The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR or rat STATESMAN.

Sra,—Seeing with "rinser, the spirit with which
year Piper is co idected, I am desire's of siting
yen all the assistance my feeble hied can afford to.
wards the laudable object you hassle view ; and I
the mete readily take op the pin, at this time, from
°Were's( some Bisections and reflealons in the New
Timer, Which are calculated to do mach mischief, as
far as they Afield be read and be relied on. It is,
whether Millibars of the Howse of Commons oeght
or not to look to sad be strayed by the opinions and
interests of their Constiteonts f The false reason.
ing of the writer of t►e Nem Times, grew oat of
the circumstance of Doe a the present Candidates for
Westminster, promising to consult end Conform to /he
wishes of his Constituests, or to resign. I offer the
folloning obserraties on this important point:—
" Something most exist in a free State, which no
pare of that Slate can be authorised to alter er de.
stray, otherwise the idea of w Coaditution cannot
subsist ; for, unless we allow the Froeholdere
anti Electors of Great Britain to be supe►ior to a
finest of Commons, we great to them an absolute
issrer, a posit/ inconsistent with the notion of •
FREI. Prong, and destructive of the principles of A
MIXED GOVERNMENT.

" Should it be acknowledged, that, though the
Cesnmotis lam exercised • power of annihilating
many privileges and rights belonging to the Penpi.,
14,11,5,,,,ji no legal title In du so, then ■ll laws
subversive of MAGNA C.:HAUSA. the Bill of Rights,
Act of Settlement, and spirit of the Conrtil•-
tion, are an 4 of their authority and violation
of their trust, for .hick such infamous Parliament
ought not only In be dostolved, but every MetnGer
who engaged in the destruction of the People's rights,
should sever punishment, tegetber with those bit-
NISTUS who framed a design of enslaving the Peo-
ple; and it must Le equally jest, as well as neces-
sary, Id' call to a strict arc. tot THE FIRST MA-
GISTRATE, who could encourage the destruction of
nut I.i•eavtu, soil • subversion of the Constite-
lion, as so @sample to future Kings and Ministers.
" if any Ministerial hireling should assert, that
nor Representatives, after the beer of election, are
so lunger answerable for their conduct, and ate
legally invested with o•therite to destroy our
end for liberties at their pleasure; then, sslist did
King JAMES do more than this by his prer.g'iris.?
and of whet advantage has the Revolution proved to
us, Unheard's( the Constitution he placed in the
bendy of the Representative ? in what does the
idea of a free State, or the liberty of a People exist,
when it depends open nothing more permanent fpr
established, than the vague, rapacious, or interested
inclination of a majority out of Six HUNDRED AND
Firer-EIGINT M tee, open In the insidious attacks of a
week or designing Prince and his Ministers; sorely
it will be granted. that whether King or Minister,
who, by rodeo influence, should prevail in passing
laws subversive of the Statutes before.nientiotted.
must he deemed an offender against the most sacred
(gall batman enjoyments, liberty and the Conatite•
lion of his country, and equally criminal with
JANE' ft. and his illinisters.

" The whole prosomptise title a Parliament ran
pretend to bate of disposing of our RIGIITI ASD
Patvit.rogs can be bet Iliaattnoamt, which. in
many iusteacm, hag tree carried be) and the
limits of liberty and the Cnnstitotion. It is there-
fur, necessary that we should raw to the spirit of the
Constitotton wink tie alrietest rigour au I parse.
VittelitV.

" The only reason that can he given why our
ferefaapits, in the ai.ciont fundameotal Status►c of
this Realm, hate delivered nothing verbally •splirit
on this heed, of limiting the power of their /Ulan-
mantises, derives its origin from the sam. coon that
the Housars bad no laws against porriide : they
never conceived that the thought of &fraying or sell-
ing a Paortes I.IIIILIITIRS, any more then murdering
o father, could enter the hem.. heart : they Dever
'bought that the liepresentatise could ever possess
an interest distinct from that of his Constituents, or
that a pecuniary edvantage could outweigh the public
good in his breast ; they did oat perceive that Minis.
fens might have occasion to oppren is for the gratifi-
catioa of a weak or wicked P►Gce; or that English.
men, no longer animated by the soul of pohlk pro.
sperisy, mightdegenerateint•greetiogopywessfeelaxes,
till the nisilon would be hroeght within one drys of
ruin; or that laws essential to the establishment of
hoydens and security of the State could be made to
burst at the mandate of s Minister, by the breath of
a majority among 658 ann.
" When the Itep►esentativee of the People net
contrary to the ve►y elements of the Constitution, be-
tray and give up the rights, paivilegea, and liberties of
the People, 'l'olo nothing in the fandamental Sta.
tate literally piohibit so ignominious a behaviour ;
the very nature of their station, the innate seen of
right, and original spirit of government. indirectly
contradict all possibility of t►eir having any title for
such proceediesp, and whenever it is done, it is an
unjust and wanton ezertion of power, end not of
enilsorily ; add to this dreadful and heinous crime,
the indignant and bentiliating consideration, that our
equals whom we these to save, have sold us like oar
cattle, to weak (not to say worse) I►ings, end their
accerstd Ministers, who may pay our betnyers with
• part of that money which was most unjustly levied
ea us, not to an.wer the necessity of Government,
bet the most infamous of per poses."

SIDNEY.

Four failures were made public on Saturday in the
commercial world, sod two of them have happened
to bosses closely connected with etch other, in the
operations of trade, and are therefore to be trend
to an individual source; the ethers are in dirtinet
departments of basin's,. The house are not of the
first rank. neither are their deficiencies to a very
coosiderable sement. In the actual state of COM.
goatee, It is serpolving that so few similar calamities
Matra .teemed. At this moment there is scarcely an
article of foreign produce at all In &mend, or Inr
which a selling price can be with certainty named.
For the lest sin months, whether the merchant has
termed his views to the east or to the west, the voy-
ages out sod the voyages home Ws proved equally
oinprodective.