The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON:
MONDAY MIMING, ♦PSIL 24, IBIS.

It is melancholy to observe, that the star of liberty
Di sooner risen in one country than it sets in the
other. France, fur a moment, walked and rejoiced
is its light. Spain now enjoys the blase, and all, ern
this side et the Pyrenees, grows dark and desolaii.
'r lie cmstitivienal fabric raised by Locis
thoagh improved ty the wisdom and patriotism of
tt n late Minister !heat's, atteady suttee on its
sandy foundation. Had it emanated front the (see*,
it would have stood on a rock above the reach of
sztcrileglitus hands. But grounded, as it is, on Royal
p•our and mu-levet:siva, it remains exposed to all
the caprli es and encroachments of power. Its only
guards ;.re the firmness and sincerity of the Monarch
by whune it has been established; and whatever credit
we may give him for the latter virtue, late occatrences
have woefully proved his deficiency in the first. The
lfren.ll have hided been told, that the Chambers
would protect the (*.barter, by which their existence
was secured ; but they were nut made acquainted
with the secret intention entertained by °ovens-
men% of reulating the election of Members in
such a manner as to render the Royal will
cmnipetint. beneath the mask of Constitutional
forms. DECAZEI, it is true, attempted to create a
really natienal and effective representation, and his
ef.iets wire fur a time successful. But they ultintate•
ccet hint his place, and since his removal such
'Lily encroachments and dilapidation* are made, that
Alec wiil shortly remain with the same, but without
the richly of a Charter or Constitution. The most
Ethiable privileges which it conferred arc already
sespeneled ; the rest will of course experience the
s.inie fate ; for every suspension increases the difficulty,
if out the impracticability, of defending what remains.
he temporary aboiition of the Liberty of the Pres*
bas already been folio ed by the destruction of the
freedom of debate. Instead of venturing into
eisearsionl, of which some reports might still

such ti.e ;oi•ular ear, the Ultras and Illiniste-
.ealjsts now rise es music, and by clamour and
icuenalght violence prevent the imteetifintias of
questions which they think might create some in-
t.•rest in the public mind. It is thus that they are
endeavouring to pass (and will, of course, succeed), a
a new law, which w:11 reduce the number of electors
throughout a kingdom containing twenty-eight mil-
lions of people to about twenty thousand! If there
N. not in\ lenity, there is villainy in this ; for the direct
ronsequencos of such a line of impolicy and injustice are
obvious. What else c:ln they be than civil war and
revolution? The French people are too enlightened
t be tamely deprived of the few advantages which had
r•su!ted from their long and arduous contests with
foreign and domestic tyrants. With the example A
Spain before them, they will not .submit to be once more
degraded into eaves; and the Ministers, whose tura-
sores drive them to desperation, will alone to answer-
able for the ruin of Monarchy, and the sanguinary
oblations which may yet be offered, If they do not
speedily retrace their steps, to save the Throne, and
pe:haps tarot,.

llf murices received from Demerara to the 28th of
February, we learn that the fever had totally disap-
Feared from that colony, as well as from among the
shipping, net a single case of fever remaining at the
abuts date. 'I he inhabitants confidently expected that
the colony would continue is healthy as it was before
the disease made its appearance.
The following is an extract of a letter from the
'minty of tialway, dated the 18th instant :
By order of the Military Commander, a simultaneous
march for arms was evade by the military and yeomanry on
Alley last, throughout the district lying upon the Shannon
mid the Suck, from liallinaslun to Cionfert. This party to
theaastwarci was attended by Use Rev. Arebdeacon Batson,
and that to the westward by the Rev. Dr. Trench, and
Laurence, Esq. as Magistrates. The search produced no-
rttlng more than a few pikes, two or three guns, and some
bullets eithmigh it continued from six in the morale, until
plc in the evening. The mow we* shiest from their bossed,
and the wow**, who were is the fields, were very busy is
denting their potatoes."
tt We are informed, from many quarters of the surreal:Wing
aelgtsbourhoods, that the utmost peace and good order reigns
atnong.t the conntry people, and that the Ballincifeds ere
r•oupletely at an end. TIU system of Ribboanten, which
gained so formidable a Wes In our County. is almost
ebony forgotten, sad has sunk into its ertenat obscurity ;
the minds of the pimple seem beat on their former industry,
and they attend with great assiduity to task lobar.-(Tamet
Gatetle, April 17.)
Saturday a Cabinet Council was held, at three
o'clock, at the Foreign-Ogee, which was attended by
all the Cabinet Ministers. They continued in de-
libtratiou till past five o'clock.
Wd usaderstani that the public will not be admitted
generally as upon former occasions, into the aati-
chambers of the House of Lords on the day the King
fun to opep the Parliament. His Majesty, we are
told, has expressed disapprobatioa of such general
admission ; and, la conseqacacir, as person will, on
sny account, be admitted witless* a ticket from Lord
Owcifir, Deputy (heat Chamberlain of !Nested.
tesurday Prince Leopold atteadied Divine Service
at the ituyal Military Chapel, Whitehall.