The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-10 00:00:00

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VHOIMPS.3 OF ISTMLECT .1.1!1717:i*.I.

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1. is the land of Jonathasi— ind thus ling it been
e • tr: •••!. In liis honest eu.leavours to better his sitna-
Cat.. anst in his inalt;y pnrpose a resisting injury and
insult, we most cordially sympathize. Wr hype hr
.n s t ma'am, L.. it .1.1./ 41:31 sttslvrt his Covernoteh! as
1." does--retnetel. !ante, that it is the cwisticit ten-
: of those entrusted witbpun I. tu rOll4 ice alai
.11. 1.1.!nr it by their own merits, and for their own use,
!..t past by deleKation, and fur the hentitit of others.
''ins far wr are the friends and admirers of Jouathan :
hr must not grow vain and ainhitiuus,or allow him-
se:f to be dazzled by that galaxy of epithets I.v which
or..tors mod newspaper .o:rilaftlers rude:no:lr to per-
r•..... 'heir sit:Tor:cis that they are the greatest, the
wostreinted, the most enlelstened, and the isoost ral
arit. stress civil. The • fleet of this is unspeakahiy
Indicrons on this site of the Atlatitic—and, Prell on
the other, rte shonl.l imagine, must hr rather linatilia-
t.:.;• to the reit:an:able part et the ropuhttion. The
laeric-ns nn c a prate,
am; acute people.;
lu! Coy hats' hitherto gib est 110 it? I;eriolis of gratis.
a Istai!e tto a: roadies to the heroic, either in their
werality or character. Its. t are hat a reetitit offset
lodeed from Eutland, and simithl make it their chief
boast. for many pen tet.ost* 1.. ....we, that they are
5,:414461: from do satm• race with !Loam and Shalsespeare,
a.. 1 S.•Y. wit. Con •1./Vritig tht it 1114,4.0. ail/i
the favottral.'a• eirctissistaaties in which they have Leen
rlaertl, they hair yet dune urarvelionsly little to assert
the bottour of stub a descent, or to show that their
r.ttar'is'a Motel in.,: been exalted or relined by their re-
-1.:41,1'..a5t training and institutions. Their •Frankliii*
and fl A-4144001v. and all the other sages and heroes of
their revolutio.., were horn anti bred subjects of the
King of tingland.—and not among the freest or most
'allied of his *objects: and, since the period of their
separtion, a far greater iltoportion of their statesmen
tool arists, and p.ditiral trri.ers, hate hero foreigners,
Vial: ever twcurre.l lief ire in the hisiory of any civilized
an i educated recibir. Duritig the thirty or tarty years
of their independence, uses have .:one absolutely no-
thing for the 'wieners, for the sits, for literature, or
even fur the statesman-like it:tidies of polities or politi•
cal retnumiy. Confining ourselves to oar tot
en I to the period that has elapsed since had au
i•hleretsolent existence, vac nottld ask, Where are their
I ...Cos, their Borkes, Ott ir Sheritians, !heir Wit:idle:me,
their Horner., their Wilberforres?—where their .trit-
teriglits, their Watts, their Darya ?—their Ilithertsons,
Illairs, Smiths, Strwarts, Paleys, and 3lalthuses ?--
their Portions, Parrs, littrileys, tor illondiehls'?—their
tat:.. CAUSpb..ll4' Hiram., Moores. or l'ralthes?—ther
Stdtionsrs, hembles, Kean, or ?—their ll ilible‘•
'.,ureters, Chautrya —t.br their parallel* to the lintel red
tier names that litter si,treall themltse es over d the norl
cost our little island iu the course of the last thirty
ye-re, and blest or delighted titanLiad ItY their work:,
iLtentions, or examples ? In so far as we }:now, there is
► styli parallel to be produced from the whule annals
or this self-adulating rare. In the four quarters of the
globe- Om reads an American book or goes to an
Anteriran play? or looks at an American ibirtere or
s'a'ne? What dors the world yet we to American
I csiciana or surgeons What new substances have their
thernists discovered ? or what old 01111 have they ana-
h red? What new constellations have been discover:id
ht the telescopes of .%utericans? —what have they done
is the mathematics? Who drinks out of American
glasses or rats from American plates? or wears _tw-
elve', eteits or eon ns ? or sleeps in American blankets ?
Finally. tinder which of the old tyrannical governments
ut gamin! is cr. ry sixth man a slave, whom his fellott-
cribaturcs tr.at Itity and sell and I.brtnre?
When these questious are fairly and favourable an-
sewed, their laudatory epithets may be allowed
tail that can be dune, tie would seriously advise thins to
k ter clear of superlatit es.

It were to be wished, ntler an electioneering
contest. and we have recently experienced a eery
warm one, that the usual fermentation attendant
on such occasions should subside, and the popula-
tion of a town or city, where such contest has ex-
isted, should, at its termination, he actuated by a
spirit of conciliation, and return to their former
file:ldly habits; nor stiffer an inti.rvlurse of mutuall
yard eflice•s, of perhaps many years standing. to
be interrepted by the consideration that one neigh-
bour have his vote to a different candidate from
another. This we were in hopes would be the ease
it, the city of Chichester: hut we lenient to say,
t:.:A a circumstance has unfortunately occurred,
wiiich has fanned the flame of discord to an alarm-
ing height, and which we have now the unpleuastut
duty to state. It is here, however, proper to oh-
save, that an old established dub is held weekly
a: the Dolphin Inn, under the denomination of
Cligire Spirit.," which, heretofore, when this
ci.y was divided under the appellation of pink/
and Uwe*, was called the Blue and Independent
Cub; while its opponent, at the Swan Inn, was
.::ailed the Pink Club, and had all the Richmond
io:erest for its supporters. Our former wiellty
Merida r, George White Thomas, Esq. of Wi.ter-
rite. has ever been, and still remains a Member of
ti:•e Choice Spirita." On hid secession from
Parliament at an advanced age, after being li% e
tmes returned fur the representation of that city,
an invitation was given to the Right Hon. Wm.
Huskisson, which he accepted, and he became a
" Choice Spirit ;" since which, he has been thrice
returned as the city's Representative. Sir Godfrey
%Caster, Hart. has assuredly many friends iu Chi-
chester; and it has been asserted that, in the event
of another election fir the city, Sir Godfrey would
be solicited to become a candidate. A warm
friend of Sir G.'s put him in nomination, as a Mem-
ber of the above society. This was too much for
the friends of Mr. Huskisson to digest; and the I
consequence was, that, on the night of ballot,
(Monday last) Sir Godfrey was Gluck bailed This
the friends of Sir G. highly resent, and breathe
avenge; while those of the Right How Gentle-
men contend that it would have been too great a
jarring of political interests, and that the fate of
the ballot is what might have been expected. We
make no comment whatever, but merely state the
fact.—(lir ighlon Herald.)
We have {caret, with some degree of surprise,
that Mr. Curteis's return will be petitioned against
under the Treating Act. Should Mr. C. be ousted
from his seat for having spent his money in this
way, he will not fail to get into favour with all the
e;ectioueering gormandisers of the count•, who, at
present, think very meanly of him.
Sir Godfrey Webster is here waiting to make a
dash at Chichester, iu case of Mr. Iluskisson's sp-
peintmeut to a seat in the Cabinet.—( /dem.)

caLwAr AssnEs, Mai 31.