The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-31 00:00:00

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ant) to the ties by %bide Noce% weed ego•
fined, and overthrow the hedges by *filch the re-
semi rights, privileges, and properties of the sub-
jects are fenced about, tempts es Pry .I'sloce to become
sI) rant, and to inn ke all his !woken slues. All
previous agreements, stipulatiotss, and laws, are
mode insignificant b.) that pernicious and adulatory
doctrine of non•resistance, then our rights are ar-
bitrarily invaded, and the Constitution and Gesell'.
vent openly stutter, : such a doctrine tricks and
chests those that neve antecedently free, .into a
noose, and state of thraldom end bondage, under the
specious and gilded pretence of the disiue rights of
Print.*

A, it is by sit 'tie of comport:4 stipplatione,
and agreements, that all legal Governments
else their o,igiu and estal•lishment, that various and
diOinct brims obtain in different countries, and that
fide and right to exercise authority, and the me.
thief of arriving at it, is provided (or and procured,
so every subject's allegiance is first owing to the Con-
stitution, and to the Ruler only, in the force and
virtue of what every member of the political society
is bound to, by the terms of the original pact and set.
lien,set. We wench no new doctrine whets we say,
that abstracting from the Constitution, and the obliga-
tions alti•li lays us under, no man can challenge a
sight of Cosintasttling us, nor do is e owe hint any
duty of sul j. taloa end °homiletics% busoeser he tie
that. visitor a prPiettee of being constituted Sovereign,
insole and subvert the fundamental laws of the
11,601, dee% thereby, ipso facto, annul all the
lee't right le• lied to govern, anti absolves all who
stew 1-etote his subjects from the legal engagements
tboy were limier of yielding him obedience; se ihot
11. e imm. dive and hatersl effect of a Prince's claim-
leg %s he the Rules of the Constitution are so far from
iolitlitot; hint to, that they preclude him from it, is the
prising himself of all right to claim any thing, and
of the people to their state and condition
of 1 hoe, is e freedom ; of which, as they only divest.
et; tamselses by anti upon the terms of the
letioe. so they did not depart from it any longer
tf.ai t it should be kept sacred and isaviolable, nor
ao% further than was covenanted and sitipubeed in,
st.atie !he terms and agreements therein specifirfJ
stud e. ont,hiP(l. And %Mel it proceeds from the
efficacy of the ferementhieed contracts, that one per.
son becomes eilsntic.al foim the common level to the
title sod of a Solves eign, still that all others
are, anis own consent, put into the condition of
at bj•ete, there vise,' Worn thence, not only a mutual
relation het itt him that governs, and them that are
g lewd; but the fos. and highest treason is that
a lich is committed against the Ctinstitotion, and
such and such crimes against the person and dignity
of she supreme Magistrate, are only made and de-
clared to be so, by reason of the capacity he is put
intn by the Constitution, of presersing 'and defend-
g the society, and because it is necessary, in order
to the preservation of the peace, welfare, -and safety
of thus commatisity, that hp should be covered from all
tlinger, and rendered sacred in his person, and in-
v'elahle in his regal' honour, while he answers the
tow which the people, upon the assembling and
uni,ing into a toely politic, committed to Litn, and
duet nrither depart from the essential and fondamen.
I:1 terms of she original compact, nor from their op.'
provisions afterwards added, and enacted for'
peen., g else Government in its primitive state and
haul.. So that they neither are, nor can be traitors,
who reidesieur to preserve and maintain the Coma.
tution; but they ate the traitors who design and
pursue the salivelsion of it ; they are the rebels thilt
go about to overth tam the Government of their coats.
try; whereas such as seek to support said defend*,
are else truly loyal persons, and act enaformable bo.
the ties and obligations of fealty. Nor -is it merely
the fist and highest treason in it self, that a Member
of a political Society is capable of committing, to go
about to sulivert the Copstitution ; but it is also
the ve,4leit tremors he can perpetrate against the
peisoli, crown, and dignity of the King ; for
0t..11 an endeavour bwit annuls and vacates all his
title hi superiority over those above whom he was
eta; rd from the common level, by virtue of the Con. •
stitwi,n, and deprives him of all rightful and legal
shoo of rectorul authority over the society, by de.
straying the alone foundation upon which it was
tte:•nel, slid by whit h he became invested with it.—
Ilv rancellilig the Charter, from which he derives
and lipids his governing power, he not only makes his
title Se sovereignty precarious, but renders every
claim of that kind, and every challenge of governing
the community, to be au invasion anti usurpation.
To all which we will only further add under this
brad, Olt as all legal Government is founded upon
let, an the first and
from this agreement,
the People; whereas
the said contract and
themselves unto to.
olary and conditional.
from the rest of the
upon a foregoing and
tituttity, lie becomes,
fund absolutely, and
hem according to the
have agreed and sti.
he tenor of the laws,
scribed and confined
deuce and fealty wild'
have rendered them-'
urJained and created'

RIO t 11 mutual stipulation and compel
wir most ahvolute obligation arising
lies apott the Prince towards II
the fealty and duty, which by ti
coveliant they bind and engage
Imo "awls him, is in order bit *semi(
114 Whenever any person is chosen
to onciety, and raised to Kingship
previous contract with the comm
ra• alma the very accepting it, lint
tKI *igloo reserve, to govern ;het
terms and measures which they
the Puitted, and to rule them by the
tre into which they have circunts
aw•
lira. Whereas all the uherlienc
ei
pod they, w !mil that agreement h
ielyea subjects; owe unto their I
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