The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-14 00:00:00

thief; thee was ohnoltioes speedily repaired. This
the public Interest and feelings required ; and
though he was not disposed to give way to any
unreaennabie elameer, yet, tinder the pressure
of Issethenc, and with the sserilices which the peo.
pie were celled upon to makie he considered it
their lordships' duty to consult their ease and their
feelisigs in these respects, as well as in larger and
Ilion important savings; and by such conduct, to
du what was in their power to allay the generally
Intending discontents of the conntry.—Reopectitig
evil, in the practice of the government, he was not
ready to agree., ith all the theories he had seen,
or beard on that subject •. but he did seriously
think that the liefineneesiGirrernment In various
ways bad of late years very considerably increased.
.—in a tercet debate Is that House on the Its.
'Milli • Bill, a Noble Viacount had stated, on
the sethority of a 'pamphlet lately published
by a Methher of the other llnuse, (hlr. Rose)
that the influeuce of .the Crown had not in.
tressed. Ills rellectioes on consulting that paw.
Idect led him to consider It as containing much.
InisreptCsentation on this question. Was it possi.
lA% with the inerslese of our expellee in a few
years from 16,000,0001. to 85,000,0001. with all
bet immense extended establishments at home, in
the East and West Indies, and our colonies in
every quartet of the Globe, with the vast number
or persons employed in the labours of collecting
the reroutes, and in every department of govern.
went, wish the immense additions to our. army
find lusty—wee; it possible. that, under alli these
Combined circumstanees, the influence and patron.
lee must .not have increased to a great, to an en.
keusva amount Such was his 'pinion .on
the subject of litiltienee, which not only fur
the like of economy, and_ "of aatisfying Oh!
lie feeling, Init elso to Secure' the Constitution,
against the farther increase of influence,. he
thiiiight it hißeesSary fur Parliament to look. at
rarefelly, and reduce; and he regretted here
again that ilweenment had taken ep no system
suitable to the times; and he particularly had to.
lament that fatal blindness and infatuation that had
led Ministers to reject every proposition that was
made to foliate those leree,untiecessary, and insult.
tie emoluments of which they complained. But as
if to inautt,idiagost, and Irritate the public mind,
reduced already alMost to.deipair, they gave away
places of the description 'lse alluded to, to those
who had no ciaini of public service to entitle
them to suet /awards; of which. there was a
recent instance, fresh in every. one's mind, (Mar!
hear!) where no service had been performed, es.
eept that suet of service which formed so strong
an ohjeedun to these places—he meant, servieu
performed in Parliament! (/fear!) Here, as in
dvery. (Melt AAP, they continued, by their errors
end crimes, 10 shock' and irritate the public mind,
by a conduct totally inconsistent with their duty.
Their Lordships' duty did nut stop there. He
bad spuken hitherto of economical reforms, and
the reduction of needless places; but he would
not hesitate to say, that it was his sincere opinion
that it was incunibent on their Lordships to took
into the defects, which, by lapse of time or other.
vise, had inipaited the frame, and corrupted the
practice, of the Constitution of Perliareent ; and
to apply such remedies to the case as were
according to the ininciples and object of the
Constitution. flu should not have ventured
to speak upon this matter before their Lord.
ships, without great previous care end die
liberalism. It concerned a triestion which
he tnuk nil at an early peried of his life, and'
Which lie then pursued with eager expectations
and sanguine hopes. lie would not pretend to
sty that there were not some differences between
Ms opinioas then and now, as to the mode of ace
comilishing such an abject : but now, in his ma.
three age, he wolild say, that he hail nut seen
reason to abandon the general opinions ho had
formerly entertained and avowed on the subject.
A man must have been prematurely wise, or have
derived no benefit from experience and observation,
who, after the lapse of 20 years, looks on such
a subject, its all respects, in precisely the same light.
fie was likely, therefore, now to tvonsider and es.
abate this question more cantiously and soberly,
than at an earlier period. Upon this most honor.
Wit question, he had no hesitation to declare,
that in his opinion snitch good would nedessa.
ri4y result fr en the timely adoption of some
a ilotey principle of reform, which would grade.
silly list steadily proceed to the correction of those
anus s, which the progress of time ;nest unavuid.
ably have given bittli tea. Bat that principle of
rearm. should be kept within the line marked out
by the Constitution, nue e.scced the wholesome
limits which esperience points nut, anti public
• utility dictates. As to the questions respecting
Oa reform of the other House of Parliament, he
knew nut how he could make that the subject of
*sty observations in that house, without perhaps
transgressing the bounds of that respect which
was dee to au integral branch of the legislature.
Bet as nothiug could be done in furtherance of
that object, Without the concurrence of all tine
breeches of the legislature; as the question itself
was of the highest importance, not alone to the
branch of t lie legiviatio re more immediately concern.
ed, but to the other two beitncion, and to the nation
at large ; as it Was of considerable importance to him
net to be misrepresented to the public; he felt
it necessary, humble an individual as he was"' to
detiere, that he still retained the same sentiments
he had ever entertained on the subject ; and that
it Was truer,. as it hid formerly been, his convia.
lion, that a temperate, Cautions, and judisiotia
aduetioe of deform, was the must desirable for
the correctien of those defects in the other House
of Perleineut, a hid, excited such scandal with
the public, and furnished designing men with a
pretext fur iiid outing the passions' of the multi.
tele, to sni.leotl Olsen from the line of their dew.
Tu mieli a Referee, %believer it should be unit
pose!, he weeld user be anxious to yield hit
ready mil zealous assistance, But he never did,
amid uever should, propose any plan 'of Re.
form, on the ground of theoretical perfection. lie
never did, nor never should, protease any plan of
riertmns which had not fur its basis the practical
Forrection of exiting abeses. To tlixt extent, and
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