The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-10-12 00:00:00

TIIF STATtSiVA'N.

FOR TOR STATRSICIN.

THE MEMORABLE SIXTEENTH OF AUtHIST.
As the Israelites commemorated their deliverance
from Egyptian bondage, and the Romans preserved
the memory of ►he fortunate event "'hid, saved the
Capitol, so might Batons to celebrate every year,
with a dee salvors of sorrow end r►joicing, the
never.te.be-fergotten Sisteenth of Angst. white
treason and a mutton were employed in a plot,
but happily failed, to subvert that only Government
ever acknowledged as legitimate la this eeentry, the
GOTLIIIIMINT IT LAW.

The British nation hss ever been celebrated for its
humanity, its loss of jest's", and its devoted attach.
ment to the laws, customs, and franchises of their
ancestors. Ought not a nation so companionstely
disposed, to bewail the massacre of innocent men,
women, and children, inhumanly butchered for e'er.
rising a constitutional right ? Ought not the love of
justice to impel them to seek for condign punishment
on the barbarous offenders? and is it not piety in
such men to assert the rigids they hare inbeeited from
their ancestors, in order that they may, as is their
ditty, transmit them to their descendants?
That fumes Chancellor, Sir JOHN FORTIS/CUs, who
OW in the reign of King Hume VI., Instructed the
Kiwg's son in theeacellence of our laws, and his invitee-
' thine are in esisteeee to this day, being compiled in a
book relied De Gaudier* Le pert sing lir; a hich another
' Wined Lawyer, not inferior to himself, the celebrat-
ed bone SILDIPI, has translated sod published, toge-
ther with the original. I take from it the fanning
passage, which is of greet importance to the ease now
*in hand :-.-44 The realm of England was first inha-
bited by the Britons, nest eller them the Romans
bad the rule of the land, and then again the Britons
p ,d it, after whom the Ssaons invaded it, who,
charging the name thereof, did for Britain call it
England ; after them, for a certain time the Danes
had the dominion of the realm, and then the Salons
again ; bet lest of all, the Normans subdued it,
1 whose descendants comings, in the Government of
i , I.i _I
11130 enguom at this present day; (temp. Jigs. VI.)
land in all the times of these I nation. and of
Itheir King', this realm was still ruled with the same
Icestoms that it is now governed withal." Upon
which ibis famous Lord Chancellor eery jolly argues,
' that the attachment shown for so many centuries to
these laws and customs by the loathes, and the respect
likewise paid to them by foreignets, who even came
into the land as conquerors, proses that the said laws
were fell of justice and at Ldom ; after which he tells
us, that ever, King of England most swear to repro
according t• thole goad old laws and customs (bone
at antique I.egrs d Consuetudisies), and that he can.
Inet govern otherwise; this pasaage I 51,611 also copy :
....44 Such a King (4 England) is made and °reigned
for the Deluca Or TOE LAW. or use SUBJECTS,
1 whereunto he teethes power of his people, so that
be cannot porno his pee ple by soy other towels."
re-(Funvescue, p. 32.)—This is a most important
wean,. The reader, no doubt, bus hosed of Kings
governing jure dirino, by a power derived from God;
bet a King of England governs by a power derived
Irons kit people, and this power is conferred upon
Mei for the Mersa or MI LAW Or 1111 1111W/acts
on TrOrt.l. It is for maintaining theta. of his peo-
ple, sot his own law, that he is placed en the Throne;
—it is not to indulge his own capricious will, meth
less for esercisieg a lawless military force, that fie
I. " made and ordained King." Ile it mum King
by the law, says BitACTn9l—Les face KCVOS ; and
Ecru, too, has these words—El quids per legers
ifactas est Rev, dientsm est quud Dominetio et po-
llutes. tell atirfbratur : and "because the King is
!created by the law, it is St that supreme power and
authority Astrid be attributed to the law." Bet
what have his Majesty's Ministers done ? They have
attributed ',preme power to the motto—they hove,
as mach as in shed lay, endeavoured to pall down
the only lawful Government, that is, the Government
by the C.lnsiltetion, anthet up a Military Govern.
meet in its mead. They are, by this crew set, end
by the public approbation of such a message, at
clearly guilty of High Treason, in my emit...titian,
GS were Lau, and STRArrOItD, in the vim. of
COMM' L, or TIMM %Pt and earl ,us others in
the reign of Rico too ll'.
I beg the Reader to observe. that the Romans
were cow; , the S were eon a, the
Danes were conquerore, end th.• Normans were
entitle ; but what were the Counts? Were
they conquerors ton? I think no mew hal face
enough to say that!! Neither Lord SifillOUTil, nor
Lord, I.IIrEM POOL, nor e'en Laird CASTLMAOH him-

self, can Inustersaffielent assurance for Garb an as.

