The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON:

TUVMSDAY. APIIIL 8, 1819.

The French Pspers stfordieg but little intelligent♦
worth m4.0140)41 (for is a highly polished end giddy

Rifted nation, ender a new-modelled Gosernm•"t,
its concerns will ewer be of Importance to Greet
Wm till we have iwprnved our own hastitimions), we
have the more lime and space to (harem affairs at
home. Of these which regain the notice of the Phi-
losopher, this a nd, above all, the Ittroormr,

the Wallop, it radios, !
Ours may hr said In be the grome•t law•astlne

nation fin the Nee of the globe. Nay, it h•+ more

to do in the way of legislation than 01 the other

na►inns of the 'with pet trgetber. If we go on
st the rate we hire been miming for some
time past, we shall stand in need of some Muttiplr-

ing power, by palls or steam.engine. to carry no '
the work of lawmaking fast xh. Fo► want of
some invention of the above nature l,nrd CA'TLt•
atACII has been thrown set of his calcolatia
the 66 Irish Non-payment Cash Hill." His Lordship
proposed to have adjoarad as yesterday, but from
waist of the super•additiansl impetus we ►peak of,
the Hoes* has ban constrained to meet a few hours
this day, to bring op the work of aapereroge•
tine. France, before its revoletioo, did out pro.
valgate so many laws i■ seven years es oar
busy Parliament encts in one single Session, al.
though that kingdom was composed of double oor
number of inhabitants. The frequent altering or
making of laws is a curse to any errantry. The ob•
Oct of Legislation is an affair of profit from the
enactment to the very penalty of aerating Its lost
riges—from the CUANCELLOB, who has 101. fee for
every passing of a law, to Jack Ketch who receives
about ss many shillings for vacating the grimiest.—
All is interest, all Carthagirean. We may well say
(with a pleasant Romance Writer), " they manage
these things better in France ;" for even before that
country nes regenerated, sod that it 1)a• been by the
revolution, a Gentleman sojourning in it. or travelling
through it, felt flatteringly at his es►e. Ile bad only
to forget that the Government was a Monarchy.
tinged of despotism, and all was quiet on his mind
and safe in his pocket. Ue feared no diurnal nor
hebdomadal laws to make him wary of his steps, as if
on enchanted ground : whereas herr, let a Fresehman
set foot on the English soil, and be soon finds how
slippery it is. Ile go►s to the lest bookseller for the

copy of the Alien 1W!. and not being able to rompre-
hood it, he goes to a lawyer to expound it, bet who
is himself not able to make the way clear through the
mass of enactment, hot certainties, by advising his
New client to go without delay, and give in his name
at the dlieve-o jla !! 1 The advised, perhaps; does
'bet, or perhaps he sleeps one night at the Goldea
Cross, or Whits Bear, looks at St. Paul's chords.
and into Westminter abbey, and returns to Paris
slth self-complateatcy sad (elicitation that he is well

et Ammo epic. The Alien Bill, shut pest to Britain's I
repetatiee, will prevent Leta' dots from relenting
the compliment to our geieese, in going to visit oar
inlet—there being (if the Bank assertions contain any
truth) nearly foe twfllfoas of such ►eturns io arrow !!
Bet to go beck to English Legislation. Whet melt fo.
'signers thick of visovhe are making laws nice months
in e leer, and yet ere as pregnant in crime the other
three es if nothing had been done to better the moral
condition of society 1 We people new and vast co-
lonies with calprita and criminals, till those colonies
at length become mementos and strong enough to as.
smote independence. BOTANY BAY will assuredly,
at no very digest time, set up fur itself, or join
some other Power ; it will despise its Award old
master.coeotry for the knaveries it has generated
and punished. Noy, it is sow, in a greet degree,
an object of refuge foots less supportable evils ; and,
this brings es to what passed in that manufactory of I
laws and chains last night. We my manufactory of
chains as well as lows, for it is there England's
lewd chains are forged, since they hove the
stamp of les impressed upon them. It is a kind of
broad It murk, which makes it death to efface it ;
and therefore we repeat that despair alone remains in
the room of every liberty a BRITON is bereft of in
that place. What sentiment bet that of despair,
Weeded with disgust, can rush upon the oiled of a
humane being its witnessing the endeavotrs of the
patriotic, the benevolent Mr. BINNETT to better the
condition el the wretched female convicts nadir