The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-09 00:00:00

MIN THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JtJLY 0. have certainly not spit upon the aristocracy with half so much malignity : you have never so completely gulled evert the populace, and you certainly have not escaped a halter so narrowly, though we must, in candour, acknowledge that you do not appear to be less entitled to its honours. It will in this case be sufficient to shew that thereis nothing in the characters of you and your associates that should in cline us to believe you would attempt the object in view by less unworthy means than have been adopted by others under similar circumstances, Or that you would not. make the REFORM iv PAALIAMENT a stalking horse for the OVERTHROW OF THE MONARCHY. Perhaps you have heard (for if I can form any opinion of your understand ing, your intellect, your mind, from your weekly lucubra tions, you are not very deeply read), that when the in clination of a plane exceeds a very small degree, a heavy body, to which the slightest Revolutionary movement is given, ,is urged continually along, as it moves, by an accele rating force which soon becomes infinitely greater than that which was applied at frit to put it in motion. And does not the same principle obtain in politics ? Would any statesman (not absolutely mad) propose to set in mo tion a power that he was not morally certain he could stop at some determined point ? Have you tnorc influence with an overwhelming populace than other demagogues who have proceeded you in the same villainous career ? Are you prepared to shew that the people are more enlight ened, or that their morals are better than they were for= merly, that they are less addicted to plunder, or to murder, and that they have a greater reverence for the laws if you are not prepared to demonstrate this, but on the con trary, if I am able to sitew upon your own authority, that the contrary of all this is a melancholy truth, what, of necessity, must be the conclusion.—You well know, Sir, from an experience of your own heart that with respect to an individual, if his understanding grows more acute as his principles grow worse, hts conduct will become more dangerous, in an exact proportion to the amount of these two changes. The same thing, Sir, depend upon it, will hold good of a populace composed of such individuals. • A MODE/UTZ RZFORMZR. - FOREIGN AFFAIRS. !ROM THE FRENCH 'PAPERS. TWENTIETH FRENCH BULLETIN. VIENNA, JUN 20.—" When the news of the. victory of. Raab arrived at Buda, the Empress immediately left it. The enemy's army was pursued during the 15th and 16th. It passed the Danube ever the bridge of Comorn. The town of Raab has been invested—we hope to be masters of it in a few days.— We have taken the entrenched camp of Raab, which will con tain 100,000 men. The enemy inundate the country with false reports ; this is part of the system adopted for stirring up the lower classes. M. 1)e Metternich left Vienna on the 18th. Ile will be exchanged for M. Dodum and the Officers of the Fre,nck Legation. Prince Gallitzen entered Galicia on the 3d, in three columns." TWENTY-FIRST BIJELETIIbr. VIENNA, JUNE 2`L.-" An Aid-de-Camp of Prince Joseph Poniatousky is arrived at the head-quarters of the army of the Grand Duchy. On the 10th of this mouth Prince Serge Galit zen was to be at Ltiblin, and has advanced to Sandomer. The enemy plcase himself in spreading ephemeral Bulletins, in which he always boasts of victory. According to his account, he took 20,009 muskets, and 20,000 cuirassiers o in the battle of Esling. lie says that on ac 21st and 22d he was master of the ... — a. 7 via an V I ,I :MU V. Zit VW URI% MI 111, lIICCUUIIII9 P honour. You have certainly never abused he took 20,009) muskets, and 20,600 cuirassiers in the battle of $ Esling. He says that on ac Vlst and 22d he ‘vas master of the .c. ‘'....' 4, •-• ' jiff . ;\ half as distinct and unmeasured. You 4, ,/,‘...-.' ,„ 4 . 6 ).!iiiiiirtt 9 P 5 vivi 4.- -,- ..• i• .„ e. P.+> i I 1 ‘ ... '); ' 1 1 44i4 51 ! A ' Nib ir e 4:4. .. #. or tii _. . : 01iatiffi........;....,4--4...,, L...,. ___ ------ - _ .. - 4M ple. Although you attach yourself to an obstinacy more wilful than error, there arc others in the County of Hamp shire, and in every County of Great Britain, who will seri ously and deeply consider of the nature and the possible effect of a plan for uniting the people of England, in one common cause, in order to obtain an object of speculation by means, I/ am t a sured and undefined, the attainment of which may lead 1.1 no practical good, but the means of obtaining which may lead to events the roost deplorable. I shall bavc proceeded no short way on my road, if I am able to shew that almost every political association, for the pur pose of carrying any one point, • offensive to the Govern ment, or for obtaining any one object of importance to themselves, in which it has been necessary to call for the assistance of the great body of the people, has invariably produced anarchy, contusion, proscriptions, and murder. In opposition to this assertion, I am aware it will be asked, whether there are no events recorded in our own his tory where associations of the people have been followed with fortunate events : there are three—the association of the Ba.(01IS at Merton—that in the reign of KING JOHN, and the Fatuous Coalition of the Whigs and Tories, in 1688, to in vite the Prince of ORANGE : but certainly the two former were not associations of the people. It would be a waste of time to argue this point. At the Revolution, inched, there were two associations—one to invite the Prince, the other was an instrument drawn by BURNET at the request of Sir EDWARD SEYMOUR. The invitation was (to make the most of it) only the work of a few; the latter was to use BURN is own words merely, " an engagement of the sub scribers to stick together in pursuing the ends of the PRINCE'S declaration," which declaration was confined, to past violations of law, and a requisition of redress by Parliament. It is true, that while the event of the Revo lution was held in suspense, the populace twice declared their will and pleasure upon the subject. After JAMES had failed in his attempt to go over to France, he returned to London. 66 Never a Prince," says HUME, " returning after victory to his capital, was received with louder accla mations of joy" by the POPULACE. This was on the 16th of December. On the 4th of Feb. following they expressed their pleasure a second time by tumultuously assembling at the .doors of the Parliament House, abusing and insulting those who adhered to their former will of the 16th Decem ber, and they carried this so far as to oblige the PRINCE of ORANGE to issue a Proclamation to stop these disorderly proceedings, although favourable to his own cause. - But even this interference was very different from an in terference of the people—it was merely that of the heads of parties. In the second place, I thli.tc I shall have but little diffi culty. in proving, that whatever may be the object for which the populace is set in motion, upon whatever ground it May begin to act, it will presently be lost sight of, and some other object which would have created alarm, if ex posed at first, will be substituted in its place. This will render it useless to prove, thit you or your as sociates, among whom the political parson (I suppose you were. sneering. at Sir F. Buancres half canonical nurse) may be..inclUtled. Indeed I think it very unfair.in you to assume the merit of being the principal literary advocate of Refarm,_considering the higher pretensions of the political honour. You have certainly never abused as distinct and unmeasured. You 11" 1