The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-03 00:00:00

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IBEIt 3, 1819.

SUNDAY,

OCTO.
ley's monument, or to decorate the front of their New
Bailey. And. yet, gracious God, these are the men
whose conduct has been already honoured by the
thanks and approval of the Prince Regent and his
Ministers, and which a party of Ministerial hire-
lings are now endeavouring to convince us ought
not to be prejudged. 'tea, these very men arc to ge
forth to the public and to their trial, if the power of
corruption should prove inadequate to screen them,
with every testimony which the highest authority
in the land can bear to their cause, and yet all dis-
cussion of it by others, and every animadversion
upon it by the frientlsofNual law, of humanity, and
of justice, is to be held up as an unheard of act of
iniquity and unfairness towards those who arc yet
amenable to the tribunals of our Laws. We do not
say that the example of the Regent and his Minis-
ters is one that ought to be followed, but yet even
on the score of impartiality between the accusers
and the accused it is but right and proper that if
one side interfere to defend, the other should
endeavour to promote the ends of justice and .fair
investigation. But these attempts arc exactly
of a piece with the cause they are meant•to serve.
There is indeed something so excessively mean and
cowardly in this whole process, to which the gentle-
men above alluded to have bad recourse, for regis-
tering their approval of the Manchester proceedings,
and their entire confidence in his Majesty's Ministers,
that we cannot help 4eeling astonished that any
honourable man, whatever might be his sentiments,
should be induced to connect himself with it. The
only semblance we can find to such a measure is
that of a Dunghill Cori:, who,when fairly challenged
to an open trial of strength and courage, prudently
turns his tail upon his antagonist and declines the
conflict, but no sooner finds him gone, than he
mounts what he seems to enjoy as if' it were really
the theatre of his glory, flaps his wings, and cries
coact doodle du, with all the air and satisfaction of
the proudest conqueror. This semblance, however,
is but a very imperfect one, inasmuch as it is further
a proceeding highly dishonouraole to the movers and
leaders of it, from the wide field it opens to that
unfair trickery and imposition which we know to
have beets practised for procuring signatures. If
you ask three finirths of those, for instance, whose
names have been affixed to such documents now
soliciting and begging encouragement, the answers
returned will be but one of these two, " Lord Sir, I
signed it against Hunt and mobs," or " Lord Sir, I
know nothing about such things, bat Mr. such a
one desired me to write my name, and I thought it
could do no harm." Public meetings fin. the con-
sideration of public grievances are the old, the
natural, and the genuine usages of the cunstitution.
They are proper because they give an opportunity
to the unintiirmed of being enlightened, because
whatever may be the question of enquiry it is
openly submitted to the bar of public opinion,
because undue influence can then have nu place, and
because what an Englishman had in former times
always loved and called, it presents a e!car stage
and no Avow. An after declaration may therefore
be suited to a bad cause, but it is, from its very dark
and unmanly character alone, disgraceful to a good
one. It is a sort ofgame fit only fim fowls, knaves,
and cowards, but in which honour and true courage
should disdain to be concerned.

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