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01/01/1831

Printer / Publisher: James Ackland 
Volume Number: IV    Issue Number: XXII
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The Bristolian

Date of Article: 01/01/1831
Printer / Publisher: James Ackland 
Address: Bristolian Office, Bristolian Court, Bridewell Lane
Volume Number: IV    Issue Number: XXII
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CORRESPONDENCE of JAMES ACLAND, " I LIKE HONESTY IN ALL PLACES.-— Judge Bay ley. Published by JAMES ACL AND ( SOLE PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR; al tbe BRISTOLIAN OFFICE, Uristolian Court, Bridewell Lane. VoL.- IV— No. XXII. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1831. TO THE * PEOPLE OF BRISTOL. Bfiiloliati « , * I fiiive been so long uccunoir. ed lo the pfr- wcuilou o( Jacks in Office, and their creatures out of Office, th. it every freBh iustance of thtit petty malevolence, instead of exciting my sur' prise al their meanness, but moves me to wonder at their consistency and perseverance. Their invincible bravery urges them to ihe repeated defiance of the opinions of others— and their dauntless determination to crush one jndependaul spirit, induces them to set at nought tbe censure of the honest, the commiseration of the good, and the indignationof ihejust. Thus it is with your Corporators & their tools—& with your Monopolists and their lools; and thus it has ever been with the successive generations. ol those Highwaymen whose superiorily of caste fotbade them to leave their victim with a single pocket unsearched, or with one breaching possi bility of returning consciousness. Yet Turpin swuug upon Tyburn tree," and Groves went " over the water to Sjdney ; " nor is it by any means likely that the more specious, and less sensitive rogues who deem it necessary to put me out of the way, that I may not give evidence to their conviction, will escape the slow but sure paced approach of Retributive Justice. I am free to confess that you, Bristoliar. s. are as little entitled to this Retribution, as any body of men similarly circumstanced, coul. i possibly be. 1 know you for just such seltirh, spiri less, and ungrateful brings, as ages of mis- rule, of oppression, and heartier tyranny, might be supposed capable of producing ; and if it could, under any circumstances, be ad- mitted that any hundred thousand of ihe population of the United Kingdom deserved to be misgoverned by such a set of ignorant upstarts as compose the Corporation of Bristol, you, whose name is a bye- word of infamy throughout the Kingdom— you Bristolians, are the hundred thousand who alone could merit that degraded pre- eminence, It - cannot be said that my opinion is that of an ' unexperienced person. Neither is it possible, that I can fairly be charged with having hastily advanced my conviction of your dements. I have lived among you for a con- sideiable period. No man in thrice the extent of time has lived so much among you I have for the entire period of my residence in Bristol, devoted myself, body, heart, and mind to your welfare. I have ever scorned the idea of personal interest— even to the uniform refusal of the proffered remuneration for services rendered. ' Ihe mere writing of these my Memoirs, 1 speak not of; but there are hundreds of you, if you were the children of truth, could testify to the promptitude with which I ever advised the oppressed, aided the injured, and relieved the needy. From the hom of rising in the morning to that of retiring for the night, my aining. room was a thoroughfare to the countless applicants for every variety of assistance. Even the Sabbath was no day of rest to me, I was your servant, and my time was as much yours as is the labor of the West Indian slave the property of his owner. If I subjected myself to the malevolent persecution of your dictators, it was ever with a view to your advantage. If I became the inmate of a Gaol— it was always as your un » bending advocate, and for the assertion of your unquestioned rights. Think you I dwell on my fidelity to you for the gratification of feelings of vanity ? Be undeceived; no man of common sense can be justly vain of the vacillating opinion or the transitory praise of— Bristoliansl Until I knew you— and knew you so well as not to leave a doubt of the correctness of my judgment regarding your merit3j 1 thought your favorable appreciation desirable; but I have acquired wisdom with experience, and am now ambitious aloie of my own approval, Nor shall your deceptiveness ever again lure me to a reliance on your judgments of my desert, THE BRISTOLIAN 558 No, I have dwelt on my devotion to your interests, with the single purpose of justifying myself and my estimate of you, to such as perchance may peruse these pages, with the proud consolation that, although residents of Bristol they are not Bristolians. I would not . be unjust— even to you; neither will 1 be unjust to myself. I have deserved well at your hands— and nought have I received but evil.