The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF Tile RTATERMAN.

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Sir—Children should never be permitted to speak
in company, nor should any person of common discre-
tion speak to them. Besides their innumerable other
. eanoyaoces. their avisaxassre are intolerable, and are
sum to be seedbed to, and to be revenged upon their
parents. In nine eases out of ten it is too certain that
• they have either beard or been prompted to say the im-
pertinent things they dote visitors, and it is-as certain
elso,that meta opinions and sentiments, Tlllllll likings
and dislikes are the opinions, sentiments, and feelings
of the
It is quite an every day piece of ignorance and folly
to hear parent,' boasting to one visitor what insulting
things their dear disagreeable brat had said to any-
titer, nester considering that they are not only exposing
their own rudeness and vulgarity, and holding their
beloved Urchin np to additional execration, but that
they are courting retaliation for those very affronts,
by putting them into circulation. Por who is there,
no matter bow amiable, or bow insensible, can bear
to be masked by a brat, notoriously made the mouth-
piece of its satirical or parsimonious mamma, or of
its " Prydrat" and deceitful daddy, and not resent it:
Many and many a family have lost their best friends
by the -pertness of" Master Harry," or of" Miss Mary
Ann ;" but blinded by the infatuation of parental
fondness, they cannot see how or why. If, at length,

the cease be suggested.—What is the reply ? Poh,
- who'd wind a child."—Poh, who'd mind pen and ink—
who'd mind tree. Why, the brat is the mere type of
the Jae/ it utters.

In fact, most people's children cannot do wrong at
all.—in high life, and in low life, it is all the same, they
are all " ungth." In middling life a thousand times
have I heard parents sat• upon complaint made against
their unruly brats, yen, in their very presence too,
" Jlt child never dome the like."—Sensible parent—oh,
Adored child So swarm the streets of London with
JCWENILE vagahonds.

Let our ;collies or our vices he what they may, the
last person we expect will expose them, is a friend,
and therefore the greater is our disgust and resent-
ment, when, by a friend they are exposed ; but, how
mortifying, when this is done with cowardly artifice
and hypocrisy, and that a Cunt/ is made to say what
its parent risAes to say, but dare not, or what its
parent Ail say, and OVIIIIT not.
:inch duplicity generally carries its own punishment
wills it, and detection and contempt are its reward.
It is really a most gracioas thing to ask persons to
one's house to be insulted by " Jacky" and " Mary
Ann," and to be made a butt for the next six-months
visitors, Mamma declaring to Goo—she was ready to
expire with shame at the "
•young toad's" impedance.
The late Lord —, who though reputed a great
bait, was the valtuble friend of a certain worthy gen-
tleman to whose house he was constantly invited. Not.
withstanding this nerghly propensity of his Lordship,
it was Hs ambition that all his marvellous stories
should be considered as scriptures, and that he should
be esteemed'a man of veracity.
One company day at the house of this " fiiend,"
Lis accomplished Lordship had, as usual, delighted
the party with various of his elegantly told ems, ►►hich
no doubt, he assured them, were so mealy errs.
Stuck np at the dinner table was Master " PERT,"
the darling son of the silly host and hostess, with his
fingers no doubt daubed with grease and sauce, the
torment and disgust of the company, the fiddle of his
•• Pa" and " Ma."

In the excess of his Lordship's exultation, that no
person had either contradicted or even seemed to dis-
believe his Legends of wonders; he commenced a
lecture upon veracity, and inveighing violently against
the terrible crime of LYING, turned to master hay with
a cautionary admonition. " There" said his Lordship,
pointing to an ox tongue that was near him, " there is
a toarite Met never told a lir." The reply of the
urchin almost every body knows.—"l wires it was in
yaw, r,ordsAip's swath."
Although so mach of the story is pretty generally
known, the remainder is nut. Mammy and Daddy
were in extacies at the wit of their insulting brat,
and could scarcely contain the chuckle, whilst his
Lordship, who was all penetration and address, laughed
himself out of his present disgrace ; hut he never for-
gave the family, from whom lie not only withdrew his
friendship and society, but upon whom fell his eternal
contempt and hatred ; which, from the well-known
talents of his Lordship, was no small punishment.
As society is at present all duplicity, I would advise
those who see company to keep their " lava s" in the
nursery, for if they're permitted to " ba" in the par-
lour, they'll sorely bring " Pa" and " 31.‘" into dis-
grace.
Cecil-stmt. B.

