The National Register. — London, England, 1809-05-21 00:00:00

MAY 2i. • Idt= _.:~ .err.=.~._-'.._ _ ...... ~. tiw4iii.,he,l for capacity ainl vigour, namely Lucien, has periinariously refiLiect to accept of any crolA oriceptre from apolcora—as if !le f:ivesliw that those ttonation %%ere nVitner secure nor doral6%. We have ..w p.easure to announce to out readers the al most unprecedented e:.,:anip!e of persevera s itic and ;,fortune of his NiajesTs frigate the F lla , !lon. C:ip s tain Rodney, liose arrival at llarbadoi-4, vcith the remainder of the West India lieet that Sailed from Cork On the .'22d Ja 7 unar), ,:tier beiii several tines dispersed in a snecession of violent. „ales. tier tonsort, the Phipps, returned tlismastcd in a fe,v day after the', sailed from Cork. All encomiums must fall short of Captain It odne3's exertions for so signal u service. lit. is lw youngest son of the late noble and gatiant Lord i.ipaney. No doubt his arrival, at the pre- Kit moment, in iii ' West Indies, must Le greeted mith un. boundett salistaction. The reniains.ot Dr, PonTEus, Etta Bishop of London, are to be inlcrred in a Natal at a Chapel at : 4 tinbridge, in .1.ez..1, built bi himself' liir that turpose. Ile has, N‘e ders;aml, lit tittent bed tii‘2l. a year to the Minister who is to he npinonted by the bishop of London lor the time be iog. 'I lie Bishop preached Ws first sermon ;n it. Fe was particular!) pailial;to O.:t place, it. being the first living lie was appointed to. Ile built a small house there, and al v. a Vent part of the summer here, The following arrangements in the Church, arc about to tape place, it, is generai,;% re por:ed. in consequence of the death or tl/e 1;;shon tit imuslon :—Dr. Randolph, the Bi shop of - Bangor, to tie tronstated to I.o.tdon ; Dr. Majendie, the rishop of Chester, to be translated to Bangor ; Dr. the iiean of Brisiol, who was tutor to the Duke of littOand, to be the t i ew Bishop of Chesier. TICE NATIONAL UEGISTER. elcSi %JO 1, ascertained. f. , sich a writer as Cobbett wilt neve& insLruct or amend the public; the utmost tie Call dO io give all impetus to. qteir: proceedings. lie is exclusively alive to the impressiou yf the moment ; and the itoiporary ques tion,—wilethet it i Pe the propriety of substiit.iting ;:ii;;ac Corn in our Di l ltilleries, or of annihilatting the lommerce of the Kin; ; dosn—whet her it be the characier of an Ame rican President, or the necessity of re organizing the British Constitution,—is ever bloated by him into all portance paramount and unprecedented. llis optics are only calculated to. obsersc what is within six inches of his nose ; enlarged viers, and remote consequences are beyond his keit.—This person. we 'are cons iuced, is, under the pe t uliar circumstaeces of the period, calculated to ;semi)]. plish a degree of national mischief, scarcely to be credited by those who forget that in the dregs of society are usu ally deposited Vie seeds of its destruction. impelled, therefore, by motives widely d , stinguished from those of personal hostility, me now set about exposing those quaii- Mies in the man which airect the reputation, and aro caip ciliated to lessen the influence of the %A - 1.11. '. The inconsistencies of Mr. Cobbett have been already noticed by us ; and have been powerfully chastised lit others ; we only recur to the subject for the sake of in forcing. on the admirers of the shrewd and conclusive rea sonill which now appears in the Political hegisler, that equally vehement, equally ingenious, and doubtless, eglual lti in the opinion of its writer, has it preci. nod/ been, in direct contradiction of its present tenets, aiiti in severe reprehension of its present tasourites.