The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-03 00:00:00

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/VHS MEMOIRS and SPIECHES of SIR
!SAMUEL ROM ILLY. is the Rowse of Commons. eel-
leetad by William Peter, Esq. ; also, the Speedos*
Lord Realm, when at the bar. spinet Constreetleallesa-
son. Is ♦ vole. St°. pries We.

THE CH4RACTRR OF POPE.

(Prom Baldwia's Londe* Magaglue.)
Many of our readers are aware that tt spirit,' eon-
tronny has arisen relative to the character of Pope,
in consmisenee of the conduct of the Rev. MMus
Usk Bowles, in his edition of that poet. This con-
troversy has been partly carried on in Baldwin and
Co.'s London Magazine ; and to afford some lotion of
it, we present our %readers with the following ex-
tract •from a communication to the lagt namber of the
Magazine, in answer to another correspondent who had
impeached the, remarks of the Reviewer of Spence's
Anecdotes, in a preceding number of the work.

Mr. Campbell says of -his editor, (the Rer. Mr.
Betel's) that " he has kept iri the shade Pope's good
qualities and exaggerated his bad;" Lord Byron goes
further, and users, that with candour on his tongue
he bad gall at his heart : " bitter words these gossip!"
Now how does Mr. Bowles reply to Mr. Campbell ?
lie tells us that Horace Walpole bad declaral that
Pope received a thousand pounds of the Duchess d
Marlborough, on condition of suppressing the charade?
of Atoms, and that having pocketed the money, he
published the satire.

" A story su base," says Mr. Bowles, " ought not
for a moment to be adusitted solely on the testimony 01
Walpole. Pope certainly was not a favourite (on ae
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count of political differences) with the Walpole',
though he received civilities frosts Sir Robert ; and till
theme is other proof, beskes the ',parte evidence and
sole assertion of Walpole, the same candour which
made us/egret, what upon no better foundation, was
said of Addition, ought to snake us reject, with equal
readiness', the belief of a circusustance so derogatory to
the character of Pope."
All this seems candid, and even lofty,—excepting
the insinuation of civilities received by Pope from Sir
Robert Walpole :—but why all the vacillating and
doubt about the fact, between Walpole't assertion, and
the salvo in Addison's favour, when Mr. Bowles kisser
that the charge mast be false, and Mr. Bowles must
have been aware of the falsehood even from Warton's
pages ; since the character of Abase, for whoever
designed, was not printed till years after Pope was
gathered to the grave of his fathers. Why was this
kept out of sight in " Bowles's Life of Poi e?" why 1,
with so unequivocal an evidence of Walpole's untruth,
was the tale repeated at all ? This heed and front of
Mr. Bowles's defence offers a sorry example of " can-
dour ;" the rest is all begging of the question, or taking
for granted, la saying this I 'Made to the connection
of Pope's name with Curti, and Addison, and Lady
Mary Wortley Montague. Your correspondent sayiki
" Mr. Bowles thus advanced some facts editing tp
Pope's life which have not been attempted to be die-
proved : he has drawn inferences from three, not in the
spirit of spleen or sarcasm, but with the fall admiNsion
of the general virtues of the great poet." The friend-,
ship of your correspondent has, I fear, beguiled his'
judgment ; and his deduction has, I suspect, been usadel
without exansioation. It is my deliberate upinioa,
not hastily formed, that Mr. Bowles has nut contributed
one indisputable fact to the life of Pope; and when I
assert that be-has charged the poet with meanness,
evasion, hypocrisy, and falsehood, I am persuaded, I
that more facts than we are at present in poseessime of
are necessary to warrant such imputations. It is no
excase for these slanders that Mr. Bowles came " reel-
ing ripe" from the perusal of Mr. Coxe's party pam-
phlets, in quarto--compilation resembling history, just
as the works of Cooke and Oldmixon, or Ridpath and
Roper are worthy that distinction,—and which, like
them, almost before the ink is dry, are sweeping fast
to

Where thiags stiU-born are mixt with things totgot.

