The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-11 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 18lA.

AMMESS OF NH. PHILLIPS
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF SLIGO,

ON DECLINING THE POLL

lle aseemi, lease*, it is with feelings rather of refi-
tted, *ft of dirappuivilment that I • Wolter/ mysitlf from the
ellenetit spots the present ocratiun. I Iliad tit it we Cannot
Wee ft fair probability assurers', and with every personal re-
spect for your late Members. and with the mom heartfelt af.
faction fur psis. I do not feel mvo-if w•rranteal in potting
Stem to the expense, or rot to the ineouveurence al . Hy
eltoacquesit on a contested election. The state of your Re.
gistry, which I have just received, has compelled me to this
determines ttttt It is ass salloisishing and disgraceful fart, that
seek is the political apathy of pour euuoty, that one-i wentieth
of its fret holders are soul restricted. The wily privilege which
the people are left is the el. entre franchise, and even this it
seems they have not the' spirit to exercise. After this, what
richt has Ir. laud to compliant, if, either tin the Window Tax
gavot' ttttt or r y other question. her R• presentative* will sod
sorris give Ibrinsadiaes the trouble ..f cro, isix the Chasond ! If
you are contented i.l*.a busts ill thus ttttt it is not for
me Its murmur, c.sitish,e• as I am, by my own of re.
glermies myself notividnatly. li. I hear. howl ver, that *mascot'
your ft. w..aliem wharves have taken an offence .4 an raprea.
is lit my Ashd ref, seal as every man alto pion loin., if
hlirslly fill .6 ghouls' b.• able to eiv.. reason for a. she faith
that is no hon." you shall have mine (rely and tarleredy,..-
The Oar:dims was, that if the next Paeliaissetal he like the
leetoor may write he epitaph of 'h.. Ilr•iish Constilot
Irs peat as now, lOW I further slid, that it is impassible things
rail pa psi wairliaatal aria t•aza. all II -inherit ire return to that
House, oi in the r risiiintimi of that House 011 elf. Air tun
aware that of abet is railed sla. ll..use of Colommos, • y_
Iwo Peers ttttt ninate 300. imi 123 Cosimemers nominate Ili?,
and lbw. r •ir have, not "(VW Ilenthets, 4V Reliantly semi-
waled Iry 20b Cis...two- sits. and this they call the Repsesenta.
How of too aeo le! If this rootiosies, is there any star ui
elections—is abet any use iu ik it honing, where liked ma-
jos thee ran shaft be tone, -hid • lesionelkmoricerisog in-
fluence can defeat the otlkr ? Doe 4 an in mammas• a re.
formalities of the Neaten', h. is init., ly ile ttttt meet, se
• visi tttt ary, r, nurse. SO it was io England w ith Fox and
• Wan, and she conaripseisce we, sire lost Ames iris. S.. it
Was minsing.l yout,t-Ivra, w Ili Cr anon noel with Flood, and
IM corker' WI Wl' was, Home who bought yois, Pohl you. We
were hart. red into • Province, suit hail the oilier day an the
Imperial Parliament, lipid' a vatal gisraiimo. a. wenty-five of
your Meinhers left you at the incicy of a poppet majerity,
who not only rivetted your chain, brit Wolk e.l you fair
Clanking it ! Thu is the way in which I wish to inert the
question—nut by empty al clarnetion, but lay stubborn fares
—feels which are now recut deal to our sheltie, upon the
Plant saat of history Look to liar e Inet of the very last.
Parliament, in al I sat ry iiistance the selio of the Mi-
nister, and the justificei ion of the malcontent—conduct
which. I will den ttttt stew, h dune more to disgrace us
abroad and to flollaVt. us at has ne, than more unequivocal,
usiblit.hong ilepottitis erer cosh, have &COOL Look to
that conduct. Afar • proles led war, unparalleled its its
dos stmts. anal utaprovokail irs its origin, (fisting a hieh money
ennugb was spent to purchase, and Mood esi..ugh shed to in-
sulate the Ciiiiiinete —during which we alternately fought
mill subsidised ' fait hli as despot—now libelling Ilse

covey
worthless, nue• latt,liesit the

day in the field rill, tenspoiir ug Aquaria.

