The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

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'rids-Gentleman left Dublin on Monday, for Sect'
laud, where, as the collectors of fashionable news in-
fo, M us, he has taken a lodge for the shooting sea-
eon. EDT a considerable time previous to his de.

, Darters there were hints occasionally thrown out in
the Court Journals, that publiobodies might address
the Right flow. Gentleman with & certainty making
Lim extremely well pleased and thankful. In this
'country of jobbers, and admirers of that excellent
species of loyalty which is called profitable, it was to
' be expected that the ceremonial of a " farewell
elope" Would be as often repeated as his leisure or
appetite for compliment would permit. It has so
happened, however, that the suggestions of the
Court Gazettes have been little attended to, and that
the addresses which be has received, • itbout deriving
lay go eat distinction or importance from the chess•
lets of the individuals by whom they were offered,
were extremely insignificant in number. One of them
was presented by the Copormiou of Dublin, who.
went into the'presence of the Ex-Secretary with the
stigma of having broken their promise about a shabby
plc tire which they invited him to sit for. A compli-
ment from them was a thing which no one could
value. Mr. Peel himself gave, in his deportment
whilst he was receiving it, the most striking illus•

traitor) of its wortblessuess even in his own eyes.—
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iiis manner in general, if it does not display absolute

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basin r, is cold, formal, and distant. Every thing
•' In it which could forbid approach, and express uure•
Hewed indifference, seemed prepared for the reception
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of poor. Sir Edward Stanley, Sheeiff's Peer Studde►t,
• and four or five others who went up with the William•
street valediction. He scarcely waited to hear what they
•'o bad to say, when be began his answer, and as soon
•a' " as be had come to the concluding word, he dissp.

Ilt . ' peered with such precipitation, that a Gentleman,
41 --, who formed one of the mortified arid embarrassed
. group, brought away with him a memorial or repre.
• -a • sentatien of some description, which his hand was
- ' actually balf.way extended in offering to the Right
Hon. Gentleman. There were Addresses prepared
i,:•••• by one or two of the minor Corporations,—and a
bira: :, couple of dozen of Gentlemen of the County of
Dublin (n ho are unquestionably respectable, but many
of whom are justly called by Mr. Peel his personal
friends and intimate acquaintances) offered something
complithentary, withoet, however, saying any thing
about that much valued feature of his Admi,pistration.
rte;.. 'in Ireland that relates to the Catholic Question.
4414 - •---The foreman of the County of :Cork Gvand
0•11. Jury has forwarded an Address to 'the Crude, bat
•—•;• the Southern Reporter informs' us that tetiertil of his-
s brother Jurors have dissented (rem the measure,
.... 4' considering that such subjects were incompatible
1,-. with their duties as Grand Jurors ;'' or in other
..• words, feeling that Mr. Peel deserved no special ac.
. • knowledgments from them. If we add to the list
-of testimonials a document espressive of the grati-
l'•S" toile with which the Anti-Catholic speeches of the.
i...ne ' Right Hon. Gentleman have filled the breasts of the 1
r '"ou Rev. Grey Porter, and the Clergy of the Diocese i
trl9 ‘ of Clogher, we believe we make out a complete
"iin Statement Of all the glories which have as yet been
..lii 'Allied upon Mr. Peel, through the instrumentality of
lo , ;Addresses.
40 i" What, indeed, are the claims of Mr. Peel to any
5)0% VI% eter marks of respect or esteem, than fell to the
I ''''''' Orof any of his predecessora ? He has been sit
"'''d li at the head of the Administration of Ireland,
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f-41` '' 31 -4uoad national amelioration, or measures of great
X .i (41,'-'setteral utility, he has left a; worse, or nothing
;11fsittee, 'khan be found us. Without indulging in any
0 " agrevagaut ispectatirins regarding an Independent
".' Legillatere,' OA -country may hope for some midge-
-1: 'lion Of party asperities, an improvement in trade,
-—. ' a diminution of times, and an alteration in the
* • .condition of oar truly wretched peasantry arising
"' from instruction, modification of the tythe system,
encouragement' of industry, or some other Cause.
1' ' Ail° any evill arising from party asperities, Mr.
u" ' Peel's acts We tended rather to encrease, than
/" ' lessen diem. Mani Ministers have zealously op-
. 1 'posed. Emancipation, but he is the only one whom
''e ' Ihe 'Orangemen bate addressed as a champion of their
principles. There has been no improvement of trade
during his government. Some efforts were made a
few years ego, to interest him in the condition of
1).- ' -our woollen manufacture, but his answer was, that
those who are its patrons "should take care how
they prevote Erigland to deprive this country of its
3-- linen trade.° Many attempts to give Ireland the
- " -benefit of the Ring's orders, relative to army cloth.
'lug,- have proved nugatory. There has been an in.
.." crease of taxes since Mr. Peel was intrusted with
the direction of affairs in'this country. Since the
peace, England has shaken off nearly twenty mil.
lions of her burthens, and althoegh every city and
town in Ireland petitioned against the Window Taz,
it lots been continued, modified to an Went which
yields no perceptible relief, and which is really not
worth speaking of. Every thing that has been done
for our peasantry, is comprised in the Peace Pre-
. servation Acts. These cannot be said to alter the
. ' system that makes them miserable. They are only
temporary checks of the evil consequences of the
system.
We are, then, at a loss to see why Ireland should
acknowledge great and peculiar gratitude to Mr. Peel.
. We have, ourselves, often stated, that we consider-
ed him, in general, a well-meaning person, and that
• there were some minor duties of his office which he
discharged with honesty and disinterestedness. The
, petty jobbers, we are told, found him more difficult
'of access than the majority of his predecessors, and
• it is reported, that there was considerable iuspartiali-
' tj manifested in such steps as he conceived it neces.
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. , 4 airy to adopt towards those who had become actual
delinquents, or such as it was necessary to keep at a'
. convenient distance from the Treasury Chambers.-1
..*/ There was too a dash of candour and manliness in
"1101 Otis character which was to be admired, and though
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be manifested few of the characteristics of a great
mind, and was always more remarkabl for acumen
and dexterity in getting through the details of office,
than solidity of judgment or elevation of thought,
still he possessed talents which might be very useful
if properly applied, and must, at all events, be
' pronounced respectable. But essential services he
had not rendered to Ireland. Perhaps it will be
said, that most of the plane of melioration above
glanced at, were out of the sphere of his Moyne
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