The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

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SATURDAY RYENING, DECK) BZR 15, 1821.

The Bridge-street Society have received a check in
a way that they were quite unprepared for. They
affect to treat it with indifference, bat we apprehend
thee the effect of it will soon be visible to the public.
Tbeir patrons and supporters will not have quite so
much confidence in their legal abilities, and will begin
to think that the funds are not appropriated quite

to such profitable uses as they anticipated. The task
of persecution ought at least to have been consigned
to persons who knew something of the legal institu-
tions of their country, and not to those wbo adopt,
through ignorance, proceedings that militate with the
law and who are then put to the necessity of complain-
ing that they were taken by surprise. The
present stock of money, we are told, in the
treasury of Bridge Street, is not very great, and
another call Is expected soon to be made on the
loyalty of the Noble Dukes, Noble Lords, and Gentry
of the Country, who so liberally contributed their hun-
dreds, their fifties, their tens, and their fives, in gui-

ntas, to s tem the overwhelming torrent of disloyalty
and sedition. There is great efficacy in faith,
and we therefore recommend the storekeepers of

the gang to call fur fresh supplies on the strength
of the proverb, their ways and means of ultimate suc-
cess may. perhaps, be shewn to exist as clearly as those
of NICOLAS VAN, in another place ; but to do
this, they must get some assistance, for neither their
own law nor their own logic will convince the world
that their combination is legal, or, that Mr. Sheriff
GARRATT is not one of the conspirators. All com-
binations, it is well known, are illegal, unless spe-
cially protected by an Act of the legislature, and a
Jury will soon inform the public that the Bridge-
street Association is not exempt. And as to Mr.
GAMUT I' and his five guinea subscription, it
must have been obvious to any common blockhead
what his actual condition was, so long as his
money remained in time general fund. The New
Times, to he sure, trying to make light of their
discomfiture, calls the objection taken by Mr.
SCARLETT, " shadowy and trivial.** Our ancestors,
who placed this obstacle in their way, were dull
enough to apprehend it might one day or other, prove
a defence against influence and corruption. Till
the sapient Doctor SLOP decried it, it had always been
respected by men learned in the law. We happened
some years ago to witness a case in point. In a
cause at the Sussex Assizes relative to a surety of
the County Treasurer being called, Mr. (now
Lord) Erskine, challenged the array, on the score
of the Sheriff being interested in the decision.—
The whole amount of interest which any Freeholder
could have had in the result of the case, very probably
did not exceed a shilling a-head ; yet the Judge did
not hesitate a moment in sustaining the objection ;
tad the cause, by his direction, was removed for trial
to another county. This we, then, were weak enough
to think was noble, and bespoke a people justly jealous
of their rights.