The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-20 00:00:00

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THE STATESMAN.

FRIDAY, ,11,•GUir

Manchester is represeuted as 'weaselly subtitling
into topo.e. Bit tin doubt it is only the repot', of
body after eztraordinary and vigorous exscerbstion,
leaving the mind still to ruminate en past and threat.
oiled ills. In the contiguous villages, whets the peo-
ple were not overawed by the mitirtary, they evinced,
es ass natural enough, symptoms of resentful escape.
ration. We cannot conceive bow the most ingenious
defenders of the Magistrates can devise any thing in
the shape of a jostification of their condom!. Si far
from c..mmendable was it in them to employ the Teo.
manry rather than the military of the Line, we be-
lieve from our souls that such military would not bate
made each a charge, nor have stirred till the period
prescribed by the laws after the reading the Riot Act.
The Commander of any regular forces of the Line
would have reflected on the seriousness of his
siteatiett, and lave taken the responsibility es
himself of refusing to obey an illegal order.---
As the matter linos out, a great member of thew
I troops se eager fur action are the sons and nephews
of the Magistrates themselves, a wishful look, there.
fore, Is as good as a word of commend ; to the newt
they go, sad the tragedy ends with the death of ne.
Iserves martyrs, end akw of OM actors themselves.
1 Under smother sod holier order of things we trust,
that Manufacturers (the other day ; !shouters them-
' se:ves) will sot be 'halted lets Magistrate., at least
1
chile they coatis'', le trod*. Bow caw they be na-
-1 I partial if the p or eftinS4 are called before them
, I ender as occeseties of coespirieg with others to raise
their wager! The este might to have struck the
Lords.l.ieetenent of the respective counties who have
signed their decline:es. But this arti.le, like a 'Di!.
lion of others, most be posted to Reform, and hithetto
those accounts are committed to the acute book.

The PROCLAMATION has been the primary care of
the effusion of blood, which the Yeomanry Cavalry
of Mencheeler have poured oat ou its neighltnoriog
soil. Now, if that toil must FP enriched by Lumen
gore, It ought to be by that of its haughty enemies,
sot of its iudastrinus artisans. If eke Ministers
oho advised that ill-judged scroll had load josti,:e
and liberty but half as much as place and poser. ti ry
woad Lave suggested a line of it, but unkt!ii
far otherwise have advised the PrINCR
who appears to submit every thing to their Fuld*
mice but the rudder of the yacht in whidi he
is Bailin mend a tributary islet of his boutirol
sod pro ..c kingdom : in which bit he pry
jade live so much at their ease. (We hate the
word subject, for it is an indignant one. The PEO-
PLE are the SOVEREIGNS of the hie, sod It ry
delegate the rover-ignry of it tip their KING. Why

thee most they be called sobjnts ?!!) The Procla-
mation then It+s turned out to be the quick match
which, in the hoods of the boosbardters(the bonsbades
praetor of Msochewer) has set ire to the com-
bestible materials, which hate been orcumulating for
ears! and then, forsooth, the Ministerial mouth.
pieces—the ratiocinators of the tltroith l'rcst Icy the
whole to Mr. HUNT and CPPIETT'S twopenny parn•
phlet. It would be wiser in them to say less of Mr.
lilunT: we told them what they would make of him

by their personal attacks and puerile Anse. They have
wate►ed the soil in which this vignrees Pat►iot hes
thriven, They have cultivated him and made him
grow, and they are entitled to the harvest, and he
will give it them.

