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eopelar candidate by a majority of 2,000 suffrages. Split
the county, and What happens? Why, the bulk of his es-
tate tieing left in the same eleetoral district, he has the
whole. or almost the whole body of his own 2,000 voters
to support him agalnt the 1,000 electors constituting the
independent interest of that moiety of the county, and Is
canleel to ride rough-shod over public opinion. But
this is all fair in the eyes of the aristocracy—they desire
ro better, and they avow it. We raeasu ed last
F•attirday the mei!rs cf the county-mongering clause, by Te-
p,.:!ing the nunius of its most strenuous partisans in the
Mouse of Co rillons on the previous Thursday, which hap.
n'o'el to hr t!4'se of the bitterest opponents of " the bill,"
and of evety prorosition of enlarged reform. 'laving tried
it by ad, rier,inal standard, let us now take another stan-
d.). d, Red see ky tri•at Pert of of-pentads it was supported ;
1..- nt.teh are we itiiiesken, if there le not found in the ad.
• v eacr of the )(omit tioismigh system and the rotten county
spat m jast the same alliance of principles as of persons.
it EGISTER.—IIIy opinion is, that there
ti:tikt he war between the despotisms t f Europe and the
French ; the strong inetination of the latter to pumas
listgium ; their deep and just resentment aping, Burghs,
Austria, and Prussia. and against Holland also; the
herr; h'e dread which all those powers have of
Vra::ee getting posaession of Belgium ; the COI1V;Cti011
in their minds due they must all fall, if they do not
try to keep Prance within her ancient limits ; and
that, therefore, it is better to try than to fall without
trial. Ihittine Invself in their place, i should thus reason,
and slitutip therti'ere try us I thick th:sy will. If they do
try, any initdstry, with a parliament like the present, would
find it very difficult to stand without joining in the trial
I entrain myself from suiting all the reasons that induce
me to adopt this belief ; but, I know well what a ministry
so situated weuld have to contend against ; and, it
such a state of Aitiogs should arise, nothing but a
reform of the parliament can enable a minister to stand
a day without joiniseee.the despots of Europe. The
first consequence of got* into such a war must be a
stoppage of geld payments at Altre„,Pank ; the next cense.
quence, immense loans, and immense histtes of paper money.
This could not long; two prices would inevitably follow •
one for metal. the other for paper ; and then ail is cenfusior:
in a short space of time. If, by the means of penal statutes,
ala Robespierre, he thing could be kept going for a few'
years, the debt would become so enormous in numerical
amount as to render it utterly impossible ever more to think
of paying the interest or any part of it. In the mean time,
the pecuniary affairs of all men would be thrown into utter
Confusion ; the names of debtor and creditor would hare lost
rimir meaning : as money is the measure of value, there
weuld be neither money or value: men would lose all their
ideas about prnpery, and the end would be, that bodily
force would prevail over legal right ; every one according to
his power would hold what he had, or take what he could
- find : there weuld be a dissolution of society; and,

