The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

I! MI 11 SCIIOOI. OF GC '8 HOSPITAL.

THE A UTU 51 N (CURSE OF Lcuruitigs
will commence on the -Ph of Ocrunen. viz.
Practiee of Medicine. by Dr. CHOLlSlLET.—Cliestistry, by
A!l' ALLLN, Dr. ROSTOCK. cud Mr. AlKlN.—Experiewatall
P.iiins,phy. by Mr. ALLIS, and Professor MILLINGTON.—
Theory of Medicine. and Materia Medics, by Dr. Cnomea-
au and Dr. Reek.—hlitla ifery. and Diseases of Women
and Children. by Or. H•ic Heim—Physiology, or Laws of
tan Aoimal Economy, by Dr. Hilt:tros and Dr. Bbc N DILL.
—Structure and Dict•n%e4 of tie Teeth. by Mr. BALL.—And
a course of Practical Botany in the Spring, by Mr. /fasts-
▪t; ay, of the Botanic G3rden. Chelsea.

N.B. These several Lectures, with those on Anatomy, and
on the Priacip!es sod Practice of Surgery, Risen at the
Theatre of S. Thonia.'s Hospital adjoining. are so erring-
• u not to interfere with earh other in the hours of attend-
a-ce. nor with the Medical or Surgical Practice of the Ilus-
p•fal ; and the eltule it validated to form A Complete
Cutest of Medical and Chirurgical Instruction. Terms and
osier Particulars roac be learnt Crum Mr. Stocker, Apo•he-
cary to Ouy's Hospital ; who alone is engineered to receive
cn,rance money front Pupils fur any of these Lectures de-
li►ered at 4 ti) a Hospital.

TO THE EDIPOR Or Ms arAresmicv.
London, September IC
Stn,--The proeecution of the Hill of Pains and
Penalties against the Queen hat roused the people of
this country, to reflect, not only upon the grounds on
which her Akjesty is prosecutel, but upon the conduct
of the parties on whose account the proceedings have
taken place. What effect the evid.nice disclosed in
the course of the proceedings will have upon the
minds of those to WllOlll it is more inciiediatelY ad-
dressed, it nimbi be impertinent to antici
jpate ;
what effect it has had upon the minds the
people at large, whom it was designed to prejudice
against her Alajeety, it is superfluous to spew.
The explosion that was levelled at the Queen has re-
coiled upon those who directed the discharge tjutd in
attempting to degrade the character of her Bllalliaty,
they bate effectually exposed their own. Prom an
infatuation which men in common life can scarcely
suppose to have existed, it would appear that those of
higher ranks ttttt etinses imagine, whoever their miscon-
duct might he, they w, re >e or: from all reproach, and
exempt from all responsibility. When Alexander
Weilderburne, afterwards Lord Roselyn, was Counsel
for Lord Clive, he boldly affirmed, in extenuation of
his client's conduct in India, that " the actions of
great two are not to be adjudged by tdux,f morality."
This du..tritie may be very palateable to governors
and courtiers, but will not be acceded to by the
nation at large. Even kings themselves are deemed
amenable fur their conduct to the people they govern.
" Reverence for tiovernifient," says Bolingbroke in his
Essay on the Idea of a Patriot Kinm, "obliges to re-
verence governors, who for the sake of it, are raised
above tie level of other men ; but reverence fist gover-
nors, independently of government, any further than
r tice would be due to their sirues if they were
private men, is preposterous and repugnant to common
sense." " Our constitution," says he afterwards, "is
brought, or almost brought, to such a point, a point of
perfection I think it, that no kia who is not, in the
true meaning of the word, a patriot, can govern Bra-
tii,e with car-, ar••nrity, knwir, fli4,”ity, or indeed
with sorffiricut power and uzgh.--This considera-
tion is of great importance, especially at the present
season, to the parties her.• referred to ; and as his
Lordship has pursued it at e nisiderable length, and
with distinguished ability, I offer no apology for an-
nexing to nay present letter soiii.• further extract< from
the valuable Essay which I have inoted above, and am
Your humble Serl ant,
••• • s •

