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Out' Unto, Consititution anb 31 ainO•

MONDAY, JULY 19, 1819.

chile, and the Bishop of Lincoln, may adjust their
respective duties, interests, mid pretensions, remains
ye'. to be discovered. But it is clear that Govern-
ment has not only succeeded in getting the whole
question into their own hands, but iu making it a
source of considerable patronwe abio. 3t is thus,
and we might run through forty instances more to
prove it, that their places have been purchascal, and
arc now held upon a tenure, on which we sincerely
hope that few besides themselves would consent to
hold them. That they have, by one means or ano-
ther, brought to a dose a ses•don which promised
very tliffert results, •aad retied to their bed of
roses in the full enjoyment of all the honours which
office, :distractedly considered, can bestow, we most
readily concede. They have got 10,0001. a year• for
the Duke of York, they have saddled the people of
England with 5,000,0001. a year of additional tax-
ation, they have done all they attempted towards
placing oft extinguidwr upm the dawning liberties
of America, and closing that interesting quar-
ter of the globe agninst British commerce. After
this view ,four state of legislation it may be asked,
where is the cheering part of•such a picture? It is
this, we have carried some measures decidedly
against the power ;md influence of Ministers; we
have compelled them to adopt many from their op-
ponents, and measures, we w;11 venture to say, of
the very first and vital importance, and we have
escaped some evils. Had Parliament sat a few
weeks longer, we arc not sure but another trial m'
Gagging Bills, Suspension Acts, end Indemnities,
might not have been had recourse to. If Ministers
had been not still sore from the frietully grasp of
the hand of Mr. Oliver, and if Mr. Canning had not
remembered the wretched Ogden, the inectin;s of
Stockport, and Leeds, and otb.:r pleces, might again
have become too treasonable to be left to the sole
care of the British Constitution. Lastly, we have
punished and thrown open a fi'w rotten and corrupt
boroughs. This is but too' step, it will be :;aid, but
whilst it keeps alive the spirit, and renders- even An
imperfect good, .we are not disposed to overlook it,
and we think it may, in untie degree, be useful
towards a more general and exiended ralional
Re-
form.

An official circular, which we -have given in
another part of our journal, contains the regulations
to be observed by those who emigrate front this
country to the new colony of the Cape of Good
Hope. It will be recollected, that 50,0001. were
granted by the House of Commons, on the motion
of the Chanieilor of the Exchequer, for encouraging
emigration. The money graced is to be applied '
exclusively to the benefit of those who will engage
to carry out at least ten able-bodied individuals
above the age of 18, with or without families, tfsa I
Government reserving to them Aves the right of
selection. Each person so engaging is to. deposit
101. for every family r.O taken out ; but the Emily
is not to consist of more than a man, •Itis wife, and
two children, under the age of 14: all children above
that age, and under 18, are to be paid for at the
rate of 51. a head, and 51. for every two children un-
der 11. In consideration of this deposit, a passage
and provisions duti::g the voyage will be provided
by Govetnment. On lauding, one third of the
'advance money will he returned, and 100 acres of
land granted, on a quit rent, not exet•eding 21., 40
.be remitted for ten years, to every such person• or