The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-17 00:00:00

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limperor•fivis his authority too agreeable to part with
~hile seat° have made a prize of the Portuguese ship of.
, the V4odor, which arrived at Rio Janeiro from iagbon. '
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hCointaissioners on hoard for the purpose of itatc.. .--14
' Into negotiations with the Government there. TIRSoin-
-missioners were not allorted to laud ; the rudder IT It;
'vessel was nnsh;pped.• -Nov, ilia is downrigketleason on
he part of the New Emperor against his poor father, and
the ancient principles; and the magnanimous Alexander,
the great schoolmaster of all RoyaPurchins, ought imme-
diately to send out a sufficient force to chastise these
audacious people, who will not listen to European advice.
The separation of the Brazils from Portugal may probably
prove the safeguard of the new world from the inundation of
the Royalist Faction. had the King of Portugal remained
there, the Brazils would have been a convenient rendezvous
for the forces employed against the other pertions of the
Continent. At present, there is a footing to gain ; which
' will cost some trouble; since Morales, it appears by latter.
from Curacon, bas finally capitulated, and subscribed to an
oath never again to take up arms agaiast Colombia until
regularly exchanged, under pain of death.

The worthy Editor of the New Times: piously hopes
that " in establishing the independence of South America,
" the errors which attended North American independence
" will be avoided." What those errors were, we are not
arpecifically informed; hut we may guess, from the Editor's
known partiality for any thing in the shape of dignity, that
they consisted in the non-establishment of. a " venerable
monarchy," an " illustrious aristocracy," a " pious bench
of bishops," a respectable chamber of boroughinonger re-
presentatives, and standing armies, clothed in black and
red, to keep down all the " boiste}ans ebullition of popular
feelings." The Editor hopes better things of South
America. Ile trusts there is " good matter" enough
amongst their old prejudices, to build up a series of thrones,
to create aristocracies in every State; and to form clerical
onions with them, to perpetuate that " prostration of the
und-reminding" in which our Archbishop of Canterbury
so much delights. What may be done, with the assistance
of a French force, we cannot say; but at present the South
American Continent is fulling fast into the " error:"
which mark the Northern division. There have been one
or two attempts to introduce a venerable monarchy into
Mexico; but they failed must miserably; and the would7be
venerable monarch has been compelled to seek refuge
among the knaves and slaves of Europe. In the Brazils,
they have an Emperor, certainly ; but they are heartily
tired of him, and only want an opportunity of sealing him
off; while in every other quarter of the South the " de-
nweraticalfactions" prevail. This is a sad thing—a matter
of much sorrow to the friends of the ancient " social
order." It is so delightful, so very pleasant, so wonder.
fully agreeable, to live without the toils of life, that our
loyalist faction, which believes itself entitled to this ad-
vantage, looks on with the bitterest regret to s-e in any
portion of the world, there ►hould have bei,n a disposition
on the part of the many to work for themselves, rather than
for the favored few. A hundred good stoat labourers
t make one " get:4*mm" cotufuttable, if he had tlia
privilege to tas andeinploy them as be pleased ; and they
might have the pleasure of witnesising the ease and happi-
ness with which he walks through life, doing nothing, and
caring for nothing, except seeing that they were not idle
in the labour requisite to maintain him in his dignity.
And it is truly hard, since the hundred could not all be
gentlemen, that they should refose to have one amongst
them. But there is a silfishoes, about 113 M when they
happen to have learnt a little more than ordinary, which
makes them prefer being comfortable, to the glorious self-
denial of making others so. Hence arose the " errors"
of North A•nerica; and hence that system of general
liberty, which en:Meth every man to do that which is
right in his own eyes, " as if there were no king, no priest,
in Israel."

We have not noticed the remarks made by Mr. Justice
Bayley, in his recent charge to a Grand Jury, relative to
the publication of er-parte statements; because they were
evidently so fallacious as to deserve neither notice nor
regard. An attempt is making to give all authorities a
discretionarg power, whenever they choose to exercise
Your great men must affect importance! And they have
at all times something which they wish to conceal. It is a
star-chamber principle which we have never been able to
get rid of ; and while the authorities only struggle for this
discretion, we would leave the good sense of the public to
decide for or against them. But when the press becomes
a traitor to itsiZf, and lends its aid to its own suicide,
we must warn the public against the foul treachery ; and
pnt reason on its guard against the encroachments of
arbitrary power. The Morning Post of to-day has a long
article contending for the power of the judges, and of
all ruen acting for the moment in the capacity of judges,
to prohibit the publication of what tidos place in an open
court, when the right to be present is beyond the power of
questioning. The Morning Post lis no fears of the
jealousy of the judges with respect to the liberty of the
press. Now, ws traye ; and though they say they do not
object to a proper degree of liberty, we are satisfied that
their proper degree would be as little as could be avoided.
We have had more contact with them on this point than
the Morning Post has had ; and we believe that not one of
them would care a jot if there were no press at all, except
to print law reports ; unless Mr. Justice Bayley should
want a new edition of his theoretical Evidences of the
Christian Religion. We deny altogether the right of say
Judge to forbid the publication of any thing which tran-
spires in an open Court. Whata man has a right to hear,
he has a right to state to another ; and whether he detail
the circumstances correctly from notes, or incorrectly from
memory, th• Judge has nothing to do with the