The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

Seem time after I got home to England, I rend (and i
I think in the Morning Chronicle) en extract from a
Scotch paper, stating that Mr. 00021,1 T, is going back
„copula, told some person, that be had seen use, and
!lad had told him, that I bad met with great disap.
?Would: in America, that my undertaking there had
feiicd, and that, therefore, I was going back. That it
inset real lie, every reader of the Register must know;
fa, from the first to the last, I said that I should come
Sark; that I only waited 'till it should be safe to return.
As soon as I saw the lie io print, I noticed it. By-and.
I r Mr. Gourley came home; sod, seeing my contradic-
tion of his He, he *wallowed.' good part of it, which I
~ko noticed. Ile swallowed &good deal ; bathe still left
vie convinced, that he had, In substance, told the lie.—
Ikal his story been tens, his telling it did not discover,
that " Iris whole sold was intent on doing' good to his
Mints creatures, and his heart literally," or even fi.
gonrirrly, " ovetdoeviag with kindness and &woo.
lieu." I had done nothing to injure or to offend
limo I had behaved to him with the koapitalily of as
Marine farmer. I had not sought him ;he had come
to to Lease ; and, even if he bad told the truth, be
trovia hare been guilty of a bus breach of the laws of
It was his pride that I bad AN/1& - I did not think
his dispute with the. Canadian Government so interest-
in to my readers in England as my opinions with re-
oad to the effects of Mr. PEEL'' Bill, which had just
then become the main subject of my writings. This

appeared to his vanity so strange, that, like a thorough-
reed author, be ascribed it, doubtless, to personal ho•
itiity. founded on my envy of his superior talents !--
• t.c e his lie, whit. h, it appears, dated its birth from
SCUt part of the North River, travelled down to New
York. then to Scotland, and then to London.
Detected, however, in London, and finding that he
mid not ga believed, he tried Lis band in another way;

4..1, in crier, I have no doubt, to make his court to the
Ministrea, he published a pamphlet, in which be accused
of a deuivi to plunge this COW?, into rcoolatioa
and blood. That he seat this pamphlet to all the Minis-
ters lam nearly certain. lint, to pabliala a pamphlet,
led to get people to buy it, are two things widely dig
ferom. The scheme that this " 04;k-hearted friend of
" u.sakisai," fAI upon to effect the latter was tbia: lie
sweat the particnlar sheets in which be bad abused and
foully belied me, and a letter along with them, fall of
the real of "hansentity," calling upon me to defead my-
self publicly. I took the sheets, sad on the margin of
the .suite one, wrote, as nearly as I can recollect, these
Toth; " cannery air ; —constant exercise ; —low diet
tooling medicines ; —copious bleeding;—and, if these
will not do, a etrait-waistcoat, or a horsewhip, or
" did the 'beets neatly up sod the letter along
with them, mid seat them bask M " Robert °outlay,
" Estrin." I think my eon told me, that he opeaed a
litter front him afterwards, which he either sent back
to the 'Squire. or burnt.' And, the seat that I beard of
him wan, that he was cracking statues at Wiley, at which
I was by no weave surprised, While I confess, that it
gave me Was pain timal experience to knew that this
must be the lot of many thousands of farmers, Scotch as
well as English, each of whom hu ten thousand times
the merlin( Mr. Robert Gotwlety.
Now,Sir, I beg you to beliere,tbat I sincerely applaud
your endeavours to obtain a mitigation of the misery of
11r. Gourley. lam sure, from the tenor of your wri-

fing, that your disposition is kind Rod compassionate.
Bah I am not less Miff% that your efforts to throw dis-
. redit on the poor lows, would, if they could succeed,
enumerate your oA'R wishes. Loring the philosophy of
this cast qnestion aside, it is sofficioot for us to know,
that Do material tilterltiom in these laws can be made at

Airtime without making England a scene of horrors
fu serpsning those of Ireland. I bew you to be as-
awed, that, i■ what I have said about Scotlatul. I have
ben merely on the defensive. "Tad upon a worm,
"and it will tn;n." As to the "education" of la.
homers; lie is best "educated". who knows best hew
te work and is most willing to work I and, Sir, talk as
long as Mr. linnutanau will about the morale of la-
bearers, he you essueetl, that the only errs foundation
far reentry morals causists of three very unintellectual
articles ; cloudy, bread, bacon, and beer.
I aro, Sir. roue most obedient,
And most Humble Servant,
Wu. C 01111277.

Although much distress at present pervades the greater
partuf the Agricultural community, yet that the times
are more prosperous for other classes, who are not en-
tirely dependent on agriculture, is generally acknow.
Ward, ash this is borne out by the followieg eircum-
garter, which we have from good authority, via that the
warrants issued front the office of the Sheriff of this
entity, daring the last ten months, are less by betweeo
three and four hundred than they were daring the same
rood last year.—(.lfaidstone Journal.)
11.01611T1R.-TITID VT, Tnass o'Ctocts.—At twelve
this sight the period of Henry Hunt's imprisonment in
the Castle will terminate, an I great preparations are
'aid to be made to commemorate the event. As yet I
+r• mottling' of them, and the streets of this wretched and
rtolltown are as deserted as usual, and present no bustle
or!ritation.

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Six o'CLoca.—Sir Chas. Wolseley, Mr. Northmore,
1" a few other Gentlemen, have arrived, and made ar-
Narenients for the processiau. At four o'clock dinner
still he served at ths timtrze Inn, Gdastonbory, (Mr.
Northam,e in the choir): and on the following day
(Thersday), Mr. Hunt nil proceed through Shepton
M4llet, Finnic, Warminster, to his own house (Middle-
ton Cottage), near Andovrt•
TEN o'CLont.—This moment 11 Deputation of four
Gentlemen have arrive., from :twit, who are bearers of a
sflerdid massive silvcr ea;ron old salter, which have
l'reo toted to Mr. Mat by the Freeholders of this
°anti% They are to h, presented to him at the dinner,
1"*0"row, by the tin.tlemen of Cis Committee.
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I W[LTI O'CLOCK AT NIG;IT.—The clock of the Care,
tie Lasjnst strmk the I tot quarter of the hoar which ter-1
r,,inves Mr. Hunt's confinement. A gun is immediate-
If fired which acts as a signal to those who had
made preparations for rejoicing in the interior of
'6 country. Three discharges of cannon are given
from Medford, the feat of Mr. Hayward, about four
tuiles distant ; nn all the neighbouring bills bonfires are
lighted and rockets let ofr.
A large pnwpkin, ';sighing 13611 b., measuring 7
('et 10 inches round, is to be seen at the shop of R.
Warry, green grocer, in Dean-street, Red Lion-square.
A Pumpkin (Ceeurbita l'epo)was put on Wednesday
last in the garden of Charles Hoare, Esq. of Luseousbc,
near Danlish whiz') measured nine feet three inches and
,1,411 in girth, and weighs 2451 b.