The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-21 00:00:00

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To THE Eprreß‘ OP THE ST.47'ICSMJN.
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Si a,—Audi alterant patient is a sealitn admitted
by all descriptions of persotts, ezcsoptknoves and
fools. Impai tiality in a Public Journal* is the neat
essential quality to that of truth'; and as you, Sir,
have vened your columns for the allmi,sion of nor
parish polities, your 'insertion of the present will
prove your adherence to the former, and your title to
the latter.

A neighbour of mine, in a somewhat angry too.,
in his Letter to you, published on the 12th instant,
has made a violent attack upon the Act :of Parlia-
ment lately visaed for regulating the mode of voting
at Parish Vestries; and in stating to you sense of the
proceedings of a late Vestry, *hen the provisions of
this Act were put itt force, he has told you MO
truth, but he has not told you all the truth. UP
heads hid Lefler with " Abo'es under the ale Parish.
Act," and gives, as an instance of abuse, the-1'0146w.
ing :—" The resident servant of a public Substrip•
lion Institution came forward to claim, sod was.al.
lowed to have six -votes, while several of his em-
ployers coeld only have one voice in the procardings
of that assembly."—Now, Sir, in gtatiug this to be
ad showe of the Act, my angry neighbour, like
Jotivmst t.rt:a of old, hasgonea little farther than
he intended, fur he has unwittingly attempted to ad-
vance the preposterous doctrine of "legation with.
out representation ;" for, if the right of this Resi-
dent Servant to vote be made oat, this cuocistsion
follows of course. • -*or*
Now for the proof :—On enquiry I find this " Re,
sident Servant" charged, iQ his own name, to the
rates in the parish hooks; and I know he is a Pro-
prietor, and a 'crustee for the general body of the
Proprietor'. Should the rates so charged be unpaid,
and it should be necessary to seize for the same, to
whose property, I ask, would the Parish Officers re
quirt hut to the property of this " Resident Ser.
want ?"—This, I presume, settles the qq•srion as to
the right to vote ; what then becomes of the charge
of abuse of the Act ?—The fact is, sir, my angry
neighbour is a modcra patriot, and being such, you
know it is too murk to eapoct him to be able to dis-
tinguish between the we and the abuse of so .Act of
Parliament.

My angry neighbour next proceeds to call this
Art of Parliament 6` a deadly blow aimed at the
People at large," and calls upon them to associate to
procure its repeal, and never operate until they have
accomplished it. Now, mark-1 before stated,
that my angry neighbour had told you some truth;
but he had not told you all the truth. Will you
believe it, Sir, at a former Vestry my angry neigh.
hour and his panty triumphantly carried a Resolu-
tion to oblige the Churchwardens to do an act, which
was declaied, at the time, by our enlightened nlid
ex enced Vestry Clerk, to be tr.t.t.o it.. The
pli i
Ch4Vwardens, in cottsrgaence, applied to Counsel
for 'il vice, whose unqualified opinion corroborat.rl
that of our Vestry Clerk. The Churchnardens
came again to the Vestry, and declared the impro.
piety of acting upon the said Resolution ; yet, not.
withstanding all this, ms angry neighbour and his
party persisted in their former proceedings, and had
not the provisions of this Act berm resorted to, they
would have confirmed ,hair former absurd Resolu-
tion. One of the party (for the honour of the cloth),
not a professions! men, boldly advanced his opinion
against the Vestry Clerk and Counsel's, and declar-
ed, that while he possessed an A B undrrstandrag he
would never give ..p his opinion, even to the LORD
4,...,-,,
1 11ANCELLOR I.lrngwit

If, then, this " deadly blow aimed at the People
at large," has 11.41 the effect of preventing a few
turbulent, factious demagogues, aided by a set of
petty ignorant tradesmen, from carrying Resolutions,
in Vestry, against the established law of the land, I,
Sir, in my torn, call upon the People at large, and
particularly I cull upon my neighbours, to be* ate
how they lend themselves to the Mac Barris and Mac
Roarers of the parish, who have so frequently misled
Vestries, bat who now —(thanks to the Legislatute)
—are effectually curbed.
I am, Sir, your obedient servan►,
A PARISHLONER OF CHRIST t'tIURCU.
Nov. 17,1517.

