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DUREss To ME REFORMERS. 11 Frtury tovrcritritii, At this critical juncture, it is incumbent upon nu, moot seriously to consider the consequences •t the ceps you are taking. Yet, a little farther, 4MI 7 1 .11 will plunge your country into all the Itorrore of citil warfare. Think then, whether tt.e objects you desire are worth this bloody nice Whether, after all, you are certain of at aininc torus ? ‘Vhether, if attained, they would couture to your benefit l And filially ask your c-lses—how it happens that the Constitution. ..biclA was estab►ished by your forefathers, and beneath which your country has risen to an un exampled pitch of glory and prosperity--is not floury enough for you ? Revonss ! its 4t is what you serk ?—That is to toy ItsvoLuTtort. Do not mince the timer — that is whet you ask .--.lnnuat Parlianceitts and Universal Suffrage are a complete Revolution Univcrsal Suffrage indeed, will give all the thieves 'and pick-pockets who want to rats you of what you have got—all the ruf f ians who would cut your thronts if they durst—and all the miscreants who have cheated the gallows—the right of choosing people to govern you, and there can he nn mar.- ner of doubt that they will ritor , le such as thent• telees,--Yott give to "loch a' those th eft t h e p owe r to .00ttl all the Laws which at present restrain t!.em front sitting mischief. These saes to he some its the ostle.otiges of UniversAl Suffrage. By Animal Parliaments again ymt turn out your Nl•oshers---not before they (►rve hul time to do iiiteliirt—tor that it done test enough, but hrtore :hey could possibly dr► •ny good—for flint is the ;mit ot leisure, wisdom, and deliberatil.n. A ni 411 might but down your house in All hour, though tir could not build it up in a month. Route, you know. wAs not built its 4 day, though it was de stroyed in one. !Still you will tISITt the advantage iit hiving new Laws and new LeKislaiors every year, tuuul the last fumy always revoke what the others d;u—nod these—with en unusual riot at every Election—stern the chief benefits of Annual Par inents. But what, I would ask you, is your objection to our present Members of Are they not upon the whole, men of sense, experience, character, and respectability ? Ni. :veil are perfect. But if every one of you might p;ek out u whole P.ttliament to please himself, do von think it would be much better chosen ? Tiiry are men who pare knowledge, leisure, and ;Arms. and zeal to lihamr fur you, whose pro. speri'y depends upon yours, nod who Stern quite as tit to be entrusted with the arduous and Corn.. pl leered management of the "Cars of a great Na• as the ignorant and unprincipled wretches who are bellowing for Reform in your Street!, pretend they want to mend the Con.titution . in order that they may pull it down about your tars. Do not deceive yourselves my friends, nor let others deceive you. Think not that the worthless dt'•jgning men who are among yon, and whose insidious counsels would pervert you from peace able and respectable subjects, into seditious and - disaffected malcontents—have any other view than to tusk• use of you as tools to overturn the Constitution, amidst tl►e ruins of which they hope to eciatuble up to those situations which they can never ha Cc a hope Of attaining in any well ordered Go►crnntent. You would nut !suit your porte to a man whose Cheiracter Was notoriously bad—Anil yet you Will trust your peace, your security, your precious rights, which money cats tte,ar ioircloist, to a let of desperate villains, who neither fear Goal nor love neither their Icing nor Country, who have every thing to gain and nothing to lose—neither fortune, character, nor t espect . obili•r. You arsiy'llsink you also have nothing to lose, my friendi:•hecause pvrhsps you arc 'poor. But you have rights with which wealth svould he iorecure. Rights, which ensure not only the ' safety of yi's- person, but your freedom of coo . s:ience, Alla freedom of action. You have rights, tshich enable you to let at defiance the power of the greatest man in the kingdom to harm you—to du sod say what you please, and to go and come un goestioned when and where you please. Where as, in other countries, the lifts Of the People mainly depend spoil the will of their Rulers. 