The Statesman.
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, nor shalt alrylitalr Weak-ittii6 hat ivinikbpAity, for . bi the Otitis; eaters by foreign Powers ; Others by a
none can escape the effects of such a transgression." Prlnee'setlisr• Blood ; besides popular leaders, who
ti... ill. • • ' MNCODeellte Of the boob roily antweenher aboisi ad. •I Isad Owl* men private schemes to answer ;no 'won-.
• verlisement. His great principle is to construct pa-1 dee sbM precipitation, inconsistency, and distrac-
TO
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VIE EDITOR oF. THE STATESMAN. • ' litics on the basis of merelity, rejecting that notion ! tion, prevailed amongst them. By the old method
Sin,—There was a law at Athens which declared of convenience or utility, which has been made the ;of 1,04 in the estates, the Clergy and the Nobles
foundation cie all government by some men, and has I' Med, could carry every thing, and the people
ell those persons infamous. who took no part in the
public dissensions. This law: wxxdictated by the Ser,{ll as an apology far the very worit. 66 The' *OD a nullity ; bat here they acquired a wonderful
purest patriotism. It is, indeed, Warror's to be in- idea of good and evil must necessarily have preceded' Prepeaderance, which led to the abuses I have men-.
different to the public welfare. It is a crime against the establishment of society (says he, page 16), for ! tinned •; yet, these- abuses were susceptible of beiug
nature; for, as Teeee says, Communisatilitatis de- without such help, how should men have formed to.;.corrected. IfAlse nation had been left to itself, expe-
'Wien° contra naturam est; that is, a dereliction or themselves a conception of laws? how compreheod i riencw would have discovered a medium between this
indifference towards the public good, is contrary what was proper to be forbidden or commanded ? In precipitation and nullity. In England, both Homier: of
to our nattsre—who can doubt that ? The man who estate of nature reason supplied Abe pla ' of Parliament voted together till the time of EDWARD
has Ito leaning towards humanity ; who, wrapt up the law and the Magistrate, and society lot ile- 111. and the Commune Concillum, or Mike! Synod,
in sellisheess, is indifferent to the 'interests of his grading nature, has only advanced it inetite. way to or Magna Carla, of the Salons, was far more po-
species, that being sins against nature, he is unwor- :perfectiots, since laws, and the whole machinery of pillar than the French National Assembly ; there
thy the name of man. Consequently if was right to civil government, were originally designed to Mist.;
.was, however, i more select Assembly, that of the I
decree, as tioeoe did at Athens, that he whoitook nal:mson in the contest it is doomed to maintain against ; Witenagemot, or wise men, who prepared the lair; ;
the passions of men." ,that were afterwards submitted to the approbation of
side in the political disputes or seditious which were
to be expected under so free a Government, should The Laws. of France, from the time of Lours the people. This practice was of greet antiquity
be declared infamous. There were, therefore, no. Xl.to the time when the Abbe wrote (my edition is with our itteestors : TACITUS says, ita fawn ut ea 1
time-servers at Athens, in those days at least; none : datedel7B9), had been founded,as he justly remarks, quo.que quorum: penes plebem- arbitrium est, apud 1
of those paltry fellows who affect an indifference to- !on the bon plaitire of the King : in opposition to • Prlncipes piettatattar: that is," nevertheless, thoitel
wards both sides, waiting only to see n hich will this, he considers the Law of Nature, or Right Rea- metiers whiaritlielonged to the people to decide I
have the best of it in the end, that they may bOw ! ion, as the true criterion. '6 This law," says he, upon, are previously debated in the assembly of
and cringe to the victor, and insult the vanquisherMiso simple, SO Elfir,i(ilummotis, that it is sufficient the chiefs, or great men."—Now the first France
—there were so Views of Bray (as we call them) only to present into a man to obtain his immediate . Constitution had nothing of this kind : there was
in that country, no turn-coats—no men that• •acquiescence, if passion has not usurped the place 1 nothing in that syateis to check the effect of
applaud for years what they assert to be sound'. of his reason, and the organs of the understanding" popular impetuosity, a quality possessed by this
and just principles, and afterwards abandon them are not deranged. 'The subtle sophist and the mercurial people in 'an extraordinary degree.
