The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-10 00:00:00

456 John Bull is warm heaited and generous, highly credulous and self-sufficient on all points that implicate his humanity, but rerentful, vindictive, and overhearing when once deceiv ed. By whom she has been advised, or who are her advisers, is a matter of indifference : she has no prerogative to protect her : she is alone responsible for her own acts; and indi vidual forfeiture and condemnation attach to the moral re . sponbibilities of her rank and situation. But what shall we say to those men who hilVe. placed her in this fatal difficulty ? who contending ono, ,1:y• for all that dig!lifies human nature, permit the next all that degrades it. Is it true, as we have heard stated, that Mr. Brougham is her sole and confidential adviser ? The latter pail of the proceeding Las the air and character of the " Courts &low," " And palters with us in a double sense." There is nothing Princely about it; nothing to elevate and soothe; nothing that qualifies the debasement of its parts it is vitally affected ? And it is wicked to talk of factious 'discourses when the sentiment of reprobation is universal ; or to designate a few by names that apply to a generation and a species. Lord Castlereagh very properly avoided all remark upon this part of the subject : he con fined himself to the GRANT. He knew the extent of the power that had been furnished him. He gave Mr. Methuen the credit of the proposal ; but that gentleman was nut pre sent to icceive the lame', and to acknowledge the eulogiuin• Was he ashamed of his work ? Could he not bear to con template the ruin he had made ? The graceful form of in nocence prostrate on a bed of filthy lucre ; and the virtues Sacrificed at the very moment they were about to witness a THE NATIONAL REGISTER. just and signal retribution. All that now follows, follows as a matter of course. The object was to change the current of public opinion, to excite inditTerence. The sycophants of a Court knew the first movements of the people to be on the side of virtue. So long as the Princess was abandoned, the People steadily adhered to her) her privations were so many claims upon their gene rosity and support. They followed her with eager and af fectionate solicitude to the retirement which circumstances had imposed upon her, and the Princess triumphed over the obstacles of legal doubt and domestic insinuation ! The case is now altered. She has accepted the recommendation of those who would destroy her, and has become a party to the detestable notions of parasites and panders on the one hand, and corruption on the other. All this signifies little if the example held out was not likely to affect the manners of the people. There is, indeed, too great a laxity in the discipline of the virtues already, and we only required some melan choly " falling off" like the present, to witness the corrup tion of that national character which for ages has withstood the storms of factious and arbitrary power, to become the victim of Bed• Chamber Lords and intriguing Chamber- Women. JULY 10. i • IMPERIAL PAILLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDA , ..SLY 4. lhe Office in Reversion B:II, which has lain over from last Session ; was read a first time. The Vaccitia• iun Bill passed through a Committee. TUESDAY, JULY 5. Eat, BATT! v nsT triovvd the Th. nks their Lordships to the A. Inv and Navy, for their services during the late war, %Inch was agreed in:anitoott.ly. Ttv mess -T(9 were brought down front the Prince Regent, recom mending, the House to agree w:th the ( 011;1114ms in granting annuities ut NJOI. per annum, to Lords Exmouth and Cuinberniere —Ordered to coo'idcred to-morr,:w. Earl STANtioer; submitted a ite.:n!utitin, the object of which was, to secure an ample supply cif Corti, and give encouragement to corn growers, by tal it.g off such taxes ua bnii directly either upon the la bourer or cozn grower.—Ordercit to be printed. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. A creat nornber of prt:tl,,os were presented praying the Abolition of the Slave Trade; anion , them was ore! from the Society ut Frie di, commonly galled Quaker', %hid' being addressed " to the. Lords in l'arlia went," instead of " Lord- Spiritual and Temporal," occasioned soine demur as to lecei‘ing it ; after a O t to'tory conversation, however, the petition was ordered to tie v‘ith the others on the tunic.. Au Addr •ss was voted to the Prince Regent, concurring in his message for granting annuities to Lords Exmouth and rombei mere. Lord Stewart was introduced in the usual tom, and took the oaths mud his seat as 13aren Stewart. FRIDAY, JULY 8. A great potato!, of petitions, praying for the general Abolition of the Slave 'Trade, were presented. Earl Sr,. WIICOPE presented a petition fluff) a prisoner confined in Gloucester God, complaining that his letters were not only opened but stopped. The second reading of the Ilelstone Election Bill was deferred from Monday ti:l Tue!.:liiv next. Upon Lord Boittaopos moving the report of the Small Pox Pre-, vention Bill, Lord STANHOPE requested the Bill to be read; and which, utter some observatio ,, s from Lords Mut.ra Its vr, LAUDERn•LE J and REDESDALE, the third reading was fixed fur that day six weeks. THE •REVERSION• BILL, On the motion of the LORD CHANCRLLOR, after some few observe • 'ions front Lord Gtiosvinvon, wits ordered to be read that day Ores tuunths.--01courbe the Bill is rejected. HOUSE OF COMMONS. nONDAY, JULY 4. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that the House should go into * Committee on the papers respecting the Prioress of Walt conversation of some length arose a' to t;ie most proper mode of proceeding ; in the course of which Mr. W till BREAD htated , that the deed of separatien which Lord Castlereagh asserted had been signed by the Prince and Princess of Wale , , was nothing more than a mere pecuniary arrangement—no deed of separation had, he said, ever been signed by the Princess of Wales.—The house then went into the Committee, and Lord Castlereagh having described in what marmer the Prince of Wales had provided for the income of the Princess, and contending that he had done as much as ant imaz could have done hi his situation, his I.,,,rdship said, although there had been no direct application to Parliament, yet he hail 110 reason to think that au .nercased provision would not he Mideetpiable to time Princess of Wales. With respect to what it should be. tinder all the circumstances, he thought it should he brought t i that Pont to which she would have been entitled if the demise if the prince Regent had taken place. As de facto the parties had been separated for fourteen years, and there was nothing to lead the House to to• fer any approximation again, Parliament would feel that it could not better dacharge its duties thou by not attempting to intertcfe