The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1819.

sensible fact that no wan can deny; and very few
are prepared to assert that all that could be, has
been, done to relieve it. No man can look back to
the means by which, and the ol6octs for which, the
accumuletion of debt that is now pleaded as the
apology for our barthens has taken place, without
sighing over the fortunes of his country—and ex-
clai►ning with the Poet

" Itter ripprnt rin nobis
" Et didi p-tuisoc, rt emu imitvene refelli.

No man, again, cast.say that these evils would not,
most pnibably, have been prevented if the House of
Commons had more fairly and fully represented the
sentiments of the ulsole People of England.—At
all events no stein can sleny that the theory and
practicoof the Constitution are in this poissegmssly
at variance with each other. Again, in asking as
these people do far a more fair and equal Represen-
tation than exists at present. even Mr. Calming
cannot deny that they are asking but for that which
his own great master once proposed to give them.
lassuntd then of directing all their thoughts and con-
trivances to find out smnesnetbed of extinguishing
this spirit of truth as welkae error, would it not be
better,• would it not be more worthy both of honest
meat and wise Politicians, if all reasonable grounds
of murmur were first carefully considered, and an
honest endeavour made to remove t4.em. Their
follies and absurdities would then find no advocates,
and even Hunt himself would mourn or declaim in
solitude. His Majesty's Ministers might have been
long ago convinced how ineffectual are their own
miserable positions. To tell them of "an igno-
rant impatience of Taxation," will not do ; to disre-
gard their cries and their sufferings will not do ; to
invite them to quit the land of their fathers will
not do ; to suspend at once their liberties and to
scatter them in distant dungeons will not do ;
chains and fetters are alike ineffectual, and we
would•earnestly implore that they may not again be
tried. The organization is, we really believe, firm,
solid, and extensive, but it has hitherto observed
a quiet and decorum which defies the interference
of those who might perhaps wish fir more tangible
materials to work upon. They are bodies of strong
and resolute Petitioners, but they are not Rioters,
and Petition is the right, the inalienable right of
Englishmen. We would beg again and again that"
no means may be used, that no rash and ill-advised
councils may be adopted, which may render these,
men desperate, mid make them as 11°r:dims void to
the tyrannical I)ecernvirate of Rome, " Esteem
their rulFerings as greater than their feen."--
The Country will not sutler itself to be again
pieced at the arbitrary dispose.' of the :servants of the
Crown, they will natiwain suffer their.l.iberties to
be suspended wieliout remembering that a crisis
may occur in which submission becomes treasonable
and resistance ade ty. The Constitution of England
was not made for fair weather only ; it has strength
and energy enough •to struggle with a storm, and
our .Laws .are both better and safer pilots than any
Mia:sterial-Oligarchy, be they who they may. The
spirit of our people is awakening indeed to abuses
and corruptions, and the march of this spirit is not
to be resisted. Those übuses and corruptions must be
v.ione awar, and the vessel will then puss on with
her wunted course. The }smile of linglaitd hive
and revere their Laws and know hew to respect
those authorities shtick are their appointed guar-
diens, but their fie a is full, set against oppression
and wrong, mid it highly coa:Lres (.er
know wed Lee this truth.