The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-24 00:00:00

OCT. 44 A material depression of the Funds took place on Friday, amounting in Consols to nearly 1i per cent. The first price quoted was 68; for the ac count, and the muket remained stationary for some time after business had commenced ; but when the decline began it was extremely rapid. The above stock fell to 68}, to 68, and to 67k, with scarcely any reaction, and closed at the latter price. Oruninm is at discount. The Foreign Exchanges have been looking downwards for the last fortnight, and on Friday fell in a greater pro portion than on the two post-days preceding. The rate on Paris is now 25 f. 25 c. The Courier of Friday states, with an air of con. fidence, that "as a measure of indispensable pre eaution in the present reduced slate of the army, an additit n of 10,000 men is to be immediately made to the protecting force of the country." We arc further told, that " this will be accomplished in the most efficient and economical manner, by calling into activity those who are receiving from the State the rewards of their former services, and placing them under the command of Officers already upon the pension establishment. The services of a part of the regular army will be in like manner rendered available, by relieving the soldiers now in the gar risons and dock yards, and by substituting marines in their place. With this view, twenty men will Le added to each company of marines, making to gether eleven thousand six hundred men." Tae Ministers seem resolved to display the ut. most vigour in defending the country from every violent effort on the part of its enemies. If they can induce Parliament to accede to their desires with respect to the extension of our military force, they will have obtained one of the great objects tin which their adherents have for some time been en deavouring to alarm the country. We trust, how ever, that Parliament will not permit its fears so far to overcome its judgment as to prevent it front inquiring into the tames of the agitated state of the public mind, before it sanctions the adoption of measures which, in their consequences, are calcu lated to increase the present anger and discontent. No duuht can be entertained that in the want of employment has originated the political ferment which now excites the apprehensions of the Go vernment, and it would be consistent with sound poicy and common sense to seek for the resto ration of tranquillity rather by removing the causes of diseonnait than by adopting any violent mea sures. The Funds on Friday experienced a serious fall, to the extent. of 1 per cent., probably on account of these intended measures, The venerable and patriotic Earl Fitzwilliam has been removed by his Majesty's Ministers from the Mike of Lord Lieutenant and Cu.stav Rotulorum of the West I;iding of the county of York ! Energy is a noble quality in an Administration, and so also i. discretion, and the Ministers have shewed them selves just as wise as they were vigorous in inflicting this summary act of vengeance upon the head of Earl Fitzwilliam, for presuming to hint a doubt respecting the propriety of dispersing, by military force, a meeting of the people at Manchester, and suggesting the necessity of having some inquiry in stituted into a proceeding at once se violent and so unconstitutional. %%Ind a contemptible efthrt of puny spite I Did the wiseacres conceive that in expending the phials of their wrath upon him whom they have selected for its object they could degrade Earl Fitzwilliam in public estimation, or d:minish the respect iu which he is held by every man in the country, not a member of the Cabinet ? In ofkr ing an insult to such a man they degrade and lessen their own characters, and the indignity which their petty anger would fling against him is retortea upon themselves with ten-fold violence. They seem altogether to mistake the nature of office. The character of individuals is independent of the tied dent of place, and as there are many clothed with the drapery of power, on whom, from the unkind ness of nature, nu external circumstance could confer respectability, so there are others whose native dig nity requires no adventitious assistance from the wand or robe of odiem Among the latter must ever rank in the highest degree a British Peer, who, exercisin g his rank, iothiciiie, and talcut.:, fin. the his o , lllltry, and with undevi ating; thinness the siiitight path in' psit-hotiNia and T,rtuc, despises at once the fiowns of sothurin• an•i u..ur of laction, aiei , tie iu Lis own iu ; ill con*., I%.itt;i •: •I i his c..,,.