— PersOrtal danger has beset me at every turn— hosts of listless lookers- on have smiled •(• with indifference at my exertions to serve" them— and pretended friends have pointed the treacherous stiletto at my bared bosom. And why ? Because my every effort has not been crowned with success, and because they could calculate on impunity— the only animus by which cowardice can be made to assume the appearance of courage. You are aware that 1 am made the defen- dant on four prosecutions of a political nature. But my persecutors are by no means certain that this quamtum of annoyan'. e will enable them to carry their point against me They know, from past experience, that 1 am an unbending opponent, and they also know that if in former conflicts they have had the nominal, I have had the real, advantage. They would avert a similar catastrophe How ? Aye, there was the difficulty. But they have surmounted it— by the attempted destruction of my domestic peace— by a shaft of demoniac malevolence that could have entered the minds of none but the most wily, the most heartless, the most abandoned of the most excessively Bristolian of even the Biistolians. They have succeeded ( at what pains 1 know not) in inducing a girl ( on what consideration I know not) to swear that she is wi h child, this despicable strumpet, for such, on her" report and throuoh evil report— in the world of oath, she is. London, and in the wilderness of Bristol. It may be well however, that I shor'ly state ' There are some people with whom it is almost all I know of this precious business. 1 remem- an every day occurrance to have to compromise ber the girl bringing beer into the prison, and ihe threatened oaths of unchaste wenches, and carrying dinner into the room of Mr. Rober( j ieaVe jt ! o tj, ese honorable members of the Saunders, daily, whilst he and I were inmates legul profession, to decide among themselves, of the Bristol Goal. I also remember that she and in their own way, lo whom ihe palm of was discharged from her service before my boastful infamy appertains. ' Two of them I liberation, and I heard master say he turned her know to be notorious in ihe pursuit of such out of his employ for being caught in some questionable reputation, and I am much mis- rope- walk, in a very doubtful situation with a taken if it will not puzzle them all io guess who sailor. Until within a week or two I heard may be the excepted Lothario. Indeed, when nothing more of lier— but since my sojourn I reflect on ihe character of ih^ se GentUmen/// in the Metropolis, I have received two letters from her, demanding money, under a threat of swearing a child to me — informing me at the same time that Mr. Robert Saunders was her legal adviser. Of course I did not condescend to answer either of the wretched creature's epistolary favors — but having subsequently- met the Clerk of her legal adviser, with another gentleman, ( whom I can name if necessary) I told the former that 1 would have norre of his master's bastards foisted upon Hie, and desired hiin ( o tell Mr. Saunders so. If he has not delivered mj message, it will not now be neces sary— as the Attorney Papa may read my determination in print.— viz.; that I « ill pay no bill of costs and consequences for his amusement —^ nd he may tell his colleagues, Messrs. Wintour Harris and William Harmer, that this persecution— however well plotted it may have been, will fall pointless and harmless on my mail of conscious innocence. I am happy however, in b- ing enabled to assure Mister Saunders, and Mister Harmer, and upon the fact of iheir being each concerned in ihe prosecutions against me, having f.