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THOUGHTS 014 THE ORIGIN PSD PR6:
GRESS OF CIVIL OUVERNMENT.

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THE Mytt OF NEXT klof4l/1.
BISII. Contractor for the Lottery. respect.
• foll‘ reminds his best Friends. the Public. that the
I,,,yery begins 24th of Nest Month (November), and that
the Pita Pi ize svil; in addition. he entitled tu
£30.(41) CO'. SOLS MORE.
The Scheme rptishits of
koutt GRAND I
R P ES
of Ore 3 per Cent. Consols,
Ahd vaious tither CAPITALS.
All to he paid in sterling Money.
In the last Lottery Contract HISH si•ld Cis moan Capitals
!exceeding in numberard amount shoat sold by an) other Office-
keeper, including
Two Prizes of ,690.(10I bath in Sham
And in another Lottery.
AU Three Prises ~f Thirty Thdiwand Ponta& !
Tickets and Shares are feiiin At the Ciortractoe* Offires, 4,
and 9, Citarivg-crass, Conlon; onJ by his Agents in
Eagland, %remind, and !wetland.
heroes gratis.
All kind of Goteratmeht lirecurttied boultitt and *old by
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their support he is enabled to despise a Slighter de-
groe of public disiatisfaction, and to carry through a
favovrite scheme withoot regarding:the murmurs of
the People. One of the flrit uses, lititive4r. diet
the Aristocracy Make of their power, is to bargain
for some ailvantegee to theritielviiit and peace in
most of the cuentries of girotio, the Nobles have
got themselves eionipted.frOm'all the imposts, besides
obtaining other crest priiritegsts it the ezpence of the
'Other classes of the community. Thil new sPebina of I
oppression rose ustufally not of the establishment of
the Aristocracy.
The third stage in the history ofGskyereimeitt brings
us, to a form resembling (kit Whisk Congtiletion.—
,Wzbesso ke 0 progues lodes try.has.epread aisonsidera-
tits sit;statee— of-wealth as ill elassei, when te*'
general diffusion of knowledge has enlightenetTeersp:
to their interests and the duties of their Rulers,
anti when the activity of the press collects and incel-
lowly exhibits the sentiments of the nation, then.
poblis, opinion acquires a force that is almost irre.l
tkeitible. A Government of moderate strength would
•-•
,peerwhelmed by this force, and reduced to a mere
organ for interpreting and enforcing its dictates. To
oiriate this, toe Government finds it necessary to
leaps, with a majority of all the persons of influence
io tsie country, by assuming thorn as partners in its
functions, honours, end emoluments. The Aristo-
cracy thus formed, is on a very broad basis; and as
it embraces persons connected with most of the classes
in society, its s)mpaahies are more general thou
those of the last-mentioned. it is consequently a
better expositor of the national will, but it has still
the selfish and gasping spitit of a privileged body ;
and though obliged to give up its obnoxious immuni-
ties, it seizes and accumulates so many peculiar ad-
vantages, that it soon comes to press upon the nation
with a benumbing weight. To give it the necessary
influence with the Public, it is organized into a N.
guise body in two Chambersos hich have their powers.
and functions accurately defined, and which deliboa
rate in public. As influence is the cardinal principle
of this form of Government, it is essential to its
existence that the Crown should have a large reve-
nue, with the distribution of a vast number of
places, pensions, dignities, and favours, to secure
the attachment of its numerous supporters and de-
pendants. Hence this is the most expensive Gotern-
ment of all. Though the weight of the Aristocracy
narrows the personal influence of the Sovereign, it
gives stability to his power; anal alien the two par-
ties act cordially together, there is scarcely any thing
beyond their strength to effect. A Government thus
conetreeted, combining the secrecy and dispatch of
a Monarchy with the craft and vigour of Aristocracy,
is able to confront even the influence of a tolerable
free press, and to pursue its own ends steadily, in
the face of a very formidable eppo,itimi.
Throughout these changes the Government has always been
pitied by the necessities of its situa ion. to strengthen itself
more and more, as the resources and intelligence of the society
were developed. 1 he circle of iniluence and patron:4e has
been continually extending, and one rank after another has
been raised into consequence and favour with the supreme
power, as it felt the need of their assis'ance. The (;rand Turk,
alai waists this support altogether, can cut off the head of an
individual, or seise kis property ; hilt he cannot, a idi of the
most imminent hazard. impose a new tax, alter an existing
law, or even reform an abuse of long standing The Emperor
of Austria, sun (sanded by his Nobles. can raise taxes, make
or mend taws, and comtnand both the proper.ies and persons of
his subjects to a considerable extent, *Ain't being deter. ed by
every slight symptom of discontent. But w hat the Government
of Austria could nos attempt aithoat bringing ruin on itself,
that of Britain, with the suopori of its overgrown Aristocracy,
can nccomplish with ease. On the slightest pretence it can sus.
pen4l the laws Mass meted in popular est imatioti; it can rote ict
t rum the pickets of its to ttjecis len times the MIDI that any Antler
Ciiiiiernment could, and it can curry a tavourite tnensure Ole
Corn Bill fin instance) against the almost unanimous tense of the
coat nn y.
