The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-04-24 00:00:00

1 111 1 1 • • , • :I , 77! ~' %len of other nations, are praying at one and the f•me artrio 11. p vitals of France and Militia Bell.)k1 our ennthw. - • Need this other use be mentioned ? exists u t • that reader, who has not already told it to - himielf Yes, it is to return to all Plans of Reform, to all, Petitions fir Iteform, to all groans, to ail con: Oleos; to hit tries for mercy ; the proper and a ! . prodused auswer, thi. bayonet. Tile bayom't ? yep by the bleb,ing o f 13041, for hayonr4. hot is it al. together an sure, should matters come to this,. that the soldiers will push their blitinets exactly in that direction which may be ordered bk.:min:sac"? Will they push their bayonets . airing , - We 'People? Of What class are the men by Whom titiy:WlTl be to be posited ? Ave the, of ehe Blond Valhi? Are they *.of the Norio.? Are they not; of the swinish multi. lode? • Aril thcy not's. prefect swine es wear'`? it - Plosihte they shoold ever for a m:lt .. ? And wheels* swine is Iri •e lo in a direction thank ialt*.pleasitig tom • 'him. :is le not at to retrogriede • • • An army in Frattee necessary foi7 the security of} Britain ? Yes! if sit as its Chios •h se tiro; riot ojheiwi.se. '!..;.••. • If epy thing goad fel' the People% prespoood. gnawer is wt hand; wild', theoretical - , fisionety, Uto pian, Impracticable, dangeioes, dettioctiiti, roinouo, • anarchical-, sehversive of elf CritelliManta; there 'nu have it. Well, but in Aliened; tier* it is;" and no such exit consegoeseces, nothlini 14st"Whafis good 'testate fc l ain it. • Abol•and so theiNited States Go., vernnies t t 'siert Geartiment, Wit VI Too are a re publican then, are you? what yoWilliik is to sub vert this . Constitution of oars • tilethilifist nations!. the pride of eget! matchless' in • rltfiei boroughs and taineceres? Voy welt; begin entilltd; *Op your re. . • public; and, in the mean time./ you, who are so ready to tolk of feelings, think *lest yours will be, • whe6 after a few raights lodging Its the tower, the knife of the hangman, after •hanntritebbed off its 'test spots the Spenceaus, is doing its Ace in" yogi' 'bowels. . You propose disitairik If you ptirtirsOdiny plan that would pot any power into the hind'of those of whose obedience all power is compered; and if any such epithet as deotocratical Is applicable to your plan, you are told that that it a conclusive reason - for casting it out without farther thought; tasting it off as if it were a viper, and' trampling upon 'it ; and for this reason eternity is tube given to every thing that is corrupt and mischievous. What, according to these men, is the ese of the Constitution ? To make the People happy ? Make them happy ? • No ! curse on the swinish multitude ! What then? Why to make the one man happy, the one object of legitimate idolatry, with the small num. , ber of others to whom it accords with Isis high pita. *sure to impart any of the.meens of happiness. Now by.tbisbugbear word democracy, are the Peo. pie of this country lobe frightenesterst of Moir muses ? are theta be fright t eeed by Gwelphs any mere than by Steer% Jrito•-pessive obedieuce and non-resist. Mice ? Causes of the abcpse. and. all ather Mischiefs ; the Ascendencyalpartkular haereats,the Monarchical and Aristocratical, .tohick.are ifildverse to the Uni. .versal Goad. Goaded to the teak by the groans of all around me, I have been- looking of late more closely than ever into the Constitution ; t mean the present elate of it; with an attention which the nature of the ob. jests that 'were continually forcing themselves upon all eyes, and upon all ears, rendered more and more painful to me; end what follows is the [wilt of this most appalling of all examinations. - As early as the year 1809, ik bad seemed to Me, that the road to national ruin might be but too clearly traced in the principle which had not only been acted upon, but avowed by those in whose beds the fate of the country rested. This principle was, that in the bands of the trainee, of the People, the substance of the People was a fund, nut of