as in all such cases, order, when it came again, must
arise out of chaos. Independent of all commotions ;
independent of all the effects of political discon:ert, of the
workings of faction, and the still more serious workings of
the hunger and thirst arising from the shillings of property,
and the ruin of employees; independent of all the effects of
that bitternes, that vindictive spirit, which severity and in-
digniey have implanted into the bosoms of the labouring
millions ; independent of all these, the workings of the
paper system alone most, in a very short period, overturn
all order and all property ; dissolve the community, and
leave it to feint itself anew. To those who have nothing
tuit their labour to exist on, this is a matter of comparatively
. 1 tile importance ; but to those who possess something be
sides their capecity to labour, it is a matter of very great
importance; it is a thing which they should think of
heumes ; and every one of them should, if the dan-
ger were to arise, be prepared to do his duty. What
steps ought the people of England to take, if the go-
vernment were to tie so tine ise as to take part in any war hos-
ttie to a itet.Fle cot iendirg :or their liberties ? The people
cught, in all tarts of the kingdom, instantly to meat in a
I. ;:el sod ceestito 'lona! manner, and petition king and both
houses of parliament against beginning or prosecuting such
war. They ooglit to show them that they feel no interest in
• such war, that it is a sat- on their property,while it is also a
war against their reason and against their conscience, and
they ought to declare, in the most explicit terms, tbat, as far
as the law wilt warrant them, they will resist being made,
either directly or indirectly, parties to such war. If the
neeplc of England had, at the beginning of the French re-
vel ttionary oar, acted generally the part that was acted by
a few, how different would have been our situation at
this hour. To be sure, the nation never would bate been
. happy again witliont a reform of the Parliament; and, if it
had not been for the unbearable burthens created by that war,'
we might not hate Lad reform now • but, great GOD ?that
sufferings bas it cost us to be brought to a resolution to de-
mand
this reform ; what sufferings has it cost us to bring
the government to the single choice of reform or confusion !
These sufferings, or, at least, the greater part of them,
might have been prevented by a loud and general protest of
the people of Eegland against a war upon the liberties of
the people of France. But those who profited from the aye-
. tem deluded the people, and made them mad for that war
which has produced such incalculable calamities. The people
were made to believe that the French were twenty-six mil-
lions of Atheists, robbers, and murderers ; nor were their
eyes opened when they saw the clergy of the church, who
• bad taught them from their infancy that the popish religion
was idolatrous and damnable; when they saw these cler-
gymen open their arms to receive the teachers of that
• idolatrous and damnable religion, and when they heard
then from the pulpit scat eniattze the French for having put
down that idolatrous and damnable religion Even this did
not open iltAr eyes; even hearing the clergy execute men,
and call upon England to make war upon men for having put
(loam what was idolatrous and damnable ! Even this did
not open the eyes of Englaislimen. Their eyes are open
now. They understand the whole thing now : let them, and
you particularly, act the part that becomes }on in case the
emergency should arise. Mom at once: stop not until It be
past remedy : make your voices neord instantly : let every
individual man say, nothing will be done if I do not n.ove.
I hope the ministers ate not n ad enough to design, and not
weak eLeugh to be driven by the boroughirongers, to plunge
the ceututy into this new series of calamities; but if they
be. let the pe,i,le act their part well, and the country is
I,:r e:rLd.

101?1.16N INTELLICiENCE.

DUTCH PAPERS.

Tl.e Express from Brussels brings accounts of
tl.e tint:tally conduct of the Main Army of the
114ians, which took to flight at the approach of
the Dutch Army, and left their KING to seek his
ewn safety, with a few men. This, forsooth, is
the heroic people, who, a few days since, bid de-
fiance to the Five Powers, and coupled their name
v.ith the brave Poles ! They are now dishonoured
fy• ever. Had it not been for the timely arrival of
it...! F. ench in Brussels, the whole of Belgium would
have been in the possession of the Dutch troops,
and, perhaps, their King a prisoner.
The express from Paris has but one important
feature, naii.ely, the great improvement in the
French Rentes, which came 58f. 20c, caused by a
supposition that a general peace will soon be esta-
Wished throughout Europe, and that the pre-
sent tranquility of France will be maintained.
CASIMIR FEUER IS expected to have a large
wajui ity in tl.e House of Deputies.
F::traordinory Supplement to the Hague Journal
of Friday.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has receivar
fiunt the London Conference the following letter:
" LONDON, AUG. 5.
" M. le B4mc,—By the letter which your Excellency did
1141 the honour to represent to us, on the lit of August, you'
loot the goodness to into us, that it is the intention of the
King, yuur august master, to support by military measures,
thr negotiation which his plenipotentiaries are commis-
asissioned to open at London.
•• We should have supposed that these measures would
he ;nits/red only in the. Interior of the territory of Holland,
tj I..:Litc. report (lid not inform us that they have been ex.'
oided neyoud its frosuleu,—that hostilities have been re-'
sumtd against the Belgians b the King's orders, and that
the armistice concluded at Antwerp, )iu just been de-
nounced.