The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-18 00:00:00

their o'vject : they lose all rezarl r, decorum. TI
mend of profits ~re precious; never are men so al -lod
I, during 3 ertierA morality. I. was s., in the cr.,.
plague at Athol.; et ery symptom of w:,ich fatt•L this
is its wont sytnitt among the cesi.) is s.: tine's r..
latel by a creat historian of mciquity. It was
the phroe of Lott,:toi, in 1665. It appears in sol.lier,
sailors, ev:. tl hoever would cootrive to tender the
life of man touch 611 rter than it is, would, I am satis.
tied. find the surest receitit for increasing the
nest of our mann..

'11,114, in my opinion, the shortness of a trienni I
sitting would liar:. diy following ill effects; it wow
mate the Ilcnthrr more shatnele•sly antl 611011111 g:
corrupt ; it word,' increase his d.•pendenre on Citt:e
hest support him at his election ; it srot.J
sera:•:: and tea.. to pieces the f mines of those wh,
stood upon th••ir own fortunes and their pti►ulz i:•r•
rests ; it would 'mike ti►e elector, infinitely more ►enll;
a•nl it would the u h de buds• of pl:ple, who are,
whether they hare votes or nut, youreeti,d in !ectio u,
tore lawle,s, more idle, mare debau• 11.,1 ; it would
utterly destroy the sobriety. the itt►lu.try, the inte-
grity, the simplielty of all the people t an I underni'.ne,
i an► untrh afraid, the deepest and br•t laid fonnda ions
of the commonwealth.

" Those who have sp. km and written w,sri this sub.
ject without :oars, do not so much deny the probable
emistence of these inconvenient CA, ill their toe 'sure, as
they trust for their prevention to remedies of vacioat
sorts, which they propos.% First, a Place Bill ; if
this will not du, Ls they (ear it will no', then they say,
we will have a rotation, and a certain number of con shall
be rendered incapable of helm; elected for ten years.
Then, for the electors, they shall Isalbd ; the Members of
Parli.tmeut also shall deride by bal:J; ; a fifth project
is the change of the present legal l'. :•res-ntatives of the
kingdom. On all this I shall observe, that it will be
very unsuitable to your wisdom to adopt the project of
a Bill, to which there are objection., insuiserable by
any thiug in the Bill itself, upon th, hope that this.;
objections may be removed by suh.e.tueut projects;
every one of which is full of difficolties of its own, and
which are all of them very essential alterations in the
Constitution. This seems very irregular and a-
usual. If any thing should make this a re.y doubtfnl
measure, what can make it more so than that, in the
opinion of its advocates, it would aggravate a:I our obi
inconveniem•es in such a manser as to require a total
alteration in the Constitution of the kinsd rat?'
The sketch of the Honourable Member's argue nt
was left, it would appear, uufinished is his manu-
script, rand even the sentence following that last quoted,
was incomplete. The compliment., however, to the
mover of the Bill, with which it was designed to mol-
lify the resistance to his moti •n, was carefully pre-
pared. After expressing his hope that the worthy
Alderman would see the respect that was paid to the
prieciple on which he went, as well as to his
intentions and abilities, Mr. Burke very anxiously la-
boured to have it well understood (and the terms in
which at that season he expressed his sentiments, ought
at no time to be forgotten by his preten 'ed foloxers.
that he did not &Want s he trotisn of Mr.Sashrl lge" tv
motives low and unworthy, and as geoun Hess as they
are injurious. / (continues he) do net 'Tett to be
frightened with the proposition, as if ao:ne hicee s
spectre had started from hell, which was to be sent
back Alain by every firm of exorcism, and every kind
of incantation. / invoke no Acheron to vivre-betas
him in the whirlpools of its muddy gulf. /do not tell
Cie respectable mover and seconder, by a perversion of
their sense and expressions, that their proposition halts
between the ridiculous and dangerous." But temper-
ing the spirit of cpposition with muds suavity of
addieis, be concludes his intended speech with that
very delicate and courteous appeal in which remark
was made in the notice of the actual debate. in a pre-
ceding number, and which, unhaispily, be disqualified
hums. If from making on certain subsequent occasions
of controversy with the most estimable of all his for-
mer friends, " I hope," says Mr. Burke !referring to
Mr. Alderman Nawbridge),"l hope he sea and feels,
and that every Member sees and fe..is :long with him,
the difference between amicable dissent and civil dis-
cord."

TRILAION AND POIITICAL Ecovout.—A Gentleman
who happened some tlme ago to he in the steam-boat
in which some of the 11AtilealS defeated at Bonnymnir
were conveyel from Sterlinx to Et:inburgh, entered
into rout ersat. with Baird, ti.eit captain, whittle
allowed to walk on deck. his individual boasted of
the part he had acted. and laid, the only regret he
felt was, that they were unable to overturn thitiovera-
ment. The Gentleman said he thought liberty anti
property were as w.. 11 secured under our Goverment as
antler any other of which any thing bad come to his
knowledge. and asked him why be wished to overturn
sorb a tiovertnnent ? Baird immediately replied—
Po yea call that a good Government, Sir, which
keeps its people in the utmost distress by imposing re.
strietions on their in.instry ? Si r, if it were not foe the as-
just and I mpolitie remit:Bons o! the Goy. ?Men?, witio:t
prerent the pro4lnce of other countries from manias
ours, our tuanufa -toren might at th 4 moment
be to
troduced into many places from which h .y aro excluded.
and our starving people nirht be in full employments."
The sentint nts of this rebel captain are said to he
more general among the labouring classes of the /red
of Scotland than is commolly supposed. What is
singular is, that people sensible enough to row, ia
this way, should bis at the same time so stupid fr to
think that they can recommenii their opinions by the
sicked and unjustifiable means to which they retort,
or so ill-informed as to the strength of this powerful •
Government, as to suppose that with their paltry WOO
they are able to overturn it. We have heard gals ii
martyrs for the tree religios, and martyrs for Mold'
floe, bat since the tint mention of political etrOarmy.
we believe this is th- first instance of any me um'
taring his neck for it.
A meeting of the county of Sussex took paw me
Thursday bust, at which the High Sheri/ porligh
when it was unanimously resolved to apply to Piffle
meut fur not Act directing th it all future election d
I knights of that Shire shall be held at Lewes.
Mr. Austin, the drawing-master of eccentric me.
story, well known to the Electors of Westminster some
years ago. for his singular exertion 10 support of Mr.
Fox. when a candidate for that city. died a few lays
ago at Brighton, in the lifith year of his ale.