which, without breach of trust, and without jest reproach in any shape, fortunes might, and ought to be made, at any price, and 46 an amount ahsototely unlimited, by those who, without exposing themselves to punishment, could contrive to tay their hand, on the means. In this principle, I saw the two domineering late. rests,the Monarchical and the Aristocratical; contend. ine with, and crushing the sometimes struggling, but always vainly and feebly struggling Democratical ; completely agreed, and, without concert, co-operat ing with each other in the dissemination, and in the inculcation of this principle leading to rein : the party out of power inculcating it in theory the party its power, by theory and practice. It was abundantly evident, that, on the part of both these interests, this principle, together with the practice that belonged to it, was but too natural.— The notion that it had any such plea si that of ne cessity for Its adoption, •vattished at the slightest touch.. Portions of power, money, sod the onteal,dig. silty of titles and ribbons are the means of reward possessed by the Monarch, and it is his possession of these means, that enables him to 'corrupt the Mem bers of thee two other branches of the efficient so. -vareignty ; namely, the two flosses of Parliament. • It is a principle, the existence and totee of which is es indisputable as the coarse of the stars, that the possession of either of the three above.mentirsnesi means of gratifying the unbounded desires of men, draws to its possessor the other two. And the greateer the quantity he may possess of either of these, the more easy will be find it, and the more desirous will be be, to obtain the others. But the more he has of say one of them. the mere is it right also that he should have of them? All of them at the espence of the People, the poor People, at *hose expence whatsoever is enjoyed by their rulers is en. joyed ? Oh, grow, oh, liagitimm absurdity ! The more? No: bat aro the contrary, the less. What. simmer be the qoaatity of rewire, which, to any shape, may be necessary to obtain at a osest's hands the requisite service, the more he has of it iu any ens shape r --the less need he has of it in any ether shape. In the cue of the poorest inditideel—buts airy sod +metal notion ever bees stint* by any awn, in she character of a guardies, as that en, proper worm of attachment to himself 'is to • Ito foood is thus sob ounce of his wardy Is pots, over s . - slot& its ''vidr -nil; his little property, a sufficient payment Labatt? sad power over Meaty mil ioay and 7 119 V.' 1 77 , . • their property, 44sagiser.,wkh all ttsaS. e , "li!"'lmbereta if' --71bell stet-that d , e*? 'Fobs IV elthrbirve co property, or have, • not lu setilielsolatieltity,for their niwibtenence,winst indeed, eithtir be paid or not employed—but alto% 411 me,• ar boursiel6oleort "'avert y, 4 k -I °pim*ble tfiellltiwtten over. be. s deficiency hi's* number of thwee,, in whom. the igeature. of Poisessing . each • power;will beeelfielent-CelOpensatiors fee alt thepais: attached tile .esirciseof it? Leek at the cyantry Magistracy : see we no4„there a _hostot exavies,— Yes ; led hi those esaintekes host of proofs. • T. Untartenetely; In lifeasts, all whckitilse ptgaer, as they all agree aideiiirry, 'that their ' to one another and to the Pepple l .ly infirite—so, lay they-, must be tie rerees;d. - .. . 1 The infinity and 'ebsoletw Irresistibility being thee established of the demand for reward—,via. money, power, ind factitioes dignity tken:Comes the de -mend for the supply--and that supply a propor- • tronates'otle: Here, however, to a first v.iew,• comes. miarhat of a difficulty. ~Mcseey, its infinite quart. till cannot be deasanded all at once from the body ' of thli• People : however habiteilly•blind and pea iheY 'would bepon.tg . deepernte ; they would vise ;"better (they viouldssay to themselves), better IM shotlor hanged it once, than starved. . • y. A l et of draigss meat therefore be established and , . art to wOrk--cireists, through whieb, by dogrees "hose defuses . ever In tie eyes of the devourers bet slow), under ccdiec either of ust,or, what is so aintieb- better, of mew l s:kw—money. may be drawn skit of 'the. pockets of .the blinded, deluded, .sor; aninqeoitive, and ever ten patient PeoPte?, • Here follows A ,lAst, though sot a ..eons pieta pee, of f hese ,productive drains, The taus that aile, yeerry Rewired prose their dreadfol efficiency : Wars.