At the meeting of Whigs and Reformers held on Monday
at the Crown and Anchor, Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR is reported to have made the following statement, in reference to the attacks of the Radical press on the late Lord Chancellor.
"He knew it to he a fact, that some of the Radical newspapers bad failed in attempts to draw money from that noble and learned Lord, and had therefore found reasons for attacking him ; while in other cancer ns, bricfless barrister. abused him because he had nut provided places for their craving relatives."
Upon inquiry (of course, as the Spectator may be termed " Radical " by those who choose to give it such a nickname, we felt that the state- ment demanded some notice on our part, coming as it did from so highly respectable a man as Mr. TAYLOR), we found that the charge was intended to apply to one of the oldest, if not the very oldest of the Radical journals in London—a paper which has always maintained a perfectly independent character, and which under its present ma- nagement has been remarkable for the unquestionable honour as well as talent with which it has been conducted. The journal we allude to, in fact, never stood so deservedly high in pub- lic estimation as it stands at present. We, therefore, at once knew that Mr. TAYLOR had been imposed upon ; and on further inquiry, we were satisfied that a personage who has deceived and made tools of many other persons, as worthy and candid as Mr. TA iLoft, had imposed the story 'in question upon him. We need hardly say who that personage is, or acid our conviction that the charge is utterly false.
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