The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-24 00:00:00

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TOODAIt, ALGUta 21, MIL

There is not a more sinless fees, es far as one can
be ►stablished by eiscomatances and rapesirocr, than
that if all the Newspapers in England had been silent
fifty years ago (the Gazelle might have been printed
to annoonce the marriages sod deaths of Kings and
the bankruptcies of mrichants •ithoat harm), the,
nation at meld now hare berm in a flourishing ■nd
tranquil stale. We abosld have had uo American nor
French war, aid consequently no debt of a thousand
millions. There might indeed have been much in.
trigging among Ministers to gain and keep majorities.
Bca Donotscrom illustrated all that systems of cor-
ruption. Bet then Ministers would never have been so
long in office as to grow as conning and as ferocious as
so old bull-These beasts are never kept beyond a certain
number of years, because they become dangerous even
to thiir keepers. An old Minister is ten times more
mischievous than an old bull. Tbe. latter may gore
one person, perhaps bill him, after which he is usually
carried to the slaughter-house, prosided a rope can
be pot round his neck; there is then an end of him :
but a wicked hlioister may stir up a oar for the en-
riching himself and his creatures, and the gratify iug the
ambition and vanity of his King, who is always pleased
with the account of battles, and in the exclamation.
," the bravery of my 11000." Sub blittitter may

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:is the tooien till ha bas enriched • few tit:stand
great lartitmtestert, sod ssisally half famished as
many millions of poor !abstinent and artificer', and
yet yow cannot get a reps mod Ms neck : for if he
shall bate committed twenty Infractions upon the
Constitution, he will obtain as matey Bills of Indem-
nity for all he has done; sad his yeast satellites sod
followers will praise the very ads, for which he de-
ewes general etetration. Sects igen, though they
are seers !ripple( every day, can never be caught
(ripping. A reflecting mate would naturally con-
clude that sin Gentleman would have accepted the
•Ice of Minister (Patrice, as he was wont to be
Celled), after what Mr. Parr said, viz. that 4' no
honest man could be Minister of England ender the
present system " In other words, none but a rogue
will take office. Such wretches can never be brought
to account but by a Gamer N vrions,t. Cover of
Eseutnr. Their own petty will not only allow
them to go on in the ruinous system, but share with
them the profits of their iniquity. What then has
kept such men in place sod power 'gains, ell honest
opinion ; against the interest of the whole country?
Why,.lt• base crusurr, and open coast:mom of the
SLA FISH PR lip. !! Happy should we be 0 a
general armistice could be imposed to-morrow upon
the warriors of the quill. There would be an imme-
diate reformation in the Government and in the morals
of the People. For the erkkedness of the former is
now brutalizing the manners of the People so fast,
i that presently it will not be safe to walk the streets.
The moral pert of the country has already undergone
the change sought for long ago: the physical part
has, to be sure, not kept pace with it—it will, it
must, ere long, from the inevitable nature cashing',
fellow the impulse—and it will he with a terrible and
Sudden force it will revolve, like the windlass of a
great crane, •bett the power gives way that should
held, or rather impel, it. Woe be to those who ate
wisest that wheel at its revolting : they will not 41.,
serve pity, because it is the desire of place width
keeps them there, end that desire must arise either'
from self.ioterest, ambition, the love of sway, or a
Mese of guilt, which makes lbemafrsid to resign their
Situation ! •.
What has been said above may appear to be die-1
teted,by an indignation not sofliciently restrained:2
It is impossible to treat the sul jet.' with a cold.
blooded calculation of what may be the immediate ere
remote effects of such reasoning. The very Times
en which we commented yesterday, has this mons-
Inv; afforded a new and still mote striking ezemplill-
cation of all we urged with respect to the time.
serving conduct of the Press. The influence of that
Journal is vast upon the minds of the People of
Ettg'aod : and it likely, if it persists in its present
course, to prolong the 'uterine of the unhappy Bri-
ton to a point beyond all enduring, end defying all
resuming. It is now d g more injury to the li-
berties of the country by far then even the Courier,
because the loner, like au over-acted tragedy, produc-
ing a rontrary affect to the one intended by the author,
is becoming harmless. It is also discovered to be uni-
formly given to deny and distort the truth in any
thing and every thing, which tends to take from the
strong and give to the seal:. A base and cowardly
disposition. 'Ube generous always Ay to succour the
steak. Man, in his natural condition is riot cruel or
hard-hearted. It is in his social stale that he becomes
vicious ; it is in his social relation that be is unreel.
log and brutal, which really is changing the ostler of
nature, but it is no less true. The luxurious. the leo
temperate cannot live contentedly without being pains'
pored, and having his inordinate appetites petit-
ed, he therefore makes court to those who kvep.
the keys of the nation's Treasury ; and he sells his
soul accordingly to admiolster to his seuseality. Ile
may be said, without an eitlawfol stretch of me-
!arbor, to feed upon his fellow-creator's. The turtle
he 'its, consumes the flesh and sinews of the once
brawny husbandman, end the robust mechanic. The
Claret and Burgundy he drinks, pours nut the arte-
rial blood of the artisan and tabourer—so that theate
classes of men who, before the sits of fittincierieg
were brought to as mach perfection as the stem.
engine, looked rosy and cheerful, now resembl•
the Greenlanders, Laplanders, or Eatleinimos In-
dians, and upon whose face • smile or selasstion
of muscle is never seen, except when some fellow.
creature, with the gift of speech, from motives of
sympathy slat commiseration (ender the Times'
designation of a reforming DEMAGOGUE), addresses
them and as them that their enemies and plan-
deters will, 'era long, be brought to account. Then
something like a gladness of the squint countenance
breaks out, bat it is transient in duration, for no
sooner does he cast Isis regards et a fellow-sufferer
near him than he reeds his own bereft and neglect-
ed condition, and hideous horror smiles his total
with dismay and despair, sod he is half-willing
to throw his life away..--Suppose in these
moments one of the itinerant orators should whisper
men in this dreadful condition that it would be cow-
ardly to throw life away while they might sell it to
the advantage at least of their children ? What would
the heard•hearted, nver:trown wealthy Aristocrat say
to this? What could their Couriers and their Times,
NCO and Old (we could almost quote a well•known
phrase of " a plague on both these houses," or
make Iparody ors it and say, "a plague on both the
Times, New and Old), we would ask those time-
serving, trimming J ournals what they could do for the
iiitEAT, if an attest warfare commenced between

