The National Register. — London, England, 1809-10-01 00:00:00

OCT. 1. Sentiments are more'directed.bv passion than reason ; and have contributed not inconsiderably to the divelmin mews which the country has been lately exposed to. We have been bandied about from one party to another, not _re flecting that it is not a change of party, lint a radical change of policy, external and internal, which can prevent their recurrence. The present moment is the most auspi cious for a revolution of that kind.. The Impressical is he. come general, in consequence of our recent disasters, that something is ,fundamentally defective in the management of the national concerns and resources. The varioes changes which ; had .taken place for the last eight years in the Cabinet, did not obviate the evil ; and I seriously ap prehend; that in spite of experience, we shall continue shuffling and Aggliag. with the same deplorable levity, until some tretnenduousconvulsion awakes us, perhaps, too late, to a sense of our folly. Every change in the Cahin& is a revolution in our foreign policya Extremes are always to be deprecated ; but more especially .in this moment, .wheu the most trival error, even the .slightest miscalcula tion, might occasion irretrievable injury: I perfectly agree that the present Ministry, particularly after the secession of Mr. C. ri NINO, and constituted as it is at present, is to tally incoespetentto the management of the iwt blic business. Since its formation, it evinced blustering without energy, tardiness without caution, interference without effect, and hostility without injury, except to our own army.— llut I. ant still more thoroughly convinced that the tisselated, or Mosaic, Administration that has been so vapidly projected, is still more unequal to the im portant and arduous task. The late Ministry have been torn by dissentions ; and to this unfortunate spirit we may attribtite a considerable part of the misconduct and failures which marked their projects. Would it not be madness to expect greater unanimity + or greater success, from a body, where the parts are far more discordant ; where their views, their principles, their professions, have been so diametrically opposite ? l cannot think, Sir, with out horror and unutterable anxiety, on such a Chaotic Cabinet, Instead of devoting. their attention exclusively Sind unanimously to ward off the imminent danger which threatens us from abroad, and to conciliate the people at home, they would consume the precis titerval m petty fogging intrigues and mi,iterable squabbles, in ordec to supplant each other. ita:her than see the prosperity and Independence of my country, confided to a Junta of sueh heterogeneous men - titers, I shoul4 almost prefer to behold Lord CHATHAM at the head of the Treamay ; the Earl of WESTMORELAND administering our Foreign Affairs; Lord CASTLEREAGII reinstated in his former situation ; and Lord AIULGRIVE continue to preside at the Admiralty ! The consequences wolild . not be less destructive, or their it:ef ficacy less alarming. This is really no season for Ministe rial match-making ; the entire party must abtiointely re tire, or reorganize an Administration out of their c'a'n elements. If they adopt the latter plan, the voi.e of the Country loudly demands the reinstatement of 11r. CAN NING. His eloquence, iistegritv, and the suavity of his manners, have deservedly gained hint a large s!iaie of the public confidence ; and I do not hesitate to declare that, without his co-operation and support, they Ar4ad not be able to waddle through six months of ofricial ezistence. The enemy we shall have to contend witit for the future, alone •iod unaided. is a dreadful antagonist. Ate has sub jug^.ted Europe ; torn up the barriers of Ink iadependenee, and levelled her landmarks, in the sneto :Is was nl!ot ted to our fasltiolable tourists to gallop over the seine' space o f (- ro und. hits success does not ap:tetu' :0 have re laxed the energy of his mind, or se tisaal hi 3 ip,ordinate am bition. The dethronement of one inc,narch, and the occu patioa of a kingdom gave him a keener appetite for the seizure and aba::ement of another. He is, ir, no man to lie trifled with. He hates us, our freedom, and opulence, inteusely ; and there is not an engine, which the extraordi nary powers of his mind can devise, or the united efforts of the contiwiat wield; which duplicity' can sl:4 . ge4t, or indefatigable etrorts mole, that will not be employed to