The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-20 00:00:00

I.OIVDON :
TUURFIDtY, DECFMISER 20, IRIO.

STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S 111,k1.TH.
" irindrcir Cagle, Dee. °O.
zt His MAJESTY has passed a good night, and
appears rather butter this morning.
.f It. WILLIS.
14 II ENtt Y II NISORD.
.` M. ILA ILL( L.
" W. HEltritl)EN.
" R. REYNOLDS."

This day arrired an Anhcilt Mail. It appears,
that there has been a dreadful loss of English ship.
ping in the Baltic ; nearly 200 are said to be
wrecked; and many taken by the enemy. Count
LEO is ordered to Paris.

We have, in this day's STATESMAN) concluded
the ItErotyr of the COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of
COMMONS, respecting the state of his 11AJehTY%
health. We should have been glad of an opportu-
nity to enter into an examination of this very cu.
rious and very i nportant document ; but a pressure
dimmer prevents, and there is one topic before us,
which it would require more than human modem.
Lion in us to abstain from. The topic we now al.
Jude to is...the Trial, in the case of Moraliser
Post, in the Court of KING'S *NCI! yesterday.
Before we proceed to that, howiver, sve.must say
one word on a subject connected with the
GENET, and most closely allied to the dearest into.
rests of England. We find the followlug article la
The Morning Chronicle of this day ; and We ap.
"prehend the writer has proceeded upon aptbority in
giving it :... _ _ _

" We have heard that It is the intention of Mr.
" PERCETAL to submit to Parliament a plan of
61 Regency, with the same limitations which were
66 proposed in 1789, and that the Dake of YORK,
St and all the other members of the RnYal Family,
will give their decided opposition' to fetch a plan."
We persecute no man. And if the Duke of
YORK will stand by his brother, the PRINCE of
WALKS, and aid in supporting the ZULYIII6I of his
Minns, we congratulate his ROYAL IfIoRIESS,
and are eager and proud to tell him, that the Public
will soon forget his foriner errors, aye, and for-
give them tun. But- now ('or The jtorning
Post. For him who has a heart, and whose
heart has beat and swollen with indignation at•
some late events, there is a richness in ewerr
part of the proceedings of the trial of yesterday,"
and almost in every line and every word that no
epicurean appetite would disdain! If it were re.
venge sought,wehareit! No persln ever suffered
more completely, or more impatiently, under tor-
ture, than did the torturers yesterday ! [lot, in
speaking of epicurean apppctitr, we exclude re.'
vetsge. We speak of that joy and enjoyment which sa-
vory viands give to the lovers of them. We trans-
fer this idea to the repast of a well-constructed
miud, in reading the Trial ; and we see enjibymeut
in every such wind on the occasion-, and feel our
own doubled by the company and the sympathy !
The proceedings of yesterday, if they ate not a
l.bcl upon the great Law Officer, and thus Ationinis.
traturs of Law, are an answer, and a cuafounding
oar, to the proceedings of a recent busioess. The
ATTORNEY.GENERAL vindicates the libel of The
Post against Mr. Bert, heeausc—what ?—it did
require ingenuity to discover any vind:c ition
—but what subterfi ge. could the Learned
Areoftesir.G est tear. tind ?—he who was that
out of .thii vindication, that the libel was en.
pied from another Paper I-0h ! he took
shelter in that very FORTRESS I• There he-posted
himself, and in that strong hold thought himself,
safe. 'Well ! if that was his conclusion, shy, rot
a recent OCCIIIIOC, was the Defendlut denied the he.
nerd of it ? It Is to be observed, that The Month; g
Post RETIYVE, an expired. calumny, and therefore
committed a libel fresh in its existenee;whereaslin the
recent case we allude to, the Defendant and sufferer,
copied in heat, and on the same day, the alleged.
libel, believing it to be the truth. This will not
evape indigi .tion, although we can merely
point it out. The ATTORNEY GENERAL stands
for vindication against a Libel, which the writer
melt have gone out of the way to seek, and a long
way back too, upon its bents a copy from another
Paper ; sod denies site benefit of thii very vindica..
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end therefore in haste, and it may well be • advertently. The ATTORNEY-GENE h°
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.angry with Mr. TOPPING. We are glad that Al 11 Torn NG's honest indignation reached ale het '
the AT CORNEY..GUNC.RAL t Ire are glad, too it
we seize upon this opportunity to say, law
integrity and courage of that eminent Co.
us much as we admire his talents and legal I.
wi
And wo do congratulate the country that it ha, re"'
what it has long appeared much to want, a
Ne'i.
and courageous Advocate, that neither pho
audacity can disheartee. We now hope riot ;04
tudictsuents and Criminal infornistiona gt, b,
fault. Mr. TOPPING has cared that evil
_1
Ise b. here, end we thank hint for it ! But
ATToiLN ET.GCNCR L is no ICU angry wit
his too able opponent ! Ili never pretie
the,law upon a Defendant ! As to that, let ewer'
toast's breast, with his hand upon his heart, aalyt
that. But Who has pressed more that, at
law upon the Defendant ? Who has said; th
ARMY' calls upon the COURT for justice? Vk*
.
has said that ? And what does that
tea L,
We surely cannot be unsafe in stad4l:
real transactions. The Judge on the lielich t.
ye,
terday said, if The Morning Post had Otte,
46 suspicion of treason," "tead of the sou
46 treason" unqualified, the Defendant awn ha,
been acquitted, becanse the
,fuel would have :vs
TI TIED him. We are glad to hear this ducCrio
from that Bencht ; fur it overthrows lit
doctrine established there formerly, and aka,
acted upon—namely, that the greater the Tri
the greater the Libel. We, therefore, nowlioltlan
selves sanctioned by declaration of the Datil
well as by Law, and the Constitution, in alts
to the facts we have alluded to, The Arresmay
GENERAL says, be has been known from hit
hood; and it had been well for him,
he had been less known, lie was kilOWn ti agar
of brightness, and might sank (when his time bi
tuns came) with u reflecting and retnemberedbri4ht
ness. But he sank, not in the Course of supkue
but in pursuit of ambition or lucre—he did
and most now put up with what may be told
truth, for the Bench has said TRUTH no
be Lien. !-- Further, much further, smell
we pursue this; but we have not time nor spier.
Suffice it to add, that the Bench has honoured it.
-self, that the Jury have honoured themselves, a*
that nobody has had the disadvanta,ge, bet (Ito
who were unwise enough to seek

