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opinions or conaurt, confine myself to defending my own.
1 have only discharged an ordinary, everyday duty of a
Member of Pit!lament, neither more nor less, and ant
neither entitled to praise front tiny, nor blame from any.
lf, however, following your example, 1 might offer an
opinion generally—au opinion not unsauctioned by the
greatest Sta.esmen—the giving vent to the generous senti-
ments of Englishmen is not only productive of that spirit,
so necessary to onr intlitentleoce, and so honourable to one
character; but it Is also a safeguard against any intemperate
degree of it, whirl,, by ht ing smothered, would engender
far wnrae consequences. Burke beautifully and emphati-
cally terms such mean% for the ebullition of public senti-
ment, " the safety valves of the Constitution. Nur am I
convinced that England would be as she is slow, or have
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preserved her iiidepesidence with her comparatively inade.
finale wiintat means, if the people had not individually felt
their own consequence in the Stale, instead of lying down
inert and spiritless, under the enslaving and degrading doe.
bine, ih4t the twtiplr had nothing to do wills the laws bat
to obey them) amid nothing to du with the taxes but to pay
them.
Nor can I completely concur is that political optimism,
that all is at all times quite tight, so that those who think

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nth, evrioe Hie something too bad to herd with. Mr.
e.sirke, all 14111110MV, I 'rote again, as one probably nut
miaccepiable to you, was no such optimist, but a zea-
lous Reformer, and passed the better part of his life in
attempt' to " bruise," an be called it, " the hoary head
of inveterate abuse." There was a time when the d
authors of our reformed Religion might have been can-
al Jacobins and Radical., had those terms been at
Ibat time in (Babson. Unfortunately the Reformers of that
I day bail to meet with more than calumny, and the faggot
and t.:c writhe were too often visited on them, by ilsope
who, at the time, miaumeil to themselves the exclusive title
of " faithful sirvatits to their Grid and their King," and
conseemeioly to " the Church and Slate."
I ant afraid, whenever Members of Parliament become the
slavish took of power—whenever they cease to hold cou-
nt
%ittll aII h the pc.iple, mid feel no interest in public liberty,
that alum you diva.' will really take place, namely, the
ilownf•Il of ;hr gr. nines% tat our country; but, on the other
hind, If the Repre•enuat;ves of the people retired t and Or-
rei ve the sacra d pi iiiriples of the Coomitution—if they keep
• vigilant eye MI the public expenditure, mid maintain •
constitutional jealousy of power—if they control extrava-
gance—promise economy—End k•ep down taxation, the
confidence of the iWilpht no their Ruler. will then place our
envied luslitlastruis on a rock, n here they will long survive
the ..tor mi. and ahok. which corrupt and arbitrary Govern-
ment. in liAtrally
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Once mute I big leave to repeat, I do not fed on this oc-
casion, or sin any other •inrr I have bad the honour of being
knows, to the Oniony of !berms, that I have dune any thing
In fall deservedly mob r the lash of your letter. I have
never obtruded my public ignitions aoy where out of the
circle of the moat private society ; and I have 'weir attended
any public meeting, or presumed to meddle or interfere with
the coolie of opinions and events within the limits from
which you so emphatically exclude me.
la fine, " light of Truth iv roily to be produced by
the collisiiin of opinion ;" difference of ()Mottos is no proof
of error, unless one of the parties is fufdlible. I hope,
therefore, though there may be shsdes of difference in
our views on political points, that neither of us will
lake more cred❑ to himself than the other for rood intro-
limps, and a sound attachment to liar true minciples of Ike
Consto ; and as in social life, there is auditog so ilia-
mgr. ruble as a in in who always agrees with one; so, I hope,
who ti I have the honour to meet you again, you will forgive
no!, or rather think me pleasanter, if I occasionally dissent
from you. Willi that respect and sincerity, with which I
•hall always be happy and prond to subscribe myself,
My dear Sjr,
Your most obedient, fa;thlid, !nonlife Servant,
WILLIAM A. MA DOCKS.
Treguister, October 27, 1820.

