The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-03 00:00:00

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WAR OR PRICE!

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

LETTER IV.

therefore withdrivr
but he had stated
support it. lie hi
raise the 'qoestion,
tioner had so inter
The debate was

ROUSE OF LORDS, Mae IL
f.
!loyal bunt was given in tbekusual manner, by Cos-
lo several Public nod Private Bills.
Marquis of RUCKING:I A M mired that a ammo be
cell a the Gneansenv. requesting a communication of die re-
pt/nor their Contralti:eon the 'abject of Gaol Frey.—Ordered.
nELSTONE TOTEMS.
Bari STANHOPE pretested a Petition from a
Mr. William Morris, in favour of the' fish:one
Voters' Bill. He merely presented it for their Lord.

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TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.. 1
Ssa,—A high Peace Estaislitisment)s would, U
I have observed, have been the necessary result
this country from that of the other Governments off
Europe, and from the state In which the Congress of'
Vienna would have left It, even if FRANCE had so.

The Order
Fart GRE
he had some
tion this da•

mained under the government of the Bourbons.
Major CARTWRIGEIT has excellently 'boon le his
IVgis, sod other most valuable Tracts, that if our
Representative System be rifornsed, and rest firm os

ships• consideration, without pledging himself to
agree to the peoyer of it. The Petition was then
read, and stated the Constitution of the Borough of
&Wont, and that the Petitioner himself had, since
the of the Commons which the rant

motion for an
ins that be lir
Copies 61 the
Government
mint of Bar
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led-to ,
13111, become a freeman and voter of Heiden.; that
he was also a freeholder of the Two Hundreds to
whisk it was proposed that the right of voting should
bi extended ; and that he believed that this Bill of
'disfranchisement was the only method, considering
the present Constitution of the Borough, by which
the election could be free and iudetwudent ; and he
L prayed to be beard by Coeusel at the bar in favour of.;
the Bill.
Lord GRENVILLIL—Their Lordships ought at
I.deast to pause before they agreed to the prayer of
this Petition. This Bill was novel in its guitar' for

its ample basis, and the use of arms be revived ac-
141sel cording to its constitatianal pies and extent,
of Military Est**lids bs identified
ear civil, and we =pal ba sufficiently stmag
for defensive purpose,. :, •
'ln the meantime, As fate raised oat akin,:
establishment to that height, that it would Ile NM"
way unadvisable to drop it at once to our minim
peace establishment, were it eves practicable.

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4.ordsbipe st.d tt
been entered into
the justice or iniel
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a to if. Se ht
-staterMent to U.
sbotehti emit* the
him that such tr m
contended, that it
proceedings of tt
*aid entire befor
Anions subjects
seat it ibeCongi

But there is another inestimable saving left wbony
out of the account; the saving of an focelculaliell
mutt-of human life; the saving of the horrible
evil of setting nation against nation ; a greet nation
against herself (which must be at
.least the aim,
however impracticable), and almost all the rest of
the world, either civilized or tending to become
such, against one of the great focis of civilized so-
ciety, from which light, and comfort, and happiness
might be diffused ever the world.
If it be said we should only postpone war to en-
counter it to disadvantage, why should this be
imagined ? Why should our strength and resources
less recruit themselves in the interval ? And to post-
' pane war now, would give commerce and all the
'blessings of peace orportunity to ritlN-411 the
jealous and hostile passions time to subside; it
-would be making an experiment of the happiest pro-
utile, and embracing the best probability to este-
blish repose and well-founded security ; and this to
accomplish the real deliverance of Me world, w hick
1004101 be forced Into freedeets,usceismccoe.A

are, .
It object dud piled* tens to disfranchise all, not
merely those who bad exercised their right of voting
corruptly, bet also those who had given an honest
and independent suffrage. The principle of former
Bills was to disfranchise those who had voted cor.
tirptly,—and preserving the franchises of those who
bad not voted corruptly,—to extend the right to
others in the neighbourhood Now, the Petitioner
stated himself to be a freeman of Heistone, and the
object of his Petition was, therefore, to be heard in
litvoor of a Bill which disfranchised himself, and
likassise all the rest, whether guilty or innocent.—
frith was partly a penal and a remedial Bill. With
respect to the penal part or, that was merely a matter
of public concern, in which the Petitioner, as an
individual, had no particular interest so as to entitle
ttitss to be heard : but as to the remedial part 'of the
;Bill, he might perhaps have some interst, as he was
vi freeholder of the Two Hundreds to which it was
proposed to extend the right of voting as a remedy
against the corrupt practices alleged to have taken.
place in the Borough. It was not decided, however,
that this extension should take place ; and until it
wits so determined, he doubted' very much whether
,Ibis Pet' tioner had any right te. he hearct,_ The meet
therefore, would be .to Idioms the

when their Lordship
nature and bearing!
considered separate'
with the rest. Ada
speaking, the most
others had contende
of such a descriptiot
'pea to them ought
description appear*
it was for that seas!
brought that questic
further delay. Since
however, he had he
intention of Ministe
which he proposed t
our relations with
his motion was to h
was conceded to bin
Woos of abstaining
time in unnecessary
enter into that state
Outlet's, it would ha
Their Li,rdships, hi
him, that the most
discussion unsaid IN
should have been Pei