The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-18 00:00:00

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hire, ald. ona, in Americk—A *lot . political
wo;k of Onek which hi been twice edited, is.
The Cafe of Conscience solped. This has keen
repeatedly panegyriaedin ntnd,even,in
the last debate, as ananapsweralge refattair of
thp apeged scruple cuncerfting the coronation
Oath, andis said to have proguasd a considerable
effect in thaquarter where it is cost wanted.—A
fourth woirl4 of the same political nature is my '
Letter to•tt 3fernbec of Padiepren!, frs Annrer
to the several Objections agrain4 the Ernancipa.
lion.. This was quoted by Mr. Fox, in his speech
on the latter ~object in, 1805, and,. what was al.r
most an equal honour to it, was flouted by Dr.
DUIGFINA N. Finally, I wrote part of the ilppers;
dix, as appears by my name, to Sir stOom Hints. 4
LEirs. celebrated Substance of a Speech, &c. ant(
when this was attacked by De..Dotoemart in the
NC),POPELLY-1 mean tIicANTI-JACQUIN
REVIEW, with a sv-hole votley of Canon Law, I
shielded the work, and retorted the weapons on
the assailaut in nI Second 444pendix to Substance,
&c. ;Vow, Sir, I ask the individuals of the Staq-
hope7street company, for which of these Political
works, or for which single passage in any one of
them; I deserve to be disavowed by them, and my
writings condemned in the gross ? The works
were written for their service—W:4 my own ; for
L was well aware that, let the E.mancipation come.
when it may, it will be Ito boon Catholic
Ci:,lreliuteik. They were written without the moat
L distant prospect of gain; for, though some pet.
lions must have got mitoey by.tlieni„ as appeals by
the sale of them, aqd their Om; through different
editions, I myself am huntleedirof nomads sons 4:1).
pocket by them. Finally, they • have prOduced
an important effect, at is plain from the constant
anti violent attacks made upon me, in consequence
of them, by the DVIGEMANS, the Muscitavo,
'the Unwteur.a, the. ItraNs, the Cuoittout, the
La Alcssuataacs, and, in short, by ivery.tuditi.•
duatyriter and declaimer against the Emanctputioe,
Well, Sir, I forgive my deluded brethren a
Stanhope-street ; they Were artfullyy. inveigled Ro
the meeting, without knowing wh or wherefore
they. were sailed together, (as souse of them have
owned to me) by my (tattled, indignant foe; and-
they were scared out of their wits, as I observed
before, by thiCecho, of the Bildern frdmert of Mr.
liousutte Y'S eloquence. In the spirit of 'forgive-
ness, I abstain from calling von them to publish
their own 'names ; but I iih sure that the Mlle
will not think I ask fur too much when I call upon
the Resolutionists, as Gentlemen and as men, to
insist upon my capital enemy's quitting his lurking
incognito, and attempting, iu the face of day, to
justify the hasty vote into which, by himself and
his agenti, his hat betrayed them. He is a writer
by prufission, and a lawyer, and hs hat heretofore
received a large sum of money froin theta anti the
other Catholics iii quality of their. Agent : lei then
then require of him in.& publication, under his
owq name, to prove that my political writings de-
serve to be censured, and his to be paid for.

