The National Register. — London, England, 1820-05-28 00:00:00

lOr to Rank Stock 3 per Cell!. Red. 681 3 per Cent. Conc. 69 3i per Ceti!. 77 4 per Cent. 85{ 5 per Cek,t. Na” 101 Luug Auu. 18 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. I.OIIDOIL SUNDAY. M 1N - vb. THE great o bject of those who arc determined t.) uphold that system of administration, the bitter fruits of which the nation is now beginning to ex- perience fully, is not to defend the measures which have ruined us, (for they have not an argument that will maintain them), but to injure the cha racter and reputation of their opponents, and to induce the people to acquiesce in men and mea sure*, as they are, through hatred and contempt of their opponents, thereby becoming those very re volutionary characters which they pretend to repro. bate. For what can be worse, or tend more to anarchy than to deny the existence of public virtue, and for bad or foolish men, not able to vindicate themselves, to endeavour to induce all others to a level in the opinion of mankind ?—A nation (which is only a large number of individuals arranged in social order for the mutual good of each other) can afford to pay a certain sum out of the public indus. try and produce to support those who bear rule and fill situations, .precluding them from works which encrease food, or other necessaries of life ; yet, no nation can support more than a certain proportion without serious inconvenience. The amount of the proportion, in consequence of those numerous sums of stock money, (or, funded property), which is after all nothing more than imaginary sums raised upon the industry of the present age to support the pro jects of the last, furnishes so many with fortunes arising out of the industry of others, that the na tion has a hundred times more of unproductive labour to maintain than a natural state of things would require, or, in other words, than the neces sary appendages of civil society require; but so many have found it their interest to promote this draught upon industry, that the members of the governing orders, who ought to arrest those evils, find it so much to their private interest to continue them, that they insensibly combine to support the measures, influence, and patronage of Government, and agree to the most violent measures to protect them, feeling that a full and accurate investigation into the items demanded, and the causes which lead to the demand of them, would shake the foundation of their own wealth and power. In the mean while the evil is grown so enormous, and the dis tresses of the many so crying amid the comforts of a itw, or, comparatively few, that a general turn over of a new leaf becomes necessary, and sacrifices on the part of all the upper ranks, and especially those who have thus grown rich out of public poverty, because so imperative that the fabric of society is threatened with dissolution from the state of contending parties —and what is the natural remedy? the only re medy, for such a state of things ? Why, a radical reform or change in a great proportion of the con stituent parts of that body which represents the people, and some measures to secure a body of men who shall be less interested in selfish considerations, and more disposed to rise from individual to general good. And is not every other measure, till this be adopted, merely a mockery, and like children throw ing in pebbles to stop the course of a stream ? This, in short, we conceive to be the correct view of the subject, that unless all classes of people (agricultural among tali, rs) tvill press first upon Government, the sense of that ruinous expendi; ore wasted in wars abroad of doubtful good at leas!, ~tid patronage and influence of still more doubtful gotiti at home, and will awaken Government to a s,nse of the necessity of acme radical measures to meet a radical evil, that THE NATIONAL REGISTER. all other measures mere delusions. This is the substance of what Mr Coke said on Thursday night in Parliament, and ha' brought him to a con clusion, that he will not consent to irritate the manu facturer against the farmer, by measures of doubtful utility at least, and which only lead to a quarrel betwoen the different classes of society, and hinder them front joining heart and hand in those only great remedial measures of a constitutional nature which can be of any service. Letters from Dover, received tbs morning, state, that a considerable number of smugglers from Folkestone and the neighbourhood (supposed to be upwards of 200), assembled in the front of the gaol of that town,and forced an entrance, for the avowed purpose of setting at liberty several ether smugglers confined therein, which they effected, and afterwards made their escape. It is r.uppo•;cd that ere long some of the gang will be in custedr, as they arc well known to the police. The accounts do not state whether any persc n was injured in Cie confusion, nor how many prisoners got off, but it is thought none but the smugglers have escar:2d. Carlisle Eket;on.—State of the roll the first clay, May 24th.—Mr. James, 50—Sir P. Musgrave, 'kb. We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday last. The King it still confined to his apartmen:s, but transacts business daily with his Ministers. The Gracile tie France repeats the idle rumour that her Majesty the Queen of England is arrived in Paris. M. Bastard d'Estang concluded his Report in the case of Louvel, the assassin, on Wednesday, in the Chamber of Peers. It was expected that the interrogatories would be finished the day fbi. lowing. It appears that Louvel acted entirely from himself without any accomplice. He made a soli. tary visit to Elba when Buonaparte was in that Island, and conceived at Cherbourg the horrid intention of assassinating the King. The Moniteur officially announces that the Duchess of Berri is in the fifth month of her pregnancy, and enjoys good health.