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1 LONDON, THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 4.
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TO OUR READERS.
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A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will I
be published on SATURDAY NEXT, and coo-
tinned on such Saturdays as the length of the,
I; Parliamentary Debates shall render theirable.
.1
! 1r is many years sines we had omesion to look
forward to the Meeting of Parliament with the sort
of interest which we feel to-day. We have had re.
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i petted and abundant cause for anxiety, during many
a recess, loop and short; but to have to guard
and vindicate our liberties is something so old that
it now appears like something new. It is tree.
however. Oar most urgent business in the prospect
1 of the coming Session is to see that our represents-
tires are duly sensible of the critical character of the
time, and that they are properly supported and esti-
mated in the course which they may be expected to
take inconsequence. There have been periods within
I living memory when the popular excitement was
greater than now, because the pending questions
had been long before them, and so gradually wrought
- up as to rain the national aspiration and will to a
high point of common emotion ; but it may be
doubted whether it could ever have been much mon
I i important than to-day that the Legislature should be
vigilant and resolute, and the reformers of oar laws
and the conservators of our liberties united in their
progressive and defensive action. It is no time for
tampering with the truth, or considering the com-
placency 1
I of individuals, when the welfare of multi-
tudes is at stake ; and we therefore say openly, that
the question is whether certain of our liberties are
safe in the hands of certain of the Ministers ; and
h that the object to be pursued in Parliament is to
I I compel such explanations, and obtain such securities
from Government, as may restore us to our ordinary
1 ! . state of confidence.
Our liberties are threatened with regard to the resi-
; dente of our own countrymen abroad, and to the reel.-
1 dente of foreigners among us. It is a painful truth that
1 Englishmen do not at present enjoy that security
abroad, in virtue of their citizenship, which has hitherto
been regarded as their birthright. A little while ago
il it was in the Austrian dominions chiefly that English-
men were liable to insult and injury, and to extreme
difficulty in obtaining redress. Now that our foreign
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policy is sacrificing some priceless interests to the Aus-
-1 Irian alliance, matters arc for the time mended there ;
but oar position in Naples is intolerable. The radical
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mischief lies in the secrecy of our diplomacy, and
the virtual irresponsibility of our Foreign Minister;
and thus it is the delay of a reform demanded by the
times which is answerable fur such a case as that ofl
our engineers at Naples. Till the needful reform is
obtained, and some security provided against our
national honour end our privileges of citizenship
. , I being rported with or sold by a careless or misjudging
Minister, we mast hold th.Oovernment strictly to its
responsibility to Parliament, and let the world see
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how we have at heart the liberties of every Briton
in all parts of the world. It cannot long be the case
that our hearts should throb and our blood boil at
the wrongs of such victims as our two country-
men at Salerno without our being able to do any-
thing for them. Englishmen are not to be told of fel-
low-citizens, against whom no guilt can be proved,
going mad with terror and hardship and imprisoned
under torture for many months, without resolving to
111 put an end to each a liability, or to know the reason
t 1111 why. The fir.t thing to be done is to ascertain
whether Lord CLUIENDON could or could not have
obtained release for the engineers of the Cagliari
before this time; and if he could not, then we
must hay* the needed reform by which our trans-
actions with foreign Governments shall not be
entrusted, without check and participation, to a
single minister, who is not bound to explain till
his acts are irreversible.
As to the other foreign relation,—that which in-
, volves our treatment of foreigners in Great Britain,
public attention is at the moment so roused that our
representatives can scarcely need any appeal from
i us. Our case is perfectly clear in our eyes, '
and our minds were made up long ago. There
en be no doubt that the Emperor of the
Flumes tinder...tan& the matter as thoroughly as
1 we do. His published writings show that he does ;
and his own experience, both as a refugee and as a
conspirator against the ruling power in France, must
have hummed it deeply on his mind. If his people
do not understand it, that is nobody's fault but his
1 ' i own ; for we publish our principle and practice to
the whole world ; and his not letting his people
read is the cause of the present mistakes and bad
temper and manners of his courtiers and his army.
This conduct of his is sufficient ground for the most
vigilant care on our part that our principle and
practice be not more or less sacrificed to his pleasure.
1 ' There can be no fear that Parliament will listen to
any proposal to re-enact an Alien Law, or to permit
i ' say restriction whatever on our policy of impartial
i I hospitality ; but we moat be vigilant lest any con-
session, are privately made—any expectations
created that the natural consequences of our
neighbours' despotisms, and the failures of
• their police systems, will be in any way
i modified by sacrifices of a well-considered
policy on oar part. We have Lies foe the
; 4 psniahrizent of the guilty ; and these laws are
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