--This ..arcumstance at least proves the necessity of mccepting its doctrines with some grams of allowance. Mr. ( obbett's business is to write; to please his readers he nuis• write with nerve ; he has riot alto av s, how ever, opportu nity or leisure to make up his mind on the j;.stice of his strictures previous to their going to pros; 1, , .at !'urther information, and mote matured thought, i:3 e; established the truth or falsehood of what has published, Ile recants or persists accordin g ly. This may be uthiably ingenuous ; wimht it not be more fair both to the pur chasers of the Rep:islet., and to the objects of its severity, if some little hiains were taken to ascertain the correctness of an opinion heft)! setting it adrift on the world, to Mikis once the conduc t and bias the .judgment of Onstispeci ing per sons? What reparation, for instance, does Mr.Counicres pre sent enthusiastic admiration of Sir F. Bu RP sivr afford to that worthy Baronet tor such aspersions as the to:lowing : _4 , While we DETEST and loath tier • Francis IhOatCit, {slide we would TU AMPLE UPONHI n for his folse, hose, and inso lent insinuation!: :tad assertions respecting his and our :'ore reig.n, we are, it' C. It is to be snre subsequently asset ted in rite sonic work, that the man niio iiould liken the dia. ractier of tat Gies to that of the rirlions and patriotic Sir Francis, also deserved to 11C d upon. thit t hen the I:Merit:id for years been branded as a person to be de tested and loathed ; as a false, base, and insolent reviler of his Soverviv,n. Strout:: reposse:sr.ns most accordingly have been formed aganist hied ; and the probability is that the antidote %timid WI into the hands of hut few of those who had originalk swallow ert the poUion. It is to the inordinate seq:sl!tres,. of Mr. Cobbell, that we would at present chiefly wish to direct the attention of our reat'els ; for it P 4 tt.at no selfish man can he a patriot ; pat riot ism implying a disregard of private advan tage for the sake of the general good. The object of these remarks, however, most intrepidly prefers an ('A c:uxite claim to pubhe ; he arrogantly assumes a superiority in honesty and dis;nterestedness over nil his con-tempo rarity; while it would be no very difficult task to shen that his actions are, with undeviating consistency, directed tit the attainment of pecuniary profit: that wealth is the cen tre of his system, round which he moves is nu sere PlTCP tric °Att. `So mall, perhaps, has, at this moment, 59 happy a knack at attracting public attention to his pro jecls, or at securing. patronage without seeming to seek it. It Abstrnetedlv o.ls ' ! SELFISH VERI-.1 . 111.1 I'l OF COBBE'rT. Anxious as w;.: have manitcs;eil ourselves, that the abuses ohich mar the utilit►, and destroy the hePut) Of the Bri t ish Constitution should be crad:cated from the practice of ()or 601ernment de:crulined ue are to suppor Ikr people in their jtiNi tiumantli of fedress,,me ca n not o l oywr‘e. hut ilith iudignation, desiqiiing men prostituting' a ebject purposes of individual pubhc mho chooses to indulge in en; and disorder;', declamation, en a live %%hich is at this mu plea imiNersa:ly iattresiiiig, Fobably, add to his po pu!arity and thereto' ( licrease his i;rotik ; such a one, atichessing Irtusclt to the heated passions of the no.lti- I tide, instead of elldeallouring to etilL,liten their judgments, ;Ind to afford them such io.ctiil information as his talents opportunities lia‘e phi(ed at his coniniand,---please; rez.dcrs at the esi;ente of their Nlelfare, and k ltlie<t to del3Cli from the canso tie prolesses to support those %.liose conntenauce :LA persevera , ice , sonid wateri;ill% (•ondt:ee t!) its siu . ccss ; 1 ,:c;:. cha; . <.cters form a Wedge to the rountQ lilkl such 5!!( - 4 %s is a thing to be desired.--These our sent:in •llis, kel it ail incumbent du!'' to as sis! flu! public in disurAiiii.;tilig. bet‘iren their real and pre tended feici.ds; to !he ionsk of nfrectrit patriotism from the lace of 11,c It ; vindi- Vo!c Ih" :1115e (it ri • •Vi.i rciofm flUitl Ilk' (1p I :,!)rintn v.hich his effus:ons v. se cnicA:l;ect 10 east ttrwi 'l'he pi,!i . iomarce of tbk oar deteriniiia , •,o; h. at ; art: CoM:i-WT i'arti to de inAnci iii ti,s( ccterminatioil. Oar opiiiicm of Air. Cot:rip:TT, in his public capacity, we hale formed; eNput-sset:.—:sai. noillinz amiable in his v%lth hitt lit t ili of judgment, he let ; 1 poscsses much lor his innal e vulgar's!) en :11)10i huii to :11(.".ik to Witlitltllde in their native languag while a coarse but shrewd genius es an edge to his re proaehes and add a vigour to his descriptions. When to these qualities is added colviummaie - knowledge how to adapt his ‘s riting4 to the temper of the limes, and to the particular taste of the couritry, his popuiartty will eerily acconnteJ for, be pretty aretir.qelv