-9.. Distant and proportion ably. borthensome dependencies all over 4b* habitable globe (end note that, In prosecution of these views, every such dependency, t w ithoet exception, has hero made e soiree of net expence, the amount of which ii destined to perpetual sod unlimited increase).- 3. Penal Colouies.-4. Claims of universal dominion Over the universal waier.way of nations, with • de termination to destroy the,shipping of ell nations by whom those claims shall becontested.-5. Annexation of " Hanover to Hampshire ' and that to the feed that noka hostile gun maybe fired any where on the Continent, but that we may , be in reatinessko inter fere, subsidizing one of the contending pasties, and helping to oppress the : other !-6. Splendour of the Crown ; that effelgence, in exact proportion to the increase of which, will increase the respect, and with it the submission, and with it the happiste6s of the People.-7. Erection of Hanover into a kingdom for that purpose, and that the Hanoterians may the less grudge the increase of taxes that will be required by the increase of dignity. As for war —never has there been, never can there be, a pretence for it .wanting, so long as that nation exists, or has existed, soy where, against which war can or could be made. The nation to be warred upon is either formidably strong, or providentially weak ; if formidably strong, tun long have we delayed the necessary task of'ob taitsing, at the sixpence of it, indemnity for the sat and security for the future ; if providentially weak, now is the favourable time for taking advantage of its weakness, and preventing it from becoming fo r . midabler ; now has the • Lord of Hosts, as the Arch bishop's prayer will not fail to inform us, delivered the enemy into our hands! Thus, if there be nothing past, for which to obtain indemnity, security fur the future will at any rate be an easy purchase. By a Standing Army it is that we are governed : and a Standing Army, the magnitude of which has been teen, is the sort of instrument, without which, it is said, we could not be governed; and by which it is the intention of those that govern us, that we sliould•be governed. And this is that Constitution, that Matchless Constitution, in the praises of which those never tire whose opulence or power have been produced by, or are dependent on, its abuses. And in this Constitution we have ■ Parliament—and in this Parliament a House of Commons—and in this •House of Commons a mask for a military govern. meta of its own erection—and this mask so trans parent a nne! and under this military government, so long as the mask remains, are we to lie down, now and for ever, prostrate and-contented. Well, the United States.; the seat of representa• tire democracy, alias anarchy—what plots, real or pretended, have they ? or' have they ever had. in theii. bosom ? What standing army have they ? What laws have they to prevent each man from communi cating with every other on the subject of those con •cer ns which are the concerns of every man ? What lass s on pain of death, to prevent every map who is not a soldier, from speaking his mind to any one who is, Oh ! but the fault is afways the fault of thei People i believing continually worse and worse, they must continually be treated with more and more just severity : the sinners for their own sins—the non slithers forth. sins of the simmers—to long as'ilit'af them are leTt alive .... No : 'never has any extensive discontent, that has ever manifested itself, been the fault of the People. Discontent ? no : patience—too mach patience, 101 (fiat has been their fault, their only fault : a sadTaall'i —and unhappily, en incurable fault under every go. 