The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-18 00:00:00

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LONDON :

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1810.

WE congratulate the Ectetons of WESTMSII.
,TER, we congratulate the FRIENDS of REFORM,
and the wnoet ENGLISH PEoPLE, upon the West.
minster Meeting of yesterday. It has been very
easy to comprehend upon what their enemies cal.
culated, ever since the sensation. in the public
mind, occasioned by the ♦ote of the House of
Commons to imprison Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in
the Tower. It was easy, above all things, to
discover the combined political and military tactics
of that, not newly found, but newly and freshly
armed and accoutred enemy, that arch-enemy,
tho WISE MAN of the EAST. Accustomed to be.
tray Princes and Nations seeking the restoration
of their unquestionable rights, by entnppitag
them into appearances that gave excuse to the rob.
berics, dethronements, and deaths that followed,
while those unfortunate victims were still competi-
tively helpless and unable to resist the Oppressor, be
viewed the English people with the same eye,
/with
the same unmeasured lust of ambition, the same
remorseless contemplation of their blood-shedding,
and the same anticipation of triumph. Let him
now learn, that iq one part of EUROPE there are
men who CAR develop. and dissolve his political
combinations, as easily as in another there are
s 'ldlers who smile at his military Counsels.
For Otis time, at least, he has been building houses
with. oayds, foe children, which fall before the
slightest hreeth
..Itssin. And ill this discomfi-
ture of *the Wres MAN has happened in the most
natural and simple way, like the operation of the
mechanical power, which, (Aiming its proper
sature, produces the most gigantic and magnifi.
*cent effects. It was no mob, with licentious %ill,
and illegal designs, that this man prepared to en..
stave, and meet, in a helpless moment, in the net—
It was the true Ftlends of the Constitution, with
perfect knowledge of the laws, and attachment to
them, growing out of their love of their admired
Constitution. To betray such, by working on the
file impatieace
.they • might feel, was a silly
scheme, and has ended as befits its blindness and
self-sufficiency. On this we do congratulate the
zauntry ! for, a circumstance which, if imi.
Wed throughopt the Empirn by all other trot
friends' of the Constitution, must, as was most
justly 4beeeved at the Meeting, save this country
from that despotism, that slititary despotism insi.
duously, titeugh not ever cautiptudy premed Ault.
A.s 'the personal Conduct of the Meeting was
temperate, so were the measures offered fur their
consideration legs) and proper. The PETITION
and fifesrperstleasce tq the House of Commons
wee atreng-'.but it wed • constitutional._
The right of Petitioning has been &boost re.