The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-20 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

made a great revetse of public opinion. Mt. R—e,
jun..becatue more popular, prejudice gave way to con-
viction, he was no longer considered as an implacable
fiend and perseitutor, hut as the resolute and determin-
ed champion of his father's rights and of his own law-
ful inheritance.
The DIFENPANT ROW Jemmied a new trial, which
was granted. He still maintained that, notwithstand-
ing the verdict which was pronounced, he would satis-
factorily prove the deed to he a very rcecut forgery.
The iinposaili3tN, the total loapordhility of human
capacity fa6ricatiag such an ettraordinary instru-
ment, as it most unpiestionahly seemed to be, was the
almost universal opinion of the Court. The roast-
MLITT was as strongly insisted upon by the opposing
party. But so aged. s 9 honest, so venerable, so holy
looked this record, that the Court with one involuntary
accord shook their heads and turned lip their eyes in
dissent. " frnpoesillr, impossible," was devoutly
uttered by almost every mouth, as if it were a blas-
phemy to revile th:s scripture.
Another, a stewed trial twik place, with doable
ingenuity and with don'ole cannon, hut notaitii%tand-
ing all, a second verdict v.as prmounced catiifi using
the former. A gaaalac, an a„ c prat dcrd it teas, and
No fOr2fery.
Immediately after this second ver.lict was pro-
nounced, a motion was made to srr asine, upon
an affidavit swearing. most positieclo that this wonder-
ful and matchless deed, this ancient instranaciat whose
venerable anal holy features no 11. b,411
could imitate, Which the eve.; of aitists—which no
glasses—no chemical process caul I put out of conu•
tenance. WAS a FORGIMY ant Tv.zi.vs. MONTS oco.
That the deed, the witness's, and the jury hail tiled
was not the decal of the plaiotilf—was as,,t the decal
tried on the fOion r trial. The deed fuuud by Mr.
K---e, jun. in the I'll of ax old house ; nt•T an exact
imitation of this inimitable deed, manufactured by
au appreatice of the ',Er es I,AN•rs' 'say. The
judges were amazed, nor would they believe 'till to
their consternation, the Two decals were presented
to ether. They ....Tie as like each other as it they
were produced by iivagic.
When the antazciaient of their Lordships hail somewhat
subsided,the gent leanati who hail so admirably rnpied this
inimitohte decal was sa•verely reprimanded fur tamper-
ing with justiceonal WAR pardoned upon consideration
that the juggle he Isa,l practised was intended by him
to d, fret, anal not to rwoodil a fraud or a forgerv.
Upon explanation it appeared that Mr. 11. (the ap-
prentice) was enthe,iastically embarked in the cause
of the defi adnat, and to detect the plaintiff, was re-
rolvcal to slim the possAility of forging- smolt a deed.
" I is ill," says Mr. IL " make just such a deed.--
Sit( h a deed that the Plaintiff shan't know his own
from mine." With boyish arlonr be went to work,
and made himself an "socket dint" which, on the
day of trial, with the dexterity of a jaggier, lie ex-
changed, anal stole away with the original.
Under these extraordinary circumstances to refuse
a new trial was impossible. A third trial took place,
when the question was set to rest by the learning anal
ingenuity of the Solicitor-tiesseral. Born the deeds
were notoridoas forgeries.
'Flue prioress by which Mr. 11. maansfactiirell his
deed, was, I think. pretty nearly this. Amongst the
rubbish of the law. he raked oast a piece of ancient
vellum from which, by chemical process,heobliterateil
the engrossment. The pleadings and the close in-
spection on the former trial had furnished him not
only with an exact copy of this deed, but of its fcatti res
and complexion. 'laving engrossed it with au al-
suirable imitation of the hand-writing, the gran,' effort
was to give it its impusita:r apprgra ser a,ol;rity
cod deeay. For this winnow lie alropt arts:fortis MI
it in certain places to eat it into holes, :dnr which
he steeped it in the strongest eineettr he could procure,
and then put it to r..t in damp ease ytazt in the
wine cellar. At the end of a few ))))) nth., the happy
anal extraordinary resuri,tion which defeated this
implacable plaintiff, and release,' from his vengeance
this persecuted and afflicted defendant, took place, to
the great joy, not only of the profession of " Ps ere-
deals," but of the poildie at lame, to wl I
Area:
II t
this singular, this adoonnitorg PRECEDEST.

P.M. All the Jullzes who presided oil those trials
are still alive, and so I believe are all the parties.

To THE Emfort v:r•• THE

Northampton. Jen. 17. IF2I.

Sun,—As von have already given the public •
account tot the Itrinkrupt Loyal Address from this place,
hey you will Livour your readers with the following
rtiovrks.

