The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. perhaps tells you that the whole mass of blood is vitiated, and that to restore hee&lth to the patient it must be changed entirely by emptying the veins, and transfusing . the blood of some young healthy animal in its stead. Such in at tempt was made on the human body—and the deluded patient expired in the operation. When the body politic discovers ruploms of disease (but not till then), men of prudence v- ill act as persons of common sense usually do, when a friend whom they velue is taken ill. They call in a physician, 1$ hose learning, skil!, and character, have been established by a long course of successful practice. We do sot it such cases consult the impedent and ignorant moun tebank. who announces himself as the cratuilcus benefactor of inankind.—Who without regard to his friends or to his eountr , men, has quitted t14:. , m all with a vi^w to diffuse the /timings of his knowltilge over a more extensive field. The credulous and gaping crowd, however, surround the man who professes this universal philantliroriv, they swal low his pei vicious dregs, and ARE Poi Anot:le: impostor succeeds, announces the same disinter ested pi.ilanthrophy, the same generous el!achtnent to all mankind, and the same credulous g a pitl multitudes believe —are imposed upon and suffer. The people are not less imposed upon by political quacks who promise to relieve them from difi:.,rtler. whether real •r imaginary, Which they impudently tell them are Leyond the power of regular and responsible advisers.— The poli tical mountebank Registers his patients, sells his doses, fills his pockets, and when the people shall be writhing sander the agonies produced by his Regimen, the bold empiric will only be heard of—in another hemisphere. Whenever I hear of a man who professes this universal philauthrophy, I suspect his heart or his head, and almost involuntarily secure my pockets. If upon enquiry I find him is his private character mulling the duties of an af feclioa7Ce Ins band, and indulgent parent, a valuable friend, a kind utast.er, a benevolent and conciliating neighbour, 1 feel for his mistake in supposing it possible to extend ibe circle of his regards with any effect to all mankind ; or in supposing that he ought to be unhappy, hccaus a por tion -of his countrymen do not possess some imaginary bliss, the attainment of which he is desirous to secure for them. In this case I pity and deplore, a conduct which I feel myself not at all disposed to imitate. But when I see men, who have scarcely known any other relations in so ciety but those of servant and master, who have com- Meaced their career with treacherous duplicity, who have vilified and libelled their benefactors and masters, who have treated their dependents and servants with cruelty, bruta lily, and tyranny, who expend that wealth which fraud, imposition, and deceit, may have supplied to oppress age, indigence, and ielirmity ; when I see such men proposing theinst Iwo for patriots, can I hesitate a moment in believ ing (what every man of sense has anticipated me in saying), that such professions are only employed to deceive and gull the popzita(v, in order to obtain that share of influ- , once that • lead to the attainment of their own private ' ends. Eve. you, Sir, will not deny the importance of learning hove the man to whom one talent has been en trusted, employs it before a second is committed to his are. A man is molt intimately connected with his parents, aildren, and dependents; with his friends, neighbours ; and countrymen next, and his affection weakens as the ob fort woggles wore mate*. A paitls throvta into tile wa- AUG. 2s. ter generates a series of concentric circles; the first arc stronger than the second, and so on to the end of the chap ter—what was at first strongly marked, becomes at length scarcely perceptible. It . is ',lie same with our afreciions; they are stronger neatest the center, and vv,.•sen very remote are scarcely sensible. Estimating your philanthropy by these principles, what reason have we to believe that your professions of regard for the people of Hampshire, or of England, of whom you have only the slightest knowledge, are more founded in truth than the promises of a mounti -I)ank of any other description. The one defrauds aid de , ;odes the people out of their money by promises which, if it. were possible they should be fulfilled, would ensure to ,hem a blissful immortality; and you, Sir, and your bro ther Reformers, would cheat the peop;e out of their com forts, and out of their happiness, by promises of an ideal Reform which you know to be 'mow actieable; of an ideal iberty which they can never enjoy, by an exemption from taxes which they never did, or could pay ; and by a share :n the legislation of the country, which itiej never tiid, arid never could exercise without destruction to them selves. The language of the real patriot is as different from the jargon of factious and visionary demagog: es, as your cha racter is from that of an honest man. The real patriot unites loyalty and a feeling of lirivate honor with a sense of peb lie duty—is select in his object, judicious and honourable in his means. lie disdains to court the capricts of public opinion, or to catch the momentary breeze of public favor. He seizes the confidence of the people by the cliorts of a mighty mind, and wells it only for imr‘rtaat public pur poses. lie not .only reverences his country and its laws, but he reeerences his King for the sake of them both. His moderation partakes of wisdom and magnanimity—he knows what to prevent, when to forbear, - when to inter pose. He does not risk the opinon of the public, by wast ing,his strength upon the fleetin; occuerences of the day, but husbands his courage for exertions ef diaiculty, and for moments of danger. He will not dissipate it by wanton attack, but reserves it for the period, when resistance may be necessary and effectual. his ambition is not tar nidied by the baser alloy of vanity or interest. The only con3ciousetes such a man possesses is in that rectitude which does not look for its reward, in the tumultuous applauses• of a giddy populace ; but in the calm approving voice of the age which his virtues have ennobled, in the grate:el plauthts of an admiring posterity. Yon, sir, find something more homogeniel in the reverse of this portrait, to the coutemplatiou of which I shell at present leave you, proposing (if I can find leisure) to examine, in a succeeding paper, the etrect likely to result from your plan of ad dressing the Ling to alter the elective franchise, with a view to bring us back to what are called good old times and to incapacitate perions holding places under Cover*. meat from sitting in Parliament. PRO IN CI L 5. suptar Assizup--caoyDoN, A... 11. CRIM. CON. GRAVE:IIIM V. ANDIVISON. Mr. Serjeant Shepherd said, the Plaintiff was a fiteraer, ref?. dent in the neighbourhood of this town, and %rasa man estimat ed to be peculiarly skilful in his profestioti, which indeed stab the primary• clone of hi.; misfortune. Toe Defendant wa a young gentleman of considerable %Vett India property, whe wished to bf.coine acquaintv:i wit h the of England, :stid as the Plaiatif was estsemod a skilful agriculturist, be isaa