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

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death of mho.' shield be ~striae I to the same looked at first to search for the teatimes,. of 11in/s-
-tem. But le no cm eboohd the F.teretive cease waxo's Ministers for the time being. lo this we fie(
In be for rife, melees the 600•10 cosmos also to bs so on or,icle, sutler the designation of cetract of a letrell
soh trepoes to the appnioted open death verso.l
thee
from Msdlitl as follows:—r• doubtless presented
cies, bevies, this emelt' create an iellaence rending '
so weak.' the prerogative of the Chief Magistrate.— the anger of the (Jotted Slates, bat we reckon spoil '
The Senate should insensibly erase In be for life,: the sincere and disinterested ssppert of England.
sod arailhnot effecting the tights of each eh "Oa he same alliance has been for severe' yeoryo awful to
trosi'hol to that term by servivorship. The Esecerlielf,. ~,.r.
woeld also pekoe to be sock without kbv,rd side... We had no doubt that something like this would
,fistitions, for he who Wed hale an interest in mit. tome le light how far oar Ministers bare committed
•ineflitens In prolong his sway would be no morn. I the faith of the nali-n we know not, yet we cannot
" If at the end of theseten years, esperience shall bet espies. oar fear that we may be brought boo some
Isdicete the propriety of further reduction.' new difficulty or dilemma by what they have already
.11m stela be fixed epee the period assigned' dove.
to the President and Smote of the Usiteil States,
for it seems it is this Constitution we desire to
approximate as closely es may be practitable, theses
progressively, and with Wrens' caution. The awl-
den transitiou from a despotic Government to • phi:
losophizal Republic is impossible. The blood shed by
the French in their attempt to spring from the deep
dungeons of the Basta' to the Temple of Liberty
with.ut availing themselves of an intermediate step,
ought to make us difideot sod prudent.
" It may be said that au Eseeutive end Conine for
life is only • single remove from hereditary, and
merely waists another step for both to become so.—
All this I confess is pettedly tree; bet allow me to
add, that if the Constitution guards a term of four
years only to the First blegisirate, be will be feeble
end incapable of restreisring that anarchy which tie.
quent elections mast give bustle to. 11011 C. will arise
di.turbanc's calculated so retard the consolidation of
Guserement, and to affect its durerion, and bent'.
'lb* necessity of grentiug power enough to re-esta-
Mieb harmony and peace. Besides, of two rails
the smaller one is to ruse the tisk of 1100010;01 a mo-
deco. and conritetional Monarchs, than falling he-
Death the yoke of one only, whirls is the pests,t rf
misfortunes, and worst of governments. In avoid.
ing anarchy, we shall furnish no protests, under
f which usurpation may be carried on, end
emceed at the eel me of the rights of she people.
66 Nobody can 400.7 shat the ',morality of V..
,iseseeluits love utalemsndeore. They are fe'ly eon.
eaves eel the benefits resulting from it, while 10
the progress of liberty they ere
moue they neither kuow their rights as ci.izons„
Nor ran be snide to compt•Lend she advantages
which the legitimate exercise of those rights will
secure to them. Theo, if civil wars oilier, the
dots of mess, or tins pre...rowel's,' of freedom, will
wet he the object, bet the attainment of obsolete
"ewer by any of those who pot ilseeselves et the
heed of factions. In general, Vertrzeellans do eel
paeans the illestretion of mind or miry of manners
which night to distinguish • free People, conseqeent-
ly they will not defend their liberties with the same
Is,, , they hove fought for their ind.peoilenre ; for
II men cannot well love that which they do not know,
Dor defend that which A's do not lore. Sp•in pre.
Oats an dimple of heroism in her struggle spitesl
flapoleols and his stooks, and • spectacle of the
lowest debasenterst sides Fernando, returning to rivet
slab the Inquisnien these chains which the Genes
had broken. An ignorant sod seperstitines people
sea remain free poly until some one appears to en-
'Slave it.
" I regret that the liberty of Frangible depends
epee the victor. tie moderation, and the lore of
glevy of its citizen, whose talents end great actions
may bare acquired him the confidence of his comps.
'riots. May the ions..e thus obtained be employ.
ad in teaching them how to become free—himself
setting an ersmple of respect and obedieoce due to
the laws and to the rights of his fellow-citlzens.—
Thee will he be able to make his coaotry respectable
sad respected.
" My political opinions may be, with respect to
Venezuela, 'Resist. or sl.iunary. My notions on the
stele of ieno•ance and isilifference for liberty among
the greater part of Ven.zoelians, may he eseggerated.
If so I may lament basing fallen iotherrot, bat hav-
ing meditated open the condition of my coontrymen,
these are the ideas I bare formed, end I cape. them
to Congress in discharge of that duty which the re-
presentation and @aerate in this ign body im-
poses epee me, of which I hare the houour Red
glory to be attleer.."
[To be coatintseill

