The National Register. — London, England, 1817-02-17 00:00:00

Li 2 ',ULM Y A .ScS'CltaVillFlG LVE0131.1710.V . PAMPHLET FEU. No. XVII. WE beg leave to direct the attention of our reatlers to the 17th No. of the Pmseitbs:Trrn, of the contents of which, as they are pauliarly interesting at the pre sent crisis, we submit to them the following Analysis. For the first article in the work, we are indebted to the pen cf JEREMY BLNTHAM, Esq. a writer well Mr his Jule d-fenee of Ust•ni,, wtitela contains mooli ingenuity and solidity of arzumont. The present treatise was ori.tioully written in under the title of [Weave if Etonotry against Mr Bight Han. Edmund Burke, together with anotht r, containing a Du; at: of the same more useful than tsvlcome virtue against the Hon. Gtorg.: Rusr.The florid ebillisence of !qr. Itorke, in what may be termed his tit fim-e Prodation, is %%.'ll e•posed ani ably refuted by Mr. Dentinal. au I the damterons tendency of his principles disrobed of their flowery mid seducing exturior, in the course of 'a cool and deliberate incestigatioo, towards the illeCe , S fill close of which, the author makes the following apolecy for the severity of his remarks, and to the justice of et hiCil Are fully subscribe. " lu exhibiting the orator iu one of those fits of extravagance to which he was but two subject, in exhibiting the orator's own figure. ace:ailing to the mon strous caricature we have seen hint Mar. irg of himself; that of a man, in whose inestimation nothim: but mont•v any value—a man by whom all breasts that have any thing in them that is not sordid, are to be marked oat as fit objects of abhorrence, let me not be accused of wasting time and paper." Wear encxt presented. with a" Treat;seon Grt:qhounds, with observations on thetreatment and disorders of them, by Sir Richai d vi bust, 'Phis is a writ written per• tormance. Nee tP:i care ,'teener, i. tilt` motto alto•ea by the author, a n d he 118.4 well tonivinced us of the troth of it, as far as it applies to Mtn, at the same time the .juirlieions -add elegant references and quotations with whit It tikes little article itOounds, ketve to conduce the reader, that his time must, at least, have been as much devoted to the study, .as to he field. To this succeeds an essay on the Cultivation of the Peat Bogs in Ireland, in which the projector promises to the century an increase of popolutian, security and 'mink happiness. A plug which has such impel - tout objects in view tonsi b" well worthy of consideration. The means of iteColll - the scheme are Inn; detaikil by this ingenious write., and it appears timm his statement, that they are ea•ily to be pot i pract;ee, and that the land so reclaimed would be likely to be permanently productive. The benefit of the enclosure of so large a portim. of waste, 1,500,003 acres, in .a country like Ir4ind is 'no obvious to aced a eu nment. T,:irorivEs is the title assumed :or the next produc tion in the work before us, anti professes to be a brief outline of the Uo!verso% System. M. FIEI.II, the itettil.wr it, profi.sses " to investiguie tin• root and gra.nsed of /Ph dasuidsy, iu quest of Mr principles, rclatiods, gad purlieus mutate, tut and scirucc." We have next a pamphlet from the able pea of Mr. PnEsToN, entitled " Further Observations on the Stal e f i r Nutran—the I.:11!):41 mein, of Labor, the 'Sinking - I'unit and its appie•atem—Pauperisin—Protection -requisite to the Lauded and .t.rimildiral Interests." Mr. Presto's sappases the dittietilties tinder which the country at present labm:rs, to arise front the foi eo iag cunses--•' Ist, The Inability to net. Taxation to tlw nount r..ynired by Govern ment.-2d, 'rite 'treasure of the iti , es, and the increase of Pauperism, without adding the T)thes, sinea they are more immediately tinder parliamentary coat izatwe.