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TO THE PUBLIC.
The Prnpri;•tnr of this Parr having already replied to the,
vain boatding of the late Editor, and disproved his asser-
tions of being the "ante Conductor of Tag STATESMAN,"
and his pretended " Fidelity of Reports ;" feels it incum-
bent uprui him to notice some further assertions equal!y
utd.ue, which it seems have been circulated with a view
to excite the cotnpassion of certain individuals, and to
induce them to assist him in the formation of a plot,

both utijust and illctial, carried on clandestinely prior
to biz di:anis:al. The assertion now alluded to, is tn
• the Wailing effect, •iz. " That he, the lute Editor, had,.,
sacrificed his tiny in the service of Tltt; STATESMAN,
out anjranuncration.r Now the fact is, that he has received
upwards of Sia► Hundred Pounds, for I i ttle more than a year's
ervice, the latter part of which was remarkable only
for the aSuse of confidence reposed in him, neglect of defy
in the ordinary business of the Paper, and also admitting
scvvral.Libellous Articles, for which two Prosecutions arc
already acitiolly commenced, others threatened, and one,
of the most flagrant nature, ngaiust the Chief Justice of
England, narrowly'escoped insertion.
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THE WPM of Commons 'have rejeeted another
Petition, although worded in the most respectful
and decorous manner. We speak of Major:
CARTWRIGHT'S Petition, presented last night to
the Muse by Mr. WHITRREAD. Mr. PERCETAL
(we never can bring our stomach to bear thut man
as Chancellor of the Exchequer, recollecting the
great names that have herd that office)—Mr. Pen.-
esvAL found out two offensive 'passages in the Peti-
tion, conclusive, in his opinion, against its re--
ception.—What do yon ima4ine these were ?
44 Tho first 'passage was that which, referring to
46 the Vote of last year, (the decision on Mr.
44 MADOCKS'S motion of last Session) pronounced
44 it beyond endurance. The other, in referring
" to the Vote of that noose fur the Committal
44 of Sir L. BURDETT, characterized it as an act
46 of flagrant illegality." Now, we arc not at
present goiog to argue the truth or mistake of
these passages. Mr. Pettervar. misapprehends
the nature of a public Petition, as.ho does almost
every thing else. It is a coospluintof grievances,
with a prayer (or the redress of them—it some-
times goes further, and reasonstrates against
the evil—a:ill even further, sometimes ; and
protests aglinst the iniquity. But the gFiev-
once must he stated, or not one of those things
can he done which form a Petition ; and Ma.
joo. CARTWRIGUT could nut have Made the
statement of the grievances of which he tom:
plains, in any less plain or forcible language,
without injury to that integrity which every one
lcves in the Major, an t th,t talent which all ad-
mire. Major Oa eTwiGirr did Out go out of his
way to abuse the House, uor 'has he abused it while
in his path, and in pursuit of his just ohject.-s-
He has expressed himself with his natural feeling;
and Mr. Penctvac. should know, that, if teen au
expression which might be offensive, if ineatst as
such, had slipped into the Petition, it is no longer
offensive, when its strength is considered as pro.
ceeding merely (ruin the zeal of the Petitioner's
legitimate• object. There is a strange want of
discrimination to Mr. PERGEVALIS mind ; and as he
• bas sot up for a Oolitic-ion, it would be well fur
him if he could persuade himself to take Mr.
WINDHAM Had the jinn, for that Gentleman••has
more than subtlety enough, anti has no objection
to employ . it iu any profitable concern. •
But Mr. Posezvar, has " found out a new
ground for rejection, merely, because, the Peti.
tion of a Subject was rather of greater iength-than
was ordinarily prescuted,7 as Mr. AVut'renzats
very properly noticed, accoeling" to the habit he-
llos of detecting absurdities in the triouths as weir
as conduct of the People's opponents. The
mention of the ding, Mr. WitireitcAo • felt'
W 39 quite sufßeint to bring, Mr. Psueey.ses '
new doctrine (Isis last new doctrine, for he 'has
many) into cusitempt, and to that contempt we
leave it.—ln a worth the TRUTH must be told,
when the people petition, and must be told in
plain language ; and that is not a constitutional,
mot a reasonableground for rejecting the Petition.
Thu people do not petition to tell the House when
they are tiding rightlx; that is not customary,
.not, in fact, necessary, for the public voice is
everywhere, and every Member feels its benign
breath when he is right
WE give our Readers further extracts from Biel
Paris Papers, down to the 6th inst. The Turkish
Empire, and 66 lilyrian Provinces, continuo to
be the stones of agitation ; and here, the reign b(
Despotism is only excliatiged fur that of Anarchy.

WE have this day 4;vett the Letter of our Cor.
respondent, an lk/lABITANr of St. MARG4RIIT'S
and are sorry we could not sooner.give it
place. We have the same apology to make to
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THERE is to be an assembly of COUNIPLR•
MEETINGERS) -Freeholders of Aliddlesex, to-innr•
row; at twelve o'clock, at the Freemason's Ta.
Tern, for the express purpose of voting
a Coen.
TER-DECLA RATION. We wish all the Freeholders
of Middlesex could be there, and then we should
have a REMONSTRANCE to the House of Com-
mons for rejecting their Petition, instead of
a Couater.declaration.
