The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-31 00:00:00

r i ..?„ 2 ,e fr mk rtr 0 No. 9.13.—V0L. XII.] Volitical ;lett°vett. EVERY man who feels the Ilightest interest in •public affairs, will not fail to be impressed with the extraordinary character and awfulness of the times through which we are now passing. The news of this last week needs but be. simply recorded to rouse the most torpid from their apathy, and to make them open their eyes to the prospect that lies before • them. The great• County Meeting at York, held for the sole purpose of addressing the Prince Regent -in a Petition for a full and fair enquiry into the fatal proceedings at Manchester, conducted with a moderation suited to the solemnity of such a cause, with an ability which has excited universal admi -.ration and with a courtesy towards those who dif fered in opinion, which even the raost•bigotteti par lizan could not but honour and admire, has been fol lowed by the dismissal of Lord Fitawilliam from the Lord Lieutenancy of the West Riding of tleit County, for no other crime than that he personally attended those deliberations. To what lengths will not the impotency of passion and the despairof wicked men sometimes drive them ! Can a pod Cause, even for .n moment • rued such measures to support it ? Lord sritzwilliam is seventy-two years of age, his life has I been a course of tried and unsullied loyalty, of services eenferrcal upon his country of the most signal and valuable kind. Ile has been deservedly looked up to by moderate men of every party as a rare exam ple of genuine patriotism and unsullied virtue. For men, such as compose our present administration to vr:slaue, to dare, to wreak their paltry vengeance upon such a character, to flatter themselves that it can do either credit to the work they have under taken, or discredit to the object of their wrath; is to suppose that the reason of mankind isgone, and that justice anti injustice have • changed their sub- Siance and qualities each with the other. No, that venerable Nobleman, may retire to the enjoyment of an unsullied fame, which will never attach to Lis opposers, and remember with conscious satisfac tion the wise remark of Addition, " When proud and impions mee brie sway, " The poet ut lionot: is a private biailoll." The other grand nizasure of his Majesty's Ministers, soil a very fit accompaniment it is, is to call out Ilt4 Chelsea Pensioners, and encrease the companies of marines, to do garrison duty, and thus leave the regular army disposable for the open and avowed , I;ject of governing the people by the sword.— Eleven thousand six hundred men are to be imme diately added to the army ; whilst not a single cbject can be pointed out for their services, but their own fellow subjects, and this heavy expence is to Le incurred at a time when -the revenue of the country is not only inadequate even to defray the interest of the public debt, but week after week most rapidly and alarmingly decreasing. 'The funds are day by day depreciated, public credit has re ceived a shock unknown in any period of former days of tranquillity and peace, and in short, the Avhole Eibrie of society amongst us is shook to its very centre. Two things alone -remain to our wretched and harassed country, to relieve us from evil councils, or to prepare fur a tremendous struggle Law und tinte are now in direct opposition ; Our me engaged on contrary sides and girding them iii all the li Lbiliments of conflict. English men never submitted without a struggle to the loss of freedom, thq were never patient under the yoke atiol Our ging, Conititution antg afoot. SUNDAY, IBER 31, IAI9. of slavery They are aiojtil people, and a generous kindness may attach ',Defiance, but severity cast never properly enforatelt, and woe be to those rulers who think that crown can be upheld, the veneration due 'to oaststituted authority be long maintained when every feeling of love and guititude and contentment are banished and destroyed. We are, however, fully sensible of the dit%culty with which Government has now to struggle. We see with regret a very onmennis body of merlin the State whole turbulear.e is formideble, and whops • designs no man attempts to justify. But the best and wisest of our laws were framed in tempestuous times, and were expressly latooded to meet the much looked tin. exigencies. The'Censtitution of Britain is not a Summer bird, that displays its brilliant pin- - ina;,, , e in fine weather, and chaunts • its carols in calm and sunshine, and then vanishes when the Storm blows, or arrive, but is a noble and massy fabric, wil be proof against every attack until it . pidatcd by those whose it is to preserve and left fairly and hone•:•ly to Let treason be watched in spies and informers who they may afterwards prey decked with _ of the law which never overt act can be laid effectually punished. we do this, let every complaint be honestly and meshed. Remove from which he feats, and spire a confidence in the interity, the wisdom and sedition will have verntnent is society it governs, and fault in those under whose so.