'mien. The British Penple, it appears, then were
not compered when the German Mese of Nanover
were called, invited, placed (upon certain conditions
repressed in the Bill of Rights) open the Throne.
They were nothing like, in similar elreemetsnees, In
the Romans, Saxons, Dane', and Norman', who, be

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it always remembered, respected oar ancient laws and
customs; bet what have these Ihnoterians doss.?—
or rather. what have the!". Minister' clone ? They,
have signified to the p►ople that the exercise of their

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ancient rights end cdstntas gives osabroge to the
Coati; anti that it is necessary roc the British na.
lion, in order to show a proper ollegionro In the

• II ittiosys was a pert of the privilege .4 Varlia.r.rr.t a.
riiriirisia, es irniteri, perieen eurerptint lb, oritiveriiiin ilie
I:tes u.vl Cetiottuti.e.: Belt SKIMP( q.lgw rt airmen capita,
dispewires.—lNee Stwert's Vita Of lA. tektite Crmstitettre.)
Awl *twit t multi is se eeedeisteeil, tk Kityg entices porting
blot i 1 le field. he w.ittig 14,1 the at b.. die-
King Cm . ....Id have prides's' Lased STaer-
rete hid it in Isis pew-r. Tier Teriei La.e said iligt
siperl,, betas., be ailed by tee Mises en..
ini•eievit hit the ylblts have Ilillwerrel, flint it is a presser
time 00 do a w►attß Swag ruder an isillaatel
uskr to Infiniti t ski.

PRINCI RESORT, and • loyal attee►mint to ►it
person arid Government, to relinquish and glint op
the 'Negri,. of the privilege of assembling sad per&
fleeing fo► the redress of their grievances, w►ich is
one of t►e mess important and indubitable fnacMas
belonging to every Briti.h subject, whatever soy be
►is rank and condition in life. Surely it is proper to
sell ohne Ministers, that the Princes of the Hose of
11. , in w►ose favour they exert so dangers*. a
zeal, never came over from t►e Goodstein SAI the
Itonssns, Smits, Dawes, end Normans did—they
did not come ►apir* peedafent, sed recipere. T►e
power so conferred wee bosndrd by !ACTION, •od
allegiance cannot be (wended beyond those limits.
Orr ditty to the Pas sax is as Mach boonded(44 tw
119 Is his duly to the People; therefore, if owe party
might avail himself of martial force to dimples the
obligation, the other would scqeire a similar privi-
leg., beams, the compact between King and people
is reciprocsl, end mono( he loosened at ens and
valthoet untying it at the other. W. seed, I CON.
ceite, also to remised the.eMinister. (being prompted,
as we are, by oar affection for thei► masters. w►ose,
best intesests they betray), that it is only 105 years
ago since t►e present family were placed upon the
Throne, sod that t►e cans* of placing them there
was for t►e better preservatinn of those laws sod an-
ions which Roman, Steen. Danish, and Norman con-
(looters had constantly respected, but whieb
!loose of Stuart did not respect. Let these Mi.
oilier boar in mind tee, that at hes
.the H dans
terereded the Svaanva, the NOfIROSIO, 4e. ke our
nation had been seer 4.000 years in possession of

