The National Register. — London, England, 1812-03-22 00:00:00

111111.1 mil I THE NATIONAL N° 221. POL lIICAL DISQUISI L lON. No. 9.07. LORD BORINGDON'S MOTION. The hopes excited among the Opposition Peers, by this Nobleman's motion, have met with a second, and accord ing to all appearances, . a final disappointment. It is impossible, that after the sense of Parliament has been so clearly expressed on the wisdom of the PRINCE RE GENT' conduct, and the confidence reposed in his Go vernment, .any other attempts should be made to induce him to change his councils. The Party who, in the fulness of their pride, refused to coalesce with Mi nisters, whose administration ha.d been. attended with so many advantages, and so much glory, fancied that their influence was too powerful to be resisted. They ima gined, that because they were in possession of maul- scan. dalous anecdotes, which the PRINCE would not wish should be made. public, his ROYAL HIGHNESS would not dare to reject their terms. They mistook his affability fbr weakness ; and thinking that fear would prove the helm of his mind, already imagined themselves. settled, with out a rival, in the seats of office. The PRINCE REGENT had admitted them for years into his most pi ivatc intimacy, and had thus incautiously armed them with all his secrets. — They knew, for they had encouraged and • supported, all the wild wanderings of his private life, and they thought that he would not hesitate' to abandon men and measures useful to the country, in order to secure secrecy. In a word, they confidently expected that personal would over balance all public considerations.. On this belief, they grounded their hopes, and when they found, at the expi ration of the Restrictions, that instead of being instantly called into power, they, were merely offered a share in the Administration—they rejected it with scorn, fully per. suaded that the PRINCE would. not only comprehend, but grant them that kind of remuneration f(a. their past ser vices, to which they deemed themselves entitled-s,undi vided authority. Astonished at perceiving that their an tagonists, not only were not dismissed, but were confirmed, in their places ; and had been able to form an Administra tion from which they had excluded themselves, they de- : vised.fresh means of repairing the consequences of their imbecility, and resolved, by an exertion of political inge nuity and skill, to over turn the fabric they had raised. They revived the remembrance of his youthful follies ; exposed the most recent infi rm i t i es o f hi s nature , an d daily' sent forth into the world disgustin ,, stories' of Ills reported 'subserviency to female influence, even on political matters, which, if vile, ought to have been carefully coneealed by his early frietids, who first, through Poi. V. No. CCXXL NamonimallmllMlENNMlN Cur Ring . , Connitution, anti tabus. - - PRINTLD AND PUBLISHED AT NO. 5, PICKETT-STREET, STRANDS NEAR TEMPLE EAR* SUNDAY, M ARCH 22, 1812.- . _ - the interested and amt.itious motiv i es of . party, drew bhp away from the paths of strict virtue into those of dissipa tion. Prose and verse were equally emplOyed as the instru ments of alienated friendship and disappointed expectation. The scandalous impertinence of the Press, was emulated" by the iydecent audacity of caricaturists, and every means which could wound and torture the feelings of the PnIKE was adopted. When this artillery had been beating in breach a considerable time, and it was thought a parley might lead to a surrender, a motion was announced in the House of Lords for an Address to the REGENT ) expressive of an anxious hope that his ROYAL HIGIigESS might yet be enabled to form a combined Administration. This motion, which, as Lord GREY acknavledged during the course of the deldttc, was to obtain a change of Admi nistration, was proposed by a Peer who had hitherto paid but little attention to political discussions, at:d who now came forward as belonging to no party, and standing on the clear and. high ground of impartiality and inde pendence. He declared that his motion 41 arose solely from his firm conviction of the necessity of averting the alarming- and extensive dangers with which the country Was surrounded, involving calamities, in his apprehension,. of no' less magnitude than - a separation of the two king doms of Great Britain • and Ireland, "and the eventual dismemberment 'and dissolution of . this empire." order to guard against these peri,ls; a second sight of which wad revealed to, hirn,'alone, his Lordship moved an AdJress, which in fact, requested the PAINCE REGENT to renew tan applicatipn which had been once already so ill recliived, and to-'expose himself a second time to the humiliation of meeting with a scornful refusal. 9n the success .Dif . this motion the fate of the existing crininistratiClii geriended, and the hopes of the Oppo sition This was their last grand trial to regain both placeS * and power; .and if it failed they must, pqr haps; for ever, resign the' chief object of their ambition. Not w i t hstanding their exertions, and the eloq r titnce of the Mover, they have proved unsuccessful, and their failure ha§ been attended with circumstances which scent tco render it decisive 'and final. An Amendment was pro posed by Lord GRIMITONE instead of the original motion. ,In this their Lordships *ere to express their sense of the great prudence and wisdom with which his ROYAL HIGH NESS had exercised the Royal Prerogative, to .congratulate him on the success of his Majesty's arms during thit period, . and declare their full reliance on his ROYAL 14IGHNEss's efforts for the happy result of the contest in which we were engaged. A debate of comparatively little interest ensued, in which Lord GREY vindicated and explained the con- tents of the letter he wrote, jciiitly with Lord GRiiNVILI.C.• REGISTER. • PRICE 9d.