The Statesman.
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THE STATESMAN

to aid, of every womau And child. 11'111k: he felt anxi- i—(Applause.)—The Palace of the Sovereign would 03t
our not to detain the tettelsolders, he could nit yet help' he more secur4 than the cottage of the meanest subject.
thinking, that if there ever were a moment which called After some *hie observations the ifonourable Gentle-
upon every honest and independent man in the kingslons men roncloded, he expressing an dkpectation that the
to come forward—every man who was not dragged at Resolutions woittil be unanimously agreed to.
the tail of Government—every man who had a character • The Duke of nomertssT next came forward, and after
a rag on his back, or a fa-thing in his pocket, the pre- a speech which we regret our limits will not allow us to
sent was the moment for him to state his opinion:, and rreport,tnneluded by expressing a hope that the result of
to record those opinions against the enemies of his,. the Meeting would be beneficial to the whole country, as
eountry.—(applause.)--With respect to the immediate it would be honourable to the public spirit and irolepen-
business of the day, he would ask, could any one doubt 41enee of Wiltshire. He fe.tgreat satisfaction in second-1
that her Majesty suffered under a foul pet s.-cution.— lag the Resolutions.
(Cries of nu one can doubt it ?)—lle believed that she The Resolutions were then put, and carried with a
was the intended victim of foul conspiracy, begot in single dissentient voice. (We timlerstand the Gentleman
malice, engendered in darkness, and supported by per- I who stood alone in his opposition was a Mr. Mallet, the
jury.—(Applaus?.)—TlieMinisterstbroughnut seemed to son of the late Sir Charles Mallen. He appeared to be
have hot one object—fair or foul, foul or fur, we will, very young. Several Gentlemen expressed a wish to
said the Ministers, find her guilty.—(Applause.)—.l pu- provide a place for hint on the platform, so that he mit
polar Poet bad said-- state to the meeting the grounds lif his opposition.
"SlavEicannnt brt;Vhe is England ; when their lungs did not, however, avail himself of the invitation: He

