The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-17 00:00:00

.~ 4 ° ..1 ti I % j i•I I• .“ L.• (A: ONCLULED FLU' CH' LAST.) " first care of a ean.lidate is, then, an endea vour to ple-tse tiais cariaus mass of people ; and the most certain me,us of captivati:ig its good will is, to treat it with attention, to ttstify tile tsteein of which it is worthy, as well for the great number of individuals who compose it, us for the usebil occu pations which they follow, and that portion of ',Abe power which is lodged in their hands. " Vt'hat member will dere to receive, I will not say . with nicer, hut even with an 'Air of import ant% the elector, whose vete be had solicited some yeuTs betiore,. which he may have occasion for at a ut a touters time, and who might then repay his disdain veldt seriolls interest ? How shall he dare to refuse amine assistance to the man who hoe been loudly panelaimed to be his follower ?. Will he suffer that man's wife or child to perish for want of succour ?- Will he rigorously exact from hint the payment ofaiemey which may be else? Will he object midst:. renewal of his security.?:. " are in England a great uumbar.afestatee belonging to the first Nobles. of, the Kingdom, which ans let by them at not more than half their value, for the sole purpose of obtaining. votes at l'arliantantury Elections. Da we belie re fiat it would. Se easy to convert electors influenced by such motives:, and to take away their votes from these to whom, they have enraged them, in secountry, to -where e v e ry vote it given publicly ?' What a variety of advantages must be spread over the country, by this very mode of election, which placing in certain pointed view, the rich insidepentlenee on the poor, opens to the miseries of.the latter; hearts. would perhaps otherwise have been chiliad, eet tailpipes to a given extent their naturaLegnality, anal anamela the eltlerborn of nature trecede a portion of that common inherit:vice whieb .has exclulavelY 4!• slaked on them! "• It is thus, also, that the heeds of great manila fa. navies, oil. extenaive commercial. undertakings, en joy : in .their respective count:we such high consi dt ration Respect is paid to tbem.in referenee tot a number of votes of whieltahey have the dise•, I" salt " disposal," begonia on this subject tl. cm is no 'kind of delicacy.; _ar.d.. when a . man .in de tptuulence upon :mother does not vote with:-.-bis p item, be is sure, to lose.his place, or his employ 1E ent.. This conduct, which- would appear in., F ranee to• be an excess of, injustice, does nat• meet , . in England the slightest difficulty. Thereyou must e• ttertain, or at least follow, the political opinions of ' hiut.ftem whom your livelihood . is derived A natber.effeot of this .system, and which, may be ri igpedid as.an additional. advantage, ,is., that rich pi al:deters only can be returnea. as members of. p Ohtani:nu By the letter of the law, an estate of 6 X:3l pier annum. (about 14,000. or 16,000 Ryas, retteb.),is made the necessary walification of. a.. as 'tasty representative, and half that sum is rewired. tc intake.ancligible candidate for a city or.borough4 b. at. when the expencee-of an election-are calculated, • fitr , more considerable revenue will be found iliepensable. Thus, with, the excepfien..of the in embers for " rotten. boanighs,". - who-are man • multitely.tlevoted to the- proprietors who nominate tl .eat, and compelled in honour to vote under their sl cmtion, all the members of the House of Cona n, orresbelong generally to the richest. families in } nsPuall, AIM amonget them areithvays to be found. a greet number of the sons of Peers. A House so • anvecd. may well entertain some diversity of o; duke+ on certain points of the. public administra ti era; , the. various parties into whit& .it is divided u. :;s alt aspire to the,ministry, and vehemently dis p its Ohl posses ion .of office ; but whenever the • staission turns upon circumstances• which would p it. the existence of Governnaent itself in danger, se tliaansewently endanger also.the properties, ruaks,.. an dlArivileges established by laws we behold them all . ae unitA,. and governed by the. same spirit, re jeatiegevery innovation, and opposing an insur ill countable barrier to the efforts of disturbers. 