The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-23 00:00:00

870 'l•he habits of her Majesty were viegular, methodical, and economical ; but it was an economy which enabled 1.:•r inure liberelly to dispense her bounty todeserving, ol!iects. It is an pteloubted fact, that her Malone distributed large sums of money in the exercise .4' pri vate cherity ; but her charity was really private, not ostentatiously perfonned, that the world might applaud the giver. It was an express injunction, which nccom. pinned every act of benevolence on her part, that it should be kept secret. 'l'o each nurse of her children she gave a pension of a year. us well as to several of their suns Anion t , ,, the many instances of her c!iuri y, we may select the flillowing :—Her Nlajesty took charge of, and educated, the orphan child of an officer who wed in the West Indies. The child was brought to England by a Serjeant of the Regiment. The Qacea's notice was attracted by au advertisement in the pubiie pipers, from the Sc.rjeant. Her Majesty not only eau cazed this but caused him to be amply provided for. It a fact, equally known, that the Queen took ender her protection the widow of an officer killed at Hill, and educated the son. These two facts ar;.: mentioned, not as solitary instances of' her Majesty's I.:.mane, charitable, and honouruble feelings and dispo tition, le:t shety the nature of the application of the large sums of money supposed to have been in her pos session. Mauy a retired and solitary sufferer has been cheered by her royal benificence without knowing the hand Mint which the succour proceeded. But the crown and consummation of all her other excellencies was, that entire unity of affection which. fier above half a century, knit together her heart and that of our beloved Monarch ; nor emi we even reflect but with a feeling of national gratitude on the constant personal attention to the good old King, which Ilex Majesty continued, in so exemplary a manner, to pay, fir years after he had become unconscious of her kind ness. According to another account, the circumstance wjti :h first excited a prediketion f,r her, on the part of his Majesty, was the pathetic and spirited appeal, which site made to Frederick the Great, in 1757, who had soused his troops to levy contributions in the Duchy of Mecklenburgh. The fidlowing is a copy of the letter which she addressed to the Invader MAY IT PLEASE Y 0111( MAJESTY. '• I am at n boss whether I should congratulate, or condole, with you on your !ate victory ; since the same success which has covered you with hoods. has overspread the country of Mecklenburg!) with desolation. I '<n n:. Sire, th:a it stouts unbecoming my sex. in this age of vicious refinement, to feel for one's country, to lament the horrors of war, or wish for the return of peace. I know you may think it more properly any province to study the arts of pleasing, or to inspect subjects of a mare domestic nature; but, however unbe coming it tray be hi ne:, I cannot resist the desire of interceeding tor this unitapppy people. '• It ems but a very few years ago, that this territory wore the most pleasing appearance. The country was eultirated. the peasant looked cheerful, and the towns abounded with riches and festivity ! What an alwation at present from such a charming scene ! 1 ant not expert at description—nor can my fancy add any horrors to the picture; • but ware even Conquerors themselves would weep at the hideous prospects now before me. The whole country, my dear country, lie one frightful waste, presenting only objects to excite terror, pity, and despair ! The business of the husbandman and the shepherd arc quite discontinued ; the husbandman and the shep. herd are become soldiers themselves, and help to ravage the soil they northerly cultivated. The towns are inhabited only by old men, wo men aed children ; perhaps here and there a warrior, by wounds, or /latho rendered unfit Mr service, left at his door; his little children hang round him, ask an history of every wound, and grow themselves soldiers before they Mod strength for the field. But this was nothing, did we not feel the al:Yr:tale ins'frse of either army, as it happens to advance or retreat, in pursuing the operations of the campaign : It is impossible to express the confusions, even those, who rail thennelvcs our frierfils, create. Even those fron t whom we expert redress, oppress us with new calamities. Front your justice, therethre, it is that we hope relief; to you, even eivibiren and sea„ ten may complain, whose humanity stoops to the meanest petition, and whose power is capable of redressing the greatest injustice. I am, Sire," &c. The will of the late Col. John Drools. of Cowes Castle, in the Lie of Wight, lately proved in Doctors' Commons, gives the fami ne, charitable I.:gacics To the Secrei.iry at War and Paymaster• General 10.no01. 