The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-02 00:00:00

'D, e j b l nal t iOttr+ Our :ding, Croniititution anti it attic. No. 486.—V0i.. X. IDA' JUNE 2, 1817. PRICE 94d. POLI'T'ICAL DISQUISITION. ANOTHER CRISIS. England never stood more . feinfidlg pre-eminent than she indisputably towers at the present ern ! High and meritoriously as she rises in the existing scale of the civilized world, it cannot be denied that her greatness is pregnant with fate, and that the mantling cup of her Llicity is d 4 shed with an admixture of woe. Every where her choice is that of difficulties. She has been the saviour of countries, who, in return, would crucify her ; and she still comniisserates those who despitefully use her. Another state of Akin is presented to her ; and it remains to conjecture how she will resolve to en counter this fresh crisis in her destiny. There is no safety fin States, as there is none for men, but in acting on the immutable and illimitable princi ples of truth. Revolution, thanks be to God ! is not Revelation. All the demoralization of modern times, therefore, must be attributed to our departure from tie principles which ought invariably to govern the inter course of individuals and the conduct of communities at large. Revolution follows, however, upon revolution. The diseased and disjointed state of the world, notwith standing the appearances of pacification, still offers but too many of those facilities which discontent and insu bordination are hourly in waiting to profit by. Several years will probably be required to revolve in order to restore and superinduce those feelings and habits which constituted the felicity and dignity of past ages. It is a dangerous and sad symptom of the present day, that the slightest approximation to popular insurrection is hailed as if it were an infalliable precursor of some extraordinary advantages to the world. Uninstructed by the events of the last twenty-five years, unlessoned by experience, and unaffected by calamity, we appear to be as eager as ever to embark in the same dreadful course of irreligion and desolation. There is something more than lamentable in this Providence would seem to be delivering us over to insensibility of heart, and inflituation of mind, abandoning us to ourselves, and withdrawing from us those moral safeguards which have hitherto preserved our happiness as individuals, and maintained our greatness in the scale of nations. This propensity for any and every thing which car ries with it the prospect of a revolution in States, even apart from commercial views, will account for the avi dity with which the intelligence of a Revolution in South America was received here. Without once re flecting in what manner its eflects might implicate us, — as " a vast event," and " a fearful one too !"—the pro gress of insurrection was hailed as the triumph of free dom. " But when, turning to the map, we see so vast a space as one-half of the new world given up to revolutionary doctrines—when we contemplate the different people that inhabit these immense regions— the mixture of Europeans and natives—when we know the little progress that knowledge has made ; and, if it had, when we recollect how utterly unable know law was to arrest the career of blood and crime in France—when we feel sure that endeavours will be made to revive the remembrance of ancient wrongs-- when we survey the ardent character of the inhabit ants of these regions—' Souls made of lire and chil dren of the Sun'—when we know how soon and how certainly the original moderate professions and projects of Reformers give way to the plans of bolder and bloodier Revolutionists—when we contemplate in ima gination the horrors, the cruelties, the oppression that will be committed in the name and garb of freedom— we repeat, that we have not nerves strong enough to consider this event without feelings of awe and dread." Devoutly and earnestly do "e hope, amidst all the " madness of the people," that this Kingdom is not destined to experience that " shaking of the nations" •• with which other Stuth have been visited so sig nally and so fatally. if we desire to be preserved as we now are, however, it is " high time " to revert to the Opinions and . practice of better times, Avben it was considered not ireetional or unphilosophical to—" fear God, and hownir the King." Amelioration should be forwarded in all practicalde ways; but no encourage ment, no permission, Cot be given to Revolution. 1 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY. Adherents Adherents of Poeschel's stet base shewn themselves in Wurtemberg ; this sect seems to have kept up an extensive correspondence us far as the North of Ger Many. It is said that to persons are arrested in the kingdom of Wurtemberg. !CET H E KLAN DS. His Grace the Duke of WeNington, Prince of Waterloo, Commander in Chief of the army of occupation in France, the Spanish General Don Michael Aliva, Ambassador from Spain to the King of the Netherlands. General Baron Alten, commanding the Hanover* contingent, and Pr ince Mara tine, the Privy Counsellor red_ Chamberlain to his Majesty the Emperor of Russian, all arrived at Brawls, with their suites. IrS Some of our Journals havg i spoken differently of the mea sure adopted against foreigners