The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-16 00:00:00

dragged fr.ru him by the present, as they bad been
by a former discussion in that place, but after
• what had been stated, he felt it impossible to be
sikoit. Thu Honourable Baronet would, in his
opinion,have judged mnre.correctly if Imbed Waved
his right of precedency in bringing ferward.the
'iodation in favour of his colleague (Mr. Dixon),
whose impatient solicitude to be the foremost on
tit- present occasion he had so displ4ed
in his eager desire to 1.-be heard before the Hon.
Bsrunet. That these two Gentlemen ware the
most loyal, at least in their expressions, of any
persons in this kingdom, and that with one of I
Mess, such a question as the preterit ought toorigi.
nate, ne would readily admit, but Lime as that I
other Gentleman would unquestionably hare
beets, it was not possible that he cutild have
been quite a:, lame as the Honoarble Baronet
(e low, laugh) kad been, in endeavouring
to 'hew the expediency or propriety of this,
in his (Mr. W's.) (whites, unseasonable celebra.
tier in the midst of danger and disaster. The
Honourable Bart. had referred them to (!e period
of his Majesty's. ascending the Throne, and to
that period he would follow him, but he had
omitted to refer to the present situation of the
k.sgalom, to which he should therefore be under
the painful necessity of drawing the attention of
the Court. Mr. W. trusted, 6;4 were it
.neces-
sary, he could make it apparent that his loyalty
was at least as great as that of the Honourable Ba.
ronet and his colleague, or any other individual,
in that Court ; fur, in his opiniin, the very
best way of manifesting genuine loyalty was by
vigilantly Boarding and faithfully endeavouring to
preserve those principles of the Constitution by
which the family of his present Majesty had been
seated on the Throne of these realms. When
Ms Majesty had been brought by their tacked
cossmsels...(ifurnsurs)...he would repeat their
wicked c,unsels---for it was notorious that the
Corporation of the City of London had sanctioned
and supported some of the most pernicious measures
of the preseit reign—when by these Counsels his
Majesty and his people had beets brought into a
Situetion which no human being, possessing fed.
ing or understanding, could contemplate without
horror and Ci may. It was the duty of loyal
0311jecs to approach his Throne, not only to pro-
fess their love and vcneraiun fur his person and
Ms family, but al.;o to point out those evil and
wicked Counsellors, by whose advice the king.
duet has bete brought into the present perilous
and most distressing situation. He would take a
cursory and rapid view of only a very few of the
disastrous events of the present reign ; for were
be to enter into a minute detail of every occur.
rence that we had to deplor#, he should be under
the necessity of detaining the Court a month with
She *Milling detail. Ho would, however, only
direct th.ir attention to the contrast presented by
the pretext state of the kiugdosn, and that which
it eresaved when his ktijesty *seceded theThrene;
be would then Iwo it to the Court to decide
warder the present moment is one fur demonstra-
tions of jns and gratulation: In the first speech
made by his Majesty to Parliament, lie took a
general view of the affairs of this nation. In
America cid in the East Indies we were trium.
rialit. 0 r the Continent of Europe this king.
dote was surrounded and fortified by alliances with
great number of the very first Powers, against
the overgrown and overweening power of France.
The animosity of party spirit had subsided; and
after ort ciao the various proofs of the general
prosperity of the kingdom, he concludes by con-
gratulating his Puli.tinent on the zee), harmony,
and unanimity that prevailed amongst 311 ranks
and degrees throughout the kingdom.—This wot
a situation in which the expediency of indulging
in jog and folittitj could not be questioned. At
that proud moment we had a CUATH 1m at the
helm—and although towards the conelusiete of
the most expensive war in which the country
bad ever been engaged, we had incurred a
debt, the whole annual expenditure amounted
to no more than seven millions, of which one
million and a half went in aid of the sinking
fund. But what was now the state of England,
even with reference to expenditure alone ?---the
enormous annual consumption of seventy mil.
lions of money.—(Dear, hear, hea.• !) W• 11
even seven millions was thought by the con, itu-
tional Blackstone to have been an expenditure in-
consistent with the safety of the Constitution of
England—What, then, he would ask of any man,
whose understanding was not absolutely perverted
—can be thought of the situation of England, at
the colichision of the 49th year of the reign of
King George rho Third 2—(lleur, heat, hear!)
White would be the sentiments of that friend of
constowtional freedom, Blackstone, could he
see the present situation of the country!...uver.run
with tax•gatherets, commissioners, spies and in.
farmers, who perplex, harass, and torment the
people on which ever side they turn. The Sun-
day only intervened between the-accession of his
present Majesty, and the swearing in of the Earl
of Brae as a Privy Counsellor. lie from that
moment became the I bier, if not the sole adviser
of the Crown. To the pernicious, destructive ad-
vice of that Nobleman, was attributable that sys-
tem of government, in which so remarkable and
indelible a perseverance has since been displayed.
The Earl of Chatham foresaw the consequences,
and well knew the secret toaster-spring which put
the Cabinet in motion. It was the infinence of lA.
B. of whi'-h he complained in that memorab'e ex.
prosaic., that there was a " something beta!, ft Me
" Throne, gre.ster than the Throne itself."—
Tne great Cl:athans, ender these circumstances,
finding i ~usgible lunge/ to retain his office with
honour to k rnself, or advantage ter his crivatry,
retitled—an I the celebrated Charles Jenkinson,
aft it. ads Hifi of Liverpool, becomiug the se.
crust coudjutor or Lord Bute—they together laid
the founttatr.in of that system, a blind and obsti-
nate perseverance in which has brought us to the
deplurablesituation in which we 'were now placed.
To tick 01411111CIII was attributable, its a great Ale.
Tree, Ike diggraceftil measures of the present reign.
ito wieldy • aliderataa—be begged his pardon
/lororsei, ha meant to say, bat really he could not
recollect oa tl ese ;ma honours sal distinetionJ
Es hod issoshl bad mistimed another set of me.

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