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

~`~,~ -'e d;e/ 4... .4•••45 2 ••...,00 0701 • I taitittr+ fiatittila _ - Ansi OUT .14:" • A ;mutton anb it mum No. 217—VOL. 'XII.] SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1819. Volitiral llettozpect. Tae great mass of evidence, furnished by a Bost of witnesses, on the Coroner's Inquest still sitting on the body of John Lees, we sincerely hope has. made upon yourselves. Nay, have you not brought even to your own doors already the influence of such an example ? The important facttlready recorded cannot, we trust fail to sheti - to the people what is prepay. ite, .g.• for them, if their own firmness, and such an been attentively read. by every man in England ; mid if there be any man who has read it, and cau, Mill approve the foul deeds bf blood with which it iEr connected, that man deserves no Poore , the name either of Briton or of Christian, but ought to be doomed to wear the chains he loves, oustif he mur mur at the ignominy or weight of suet a iurden, to be instantly c'tastised by the sabre some Loyal Yeoman. - The Foreman . of the Jury has already appeal to the Throne and the Legislature, wt - : .tiot be resiated, 'ch. not speedily stop its career, wad rescue us from a sxstvm of Councils, which arc rapidly marrhing• t towards our complete ruin. But a' few ytirti more of..such policy as has been lately acted turf and the fume of what Old . Englandonee was?, will be all that will remain to her of her .grentnes - a,i P • vEFkNCE Or TIM TrilIGS." expressly declared his satisfaction„..stp,d that of his brethren, unless the evidence ifiendy brought for- Some, time,since Lord Erskine published a very ward shall be refitted, that " the Riot Act had not able pamphlet, under the abwc title, in answer to been publicly read, and that the Meeting was quiet , whirl: a publication appeared under the title of "A and . petteeable•until the Cavalry charged." Day by Defence of the People." Slt was from one of the day thus goei on confirming their enormity, avif all those Who are . anti mad enough to carry their o illsnicALs., frOmone of tbbse men who anathematize also does adding fresh details of liorror aisd crucify • 7 •t 7 and anion , ideas 1? , form as f4r , . Revolutiol, from one of to these transacqtt, tell piy those, who, oa .,h.k , sys4' litst ng to lose, are eternally i‘arcely find, ttujr #6m4i: in the breast.iirevery re -2 sittgt . hnp . e whoie "stu Qs are not s,r desperate,"— *tin and impartial person. Yes truth TIQa ju • new editim of his Lo ip's pamphlet has just ap art tpAty: in ; strength , and we hope west . - -hich he expresses hims e lf veil. nt Whilst we thus go on more and more P eared ' in the P re f'' encouraged by that sense of wrong, wrong of the as fullowsi— " I y object, from beginning of pnblic He," blackest andmookattlecious chimeter, having bee& say . s Lord Erskine, " tiairos r strirird ; it lima been, and committed, becoming every hofir stronger and more a l wos must k 10 lipt a FUnise of COlOOOl as I 0 universal, we turn round with a melancholy have nail only describe& y change uf opinion, repea.- pang of reflection to see part of rheCounty, not edly avowed, and, unfortunately, too strongly confirmed by every thing pa...sing around u+, Ws% only a' to the hest we trust careless and indifferent upon such a sub-' and most probably succetsfat 121Y1104 of ii , flecting, en un jtict, but yet sliming none of those open and avowed changeable perpo.e under . ' riteumstaticec that have manifestations of abhorrence which are so loudly. changed. who look only to the popularity of called for. No question has arisen of so much illt• the hour, when the smiltiturle are in a state of irritation, portance since the days of the Revolution, no attack sa shameless and daring upon the most sacred rights of a free people has been made for more than 100 years hart only to glance and Militate them; but they, who Ito neatly contemplate the prosperity and happitictot of their country, t, though they continue t•teilt . ectt in the pitr• ,41111. mignrat (Object, assimilate their exertions to past, and yet, on a point, and at a moment, the 1111(1111% i6at are safely iu their The scenes, in- which threatens to level at once the proudest barrier of the Constitution, and to place the life of every man at the disposal of a relentless military despo tism, we sit as if all were peace and harmony and joy. The battle is not yet at our doors, blanches= ter is two or three hundred miles from us, and the whirlwind and the storm we SCUM *044 gin "tier reach Atii. But beware, we yet implore you, det J , which have No lately etnibulsed snore of the most populous and industrious parts of the• kingdom (a repeti• tion nearly of thusexchich followed and dis appointed the original excet,iters of the Whigs, when the society °Hite Friends ort he Prifirple was instituted), render any other answer to thin author stye; flaunt and useless. Those annuli's' the Whigs, is ho at any tune supported a Kaioria iu Pdrliatrient, have not, that I know or, departed Irons their Jcrl.ttud opinion+. that an extension of the re proehration is MOM desirahle, and is a just expectation bow you leave others to suffer unpitied and unre. *caged. The Amuse :we plead is yours. Can ranks see cruelty and iniquity stalking with gigantic on the part of the people; but in my opinion, and speak log for m;.self, they meet can rationaily met with those who defame them.