The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-18 00:00:00

CORPUI

" Nob peel's.
Notre erede.

" That which makes the clergy- glorious is to be kenwiag
rn their professions, unspotted in their tires, active anti labo-
rious in their charges. bold soil resolute in oppossiat enlis-
ters, and daring to look rice is Ike fate ; and, lastly, to be
eatirttous, and compasaiongle to all."—Sous

SIR--At is elvering to every well-wisher of his
country, to see the privileged corporation, in their
servile effusious, every where discomfited by the
sound 'ease of the very great majority of the people.
These bodies, from the ease with which they rally,
show an admirable alacrity at being beaten. Driven
to holes and corners, they notwithstanding continoe,
from their ambush, like American riflemen, to dis-
charge their ultra-loyal calumnies at the great hulk
of their fellow-subjects; with this differeece, how-
ever, that their shot does no mischief but to them-
selves. The ire6tie way say to these kilt and corner I
men, as Mr. Fox said oiler to his antaltenist in a
duel, upon finding hinoelf •I's-lit!y grazed in the
erns; " it is fortunote for use, Mr. Adoni, that you
only tired with Treasury powder."
The proreeilings rf these persons are become truly I
ridiculous, and are every day itiereasinziu absurdity,
so that they will have I..ft folly or extravagance',
uncommitted by the lime their friends, the Ministers,
are doomed to show their faces in Parliament. In
Hants they have Leen disgracefully defeated, or ra-;
their durst lint skew their Gees, notwithstanding the
pains taken by the 'sigh Pontiff, Buckingham, and •
the minor Canons, to marshal their troops. At theS.
Chester Meeting, the nutareuvres of the Choluoretle-
leys' and the Cusitherneeres' could only, by the most
unprecedented conduct of time person who so unworthily
presided, binder the appearance of a direct defeat.
They were, in reality, most completely worsted. The
most extraordinary thing is, that these persons should
think their connections, costive:, or expectations, can;
remain concealed; or that they are nut so obvious to
the nation, as the seat-selling is the Douse of Com-
mons, or the sun at noon slay.
In Bedfordshire, the bolsterer; did not at all dare
to shew theinselsos ; and only tw.t voices were heard
against the resolutions of the nwetiog, which 11.1.1 the
rare quality 1.1 appewing to be ttabiAs..ed by any un-
due means, although the eirrernstaece was ;looked by
this singularity, that one of the parties is an Here.,'
sional preacher. It is ritriairs, and well worthy of
remark, that wher.oor the IGO; Sheriffs have dime ;
their duty, as it; Hants am! Bedfordshire, the hole
anal corner men have not dared to appear. It has !
only been where tie se ...livers were previously drilled, 1
like the witnesses ..f Cotton--4.ar.lett, that these enclu-
sionists have shown their I.a. es. The Sheriff of
Chester, coutrery to all usage, mat only refused to pot
the amendment, hut ref.t rd a division sot the original
address. Ile adopted also the novel taroks of direct-
ing the assembly to hold up their hats, lustros( of
their hands. On retiring from the room, be signed
the address Ay his own antho• it/ ; and this, we shall
no doubt be told, is the eonstitution as by lee esta-
blished, not the constitution os l.y Calif/erg ivrA and Co.
