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THE NATIONAL REGIA'rEa.

the Crown. has produced great and general discontent ,
and will, no don ht, give visit 10 mo,t itilportillit discus-
sions in the Chamber of D.•puties. This law se cured
to the Deputies the• ight of representation for tire yen's,
at the end of which it provided fur a general election,
di is the ca•e With us in England. The wish of Go-
vernment was, however, that the popular reprteenta-
dull should he renewed annually by fifths, a system
which could not fail to establish the control sad as-
cendancy of the King user the Chamber.—Geueral
Deouet, who accompanied 13uonaparte to and returned
with him from Elba, has bean acquitted by the Count
cal of War, on the ground that he acted in roof omit,
to the commands of Napo:eon as a Sovereign Prince,
and that he had exerted himself to pintail the Usurper's
invasion.

The King, we are glad to find, is Ku far recovered tu;
to be üble to reeeive the tineign

By the French papers lately received, we learn that
the Diet of the Germanic Confederation is positively
to ha opened on the 13th of nent month. In Swis-
serland, the inhabitants, who have seen with disgust
their old persecutors, the French regicides, travelling in
great splendour to the places of their ultimate destination,
have on more than one occasion treated them pretty
roughly. It is said that their anger has sometimes ex-
tended to other Frenchmen ; insomuch that the French
Ambassador has thund it necessary to intethre in behalf
of hiA countrymen. Moist:n:s appear to be taken in the
departments to keep a stricter eve than usual over the
movements of the disaffected half-pay officers and dis-
banded raddiers. They are prohibited from travelling
without a passport—a regulation which, if adopted four-
teen months ago, would have efiixtually frustrated Bun-
naparte's ente;prisc. The 18th of this month is now said
to be the day fixed fir the marriage of the Neapolitan
Princess Caroline to the Duke of Beni. The noted Miss
Paterson, of Baltimore, has appeared on the stage of the
public tribunals, it is said, as the wife of the mock ling
Jerome. 'lids good lady's claims had been supposed to
have been bought off by a handsome pension, while her
worthy brother-in-law made and unmade the laws of
France at his pleasura ; but she is now advised, that it is
a more promising speculation to obtain an aline iiy from
the French Judges out of the plunder which Jerome had
lett behind him in France.

Parliament adjourned on Thursday for the Easter Re-
cess: the !louse of Lords till Friday the .2iith instant, and
the l louse of Commons till Wednesday the Q. 1411.
Among the parliamentary business, which lies over for
discussion till after the holydays, are several matters of
great and serious importance. Mr. Scrjcant Onslow's
intended motion for the repeal of the Csary Laws twist
doubtless lead to an investigatiim of the first princi-
ples of our legislation applicable to the interest of money.
Intimately connected with this is the Bank Restriction
Bill. We should trust that these ,objects will nut be
considered in a separate and insulated manner, but in
their relations and bearings on the general principles of
national wealth. It is the ()Wet of the learned Serjeant
to leave the rate of interest to find its own level, without
any compulsion or restraint from legislative etmctments.
The present is undoubtedly a period which seems to de-
mand some alteration of the existing system. Monied
capital was never more requisite tbr the invigoration
of agriculture and commerce: and never was it more dif-
ficult to be obtained at the legal rate.

