The National Register. — London, England, 1820-02-27 00:00:00

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY TV, 1820 tidence in the loyalty or affections of a kind-hearted people ; if,uotwithstanoliug the oiliirtsuf a few criminal and misguided men in propagating libels upon religion, which call never be congenial to any einisideruhle number (rioter count 1.3 men, who Isom , their parent., their wives, and their children, hope, utiollalieve that they shall again meet hereafter ; if hot ra ittistatidnig the eltorts of some others, who, irritated at abuses, have rashly despaired of the whole frame of Go ar intikiwig the corniest at them Wien grouniffor alarm as to the losalty and religion of the ISnitkb people, they Kati never abetted the British people us romp:: ll i ttt is of their gu:lt mud rashaess, but have endea voured by every effort to conciliate the regards of the pea p:e by removing every just cause of tomtit .int, and by a strict en:o; y public purse---of instead of demo:acing their country at the ;tar of a ton easily atfri„lited Parlia ment, they have reminded their Soveici,n ant that Par hutment, that the hest human way to endear religion and gorerinnuot. to mankind, is, for their superiors to so ew that they feel the humanity and benevolence of religion, and know and seek the true object of Aoveroment, which is the good of the people; and that, ho tilde as I.l..spliemy nr speech or writing is, much more butt inle is that olosphemy which makes the protection of government anal religion a stalking horse for oppression.— If you can forget the dismissal of Lord Fitzwillium from the Lieutenancy of Ireland, tnenty-five years ago, because he encouraged the hopes of a reconeilint mg system toward the Ullman Catholics—the subsequent disturbances throe, moil the Imo rilsle nicostii es which the respectable secretary to the Catholic Boat C. nay. lea described in his History of the Iletrellio a of W exeunt, which are recorded in Plooden's Hostury, as having bees adopted fur their ressitin.— If you ran approve an enormous army in tun , of Peace, avowedly to keep down the people, while no milder mea sure: have been tried—the resistance to • *gationi of the penal laws—the opposition to all enquiry complaints—the einployinrut of spies and informers, not merely wlw give intelligence, but who excite revolt—the last year's increase. ut taxation, as the only answer to de mands of (economy—the plarite• of an oh - cure Nobleman over the head of the Duke of M edford as Lord Lieutenant of t h e c tttttt ty of Bedford, fur reasons—the dismis sal of Lord Fit ate Ritmo (mere cetworable than even lis dismissal from Ireland,) from the Lurd Lieutenancy of Yorkshire, because he aided and assisted iii the exert use of the a ight of petiti tttt at a county ineetitig, assembled by the High Sheriff .If Yon ks:iire—the displeasure thus shiest n, because his I me dahip thougtt, that however itiespeeserit or improper the meeting at Nlanchealer on the Rita of August might be,' yet that it was fatty of the Sallie Clue tattier with other meetings %illicit had been perntitteil pre viously by the constituted authorai, s. and to disperse glitch therefoie by military force %inbuilt the fauns of the Ri o ; Asa at Lust basin. been clearly and pat tem ly complied it it h, could not be 'atrial, especially is hen to make such meetings wilauful it became necessary to pass new laws—if you approve all refusal Id institute enquiry ill Parliament Imo these prueeriliii4s, whir b, &ism toe prompt approval thereof II) the executive Gower lit. must appear to been directed by that Covet cin,an.l which, it so directed, place the real ollenhlets against law above the la !le ~f the urdluary course of law, and if the manner in which enquiry appears to have been st thal at the Oldham inquest, and the preferment of the Rev. Mr. Illy, for his services. while" adhue sub Judice lis est," before u Court of the Law has decided on the questims, be correct in your e) es— Vibe full exercise of discretion:toy ;moil• in magistrates, over the lives as well as the liberties of their kilo* suldects, secure thus of the protection of Liuvermaciii, be not a large trade toward despotic power If even the fire of our bosoms ought