The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-09-20 00:00:00

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1116 LllaUK OF TUE STAT'ESM4N.

LETTER IV.
bc.King to be 'latest
all nor n 0....
to be knave.'
5,e our food aslori".g •
Wilk truth. Worm, *I*1061!. arynim7l7
%Alto% sacred no* hut vitality. le
your readers will have the
504-1 flatter myself
lo bear with me, while I am proceeding to
go Int..- -
to them the means by which that party in
derclui* ll themselves the King's friends,
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to imPow upon the public. Perhain it
e.pttive
appear a little singular that,
papers as we have two
,ray printed at this place, I
oceilest weekly
r The Statesman as the vehicle if my.
should pre.er .
It is by no means from any dis.
coneuuicetions.
act to their publishers, who are both men of
"tie and talents; but as thescletters will, I hope, be
band not merely to 11065e53 a local character, but a
I was willing to make them
wog general interest,
known than the narrow range of
more universally kno
a provincial paper would admit. T7h,he high charms.
ter sad „waive eirculatsuu of e Statesman
pointed it out as the most eligible medium for this
friends, the Editors of The
purpose; and my good
nt them for the
Iris and The Nicene, caw rape
~, of ibis Towwn and County, ahouhi they think
.0 oo with the Quacks.
riper. I so.
.a
le my first Wier, I informed you that the names
r several paha, had been signed to the Sheffield
Coanter.address, without their knowledge; bet at
that time I was not aware of the extent to which
this infamous practice had been carried. Subse.
quest
informed
oa enables me to stets, that pitifully
wag u was the number of signatures collected by
▪ of In* indefatigable exertion, yet a
many • -
'ay considerable proportion of these were abso.
lutely forged, in order to swell the amount.—
several Gentlemen have since declared, that they
totally ignorant of their names being affixed
.4er,otehe Address until they saw them in the paldie
papers; and others can be proved to have been out'
of town during the whole time this very delicate
business was transacting. Nay, have ben" told,:
upon authority almost unquestionable,. that
,:a cer.‘
till Reverend Geutleman, conceiving that the
Went which went up to the HunoarableiHeuse
pare
contained some forged names, which it might be ex.
tremely inconvenient to permit the owners to tee
published, actually bustled down to the printing-of.
ice one evening, and struck them out of the Whin,
tended for the public eye, by which gentlemanly
scheme he contrived to lengthen the columns of signs.
tures, without running the risk of being taken by
the uose.—Vir hat think you of this noble transac.
tion, Ur. EDITOR/. But one of that most novel and
impudent attempts at tropagltioma 4 an spiemptimi
of the characters and dignity of Suttleird Bodies
and incorporated Societies, by a parcel of absent*,
Clubs and petty Trustees, I have before
mesa-
fumed, that some property Wt several Ceutniitti.
ago to the town of Sheffield, is managed by a few
individuals in treat for the public benefit. Now,
these people have bad the unparalleled assurance to
Impose themselves upon tits Honourable House as a
grand Corporate Body. They call themselves
" Toga's Regents," and have practleedAisilly
mockery of affixing their seal, as they
this precious Address. But I beg NNW* Wl'
usi
these wonderful Town's Regents, IhOldief,Jll*
no Corporate Body at all—that they:WWpublic seal, and I shall be thankful, It any
of their wise brethren, will condescend SO Inform
me how they obtained this flue title of theirs, with
which our ualucky ears are so continually stunned.
I can find nothing of all this in the history of the
Trust, but I find something else, which, for the life
of me, I can't help just mentioning. I find
that formerly the bell.man went round every
year to all a meeting of the inhabitants, for
the purpose of electing these Trustees, and
that they were enjoined to make their accounts
every week before Whitsuntide. I wonder bow
long it is since these little trilling ceremonies were
performed ! I find also, that by a Decree made in
the reign of Cua.ness IL, this property was to
be applied to special pnrposes, and particular
iiistructioris were given fur the management of
it. These Gentlemen will excuse me, but I
confess I shrewdly suspect this said properly
has been managed some other coq, and that the
unfortunate Decree hoe labs for patsy years
undisturbed amidst dust sod cobwebs, very few of
its injunctions having been ramplied with. So tench
for the Town Collector and the Town's Regents of
Sheffield, and their assistants, &c. &c. drc. with
their famous Seel of Office, &e. &C. ize.;!!.. By
such contemptible quirks, such wretched artifices
as those, Mr. EDITOR, are the House of Comment
and the Country imposed upon. By sack meillsd4c
are led to believe that a few obscurui, Ittitetrati Li).
dividuals, as destitute of talents as et-throne; setup
who posses neither respectability ncir influence be.
yond the circle of their foot.liching dependants ;
who fill theirfrieuds with grief anti their enemies with
laughter; and whose conduct moll Wpm defeat sod,
disgrace to the best cause in the world—the4sse
sully led to believe, Sir, that such people express the
. sense of great incorporated bodies, consisting of
men of cou'iderable property, respectable OW**
and extensive influence. Thus Governmesilif`hte.
in profound ignorance of the real sense of
plc.; and hence it is that they meet and MOWS. Gad

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tloiwg !treat service to his King and Country, who,
even in tlae smallest village, the obscurest corner of
the land, will tear the mask from the faces of these

political impostors, and exhibit.them in all their na-
tive impotence and deformity.