3 pet Bent. Reduced Hank Annuities, in trust, to apply the dividends for tle benefit of the widows of Officers in the army who shall be killed, or die in the rvice, and whose income, exclusive of their pensions, shall not amount to 301. per annum, viz.:—'To the Widows of five Captains, Isl. per annum ; to the widows of five Lieutenants, Sol. per alumni ; and to the widows of five ens gns. 131. per annum each, subject to his Ma•sev's approbation ; to Chelsea, Green w:e.h. Brides/ell, and itetlileni Hospitals, 1.0001. each. To th, Niddleiex. British Lying-in, the Coundling. Chri s t's, th e City of London Lying in. Guys , the Small-pox, St. Luke's. the Mag dalen, St. Thomas's, St. Bartholomew s and London 110,pitals the St. George's Asylum for Female Orphans. the Westminster Infirmary. the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Philanthropic and Royal Humane . Societies. the Westminster General Diepensary. the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Poor Clergymen. the Society for the Belief of l'cr atm impriso:: 't for Small D.7'ots, the Lying-in Charity for Mar ried Women, and the Charity School of St. Marylebhne, soot, vett. To the Marine Society and the Institntion for the Sons of the Clergy,t .0001 each. To tile Asylums for the Blind and for the Deaf and numb, MI. earth. To the Hospital at Winchester. the Veluale Charity Scipio!. Hamp,teed-road, and the Burlington School for telltales, 15 11 1 evil. To the ('aledonian Society, as stain as it shall be established. 5 , 11. And the residue of the testator's property, width is very considerable, is given equally between the Il aka i Military Hospital at Chelsea. and the Royal Military Hospital at Greenwich. A codicil to the will directs that Mose officers' widow,, wax shall be killed on ionic:, and.have most children. arc to be Pretested in the disposal .11 the first legacy. The surviving execu te $ are Alexender atm-, Esq. ; Ge:trgs Ridge the elder, Esq. ; George Cooper Ridge the younger. Esq. ; and the postural pro perty within the pravinei of C.-stirrer:try is sworn under 60,0001. Giton-r tt or rr.% Fa 3fonit.-fsr has the fol loTing :—'"f his preciou. Anil). first' introduced into France by a Russian in Into. promises to • become netittaliied amongst no. There are already 390 storks. winch it iii easy to multiply. This tca has received the :.pprobarion of the King's physicians, and the ratusaiists of France. 'I lie plants are to be sold by subwrip- WA." TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. MEETING AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR TdrER.V. On Tamay an extremely crowded meeting was held for the pterissems of consitirring also is a tit person to be pot in nwitiet.stion tosupply the v4e.muy which ham (wenn e,l in the tepresentation of Westminster. Sir F. Burdett having taken the chair, imineoli.stely opened the Waitron which ronsliinted the thltiret of the meeting. The public advertisement which had topsoi l 's: them together MI this occasioss had, he oliser.e.l, deafly esplained that it was In consceinetter of the reciriel loss which they hail so-- tallied, and the necessity of sesprlyins it. Ile had hecii re guested to take the chair, and now felt no sin all degree of safi.laclienm in enntemplating the tionterons and tespeetable audience whirl' had met to assist in the cunsideroilim at' this subject. oreosion no , misluisisteelly most imputtaut, au the %.Iflle time that the trim' moaners whit+ led to it, and which could not he P‘ellideti fowls their ennuis, stare ow lid and distressing. Define, however, he isrocce.led to NMl :mitre the bets Mess sit the day, he thought it right to disclose the contents of a letter whirls he had receis ell from a gentle - man who had considerable claims to their f4voisi ; and who would probably have hetes, in *lre event of Ins monism personally forward, the entices of their choice. The genele. min to whom he Allotted, wars Mr. I). Kis:emirs!, aster boil withdrawn himself entirely born their coosideradien us a condislate, by a statement which lie (the Chairman) was re quested to •e ate to them : and in which Mr. Kiii• weird regretted 11141 engagements, which be felt to he binding MI 111111, WOlllll prevent Isis attendance