'eminent but one sufficiently representative, under which alone the concerns which are those of every man , are left without restraint to thediscourtli of every man• - What interest have the People in being go verned badly ? in having their universal interest sa crificed to any separate and adverse interest ? Bat, the interest which the men, by whom they have been governed, have had in governing badly, as they have governed, has here been made manifest, or nothing cam be. Sole Remedy in Principle Democratic Ascen dency. Such being the disease, behold the only remedy : lot Ain], for whose nerves it is too strong, shot his ales, and prepare his neck for a yoke, the presser. of which wilt continuo on the increase, till either convutsion break it, or existence sink ender it. The principle than of this remedy may be expressed in two words—Damocratical Ascendancy, or Aspen. *Rey of the People. Considering this then as the and to be attained—Radical Parliamentary Reform k the only means, by which either that immediate '~~'~° ^•%• rc.N.iirrr THE STATESMAN. TH I saltatiou t 44400101021.0 old, tie be ; .. *440 outward and :risible change &slag assae beam forms of the Constitution, but solely by the means of the ever increasing mass of corruptive luelffect in the haids oT thetrosii, the two sepas rate, pistil!, and .sinister interests, vie. the Mo. norasical and the Aristocratical, hare obtained over the Democrelical interest (which II no ether than the a nivervel interest) an ascendency to complete, that, under the outside show of a mixed and limite d Mo earchy, a Monarchy, virtually and sabatantially ab solute if the result. 'Without any outward and visible thane being 'wedeln the forms of the Constita,tion, though waste, already committed cannot be caused not to have been ,tv emitted, though past misrule cannot be caused angst to have reigned, yet the plops may be stayed. Restore to the &mortifies', to the universal inte rest; 'that ascendency which by the confederated, partial, and sinister interest has betel so deplorably ahused . (and so long as it continues, will continue to be abused) ;—and thus you have the remedy. This is what Paaliamentiry Reform will do, this is what Parliamentary Reform means. PRICE OF STOCKS .4 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 288 5 frr emit. Navy 1064 9 per Cent. Rea. 71* .. India Heads 99 p 3 per Ceni.Concols /94 804 Stock 237 . Coasehfor Ace. 80i3 Lelw Ana. IN 7 161 4'per Cent. 974 . IttrAwher Bilk 18 20 0 THE EITADESMAN. - • • •• • 14 IV Defti • ft.• • rh 4. • • 7 • •.• ..118110/1•4 . • .-1 - •J* • 3 ..0: The letterarout kris -piiialeciii;nslire`, Fre ace, •is to pay ancs o 12 1 000,090.0 t %40,g00,000t og,ooewo9 ,„ . • 4 •••_ • mutes, 509,09QCPWierinlite; rit which capital, Pros. sialss to receive 42,00t*q0 fiaies,,nr,: in annuities, 2,600,000 The. daises of England, strange to say, are fiat cogt s plbied.in the above arrongibment; nur does it appear Whit •progreithor whether any, hag been madelnigas obtaining security, for their discharge. It will be amusing enough , -if it shobld torn oat that the Duke of Wvt,ianciVox .has• been pleading the cause of foreign interests, atidOsitig the influence of his Government to . •obialn.for• the Prat; sians the full amount of their demamdef whilst the claims of the British crediiorh. now_.unhappily made too national, have been sacrificed to indifference.— Can it be that the pecuniary preteniinns of the indi viduals of this country who gave credit to the French Government, and had their interests taken up by the English Ministers, whether wisely or not we' stall not say, have been surrendered without a scruple, not in deference to the Bourbon Government or in mercy to the French People, but to gratify •the raps. city of a Foreign Power Those who gave credit to the French Government before the last Treaty, an. questionably had themselves to blame, and it requires' . bet few words to prove the impolidy and in justice, in a national point of view, of that conduct either in individuals or a Government which voluntarily enriches rival and hostile Powers ; but since the interests of these creditors of a fo reign nation were made important objects to this coun try, by thellobsequent conduct of