The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

MO f!O4 TILE QUEEN—ceNtinUff. frt.% AP tlyd rage. her Majesty's contemplutiony that the King would cause official notification to be made of her Majesty's legal character as Queen to the government of such state. That eonststcntly, however. with the reasons already stated. it must lest with the Sovereign of such state what reception should be given to her Majesty in that character. fl a KinA's Servants were particularly anxious to impress upon the queen's Law Officers the public grounds upon which this principle rested. The gol , cral rule of foreign courts is, to re ceive only those w!.O arc rec,ived at home. The King could not with pro, erty require any poiwt of foreign governments the re fusal of which would not ati,:al his Majesty just ground of re sentment or rcmonsttanc. It would be neither tel the King's dignity, nor for the Queen's comfort, that she should be made the subject of such a qucstion. To this it rasa replied ter the Queen ; that with respect to this new proposition on the port of the King's Servants, it should be taken into immediate consideration; but her Majesty's Law Ulficers obsetved, tliat her Majesty was nut in the situation referred to in the above reasoning, having been habitually received at Court is this country for many years. and having cuased to go there Ihl4. out of regard for the peculiar Jain:ate situation iu which the unfortutiate differences in the Royal placed the late Queen. The latter ob;erration was met, on the part of the King's Ser v outs, by e re-assertion of his Majesty's undoubted authority on 'hi'. point. whether as King or us Prince Regent, in the exercise tk: the !loyal authority. that the Court held uy her late Majesty v, a, in fain the Court of the Prince Regent, then acting is the y uld on the behalf of his late Majesty ; and that the present Queen, then Princess of Wales, was excluded from such Ccurt. (Signed as before.) ritorocor. or THE FIFTH CONFERENCE. Foreign-office, June 19. 18'20. The Protocols of the preceding conferences were read and agreed upon. Her Majesty's Law Officers stated, that the proposition of yes serday had bean submitted to her Majesty, and that it had not produced any alteration in her Niajesty's senthnents. In order to avoid any misintemetation of the expression used in men tioning their belief that her Majesty might overcome her reluc tance to go abroad, viz.. *• under all the circumstances of her position, they stated, that they meant thereby the unhappy domestic differences which created the difficulty of her Majc-ty bJiding a Court, and the understood sense of Parliament, that her Majesty's residence in this country might be attended with pt.biie inconvenience. They also protested generally in her Majesty's name against being understood to propose or to desire any terms inconsistent with the honour and dignity of the King, or any which her own vindication did not seem to lender absolutely necessary. MEMORANDUM. The second and tnird points, as enumerated for discussion in the Protocol of the first conference, were not brought into de. bberation, in consequence of no sati,fitetery understanding having taken place upon the points brought forward by her Majesty's Law Officers. The five Protocols were then respectively signed. ON THE ARMY ESTIMATE& WE have been precluded, by the prcsa of other important matter, from offering any observations upon the debate on the Army Estimates, which took place in the House of Commons last week.— It is, however, a subject of too great consequence to • be passed over in silence. The increase of a stand ing army must at all times he viewed with dread and alarm by every free nation; but the time at which Ministers have thought fit to increase the mili tary force of this country 15,000 men, and the reasons which they have given for such an increase, are such fearful symptoms of approaching despotism, that we should ill discharge our duty if we were to pass them over. in silence. Viewed merely as a alatter of expence, what are we to say to men who, while they acknowledge a deficiency of at least 24 millions in the means of defraying the present ex pellees of the country, which deficiency is to be made Lp by adding 12 millions to the debt, and taking 12 millions from the sinking fund, can add to our buttliclis the expence of maintaining 15,000 addi tional soldiers? Is there a man breathing, possessed (.f a grain of common sense, who does not see that inevitable ruin must be the result of perseverance in rich a stem ? Standing armies, and sedition ..1 1 .1F, retraltits on spcaking and on printing, arc dreat:c.l;ly powerful thlugs, but their power is not of that people to pay taxes. The intercst of the deb . ,, the sinecures, pensions, grants, 4:1.1 tine e:ipences of a thundering standing army, may coaliiiiie to be made up by taxes, by loan; by Exci.equer bills, ty