The National Register.
London, England, 1812-09-13 00:00:00

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Amor* the ridiculous product i•nis uf the week the first flings to be
lunglicd at are—
The sp..ech inserted in some of the Thily Papers, as made by Alr.
at a Inv etinit at Liverpool, in which he i. in to hoi:st
ut
C victory gaii!ed over Government ; though, when the (Jarfuls ut t
eil Were iirst ieVakt•Cl. he disclaimed havieg obtained any ti.in Ike a
triumph over Ministers, and congratulated them on the teittinpii thc!,
kud gained over themselves :
The excessively modest, and singularly becomin,, as,ertion of the
French Ge.;eral St. Cyr, ‘• that he bus peitoroxil iwyossibilitics!"
against the ititszii,i)s.—As this nein is cup:.hle of ar:•liie‘iiin: iwpossiki
lities, we expect 13ot:impute will shout, make i chief An,,,i•
in the hone. that among the iropitssibiliiics he performs, the def. ut of the
Eughs!i Nevv wilt bg: included :
'1 he following J.:ingrain front the lloruing Cii ronicle
ON 1111,, INIJNISTE,.AIAI.ISI-. ASt,:CTATI%iii 7nr SPIJNI)II) VICV)ItY

Ut S. 1.A31 N CA, t. C. elllll 111 `4 RC. IPS OF LI It PAT RONS.
lii SOMOdS Of Viciery tie list,
men eitise, tile\ tell utl ;
Ave. PI 1 , 1.1
AII4j, CA II a. :he bellows. J. C.
Fur the inforrinfri. :bur t;yatlerr. t Way proper to add, that
the above oalisty article wi,.si.etnit to be satirical.
The ti,..itrist,•d ativerti-ement he read with great interest. as t
Colitis a In ,",t f r;i:ile appeal to i:idolenee.
:tiS. So: moos, price sixty shillings, door, up separately
for the pu'rit— onginat manuscript Sermons, adapted for every
•Sinntav thy yes!, and tor lie principal Holidays and extraot din ry
cxca ; pooted in a new Script .ype, cast oil pure se, in exact
imitatitat rl maho,c,ipt. B, a Dignitary ot the Church of Eyglund.
These original Sermons are tespectloily sobaidted to the Clergy as supe-
slur modem compositions. hettvr adapted to their avowed ottjt ct tha•,
any previous attempts of the same Lind. Ihe Author has hints,. o
preached every one s theta, a' d lie c n therefore speak to their suit-
able length and (-rico , he can also boast ot the sanction which they
have received from very disti guished ornaments of the Church.—
Printed, &c. N. Clergymen who may not elemse to purelia-e the
entire set till they have evainined n few, may be accommodated with
a score, inditfei yotly sel,cted, fm- a one-ptaind note, which way, li
aireeable, be addressed ty the publishers I,y the post."
It is Lot sn much the athisrtisenient as " The Di.;nitary of the Chinch
tf England," that we would 'ina on t, as a thing to be laughed at. Whilt
would be thought of a in in who wrote a poem, and undertook to speak
to the effect #!f. i.t ? ant surely it is still azure ridiculous tor a Church
DioNITAKv to pretend sp-ak to the effect of a sernion. It is a pity.
however, that he does nut describe that effect of which he speaks in
his advertisement. Perhaps his performanees has e been found of so
composing a nature, that each might, in Anvil, be reg,arded as a spi
ritual narcotic. The Die.NITA hY possibly did nut like to slate this,
Jest it shold seem that the object of his Sermons, like that of a Ba•
chawaliau song, was "To drive away dull cam." We recollect see-
ing this very advertisement some seven or eight years ago. We can-
not doubt but it was then publish, d by the S,1:11e 141.0tliti EA 13, Digni-
tary we mean, who now comes fan ward. In all probability he has the
same cargo to diap •se ot which he had then. If this be the case, we
mast certainly admit that he has had tune enough to ascertain their
effect ; but after hawking his rubbish about for so many years, what
does he mean by calling his Sermons original ?
The following extract from no address of his Prussian Majesty, to
his loving subjects will be perused with great delight by the admirers
of Buoraparte, with whom it probably originated:\
" His Majesty expects, with the utmost confidence, that all his sub-
jects will blindly concur in fuifilling his paternal wishes."
The following comments, on a passage in the last French Bulletins,
display uncommon cleverness and erudition :
Oudinot, after one of these encounters, was stabbed in the
, *boulder by a Biscayan, and conveyed to iVilna, where the wound
was considered as dangerous. A,sassimttion cannot be justified ; but
the dagger of a Spiniard is loaded with the injuries of his nation.—
The miseries of thousands, and tens of thou-ands, of peaceable, me-
offending, .confiding beings, savagely and most treacherously invaded
by their sworn ally, might well give vigour to the Wow that saved his
country and the world from one ravager more. It is singular, that
among all the changes of the European States by Buonaparte, this
should have been the first attempt at the life a a French Commanuer."
The Times, Scpt. .9.
All this is is very well, and feelingly written-, but it happens that
the Biscayan that wounded Oudinot in the shoulder, is a shot out of a

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