%. THE NA TIONAL REGISTER. A pamphlet, entitled " A Warning Letter to his Iloyal Highness the Prince Regent," has been just published. It professes to be intended princi pally as a call upon the middle ranks at this im portant crisis to rally round the throne and the constitution, as the only power competent to save the country from the dangers with which it is threatened. The bold truths which it contains, and the salutary advice which it inculcates, have excited great interest, anti obtained a rapid and extensive circulation. It would seem, frum the fidlowing extract from this pamphlet, that the Author had anticipated the determination of Ministers to meet our dangers by an increase of the army : " I have spoken just now of inevitable results: I mean, Sir, by that expression, the rebellion which is going to explode. The metropolitan press and rebellion—under the present system, at least— are natural cause and effect; and if your Royal Highness or your Ministers, have any remaining doubts upon this subject, they will soon be deplo rably removed Things h:tve reached their climax : but a revolution will either be prevented or indu ced, according as the middle ranks bestir them selves during the rebellion. If your dependence is placed upon your army alone, fur the suppression of a general insurrection, your expectations will be disappointed. It is idle to suppose that the army will draw a single sword against the collective sense of the nation. Whatever may be the Duke of NVellington's sentiments (and a rumour is guise abroad that his Grace's voice in the cabinet turned the scale, on a late interesting division, where it was no glory to turn it !) he will nut find his troops so ready to obey him, when the charge is against British bosoms, and the word of command the sig nal fur a general fratricide. The reapers will nut go forth to such a Culdcemun harvest !—Beside:, the men themselves are nu longer the saute iudcvi dunis that they were 'Our years ago, flushed with conquest, and inebriated with blond. Peaceably domiciliated among their friends, they have all this while been gradually collapsing intu weir civil cha racter ; and to a great degree, they have become amalgamated with the people. The press, also, must have had its neees-dry influence upon them ; since a principal branch of its circutation has been running among their immediate relatives and con nections. So that they cannot have escaped its contaminating effects any more than the people ; although their habitual subjection to comma at, and their ideas ever reverting to discipline, would natu rally hold out a longer siege against the incursions of time poison. " On no military movement, then, unsupported, by the great class of the middle ranks, can your Royal Highness plum the least reliance, or hope from it the smallest advantage. Our salvation is in ourselves alone. We must effect the best issue that we can, to a contest no longer avoidable ; and I hope, Sir, we shall not be slow, in this tremen dous crisis, to rally round the fairest political edi fice that ever yet human ingenuity raised up, and mankind admired !—I could place in u yet stronger light, Sir, the futility of trusting to your soldiers, without the countenance of your people: but, I think, I have done it sufficiently. 4• With a beating heart, I am now going to touch upon u subject, which, when I sat down to address your Royal Highness, I had determined oot to disturb; but my ti sling s curry me away. I have heard, since I begun this letter, that it is the fixed resolution of Ministers to make no con cession upon that point. But it will be at their peril, Sir, so to disregard the voice of the people, and to contitund it with a radical clamour*. The Government, and those who judge it, are at issue upon many points, the carrying of which would be of much more lasting political importance and bene fit to the country : such are the Triennial Parlia ments, fur instance, which I spoke of to Lord Herttind ; and the disfranchising of such boroughs us Grattan and Old Sarum, and such obnoxious anomalies as Cortle Castle ; together with one or two other of the desirable delenda of moderate re form, " But all this, and ten times more than ever was asked, or expected. might now be conceded in vain. There is a bone of contention between the people and the Government, about which—with the excep Lion of the interested parties—there is but one pre vailing opinion: and however the timid, and those who hate extremities, may be disposed to sacrifice agmnst their consciences, the multit le is too much irritated ever to listen to any accon (station, short ost signal justice. 1 h e 1 t i nac i ty w i . h of the m which Ministers continue to rethse this, has brought all the mischief to a head: but it is a mural impos sibiiny to elude it lon g " I will not trust myself with any remarks tram the temerity of your Royal Highness's imvisers in wat lousiness, nur the precipitancy with which didr at i rm; was toihnirell. We attiolre you, Si:, :thug': tbsir, Mr your imis....iiiiih;li tv • ...,1.