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tieYi aria. hi 1e kg. it wnu'd be like
the war betwetr)i the lkoaeve owl the Sans.
co/of/V.Be France : or that bete eon the well-fed tied
well.clotbed regular tirades of Fortino, end the
bare•footed men of colour in ;it. D mioco ! The
molest could neither be long nor doubtful. W.
*all, in all probability, be reviled at by the Tories
and wealthy Whigs, for these oh limas and the
allusions they naturally give way to. Thor
are, however, not made it' enmity In. but in
shame of them ell for ',nisi fling fixed as s!stues,
while all other brills are in motion and many
in commotion. They are, nevertheless, not sn
lifeless, though as Muir tin statues. Some of
our snug Illoronglimongers, who now, unteror,d,
hold the mischief of their ow n mercenary corrtipt
hands, may change visiges •enclAy with those thew
despise, and horn Apollor of Petri4krc more re-
semble the horrors of the /Cacao... Hut the subject
matter will naturally transport the sensitive pen be-
yond all common bnunds. Enoegh has been said In
move, or melt down the golden images, which have
excited the tory of the famished Tantalum of their
once happy isle. They aitl not see the liquid for
which they die fur thirst, and genie from tneching
the cup to assuage is. Nor will °theta, St•vencs
like, continue In labour up the hill, but will in rage.
let the atone roll back, and then " war man and
how behind."

