The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-29 00:00:00

a civil functionary to discountenance, at his pleasure.
an:object which the people have most at heart, and to
expose them to various impediments and vexations be-
fore they can accomplish their purpose. All, however,
that it authorises him, in the first instance, to do is, to
deprive their meeting of his official sanction. Through
the merciful consideration of the Legislature, there is
still another way left open for the inhabitants to
assemble without the violation of law ; and there is no
doubt, they will as speedily resort to it as a vo.)m suf-
ficiently large and commodious can be procured. In
our next paper, it is more than probable, we shall have
occasion to announce the place and time of meeting.—
In- the meantime, we ate confident, the obstructions
throvin io their way, will only teed to augment that
spirit among the inhabitants which official men desire
to. check. To mortify and affront constituents on ac-
count of the respect in which they bold the merits Ind
privations of their favourite Representative is not a
likely mode to diminish their sympathy or zeal in
his behalf. The Ministers and their tools may attempt
to degrade and popish the people with the restrictions
and rigours which the Act may authorise ; but the
people will not be the less excited by the grievances
they are made to suffer is striving to support a gal-
lant public spirited favourite under the persecutions
to which be has been exposed. The attempt to make
more martyrs will only produce more champions to the
ca44e. The cause of Sir ROILS? WILSON will gain,
not lose, in the course of the struggle. The feelings
and exertions of individuals who might have remained
oro pa rat iv sly cool, will be roused and rendered active
by the collision, and the liberal contributions of the
public be made to keep pace with the additional ani-
mation provoked.

We have bees amused with the political changes

,of the beloved FERDINAND, and more particularly
with the reports of the re-instatement of Moutu,o,
as Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Madrid,
ice. Our remarks on Spanish affairs on Thursday
list, clearly evince the daring struggle of the
Ultras, to keep their favourites in power; but the
;load sense and patriotic spirit of the Cort,s will shew
itself as it has done in Portugal, and convince the ene-
mies of liberty, that coercion is repugnant to the feel-
ings of a brave people determined to be free. If the
example of French despotism, and a knowledge of the
ceases that led to the French Revolution, are not sum-
tcient to teach the Ultras common prudence, experi-
elite is thrown away on them. If the blind fatuity of
Divine Right and Passive Obedience, the fanatical
+Actual of an enslaved priesthood, has not blinded their

intellects and obliterated every trace of common sense,
' they must know, that the maser priweiple and spirit,
saw has tasted the sweep and enjoyed the blessings
of rational liberty, can never relapse into a state of
actual *very, even at the point of the bayo-
net, the writhe of the lash, or the terror of
the scaffold. Still the herd that crouch about the
royal embroiderer will not desist from trying
to undermine that Constitution, which is formed for
.the good of the Spanish nation, not for the profits of
the sorry few. A high minded people like the Spa-
niards, whose exalted sense of honor has been pro
verhial, and who have nobly risen from a state of
political degradation to be held out as a people
worthy of imitation by nations in a similar
slate of oppression, are they to be so easily dissuaded
from enjoying the true spirit of that liberty they have
purchased by their exertions and their blood ? No.
The glorious spirit of freedom infuses itself in the hu-
man system. Every nerve, vein and muscle becomes
enlarged and strengthened. The Spaniards have
called to their aid the great, the omnipotent engine of
destruction to tyranny, and theatre guardian of liberty,
the PRESS. No Bourbon Censors, no Brills, Beacons,
or Slops, but that vital element, "So like Me air we
Greathe, that wit host it we noun die." With.such excite-
ment to the cause of Spanish freedom, every thing is
to be expected, notwithstanding the sapping and
mining of the Unholy Alliance, and the employment
csl Preach spies and traitorous Ultras.
Portugal has 'hewn much wisdom in its political
operations. The Cones are regularly proceeding in
the cause of regeneration, and have placed the KING
in that state of respect to the laws which should be
the care of every people with regard to the head of
theirConstitutien.TheyhavemadeachangeofMinisters
which appears satisfactory to the country, among
whom is °tarsi PAMPIAMA, as officer of great Merits
who smell its the *rosy of the great NAPOLZON, with
*Utah credit. if we calculate on the good spirit of
thrse two ratios% nature plats out the necessity of a 1
political alliance. Their Conatitstions are formed on
the fame useelel, except in such points as their re-
spective local interests suggest ; ea when united in
Matadi*. they form a powerful people in the scale of
nations. *sides, the glorious spirit of liberty by
which they both are so generally and so enthusiasti-
cally animated, will give them double vigour, and, in
a short time, enable them to spurn the anathemas of
the Unholy Alliance.
T Orestes and Macedonians have issued a Prods-
vat th
their countrymen, deserving the deseeidants
. their noble ancestors. They commence with " The
Standard of Liberty waves over the summit of Olym-
pes.ever the summit of Piadas. The monumental
Moans, the tombs of out helots have passed away, but
oar native 11101111tailtil still bid defiance to time." This
.;s the language for freemen to adopt, but not for
.11 unman or his heel. •This aeconntafor his cool-
s.' .s to the Greeks, and the little prospeaof support