sii6verted. This disinterested and 1;61- Statesman, or
his colleague, Sill th, ei.iiitot possibly be supposed
to have any share in the discipline of those Sheriffs,
who take upon themselves to substitute their own will
and opinions fur those of their respective commies.
That pure and inmearolste person eau have nu interest
i• the support of a corrupt and profligate system.
It cannot be wholly indifferent Is bin., whether se-
venty thousand pounds annually go into his own
office, for passports at the foreign office, or are re-
tained in the pockets of those who travel into fro-sign
parts. This is part of that most rascally system of
Continental police, whirl; great liaises have of late
been takeu to naturalize in this utrfortunate conntrv.
It is one of the signs of a tree country, that every
man is allowed to arrive, 1.• rojourn, or depart, un-
molested, and without requi:ing the permission of
any individual or government, whilst be conforms to
the laws. Where this is not the ease, the country is
not free. I may at some time enter into details to
show you, that by %him. of the s me system of po-
lice whirl gii.es a prcaliuto etervictioas, innocent
museum must sometimes lar banged, or official murder
committed. Vet these are the p..rts of our instita-
lives, their excrescences, or cancers, which oar virtual
statesmen are so fiiglitencil to lose ; and with good
reason, if the rest of his colleagues benefit as largely
in their departments, as the foreign secretary is raid
to do, for graciously permittieg the world to travel.
Is it for do presersation of these sources of emolu-
ment to the 3linisters of the Crown, that our ambassa-
dors are permitted to oneddle with the internal
;dirks of other nations, and that our ships of au are
infamously stofered to act as transports fur removing
the poor King of the Two Sicilies, and conveying
him so tar on his way into the safe custody of the
Holy brotherhood at Troppau ? Is it fur these sacrili-
geous purposes that the labouring classes of this
community are obliged to mod, flour twelve to six-
teen hours, in the twenty-four, its order to pay their
taxes, awl to present their fansilies from starving?
But, to return to the Corporations and the Clergy,
the chief boisterers el the weak and o ickedadministra-
tion, who are the tools of the system by which all oar
calamities are produced : the faculty of physic iron aid
surgeons of Glasgow, after a most ridiculous display.
and the presbytery of Edinburgh, after a lensinuus
speech in opposition, by Dr.'f ballroom voted addresses,
which, in servility, yield to few of the hole and corner
effusions of this side of the Tweed. But, wherever
the public meet, eves; in Scotland, the expression of 1
opinion against the destroyers of the nation, and of
the peace of mankind is decisive. lo 41/asgow, the
triumph of public opinion WAS complete; and even at
the Lanark County Meeting, although the number of
freeholders were not quite two hundred, the servile
! herd were thrown into a minority. In the north of
England, the priesthood bestirred themselves in a
body. They separated from their docks, but not be-
fore they had shorn them, ..nd issued their special
manifesto, from *1 my house at the College of Dar-
! ham." Earl Grey characterises the conduct of this
conclave, u it merits: and gives an able and a trot
I deuription of the busy and meddling priest, As the