becaura unsuccessful. The reason of the corns country clown, are as conscious as the most pro- , —The establishment of .a Senate,. therefore,
munity governed the State, and people differed, as found philosopher can be of the truth and excel.. : might have been a salutary
_Appendix to the
no doubt men will differ when they reason, but no fence of this maxim, that all men should.de unto l best Constitution, if it bed been constructed on
man believed that victory decided reason; or that his others as they themselves desire to be donounto."— ; proper principles, and particularly if it had borne
argument was the strongest, whose sword proved at P. 113. To those who argue that man should be , any resemblance to the Assembly of Wise Men
Lust to be the longest. Stich differences as those now kept in ignorance, he replies, that in that case Pro. 'among the Saxons, who were selected by the People
referred to, may exist without men becoming the vidence would be to blame for having endowed him
'theenselves. ' But BONAPARTE seems to have held a
ceresies of" each other, or of troth either. They with reason. To have an ignorant people to deal : diihrent view from that of ollayiug the precipitancy
ieeicate a !tradable emulation, indeed, in the disco- with, is a very commodious thing for those who de. !"of the Legislative Assembly with the discretion of a
very of truth, which is only to be attained by the sire to dupe or oppress them, &c.- There are three ! body of superior experience i his grand object was
exercise of reason. By this exercise of his reason, principles contained in this book, and so excellent to surround his Throne with a band of chosen'sup.
man may .alwayl learn his duty. It would be to im- are they, that I defy any man to add a fourth of porters, on whom' he thought he could depend. In
pugn the wisdom, and not only the wisticon, but the equal worth. ' ! thit, however, as in all his other renames, he has
goodness of the Deity, to suppose that this same ' The lust, is the .principle of liberty (as asserted keen miserably disappointed. He has created Senates,
reason %Lich he has given us for a guide is only by Locxc, and practised by our ancestors at the and Crowns, and Kingdoms, and bestowed dignities
calculated to bewilder and perplex us, and • Itevolution'of 1688, and on many former occa. •;
of all kinds, without experiencing in return any
set us together by the ears. No, let us not Blom), whereby all authority is derived from the ; personal attachment from those whom he had so
blaspheme ; it is the bad passions of man that ' people, and in virtue of which the [louse of Bruns- highly favoured. These Senators, holding their dip
produce this effect, and not his reason.-- `;wide now fills the Throne. The second principle, city, :led the ereolurneds attached to it, for life
Were it not for these bad passions this earth would is the cultivation of right Reason, wideh teaches only, wire seduced with the temptstiOn offered.to
be a paradise ; and consequently it mast follow that man his duties and his rights, in a moral and dell them, of snaking these things hereditary in their la-
the happiest state of man upon earth, is that social sense, and raises the dignity of his :Wore above ! milies; to turn against their' bOnefactor, that very
state where, by the laws and regulations of society, that of the brute. The third principle is that of
power with which he had invesited them. In ;rete-
ll bridle is put upon these passions, and the greatest ..Christienity, which gives its the most perfect. sense "tut return for senatorial dignity conferred upon them,
z.ecurity and encouragement given to the free exercise of justice, by teaching us to do untojathers as we they take from him his Imperial dignity ;in short,
of the public reason. This is, in few words, the would be done unto, ea '-enjoins and corn-' they unmake the man who had made them.
grand science of government—the object which a mends us to be kind and benevolent towards I TIMOTIIi T:Z.'...TFAIAN.
nation ought to hare chiefly in view in the -establish- our brother men, • giving thus its aid and sop. i
I Buckinghamshire, April 27, 1814.
