WHO ARE THE TRAITORS.

"A knot or traitors."—Standard, August 8.

"O ken ye what it is that wad wanton me?— To see gude corn upon the rigs,

A gallows built to hang the Whigs,

And right restor'd whore right slid be. 1 thick it would do rueikle fur to wanton me."

Jacobite.Tory.&nnervative Song.

PARIS, 10th August. -BEFORE noticing the Tory insolence of the day, a word about Tory wit. The National of the above date furnishes a specimen, real or imputed, in a bon mot, put, it says, into the mouth of King "WILLIAM by the Tory press. His Majesty it appears has been making an excursion to Greenwich ; and with admirable apropos, a courtier is made, with courtier-like inanity, to remark—" Your Majesty has at least no infernal machines to apprehend." " Je le crois bien, (aurait repondu S. M.) je n'ai pas mes Ministres au- pres de moi."

The Tory wit is as logical as Tory reasoning. Was it his Ma- jesty's own Ministers of whom his Majesty was supposed to be

afraid ?—the moment they would have preferred above every other for the explosion of their machine, was the one in which they were NOT present. Was it from the enemies of his Majesty's Minis- ters that his Majesty apprehended a salute a is FIESCHI ?—the Ministers have no enemies but the Tories themselves ; and the Tory joke therefore, if it has any meaning at all, suppose among the Conservatives an amount of wickedness equal to that of FIESCHI, who is certainly endowed with a quantity sufficient to portion the whole faction, if in fact the faction were at all wanting in wickedness. But the joke is ultra Me ; and it might be conceded to be an invention of the Paris journal, were it not that the Na- tional, whenever it descends from the edita doctrind sapientuna templa serena, is eminently clever and incisive; therefore the Tory papers must put up with the usual consequence of a bad name, and father the silliness until the real author be discovered and punished. A word about Tory insolence. "The knot of TRAITORS." How the writer clenched his pen and knitted his brow when he came down with the big word! Does it not betray the latent venom of the placemen driven by disappointment into temerity ; or of the Tory already in idea mounted and riding roughshod over a whole assembly of citizens ? In truth, it has an amiable reminiscence, a sweet relish of the good old times, when women and children were trodden under the hoofs of dragoon-horses, and every man was a traitor who wrote or spoke against the great national nui- sance of a Tory House of Commons. 0 days of espionnage and CASTLEREAGH! delightful hours of ELDON and ELLENBOROUGH ! will ye, then, never return ? Shall a " felonious and of malice aforethought" Reformer never again be construed into a traitor to our Lord the King, and strung up, or cut down, accordingly ? Yet what should balk the gentle Standard of his heart's devoutest wish?—it is but a knot that might swing on one beam ;—up with them at once, and let them dangle at the rope's end, pour encou- rager les autres. The Nation, however, is the audience; and it is a nation which loves fair play, more even than Reform. It will at least hear be- fore it strings up ; and before it .adjusts the noose, will be sure it has got the real traitors under the hand of Ketch. The ques- tion therefore is, who are " the knot of traitors?"—who are they that be for "dismembering the empire?"

The tree is judged by its fruits, and parties by their acts. The Municipal Reform Bill is the latest fruit of Reform, the last act of the Reformers. The object of the bill is to give each locality the administration of its own local affairs, the application of its own funds, the superintendence of its own expenses, and the keeping of its own accounts. The Tories, by the mouth of the Lords, on the contrary, are saying—The locality shall pay, but shall not lay out ; shall suffer, but shall not administer or con- trol ; shall have funds for improvement, material and moral, which a select few shall drink away in port and eat up in turtle ! And the Law-Lord LYNDHURST is there to tell you this is law !- Who are the traitors?

The most recent fruit of Toryism, the most conspicuous act of

the Tories at this moment, is not one discussed in a full House of Commons, and brought up in the face of day to the Lords, but one engendered in secrecy, bred in darkness, and dragged against their will into day by the Reformers, who have stigmatized the conspirators from highest to lowest, without respect to persons, It is the feloniously and of malice aforethought begetting Orange Lodges in the Army, to the injury of our Sovereign Lord the

King, his lawful heirs and successors; not to mention the op-

pression of a whole people by the unnatural domination of a fac- tious few, intended to be established by the agency of a body of men extravagantly paid by the nation for the defence of the empire. Who are the traitors?

