The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-01 00:00:00

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I was, I was a feeder, and would it ant bra base abaadon-
meat of the claims which notary and habit hart given use, to
pretend that 1 am nothing more than such a man, for instance,
as Parson Woodcock, %lune mental endowments are disci-
vered in his turning off those or bit tradesmen, who Meant
the Requisition for a County &feettng to Omsk ft r. Wardle!
1 cannot help again reverting to this newlysthringhtsof
scheme of representing me as a low and insignificant ;mason.-
As a proof of the estimation in which I was held, ss bile id
the army, I still mention, that about foarteen years ages
General Carleton, brother of the late Lord Dnrchester. aid
now Lord Dorchester himself I believe, came to ml eons/ to
see me, and ta remind me, that he had the pleasure of know-
ing me in New Bronseick. lie was our reviewing General;
and he knew me, my character and services well. lie had,
however, never known me in any other capacity than that of
Serjeant-Major ; and Generals are not mach in the habit of
going to see Serjeaat-Majors, sinless there be something very
particular about them. gentleman had been governor;
upon the very spot where t was with my regiment fur fuer
years; and his visit to me in England, was, it will be ob-
served, after my return from America the last time, after the
affair of the Court-Martial of course ; and of that affair he
must have been well acqaainted with all the circumstances,
s:eing that his own name, as a reviewing Grimm!, who had
been impo-cd upon by a false return, was mentioned in oae
of the charges. 11it visit to Inc was a pretty good proof,
that he had perceived nothing dishonourable it. conduct.
But, this is, altogether the foolishest charge that even the
robbers ever invented.—Why, on my return from America,
having stopped at Halifax in Nova Scotia, the Duke of Neat,
who requested to see me, talked to me about my regiment
and all its ataln. He must have known all about the Court
Martial. Mr. Windham and Mr. Yorke have been, biota
my return, and the former was before, Secretaries at War;
they had the whole history iu their office; and yet nobody
in the country has ever spoken, and, I believe, thought better
of we, than Mr. Windham and Mr. Yorke have. I remem-
ber, that in dining with Mr. Pitt, at Mr. Windhent's, in Au-
gust, 1800, the former asked me about Lord Edward Tit:-
profit We talked about him a good deal. I gave the coin-
pally present (of which Mr. Canning was one) an account
of his conduct, while at the regiment ; I spoke in very high
terms of his zeal for the service, and I told Mr. Pitt, that
Lord Edward was the truly sober and the only honest officer,
I had ever known in the army. 1 did the; for the expres
purpose of leading bite on to talk about the Court Martial ;
but, It was ;avoids:l. la fact, they an well knew that what
I had complained of was true, and that I had been balled
in my attempts to ohmin jastice, only because I had neither
camel nor friends. The same is known to those who now are
publishing and cirenlating thi false account of that transac-
tion ; but, what they hare i 3 view, is not truth; it is, in short,
to preserve their plunder, which they think ilia imminent
danger, unless they can destiny my credit with the public.
They naturally hate me. They have abundant reason so
to do; bus, of late, their hatred must haie ieceived fresh
supplies. Many of the gentlemen connected with tke
press have d. alt the robbers some deadly blows; bit,
from the nature of my publication; from my bring able to
devote tbecchak of my pages to the tbing, I have certainly
hit them harder them any !may else, amid the mealovre of their ,
hatred is accordingly. It is true, that one would Imagine, that
nobody could be so foolish as not to see, that, when detected
in such shamettl rutting as to suppress 22 out of 27 docu-
ments, and especially to suppress everydocument, upon which
the real merits of the case turned ; one would imagine, that
even the Poulters would have been able to tell the compile»,
that a publication like this must defeat its own purpoie, and
teat. in the end, in place of injuring me, it mast do me a great
deal of good. Bat, the truth is. that in such circumstances,
men's minds are shut against all reasooing. Ueletted lo their
robberies, they jump from the roof. They break their
peeks on the pavement, in order to save them freest!» balm,.
The purpose, at present, of all the public rubbers, of every
description, is to prevent the success of endeavours to bring
about a Re/'erns in the Borne of Contmot's ; for unless they
can effect that ; unless they can prevent such a Reform from
taking place. they must experience such a change as will
compel them to rare their livings honestly, or live upon their
sr» means; and, this is what they appear resolved not to do,
if they can avoid it. Mr. Wardle has pledged himself to
prove, that a Reform in the House of Commons would render
the Income Tax unnecessary; and 1, who have considered
every part of the subject with great attention, and Who sun
acquaiated with every branch of revenue as well as of expen-
diture, am not only convinced that this saving could and
would be made ; but, that a much greater saving would be
made, and without any injury whatever to any part of the
public service, while it swat be manifest that such a saving
would prevent, in a considerably degree, the further depreci-
ation in the value of funded property. All this the whole
gang of public robbers deny—flatly deny. Herr, thee, is a
great question to be decided ; and, as I have taken a leading
part in the discussion, the robbers, as to a desperate remedy,
have been driven to personal attacks upon roe. For the sake
of the cause, therefore, it became necessary fur me to show
bow base, how detestable, are the conduct and the evident
motives of our enemies. Those who publish these things
against me, well know how false they are ; but, at h when
they affect to comfier me as a low insignifkant person—it i;
then that they are the greatest hypocrites. I could mention,
if I were to take a day or two to consider, a thousand in-
stances, in which peruses, who are eacsnies to P
ar —4/Ple ...are
Reform, and who are considered as great mem, have availed
themselves, or endeavoured to avail themselves, of my sup-
port. But, there is one instance, which now occurs to me,
and which, under the present circumstances, I cannot refrain
from stating. Each of you, Gentlemen, will probably recol-
lect, that, much about this time of the year, six years ago—
that is to say, in the summer 180% at a time when dime was
a geared fear of Salvation, a publication was issued by the tie
verninant, was sent to an the towhees, was distributed la the
churches, and was read from the several pulpits. This paper
was entitled: ImPORTAIST CONSIDIMATIoNS rolt
PEOPLE or ruts KINGDOK:” It was, in the newspapers,
attributed to Lord Hawkesbury ; afterwards to Dr. Horsley.
Dr. Rennet], and other learned and eloquent men; but the
real ainhor of it was myself. • I wrote it ; offered it to Mr.
Addington, through Mr. Yorke; be accepted of it, in which
he showed his sense of duty to be above party pique ; and it
was published and distributed at the expense of several
thousands of pounds. Now, though the Reverend Messrs.
Poulter and Woodcock may be ready to bite their tongues
upon reflecting that they once read, even from the pulpit, a
praductiati of mine, that will not do away the fact.—They
would fain represent me as a /ow and insignifirant person ;
Lut let them efface it they can the fact, that a production of
mine. when its author was unknown, was by the periodical
publications of the day, aye by that Morning Post and that
Courier which now abate me, ascribed to Dr. Horsley Oust,
and Owe to Dr. Rennet] ; and that this publicatioa was seat
to every parish throsgboat the kingdom under Gamesmen(
authorityand at the public c.rpnece. When Mr. Punnet. or
Mr. Woodcock or Mr. Portal, or any of those who attempt
to Inver me in tbs. estimation of the people of this coonty ;
when any of them shall have produced arty thing to he sn ho-
enured as this production of mice, and shall have refused (as
dial) to take any comprosation for it; when they than have
given such irrefragable proofs of ability, poblicapirit and den
intemtedoess, then let them pretend to plater themselves upon
an equal footing with me; bat tint before; till thee let tires