The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-21 00:00:00

No. 'MO.—VI Itticat uettosprct. calumnies, and falsehoods, will no more be allow able in defence of a wicked administratir, than lies and groundless charges against the same administra tion. That if justice is intended, the Times and , the Courier must, in this respect, stand upon the mine level. If we are told that blasphemy and-profana tion are the objects of restraint, we must insist not only that the works of all these abominable Tories above mentioned ought 40 be suppressed, but we must urge that the laws now - in force are adequate to every needful purpose. Mr. Csrlile has been prosecuted, found guilty, and is now undergoing his punishment for selling Paine's Age of Reason. Nobody attempts to defend elthatatbs conduct orthe principlesvf the man, er the puWicatieri he was the instrument of spreading. The laws have done all that laws can do, and will again and again do the same, as often as they are constitutionally appealed to. The itch of legislation is a mischievous disorder. Let us alone, do justice by the laws yeu have, and those laws will do juatice by you in their turn. They I were framed in better iimea,mid assuredly by wiser heads than those to whose hands our destinies are now entrusted. Christianity is not likely to 'be much recommended or supported by the legislative enactments of the Duke of Wellington,•Lord Cas tlereagh, and Mr. Canning. Tbe two noble Lords first usentioaaluive lately beentiin Norfolk ; one of ta xn them is said to - have attended d ' e service, during his stay in the amity, but the' ent tho Clergy man ascended the pulpit, as if s quite satisfied with what he had already heard, fit have deliberately walked out of Church. And 11$ •aaligion and good e l morals are to be protcctdd lry: cm of 'Pruliament upon a scole and with toren that our forefathers neither knew nor dreamed of'. We cannot a$ pre sent pursue this further, but a • future opportunity will doutbless soon occur. I "Evaav eye from every quarter of the country is .now anxiously directed to the approaching 4... meting of Parliament, and with good reason, fir it will be a Session, upon which we verily believe will hinge the liberties of Great Britain. If the alarm so studiously fostered, aided by other means which we know, alas ! too well, shall be found adequate to secure to Ministers a support upon which they oan safely rely, w... 1 have every reason tc dread that measures entirely calculated to change the character and destroy the , essence of the Constitution are in their intention. The Ministerial Papers have s)ptily declared that Parliament is assembled to put down Tveason, Blasphemy, and Sedition. This litaguage, when plainly construed, means neither more nor less, than that the laws by which we have hitherto been governed are to be suspended by new ones of greater force, and of a more despotic ten dency. It means, we fear, that the public voice • shall, if they can prevent it, no more be heard from the assembled people ; that the proud boast of our kwountry a free Press shall exist no "more, anti that opinion itself, as far as regards political questions, shall be annihilated to the utmost stretch that human policy can effcet so tyrannical a purpose, viz. that though it cannot forbid us to sit down and mourn, and weep over the calamities •of a fallen -ountry, nor to groan under the weight of the yoke we arc doomed to bear, yet that our tears shall flow in secret, and our groans issue only in retirement. This may to culled the language of extsavagant party spirit or extravagant alarm,'but What we look at what has been done of late, and from our conjec tures from the symptoms, already too manifest, of the future, we challenge any man to say that then is not good reason to dread, if, as we befiwe ob. served, the ministerial majorities be decidedly tri :l.-Thant, that the British Constitution is not near its end. it, censorship of the press has already Leen ~ :uctioned by the Prince Regent for his dominions 3u Hanover, and what he has consented to abroad, his Ministers may, with reasonable presumption, recommend to-his adoption at home. It is true that much evil, as well as good, is the fruit of a free and. unfettered licence of public discussion, •both on po litics, morals, and religion. Hume wrote his beau tiful history as a defence of thelamily of thet3tuarts. Hobbes, another infidel,• wrote his Leviathan to prove the divine right of Kings, and boldly declared that the authority of tke Prince was greater than the authority of the Bible, and that the command ment, for instance, of 4 ' thou shalt not commit U.M. The Earl town