I
(To be concluded to-morrow)
mot of its political Constitution. But though this port to the iqlrmity of human. reason.---- ..---_
ilia! is clear and simple, it is by no meanseasy to ac- Such were the princiilles that produced the French
complish. Of the difficulties which impede the tic- ReColution of-1789, and the first Constitution so-
complishment, these are the principal:—The in- Imlay
.sworn to, two years .afterwards, by the King
fluence which the executive authorities are always and the whole *Midi-rand I -may ask, what was ,
disposed to exercise over the national sentiment— there in all this to excite the rage 1nd....11611UP" of
the arts employed by others to mislead the natioual the people of •Elikland'? APas I the people of b 'im-
ocntimelit, who fitul it their interest either to oppose land were grossly and treacherously deceived by the
eta executive authotities, or from personal vanity or 'calumnies of Eumulls BtitillEl whose glaring false'
ambition are desiroes of becoming leaders of the . hoods, and whose unparalleled ierlodeadts in cir•
people—the opposition which exists in many men's culating such falsehoods, will be the astonishmmit ..
utiods (from circumstances too numerous to euume- -of impartial posterity. He takes no Alice whateveit'
rate) between self interest and public duty. . of this book of the Abbe MAlLT—ptrhari be war.,
I
Thus a Geueral, who would be sure to have a lu- : unacquainted with it : if so, he was very imperfectly ;
crative command in a war, would naturally wish to -informed upon the subject he wrote about ;but as the
promote it, though conscious that his duty to his man was aheap of deceit, it is possible he thought fit 1
country ought to incline him to peace. Thus the to pass it, conscious that hit talent of railing and .
leader of a party directs his politics to such objects : scolding in fine flowing language would be of no use 1
u will promote the views of that party, or increase • against such an adversary. ALMA' appeals to oriel
his own particular influence over the people. Thus I reason, Buitat to our prejudices only. The first i
the chief Magistrate, though conscious of having tells us that all taws, and icarticalarly fundamental .
been delegated for the sole purpose of executing theor constitutional laws, being intended for the belie-
will of the nation, doth often employ an undue in- fit of all the people, ought to be expreised in such
fluence tocontroul that will. Hence it appears that ; plain terms- that all men may understand them.— 1
the best Constitution is that which leaves the nation i MONTESQUIEU says the same thing; he tells 05,1
to be governed by its own aggregate wisdom, or, in 'book taix, chap. 17, that the laws of the Twelve
other words, that guards against the undue influence i Tables were so concise, that the very children used
of the executive, the intrigues of parties, and the se- I to learn them by heart : their style, says be, cannot
cret bias of selfish views. These are ie principles be too plain and simple, such are the laws of Gon'l
that prevent the national wisdom from being uni- ! himself. But what says Esolarnso.Bunga ? Truly./
forinly directed to the national good, which, if freely 'lie tells us that the common cladirii,llitit Ii; thrilisfi
exerted,it would be competent to accomplish, nodoubt. majority of the people, neither comprehend, nor i
:Now, although the operation of these baneful grin- , ought to comprehend the English Constitulion. This i
ciples cannot be totally checked, yet they may be ' man has the effrontery to avow, in his Appeal,
*trained and regulated; and that this is the idea! p. 113, these words :—ccThe British Constitution 1
our ancestors had of a free Constitution, is very ! may have its advantages pointed out to wise and re-;
plain from the metaphor of a btidle, by which they ex- `:fleeting minds, but it is of too high an order of ex- i
phtined it. As it is the will of Heaven thataman should ! -cellence to be adepted to those which are common;
testrain his bad passions, and follow the dictates of . it takesin too many views, it makes too many combi-
treason only ; so must it be likewise very acceptable nations,' to be so much as comprehended by shallow
to the Deity, that such social regulations should be ! and superficial understandings." .
