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THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY
VIEW, No. XIV.
Will be published in a few days.

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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,. No. LXXXIX.

No. 12.047

LONDON, FRIDAY EV

ENING, APRIL 22, 1831.

• Will be published on TUESDAY NEXT.
It will contain Articles : —I. On the West India Ques-
tion—ll. On the Reform Question—lll. On Mr. Mal-
thus And Mr. Sadler's Views of Population and Emigra-
tion—lV. Captain Beechey's recent Vsyage round the
World-- V. On Sanscrit Poetry, and the Hindu Drama—
VL Captain Basil Hall's Life and Professional Adventure.,
just publishe Herschell's Essay on Physical
Science—Vlll. Jones on Rent—lX. Buonarroti's account
of the Con.piracies of Robespierre and Egalite.
• is* A few copies of the extra Number published in
February, containing the Article on Reform, may still be
purchased. •

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

dissolution of this
day, to be prePared to petition the Ring
tfosrvhich we are now t:
We do not think it likely' that our call upoan the nation pester.
unpopular Parliament, produced the ac
for the
that we antici.
performance of
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aFtto,
offer his Majesty its support, ha,
which we urged the country to
been in truth resolved on by the king, in the just confidene
that he was doing that which was pleasing to his people, as wel'
as most advantageous to the State. The Parliament is (to be;
dissolved!- And those Members who, neither in this nor the
preceding Parliament,.ever acted a manly or consistent part os
the subject of Reform,—who began by resisting all, even the
slightest measure of that nature, the extinction of one rotter
borough, or the extension of the elective franchise to ont
populous town,—but more recently, when they saw the tide
of common sense setting full against them, and universe'
indignation ready to burst• their absurdities,. began tc,
whine nut, in hypocritical and insidious cant, some such
trash as this—that " they did not mean to say that
some Reform might not be expedient or necessary ; that one
rotten borough might be struck off, one Peer's nominee dim.
missed"—those Members are now to be sent back to their con-
stituents ' • and we have only therefore to say, that all that zeal
and spirit which we endeavoured to call forth for procuring the
dissolution, will, we hope, be exerted in the choice of Member:
for the new Parliament. Shame, eternal shame upon the county,
upon the city or borough, where the least freedom of election
remains, if any Member be returned for it who has voted either
openly or treacherously against the Reform Bill,—ifany Member
be returned for it, who will not readily vote for some effectual
measure of Reform similar to the present. As to the nominee-
gcntry, the Sarumites, the Gattonites, the Boroughbridgians,
let them sneak back into Parliament as they may,—the miserable
tools or a haughty faction about to expire: the nation will marl,
them, but dreads them not. And who will buy a seat now?
The market must be low,—the object of traffic as cheap "as
mackerel at Midsummer." And now let the boroughnuingers
mark their past career, in order to direct their future course. There
was a time, shameful as it may seem, when they might have
been paid—when a price was offered to them—to induce them to
relinquish their unholy usurpation and possession of the public
rights. They would not consent. It is believed on all hands,
that if, during the last few years, Parliament would have allowed
.the elective franchise to be transferred to one or two of the great
towns, as any minor borough might be convicted of corruption,
the. people would have been satisfied, at least for the present :
this salutary course was rejected with disdain. Even the single
removal of the elective franchise from the corrupt borough of
East Retford to Manchester or Birmingham instead of its stupid
extension to the hundred of Bassetlaw, would have for a while
stayed the appetite for Reform. This useful proposition was
eluded; and what has been the consequence? Why, a general
Reform Bill of very sweeping enactments has been introduced
under the sanction of the Crown, and by the King's Ministers.
This has been defeated, and a dissolution of Parliament follows.
It is not likely that a weaker measure should be offered to
the more free Parliament when it shall meet ; protracted opposi-
tion will but carry the demands for Reform further ; and we
should not wonder, if still, with no desire to go beyond the ne-
cessary correction of abuses, the people weredriven at last by the
obstinate adherents of the present corrupt system to seek for re-
fuge in the ballot, in annual Parliaments, and universal suffrage.
A word more as to the strength of the present Ministry. It has,
undoubtedly, only carried the main project by one vote ; and has
been beaten_ by a majority of eight upon a subsequent division.
But yet the Ministry has a strength, which does not appear upon
divisions. It is that principle which protected the Duke of Wel-
lington's Administration so long,—namely, the difficulty of
forming another. What are the Tories now ? A scattered host,
without fixed object or leader. They cannot be brought to agree
on any two points.- And let but a•House of Commons bechosen
more identi tied with the people than the present, and the influence
of a popular Ministry with such an assembly will be deeiiiVe. To
end, therefore, as w.e begun People of England, exert yourselves to
secure the return of th efriends of rteform. Overw helm th e adherents
of corruption with your scorn and reproaches. This will, we trust,
be the last call upon your persons or your purses in such a cause,
for the expenses of elections are from henceforth to be reduced,
and facilities afforded for taking the poll without trouble and
without tumult —ln addition to the statement, mingled with ar-
gument, in the preceding article, we have not the slightest doubt
the Parliament will be prorogued this day, preparatory to its
dissolution. ' How justly are the base anti-reformers punished!
How are they caught in their own net! They are now endea-
vouring to swear off their crimes before they meet their consti-
tuents. The noble spirit of the King will, we have no doubt, be.
met by the generous ardour of his people. We know of no act
of public spirit performed by a Sovereign t be compared to the
present. It will be compared to that of George 111., by which
the coalition party was defeated.—Tinies.

