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VI astindcd, end insisted upon;" the bre friends of
the catintrg tont:mined to pritun, and node. going
crcrl drpr►:otinns, trithoid trial! !! The bilk of
the nation 441 in bombe to !lime whose usurpation
is moo• gla✓ing and galling than the negro slare•
'Lesko-, or Ittoplims task •waster, nam►lt, the Ha-
remetsmanoters. th► folly and avarice of •hose ra►e.
MIMI have drrv•n th► People to a scat► of e lion,
and now It it propnt.4l that such as er► di•vatithed
should ospatriateihemarlres +Mims, the hop►. und►r
any circuonstancos, at ever 'morning to the country
*lnches. th►m ; that story should go In a land
ketceen ItXX) end 3•XtO miles from any other civi-
lized part of the earth, used be ►educed to a situation
little superior to the convicts at Botany Boy, as I
tryst I shall IN abl► to thole before F, conclude.

abnet nothing, and have no fnandstion iw reasons
knowledge, Or consideration. In the same war, I
must allow that cand..er, indulgence, aid litoteslite
are immutably suited In the fermi which is got up and
played by the rival polemics of Si. Stephen's, •nti
6111 he encouraged and copied, and these opinions of
mine hooted down end proscrib,d es long as that faunal
lasts. Rot when the curtain shall kil* fallen, urger I
again lobe raised user these fnoleries, then, indeed,
words will have their tine *rightism! invariable 1110110.
ing, ether pokoo,and thespeakeis go ill be espected
to abide by them; then shall we hear no more of
those theatrics' passions which prompt Our reitiOtil
to lake a Minister's head ibis day and his arm the
nest t the language of furious proscription, and of
fishnete panegyric, will no longer be heard in an as-
sembly met together, not to indulge the meinentary
hugeness of indititleols. bet to promote the perma-
nent happiness of all. We shall have alone with that
sage privilege, by which the parliamentary currency
hes been debased into nothing lint local tokens, mere
paltry club counters, perpelgelly changing hands,
and poised, with mock solernitity, from gambler to
gambler, •nd beck again, hat which are wiseste no:
whete out of the room, and not worth picking up
in the street. When that day Come,. we shall hear
no more of the misfits of a deli' Minister, in the
mouth of the man who has cnildeinned every wino
of his life ; nor will men, like trope Lordship.
he called upon In defend the inconsivencie• of an
illustrious friend, and venture, when writing to •
nation, who hare some little character for common
sense, to promos the loathsome elesescenees of ha-
hitail hvporsisy as a beautiful featurc of our pub
tic Councils.'"

[To be continued.]

LITERARY EMIG I ORES.

