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7,0 Tibt AP_atiana t? '1 taitittr4 . . Our wing, Consititution anb No. 1,248 —Vot. XIII.] Votitital aroopect. IT was our intention to have continued our remarks upon the series of bills, av they slow stand . ..enacted by the Legislature for securing the tran • quality of the country, .er rather fur teac'ing us to 'walk in fetters. But Whilst the•cry of distress, and and the lansenutions upon .theiliadnem (fillse limes, are ringing au loudly in our eavo.on every aide, it is impossible , not.to give them the first place in our thoughts and attention. We have heardanuch and long of the stagnation of trade and manufactures, of .bankrupt masters, und-starvingiabourers, ofcapital withdrawn from employwent, and of skill and industry looking for•a field for its exertions in other tcountries. Within the last two or three weeks, . however, trade is reported to have felt a beneficial Influence from various causes, but chiefly from the policy of the Russian Government having under gone a change in our favour, by a more liberal extension of her laws on importation. How far 'dais opening may avail us in the end yet remains uncertain. at may, and does furnish a ground .of • speculation, and thus contributes to the increase of labour at least, and perlieps of wages in some per .. denier districts and branches of manufacture. But the speculations of trade were equally ardent, we remember, two years %Javan the markets of South America, nod when weNreanenitheralso.theiniierable issue of Chat enterprize, we confess we sire not very sanguine on ,the sulijeet of our commerce with .Russia. The Russians am moreover both a poor and, generallyspeaking,a frugal end hard living race. They must buy cheap or not at all, awl the mis fortune is, that England can now furnish nothing that is, when compared with other countries, really to Ale galled cheap. Her common public burthens shut mar or.t from a fair and honourable competition with her neighbours. She has fonglit for them, she has bled for them, she has paid the bills alai! Europe fur twenty-five years past, and her Rulers now tell us of her proud and matchless glory.. But alas her glory neither feeds the hunory nor .clothes the :naked. She has, unfortunately far all her people, except de few who have fattened on her folly, departed from that ancient maxim sv4tich thoula bind nations, as well as individuals, of being just at home before they are generous abroad.— ['ranee is come out of the struggle renovated, strengthened, and improved. Her finances and her system of legislation Are both infinitely sounder 4han they wens before her Revolution, and her people are bath happier and occupying a nobler rank in the creation. Ohl whet a triumph do the present eciduing circumstance* of Great Britain furnish to those principies and to their firm and consistent advocates, which are denominated Whiz Yes, the fruits of Tory principles are now fairly before us. We taste them in every thing we eat, we Imbibe them in evory thing we drink, we bear them in every note of murmur and discontent, and above all we feel them in our ab , idged Rights and impaired Liberties. Other evils might be con sidered as transient; trade may revive under some better auspices, and taxation be alleviated tinder a final and more patriotic aaniiiiistration, or a crisis of public credit may arrive, and some tiesperam measures, partaking of the nature of national. bminkruptcy may be p;uclaiu►ed. flue our whole history can iufcri us that the encroachments of L. • %--foci • MONDAY, JANUARY 17, MO. power when once made and confirmed, are seldom • driven back without a series of resisianee and troubles which no good man would wish to see occurring. Let it not be imagined, however, that as professors of Whig principles we are disposed to enjoy our triumph ; no, the same ardent zeal which has prompted our uniform opposition to evil councils, prompts us likewise to mourn with thosethat mourn, endow -sympathise in our Motional misfortunes.— • We 'have, however, now in unguestioned right to point to the fulfilment of prophesies which were so long disregarded, we have the right to call upon the authors tor our calamities both to mum their own errors and to desist from the ,paths , of our ruin.— We have a right to call upon thi people of England to do justice to our cause, to Helen no more to the calumnies which would reprosesi us as enemies to the crown, and us friends to anturhy and confusion. We 'have also.a right •to be reacted front that foul stigma of being an interested and place hunting i party. God knows the while current of court favour has run in a very opposite direction for many years The County Party, vr clit we think is e more appropriate term then W e, have not been inaansibleeo this; they .have felt it too severely in the exolugive patronage of their enemies, but yet they have honestly persevered, ; unawed by frowns ' and unsill urea by Itribes. Titleelsave been showered down like manna upon the chosen tribes, power and influence have been placed entirely in their hands, and if taxation and ptiblic burthena have been multiplied upon courtiers tia wen's the lovers of peace and their country, still means have been supplied to the former of mein Own bearing up against them. Places. and poste. mod pensions have multiplied also, and a field ofi harvest has been opened, in which they were tike only reapers.