The National Register. — London, England, 1808-05-23 00:00:00

MAY St (lo_sAaap/ausss). There de fence of thel4llBll7-111PWRIIMAIMIA are persons who speak the laelgeiarraf the people to flatter and s upport the Court Party, and hold out minor points of refisrm to mislead the public : yet no other spirit prevails w ith them than to heap additional burthens upon the -people. You have had Comtuissiouers appointed to correct • public abuses; bet no public plunderer has been !Nought to justice--no say ing made in the public expenditure. On the contraey, additional charges been made to provide for the encroased expence of those continissiouers of Enquiry--There ate those in the country who have compared persons in power to leeches. This cont.; pa • , • rison in my opinion isextremely erroneous — as leeches, w hen sated and full, will fall off; but the rulers of the present day are Insatiable—the more they get the more they desire ; and.the people have the melancholy reflection, that they never drop off or suck less hard. (Applauses.) In proposing a redress of grievances, and the correction of abuses, there are those who will always cry, it is not the time in difficulty, distress, and war, to agitate such questions: ,now• I .say that such iv pecu liarly the time : for what would be thought of a Captain of a ship of war, who was ordered to clear for action, if be should sac, leave all things in confusion till the action is over—( up plause.)—The argument of those who say that the present is not the period for reform, is in the same way; the liberties of the people, and the freedom of the country, is endangered and threatened with annihilation ; and, 1 say, unless these are re stored, the country must eventually be lost : and if you would save the country, make that country worth defending—(loud applauses)—make the people feel they have something worth defending, and they will willingly unite in its defence, but do not let them be deluded by mock parties. A reforin of abuses is to the Constitution what the soul is to the body ; effect it, and the soul and body of the land will unite. It must be effected to make the country secure. We have seen mercenary states ,sink . beneath foreign subjugation, rather than defend their own rights ; and the people of England, since they have no chance of being saved by their Ministers, should think of saving them selves.--( Reiterated applause. )—But unless the spirit is felt by the people generally, the patriot few can produce no radical benefit. Therefore, gratified even as T am, by the exertions of the Electors of Westminster, I should be deceiving them were I not to thus publicly assert, that one voice in the aggregate num ber that compose the House of Commons can he of little or no avail. We have frequently been told of domestic enemies, and I will give the people an infallib!erule of knowing those ene mies. We do not usually plunder our friends, therefore those who get the plunder are the enemies spoken of; and in future, instead of asking who is the ;Minister, let the people ask w here is the plunderer? and where he is, there is the enemy also.— ( ..ipplauses front all parts of the r.ams.) " It is to get rid of that enemy all my efforts nre and shall be directed. The present sessions has added much to the burthens of the people—nothing to their liberties : and here I have to apologise for sitting in the House, and suffering acts to pass with out my opposition, that entrench upon the liberties of the sub ject ; hut one's body must be made of iron, and one's mind quick as lightning, to attend and understand the multifarious business that passes.—l take shame to myself that I should not have op posed the Indictment Bill, as it affects the rights and liberties of the people. But there is another Bill (I mean the Local Mili tia Bill) that I pledge ms self to, oppose, and I hope it will not pass iuto a law, at least without reprobation ; for 1 also trust that the people of this country are not yet so degenerate and subservient, to submit to this lie-t 6f human degradations. Mi nisters having broken down the spirit of the people be taxation, now seek to take their persons by fuse.—(General bursts of ap plause)—l shall conclude with requesting the Electnrs•to bear in mind, that there is one measure more that can effecually relieve time People—l mean a Reform in the Representation of the People; all other minor expedients are trifling and nugatory.—• A Reform in Parliament is the master-kev—it tv ould. tend to destroy peculators, and introduce that economy white, is best calculated to secure the country. The want of that reform is the source that poisons the stream that Eneland drinks ; it is the cause of all our present evils—it is the cause of the present cala mitous war—and will he the final cause, if not preYeuted, of the eventual subjugation of the couterv." Sir F. Burdett also pledged himself to take the sense of the House upon the question whether the Admiralty Droits ed to time Crown or the People. Parliament might decide tle question as they pleased, but !me would demand the decision tur the part of the public. (rids Ipeertu was fo , loread by a tumult of applause.) Sir Frntiris retired about ten o'clock, and the re !Reinder of the. escoing ea...spent us the utmost hariuuni -41,„ 4.4 lit _ - I NAUTICAL SiTELLIGENCR. CAPTAIN Bkrrrsweat R.