robbing the :Milting fund, by every specks of contrivance, to Cie latest possible ream: et ; but the time, ?mat come, when the whole " Lasekss fabric" of paper, amidst the war of pro jects, interests, anti pas:iions, will go to pieces like a ship on the rock; 'lie increase of the standing array has a direct and inevitable tendency to hasten Lois time. Bid viewed a 3 a matter of ne.:essity—aye, and a necesjsy occasioned by the di:,conterit of the people; for on this ground Lord Palmerston defended this augmentation of our milititry force, we are compelled to ask—is this flu end anti object. of a war of twenty p.ar? After a peace of six years, at the milking of THE NATIONAL REGISTER. which we were told to sing and rejoice that Europe was emancipated, and England rtwaided, is it necessary to add to our standing army 15,000 men to keep down discontent? And are we further to be told that a House of Commons, in which only fifty men could be ibund to vote against such an in crease, is an honest and fair representation of the people? If such an army be indeed necessary to the maintenance of tranquillity in this country, its government must be bail. Circumstances have lately arisen, which we apprehend will give our Ministers some uneasy sensations while advocating the increase of the army. Not long since a gang of smugglers, in open day, attacked the prison at Do ver, and released some of their comrades. Now Dover is a place well filled with soldiers, 'and to " effect a breach in the prison walls" must have been a work of some time. We dare not commit to paper the inference which we draw from this fact, which, after being once mentidned, was most care fully hushed up by all the London Papers. We hinted, as far as we dared, 17st week at the mutiny among the troops in the metropolis. On this sub ject, not one London Paper ventured to speak the whole truth, but from the vehement assertions of the London Courier, that " no political feeling was dis played by the mutineers," every body suspected that the contrary was the fact, That a spirit of discon tent and mutiny did exist to such an extent in one of the regiments of Guards, as to occasion its imme diate removal to a distant part of the kingdom, is, however, certain. These facts, one would suppose, are amply sufficient to inspire some doubt and hesi tation as to the policy of relying solely upon military aid for the support of the present system. Again and again we have protested against the madness of resting for security upon the bayonet. Does Cor ruption suppose that the sons and the brothers of the journeymen and labourers have none of the feelings of nature left within them? She is deceived if she does. In vain does she endeavour "to place them out of the pale of the constitution." We know this is the intent. We need only to look at the barracks, the fortresses, the military academics, the everlasting shifting of regiments from place to place, the outlandish dresses—every thing spews that the intention is to efface from the mind of the soldier all citizenship, all the ties of blood and the claims of friendship. The only security that Corruption looks to is the army. As want and misery increase, their remedy is—increase the army. The bayonet is the ready and effectual answer to all prayers and peti tions. Let them beware. The bayonet is wielded by the sons and brothers of the labouring classes: those journeymen and those labourers, whose fathers, sons, and brothers have fought the battles of their country by sea and land, and out of whose toil come more than four-fifths of those taxes which feed the innumerable swarms of placemen, pensioners, granters, fenders, spies, and informers. Let Cor. ruption reflect upon this fact. RELIGIOUS CHARITIES. Accounts of the Receipts of the principal Reli. Chx•ities fur the rear ending 31st March, 1820, as F ablislied in their respective Reports 5. d. BritiAli and Foreign Bark society 93,033 0 1 - Chorea nod NII,loonar) ").,tiety '40,010 11 0 London Nlis::ionary SOCIt. ty 25,109 0 0 S•Kiety fur converjon Prayer Book and Homily tinoiolly 1,981 14 4 ilbe his n Society Naval and Military Bible Society 2,162 0 0 Tobi 166,302 4 6 To these should be aildefliae estimated Returns of those Societies who do not niuke • up their accounts at Lady-day, takes' oil the scale of 1.