bribing the convenient Prussia—mew upon Pulaud's
plunder—now estalilishiug the Spanish Inquisition—now at
Amiens, ark nitwit ding the French Consul—now at iVaterloo,
cheering the blood cry of Legitimacy Attie. Ibis haseaban.
doument of public priuciple—this barbarous gambling aide
the Nation's happiness, we found ours/brew at last, con-
sistent in nothing tint our inconsistencies—seated in the Legi-
lim•le Congress of Vienna, be t• nen the Northern Autocrat
and a Set j. ant of Napoleon ! Was nut this a rare,* natural
cousummati ~,,, will worthy the Gaudin' leagues and bloody
infractions which had diversifir d ibe contest, well worthy the
orphanage and the widowhood which had sha,towed England
with woe, and the frantic expenditure whirls has almost
beggared ber with debt ? This has been the consequence;
and what, do yl.ll remember, was the motive to this
grrwiott? Was it the establishment of human liberty—
was it the advance of human morals—was it tow vindica-
tion of national character—was it evils any high-toned

anil heroic impulse which Rang • factitious clory over
the warrior's progrtnn, and gave the battle homers a vision.
ary jui-tificatiun ? Far from it. It was She most enjualls
liable motive that ever unsheathed the British sword; the
most iniesinstitulioual that ever stained the British antialas
It W 35 3 bore-faced hilerfcrenee with • (oleic,' country is
the choice of it, own Govicitmein ; • &net infraction of Ike
very principle upon shish England founded her glurine•
Itcroluti iiii . It ass a I. tontine &mown'. of she dec..
trines acted on in 168 N, proclaiming James a martyr, Mid
William an itsurticr, and the people no better than rebel.
hum regicides! This war, however, of comae, hail its pre.
Maces. Its First was the French Republic; driven from
this, its next was Peace and R. tributioa. Indemnity and
security was the Premier's war.whoop—and what has bees
our indemnity ? The massacre of our population—the de.
Isom timid tit our character—Hie accumulation of JAN
beyond all spendthrift puce-dent—famine sun our streets, 6611
fiver its oar houses—she ustablisliment in litirope of a mi.
Mary despotiam, which I • the very name of freedom •
snuilery—the payment of war taxes in limo of peseei
scarcely leaving it doubtful slobber the burdens were two
posed to animate! the oar, ar the war commenced to justify
the taxes—the suspension of our Constitution, if we wile
to rt monstiale. This has been our dearly-buts& Wow
Aud chat is our security? An Holy AWN" i.e.
moth ! A league of Bingo, unhallowed and mist
bound by compacts which must nut he known, and=
by liammeta which cannot be resisted! This is our sees.'
city! The breath of Princes, the caprice of an hydra, team
fatigued steer the recent banquet, and only waiting fur its
hungry hoar again to glisten its ungorged rapacity ! Ales,
what tenure have we even of such an alliance ! Is them II
member of that Punic horde who has uot been in torn the
foe of his ally, and the ally of his fire, and do yon raped
they will presciae that faith towards us, which they bane
out been able to p towards one another ! Is thares
man of them who did nol bow to Napoleon, and enedests
title, mill court his itnifederation, and then demesne, him
as an illegitimate usurper! and was there antufig them af-
terwards • coustsleut renegade to deity lbe Nand of (rater-
oily In Bernadotte, raised from the ranks of that arty Ns.
!ninon ! Pettily. this instability of political principle may
hr couuteraried hy a per I attachment. Let Prussia
itumuer it whils she Inoki al Alrxatider, •iid remembers the
pcs lidious abanduumiid of Tokit. Let Sweden onager it,
abets she thiuks os Finland. Let Poland and Saxony ac-
kiiinslittlge it So Prussia. let Genoa 'peak. Let extin-
gotalied Venice proclaim it for Amnia. Let Austria her.
*elf avouch it ter France, and then turn to her immolated
daughter—ins 1111 l land with a worse than Jewish cruelty, nut
to the feud of banks, but to the infers's! Moloch tif Self-
irtereat. I spa ilk not new of that devoted France, bending
over her violated Charter, and wish tears of blood expialiat
the tit delity that pale its folk iis Pi ilit el; but I 'peak of
Enghtsil, of the Kirbitineist of &Ostia, consenting to tins
plittitter, ois the patting's, wisietederiog the resources
of a generous and gallant pmiplts--di amid armies, and
gesimatlons, and for what ? To forourd the Cenci Of the
Coetiuenlal intriguer—to establish the lequitit on, and tor-
lust, mid Fridinssol—fur the Buerlism in !Mace, and the
IS lons iu Spada,and the Bourbon in N•ph •—the 'oaten,
henna ry townie/ of the country, fur the ohs ilete blas-
phemy of D.rine slag np f t m ill tumh, :.• I re-
baptised Lerrtlimitsep-.enr dot naturalism of those san-
guinary (minis upon humus ficedorn, aga:n.it n It ch our
i,avira arose, snit our minims fought, and our 'Revolu-
tion thundered!—llltaili 8 of Lucke and of Milton, were
these your doetritaa! D'ood of the Russells act! the

