The Statesman. — 1821-09-24 (London, England)

LONDON:  MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1821.  SIR ROBERT WILSON.  Our feelings on the dismissal of this Gallant Officer have been strongly manifested in Tee STATESMAN of last week. We waited to see if Sir ROBERT would take public notice of the ill-advised affair. On finding he was at Paris, we at once concluded his first information would be through The London Gazette; that, and that only, prevented us calling upon our fellow-citizens of all ranks, from the Peer to the mechanic, to commence Public Meetings, particularly those on Surrey side of the Thames, by no means confining the meeting to his Constituents in the Borough of Southwark, but to the county at large, or the Hundred of Brixton ; we wish to have an unlimited expression of public feeling on an event so pregnant with consequences the most mischievous, and so disgraceful to the advisers of it. The best and most virtuous men in the country have been made to suffer by petty despots. The ties of consanguinity have been insufficient to allay persecution. A horde of hireling literary assassins, (who would as soon abuse their employers as the objects of their malignity, were they better paid,) employed to abuse and irritate the people, and a pettyfogging junta without honor—without character, allowed to place themselves above the law, as protected Inquisitors We have seen a Monarch render himself dear to one part of his dominions by uniting his subjects in a brotherhood of ejection, I which his Ministers, but a few years before. termed High Treason. We hare seen the seat of Government turned into a scene of blood and tumult, by the unnecessary employment of armed men. We have seen the civil interference rejected and the slaughter of the King's subjects scoffed at. We have found- the ad. visers of a nefarious measure recommend the dismissal of the honest and worthy Magistrate, at the head of the Police, who would not add infamy to his name by the destruction of his neighbours Lees and liberties. —We have also seen his place filled up by a man, who was but a few years ago a tradesman, made a Police Magistrate by courtly interest, although the situation of Chief Magistrate of Police, heretofore, has been generally filled by a gentkman learned in the law. After a concatination of such extraordinary circumstances, can the country wonder that his Majesty was advised to dismiss one of the Lest Officers in the service Oh, dear, no ! there is nothing wonderf4l iu such measures, when we consider who dictate them. When we see an army paid by the people, covered with fringe and gin ge rbread,em ployed to overawe that peopleFor, in times of profound peace, there can be no other use for a standing army. The visible drifts of the thing is derogatory to the Constitution of England. But the darling system of an unholy alliance is well known ; to govern by the sword, instead of the 1.. w, is their maxim, to which some of our omnipotent noodles are so anxiously attached. Is not the Commander in Chief of that said army placed by the Knte at the head of a Commission, to govern the united kingdom during his absence on the Continent? This circumstance, combined with a knowledge of the past, give a very dreary picture of the fatttre, and should place the feelings of Britons on the alert, if the Constitution of the country and its wholesome institutions are to be again placed in jeopardy. What may the people expect ? Let them answer the Interrogatory I it behoves them, before their lives and properties are at the mercy of their mild and kind hearted task mumasters. We anxiously look for Sir ROSEET Wile SON'S declaration on the business; we know his heart, and respect him as one of the firsA and best characters in public and private life. He is s real soldier, and a gentleman. If by hit interference the effusion of human blood was stopped, the blessings of the nation must be again his portion. It was a second attempt to prevent murder. The brave LATALETTE, the prescribed victim of Royal vengeance to wit. By that be obtained a crown of never fading laurels, then what should 'belie reward for endeavouring to pre' serve the lives of his own countrymen, assembled to • pay a christian tribste to the remains of persecuted Royalty, to the Wife of that Brno who ordered his . dismissal ; shame to the advisers of the one, and ever, lasting glory to the other, 1s this a reward to Sir ROBERT WILSOM for rearing the British Standard  p