THE 
MONTHLY. MAGAZINE. 
New Serirs. 
Vor. VII.] MARCH, 1829. [ No. 39. 
TO THE PUBLIC. 
In the hands of the present Proprietors, the Monrunty Maaazinr 
has always been devoted to the Constitution. But, with the rise of 
stronger public emergencies, more direct exertions are called for: if 
great political hazards are threatened, they are to be repelled only by 
ne reased public vigilance ; if the old barriers of the State are shaken 
by open violence or treacherous friendship, the most secure and legiti- 
mate defence is in a Press guided by constitutional knowledge, by zeal 
for the country, and by that British pride of principle which scorns alike 
‘the frowns and the influence of corrupt authority. 
_ Those declarations have been often made before ; but the time compels 
a stern sincerity. Our principles are British, in the strongest sense of 
_ the word. We have not adopted them for fee or reward; nor will we 
_ abandon them for fee or reward. The country, at this hour, is in immi- 
_ ment danger. A convulsion, that may crush its whole system, is threat- 
ened. A new element of discord is about to be introduced into our 
Constitution ; and every means—from the basest corruption of the base, 
to the most insolent intimidation of the high—is at work. Events are 
ripening with a tremendous rapidity, that nothing can counteract but the 
boldest resolution, the most extended fellow-feeling, and the most 
vigorous, straitforward, and faithful fidelity to the Constitution. 
Let what will come, we shall do our duty as men, while we have the 
“power of speaking to our fellow-subjects. If chains are forging for 
us and them—if we are to be tortured and persecuted by triumphant 
Popery—we shall still put our trust in the righteous cause, and still feel 
the life of man cannot be more nobly expended than in the service 
of freedom. 
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