The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-26 00:00:00

. ON POLtrICAL Arosrscr

(OP WINO f Vsvoilaae—dead to abase,
•• %OM In eilieb toeoly seselseai dir heart ;
TN menial enerdl^r Ibeir sank blase
To lii a fro, diairtere,tr4 part."—Fox.

TO TOR EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Sett,—The pen of the Patriot end Philanthropist,
whose effort, are devoted to the welfare of his Mtn.
try and of his kind. is neither iolltenced by personal
predilections, by private assoclatiens, nor pre.con-
ceived prejudices ; bet in the lair and etched dis-
charge of his public duty be stands equally arbor
from the incitements of malevolence, the &synch-
iinns of power, the silken nets of Battery, and the
wiles of craft, as from the paralysing effects of
" Illthy lucre." With jest and honourable feelings
ha selects with notion, censures with jerlzmtint, and
confers descried applause with delicacy and discrloil-
action ; his critiques preserve an invariable ads
heretics to the unbiassed dictates of truth and the
public good!! But these qualities, Sir, have WWIy
become tie more welcome from their lamentablerwrity.
Let es look around, Sir, only within the circle of skis
metropolis, and contemplate how many public writer't
in these times of political outpitede and ape:lacy.
manifest a contrary principle and spirit I Bat, after all
these regrets, it is an imports., source of consolation
that the insidious efforts of such cl..ractors must al-
ways be proportioned to their moral weight-r.be.
cause every dereliction of public principle most intl.
richly call forth the marked reprobation of a discern.
ins Public, and the consequent lash of castigation!!!
Bet where we see so many lii, racy and sordid vanais
implicated, it would not be judicious in nse to come
them. Satire it to remark, Sir, that " by their
fruits shall jet know them ;" compare their former
productions with their present Writiogs !! Where
are those beams of intellectual splendour and energy
which irradiated their lines, end derived its morel ea-
' istence sod farce from the dignity of the rubjed ?
" Oh, publish st not in G•ds," that like the beguiled
SAMPSON they have not only been shorn of thdlr
strength, but they have lost (hair hearts, and with ft
ithe beauty of (heir heads!!! The painted " bog
of" Corruption has made them t milers!!! Mere
I now is that patriotic ardour by which they mounted
the sacred steps of public opinion? Why. " gone
doun the wind to prey at fortune!" Where is
that boldness of sentiment whirls characterised
their efforts against the Bank Directors!--
i Why that, like the Weird Sisters, " h gore
I into thin sir ;" and agsitt, •liere is their avowed
hostility to the sophisticating and apostate filigs?
—Ales, alas! that •I•o is passed 66 to the tomb
of all the Cnres.rrs;" and now whet remains
in that quarter is only " the mere lees"—a form
I without a substance—a body without a soul—a name
without a principl•—" Oh what ; a falling off was
there," and that in morals lon as well es istlettect,!!
I Why, Mr. EDITOR, " I would rather be a toad, atic
I feed upon the e•onors of a dottrels," time awe -of
those slimy replace, who crawl at the bass of the
pedestal of corrupt power end point, to wallow is
1 the gold dust which tails from its summit !!!
I am,Slr, yeses, kc. •
I London, March 14. V ER! rAS,
Lore of Beaten Illtl, Rath.

Loots XVII I.Vontinues to pay the lama attention
Ito the Itevolutiosary Generals, which we have before
spoken of, and which has eaves so mach umbrage and
jealoosy.t• the Ultras. Marshal Outnowr, Vicroa,
and MACDONALD, it seems, breakfasted with his Ma-
jest; on Seliday last ; and at the Levee, held after.
Wards, Priem TALLSVRAND attended. The Generale
Gaoccrte sod RIGUAD are also expected to reform
to France and to be taken by the hand at tkoTheilleriee.
ntro, are ottraordiaary events. We are not quite
sure that is ms; not be St. James's policy ere two
years are run eat, to let BUNAPANTIL visit Earopo
We give the &Ramie; extract of a letter, said to
Ives been recited frees Madrid, not for the purpose
'of Imposing it on est Readers as authentic, bet
simply as a specimen of the delusions propagated
through Old Spain on the state el the South Auseri.
coo struggle tot Independence, a struggle in ilso
ultimate setae's of which to doubt would be not
merely an act of Insanity, hut of blasphemy evilest.
that All-beestroes Providence which created men
equal and free, and by whose overbilling neon con- .
fusion must ever attend epos the steps of the op.
pressor •
• MADRID. Magee 4.—The mews which we melee bgt••
m(*Tire es with the hope at worn, welge the trade the
imilser.comary with oar c hairs revive, tares waived .
from I isa coolnia an other new. the* that of the fidelity of the
Araoc.m indiaus, rho inhdbi. be loath at f:1111, sad ohs
lour declared f..r ibe raise of the KINK. New Spats las bees
pulled as by each.,iumeur. Will it be weaned, •Mat the
couriers from Mexico In Xxlap. (150 wiles) mate Mat
without an escort ? The a whim at the whirs is m..rejariag
and the last runways hrancit to Vera Cruz wee* willow or •
roviers one will of which was 10 be shipped to Augiidi words
fee Londaa, awl the ether halt ass re...reed f..r ow skip date
I lime she Asia, which as. an she vol. • afeafetlag die part,
! Twn cnerettes, awl tow brigantines at war were so laser the
Hormonal no the task of January lam, stub wimp dmilmed
' take pwressidda at Prioneata, ander tne orders of General
Ec,susaiva. she parts aortas are kept up maw,
I were irstablidided by the Mini•ter CARAT s and ibis is she mint
suitable measure. wider the repeat eireumviarires, to revive
the Retinae sad foreigve commerce especially that el' the Frvg-
NM, who can inirsidawe sin it ivied. by previous', realises(
their Tahoe, and in less time than I. they irometed direct with
.he Americim. The enatmereutl lateouts of Cadiz \area:red
f .r sits erm imam c of Hold sad' for the abnlitioa of the
Tariff nf Taxes which it was in view to eatrodeee,
b.7W.11110 rrel. melon annu-lis. The preparatiam for the
I rip. dsii.n, rod skit fir Nader. Ado.., sod for seiaforei.g•
MalAti.ta'• army. are e•rfiell stn with she gr.-Medi activity, and
Ike Court i, occupied with these affairs IV the exclunioa of all
I (Wien."
Yesterday otornitt, a number of Noblemen and
Gentlemets, who have engaged iu carrying into effect
the Art for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, assembled
at Ike Duke of Gsoucestta's.

The twootifal Cirrervian, in the poweevien of the
Persian Ambaswi.r, about to kit Englund. and who
iv so closely confined at this time from the istapectieft
of the Pari•ianv, iv eanected to he imported Isere with
obi same secret re.traint but whether the vigilance
of our Crovtorn.hoe.m •fficers will be dispersed veldt
*en so critical an affair as a lady lucked up ins cabl.
net, is an ordeal which the ptorieter of the fait
filmy': bat to hazlrd.