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trial. Yet 1114"Touas did Ml go so far la liiii;few iii this
great National Amides m perhaps he might to hove goat, as •
philompher amino &dream tomes Iglus of man, whit* ant
oli mature equal. What Mr. Toots thought ssitadom. •
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strains, and the rights of property. may be seen from the e
tract which I seed yoo from his Emmert written speech, '
Doke of McKinney, on the other hood. considered Universal
eurnme as an inherent privilege of the People. to be claimed
by men of right, and actloided to them a.•• iadulgroce. Yet
thcJery who tried Mr. *owe. Wore colkd upon to doom him
to death, not for treatft Nil,* thilue of &ammo's steps, nor
for eadeuveariag to tows re,moderate pion by the OW
cedore which the Duke bath ed and practised, hut fir
holding and espres lag sprit opittimiatit you will perceive la
this article. Emil whiner, lowerer: were 'nicked,' malighomed
is GM to resist permeation for suet opinima. hod to ussablish
by their verdict the more general scansions of the Noble Ad-
'orate ea this occasion,' that " freedom sod s -amity ought to be
eopusi sod omiversal." With such opinions from such men, I
will not mix mine. further than saying that 1 conceive the Cepa-
mitution woultlbesafer seder the protectioe of four or lee mil-
lions who hoots a vitatintarew in its preservation, 16112 whilst
mpaopolised by a few thousands.
I aro, Sir.
% . A UNIVERSALIST.'
" A Meetieg was held et the Crown and Anchor,
I siot.qpiled by Mr. Tooke, but at which he was pre•
sent, to celebrate the first Anniversary of the French
Revolution, where a Noble Lord (Earl Stanhope)
was in the Chair, and a motion was made.-.' That
this Meeting does most cordially evjoice in the esta-
blishment and confirmation of liberty in France; end
that it beholds with peculiar satisfaction the smith
ments of amity and good-will which appear to per-
vade the People of that country towards this, espe-
cially at • time when it is the manifest interest (as
God knows it is) of both States, that nothing should
interrupt the harmony between them, which is so
essential to the freedom and happiness, not only of
,both nations, but of all mankind' Mr. Borne,
Tooke (and' I do not think, after I have read this,
that I shall be suffered to go on making any more
remarks on this part of the subject, beano* it is a
' key to the whole) begged that the Hon. Gentleman
who was the mover would add to his motion some
qualifying clause to guard against misunderstanding
and misrepresentation ; that there was a very wide
difisience between England and France; that the
State.vessel of France had been not only tempest.
beaten and shattered, but absolutely bulged—where:
as, in England, we had a noble, stately, and sound
vessel, sailing prosperously upon the bosom of the
ocean; that it was true, after so long a coarse, she
might, upon examination, appear somewhat foul at 1
the bottom, and require some necessary repairs, bat
that her main timbers were all sound. He, there.
fore, regretted that there should be an addition to
the motion, but that, if that motion was not made,
be should move it himself. Accordingly, be did
move in public, ' That this Meeting feel equal setts.
faction, that the People of England, by the virt none
ese•tions of their ancestors, have not so hard a tusk
to perform as the French are engaged in, but nave
only to maintain and improve the Constitution which
their ancestors have transmitted to them.
66 My Lord, I shall not waste a word to show
the necessity of a Reform in the Representation of
this country. I shall only consider the mode of Re.
form, and endeavour to show that it is not difficurt to
embrace every interest in the State, and to satisfy
well-meaning men of every description. To this
end, I am compelled first to remove the prejudices.
and, indeed, just objections, which some persons en•
tertain toil! the modes of Reform which have hitherto
been recommended.
66 My virtuous sod inestimable friend, Major Cart.
wriest, is a zealous and able advocate for equal and
universal Representation—that is, for an equal share
to every man in the Government. My Lord, I con.
coke his argument to be this—Every man has an
equal right to freedom and security. No man can be
(see what has not a voice in the framing of those laws
by which he is to be governed. He who is not rem-
' seated has not this voice ; therefore every man has
an equal right to representation, or to a share in the
Government. Ills Anal conclosion is, that every
111111. has a right to am equal share in representation.
46 Now,my Lord, I conceive the error to be
chiefly in be conclusion; for there Is a very great
difference between bating an equal right to a share,
and • right to an equal share. An estate may beds.
vised by will amongst many persona in different pro.'
portions, to one five pentads, to another five hundred,
Ac. Each person will have an equal right to his
share,_ but not a right to an ecru! share.