All these three species of Government rest on the same princi
pies. In all of them the Government is an whiten& fit self-con.
stinted body, with ends and %leas 46f it. own, distinct from
the interests of the community, limited directly only by the
opinions and fee ings of is, oitici;sl advisers, nod controolled
Indirectly by the-snit e of the People only so far as it threatens
resisinnett or convulsion. 'I he course vshich the Government
pit:nes is. i,t:111 inipnitule point,, diela.ed by the interests or
the Crown and the Aristocracy ; and the People, who are
exellided tittin all sheen intlitical influence, sire neces at re-
gat il‘d :is atnjects of jealousy. 'I his jral ivy' co stand y operat-
ing on the Gos ern:item, ~the soarer of a great variety tit meta-
saires tied plans, calculated to retain the People in siataircti nn .
I First. nittficial means sae used for training the People ioasabi s
of passive obedience and reverence for their ruler-. Scisonl:,
masters, Professors, and Clergymen, who have so great on
ury
tlu titre Its 'awaiting the char:icier of individuals, are either sip-
planted by, or rendered dependent on, the supreme ;toner
kud the coniequence has been, that in most of the nations iti
Etirope, education has beets perverted, and religion has been
ate!va el, inns an engine of State Hies. 1•:s cry where Princes
have been w illing to take advantage ref the ignorance and weak-
'iris of their subjects. by fostering supers • ' s practices, pious-
frauds, and eves y kind of quackish delusion, nod by abetting
the tsrattay of the Clergy as a britse for their services. In must
of the old States of Europe., the appearance eons new reli-
giants npinions is an object of jealousy. and limner also the alarm
telt by certain classes id this COMM ry, at the progress of lice Boat.
Society, anti the Lancasterian System, ass old innovations, eta‘
aiding men to eat the bread of knowledge wit, out its being duty
seasoned with the salt of loyally. Secondly. care is taken to
fetter the press less or more. and information is only allowed to '
be dispensed in such forms and qviantities.ns may not alarm the
tears of SlitifSlOCO.- Itefo:e a useful discovery can, hr comrnoni
C.olefl to the world,ibe Bishop must certify that it con-is s with or-
ilindosy, and the Magistrate with social order; and. underline
double cen.orship, a very lirm ed allnwan• e knowledge
reaches the Public. Such is the state of the press genrratUy
ua
the Continent ; and even in this happy country. mar Law
of Libel, Taxes on Newspapers, and other tegulations. show
that Government is not over anxious to have iissiit.jeciseri-
ligliterird• 'thirdly, Public M ere Inge are prosillitred or di-courag-
nl ; the mass au the People are script talon civil or aetigiuos
functions that might bring them trigether to e outer about their
interests; they are old allowed to choose their pastors, (cachou,
or civil rulers, and they are, as far as possible, seduced to a
state of pupillage and dep ndence, by having the inesuagentent
of their on n concerns taken nut of s heir bawls. Stith are
Di the arts and practices by which the body of taie People, an ,
many countries, are fitted to bet nine I he patient Eiilv. • of it du-
minettring Aristocracy, and with so natch tioutile and:anxiety i= ,
a SVldelli stpneld which is at valiance with the principles of
human nature(
The Government of the United fitales is totally distinct in i•s
character from those we have been dewr.hing. There is ill I(
no balancing of antagonist principles; no clashing of inter. ;
the op ttt i t iu of the majority of the popttlat ion, haul. roils rted.
is ti e operative principle attic t iiivernment —riot astu s•k noon
um
the motions of the Executive; and the Es resolve. sa far frt
)(arming a separate power, pursuing i:s own intere Is. re s.billegi
acting upon, and modify jog puntic opinion. is a port of ,lo• or-
ganization by which tile sense of the nation is ex pressed.—
As there is neither a prltileAcd class, the sole depositaries of

If the Constitution mti,t peri-h, I would rather by far see it re-
solved hit° tv,y other th ut I.rot in that ati,tere :mil in-
sniettt domination (at hit/Per:try ). MAME.