> r their sole object, my expulsion from Biistol, I urn astonished that they have not long since le, oi led to lo a scheme which would seem most likely lo have fiisi occurred to ihem. As, in ihe lepairing of the fortification, the Caiptntei con'ended that iheie was " nothing like wood," and . lie Curlier that there was ' nothing like leather "— so in ihe degradation and ruin of a married man's character, ihe rake, and especially ihe hacknied rake and veterun seducer, may well be expected to maintain the sufficiency and superiority of a bastardy charge, Willi Lawyers, above all, ihis would seem most natural— for lliey well know that it is scascely possible lo find materials, for a legal resistance to the perjured allegation. What will be the next charge against me, I wonder ? Has there been no murder with- out a detected murderer? No burning of wheat- ricks without a detected Swing ? in sober truth ( and there are a dozen or two among you who many months since and Mister Wintour llanis, Gentlemen, (!!!) heard me make the declaration) I have all. that this masterpiece ol all the unmanly conspi- j along so strongly suspected Bristolians of racies of which I have been the intended victim, Devllishness, that I have advisedly during by me! A pot house wench, some time since ' has altogethet failed in its object. 1 have the residence among you, abstained from in- in the service of the landlord of the Bathurst J good fortune to be the well contented husband suring my properly— under a conviction that Hotel. Possibly some hundred or two of jof a wife as amiable as she , is lovely, and who my house would be fired and I executed for is loo sensible of her hold on my affections, and arson, within six months of the date of the too reasonable in her common sense conclusions policy! to allow this Bastard Plot lo destroy that conjugal But the charges preferred against me have harmony which has existed for upwaids of II their effect. Each accusation finds some you may know something of her. Pot- girls who can so readily perjure themselves at the bidding of political knaves,, may be reasona- bly suspected of a very geneial distribution of their unenviable favors- but enough of years—; tt storm and in sunshine— through gntil credulous believers- ho weverdestitute it may TIIE BRISTOL.! AN be of even the semblance of a foundation in tiuth. It is true that I have dealt largely in allegations of infamy against others— but they have ever been supported by a statement of amply sufficient facts in their justification. One would have thought, that he who dealt out justice with an even and impartial hand was at least equally entitled with others to a participation in its advantages. But I write of Bristol and of Bristolians. I remember long since to have been told by Mr. Hunt, that you were an ungrateful set, and I was cautioued by him to have no- thing more to do with you. I defended you as well as 1 could from th- cenurse his ad vice implied, whereupon, he vetv gand na turedly observed — 14 Well sir, vnu will live lo be of mv opinion ai to the merits of vour I Bristol ans." That lime has come — i am or I bis opinion, and shall be very greatly sur- j prised to hear of another devoting himself to! your service as I have dune, and bar iog the trap which will assuredly catch him by the fingers— ifit do him no fuilher mi chief. llow long 1 may continue ihe publication of my Memoirs among you, 1 know not;. but most assuredly no lunger than may be convenient to myself— at all •• vetite il shall not be at the c ut of a separation from my wife and child. Tbat were indeed a sacrifice your inconstancy to ihe principl. s which by my writings 1 have advocated, and In- my sufferings enforced, you would be ill justified in expecting. The arrange - ments 1 am miking may render the coutinuance of my publication ptaciicable at less cost to me — and I think it probabl- that 1 shall continue occasionally to address you, to long as there may be among the hundred thousand Biistolians about fi » e hundied who may feel disposed to support truth and consistency, a; the charge of three half pence per budget. II > w long that may be, depends on youtselves. The sale is How at nearly its lower ebb and has compelled my disposal of a proportion of my furniture— a circumstance which I am informed has been deemed lo authorise the felonious appropriation of some of my property by persons who must know better, and who may expect to heut more on the subject. But thus it ever is, When the before two' of the Com nissioner « , and lo my Lion is sick, there are not wanting Asses lo face, that I never had d. livered up my rate, kick at him ! j book — though at the very same lime, it was Those who were my creditors at a former j secreted among them BTU more of this when period of difficulty, will not need lobe reminded , ] C( ime to , he subject. Your corresponded tbat when I had the means, 1 never refused to says .