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with property, clothed with authority, and interwoven
with the Monarchy, the real object of their hate. These
men, who slander the Dissenting body by their claim
to be incorporated with it, are indefatigable in their
pursuit of power, and seek to pull down all constituted
rights and authorities over which they themselves have
no controul. When we speak of "political" Dissenters,
therefore, let it be understood who it is that we would
signify—the spoutcrs, clamourers, brawlers, at public
meetings—the projectors of indefinite change—the per-
secutors of all people of rank, ecclesiastics or laymen—
the bustlers after parochial'or municipal office, provided
it has emolument annexed to it—the getters-up of griev-
ance everywhere—the utterers of that base coin termed
the voluntary principle—the partners even of Popery,
to gain a common end—the breaking up of our existing
institutions. Let not, therefore, the sober-minded and
conscientious Dissenters, no matter of what persuasion,
imagine that in our reprobation of their pretended
brethren, to whom we have affixed the title of
" political" Dissenters, it has ever entered our minds
to speak disrespectfully of those who dissent from
the doctrines or disapprove the discipline of the Es-
tablishment on bond fide grounds of religious and
conscientious scruple. There are none of our fel-
low-subjects more to be honoured than these last ;
but in the same proportion are to be rebuked and re-
sisted those who assume the garb of the religious Dis-
senter, as a screen to their own selfish machinations.
It must at the same time be confessed, that if a
Ministry, not consisting of Dissenters, though convicted
from their own lips of entertaining views the most
fatal to the Church of England, should be seen to
select on very many occasions individuals of one or
other denomination of dissent—of an order of dissent,
more particularly, not celebrated for religious, earnest-
ness or fervour, but much so for worldly-minded am-
bition—if, we say, Ministers thus characterised by
their own words are found to prefer systematically to
members of the Church of England, for the discharge
of public offices, candidates who are at once distin-
guished by hostility to the Church, and by zeal for the
revolutionary projects of their patrons, it appears to us
that the groundwork of a grave accusation is laid
against the Whig-Radical Government, for so packing
the public departments of the realm with instruments
fitted for the execution of their sinister designs, by the
abience of those principles and qualities which pervade
the great bulk of the Protestant Episcopal communion.
Mr. Long, the Russell. Recorder of Coventry, from
which city Sergeant Adams was so contumeliously
and scurvily expelled, happens to be a Unitarian—
Mr. Jardine, the Russell Recorder of two or three
other towns, happens to be a Unitarian—Mr. Man-
ning, the Russell Recorder of Sudbury, happens
to be a Unitarian ! We believe we might with-
out difficulty enlarge this list, and show the cu-
riosa filicitas with which, whenever a choice is
to be made of a public functionary, and above
all a judicial functionary, the Church of England
becomes invisible to the eye of Whig patronage,
and the favoured object of the Ministerial predi-
lection is diligently culled from the ranks of her inve-
terate enemies. Providentially this spirit does not ex-
tend throughout the kingdom. To the religious per-
sons among all classes of our countrymen the name of
a Socinian is odious. We doubt whether if the reli-
gious profession of the several recorders we have al-
luded to were generally known, or pointedly noticed,
the population of the places over which they are to pre-
side would not as soon have Papist judges as Soci-
nian, Go to Scotland, and see what is the feeling
there. Sir Robert Peel's political principles bear upon
the.front of them the, maintenance of our established
religion, as well as of our legislative institutions unim-
paired—" Plain John Campbells " go to the de-
struction of both. But what thought the educated
youth of Glasgow with regard to the pretensions of
those two candidates for their approbation ? Why,
the revolutionist Scotch Attorney-General, who pro-
mised for himself and his superiors to make as many
changes, not as were desirable, but as were possible, in
the Constitution, was instantly sent about his business ;
and the Conservative Baronet, whose promised reforms
consisted of such as were merely necessary, but no
more, obtained from the under-graduates of the Uni-
versity the meed of his unostentatious wisdom, and was
crowned with the highost:honour they could bestow on
him. It does not appear to .us that the full value of
such a victory has yet been appreciated by Whigs or
Conservatives in this country. It is one which only
two years ago it would have been chimerical to think
of. The truth is, that the people generally have seen
the ruinous result towards which the sordid and stub-
born dulness of the Ministers is driving, although
themselves do not. The nation has pulled in, while
the Whig-Radicals drive onwards. Which is destined
to be the master, a little time will show.--Times.