Recent accounts from Madrid confirm the conspiracy
which had taken place there. The plot (originated with
the disappointed Guerilla Officers, who had assembled
in great numbers at Madrid. Gen. O'Dnoghue had
been set at liberty, having acquitted himself of all con-
' nexion with the plan tior taking away the lives of Ferdi-
nand and the Royal Family.
Advices from the Ifavannah to the Ist of February,
bring intelligence that Santa Fe had &Hen into the hands
of the Royalists, atter a smart action ; General Murillo
himself commanded on the occasion. The insurgents
I were worsted in every direction, and there appeared little
chance of recovering their lust [round. Morello, the
insurL'ent Chief, who Was taken brisoner in Mexico, had
been executed. There had been an arrival at Vera Cruz
from Mexico, of a convoy with about eight millions of
dollars, and a large quantity of cochineal.
Thursday papers and letters reached town from the
Southern pars of the Un;ted Stater. Those an
Charlestown are to the '.hi ult. and are filled with mui-
plaints against the seizure of American vessels fianul in
the harbour of Carthagena, and the imprisonment and
cruel treatment of the crews.—The spirit of indignation
excited by these outrages, appears to be generally and en-
thusiastically felt, and it is pointedly asserted, that the
present state of ;Mints in relation to Spain, so injurious to
the honour and national character of the Amerkun people,
win not long exist !
No day has yet been fixed fior the trial of Sir R. Wil-
son and his wo emnpanions ; but they have received a
copy of the indictment front the Proeureur General, which
charges them with a mistit: meenour in fuciiituzing and
consummating the escape of Lavalette.
From the German pipers it is apparent thin all theGo-
o-ernments in Europe arc reducing tiitir es:ablishinents,
and resorting to a much economy as posoible.

APRIL 14.

POLITICAL DISQUISI77O.V.

RETROSPECT OF THE SEsSION.

Ti 1R labours of Parliament are now suspended during
the Easter Holidays, and an opportunity is thus offered to.
take a retrospective view of their nature, and of their
extent. Seldom had more important subjects attracted
the attention of the representatives of the land, and sel-
dom have more activity and public spirit been displayed,
than in the discussions and divisions which have taken
place. Little was it expected, that when the grand con-
test in which all the force, and all the hopes and interests
of the country were engaged should have been gloriously
closed, such momentous duties le mild have remained
fbr legislative wisdom to perffinn. The flight of the
' storm, it was thought, would lie followed by immediate
serenity and peace, and no trace would be left to mark the
conflict of the elements. This blessing, however, though
covered with the protection of I leaven, we had no right
to anticipate. It was enough to have been armed with
courage to brave, and with strength to baffle the tempest:
to have risen in all the majesty, and invincibility of free-
dom, against the hostility of the old and of the new
world, and to have conquered only to deliver mankind.
We could not justly demand to be relieved from the na-
tural results of such exertions. Fatigue and momentary
exhaustion could not fail to overtake us even in the arms
of victory, and difficulties and distresses to attend the
first steps of peace. New eflbrts, not indeed of national
prowess, but of legislative wisdom, and patriotic spirit,
were necessary to triumph over those tiller perils, and to
remove them from our hind. Those efibrts have been
made, both by the country and its representatives, wilt
a degree of sincerity and anlour which, to a very consi-
derable extent, has already commanded success. No
period of Parliamentary history has teemed with greater
activity and importance than that on the borders of
which we now stand, though short and apparently insig-
nificant has been its duration. It began by an assurance,
new in the ears of a nation accustomed to almost bound-
less expenditure, that economy would form the principle
of Government, and become the foundation of all its
measures. Hailed with joy, and received with confidence,
this assurance was speedily put to the test. The impati-
ence of the administration seemed indeed to equal that of

