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,of one e permitted to dri') '110.!c , ; to represent that comm , . in that station at the InOment- It.Caust. he discountenar ed despaii• ant of deSpondenC?? men, in the view ofasnhject so mighty ..ncent as oiis. T ,should disdain to be .ide to rittrtipl or individual considerations. howecer, - not to say something because our tlimnphs would be in-' and its blessings 'might be transitory, be led astray by any sophistry, -or ,76 (sent in a sort of Comproillise or,cont unon t*,e..u-,et, or to mis-state the causes by which :ii-mph has been produced. 4111 of. onc ,, trnst and believe_ we are, in exulting at e ' t'. country ; all-of one mind, I trust thron , hout this land, in determining_ tb; persevere, if need 12e, in strenuous exertion to co,inpicte, and. I hope to perfect the great work so- haxpily in progress. But we know that there are some of those who share most heartily . in'the Irczbiic exuhation, who yet intendernessfor disap pointed prophecies, endeavour to disconnect of feet and cat; ;e in a ,manner which I humbly think erroneous—and it is an error which I also think .1 ,, , 1 might be dantferon, if unwarily, adopted, and ge- nerally received_ We have beard, for instance, that the - war has atlength been successful, he cause the principles on which the .war was under taken had heeU ;hanged ; that we are at length blessed with victory because we have thrown away the. banner under which tnc commenced the con test ; that the contest was commenced with one set of principles, that the issue has been happily brought about by the adoption of another.— Gentlemen, I know of no, such change. if we have succeeded, it has not been by the abandons ment, but by the prosecution of our principles, if we have succeeded, it not been by adopt ing new maxims of policy, but by upholding, under all varieties of ditliculty and- dispourage ment—old established, inviolable principles of conduct. - We are told now, forsooth,„ that this war has became a.war of the people , and that therefore, by the operation of that -Orange the power of imperial France haS - been baffled and overcome. Nations, it is-said, have at length joined their Sovereigns a contest, which here tofore had" been a contest of Sovereigns Anly.— Gentlemen,- the fact of the change might bead mitted, without therefo . e. admitting the argument. It does not folloW ti:at rile people Were not at all times equally interes:ed in.the tear, (as those who think as I do, have always contended that they were,) becadse it may be and auast be admitted, that the ,People is many countries were for a time deluded. Our antagonists say that jar ring interests have been reconciled. We say that gross delusions have been remover!; We both admit the fact that sovereigns and their peo 7 pie are identified. But they who say that this ha€ been effected by change of principles, let them Specify the change.. What change has taken place amorg the nations of Europe ? We are the best jadges.of ourselves : what - change .has taken place . here. Is th.l constitution other than it was When we were told, as we often were in the bad times, that it was a doubt if it.werr worth defending Is the constitution other than it was when it was supposed that peace on any terms must: be made as the only hope of saving. it from popular indig nation and popular reform ? Gentlemen, there is another . rikestion to be asked—By what power, in What part of tile world has that final blow been struck which has smitten the Tyrant to the ground ? I suppose by some en lightened republic,; 1 suppose by some nation which, in the excess of popular freedom, con siders even a representative system as detective, unless each individual interferes directly in the government of the national concerns. I suppose . by -some nation of enlightened patriots, every man of whom is a politician in the coffee-house as well as in the senate. I suppose it is from some such government as this that the conqueror of despots, the enemy of monarchical England, has met his doom. I look through the European world, Gentlemen, in vain ; I find there no such government ; but in another hemisphere I do find such a one, which no doubt must be the political David by whom the Goliab of- Europe has bbcn brought, down. What.is the name of that glorious republic to which the gratitude of Europe is eternally due; 'which front its hatred to tyranny, has so perseveringly - exerted itself to liberate the irdrld, and at last has successfully closed the con test ? Alas ! Gentlemen, such a republic I'd° in deed find, but I find it enlisted, and, God be thanked, enlisted alone, under the banner.of the" despot.