-I , l,'llie want of work by those who are able to labour, alai who are nosy without employment, and for hose whit, as the winter advances, still he disehargel from their resent ' means, without any prosprets of new eugagenicnts:" To re medy these alarming and growiug evils, Iklr. Preston pro poses, that, there shall be adopted oil the part of government a system of retrenchment, eatending to the reduction of all titorntoN4 -alaric- to those who perform the necessary of the state, and to the aeolition of all sineenres ; at the same time an equal taxation on property, and even income is strongly recommended. To this article follows an able Treatise on the Game LaWS, by Mr. CHITTY, comprehending an histor . -cal, and aIL :;.11 1 icw et the .object, %%lit feud witch Curion and int• portant investigation takes place. The alterations which Are here submitted for the iniprovetnentof thc..e laws , are highly joiliciuns, and wonlil tend to protect the owner Of the Land, ns /veil es to eacresse tho qua:ally of came_ The seventh pamphlet is a letter on the prescn! Si- Mallon of hie Counity, by A. H. lioLostionni, Esq. aid is the produrtion of an iiitelltgeot obsertine mind A plan is next suggested for mature considefutiou fur superseding the Necessity of the Poor Rates, by means of cm ta am es and farms, tet toed lea% en ferins,froni •ht :Intel tied benefits likely to result from its pervading the whole mfrs, This propose' is as st orthy the atten'ion or the benes..lent front the comforts which it would pradttee to the poor wli are its iintartliate object, as to the financial speculator the relief which it would atiord to :le public in the tlimitintitta, if not in the total reduction of the par:sh rates in th ose pli tt ,, where at present they press the most kelt: ily. To this succeeds a spirited pamphlet, by Dr. PELLET, entitled " Conatitulitn;al Air 6," turns prin cipally upon the pi ogress or t.exatien, with ; I ' k w 0" o f iiettee. The elector distimplishen netweeit red end iineette. nary wedth, and boldly enquirer; into th e va lu e e t vi; as compared n itit the expense : I keepitiT thrli r.p, the lestia, of thar astrietti!nr.ll pi overity ‘iltielt, atter claiiidt tit, minify with an idea of its inexhaustible. resources, slttiiiculy declined to the pr.'s, tit alarming state M . civpression, and the (iv gin at our present tlistreAses. Thee subjects leatl him to the pro ignition a a variety of e,:e , rotia measures adapted to their relief, which arc well worthy the attention of the realer. • The last article we have to notice, is an " Erquiry into the Causes and Remetlies of the late and present Search y and high Price of Provisimm,lll4l,4:ll..l'l..lli.• alt he lion. 1 . .4 perier," by Sir GILUKRT iILANI2, F. R. S. lios was origiba:ly written in 800, and is now, with consider able alterations and additions, printed exclusively in the Pampleteer. We should rev:red that the limits ofnur Adilysis .preelnde oer entei ing thlly two the melts of liii4 pamphlet ; but as its merits have aireatly been acknowleilged by the public on its first appearance, we need only add, that it w , ll be found still more interesting in its present shape, from the .notes and remarks %chick are now added, it bearing .i parti• roar reference to the events %%Lich have occurred dr.t neg thu .att thice3-cals. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SP.I I'IELDS MEETING. --...-. In onr laet Monday's Edition we could notice little store than the intro•bietary proemelimes et' this :Meeting. The following is the substance of Mutes Speech, and of the lest of that dory's transaction in Spa-fields. Mr. Hunt—" Ettglishmen, Fellow Countrymen, permit me to congratulate you upon the very numerous meeting to-day. Wall the meetings this city ever beheld, there never was unc seen that bore any parallel to this. (epeatuse.) As the wind is very etad, I'll pot on lily hat. rBaouts ef Brunt.) We are assembled here for the third time. M'e have re ticuled our petition to the Prince Regent for an alleviation of our stalarings, and yon bare tumid the amswer of the Sect e tary of State since you presented your petition. II) the in detatigable care and attention of your chairman, twenty lour tatmaind four hundred and seventy nine persons have signed the petition. (.4eohtese.) It was presented by that Noble Lord, Cochrane, who has performed the duty of avow ing your letter by saying list he would supra the prayer of your petition. Leon resenting it he did support it, and, like a true lii itish sailor, defended your character against the base, false. and !roes ealnnmies brought seabed you. (Loud and coutinuednitidauac.) With regard to the °Ow I gentleman, I must observe that, as a geotleumn, he omelet to have an. steered the letter, and not to have sent a verbal message, in. timeline, his approval of sow parts gf the petition and his objection to others. A petition from a atarving people mean not