The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-25 00:00:00

.. '- OCT. Q 5 bc added to each company of marines, making to gether eleven thousand six hundred men." The Ministers seem resolved to displ.•ty the ut most vigour in defending the country &cm every violent effort en the part of its enemies. If they can induce Pluliament to accede to their desires with respect to the extension of our military three, they will have obtained one of the great objects fire which their adherents have for some time been en deavouring to alarm the country. We trust, how ever, that Parliament will nut permit its fears so far to overcoml its judgment as to prevent it from inquiring into the ceases of the agitated state of the public mind, before it sanctions the adoption of measures which, in their consequences, are calcu lated to increase the present anger and discontent. No doubt can be entertained that in the wont of cmr:Ayment has originated the political &molt which now excites tile apprehensions of the Go vernment, and it would be consistent with sound po.icy and common sense to seek for the resto ration of tranquillity rather by removing the causes of discontent titan by adopting any violent tuea sures. The Funds on Friday experieneed a serious fall, to the extent of I g per cent., probably on account at these intended measures. The venerable and patriotic Earl Fitzwilliam has been removed by his Nlaksty's Ministers from the office of Lori Lieutentutt and Cv'to, Ruhdoroni of the %% est • iding of the county of York ! Energy is a noble quality in an Administration, and so also is discretion, and- the Ministers have shewed them selves just as wise as they cc ere vigorous in inflicting this summary act of vengeance upon the head of Earl Fitswilliam, for presuming to hint a doubt respecting the propriety of dispersing, by military force, a meeting of the people at Manchester, and ►uggesting the necessity of having some inquiry in stituted into a proceeding at once so violent and s unconstitutional. What a contemptible elfin of puny spite ! Did the wiseacres conceive that in expeisflirg the phials of their wrath upon him whom they haw! selected for its object they coold degrade Earl Fitz•.villiam.in public estimation, or diMinish the respect in which h.-is held by every man in the aountry, not a neAtilier of the Cabinet I In offer ing an insult to such a man they degrade and lessen their own characters, and the indignity which their petty auger would fling against him is retorted upon themselves with ten-fold violence. They stem altogether to mistake the nature of office. Time character of individuals is independent of the acci dent of place, and as there are many clothed with the drarry of power, on whom, from the unkind ness of nature, no external circumstance could confer respectability, so there are others whose native dig nity requires no adventitious assistance from the wand or rube of odice. Among the latter must ever rank in the highest degree a British Peer, who, exercising his ran!, influence, and talents, for the benefit of his country, and pursuing with undevi ating firmness the straight path of patriotism and virtue, despises at once the frowns of authority and the clamour of faction, and, secure in his own in tegrity, obtains in the consciousness of rectitude the scceetest reward of his exertions. A pamphlet, entitled " A Warning Letter to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,' has been just published. It professes to be intended princi pally as a cull upon the middle ranks ut this im portant crisis to rally round the throne and the constitution, as the unly power competent to save the country front the dangers with which it is threatened. The bold truth, which it contains, and the salutary advice which it inculcates, have exeited great interest, um! obtained a rapi.l and extensive circulation. It would seem, from the thllowing extract from this pamphlet, that the Author had anticipated the determination of Ministers to meet ot.r•daragers by an increase of the army : " I have spoken just now of inevitable results: I mean, Sir, by that expression, the rebellion which is going t • explode. The metropolitan press and rebellion—under the present system, at least— twe natural cause and am; and it' your Royal Highness or your Ministers, have any remaining doubt, upon this subject, they will won be deplu rehly removed Things h..vc reached their climax : but a revolution n•il! either be prevented or indu ced, according as the middle ranks bestir them selves during the rebellion. If your dependence is placed upon your army alone, fer the suppression of a general insurrection, your expectations wid be nimpointed. It is idle to suppose that the army will draw a single sword against the collective sense of the nation. Whatever may he the Duke of Wellington's sewiments (and a rumour is gouc abroad that his Grace's voice in the cabinet tumed the scale, on a late interesting division, where it was no glory to turn it !) he will nut find his troops so ready to obey him, when the charge is against British busems, and the word of command the sig nal fur a general fratricide. TLe reapers will not THE NA rIONAL REG/STIR. _ - go forth to such a Culdcentan harvest !