The Statesman.
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Office for one of theamelves—an office uelenowo to the Comilla-
tione—a Private beenettry, with a !urge selary out of your
pockets. for thearoable of opening !Meet, alai his August
Master might not be plemed to have sufficieot ;rehire for that
function. If we cosld not dieileibb flw extent of the military
fare, scattered over the country in large forts-want, the bare
aspect of which would, in •better tbnes, :lave alarmed every
friend of the Constitution, we at least prevented those.garrisons
—these bulwarks id the Lour:--from spread/1"g where they :led
not formerly appeared. We saved London, Bristol, and lever.
I oel fimn itch inensioas of thew. coreforlseas well as itrivileges
—and taught our rulers a lesson, which pereiclons Coousellors
bed studiously kept tot of their sight, met the only place of re-
thee, whirit the ILuitrd Monarch of a free state must have, is
that which gratitude for a goad reign prepares for him, iu the
hearts of his people !
The course of ray narrative, Gentlemen, has noir brought me
to t'-e ;rani feature of the last 5000a—het I shell not say one
word mood teat—for vie know it as wolf as I dn.—your ewe
share in itseenries is ler greater than mint',-1 need saintly say
that I mean the Parliamentary Inquiry whicil dew toyed the
Get tee in Colincill--Of this passage .1 will say but one word ;
I e the rernembtanee to it never be etLeceJ from your iniads,
a id it will always traeh you what the powers"( the people ar
aetinst the woes: rulers, when they exert their whole
saeneth ;—but lint it foram as the. strive; always do, with
au P ltd steadiner :mit temper.
Tile close of the Session was marked by an attempt to cur-
prier es out of our most invaluable rights o Englishmen, tinder
see flimsy prima of the prevailing diseontents mid tumults—a
eelour which tynint snide ters never (Ind any ditiicslty in obtain-
mg. far if they cannot obtain il, they well know hew to make
It —I allude, of coarse, to the Bills pa-yd for searching your
boars, and seizing arras.—Let rte not. however, be mibundel-
eo•tel—l say the pretext was ifirasy, eel' as stale—l say it
aaleekel um earthly jestificetiea to the I::eastrres:grutinded (you
it t—hat that diseenienisevieed, I tors: pot to deny— aed their
cats: l loak f it/ tae utlearatieled •livtt•rw,es of the times; I
great ton. that in snow places very miseeevoirs practices pre-
mailed, that man.; deluded person., headed
.pnbsibly by some of
ji mere eaeitineti cast, had committed flaring. and disgraceful
barrages, areal that, in Revere! districts, an intatuated disposition
%%Ai stew ato destroy valuablaand uirtnl machinery. No lyre
c more deeply deplore such cnerses then Idu e they originate.'
is the.uhrst species of drluaou ; t.t; every mait_ef oreinary re-
flertiee must he aware: that the machinery itself is one of the
beet frieede of the country, and, above all. of the, par. be.
rase Win sae of the pried pal foundations or our manufactar- .
i superiority, , one of the mein--pillars el our riches. To
e war opts if when work hese:tree, believe one, is just as
grew an' iafatnation as to break your ploughs lead harrows afier
t hart itarvett by way of having abetter une next year. But
lora ever senstnte I might be of all these truths, I was firmly
persuaded, that the stories of disemseat had been grievously ex-
erecerettel. I knew that the anlinary legal means were sate-
ewer to restore pence in the disturbed districts. I s:tw that this
bad been ectually ettiTted by those means is the trust iscontented
q mrer of all; mei I therefore felt it my duty to lift my voice
meliast the proposed innovations in our free tenetitutiou
to meter a wand fur the must sacred .privilhges of Englishmen,
inviolability of their houses, and their . right to have antis fur
self-pefenee. I failed in toy opposition to those Bills; but
thoage they have passed into laws, t believe they will not be
much acted upon, and I glory in thinking. that the beet babel.
raised my voice in Parliwileut, we-for se first a erase. My.
Jest vote was given for the Liberty of the Pres, my last against
the violation of an Englishman's castle!
Gentle:rah, -I hare rendered up my acenuw, ani my trust for
the people's heuelit is now at an end. What may he the conduct
er those, on whom it has devolved, I presume-not to foresee I
will hope the hest, hut WP C3llllGt be long in suspense ; a few
weeks will shew you whether you have caatteed for the better.
I know you will keep your eye.) fired upon them. It is your
highest duty, and you know well how tteperforui it.
I yeaerday took the liberty of professing myself as one of the
adversaries, eertaiely in a very humble sphere, of 51r. Pitt's
