The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-02-18 00:00:00

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ON rlig 119 HT dit rag Pif6OL
R&ECT THRIR SOrgREIGNs.

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posed td Canttid, upon its expirktion, the nucleus at
contending candidates, and Consequently the risk of
a renewal,of all those horrors to Which rrante had,
been so recently a prey. An Executive for life was
liable to similar objections. Hence this necessity of
a better balanced Constitution, a morn toncoitrated
and energetic executive, became manifest, a system*
which might place in security the lines anti property
of the Citizens, and keep in. order the elements : of
faction. .• .: -
It must be adniitt..d, that the COosols hi hie.
conquests, exercised a. legitimate right, thitt of
repulsing eggresaion by• force, and avenging the
country of the, machluatiOns of tyraitoy. ' lie Ac-
quired by his labours, infinite claims upon the lob
of the people, for whom he exposed .his person to
innumerable dangers ! they emiferred , noon him a
precious title, as a reward for his tiumereus serf
vices. ~ .
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In speaking of Gang. uerOrso die *fibula, not coin,
Found together these.destroyers who !lave shed blood
merely for flip plettletre of ilnsialatinit'.the eiti4,,iid, •
those who hate established their poster .iii the host
legitimate meausi But, granting for the sake Of at*
gutnent, that bey They. be classed itigether, dens It
follo7btit conquerors hive Oeresshrily.otikittfett
liAt
thee
.. sent nr ockn,•*tedoletit, a eetablished: noks;
to preset tn# title wbich the ikwelli hoe given . •
and w Mat Sala recriminations couitl, ttot...t2eo . . •
VI.
them pf ? Poe:, ;3 short, war has tbeO4fible to. p '4....
sclibe a 41ilieretit modes to him who ito%ris 11,q•oe .''
that of the sword ? . Iliatont krtustlits' Its 14.:th.46-.'-
anivtes of.cointuerera who have o:oablishect the, •• ..
selves upon the ruins of Ocoee,' AithoUt any ..
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disputing their authority, pc pteo obittctlVll.lti;
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new titles. 'rite dynesties of the Tertirsockloi‘
founded In Chino, are a proof of this. Iktti • . .
for etaniple, 'rer.liktiossiseit • the political Aisit
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ono. .systelos of a great part of . the globe.
queror, legislator, Riot sectar, by ist the fort
, . , ..
terrible' scs•Meter, he, overpowered all ()Nair AA .:
his elevation ; and the Sovereigns of the:gait.„voi.
had regarded him as an impostor, during tti49l(4
forced to °obey the irresistible posthuMus lino* tif
his po.Wer, adopted his laws after his •death, and
prostrated themselves before, his tomb, •
But let Os leave those conquerors.or a. ntittnity;
who owed solely to thOmseltee their eletiitiOnl to i
Throne ; tiithoot beiocohliged ie. redief intliotias.l.
litical chart of Kings, Who know their own' privi.
leges better than the rights of the people, and who
affected to consult them only to be.the beger..nble to
insult and oppress them, but *ho neverthelets de. .
rived from them their abused' power, Let us con.
suit the history of later periods ; it affords us more
light than the musty archives of former Kings.--
' Smitten, King of Intgland, In the year I 136, made
a public acknowledgMent that he held his Crown by
the Sovereignty of the People. Was siOt, likewise,
this the case of Ronor.enus; of Hap:burgh, the'ati-
destor of the present Emperor of Anirrata ? s Was
not Hums Carts', the founder of the PreqclidittiiSty
of the Cams, acknowledged as King by ' the
Grandees of the kingdom, and afterwards by the
people, before he was recognised by the European
Courts? Did the celebrated GUSTAVUS VASA stand
in need of a Congress of Princes, whew assisted by
the peasants of Dalecarlia, he delivered his counts
from the execrable tyranny.. of a' cUntrrtettx, and
ascended theTtrone of the Tyratit. 'The gratitude
a his country conferred upon him a title whose dig-
nity could lel mei se, advlitiotod Ware froitt.the con.
sent of teownid heads& ~_.The Doke of' AsciOtt; AO .
Grandsou Of 'Loots XIV. ipid,ilie 4ptknioilff2 fn fit
&roar, before he wait ..ackpealeated by contento.
rary Sovereigns. • lf Simms, ll:orlottdutt of flaps.
burgh, , }Noy Cairc,• atirrliviiilis44, thi Duke .
n'Aksou, and many Other Convinterofs,n Mdtle or lean
so, such is JOHN SOESTEIIISt b!IV41'.W0111 the diadetet
solely by the consent of the peopie,—why, fa "ito,r
times, may not a great man, who has preserved his
country from Coin, have the 'same title to the grati-
tude which hes founded so nituy'llasonit?- Istheie
* More legitimate and wooed tic!, than thit'.'eti
ration, •by Its spontaneous •and universal MONO&
placing the man of its choice. upon e 'Throne Me
not such a nation a right to elect.. fOriteelrti Oii.f
Without the initiatory permisgion °Mints; wiiose
good wishes would only show the selves 'by ntist-,
sures coercive upon the po*.er, and insulting to this
majesty of a great people. IlaS ever an instance oc-
curred of a country wishing to chioge its laws, its
institutions, and its governors, asking the consent of
foreign Princes.--The trench Etnperor has then cone
fessedly in his favour the most inViolable laws aris-
ing from the general ampitet, 'confidence, and faith
of a great nation. Ffrot Populilvot fief, ebostiL
totes the firsi, the grand, and only diploma of
Royalty—,-Divine and human laws confirm its an.
thority.
itut it is contended that a sacred dynasty should
fill the throne. of Prance. What is the meaning -of
such jargon ? Must a family be privileged merely be-
Cause it has not fulfilled any of the great duties of
royalty, and whose only title consists in a long line
of ancestors ? What says the area Fempeatcx or
Prussia, in the nineteenth chapter of his doll-Ma.
chiavel? The opinion of such a man is not to be
easily rejected :—" A man eleiated to the throw
by his courage, has no need of ancestry." let its
rightly understand all the profoudity of seeds aft
Worn, It proceeded from the oracular mouth of a
Monarch, and a great matt; a Philosopher, in "bort,
Oat.
who recognised, upon his.throne, those virtues ,nhil/441t
adorn it, and rendered him worthy Of a •..
Are we to believe that the greatest man 4r:bto
advanced a paradox? It is parfeCily inconsistent
with his profound ktionlisigo of Imams nature, and
the art of reigning. Is it, therefore, because the
French Emperor has raised himself by progreSsile
merit to the throne Sr CSIASILEMAWIF., Warr title t.
it must be illegal, bettamte blew! deity not ackitof.
ledge it? Is it not sufficiently evident, that this eleie-
tion is the result and reward of those transcendent ta-
lents w hich have re itdellict birn.w will, of it, and which,
in fact, shed upon iC en illu4rintis glory ?-,Oinnia
incrementa tibi debuit air' ingenio maxim:sp.—Thew
words remind us of the anSwerog' ritamsatoct.cs to
a contemptible parasitis, whose oi4y Merit consisted.
in his hereditary nobility, and who reproached that
great Captain with the obscirit,' of his birth, coin.
paring it with his own illes:trions &Minn: 44
glry of my race began wiffi'.'tnytelf,' • hr
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" while thou obscurest that of thine by tY
thine's."

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