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L POLITICAL DISQ U. NIT 10 N. ficial delinquents ; servility, on the part of erest public
............................. bodies; eeelusive pretensions set up by power and those
NV M HER SI XT Y-TW O. )I,skin‘r in its rays ; indifference to the private morel cha-
............-- racter ‘--"of candida.tes for ()Rice, and partiality in the
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DUKE OF YORK'. sions of justice. This knowledge, pertinent, impressive,
and alarming as it is, we might have acquired from a
" This is true, that the wisdom of these latter times in Priners I superficial knowledge of history, from a recurrence to late
deliveries and shiftings of dangers and mi.,- events in other countries, from an attention to the causes
effairs, is ratherfne d ,
chiefs, when they arc near, than solid and grounded courses to which led to recent revolutions on the contineut. We
.1. keep them aloof: But this is but to try masteries with fortune;
and lel men beware how they neglect and suffer matter of trouble cf(a)lnio
led‘;
to be prepared ;
.for no man can prbid the spark,nor tell whence if
it may tenet."—LOßl) 11,40 N.
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with a degree of perturbation, we
express, the course of the proceedings, to know
any such symptoms were visible in our own affairs. We
exulted on this account, in the investigation ;Ise anticipated I '
the pleasure which every real disinterested friend of the I,
This description is so forcible, just, and prophetic, that present establishment would feel at its conclusion.—lt will
it does not require much ingenuity to make the application. silence, we freqnently said, discontent, and confound ma- •
If any of our Readers, nevertheless, and some difficulty in lie•nity ; for we expected nothing less than a triumphant I.
• applying it, let them examine the conduct and expedients display of the practical superiority of our institutions.
of the present servauts of the crown—they furnish an ample, , have we been wrong in attributing common prudence,
a distressing, commentary. For our own part, we have integrity and foresight to men, who fill the highest depart-
been forcibly struck with its alarming reference to the merits in the state ? Or have we expected too much from
decision of a certain assembly, to the temper of the country,t
the virtue of Ministers, in supposing that. the honour, ,
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1111 to the volcanic character of the present crisis, and to the
wisdom of these Miler ti;nes in princes afairs ;—so grave
and impressive an authority, we hoped, might tend to safety, and prosperity of the country would be paramount
in their minds to the eventual loss of their offal influence.
The delinquency of the Commander in Ch:ef is now cut of , •
till
expose and correct the flippant, sophistical and frothy de-
. chmations, which had been employed to iewilder and
the question ; hut, did- we fill a situation of equal ri`snotp.
sibility, we would no!, for the treasures of the uai% es r 5,.., f
einbarrass the public opinion. We have attended to the
expose -ourselves to the suspicion which rested on his chi:- '
itlveslinasion of the Charges against the Musa OF YORK, , .
racter. A great mu jo. rii yof the 'House of Commons has
seith gseater pain, anxietv, and impatience, than we CV Cl' , :1.!
acquitted him of the charge of perticipation and conniv- Ii
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did to any (neer, public question. We knew the influence ,e L .
ante at the corroet pusetenen u. his oiisiress; but his
it. wourd have on the fature repose, security and honour of
conduct, during that infamous association, betrayed such s
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the c9untry. We were conscions hoe/ it would weaken, or
flagrant marks of weakness, not to say imbecillity, that it '
invigorate, the attachment of the people to the present ' •
would be torturing the feelings and good seuse of the pub-
tstai)lishmeata these sentiments were coiranon to every
tic, were he continued in his reseed. sitnatiou. Tins frank t s
honest and intelligent man in the community :—And what ,
declaration of our sentiments may lie constr,:ed as &sic.
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tills been the result 2 What deference has -been shewn to this• spectful to that Great Personag,e; but we would ask the
general feelag, this general conviction ? .We Mush at, we ,
Vorning Post and the Pilot to inform us, when !!e has re-
were') over, the servility, the indifference, the baseness and
seected himself ? Was it in his orgies at Gloucester-place ?
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egol ism of our ar,se. Love (it-place has 'stipplauted love of -
Was it in the example he gave as a married man ? or in the
. country; Tile fr:iwn of a Minister is more terrific than the
. choice and respectability of his associa4.s ? This language
teinpest which begins to bellow round our shores. The
in the idiom of knaves, maybe.termed a conspiracy against
~. honone of a Prince" is put la competition with the honour •
the throne. No: it is a confederacy of virtue, decency, and
of the Empire; and the feelings of an individual outweigh
honour, against vice, priapism, anti meanness.. We are the
the feelings, and Sortunes, and tranquility of seventeen most ardent advocates for the present establishment ;we
millions• revere and love a monarch, whose private life is as CXelllm I 1,
• The difficulties of our situation are alarming ; they ac-
plary as his public conduct is worthy of our highest venera-
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immolate rapidly ; and what des we oppose to them ?—the non ; we give a decided preference to our own instizue i
fullest displsy of public virtue ? no, no : fine deliveries and lions over every other form of Government, and,
shifting's of daugers and mischiefs.—These ere the expo- in consequence of their theoretic, as well as practical 1
.• clients of modern Statesmen; these their tower of strength excellency, we cannot be blamed for wishing' to preserve
when peril is near. But ore all the lessons of hi,story lost them in their utmost purity. It this constitutes conspira- 1i;
ninon us, the precepts of pule 51.., r'. •'ll philosophy, the phcuo- cy and ja.cobinism, we have no hesitation to declare that
mena of the present awe We will open these venerable we are the greatest jaeobins and conspirators upon the face
records •we will recal these signs—and what do they of the earth. The friends and advocates of his Royal
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teach us ? that the certain precursors of' the decline and Highness are in conformity to the same rule, ki,lowing, dis• c
patriots. Wo hail this uew aulgeace of kali() i
approaching ruin of a free state, were to of: interested,
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