66 This principle is further attempted to be enforced
by an assertion, that the all of one man is es dote to
him at the all of another man is to that other. Butt
my Loral, this maxim will not hold by say means t
ler a small atticoot,- for very good•siattioe;his derma;
as a great all ; a small all may be lost sad easily re.
gained; it may very often, and with great wisdom, 'I
be risked for the chance of • greater; it may be so '
small as to be little or not at all worth +plead* or
'caring for. This *ogee via qui somoupsrifidit. Bet
1 a large all can never be recovered ; it has been amass.
ing and accumulating, perhaps, from father to son far
many generations, or it has been the prodoct of a
long life of industry and talents, or' the consequence
of some circumstance which will saver return. But
I em sere I need set dwell open this, sailboat placing
the extremes of fortune in array against each other ;
every man whose all has veried at different periods of
his life, can speak for himself, and say whether
.the
dearness in which he held these different ails was
equal ; the lowest 'order of men consume their all,
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daily as faiths they acquire it.
"My Lord, justice and policy require-that beisefit
and harden, that the share of power, and the share of
contribution to that power, should be as nearly pro.
portioned as possible.. If aristocracy will have all
power, they are tyrants and itijihtt to the Penile,
because aristocracy alone does, not bareflie whole
burden. If the smallest intlividaid of the .People
contends to be equal in power t? tytepistillair litdrvi•
dual, he, toe, is in his Nits unjust in ill; deitiands,
for his burden and contribution are not equal.

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cove(ussibt int to establish' seats -e
e grz,N4,
.. is IX/kat:achy of P. . . tie
palls .1 Sled ozrro_l44
of the 'provinces h 4 're
chy of Sassons, hate pethiesed his '
jetty to re-estsbiish the constitutional.
existed under the King of &moil,. eilsinit
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was supposed, meet with a vicious its:epilog gills
Court of Orlin ;
jetties would be a highlt„pofielite'..ni'siliprira
middling end lower daises, ieftty 1W old Coemfiti
Lion, proposed to be reetered,, the :priiiiege of t
seat in the Diet wits ezciesteely cotibed le thti No.
bleu.
The proceedings in appeal !okay* loth* lit, of
for the 'herder of M. toetsits had arrived stag
`Ol4 the Minister of Jistiee, from which tbsi
were to lie. .transmitte'd to the Court of Canaria%
which would probably enter on the affair about*
4th of Jeritt.—Tbe 5 per amts. left plea MOnest
t.6BC 50 c.
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• Omuta Paprrs have eibireeschrd uto bre debt.
An article from Saitzerland contradict. the opinion
.eateresioed in France, that, the AllirdSorereines will
Duly be toccopied tit the aPPreachwillemkgiesi.nittl
-trratigements, fat the evacuation of ,the Pessehter.
%tory. "This (Miele 'Was, that tiettenerslitate e(
Gerrnaey will aiso.form a promipint feature is the
daliberatioes. The King of SAXONY his decided dist
every thing with regard to the Jews is to umiak ea.
altered on their paying some trying diodes.
T.-
Yesterday being tbe Neese. Sortua ton&
eiGs."
'rote's birth-day the. Princess received vitas of colt'.
tulation from the Prices .sad Princess•of Hasa.
HOMBURG, the Princess Aveusira, end others of*
ltoyal Family, and a numerous assemblage of distill.
guished personages, at her' house in Curzon-street.
In the evening the Doktrend Der.ltess Of GLancratta
had a dinner and an evettiota,perly, in honour of the
day, at Gloucester-hoses.:
The small Coast-yard fits Ilt.,Jnillelk'S Niece was
yesterday again crowded with car. them and person
of distinction leaving their names of cOadoleace for
the Duchess of ..Conseax.aen for. the loss of her
eldest sister. The answer to dm enmeroes enquiries
respecting the state of the Decimal's health ',Go—
lfer Royal Ilighoess bad bet an indifferent night,
bat was better yesterday. lies Royal flightiest
only admitted a visit from the Prince of Blow
Hostzotte, who remained with the Royal Decbas
a considerable Aim.
Yesterday .the Prince of Ileses..ifemauss shied
Lord CASTLIIII2ACIR.
• The tritely-deceased sister of the Dockets elan.
lIIIMANDwae married to the Duke of Sexed:bum.
lIIIRGIAWIRS. She was 48 years of age.
Letters of the 14th inst. from Madrid menthes,
that the Holy Inquisition bad experienced *great loss
is the deaths of the itelohi luqsisitor.(ientral
Myth, rne fhb Count Du..PIWAa, also a Member of
the sham tribunal. In consequence of the bed news
' fertile Royalist cense, just received from Venezuela,
orders were imasediately immed 'for 2,000 men tole
sent oat to diet quarter. Two Clergymen scrind
tram Caraccas ender the induitu of the Spanish Pe.