who are the proprietors of several Journals at Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent. To in form our readers of the exact tenth, it will suffice to say, that they have received orders to quit the kingdom in eight days. HOLLAND. Estntet of a letter, dated Rotterdam, May 19 :—" I am in* arrived here from Amsterdam, where there are not less than lota thousand Swiss and German peasants waiting to embark for America, and more are arriving daily. The city of Utrecht is crowded with these distressed emigrants ; and at Amsterdam there are about five hundred encamped in the open fields, waiting fur the like purpose. Their appearance is extientely novel, and 'bey seem to be organized in clans, having chiefs and a gradation of superiors. At Amsterdam I saw them frequently proinenad4g the streets in little bands, with a leader at their head. 11%eir costume is very simple, anti for the most part mean: site inen *eat short brown jackets, loose trawsers, and striped Worsted caps, or very broad bassi hats ; and the wooly, wear their heads bare, except a small band with which they tie their hair, which is long and ;Anhui. Both men and women wear immensely large clogs, which the French call sabots, and arc entirely one piece of wood. The countenances of these people are of a darkish hi owo, and then is generally depictesi in them an expression of ignorance, as well 34 a fixed pensivenets, which informs the spectator of their unhappy situation. A great number of them arc beg. Mg in the streets, and it is said they are the unfortunate dupes of a miscreant German, who pretended to be an agent appointed to receive their passage money to America, and after having succeeded in his diabolical purpose of ruining these wretched es-patriots, he decamped, leaving his victims to mourn over their aceunnilated misery." SW ITZERLAN I). ANOTHER PROPHIPTESS.—THO publications have been cir culated a short time since at Basle, which make a great noise, and proceed float the missionary establishment of Madame Krudener. In both these writings there is a visible tendency to excite the poor against the rich, which affords much scope for a comparison with the doctrinct of Porsche!. Wherever this woman can have a ding at Palle and its inhabitants, she never misses the opportunity. None the first of these publi cations, (Gazette for the Poor,) the first number of which appeared on the Sth of May, with this advertisement, "The poor receive it gratis, and let ).hrtn communicate it to the rich for food, and pray for *am 4" contains, in mystical lan guage, an announcement of the kingdom of God for the poor ---of judgments—of murders—and scenes of horror, which shall begin in Switzerland, and retell.' to the heart of Ger many, &c. The papers are fall likewise of tales of distress, wretchedness, and divine anger, and quite calculated to de press people's minds still more ip these hard times. The second publication, " To the Poor," contains the fol lowing passages, which will serve to characterise it :--" The Lord (p. 3.) will lead you, by means of distress evil persecn• non, out of the countries over which his judgments, famine, war, pestilence, oartliquelits. &c. will come; where you are so cruelly treated, where people no longer live according to God's commandments ; where they neither feed the bun gry nor clothe the naked, nor take the wretched into their houses; where widows and orphans are oppressed, strangers denied a refuge ; where you arc driven from place to place, robbed of your homes, if Mon and wife arc nut from the saute country; where you ale forbidden to marry unless you have a horse of your Own, or a certain sum of money; iu short, where 1H1111:111 laws art opposed to divine." Farther, p. 9.—" The rich of this world still not obey the divine OrlilllalleVS. Yon now most leave your houses sold crouch before them ; you are punished If you ask alms, it is even forbid to give alms. ale, that is the kingdom of th• rk 'less, of Satan, which seeks to overture the divine order, and tear the bands which God has tied between the rich and :lie poor for the good of the whole. But God knows how always to make glorious that which `faun has destroyed ; tlic iatti r must himself be aiding to make all better than it was before. God creates a new order of things— Guil *hoodoos to them selves the rich, and all who depend On themselves, as they repulse from them the poyr, whom God has placed to be J blessing to them. " One judgment after mother will come upon them, and foreign people will take try thing from thou. " Then the blessing of God vi 111 fall wholly on y on, ye Fuer. who have become rich by faith, and you will soon hear the call Come, ye blessed of toy Father, inherit the kingdom e huh is prepared for you," itie. true would think that itxdo did nothing for the relief of the poor, though there are few cities which have done so much. 'file rich inhabitants have subscribed 390,140 franes, schich they lent without interest to the Government, for the per. chase of corn; 44),000 francs were•srbscribed in a few days, to assist the " General Poor Committee ;" 1500 portions of soup are daily distributed, earth gratis, partly at a low price ; 1062 poor fondles receive breath at nearly half price. The Government gives to every eitieen (ruin tike corn ruagatine a sack of corn for 16 dollar., which costa in dm market 20 or 22 dollArs. FRANCE. EICTRAMIDINARY PHENDMENON.