The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-02 00:00:00

IiOUSF. OF i:ONDIONS.

A soy •rit •so (miffed for Kl., is the mem of
J. D. Lamb Esq. demised. .

, .
Mr. Tieteey. frost the TeeenSee. regehied en
A I ef.t he &pewees incurred ender tbritedesp•
ties Am.—Ordered to be laid ea the table.

The Sinking Feed Leon 13111 wes toed a tWrd time
sod passed" u sere the lash General Sonless of
site P.a., Bill; tie Costume Foreign Wares Bill ;
the Pousivaiiaty Bill; lb* Spirit Intercourse Bill;
tie [abed Coals Bill; arid the Fisheries Beauties
Bill.

The Hoses thee west into a Ceemittee ea the
Gangrened Election Bribery 8.11.
Sete►si witnesses were called who did net appear.
Lord J. RUSSELL thou' snored, got the Hesse
should resume, is order to considrr 'that should be
done with respect to an iedivideal, who, be had
nem to lowest. had absconded to avoid obeyiag
the order of the Hoene.

Mr. P. MOORE, the Chairmen, eehl, he sode►.
stood the Messeeiger had been rouble I. lied Na mit-
oses, is ha was sat of tows, and sill not rotors till
Monday. _ _ _

The Chairsaa■ tarried proven aad Anima
leave took spin.

The Assits-red Tazes.Relief Act 229 re.comotitted,
sod emended to Irelsod ; lett. tieing givea to Wog
a Bill tor that purpose.
The tiney Agent. Allowances Bill went through a
Colornittee, sad vtas ordered to he repotted to.
1111099019.

The Esebequer Bills Bill •ee read a emend time,
sad otdetrd to be constrained to.morroo; as were
lbe Irisb Treasery Bills BM, and the Welt Primal

The Report of the Smuggling Pretestion Bill was
brought op, end the Bill ordered to be reed e third
tine to.morrow • as were the Irish Peet-Am Bill;
the East India 'Postage Bill; the Southern Whale
Fisher) Bill; the Plate Glass Bill; the Coals Draw.
beck Bill; the Vessels Cargoes BM; the Irish Alalt
Revenue till ; the Stage Coach Felonies Bill; end
the Printed Calico Bill.
The Irish Insolvent Act B;11 was read a second
time, and ordered to be.cooiwitted to•rnorpw.
The New South Wales Trade Bill went through a
Committee.—Report to...sorrow.

The Churches Building Amendment Bill was reed
a third time and passed.
The Peeper Lasalle. Bill was reed a second deer
sod ordered to be committed te.siorron.

The Irish Fisheries Bill weal ihreegh e Commit.
tee, and ems ordered fe be reported to•werrow.
Sir I. COFFIN said, the metehanis bad ruined
the Newfnundlsed amid other foreign fisheries, so
that eer eel, way to establish. nursery ter semen
ems to ?newer the fisheries at heave.

The Report- or the Weight of Breed Bill woe
brought op; sod the Bill ordered to be reed a third
tine to•morrow.

Sir 11. PARNELL rose to wove certain Resole.
does relation to the etproditere, shoving that sp-
rier& of No Wiliam were peW for the collection of
the revenue.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sad
Mr. BROUGHAM scanted the !Impiety of de.
forting t Ise discussion ea the Resolution sill Moodsy,
which was egteedto!

The Bevels add Node Wines Bill west throesb s
Committee, sod was ordered to be reported to-seer.
raw, es were dm Coln Exportation Bill, sad tie
Silk hieneteetetes Bill.