However fell the mind rosy be of the dismal oe-
eoreences at Manchester,there is very tittle of novelty
to be said open them. The respoosibility must lie
upon the Magistrates of the place. for the mischief
they have brought on the neighbourhood and on their
country. It will most assaredly remain a bar of re.
preach upon the arms of England in the eyes of all
foreigners and other nations. The mandate of Mi-
nisters even remold not attenuate their crime; be) we
sincerely believe that they could not urge any thing
of the kind in their esesse : for much as we have to lay
al the doors of those Gentlemen silos have the sway
of
these realms in their hands, they are too conning
to commit themselves in that manner. No : we
believe these worthies will leave the Magistrates
to their Ns for their over.rarns courage against
their countrymen, as former Ministers left the
greet uncle of General Bun to his, for his
over cool condect towards the French. /ld
therefore, if they have been rash enoegh to direct
the military to make a charge upon the people before
proclamation of the hint Act, and an hour elapsing
after reading it, they have made themselves amenable
to the laws as murderers, and if consicted of the
deadly crime, will no doubt be left to suffer for it ;
gm although nor ruling Statesmen hare done away
the law of light to .4ppeal (probably foreseeing in-
stances where it might be used by lie friends of the
slaughtered Patriots), yet will it be though; perhaps
quite politic to allow the law to lake its course.—
Saeribces are pertain political as well as in religious
history.

A very sensible and highly-gifted Correapondent,)
ie a Letter in our front page, entitled " Taxa-non
AND RAPILIBENTATION RECIPROC‘L," has, ha the
course of his freitful contemplation, elicited from
his mind an idea for which he d the highest
distinction the country can give him. For elebnogh
it is no sooner espoaed to the understanding of a
man of common sense, than it Is eagerly embraced
es a self-evident preposition, yet might it have lain
buried or unexplored for an age longer in the pro-
fundity of a philosopher's or patriet's cogitating
brain. We will not scruple to say, that it promises
to be of mere reel benefit to man in society when put
late real existence, than all the machinery of the
steam-engine, or of other kinds which have been in-
vented doting the last and many preceding centuries.
—lt seems to es to be that grand DESIOtRATUN
which man in the social compact has been looking and
sighing for ever since the adoption of a representative
kind of Government. It is not going too far to say,
that if pet in practice and effect (and that it will be
so the improved state of the human mind firmly asserts
as), it will act like a renovating principle to coon.
fetid or neutralise the corrupting one in checking
the natural abuse which would otherwise inevitably
attend the growth of power, or its continuation In the
seine hands. CONSTITUTIONAL! There can
be no doubt of that. We hare a Constitution—we
will insist upon its being brought into view (to the
mind's eye at least) and into practice. It is founded
an Freedom. Every thing which can magnify or
secure that freedom to ell the People of Britain is
the British Constitution. Thus is the blessing of
Its tot being written in ink discovered ; foe if it
bad been so chalked net; our corrupt and ponerful
enemies of every description, Borouglnongere, Mi.
misters, and Minirters' tools would all hate suited
and have called upon os to show them the bond.—
" is it so written," these Shylocks, these suitors of
their fellow-creature'. lees and blood would have
cried. But, no; our Constitution is indelibly written
In the blood of our famed ancestors (and in this we
prove, that if man has improved the arts and sciences
be is himself degenerated). It is deposited in the
hearts of the brave Patriots of England ; and its
enemies must cot their way through their bodies
(as the Local Yeoman Cavalry of Manchester have
just cut their way through the ranks of unarmed men,
women, and children, to get at Mr. Ilumv), ere they
can despoil us of that political treasure. If this 44-
(fleery had been fortunately laid open to the Patriots
in 1770; if it had been asserted and insided upon
(end none but the base, the selfish, the sophistical,
•r the conceited can deny it), that any House of
Commons, professing to represent the People of Bri-
tain, hail not the power to inflict a perpetual tag upet,
such People, we bad not had an American war,
which cost the blood and lives or two milliong of our
fellow. creatures, sod
_five tiondred million, of debt.
We will do no more at present than refer our
Readers to the letter itself, in which the 111.2.
torn, uce_,
_
thoogh simply attired, and modestly ;
carries with it, the lineaments of the grandest
perception that the imeginetine of man was ever
stored with. Here is 1911Ittbini to buil% fof•