'rile, nisi be imprisoned without reason, sod de spoiled of their little property without redress. They are obliged to do whatever their superiors order them, aid are not allowed even to go from one town to another without permission of the )lagistratts. Yet many of 111111 e countries ears ones pro sperms, snit frit% still they lost it all by fictiutis rts , ceedings, by discontent, and not knotting when they were wall. They begat) iu this viol in the -rsetrehatrtule. !ion, end in all other Revolutions. Play watiord nothing bite Reform—peaceable Reform ! sod Liberty—reasonable Liberty !...._They b a d th e ir way. They tent ,Iteforn, and v, and thou sands and tens of thousands, tend millions of the very People wholititt cried nit for them, pelialied by 'Amine, the guillotine, disease, and the sword. They ended hy virtkittc node, a Ter;ii;y far more Kansa th.,n th.st whieli they had bklore endured. They fell, to use a homely but forcible ex preasion out of the ft•yinc • pm' into the fire. P,rteare, friends, that the saute thine dor. not happen to you, that, like Cie Rio 4 in the fable, in eatchine it the •limitow you lo , e not the soli stance, and in ttyitic to get more, let slip chat yogi have , mdre.ttly cot. MS it of what is it you complain ? Are the Laws, enact e d for I ron buy your forefathers, unjustly ad ministered Arc the rights they Secured to yon invaded ? No, it is you who want to break through the Ltsys. It is you who invade die rights of your Country. You complain flint the towns of Manchester, Leeds, and liirttiingharn have no Representatives in P tali amen,. And pray what wrongs have they suffered in com.equence 3 They have grown, t.irb unexampled r.spidity, to an extraordinary pitch of weal'h and greatness ; and they are now ready to rebel acsinst ill • Goy.-rtiment to which they owe their prosperity. You %want Liberty ; sod how much more would yogi have ? You have liberty to do every thing but mischief. You have not liberty, to be ,tire, to assemble in immense multitudes, and ottat•cli into towns es if you were Ening to take pos.es‘ion of them by force, with IdAck a n d bloody b,onuitrs, and caps typical of Revolution, obstructine, the business, and exciting ilie (rare of the sober and industrious. This is inconsistent with social order, the peace of so ciety, and the safety of the community, and is, that efore, forbidden by the L Ives of your C 01111• try, which it is the duty of the Magistrates to ottfotee. In future, my friends, take my advice, follow nu banners but those of your Country, and leave Caps of Liberty, and all other Caps, to Fools. Indeed, what you mean by elAmouring for more liberty is mute that► I can conceive ; or, I believe, you either. If you are injured, is out redress open to you 1 If you are in wait, do not the Laws give you a portion of the property of others, and is not the ready hand of tienevoleoce stretched out to aid it ? If yoss are sick, is not medical assistance ready to wait upon you ? and it you are hurt, ate not the Hospitals thrown open to receive you ? Is there a single suffering or cAlamily incident to our nature that Inystito tions have not beets funned to lessen and relieve I Is there a plan that can be devised to 'alleviate the wattle or better the condition of the lower classes that the Rich do not immediately embrace/ How many of them are there who devote their time, their thoughts, their Inbuilt-, and their in !lnciter to the work of doing good, and volun.; tarily dedicate a part of their fortune to the same benevolent ends, beside all that the Law takes from them for the support of the Poor ? It is, inked, too true, that those long years of war, in which England fought, not ony fur her Lai' s Ind Liberties, but for her vet y eiiistence as a Nstion—thosa long years of danger and of glory have stihjected us, in common with tAte rest of the world, to many difficulties and Yet but for 'bat war front which they arose, the French .would, At this moment, bs your masters. Your wealth Would have been drained, your Commerce stopped, your Colonies seized, cud your Manufactures destroyed ; for such was the voted hope and crowed resolution of the Man who had devoted his whole soul to the object, sod sworn to reduce England into a Province of France. You kyould nut now bs complaining, my friends, fur complaint would not be allowed you. You know what your Cuuntry4tafers a but you know nothing of the outleringtof• other.. You saw none of Ilkecomplicate4l horrors which they endured in War--horrots 'which 1 'witnessed, but cannot describe ;—their houses pillaged—their wives and daughters ravished—their provisions commuted, and their infants left to perish, (luting long winters of cold and fatnine. You know nothing of vvliiit they even now en dore—evan in peace. You have not atm, as I Dave, this I'oor devouring the refit.