The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-24 00:00:00

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being heard, wile would keep it from men's lips."
For a long time pest the necessity—and not wily
.he necessity, hot, supposing lt attainable, the safety -
ot a radical Pellisetentary Reform, bad presented
itself to my mind in the strongest colours. Long
had this only possible remedy eediest the otherwise
mortal disease of misrule, been regarded by me as
the cosory's only hope. Long, had I beheld, and
soot lost after did 1 delineate the road to national
mein, in the eellsoutg of FAlniend Berke, adopted
and enforced ender William Pitt, by the pen of his
confidential adviser, Mr. Rose; and both thtele
Isketches ere now Defer: the Poblic. " '
Drawn oil, in the reed to 'he golpiiiiriActtso
I ',es do not deceive tee, the country h iiiroacly at
the very brisk ; reform or convulsion, is the only
alternative. And though the hope of its being at.
tamable may be faint, 1, for one, in the diseale
wader which I see the country lingering, cannot all.
cover any other than this one possible remedy. I
shall emissive*, to give some details of that plan of
Reform, which would in my opinion be productive
of any good effect. On the necessity of Reforest
mere than a few introdictory pages cannot be
spared.
No edditional nteesures need be employed for the
destruction of every thing by which the Constitution
of this country has ever been distingeished to its ad-
vantage ; the principles alresdy avowed need oat)),
continue to be avowed—the course of action, dictated
by those principles, need only be persevered in-i—aud
the cansemmatieo is effected.

Gagging Bills—Suspension or the Habeas Carpet
Act—iuterdictioo of all communication hotfoot° lean
ewd man for any Poch pews, es that of cOmplaint
or remedy—all these have already become prece•
dent—all these are in preparation--all these are
regarded as thiogs of course.
The pit is already dug—one after another, or all
together, the securities called English Liberties will
be cast into it. Should a score of obscure despera-
does, with the sacred name of Reform on their lips
and nothing better than riot or pillage in their hearts,
concert mischief in a garret, or an ale-house—•fear
will be pretended--•prudence and wisdom mimicked ;
honest cowards will be made to agree to and co-
operate in these measures dictated by the feigned
cowardice of real knaves—and thus, for the trans-
gression of a few, the whole will be punished.
It is indeed time for every man to prepare him-
self, from being the subject of a disguised despotism,
for that state of things in which he sill be toads the
subject of an open and avowed despotism.
As for the habeas Corpus Act, better the Statute
Book were rid of it. Standing or lying as it does—
'op one day, down another—it serves but to swell the
list of sham-securities, with which, to keep op the
delusion, the pages of our law books are defiled.—
When no man has need of it, then it is that it stands
—a time comes when it might be of use, and then it
is suspended.

Most prominent present Grievance, garrisoning
France.
The field of Waterloo will one day be pointed to
by the historian as the grave—net only of French,
but of English Liberties. In the Netherlands was
consummated the conquest, not of Frame alone, but
of Britain with her. Whatsoever has been done and
is doing in France, will soon be done in Britain.—
ReAder, would you wish to know the lot designed
for you ? Look to France, there you may behold it.
la France, on the subject of their common in-
terests, no longer can any information be received
through the channel of any Newspaper, other than
those which are avowed instruments in the hands of
the ruling despotim : no longer from any source can
any information be obtained, that has not for its ob-
ject constant and universal deception : information
in which, with a degree of anxiety proportionate to
its importance, truth is suppressed, and by which
%pernicious error is circelated end incelcated. Any
such source of instruction as a Newspaper, into
which any expression can find its way, by which the
46 feelings!' of " great characters" in their high
situations can in any degree be " hurt"—(and is it
possible they should not be hurt, as often as anymis-
deeds of their's are exposed ?) is in that country a
nuisance no longer tolerable. The same causes will
produce the same effects: by the same great eh.
ravers" by whom the monster of anarchy has so
happily been crashed in France, will the same mon-
ey be crushed in Britain.
There they are—our fifty tboessad men, with the
conqueror of French and English liberties—the pro-
tector of the Bourbons--the worthy vanquisher sad
successor to Bonaparte, it the head of Asa : there
they Art.-aid, there they will be kept, until every
idea. of good goverasent-•-erory idea of any this;
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