ANSWERS TO
ADDRESSES TO DER MAJESTY.

tier Majesty's gracious Answer to the Address of
the Law Clerl•s of the Metropolis :

I rettmt my wife ignetl thanks to the Ch.' ks in the pro-
fro‘i 0000 of the CAW, residing im the Meiropolis, for this loyal
and affect:mode Address.

The better she laws of Ibis country are understood, the
more clearly must it be perceived, that, in the measure
which is still pending in the Howse of Lord., they have
been II igrantly violated, in order to deprive nap of my ma-
trinmial rights, anal any constitutional title and dignity.
Laws arc mode to he observed; and, in • limited mo-
narchy, the obwavance of the law is as obligati's,' on the
Mouse eh as on the must bumble of his subjects.
Where obedience is required the law knows so partiali-
ties; it makes no distinction between high and low—between
rich and poor; all are slake in the eve of the law.
That equality, which can never he realised in the circum-
stances of life, is 114) a himerical suppa ss itt wills req. Cl IO
tbat submission to the laws, which Is binding WI every mem-
ber or the State.

If uny individual were to go Into a Court, and as a preli-
minary to the prusteuti of his suit, desire that all the
laws winch make against his cause shutil.l be in aside, we
should deem his insolence an approsiniatiun to insanity.
But yet, my advers.ities have nut only made this demand,
but, strange to tell, it has been admitted io Ibe Cuurt iu
wli.els it has been made: ! !

Her Majesty's graeions Answer to the Address
from the Alale and Female Inhaliiquits of the
Town of lkortsionoth and the Is!mid of Portveu:—
I have much gratification in receiving this loyal and Wee-
titillate Address from the Male and Female Inhabitants of
the Town of Portsmouth and the Island of Portses.
The ma. itime prosperity of Britain has tilers'"' been dear
to my re art. I have exulted iis reading the triumphs of this
great naval country upon the ocean. I have deeply sympa-
Stilted with that pride which Britons feel when they talk of
a Jervis, a N. hoist, or a Ditnrati.
My fondness for maritime affairs, and my predilection
for the h00e.4 virtues of the sons of the ocean, have Induced
me, at a former period of my life, to tweed tip many young
men for the naval service. I am convinced that Britain
final decline in the scale of national greatness, in propor-
tion as she pass her Hawn' pre-eminenre. Rut the people
of England ought never to forget that the power of the
navy is greatly dependant on the prosperity of IL i-
fish cotnmerce; and that this comm. rce itself is intimately
connected with the interests of libeity. Commeice will nut
long rennin in that country front which liberty has vanish-
ed. A 11/1111111 of daces eau 'lever be great either in com-
a:scree or in arty. lit proportion an Britain loses her liberty,
her commerce will ,reline; her naval strength. will be
diumiiilied; and her former gloty will breetnte gradually
extinct.

nee Majesty's Answer to the Address horn the
Inlsolotiattp of the l'isrash of S:. Marv, f•htigtnu :
My cordial thanks are due to the Inhabitunta of the ra.
viol' of SI. Nary, Islington, fur this luyal and affectionate
Address.

If my ad lea bad felt any retard fora free Government,
they would urver have set aside all the forme of the
notion,Consii-
and trampled on all the rights of noliviao.d.., fur
the purpose of giatifying the purposes of power or ti ii is-
tering to the moptilte of t ravine.
My ...modes hive now done their worst, and we are at li-
locriy to commutate the case they have attempted to este-
bliele, and the effect they have produced. Never was there
so much assertion and so little proof—vetch nu accumula-
tion of criminating temal kg, and such a variety of even
specious evidence! If we take sway from this n ttttt main of
accusation all the circumstance. that have beets nusrepre.
sewed, all the minutia. that have been ecoggerated, what
do we leave it but all inflated mass of the most palpable
falsehoods and giarits mimics that ewer were heaped loge.
Thee by power, instigated by unmitigated malignity, and
assisted by unbounded ?
In the midst of the many painful cireuntantes connected
wills this unparalleled proceeding, there is one on which I
may roogratedste the mummy : it has produced a degree of
excite/nem throughout she cuntsausity of the meat virtuous
food thotobliag kiod it loss called forth the joust interims