The I 'ltra-Lneal Address which has been so snugly
got up by the corner-men in sots-hole, has now come
to a close, after having I.tid three weeks for signatures,
(Wrist.. which time there has been two fairs and three
market da%s, extremely convenient for their country
friends. many of whom gladly emiwaresi the oppor-
tunity of shewitto their mock-loyalty; this marvelous
document has at length obtained Mit signatures. A
list of names and occupations bas appeared in print,
and it is truly laughable to see what a motley groape
of dependants on the pockets of the public they consist
of. Every artifice and stratagem has been praitised
on the lower order of people to prevail on them to sign
this wonderful Address; but they found to their tuor-
tification that the major part of the industrious class of
people, was be..onie too much enlightened to be caught
in the sots-hole trap, so that they were obliged to put
up with those pensioners on the State, acid those infirm
and aged poor who arc dependant on the charities for
support: and now they have brought this long and
tedious job to a conclusion, they are much puzzled to
Lind out how it is to be sent to head-quarters.
Aldeman Split-Plum recommends it to be presented
by the Members fur the Town. " No, no," exclaims
Alderman Jolt, " I have no objection to the worthy
Liaronet, but l'tti sure the other :literal have the honour
Ito handle our loyalty besides, why, he would present
lit with one hand and cut our master's throat with the
'other." "'1 hat's very likely, indeed," replied Alder-
man Post, sud, as we hare not any Members of our
own Tory principles, we had better send it to Lord
Sidabouth at once."

1 Some of your seeders will wonder how this change
I has been brought about in Northampton, after having
sent a Tory Member to Parliament so many years.

Now, Sir, the following is the true state of the case :
They have never read the fable of the dog and the
shallow, who battings good bait in his mouth and hap-
pening to look into the water, and seeing his neigh-
bour had one also, foolishly let go his own, in the
hope of catching both, when l►e soon found he
could get possession of neither. Poor silly brute,
he like his brothers, had never read the fable, that one
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Poor silly
apes, they will never have that chance again while the
mechanical part of the community continue to study
their own intere•!s, as they have a just right to do, as
long as the higher orders set them the example.
Now Sir, taking another peep into the corner, I
found Alderman Jolt on his legs calling aloud,
" Gentlemen, gentlemen, I have a motion to make
for your consideration." Alderman Split-Plum re-
plies, " Now then, gentlemen, hear our worth• Chair-
man."—Chairman—" I beg to propose that the bill
of fare for this loyal assembly be charged to the
town." " I beg to second that motion," says Alder-
Man tiol,ble Pudding, " and I also have an amend-
went to make. There have been some necessary el-
penc,n attending our loyal address. At this in-
clement season, it has been thought proper to keep
up a good fire to warm the poor creatures fingers be-
fore they could hold the pen to sign; and as the
days are :bort, it has also been thought expedient to
have a number of candles to throw some light on the
subject." " Well, well," says the badger Alderman,
" I propose that the whole expenees he put into the
Cm.stsbles B Ils, that then the Itadicak who as • •I not
sign our flanks Nit Address, as they call it, will have
to pay fur our punch." This proposal we; carried
unanimously.

On the en•>tion of Alderman Mediterrania that this
Meeting do adjourn to Sunday evening next, the
Chairmen retire.!, when those who were sober enough
to speak, bid him good night.
N.B. The badger has crept ont of the town by just
crossing the bridge, so that he will escape the pay-
ment °luny part of the expenses by shifting the weight
from his own shoulders on his pourer neighbours.

CURPOILITIONS rt rasa etrif, I,IIIERTY aid
PUBLIC PROSPER !TY

SECOND SERIES.-LETTER VII.

" Nns Pretres On soot pas ea qu'un vain people pewit,
Notre credulite fait taute leur science."
tivAsist:4t'slara or VULTAIRF., p. 191.
" Tint which makes the clergy glorious is to be knowing
in their profession 4. unspotted in their lives, active and labo-
rious in their elinrays. hold and resolute is nispnxi my :alto-
errs. lad daring to look rive is Use fare ; and, 1301 y. to be
yrwllr, euarleuss, uad rognitassioaate to all."—Sot in.

