The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-25 00:00:00

!STEP. 1204 QLTZElV—contOoledfroos sho „firs! ?Igo. her Majesty's contemplation) that the King would cause of fieial nosifitattion to be made of Ler ?I.:j sty's legal character as Queen tot he government of such stnt,. That censirtently, however, with the reasons already stated, it rttnit 1,5 L \vitt) the Sovereign I of wen tate what rttcption should be given to I:Jr Majesty in tbat citteucter. The King's Servants were particularly anxious to imptevs upon tlie Queen's Law Officers the public grounds upon which this principle. rested. The general rule tO foreign courts is, to re- ;naive only those who ore ree.:ivetl at home. 1 tie King could not I with pn . ); crty require t iny ',not of f o reign governments the re- fusel of which ould not and his Majesty just ground of re- •1 seuentoo .I:mon:fiance. It would be neither for the ;Ling's ' , dignity, nor for the Quecii% comfort, :ha: the &Mould be wade ; the stibject of such a questien. To this it was replied for the Queen ; that with respect to this new proposition on the 1o:re of the King's Servants, it should be teken into immediate consideration; but her Majesty's L:fw Ottlars nbserved, that her 'Majesty was tine in the situation reierted to in the above reasoning. having been habitually rezeiveil at Court in this country fur many yea's, and Laving only ceased to go there in int*, out of regard for the peculiar delicate situation in which the unfortunate unferences in the Royal Family platcsi the late Queen. The. latter observation was met. on the part of the King's Ser vants, by • re-a.scrtion of his ithtiesty's undoubnal authority on 'this point, whether as King cr as Prince Regen:, in tile exerciss of the Royal authority. that the Conti held by her lute Majesty was in fah: the Court of the Prince Regent, then acting in the name and on the behalf of his late :Oaksty ; and that the present Queen, then Print:gas of Wales, was excluded rat l'm mien Court. (Signed as before.) •••••••••• TROTOCOL OF THE FIFTH CONFERENCF.. Foreign-oftice, June 19, 18'20. 'flit Protocols of the preceding conferences were read and •;reed imam Net Majesty's Law Officers scat. 1, that the proposition of yes terday had been submitted to her :‘,ajesty. and that it Lad not produaal any Intel . ..me in her Maje-ty's 4catiinents. Its order to avoid any misinterpretation of the expression tared hi me.i tioning their lychee that her Majesty might overcome her nine tame to go abroad, viz.. ender all the circumstances a her position," . tney stated, that the) , meant thereby t e domesuc tldfactices which created the difficulty of her Maje ry holding a Court, and the unnerstood sense of 'Parliament, that tin Majesty's residence in this country might be attended with jut him inconvenience. They also protested generally in her Majesty's name against being understood to propose or to desire any trims inconsistent With the honour and di ii nity of the King, or any which her own vindication did not seem to render absolutely necessary. MEMORANDUM. The second and tnird points, as enumerated for discussion in the Protocol of die first roufereitce, :.ere not brought into de liberation, in tsmsequence of no satilaciory understanding having taken place upon the points brought forward by her Mii;esty's Law Officers. The five Protocols were then respecti • vely signed. which we were told to sing and rejoice that riiiroise wss emancipated, and England rewarded, is it necessary to add to onr sten' ing army 15,000 men to keep down discontent; ' And ore we further to be told that a House of Commons, in which only fifty men could he found to vote against such an in crease, is an honest and fair representation of the people? If such an army be indeed necessary to , 1 the maintenance of tranquillity in this country, its government must be bad. Circumstances have lately arisen, which we apriehend. will give our Ministers hczne uneasy iellSildOllS while advocating the increase of the army. Not long since a gang of smugglers, in open day, attacked the prison at Do ver, and released walr of their comrades. Now Dover' it a place well filled with soldiers, and to " asset a breach in the prison walls" must have been a work of some time. We dire not commit to paper the infereuee which we draw from this fact, which, after being once mentioned, was mos: care fully hushed sp by all the London Papers. We hinted, us far as we dared, last week at the mutiny among the troops in the inctrepelis. On this sub ject, not one London Parer ventured to speak the whole truth, hut float the vehement assertions of the London Courier, that " polhie.ii feeling was dis played by the mutineers," every body suspected that the contrary was the fact, That a spirit of .discon tent and mutiny did exist to such an extent in one of the regiments of Guards, as to occasion its imme diate removal to a distant part of the kingdom, is, however, certain. ['hese