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The •Walsingham packet has reached Falmouth,
after a voyage of 57 days from Jamaica. By this-,
opportunity we have Jamaica Courants, King-
ston and Royal Gazettes, and the other Journals
of the Island. The meeting of the General As-
sembly had been further prorogued to the 10th of
April. The Hyperion frigate, of 32 guns, Captain ,
BRoDIE, anchored at fort Royal on the 28th
February, with the 'fleet, to the number of 150.
sail, from London and.Barbadoes. Off Antonio,
on the Ist •of March,. the William Miles .was
boarded by tiro Statira frigate, Captain PETER.
soN, with the Sceptre, of 74 guns, in company.—
The persons boarding were. disguised, and Captain
PETERSON stated, that they were on the, look out
for a French line of battle ship, which was ex-
pected from Bourileaux with supplies for Gua-
daloupe. •
General BLAKE has arrived at Cadiz, and taken
the Chief command of the troops at that place,
General CASTAN lIA% leg the great duties of the
Government, to attend to.
General CuEST.t is appointed Governor-Gene-
ral of the Balearic Islands, (Majorla, Minorca,.
&c.) the Noire expected refuge of the Spanish
Gavernment. This appoititmeet is said by some
to be reisommentled by the Co,uncil'of Castile, and
by a certain party at Cudit.
• The Gleaner, Lieutenant CRELN, has arrived.
at Plymouth in, six days from Lisbon. Lord
WELLINGTON had advanced to the frontiers, and u
rumour prevailed that his intention was to endea-
vour to push on to Salamanca, where great part of
The French army destined for the attack on Porto-
gal was stationed. The British army is in the
highest-state of discipline. The Portuguese force
consists of about 40,000 men, well appointed, and
principally commanded by English odicers.
'l'ho following is the Article of •IVar insisted
upon by Mr. LYTTELTON as imperative on the
Commander in Chief, while his Majesty's Minis.
ter, allege it to be discretionary, and, by a sin-
gular restriction of its sense, applicable only to
pecuniary grievances:
OF REDRESSING WRONGS.
Section 12. Article I.—What un Officer must do, if he
thinks himself wronged:—
" If any Wher shall think himself wrogged by his Colo:
ea, or the Commanding Officer of the regiment, and shall,
upon due application made to him, he refused to he re-
dressed, he may complain to the General Commanding in
Chief our Forces, in order to obtain justice, who is hereby
cyFired to examine into such complaint," and either by him-
sett, or our Secretary at War, to make his report to us there-
upon. in Order to receive our further directions."
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT is said to have been
abridged in his walk nithin the Tower. When
he was first committed, he was allowed to pass
round the walls by answering the challenge of the
several centinels of " Who comes there ?" by the
answer of 66 Sir FRANCIS BURDETT ;" but now,
as it is reported, he is not permitted to pass the first
centime!, from being (mashie to give the countersign
of the garrison parole of the day. If this lie true,
it has ',reliably been occasioned by the Baronet
going to see the' manufactory of gun-stocks, a few
days since, and having been hurcited by the work.
imen at his departure.
Green coats with gilt buttons, nankeen waist.
costs and trowsers, or small clothes, with white
silk. stockings and gaiters, are: begitining to be
spurted by those who are cousitlered the leaders of I
the BUD DETTITES.
M VONA CHAIITA.—Sir ROBERT COTTON (the
celehrated collector of the Cottunian Library ),
being one day, at his tailor's, perceiving that the
man heid in his hand, ready to cut up for measures*
the Original Magna Charta, with all its appendages
of seals and signatures, immediately bought this
slimier curiosity for a mere trifle, and recovered,
in thii singular manner, what had long been given
over for lost.—" Colomesiatia," O age,d 198.
'114.-ounit HUNTER bias at length recovered
celebrated mare ; it et:i;1115 that she was rode away,
under a whimsical eilivoque, by a Gentlemand
who, seeing Mr. ilesTca's servant waiting' at thei
top of St. Janies's-street with a mare, supposed
it to be the identical one a bias he directed a dealer
to send to the same spot for his trial. The Gentle-
man finding Mr. Hermes servant rather reluctant
to lot him mount her till his master came, at last
, consented, on being told that she was t& be rude
on trial by 'orderer his master. The Gentleman
..on this rode a few miles. into" the country, and
liking-the mare amazingly; wrote a' letter, ittClos.
•irg a draft for the sum asked by the dealer, and
kept her in the country. Tlikasttmished the lat.
ter; as. oti inquiry he found Atilt, by mistake, hisi
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mare had nut been out of the stable. During tsigl
.general mistake:Mi. WIRY HUNTER imagining,
-from his servant's account, that some person had
defrauded hint of his mare,. put out hand-bills,
Offering a reward. fur apprehending the effender,
eWI 64 all the marks and colours of Mc rider."'
These being seen by the Gentleman who was the in-
Itocent cause of all this embarrassment, the mystery
was soon unravelled, by the restoration of • the
mare, after affording a good three days hoax
against Mr. °Rev Illiwrca throughout the whole
Equestrian Order:
A serious affray has taken place at Chichester
between a party of military Officers and the In.
habitants of the Tosru, .whiclkat one time threat-
cued alarming effects, but which were seasonably
averted by the interposition of the Magistrates.
We trust it will be made•the subject of grave in.
quiry.
BREAD.—To.4ay the Lord Mayor and Alder.*
i• men, after inspecting the returns, ordered it to
irise ld. per peck.
From the Loudon Gazette, May s.—His
JESTY has been graciously pleased to grant his
Atrayel Licence and Authority to. WILLIAM Ro..
ittsota, of Everton, near Liverpool, to take and
' use the name of BROWN only, In parsdance of the
Will 'of HI'S late Father.iu.Law, Jett* littoww
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Esq. of Everton atotrad.
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