The art of Government, like every other art, it
improved by observation and experience, and Would
improve much faster than it does if it were not gene-
rally conducted on the principles of al 'Monopoly. in
,the abuses of which certain persons acquire as 111110 •
Depending on opinion's, nitioners, antredatoros,
,Gletornment ooght to change as these change,and ac-
commodate itself to the different forms which sosieky
1111SURIPS Iu its progress from rudeness to refinement.
011escea Goodthsit-is w tee,. GoverogiAret; is need..
surly prove:ll4re, stati,ooely`rikhire.soieiety
is advancing, is a 'certain proof that it is 'defective or
3icious. The political insti.utious .of., our ancestors
were probably wise and salutary when they were
framed, because they were adapted to the condition,
of society et the time; but to cry theM up 'as. perfect
Atilt& present day, is_to assumit.absurilly that they
legislated for a state of things which they never con-
templated, and is in, fact to deny them the merits of
having suited their institutions to, the very different
state of society f 6 'which they We're dt:sigued.
In-
stead of torturing their forms into an agreement with
an order of things with which they are irreconcile-
able, it would shoW more wisdom in us to imitate
their example, and frame artstigements for ourselves
in our own times, as they did in theirs. The cant
Shoot the wisdom of our ancestors) is not peculiar to
the supporters of Corruption here : it k the iissid•
liigsigument for the'diefl,nce of what is oppressive--
the pretext wide" which en aversion to needful Re-
foroyCloako' itself at all the Courts of &trove.—
" Maiims ratified by time, and institutions sanctified
by the wisdom of ages," are current phrases fiery
where in the mouths of those who cannot bear to
pert with profitable aboses, and who love nothing of
antiquity but what favours their own sinister itr

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IMPRESSED with a just soli tontine sons. of the
calamitous results arising from the inJodielous trentosent of
n certain mal stly, co•dracied in a manner ton Lecoots t..
require comment. send often entailing on its unhappy victim a
6.6/.4 of distifisi,jog and almost insuppoitable alifictiond. Dr.
RA DY respectfully rolls the ;inertia', if those intereoed. to
his peculiar and mail effectual method of cure, unlike the rid-
y ems's% empiric of the Mi., or the .equally ,criminal condor,
of who hold the word of pritini-e to the ear and hreak
it to our hope." Dr. Had will not ;wean's) to pledge kifalli-
loiloty in every deeription of core. Jolt as far as human nid, um.
ett,ted by medical und surgical skill can be m.plied, he promises •
a certain. speedy,. sod permanent restoration; holyis . made
ever; -pecie. of St, plollitir offection, nod its varicus tram of dui-
gons, the primary objects of hip professional 'lndies, nod 'wale
'Offered Its the transcendent success which has accompa,nied his
Tootle of treatment doting the course of a long Mid laborious
111714'1kt', lie is misfiled to offer, with the fullest eonlideoce. pre-
telosi.oa. at .osice the most hopeful and my:our:ling. Ivitionerahle
iootoincev can he adduced illustratise of the Impel-homy of Dr.
Eady's ....tem. which has beets found to prevail.. even where
eminent talent, retained l.y public in-ittusioes, has been in-
effectual. In :Wit ion In. tho,e consolatory ildvances.pr. Eady
will he found equolly fortunate in reviving the Autiebering and!
ttlebilitated energies of the letiman eon,titietion. which embitter.
and if tint timely arrested. frequectly render nugatory the very
principal of esisteece. Felons this desolating Hale of ino iii ii y
and sees ility, by reanirriatiog the frame and ntfordieg tone and
elasticity to the relaxed organs, Dr. Fatly is happy to rouses
the most cheering 4114 pO•ilitr iliot the sufferers ot
'both or %Co 'nay tie rescued ; a etoolv persevertutte in the means
Moat, d being oats required. Fms i. commilithl daily. lit
46. Killg-street, nor of Dean street. S ho, by patients cif
both se %e..— Cotton) lett.era meet respectful atteution by retain
of second post.

ierests. .
Governments do change, however, with times and
circumstances, and are in a state of change even
while those who administer them . are maintaining
their immutability ; but it seldom happens that the
changes made are beneficial to the whole society, to
the Went they ought to he. Witco a bail principle
Is once suffered to take root, it continues to grow,
and can seldoir• he completely extirpated by the ot.
most care and pains.
In every Govern,view, ten the most arbitrary, the
People esetchr ■ certain "degree of controul. As
the most despotic Prince has no greater share of per-
sonal strength than the meanest of his subjects, he
mast make the of the strength of other men ; and
though he can trample upon his subjects at large, he
must secure the concurrence of the agents he employs,
by pa) ing some deference to their judgment and feel-
ings. Even with this ,upport, his power is still far-
ther limited by the necessity he is wider of avoiding
such measures as would arm the rooted opinions and
prejudices of his subjects against him.
