The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-02 00:00:00

CH.INdrTER

OF THE LATE RIGHT 110 N. HENRY GRATTAN.

(From GOLD and NonT111110:”..4 Landon Marini*.

fur October.]

In private life, Mr. Grattan winced the full posses-
sion of those soft and amiable virtues. which desig-
nate the good man. The tender charities of domestic
lore never found a home noire congenial than in his
bosom. He reared a family of thirteen children in
the bright path of his example, and fed their young
arid aspiring minds with the rich and plenteous manna
of his own intellect. I 'nlike many of his route:spun-
ries, who were the ephemeral favourites of the purls,
he despised the flutterings of fashion, and the flicker-.
loge of fame, and never could be induced to squander
any part of that fortune which his grateful country had
bestowed upon him in the important Stateliness of
equipage, or the meretricious glittering of extrinsic
splendour. After he had burled the away weapons
of his tremendous intellect at the shrinking and trem-
bling votaries ..f despotism and corruption, he might
be seen in the bosom of his family, mild and gentle as
the .love, teaching his youngest child to lisp the name
of its Deity, or to return the filial n Idle he gave the
parental kiss. But Ireland was his family : lie was
the noble oak, from the trunk of which the newly-
planted constitution of his country, like the tender
ivy, sought support, and under whose branches his
poor oppressed and degraded countrymen, like feeble
but innocent violets, looked fur shelter from the angry
wind of despotism, and the furious storms of fanatic
intolerance.

But who can paint the powers of his mind—whia!
can pourtray the majesty of his intellect ? It was in.:
deed the image of its Creator ;—mi2lity in its strength,
rich in its fullness, tratiscendant in its powers, and
translucent in its purity. lle seemed to woes,:
within it a mine of inexhaustible wealth, richly stored I
with the erudition of the ancients, and the lighter
learning of the moderns. Few men could soon so
deeply the areana of the human heart, and still fewer
could sooner discover a sophistry, untwioe its knotty
' labyrinths, and expose it in all its native deformity to
the beholder. That hr was not a wild enthusiastic
theorist, his memoirs have already sufficiently evinced ;:
bat when he was ronvinced of the justice of a tame,'
when he did determine to support a measure, enthu-
siasm is a word too weak to express his manner ; he
was like an Ajax hurling rocks upon his oats;
his voles woo thunder, and his glance lightefiFP4‘l6ol'
rible in his mental strength, he incorporated eattla and
heaven, gods and demi-gods, the blackness of tar-
tarns, and the beauties of Elysium, in his orations. An
unconcerned spectator would have thought that the ta-
istence, not of himself, not of his country, not of die
breathing world, but of deity and the universe, lest Po
lime, he relaxed no effort, until he had accomplished
theaias of his soul : his life was a continuity of ter-
rents—rapid, vigorous, and overponering—now swell-
ing to the skies, now bursting the Woods of mild
rays of the full-grown moon. In his style he
fluent, without being verbose, learned without
pedantic, and metaphorical without bring oboe'''.
His copiousness was the copiousness of ideas, net. of
words: his speeches teemed with thought and figtro ;
there was no unnecessary phrase introduced, no la.
bowing for euphonious expressions, no playing with
the sense for liarinonious alliterative,. If lie had."
fondness for any pe uliar style, it was anithesis ; Der-
cons, knotty, and epigraniatic anithesis. When be in.
dnlged in sarcasm, the keenness and pithiness of his
style was clearly seen ; so acute and piercing were Its
remarks, that every look, word, and action told; aid
accursed must that man have considered himself to be,
who was the ill-stared and immediate object of its
powers. But in his serious arguments there was an
awful solemnity, an earnestness and fixedness of depth
and feeling, a nobleness and majesty of voice and car•
riage, which convinced all who heard hint that it was
nut the hireling advocate hot the real patriot and
philanthropist oho pleaded before them ; that whether
they who adopted his principles and supported his
views or not, he was ready to offer his life as a seal of
the sincerity with which lie enforced them.
Sack was firattan—the child, the champion of Nei I
land. Stich was the man, whose memory will Oa
halo of everlasting brightness over the history
eountry•—lie loved it with the devotion of lover;ba
felt for it with the fondness of a father. The blessings
he has heaped upon it are invaluable and Inannierabie.
Once his Catholic countrymen were deemed beings
unfit to breathe the common air of heaven, unfit to
mingle in the common offices of life, unfit to enjoy
any portion of what was called a common constitution ;
now, by the power and light of bit edmprentreith
elands of prejudice and iirnorance which hung round
their enemies art dissipated t the deformity and in-
famy of the detestable code that oppressed them. Is
rendered clear to the eyes of the wondering wing.
and a pathway is opened to those plains of freedom
and felicity, where ere long they once agaia will sport
in the full possession of complete entaacipation, the
dignity and equality of common citieenship, without
"any man daring to make them afraid."

