The National Register. — London, England, 1811-05-19 00:00:00

. -. ...v.v.-- • , . . . • .. • I' v. ..... . . . . .4 TioNAL i lug , ..7. . , .4. - _..n.__ R 1.44 G J S ... 7 717 : 17-2 -6 0 • _...........____........ . • . THE NA Our tuna, elon-ltituti ah). N° 177. S \T) A 1 7 , M 1811. PRICE 9d ,REFORMERS' IMPROVED CIRCULAR. The following ludicrous article we have received by the post. As we think it a just, though perhaps n severe satire on the views of Modem Reformers, we give it insertion as it was sent to us. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MR. EDITOR, By giving the inclosed letterzddressed. to me a place in your paper, you will much oblige me, and nct entirely lose your la bour, as should it be attended with no other Food (fit ct, it will at least prevent the writer from addressing any more letters of that kind to Your most obedient servant, Park-lane, May 11. WM. NICHOLAS. ' Prior tathe revoUition of Government and downfall of tyran- ny in the person of Charl;:s the First, notwith,tanClini all the . • doctrines of liberty in Magna Charta, the wart of a " f:•cct Lament exposed • the subject to continual evils, restrained •free born Englishmen from the glorious rights of man, prevented our ancestors from judging for themselves, and hindered them from exercising liberty's best gift, the inestimable p; ivilege of actirg agreeable to the dictates of their own re.:son, and submitting to tio other guide : and thritigll by that ever memorable event they obtained liberty, and freedom from any laves except those of their own making, yet how soon was that happy period over. Ever since: that ‘ Revolutien, notwithstanding all the public ench-avours and private.iCteiguesokAptspatriots, the utant of a free Parlia meet has prevent Ans fr etc accomplishing oar dearest wish, that of setting our m ighbours and rivals the exaniple instead of being copiers of theirs. A Free Pal Harr cut was the demand of those who called hither the Prince of Orange ; a free Parliament was that for: . v.-Lich ab: ve all tiro Pr:tice Ororeuied to come over ; a free Par liameet was by the of-Rights dccla! edto he a sacred birth-. right of the English Feple ; but, el -i ! how far they we re from attaining so desirable an end remit be manifeit to every one who considers that though -cur prestnt Parliament is called free, the rich alone are allowed to enter lt, and that without money the greatest genius and the most tr;.mcendant would in vain solicit an entrance. A free Parliament open to all whose ideas of freedom and hberty will not suffer ih,en to yield obedience to the will of another, to bear submk!ively the' burd.:ns he is plea-ed to lay on them, reitiains gill to be 03- tainc.l. The violation of the primitive rights of nature, althoup,h its working may be slow, in its fatal results is nevertheless sere ; the coniplica•ed rest:lts of v:olation acting for ages on those are now upon the nation—for to speak in the language of the Hero of Piccadilly, the pupil all— l'--yard heir to his vie- Ines and patriotistn—f` The source of our evils is an inadequate derxtive r e preseetation of the people in Parliament, until that source be cut t.ff. etc'. the Pat-ll:intent be free, and the neaj:city composed of disinterested patriots, .bale and corruption will never cei se to flow in a thousand diffaent channels, and we sltall stillbeoppressed taxes to support them, and to carryon, aelestruct've warfare agaiir‘t the w set and most enlight;:ned tiationon the face of the gle•bi, it being vision ary to expect or to /Dope for Parliamentary-reform front Parilamentat7 votes, until Fol. It". tLXX VII. iejured and off, nand nation shall have the same Houses of Parliament as it had on King doh* ' Magna Charts, and on King James the Second etre us the Bill of Rights : sa the best evidence of - enligittened patriotism at the present juncture seetas to be, in actively contribtrinA to impress on the minds of those who at present are blind to the advantages Of reform in Parliament, the destructive effects of the present system on the liberty; equality, and interest of Lritous ; and in calling forth myriads t'Sans Culottes (who are ever ready to second any change) who may raise a voice which shall not be disregard( d. The liarors of Runnetnead, and the leaders of the alotes..id revolution, were compelled to act, and they ac;e:l unergeticalli, they resisted with effect, they met their sovereign with area id their hands, and enforced their demands with the point of t h e sword, stud in the Litter instaace they slid not return it into the scabbardiLtin they had dyed it with the blood of their sovereign ; whereas the virtuous and patrintic, now having more rapid means of aculating knowledge have'or.l; to speak, and imtantly with one accord, _the whole nation will obey their yoke, and profiting by the exatriVe of their forefathers, will, with arms in their hands, assert the rights that nature Lave us in common with the beasts . for Why should not man like them rove at large, f..ee and unrestrained--4ike them seize at their ;.rey wl,at ever they could obtain, without fear of punishment : nor would, this as some pretend, lead to disorkr and confusion, fleas ammg a herd of beasts, the strongest obtain the surerturity, and the others are obliged patiently to submit—so tianengst me-, the craftiest and most plitic would soot 3 gain ascendancy over the others, and Would keel) them in subjee:ion and e a eletn.As—for as 11111111.014 is &be foriLce initictr,`, so W14(10111 fu we iastar,WW.A;Li. Alin the dominion and authority (if authority titers most be) would be then where it aught, that is amongst thase who by theirdssferior abiiities proved thetuselvt s best deserving of it.— Thus when the nation shall have r..iseci Its voice, it will 1.44 e spok6n - w ith effect ; then wiii corruption be dumb to the na tion's will; then shalt we taste the bless*.ng 'of liberty and equality—and the .13,-;ret,•lt Factien Sovereipn.as it now is, wilt, with the Borought , it represents, be swept away &Ali this face of an itultgr.:int nation, and in a short time cot:civic:A Ics oblivion. rvlagna Charta and the rim a Ripliti, merely trOved despotism, l i. and for a while mitigated oppression , it was reserved for a mere ,i enlist - aimed age to accern; ';kft such a reform of the ,:onsiitet: st lias would lead to the afcresaid h.tppy effect—Partionentary R.,- ll form can aione acco mplish this. M a g na Charta end the Bill of i R 'via, tell us indeed w hat our ri , , , ht and liberties were ; het a Ref.): m of Parliament on our p!uu would bestow on us a tar greater .degree of liberty,' - and Ltive ns tights and privileges i';,4delt even the Earons of Ruxuemead :Ind the indepeedeuts never dreamt Or. • '1 hose whose guide is truth, are the enliOtetted ; whose ap peal is to r.rtson,are. the tenVeratt ; and whose -claim for their itjured country is bare justice for the future, with obliviOefor the pest, Nee surely moderate ; but thole who are, ready to sa crifice thi.ir reputations and their lives in order to bcistorr on• their country the blessings of trater&zarian in correilizatien are tha truly patriotic, Anti to those (tissue must we look for the reformation of the government, and the. Oeseovery of the way of tranquility a• id happiness. Fal. eh( -oil, fraud, force, ruct ui,pres sican, thoul;ls they lead in the first instance to villence. cone ede 4 sio:4, and miserly in the end laruntJte good order and . 644veria. ~+ utter', Rat .11 [A • 19, • the void of an i effect on both F. when iteygnud whose flight genuine and c s •