The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-09 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN:

To m EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
SIR,—T am well aware that to allude to any thing
in which the Duke of WELLINGTON is concerned, is
touching upon very holy ground. The Morning
Post, however, has for some time put (particularly
sincethe first circulation of the report that the WEL-
LESLETS were intriguing to come into Administra-
tion by the management of the Master of the Mint)
been giving some little side-wind memorandums as
to the whole family, even Including the Duke, which
bear palpable marks of Treasury fabrication. Th‘t
following extract from that Paper of Monday last,
is of this description :
MR. WELLESLEY POLE'S BANQUET.
" Since the last season, the family mansion in
Saville-row has undergone such improvements as
are very gratifying ; the magnificence and taste dis-
played in all the principal apartments, will both sur-
prise and instruct the Fashionable World. Mr. WEI:
LESLEY POLE'S party on Saturday consisted only of
Gentlemen ; and the principal object of the meeting
was to gratify his illustrious and distinguished visit-
ants with a view of what a lover of virtu would call
an inestimable treasure—no less than the whole of

NOTE
MARKED " PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL,"
Suppose.] to have been addressed by a great Diplomatic cha•
racier, at Lisbon, to his friend in Liverpool, and said to have
been lately picked ap in that town, explanatory, among
other things, of the phrase "Instinctive Patriotism."

Lisbon, January,lBls.
" MY nEAR JActEY,—FrOm the great difficulty
I had to becure my job, and afterwards to defend it,
in those essays in the Courier and Post, which you
must have seen, I could not spare a moment to write
to you before I left England. Since my arrival here,
having nothing whatever to do but to receive and re.
turn visits of ceremony to the pompous natives, who
wonder what the devil brought me here, (alai in truth,
I can scarcely myself give a plausible reason for it,)
I shall explain in full confidence to my dearest friend
some parts of my late conduct, which perhaps may
have staggered even him, as it must have appeared
so inconsistent with those professions of purity,
morality, parielism, and such stuff, n ith which
4 split the ears of the groundlinge at that Election
in your town, which first introduced our congenial
souls to each other.

townsmen be injured, you can be of no further uge
to the Minister: farewel thets to your golden dreams.
You ask me how long I will be absent from Eng-
' laud—that depends on circumstances; If any situation
at home more splendid or profitable offers, instinc-
tive patriotism, which always prompts me to serve
myself and my country, will, of course, urge my•
acceptance of it. But as a very large sum of money
was expended upon my out-fit, and to purchase a
service of plate, carriages, &c. &c. decency will re.
quire my remaining abroad for a short time as a corer
to the job.

" Remember me to all our friends at the Clubs,
and believe me, your's ever sincerely,
VORAX PHILAUTUS.',

NAVAL. INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL, FEB. B.—Arrived his Majesty's ship De-
siree, from the East Indies, having under convoy
the Cambrian and Sherborn East Itidiamen, and the
Hunter, of Boston, prize to the Doris.—Arrived
and sailed for the River, the Asia East Indiamant
from Madras; the London Packet and Trader,
from Limerick.—Came down from the River, sere-I
ral sail of outward-bound West Indintnen.