remained in the middle of the crowd, uutuoleskgi by a
single individual.]
Capt Borveete, of the Royal Navy, next came for-
ward. lie said he cordially aereed to every word
contained in the resolutions which hail been just
passed. They justly condemned the late proceedings
against her Majesty ; a measure more unnecessary or
more impolitic it was impossible fir any Minister to
en:er on. The question w; •.s not the guilt or inno-
cence of the Queen; hut even if it were, the proceed-
ings against her having been abated, she must be pre-
snmed innocent.—(:Applause). With respect to the
pulacre, the part of the case ,o much relied on, his
firm opinion was, that no guilt whatever could he at-
techei to her Majesty, with reference to her con-
duct on board the polacre.---(tireot cheers). The
most that could be made of it was, what the Noble
Marquess (Lansduwn) Oise: yeti in another place, that
the case, as far as it regarded the polacre, allowed
the presumption of guilt from the hare possibility of
its commission ; but if there was a bare presumption
of guilt on the owe hand, how strong in other respects
was the presumption, nay, the proofof her innocence ?
The greatest injury had been done to her Majesty—
the idea had been must improperly conveyed to the
minds of thousands that the polacre afforded com-
fort and security—now, he could speak as a sailor
—he could say, that the covering was a mere
awning, made, even in the best of his Majesty's
ships, of old worn canvass—he could have little
doubt that the awning on hoard such a paltry vessel
as the polacre was most hurt feet, and probably full
of holes. At any rate, such awning could not pre-
vent the crew from ascertaining whether or no an
adulterous interrourse had taken place. No wan
would cay that the crew might not have ascertained
it if their curiosity were once exalted, and that cu-
riosity would leave been excited, if that intercourse
had been carried on, te of fur six weeks, but much less
than six days. In justice, therefore, and indeed in
cosec tent sense, it was but fair to conclude that ba
Majesty was guiltless, for if she had committed a
guilty art on board the polacre, the fact would have
admitted of an easy, clear, and satisfactory proof at
the bar of the House of Lords.—!Applause.) He cen-
chided by hoping ?bat the secreting would unanituoualy
adopt the Petitions whirl. he was about to lead.
Sir EDWARD POUR, Bart. rose to second the Peti-
tions to both Douses of Parliament. Whatever were
the reasons which had induced Ministers to bring fur-
ward proceedings which deluged the country with a
mass of ahornittalile evidence--evidence which un-
happily had xn extensive circulation, and tended to
contaminate the mind; of the rising generation, what-
ever might have been their reasons it was impossible
fist the people to fathom them, butt they were bound
to unite in reprobating the temerity which dared tee
bring, the crouch individual in the State to a trial, even
after that proceeding wai described by one branch of
the Legislature to he deroghtory to the honour of the
frown, awl injurious to the hest interests of the
Itiow—(Loud applause.) —That proceeding went on,
the Minister disregarded the call of the !loose of Com-
mots*, and the prayers of the Contitry went ten with
the pro:wain:4', and produced ass unparalleled fer-
mentation of the public inlaid, at a time too, when the
peeple wanted but a pretext fur violence. Under those
circumstances, he thought it was clear that the Meet-
ing should come to the conclusion, either that Minis-
tree acted according to the best of their ability, and
',hewed a most tleelleable deficiency in their counsels;
or on the other hattd, act •el against their judgment and
(skewed thee basest servility, and most despicable awl
criminal manners, in order to retain their planes.
Ile would not yield to any person in loyalty to his
King and attachment to the Constitution of his
country, lout at the same time he considered that it
was the duty of every netts t i raise his voice against
measures which avere hostile alike to the morals of
the country, to its best interests, anti its fundamental
liberties. It was on this principle that he hail signed
the reqnisitien ; but he thought that few cuuld wade
through the disgusting mass of evidence without
arriving at a conclusion fatal to the reputation of her
Majesty (disapprobation and cries of " No, nu ! we
arrive at no such conclusion.") lie was sorry to differ
with geatlemen on the point ; lout it was the only
paiat on which he differed with those who surroutoled
him. It was the dotty of the people of England to
oppose the Bill of ['aim awl Penalties, because it
was eel tnifestly hostile to every principle of the Con-
stitution. The opposition which, in the first instance,
that measute met in the House of Commons, might
tend, in soene degree, to quiet the fermentation which
existed in all orders of society. flow far Parliament
might succeed its keeping down that fermentation was
another question ; lint, as the discontent of the people
originated in other caeses, in far different motives, in
the distress and misfortunes of the conntrv, in the
general embarrassment of all orders of society, pro-
duced by the system so long pursued by a weak and
mistaken administration, he feared that there were too
many existing difficulties to induce a rational hope of
seeing easily restored tie tranquillity and content
which once blessed and honored the people of Eng-
land Differing, as he did, with some sentences in the
petitions, there were many others which he highly
applauded ; on the whole, he thought they were likely
Ito produce good----they lead, therefore, his support.
The Petitions were carried unanimously.
The Duke of Sostgasee moved, that the Marquess
'of Lansdown he requested to present the Petition to
the House of Lords.
The motion was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Goddard,
and carried unanimously.

