The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-18 00:00:00

and horithOlk "pdritle ',thlir ttleatictres in the neigh-
bouring towns and villages; and in Oxford itoor, _..,..„,.._
seduction is very prevalent. • MR. EDITOR,--I am desirOut of calling the atten.
• It must be allowed, indeed, that the Proctors are tion of men of honour and delicacy of all parties to
not the only persons to be btstnecl for these injudi- some attacks which have lately been 'elide in The
cirrus proceedings. To theVice-Chancellor, for the Courier on a young nobleman of great celebrity.--
time being, must be attributed the greater share of Had they been directed against his poetry I Might
the Maine; for it must be remembered, that no cam- , have ascribed them to jealousy rif his fame, 'and I
midnent lien take place but by his warrant, or by !should have left them to be repelled by the adniira-
that of nine of the Pro-Vice-Chancellors acting roe! tion of his country. If his politictil, condnet had
him. - i. • • • been aimed at, I should have thooiht the tailitttri-
If the Officers of the 'University had common portant part of it suificimitly aetured tiy•itc appar4nt
sensed or common prudence; they would act with ; independence and disinterestedness. To call the
aomedegree of moderation; they would not insist most popular poet of out times, " an ireinident.
upon theneforcement of Statutes, and the exertion ! young man," is an insult to telle_public taste, pretty.
of privileges, which were always odious and uncons I sore of being puilishea by the disgest eitlr which mul.
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ditutiOIMIII and which ill accord with the temper end • gar scurrility neverfails to lespire all men of liberal
spirit of the times. lf, however, they are deter. i education and sentiments. But if Lord Byron has
mined still to persist in these measures, contrary to ; employed his talents in the disputes of
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the voice of justice and reason, they cannot have 4 shothl not have blamed any severity of retaliatiost
anyvauselo complain if they shall be deprived of ' expressed in the language of gentlemen, confined AS
'their !timenr. of annoyance; for this business now ! nearly as possible to himself, and consistent with the
cons fob the, interference of Parliaments and a Peti. ! usages of fair contest. I chat! the writer In ritems
lieu knit the inhabitants of Oxford, stating their , Courier with a breach of all these conditions:. • f ,*
grievaeges might place them within the protection Lord Byron; at the age of twenty.one',l smarting'
o44helisy of the land, and put them on a footing !. under a sharp,provocation, and probably inislideibtMC
of coq w 0 elecurity with the inhabitants of other places. • its source, published a satire, which he himselfieiG.'
ao, March, 1814. I demised almost es soon as he could calmly conOtteilt:!
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. lite so ppressOd it on his return from GreeceilfSiti.
• GP R11.4V SUFFERERS.
km . .4 - . .., sild to have refined the offer of large sistei of iti-on'ey
--omsee-- !ter permissien to re-publish it, a circumstance which
GOTEFUL'AioItNOWLEDGINIENT OF BItITISH I should have disdained to mention in a contest with'''
I- tear .-- BENEVOLENCE. . a generous adversary, especially after the purposes-
l'Eletfhlio wills is arc extract of a letter from Leip. Ito which Lord Byron is now publicly known to hest' '
sib, jest received by Mr. Ackermenn, which shows applied the sums which havelaihn!pitid for the copy:Cr.'.
with. whet feelings the charitable donations trans- ' right of his works. In the following words of the
mated from this country are there received, and will dedication of the Corsair, !trelis publicly announced
satisfy the Public respecting the fidelity with which . the suppression, and avowed Ms indelible regret • Isle'
they will be distributed : I having published the suppressed prodnction, " COM..
". San,--We have been honoured with four of positions:chose FORMER CIRCULATIONS is part of mat •
year valuable letters, of December 31, January 14, ! present and will be of my future •regrct." INT..itiking,.
I*, mod ,128, all of which we have received in the ,it is evident, could have limited a generous mind lei.'
