The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-31 00:00:00

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111 E NATIONAL HEGISTEit.

Lon Don :
SUNDAY, MARCH 31.

The John Dull la.st week made a coarse, vulglr,
scurrilous, and unfounded attack upon us. We hod
prepared to submit him to castigation, but on his
acknowledgment of his error, and promise of as
apology in his own columns, we allow him to escape
from punishment in ours.

Those who have been the most accustomed to
present in the Houses Of Parliament, have rarely
heard any thing more droll than the pathetic lamen-
tations of the Earl Melville, on Thursday eveniag,
over the two Lords of the Admiralty, who wet.,
recently sent to the tomb of the Capulets by
vote of the House of Commons—he deplored the
loss with as much feeling almost as the owner
of Sterne's Ass did his—and was prepared to
spew that the saving of their salaries would be
injurious. Yes, tti'y lAird, we believe you—it %%slit
be injurious—hut to whom—to yourself, and put-
colleagues—to those who boldly justify the room-

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Lion of a confessedly useless Post-master, on the
avowed plea that it strengthens the corrupt, the
impure, the unconstitutional influence of tiie Crown
in the House of Commons. In that House where
by the Constitution, the exercise of influence on
the part of a Peer makes him liable to impeachment.
To Ministers, we doubt not, the injurious effect
of this laudable though trivial curtailment of their
patronage—that Lord Melville should weep over
such innovation is not surprising—that he whose
Father was raised from a state of positive servitude

t,t the peerage, and immense wealth—by the vile
system which it is still sought to maintain—that
the son of that man who was sent to trial for his
peculations, by the casting vote of the then
Speaker of the House of Commons, (the present
Lord Colchester), and who escaped deserved pu-
nishment by the ingenuity of Mr. Trotter, who
&dined answering to all the important points
under r.T.Tence to a clause of an Act of Parlia-
ment, " which declared a man should not be bound
to reply, where his answer would criminate him-
self;" we say, that the son cf such a man should

still wish to support the system that " works so
well" cannot surprise us—but in despite of the
pathetic tears of his Lordship's, not only will this
reduction be persisted in, but many more will be
enforced upon Parliament, before the people will
feel that their Government is what it ought to be.

—" Knowledge is power" and the people are be-
coming every day more and more alive to the
inftmous delusions that have been practised upon
them, by the Heaven-born minister, and his worthy
successors.

We have sincere regret in stating that adviees
just received from Madeira describe that Island to
be in a state closely bordering on open rebellion, not
of the peaceable citizens, but of the soldiery.—We
must defer particulars till we have more minute
intelligence—that we have already is most alarming
to those who have either relations or property there.
Advices arrived last night from America ; the
news contained in them is unimportant, except that
they announce the death of that distinguished mem-
ber of the senate and the bar Mr. Pinckney.—l-le
bad all of Sheridan's ability without his foliies and
vices, and the esteem in which he was held was
strongly proved by an adjournment a the I louse of
Assembly and all the Courts of Law in complinumt
to his memory.

On Monday last a public meeting was held in
Shrewsbury of the proprietors, landholders, &c. of
the county of Salop. Although there was nothing
in the slightest degree of in the requisi-
tioa fir calling the meeting, yet the high sheriff
refused to accede to it; and it was held under the
sanction of the chief magistrate. An attempt was
male to adjourn the meeting, because forsooth, cer-
tain noblemen and gentlemen of the county had not
obeyed the call to attend it. Tim meeting, the first
of the kind, we believe, held in Shropshire for many
years, was most numerous and tespectable, and the
proceedings were such as did them infinite credit.
Leaving all speculative points out of the question,
they call on ministers tier economy and retrench-
ment in every branch of the public expenditure.—
To what extent this would afford relief is not the
qnestion, since it is one of the first steps towards it
that ought to be taken.
A report is exceedingly prevalent in the Ilterary
circles, that the Emperor of Rnssia is at this mo-
ment negotiating fir the purchase of the Royal
Library at Buckingham House. Every volume in
this splendid assemblage of books was collected by
his late Majesty ; for when he came to the Throne,
what was then considered the Royal Library (ex-
cept a curious body of Facetix, in all languages,
collected by Geo. II.) This report is strengthened
by the following circumstance:—" A certain great
personage comas:soda Mr. B— to remove the
bodes, which constituted the library at the Palace
ut Kew, to Bnckingham House. Mr. B. receiving
this message from a third person, and himself feel-
ing, as he thought, the impropriety ~r the measure,
Lesitased to carry the command into eitixt, unless
lie had an order, in writing. Tnis hesitation created
much displeasure in the highest quarter, and the
Looks wete peremptorily and in haste iemoved."—
Surely this choice and very select Library is net in-
cluded in the u,:ntemplated bargain.

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