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. Sheriff acted by prosy; but his
ig :master of his part, whispered
the Lord Lieutenant, to know *kat Ile should -do.
He did that which was diametrically opposite to his
duty : he refused a division.
This comp d'cril of the workings of the system, I
have thought, might be, at Ibis time, useful to those
of your readers who have not themselves leimiris to
pursue it, in its tortuosities and ramifications. If the
public any tenger allow themselves to he deluded by
tl►e trickery of its partisans, it must he their own
faults, and there can be no help for these.

ARISTIDES.

FOR THE iSTATES.VAN.
TO SIR ROBERT WIGRAM, BART.

ANTI THS OTHER GENTLEMEN 110 t (13,trusEro THE
871fra MIMING A r THE criv or LONDON TAVERN,
ON THE I ITH .1%,41:A5Y.
"The crea:ure's at his dirty work ARLIN."

GaxnemeN—lt now a little more than a year,
since I took the liberty, through the medium of The
Stalegman, to expostulate with you upon the subject
of a LOYAL net L 'RATION, which you had then r"erntly
pet forth. The subject: of complaint u itlo you, were
the same at that time as at present; which is, in itself,
a Sinew; preyounptive proof that your former effort
was uuavailing. flat great poet observes that " true
nugaraming poiztles mere than wit" (sense). The
truth of this I have experienced, en reading your late
loyal declaration.
You set out by declaring that you earnestly and
anxiou‘ly hope, di it, " a,.drr Ificine Proridenre,"
the evils which tlitealen us will be averted. What
those evils are, con do not mention, unlesswe are to
consider them as compreheuded in the phrase "fac-
tions and, 61arpheingus proceedings," the authors
whereof "Kid' to &prier. the Mr RJEcrt of this ;Treat
wafter e,whirll- of the "Mc:dim/We Idessings which
our and happy 0,114,611,6,g5, sod nor holy
and reneged religion" are calculated to impart. If
this he your lose: thing, gentlemen, I riartlially agree
with you, in praying to God that the ant/sors of those
measures which have impaired our " rear, a/de and
happy Coaxal at tray be stopped jutheir Caren:anti
that they may no lun7er be permitted to use the cloak
of oar hot!, mod a, red td irli:!iun," to cover proceed-
ings which are contrary to every dictate of justice, of
honour, and of -aiity.
Leaving yon to decide whether your &sr' iption of
those fronts whom, or n louse proceedings, you antici-
pate evils to the Country, is noire applicable to your
employers thass to those against whom you level them,
allow' me to ask you, Gentlemen (far you are leery
shy of going into particulars) allow toe to ask cost,
why yogi make this appeal to 01 IN K Paovtneves.
" Thus shalt out take the name the toed thy God
in Polio," is a commandment which cannot he too
strictly observed. And I bold it to he blasphemy of
the darkest kind to mix up the sacred name of
deuce, in the sPyisil and party discussious on worldly
affairs. You know, perfectly well, what is the
r.trst of those " measas s felsieh 'gonad lo di tray the
sources al'prrs,r,l rnjayntenl, *WI 1.1,1 if re emit',
lotion: lint yon darn out aria allnde to it ; you know
perfectly well it is nut the hand of God but the hand
of man, has produced the stale of things to hick
you lament ; and, as you know equally well, as yam
have " the most assared coneirtiun," that you have
had ma inconsiderable share in the directing and
supporting of that banal, you feel a proportionate
dread of the eunscymencer.
lienikiiien, you talk a great deal about blessings ;
I beg pardon, I mean "lateleingide biriii/c:41:" now
I much regret that yue have not been a little
explicit ; that ram have not tostoicroted Some of the
blessings of the eacseNT at a I Lai : because it is possi-
ble that, usstwithstanilieog your expertness at calce-
listing the 'Aura cmoimudstics, oilier,- might have been
found to surpass you iu estimating the value of 'pea-
sgres apetiatf th• droies 1!1* 0 ',gnus,. J amt of opinion
with Dr. Paley, that nightly rest and daily breed.
and the ordinary use „/'our lital,x and fitewhi,s," are,
in relation to this u odd, the only " blessings.' which
man ought to ask of his Maker. You will think this
sufficiently moderate, no doubt; and yet, genilemen.
allow we to ad( )1111, at e Misr " 1.1, arise s" enjoyed
by the people of this once if and avidly happy
country! Let the notorious:UM/1111i of the purr-rates,
and your own off rof shelter to the ',ousels-3s, answer
the question for yon.

Gentlemen, it jots been a matter of surprise with ate,
at timer when 1 have forgotten, for a moment, how
deeply you are involves' in the preltrtrt previous systf ni;
at these times it has been a matter of surprise with
me, that you du not see the danger of any longer de-
laying to come ro the cause of lbform, and the
safety with uhich you could do it ; seeing that every
accession frcns tiutrr hotly is hailed by the Itrfiotaftrs
with transports of joy ; and precedence "crud our lor-
e*, dote" are given, under such circumstances, to boo-
bies, who, in ray other case nook! be objects of con-
tempt. Cheer up, then, gentlemen ; we are not
such a desperate set as you imagine us to be ; cad if
.:;orr
would onlyjust try Ni by joinimg in a rtpresentatiou to
His Majesty of the actual state of the Culliiirv, amt
of the ON 1.1" measure which can give us relief, %"u
would spectlilv find that, if there Its any who wish to
disturb the "hft.r.liNgs of rhomertic pcaef," they are,
indeed. " degiadcol ert tr."
tletatlemen, I asi happily that amidst your gloomy
and dismal forebodings. you give us, at least use
consolation. You say that the blessings handed down
to us by our ancestor*, are suited to the generations
" which are top, /ow us,- from which I conclude that
you do not apprehend Tile DISTRUCIION OP Tile
WORLD.--I am, gentlemen, your most obedient Servant,
London. nth Jau. A POOR CITIZEN:

His brace the Duke of Roxburghe sent a letter of
apology, expressing in strong terms, his regret that
indisposition, which caul/tied him to the Immo; pre-
vented his attending the dinner at Edinburgh, held
in celebration of the principles of Mr. Fox. His
Orate's letter was, by an accident, not received in time
to be read to the meeting.

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