• • r . ; ~., . . your own. But the cry of the nation is too general, to be impugnly slighted; and the sooner your Roy al Highness dissolves partnership with the present men, the safer will it be for you, and the better for your people ! Let me not be misapprehended for an instant : I only speak in the anxiety of attach ment ; those who are not acquainted with the Rs dical Press, as I am, can front no notion of the daring threats which are weekly levelled at your person and your life, To see and hear these, Autl be silent, would be compromising treason." • "Although a mixture of jealousy and caution may be re marked in the following passage, it breathes too determined a resolution to vindicate the Rights of the People, to be silently overlooked. Kill Ministers call this writer a Radical? •• • It, in the repression of arty meetings of the people for any ()West of Reform, wise or impracticable, their rights have been infringed, or any wrongs to individuals have been committed. I shall be anamsst the hrst to vindicate every redress which the laws can sanction, and shall be found at all times ready to resist the slightest encroachment upon the national freedom. In such a came, mistaken opinions, or the grossest misconduct of huh, i duals, ought to have no kind of effect to disappoint public jui dee, nor to prevent the union of all classes, to uphold the vital security of our liberties. lam not at all acquainted with the details of this interesting and affic ing subject, hut in whatever shape I can be called upon to consider them, I shall be folly preps" sltodo my duty.'"— vises lo the Dvenee of ho 117hig.. The nuptials of her Imperial and Royal High ness the Archduches Caroline, of Austria, with the Prince Royal of Saxony, was celebrated by his Imperial and Royal Highness and Eminence the Archduke, Cardinal Archbishop of Olmutz, in the presence of the whole Court, with unusual pony. The Archduke Cardinals de Saline-Saline and Trautinunsdorlf• His Holiness has conferred upon their Imperial Highnesses and Eminences, the Archduke Antony, Cardinal Archbishop of Gran, and the Archduke Rudolphus, Cardinal Archbishop of °bunts, brothers to his Apostolic Majesty, the Palium. Prince Napoleon, Duke of Reichanult has been nominated by the Emperor coadjutor to the Archbishop of Olmutz, and leaves Vienna lilt. ()hunts, to reside with his uncle, the Canlinul Rudolphus, were three priests of the order of Jesus will take charge of his theological studies. Extract of a letter received from Newcastle, dated October 20 :—" There is no settlement whatever with the keelmen. They met Mr. Chennell and some of the coral-owners on Monday morning, wheat they offered a farthing per chaldrou on spout coals, to be paid for the extra quantity carried skims January ; and when off work, 2s. ad. per day. This would not, however du. They seem quite de ter 11l ill ed to have the spouts done away in part. They say now eight keels may be taken under the spouts ; before they stood at six keels. When any arrangement w:11 be made is not known. 'flee iseque..t is still going on at Shields." Hs: MAILS —Within these few months, many new and excellent arrangements have been adopted throughout the country for expediting the mails.-- Liverpool now receives all its letters, with the exception of the York mail, early iu the morning, instead of at various hours in the day, and despatches them many hours later (after Exchange time) than it formerly did ; with a despatch one day later of its foreign letters intended for the continent. A com plete and direct moving chain of mail-coaches pro ceeds about 1,000 miles, from Penzance to Thurso, by Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Curlile, burgh and Aberdeen. By a late junction at Man chester, Scotland receives and despatches letters one day quicker each way ; and by a newly established mail-coach from Aberdeen, travelling daily to the Land's-end and Thurso, through a country no stage coach ever went, and where in general no post horses were kept, in most instances the letters reach that extremity of the island several days at oler. The counties of Caithness, Ross, and Sutherland, each subscribed 2001. towards any loss the propriettua of this mail-coach may sustain. MANCIIESTTR, OCT. 20.—1 am sorry to inform you, that the Radicals intend to call another meeting here on the Ist of November. They are actively procuring signatures to a requisit . They will meet no more at St. Peter's-field but uu the waste ground near St. George's-chit• cit. HS DUSS AND DUCHESS OF CLARSIACE.--ELltar% front a letter dated Dover, Oct. 17 :—'• The presence of their 11. sal Highnesses the Mike and Duchess or (71a truce has imparted an eurannltit.try interest in this place. A very plain canine and a pair o horses constitute the while of their equipage. and even of this they make very little use. They walk almost daily through the town and its vicinity, dressed in the simplest style. A young GennAll Guinness, of about her own age, is this D B i t g e %I s e: frtl principal i fe re n t i e a rs ie ri c a o i : n i g ipa (n tio i t as t i , 1 6 . ack o r m i l t ly lf of a liule carriage t e e iradean i7 a til'al of fa ti F ih r e t elso.h:wygir: ut the porn ol'the dgishitti:toenit.l;4.' re eec , ra y, llrr Royal Highness's princip a l ver, 4 1,,,, ; ~ter ker airtyal is sea-bathinpr, it wt.i c i, 51w Irk ad, , 4 . Ii ; tier health AI.II 1.. ~ . 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