—(Applause.) But where was the blow struck ? Where ? Alas, for theory ! The blow was given in the wilds of despotic Russia. It was followed up on the plains of Leipzig- 7 )y Russian, Prussian, and Amstrian arms. But let me not be mistokea. Do I therefore argue,—do I therefore give to our antagonists the advantage of arguing', that an absolute monarchy is better than a free government ? God forbid! What I mean is this, that in appreciating the comparative excellence of political institutions it is. idle—it is mere pe dantry—to overlook the feelings of nature. " The order of 'nature could not subsist among mankind, if there were not an instinctive patri 7 - otism ; a love of national independence, I do not say unconnected with, but prior and paramount to the desire of 'political amelioratiok may he' 'yery wrong that this should be so. I cannot help it. Our business is with the fact. And surely it is not to-be Tegretted that tyrants and conquerors chunk' have learned from experience that the first consideration suggested to the inhabitants of any country by a foreign invasion, is not whether the political constitution of the state is perfect, but whether the altar at Which he has, worshipped, and the home in 'which he has dwelt froni.his in fancy, whether his. wife and ,his whe ther the tombs of his forefathers, Iviiether the pa .tace, of the sovereign under whoni lie was born, tend to whom he.may.owe, or fancy that he owes allegiance,—should be abandoned to violence, and profanation That in' the infancy of the French Revolution '.many nations in Ey;ope were unfortunately led, , believe and to ao" , ,niwn a different persuasion, is undoubtedly trti . -,that whole countries were over-run by reforminyconquerors, and flattered themselves with being proselytes till they found themselvcs victims. Even in this couutry, as- I V Sal 4VE , there VC OCCII 4F!! - PCs Wrier! IVeIIdVC been culled upon to whether there something at borne..wlrielt riattst - b mended before:wt.! could 'hope to. repel a - fiyreign invader With Juccess. `-`- Gentlemen, it is .happy for the world that this. sort of question shOuld have .I)cen tried, if may so say, to a disadvantage ;. that it shotild have been tried in countries where no man in his senses will say that the frame of political society is such, as according to the. most moderate prin ciples regulated freedotn it ought to he, where I will venture to say, without hazarding fheim putation of • being myself a visionary reformer, political - society is not such, .as after th'e success of this war, and from the happy contagion of the example of Great ltritaia it is sure gradually to become. ks - happy for the world that this ques .tion as to—ere value of national independence shopld thus ,have been tried on _its own metits ; that after twenty years of_controveriy we should be authorised by Undoubted results to revert to truth and nature, and to disentangle the genuine feelings of thelleart from obstructioUS which a generalizing . philosophy had wound around them " One of. the most delightful poets of this country, in describing the differences of soil and tlimate, and - the various. Proportions of natural blessings and advantages dispensed by Providence to the various nations of Europe; turns from the beautiful vallies and cloiniless sides of Italy to the rugged mountains of Stvitzerlane, and in quires whether there "alo in. these SeVel'e and un kindly regions, the patriot passion. is found cqualy to prevail, he decides the question 'truly in thq affirmative, and he says of the inhabitants of those hard climes—, 4 , Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, ALddear that hill which liftslim to the storms ; And as a child, when searing sounds`rnolest; Clings eloseand closer to the mother's breast, No the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar . 