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CLEMENT, for certkio Libels published in Cohbett's Political Register; tried in the Couit of King's Bench, at 'Westminst e r, on Friday the 10th December, 1819, before Lord Chief Justice Abbott and a Special Jury. Taken in Short-hand • By Mr. GEGRGE FARQUHARSON. To which are prefixed a Preface, the De':uments referred to ; and Notes. " Aralt'er says, that I made a proposition to the Govern ment,. that if the proceedings against me were dropped, I would never publish another register. The charge is basely false.' No proposition of any sort was ever made by me, or by my authority, to the Government,"—ConsErr. " I declare the Letter read at the Bolting* to be a for . gery."—COßßkrr. " Look at the Motto ! English Reader—Look at the Motto."—COBBETT. Printed for J. Wright, Nu. 5, Panton-square and to be bad of all . Boolisellas. GRAMPOUND. MR. EDITOR—The discussion of the Right of Voting at Gramponnd, certainly has . occupied a considerable portion of your columns of late. It is not my wish to extend that discussion to a tedious and unnecessary length ; the queStion out of which it arose is too interesting and important to be lost in answers to personal charges, and charges of personality ; and therefore, Sir, tlao,igh I may be desirous of clearing myself from the imputation " of being needlessly triumphant in the exposure " of a contradiction" which TEVAX asserts 'that 1 had " invented for him," 1 shall pass it over ; not so, however, as TENAX passes over die charges under which he finds it is little easy to succumb, as they seem to occupy the largest por tion of his Letter. When I addressed you formerly, I professed my intention of adhering to the consideration of the case of Grampound, and the nature of the Right of Voting there ; to that intention, I believe, I adhered strictly ; but, on the present occasion, I shall, after I have briefly noticed the last Letter of TEN AX, advert to the question with which be originally set out, namely, that thi Legislature cannot justly disfranchise Grampound, and trans fer the Right of Votive to another and more po pulous place. The power to make the transfer, TENAX IS too " CODSI itll! lone' a writer to dis pute ; the only point therefore Avill be, whether that power will be justly exercised, it the honest Electors at Grampound are deprived of their franchise for the offence committed by the majo rity of the community. TENAX states, that it is not fair that his use of the term " Burgage should still be taken in its limited sense, instead of that general acceptation, which, for brevity's sake, he had ventured to apply to it," and afterwards that he had " stipulated for its use in a liberal sense." TENAX is a writer, notwithstanding the profession of his " little re gard to the date of his language," who must know the importance of using words and terms in the precise sense in which they are genitally used, and especially terms of art or science. Burgage, I contend, is peculiarly a scientific term, usually applied to a species of tenure common in ancient Boroughs. It may, I 010 not scruple to confess, be applied more extensively and liberally, hut I believe there are few who would imagine, when they heard of a man's possessing the right to vote at Elections of Members of Parliament " by burgage-holding," that he possessed it merely as a contributor to.the parish burdens, and not as the proprietor of a burgage tenement. The " general acceptation," or rather application of the term, I will venture to asset t, is confined to the species of tenure to which I have alluded, and I will add, that TENAX is the first writer who has used it in the more liberal sense for which he stipulates in his last Letter. In his former Letters, he stipulated for a liberal use of the term " Burgess,",which I ant sure none of his '' antagonists" will deny him, even to the greatest extent to si4rich it can be appi,ed ; but to-night is the first time that we have heard of his stipulating for the liberal use of the terms " Burgage," and Burgage hold ing." For one, 1 shall protest against the term " Burgage " being received otherwise than in its general acceptation as applied to tenure, and " Burgage holding," so evidently ap plies only to the species of tenure which I men tioned before, that I am sure no one will apply it otherwise. One more observation only shall I make on the last Letter or TENAX They (that is the " rights popular) are all invested or onereted.'