The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-12 00:00:00

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duetavas surely the • the unkindest cut of all." But that
Tug STATESMAN should be charged with " turning." and by
Tee Traveller too, that thrice had turned and thrice had
failed, is preposterous. We defy our most inveterate foes
t, point out a period when THE STATeSMAN ever ceased to
be the steady and consistent friend of the people. Every
abuse, both of a public and rrivate nature, has been always
strenuously and pertinaceously exposed in its columns. Its
cossisteeey gave it strength, but also gave it enemies—these,
‘bee they could not meet the truths it told, have sought to
ruffs it by persecutions. But, notwithstanding intimidation
on the one hand, and falsehood on the other. we have
fatless'', pursued, and shall still continue fearlebsly to pursue
our course, and maintain our ground. We shall never shrink
film that responsibility which Lieut.-Col. Torrens dare not
incur ; with all the bravadoes of his associates, a ith all his
teuatings and swaggering, he meanly skulks under the um-
brageous protection of a Printer, or a Printer's Devil. He,
is the principal Proprietor of The Traveller, at least, he
.0, 50, and acts as if he were. How then can he call upon
the people to look up to him as their champion, when like
Joke Ball, he dare not take the risk of what is advanced in
his owe paper. Let him manfully come forward—let him
also ow for all declare himself Whig or Radical, and in
the "War of Words," let him be seen in front. If he con-
dos to oscillate between parties, and expect to profit by
the coalition of Whip and Radicals, he will find himself
reality begone and miserably mistaken. The great body
°fibs people must unite with the Radicals, and that 'ere
beg, but the Whigs must be taught to abate some of their
retensions before they can rely upon the support of the
Bulimic It is hardly necessary to apologise to our
Readers for introducing these observations, because it is,
as we stated at the commencement, on a subject more inter-
riding to them then to us. They have been sought to be
km-bagged while the circulation only of a few papers has
been sought to be taken in a surreptitious way from us.
What we have related cannot fail to have its proper infiu-
rime. The bare act of employing persons to go from house
to house, to promote the circulation of his paper, is of itself,
in our humble opinion, sufficient to show on the part of
Lieut.-Col. Torrens, a want both of honour and tespecta-
bility ; two most essential requisites in those who conduct
the public press. Defeated, however, and unable to raise his
paper on the ruins of others, by these petty manceuvres, be
has had recourse to another device, which is equally deserv-
iag of exposure. We allude to certain " Rules and Orders"
addressed to Publicans. We propose to offer oar comments
on them, to shew bow far they can benefit any body else
but the Lieut.-Col. To avoid tediousness, we shall defer
them till to-morrow, when the whole subject will be con-

eluded.
(a.) Some time ago we had occasion to notice that one of
our paragraphs. after travelling for some time, had re-sp.
peared in another journal as original information. The
Traretter, conscious of the application, thought proper to
reply to our observations at the moment. From the " sup-
porters of corruption" they might have expected such an
exposure, but •• from the Friends of Liberty," It was too

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