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London, England, 1810-04-26 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN.

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THURSDAY, APRIL SG, IBlo.'
In what we stated the day helve yasterBo,
we took up the cause of an injured individual ;
which is among the first duties of a newspaper.
But iu the observations of The Merning Post,
which we then meant in part to answer, there was
something beyond that, which we 'did not mean to
overlook. In The Courier, there is something of
the same kind ; and as it is, in both cases, a mat.
ter which nearly touches the interests of the coun-
try, we seize upon the earliest opportunity to de.
vclope it, and (to speak more plain English) to
expose its true nature and tendency to public
view, .The drift.and design of The. ,11orning Post
and Courier
_SI to counteract Sir FRANCIS
ButtoeTT's efforts fur REFORM in the practices
of Government, and in the principles naturally
growing out of those practices, or basely insinu-
ated and fostered through them, as an attempt of
different quality, that is, an attempt to subvert
the Constitution. It would occupy so much of
the limits which is left by the other business of a
newspaper, to the observations we may have occa-
sion to offer, that we cannot transcribe the rea.
coning of The Morning Past and Courier, re.
peatedly intruiled.upon the Public, on this impor.
tant subject. They, who do not know, from the
circumstance of their never seeing those Papers,
whether we state the conduct of The Morn.
ing Post and Courier correctly or not, will
easily learn from any of their readers, and,
in fact, from any of their friends, that we
do not misrepresent them. They, themselves,
Mill acknowledge the trxtli of ,our statement,
and will plume themielves with %the fact, Oat
they have done what we now ascribe to them.. We
decidedly disclaim the practice of imputing any
mercenary motive to any Paper we May have oc.
elision to notice ; newspapers indeed, have beet,
but t4O justly deemed venal ; but, until we have
the proof that any one individual is venal, we
shall ascribe to him fair and honourable motives,
however Wide his viiw of the public interests may
be from ours. Wo go a little out of tho way,
perhaps, in stating this, because it is our intention
to guard the public interests ; and in so dt4tig, we
may often have occasion to oppose the doc-
trines of newspapers opposite in political opinions
And feelings to ours. The Papers now in ques-
tion have the advantage of being read by a very
great many persons ; and the danger of their opi.
pions, when these arc false, is the greater, be-
cause their class of readers are the least informed,
and most prejudiced, of the whole community—.
The bulk of their readers arc persons dependant on
the Government ; or, being themselves personally
independent of tho Government, are habituated
to the idea that GUVERNSIENT it every thing, and
.She support of it, on every occasion, the sole
duty of the 6gbject, Viten such men, and upon
such means passions, it is easy to work ; and RE-
.yoam has been delayed •by such men till it is, at
length, almost a question—whetheC REFORM
can be obtained without Revoqtrox, or
not. It is, therefore, high time Mat the po.
hey which has tilos delayed REFORM should
be detected; and the main spring of that machine
is, to represent every person :deo eminently pro.
Isecutes REFORM, as one who means to subvert

the Gpvernmcnt. Need we point out, to what
degree this system of alarm has been practised ?
Mr. Fox, who never dreamt of any thing but the
-.l..cstoratiun-ul-abe..Cno-stittation to its true, .prinel
pies, and of being himself a leading Member of
•the Government under that Constitution, was sin.
cerely deemed an enemy'S, Site Government, and
bated and reviled as such. Mr, PITT, who once,
and we believe honestly, prosecuted the same
princip.le of Reform, would have been also
scouted as a subvertar of 11w Constitution,
if he had not turned wholly aside, from lust
of power, to be the father' of alarm, and the
Wish patron of all who 'preached the doc-
trine. Many othes distinguished persons, who
never sought any thing, although the friends of
Reform, incompatible with that ratolf of arisio.
craey to which they belling, have been deemed
I,Evsr.t.s:as. And all this has been successively
reCeivcal as a creed, that they woolh have as won
denial as their Saviour, by the descriptieq,of per.
aims who arc the general readers of the Newspa.
pers now in question. T° these persons, there-
fore, we rite; and the task is nut difficult, for
the day of their blindness is nearly gone---tbats. is
40 say, we write to the disinterested among them ;
'wed !here .are many, ninny such. To such,
-re sari now that the grinding wheel of Go.

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