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crastinated, of apology and reprimand. On the right of con-'
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to fine and imprison ; and a legislative body has a right to pro-
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upon the tapis. From the present has sprung up such an error,
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Whatever fair grounds of difference of opinion may exist be-
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which latter, by the bye, the timid and irresolute form by far the 1
larger number) there can be no doubt but that the real struggle
upon the occasion lies between the people of England and those
who have for years been quartered upon the very vitals of the
country. The cry of " Revolution," like that of " wolf," has be-
come too stale a trick to be in the Slightest degree regarded.' 'lf
there really were any danger of revolution, it would be owing
to the denial, hot to the granting of Reform—though we believe
that there is what may be called a conservative good sense in the
country, sufficient to protect us from any thing like actual con-
vulsion, even in the former case The truth, however, is, the
question of Reform may be said to have virtually passed. Public
opinion has pronounced its unerring and unequivocal fiat upon
it. It has now become a mere question of detail. This its
opponents must well know : and all that they case hope to gain
by their harassing and vexatious propeedings is a respite, not a
permanent reprieve; while the result of any temporary success
which they may acquire, as in the case of General Gascoyne's
motion, seems likely to combine the happy inconsistency of mak-
ing a measure, which must and will pass, rather snore objection-
able to them, perhaps, than it would have been, had it not been
obstructed by their own " amendments." But what, we would
ask, can the enemies of the Reform Bill hope for by ass appeal to
the people ? is there a man among them who stands the smalleSt
chance of being returned to a new Parliament in any place
where any thing like freedom of election exists? Will Sir Ro,
bert Peel venture to try his strength in Middlesex, or Sir
Charles Wetherell in Westminster ? Does the Duke of
Wellington expect again to return Isis hopeful nominees
for Hampshire ? Will even the virtuous and uncorrupt
freemen of Liverpool again send General Gascoyne as their re-
presentative ? Or will Sir Robert Wilson and Mr. Hunt have it
again in their power to ruin the cause they were pledged to sup-
port by a species of shilly-shally vacillation, which we might:de-
spise as puerile, were it not too adultly mischievous ?. \o—ail
appeal to the people must, at all events, set the question at rest.
lids the anti-reformers know 'full well; and knowing it would
not, their more prudent course would have been to have !node
a virtue of necessity, and, finding any further contest againstlthe
principle unavailing, to have yielded to the force of public opi-
nion, and lent their aid in perfecting, and no longer thwarting, a
result which their efforts may have the effect of, for a short
time, postponing, but which they can never hope to defeat. By
this course they might have prolonged their own Parliamentary
existence—might in -some instances, at least, have continued
to reconcile themselves to their own injured amt insulted consti.
tuents, and the nation might have been spared the inconvenience
of a dissolution at this particular period. For, after all, if a ge-
neral election must be resorted to, it can only
.be complained of
as an inconvenience; and that principally on the ground of the
interruption it will occasion to public business, at a season when
so much of urgency calls for des?atch. The country, however,
and the new Parliament, if we must have one, will know at
whose door to lay the whole fault; while the ultimate triumphant
success of the Reform Bill in a new Parliament, will of itself tend
greatly to diminish the mass of difficulty in which public business
finds itself involved by the selfish and conflicting interests which-
now, more or less, impede every measure which has for its
object that which ought to be the sole object of the Legislature—
the benefit of the whole community.—Meraing Herald.