Mine of the present week. With the deepest emo. ; this general disavowal, bat an apprehension (well or
tion, and the most heartfelt gratitude, not only on ! ill founded) that more particular language might re..
our own part, and that of the Committee, formed vive the pain formerly inflicted, or, perhaps, wound
, ever since the 3d January, but likewise on account 1 where theediaft might not before have reached. This
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lof many thousands of distressed families, we have ' delicacy, perhaps, originally overstrained, soon
i learned, with what zeal you and several other gene- I proved u hotly unavailing.
rout minded men have led the way to alleviate the I The writer in the Courier, to whom I have alluded,
woes of suffering humanity. Heaven will continue' chose to re-publish all those parts of the disavowed
to sheerer rich blessings on the benevolent British 1 poem, which had been directed against the nearest re-
nation, and graciously to protect it from all salami- I lations of the writer, against those who had become
ties. We have the honour to enclose you a letter . his most intimate friends. is there any example of
from the Committee, which was organised at the 1 such a proceeding in the civilized and honourable war-
commencement of the present year, and has assumed fare of Faiglish parties?—Offensive language in private
the title of ' The Association for the Relief of the I conversation is considered as unsaid by all Menttiede ..
Inhabitants of Leipsic.' It contains but a feeble las soon as the speaker desires to recal it. If wares:
expression of the emotions of gratitude with which ; words used to a relation or friend in society were anti
We accept the generous contributions. revocable, every infirmity of temper might dissolve.
" Permit us to enter into a more circumstantial the dearest and mnstsacred relations of human life.—' •
account of the proceedings of this Association, and The deliberate and cold repeater of the -wurds, af-
to Inform you in what manner we condect this ter their rent, is justly regarded as being equally
arduous business. Besides the 10 members who the enemy of both parties. Ile does his ulmost. to.
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etimplee this Association, and to whom the princi. convert momentary warmth into everlasting bather,
pel direction over the vast theatre of the battle, com- Ito render explanation vain, forgiveness dierepetable,
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pretending 60 villages, is committed, the Directors 4 and reconciliation impossible, •
kelp' In proportion to the Went of their reeptiftleil ' Teihr. cue changed, because the offensive *cords "
'WENS, three, four, or more assistants, men of .1.0 fkilif6d? Has the author lest by publieattarthe-
acknowledged probity, who poetess head and heart !Vight to deliver himself from the"effeets of his ort
i enough to perform this laborious duty with lidelity.linceesiderate language ? Ilse" he no right to s'elseito
The Magistrates of each place furnish written state.; his mind, and gratlfy his tidier of jilt lice b7i' .-- -....• '
i means of the losses of the inhabitants individually, i tion to others ? Shrill a COM9IOII. enemy be emit
I agreeably to a printed form of auestions transmitted . to render the reparation unainirisi, • precisely.*
Ito them. These are strictly examined by us, uith the , the injury is most extensive?. Are the hot waseatint• i
assistance of the Ministers and village Magistrates.— , youth, anger, and mistnke: to be•made irreekekle et, •
i Rigid inquiries are made on the spot by ourselves, the pleasure of every malevolent 'antagonist >" •• • . ;
I and tier assistance and relief is apportioned to each ! had a booksetler re-published the Poem lu epste•
I individual. As we have had occasion to remark, in iof I.olel Byron's prohibition, he svotad hive ,:been .
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other similar cases, that donations in money alone is . universally reprobated as an invader of the mithoria..,
I not always the most serviceable, since it is often in- ° rights. Ilet What is lhe difference between a book.'
I judiciously expended, the Association have made it , sc!ler and the writer to whom tadreetl,
,Only this:.
their grand object not merely to supply the unfortu- ' that the bookse;ler would publish tit" whole:for pee-
nate country people with provisions, and to replace fit, and this writer leas published 'parts from malice?
the most necessary articles of wearing apparel, and , To publish the w hole, or any part, of 1 disaeonotl.
household furniture, but also to provide them with work, is trio:ally the same with publishing the whole
seed, corn, oats, barley, and peal ; also cattle, as or part of ii purloined manusciipt. The moral right
often, cons, swine, &c. llandicraftemen with im- of the writer to withdraw his work is as clear as his
plements of every kind. Distinct persons are ap- original right to withhold it. It is vain to say
pointed to superintend this business. some thou. : that, however unjustifiable the re-publication may
sand bushels of cern, of all sorts, for spring sowing, be, the author has too deeply offended to have any
have already been purchased, and arrangements right to complain. In truth the author is rarely the
made for procuring cattle from abroad, so that we greatest sutlhrer. If lie he malicious it may be agree-
hope to obtain your approbation and that of the able to him—if be be careless of the feelings of
Committee of which you are a Member. ! others, it may be indifferent. It is a suffering so un.
