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%len of other nations, are praying at one and the
f•me artrio 11. p vitals of France and Militia

Bell.)k1 our ennthw. - •
Need this other use be mentioned ? exists ut•
that reader, who has not already told it to -himielf
Yes, it is to return to all Plans of Reform, to all,
Petitions fir Iteform, to all groans, to ail con:
Oleos; to hit tries for mercy ; the proper and a !
. prodused auswer, thi. bayonet. Tile bayom't ?
yep
by the bleb,ing of 13041, for hayonr4. hot is it al.
together an sure, should matters come to this,. that
the soldiers will push their blitinets exactly in that
direction which may be ordered bk.:min:sac"? Will
they push their bayonets. airing, -We 'People? Of
What class are the men by Whom titiy:WlTl be to be
posited ? Ave the, of ehe Blond Valhi? Are they
*.of the Norio.? Are they not; of the swinish multi.
lode? • Aril thcy not's. prefect swine es wear'`?
it-Plosihte they shoold ever foram:lt..? And wheels*
swine is Iri •e lo in a direction thank ialt*.pleasitig tom
• 'him. :is le not at to retrogriede • •
• An army in Frattee necessary foi7 the security of}
Britain ? Yes! if sit as its Chios •h se tiro; riot
ojheiwi.se. '!..;.••. •
If epy thing goad fel' the People% prespoood.
gnawer is wt hand; wild', theoretical-, fisionety, Uto-
pian, Impracticable, dangeioes, dettioctiiti, roinouo,
• anarchical-, sehversive of elf CritelliManta; there
'nu have it. Well, but in Aliened; tier* it is;" and
no such exit consegoeseces, nothlini 14st"Whafis good
'testate fclain it. • Abol•and so theiNited States Go.,
vernniestt 'siert Geartiment, Wit VI Too are a re-
publican then, are you? what yoWilliik is to sub-
vert this. Constitution of oars • tilethilifist nations!.
the pride of eget! matchless' in • rltfiei boroughs and
taineceres? Voy welt; begin entilltd; *Op your re.
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public; and, in the mean time./ you, who are so
ready to tolk of feelings, think *lest yours will be,
• whe6 after a few raights lodging Its the tower, the
knife of the hangman, after •hanntritebbed off its
'test spots the Spenceaus, is doing its Ace in" yogi'
'bowels. .
You propose disitairik If you ptirtirsOdiny plan
that would pot any power into the hind'of those of
whose obedience all power is compered; and if any
such epithet as deotocratical Is applicable to your
plan, you are told that that it a conclusive reason
-for casting it out without farther thought; tasting it
off as if it were a viper, and' trampling upon 'it ; and
for this reason eternity is tube given to every thing
that is corrupt and mischievous.
What, according to these men, is the ese of the
Constitution ? To make the People happy ? Make
them happy ? • No ! curse on the swinish multitude !
What then? Why to make the one man happy, the
one object of legitimate idolatry, with the small num.
,ber of others to whom it accords with Isis high pita.
*sure to impart any of the.meens of happiness.
Now by.tbisbugbear word democracy, are the Peo.
pie of this country lobe frightenesterst of Moir muses ?
are theta be frightteeed by Gwelphs any mere than
by Steer% Jrito•-pessive obedieuce and non-resist.
Mice ?
Causes of the abcpse. and. all ather Mischiefs ; the
Ascendencyalpartkular haereats,the Monarchical
and Aristocratical, .tohick.are ifildverse to the Uni.
.versal Goad.
Goaded to the teak by the groans of all around
me, I have been- looking of late more closely than
ever into the Constitution ; t mean the present elate
of it; with an attention which the nature of the ob.
jests that 'were continually forcing themselves upon
all eyes, and upon all ears, rendered more and more
painful to me; end what follows is the [wilt of this
most appalling of all examinations.

