The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-17 00:00:00

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, MO.

power when once made and confirmed, are seldom •
driven back without a series of resisianee and
troubles which no good man would wish to see
occurring. Let it not be imagined, however, that as
professors of Whig principles we are disposed to
enjoy our triumph ; no, the same ardent zeal which
has prompted our uniform opposition to evil councils,
prompts us likewise to mourn with thosethat mourn,
endow -sympathise in our Motional misfortunes.— •
We 'have, however, now in unguestioned right to
point to the fulfilment of prophesies which were so
long disregarded, we have the right to call upon
the authors tor our calamities both to mum their own
errors and to desist from the
,paths ,of our ruin.—
We have a right to call upon thi people of England
to do justice to our cause, to Helen no more to the
calumnies which would reprosesi us as enemies to
the crown, and us friends to anturhy and confusion.
We 'have also.a right •to be reacted front that foul
stigma of being an interested and place hunting i
party. God knows the while current of court
favour has run in a very opposite direction for many
years The County Party, vr clit we think is e
more appropriate term then W e, have not been
inaansibleeo this; they .have felt it too severely in
the exolugive patronage of their enemies, but yet
they have honestly persevered, ;unawed by frowns '
and unsill urea by Itribes. Titleelsave been showered
down like manna upon the chosen tribes, power
and influence have been placed entirely in their
hands, and if taxation and ptiblic burthena have
been multiplied upon courtiers tia wen's the lovers
of peace and their country, still means have been
supplied to the former of mein Own bearing up
against them. Places. and poste. mod pensions have
multiplied also, and a field ofi harvest has been
opened, in which they were tike only reapers.—
War was to them a season of
,iiroaperity and joy,
and national poverty the very source of private
wealth - and national dew-11414cm the road to
private honour. Shall principless like these still find
abett,e•s? shall such a cause still lee blindly followed?
shell such men still !Ind supporters ? If they do
such supporters have no tight td complain, no not
even if a tremendous revolution 'ghoul(' at last arise,
and themselves be numbered with its victims.
The remedy, however, for our misfortunes, is
still within our reach. Let the people of England
mark well the anthers of their .present distressed
state. Let them rally round those who have been
their constant and disinterested. friends. Let pri=
vote ends be for once abandoned for public good
Let them talk no more of expecting something &utu
this man, and not liking to oppose that, but let
truth and conscience be their gold°, and the love of
Old England their counsellor. They see and feel
that their present rulers have filed in procuring
for them either prosperity or eantont. They see
that dissatisthction and misery prevail—that coin-
plaint is only met by fresh 01)6th:einem of that
freedom which they should remember their fine-
Pothers fought fie-, and which they should bequeath
unsullied to their children. They foci that tlec
armor, the manufacturer, the mechanic, We all
involved in one cJininon lot. Let them then make
one oomiace. cause :—l.et them meet, let them pe.
titian, let them remonstrate, let them demand what
the constitution has given them . and above all, let
thou demand an inentehute relief from taxation, a
rethrin in that represelitaant which Cid,: to fulfil
its object, :out a dismissal of those advisers whose
continuance in power promisee nothing but e coleis
nuance of terrors, and an iurrease of diisalketion.
The peculiar tippie of our Agricultural Distress
we shall endeavour to discuss next week.

[Pi ics Eiti.

The Moniieur of F►iday amain* an article of consi.
durable length relative to the dew of succession, as it
affects the property of foreigners. It commences with
quoting an expression of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer opon this subject, in th. House of Commons, awl
slating the expediency of rectifying the error which
appears to have arisen ; it then proceedsto quote a num-
ber raf Jaws, also the 18th article ol the Treaty of
UtTMII. and to show their appl cat'un in various cases
with resaard to the property of forei.ners dee-rased. -as
affecting real and liersowal property, and as attevtitr,
Inreigners d 'cited iii Praise, or w'io have
domiciled in France This replan:Mem imi.h•ing
wittier ofFrencla last, is fur the greater part of
little interest. Tee main point regarding die French
law, is for the grc.i• part of little sitriereet. The 1114:11
funds, which we expressly idiotisml to by the
Chance:kir of site Exchequer, is clearly elsicidat
it appearing.beymul all doubt that Heves, or French
stock, in the liossession of foreigners, may be
disposed of by ilieni, or devolve in case of intestacy.
according to the laws of their owd country.; and that
the En lish possessers tit !fettles, in particular; may do-
pe/se of.thein 14:44111 perfect facility: or the ironies are
disposed id, iii case of intestacy, according to their
own laws.