_A IirrENCF: 01? THE PFIOPI.E. 111 REPLY TO
LIMO ERSKINE'S TWO DEFENCES OE THE
W• II (I•.
The •ffaire of the last Westminster Election have
sunk the Whip deeper in popular controversy than
--ogietso with their prete..sions, or their previous re.
..4gagoatinst. We aro not now aiding in slehato the prin.
"ielplo upon which we are testingly divided with them,
VA the propriety of settling the alert of an Empire
by oriastiasul (Warns, yr 1•10 parliCri bet there can
b• no question that the Whigs hare mistaken their
:pow. party ; that they have presumed too mach,
-the this preaomptlon has brought their haughttness
Into niconvement, and, to them, unprofitable alter.
tention aids the People; and that their opposition
Mr. llookovaz is a full dentonatration of all these
p.riiretars. That which is apparent from history, and
prose's, cirresmalancos, the editor of the pamphlet
before as Las br..oght into • contiguous end Ikea,.
able aeries of positions. He has established a ;dm,
fa rrrrrr et, against the pristenalona of the Whigs,
to soy neeeditary philostipLy, or constitutional ma.
with', in the rise or progress of their party.—
Alas proves, that instead of the Revolution being
beetle about by that vitiates of Whiggery, and
Mao Constitution being establisher' by its wis•
dram, and guarded by its skit, the very ed.'.
Puce of that parry was en evilest', its orgatliza.
thin the met of fortuitows concretise. and its mo.
tin" as ercri down to our °lll°limes.as the The declentera spinet Reform. and whys, at the
tubablitto wares after the ti.-loge. The hi-torical mew, lime would be miry to he
illnatratinn 101 ' only very perfect araomentalively, called
IhP
°lett"'
hit is powerfully fraught with wit and satire ; ipso. of arilwitleatt or "'see in the 'Lv'eetnaleet° ere at a
'hooch, that the Author he, es pede, very fleetly I loss how Intent 11110 'objector Puhlic Meetings. They
iflacosorrod aho he is. There is iodised but one cry them down In the lump. sod yet they admit that
orriter, et present known to the Pablir, whose men. !almost all great ororne.meotu in the foo,turo•olai
1.1 rigour is NUS' to such a P"infill'ree ; 6.111`11 laws (in other words the Corkfifulies) of every
tint may who that one is,becalke tit. Quarterly, though
and in the political condition of its labs.
fries imperfectly alerted oho fort, world be ton gi.sll""'
IA lay hold of any avowal of it. We shall fall in with bisects. hem been preceded by a sort of rho le
him at page 110, where having condo/mil the a ...y. ci but theft it is obsessed, that it ought to be " a
*Own to the period oldie elretlon,heohsorres," Yoe 'trete, of opinion." The chances proctored Ivy
Lordship would have done well to imitate your more which it is ickonw.eilgo.l are solid and pekoe
trident friends; abs. thought of this • result' that those which are
w( 'lls my anti. To did of the infant -ro cnnaition of neat' while it 8e eh"le'dt
tarsus. , wipe it up and eel walking of the woo, the reiolt of brute force are transient as the impulse
Your Lordship has fold us what you Hank of the which made
them. Tuts Is no a.gome... whist Re.
flsktion, I will tell y.. 6 what we, the rabble, think form Meetings, which ate calculated to gain and to
of this notable emoa,— We think It has derided • r •
'tress the ...winos of the 'raj 'iii of a People :be
the foe of the Whigs for ever, and that she whet if . ."‘ 1""`"1 lc''" "a 44 .i" in vain: i
• entertainer coldness' which their Maiifeson "1"8
00111 them to have felt towards that popular nee, and that those •"" h", the influence aid th' force
bill henceforth be repaid with freezing contempt. We of Government in their bands, to the enriching them.l
thief& that not even the spoilt children, nor even the wives and friends, and the e•aaltatt..ll of their rook
lick-spillles of the tarty, will now venture In .1.11111100 !ie ens jely, are deternithed to steel them with neglect,
• deuominseion which has for min, years been re. and
teen with • •
scorn, Iser.iuse sisch opinion mi.
Is •shoed anti inapplicable to any set of met.;
liter against 11 Pit isdeleat•? 11 hat alp (14. 94.1.1.
end which the lee contest has rendered Illor•notillGt,
perhaps, than any title that ever designated the sup. tiara of opiiiieu to do, it twee is upset to fee re.nrted
porters of an end WIC me. my to Wmild not a hand .1 of melt in th:t rye!' tr ass
Lord, you end your filesids misjudge the People ple upon the rights anti properties of the roopie of
*war egreginely.--They take no pleases in : large ? is a grisp,mi maim, that ..f
the discovery or the expose, of your frailties Kings are inviolable, Lecau.e it is political'', riot
haw can they be interested in Om disappoint-
men" of shoe Dos boro,y why,. tan lie the morally, atic.soaledged that they uri do Da