The People, indeed, have no other mode of ex-
pressing their opposition but by insurrection; but to
,this they seldom fail to have recourse when the vier-
ance is sufficiently palpable. Hence the weakness,
uniteadiness, and insecurity of arbitrary Govern-
ments. The Prince, who will not stiffer the People
to speak their minds openly, has no means of judg-
iog accurately of their sentiments, and from his ig-
norance in this important particular, is perpetually
making experiments upon their patience, till he is
admotiished of his er, or by rebellion. When this
'takes place, the offettsive measure is either persisted
'in or abandoned, according as the opposition is less
srr more formidable, or as be is more or less able to
put it down.
In a more advanced state of society, Government
assumes a different form. It is not easy to resist the
sentiments of a whole nation, whets they are clearly
expressed; but, as every Government has ton high
sn opinion of its own wisdom to submit to have its mon.
sures dictated by its subjects, it is always a favourite
object with the ruling powers to prevent the expression
of the public voice. In a coon' ry in a low state .0
civilization, like Spain or Turkey, this may he
done ; but when a nation advances in wealth and
knowledge, the circulation of ideas cannot he arrest-
ed. The means of communication multiply. the ale.
sires and opinions of the People make themselves
known and felt, and the operation of this in-
direct controul upon the supreme power, prevents
the necessity of recurring to the extreme and danger.
ous remedy of insurrection. But this species of in-
fluence, as it gathered strength, would speedily de-
prive the Government of its power of self-direction,
and reduce it to be the mere index of the general will.
The Government, therefore, to preserve its inde-
pendence, and the power of acting on its own views
and opinions, finds it necessary to itself,
by attaching to its interests a great number of per.
sons who have wealth and influence, or, in other
words, by sharing its power with them. Orders of
Nobility are erected, places created, pensions he.
stowed, and en Aristocracy or privileged order is
raised up. The Government now assumes a more
steady and moderate character, because its measures
are submitted, io their first concoction, to the jodg.
ment of a considerable number of individuals, who,
though they have separate objects of their own to
pursue, have yet so much of a common interest with
the other classes of society, as to make them averse
to any very rash or dangerous measure. They are
besides, from their acquaintance with. the temper and
condition of the People, better judges of what the
effect of a public measure will be than the Prince's
official advisers. Under the guidance of such noun.
sellors, therefore, the Prince is guarded against ally
planation that wolld lead to tniattioctioni and by

tonic-established reputation of Messrs.
cURRIF. and Co., combined with their well-known
experience hurl mteee"...in the treatment and rare of a lea reign-
ing complaiiits, truitles them o saperiar dant,' and a decided ;
preference over MI other pi actit toner". Messrs. Currie and Co. as ,
regular Surgeons, and lilembert of the Royal Colleges of Lon-
den and Edinburgh, pre•ent to the Public the result of thirty
gears tutees-fat pr, dice In the 'Metropolis, where their treat•
smolt and cure of Venereal Csonplaitits Nervant
Vascular Relaxation, and Atom. of the:Organ,. hiricturei of
-the Urethra, &e. &tr. MS proved uttifiontly triumphant. lit
slight and rceent ra,ar6 of jute client, a p.:rfect Care is ...mide'.
ed na the t 4 hurt period of Iwn dact r and in Anne eatescrf a mare
complicated nature, where ether .Pro ctilivers lair faded of
geFeese, a vrcicier perieverante in their phis' of treatment
in-
sures to the Patient a snood :and perfect te•ieetabli hinent. In
Nervous= Debility, whether produce.l ..y convivial eateries, by
11.0 immoderate erjoyment of remittal pleasiney, se deniary
and over blllgti4AlS 11111111 h or by any other roost., the Nlrtlicinet
they, pieserihe v. ill ptiviure the happlea ellecic, in improving
eve. y -faculty 14,,it. of body aunt mind. Several Noblemen told
Gentlemeu of the furl respectability, have been under r.e care
of 'Messrs. Currie and Go. for the lemovid of Complaints of the
Urethra, Stricture.," Ike. -.ad having received a ratii.ul slid
permanent ram request that reference may he .n, de to them,
as satisfactory evidence" of the dreir•ve superiority- of Messrs.
