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London, England, 1818-01-02 00:00:00

P. T. Lemaitre
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Clement Poole, IN bite-

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Godfrey Mains Slel-
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A Briton
W. Pater, Noble•street 6
J. P. 1
Geb. Vleatherttnne
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.William %Laity. ' 1

John Foster, &oatley,
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Wm. Atehell
P. W. 2
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T. Cartwright, Thames-
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W. tnniams
George Elundell 1
11- L. Josses
William Ellis
Fether, King-street 1
Mrs. Fether, ditto
Stephen Newman
Thomas Gainsbarough 2
Res. Ebenezer Jones
Alex. Calloway, Ilolbora 2
James Webb 1
J. T. Mount St. Alban's,
Caetleon 1
'The Doctor In Bedlam
A tencipk of C. J. Fox
An obscure Demadon to
Public Merit
An Enemy to Corruption 1
A Friend 1
Thomas Taylor 5
Henry Brandon
A Friend to the Inno-
cent 1

Thous Frost
Wm. Morin
4.-- Milictt

LIBERTY
HoW is social order most endangered ?—By bad
'Ministers. Do gens-d'armes afford a protection
against this danger ? The only thing which can at-
ford any such protection, besides a well regulated
representation of the people, is the Liberty of the
Press. It has, no doubt, its inevitable dangers as
well as standing armies. -But the danger from the
Liberty of the Press finds an antidote in that very
liberty. A Paine finds a Burke, nay, calls him into
being. Falsely alledged facts are exposed, and false
affirmations and conclusiens are controverted. 'We
have the experience of fifty years to prove that the
Liberty of the Press can flourish in Germany, with-
out endangering the Governmeet.
A people who have never yet reflected 031 their
'own affairs, and to whoni the income and expendie,
ture of the State are secrets, nry be kept in pupil-•
cage—to such a nation the Liberty of the Press may
not be allowed.
But the Germans are no longer unworthy of such
a liberty—they are for the most part enlightened,
curious, and take a deep interest in public affairs.—
What would they gain if they could succeed (and
success is almost irripossible) in placing the Press
under fetters, among a people so far advanced its
cultivation ? The consequence would be, to give
rise to secret Presses ; and these would enable men
to put still more dangerous productions into circnla-
tion. How many publications against Napoleon,
dining the time of his omnipotence, were not merely
printed and read, but read with the greatest avidity I
• • • • ♦ • •
The word Legitimacy may pass current enough
Paris, in Vienna, in Berlin. In London it must have
less authority. And how it it possible that Legiti-
macy should be adopted as an exclusive principle in
Warsaw and Poland, in Merseburg and Dusseldorf,
in Cologne and Treves, in Brussels and Venice, in
Nuremberg and Heilbronn, kc. We saw the Threise
of the most powerful overthrown before our eyes.—
The Kingdom of Westphalia had the most powinful
allies the Kingdom of the Netherlands has not sub-
sisted so long as the Kingdom of NVestphalia.
We must have as a foundation for the Throne a
principle which is somewhat more and stronger that
legitimacy and
.power. And that principle can Le
no other than that which is the supreme laW,
populi.
The people, no longer in pupillage, require and
demand legitimate means and ways to give expres-
sion to their wishes and complaints. So long as tial
have not such legitimate ways in a Parliament, is it
to be wondered that their voices are loudly heard
in extraordinary ways, either in Journals or on tht
e
Wartburg, which this or that person may disapprove
of? This will be the case with this article ; the au-
thor does not deceive himself, but he is not sorry,
because he knows that he has said what he consideis
true and salutary.
For those who may be offended with im, he v. id
conclude with the following extract from aßussi.in
national song :
e The Lotto in Heaven was mleep ; he was Waked by a
noise and said: timiatzt, look doWn to the 'Earth, what is 'Nit
matter? Loan it is thy valiant Russians. What are they do-
ing? They are marching against tar Turks. Who constnam6
Suwarrow. Then the Loan laid himself on the other side, ..'d
fell again into a quiet sleep. Again a noise: Gamma, look
down to the Earth. What i. the matter? Lou it Is thy
Kant Russians. Who commands? • • •—Give me my home,
I most now begone.—Bunten J.nmnal.
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL REFORM.
As the great struggle for Ecclesiastical arid
au; Liberty began in the age of the Reformation,
the struggle for Political and Civil Liberty has be-
gun In our age. As the system of Papal hierarchy
was then shaken, in our days the system &feudalism
has also been shaken, and where true Representative
Constitutions have attained maturity, has been anni-
hilated. As the bloody conflict which began with
Luther's attack on Tetzel, was 'Continued under va-
rious alternations of success, and with various cone.
plications of interests, down to the Peace of West-
phalia, when both systems were at length ade:itsed
to a complete equality of right ; in like manner the
struggle between Feudalism and the Iteptesentat;:r
System will at length find its Peace of Westphalia ;
for the civilization of the people of Europe,
have passed the age of minority, cannot lose abe !'S