The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-28 00:00:00

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STATIMIAL"

LONDON:

ILSTI:RIBPAT EVENING, ilt TM' 4itk.

The. Fonds are much the same to-day as they wr•e
yesterday, if any thing rather improved ; Consuls to-
the Account have been done at GM buyers, but heist ,
Ifoli::.ay at the Bank, there has nut been much dui::,

he public mind has experienced retraar.l!..4-s
sensations, from the circumstance of Poi Nt E
hiving- twice visited the Qt.Ees.
usual, is busy. Predu•tions—reports—assert:uusb,
turns are heard ; and it is difficult, among a ta
riety of conflicting opinions, to penetrate inso
cause of this extraordinary movement. Of onethiag,
we must feel certain, namely, that the Passes, fro,,
the peculiarity of leis situati•an, can hardly be sane,.
ed to have the power of fully using his own disrretia• ,
with respect to his conduct, in matters where pub;;,.
wen, and public measures are concerned. To 1,
that in the present instance, he has acted at ills
gestion of his own wind, would be, to reason L...
persons unacquainted with political affairs, and it-
norant of the simplest springs of Government. th
the contrary, it is evident, that some of the rumours
which have been circulated upon this occasion, mast
be true—that either also-mission, equal to a 'Amanitas'.
or a commis:lois has given rise to this unexpected step.
There certainly racy be persons who would advise
representations to be made to the WEE e, that it ros
Jolt only possible, bet quite easy to pass Mr
Mongh Me acceptance of an cannel bribe of 30.001.
add a residence in a foreign country adghl malt
her doom :—But till we receive the most incontrom.
tible evidence that such advice could, for a mement,
be listened to, we will nut consider a report of this
nature en • led to credit.

In another of our coherent we have ;riven the differ-
ent accounts of the second visit that have appe►red in
the papers of this morning., with the continents elm
coteutporarics on the occasion.

The most soperficial observer of the proceediniis
before Parliament, cannot fail to remark the difference
between the speeches of Mr. Dxxstax and 31r. As-'
TORNST-iiENERAL. The address of the former pos-
sesses the genuine eloquence of truth ; and we forget
the advocate in the justiee of the cause he *unmet,.
That of the latter is a cold, professional perfwmance.
Notwithstanding the ability of the SPEAKER; it falls
lifeless from our bands ; and, on dismissing Mr. Az-
TORNSTMENERAL; we merely nay him the compliment
sa) ing, that he has made the most of a bad came.
: There is much ingenuity in his speech; and we cannot
i withhold from him the credit which belongs to that
ingenuity. A person who knew nothing at all of the
question, would say, ou reading this speech, that the
case of fdr.,Arronrear-Orresest was not only play.
Bible bat immured*. Ile says, in every sentence.
" this is proved, and that is net contradicted ; and
" that which is proved, added to that which is not cos
" tradieted, makes up the guilt of the accused."
31aroecnt proves this, and you admit that ; there-
! " fore, my case is established. DEsioN or swears roundly
" to such a fact, and I •,serve my Leased Friend aloes
I" nut deny such a fact ; ergo, the QUEEN it
" guilty." This is the legal logic which the Learned
ArroaNar-Gicsenet has played off at the Bar
of the House of Lords. Ile is too good an
Academician not to know, that when the premises
are doubtful, you shenld asseme them ; harry on lo
the conclusion ; and leave your adversary to discover
that you have begged the question. This is precisely
what he has done. No cue doubts that Maass-cat
1 and DIMWIT and SACCIII bare SirOrTl to what appears
upon the journals ; because an eminent short-Wed
writer has taken it all down. But the studios is, de
we believe it, or will-their Lordships believe it? The
whole, or at least the strength, of Mr. ATTOANITAir•
Nana L'S reply, is founded, chiefly, upon the testiworr
of these three persons ; and the remainder spas the
animportaut, yet honourable admissions wldal "
made by her MAJIIIITY'S Counsel. The Learned AT'
rousse, of course, knows very well the line of me
went he is pursuing; we certainly imagined 1
would have said as little as possible about the tht*
witnesses in question. To be sure, we shall be sok
in answer, by his friends, that he had no better ma-
terials ; that he had no person of respectahility Ist his
brief who had proved a tittle agai.s it the Ql.iltEN ; that
he had given the case his very best attention sad
that after many a weary anal painful research thrverl
that same brief, he was oueopelled, Ida 101 l
heart, to make I'4 stand upon the evidence of )11'
1041:111, HaSIONT, and S.K fill. This is kid; 11111
it is only partially just. There is a fourth winoi.
who might have served to swell the number of the
witnesses ; anal certainly he has proved the case re,^*
pletely. It is the Cook at Trieste; the fellow who het
the impudence to swear, that he saw licn.:ost
mornings in the Parscarrs's bed-room. Why is to
mat relied upon ? What right bare the three int Is
all the merit ; while he, who has sworn as neillnehis
altogether excluded ? It is because this worthy garb
man has. cheats himself a bonen in swearing; OM
he has not attended to jigsaw The,..'aer's shim'
" Plain 'Wearing," In, friend, M was 401"—nhrar