The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-09-11 00:00:00

spas* totes, eiegoi-• limp pot by a lees eornpli-
oiled sod more sigeresa eyerese, thee a people taught
Irmo sootily/est Wing to look upon the lees wish
reverence—epee the Magistracy with respect, Bed
woo the ~is as en missy equals. The thermometer
of liberty is civilisation end tesnoena. As 'het sod,
them advioe,„ liberty sttiotd he med. to anemia
swooorth n. If • aIitIOSI Dr, rev a Gi.leroment
conciliable to the sure of is, osooops, or to she do.
grossest ire kneehole., it roil lest het for a few.yeas,
snit is espones the Street° coefosion and anarchy.
• "It is very fen from my intestion to typhoid that
Ire :are ill a condition unit to comfit's!** Republic.
I am oho friend of ireedont, and I aet satisfied that it
mono I e carried to its sonsest pitch of verfeetton.
her sorter the amines of vepoblieen equality ; bet II
am desirous of aerie' V la with a Coostitetiott
ol her own, and not nee borrowed of
• 'dissimilar cher.cner; I wish to see laws accomeno.
dated to the genii's sod character of the natives;
heeled with Meteore to the impressions which the
ices of Spanish tole have left on the public mind;!
up..n the Impreetioiss received during the Revolts-
tirs t upon II is.fls.ncs of religion ; spun the '
st,esot.h of prejudices ; upon the force of au-
! ; upon the manumission of elates ;
upon the kat:coca of certain persons; upon the
potter which others Lave acquit's' ; upon the customs
and hies of the inclinations of an beterogeneoes po.
pet: tion ; upon the enadvaneed eters of civilizatine,
ow! iposi the Tilt went of a thistly lobsbited ter-
ritory.
" Ling, to cwreprehend all those and other thrum.
Wei ccs..hould receive profeend cnislileration,
itt. • Cos iii i t soinv wisely and firegy organised, Ye.
• nal pos. 'a strength to insure onion, free.
does, ci , de. Abrty , and to is her grandeur and
future
" Ann 'hail I boldly '!.else ssis .pinions, un-
st.rected and nun vented by the fury Inas• of pe-
iriolis: which softiies to itistitetiotns ever/ way dm- 1
rrnio, Woo r 0 I:.• eir•al Mir of the Vs, sacoliar.• ?
The'.'putt ohoroncnalt his sent.mentr. is eiser..rt I v
of Ito •,firletiest of hi, Consihu: ott ; nor shoold
re .1 • s.silvrat.ors witllol.l lows, if the pub-
lication or his Wats conbtbssee to the liberty or wel-
fare t • tits Co.:
•• As Eaecetlern sad a &gate for life, ands Sept.
',nail' House of Rapsysentatives ere, then. is' my
opinion, liititetii.we 'Patios.% to she mate of thi..g•
and enannets in Visnewle. Thee approsat to the
Moo•rcbscal form es have two eccost.imed to.
ersi•li at severed; g is murk from the Republican
G everarneat we propose to slept. The duration of
the fasctir.lis of theta Magi will give the vigour,
power, and 1 inutenenct, which an iocipieut Govern.
meat for its !Attics'.
" A Senate for life, elected in tie first instance
by the eonstituent Rentestnistives ; the actual Pre-
sident of the State ad inlerins; oh. 'enemies and
erestinos hereafter Icy the Losers, Chamber, will he
*officio oily independent, busses being for life, and
not owing their election, or term of sitting, to the
Ezecutive, they world ditching, their (outdoes se
tine:tickled as if they were hereditary.
" An E'er-Wive for life, chosen by the people,,
Ore Lower Cbsmber, end the Senate, would preen,'
the frequent reearrcnce of elections, which hold net
an many attractinus to the scabbiness The saictered
state of population presents as massy dilliceltho to
the cAlection of opluion in f f so individual
es it does facilities to an intriguer, inclined to die.
torb the trenquiiiily of the State epos every return
- sten election.
" A Septennial Election of the Chamber would be
in conformity to the condition of a country not
aboondingjts sea seficiently illustrated to perform
functions, which call for a knowledge of principles
and intellectual rights, which time and education are
only capable of importing. Nor is it If.. desirable
that she same Nieuwe. should remain long enough
in Ace to consolidate the Government. to give
o%c-icy to the Isis, and drew that respectshilisy to
National Reptesentation which is soknes• is coon•
tries deeposicalty governed.
" ItalifatiOOS like these would give to Veneserla
the activity and energy of a united Monarchy, end
both are indispentable for the restoration of order,
which has disappeared. The Senate and First Ma.
&strait w o one become odious to the public like
G..sr.ro•sfq, with rfilii:VAPS sunned to
them directly clip *sit 10 equality, but snot., ro.joy,
s • Ailiereoce. the !ingi•rs owrised by
the liot•se I.n,ds and likei of IrmAisnll. Seine
open to all, the ii-nate and Chief Msoisiticy should
bin made this re ear!, of :bonus merit, and simulate
tinny father to qualify his chiltbeo by education for
" Corroding to the Chamber a aeration sit seven
years GI the or st farlirst, for the second,
Congress, w r may, prrillOs, iodate the hope that et
the eapirati. n er period, 11.0 probabilities of
irgoietudrs iris;!ig from (toque's• elections, may be
diminished. la flit intetval nue ors will enter into
active life. with forret. notions of liberly, sod farm
a neon terpoise to loch ass never can be made to un-
&Wand the use, or snmcrel.end she beauty of it.
" An isullsivible R^ public in el an immenee st-d
thistly settled territory es Vitii•zgeta, where few
know thew to reed, is impracticable, 'Mess elder •
him of (;teer amen( equal in vigour tea limited Mo-
narchy. One more liberal would be too week, and
eating incompetent to remedy the stele of disor-
ganization, or rather of dissolution, in which the ad-
ministration of the Republic in to he found.
" A oak, is established, as knowledge become'
diffused, and as manners improve, 01/1'
iostitusions
.11 be *flowed to take a more liberal range. Bo:
l is requites time, and the decease addle Magistrates
chosen may be the earliest opportunity at which
she Constitution can with Were admit of the short-
ening the term of service of their successor.. In this
menoer changes may be wrought ',Wont the risk of
producing new revolution, and the abolition of ap.
pointiorots for ll'e, which slow appear indiapeusably
bereisany, may he tranquilly effected.
" Oo PM death c f the fit.t thief Magistrate the
• Chamber and Senate might be authorised to assem-
ble so a conetiteest body, to resolve whether or not
the period had arrived for shortening the duration of
the Prinking' of his successor; sod also whelhee'
vacuoles occatriog thereafter "it the Senate should
not eedergo a eorrespondieg change. Perhaps it might
he thought sdrisable to nominate the new Chief Ma.
*state fart tea year., Bed Senators appointed es the