134 hind hint,:to his native 'mountains more? " What. Goldsmith has thus beautifully applied to the physical varieties and disadvantages of a cow:try has been found to be not less true with respect to political institutions. The sober desire of improvement, the rational endeavour to redress wrong or correct imperfection in the political frame of a goternment arc not only natural but laudable-1n man : but 'it "is well that it should have been shown by irrerragable proof that these sentiments where they exist, sitpersei not that devotion to native sOil which is the foundation of national indepeinicimee. - ; And it is right that it should be understood and reMembertid.that this sentiment of national ind',Tendence alone--arous ed where it had slumbered—enlightened where it had been deluded-zind kindled into enthusiasm -by the insults and provocations of the enemy, has been found Sufficient, withoth internal changes, or compromises of Sovereigns and Governments with their people, , without.relaxations'of allegi ance-or abjurations of authority, to connect the ,nations of the Continent in * one common cause, to lead them against their tyrant, and to shake (aril may we not hope to overthrow) the liahel of his power ? - • Gerrie:nen, so much for the sophistry by which it was for twenty years attempted to per suade mankind, hat it might in some cases be a queStion, whether to acquiesce under the inflic tion of foreign dominion - might not bepreferable to the vindicating imperfect institutions against it. 'That sophistry,' .1- - 'truSt, is laid at rest for oar time. Another topic ,more peculiar to our own country has at tinfes been interposed to dis- Conine the prosecution of the war, and draws the more attention, as many well-meaning per sons have been occasionally ranked among its sup porters. That this country alone was sufficient to its own defence—sufficient to its own•happiness— sufficient to its own independence; and that the complicated combinations of continental policy were always hazardous 'to our interests, as well as burtheusome to our means, has been at seve ral periods of this war a favourite doctrine not only with those who for other reasons wished to obstruct the conduct of the war, and to embarrass the measures of the Government, but with men of the most enlightened mind's, of the most bene volent views, and the most unsuspected devotion to the interests and constitution of their country. " Can ally titan now look back upon the trial which we have gone through, and point out any period during the last 20 years in which the plan of insu lated policy could have been adopted without, in the event, at this day having -primstrated England at time foot of , a conqueror ? Great, indeed, has been the call upon our exertions—great, indeed, has been the drain upon our treastsres—long mid wearisome has the struggle been, and late is the moment at -Which peace is brought within our reach ; but even, though the difficulties may have been enaanced,.and its duration protracted by it, yet is there any than who seriously doubt whe ther the 'having associated our destinies with the destinies of 4,t *r nations, or not, that Which, wilder the blessing of-; Providence; :has e'ventually secured the *,taltty of,all ? It is at the moment when such a trial has come to its issue that it 'iS lair to ask of those 'who: have suffered under' the pressure of proti'acted:exertion (and of whom, ra, ther than of those whom I now acklress = for by whom have those privafions been felt mote sen sibly ?) it is now, I say, the time to ask,- Whe ther, upon a review of the whole contest, any man can Toint Oat the period at which such a peace could have been made, as should at once have guarded the national interests, and , corre sponded with the national character ? lam 114- dressing myself now to those, and to those only, who think the character of a nation at essential part of its strength, and ,consequently of its " Is it when the Continent was at peace ; when looking upon the map of Europe you saw but one mighty and connecteksystem, one great luminary withA number of attendant satellites