that a Repetition of such Suspensions, as we are credibly informed, was once which we know not how to distinguish bought by a French King's Mistress from Usurpations, will be rendered for her English Correspondent in impracticable. Time of War; and it stands on Record that, at another Time, those Seats were purchased wholesale by the Nabob of Arcot for his intriguing Agents. None then, Sir, can assure us, that at this Day a whole Troop in the Pay of a Napoleon may not sit and vote in that House. The Inveteracy of this Disease was Independent of these unconstitutional Proceedings, there had been much Cause of Complaint, if not of Suspicion, in the Obstacles interposed by Ministers for preventing the accustomed Access of the Subjects to their Sovereign; wherefore, Sir, in now beholding Your Royal Highness Regent of the Kingdom, we are in-made manifest to the whole World, spired with a cheering Hope, because His Majesty, should his Health be happily restored, will assuredly, through the faithful Report.of Your Royal Highness, learn the true Condition of his Kingdom, and the real Sentiments of his loyal and aggrieved People. when, in the Cases of Mr. Henry Wellesley, Lord Castlereagh, and the present Minister, Mr. Perceval, all accused of trafficking in those Seats, not only no Punishment ensued, but the Traffic was vindicated-and for this extraordinary Reason, that it was become as notorious as the Sun at Noon-Day. In habitual Suspensions of the Regal Functions it is not a mere Token we Here, Sir, is the Cancer of the discover whence to infer the Exist- State. With a House of Commons ence of Evil. In Breaches of the Con- rapidly becoming, by the Virulence stitution so flagrant we do not wit-of this Pest, a mere Mass of Corrupness mere slight Indications of some-tion, Death must ensue, unless the thing wrong; but they are so many Cancer to its last Fibre be eradicated, Proofs that a Borough Faction, tram- and free Parliaments restored. pling on the Rights of Crown and People, triumphant Reigns. In the Example now fresh in all our Minds, the indignant Nation hath seen in full Display that Faction's odious Preten-ters can become a Substitute. sions, and Your Royal Highness has been made sensible of its detested Power. Thirty Years ago it was declared by Sir George Savile, in his Place in Parliament, that the Commons House was no more a Representation of the People of this Kingdom than it was of the People of France. The Seats in that House, both for close and for open Boroughs, are notoriously marketable. One of them, For such a Restoration Your Royal Highness must perceive that no Talent, no Wisdom, no Virtue in Minis Proud and light Men have indeed, in all Ages, pretended to such a Skill. Puffed up with a Conceit of their own Sufficiency, they have been abundantly ready to dispense with the Constitution. But did not all History proclaim the Absurdity of such Pretensions, that Absurdity must, to every reasoning. Mind, be self-evident. The Nature of the nefarious System of Government, which hath grown with the Growth and strengthened with the Strength of the Borough Faction, is ascertained to us by long and calamitous Experience. Its Root is Tyranny; its Fruit is Ruin. It scourged America into Resistance: Ireland it tortured into Rebellion. It disinherited Your Royal Highness of many and flourishing States; and the numerous Seamen of those States it alienated from the English Navy. It was this System of Government which peopled our Prisons with innocent Persons, for the malignant Persecution of whom Ministers took Shelter under a Bill of Indemnity passed by themselves and their Abet tors. It is this System of Government which hath pauperized more than a Million of our English Fellow-subjects; and which daily augments the Number. It is this System of Government that covers our once free Land with Bastiles and Barracks; that brands the Millions of England as Cowards, needing foreign Soldiers for Defenders; and that brings back upon us the Doctrines and the Cruelties of the Star Chamber. This System of Government, by a blind Infatuation, confers on French and other foreign Roman Catholic Officers what it offensively refuses to native Irish, filling the Hearts of the Irish Millions with Indignation and Resentment; combustible Passions, which, so pent up, cannot without Terror be contemplated. . This System of Government hath in the End demonstrated the Wickedness and exposed the Folly of those who, to tear from the People all Hope of a just Reform, forced them into an unjust War. For, after Hundreds of Millions have been insanely squandered, after Rivers of Blood have been inhumanly shed, after the Nation, foiled and disgraced, has been reduced to a forlorn Hope,-after all this has been brought on us by corrupt, short-sighted and tyrannical Men, for putting down and treading under Foot Parliamentary Reform, it is at length seen that in this Reform, and in this Reform alone, national Salvation can be found. During the Machinations for fettering Your Royal Highness and bringing you under the galling Yoke, you must, Sir, have noticed the Faction's base Ingratitude to the King your Father, for whom with the deepest Hypocrisy they affect the greatest Devotion. That System of Government which has been our Bane, that System of Government which had its Origin in the worst Corruptions, and the most treacherous Counsels of ill Advisers, they