The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-31 00:00:00

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Princm, did you suffer her husband
Master, to labour under a load of on-
• for delaying her justification? Why
him to incur the reproaches of Mr,
Lord Eldon ? Why, my Gold, if
ridence were such as you nous state kto
(Inset:Maas after receiving it, report •
entirely unnecessary for his Royal
iotice the rumours against his wife Is
Nay, why, my Lord, if Kenny'
injurious, was Lord Eardly iaformed
your desire, that his conception, of
" wen inaccurate =" Lord Eardlera
Jng no more than what you now now
one. •
I have before intimated, that an event
common course of nature, cannot be
may place that person whom your
letter deeply affects, on the throne of
before you are many days' sail from
But, though a severe one, it would
the most extraordinary dispensations
2, if even he, from whom you derive
the important functions which you are now taking
upon you to execute, should unhappily not survive
to honour their close with his wonted approbation.
'Were there a spot upon the globe a thousand times
more remote than India, it would, of course, be the
first act of his successor's reign, to draw you into her
presence ; and demand front your own mouth, an expla.
station of the charge which you have at your departure
levelled against a persecuted parent,—that the Royal
sufferer's advisers did not dare to speak of your con.
ver.ation with Kenny, tiil after the death of that man.
/Cow, thorefore, my Lord, before you quit the Bri-
CO capital, not only the Metuttets of this Lodge, but
every matt in England, who has the honour and dig.
of the throne at heart, calls upon you, to re.
tra-t your insinuations against his future Queen.—
There is no act of justice, that awaits your arrival in
kutlia, of a thousandth part of the importance which
belongs to this.
I have the honour to remain,
Your Lordship's obcdiet servant,
A FRE 141 SON OF THE. GRAND LODGE, &v.

To ?as OFFICER COMMANDING :Hz
1111.1i1,4 Or
QUARTEREI) AT lIULL.

'Sts,—On authority the most respectable, I can
inform you of what it highly imports you to know.
Some of the Militia men under your command,
Signed the Petition to the House of Commons for a
Reform in the fiepreseatation of the People in Par-
liament, which Petition is now lying open at Bull
for signatures ; and expected, as they said, that al-
most all their comrades would do so too. But an
intimation was certainly circulated, that, by so do-
ing, " they might get their backs tickled ;" and it is
as certain, that a sudden slop took place to the sign-
ing of the Petition by the military.
It.is not credible, Sir, that a Field Officer of the
5‘ Constitutional force" of our country, could
himself put in circulation such an intimation • but it
is possible that, in the present state of the 'Militia,
in respect to its Subaltern Officers, there might be
men ignorant enough of the law and Constitution,
end regardless enough of the nerties of their coun-
try, to be capable of originating such an intimi-
dation,

It oil!, Sir, be easy for you to ascertain the facts
of which I speak; and as your own cliaracter must,
of course, be implicated, unless you make it publicly
known that this obstruction to the exercise of the
sac.od right of petitioning had not your sanction,
but on the contrary has your highest reprobation, I
tare thought it only due to you to give you the op-
rol tunity,through public orders, or on the parade,or
cil.er%ise, as you shall think most proper, to assure
the soldiers under your command, that tloy let:e
nothing to fear for conscientiously :Laing, as citizens,
according to their own judgment.
As it is highly, Sir, to the honour of your Militia-
men that they have shown so toueli knoo ledge of,
and attachment to, the liberties of their country, as
to be desirous of signing a Petition for a Reform,
ithout which liberty cannot be said to exist. It is
coulidently to be hoped, that the disgraceful intinia-
can above-mentioned will be disdained by yourself,
and by every Gentleman of education and honour in
your iegtment, with indignation : and, for the ho.
sour of-the Militia, km 4.!tich the writer himself long
served, he hopes that, in a Parliamentary enquiry
into the high misdemeanour of obstructing Petitions
to the Legislature, which he trusts will shortly take
place, no instance wilt occur in which Officers of the
" Constitutional Force" will be chargeable with a
crime so odious.

CIVIS.

PARMAIMENTARY REFORM.

As the people of several Counties appear to be pre-
paring to petition for a Reform in Parliament; the
following remarks may be useful to show how times
and circumstances (unnoticed by the generality of
',unkind), have changed and disproportiossed our
present representation in Parliament:— .
Zlectors. Members.
Landon ban
• Westminster. ,,10,110 *
Middlesex 5,500 2
Surrey
-toutbwark

27,000

--(.... ....
Newton, Ramie.— ... I
•••••••111
OM Sarum. Wilts 1 I
Midhant, SiliKl
Castle R ising, Norfolk,. ,e 2
Marlborouet. Wilts.... 2 ... t
Downtos, Wilts ...... 4 II

0 •

Great as the disproportion of 27,000 is to II Elec-
tors ! yet it is no less singular, that Manchester, Bin.
mingliam, and Leeds, containing jointly, no less than
2.:0,000 inhabitants, do not send a single Member to
Parliament !! ! Can any man of common sense,
think on this subject for a moment, and not he con-
vinced, that the people of this Country are not rem-
a. ntt d in Parliament, as our excellent Constitution
originally intended ?—(Leeds Mercury.)

It was not wonderfnl to hear Lord CA‘TLERE4GH
and his colleagues rising tip in defence of sinecure:.
" For this, among the rest, were they ordained."

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