the late King JOSEPH'S collection of pictures, which " Need I tell you, my dear Jack, that my pa.
he stole from the Escurial, and the palaces at Ma- triotism is purely of the instinctive species, which
drid. These precious productions of the arts, were I teaches me above all things to take care of myself;
stopped by the Duke of WELLINGTON in Josern's : and by that happy art of humbugging, which the
flight at the battle of Vittoria. They are very nu• credulity of the English people renders them parti-
merons, and arrived, on Friday, at Mr. POLE'S house cularly exposed to, I can assume any principles, and
in the same imperial which was attached to the roof
adopt any character which best suits
irt ? Physic,
A ii
ne
my purposes.—
of the mock monarch's travelling equipage. None
Alas, poor John Boll! to what quackeryi
t a dope
were in frames : JOSEPH left them behind him. Religion, or Politics, are yon
not
Moore, Joanna Southcott, and myself, best can
l' One of the principal pictures is the original one
of Rubens,—Our Saviour preaching on Mount answer.
' Olives. Landscapes, by Claude and Titian; per- 66 What made me desert my early friends, Burke
&sits, by Rubens and Vandyke ' • specimens wherein' and Fox, who first brought me into notice•y
and
b °
the artists have lavished, or rather expanded their their countenance, stamped a value on what my ene-
genius in temples, palaces, and amphitheatres, struc- mitts style my specious talents ? it was instinct.
tures that have for ages encountered the injuries of I 66 What made me take advantage of the fears end
the elements, and remain monuments of the great. dismay of John Bull, who then laboured under the
ness and degeneracy of man. The subject is parti. JACORINOPHORIA, and by my squibs in the Anti-
cularly pleasing. A Maid milking a Cow, and ne- Jacobin, to procure for 'my near and dear rela-
glecting her pail to listen to a lore-tale from a coon- tions' large pensions, wrong from the sufferings of
try fellow, who is reclining through the window of a the people ? it was instinct.
cottage. The female possesses all the glowing warmth ; " What made me manoeuvre, by underhand in.
and freshness of life and health, and all the radiance' triguei, to supplant Lord C.---na, a hated rival,
of blooming beauty. and by his removal to monopolize all the loaves and
" The Duke of YORK, who possesses the discri. fishes to myself ? it was instinct.—But here, alas !
minatien of a virtuoso, was highly delighted with' instinct played me a scurvy trick ; the hot-headed
the collection." ° Irishman ferreted out my mole-like labours, and
Now, it requires little consideration to discover brought myself and all my machinations to public
a great deal of malice in this. What ! would the . llghtj and to public .scorn. But, no matter, I had
Morning Post convey the idea that the Duke of, several friends in office, who had a fellow feeling
WELLINGTON could possibly convert to his own use' for me, and kept me in countenance ; it is the solitary
property to such an amount, that it is thus called criminal only to whom exposure is ruin. I was
an inestimable treasure ? It is fresh in the recolwi suffering under the smarting of his Lordship's chas.
lection of every body, that these pictures Irere-I tisement, when you, Jacky, proposed to heal mil
found, as the Morning Post states, in the Imperials , wounds, by procuring me the representation of your,
of the Royal carriages at Vittoria, which carriages noble borough, and to transfer me from my obscure
were all paraded in the Court-yard of the Palace village to the second town in the kingdom. You
there ; and on the eight of the 21st of June, 1813, know, that however glittering the prize was to my ;
were taken possession of by the British troops, and ambition, I had serious doubts of our success. Bat '
the Life Guards, I believe, were placed in charge of you soon overcame all my scruples, by assuring me
them. It cannot be forgotten, that every single ar- that ribbons, ale, and long speeches, full of ' sound
tide of plunder was, by a General Order, given up ' and fury would always carry the day in Liverpool.
to persons Lord WELLlNclrolf appointed specially You promised me that your friends would pay for the
to receive it ; the severest punishments were de- two, first requisites, and I undertook to furnish a
nounced against those who should dare to violate ersonfattp mt./licit of the latter. The honest, well.
this order ; and a Mr. Kertssurrcoo, a gentleman in meat!, but easily-led gentry of your town, con- 1
the Commissariat Department, a son, I believe, of tribu their gold, and I brought the brats: Tito;
the late banker of that name, was treated very union of our heavy metals, aided by,some fortunate
roughly for keeping some little articles which fell in circumstances, overcame the exertions of our op.
his way. Whet, then ! would the Morning Post ponents. What a triumph ! what a batch of clubs im- i
dare to insinuate that Lord WELLINGTON himself mediately sprung up—the Backbones, the Canniugs,
would violate his own order ? that he himself would the Church and King, &c. &c. What speeches and
commit the very act for which he severely punished what feastinp ! and to crown our glory, in a few
this unfortunate Commissary ? I trust, Sir, you short months the overthrow of Bonaparte furnished I
will caution the public against so shameful an attack the capital for our brazen column.
of this venal Journal, which would thus invidiously 1 " "Twos at a glorious feast for Leipsic woo,'
throw an odium on that great Commander, who that I first broached the doctrine of ' INSTINCTIVE
alone has the merit (according to the Times) of res. I PATRIOTISM,' but I need not tell you that ' I pal-
cuing Europe from the fangs of that vile spoliator ! tered in a doable sense,' and while the room re-
and plunderer, the late most wicked Emperor of ' echoed with applause of a sentiment deemed by them
FRANCE! worthy of a Roman, I was enjoying the idea of what
Some time ago, a paragraph of the same sort ap- weight your election would give me with the Minis,
peered in this 66 lying Post," stating that the Doke ter; and what high post of honour or emolument,
of W. had given a magnificent entertainment to the instinct would urge me to demand, both for myself
PRINCE REGENT, at which the whole of the plateland my 6 near and dear friends.'
taken at the battle of Vittoria, and formerly belonging I " You have enquired my motive for requiring so