Oue of the tricks for bringing the cause of Reform
into disgrace, is so truly ludicrous, that it is hardly
poiisible to tell, or hear it, with any thing like A
graveface. I ideal almost pity your insensibility, Mr.
Eovreit; .itlou can read the following anecdote,
without some little discomposure of your muscles.
Not content with heaping loads of abuse upon
poor Sir Fa 424C15, these wretched quacks, who,
a few months since, joined in, sending up a De.
lineation to compliment Colonel 'WARDLE upon his
integrity and patriotism, found out all of a sudden,
that he was a desperate villain and a bloody mur-
derer. They. had the good luck to meet with that
mosf wonderful of all wonderful stories .about the
Colonel's sawing off a man's head in Ireitimit!.!
and actually got the Tale printed in hand.bills,
with appropriate embellishments, which they Circa.
lated in immense quantities in this town and neigh.
bourhood. Notwithstanding the incredulity which
I fancy I now see gathering upon your countenance,
at the perusal of this account, I do assure you I
am not joking, for this elegant sweats is positive.
ly in my possession. I shall conclude my fourth
Letter with another anecdote.
In January last we had a News Room established
in Sheffield, where the inhabitants were to be ac-
commodated with the perusal of the Papers at the
very moderate upence of a guinea a.year.• Per.
suns are admitted by a majority of two.thirds of
the Members present at the ballot. Four Gentle.
men were proposed by some Members who were
publicly known to be active friends to political
Reform. A party of Quacks, with some Parsons
their head, privately skulked down to the News
Rooms for the express purpose of black-balling
these Gentlemen, who were accordingly denied the
privilege of reading the Newspapers in a public
room, on account of the political principles of the
Proposers. Thus ends, for the present, my history
of the tricks of the Qu4ck.Loyalists. It is pretty
evident they ire no coajurers. We shall probably
see in my nett what sort of a figure they cut as
Juthors.
Shettlete, Sept. 10,1810.

CARLOS.

A very glaring robbery took place yesterday
morning, in Fleet-street, nearly opposite Fetter-
lane, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock. Two
villains knocked down a little girl about 12 years
of age, and took a bundle she had under her arm•
from her, with which they made their escape. it
appeared by the little girl's. account, the Nina*" '
contained a new coat, which her father had jot
emnpleted, which she was taking home.
arly yesterday morning, as a respectable meis
ilistit of the name of Walkers was coming out
of Norwood, in the narrow lane, he was stopped
by two fellows, who took from him his gold watch,
chain, and seals, and upwards of 301. in notes and
cash; with this they gut elear off.
At Liverpool, last week, two men killed them.
salves with excessive drinking; a man was scalded
to death lit the Blubber-house ; a chairwoman cat
,Isat pitalap„ tro gentlemen were knocked' down,
; and a tarter was killed by a
atjakealliVit* over him.—(Chester Courant.)
Wean 04i;earned to state that a most unfortunate
affray took place in Monaghan about the beginning
of Lad week, It appears from the most oorreat re.
ports we could procure, that one of those unfortu-
nate females who walk the streets, had purloined
some money from a man in whose Company she had
been, and that in order to recover it he told the
circumstance to some young men, whose assistance
he requested. On their applying to the female, she
ran fir protection to the soldiers who had been on
guard at the gaol (a party of the Ist Dragoon
Guards). A scuffle having ensued nearly opposite
the guard-house at the end of the gaol, the soldiers
in the inside insisted on coming out, which the *cor-
poral commanding them would nut allow. Qne of
the men, however, rushed out, and was immediately
knocked down with a stone, and by some meant
lost his life in the scuffle, some alarm by having his
throat cut with a penknife, while others supposed
by the stah of the corporal's bayonet, in prevent.
iug his going out. Two of the young men are•
committed for the murder, one of them we under-
stand is severely wounded, as is also another of the
dragoons who came to the assistance of the former.
--(Erne Packet.)

The Grand Falconer, Margate packet, lost her
main-mast about three o'clock on Sunday morning
last, off Herne Bay, about two miles below the
Keculvers, In consequence of a sudden squall of
wind, when carrying too great a press of sail. Pro..
videntially the passengers, about 40 in numbed',
were all below deck at the time; if they had net,'
the consequences might have been dreadful. The
accident happening during the night occasioned"
much 4istress on board. The anchor was
diately waft; and as soon as the dawn of day ap.
peared, the joily.boat was hoisted overboard; not,
10011004ln the swelling surf, the whole of the
pailiengerl were safely lauded. A difficulty here
aresf,.. to the possibility of procuring conveyances
to ?larval. (distant 12 miles), this barren and in.
hoppitable spot affording only the uncomfortable
accommodation of carts; three were` procured,
and in them many delicate females and children were'
conveyed, over an extremely rugged road to
Margate.
At the Public Office, Hatton-Garden, yesterday,
Eliolteth Murrell, being charged with rolthing her
master, Mr. Moor, in eursitor-street, Citancery.
Owl of a quantity of linen, &c. was fully commit.
tot to Nongato fur trial.

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