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Receive our air, that moment ihey are free ;
They touch our country, and their shackle, felt ;
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud
And jealous of the bleasine."
(Appaluse.)—Stich was the character whirls Englishmen
ones bad—would they Ainiv that character to be stained
or reversed by an infatuated Administration, by men
%rho did not value the virtues of the nation, bet Anse they
felt not their influent e ? Thaae men chsteuetteed what
might he call.-1 a war of exterusination—agoinstylsous?
against one lonely, defenceless woutan—(applatsse.)%—
Would the people Al England allow that illustrious wo-
man, the rife of their Sovereign--the first subject in
the land, a woman who had a double claim on their
support—tie daughter of a hero—the mother of their
lamented and beloved Princess Charlotte—would they
allow such a woman to he tried withent justice, and
crushed without suercv—(cries of " Never, never-) ?
To utai the language Of the lion. and klatriotic Baionet
titer him (Sir F. Bitrdett,) " Forbid it every strop of
blood that did not. proclaim its owner a bastard"—(loud
applause.)—lt Lecame the duty of ercry hottest man to
speak out, 41441 to mark with reprobatiou the odious sys-
tem pursued by Ministers against her Majesty (applause.)
Was ever %%moan, even the lowest—the most psidligate
and licentious--even the female felon was not assailed
with such foul abuse—such filthy, unmanly, cruel attacks
as her Majesty was daily exposer) to from the dessii-olh-
cial papers of the Treasury—(true„ true); but the abuse
was nut coalisted to her, the people were honoured by
the invectives of that vile press; nut a single man could
come forward at any public meeting, that was wit ex-
posed to the insult.; of those exclusive pretenders to
loyalty—those declaimers against the licesitionsiiess of
tire press.—(Applause.)—lle admitted that the lion-
tiousneas of the hums did exist, that it might he traced
to the doors, as well of the friends as the enemies of Ad-
ministration, he lamented it—lse lamented that popular
animosities should be carried to such au extent, but he
could not help thinking that there was a strain of gene-
rosity even in the excess of feeling in the caese of a
woman, whose fate was interwoven with the eh tracter
the country and the rights of that Constitution. -Mond
applaitsis. That feeling appeared the more g rilerou%
when put in contrast with the meanness and selfishness
of the Governiiteut and their alwttors.—(Applause.)—
lie would ~ive one instance of the milliner in which the
King was flattered and deceived. 'llse Bishop of London
on a late occasion solemnly declared that the Sovereign
could do no wrong—could do toilarum;;, not itterel:.• as a
King, but morally could do no wring as an individual.
KA laugh.) Its the opiition of that Lamed Bishop the
ing could do ins st rung tow irds his wife—lie tif4l.l PX-
empteil from the commits, frailties of uor ioutmon nature
—in the opinion of the Bishop he rodd do no wrong—
(a laugh), and he e 0411.1 comma uu Laugh-
ter). Such wit the 411-41,trarion of a .Prelate 4.f the
Church of England—one of God's Ministers.—(t ries of
"heis no such thing.-) Such was the opinion of the
Lord Bishop of Loudon, that a human being was Hot
morally reponsible fur ally act 411 Isis to his t wintry to
the laws—to his conscience.— or his Creator.—(Fries of
" shame'.") The Bishop of London should not do things
by halves—holding the opinion he prottoonced, he
should have gone to the kiiig, atilt said, " Sire, yon wish
to get rid of your wife—your NI ajes_y call 110 110 wrong,
and therefore your Nlajrsty had !setter take up a kitchen
poker, and knock out her hi ains."--(A gli.) Tliat
would he an easy way to get rid of her, and not criminal
as morally the coolit tio now rotor. It was lament-
able—it was disgusting to se.. how Ministers treated the
country. What ! wits it to be endured that the property
—the liberty—the very morals of the people, were to Ive
put in jeopardy, because domestic broils existed hetween
the King and the Queen, or to speak in plainer tango:toe
because two old people hate earls other—(applause :and
laughter)—was all that eras dear to the country, to be
put in danger ? Was England to be covered with blood,
or degraded by iomsorality, merely to enable the King to
try his luck a second time in the Lottery of Wedlock,
and possibly to draw a blank—
•• Scilicet ut Turista coutingat meta conjus,
" Sos 'Moire viles ialiuntata indetaque turbo.
" Sternainist campis.-
No, he hoped the people of England would do their dit-
ty: doing so, they would prevail over evil advisers;
they would nut cease in their efforts Instil they .saw ample
justice dour to her 3lajeaty—until they saw her name
restored to the Liotrgy, „„a until she was pot in posses-
sion of her rights Anil dignities.—(Applause.) —The
people would not desert the Queen—guilty or innocent,
her Majesty had been treated itsfamously (Appian-it-),aud
the country had been treated worse (continued applause.)
If the Queen were gitiltv. her husband might thank him-
self fur it—(Applause.)—llis letter wait a letter of li-
cense ; he said you may do what you please, and es,
where von please, so that you do nut come to trouble
sue. 'the Bishop of London, if Isis Lordship were ac-
quainted with the Scriptures, might find wriven its that
sacred valume, " Ile that turneth away his wife, except
fur fornicatiou, causal* her to commit allultery.--(Ap-
plause.)—lt a as, however, lout an met of justice towards
her Majesty—an act which, in his opinion, every honour-
able anti manly mind would perform--to declare that
the whole of her Majesty's conduct bort dee arp•aragiva
of innocence. Was ever tuagnat t i ttt ity like tier's accompa-
nied by guilt ? No. She was the only ineusher of the royal
fatally who ever had the magnanimity to restore one
farthing of the large sums which were annually taken
out of the pockets of a distressed people.—(.Applause.)
Never did any one of the Royal Family restore one shil-
ling to the people, except her Majesty ; but she gene-
rously restored a sum of 1.1,4N10(. a year—(lonsl and con-
tinued applause.)—tie would say to those Royal Dukes,
who on the late trial sat not only as Judges, but as
Jurors—not only as Jurors, hut Accusers, nut only as
Accusers, but as Counsel against her—he would say to
them, and particularly to the Duke of York, who took
ten thousand a year from the.people, for what ? for go-
ing frOm Loudon to Windsor in a one-horse chaise, Oiler
a month, to see his poor old father—(Cries of shame.)—
To him and to another Royal Duke, who distinguished
himself on the late trial he would point to the generous
conduct of her Ma:esty, and say" Go and do thou like-
wise"—(A pplause.)—tie people of England were hound
to condemn the proc -tolings against her Majesty, not
only on her account, hut on their own. She was to he the
victim of to-day, but it was impossible to say who would
be marked oat as the victim of to-morrow. 'Her case was
theease of the country—the thing t:ame home to the feel-
ings of Englishmen ; if the flames of persecution were
once raised, it wmild he impossible to say what they
alight sot consume, or how they could be extinguished.

