The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-24 00:00:00

ezar..ple of the proud City of Westminster. The
philosophic and patriotic would say, in retiring into
their recesses or study, " What then has all been
fancy and Motion I Wes it bat a shadow ? Did I
dress of that liberty which is in be frond
rno where ?" Is poor lipligitAU'll
" L'ltorame Gorr, "Mil leg Arnstrrers veld orrouvefe."
Oa &latish, min is good, but men are had,) to be
confirmed for ever as • maxim ? No; nor ingtitti.
tuitions spoil the man in society, who would be Tit-
tons in private. As ills in general troy that 'dace-
ties makes the man, is sot 11.44 so that It is Govern.
meat makes the citizen. What man who did not
live in the hope of seeing •he condition of hi. fellow.
countrym►n ameliorated by the coining Reform i■
the political Councils of the nation, and consequent
rectification in the Criminal Code, would •iah to
mend hie days in this abased country, whatever may
be his affections for his entire soil ?—to witness the
oseerew and glsri•g sets of partiality sad in-
justice practises! by Ministers t• pamper and fist.
ter ono io power, that the panders may keep
their plscee—to tee our fellow-emigres hanged
by dozens like dogs, for yielding to a temptation,
which, in hottest role, ought newer to be held out to
them ; sod this to *each a Corporation of Merchants,
who made th►mselses bankrupts by their oncousti..
totiosal dealings with baseoesi in office. Who.
It may be asked, would hove his heart painfully dire
litedadovery hoer with such reflection onthoone aide,
and his rpe.balls •lewd seared out by the renewed
and horrid spectacles, candied to them on thp
other : 'bet for the hip• of i change? It were
Witt *demise to look an abed, in a wile
donne, wisest, If we are Del protected In part by
the ties of s seelel compact, we ere clot insulted and
tortured by legitimate lujostke sod cruelly ; and
this brings us back to the male goeetion. Sir Fa*w.
CIO alliDirrt Is endaebtedly a host of himself; bat
be no do little against confederated hosts. If the
Electors of Westminster secure him the help of a de-
mecratie Ald-de-Ceorp, the little phalanx of Patriots
will be recruited rapidly, and the victory will be at
erste speedy and complete.

1V WEANS bR ELECTION.

Stile of tbo Number, polled Ibis day op to Tbreo
o'Closit:—

J. C. Hosnaric F.aq
Hos. 47. Ltne
J. Cdiassitsciarr. Edo.
Slate of the Poll. as it el owl y.sferdiuy
J. C. flisooorsc, Esq. ...
Hoe. Laos
J. CARIWIRMIT. fig

Vfe find it stated In a provincial Piper, that a
Meeting of the A•eicournenve took place at the
lintel in Old Palace.pard, last Monday week. We
otatribled on this with mach serwise ; for os weer
hem! • ”Ilable of this seitegeled concern. These
Gentlemen assembled to common on the minus of
effecting a eldest Paoitistvtox of the IMPOITA.
?lON of Cote. Asti their policy appears to be
as cranked, as their object is mischi . Ge.
vernmeot having generally intimated an intention to
oppose the Agriceiteral Petitions, the Petitioners
hate been &articled to ear respond I. fetery,tbreogh
the Board of Trade, or Mr. VAHETTTART. by which
circomstence we loam, that that CHANCELLOR of
the Eicutentu has added one character more to
his fernier motley eogagements. We have boon
used to admire the facility with which he sepported
the Btacs, at the Mapsian-hoese, sad CIII•DE11111.
los and GAMING IR IWO LorrsaY. ie St. Stephen's
Chapel ; slued now we Sod him soddealy become
AGENT to the persons who would shot oar ports
against the Plauree which Consssaca weeld other wise
safe to the metneet cottage le England. Aod
what is the lest cmantoolcation which Is sada by the

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INITIATED la Palace.yani, to their Agent is DlMS-
ing.slroot Why, " that the agriculture of the
Veiled Kingdom ie not eely net protected as it tie.
serves, but that It is otaelfestly sod otiosity dis-
couraged throes!' lb. United giogdom, by the pet.
mission gives by *or present laws to import similar
productions to those of our owe soll.".—INITIATOO
most he be In some Infernal School, who could make
a discovery se diabolical! Was the last Corn Hill a
eliscouragemessi to agriculture? Thee, indeed, the
Poor were ignorant, when they wept over it, in We I
of their hungry babes lsprohibited,
till the mons Denims has reached matt. Soli.
teams per quarter: fat those words be •rittee is
letters frightfel as was the hand-writing as the wall
to the terrified BAislillAllita, fit this be se
written ever the 000 a of the IMITIATto, sod
over the Doot of their saw Poewri—Bot thee*
Gentlemen, It seems, think little, et present,
ei the weight of that lest prebibitory Corn
Mt They demand a permanent prohibiting Der
of Otte-Intim of the price of Wheat in the Home
Market. Horror accomulates upon horror, as we
rood of their proceedings and their pretensions! To
what state would they bring the poor, and to what
Male the manufacturer' They would prohibit
Coax to the former, and TRADE to the leer.—
They would bereave the public creditor of the
hottest of the mosey be had lent ; they would
shot the doors of the Treasury siteiurt the
flolions of seplorting either the dignity of
bole, or the Polarity of the countr, 6nally,
they would shot their own hsll.4lnors sisiogt the
rests of their tenants. These would be the results
of their wisdom, sod of the wisdom of their maudlin,
Agent t It was said by the Romans, that he whom
Goo would destroy him he Gist bereevsof 'listener.
We desire not to bran prnphane • hot could o• eel.rekt
lo the maim, we should sg,-- hese Is the etstni ;r