The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-08-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARLES WETHERELL. There are three points which, as they bear upon the vitality and existence of the British constitution, demand our earliest notice. These  are—  Ist. TJie King—and his rights. 211 y. The Church—and its preservation. 3dly. The Lords—and their existence.  The first concerns the. King. No less than one hundred and eighty-three boroughs who possess, and have possessed .for centuries, certain rights conferred upon them by chatters obtained from the kings of England-who know no superior but ltis majesty—,and are responsible to no tribunal but the Court of King's Bench—these boroughs are to be deprived and denuded of their chartered rights, •not by the King, or the King's court, for any act of delinquency proved or confessed, but by the House of Commons, or rather a faction of that 'house, for the purpose of conferring additional power, and an extended political influence, upon the worthless and unprincipled cabal who, by virtue of the priestly and popish support of one DANIEL O'CoNNELL, call themselves the ministers of the crown. A herd of filthy and fetid father confessors in Ireland—a crew of monks, unwashed even in the dog days—a set of brooding bigots, reared in savage ignorance, and who extort money from wretched peasants under the pretext of administering cold water to the tongues of murderers and other felons in purga tory—who cheat, and chaunt, and gesticulate, and perform all sorts of mummery in the mass-house, in order to empty the purses, the old stockings, and the hoarded bags of the most miserable slaves on the face of tie ' earth—these people, we say, having returnedO'CoNtstr.i. and some forty other fellows to the House of Commons, have compelled Lord JoIIN RUSSELL not only to rob the Church of England, but to subvert the municipal carporationS of England, making them the prey of the democracy, as a prelude to the meditated spoliations .of the church-robbing and popish democracy iu Ireland. there be in Englishman in this favoured Aland who can look' upon this feloniou,s'' act with any feelings but those Of:disgust andladignation, he is a poor craven wretch, feeble in intellect, rickety in mind and body„and ki4wa4s .Ihom a mother's' attachment must be founded tnOre pity than in love. It is an act which sanctions ieonf,e-, derative insult towards the King—which strikes, and is intended to strike, at the royal prerogative—vvlrich :not only repeals all the charters grantedby the kings of Eng. l'and, but also tells the King that he is not competent to grant a charter, inasmuch as it restrains him from granting any charter without the permission of the House of Commons. It tells the King morethan this. It virtually says—" your ancestors have given powers to corporate bodies, which you have .not supervised—which you have allowed to. be abused—which you are not competent to manage—and which we the commons of England think ought to be placed under our jurisdiction, and that you the sovereign ought to be relieved from inspecting or controlling by the powers invested in the judges of your points." It goes a step beyond this, for it says—" You, the King of England, having allowed divers abuses to creep in which operate like an ulcer upon popular opinion, inasmuch 'that corporators are tories when they should be wings, and are attached to the Church of England when they should be strongly in favour of DANIEL O'CONNELL and the sainted priests of popery in Ireland, oie,•Lord JOHN and othera,shave resolved to divest your majesty of all. future power in granting charters, or forming corporations, because we think that DANIEL O'CONNELL and ourselves are better qualified to exert such a power than your majesty or any other king who shall or maybe by our infferance raised to the throne of these  Word 3 like these—plain words which carry no doubtful meaning' with thern—have not, we presume, been. addressed to WILLIAM the