Three years ago, the Reformers returned to Parliament in an overwhelming majority by the entire People, passed a bill which was intended to effect for the Nation what the Municipal Reform ibe le - -.0 volume of sound which reaches the audience must is to achieve' for ettehlocality ; e. to give it the control of its own . '"

o.Uaan at Birmingham or Norwich, with a band of one third funds and the administration of its own affairs, through the me- ,taniffer numbers. To the eye, the orchestra will be strong; to dium of a freely-ebbsen _representative assembly. It reduced the

the ear, comparatively weak. expenses and trouble of dectiens, and thus put it in the power of The general expectation is, that the York Festival will be a the soundest and mast temperate portion of the gentry of the failure; and we suspect that this impression will turn out to be land, the men of moderate fortunes and liberal information, to correct. offer themselves for the representation. On the contrary, the wealthiest Tories have made a common purse, and are banded into a gang called the Carlton Club, for swamping the elections, cor- rupting the constituency, debauching men's morals, and robbing every individual whom the People, in spite of subornation, inti- midation, bribery, and mendacity, may anywhere succeed in returning to represent its interests in the Council of the Nation. Who are the traitors ?

A word on dismemberment. Two portions of the empire may be supposed to have been particularly in the eye of the Standards■ writer, when an internal consciousness of foul play and foul inten- tions brought the word " traitor" to his pen's point. These are, Canada and Ireland : let a third be added--India.

The Tory press put a speech into the King's mouth lately, pur- porting that, " We (his Majesty, or the Country) cannot afford to part with Canada." Certainly not ; we cannot afford to part with Canada, as his Majesty's father parted with America. We cannot afford to part with it after a long, bloody, disastrously expensive, and abominably disgraceful war, prosecuted in defiance of every principle by which the English name is had in honour, England has risen to greatness, and the House of Brunswick been placed on the throne of Great Britain. Neither can we afford to keep Canada as a Tory Government would struggle to keep it, by paying a large army for the maintenance of favouritism, the prosperity of jobbing, and the vexation of a people whose foreign origin renders them acutely sensible of partiality and injustice. The Tories, by every precedent derivable from the past, by every token they give of what they intend in future, would vex Canada as they vexed America ; from vexation would resort to violence; and lose in a bloody and profligate war, what their cupidity had been unable to keep in peace and quietness. The Reformers will neither keep Canada, nor part with it, on such terms. They will maintain the British supremacy as long as it can be upheld by fair dealing and with mutual advantage; and when the circumstances of the two countries respectively, and the progress of a colony grown into a people, has rendered such tutelage impolitic and injurious, they will let the supremacy find euthanasia, in a friendly alliance and a wise commercial treaty. Who are the dismemberers ? The Tory principle of government in Ireland, is to maintain seven hundred thousand citizens in a domination usurped over seven millions. To civil oppression it adds religious persecution; and condemns the national creed to pay for the propagation of an intrusive one, which brands it as a damnable error, and that under penalty of musket-shot and sabre. The Reformers are statesmen, and not sanguinary bigots; they see in the perpetuating of so monstrous an order of things, only tumult, insurrection, and bloodshed—poverty, vice, and wretchedness for Ireland—imbe- cility and disunion for the empire—to be crowned by a violent rupture, which, shattering one side of the good ship, will leave her exposed to he hoarded on the other, whenever the next neighbour shall dream of paying off old scores. The Reformers would go- vern seven millions of men on the terms on which seven millions of men can alone be governed—those of justice and impartiality. The interests and even the independence of Great Britain are, in their eyes, identical with good government in Ireland; and they would consolidate the British Union, by making of the latter a second Scotland to the empire, and for ever silence the outcry for Repeal, by repealing the iniquities which have extorted the out- cry. They would do justice ; and by binding the two islands into one unanimous people, powerful if provoked to assail, and invulnerable to attack, defy the Devil and all our enemies. Weigh the principle of justice and conciliation, with Tory misrule and Orange domination ; and then suppose—a case not impossible— the united navies of France and America, in the port of Brest, preparing to des6end upon Cork !—Who are the dismemberers? Who are the traitors ? For India : there is a vulture in the world whose tail covers the Arctic circle, having one talon fixed in Warsaw and extending another griffin-wise over Calcutta; shadowing with a tip of one wing the North-east corners of America, with its beak pecking at Constantinople, and stretching out a feeler as far as Tripoli; a sort of monstrous toadstool shot up into day, whose growth Eng- land, for her sins, is doomed henceforth to• watch as a cat watches