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Mr. Ctt.i.tre moved, that the two members for
fl'
be regnested is vreseut the petition
fHouse of Commons.

Mr. JOY seconded the motion, which was
unanimously. _ _

Mr. BENNiTT said, he rose under very s!roni
slums on the present occasion, because he feist
I duty to speak sentiments which were perfectly
riance with those of many of his friends, for wt

entertained the highest regard, and to whlm
ander obligations, which he shnuiti continue
kamvledge till the latest hour of his life. Tb
which he owed to his constituents and to his empity
was, however, paramount to all other consideralimet
and he could not for a moment hesitate, brow"
the strict performance of that duty and any frf,
,lags which he night entertain for his frienis.....
He agreed with every syllable of the Petition,

thought the late proceedings in the highest
unconstitutional, unjust, and cruel. lie show
deed, occapy their time to very little purpose,
were to urge any arguments against them,

should advert therefore to another topic upon
he W 45 anxious to express his opinion. There
party of Ultra-Royalists in this country, who Wen
.irons of arrogating to the►nselves all the loyalty
the country, and who stigmatised with the mum
radicals all who presumed to differ from them

subjcm of vital importance to the country. The
radical, in itm just ant natural sense, was m 4

innocent, lint an honourable appellation. Every t,
wan would be a radical reformer, both with referekt
to his own faults and those of others ; but as ,
gentlemen applied the term radical, it signified r
errant, who, having nothing of his own, lia,
regard for religion or morality, or for the exist
stitutions of the country, endeavours to pall down
he cannot build up, and to destroy every thieg,
hope of obtaining something in the k:etieral
Such was their definition of a radical. For hit

part, lie despised the idea of rebutting any ehal
disiocalty ; be did not believe in the exist
Radicalism in the sense of the term, and he was

from doubting the loyalty of the people of Engles
that he believed a more loyal people did not -
the face of the earth. Ile did not mran to sa+

there might not be some disaffected awl sedia
sons in the country ; there were assn some

breakers, hit;liwayinen, and pickpockris in the
try, and lie firmly believed that there wore

of ooe description as of the et her.---(A pplauAe.,
civil power was in both rasesstrong enough to
and punish them whenever they were met wi

there were any disloyalty in the country, it was
buted only to the conduct of his Majesty's Mk
As to the various Addresses, whisb he seared?
lt,sew how to designate, but which he ve,nald std
the fulsome addresses, it was eeitleht that they mal
nothing hut attachment to the King's Ministers. They
declaimed against the licentiousneLs of the I ress, aid
the immorality of the present age. lie denied the
present age !V As immoral, and that the Press was Mote
licentious now than at any former period. But wise-
User the Press was licentious or not, Cod forbid that
any restraints should be imposed upon it. In veal-
ins of the Press, he could not help regretting that the
names of the King and Woe. had been so bvs,,eid
about. Bat who were to be brained for this ?---Not
the Press, butt he Ministers, who Ismd done all they
could to lower the dignity of royalty in the estino-
tiou of the people, forgetting that they could not as
to degrade the daughter and sister of a het
and the cousin and wife of the King,witheutdegradiag
the King hisnsell. lie trusted the voice of the lea
pie would he so raised throughout the country, as le
compel 111iliKftn'to put a stop to the toslions inptity
into the conduct of the Queen, that the names of the
King and Qaeen might once snore become respectable
and respected in the country, and such uoconstits-
tional proceedings, as Bills of Pains and Penalties
he nu more heard of. He concluded by declarisg
that be should have the greatt-st pleasure in pre-
smiting the Petition to the House of torus,
and that he felt it to he his duty, as strongly as
it was Isis inclination, to give it all the support WA

