The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-29 00:00:00

have wormed their way into this glorious temple, who
have wasted the:r strength ht hurling a miserable
pebble at its gigantic towers, st ho bane vainly thought
by eorering one of the smallest of its outworks with
their cobwebs to shade it from the eternal glory of the
approving Gods ; tell us no more of your Carlile's,
'our Davison's, and your wretched tribes of human '
insects who have dared to lift their puny arms against
• it and heaven ! No, no, look here at its venerable
anti once called immaculate supporters look
here at its great high priests, the supposed links of
communication between it and the skies ; behold in
these the incendiaries, who arc destroying it;--
b-hold in them the emulators, the successors of
Erostrates, setting fife, not to a temple of Diana, but
to one whose builder and founder is God. Yes,
gentlemen, if there ever was an act calculated for the
fartherance of infidels, it is this of our Ministers,
acting on the name and on the behalf of the
bead of the Church. Shall they not be dismissed ?
Amid all the contentions of parties, amid all the
strife, which must and which ought to exist
in a free state, amid the various criminations
anti recriminations, with which they bespattered each
other, all parties turned with delight to the excel-
lency of our Judicature, and the justice of our Judges.
The nice and equitable distinction which the law had
laid down between judge and jury, accuser and advo-
cate, between the investigation and decision of a rause,
Isere the main grounds upon which the British public
vaunt with perfect confidence on the impartiality of
their courts ; what then ought to be the punishment
of men who wouldyiestroy thisronfidence,—who would,
to secure their own infamous designs, make tbe peo-
ple suspicious of the pure administration of their laws ?
And what, I ask, is more likely to do this than the in-
troduction of the Bill? Accuser, advocate, jurors,
sad judges, all blended together, and interested in
destroying the unfortunate being who was placed be-
fore them. Let any man say that this statement is
overcharged, or that this conclusion is not consequent
epon the premises ! Englishmen were once proud
of their national character ; they fought for it, they
Wed fur it, they 4i Id for it; no nation once
stood so high ! All Europe acknowledged their
honor, their valor, and their virtue! What has
this hill made us? The laughing stock of the
c. orld ! A kingdom governed by a monarch whose
Ministers are proving his wife's shame and his own
ignominy. Look at the scene from whence 31inisters
drew their stores to prove the allegations of this bill.
They nobly disdained to go to any minor state, to
any inferior people, to any unheralded untrophied
country. No, no, they went to Italy! Italy, the
land of the free, the proud, and !the brave ; Italy,
once the colossal mistress of the world, Italy,
A nation famed for sone and beauty's charms,
Zealous, yet modest, Innocent free,
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms,
Inflexible In faith, Invincible iu arms.

Yet Italy was the great theatre choseu by our clas-
sical Ministers to exalt the character of cur people—
the little island already immortalised in the pages of
their Caesar, was to prove to his successors its advance-
meet iu knowledge, is policy and in virtue Yes, we
nut only established a cominiesiou of gallant Colonels,
locoed advocates, and incorrnptible judges, in that
faii.ous country, but we introduced into onr own nation
some of their wisest philosophers, their purest pa-
triots, and their sternest stoics. What was Mar-
cus Brutes to Majocchi ? Cicero to Sacchi ?
Seneca o Carliui, or Caw to Cuchi ? Alas, nothing.
Oh could these immortal men leave their high abodes
to look down upon the pursuits of their successors
would they not exclaim, " hail renowned Italy! hail
thou classic clime,—since we left thee what a glorious
advancement hast thou made; no longer employed
in futile attempts to give liberty to the slave, philoso-
phy to the ignorant, and civilisation to the savage, thou
East now arrived at a climax we never ventured to anti-
cipate. Cans; thou do a deed, great as was our
valour, we never dared to do, assisting the sapient Coon.
sellors of a little island to prove their queen an adul-
tress!" flood Ood ! For our uational honour,—for onr
character with posterity, let us demand the dismissal
of this shameless Administration. Need I refer you to
the disgraceful scene in the house of Commons, as
another effect of those vile measnres ? Need I tell
you of the insult offered to your Representatives ?
Yon know it. Need I tell you, after the unparal-
leled acts of oppression against the Queen; after trying
her for imputed crimes committe,l sit years ago, from
which she escaped, by the providence of God, for I
know of no skill in man that could have defeated so in-
tricate a conspiracy,—after refusing her a list of wit-
nesses; after appointing a Secret Committee to blast
her character; after considering the House in which
she was tried as a Court of Law, and nut as a Court of
Law precisely, as each might injure her; after exhaust-
ing all the venom of perjury, malice and injustice on
her devoted bead ; and, after all have failed, need I
toll you they have left her helpless, houseless. and
Illbila”14411111. in the laud ? Need I tell you, that while
titled suppleness is receiving its anneal ffionsands from
the pockets of the people. your Queen is left destitute,
a regal pauper, a Sovereign Insolvent? Is there any
thing baser, or blacker, to add to this catalogue.
Can you thiuk it possible they have resolved not yet
to terminate this infamous inquiry ? Shall these men
remain in office ? Let us, however, acknowledge the Ali
nisters to havesonse virtue. Do they not nobly persevere,
notwithstanding the collected voice of the nation is
againsttlieni. Is not this:praiseworthy? Do they not with
a stoical firmness banish from their bosoms all foolish
compunction and compassion as to the result of their
measures? Is not this commendable? Let us give them
their doe. But there is one thing they are tinpossee-
sed of, they want the noble virtue of ambition—high,
fervent. glorious. ambition. They have shewn no ob-
jectios to plunging into war. but, then their war was
a compound of tricks, of mercenaries, of bribing other
essontrier to fight their own battles, of promising free
constitutions when they intended despotic govern-
meats. Why did not they at once declare their inten
tion, and march sword in baud against the liberties
of the world, making the earth one scene of desola-
tion, and they telling the wretched te.nsoant :they had
given them peace ? You know pie, you know my views
do not extendjsalf so far as many of yours ; many of you
know that Irglory in heloaginic to the White of Bog.
lead; you know ihat our moitstious Enemy is eatreaels
behind the sevenfold gates of Thebes; that it Ism