The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-29 00:00:00

MONDAY, JUNE M 1818.

e becomes a duty. At this moment, the pees.
pie of England are exhibitini„; a glorious esamplc of
struggling independatece to the woilil, and we trust
they will transmit to their posterity, that spirit, cud
that feeling, which are directly in opposition
to the atrocities of an imbeeile and ruinous adminis-
trat on. In every part of the country, the friiliels of
liberty and independence are gaiiiiiig the most sig-
nal victories, and even in those very places where
government influence should be supposed of most
effectual and easiest exertion, they bare been trium-
phantly defeated.
It is quite cheering to behold the feeling which, is
now operating through the country. Petty squabbles
and little personal birkeritias ore no longer found
actuating the great body of electors ; and if any ear.
fare do exist, it is only between the liev?re of liberty
as such, and the retainers or tools of thetiiivernment,
who are compelled to vote for the Court candidates.
No man's private hearth is disturbed on this occasion,
and the whole contest • seems to turn upon the
feeling which oppressive measures have engendered
against the presei.t order of things.
A genuine love for the constitution is every where
exhibited ; and where any tnobocracy has lifted its head,
it has been as instantaneously put down. If any evidence
were necessary to prove the truth of this assertion, we
need only t. i;:csk to the situation in which orator Meal
stands us a candidate for Miestminger Ile is despised
by every man of common sense ; he is even become the
idiot's jest—the laughing stock of the lowest of the
rabble. It was male an argument against Reform,
that Hunt could lead the working and labouring classes
of the people, as he pleased, but every day's experience
proves the falsehood of the charge. Retimin we will
have, if the people continuo to exert themselves as they
have done. Wu cannot radiae mu Ai, without sacri-
ficing something—and rather than look for aiinual
parliaments or universal suffrage, in all that extensive
latitude, which some persons seek for, let us be sa-
tisfied if we obtain triennial parliaments, and a
vote for all householders and copyhold tenants. It
only requiisil to see the conduct attic persons opposite
the hustings at Covent-Garden during the frst days
of the election, to satisfy every reasoning mind, of the
impropriety of giving cec..y man, witLcut discrimina-
tion, the right of exercising the elective franchise. 11
it were given so generally, it wiaild soon become
matter of traffic amongst the poor, and would only be
purchased by the rich, in order to sceure to them a
greater interest under the Goverament for the expendi-
ture of their capital.

1: we could once eff,ct snine alteration in the law; of
printogenitare ; if we eniild huve a sort of gavel-kind
law, or an equal distribution of property of the nobles
and other estated persons between their children, once
out into active and wholesome operation, we slo soon
find that disposition wliich has so long existed, of sup-
porting Ministers, very s:•eedi)y wasted, lessened, or
; and Ift.corin with every other blessing soon
tQ.AJW in its train.

As long, however, as a Peer or untitled cstated man,
with a large family, is allowed to leave his property
in land to one of his children, to the exclusion
of all the rest ; we shall have the others
looking _tiny plums in the army, the navy and the
church—The elder brother will suprit the Govern-
ment wis•iprt:-.-ides L.: !lisyoungcr hr,then.—henee,from
rct:ltiplieution of these instances day after
day—Goverianents, however b•ise and iniquitous, are
••s
-elorted. The mechanic anti the labourer have
a tlitTerent intt.rest in their families, and naturally ob-
ject to that taxation which falls upon them, for the
rurposeofsupporting those who, but for the law of
primogeniture, should elsewhere have had support.
i Lis as the g:a:.3 secret of Ministerial patronage on