ST ;I'l' e PLOTS.
--- ---- they made the giant; Brit,
and Ikea they alma them. -- Tau Tatisia I
On the fare of the earth, there does not ezist in any Itriaithlic,
Kingdom. or Emptra, so large a society of alma° coils, as in
this country. Plots are their food, the more absurd, the more
agreeable, and though iiiiiiSpeDS (rum iocousistenciest, and bitter
from rally, they please the palate in propor ion to their
rankness. Like venison, they have not the tine tad,, without
the taint. A ship arrives from St. Helena, at a 'cry conve-
nient time.. the Minister? are hurtled to Council, the doors are
closed all is sifenee, eecreey seals the lips, studied tinabiguttx
disfigures their speech. and the importance which sits nu the
countenance, deposes that some mighty matter lies concealed.—
A Alessenger hastens to Ai t-la-Chapelle. the very place where
be was wanted, and rumour, with its lying longue, announces
—death--life-L-insurrectloh—trontilllity—conspirary—escape
—detection, all in the ,same moment? Some.ameng the spe-
culator' conjecture, that the secret was concealed in the foul
linen of the ladies—others, that it lay in certain Frenclt books,
fornithed by a certain Euglish Gentleman—otheis, that it was
hidden ia a bust—and others, that it was conveyed in a guys-
ter' letter, most mysteriously developed 1 The priocipala
ale the principals, this is coinine to the flesh and bland p.m of
the irtansfareture„ are in London, Rome. Faris, Munich; here,
there, every where. On the e ant, in the sea, in the clouds !
Principals in London. who? That is delightful. London is
hire and papillae', a five scene far conjecture. It is some-
body, or tiny body, it cannot be—nobody.—lt is Mr.
• and Lod , or Lard
t some naval character, or military character, or a
certain nobody knows who! Something has transpired I No-
than- has transpired ! The sailors are like dm!, dogs and will
onrhark, the Offtceet are silent, the Aiiistisicrs open nut their
'outh:. What a delightful thing is a plow; a concealed plot ;
a plot without ermopirators, a cottepirart without actors I A
plot introduced in SI etinveisietit time! Now the mighty quits-
lino is again and again It rollnsad. Deadair alive is the question.
AU alive and safe we are ftlld. Thus ends the pint, hut its
discovery arrives Whit.* the Allied Mona: cis are at A ix-la-Chn-
pell- I After a sad tale has heist told to Europe; after Ber-
trand's remonstrvoce has been• potently kytawis : saw tar in-
t flettible O'Meara has tweet di-quieted : afeeraliiele Amara leave
Alga mode /*Matt Sir Hudson lame; charges which the Minis-
talk have not dared openly to iavestiglne! Is there natbisig.in
allt this? Nothing in thivaisaing she story? - ' es I Yes ! 1 his
*thins is a sign significant. It means mach. It. brevity
la pregnant. It is a terrible tell-tale. It is the key to
the' cotachisioa I It shows DS the tplill'lrT of the plot. If
there had been no advantage in these neasufacturea we alsould
never have bad a meal-tub plea, or a screw plot, or a pop-gun
plot, or a self-retrograding bullet plea or now a bunk plot !
, Who forgets the consequence of the retrograding bullet plot ?
'4/11sn can forget the happy presence of mind of the wicked
thillailes, and their courtier-like mode of r ; ;
carats:. as sioni DS
I they saw ilus Royal Personage? W Ito can forget this retro
Itende march, so nobly proved ? Who can forget, that they
I unsaid nut show their pars, there Wilmor lies, to Royalty ?•
It was barely an interstitial of the 'awe of Nature! het a siogie
miracle was got motto, it was ilerhatioratal by the proof of
another, "Bullets will Dot penetrate gt..s iu Spans." Whilst the
Magistrate, whose belief smas as unouetided as his loyalty, per-
mitted the potatoes ‘• to speak for themselves " May we note •
mit how many Green Bats will lovaaanted ? liar runny Castles
isod Obvert Will be einsthaved ? How many 'airy tales ;Arco.
lased ? How many stories told that would di-grace the eita aais
2Vighlse Entertairandentq, or Mother Goose's delectable recrea-
tions? Will the cmoptrators be ever shown to have been
guilts, ? We will venture to answer. No I Will not addi-
tional restrictions be imposed nut Napoleon? We will venture
'to answer. Yes! If the goiit of the cola:Orators Its OM kph-
Hely proved, none but gudgeons a ill believe in the cubspiracy :
it new re-to maims he imposed, aho rill lint descry the utili'y
of 11w Jiscoverv. to drown complaint ? We shall newer enlist
