Champion (Newspaper) - November 17, 1816, London, Middlesex 3foutnat. LET NOT ENGLAND FORGET PRECEDENCE OP NATIONS HOW TO No. 20g. lltk 1816. Price We have been again disappointed the Fourteenth Number of The wind has been so contrary during the mailhas DANGER'S OF Edinburgh It is a very constant practice of existing to of political fanaticism and to this in an especial manner who arty jealousy of encroachments constitution what it is arc the liberties of posed Who thinks of attacking them supposed that any minister will be to raise taxes by the or suffer a yeur together or that 8a will a military force to obtain thd Houses to his measures Are there argument in the nature of a compensation or the courts of justice always where the may be secure of protection for his where royal influence is effectually and open never was even in the worst of by the most audacious ministers of tyranny or of usurpation it is let the whole constituted authorities be ever so much inclined towards through corruption or through the public opinion will always keep them press is free the people speak their minds the is virtually under their the at as well as of the being from among the classes of the community which have the principal interest in preserving the purity of the the people never can be till they chuse to engage in a against their own liberties Upon these the alarms excited by particular measure an the minds of constitutional are treated with infinite they are termed or affected whoever mentions is set down at once as cither factious or that an impostor or an enthusiast We regard the prevalence of this kind of reasoning the word may be so as beyond all comparison the worst symptom of the and of the most fatal augury for the rights and and the prosperity of the It evinces a degeneracy of political virtue and courage truly it arises from the most sordid or the most effeminate habits and as its existence a or even half a century would have brought England to the state of slavery in which the rest of Europe is so its continuance for any length of time bids fair to natu amongst even the worst abuses of foreign The topics to which those weak or corrupt against the true spirit of the constitution are the more because they the guise of plain matter of fact as opposed to theory; of moderation as contrasted with exaggeration of something rational and solid instead of something fantastic and even Thus they easily ou their side that class whose influence is always so much beyond their numerical the dealers in lovers of satire and rather than class composed of lazy effeminate formidable in a soft and luxurious an unbounded dominion over the frivolous and the and almost ruling over what is termed 4 hy the same fear of a to for heir they are themselves absolutely We consider it as a most sacred to stand forward at ihe present in defiance this declamation to show how rational and solid the fears winch ihe friends of their country for its liberties in these It is Uie more necessary fur us to do something of this since views ot foreign and the recent from th it have lulled some of the stoutest advocates of and set those against us ' should ' It is .ui that the alarms excited by the French n for a while have Mr. .md those who agreed upon oilier questions Uly springing out ol I hat great minds wire tilled with Lhe of what they regarded as the paramount and they could not stop look at any Hence they were sometimes use casually and which were greedily caught up by the herd of vulgar whose as well as what they call their thera to the defence of every and the ridicule and reprobation of all who plant themselves in the outworks of the and inch hy all its This SOW Me tribe have thus contrived to borrow the authority of Burke for their bad and to persuade the unthinking mass of that they act in concert with that great in their warfare against the rights pf the and their mockery of the champions of 'the Because he overlooked lesser fin. preventing he deemed for the time the preeminent is to be cited as careless of all attacks popular Because he thought anarchy the pressing danger in his latter he is to be as the patron saint of those who love despotism as convenient to their or congenial to their habits j and the mau who of all others perhaps that ever spoke or wrote upon political the most feelingly alive to every thing like a constitutional life was spent in struggles against encroachments hardly visible to the naked endeavouring to dissipate political disorders in their first and while their not discernible to the he whose fault it was to if it be a the importance of every in any and with how little force touches Ihe fabric of the is now held up as with the authority of his great those whose doctrine it that nothing the government can do is of turning the Parliament out of doors by and the taxes by the armed force of the crown f There is perhaps no way of more speedily at a view of the intimate the different parts of the English and of the imminent danger to which the safety of whole fabric is by the injury of any than a plain consideration of what it is that forms the real of our principle that keeps the system After all we have seen of it would be a vain fancy to that the representation of the people is of itself a sufficient security for their Even if that representation were much more perfect than it it would be liable to the influence of the and might be intimidated by In to what baseness lias not the Parliament at one time or another itself a parly The administration of is no doubt singularly and the from their habits of are generally little under the evil influence which a contact with the Court is apt to their leanings are almost always towards power and if the Crown could safely tamper with them it could fully exercise the discretion vested in it hy of chusing them from among tools fit for wicked distribution ol justice might soon become as corrupt as the accomplishment of those purposes Observe then the kind of defence for our by the letter of the we hue in those great bulwarks of the Parliament and the Courts of law sec how the lawful authority of the Crown encroaches often upon its tends to sap them and then shv is by them that we keep our or if they have as great need of being maintained against the privileges which they are meant to That the majority of Parliament is steadily with the supporting all its ordinary is a. That when a minister has been thus supported by it in all his and happens to lose his place for pursuing those he speedily loses the support of the very men the day backed is a matter no proposition can be named much more than many which the Parliament has plurality of is equally flic result Yet we trust to body with we a of exp r ver i that w the to certain measures of an j or an impolitic il would re- ject nay even Crown could its j measures would remain every one that the Judges are generally from among barristers educated in long habits with the ruling men and whoso are those of the But the Crown might by basest of sycophants to have stilt promotion to expect for and favours to ask for their gratitude to their patrons were out of tho and the servile habits or slavish opinions that recommended them to notice were forgotten their In the hands of parliamentary majorities so and of the Judges so are our whole liberties placed by for the protection of personal there is the Habeas Corpus hot those Judges must execute it and if they expose themselves to its penalties by refusing to give it they is some of their have to inter- fere for the infliction of the If they refuse to inflict what remedy is there but a petition or a motion in Parliament This sacred principle of Resistance is the very foundation of all our liberties it is the cause to which owe it only be and they are Mr. Fox is represented lo have that it should be held up to the as to the as We suspect there must be some mistake in this statement of his or that if he used such an it was only an manner of what had have been at once plainly that the people should not be reminded of as long as their kept the possibility of it before their is the proposition at all By in this are to be understood the executive but all the 1 through whose the ot the Crown may be carried into As long at and the Courts of Law are retained in the line of their duty by the force of public no necessity ever can arise for bringing the Crown and the People into immediate is the great use of such and it is thus only that they may be called bulwarks to They enable us to make head against merely with ad but at a distance from the and without coming to close they form grand distinction between regular and despotic forms of precisely because they perform this Hy means of them it that opinion ' operates by its preventive and renders it unnecessary to employ by their the Crown with us is either deterred from attempting an oppressive or is foiled in the peaceably and in an absolute it would probably have persisted in the same until a rebellion overthrew the dynasty or immediate dread of in the worked the destruction of the reigning ' The great security of the being the vigilance of public and the possibility of every encroachment upon the rights of the how trifling soever in act of power in any the least degree contrary to the is to be regarded not merely as injurious in but as undermining the stability of the whole system for it is that every such if acquiesced iu by the accustoms the puU c mind to submission destroys that of which alone can render the people cap iMe of defendi g their and lulls that of lo be effectual for res m a time of hr jealous and at all The success of the in an equal proportion increases the confidence of the and prepares him lor new to each time that an unconstitutional measure points view in which it is It is injurious in to the happiness or well-being of the antH the eminent with a certain portion of new positively and directly t - ii encourages it to against of impunity d and it breaks Ihe feeling of the habituating to aud preparing them for ( |
