The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-11-17 00:00:00

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SIR CII.4RLES woLsktArrs LETTER

re LORI) 4NSO.V.

It gives es sinrree ple•s•ro to record in the STlrss•
xis the patriotism of two see, mot sore distingeish-
ed by their rank than their patriotism and spirit's the
Punic CAVIL We may an round the world as the
Noble Lord's father did, and for which he was jail;
nnobled, and not Sad • sor• pleasing instance of
a jest commendation in a most rouscutime and impres-
sive style. This letter is • heiturifel Instance of the
" Laudari a riro lourleio," addressed to kis Lord.
ship by Sir C. Woutt LET 7 - -

" M OSAR bono.—On my return from Liver.
pool, where I was under the niNermity of attending,'
for the purpose of promieutitig my late assailants at
Wellington (to obtain justice against whom hothing
in sty power shall be left undone), I heard of the pro.
tieedines at Stafford, end with peculiar gratification I
received the intelligence of year very manly and je.
dicky' conduct upon that occasion. I hose sot,
indeed, the slightest doubt that lilt were not for your
presence end decision, lbe country would have bees
degraded by an effort on the pert of the Tories with
whom that Meeting originated, to palliate the late
atrocities of Nlanchesier, emir., the pretence of that
loyal outcry spinet " sedition and disefeetion,"
which forme the cant of the day, among those who
not cooly plunder our pocket. by recessive Motion,
and shrike nor liberties by Ministerial and Nigh.
wrist usurpations, bet who would impose epos Olaf
entlarmanding by idle alarms and imaginary denier&
1. 11.. w surprising, nay, I mast add, hoe shame•
fel, that swing the friends of popelar freedom end
• juice in this county, you, my deer Lord,
should have been left alone to taw such a formidable
phalanx of Ministerialists—formidable, I mean, Is
wraith, and rank, and power, but judging from the
amount of their subscriptions, hew puny is erect,
how frigid In seal, how miserable in liberality.—
What would become a the State if it had not Na
ardent soil li•nerve supporters then the saltscribete
fat an armed force in Sreffordthire !! Would that
this congregeliou of hereditary Legislators were as
tenacious of the espenditure of the money of the
people, as they ere of their own, and thee one's
feelings would not be so much annoyed by the poor
man's complaint. Among his other numerous poi.
vetions, of the 'silenced pa, e of his lee, kis tobacco
his soap, his candles, his leather, an4l his salt, • bile
the Legislators who create that eshoorement are re-
yelling in lusery and estraregance. But I will net
sicken leer Lordship's generous heart by dwelling'
on such circumstances. As a Irked to freedom aid
humanity, I beg to present you my warmest shanks
for the olio ezansole you have se early presented to
the Whigs of v21(.11(11141,, anti tu 'spent my ardent
hopes that that wimple will be drily and generally
Imitated. list such an example cannot fail to have

Sc Weenies is meeting the idle pretence. sod
ptisillanimues sentiments, upon which some Whigs
reline to attend the plblic Merlin's, at which they
M• 11111 1.29 e an opportunity of promoting the
principles of liberty, while it most sweets*, such
Whigs as happen to be present, In isi.e their TACO
Is inner of that sacred . I hope I shall Ikea
bear No more of those apologies for leaving our
Cooney Meetings to the eaclusive direction of Minis.
terisl Agents, from me oilseed apprehension of
4 !wing left in a minority.' Bet let the Whigs of
Staffordshire, as well es those of ell Englaad, do
their defy as you hove done, sod thus they may st-
ein the regsrd, the respect, and the support of all
the hottest people of Ragland. They may, at the
setter, be left, like you, in a minority; but their
perseverance must injure the triumph of that object,
which is the known will of • decided lasjority of
their countrymen, who are @snipes to join Ms
Whoes, or any party willing to stood by the cause
of Reform, end the principles of the Constitution;
and why should they not? For those who agree as
to the same, should set allow themselves to quarrel,
merely because they may differ as to the moues of
attaining that end, especially, at such a period as the
present, when the question appears to be, whether
English's.* shall live like their forefathers, under
the pritection of a limited Monarchy, sad a Goma.
meat of deified authority, or whether they shall sub.
mit to a system of arbitrary power and military tie.
cation, &weeds, of liberty altogether.
64 I OM glad to perceive that your sense Is riot
amongst the list of subscribers for the overuse of the
Yeemtnry, as I thence tended* that you are adverse
that measure : for while endeavours ate seed by the
agents of power to set one part of our eountrynse•
ageism the ether—to 'cotter the seeds of civil dissen.
Moos, 1 might almost say, of civil war, nothing is
more to be deprecated than the idea of petting arine4
into the hands of those who are het too likely to be
selected by for; leaders from among the most pre.
jedired portion of the people. The recollection,
indeed, of the atrocities of Manchester, bakes one's
feelings shsink with horror from such • proposition.
But this proposition is also revolting from s recollec-
tions of that period of Irish history, when Lord Cas-
tlereagh was the Minister of its Gneernmetd, and
*bee arms were pot, almost 'Relatively, into the
buds of those infatuated Orangemen, who were
menn to cherish a feeling hostile to the greet body
of their countrymen. let us hope that Engload is
sot condemned to witness a repetition of those scenes
torte,' end blond, which theft desolated Irelapd,
and which terminated in the destteetims of its Paulia.
sent. Bin I Iraq that England 1. not yet prepared
to submit to such a system. Noy, I lank for such
• complete and speedy omen of she Mends of li-
berty and humanity in this country, as shall frighten •
its (townie., even from the attempt to carry into eliact •
say system of that abominable de‘cription. I am,
dear Lord, with confirmed esteem and the highest
Mud,

" Yoor'3, moil 4ine.r•ly,
•• C. MOLC.LLV.

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