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London, England, 1812-08-09 00:00:00

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TIONAL - REGISTER
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ED AT NO. 357, STRAND, CORNER OF EXETER 'CHANGE.
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fISITION. ; our al-lairs, human interests and human feedings must prevail;
I aod it is nvidness to expcet those blessings from mortal ar- A
TAX UPON' CAPITAL. 1 tlnt;emcnts which Immortals only could he! tow. itg
I We can only hope' a benrficial result from those projects i,,IP
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' religion, leas sustained of Reform which are founded, not upon Utopian d• earns, 11
'ientis, than it has ever but upon the basis of human nature. These, as they 'ti
of its.avowed enemies. 11'.
I alone are practicable, are alone those which we would en-
usiasts, know uot how to coorage. \!'c would withto see a specific remedy applied L
and, from their conduct, I to a specific evil, but we would anxiously guard against that 4.
'y to be violent, :n order i innovating. seirit, which, to remedy pattial defe- ts, would 4
released from those re- i apply a corrective that would shake the whole systetn. It is 1"
pose, they originate pro- not our wish to say, in the Words of Mr. COBEETT, " That
Tously extravagant; and Reformers are all scoundrels, whose stalking-horse is Reform,
classes, who are- unable j but whose real object is the overthrow of the Monarchy ;" t.,
and probable efrect, the •Le
lf, however, we are not disposed to go so far, it is not from
the community become. a conviction, that it is impasNible for them to be " all
been taken of this cir- scoundrels," because Mr. Count r T has become lie of their
urna'ists, who have ex- mtmbrr, but because we believe there are many among them
:tend tie evil. These who are misled by the false representations held out, and
the flames which they blind to the consequences of their credulity. Sir FRANCIS
If their devoted country, tells them, that all who pay taxes ought to have a right to
I' discontent among the vote for the return of a Member to Parliament. This may
as, in vat ious instances, at first sight appearvery fair, but looked closely at, it will be •
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ng symptoms, that the j found to go to universal suffrage. The Hon. Baronet thinks
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frontin, as front revolution, this would be perfectly proper, as then the voice of the "d
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people would be heard ; but if, by the voice of the people,
i they have, he means the voice of such assemblies as he is in the habit
ow not of," of addressing in Palace-yard, we cannot see that the country
f the efrortc of the re- would be benefitted by the proposed Reform. If a Par- 1
a subject of exultation. !lament were formed, that (according to what we under- - q
;ense of the country has stand to be his ideas on the subject) expressed dearly the )i,
ation, and that but few sense of the people, we coneeiv-! it must be a Parliament im- 1:1
been willing to overturn mediately under the influence of the mob. Now if the feel-
,.eal this country amidst ings and passions of the mob were permitted to give an im-
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,te hope of gaining some- pulse to the proceedings of any deliberative body, we cannot I
he Constitution as being think their decisions would be likely to be the most delibe-
;, and, of course, regard rate, the most dignified, or in any respect the most rational.
improve or repair; but Had such a Parliament existed at the time the late Chancellor
which modern patriots of the Exchequer was inhumanly murdered, the detestable
' restoring the Constitu- sentiments of the rabble in the street, would doubtless have
unknown something fio• been embodied in a vote of Thanks to the assassin, and as
We would welcome with such, recorded on the Journals of the House of Commons. 1
. ph!sician, hut we turn From the circumstance to which we
.have alluded, it must at
nostrums of the officious once he seen, that the sentiments of what Patriots call, flee i.
pennle, are ni4 always those that do mo,t honnut to a nation, -
th honest servants under and &thy experience must prove, that they are as fluctuating
Parliaments could Lae as they are generally erroneous.
rmly sacrifice their own The mob, however, scnsil*le of their ma:;esty, and satis-
ry—if every wa'te of the fled of their c-srn ability to understand and manage the af-
uarded against—if cor- fairs of the natioo, think the proposed chanee would better
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—and if- no one would ffs their condition, and are delighted with any one who will
nce of the public weal, i stoop to flatter their arrogance and folo. Hence those
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-ile would have reason to i ~ mob-serving mit•creants" as CORBETT formerly called
nally hope to see these l such persons, who are content so to humble themselves. 0„,
[leaven,
.to take upon arc always sure to he popular characters. on Wednesday l'
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man anirs. These ad- last, Sir Fa ANC ts ECRDET T :old Major CAPTAIUGHT had '';.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT -the horour of haranzuine. a handful 4 f miserable tatterde- r. ,
1 a radical Reform ; but =Mons, who appeared in the p.a. eof the Electors of West.
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enough to have faith in minster, Ina who seemed to he the proper represer tatives of :sit
ings continue to direct the scum of St. Gilos'‘. Tv this assemt.ly, they agait: :Isidro:Ad
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