TIIE IDEA OF A PATRIOT KING.
From Lord Holingbrokr's Eshxy.l

" A man of sense and virtue, both, still not fall into
any great impropriety of character, or 'indecency of
conduct; hat he 'nay slide, or be surprised into small
0 It's, from a thousand reasons, and in a thousand
manners, w It I shall not stay to enumerate. Against
these, therefore, even men, Cot are incapable of
into the• others, una•t still be on their guard, and
no men so much as Princes. The elevation in which
they are placed, as it gives them great advantages,
gives them great disadvantage* ton that often coun-
tervail the former. Thus, fur instance, • little merit
in a Prince, is seen anti felt by ;timbers: it is mul-
tiplied as it were; and in proportion to this effect,
his reputation is raised by it. lint then, a 11111 e fail-
ing is seen and felt, by numbers too : it is atoitiplieil
in the same manner, and his reputation siuls in the
same pro/notion.

" Ilefeet may he eimeealed muter the blaze of remit
and shining- qualities. The fAilli• Ur drivels tlfiA
be thus covered or compensated, are, I think, those of
the man, rather than those of the Kin::: Inftit as
arise f constitution, and the onion,/ rather th3n
the mural character ; such as may be
dental starts of passion, or aeridental Offilissess
sonic unguarded hours ; surprises, if I may say ro, of
the man on the King. When these happen seldom, I
and pass soon, they may be hid, like spots in the
sun, hot they are spots still. Ile who has the 'twills
of seeing them, will See them ; and he who has not,
may feel the effects of them without knowing precisely
the cause. When they continue (for here is the
danger, because, if they cum/in/se, they will increase)
they are spots no longer ; they spread a general shark,
and obscure the light in which they were drowned
before. The virtues of the King are lost in the vices
of the mast.

" Alexander had violent passions, and those for wine
and wometa werepredominant,after his ambition. They
tirre spots in his character before they prevailed by
the force of habit: as so in as they began to do so,
the King and the hero appeared less, the rake and
bully Inure. Persepoli. w.as burnt at the instigation
of Th.ais, and I llytus t► as killed in a drunken brawl.
He repented, intleed,• of these two horrible actions,
and was again the King and hero upon many OCCI•
sions ; but he had not been enough on his guard,
when the strongest incitements to vanity and to sen-
sual pleasures offered themselves at every moment to
him ; and, when he stood in all his easy hours, sap--
rounded by women and eunuchs, by the panders, pa-
rasites, and buffoons of a voluptuous Court, they who
could not approach the King, approached the man,
and by seducing the man, they betrayed the King.
•' Lewis the XlVth. was King in an absolute mo-
narchy, and reigned over a people whose genius
makes it as fit perhaps to impose on them by admi
ration and awe, as to gain and hold them by affection.
Accordingly he kept great state; was haughty, was
reserved ; and all he said or dial appeared to be fore-
thought and planned. Ilia regard to appearances was
sash, that when his mistress was the wife of another
man, and he had children by her every year, he en-
.deavutirecito cover her constant residence at Court by
a place she filled about the Queen ; and he dined and
carped, and cohabited with the latter in every appa-
rent respect as if he bad had nu mistress at all. '1 has

