The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

ficr: that in these changes there existed a probability of Isenefit being delived from these revolutions. But we fear that all their patriotism and love of freedom consist in empty sound; that tier practical liberty they will for ages be found perfectly unfit. As soon as they find the Mother . Country unable, to attempt any thing, the probability is, that tbey will quarrel among themselves. Various meetings in park y , taken place to procure the repeal df this impost. Other meetings are convened on the subject of the Corn Laws. This is a subject of the utmost impirtance. PRICE OF CORN. Those Gentlemen who think that the less John Bill! eats the more he will wank, are busily employed in taking such steps as shall keep Corn at its present price. The 'Whig Farmers, and Ihe Morning Chronicle, are all in full employ oi) this victorious occasion.- : At a meeting of these gentry at Warminster, at which a Gentleman of a e 10,000 per ann. • declared the necessity he (poor neon !) should he under • of leaving the country, if some alteration disi.not take places an attorney seconded the motion, which called up Mr. llunt, to whom we are indebted for the follOving just obser vations:— • `• This meeting," Ii said." bores resemblance to'a a Conclave of Cardinals with closed doors," Instead of railing a nsettiiig like this, why not call a public comity and time, and meet thr . questiou manfully and openly ? One reason againat Ibis. was, find at .an open comity meeting even Mr. J. Boleti would not he hardy as to hi itig forward a petition, the bole object of which was the keeping up the price of corn, tinder the cloak of its being a petition in favcio •ut the tradesman and mechanic. In faet,this was a petition eoperially to' benefit the landholders ; even the fanner was of secondary coosi deration, and it was decidedly hostile to the interest of every other - el's, of society ; awl if acted upon it woild prose ruilion. es the little tradesman, the mechanic, and the labourer. The landlord isad met with no reverse since the commencement iif the war; his tents had prorressively increased in proportion as the rest of the co.oluus silty had suffered privations ; the nearer the mechanic and the labourer had aptiroacheil toatarvation and beggary the hig,lier were the profits; and the more efficient the means of tfie landholder. This was no theoretical propositiens hastily intrealuced ; it was a practical ntruisinolie resits qf recent inquiry. • He would read 10 the me e ting an account of the population of the parish of Enford, a large parish in the centre of the comity of Wilts, with the comparative stateinent of the rise in the price of labour the price of bread, avid the price elf land within the last SO years.—The iminber of t tants 656; of which number 2.50 were farmers, trisriesinesa;had their families, 101 labourers, and 20a labourers not paupers. , About SO years back, the labourers in this parish received 6r, per %seek at this time they received Els. per week —3O year.. back, the quartern loaf a veratredNl. at this time it was to)11.-30 years heck,the labourer could purchase with his week's pay, 6s. fourteen qnartern loaves 110 w be could only purchase with his week's pay, 84 nine quartei loaves—about 3t yeafs back, the principal farm in ilk* patt.i., then • belonitise to the late. Mr. Iltnett, of Pythouse, in this county, wai l let for 4001. a year • at die present time this tai in, the property of Mr. John flenett, of l'yt house, was let tor 1 , t601. a year. Thus it clean% appeared iu this parish %titbit' the last 30 years, labour had risen froi» 64. to per week, 3;.1 per cent. the quartern loaf from to ica z f 10. i per cent, the rent of I old from 4001. to 11601. '212 per coat. This proved that bread haft risen within this pet iod more than three times as mach as labour, and land more thou twice as much as bread, and more than six times as much as labour. At the preterit price of land, corn, bread, and !about, the landlord is belie- tired three times aamegh, as the farmer, and six times as much as the labourer: A vesr.sel is arrixed from Halifax, which she left on the 19.1.11 December. by which Me have papers to that date. The following is from the Arcadian- Recorder of December 17, 1814: 4 . BA aBA DGEG. Nov. s.—His Majesty's shins Bedford, Norge ' (of the Aleeste, bucephalus, Belle Poole, Dover, lit dra, Fox,Gor gon st,reship, and Norfolk transport. with troops, which left Plynao..th an September last on a secret expedition, arrived here yesterday, where they all remain for a few Osys to take in waster, and then pursue Ow .uvoire for th e ser v ic e upon which they left England. ." This ezpeditiorr rs ander'the command of Major General Keane, and couiptats a force of betwecn two and three thousand men, an- TIIE- NATIONAL REGISTER. • JAN. 15. - - • probability of much. 11 • - f'ROPE.ittYlAt. • tions. But we fear I Various meetings in Aifferent parts of the country y have ST. DOMINco. From the spirit which atrial:l(es the Governments established lit St. Domingo, it is evident that there is little chance of this island returning to the dominion of the French : this is what no One will regret; for if the dominion of that colony is not ob tained by France, thc temptation to the continuance of the hor rid traffic i e human beings from Africa will be much diminish. ed. We noticed iu our last the letters, which an Agent of the French Gote-rnment, named Lavaysse, presented to Chris t yl.e and Points, in which he had the audacity to represent this Government as allied with France for the subjugation of St. Domingo; an Address to King Ch istophe, fiorn the Council GCneral of Hayti, on that c-rrespondence, &dal , ing their determiration never to st bmit to France. has since been received. The Address, which is full of energy, doses with the following passages:—" Let each of us multi, ly his forre-4-redonble his energy and his courage, in immolating to c urjust fury thousands of those tigers, who are alienated trot our blood! Let Hayti present nothing but a heap of ruins—let terrified countenances meet nothing but sights of death, destruction, and vengeance! Let posterity have to say, on beholding these ruins, • Here lived a free and gene rous people; tyrants wished to strin them of their liberty, but they resolved to perish sooner ;han to part with it!' Po sterity will applaud this act of magnanimity. Oh ! will there be a human being so destitute of generosity as to refuse his admiration, his esteem, and his good wishes? In the po litical wars cart led on!among civilised.States, the armies fight, and the people live in peace. But in a war of extermination, such as that with whi, h we have been threatened, when every man thinks of defending his home, the tombs of his parents, his liberty, his independence,—what dot say ?—his very ex istence, and that of his wife and children, it is then a war of man against man ; women and boys are in a state of war; all are in arms; all the evil we can do our enemy is a sacred duty; all means of destruction arc lawful for us to use. We shall revive those dreadful examples of exasperation among people which terrified the earth I Posterity will shudder wilt horror; but far float blaming us, it will only impute these acts to the perversity of the age, to tyrants, and to necessity ! ;but this will never happen--it is impossible. Hayti is in vincible ; and justice. as well as the cause of justice, will bear her triontphant through all obstacles. No, never sb4ll this execrable enterprise take place. There is honour, there is glory 'among the Sovereigns. of Europe, and Great Britain, Oat Liberator of the World, will prevent such an abotniva • RUSSIA. From this country we learn nothing beneficial. The Times las given the public a version of a story, of. Lord astiercagh's having been induced, to act in such a way by Talleyranct, as to make Alexander very indisposed to a cor dial ui dcrstanding wish us. And, in order to soot!) any feelings of an unpleasant nature, the Times enters into a corn ison of his acts and those of Petion The mention of mute leads again to the Nycstvisid. a- bh : ... , . :.:.2.: