The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-08 00:00:00

THE WHIGS ON BOTH SIDES.

Those who hold power by pandering to popular passion have
been, in all ages and in all countries, either the designing or
ignorant fosterers of revolution. The Whigs in England who
have "nourished disobedience," and thereby "fed the ruin" of
the state, are now assailed by the wickedness of their own policy;
and who is there in the empire to pity or defend them, except
the miserable hirelings whom they pay and despise ? They have
suffered "those who cannot rule, nor ever will be ruled," except
by a rigorous administration of the law, to wax wanton in the
fellowship of principles which honest men, who regard the. in-
fluence of religion, law, peace:and order, would instantlycheck.
They have fed the tiger, and it is not strange that the tusks of
their pet savage are now fleshed in their own entrails. If they
only were to suffer, they would find public sympathy a shield of
gossamer between themselves and the passions which they have
nurtured into the fell madness that ever characterizes the strength
of insubordinate numbers. But in pampering democracy they
have been raising a spirit which they possess not power to
lay. Nothing but blood will satisfy it. 1 hose who have given
liberty and repressed licentiousness will suffer fir the crimes of
a government that has practised open treason against the peace
and happiness of the country, ever since it came into power.—
We have said before, and we say now, that there are traitors in
the camp. It is impossible that any set of men could, with the
profligate insolence of democracy rising into giant strength
before their eyes, and menacing their own authority, be struck
into mere infatuation. No—the resistance to law has be-
come too startling and formidable to permit cowards to
sleep upon their post. There is evidently a mystery in the
conduct of the Whigs, which we confess ourselves unable
to solve, according to any conceivable theory, except such
as involves deliberate treason against the constitution.—
They have advanced step by step, and at every stage of their
progress have been compelled to feel that their own govern-
ment was nothing but an iniquitous compromise with disorder
and contempt for law. The power which they
.encouraged soon
perceived that they wanted either the disposition or the ability
to restrain it; and what now is their situation in England, that
is said to stand aloft among nations, as the land of peace and
liberty? Why that they have conceded away the conservative
principle of the constitution, which gave equal and due power
to the different orders of the state, each in the proportion best
adapted to promote its separate welfare. From emancipation
they have come to reform, from reform-to the barefaced spolia-
tion of the Irish Church, to the destruction of Irish Protestant
institutions, and to the complete subversion of British con-
nexion in this country; and all this to please the most lawless of
the Irish people. In England has concession produced satisfac-
tion ? Let the present illegal resistance to the payment of the
assessed taxes answer that question. In Ireland has their base
semi Popish policy produced peace or quiet? Let their despi-
cable crouching to O'Connell, and his powerful grasp over the
passions of a stAvaee brood, whose religion is essentially slavish,
answer it. Let blood, murder, crime, sedition, turbulence, and
the trampled rights of property answer it. The Whigs see all
tins as well as others; but why they pursue a system of govern-
ment founded upon the recognition of the people as being the
only legitimate order of the state, to the exclusion of the king
and the nobility, is, as we said, an enigma not to be solved with-
out- the imputation of deliberate treason against other estates.
When Lord Wellesley came a second time to us, and, in
language which savoured more of the policy of the closet than
the honesty of the heart, declared his determination to govern
the country by an impartial administration of the laws, we said
that his speech was only the hollow echo of whiggish falsehood.
What we said then, the short period of his government has al-
ready verified. We did not augur well front him, and he is
likely to outstrip our anticipations. What Lords Anglesey and
Stanley were, in their worst acceptation, will far transcend the
best of Lords Wellesley and Littleton. Neither government
administered the laws; but both have existed as an imperium in
imperio to resist their execution, or to bead them to the depres-
sion of one party and the elevation of another. When the laws
are made a mockery by those who should vindicate their dig-
nity, it is very natural that the seditious man and the murderer
should follow the example of the Government, and trample
them under foot. Lord Anglesey made generosity at the ex-
pense of peace and justice, his amusement, and his generosity
too, only reached one party. What he did, however, front
vanity and a love of low popularity, Lord Wellesley and his son-
in-law do from a worse, because a less honourable motive.
The release of the Ederney rioters, the dismissal of Colonel
Blacker, one of the most high-minded and impartial magis-
trates in the kingdom, together with the procession of a Protes-
tant Queen's representative to a Popish chapel, attended by a
guard of honour, all speak unequivocally as to the party which
will be predominant in the country. Indeed we do not see the
use of judges or juries, or laws at all, it' the Irish Government,
bearing down their legal authority, thus continues to insult and
mock themie cases where " Catholics" incur the penalties an-
nexed 'to them by violence and outrage. This, however, is the
illustration of a whig'b promise, fairness and impartiality to
all classes of his Majesty's subjects."—Dablen Eveiting

A PORTRAIT, AFTER ANACREON.

Painter 1 paint me, if you can,
I reland.s sturdy lieggarman—
You shall paint him as I tell ye—
With a round and portly belly ; •
Brownish wig, well oil'd and curly,
On his nob, -so big and burley ;
Let his bronzy eyebrows pass
O'er a forehead gilt with brass;
And his eves, as blue as lead,
Peep through rims of gummy red'
With th' expression of the ox,
Mingle well the traits of fox—
So that if their staring fulness
Indicate the bullock's dulness,
Yet their twinkling way of running
May develope Reynard's cunning.
Let his Mug be p.;.mp and jolly,
Fat with roguery, more than folly ;
Stretch the mouth from ear to ear,
Grinning with a devilish sneer.
Paint the nostrils cocked and spacious—
Snuffing round and round—" sagacious
Of the quarry" near at hand-
-That's "its own—his native land."
And to fix expression due
On each lineament and hue,
Let the visage emulate a
Prating lump of a potato.
Then, in vesture of his clan,
Rig me this Bull-Beggarman.
On his hack's prodigious mould
Be the blanket strapped and rolled.
From each shoulder sling a sack
Crammed till one would swear 'twould crack,
Hang behind, on either hip.
Here a wallet—there a scrip,
From his neck be hung, before.
Satchels half a dozen or more ;
One for meal and one for salt—
This to hold the tax on malt—
That for pocketing the rent—
Th' others for the poll-tax meant.
And (if not forbid by dirt—)
Put a pocket in his shirt.
Paint him then with hat in band
Stationed on his begging-staml.
'Wheedling, blustering—bullying coaxing---
Swaggering sometimes—always hoaxing
Craving now with gestures dumb--
Thunuering then his " Fee-fa w-fum I—
" Money—money—till my purse
Do i—or for you 'twill be the worse !"
Then, as some half starving PAT
Drops a halfpenny in the hat,
. Let the cocked ears catch the tinkle.
Give the eyes a knowing twinkle,
And the nose aside-long tweak
While the tongue distends the cheek.
Simple reader, if you can
Shun this great Bull-Beggarman.
—Dublin 'reins .Vail.

Emporto.

AFRICA.

Lisbon Packet, Potton, fm Africa, with abt 231 eks palm oil, 42
elephants' teeth, 160 ps red wood, 1 ck knives, 1 cse looking glasses,
1 cse beads, 4 cs 2 cks 1 ble It goods retd, 6 hf brls gunpowder retd, 5
pns rum, W Norris—K Dk
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