The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-08 00:00:00

dY # UOrt° No. 1205.—V0L. XII.] liettogpect. ME wretched and discontented state of so large a portio❑ of the Community, and the organized assemblages of their almost countless numbers, throughout the most populous districts of the Em pire, partly fix- the terepoges of complaint, and partly from the Lope of making such un impression upon the minds of their rulers as 'may procure fin- them some alkvietion of the pressure under which they struggle, constitute n subject too important not to force itself upon the reflections of every lover of Peace, of Order, and of his Country. The Revolu tions of States, like the convulsions of Nature, are things awful to be contemplated, even at a dietuneue because havoc and desolation arc their usual attend ants, and because they are apt to involve the inno cent and the guilty in one common ruin. Yet, at the same time, as nothing can be more weak or fixdish in common 4 life than to shudder at every. blast as the forerunner of a hurricane, and to hear in every noise the presage of an earthquake, ro in politics nothing can be more unworthy a free and leanly spirit, nothing more fatal to public Liberty, than a morbid sensibility of public danger It is idso 11. e part only of the weakest and worst Govern nu•nts to tremble at every symptom of popular com motion, as it is the pert cf the most wicked to use such opportunities of grasping at despotic power, and subverting the established institutions. Such a line of conduct can only admit cf two interpre tations it must either be an acknowledgement of imbecility, or a declaration of guilt. The wise and honest statesman will remember that the whole range of history can scarcely furnish a single in stance of any Revolution, or even important com motion in a state, which has not been brought on by softie gross corruption end abuse of power. The vreat bulk of any eiviYetel nod enlightened Society tviil always he lovers asocial order. Man is natu rally a social being, and therefore naturally disposed to acquiesce in secrificing a considerable portion both of his labour, his property, and his freedom of action as the price of public protection and ge neral good. He feels also a pride and a glory in supporting such institutions as lie finds calculated to advance the solid interests end character of the Country to which he belongs, and will even .shut his eyes to defects which are not too glaring. It is only when he sees or believes that these institu tions are either incompetent to their-object, ar per verted and abused in their application that he be comes restless Will uneasy. It nun suffer, they will compluin ; if they are convinced that their rights arc invaded, or that evil policy iris caused their misery, it is neither natural nor desirable that they should either brood in silence over their situation, or tamely sink down in hopelessness and despair. That there nothing formidable in the state of feeling which pervades our manufiecturing districts, we by no means wish to inculcate. But de most finani dahle feature is'that there is mach of truth in their complats, with, we fear, but very little iaclina tion to probe the evils on the part of these whose duty it is, and to -Indy their proper remedy. Amidst all the wild and fu lisle nonstm!,:i about Annual PLe.:iaments and Universal Star:fee, their declara tions and rcii , :ives are still foutid to contain many melancholy truisms which no sophistry can evade. unparalleled weight of our Taxation is a plain ate, ttr+ Our thin, Consititution anb U /*WO. SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1819. sensible fact that no man can deny ; and very few are prepared to assert that all that could be, has been, done to relieve it. No man can look back to the means by which, and the objects far which, the accumulation of debt that is now pleaded as the apology for our burthens has taken place, without sighing over the fortunes of his country—and ex claiming with the Poet " Prdrl Nee I Ipprol-riti nobis " Et diet pt.tuip,e, et von potu,se No man, again, can say that these evils would not, most probably, have been prevented it' the House of Commons had more fairly anti fully represented the sentiments of the whole People of England.—At all events no man can deny that the thetn•y and practice of the Constitution are in this point grossly at variance with each other. Again, in asking as these people do for a more fair and equal Represen tation than exists at present, even Mr. Canning cannot deny that they are asking bet for that which his own great master once proposed to give ths:m. Instead then of directing all their thoughts and con trivances to find out some method of extinguishing this spirit of truth as well as error, would it not be better, would it not be more worthy Loth of honest men and wise Politicians, if all reasonable grounds of murmur were first carefully considered, and an honest endeavour made to remove them Their follies and absurdities would then find no advocates, and even Hunt himself would mourn or declaim in solitude. His Majesty's Ministers might have been long ago convinced how ineffectual are their own miserable positions. To tell them of "an igno rant impatience of Taxation," will not do ; to disre gard their cries and their sufferings will not do ; to invite them to quit the land of their fathers will not do ; to suspend at once their liberties anti to scatter them in distant dungeons will not do ; chains and timers are alike Meth:dual, and we would earnestly implore that they may not twain be tried. The organization is, we really believe, firm, solid, and exteonve, but it has hitherto observed a quiet and decorum which defies the interference of those who might perhaps wish for more tangible materials. to work upon. They are bodies of strong and resoluts Petitioners, but they are not Rioters, -tad Petition is the right, the inalienable right of Englishmen. We would beg again and again that no imams may be used, that no rash and ill-advised councils may be adopted, which may render these men desperate, awl make them as Iloratius said to the tyrannical Deceinvirate of Home, " Esteem their sufferings as greater than their fears."