* of the dung hill., and expiring with want by the road aides, and on the stones of this etreeted—uoue giving thorn a morsel of food. Yet this have I sees in Countries so favoured by ileavatt, that thies-foltl harvests euver the Mount!, and winter is ut,11110.611. ' nitre, it a great watt seise all you have, there is no Leif) for it ; if Le seduce your wile or daughter, you MLitt object to it ; if Ity throw you in prison for Lis own loot! plessurlt, you lutist lit io it. It you cutoplat.o, you will llr ti)it viols, tiled for it ; and i speak what you iLink, You will be shut up w „ tig tflotooi'y cat, 11441 you. Luuk cblavils Elie nii Cat) Ivu any 'where , ri,"l w Leiter csn oo t r7 ,• —s !letter !11- refitment ? No ! That rot' sr knnwledc. : and apt you fire not content it, You went Re form forsooth. This is like physieking a MAR in henlth ; 70.4 may kill hint, but yon will hardly do hint lunch good. Trust not to the quacks who won't, persuade von that you are diseased, And who, under the pretence of curing you, would ruin your constitution. There is an epitaph on an tinfortutiate Italian ivho suffered himself to be treated in this way, which I will give to you in English : I was well and not sick, Tv he better would try; to I swallowed some physic, And lo!—here I lit! Do, not cast away this epitaph ; for if you fol low the iletieuc, exm-nple, you may write it on the grave of your country. Trials and misfortunes are the lot of man, and tho‘e evil, which Providence, in its wisdom, has tern fit to afflict us with, let us bear as becomes men anti Christians. Let us not ag4ravate them by our own violence and misconduct. Every heart aud hand among us is ready to do his utmost to mitigate them. Let us then labour together to that end amicably, and like brothers, and not, by falling ont, bring upon ourselves the far more dreadful evils of civil dissentione and discord ; for I cannot see how these will lessen the evil, nor do I exactly understand bow Annual Parlia ments and Universal Suffrage—it you had them— could make employment more plentiful, or provi sions more abundant and cheep. My Countrymen !—You have now an import- Int point to decide, and this is the moment in which you most take your resolution. You may yet stand fast in your duty to your King and Country, but if you madly advance your despe rate career, you will no longer be masters of your actions. You will be hurried shrug with the torrent, and borne headlong to desolation and blood. Yon may open the flood -gates of Reform, but you cannot close Oleos sgaiust the over whelming tide. You may light the torch of dis• cord, but you cannot extinguish its flames. Pause then a moment—you who were foremost to guard your Country in the day of danger—who, when the united world was arrayed in arms against her, crowded around her standard and fought for h er long and well —you Who so lately rescued her flour all her enemies—would you now plunge a dagger into her bosom ? I an► talking as if it were in your power to accomplish tt►is work of destruction—which, assure yourselves, it is not.—The wise, the sober, the temperate, the industrious, who form the vast majority of the Commonwealth, know far too well the blessings they enjoy, to throw them sway in the vain pursuit of chimerical improve ments. They will not, like desperate gamblers, stoke their all on the hazard of a die. They know better ►han to overturn the Constitution, which was sealed by the blood of their forefathers, and handed down to them as the most precious depo sit, to preserve unimpaired at►d transmit to their children. You can have no chance of success, when all that is rational and powerful, and good and respectable in the community, is opposed to you. For it is not only the higher classes, but the great body of the people---those of all ranks, who know how to value the inestimable rights and blessings they possess, and who see that the wild measures you propose would lead to aggra vated misery and certain ruin. You may, indeed, if you persevere in your starred course—bring the scourge of war which the mercy of God has hitherto averted from this favoured land—home to your own hearths and and you, and all that is dear to you, may, and must fall among its earliest victims—for the curse of blood Will be upon you ! The blessing which was pronounced ou the Peacemakers, will be ter ribly reversed against those who bring discord in to the worlth—tir more against those who intro duce it into the heart of their country. You think perhaps, that the situation of the rich and great, is so enviable, that they would persuade you to stiffer that they may enjoy. Alas !' my friends, these times hear hard upon all, and if ►hose who were before in want, now feel severely the pressure of poverty, thousands of those who were before opulent, are now pinched .by want. Nambers among the higher orders are now struggling with secret distress, and they are mote to be pitied than you, " fur they cannot dig, and to beg they are ashamed." Hut that many are rich there can be no doubt. And why should they not ? They have become rich by their own industry and talents, or by those of their ancestors, and if , you had ac quired wealth by the same means, you would think it but fair to be allowed to enjoy it youiselt, and transmit it to your children. But they arc wealthy, and you are therefore envious of their abundance. You have little rea son even lot this. God has so proportioned the sorrows and enjoymeuts of mess, that her li