The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-01 00:00:00

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followed •p with patriotic ardor by every lacy, taws,
and village in the United Kingdom. The subehrip-
lions for Sir Roanar WILSON are filling up rapiers,
and his constituents will give a tone to the public PSl-
ing on so fiery important an occasion ; we do not he-
sitate to say a sum will be raised adequate to, if ant
above the pay of which he was so shamefully depriiet
The Ministers of thilday may enjoy the fruits of Hi*
bandy work. They may chuckle at the idea of de-
priving a brave man of his right. They knew they
dare not tiring him to a Court Martial which would ei
once expose their Machiavelli policy to the naked
eye, and render them. if possible, even more despised
than the tenor of their weakand wicked conduct has,
made them in the eyes of the British people. They made
the KING believe his subjects in England aredisloyal,
while they are, at least, as loyal as those of Ireland o►
Hanover. They know if his MAJESTY was left to Ids
own free will he would become as popular here as
there, but that would not answer the purpose of the
abettors of an illegal Association, or its Slop Organ,
the instigators of a John Bull, or a Scotch Beacon.
No; were the people not misrepresented, the KING
would, in all probability, be one of the most popular
monarchs in Europe ; in fact, he would be the only.,
one. We, therefore, hope when his MAJESTY sees that
el►e people in general want but a stimulus, an easy in-
tercourse with their Kneo, to be every thing in a con-
stitutional point of view, he will, on his return, send
his Ministers to the left about as one of the most
valued boons he could bestow on a brave'bett insulted
people.

An Evening Paper, whose vacillating principles
have long been established, was not satisfied with the
abase heaped upon Sir Rosana. Wit.som- by his bro-
ther scribes of the hackney press, but he must add
the correspondence of the Lord kdows who upon the
occasion, wherein the case of a Colonel ABERNETIIIE
is mentioned without a particular, and a Colonel
Ross, of the Marines so far back as 1783. He states
the late Attorney-General's opinion was, that a half-
pay officer was not within the jurisdiction of military
law, and that it was confirmed in Colonel Ross's case
by the opinion of the twelve Judges, and that was a
sufficient proof that the King had no other method of
punishing Sir Rome'. Wrt.soer. I will ask this worthy
old jacobin what has Sir ROBERT done ? of what were
the crimes of Cul. ARERNETIIIE or Colonel Moss?
Ile has, in his wise and legal decision, left us as igno-
rant of the cause as Sir ROBERT WILSON is of hQ
crime. So now our old worthy would bold out the pro-
priety of a military inquisition, where a few low cun-
ning pettifogging politicians take upon themselves to
recommend the dismissal of the best officers in the ter.
vice, and render his Master an object of pity and dis-
trust. We should ask our worthy veteran, did the
Commander-in-Chief require the services of any half-
pay officer, or any staff officer upon retired allowance
is not that officer to attend with all due dispatch, and
should he not attend, is he not, by the Articles of
IVar, liable to be broke or cashiered ? Or if his
Royal Highness appointed Sir Roasar WILSON to the
command of an expedition to the coast of Coromandel,
(lid Sir lionmev refuse, would be not render himself
liable to lose his appointment on the retired staff, be
degraded, or, in all likelihoods, tried for cowardice.
lf, then, the Commander-in-Chief is the soldier's
friend, the protector of the officers in his Majesty's
service, as lie is represented to be, why not call Sir
ROBERT before him ? Why not examine him, and see
whether he would avil himself of the law that is al-
leged should protect him from Military punishment?
Then would his Royal Highness have proved himself
the soldier's friend, and done honor to his feelings as
an officer and as a man. Then, should Sir &mute avail
himself of any such privilege, cashier him by all man-
ner of means. But, no; that would not answer the
purpose of the cavalry discipline on the 14th of Au-
gust. It would not answer the purpose of those who
planned it. It is well known, and not by any doubted,
that if Sir RI:M[ILT had an interview with the Km,
or the Commander-in-Chief, lie would have turned the
tables upon those who hold their'power at the expense
of the KING and the people.
Previous to Sir Roesav 'WILSON'S departure for
Paris, be coainlted the locum teaens of the Com-
mander-in-chief, on the propriety of his leaving the
country, who told him be saw nothing to prevent it;
upon which Sir ROBSRT departed ; at once his enemies
chuckled with joy, and the pack opened in full cry,
not a hound from the titled pensioner to the filthiest
of the gang, that did not give tongue and take their
lesson from the leaders of the pack. Abuse, false-
hood, and every sort of accusation that wickedness,
cowardice, and calumny could dictate, were industri-
ously set afloat. The hackney prints; and their hire-
ling scribes from C--r to Slop, took fire, and in a
few days wrote themselves out. They censured the
subscription, the voluntary subscription; not the mock
subscription to pay one body of the people for de- I
stroying the other ; bat the grateful offerings of a
brave people to a valiant Englishman, that never for-
feited his honour in the field or his honesty in the
senate; that never squaudered their moue!, nor was
unmindful of their rights. This small portion of
news our worthy old Jacobin is recommended to trea-
sure up for some of his loyal acquaintance ; let him
bottle it for them, that they may in future, should the
weakness of human nature operate upon them, smell
to it, and they will find it very reviving.

Letters were received in town on Saturday, dated
Naples, Sept. 11, from a commercial house of great
eminence in that city, which aisle that reports were in
very general circulation that a formidable insurrection
had broken out in Palermo. The regular mail from
thence, which had brought accounts up to the 7th,
had given no intimation that a danger of that kind
was impending, bat the intelligence was understood
to have bees conveyed by telegraph through Messina.
This Is certain, that some. Austrian troops had bees
embarked with great precipitation, and had sailed
luster the escort of two frigates for Pidetille.