The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-09-09 00:00:00

TO THE ELEGTOLY OF

LETTER 111,
GinTLEltitt,—.We have seen,
Letter, Votmasas animated with
detecting the errors of the french
their rashness and precipitancy,
judicisi their chicane—in a word,
uswerfainty;" in the case. that I
tion, ,we shall behold this same
errant stilt the chaetplon•of injured ,
tending against a far more formidable
Gellend LALLY was net " done
tisless"- auk as escited
of the Allies against the poor Barb
hot% yet eraa he'inordered in sold
west by the efts of juggling lawmen
;sacrificed to Initiate the vengeance
at Cedtt: • The bold, the intrepid
log the mighty powers of his
witlt'the breast-plate of •trath,
vointtteet in this arduous contest, .
hibited indefatigable 'seal and perseterei
NOthing bat the consciousness
intentions, ant' a thorough con,
innocence, Could have induced
take and Persevere in so laborious ..
It 'We? pretended, had' told Pondicherry
tisif.'.He wai•ixecuted With a
lAtititinAlltid nothing more
Vitt things 'were not
TherpeOPle,. though habituated
this speetatle with' horrornedl
iildiked, but tat) plain 'that LAI
lest 'jpoinething eking fall ft
ihitivould 'prove 'At 'clue throat
'evidite' widthf4f t iris' had piL _
itittti ',
ind lead it it 9tift to the discovery
found the ease so dii-
stt94, that its investigation cost
o,ftw.liortis probably front the
tilbeetl.pertaitted th have etterad
iduiitanad ki
than

Ali I a 141411, after all he
dear the Sias tior the General'
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"ba`IaALLY 1104tiDAL, who at •
entire innocence: of his father in
way. Titlieffair suggests to the
reflections which will be Oen i 6 ,
I should be truly sorry, to have to trace.' awy, thing
likeg.eletryesemblance between the caste of Gen.
Wuscrtiodi Lord COCHRAN'S; but it is impossible
for.useot,w,tlritirits this parallel, not to observe, that
they wrgt both Celebratedfor extraordinary ist
their prsgession, both rendered importeat services to
ttyeir c 4 piry, they were botb prosecuted and con-
depted, &NI were both believed by the people to be
innocent; and lastly, both protested against the in.
justice of their atmitence, and desired to have their
cause reheard,. and their innocence brought to the
!pato( a more Nil and ample investigation. In all
these points the Ones resemble each other, but there
one in which they differ, esti emely. The Count
LAt,r.v. ToLBNDAL procured the permission o
the King tp prosecute the eledicition of his father*
ipnocence,_ which, after Muck labour, he finglly este.
isheci. SurelythOset the ((big of Puska aeied
In this business was just and laudable, ai Kell as who
#44politic.• :.
14014 Cocneans did not petition the ling, or hip
koSasas Tenets:, the REGENT, to be .41141
means of proving ,his innocence, such a stcp tortld.
have been contra"), to our jurisprudence. ,It elk..
pears, however, (bet the Frenchman was more sue.
cessfyl in procuring an ievestigation into the truth of
the case than the Englishman was; but let us not, ea
jhat account, censure the wise institutions of oar
4tncestors. They were in every instance drsigned to
Isetiefit ,the people,
,and to dispense to them real
igessings ; and whenever they now fail so to do, it
hi not the institutions themselves that are to blew*,
bet those who have corrupted them.
Our ancestors entertained an opinion, that the
man who depended on the will of a Prince, still less
of a despotic Prince, for justice, could not be called
a freeman. Yet have we seen that such a, Prince
as .t is, in France, always hearkened to the peti•
tions of his sabjects, when they complained of the
injustice of his Judges. By the readiness which the
Kings of France, absolute as they were, have shown,
atall times to afford these petitioners the means of get-
ting at the whole truth, the detections that have been
made of those false and erroneous judgments ,
lin my former Letters were enumerated ; and it
Letter we find that Louts XV., despot as 1 r
afforded to the son of General LALLY the mee of
vindicating the innocence of his father, agains. Ate
own Ministers ' • mark it . well, Gentlemen, 1 pr..y
you—against these very Ministers who bad brought
that father to an ignominious end. Great and
powerful as these Ministers were at Court, and. do.
beached and profligate as that Court is universally
known to have been, yet the horror that was felt,
even In that Court, and by that Monarch, who is
„compared by Lord CHESTER! 1 LLD (himself not this
asest rigid men in the world) to S A ItO ANA/IMPS-0
Oats horror, I say, that was felt by this despot in the
Ali& of his debauchery, at such an atrocious act ai
.that of stopping the course of *nice, and prevent.
Jng even the possibility of injured innocence being.
,indicated by a discovery of the truth—tbe abhor-
.rence that Louts XV. felt at such cowman:ate
wickedness, however hackneyed he was, in. lesser
crimes, induced him to grant to the son of General
LALLY every facility to prove his father's innocence,
should it be in his power, and fortueately it was
in his power.
Here, Gentlemen, you will permit me to make
another remark : the disgrace indicted on a whole
family for the crime of a single bulividual, is revolt-
ing to our ideas of justice; nevertbelevat it produced
some good in Frapce, i& induced many children,
many wives, &c. to exert themselves for the restore.
tion of the memory of their relatives, and by this
means the juggling of Judges, the infamy of press.
cutiens on "feigned and forged informations" (at
Lord Coat calls them), and the persecutions of ca.
balling Ministers, were not unfrequently hermetic
day-light, and became so many landmarks a;
finite to the public ; for whose home& the arcane
law ought to be Isid open and expored in every
try,.'and the admieistratiou of justice rendered
and intelligible to every capacity. tied+
among our ancestors, who decided all their
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