the country. Instead of postponing their financial ar-
rangements too period of the session, when all their friends
would be collected around them, and secure in their
strength they might deride anti defeat opposition, they
unfolded their plans in the very first week of meet-
ing, and immediately proceeded to lay their estimates te.
lime the House. These, however misrepresented, were
not estimates of Peaty. They were calculated to meet
the exigencies of that state of doubt and experiment,
during which the solidity of the advantages obtained,
and of the treaty concluded is tried, anti which, accord-
ing as the powers of the Continent, and Englund their
leader, will act with prudent wisdom or impolitic rash-
ness, may terminate in safe and undisturbable repose, or
in fresh convulsions and wild attempts to restore the
reign of universal despotism. Considered in that point
of view, those estimates were moderate, and justified the
assurance that a system of political economy was intended
to be pursued, which would preserve the greatness of the
country front decay, and her resources from cxhaastinn.
To support this expenditure, however, an impost was
proposed, which cast upon the whole system a slack of
the detestation with which it was individuully regarded.
Only secondary in fervour to the wish of disarming
France, during the prolonged exertions and appalling vi-
cissitudes of the late contest, had been the hope .of eon-
Tiering with peace, a complete release front the exactions
of the Property Tax. Now that triumph was :achieved
and peace obtained on terms of our own dictation, the
eountry rose indignant at the proposal of reviving an
impost doomed by successive administrations to terminate
with the war, us one of its most afflicting scourges.
The alledged insecurity of peace, which formed the
ground of its renewal tin- two years, became one of the
strongest arguments against it; as it was apprehended
that if the Income Tax were granted for that period, some
new war would arise &lime it bad elapsed, which would
reader the burtlien eternal. In vain was it justly urged
that modifications might he made ill the application of
the impost and the mode of receiving it, which *ould
make it at once harmless and proauctive ; the country
would neither credit the practioabiiity of such a stl clue.
nor Fanction e breach of fitith, I;er petitions covered
the tabie of the }louse; her representatives rallied round
her; ill an evil boor ministers persisted, only to meet
defeat and prove to surroaneang nations, that the liber-
ties of Englishmen are not chinwricel, ma, that in tmrland

PAIL 14.

no administration can stifle• or resist the voice of the peo-
ph.. Fuiha in their great financial menture, an:l shaken
in thcis seats, ministers fled refuge to that system of
retr,:nehment which they had embnteed beiiire, but with
less inflexibility than when their own authority was at
stale. They re-considered the roughing part of their
estimates, and curtailed them, in smite instances perhaps,
with too unsparing a hand. In this manner considerable
cli inges have been avoided, and no apprehension can be
entertained, save lest the work of reduction should be
carried too fir, rnd the grand primary object, the math-
teatime of the country in its fulness of glory and power,
should be sacrificed to the wish of regaining popularity.
Snell have been the chief results of a few weeks of Par-
liainntary wartitre. The enquiry into the distresses of
agriculture continues, and, b_6 re the Session is ended,
effective raid will have been granted to that important
branch, the tintudation of all national prosperity.

The Hamburgh Papers ,•ontain a copy of the new
Ilaisian Tariff, which, it is stated, has received the
ranction of the Emperor, though it was not, at the date
of the last adviecs from St. Pctersburgh, officially pub-
lhough this new arramamedt will give in-
creased facilities to all manufacturing and commercial
nations trading to Russia, none ss ill obtain so large a
share of those advantages as our own lat rc h Ants ; and
we consider it as a new proof of the cordial friendship
subsi,ting between the Russian Cabinet and ours.
A steam boat has lately crossed the English Chninsol,
and ascended the Seine to Paris. The active insagiam-
lions of the French see in this circumstance a fruitful
germ of important consequences; and they already speak
of !Pans for rendering Parts a great Commercial depot.—
The ;team-boat, though opposed by the united time of
the wind and stream, made its way in the apace of little
snore than sixty hours.
By the latest advices from St. Helena, we have a dif-
ferent verNion of the story, that Buonaparte had been shot
at by a sentinel, for trespassing beyond his boundaries.
The facts are, that the sentinel, on perceiving that Buo-
naparte and his attendants were passing the prescribed
lintits, called to them to return. No attention being
pail to this, he rapidly proceeded after them, in doing
whi,;ll he fed. At the same time the ramrod got loose
font his musket, and as he was replacing it, Buona-
parte conceived that he was hauling the piece with as
intention to shoot, and so reported it to the Government.
On an enquiry, it proved that the musket had not been
loaded, and no thrther notice notice was taken of the af-
fair. The sentinel being asked, during the enquiry (not
a Court Martial) if he would have shot Bounaparte,
firmly replied—Yes ! Buonaparte, according to report,
has distributed.gohl among the Malay slaves on the island,
with the view of inducing them to rise in his &your.
This is very improvable.
The city of Breslau is going to erect a monument to
Prince Blucher, at an expenee 4.30,000 dollars.
The King's stag-hounds were lately turned out near
Itipley, in Surrey, and had an excellent run of three hours
and a half. Of a numerous field, only 20 sustained the
tiaigues of the day. A little boy, about seven er eight
years old, mounted on a piney, without a saddle, rode
through the chase, and was in at the taking of the deer;
he had a pin-betiwe on, and was an interesting object
with the sportsmen. His piney carried him through
every obstacle; he came from Weybridge, and was sup-
posed to have rode 50 miles.

