The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-28 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STATES:►IIN

Stn,—However averse to publicity, nli;sl.
sion is aggswated in the present instance, I am
pelted by imperious considerations, which
tiality itself must confess of weight, thus to IR,
before you, and in so doing before the public, .1,
statement of facts, wherein I unfortunate:y bon
prominent and a most unpleaiant part. Basis.
already appeared in a respectable Provincill Paper,
the Liverpool Mercury, of the cl.Gth of July last, I
did net ypagioe that a recurrence of so painful
(task vnalikke imposed on a subject, where
sertions and observations were permitted without
reply, having io that letter confined myself as much
u possible to my individual case ; considering, in al.l
probability, that with that letter thesubject wocd
be considered at rest ; in furtherand'of which I ab.
stained from the most distant incentives to its con.
•.
tinnance, reserving only individual defence.

With this conclusion, tonaitri:cahttachtbeilendengtsitioehuace,odfebatkactimet,
elapsed added confirmationv jadogef
the my
uititmktrr'h,
ownhepererulsifnogutnlideml7
namendon Papers, surpnze
on that odious punishment at which,,humanity shut.
dens. This should have been pas*
I not found my conduct again milrepeeseedad, ana
that asserted as truth, which ad antecedently
proved to be false in the aforemenflooed paper, the
Liverpool Mercury. In that Paper I inserted a
quotation from the STATESMAN, the 19th June last,
being part of a speech delivered by the Judge.
Advocate, Mr. MaxNEtts SerroN, in the Muse et!
Commons, on the day previous. This gentleman
had come prepared to the House with documents re-
ferring only to my individual case; among these he
had a letter from the Surgeon of the Regiment, stat-
ing, in short, my voluntary confession of the justice
of my punishment. This he deemed of importance
to go forth, but unwittingly for Idin that statement
was false, and duly contradka Bat, sotwith.
standing this, a Mr. GOULBURN spoke in the House
on the 16th inst. as follows (being the substance of
Mr. SUTTON'S speech of last Session) :—" That in the
case adduced by the Honourable Baronet, the pu.
nishmeut inflicted had been stecchary iu the highcd
ckgr/s., and its justice acknowledged since by him
ou,selsom it was indicted, as the Honourable Bane
net would have discovered if he bad taken the pairs
to inform himself."—This is copied from the Globe,
with the substitution of the singular for the plural,
Mr. GOULRURN having included in the above another
case, that of Ely. In my letter, alluded to before,
I asserted my innocence, ,and challenged the Officer'
of the regiment to produce the Minutes of the pro-
ceedings of the Court Martial, as the only criterion
for the public, who had a right to decide in a ques-
tion transmitted to them. This letter remaining tin-
, anewared, I may surely claim, without preFtunp•
tot; thit innocence before the public, which
10-Usen beast, appealing to Goni testifies to my-
self. I refrain from rematking on the bad quality
of the bread, not from want of sufficient proof of the
case, but from the wish that a subject so ungrateful
to the feelings of the Officers, so liable to irritate
the feelings of the privates, might be buried iu obli-
vion; but an expression in your Paper of the 17th
inst. ascribed to Sir FRANCIS BeitoraT, I am con-
strained to notice; the words arc, " who had been
flogged for writing some verses against some OP
ccrs. .There was a song, composed by some OP
unknown to me, in, which some Officers were per-
sonally and illiberally attacked, and other improper
language lesorted to. ° That song has been attributed
to mei liejtidging such misrepresentations scarcely
worth notice, I should have' said stabile; respecting
such a trivial circumstance, bad npt the language of
Sir•Fa,titcrs induced me to Wine him of the same
oppnibniiioens,
the in do assureost
eStiireciFtiftivlocas oar
itaßnDerrr:tanhadt the
he
song &Hided to is not mine, nor was I privy to the
composition of that, or of any other, but that already
acknowledged; and no complaint for mi sconductdu rim;
atheritgr);ttinittoig
choainv
ipngla
bi
in
no
of
I lteogoe dr
i,
not only corporeal, but mental, in thus adding fake-
hood to misrepresentation. gionlronsust a still
pt:tinisnhdmie*n'te,
,Fearing that I have already trespassed too muck
On the patience and time of you and-your readers, no
abruptness with,which I subscribe myself, your Oe-
nology...el, perhaps, be deemetxeouisite for the

dient and humble servant,
Liverpool, Mad+ 23.

THOMAS TAYLOR.

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MELMNISiAr OCCURRENCE.-.---.ThUrSday even-
ing, the launch of his Majesty's ship .Itaiso*
able, proceeding to the Nore with supernume-
raries, by the injudicioul management of the roan
at the helm, got athwart the hawse of the
Martial gun-brig, and almost immediately sok,
with nearly fifty persons on board :, by the active be
tions of the ships laying at the •Little Nore+
tb
greater part of them .were picked up; but IV e lament
to say, _that a Midshipman (Mr. Weight), soli'
men, and a woman, untimely perished.
The crew 'of his Majesty's ship Diadem, now I,'
ing at Chatham, have been sent round, with etll"
supernumeraries, to Harwich, to take from thence
the Scarborough, of 74 guns, lately launched there,
to Portsmouth, where she is to lay up and season.
A grand national library, the collection of
wets .itn 0.0
by Catharine 11. has been completed am!
oo Petersburgh. It comprises 25
printed volumes ; 80,000 of' which relate to tyre,
logy, and 40,000 duplicates. There are 191000 111.
Amite() teeny of them exceedias scarce.