Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-08-19
FOREIGN.
Continuation Of Foreign News By tile Tea
Plant.

Continuation Of Foreign News By the Tea
Plant
LONDON, June 18.
lie interest excited by the trials for
high treason, has been rarely eoualled.
II was not. confined TO the metropolis,
but spread through every part of the u
Dited Kingdom. We have felt il our du-
ty, upon this extraordinary occasion. TO
make extraordinary exertions for tIe ora
thcation of our readers. We have now
TO express our hope that these exertions
nave not altogether failed. The Travel
Ter of yesterday presented circum-
stance uneXampled in the annals of Eve
nIng Newspapers-a journal printed on
the largest paper allowed to be used. and
containing FORTY columns, of which
thirty three were appropriated 10 the trial
of Mr.. Watson.
In our last we gave a sketch of the de-
bate In the House OF Lords, OH the Bill
Tor the further suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act. This subject becomes
more and more interesting. The acquit-
tai OF Watson, and the other persons ac-
cused OF high treason, az the general suspi-
cion that the evidence of base performers
is tile ground ofmost off the accounts of
conspiracies which have been circulated
have so far removed the apprehensions
which had been raised, that the peo-
pie now begin TO think cooIlv upon
the suspension of their chartered rights.
The real lovers of the Constitu
ton begin naturally 10 ask whether
the danger, of which so much has been
said, arises from such men as the WORTHY
junto of Watson, Thistlewood. Castles.
&c. We join the name of Castles with
those Of the worthy reformers-for LET il
be recollected that he was their compani-
on, although the badness of his character
must have been known. None but the
very lowest of the populace can be the
partisans of such leaders none but the
most ignorant of The vulgar, or the most
stupid OF those whose mental vision Vio-
lence obscures, can expect any advan-
tage from the remedies ofsuch phvsici-
ans OF the state.
What should we think of Watson for a
flrst lord OF the treasury, and Castles for a
secretary of state ? Such are tie charac-
tiers on account of whose plots against
the government the IIabeas Corpus Act
has been suspended. But it NAV be said
mat tie principle inculcated is DANCE
rous, and the French Re, oIution will be
mentioned, TO shcw that the humblest
SVhSpTdlofs may be the origin OF The most
fatal consplracies. This is true enough,
ana that dreadful example ought never TO
escape our recollection; but would if not
se an unjust and gross libel on the pco-
pie OF England 20 say that the general
state OF morals and of feelings on pollri-
cal affairs is the same here as il was in
france when the revolution took place
There is IN this Country good sense, a
sincere attachment TO wcll-Tegulated H.
DerIy' winch is better protection TO 20
yernment than any coerciye measure
Even admitting the existence ola state oil
n'ind hostile TO The established order OF
things among the lower class. is the sus.
pension of the Habeas Corpus Act likely
TO lessen it Z On the contrary, will II
not diminish their respect for the Consti-
tuition
Those who are enemies to our establish
cd Constitution, and whose preteudee