—The Tartar frigate, banning to the squadron under the command of Admiral Vashon, at Leith, returned to that anchorage on the eveuing ing sustained a very gallant action of Bergen. the frigate was lying olf that place on the' the motions of some Danish vessels, when sible to cut some of them out by me am of ' accordingly proceeded, under the directi First-Lieutenant, when four Danish gur made a sudden and unexpected attack continued upwards of an hour, during Sykes succeeded in capturing one of the b to relinquish his prize. By the very first s unfortunately killed, while in the act of 61 guns. Mr. Fitzhugh, a Midshipman, and were also slain. The enemy, however, their attack, for one of their vessels was . der dispersed, having sustained consider loss of the enemy is supposed to be great ed. Captain Bettesworth was lately mar Grey, sister to Earl Grey, and had just ' which he has so prematurely lost Ms years. Dispatches were on Tuesday received at the Admiralty from Lord Collingwood, dated off Sicily, the 26th of April. The Rochefort and Toulon squadrons continued blockaded in the lat ter port, and the Cartbagena squadron was closely watched at Port Mahon. General Sir J. Stuart had arrived at Permo, and taken the commitud of the troops in. Sicily. By a vessel arrived at Plymouth, from the Havanna!), intel ligence is received that his Majesty's ship Mures, of-. 22 gams,. !Capt. Duff, struck on the Collerados Rocks, on the Wand- M- Cuba, on the sth ult. from which situation it was Found-Imprac ticable to get her off, and she was set on, fire, but did not blow up. The officers and crew were all saved. Brooke and Co. 237, Piccadilly, respectfully inform the Public. that the ensuing State 'Lottery consists of only 25,000 'rickets, and is the only Lottery that ever contained six Prizes of 20 , 0 001. two of 10,000/. two of 50001. three of 20001. and five of 1000!. besides an equal number of other Prizes to any former Lottery; these are objects of attraction beyond any thing of the kind, since the commencement of Lotteries, and they re commend the Public to purchase humediatcly. Brooke and Co.'s Office has been established 60 years, and has been . particularly fortunate in sellihig Capital, Prizes. In the Lottery Just finished. 24,‘206 and 24,209, both prizes of 5001. were sold in Shares. In the Grand and Last State Lottery for 1807, which begins Drawing the 28th of June, 1808, behold the follow lug Capital Prizes, all floating ! namely, six of eO,OOOl. two of 10,0001. two of 5,0001. three of 2,0001. five of 1,0001. seven of 5001. and only , 25,000 Tickets. For such Capitals, bsiy Ticket or Shares of Sir James Branscomb and Co. at their Temple of Good Fortune, No. 11, Holborn, 37, Combat, or 38, Haymarket; where, in the last State Lottery were sold, in 161 Shares, the following Capi- , tals :—Nos. 14,22.3, a Prize of 20,000/. ; 12,909, 10,00 W.; 10,276, 1,0001.; 12,86 t 1,000/.; 5,800, 1,0001.; 12,197, 1,0001.; 18,200 : 500/. ; ,814, 5 001. ; 3,744, 000/. 5,798, 500/. ; 21,00, 3001.; 17,949, 5001. &e. ittc. Likewise, No. 2,570, the only grand 10,000 r. prize ever known, was sold at above Offices, in 1$ Sixteenths, in the preceding Lottery. B 1 an!. On Thursday, the sth instant, at the Poor-house, in Stoke upon Trent, Hannah Bourne, a deformed dwarf, measuring only 23 inches in height, was, afters very tedious - and difficult labour, safely delivered of a female child of the ordinary size, measur ing 211 inches, being only three inches and a half shorter than the ,nether.—The child was in every respect perfect, but still born ; the mother, contrary to expectation, is likely to do well. This very singular instance furnishes the Medical World with•an ens, traordinary case, that will throw some additional light on the obstetric art. On Saturday, at St. Pancras Church, by the Rev. Arthur B4ld, Vicar of Stoke, near Windsor, John Howell, Esq. of Carmarthen, M.D. to Miss Morgan, daughter of Mrs. Reader, of Brunswick-square. DIED. On Tuesday last, at Seaton Dclaval, Northumberland, the Right Hoo. John Lord Dalaval, at an advaned age. His Lord. ship is succeeded in his estates, which are very large, la Nur thumher!and, Lincolnshire, lad Yorkshire, by Sir John dot- Member for Yorkshire. ; 4 :..,:;.. , • , k„..4. • it 1, rg 4.f the 20th, after has- ergen. It appears that the 16th inst. watching hen it was deemed pos- .l the ship's boats. They !Ciao of Mr. Sykes, the un-boats and a schooner upon her. The action. Welt time Lieutenant. boats, but was obliged rat shot the Captain was of firing of one of the and several of the crew. , had reason to repent of s sunk, and 'at *main. iderable dainage. The eat in killetfandisciund- larried to Ludy Hannah fitted out this frigate, in valuable I i :.... ~~ .. • .: ~..~ ~.:r 10 I