The National Register. — London, England, 1819-06-14 00:00:00

• "'"' •,4eid" t • ;., 7 . 1 lot • I • 4 11 1.. dvi ••- . z ' 4 ' (4 1 'Ot t r 4 Our ititno, Concititution any UabLea'• No. 1190.—YoL. XII.] MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1819. 9 1 ,•1. 0I t. of • 'Me • ?-- lit ,; 1, I), •c•t ;Itcr, 1.. l• B.a. • ft, 4.:I:(• • . , 1 • .4 • • .• 0 ‘,:l • • • ' )0 ' • • 4 • • , 4 ON THE times," fondly connecting peace with plenty, and plenty with moderated demands and reduced expen diture; and then, after a tantalizat.on of four or five years' duration, to see the cup of misery again filled to the very brim, every prospect of alleviation again removed, and removed to a distance which admits of no definition, makes the heart eiakindeed. This is not the language of idle declamation, we nre not vainly censuring a system which cannot be wielded. We assert, and we do so ball', that a single shelling of taxation on t,rht not lobe asked oi one handl, and on ht not to be granted on the other. In the manhouil of England's fortunes, financial arrangements would not have been wanting to meet the migency of the times, and that too without the creation of fresh burthens. VIE EX-KING OF SWEDIS.V. --41.- DEPLORABLE STATE or .ua FINANCES. The following letter, with the signature of Gus tavutt, the ex-King of Sweden, is extracted front the Currier:— " Many journals having inserted art!eles concerniorz, Pitney Oustasois, son of Gustavus Adolphus the rum oh (Gosstatison), forme. Ku,, of Sweden. it it necessary to ek plain what had been mai rispeenng obis your: Pricer, and Iha puldir slight uu iongo-c 14 be igssovaut of all the unlawful and tostpostifiable to iotosactions of the last elate, ,ease. " It is time to make known that secret intrigues were employed to semantic the from his lather, to Le uses n o t only lite attachment and respect that but , :rf inspires u. with 11,r one porn's. lost moreover, is feelocg of personal gratitude low sods Lis bribe', who Mod made over to him a great part of the considerable propel ty eo - volved on him front isas mother of blessed men.or . ,, the defiler! Q.oren of Swede'', and ter remainder of which br divided sarong Isis other children. " Po ince Gustavus's tuner, who in the year 181? wall separated from the Qneen, his Consort. rave her. as titre mother of Ids child' en, the tam' omequivoral proof of colitis/rare by teaming to lore Nlajosiy, not only the ethics ohm of the Princesses, but that of Prince Goostas foe also ; however, under three renditions, v is. Ist. that their ran. cation should be conformalfe to the ieligien iu vihiclo they sear loons; 2sl„ to 11. e look they hold in Ille world-; and 3d. to !heliolater tipsy lo is , one Airy be called upon Ili foltjt. " The Wens aft..ru mils I creisird •zo vies, Mall: of con fidence fo ono bee fitasi r Consort, by Isis ui.isy up to hoe the administration of the above-mentioned inlivsitanrc, relinquished in favour of his which was paid by the Sw,..lisli Gus ouairootooml placed at tie disposal of her sjes , y. " lint room that moment she seemed resolved to ncr at, solutely ' contrary to tl.e tenets( of the co:With-ow loose, Fier' to her, essetly in the same Sialliler a, Les son, ails, olive. ably to such, was ono his coaling ie. (i. e. at seventeen). to torso-lot himself to hi, hails r, VoIoCCI t with him as to loss 1111114 s destiny, loot refused ski tut flow', din:lasing:himself ineupahla t sisal t ejecotil 'lie boom, tom- Moir* of Isis tat ii. r, In-friend and trenefacisa. Insoigatid by his royal mother, tor persisted in Oillolir,irg dm se. prated orders of lois sire, alleg : log as a svasion that he had oinised his ninthur arms his honour. not In le se her Isola Ire had attained his 214 t s ear--a Oirgular mantle 011' • yonng prince, who, refusing his slisjooity, a. is w ilia lisp ' disobedience that a son mig'oi solute seattily do if he were ,lit :lee. It would be revolting and contrary to manic . , to I eloa. - ge this once so VII Woo. slid so obedient a sou eon eel! I alai site's ass *Wester ; it *wild use even lenjust lo isay, ;De rmot it cool.' be evidently ',royal, that I:se Qit.issiiisoollssis of this ps tope had ivied only from hoisrll; vet, it mast tin known, ihat she Osiiiiessil her cenfidenee, stud slid shore, committed the charge mid toinearion of - her son, with which she abuse was intsissfPfl, into Ilse halid, of a Cal. • of