useasures.—l would not, however, have you to think, Gentle-
nem, that my political creed is made up cooly of oppositioe and
denial—that I feel nothing but antipathies, or ackimaledew no
!melee to follow sort vro.:r.zte.—l avow myself among the most
seelous followerma a nun., who has tem, as well as his (vie-
braid ant..gonnt, unhappily for England, his dust with I,
the eatrad asises of the la.hers of her liberty. When I express,
or at.ermit to extern, any profound and unalterable vi,neration
for his memory, at is into: surely in the vain hope of increnelog
my love fur him, lout that I may pass the last moments I have to
be anionga you in performing the duty, Most end, isdeed, bur
twitas pleasing to ou e feelings-1 have not nature biol.:- is it ne-
cessary 1 should I-1 am speaking to you, k I iends at Liberty,
advocates of peace, of oae whim waseiew malaiinted leader n.
every straggle for the ('mistitedon I—mall the erfures which Yoe
have seer made the the repose and the luippittess of mankind !
tlf him, in :Owe) the mightiest power) of eleetweee wive far
lea woadefird than the predietous virtue, nnerminely
pointed them agaiest tee ene:nies of hota.,a ha .plans:-'-sad
agiia.t every Lam; that ordinary mortels mieett call us own in-
terest or ease—alto knew of no interest but yore's—nor could
taste of ary emir, while despotism and intelerance, and war,
were ravaging the earth —who, blending in his genius the severer
euelitieb of ',refound intellect, free, enlarged, and original
coureptien, with the most attractive graees, that can adorn the
mind—tempering the sublime features of his taleres with the
a.ofttwmie of the must amiable virtues, and exposing wit:wirer
bails...l failings he had with the holiest simplicity that pervaded
•e part of his frame—presented to Isis attached followers a
V a :racier, if possible, more to be loved than veuerated—and
tetieht alt mica approached him, at how humble soever a dis-
t:ere, to cultivate him rather a ith the homage of their Lace-
timis, than their fears. it ass he, ulio„ for your bake. and- for
the great came- of civil aiel religious treedom, vowed eternal
Scar your oppressors—and united to himself those faithful
ef their -country, abuse (alerted rank. I sincerely be-
beer, they undervalue, cosnpared.with the iitece they poetess id
your service—whose vast I obreesions they )(remain as less Fired.-
otteehen the treasure ot the people's Myr—on:nog whose title,
and hottoure they regard that illustrious descent as the chief
which they derive from tau noble matters of Fai„-,lisa liberty!—
li.: was their leader and yoors--a!ev ! I need no, pante him—for
with alma' can you possibly confound him? Vet it may he
eatefol to our ears ta) hear that name, which is all that remains
him. lam theta a follower of Crier:Les fox.—(fninwnse
•-mting UN; cod trill e.rprwisioniv By his principles
it k Inv delight to regulate my eondoct—and judging by what he
slid .aid .v• 4 id, of a hat he wool i have dime had he twee preserved
t • outed ,yo, 1 feel iced assured, that he would now have fol-
.•nieil• a course, if possihle, still more popalar, because lie
woniti have seen, more au-i more the vital importance
) the country of a nee: ammo betwren the people and their
Letters. agoinst toe growing corruptions and augineuted inso-
-14 ate of toe court !

tlentlenum, I heartily wish you well—l thank yen for all the
untr,:s of aVellonate kindness and real, which 1 blase received
fr.tm you ; ana fur this last proof of it, in the patient hearinig
you hascjitsfbccn lewd to give Ibis tedious, though ueces-
ary; detail of my own conduct. —You now have my public life.
and principles before you.—You have also semi my political af.
feetions.—l have opened atwhole heart to you as far as word/
cm do it, at least—but there is any part of it vet concealed,
etink, 1 beseech you, uith what that part is tilted fortis you
HMI have filled it—l have told you what mud be describesk—all
the rest istoadewp of attectioa and gratitede *yam

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LONDON:
riuDAY, Illovamint 13, 1311

Still are weln the same suspence 'with respect to
information from the Allied Armies in the l'eainsu!a.
Thai hlinhters should have had no dyeet dispatches..
from Lord lArel.t.txneom since tile 11th ult. is incre-
dible. Is It to be believed, that none of the arrivals
from fiom Comm*, nor from St. Andero,
should have informed them of the totally withdraw..
in; our besieging force from 'before Burgos. Their
countenanced intelligence leaves off by allowing us
tr, tl,;tak that our forces had not wholly abandoned
e.:timpf;;Luffortress, bat that a stron; blockade

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