ss dif ference than pm imagine will be found at last be tween them ; and it the rick are not eiposied to some of the bardships to which you are liable, they ars open, on the other hand, to sufferings of which you have no idea. Trust me, if you could look into their hearts, you would find there no extra stores of happiness, wattling, in short, to provoke your envy. 111att, after all, is but the tenant of a day upon earth. Whatever he may bold here, he mutt leave, when his lease of life is expired, and it matters little at the end whether his tenetneut hNs been small or great, so as be has administered it well, for of that he must give MI account at the Great Day. You think, perhaps, my friends, that I BM one of the Rich and Great. You are mistaken. I am one of yourselves. I have neither rank nor fortune, nor houses nor lands, nor place nor pen sion ; but I have the Rights of a true-burn Briton, and I will defend them to the last drop of my blood. I have visited almost every Country of the xivilieed World. I have seen in them all the wrouxs, the oppressions, and the miseries which the People stiffer, and I have returned to my Own to live and to die in it—to share in the invaluable privileees which it possesses—to rejoice ;bat they are still.-opared to it.--•11(1 Cu thank Hutson, above uli utber (mercies, (L At x vras Licari 4% n RFTON. THEATIIICAL itsqrsTEit. Prrforrreaf Leis( ANN rit. THEATRE IttIYAL. 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Iforniag o 10 wiuutea aftr• 4. Eveninic, 33 DA iiiutcs :ft.r 4. THE S UN. SWAM Q YALSUM AUDEAT 140NDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1819. We received this morning the Pari• PApers Saturday last. The following are extracts : " PARIS, OCT. 2.—The Spanish Ambassadot had yesterday a private audience of the King. Lieutenant• General the Count de Coward had also an audience of his Majesty. The King after. wards took an airing to Argenteuil, and then paid a visit to the Duchess de Berry. , " The ve•sel, whose owners, &c. have beet arrested, was destined to cruise as a pirate against the merchant vessels of Bordeaux as they sailed from the port. The scheme was disccivered by person who had been engaged as Lieutenant. " Some of the Journals have stated that tsr* of the Ministers, accredited to the Diet of H'rank• tort, bad refused to accede to the propositions made by the Austrian Minister. It is certain, however, that the propositions were unanimously voted at Carlsbad, and that they were adoptrd is a similar rummer at Frankfurt. " The King of Watemburg was expected ill the evening of the 25th ult. at Frankfort. FIVE PER CENTS. Fri,lay . 69 f. 3549. DPPSRRED STOCK Of the Vict Marcb, Isl 7, 91 f. 903. 2 1 .41 Sept. 1117, tad March, WI, 87 f. 90s. RA Sept. 1818, sad March, 1819, B3 f. 90 e. • • 22d Sept. 1819, HI f. IS v. FKANKFOIT, SUPT. 2.5.—0 n the proposition' made by the Austrian Minister to the Diet being received, the Ministers of all the Sta:es whose Ministers assisted at the Conferences at Car!shag , viz. those of l'i . tissia, Bavaria, Sasony, Hanover , Nuratuburg, Baden, Mecklenburg, end Nov sin, declared that they had received from ttse►r respective Courts positive orders to accede without reserve to what was proposed IV the Austrian Minister. Several of the Ministers also stated that they bad orders 1,0 0 their Courts to accede to the vote of Austria(' The propositions were agreed to. . . _ " The Congress of, Ministers, which is t ° arrange definitively the affairs of Germany, will not assemble at Vienna till some tiale in November• " CADIZ, SUPT. 14 —The existence of the WO here is decidedly pronounced by the Physician" la the hla de Leou, the stale of the fever was Dead. Sick. The stb inst. .. 40 899 9th - - 311 876 10th .. - 40 *73 11th - - 40 947. '• Thirty-one persons dicd at Cadiz yestertioli 4 ' ODESSA, SIIPT. 7.—The opening ul this pis° as a Free Pert took place with great ceremoof oo the 27th ult. " RADSTADr, ScrT. 26.—The Emperor - ff Russia is expected to assist at the curifersuces Vienne, as well as most of the German So"' rsigns." The Letter signed A BRITON, in our Paper (h it day, holds forth the most striking and impressive counsels and echurtatious to the People et larg e ' but particularly to those who are exposed to I I ': delusive theories and inflammatory incitement . those infamous scribblers, who, i n t h e wee kly .° the daily newspaper., are attempting to corr u p t the public mind, and to trsmple upon all they O n ' stitutes the security of a Government, ant) al. happiness of a People. The Author of the LA gic in question is not only A BRITON, at be l i ‘ ni himself, but possesses a mind warmed by i ra piety, said an ardent spirit of patriotism, g1 i4114 by the suggestions of philosophy, auci sr 111 IV th tb 11) ,A th he el }i v dr ~h t(J lr of .i Ai dr O'i oil . lief in, t cli l'i 4 1) I; , 1 • il l 'tfic