" Our F.lisabeth was Queen in a limited monarchy,
and reigned over a people at all times more easily led
than driven ; and at that time capable of being at-
tacked to their Prince and to their country, by a more
geLerous principle than any of those which prevail in
nor day by affection. There wasa strong prcrogeli••.
then in bring, and the Crown was in posses4us, of
Ereater legal power. Popularity was, however, then,
as it is now, and as it :mist Ile always in mixed go '
vertiments, the sole true foundation of that sitlfii*
authority and intlitence, which other constituti
give the Prince gratis, and iialtioradratly of the people,
hot which a King of this nation must arleire. The
wise Queen saw it, and she saw too, how notch popu-
larity depends upon those appearances that depend
upon the decorum, the decency, the grace, and the
propriety of behaviour of which we are sneaking. .
warm concern fur the interest and honour of the nation,
a tenderness for her people, and a confidence in their
affections, were appearances that ran through her
whole public conduct, and gave life and colour to it.
She slid great thin..., ; and she knew how to set then.
off according to their full value, by her manner of
doing them. Though a w ttttt an, she hid all that was
womanish about her: and if a few equivocal marks of
coquetry appeared un some occasion., they passed like
flashes of lightning, vanished as anon as they were
discerned, and imprinted no blot 1111 her chararter.
" Iler successor had no virtue.: to set off, lint he had
failing. and vices to conceal. Ile would nut conceal
the latter, and void of the former, lie could not row-
primate fur them. His failings and his vices therefore
sanding full in view, he passel fora weak prr•.on and
al ill than ; and fell into all the contempt wiierrill his
memory remains to this day.
" A King who lives out of the si;:lit of his
subjects, or is never seen by divot; except on his
throne, can scarce be despised as a man, though he
may he hated as a king. But the king who lives more
in their sight, and more under their •dsservations. ma)
lie despised before he is hated, and cv. a n;thou: belay
hated.

" Let not Princes flatter tlsentselvs^. They n ill be
examined closely in p,i,nl, as well as in psth!...• life
and those who can pierce further, will judge of them
by the appearances they give its tooth. To obtain hit,
I,..pularity, that which i• founded in este' sis and :tr-
ies thin, thssy must, theref sre, maintain their characters
in both ; awl to that end neglect appearances in nei-
ther, but olsserve the fleywrens necessary to preserve
the e.teros, whilst they win the afflictions of mankind.
Kings, they must never forgoit they are m. ;
they must never forget they are Au 's. The senti-
ments which one of these reflections of course inspire ,
give a humane and affable air to the winds. beha-
viour, awl snake them taste in that high elevation all
the joys of social life. The sentiments, that die other
reflection suggests, will he found very compatible with
the former: and they may never forget that they vie
kings, tl gli they do not always • • the crown
their heads, fluor the sceptre in their Itamla. I "gaily
and jdlg must entrench themselves in a constant affec-
tation of state to preserve regal dignity: a trims: prince
will know Low to preserve it when he lays Isis majesty
aside. tlr will dare to appear a private mass, ass& its
that character he will draw to himself a respect less
ostentatious, but more real and pleasing to him, than
any which is paid to the monarch."

REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL.

By the fly(le, arrivAl from' Oporto, off Falmouth,
we have account% to the :11st August. Every thing
remained perfectly quiet. All the norilirrn Pro-
vinces had declared for the new eoustituti tttt . The
army hail been paid their arrears. Marshal Pam-
plona hail marched with a large detachment of tro.y,
upon Oporto. At Micro he learnt the occurrences
that had taken place, when the soldier immediately
delterted, and the greater nuinher had arrived at Op.,rio.
The I Ith regiment was at l.eira, and had sworn to
thr Cunstitutisin.

By the above conveyance, we have also received a
great variety of official down nerds and proclamations:,
for which we have nut space to-day.
It appears, that no intelligence has been received
at Oporto from Lisbon. since the new Constitution
had been proclaimed.
Two of the above documents are proclamations
from " the Provisional Junta of the Supreme Go-
vernment of the Kingdom to the Portagnese," and
from " the Governor General of the Arsenals of the
division of Oporto to the people of the Wile divisior,
and the troops stationed in it, and the nation." The
former is a sort of Manifesto, stating the griev4ces,
real or • !leged, ■nder which Portugal laboured, and
which are enumerated as the reasons, which, called
forth the revulutionary explosion that has taken place.
It is signed by certain individuals, an representative+
of the clergy, the nobility, the magistrates, and the
merchants, dated the 3dth .%ognst. We shall give
these, and various other important documents, to-
morrow.

