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helpless as new-born babes. They can no longer no-
minate to Governorships and Judgeships in our Colo-
nies ; they can no longer appoint to Embassies and
Secretaryships of Legation ;. and though they still ims,

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secs power at the Horse-Guards, there is—i'ortunately
for the nation—a superior power and a will in the

House of Commons, to clip the pinions of the Com-
mandcr-in-Chief, were he disposed- to abuse the prero-
gative of the SOVEREIGN. The people arc daily ris-

ir.g into authority in the State ; they begin to exercise
that salutary degree of influence which belongs to
them as the source of all constitutional authority.
The Tories are not merely alarmed—they are actually
furious with rage and despair. One time they assail
them as fierce ruthless revolutionists—as mountainists
and terrorists thirsting for the blood of the old aris-
tocracy; the next moment they charge them with
ignorance, infidelity, and dissent—with leaguing them-
selves with rebels and Papists to overthrow the altar
and the throne ; and when all fails, they denounce
them as an union of Radicals, Dissenters and Papists,

whose common object is the overthrow of all esta-
blished institutions i❑ Church and State. In Frazer's
Magazine for this month, we find an article under
these heads, in which the writer takes some pains to
show that the faction, of which he is the voice, would

prefer a return of the good old days when the Dis-
senters, by passing the Test Act, proved that they
were ready to become slaves themselves, provided
thereby they could effect the enslaving of the Roman
Catholics, rather than live to sec them unite in a

struggle for equal rights. He denounces the unioi
between them as " unnatural and incestuous ;" an

though he does not dare to demand a separation, he
talks of the necessity of their joint repression—
scoffs at their claims for equality with Church-
men—and loads them with every species of vitu-
perative contumely. Now if the Church of Eng-
land be so thoroughly disgusted with the union of
Republicans, Dissenters,' and Papists, as she professes
to be, we will point out how she may effect their sepa-
ration. The Dissenters have hitherto defended her
against all attacks made upon either her existence or
her property. She has in return acknowledged them
fellow-labourers in the Gospel vineyard. Suppose now
that she exchange places with them for half a cen-
tury, and take upon herself to watch, while they fatten
upon the loaves and fishes of the Establishment
What says my Lord of EXETER ? The proposal is
based upon the principle of fair play. The Dissen-
ters gained the victory in the reign of ANNE-there is,
therefore, no grounds for charging them with impa-
tience, because they now ask to participate in a divi-
sion of what yet remains of the spoil. Their Lord-
ships, the Bishops, talked of nothing but the piety of
their " dearly-beloved brethren, the Dissenters," when
their object was to keep the Catholics in bondage,
and so long as they were foolish enough to
keep up the interested shout of " No Popery," dissent
was, in the mouth of both Prince and Prelate but
another name for a purer discipline and a tenderer con-
science. Now, the religious principles of the Dis-
senters are unchanged. They have undergone no sort
of modification. The body is composed of as good
Protestant members as it ever was. Wherefore, then,
not entrust them for a time with the revenues of the
State religion ? We shall then have a specimen of
Church-of-England loyalty under similar circumstances.
It will then be seen whether a Protestant Right Rev.
Father in God is not a match for the ablest disciple of
St. Ignatius of LOYOLA, in the concoction of plots
and conspiracies, when. reduesA to the alternative of
either living by the altar, or starving.
But the organs of. the Conservatives are so besotted
with rage, that t,e--y are continually contradicting them-
selves. This is the consequence of a desire to say some-
thing wit:flout knowing precisely what to say. This
moment they are wringing their hands, and bewailing
the downfall of their faction ; the next they arc up in
arms, hurling defiance at the presumptuous but impo-
tent malice of a defeated mobocracy. By way of illus-
tration, we quote the following extracts from the article
in Fraser. Speaking of the union of Radicals, Dis-
senters, and Papists, the writer says :
" This party has not yet obtained the ascendancy in the
Councils of Britain, and never will as long as property,
propriety, and common sense exist in the country ; but the
projects they are brewing in the eclipse of reason and of
virtue, and the objects they contemplate, are not the less
to be held up to the hatred of the wise and the good.
What has been called a reform in the Lords is not one of
the ultimate achievements contemplated by this miserable
section ; it is merely the removal of one of the barriers in
the way of their advancement to ascendancy they long to
kick off the course. Their grand and distinctive objects
arc, the vote by ballot, universal suffrage, and annual Par-
liaments. The first, to be a covert for the grossest corrup-
tion on their part, without the possibility of exposure, and
open only to them, as the sound-hearted would have nothing
to do with underhand and nefarious practices ; the second,
to draw away the poor man from his business, and plunge
him in political perplexities about matters too high for him ;
and the third, in order to bring every M.P. so thoroughly
under the dictum and. the pledge of the profanunt vu/gas,
that, instead of acting as intelligent and rational men, im-
partially weighing every proposition' hid before them, they
might act as mere automatons, inflated and inspired by the
popularis aura' from Spitalfields, and St. Giles, and the
Cowgate ; and that the three schemes, co-operating and
coalescing, might bring this great nation, mid its commerce,
and its Church, under an ignorant mobocracy."
Now persons endowed with no more than ordinary
capacity would suppose the first sentence in the above
extract to mean that the Radicals possessed no govern-
ing power in the State. We confess such was our
impression, till we compared it with the following ex-
quisite commentary upon it :
" In fact, the state of matters is this—the representa-
tives of Popery, Radicalism, and Dissent, walk up to the
Cabinet, and make their respective demands. Gentlemen'
says Lord Melbourne, lam at your service ; your most
obedient ; order, and I obey. Knock at my doors for any
concession or kindness, and it shall be instantly given you :
kick the Church to Davy Jones's locker ; or the House of
Lords to the Esquimaux, or to the North Pole, or any
where you like ; but do not, for any sake, kick me out of
my place. lam callous on all subjects, but most sensitive
on this. On your most scrupulous attention •to this point
it depends, Mr. O'Connell, whether you and your brothel\
Dr. Murray, are to get the tithes and the extinction of the
Irish Church-; and whether you, Messrs. Binney, l3urnet,
and other pious Dissenters, arc to be allowed to get the
steeple and the rates at your godly disposal ; and whether
you, Messrs. Whittle Harvey, Duncombe, and Hume, are
to have conceded to your patriotic maws the house of
Lords!"
What say our readers now ? Are they puzzled ? We
confess that to ..eecoiltile such sentiments with each
other suri)P..s%s bur understanding. But enough of
such st"."ecr absurdity. The people of England—the
n'.teiligence, the industry, and the sinews of the na-
tion—will not allow themselves to be made longer the
dupes of idle declamation. The " brewing of projects
in the eclipse of reason and virtue," may sound mighty
fine in the ears of an old Tory ; but such phrases
will not convince the people that they ought to take
the bread out of their children's mouths, to enable the
representatives of the meek and lowly Saviour of Man-
kind to support the state of Princes—to starve them-
selves to
feed the. pampered stud of some pampered
Aristocrat—a.nd to permit their wives and daughters
to appear in rags, or retreat to a workhouse, rather
than attempt to restrain the prodigality of a licentious
Court favourite, or a corrupt Minister. No. We
distinctly tell the Tories in the noble language of
BURKE, that " there is a tune when men will not suf-
fer bad things,
isbecause their ancestors have suffered
There a time when the worse.hoary head of in-
veterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain
protection." That time fast approaches, and if the
Aristocracy prepare not for it, they will
in vain expect
a punctilious generosity from a people inured to bar-
barism through their machinations. Resisted with
obstinacy, and loaded with contumely to the last, they
may free themselves by 44 breaking their chains on the