to be extingitislied and passages in plays such as those of Brads- and Cu' io lalnis are to be snuck out, as luitheilliag the lave nil euthu try and the spirit of Leedom, as of late by order of the Lon d Cbaulbarlaiu has been done—why, then, Gentlemen, it yams approve all this, and think, lastly, that Ruin the excessive expellee of Government no inconvenience s mith, and that to heaven, and not to mom, st bo abtoe the 'testa heaven, are to be attributed the dangers and dis tresses of which we hear so much conylaint stud Ili st as I have Sward a Tory say, it iv through the extinction of the small-pox by which population is too muck ramie:mot (as some friends of Al Misters say) and not through the soptaudei ing of the public ltsolliCeS that these csils air caused or aggravaicil —it . any object of national gOOll answered by ail phielt has been felt, and thistle, and buf feted—you will in this rare lemon' as you ate, or till your Representative House with Tury hleetilems, who support an Administration ghid. is the tail, and I hope the latter end of aay stem nine's for tifty.ses en out of sixty years past has been nude viatingly put sued by gem Ul their crier ;flexion and reeling. But romettiM•r, then, that you have no right to complain of Mullion tor set critics tv 'itch you bring upou yisin weir es. If, oil the other hand, sou see false principle nod unjii-t admin in this brief survey which I have made, you will act like Lugliiiiimea, and ;be the constgurace aa it a ay,) yriu will do your duty, and make an elfin, to return Itepri - 'rotative* who shall oppose such principles arid such u,tions. Awake! arise! or be for ever fallen! I am. o Servant, AN INDEPENDENT FRIXDOLDER. FRENCH Al PERS. PARIS, Fen• 16 —At seven oclock this morning the doors of the galleries of the Louvre were thrown open to a multitude, impatient to render the last [yaws 90. homage to the best and most unfortunate of Prince, , . The body of his lute Royal Highness the Duke Berri was laid fi,rth on a bed of state ; Priests re cited prayers, and the guards of Monsieur w:alketi around, sword ir. hand. From seven o'clocV till tw , , more than thirty thousand persons, of all awes . , defiled before theFe inanimate remains, with nn otdet and circumspection which proved how profound was the grief with which all present were penetrated. At three o'clock the doors of the Louvre were closrid, and nu more persons were permitted to enter. • The cowardly assassin of the most generous of Princes, Louvel, was conducted II two gendarmes, and placed close by the body of his atigin:t The Prefect of Poll ee , Count Angles, entered, lowed by M. Jacqui tiot de Pampeluna, MM. Bony ocihnion Mars, and several other substitutes, the murderer underwent the following examiaa tioni-- Q. Do you recognize the Pthice-whom you hare assassinated —A. I do. Q. I demand of aeromplices?—A. I ha ve none. you, once more, to meal the name of your Q. If the ju.stice of men cannot induce you to tell the truCt. think of the jmtice of God !—A. God i s no t hing bat a word ; never came upon earth, Q. What could induceyou to commit an action so critninab A. I mold have wished to refrain from doing it, but I could Q. What was your notice?—A. To ntake it serve as a les.a to the great of mg country. Q. Do you Persist in saying that no body has inspired you with the idea of this crime?—A. Yes. lint that belongs to:to. tice; let it do its duty, and let it discover those whom it pi, bUtllei to be tuy Such are the o:: y answers which they could oh tail; from the wret c h ; h e s i gne d t h em ; an d h e was afterwards re-conducted to the Conciergeric. Immediately after the examination of this wretch, they proceeded to the opening of the body ; four rdiets de chanzbre of the late Prince raised it from its bed of status aodearried it into au adjoining roo:a, where were asserubled doctors Portal, Dopytren, Du:iois, &C. They arc now occupied in embalming the body. The Prince :via lie in state, after te morrow, in a chapel lighted wish tap;:rs, and will remain there som e During the interval, every necessary preparation will be made at the Cathedral of St. Denis, where the obsequies will take place, The King has not yet named the Pre . late who is to pronounce the funeral oration. It is worthy of remark, that on the day of the assassination of the Duke of Berry, some hawkers were seen carrying about some medals in lead, representing the image of a warrior leading a child by the hand. It is not said whether the police seized them. The Coon is appointed to go into mourning for twenty-one days, reckoning from Weanesaay the 16 6 instant, ou account of the death of his Royal iglineFs7. At halt:past two, there was a privy council of ministers. THANKSGIVING pitAven.