Party prejudice is the planet under which Mr. Con
had his historical birth, and in matters connected with
history, Mr. Bowles could not have followed a blinder
guide. That " enlightened historian," as Mr. Bowles
with great simplicity calls him, has " contributed" a I
note on " 13riag Anall, of the Denied," in whieh his
matte and shrewdness are loudly eulogised, though be
is admitted to have been " vain-glorious anti important
in his own ideas I us Pope MIS, warm MCCII
1111A110:4." This is Mr. BOWIell'S ia guide, philosopher,
aad friend," in matters of history ! It is, rarely,
mighty consoling to niece that merit, thuagb late, is
send its reward : almost a ceatary after their decease,
crabbed Denis lads his admirer I. the reveread Lisle
Bowles, aid " lying Armen" his his eulogist sad
patron im Mr. Archdeacon Con ! deft • freewill
It is sot without reason that Campbell. Lord Byrom,
aid, u Mr. Bowles complains, many others, have re-
sulted the aopereloas east is Pope's moral character :
they hare watay of the diegasdag fest‘elletf the war
that'was are Waged against Bea Jammu aid pleat
balorai au ammo et his Whim and air, I am per-
suade& Ma dame, capable of satisfactory sobseioar—.;
Your pages may he muse profitably employed than is
ewstroveray, of which so ofte sea Madeira*, the m-
inima= c bat to aaa•ease y Asersaalaatha if en-
coring aro tbr assay asaammoollllll2:immeints
issl awaken Is the objsoo of 4
Hot fog au oargliity okay opfy Ow,* he tihlll lea
,said issloy •parposa, t soa sessissto sadeirdr,
bat I shall eater *pea the awdsualchig, as the Apostle

aPd
and if it were " my cue to speak," I,—as you well
know, Mr. Rditor could speak to Mr. Campy
bell's personil kindnesses to myself under vuer
peatilar circumstances, u well as to his deserved
Mutation.- Rut the merit of the enquiry I Ow
Owe to myself to institute must be decided
something more substantial than a name; at the sum
time, that your correspondent may nut suppose that I
intend to shrink from the retpoasibility of what
dies, or what l' hope to do, I shall to tko latter, or
`well as to what is nor► before yost.Mr. Mika, ails di*
signature of Ocrarius lilts.cuatse.
THE CORONATION..

WISTIMINSTIR-HALL. .1
he carpenters' work in
Westminster-Hall is now completed. Every thing is
ready for the upholsterer and other decorators. The
galleries are finished, as ars the floorings, particularly
the elevated station for the royal table, which also,
appears. On each side of the Hall, but not quite
under the lower gallery, there is a table, and thus the
middle portion of the Hall to a great width, is left
entirely open and unoccupied. Along this space the
Champion, with the Earl-Marshal on one side, and
the Lord High-Constable oa the other, preceded by
Heralds, Squires, &c., will ride; all three will be on
horseback abreast, proceeding from the Hall-gate to
the ascent to the royal table. The Boor of the regal
board is on a level with the former entrance into the
late Courts of Chancery and King's Bench ; and the
ascent to it is by steps and landings reaching quite
across the Hall. The table thus has a most command-
ing and imposing station.
The arches of the twelve windows in the wall on
each side of the Hall, as they appear above the gal-
leries, have been completely restored by the masons'
skill. The arms of Richard 11. and the ornaments
of the Hart, Sm., introduced by that Monarch, re-
appear, fresh and perfect; and those parts which were
left incomplete, owing to the deposition of Richard
before the works in the Hag projected by him were
finished, have also hien perfected. The Agates of old
Kipp, which latterly appeared over the Judge's seats,
are replaced in their origisilitieheit, on each side of
the southern and newly-spared grand window behind
the Royal table.
The masons have finished the needs window,. front-
ing New Palace-yard, as well as the tower or turret
starting from the summit of the roof; as the scaffolding
is entirely removed, great number of persons daily
proceed to admire the beauty, peculiarity, and minute
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finish of the Masonry. The masons are now engaged
in repairing each side of the great gate; and these
are the only workmen now employed about the Hall.
The carpenters completed their works here on Sa,
turday night; they have also terminated their portion
of the works in Westminster Abbey.

