Drakards Paper (Newspaper) - April 18, 1813, London, Middlesex A London Weekly The Mi ' 1 1 I i ii J 1 ii ' y calculated for the Country It brings doWa the the Week to Moment before the of and edition recalculated for London and hs nod contains whatever Arrive up to Sunday with Saturday's 181ft, * Price A FIRESIDE It may be a matter of curious speculation to if an honest man were permitted to approach a in what he Would address himself to his - - A carious circumstance occurred the other everting to the Editor of this which it is his intention faithfully to narrate to his He had been employed during the day ip writing an article oil some recent notorious transactions being of a nature discreditable many of the persons concerned in who occupy the f ery highest stations in the bad led him into severe animadversion on Fatigued a little by the and not entirely pleased with nature of his he after its into a state of listless and desultory in which a thousand ideas glided in but not one was pursued to a determinate or Conclusive This is a sort of moos which will he readily but cannot very well be it is the temper and feelings of one who suddenly stops after a wearying walk up a steep hill in a hot looks abroad on the surrounding while be face and gasps for his eyes move idly while he remains almost unconscious of and too indolent to call up his thoughts to receive impressions from his After remaining for some time in this his reflections floating backward and ward without current or the Editor it grew rather dropped into a 6r, at he supposes he for he cannot otherwise account for what he is about to Without peing sensible that any change had taken place in bis he suddenly heard thing of a bustle in the when presently the door and a well-dressed made his appearance the It would be proper to dentil the introductory scene which then occurred it to that the Stranger explained who he that he turned out to of high and avowed that be had come to have a and he was pleased to add a frank conversation with the on certain matters which affected him and were not indifferent to the public at The Editor received this intimation with a very natural suspicion of its but his guest drawing a chair towards the fireside with an air as if he had sat himself down for an evening's he felt his suspicions and they soon afterwards totally when he observed the Stranger take up the and make a hearty use of it to glow that beamed ou the faces of. This little domestic action may be termed the British of it operated in the present instance to dispel a certain not to say indignant which at first prevailed towards his visitor in the breast of him by whom he was it induced the latter to form a very friendly that he would tell the stranger roundly of his and use the plainest language in exposing their Omitting part of its com. the following is a detail of the Fireside Conversation which then took That may you must not suppose me so ignorant of the world as not to be aware of the motives of newspaper Ed. I am that in as in other you are unfortunate in your It distresses me to be compelled to that you have ever taken pains to surround yourself with the very worst specimens of men and manners in the various departments of The effect of this on your mind and habits has been ropst you have what companionship with the dissolute will always a general suspicion of the integrity of which is falsely termed and knowledge the feeling is constantly reconciling you to your 6wn defiling your and polluting the current of your Surrounded as you I can easily conceive the difficulty you must hare to that there a thing as or morality in the Your private friends notorious or effeminate employ to transact your business have recently a proof of their in their conduct towards a which astounds the and must confirm you thinking that baseness is an attribute of that virtue never extends beyond a hypocritical intended to particular and in gratifying your desires by the most irregular you do what every one else if placed in But in these you are jour mistake rery its The sense of cannot shocked by of allegiance must be Allegiance weakened if know it too But that is done by you chievous Lord Ellenborough tells so from the he exposing the misconduct of exalted you will make a shipwreck of if we are rendered objects of public ridicule or it is that the people will cherish that obedient feeling towards their which is our and which in to promote their own * Ed. the ft which you have impels me to that the obedience of the people is only your inasmuch as it does tend to promote their own This is a great which is fully admitted in the British but which and and are but too apt by its Lord would better discharge his and make a more ample provision for his future as the first minister of English he were to himself inspired by its noble instead of confining his view to the evils may arise from the censure of avail of his situation to denounce the worse that are likely to overflow a country from the debaucheries and malpractices of a As to of weakening the allegiance of the and endeavouring to make a shipwreck of which are against public we fling them with indignation on those rulers break their engagements by misconducting themselves in their Let me put to a case a prince in the face of his select an abandoned old sunk in infamy as deeply as in to fill a situation near his and necessarily providing for intimacy of thus not only slighting all thp virtue in the but holding out encouragement from the throne to all its not that ill-judging prince do much more to disorganize society and break up the foundations of social than he animated by a just indignation against such an should expose its atrocious and stimulate the public sentiment against Lord Ellenborough would probably but should if we wish to arrive at the and really mean to investigate these matters candid pay any attention to the violent declarations of a without questioning bis it may be sufficient to say that his temper is and his interests on side of Let us rather refer to that body of with which we are furnished by the corded sentiments and actions of whom the unanimous verdict of an admiring world has stamped truly is the head of and in that corner will perceive an engraved portrait of Hampden is an etching of Andrew were I my love for the arts and for patriotism might be gratified by swelling out my to a large extent with the likenesses of whose excellencies of head and heart during their ranged in active opposition to the vices of and to such as maintained by the present Lord Chief But let us put the case another how much greater a collection might be formed of the oppressors of and of the of misery and of deV vastation in which they have been whose power of doing this mischief was produced and upheld by the prevalence and enforcement of such maxims are now by a Judge under a free and in century an outcry from the however it may be through a variety of venal organs Can it have any effect on the of honest pr deter the endeavours of those who possess a proper share of while so many farts conspire to prove the justice and the utility of our censures Public may be fairly amenable to public but what right have to interfere witb tho of your rulers Can you he that mien in public stations do not live fur their example is most extensive rind important in its that their private habits invariably influence and give a to their official conduct Let us su that a Prince happen to reign in this whose mind was at onoe effeminate and depraved whose dissolute his court the common theme of and whose violation of domestic ties countenanced and encouraged nefarious attacks on those who had natural and strong claims to his and whose fame was connected with his which means a shock was given to public of and the public indigo nation was forcibly called this so living the object of his people's reproach instead their affection and Were to fill the offices that establish a communication with his ahti lay claim to general with every man Would denoting a congeniality of linking him to what is most and contemptible while the events of rolled on in a stormy exciting the most sublime and the eye to their portentous ho should seclude himself in the retirement of a boudoir to contrive reforms in the shape of a or suggest improvements in the a pair breeches this country 6hould ever have to deplore in a political crisis of the greatest its Prince and his rank by immorality and and resigned himself with the thoughtless desperation of a sensualist to gross and vulgar and vile to be expected or that the voice of public censure should not raise it. self against what you are pleased to call his prim vutc life might he the chance of producing the amendment of a personage in whose mind the stamina of intellectual and of moral had been blasted by habits of but the national and a regard for the dignity of freedom and the preservation of a sound tone of thinking in the would inculcate and justify an indignant reprehension of the baleful thus striking forth pestilential effect from a whence ought to beam the benignant radiance of adorning while it endeared the majestic resplendence of if we merely consider the influence of a Prince's personal character on the political measures of his we shall find that the people are much interested in what is termed his private Is it likely that a such as has been described would fill the public departments with men of sound and firm of correct and of integrity 1 would sink under their would be a perpetual noyance to they would refuse to caroy into effect his miserable or to justify his improper It a of the system such to Reject servile and whose principle be to io the desires of their who hesitate on account of thV not a notorious display of 4atfa$w.a--4�fst^/:fj&^ hot th mom v. Visitor not longer may the Should to the au any thing in this mult itt words of in cannot help one's you