An laquest was o■ Monday held in Bartholomew's+
►ospital on the body of J. Dudley, who had foriaerly
worked a I.rieklayee on the premise* Meow
Reid and Co. in Litrorpon4l-street. T►e deceased
was hound lying by the side of one of the vats, w►ic►
is about 311 feet Idols, with his head mach eel, Lie
►ack and several rile ►roken. There was a pewter pot
lying sear ►its. from which it is conjectural that he
had got in unperceived, and ►ud moseted the vat try
its laddc to get some beer, and had talkie dims. Ito
was speechless whet funad. Verdict--Acchleatal
Death.

MAN.

THE QUEEN.

[FROM 4 CORI4IISP(tNDENT.)
Whew lest, I met thee warm and young,
Then shone ascii truth about thee ;
And on thy lip*. siteh promise hung,
I did not dare to doubt thee.
I saw thee change. yet still relied.
Mill clung with hope the fonder ;
And thought. Iliu* false to all beside,
From me thou would'st not wander.
Rot go, deceiver, go; the heart, whose hopes would male it
Trust one, so false. so low, deserves that thou Amite
break it.

When every tongue thy tellies emoted.
I Red th' unwelcome story,
And found, in ev'n the faults they blamed
Some gleams of future glory.
I still was true, when other friends
Conspired to wrong. to alight thee.
The heart, which now thy falsehood rends,
Would then have bled to right thee.
Go, go, 'tis vain to curse ; 'tis weakness to upbraid thee,
Hate cannot wish thee worse, than guilt and shame have
made thee. Alpere's Melodies.

It is impossible to contemplate the situation in which
the Qweess of England is at this moment placed, without
mixed emotions of pride and indignation. Sentiments
of pride, we certainly must feel, at seeing every honest
heart in the nation armed in her cause, and every ge-
nerous bosom sympathising in her misfortunes. But
in what language can we possibly convey an adequate
idea of the indignation which we feel towards her re-
lentless persecutors ? When first she landed on fair
England's shores, her arrival was hailed by the joyful
acclamations of that brave and gallant people over
whom she was one day to rule; how little did she dream
of the miseries that were in store for her. It is an aw-
ful lesson, that comes to every heart, and chews us the
absurdity of all human expectations. For surely, if
happiness were at all within the human reach, one
would then have thought, that this illustrious lady was
born to be supremely blessed. Possessing as she did,
to TO eminent a degree, all those intellectual and per-
sonal qualifications which distinguish her sex; selected
from amongst the nations of the universe, to he the
happy bride of one of the most accomplished Princes
of his age, and England's future King; with surh
a rare combination of circumstances in her favour would
it not have been considered madness, to have calculated
the measure of her happiness by any human standard
But scarce had one short year elapsed, when all those
dreams had vanished. Envy had marked her for its
victim, and all the mean and petty artifices of court
intrigue assisted in the sacrifice. She was turn from
the embraces of her husband, driven from the country
to which she had so lately come, abandoned by those
who were bound by every tie, who were solemnly
pledged to protect her, and sent an exile and a watts
derer, forlorn and deserted. lint even this solitude
was not permitted. Iler most secret steps and actions
were watched and observed, and when these were
itersod to stand the tsar .Pi WM Dees/tate scrutiny,
the coffers of the nation must be drained to disgrace
her. Limiting lied, can sock things be, and " pass
by like the idle wield ?" Will such things be tole-
rated in a Christina laved? And the only reason as-
signed for this treatment, because, forsooth, the " ie-
elimestions of one of the royal parties were not under his
etranstand." Is this a sufficient ground to trample on
the lane of religion and of God! Is this a sufficient
ground to break the plighted faith of England, to
plunge her into civil dissentions, and bold her up as
an object of scorn and contempt to the world ? Is
this the boasted honour and chivalry of England !
People of England ! To what a state have your rulers
reduced you ?

