The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1818-09-16

the recent banquet, and only vsiting Tor ITS
hungry hour again 10 glisten in ungorged
tapaci,y! Alas, what tenure have we even
OF such alliance! Is there member Of
that punic horde who has not been in tutn
the Toe Of his ally and the ely Of his foe, and
do you expect they will preserve that faith
towasds us which they have not been able TO
preserve towards one another! Is there
man of them who did not bow TO Napoleon,
and confess his title, and court his confede-
ration, and then denounce him as an iuegiii-
mafe usurpcI Ard was there among them,
Afterwards, consistent renegade 10 deny the
hand of frate niiy TO Beinsdotte, raised from
the ranks OF tina, very NsI.ieon! Perhaps
this instability OF polical principle may be
counteracied 6y personal attachment. Let
Prussia answer il when she looks at Alexan-
der, and remembcrs the perfdous sbaIrion-
ment Of Tilset. Let Sweden answer il when
she thilxs OF Finland. Let Poland and Sax..
oDy acknowledge IL to Prussia. Let Gnoa
speak. Let ex,inguisbed Venice proclsih'
1t for Austria. Let Austria herself syoteh
II for France, and then torn to her immofat.
ed daUghteJ-imniolated with a worse than
Jewish cruelty, no. o the god Of bartlcs, bur
TO the Internal n. -%.ch of self interest. !
speak moi now OF tnat devoted France, bend.
Jog over her violated charter, snd With tears
Of blood ex?ia.ing the creduli,y that put us
faith in princes. But speak of England, Of
the Parliament OF England, consen,ing to the
plunder, smiling on the partition, sqvander-
irg the resources OF a generous and gallant
people~-6eets, sDd'arnnies, and generations,
and for what To forward the fraud VI the
continental IntriRuers-to establish the in.
Quisition,- and torture, and Ferdinand--for the
Bourbon in France, and the Bourbon in Spain
and the Bourton in Naples-the rooled her.
edits,y enemys Of the coun y for the sbso.
Lutte blasphemy Of divine right, dog up from
its tomb, and d',e baplisrd legitimacy y---ior the
restoration of those sapguinary ffsuds upon
human freedom, against which our sages
W o;c, and our warriors fought, and our rev.
olution tbundered. Shades of Locke and
Of Milton were these your doctrins -
Blood of the Russels and ,he Hsmpdens,
tas this been your legacy! People ofEng.
land, 10 II for this tha, your orphan and your
widow NOUN ia silent resienation--tha. your
poor houses arc chosked with o famished
population Z Let those mcn answer il, who,
in the name OF Parliament, ratified the trea:
ties, voted the supplies, advanced The subs.
des, and checred he minister, Just reekipg
from that bopefut congress, where legiuma
cy, drunk with human blood, Aung its sword
into the scale against which the libsnies of
worid were balanced.
/ have. isst touched their conduct, as 10
our foreign rela,ionss Has it been cohpen.
stated by their domestic policy! As far as IN
thcm 10y, they virtually aDnihna,ed the Brit
ish constitution, and paved The way for mil.
i,ary despotism. They levelled, one by one,
every barrier which the wisdom OF ages rails.
ed around the libe rites Of tie people. They
Suspended the hsbess corpus act. Fathers
Of families were dragged from their homes,
losded with irons; subjected TO disease |;
stamped with igromy their helpless chill
dred adrifi to beggary and pros,iu,scD; ebG
then, as they had been imprisoned; and then,
as they had been imprisoned w,hou, crime
so were they released without even The de
cency IF accusation. They ihen passed the
Infamous gagg,ng act public meetings were
forbIdden--the power oi discussion was With
hed--the right of petition was in fact anhi.
ua'ed. Il was q natural consequences Of the
former measurr--w6en innocence is no cx.
emp,lon ftom punishment, the privilege Of
complaint is but moekery. They then
couniensBced lord Sidmou,h's crculat La
'""bss'sSyt PS'h"Ps i6uOsouN tS'"sPS So'
rupt, perhaps both--we, at least can fancy
such magistracy--were invested with on
arbitrary construction Of The h6ei scr, Upon
which our most learned lawyers have differ
ed in opinion. They ,hep snstchcd the op.
pressive alien act, which flung back in,ot the
jaws of death the pa,iot victims OF despotic
power, and wrested from England her I'M
prescrIptible privilege Of giving refuge 10
virtuous dcs,itution. They then secuted the
repeal Of the sep'epnial act, an act which
they wetc never delegated The power TO pass,
sbd upon the principle Of which they might
as we'll make the representation an heir loom
in their families. ! will remind you, that
tho situatiou of the captive under these uess.'
ures was SOLITARY imprisonment. Against sn
law or precedent, even msgis,rs,es were for
bidden to visit them--one man died--aptther
Mr.. Ogden. the subject Of mer rrimeo,, has
survived only to protrscted sgony. pass
from the subject, II IL too painful to dwell
upon. Wha, was the psetence for this TEN
porary dsspotism! a pic, ! plot hatchsd BY
two apolhecaries' and . lame cobbiss-the
tower was to be stofmed, and the bank plum.
N :