Stit--The obligutiuns which we owe to her Ma
jesty, arc too great ever to be repaid. She has, by
her heroism, in the space of six months, dune more to
unveil the diabolical nature of the system by which
this country is scourged, and the baseness of its tools
and agents, than has been accomplished by the united
efforts of patriotism and the progress of knowledge,
in thrice as many years. We owe it, then, to her
Majesty, who has been the means of preserving and
perpetuating our liberties, that our lives, whilst ne-
cessary to her safety, should he at her disposal. But
it is farther necessary tit it at the present crisis, our
time, and our must vigorous exertions, should hires-
sautly be employed in watching over, and proterting
her from harm. We must watch the " workings" of
that infernal system, to which mural assassination,
and physical itmeder are equally familiar. Such, in-
deed, is the inimstrons, an l almost incredible nature
of this system, that its inevitable operation is not
only methodically to suppress tenth, science, awl dis-
covcry, an king unfavorable to its stability, but me-
tho lividly to engender falsehood, treachery, and con-
spiracy, as necessary to its preservation of time
former part of this proposition. the fate. Of al-
most every really useful subject of enquiry, which has,
for many years come before parliament ; of the latter,
the unprecedented perserution of her Majesty, whirls
now overwhelms us with shame, might he adduced in
proof. A change, a radical change of system, then,
is vitally essmitial to the salvation of all that is two' th
preserving in the state. Under the present system, it
has long been obvious, that not only nu ministers can
call into action a particle of public principle; hut
that, talents being equal, the greatest knave must he
its hest agent; whilst under a good system, i. e.
where the three Itraitelles of the legislature were dully
balanc.d, and respou-iltility effieient, even the present
men would he under the necessity of being honest.
Btu aid gh a ch Inge of men, without a radical
change of measures, i, e. without a tit 'rough reform of
parliament, he much worse than idle talk, yet tit-re are
engem reasons why a removal of the present ministers
'oust necessarily precede any reform whatsoever. In
tia• first place, the honour of the nation, so deeply tar-
nished by their proceedings against her Majesty, im-
peratively demands their instantaneous removal. Even
if their crimes ag.itinst the State had been limited to
their cittrageous proceedings against the Queen, their
remaining a single week iu office, after the meeting of
Parliament, would he tantamount to a confessiou that
justice and spirit have fled the land; and that all our
anti-ministerial fulminations amount to nothing hut
smoke. Anti, when we farther consider the insulting
manner in which they lately dismissed the Parliament
itself, we cannot he persuaded that the Members of
that body retain the spirit of Gentlemen, unless they
wreak their vengeance upon their insolent head-.
The honour of the nation, then, no less than the dig-
nity of Parliament, demands thedismissal of these mi-
-1 Initials as a to of example and punishment. But
1 the safety of the State no less imperiously requires
their removal. They are so touch identified with the
system, they are by habit and by interest so interwo-
ven with it, that they are incapable of discovering
any thing but through its delusive medium. They could
not be expected to attempt any change, but fur the pur-
poses of delusion. Rather than betray their second na-
tures, they would run the risk of perishing victims of
theirobstinacy. But they have a still stronger motive for
wishing to perpetuate a system so destructive ;ud so
odious. They conceive it to be the only means of
saving themselves from punishment for the it past
misdeeds. These old hacks of corruption calculate,
that, if they were even removed fur their late iniqui-
tous conduct, without being impeached and punished,
ehoald the system remain, they would mere trium.

h the
phantly to office, in
ce, as soon as the i.or, whic ,
have raised, should have subsided. Ih. y would the.,
have leisure to rene.v the persecution of the Queer.
117 if the people, and of the j ress, and to consolidate tie
onspiracy entered into with the hely brotherhood of
Continental tyrants, against the rights, liberties, and
h 'pp' ness of the world. Tlisir dis, osition is sec
firmly manifested by the presence of a British ssitta
drun (Oh ! Shame !) at Naples, awl the transportation
of the poor old King of the Two Sirilies to Leghorn,
in one of that squadron, in order to be placedat the
disposal of those new state inqu:s:tors, and enno,epd
eventually, as an instrument in their hands, fur the
subjugation of his own subjects. Is this England? And
are we in the nineteenth century of the Christian or, '-
Although an immediate change of men and of itteas,fts 9,
then, are both intlispensible to the salvation of the
state, the former ought, for the reasons :.tord, to pee.
cede the latter; and the people ought never to cease
petitioning the throne until both objects be arron.
plished. I would not he understood to be so unpin.
losophical as to impute to the tools and agents Sr
the system an exclusive, or innate depravity, at ther,
in their wisdom, impute exclusive or innate disloyalty
and irreligion to the people, whom they wish futthef
to oppress. The fact, is, how•ver, without any dn.
clatnation, that a system may be of such a descriptina
as necessarily to resider all its tools awl agents, pr,.
_at: and corrupt beyond all other men. The sp.
tent is the school, in whirls they acquire their educa-
tion : and none of them will pretend . to deny, that,
upon education, which includes 11.:bit, the con-
duet of men must depend; unless, indeed, it
should be denied by the phi losoplfecs of the
Pitt Club of Scotland, who hive just made the
notable discovery that the fit,erty of tiro ti:ess may be
preserved, rcithoat its licentionsness ! We now hire
the proofs before our eyes, that a system may exist
of so horrible a nature, as methodically to prumitt,
encourage, and maintain profligate pretchers of sell.
lion and bloispherny : that its tcols and agents, when
it suits their purpscses, may have an opportunity of
disguising the enormity of their own misdeeds, by
inspnting sed:tion and blasphemy to their opponents,
the nation ; to patronize rogularly fabricators
of treasonob'e placards, for the purpose of sacrificing
the isf-ttnated individuals who become the dupes of
the artiite, and of propagating a belief of the general
existence of revolutionary designs ;—to regard with
special favour the efforts of clandestine association.,
in vilifying and morally assassinating the people from
holes and corners ; and even to pardon and cherish
the most atroeioos outlaws and defaulters, when th-y
roturn to their outraged count ••y, distinguish the
seises by (list glossness and incredibility of 6-4
calumnies against the queen and the people.--Let
not the frieasls of the Queen, for the people, thee, he
entrapped into any legal proceedings against such mi.-
rrea nts. Snell, indeed, is probably the principal object
of this new !dot. The tools and agents of the cyst .us,
if they could mislead the Queen, or the people, into
an a:tack Nom the freedom of discassion, through
their scour:lons emissaries, mould, doubtless, be glad
to follow up the !flan on their side, in the hope of
being able to impose further shackles iron the press,
ft ithout incurring the whole odium and reponslblllt7
of such a measure. In respect to what may require
areoeusent, neither the Queen, nor the peeple, need
apprehend that the hob-prudent part of the press 11,14
not he able to dispose satisfactorily of all their op-
ponents : anal, as to their impossible falsehoods, they arc
either beneath notice or will refute themselves.