"The Junt.t desires, alto), that you nil give them
to umlerstand, that conformably to the general will of
the Porttignese nation, whose desires, regulated by
its generosity and gratitude, are ithilitt.;ip.it, it wi'l
cause to he afforded to such of those officers who d,-
sire it, the menus which are necessary for them LP
remain u ith all decency and comenience in the coe•t•
try, unless they should take the resolution to retsio..e
to their own or some other.

ti That the Junto, however, hnprs that they willc- o-
duct themselves In the present circumstances with that
delicacy and circumspection which beseein sewn, se.o
(rout edleation have learnt to appreci..te the respezt
due to the wish of a whole nation, which has so so-
lemnly declared its tirm resolution to maintain Its rights.
I tod preserve your Etteelleney!
" FR. NI GONIF.Z
'` Palace of the tiovertneol, Aug. ell.
, "To the most, Mosul:to-, Melamine Ltrneo, Velt-ate
Britt: eitbriera, eoemuseader-in-Chief of the ursned force
of this DITIt-otn."
" We can assure the public that thw sacred calve fa:
whirl' we have declared, has been genera ay etisbrat.! I
with t ntlittsia• w and unparalleled joy in shr Norther o
Provinces. In that of 31inho, they have not proclaim
ed Ihoi John VI. King of Portugal by the t turtito-
tion of the Fortes, but the whole military force is :th-
ready mrtilated aunt organised frith Port:Igo: ••• girt-
vers. limier:Os Bleat and Wilson -hove con.tritord
the:to:elves with that circumspection which it as to be
eepes le.! from their principles, their education, eel
their circumstances.

" lie artily in the province of Alinbo,is catantsnl4A4
'oy iajor-Getteral tisoper Pereira.
" he briguif.• 9th, I Ith, and cbrtenr: Hth, is •
cotnindndell by Antonio Lobo Teseira tie Kato!.
" .!outtint Teller Jordaolt4lllllllnnils the
15th, and cliAssems t;th. anti the whole tilt ~it :a
mailcr Alajor.thmerall Atrottio de Lacerif4 Pinto is.
ronsica.

" hen N4'll4'll b the Supreme 11;•ete.rtutegt.
emtfirnt the above.

" The first despatch is from N. Ant. tle Enet,s,
dated from Point. de Lula, :Nth of A Trit,i, and ststeN
that the Cimstitntiun was proclaimed ou the t!‘th,
with trreat joy, in presence of the Civil Autheeitirs,
&c., but that the Ecclesiastical Anthorities declined
attending, as they had no orders from the .Archbishop:
hot did not make any opposition. All was dta,:e
in the hest order, and doe respect paid to the 041ieers.
" The second despatch from Fianna, 27th Autenst, •
is of sitti;:ar tenor t General Wilson retains his •eidi-
lie's, and the same respect is shewn to tirneral Blunt.
"The third despatch is from Braga, Ytith Auett-t,
whet,. the Constitution appears to have been pros-
claimed with inure solemnity. The authorities hatirt
been called together by the Archbishop, tranquillity
every where prevails.
"At Oporto, a piece suitable to the occasion was
hastily got up, anti loudly applauded by the tinumerous
spectators.
" At the recital of some verses the whole audience
rose and cried out, ' Long live the immortal Spamar.i•
our iseitthltotirs, who set au example to us sod a, z
•
wim:e utirl4l:'

•• 'Fite President of the Supreme Oovermsient ra.•••J
his voice, and announced the following
King !—The Portuguse*.—The l'itizens of Oporto 7--
The Garrison of Oporto he generous Km.li h
Nation, from whom w•e Kaye re,•eirrd benefits des.rv- •
Mg of gratitude, and which we will pumtuaify repy
wheti

"No language can express the pleasu • 4: the r.,r-
tnruese ou this enchanting night. Tear. duw•ed
every eye. Such is the public spirit of a ci.y wht.
WAS always distinen;shed by its patriotism and it.
1 io Nat-loos/. Aug. 28.)
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AT rIMPT AT ROllll :1' • XL, MI:RDSR.—Ou Toe4day
oizi,i, about ten o'clock. an Mr. C.D. Ho µa4.
pir•i‘ing over the fields leading over to liturrtuar.
was most brutally attacked by a band of ruffian% skin
:saber : one of them was armed with a pistol, *hich
be presented at .b? head of Mr. H., and, -with horrid
epithets, demon led his property. We are happy to
state that Mr. sustained nu material injury..