to deserve the wall opinion of the Indepen-
flew Platers of Southwark, and of all honest Mag.
lishmen, by persevering in my endeavour to obtain
for them that rational, and now become ilidispeusd-
ble object. a Reform of the Commons' House, even
throgh I should thereby risk again provoking the
animosity of Mr. Henry Thornton, and produce
another puerile and shuffling apology for the disgrace-
ful plunder of sinecure Plat:semen and undeset ring
Pensioners.
Gentlemen, It would be too tedious, and quite
unnecessary, to go through the whole of Mr. Henry
Thornton's unmeaning galamatias, as reported in the
Times, October the 28th. What is it to us whether
Inv Lard Arden is or is not plucked in his turn by
subordinate peculators? Or that. a sham, inefficient;
measure did, or did not, pass the House of Com- !
mons—was, or was not, thrown out ht the House
of Lords ? We claim our undoubted right to choose
erne Representatives, and we are answered with some-
thing
about what our sham Representatives intended
tlo.—Mr. Henry Thornton shows willingness and
alncrity enough to mislead the People, by persuading
them to :ry to make a sieve hold water, by stopping
from time to time one of the boles—a mode of Re-
form aers would hardly object Its ; for, like the
tinkers, whilst one hole was stopping they would
snake two.
Gentlemen, " I say unto you beware of false pro-
plieta, that come to you in sheeps' clothing, for in-
wardly they are ravenous wolves." Mr. Henry
Thornton states, in the most barefaced manner (see,
Times, October 28), " that my plan of Reform re.l
garded persons rather than property," which is so
far from the truth, that it is exactly the reverse. I
proposed in Parliament, in the year 1809, the out-
line
of a plan, which, together with my speech upon
that OCCIliiOll, was printed and published, and there-1
fore leaves Mr. Henry Thornton no excuse for his
scandalous and malicious misrepresentation.--So
far was my plan from " regarding persons rather'
than property," that the whole of it went upon the
constitutional principle of re-uniting property with
political power, the disuniou of which I stated to
be the national disease ; a plan not " rudely invad-
ing," but wisely restoring, " the prerogatives of the
Crown ;" not" depriving the King of the means of
rewarding public services," but freeing the King
from the lenitiliating necessity of dissipating those.
sacred funds intended for the reward of public ser-
vices, in Parliamentary corruption.
Gentlemen, Mr. Henry Thornton passes in the
world for a grave and sad man, of a more than com-
monly religious turo, as deeply impressed with the ,
belief that " man lives not by bread alone," and it
must unquestionably have astonished you as well as
nve, that he should not have been a little less un-
charitable in his insiuuations, a little better found-
ed in his assertions, elittle snore correct iu his state-
ments.
Gentlemen, Good manners will prevent me from
rnakiug use of such language as truth and justifiable
indignation would fully warrant upon this occasion.
I shall content myself with remarking, in the phrase
of the virtuous Houynhims, who uever speakiiy,
falsely, had no term to express it by, that Mr.
henry Thornton has certainly said to you the thing
that is not.

Gentlemen, I remain
Your most obedient and very humble servant,
0 aurd, Oct. 30, Inl3. FRANCIS BURDETT.

Saturday night, about nine o'clock, as a gentle-
man was passing through Tavistock-street, Covent-
garden, he was stopped by a gang of robbers, consist-
ing of about four men, who surrounded him, and
forcibly took eight gold seals from his chain. They
endeavoured to get his chain and watch, but the
gentleman resisting them, and some persons ap-
proaching, the gang ran off with the seals only.
On Wednesday last, two gentlemen, in the neigh-
bourhood of Rats:litf-highway, laid a wager of 51.
upon a nutu named Leurnen, a coal-heaver, that he
should devour. in the space of three quarters of an
hour, 91bs. of bullock's heart roasted, 3lbs. of pota-
tces, a half quartern loaf, and a pot of porter. Tke
parties met at the Queen's Read public-house,
Broad-street, Ratcliffe-highway, and the spectators,
of which there were a considerable number, paid
tid. each to be admitted. Ile completed his task,
aid drank three or four glasses of rum besides, with-
in the time allowed him, without producing the
stnailest apparent inconvenience to himself.
Saturday the attention of the passengers was ar-
rested in Cheapside, by the detection of a genteel
dressed female, who, while cheapening :ante articles,
at a wholesale silk mercer's, secreted some silk,
which, being immediately missed, she was pursued
and taken. Upo-• sheaving a great deal of contriti-
tion owner of the shop forgave and allowed her to
csca 1)2. _ _

Cononsa's INectsT.--Friday an Inquest was!
held at the sign of the ship, in Bacon-street, Beth.
nal-green, before J. W. Uswx,r, Esq. Coroner, on
the body of Isaac Carmichael, of Spitaliields, a jour-
neyman weaver, who was found suspended by a cord
svhich was fastened to the upper part of his loom.—
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It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Wiltshire, land-
lord of the house at which the deceased had lodged
for upwards of three years, that the. deceased had
been for a length of time afflicted with melancholy
and extreme depression of spirits, in consequence of
his being unable to obtain by his labour a supply
adequate to his pressing exigencies. Verdict—
Lnnucy.
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A Bramin, named Jason and Brancbery, was ac-
cased at Bombay, in May last, of murdering, with.
other:, Rham Brandary, a wealthy Hindoo. When.
.his accomplices were apprehended, he was admitted
a.; evidence, on his offering to Mike important dis-
closures. His communications not being deerriell
im-
pertbnt, the Recorder ordered him to be brought to
trial en the authority of Mrs. Rudd's cake, in 1 Leach,
134.. It appeared by the evidence that there were
about twenty men concerned in the murder and rob-
bety, and that the Bramin visited and questioned the
dm-eased on his death-bed, in order to ascertain the,
amount of the plunder, and if his accomplices had
made a fair division of it. lie was found Guilty.