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War in the British Cabinet:-Change of Ministers,

Party writers of every description are sure to represent their em To which it is neces ployers, as the " dernier resort" of a people. sary to reply, that a people must be in an ignorant, blind, and be sotted state, who in times of national distress place their dependence on any party of men as their" dernier resort." In the present instance the utmost caution should be observed, before we look up with confidence, more especially as we are informed the prospect of the return to power of the two statesmen above mentioned, "is "hailed with so much cordiality as to set all question of domestic "policy at REST, to reconcile every jarring sentiment, and to "make it unnecessary to recur to the usual appeal to the people" on similar occasions- -a dissolution of parliament! If such are to be the consequences of a change of ministers, we without hesitation affirm, that no event ought to be more deprecated. So far from hoping that those important" questions of do*mestic policy may be set at rest," which have at different periods, and more particularly during the present year fixed the attention of our countrymen, the hopes we entertain of benefit resulting from a change, are exactly proportionate to the increasing interest with which "those questions" may thereby be agitated. It is utterly in vain for men who are not corrupt themselves, to imagine they shall ever be able to reconcile "the jarring opinions" of those who have been the uniform supporters of every species of cor ruption. The only motive by which men of this description can possibly be induced to assent to that radical change of system absolutely necessary to the salvation of the country, is that of fear; lest by too obstinately retaining the whole of the plundered rights and property of the nation, of which they have been in long pos session, they may eventually lose the whole. So far from deeming it "unnecessary to recur to the sense of the people," an adminis tration possessed of truly constitutional principles, will consider it as the right of the people to express that sense once in every three years. A dissolution of parliament is earnestly to be desired, as affording that portion of the people in possession of the right of election, an opportunity of passing judgment on the conduct of their representatives, of dismissing their old, and choosing new servants as they may deem necessary for the public welfare.

When the writer in the party Chronicle describes those men who are firmly of opinion that without a change of SYSTEM, a change of MEN will be useless, as "an impertinent squad of "knaves and hypocrites," he is equally chargeable with cowardice and calumny. Let him name the men he thus slanders: he dare not! Are Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Mr. MADOCKS, Lord CocaBANE, Major CARTWRIGHT, not to mention others, who firmly

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maintain the above position;-are they, because they refuse to enlist themselves in the ranks of the ins or the outs, to be reviled as an impertinent squad of knaves and hypocrites?" Let the writer glance around his own circle, and look nearer home; and he may, perhaps, discover persons who by their conduct have given rise to suspicion whether they have not something of knavery, or hypocrisy, or both in their own characters? Should he discern men, who for a long course of years professed the principles of PEACE and REFORM, and as soon as their party got into place apostatized from those principles; should he find writers who profess one set of opinions one day, and another the next; who in the course of a few months, agreeably to the changing aspect of events, can argue in favour of one system of foreign policy, presently retract their arguments, then retract their retractation; and at length outrageously proceed to revile persons, whose consistency, not having the virtue to imitate, they are determined to calumniate, then, but not till then, let him with all that indignation he now discovers, exclaim against "knaves and "hypocrites!"

From the organ of the opposition let us just turn to that of ministers. The editor of the Morning Post has, it is well known, ever since the PORTLAND administration came into place, uniformly expressed his abhorrence of the principles and conduct of their predecessors, at the same time ridiculing them under the denomination of "The Talents!" No longer ago than Friday last, the editor alluding to the squabbles in the cabinet, and the reports of a change, remarks as follows:-" The faction were yesterday on tiptoe: the "whole government,-the whole patronage which they long for more, "of the country, were to be placed in their hands, and the most "laudable feelings of our excellent King, and the most important "bulwarks of our glorious constitution were again to be subjected to the rashness and brutality of a junto, who had grossly insulted "the one, and sacrilegiously attempted to undermine the other! Very few hours have been sufficient to awaken the intoxicated crew from this dream of greatness: and now therefore, the auda"cious tone of insolent and groundless triumph is succeeded by the "acrimonious expressions of disappointed rapacity, venting itself in "a tone of equally insolent and groundless accusation, all however "directed to the same object, and all, as the whole undebauched "sentiments of the country joyfully recognize, equally incapable of effecting its purpose No apprehension need be entertained "that the FRIENDS of the King, of the constitution, and of the "country will become assailable to the ENEMIES of the KING "the CONSTITUTION, and the COUNTRY, by the Duke of PORT LAND's retirement."

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This tirade equal in violence to any which have appeared against the GRENVILLE administration, in the Post for these two years past, is the last the public will for some time be favoured with, On Monday last the Editor entirely changed his tone, as will be seen by the following paragraph.

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"We stated a few days since that neither Lord Grenville, nor Lord "Grey had been sent for; and so late as Friday last, we had ascertained "that no messages had been sent to them. From the patriotic and beco "ming sentiments which we were well aware had for many months past "been expressed by both those noblemen," [mark reader, the language of these writers on Friday last, above quoted,]" in regard to certain pro"ceedings and public affairs in general, and comparing those sentiments "with the language and conduct of others, we were certainly led to entertain feelings of respect towards each of them! We therefore confess that we experience much pleasure in stating, that since our last publication, messages have been sent off to Earl GREY and Lord GRENVILLE, calling "for the advice and assistance of those noblemen in the construction of a "ministry, in conjunction with the remaining members of the present ca"binet; and we are the more pleased at this event, as from every thing we "have heard upon the subject, there is no reason to fear, that under the existing circumstances of the country, any material change of principle "will be attempted, should these noblemen resume their seats in the cabinet." We now leave these brother editors to whom we have paid our respects, to congratulate each other on their coalition, and at the same time to settle the trifling difference in their sentiments, as to the proposed change in the cabinet, whether it is to be a change of principles, or of men ouly. It was our intention to have further introduced our readers to a party of gentlemen, who are generally understood to take their lessons in the opposition school, and who are much distinguished by the party; we mean the Edinburgh Reviewers: but this part of our duty we must defer till next month.