The Post actually brightens up. Something like
light is men in it, but which, perhaps, its ill-natured
Wilts might say a►ises from the unsound part, the
Southwood, which is known to emit a luminous sp.
pmsrance in the dark. The country is
redutsd to the 'iteration which Sown tontemplltstl
wh►n he made his famous law, declaring neutraltv a
crimp." It adds, " every Englishman who at
this
crisis should remain a passive spectator of the humbles
in which his country is involved, would, in a moral
point of sissy, incur the pensl•ies denounced by the
Athes.iari." We really chime in with the Pod in re-;
sport to the sentiment of no man standing nester while
so mach is al stake; hut we utterly object to the threat
he us►s (though we t suppose it will answer she
purpose it is designed for); it is against a Jeered
he denominates the tiate•aerstog Paper, and affirms,
it to be the organ of a p►rfdiess party, sad that k
stands first in irises's) as it does in malice: but they
t.s denunciation ! The Editor vows." it shall twines
on feel, that it hes undertaken a task beyond its
sirrna,ll, whets it attempted to impart its own base
quali.ies to ol.is generous nation." Now, we should
not have been so partirnlar on this occeri.•n if II ere
had not been a possibility that the allusion was to
ourselves, though there is a ~akin, sort of in••• ode
to Ibt Times, pry tbe adjettivelppat word time being
given in italics*. This °Wreathe p however,
that we hate no fear of encountering the displeases*
and castigation of the Port. If, hnwever, the senate
be to our neighbour, • e feel no &Skill in saying,
dm the Postman may nark his whip to derail,
without altering tie pace of Time.

• If le Aliai.ien %miff kite a wipe,
Yo■ rola it in Marie 1,,,e;
Pal if is CA PI I.A:A 'l6 elegt,
Re,der make. ttie jen.

