The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-13 00:00:00

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longer hope for protracted existeriw. Armies may
establish, but cannot support it. Its life-blood was
the ignorance of the people upon whom it preyed.
Education has come, like a seraph from Hearn,
and drained that source ; and the dawn of the morn-
ing is not more surely followed I:: the glories of
noon, than the illumination of the tiortian mind, by
the full and steady blare of coisrlif-yens! freedom.
If from Germany we turn tow:•r,:s frames, we
End her light obscured. She la!eL, moved is a
radiant path, in all the strength :scanty r 4
reviving youth, feared by these who had trarrkd
upon her, and admired where The had been bilteri.
What can have so soon turned her from the wisdom
and majesty of her course ptizillanimity
gained a footing in her councils. If so, let bee
know that the experiment which she is trying is
still more dangerous than it is unnecessary. Her
King has established a Charter, o hich has enatled
her to enjoy true Constitutional libert:i. He Hu

sworn to maintrin this Charter in its integrity, and
Geis bound to keep that oath, not o-11 because it is a
sacred obligation, but because if he, the Founder,
assumes the power of retracting any of the
grants which he has made, hissuccessors will think
themselvesauthorised to refract Iht• whole. Frame
will then have been deluded by a dream. The vi-
sion of a Constitution will have passed before her,
bright with promises of peace, prosperity, and free.
dom ; but on waking. the clank of chains will tell
her that she is still a slave. What then mast en-
sue!—Let her twenty-five years of revolstioa
speak. Let not their beacon flame in vain. It has
hitherto been a terror and a desolation.—Let it at
last become a guide.
We shall resume this Interesting and important
subject, as soon as the pressure of home intelligeact
will allow.

There will be no Christmas recess. The House
of Commons will only adjourn from Christmas ese
until Monday the 27th. An adjonrnment for a
month or three weeks will probably take place in
the end of Juneary.
A Writer in a slavish Paper bra the effrontery
to say that the Earl .PITZWIT.7 !ADCS personal
honour is concerned in the part he took at Yeek.
Aye, so it is, but not in the way he would be*,
nuate. His personal honour is ephanced' by what
he has done ; for he has shown that his love ir
his country is paramount to es ery other censiden-
lion whatever.
It is astonishing to observe how ready numerals
unfeeling writers are to condemn pie who
compose the meetings in the- nseeMilbhtaring die
Viet.' as desperadoes, aiming it pfilage, and the
Vire •of the wealthy in their Ineighbocrheed.
poignant necessities ;:re risiid o.cr without
imMNIOnt or pity. Surely, if any thing could Thhc
eilislitsature. despernto and, mischievous, this
lalalihreireed of his condition and enfferings would
101,
Cheek the freedom of the Prete' Why what is it
emlesiens the Press to speak so freely Nhthisg
but the unparalleled distress of the country. Lot-
' don itself does not exhibit that eeeting picture:
hut in some of the Northern counties, the poor
people are actually famishing by inches.
Rigorous punishments for political offences never
yet obtained the object sought for. Laws teeming
with vengeance, are like an overcharged piece
ordnance, being dangerous to those who let then
of
It is very natural in those w.lin are anxious for
the well doing of the country. to be warm and it-
ritable, perhaps indiscreetly so. on seeing peblie
affiars proceed io so unpromising a way, and it is
upon that ground, oo doubt, that the suggestion of
many among the Southwark and Westminster
Electors wiz/x.4 their Representatives to sec,ile
altogether from the House of Commons. Tiskhis
MeMbers, however, can do much more good by
being found at their post. They may prevent, by
a well directed opposition, a great deal of confusion
and mischief, which might otherwise arise from the
enereasing timidity of a great portion of the Mem-
bers composing the House of Commons.
The Courier of Saturday having flourished a
note of triumph on the Training Bill having passed.
desires his readers to remember, with all due grati-
tude, the hideous phantoms with which be has Sr
the last six months disturbed their imaginations :
lee
detra them also to recollect how steadily 71t
Chronicle and Times have denied his facts, sad
latighid at his visions; concluding with--' We
leave the inference to each man's fancy." This is
as much as to say, " We have amused you leig
with Action, and may now fairly draw upsa
your fancy to moist es with an inference." Indeed,
the columns of this Paper have so bounteoadv
teemed with " thick coming fancies," " too wet&
fur boys, too green for girls of nine," that we are
not surprised at its being at length obliged to esd
for a levy en masse of the creative powers.
In reply to certain questions put to the reed
body of mercliants at Liverpool, by Mr. NANSIIT-
TART, respecting the ad valorem duty proposed to
be laid upon cottons on the Ist January, they haw
recommended that this duty be done away with,
and fat lieu of it there should be imposed a Axed dell
of a halfpenny per lb. Ile East India cotton, mod a
'farthing per lb. on alr other sorts, except Wed
India British Plantation cotton, which is to noose
ite before, three-farthings per lb. It is expel
that this arrangement will be adopted by do
CHANCKLLOR of the ETCHRQCSR.
An order was received at Sheerness last will.
by the officers of his Majesty's OfilliallOP, Wand.
guns mounted on the fortifications round the WI
which arc lb and 41 pounders, and others that
fa
outside the gerrison walls (dismounted), to honk,*

into garrison.
Sir linNur BLACKWOOD stile ir. knr &Pl°.
relieve Admiral sir RumAmu hmo iu the vs
maud of 'lnueorualee.