The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-30 00:00:00

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LONDON:
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It is now given oast by the channels of official in.
formation; treatise the secret can no longer be kept
with credit 'to these oracles, that the day for the dis-
solution of Parliament is fixed, Tuesday seek being
named for that event, wind and weather permitting.
It will be remembered how pertinaciously the Goa-
rier has, till lately, asserted that the dissolution
would not and could not take place until the close of
the year. It will also be remembered how Lord
Caortatactou sneeringly denied all knowledge of,
aey such intention, when pressed by Mr.
BROUGHAM upon the subject. Bet disingenuity
and delusion are " fundamental features" of
the system by which the affairs of the nation
are now governed. Many . Members have already.
left town, to look after their canvass, and at last ex-
perience " the happiness of seeing their Electors" face
to face. A Parliament must he elected in forty days
after the dissolution, so that in a few days the whole
of the United Kingdom will be involved in the
bustle of a !leaves, and, in some cases, apparently an
angry contest. The Electors, we hope, will not
' mistake their interests. 'Upon this occasion—they are
those of the Nation, 'and these require that the
choice should not be a divided one. The supporters
and defenders of the enemies of the People's rights,
the suspenders of the Constitution, and all who
turned a deaf ear to the Petitions, the went, of the
People, and the cries of suffering and Washed hu-
manity, should find sloped its the approbation of a
community clued upoii .ilresi jodgmeat upon seen
men and such conduct. Let the Inhabitants of tl6s
country remember, that unless men who value the
rights and opinions of the Public, and who ackeow.
ledge the necessity of a reformation in Pediment,
:are chosen 'to constitute that Assembly, where the
rights and interests of the. People ought to find their
best protection, neither the liberty of the subject can
be preserved, nor can we expect to have a wise, a
virtuous, or a disinterested Administration. Away,
then, with the sopporters of the Pirr System, which
has blasted the prosperity of this country, which has
sullied and outraged its Constitution, and entailed
upon it all the evils of debt and ruin. Away with
eologiams upon the merits of a man who, It is avow..
id by his encomiasts, whose only merit is to imitate
that man, would, Ind be lived till now, have
turned a. deadlier current of wrath than even these
humble imitators, against those who stand, and bare
stood up for the liberty of their countrymen against
the encroachments of such tyranny. Let tno such
Me* be longer trusted with the deieloies of this
coenfry,• and she personal !safety of its inhabitants.
,No,Parrias been eama,easbfs Gooatry mows
No Freeman sorrows o'er a Despot's era.
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French Papers have been received to the liTtkitiaa;
The funeral of the Priam of COMM 11114111 to aka'
. place on Tomidirlast. There Is someliolitical
portaffee in the intelligent* from Spain in these Pg-i
-pers. • An amide from Madrid, dated the 7th inst.'.
Var. WlPbers! Sit fiso believing that oor di pionsi!..
tic dircitisietw eta tie United States will lead to a
rupture. It is possible that the affair may be ternit.'
eyed by a voluntary cessintOttgllte Florida on.
ewe-part, en receiving a pecuniary indemnity from
the United Stott". Several persons who call them.
stiles well informed, asseft that a eegociatitin is;
.opened with reference to. thiii .rinestina.r in the like'
article it is meationed, 'Oil at the lettre;esid of Aptili
a cattiest took place bewails the -Spanish mid Porte-
geese soldiers, onthe.,Crikatterf. of -the kingdom of
Leon, in which stirtiCseore killed and wounded
'Ol4
ois both sides. %It ;lama, barsomer, that this battle,
bad been reprosente4;qh4ho .commencement of,
hostilities, merely arose from a priests quarrelovhod
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fill it e!T ApaPpipir4,....64.EpPlis of Iti4***9
after their !ere
.top:siore trill peeved to 14,..
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pry,; sacit. s. aop !.4 41,11 UNK,IMILIPIPW-
19*§#,et Beds, preparaorl;l44he ef
• The adininistrodow *I the stain of
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the foreignl colonists in the Diet of Itusaiti,':lcre.
merly iu Altr•hands of three satinifileittninfs, has re-
cently been entrusted to one Board, dependent