The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-25

-, " "'"s s's'i' nc enemies or Ketor.l. sn
ti,S other hand. held j, out as IN :lca perfectly
otopian-as a projected state ofthings under
wnch no country nor individual could exist and
SO Doth TRENDS and enemies equally terrified the
country from adopting thing which, according
70 tneir statement, was almost impossible to be,
understood--Now it appeared to him, that the.
thing couid be very easily explained 1T WAS al.
lowed by all writers, that the judicial executive.
ana legislative departments ought to be kept per.
fectiy distinct and independent of each other
ms ua not depend Upon any deep abstract
principle, but upon that very obvious principle
that IN every bargain there were two parties
Thus was a principle not only known to phil
osophers and writers upon constitutions. but !,
was also known fully as well by boys and girls at
schooi. Here 1t they had IN apple or any thing
eise 10 divide, they knew that 1t was fair that one
SHOULD divide, and another should choose but
II any school boy or school girl should claim the
rsnt ooth OF dividing and choosing, this (without
amy abstract philosophical reasoning on .he sub.
IJect would he considered monstrousy unjust s,
WOULD not be submitted to- Laughter and ab-
PlGuse- He would give another very familiar IL
iustration, but which he believed would come
directly to the point. They had all dined togeth
ca that day, and there was bill to be paid, and
reckoning tn be made.--Now what was the pr;n-
c'I'e OF the Jacobins in the co, ipsny upon that
| question They thought that as they were the
persons to pay the bill, it shoald be examined bv
persons appointed by themselves, and not by per.
sons appointed by any body else. That was sim
piy and shortly the whole OF the case with respect
70 parliamentary Reform. & .ipbiauSe Blu il
had been loudly and repeatedly stated in Parlia-
inent both by all those who have places and those
whe are looking for places, that their objects are
| more clear and disinterested and that 1t is only
the Jacobins who have wicked motives (Laugh-
te)-Now any man had been seen gurman,iiz-
ing at that dinner most vora.iousiy, and feeding
ms appetite with every delicacy he could Law
| i'oid oil, and yet should cry out that lie was a
,iah man, who preferred plain pudding 60 any
."'nS else, that man would be laughed at and
yet men whose packets were swelling out with
inc pubic money, did every day cry out in Para.
hient now pure and disinterested their motives
were' mat their country was their only object,
put tiiat the Jacobins were the wicked men who
had corrupt and selfish objects
among the enemies of those who had she wn
themselves friends to reform, Mr.. Tierney now
appeared one of the most decided He found
| laut with them for exposing what he called " the
shameful parts" of the constitution. II would
be recoilected, however, that that Gentleman
was Tor many years OF his lii,. in the constant
Practice OF exposing these shameful parts. He
aiu not leave rag to cover its nakedness, and
ne was the man to strip of all its filthy dowias.-
LaHghterJ That gentleman had, in Parlia.
nent, thanked his God that he wa. Il party man.
Now this phrase put him in mind of what Sir
John faistaif said to Hostess O,lickley. He had
called her thing, and she in great indignation,
asked him, What sort of thing do you take
me Tor, SIR John !'-" Why, thing to thank God
uPon. He did not know whether MIR. Tierney
meant to describe himself as thing TO thank God
upon, when he avowed that he was a party man.
FOR his part, he always pretessed not to be a
party man because he conceived, that the very
Vorq party, implied something less than the
whole, and he was attached only to the cause of
the people-of the public at large. He should
leave y, however, to impartial men to decide, be-
I'M ofto< l,,o
ties IN their turns He remembered the charge,
%hieh IN one OF Shakspeare's plays the Consta-
PIE Dougherty gives to his. associate: " if you
ma thief, let Linn prove what he is, and steal
out OF your company" He trusted that such Il
charge could not be directed against him.
AS to Reform, there was spirit now arising in
the country which would soon be universal 1t
was quite intoierablc to hear it avowed that seats
IN Parliament were openly traHicked for by MI
nlsters. Up to the 18th of May last, these prac-
tices were always reprobated in Parliament, and
punished whenever they could be detected but
no corruption was openly avowed on each side OF
the House. He would ask, was it to be borne,
that this England which had so long triuinplied
over other nations, should now make shameful
conquest over itself; this country, for which the
Russells and Sidneys bled, should now be sup
posed not worth using every exertion to save. II
had been said in Parliament, that corruption e&
tended from top to bottom, and that it pervaded
every class: he hoped the people of England
would not rest patiently under this stigma, thai
they would assert their own rights, and restore
the antient constitution of the land.
The next toast given was " Lord Cochrane,"
which was drank with great applause.
Sir Francis Burdett then gave, f" Mr.. Wardle,
and the 125 Members who supported him on his
motion"-l This toast was drank with an extra
ordinary degree ofenthusiasm1 et3
Mr.. Wardle, in returning thanks, declared that
he had never received an invitation which had
given him more pieasure.--He felt particular
satisfaction in paying every possible respect 10
the purest body of electors. (Abbiause.) He
thought that the electors of Westminster lIad
done themselves almost much honor in the OBJ
ject they selected for their choice, in their man,
ner of doing it. (4Ppianse. After the very a
BILE speech they had Just heard, he felt it would
be uubecoming of him TO say much
The country certainly now stood in new ST
tuation, when the practice of corrupt, vas o.
penly avowed in Parliament. This was fact
which he hoped would soon be known in every
al of corruption, the two great factions, The
Talents" and the 4" no Popery" men both agreed
Loud dbplause.) II was really astonishing that
some OF the members of the faction of the eta
lents," expressed wish, when they were in
power, that they might live in house of glass,
that all their actions might be distinctly seen &
yet now these gentlemen who challenged the
whole country to witness all their actions avow.
ed and justified corruption. 1t was, indeed, "A
curious treat to which they invited the people of
England, to look into their house of glass, and
see all their tricks and deceptions, all their con
trivanccs for returning members friendly to their
cause. He firmly believed that the first fruits of
Parliamentary Reform, would be, that the bur-