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fore the abuses of the Constitution. And shall any man
wonder ? Is it for me, Sir—under this impending tyranny
—to counsel my fellow-countrymen peaceably to lie down
beneath the burden of so many griefs, meekly to content
themselves in a condition of undeserved misery, priva-
tion, and broken estate ? Am I to counsel my starving
brethren passively and loyally to submit to wrongs, lest
their proud superiors be mulcted, forsooth, of any part of
their ill-gotten stores ? Shall I stand forward the re-
pressor—or even so much as the censurer—of the
" rebellion of the belly ?" Shall I, Sir, to save
a profligate Aristocracy, and a doubtfully useful —,
oppose myself to their cries as the counsellor of patience
and continued endurance, and the apologist of damnable
slaVery and oppression? No, my fellow-countrymen ;
rather would I, if need were, that you should find me in
your ranks— sharing your perils—seconding your noble
efforts for the re-acquisition of your superseded liberties—
and together with you, straining every nerve to accom-
plish that indispensable change, which can alone restore
to you all your just prerogatives, your not to be with
impunity alienated rights.
But the PEOPLE, Sir, have a simple and efficacious re-
medy for all their sufferings, at this moment in their own
hands : they possess the means whereby to shake the re-
solution of their oppressors, and to throw down—by one
spontaneous movement—the burdens which afflict and
gall them. Let them one and all cast aside that pusilla-
nimity, which has been to them hitherto as a
' moral manacle, and which has induced them tamely
to acquiesce in systems of exorbitant fiscal spoli-
ation : let them band together when the tax-collec-
tor comes, and simultaneously declare their incapability
to pay. Then will the pliancy of administration to
the loud expression of the public opinion, make haste to
develope itself: then will the People's oppressors recognise
the all-influential force of a nation's will : then will they
make haste to avoid the lowering tempest, by tardy—but
effectual—concessions. In sober truth, let the middle

and lower classes only resolve to combine, and they will
soon shake to their centre those elements, which—whether
in the character of aristocracy, oligarchy, or monarchy—
have so long, and so successfully, prevailed against
them ; enslaving and oppressing a greatly generous and
enduring PEOPLE, but now roused, by the excesses of
those who govern, to re-conquer the rights of which
they have been unconstitutionally deprived.

SIDNEY.

THE EVENING STAR.

We may observe briefly, on the cursory consideration
of what passed last night in the House of Commons,
what disingenuous misrepresentations are resorted to by
weak and guilty Governments, whose interest it is to
withhold the damning proofs of their own misconduct.
We are told that the production of papers of two
years' date would now be premature !—as if Sir FREDE-
RICK LAm a's request to detain our troops at Lisbon
could—by its publication—prejudice any pending treaty
with the perjured despot : or, as if nine-tenths of the
papers moved for by Lord PALMKRSTON might not have
been published at Charing-cross without any earthly in-
convenience; except, indeed, to the advocates of tyranny,
who conducted the creditable correspondence—who re-
commended the child MARIA to the bed of her uncle
—the lawful Sovereign, to the tender care of him
who had usurped her throne, and murdered her sub-
jects ; and who would, no doubt, have taken as good care
of her as a certain other uncle—bight RICHARD, Duke
of GLOCCESTIR—took of his Royal nephews, in more
remote, but not more barbarous times. Nothing ever
equalled the weakness—the miserable exhibition—of the
Treasury Bench : it was painful to see 'even adversaries
cut so deplorable a figure. With the exception of Mr.
PEEL, they were received with laughter; and as they
did nothing to defend their cause, their speeches
served merely to afford additional proof of its worthlessness.
When Mr. CA LcRAFT cried, ‘• War! war! war!"
and Mr. Humes repeated nine times " when the time
comes"—videlicet, the Greek Kalends—for publishing
the papers, the Honourable House lost all that gravity,
which the tragedy they
were discussing had previously
excited.

In publishing to-day the letter of our distinguished
Correspondent, SIDNEY, we feel ourselves super-
seded in many remarks, which—at a first vacant
day—it was our intention to submit. to our readers,
on the actual condition, and only hopes of the country.
We need not say bow deeply we participate in those
convictions which animate our patriotic correspondent ;
and how sincerely we rejoice, that opinions—alto-
gether so coincidental with our own—should be put
upon record in these columns by so much more
persuasive a pen, and an authority so unimpeachably
pure and high. We feel with SIDNEY that the crisis is at
hand, and that the PEOPLE—if they desire to be free
—must look to no deliverers, but themselves.

Bzwru.—At Eltham, on the 10th instant, Mrs. J. H.
LATHAM, Of a ma.
The Princess Augusta honoured Mrs. Fielding with a
visit yesterday, at her residence in Somerset-street.
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