foots, one would suppose, are amply safileicnt to inspire some doubt and hesi tation as to the po'-iey of relying solely upon military aid for the support of the present system. Again and egaiii we have protested against the madness of resting for security upon the bayonet. Does Cor ruption suppose that the sons and the brothers of the journeymen and labourers have none of the feelings of nature left within them/ She is deceived if she does. In vain does she endeavour "to place them out of the pale of the constitution." We know this is the intent. We need only to look at the batracks, the fortresses, the military academies, the everlasting shitting of regiments from place to place, the outlandish dresses—every thing skews that the intention is to efface front the mind of the soldier ail citizenship, all the ties of blood and the claims of friendship- The only security that Coriuption looks to is the army. As want and misery increase, their remedy is—increase the army. The bayonet is the ready and effectual answer to all ixayers and peti tions. Let them beware. The bayonet is wielded • by the sons and brothers of the labouring classes: those journeymen and those labourers, • whose fathers, sons, and brothers ha✓e fought the battles of their country by sea and land, and out of whose toil come more than four-fifties of those taxes which feed the innumerable swarms of placemen, pensioners, granters, finders, spies, and infoeiners. Let Cor ruption reflect upon this lac?. _ . ON THE ARMY ESTIMATES. WE have been precluded, by the press of other imprtant matter, from offering any observations upon the debate on the Army Estimates, which wok place in the House of Commons last week —. It is, however, a subject of too great consequence to be passed over in silence. The increase of a stand- Ing army must at all times be viewed with dread and alarm by every free nation; but the time at which Ministers have thought fit to increase the mill tars force of this country 15,000 men, and the reasons which they have given for well an increase, are such fearful symptoms of approaching despotism, that we should ill discharge our duty if we were to pass them over in silence. Viewed merely as a matter of expence, what are we to say to men who, while they acknowledge a deficiency of at least 24 millions in the means of defraying the present ex- Fences of the country, which deficiency is to be made lip by adding 12 millions to the debt, and taking 1.2 millions from the sinking fund, can add to our :-:?'ens the expence of maintaining 15,000 addi tional aeldiers ? Is there a man breathing, possessed a grain of common sense, who does rot see that Inevitable ruin must be the result of perseverance in such a system ? Standing armies, and sedition bills, anti restraints on speaking and on printing, are tireadfully powerful things, but their power is not of that kind which enables people to pay taxes. The interest of the debt, the sinecures, pensions, grants, end the expenses of a thundering standing army, may continue to be made up I%ei, by loans, by Exchegeer bills ; by robbing the sinking fund, by every species of contrivance, to the latest possible moment ; but the time must come, when the whole RELIGIOUS' CHARITIES. Accounts of the Receipts of the principal Reli. gious Charities for the year ending 31st March, 1820, as published in their respective Reports :— . s. d. British and roreign Bible Society 93,033 6 1 Church nod M is,ionary It 30.016 11 0 Loudon Missionary Sorirtr .. 0 0 Socirty for roliver,ion of :lc ws 0,9x0 12 Z Pra er Book find Rornity Soci•ct, .11:tiet nista Socie ty 1 4 411,61 and Military Llible Society Total 166,302 4 6 lbw rihrvlld he 71(1 ded the estimated ~., 7,111,4••• R ~ baseless fabric" of paper, an . 6 To , •• Ist the war of pro- R eturns of those Soc toil's who do not make jects, interests, and passions, will go to pieces hie a u r , their account' ,u Ludy-day, token on the scale of 1519, which will be rather' .itip on the rocks. 'lle increase of the standing sae, than livor-,ating them. army iris a (Erect .I , :', inevitable tendency to hasten Society for proniotiN christiaa Know ledge... this time. Ntethotli4 Al i,sini.o.ty lil.eiety 24,060 It 0 Moravian Mizsions But viewed as a on'ter of necessity—aye, and a Ba • N. • • • • Wilt ..lissiounry Society ►6,000 0 0 neceLsltv occasioned by the ,liscontent of the people; Society f or prop A wing the G.,pc! l:i,eiol 0 0 • National Society Mr Education for on :his ground Lord I'a7iLeistor. defended this Religious Tract Society Collection oo the King's Let:er fur time uti es oanentation of uLr militar.,- force, we are compelled Society for the Propagation of the 50,000 0 0 to ask-.:.. 