from S next week. .T front Italy on 20th. Mr. 1 As Earl Fi ton, was on k instill the vi the inhabitant tan of respee horses from h place. A aim Lordship's arr ''We learn b; there will be general mceti woolstaplers, I manufacture% with the view meet for the The. public an posed last Seas at the time, s woollen istanu seriptiows of siderable gnat Continent, ant twrna used to These anticipa ►y. the experie utual.erdem I having, in a alarm of the 1 'mistimed to t is threatened tax, and they in their retch which stay be A►ready it ina nufiscturer ; s soon be plum] e►tablishmcnt up the raw in country. Sir Francis A ttorney -Ger aosinst him h minstyr, on th The following in an extract of a letter written by Lord Cochrane to a friend in London : VALTAIPAIIIO, JULY ba, ISM. • My ny F's irvn,-LI thank you rowtkindly for your lung and circumstantial letter of January Jaws With it I - received your book, containing rthe whole ronivationdenee• between you and —;.and I paired, concur in *pinion-wish you, as to the character of all she purees. I have jtait handed over to the Chili government, in putt of their sham of my late capture, up• wanl. of tio.otto dollars; and newt •trip, now I understand how to carry on the v.ar here, I shulflpt,' I *rpe, at least some mil. lions. be%lks having the still li oadsfaction of chastising the eneinict of liberty in the quisetea of Ora globe :—The omission of my now writing to you is quite. uweapiotal and accidentaL I send it by a winder which happen. to be passing, and t have muunwitted toldr..-- funds to pay your bill for the goods you have sent me. and those f• now ord er . &member me kindly to all friends. You shall lure AS 1141 g servant *our rue of all thinip here in a abort- time; but hitherto I ben, had no leisure fur letter-writing. Thefollowing circular letter has been issued by • the Pmv.rst of Glasgow, calling won the Citizens to enrol themselves for military norvice in moo of necessity. " present alarming situation of • this part - df the" country make. it generally tigyvebeeried, that it may become necessaty to call for aid of Illy loyal rod wlll-disputed pet of the torintoottity, to nippiest the attesuptsof Ibe turbolrott and ralsoirected. " Circromtairces way stern* wltiels may reader the re. moon' of a larue part, or the "atoll, of the regular military Curry quite intlivemiable, sup,* assets a rase, ilir City would be left without soy pr:dention whatever. " biting situation, it has issorksleett propai to rag for a pledge of service from every tudividnai niw• east afford, android pay, to take up arm., in defence of hie King and Country—of the peso* and traninillity of this City—and of his own Isle and property. • " HENNY MQWEE:ITII,.Provost. " Glasgow, 15th Noosionter. 1549. Ilecipe rue, sage, ► thered, ale thesninto the'best wii legit stand then strain vent ti►e at adultery," was of no value unless the Prince should,, by his own prooest and esamplc, forbid adultery to Ibe committed within the scope of his dominions. Lord Bolingbroke was another profligate Tory who : •equally set at defiance reason, and religion, and: conscience, by his writings and his actions. .Joland, , the most shameless and abandoned infidel of his age, Wl4s yet employed by Government, auttencou raged as a spy ; so that, considering the matter in this point of view, we would recommend all these 'Cattlemen, and many more whom we could men tion, to the grateful remembrances of Mr. Vansittart and Lord Sidmouth, and remind thenrtfmt the blas phemers of their God, and the enemies of faith :gal christianity, have been generally such tools as 'Go vernments, conducted upon certain principles, have now widely distr the l)uke of Norf and many others Magistrates, cullit teem for the chars We are told, gold sovereigns si seized on boards from .Depttbrl in consequence Ansun•at the late of Ifbarty in that disposition to tall it is said, been eel the Sheriff, to con which the mass anxious, , for .then sounded with the at Stagord. The county arc repari His RoyalAimhues, the Prince Regent has lately received from the Emperor of Rossia.n very curious ti►nr-M•hoeled summer carriage, 'called a drosehki. , It consists of a front and a aide scat, con trived ins new but very commodious manner for two perscos. It possesses the Moveable males, which arc now very generally . ..o6,W throughout the Con tine ,t. .hcen glad to find and use. If the press also is to restricted, we would remind them - that Lea, and ... . . • . A rpt 1. at-( on it .. gl li. I li k VI tt___H''' t r+ .... Our Eting, Consititutimmb it MS. _ .......___._... - .........Jgaib--A* -- _ 'Or.. 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