Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-06-09
POLITICAL.
FROM THE LONDON BLACK DWARF.
LETTER 70 ar. ca MINING.

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| III ~ not my purpose with YOU, sir, tC
reiufe your arguments in defence Of The
iatc ubiquitous agents employed in DIES
troying the little confidence aud mutual
good viii which might still have suhSisied
| between the governors and The snvernet!
| OF this distracted country. IN spite OF
| The sophistry which such an attempt was
| sure 10 bring into piay, and which slooh
no doubt, the timid minds of many oil
our poor alarmists ; in spite Of the gene-
raj spirit of acquiescence and the panic
terror which makes the pretended pre-
seryation Of peace aud order the surest
| snare OF the well-meaning. selfish poli,i
| cian; there was still enough of common
sense LETT amongst the members af the
House OF Commons TO expose so rude a
violation OF the constitution, and 10 Law
bare the iallaciss which were emnloye, to
excuse the PAST, and to prepare for future
attractions of British freedom. Your re-
ply 10 those who spoke the language of
their constituents, of all unprecedented En-
glislimcD. OF human nature itself, and who
stepped forward 10 rescue the Parliament
from indelibe disgrace, was such az is
seldom hiccupped up from The drunken
triumph OF ministerial majorites give
YOU full credit for the foul words which
YOU dared to apply TO an honorable Dung
man, whose instructive sense of right far
surpasses yonr vain, vicious experience,
and showed him the naked iniquily OF
yonr proposed indemnities in behalf OF
The only traitors to be found in England,
OIL The vile agents of weak, suspicious
administration. The envy of reputation
which, you have lost, and of talents more
graceful and essential than your own finn
81, tinsel trappings, was certain to secure
your especial hostility The antipathy of
bad to good, naturally inflamed YOU into
fury. against the interpostion Of Mr..
Lambton and, TO confess disgracetul
truth, you found many enough amongst
your compeers, willing to Join YOU in The
shameless cutlery. A young man, placed
oy bis fortune, as well as by his honest
propensltles, beyond the reach ofcorrup-
non, at the outset OF courageous, though
forlorn career, which threatens "A protract-
ed defence of the tottering fabric of En-
glsh freedom, is a monster in the eyes of
tile base, tie vain, the timid, who readily
consplre to remove such standing re-
proach of their venaity, their folly, and
their fear. do not wonder that the me-
mails around you felt themselves elevated
by the momentary depression of virtue ::
but do wonder that the forms, even of
he House of Commons, admitting as they
90. OF language current only amongst the
lowest and most depraved classes Of soci-
ETY., shonid have been iniringed upon so
grossly without word from him who i,
| appointed 10 regulate the jargon of that
| iil-polished assembly.
HE paltry subterfuge, hestated be-
tween regretted insolence and forced re-
irac,ion--the hand obtruded upon the OBJ
ject of your insult at the close of the de-
bate but more than all, the rudeness of
the assault 0he usual prelude of all YOUR
political amours) might well make that
gentleman suspect that he was menaced
by your future intimacy. Some such ap-
prebensIon, and the clamors of YOUR par
~, NAV have prevented him or his friends
from remarking the curious felicity with
which, OF all the indiscretions of the on
posing party, you chose to select creduii-
~ as The prominent feature. What. sir |!
one OF the present cabinet dare to accuse
any individual of too much faiM i'm COM
mon rumor or in proffeTed information 2
member of that cabinet, whose belief
IN the idle, malicious falseh3od of spies
pimps, DULLES, and all the abandoned,
broken characters whom their promises
allured into perjury, has been proved by
The verdict of jures has been recorded
in the courts has been the object of se-
neral indignation; and, after having been
the cause and excuse of wanton attack
on our liberties, has been Judged by thai
| cabinet itself so little qualified for exami-
nation, that their parliament has been in
structed TO indemnify the rogues who told
the lies, and the fools who believed them
What an apologist for the gulled, the
gaping SIdmouth, TO deprecate the indis-
terminating reception of tales and tale
bearers-a defender Of him who nut his
trust in Castles who employed Oliver :
and who, on the faith of atrocious fabri-
cations, OF which lie was alike The encour-
ager and the dupc, has prosecuted and
imprisoned, has fettered and fractured
and would have put to death, his fellow
conhtrymen, even to defamation. You
tell us YOU should have thought vourseii
dot aud idiot" TO have listened Cnr =
moment TO complaints against an apen,
OF The home department. runner OF
Bow street, gaoier's turnkey, or secre-
tary's secretary.
Mighty well, sir but LET runawa v
from the hulks, convicted feIon, tell Won
That a bankrupt apoihecarv. broken
down farmer, and cobbler, are. the cen
ire OF widely spread conspiracy have
formed, and partly executed plan for
raising the kingdom, and for taking the
Tower of London have provided arms !:
have published manifestoes let the same
respectable evidence impeach the loyalfy
OF The mobiles andgentry in some districts.
and OF the lower classes in all LET this
singie ielon assert that he is honest. and
ihe majority ofhls countrymen are rogues
you do not think yourself a delt and jdi-
ot[you do not think Lord Sidmouth a
doil ana idlot tor. proceeding, chiefly up
ON such information, TO hang, draw and