The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

CONDUCT OF ADMINISTRATION.

It is, in good truth, a most extraordinary and at
the same time lamentable fact. that experience seems

to be for the most part, and too generally, thrown
away upon Governments ; but that they go on blunder-
' int either in the dark, or wilfully, from one set of
occupants to another, and even from age to age. It
• might have been hoped ;bat by this time, and aftei all
that has happened; calculated to inspire caution and
to teach Wisdoms,. it would have been received as an
axiom, that whatever destroys a unity of interest be-
tween a Government and a Nation, infallibly produces
• oppression on the one part, hatred on the ether, and
danger to both. When, by a sort of miracle, the an-
• tiripated results of the persecution carried on against
• the poor Queen had been averted, and when about to
be laid ip the silent and premature grave to which she
was consigned, it seemed that the views of td;oso who
most hated her were about to be gratified eten to ea-
• tiny : that the demon of discord should be again ex-,
cited, to gratify a miserable, paltry, despicable feeling
of low revenge, directed against the memory of one
who was then no more, and whose power of exciting no-
Ileasant recollections, even those of conscious frailty.

p 1 -
. was at an end, does and ever will appear most extraor-
. rlinary and disgraceful. Though of all other things
. ralcnlated to renew the angry sensations -which had
barely subsided, and to exhibit a f cling on the part
. of Ministep at least and their adherents, in direct hos-
. tiiity to that of the people at large, to insult the me-
mory of a long persecuted woman seemed to be resolved
upon. A little patience practised, and violation of corn-
won decency, (to Ely nothing of dignity from such a
quarter) avoided, and a few short days more that
would have consigned the remains of persecuted Roy-
alty to the silent tomb, would have sufficed to bury in
• nearly equal repose fur the present, a subject of regret,
of wonder, and of humiliation. Eut no ! It must not
slumber ; the angry offending passions, which never
• forgive, must still be directed to the gratification of
disappointed malevolence, and the task of the pen
of future historians on earth, and of the recording

angel above, be frightfully enlarged ! Nay, as if, by
a monstrous stretch of sacrilegious power, it were
tivaiit to renew exploded usurpation over the minds of
raraokind, it was even attempted to controul the sym-
pathies of the heart, and the common feelinrs of hu-
manity. What just, what decent, what excusable pre-
text could there he fur forcing the remains of the Queen
along by-roads and narrow streets, in a course at once
circuitous and novel, to avoid the shorter, the regular,

the only direct road to the place of their embarkation ?
The future historian will adequately characterise this
attempt, when the pen of impartial history may freely
record political conduct, now veiled in mystery, or en-
trenched in the strong holds of temporary power.
The case of Sir Ruben Wilson apparently forms

uLather instance of Ministerial littleUess,
ay.:l revenge ; another proof that wisdom has not been
learnt, nor even caution imparted, either by the dic-
tates of common sense or the lessons of experience.
We have no doubt that the general feelings of the coun-
try are yet too just, and its liberitlity too extended, to
suit tr any man, for tonsil utional support of popular
feeling, to he harrassed, oppressed, and ruined, either
b. Viziers, Muftis, or Ministers. The time is fast ap-
proaching when a more correct knowledge of the
pet ..ons who have proved themselves friends or ene-
ta.ics to their country will take place, and when
their services will be at once duly estimated and
rewarded. Any body of men, •having a power-
. fr.l interest in deceiving a nation, may for a time
delude it, fur, unhappily, human credulity is still
great; but in the long run truth will prevail over
mar, and justice over iniquity ; awl there are few
wore powerful counteractions of delusion than the
cifels of that suffering and distress which is about
to he plentifully administered in this Country, not-
withstanding the exertions of such productions of is-
Caul as the soklisant John Bull, and other venal and
dependent newspapers. The acts of these parricides
h•tve been too fully exposed to do much more mischief
—the People at large are growing too wise to he thus
• longer imposed upon. and even the tools of the system
which is destroying the nation have impeached their
acca:nplices. 'thus Babb Doildington, in
.his Diary,
and Sterne in the sth chapter of his posthumous
works : the letter of whom rays, he was employed to
write a patnphlet in defence of th.! Minister of the day,
and he thus describes the course he took :—' I af-
f.,m that the high price of provisions, so loudly com-
plained of, arose from the riches and affluence daily
flowing into the kingdom, under the auspices of our
l:liuister ; and that the accumulation of taxes, like the
rising of rents, was the surest tok.n of a nation's tllria-
iog. This book of mine," adds he, " has been the
code, or ART POLITICA, Of alltheMisirrEatAL Slav-
PHANTS since that period ; for I have scarcely met with
a paragraph in any of the State hireling-writers for
many years past, that It could not trace fairly back to
mg own code."—(Bristol Mercury.)

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.

TO THE RDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Sta,—No period can, I believe, he remembered
when the streets of the metropolis were s. infested
with juvenile delinquents. Boys, from ten to four•
teen years of age, are organised in bands for depreda-
tions, and from their boldness and adroitness, as well
as from their numbers, are able to attack the persons
as well as property of passengers. From the insidi-
ous arts of picking pockets, the transition is not slow
to the commission of burglary ; and the confidence
and brutality acquired from associating in gangs must
qualify the novice, if not nipt in the bud, to become a
daring footpad as he advances in years. It is not pos-
slide to calculate the alarm and mischief which these
young thieves may be capable of effecting, unless
judicious measures are adopted for suppressing their
growth in crime. From the multitude of agents
appertaining to our numerous offices of Police,
our horse-patrols, and foot patrols, and street-keepers
and constables in ordinary and in special service, it
'eight be expected that i 1 herd of boys could be speedily
mastered, and, if any provision could be made for their
eornsetims, sm. would suppose it would be easy to pas
the young daintiest. is the road to reform. If any
penals like myself. however, has his attention called