The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-03-03 00:00:00

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ivoraissie longer -cositorell Welt
mama toms, Issue Rona l iii wry VI the liistO :k
i dom.-Ps:a where' eitiNglaCtintse. rislorefitkeriolli
--more intelligently haVarilled than in the' leirigdellit of
•Scollasol. ant-ject wa. lately
the capital of his native mime)! by • ireist lentil-.
'carry who will porgies the resew whit* spas Markeil
by the seelyrhleudoor of his political
.I.ural Eri•kme.—(Loud upploose.)-41t a great
public dinner given to that distnigusisheil iserausi,
at Edinburgh, they f I him the saint Erskine—
he would not mix Inc name with the lentil of Lord,.
—(
Load cheers.)—To hie great hourisir. to his (Sir
Francis%) gi eat sat i he V.rsoltine of 1810 wail
the wone high-minded. warm-hearted Etskisie or
1783. It was gratifying to lied the time brilliancy
that marked his ascendancy attending its decline; the
suit of his groins seemed to art with aw gieitot glory
as it originally inte.—( Loud uppfseyitie—The
ti orpch men (dud who have not rhesf Ohs?)
and their disagreements with the peolitii. Wire like
losers' quarrels, both parties were anatioarsOod lager
for an opportunity of reconciliation. The Noble
Loral spoke in a tone honourable lolitintielf, but
nothing could Phew the depressed contlati3Oti of the
people of this country more than thip,'that that
press, said to he free, was absolute! afraid to
give to the public the language Littera on' that
occur/inn by the lint great cuisslittitiosial latkier
in F.tegldiol.—( Load opplaNsv.j—lis'thot-initercli
his Lordship said, that the grieVintea, the in-
tolerable sufferings that the great mites or the
people endure, have produced the slis4atisfaetion
and ofiscomeist which prevails in the country, and
that that discontent, however grail, is hi.nis means
proportismate to the grievances that Isrovoked
This, it 811011)t1 be recollected, web not the
opinion of a youois man; lie was i mast who
hail arrived tit a period of lire which fs:w Men
could have the happiness of attaiiiiiig, yet still
possessing all the faculties and rurrgits usually et-
companying youth. to his experireice and his
• his Lordship says, that the grievances and
the sulferi.,gs under which the people groin ad-
mit bet of one substantial remedy—a substantial
Reform its Parltament.—(Apptamse.)....llis L.llll.
ship told them, in a flow of eloquence peculiarly
his own, iu figurative language as strikitsily beau-
tiful NV it was Vortrtt„ that representation, like the
magnet nature, was Ilse pole or Ihrii kepettiol
attraction. Representatiou was the GAY security
for the oglits of the people. It was not to hiss, •
'smut,' or much importance, whether they were
depri red of those rights at ert.etit ter not. With-.
out repot-Imitation those rights may be taken at sky
time that the u•urpers of their represeistatioin tuiibt
please.— Lord Eiskine lima
that it was but a sli-goisring cant to talk or the re-
sponsibility of Msiosters. When did Ministers
commit any respospoble act ? Tlief Were dimity
not responsible foot what woos done by the Parkas
went. %Vlsom could they he responsible to eite!..pt
the Parli.ourin ? and the l'ai !lament etiiild hardly
be supported to brim,• them to no recontit, when
they only noted acco'roling to their owircosonnesnols.
There was is i.friltnitertill% and .I:lnert/Ye 1:01111/ii.
11111101 i of !wive r•i„ intended to hare VI CUutini
on one moodier. This was what the peel& ewe.
plaisied of. Ile would pass over missor cutivide-
rations—motor its themselves, but major ire cunt-
parbion. He would proceed to consider the mou-
struus attacks on liberty made by the last Parlia-
ment. " Their days were but few in the land"—
(Laughter)—hut in those few bad days they have
done few good deeds. They rxtioguished the im-
memorial right of the people .0 meet to express
their senismelits Oar 10 soother on public grieedliCet
—that immemorial tight of man to commune one
with another, was put flown by Act of Parliament,
except indeed that they might meet in their
parishes; but they 111.44 take especial care what
one shoold *hi-I),r in tar ears of his neiglibdur.—
(App/ouse.)—The tight of on Englishman to
carry mina for his p,oiection. was intended to be
.infeasible lry the Bill of Rights, and by the
Settlement iit the glorious Itsvoisdi ..... as they were
isecu-tonied to call tt ; so far glorious it certaisily
was. as it oriel-test a gforrons though Ulll-
- it did not carry it into esecietilm--sitO
list glories., as it ass the triumph of the religion
and virtue of John Locke over Ilse -despicable
patelites of ;timer—it was glorious, es it was
the Ii oomph of opinion over despotism; but in-
glorious in omitting to carry lido edict and
gore the country the beitilit of a coootitotioo
whivii was ~,eited but tieiri4 enjoyed, but had,
day after slay, lost sninething dr whirr of those
principles to which the Itesithiticies owed all its
merits. The old theories of Swift, Itulintbreke.
Windham, Pope, and other great Men, many of
whom fell off from those principles when they
found it impossible to atlsister them. and when
they discovered that by aolheting to them they
were likely to injure themselves. These doctrines
were held by 'Foirier, es well ai by VVliigs, liar
he hoped animigst honest Men it never would
be a question slit-Orr a goveroineut should he
carried on by corroption or not. tor Ina past he
always thought that those political nick-mimes
should be droopr—slory had no intelligent
—they were obltlrrattJ from the unsids of mess ;
yet, people were firinul to keep will, animosity
thine foolish distiso toms, though there war no
difference in point of reasOn hetsseeii them.
The oody darn-lire now was, whether mess would
supper t a syatetti of corioption, pelpulde as it oas
profligate. openly eeraillitril by the !louse M Cbm-
mons itectf, of whether Ores Mudd aich to see the
House of Commons floe/Ift hum the itiveste, par-
taking of their aympathries„ possino-bl/4 their con-
fidences end its truth. inlet Mot inotlierf,. their
representatives. He entertaitiest nn tirlit ritilj•ct
eadry rauguinr eXpeetaliiiti. lie Ithru'ildion rally
engaged under the Layne,* of IlteroolO. that the
rotation was that difficult and doebtlif. Ile Pow
it sometimes retrugiacte, sometimes iiilidifee Plindfy,
as huporlaiNlll4ll tre Hite was ilwais lit hili inlet, •
• ii,"lo, •Ji *e