--The following is a copy 0.. the Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his Niojesty's Recovery from his late Langerons sickness, and which is ortiered to te read in all churches and clionels throughout his Majesty's dominio ns: .— " Areeptoic be , aren thee, Alsiii;;ltty fiod. the praises and Viatilo,girings of Jam Sovvrr;gii Lord fur thy ;teat Meie"rreentlyVolleiMifed to him. " 111 the !war of siekste,s, ,tad wader the severest domestic iitflictiao, Iris ,rust Vms in thee, t) God, :1:1,1 thou hi.,t help d ht:n. "'refit% hind, we implore thee, ever he itv, r Let thy Hnly Spirit ever be with hill and :4) lellOtlelllt 'l. l,'• 4) iiud, Om they bring tiott ti upon Imo anti Ina prllidt the Of thy tot .1141 met., through Jette, Christ our Lord; to o ..... , with thee, and the il:i113 (; Mint , be all hotiu4r boil &tory, how and tot ever. Awe. Mr. Broughatilft Courier to the Queen arrived in town on Friday tuorning, having gone by Mount Cods to Bologna, Florence and Leg:torn, where• be j • met her Majesty. ,A s he only lett Dui 31st of January, this is an inst;unce of extu dispatch. It is said that her Majesty was on her return to thi s country, as soon as sh 4 Itx a f.i.w davit at her villa near Pey ing been lunch tlnigued with her Lute voyage limn Toul o n to Leghorn, in which weather was encountered. Her Majesty understand, grcativ tatrectcd by the smith liw littc 1:444. ' nig. I -, lover coni;47;:f- -) IS to se shc h" -t, ctiarn , • .11 l 4 \114,4,..; , ;, • 1:* No. 1,222.—V0L. XIII.] OW THE APPROACHING ELECTION. -set- To Mote Freeholders who are of opini , n that Na tional ',Merl!, has law Connexion with the Conduct of their Representatives. ENTLEMEN VOU ore about to be called upon to exercise your ehmtlVe bauchise, /uric right of practienity silvbrivig the Crow's. and giviitg your opiiiimis, so far as the present imperfect state of represoutation wilt admit, to the executive .government, toad take a part by the very choice of your Representatives in the Government itself. If you wish, at the conclusion or use reign, and at the commeacement of:mother, to slit•tv that you approve of the snanner in which peak a-Waits have been conducted, and dile • luct of tlitee who are supporters of that system of Ad • tratioo which has placed the country it, its pre cent conditMn, con will senora:ly wish to return ?de 1.- bets who net itt Patlittment correspotirliiittly. If you think, on the other hand, that experience has *hewn the op p moots of this system to be rittlit, then you will feel it your cowcientious duty to temp men nha shall no longer soiree the Cl.lo‘lll or Parlia mei us im;r4ine that this syst•an has even the tatit sanction oldie People. If the country an wryer in I.enerid think. that the con.loct of koalas Govertiment has little or 110 1111111CIWC moon tile happiness or tiii,ery of itations, and that Gott, ir la, liar entiutted us both in our public and private capacities with •the means of correcting our lives and coilduct, nail amend ing our situation Ime, will view-the discharAc of our duty to our COlllll ry a u to ntrselves, and our manner of using those - talents etitrusted to us, as a matter of itidi:recence. then you Mill undoubtedly let agriculture, trade and politics rest (to • :it • 'Aerial phrase) in their present '• state of repose." Geotlenien ! If, takiii4 a cosily tied view of the past for many, many years, you think that from the beginning of the American; Mar to the end of the late I. tench Witr, there appear. nothing but * desire to preserve the fair prineiplea ;Asocial order—nothing hut n disposit• on the letrt of Goverions to make every candid and kind clolleeSlillll to the peoplftoversied, w hich may be eusith , tent w ith the mfety ,Xthiblic order; If in the e‘treme severitit•s which the poor A met kim psi:otters self •red in traversing the Atlantic as capdves.