-As early as the year 1809, ik bad seemed to Me,
that the road to national ruin might be but too clearly
traced in the principle which had not only been acted
upon, but avowed by those in whose beds the fate of
the country rested. This principle was, that in the
bands of the trainee, of the People, the substance of
the People was a fund, nut of which, without breach
of trust, and without jest reproach in any shape,
fortunes might, and ought to be made, at any price,
and 46 an amount ahsototely unlimited, by those
who, without exposing themselves to punishment,
could contrive to tay their hand, on the means.
In this principle, I saw the two domineering late.
rests,the Monarchical and the Aristocratical; contend.
ine with, and crushing the sometimes struggling, but
always vainly and feebly struggling Democratical ;
completely agreed, and, without concert, co-operat-
ing with each other in the dissemination, and in the
inculcation of this principle leading to rein : the party
out of power inculcating it in theory the party its
power, by theory and practice.
It was abundantly evident, that, on the part of
both these interests, this principle, together with the
practice that belonged to it, was but too natural.—
The notion that it had any such plea si that of ne-
cessity for Its adoption, •vattished at the slightest
touch..
Portions of power, money, sod the onteal,dig.
silty of titles and ribbons are the means of reward
possessed by the Monarch, and it is his possession of
these means, that enables him to 'corrupt the Mem-
bers of thee two other branches of the efficient so.
-vareignty ; namely, the two flosses of Parliament.
• It is a principle, the existence and totee of which
is es indisputable as the coarse of the stars, that the
possession of either of the three above.mentirsnesi
means of gratifying the unbounded desires of men,
draws to its possessor the other two.
And the greateer the quantity he may possess of
either of these, the more easy will be find it, and the
more desirous will be be, to obtain the others. But
the more he has of say one of them. the mere is it
right also that he should have of them? All of them at
the espence of the People, the poor People, at *hose
expence whatsoever is enjoyed by their rulers is en.
joyed ? Oh, grow, oh, liagitimm absurdity ! The
more? No: bat aro the contrary, the less. What.
simmer be the qoaatity of rewire, which, to any
shape, may be necessary to obtain at a osest's hands
the requisite service, the more he has of it iu any
ens shaper--the less need he has of it in any ether
shape.
In the cue of the poorest inditideel—buts airy sod
+metal notion ever bees stint* by any awn, in she
character of a guardies, as that en, proper worm
of attachment to himself 'is to • Ito foood is thus sob-
ounce of his wardy Is pots, over s. -slot& its-
''vidr -nil; his little property, a sufficient payment
Labatt? sad power over Meaty mil ioay and

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their property, 44sagiser.,wkh all ttsaS.e,
"li!"'lmbereta if'--71bell stet-that
d
, e*? 'Fobs IV elthrbirve co property, or have,
• not lu setilielsolatieltity,for their niwibtenence,winst
indeed, eithtir be paid or not employed—but alto%
411 me,• arboursiel6oleort "'avert y, 4 k-I°pim*ble
tfiellltiwtten over. be. s deficiency hi's* number of
thwee,, in whom. the igeature. of Poisessing . each •
power;will beeelfielent-CelOpensatiors fee alt thepais:
attached tile .esirciseof it? Leek at the cyantry
Magistracy : see we no4„there a
_hostot exavies,—
Yes ; led hi those esaintekes host of proofs. •
T.
Untartenetely; In lifeasts, all whckitilse
ptgaer, as they all agree aideiiirry, 'that their '
to one another and to the Pepplel.ly infirite—so, lay
they-, must be tie rerees;d.-.. . 1
The infinity and 'ebsoletw Irresistibility being thee
established of the demand for reward—,via. money,
power, ind factitioes dignity tken:Comes the de-
-mend for the supply--and that supply a propor- •
tronates'otle: Here, however, to a first v.iew,• comes.
miarhat of a difficulty. ~Mcseey, its infinite quart.
till cannot be deasanded all at once from the body '
of thli• People : however habiteilly•blind and pea-
iheY 'would bepon.tg
.deepernte ; they would
vise ;"better (they viouldssay to themselves), better
IM shotlor hanged it once, than starved.
. • y.
A let of draigss meat therefore be established and
, .
art to wOrk--cireists, through whieb, by dogrees
"hose defuses . ever In tie eyes of the devourers bet
slow), under ccdiec either of ust,or, what is so
aintieb- better, of mewls:kw—money. may be drawn
skit of 'the. pockets of
.the blinded, deluded, .sor;
aninqeoitive, and ever ten patient
PeoPte?, • Here follows A ,lAst, though sot a ..eons-
pieta pee, of f hese
,productive drains, The taus
that aile, yeerry Rewired prose their dreadfol
efficiency : Wars.-9.. Distant and proportion-
ably. borthensome dependencies all over 4b* habitable
globe (end note that, In prosecution of these views,
every such dependency, tw ithoet exception, has hero
made e soiree of net expence, the amount of which
ii destined to perpetual sod unlimited increase).-
3. Penal Colouies.-4. Claims of universal dominion
Over the universal waier.way of nations, with • de-
termination to destroy the,shipping of ell nations by
whom those claims shall becontested.-5. Annexation
of " Hanover to Hampshire' and that to the feed
that noka hostile gun maybe fired any where on the
Continent, but that we may, be in reatinessko inter-
fere, subsidizing one of the contending pasties, and
helping to oppress the:other !-6. Splendour of the
Crown ; that effelgence, in exact proportion to the
increase of which, will increase the respect, and
with it the submission, and with it the happiste6s of
the People.-7. Erection of Hanover into a kingdom
for that purpose, and that the Hanoterians may the
less grudge the increase of taxes that will be required
by the increase of dignity.
As for war—never has there been, never can there
be, a pretence for it .wanting, so long as that nation
exists, or has existed, soy where, against which war
can or could be made.

