The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-12-29 00:00:00

men cannot perceive the distinguishable marks or
evidences ? Others must be called in to 'islet—
others who are good judges of engraving and writing.

In the case of persons of our acquaintance, to
which case this source of probable evidence applies,we
learn from nature and from experience, that it rarely
happens that two persons are so perfectly alike, as
not to he distinguishable immediately, and without
doubt ; and though length of time, absence, mis-
fortunes, or other casualties, may sometimes perplex
us for a moment, we soon recognise our friends by
some marks or signs which distinguished them from
all other men. Not so in the case of a Bank-note.
. Absence, length of time, casualties, and other circum-
stances render it more undistinguishable; of this the
• Prisoner should and would have the benefit, if the
Jury were assisted by good judges of the point in
question. But upon this point we shall not any
longer for the present dilate. Yet one word in vv-
. gird to the piteous arraigned. None of them have
• given; et' far as we recollect, a real name and true
• local address. On this great point the Jury very
• properly have had excited in their breasts a suspi-
cion of design to pass off a bad Note. But did the
passers Of of these bad Notes give real names and
, true local addresses, there would be destroyed the
presumption that they meant to defraud the Bank ;
and this certainly would be a paint with the Jury in
the summation of evidence, and the forming a ver-
dict.
*ADICAI. REFORinillp AND MODERATE RE-
-VOSMERS.
As the former are composed of able men, so do the
• latter contain many as honest, but less informed in
the subject. This important question will most as-
suredly force itself upon the notice of Parliament the
ensuing Session ; and we think we cannot render a
greater service to the cause and to the country, than
by endeavouring to clear it from the ambiguity and
bugbears with which the ill-intentioned and design-
ing corruptionists study to involve it. To the 80.
voughmongers themselves, no reasoning on our parts
can be strong enough to overcome the bias of self-in-
terest ; but to those timid or deluded persons who aid
them in their dishonest tenacity by not understanding
aheaterits of the cause, we cannot do better than lay be•
- fore them the opinion and the advice of that Veteran
in Reform, that powerful friend to his country,
Major Cewrwelowr, and whom every Friend to
Freedom must wish should live to taste of the fruit of
that vineyard in which he has so long and so hard
worked.
" These credulous well-meaning persons call

. themselves Moderate Reformers, and, sure enough
they are very moderate reasoner,. Blindly insensible
to a PUBLIC WILL, as the sole means of success
against corrupt and despotic rulers, they fondly bo-
gie their argument, if argument it can be called, in
this as. saner :--5 'iv we had bat made one ..step, it
would tair-sasy lo make a second ; busing made a
second, a third would be still more easy ; and thus,
growing stronger and stronger as we advanced, we
should in due time accomplish a complete Reform.'
" Enamoured with their scheme, they weakly as-
sume their first step as made; but their all fudamen-
tal it being in the hand of their laughing adversaries,
and the chain of their puerile logic being thus with-
out a first link that has hold of any thing, the whole
chain is no better than a reef of sand. Without
premises, their imaginary superstructure is an airy
phantom, a mere baseless fabric of a vision. Here,
then, are the visionary Reformers to be found
64 Enough having been said on former occasions,
over and over egaio for forty years, for exposing the
imbecility of moderate Reform, fur the present, I
shall only ask three questions—l. Ic no Reform
whatever can be had, without a resistless Pow.=
Voice, is not that VolcE then first to be secured ?
2. le on the PEOPLE you are to call, will they
come unless your call be rationa!, coinciding with
their knowledge; and honest, corresponding with
their rights? 3. le the NATION, awakened by
a call of reason and justice,should come forth, would
they consult that those who have rubbed them of
their Rights and Liberties, having perfect ability to
make immediate and full restitution, should replace
the stolen gouda by step-by-step instalments, at in-
tervals of years ? But, indeed, lamentably dark-
minded most that man be,who does not discover that,
for saving our country at this perilous crisis, honesty
is the bestpolicy ; and wilfuly blind must he also be,
if he does not see, that, in respect of Parliamentary
Reform, the most radical was the most praticable!"

MR. LOVELL.

Died, on Sunday morning last, of a lingering
decline, occasioned by a lung imprisonment through
Ex-officio prosecutinns, DANIEL Loma., Esq. the
Proprietor of the STATESMAN, whose uniform stea-
diness and consktency in maintaining and advocating
the cause of Freedom for many years, obtained
him as much of the esteem of the Public at large as
it drew upon him the unrelenting persecution of an
estravngatit and corrupt Government. --Thus
lies this able Champion of Liberty ended his honest
and ardent career in the best of all causes, hoping
to the last that what was fatal to him would be bene-
ficial to millions of his fellow-creatures.

The privateletters from Paris say, " It is rumour-
edohat M. the Duke de RICIIELIEU and M. 'JAIME
harp agaiit tendered their resignation, but that it has
mit been accepted. The party of Count de LAZES
is at present the strongest, which makes it probable
that Nle.t•rs. iticlieutx nail LUNE %Hi sooner or
later Le defeated.