A dissolution being noiitive, by the exercise of the prerOga-
tive of the King, on the recommendation of his Ministers, it
now remains with
Ntvheenwlae tol contribute their part to the.
uatiornede,i3itltaoipetai
ea l to the nation,
national salvation.
UnitedT h dissolution Kingdom
exercise
ii a most responsible and
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gAr:einevobeusrsp who ecuihtiaavrye
psnuinpoishrtnexienttheonmithisotseeriahlonmeesast
w hen Parliamentarytiseonsiderlettel ftchiraint
sacrifice the more serious and heavy
new Parliament will probably last but aidnyrienrnaredinpdyaruilnit.iotelinii,etaill—t:bneager
wbiyllahnaoytehehreeanndealelettee
otonwthnestpwaroTl"AatrsCorrupt and
cities, indepen,
and where a
ihnheer:setei yearicur incurring
Parliamentsreglaacl thei
cost
contingent
the contest
against
will
nf en.
tie
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en
be
. broughtlnthese
finors,tvaanrdcdelli,
infamous system. In many counties,
with colleagues
dent Members have the misfortune to be Lien
the old and honest representative will suffer in
‘tvhhii?dh:a‘riedYidaottede
, contest ne-
cessary to eject the evit.doer. It is then a most • s• acrei. obli-ation,
which Ave solemnly, impress on every elector of the k''J.. -
within the influence this Journal, to aid the cause of freedom.inrd'in
by the disinterest contribution of their gratuitous, professional
and personal aid. The duty of every voter, of county, city, l
borough, is to come early to the poll, at his own expence, and ant
solicited. Every gentleman of thebar, every country attorney,
every poll clerk, who calls himself a Reformer, should in this
momentous crisis in the liberties of his fellow-countrymen, sup_
port every Old arid new 'candidate pledged to the one great (pie;
nom By this disinterestedness and patriotism only can the in-_
terests of the people be secured. Ulm county contests, with
freeholders spread over a Wide extent of cottony, and -protracted
polls, in their terrific expence., tan only be successfully main_
tamed by a united determination of the electors to return. their-
representatiies without robbing be-`l3l' of money. . The. moral
effect of such-.generous union will repaid by the vital interest
of the people in iti success: Thui only can the people meet the
profligate and reckless expenditnre which the desperate borough-
inongigs will resort to as the last chance of upholding their
usurpations and corrupt interest. We call on your coniempa,
raries, in town and country, to i-npress these sacred obligations
on the nation. We would ejaculate to our countryinen—,. Elk_
land expects every man to do his duty!"—Morning Chronicle.
. . ..
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must , . . ,
The people admit of no false pretences or Pharasalcal
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catechise, and sift, and probe. Impostors must be dismissed.
Some Members even there may be who have voted for Ministers
in both divisions, whose hearts are notoriously unsound in the
cause, who have voted from seat-keeping motives i and who, if

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