The Spirits Coal:tenonlog Dillies Bill was read a

10014.180,. sod ordered to be gootatilied to-matrow, 1
a. 'kith, Neared Olken Arrears BM 1
Tbe Stamp Arts Ameedawat Bill was ordered to
ise end a ascend time Ibis day se'seight. .
!kr G. ElLLibeeeght op the Msh Goalie Ceetill-
ash" Bib, shish seamed a first time, god eidered
Is be read a mooed .time le-morrow • as were the
' Irish Recite Limas Bill and the Iris; Election Dill.
, The Militia Pay Hill mad the Irish Millis Psy
'Bill, wore read a dried (100 and pawed.
. The Sian Trede Bill sweet through a Comesilleet
Id was ordered to be reed a third limo te-meerea.
Sir M. B. FouLa presented i.e Petitions frees ,
Xisg's Lyon, prelim fee Armed Perlisereois 11•41
Uellersal Soiree.-- Ordered to be laid rig sharable.
'llll- BANK ES awed a Reeoletion slat the Ser.
troyea.Gewerel aboeld hapset the-thethe pis.. ofell public
beildisp, that progress of the works be coder
[6.
ifferweabeis ales. By Ibis arrgaptiaists be eutigi.)
?wed easy ea/ gaol Goyimm• to emelt hir tire Prablia.r
Mr. LONG Umiak Hist if this had been dose be.,
fore mecb,good wank! bate bass felt from it. He!
also proposed that the Serveyor•Geserel should hove I
tie appointmeat of a Ceramist.. of Architects to in.
sped plans foe palate works.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
agreed in the Resoletiesse, which were then carried
wear. eon. as sell eseltbfre liffolutiou for king the
alleesece of,the Sotveyor.Generol, inatesd of gisiog
him' es formerly, • per seetsge on the money tam
pendtd is the work.
The Appropekatiai 8.11 west through a commit•
tee.— •Report to...peruser.
Lord IifORPETII presented a Petition from a
Gentlemen eased Derlinelielol, of an reties. and
respectable family. In 1709 considerable discontent
prevailed, and his Majesty, going to the Hoose of
Lords, wes crested in a most shoeless manner, when
Mr. lirdieefreid, of the Navy Pay-otiee, with per.
towel intrepidity, made a shoal to the Gourds, and
succeeded in yissg his Majesty safely to the Pa-
, lace. This service oar arkaGo lodged at a Levee by
his Msjesty himself. But this Gentleman was got of
pry 'vendee means, and therefore be was induced
to make application for arristaireo. Ho bad done
so, in more than one instance and may, bat hither.
to widow effect. Ile did not now solicit any dis-
tinct or pecuniary reward, for to enable him to oh.
fain that, be most be furnished with the permission
of the Crown, which he bad not. He hoped the Pe.
!Ilion wield be placed on the Journals as ass honour-
able elemorial.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
'bought It a little Strange that twesty.foor years aboold
, have been allowed to elapse before this was Worrell
forward. IlmaemilLeset tell why be had sot been re.
niunersted. •
Mr. Setjeont ONSLOW supported the Petition.
--Ile remembered the period well ; and that the
Dredge* of Bedieefield was the public coneereation. •
Mr. BARHAM said. it was net long since that
80001. were given to General Boyd for very equi-
vocal services compared so this.
Mr. C. HARVEY knew the Petitioner to be a
man who would got state a thing is his Polities
turbid was entree.
Mr. BENNF.TT remembered the circumstances,
eed believed the Petitioser's statement to be true.
The Petition was then ordered to be laid on the
table, and to be printed.
The Irish Customs Duties Bill, was read a third
is e and passed.
REFORM.
The Marquis of TA VISTOCK presents. a Peti-
tion from Liverpool, in favour of Reform in Perlis.
Want. Ile knew Opt the nature of the Honearable
Bsrinnet's motion on this subject tri.day; hot the
Reform he snold support would be radical, b.esost
it would tend to essernsioste all nor evils; and per.
esenettt, because they would be differed to re-
cur. But he had no hopes of geed from the daily
plain of men who vilified and ran drum the chortle-
ter of the tree Reformer, which candied he feared
had thrown insuperable &merles in the way of Re-
form for the present. Still be hope:the tree friends
of Reform were not to be separated from that cent
object by 'Wrongly theorises on the oue hand, or
power and corruption on the other.
Mr. BBOUGHANI bore his testimony to the re.l
speciebility of the Petitioners, who proposed no par.,
'fielder pion of Reform.
The Petition was ordered In lie on the table.
PARLIANKSTARY 11l FORM.
Sir FRANCP. BURDETT addressed the House
to the folios int elect :—" I rig., I:ir, in conseqeence
of the notice I have given to bring before the Moose,
once more, the subject of a Reform in Parliament.—
I know not the persons to whom the Noble lard
alluded, in the observations which he midi. when pre-
senting the Petition from Liverpool. The Noble
Lord has not styled whet species or extent of Reform
be is willing to support—he has not pointed out what
he contempletes as wild end visionary, with refeteoce
to this great and important Treaties—and, therefore,
I cannot-seiaer his observations. With respect to
myself I can only say, that I think I sever acted as
one of those persons whose conduct was calculated
to ',pirate the friends of Reform. Whatever might
be the difference of opinion on this subject—to what-
ever talent Gentleness were milling to posh a urea-
' Sure of this nature—l have bees always reedy to
assist in the work. For, let it be pealed le what-
soever 'stoat it may, at particislsr times, it most et
last come to this, that the People will not be tasted
by 0 Parliament without they are themselves' folly
end fairly represented in it. I did not bring this
question forward sooner, because I did not like to
'throw out what might be peppored an apple of Ms.
card avitospt the persons she are opposed to the
Minlvters of the day. I wished to live them an op-
iyortemity of tattling their efforts to remedy those

miser toile whit* they have always said were to be
remedie4 elitadaally within Ike vas of thls Wiese.
'loather masa was, Itemise I els. felt @amines to
sleet, ha the Public bow fordo their espectatiows of
redress from the /Ire Parlitmeot wwol,l olnmatelip
its. feud. I aposWered the two Naivete*. as simi-
lar as possible to the old on, sod I nos convinced
that no asnalloraiisa 'mold he ellf.cled la the rhea.
Bow of the sentry, until a sidles{ Reform in Parlia.
meet look place. 1 did net ialeodece this vealitra
ammo*, to order that 1 might not hate lahl ay door
(as I otharwiee possibly might) the restore a that
puffy of eireetleren dersonsinatrd Whigs, mew
alight consider use es maliciasosly interfering oink
'kit it'lls and liwardog their objects. .11ad
caseaktrend *seller, 1 weed poehaps have beta
ps ewe gobs bed snotty marred ell their
*rusa; , I know wok ohethee sow
isersees *mad on ben stifiberog es, an doe au,es
milli**, 4 pee Sags Ail have hams reason, Impend
oo tbs Phiolt. I wield bawl ben, is ell preload..
lily, described of tinily as the canoe of what{*
Whigs were nosble to do, be of that which Mini.
aters themselves did. Another tease. for agitating
the sobject at so law a period of the Session w.s, be.
new Ido not neon facet on the Hoses lo adopt
any immediate peoceeding. Inowine day owslaty of
the peony mind—seelog, as every moo mast see, lbw
various symptoms of dissatisfaction at the prune
' state of *amiss, throoghoot she revelry— and Wok.
ing the best owns of aveorina the public irangoillity
lass by olletaisioe a pledge from Parliament, to take
this soiled into cowsldeistioo• at a foists time-I
therefore it ie that I anw come reseed. By this
mode I lope to sties that desirable end, toe beeping
the country in s tranquil state, end be. preventing
the Noble Lind from spier sepeadiaa the Babies
Carpals Act—fiom laments reroute to sheer anneal
supposing of the liberty of the subject to which aka
Hosts has so election, thoogh it has a very alms
ono to Aomori Psrlkairots. I Irish, if possible, to
brig Gentlemen to ogres to a 'tweed propositios,
wittiest placing Ilse. in that dilemma to whia they
would be reduced, if I asked them to point eel that
precis. degree of Reform to which they would or
woeld not cement. My object is, I. bind the Rosso
to entertain the sehjeet at another period, with a
sins to devise a proper remedy for en nil which
the People will us logger hear-to Waco thom t.
resolve, the they would apply themselves to Ai
state of Ike Representation early in lIIe seat bowies
—for, without a jest sad pore Represestetiow, II Is
in vain to hope for a redress of grievances. With
all these coasidereions pressing on my unitid—smelill
so @naiads wish to hold oat a hope to the cotter,
that armed keep it in a state of peace darn the
recess—attested by these belies& I base env
brought forward tile only ignition of great ina.
portages as I thick it. I am net standing in the
way of any party politics—l am not interferlag with
the efforts of •ns set of men, when I ask, that,
early in she next Session of Parliament, the noose
shall consider this all.important question. 1 sill
en, therefore, on this occasion, go into !hosed,.
tails which I hare often Ilia hefore the Bosse, of
owe any of these specololive views or principles,
which lam well known so entertain. bl•ny years
ego, I may be allowed to °heir., I did propose a
plan which I consideted far from visionary, far from
wild—but which might be carried still further, end
which perhaps even the Noble Load himself (the
Marquis of Tasistock) would sepport—l mean the
plan I introduced in the year ISC9, by which per.
soon paying direct tales in 111. Church, Sissy, and
Poor, were to be admitted to the 'settlers of 51,•
electiee franchise. I am well persuaded that it is a
principle of the Keglish Consiiisoion, a piinciple
herent its the nitwits of freedom, that every man
should have snipe share in the formation of those
lass by stitch be is to be aovernetl—chat he should
hives voice its the election of those perilous • I.s use
intrusted sigh a poser user his life, his liberty, his
property. This doetiine„ I knits, et lair days, has
