The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-24 00:00:00

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lifetirty, Whence hii eonalesioes are sit tiriein under precept itself, to accomplish that object with * speries
a bushel, in the veryonline M Caledonian liberty, of holy violence, in the way of persevering supplies. ,
religion, jurisprudenetcalled literature, boldly made tion ; and shall we be always denied a similar right
one effort to convince both' the bleb and the low, of below, by perishing worms like ourselves, without
this place, that his doctrines were Pound, and every even raising an imploring voice, with impunity, to
way constitutional. the hard foot, which unfeelingly levels us with the
For this generous purpose, "Major Cartwright cir- dust.
related a hand-bill, intimating his intention to de- Last year, when some of our most respectable
liver a Lecture ou the Constitution of England, at citizens presumed to-pray to Parliament, merely for
the Royal Px-liange ,-room. High-street, on cheap coals end cern, by a practicable canal, they
Fticlty,tbe 2.1 d ult. and distributed his tickets ac- were denounced, not only in this capital, but, if re-
cortlMgly. port be true, in the august Assembly of the nation,
I blush for the chilling reception, that our ad- by one of the Members, who ought to have been
miter of the patriotic. King Alfred, of the Glorious better informed, as demagogues and revolutionary
Revolution of 1888, and the friend of the enlight- democrats, though their transactions, as subscribers,
cued Sir William Jones met soffit, from the noble, to a most useful enterprise, had no more to do with
the reverend, the worshipful, and the mighty men treason or sedition than Baronets have with bag-pipes,
of this norient Metropolis, while my heart glows or an ephemeral Lord with the scarlet cloak of a
st 'tilt delight and satisfaction at the very opposite' speckled ladylander.
conduct of many thousands in Scotland ; who, This disappointment and defeat, upon that me.
though neither Baronets nor flight llonourablea, morable occasion, rather by numerical than logical
are no• less honest Ken, loyal subjects, and lovers , force, will be more than compensated, should the
of their country. New Grand Canal, projected and patronised by a
To suchof this Meeting, as heard the worthy ! most patriotic Magistracy, ultimately succeed.
Major's lecture, or admired his zeal ht behalf of ra- In that auspicious event, every loyal inhabitant
dicel Reform, it must he truly gratifying to learn, would rather rejoice, than repine at the ielallible sa-
that after' enjoying for more than a week the true gacity. of the Magistrates, and with heart-felt grati-
Scottish hospitalities and festivities •of a Noble tude, would acknowledge, that the Union Canal sub.
Duke's mansion on the borders, he is proceeding, scribers were but poor fallible men, like the late
with renovated health, hopes, and spirits, on his die- Provost of Glasgow..
4n terested mission through Old Ertgland, to his fa. It is„ on the whole, most fortunate for the people
wily and friends in London, whence the public may of Edinburgh, that they can at last depend on the
yet be favoured with his constitutional discourse in speedy execution of a grand rival canal, as a. whole
print. host of powerful individuals are bound in honour,
it is time we advert to the string of Resolutions, , consistency, and justice, to redeem their valuable
which, with doe deference, will
.be submitted fbr pledge on this subject, from their fellow citizens;',
amendment, rejection, or adoption, by tlsis Meet- who will, no doubt, live in hopeful expectation of so
ing, who, I (latter myself, will still have the good- great a blessing., and consequently never can die in
tiess to hear those preliminary remarks which may despair of cheap coals, and many other commodities.
to requisite, that no man of common understanding I flatter myself, that this audience will pardon the
shall either misconceire or misrepresent the nature, long digression just made, when they recollect, that
extent, and piotmble result of our intended pro. not long ago I was the solitary victim, to that me-
wed i egg. , tremble dispute, during whirl, my resolutions avid
Theyeople of England, generally spanking, know proceeding in favour of the Union Canal were to
very little of the ratii.:al R.furm, and those of Scot. ; have been burnt by the hands of the common hang-
land still less, which has been inculcated by Major man, myself expelled as a pest, from the immaculate
Cartwright in vatious publications, for thirty years worshipful Merchants Company ; among whose Inv
past, and is now happily adopted by the respectable partial records, they were never officially enrolled,
.111 embers of the Hampden Club, and other Societies, • being denounced and expunged as too playful and
it. ride:mit parts of the British Empire. I profane for such pure records of truth, loyalty, and
I have mideasour,-(1 to infuse the spirit, express sound doctrines. I asserted nothing of which, as an
the tointl and rrnhelly the grand political maxims of honest man, or a true and loyal subject of a limited
our experienced .aide and faithful monitor, iron that Monarchy ; I am, to this day either ashamed of
aeries of resolutions which I sh II soon l:are the ho- afraid, and shall, on that score, continue to treat,
nour to read before this Assembly, some of whom estimate, and defy all my avowed and anesymotts
may probably disapprove of their number and length, . enemies, according to their several deserts.
till the reasons shall be deliberately assigned, for ex. The part which I have taken in the Cause d Radi.
tending them bey mid the usual bouuds of such de.. cal Reform, upon full conviction from my late venere-
claratory documents. . -Me guest's valuable publications and logic, shall be
The Loyalists and Royalists of this country, as defended and maintained, with the same unheeding
well as in France, are miniplefelY at haste in the pre- spirit, which supported me through my Union Canal
sent awful crisis of national and continental affairs ; `ordeal, because I never shall renounce the truth,
one party or other must stand or fall for ever, in mutely from having learnt it from an abler man than
public estimation, by a fair stibiniscive appeal to the myself, as I must honestly confess, that Major Cart-
impartial tribunal of their. respective Peers, at the wright alone convertedvne from bring an expedient
truly loyal her of the n hole community, to avert, in to become a Constitotional Reformer.
lime, the sanguinary decision which must always be , Like all pioselytes, 1 feel so inspired with the
expected trn' the u/lima ratio report, that it now, spirit of conversion, that I now mean to make, with
alms! desolating the finest country in Europe; which doe submission, a fair trial upon your minds, which
Britain herseif must have felt, pith a vengeance, in I trust will be as open to conviction, as my own;
the year 1715, had the Pretender 18'1(4 •on our whit.* you attend to our proposed Expos.; or Pain.
shores with a million of foreign mercenaries at his eat Creed; consisting, es was formerly observed, of
heels, like Louis the Desired, on his return to the thirty distinct articles. These may be termed Con-
Fr. tich capital. Ivictions, Opinions, Admissions, Confessions, Decla-