The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

THE NA.TIONAL TIEGISTER. 111 • of hi, M:,estv's arms throughout that part North Anurica mi! be eft'ectuallv established." This is a paraaTanh in the Speec - a which we cannot clearly un-erstaini. If Nlinisters Mean to sae that no force, in addition to that poi: scrciug in Canada, is necessary to bring the war to an hal,pe termination, we fear they will be disap pointed. A notch inure powerful armament will be neces- ! sarv. As to the latter part of the sentence about the ascend ancy of the aims in that part of America, we are perfectly un,o.eate of it, meatiiog. If " that part" includes the New Enlant. States, and the country into which Sir G. Prevost appears, had success attended his naval operation, to have proposed to advance, we arc also apprehensive the " expectations" of Ministers will not be answered. As to the conduct ef that officer. it will be well to wait his jtwitiFation can be tendered. Respectable and : , allant as mar be the Peninsular officers, who seem to have dissented with him on the subject of the operations, we think Sir G. Prevost will prove himselif right in not advancing, at that season of the year, into a country distinguished for'its strength, and the tine opportunities it affords for defence to an irregular force. The Debate on the subject ef the affairs of the Con•inent was spin lied. In the course of it the important secret was" filially disclosed, of a treaty having been signed, but not rat , fwal. «iih Buonaparte ehatilion. Some of the pro letWe oreoo/iz , mon's were alluded to, and particularly that of Saxony being ahsorhed in'o Prussia. Saxony has been te•mcd the cradle of the Reformatiou—the garden of Ger m:ono fence, without a great degree of interest, the ques tion cannot be agi•ated. axonv has afforded the admirable example of a 'really Catholic spirit—a Protestant people - go verned by a Roman Catholic monarch—a picture of tolera tion in its full'st extent, in its most deft:laid gad). To these facts a!C to he added the pet sonal character of the mo narch. W hen all these circutes'ances are recollected, they cot'!d not but excite a powerful interest. The Sperch not having alluded to the state of the new kingdom of Belgium, or to the means talien by us to secure it to its projected Sovereign, much was not said about it. however, it should appear that we have 40,000 men to find for its defence. But, on the other hand, there is reason to 'hope that the troops which arc there will be speedily re called and sent on a destinatien where their services are mech more wanted, and will be of infinit lv g.eater use. We expect this circumstance to take place, as, in war, they would tie unable to make a stand against nearly the whole force of France, applied as it would be to an in up- tion from the Flemish frontier ; and as in peace their presence ran ; t o odece no other ffect than continuing to exci!e those jeali-qisies now existing against us" in by far too great a . e.. r ee. The ` 4 peech conc;uded. molt an allusion of rather an am bignous nature It woke of :he ,eternal situ ti.:tt of the c ultry and the necessity of alending to measures that would ex,end our tiaee Lord (=r n isle ap; dto con• side' the lusions as wade t the Bullion Ret opt and the projecoed Corn Laws On 1)001 subjects, and patticularlv the latter, V: c, are iced to floc.' Noble Lord (confess edl, one of !lie ereatest political t oonotnists of the age) pre part dt • enter into a d , seussion. • We c( nchide flee, subject by sta . ieg, that if any Thing could add to the truth, jesti-e, and : , isdotn of the Noble Lord's sentiments or alThrtil a proof of the itec , 'ssiv r f search log forthwith for the remedy, it is a fact stated by Mr. Tho ilia in the Ilouse of Commons, that su , la was the abund- France, that it was pow to be had for three NOV. J. However, to spew the practical wisdom, and philanthrophy of the ideas so happily and so elegantly expressed, we cannot avoid quoting his own words : " This, my Lords," said Lord Grenville, " the corsomingeim. " ker that preys on the vitals of the state; the depreciation of oue " coriency, which, by gradual augmentation, year after year, has " reached its present state, is, I will venture to atlirm, a greater " cause of tfte depression tinder which the people of this country " labour than all the taxes which are paid by them. in the present " state of our circulation is to he found, the origin of all those dlr. " ficulties which some persons have improvidently attempted to re. " move, by imposing duties on the imports of the necessaries of lac. " These attempts for two years together has Pareament most pro. " deafly checked. I, for one, will ever raise my voice against " them. I will never consent is remedy the artificial difficulties, " which have been created by the neglect of Parliament, by " posing a tax: on the labonring classes of this community. I will never consent to pass laws which not only are utterly impolitic " and unjust to the community, but which stiike at the very root " of the ink rests they affect to protect. Far from assisting the " favour and supporting the land holder, I believe that if all the '' catalogue of proposed measures were searched, there is not one , t that would wale certainly brine tlllll on both these classes, than imposiog great ditties oo the import of wain. That the agric4 " tote of this country labours under great difficulties I do not deur: " it is untortimately Lobo p• 11.etly shewn by the reports on your 6 ' table. littt the true eansc the depression kin the state of the " eircalal ion of the eouuttv . :•-• tile tine remedy that, unterritied 66 by the magnitude of tle! subject, And nbot on that account " finttely postponing It, we should procred to the discussion, miLt " ing the difficulties that must attend it." a CV It Honey ill tier cent. ITALY. We are wiry, :vith our brother Journalists, to have m;Jed, the public with toe intelligence from Milan. Happily for the sake of humanity, the letter which communicated 019 circumstance has turned out to be a fablication. But, how ever false this single circumstance may have proved, we have every reason to believe that the discontents in Italy are rising to a g' ;,at length. The conduct of the Austrian Go vornment in those, so called, provinces, the vexations of the priests. and the excessive final extortions, together with a war declared against all the literary and scientific institutions established by Buonweatte, and 'um e. immediately fostered by Melzi, Duke of Lodi, must, we fear, -produce convul sions of a setious nature. The unitarian party is - strong, and, as their name implies, united in the opinion thA Italy has a right to an elevated rank among the nations of the world. SPAIN Affords the prospect of nothing new. All, in that unliippy country, is involved in gloom. Prosciiptions and persecu tions of all who have defended the soil for an ungrateful master. "Itis a country," to use dig. words of Mr. W hit bread, "of horror." And, it would appear, accord mg to the confession of the Minister, that the authorities at Gibrali.ar had actually given up two Spaniards. The one an Author, the other a celebrated Captain. The crime of the one was an enormous one —the having w;:itten naainst the Inquisdion ; that of the other is yet to be discovered. 13 t:t there is e , ery reason to believe, that a proper couise u;i11 be pursued as to those officers who have thus violate 4 the hos pitality of the fortress of Gibraltar, and denied its rights to the victims of a merciless ---. GERMANY. Accounts from Hambwgh state that the arrival of some Russian officers of high lank had induced an idea of the in ..orpolation of that town with the dominions of Prussia. It was grouudcd en the opiuio* that Prussia had ceded $(110,1;11;3