beet. termed a der!r;re; hot it is iecort.iis.
rd as a jest sod sound oh*, 41) all our great constilos
lions! *liters of former times—and at • late period
it has bee. so described by the most celebrated so.
thority of his time. I allude to lir. Justice Black•
stunt—an isidividell who ass riot likely to f
Jacobins' tenets. Its maintained that ,very mem-
ber of a free Stale had a sight to vote at elections
I sill quote his own worile, and ohne penes Ike Is
sass friendly to the decisive which is so meet
decried --Mr. Justice Blackstone, v sill he ie.
collected; was a Cro•n leaser, and therefore in
a showiest not I.kely to Induce him to carry his
principles to soy mischievous patent. If those .Inc.
tripes which he avowed ate noir celled Jacohioical, I
ran only account for it by the degraded 'pith of tha
• time—when ue see thst liberal doctrines, which were
formerly held by a lawyer of the Crown,•are now
condemned in the Biiii.ll [loose of Commons.—
Blackstoot says, r As to the ((notifications of ,ter.
, tuts. The lose reason of tecesiring any qualifies.
lion with regard to property io sum's, is to vitalism,
such mimosas are in au mean a sileation that they
are esteemed to have no will of their arum' Noa,
is It net notorious that loth persons ate not ea.
. chided from 'mine? Is it net clear, the the inajo.
• tity of this n ...use a,. retuned by-persons of no pre
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pro.
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influence lees resorted to—parthrelerly aft* the die.
clormies that have been made In the muse of skis
Fes•ion, with respect to the state of the Itoregighe.—
After sech discloser,. the public mhd can no lousier
he deluded en this esbject —and, if they be not de.
laded, they will not be satisfied with the Rioting
iote of dons. litackstene proceeds to obterre--
6 The wield give g rest, ass rueful, or a wealthy
man, • larger Rate ill elect** than is consistent
with posethi fibre): -Every word I read is a libel
op the pretest systeeko-a libel an our cession seem
we wet; know, that the pullet which .is hele'
described as likely to be exorcised by wealth* mat,
Is, In nob, exerted. We well know bow the No-
minees hi bereisghs act. Although, by Re Comm,
Lew, no inilivideal is allowed to meddle hopreperly
la elections-o*g\ it is motrary to the States* et
Edward I. for *ley great sae se Riedel@ sod die.
verb popular elections--and Mongh on order is
speed to at the comosenceortit of every Sissies,
declaring it to he a high bread of the privileges of
this Mesa for any Nobleman to interfere with Re
Andes of papule, Representatives—still,, in def-
ame of all this, ill the teeth of the Isle, it is well
Immo that many of them who sit is this House
lave been retained as the nominees of renew be-
n/oohs. 6 If it were probable,' soya Blackstone,
• this every men would give his vote freely and
without hike*, of any kind, then, spew the tree
theory and pool* principles of liberty, every
member of the community, however pose, abeeld
have a vote in electing there Delegate', to Obese
charge is committed the disposal of his property, his
liberty, end his life.' If this were Not Universal
Selvage, that every wen, not action ander iiikeitcr,
ought to haves vote—if this is net liberty, end
betty is not a principle of the Constitution, es here
deiced-1 know not where Centimes would k
this coostitetioaal right. 1 soy, that, in point of or-
gravel, reams, and coostiostional doctrine, the
People of Rotlaed hove as good a right to a share
In the Constitution as the )(log has to the Crown.—
Blackstone Nest states, If any mitigation might be
wished or suggested in the present frame of Parlia-
ments, it shooldbe in felony of • more complete Re-
presentation of the People.' I need Not look to '
soy thing more than oar own Asia to show that the
pilociple of liberty is the declared principle of the
English Constitution. That she People did originally
Nomit.ate not only Members of Parliament, bet all
officers, sock as Sheriffs Ind hisgistrates downwsritv,
is en undoubted fact. 'Hoy de net ask, keener,
to be reinstated in the tenth part of thole liberties