The Agriembured irticresi, It has brew said, was
in need ~f support when the mischievous Corn Law
was promolgated. Doub.less the (mew did midi'''.
111.111 flifficoliies, bet the fault we, the high rents to
which the land-ostlers had raised their (arms. 'Their
trade was not at an end. ,The people did, and ever
mitt eat. Why should the poor, who bad hardens
of their own to bear, sestain those of another class?
In scenting this dad's .political morning sir, we
may say it partakes of a kind of insolent and tri-
emplfant quality. The moil, the aristocraticel, the
corrupt Papers, shim through it with retaliation, and
sea it with delectable complacency. All this has
arisen (tom the accidental flimsies of opinion among
the Radicsl Reformers, bow best to testify the public
opinion open the prelim conduct of Mr. BOIT on
theiate transactions its which be hat b..n involved,
end so approvedly conducted himself. Of this schism,
though it Is hat • transit. 4) misfortune, we are sorry„l,
because it gives sn •phemmal opportunity to the base'
to treat the greet, the divine mese with levity, aids
its supporters with insolence. Tlnt cause, in Ike ens,l
cesium. will not, soffor an iota for the 'fining differ.
once., • hether a procession and slimier shall be bed
in testimony of public swami, or whether a dinner I
only. No! itifforrn stands on its own smite,'
and is distinct from the charioteer and talents of owls,
though there Is no (limb' bet that such worthies m
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Mejer CARTWttrola,
ilosuut:sr, and a thuessnd others, by their roma•
Lion and talents, may greatly help it on.
It is generally sapposed that Sir T. IlAsee is mine
missionrit for woe service on the coast of
Lord Cocoa me is now blockading. Certain it le,
that Sir THONAt took est charts which were pm-
pared for him, is which Callao, and the principal
ports of the Pacific, were minutely laid down. As
this is a fact, for which we have the most perfect
authority, we can scarcely dosbt shoat the shiest of
his mission.
FASHIONABLE MORALITY —ELOPEMENT IX Hron
LlTE.—ifeerel Noble Families ere planed iota
great effitction, in coesespierce of the elopement of
the wife of an officer of reek in the army with the
son of a Peer of a very •ocient beam. The fugitives
sincesided on Wednesday last. The injured petty
has received a clue; sod he is determined to bring
the plummet of the Lady to a MIMI account.—
(Morning Post.)
Letters and Papers from Wilda to the 29th ell.
were delivered from the Pest-office yesterday
ing. The most important fart contained in the
former is, that the Flotilla Treaty is still seratified
by the King of SPAIN; and it is considered now sti!l
teem unlikely that he will give his shiest' sanction
Ito this doestnent„making tech impormat conceuions
t, the Republicans.
II aravecu, Sm. I.—We learn from Berlin,
that Professor JAHN continues a prisoner is the for.
tress of Castile, where, however, he is treated with
theveatest lenity and by the Commandant
and ether Officers of the Government, who pay eves,
attention in their power to kis wishes. The King has
ordered his salary of 1,000 dollars to he cestinued
to him ; io IICI,IIIIOII to which, Prince Ilmoccasec
has sent a considerable sum to the Professor's Lady,
who remains at Berlin with her child's..
The report is again renewed, that Genoa is to be
gerfismed by 4,000 Koglish troops.
A Netherland squadron, consisting of a ship of the
line of 74 gem and two frigates, animal at 'feelers
on the 47th alt.; they were to sail from thence to
cruise in the Meditetrasean, end are to retain to
*lesiva for tie Wittier abut the middle of October.

TO COKRESPONDL,Citt.
•.• We deane inter ing sloe remark. of G. S. apse to, at he
calls M.'ifiist." We world, we will. if pews.
We, keep ckar of party. We are partisan( for Fact-
zmit and Heroes in every sem,. aid we wool., advocate
their calm , wag eves sghs far it lea; bat we sill ail allow
the S mai an become polemical in the way G. S. pis
poses; *Weyer tesporaty advantages owl ;mooted',
sight follow the rooms.. %e are ass ewes permit .11y ite-
qu..iiiird with either of ihe Leaders of the Grand Divisions,
and serer were of any °Ow, Cush 'hag sbst of the Salvia
rna 6nCsTITUTIONAL Ismutwatintr. These bielteviag.
among she patrimie Refer awn afford i. St i egad/prelim. to
the raeittie, of 01l Reform. The only remedy for Ike evil is,
great tvight to keep the cereal vivid and vivacious* yens
of the trainable edifier (man Eying nut in wielder.
Several favours shall be 'needed in a mom as pivv•ibl...

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THE STATESMAN.

eirroesta 11, 1819.

Our remarks open the political 'Dilation and views
of the Spanish Cabinet turn oat to be well founded.
We said we were sere Spain was coeetenanced le
her supercilious treatment of the Await:ass, be the
promised or espeeted assistance of the Court of Great
Brits;n, 'lke coon of Spain has no means of making
its sentiments known to Europe but through the
French Journals, and for that reason employs an
agent in Paris to publish what it may think proper i
should be known. To ovoid annul tracing of the
source ebroce these petty State Pape►s originate,
sometimes one, sometimes another French Journal is
, made the vehicle. The consiefistionset is chiefly

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