The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-26 00:00:00

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To ear saitiroßs o. inst.wriquoß,"
I(I aittl. well argesinted with ille-ginsertisa
sintit f which anklets year bosoms. the
_Poll of -yesterday. would have damped my ardour,
load cloodild my expectations :bat we know that tat-
too' I, not commanded by sodden and motorway im-
pala; impetuosity may occasion 'surprise, bet cleat{*
vetoer wins the bottk.—LucoLLua pissed one can.
' pawn by celerity, and another by delay. You must
oat follow the latter maple, the mason is too far
adesaced ; you must unite celerity with strength, and
the bild is your own.
Whet a noble sight does lima City of Westminster
present at the present moment ! A hand of plain,
bat well-Wormed and high-minded citizens, united In
the purest and most god-like of all coulee, the freedom
not wily of their owe City, bet of the whole lini•
pire, and, perhaps, of the world ; and to compla•
the picture by contrast, opposed to amino all the
wealth and power In the kiagdom a Ministry
the avowed enemy of men, as a free sod comfort-
able being; sail to a Whig Aristocracy, his pro-
fessed friend, but secret and insidious foe. It is a
spectacle that might arouse CA/0 from HS tomb ; and
if LEONIDAS could emerge from the grave, he would
join your ranks aid fight the battle of Thermopylm
again. But sou ova • LEONIDAS, prove your-
selves Spartans ; the rampart of Liberty is in your
keeping ; defend it, sod let not the fair plains of Bri-
tish Freedom be over-run and ravaged by a host of
tyrants, mercenaries, and slaves.
The combination of two apparently discordant
parties, of professed saints and practical sinners,
against your independence, is a convincing proof of
their congeniality of sentiment in the rause of Corrop-
lion : and shows how two dissimilar instruments may
be an modulated as to produce an ha rmoniou toacert,
a Ministerial bamr-vini aid a Whig 'serpent; peal-
colarly when the performer are accustomed to Ihn-
roogh•base. The character of the anion, and the
Government they slab to establish en the ruin of oar
rights, is written on their front In Romeo capitals,
DIEMONOCRACY—and it roost's., no micrnsco.
pic eye In read it. On the Freedom of El.ction de-
pond+ the character of the Hove of Commons; on
AR character ef. the Holm of Cosmoss depends the
spirit of our laws. We have area that spirit abro-
gated or nullified at the will of a Minister, by a
soimmerrient Parliament. We have seen the bounty
of Heaven. in so ehundant harvest, defeated by
a Corn Bill! We have 110,f1 the Act of Habeas
Corpus, and the lives and liberties of Englishmen,
'upended in a Green Bag! Who will pastime to say
that at ammo future period, end that, perhaps, prefer
distant, some other pious hypocritical Minister will
hesitate to destroy, that " Palladium of our Libros,"
the Freedom of the Prom? It hes already been at-
tamped, In the corrupt *eludes and lotisoidation of
Amin; and we owe the preservation of that bal-
. work, not to the Aristocracy, not to the IFAigs or
Thrice, but to individual talent, courage, and air-
toe. If ever the Freedom of the Press should be
abolished, politic education aid public morals will
decay ; and we shall descend to that degraded state,
is which society shall consist only of a prolligate
• Aristocracy, and a popalacy of meolals and slaves.
—This is not an overcharged picture ; Greece and
Rome are both before your eyes : consider what they
once were, and what they no are! Con you coo.
template, withoot horror, your posterity sinking,
like them, into mental and corporeal vassalage, an-
der the insulting donsioatioa of the Crescent, or the
isiteltmeteal thraldom of the Papal Croat Is this a DA-
MONOCRACY onset ? Remember, that Corruption,
like the Nile, aim from small springs; like the Nile, it
receives its tributary stream+, and becomes a treason-
does vim, not to be tamed; like the Nile, it ir-
rigates the country ; but not like the Nile don it
fertilize; for it irrigstes with tears and blood.
It is enoogh.—filassy of you are capable of all that
reams perform : you have not the cunning of your
opponents; for no conning man was ever yet a wise
one ; hut you have all the right-hastried wisdom that
is necessary for the occasion, and you most ezert it:
your ancestors, says Junius, " delivered an hoe.
ditary freehold into your hands, and it is your duty
to transmit it unimpaired to posterity." You must
not only sactifice ill patois and personal prejudice
to the public good ; bat its the social, as well so pub-
lic circle, you must dispassionately reason with the
ignorant, animate the indolent, and strengthen the
weak-hearted ; and shove sll, invite the assistance of
the female sea : persuasion is the pecolier province.,
woman • and let no person use that trite and
feude expression, " / have nothing to tits rith po.
Wks." Every men has to do with politics, oho
regards his social duties. The science of politics Ia
a branch of moral philosophy, end includes oar well-
being and well-doing is skis hie, and distinguishes
the civilised Nation from the e horde ; for, as
the great Lord CAMDEN NW, " If life bethe bounty
of Heaven, we reject the noblest part of Ike gill,
when we surrender that certain r•le of Using, with.
out which human nature is not only miserable, bet
contempt ihlss."
, Feb. 25. 1919. PURUDICE.

• A tar.icul iwirsavrat vs evil& fr•ia its 'bay.

The question h deckled en the Interkeithiog Elea.
the. Ist, 'Mat Mr. CAMMI.L. has been &dared
widely retained; Yd, It is alio declared that Mr.
Pessseos►, the other Candidate, ought not to have
been ►eturned ; 3d, That the charge of bribery end
corruption wind Mr. Pala:eche has not been
proved. _ _

A kw days since, it.STirlaNg, 1:4(11. of Snotkete,
while coursing, killed a bale, which, open being
opened, was (nand to remain Ike extraordinary
number of seven soon, oneo! This circumstance de.
termined Mr. S. so ',languish coursing for the present
'swum.

I The Bishop of LITCHFIELD and COTEITTY, Of
Dean of Durham, hes tianemitted to the Melon of
that City 2001. to be distributed amongst the poor,
with large felonies, oho do not rmire p%rf,cbial