effect ohr destruction. I would you then, seri ously, it the people •Of this countrv, A9IIOSt such a stflrill s cellecting about their shores, a 1 . ,. to ht made a shuttle cock or, to be played to and fro by narty intrigtwrs ? would ask, as dispassionntcl7, if :i u the dincontent, which pervades the . pu:ilic, in consequence of repeated dip. Asters, it be prudeut to foment those agitated feelings, or to inuease the schism between the governing and the go vented, by a disgraceful scram'ule among the former ':bout the profits and influence of ofuicc ? !t!clt mean rapacity and vulgar amh:tion were indecent and disgust ing, had no danger menaced from abroad, and no symp toms of discontent appeared at home ; but, in a crisis of unprecedented difficulty and Teri!, they tear from the :ireast of the patriot the la:it hopes he might have enter, taiued of the safety of his country. A CONgTAIT READEIIio 'Kent-Read, Sept. 30. FOREIGS 'NCE. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 111 3 .4 N ISII PdPERS. ROYAL DECREE.% 11EVILTOE, SEPT. I.—llls Majesty would neither foldl his own wishes nor the hopes of his people. if, at the same time, when he labours to free the country from the oppression of its , yrant, he did not make every exertion to correct the vice. which exist in the interior administration and to raise this olaenanisnons and generous nation to the high degree of spier), dour and power to which it is entitled by the fruitful ness of its soil, the benignity of its climate, the extension o r coats, stud the possession of its rich edonics, among the ob stacles which have constantly opposed the progress of our agrho entotre, industry, and commerce, the first place is held by the contributions. called Ale:di:tiles, Cientos, and Miltanes, imposts . hich, ohstructine the interior circulation, at.d pressing equally ou the prodoctioesopt . the land, 0,, inannt'eeture , , and in general oa all iihj: ets of commerce, no: only hove banished from out ountry that liberty without which there can be neither arts, coltivation, nor commerce, not only have rendered odious the . Fiscal Aihnioistration, and even industry itself; but, which is more, intl:cting on it hie:treble wounds, have ever been mike, feeble recourse for supplying the necessities of the state. On servatien and experielice have .hewn their prejudicial effecs ; the people have criei out fora remedy; the 'decline of our nt-• tin factures, aa:l the mercantile s stem, unanimously embraced by nil the nation: in Europe. But though the Government knew thew defects, and reformed them partially, these reforms were a new vice which only still more embroiled the s”tem. length the lime is arrived when good principles shall triuttapor, over ignorance, nod the nation which has appeared great a.at. i majestic in the c, es all Eorope by its valour and its virt. e, 7.1ia1l be so also In. the liberality of its prisiciples, and the !less of its interior administration. The supreme Jetta of Go veroment of the kingdom is well conyii tied that the riches of ic dividuals tire the riches of the state, and that no inttieo cant be rich witaout encouraging its aericnlture, commerce, and lodes. try : and that industry in general does not increase but remove the ob,taclei. w hich may obstruct both Cl'2 fiscal and civil law:. From these considerations the Soertorie jonta entmot oinit occu ps,ine; itself with the great work, beeienine with the most urgct.t r.,sorts, which is that of the contribution, and proyidirg in the place of those abolished others upon sorh thino as can more , properly he required to cone•ibioe, distributing :it •In equally among the contributor:, exactive them in the time and manner least oifensive. and collecting them with the least e% pence pt s. • Thus the contributions, whirl' are always an evil, abaft not only on those who can contribote, shall be applied to I%eic law objects aed not to the maintenance of an innumerable mui ni ti l tude of tax-gatherers, who are uoproducti m m e:suers, a lei many hands lint to industry. 1n coesequence, the refute, of t lune principles. the King, mit. Lord, Oho Ferdinand VII. and. in hi.: royal name, the Supreme 3 unta of the Government of the i;:ingilont, decrees ns w• s ;— Art..l. The contributions, known by the name of Itleahaine rientos, and Millones, shall he nbotisfied, as those which are appoinied to supply their place snail be appropriated and esta• Wished, 4 Art. 11. The Department of Famine w charged to prop,*