The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-23 00:00:00

iliberpool Atinbarb.

Fl?IDAI" MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, H 32.

,At the instant of inditing the first lines of our new
paper, a single glance will, perhaps, be pardoned to us,
at that tremendous crisis in all our national affairs and
_ interests, in which it is its lot to commence its course !
That it begins with the beginning of a New Era in Eng-
lish history, all men, however otherwise disagreeing,
will join distinctly to assert; but, as to what is to be
the historical character of that New Era,—it is that which,
is the secret to be unveiled ! An established, a familiar
power in the Government of the Country, of known ef-
fect, and pending the operation of -which, in the general
direction of the public interests, that' Country, in so
large a degree, has prospered;—this power has been ob-
literated, and a new one, either of :wholly unknown
effect, or of an effectmore than suspicious, has been intro-
duced into its place : in other words, the safety of the
institutions, and the prosecution of the interests of this
great and ancient kingdom, have either been given up
to one of the boldest of experiments, or else surrendered
to the least scrupulous of factions ! More than this, sacri-
fices so vast have been made, to appease a popular divinity,
whose stomach, after all, they can never fill, and whose an-

ger, and whose bolts, may yet remain to be dreaded, when it
shall feel its disappointment, and seek vengeance against
its deceivers I We have, besides, a band or bands of revolu-
tionists in Church and State, in England and in Ireland,
and those intent upon change in all departments of our nati-
onal concerns, Domestic, Foreign and Colonial. We have a
Ministry whose lives, and whose achievements, while they
have alreadyproduced sufficient of actual evil • ive ruinous
encouragement by their supposed inclinaf. .49 more,
and by the imitation which they invite, and'bk the excite-
ment-Which they create, warm into action every restless
and every malignant spirit, and proclaim a jubilee for
every ignorant and every narrow-minded disturber of the
public weal. We have a Ministry, which, whether
at home or abroad, has already loaded the country with
Calamity, and whose names, even by their own indirect
acknowledgment, men habitually connect with the pro-
bability of further suffering, as well as to our interests as
to our institutions! • At the late dinner upon Lord Mayor's
Day, in London, Earl Grey took occasion, in the most so-
lemn manner, to protest, that neither himself nor his col-
leagues had anything so much at heart, as to cultivate
fruitfully every national interest, and to send down to
posterity every institution of the country, in the same
perfection in which it has descended to ourselves ! For
our part, we entirely believe the Noble Premier; but
the serious questions remain behind,:whether the mea-
sures of himself and his colleagues are adapted to the end..
which they have in view;-=and, far beyond all this, whe-
ther those measures are not paving, and have not already
paved the way, for the erection of a tyranny, and the
arrival of a convulsion, such as neither he, nor his col.
leagues, nor any Ministers the successors of either, wili
be able to resist or calm ? The protestation of the Nobb.
Earl, we take, in the meantime, as an open acknowledg-
ment, first, that the interests and institutions of the Coun-
try are actually enpangered; and second, 'that both him-
self and his colleagues sufficiently, know, that it is them-
selves, and their continuance in (Alice, which are publicl v
pointed at, as the sources of the danger!

While these things, too, breathe only dismay into the
contemplation of the future, the present itself is rife with
evils, and with the immediate means of evils, which are
already come. Already the nation is plunged into a
warfare, and into an alliance, which hardly anything but
revolutionary partialities can explain ; already the Colo-
nies are desolated with the visionary politics of dema-
gogues and fanatics ; already a desperate faction dares
assail the English Monarchy—the English United Go-
vernment, Temporal and Spiritual ; and already the
Election for a New Parliament is at our door, an
event which reason commands us, and our domestic ene-
mies are loud in telling us; threatens the consummation
of everything which an enlightened Englishman can fear
and deprecate for his country ! The future, then, is
really before us; that future which the Country and the
LIV,ERPOOL STANDARD are to traverse;