'Millen one reflects, that of the 668 members who e( wpvsc the Commons House of Parliament fin F. arjantl;.Seotland, and Ireland, there are 307, or tati one half, elected fort rotten boroughs, and w hoe nomination belongs exclusively to 154 pros p. ictors, one might be led into a belief• that, it was al 1 over with liberty, and that the aristocracy was al oat to devour all ; nevertheless, there is no et; uitry where li_erty is more solidly established ; ar A such at• the same time is the extent of its ex sitire,.that any further iucreaae would expose the is te• to inevitable ruin. ".hut there is yet more: these rotten boroughs th. mast:lves, the subject of so much jealousy and of so naafis. declamations, arc perhaps that part of the sabers to which the English Parliament ewes peincipt.l :owe, and liberty its most intrepid antlers. Divided between the families, some of ,mare attached to.the Ministry, and some to the *Tuition, they return. to Parliament men equally - J I eto itt def. wht 0 1'1 • . . . TT . . - - - C. tE,il. views—sum,: engaged to maintain. power, and others to prevent its extension. beyond its just limits. They are, moreover, the•nursery of all the great parliamentary talents.;:because those who 'lessees such boroughs, amnions for the interest of their party, or for their own personal inatience, to give weight to 'heir political opinions the magi' men most competent to support them, usually select for nomination young a dvocates, tar men el letters the must distingaislied tot wit. awl ehrpitence; and it is iu this manner that almost all the men of genius who lauye successively figured in the English Par liament—the Gliathaims, the Pitts, the Foxes, the Buries, the Hotnillys, anti al) many others not less illustrious, first succeeded in making themselves known to the nation. R was subsequently, anal not till after their talents had made them reinarkaAe, that they became objects of independent el.evtion, whether fur Westminster ; or fur any other city or county.. 'The aristocracy is, therefore. as we perceive, the real goveraing.power. It rules the. provinces, where it oceopies every administrative. employment ; ,it governs tha whololingiluns through the Parliamen usry influence. which.. is almost exclusively in its pessession. This King is, if we may.so: speaks no thing butt a. creature uf the imagination ; he is,-a. species oikidol designed to be placed otter the altar, with the view of oifering.to the 'topple an apparent object of respect. The idol is covered with gold and jewels-in order. to render him more venerable, his • worshippers prostrate themselves befire testimoniesof the.most profound submission.; but it is his Ministers:who are charged with theilispen lotion of bias oracles, mud who ..re responsible for the of ectewhieh they produce, It is in their hands, and. nutin those of the King, that the Royal prero.. paves are lodged, and they naturally become an ohjcct of ambition to all the membermfthe m:neral. aristocracy. They carry on the stoniest witlt•lnrietus ' easgeniessi..;and when at. length the. -Aim hiss fallen. into some vigoroos hands, from which there is little. hope of recovering. it,..tha vanquitlied parties re: unite, in oaderttovord against too considerable ens accessionoof power, which might become. dangerous to their individual rights and privileges.