The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-15 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WILINRSDAY EVRNING, MARCH 15. 1820.

The :Warning Chronicle is a Paper of great re-,1
spectability, because conducted upon very honout-I
able grounds: but whose fixed attachment to the
Whig Aristocracy presents it from serving the
public cause, so much as its great circulation and I
literary influence might otherwise well enable it
to do. The above journal of to-day exhibits, in so
striking a rght, the personal inconvenience felt by
its Editor, and the thraldom in which its poli-
tical reasoning is involved, by 'its attachment to
the views of a body of men, that we cannot
help noticing the matter in our own Paper, as the
circumstance of our so doing may be productive of
some public benefit, and cannot, as we trust, give
rise to the smailest private aversion or incon-
venience.

The Chronicle, then, treats of the result of the
Staffordshire election with great delicacy, but;
whose example, it very properly affirms, should'
animate the exertions of every Freeholder of Eng-
land. It adds, too, in a language which pleases
vs, that " it is a symptom of the spirit which per-
vades the creat constituent body of the kingdom,
and an indication of the success which that spirit.
when displayed, can never fail to obtain." It then
asks, " Where could base been found a more un-
exceptionable Candidate than Lord GOWER r We
answer that question by saying, that a more excep-
tionable one could hardly be found. As the son of
a man'of immense wealth, who espoused a prodi-
giously rich wife, and represents his order and
his family in the first House of Parliament, it
is highly improper any one of his sons should
be another Representative of a different order
of the social compact. It is from that unna-
tural conglomeration of wealth and influence
that all our evils have sprung : and we will con-
tribute. to the utmost of our power, to cry it down:

whetber the candidate for popular favour be Whig
wish to see the distinctive
term abolished but we wish still more to see the
principles which the WHIG* entertain against the
DEMOCRACY of the country (the aow►dest and
Most lawful part of the Constitution of the State)
softened down, and, in fine, their conflicting views
and interests better incorporated for the general
good of the country, in which the 'one party is
powerfully struggling to maintain its ascendency,
'and the other, ifs propetly as it is pertinaciously,
employed to regain ifs lest weight in the scale or
constitutional libratiou. If our cotemporary should
become a little less the stickler to Whiggism, obr
*lends may be a little More likely to escape the
twitting or Radicalism. Not that we have ever
belt one fibre of the body disturbed by the imputation
ourselves ; but we must and wilt stand up for
those persons who have less of nerve; by whom,
and with whom, we expect to see this unhappy
country, at no great distance or time, set to rights.
We again repeat what we said a few days ago,
that we advise the constituent body of Electors to
reject for Candidates the sons, and particularly the
eldest cons, of Noblemen, whether they class them-
selves with Tory or associates. They are
improper Rtpresenialires of the common people
of their country. We do our cotemporary ready
justice in saying that he speaks with complacency
of the cause of freedom in Staffordshire prevailing,
and that the partizans of the late measetes have
been best/6011y dy'ealed ; but he adds—

"4laay thing enia.slasap our joy at this snanifestat
of public feeling, it is, that this repulse has met been

Wised by some more forward and violent champion of
the Ministty. If a man could have bred &end, who
had made a boast of his readiness to do military execution
on his rountryinen, such a person would have been a
fitter subject for popular castigation than the mild and
unoffending herd Gowan."
Now, the concluding paragraph is the sacrifice
that pore Whiggism exacts from the writer who
wilt tout consent to tell an untruth, but who feels
it incumbent on him, from connexion or friendship,
not to tell the whole truth. We, without any bias,:
but pore patriotism and troth, would say on the eon- i
eon-
tray, that, if a marked distinction should be model
by the undue meddling of a Tory or Whig family
in the democratic movements of the country, it
should be in one, the Wild of which is of a hw
eeergrowns /wham. 4110 who was, by right
owoorghip, driving his poor tenants so quit their
hovels, and seek shelter .n the woods (at the Cape
of Good Hope), or where they can ; that his views
of territorial sovereignty may be accomplished,
and his (states less *pecked by that appear-
ance of i.overty which this leviathan appetite
of aggraodizement has occasioned. Let not,

above all, such Tory conduct find Whig de-
fenders in this conntity: less still among Same Moms,
for lording it thus over poor Scotch tenantry.—
The history of the Sutherland estate administra-
tion loas shocked our feelings often and often.

The City Election terminated yesterday, on which
much might be said. We shall, however, dekr
our general remarks thereon till to-morrow, with a
view of making them useful, es far as Elections on
similar iews and grounds may be still undeter-
mined.

We have this morning received a Alcor American
Papers; their contents, however, are wholly unim-
portant and without interest —We have riven two
or three extracts.