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

or the redotettalde and utemorahie. Tr
Countess, alias Mademoiselle DEMONT, alias
non-memorable, Tneoototx M tort ft. No one, we
believed them ; and the 141 EEN'S Cnvxset.
• very safely, have shut their mouths, folded their aray,.
and sacred toe ease to go to a division, upm tie
ev:tlence of tit- prosecntors' own witnesses. lint h.-
; Mancert's aliVisers were nut satisfied, even curie ter
certainty that the dirty tale would not be bel:eve.'
They have proved part of it to be false; and a i.art
it to be impossihle. In short: of her MAJESTY'S ice
nocence, her bitterest enemies, have, in their gal:tr
souls, not the slightest douht : and, withia the h.;
two days, various rumours have been &Ant, Mto V.l
means hr which the Ministers purpose effeetin:
retreat. It is reported that for this puri•ose.
' Master-lieneral of the Ordnance t-as calla:l into reqc .
sition ; and that, on his very modestly and innocentiv
declaring he knew nut how to effect a retread, Li, ran.
panions told him his memory was no better that
Maa.sect's an.l they then most unkindly reeiinleli
hint of the battle of TalaTera ; and that, on that 0:t.1
siun, be not only retreated, bat in such haste wit`.:.
that he left his killed, tmhuried, and his wountlzel, t.
the care of the French Marshal ! Bnt this is nut::;
The Noble Set RETA':Y of STATE, who advises I t
friends never to "turn :heir hacks upon thetusclves;
declares, that his maxim was not well founded ; swears
he will not fat-e the Consumni on the /7:h ; and ir•
sists upon being called op to Merl*, of Peers, 'La;
he may decently avoid the dan that day. If his
Lordship and histfriends should fall oat, we may pos-
sibly hear something which will throw a little light
upon the whole proceeding; for, of course,. the Mi-
nisters have been imposed upon by wielse.l toes; ant
the sooner we know who they are the better. and
the more readily will Ministers be then acquitted v:
all participation in the conspiracy.
To chew h•)w easy it is to prefer a charge of adul-
tery ; and how easy it is to make people believe it. we
have only to refer our resoles to a trial which took place
some years ago; and in which, the Ita•rister, to whom
we have alluded, made the very remark with which
we have set out in this Article. It was an action
brought by a Mr. Asvuonv llounes, against the Wm.
CitteLes WTNIIIIAM, brother to the then Earl of
E.:11E110NT, tsr Criminal Conversation with the Plain-
tiff's wife. M. (now Lord) ERSKIE was Counsel
for the plaintiff; Mr. EitSKINE was then AvroaNty-
GENERAL fur the Patsec of WaLas, his present Mt-
JESTV ; and the defence was, that the plaintilrs wife
was a r minion prostitute, with the connivance of her
own husband. To prove this, two witnesses were called ;
one of whims positively swore that this was the fart ;
anti that one of the lady's paramours was, no ether
than the said Prince of Waits, his said present
Maaasrv, another of Mr. BasetNe's own clients!
and the witness then went into an abominabb and a
filt!ov detail into which we certainly lave no Inten-
tion to drag our readers. 11:r. Easatom for some
reason or other, never said a word In defence of his
illustrious client ; and the Jury believed the witness.
and found a verdict for the defendant! Now what Is
to be said to all this? As to people saying this, that
and the other ; as to their saying it is very odd that
the Jary believed the witness; and it is very odd
that Mr. EssaiNa never proseeated that witness for
thins slandering his illustrious client; to such people,
and their nonsense. we shall say nothing at all. Mr.
&tastes was a wise and able Counsel ; and knew very
well, upon all occasions, what be was about. Perhaps
he thought nobody but the Jury would believe it ; but,
at all events, we may be certain he had very pod rea-
sons for doing what he did ; and likewise fpr not
doing what he did not do. Into Mom reasons it
would be impertinent for us to Winks; we merely
produce this instance to skew, how nosy it is to bring
forward a groundless charge of adal.trn and how
easily people may be brought to Ingsty#ret: SO easily,
that one is almost led to suppose, on rtin, to
,the
Queax's we, that those charges ars generally be.
Hewed when true. and as generally rrjatted when
false.

An Halifax paper of the Ist of Antrost, contains
complaints of three Arts which have passed the British
Parliament :—The Barbadoes Free Post, the I)etaarar4
Trade, and the Newfoundland Fishery Arts. It
states as follows:—" We observed that these Bins
were introduced into Parliament, passed their va-
rious stages to the Royal Assent, without the least
debate or explanation ; still, from some observations
made thiring the session on the subject of the colonial
trade by one or two of the Ministers, we shookd not
be surprised to find, in the Barbadoes Bill at least, an
intik:llkm of the breaking up of the British colensl42
policy, and the adoption of certain maxims as the
freedom of trade, which Lord U.ssildoteasat has more
than once incidently adVlll, ate4l."

'I he Lieutenant Governor of Nora Fotntk,bnl,
retied that vessels from the United States shall per.
form quarantine, on account of the fever paevailing
ia many places in the United Stales. Three fess&
had arrived there with persons us hoard Affected
therewith.

(Flinn PATAVIA, NAT 7.)
Acconnts have been received that- the Dutch were
Rating out a strung expedition against the Rajah of
Palembang ; part of which was to land at Lanspossre:
and part to prof-aril up Palembang River. Strong
doubts were, 111. ever, entertained of its moves, as it
was comjectured that the Rajah was assisted sad sap.
ported from another quarter. Tho Str:its of Dania
are ilied with pirates.
Last night, at eigut sicken, his Ma'eaty, attended
by Sir William Keppol, arrived' atilt, PaLCe. in Pall-
Mall from Windsor.

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