—Resides, the men themselves are nu longs the same indivi. duals that they were !bur years age, flushed with conquest, and inebriated with blood. Peaceably dovniciliatel among their tirionds, they have all Ibis while been gradually collapsing into their civil cha racter ; and to a great degree, they have become amalgamated with the people. The prtss, also, must have had its necetrury influence upon them ; since a principal branch of its circulation has ken running among their immediate relatives and con. nectious. So that they cannot have escaped its contaminating effects any more than the people; although their luibitual subjection to consuattod, and their ideas ever reverting to discipline, would twit. rally hold out a longer siege against the incursions of the poison. " On no military movement, then, unsupported, by the great class of tho middle rooks, can your Royal Highness place the least reliatoce, ur hope from it the simillest advantage. Oar sulvatmn is in ourselves alone. We must effect the best issue that we can, to a contest nu hanger avoidable ; and I hope, Sir, we shall not be slow, in this tremen dous crisis, to rally round the fairest political ell fiee that ever yet human ingecuity raised up, and mankind admired could place in a yet stronger light, Sir, the futility of trusting to your soldiers, without the countenance of your people: but, I think, have done it sufficiently. IVitli a beating heart, I am now going to touch upon a subject, which, when I sat down to address your Royal Highness, I had determined out to disturb; but my feelings carry me awuy. I have heard, since I begun this letter, that it is the fixed resolution of Ministers to make no coo cession upon that point. But it will be at their peril, Sir, so to disregard the voice of the people, and to confound it with a radical clamour*. The Government; and, those who judge it, are at issue upon many points, the currying of which would be of much more lasting political importance and bene fit to the country : such are the Triennial Parlia ments, fur instance, which I spoke of to Lord Hertford ; and the disfranehising of such lioreughs us Grattau and Old Sarum, and such obnoxious anomalies us Cortle Castle; together with one or two other of the desirable delende of moderate re. forme " But all this, and ten times more tl:an ever was asked, or expected, might now be conceded in vain. There is a bone of contention between the people and the Government, about which—with the extep lion of the. interested parties—there is but one pre vailing opinion: and however the timid, and those who hate extremities, may be disposed to sacrifice against their consciences, the multitude is too much irritated ever to listen to any accommodation, short of the most signal justice. The pertinacity wish which Ministers continue to refuse this, has luought all the mischief to a head:. but it is a mural Utile., sibility to elude it long s "I will not trust myself with.any remarks upon the temerity of your Royal Highness's adviser, in that business, nor the precipitancy with which their advice was followed. We uheilve you, Sir, altoge ther, for your impeccability seals our lips: besides, we have a thorough conviction that the act was not your own. But the cry tithe nation is too general, to be impngnly slighted; auLl the sooner your Roy. al Highness dissolves partnership with the present men, the safer will it be fur you, and the better for your people! Let me not be misapprehended an instant : I only speak in the anxiety of attach ment ; those who are not aquainted with the Rs. dical Press, as I am, can from no notion of the daring threets which arc weekly levelled at your person and your life, To see and hear these, And be silent, would be compromising treason." • "Although a mixture of jealousy and caution may be re marked in the towing p.ssitiv, it breathes too detenuMed s resolution to vindicate the Rights of the Potpie, to be silently overlooked. Will Ministers call this writer * Radical • • • It•. in the repr.ssion of any mietings of the people fur any object of flow in. wise or impracticable. their rights have been iniringed, or any wrongs to individual* have been cominittal. I shall be amongst the hrst to %indicate every ruircias wlueli ass laws can sanctum. and shall be foamd at all tildes toady to resist the slightest enema;linient upon the notional fre.ahnn. In inch a case, mistaken opinions, or the groNsest misconduct of hulk i duals, ought to have uo kind of ettixt to disappoint pabLc jus tice, nor to prevent the union of ail classes, to uphold the vital occurity of our liberties. lam nut AL all acgtiaiiiird with the 01 this interesting and aftc log sub**. but in a baitever shape I can be called upon to tunuider dicta, I shs.l be fully preparsd to do my duty.'"