A PPREIPTNSION OF T/16 NOTORIOUS JOUR
WILLIAM s —Some time back we stated the .parti-
culars of this man's escape, botk from Guy's Hos-
pital and Borough Compter (in which latter place
belted been confined on a charge of robbing the
Venus sloop, Capt. Meson, in the month et July
last). AA the.lust Senttlewarl Sessions, Mr. Alley
moved the Court on behalf of the prosecutor .amp
witnesses, praying that the recngniz.tnces might
not be estreated ; which the Recorder granted,
and since thnt perbal, nothing farther teanspirott
to throw the least light on the delinquent's retreat,
till Wednesday night, when the keeper of the prison
received infiwmetion that he was at a house in
Shadwell, whither two trusty officers proceeded,
and succeeded in apprehending and safely lodcring
him in gaol. A true bill has been found against
him, and he will be tried at the next Sessions.
Thursday evening, about dust., a gentleman wan
knocked down neer the Mitt, In Union Street,
Southwark, by three ruffians, who robbed him of a
pocket book contoing two 11. notes, a silver watch,
&e. His cries attracted the attention of 'constable
numell Hvamm, who happened to be passing, and
he pursued the thieves very promptly, but they
all escapee! The watch was afterwards found
near the spot.
In our Paper to-day we give the trial of a man
named Welle, who was tried and convicted at the
Warwick Sessions for uttering seditious expressions,
Nu new law was wanted fur that purpose : he was
tried upon a very old statute, and we merely flake
the feet us a confirmation of the assertion mods) by
the Opposition Members in both Houses, thee the
laws, pa they were, were quite equal to every eon.
stituliessal and honest purpose.
Thursaay a numerous meeting of the Inhabitants
of Canterbury was held at the 011/Wl4llp to take
into consideration tho prnpriety Pt' eenunenenig
subscription to relieve the wants of the necemmitous
poor, during the present inclement season, Among
the comp:my who obeyed this cell of benevolence
were Earl Nelson, the Rev. Dr. %Veldt, the Rev,
Hobert Moore, with most of the resident clergy end
priescipul gentry. A subscriptiuu was entered into,
and a committee appointed to carry the objects td'
the meeting into : Upwards of :ARA, were
humetliatery subscribed In the room.
010.4 es t.Lk.NT ly r,—A communicatiou Weirs;
twit made to M,s. C ewes that the children of Mr.
Irish Chats y Sclitiiil, in St. Gilts's, were
nalit2. tit tti,ut ur 4 most tlei.litrahle state, in consequent et
of tin- inability ill their parents Ina.tpply teem with stir.
ticieut liwrd, that I. tat Ti iir.tl rs, employed stveiall
perstois to purchase all the bread ii.at emilit be pot in
the ociehlunstitia voiles, avid to comes it to the &Omen.
house, there in be ilistriliimll by Isle isijSlCr. The rinsil.
lily iii bread pievii,,sen was mon rose, and this Jona.
tun, it was inn slated, would be speedily followed I"
one equal') liberal. It it an absolute lam, that in the
course of lots wittier several of the eloitilren at this
school have dropped &Act' faint meta caltaustion while
say tea mco lesses.
In COIIIICIIIIVIIre of the very &preterit state of the
epiC.lllural iiiteresOiriiisepli Hanks has teremly gises4
to his f.disetrlii,loire A;terti to mal,r such re •
tllleti )))) • a rent .is may enable tots 111.11111.100, lello'itry tq
meet the emergencies of the times; generously remark.
th.it op.:knee Mtn tio elijosmeiotti
could be believe lion the ctrittlnr•s riS his tenants 04
depettilchts itiidst went ally d uitiotious

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