< he consi « J « , rs tllat , hat accusation emana- discharge my pecuniary liabilities. It is not the first time 1 have bad occasion to say • 4 have patience, and I will pay you all." JAMES ACLAND, P. S — Since writing the above ( which was intended for publication on Wednesday last) an attempt has been made to put the little truth telling Bristolian to a violent death — the particulars whereof shall be'given in my publication on Wednesday next, It is really disgusting to witness the indecent eagerness of so many brainless, aye and heartless bipeds to give tne mv quietus at every apparent op- portunity of doing s> with safeu to them selves. But let the varlets know that if I air. braved, I can give them the qui'l pro r/' o for years to come vet. Would fn<* y c.' - ep up the Corporate sleeve ? Why within three months the Charity M iriopolis s will be of no rnoie importance in Bristol than Corporate (,' amp- lin would be in the House of Common'., or Sergeant Ludlow in the Court of Common Pleas ! Where now is the Judicial go. vn the Tory Duke of Beaufoit promised to get him? J. A. No. 4.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISTOLIAN. SIR, Having seen a letter in your Bristoliafi of Saturday, the I8th inst. addressed to me, I am much obliged to that gentleman for his information of ( he two men of the. yestry, in sayit. g, thai I never paid any money ( o the Receiver General. 1 not wonder a! this, because I verily believe they are capable of ^ saying anything but the real truth ; for instance, two of the vcs; ry- uien most solemnly declared, ted from an old grudge." Well spoken indeed Sir! as I think ! - shell si on be able to shew, by ihe informations which were laid against me, of not making an ex. iCt return of my. Salary, when in the service of Messrs. llicketts and Co. at the time when the property- tax was laid on. In consequence thereof, 1 was sur charged . and obliged lo pay il another time. An informal ion was » l » n laid against me, by the same person, that 1 had thrown fiob and rubbish into the comuion se ver, which the in- spector came lo examine, and found nothing Uieitin; after I had told him the par. iculars of the c. ise, he was perfectly satisfied, . saying t was shameful conduct indeed. Now Sir, here you see the old grudge; but again I confess, that I am highly gratified by seeing that, that gen: leman's ideas who wrote to me, and man, others, he says, cor- responds wit h mine exactly, respecting Friend Robert and Old Nickless. But sir, 1 believe I saw some litlle time ago, a letter in your Biistoltan, saying, that'he, ( Robert) was a friend to Slavery What Sir! a friend to that, which is th ecurse of, blunts and blasts all the estimable qualities of our common nature ; it breaks the dearest connexions with an unfeeling ferocity, which death can exercise ; annihilates tHe social charities of life, exalts Negro demoralization into a Colonial virtue, and shocks human nature, by the torture whicS it inflicts. But perhaps some, who may read these ideas of mine on this horrible subject, may be lead to enquire what has been done to the poor Negro Slave. I will just state two circumstances that has lately taken place in Jamaica :— one was in Spanish Town, an Overseer, a monster I must say, took a poor female Slave into a private room, and with a led hot iron inflicted many wounds on her poor body, with ths said iron— and another person, a man of FB colour, whd was returning one day from shooting, happened to meet a' fine female Have, who had a little dog with her— the dog barked at him, which was natural to ex pert he would do; the man declared he • would shoot him — the poor Slave hearing this, was much alarmed for the dog's safetN, cried out, " O don't shoot my dog "— the in. human monster turned angrily lo her, and said, " net shoot him, I'll shoot you, if you say much," and without any more ceremony discharged the contents of his piece in the body of the poor Slave ! This was done iu open day and in the presence of many per. sons. iret, such conduct was allowed to pass unnoticed. Now, Sir, can there be an individual in this highly favored country, that will counte. nance such proceedings as these ? Impossible ! But I have rather digrissed from my subject, and therefore I shall now reply to the obser vation made respecting my acquainting Mr Ilare of the disgraceful circumstances that had taken place between Mr. Henry Ricketls and myself, before he engaged with me as a traveller. To my credit and satisfaction, I can say I did— and more than that, I said that he would endeavour 10 prevent me from getting any situation whatever in this City Mr. H. replied, it was truly a hard case, however, I think you are a likely peison to suit me, theiefore