. TENAX tells us, with a species of " property test " rather inconvenient with the mere test of po " pulation." In the answer of TENAX to the Letter of VINDEX, the distinction between rights resulting from the ownership of real property, and rights popular or personal is broadly taken. In the last Letter of TENAx it is confounded; rights result ing from the receipt of rents of Freehold Property, to the amount of 40i. annnally,and Rights resulting from the payment of Parochial' Taxes, are there placed on the same footing. "It (that is, the " Right) may lie personal, quoad the Payer" of Parish 'faxes; so it is quoad the receiver of 40s. a year,'' but it is substantial, quoad the cause of pay " ment," as it is quoail the property for which the rent is received. Thus persons who, have no pern*i ElectY Vienchiseii Merely temporary, continu ing ,solong.ll3 they reside in a Borough, and are able to pay-Parochial Taxes, are, 'on the prine4pfe maintained by TENAX, to be classed withie,rsons whose interest in the soil i 9 great and perimMent, and who the Law consequently pre sumes will always have the advancement of the ge neral prosperity and welfare of the country in view, as by that alone can the value of their property be maintained and secured. The ownership of the popery constituting •the qualification , of the one is the pledge of his attachment to the Country Mil) its established Constitution, but the persons: - resi dence of the other in a borough for six months forms .nn tie upon him. To-day he may corruptly give nis vote for an individual, - -,Who, ImOcriesiVe; will sacrifice the dearest and most invaluable rights of those who are bound, as it were, to the country, by time ownership of the soil, because he is aware that he may himself escape to-morrow, without loss or injury from the operation of those unwise and unconstitutional measures, which the individual for whom be voted was the means of enacting; while the owner of the soil, on the con- trary, knows, that if he supports a candidate wl►o does not understand the interests of the Country, or who will become a party to measures inimical to those interests, he himself is a sufferer by the deteriorated value of his property. Upon these grounds, I am induced to think that TENAX is not correct, in referring rights resulting front pro perty, and rights popular or rights resulting from a personal residence merely in a place to the same test; on the contrary, I believe it is of the utmost importance to keep them distinct, and to main tain that 'classification which all the Writers on he Laws of Elections have sanctioned. I now come to the consideration of the justice of disfranchising the Borough of Gratnpound, which has been convicted (at least the majority of the constituent parts have) of gross and pal plhle bribery, and I shall endeavour to state as shortlyreas possible my reasons for thinking the disfranchisement not only just but necessary.— Tama% doss nut s nor will wny other person, I suppose, dispute thC danger to which bribery poses the Constitution, and the consequent ne cessity of endeavouring to check its prevalence.— Upon this point all must agree ; the means, then, of preventing bribery alone remain for cots sideration. The commission of crime the Law endeavours to restrain by the infliction of punishment, and punishment is according to the nature of the tiffence. of the crime 'of bribery, upon this principle, is the criterion or test of the nature of the punishment to be inflicted 'au its commission. Bribery is a breach of that trust which the Law reposes in the Elector, when- it endows him with the Elective Franchise, and in this respect it bears a striking resemblance to the crime of treason ; for what is treason, but a betraying, tresci,ery, or .breach of The nature faith, which BLACKSTONE quoting The Mirzor said), only happens between Allies—and between whom is there, I. ask, a stronger alliance, or one that should be preserved more sacred and inviolate, than between the Constitution, an►i every member of the community. Any crime therefore committed against the Constitution, 1 think, is a crime in the nature of Treason, and more particularly if that crime involves a breach of the fundamental principles of the Constitution. Such, for instance, I consider Bribery and Occa sioriality ; they tend to the destruction of the Con stitution ; for " to corrupt the Representation or openly to pre-engage and prescribe what rn9r)- " ner of persons shall be chosen; to regulate " Candidates and Electors, and new model the " ways of Election, what is it, says Mr. Locxe, "'but to cut up the Government by the roots, and " to poison the very fountain of public security." Such being the effect and object of the crimes of bribery and occasionality, we cannot err in considering them heinous offences and crimes against the established Constitution of the Coun try, partaking of the nature of treason. " The Runishment of High Treason," to use the words of BLACKSTONB, " in general, is very solemn and terrible." I t is death,and when sentence of death is pronounced, the immediate and insepa rable consequence by the common law is AT. TAINDRE. The