The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-05 00:00:00

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17IE PRESENT CRISIS,
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Th, secession of a new Sovereign to the throne 'of.
60401 mast always he an event of momentous import
• this country and to the world. In the present in-
awe, the long previous exercise of authority delegated
~ibe Prince of Wales as Regent, has precluded almost
410,jecnre concerning the future course of Govern-
v.; 0,1 the name of the state-policy to be adopted
ado rowing reign. There are, however, circumstances
,treading this change that cannot fail to be of large he-
sot K prejthlice to the State, as they are regarded and
-waned.
*personal character of our late King was morally
„if, god his example had an inktence over the ha-
si,o his people of iacalulable force; for in a co mm on-
old, like ours, that rinse (both public and private)
.6;..11 is propagated from above, is circulated through
the conrses of the body politic, and the strength
fikii it imparts to the inferior alewives bee •s in
nes the sustentation of the head. So long as the King
wised, his %Try name contributed to keep alive the
awry of his piety, his fortitude, leis charities, his do-
aikagections. So long as the King survived, this
gum w.is never lost or abated. It remains to be
pet, whether those strong guards of the national cha-
let/ shall be confirmed or relaxed by the contrtupla-
is ado sawasees of a new Court. '

Ulm. the conduct of the King, in times like these,
each vest depend. If he shall declare by his personal 1
unp:r, a lofty intelligence and a rear perception of ;
ja seliAlrrotion which must now or nut at all be sponta-
wetly made to the decayed affairs—to the ill-propor- 1
issol degrees of his people, if he is prepared to repair
wrist error of his servants, first by a recognition of
he rraml and sure principles—that it is to the condition .
i the governed that posterity refers for the wisdom of
to emernors--and that, whatever be the disposi-
as and the habits of a people, it is the office of Go- i
%meet to mud:sand to keep them virtuous, and as far i
a Wan affairs will allow, happy--and lastly, by a'
resolution to cultivate the affections of his subjects by
le masifestation of his personal concern and identity
ti hall that affects their freedom, their prosperity, their :
arty, and their glory—by a true economy not inflow..
.hest with the liberal support of all that comports with'
lit Wit! majesty of his Urowu, and with the encourage.:
sut ef science, commerce, and art—if he manifests by
Notre arts, or the acts of his Administration, a know-
rep of the veins from whence these blessingsflow—l
ie mace of the Monarch will be set up fur the imitation'
is great aul an admiring, a loyal and an affectionate 1
PoPle•
t!ere then is a glorions opportunity for the exercise a
ris.'oni and of iota,. worthy indeed the mind and
,!fi rof a King. The other side of the picture presents
!le unties of the linbject. It is their 1,.! rt to anticipate
he 'lours drier Sovereign—to lend a generous trust
to his erfearoars, or (A ealvtLeGE NOT LESS VALT tr:LE
itu VIM AND TO TIIEM.O:LrES) to assist his judgment

Wit earn. Fur Iwuu surely does deo Comuitutiou
ontrropiatr that privilege and illustrate that design,
Then it ordains the death of the Parliament, and a new •
behe n; the representation. on every new accession to
he throat.. And at no period was the reference more
aomentuas to both estates. For, corrupted as the free-
ofoiection confessedly is at its very fountain, if the
leople be tine to themselves, there is yet power enough
hike provisions for choosing a new Parliament to cur-
vet the evils which, in the lapse of years, have well
xi overthrown all the boasted bulwarks of public ll-
on. Not a moment is now to he lost. Now it is that
!min, energy, and patriotism. elould set to work to I
enlarge the vision, to stimulate the virtue, to confirm
the etterve, to awe and shame the profligacy of our
asstryinen. We will nut say that the absolute power
If establishing at once the future honour and happiness
Ilsgland is now returned to the people hot we will
say, that npon the din •reet and upright exercise of that
fwehise by which they personify their owb notions in
their representatives—by which THE.T., at it were, PI C*
TUC PRINEIeI.E4 or CIOVERNMENT TO THEIR SO-
rtatlGN--we will repeat, that upon the discreet
sad alright exerting, of that franchise it is now given
.0 tie polde to save their coontry—perhaps from des-
isas—perhaps from anarchy. We are not of that "litter
if libellers" who would teach that pnbiic virtue Is a
aolery—that public men are all alike the interested
sethe;s of their own advancement.—lre do not address
ors-her to the disorderly passions of' the ltitude
nor do we me the language that inflames. We speak I.
he hearts and the minas of the upright and the eduea•

'td—to thOse who have the influence to lead, if they are
at without the principle that ought to govern those
tho avmme is lead. Not that u e contemn or wonlel
61111101 d from any cia,s of our countrymen that admoti:

tiou a hich it falls within our limited competency In
I tier them. We nould proclaim, " loud as the thnnoler's
"'fit tulle," the sententious and essential maxim of,

?oinks' wisiloin for the guidance of the people, the
Ihart, strong, sole THEIR PRI:ITE T 6 PUMA.
stow rims. By this jedge, by this choose.—The trial
war was and we shall not withhold from Minis-
'en such a portion of the praise that awaits upon the
4611 of its termination, as their sense of their own
writs will allow them to appropriate. Their trial in
laser liss not been less sufficient. But look, we entreat,
't the facts and consequences—a Cabinet divided upon '
an the great measures demanded by the altered condi-
limn of the commonwealth—a revenue not only inade-
pate to the discharge of the obligations of the State,
lat daily falling away under new svmptonii of decline—
the rapedients of finance moulded upon the ill-under-
Issod 4uggestions of the opponents of the Financier,
rail tendered more ineffectual by his matilations--agri-
ashore reduced to despair—commerce uncertain and
sPhrllative iu all its objects—manufacture made tuitions
Periodical Urination, thermoses of which are neither
%emu nor understood by the Government—the public
wearities, irisreciated as it were on purpose to stultify
shad timertinient through its own predictions—the
Mort' rates augmented to a snro which has no parallel
ih the annals of the world, even though necessity is re-
"led hr public charities and by private benevolence.