The applications to become Nlaitls of Honour to the
Princess Charlotte, already amount to 571.

Some reductions in the establishment at Cathon-honse
are to be adopted. Four footmen, and some of the sub-
ordinate attendants are to be discharged.

There Seems to have been a considerable filling off in
matters of /ore as well as of affairs in mule, a diminution
having taken place this pairing stymn of no less than
17,0(141 ralrnliruw, eomparcd with the Two-penny Office
IN:turns of the preceding ye.:r.
The repeatt.•tl pe)stponements of the tiny of the Royal
Nuptials, arc a great disappointment to the, expectant
c,uples who wish to start fair with the Royal Pair. It
is ::anl particularly distressing in the eases of old maids,
bachelors, and innunn young widows.
It were• to be wished that some other kind of presents
u em invented for the foreign Courts than spun-boxes; the
reople complaiu that they pay through the nose for these
trinkets.

A great fall of earth Las lately taken plate in Nor-
way. On the south of the river Nid, the Etll extends
about three quarters of a mile into the country, and has
carried away with it the church of Tiller. This fall of
earth took place with such violence that the earth was
thrown to the oth:r side of the river, and there over-
whelmed two dwellings belonging to the manor of
Maine, be which eight persons lost their lives. The
'truss of earth thrown into the Nid was carried be the
current down to 1 where the collected masses of
earth, anew, col ice, term aw::y several sluices,&c. in the
wcll-I.nown water }ld' there, Jul the whole mass bus now
a t'.un below the Leer water-fall, semi). a mile
half flow Drontheim.

The 'MAL EIMIL Y.

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THE t NG'S Ili:M.TH.—On Sunday lust, the following
Bulletin was exhibited at St. James's Palace:—

" Windsor Castle, April 6.—His Majesty has enjoyed good
bodily Health, and been very tranquil, doriin: the last month;
but His Majesty's disorder has underpoie no change."

WiNnson, Amu!, I.—The Duke of Clarence met
the Queen and Princesses at Cranbourn Lodge, to dine
with the Princess Charlotte of Wales. In the evening
there was a Concert to entertain the Royal party, in
which the Princess Wok a principal part. Yesterday the
Duke of York came from London, and paid a short visit
to his Royal Mother and Sisters. This morning the
Queen and Princesses went to Frownore; they return to
the Castle to dinner, to which the Princess Charlotte is
invited, and a party in the evening.
BRIGHTON, APRIL 1 .—The Prince of Saxe Cobourg,
who left us on Sunday last, to meet the Prince Itq,•ent at
Hampton Court, returned to the Pavilion here on Tues-
day. Prince Leopold has announced his intention of
again attending Divine worship at the parish church to-
morrow. His Serene Highness leaves this place on Mon-
day or Tuesday nest, for Carlton House. During his
pedestrian rambles yesterday, he sheltered himself from u
sudden fail of rain, under the collonade of Walker's Li-
brary, to which many of our promenading fashionables
bad also recourse. The most marked respect was paid to
the illustrious visitant. The regular pocketing inter-
course between this place and Dieppe is once more in brik
play. The Thomas, which had been seized by the
Custom House Officers, has been restored.

Tiff: ROVA!. NfARRIAGE.—The ceremony, it is now
understood, will take place in the grand saloon at Carlton
House, on the 25th instant at ten at night. The ar-
rangements at present are for the wedding being private.
excepting, of co, trse, the Royal Family and Ministers of
State, &c.