Humpslens, ha. this heen your legacy! People of Coxland,
is it for thi. that your Orphan and yissir %colon 115.,11111 111
silent ressozwil —that run- industry asirresiders its hardly.
enrurd ii.1141:C.,-411111 your pitor.lsouses are choked a ith.
a famishing population! Let those stun answer it, alas,
in the name of Parlisonent, ratified the Treaties, voted the
Slipplies, :Wean( ed the tinhairlies. and fell/lewd the Minister,
just retking from that hopeful Cotigriss, wheae I.egtttnrrr.
ifnit,k with loom ol 18'.80d, Ulu t.. 00 81 11510 the bc.ile
'meow which the hbr►tira of a world were balanced
Wave joss tons-hrd ibeir c•rnduct a% to oar furriin rela-
tions. Ilse it hero ronspensatesl by their domestic
A. far as Ito Owns Iny, they hue sot foully annihilated the
British Consist at olsost pared the way for a inutility des.
pot ism. They Irveiled, usse he one, every barrier whit+ Ow
wisdom of ages raised around the Itherties of the people.
They ranspensled the Halwaa Corpus Act. Father. of (Anti-
lles were draeleol from their homes, loaded with isn't.. ,ssals•
jecled to disease. stamped with ignominy, their heirless chil.
&ell turned adrift w heell'ary and prostelution ; and then, as
they had hewn iinpri,osurd without crime, SO Were they re.
leaned without eve•. the decency of accusuli 111 l . They then
passed the istfam.os ll;neeite Act —wild's- Itlettiltrl were for.
I,o4n—the power of diacsossiton was withheld—the right
of petition was in fact annihilated. It was a natural cosi....
Trent r of the former ',sensor, ; when 'Loewe is no ex-
coalition (rum punishment, ihr privilege of complaint is a
mockery. They then cittitenailrell Lord Siolmmith's Cir. i
ruler. A Msgixtrary, perhaps ignorant, perhaps corrupt,
perhaps both, we, at least, cast fancy ouch a Magisirsey, were
inv. bled with an aril teary construction of the Libel Act,
upon which our most learned lawyrra lia‘v diffeied in oopi-
. They then 'sanctioned the oppressive Alien Act, which
flung bark into the jsw. of death the patriot victims of des-
potic power, nod wu•aled from Cogland her imprescriptible
privilege 44 giving iefdge to sirtitoous destitution. They
Own wonted the r• te's! of the Septennial Act, an Act which
they were urv.r defile Ord the power to pas., and stpstu the
principle of which they might as *ell make the Represent s-
tint' ati heirloom in their families. 1 will mot fin thee reca-
pitulate their ronoloci ; hit 1 will remind you, that the situ-
ation of the captive under these :fleaworts was solitary im-
pels° 1111 l eut. Against all I.Bw or precedent, even Alegi,-
trates were (m1)1.181.48 to visit them ;
Mr I ledrit, the subject of merriment, has survived only to
protracted agony. 1 piss from 11w subject—it is tun painful
to dwell Minn. %float was the pretence for this temporary
despotism ?—A plot !—a ;Out, hatched by two apothecaries
and a hone cobbler. 'Me 'Tower was In be stormed, and the
Bank ptund.•rrd; and London garrisoned by a buckram
army, whose treasury wss a cypher—whose camp equipage
was a Irlsolirt—whose ammunition chest was aft old stock-