which their ancestors enjojed; they do not cell for
a complete restoration of their ancient rlghts and
privileges—they ask only far a moderate portion of
them. The limes of the Roosts poet are mote appli-
cable to the People of England than they were to
Ile inhabitants of Rome—
" tease qui reties alias lekinnrs amnia &that
" Now .e cenciere.-
I will net proceed with the quotation, became the
People of Engtaad do not seek for that which was
the object of the Reno*. When burdens are
placed on the sheeiders of the People, is It impro-
per to require that these who impose them should
point oat bow, whew, sod wheel, seek monstrous
sacrifices ere demeaded ? If we wish the Comfits-
floe to be maletained, let vs see bow it was support-
ed is former limes—let es consider the satirist she.
att.. a the Pewee. Modern writers sod political
speculators bate argued that they were never or far
advanced in freedom as they ere at woe,. I cos-
tend, however, that they were mere free eider the
Common lAW of the land, then they now are. To
prove this I will read a short retract from Lord
Chancellor Fortescee's book en the Laws of Eels.
tend. After tieing a ;Actor* of dot cooperatively
wretched condition of the People of France, he
treks with the enthusiasm of an Englishman, of the
prosperity of his own country. And here I cannot
kelp observing, as an astonishing White of Anse
limes, that the Lswyers were the best (deeds of li-
berty ; and that a Chief should eddies, tts an al-
most despotic Sovereign, sentiments fraught pith
able
most genuine esprestions of Liberty. It is indeed ex-
traordinary that a Lord Chancellor should have
written the missile. lie states silk that pride which
en
Englishman' naterally frets, the different results
produced by the free Constitution of his own coen•
try, and by the deopetion of France. lieviag de-
scribed what the People of France suffered, he says,
• Here every man's property is his own. The men of
this land are rich, penning peit abendance. They
drink no water. 'stew such of them as see religioes•
ly disposed. They ate flesh aid fish, and have shun-
dance of household goods. They wear lute linen and
woollso, according to the state of the snarl Ike.—
Comparirg the People of England with oat of
France, at the present debit seemed almost as if the
situation of the two reentries ems reversed. With re.
specs t• the 'Jimmies of the People of Englund, do
use not see wee, in different stations of life, complain-
ing of the penal preemie'? Do we oat beer them
declaring that shell. grievances are intolerable, and
that they meat have relief The Noble Lord seems
t o be as i'lsinformed of the situation of the country
as any Geo:tenon can be. How should he,indeed, be
acqesinted with it ? !le lives entirely in Leaden and
its neighbourhood; ho knows not the state of the no-
lion—and, when he meets this Home, there are no
indivadeals here who will set him right on the subject,
The Noble Lord, it the commencement of the Session.
thought the country was in a most flourishing condi-
tips, both with respect to ogriceltrre, msnefecteres,
and commerce.—( Deer !)—lle admitted, indeed, that
the us/twine from war to peace (a transition which
has lasted, be it °beetled. fur five years) mast pro-
d*, a little pressure. Bet still be declared that
every thing *mild speedily be invigorated—that coo-
coerce end manefseteres bad received new life—and
that the country was rapidly approsikilig toward, a
prosperous and hippy condition. We heard all Ibis
in the Speech from the Throne—and yet it was ell a
Misty. The Noble Lord mould sot, I soots**,
place such sentiments R the mouth of the Pt ince, if
be did not believe that the ciicoaistances were as he
gated them; bet if be did believe the comity emirs
Ibis prosperoes state, ha indulged in a vision, which
every other preen is the kingdom knew to be failed-
see. At this moment the insnefacierers use unable to
carry on theicksiness. Unreoliting labour—labour
almost beyond boson strength-r-is the let of the
laser orders; and yet It does not produce a pittance
tefficieut to maintain ttivelistents t i lbw ptti;ns

