The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-06 00:00:00

►ri;E STATESMAN._

a doubt, we should think, by the following .eatritet 1
from one of the letters of recal from RYLAND to
' HENRY : ... "The last letters received from you are to!
the 13th April : the whole are now transcribing toJ
be sent home, inhere they
eannat fail, of doing pts.
credit." And does not your Lorddlip's Secretary,
in answer to the Memorial of Iftsrair to your Lord-
ship, 'wherein he states, " the object of his mrsgois
%las to promote and encourage the Federal
Party to resist the measures of the General
Government, to offer aid, and render the plans
then in contemplation, subservient to the slows,
of Ms Majesty's Government ;" does not your
Lordship's Secretary write under date, June 28,
4141, that " 4 his Lordship has directed me to ac-
quaint youithat he has referred to the Correspondence
in this Office of the year 1803, and finds two letters
from Sir Jsmrs Cans, transmitting the correspon-
dence that has passed daring your residence in the
Northern States of America." It would hence ap-
pear, my Lord, that you knew something of this
man, and the nature of his employment, so far back
as the year 18J3,—at least it appears Government
knew something of him ; and in the sane letter from
which the above quotation is made, we find your
Lordship approving, in no very equivocal terms, of
Mr. ilexes''s services, and afterwards recommend-
ing him to Sir G nonce Piuxosr, successor to Sir
JAMES CRAIG in the Government of Canada, as
worthy to fill any public situation which Sir. Geortat
I might think proper to place him in. Contrasting
these demonstrative proofs, my Lord, with your
statement, that the employment of any individnal in
such a mission as is here 'mentioned, .wirs entirely
unauthorized by y our Lordship, and even without
your knowledge, and that Government did not.evea ,
know that Captain Ilesny was employed until after
his return to Quebec ; what are we to think of your ,
Lordship's memory and veracity, and what are we I
to think of the Minister who, at such a time, cola
couutenatieo and approve such abominable plotting,
so highly disgraceful to the character of a Briton.
But if the guilt of participation lies not at your
Lordship's doOr, why has the disclosure, the disti-
-1 vowel, the punishment, been deferred until the heed
(it was a venerable one, my Lord !) on which the
I ignominy should have fallen, has bees shielded by the
tem's) ? For it is plain your Lordship, and sour co-
adjutors, would now throw the blame of this perfi-
-1
dious transaction on Sir JASIES CRAIG. You are
aware, my Lord, that the dead tell no tales ; but
luckily, as I have shown, for the honour of the late
Governor-General of Canada, there exists as much
indisputable evidence in your Lordship's own hand
writing as must convict you of this foul blot in the
eyes of every honest man ; and remember, my
Lord, that your situation, high as it is, is a respon-
sible one. At the bar of your country answer, and
atone, if you can, for the disgrace you have thus
thrown upon her name and her councils, and the
augmented danger and difficulties which such mea-
sures must necessarily create. By this single dis-
graceful transaction, the fate of millions has been
placed at stake. Will it not throw new obstacles in
the way of adjustment with America, who, like
other countries, sill see from it that she can repose
no faith in our protestations of friendship ? Will it
not augment the war party throughout the United
States ?Will it riot expose to trouble, and even to death,
those who have, in any manuer whatever, entered into,
or most remotely countenanced, the project or the
vivws for theexecution of which HENRY was sent into
the American territories ? And will it not tend to check
the progress of industry and prosperity, already too
much checked, GOD knows! both here and in Ame-
rica? So, my Lord, this is the way you take to re-
move our 'embarrassments, and impress surrounding
Nations with a high idea of our political integrity,
by sending spies into every corner, to speculate upon
the state of parties, and act the part of tap-room
orators, learning how far the discontented would
look to us for assistance in thisir schemes to overturn
their Government, and pledging our good name to
be their stay and their bank in all emergencies:

" To rouse the alumberiny, fiends of tsar,
To dv the blood-warm waves afar,
And desolate the earth."

Really, my Lord, if you have many of these
pilhful emissaries in your pay, I would advise you ,
! to disband a few of them, though you should •te
obliged to provide them snug sinecures to inducethera
to burn their cyphers and their bundles of most secret
I and confidential letters, for we have too many idle
I mercenaries in our service, whose reward " cannot be
estimated in pounds, shillings, and pence." If
your Lordship cannot more cleanly and satisfactorily
remove the degrading and dishonourable stigma
w hick has been stamped upon our character by the
i transaction here unveiled, I would advise removing
you for ever from the situation of one of his Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State.
have the honour to remain,
A FRIEND TO THE: CONSTITUTION.

EAST INDIA NIONOPOLY.
Thi rrrz w ILL 1' Al presented Petitions from Leeda,Wait es
kid, and Halifax, praying for a free and equal enjoyment of
the trade to China and the EaNt at the expirattea of (lac
present Charter of the I•e,t India tomee.aty.
'flee Marl of BATH peat Meet a Petition to the same tendency
from the County of Witt,.
The End of LAUDERDALE., previowly tothne#petitions
being hid Gs the table, de,ired to remind their Lordships, that
the reKtioators were person: employed in the newer valuable part
of the manufactures of Great Britain. the le nollen cloths.