The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-08 00:00:00

on his mind—and looked toward. the Heaven. he was
bent to enter, he prayed in fervent f .ith, to the Eternal,
• may my death conduce to the hapvi.ress and tranquillity •
erf my country.,' His spirit was then surrendered to his i
Heat—s pate, and only,and accept able sacrifice on the altar
of freedom—
Per oh! If there be en We earthly "ewe
A Saran—an offering Heaven dear, •
'Mow last ;Angina lib* gra
btoedo a breaks is her mane.
While this dreadful scene was enacting in Mad n't, his
'nor brothers and sisters were wandering about the Peeler-
sole, friendless and shelterlese. desolate and hopeless ; his
yoong and lovely wife—pining in the agony of anxiety.
and jest linked to life by the spiritual minim! along of one
of Isis brothers, and the faint, though closely bunged
Pape. that his death might yet he averted—war au exile in
foreign beseeching, in all the eloquence of Misery,
We Courts of England and Frame to save her husband.
Mt she knew not the natures of those whom she addres-
Wei ; she knew that %is not long thee kings have forgot-
ten tilt, awn ; she knew not that Moneta were but vultures'
vests and serpeats' holes, where pity cannot dwell, and
POO" sever frequents. Had there been any pity. '• any
relentiog reth: what eyes could bore perused unmoved
the following letter to the King of France from her brother
and herself:—.
• '• '1 he irresistible voice of nature strikes the oppressed
Marini of a young wife, sick, abandoned.far from the land
ofAer birth, and separated from her. beloved husband,
whom war has thrown into a dungeon, where her imagine-
-tion,fitll of grief and horror, presents Aim to her every
instant surrounded with dangers and afflictions—without
a letter, without a word from him —anb in this situation,
aggravated by total ignorance of the fate of three younger
trainers, the eldest scarce twenty one years of age. and
three infant sisters,ail dispersed over thefaceofthePeninsarla
.---uithout a „hither, without a mother, and without shelter
and support. tlh ! let the kilter tears of a distracted,'
a- riled, Avid-sunken toffe,fading away in the flower of her
age, titeite in your heart the feelings of eirrepas.ion, and
urge you to a deed for which your name shall he blessed by
generations yet nnbnrn. OA ! why was she ever separated
fin m her teether's wornb! irhi did the light of Heaven
eel r shine upon her pale cheek!'
Poor thing ! she addressed the murderer of Ney —could
he damn hue own .act by saving Riego ? What were a
woman'. tears to him 1 Did Herod feel pity because
s• Rachel lamented for her children, and would not be corn-
forted ?' No—no—the appeal was " eight and twenty
days" 'cahoot an answer, end then Riego was butchered ;
but could her gentle and suffering spirit feel delight iu
perspective veng,anee, let her console herself that the fate
of Herod will be the fate of Louis—that already corruption
has seised him; that already he is too loathsome to live, and
that even worms will shrink from the putrid feast his body
will present before them.
Poor thing ! we would not plead for her—esbe will short-
ly be beyond the reach of pity, and it is well /bat she will
• be so.
Youth and beauty, all
Men lova or women hope for, is decaying.

Pm? thing the reed upon which the soft and lovely lily
leaned for protection, has been forcibly wrest front it, and
its gentle stein, and beauteous petals must faint, and wither,
and perish.
" The only tie
PIPPIN For which 'beloved to live, or hared to din;
has been horst in twain for ever—consumption !aid its-
withering hand upon her from the apprehensimt, death still
now come ss a blessed angel of sweet release. and his icy
Mee will be dewnl•wintts to bear her to her mu►dered lord.
It is net for her we would pleW—but her poor boys, wee.
dering in their solitariness through the Peninsula—that
good ecrlesiastie, an exile in a foreigh land—those infant
girls exposed to the grasp of the brutal and ruthless
reviler. Can nothing be done for them? Cannot the
desolation of their misery be averted or ameliorated? If
Britain would not shield their country from foreign ty.
rants, will she not shelter them —from biting hunger—the
pitiless blast—the merciless bigot?—`She will! we are sure
she will
A number calmer Spaniards with their wives and children
are dying to this country for protection from thefierce cruel•
ties of th.ir tyrant; they are houeeless, moustyleas, friendless
....they are

Par from the land their souls mined.
From ham homes and altars fru
Tlieir taimman Mrs swor.l—
only spell-wont—Liberty !
Very have fought for the freedom of Spain and of man—
they have been sold by French gold and Sp wish treachery
—.they have been cheated by false hopes of British succour;
and they now fly to us, poor victims of unparalleled perfidy
and unendurable oppression, for liberty to live, and bread
and water to subsist apon. Several gentlemen in London
have formed themselves into a Committee to relieve them,
will the gentlemen of Glasgow co-operate with them ? All
parties are supporting this subseriptioe. The Courier on
the Met side, and the STATUMAN on the other ; the people
tof Glasgow never subscribed a penny. for the Spanish
Caosio, will they shut their ears and their purses to the
welting cries of the babes of the murdered brave—of
Itiego's distressed, deserted family—a the poor women and
children self-expatriated for liberty ?
1111 We have mentioned this case to a few gentlemen of Glas
Raw, who immediately subscribed their names to a sub-
aeriptiorr psper, which se shall keep in our office until a
Couteeittee be formed in Glasgow for this truly Christian
and• patriotic purpose. We will publish the names of the
generous individnals, whose hearts may warm and eyes
melt for these poor foreigners, in our next Free Press;
and ...call upon the other newspapers of Glasgow to co-
operate with us. and to insert lists of the subscriptions.
gratis, is their columns. We believe they will cheerfully
sin it.
tied% s Committee be appointed the Sabseription Paper
wittier at our office for Signatures.

LINCOLN COUNTY ELECTION.
NINTH D•T.
LINCOLN, FRIDAY. DEC. s.—This was market flay here,
aaNit was expected that the Blues at least would have made
a greed show on the poll. In this, however, they were dis-
appointed ; the whole number polled did not exceed 139
(the twilleat 'somber on any day since the commeacemeat):
sad of +llia the' wigs had still the majority.

Parisi
o'clock the numbers appesrea-
-4...m . On the Day's Poll,
For Sir Wm. Ingithy . •
• For Sir John Therold . .

7I

so
—l9

Majority . .
(toss Poll.
For• Sir Wm. logilby . .
For Sir Joh. Thorold • .

. 3,787
. 1,524_

M ajority . . . --2,263.
As sown as the cheering which followed the declaration
of the poll had subsided,
Sir Wu. IN GI car addressed the freeholders: He was, he
said, happy again to see the numbers advancing. He con-
tiaued to augment in streugtb, while his adversaries der
clioed in the same proportion as he advanced. They had
Clow to overwhelming majority. which it was impossible
for thetr adversaries to brat down. Satisfied with this de-
craratios of the opinion of the county, he did net wish to
trouble his friends farther. He wished, therefore, that those
mho were still anxious to vote for him, might remain at
home and attend to their *Mee business, until he should
bare occasion to send for them. which he did not antici-
pate in the present contest. He again thanked the free-
holders for the support they had given him.
Sir It. Hatton said, the Honourable Baronet bad acted
In a manner is which a candidate for a county never before
acted. Did they ever before bear of a candidate who pub-
lished a paper sigred by himself, in which be charged his
opponents with " subterfuge, malignity, and spleen?" And
fur wink? For keeping the poU open, after be himself