eeteellshed among men as will prevent the bad I Be pleased to. observe Reader, that is man—
passions of princes, or popular leaders, or even of ! this EDISUND BURKE, at the time thirtvbe had the
the people themselves, from counteracting the exec- assurauce to tell the. people these tbi ,be
vise of the national reason. • that birth-right which
.our Saxon anceato a (rude as
About the time` of the French Revolution, there they Were) so well understood, and so 'dearly de.;
was published a book, by the Abbe MANLY, enti- fisted, was picking the nation's pocket ;la I clandero:
tied Des Droits A• dee Devoirs du Citoyen: it tine way ; -he was living upon a...vensiokkraeted,,tO
contains ttse profound theory of Loots:, adorned by him in another person's name. 1 es,' VOW reason
the brilliantimagination of a first-rate French litera- to talk of combinations not fit to be vita reheadal
ins
ti. He gives,. by way of preface, a quotation from be the people; the combination betweeti, it pen and
LACTANTIUS) in his Fragmenta Ciceroni: dc Repub.. , the base reward that put it iii motion ' one of
lice. The meaning of which I will endeavour to - them, no doubt 1 .Ile Wee the mercenary advocate of
convey in an English dress to the reader, as cor- . the two greatestevils that ever afflicted 'mankind—
rectly as lam able. " Right reason is the only true priestcraft and statecraft.:—.lle was not ashamed to
law : it is conforinahleto nature, and diffused among plead for both, no wonder be cemmended-ignor
all men :it is constant and eternal. Its commands anon in the people; but I will not disgust the more
lead us to fulfil our duty ; its prohibitions only pre- • Reader, by dwelling any longer on the tricks th ,'
vent us from doing injury to ourselves and others.' have beets played off by this state Mountebank.;
Good men will be disposed to obey both its coot- which, however, will all recoil on the cause that they
islands and its interdictions, whilst he who is an- I were intended to suppOrt. I shall proceed to cop-
ntot...d by either, must, of necessity, be a bad man. sides the first French. Constitution, which the
it is not allowable for us to withstand this law, or to Reader will the better. ondeistend, I hope, by means
derogate from it in any thing, or totally to abrogate of the foregoing remarlfs.' It was. intended by that
it ; for it is a law, which neither the authority Constitution to inaltethe LefOslative Body the organ
of the Senate, nor that of the people, can annul, or of the national sentinsfest.... The'desiga,was good, but
absolve us from. It needs no other expositor, or in- the success was not . fusterahid. The people were
terpreter than itself. It it the same at Rome, the suddenly called up" on t? act without beingprepared
same at Athens ; the same now, the same hereafter; so to do by previous adacition or experielice4 If a
to all notions, and to all ages, it has been the same man were to he kept in:darkness froilOee tang,
law, for it is eternal, and immortal : the inventor of and precluded the 'llse of Ms members, isal Merrell:de
this law is Goy himself, the Sovereign and Emperor set at liberty in breed" day-light, he *acid certainty;'
of all men, the great Judge. the universal' LaWgiver. make strange mistrAtiib'aed meet with some trishipe,'
To disobey the authority of this law is to discard which, howeveCo• %toil:111'bl, corrected :141eltiteriettre.1
our nature, and renounce the name of man ; it Arts ;also were employe& to misleadthe, isatloni&
si ould be but a vain attempt to fly from ourselves ; sentiment : there were' nieti -in the ligehiblj bribei

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

1.41117 INTE L LIG ENCE.

SALES.
Policy of-trimmer fur ElOlll, -
COURT Of tit Nt.i.s Jd.iv 1.
LAt Ainctiti. 1111n.rt,..."MMYTilnrdOnt:111,Trtit7.16, at.
KING V. RICHARD GURNEY, . Tsiebe, by ()Her of the assuktiet6 str. Thomas it•iats-
This Defendant was brought up for judgment,
oath he •hog sotered to lion opiost. fain -by geroutt._ ,POL(CY INSURANCE en the Loaden•
• • • • ' Lite, aksori.itiao, ter OP ref 10.0.'0n the life of Mr.
upon ,an information for an assault upon ......thtliwrt Thee,„,,,,-Hiods,„s.sc need 4,9 in As4u,n, esibieted nis she IA
.littidater.at Law, 'accompanied with •ef ramirv, at shat time,tubject to. dbm maul Pre.
triiiim
Ithifiineittisonioce.reduced to
. 7.1.1.!;.fd.and,0 ill in a nate
gek to•tneite him to a breach •of
the peace. The circumstances of this'case were folly !. ramie-akin niny he had of Mr. *Steven!. Sistkitor ta tiveCao7t.
laid before the p
ion
üblic, upon shoiving cause aguill, 'tripiniy
Waft. sum Cotheit4ortleas ; and of lir:10' 406 C aerate
the tile nor the,informnt. The Prosecutor ha
been misplayed as Counsel upon the Tregony nett-; Leasehold, fishapitatef
Ry Mr. EDMUND DRAYTON,
beforetied a Committee of the Ilonse.of Commons; , At the Auction MartibhaTUKSVA Y, Maylo", ISM, at Twelve
and in that 'capacity it had become necessary for him t by Order af• the prow ietar.
to comment upon the evidence of the Defendant's A nEst•Ecriumx LEASEHOLD DI EL-
' father the Vicar of Tregony : this evidence had ; LING"tIOUSE.- pleasantly situate Na. 38,
Gsntoirilt-
I .been coe_tradicted.by. three other witnesses, and the I evert, a
drawing ; enitaittiaventweaieut chlunhen,
. excellent lofty awing room*, dining parlour, paved bitches.