whom it is perforsnyd. The tosuoisclorers soot, Pe-
titions to this lions', staling the cliessoClS ttipy en-

derv. Th. rataufacterets in Yorkshil., declare
they cannot go eta unless the duties are removed theft
interim with the importation of wool—while the
farmers state, that if those Ones be ant continued.
stud if others on the importation of groin be not
einuteti, they ere endear. The minsfacterer says,
• If yea do oot sappr•rt the manufeetering Wares',
yea starve the People.' The egricelterists say, • If
you de not impose a duty ea gists, me cannot briug
oar corn late the usatket,egainit the comparatively

mutinied corn et reatieel' '-ln alert, stoiessefai.

torus, the agrkeiterists,the merchants, the mouyed
men. all complain of deep distress-01 feel a hardest
which they are suable to beer—ail demand imme.
diet' relief. Etch party MII4/09, Yee most to.
lirrve us, by taking the borders from nor *Moulders and
plating it on the 'Wielders of our neighbours. But
the neightmeor is it, pritisely the sense state. The
fact is, the taaation of the tenuity is greater this 11
ill. country caw enrlnre.—(llcer, heer!)—This is
a strong reason for Reform its the House of Cow.
moss—end I tell Centimes, particularly thous de-
' sitssioesid Whip—who call aloud for retreuchment
mad eureamy—ohe demand that the espenditura
sball be lowered—that those objects cannot be et-
: mined in the pretest state of the represeotatinn. Them
tales seesaw,' the oil of the Ritchie* which is to
keep no a corrupt system, which is to continuo the
Moose of Common Is its present state. it is futile
to look to effects without adverting to . In
the rellectiou of the lases, the musty brought into
the Eschequer sprats to be less on object thin the 1
washer of Individuals employed in that collection.—
In former limes, the tears were collected without
mum, and I believe they might now be collected
in she same manner, if the., Government thoeght
proper to adept the plan. People may be found in
every perish silting to collect the isles, aid to pay
them In.—(4 gorgi.)—Tbete is another point to
which I beg the Weediest of Gerd/men sod in per.
skein, those of them oho are coiled Whigs, a name
which I think is very rimless, if not very aloud.
see Ibis numerous, onconstitetionel esandiog army
maintained to 'lmport this newiereus, unconstitu-
tional standing Parliament. This army would tort
be ousted, if the Parliament were looked Sp to
with respect and effemien by the People at Imp. 1
am, at the aim. time, fres to confess, that the People
would not embark to this No-Iteptemotatios Systeml
—this *sciatica of the great sots of the pripelatlos
—if it were Dot for this slaty which supported a
corrupt Hesse of Parliament ; an oppression *bilk
they scorn to bear from a foreign enemy. I big
pardon *hen I say corrupt ; it is a ermines, mode of
speech, bet it is not correct. This Assembly, call-
ing itself the House of Commus, denominating it-
self the Representsthe of the People"—(Criti of
Order!)
he SPEAK Elt —"The lion. Barnnet mast per-
ceive that this language is net ensesesiots with the or-
der of the Hoese—and he will, I am sure, est relies.