to have been treated in such a manner—some humanity should have been shown in the answer. (Apphah,e.) Mr. Hunt then stated that he was there to speak the truth, the tan: tt:tee he had been accost mad to utter. The people knew that the existing distress was ere .it; they proposed remedies, and if they were wrong in what they proposed, why slid plot the amiable geidleimin who objected to them coati• furwaid and put them to rights. It had been the prac tice to call tee members tut' the present meeting rabble , and fools, and every other mane that ineiented contempt. lint the tarle was changed ;—the people were now termed well disposed, but deluded ; but by what were they deluded ? by truth. In flee Chamber called the House of Commons, al great deal had been said shout delusion, and several Mem bers of that Chamber had beeu lamentieg that the people were deluded by deeigniug men and by maniacs, who were leading them to destruction. tut why should those persons pres to use such language. He well recollected that whenever lit; met any of those Menthe us of the !louse of Com mosa, he never coelii discover that any of them possessed any superior intelligence; on the contrary, Ile discovered that some of them were a great deal less than men ; and as to talent, they always took rare to keep it out of biz sight. (teetgliter.) He came before the meeting to slicek truth. c neither spoke Greek nor Algebra, nor any language Inn his own, and be should tell then in that Language that he bud • -waited on the Prince Regent, and had an inter% sew with Lord Sidinauth, and learned inure of the Court than ever lie had known before. The meeting had heard tut' a pour hoy l e er ed Itettood. (Cries of " we haae.") That toy has been treated oppressively; but justice should be done him, at least his pereeenturs s hould tie exposed. Mr. Hunt then stated, that having heard of the benevolent' disposition of the Duke of Sussex, he had applied to him to resent the poor boy's peti tion. Mitch hail heel] Said about titut Noble Duke's charita ble conditer, and his constant attendance at charitable meet ings, but lie never heerd of money being given by Rove) Per sonages towards them. (Laughter.) His Royal Highneaa was 111 a bed of down when he (Ale H.) called at his palace ; and attar a great delay, the Duke's smirking Secretary said. " Are you Mr. Huos, that makes such a noise in the mold?" and being answered in the affirmative, mentioued that . is Royal 11,gbits a- wished to in 'Le a pulite eaense. Mr. Hunt then said; he waited upon Lord Thanet, with whom lie suc ceeded, and upon Lord Folkestone, with u Item he had like wise melees. It liml often been said diet the Courts of Jus t;ce were open to the poor as well as to the rich: so wes the London Tavern. into which any poor man inieht go, but would he be able to obtain %%hat he wished ? Stint was the poor boy's sitnation ; but money should be had to pay the Lawyer-, if lie (SI r. H.) was obliged to propose to h;s ;ramie, at Bristol, to raise a stunt by giving a penny eerie—(Tlw people cried out " London, London; we will give a penny each.")-11r. Hunt, after an attack npon the political conduct of Edmund Burke, told the timeline. that he saw the cavalry in plena clothes had arrived --(meaning -the magistrates and other getnlemen aka distance on horseleick); —he hopad Lord Castle' Nigh and Lot d suitor were antlottest thent, for he should like to eremite with the Hefei-titers.-- (A laugh )—The petition, he supposed. would t.e thrown into' the green butt to the Secret Committee appointed to nose it over, to see whether they could smell ent els' treason in it-- (A longh.)—.'t louts- was trumped up the other day, that the • Prince Reeent had betel shot at. If it was so, he ea, -Airy for it. He was sorry at the offer of Any insult or of veneerer to the regent upon his return front opening Pat-hail, ie. Sock conduct would do the cause of. the people harm. a:: : strengthen that which the (oriole opposed. lint to hear the humbug btori of Lord Jaws Mtirray, in his evirlettee. was (pate laughable. They asked Lim, said Mt. IF ant, if he saw, an) bullets; but he answered, that as the glass .vas blown le Ilk eves he could not see. Certeinly, if I had been there, I shored have asked his Lordship whether, As he slid oat tax. any thleg, he smelt any thing!—(Grunt tae,Wre.)