The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-24 00:00:00

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it, bet for his own private advsetage, when the
Governor, hoverer entitled, mates not the lew, bet,
his will, the rule; and his commands end actions ere
net directed to the preservation of the properties of
his Peopk, bet the satisfaction of his own ambition,
revenge, covetousness, it any other kneeler pat.
sion." Now, surely, if the supreme Gentofte,
whose office is most of the modern States it perms.
tent, cannot tweed certain boned', it is aboard to
sapping that the People ever vested such ostensive
and vital privileges its their own Repriseolatives, who
are comparatively a mere ephemeral body. The pea.
slimed Bunts himself says, " the MOW of Com-
mute was supposed originally to be as pert of the
standing Government of this calamity, bet was con.
sideted as a cantrowl issuing immediately from the
People, and speedily to be resolved into the mass
Jr whence it arose. In this respect it was io the
higher part of Government what Juries are in the
lower : the capacity of a Magistrate being traosi-
tory, sod that of a citizen permanest." And Locos,
in p. 478, applies this reasoning equally to popular
as to monarchical forms of Governoteot, and asserts,
tint " wherever the power that is pot in any heeds
fur the government of the People, and the preserve.
Lion of their properties, Is applied to other mods, sod
made use of to impoverish, harass, Of subdue the
to the arbitrary sod irregular commands of these that
have it, there it presently becomes tyraisoy, whether
thaw that thus see 11 are one or many ;" sod he
then stales that web trimly easy be opposed. That
Par/kiting is not own4soleat is go sew doetrioe; sod
If Parlisseet, in its collective capacity, is oot is.
nipeteat, then it is eel possible to conceive hew one
of its component parts (stud that part acting by del..
plies from thecommenalty, for elinsited period) can
claim to have unlimited powers. Taos, Mr. EDITOR,
sidle sinnerss have been upended, sad headreds of
thousands of lives have been lost, in opposing the
arrogant assemptions of the Toes at Rome, it meow
a Pope, claming *goal infallibility, is firmly eats.
blisbed in England, sod I can see no difference be.
Suff. the ecclesiastical power which the ere pre.
tends to, and the civil authority that the other ever.
cites; nay, I actually feel the destinies of his Roll.
nes, of Westminster, 111,1)0 I am beyond the roach
of the Raman Pontiff. And if Parliament be thus
; • 'tined, teen the blessed fruit of the aimless
Reentering is only an omnipotent Parliament is es.
cl Inge f,, an ootnipotere Monarch, and we hese
rhos, e.. v.e an old *dem • strained ate gnat and
s•allowed a camel i" and the maxim " Sales Poplin
supreme I es," is sn completely evertertiod, that the
Pits have made themselves the masters of the
People. Who ore to hereon, of the reasonings or
aarhorities of FLITA, DRAMS, LITTLETON, Cora,
Local, and hlonvisauteu. to asy nothing of the
NSW. courtly BLALIEVIONE? Are these too to yield i•
Casa-Lan caote's ---,nit the Boreeghmonger faction ?
No; if our Constitution is to perish, let every free.
maa defend her to the last ; and if we are buried in
her reins, we shall fall io glories. company, and
hams the approbatino of se approving conscience,
sod • splendid niche assigned to our name. in the
temple of fame, while the memories of the Borough.
mnegere will be asoaciated with the heroes of Al-
giers, Teals, and Tripoli, io the (store page of
history.
am aware that the eontenders for power, and
partkelarly thou who uphold the present system,
Ogren, that if the power of unlimited 'elation be mot
conceded, thee the Legislature can have so right to
pass Acts erecting the lives of the subject, or for
curtailing the natural rights of the citizens, however
necessary such laws may become by particular event.;
bet even admitting the weight of such arguments,
they do not apply to the particular question eerier
disceasion. That question is, I again repeat, whether''
the Prople's Represestatites (even conceding the
qsostion of their fair election for argument's sake)
have a tight to las their Constituents for lows
time than their own possible existeace This gees.
lion I not only wish to see frilly and ably discussed
In print, but fairly brought to imse in a Court of
Justice; and if en honest Jury can be found to nega.
tive the question, they will do more towards the sal.
gorse of the reentry. and tie 'estimation uf the
original inalienable Rights of Man than has been
done since the day. of il AMPOrN
It may threw anise light on Mit subject to consider-
a few I..nfrally admitted points with regard to the
mode of levying taus on the People. It is unite,.
salty •greetl, 1. That the Commons .lone ran
wog a grant of money to the Crown; one Mona
given for this veinal'. and ',desire right is. that the
civilities ire :tied eve the bntly et the PeoFle, and,