I shall here just mention a few of this writer e
political writings, by way of contrasting them with
my own, leaving' for a future fetter the vintlica-
tien of my politidal conduct. These are die Draft
of a crippled Eill far the Relief of English GU:
tholics, ineltitfiiig an insidious heterodox Oath,
anti schismatical Appellation, both' of which,
upon a full investigation of his arguments and
mine, were reject's! by Parliament: 'This was
drawn up up in cuncere with oleo! member, who,
when he rose to the highest station of his proles.
slot' ist Ireland, proved himself to be, /hat el.
ways declared him to be, one of the bitterest ene.
miss wiper' the Catholics eier had. tilotwith..
standing this manifeststion,t he Catholic *gent con.
tinned to keep up the closest political eunneuion,
and is supposed to keep up the same to the pre.
sent day, with the personage in qupeticint—ln
.the next plae,o, my adversary wrote one folio Rao
Boos, and the greatei part of threelarge quartb
Blue Rooks, au called,.of which 11 trill. oily no
more, out of regard to foipeetable persons whose
litanies kb Set allaste4 to them in much the same
manner as he has procured the Stinhope.street
Resolution, than thot these works hairs' by the
confession of every' ietlisjdusil of the Catholic
body, caused more disseostun, vexatioq, and real
misery throujhout it, than ell the book, bf gontfo.
misery
and invective which hire been written.againsi
.Catholies from 'Poets Kook of Martyrs down to
LE MESSUNTEfeII KO MI ddreill in answer to my
U scatuse. . I forget the title of another #ork of
this Writer, addressed to the Iris s CatholiCs, but
it is known tiy' the name of. the Great Now.
This was corrected in the hund.writing'of the them'
No-Popery 'Oldster, pIIT. ADDINGTON, at the
same time thet the autbor basApayisig his court ti!
the Ex.mintsters who hadjust resigued their pla.
ces from an attachment to the Catholic cause. Ile,
has published another letter. to the Irish, the title
of which I tvialty forget, in which:this min, the
most dangerous enemy of the Hierarchy of his
Church in modern timeindeed; much more ao
*hail his friend Lord R-7. himself, the man Tito
is and has been long labouring to extort any kind
of Veto that can lie obtained, affects to be greatly
alarmed at that strictly ljniiied, that iron-boinid
Veto, ohirlt I, for a time,iullocated, till I found
that the Irish 'would have no Veto at all; and that
nothiug short of an obsolete subjection and pros.
tration of our porch would satisfy the' religious
jealousy of our political 'deails.
I have professed to speak only of the political
writings of my opponent ; fdr you are to know,
Sir, that his favourite study is Theology,. though.
this lie declares he writes upon, only by way of
relaxation from the graver studies of the Law:
I shall, therefore, say no more of him on this)
head, than that all real Catholics, who witness the
latitudieariaoism which ho is constantly labouring
to iutroducc amongst them, bitterly lament that he
has not stuck to the following engarment of' his,
contained in a letter, written sevcial years ago,
and nosynin print ;--44 My theological career is
" finished henceforward I shall retire to say the
" Church Office, and reed books of devotion for
" the remainder of my am, &c. •
Wulrerilirptoe, June iti. J. IVII,t.NER.

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..,106 OF PAR LI4DIENT.
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TO THE. EDITOR Otr TUE STNegSMAN.
Sys,—lf the.fullowiOg lineh writtlas scion idler
the imprisonment of Sir FRANCIS Butwreri seem
ftt for a place in your I:44llirt yds% will be'pleasal
to publish (hem. ‘A.
June 8. ' `•

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9fil clis4o4. iptes "stories P..
renng with the insteade of pridpi
'Xis hard to check the rising tide:
Of indignation in the hearts
When wc.luskebi the sordid part
/I:erforwitiby sycophants in pow's.
Conceded in an evil hour
Conceded for the public geed.
A thing too little understood,
And leaf regarded by the
Who call themselves the better few..
The insolence of ,office reigns,
Inflated With extorted pips, ' ,
to all degrees, throughout thenatien,
Of these who serve in public statioe(
From lordly pinoticrers‘of Slate,
TO petty Swindlers, made of late.
To much, liko!'sentinels, each gate,
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To rob, to domineer, to war
Our minds against oppressive pow'r s
llocrisitors with harpy claws,
Tore; and filch for their own gnaws. •
WhrespitriotleSlatt!snta bold,
• The isysterigs of State enfold,
Tlss Iseritc Junto veil'd within
The German and Imperial skreen. .
With tool. in office, puppet Sulk, •
Ancens'd, would lx the senile yoke,
Would resides. slay the ruing cro*d,
Who, oppress'd, dore cry aloud,
, For j
ustice in behalf Of merit,
or Buireve, and of public bpifit.
Like Esor's wolf, they, void of shame,
Charge their own guilt on BIJIMETI'S names
Infriuge the c.nstitnted laws,
And brand the Patriot fir rebel cause.