The arrangements for the Princess Charlotte's domes-
tic establishment are nearly completed. Lady Emily
Murray, daughter of the l)uke of Northumberland, and
Lady John Thynne, have been appointed Ladies of the
Bedchamber.

The Cobourg livery is to consist of dark bottle-green
coats, as hethre observed, with white waistcoats and
breeches; the coats superbly laced with gold, similar to
those of the Prince. The carriages are built, but the
linings and decorations are not yet fixed on; an excellent
set of greys are also purchased, and Mr. Phillips, the
newly appointed Steward, has taken possession of Camel-
ford house.

Botley, near Chertsey, belonging to Sir Joseph Maw-
bey, has been taken for the Princess Charlotte and Prince
Lawld, as their country residence.
The Queen has ordered a great number of wedding,
cakes to be distributed on the day of the royal nuptials.
On the maniage of Queen Anne, when Princess, with
George of Denmark, a very small annuity was settled'
upon her husband. The consequence was, that in the
second year of her accession to the Throne, she sent a
Nlessage to Parliament, and they granted the Prince
100,0001. a year should he survive her.
M AUNDAY Tnunsnsv—The Royal donations were
distributed at Whitehall Chapel. In the mcrning the
Sub-Almoner, and Secretary, and others belonging to the
Lord Chamberlain's office, attended by a party of the
Laue% ,f the ( ;mad, distributed to 78 poor women, and
Viny poor men, being as many of each in number as
the King is years old, a quantity of salt fish, consisting of
salnkm, cod and herrings, pieces of very ling.'s:el, several
10a44s of br;sul, and seine ale. At three o'clock they met
again; the men on one side of the Chapel, arid the women
on 'the other; a procession then entered of those engnged
in the cerynony,consistingof a party of the Yeomen of the
Guard, one of them carrying a large gold dish on his head,
cont'dning 156 purses, with 78 penny-pieces in each, for
the poor men and women, which were placed under the
royal closet; they wt* followed by the Sub-Almoner, in
his robes, with a sash of fine linen art r his shoulder and
crossing his waist; he was followed by two boys and two
girls, the Secretary and another Gentleman, with similar
sashes, and all carrying nosegays. The evening service
was then perthrmed, at the conclusion of which the silver
pennys were distributed to all, and woollen cloth, linen,
shoes and stockings to the men, and according to ancient
custom, a cup of wine to each, to drink the King's health.
On CNA Friday the Dean of Westminster preached
before the Nobility at the Chapel Royal, St. James's
Pabice.

The Hon. Mr. Lambe, srni of Lord Melbourne, it is
said, will be the new %mkt. tin. Peterborough, in the
room of the Hon. G. Porvonby, who offers tier the coun-
ty of Wicklow, vacant by the death of Mr. Tighe.
Laity Frances Brown, sister to the Earl of Kenmore,
has taken the veil of Newhall convent.

A cause of scandal is now pending in the House of
Lonls, Lady Cumming, appellant, against NI i:4; Wood and
Miss Price, respondents, arising, we believe, out of some
assertions made by Lady Cumming, detriment:if to the
reputation of the isstrding-sehoul kept by the above le-
males. So extraordinary is the evidence, and so unlit is
it for the public eye, that the Counsels, instead of picad-
ing at bar, have liven directed to transmit their ..-:::-
ments in writing, and the ease is to be decided on with
abut doors.

tts,tbical SOolutor.

NUMI3II:A IX.
SALL'S IOPUI.I SUPREMA EST LEN'

!midget Ina
Slant inunnal gem.
nee In c:lins redder, g4tus,
Nee pea ire pot's!. -- v tu.