The nation to be warred upon is either formidably
strong, or providentially weak ; if formidably strong,
tun long have we delayed the necessary task of'ob-
taitsing, at the sixpence of it, indemnity for the sat
and security for the future ; if providentially weak,
now is the favourable time for taking advantage of
its weakness, and preventing it from becoming for.
midabler ; now has the • Lord of Hosts, as the Arch-
bishop's prayer will not fail to inform us, delivered
the enemy into our hands! Thus, if there be nothing
past, for which to obtain indemnity, security fur the
future will at any rate be an easy purchase.
By a Standing Army it is that we are governed :
and a Standing Army, the magnitude of which has
been teen, is the sort of instrument, without which,
it is said, we could not be governed; and by which
it is the intention of those that govern us, that we
sliould•be governed. And this is that Constitution,
that Matchless Constitution, in the praises of which
those never tire whose opulence or power have been
produced by, or are dependent on, its abuses. And
in this Constitution we have ■ Parliament—and in
this Parliament a House of Commons—and in this
•House of Commons a mask for a military govern.
meta of its own erection—and this mask so trans-
parent a nne! and under this military government, so
long as the mask remains, are we to lie down, now
and for ever, prostrate and-contented.
Well, the United States.; the seat of representa•
tire democracy, alias anarchy—what plots, real or
pretended, have they ? or' have they ever had. in
theii. bosom ? What standing army have they ? What
laws have they to prevent each man from communi-
cating with every other on the subject of those con-
•cer ns which are the concerns of every man ? What lass s
on pain of death, to prevent every map who is not a
soldier, from speaking his mind to any one who is,
Oh ! but the fault is afways the fault of thei
People i believing continually worse and worse, they
must continually be treated with more and more just
severity : the sinners for their own sins—the non
slithers forth. sins of the simmers—to long as'ilit'af
them are leTt alive ....
No : 'never has any extensive discontent, that has
ever manifested itself, been the fault of the People.
Discontent ? no : patience—too mach patience, 101
(fiat has been their fault, their only fault : a sadTaall'i
—and unhappily, en incurable fault under every go.
'eminent but one sufficiently representative, under
which alone the concerns which are those of every
man, are left without restraint to thediscourtli of every
man• - What interest have the People in being go-
verned badly ? in having their universal interest sa-
crificed to any separate and adverse interest ? Bat,
the interest which the men, by whom they have been
governed, have had in governing badly, as they have
governed, has here been made manifest, or nothing
cam be.

Sole Remedy in Principle Democratic Ascen-
dency.
Such being the disease, behold the only remedy :
lot Ain], for whose nerves it is too strong, shot his
ales, and prepare his neck for a yoke, the presser.
of which wilt continuo on the increase, till either
convutsion break it, or existence sink ender it. The
principle than of this remedy may be expressed in
two words—Damocratical Ascendancy, or Aspen.
*Rey of the People. Considering this then as the
and to be attained—Radical Parliamentary Reform
k the only means, by which either that immediate

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saltatiout 44400101021.0 old, tie be
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*440 outward and :risible change &slag
assae beam forms of the Constitution, but solely by
the means of the ever increasing mass of corruptive
luelffect in the haids oT thetrosii, the two sepas
rate, pistil!, and .sinister interests, vie. the Mo.
norasical and the Aristocratical, hare obtained over
the Democrelical interest (which II no ether than the
a nivervel interest) an ascendency to complete, that,
under the outside show of a mixed and limited Mo-
earchy, a Monarchy, virtually and sabatantially ab-
solute if the result.
'Without any outward and visible thane being
'wedeln the forms of the Constita,tion, though waste,
already committed cannot be caused not to have been
,tv
emitted, though past misrule cannot be caused
angst to have reigned, yet the plops may be stayed.
Restore to the &mortifies', to the universal inte-
rest; 'that ascendency which by the confederated,
partial, and sinister interest has betel so deplorably
ahused.(and so long as it continues, will continue to
be abused) ;—and thus you have the remedy. This
is what Paaliamentiry Reform will do, this is what
Parliamentary Reform means.