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the mouse. This power, with which Great Britain can treat in safety only at the point of the bayonet, and speak by the mouths of a seventy-four, has already made the Black Sea as domestic as the Caspian; and wants but one more move upon Sweden, to shut the Sound against England, as it has already shut the Darda- nelles. It is hard to say, whether the freedom of the seas, or the possession of India, is most endangered by the aggressions and intrigues of Russia. To resist her encroachments, will demand a strong government; and in order thereto, a united people. The Tories are a factious minority in the country, who can get into power only by intrigues at Court, and maintain themselves there only by shuffling, delusion, and mendacity in Parliament. T i Tories in power throw the great mass of the nation into opposi- tion. The Tory principle of government is disunion: and they are at this day actively preaching up division; distinguisbiug be- tween England on the one hand, and Scotland and Ireland em the other; and as they, a wretched minority, claim for themselves an exclusive domination in England, so they are claiming for Eng- land an exclusive domination in the empire. A Tory govern- ment is necessarily the most imbecile that the madness of a nation can set up ; and which never will be set up, unless to execute God's vengeance on a blind and brutally profligate people, such as the English never were nor ever will be. So much for the Tories at home. Abroad, they are hand and glove with the in- vading power; it is their patron, their god, the thing by which they swear, in which they have their being; and when doves peck at hawks and the ass rebels against his driver, then may the Tories be expected to attempt to control and put down that which is the indispensable bugbear of their internal and external system. The Reformers, by every principle and every interest, partial or national, are the uncompromising antagonists of the knout. The " knot of traitors" being only the totality of one nation and the immense majority of the other, can reduce the Tory faction to helplessness, and WILL DO IT; their government will be a strong one, for it will have a united people behind it; and that is the only British Government that will or can do—what Lord WEL- LINGTON stands for ever branded in English history for not having done when in his power—that will put a British fleet between 'Odessa and Varna, and rescue Constantinople and the Archipe- .ago from the grasp of the Vulture, which (thanks to the same great soldier-statesman) is now suspending its talon over Calcutta. The Reformers will think themselves bound before God and man, to rescue eighty millions of human beings, now under the protec • tion of British law, from the tender mercies of the knout; and repay in justice and in mercy the dreadful balance of unatoned bloodshed and violence which the Tories, by the sword of Sir .ARTHUR WELLESLEY, enacted : for God's sake, do not let the Tories avenge it on the British People at Manchester or London. The Reformers, therefore, will defend India, and will not wait till Russia has cleared the little that yet separates her from the North-west frontier, but settle the Indian question— as Lord WELLINGTON had it in his power to settle it—on the North of the Balkan.

Set the principles and interests of the Reformers and of the Tories respectively in opposition to the knout, and say, Who are the traitors? Weigh the power, the prospects, the avenir of the Reformers, against those of the Tories, and oppose both to this Russian fungus, sprung out of the remains of human barbarism, and grown up to its present bulk in the darkness of Europe's night, already dissipated ; and then say, Who are likely to be the dismemberers ?

The Standard has also lately declared, that it is " far from ap- proving the government of Louis Philip." Gentle Standard, tell

us why ? In what has the government of the Doctrinaires fhllen short of the Tory standard of brutality in government? Has it not coereed,imprisoned, and dragooned, up to the Tory mark even in

easTritnEktani times ? Is not Lyons as good a beginning as Man-

chester? Is not the Rue Trasnonain as horrid and butcherlike as Ratheormac, or any other of the hundred tithe-massacres per- petrated in Ireland by the Orangemen ? Is not the press to be gagged as effectually as if the Six Acts were in operation here; and is not the writer to be confounded with the felon, and equally liable to transportation ? In what then consists the defect of

Louts PHILIP'S Government in the eyes of the Tories, the Stan- dard, or the Quarterly Review ? It supplanted a Government

which braved the Nation, which maintained in power a Ministry offensive to the Nation, and which answered the Nation, when the Nation had returned a majority of Representatives hostile to the Ministry, by breaking up the Parliament, and transferring by proclamation the right of election from those who held it and had just exercised it, to its own creatures, and to such as it could

win by corruption or intimidation. Therefore, the Government of Louis PHILIP, which supplanted the exemplary one of CHARLES the Tenth and POLIGNAC, notwithstanding all the titles which the Doctrinaires can advance to legitimacy, in the shape of brutal oppression and coercive laws, can never be the government after the heart of a true Tory. People, where are the traitors ?