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Major Asyt.r.v said, that in declaring Isis readi-
ness to present the Petition in concert with his Col.
league, he hoped he should be excused fur not paw
ing any opinion upon it. Ile could assure thee,
that upon that and all other occasions his conduct
would be strictly regulated by the adoption of that
measures whirls he conceived to be must beneficial to
the country at large.
Mr. Uosuos declared, tl►at iss a just abhorrence ad
the late disgaceful and disgusting proceedings in Par-
liamcist, an.) of the foul and atrocious conspiracy Is
work the destruction of a defenceless woman, by
bribery and subornation of perjury, and by ever)
means hateful to the laws and constitution of tr
country, he would yield to no man, and that nothing
could prevent a recurrence of all the evils which lad
resulted from the late proceedings, but the di,missal
of his Majesty's Ministers. But he could not 10
obaerviug. that if they relied with any confidence apes
the measures which were likely to he adopted by Pat
liainesst, as it was constituted at present, they
Isaiah deceived, He believed tbat Parliamentary
fora► was the only means of re-establishing the'
rity and prosperity' of the country. This was
opinion declared by the noble head of the hour at
Russell, at a late meeting. Lord Holland also coin
sided in this opinion, and had declared, that that!,
he was at one period considered but a lukewarm Pr
former, he was now decidedly of opiniou that tin
country could only b.' rescued from the dangers winch
awaited it by a change of Ministers, and that
change of Ministers would be nugatory without a Re'
form in Parliament. He would venture to quote er
wore speech, which deserved to he written in letters of
gold, and carried from one end of thy country to tis
other ; he alluded to the admirable speech
Earl (trey, who in his dignified reply to the
ful calumnies which had been thrown out by •
of the Clergy in the county of Durham, had a''
laded to the circumstance of Isis hating twits or
thrice refused to take the office, because he
nut make the slightest compromise of his principles.
" I will rot take power (said that Nobleman), AL tie
late meeting in Northumberland, unless I can utak!
.► complete change iq the system of the (lover:meat.
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I-.Rh, •
ssentary Reforms were the same as those which he hell
in ISIO. He was glad to observe these manly and
decisive declarations on the part of the Whigs ; for
they bold oat a cheering prospect of succour and con-
solation, and the people might look with some conli-
&nee to the light which was beginning to illumine
the darkness of the political horizon. He was, above
all, glad to observe them, because the hopes of the
people were not likely to be frustrated by any such
unfortunate coalition as that with the Grenville party
in 1596. The Whigs had been long out of power;
they had been nailed to the north wall of opposition,
as was observed by a celebrated Statesman. He trusted,
however, that their long exposure to so old a climate,
had only tended to invigorate them, and that they
lvould come-into power with their nerves so braced, i
that they would never be relaxed by the dangerous 1
atmosphere of a Court. Ae to the life and fortune,
or hole and corner addresses, there was one thing •
observable, that they all originated from a source !
which threw discredit upon the pretended mo-
tives of the Addressers. The persons most :
actively engaged in getting them up were uni-
formly found to lie men who had their hands in the
peryle's pociets,—sonie Exciseman, Receiver, or Cus-
tom-house Officer was sure to he at the bottom of
them. In fact they could be regarded in no oilier
light than as addresses ordered for, and paid by the
Treasury. He trusted that the strung expression of
the public fbeling, at this and other meetings, would
have the effect of removing, from his Majesty's Coon.
c:is the men who had gone so far towards accomplish-
ing the rain of their country, and who, if they con-
tinued A the head of the Government, would soon
leave nothing of Englatid but time name.
Mr. Jot moved, that the thanks of the meeting be
given to the Noble Lords who had done so much ho-
emir to themselves, and such service to the nation, by
opposing the late monstrous measures against her Ma-
jesty. The present was, in fact, no party question ;
for on one side there were only his Majesty's Minis-
ters, while on the other were all time independence
and spirit of the country. The sentiments of the ex-
e:usive loyalists were no more those of the people of
/England than a rotten borough was part of the Con-
stitution. Yet these gentlemen, not contented with
exclusive loyalty, must lay claim to exclusive piety too;
and, finding their loyalty so profitable a commodity,
they were desirous of monopolizing all the religion :
and morality in the country. They seemed to think