" /boo. Oh ! Enghind, who wort *nee as qhy
" As eloister'd amid, of shame sad perfidy,
" Art auw broke in. sad thanks to Castle—gh.
" Is all that's rile sail fatee thou lesd'st the way?'

corium" of FORRIONERS. on ►he PRO-
CEEDI NOS AGAINST the QUEEN.

The following artic'e is ropied from the Miscellanea,
a Madrid paper, of the 11th of September. It is
headed "On the trial Of the Queen of England :"
" This day we take op the pen, not to transfer to paper,
as we daily do, ideas on this or that point of politics or
economy. We an. impelled to write by the necessity
which we feel, of rendering a solemn homage to theeter-
Dal principles of public morality, indignantly set aside
in the almatinable trial which is prosecuting before the
IFeent of England.
"It is well known to all. that there arrived lately in
itugland a cargo of tin lowest filth of Italy, hronght
:together to stain. with the vilest declarations, the ho-
rof an ilkstrions Pritticess. it 'a well knows like-
to all, that before 11* nt of the trial.
ral days were spent in attempting, if passible, to
'Wynnt it by negotiation, and thins to enable the Eng-
-4* ministry. to prevent the shame with which the inde-
tent trial of the Queen was going to rover that peat
i•me
lion. Finally. it was known to all that tie °him nary
the ministry rendered ageless the excellent dispowi-
to accommodation, evinced by that unfortunate
` nreims, and that at last a rtifteretion began, time scan-.
Sialaus tenonr of which excites the melancholy comide.
talons, and shows to what an *amine of ilegrada-
ottakccanipt -mew 'WM be carried by their own self-

"The first Atness who was examined in this °ppm-
Mons cause is a wretch called Theodore Ifejocri : this
itiamous creature, who lived for a considerable time
lttithe Qween in the qnality of lacquey. a hile she re-
in Italy. and who followed her in her travels to
Oloetastiaopie and Palestine, declared. in conformity
with sore halbibumi questions, that his mistress passed,
daring the night into the room of Remind (likewise a
servant of the /Risers); that in the bed of this person
*bre was Ike nee of two having slept, while that
of the Queen= appear to have been used at all ;
that Bergaini served het when she bathed ; end that on
one 'erasion he gave her a hiss, with other indecencies
whilsh we cannot mention. The interrogators- by the
, .sttliornet-fletveral being coot-holed, the Qiieen's Aden-
ante subjected the witness to an examination, which, by
=ions sufficient to confound bins. and took, him fail
with aharse, If Mason!. sunk in the lowest filth of
1 attbkhouteibt, hmi been eapable of that sentiment. made
kilatiuteact many particulars which he bad stated. and
entefusit hl.selrwithla his studied and unit/ono • New
oil +onto.' That diaeoreved the motion ithivis lw eat.
Cir ri
to oars the unworthy tecotnpence which had
eird him for his filthy aduansiet.
1, tribalism Capetame Palermo, Vieente Borguilo,
Ilbsd real, and Barham Knee, !acquire, sailors, or

