The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-22 00:00:00

• •
went to be fetso,:llll6ep the, insignificant errors
abuve-inentisoned.‘" l hesuetrors are, 3001. a.year
too much given to Lord George Seymour as an
Ettelis't Cotommilioner Of Evelio.. Idu not know
how the error came to be cunrailtsul, but I be-
lieve it to be slue. But, on the other hand, I
dui nut know, that Lord Castloreitah's btother,
who was, at one and the same time, a Briodier-
General in Portugal, a Lieutenant-Colonel of a
regiment of Dragoons, and Under Secretary of
Stec in the far-famed Downing-street; I did not
know, that this Gentleman was, moreover, Mili-
tary Governor of Charles Fort in the Island of
:4041104u! My imagination never carried me so
-for as that. I hal a great opluiun of qr.', ley.
6• alty" of the Gentletnan ; hitt, hoist' wild' it
pussibie fur me to Usrm an idea of a man's filling
so many, and such incompatible • offices, at one
and the same time.---41esiles this, I omitted,
I believe, some other of the Lord's relations,
w hum I will nut omit another lime. Add the
6001. a-year, then, to my former total, and the
total will be 37,2911. But, there was an error
of a thousand in the addition : so that, instead
of 35,G91 pounds a-year, it should have been
33,2101 pounds a-year ; and, with this exception,
I here repeat my re.assertitio of the truth of every
part of my statement. Let us now go on to the
proof', item by item, of what is denied.
1. %timed the Report. laid before the Hume or Coal-
•c. S in Jane, 18ad, at page 296.
3' Not &Died.
4.
6.
6 Nut denied.
7.
8.
9. Stated io the above-rneotioned Report at page 293.
Id.
It.-- Btited in the above-mentioned Report at page 235.
Nut druid.
17. Stilted the above-mentioned Report at Inge 294-
13. Here the reader will see, that I say,
11 ABOUT such or such a sum. And the
t•
11. ground, upon which I go, is this; that a
16. geutluman, who, as to the offices, Nu. 13
. and 14, was the agent for Captain THOMAS
COCHRANE, and through chose hands the money
transactions, relating to these offices, while held
by Captain 7. Cochrane, passed; this gentkman
as.ured me, before I made the statement last year,
and ha 4 a,;ain assured inc within these three days,
.that Cie elnalutilents of those offices to Captain T.
Cuchrauo were in the proportion of 21001. a year
fur the two. Upon the authority of this gentle-
mair the valuation of Nos. 15 and 16 were
made ; and, he has, within these three days as.
stared rue, that his valuation was, as ho is con-
vinerl, nut at all beyond the mark.—
W here, then, has the author of the CIRCULAR
RTICIM found his grounds of contradictioa ?
And, who but be would hare Lad the impudence,
the unparalleled impudence, to call upon any one
to promulgate a retruslutian of tny' statement
—l;at, come, let us now see what this cold-
blutad, d impudence has produced.
pier, follows the article from Lord CASTLIIRRAGH, which
appeared Mums Braressi•u of Monday last.
t, then, here are Nus. 5,6, and 7 left out as noti
bLiog faussilg" 1 suppose. But I assert
gnat they are " some of the realism,' of Lord,
6' Castlereagh," and, that was the description that
I before gave of them, as the reader will see by
r..ter ring to the extract above inserted. Ide nut
care whether Lord Castlereagh owns these peopki
or sot; nor do I tare who it was that gave them
the public mosey ; I said they were some of hie
relations, and I still say that they are Sum of MI
relations, and that they receive, or somebody foe
them, the sums of mouey that I have put againt
their names respectively.—Oh, oh! IVhat, wo
arc only to reckon the NET PROCEEDS,
are we? And, I sin to be represented as *fags
shier of facts, because I did nut, in Januar,
1000, notice the contents of a Report that was not
made till May 1809 ? NET PROCEEDS, eh
ou! - This Is • way that I should have
counted, even if I could, six months before it was
hatched, hive read the report of 31st May 1800.
This is not the way that I count. Whe.' my mo-
ney is taken away (rename, I look only to toy cost
or leer, it being of No earthly consequence to me
what becalm.s of it, how may or bow few divide it'
antungst them. Thu Report, from which l tOuk
my infurroatiqn (and foe which Report we have
to thank Lord Cochrane), Mates, that the Pro.
thonotory's Office to Ireland yields 12,511 pounds
a. year. Bid, I its now told, that the tiro Sq.
lathers pocket only 6,849 pounds a year. What
is that to me, or those who pay the money They
bring only 6,849 pounds a year Whet ; hut, do
not the public pm 12,511 pounds a 'year ? Do
not the public par that ? Will the callous, stone.
hearted, bloodless author of this article say that
the poor Irish 'do nut pay these non pounds a.
year ? Where, then, is the difference to them,
*halter the money heal! bagged by the Seymours,
or ts kether it be divided betweamtbem mist- their
underlings ?—Just the same applies to all the other
heads of emolument, not excepting the offices of
Naval-Officer and Harbour-Master. What is it
to the merchants and captains of vessels, who,
filially, is the person that bags their money ?
This dioint lion is downright immune. It can I
impose upon nobody, capable of rearming ; !
and, as to those who are incapable of reesouing,'
such discussions as this have, on them, oC
-
practical elect. Reader, do you observe in the,
statement, upon which we are here retnarking;
certain little phrases, thrown in, as it were to
explain the nature of the offices more fully, such
as, " arising (mum ;.,•es, paid by suitors, &c. &e.?"
The intention of these remarks is to cause it to
be believed, that what the Seymours receive. sloes
• come out of the public purse. Just as if these
unfortunate souls, collet! suitors, did not make a
part of the public. Aye, and a part of )4 too,
on whom the hand of taxation should be laidverjr
liglstly indeed. MAGNA CHARTA says: 44 We
66 will sell to uo man, we will not deny, or defeei
" to any man, either justice or via ht."-_1
paill to officers of the several courts for real ser-
vices, ale nut only right, but necessary, plovided
they do not exervd the reasonable worth of the
service ; but, when we see it aektiowl.-dgetl, that
the fieymours receive many thou/ands of NET
proms out of the fees of a emir', in which they
do not pretend to give.any personal aucisdAsce,

,~',