The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-28 00:00:00

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To M. EDITOR of THE sririk gm 2 v.
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sift --Having always been sealously attachted to
his Majr, .7's family, and to the principles which
seated him on the Throne, and feeling the most
profound veneration for the Seriphs& maxim—
" Render unto all their lines," I should have been
sorry, at a time when all his subjects are called
upon to thank Ileavrtil far- having lengthened his
reign, if any one meritorious mot of his life had
been forgotten. This, indeed, was not very like.
ty; and I rejoice to see that it has not been the
,_.cane. But, in proportion to my joy at behohliqj
, ' the strenuous efforts that have been made to bring
forward his Majesty's ruyill virtues to public an.
tier, I cannot but feel regret at seeing, that very
many of Isis friends, real or pretended, hive so
little judgment, or so much malice, as to throw an
air of .ritlirule upon the celebration of his praises,
by ascribing tes, bias an improvement in our Con-
stitution stria. could nut possibly originate with
him, .. • any person of the present age, for
l this plain
gil,
in, namely, that it took place long
before his Majesty's great.grandfather was called
to the Tisrone. Theimprovenient I allude to, and
which has bees, ignorantly ascribed to the pres•ist
King (Goo bless him !), is, the Art of l'arlia-
tri,.iit by which the Commissions of the Judges,
which had before been duranle bone piddle), or
during the pleasure of the Crown, were changed
to gaineutio se hene gesserint, that is, till they
shall forfeit them by misconduct.
If 'it had been only Sir William Curtis who had
made this ridiculous mistake, nobody could have
been much surprised, nor would it have been
thought worth while to correct It. From the fa.
cetiosis Alderman we look for blunders, and we
laugh at them. It was in unison with his giving
to the King the merit of abolishing general war-
. ram., when every body knows, tboy were &vier-
ed illegal by an honest Judge, in direct opposition
to the wadies of the Court ; but when we see this
egregious error adopted by those who ought to
know better—when we find this silly falsehood re.
prated, and attempts made to force it upon the
Public, by men who have sufficient confidence in
their own abilities to write odes, and recite them
before public assemblies, it is surety time to state
the fact as it really exists. No student of the law,
. *deed, no reader of English history, can be ig.
.
norantof. it. But it.is possible that many of the
icor:44ol members or the Coreuration of Lon.
. don, as well as several of those respeetabk gen-
tlemen who could afford to pay three guineas for a
ti.dinner on Wednesday at Merchant Taylors' Hall,
may have never heard, and therefore it Is fit they
should be told, that the Act in question, so justly
the boast of Englishmen, was paced in the reigu
of William 111. of glorious and immortal memo-
ry—see Stat. 13. W,. 3. c. 2.
. Hon this blunder sariginated, it is not easy so
say, unless it was by confounding this noble Act
with another of very interior importance, relative
to the Judges, in the esti ly part of his present Ma.
jesty's reign. The !aster Act was occasioned by
doubts which were entertained whether their Com-
missions did not cease, and cousoqueistly ratialre
renewal, upon the death of the King ; and it was
made to quiet those doubts, and to provide that in
future they should be is, force, notwithstanding
the King's demise. It was net very likely, how-
ever, that any future fiovereign should, at the
very eemineweeineist of kis reign, refuse to renew
.the CututiiisA.ms of the Judges ; and certainly
• jlitieiict was no sacrifice of power on the part of
• Vie reigning King—however proper to be passed,
I therefore, it was not of very great importance.
• Dot be this as it. may, it is highly important-to the
eause of truth and justice Cott it should be known,
jhat the Act for accoring the isidependence of the
t Judges, one of the most important .to the Liber-
ties of the People ila our Statute Book, was not
the production of * present reign, but of the
eentury before the last.
I am, Sir, your's, &c.

Oct. 27.

IV. 5.

An accomplished young Lady, the daughter of
'an artist, in the neighbourhood of Cavendish.
square, eloped from her home on Tuesday morn.
`lag, and in three hours after she was missed she
*was discovered leaving a bagnio in St. Marlin's
parish, in a yellow bodied chariot, accompanied
by, her cher elni, who is the sun of a Baronet.
The carriage stopped at the corner of a street,
where the young Lady alighted, and to her sue.
prise she ss AS immediately confronted by a serrant
in the employ of her father, sod a relative, both
of whom ha I gone in quest of her ; and from a
kind of bi:let.doux they were not mistaken in
their surmises. -The pursuers had followed the
chariot from the brothel on foot, and the young
Lady, on seeing them, was unable to support
herself, and a crowd soon collected. The fair fu-
gitive was taken to the house of a friend In G reek-
trert by her pursuers. It is a fact no less curl-
ales than corteet, that the young Lady fainted in
the dress-butes of Covent-Gardrn Theatre about
a furtnig!tt go, ...whilst amongst a party of relit.
fives, and slg happened to faIT backwards into the
arms of this same gallant, who was not known to
the young Lady's fa-oiky at the time, but who
was so kind as to lend his assistance un that
oceasino.
The statue of Lout
~Neuoe, which has some
• time employed-the talents of an ingenious artist at
Birmiagham, was emitted in the market-place of
thatttown en Saturdayiast (the anniversary of the
vietOryor..Trafaiir), and teas splendidly illunit-
nated Ninei ?y gowning.
n Saturday.l* the Union Flag was displayed
en thy, standard..itt Ncw Alillord Dock.yard,
which is iu future to be a Royal Yard, and will
be grrally enierged, the ground necessary for that
purpose (icing marked out.. The srrveyor,
kuilder's assistaak &c. are already
ppintedr and have entered upon their respective
duifiet -
.Sincloa.—Thuisday night a poor elderly wo-
Min, in ttlack.boy-alley,Chick-lane, hung herself
hi her apartment ; shp wes in expectation of re:
akin; 40001.. in the course ot two mouths. lnsa- '
'pity was supposed to be the ewe of the nob set.

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