My next letter shall treat of the means, to-which it
is iurun►lont on tl►e pe:iple to resort, if, upon the
Meeting. of Pa►li:.n►rnt, that body should neglect or
violate their duty to the nation.

ARISTIDES.

FOR THE S FATES.II.IN.

--gam.--
10 V Inli INIUS.

Jan. 18, 1811:

tits---As a constant reader of Statesmen*, and a
warm adherent to the rause it has lung and ably ad-
vocated, 1 feel myself irretistahly impelled to notice
whatever appears in its noloentss inconsistent with the
character it has a•qiiir...l, and which every lover of
that cause, amongst whom you claim a place for your-
self, must wish to see it preserve. Allow me, Sir, to
observe, that although the triumph of the best of
causes cannot :Ow:« s he lan lined by the hest logic
and most pervasive elopience, it must invariably be
iii;ureil by the of intemperate feeling oa the
part of its advocates, or unsupported vague abuse to-
watch; its op;.onents. I am, therefore, very sorry to
notice the tenor of vonr fetter to the successor of 31r.
Canning. The want of argument, and the absence of
fact, arc the only presumptive parents of scurrility
T.iat we should expert it in Me Coarice or Morning
Pull, is natural ; hut a paper like 75e Statesmen*
must he injured in suffering its pages to be contanii-
a tied by it. The cause it advocates is so self-evi-
-41.-ntly just and good, that no attack on the individual
character of its opponeuts is necessary to its vin-
dication. 1 ant the more sorry to find myself called
on to address these observations to you, because I
must eandidl; confess that your letter to Mr. Hathur t
bears evidence of talent, which, if properly direct«',
could be an acquisition to our cause, and a credit to
roorself. I am at a loss to conceive from what sr..
logy of circumstances you have adopted the signuttuf
you assuntr. Is it that the name of Viestimms is In-
tended to denote a Virgin performance? If so, you
are entitled to some indidgencies, and I will theretere
nut too severely ex.,ecise the rod von have made for
your own back, in mistake for that of Mr. Bather,'.
whom I beg to assure you is neither deficient in tale' t
or character ; and 1 conceive that my assertion to that
effect, will have equal weight with the public, as 10 1.6
I, the contrary, so long as either party suffers his i.•-
sertion to remain ti.fsupported by any corrotior iti e
evidence. The private life of dlr. Itatintrst has
been that of a gentleman am'. a ntat, of honor ; t
were it other% ise, I would remind t.ou that Fir., c
and pudic character are distinct thin From tI t
earliest periods of history, I believe the instances I t
the association of public virtue and private view, ate
quite coal to those in which the private virtues hats
beets coupled
with public delinquency. With the pri-
rate character of Mr. Bathurst, I conceive, therefore,
rou have nothing to do. As to that he has evinced
in public, however much I disapprove of it, I mi«:
conical' it has at least been consistent. You cool!

fie ttAttfinum.
TUB BRITISH **SAWN al" la INCORPOISAILD WITIS " Tilt
srATtim•ti."