Pe modest laws, and had ell drat time Anna no in.
viecible attachment in them d Why, then, should
they euppese, that in 103 yeses thi. attachment could
be irate.f..rreil floes their indigenous laws to a race
of foreign Pointe', who owe Peery thing to the gene-
rosity of the people, sod by whom, or their Minis-
ter, they are, ent•ithvandieg. Vern treated than
the tuition ever was by any of its ancient conquerors,
nr than perhaps it would base been bad it been even
competed by lloirtraert In short, it may perhaps
ratite a doubt, in an inquisitive mind, whether the
evils arising from a Derotaghenanger Administration
ate net worse tl•••• those sometimes predated by
conquest. History tells us,that when these fendemental
lowa were in danger, the people become indignant, end
with nee voice escleiesed, Noisome, Leges Acetic
sanlort. Ministers had so fears of such onanimity
at present, and the
doehtedly was, befogs. they thoeght the prevalence
of corruption bad debased and degenerated the nation ;
bet they been to tied themselves mistaken in their mina
elutes./19, and if wear. not goat selenium's at present,
the 111t1,161 they ate taking will soon make es so.
I em happy to Ind that the opinions published In
my letter. tilted Loudon, Aug 413, twelve days after
the Monclitster manure, which letter was trillion in
defence of Sir Feast's Bunntres manly appeal to
the people, end was published in lb. Srirrusitc
the 31st of Aagnsi ; I ern happy to find, I repeat,
that those opinion. a e now very generally received,
and that the real merits of the question are acknow-
; lodged to he of a vial end eons:Rearm! nature
Men who differ widely In their sentiments respecting
Representation, de yet concur in acknowledging
the necessity of preserving unimpaired the pticilege
of peritionlr,A for redress of grievances, which in
fact is. franchise, essentially requisite for the preser-
vation of every other constitutional 'Wit whatever.
When I wrote that letter In a London Coffee-Acute
it was oat of my power to refer my readers to soch I
censtitellonal Authorities as were needful, in my I
opinion, to elecieoste a matter of such vast importance.
I have indeed a general reference to the Bill of
Rights, as containing so avowal that the people have
en undoubted right to petition, and also to have a
Parliament freely chosen, end called frequently for
redress of 'Hermes; I alto added from meow), a
pussy in Mr. „lyrics. Rebut, to 'how that " the
King wee bound by his Coronation Oeth, (that is by
the construction which the Parliament made of that
oath in the reigns of Eww. II I. and Halt. I V.) when-
ever soy mischief happened in the realm, by and
with the advice and 'went of his people in Parliament,
thereof to provide remedy." Now it is a maim in
law, Quad dal fine's', dad {minis Odfineen stecessorie—
he who toostetses theend, conceives all things fitOPII.
eery to that end. To admit that the Kino end Par-
liament are bound to find a remedy for peblie mia
chief, is to admit that the people haves tight to
meet end discus upon such mischiefs, and to petition

far their 'edit's. Such ir•a the nature of that letter,
which 1 applebend ••t well tinted, •nd bad the good
toilette of iodating obit people In direct their attention
to the •objrct of their birlh.righf, outrageously
'Wiled. se I presume it 0119, by the military puce•
don inflicted upon the people at M.nchester. Shen
antler the protection of the King's piece, beagle

assembled fur als wful Impose. (did- sot, however,'
think that that letter contained • se Relent esplanation
of the subject ; and, therefore, I have dote collected
Into • narrow tempos', proofs from the highest
Asthatitier, in order to show that the priiilego of
petitioning is a right, of which no Minister can
deprive the people without committing high treason
stains, the Constitution, which Is the realest of all
treason'. This I have pabliaked in the form of a
pireiphlet, at the lure pike of shrew., because I
deem these proofs 'intik preserving, tad Newspepess
Faro subject to be destroyed ell seen as reed. I think
the Reader will admit that this little sispowny book
contains • redundancy of proof to establish this ins-
' peasant point beyond all manner of question ; never.
theless, I cannot help regretting that there Is oat testi.
loamy which I overlooked at the time, and that bring
the testimony ors very great man, no less Indeed shin
Sir EDWARD CORI, I shell like lease, Mr. EDITOR.
to kW, it in this Letter. 'Pair writer says, in tus
4.h p. 11, " Petitions bekg timely pre.
faired (though very many), hats been answered by
the law end custom of Parliament, before the end of
the Parliament. The Parliament plight nut In he
ended while soy Petition depended* undiscaired, or
et least fo which a determinate mnititet is not Oen."
—Mr. Justice, DeDDRIDOR. 111 e postage which I have
quoted in the pamphlet oboe. alludes) to, says, that
" If the Parliament should. be dirsolred, before
ell
Petitions are heard, the King's Coronation Oath
would he broken."
This right wily be frestrated two wart either by
preventing the Petition from being heard ln_l, irtla-
rmrnt, or by prevent:cc the gri from being
cussed by the people, sod the Petition AMR being

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