corisequet►ces of attainder are for feiture, whereby a man forfeits to the King all his real and personal estates ; and corruption of bjood, whereby a periou can neither inherit lauds from his ancestors, or transmit them by descent to his heir, and at the same time obstructs- el descents posterity, where they are obliged . to derive a title through him to a remoteran. cestor. The great consideration upon- which . part of the punishment of Treason -is founded is this, that it will help to restrain a man nnt • only by the sense of his duty and dread of perso.' nal punishment, bat also by his 'passions and natural affections ; and will interest every depenw dant and relation he has, to keep him from-of tending, according to that beautiful sentiment of CICERO, " Nec rero vie fugit Alum sit acerbum, parentum scelera filiorum penis lui ; sed hoc p" rte. clare legibus cornparatum est, ut caritas liberonn t i arniciores purentes reipublica. redderet," This is' the puttislitari,l of Treason Sgainst the pergon" and government of the KING, and the •ilaion of. it and why should not a punishment analogous to it be inflicted on Boroughs where the twin rity of Voters have become corrupt, and where the crimes of bribery and occasionality have be come generally prevalent, as I have shewn that they tend to the subversion of the Constitution and its fundamental principles, and that they are the most dangerous and heinous offences which can be committed against it ? This Letter has al. ready been drawn to a greater length than I in tended or could wish, I shall not therefore add any further observations on this part of the sub. jeer. TENAX, by the frequent declaration of his prin ciples, and of his constitutionality, scrim to taunt his opponents with the insinuation that he alone is loyal And constitutional ; I must, therefore, its conclusion, beg to assure him, thy I was early taught to venerate the established Constitution of the Country, and to feel the warmest attachment for THE FAMILY seated on the throne of this Kingdom; that attachment has been matured and confirmed by an attentive consideration of the grounds upon which the House of Brunswick was invited to this Country, and of their conduct in its government'; And I humbly trust that I shall - never be found a less zealous supporter of their cause, and tharlif "our inestimable Constitution, than TENAX , . Lincoln's Inn, aotti Dec. 1519. FOR THE SUN. PE M LiELCION A 1.% NCH EST F. R FACTS. MR. ErnToE--I observe with surprise, that no Prominent . notice has hitherto been taken, in your truly loyal Paper, of a Pamphlet entitled, " An. Exposure of the , Calumnies crculated by t h e E nem i es o f Social Order, and reiterated by their Abettors, agains . t the Magistrates and the Yeomanry Cavalry of Manchester and Salford.', This Tract is not anonymous, hut bears in its front a name which is a sufficient voucher. for its truth and accuracy—that of FRANCIS Puturs, Ssq. an opulent and truly respectable• M a nuta c . ;nrer, residing near Manchester. I will not send yon a review of it, because suspect that literary articles in daily publications are seldom much at tende to besides, that this is not a literary, but a political matter, and one of high importance. After the abominable falsehoods that have been circulated in factions prints, and bawled out by more factions mouths, the genuine wish of the )ncorrupted part of the public is ro see the real truth fairly and honourably stated. Here, Sir, they will see it. They will see also the manly and honest Address, which was signed by 1477 persons, while an opposing Declaration and Pro test, even in Manchester itself, obtained 0n1y•530 signatures. The Magistrates and the Yeomanry themselves have most judiciously preserved a rigid silence, leaving - with proper dignity their char.ie tell to be justified by legal investigation. For the same reason, not -one of those persons sub joined his name to the above Address. But a statement from a neighbour, an eye-witness, a man of character and honour, is certainly what every candid man would wish to see. and what he will not tail to see, if he procures the Pam phlet in question. TRUTH. The more the New System is understood, the more it is . approved. It has been the means of distributing FOUR TWENTY THOUSANDS, as Firit drawn Prizes, in London and its environs, in the short space of One Month only. Edinburgh, Bristol, Chester, Liverpool, Newcastle, besides 29 ot h er Towns, have also participated in Four different Twenty Thousands. In the small Lot tery, to begin the. 12th JANUARY, there are Foutt NIORE TWENTY THOUSANDS—and the Two Frit- drawn Prizes are certain of an additional Twenty Thousand each. This excess of Prizes is to begin the Leap Year, which is usually a new induce ment to every class of adventurers 10 tempt Dame Fortune.