-19, which oid be rather +tinter than over-iating 'lselin Society tOr prontotio; Christian Know ledge MeilsocliA Nlissionary. .ocirty.. Moravian Ikli , bions Baptist Mi.sionary Society lo,too 0 0 Society for poopagating the ( io•pe: 11,,-;o0 0 0 National Society fur Ethical iou Iteligious Tract Society Collection on ail! K lug's Letter fur Ow ) Scce iety fur the Propagation of tie ,', SO,OOO O 0 Go:pet—l:early Total of one ycar .......337,192 4 0 THE QUEEN. The following fact is illustrative of one of the consequences of the omission of her Majesty's name in the Liturgy. A short time since, the directors of a well-conducted and excellent institution, for the relief of the aged and infirm women of good character, desirous of availing themselves of public benevolence in aid of its funds, by the usual method of a charity sermon, applied to the Rev. Rector of an extensive parish in the city. The Rev. Gentle man immediately granted the use of his pulpit, and not only undertook to advocate their cause himself by a sermon on the Sunday morning, but also pre vailed upon the Rev. Doctor, the lecturer at the same church, to preach in behalf of the society in the afternoon. In the infancy of this society, her Majesty, then Princess of Wales, bad been solicited to become its patroness, to which she had not only consented, but at the same time subscribed liberally to its funds, and to this her early countenance was to be ascribed the subsequent patronage of the Prin cess Charlotte, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Kent, and other branches of the Royal Family. The patronage was of course acknowledged in all their publications, and in every notice of sermons to be preached in its behalf, the society bad uniformly been described as under the patronage of the Princess of Wales. The Committee suspecting no impro priety, accordingly in their printed notice of these two sermons announced the society as patronised by the Queen's most excellent Majesty ; but on a copy of this notice, together with I thc printed ac count of this society, being transmitted to the Rev. Rector, as is usual in like cases, a few days pre viously to the day appointed for the sermon, he not only expressed great surprise at the insertion of her Majesty's name, but appeared highly indignant that. he should be expected to notice from the pulpit the name of a woman whom the Council had forbid him to pray for in the Liturgy, and peremptorily refused to sutler the sermons to be preached unless they withdrew the notice, and circulated others, omit. ting the Queen's name. To this act of ingratitude and injustice the committee were most unwilling to submit; the Rector, however, was immoveable other notices were consequently substituted with the omission, not only of her Majesty's name, but, to avoid invidious distinction, of the names of all the illustrious personages to whose patronage the insti tution was so highly indebted for its present prosperity. Mails have arrived from Hamburgh, with Papers to the 16th, and from Flanders, with Brussels Journals to the 20th instant. The people of Ha nover seem to be positive that the King will visit his dominions on their side of the water immediately after his Coronation here. The Palace of Herren hausen has been thoroughly repaired Ibr his recepe tion. The health of Prince Schwartzenburgh is improving, and he is now able to take little excur sions on horseback in the neighbourhood of Leipsic. The Emperor and Empress of Austria left Prague on the 6th, to meet the King of Saxony at Kere seinstadt. The King of Prussia, accompanied by his sons, Prince William and Prince Charles, ar rived at Stralsund on the 7th, and was received wit► every show of joy. On the 9th he set off for the Isle of Bogen. Some exaggeration of the disturbances, which took place in London on the evening of the 601, having reached Hamburg'', the Exchange be dime alarmed; but subsequent arrivals in this city had restored confidence,—The fortifications on the frontier of the Netherlands opposite France are going on with rapidity. With a view to the encou ragement of the woollen manufacture of his domi nions, the King of the Netherlands had directed the 'whole of his army, the persons on all charitable foundations, and the persons attached to his Court and Household, to wear notlting else than cloth of native manufacture. On his Holiness the Pope having been informed of the erection of the magnificent Roman Catholic Chapel at the cast end of the town, he nut only ex pressed his satisfaction, but ordered a superb Chalice to be made fur its use, of pure Mexican gold, to he ornamented with precious stones, which it is estima ted will cost 50001. A Paris Paper (The Constilutionnel), says, " We have received a notice from an English Gentleman, respecting an article inserted in The Journal des Debuts on the pith, on Mr. Alderman Wood. We are assured that this article is a miserable falsehood ; and that Mr. Wood never did write on visiting can.), M. Wood, Jett Lord :!hire de Loodres---(Nlr. Wood, hale Lord Mayor of London). It may be asked what could induce any one to throw ridicule upon s tet esteemed and respectable eitixen, who enjoys a tod t . consideration, not only at home, but in the rest of Europe, aml who has occupied with honour the first post in the city of London ? Is it because he pro fesses liberal opinions, and because he is attached to an unfortunate Princess, who complains of bciug the oi,j,:et of the most t,truLkus calumnies.