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The letterarout kris-
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Fre ace, •is to pay
ancs o 121000,090.0 t
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mutes, 509,09QCPWierinlite; rit which capital, Pros.
sialss to receive 42,00t*q0 fiaies,,nr,: in annuities,
2,600,000 The. daises of England, strange
to say, are fiat cogtsplbied.in the above arrongibment;
nur does it appear Whit •progreithor whether any,
hag been madelnigas obtaining security, for their
discharge. It will be amusing enough, -if it shobld
torn oat that the Duke of Wvt,ianciVox
.has• been
pleading the cause of foreign interests, atidOsitig the
influence of his Government to. •obialn.for• the Prat;
sians the full amount of their demamdef whilst the
claims of the British crediiorh. now_.unhappily made
too national, have been sacrificed to indifference.—
Can it be that the pecuniary preteniinns of the indi-
viduals of this country who gave credit to the French
Government, and had their interests taken up by the
English Ministers, whether wisely or not we' stall
not say, have been surrendered without a scruple,
not in deference to the Bourbon Government or in
mercy to the French People, but to gratify •the raps.
city of a Foreign Power Those who gave credit to
the French Government before the last Treaty, an.
questionably had themselves to blame, and it requires'.
bet few words to prove the impolidy and in-
justice, in a national point of view, of that
conduct either in individuals or a Government
which voluntarily enriches rival and hostile Powers ;
but since the interests of these creditors of a fo-
reign nation were made important objects to this coun-
try, by thellobsequent conduct of our Ministers, and
the real interests of the British People sacrificed for
their attainment,• we can scarcelybelletelliet any
one can look upon such an abandonment •of this
question to please and enrich our Proisian Allies,
with indifference. Many Consider this ',hint es
affecting only the fortune of privates individuals, nod
priv ate interests would eertaltitylle the first bene-
fited by•the repayment of the pecuniary cilia's Jo
question ; but the British Public .shaalcl know that
10 millions of their money, espended on.tdcoont oft
the maintenance of French prisoners, yrss relitivish.'
ed in deference to these same private creditoii, on
the plea that their interests were stri:ctly'cosneited,
with those of the nation, and if the fruit' of the na.
clone! industry are hot to return by the sente.chair.
Deis, in what msnner are the British People to; lie
remunerated for.their,saerifices.? %Veldts far ?Aim'
setting up thelniliesof a Goverritnent;'
Misted speculations of intlividnals,asmlpretetnians.
lief it People, or tetiable-erntinds for opposing
_other.
States; but it dOes strike us fOrcihty, that if the
People of this country are.to be mode to pay for the
si-pport of in army in Fran to collect fnieign—dafits",
aud, guarantee paymeitis'ind'treaties, it is a violation-
-41 the national hOnO4r end a scandalous
.injustice to
ihdivideals, if llritish.interests are to' be allowed to
give way to German pretensions, and all the id.
vantages so dearly purchased ,by one blood, are io
be given to the King of PittlistA.
The organization of the French army is said to
proceed with great activity. A General Staff is to be
attached to the Ministry of War. It is remarked,
that the French army costs more,- in proportion to
the number of men, than any other in Europe, that
of England only excepted.

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It appears from the Parisibortmls, which ere re,
wired to the 21st iost. that lb. Doke of WELLING•
TON was still piing his respects 'to the King at the
Tbeilleries, and dely takes op lo NM same way with
MONIIEUNI MADAM; sad the Doke D'ANOOO.
LINN.

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Gersiest DeWitt and Flemish Mails have also ar-
rived. Meta& Lt A RN, the Papal Noncio to the
Imperial Cold; sad* his solemn entry iota Vienna
on the 7th April. On the 10th, their Imperial Ma.
jesties of ASSTAIA Wsts to commence their journey

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