The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-02 00:00:00

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conents, ematrasted with that of the ramie
and having paid a high and avell-metited measles!
to the'esertiona and ability evinced h Mt. flastea,
he concluded by congratulating the unclog iik.their
improved situation. •
Amer some further observations, as atiimphirti•a
from Mt. &miss. that he did not mean Se sky the
former Committee bad not done as ninth as any
body of tlentleman could have done, a vote of

was passed to Mr. Billiton.
Mr. ELLIIITON, in returning thanks, expressed the
high satisfaction he felt at the homer that had been
paid to him. That they (the Meeting) had expressed
their conviction of his endeavours to render them sa-
tisfaction, was to him the happiest eneasent of his Ws,
and he trusted that he should ever reader them that
satisfaction which lie might feel, bet which he could
nut express, and that he shuald ever be fuand aa
honest man, and thifteady servant of the public.—
(Hear, hear !)--Applanse and bravo.) When he foiled
he could not conduct the establishment to the satis-
faction of the public and the interest of the proprietors,
I he would immediately resign it —(Applause.)
I Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and the
respective Committees, and the Meeting broke so.
highly satisfied with the account they had received of
the improved condition of their affairs.

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might be extremely want; mid to whose Paltit"aat
I would strongly recommend Mr. Wetherell, as r,
rising character. I steam Ministers, and their patr.e:,
the Botnuginatongers. If under pretence of rightisE
the Queen, by services which she would deprecate, u
she has already dune so many of their anteeeekst an,
of protextios, the press est both sides could be este,-
pletely silenced, it could not fall to be as iassoesw
advantage to time persona, who are the reunion per.
serutors of her Majesty, of knowledge, of virtue, and
of public prosperity in this kingdom, since those feu
notoriously corrupt literary organs, which are vet
at their disposal, are disquallied, by their infernos,
reputations, from any longer rendering them effects!
assistance.

ARISTIDES.

MEMOIR OF SIR frALTsi SOIWT, tut
Public curiosity having been strongly tubed 1y
the aanonneenmist of an article is Gold sad Need'.
houses's London Magssine of this month, which would
divest Sir Wel.vas SCOTT of the credit of the reit.
brated Novels ascribed to his pen, we take' :ruin
to present oar readers with the following nowt
from the Memoir in which the dttcmpt is made...
" Sir waiter Scott wasbom on the 13th of Ave, mi.
and is the eldest surviving sea of Walter Scott, Faq, w liter
to the Signet in Edinburgh. His mother wu the ineylmi,4
David Rutherford, Esq. who was a very able sad Fop*
mmetitioaer of the some profession, and la the same piste,
She was the author of seven* poems, peowaski some merit,
and was intimate with Bans, lidaddoek, sad Ansa Ramsey.
Iler poetry, if it did sot pin an amaranthine wreath for he.
self, bad doubtless a eamidemble ahem la meeting oar ler
her son, by eliciting anifeherisbiag therm of poetry wiry
existed in his bosom.
" Unlike many of his celebrated sod endoesitly-takroted
eotemporaries, his genies ,was not precocious. He did not
in his boyhood discover my peculiar trait armature! ability,
sad had not the circumstances we have Wendy referred ts,
of his mother's attachment to poetry, acquaintanceship with,
poets, as well as his incapacity for other pursuits by kis
lameness, driven him to Me stere and the metes, it is fair
presumption that the advocacy of legal as the Seoul*
Bar would have been the summit of Sir Walter's ambition.
" Mr. Scott had attained the age of twenty-fits before ha
ventured to prole his same to any of his prodectioss.
The first which appeared was elicited more by it. apes
solicitations of his friend Mr. Erskine, the by say thirst
for fame or hope for fortune. is order Is Rd his way
before he ventured to launch into the great ocean of
literature, and to brave alike the rocks of criticisa, Lai the
quicksands of a vitiated taste, he spread his sails seder a to-
reign leg, and published two poems in one solvate, withal
titles of "The Chase,' and sad Mary; ballads
from the German; the preface to which was written by Mk
Erskiae. It woold be a pleasaat, though perhaps an sashes
task, to tram the remittals feeling, chivalrous 'militia, sal
glittering description of his later and more popular proem
tions to their earliest source, otherwise we ire perusal%
that few men an mew this little work without discoverlit
the elements of them peculiarities in a faint degree, swiss
undigested state, which have since been so powerfully lira
played In his various poetical publications."
After enumerating and remarking on the naiad
works that indispelably pasattaled nat"l4
prolific pen, the maw of die *their pesonsde :
" We now eons Misibiqiiiiiders that has bawl so I"( sal
so earnestly argued; bilk it is he sot, the author of Met
are emphatically • The Scolds Nerds.' ft
Mint*, wad direfare—ma as nor.
" ka hazard*/ r held assertion, we know and feel is
Miguddlbility HO boo voluntarily incurred. We Mid
Mewls% Sell dilling it la this unqualified woad Is
shall net kw blab by any argument deduced from sly
fended 'demi gib, in the works themselves, or from up
opinion we map lave boss induced to form from inererir-
cusastantial Mime. Nor do we bold that the pertisadim
and perpetual andel of Sir Waiter himself ought to Ws
any iolimace upon our minds, believing as we do, Sails
author is not always bound to acknowledge his prodectieM
or, mooed's' to our great prose moralist sad dillemodier
(Dr. Johnson), to withhold an absolute negative when he
deems It amermary M me one.
" The hat is, these toftgArere *Hp by a seer rela-
tive ef Sir Waller Sates fid. wen Mid* gad ta ha'
by that Moth% kabolleilabliftibilifilifisids, ewer-
' des. aid felifts4lllllls *arty die • poetry la bis
1011~1011101,111161stmomy of lb. fit foes :throe.
IMll.lll.llfient for disposing of the copyright.
a" *Pa and Mind of pebileatioe. was made: sad
a the antineed mystery is which the Mole
agile Is enveloped, it Is Brolly believed by the parties vie
whom he has hem obliged to be immediately connected, de
they are Way the productions of hi. waifs.
" These fasts were cessmaeleated by the real net ri
!s novels, to a edami la the army. wbe is well keees,smi
lOW* mospeeted fwr the railar, of his advises.
foilidisiflie Wad, sod the istent and depth of his rtilF
don; and whims no doubt that we shell Omit partairio
hish.presious ;fa thmoddiesibta allnitrJollol,
bee, no set this goading tor ever at red, by ghle( et do
name of the real writer of those admirable works of NM
as well as hie own.
" The reasons for throwing, and esadoidog toll's% Os
garb of ampaysty over these 'levels, most be elisions tow/
laqutriag Wad. Siam their comesioeemeat tbq
almost tadvorsally attributed to Sir Walter Scott :
any advantage that might accrue from a name so prtr.i'
mostly popular sad sesseeseil, they inherit la the falhatile
Mat and, in oddities, possess that peesilar air of
which, by easeleming to smite the situation sad r
inquiries et litseary men, will keep the weds
oadhussilyiseftre the puddle eye. W. mush Me s'
withnioadlig thole lairlosie excellesios, Mother dor 14101
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