The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-08 00:00:00

MORN NORIA PAUPERS.
ELOPI:RLY INTRUDE.). E To "'HEIR HENEVO-
Ll).Nl' CHUItcIIWARUEN—TIII,. PUBLIC.

Wang. rea. h a.l ttate.--they beg hut better drawl,
Aiid sit 1, splendid poverty a, toot. Pore.
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One of the l-ading characteristic., of high rank is a
strong ati&orrence of any useful employment. All
abide" of. labour they hate; it is assocelida to a
noble Atom:Kit. And how very grateful ought we to
be when we find them sacrifi.ing even this almost
natural distinction, f.•r the People, merely out of a.
wish 54, take the People's money! T:...egh they
:hink annul in.the faintly escutcheon ehaplutely de-
grading, and scarcely ever to be seuttred, yet to
oblige the People by emptying their pockets, they
Ore content not indeed to-do theleork, but to take
upon themselves the filthy titles of cterksotod keep-
erq and collectors, with as much gravity and so-
lemnity, as the deSCelitialiti of batcheri,and bakers,
or any of the..con.usott members of society! They are
hOwever too modest to boast of these things. 'They
wish to serve Os in silence, and do nor wont us4o
olush at qur vulgari,ty, in suffering such noble beings
to de our business. . they would—" -do .good by
slealf/s and blush to find it fame !" fiat MP must
-illtilii' them .go unrewarded. We must hold them
up to the admiratioo of their (elm w-creatates. The
;Duke. oe.Gardetti the Earl of Norwtoh, eat two ,
bet one great )nan! and the Keeper of the Great
seal of Scvtiondl still the v, i y same great Mast !
Now, Gentlemen of the Swinish Multitude, do you
know the event of your ooligition to this D .ke
.1 Gordon, and Earl of Norwich ! Yes, he
keeps the Great' Seal of Scotland. No, he does
not ! No! why is he not called the Keeper of
the Great. Seal of Scotland ? To be sure he is: but
,he is.not obliged to keep it, ou that account. Per-
haps he never pow a: rtrtaii+ly he 'sever:used it—
for •he says so himself, and a Nobleman must not be
sue led of telling stories, whatever else be may do.
.IVO then, it 'so me.e title, a mete honorary title—an
. opfumitik,titir2 %Viso, cull a Lord, a Keeper of
i.
, Imal-r-whicu „might he kept by a 7'oten Clerk,
mad gip it an honerary title! What nonsense! why
srip a Lard ; end you cannot honour him by giving
ip ri title inferior to that which he inhetits ? if he
considered it an honorary title, he would wear it.
pyou 'mild not •Leer the great world call him the
'Duke of Gordon—they would say, • 6 there goes the
Saul .Ktcper !" •Elis•Grace : would blush, and her
Grace would blush, and. ell the little Graces, whe-
ther reale or female, would blush also, to hear the
great man accosted in such terms. Nay it is a goes-
lion whether even his Grace's footman would net
blush to hear his master saluted by such a vulgar ap-
pellation. Ile might as welt be called the betimes of
the parish ! %Veil, but what conclission is to be
drawn from all this? A Duke would nut be called a
Seal Keeper for nothing, he must hove either honour
or prilit by it. Aye, " there's the rub !" It is a
very profitable place, certainly ; and honour is now
calculated upon the scale of advantage. In plain
lango:ge, the Duke has (or bad) a net revenue of
two thousand, four hundred, and forty-one pounds
sterling per annuin,• for being called Keeper of the
Great seal of Scotland ! for which he dots nothing)
because he has nothim to do i! ! Now, reatembn, ,
half-a-crown a week, or air pounds ten shillings per
anndet, is sulficient to'' FSED• a labourer! is the
opiniop of Mr. Benuett, of Pytt-house;• and a com-
mon pauper would be obliged, perhaps, to put ep
with less, as it would not be the objectot his parish
to feed, bat merely to support him. What a for-'
tunate thing to bottom of noble blood! bust it is a
more fortunate thing to have the rurreat of that
noble blood flow in, channel where t. e sun-beams of
Royalty can recommend it so •poo.rfolly to the
Cbwrchwardens and • Overseers of the Nation, for
its proper. maintenaace and support. Some folks
may say, that such a Duke cannot be a poor 'man,
that; he has large estates-.—that he has funded pro-
perty—all which may be very true,--bet you see
that be is a poor man of no very ordinary descrip-
tiorr—t. poor span may be fed with lei, than seven
pooods sterling per anion); bet a rich Duke could
not lire spoil a. less allowance then two thousand,
four huothed, end fortyrbbe pound, a year, In hill
dition to 4 large estate': that is, a rich De'le melt
have from public charity as much at would maintain
tiaree Unfired end NO poor sass, betides per-
haps a fortune that would maistaitt four times •as
many. ' With the latter, however, we hare'ilethiug
to de. It is his owns, and he nay do with ittwhat
seems heat toting :but with the former we tilinitimitls
all due deference, It might be much belles Eudemeti
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