The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-11 00:00:00

have 'many Of these been honoured with a coronet,
For their sublime virtues and exalted merit? No ;
the privileges which they claim- and arrogate to
themselres, are. in many instances, (we speak with
eXceptions) but the inheritance of the plunder,
the usurpation and tiolences of their ancestors.
Under such a stale or things, with the present
shackled condition of the Press, what is to be done
to regain dial portion of the liberties of the people
of which they have been robbed, and wherein the
detestable corrupt conductors of part of the Prow
have been the notorious partied", crinsinis.

Tee, we never shalt fait to urge the delinquency
of your Cottriert, Sens, Pasta, &c. &c. as the great
contributors to the aggraVeted insults end injuries
Of our unhappy Country. What, then, can be
dew t We know not. A pdpular writer throws
out most extraordinary proposition for put-
dog into practice some latent power, or some
hidden scheme, of whibh we not only know no-
thing, but can conceive nothing commensurate to
the evil we complain of. Time has been comi-
&red the grand restorer of the lost equilibrium
of the elements,- natural end moral. The see -
reedy now proposed moot be of that nature, be-
cause. it is to be made td operate by a sent of
money, promptly produced ; and on time we all
know that this influential, this corrupting mettl. •
has no power. There have been Tinaes indeed,
to speak metaphorically, on which it bin prosimed
wonders, as the family of the WELLESLEY. can
prove. But the era is gone by, and we hope never
to return. Now, unless the flee thousand pounds, '
for that, it seems, is the mistientes of the simund
required, be intended to bey op a great pollen ,
the superabundant meekinery, so ingesired, ess.
trived to sate mews labour, and that this mini let
MIS of human art can be made to caerritethe pert
of a hundred honest hands and pens, so ass convince
mankied of the necessity of the change.and convert
an erfrUrelpfla MONARCIIT into IS .4.1111•Illitile
Rereattc, we must remain as we are new, IS
ignorance of the scheme, and, we ail. IN AMAMI- •
of its efficacy. If a literary Brierenit tag in
gaged to bold and wield a patriotic pee ib etel
one of his bands, in the view of writing down •
Vehicles set of Ministers, as Jurnus Wrote dir2
the late Duke of Cansrrox, the preposition le'
as should hate die name and subscription, which
we have never been inclined to withlssilinhan
the good td be attained was feasibly alt
Bet, of any ore it proposition whatever, white etk
enthusiastic mind (the honesty of the beast net at
the question) may set *nth in es- impeded sal
obscure a way, we not only cannot partielpass dal ,
it, but we cannot entertain a Irreerabie elides d.
what it may do.
• MINT masses TO In. soil,.
I own that mere lard, bat met yet to the hal, •
For still there's a tax yes oust pay, Mr. lush:
Ftse Ileocsawa I want, It Is easily flied,
Aad year wisdom will se'er be sulkies* peek*
Mae WWI ask what 'di for, whatever Ms resite.-
My Paper you'll haue—that's as peed as the Dank f
lin teethed Is simple—to seeks the lamas%
Buoy* of you oaly pay tins-Prase a pleas;
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N. Ileatakwa I big; be's a ibokthat
aegis to easel La your leashes sad Wise:
Yea bum se so well, yes eau% be lush es ass ,
'to thiak that I ask it because I want brow.
w.,:ve a swath. bet no more, I
Presto Memel and ru make4reussA slate.
If brisk you resin the whole saw to die tat
You serer awn bum what do for yea, Sou. I
10th limitary, 1550. J. Diemen, r

The relesions east upon the poor and attempioyof
in Birmingham, by a speaker in the last meting
in that tows, to consider what relief emikt
Waded to them, pets us in mind of what was mid
by a *member of the House of Commons, hi Lard
NORTH'a administration, which evinced en equal
want of sympathy for our suffering kllow-eseateni.
He maned to. rejoice in the war and its offsets ;
" wars," said he," sweep away, four or Ire fin* is
a watery, •sgresSs, beggar*, and web WO 41IffF
INdlatiled." This gentleman, toe, oohed Vwe
bed not plenty of foundations for the poor mom
us Yes, we bairel but what pen, heneeler sb-
qesat, soot &melba with propriety the thotkioir
seem of a workhonee at this time: sr whet men
can be found sang* enough to tabs a view at the
inside .foss, without shaking with horror! How
few are there, who have ever bees bossed lo one
.of those crowded receptacles of 11th and misery,
willoot, rather than re-enter therein, peeler starv-
ing at the doors of the ailment, as was tbe ems a
lbw.days ago•

We learn that the Earl of GLASGOW u to be up'
poisted.Locd Liniment of Ayrshie, sad tbahe resigns
the °Snot Lord Lieutenant of the County of Roarer
is favoar of Lord Bkawnits, whit is to to simisand
his soacessor.—{Apr Coinfer.)
We are exceedingly sorry to state, tint a mist Isaias'
choly accidest occurred on the road betwixt this pis*
sad Bristol, oa Tawny night last. The tpai
that city as usual, and 011 Its way to tha !NW Pail=
was span. but so other mischief was dose thesis
the carriage so materially that it could peened so far-
ther, sad soother was procured Irma Emma. Oa see
',schist Sienbyrisawr, the coach was again god; TOP
of the Wilesatetagers received some sense bpi*.
bat a gestlosisa outside, a Mr. Brows, Mos& we
Iso say, bad both his logs bashas, sad we mush
largest),fear the sompattail fractures. Mens switeeted*
the lodge et Mt John Nichol, when be wits berarialy
resetniii; every aid administered itkich his trig at.
&arable illiadervrigairra. The accident is gee* s •
tribetable to the bad state of the reads by hi" la
ssow.-4Cambrion.)