— War was to them a season of ,iiroaperity and joy, and national poverty the very source of private wealth - and national dew-11414cm the road to private honour. Shall principless like these still find abett , e•s? shall such a cause still lee blindly followed? shell such men still !Ind supporters ? If they do such supporters have no tight td complain, no not even if a tremendous revolution 'ghoul(' at last arise, and themselves be numbered with its victims. The remedy, however, for our misfortunes, is still within our reach. Let the people of England mark well the anthers of their .present distressed state. Let them rally round those who have been their constant and disinterested. friends. Let pri= vote ends be for once abandoned for public good Let them talk no more of expecting something &utu this man, and not liking to oppose that, but let truth and conscience be their gold°, and the love of Old England their counsellor. They see and feel that their present rulers have filed in procuring for them either prosperity or eantont. They see that dissatisthction and misery prevail—that coin plaint is only met by fresh 01)6th:einem of that freedom which they should remember their fine- Pothers fought fie-, and which they should bequeath unsullied to their children. Th e y foci that tl ec armor, the manufacturer, the mechanic, We all involved in one cJininon lot. Let them then make one oomiace. cause :—l.et them meet, let them pe. titian, let them remonstrate, let them demand what the constitution has given them . and above all, let thou demand an inentehute relief from taxation, a rethrin in that represelitaant which Cid,: to fulfil its object, :out a dismissal of those advisers whose continuance in power promisee nothing but e coleis nuance of terrors, and an iurrease of diisalketion. The peculiar tippie of our Agricultural Distress we shall endeavour to discuss next week. [Pi ics Eiti. The Moniieur of F►iday amain* an article of consi. durable length relative to the dew of succession, as it affects the property of foreigners. It commences with quoting an expression of the Chancellor of the Exche quer opon this subject, in th. House of Commons, awl slating the expediency of rectifying the error which appears to have arisen ; it then proceedsto quote a num ber raf Jaws, also the 18th article ol the Treaty of UtTMII. and to show their appl cat'un in various cases with resaard to the property of forei.ners dee-rased. - as affecting real and liersowal property, and as attevtitr, Inreigners d 'cited iii Praise, or w'io have domiciled in France This replan:Mem imi.h•ing wittier ofFrencla last, is fur the greater part of little interest. Tee main point regarding die French law, is for the grc.i• part of little sitriereet. The 1114:11 funds, which we expressly idiotisml to by the Chance:kir of site Exchequer, is clearly elsicidat it appearing.beymul all doubt that Heves, or French stock, in the liossession of foreigners, may be disposed of by ilieni, or devolve in case of intestacy. according to the laws of their owd country.; and that the En lish possessers tit !fettles, in particular; may do pe/se of.thein 14:44111 perfect facility: or the ironies are disposed id, iii case of intestacy, according to their own laws. A PPREIPTNSION OF T/16 NOTORIOUS JOUR WILLIAM s —Some time back we stated the .parti culars of this man's escape, botk from Guy's Hos pital and Borough Compter (in which latter place belted been confined on a charge of robbing the Venus sloop, Capt. Meson, in the month et July last). AA the.lust Senttlewarl Sessions, Mr. Alley moved the Court on behalf of the prosecutor .amp witnesses, praying that the recngniz.tnces might not be estreated ; which the Recorder granted, and since thnt perbal, nothing farther teanspirott to throw the least light on the delinquent's retreat, till Wednesday night, when the keeper of the prison received infiwmetion that he was at a house in Shadwell, whither two trusty officers proceeded, and succeeded in apprehending and safely lodcring him in gaol. A true bill has been found against him, and he will be tried at the next Sessions. Thursday evening, about dust., a gentleman wan knocked down neer the Mitt, In Union Street, Southwark, by three ruffians, who robbed him of a pocket book contoing two 11. notes, a silver watch, &e. His cries attracted the attention of 'constable numell Hvamm, who happened to be passing, and he pursued the thieves very promptly, but they a ll escapee! The watch was afterwards found near the spot. In our Paper to-day we give the trial of a man named Welle, who was tried and convicted at the Warwick Sessions for uttering seditious expressions, Nu new law was wanted fur that purpose : he was tried upon a very old statute, and we merely flake the feet us a confirmation of the assertion mods) by the Opposition Members in both Houses, thee the laws, pa they were, were quite equal to every eon. stituliessal and honest purpose. Thursaay a numerous meeting of the Inhabitants of Canterbury was held at the 011/Wl4llp to take into consideration tho prnpriety Pt ' eenuneneni g subscription to relieve the wants of the necemmitous poor, during the present inclement season, Among the comp:my who obeyed this cell of benevolence were Earl Nelson, the Rev. Dr. %Veldt, the Rev, Hobert Moore, with most of the resident clergy end priescipul gentry. A subscriptiuu was entered into, and a committee appointed to carry the objects td' the meeting into : Upwards of :ARA, were humetliatery subscribed In the room. 0 10 . 4 e s t.L k .N T l y r,—A communicatiou Weirs; twit made to M , s. C ewes that the children of Mr. Irish Chats y Sclitiiil, in St. Gilts's, were nalit 2 . tit tti,ut ur 4 most tlei.litrahle state, in consequent et of tin- inability ill their parents In a.tpply teem with stir. ticieut liwrd, that I. tat Ti iir.tl rs , employed stveiall perstois to purchase all the bread ii.at emilit be pot in the ociehlunstitia voiles, avid to comes it to the &Omen. house, there in be ilistriliimll by Isle isijSlCr. The rinsil. lily iii bread pievii,,sen was mon rose, and this Jona. tun, it was inn slated , would be speedily followed I" one equal') liberal. It it an absolute lam, that in the co u r se of lots wi t tier several of the eloitilren at this school have dropped &Act' faint meta caltaustion while say tea mco lesses. In COIIIICIIIIVIIre of the very &preterit state of the epiC.lllural iiiteresOiriiisepli Hanks has teremly gises 4 to his f.disetrlii,loire A;terti to mal,r such re • tllleti )))) • a rent .is may enable tots 111.11111 . 100, lello'itry tq meet the emergencies of the times; generously remark. th.it op.:knee Mtn tio elijo sme i otti could be believe lion the ctrittlnr•s riS his tenants 04 depettilchts itiidst went ally d uitiotious - ~.. .4 6 ' 0 I TZ . ' • . S tratss: :ST • 1~ I' J'l 4