circulating around him,—was it at that period that England could have made peace, and hare remained at peace for a twelvemonth ? What, is the answer ? —Why, that the experiment was tried. The re sult was the renewal of the war. Was it at a later period, when the Continental System bad been established ? when two-thirds of the ports of the Continent were shut against you ; when but one-link, as it ,were, was wanting to bind that Conguent in a circling chain of iron, which. .SPOUICI exeiutte yon "Ifolll IIII.CFCoui - u W 1.11, other nations of Europe. , At that moment peace was moist earnestly r:cornmended to'.yon, -At, that monient,Gentlemen,l first came . amorrg you.Attliat moment I ventured to 'recommend to you perse verance, passive perseverance : and to express hope, that by the Mere strain of an unnatural ef fort, tile massive bonds forged for ynur restraint 'might at no.distant period, burSt asunder. I was 'heard . , Gentlemen, by you with indulgence ; I know not whttlier with conviction. But : is it now to be regretted that we did..not, at that mo ment', yield to the pressure of our wants, or of our fears ? What 'has been the iSsnei• The Conti nental System was completed, with the sole ex ception of Russia, ,in the .year 1812. In that year the pressure Upon this country was undoubt edly painful. Had we yielded, .the system would Loire been immortal : we persevered, and before the conclusion of that year the system was at an end ; at an end as all schemes of violence are sure to terminate, not by a mild and gradtal decay, such as waits upon a regular and well spent life, but by sodden dissolution. At an end—like the breaking up of a winter's froit.. But yesterday the whole, Continent was bound up, as it were, in chains of ice,- and presented to the view one drear expanse of barren unifo o rmity 3 —to -d ay the breath of Heaven unbinds the soil, the streams begin to flow again, and Duman intercourse re .4 • " Can we regret that we did not lie down and die under the sufferings of the inclement season or did we not more wisely to bear up, and to wait the change'!" •.The remaining parts of this brilliant Address not being of so much general interest, we have clos'd an Extract which we are sure will be most acceptable, not only to all admirers of genius, but to all sound-minded Politicians and real Patriots. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP CHANCERY, FRIDAY, JAN. 14; 1814. It was .annaunced by an Officer of the Court, this morning, that the se 'ere indisposition of the LORD CHANCELLOR Still COfitilltied.so great' as to confine him to his room and bed,' probably for weeks to come; but that due notice had been given at•the Public Offices of the. Court, stating that the first Seal betore Hilary_ Term, would be .held at the hon.se of his Lordship in Bedford square, at'the hour of t‘i-eive o'clock, while the peremptory, or motions not special; would be made betore the VICE-CHANCELLO7.. THE VICE CHANCELLOIL'S COURT: SIR 'WILLIAM CURTIS, COX, AND CO. V. SIR T. PAXTON* AND CO. A•Clerk of Messi;s. Cox, Curtis, and Co. the Brewers, had embezzled the money of his- em -ployers. He. had borrowed money- from Sir-,T, Paxton, both , before and after the-period of his, entering into the service 'of the \ piintifFs, and lodged policies of insurance on -his life with Sir T. Paxton as a security. The Clerk died, the eal bezzlement was discovered, and the plaintiffs claiMed to be entitled to the benefit of the poli cies, oil the ground that they were purchased with their money, and they filed the bill, for a disco - very. The answer was, that the defendant. had a right to detain the-securities, the prejuiuMS bay ing been paid with the money which they lent t o the Clerk. To this answer exceptions„were taken, .anda reference took place., ,The Master disallow ed the exceptions, and on : that ground an, excep tion was taken to the Master's report. lost .of the exceptions to the answer were allowed by. the Court, and the defendant ordered to answer over. To a question, as to the dates of 'the policies, the defendantanswered, that. they ntighehave been of the dates stated in the bill." kleld that this answer was too vague, the plaintiffs being enti 7 tied to have the belief of the defendant,, whether they were or not ; or a positive negative Or affir mative, as far as was consistent with his know ledge.