lion, mane an apology."
Sit F. BVRDET'i.—" Whey you, Si►, slate that
yew think an, ii is sefficient to Wore me to think
so to.--pert, heert]-1 rosily am of opinion,
that the blambers who compose this lines' are net
Corrupt—but tree, (rest-worthy, honest, fsithfel
Repreeesstatives of tirose who mod them to Perlis.
meet. 1 think they do their duty to their own
conefiterets most megoanietoesly. It is a mistake
in languor 1. say they are corrupt. They purse,
the interests of those who retsroed them—but not
the interests of the Public, becalm the Public do
sot appoint them. I cannot help adverting to that
Act, the most oetrageoue, I must say, that ever
passed any Assembly —I mean the Septennial
Act; which Dr. Johnson rightlr denominated •
far greater outrage to public freedom and to
public rights, than soy of those transactions for
which the family of the Stuarts was expelled the
Throne. It has, indeed, no effect on the People,
'acrid on that small portion who have some share
In the Representation. To these it is a Septennial
Acr. But to the borooghsratenger it is not a Septen-
nial, nor a Triennial, nor an Annual Act. Ile can
send persons into Parliament when he pleases ;he is in
es.often•as.need.be man. The mimics' may act for
seven long years in direct hostility to the feeling),
wistets,ssed orders of Lis Constituent', so that he
takes sot care to offend the bornegh patters; bet Übe
oppose his interest, the mete whisper of the patron
of the borough makes him yield end bend in servile
and passive •cgeleacence to his leader's will.—
I have no hesitation in saying, that this state of
the Representation is as mischievous and hostile
is the Crews as to the People. Under sech a
spited the M•nareh had not the power of carrying
on the Government ; he may indeed have 1111,,
that set of Illiois'ers, just as the borough provijologs'
chose to pawn them on him—but he cannot form as
Administration himself, lie cannot even select one
individual of a faction and reject the rest. Ile is in
the situation of a country Cent'. men, who, being
desitosa of engaging • person for her steward, is told,
that, in such • case the steward's heather must be his
better, and the casein his cook. This, however,
appeals to me to be a sad .ity for a King of
Englaad to be reduced to. In my opinion, the
King ought to hold and to exercise the F.secs-
deb Geveetsment. This may be called a Tory doe-
trine—and as far as the 'tame has reference to
the doctrines which were so denominated in the reign
of Queen Atter, I am ready to avow that they foto
a substantial poet of my political creed. 'The prem.
paves of the Crown were oonstitetionally imparted
to it for the benefit of thi People, and I think every
man has a right to obey the King in every way in
which be nn be useful to the country. In the pre-
sent stele of things the Open is pieced In a sheathe,
which prevents it from being visaed as it ought to be
by the country at large. The love and reverence of
its subjects •re the only Wails aecutity of every
throne. Why ate the means of securing th.qn to he
withheld ? Jetties het well itheetved, r the leather
which adorns the royal bird, supports hie ilight—snip
him of his plower, and you 6s bins to eke earth.'—
The splendour of the Crown was formerly supported
by funds set spirt fee that purpose, in order that the
espenditore of the Pointe might net be linked at with
ass eiil eye by the Pecyle. Those arelakee away,
end the Monarch is looked upon as • great pensioner.
br;vose there have been wrested from hies those funds
‘i!.i..11 were giveu to event lespact in the aim!, et At