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LITERARY REVIEW.

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(Toon <1 :h TINTE!.I; or, V-TE POOR `IgIAN'SVIS-
TORY Of ENr4LAND, from the Earliest Period down to
the Present Tinre.—APPLEVARti, Asrtut:E, &C &C.'&C.

We have .s?idorn ,pertisetl a work written with
`more spirit, iitirikele'dge, 'learning, and "laudable
intentions, than that .witich we .now present to
the notice of (Alt Headers. lt is well-ittioWti,

that the infamous Orators %Nilo have eodeavourett

to excite a general spirit of instoreerion,
to subvert the Government of this Country,
and the mischievous Journals of the Metropolis,
inflamed Fly the same wicked impulse, have con-
stantly referred to what they denominate " Our
Good Old Times," to justify their, revolutionary
-machinations, The Author of this Work, 'how-
ever, having chosen that name for his work, and
Animated Iky a zeal for the British Constitution as
It now stands, has ',induced a series of Papers
under that title, in which he completely demon-

strates the ignorance of those vile Orators, and as
'vile Writers, of the true history of their country.
These Miscreants, in their call Tor Annual Parlia-
tnents and Universal Suffrage, referred to Good
Old Times, and affirmed that our Ancestors en-
joyed these privileges front time immemorial.
Our author, therefore, has entered fully into the
subject, has traced the gradual formation of Par-
liaments, and fully shown that the British Consti-

tutioo, as it exists at the present moment, has
reached such a degree towards the perfection of a
political system, as may defy the wisdom of
man to devise a system better calculated to com-
bine the security of Government with the hap-
piness of the people. To prove that he was dis-
interested in his views, and far aloof from all pe-
cuniary motives, be first published his series at
three halfpence a number, hut conceiving that his
work •might be rendered more generally accessible
to the interior orders of society, who are least capa-
ble of detecting the arts of seditious agitators, he
reduced it to a penny, and he comprised his task
in 28 Numbers, that constitute a faithful and
most valuable body of historical and political
kriowledge, which may now be had in com-
plete volumes, and which %se beg leave ear-
nestly to recommend to all ranks of the
people throughout the British Empire, for we-can
confidently assert, that it will afford instruction
to the highest as well as the lowest parts of the
community. We this day submit a specimen of
the Work to our Readers, and conceive that we can

JCS •14.0 ra••••t..y.---••-", than
by advising them all to possess themselves of such
a treasury of historical knowledge and political

wisdom.

" Tb TI-IE PEOPLE: or ENGLAND.

" FELLow COUNTRYMEN,

"• the thread of our History was broken in the
last Number, but our time was not lost in the in-
teresting details of republican atrocity, acting in
the name of the Sovereign People ! We will now
proceed where we left off in the former Number.
'e bad, you will recollect, got rid of the Protec-
tor, and left the Reformers hard at work, rivet-
ing; the chains of the poor, wretched, deluded
People of ttgland, who were absolutely reduced
to the situation of galley-slaves, as we have seen
in the particular instance of the poor Blacksmith ;
%%nit this only difference, that food and lodging
are provided for the slave, whilst the People of
England were left to shift for themselves or to
starve ; their lords and tyrants, the sanctified and
hypocritical Reformers, plundering them at plea-
3nre, and fattening on the spoils of the desolated
country !

" The ol►l Rump Parliament, you recollect,
was again assembled, and reformed for the third
time•; but, wicked and corrupt as they were, they
found it necessary to act with more attention to
the feelings of the People, now almost driven to
madness by their wrongs and sufferings.; though
their only.object was still to secure all the power
to themselves, to become a House of Sovereigns,
by overthrowing the power of the Republican
Leaders, who were now carrying their armies
about the country, and fighting and pillaging at
free quarters ; for by this time several of, them
bad begun, in earnest, to fight for single sove.
reicrity, and hoped to seize upon the Protecto-
rate or the Throne, whichever might best suit the
views of the one who should come off victor 1.

" "rhe tyranny and anarchy (says the Histo-
rian) which now equally oppressed the king-
dom, the experience of past distractions, the
dread of future convulsions, the indignation
against military usurpation, against sanctified hy-
pocrisy,--all these motives had united every
parry, except the most desperate, into ardent
wishes for the King's Restoration, the only re-
medy for all these fatal evils !'--(Hume, vol. vii.
p. 315,)
" A man arose to answer the expectations and
prayers of the People.—General Monk, at the
bead of an army, which had assembled Eton all
quarters, marched to London, where, indeed, he
proved himself to be a Reformer int die true le-
gitimate sense of the word. Not in the cant of
Republicanism ; not by misrepresentation ; not
by irritating the bad passions of the People ; not
by talking of his own honesty and virtue, nor by
bolding secret cabals to involve the country in war
and bkodshed ; but by opposing men who pro-
fessed to Reform, arid acted as Plunderers ; by
exposing and punishing wretches who called
themselves the Friends of the People, and became
their tyrants and oppressors-; by reforming a re-