THE PROPOSED JUBILEÉ.

Our naval and military operations during the past summer it is acknow ledged, have to Britain proved useless; but by way of consolation for the expenditure of so much blood and treasure, it is added they have been of service to our allies as "diversions." The tools of ministers, the contractors, loan-mongers, the war-lovers at Lloyds, and the tribe who fatten on a nation's misfortunes, have, by way of "diversion" to the people in their present melancholy situation, and under the pretence of loyalty to the sovereign, set on foot a project which is as complete an insult as could well be contrived, to the feelings of a pillaged nation, where the people are bending under the heavy and perpetually increasing burthens of taxation, the consequence of wars, equally unjust and unnecessary, in which the pation has been engaged during the greater part of the present reign.

If the description of men who have thus imposed upon the nation, were not miserably ignorant of their bible, they would have avoided the use of a word which in its primitive meaning is directly opposed to that in which

it is now adopted. The ancient JUBILEE was a year of universal tes joicing, more particularly to the poor, and to the oppressed; to whom it was the restorer of privileges the most valuable. It was typical of still more important privileges to be restored to a dark and enslaved world. Heathens appear to have a much more correct idea of the term than christians; and it is remarkable that in the empire of China, a jubilee is to be celebrated in the course of the present year, on occasion of the Emperor having completed his 50th year. The reason assigned is--" That by his ર policy, moderation and firmness he has maintained the independence of "his own empire, avoiding all connection with other countries except for "the purposes of traffic, which has proved most beneficial to his subjects."

In the debate in the court of common council of London, respecting the propriety of observing a jubilee, our readers will find in the speech of Mr. Waithman a faithful epitome of the principal events of the present reign, and to which we have only to add Mr. Fox's character of one of his Majes ty's favourite ministers-WILLIAM PÍTT ; a minister "who added more to "the burdens, and took away more from the rights of the people, than is "recorded of any minister in the annals of English history: who destroyed more human beings in foreign wars than Louis XIV. and attempted the "lives of more innocent men at home than Henry VIII.”

The manner in which this jubilee is proposed to be celebrated is as objectionable as the thing itself. Feasting and illuminations are the signals of intemperance and riot.* The friends to religion and loyalty will shew their superior attachment to their Sovereign, and love of their country, by an attention to the wants of the poor at a period so peculiarly distressing. How many destitute families might be fed and cloathed at the expence of a city feast, or a general illumination! Although we cannot prevail on the public to adopt our ideas, as individuals let us do our duty.

The private virtues of his Majesty have been assigned as a reason for the celebration of a jubilee. But although these may form a suitable subject for personal congratulation, in a national point of view, they call for humiliation. How much is it to be lamented that these virtues have been so little influential on the royal family, the court and the cabinet ! Three of his Majesty's ministers have been distinguished by their violation of the laws in the practice of duelling. One of these duels was fought on the Sabbath. Many of those who have stated the private virtues of the sovereign as the ground of their proceedings, would do well to recollect the severe reproof thereby given to their own vices.

His Majesty with his subjects have abundant reason to adore the long suffering goodness of God to this guilty nation. May the latter days of our Sovereign be his best days. May PEACE, and REFORM preserve his. kingdom from ruin! May his Majesty at the close of his long reign be enabled to render an account of his important trust with satisfaction at the bar of the King of Kings, who will reward, every one according to the improvement they have made of their respective talents. For unto whom soever much is given of him shall be much required.

Harlow, Sept. 29.

B. F.

*One of our city Solomons gave as a reason why the Common Council should have a feast at the public expence after coming from St. Paul's, "that he thought it highly improper that the corporation, after departing " from a cursed cold church, should separate with empty stomachs !"

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PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.

FROM the moment the Emperor of AUSTRIA, with equal injus

tice, and rashness, rushed into a war with France, and invaded the territories of the King of Bavaria, hoping as a considerable part of the French armies were employed in Spain, that a favourable opportunity occurred for recovering his former dominions, and for restoring his fallen ally the POPE to his temporal and spiritual power:-from that moment we confidently predicted, that the result of the contest would be the further humiliation of his Imperial Majesty and from the moment of the late suspension of hostilities, we expressed to our readers, with equal confidence, that the truce would terminate in peace, the terms of which would be dictated by the victorious NAPOLEON. The interval, however, be tween the signing of the armistice, and of a definitive treaty of peace being longer than on former occasions, and which as we have hinted, was probably occasioned by the time taken up in the formation and arrangement of plans for the division of other empires, to be settled between FRANCE, RUSSIA and AUSTRIA ;-this busy and important interval, during which the most profound secresy appears to have been preserved by the contracting parties, afforded opportunity to our journalists to indulge in their various speculations. Some of these writers, with their usual eagerness, again expressed their hopes, that "the fatal truce, which had so suddenly "and unexpectedly dissipated the cheering prospect of the delive"rance of Europe," would speedily be terminated; and as the power of the Austrian Emperor, was, they assured us, "unbroken,” and his Imperial Majesty reigned in the hearts of his subjects, who were resolved to sacrifice their dearest interests in support of the throne of their beloved monarch, the grand cause which had so long engaged the attention of the different sovereigns of Europe, was by no means to be despaired of. The letter of the Emperor FRANCIS, dated on the 16th. of August last, in which,

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