The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-14 00:00:00

blessing . hut
• • • • II • this increase of knowledge in the public,
at which he rejoiced, observe, required a correspond-
ing increase in the influence of the Crown !—So that.
this" blessing"; this thing at which Mr. ROBINSON
rejoiced ;..this is to be counteracted by the raising of

millions of money upon the people, in order to coun-
tenet the effect of this " blessing" !—We will inter-
rupt our observations here for a moment is avert for
a moment to a late expression of Lord CASTLEREAGH,
namely, that Parliament was not to be influenced by
what was said in assemblages called County Meetings.
bat by the property and education of the Country.—
Now, here we have one Minister telling us, that the

country is inundated with knowledge, intelligence, po-
litical information in every branch, and that money
must be raised to counteract their effects, and another
Minister telling u, that the education of the country
is not to be found at a County Meeting, while a third (a
perfect Mammoth is the ta:•eatiog way) calls a County
Meeting a " farce," though composed, as the one par•
titularly alluded to was, of ten thousand land-owners
and land-occupiers in one of the fairest counties of

England. But, was there ever any thing so monstrous
as the argument of Mr. Routysorr. Is it not built
upon the preposterous, nay, the savage notion that men
of sense, roes who know their duties, and the duties of
their mitre. are not to be governed according to the
laws and the Constitution; that the prerogatives of
the Kixo, the just powers of the Parliament, the due
administration of the laws, ►he moral principles of re.

ligios.; that these are insufficient for the governing
of men of understanding; and that, therefore,
resort most be had to an influence, which the

laws and Constitution hold in abhorrence ; and
the use of which it has been messed for our

«ay to be openly avowed to be necessary; but. the
strangest thing of all is, that Mr. ROBINSON should
tall that a " blessing" which has rendered this
n.ost expensive influence so nee ss sss y '. That he should
call it a " blessing" and " rejoice" at it. There is
hnt one interpretation to be given to this, namely,
th►t Mr. ROBINSOV rejoices at the increase of intelli•
geoce, because the increase of intelligence calls
(2r, as he asserts, an increase of the descrip•
till; of that which is enjoyed by the Post.

master General.—Mr. HOLME SUMNER went a little
into a eteseription of this influence. He said, that he
was not one of those who thought that the influence of
the Crown had become too great in Parliament. It was
not, he said, whether this office required one or two
Lords, bat whether the influence of the Crow■
was too great ; and lie thought it " not greed
enoogla"„ and, therefore, he should vote against,
the motion. Mr. FREEMANTLE (Lately come
lets office), considered the influence of the Crown to
have bees diminished; and "thought the proposed
redaction to be highly dangerous." lllr. STewAaT
WORTLIY called it an attempt to pull down the in-
fluence of the Crown; and said, that it would be
making an approach towards a Republican form of
Government; and, therefore, he should "fearlessly
" and honestly" give his vote against the motion. If
Mr. ti ORTLEY really do wish to keep the desire of
haring a Republican form of Government out of the
minds of the people, wo would advise him not to tell
them that there is mother way of obtaining a reduction
if enormous expenditure. He has here, unwisely we
think, held out a very tempting bait to the people to
embrace Republicanism. We, for our parts, who re-
collect that the whole of the taxes in the reign of
Queen ANN, when England was able to beat
down Louts the Fourteenth, did not amount to
so much as the bare collection of our taxes now
&MORRIS to we who recollect that, in the year of ex-
tended warfare of 1782, the whole of the taxes dill
not amount to but little more than a fourth of what
they now amount to in a season of profound peace ; we,
sew recollect that a navy of a hundred thousand seamen
and marines then cost only one million more (and
in time of war too) than a navy of twenty thousand
seamen and marines now cost in time of peace, we,
who recollect, that a navy of twenty thousand sea-
seen and marines cost two millions in 1790. and
that a navy of twenty thousand seamen cad marines
• now cost six millions ; we, who recollect all these
things, would fain hope, that a Kingly Government
can be carried on without this tremendously expensive
influence; but, if Mr. STEWART WORTLEY will hare
it otherwise; if he will insist that these enormous ex-
penses are indispensible in order to have a Kingly Go-
vernment, let him take to himself all the merit that is due
for having set in motion a train of ideas, the result of
which it is so very easy to guess at, that we thiak it
wholly unnecessary to girls it a description. Our
readers will begin to think that the lucid and gentle
Statesman, that man of powerful persuasion, Lord
CAs•rt.eneacu, was silent upon this occasioa ! Not
so, indeed. Pity would it have been If that convinc-
ing tongue bad not been in motion when such a
prize was at stake. Seeing the fate of Mr. Roam-
sofs's curious doctrine, he did not amend, that use-
less offices must be continued merely for the support
of the influence of the Crown. He " denied as
" strongly as any Member, that influence ought to
" be used fur the purposes of corruption, or to induce
" is Member to swerve front his duty!" Oh, bless us,
no! we have heard of any Mr. MADDOCIA'S mo-
tion. This burdened, distressed, II d, distract-
0, and insulted nation have never heard of such per-
LOOS as Mr. PIRCIVAL and Mr. QUENTIN DUE! But,
to proceed. This great political phi!osopher, this
great patron of purity, was disposed to look at " the