The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

, 1 1 11 E NATION Cur Ittn, Conztitittion, attl) tains. PUBLISHED AT NO. !1 NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND. Nn. 3:38. ;e:&: ~. PRINCLSS CHA RLUI IE. A rev -.... flu- Lul r 1 Pn!r•i 9d. SUNDAY, .JULY 24, 1814. LATER TO HIS ROYAL HILiIIgESS TUE DUKE or SUSSEX. SIR-it is indeed ref►esh:ng, at a moment pregnant with such itif►pite danger to the usual habits of the English nation, to see one of the branches of the Illustrious Family seated on the Thlone, so devoted to our forms of Law, and so jea -I.►us of their invasion, as to step forward, when others are afraid to do so, to protect the purity of their administration, and to use the wholesome custom of inquiry in the teeth of those, who either have not the inclination, or want the Power, to thwart or controul the exercise of a mis-directed Authority. • One should, however, Sir, have' thought that your rink and influence in the State, would have exempted you from the virulence and insults of those hired to impugn the mo tives of all opposed to them. But; Sir, even your objects are questioned—your paramount sense of constitutional duty scurrilized, and your noble endeavours to defend the cha racter of the country, for that alone is implicated by the na ture of some recent transactions, imputed to factious designs, and revolutionary principles. But while the vilest terms are offered to your character and objects, the whole nation arc, thank God, their approval of them. unanimous in It has alwa y s been maintained, that the grossness of injus. tice, in a free country, was a sufficient protection against its exercise. But your Royal Highness seems justly aware that the pretensions of some men are equally dangerous with the avowal of others, and that the tenderest ties arc no security against acts of covert or open oppression. All history, Sir, tills us, that whatever may he the cha racter of a government, adherents always abound—and that, under the most vicious, as, for instance, under NAPpLEox, agents may be found to act the part of jailors, and to under take the defence of the most unconstitutional practices.— Ligland has hitherto been free from such crimes, but it requires all the vigilance of your Royal Ilighness to keep her 60. The restoration of Peace seems to have remitted, on the part of the People, some portion of their usual examir4ation and jea:ousy ; but, v►hatever they may he on other sol‘jects, they have never relaxed in the interest they take in the af fairs of the Royal Family. The attendants assigned to TriliCeSS CHARLOTTE OF WAL Es had excited their IW. VII. No. CGCXXXI,7II. !st , _ b s3a# l o inquiry, and your Royal Highness has anticipated the wishes of the whole country. One tyranny has been put down, but let us take care that another does not arise nearer home, and the more fatal, because divested of the frank and honourabto character of English manners. That such a system should obtain root in this country would be a subject of deep regret to all classes of the People:--nor can the splendour of military triumphs, nor the disgust of popular sentiment, justify an attempt to infringe upon the liberty of an individual dear UV . the feelings of every true Englishman. It would be equally dangerous to the governing and the governed, and would leave the wise and prudent to deplore the probable destruce tion of that balance, which has hitherto preserved us safe, amidst the storms and crimes of revolutionary warfare. To prevent these is surely above detraction—and glorious to the individual. The Princess CHARLOTTE is a Ward of Parlia;• tut, and both Houses of Parliament are her naturaj Protectors. What would be said to any one, upon whom had devolved the sacred character of a guardian, abandoning the solemn duty he had bound himself to perform ? We have often heard the Loan CHANCELLOR with awful veneratinn upon this subject, and it now remains with him to reconcile his opinions as a man—with his duty at a Peer. When, Sir, he undertakes to praise, does he mean to say that which he praises he advised? There would be mote rf personal cou rage than prudence in the avowal ; and yet, we must centres. more for us to admire, than in the conduct of those who strive !o shift t h e mimosibility, and make those, who are not subject to the penalties of the Constitution, answerable for a delinquency, of v►hich, by Law, it is impossible they can be guilty. We are not now discussing, Sir, the moral obligations of Patent and Child (they ara no less settled by the law of the land than the law of God), but whether in this free country steps should be taken of a tyrannical nature ? Whether in the fare of day the liberty of the subject is to he restrained, upon the pretensions of those who insist on the right of acting as they please, without being responsible to any Other code than that suggested by their passions? T here is nu divinetion in the eye of the law between the richest and the poorest, the most exalted and the 'west humble. Those who wou!d set up such a distinction know it to be false. Whet, has our niat;istiacy refused to t: in cases of a similar nature wi;h that under sigisV When hive such complaints been denial the "•\ rsi ;1 \ '"? 1. %, % p' 44 I ••■•!•6=k,.•o mtei fere discus- LC pri Vi- V • ~,' • L REGISTER.