Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1806-10-17

meano are wanting 70 tempt y 1ortnt ".
dices a intoIlerance of rcstraint, which
grows more impafisns Tie more widely
the limits offs Poweris extended. And
when the restraint of the prerogatiye i
fell On important occasions, 80 far % frt-
Ter executive exertions 8 TO render
sliRht relaxation necessary, door - o.
pcsicd Is ambition into which ii may en-
terwith III is abuses, and whirhcan with
difficulty Be closed again. Thus the
public advansags becodles plausible
pretext, for the increase of arbitrary pow.
e.. ii Is certainly one Of the template,
ous TO II /; but whether il eanbe an excuse
81 even palliation for such designs, i
would Be undertaking my readers un-
derstandings 70 insist upon in this place.
The means BY which the influence !
now refer d was obtained were manifold
and comprehended within them every.
species 81 fraud and CORRUPTION BY which,
free people have been so often deceived,
and free countries so often undone. The
reader VIII perhaps call q mind come
thing Ike Ii which has passed under his
own eye, and not an inch ysmovsd from
the limits az The union. q First (says
the masterly painter Of that unfortunate
businessl they proceeded gradually but
not slowly 70 destroy every thing Of
strength which did NOT derive It's princi-
pal nourishment from the court. The
greatest weight Of popular opinion and
,Darfv eonne xion were then with the duke
ofNewcastle and Mr.. Pitt. /. Mr.. PIT
was first attacked--not satisfied with re-
moving him from power, they endeayor-
ed BY various arti6ces TO ruin his charac-
ter.n He then goes On, and says,
- Whsh the chiefs were removed In or.
der 20 get TO the root, the whole party
vas put under prescription, so general
and severe a. 20 take their hard earned
bread from the lowest officers, in anian-
Aer which had never been kae~n before,
even ID general revolutions. but il was
thought necessary effectually TO destroy
all dependencies but one, and 10 shew an
example Of the firmness and RIGou 4 with
which the new system was to be support.
ed.n'' $50
Pew our readers will be at q loss 70
find the fac siriie resemblance between
these ways and means Of the Butte cabal
in England, and Of those pursued BY the
men who have got the post of influence
in America; just il the same manner %
that mischieyous administration contri-
we'd 70 obtain il in England. The two,
cases are indeed 20 ike, - We shall
hereafter demonstrate, that except one
happening on the east. the other on the
west side Of the Atlantic, one in the lat
ter end ofthe eighteenth, and the other
in the beginning Of the nineteenth eentury,
one would imagine that It was the latter.
which the writer meant when he was
describing the former. As III this mat
Ter Of record win Be material 10 our ar
gument, and 70 couclusions which il il
our intention to draw from Il, the reader
isrequested 70 keep il point BY point In
mind, 30 a to have Il altogether present
when be comes 70 contemplate the two
pictures. and TO decide upon the resem.
blance between them.--s Thus for
the time, were pulled down (says the
author) in the pcrsons ofthe whig leaders
and Of Mr.. Pin Gin spite Of the services
Of the one q the accession Of the royal
family. and the recens seryices of the
other IN the war } the two only securities
TOR the Importance of the people. n-
:. Here and there indeed Continues he1
slew Individuals were left standing who
gave security fortheirtotal enlargement
from the.odions principles of party con-
nexion, and personal attachment and
iit-mnst be confessed that most Of them
have religiously kept their faith. n,
Here, as breyity Is the soul Of argu-
ment. leave the subject for the present;
beseeching the reader TO keep h mind
my leading object which Is 70 shev that
the species Of governments called IsrLU.
sHcE i the most dangerous because insi-
dious Of desPotisms, and hiatt vas M.
trodueed into England and kept alive
there for years, BY means which win Be
found 70 be preeisely the .anae :. ,,c..