Learned uoansin Innis speech before the Committee, i and amplitude of-et-114ring. Cited nod noshed mi. the most Ito.
characterised it as inconsistent and improbable. Thed of repair, with
tiennimeldsilaniciPle-9 o'nelceuiplre 'Pain:et of five eats
Defendant, who is an attorney at Plymouth, and a !kw, ch,LP„,„ last, at the-very law rentetf per MU. Y
' student of the Inner Temple, was employed to con- ' May be viewed till the time of Sale, by tickets, front Mere.
to Three, which, with printed Particulah, may be bad of Mc.
duct the defence to thepetition, and swore, that in
; D ray ton,. Aucitotr Mart.
la room adjoining to the Committee room, he heard
the Prosecutor say, that the evidence of his father
'was very extraordinary, and that for his part he had
no doubt about it. Upon this, the Defeudaut commis-
sioned his friend Major Nicoll, of the Royal
Marineti, to wait upon the Prosecutor to demand
an explanation, which he declined giving, since he con -
sidered his situation as an advocate, a protection for
any thing he had said in thateharacter ; and the Major
Said, "Theo, Sir, you are no Gentleman." :lite
Prosecutor asked, if he was to consider those as the
Defendant's words; to which the Major replied in
the affirmatirie.. 'the Prosecutor then heard nothing
more of this affair for 16 weeks, for which delay the
Defendant accounted, by deposing, that an indictment
was pending that time against his father for perjury,
and as it was probable the Prosecutor would be em-
ployed as Counsel therein, he thought it might lortk
like an intimidation from duty to proceed then with
his demand of explanation. The imlictmentsat fast
being given up, Mr. Abraham, of the TerepleA 04s
commissioned by the Defendant 'to wait upon the
Prosecutor, to request an explanation of such words
onlyt_as he used out of the Committee-room to one
lhe Metabeis" "Of the' Committee. The raver
Mot replied, that he had no recollection of having
used the winds imputed to him, and thought he &mid.
not have done so to any Member of the Committee,
Since they were all stringers to him. The lieTendaut
then wrote to the Prosecutor, enclosing him a letter.;
from Mr. Cochrane Jdhustone, the witness who had' ;
contradicted the Defendant's father in a fact material,
to the. uestfon before the CoMmittee, apologising to
that -Gentleman for the initnitation which that toe-
tradietion had thrown upon his character, Oil:
*vowing that, from subseqpent recollection, he
that It was he that was mistaken, and not the 1:1e-,
fendatit's father: Upon this the Defendant perste-.
vered in his rectuest that_ the Prosecutor would retract
his observation ; brit he still declined alfexplanation.
This was on the 26111. Of ,hone last : and as, Mr.
Scariett urged, although the Prosecutor might have,
been met every day going to sod returning tram
Westininster Hair, it wail net till the 9th of Jtily;
whin Trinity Tenn, doting widish en information
might belosoved fob, was over; that the Defendant',
met the Froieceter near:Lincoln's Inagotewiy, wbo
was wilkiog with Mr., &seethe and ifr.Ardliams,
the lsirristeri*, end .#acreal .him .in The language
c:liailet le Alta infitAnatin, " wished' to Moe
you in I.sritodslOos .a uligen tle-
mauly manner towards my father, and t desire an

Genteel Residence,. Pentonviße.