7s Cris the end iota .:I.ject of a war of r.venty 1 t.i.o.rei—nearty years? •Afu:r a ICaCC Of :ix years, at the In... Ling Of • , O. 1 • k Tvt:.l uf oce year ~.....331,182 4 0 4 *1 . THE QUEEN. . • The fullowine fact is illustrative of one of the consergences of the omission of her Majesty's name in the Liteney. . A short time since, the directors of a well-conducted and excellent institution, for the relief of the aged and infirm women of good character, desirous of availing 'themselves of public benevulence in aid of its funds, by the usual method of a charity sermon, applied to the Rev. Rector of an extensive parish in the city. The Rev. Gentle man immediately wonted the use of his pulpit, aal not only undertook to advocate their cause himself by a sermon on the Sunday morning, but else pre vailed upon the Rev. Doettie,••the lecturer at the :Janie shire's, to preach in behalf of the society in the aftcraoon. In the infancy of this society, her Majesty, then Princess of Wales, had been solicited to become its patroness, to which she had not . mile consemel, but at the same time subscribed to its funds, and to this her early ceuntenance was to be ascribed the subsequent patronage uF the Prin cess Charlotte, Prince Leopold, the Doke of Kent, and other branches of the Royal Fannie , . The patronage was of mine acknow;esigeti ia all their publications, and in every notice of sermons to be preached in its behalf, the society had uniformly been described as under the patronage of the Princess of Wales. The Committee saspecting no impro priety, accordingly in their printed notice of these twe sermons announced the society us patronized by tree Qetten's most excellent Majesty ; but on a copy of this notice, together with .the printed ac count of this society, being transmitted to the Rev. Rector, as is usual in like cases, a few days pre viously to the day appointed for the sermon, he not only expressed great surprise at the insertion of her Majesty's name, but appeated highly indignant that he should be expected to notice from the pulpit the name of woman whom the Council had forbid him to pray fur in the Liturgy, and peremptorily refused to suffer the sermons to be preached unless they withdrew the notice, and circulated others, omit ting the Qecen's name. To this act of ingratitude and injustice the committee were most unwilling to submit; the Rector, however, was immoveable ; other notices were consequently substituted with the omission, not only of her Majesty's name, but, to avoid invidious distinction, of the names of all the illustrious personages to whose patronage the insti tution was so highly indebted for its present prosperity. Mails !hive arrived from ilaniburgli, with Papers to cite kith, and from Flanders, with Brussels Journals to the 20th instant. The people of Ha. nover seem to be positive that the King will visit his dominions on their side of the water iminetliately after his Coronation here. The Palace of Herren hansen has been thoroughly repaired for his recep tion, The health of Prince Schwaftzeuburgh is improving, and he is now able to teke little exeur sions on horseback in the neighbourhood of Leipsic. The Emperor and Empress of Austria left Prague ion the 6th, to meet the King of Saxony at Kere seinstadt. The King of Prussia, accompanied by •his sons, Prince William and Prince Charles, sr rived at Stralsund on the 7th, and was received with every show of joy. On the 9th he set off for tile Isle of Bogen. Soule exaggeration of the disturbances. which took place in London on the evening of the :6th, having reached Hambargh, the Exchange be came alarmed; but subsequent arrival.; in this city bad restored confidence—The fortifications on the frontier of the Netherlands opposite France ere going oinwith rapidity. With a view to the encee ragement of the woollen manufacture of his domi nions, the King of the Netherlands had directed the whole of his army, the persons en all charitable foundations, and the persons attached to his Court and Henseheld, to wear nothing else than cloth o: native manufacture. On his Holiness the Pore having been informed of the erection of the magnifisent Rounin Catholic Chapel at the east cud of tile town, lie not oily ex pressed his satisfactlen, but ordered n superb Chalice to be made for its use, of pure Mexican gold, to b ornamented with precious stones, which it is estimas ted trill (set 51;00/. A Penes Paper (The Conslittaionnel), says, " We have received u notice from an Enpeli Gentleman, roseectieg an article inserted in fhe Journal de; De . bals on the 15tli, on Mr. Alderinua Wood. We are assured that this article is a miserable falsehood; and that Mr. Wood never did write in visiting M. Wood,jeu Lord Maire de Londres—(Mr. Wood, Tate Lord Mayor of London). It may be asked what could induce any one to throw ridicule upon utt esteemed and respectable citiseit, who enjoys a high consideration, not only at hotne, but in the rest of Europe, and who has occupied with lionobr the first post in the city of London ? Is it because he pro fesses liberal opinions, and because he is attached to an unfortunate Princess, who complains of being the object of the most atrocious calumnies. - . \