ASSIZES.
M.—Lawis. Aug. I.

MA NI Picknell was indictij
for feloniously killing and slaying John Arclideacsail
a youth, nine years old, by kicking Bins on the *bat.
men, at liastings,on the 2d of Jane.
Mr. Axon's, conducted the prosecution, and M 1
APi ILPIICX the defence.
It appeared in evidence, that on the day meutiune4
in the indictment, the deceased, and twu other bob.
were teasing some males, the property of the prisoner)
who, in a great passion, came np to them with a sdek
in his hand, and beat them pretty severely all r,:usd,l
and in the scaMe the deceased received a kick on the
right side of the belly. Next day the deceased ap-
peared as well as usual, but was taken ill with an in-
flainmation in his bowels, and lingered until the fish
of Jnne, when he died. The body bring opened,
was found that the liver was in a morbid state, fro.
natural causes, but that mortification had been canard
by the external injury froin the kirk. The surgeon.,
however, was of opinion, that a very slight injury
would have hastened death. in the state in which the
liver was found. After the deceased was beaten, the
prisoner had expresses! himself in an unfeeling faste-
ner of the transaction, seeing that he had given the,
boys " a h-11-llred good beating, and hrd laid it lab
'ern d—d well, and be had given 'ens a sickening"
There was no distinct proof that the prisoner bad
kicked the deceased.
It stas proved on tboyart of the Prisoner, that he
Eras the father of six children, and was a Mall of very
huinnee disposition ; that the stick with which he hail
]Massa the deceased was very slight, and that beating
efts is fact very trifling.
. The Casa/ JUBTICS charged the Jitry to esquire
lest, whether the Prisoner had kicked the, detrained;
Wha did, then they were to consider whether the kick
had mused death. if death was not produced by the
lick, the Prisoner was entitled to am acquittal.
The Jury band the Prisoner—Not (kitty.
HIGHWAT Hereonirt and John
Dweller were indicted fbr fekinionsly assaaltiog James
Madsen on. tho King's highway, on the 23d of Jane, in
time parish of Worth, patting hint in fear, and taking
Non his penes two IL Sauk of England wage, ono of
the Reigate Haab notes, ate shillings I. silver, and
other property,

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No.-1788. "The Cause for which HAMPDEN fal in the Add , and SYDNEY dial on the Seaffodel !"
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K.4sr INDIA 1100111, Aegtsst 2, lOW • This Day was Published. 9d. ' has it, " nothing doubting ;" nor shall 'I
be deterred Fie
THE (*owl of Pireciorx of the Untied ,fi N Abristrotent of the Ithir
if Merehards sf hNisgais,l.tradirig le the EC's:: art! rs. DEBTORS' ACT, (passed 90th ifign,oo a. by the terror of great names from examining those nweir
d, Amity girt Notify, Index. . . dealotful points of the letters printed by Cur% Pope's bare
Tuts Gsssita a. Cover of the said Company will be held Hy G. P. ANDREWS. ATlll99lltri'M . dispute with Addison, . nut his quarrel with that At
st their limn,. in Leadenhall•ntreet. on Wrenesoay. the Primed for J. and W. T. Clarke. La* Poe- "piece of virtee"—as Coriolanus says—the Lady
Do iosuipt. from CO o'clock is the morning until 6in the legal-street, ljneole'e-lne; (by W. .8- Mary Wortley Montagne. Tbeaethodty of "so ses- •.
,int, for the Et.actioN of a Dieu-roe of thin Company, court, Fleet-street ;) and sold by all Boot gelled& • peetabk a name as Mr. Campbell's," seams to bare Thi
in rues of Sir David Scott. Dart, who hada disqualified.
JOSEPH DART, Secretors. This day was petitioned, hy Luidgissi, -Piccadilly, Itill vols. great weight with your correspoedent, apd well it may; Utah
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found the Prisoners Oath;—Destb. Codes. was addiesd.
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Obr fetterliff levied Bank et In fland 0,441
pithy to die eine Swan'h~M 'ciao agonised- • tempeenion fir hor-
ned were sentenced to 14 pears' transportation each. tan leas .