ins—and whose pack of artillery consisted of the mortar
which molt rebelliously outlived the wreck of the apothems.
ries! Those people were arraigned tipms she evidence of a
villain, all leprous with crimes, whum the event proved to
be she only convict. A wretch who, • hen he saw the pre-
dealined victim, nod looked at the Kai Priest, fills the
mind iif Ireland will, terrific recullectiJum, recalling in%troc-
tivelv that reign of blood when we to., ha l our Castle and
ossrOlicci=ishen the hrilierl and perjured cannibal went

forth inducing the crime that lie might betray the criminal
—when neither youth, nor age, nor sex. nor innocence, could
conciliate or ay.•rt thiae miners of human blond—those
vampires of 11w grave—those monsters without a name, he.
fore whose path she freshness of humanity withered—in
whose accurst:l minds corueireire was only a commercial
instrument, and friendship treaclici y, null instil ud, murder
—wbu turned this land into one scene of he'll. in which the
pangs and the convulsion of the suffercr only stimulated
the ferneiutta exultation of their dorm ~tors—who crept into
the filially of the neural.' and she droireid, courting the board,
and pledging the run, and fondling the infant,rcrn nt the
very moment when they were wnylayieg the unguarded con-
fidence of i.el parent, to devote ltim t•o the acatfuld, and he
rise upon him his tomb! 1 atis allock••d to tulk, did the late
Parliament shield the employment of Ile.•e firneions and
eomm.rcial cannibals? If they did not, irlont was the mean-
ingot she Indemnity Hill? %What difference I. there between
the perpetrator of a deril stud the 3lgnit.t. r whim instigates it,
■nd she Parliament who protects it ? I ran see cone. I see
them I hnitird together in one community of indiction;
anti wiltribtr I touch the higheAt or the iiwert link, the ih•rll
of horror is the same in its euromniticatiiin.

Gentlemen, I ray again. if those things continue. we
may bid farewell fur ever 10 uur lilierlii Of what use are
all our visionary safetuards—of what use is the responsibi-
lity of Ministers, if it is so devoid limo, the will of a Par-
liament, whose majority is the ire:llB4re of those Ministers ?
What avails our au celebrated Laws, if they are 111 be thus
capriciously suspended? That is our Constitution, with
its theoretic blessings, but a praelical awl splendid mockery,
if its noblest ornaments are to he effaced at will, slid its
strength turned into an engine of oppression ? Oh t it is
worse than fatuity in us to drecire ourselves. Tower
Su which we trumed, turns out at last to be but a goodly
vision ; fair, indeed, lit the eye, but as false as it is (air,
falling to pieces at the wand of the Minister, when the for-
lorn people 111111111111111 it fir
Sorb, Gentlemen, are my reasons tor the assertion I hare
made—their inference may he, perhaps, doubted by many,
who rim niter me any thine, eve's prubl, niatucal, in the
basest conduct of " Powers that be"—their existence,
however, at least, is undeniable.

In taking nit leave of you, fm the present, In me express
my gratitude to the p pt, manly, sod friends,
•ho Po milependenilt proferreil me, not only Iheir interest,
but their plisses, aml particularty to the prufassiunal friends,
Mho, in addition, volume, red ilwr services.
The period is sppro'iching when nil may he necessary ; in
the mean time, let every independent man in the twenty
register his freehold, and await with emindence the boar u
his liberation.

1 am, Gentlemen, with gratitude and respec►,
Yuur F.4l..w.counhyntan.
Dublin, Jute 21, Me. CHARLES PHILLIPS.