The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-18 00:00:00

subjects of the KING, .equally and unrestrictedly. No
limitation as to the size of ships.
Secondly. ,The company to cease being traders, to send
no more ships to China, and to dispcse, at their earliest
convenience, of the interest they have in the finishing of
Indian silks. And
Thirdly. The government of India, and the patronage
thereof, to remain in the hands of the Company fur the
period of twenty years ; the India revenues to be appro-
priated to the payment of the present dividends, and the
liquidation of the debt, under a guarantee- from the
Crown.

This is an outline of the plan proposed. Whether
ministers are seriously disposed to carry its provisions
into full effect, is a question which we shall not take upon
ourselves to answer. We shall, however, be exceedingly
grateful to them for that portion of their scheme which
relates to the China trade. It is but justice, and tardy
justice after all, that the trade in tea should be opened up
to those merchants and those ports who have the best
facilities for carrying it on. The population of Lanca-
shire and the adjacent counties, taking Manchester for
the centre, and forming a radius of fifty miles, is much
greater than that of the same radius round London. It
is beggarly justice, therefore, at this time of day, to be
conferring upon Liverpool, and that reluctantly, those
commercial privileges to which she has a natural right,
and for withholding which so long it would be difficult to

assign a valid reason.
No people have clamoured more loudly for the bless-
ings of free trade than the good people of London; and
their clamour has been in the exact ratio of their igno-
rance. They will now feel the effects of the policy which
they did not understand, and will have reason to deplore
them when blackened colliers alone shall float in those
docks where Indiamen still ride in-the tarnished remains
of oriental splendour. The China and India trade, in
the course of events, must come westward and hither-
ward. Liverpool must largely pal ticipate in that branch
of commerce which has hitherto been confined to the
Thames, and it will go hard with the enterprise of our
merchants if they du not transfer three-fourths of it to the
Mersey. And why should we be envied this transfer ?
Is it not enough for London to have the monopoly of the
Bank, the mansions of the nobility, the houses of legis-
lature, the courts of law, and the offices of the govern-
ment ? These should satisfy our metropolitan friends,
even though Shadwell and the parts adjoining were
ruined. And by the way, we are not quite sure if London
be entitled to those peculiar advantages over every other
town in the empire. The geographical situation of the
metropolis is unfavourable, even as respects England;
but it is much more so when Scotland and Ireland are
taken into account. But this is a subject we may as well
discuss hereafter. We are quite content for the present
with the China trade, and the new commercial facilities
respecting India generally.

The ministerial scribes are at present in as rabid a
state as any unfortunate canine brother ever was in the
dog-days. They have just sense enough to perceive

that the imbecile ministers whom they serve exist only
by sufferance, and that the extinction of their power and
their expulsion from office are determined upon. It is
so written in the prophetic almanack which they consult,
and they consequently look forward to the crisis with
feelings of apprehension bordering upon madness. In
tile Times and Chronicle particularly the language em-
ployed proceeds apparently from the same vile source,
and exceeds in violence that which gave a brutal and
sanguinary notoriety to the rhapsodies of Anacharsis
Clootz, and the other scoundrels of the first French re-
volution. The right reverend prelates of the church are
menaced, not merely with expulsion from the House of
Lords, but also with confiscation and degradation. The
Duke of WELLINGTON is pointed at in the most unequi-
vocal terms as an enemy of his country, who ought to be
banished from court and from society. The KING is
threatened with a deprivation of that which the poorest
subject in the realm would consider an act of gross op-
pression, namely, the removal of his friends from court,
the alienation of his family, and the banishment of his
private advisers. The people are told that the army is
disloyal to the nation, and ready to draw its sword against
the intelligent part of the community ; and this being the
case, it is proposed to disband the KING'S guards, and
reduce the standing army. The Chronicle urges the
necessity of pulling down the hereditary peerage, and

indulges in some dark hints relative to Charles the First,
and Louis the Sixteenth, ending with " to-day a throne
—to-morrow a prison." The Times calls upon the
Commons to pass a vote, declaring " that the House of
Lords, by setting itself repeatedly and perseveringly in
direct opposition to reform, has rendered it impossible to
carry on the government without an absolute extinction
of that assembly which represents the people, and the
establishment of a pure olio ashy in place of Kings,
Lords, and Commons;" and it concludes by advising the
" faithful Commons" to pass " resolutions and addresses
to the Sovereign, that specific persons should be dis—
missed for ever from the service of the crown, and ba-
nished from the royal presence" .1 I
Such is the language of the ministerial journals, and
it requires little sagacity to perceive that it emanates
from some member of the cabinet. Both articles may
not be written by the same person, but the animus of the
writing is precisely the same, the object and the means
are the same, and both are equally treasonable. How
wretched must be the situation of ministers when they
are compelled to have recourse to such disgusting expe-
dients. Not content with their overwhelming majorities
in the House of Commons,—not content with having
sufficient influence to induce their unhappy Sovereign to
offer a direct insult to the whole of the nobility of Eng-
land,—not content with the slavish state to which they
have reduced the press, and the pledged, but dishonoured
representatives of the people, they seem resolved to usurp
the prerogatives of the crown, banish the royal family,
and abolish the upper house altogether.
These, their liberal and honest intentions, are boldly

promulgated by their hirelings, and the language they
employ, whether it be dictated by arrogance or despair,
is alike scandalous and reprehensible ; but we are never-
theless delighted to add that such language is calculated
to excite far different feelings than those which they wish
to inspire. Thank Heaven the time is gone by when
such appeals to the bludgeon and. the brickbat could be
made available. The ruffian cry of the Times is now
like the swagger •of an inebriated pickpocket, and the
vapouring of the poor Chronicle is that of a tipsy old
woman in a hysterical fit. Their influence is inert—

dead—rotten. Such factious ravings only excite con-
tempt. There, is not a man in England, except Lord
GREY himself, who is so dull or so stupid as not to know
that this language of intimidation islired—paid for out
of the taxes—and addressed to the worthless by men
equally worthless, whose designs are infamous, and
whose pretended love of reform has no other object
than to secure a longer enjoyment of the emoluments
of office to themselves and their families.

•There was a time when the people of England, labouring
under a periodical paroxysm of insanity, might have been
induced to join an unprincipled administration in under-
miningthe throne, robbing the church, and degrading the
nobility; but a returning sense of sound justice and policy,
and an exposure of the selfish motives of the conspirators,
have scared away the popular delusion, and returned the
ingredients of the poisoned chalice to their own lips. The
Ministers are universally unpopular. The very circum-
stance that they are compelled to seek the assistance of
the Times is a proof of the fact. The voice of the nation
is against them. 'They have no supporters beyond the
walls of the House of Commons. They have no adherents
but the vilest and neediest of the Whig sycophants, who
have violated every pledge they ever made, who have
betrayed their constituents, and have justly rendered
themselves odious in the eves of all men. What is the
state of affairs even in Lord GREY'S Myr) family circle ?
His right reverend brother, the Bishop of HEREFORD,
aroused to a sense of the Premier's revolutionary designs,
has nobly and fearlessly come fortisard to lead the oppo-
sition against Ministers in the House of Lords. The
KING must also see the humiliating position in which his'
servants have placed him, and must. be anxiously waiting
the opportunity to accept their . resignations. Talk of