I will take it into con. sjderation, and you can call on me again in « few days. On the third day Sir, I called again, and he engaged with me, giving me orders to prepare for the situation ; which, to my sorrow, 1 did, putting myself to the expence of <£ 8 15 0. Now I believe, as Well as many others, that 1 was entitled to three months' pay, or at least three months notice, if not that, surely the expences 1 was put to ought to have, been paid ; but not a shilling have I yet received. Now Sir, I do not consider that such con- duct as this is the characteristic of a true Christian, for a true Christian, I have for • any years past considered, is endowed with THE BRISTOL! AN the trite spirit of Christ- his heart is under ' A PEEP AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS the iiiH . euce of Divine Grace—- his actions bear the marks of a renewed nature— be breathes love to God and man— and he will say to that man who is breathing envy, hatred' > Coninutd from onr last. BAGOT, B. ( Bagot), His Biother Charles, ambassador to Russia, 10,000/; His brother malice, and revenge to another, « Be not over | Richard, two church livings, l, GO0/.- i'l 1,000/ come of evil. Let not the Sun go down on your wrath." But again Sir, I find that Mr, Ilater of Oppression surmises that I declined publishing - no Sir, beleive me, 1 shall fulfill my pro- mise— necessity compels mejto it. 1 think 20 years of persecution is too much to endure: to suffer it to exist any long' r unnoticed. Since I wrote last, two Gentlemen called on me, to beg that I would drop it; I stated lo them my reason for so doing, and shewed the copy of a letter I had wiiiten to Mr. Henry Ilicketts, more than six mouths sir. ce, respecting my not being able to procure a situation through him ; yet he took no notice of it, though I told him my determination was to publish an account of the whole transaction. After this explanation, they thought 1 was justified in such a proceeding— however, I find my opponents are adopting such means, as they think might probably be secure in stopping me in my undertaking, bv threaten- ing letters, and abusive language in the public streets. Poor silly wretches, I pity them for theii ignorance— I fear not their ftowns or threats, nor will 1 court the smiles of any man ; and respecting that polite gen- tleman, Master Nickless, who this day assaulted me in Temple street, saying he would wring my nose off— I would advise him to be more on his guard, in dealing out such threats, and to reform his manner of life from swearing which he is adicted to.— This must suffice for the present, 1 remain, Sir, Your's, & c. JOHN WINDSOR. December 29, 1830. BALCARRAS, E. ( Lindsey). A general and colonel of the 63rd foot, 2,200/. ; a pension 300/. A son, major of horse, half, pay 350/. A son, a salt agent in India, 10,000/. at least. A son, a cornet of hor- e, halt- gay, 300/. A son in the military service in India. His sister, Bernard, pension, 300/. His brother in- law, Jamts Bland Burgess, knight marshal king's household, 1,200/ This mail's relation, C. M. Burgess, knigh* t marshal of lord steward's office, 200/. The earl's bio her, bishop of Kildate, and dean of Christ Church, 12,000/. Another brother, a lieutenant colonel of fuot, 700/. His sis; er, lady Hardwick, see the Hatdwicks. His brother marshal to the court of admiralty, worth, probably, 5,000/., taking war and peace together ; he is, besides, an East Indi* ditector. His son is collector of government customs In Bengal, worth 4,000/. His son- in- law, Antrobus, Agent to the bank of Scotland; and brother to Gibbs Crawford Antiobus, who is secretary of legation to America; and whose petition to sit for the borough of Aldborough has lately been be- fore the public. Phillip York Lindsey, another son, assistant salt agent, and col- lector of customs in India, 5 000/. Another Lindsey, of the same family, has, in the salt and opium duties, 4,500/. Another is a writer in India, at the college of Cal cutta—<£ 46.050. BANDON, E. ( Bernard). £ son, captain dragoon guards, 500/. A son, married to the daughter of the archbishop of Cashel, who has 20 000/. [ A son, a dean in the church, 2000/.] Brother in- law to lord Shannon, whom see. His cousin, a general and colonal of a regiment of foot 2000/. This peer must be viewed in connexion with lord Shannon and archbiship of Cashel—.£ 22,500. I £ 24,500. j Jointed andPublished by! JAMES ACLAND, ( Sou PROMIETOB JSD EDITOR) at the BHISTOIIAK OFFICE, firistoliau Court, Bridewell Lane; i
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