The National Register. — London, England, 1819-12-26 00:00:00

I ~: .--- - SElm MO SUNDAY, br.CEII3 . EIt 26, 1819 No. I.i.4l.—Vota XII.] [rata flict, Voktica! ittmspict. igati,kn, awl un inst tuted an ti.sitt4s winch is ._ tvast as • Rainakunticr, it is supposed by these whoa . authorky may be considered ns the !mu, will be trotatastd from their lubours alialit the Sd or 4th of January for a recess of six' weeks; the important busittem orpassing the Restriction Rills, and stopping the mouth; cl thoe who were (lest rihed as cl3mour- e disconrevite, - itself s and ae•nieteti on ends to . the titmice Of ,it,, when a committee for that Object was;mintod for by • Mr. Bennett, instentFOS rojiTiing• it, not because it was iitteme.l..inineces.,ary,• but Mr. C:, , ittliag,." the not). Lucver hay UCCOM);aII;‘ , I 11;1 motion by oLservntions and corn- . meat% to which I ratinia snliserili?' The renpie because 's iv§ ous fu: er:quirY, liAvlrtg bcen micrestitialy carried Most of titt•tte Bilis hotever, to ‘vhieh tve have sc •u( En4l3titi manta shut their:eyes t rim thin g s; boric they I;t:vcr n3r ~•. ill dt'♦ctmtent ever be mitigated. till tin: )(mites from tvltich it Rows are purified Yon may suspend the ll.d.eas Corpaa—► yuu inky %traduce Green Rags, and legiskte upon than lift ever--you may forbid libels upon the constituted powers of the State, lint yon 'cannot inspire either &aeon nr run fMenee without deserving it ; titects will never give way till the anise* are thoronghly removed. Mr. fiobhotse's language we admit to be quite intotertibte. We tetality further, that it is tteither coasistent with justice in many ;oleic.% nor with 'the duty ::hick a subject is bound to observe in all. But why will not the litameet COMThoffs render such attacks wpm it more atuatirrs able still, by making them so totally inapplicable and groundless, that they shall lose *tit Wag li the oWn 'absurdity and falsehood often advoited, ar m very ammitkrably ratened aittl progre; and wt )pe thou: ;t:11 itl'remain will h so likewise in the most their, pro Tlwy were bito. ... , 241.ned:ssepportett• by Ministers as me.t , , , 1.7 !pef peruitY; ea s yoke to he. Ent for a season, to eVer 1..!, ea upon on' on ad tlrise Wit.) Xltali - tes, and twilit.: als.l mart to emend Oleic brilueoce over ever) pert (td'ile:l3ri tish dominions, whether any tround'elight exist or 'ot fur such enactments. They tireStOw, or at least the most obnoxious of them, Minted to five years of duration, and a comphunise ihait 'thus been 'conceded tof placing theConstitutiun in abeyance only, instead of utterly destroying it. ite have gratefully noted, and the cotintry we ate Sure, has appreciated the strenuous and petrinic sitteggles of the "...)pposittion in this eventful crisis. They were not ignorant tkat their motives would be 'traduced by the tongue sof factious ;lender, they were not insensible that the cause they*fought thr-Wohld be described `by the 'vile instruments 'of mintsterill cortuptten as the 'cause of hlaspheitty villa* God aril &awn against •awful governments, and that thetperest piety and 'otos( unsullied integrity, and Must unquestioned loyalty to the House and to the *hole of ourtun 'stitution, would, ter Ito other reason, bet because 'they boldly threw themselves into the hnit likttess of our freedom, be 'held up to Vie* as Identified With the vilest and mast inlinnotts of the human 'race. These tricks of' a prostituted Preo, these worst vices of its licentioesness, are now however amderstotiatty the people of England, and v e cannot help thinking that it'has arisen from a con sciousness that they are so, that Ministers have receded from those tremendous attacks Aspen our li berties with %Ma they opened their campaign. We cannot attribute.it solely to the labour of the opposition, betante tltcyc beet end noblest effidts were proved te be quite ineffectual whenever they "came, to a diviiiion, and ft eotdd not 'be from far of those utajetitits away, because they ihed testified their real and their devotion to a degree which might warrant the most implicitedulidence in their support upon any or every 'question which the Minister might think fit to 'recommend. They 'had Ailed all .ttiquity by Parliament into the rnmase tions of Manchester; they had agreed that a spirit of revolt was too notorious in plates Vretl *here it was asserted not to exist at all, to Weed an., lien from the operations of the measure to btiaterdeed, -and, what is still more, they applauded and sup ported the introduction of the Bills in question whilst solorotood to be perpetual in duratioa, and unlimited is tent. Titcy had approved by stlitir *vies die relative to Libel with the pettiramem detail attached 'as the pottalty de Wee , they could do no more wboa Lord Codetagh was 4oduced to ivra,artw Mw iltverkf attach a serreeffee. , To what are we to attribute the change'? to the trattriful, lenient, and gentle spirit of the Ministry ? Would to Ood we could sincerely do so, but the blood and the wounds inflicted at Manchester arc yet i .left without lewd i. l ta place nooredit .for nileness ntot l' J.! 3 i.Il :. can easily conceded t.- laor i e ,w,k,,) ~...:,., ,-,, t :, F,....,i, csi i t what appcart to us, so tad and trying a' rlennuo... for equal law and justice` tic; I+elie;re then Ouir ii. is to ilie• terel-7 - of. public io . r,, to the g,T,wing and daily matilrititg disapiiro: ofti:c wlmle holy of the 1 lotion, and ahoy, ail, to e e7sel-tions et the press, and to the patrons ,:f chg. exertions, that we ()UT ~he most effectual and b qcial resistenee to those Obnoxious measnt-es. 