The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-12 00:00:00

TO ME FATHER OF REFORM.

BODOCRILDFATIM AND lIISPICTIDFaII D,— By
thy " Bill of Rights and Liberties," are perceive
thou bast a right conception of the duties of a politi-
cal parent, and seeing that no one else bath had the
wisdom or the virtue to MOTe for the adoption of thy
Bill, greatly do we lament, that thy consent to serve
!Lille ono city as her Representative was not et.
tepied.
When, in confirm to the horrid iniquity and savage
cr petty of despnticoligertbs,eho, bring mere usurpers
of the fatherly authority, brutally tyrannise nver,

and unmercifully pillage those they ought to defend
and protect, we contemplate thy Christian spirit of
justice and benevolence, and therein w• behold a
striking illustration of the moral so beaatifolly
ailed by JIM., when preaching to the Prior:—

" If.aish ►e, a • N shall oak HASA D of ►h Flutter, sill tk
Yaoher give Ms a stases. r
" Übe tok a Visit, u,ll he, fora Flan, give bhp • Serpent!"
" oe, of he ink as Eee, noli ►e efer ►in &Scorpion,"

line appticsblo, in our disastro•s days, to unhappy
Ragland, is this parable, delivered in Judea eighteen
bendred yews ego !
The half-famished People ask for Bevan. Thom
who have osoeped the authority of Fathers, (ling
them a Stone so inerteam the already intolerable
weight of the millstone that bath nearly droned them
under ester. Time, with ether feeling., freely
gireth them, and whitest stint, the tree Barto of
political life, en which, if allowed to feed, the
Bread of natural life would never be wanting.

Then ettoneth the Evil One, god of the 6ligerehe,
proieetor of their osorpstione, end prompter of their
iniqeity, sod saitb, " This Ilitli.elD ye shell noi
Male."

Again, the naked, hungry, and work•wantios
People ask employment in the Isheries that summed
their native isle, that they and their little ones may
be clad arid eat etsti.
" No," my the pretended Fathers of tier Coontry,
"that, by lessening the price of land produce, woald
lower oa► reels and lessen ow, losaries."
Then coruth, u before, the Evil One, waving his

mischb►ous hand, and ste►nly crying eltsorl, instead
of Inds:try': nutritive FISH, swallow Taxation's
poisonous SERPENT, and cease your reddiour
clamour."

With far other feelings thou, by thy Hill, in show.
log the means of perfect freedom, showert how the
distressed may, by honest labour, abundantly shore
in the bounties their Heavenly Father bath provided
for their sestensoce. In abort, they ask a FISH,
and a FISH the• &vest ; bet ere it can be tasted it is
dashed from the lips of thy famished brothers by the
accursed baud of tyrancy. And once again, when
those who faint through fasting, pray that by their
e•n toils they may be allowed to seek the EGG of
support, t►e step-Whets of the State, with insolent
scorn and dodge., fasten on them the SCORPION
tortures of permeation !

litre again, they, as a tree father of thy country,
boldest out to them theconstitutionol EGG of RIGHT,
slid Ltsa■Ttas, en which they and their children,
and children's children, each ender the shadowing
vine of the law and the lig.tree of security, might
enjoy, to the latest posterity, a perpetual feast!
Bet still, es before, the veer w•tchfol Evil One
takes care, instead of Yielding to Reform, as en an.
tidote, to uphold pillaging usurpation, the deadly
bane of OW England.
Thou bast done thy duty ; it is for the People
thou enditavourest to , to do theirs. Those of
■f religious persession have• speedy mode of resisting
official robbers, which, if general, most prove in.
fallible. If the People generally, instead of consent-
ing to pay what a robber demands, would bet sub-
mit to • piton., and au attempted sale of • few
pods, the impossibility of hurling buyers, and the
otter impracticability of so collecting the Notional
Revenue, would, at once, as effectually as a miracle,
open the ry es of oar stupid Rulers to the necessity
of a Constitutional Reform.

Thy strecliouele Friend,
iteeenor day of eke OBORGE lON PENN.
si silt sonik, 1819.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA b.. etif.lPd a ration
of 600 florins to tho widow of Harvest, the col,.
formed Trolese CAlofisin, and ono nt 2tlo florins to
each of his dsoilliors, with a promise of 600 flmins
ea their eterrisgo. Iforrta's sow is lo be placed
iota lon, at the pablk 'sperm