The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-11-23 00:00:00

tIIE STATESNIAg.

To rot EDITOR or Tog STATESMAN.

Sta.—Rasing OM an intimation is. your Paper of
the Itith lostaist, " that the Resolution• passed ens.
nimeasty at the Berkshire Meeting, ere from she
able pen of Lord Fousnsyone." ( think it proper
to do jestia to my @slimmed frienk who f ed
we with them, so emery you, that his Lordship
*veer saw them before they appeared at the Meeting
at Reading. _ _

Th. Re;olutinne and Addrese are from the able
pen of a Gentleortn, whose valusblo prorlomions
often appear in the STATE' was, sinned Trucrruv
Tsunami to, and are, le is justly observed. " ss sound
and constitutional •s they Sr. patriotic."

And. I am. cir, your obnli.nt
rd-lemt.e. Berk.. NOV. 9.9. iv V. 1.1. E T

ON TIMOTHY TRURMAN'S LETTER.

We fret hewed. In a great ses .1. IwseM lba folteeetsa Ri-
mer le reveller T . it Min eselscrilost seal the
writer, ease, end he Ming a nentkosan.sho we are sire world
NO glee a seasernee pain to soother .me, List fee the runic
good. We bare two sr three aneasisore moll., to that comsti-
fittfross writer. for web Greeter sere he is. though Me politics, In
age leeteare. OA not vindrore rei,ll our are. Thole replies is
decline Is beset, heir. desirous to aooll personatire os ..eh oe
poutA is all growls, dis:setions. Reside.. tsol friend
and centime( Rrod,r of, east Corre:annilest to. tail
Is al this tins suffer's; ender a severe inlispositioa, and there-
fore maids to wigl the pew in assault or fires. /f mad/
he ingesereln la strite• The foltosrseg is niorreorr free from
Mod heat which t the ether Writers lessees their moil! in She
hiving .f the Reader.

TO THE EDITOR OE THE STATERAWIN

Sic,—Aso year Correspond's', TIMATIIT TRUB.
MAN, intends to take his limo, cod use his sown con-
venience, ae it regards his answer to my letter in
f Salter.. I beg lege, in the
interim to Mike a few additional observations on that
important subject.
As to that " hastiness" of temper, and " We-
cores, asperity," which he imputes to 111 e, I can
only say, in reply, that I was not conscious of them
in the instance alluded to ; neither can I allow that
they have, in any respect, " misled n. r judgment,"
entil he has first proved that my judgment is wrong.
Tooegh I know that folly and violence are fre.
potently. and sometimes very justly. chargeable open
the young and inet:"rienced, yet I am Dot an
young and so simple, et to believe 'het every
old man is, on that account, • wise min.—
( have seen many grey heads distinguished only for
test of money, injeatiee, and total disregard to all
morality and t.ti,tion, in the means made use of to
obtain it. Ido not, by any oilcans, intend to ley
'hole ekes to the awe• of your Correspondeet ; I
only wish to sly, that I do not believe that a man is
overacts,* vier or good-tempered, bermes, he is add
and ,;ray ; at any rate, nel:lier youth nor age has any
thing In do with the arguments in f of Univer-
sal Suffrage. If I am tan young, Major CART.
IVRIGUT, I sopp.iie, is old enough, to give strength
end dee reverence to that subject ; end I as we that
the venerable advocate of Radical Reform Isms never
yet been •ffect sally answered.
The difersnee between me and Mr. TRUMAN
consists in this:—lie is that property is, and
ought to be, the basil of Representation : 1, assert,
on the contrary, that life, liberty, and happineu,
form the true basis of Representation. To make
Ilptsperty the basis of Representation is to filebligh
Re arbitrary, reclusive, end capricious Constitution.
It is a principle (if it be at all worthy of so philoso.
Oka% a name), which is not (growled in reason end
eleity, because all men have some property; all
eltirM are Comparative; a little property ht. &if le
owe minas a greet drsl is i•enntiter : and Willy, the
argument and 1104.111 ft of the thing are its favour of the
men with a (ilk properly, because on that very
mount he stand' in need of greater security end
peotectinn. Properly sten is of est entertain and
/actuating nature. " R:ches take to themselves
singe, and Sy •svay." To.day I may be in proud
psis inn of immense wrelth.—to.morrow l may
be braise t low, " without a piece on which ro ley
my head." The most illustrious men—illeatrioea
egoall) for wisdom and titter—have beets in all ages
the rarest among respective countrymen. Is it
I. IS endowed fur a moment (perhaps lam Inn warm)
that sects exalted beings shell be shot up and reeled-
ed from the constitution of their country, 'wisest
Obey aro not only poor, bat too virtuous end Inver.
eoptible ever to became rich ? If poverty were a
positive and imenstable grime, there would be some
reason in favour of an ezclesive system ; hot we
know that it is fter,tionoly a virtues and that riches
are more frequently both dm cease and the effect of
the greatest tioprevity and corruption. It is very
singular, then, that any reflecting mind should et.
Itempt to make property the bears of Retrresentation!
I Where would have been Soot teas, EPARIMONDAI,
CATO, and other illostrions ancient,, who held riches
in such si.vereien contempt, had they Hoed in the
present age? Poor unhappy wretches! year 'irises
would have been of bet little use to yea in England,
where that very property which you an nobly t!e-
spised. is to be made the exclusive basis of Reprises-
tatior !
I might even gn farther. end point to the Founder
of Christianity himself, who,thnegh he had nut where
to by his head in repose, was not indifferent to the
freedom and happiness of the poor. Wine Janus, and
PAUL, end SOCR I'M to be excluded from the right
lot Tor 1,1•1 Electiooe, bonus' they were too poor to
hay a freehold? On the other hand, are net life.
freedom, and happiness equally deer to all, both rich
awl pnor ? And do tint the laws of every country
Sentern the life. freedom. and happiness of all ?
Here, then, is • basil. broad end immoeeable founded
in nature, truth. justice, mad religion. it is also
"sited to the age we live in, end to that propels which
men have made in knowledge and humanity.
As to.the laws and Constitution of this country. I
ask; whether it is not consistent with the spirit and
prirseipks of them, that no man shall be tatted with.
eat his eve count? Tbet all anti, including the

beggar that sleeps in a tent, ire ivied prodigiously,
no person will, 1 conelsde, wormier. In dewy. If ear
laws ere the petty/Ann of reason, ss some celebrdled
writers assert, then they most be fetenrable to the
rights end liberties of ill 'wen ; but If otherwise, the
sooner they ere repealed, snit uthera ere enacted in
their place, the better will it be tot the petrel eels-
mo oily.
For. as Archd►srnn Neese Says, 65 No moor.
he, or authority whatever, is se binding that it need
-or /might So he rnntineed, whom it may be changed
with &glimmer to the ensereenity. The family of the
Prince, @hoarder of the succession, the pr►rogative of
the Crown, the forms tad parts of the Legislature,
together with the respective power, Ace, duration,
and mutual dependency of the I parts, ere all
only In flimsy less, .mutable like othe► laws, when.
luser expediency requires. either by the ordinary sets
of the Legi•letere, or, if she nera.ion dowse it, by
the Interposition of the penple."—Your'a. &c.
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