The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-03 00:00:00

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rOR THE STATESMAN.
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PARLIAME/CTART REFORM.—Fout Lirrsus.

trrrea IV.
TO THE KINO.

(In fortherante of the objects aimed at in the pre-
reding letters, Delta proposes a general address to
the King, of the following kind.—En.)
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects,
she beg leave must humbly to ap-
proach the throw.
That possessing the invaluable constitution of Great
Britain, we would not prove alien to -Jur glorious in-
heritance.
That in attachment to the august house of Bruns-
wick, we yield superiority to none; and at the same
tae confess, that the united interest of the governors
atid governed, as realized in this our happy land at
tlt event of the glorious revolution in forms
;.he surest foundation of the welfare of the Prince and
'People. Your Majesty will not hesitate to recognize
the salutary communication between the throne and
the people, which in times of prominent anxiety has
t'aen the accustomed usage of these realms. On the
c Intrary, your Majesty will permit us to anticipate,
tat your Majesty is destined, under Divine Pro-
lence, to accomplish the most important purposes,
:4; this, not to-say unparalelled epoch.
That it is with the utmost regret, in the faithful
exercise of that duty which we owe to your 3lajesty,
:sod to ourselves, that we are compelled to solicit your
Majesty's attention to those mistaken policies which
have so long been deriding. At the same time, we
beg your Majesty to be impressed, that in the ex-
posure which we feel to be our bounties duty to lay
before your Majesty, our feelings, however sensible,
partake not of dismay, nor appreltension,onr resources
being fully equal to our circumstances.
het fur a series of years statistic observers have
contemplated in the conasels of Ministers of the
Crown, with short lived exceptions, the progress of
those circumstances which, without timely remedy,
must ever prove destructive to a nation's pro'perity.
Already had novel systems been adopting. Schemes
of aggression had been attempted to be s.ipported by
pow. r. Innovations had Liken place.
That, in looking at the American war, to be esteem-
ed of the first fruits of our destructive career, we are
!truck that whatever of human frailty rommixed
with the energies of a Washington, or an Adams, yet
that the evils on our own side should have been so

found to preponderate. To these the alienation of
t}u• colonies succeeded, thus severing from our con-
neetion a whole people, our own, by blood, by habits,
and by language ; the area of our strength in war.
the source of our wealth in peace ; and since again
waging against us a no trivial hostility.
But at home, the condition of our society has dete-
riorated, crimes had multiplied.
But, Sire, in the events of the last twenty seven
years, oar former calamitous experience sinks into
shade, and every statesman must have rontetuplated
that no people but our own could have escaped the
ravages of convulsive revolution.
Liberty, that plant, so long cultivated in England,
bad been sought after by !'ranee. Upon this, the
French Revolution (not that. ttisastrous series, and
with which it had nothing to do) was calculated.
refined people, held in bondage by the prescriptions
of fendality, but ill-assorted with the genius of the
ine►eeuth century. The necessity of a remedy, com-
e: ~e.nrate kith the sturdy and otherwise incurable
4.,..a5e was evident.

'the march of freedom, as at all times, so in this so
er:inenile glorious instance, was hailed by philan-
V.ropist4.

But the magnificent event, as might have been an-
rcipated, became alike the jealousy of the despotic,
as the hope of the enslaved. Monarchs, whose civil
establishments were scarcely removed front a military
despotism the meat degrading to human nature, felt,
ard not without reason, that the existence of tyranny
V. 3.4 endangered. Vassals, encouraged by the successful
etroris of thirty millions in the European community,
would assume other feelings, which would, beyond a
Juuipt, in time, educe conseutaneous action. The
vsunds of liberty, which the French National Assem-
bly were uttering, would be listened to—its alphabet
I:•arnt. The governors and the governed, each seve-
rai:v affected, would be daily dissevering from each
tstiur: from connections which owed their origin to
arc thing than a community of interests, that only
prop of the welfare of commonwealths. The tocsin
ut alarm was sounded.
But it !•at had all this to do with Britain ? Britain,
had no tiabelle, no Bastille, na Inquisition
What had we to contemplate, but that the former,
iniquitous policies ewer seeking, ever availing them-
of every and any opportunity to molest our
trArqUiiiity, w.tnld at length give place to a schyme
of pacification founded on the most secure of basis.
the appreciated interest of a regenerated people? That
superNtitions of popery, and which might be pre-
sumed inintalgamable %vial a free constitution. might'
begin to disperse before the dawn of a better light :
Res our ancient rival might borrow from us our re-
ligion, as she had in so much begun to be the copyist
of our principles of tiovernment. Friendship and
harmony might reasonably have been imagined the
result of the charge. The people at Paris had ac-
cordingly expressed their attachment to England.
Alas, Sire. your Majesty but too well knows low: re-
trate the event—how dissimilar the ratiocinatioe—
how fatal the triumphs of oratory! liftetericians,
nit to apply the harsh epithet of apostacy to those
whose opinions had hitherto been so dissimilar. gin
the watchnoid. What was it ? That England was
not safe while Pruner was to be free. The oar party
peevaßA against insult, against injnr.. against Aus-
tria, against Russia, against the Duke of Jisrunswick.
au! Isis fearful crusaders, against a motley but incon-
ernous group of foes, as well subsidized as au‘iliar-
J,ed hr the blood of England ; against internal
Treacheries cultivated by gold from without ; against
:hreat of starvation, what could France du ? What
but to make every effort ! The struggle was that el'
convillsits throe. In the elmillition the scum arose
to the surface. A military despotism was at length
rttelied, dismaying all around.
But how eau- ter situaliun he stated ? In a war,
strged by every rancorous sentiment, to the utmost
V..irettracy. igloo' ravages of hunranitv: Where in-
...ed. is. the f.susily that kok n lost its somber? the
Lausehohl, Egypti.an. Its :tot had