The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-23 00:00:00

LONDON:

MONDAY) ♦EI(IL 23, 1810.

alr EAST6II. MO rDAY and ST. GEORGO —ll•liday
at the Public-Ojices.

Tux Public having lately been much disgusted
with the vain boasting of an Editor belonging to
a New Evening Paper, representing himself as
the " late Conductor of Tut STaTi.smax," the
whole of which being a grAs fabrication, we deem
it necessary to state the following observations iu
reply thereto.

The PRINCIPLES of TUC STATESMIN are too '
well established to stand in need of any duzlara.
tion on our part ; and the Public may rest assured
the INDEPENDENCE of the Paper will not suffer
any diminution by the removal of the late Editor,
whoso writings had, for sonic time previous to his
dismissal, been rejected as unfit for the Paper ;
and we have also reason to 'believe that his new
efforts have greatly disappointed the hopes and
expectations of his friends. If any political ar.
tides hero appeared in THE STATESMAN during
the period mentioned loy,this person, styling him-
self the sole Conductor, they certainly have been
sanctioned bythe SOLE PROPRIETOR, and could not
have been inserted without his consent, although
the Proprietor has reason to know that some ar.
tielus wore smuggled into the Paper without his
knowledge, containing Libels upon INDIVIDUALS,
(Jr which he is now actually under prosecution.

IT is high time the people should know who
are their friends ; and certainly it would afford
them no little gratification, if among the number they
should find many of those persons whose'rank and
condition in life give them a natural authority in

the State, and whose professions have heretofore
led the people to place a considerable confidence
in them. Mr. IVIIITBItEAD said, at the City
Meeting the other day, " Sinecures were in the
wane ; and that sinecures must be abolished even
if Parliament were not reformed.', We were glad
to hear Mr. WHITBREAD make this open and im.
portant declaration—not that Mr. WUITEREAD
need make any declaration fur himself on this to.
pic ; but that Gentleman has political eon.
flexions of which the public urn really jealous,
and from which quarter all the best friends of the
country would rejoice to hear a like declaration.
Mr. WiIITIIREAD is allied to Earl GREY by tics of
relationship, and we believe by habits of friendship
and cyufideuce. IVe shall not accuse Lord
GREY of wishing for 'any sinecure himself, or
even of any proneness to open the public purse to
ethers fur any purpose but actual services to the
Public. But his Lordship, we believe, is inti.
►nately bound in political ties to my Lord GRENT.
VILLE, and, in fact, Earl GREY ha► not political
Influence sufficient to be a leading Member of a
new Adoduistratrons independent of my Lord
GIiENTILLC. Now) the ORENVILLES arc amongst
the greateait of the Pensioners of the Country.
We du not mean to use harsh words in speaking
of such men as Lord Gazxvii.t.e, who might pos.
scss the entire public esteem if he pleased. But
the door, and the sole entrance to that esteem, as
he is placed, a sinecure holder, and as the
country is situated, sick of public expences, is
the willing resignation of all his own sinecure
emoluments, and the firm resolve to abolish all
suck emoluments, whomsoever that salutary mca.
sure may affect. If my Lord GRENVILLE is not
yet pseparcd for such sacrifices, his Lordship must
still accustom his car to those harsh phrases from
others, describing himself and his family, which
we are uun Wing to use. In the mean time, while the
con ten lion for power is going on, the Public will give
no support to any act of men, whatever their pre-
tensions, who do not unequivocally renounce all
sinecures and pensions for themsel►es and all con.