-- The Country will not suffer itself to be again placed at the arbitrary disposal of the servants of the Crown, they will not again suffer their Liberties to be suspended without rememberiag that a crisis nets , occur in %shalt submission kaaimes treasonable and resistance a duty. TheConstitu t ion of Ent'attd was not made for fair weather only ; it Las strength and energy enough to struggle with a storm, mid our Laws are both better and safer pilots than any Miaisterial Oligarchy, be they who they may. The spirit of our people is awakening indeed to abases and corruptions, and the march of this spirit is not to be resisted. 'Those abases and corruptions must he done away, - and the vessel will then puss on with her won:ed course. The people of England lov e and tcvere their Laws and know how to respect tins e authorities which are their appointed guar dians, but their flux is fully set against oppression and wrong, awl it highly concerns our rulers to know and feel this truth, [yam). 94d. Extraordinary Hire Bi6ber.—.4 vine dresser, from the neighbourhood of M-trly le Hui, laid a wager some days back with another vine dresser, that he would &Mk half* hmrshead of nine in ti-3 • hours, After the lapse of .f2.3 ^ hours there remained only three quarts to be drank, and he easily won tha wager, which was WO francs. As considerable anxiety was created in this city by a report, that a vessel, conveying nut a number of troops destined for South Aaietica,litid bzen seized at Dualuary, and as different causes were assigned for the circumstance, we consider ourselves for:uaate . in being enabled to state the fact precisely as it eurred:—The vessel being a tbreign one, was nos entitled to carry above one half the ninuLT of men which a British bottom °file same dimensions would be allowed to take out. The captain, however, int prudently regulated his arrangements rather by the amount of his tonnage than the provisions of the law, and an information Laving I),•en lodged against him, the revenue cutter c t Dunleary follow:NI and arreAted the vessel for a breach of the Navigation Act, in re ceiving on board a greater 'Limber of persons than that act permits. This eras the sole ground of the seizure ; the Foreign Enlistment Bill hart nothing whatsoever to do nith it, nor will the occurrence alter at all the course of the itidici•lools concerned: this our readers may rei' upon.—Dliblia Paper. The following is extracted Nat a Paris paper:— "A private letter frmn London gives reason to • believe, that an old process, which derives its im portance more particulaely front the elevated rank of the parties interested, and whi,h is of a nature to call fur the intervention of the Engli di Parlia ment, is soon to be revived. The new proceedings are said to be the result of ,an investigation lately instituted in Italy, by means of wltioli int:inflation and evidence regarded as decisive have been oL tained." An official, despatch was received on Tuesday, dated Angustuiu, May 28, front Itoscio, succes,,or Palacio, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the republic of Vencattela, confirming the account of the defisit of a reitit;,..reentent of 3000 mon, s.:nt Mont Santa Fe to juin Nforillo. This victory was achievoi by the division of the Patriots under the command of Gen. Santander. The Exeter Paper of Thursday says, this City was yesterday visited with one of the most tretoea- I dons storms of thunder, lightning, rain, am! within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. The rain poured down in torrents, and haiistones of im mense size fell with such force as to break the glass of many windows. The frequent peals of thunder were so loud as to reader the voice of the Counsel, pleading at the Assizes, inaudible. A bull of fire tell on one of the houses in High-rreet, which shivered the chimney top in pieces. The market people were forced to fly into the different shops tbr shelter, where they had the mortification of see ing their commodities washed off the par.iers into the street, without being able, 33 great was the vio lence of the tempest, to save them. Uu IVednesday a to n ne, man uniered 'hi-Court of Clui cery between t welt e and one o'clock, and hiking 14p a Gentleman's hat departed. ii, ormition it as insincli- July given and Mr.'llaker, the officer, pursued awl toelt him into custody. I la, big cow eyed him to a boom in the tiei t thbutirhood for the inirpom: of scarcionghim, 112 was losmil or be wholly without linen, or waistcoat. and in fact with nothing to CilVcr the tipper par; of his pa,on, save his peat coat, which was bottoncii tip so as to conceal the distress tinder which he labisured. lie d e cl a re.' that he had not hurt n able to obtain a bed, with the exception of two or three niglnt, for the whole of .he last and piesent month, and that for the last two or three 615 ice had not hrok ell hi, list. His store excited tits comp.'s:ion of all present, dint a few shillings were among the coattibutors to whicit was lin . gen tlem.h; whose hat had been stolen, whogave 11 , !. u t RTIOVIIZCII to have Leen tingled) ill attorney's clink. Ile was se: at liberty strongly ex pressing Insp.:tit:ode. The Provietors of life rd eolith which mpg, 11,111 t., 'I Actiolti, I;.e t with a 11.0141 C%. : , p.,l.lonis or „ipp ',lt p.a..1111 ! R i e Phi I ppe,rance r oi l of The laor-e. 111 I. i•ging conch, a in. it iniina fault! u 4. 4,111 t ' or he anynn•tli.ol Iv prolcei.lll,l 1.. iob 16,111 i.e. , . tit 4sl I olog rp:i Ha.] rot , %%Lien Iles proo%l it i4:41 to Orin. Su loss lIINU ninn .isenti ite• bate %tet hts• in 1 , 40 or thin u.iis to tln. tlfspe Inii , l4tga and ii; 1 101411“ o f 411 p;cl,l tniptitt.. -0`