The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-14 00:00:00

70 ✓OLIN /TAI NS,
COMMONLY CALLRD THE LORD MAYOR.

Finial) Jors,—Since I knew thee giving nut
fleo►, cheese, Woad., and tobacco, on board of ship,
eatil thee bec•mest a ship's hisband, sod flow thence
till than hada arrived at the footstep, of thy gilded
conveyance and civic debasement, I hsse watched
thy progress narrowly and csrefelly, and have found
all thy IMOveineitts .crusted by the force of thy prag.

•relics! and arrogant disposition. Specious, though
actininnious in thy manners, waverlug and uncertain
in thy friendships, and ambitious to do the dirty
wink of thy empin, err, even in •ho [loose of Cs,
reption. As ■ 111a,cittrare, his best, OR a varlets
of occasions, displayed a vindictive temper, without
masidering that a man once stripped to the cid,
should at all times be teuseimas In using it, eves by
proxy. Thus 'Louise,' that tyranny and torture are
repugnant to the laws of England, and the man
who'd rase either is a traitor to the lases, and
should suffer acc..rdir•sly. Boss Irked Joux, those
men called .oldie.l affirm. " titer• are sone mg.
tyrannical then • hum who are et• vated from the resits
to command ;"—others ogy, " abut is bred is t►e
boat,
be the cam with t►ee. The opposition thy predeces-
sor met witb from the Lirery, should hem beep a
lesson to thee; and that rotation which placed thee is
the Civic Chair, nor, its time, be dispensed with,esd
the employers disappointed in -meshing thee. It was
tenoght shoo souldat improve from the temper of
shy felloo.ciiizest. instead of which, !hoe bast be
tem. the pander of their oppressors, and t►e smite
sid-ole.ramp rf 11 Rif hireling blood.heeeds ; sod the
seem where WALTER TELLS% blood added en em•
bleu to the City device, thou eapertedst to make the
in. matiet of thy vale-gloriess esallatioa.—
Yet it appears with thee as with the Prodigal Son,
good advice it thrown allay on thee; and though
thou now may too 'Ertel in the tinsel of shy ,•amnion,
thou rosiest yet feed upon husks among the swinish
multitude, at he .141. To.•. host, friend Joss,
steered tky infitot bask to oho port of vanity, and
before thou tesehest the obelisk of thy desires, the
clients of thy adventures will be enrolled in a rem.
pendiem so thy eternal disgrace. Theo bast publicly
exerted falsehoods to cotter thy delinquency, thee
bast been repeatedly dared to pros• thy a tiont,
er bring iforwmul tt.y proof. Tb.•e direst not et.
tempt tidier, therefore thee mime now add the lisle
of I—r to those of thy blosbieg hornet.. Is it to
be en•!ered, that soli a vita thing should assert that
the Citizens of f.nndon were to he murdered in their
beds by their peaceable and industrious neighbour. ? Is
it to be borne, that similar atrocious libels were primed
es the walls, pssticela►ly •resod the met of Govern-
ment, and in the City, under thy very now, frteorl
Joan ? Whet a sleepy dolt thou must be not In hat•
the bill stickers taken op, as bed been dove on other
eriflieg occasions. No, frivort Jose, Oat would nor
so' thee, nor thy friends in Uri lewell, Shoe lee.,
Per Temple-bar. No, friend Josue, " Thee go is
sty boys," would no 'owe resells in smbibes ; the
c odd be assassins, in all likelihood, *web, tern
open their employers, and harm welch. harm cad,
become the order of the day. These overlst on tumor
alfeet secrecy, thou and the infamous, retempora•iee
are known. Those who'd set the City in •tees by
invention, would possibly do it in reality, if they
were better paid fur it, such Is their bemoan/ loyal-
ty ; such their lave of peace and Christian firm
Narrate.

Before I leave thee to fatten en thy bore, who,
from thy appearance, art not unlike ono el l'u*-
no•it's ben Line, I should recommend the► a charge
of posture, as Smithfield has tented out se unpin.
deceive ; and as the slaeohtee of bipeds Is getting
out of fashion, [tether a trip to Waterford would
enable thee to deal in quadrupeds. I ask pardne.
friend June, father was there before—mem!
It is whispered, that thy employers ere sick of thy
eve►.ofhcinus seal. They call thee a bungler, and
that thy stars never intended thee for any thing above
a Parser's Steward, and, whomever thou dineldst
return to thy occupstinn, it will be with the good
will of thy fellow.ciiisens, who, though boldiog
Ike leade►s of the Smithfield Meeting in doubtful to.
sped, folly respected themselves, and the cause
which should be uppermost in the heart of every he.
west Briton. They would not be formed to infringe
en that taw which is their GirtA•rigit, which thou and
Ike official tools of thy employers throughout the
teentry, have endeavoured to set et defiance. No.
friend Jona ; neither the Citizens of London, nor
the People of 11.itain, went to be honied doom like
Marconi in the land of their fathers, or the enter.
Senate Irish, by the protected banditti of Orange
Wrecker:. No, the summit of their wishes is the
Law of the Lead, and a fair Reptetentation, of which
they are deprived by the assistance of an nwor.wyea.
hog Magistracy, a set of ignorant despots, radii atty
•prong like mushrooms from the froges of human
•isery, devoid of those qualifications which beautify
the seat of impartial justice, and render a oaths.
happy. Antoog these petty tyrants, the,* are none
More dangerous to the well being of society than the
gownsmeu, whom %VILLIAM PITT principally intro.
deiced into civil office. fo► encirrl purposes. He
knew they would cling to power, let it emanate from
whatever source, even from illahonset himself.
These he fiend kis submissive agents—his active
Magistrates—his basest tools—his reeetterstors of
evidence—his promulgators of plots—his finishers rt
the lats. They substituted politics for piety, end
for Chastise, meekness domestic oppression, until
their utte► neglect of morel defies, created a swarm
of p;i kpocket fanatics; the ranting lialaariies of
hlssphetsioas conventicle,. who now, like rata, so.
deimi AP the boasted foundation of Church sod Stale.
I may be told, friend Joust, that ibis is the old
story r ter spin. I allow it ; yea, I think it is so
very dl anti infirm, that thou merest be every day en
the loot. out for its demise.
Thou wilt smile, friend June, when I tell thine, if
there he sty anti among thy civic tribe, that di..
grimes the Ahletmenic character, thou art she man;
bat tti:l thug emyett shockle at the smiles of lite