The National Register.
London, England, 1809-08-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

' bring about innovations in Government. but if any part
of cur 1) stem really stand in need of amelioration or alter-
, %, ley, in the mime ol.cenimon sense, :s it necessary to
excite a paroxisni of democratic phrenzy I—Are the tem-
.•eitatc results of cool reflexion to be expected from the
heated, incoherent elnillitton of leveristi delirium
outrage likely to point out the path of peace 1 Or is ruin
the threshold to happiness ?
The political fanaticism of you and your reforming as-
, sociates demands the dnconditional surrender of our reasons
as the condition of acquiring-sour new iutetiedun.l ifiatita-
tions. With you, Sir, every kied of means, huwever kise•
unprincipled. or vicious, is jas.'.*ied by the en'.'s. Perver-
sion of fact, suppression of truth, subornation of n
wild, factious, and inJecent calumnies, every that
honour revolts at, or religion Ittentk h-ts t;2en emidosed
td mislead the best heads, and SJOIC of tl:e best hearts in
the nation; but, the delusion has ;asset:. swat, aed
, formers will necessarily frid their level as well as othe:s
who exist only by practising upon the folly, or by sacri-
ficing to the prejudices of the people.
But, Sir, there is something extreme:y snspicious in the
new line of politics which has been adopted by these He-
formers. You said up forsooth as the assentor of prero-
: i;ntive. The borough-mongers are injurious to the Weft_
dour, tthe dignity, and even ihe safety (!f* the Crown I!
Time° Danaos et Jona fercnlea ! That the men who pro-
fess to be the friends of the people, whose on'y—yes,
whose only consequence is derived not from the splendour
of their own virtues but from the support which they are
able to extract from the credulous multitude, that such men
should advocate the power of the Crown, would incline us
to watch them with unusual attention, if there were not
other marks by which the objects of this insidious declara-
tion of attachment is pointed osit.—Mr,ConfirrT bean by
advising a petition to the K /so to favour the cause of
Reform with his cot:Wen:wee. Tue illegality of such a
incasur• wan pointed out i this Paper at the time, a,41 we
heard no snore of his scheme.—MAJOß CARTWaIcnT and
ether Reformers, are now projecting a Request, similar in
effect, although differiug in form, and h;s MAJEsT is to be
advised not to issue writs for what are &bombs% te'l cotters
Boroughs. and to direct °the.- writs tOr snore coesiderabfe
places.---What v.-onid these reformers say, if flc, House of
Commons were to direct Writs to be issued fc)i- Manches-
ter and Birmingham, or if the House were to detern.ine
that London shall not send more than two Menai:rs to Par-
liament,rael yet such an exertion of power would not be morb
unconstitutional lbr,r an attempt on the part of his MAJEsTT
to disfranchise Sarum. Bat whatever may have been the
prerogative of the Crown as to conferring. the Parliamentary
franchise, i challenge any lawyer in Westminster-Hall, who
less a rag of a gown to his back, or a sin;te tie to 114 wig,
iv contradict me when I assert that this prerogatire is now
at an end by the PACTA CONVENTA of the Union.
What then are we to think of 111C11 who are so void of
sense, or so destitute of principle, as to intrude upon and
endeavour to controul their Sovereign by adv ice, which if
he follow must necessarily involve a breach of the Consti-
tution, and thereby endanger the loss of his Crown, and
which if he does not follow, places him in the situation of
refusing their reqUest, and thereby risking the loss of that
affection, which is its brightest jewel, and its most valuable
ernament.•

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