to the Royal Family of Spain, was displayed, the mag-ibarefaced a job as an embassy to a Court without a
gnificent appearance of which was splendid beyoudiPrinae• where all my ingenuity cannot invent a rea-
all description. This is another infamous fabrication. son sufficiently plausible for John Bull to swallow. ,
No doubt every thing which was taken on that day It was the elevated station of my rival in the Cabinet, !
will be very shortly accounted for, and the produce! which made any post at home, apparently under him, i
shared (as has been the custom from time immemorial) '• irksome to me. The profuse allowance of 14,0001.
as prize-money among the brave troops, by whose' a-year was a tempting bait, added to its being ne-
valour,
and at the expense of whose blood this 1 cessary to the health of a part of my family, to visit
booty was obtained. Shame on such vile scandal !la warm etiolate; to be sure it was taxing the
.public
I wonder the ATTORNEY-GENERAL does not file an ! rather heavily to administer to my private conveni- ,
ex-officio criminal information against the Editor of , ence• but the public is very dear to me, and, in turn, .
that scurrilous Paper, in which such barefaced slander i I shall be very dear to them. The profits of this
is suffered to appear. It is of a piece with another P 1
er
e answer my expectations, and to make them .
report also f-urn the same channel, that the Duke of a arge as possible, I lived on ship hoard at the tra- :
WELLINGTON bad divided the 211 pieces of artillery , non's expellee, as long after my arrival as decency
between the Spanish and Portuguese troops, leaving , would allow me. You, my'dear G. understand the
nothing for the English army, and that as a proof . nature of a Job, as well as any man, and I need not
the high sense which the Cortes of Spain entertained say more to you on this subject. But if Roscoe, or j
of such Heaven-born generosity, the estate in Castile "9 of those stupid Gentlemen in Liverpool, who'.
hed been bestowed on him by that body, while the : have no idea of INSTINCTIVE PATRIOTISM, should
Portuguese Government conferred a snore tligni- be illiberal in their remarks, and attempt to open I -
fied, though less weighty mark of its gratitude, by the eyes of the guzzling part of the Electors, you! Dr. MURRAY, Archbishop of Ifierapolis, and Co-
creating him Duke of Vittoria ! must rouse the Backbones, the Jawbones, the Can-' adjutor of Dublin, left Paris on the 31st of January,
Pray, Mr. EDITOR, insert this Letter immediately ! ningites, arid all our ex pedant friends to rally round !on his return to Ireland. That Prelate, since his fe-
-1 shell be miserable till I see the character of the the red standard, as guard from their sacrilegiou ; turn from itome, has spent several months in the
Noble Duke rescued from the base attacks of that hands the citadel of Patronage and (entre nous) : French capital, where he solicited the restitution of
hireling Journal, the Morning Post, whose fictions ICorruption. I the property belonging to the Irish Catholics. Re
you have so often and so property exposed.— Be- I
, "Though I did not write to you before my departure, had the satisfaction to obtain the accomplishment of
lieve me, Sir, with great regard, your truly faithful I was not unmindful of your interest, and according- his wishes.
servant, ly recommended 'you in the highest terms to my Lord I We understand that the innkeeper of Woore,
lior.e Guards, Feb. 7, 1815. CIVIL, b-----, es a proper agent to carry on any Job, in ' who had a most pl-principled. information
!s. your town, arid I have no doubt you will be soon laid against him by some Attornies, who had in.
Madame CATALAsit is on her return to England. employed; but being your true friend, my dear fel- ' duced him to give them a dinner of game, intends
M. DE VALABetilue told his countrymen that his low, I must caution you against yourself. Too' to stand trial with the parties. The same persons
incomparable wife could get more money in an Eag-, much self-confidence destroyed the power of Bona- laid a similar information about the time, ag..ill,t
lish barn than in a French theatre. , . • parte. Beware then, Jacky—' Quem Deus vult per- the proprietor of the Swan and Star Inns, of t tie
Mons. Taesrazzaut has eat fount* brilliant re. dere prius dementat.' As you are not without those town, who had been persuaded to prepare a bonne
ception in his native city of Milan, -taty complete qualifications for rising in the world, which your houcise for supper. In passing throught Stony Strat.
of his fine acting. Titer do not approve of singing countryman, Sr Pertinax M'Sycophant, recom- ford, on their road to town (the landlord having
actors. When they WOOS actlif the, say they go to mends, it will be a sad disappointment to me and , been apprized of their characters), a roasted owl
the comedy ; but no Man, Wert siy., cart sing and act your other faecal, if, .yoar bright prospects should I was dished up for them with, a sni}m's bill skewering
too. The violence of gesticofation is inconsistent be overcast by any little error occasioned by the the legs ! This bird of Micron would, probably ,
with harmony—so we may hive TRAMEZZatiI back foible I have hinted at-ramember that One false step communicate somewhat more wisdom to them, as
also. is never retrieved, and if your character among your a gaid• forthe future.-45toffordshire if •- )
. ercald

PLYMOUTH, FEe. 7.—Came in the La Favourite,
from Rochelle; the Le Junon, from Nlartinique for
Ilavre.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Opossum, Blood-
hound, Foxhound, and Eurotus, on a cruise.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 6.—Arrived a few coasters.

HARWICH, Fee. B.—Arrived the Henry Freeling
packet, with a Mail from Cuxhaven.—Sailed the
Lark packet, with t Mail for Holland.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7.-- Arrived the Goldfinch,
Wormington, from Bermuda, sailed the 12th Jan.
The Arnica:, Wright, which was captured by the
Chasseur American privateer, has been recaptured,
and arrived at Bermuda.—The General Maitland,
from Trinidad for Bermuda, was taken the 7th Jan.
within two miles of. the latter place, by. the Dash
American privateer. 1.

The Desiree frigate, with two more of the East
Indiamen, have arrived in the Downs. They parted
company with the Starling, from Batavia ; and the
Mary Ann, from Bengal ; the day after they fell its
with some American privateers, and fears are eater.,
tained for the safety of those two ships.