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London, England, 1819-11-29 00:00:00

A POLITICAL WARNING.

The Dublin Weekly Register cowman' an able
Review of the Political State of litlaud, fur the
last thirty years, addressed as a wariiing to
wen. It concludes thus :

" Such is the brief summery related in a soh.
slued tone, of the real history of Ireland. upon the
moral of which it may be war/4 your while in your
leisure motuents to reflect. lit rightly studied it
will equally deter you from any acts of illegal vies
knee (let all the odium of that remain nun your
enemies), and on the other band it will warn you
against the dangers of unconstitutional apathy, or
of implicit reliance on the wisdom and motives of
the present directors of your destinies. Upon th.s
latter point (before I have clone) it single won'.
Nut only is the same system, which reduced Ireland
to what she is, at work upon Ettgl iiid, but some
of the identical men who gave her the death-blow.
and who must in consequence he impres►ed with a
horrid confidence iu the powers of the sword, are
now enjoying tack and authority among you ; after
having exhibited such taleuts for tragic scenes upon
• provincial theatre, they have now assumed the
more ambitious task of drawing sighs and teats
from an imperial audience. It may be worth your
while to remember this. It ►nay be worth your
while to ask yourselves, what claims they can have
upon your confidence ? Would you intrust your
lives to the pretender whose noxious drugs had sent
a brother or a friend to the grave ? Between you
and them what constitutional sympathies Call
sub-
sist In whatever way the present contest may rho,
they feel sure of their reward—what honourable
interest then can they be snpposed to take in the
event ? the same that the lievering vulture takes in
the issue of a fight—let the conflict terminate as it
may he will have his feast. Do you not perceive
that in such men every feeling of country must be
dead ? What sympathy did they shoe fur their west.
which they devoured, till its means of satiatiug
the►r rapacity were exhausted—or can you for it
moment doubt the ravages they must have coin.
witted, or the motives of their emigration ?
very appearance of such birds of prey upon j our
shores, is the clearest proof that before they %stria
driven to loam abroad, the COMMIS on which they
had fed at borne must have been picked to a skelee
toes. Be not then so Infatuated as to rely on
their patriotism awl fidelity. They betrayed then
original duties—can they respect any new ones ?
They have claimed spd found the deserter's wel-
come—hut are they, to escape ti4e deserter's fate,
that of being for ever the objects of vigilance, so..
picion. and contempt ?
'I These remarks (in my view not unimportant, but
such us they are) I offer to poor consideration. To
me it appears that the wo g our iiistusy hold♦
out, iv at this othaeutestitled tO your peculiar wens

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

'tlon—that it shoild he received as the solemn com-
munication of a departed friend to his survivor to
reveal the designs of on enemy against his life. Per-
haps I may err in my estimate of your danger, hut
when I compare the past with the present. I caimot
but tremble at what is possible. I have before
my eyes the mournful spectacle of the humiliation
that may befal a once proud and generous nation.
1 know that it is asked among you. "what has be-
come of the voice of Irelood ? Is there to be no
public expression of her sorrow or indignation at
events which fill our breasts with aiigniTh and
alarm ?" Alas ! to ask mach a question is to eon..
fess your ignorance of her condition. We are now
in a state in which, on such • subject, silence is
wisdom. We dare not provoke the retaliation which
the display oT any imprudent sympahy with you
might bring down upon us. But do not therefore
imagine that we ate looking on with heartless no.
cohere upon you; struggles. Were there nothing
else than the late affront offered to one of the most
respected of your nubility. that alone would have
put the heart of every lotteett Irishman in mot
We do trot forget that it was Lord Fitzwilliain who
once came to us the messenger of peace and free-
dom. Ile would have humanized our councils—he
would hive checked the aggressions of a despotic
..tion—he would have made the interests and rights
nt thelubject the rule of his administration. and
therefore be was sacrificed. • That an occasion
should be taken of exacting from him • further ex-
'nation need excite no surprise ; as the friend of
frelaod, he owes u long arear of atonement to the
poli•ical heirs of Mr. Pitt, which you may be cer-
tain was net overlooked by the advisers of his recent
dismissal. Under other circumstances we should
hot have been slow in tendering to such a man, and
to the cause in which he is emharked, our homage
and support. Yet, though our tongues may be
tied, our huoes mid prayers are with that cause.
Every rational mind in this country sees that its
dearest interests are indissolubly blended with yours.
I, ? may have found ourselves bound to abstain from
all interference in those particular plans of reform
upon which your own opinions are divided ;—but
our deep persuasion is, that the lovers of a free Con-
sult,' iiiii anon]; you, by whatever name you may he
culled, ore those to whom alone we can in every
emergency look up for protection and redress."

HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATURDAY, Nominal' 27.

At two o'clock this day the SPEAKER tool• the
Cl,ai►.

Lord .1. BtRESTORD tOon after appeared at the
lysr, and informed the Howe that his Royal High-
ness the Prii.ce Regent had been pleased to appoint
three o'cler-k this day for receiving the Address of
the Notate ire anover to the Spertii.
The SPEAKER. in his state carriage, attended by
several Nletsib..,rs, immediately after proceeded to
Carlton-house with the Address.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

way of Worm% 4 *Anti* etebrit.d.by
went of the Boditi(orpeOstry titre in - • • llse
.
previous reports 'keit in public Jniiienalgi.akik he
was abeady removed to Mentz, were, at all events,
unfounded. But it is now generally asserted, that he
is so fully recovered that he could make the
journey to this his new destination. It is said that
Sand had of late expressed great joy at his re-
covery, and his repentance at having attempted
suicide, because he mast consider the deed he had
committed as only half consummated unless it wet.%
followed by his public execution on the scaffold.
These and similar expressions stated to have
been used by Sand have been compared with
passages in the intercepted letters, which are in the
possession of the police of &din, wherein it is
said that it is absolutely necessary that Sand
should perish on the scoffold : and hence argu-
ments have been derived for new apprehensions
in the existence of • secret plan. On the other
hand, anonymous letters are said to have been re-
ceived by several public authorities, threatening Its
revenge the death of Sand. Notwithstanding every
exertion that has been made, it has not been pos.
sible to discover the authors of these incendiary
writings. The confronting of two students of Jens
wish Sand here at Manheim, took place because it
bad been discovered that Sand received money from
them to defray the expenses of his journey from Jena.
This fact seemed to authorise a suspicion that
several persons knew of Sand's plan, and were
initiated in his secret. The affair was not, however,
cleared up by confronting these students with him.
Nobody has for some time past had access to Sand,
and every thing relative to him is buried in pro-
found secresy. In truth, if any one should assert
that Sand is still at Manheim, nobody could
possibly prove or affirm that he is not here, except
the few persons who see him officially, and who ob-
serve a profound silence. M. Von Hohenhorst, who
is appointed by the Grand Duke to 'prosecute the
inquiry, intends to have all the papers relative to the
process printed in due time. Here and in other
places a print is sold representing Saud in his
prison playing on the guitar, and singing with a
cheerful countenance a poem on the liberty of
Germany.

FRANKFORT. NOVEMBER 1.5.
A northern paper gives the following sketch of
the Constitution which the Prussian Government
is going to give to its subjects :

1. The Commercial Administration shall be placed on •
more uniform footing, but the Municipal Adiniuistratiou
shall be more restricted than it is at present.

2. Each circle shall bold assemblies at which the Coun-
sellor of the Circle shall preside ; the Deputies of the towns,
of the land-owners, •r nubility, and even of the peasants,
shall form these assemblies. The Members shall be chosen
by the Regency.
3. Fart. province shall have States, also elected by the
Regency of the provinces : they shall be taken from among
the three orders. Their ancient composition shall be retain-
ed as far as possible. The First President is the chief of
them, and in these provinces in which the French abolished
the States, they shall he restored according to the regula-
tions above.

4. The States of the kingdom shall form two Chambers.
First the Peers, including the fifty mediatised Nobles, to
whom will perhaps be added some of the chief Officers of
State. Second, the Members of the Second Chamber are
chosen in the provincial States. This Chamber is divided
according to the three orders. The Chamber of Peers shall
have only two sections. The first shall (mania the Nobles
mentioned above, with the new Members taken from the
high Nobility. The second Chamber is rompused of the
Clergy, represented by the Bishops and Prelates of all the
Confessions, which gives rralloll to expect that the Humber
of Bishops and Prelates will be augmented.

5. All the Princes, Minister. Or State. and Lieutenants-
General are Members of the Chamber of Peers.
6. All she debates of the Amemblies of the States are
purely deliberative.—(rranifort Papers, November 21.)

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