The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

" TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD 11ULGRAVE,

LTIWTENANT-GENERAL TY Ills MAJESTY'S
Al MY, AND FIRST LORD 07 THE ADMIRALTY.

66 M T Loan—Since your Lordship's accession I
to place, power, and emolument, during a period
(naught, perhaps, more than any other, that has
octurrvil since the Revolution, with alarm ; when
the corruptions proved to have existed in the vital
principle of our domestic Government, and the 1
im voliey that has characterized our foreign Di. I
ph.maey, have filled the yet unshackled and utibrib.
rd Press of Britain with ajldresses to most of your
Culleagees; you, my Loill, protected by thegene.
May known insignificancy of your character, have
beets passed by, as' unworthy of attention. It was
well understood that Lord Castlereagh and Mr.
Canning, with that degree of caution which ever
marks little minds, would admit of no partition of
power but with those whom they considered the
automatons of their will ;, and the inanity, which
(with these superior deities) became your passport
to Av, served also, like tlie clouds fabled in
Mythology, to screen you from the notice of the
multitude. Our means of naval defence were,
however, so gigantic, and their superiority to those
of our enemies had been so well established, that it
was imagined they would,• as it were, by intuition,
without any thing likeenergy in the power bywhieh
they were directed, afford ample protection to the
domialons of his Majesty, and the commerce of his
subjects. This belief has unhappily been found erro-
newts, awl your hortlehi it is a signal proof, that for
a elm to be wholly inefficient to every purpose of
public utility, is no guarantee that he is not admi.
rably qualified to be au instrument of public ruin.
While we can trace nu advantage whatever as har-
ing ocearred to the navy or to the nation' under your
auspices, the insult and injury we every day re.
ceive, close to our own shores, (rein the ships of an
enemy whose marine is uniformly represented to us
as annihilated, give us a dreadful foretaste of the
result to be anticipated from your Lordship's con-
tinuance in power. The extent to which this in-
jeryand insult have arrived is, in truth, scarcely cre--
dilate. With several hundreds of ships of aar at your
disposal, the smallest of which would answer the
purpose of defence., and an almost incalculable ex-
penditure, to support this enormons esi)blish.
meat, nu less than arrrusx 31zactIANY VESSELS
MATE BEEN, IN oNI: DAY, CLOSE TO OVK OWN
SHORES, CAPTIVIII.D nir TII L IRENE!? ; and this too
whilst a number of fri.ie'nirs are lying uuesnpluycd
at Portsmouth. YourLlorilohip will perhaps say
your attention has been engrossed fiy the Es-
pedition, but that when you have leisure, you
sill attend to these things. My Lord, those who
suffer by your imbecility, no matter what else
occupies their attention, must at all times find ;
both means and leisure to pay your salary ; and if I
the duties of your situation are too numerous fur I
soar limited capacity, you should at once resign I
your employment to more able hands. Lord 1.
Chesterfield's awkward bean, who, in attempt.
ing to 'bow, lets his hat fall, and in recovering
his hat, loses his cane, is deservedly an object
of derision ; but derision Can only be applied
to that imbecility which is harmless ; fur if it be in.
jurious to its possessor, it must excite compassion ;
—if to others, hatred. You, my Lord, resemble the
beau, if while you plan an expedition to the North,
you neglect the defence of the Welt, or rice versa.
—But in you the effects of equal impotence are
less ludicrous than distractive; and if continued,
- will heap on you the execrationssof the country.
That your military career should h'ave afforded no i
inducement, except the rank of Lieut.-General, !
to your continuing a votary of Mars, I can very
readily conceive ; but if you found the sword too
heavy for your feeble hands, what, my Lord, '
coatd induce you to think yourself capable of
wielding the British Trident? But I will not en-
gage more of your time, or of that of the. Pub.
lie.- I take my leave with assuring your Lord.
ship, that if a speedy and effectual remedy be i
nut applied to the evilvof a hieh I complain, and by
which I and innumerable others most severely suf.
her, I will lay before the public a detailed state.
moot of the depredations committed on our coast,
and I will contrast it with another of the heavy
Convoy Duties paid by every ship that sails under
the British flag, and of the means of protection
within your poser to afford; and I pledge my.
self further, at the first meeting of the Houle of
Commons, to make it a subject of Parliamentary
Inquiry. I am, my Lord, &e.
AN UNDERWRITER.
Llayers,2slb Aug.lllo9.
[Folio 72. Nora, dag.27.]

A female child, *boat a month old, was found
at the door of Mr. Hogg, in Charlatte.mreat,
Rathimpee.pliCt, at twelve o'clock en Sunday
wg:tt, wrapped In a Illtby rag. The liela inoo-
eept was sleeping. It was taken in. by. the Lady
of Haase, sad *km Cur of• . • - .