The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

TAE DIPPIPM7+ OP FOliAll.lrO A NEW

ADMINISTRATION.

(TROM Ttiz Nozwirtt atFnettan.)
—lf, ,as is too well known to he questioned,
his Majesty has frequently within the last few years
not only contemplated but attempted the formation
of a stew Ministry withont being able to effect his
sintspolte, (Slott Aimee of success Is there in a state
of thing:s so infinitely worse? Who would now as.
some the direction of affairs? But even were not
the condition of Agriculture so desperate—were not
the fends of Ireland, public and private, •n deplora-
. able—were the finances more encouraging--tvere
• foreign politics less threatening, there is in the very
separation, in the repnlsion we might almost say, or,.
at least in minute division of the particles which com-
pose the body politic, so much to attract, to reconcile, •
anJ to combine, before any sufficient force could he
colleeted, that we almost entirely despair of seeing the
necessary union of elements effected, except by sonic
sxtraordinary menstrunin, or preternatural power of
' condensation. All this division is the effect of a
Slovernment weak in talent, strong in passion and pre-
. Jndiee, and bold in the exertion of its powers and the
..execntion of its intrignes. •
For of what principles and interests are the several
parties in the State composed ? Even the present Ad-
setisittration has scarcely a single basis of action
iu common. The retention of office has hitherto been
the only thing upon which they are all agreed. Can
the (irenvilles then, who font) en intermediate grotto-
, lion between the high Tories and the Whigs—can
they support the weight of business? Certainly not.
Wor could the Whigs probably, single banded, re-
duced as they are in strength by the jealousy of the
Church and of a great portion of the Reformers.—
Upon this division and this weakness the present Mi-
nistry has subsisted, and will perhaps for some tithe
longer continue to subsist. And to this may be super-
ntided that there is no other party who would accept
sae(' without binding the King to unpalatable condi-
tint's—conditions made indispensable to their assump-
tion of power. by his Majesty's sudden desertion of
his former frieitilsliips ; for whether the King acted
jeatly or otherwise in this inst-:nce, it nevertheless
mina sitloject hint to the distrust of those whom he
abandoned. The maxim, divide et impera, was never
p •rliaps so successfully, as far as appertains to their
persooal interests, acted upon by any former set of
men as by the present Servants of the Crown—so far
as relates to the advantage of the Commonwealth
never so injuriously.
But as the force of such a principle and such agents
Inest depend upon the matter on which they operate,
ty we not in part account for the effect by the fact
there has appeared so little of commanding i
Wert upon the political arenasinee the death of Pitt and
1:os ? Or is it, that education and the advance of
knowledge have really brought men more nearly to a
',vet ? Or again, does it happen, that in proportion
as wealth increases, the disposition to enjoyments
pnrele personal, and the aversion to those auaterer qua-
lities. those %ter:ter:pursuits, and those severer labours
which must be the stepping ladders to a noble ambi-
tion in such times, are increased to a degree suffi-
ciently great to deter even strong minds front the ne-
cessary acquisitions? These are curious subjects for
philoatiphical enquiry, but one timing is palpable. viz.
that under the present mode of debating in Parliament,
no betnin constitution can bear, and no human temper
will endure the long agony of attendance. Formerly
l'i't and Fox would speak and would exhaust a subject
—t little of illustration or of relief from other mem-
bers concluded a discussion. But now whole nights
are consumed in debates and adjournments, yet the de-
termination of the question rests upon the authority of
nnnihers, won by influence or party, and the House
and the country are alike unenlightened and uncon-
vinced, so far as the eloquence of Parliament is con-
cerned. Committees wear out the day—mere talking
the nigh! ; anti a member of the house of Commons is
. a more toilsome drudge than the man whose miserable
industry confines him to a desk or to a counter. It is
not in the twine of persons of rank and opulence to
snh 'tit to the privations implies!, and hence we see
taxes rated or the liberties of time subject abridged, IN
ripen., of one-fifth or less ..f tie entire members IN
Parli.mtent. Like soldiers in the field they become
iodiiferent to all consequinen but personal feeling,
and senaihle only to the r earisonteness of a life of in-
eessant fatigue. The history of public transictions
and our acquaintance with individual members alike
lead us to this train of remarks. It is not possible to
stop absolutely the current of human action, and there-
fore the progression of labour must continually go on
to change and accumulate. But it must, we think, be
quite obvious that the affairs of England are rapidly
approaching a crisis, (by rapidly we do not Mean a
series of weeks or even months) of which it is impos-
sible to anticipate the results. All that we certainly
feel is, and we deduce our future expectations from the
past, that ander the present administration, the Conse-
quences, whatever they may be. will be precipitated—
another direction of affairs might obviate the • evil
this neither cannot and therefore will not.

We have received a Newfonodiand paper of the 16th
O: t. from which we extract the following article t

His Majesty's cutter Inspector, coininantied by Mr.
Win. Bullock, astronomical surveyor, bating on
board Lieut. Bullock, ids brother, touched at the
Island of Anti.o,ti, and found encamped there the
crew, and passengers of the ship Esrl Dalhousie, to •
the number of 110 persons, who had been cast away
in that ship on their voyage from Scotland to Quebec.
Those unfortunate emigrants, although they had
plenty of provisions saved from the wreck, yet were in
a situation truly distressing, owing to the uncertainty
and despair of getting off that. desolate island for
the winter. Fortunately the Inspector, in the course
of the service, went there, and revived their spirits by
*.promise, on the part of those gentlemen, to call at
Sydney, and procure a vessel to take them to Quebec.
On her way to Sydney the Inspector fell in with a large
brig in ballast, bound to Quebec. the master of which
very cheerfully and humanely undertook to eall fbr
them in his way. It is therefore to be hoped they have,
before this, been relieved from their dreary s tuition.
Captain Denman, who served in the Duke of Wel-
lington's semi in the peninsula. with Lieut. Clappes-
ton. R.N.. Dr. °whiny. and a Naval Carpenter from
the Dock-yard atMatta, have.atiivid at
.11ibralta, on
their way to Tripoli. intending tbeaca to proceed.to the
ism:lw of Africa on 'newt:ink

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