The National Register. — London, England, 1814-08-28 00:00:00

ME NATIONAL REGISTER. A 1. 7 0 . 28. Britain ; and he cannot doubt but it will he taken into due conside. r a tion by a Govertime4 which represents a people capable of esti mating the value of liberty; sail ho, if Owed in the same situation. would most assuredly lie piepared to mak,- the slow saerfiet's as the Norwegians. His Majesty is also persuaded that his Royal Higheess the Prince Resent of Great Britain, who so well knows what is due from a Constitutional Regeot to his people, will not admit that he could ever be capable, of his own authority, of sactiileing the rignts of that people, who, with a firm confidence in his integrity, deli keret, to him the Crown. It is only the people themselves that, through their representatives, eats undertake to alter the Constitu tion. or allow of the imion of Norway with any other kingdom.— ( Vide entatitulion 14 and 110.) Ev , -ry Norwelian, and every Englishman, as %yell as every one who tel properly for human worth and happiness, must regret that at this period, when the Powers of Europe have conquered a Conti neotal pence, and restored national libeity, that at this very tiine the same Powers should unite in acting in opposition to principles that hithet,to have been their guide, by subduing, at the suggestion rf Sweden..i free awl respectable people. But as vet, the sword is clay half CHWII, and the voice of humanity, uttered by truth, which way still he heard by Great Britain, and the other Powers. w ill, it is to he hoped, cause them to. 'Meet on the undeserved conduct they ar about to adtjpt towards the people of Norway. I: most also be'aeknowlmiged, that tine policy, and even the v.d fare of the Swedish natitai, in - ges the pi etio ence of a reasonable at rang •ment between Sweden and Norway, stlirreby liberty and loisiour would not be eompromised, to the renewal of a sheddin2 of Lt oil in the Ninth ; anti in the pro suasion that the Prince Itegept or flogland is possessed of noble, just, and benevolent principles, his Majesty with the fullest cootidence applies to him to grant hi. ine• diatiou between Norway and Sys edeu on a bases %%hereby the happi ness and librt tv of the NorwPgirns would be severed :—the. Norwe gian people and their Rine derivend only the principles of the rights of nations to be acknowledged, awl requite that the eveuts that kive taken place in Norway should be property known to be Justly Judged. It is certainly not the attached, but those that unjustly at t.iek tt ho urge a war. Jn couclit..ion, permit mc, by ALOcsty's express command, to add, that if the expected mediation of P.L.!land is not directly in up iwsition to the Constitution of the kingdom, or the deehration of the i)iet of the path of .Mai, which for tlic present are his Majesty's on& e iating gothic*, he will look upon it e 4 his duly to lay &berme an assemblage of the States the progress of such mediation; but as three or tour months would be reipiireel for the assembling of the Diet, it would be necessary, to prevent in the meau time all blood shed, awl which in all probability must he useless, that Great Britain .!:(•;111,1 use tier influence with Sweden, to procure for Norway,what ske has indeed a right to expect from an impart al mediator,—a perfect of ality, free.import and export rums and to England, which all Norwegians, accustomed to view the English as their greatest fri e o:! s , look upon as their highest advantage. How happy am I in havill this opportunity et applying to a man who is a lover of troth, and is horn it is any duty to tidiness with that sincerity, which is also expressed in the assurance of esteem with which I remain, Your most obedient servant, HOLTEN. ( Christiank, June 8, 1814. To J. I'. 1110RIER, E•q. The Commissioners of the Customs have been reprimanded by the Lords of the Treasury for permitting scandalous seizures of property by their officers, under pretence of irre gulatity. Among other instances, equally gross, twenty casks of sugar, marked It S were seized at Bristol, because o dot was not placed after each letter ! They were afterwards off:4-er' to be iestored, on paying a guinea for each cask I This, however, the Lords of the Treasury would not allow to be paid, " it being quite manifest that no fraud could have been intended." Sir Francis Hartwell retires from the situation of Deputy Comptroller to the Navy Board ; and Commissioner Boyle cif the Transport Bo ird to he Resident Commis , ioner at Sheerness Dock in the town of the late W. 1..0hh, Esq.. Mr. Cook, the Under Secretary for Foreign :Mks, pro ceeds from Paris to Vienna, to act as - Principal Secretary to Visc,ont Castlereagh at the Congress. Mr. J. C Nlorier IS appointed Under Secretary of State during his absence. IRELAND. A long charge by Justice Fletcher to the Grand Jttry ot the t. onnty published. In adverting to the of Wexford, in Ireland, has been causes of the real evils of that country, he says— " First—The extraordinary rise: of I Ind, oec.ssioned by the great and increasing demand 'or the necessaries of life, and by producing Loge prollis to the possessors of farms, excited a proportionate avidity tot acquiring or renting lands. H-nce extravagant rents have been bid tot