etorre.nerd C,..'s pica of treatment ; many t.t. Geuleraeh
have had Stitt-hues fr.an ten to twenty ',car-. and heed 1 ern wi-
der the care of Met4lll. Home, Heaviside, HMI 11111 Cr
of equal eminence, whir attempted the core It% the ,pplrectim,
of tae Lunar Camille, without success. Messy-. Curti:a d
arty he ecisulted. by • either Y•elg, with the prate-it delicac,,
sears., aiid honour, nt their howe, No 107, Mattis.-garden.—
Patient' in the country are rerpte'ted to tittle the WWI-
- 111 ,hei, cot., Age, and geeseral habit of lirinz. Sac. el,-
elosin. a remittance for advice and medicine', when the sitici
will Ire given or rent to their part of the kingdom. Ti. ihsari
that secrecy so escential to rear ttiatettakii g. the polag.• ts
letter' may he added to the account fur medicines.-167.
ton-garden.

UNCOMMON GOOD TRAVELLING. from
the SARACEN'S HUAI) INN.
To YORK, LEEDS, EDINBURGH, and all Parts of the
NORTH.
Four bade Coaches, the 13e,t Horse?, nod keep excellesa
Time,
By B. W. MOUNTAIN and Ca.
SARACEN'S HEAD INN. SNOW-II ILL, LONDON.

R. CLAY'S original WAGGONS and COA CII ES, to New
bitty. Swindon. Aldbourn, Wootton-Basset. Lamboto is, Hunger.
ford, Chilton, Rending. and all place. adjacent. Daily.
The follow lug l'.sst Coaches. Mail Cisstche,, .'tic. set ow
from the Suriicen% Heed liin, Snow-hill:—
The UM PI It E. a new Liverpool Light Coach, only one nigh
on the road, carries Four Insides and For*Ouisirte.; vets out
every day at One o'Clock, strives at Liverpool nest Afteronon
at Si o'Clock. through Duiisc.' le, Woohurn, Lathhury,
Northampillin, Welfnrd, Lutterworth, Hinckley, Anteroom.,
Litchfield, Stout,, Hugely. Newcastle, Knutsford, Warring.
ten, nod Prescot.
SOUTHAMPTON, Lymingtnn, Winchester. and Bst.ine-
stoke New Fmr.iiiside Coach, at half-mkt Seven o'Clock in
the Morning. arrive: at the Dolphin 100. Southampton. by
Five it'Clitr. h.—This k a moot delightful eo.;ve‘imee to the Isle
of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, St. haloes, Havre de Grace,
Cherhuratc.
SHREWSBURY. Wellington, and Shiffual, Post Coach,
every Evening. sit Five o'Clock, guarded.
W EY MOUTH, Dorchester, Blandford, Salisbury. Andover,
and Basingstoke new Post Coach, every Artertai ))))) . The
Weymouth Packets to Guernsey, Jersey, Alderoey, St. Ma
toes, &c.
EXE f ER, Plymouth, Weymouth, Dorchester, Falmouth.
Dartmouth, and Salisbury, New Post Conch, every Morning
at Seven o'Clock, through Hailit•in. Axminster, Ili iiiport,
Blandford, Basittestoke. and Bagshot.
BATH ana mitt:Tot. Flying Post Cnches,through Chip-
penham, Caine. and blarlborough, every Afternoon; iirriveat
Mr. May's, the Greyhound (1)11, Bath, and the Loudon Tavero,
Themas-street, stud the Swan, Bristol, :seat Morning.--
Colleiltil to Wells, Bridgewater Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth,
&c.
BOSTON, Spalding, Peterborough, Stilton, and Hunting-
don Royal Mail Coach, sets ova every Beetling to Spilsby,
Loath. -Grimsby, and Hell.
LEEDS New Light Coach, called The Rockingham, sell
out every Morning; carries Foto. Insides only, and goes re-
markably easy. with a Gianni throughout. Fosses through
Stamford. Newark, Retford, D•intaster, and Ferryoririge, to
the Golden Lion, Leeds, nest Morning.—Notwithstanding the
uncommon expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be the
most agreeable and complete Public Conveyance nn the North
Road, being unequalled its Accommodation by any other.
KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby-boa:de. Booths
Chorley, Ortoskirk, and Garsiang Post Coaches, every Ater-
noon, at Five o'clock. Guarded.
R. W. MOUNTAIN and Co. respectfully ncquntnt their
Velem,* and the Public. that they will Got •he uccou tnahle for
h" Parcels. Passeegers' Luggtoge,Writings, Plate, rite. nf more
than Five Pounds Value, if lost, stolen, or damagelf.. unless en-
tered as such, oval the Insurance paid for accerdiugly, at tilt:
li.tracra's Head lan Soda-bill