made no Scruple to call the King's own System of Government. There is no View, Sir, of the Nation's Affairs but must impress on Your Royal Highness a Conviction of the pernicious Consequences of a System of Government founded on a House of Commons in which the People are not represented. Wherefore, the Subject which above all others, for its paramount Importance, we are anxious, Sir, to rivet on your Thoughts, is that which Your' Royal Highness has found to be uppermost in our own,-Parliamentary Reform. It being our confident Hope that the present Session will not pass away without a Renewal of Parliamentary Efforts in that Cause, we believe, Sir, | It is this Faction, Sir, ostentatious that a public Knowledge of an earnest Desire on the Part of Your Royal Highness for the Success of those Efforts, would assuredly cause their early Triumph. of its usurped Dominion, which, for several Months at a Time, you have now a second Time seen carrying on Government over the English Nation without either a King or a Regent; thus striking in public Opinion at the Utility of the Kingly Office; thus striving to deepen the Root of their own Usurpation, and to accustom the People to the most extravagant Exer Convinced indeed we are, that whenever the Crown and the Subject, for mutual Self-Preservation, shall make common Cause in pursuit of this indispensable Object, the odious, the intolerable Usurpation of the Bo-cise of their hateful Power. rough Faction, smitten by the united Rays of the Law, the Constitution, the Throne, and the Nation, must, like a noxious Exhalation, melt in Air and disappear. Wherefore, Sir, we repeat, that it is a Faction which alike tramples on the Rights of Crown and People. All but the Name of King this insolent Faction hath usurped. Nay, Sir, with a King's Authority it is not content; the Faction aims at nothing short of being despotic. When therefore Your Royal Highness, with us, shall be convinced, that the usurped Authority of the Faction is utterly incompatible with "the Safety, Honour, and Dignity of His Majesty, and the Welfare of his People," which, as Regent, you have sworn " you will in all Things, to the utmost of your Power and Ability, consult and maintain," that Con Against all Counsel for protecting or fortifying the Borough Faction, who are hostile to your every Interest, we trust Your Royal Highness will be on your Guard. Ours, Sir, were we entitled to offer it, would be Counsel of another Complexion; as will be that of all those loyal and faithful Advisers, whose Desire it is that Your Royal Highness should escape the Toils of the Wicked, that you may not be unconstitutionally shackled, and made to appear the Patron of a Faction, instead of stand-viction in the Mind of Your Royal ing free, dignified, independent, Highness will be to us a Source of and illustrious at the Head of the the most animating Hope, and a PreNation. sage of recovered Rights and Liberties. Once, Sir, identified with the Borough Faction, Farewel to Greatness! Think, Sir, of a Prince of Asturias and a Godoy! Surrounded by the Toils of that Traitor, the unhappy Prince became instrumental in undermining his own reversionary Throne, and in accelerating the Downfal of the Kingdom of his Inheritance! In the Borough Faction, Sir, behold an Army of Godoys! Were it not, Sir, a Law of Nature, that none can taste the godlike Pleasure reserved to the patriot Saviour, who hath not first acutely felt the Pain of contemplating public Wrongs and Calamities, the Citizens of Westminster would have to regret that the Wrongs and Calamities of their Country should have made the principal Theme of this their first Salutation of Your Royal Highness, in the Cha-" and Rev. William KNOX, fourth son of racter of Regent. But having not failed to dwell also with Emphasis on that Reform which is the sole Remedy for the Nation's political Evils, they trust they have given the best Proof of their Anxiety that the Blessings of a grateful People should await Your Royal Highness; and that by all Posterity your Name should be venerated as long as human Records shall endure. It is thus, Sir, the Citizens of Westminster give you their Pledge, that, in all your Exertions for saving the State, they, with Life and Fortune, are determined to stand by Your Royal Highness. SUMMARY OF POLITICS. "the venerable Viscount Northland, now "in his 81st year, by the Hon. Miss Vesey, sister to the late Viscount De "Vesci. The Bishop, soon after he was ordained, married Miss Spencer, sister "of Mrs. Pomeroy, wife to the Hon. and Rev. J. Pomeroy, brother to Viscount "Harberton, and daughter of the late "James Spencer, Esq. of the county of "Kildare. Mrs. Knox was married at a "very early age, and although possess"ing an uncommon share of personal charms, "it was in the domestic circle of her own "family she sought for happiness, fulfilling "the duties of a wife to a most affectionate " husband, and those of an anxious and "tender mother to a numerous family, the "eldest of whom is now a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. When his Lordship "was translated to the 'See of Derry, he "found much to correct and more to im"prove; his predecessor, the Earl of "Bristol, having been for some years an "absentee, his liberal intentions were "not always carried into effect. To pro"mote the manufactures, encourage agri " culture, and improve the morals of the county and its inhabitants, have been "the great objects of his life; and how "far this Prelate has succeeded, the Ad MR. BINGHAM.