The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-27 00:00:00

No. 1,222.—V0L. XIII.]

OW THE APPROACHING ELECTION.
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To Mote Freeholders who are of opini,n that Na-
tional ',Merl!, has law Connexion with the Conduct
of their Representatives.
ENTLEMEN
VOU ore about to be called upon to exercise
your ehmtlVe bauchise, /uric right of practienity silvbrivig
the Crow's. and giviitg your opiiiimis, so far as the present
imperfect state of represoutation wilt admit, to the executive
.government, toad take a part by the very choice of your
Representatives in the Government itself.
If you wish, at the conclusion or use reign, and at the
commeacement of:mother, to slit•tv that you approve of the
snanner in which peak a-Waits have been conducted, and
dile • luct of tlitee who are supporters of that system
of Ad • tratioo which has placed the country it, its pre-
cent conditMn, con will senora:ly wish to return ?de 1.-
bets who net itt Patlittment correspotirliiittly.
If you think, on the other hand, that experience has
*hewn the op p moots of this system to be rittlit, then you
will feel it your cowcientious duty to temp men nha
shall no longer soiree the Cl.lo‘lll or Parlia mei us im;r4ine
that this syst•an has even the tatit sanction oldie People.
If the country an wryer in I.enerid think. that the con.loct
of koalas Govertiment has little or 110 1111111CIWC moon tile
happiness or tiii,ery of itations, and that Gott, ir la, liar
entiutted us both in our public and private capacities with
•the means of correcting our lives and coilduct, nail amend-
ing our situation Ime, will view-the discharAc of our duty
to our COlllll ry auto ntrselves, and our manner of using those
-talents etitrusted to us, as a matter of itidi:recence. then you
Mill undoubtedly let agriculture, trade and politics rest (to
• :it • 'Aerial phrase) in their present '• state of repose."
Geotlenien ! If, takiii4 a cosily tied view of the past for
many, many years, you think that from the beginning of the
American; Mar to the end of the late I. tench Witr, there
appear. nothing but * desire to preserve the fair prineiplea
;Asocial order—nothing hut n disposit• on the letrt of
Goverions to make every candid and kind clolleeSlillll to the
peoplftoversied, w hich may be eusith,tent w ith the mfety
,Xthiblic order; If in the e‘treme severitit•s which the poor
A met kim psi:otters self •red in traversing the Atlantic as
capdves.„ daring that naruggle, %kind' at tiritt was as. flume
lOW a civil earnest to maintain the ptiociple that they-who
pay taxes to u free thivoci 111 l cut have a right to share in- the
itepreseeitative Body disposing of those taxes—if in those
Acerbities which limit* lien. Waslsiugton deem it timers:try
(if they should be continued) to threaten retaliation. you
.recollect nothing but justsce administeced in mercy—if,' to
controvert the right 114 aviation being conuetted with she
sight of Representation. it was just that the Athantic should
tie dyed a ith blood, nod" patriee eatidas iv viscera rectere
sires!" If, with regard to Fronce,the final courlusion .of
.the french War bra proved that .tile only object of the
.1-Mlllsis Administration has keen to secure good Government
and social order; nod that there could have been no way
-short ofsbedding those torrents of blood which bate beet,
• shed, arid,pouring uut our treasures like outer, and sad-
dling our children and our ebildreu's children with burthens
such as those which stow fall upon the shoulders of .industry I
Miaow the conference at Piluitz, or the treaty of Pavia,
to the Iloly Alliance at Aix la Chapelle, no disposition has
been manifested simply to cootroul and restrict all possible
.ellosts of the people,moder all pos:ible extremes of circum-
stance; if the resoluteopposition which Mid beeresnade to
all /economical Reform, or ail constitutional araelioratitan
stud provision in farmer of the people, to all accommodatiou
to time, circumstance end progressive opinion, be right ? If
in the cordlict with frame the complaint of the ..Etulians
in history be ant justly applicable, a Ito, speaking of Flanti-
Dinw with resuril to Philip (the son of Antiginius,) said,
that he" had removed the fetters from their Ire to place
the yoke upon their necks"—lf the blood which was spilt
at Waterloo has been shed 10 coefirin the arbitrary
disposal of (bona, Saxony, and ?ergs, and other free Stile,,
014 personal property. or to check the progress of free
tiovernment is Europe by the WC which leas heeu made of
that victory—if our promise to leave France, with the
exception of Napoleon, (expressed 111 a carefully was) tied'
additional artieleof the hearty of the 251 h of March, 1t115,)
the choice of her own Government—if this promise has been
kept! If the Bourbons were restored by the face choice of
the people. without the aid of foreign force; if the Hour-
bona dale theirreign, not upon the principle of indefeasible
right, during the niaeleen y ears of their exile, but from the
day of their restful& by a free people--if the National
Representatives were not excluded, after the second abdi•
cation of Napoleon, from the chamber where they meet ;
ifs(althonghl have lesrut vu the spot where it happened that
titir force wits used,) they were not excluded by foreign
regiments of Soldiers, by order of chaise Allied Powers a tio
t nen ruled France—if in the stern popular spirit displayed
in that amenably which met during Napoleon's last reign,
toere was no security against the ambition of that Napoleon
us a despotic master, although this amembly ',closed to
accept a meanige from him through his Lnrd Chamberlain
no jealousy of that popular spirit interfered with our
politics, no jealousy of a man raised by France UllOll a
dynasty which bad (irrecoverably be unwed I) lost the con-
fidence and election of France! no fear, lest resistance
to oppressions, in extreme cases, might in other parts of
Litiope be encoumged I ma wish to restore what Lord
Castlereagh terns.. the not lent social system,' uutataght by
experience, mid uniusti tieted by adversity--
If to reward the valour, patience. constancy,
ntlec-
and loyalty displayed in this tremendous c—llart, our
responsible rulers have not suspended the Constitution. and
cramped the efforts of is hat remains %%lodestone therria,
but h aye enlarged the limits of freed , lent a a ilittg car
mid a generous rt lief to the diWesties of their country, said
nut franduently misrepresented the l'llo4lllllllo of the
livauric
and public prosperity; if they have placed a deserved con-