—Perluips that would not be a parliamentary out:silos; ,el faun h.) 51r., titett -then alluded to the arrest of the pre• aa on Sunday upon the Seers tary of States warrant, and that the Meeting had propagated the doctrines of the Sper.eean He mould say nothing to Dlnr prejudice of cleft dui:trines ; linked Lie knew nothin:.; of them. But per.tion was die tare of their assetauling. anal to it they scout.. adhere unlit their prayer etfret. Mr. flout next sti:• net to the ineit 33ret, likely to be adopted hr ge,versiniflit to put a stop even to petitioning. The next thing: he cxpectod to hear of Wily, an Act of Parlinarelit to pry tent then front to Cattrelt Or to Chapel--l 4 t0w, , ,1i.)--Tke papers (but y told con (winded lies) stated that Mr. Canning hail ..,tacked him for Ins conduct at tips-Gelds, attritiutiva to Itim,bad hitcutien a hard heart. His own conscience bore testimony to the falsehood of the one 4tatemetit, and his servants could prose tt.at of the other. Ile then said the mteliatt had to thank thein , elvei for the reduction that nits to take pinee iu t!... Regent', income, and the ,alaries of Ministers. bete cased by their proet (Aim. hut they should continue in their exet nous. 'the l'rinee Regent and the Ministers were to he told that the surrender of one tenth or one-tifth of their income would not do. They must raft-nth by wholesale— y • keert.)--lie had no c heard that any of the Whigs had made .art ,tiers at this time of sore distress —()'es, yet, Mr. Punsonhy ha..) --He assured the Meeting he was not aware of it; he was glad to be corrected when in errnor, and desired no. thing but truth and fiiir why had not the oder en= front full and speedy sacrifice on es cry FEBRUA hand was ree,:.ssai . :. to relieve the reinctialons alisties,es tha t ev.•ry dry were shi %sing themsels es in the streets of the me tropolis—(Loud upplaugc, which cotinutil fur a coniiderable tinic) Dlr. Clarke now came forward and read a %cries of resolu tions, sett:ng forth the grievances of people, and praying the !louse of Commons not to gire count( ranee to any mea sure which shall have a tentl.mey to abridge the right of i.e The resolutions and a petition to the House of Commons founded thereon, w etc then carried by serlaination, and or ate' ell to be signed by nineteen persons in behalf of the !Sleeting. some altercation arose between Mr. limit and Mr. liitchins, relative to the proceedings of the Livery at Guildhall : after va hit la thanks were voted to Lord Cochiane, Mr. llunt, and !SI r. Co b bet t. A resolution for adjourning the Meeting to that day RIX weeks, was then put and carried. Mu. observt.J, that, probably before that period, a bill would be passed to pi es mat their meeting aual pt filiotting ; if so he slionlal not attend, but he hoped feral) man would petition individually from his own house, and lie would be the first. The business being thus ended, the cross d giudnally dis persed. WE.S'T3IINSTIT MEETING. Thorsdny, in purse tore ofa rennisition addressed to the High Hai of Westiniti.ter, a Meeting took place in New Palace yard, of the Inhabitant Householders, to take into consid, ra tion an Addiess to the Prince Regent, espressive of their abhorrence of their atrocious Insult of the person of his Royal Highness. The Meeting was advertised for twt lve o'clock, hut it was near one before the business commenced. The crowd was considerable, and several who attended at Spa. fields were recogniaed auuong the nolititude, The greatest possible order at,d decorum prevailed during thew hole of the proccedines. The requisition to the tii,lt Bailiff was sigmd by the chief partizans of Sir Francis Burdett. Mr. Hunt arrived about twenty minutes before one o'clock. He was WOO followed by Loud Cochrane, Major Cartwright, Mr. Walker and Mr. Cobbett, jun. all of whom assembled in a room in the nine's Arms Tavern. Sir Francis Bard( tt and Mr. Jones Burdett arrived ahunt nut• o'clock, and /MITA. diately after they all appeared on the hustings. and were received with acclamation by the ssembkd populace. It was observed, that the Honourable Baronet dhl not con verse with Mi. Hunt, whose conduct, we understand was eonsidered very reprehensible by Mr. Morris, the I high Bai liff, in consispience of his having invited the crowd ut Spa frlds to attend the meeting of Thursday. Major Cartwri,:ht opened the business, and entered into the deli nee of Be. formers, against the attack of the London l'avern Mectine, and enterced the propriety ;of calling the attention of Be Prince Regret to the page of history, impressing upon the necessity of following the glarions example. ef Queen Eliza beth, who selected for her Counsellors very different men from Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Conning. The Major stir. nnously advocated the propriety of Animal Parliaments, and asked those who sought liar irietarial, what they would say if the Chancellor of tlte• Eselitiiier tit:mantled a triennial Budget?