--In my last, I thought it my duty to state the case of MR. BINGHAM, the unfortunate and falsely accused Clergyman of Sussex; and 1 could not help contrasting the conduct of" dress presented by the Clergy and the London daily news-papers towards him with their conduct towards the Bishop of Derry, during last winter and much about the time that they were attacking Mr. Bingham.But, I did not say all that I wished to say upon this part of the subject. There were, upon the occasion referred to, such instances exhibited of the terror under which the press moves in this country, when not on the side of power, that, perhaps, are without a parallel.--It will be remembered, that the MORNING CHEONICLE was one of the papers threatened with prosecutions by the Bishop. On the 5th of November (mark the day), the matter was brought before the Judges of the King's Bench, and then it was stated, that the Morning Chronicle was to be prosecuted. On the third of November, the poor CHRONICLE appears to have smelt out its danger, and, accordingly, it betook itself to supplication, prayer, and atonement in the following terms, to which I must beg the reader's particular attention.- "The Bishop of Derfy. This amiable and highly respected "Prelate, who has been the unmerited subject of so much calumny, is the Hon. "Gentlemen of the Diocese, on a late oc- about the origin of the prosecution against Mr. Bingham. It is as clear as daylight, that he was not guilty of either of the crimes laid to his charge; and, one is really at a loss to account for the origin of the prosecution. We have seen how it proceeded: but, to assign an adequate cause for it appears, at present, to be impossible. --A thought does, indeed, occur to one; but, then, it is so shocking; it is so horrible; it is so revolting to human nature, that one cannot entertain it. What! prosecute a man, soberly seek the life of a fellow-creature, pursue him to an ignominious death and throw his widow and a dozen children upon the world to starve ; and this solely for the purpose of testable to think of.--However, we shall see the report of the Trial soon; and, then we shall be better able to judge of the real motives of the prosecution; and, I would press upon the public to attend to the subject; for, it is one, in which every man of us is deeply interested. -This' whether poor Mrs. Bingham does not equal her in this respect at least. Then we are to know that the eldest son of the Bishop is a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. The writer winds up with the public spirited efforts of the Bishop, and with a formal acknowledgment of his own guilt, and an act of self accusation and condemnation.--What must a man have felt before he brought his pen to trace this paragraph upon the paper! Reader, put yourself in his place, and say, what you would not rather have suffered than write such a paragraph as this.-Only think! The whole family! From grandpapa down to the boy on board the fleet! As if, however, even all this was not enough; as if this disgusting, this nauseous, this......... But, it is too base; it is too deloathsome puff was not sufficient, the same paper, the next day after the above-mentioned occurrence in the King's Bench Court, published the following:-"The "Roman Catholic inhabitants of the city "and liberties of Londonderry having found "it expedient to enlarge their chapel, the "Lord Bishop of Derry, with that munifi"cence and liberality which have always cha"racterized his Lordship, has been pleased "to contribute the sum of 50l. to enable "them to complete this necessary but expensive undertaking.". -Whether the Right Reverend Father in God knew any thing, or heard any thing, of these acts of atonement, is more than I can say ; but, I have not seen any account of any prosecution carried on against the Morning Chronicle on account of the " amiable and "highly respected prelate."Now, I say, that, though the Right Reverend Father in God has an income fit for a Prince, and much greater than some princes, there was no reason for doing him justice, as to slanders published against him, which reason ought not to have operated in the case of Mr. Bingham.—This is what I find fault of; that no reparation whatever has been made to this gentleman. These miserable sinners were as bold as Hercules with respect to him. They were in no dread of him. They could not discover that he had been slandered; and, to this very hour, though he has been proved to have been by them most falsely accused, they say not a word tending to do away the effect of their former publications.-It was not enough to do all they could towards causing him to be hanged: they must now, by their silence, seem to deny that he ought to have been acquitted. There is something very mysterious hangs PORTUGUÉSE SUBSCRIPTION.Subscription goes on but slowly. The whole of the sums subscribed do not yet amount to quite 24d. each for the Portuguese, and this, you will perceive in paper-money, which, in the transit loses, they say, about 30 per centum. So that. there will remain to each person but 21d. at the most.There seems to want animation in the business. A war-whoop by the pensioned poet FITZGERALD would do good, I should think. 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