It is to be hoped that the misconduct and crime of
the emigrant faction which has usurped the authority
of the Queen's Government at Madrid has opened
the sight of the British public to the real intention of
that party, and the total incapacity of its leaders for
directing the affairs of the country. Nay, we trust
that the public feeling of Great Britain will not stop
at mere mistrust; but that a full consciousness of all
the egotism, knavery, vice, and crime which disfigure
the characters of those who have now taken the
management will enter into every calculation which in
future may be made respecting the present struggle.
The archfiend is Mendizabal, and to him principally
are the misfortunes of the nation to be attributed. He
took up the Christino cause not from principle, or from
any desire to extend a purer system of Government in
the Peninsula, but with the hope of mending his
broken fortunes, ruined by the supposed necessity
of supporting the Ardouin and Toreno loan. The
claim, repeatedly made, and still unsettled, for the
large balance clue by him to Portugal is a strong
proof of the facts which we are now asserting, and the
revolution of La Granja, which he promoted, for the
purpose of defeating the investigation promised by
Isturiz in the Cortes, of the sum of, 500,000/. unac-
counted for in his previous Administration, is a suffi-
cient evidence of the length to which he is capable of
going to cover his own delinquency. Some day we
suppose a full account of the delusion which he prac-
tised on Spain, as well as on the British creditors,
will be published, and then the nation will give credit
to the warning voice which has so often- cautioned
them from putting faith in this Minister's finance.
Mendizabal will serve as a specimen of the knavish
portion of the copartnership, and Olazaga and Car-
dero will exemplify the cold-blooded cruelty and active
ferocity of another part of the concern. The former but
the other day proposed the institution of a chamber of
public safety, before which all persons suspected of a
Carlist tendency were to be summoned, and disposed of
at pleasure ; and it is not many months since, when he
was at the head of the police, that he committed acts of
barbarity in the same spirit, which alone the foul re-
cords of his bureau are in full possession of. As to Cardero,
a more impious, blood-stained man has not appeared
on the Spanish stage. It will be recollected that
about two years since he seized the Post-office at
Madrid, and held it for the greater part of a day,
assisted by 300 of a regiment of militia, and that he
murdered in the full noon Canterac, the Captain.
General, who came, in discharge of his duty, to re-
monstrate with him on his insubordinate conduct.
The horror inspired by that act,
and seeing the
corpse of Canterac, who for the first time had
then put on the uniform of Captain-General, lay-
ing in tile door-way of the guard-house, through
which the rebels subsequently marched,
will not be
forgotten by any citizen of Madrid. It was then not
expected that Cardcro would be soon after elected a
Procurador the tow!! of Malaga, and be placed in
so high a position as that which be now holds "long
those wicked savages who are disgracing the name
of lit)eirth }hider the sanction of the British Go,
in hise ephear sr acient,"a of tl~e “avurlitilmn is
"N. Mendizabal can as-
evienrpnrifieendt.
little WWI gilt the stain of having employed him as
he can discharge the blood front hifi 08E94 hand.
The only man of character who lends his counte-
nance to the present Government is Arguelles, une
video 4qirrippi who from the facility of stringing Os,
gether a few liarrnoniOue peris+ TA§ 849 P4ileil 4
devino, but who is now weighed down by years! and
fast sinking into his second childhood. _sills protection
serves the coino of Mendiphal to 4 certain
extent ; but, looking beyond him, ail is barren or cri-
minal. In like manner the Queen s Generals are un-
worthy of
the least respect. Rodil, who hunted Don