The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-07-28 00:00:00

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7'4 'nu EDIDOR t 1 rug ST.ITESMAN:
`is:—Many thinks are dee to-you for the inter.
and much praise to the writer, for the very teiti=;"
Aerate anti most excellent letter, winch :appeared
nor l'Rper of the loth instant, under dm -914ttatate
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'of OSSERVATOI."

lie has suably exposed-the folly and- the daeget sof
rubric illuminations, and. especially in a Iletropolist.
%% here it is Said that 40,000 .human Creatures tits
illioratit every morning they rise, where they i
tic nto
sleep at night, that nothing more can be said ISA
iv subject ; but I entreat him to resume Val
vett, and point out to Government the isttleiNl
cency, as well as injustice, of levying a talc *ski
ioymerished housekeepers and laborious industry,
liming them no other alternative than to illuminate
their humble habitations, or incur 'the penalty of
hosing their windows broken by a senseless and farts:
cloth rabble.
It is, perhaps, a secret to your Intelligent' ceg.i
respondent, that the instant it is every to contiantet
tion to have a general illumination, in ids:ince . IS
place in the price of tallow and of elf" asd MOW'
persons who deal in those articles, catlike Atii'Veta',
legitimate profits of trade. Partial', ite the
nations were at the Jubilee, and generillycondemn44,
as they deservedly were, by the most lOyal and most
rational part of- the community, -es the servile sug-
gestions
uta Bank Director, who had ere/mime' in-'1
terest in the way of trade, as well as lif.ciedititif
James's, in proposing tint obnoxious. ol(ft,lbrjt%
cost the metropolis and its suburbs die interittiinf
sum of SEVENTY THOUSAND POUNDS! ,anal
if the folly of the thing hid notbeen firmly opposed
by the Common Council, and several parishes at the
West-end of the town, the contribution levied in
London and its immediate environs, would have
amounted to ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
POUNDS ! How much of that sum fell upon those
who can ill afford to pay for candles, or repairing of
broken windows, 1 leave to your numerous Reader.
to decide, and merely ask, whether the occasion ,
called for so expensive a display—and whether suck
expressions of public joy should, at any time, be
permitted in a town, he population of which
ashounts to a million ?—Those wbo proposed the il-
lumination meant to recommend themselves to Court
for their loyal attachment ; but you and 11' in ceps-
soon with thousands, were called upon to pay for
display, the profits of which fell to those who proposed
it. Many were awed into an acquiescence, in order to'
avoid the reproach of disaffection, and theprobable re-
sults of such a stigma, proclaimed as it would have
been by venal, inprincipled scribblers. The money
thus wantonly sacrificed to the folly of some indivi-
duals, and the avarice of others, would • haie bees
much better employed in supporting the itidows and
e'rphaus of our bravo soldiers who 'have fallen in
battle, or in placior the children of industrious
mechanics and decayed tradesmen of irreproach;.l
able characters, to different professions, by which,
those children would not only be rescind from
probable ruin, but enabled to gain an honest
livelihood. I know that contributtoni cannot be-
fitted for such purposes with theism. facility as for
avowal itlentinatien; bet-A-ablifineWsktibat Kis
the duty of Government to prevent ALLALiegel
actions; and, above all, that it is beand -to guard
against ito dangerous conseqgences of tumults, riots,
and disorders, which may lead to the most fatal re.
suits.

The shoe opposite to my present residence exhi-
bited proofs in abundance of the interested servility
of a few individuals, at the festival, as it was called,
of the Jubilee, who, assuming from the accidents of
birth and fortune, an importance which their own in-
trinsic merit could never have procured them, gave
beef and beer out DAT to the famished multitude,
who were at the time, and have been ever since,
screwed down to the miserable pittance of twelve
shillings a week for the maintenance of them-
selves and their 'ragged offspring! I resign to the
far abler pen of Oaszeskroa all farther comments
on the absurdity and the danger -of public illumina-
tions, and especially at a period when the high price
Of provisions renders it impossible for the poor and,
middle classes of society to obtain the comforts, ors
even common necessaries of life. To exact demon.
strations of joy from indigence and industry smarting
under such a variety of oppressions, aggravated by
the demands of tax-gatherers, is not a proof of
loyalty, but of an overbearing contempt of all de-
cency, humanity, and public feeling.
Colin, Isles( Wight, July 23.
sumemmmeandimmune
An illustrious person, on observing in the Courier
an account of the loud acclamation, with Which h
was greeted •in hip way to Westminster, said, with.
great neatness,—" I wish these Treasury Scribes
bad u pod luegras they have ready peso ; I might.
then hate chanced. to hear the plaudits of which I
read !"

VECTIV.

1: tract of it letter from Hartfotd, COnnectitut, I
dated 12th June, and receited at Literpieol.,
" Commodore Decatur, in the United Sinks frigate,
and the Macedonian frigate, are. blockaded in New
London by Commodore Sir Thomas Hardy, Bart. iu
the Ramillies of 74 guns, and some other daps of
war, and.our shjps were landing their guns;"
It is asserted, the British force on Lake Ontario,
4 onsi3te of the Prince Regent frigate, of 36 guns,.
two sloops 01.20 guns, and a few iuferior armed
Tise Amtnicasn force is composed of the
Madison, et 28 guns, and about ten traft of 12
guns. _ _

The Ball at the Argyle Rooms, on Thursday last,
was the gayest and the most animated fete of the sea-
son. • It was limber recommended by it trait of the
qlished moaners of our 'Jeri; sera. the company
had nearly been gratified with a battle between the
ruled Big Ben.and a pugilistic Baronet, .iiet half his
eight ; said yet the odds in fatelut of the titter were
pounds to ii OVUM !

Friday, a young noun, a coachman oat of places
applied for a jollat the 'Regent's Canal, wear*Prirn-
rose-hill, which, unfortunately for hint, ate obtained.
lie was employed in filling cart, wilt the bank,
which was 24. feet high, fail in And trilebed him to F
(tooth.
Mr. Oaklty,:thi peAttelfit;who was, shot at and
dangerously wounded near oyntonth:atreet, Wal-4
worth, about & month since, isonsi.erircappy to .
state, so for .recorered as tw be (maxilla"' litit of 10141
sadists danger... -.