our Ministers, and the real interests of the British People sacrificed for their attainment,• we can scarcelybelletelliet any one can look upon such an abandonment •of this question to please and enrich our Proisian Allies, with indifference. Many Consider this ',hint es affecting only the fortune of private s individuals, nod priv ate interests would eertaltitylle the first bene fited by•the repayment of the pecuniary cilia's Jo question ; but the British Public .shaalcl know that 10 millions of their money, espended on.tdcoont oft the maintenance of French prisoners, yrss relitivish.' ed in deference to these same private creditoii, on the plea that their interests were stri:ctly'cosneited, with those of the nation, and if the fruit' of the na. clone! industry are hot to return by the sente.chair. Deis, in what msnner are the British People to; lie remunerated for.their,saerifices.? %Veldts far ?Aim' setting up thelniliesof a Goverritnent;' Misted speculations of intlividnals,asmlpretetnians. lief it People, or tetiable - erntinds for opposing _other. States; but it dOes strike us fOrcihty, that if the People of this count r y are.to be mode to pay for the si - pport of in army in Fran to collect fnieign — dafits", aud , guarantee paymeitis'ind'treaties, it is a violation -41 the national hOnO4r end a scandalous . injustice to ihdivideals, if llritish.interests are to' be allowed to give way to German pretensions, and all the id. vantages so dearly purchased ,by one blood, are io be given to the King of PittlistA. The organization of the French army is said to proceed with great activity. A General Staff is to be attached to the Ministry of War. It is remarked, that the French army costs more,- in proportion to the number of men, than any other in Europe, that of England only excepted. • .. r.. . It appears from the Parisibortmls, which ere re, wired to the 21st iost. that lb. Doke of WELLING• TON was still piing his respects 'to the King at the Tbeilleries, and dely takes op lo NM same way with MONIIEUN I MADAM; sad the Doke D'ANOOO. LINN. 4Mb Gersies t DeWit t and Flemish Mails have also ar rived. Meta& Lt A RN, the Papal Noncio to the Imperial Cold; sad* his solemn entry iota Vienna on the 7th April. On the 10th, their Imperial Ma. jesties of ASSTAIA Wsts to commence their journey kto dividual as r MN lAN Rwf ~Q . ..., . ' . - :-...\ #. kJ .r. 1 } . . %. N-1.- .11,. k ~ ~ lii ~ I j • i • • • .4. . , '4 j AA • k • 1•. • • • -- sugm ai to the thimatitri firovinces. It is 'stated l a a os of the German P a p ers , th at tie importa ntcoos question of the trains!' of foreign merchendiae Mrs* Alsace may once more be brought under the • deration of the French Deputies, by means of Amendment to be moved upon it in the Peers; 1 , 41 thus, that the welfare of the Inland Provinces ft , r be ho longer sacrificed to the controling inter/44g three or four distant sea.port towns. Some further intelligence has reached us from LA through the medium of Madras Papers. The rebel, . lien in the Provin ce o f C uttac k b a d been eatimy suppressed. Some details are given of the m orp. meuts of the armies in the neighbourhood of 1 4 Juror's and Nerbuddab Rivers, but the Papers neither communicate any direct hostile operation, nor develop the plan of campaign adapted by Lord Iliarriao. They give not the slightest information as to the hu rl or position of the enemy against whom his Lordship', foihnidable power is directed. SCINDIAII is report e d to hate been tampering with the Pindarrees, is t h teeth of his Treaty with Lord HASTINGS. A tree, fel epidemic disorder was raging in Calceitaild vicinity; aggravated by the prejudices and svue,,,4 tiou of the swivel, vbich render them as sortsigi as 'pay to its fury. K a • ' We desire particularly to direct lire Resders'n. tention to the official account, it, another column, i t the.several incomes now enjoyed by the Royal Duke. The modesty of their tale demands upon the plus e s • of the impoverished People of this country *Wm- Wiest fresh illustration from the statements thus rea. dered to Parliament, and placed beyond doubt by .the authority