The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-13 00:00:00

TO TilZ EDITOR, &C.

Stn,—l have been amused this day with the perusal
ota letter addressed to you by Mr lhuii O'Bryen, in
which b• affects to he witch offended at the statement
Oven by yon of the oeeurr that took plate at
Bow-street relative to the mysteriints release of Mr.
Franklin. alias Mr. Forhes, alias Mr. Fletcher.

Mr. O'Bryen first asserts, that he dots not enjoy a
sinecnre plree under the government, but evknu+•-
ledges the holding of a situation ender the Colonial
Department. As the place alluded to is a most lucra-
tive situation, and as, if there are any duties belong-
ing to it, they are, or ought to be performed at the
Cape of (haul (lope ; and as Mr. Denis I I'lleyen has
enjoyed the benefits of the appointment fur 1; years,
and has not, 1 believe. been ever near the Cape, I
should have conceived myself justified in calling the
situation a sinecure place. As however, 1 find Mr.
Franklin, otherwise Mr. Fletcher, so closely evaierted
with Mr. Denis O'Brven, 1 beg the latter liestleman's
pardon in terming him a and willingly cor-
rect the error by admitting that he fully serves all that
he reeeires.

Respecting the Editorial visitants whom Mr. Denis
O'Bryen, is 'n the habit of seeing, I can l•nly remark,
that two or three days since, Mr. Denis trliryen's
memory furnished him with the 11.1113, of one celebrated-
Editor of a Ministerial paper, who had rot, as .he is-
formed the Magistrates, bees in the house for ion%
years. Now the time Is contracted to 12 swaths I
and I tell Mr. Denis O'llrven, that I think if be will
give Vs memory another furbish, he will find soot.
traces of a skit within as many days from the period
I sin writing.
Mr. O'llryen says, that he is an °cessions] Cot-
respondent of different papers. I know this
fact well ; and I know also full well what description
of articles it is which he furnishes to one of these
I papers. Perhaps Mr. Denis O'Bryen may yet blush
at the recollection of having called his Queen a hat,
aye, and that too, within a day or two of the time
when there were issued from his house certaio hand-
bills calculated to involve in a charge of treaton and
sedition. her Majesty and her friends. Mr. O'Bryen
is not the Editor of The Moraia, Peat. No, so. Mr.
Oliryen has been in the Colonial Department too
long to put himself thus in jeopardy. lint what if It
shall appear that Mr. Denis O'Bryen should torn out
to he the writer of virulent invectives against the Re-
formers for the imputed publication of treasonable
hand-bills, and that these hand-bills should be traced
to and from the depot in Craven-street.
Mr. O'Bryen, although I accurately described to'
hint the personal appearance of Mr. Franklin, and
mentioned the lime when he hail been at his house,
assured me posititively that he did not know the man ;
and, after twelve hones reflection, told Mr. Birnie, the
Magistrate, the same. When, where, and fur what
purpose, Mr. Franklin, alias Fletcher, went to Mr.
O'Bryen's depot at Craven-street, 1 shall not meetion
here. As Mr. D. O'Bryen likes law he 'Lail have
enough of it ; and when I recollect that Sir C. Wulse-1
ley is in Abingdon gaol for Its mouths, open& charge
of having conspired with a man he had never before
seen, I think that, "as long as law sustains itself
against the atealts sf incendiaries and cut-throats,"
Mr. Denis O'llryen may have perhaps to eall at Abing-
don in his way to Oxford Castle, if it ran he proved
that Mr. Franklin has been in the habit of carrying
' his seditious and treasonable placards to Slr.O'Bryen's
for the last three years.
i• lam now setting off by the mail in pursuit of Mr.
Franklin. If 1 were to waste longer time upon Mr.
Denis O'Bryen's letter I might contribute to the ob-
ject which he had in view in writing it. I have heard
of a "tub been thrown oat to the whale," but nothing
p.that Mr. O'Bryen can write shall divert toy attention
from the object of catching his friend and associate,
Mr. Fletcher, alias Mr. Frankli to, alias Mr. Forbes, being
the opponent of both une and theother, as long eel ins
t'HAlti.M.l PEARSON.
MiTall A•AIN11;:TIMIL••••••.41 eighteen of the name
,of Perman, whys bus done some great pedestrian et-
pleas in the North steeled ea Tuesday gunnies, ea the
Bath road, to perform hay miles in eight hoer% Om a
stake of bee guineas, part of which Ms friends Mead
with him. It was a sporting match. and betting *at
against time. Mr. Yergasoa did the first .sib hi
shoat otght esthete., and he performed rater snore
thaa sight mita in As first hoar, sad seven In the
seemed hour, when he refreshed. sad eessilmed half
the distaste in three hears and three vanes% Mt*
and Weil. Me then ameba klitssef Ma tit aped So
h4Tsar oaer, astil be left Maas& 1.104 116;
fear miles is is u the last kvarAld 1r wry.