The National Register. — London, England, 1814-08-14 00:00:00

Tun NATIONAL REGISTER. lucasur .s are honestly conceived and fairly meant, they need not li . p* )inler the slightest appretP. sions for the result : but ; - a and indeed know, that Louis tilt. 18th only wants an OCCIV•1011 to abandon ev..ry previous pledge he made the de- luded country, and to re-establish the form of GoVernment s" congenial to hi:; education and to the habitual policy of MI; house. But the time is gone by when mankind shall be swistied with name , . , , and when the charm of repeated promises shall qualify the renewal of hopes never to be realized, and the good never to be obtained. Those who imagine otherwise are deceivAl, for the pericd has net gone by withont enlightening thy' rights and enforcing the power which P`MalllS alone with the people. It is on this account we deprecate the fulsome eulogiam which some of our pr'nts are hi the habit of lre; ow ng on the character of the French King. They are as vautless to us as the Carmen Britunieum of Lord Thur - ow, who generates a poem in a kw hours in honour of the Prince, because he ha's had the felicity to be introduced by his Jester. But what we ask for and have a right to expect, is the deve!opement of some of those principles in prac tice, which are so reaklily'subscribed on paper, and which ought to b. come the corner-stone of that regenerating principle that has brought hack the Bourbons to the Throne of their ancestors, and which it Is still hoped may ameliorate the condition of the European (:overn mbnts; *We ourselves have no Objection to an universal monarchy, founded on the equal communication of popula r right-, mend whose uniformity of laws would the more readi!y approximate the improvements of which mankind ar , susceptible, to lb! . moral happiness of the individual and the progv.ss of scieiice and philosophy: But there must be sometking . decisive in the character of a Govern meut before it tali hope to obtain the affections of the people : and we defy even the eloquent Monsieur D'Am bray, whoie character, as a passive intriguer, somewhat assimilates with the Chancellors of other countries, to carry his . ciident!) , sinister design, by what is elegant!) called in this country 'mincing the matter, without danger to the security and popularity of his Master. France, as we have said before, to be truly great must be free, and Louis the 18th to be truly safe must adhere without re servation to the conditions of St. Ouen. 'The Dobat..s of the House of French Deputies have, since our last publication, assumed an inferest, that has even communicate d itself to this country, notwithstanding the dissipatioi; of the public mind. Those who" look forward to improvements as the na tural consequences of the moral convulsion w Web the pre jndices and habits of mankind have undergone, will be pleased to see that the' recent despotisni eiercised in France has not been able to subdue or extirpate the ra tional principles of the true friends of liberty ; and it is highly honourable to find those men, who have chiefly suffered by the prevalence of arbitrary prineiples, still combating for that enlightened 'policy; which .Bien 'alone contribute to the happiness and gory of France : and; on the contrary, to observe those men most connected with V. r 142 1 the late tyranny still ranged on the side of those cloctlicws that brought that unhappy country to ruin. There is such an evident want of wisdom, such a do parture from the most solemn engagements, in the line of conduct pursued by the returned Prince, that it is impos sible to reconcile it to any pu l e known acknowledged prin ciple of political security. The vices and crimes of France have betty rather owing to the want of the Liberty of tho Press, than to its licentiousness ; and, it is more thnn probable that its liberation and freedom would correct the abuses that have sprung up rather than contribute to their extension. If, indeed, there be any spring in tho public mind, all efforts to suppress it would be most fatal to the durability of the present Government ; rnet, on the reverse, temperate indulgence will but invigorafil and fructify the bounteous donation of a wise Providence, that always intended to adorn any support the social com pact, by the tree auel indelmndi!llt istrihotion of tho e rights, which ennoble and sustain the; labours of our fel low cre'ature's. It appears to us that Irance fluctuates between its ex. perience and prejudices, and, like the dog in the fable, en deavouring. to , ecury too much, quits the sOlstance for the shadow, and would rather be oalled powerful than great and splendid than happy. We were the Gist to speak of the insane project that had hcen conceived in this country of adding Atoerica once mole to the crown of Great Britain; and the importance our information may he judged by the feelings that ap prehensions have excited throughout America. It can be no diflit.al , y to spec bate on a result that most n tot ev unite all classes of people. to the defence of their indepeotlence. In the mean time our Expedition is constrto ting upon a larger scale. tit w expences ate incurred, and it seems as we c ue determined upon a new War, toe e!y to meet a Wa Esti mate.--A little patience, perhaps, woulal have euali;ed our Ministers to figure neater home in all the military paraplier.! oaha furnished to decorate the Imp& of Cuncard. Monday, we received Ames lean papers aed letters from Halifax, of a late date. The intelligence is of a mixed na tore. The hostile operations on the mat ititne frontier of tbe United States have been pro s ecuted with a vigour aid activity calculated to impress the enemy with a just idea of lit itisis power. Our naval forces ascend the rivers, and land hoops. who attack the principal towns, and spread alas m in e% y direction. A detachment which di.embar keel in the bow hood of Halo:mire appears to have done considerable damage to the enemy. A number of was ehotts..ti, cotrain ing a valuable stock of tolacco, were de:so-cm' d The ac counts from Canada are not so satisfiietorv. ()n the r,d of July, the Americans slanded a considerable force on the Niagara frontier, and on - the ~th had au engagement with a small li f iti‘h force, which, after biavelv sustaining tie ho nour of the WHO) flag, was compelled to with awwi loss. A number of officers, among whom are the Ma. quis of Tweeddale, and Licuienant-Colotiel Cot don, have been woonded. The particolars of this reverse ate given in dis patChes from Sir G. Prevoit, imerted in Tuesday's Gazele. The President of the United States considers the order for the Amei lean coast, a line of 2000 miles , a mete paper bloc!:ade, O.tur naval means not` being corm etent to .st ict . ly enforce it and thetotore . has issued a Proclaftia?ton, all friendly ard tieutral pi,s•els to enter the harbour. of Wit United State's, without fear of interruptiou. ArG. 14. A 4 1