=--It is important to note this, as answers ate often inadvertently couched in such vague terms as the above. The case,of Purcell v. AP - Namara, with several others in the paper of causes, were ordered to stand over to be heard -by the Loan CHANCELLOR. OLD BAILEY. CHARGE OF MURDER. testerday, Freeman was indicted for the wilful murder of Anu.Simpson, by striking - her on the bead with a pewter-pot: Hannah Crawley ,deposed,, that about- three weeks ago she was sitting- at, the Golden Chain public-house, near the Tower;, the deceaSed was sitting in the same box ; the prison came in, and called for a pot of porter, and drank to:the health of another woman. This enraged the' deceased, who snatched the pot out of the prison er's hand, and threw the porter away-; the prisOner then struck her two violent-blows on the head, which made the blood flow profusely. Witness did not think that the prisoner meant to do more than chastise the deceased, who cohabited with Whim. They were both violently passionate. Mivitlunif,, a lrnpil of the London Hospital,' said, that the wound did not dppear dangt , rons ; but the deceased Was attacked }with an 'erysipelas, which irritated tire wOunc; ,and cau.=cd au i u ration of the braih, of which he died. The prisoner said he was a 3ohtier, and had lost a hand in the service of his country. He meant no serious injury to the woman ; who , tiyed with . hitp ; but she was very passionate, and pro yoked him to strike her. " lie was found - guilty of illanslanOter.- PORGERY. • , George Lentz, alias G. H: Douglas, was indicted for having 'forged and . .uttereci (knowing it to lie forged) a draft 'for 1371. , 1,35., With - inteljt• to de fraud Sir J. Esdaile and Co. and Eliza_Elvey.—, The prosecutrix, who is' a shopkeeper in Bond. street, deposed, that the prisoner 'Came to her house, and bargained, for a valuable dressing-case; and some other expensive articles ; as he had . the appearance of man of fashion, she did not sus pect him of any fraud., and carried the goods ac cording to the address which he had givenl4, Charles-street, Berkeley-square; 'the prisoner was at the door, and delivered the check in 'ques kV MULL, liti alt the banker's. ::.One of the clerks ofEsclaile's rouse pr6cet l that no person of the name of G. FL 1)Ouglas" /{el ) cash th erd , . Harding, a musician, proved that the prisoner name. was Lentz. , His father Vt:as a vespectn l)l.3 untsician, and the son was an excellent hair player. • • - V Taunton, the of ieer ,who upprehended_ found - at his lodgings the dressing-case, and (Id' plieates of the other property. ' - The , prisoner acknowledged the tratisactioo but said, that the check was written by a C0WL . ,,0" nion,,who caned, himself Spencer neberdp.---kie was found Guilty. `the prisoner is the same Who . was tried and convicted, on Wednesday, of stealing &Watch, . 1 • 01 c. der .similar circumstances. . 11 . W. Jones kuld J. flail NVC:T Capitally convicted of sheep - -ttealinm - .. • N • POLICE. ROBBING COACHES. BOW-rSTRE s ET.-Yesterday • John Leroyd, 2115 5 Rodney, was brought to the Oflice in the c ustodi of Lavende! and Taunton,. charged on snspicN; l : of robbing the BUchinghani Stage Coach, 0r4.4 e 1 . in the King's Arms Inn-yard, Holborn, on SO' day evening, of a parcel. sent lipm Messrs. Itic . h" wood and Sou's,Bank, at. Aylesbury, 'directed t° Messrs. Praeds and Co. Bankers, Fleet-str•N' l ' London, their agents, containing Bank of, laird notes, country !..nk-notes, and bills; to til" amount of 80001. Tim particulars of thediio,' very of the robbery We stated on Tuesday. T he prisoner was conimitted for fUrther examination' ROBBERY ON THE THAMES. • Samuel P,eppard underwent a second exam''", tion, charged on suspicidn of being concertle.l%v io three others in robbing the Walton and Wcyhrig 6 r - Lug-boat on_ the night of the 14th of Deco lib e l last, and Stealing thirty reams of paper, direc t '' o to Messrs. Hamilton's, printer,s, ~S'eyhridge. 