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• I•'.t. d VI .1, II vo‘ do . trionat 1. 1 2‘ rtiOtirr+ 7' t• - Or pia Our Bing, Comp' Mutton attri Uatv6. No. 1,247.—V0L. XIII.] political actrospftt. IT was our intention to have continued our I remarks upon the series of bills , as they no w stand enacted by the Le,girlature for securing the tran quillity of dm country, er rather flu teaelting us to walk in fetters. But whilst the iry of distress, and and the lameneitions upon the badness githe times, • are ringing au loudly in our eunpon every side, it is imptiable not to give the first place in our thoughts and attenlitm,. •AVe have heard much and long of she s‘gnation of trade aed manufactures, of 'bankrupt twasteri, and starving labourers, ofcapital withdrawn fa= employment, and of skill and industry looking for a. field for its exertions in other countries. •.Withie the last two or three weeks, however,-tondo 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 e more liberal extension of her laws on importation. How far this opening may us in the end yet remains uncertain. 1 t may; and dams furnish a ground of speculation, and thus contributes to the increase of labour at least, awl perhaps of wages it, some par titular districts and brunches of manufacture. But the speculations of trade were estrally ardent, we remember, two years ago upon the =Acts of South A merica, and when we remember also the miserable sue of that enterprise, we confirm Ave are nut very fauguip; on thotti4j:ct of our eonuneece with • . Th IsSians .are moreover both a poor generally 44ing,a frugal and hard living race. 'l3tcy must buy cheap or nut at all, and the mis 'fortune is, that England can now furnish nothing -that it', when compared with other countries, really '.o - be called cheap. Her • common public burthens t i, t% her'scatv from a fair and honourable competition with- her lit4olboar6. iShe has fonght for them, -alle has bled tbr them, • she has paid the bills of all Europe fur twenty-five years pact, and her Rulers now tell us of her proud and matchless glory. But alas her glory neither feeds the hungry nor clothes the naked. She 'has, unfortnnately for all her people, except the few who have fattened on her 'f illy, departed from that uncient maxim which should hind nations, as well as individuals, of being at home before they are generous abroad.— France is come out of the struggle renovated, strengthened, and improved. Her finances and her -system of legiilatiem ore both infinitely sounder -titan they were before her Revolution, mid her Teppleare both happier and occupying a nobler rank in the ereution. Oh what a triumph tio the present existing circumstances of Great Britain furnish to those principles and to their firm and eim,istent ailvocates, which are denominated Whig Yes, the fruits of Tory principles are •ncw fairly betbre us. We taste them in every thing we eat, vet:imbibe 'them in every thing we drink, we hear Ahem in every note of murmur and discontent, and above all we feel them in our atold,!..red Rights and .inipaiied Liberties. Other evils might be con sidered as transient; trade may revive under some better auspices, and taxation be alleviated under a -frugal and more patriotic administration, or a crlsis of public credit may arrive, and some desperate measures, partaking of the nature of national bankruptcy may be proclaimed. But our whole ,history can inform us that the encroachments of SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1820. power when once made and confirmed, are seldom driven heel: without a series of resisiance and troubles which no good man would wish to see occurring. Let its not be imagined, however, that as professors of Whig principles we are disposed 'to enjoy our triumph; no, the same ardent zeal which ba prompted our uniform oppoadtiou to evil councils, prompts us likewise to mourn with ihosethet mourn, and to sympathise in our national nrisfortunee— We have, however, now an unquestioned right to point to the fulfilment of prophecies which were so long disregarded, we have the tight to call -upon the authors of our calamities both teener their own errors and to iltnist from the paths of our ruin.— We have a right to call upon the people of England to do justice to our cause, to listen no more to the 'calumnies which would repreetft us ASI enemies to the crown, and as friends to anarelif mid confusion. We have also a right to be rescued from that foul stigma of being an interwed and place hunting party. God -knows the whole current of court favour has run in a very opposite direction for many years. The County Party, which we think is a more appropriate term than Whig, have not been insensible'to this; they have Melt too 'severely in the exclusive patronage of their enemies, 'but yet they have honestly persevered, unawed by frowns and tmallured by bribes. Titlcs-have been showered down like manna upon the chosen tribes, power and influence have been placed entirely in their hands, and if taxation and public burthens have been multiplied upon courtiere Of well es the lovers of peace aad their country, still means have been supplied to the former of mere: than bearing up against them. Places. and posts; and pensions have multiplied also, and a 4hell of harvest leas been opened, in which they were the only reapers.