The Statesman. — 1815-05-01 (London, England)

IVAR.  they must know that all the blood shed in such an unnecessary conflict will be !aid to their account— and they must expect, if they have any faith in ReTO TUE EDITOR OF' THE STATEgNIAN, relation at all, that Heaven wilt punish them for Mr. EDlroß,—Lord COKE, in his 4th Institute, those multitudinous murders--They must exc.l. has a section under this title•—•, What proper- pert, in short, something more than hard grindties a Parliament man should have." Ho tells us ing taxation, or the total subversion of pathat he should resemble the elephant in three points:— per credit and funded cecuritr—punishinents too " First he should he without gall; that Sl% S kadeqUVe to satisfy a just Froviletice for such enorhe, 44 without private malice, rancour, heat, and mous crimes!—tire, most expect, if they believe in envy ; considering only the good of the whole body the supreme government of such a Being, the. severest —the Commonwealth. Secondly," says he, " he scourges that can bef4l nations, such as we are told should be inflexible ; that is, constant, not to be were formerly made use of to punish the apostasy ni bowed or turned from the right, either for fear, re. an ancient peepie, w lin pretended to believe in his ward, or favour, nor in judgment to respect any Divine Law, yet would not practice it. If the ETIg. person. Thirdly, he should be of a ripe memory, lish nation, with the ability of enjoying peace, do and, like the elephant, uniting the greatest strength yet prefer a sanguinary war, let them be consistent, and understandinc—maxima virtutis et maximi Intel• acrd openly abjute Christianity ; for it is but aggravatlectus." His Lordship also tells us, " that the ele- ing the offence to add by pocrisy to murder. phant is an animal of a philanthropic propensity."— Doubtless, Mr. Encrou, the moral light in which Whether the majorities in a certain Assembly have this subject is here considered, and ought to be viewed followed a philanthropic propensitN or not, let the by the nation at large, is the grand and primary consilong and sanguinary warfare teat afflicted the nation deration.—And if the people will neither protest for upwards of 20 years, and the present disposition against the breach of trust in their Representatives to commence a fresh struggle, Goa knows for what, by the " unparliamentary grant of money," as Sir that may likely have as long a duration, let these I F. B. properly calls it, for unknown purposes,—nor say determine—l will not. Nor will I, Mr. Ent- petition the Legislative or FAecutive Authorities for TOR, give any opinion, whether the people's Repre- the continuance of peace, they will, indeed, he ac. sentatives, in strength and sapience, are to be coo- ve's'try to the war; for their silence will, in that pared with the elephant. With regard to that in- case, be considered as a tacit approbation of what is flexibility which this great lawyer tells us is a neces- going forward; and 'whatever may be the comesary qualification in a Parliament man—that he is quences of such measures they will have no right to not to be influenced in his judgment by respect for complain of them. If the nation were:to uplift its voice any person whatever, nor bowed nor bent from the and demand peace, they must inevitably have it,— right path by fear, reward, or fur/cur—with respect but if they prefer a murderous, because.unnecesstry, to all this, Mr. EDITOR, I will avow that now and war, let them not pretend that they are guiltless, or then we do meet with an exhibition of such sturdy foolishly repine at the consequences. Taxation they honesty as is here recommended—but then, on the know must be one consequence for certain; but there other hand, we often see so much servility in some is another consequence not altogether improbable, sort of folks, so much blind devotion to power, and and that is annihilation, for there are limits to all such credulous faith pinned upon the sleeve of a Mi• things. nister—so much arrogance on one side, and obse- A secondary and very inferior consideration is quiousness on the other, that we are tempted ,to ask that of interest." No doubt," says Mr. Treeztu, ourselves, can these men be trustees delegated to " the Continental Powers will be willing enough to watch over the interests of the people, to guard their go to war if England will but furnish them with the property from being squandered, their blood from means ; but is it to be borne that Prince