-At Rheims, au Sunday, May is, it had been rather stormy ; the temperature hot to suffocation ; the weather however, cleared np towards evening and became calm, and about half frist eleven there were observed in the sky circles of a purple red, which ap peared the more striking from their being intersected by others of a deep dark colony. The red light reflected upon the tops of the houses made the town look as if' it was all in flames. This phenomenon ceased about midnight, hut reappeared a little before dity, in even a more extraordinary manner. The fiery circles discharged so vivid a light that the persons in the street were terror-struck ; some claps of thin:trier were heard, and immediately followed by an extraordinary fall of rain during two hours. Many showers followed each other during the morning; when the sun appeared at intervals the heat was consuming. About halt' past two an extremely dark cloud appeared magi our mountains ; it moved with considerable rapidity ferny south to west; its noise is best compared to the rattling of a park of artillery driving at a quick trot over pave ment. Just about the town the cloud burst with a horrible crash ; there fell during five minutes a mass of hail the like of whit h was never seen. In an instant all the glass of the windows faring the south were reduced to powder ; several trees were torn from their roots, and the roofs of houses gradually damaged. Great fears were entertained that the country might have suffered from the hurricane, and that its ravages might destroy the harvest, which is so much wanted ; but by a prodigious instance of good fortune, it pan ed a little beyond the limits of the tow ,_Tlievegetable gar dens round the town are wholly skstred, gad the tumbling down of shells npou hot-beds has done some injerx. _We hove to thank Providence for the escape of our viteydrds. ' ". UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The exertions of the new President, James Munroe, as be has himself announced, will be particularly directed to make I America as hirkpendent as possible of Great Britain in re. spect to its manufactures. For this purpose particular cocoa. ragement will he given in all the States to industry ; the estab. I 'aliment and improvement of manufactures will be encourag. ed by all the Gos comments, and assistance given to enter prising persons; for which purpose a part of the surplus of the public revenue will be employed. The exertions of the President will doubtless have the happiest success, as Ame rica possesses in an equal—and, in sonic respects, perhaps, an higher—decree than Eli land, every thing that is neces sary to make arts an 4 industry prosper rapidly. The rich mines of the finest coals facilitate the erection of steam en gines, for which the English manufactories are so greatly in debted for a part of their prosperity ; and there is no want of capital in the United States. Besides, all the raw materials requisite for manufactures arc to he had in abundance, and home consumption increases daily. All this is sufficient encouragement to speculators to support the good intentions of the President, and actively to contribute, on their parts, to the improvement of the manufactures. Very advantage ous offers have already been made on this subject to English, French, and Netherlanders, lately arrived in America. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. . HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MAT 30. Their Lordships met according to adjournment, about three o'clock. EXPECTID RUN it MrSSAGF. The Earl of Lief:Reno:. called the attention of the House to the intimation lie had given, at the but meeting of their I.ordships. of a Message, which it would probably be his dots - to deliver from the Prince Regent on the present day. Circiiinstatsces had since °rem red which made it necessary to defer that communication for a short period; and he should content himself, then, with simply moving that the Howe adjourn to Monday nest, and the Message, to which he had referred, wonld be presented on Tuesday. Lord HoLts, so, under the circumstances of which t House was pretty well apprised, had no objection to the pro. puled adjoin-meld, but gave notice that lie should, on 'files- . 0 . day. agreeably to it former intimation, move for the fort - One- 1 - ' 4,.. tion of a copy of the correspondence which had taken place • ve."6, I kt between the Magivtrates of Berkshire and his Majesty's Se- a A ''' cretary of State. While he gave that notice, he trnsteil ittli *•'' -", Noble Earl opposite would have no objection to their Lo/ * t. ; •.. , ships being summoned on the occasion. ' 1 The Earl of Lts giteom. had no objection to the motto the I\ Jble Baron. . 4‘......... ....,.......,) A 4„: Lord liotkasis observed, • that he had not accur a t e .. ' ' a t o " % t amined the Statutes I elative to the treatment of pri s ki . • "..- . confined for supposed State offences, and wished to b 'e . . formed by the Noble Earl whether any additional po w :1; s,' 1' had been extended by the Legislatnre on that subject, be yond what were comprehended in the Statute of the Het of ' the h.;og. be ' of 1;3