Sorbet of a letter received yesterday morning from
the Agent to Lloyd's, at Constantinople, dated May 10:
Moog); some most alarming disturbance s broke
oat here soon after last post, 1 am happy to add, that
traeqedllity has prevailed for some days, and we have
hopes of its coatinnance. Under existing circuto-
stases*. and is consideration of the report of some of
the Greek Likuds being in a state of revolt, 1 have
suggested to his Excelleocy our Ambassador, the ad-1
vasty, and owesesity of some protection for oar
trade, through the Archipelago, which be has pro-
'wield to take late immediate consideration. The
Me, Loogridge; Elizabeth, thalami; CobGurg, Par
maa ; and Daphne. Llewellyn, are detained in the
Eimpfeenis by contrary winds."
letter Rom Metairie of the 21st of Janutry states
that ewe rang ltitglishsten, established thee, with
credit as merehaets. hare been banished the island of
Java-for tM abdourtiess of a yoeog female elate, the
property of one of chi native planters. they have
repWd is amps Ibe the mimes, of appesliitg crib,
government of the lielberlaods against the mill
the Gamow of Jets.

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• • TO THE EDITOR OF ?HE NTATESMiIf.
Stet—l do not consider myself an ad►pt in politics ;
neither am I partirttlarly fond of attempting a II Wass ion
of political subjects ; hat when an enormous load of
is imposed. on a people, who have for a *rift irf
beet in the jaws of poverty ; when the mottlby *hieh
through the means of the tastes, Nails its way to the
hands of ministers, who latish it extravagantly: and
when the misery of the people has, at this.proaent mo-
ment, reached an extent, hitherto Unprecedented, you
will perhaps excnse me for indnlging in a few remarks.
nhi,h 4 trust will, at least, hare the merit or ing
totally exempt from all party prejudice.
That the country is at present in a state of extreme
misery, if what ministers themselves have never had
the hardihood to deny ; that exeestire taxation and
an unnecessary standing army, are the two getat pro-1
curing causes of that misery, is a fact, of ;414 they
are equally convinced, though of coarse they wield be
reluctant to acknowledge it.—The nitegnivoeal man-
ner In which the people in all parts of the country,
have complained, in the hearing of ministers, athese
two great evils, nittlt have temoved all doolass, if they
had any, on the subject. Though convinced of the
causes and nature of the disease, they do not, however,
seem inclined to apply what they know would prove
an infallible remedy. It is true, that eminent Surf,
Physician, Lord Liverpool, prescribes is eerfain anti:
dotes against the dist . d state of the eountry—:irit
and 'warmer; ■nd, in one sense, his Lordshtp is tient
far time will certainly core the disease to which the
country is at present subjected, and a short time too ;
hut it is highly desireable to see some other remedy ap-
plied in the present stage of the disease,.heranse if the
application is defered until time shall prove a cure, it
may be attended with worse consequences. Ou this I
point, Lord Londonderry seems to hold the same
opinion, though he differs materially as to the manner
of effecting the cure. His Lordship appeared to think
that if the country were a little more restrained, the
country woul.l be well. Ile most be ignorant indeed of
the principles that actuate human manes., who mould
imagine, that the more a people are restrained, the mom-'
mon wealth would prosper ; and the absurdity of the
supposition is redoubled, when it is considered that the
people thus proposed to he r. strained, are a civilised,
enlightened, and magnanimous people. Stich a sup-
position neither accords with she principles of philoso-
phy, northe annals of history. It is only nee •
to instance, in proof of thin, the events and re►olutions

of the last and present year, which hate taken placebo
surrounding nations. If ministers are determined
not to take warning by the beacons which
,other na-
tions have set them, they will have themselves to
blame ; and, it is to be feared, they will have cause in
the end to repent it. They may fondly solace themselves
with the idea that the extraordinary tranquillity of the
present slay is a favourable and consoling augur. I
look on it in a quite different light ; for when I con-
sider what has preceded other revolutions, we regard
it as a sure presage of the coming storm. " When
violent resistance," says that celebrated philosopher,'
the late professor Drown, " appear. the only mesas of
relief: anti whets the bodies of men are wither
effeminated by luxury, nor enfeebled by climate, aor
their mini's brutified by ignorance, [bey earnest fail-
-110 suer or later, to shake off the yoke 6f tyranny, st.dd•
to break her sceptic in pieces." And it was
by that distinguished politician, Sir William Temple,
that a Government could only he said to be secure,
when it had for its foundation theaffections of she peo-
ple. .1. O.

MR. CANNING AND SIR FRAXCISRDETT.