—The triumph of bad Ministers, he was ennvinerd, was now, however, drawing to an end. Rebut iii and cone p tion had now come to close go:triers, mid the contest soon be decided. The Veteran Reim mist, (like tlto•e W:l9 succeeded him) condemned in %%Min t.'lOlS the insult Mfried to the Prince Regent. lie concluded with .niov Mg the lowing Address: " TIIE I)ITTIFI'L ATOIRESS OF THE INHAVIT \NT tiorsw. OF THE CITY AND I.ITIEHTIES OE Wk:STXINS'iLit. •' May it please your Royal Ilighnes•. " We, his Majesty's loyal sulkiects, the Citizens or Westudirster, beg to be permitted humbly to w•pniac:t your Roy4l Eh:lt:less, with an expression of our unfeigned sorrow, that our city shoal have been the scene of gross and outrageous insults against your Royal Highness, and in your Royal person, 'against the Kingly office and anthority, anti also with an expression of our indignation at the am duet of the persons who were guilty of such brutal and criminal CX siessc.; and -we feel confident that your Royal Highness will not be to receive less gracion-ly there a:smut:re:l of our attachment,. if we hutnhly entlenvoar to evio,.e oz:r sincerity by franbly elecleriug to your royal llighrass our opinion of the character and of the real, causes of acts so di,grraccful and cfaninal. Wt presume not to penetrat the hearts and rtinds of those who app-areil to wish to see establis!"l the fact, that a de.,:. a i slued against the lilt, of' your Royal lli;liness, to be peg...crated by means of deadly weapons or arms, as the n-sult of a trea,onable conspiracy t • but we hesitate not to :.vie: our great satisfictian, that such fact has proved not to be well founiied, on which we are well reamed that your royal Ilietitc:o will sportive of our cordial congramlations, seeing that even the trish to preserve your own kfc cannot be more near to your heart, t!,an the wi.li to sec every pat of the people of Euglat.ii Muni before the world clear of the iropotstion or stispician of pre int:nutted or col'-bleutied assassination; and we innnbly beg Late to add our ca.ifitlent hope, that your lima! liighne's, in turiAng your recollection to 'the shot which was really Ired from the bark of the Thames, and which wounded. one of the seamen in a La:77 . in - which was Too- Royal predecessor Elizabeth :.you al-ts remember, and r. ill feel resod; to niter from your- own lips, her jesty's gracious and memorable words on that occasion, • That sho world lend credit to nothing agair.st her pole, which parents woulii -net b Oeir own cidltir, n.' •• Bach as Cbglislimett rare In those days, we lininLly yreqrsie Vt assure your Bo) al Highness, we, their elildren, cow are &Wila ‘) our Soveri :gn, und worthy of bis canfiticnee; but we cannot re frain from observing to your !heiress, that wise and virtstatat Count:tater, like a Cecil and a Welsinghanl, enabled that illustrion, Quern to ad' • her people ht: :;nerds,' and to d: dare that' money was better 3n her sui:.iects' pockets than in her own Excliee i ntr:' while Councillors, like a Cii.stlereagli aid a Canning, afir haying tlrainvi yonr people to the very dregs of misery and starvation. hir:e atlvista y.ir Royal I: •:;thess to ascribe their just complaint to ditlr,yal and sten:low drawn about the Mal opo::s a line of circurn vzllation of barrncks, of depot=, and of ars-ralds--have filled yrar palicze e;,urts with [troops and artilkry—have..urronntled your Itcyal person with mcnaring dragooos—:thil have (huh by your people miserable, and at the same time exhibiting your !loyal High nese dei:f to their cries, as cuspecting their fidelity, and setting tutui at 4.;fii.nce, driven soty.e of t''e unhappy s iffer r to that state of do rera:lun which alone mull produce the perpetrat,:tin of those out. .44 4 • H• fos re! 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