„ daring that naruggle, %kind' at tiritt was as. flume lOW a civil earnest to maintain the ptiociple that they-who pay taxes to u free thivoci 111 l cut have a right to share in- the itepreseeitative Body disposing of those taxes—if in those Acerbities which limit* lien. Waslsiugton deem it timers:try (if they should be continued) to threaten retaliation. you .recollect nothing but justsce administeced in mercy—if,' to controvert the right 114 aviation being conuetted with she sight of Representation. it was just that the Athantic should tie dyed a ith blood, nod" patriee eatidas iv viscera rectere sires!" If, with regard to Fronce,the final courlusion .of .the french War bra proved that .tile only object of the .1-Mlllsis Administration has keen to secure good Government and social order; nod that there could have been no way -short ofsbedding those torrents of blood which bate beet, • shed, arid,pouring uut our treasures like outer, and sad dling our children and our ebildreu's children with burthens such as those which stow fall upon the shoulders of .industry I Miaow the conference at Piluitz, or the treaty of Pavia, to the Iloly Alliance at Aix la Chapelle, no disposition has been manifested simply to cootroul and restrict all possible .ellosts of the people,moder all pos:ible extremes of circum stance; if the resoluteopposition which Mid beeresnade to all /economical Reform, or ail constitutional araelioratitan stud provision in farmer of the people, to all accommodatiou to time, circumstance end progressive opinion, be right ? If in the cordlict with frame the complaint of the ..Etulians in history be ant justly applicable, a Ito, speaking of Flanti- Dinw with resuril to Philip (the son of Antiginius,) said, that he" had removed the fetters from their Ire to place the yoke upon their necks"—lf the blood which was spilt at Waterloo has been shed 10 coefirin the arbitrary disposal of (bona, Saxony, and ?ergs, and other free Stile,, 014 personal property. or to check the progress of free tiovernment is Europe by the WC which leas heeu made of that victory—if our promise to leave France, with the exception of Napoleon, (expressed 111 a carefully was) tied' additional artieleof the hearty of the 251 h of March, 1t115,) the choice of her own Government—if this promise has been kept! If the Bourbons were restored by the face choice of the people. without the aid of foreign force; if the Hour bona dale theirreign, not upon the principle of indefeasible right, during the niaeleen y ears of their exile, but from the day of their restful& by a free people--if the National Representatives were not excluded, after the second abdi• cation of Napoleon, from the chamber where they meet ; ifs(althonghl have lesrut vu the spot where it happened that titir force wits used,) they were not excluded by foreign regiments of Soldiers, by order of chaise Allied Powers a tio t nen ruled France—if in the stern popular spirit displayed in that amenably which met during Napoleon's last reign, toere was no security against the ambition of that Napoleon us a despotic master, although this amembly ' , closed to accept a meanige from him through his Lnrd Chamberlain no jealousy of that popular spirit interfered with our politics, no jealousy of a man raised by France UllOll a dynasty which bad (irrecoverably be unwed I) lost the con fidence and election of France! no fear, lest resistance to oppressions, in extreme cases, might in other parts of Litiope be encoumged I ma wish to restore what Lord Castlereagh terns.. the not lent social system,' uutataght by experience, mid uniusti tieted by adversity-- If to reward the valour, patience. constancy, ntlec and loyalty displayed in this tremendous c—llart, our responsible rulers have not suspended the Constitution. and cramped the efforts of is hat remains %%lodestone therria, but h aye enlarged the limits of freed , lent a a ilittg car mid a generous rt lief to the diWesties of their country, said nut franduently misrepresented the l'llo4lllllllo of the livauric and public prosperity; if they have placed a deserved con-