Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-11-26
From CoJtett's Register.
TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
LETTER IL,

LETTER ii.
On affairs connected with the French Revolution,
=, Affair in Belgium Affairs at the Bank in London
My LORD DUKE.
l. liz my last letter proved, that the hired writer
OF the Quarterly Reuiew must have known. in May
tndt PoLIGNAcs blow intended to be struck
IN July. A poor hired mortal like this could not
have gotten this knowledge from PorIcNAc. 1t
must have been communicated to him by somebody
IN London; and when looks narrowly into the
affair." 1t appears evident, not only that the plot wa
fnotcn IN London beforehand; but that it was hatch
ed IN London; tina, the whole thing was contrved
here instgated here; and that the object of the plot
was, not 10 do any good to the Bourbons; not to
uphold their throne and their power; but serue
the purposes ofte 6orougtniongers Of England; to
sdhre to them the quiet enjoyment of the rich fruits
of their traffic. Lest you should not know what
r66ghmonger is, will describe him to you He
is man. or, rather, monster, who traficks in cor
ruption, who buys sells seats, and who is called
borough -monger as we call traffcker in iron an
ironmonger or traficker in cheese cheesemoneer
Perhaps it would be more proper 70 call him seat
nionger; more proper still, uofe ulongeT, and
then the French term would be narchand de rotes.
2. 1t being matter of great Importance that the
French nation now clearly understand, not only
what borough -monger is, but also what is the ex
tent of the traick, that nation ought be inform
ed of the following undenable facts; that IS to saw
that, IN 1898. Mr. Grey, now Earl Grey presented
petition to he House of Commons, signed by him
self and others, stating, that decided majority of
that House. was returned by one hundred and Gfip.
four men, partly peers, and partly great comnoners
and by the ministry of the day." that he offered to
prove the allegation by witnesses at the bar of the
House, and that he was not permitted to bring his
witnesses to the bar; that there an appendix to
this petition. containing list of the names of all
the peers and great comn1oners, who thus returned
the members, exhibiting the number of members
returned by each; md that this list is recorded i'm
the Annual Register for the year f79s that IN I779
the House ofCommons had resolved that an attenpts
to traffck in seats in that House was ehighIy cri-
mimi in minister of the king; that it was an attack
q N he HsoniE cf tbe inf,
ment on the rights and liberties of the people and
an attempt TO sap the basis of free and hnppyz
constitutions" that, on the 25th April 1899, LoRD
CAsTLEREAGH, then minister of the king havinp
been proved to have thus fficked the House re-
solved. s'tha it its bounden duty to maintain at
all times jealous uard its purity; but the at
tempt. in the present instance, not haping been car
ried into effect the House did not think Unnecessary
to proceed to any eliminating resolutions; that alas
in only sixteen days after this Mr.. MApocKs MEM
Der for Boston, accused this Castlereagh, to-
gether with two other ministers of the king not on
lily of traficking seat, but OF having COMPLETED
the ba, gain. and carried 1t full effect that Inv
ing made this charge, Mr.. Madocks moved that the
House should inquire into the matter; that the
House then debated upon this motion; that there
were three hundred and ninety five members pre-
sent; and that (hear it, Frenchmen!) three hundred
and ten voted against all inqury and that too. as
speaker in the debate openly declared, ssbecauss
this traff1ck was as notorious the sun ct noon dan
1t is, then, evident. that the borouehmon GERS
must have had great desire to put an end to free
election by ballot IN France for if that system contn-
ued there; II France were happy and prosperous
der that system, how was England, suffering so Sc
verely under this system, to be expected to remain
long in submission to it? In fact we the Reormers
tbelng nineteen twenteths of the naton now had in
addition to all other arguments this. sshere s
France prosperous and tranquil with free elections.
and why should not be the sanee America Won
may say, is no precedent for Us; but France France
with king and peers and an established church; if
she be t-anQ6 and prosperous with free elections
why should not the people of England have the now
er freely to choose their representatives." To this ar
gument there was no answer. and the boreuehmon-
gers saw, that they must either destroy the grounds
" the drgument or must, before long, giue up their
profitable trade. The latter not to be thouqht
of and therefore they resolved on the forme that is
to say to destroy the free elections in Franco Our
false or foolish newspapers talk of ETrERNIcus pots
Austria had no interest in punging France into con
fusion; she had no Interest in putting down free
elections in France she had reason to fear the Of
feet of the examples the French were Tranquil and
confronted because they were prosperous the kinp
OF France was in the enjoyment of quiet power o.
nough to disturb the tranquility of France was tho
interest of nobody in the world our boroupbmonrers
only excepted but it their manifest interest TIM,
precisely that should be done ohch Po!ienac neroed
TO do For If he had succeeded, the boroncbmonners
would then have answered our petitions thus: "Tbere
you see the effects office elections in France, The
French have tried the wild thing and thew have been
obliged to abandon it; therefore, hold your tonpues
d Thus, then, they had the most powerful of al
possible motives to instigate PoLIGyAc to the deed:
and now let US see the facts in support of the opinion
that they did inssSgnte him. and indeed that AMONGST
them the plot was hafched l. PoLIGSAc had lived
ID England during great part of his life and had
been be, constantly amongst orr boroughmongers q
plot began to be talked of in France; Immediate.
ly after he went from England to France in Anoust
1929 g. The pamphlet of Corfu, which was a sort of
manifesto in justification beforehand of the com d
edf was published at Paris early in 1880 and before
ne Cham0ers we're d'ssoioed 4. That, IN this pam
phiet Corfu stated, that MoNTEsaUIEu was wrong
IN describing the English House of Commons as
representing the people at large; for that of the 653
members, the aristocracy and the crown chose the
chole ercept III; and he asserted that this ought to
De the cGsc an France 5. That this Corfu who is
lawyer land counsellor ofthe royal cur, at Paris
mad before ne wroIe his pamphlet, been for several
toasted by the boroughmopgers, and particularly bv
those lawyers who are their tools; that he was ia
ken about to public places, and seen frequent
y sitting eUen the bench Nth the judresz g. That
after all this, he goes from London to Paris, and
there publishes pamphlet to show, that the ars-