The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-21 00:00:00

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correctness of expression, and the weighty
of The C'...Nrier.

.crtion, «e• are sure, produces but one

afford no proof in point; and yet they
under the controul of the Treasury as

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7ie Cot does not attempt to controvert the tryt,
of this, but exclaims, ?'" Who but the Worth, Ahkr.
man could employ such a figure?" We see nothilig
very ob;ectionable in the figure of a life operating a,,
barrier to particular actions—it does so, in tad; mi
it is fortunate that good lives are spared to open:t
as bore to bad acts. But we can tell The Cusoicr, if
he is in doubt, who would, and dues daily, empLy
much wore incongruous and monstrous
mean the friend of Thc Courier, who tails of a um,
turning his back upon himself;" of people useand;a4
prostrate ;" of " fundamental features;" and ,
like evident and disgusting' nonsense.

When Ministers assert, with affected
they have heretofore managed the proceedings
her 111en•sry with " the utmost delicacy'

that f nominee] diszu4t. Tw Cue,,
in their ribhahl attacks upon this Illustrious

any of the messengers. Whilst these ishuouss,
an circulating the most atrocious reports--owin,
in a double sensie--6rst, lamasp they
proof; 'nil next, because the objeet is

are their employers to suppose that they
pompous phrase or two, escape from the -
charge of complicity ? When Lord Citruses sca,
Monday last, accused the Quars of courting
of the rabble, and of betraying in general
dignity ; he certainly displayed no delicacy In
deavouring, in a summer so utterly unprincipled, or,
rather, so entirely his own, to ruin her cease in the
opinion of all respectable persons. let not one °f in
Assist's accusers has, in the course of these lama.
able proceedings, made so mach use of the word
cacv; and it is bet justice to his Lordship tom, ties
he takes the lead in this treacherous jargon. Bath
is so much in the habit of making bold ',senior,
that his opinion, on any question of memeet, does par
weigh a feather in public estimatlee. Jaderd, the
more positive it is, the less it is valued; and it is imp
possible nut to see here the interposition of seal
Pon 's, watchful over the interests of society, wire
we behold the same man, who is capable from tear
and principles of forming the deepest drips, pre.
vented by his repntation from carrying theta lee rt.
feet. As his Lordship has shown himself arvegutly
and unfeelingly forward in the proceedings against lot
ItsJesvc, we shall take leave to sum up, in a slim
sentence, his own merits as a Statesman, or ratkiv as as
Brattish Minister.—lie has, during the short period
of his Ministry, revenged upon England the setts
hundred years' oppressions which her succemive
vernmeats have iutlictiril upon Ireland.
lint let us try these professions of delicacy by othst
facts. Was the unbecoming, or rather insolent gt►
duct et the English Minister at the Court of Visas
an Instance in proof? find Ministers disarpromief
it, they would have recalled the men who bad lilted
to outrage the homier of the nation abroad, by poll*
insalting the wife of its Novertiga. Ile has ad oly
retained his situation, bat has been since Ithated
with a Peerage, and with the richest heiress lathe
kingdom to boot. Does the infamous Milan Commis.
elm anise under the denomination of delimits press*
Kapp? it is vain for Ministers to try to throw it it
eitliant and responsibility of that detestable kith
nal ; for, if they were men of honour, or WI
of justice, they would net have remained in silles•
bons, if it had been appointed without their ardent.
Bat, after having furnished the funds to meet inns
relies, they add duplicity to delinqneney in de o*
their pertieipation. Bat they shall not be remittal
te obi* the transaction front their own shouldn't,i
these of a person who, by law, is answerable ter mat
and who, at least In their eyes, ought to be demi
sacred. For this detestable Commission they, sad
they alone, are responsible to the country. If they
had a particle of generosity. cr even of assaliness is
their composition, they would have wanted the Wave
of its existence. Bat even " the unbounded love and
attachment" of Mr. CANNING slumbered ea an occa-
sion when they should have been most watchful. Al.
Lord 1111.1)0X'S love of" impartial justice" was clerk
nodding at the time; and Ministers saw the toils MO
encompassed the Wean, without having the comma
honesty to apprise her of her danger. They thee
that wretches were collecting criminatevy NOM
sillbetleg her honour and her life, and they embed
the ripening of this plot in silence. risk distil
mike circumstances that would have made is WM
alba very rabble speak out, was surely as insinnelf

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acy in thus ra•
principled, or.