The Recorder

THE recent advocates of French principles in England, are ashamed and tired of their late doctrines, and have again got into conceit with their own old country and its constitution. The London Courier, lately one of the most vigorous papers on the French side, ably vindicates Great Britain against the aspersions of the Moniteur, and its editor, Bonaparte: and on one occasion uses the following expressions: "What the British Government can do, we need not state; what it cannot do, we will shortly explain. It cannot by an arbitrary order stop the printing or circulation of any journal or pamphlet, and send the editor or author to the inhospitable deserts of Guiana, or the burning sands of St. Domingo---it cannot throw a man into the temple or the tower, and keep him there for an unlimited time, without accusation, trial, or defence---it cannot prevent free remarks upon its own measures, much less upon the conduct of any other government. If the Consuls find themselves aggrieved, our Court of King's Bench is open to them. We invite them to a course of lectures by our judges; they will here find something that will enable them to improve their new system of civil jurisprudence, which is soon to be submitted to the legislators and tribunes of France. If they will take our advice, we can assure them of one thing: their cause will have an impartial hearing, and will be decided strictly according to law. Twelve jurymen will decide with impartiality according to evidence, and will deal out to Bonaparte as perfect a measure of justice, as they would to the mightiest or the meanest of mankind." [Char. Cour.