- ' But this arissocracy is. not, as in some other cam-• tries, compeeetloi a number, more ordlees, of privi leged families...whose whole power. consists in the oppressions which they have arrogated to themselves the right of exercising upon the people. Itiais..the aziatocracy,of wealth and of talents, the most natu ral and least revoltios; of finites forms, inasmuch as there Ia no family, no citizen,,olus may not hope to obtain an admission into it, menu one day to.patiticis. pate of its advantages. Such an aristocragy is itself but a portion of the general mass of the people, above. which fortune has. insensibly elevated it. Some unfortunate events,. or sense foolish .dissipa tions,,often ',plunge it.wholly intolthat mass, ,and there at.least it always zemainsefixed inita younger_. branches.. Its private interestobli;,, , esit.continually to cherish the good-will of the inferior classes of the people, in order to make for itself a point of support against that encroachments of the Crown; and to sustain tit...people with all its force against every attacknpen £heir independence. Thus the greatest. lords in lingland, the. Dukes of Devonshire and Bedford', the Hollands. the Lansdowne, the Fits williatug, the Grenvilles, the Greys, Ake. are, those who show themselves-the most4ozient defenders ofs public liberty, of the trial by jag, of the law of habeas corpus, of the liberty of the press, of the right of petitions.that of assembling, and all thuse popu lar privileges, which.ore exercised by the nation with transports so lively, as to inspire tisreigners with &belief that thefree institutions of Athens and !tome have been transported to the banks of the Thames, the Humber, aid the Mersey. " How could such a Government.. undee,which every Euglishman, from the lord dowoatu the hum blest of its citizens, finds security for 'his person, liberty to spe.sk of ell things, and to write of all things, protection against every sort of tyranny, the right to censure all the acts of Administration, and eshare, more or less. in the government of the state: itself; how. I ask, could such a government I eNert 11C overturned; how, above all, could it be overturned, with a House, of Connuons composed alinost, entirely of citizens who reap its principal advantages? Lord Erskine lout paid a visit to his , native coun try, after an absence of fifty-one years. arrived at tlr house of his brother, the Earl of Buchan, in Gcorge.street, lidinLurgli, on Saturday and three &nut his grana thildten (who are receiviag their e(iticat . at Edinburgh) with their parents. The Noble and I.eart.ed Lord will find a new crea tion :lace he left Scotland in 1768. The new town was nut then begun, and the improvements in every direction exceed all that can be witnessed in any other city tipai earth. The Noble Lord says in his I letter that " in his own funnily, he finds three new generations around him, whilst those of former days have passed away." • .... FROM SATURDAY NIGMT'S GAZETTE. CROWN OFFICE, JAW. 15. MEMBER returned to berve in this present PARLIAMENT. ' linsourgh , of Clifton Dartmouth Ilardnent.—C. M. Ricketts. Eq. in the room of A. 11. Iloldoworth, Esq. who has acts:pied the Chiltern Ilundreds. BA K rrg. .T. Trubtrum. GrattGuildford Strmt, r. 50..- - . licitor. Mr. Harmer. Hatton Gorden... G. Twiddy. Bread Street Hill, oilman.. Sul. Mr.. Juries; Slag Lane. C. It. Read. ittrldnin Courtcurerritanty Sol: Messrs. Swe. - .1% and Stokes. Basingliall Street. T. 11. St. George Smith. Botherhithe, .cork manotfaeturcr. Sol. M.. Edmunds. Lincoln's /un. R. Pbillips,..lslibusinhaui, .Stissex,..fasmer. Sol. Mr. Ellis,. Temple. It. Ferrer.: Stead Street, warehouseman: Suit. %lessni. Ilurd and Jo:insert, Temple. L. Jumbo, Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, glass dealer. Norton, New Union Street. Moortiekls. it.. Thompson and .T. Moses. Paradise Bow. Hotheihithe, wine merch mo.. Sol. Mr. Hutchison, Crown Coast, .Tbroad. needle. St. act.. AV, Clayman. Ilishoporate Street itltootts. haberdasher. Sol. Mr. Fowl: Tkresdlntedle Street. .1. Scott.. fore Stitt:4 corn dealer. Sol. Mr. Wills, Hatton Garde:l. J. Fearnall, New Cross, Ileptfeeds, merchant. Solo. Mears. . Woodward und Co., Nicholas lAine. T. Morita. Bristol. linen draper. Sol. MF. - .Piskroan. Pinup Court, Temple. J. Bracewell,. Leeds, York...innkeeper.. Sol. Mr. Bettye, . Chancery Lane... E. Morgan. Knighton. ..ltaidnosshire. woohsepler. sot. Pugh. Eusuin Square. C. Morris. Cateaton Street: warehouseman. Sul. Mr. Par..