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examination of a subject in which appears so little room for a difference of opinion . The constituents of the worthy baronet have however given him an opportunity of delivering his sentiments on
the privilege assumed by the House of Commons , and the necessity of a reform In parliament . They invited him to a public dinner which was most numerously attended : and there their beloved representative delivered a speech which excited the utmost admiration and
reiterated marks of applause . He denied the right to arbitrary power , whether In a king , or in a House of Lords , or in a House of Commons . He reprobated the borough-mongering system in the strongest terms ; and he combatted the
specious arguments of Earl Grey against reform with great success . His speech has since been printed by the gentlemen who were stewards upon this occasion , and it merits attention . Nothing : could exceed the enthusiasm with which Sir
Francis was received , and at his departure he was accompanied to his coach with every mark of respect and applause . The people without joined in it , and he was conveyed in triumph to his house , in Piccadilly . We cannot wonder that
a man , who has so completely devoted himself to the service of his country , who has displayed such talents , and has teen so persecuted , should stand high In the estimation of every man , who has a regard for law , liberty , and the constitution .
Melancholy have been the failures in trade . They have spread great alarm , but it begins'to subside . The stoppage of country banks must be productive of great evils ; it will however lead to a full developement of our paper system , and the effects of that injudicious measure which affixed no limit to the time
when the bank should be permitted to say on its notes , " I promise to pay , ' * and yet refuse to make the payment promised . A delay in the payment might , on an emergent occasion , have been justified , but to go on from year to year , without any reason alleged , seems to be a departure from all good policy , and to be fraught with evils which cannot be calculated . The bullion committee has
published its report on this subject , which is a most valuable treatise . It speaks in very guarded terms both of the evil and the remedy ; but the existence of the one is acknowledged , and the necessity of the other plainly declared . On
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the latter head the bank can have mm reason to complain ; since the term fixed for the resumption of its money payments is at so distant a date as two years . Distant as that term is , it is better to be so ; than for it to go on without a limit % though many may believe that unless
some more vigorous steps are taken > these money payments will be deferred ad gr&cas calendar The evil , indeed ^ is so obvious , that no one can now say that he is not acquainted with it and its effects ; and if we persist in the present system , it can only be said that the nation runs into ruin with its eyes open . We shall hope that the first measure of
the next sessions will be a partial resumption of money payments , so that there shall be a gradual increase of them till at the end of two years the good old custom , as we said before , is restored , of promising and performing . The distresses in Ireland have also been great . The manufactures have been at a stand ; but the interposition of government has rendered effectual relief . In this state
of things we heed not be surprised if their chancellor of the exchequer is very unpopular , if the conduct of their re « presentatives has been open to the severitv of censure : and if the Drorjrietv of rity of censure ; and if the propriety of
the union has been called in question . Meetings have been holden upon the latter subject , and a petition has been agreed upon to parliament to rescind the union between the two countries , and to restore the Irish to all their former
misgovernrnent . The result of such a petition it is not difficult to foresee ; yet we hope that whatever the petitioners have to complain of with reason will be attended to . We wish to see the English and Irish on the same footing , and both nations improved by the restoration
of the majority in them to their civil rights , notwithstanding their difference in opinion from the minority ; for we must repeatedly bear in mind that the majority of the people in the united kingdom , and a very great majority it is , are nofc members of the Church * f
England . A petition to the king for the restoration of the Duke of Vorfc to his former post , published in the newspapers , and
said to have had & great circulation m the army , gave great uneasiness to every man who had a regard for his country . It is now said to be the produce of blind and officious zeal , and we hope and trust that no military mm has been so seduced
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420 State of Public Affairs .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/44/
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