The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-27 00:00:00

7:0 But the charge against the King of Saxony is, that fill this arose 44 from mere imbecility of intellect." The Edi tor of 4 The Times' produces this charge as a vindication of the conduct of the Congress towards the King of Saxony:" therefore," says the unprincipled writer of this atrocious paragraph "he was unworthy to reign." If the journals of revolutionary France are consulted—if all the infamous and violent acts of every government were em blazoned, there can be found no sentiment equal in de pravity' to this. We would ask the civil Doctor where he learned his morals? In the same school perhaps as he practises his law. But, we can assure him that in tuch princip!cs he stands, thank God! without a rival. There is another circumstance to be considered, viz. that if Saxony - had joined the Allies after the battle of Lutzen, Buonapette in all probability would not have be II defeated. Ile must then have withdrawn to the :Rhin-, and there, as was evidently proved by the offer of the Allies in November, he would have seemed almost all he wished. But, there is another powerful reason, that is the at tachment of the Saxons to their Sovereign. These peviple certainly deserve consideration, and to use the words of a French writer, if we admit that " the King of Saxony 1•• deserved punishment, did not the people of Saxony, " joln those armed against the oppressor of nations and K'ng - s. Did not the Saxon army range itself under the " Banners of the Tyrant's enemies, and thus contribute " to the success of the cause of liberty." Hence this people deserve consideration. But reasons without end may be quoted. This trans fer of people is not sanctioned by any thing like either policy or justice. It was the original scheme of Napoleon, and mi s erably will its outline be tilled up. The sagacious Editor of the Times, coming to his senses, at the end of his diurnal diatribe, seems to apprehend some danger, and wi,ely warns the Allies to think of the fate of his Empire, and attributes its fall to the want of coherence tind moral amalgamation. But, had not Napoleon lost an army in his foolish campaign in Russia, we should have found that his Empire would have required n o other sup pert than his armies, and those of his vassal Sovereigns. Another powerful objection is, the hold it gives France. To her in R period of distress, we presented the status ante helium. In France, the most powerful military nation in Europe, has this principle been applied, when it is solely abandoned in the case of all the subordinate Pow ers ; and in addition to this stimulus to a mighty vation, we furnish her with her means of future sue. cess in the heart of Germany, for it is too evident that France, feeling, perhaps, her present exhaustion,protests formally against the arrangements that are made, and re fuses to accede to them. She thus lays the foundation of tt new war, as soon as her finances shall be recruited; and we well know that a very few years will revive her strength ; since though her Exchequer be now empty, the progress she has made in all the arts of peace, in agricul ture, and manufactures, will soon put her in a posture to act on the protest which she now enters against the spolia tioos that are decided on. We hear, also, that Austria, not content with Italy, turns her eye also to Switzerland. Is it to he believed, that peace concluded on such a violation of all ne.ighbour bood can be durable? The Swiss may be trampled on for a time, as Buonaparte trampled on them, but there is the ds that unfits them for the abject state in euerm in the /raids that & 44 " • , 4 .,_:.....„___.4„ k a, ~. , i p.,.....:‘,.., . , ~..........,.., \+,......,,„. „ :.: ___ 7.11 E NATIONAT, REGISTER. NOV. 27 S of dependence to which their incorporation with Austria would reduce them. It is impo , , , iblc to hear of these pre tensions without being struck it h amazement that Kings and Cabinets have come out of the revolutinary contest with these chimeras of aggrandizement floating before their eyes. They seem all to verify the pithy description that was applied to a Royal Ftmilv miraculously restored to the Throne of their anceciors--- its n'ont rice oubli—ils Wont rien (IppliS." They have forgot uothing—they have learned nothing. THE POOR CREDITORS' CASE FAIRLY STATED, AND A REMEDY SUGGESTED. ADDRESSED TO R. WAITHMAN, ESQ. [By A CORRESPONDLNT.I That the law has been equal in its enactments, and im partial in its administration, has long been the boast of this country. The latter circumstance is or greatest pride. As to the former, we fear that it will appear, that, however efficient it may have been at the period of enactment, our immorality on the one hand, and individual tyranny on the other, have contributed to make the most judiciously, hu manely, and intelligently administered code of laws in the known world, oppressive and injurious, not to the fraudu• lent debtor, but to the honest creditor. It is curious to observe the arguments used by the two parties in the legislature on this subject ; the one advo cating the farther relaxation of the debtor and creditor law, the other as strenuously ur 6 ing its continuance on the pre sent basis ; the former on the score of humanity to the debtor, the latter on that of justice to the creditor. This presents a case, in which, we fear, it will be found, that the interests of the two parties ate most neglected for the benefit of the - third. In short, it may be finally exemplified in the story of the Lawyer and the Oyster. The plaintiff acid defendant get the shells, and the black gentry the oyster. hence, we shall contend, whatever may no:., be the letter of the law, or the spirit on which it e.:as framed, that to the poorer tradesman, the operation of the bankrupt law, its equality of enactment, and impartiality of operation, base, in despite of its administration, been whohy lust. A superior tradesman, or rich merchant, to whom dehts are owing to a given amount, has the power to compel the presence of debtor, and to make him not only field hi; property to the uttermest farthim7, but to give a clear ac count of any deficiency that may arise. Two traders, to ivhom 10001. are owing, can get, without time expellee of mohe process, as much as this debtor caa pay,. Two hundred poor mechanics, to Ivhom 10,0001. arc ow ing, are each obliged to incur a chance of paving one-thnd of their debt to secure it, and, peilmps, eventually loge piineipal and costs tinder an insolvent act. • 13 this justice ? The Bankrupt Laws have certainly their defects. These, however, arc only to he found in the minor details. Their leading features arc just and inpartial, and their general adminibtration liumar.e and liberal. Few, I