—Prejita to the !ideas": of tho Whip. The nuptials of her Imperial and Royal High ness the Archduches Caroline, of Austria, with the Prince Royal of Saxony, was celebrated by his Imperial and Royal Highness and Eminence the Archduke, Cardinal Archbishop of (Minute, in the preseam of the whole ('nun, with unusual pomp. The Archduke Cardinals de Saline-Salmi sad TrautmansdorlF 116 Holiness has conferred upon their Imperial Highnesses and Eminences, the Archduke Antony, Cardinal Archbishop of Grim, and the Archduke Rudolphus, Cardinal Archbishop of Olaiuts, brothers to his Apostolic Majesty, the Maim. Prince Napoleon, Duke of Reichstadt has been nominated Ly the Emperor coadjutor to au Arelthislaip of °lanes, and leaves Vienna f r °limits, to reside with his uncle, the Cardinal Rudolphus, were three priests of the order of SOWS will take charge of his theological studies. On Friday the intentions of Guvernment war.: made known relative to the proposed inurease in t:.e' army establishment, and eroduced a sensetioa in ti.e mouey-market greater than any to which it has fur a long period been subjected. The actuation was not produced immediately, for many doubted the tendency of the measure to produce a depression in. the reads. ft was not some hull awl determi • ued specufators led the way that the alarm was given: as soon us the prices began to give way, numbers rushed into the market to sell, and the decline, in the course of a few hours, was out leas than I .1 per cent., without the smallest reaction. We scarcely recollect a time when so great apprehension has pre vailed ; every hour furnished a lower quotation then that which preceded it, awl there seemed scarcely aeor limit to the depression. As almost always hap pens on these occasions, owing to the great multi. tittle of speculators, the panic was milled farther than the cause justified. In continued, however. to the termination of Fraley's transactions ; but when the market opened on Saturday, many who had previously sold appeared willing: to close their . accounts, and a re-action in the market appeared extremely probiede These symptoms of improve. meut had scarcely become evident, when a fresh alarm was excited Ly a false and absurd report of ti assasaivation of one of his Majesty's Ministers (Lord Castlereagh,) which is only deserving. of notiev, as a proof of the extent to which, in the critical specula tions of the monied market, the boldest iinpositions are practised, and obtain currency. Althuugh with. out any circumstantial details to procure credit for it, this rumour seems to have been the only cause of the depression of Saturday, and to have actually pro duced in a market forced below its level by spece— lu.ion, a farther decline. of full •I per cent. Consols for Cie account were done at the low price of (St> and at that quotation same very extensive bargaies were transacted. This was the lowest price or Sa— turdey, and of the whole week, produced in a great measure, by the over-eagerness of the sellers, who seemed to care little what the stuck sold for, previ-• tied they could dud a purchaser. Many will praba bly have reason to repeat this temerity. It was L.. , in tile day before the current of opinion Lege.) to change, and the eyes of ruauy to be open to their• danger. A re-action then cotumenced, and before timeliest , closed Consols for the account had risen per cent. Etat stock leaving off ut (7 ; buyers, and the gehcrel aspect of the market, appcariag line and steady. Oteniutu has been dune at a discount e f p.r cent.; but as very few bargains were transacted, It has net varied equally with, ur maintained its due proportion to Consuls. Aiinisters mean to propose to Parliament, we un derstand, a Five per Lat. Property Tax. We have out heard whethea this es to be in addition to the late increased taxes, which eere expected to pro duce three millions a year, or as a substitute fur them, in whole or in part. The deficiency of tba revenue, and the increased expenses induced by the extraordinary measures fur the secarity of the coun try, will, no doubt, require correspondent means. Extract of a letter received from Newcastle, dsted October iO:—" There is no settlemant• whatever with the keelmen. They met Mr. ('hennell and some of the coal-owners on Monday morning, when they offered a farthing per chahlron on spout coals, to be paid our the extra quantity carried since January ; and when (A work, Ys. 61 per day. This would not, however do. They seem quite de termined to have the spouts done away in part. They say now eight keels may be taken under the. spouts ; betUre they stood at six keels. When any arrangement will be made is nut known. The inquest is still going on at Shields." H lAtitE AND I)UCH6Ss mP CLAHESCE.—Extract from A letter .11,:eo Donee, Ou. 17 :•—•• I'hr I rescuer mew Highnesses the Duke and lhictiess 01 Cla rence has imparted an extraordinary , interest to tl.is A %cry plain carriage and a pair id hotses constitute the vh de in Inuit equipage, 211.1 C‘eis of this they Olalte tery little use. Tot y walk almost daily airmail' the town and iis vicinity, dressed iii the soupiest style. A )o.tog G..rinan Ctrat.tess, of .ihr•to her out, ace, is the prinei l ial co•np.luion. pier Ililthneu fainctitly refers ritlintt on ai.s•:.ek I and late ly rat, ha , availed herself of a hole carriage hods by j tradesman of the ;own, out the pl:to 'dine WO4lOll atul• CllellellhJlll FllO4. which lie has deliOnt.lialril the rene , Fly. }LI- ;loyal Ilishoes> s principal erre-alio.; s „„. e . her a1r.1 . 11 15 5e4.6,01;111,1, lel SIIi11:11 5111: appears to• take gnat tlehglit ; ..pra s be really beitellited by i , . lit Cie roui.ote,t and itio.l hhos 'mg weather her Royal ilightirss the optrn era.. and uses the cap a lt , l Cie dress t..at first conies to h 41 1 ,1 amigo those profited for the ladies of the pace. Tot ur I I ighnesses live very retired, and see little or sits company. Colonel Fitz Charente lately spent a live. days ...ilia thew."