—Tisty ought for ever to stand aloof from all such Ramillies.; not from resentment, nor even stritts, their laws, trampled under foot, • and .the very semblance of their Constitution no longer left them, and .yet lift up no voice against these mon from a decent pride, bowever naleiriii and jusiiliable, but because the defamation proves time. vir As to he (Wei ent, and that their •drfuiuers are seeking nothing like an im• prarrinent of the House of Commons;by it wisely adjusted strous doings! ! If so, then farewell freedom and fatewell hope, farewell every blessing wbieli sweet. ens the cup of life. The lethargy 41f death is indeed balance of representation, hut, um the contrary, c 444444 ter acting eery prover, of it by claiming rights in defiance of the estaliii,lied laws; and, instead of promoting Ptai tions, encouraging their follmgriss w revile the Leglilature upon• us, and we hasten on the crisis by (Air own supineness. Is anarchy and revolution your dread If the perpetrators of foul murders are to go un punished, if a . lawless banditti are to attatei< °libels- country. " Nothing errteinly ;mild be nsore unfortunate, if this system were rounteliancril by,antinhers in general tstiena des, but happily three soon* to be but oue prcvatliug uutimeut against it. peaceable and unoffendin,?; people, anarchy and re- qte frpressinn of any Nlettings of volution are begun already,, and the call on you not to join in but to _s!Qiiita msness. If a spirit or delicacy towards jour Rulers, and a blind confidence in their integrity be your feelings, -remember they have shown no delicacy towards you. Itemember with, what breathless haste they run to approve the sl:ktightct of your' fellow4ubjects, and to sanction by sueli , ,ipinvia any similar attack which may be !be people tor any object ut Helms', wise or insist-Retie*. .ble, their rights have been infringed, or any %% rungs to bribe ideals have been eonsmiticil,. I p.ltuttiti be ainuis;,,,t she Bent to vindicate every vedress wlf.ela the la v‘ • call %disc lion, and "hall be found at all limes ready to repist the "Heftiest encroachment upon public fret.to o ; but holding 'serest, so I do, the Hever to be surrendered privi lege of British subjects to assemble peaceably, to express to rail; °lber•and to the Government of the country their [PRIce 944. opinions and rotnplamts, t feel no ditficulty is saying•, that nothing ran be more obviously useless and mischiev ous than the assembling of immense multitudes, not in their own communities or neighbourhoods, but moving upon other thronged and agitated districts. Snell Meet. 'ings, however legal they may be, cannot but be dangerous to the industrious poor, collected at a distance from tLc:r own homes only to disturb the industry of others, aggra vating the sufferings of poverty by the interruption of employment, by the hazsrd of fatal ace:lents, and the prohable temptation to crimes. "Nothing. but proceedings of this ill-t:v . ved doseription can bring the immemorial an 1 insa!uable rights of t!te People iuto question. They tender the calm nod dignified cause of iteierm an object of terror to many, tv ho wt) , 1,1 otherwise support it, and tut nisi, its adversaries witli plan-ible arguments agaiust popular exertions, ever well intended they may be. " The real interests cf the People ought not, however, on any 'recount, to he compromised nor neglected. The privations and distresses of thousands in every popnlacs district are at this moment so grievous as to rinuand the most indulgent consideration ; 11111 if, instead of ettintinz tights to which the laws are strangers, they were advised by those they trust in to aubmit the exp.dicory of All ex tended Representation to the wisdom and justice of Par- Hewn,, their infoence conld trot lint be powerful in the opinions of all reasimable men. " If indeed the visionary chins) of Universal Sitffeazo 'and Annual Pailianients, or extreme changes, were entertained and acted upon by numbers of enlightened man of any description, it ought then be thought liazar,l - (as has beet: often alleged) to withdraw the high &auc tion of antiquity from the present forms of election, lest when a breath hat been made in theta by the Vd.itrality of Parliaincht, the Radical Reformers might brzak in lake a flood; hut such an apprehension is now surely at an end. This claim of right has no supporters %tar can give it than. grion•, or even plausible effect; awl every other theory having hero happily swallowed up by it, Parliament it thus left the undisturbed masters of the field. " Let Parliament then avail itself of this crisis. I can not but think, that if the elective franchise wet coots, fairly and julicionsly exteol i eti, without altering the character of the House of Commons, or violating any pi ineiple of the ancirrit Onistilo!ino,tt 11111 l Its could not easily be raised: the orators of sedition would be silent, alien their topic& of invective weie destroyed. " I consider the ntesent time also as a crisis in another respect—Represenotive Governments, though ceriainly neither ewitemrlated nor wished for by those who lir;t interfered with the French Revolution, already begin to be looked for throughout tirrope—Frarice, at oer very doors, has obtained une, and England, by too sign' an adherence to the forms of the feudal world, should not remain au exception herself to the principles she has taught the world. "'When the circnrastances whirl' I have been ohlige4 to dwell upon are actively con■idesed, the duly of the: Aristocracy .cems inestionable. Placed ■s they are between the Crown and the People, they ought at this moment to exert the inalietiCCS of rank and properly, which, when wisely, honestly, and seasonably exerted, are of incalculable value in every Slate.-1 took fr,. therefore, with a strong interest to the re•nit of L rot John Itessell's proposition on this mono molts subject in the etistein4 Session of Parliamer.t Ha rank and e ha lacier ought to be accepted as •ecutihies !.y Government, and the principles of his family are a sutii:l,l.l pie Ige to the People.' These truly constitutional sentiments, expressed so worthily of thew noble promulgator, are so arias. site to the present state of utfeirs, that we should have accused ourselves of a dereliction of duty had we not given theta it distinguished place in out columns. The letter of condolence written by his Nfajestv the King of Pruhsikt to the Princess Biucher, of ‘Vithistadt, is as Inflows:— " I received wi.h.turet •vorrow the news of the death of your husband, Prince Blucher, of Wahl. tadt, I unwillingly renew 'Gault-M.1%17 the mentioa of the great lose which you hare sus tained but I am unable to supprces the exprer s ion of my most cordial participation in it. The country mourns wi,ll U 4 over the logs of its greatest Cumniande:. It will gratefully hold him in eternal remembrance. To oiler you consolation, the want of which I myself fill, I can only wish that time may alleviate your anerOw s and add the assurance of any unalterable regard. (Signed) "FltP.l)LiiitA NVILLIAI!." " 14, 1810. • v; - .ON • -$*