By Mr. EDMUND- DRAYTON,
At the Auction Mart, sear the Bank, on TUESDAY,.May
10. 1814, sit Twelve, by Ordermf the Proprietor,
ARESPECTABLE LEASEHOLD BRICK.-
BUI LT DWELLING-110USE, situate Nn. 29, UPPer•
Cumitent-street.Peatoullle ; constaistieg doming and dining-
rooms. et cellent eh/lathers, convenient kitchens, amplitude of
cell:ming, and neat garden: held on lease fur a term of 14 yeonlr,
and •Ithject to it lot+ rent. This I hos sect-tidy been 'Wei
and finished on the most modern principle, with marble chimney
pieces, ar.d every oilier requisite necessary tor the reception of
a genteel It I. tkviard from the nowt by si fore court.
inclosed by iron railing, in the centre of a neight.titti hood of
mach respectability, commanding picau'esque views Of the
county of 'Middlesex. .
1114 y be vietved till the time of Sale.. Am pit rtie ul ts hada.
the Premises; and of Mr. Drayton, ANCIlda Mart.
•

Genteel Mercantile Residence, Cics.4l.oao's; fields.
• By Mr. EDMUND• DRAYTON,
At the Aartioa Mart, near tire Batik, on 'I.II..SDAY, mar
IN 1814, at Twelhe o'Clotk, -by •Order of the Proprietor,
rentaticgs • • -
I A VALUABLE LEASEITOLD brick -built
IZII. ELGi NG,1401178 drisirriblv onsrally situate
Alie.strom; Gotaltaan's4lelds. within 'a few ad-
, ewes walk of the Resin! 14xchange, and in a most complete,
tams eitrepair; and contains exreilcsitsleepialt-roonst, drawink-
tonsil dining and. hrtiki kfilvt- large 'front and back
• kitchesi. Wintry ; Cf. 1 estrol Ismit-cenlirs ; (No-house?
payed yuril,-sni,ls garden, wish etc#tion,tiel-stroll sinble and
litc. ;Ayi bark ealenace to she seater.
teirMiti.l; paved l'ott,ittoit.'encl,lsed ifitritrt**l4 newt iron
rnd-
in,,m, with ever AKe advant that cittrbe derived from priority
, situation. extent u( poomises, tem of Iruse, and lowness or
i rent. .1 •
Ma vA).• 'towed 111 days wee:ling she Sole, lov tickets only, qui
pirintrg Pirtivnlatt had .in she-Prensite% ; of Mr. Aht-ahaaloo-
i•bolicilott,•Jot% ry-btreet? Al4lte ; Atha of Ayr. Drayton. MO*
Ma; t.

-11 Y ROI MA. ESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENTS.
LAKE'S GENUINE: 1)11.1,SI justly (14101111.
i,
. , for eurinr, in all its -stages, the Vt•nereal I)kqesv•e. O. b
*mall Pill k n close; acct the Viking of one hos in o recent 111111. •
willroon roovince the patient of ).ne certainty of u siteedy‘re.• •
covery. Nothing ran he better cotiocived, snore safe, nr Wee' ':
eltavealent MID ibis remedy fir 41;0 as are °bilged to lts&T''
vies, or to sea, as it needs no confinement or rcutraint of WOW
• end al %IV Neon experience (in no estetetive practice) has prove
rd that it:: w ill elleit • • tare *lit% rftWated solivation- liti•
all other tpethods avrtii nothing. For the . Scurvy Nal- ,
RA 0.. Carankal Montero, this getticiste My *it Its. pavseL •
* Upwards of 40.00U.persons 9f both sexes base hecowdlioillfl
: aired if SU:above cruel disorders, within the last eiglitleallt.
I'repared mid sold by the Proprietors. Thomas Ttr.fllirold,
Sim, Members n+ the Royal college of gorgeous. LoadvnVes •
tin li-t of real Suiptiositt,pablitlxvlannutilly by the Royal toil- ;
letteVat there howte...Nn. 9. New. libidee-street ; where coo. -!
wan attendance and advice Will be given by them in 1111.4ases ;.
Native to the above cotaplaints,whh invWshhlc secrecy. AMP,' -I
Ity appointment, at the Perfocoen, No. 35, gt. Aibiall64treed •
Nil-Mall; Mr. Desltiwisagb's Toy Shoo, N 0.7, Fidt-streepe i
Milt 11114 by.litie Onus, in every cianiderahle loam .4 (reed
llritaiti. Sir. in hovels of finis 21. 94. each. t
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