at this meeting, and &prise Lion of the opportunity of ;raying his tribute of e specl to the memory of their tote representative, nt.d Of mixing his own with the general grief. As, therefore. re sumed Sir F. Burdett, this ;semicolon hail placed himself old of the elnestion, it was incumbent on them to consider what other person it might ho most advisoble fur them ton - Hate, in order to fill up the vacaticy left by the death of their late lamented representative. It would be improper tor him, in the binomial which he now held, to offer any opinions of Isis a% it, with reg.ir.l to the personal qualifications or merit .if individuals. It was his dilly to attend to all that might nit offesed by ot h ers, and to collect impartially the sense of Ilse room upon eve.> propositom that sliositil be submitted wish ref E reeee to the object of their mecting. It was not to hr ceneraled that they were in a stale of • • danger ; and of lamer arising floor a circumstance mimeo Irit mogul:tr. Ihe fist difficulty which they hail to surmount was not II a ant, bet a variety of choice. Five or six names had already been mentioned to him, each of which he had reason to be lieve belonged to d man of indepenslem au.l Ilurzeeptionable eliaroeter. With regard to their late representative, he should he sorry to break in upon the busini.ss of °teddy by any attempt to excite 01 C01111111111i(!ate those feelings of sor row which wire already siiii:erlol, and could neither be heightened hoe alleviated by his remarks. He had died full of honours for lalliselt;iCAViug his eutiiitrymen filled with ad. iniration and regret, and a name behind him which never could Le mentioned without a sigh. In disbui (telling theist. selves, however, of their seise of this calamity, Sal far as to undertake the discharge of the duty which had devolved inc them, it shossid still induce them to regard, will, a more scru tinizing eye, the claims of every one at lio 'night be proposed to till up so great a chasm. The public duty whiell had du. volved upon them all was of a serious endure, and their ho nest elide:teems to discharge it would afford them the hest consolation in the struggle w hide they must expect to en. claimer. Above all things, he was desirous of impressing out their minds what lie had touched upon at the outset of his address—that their difficulty consisted not in the paucity of those who were perfectly qualified to sepresent then:, and might probably be submitted to their choice; but in selecting one from mosey, all of whu,n were pwise.:4eal or claims equally satisfactory and indisputable. hi the eunduct or this selec tion it WAS that, unless they ,Imiod act with unanimity, and rally around one individual, they would incur the hazard, if not the certainty, of a defeat by the hillisence of govern ment., Such was his respect for the several individuals whose names had been transmitted to him, that he could sin cerely declare his opinion to be, that it' those names were put in a balloting hex, the lint that might be drawn would he a very proper person to serve as their representative. lint as some choice must be exercised, their first care should be to preserve unanimity amongst themselves. Whee one name was adopted, lie hoped they would all steadily adhere to it ; and that the friends of liberty would not again sutler them selves to be divided. Let them not enter into invidious com parisons of personal merit, or dispute about one man's sup posed superiority over another, when all were equally good, eligible, fit for their purpose, and attached le those prineiples which it was the glory of Westminster to istahitaiu. Their grand and paramount interest on this occasion 'was to exhi bit to the world a spirit of unanimity, both with a view to the presarvation of their own character, and in order to prevent that dreadful evil to which disunion would necessarily lead— the debasement of their city, and the triumph of a venal anal corrupt administration. App ea li ng , therefore, now to their indulgence, for having so long tiespassed on their anew tion, he moved that they should proceed to the order of the day. Mr. Bruce and Mr. Tlielwall presented themselves at the tame time on the table, when the Chairman declared that the former had first called his attention. Mr. Bruce began by arsuring the gentleman who had en deavoured to precede him, that he should exercise his pa tience hut for a very short nine. His health was too weak to sutler him to make any exertion, mid be had just come from a bed of sickness. tic was incapable of