a r. probloran, and - sit auger; who, Punt rover, possesses title lii•st cusdd siktintrir I I or r.ru 1111 l !clod him in any way fur the silvaiion of ,Pilnce Onstaysos's gos el nor. IT has often, of late, been our official duty to en deavour to direct the attention nemeses/len to the deplorable state of oar Finalities, and to the total in adequacy and imbecility of the hands I. which, in a crisis like the present, they arc so unfortunately en trusted. Ask from one end of the kingdom to the other, ask among the friends or foes of Government, and we will venture to assert that no man will be found whose opinion on this point, if honestly given, does not coincide with our own. But, amidst all this universality of sentiment, a sort of apathy, aris ing either from despair on one hand, or from distress on the other, seems not much less prevalent. This we lament to state, a strong, but alas ! a general feature of national decay; a fixture which the philo sophers observed, and the historians have recorded of the declining days both of Greece and Rome. The effect of all bail Government is to sap the foutt ilations both of public spirit and of public virtue; and its operatioas are carried on, first by creating a disgust with respeet to public men and to public measures, and a feeling, almost approximating to indifference, as to both what they do, and what they leave undone ; and next, a hopelessness extending even further than the reality of the case will justify, es to any ameliomation, by whatever hands, or under whatever guidance. All opposition is -thus looketl upon by some as useless, and by others as the mere effect (Se logging for place and power, as the out cries of a faction scrambling for loaves and fishes. The mischief thus aggravated and continued, has ut last all the fruits and consequences. of 'unitive ap proval, and men, who are hated, mistrusted, and despised by uhictem out of twenty, are yet permit ted to pursue their career of iniquity or folly, to exercise that public contruul and to enjoy that pub lic patronage, which should so naturally be allotted only to wisdom and virtue, because then they would be wisely and virtuously employed. It is alone on But the evil does not end here. If the taxing system is to be pursued, aracial means of support ing it must of necessity be resorted to, and minis ters, we shall begin to suspect, are plain; but a deep gsmesof the most unprincipled Iryposcrisy /when they 'pretend to be converts to the opinions and warnings of those who have so long and powerfully sounded in their ears the claims of the country to u -sound metallic currency, and the removal of that horrible anomaly which has for so many years placed both our private property, and the national interests and honour, in the hands of a trailing company. They are greater ileots than we believe them to be, if they do not know that the only possible psestion about the Bank Restriction is the difficulty appre hended with respect to the Revenue, if the value of money should be materially raised, and it should become, as formerly, an adequate and substantial representative of the property of the country; and their conduct, on the other hand, assumes a chem. ter which we will net venture to describe, if, know ing and feeling how perfectly absurd it is to look for the return of cash payments, and to go on with increased tu,lation, as simultaneous measures of po licy, they have held the largumge attributed to them by reporters, and played with the sense and votes of Parliament. •• Lei ooliiiily allege the 'tense of the frowns Latiorpe, on floc titrini the Emperor A leviiider, to piers a pnia. dux i to-Lelia' pe was bid Alex:anthill, teethes, an.l not his goverenJr. Let sia oti Wiwr any mote the tonne of the Eosin-tor Alexandre, oy I'ol.ot-tllting it in Ininity ili•• .elisions, as ii rantiot :smear rot imam - with the eligisay that eharat terbt a a greet sovereign. " It has been said in the garnet's lately,"thst the Volpe.. en, of R., n•is had apptein'eil Pint r Ciniotivits (; , •se, nor of our of In. pri6Vaill'el• ' at 111101iter time, tilti he Na. groin,: In England nith theEitipi r.it'a perinkstua, to liiii.i i t oi l ,1 Atnilies, 41111 to he allowed by hint mat. eterlbig ler sl o e eiii•einoeit tor hi! teinnvit„ n nbieli v: !il inilirute that the ['silo i• 1:r..1 tow a stiftleiehey bort° .!e foi it hints. ..t. •• Lel us, theft:lot c, put e atop to MI 1)1411% N I bkly atentotieti in•vvhie-00, roil risitetst Ott , 41 11 . 