The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-10-28 00:00:00

By enstbmisists a more tomiderable mass of citizens
to participate in their honourable functions, the
obligatiorse they impose become less arduous to dis-
charge. The Electors designated by ballot to form
• Jury will be more numerous slum under tare pre-
sent state of things, and, in consequence, the right
of challenge will be more retentive, which is an
• . arrangement entirely in favour of the accused.
it isreleo confidently said. that the Ministry is
occupied lit digesting • general law on the press.
, •We ore ignonint whether Juries will be summoned
to take envie owe of offences of this nature; hot
we may venture to believe the affirmative. from the
4111, consideration that since the celebrated Ordinance
of the Sth of September, the Government has un-
ceasingly !showed to give us institutions which
••• Might be is Unison with the Charter. It has pro.
,;.seethed with mulish sod pradeoce, but it has never
ma one retrograde step.
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...,Let us then hope, that, foil of confidence in the
, Idriotimu and talents of the Electors. the Govern-
ment will he the 144 to !impose to the Chamber to
confide to them the important duty of deciding upon
s-fteiaces of the ;teem Who can imisprese that c:li-
-2eus invested with the right of thawing the Depu-
ties of Frame. the defenders of private and public,
Lowest., and the orgies of the national opinion, do
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not possess aulicien&discersiment to decide whether
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Affrallii; lons bee, dangefoui they who every day
Amisie 1111/11, the liberty, she hotsour, sod the lives
oestbilffthoi-ottiaeus
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ON int stsemitvc SITUATION OF THE GO.
• TERNMENT AND PARTIES OF FRANCE.
(Frost s. lePitipliebton
,The public mind of Frame has been. during
three years. divided between three principles of
action. A pure arid simple attachment to the
Goverinneut—an attachment free
all party spirit, has uoitrd au immense ma-
titity of Frenclimeii. These hare trusted to
time, and, above all, to the wisdom of the So.
',reign who gave them the Charter, amnions to
metier it co-ordinate with our habits and institu-
tions, to 'inundate it to our manners, and to ac-
commodate it to all our customs. In the mean
. Time there exists a certain number of men. among
whom the love of the Chorter,.joiind with on
guiovil regret for ell order of things to which France
owes her latest alrost cruel disasters, has created
character silence sod discontent ; whop
making no account of times and circumstances.
*Stet to believe that the Goveruinent executer this
Charter with regret, and refuses to let the notion
snjoy its greatest advantage.. For this set of men,
the most valuable part of the Charter must lie that
which would teed most to the estuldaslatneut of a
Lower more eminently popular, in which they
might look to find a consolation for their regret. a
more certain guarantee fur their interests. and,
, perk ipi, a motive for better-founded hopes of the
somas of their personal pursuits.
This petty, which remained silent in 1815, beer
*Atilt these two years, assumed a confidence found-
ed on Me just protection effordeal by the laws to all
peysourt, and it is the party which, perhaps. causes
itself now to be heard with more perseverance mid
ardour in the numerous writings which the rem
• doily produces.
In ISIS there elided another party. composed of
a certain number of men who then prided them-
• selves its the purest Royalism. From their victim* '
• end language, it might be imagined that the Charts!
mirrored to them a creation to which inure reaped
was to be paid in words than in realities; thut i 4
was a concession made to the misfortosie of thsk
times and to the 'Willowy of the public mind--s
concession which it was necessary to support. Is
which it was proper to accommodate theinselveq,
still hoping. end 14bourisig to produce a bruit
order of things. This mode of thinkiug has .
hies so discredited by events and discounts..
trancia by public opinioni that it has bees
renourreed. But in its defeat it has given birth'
to a new firm of opposition. A great respect
for tha Charter must lss professed even by them
who were most opposed to it •
But at the same time faithful to their principles,
these new fries& of the Charter sea either in
the Charter, or in the laws derived from it. to giro
—• the prevalence to those applications most consonant
to their own toting idea.. In a word. Aristocracy ,
has swanned among them the irlace of pure
Royalism.
This change is set without an advantage. It
has placed the Government in a better situation, by
enabling it to combat all its ebennes under their
true names, end mailer colours by which they can
slw,r)s be known. Trios the Royal Goverisment
can iso longer be reproached with being constantly
opposrd to the RoyAlasts par eieellence, truce theft
Royalists are in reality nothing more than the taiga
zealots of an exclusive Aristocracy
It is with institutions as with meta; the one caw
tin more continue in a coniplete nod alnolute stage
nation than the other. The greatest urt ut thosa
who are called to s otoluct fist affairs au State, pre.
serririg the institution.. consists, perhaps, in ob..
serving this natural tendency, which, is lite...int; on
very thing a movement wisely progressive. is also
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the principle of an action always vitifying and pre.
e.ervittory ; and in diatinguidiing it horn artiliviid
:ind disorderly tendencies, of whir la lie result would
lie to give the political machine a false movement.
and perhaps bring ou its ruin trod rl:Mritction, lay,