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London, England, 1818-04-24 00:00:00

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I,t toking articles from PROVINCIALJOUnNAI:S

we have (leaned that we sh:di hot confine °sir-

sehei ;,) were local iact:; .4ntl but shall

ex;r,let the reaso► ine. and opinions of the respee•

tive Colidtwtors of those Jmutials.

The pria),

ciples of -The' Leeds Intelligentr we'llave &tett hAtl

occasion to approve as loyal, constitutional, and
judicious. ..fhe subj:•et of the late application to
Parli,ntient, in' behalf of some branches of the
Royal Family, must have e:..cited unpleasant feel-

ings in every pcNoo attached to that Family. This

stibjecCis treated with so much delicacy, respect,

and judgment, that we are sure we shall gra

tV.y our. Readers, in transferring the -ifpinions of
its loyal Editor to the pages of Tug Strw. The
tribute to the independence of Parliarhent, and par-
ticularly to the House of Commons, is, in all re-
specri, impartial, just, and liberal. We-trust that
on the enining General Election, this honest firtn-

mess on the part of those who generally-act with.
rilioisters, will not be losF. on the Constituent
Body, and -that they cvill return.-none who will
not conduct themsd;es with actual integrity, and
not listen to the Bra,tlers -of Oppositio,u who

would emleßvour to convert l'arliarnent into a

JACOBIN• CONVENTION

(From 7'he Leeds Intelligencer of April 20.)

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The teinsal of: Parliament to grant the pro,
Posed increased allowances to the Royal Dukes,
in the event of their olartilni is of course pain-
ltd, even to those who think the financial. diffi;
et4ies of t country iegitiv the Strictest, eeopo-
.

thy that is consistent with the security,, at.(l lit)

imor of the empire. Painful, we are_ sure, the
erelusal must he, no! only to the Royal
..but to the Members of the Legislature, whn ge-
nerally sopporting Ministers, vet-thotq,*.t, Jrmn a
sense of public duty; that the pr4iBsed anniirances,
under present cirenm.4tances, were tpoig,r.eat, and
who ditniniAlied those allowances. 'by &err *idles—
paintul, in short., to all, excepts,,to.thetmalignant
faetitio who .-rjoice at every Wotrud,ichieh can be
inflicted` on 'elevated and =ori:fhb: respect of
the people for the throhe and thelaw...
"In the:preieat-case,howev'er, there- is much
matter of consolation, if, not of unmixed. pleasure.
At a- lime Ayirtn :the people are assailed .with the
most artliit-incentives, to disaffection---when the,
Legislature, especially the commons branCh of it,
are openly and audaciously charged with corrup-
tion and venality, and represented as utterly tin-
worthy the confidence- of the-country, so brilliant
a proof of Parliaments, y independence (one of
the most remarkable,certainly, that ever orprirred
in any country), cannot_but be highly gratifying,
abstractedly speaking, to all who wish to see our
globous .Cons tit ut ion , and en_v;able privileges,
preserved from the rude mutilations of visionary
specnlatists, or -of -ambitious destroyers. • 'Plait
\ vet y Parliament (so loudly accused of servility and
corroption), Wli:ch recently Voted four hunilretl
thousand powr's to Spain for the.abolition,on the
part ut
_that po:it Or, of the slave•tratle--which al-
most titianiMonsly gavx this -large sum for the
rescue of
_poor unprotected' Africans„ is.totind,
shortly aftcrmards, vigorously "examining the
grounds on whitlt a boon, *comparatively tailing,
is solicited -by their Sovereign. for 'the establish-
ment in marriage of his. Royal BrotWers., and with
a siiirit of economy, tad almost said parsimony,

measuring out the pational bannty with a prudent
and a friigal hand. 'Dist very Parliament, which
.`• has so well distinguiShed by. its loyal and
constitutional veneration.for the throne, and by a
tender respect towards all -the Members of the
Royal Family, yet iefuses .to Royalty itsella re-
quest, the refusal- of which, of all others, is the
roost mortifying—whieh.has supported the public
theasures of a vigorous administratioti, taros l„.,11 a
period of unexampled difficulty, from a convic--
tion that those measures were calculated for the
salvation of the Empire, yet negatives, in the
most humiliating •manner, the propositions of that
very Ministry, on a question of great importance,
(and' no doubt one on which they entertain a de-
gree of personal feeling) though involving a pe-
cuniary sacrifice comparatively trifling—which h as
'always Erten liberal, almost to profusion, of the
• politic money, in prosecuting the bloody'contest
in which we were so long engaged—in conferring
munificent-rerytirds on distinguished public ser-
vices—in appropriating immense sums for the re-
Uri of. severe distress,. wherever it was to he
found, in 'other countries as well as in this ;—for
the support of all useful iustitwions; the prose-
cution of all valuable researches; the erection of
advantageous or ornaincnral na:ional works
. —yet withholds,' felts this ocean of expenditore,
the trifling stream which it was proposed to open,
for the' provision of an Heir to the CroWn, and
turns aside, amidst all these stupendous opera-
tions, to inquire, with a Microscopic minuteness,
info 'the alleged necessity, for making fro addition
to the income of some :of the Royal Family, and
boldly to refuse' all that they 'are induced to be-
lieve absolute necessity does not require.
we- not kirow the spirit of the times in
we live, we should expect to hear no more,
after t4rS, of the, pretended necessity for Parlia-
tnentary Reform. While all well affected men,
however, will feel' their affection for the Consti-
,tution, and for the British Parliament, as at pre-
sent constituted, strengthened by this occurrence,
ire ktroq, enough of jacobinism not to feel assured
that bet hatred is..ooly embittered by e.vely fresh
manifestation of, virtue. She hates, Parliament
and the Constitution because .of their very per--
fections.

". For ourselves, we allow we are pained at the
ungri3vions result of these' applications tO* Parlia-
; but our sorrow arises more from the ap-
plimations having been made (raking it for grapited;
after the decision of Parliament, that they were •
nnpestionahle),.. than atv the grants being refused.'
We look on the Throne, and the Royal Azanilly,
the Legislature, and rue Ministers of the Cruwn,