1 , prisoner-was also charged with receiving the P IV per, knowing' it to have been stolen. . • Part of the paper was traced to .thp, - po s sessio a. of the prisoner, who, it appeared, had sold it to. Mr. Tiwlake for 245. a ream, who sold it toe third man for 265. and he to a fourth man for 0 The real owner attended, 'and stated the pri. c " : from the mill,, to be 365. and the wholesale Pr`- d '' to'be 38s. for cash.—Thelirisoner.was coinio itte for trial. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. . . 111 - ApLBOROUGH-STREET.—Three men in toe COl plpy . of Mr. Kent, brush-maker, in Tyler's-eo u q Carnaby -market, have been twice examined, at' length were vestert,lay committed for tial , c , the charge of ..robbing their master to a very C 4 •sideraWe amount. It appeared, by the statera - : of the prosecutor,, that within the last 12 months lldheen robt4ed of bristles and other articlC 4 , l ; rz - his shop, mq•nufaetured and umnanufactured, to amount ,of I .7))01. but ha(l neve-r been able to tY tile thieves. It was at length diScovered by a •vant of Mr. Alderson, a neighbouring pekvtereoi'i that the . pmsecutor's carter was ,in the ...I:abi", 6 disposing ofrbrisiles and bruiFl')6;„ .und• b" properly" Made this fact, known, by which t• three prisoners, 'one of who - m was tire ior: ,were detected. Search warrants were .profe.rit vo in the apartments of' the Prisonors pre. e ,;,4 t-0 a ',considerable .amount, which was idea by Mr. Kent, was found. the Two- female shoplifters vi7eTe brought hY ri j parish constables of St. Anne, charged with 5 t ",,.. in; a piece of linen from the sho'n Of a draper in Grafton-street. One of the pris"" t t v madea trifling purchase in the shop, wltilGt: iO other stole the property. She was seen %sic , ' t oo the.street in a manner which excited the, finsPi el i a of a person passing by, who gave informatioo eJ the :prdseckor. The prisoners were cowl-Ide for BIRTHS. - .On Sunday last, Lady Andover; the wife of Captain 11+0 of a still-born daughter.' On the llth inst. the Lady of the Rev. Jahn 'Banlos kinsan, of a sun-. Oa Tuesday last, at Melbury, the Countess of rlcfiester, a d OnWednesday T morning, at Kew, the Lady of Capt:,inSlCr: will, of the Kirg• s own Stafford Militia, of a *ion. .1 O f Yesterday morning, Mis. Groom, of,Liacola's-inn-5 0 ° 5 ' a daughter. . MARRIED. • f spa On the 27th ult.'at Fort George, Harry Pegou,.Esq. p* , Royal Scots FAileers, to Miss Macthinald, daughter 0 ' Thpina.s Macdonald, of the 6th Royal Veteran fiatta,lidn' : 0 0 At Quithiock,'Mr. Rayne, Stygeon, of Lislimrdy to Rogers, of the fOrmer plaee. DIED. ii , I.° On the 24th'ofNorember, on boare the Unit 6 frigatec,llo' 31st year, on his return to En g l a nd f rom Sicilv o lseP l3 . --- 740 0 ' Esq. eldest son of Thomas Smith, Esq. of Stoke New'f% tbs He had some years beta -British Charge d'Affaires'" - Court Of Sin•dinia. - - - ni tti ; • On the Ist inst in the 3 ltH year of his age; Samuel `'ca' Esq. of Calow-House, acarChesterfield, Captain in the !,. dale Local Militia. • • , . us oln On the -2d inst. at . fltill, aged SI, Mr. , Joslina-4 1 ' c Plumber and Glazier, of that 1 3 . jf. On Monday, the SCI in.,t. at I,..uzstowe-Hall, Crt ll , )l / 1 ? shire, Charlotte' Eleonoca, aged 62, ;cars, the 'Mhz. of 'l le. Dr. Thomson,: fs 4' On the stb.inst: "at Hull, agedss, Timotb , : Lundio Senior Altlerman of the Corporation of Beret - 14. • s et'' On the Bth lust. at Bouningtoa l w•ae, Mrs. Ferguso n ' 9f Raab; Scotland. • . •• h 7 , . On Sunday last, Captain Ti:lard, ,late.commander °' ,14Ia:jeSt,..'s' 214' San Joan, (iibraltar. ' • s ia ‘f , ..-- -:f,- ~f NI ,f l'e'' . •On efortday, 'Mrs. .)iortonovile of Mr.. Morton, 0 ton n Graveliii!s. ,O the 12t.if iu,t. • at 'Westbrook-House, ilex W0 — Francis .lohn''ry.ssen,, E q. in the 590 year of On Wedneoay, the 120 inst. Mr.. JuAn Tiunnas, ing.cross, in the 53d year of 1.4,age.. , at Lis house at Symouward, near 1.10 ,1, >, Rev. R. Van]. Price . .60s od. to • Od. to . • • 'CO M, MARKET, JAN. 14. Ships at `,Target. Ship, sold, 110 Newcastic .7i 124 Sunderland 1 Cannel C6al PRICE OF STOCK Bank Stock, 9..13 ,„ • Naty 5 per Cent.9s,U 95i • 4 per Cent. 814 :$ per Cent. Rcd.,GST,I ,Z 3 per Cent. Cons. 6.4 1i , e5 : 1 'Balk L. Ann. 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