The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-27 00:00:00

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LOPlalla 74.110RESS

.0 VIC PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

[Continued from our !hew or Dec. 12.. j
I shall now endeavour to perform my promise
spectieg the corrupt means used by the..present
Aiministratioo to contract Newspapers in ,general,
6,4 particulasly. to DESTROY the I Notettnettece of
oeSusrasman. It is notorious to all Wunt.o
the, at the present moment, there ale several
owietve and Evasive PATERS, enclusive of
mei:ly Peblications, fu the pay of the present mi.
liiter.,bired fur the purpose uf propagating falsehood
sad calemny, witha view to mislead the Public, and
too their attended from the dangers which our.
round the country.. I do not think it necessary to
lotion the wheslo of those Hireling Nuts, but
shall shortly notice the following as the must con.
toeless—namely, the Morning Post, the Courier,
the sun, and the Pilot. It Is equally notorious
that, from sonie of these venal sources of corruption,
the present Ministers (as well as those in Mr. Pirr's
Administration) are in the habit of circulating a
considerable number of papers daily, fur the use of
the public Offices and other !looses, froth in town
and country, to poison the mind, of the Penile; the
whole of which forced cirrulatil.o is actually paid
for out of the Purvis
The Morning, Post being twiversally allowed to
excel all its cumpetitrirs in venality, falsehood, aro!
Oiler, I have placed it at the head of the list, as a
wooneitt of POLITICAL [SLIMY. I hate but little 1
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outs ledge of the Proprietors of this Prins, previous
to its filling into the hands of Mr. DANIEL STUART, ,
tie live Proprietor. Mr. STUART conducted 'the
Notting Post for several years upon fair and We,
pendent principles, until he was (for certain name.
less reasons) induced to change his rotaries,. and
two the Paper in favour of Mr. Pict's Adeinis.
onion. The effect of Mr. STUART'fi dereliction of
principle is well known to the Public, as in a very
few years he realised a large fortune, and sold the
Yarning Post fot SIXTEEN TIIOUjAND
IVIINDS, reserving a share to himself worth
shoat 20001. more, although he had purchased it
for the paltry sum of Five ffundred Pounde! The
per was perchesed by some Ministerial men, and
occasionally called the " NABOB'S PArcR ;" but.
there have been some changes since Mr. STUART
parted with it, and for suave time past it has been
conducted by a Mr. BYRNE', who appears as the
erosible PROYRIETOR of it, and it is generally en.
derstood he has a haodsume allowance fur taking
anon himself the responsibility of the Paper. This
Grades.* kas been wonderfully fortunate in
escaping the retribution of the 1.4 w, for all -the'
SEIIIkORIP/OJEY ARTICLES 14411. been
pebiished moat Mot conternptible
criat, until Virg recently, when in 'Sicilian was
brought against him by Mr. Ikon Btu., a very
respectable merchant in the City, for a gross Libel,
peblished in May last ; and I understand the same
. article was copied bats some other Government
Prints, namely, the Courier, the Sun, and the
Pilot. I have not the honour of knowing Ar.
El but it might 'have been well fur the
course of Public Justice, that he had proceeded by
Indictment, or Criminal Information, as the course
malty pursued against NEW,PAPER MEN. My
moire for pointing out this mode of proceeding, in
preference to the other, Is to try if there be any
1410ALITT in the application of the present con-
structinn of the Law of Libel. I hope it will be
sell understood by the Public, that a Ft NE levied
Nina these Ministerial Agents is no burden to them,
as long as they continue their political creed ; so
that the bulk of the People are nut only kept in
the dark as to the real state of the country, but
hare the pleasure of paying for the DECEPTION into
the bargain ! It may not, perhaps, be amiss to
give a short sketch of the character of Mr. BYRNE,
the ostensible Proprietor of The Morning Poe.
I have nut even a personal knowledge of this Gen.
deems, but I am informed by those who do know
him, that is early life, when he obtained an honest
nointeftance, as a JODRSIZYKAN PIIIIITSRI at Wa.
terford, and afterwards iu Louden, he Nos much
esteemed for his upright conduct. From a printer,
he became a RIPORTER in the Hoses of Commons,
end lam told he gave pascal satisfaction to his
employers: he veal then considered as lifirin sup.
porter of the Rioters and LIIIERTIRE of the Pco.
is therefore much to be lame-died, that a
man of this description should !sod
.11itaself to a
CORRUPT ADIIIIIISTRATIOS.
I shall, for the present, take my leave of Mr.
Bvn and his worthless Paper, the Morning
Post, having a much more pleasing object.kefore
me ; namely, that of congratulating the Friends of
Freedom, and all real lovers of the Bitreiso Coe-
runnels, ou the great VICTORY obtained by MT.
Torem over Sir IfICaRY GIERq, in the Court of
lines Rct,eb, during the Trial of Mr. 13vanz—a
ricloay, of which it is impossible to foresee all the
advantages likely to result from it. Had I known
that there was soca ASIAN to bufound at the Bar as
Mr. TOPPING, I should not hare sutfered judgment
to go by default, and might, 'by the employing of
this honest and able Counsel, have probably avoid.
ed the sentence of Two Years IsiPrisonment in ilia
Majesty's Gaul of Newgate.
The Law of Libel seems to have taken a very
Sudden turn since I appeared in CoUrt ; but thee,

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