formed Parliament, Wh:ch had o'vetahrown 'the•
COnstitattioo and murdered the Sovereign, or-
der to. -.Seize upon the property and en:shire the
Verso* of the whole coctutry !—by hulling nut
'invaders and 'usurpers, who had hypocritichlly.
styled thetMelves the children of God, to oppress
mankind, anil to legalize robbery and assassina-
tion; by :e-establishing Monarchy as the only
lategnard of the People's rights I.—This was the
• Reform of a Champion of Royiilty—of one who
was to restore the Law, the Constitution, the
Church, aiia 'the legltiMate Sove'reign ; to bring
hack peace, and to identify Ott inreteats of the
People with Kingly Government.—This was the
Reform the People's honest friend-, Moak, had in
contemplation, when Ire had the power, if he had
chosen, to he as utter a tyrant as CrOtlltireli him-
self. lie addlesSed the Monk Parliament, the
Runup, the Prair.e-God Barehone Pat Raiment, and
reproacired them a ith their iniquities, their lying,
their hypocrisy, their cant, their corruption, their
oppression ; and reluired, in the name Of his in-
jured and soffering Country, that they should give
up their seats, and take immediate measures for
assernblinii a New Parliament ! ' It would be
difficult (says our History-book) to describe
the joy and exultation which displayed itself
throughout the city, as soon as intelligence was
conveyed of this happy measure embraced by the
General. The prospect of Peace,. Concord,
berry, Justice, broke forth at once from amidst
the deepest darkness in which the Nation had
ever been involved. The populace, more out-
rageous in their festivity, made the air resound
with acclamations, and illuminated every street
with signals of jollity and triumph.- Applauses
of the General were- every where intermingled
with detestation against the (refortned) Parlia-
ment.—The most ridiculous inventions were
adopted to express this latter passion. At every
bonfire, Rumps were roasted ; and, where these
could no longer be loom!, pieces of flesh were cot
into that shape, and the funeral of Parliament
(the populace exclaimed) was Celebrated by
these symbols of hatred and derision.'
(Page 3J,0.)
" Never, never, my Friends, lose sight of the
appalling fact, that this Parliament was a Reformed
Parliament ; aye, reformed precisely on the model
of our present Patriotic Constitution-moogers.—
reformed to the exclusion of all influence connect-
ed with the King or with Peers ! Reformed so as
to throw all power into the hands of the Reform-
ers themselves, who always usurp the name of the
People, and to turn it directly against those for
whom they profess so vast and prodigious an af-
fection ! No Borough-mongeriog, no purchase
of seats, no influence of any kind in Elections, but
that arising front the pure Election of the People !
This is the cry, the eternal cry of war-hoop and
faction ; and you now see what the influence of
the People, as it is called, is likely to effect for
you. Hear tie huzzas, the cheers, see the illumi-
nations and bonfires of a madly joyful People, set
free from the bondage and chains of a Reformed
Parliament, and then think what a fate awaits you
if you ever lend a hand to bind yourselves and your
children down to this it on tyranny. It is the plan
of. these miscreants to get rid of the balances of
the Consttution, and thereby to overthrow it.—
It matters little, as you have sects, if you have
patiently attended to all I have brought-forward
from our History-book, whether the King be ab-
solute, or the Nobles absolute, or the popular
Democrats absolute. Confu,ion and tyranny will
ensile from either and from all !—and those fac-
tion-workers of iniquity, who preach from the
platforms of Palace-yard and Spa-fields, are aea'l
tomed by the same principles, directed by the
same views, and press on towards the same obi
ject as a single tyrant, or a body of Nobles who
wish to seize upon the Liberties of their Country,
have constantly done. It is only (I repeat fur the
hundredth time) by balancing the three Powers of
the State, and poising them in doe proportions,
that peace, law, and liberty, can effectually Ist:se-
emed to the People of this or any other Country.
This, the is isest and ablest politicians 011ie an-
cient world considered to be the most perfect form
that could be de%ised by man. This, with all
their wisdom, however, they could never effect ;
yet thislfas been done in the single instance of our
happy Country, and this our present Reformers,
like their ancestors, of whom we have now been
taking a view, would diSfigure and demolish mere-
ly to gain their own selfish ends in the plunder
and desolation of the People, and in the seizure of
all political power ! Like Satan when he looked
'into Paradise, they see that all is good, and their
base passions yearn to defile, corrupt, and Over-
throw it ! But to proceed :—The new Parliawent,
being freely chosen, spoke time voice of the Na-
tion in the return of their banished King, whose
father they had seen butchered as a pretended sa-
crifice to their liberties, but ,those death they had
fatally learned was the signal for their Slavery.—
Charles 11. landed at Dover on his birth-day, and
joy spread like wild-fire from' one end of the coun-
try to the other. A slave, set at liberty after
years of bondage, could not express his gratitude
and delight in louder terms than the whole' body
of Britons on being restored to liberty by the re-
storation of their King. You have now -another
opportunity of comparing the Revolutions of fac-
tious upstarts with those effected by legitiMate
authority. The first steps of reloaming democrats
ate invariably winked with blood ; their first acts,
vengeance upon those who have opposed them it;
their career. But though time People themselves
now called for vengeance on the King's murder-
ers; though the harassed and enslaved Nation,
on shaking off their fetters, looked. forward with
hope to the punishment of their tyrants ; Charles,
with very few exceptions, forgave all, and passed
an Act of Oblivion, in favour (,f his enemies.—
The greater part of the rebels were simply dis-
abled from holding offices of trust ; amid this, you
will agree, was not a very unnecessary or a very
harsh measure, especially as men of this descrip-
tion are always for turning out Ministers, at all
times, whom they dislike for their loyalty, and
banishing them for ever from-his Majesty's Coun-
cils ! Some few of the King's bloody Judges
were brought to trial and condemned, but the
greater number were imptisoned only. This, with
sonic few measures of precaution, wete the only
severities which followed such furious civil wars
and convulsions."—(Vol. vii. p. 354 )
(To be continued.)

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