landa, without any great consideration ; and I have ' , elm these two cir cum•tances operating upon each other like cause and eff rt—t he c use producing the elkct ; and the elffct, by re-action, producing the cause. Next—the country has been deluged ha an enormous paler currency, which has generated a new crime, now prominent upon the list, in every calendar—the crime of making and uttering torgel Bank-notes. In every province we have seen private Banks failing, and ruining modes, and thus have fresh mischiefs flowed from this paper circula tion. In the next place, the country hasaecna magistracy, over Active in some instances, and quite supi! e h oth rs. This circumstance has materially affected the administration of the laws in Ireland In t h is respect I have found that those societies. called Orange Societies, hive produced most mischievous effects; and particularly in the North of I relan.i. They poison the very fountains of justice ; and even soma Magistrates, tinder their influence, have, in too many instances, viola. ted their duty and their oaths. Ido not hesitate to say, that all As sociations, of every description In this country, whether of Orangemen or Ribboninen— whether distinguished by tiie colour of Orange or of Crean—all combinations or persons, bound to each other (by th.- obli gation of an oath) in a league for a common pttrp endmgering t Iv! peace of the country. 1 7 protiounce them to be contrary to law : and should it ever come before me to decide upon the question, 1 snail nut hesitate to eti.l up bills of indictment to A Grand Jury against the in. dividuala, members of such •an association, wherever I can find the charge property sustained. In the north of Ireland, these listurbera of the public peace, who assume filename of Orange Yecrn-n, frequent the fairs and markets, with atolls in their hands, under the prete , a:e self-defence, or of protecting the public peace, but with the lurking view ot inviting the attacks from Or,: kibbonmen, conflden! that, armed as they ate, the) must overcome defenceless opponents, and put them down. Mordera have be.Nireptatedly perpetrated upon such occa sions; ant though legal proiecittions have ensued, yet, such have been tltchaneful conaequencea f . 4 those factious associations, that, un. der their influence, P ity juries have declined (upon !Mile ociehion,) to do their duty. These facts 'lapie fallen under my own view. It was sufficient to say, such a man displayed such a colour, to proliKe an otier dishclief of his testimony ; or, when anoliter.has brood with his hand at the bar, the display of his party badge has mitigated the murder into manslaogliter. 1 do emphatically state it as my settled opinion, that until those associations are tactually put down, and the arms takeu trout their hands, in vain will the north of I rclical expect tranquillity or peace. " Gentlemen—That moderate pittance which the MO rents !eave to the poor peasantry, the large county assessments nearly take font them : roads are frequently planned and made, not for the ~eneral ad vAntage of the county . , but to suit the particular views ot a neighbour iug landholder, at the public expenee. Such abuses :hake the very foundation of . the 14w—they ought to be checked Super:at - I , lrd to thole chiefs, are the permanent and occasional absentee landlords, resining in -Another counts, not known to their tenantry, but by their a eats, who exact the uttermost penny of the value ot the land. If a lease happens to fill in, they let the farm by public auction to the highest bidder. No gratitnde tnr past services—no preference of the 'fair othr—no predilection for the ancient tenantry, (be they ever so deserving), hut, it the highest price be not acceded to. the depooulation of au entire tract of country ensues. What, then, is the wr.stclied peasant to do ? Chased from the spot where he had first driiwn his breath, where he had first seen the light of Heaven, incapable of pro. curing any other mans of existence ; vexed with tho•e ex:4o os I have enumerated, and harrassed by the payment of tithes, can we be surprised that a peasant, ot unenlightened mind, i t uneduca:ed habits, should rush upon the erpetration of crimes, fulowed by ti.e pueish mew oft he rolie, and the gibbet ? Nothing (as the peasant' in line) r..tmains for them. thus harr.issed, and thusdestitute, hut w ithii strong Ilan.: to deter the strange, f.oin intruding up n the farm- ; t tort from tiv! weakness and terrors of their landloros (tr m wit se gra t tude or good feelings they have failed to win it) a kind of preference fi r their ancient tenantry. To tln.se scv , !ral causes of dth urnancc, we may add ctrtain moral causes. There has existed an ancient con exion, solitary m its nature, between the Ca! noiic pastor and his ck. Thts connexion ha• been often, with cry little retlection.invoglnd cainst by t•. ,, se who Lail themselves friends to the Consult:coon la Church and State." Here his Lord'strio remarked, that this connexion had lately been near!) flet.truyed, alit! tit , t an abandottiltent of all religious tecliiig was followed by a total disregard tor the sd:ictiq st oaths, whkh had' . . ceav d to be bindiug, except whore they (ot the tames. • - - Klministercd to tlw passions • \ • I 547