The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-05-16 00:00:00

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for vide:lig (as they'peettewl4, On the first day of
April last, it atmeatknowledged -to be the Law and
Constitution of France, that the question, of
.peace
or war beinnged solely to the native, anal that the
infringement Of this right by BoNAPAIVit, was a high
offence deserving deposition. Lint, beheld!' within-
& short week, a.new Constitution isdigested ty these
tighteous. judges of the offending Ersapitotr,,...ln
which this great popular right is totally emitted:7.
This plainly shows, what we ought to think el
these virtuous. Senators ; nevertheless it is trii!;
that the first day of April wits a proud dO
for Frenchmen, however humiliating it might ire
to NAroLenrt; for on that day it wasacktistwindgetl,
that every Vrenchnian was the itulitput.ahketetife.ef
every drop of blood that circelated in his vents, NO
esery,sirtimice that he had in his pocket. ' On that
day it 'wes acknowledged, that neither the caPrice'of
the iknieriiigl, nor tilt wicked machinations or his
Ministers, Could dePrive him of either the otseor. the
other. if France had had for her ;puler a wstak, ob-
stinate, spiteful, and vindictive creature), that w.onid
not scruple n hat sacrifices he made to finiagy his per..,
sonal malice; or, if it had, at any tune, been her
fate to he cursed with an ioratiable harpy for a' MI:.
Disler of State, a man intent only on the means of
' continuing his public plunder and 14klat of his vile.gang,
**a re*ds •*? offfr WPP4I94 0! ttaoP4 14.0.b1ati005 to •
the Prince pf Derkness to assist hio.lo his robber
the
the nation • if ,either, or beth these misfor7
tunes had afflicted Fiance, dill, with the right ac.
btrowledgetl to belting tithe nation at large on the;
first day of lest April, the bloodand to large
property or:
Frenchmee could not have .beee *risked in uniuet;
and unnetemery wers, without a.direce vin)oicip ef.
the Constitution. On that day French hie' ott. tette
'held of Much higher valet and estimation thee BrU.
tish blood ; for'though it is very well known that
*nor present gracious Hailer is neitireiwesk, obstiimas
nor malirious, nor-our Miuisierts resembling horpfinh,
yet it is nerertheleas true thett Alify Olio eV 4.Yret.
without the consent- er.the inftiop. TO"? ~.
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Conservators, after Mailing ono Se tor. afa
by dethroning hint, theninvest another Man WI *;
his office; and change the Lair 'lti .sash a iliaanito,:
that the new `Magistrate avardo,-without illbiiielleilh
ment of blame, what the 4thic was dethroned ree.
Ilea we have a pretty good 'regimen of the spiv*:
that presided over the formation of this new Consti-
tution.--header, whit think yea of iti—Was it the
spirit of freedein, es of &erotism, than prompted
this important alteritioe i 'These Senators took care
of the emoluments *keeled to their order; they-
bargained that the dew Senators, which the •Ittng
might make, should -have no partioipation_, In f/rem.
They understood the meaning of Coniervalion thea;
but the Rights of the people over theirewn •liserao.l
properties, the privilege of not being 'areggedi.to war
against their will, they gave- ap, and iortendeeed :to
the Executive Power; broadtail soppete,ehatnireilike
execution might be. dont Aloe the nation imweafter,'
not after BONAPIRtetIi irmr,ldar . gyp. Am' 4y -eh"
I.oiw and Constitudan :it del' Country.-44keitept I
shall be told, that in tide sit:spent they coptpd the
English Constitution. .1 (bony it. Tiuryntight in.
(red copy our practicer-bet vet out; Coestktutioss.
1 • might bring ',many --authorities to show that'
the question of Who,-ind, .iBsace was ancient.
ly decided in our Popular assemblies, but a'
single reference to the' word' Folkinote in the;
Glossaries will be sufficient; and to was • 41e,
also in France at the same time, in those ski.
semblies called the Champ de•Mars. tiolikevaise-was;:
the practice transmitted ie. Oprautietit PlittilitiletltSl 1
hlthough I confess, at peeeibt,,that a King of Ent.:
land may start out of his-sleep, and, with a &Mau
ea imagination, order war -immediately to be pee..::
claimed against France; and the gold people of
England, on coming down to breaklatt, May bean-
tertained with the news df the peratto-which their
lives and properties are all of I sodden exposed':
or may be charmed in the night with golden,' dreams,
excited by -the report of"6oseisis galleons, eighty
freighted, being on their way fo Cheops;. and, softly
drawing his custalos snide,:-may .witistier to Rune ata.
tendant to hie away to {lea AdMiralty, and order a
frigate or two to sail imeitalliettely to intercept those
trrasures, and so plunge thil nation into war. All
this may he done, I giant ; but what I contend for
is. that it is not agreeable to our drue genuine Con.
slittaion ; no more; Sir, than it is agreeable to- that
Constitution for a man representing the People in
Parliament to sit seven years there without the con-
sent of his Constituents, which ought to be taken
yearly. Foreigners, whb copied these things, .would
not copy our Censtitutiou, bat the abusion of the
Constitution. .
If Englishmen are so generate as to give up their
birth-right for a Diets of pottage, that is no reason
wby a Frenchman should be 'deprived •of his by it
Conservative Senate, who do not even ere hire '
plate of soup meagre in return. But I shall be told,
perhaps, iu 'the •langeage at a certain venal -fsseitur,
who found nothing in our lintsent Caverentent intt
what was worthy of his otology, that-all is safe
long •as the people have the hbsolute codlinted Ant
the supplies. It will be said :that *his satAsiborthp
English nation, and •cosurequeeelep ••
ht LO .11Klitsir
the French likewise, Indeed, I* ' -toms*
wll they should be satisfied freta die offtet of -
example : I think quite the cooteterrOor if they
make the least- use of their teasaintlese. will be ken,
vinced -that this power over the "applies does not
guard either the blood or the aolvey of the English
people from belee.sacrificed le nualmustisi and

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structtve wars.
An English Minister,avallinchisenlf of thin
gative of the Crown, (as the'Koriei Mee pleaseyew
absurdly to call it,) snakes a Pro*'emotion, by whisk
it is • decla red, that the English .natlon Wimp:"
moment-at war with the French, or sonscotheippc.,
ple ; and immediately we are exposed to Abe
alternative of either killing, or being killed.. fot
vise, what can %re do? We are to tbe,Mire, art*
vulgar expression.is; plunged .111.etecce,—#0111,
who put us there can easily keep es in. -Tie*:
Minister, like the. Late Wit. Pry?, ehoeki, gni
single fiat, have soused us In wat;for the •baseei-_.
most• wicked of purposes, Mich es to-matins), aeys.
tem of
ttcorruption ; still, the granting of these
is ti•closely:conected with the national mifetY,r-
the most independent Member of Parliament wtU
turally•alleddes at the idea of withholding *eat.,
may see the criminal views of the Minister, its
he conscious that the blood of the people is shed