The following is an extract from the let:er (if
our Plymouth Correspondent :-
4, PIA MOU Dee. Dt
" Lyme?, BD'S A ?A DTE, his famil Mille, bairktl
afternoon about two o'clock, nt they'VlM:Wig-01re fri
whence they were conveyed in carriages to the Xhig's A
Inn, in this town, where it is exizected they %Ullman' afe
days before they proceed on their journey.
Lucia a iSo Nara nit appears about 50 yens or
nhaut Eve feet seven inches high, of a sallow complexion, i
visrige, and is verysmucli like the pictures seen here, which
amid to he a good likeness of his brother, the EirrliAoi.
Madame Bo xA es RTC is a stout handsome woman. The
dren consist of bye dam:liters mai two hogs, The eldest da
ter is ablmt 17 years of ade, and very handsome ; so are On
sisters. The boys are young, the eldest not exceeding tit
rears or tire. They wele nee/soy:tined from the Vicorillirr.
()Meg to the' 111*y the elm-Admiral, Sir itoutter Ca t,sui,
Geueral ENGLAND, Land BORAINGDON, nod several Nara
-and Military Officer,."
Leer EN is to proceed with his family and suite to
Earl Powts's beautiful seat, Linures. The mi.
.dence is a fine old castle, in thorough repair, with
ipacious'grounds, and every accommodation for a
-large fatally. Mr. 111.acarmzir, who lately me
daunt for the exchange of prisimerr, who, it seems,
°knew LUCIEN at Rohn., is gone to Pl)mouth, fat
the purpose of apprizing the latter on what terms
he is to enjoy the protection' of the Britith Go.
vernment.

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Mr. PgRcEVAL, it is said, is this day to harem
audience of the Putscx of WALLs, at which it is
supposed he means to explain the limited mod ,r
stricted state in which be wishes to vest his !loyal
ltighne%s with the Regency.
It was reported last night that Mr. W. l'or.s hu
resigned his place of Secretary in (retard.
Letters from France, under date of the 18th ins!,
were received yesterday ; they mention the failure of
two great bankilig houses at Pat is, namely, Mem,.
BASSING and C. and Touttroar, naval, and Co.
They also state that the Kicnch (;overtiturat moot
to support the latter; anctthat owing to the great do.
trvss in Holland, the serer', regulations against Or
British commodities had experienced sonic Mast.
Linn ; for a day was appointed at Amsterdam IS
born publicly 400 bates of English ovrchanilitc,
but the day previously counter orders were reccord
from Paris to prevent it.

FOR sTATEsiCiti..

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beg tenrc particill3rly to request the favour of ;AI
y I.e for Mr. TrioxAv HA it pEn, to he teJ one of Y'''r
R.vre,entatives in Contoniii Conceit for in.. year comiliato
which wiil very inuela uitli; e,
Sir, )thir obedient Yant.
St. Bartholomew's, Dec.l7. IL 1.;.11.1)WYN•

TO SIR. BA LD WYN, VD:MR.7R FR TO ST. BAIITIM-
-1.0.11;11'S 11031'11'AL
Sig,--Iliving observed that you aro very noire
in circulating printed letters as shove, and calib;o.
ing the tenants of the Hospital in fatonr of one ti
tins Candidates fur Common Councilmen of Fa;-
ritogdou Without,
.I beg to ask, whether such can.
duct is itithoriseal qy the Governors, nr by what
other antlidrity it is that you, who are nut an elcc-
4tor, shimiltl thus exert the groat influence of a pub.
lie Institution (nut with any trot degree of deco.
iruni4nt,itiiitttiotittit.9.,s.aegvaelluaslt
ou
fn ei.4l*
ftrhiees Governorss il equally o f t that
de.
dross Kith Inj sell tu know by what faction of the
Governor*. (If by any,l your conduct is dictated.
1" onrAkilerlient Servant,
WC( SAVVEL ailt,i,Mt, 2 C".verner.