—The Paris Journals are almost wholly filled with the debates on the Prcoet of the Election Law, which meets with much opposition, though consi derably modified since its first introduction. M. dc Bolland spoke in favour of the proposed alterations. " You fear"' said he, " to introduce the Aristocracy in the Chamber of Deputies, and you refer to Eng land. You forget the English Constitution is is maintained rather by the Aristocracy of the House of Commons titan of the House of Lords. The (louse of Commons is chiefly composed of the sous and nephews of the Nobility, and it is against this state of things that the designs of the Radicals are directed." After some further remarks, the orator voted tin. the Proje!, because the present law is both anti-monarchical and anti-social. M. Dinnefylet spoke against the proposition of Ministers. Some other Deputies afterwards addressed the Chamber on both sides of the question. It adjourned the decision at six o'clock to the following morning. The Government of St. Petersburgh has issued a new ukase, extremely beneficial to the temporary interest of the calico-printers of Russia, but calcu lated materially to injure the interests of foreign merchants trading with that country. All printed goods when printed and brought to market by a Russian printer, will be entitled to a drawback of S7i ropers silver to the pound, which is the amount ofduty on the white goods when imparted. These 373 copecs, in addition to the duty of one rouble 40 copecs. laid on tbreign prints, give to the Russian printer an advantage of one rouble 771. copees silver, or ss. 4d. the pound, Russian weight (about 14 oz.) over those printed goods imported from abroad. This ukase expressly adds, however, that the said drawback will be granted to those primers only who have actually ordered the white goods from abroad, and entered them in their own names at the custom-house; the drawback cannot be claimed when the goods in the imprinted state have been purchased ofmerchunts in the market, who will consequently be driven out of commercial transac tions, of which they have hitherto formed the chief medium. of totochs. Onnnu•o 0. Imp. A per tent. Italia Mu, k 22s dis. !whit Stock Exchequer 11111c' ss. Xs. Conc. for Ar. 60! L,,ltere Ticket% 14s. 173 The complete abandonment of the expedition pre pared at Cadia aglinu South A►neriaa is at- length announced in letters from that city of the 2d Inst. The greater part of the transports chartered in France and in this country for the conveyance of the troop had alre:uly received their certificates of discharge, and the remainder were to receive them as fast as they could ba unloaded. I;1 addition to this decisive step it is stated, that all tii troops who had fulfilled their period of servicz , been d'ig banded. roil tc:o•thirds of the expethtionary army were in this predicament. A curious mercantile fraud has been practised at Floinburgh. Several of the most eminent con►mcr. cial houses in that city received at one and the same time, from fictitious commercial houses at Frankfort, Gotha, &c. (though not known to be such at tie moment) large orders for a particular kind of tobacco. These orders were in part executed, because it wax not required tint the goods should be sent till the mole of payment was pointed out, which it was in timate:: would be through the medium of hotn:es uC known respectability at Frankfort. It appeared af terwards, however, that this experiment was tried in order to cause a demand for that 'Articular kind of tobacco of which the contrivers of the trick bad an ample stock, and of which they thus hoped to dispose at a high price. It dues not appear with what success this manoeuvre was attended. Preparations arc now actively carrying on irt Westminster-hall for the Coronation. Arrangements are making to suspend magnificent chandeliers from the- roof, and after Saturday next the buildings at the extremity of the ball, in which the Courts of Chancery and King's Bench are held, will be taken down, to afford additional space for the ceremony. We trust that, in the reconstruction of those Courts, more attention will be paid to the accommodation of suitors and the public. The Court of King's Bench will sit next Term in Sergeants'-inn. I?rviell Sot:it-4%—A Council was held on Thurs3ay last, whcii Sir Joseph Bankcs tendered his resigna tion, but it was not accepted, on the avowtsl ground of delicacy and respect for a gentleman who has so long filled the President's chair, with honour to himoelf and satisfaction to the Society. It is sups pond, nevertheless, that the worthy Baronet will persevere in requesting to resign the Chair, and we understand that, in that case, it is not unlikely that it may be taken by Prince Leopold This amiable Prince has, it seems, particularly turned his atten tion to Natural History, and is particularly conve:si stint with Mineralogy a. 1.1 Botany. He is, indeed, understood to be attached to the Sciences in getiert, and to have made great progress in the study of the 'a all. We learn, it has been whispered, that the Prince, in consequence of the expected resignation of the present revered PresiZent, had been consulted, and had spoken to his Majesty on the occasion, free' whom he received the most gracious encouragement! If this arrangement should- take place, the Prince will have a very gratifying occupation to fill Lie vacant hours, and will confer additional honour upon . the Society, while it will tend to attach him still more to.a country which has treated -him with su much liberality, and of which he expresses his most grateful sense on all occasions. lathe Memoirs of the late M. Suard, there is an Anecdote of the Prince P.oyal of Portugal extremely interesting. In speaking of the dreadful earthquake at Lisbon, when fallen and falling houses were burying the dead and the living in one common grave—when the earth was threatening to open, and the sea to break in and ingulph the whole, a young man, in the flower of age and strength, raised his voice amids the ruins, and cried out, " Follow me. my friends; let us yet strive to save those who reay be alive." In the ruins of a house he observed an old man with his legs broken, and whose lamenta'ile cries fur assistance were disregarded. The young man made his way through the tottering fraerlent-, drew the victim from the ruins, hoisted him on hi back, and brought. him to a place of :leiter. 'file old man was a ncgro. The young man was a Doi 1. of Braganza. This spectacle of a Prince of ti - Royal Family bearing a negro on his s7.lou,den-s— -this homage paid to humanity in an untbrttinale individual, of a race scarcely regarded its a cia•:, proioundly touched every bollohler, at a moment when their hearts were petrified by terror, and re stoked their energies for the succour of others as if by miracle. _ _ . 'rite half—yearly public examination of the ren in the two schools of the Clergy Orphan Coe. potation wok place on Monday last, at the .`!..1i0.•1 House, St. John's-wand, Marylelmne. His Gr the Arelibish.y of Canterbury presided on the There were also present the Bishops Ely, Exeter, and Salisbury, Lords Kenyon and De Dunstanville, and a 1111111a0US assembl.l:4.'of ladies and gentlemen of Aliginetioa: chilitrta went through every part of their examination wlth the greatest preciseness and accuracy, and highly to the satisfaction of his Grace and all present, lvha expressed their approbation in the most terms.