The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-28 00:00:00

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•.' A Second Edition of the grammars will be published
at half-past four o'clock to-worrow, end Friday, con-
taining a full &moot (received by express)ofthe Derby
• and Oaks Races.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1823.
PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.

CLOSE OP Till oa.oson Examtwartow.—This creature
of Parliamentary sagacity and patriotism, which has, for
some days, evinced the agonies of approaching dissolu-
tion, came to its end last night. We intimated io our
paper of Wednesday last, that it was expected to be
stilled that evening. Circumstances, however, occurred,
which gave it not only a respite, but even the prospect
of a long lingering existence ; for no longer back than
Monday, Colonel Barry had no thought of its termina-
tion, and the House no expectation. So late as Friday
last a Messenger of the Honourable House was dispatch-
ed post-haste after Mr. Whistler, whose testimony was
supposed to be indispensable. What, therefore, has oc-
curred to induce the Honourable House thus suddenly to
drop the ckrtain, or Col. Barry, who held the strings of
the examination, to assent to it, may be matter of curious
surmise. But whether there was a prevailing opinion
that the PRIVILEGES of the House, having been some-
what hardly pressed upon, were in want of a little breath-
ing room, or whether there was any understood compro-
mise betwixt public interest and Parliamentary appear-
ance, are speculations which it does not become those
who are connected with the race puss of this Me
COUNTRY to indulge in. The evidence has been reported
to the House, (the Committee, let it be observed, was not
the House, but marvellously distinct) and is ordered to be
printed. It now remains then to be seen what will be done
with the matter—wbot, in fact, will be the upshot of this
tedious as well as expensive examination. Mr. Denman
told the House, that some Resolutions would be moved
as a wind-up to the whole. We do not need to be told
wl.at this means—we do not require any sage Uremia,
learned in the lore of Parliament, to tell us that the
Honourable House, in its collective wisdom, means to
take to itself a whole day wherein to have a GREAT
Tam or in the expressive language of the American
Indians—a Palaver I Of this one would have thought
they had had enough for one Session; but this "Reso-
lution"-Jay," we suppose is to be something extra.—The
lettere, run of the cession is small-talk, but this in the
words of the deceased Lord Castlereagh, is to be a
"field-day" of debate. There is to be a grand display,
no doubt, of the forces on both aides--The
sentinels of the public welfare will mount guard
on the occasion, the great guns of alarm will be
polated. h will be muzzle to muzzle, and after the unal
discharge of such 'tierce contention,' In conformity oda
previous arrangement, the regular defile (from Hosea JO
Lobby) secusdumarices ' militarem, will succeed to this
ether sports of the day, and the whets, as from time kin&
tutorial, will end in smoke. To which party it is intended
to award thefts de joie remains as yet a secret. Aithowgh
we hate no doubt how that will be, such things are not the
result of fair fighting, neither do they fall to the lot sit
merit. 'the prize is gained before it is sought, and the
Victor has vanquished even befsre the lists are opened.—
That six millions of suffering Irish have established an im-
perishable claim to redress at the hands of one domineering
million, at the bar of the • Great Inquest' of the Empire
lathelete inquiry, no candid mind will deny. Whether
feral justice will be dealt to them no candid mind dare pro-
possd.—ln this Wliberforcian age of Philanthropy
how happens it, we should like to ask, that no
Ilistelly Patriot, albeit from the host of Saints
in Saint. Stephen, lies taken upon himself the
work of 'regeneration in that unhappy land. In that
toiletry are our Christian brethren—moreover, our fel_
low-subjects and our fellow-countrymen.; they are con-
fessedly miserable, and in all respects in the condition of
slam, with the single exception that they are stied
slaves!