'IA iir passage tlirt r t%h the, Committee, much of ti.:. - poison lets .13eeit .neu• tralized: several 6 . f th , , , 1 :,:;t terrible fino have been . •.- , -:: '.i ', .:. _• potv chi Ay 1 diteed to Ithasl no:. temixuary measure whirl, .'i•,-,1,i . have ht.+n their diameter when' first pr,,,,, A:,',. flow those aiha appr o ved and defend .d them originally, tett itpprove an defead them, mil is a, trotstion they must he left. to sins Aer tier- usselVea. Mr. Hub- Emote, tile tr,:thor of the' ted Wok elseithid " The Second Reign of Ns' ," and a late can didate for Westminstet, is me •g in Rewgute the t pentsitment of a 'libel of the owe of Commons. — As an integral part of the e, oeslitutinio, every well wisher 'ln his country data be anttioot to see that trench of it, .perhaps the meat impartant of them all, flourishing is the good *pinion of skit world, and must be further-se:loos ieehrOW a veil over its errors and lasperlbetions, *There'd the absolute safety of the state dues saga for their exposure.— Bet we must still soy 6f the . House of Cammons, that which is so true of private .characters, that 'nothing is so hard as to . support Ahoys who will not •support themaelies.-loft ie an admirable principle of Government, laid down by a ;phi latipher of antiquity, that ": . if you wish time who :se subject, willingly and faithfelky to whey, you must sbe* them *it They hare the pike ef the liberty they surrender, la the care sitd 'vigilance you exercise for their private security and for their public geed, for," asps he," many, both private persona and stater, harm insisted upon : sublnissidn rather than friendship, and elreery. rather than allegiance, have bees deemed to bewail their folly in their own oeerthro* titte WM."— Would it nut have been muelt more effectual tow eds curing the venom and wieletweref such enacts as Mr. Hobliotise'bits made upon It, if the House of Commons had mot 'suctioned. that wide wasting end profligate exprndlrtire both of teensy and of blood which has distinguished theitetscils of this country fir: so long a pecied of its past history, and of wttich We ale neap 'riving he those than the natural end necessary feel% eVerwitelming tExatttln,twittflitts loniffetissot universal stagnation of corhhttreei and el 'Universal tkincontent.— Would it not have aided the am m eter of . that assembly to 'hare tesiSted the firdtimposition of three millions of tastes ism yeast tearing almost exclusively ttpon agiieuttitts end nititsamteres, which were already itteittiat iii et the vettfiaso {treasure? Would it nut have *owe alsettetoPegerd fur rite sofferings of a depromad state, floe% hats granted 10,1103ei s year tea near tit am er ' visiting a'nagtd and deleted parei%* it knot have better satisfied the spine of 10~ IMP' dis satisfaction to have fairly and intastiell)*lVeleiga *id the Manchester trensactiens, slpil Mit had been oneedfid to support isathosity ota oat baud, jet it least to have Illhannisbed diem of their error, and to have shewn that eutirtionduct meet be not consider ed as a precedent, and drat the laws ought and ms not be *ekes ? Would knot have *hewn a visite, i'OUTIf AMERICA-. --- dicta's& or A 'LITTER. RATED IMAZGARITk. ;Oct. I. " We received despatches here a few days re from the Government at Angostura, and also from General Beresuder ) wire is stationed at Barcelona. Thevause dl the eteadontiltent of the blockade ot this island by the spanisit fleet is now explained to be the want srprovhdent, and it is therefore proba ble that. we "tall, ere long, receive another visit front them. Morino himself was so bent on the measure. that he came down in peraft to La Guyrs, to hasten the departure of the squadron. The pros vision!" they had ott board were 'efficient only rot two months ) which ) as they sailed on the 25th of July, must all have been exhausted at the time they quitted oar .Coast. They had drders from Mo rino la fight and Viet the Veneatrelats squadron whenever and wherever they could meet with them. Gen. Urdaneta 'has been in disgrace at Angostura, for the failure before Careens, but is reinstated in his command, and 'has orders, as seen m the rainy season is over, again to attempt to tatty the place, cost what it may. The last meows from General Pace state, that he had invested :Ssoi Cernando, which was howdy expeeled to offer terms of capita. laden, as re relief mold be looked fOr from General bloriilk who was net believed to have nitre Asa 3;000 'men under ids cunuaafl& , It is amertaimad ) on-the information of a surgeon who has deserted from the /loyalist army, that the varieties in Cu.. mans and Porto Cabello ere smaller than had bet* supposed, and very tasidowinte to their dekames the former having gft,iinti the ialle*msly 150 saws. % tip, We have sestained here a are lam to the rilliikt , cause by the death ofrven. • who died Oda . fever study in The 'innttintall 25th ale. said wee buried the.atme 'evening 'with Military honours." R Ad4nes from Cad's of the ht inst. ennounco she; the Government of Spets have come to a ' determination to send oat interediatety two arms. pents to South America, ewe Of Which, consisting 1 of 8,000 men, was to go to 'the maistence of Gee. ( 1111"tI 0 rjt Morino ; and the other, Westering of from 10 te 15,00 e met, lets to proceed to -Americo. It swan *tan a lee dhevarion in the Court et Chancery, that the fix demanded by the Rev. Sloeli• smith of Gretna Green, frit treating " one laift" the ardent fftitives who Mott toltis Arise, is so - 71 less theft to C t h ey wife kayo boon Fortin to the pa-feast% or who he, wironsok *oak too boar Weft:yr whether parsetst is reviled loan 4lto } Y 155 • pelibiessoaste of the ouvorm or sok -