The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-15 00:00:00

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brittle; has mirk your adman .
which I have owed for the last 3 yews.
shim; of the law; Civil and military, does boner to yourtJ
lama iltd-Nekff; "rod your support of Sir R. Wilsoi7
upon the bead scale of lux ice mad of right, shotild
-exalt your partial to the first consideratkra of every
British soldier and subject, as it should to the arm-
ries of posterity.
Among the many able articles of yours iaa Befetide
f that valiant General, that of .. A Poor Man in the
Borough" is the most interesting; which is en ecratti-
listed and supported by those eminent antberities, thdt
it Once sets farther doubts at reit. The case is a crat
one, as it leaves a number of deserving individuals 4
the mercy of weak or wicked Ministers, always ready
to poison the Royal ear against those who oppose their
measures in any way whatsoever.
Whether Your correspondent, "the Pour Man is the
Borough," is poor or rich, hilrlt or low, he is entitled
to the grateful recollections of his Slajesty's stay, sit
to those of A3l iJoa ON HALIP-IPAY. •
Pimlico, 14th October, 1521. •
FOR THE, ETA 1'E531.4.Y. •

In overhauling your leg-book of the 9th Oct, 181,
I lay to and ectulded over a letter signed,
Man in the Borongll,7 which 1 Nand right and tfelp
and well tenanted front 'Seim to stem He made ati
easy voyage into the hearts ;ud purses of every slim
aboard, with sound keels and stout canvas; since
when I have been on the look out for stralls.antil list
evening, when TIIE STATr4II.OII hove in sight;. npon
which I grappled all hands in search of " The Poor
Mae in the Borough." .Shiver my timbers, if I ever
enjoyed a sight of the enemy. or wy mess-mates cleat=
leg decks for action, than to get alongside of hies;.
as much as he pleased ate on Tuesday, he last wird
astonished me, d'ye see, Mr. STATESMAN be hare
down on the lubbers with such a press of sail as to pet
himself aboard than. He then opened smelt afire of
sixty-four carronades, grape and cannister as to send
four shots between wind ausl water. The guns on the
qaarter4leck and fore-castle cleared the riggiug.tand
did not leave them a feather to fly with. Avast,
STATESMAN, I've got quite the heat of action, and if
so be as how I come off, as I have often done before'
with hard kuocks and a few broken bones, why, d'ye
see, its nothing but the.fortane of war, which Probed
tt spell at for the last five and twenty years. and am
now laid up on half-pay with Poll and half a dam*
yowl' ones. Heaven take'sn in tow, and enable them
to weather the gales of this wicked and ungrateful
world. Ungrateful, d'ye see, Mr. STATESMAN, or
the lubberly crew would never have advised the die-
missal of the brave Sir Robert Wilson. I never; in
all my days, thought much of them there Lobo err,
but, strike my dead-lights, a brave man is a turfy
man, in eithei a red or blue coat. To put such a whir
fellow on short allowance, was crimping his pay and
sending him adrift to starve. Poll says it was worse
than making an army agent in petticoats. Blow my
upper works, if Poll don't know a thing or two; for,
when they sent that thkire poor woman (the Queen,)_
ittti the bilboes of accusation, PolLsoid to nie,o I st
,Jack, this here poor woman is as pure as snot,,
sharks want to destroy her ;" and Pull was right, for
she said the Queen would steer through the breakers'
with top-gallants, stem sails, and royals full sets
When her Majesty (heaven rest bet.) weathered ebbs
hurricane, Pull got the six young ones all arottmiker
and gave three cheers fur the Queen', and D.;,t pude'
to her foes. I looked on with that pleasure tnat
felt at peeing an enemy's first-rate strike to Low.' Nel-
son. And blow up toy bulk-head, but I joined in three
cheers more, got twelve candies lit, and made Pall dad
the whole fry drink the Queen's health in a bumper of
grog. So, d'ye see then, I took to reading Tilr'
STATIMIAN ; fur Pull says, it is the only paper that
speaks out the bold honest truth ; and let me tell you.
Poll is as high learnetlas any she in the ship ; but
when she got a sight of " Poor Man in the Borough,"
says she, " Jock, this is a first rate, and carries hesvy
metal;" right, my last, said I, —my eyes, if
didn't basset! round;" for says POI, "Jack, my deal',
what should the little ones and I do, if they were to
doff your half-pay, as they did Sir Robert Wilson's ?"
and I seed her tripe the spray off her eye-pumps.—
May my main-mast go byabe board, if 1 did not find
the piping force its way down my cheek, when I looked
round on poor Poll and the little ones, anti when I
thought on the many officers, seamen, and soldiers that
fought their way up, both in the Army and Navy,
and are left to the whim of any set of Pltilistines, who
may cast anchor aloneside the Royal ear. D— my—
it makes me mad ; after a man's life is spent to keep
lubber* at home in ease and affluence.; after a loss of
health in all climates, perhaps covered with wonadv
or deprived of a limb, to he like this brave fellow.
wronged ; may I be swamped if it'll not so.. Did not
.e The Poor Man in ti.e. Boeuugh," lay it down qs.(4
as the needle in the compass? Dill ;4aenot quote .the
Aloes Father, as an authority. supported by asseret,
Burgoyne, Sir Vicary (IRAs, and Sir Edward Coltst.,•l
that the sending of poor Wilsun adrift was unseats,*
like, anti contrary to the law. of the land, and. dare the
bathers dray it ? Split my keel if they dare. Avast,.
I'm getting lik) far Mr. STATESMAN ; but, d'ye see,:'tias
time I should hold out the white flag to the Lobsters,
and Pull says she'll save as/tilling a week till it comes
to a crown fur Sir Robert. hod bless bins, aud latish
it was Jive hundred pounds, from the love l bear an
oppressed man, and the cane of Justice. . • • • •
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