•—• Either the symptoms taken, or the remedies _ mistaken ; in either case the rAunge uur Doctor. WIC LATE and dela and bounden dtr Let it then lout be (met/ ies. progeess,-not by it, that the vigilance whenever 'any mane time that 'sortable cause of (Exuma] and re- the food epos; In_ by the dignity, public MOM* ref, A Go- , state of the be bud, there is it has begorne hare been inis ineffectual and of wisdom is to An official desrtatAt from Esq., addressed to Earl Cambridge, contains the lul - lowing melancholy detail of arm tfic ecuth of this - Atter mentioning the mken fin.the purpffe his Grace 110 - the actual the state of the pioviimes, letter proceed! thug •• WIWI) Ill* tinier parted at •Kineston, It proceeded, •:t otnpanied by Ol. Cot aurae, Ajar Hun le,, t dosy-dies, In the WlFteill InNr sh,p, Nllore already the t orin t latiort Ita,, been Cinistacrabl, lamented by the e%relleat polio of tkir Administi at' . O. itit.t the l)ukt dined st irtt a delltill:nesit of office', tattooed at I th, tin.l it %iiif 0411 V Oft the `2:/111 Iliht the tint symptoms of that erne' disorder prrsissited themselves, which three das s niter Sc, 'notated in death. Early no that mornme, V• 11 1 .1, Illy Grace alarmed RI the sp paar:uu a ul,oine trees It loch were near a IA N 11• rt hr . opt, and which he insisted arre people looking in t 1(13,1 s wetly aft, ruards, when a ba s ic of Haler was presented to him, he , shthiled et ideal abitoreeure Al the si.:111 of it nod on several occasions on IWO glAy Awl oil t h e 2111 h, t h e I •me symptoms were hut bap hits si hears( r any bright wan presecord.llll.i which it 111111 W Ilirpeated his Grace pill took of with extreme reluctalice. t)u this day, at dinner. lie had r 'que , •ted Litio. Cab Cnekbstnie to take Nine v. ill out his (irate tad 110 sooner Ilflel the Falai.' to his lips. than, ha. In C41111,-01 the. vielepNY ut dt.eti. , •, thr lot tic' thhit'...h•s•rt —" Now, is not this es...N.tv:t 11'111, I'll take d uhi a I dna', think of - TA,. s a me ' , Veiling au A,..0.1ani siirron, 401.) one in Ihr sicuuty, st a b grill (Or, Nhu 1/1...1 lona , alld hit :hiscellenc. ..ti t taictitly found SIP 11141'11 fel:ef float the tirepatittii, that he :Ill.(' earl) iti the nest moriang, an d p, u p,, ite d %d iki ng tin uugh mi r ismood.no, , ii, to the new soil-meat of that \\ I111:11 bad rectioly received its upil"lluttoa from it, iltti.itis uos fouudtr, %Ito was about to 411212 US talezt. it 14 Ow cows- . , ~ or Cue frosts of Winter arrive, but is a nassy fabric, slch wil be pre:tang:dust k until it shalll3o - underunined and dela- hose whose natteral and bounden dstj tve and guard it.• Let it' then but id bone...ly to its own intrinsic energies. be watched in ark prteress,•not by lirmers who in „ end create it, that kerwards prey u the.vietitit•they have their ownear but by the vigilance which never a , and whenever 'any 3be laid hold ' it be tpilbdily mid unished. An Ilse If time that let every just reasonable cause of i honestly and y discussed and re- move tiom the er the food upon als, end slander itself expire. In- idence in your - by the dignity, the wisdom of public measures, will have few abettors. A Go- always .respondlsio for the state of the verns, and if thutistate be bud, there is c under whose coin:oils it has beeornc the symptoms of diseese have been rais- e remedies applied are ineffectual and a either case the of wisdom is to suclor. LATE LWEE OF CII4IIOYD. -4111 - , 11 despatch from Pules Cambridge, ned to Earl Bathintat, contains the 161- neholy detail of *irticulars attendant tli of this Noblmusin:— itioning the tour hich his Grace 1131 d iti.i.. le purpo!c of ip ' ' niting the noun provinces, and r particnlars, the is thus :-.. tirace 'wird wilt, Itietrmilv lit Kjustfin, li. N ompanied Iy Litut.- ( 01. Co. :turtle, ~i,th to,, dome tie., In Visit tile WOlefll [um:- reagl) the petintlation itadtieesi ,colisi.dcral)l, 4 74frii , gre:t0A :Aat tOtt - i f - [Pm z• 04d. trophy of his death. He had in his progress throttles the wood started °Sat hearing a dug bark ,atid ass. a itb dillies!' y overtaken, and en the party's arrival at the skirts of the wood, ut the sight of NNW etagnaid water, his Grace hastily leaped over a fence, and rushed i..itt not wijoloioir barn, whi ther his dismayed comp:titian, eagerly (allowed him. The paroxysm of his distirdrr ass now at its height. 