The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-17 00:00:00

FOR THE STATESMAN.
TO THE Milli, HON. MR. BRAGOE BATVURST,
PRESIDENT OF 11IE BOARD OF CONTROL L, &c.

Sta,--Tite present is unquestionably the most sin-
gular and iutereiting, epoch in your political existence.
in defiance of Intellect and contrary to the antici-
pation of the country, you have recently been railed
to Z most elevated rank. The awful influence and
blind partiality to family has grossly outraged com-
merce in your person. by conferring a dignity which
nature never designed you to sustain. By the force
of patronage von have risen to a most fearful emi-
nence, to a height which, with proper deference to
your lofty ideas upon the subject, is far superior to
your capacity and the dizzy structure of your head.
You are now, Sir, President of the Board of Controni.
Permit me to pay lay respects to you on that remark-
able event ; apologi;ing at the saline time fur my
remissness in smfering the Bast-lndia Company to
eclipse me in the celebrity of respectful attention.
That body, with the most laudable and political alert-
ness, bas very properly lost no time in addressing you
upon your sudden elevation ;it was wonder-struck at the
intelligence, and precipitately acted on the impulse of
the moment, lest the rapidity of your fill might frus-
trate their flattering intentions. I am sufficiently
acquainted with your character to ku:w, that the
address met with a most cordial and gracious recep-
tion.

If experienre were 1 certain criterion for judgment,
should boldly pronuunce that your chilled farulties
would burst fortu into the spb.n.lour Of sublimity, for
I confess that Lucius Junius stands eclipsed by your
early indications, though. I much ilottht whether Tar-
quin would have enronntered the ewmiries of Brutus,
in the Right lion. Mr. Brugge Bathurst.
By su,:ceeding Mr. l'ant:ing, you have attracted
the wondering gaze of the whole people of England.
They, already, Sir, sit in judgmeot upon you. When
an liontotrable and able. Barrister is seen to throw up
his brief to rEsgust, the co:illusion is not very diffi-
cult to draw, but an acquaintance with the extent of
VOW ability, induces me to tell von, it is because the
case bears the contaminating, stamp of conviction and
infamy. As tails is fact, in what light can that wan
be viewed who stoops to a degradation, which neither
ability nor honour would submit to. Mr. lannit.g
most correctly relinquished the emoluments of place,
when they were incompatible with honesty, and pre-
ferred the repose of conscience, to the infamy of
office.

Yon, Sir, have acted in a different way, yon hare
thrust yourself forward, when no honour coahl be ac-
quired, and fought, like a mercenary, with the solitary
stimulus of par. Vet, lam free to confess, I could
applaud you for setting public opinion at defiance, if
my admiration of that virtue were not somewhat re-
strained by rt firming on the patibulary and prema-
ture late a the generalite who display it.
The situation of President retialres a man of vigour
and taient. It ought to have been the reward of con-
stittitimril ability, rather than of Cabinet interest. If
I use the rod too sharply, Sir, von ;mist excuse Inc ;
yes ate a religions character, and I refer you, as au
polokry to the PrOVVrbl.' (I 'hap. ?.4. y. 3.) anti to your-
self As comuter.i upon the text. You most not
gine that I am itt.liviiluallv your enenty. for I deny
• • "nit that tt ;it is
• more," Ano a' I Live touglit it neressart• previ-
ously to ap..‘lojse• to yoll, I twir nitor.• aiio-
- to l'..asar, fur the cottirtri•on I so hive
made.

" Rzpericitia deed sirlioe."—Upon this preamble.
Sir, I must allow you to be gifted with the most in•
blime capacity, for slander would blush to assert, that
you had 'lra been weak enough to have been tutored
by experience. You hare seen the pestilential in-
fluence of the courtly air, yet have rashly and unsoli-
cited, forced yourself into the very a&irit of the at-
mosphere. When Mr. Canning condescended to ac-
cept the situation, the country acknowledged his abi-
lity, fur it ball previously declared him competent to
the task. How is it, Sir, that yon have not been
equally fortunate ? Is it that you despise popularity ?
If it is, I pity yon, for honest popularity is a laudable
acquirement ; and if it is so, I can most confilently
assure you that no contemptuous feeling was ever in .re
reciprocal.
Virtues and vices are not unfreqnently drscrilied by
the names of men remarkable for bearing them.
II AM COIN expresses Patriotism, and FRAKINS
but -expresses what a consideration fur his feel-
ings will not allow toe to describe. Should your ideas,
however, induce you to conceive that I allude to the
reverse, I shall nut question the correctness of your
thoughts.
1 shall not now, however, take a minute review of
the character and consistency of yon political con-
duct. I shall postpone that to a future period, should
you ever miraculously become sufficiently dangerous
by your ability to attract the attention of the Mateo-
men . At present I would only ask whether your
promotion in the Cabinet is to benefit the economy of
the country, for, surely, bere must be some Sel,fitiallt
canoe to account fir your most extraordinary rise.
Are yon to resign your sinecures as a compensation
to the public, or are you to. hold your present and
previons.situations with all their endearing emolu-
ments, and instead of lessoning the expenditure of the
country, only economise the ability of the Cabinet ? If
this is the case, I sincerely sympathise with my coun-
try that ability slionl.l, in any way, be diminished,
when a ten-fold quantity is required.
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VIRG INIUS.

• To save the reader the trouble o f reference. the following
the pas age.—" A brittle for the horse, a whip for the ass,
and a rod for the fool's back."

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet
Connell was held at the Foreign Office, which was at-
tended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool,
Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Westinoreland, Earl of
Harrowhy, Viscount Melville, Viscount Sit'mouth,
Viscount Castlereagh, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Hon. Mr. ItAinson, Mr. Wellesley Pole.
the Duke of Wellington, and Mr. B. Bathurst; the
whole of whom continued to sit in Council until halt
past six, when they broke up.and retired.
Vesterday the dispatches fur Bengal by.the ship
Atlas, Capt. Mayne, were aloud at the East Wilt 1
Hoag; tad delivered to thit.Pareer of that sbip.: