The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-19 00:00:00

LONDON, .THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, Ibl9

'• The Cause for which lIANPIMII felt in the Fight, and SEDNFIr died o• the Seiffuld! ",

•1111 P. satiation of the Public is clausal to the
IL superior earelleare of the ELASTIC SILK likr.
nefortisie.l by W. awl T. at their hlourforiory is
Silver•siteet. Flew-tweet. and sold at their Shop, Sit Striped.
els. Impressed whit ibe highest Awe of grtaitode Lir the loi-
tering trollops,' of publk approluoina, beg Ware to assure
lls.se wh.. war favour thew with their patrotwie, that it slit
be their roostant wady to merit a rontilwasee by the lair of
the he.ry best on the loorryt —Ehtalie His
(swum Ns. in Itt...—%epirefiee Hefter. 41..s.h'se covered, from !k.
s coveted 'alb Silk, re4ered twpwaetrabk by
Ismer. at

Since the death of Burris, the forms, the sentiments.
and the tone Oche French hive undergone many im-
portent rime's; bow, indeed, could it be orher•
wise? me. is the creature of esperience. But still
Mr. Pir7 proceeds in an entEess repetition of I b• St IBP
general plusses. This is his element, deprive him of
vomit sari abstract phrases end yore refines him to
silence. Bet yes cannot deprive him of them. Press
him to sped') an indivitioll feet of advents/re to be
derived from the war, and be answers, security.—
Call upon him to perticelarite a crime, and he es-
claims, Jacobiuirm. Abstractions defined by ab-
etsactions—erteraliries defined by syner•liiies!"
(To he continued To morrow.)
WONIMIMIt
PUBLIC MEETINGS.

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We do not so much wish to give asp particular
tone to the Public Meetings, as to contend for their
perfect coestitutionality as long as they confine them-
selves to legal enquiries respecting redress of the pre-
sent grievances, and the security of s full and Par-
liamentary Representation against the recurrence of
similar evils for the future. Admitting, for a mo-
ment, 'hut Judge llsyley did not talk nonsense from
the Bench, when he declared. that national titration
was a source of national prrsperity, and that the
higher speech from the Throne, in calling upon
the Magistrates and the Cowry Gentlemen to
estiogoish the pretences of Reform, was judicious
and conciliatory ; yet, at such a crisis, the People
want to have a portion of the Covernment or Le-
gislature more entitled to their conhdence, than all the
Judges oral! the servants and prompters of tbeThrone.
They went their own Represerstatires. Let the
Ministers advise the Regent to issee writs to all the
unrepresented portion of the comminity, and they
would instantly render him the molt popular Prince
that ever held the British sceptre ; they would in-
stantseetrusly convert these Meetings, which seem
so much to claim them, into Meetings of mere per feet
loyalty than what may be fogad in all the mocha.
lions, armed or not armed, that are so earnestly re-
commended by one bench of Magistrates to another.
The concession that is to be espected is certainly
something from the Comment sod the Borough-
mongers. The People have nothing to concede.—
They srein want, In abject depression, in wretched.
nest, and they know not to what power to apply for
redress. They are told, and we think they are truly
told, that all their calamities proceed from the defi•
dewy of the Representation of their interests in
Parliament. It Is to this point that their attention at
this period is directed; and however spies, miscreants,
and demagogues may act upon them, they most be
acknowledged to be in principle, right.
We have always been advocates for the frequency
of Public Meetings ; and, so long as they confine the
objects of their consideration within legal and con.
stitotional limits, it is manifest; that such Meetings
must add to the political importance, and, therefore,
to the political independence, of the People at large.
That importance, and that independence, may have
their terrors for those whore interest it may be to de-
grade the People whom they rob of their political
rights, and oppress with exorbitant taxation ,• bet it
is on account of these salutary terrors, that the Peo-
ple ought to meet the more numerously and the more
frequently; and, by their calm and resolute conduct,
insist firmly on their constitutional claim, to share by
Representation in the legishrion of their coentry.—
That share in the Representation cannot long be de•
nied them, enters, by the progress of corruption and
pusillanimity, the Government should degenerate into
an insulate despotism, without, perhaps, even the
mockery of a Worse of Commons, to remind the
People of the rights and privileges possessed by their
forefathers.