- tington. Curvitos Strut% Chancery Lane. DIVIDENDS. Feb. 12.....L.Whittingham Liverpool. g ro cer —fle,..l.4lllher. Liverpool. merchant-8. I'. hill. Leedr, merchant-B.J. Jef fay, rutibridge. Kent. shopkeeper-5. I. and ILGorney. East India Chambers. neerelamts—S, Besfortl....Barook% Mews. Hanover square. haekneyinan—s. W. Tomlinson, Nottingham. h a b er dasher-5,T. Waters and W. Perkins. Portsmouth. slop. J.Taylor. East Smithfield. tobacconist-3.T.Hughes.. Ludgate Street. boolueller--7. J. Stokes Livergool. merchant— Mallinson. Penistone, York, merchant-8. J. Lever. Ashby de la &itch, Leicester. draper-5.T. Winstanley and W. Cools. Liverpool. xurtitmeers--5, ..1. Wikl. Kochilak. Lancashire. glass dealer-8. K. Calverley..liegwotth. Leicester. miller. cEirri Fit:pa:Es to be granted Feb. 5. J. Colbourn. Pudding Lane. fish saleunan—G. Parker. Now Shoreham. Stissex...tisiiur—J. Wright, Bermondsey. :larger sealer—J. SitYfins I%l.ahlutu. Essex, wine merehantrJ. Old Broad Street. mostchant—W. Amine and. G. fates, Liver ool. merchants--T. Itauray. Lower Thames Street, wine and brandy merchant..—W. Hughes and.F. Todd. Great Winchester Street, merchants—J.llollhaan, Mile End Howl. brewer—W. Linton. Colchester. linen draper—W. and J. Kilner. Huddees *dd. York. merchants—W. Booth and 1. Brandon. Beech Street. Barbican. fish merchants—T. Thompson. Lancaster. . grocer—K. Wood. Hart Street, Bloonukuty.. Square. paper-. t !mocha. 11 00000 itim 0.. Imp. 3 per Cent. MI; Isollicliossus 94. ail.. twit& Stuck Eseiteritter Kills 2,. die.. Cowl—for Ac. 69* Lottery Ticket+ .Cl 9 IS.. 'Sank Siosk per Lent. Re& OS per Celli. C0n....611i St Pr. Cent. TTY . 4 tex l.rW. tat: 5 per Cent. Nrs; 103 i Lon Attn. 1$ THE NATIO NM, REGISTERc. E. 01113011; . MONDICY. JANUARY 17.- Yesterday we received the Pane Papers of. Tue sday last. On Monday the King heard mass. in.his apartments, and afterwards held two levees, the film* for the Gentlemen, and the other for the.Lodies. M..tle Serres istottiug,better, but M. Pasquieowill. be charged with the portfolio..of .the Minister of Justice. The Count Decuzes is still.confined to his bed, and the Physicians, it is said, are .by no means satisfied with the,state.,of his health. Thaw physical or political indispositions, of so many embon of the Administration, have suspended all public busi ness in the Chamber of the Depulies. M• Wainde laincourt, ancient Member of the Convention, died lately at Verdun, at the age of 93.. He voted for the .banishment of Louis X V I. T and Friday have arrived. preceding day, dar the King, seatedarrived. Par Onis P a pers ofk on the his throae, received the. Pope's Nuncio, who was introduced to his Majesty with•great pomp.—lntel. ligenee. from Hume, of the 2fld: ult., says, that, " judging from the orders which have been received by persons at Pesaro, in the service of the Princess of Wales, there is little appearance-of the return of her Royal-Highness there, at least for-some time." Letters from Tripoli, dated the II th November, announce, that the pacific system adopted by that Regency is producing the huppie.t effects. Its commerce and navigation are fl.i..ris:iti.4. No cor sair has issued from the ports of Trip 'ii since the Ist of July, 1818; and the Dey has solicited the mediation of England, 0 male his peace with all. 1