FROM the earliest period of medicine, the approach of
Spring has always been considered pregnant with mini-
fill evils to the human frame, and various have been the
expedients by which mankind have endeavoured to avert
orcounterart them. Throughout the whole living creation,
whether animal or vegetulde, the change operated by this-
season is particularly striking; the circulation of the vital
fluid, whether this be blood- or vegetable sap, receives a
new impetus, its quantity appears to be increased, and.
functions long lain dormant ere resumed with renovated'
vigour. All nature seems revived by its genial influence,
" all is activity, all is life." Shall man alone then suffer
inconvenience and distress front a cause which to the
rest of the creation is the source of joy and delight How
is the fact% and what are the causes of this per .eiennt of
blessings? The former is undeniable, the latter are to be
sought for in the vices inherent iu the artificial habits of
society. It is sufficient to mention Apoplexy, Gout, and
Cutaneous diseases of different descriptions, which are
usually more prevalent at this season, as evidence of the
fact that a certain change is effected either in the state of
the solids, or in the composition or distribution of the
fluids by the influence of the Spring. These diseases are
said to be much more frequent in this country in the pre-
sent day than formerly, nor would it be an easy matter
with truth to contradict the assertion; let us endeavour
then to ascertain the causes to which such en untievour-
able change may be justly attributed; this will necessari-
ly lead to the means by which the evil may be diminished.
We will for the present confine our attention to Apoplexy,
a disease so sudden in its attack and so rapidly final in its
termination, that it is commonly in our power to use pre-
ventive means alone to guard aguinst its operation. This
disease, as is well known, consists in a sudden effusion
upon the brain, of blood or serum, in consequence of the
rupture of some vessel within that . Whatever
therefore either increases the rapidity o;ltri circulation in,
or determines a greater quantity of blood to the bead,
may give rise to this effieuon. If it be the natural effect
of Spring to increase the quantity of blood and to impart
vigour to the vessels, a greater predisposition to the
disease must necessarily be produced. Were man to
assimilate his mode of life with that of the inferior ani-
mals, it is probable that he would be equally free front
attacks of this disease; but in him the predisposition
is called into action by various exciting causes inci-
dent to his habits mend pursuits. With these at present
we have nothing to do; it is the predisposition only under
consideration; nor are we now to enter into the question
of this as produced by other causes .than that natural
plethora, the consequence of the influence of the vernal,
season. The increus4frequeney„ef /apoplexy, is I know
to be attributed to other causes beeidea; this, these I may
hereafter treat of; ray business is to enquire if this also
has not in modern times a more extensive operation than
it formerly had. To detemiiee this question, it will be
requisite to compare the different modes of life in the
two periods, as connected with thisNsubject. Ido not
know that individuals of the present time, indulge more
freely than their ancestors in the pleasures of the table,
so fruitful a source of plethora in the blood vessels.
Goal living has always been the characteristic pro.
pensity of an Englishman, but I think that our fore•
tethers adopted more precautions to obviate the -hurtful
effects of such indulgence, although perhaps not with au
express view to this purpose. What we call the preju.
dices of superstition certainly prevailed much more former.
ly than at present. Without adverting to the time when
the Popish religion was the general religion of the court.
try, when the practise of overfeeding was seasonably in.
terrupted by the frequent fasts enjoined by its ordinances,
I may observe that within our own memory, the majority
of persons within the pale of the Established Church,kept
with much regularity, the full or modified fasts sanctioned
by its Canons. In this case the season of Lent must
have been singularly beneficial, a vegetable dinner, or
even a meal confined to fish alone occurring at least twice
in a week, must have haul some evident effect in counter.

acting the ill effects of a constant use of meat and wine,
especially if adopted at the very time when the accumu.
lation of blood and increase of vigour were most to be
dreaded. A considerable change has certainly taken
place in this respect within the last half century, perhaps
within the last thirty years. The ptrportion of Dissen.
tors is within this period considerably increased, who to.
tally disregard the observance of these customs, and even
among the must orthodox they have ceased to maintain
their thriner influence. If this view of the matter shall
not be thought risionary and untintrled, it in suggest
some useful precepts t 4 our conduct; but as this is not
the only change in our habits which may have had an
effect in increasing the frequency of Apoplexy, I shall
rert to the others in my next paper. 6.

But! r, helm ging to the Post Office, who was onlered
for t ion on Wednesday next for stealing a 201. note
out t.,f a letter, has been reprieved fur 14 days.