contsolatins in confessing that they have lam}, wrong. Est if this dictum, or rule, sere not
admired, sad trusted in irsia ? Yo•r reputation for ssometimes di:m;(4'4l,ot, would Eines !fee do .igh: ?
oinretilo nose necessarily involee their char icier for It
sills not this country more than niece iforet.me
&stemmed ; to non that you have been ""e' "an actedthis • d d
upon eaception ;so ors my reflect-
avowal Shot they hero been showed." In toply to the
hackie eteeptioos taken by the party to Sir F. Bea. tag"a" e•l•l'lsin sow that such has been the
orrr. because he qua:felled with Use Whip, end yet ? France has very recently set an example
iffy freysteetly voted aids them, the Author obverses, •f departure from the same general role ;
as There is a wide dlierenae betimes voting With • sterling the melee pismilio,:a about that isevintshi.
part) via far a party. Two men may travel the m
• mid, bet one may be on hip way to lily m . ALE. news, for whose Teal and rho.
q r in defending his R•yal Corot, et the bar of
held, sod Om other to rob a church. Sir
Fa.ss cis InViIDeTT moot rer elp hb% voted ; the National Convention, a enutiumetit is about to he
wells the Whigs, when they have opposed a vicious, I erected in Paris. And hatetiot th. People of that coon.
entrap', and tyrannise system ; but it does not at tty pitied "soli! and permanent" hOil•fi'S by the ex-
alt follow, that wheal he went iron the lobby with the !
• ins I tem' prom. _Ming? floe quetion et last met be resolved
Noes. his wish should be to walk all the way
them thresgh the dirt to Celton.hoove. Thu cause Iby the "'Peet' os twees•i'Y of the measure td Mee-
ts( this complaint is easily discerned—as the Ministers whether opinion has
bees, in clearly "'premed
have the soolorpoly of power, their opponents think land urged, as that there was 'peon to concha& that
tie uswroopoly of popularity belongs to themselves ! nothiog short of force could operate a cure for slit.
only. The they can overlook a Irtle 'motility or orders use longer to he borne. *Pie, in the fair op-
abandonment of priaciple, and 'veto of patty for the
peal so a Jury, according to the Constitution, as
moment. A truly shabby fellow shall be pitied and
protects/1, sod the precedent be thought worth en. whether persons charged with eighties are guilty or
common; for the sake of what the whole party may cot; as long as their actions may be defined
II
fiud it espodient to adopt bereafter : besides, ally guilty, a Jury will pronounce as much in their
thing mean breaks lb mass's spirit and character, end
I verdict, and the creased may end ought to be po•
qualifies him to Rear the parry livery with cm- .
manta : but it the accused have only complained,
cent submission. But no such pity, nor ptolec•
lion, no nor even toleration, for him who follows tan matter bow I.tudly, uronca itilticterl by the
one steady rule of action, independently of all Government, Cie Jury will acquit them of blame and
lletlottel his very "lees at. but send them away free. Is i. the fear of this kind of
1b:4194" from theta who have them of right, issue in our Courts that the Member, of our Cabinet
sad •Ito know how to wear them so sociably
his opposition se. propose is _s wo obtain got most ostrageous, the most
—his isoncurreure is treachery,
lice—if he speak., he spoils a project—if he is silent, wicked, the most unpardonable of all compliances in
he deserts his duty—whether at ease or in action he out Representatives (as thoy call themselves), sit. to
• Ipeallorr of despotism anal..f ileatrurtion to the Con-
is alike rebellions, and to he Rooks ti with the seal of I
selluil•lin".“ 0" mote 'Peet"' et". eluel'eahlet stitation-THE •C•rEN3tulf of the HABEAS Coons
not to the Author, for his book is Isis best defender, Act. Theo ate in __e_sonsins, said to be of
It I.c
he to the mum of conatioutiottal freedom; we es- to ha
lest it fret. a sinew, belief that the Author has here the Holy Ghost, the salt for which is
eicoeteted the immoral pest which chiefly coulee's knelled. In politica, the tin of suspending the !la-
the-political arrangements of the country. btu Corpus, is of that description, and eight ester
" Toe floe, tJ .Consmons should hea field for ao- to be forgivers. It is the resort of the weak and
rjoiraorarfare, not for ashen t:ght, or an Italian hank,
wicked to "a vigour beyond the law." The Ilsbess
wily for unseating the combatants. Your Lordship
(or pus is the corner alone of our edifice of fatherly.
"mot Jiyaltshold oa.h every thing onsulotaotial,
is pleated spi4 a molar climes, providttl it shill It is the tootbstooe of ite odious of the sob!

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