'it was almost a neintele thst his Grace did not die ley the barn. Has was nisi, diihrwity removed to a miserable hovel in the neigh boarloveskaoll early in the monolog of the fatalrith the Duke of itietomond tailored IN the arms of a faithful Swiss, choked neser quitted his beloved 'muster for a moment. — Whilst in this miserable log hut react,' occasionally resumed her empire, nod his Croce accordingly availed himself 14 these lurid Intervals toaddretua tette. to Lady f.t.t, Lenox, in c hick he retaliated her that it favoirite dog, hclouging.to the household, bring inn rtont at the castle of Si. Lout., lit time(ive mouths bcfore) a hen t lte•Duke,vhaviug, cut his chin. the dog Inn lifted up, to luck the a ounti, a hetetlie animal bit his Grace's chin. The recolleet.on of this circumstance gave his Grace but too sure it presentiment (the ,to basing subsequently run mad) of his approuritiug 'LG.; and be therefore in his It (ICI' to Lady Mary, e.vprtssed his conviction (which Indeed appears an irrisistahle coechasionj that his df-ortler an. hsdrapitiobia- His Giace• reeommene sled the line of condtirt hi be observed by his children it. Gm painful situation in a lurk they would be-flatted at his death ; and, it is said, recmeited to be boned ieQuebee ou the ram part.,,likr a soldier, there to restrain. " II is Grace's malaise, arrived it, Montreal the ni_ht of the 30th Anglo!, (the any day on which the levee was t t barn he , h held), inn state whit hi shall nut outrage y.•ur I ore ship's feelines by detailing; far Ins 'run I ant mitt in 4 epict 'Mc seusattaTts ;Wale pastor ladies of his Grace's f %hen sir unespectolly lilt - fatal news had reach-d tin tn oe the 7101 h Montreal. " lifts Grace's mitering% were extreme, yet his mint roared *hove his agony. Hr directed Crl.tiel Cockbanie not to attend on Ills orders any loot er—' For you see; : said this great 11.1111, th e shsfilkitoon reduced to; stud during: teen of pain, he etriatined—• For shame, Kichw. mkt shame, Charles Lennox ; hear your sufferings I ke a n an: The puke, the first man of his tank, perhaps. a Ito ver Cita 011 the American continent, alit .•st r be regrell ,, l tos clews of his Ali‘jesty'e provincial stalker. Ttw as ful tett minution of his Grace's ilitradous cuieer must excite tale venal isympifthy." A very numerous and respectable meeting evil held in 113.beffield on Monday last, fur the.purpose of collecting the sense of the inhabitants of that ton a on the necessity of a strict inquiry into the unfortm. mate events at Manchester, The Meeting it loci j. culated consisted of from 0,000 to 50,000 people but although flags were waved at it, bearing the usual devices, and bands of music performed several popular airs, the tratupiillity and Apod or..er of 11.0 town and neighbourhood were •in. no instance dis• turbed. Lord 'Milton, attended by several Gentle men of 'respectability, Wll3 present, and addressed the a.rettnly. it was well remarked by nne olthc speakers, that the anniversary of our revered Sovereign's acces sion 'to the Throne could not b.! more solemily nor more appropriately cclaratesl than ly holding on that day a meeting of his sul jects, for the purpose of demanding an enquiry into the conduct of men charged with having violated the laws to which his Majesty owes The crown of these realms: To this point wets the meeting strictly confined, lot one of the speakers (Mr. Bailey) having expressed a wish to address the people there assembled upon the saject of a Reiiwn in Parliament, be was prevented from m doing by the Chairman,. 'who acted in con formity with the opinion of Lord Milton and the other Gentlemen on the hustiLgs. A letter has been sent from the Treamury to dm Commissioners ¶ t Taxes. It is expldnatory of the Act of the last Session fee the relief ef . persons com pounding their msetemd - taxes, and has been called forth by the inconvenience and vexation which they have suffered from ivareeyors and other officers em ployed in tx:diectirg them. 'ln addition to a general desire, that the act should he executed favourably towards the .parties availing themselves of it, it directs That rrsrns compounding, for kur-wheeled be allowed to kcip two wheeled carriages and ri,N• + . ersa Tl.itt thi*t who compound for set V«.r115 of the higher class shall be aNi owed any oienibtr ot all claror , . srll. That r:Tsous compounding for horses may kap ponies, otol 4111. That persons iirti" , compound fOrfily sort of sporting doe mny kt.vp any number of any sort, i7azelie of Tuesday conta;us the O'er of a free ',union for any but the printipals, who shall dibr o ver direr sc rson or persons who tired into the houses of • ut oti the late Inquest at North Shieldss to which pardon, th,:ra ia prof. of .1 42 and 100 guineas. t 49-4 ;, ` - - , , i' • .4 • - e, , ! . , .... 40 .. 4,::..... .: • ..,,, , A Ir-..: 4 . Is tr ..i. ac o l ' r.:N d e- s :11 ---,