" You nisb us to inform what places have more ' just as only to be felt by. a generous author, and hi
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particularly suffered besides our own neighbourhood:; exact to his geeereisity.
The environs of Lutzeit were dreadfully ravaged, on But the principirstaferers must generally be those
account of the battle of the 2d of May ; several vin- whom, the. writer in thb courier affects to compel.
highs were burned, together with the churches and 'donate, and whose wrongs he pretends to deplore...-.
schools; the vicinity of Grimma and Meissen was Because respectable and amiable persons hare been
likewise cruelly laid waste after the battle of Lutzen ; out* attacked, this writer, under pretepce of pe.
and.the country contigeous to Dresden, as far as be- . Milking the original assailant, again tears open their
yond Pirnaeis little better than one wide desert. In Intoends, and invades the. privacy of their domestic
Upper Loathe the whole tract between Bautzen and life. It is his triumph that lie throws disquiet into
Gorlits has been desolated in an equal degree; and , families—that he contributes to exasperate and per-
poor Witteoberg, to which your benevolent attention ' petuate the divisions of those whom nature and
has been already directed, has, together with the ad- , friendship have joined. Ile avowedly exults in hay.
jacent country, been very severely handled. The ing inflicted pain by wounding the derest and most
monsters have committed the greatest abominations : sacred sentiments of those whom he it compelled to
there, not even sparing the venerable monuments of represent as already suffering under unprovoked in-
the immortal Luther, which they have almost entirely : jury. No nian who felt such sentiments in his own
destroyed. i breast could have wovnind them in others. Such
"Thus far we had written, when we had received ! writers are sufficiently partishel by the rivation,cf
your's of the 4th instant, in which you repeat what , all that is noble and dele:litfte in tiuttiau feeling. Out.
you had the goodness to apprize us of in your earlier I they must also be eotltillittitni by men of boossue,
letters. We have in consequence drawn this day at I without distinction r f par'Tkillttd ' ithont regard to On
sight for 50001. sterling, on Joseph RETNEK, Esq. • merit or demerit of Lord Byttio,,, "i'll..y base rendered .
and =I. on yourself., Of this sum yea allot I themselves the authors of the tiepab i bed satire: • •As •
To Leipsic and its •ieinity Xl5OO 0 0 such they would he considered by a Coureof Justify.
'Oa account of the Profits of the Narra- i ?00 0 0 As such they must be regarded by the parties agaittit
• five of Leipsic
To, Dresden non in vicinity - IMO 0 0 whom they have adopted the cffenxire languogealis.
To Bautzen and ditto - . 50.1 0 0 . claimed by the original author. As such they movt
Tn IV oaten and ditto
To °tenon nod dttio - - 333933 66 88 li.be reprobated by all those who value fairness and de-
•To Meistin and ditto - - 533 8 8 I cency in political contest, who condemo the draggi;tt
To Halle and ditto - - NO 0 0 of, private feeling and conduct before the public, mil •
TiWittenberg and ditto - 800 0 0
We have the honour to be, with the ileums esteem, w iio esteem literary property as inviolable for purposes
FREGI: and Co. of honour and morality, as it is for these of pecuniary
profit. Nothing can he wanting to the condemnation
of such writers but the proof evidently supplied by
the circumstances and objects of their abuse, that
they have not the excuse of resentment, hut are ac-
tuated by the hate policy of infusing suspicion, and
confirming prejudice against the opponents of their
employers in the minds of Close whose close they
dishonour by their means of defence. s. H.

LORI) BYRON:

Among the lute arrivals at MILLARD'S East India
Warehouses in the City, are some very curious India
Moslifts and Shawls, which came over as pres Pets,
together with some admirable productions in Ivory,
from China direct.-+The Broads' _Vella, lately sold
/PTA" Hon*, won p 1 %Wet bipmetiful descrip.
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