The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-08-01 00:00:00

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ides .of their adversaries, who said they only met
to.spread aliareby and confusion-over the coen-
try. He flattered himself the friends of ..Frecdolle?
Wind Reform would peblicly refute so foul 'art
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perston, and would, by their good conduct, re.:l
tort the charge upon their adrersariesi and show
!hem that, though eppressed, they were not inti.
midated, and though stigmatized, they would per.,
severe in the cause of their country. As he waiel
sere they must. ail wish to hear their worthy Rnaa
presentaive, he woold nut take up theirehae fur.
titer than by giving--; -
The Health of Sir FRANCIS saweineeisdi three
Shaft three... _
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plaudits continued for steady taw atiastfes.l • -1
Sir FILAS.'IS ButthErt.—Gentleines, I
consider this sweet* of . the proudest and happiest
Moments of my, life. I know not whether it may
be imputed to vanity, or any other .motive, .but
I own 1 ant always ruedy to acknowledge that-the
great, the first, , the only. object I have in view,
e.t.a the atieinots to du you essential service, is to
seserit, and I hope always to meet with your ap-
probation. Gentlemen, I .know of no other me-
thod.of obtaining that approbation, bet by being 1
certain of my own. ['Great applause.] Having
no other view than that of end • 'touring. tte sere
you, and in speaking to you, I mean the people
of England, I think I never shall be tinted aside
to the right nand, or to the left, by any prospect
of advantage that can be held nut to me on the one
hand, or briny mode of isti•eidaiion that can be
employed on the other. [Loud plaudits.] It is
e great satisfaction to me undoubtedly to say, that
in thus addressing you, I feel a consekodsnesi of .
-itving endeavoured to fulfil the great trusts you
have placed in my hands to the utmost of my
power and ability; and 1 have the satisfaction to
think, I may say with confidence I know, that
the great cause ins which we-have bend so long, I
trust not altogether unsuccessfully engaged, though
it has not 'been accomplished to the extent vol
wished, and hoped to see accomplished--1 mean
tile great cause of Reform in Parliament, yet I.
have the satisfaction of saying, 'that I know it has
Within the last few months been sconsideribiy ad.
vanced in the country at large. [Shouts of 'ap-
probation.] Gentlemen, it will he iieriisary;'in
tie. to * remarks which will be exprcted by yon, I'
shall make on the general , stale of the country,
to animadvert a little on smite of th•ise things
Which lensed in the two Houses of Parliament,
after my,deientioil its the. Tower. blot khan
es se itemed.. - stilielsetli end Torsetipresentitteiree
which, by Interested -persons, were made in those-
aisein'ilies, hostile to the best tamest of the'peo.
plo f and unquestionably it is a phenomenon, new
to the prestos times, to dud in. those assemblies, ,
particularly that assembly denominated the Loner
liaise, which ought to be the uf.gnard of the
people, that there are no topics more' palateahle,
nu doctrines more readily received, or more ape.
plauded; than those which cot up the librides of
il the people by the routs, and tilify the charectef
of the country. It has been the object of mine
worthy individuals, attached to partivuhrekrlicii.
to hold out that we are of 'no party, ainlitt'tetillt
we alfeat to belong to no party 'but that of the
people. They say we arc always etideavoiring
to undervalue, to run down," mitts calnitiniate,
as it is celled, every public character in the coin.
try. I wish they would leave general nesettioris.
.and descend to particulars—l wish they would
point out the characters, who have been-so WOOL!
mated, and then perhaps we shell have salmi 'Witt"
ewer to make to the charge. I ant well -a Oraire,.
and 1 do believe, that there are many honouritsid
men coining uoder the denoisination of thoses.fit
teched to party connections, 'who do wish well cis
the public. Men, who' are the dupes of party:.
leaders, or of fanciful notions' of party, which
make them abandon the principles on which' past.
ties were origiaally founded,' and promote ailiflt:
of quarrelling one with the. other, for no-irithe
reason than because those porsons• w horn they 4.4
pose, have the emoluments and %striver which they
themselves *lei to possess.- Gentlemen, great!
fault was. found by a frit:tido( mine, on voine.fo4l
mer occasion,. for hairier too severely and too gel
nerally,ns.he thought, attacked girlies-. That ilt
believe to hate. beers oecasienedity .11 total mils:v
Conception 31, the fatties, I intended. to attack wtil.
only that- fitetien Which wished. to get oth. ...
out of place in order,-ghat• they, might 144:
the distribution of thew binsefichil.lltings which'
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rival factionhefore enjitied.; :bdt it wile not th ~
'intention to say that air parlytonen -were he... .*
condemned. I never said that* party acting 44.
public principles was not *arable; bat 1 merely'
meant to express my dislikeltt *• party withinit'
principle, where ' all 'eldest • was compromisek,
where nothing of principk -was. to 'be found, bet-
instead of public principle, private' ambition. .1.
*say, when such pasties have any controut in thd
Government of the country, we are in the night
tbad to the destruction of the liberties of the ped;:'
pie. Gentlemen, taot has-been a speech Weil
reported—a speech Which his recently been pub-
riislied, and with respect to Weil. I think tiepins-
an occasion of this kind, I oegiit to make seine
remarks, because it comes with the *authority of
having been pronofinced by a-leadinit'pnity of ite
important branch of the Legislatiire... I km)*
not whether he is the head of that party, for that
party having joined iinother party,* is not a Geri:
bores with -three heads—it is it .tw'o.headed party
—a sort of Ilifronv. [,I laugh] The speech.pisg
ports to be the speech of 'Earl Grey, at thee
of the last Session of Parliament. When r Cunt:
emit wpm this speech, I do not impute it to h4lO

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