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waiters, (since the English ministry has taken caro to
employ that low rabble to batch evidence against the
Queen,) relate particulars more or less filthy ; but au
absurd, ineprobolole, and contrashetory, that after havisi
been heard they ought to have been imprisoned, that
they might suffer is due time the punishment which
their perjuries deserved. Up to the present time, only
two respectable men, Captain Pechell of the frigate
Clorinde, and Captain Briggs of the ship Leviathan,
have been examined in these proceedings. These tea
officers have deposed to nothing which can compromise
the honour of the Queen, and the testimony of •ta.,
Englishmen of distinction is of inure valise; doubtless,
than that of all the lacquies and waiters who live between
the Lake of Ueneva, and the extremity of Calabria. It
must not omit that, from the declarations of these brih..4
witnesses, it appears, first, that they come on a hare ill
of so much per month, and that there is our of
who earns LIMO dollars per month. Secondly, that a
declaration was taken front all of them in Milan by a
spy of the English ministry, called Brown. Thirdly.
that sonic of them said they were driven by force to
England. Fourthly, that on their arriving there they
were instructed in what they had to &sewer; since it.-
terrogatories were put to them, from which, in the
public examination in the House of Peers, those points
were left out, the answers to which would not base
been favourable to the projects of Ministers. Fifthly.
and finally, that one of the witnesses bad travelled post,
in order to be catechised, from Italy to liermanv, and
from Uermany to Hungary, and that he afterwards lived
a long lime with the English .Imbassailor at Vienna,
kept and caressed for this important occasion.
Prom these facts, which the trial has disclosed, it
appears that, in order to afford to England the most
scandalous spectacle which it has seen since the death
of Anne Boleyn (or, as we call her, Bolena,) Ministers
have squandered with oriental profusion the treasures
of that generous nation on abject and vile Italians, who
have made a horrible traffic of their filthy calumnies.
It appears likewise, that the fruit which the English
ministry will derive from haring lavished in the pay of
these vile creatures such immense sums—the price of
the sweat of British subjects—will be the ignominy of
having injured their Queen in public opinion, whether
she shall be declared guilty or whether, as is to be
hoped, they declare her inaocent; in which case the
character of the Princess most still suffer, because it is
the property of calumny always to leave sonic indelible
vestiges. On both of these suppositions the English
ministry will cover itself with eternal disgrace, which
will be mach greater if it causes its Queen to be con-
demned on the testimony of infamous and inhumed
witnesses, shown to be so by the depositions themselves;
for the indemnity of 1,00.0 dollars per month is areal
subornation; and for such a sum Italy might have been
depopulated of half its inhabitants, who would have
gone to the eat' of the world to vouch for as many
calumnies as might be dictated to them.
" We shall add, that the evident intention of the mi-
nistry is to deprive the Qoeeti of the respect and regard
of the English nation; and with that intention it leas
allowed the evidence to be published in which corrupt
and shameless Italians hare deposed to scandals and
abominations, which, for the preservation of public mo-
rals, ought to have been buried within the precincts of
the Court. The precaution which, when causes of this
kind are proceeding, is taken in all civilized countries,
in order not to offend the ears of youth, has been dis-
dained its a process, which, from the exalted station of
the person accused, must resound not only in all the
corners of Europe' but to the mint mows estassmilies
of the globe. To such a degree does the spirit of party
make therm disregard the common rules of morality.
and fail in the respect doe to the public! We shah
add, io conclusion, that the English nation has con-
dncted itself in each deplorable circumstances in a man-
ner the most noble : all the cities hasten to manifest to
the Queen the indignation which the conduct of mini -
Iry excites; and the immense population of London,
which forms perhaps a tenth of that of the British do-
minions in Europe, gives her every day the moat eager
proofs of the interest which they take in her lot."