The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-09-15 00:00:00

THE STATF,ANIAN.

TO HIM

ROYAL lIIG II NES-S-1 n--1-. PRINCE REG DINT.

Stn.—At plot, Itnjal Meters, has committed
yourself and yne► rharecter, with the persons and
character of your Ministers or secret scalier., you
casinos fitted that, in whatever is done in the C.•
hotel, the eseeptionable part only. shall he laid to
their charge, end the meritorious, if any such cosh,
be pointed out in your office and their Ministry, as.
elated wholly to yourself. That would not be fair,
any more than it would he to ead, that in jeer re-
cent act of •ppleedinc the sabre of their innocent
countrymen, y our good nature, or in cent lenguse,
your religion ides been surprised into t►e art. No, I
hope your Royal Illicitness too manly le seek elietril
ter under that coveting. IRV every man bear la'
nen burden." The greatest delinquents are ea
titled to justice.
The nation, Sir, has jest been thrown into en un- ,
trampled stale of distress, difficulty, and ferments-
lion. This friteeetation in the motel world, like
that in the natural, cannot be stopped till it has es.
hassled itself, and that may be either in an ardent
spirit or in a corrupt rapidity. Woe le thew busy II
mischievous heads, who liege thrown the 'even inter
the previously on•leldy mess of unquiet matter, •acid
thereby ignited en intestinal motion, net easily al.,
'eyed. Bet I will net occupy your Royal High-
ness's attention in en useless or cirassolocetory
ordain. The state of Great Britain is (to use a fa.
utilise phrase), a little not of joint, and I should
hot* your Rnjel Illgliness knows as much ; as if
something skitfol b• sot soon done, the On of Mire ;
of its members may he lest for ever.
Sir. it is not necessary in these days to write u
treatise open the origin of power, and of she nature
of civil inviitations; they are w►ll tinderslotd by
every tyro in poli•ics. Sorely your Royal ugliness
aged eel be reminded that, as one Revolution set
year Family upon the Throne, another Revolution
may dose mesh for another. The people kenw to
whom the Stele belongs, end they may be forced fel
prove that they possess that kneehole. I trust in'.
Con, that no Member of the Illy Allleate bas is•
fused in'o past Royal ear any thing to induce you
to &glint that knowledge. Those legitimate So.
',reigns r pen the old espleded doctrine of
the divine right of Kings, suit on this ground they
ere troubled, w bile General Ucematiorec sits on the
Throne of Sweden. They info*• into the minds of
their sobjects the omit and seemliness of " passive'
*hotlinee and non-resistauce" in the people, let she
Prince do whet he please*. Tarte once powerful
precepts are now deem►d insulting doctrines; th►y
are entirely exploded, and the remembrance of them
hateful. Those ideas never had the power or elect
of maims •pen even the weakest minds, end if they
had, common masims are not to be resorted to as
guides in twinge necessity, at any time, much less
a► this, when Englishmen are so well enlightened
with ►espeet to their rights. They will proceed upon
none of the common matins of Statesmen. 1 ter
Royal Iliehness has lived in a time ekes the people
have no occosinn to search for the titles establishing
their own rights; they are more disposed to enquire
Into the claims of thole who assume to goes►. them.
Nothing no bereave them of their right, bet a great
many circeassteuees may occasion the forfeiters of
I then 'attritive which have been conferred by them
on
individual.. A peat lawyer, afterwards Chan-
, cellos of these realms, once said oa this subject,
that " there are estiaordinery cases, eases of OPClik
gity, which are implied, but are as well not to be
eaerally 'sprigged, in whleb obedient-ems; end gind
!Pastan:, begin." Bet it is unnecessa►y to spend a
moment on quotations of this kind ; it is s matter of
prudence, indeed, bow far I may allow myself to in.
&Ise in enervating upon them. Perhaps the At-
ecitteso•Genteg 6 may say, that he prefers a great
living authority to a des(' one; and yet, whin I eon-
eider the confusion which another great eights throes
out in this absurd plirese of "he respects the Contd.
lesion as by la* eglaidisheil," I au surprised so
much respect is paid to hit decisions, from the first
Bench in the kingdom; fur he might certainty, wish
as mach common tense Ind reason say, he ►espects
the lines of suture, at established by philosophers.
Bat the dicta of men elevated by -office or rank, are
apt to usurp the place of those which are laid dews
by men of elevated unilerslanditigs. Ills predecessor
gen*, would not have been pally of such a lapses.
The Noble loud, however, miy do no berm in his
own particular proiince, which is Dot intended to
speak of the origin of kw, but to "spouted it, when
in dentin, and in that hia sober and plodding head
may ►un against nothing so bares, to injure Ailey/
spot or patient. In a work called the Crisis,
near foui-sciste years ago, Sir R. Stahl: said some
pretty little troths concerning Liberty, which might
seem applicable to the events of the roast day.—
After admitting as en axiom what cannot be denied,
end ',hat on man ought to be allowed to deny. that
without representation Its Parliament, ire elms can be
said to enjoy liberty, he says epos ibis very interest.
hog subject—Liberty is a very pled thing; without
Liberty we conned be free sent.; health is gond,
end strength is good, bet liberty is better thus either.
We cannot possess our souls with pleasure sod satis-
faction, "scent we preserve in ourselves that in-
estimable blessing which we call liberty. The true
Went man cosoilms In conducting it according to his
own just senisments and innocent inclinations ; men's
brine is degraded below that of a free agent, when
his iiffectiorts end passion. are Co l.•nger governed by
dictates of his awn mind. With the liberty here
spoken of, a man's life god his property may be et the
will of a went employed to our wen rain end that
of our fellow •rveatto i es. let me hope these observa-
tions are not throes sway spin year Rept' Ilie-