The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-10 00:00:00

PO THE EDITOR OF r!!! S7:ITES.II.IN.
Sta—Tour Portsmouth corrapomient hag certainty
done himself great credit by his regularity, but he has
most assuredly lost in a greater degree by his palpablel
deviations from truth. I have been from home for
some days, or[ should have remarked before this of)
istrateaust and I cannot but express my surprise -
the

statemeut he has given of the recep-
at Portsmouth. Far from transport.
of joy being felt on the entrance of the King into,
Portsmouth,asSoon as the 14undport gates were opened
after the keys had bey; returned to the floveruor,
dose carriage, in which, le is preistned the King was
appeared, cries of " the Quern, the Queen for ever'
spontaneously proceeded from the multitudes wh
were assembled on the ramparts, in the espectation o
poring the Sovereign ; but, from the rapidity wit
'which he was driven,,. they were disappointed. llii
progress down the High-street, which was lined o
both tides with military,-and whine there were scarce'
isy poople, except the inhabitants at their differe '
windows, wits dull and silent. Here, a single wbi
handkerchief was seen waving, there, a solitary
was heard ; and even these miserable uemonstratio
of loyalty piticeeded from the houses of tradesmen wit
supply the different departments of Government, and
who were afraid of losing their custom by the !dig
appearance of backwardness. Many of them suffe
for illuminating on the acquittal of the Queen, an
were obliged to expiate their display of freedom •
opinion, by appearing in a blase os the Coronation 4
the King. On reaching the Sally r 4, loud cries
"the Queen,""atl " God save the %tom" were ben
km the people op the beach'? ead here I mud agal
iiewie your correspondent of ',correctness; if he
,tit stranger be might bare *tea docoirml, if not, be
,guilty of falsehood. The "enthusiastic burst of se
plume" proceeded from a wharf or stage projecting
into the water from the King'sAslaughter-bouse, under
the moron, of the Agent Vicinedier, where the supe-
rior Officers and Clerks from the Dock-yard, Oust-
wharf, and various Offices, together with their wives,
were collected, not unmixed with some labourers, to
welcome the Sovereign. On this stay ao other per►
sons were admitted bat those who were he immediate
emssexiou with (lovernmeat ; and amongst the fore
most of them was a Promoter of ono of the llole-and-
Corner Addresses, who now bears the title of Knight,
which was conferred on him by the King, on his late
,visit to Portsmouth. In many other parts the state-
; aunt is grossly exaggerated, but l content myself with
pointing out some of the most glaring instances, from
,which you, may inlets of the correctness of the Whole.
ited here I shook) hare stopped had I not observed
Oat your correspondent had not couteuted himself
With posing, hut had descended to scurrility and abuse.
wlaterec partb or of rhetever political opinions he
moil?, I cue nut; hat he surely could nut he ea
,liingtiehmao who would insinuate any thing against
independence and an hatred of corruption ? He must
be lost to all principle, who would dare ridicule a
,osauly (*positive to Ministerial induence, aid lie meet
be destitute of every libetal sentiment if he au*
descends to be the organ of venting the spleen of the
Admiralty on the Corporation of Portsmouth. If they
refixed to elect a Lord of the Admiralty, they acted
as even—if they paid no attest* to the courtship of

the manly display,of true English firmness be so dis-
pleasing, as to put curb petty ideas into the mind of
the King as yonr Correspondent possesses? For what
lionunr would accrue to that body who would elect a
Dependant on the present Administration—.rho would
choose for their representative, a man, wbo could
have no u ill of his own; a man who had the
modesty to pro into the Goose and vote for his own
appointment—and a man, who has crouched to the
31iniaters, and voted with them in every measure op-
pressive to the People ? Surely an everlasting disgrace
would hang over them. lint what must be the prin-
ciples of that bo,ly, who hare ever turned a deaf ear to
the minions of the Treasury—who in a town surrounded
by Government tools ever disregarded them—who,
barrissed on all sides, still rise superior, and who
stud to P.sryament two honest men, who have el-
nalised themselves as the friends of the poor—the
friends of liberty—the friends of the people—who
opp -se the nsnrpations of dagitions and unjust Admi-
nistrations, and who are never absent from their post
when the interest of the country is concerned. Such
are the principles of the Corporation of Portsmouth,
and lone may they art as they have hitherto done ;
'such principles as theirs can alone save the country,
' and rescue it from its impending danger. Of the
'ate:dap:us resorted to at the last election, to procure
the return of Sir 0. Cockburn., I shall not take no-
!ire, but should yonr correspondent at any time la-
dulire In the same conrse he has done, he shall find an
'opponent ia ronr constant reader,
Portsastrath, August 9, NC. JUNIVS.
(Wo have used a freedom with our Correspondent's
letter; we hope he will excuse it.—l'he articles to
*Web he refers were copied from a Morning paper,
and we are much obliged for the corrections they hiVe
obtained. Similar exaggerations occurred in the first
description of the Coronation rejoirings, awl, though
we meld not in fairness withhold those accounts from
cur readers, we appeal to them with confidence on the
anxiety we bare 'Owed to ascertain ass} communicate
Coe trutl , on tut se amid all oecasions.—Eu.)
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NVIVIlilt AND PIIRAA: V.—lt was the schooner. Jam°
which 'ailed from tiihraltor in May last, fur the Bralits,
to which the prisoners belonged, who we stated hod
been lodged in the Edinburgh Jail. Johnston is the
name of the captain, and James Paterson, that of the
stneeomon, of whose murder they spud accosesi. The
,prisoners were taken into noway at Lewis, near Stec-
noway. The &cease given of their apprehension fa.
that a strange sail had been observed off Stornoway the
night before, and, having next morning disappeared, the
reroute officers, presuming her to have been a smuggler,
went is search, and at length perceiving sonic
Lewis,
ant temporary erections on the shore at Lents, went
owl estamitsed some chests, &c. which hail been I;rongist
ashore. The officers were coming off, satisfied that thfev
were not what they had taken them for, when one of
the MM. a boy. having separated himself from the rest,
Maimed the whole affair to the officers, when they re-
tuned and took them into custody. Upwards of thirty-
one thousand dollars were found buried in the sand.
Ilse Mews of the prisoners are, Peter Heitman. the
. no Englishman.; Francois °antler. cook, , a
Froodullosa i Reber). Wrest/tan and Peter Smith. Na-
tives of I/ t. elta tiled, an isnlien t and
drew, the bob a aide. of Malta. James ?li
terati/S. ilia giartsitan, killed, was a satire of Arbreil.
Ilse