saying any thing in intention to what li al been aheady said, of the character of that individual whose loss they all in common deplored, ex cept that he was in life adorned with every virtue ; and that his death at this momentous period, was perhaps the gicotest peiblic calamity that could have happened. His ob ject in now rising was to state, that he knew sto man mote ca pable of supplying the lose, and of inaisitaiuing with cite' gy the same principles, than the gentleman w h o he was :bunt to nominate. Atter the first resolution therefine, which he held in hi. hand, aoJ which expressed hi general terms the purpose for which they were then assembleil,it was his inten tion to submit a second, proposing John liohlionse, Esti. as a tit end proper person to represent the City of Westminster In Parliament. Thetwall begged it to be known that he was not actu ated by any feeling of humility to Sir FIAVICIX Bunk ti. When,after 4 ION; AbSCIICV, au old acquaintance appears wire hone among Isis former friend', he may be esensed no .iii verting to the eirviiiiistdnees which have kept him so long out of view. Twenty-one years had now elapsed since he withdrew front ' , HMI.: notice, after haying fought his way tiarough Wads rultimis who wished to murder him. He Nov then made a resithil ttttt not in Ill s l . lfese with in toddle, tittles, hest Id find himself intlettemlent Is out his proiessismal e set ns , or scoop p o tai e vole , g myry s h o uld spine that life itself was not too (Ivor in he laid those its the politic service. The first of these rusitiogoirie, been evl . llll 41, he 111 . !Ieliell, by the political feelings whirl, he was known to cloa', in private ; and as In the st I' I pail of the dilemma, he Itches ea that there W. 1.1 at pi-Armlet au emel v.ncy which :gelled es cry itelisitinal in the nation. It' we look nitro:id, w hat do we sue but an illegitiamit bond of legitimacy, which iiisks allied Sits ea eigcs against the ti cesium of their peopie. /Int while we look 'abroad. is tu. not forgot to look at home. Waist do wr see bun an attempt to 'alas bli•li 'Miami) rimer ? I believe I :oust slut roll it militaty ; that pm In:ps wonld be treasoo,.intl I do not wish so e 't slit, mime 'mail,. The battalion of We country at this moment is of estreme importance. It i. et why a man who bat been silent for 21 years shool t i open his mouth. (Signs sit impatiens', and cries of " Quo, lino.") If he deviated limn die question, the Chair nimbi call hint to order. It was neressary to attend to Ilie state of parties, pat ticitlarly in IVestistilestor, They could not have forgotten the proceedings at the late election. 'floe division of die Es hints el lit erty,llll that °erasion, had distressed him mare than the loss of has own lawny had done (riles of " Ottesti tttt .") These divisions bed threntrinal even Ilse ie_ turn of their old and (4iihroi iepresentatite, the lini-oterame 'innate. and the only independent thenstivr its the House, They oataitteil, indeed a cleat vicioty ultisnati ly, by tr imming host; but the effort was toss lA., hi cense it slid art pat him in his propel place at the head of the poll. Let them now take rare that the organized and shill ba w l s of corruption did not tow the light isiftiiity of reform, w hile dishiest atid Se.titered. It appeared to him that We 'mot pertain inside of souring 5111'1,4,4 W.. 40 01 1 / 1 , wuuuimity in fat/one of a prison who would Wester himself tr. vote amtilist. tlist Miei,ter. His own poisrciph was , t h at it Weill/mat hove ritianciii, we should lake a twopenny loaf nether than stirs se. Natliing is politically desirable lost what is morally possiisle. The: efsre It. as lakt: what we ran get. S% e ate the tallying ' , Mitt of seforiti, to which all the ii looms-is through We kingdom litok for au example. IVIto can en operate with is. % All who hate military power; even the ‘Vhigs themselves who are true to their principles. If we find a matt who t, ill art sip to his principles, ss aatever degree of reform lee !defiles himself for, let us support him. lint if we have decish ins , the will triumph ; silt ! what a triumph will that be ! The bkciiit baker of the alinistae will terroach its for relenting a tool of Csovenament. He wools" vonelitile wills one word of advice. It throe is a man who will attada himself to a trader of whom lie knows no thing, Wit from whim) he experts to recent. his hires, let hint excite divisions. If there is a man wtio has the love of Isis country in his heart, an-I who is anxious fur reform, let hint endeavour to preserve unanimity. Mr. floblionne presented himself to the meeting. The oc casion on which lie last appeared before them was very flilreleal from tlic present; and, as tar as lie wal. it was not so einharassing. Then, he and they were on the eve of a triumph ; now, they were following a funeral. 