that the v could not render their Sovereign a greater
eervire than by assuring him of the di,allection of the
people, and that the best way of enhancing their own,
little stock of affection, was to convince him of the
disloyalty of all the rest of his subjects. He said, it
behoved the people to he active awl vigilant in op•
posing these men, and concluded by moving the
Thanks of the meeting to time Lord Lieutenant of the
County, to the Marqnesses of Lansdown and Bath, to
the Earls of Suffolk and Caruarvon, to Lords Boling-
bloke amid lloiland, and the other Noble and lode-
Pesolunt persons who opposed the Bill of Pains and
enalties.
Mr. Locks seconded the Resolution.
The Marquess of LAxapowN next came forward ; his
Lordship was rewired WWI the infra gratifying marks
of respect and public affection. In a speech of consid,r-
able &winds nod great abilite, of which we ore unable to
give even an outline, the Noble 31aripmess animadverted
on the delusions practised in getting up u hat were
called the Loyal Addresses, and proceeded to time imme-
diate questions before the meeting. On the sass of the
Queen and on the proceedings against tier, he dwelt with
much effect, and concluded his remarks on those heads
with observing that whatever might be time opinion of
the Meeting with respect to the diseusting evidence
which had been brought forward, there could be but one
opinion, one feeling with respect to the manner in which
her Majesty hail been treated, and, through her, the
country.--(Applause.) It was, he said, one of the for-
tunate circumstances of the Constititti )))) , that no indi-
vidual, high or low—neither his Majesty on the Throne
',or the meanest inhabitant of the cottage, could be ill-
treated, without injuring that Constitnt• .---(Applause.)
It a .s one of the virtues of the British Constitution,
which makes resistance to oppression the first duty of
t! e subject, and makes the cause of one the cause
of time whole.—(Applause.) The people of England
had already acted a noble part ; but their labours were
moot at an end : their vim tennis efforts would only cease
Kith the acts of ismjnstice which first called them
forth. If they persevered, they would stand forward
with honour and with snecess.—(Continued Applause.)
Whateter might be the causes of time public discontent
—ohm...me might be time necessity of Reform, he did
not think that the House of Commons, or any other
public hotly in England, was herond the reach of public
opinion—public opinion, wisely declared and firmly de-
clared, would prevail ; it would ultimately make itself
heard, to the (hoc mfal of those who vainly laboured to
resist its influence or subdue its force. the Noble Mar-
quess next observed, that at so late an hour of the day,
be could not willingly detain the Meeting for any length
of .ettie ; but there was one subject on which he would
make a passing abs !Nation, namely, the supposed dan-
gers of the country. From public discussion, far from
apprehending danger, he considered it one of the great
hopes of public safety. As long as the people of Eng-
land continued to exercise their undoubted right of deli-
berating upon public subjects, the country was in no
danger, kr the cause of tenth must always triumph,
when the light of day was thrown upou it.—(.Lpplause.)
The proceedings of this day gave the lie to the user-
tions of those who deserted their duty by not appearing 1
iu public, and tiusnfnlly faring their countrymen. If,
in short, no other loyalty was to be relied upon but time
loyalty of these secret addressers, there would, indeed,
be no security for the country. But there was another
kind of ley alts in a lunch more numerous body of men,
%elm felt more :deeply, and appreciated more justly the
true spirit of the Constitution, and upon that loyalty
ime relied for the safety of the country and the constitu-
tion against every species of danger, foreigu or do-
mestic, with which it could be menaced. These private
Addressers mistook the genius of the Constitution which
they professed so much anxiety to defend, for the genius
of that Constitution was publicity. The very mode of
electing Menthers of Parliament was a proof of this, for
they were required by the Constitution to appear openly
1)44 etheirconstitnents, for the purposes of communica-
tion and instritction. From such meetings the people derive
the greatest benefit; they go away more attached to each
other, and consequently more attached to the Govern-
ment and Constitution tinder which they live. if Pub'►
ha- were not the genius of the Constitution, elections
might as well have beeu condacteti in the same secret
manner as these loyal Addresses; but by bringing Re- I
presentative: before their Constituents, a epirit of mutual '
communication was kept up; and out of that collision
arose time public feeling and public opinion, which con-
tributed Ito less to the domestic glory of the country,
thee our fleets and armies contributed to her glory 1