Imminent, and a pledge that their persons would out
be molested, were arrested, and thrown into prison,
four days after their arrival. The Bulls from Rome,
so long 'spatted, bad not arrived; isipitssequencs of
whickftlereete finesse'sl plan of Minister GARAY had
not been published. Vales Reales were losing 721.
We understand that nett Teesday week is tie
day finally filed for dissolving Parliament, suppl►
ing nothing to intervene which may render it nem-
eery to alter that arrangement. The business in both
Houses is expected to be gone through by the twit
end of neat week, so that they May be prorogued oa
the Saturday.—(Courier.)
The Electors of Bristol have bad a Meeting, it
which ij was enaniesoesly resolved, " that Mr.
Pt:nem:Ups having offered himself to them clon in.
dependeot.Whig principles, sod having, in many in-
stances, by his votes tied *perches in the Boors of
Commons, neted in a manner directly opposed to his
original prefeasiooe, they cannot, in justice to their
own consistency, support him' at the approashieg
Getoiral Election." They have, therefore, proposed
Colonel BAILLIc' of decidedly, sound Constitatioaal
principles. Mr. Peoestaaos has wisely yielded to
the storm, and satiredi
TUE.Plttelt or UttgAlD.—lt
.appears that there are
a number of .Petitions now lying ins the table of the
Hooey of Common, frem the Country: Bakers, pray-
ing that the Hoes*, in its wisdom, may consider the
PrePrielY•of repealing the Act which abolished the
Assize lAare. Why the London (fakers have not
io4o# wilightsbr- lareslareo oY the-rmesstry parts in
presenting sub Petitions, we consort determine.; but
Ira knlifthiC they have long beers -complaining of
the injurious effects of the present system, to which
they attribute net only the bedroom of the bread with
Which the Metropolii is supplied, but also the fixed
price at vihlkto it has ?twined for so Initny months.
The Dithers try that the Corn sod-Flour Trade has
.beenregaipletely in the handset the Monopolists ever
eitrcettbe power was taken from the Civic Magistrate
to'relliplete the price of the led by the weekly re.
turps, • This is a highly important consideration, and
.late at the, period of the. fusion is, we hope Perlis-
'meld Olt hoe rise without paylo4 the necessary et•
tentioitn it. It is not, we repeat, yet too Isle to
web? this simple old for the relief of the %twee
:olffers of 14 eimenttartiti, end we earnestly hope and
lees, it will net fail tribe made. They have- •Irearly
Marie fendirble exertions to supply us with wafer ;
let It be htiped; then, that 'they will do something to
cheek thoeelbwees that 'prevent the obtainment of
good and cheap bread; so that the pant man may
at least be able to " soak his crest in the spring 1." '
In Scotland the gosrtern loaf bps come down one ,
penny this week; it is now l3d. By the notices in
the•shop.teiudows there appears to be a very roin.i.
derabte reduction in the price of oatmeal.—(Gtessgeti
Paper.)

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HORNS TOOKE'S OPINIONS om RSPaPii . 44 Hitkerto: sty. fa, I biles only asgeott eiptinne
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TO TAR Rumps :OP TAR ITATItsIIIAtIg initilinality of tied of of a 011Itre to
ilea.—whimpeblleletrelleo Aes tangy diteeeed i tserainant •r Jlnr term anoint to lie ease.
the defective mete of opt lefteireassialion, soil the evils tttl= eeedoin NA bentelty ought se 141 y to be eget,'
arise from it. It may be &WM** and awful to *ow Is 7 and ellinefeel ; but, my Lord, Ito not at all back.
'bat haws *" 111. "Sala" 6f "due"' "sr 1"1"411"Veit elf.erieetted that-some of die atenthers: lea so.
at otbee eventful periods. ir iteseetiwests Mr. Roans Tootle '
oss ibis seven are Hiliy aetida to littigitbe, lied i end defy mew be free and lepers without having a share
yew a fronocript of as ammo ot no iiipe,,ase pert,' or his his. In the Government ; the happiness, and freedom, and
tory as coomiaies a vise of these, by Me ideally patriotic sod emerity of the whole may even he advanced by the
Noble Defender (Geed Illasants). which may be rood with Sitelittibit admixes not from freedom% and severity,
Interest at the preseetseetret. There is teeth! set .me the but from a share In the Gorernment.". —.—
Isle viskili sod ossoogotelionol procredilltsardast Referee", These were Mr. Tooke's seatimests, an& they
that sets the meow and sitv'eace of party la • sore degrading
and detestable point Of view than use recurds ral Mr. Tames speak far themselves without any camiglatail•
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