The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-06-28 00:00:00

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" Gustavus, with his family, is still .31•Ctid114-1
'holm. In all public proceedings lie is siy44eirl
" The Lite King;" and his consort, " The bite
Queen." Ilis only son; form'erly die froweeNsj.
Prince Royal, is tion, cOcti Prituie 6ti t; add 4F i
sisters, Priticessev. The State Catiitcil 15ifts •
Rad) •Is appointed, and will irnmedt4telt ,eater
upon its functions. It consists of Aix members;
among whom are I3aron Lagerbjekkei heron
Plato% Colonel Adlersparre, end Baron Rosen.
bust • The folk Secretaries of State arc itylutt
• Ministers; aid the Ceencil it the Supreme Court, ,
of which the King is President. Baron Wel-
leratedt is appointed Aulic Chancellor, in the
room of Baron Lagerbjelke. Stedingk's mission'
to St. Peteisburgh will, it is confidently believed, i
terminate ih a peace with Russia, without inter 7
reining thogned-eitderstanding which has.so lung
and so happily substited between Sweden Mid
Too caul sc.ircely form an idea ut ()lel
sudden chimp) in the dress and manners of my
countrymen, that has taken place in the capital.
and its•vleinity, and which is daily extending to
the Interior. This dispotltion to adopt your cus.
toms is, as you. may suppose, to be attributed tu
the subsidies your Government has so long and so ,
liberally furnished, to carry on a war which has
been au disastrous in its consequences. Nu: it
proceeds front nobler 'mimes—a veneration for
your Constitution, admiration fur your political
ascendancy, and gratitude for the homanity oT
your Cation.

46 Whatever reports may have been spread to
the contrary, Charles XIII. the Government, and
ibis People, would mike any sacrifice short of
their honour and independence, for the attain.
ment of that moist desirable of all objects—peace;
and if ever (hay should be convened to shut their
ports against England, as the price of their nee.
Utility, it ►+ill be • • • • • * •
" The new Constitution has undergone the re.
vision of the D. •t, and also of his Majesty, who
has been pleiis..l to approve of it, with the ex..
ception of tour article v „which the Diet bas
frrred to the t,orniiiittee*tor Goininiesion appoioted,
to draw u the Constitution, to be itiodiiied and
reodered :nese attacks relate
to the junietal &pat tese.ut, and, I have been in-
foriocil, to I;►e criminal.pert of it, which the King.
wished t•► be assiu►ilatidrto that of Eitglinci, at
least ay much so as the difference of circumstances
uuld admit.

66 Y4lll cau scarcely forma coodeptioa of the
61eventy antl extent of the difficuWes imadsmswkich
we still lab bur, though the Diet, on it heincounp
stitoted, authorized the Bank. to issue- two tskii-
liuns of fix dollar%, and '550,000 per week ever'
since ; the ponr.i.titfer thtffireatest privations, %air
a patience and rc-iditatigsfkbaever a:weeded to earl
country."
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TO TUE EDITOR OP Tug STiiTES3I.4N.

Si a—Having perused a paragetiph Ora ap.
peered hi the British Press, on the sth instants
respecting a cause, emitted 64 71113 KING C. Sir P.
Llsi.Es, Bart." and knowing'. it to be a partial'
statement, I beg leave to &tato the facts as they
really are :
'rite Prosecutor, Mr. Nfilliam Whitelock, who
is there styled ‘Vidlake (hut who as never.
known or acknowledged by that name), preferred
an indictment against Sir Philip Hales for perjury
at the General Si ...shins of Oyvr and Tern:liner fur
the county of Middlesex, in February last, upon
the following grounds :—That tho Prosecntor's
ancestor, Carlti,n Whitelock, of the Middle Tem.
pie, London, Esq. purchased of Sir Andrew
Henley, of Bramshil!, in the county of South.
wanton, Bart. rir a ralnable consideration, in the
year 1699, certain estates, sit-oute in the parish of
Cutcombe, in the county of Somerset, and which
estates are sat forth in the Prosecutor's bill of
complaint io the Cotirt. of Equity against Sir Phi.
lip Hales; to which bill he, the said Sir Philip,
put in an answer, and declared those estates to
have been in has ancestors' possession for several
csnistries, and never the property of the White-
Iseks. On this answer the indictuteut was ground-
ed; and, upon production of the copy of the deed,
and other documents. before the Grand Jury of
the county of Middlesex, they did, without hesi-
tation, End a true bill against Sir Philip Hairs.—
Sir Philip then moved it into the Court of King"
Bench, and the Prosecutor would have appeared
there against him, bad he not been advised by his
Counsel, that, as he had filed a fresh bill in Equi-
ty against Sir Philip, he had better wait until Sir
Philip had pat in his answer, and not be thought
malicious or revengeful.

If Sir Philip Hales was in possession of those
very .aneient tit le.deeds stated in the paper, surely
he would have acted very wiw in producing them
in Court six years ago, and silenced the suit
against him.
The-Prosecutor did not file his bill, because be
had no Law—neither prefer an indictment, fur
want of Equity ; but the indictment was merely
to caution Sir P. from putting in any more such
answcn.

With respect to Sir P. Hales permitting Mr.
Whitelock to examine witnesses, Sir Philip seta.
ally joined in a Commission to examine witnesses,
and was regularly► served with a notice t 7 attend
such Commission (at his •wn house, at Bryntotle,
Somerset), but he chose to decline attending, and
on very good grounds, because there is not a per-
son who lives in that part where these estates are
situate, or even in any other part of that county,
that would hare appeared on his behalf, mei&
knowledged his right to such properly, ' •
The Prosecutor will clearly show, ere lone, in a
Court of Justin, his right and title to the With&
lock name and property ;. and he hie' the sseelf.te.:
Lion to know that the ',audits, pail, if hit the
whole, of the Inhabitants, are readyibd.isillhig to
appear iu his behalf to support it. -

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I remain, Sir, '
A FRIER!) TO JCSTICS.
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