The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-20 00:00:00

41114... p...... 34 rienced hands, even supposing it to be overgrown, it could never prove an engine of evil ? And yet thee bodies who become, as interest directs, the organs of the most opposite sentiments, still boast, we hope unjustly, of the confidence of the people, upon whom they daringly call to share their corrupt in consistency ! They drop the mask of t atriotism which they wore, to assume that of loyalty : but forget their King, to hail the rising power of a Regent, whose cause needed no - snch aid ; whose dig nified mind views their delertion with becoming contempt, and will reward their time-serving with Just neglect. Assisted by a crowd of weathercock writers, they now crouch servilely at his feet ; and in order, as they wrongly fancy, the more effec tually to attract his notice, and divert the stream of his favours upon themselves, publicly renounce, not only their own patriotic doctrines, but the political creed Of their country. They will not allow the PI tricE to be satisfied with the portion of authority with which Parliament invests him. They tell him that to elect him Regent without dethroning his father, is to abridge his rights and insult his dignity : and that the British Crown is the property of his House, and not .that of the nation ! who placed it on the head of his forefathers as a sacred trust, not a gift. These are snares which his mind is too sound not to perceive : enticements, which his heart is too loy;,1 not to scorn. They mock his sense and his filial love : bitt they shall have their reward, and when these men find that places arid pensions have eluded their grasp, a new revo lution will be operated in their sentiments. Reform will again be their th?me : the influence of the Crown will once more be represented as baneful ; the rights and liberties of the people as in danger ; and the late outcry against abuses will anew re echo ihrough the land. These prognostics of disappointment and revived patriotism, are not foreign to their minds. Their conscience often made them, but caution dissipated their alarm, by suggesting means to render rewards certain, even independently of the Regent's will. For this purpose, the chiefs of this political heresy, who, by their writings, inflame and direct the opinions of the unreflecting, have erected themselves into a body, totally unknown to the Constitution, which forms a step between the Commons and the People, similar to that of the Princes between the King and the - Peers. This body consists of the Editors - of the once patriotic and now place-hunting Weekly Prints, who, after declaring- themselves, the Representatives (g . their Readers, have already l'cise the functions of their new lase the weight of their usurped cffairs of the State. This assume. ••• . - d cspeeded .. to exel • ..., -• ~L....`, ' . Z ak. . intyrp, ~.. ~ • ~,..i., . t - ~ .' hi Pr : a r -41 ‘ i . .4 , tl • : • ic, I 01 • lit;' .4 .....: .* : • ~, ... , t_ ' 7'41 , 4 • ~ • - _. c.l l ' , \ ',,' • - "-1 , 4 • ;.." 1 * 1 41 ' ; . 1• (iN 'V. ........:' w, V M 4411 Tilt NATIONAL REGISTP,R. tion of power, unheard of before :—this second representation, which, if suffered to prevail, would remove the people a degree Iciwer in the scale of the Constitution, avid make a few self-elected, in. consistent, and interested individuals, its organs, is an innovation, which may prove no less dangerous than that of the Royal Dukes, if not quickly dis. 'avowed and checked by the indignation of the public. Let it not be deemed too trifling to be noticed and prevented. The blindness of some classes is equal to their credulity. They never dive into the intentions of men. They have been so frequently and artfully told, that they were not fairly repre. sented in Parliament, that they have become fit ma terials for the purposes of- ambition, and might easily be brought to acknowledge as their only true Representatives, those who have instilled that belief into their minds. Custom soon creeps into use ; use into law. Armed with such support, and able to wield such numbers of ignorant, it is true, but - drective men in the field-or in the midst of poll. tical cornmotions, how deeply might not designing patriots, who at any time, either by purchase, or by the establishment of a newspaper, may become members of that secondary representation, injure their King, their Country, and their Constitution. Let those who are inclined to treat this subject lightly recollect that the declaration, announcing the existence of a new representative authority, a fifth body in the State, was not made until after years had been spent in incessant attempts at con vincing the lower classes that they were not repre sented in Parliament. A single link may some. times lead to the discovery of a mighty chain. The following from the Swedish port will deserve the attention of our commercial readers:— " GOTTENBUROTI, JAN.7.—Trade can be looked upon as over in.these regions. Inclosed you find a list of the different articles of which the import and export are prohibited. Teas are also prohibited, except they are imported in Swedish bot toms direct from Canton. g‘ Designation of goods of which the importation in Sweden is prohibited—Cotton, sugar of all kinds, coffee, cocoa, indigo, cochineal, pepper, cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves; mahogany, Fen• nambuc, and Campeche wood; all other kinds of dye-wood , : ivory, tortoise-shell, vauille, ginger, cassia lignea, and orseilly.. ' Soarcely a day passes but accounts are received at Lloyd's of the depredations committed by the enemy's privateers, particularly in the Channel. The celebrated naturalist Schroeder died at Erlang on the 10th of this month. T. Bish recommends such of his friends as wish to adventure in the present State Lottery, not to delay their purchase, as the sale is such as to warrant a strong belief that every ticket will be sold before the 15th of next month, on which day the foey n Akok prizes of 20,000/. and the other 40 capi us be dra —Bish sold in the last lottery two p • . besides prizes of 2,0Q0/. and 1,0001 . and in the last el hs no less than 35 capital prizes, among which were five 219,0 C(/. Tickets and sires are considerably cheaper t lan t were in the last I ,ottery, and may be had in grt:at variety of tlumbeis at No. 4, Comilla, and 9 ) Charing-Cross.