attached to them. It will be seen, that, in addition to the settlements most liberally assagneel to them by the country in 1806, end undimitrishrd .deriag the sufferings and hardship inipused by the late war on all their fellow-subjects, they each re. ceived, in the year 1806, twenty thousand pounds from the Drafts of Admiralty ; besides This, t oo of them have subsequently borrowed (treaty thousand pounds from the same fund, now in the course of repayment; and they have all, except the Duke of Su soya, appointments of considerable amornit in the British establishments. With their revenues drawn from foreign sources it is said *e hare es concern : though we fancy that, if we had had os concern in tuaintaioiog those countries from wheel* the revenge is derived, they would lung ago hsre ceased to produce any thing 'to the Princes of the Rouse of Brunswick. Our plebeian ideas lead 114 imagine tfiat considerable comforts might be di. rived from such royal sums, if there 'were no me royal- ways of spending it. But as CarrustAce says, we may be very incapable of appreciating 'Ms amount necessary to induces Royal Duke is fo r e g o " the comfoits of celibacy," and engage with a bosom German Princess for " political purposes" Genr. rous souls! how gracious to be pleased to receive such sums for no such labours, sod yet ask for double the amount, merely to gratify the country uheu all other excitations have failed to warm them letts patriotism! But there is hope yet. The Duke of CLARENCE', WOW bid.ihrown by his multiplication table in des spit., at the frightful estimates for the nurseries, has, kie =poured, resolved -to persevere in his determi- Jain* of. marrying the ,Princess of SAIE•M MEP Gas, notwithstanding the voters( the House of Com ment,' if • bee. Serene ibghness *hall not have taken the poi as • Isis intimitient of refusal Ife- can still smite heel: Duchesi--orn' d, happy' thought, it credit .epoq.theAdniiralsy Droie,or other resources should Tait h_ises. will avail bimeelf.of . the alternative given rill. thErftitilil Marciage Act by recording his union 40.1 Itk b i triorks of the Privy Coi ecj , l, and thereby take Jtissotte'ofla mire of approbotios of d m o d r l i k e 4/sftb•tt3!pe post. _ . • : • - - - , , f r ' s Yesterday,r in . 110119'1r . • t;f the celebration of the "tem Ren dirt-dis r, the 'Qum, entertained It fl.friel [U GC Ig.T the ,Members of the oytossityP line. Earl' .of Ltvearobt, and most "ol.7o6oCribine't " - Ministers gave dinners.. Viscount furionymeatertainisrt Loan Mayon, the Sheriffs :orterndon-and 1 3ddli4ei. The Marquis of WIN ' eittlieea entertaUsed the Lords and, Grooms of tole 14a4hrimber, the Duke of M etymon. the. Equerries, v iTteltomPst fit.:c. The Love thewasko and Lose CIO aiRL . Atp , usee parties In • their departments. The'lirtrioureille Corpi of Gentledlien 'Pen loners dined trierlier at FroentiesonsETavern. 'rho go ) 81 Tradesmen dined together at the Thatched liouse •ti n rn. • Aar article from Stockhnfm, of the 7th instate, slates, that on the 21.1) of March, a hurricane raged iu Syeden; which has dotie the most dreadful damage. For•these 20 years so violent * storm had not been witnessed: The Greed Duke of Wausau has pohlithad an Edict by which Authors, Editors, and Printers of literary works are made responsible for whaj they publish. The Censorship continues abolished or sus pended ; and a definitive law is now preparing, with regard to that meat iuteresting and important object of Legislation. We bare received Philadelphia Papers to the 18th ult. They contain a very long Manifesto, addressed to the Nations of the World, by the General Consti• teem Congress of the United Provinces of the Bin de le Plata, exposing the treatment slot cruelties they have suffered from the Sperish Government, and the causes which impelled them to declare their indepen deuce. It seems that, contrary to some late aCCollnfst the =mains of KOIICIOsICO have been actually conveyed twin Soloureen their lay to Poland, where it is said 'den the 'Emperor of RUSSIA has named Cracow as the place where these illustrious ashes are to be lastly deposited.