among the admirers of heroes and conqueror., the great Tom
Hick:fibrins and Jack the Giant Killers on a lacier stage, the
kites at:d stature, of humanity ; we me aol gratified with the
bloody relations of the a arks of death and destructioa. Vle nail-
ly belie., that one Howatid i. worth all the men-butchers,
whether Alest. ale's. Cesare. Tamerlatiesi. Pezarros, Bluchers.
Raviatrows. and Napoleons. that ever existed. Yet still,
we thin, that Oa imprisonment of the fallen foe, on the rock
ant. Helena, watt threw nionelf on our proteetien, stains the
annals of OM' hi.tory, outrages public faith, and is a tool blur
,u the honour of our vaunter 1 We believe hat he is detained
! without the pretence of right, to glut toe miserable revenge, and
Satisfy the peddling policy of narrow souls! By whom is he de-
Mined ? By the bonfire making mess—the general illumination
men—the directors of rejoicings at the death of hundreds and
aevand. of their bilow.erea neva —the lavers of savory, black
h the smoke of mit+. and reel with the dye of huonto blond.
lovers of glory, the fit prize of dianisnaThe lover. itt *tot y
which consists of rape, plunder, murder. end deem- ion! Such
see the detainers. Tee sanctified moralist., who still-r the poor
i wriaeh to be banged for stealing five shillings. yet reward time
Vitas rogue for Nettling tens of thonsanda rw stiociofied moral-
ists, who can sigh over the desperate wickedness of the abandoned
murderer of the family of the Marrs. butt what:l(.ll7.lli in the *hole.
sale dealer in Monte, ion, who ravages empires, and sweeps hosts of
Mortal-front the fare of the earth I The 'mortified mitt .limp,,
who cation" hear hut w ith horror, of the 'malting of* pigs ye.
but who can calmly assist io the diwnemberniesa -1 States :aid
Kingdoms.. The sanctified moralists. who strain at gnats, and
swallow camels. Thesanetified moralists, who gave their aid
to the restorer of tlw Inquisition, to the foaerers of the main-
meries of .uperstit ut ion, to the forgers of fetters for autokiodas
I due worsbippeis of the Moloch% of power, to the rejoicers its
venaTitv • and the feebler, on corruption. Let us look at home,
1 and read the Mt of Parliament for the detention of Napoleon.
.. Whereat it is necessary. for the preservaiion of Europe"
(meaning Ferdinand's& Spain, Lowis of France, and their cam-
amnions). and fur dietgeneral safety (meaning the safety of the
aforesaid Gentlemen ind Co.), that Napoleon Banaparte should
he detained and kept in Custody ! What can he more disgrace.
NI ? As it iegards doe prowess of Europe, it is n isgraceful ; as
it regards the feelings of Europe, it is disgraceful ; as it regards
the faith of (suroae, it is disgraceful. It is disgraceful ess Fer-
dinand of Spain and Co.. to be afraid of one snail I It is dis-
graceful to Mr. Vansittart, Lord Liverpool, and Lord Castle-
reagh. to be afraid of one man; though, with that one man.
after their list n 'Danner, they may be as pia!) eii;111,11111ed as
frogs with whale., geese with eagles. and asses with elephants l
Asad yet, this very man. is but a first rate, sainng second rate
assn: and as little .in the estimation of the philosopher. com-
pared with Milton. Shakspeare, Locke. Baron, or New inn, as
the aforesaid Ctentletneu appear. when computed with him. By
"strange coincidences, certain little creatures have crawled to
the top of the pillar of society, they sit in the nest of eagles,
t. a ithout eagle's eyes. and they feel very uneasy iiiiheiri,ituadion.
' Every breath of wind disturbs them._ If a leaf move, they
dread a coming storm ; if a tree shake, they expect a control-.
Von. Their height adds to their terrors, and whilst the multi-
, Isede benentb are beginning to be warmed and enlightened by
the sun of science, they he freesiog under the clouds of 'goo-
raitee, which surround the summit ; their horizon is narrow and .
et/alined. heeastse the radiant eye of genius alone can penetrate
through the obscurity, and behold mankind endeavouring to.
know their rightv, and determined to
their betiefacters. and fist,
tremble for the prlvi:eges of nshrpadon, and the demand. of
despotism. Honour ce.sses to be of estimation, when bat:tared
ai4iitstst their fears, and faith is defiled to gratify their revenge:,
% Neat they move. it is is, danger. doubt, and difficulty : and
they, seek for trivial advantage fur Mosorcbs, at the espeace of
haeakulable 11l to naltous. . -.