It may truly he said that the Thiel insensibly lad
us into all this. That :lg.:4g dolma' of this morn.
int; after • variety of Manchester matter, at one
lime stitnulatin:, at another palgying, (as much as
to say," What will yew pay me for my anodyne fog:.
men, or give me, not to pursue my Mirlerang one),
settles down into the fellow ini elaborate article:
at We see with ia creasing dislike and concern, the
advertiarment of more Meetings both in Loordon arid
in the until'. The cronitii is menaced with one fur
to•morrow at Smithfield. 11" hat can the wretches
mean? Are they so little con aaaaa nt with political or
individual nature, a; not to know that the abuse of a
right in the OM. cite, as of a fatally in the other, is
too frequently followed by the loss of it.—
That these ?Herrings, although it be mote than
probable that 11 e Neal purp..se of those who
hold them is the overthrow of the State, may still
be kept within the letter of the C 000484011, is a
fact we shall not question. lint when the sloe
world are convinced of their proflizate as well as
frantic ohjects, and conviriced also that such fretiut tit
assemblages of the People may have a tendency to
pc•esot• those objects, shat can he the consequeoco
but this?—that the cords of law will sooner or laser
be drawn so tight, as to restrain the well-di-paved
port of the nation from ever meeting for may ye. in so
whatever and thus to stifle the public voice—tco.
Ivo, best hope of rlitical society."
" The capital menaced wish a Meeting;' why
some days he calla the Meeting urn only legal but
allowable.—Thrri Lotillon is threatened with a Jac:-
Jul Meeting of the oppressed People, to discover
the means of remoaing the oppressions ander • hies
they 'offer. Bat to take to pieces this verbiago
would be to 'oppose our Kessler' lacked the capa-
city to reason for themselves. The question is
simply this : —Do the People suffer so as to
base trivia's to complain ? IVho will or tin
deny that Have they not petitioned in vain
Let the SECKETAItY of Sy arc answer that. • Must
they suffer without end ? That answer most be left
In the People themselves. Mby does not the Tones
forsake its qoihbling, double-dealing habits, and mats.
telly, likes Briton, speak out. Dr the People deserves
pity and support, if they do, why not give it them?
Are they to be treated like bold beggars of old ?
lf • pickpocket had the
Tines
writer's witch in kis
posses.iosi, sod nes caked to retina it, and would
ant, what would he ? why, hating more predeace
than courage, be might go to a Court of Law to en.
force restitution of it : now, when in that Cosa,
should be be told that hisattit will not be entertained
or not be carried ff.rward (because the possessor of the
purloined property ism Courtier), what, we would ask.
would the suitor do? Why, if a coward put up with the
robbery, but if • man of spirit p himself by force
of his acknowledgedly lawful property, or die in the
attempt. In all cottflicts the first aggressor is to be
blamed and punished. We say, as Mr. ress.twu
'sit! to Judge Bcccrn, on the trial of this Dean of
Sr. Aisne. " we stand op fur our fellow.citiaene
sights, and will not be made to sit down."

Among the Inquisitions taken et Alancholer row.
canning the oritute of the deaths of the rmirders4l
persons, is one on lbvi body of a child that died
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the arms of its mother : from the clicamstince of its
lent being Paternally bruised, the verdict was, "
eidental Reath, in coosequence of sudden and violent
palpitation of the heart, caused by its mother being
ridden against by • light horst-num." With *bat
eloquence does the silent tongue of this dead infant
cry for vengeance against the " untlebaucherl
of the Manchester Magistracy and their military
I myrmidons, who so fatally seconded it ! !
We hear that the Siath Annual Bible Assoriitirs
by order of It. A. Cox, Erg. Alderman, to be held'
tn.utnrrow, at lire o'clock, at Mr. Wit.t.am's Crest
Room, in Bartholomew.clore, where the company
of the Friends of Order and K idical Reform are el,.
peered to 'aloud after the first Meting is over in
Smithfield, and that all those • ho sic in avant of in-
struction may have • Bible, b} which they may Imo
not only their duly to Oleic Coo, but also their duty
to man—

fur this is the

•• Fear Ono nod beep his
whole duty of man.—
'• To lose .he Lord thy GOD with all thy brut, and with all
thy soul, and ono ail my streu,ob, sail thy uei‘itiorss as
thyself."
Idnornoten is the curse of Goo
Kmin Irdige :be Irma ortirre•ttb we fly to GC111(11!
A oni•om vme, 111 r fiiiiiivrinty rust ~sue ii•junCllo2
Remember. 0 my Friends, the law, I!,.
The generous plan f Posen, drlitetrit &tall
Ettess Age to Age, by your relit/coed fitrefcliers,
So dearly bought at the price or .0 such thrial!
! neve, let it peri.h is pur tan/h.
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,;••• • t:litt:n —•—Cass.