The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-14 00:00:00

'and encoostitutiosal suspension of the national law,
the sable, reges.preatioid to proems the Act of Sus-
pension, and the Wrong "'filleted in the execution of
till la* which: be wish to iee -exposed ; that
personal right may not hereafter be lightly violated
ay in Act, the execution of which (more especially
when enforced by secret Spies) must destroy all
wiregeertbrageinst the most absolute tyranny.

In addition to the Petitions already presented
against the Bill of Indemnity, which Ministers mean,
on the Report of their Committee, to bring into Par.
liameet, we learn with ploasare that a Requisition is
now in coarse of signature in Liverpool, calling upon
the Mayor of that Borough to convene a Public
Meeting of its Inhabitants, for the purpose of Peti-
tioning Parliament against the Bill of Indemnity, and
fora Reform he the Representation of the People in
the House of Commons.

It will be observed from the Report, that a Peli-
• tient was presented to the House of Commons last
night, from the parish of St. George's, Hanover.
square, in which the Petitioner, prayed for Parlia-
mentary Reform, and declared that unless the nett
of the Representation was amended, they should for
the future decline paying any tales. Sir FRANCIS
Dustoart defended the condition attached by the P.
thinners to their allegiance, as not implying any other'
than a legal resistance to a system of misrepresentation;
bet on the motion of Lord CarrwtrAoc, whose pirl
lig such conditional allegiance would net self;
the Petition watt rejected. •
Lord HAMILTON'S motion relative. to the abuses
in Scottish Burghs was discussed last night. It was
not attempted to connect the subject with Parlia-
mentary' Reform, the question relating chiefly to the
right of Government to grant such Constitutions as
it thought proper to the Scottish Boroughs; but
'hough the motion was thus directly declared to have
in view a particular improvement in the. administra-
tive, rather than the representative, character of the
Boroughs, Lord CASTLEREAGH could not separate
the object from the general question so inimical to
the present system of Government—Parliamentary
Reform. The sapient Lord perceived that if any
chase, took place in the Burgh Elections it might
carry Reform into the Representative part of the
country, and, therefore, " his &Waste's Minis-
ters" are resolved to discountenance 'fowl' Council
Reform in Scotland, and give such Constitutions,
. when they mobt, to Boroughs, as they think
ht, lest this sort of Reformation should reach
to the Parliamentary Representation, which as
relates to Scotland certainly exhibits as extraor-
dinary a spectacle, as the petty juntas who elect them-
selves into the government of atlaiis in the provincial
towns in question. Lord Carruatariu and his
friend the Lotto AovocAte of Scotland, have
now discosered that there is nothing so ad.
imitable as the quiet and decorum of Scotsnieii,
" So far as hi; Majesifs Ministers were acquainted
with the stale of the country," their Lordships can
now say, that 64 there was no part of the country
*here the population Ives hi a sounder state than in
the Burghs of Scotland."--here is a sudden reforma-
tion indeed !"

In the 'lonia of Lords yesterday, Lard SIDMOUTII
hid on the table another Rag of sealed Papers, as an
Appendix to his Green Bag, which on his motion
were referred to the Secret Committee.

Paris Papers to the 1 lth inst. have been received.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the
Budget met on Monday. The Project of the Law
for Recruiting the Army, adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies, was presented to the Chamber of Peers,
and was ordered to be referred to a Committee.—
In the Chamber of Peers, on the 9th inst. M. le
Comte AZ CAZEs took the oath, and his seat. He
was introduced between the Comte nc SEZE, and the
Viscnmte Donoucitaoe, two distinguished Ultra-
Royalists. - The French Papers are otherwise with-
out political interest. .
• Our Private Correspondence, which is tot late
daft) elucidates in an important manner the reason
why the Ministry have been so strongly supported
by almost all parties in the Recruitment Law. It is
because, say the letters, the Law is calculated to raise
France from her prostrate state, and enable her to
resume her place in the rank of nations, end not re-
ceive the Law f►om the armed force on her frontiers.
Twenty-nine millions of the most warlike People on
earth are certainly not likely to be made to bow
the neck for a length of time to the incongruous ele-
ments of that force which would hold France, and
with her, all the other Continental States, in chains.
Let therefore Europe hasten to recognize the rights
of France, as a great, powerful, and independent na-
tion, or Europe will have a new Revolution to quell,
which will carry the flames of war, and the ptinci-
pies of liberty, from the Pillars of Hercules to,Kain.
achatka. All nations are ripe for a rational PAO..
stitational liberty, and it cannot be long deialect.—
The spirit of the age is glorioos freedom: it ieign,a
,even in the frozen deserts of Russia, as well as In
the sultry climes of southern Europe. If Sovereigns
are wise they will encourage and cherish it, in order
to be able to direct it. If they oppose it, there will
yet, and soon, be an end to their dynasties. •

Mails from Holland and Ilambargh have also ar.
Tired. Alt parties it Berlin are not agreed about
the propriety of the Loan negotiated in this country,
and an article from Ilamburgh, of the 6th, states,
that " the Loan announced by Messrs. Romscumn
and BAaA mane to be made in England for the ac-
count of Prussia, has not been ratified by the Prus-
sian Government, and it is believed that it will not
ire so without some previous changes. The journey
•f Mr. SARANDON from London to the Rhine, where
Prince HARDENBURRII at present is, as well as the
depa►ture of Ms. ROTHSCHILD from this place about
a week ego, seems to confirm this report. The bar-
;lin lately concluded on the Exchange at Berlin, at
76, 77, and 78 per cent. in preference to the Loan,
sad on the condition of its being actually carried into
afect bays not been conflated for some dep.".