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To WIL4aLIM JACOB, Esq. ;Ililerman P.

s4l4—You seem to kave denied the truth of
what I said 'concerning you at the latq Hackney
Meeting, on the ground' of your not having ut.
tered those sentiments in my heaqn.g. Ask never
said I heard you utter then, your defence must
rest for the Public to appreciate.
I should bare' notieod your letter sooner, bet
lofted for further information, which was 'pi°.
niised 'me, and which I am now iq posseasion of,
togethei with' the papers relative to the affair of
the ship SCORPION, and which I am authorisod to
make %That use of I please. 'When those facts
are before the Public, then will determine whe.
ther to the charges of impiety ;0141 disloyalty,
your character as a merchant stands a whit the
more honourable. If a man wilramuse
with throwing stones, he must expect a little pelt.'
log in return. I am, Sir,
Tour obedient Servant, ..
JOHN ItENTLEY.
Ilighlarry-House, 15th June, 1810. •
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HOUSB OF LORDS, Juin 16.
The Attorney-tienerel was beard, in a Committee of
vileges. in behalf of the Crowe, in, the claim fur the. Ban-
bury Peerage.
The Irish Arms Bill was read a second thee. . •
O the blatina tUr the sefooilltliding of the East-India
Loan Bill, ' •
- The 'Earl of LAUDERIZALE objected to it, on the
ground of the Company's hamar been going oe for the last
seven years paying dividends 4'14 per mot. totheir Pro-
prietors, while at tilt same thee they were year aster year
4oriewifyg from the public; thereby leaking the 56 per cent.
or about 600,0601. a-year, a Funks on the publk, payable to
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their Proprietors or Creditor...
• 'Lord HOLLAND also opPeoed the Bill on similar
grounds.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL eqpßikteci the Bill, *beq it
wits forwarded is its proper siege:
LAI.IDERDALg tweed, that the opinion of
the Judges be taken oe: the legality of the rightillsuntolby
the East India Directors to &care such a dividend 01l JO
per cent.; and shit they do ahead for this purpose in the
Ifqese on hhooday. Oa thii a division leek plate, when the
*olio° wax peptived,
.• •
On the Muttou fur the :mead reading of Ole Consalidated
Fttod Bill, •
• The Earl of LAUDERQALE Objected M. several of She
;must particularly to the sum of 60,0001;•t6 the Calelloalito
Canal:--500,0001. wan the estimated expellee of the utidei.
taking, of which %10,0001. had already hers Panted, The
present grunt was for 60,NU1. more; bat II was no reason
that because SWAM. or '4AW)OI. had already been uselessly
eapended, Another NM to tat same amount should be thrown
away tw'a eimilai manner. 'His Lordship also objected to
thegrath • for the redemptive of land-ta; for the Clergy. U
it was to he nishentood that this win shoidd coma out of the
public purse, he mustte allowed to say, that, to his coacep7
dot), the Clergy tiers as able to payithat tax na
any other body in tee cuonfry cogkintei supposetrespable of
be*, Ile also objekted to ft iuti ted toerictraordioary
secret services; to the mud pulled or Trinidad; but dire
all, to.the sums grained fo -Isospitnls, and for printiae
&c. in Ireland, the latter article being greater
limo the w hole me voted for printing to both HOMO' Vt. Pal
li:talent. ' •
Lord H. -.Rowily supported the Bill, wheq it was rend

a siTkoOd-ia.
FRENCH 4ND DU4VI4-P4PERS.

pARISt JUNE 10.--Letters from Bayonoe of
tbe.3d site& the 'ulinterrepted pi ge
ssa
of troops through- that town fur Spajo. 4 mong
those rcinfcrcements abom 500 attillery.men,
who were nuntediatelt followed by..i number of
cannon, caissons,'"&c. We daily expect the iirri.
Val ii 8000 (tinkers of the Imperial Guard, Who
are to proceed to Burgas, where they are to re.
Main 'till farther °Went Thp sharp-shooters and
phasseuri of the IMptrial'atiard begin le arrive
here. They huSe b'een reviewed, anti their fine
litary air and iliscildiee ezOite.the liOnsiratiub of all
who sec them. •
According to letters film Spaio, his Majesty
King Joseph will not remain lung in that city, but
is un the point 'of setting Out on thl Expedition
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against Valencia.
The army of Matisena for rortagal is daily rein.
forced. It is said to ansoUtit to more than 80,000.
It is further said to be in motion for Ciedad Ito.
drilpi; where the Amo o.Portuguese army have col.
!tided almost the whole of their for Ce. it is not
•suppi?Sed that thP English Till risk the issue tit a
battle. We expect in it .days Fo reepive-yery
ieteiesting intelligence from that gliirter.
By loon from Hideo we are informed, that
Gen. 134ttilvt•ror in with a biolit of insiirgents near
Ovied,, on which he made 600 irisonetas and put
Nu remainder to Oigbt.•

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