The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-23 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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This Day was puhlishe4,- price Si
Enlarged by the dissection et' Evidence and other important
Mailers, and illiiitrited by Charts representing the relative
situation or the Briiiih and French Fleck in Banque and
Ais linuds during the most interesting Periods,

'VOTES on the MINUTES of a COURT-
/.1 !MARTIAL, holden onboard his Majesty', ship GLA-
DIATOR, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday, the 2sth
day of July, 184, &c. on the Trlid of thr Right Honourable
JAM ES LORD GAM BIER, Admiral of the Blue.
London: Seld by 3. Budd, Crown and Mitre, Pall Mall.

TO CORItI;SPON DENTS.
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numerous complaints, both from Town and Country, of ir-
regularity in the delivery of Tue For AT ESII AN, arising
partly from the !ate delivery of the Paper at the Office,
and partly from the substituting of another Paper instead
of it. We have, however, now the satisfaction to state,
that by the removal of the late EDITOR, such inconveni-
ence is not "gabs likely to occur, as the paper will in fu-
ture go to press at an early hour, and the Newsmen may
be supplied in due time, to enable them to deliver it be-
fore Five &Clod,. in the most distant parts of the Town.

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THE STATESMAN.

Meier] with them. Mr. Warmest) is well awes
(4 this ; and as we bare reason to suppose that he
has s desire, which we will call reasonable in itself,
to see Earl Garr in office, and probably tome my
Lord GRINVILLS ;Ise in powcr,shat Gentleosauts
&titration at the City Meeting may betaken"' 1•1110
pledge that those Noblemeu have at length opened
their eyes to the Ulnas well as the infamy, of the ,
sinecure system. The Whigs arc aware that they
are losing, if they hare not lost, the public fa.
your, and they complain of this as injustice in the
people. It is to be lamented ; but it is no injus.
tice. The Whigs, from their rank, their pro-
perty, and their political creed, pre the persons
the people would naturally desire for Ministers.
But then, their actions must accord with their po-
litical professions ; and, above all, they must
awaken to a sense pf the necessity of the times,
which admits of no half-formed virtues, but
requires a whole heart, bent solely on the pub.
lic good, and a mind, whose greatest grati-
fication is self-denial in the public service. If the
NVhigs will not go this length, they mistake the
nature of the times, and must be content to fall as
low as their political enemies, in the public esti-
mation. There is a knowledge growls up in
the public mind, that will not calmly look
upon the plunderers of the nation, and a dis-
tress in the concerns of individuals that can-
not bear the contipuation of the system. Re-
form, therefore, must come ; and a Reform
that will restore the people's right entire, and, of
course, will keep their purses closed to all, but
the just claims of a frugal Government. If the
Whigs will not see this in time, (for see it the)/
must) they will fall iu the public esteem, never
to be restored ; and, by that blindness, which is
at once the offspring and punishment of selfish-
ness, will exclude themselves from Owe high
offices they do seek, and may seek with a just and
I laudable ambition.

The Whigs may be assured, that the groat bulk
of the true friends of the country wiih to see that
party in power ; but it must be reformed Whip
the people must hare ; and without a true politi-
cal reformation in the Whigs, let them be per.
suadcd the Tories will be more welcome to the
people than themselves, because the injury of
their abuses can be no greater, and the insult will
he less.

This is a subject of considerable auziety to all
moderate men in this country. They do knew,
that the Whigs might Isae essentially served the
country, might indeed have saved it from the
shame and injury of being governed as it now is.
They know that the Whigs may still co-operate
to restore public prosperity; and they eagerly
wish to see the leading, powerful, and honour.
able meta among them, take that course. But
they are every day pressed by the imperious neces-
sity of cirr.umstances to abandon their hupes of
that party. The result is painful. When inte.
grity and abilities are peculiarly necessary to the
State, they are compelled to fear that a great mass
of abilities and much individual integrity will be lust
to it, from that blindness in thcWhigs, which cannot
perceive that recu r item in it Statesman, the LOW
PASSION of receiving money, without giving va-
lue fur it, and receiving it from the DISTRESSED'
LABOURER) will no longer be endured ! —But of
whatever importance this subject may he to the
country, it is still more se to the Whigs. The
Country can do without the Whip. Let them
not flatter themselves, that when the present un-
worthy Advisers of his MAJESTY are out, the So-
vereign, and the Nation, are thrown upon them.
That there is talent, equal to their own,
in that Third Party, which has so gloriously
risen, and so rapidly swelled in numbers, namely
—the INDEPENDENT FRIENDS of the CONSTITU.
VON—is now universally acknowledged ; and
there is a growing conviction in the great ma's of
the People, that theta is no absolute necessity for
a monopoly of Government successively by the
Warns and die TonfEs. The p?iu fact is this.,
—the People can yet coalesce with the Winos—if
the Whigs will throw themselves away, good men
may lament the fact ; but the cause of the People
cannot, will not, lie lest in the lamentation.