The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-01 00:00:00

has been iiitlurueed ua tLe rresent °cc;

considerations only which will, at some ?NW.
acquit him before a tribunal of inquiry still Lighet oak
the authority of that c mseicnee ularlt ern tor so
not be always disregarde.l with ituptsity. WhA
merely local, or selfish, or personal moth es prevail'',
those considerations Of gent.rai good, and fitness of
ensure to the production of the gram. national ',dad
design of Representation, turn do nut only politico*
and morally err, but they, fur the most part. do 44.
starstiaily err against that Al Ilia is sail to be the Taoist
passion of the times—rec.' se!riater-et.—With th ea.
eeption of such as are supported from, or greath Le.
netitt•Ni by receipts from the taxes. it is the Interest
very few others to barter their lutes, or to lent their
induence, :ti support of any other ohiect than the
public good, fairly and Uispass!unide;y
The voter who sulfa his hauls with a bribe stasis
attainted in the eye of tiod and lean 1 but I ow Test,
sully the purify of their minds by suffering theta
to
be wodu/N int:nem:et!? What avail the kiusplcts „-
patronage, the smiles of power, tow CO 3iI•NIC %%Sift 9f
the great, or even the meanest of all personal coasiet..
dons, the hope of partaking of, or the fear of Icsinztte
countenance and custom of the great or of t;:eirri,_
tiral rimier., when regarded as the price ui isslepst:.
cute, and as the consideration for support given leap*.
litical system, which, in the imprcsake words of mr.
Fox, has already, in great towns, driven the pout man
into the cellar, and the middle classes to the attics; all
which may be stated to have pauperized Mil te iiliots
and a half of the people of England and Wales. 71.4 t
which men, in ordinary life, and under ordinary .:TCIIIII.
stances, receive, in such disgraceful, degrading ways, is
less, 1.1 a perviliaro pave of rice, than what they girt
up to secure it.

It has been said, and meth ought to be said, of
the necessity of Reform in tier Commons Home of Par-
lialnent ; but, in addition thereto, an immense Reform
in the discharge of political duties must also tske place,
without which that " disease," the effects of shed,
Lord CHATHAM, Air. PITT, and sir. Fox, NI ismeatsi
and stn.-musty depret..trd, mast more
.I;ital to As
country. If a richer or more powerful neighbour were
to insist upon any one whom be chose to ignore,
changing his religion to oblige him, and sere to
threaten to withdraw his countenance or rustle if the
!woe man diet nut abandon his religious faith, it solid
be justly deemed and properly resisted as the %farads:,
mischievous, tyrannical, interference of an anti-Chitin
persecuting spirit. But such a one dicates to his poorer
neighbour ton hom he shall confide his political interests,
the capar!ty of making laws affecting his property asid
his lit. as cell as his religion ; and this is submitted le
by a British Freeholder or Freeman, and, perhaps, eslled
freedom of Election, by the man exercising this gross sit
of oppression; who, on his part perhaps, makes a merit et
it to his patron, the still greater 1113 ft, or mum it is
P some way or other to the promotion of his ittra tiers in
life; ellMesepartiesAttleesametimeforgetting,asLori
Roost teradmi rattly expressed i t in one of hisspeedies,tkat
" It is for the good of nations, and not for the owls-
went or agrandizement of particular individuals, slid
Government ought to be established, and that wankisi
are at the expense of supporting it." Whether Owns-
meats are administered for the gond of die people or
not, there are derisive and infallible wool, of *ging.
It is not the splendour of Courts, or the reveille, sad
excesses of their inmates ; nor is it the arcoothllas of
wealth io the Jesuits of a fin—nor even greet salmi!
wealth, without it be generally diffused, that mostitales
the good of the people, ur that can make it be believed
that llovernments answer the real ends for which they

were instituted. And let not those who administer ems
good forms of Constitution, perrerfily, aversely, or
badly, expect that they will for ever escape with imPw
nity. The Press, if not the eldest, yet the booPbosa child
of Liberty, has nut been at work for more than two r
ries in vain. All Liovernmentejand all admisistratioos of
Government,—from the Po to the Boristbeses; sU the
tiorernments of all the various countries is both he
mispheres, are about to be tried by the infallible wag
their being in their cffects friendly or adrers• to the
good and happiness of the people ; and " knowledge.
which is roller," will both preside at the tribusal, tMI
execute the unerring sentence.

The state of Prance is at this moment Ink
alarming. 'l'he .11inerre, received on Theatay,
concludes with the following paragraph, wtill
by Es ereste du Mold n :—" This number container*"
the last accents of liberty which we shall be FlllllO4
to utter in a work which has been eonstantlr Melt
to the defence of the Charter, of the Throne, id el&
rights of the nation. Yet. if amidst the chains did ere
preparing fi2r.us, there shall remain any ta!aaseftli.
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