'then Ise had to speak for them; no - a, he had It .ilw3k for liitti-e , l * --- that mhjeet oil which he I, as Ilie least ipia'ified to speak.-- He that moment icreived a Colll , lllllliediital liwn a great body of the Electors of Westminster, requestiog Win to prevent himself as a Cduilidate; and, but for that niftiest, lie shatild nut have appeared before them. —lle was not an Elector, but lie was an Englislutian —a name still glotiollsi, notwithstanding the attesitpts of a base administration, who had eitileavosistal to spi east the present disgrace of their country almost as wide as its lito nice ahoy. He Was prond or the atiptadiation which lie had re rived fur his exertions at the late elt cliost. it svas not, however, its the anticipation of this gnat reward, that he had performed those tilling duties. His object was the appto hat ttttt of Isis fellow-citizens. Ever sluice his mind could eV pond itself in the pursuit of any object, he hail not looked fur any thing but honest fame. Some might think this sits infirmity ; but lie thought it a glory to obtain hottest fame lions liotie•t men. He had nothing but his principles to recommend him. He was not eonuerted with any, great family. A person, lie believed a friend, had said to him, " Who is Hot/house ?" lie would answer that question negatively, and tell them who he is sot. He watt not a person attached to any party. He wee not a person brought before Wets) by auy Dirk, to give Mai a chance of being rewrites'. It' another comes forward better recommended, elect hint iu God's name. He only wished, if they thought him tit, to Ise the person who should snake their struggle for independuce effectual. It tias a, a reformer that lie offered himself: the question of reform he did not mean to mince; lie was for that teform which would strike at the root of the evil which threatened the destruction of the country. It had been said, that it was improper to demand a pledge. 1/id not every borough patron ask a pledge, and should not the people ask a pledge ? They should demand a pledge; and though be might be silent, his silence should be fatal to his cause. Any pledge in the ease of Sir Francis Burdett was unnecessary, because he was well known to them. He had not the inordivate vanity to suppose, that when his name was chalked on the wall, es cry matt would know his elsital.:lee. He proposed that every man should ask Iliuh , " What is your opinion? what do you propose to do for lIA 1 " For this purpose he should attend on the! they should !meditate hint, having no right to act optin tole adopted by characters too well known to require their per sonal prestige on such occasions. Ile knew, lie felt, whim lie was ambitions to succeed. Hr had liven brought up to segard those great names which had beets in Weis representa tion with the utmost reverence. 'Ube enlightened lessuits of their eloquence rennaitted still imp' essetf on his mind; hut if lie should become their representative, lie should have for a coadjutor a tried patriot, who would relies e and not Mono ber his exertions ; a man, who by a straight forward conduct, deviating neither to Ilse right hand nor to the left, had t-- tablislied a character never heron. known. He spoke 11011 his heart. Sir Francis Burdett realised the dream. of pall leis respeetiug the greatest elial'acters in Ott it skiiinary reptildirs• This was not flattery; it' it were he would slot have Spain it ; they would not have heard it. 'l* he object of the ad. ueiuisUalloss was to degrade Ws in to a cinq SIC port,: Ile saw that Sir Murray 3laswell reunited again to produce himself', or rather to produee Isis pretensions and not him self: for lie seas not to come forward with the boldness of a Segatall. Sailors neve all bold, but this candidate seemed to sisrpa,s thesis all in audacity. Ili* object was not less than to ‘te bject 'Westminster to the disripline of the quarter sleek. Wise was not surprised that any seaman, for all of Wens arc bold , nuue•sl , mid free, should loud himself to he ihr toot of the basest Mid 11100 cruel admisiisitatime; mid to aid them in assionlatiug our country to die Warm I - bound countries of We Continent. It appeared, that both Iris periou and leis purse wag sick. lie was sorry fur his