The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-04


principle of a parliamentary reform whene
YER 1t Shall be introduced before the Ha,se.
Liverpool, Nottingham and a multitude Of
other cities and towns have felt the same
impulse, and pursuedthe same conduct; aud
Norwich and many others are on the point OF
proceeding tOPAssIBus EouIs. At Livcr-
pool. a piece ofplate of lO00sc value was voted
to MIR. Wardlc, with an appropriate inscrip-
ton.
We trust, therefore, we shall rot stop
where we arc; other meetings, and in con-
nection with the grand object of preventing
similar abuses lin future, bv more c!FeC.ual
means than the mere dead iettered reports
OF parliamentary Committees, and parha-
mentary commissioners. are already arriv.
ing. and as we hope, are about to bring for :
ward with temper and moderation, the great
national question that has been 50 long snf-
fered to lie dormant England" said Mon
tesquien, most admirably, "can only he
ruined by her own parliament;" and it is
now high time to take care that she fail not
sacrifice to this only means of her des,ruc
ton. But should nothing more be done Than
has been accomplished, nuch would have
been accomplished already for every v1-
lain Soho may chanee 10 be cmtioved tn go
peraaent aciN be IN no friaing Gy2yree dr.
TERED from pursuing the suggestions Of mis-
condiSn Punishment.
This, however,. is not the whole that has
How ed from Mr. Wardle's rost sautary in
tvest'gatioli. n prosecution has already ia
ken place, under the direction Of the minister
himself, against a set Of wre,ched agents con-
cerned IN negotiating for the sale of places
under government The church is likely to
| be purified in some degree fy,m the same
| communicating spirit Of barter: one reverend
gentleman has actually been discharged From
4 lucrative Office, N consequence of the late
disclosure and if report speak correctly,
the pnce of Wales, and the dixie OF Cha
renee, are both on the point of discharging
several of their chaplains from their patron
age, for having 6e1Wred their hands IL. tke
same .fithy stream.
The East Indie C2mhan, is likely to be
as much benefited by this most wholesome
investigations, rs the nation at large. One of
Its directorsha already Fallen victim to the
searching spirit that is abroad; and he is by
no means the only one that is likely to suffer.
he case mir. C.. w. Thellusson is as clear
as the daylight, Notwithstanding all the eff
forts that have been made to white wash
him also from the charge of counivance or
corrupt participation. He stands convicted
10y his own evidence, and that of other wit
nesses, before the committee Of the house of
commons, Of having Exclusively OF an impro-
per distribution CT cadetships) from year to
year, tor three years sucCeSSiyeiy, sold to
his cousin, Mr.. Emperor Woodford, his no
mination to writership, valued at from
5000 to 5000 each. in purchase of the place
OF receiver of rents issuing from frecholds,
bought under the will of the late Mr.. Ihel.
fusson, by the aforesaid Emperor Wondford
as one the executors named in the said will
and as one OF the trustees os the estates pur
chased.
Lord Castereagh affords however, q more
dtrocions instance sill Of a corrutt ahhHca-
tian Of means to a holi,icai ezd This i'm
nacHlGte minister stands at this moment con
vIcted, by evidence given before the same
committee, of having endeavored to pur.
chase seat in the house OF commons for his
friend lord Clancarty, by giving to the person
who coald procure it a writerslIip in the
East India Company, value we have before
observed, at $4,000. 1t may be said here
was NO actual offer of money; hlt it was a
much verse negotiation tn an if it had been
for where money is offered, the traffic is ONLY
thshonorable * corrupt on the enc side of the
barter: in the present instance it is tlisho.
norabie and corrupt traffic on both sides -
1T is a double sale OF Illicit commodities, @.
qually atrocious towards the East India
Company as towards the purity and priv
leges parliament; and unless parliamcn ta
ry precedeats go for nothing in the present
day. the noble lord must either, like the duke
OF York, nnuoiuntariiy resign. OF be forcibly
expelled. But the question is already before
the house, and in the able hands of Lord A.
Hamilton, who has given notice of his inten.
ton to bringit forward on Friday next; and
in this nobleman's hands we shall leave it for
the present.