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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.
JUNE 22, 1826.

[THE TIMES.]
The military have been called in at Weymouth, not to
quell.any serious disturbance, for there was none, but to throw a
stigma on the popular candidate, whose friends it had become a
considerable object with the unpopulars to discourage by a dis—
play of official resolution and power. We are sorry to find it.
stated that Mr. Wallace was, the person who feat, committed ibis:
unseemly outrage' upon every constitutional sentiment ; but the
fashion had been set a few days before at Carlisle, and the Mas-
ter of the Mint being a Cumberland man, caught eagerly at so
congenial an example. Let, however, the precedent come whence
it might, there can be none :more unworthy the imitation of an
English Gentleman, above all, of a Minister, and that Minister a
candidate pretending to appeal to the voluntary suffrages of the
.people fora great responsible trust. It does not appear, indeed,
:dint the bayonet or sabre was actually resorted to cm the
'she* occasion. The Dragoons were sent for from Dor-
`aieeter, and on arriving, the officer found the town so little in
need (Whit profeisitmal interference, that he refused the billets
which had been provided for his men, and exclaiming " Where's
'the riot r marched them home again, with much manifestation
'of alacrity. But it is not enough that no violence should be laid
'fo the charge of soldiers in cases like the present. Their appear-
ance on an'election scene—their proximity to it—their very name
'pronounced by individuals having an interest in the issue of a civil
'and constitutional struggle—jars with the purpose of the time,
'and
has a sinister bearing on the minds of those connected with
It is impossible to separate the idea of soldiers from that of
force, or of force from that of positive coercion. So that the
state of feeling produced by the display of an army of observation
"near the hustings, is far from favourable, it must be allowed, to
'welt a calm and undiverted view of the merits of the candi-
dates, either supported by Government or opposed to it, as
i'Obsihl help to inspire the elector. with confidence in the justice of
th'i vote which he was giving.. Besides all this, what an uncoil-
ititutional precedent is thus afforded, and how difficult of
belief are most public functionaries, that a recourse to
Illysical power is a precedent which ought not in
every case to be repeated. We hold it the duty of every
Englishman to cherish that instinct by which his ancestors were
alarmed, •at the first suspicion that the sword was about to in.,
'crude itself into the sanctuary of their political deliberations.--
The sword will bear no equal empire, but soon becomes a sove-
reign, when it is no longer a slave. With much earnestness,
therefore, and anxiety do we pray, that in no instance but such
as precludes all hope of protecting the community by the civil
authorities unaided, shall troops-.--no matter bow respectable, hut
still mercenary troops—be invited by magistrates to watch and
menace the celebration of our highest civic mysteries. It would
be a sad exchange for a few broken heads, to familiarize the elec-
tors of this -country with peace-preservers in scarlet embroidered
regimentals. It would be a miserable remedy for too much ardour
in the exercise of our national rights, to generate among the
people a gross indifference to the presence of a body which ac-
knowledges no right but that of enforcing obedience by the
bayonet. Let magistrates, therefore, employ half the population
of their respective districts if necessary, as constables, to keep the
other half in order; but let us, if the thing be possible, have
done with electioneering through the agency of riflemen and
dragoons.

[itutristi rims.]
pe believe there never was a General Election at
which the direct influence of Government was so entirely dormant
as at the present; and, from all appearances, the Members of the
new Parliament will even increase the immense majorities by
which the measures of the Ministers were supported during
the later sessions of the old one. His Majesty's servants will
meet a House of Commons, the Members of which have been re-
turned more under the immediate influence of the people that any
one in the last or present century; and for this plain reason, be-
cause probably no Administration during that period has so in-
cessantly attended to one leading point, which ought always to be
kept in view by British Statesmen—that of drawing closely the
connexion between the governors and the governed. Relying on
the result of the efforts they have been making for the public, and
feeling confident of the progress they are making in the way of re-
form, by temperately yet effectually (and It could not be done ef.
fectually unless it were done temperately), ameliorating the crimi-
nal code, by revising the 049011Merelailly04411, andbypursuing an inde-
pendent Course ofeenduct regowdlogthe foreign policy of the country.
Though Platt Islls least, we may mtrotion the measure eernsevent on
the disfrairchherment oftOrampound. which has -given to a popu-
lous diet:id en increased number of Representatives, by the only
means by which it could have been done without breaking up the
resent representative system, Ind remodelling it after the fashioo
of rash reformers, viz. by disfranclizing a borough, the electors of
which have proved themselves grossly verrupt, to confer their pri-
vileges on others more likely to exercise theta with propriety. In
the midst of the general satisfaction with which the conduct of
Ministers has been viewed in all parts of the country, and by all
classes of the people, it is singular to observe the efforts which
are made by some who are in the habit of opposing Government,
whoever are its men, and whatever may be its measures. —to find
something to carp at-e—somthing to show that they have the
will to injure, throsh they want the power. An impotent
attack of this sort wo made by the Times, of yesterday, on
Mr. Peel, on account of the alleged riots at Coventry.—
After taking for granted all that has been usterted on one side
of the question, the Times asks where blame can attach more
properly than on Mr. Peel, the llon Secretary? Mr. Peel
ought to have made arrangements to prevent electioneering
squabbles ; Mr. Peel ought to have foreseen that the one party
would out-manoeuvre the other, anti get possession of the neigh-
bourhood of the hustings ; Mr. Peel ought to have got the voters
for the different candidates marshalled and distributed in equal
proportions • Mr. Peel ought to have been ready to act as um
pire, when tics mob felt inclined to exercise summery justice on a
turncoat ; Mr. Peel ought to have had his military picquets ready
to drop from the clouds when. the Whig patty bad the worst, and
to vanish whenever the Times should think that their presence ,
interfered with the freedom of election ; Mr. Peel, in short, aught
to have beets at Coventry, at Preston, at Leicester, at Chester, at
Weymouth, awl in case of accident he should have held himself
disposable to take a trip to .lohn O'Groats and Cape Clear. A
General Election is a necessary evil—it is an event productive of
much mischief, though attended with benefits incalculably supe-
rior to its disadvantages ; but we must necessarily submit to the
bad for the sake of the good ; end neither Mr. Peel, nor even the
writer of the leading article in the Timm could have averted the
evils which have attended the present election. If the journalist
had &awn the proper conelusion from the facts, be would have
seen that all these disturbance" only serve to show thst futility of
those impracticable plans of Parliamentary Reform with which
he, in eonatuen with others, has been in the habit of amusing
the public.