— War was to thole a season of prosperity and joy, and Patients/ poverty the very source of private wealth— and national degradation the -road to private honour. Shall principles like-these still find altettors's Shull Suchu cause still be blindly fidlowed": shell such wen still find supporter: ? If they do such seep ertere have no tight to complain, lie not even if a tremendous revolution should at last arise, and themselves be numbered with its victims. The remedy, however, fur our misfortunes, is still Within our reach. Let the people of England mark well the authors of their present distressed state. Let them rally round those who have Leen their constant and disinterested friend , . Let pri vate ends be for once abandoned fur publicgood Let them tali - no more of expecting something festal this man, and not liking' to oppose that, but lei truth and come:let:cc be their guide, and the love of Old England -their counsellor. They see and fi el that their present rulers have tidied 'in . procuring tier them either prosperity or content. They see that dissatisfaction and misery prevail—that com plaint is only met by .frafra abridgement of that freedom which they should -remember their fore fatherathught tier, end which they should bequeath unsullied to their children. They fisel that the armor, the .manufacturer, time mechanic, are all involved in one common let. Let them then make one common causes—Let them meet, let them pe titicin, let them remonstrate, let them demand what the,constitntiln has given them ; and alxlve all, let them &mend an immediate relief from taxation, a reform in that representation which finis to fella its o bject, tted a dismissal of those advisers whose continuance in power promises nothing but a conti nuance of terrors, and an increase of dissetlection. 'The peculiar topic of our Agriettletral Distress shall endeavour to discuae next week. [PRICK 9411. The illiolifettr of Friday contains an article of consi derable length relative to the law of succession, as it affects the property of foreigners. It commences with quoting an expression of the Chancellor of the Exche quer upon 116st:object, in th !louse of ('onon:tits, and stating she expediency of rectif)ing the error •whiels appear. tit have arisen ; it then proeeedsin Tette a now her of laws ; also the •Ifult . artle!e of the Treaty of Utrecht, and to show t!leir appLeation in tarions eases with retard to the luoperty of facianers dee-eased, as affecting real and personal property, ;:ipl as Ar, rt ing foreigners domiciled in France, or -who have ettitdreit 111 JJJJ iciled io Franca. This explawition minute dicta of French law, is for tip , gre-tter part of little interest. The main point rer.rrditig the. Freticli law, is fur tile great part of little interest. The wain foods, whietr was expressly allinicil try •lw the Chatiee'dor of the Exchequer, is clearly ; it appearing heyond all doubt tha , /Vides, or French stock, in the nossestt,itt of foreigners - , may ha disposed of by them, or devolve its case of intestacy, according to the laws of their own COIIN!rV ; and that the Ett.ligh possessera of /it'd's, in parz:ritlai; ifiay dis pose of thent.with perfect facility : or the Remits are dispo.e4ll 01, lit case of intestacy, accurdinz to their own laws. APPRIERIFNSIoN otr Ttie NOTORIOUS Jollit WILLIAMS.—Some time back we stated the parti culars of this man's escape, both from Guy's Hose pita! and Borough Compter (in which latter place he had been confined on a charge of rubbing the Venus sloop, Capt. Macon, in the mouth of July last). • At the last Southwark Sessions, Mr. Alley moved the Court on behalf of the prosecutor and witnesses, praying that the recognizances might not be estreated ; which the Recorder granted, and since dint 'wild, nothing farther transpirod to throw the least light on the delinquent's retreat, till Wednesday night, when the keeper of the Drison received information that he was at a house in Shadwell, whither two trusty officers proceeded,. and succeeded in apprehending and safely lodgings him in gaol. A true bill has been fourid against lit him, and he will be tried at the next Sessions. Thursday evening, about dusk, a gentleman wan knocked down neat the Mint, in Union Street, Southwark, by three ruffians, who robbed hint of a pocket book ccn►tainiug two •1.1. notes, a silver watch, &c. lUs cries attracted the atteneiim of it constable named livarus, who happened to be passing, and he pursued the thieves very promptly, but they all escaped. The watch was afterwards found near the spot. In our raper to-day we give tl►e trial of a man named Wells, who was triad. nut! eorw'ictcd at the Warwick Sessions for uttering seditious depressions. No new law was wanted for that• purpose: he was tried upon a very old statute, and we merely notice the fret as a confirmation of the assertion made by the Opposition Members in both Houses, that tbo laws, us 01;7 were, were quite equal to every eons. stitetionnl and honest purpose. Thursday a numerous meeting-of the inhabitants of Canterbury was held' at the Guildhall, to take into considerarlon the propriety of commencing a subscript ion'to relieve the wants of the nemssitotts pour, during the press-nt inclement season. Among the•contpauv who obeyed this call of benevolence were Earl Nelson, the Rev. Dr. Wollit, the Rev. Robot M o t►re, with most of the resident clergy and principal gentry. A subscription was entered into, and a rommittee appointed to carry the °Wets of the moctitig into elli.tet. Upwards of were immediately sidiscribcd in the morn. Ilsu KT emesurriser.—A cot ttttt unication has lag been made to Mrs. Coons thit the children of Mr. Irish Charil School, in St. Wail, were many of them in a st deplorable state, in conseuuence of the Inability of their parents to styply them will) sub. ticient loud, M A L_ Lady, 03 Th u rsd a y, employed seveisti per: mss to purchase all the bread that could be got in the neighbouring lmps, mt. 4 to convey it to the whoa. house, ►here to be distributed by the master. The quan tity of bread purchased was nuntease, and this dons ',ion, it was intimated, would he speedily followed by one equally liberal. it is an absolute fact, that in the utilise of this minter several of the children at this school have dropped down front them exhaustion while saying their lessons. Itt consequence of the very depressed state of the t' rsculnual interest,Sir.losenh hunks has recently given directions to his Luleol:tst►tre Ai.telot to make such re• auctions of rent as way enable Isis nanteroc• tenantry to met•t the. emergencies of tfic tints,; generously remark tug, that opulence would afford hint no enjoyments, could he believe that the comforts of ilia lA:mauls oRd AtTendtmlb ontiorwout any - • 411, - -' • • . 1 2 ' . 1 A ' > r • ,•;4 • mimo'