4,41, to deli lu l l the troll, 311111 nut IIMIIeVP il WA Lie 111.41 Ito [:emperorAlexander would early dies' All 1.1 fir as nos to ;riot. tiny ailvire 11l 111 to Pother (gusto••• frit ei of I.i. g o o d intentome Inn/mils too l ; oo ... , n hitt. . '. I:1 p.tilatlll a.Miel . y .or the triiiiitiatiou lit the 0.41111.' PUll . 6,ollVllit'llisC." Again, if taxation is to be pushed on, pauperism, discontents, and riots must follow in its train with it:;graratcd ftatures. Shallow politicians may assert that taxes, if properly imposed, do not affect the poor, but : ,tieets are Letter titan n thousand specu lations even of the wisest heads, nod the history of taxation will shew us that pauperism and taxation have regularly and exactly kept pace together. Be fore the Revolutionary IVstr, cur taxes were not quite one third of their present amount, and our poor rites were then two millions. In 1803, when the taxes had mounted to two thirds, the poor rates had ativanced to jive millions ; and in 1816, when the taxes had Leen pushed to 70,0(0,0001. the poor rocs had risen to nearly vine. %We have thus a clear and unquestionable tc3tituony of the effects of taxation on public misery, and widt public misery upon puLile morals. Then come the quackeries of legislation, and, what is still worse, Spies und•Sus pension Acts, and the whole host of evils before n hich every manly virtue flees au uy, and under whose operation liberty expires. But we shall pursue this melunchcly sulject no further. "douse of Commons is our only hope, and to this, often as it disappoints us, r.a world still cling. We would retninti•that august assembly that a bleesli^g country clic; to them thr potect ion, and that the . . destunes of ;tame :t . ge,; are be:amain their bonds. grounds such as these that my man can rationally account fcr the continuance cf our present rulers in the offices they now hold. And, indeed, little ns we arc ourselves inclined to encoura g e an apathy, from whatever source arising, which is in effect a desertion of the public cause, or to agree in the troinion that there i 3 not abundance Loth of wisdom, virtue, talent, and political experience at our dispo sal to form a very splendid and powerful adminis tration which would both maintain 'the rational ho nour, and mill redeem us from disgrace and ruin ; yet should the present schemes of Government be rcalizad and ca7ricd, should an additional tral of 'lie sibo.e tittirle it $llll to thr rtlisat o f the ( . 0i1411 , . with titr rrgar.l Ihit he %till'in.rtl it in I. o jrtiii.til. (Si.orit) A. 61.:41 . .1F5)N1. Baec, (hale 1, 1819. Futelligenee was rceeilied livtn Lagnyra, the• way of St. Thomas's of the very late thtfd • of the 15th April. 0.1 the 7th of that month, a convoy consi...tillg of set ea 11ni4.13 of war, and three trans. coma, sailtd Irian that pf•rt, w„:1 4 .1: a sui . .l4 of pu vibictm tint the gl:rfilott An despatch, date:] e„trly in April, front the ish:n.l Chugues, on the river 1 arfivel frothf Gin. lloritlo. A few d, ys prece.liag he had a twvvre engagement with a body "Jr #lm:epentlealt trolr; antottritiag to 400 men, who vi.r4 oa t'atir way to juin ant. Paex, and consisted chiefly of EitgliNLuics, lite whole of the detachment, wit:i the eve . ption :thng 40 were lilted in the uc hat ; uml thaw nal kilted were taken pi:toners. Previously to t:t action just raentionetl, Gen. Paez had Ixeit t-o! , p‘lltd to ret mat from the Apure un the other tax to the amount of et , ..rc mitacms a year be sub ;n, we Fhall ourselves be driven to the very same state of feeling which we deplore in others, and to sy of our once hnppy and nourishing coon t-y, 'a jam vero cosclamilans est ;" the soul has left its tenement, and the body waits only to be eatTica forth to bnriul. The evil under orkich welt ave been - long struggling. It as been r. Tar 7tion fryer, a &muse from vh kb,during the rage and tumult of hostilities, no (me dared even to hope to be relieved. But to sue the blessings of tranquillity and peace at last restored to a patient, slffering, and exlistasted people, to have heard them greeti;i iteb other wi.th t!i: rateect or " ktter d the , :iver Aranc.l. Who utCcr cotnnzantls u 66s:on of irwys comrosetl received nn act.e4: its.: to Lis: fort 4.• rf 4*:10 ;A ~..;t.4. tem limn 1".4.: :.1.0 retri.t.