I . .
Last night, about a (loaner past ten -o'clock. the inha-
bitant* of Corabill were thrown into a sine of consternation
and anxiety by the cries of " Fire 1" - Their feat, bon ever,
were shortly after augmented by perceiving an alai-suing body
of flame issulag_ from the premises of Mr. Carroll, Lntiery.
Office-keeperi No. 7, Cornhill. The dames continued t rage
with such vialeneros In threaten the de,teuction of she adj,tining
hooks b•fore a sufficient space of time had elapsed fur the ru-
g i Des to arrive, daring which time it bad communicated to the
premises of !finite-. Smithh and Co. cutlers. in Lombard-s reel,
which are situated immediately behind those of in r. Carroll, as
also fa the Offices adjoining it no Col nhiii, which ore those of
Mr. Martin and the Globe Insurance Office, die latter of which
is undergoing alerations and enlargements, the necessary scar-
folding for which purpose had caught limiest as the entities be-
gan to arrive. • At this period the fire had a most alarming ap-
pearance. as it was raging both in Lombard-street and -Oornhill
It the same time, particolarly in the latter. • The arrival of the
firemen. however, wa.601111 evident. With their ',spat alarrity-1
they tore down a great part of the 'enfolding in front of the
Globe Office wand having, by this time a plentiful sapply et
water, they payed their engines so succesdblly, a• in Si Awe
time arrested the further progress of.the devostring element. At
a quarter past one it was so completely subdued. that the ea.
wines had left .of phis ing. The damage. as far as we lave
been able to ascertain it, seems chiedy confined to Messrs. Car-
roll and Smiths', which appear to be entirely eonsafesed. ea-
cep/ the front walls. Tin Globe Office and Mr. Martin's ate
alto damaged.
Thursday morning, at an early boar, a fire brake out on dle
premises of a chair-maker, in Easter-place, Kettningtont owing
to the combustible nature of the materials on the premises, as
well as of the premises thaseseives. which were old the
in. spread Wi.lr rapidi y, and the building was consumed is II
Obeli lime. Fortunately, however, the family. consisting of she
peril-tor, his wife. and two children, were alarmed in time I*
affiird them as opportunity of escapism though the greater part 1
of the plower/ •sa the premises who destroyed. The building
brig dse the *MOP were 'revolted 'Dreading farther.

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