Star.
London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

cedes
all mem or graditiognkainittnotLetheytofofilirnive,
wasabithistrtowavivertthea,netablo: Aoimodib.,t4cis.
slia Of elementary principles of civil society as It now curse:
they have never peen invaded, and, as a civil community, a.
kaansuvesir
shms.illisvett orirghbeet,na
cation of which we are now contending. It came to us from
oar German ancestors, and is one of the first threads on which
the wed of the constitution was laid down. •De minoribus
rebus,' says Tactics, in his immortal work on Germano on.
• (Apes consultant, de majoribm omnes ita tams°, at ea quuque
q• uorum penes plebem arbitrium est, spud principes pertrar.
• tenter. Coennt, nid quid fortuitum et subitum incidetit, car-
{ tis euebus: • • • • Non simul nee ut juan comeniunr,
• sed et alter et tertius dies cinctatione coeuntiunt absumitur.
Ut nuke emit, confidant' • • • Sidisplicuit semen.
•di (remits' aspernantur„: sin plunk frameas concutiuct.'
Tames De Mori w, cap. xi.
" Such is the account given by the Philosophic Ilistoriap;
not GI an incipient right, but, even in his time, of an existint,
practice ; and let it.be observed, that we are not now comet d.
ing against the suspension of the right, but against Jur extinetson ,
as hitherto enjoyed. We can conceive a perind-4n emerged
neceuity, at which it would be proper to nom/ oar most vs.
liable enjoyments, Magna Charta, or the Bill of Rights t but
to enact, that we shall new again esPay the right of meeting, ai
we have enjoyed it in all time past, is to say that we shall never
again be she people we have been; or that we should have been
a yet greater people if we had enjoyed this right, not u we bate
enjoyed it, but as it is ?WIN to be modified, pruned, and lopped
for ova use by Lord Viscount &MOVIE and Lord Viscount Cs,.
Tmazann. Men of ordinary capacities may meet an occurring
evil with an appropriate remedy; but they who attempt is
change or modify heat pineiples in perpowdty, should be wire
than all antiquity.
, " And are these men so? Arethey competent to tell us whit
sights Englimsen, not of to-day or to.taorrow, but through .1
cocain generations, shall lad fit to enjoy—and what not?
against the hencefselk and for ever' that we are contend: t.
The right, in its present form, has existed from all antiquity. 111
attempt is new made to change the form, through all posterity;
and that, en account of an evil which is even vauntingly asserted
to be temporary. We an do no mere than entreat !lodinate
not to nineties the rash, the silleted attempt; and axiom it,
fervent hope, that if we must this day freer an ancient rip;
for the sake of present ease or,tranquillity,aperiod either precis,
oe swatiocast will lie, at least, stied to sopartentoss a aim*,
aid that we shall not, by one act, determine die fate of all our
descendants."

The Public ought to be made well acquainted
the nature of those dreadful fetters
are now forging for Englishmen, •
of a blind panic, and in the hurry 1/4
ger. By the Bill for the more effectual
and punishment of Blasphemous
bets, it is proposed to enact, that
be convicted of having composed,
lished any blasphemous or seditious
after being so consisted; offend
'may be adjudged to be banished,
United Kingdom; but from all
King's dominions, for such term
order, or to be transported for sena ,
afterbeing so ordertld tn be banished
he shall be et large is sinfifient-
nions, before the expiration of
suffer death !

Gracious Hestien! to what would
tend? It runs in the disjumetive..-fr
or any seditious libel."
Every information, and every
on the Government, charges it
every person convicted upon
would come within the proposed
fence. But that universality is
mischief. It is not confined to s .
same libel. No ; if he be afterwards
any other seditious libel, at any
will be within the Act!
Men of the first rank and character
often have been, convicted of
one can tell what is, or what is
Attorney-General chooses to Iwing
one can *rite with any degree of '
lic affairs, without incurring the
bad times it shall be thought proper
Is it, then, compatible with, we
Press, but with any Press at all,
employing his useful leisure in
the Editor of a Journal, necessarily
who in the course of a long and
happen to be twice convicted of
a libel, should be liable toianishatent
transportation among felines for -
breach of either, to death?
How could such legislation
man ? Surely, to make it known
ought to be sufficient to stop it.

We have received this forenoon New York .
to the 12th of November. The last accounts
contain •from the Spanish Main state, that the
Viceroy of New Grenada, after his expulsion
Santa Fe, had escaped to the vicinity of
where he has encamped on an elevated spot,
a force of no more than about one hundred
General Latorre was with two hundred and
men, all that remain of the five Regiments d
vane, at Cucuta; while General Mostar.* Wm
boned, with about 6000 men, at St. Caries, sbk
100 miles west of the. Caraccas, where he appeal'
to be waiting the arrival of the expected reinforc
*eats from Europe. Lord COCSRAIII left 6:
tiago on the 11th of August for Valparaiso•
wished to take about six hundred troops with hiroll
the squadron; but the Government declined sendl
any until they could-spare such a number as 'told
enore success in the attempt to revolutionize Peru.
Wokarn by accounts received to-day from Presto)
that the* persons, from Blaekburn, have been cctr
' nutted to the Hotta of Carnation there, so t3keth:

were, the
i It AM !Mu:
community,
out them. Of tk
raction or modifi.
came to us from east
t threads on which vie t
Do minoribug
Germany,' lath.
men, at ea quoque the
priocipes pertrac.
bitum incidetit,cer.
atitssa conveniunr,
euntium absumitur. ' ce
Sidisplicuit semen.
sineas coacutiuct.'
MOriinis cap. i
ilosophic On
time, of an existin,
re not now comet
against itg mammon, ''n
Perindj-on emectett tin,
suspend our most ca. jrt
Bill of Rights but 05
e right of meeting, a., flit
r that we shall never NI
we should have been
right, not as we Aare
Is pruned, and lopped as
Lord Viscount CAS. fi
my meet an occurrint .111
they who attempt ts
max, should be wig; rr
opetent to ten us who lit
crow, but through .3 ist
isj
-and what not? It
e
a we are contend: i•
S'
from all antiquity: a 3
through all posterity;
yen vauntingly anew
ban entreat Partial:nen
erapt; and express the
Mt* an ancient iigtt,
• period either Imo*
*portentous a mimmy,
nine the fate of all our
e
roll acquainted with
err which Ministers
under the influence ,
y of a fictitious du.
effectual preventa ti
is and Seditious Li.
if any person shall
ed, printed, or pub.
ous libel, and shall,
a second time, he
not only from the
Pother parts of the
a as the Court shall
tea years: and that I
dished or transported,
the King's doms.
the term, he shall ,
maid such a law ex•
14 any blasphemous
• -
y indictment for hid
to be seditious ; and
such a prosecution
d law on a second of
• only a part of the
a republication of the
srwards convicted d
distance of time, be
swatter may be, arid
seditious libels.
is not libel, until tie
ring it to the test. NJ
of freedom upon par
the risk of libel, if d
roper too prosecute hitt
we will not say a
di, that a Gentlemo
political d sous:ion, &
meanly engaged in
d honourable life no!
what may be d •
eishoseut for life, or tc
Pr snot year:, and f&
enter into the mind d
known to the Pa..
p it.
Poen New York Pa
The last accounts t
;airs state, that the la
ter his expulsion fro
vicinity of Carthage
an elevated spot, with
Put one hundred fDen
wo hundred and iftl
a. R periments of St