The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-09 00:00:00

. - • = No. 487.—V0r.. X. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. ?HE BLACK DWARF, AP. 111 h TRIAL OP THE EDITOR. . THERE is one satisfaction to the inhahitants of great towns, especially to those of such a metropolis as that which we inhabit, that scarcely one siogle week passes by with nit its presenting some occurrence or transaction to ealiven the chit-chat of the hour. Every 1 . one, for instance, is now occupied with The Black Divalf, and its Reitkor, who is blacker still, and who never had before, the gratification of " working his way up to day-light !" But it should be the business of every one to unmask this disguised dwarf, and, if it be pos sible, to compel hira to turn colour and claim kindred with his predecessor of " jaundiel fame." Evidently there are no people so "gullible," to bor row one of Cobbctt's favourite words, is the people of England. They have proved the very beA patrons of pretenders of every kind, and, notwithstanding all the mortifications they have experienced, seem to patronize them now. Although they know perfectly well the deceptions which this order of jogglers have practised on credulous minds, they continue to accept their profes sions, and become the victims of their delusions. What a glorious 3,1 of liberators and refortners do not the Hones, Hoppers, Prcslons, Thestimoods, Waisons, If °oilers, 4c. present to us ? Merciful Heaven! If; " the salt of the earth" is to be dissolved by such agi tators, if all that is estimable in life, and dignified in death, is indeed to be banished from our world ; then ruin Bann :t too speedily advance, and the desolation of the universe may safely be asserted to be at hand. Applause was expressed in Court during the de fence of this Mr. Wooller ! Did the individuals who applauded that defence, know the character aol senti ments of the individual whom they presumed to ap plaud at the time or, were they parties to that SOEII4 which he has advocated of late years? Wonu,Eit Htst set.r is SAID To BB A JACOBIN. Can he deny that he is ? And what a Jacobin is, justly so styled, our read ers must know. Twenty-five years of revolution and warfare, of hostility to man, and opposition to God, — have surely been sufficient to elucidate the nature and effects of Jacobinism. But this T. J. \Vooller glories in his shame. For booth, he is an Englishman—what a dishonourtoonel— and has, therefore, full right to libel his countrymen in an exalted rank : but, says he, in his Paper of Wednesday last, '• no matter, 1 shall have a grid, and I may be releasrd in a film days from my confinement, which now begins to be insufferably tedious." We see in what manner he boasted of getting off, only the day before his trial, while reckoning on his friends both within and without the Court. Government has nothing to fear, however, while those entrusted with its administration have the courage to enforce their re- sponsiLility. Let us hope that the Attorney-General will act up to the declaration he is stated to have made in the present case ; that, in short,.he never will be deterred by any clamour from discharging his duty, whilst he has strength to do it. Feeling all that attachment which, as Englishmen, we must cherish for the freedom of the Press, and anxious to preserve it entire to remotest times, we are the more solicitous to guard against its abuses. We have lately been warned of the consegnenees to be appre henied from " The Setfitiosis V'estc"—vnistvenees truly alarming—and on this account we consiler such persons as the Author of the Black Dwarf to be any thing except friends to the liberty of the Press. Li berty, such as he seeks, must terminate in rev lotion ; and revolution might, perhaps, be compreuied for devutism. aitonat 3fltiNiOtrr+ Our eondtitutton anb ItarocS. MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1517 Rot, as was hinted befure, the author of the Bina Dwarf, is a dominued JaenMn, the hater of Kings and Priests, un rerolutiunairc ennsaupe. Nothing short of revolution will appease his high ambition. W. speak this fronthook. " Eilenhorough College," as he calla the prison of the King's Bench, with an affectation of wit, is infi nitely too moderate discipline to effect the correction of such a writer and speaker as Thomas Jonathan Wooller. - Much as we respect the character of the present Attorney-Gt.:nem], awl highly as we apprecian his attainments in a professional view, still we must be permitted to affirm, that in this instance he was unequal to his task. _ Since. according to to the Timer newspaper, (that time-serve ig print !) "as soon as the verdict was de clared," on the second , action in the case, " the Cnirt rang with acclamations, which continua during several minutes," it is wonderful to perceive that nine men out of ',vet e, had the honesty and firmness to return that verdict of guilty which was recorded in the first instance by the Court. Luckily for the defendant, the matter could not be decided in the usual way of settling his own questions at the Cateaton Street Debating Club, by a nut/ore/3 of votes ; for, had this been the case, it is pretty clear that no opportunity would have been affmled him of escaping from the conseqnenees of con viction. He has abundant cause to commend that order of things which he ridiculed and villified by turns. After we had written thus frr, 'nr attention was suddenly caught by a letter from the Foreman of the Jury who tried the aforementioned cause, which made its appearance in the newspapers of yesterday, and which explains the tactics by which three of the Jury hive contrived to satisfy their consciences in eluding their duty. Mr. Hooper's Letter is a very important one. Every thing that elucidates and manifests the pseudo-patriots of the day, inleed, is another step towards the restoration of cordiality and happiness. Till that period of prosperity is come, however, it were infinitely worse than absurd to attempt to nego ciate terms of accomnuxlatiun with the implacable foes of whatever is excellent or great. Disorganization has become the cry of the multitude, because • it is tho interest of those who propel them in the march of destruction. They have denied their God, and would dethrone their King I RehAlion is their business; anarchy is their element. They raise the whirlwind in which they ride, but are incapable of directing the storm. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCF., FRANCE. PAR, F, JUNE I.—Letters film St. Petershergh, of the 6th of May, state, that the number of prisoners of war who have r•mtaincd in Russia, does not exceed 1800, the greater part of them Poles, who have volun tarily taken the cath of fidelity, and are settled in Russia. (ienet:;l Drouet, who had purchased an estate neer Munich, has received orders to quit Bavaria. The motive of this measir-.• has not transpired. It does not extend to other French refugees domiciliated in Bavaria. Five pr Cent. Consols. yesterday, 68 95-100th fr. Bank Actions, 1,380. _ _ l'Ams JUNE 3.—V/sterility after mass, his Majesty received his Rnval Highness the Infant of Snails, Don Francis de Paulo, actomnanied by his Excellency the Spunish Ambassador, and his Grace the Duke of Wel. lington, who were presented at this audience according to the usual cerenumy. Lord Wellington remained half an hour with the King. Accounts au Brazil, subsequent to those reeeived through the English Papers, intimate, that the insur rection of Pernambuco has been entirely local ; and that up to the '3oth of AI arch, there haul been no cenaecti:m either srith the Northern or Southern Provinces. The diamonds that the Court of the flraxils bad sent 1' I: iYE 9i. to that of Madrid, ftr the different marridg..! presents,. were in stt:ll great quantities, that many still rethsilk although the customary gilts were intrlo with ciszto magniticenoe. It i 4 said that M. Cassaflares has bobs charged to give r.n. , ther destination to tkis excess t h at • he his brought to Nladrid. .• GER MANY. LEIPZIC, lt, tAV 16.—Our fair has turned ova et% ciaronely ill ; it may be reckoned inidoiar by one third, if not half. to the last MiAaeiiras fair. It ia, said there were 14,000 strangers less, which one could easily perceive lit the streets. The number of Ituatiens anti Poles in parti:ular, was small, arid these who were here made but few purchases. Germany is so erer stocked with gaols, thlt, it has fir more thin it needs, the consumption liaYin4 much re 'ere , ' by war and flis tress ; and the manufactures, by the cinplayimnt of inachingry, instead of human labour, have greatly in creased, and every thing is produced much more rapid. ly. This causes the wale in manufacture goods CA stagnate extremely. Silks, formerly a great at our fair, were in small demand. to..tli.sh cotton ma nufactures extremely cheap; they fdl flee or six per cent. and scarcely a third part of the stock on hind was disposed of. The proprietors, of course sofferel a great loss by the part they have left on their hands. Saxon cotton goods found hardly any sale. Oar ma nufludurers are inconsolable; since, by this filliwe or their last hope, the greatest distress will be occasioned, since they will be obliged to dismiss a number of work men, who will be dispersed to perish with hunger. Woollen wares, parii-alarly the Netherland clatha and Saxon merino, cassimeres, &c. sold well, and alarm; all the stocks were bought. The inferior eloths fitchc a very low prices. Wool from Bohemia, Moravia, an, Hungary, of inferior finalities, were in abundance' the prices have, however, Gallen from 40 to 60 p cent. within these two months : almost the whole w er sold. As shearing to% approaches, the Saxon rely Is be expected to become cheaper than last year ; but it nut likely to fall shove .0 or 15 per cent. Ordin as wool may be from 30 to 40 per cent. cheaper than ar Y Ina year. HOI.LAND. HAARLEM, MAY 30. —They write from France, that notwithstanding the fulling of the prices of corn in the Northern Dopartasents, the distal's is there still so gnat that troops of twenty or forty persons, nailed with sticks and knives, rove about the country to ex tort money or pnwisions from the farmers. The great cities, as Lisle, Arras, and Amiens, have made con siderable loans, in order to assist the distressed. THE NETHFAILIINDS BRUMLS, MAY 26.—Letters from France say, that :he Government has again given orders to he careful in the enlisting of men for the army. It is still ge nerally observed that the old soldiers cannot atxustotn themselves to be under the orders of Officers who have not commanded them before, and that they fre quently express their dislike to it in an unequivocal manner. This spirit cannot be changed except by time, and it is therefore endeavoured to engage none but such as have not served before, with the exception of some superior Officers, some of the most known of whom are employed from time to time, in order to maintain the military spirit in some degree. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Nf %V t6.—Lieutenant Lindsfeldt, who was suspected of several great crimes, and was lateiv brought before the Anti-tribunal here, on amount treasonable language, has strangled himself in his prison at the Mani-house in this city, shortly after the hear. ing of a witness, whose deposition was very unfavours able to him. SWITZERLAND. ARAU, MAY 21.—The poor and indigent must now feel particular joy on seeing how, in Argovia and all the fertile parts of Switzerland, all the corn fiel s and meadows stand in the greatest beauty, and promiie one of the most abundant harvests. The possessors of maga zines of corn are already in film that the prices, eon• trary to all expectation, will rapidly fall. It becomes now from all quarters more abundant, but the hovers are now fewer than the sellers ; the hitter have hopei too t 1 long for still higher prices, and will not buy. Th ev a r e in the right ; for before the harvest, and in less than • • three weeks, corn will be at the half of its price; • many will then repent not having sold with a reasonable ) -, . profit in time. . • • (e' -‘ • A Voei