The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

sIUTIY 24•

lurmis a the Courier. Tergiversation is nothing with these
men. They glow with a fictitious light, and lose all their

splendour when exhibited in the face of day.
Need our readers then be apprised that the following para
graph is extracted from the Courier: what . between the
uncle and the niece. they have enough to do : what between
their unbought services, and those they hope to be paid for,
their integri►y is in a sad dilemma. The punishment of the
pillory is not remitted to them—But to our extract—

' The notice given by the Duke of SuSsex of a Motion rela-
tive to the Princess Charlotte of 'Wales for Friday, gave rise
to a short conversation in the House of Lords. The Earl of Lan-
derdole wished for some more particular account of the nature of
his Royal Flightless's Motion. He confessed ' that he was more at
a loss to conjecture what the nature and form of the motion could
be than ever he was before upon any subject during the whole
course of his expedience.'
" Tire Duke of Sussex was not present, and the Earl of Rosslyn
read is letter horn him, yap essing his regret, that in consequence'
of iudisposition he should loot be able to bring on his motion on
Fridav, lint wished to (Win it till Tuesday.
" We are quite as tinsels at a loss to conjecture what the nature
and ebject of the motion can be as Lord Lauderdale'. That Par-
liament can imt any way interpose its power or its advice, there is
not a man in the kiligdom, who will be hardy enough to assert.
Of what use then is it to Using on these repeated discussions? Or
rather, we might &m , of what harm must they not be productive?
They tend to keep up an irritating feeling, and to (bomb where
the wish and endeavour of every one should be to promote and to
sustain the closest harmony and affection. Throughout all these
transactions the Prince has been treated with less consideration,
has had fewer power and privileees allowed to him than any other
litOrand or father in the kingdom Um the languan,,e of the Morn-
ing Chronicle to-day stirptise.- us not a little. It is quite indignout
at. the I,onviaae that stains the columns of the Mioisterial Papers
tespectiug Ilhistriotos Prhe'ess. It heartit joins with a respect-
able Contemporary in his !ensure of the degrading sycophancy
of those public Writers who submit to he iumulethe instruments of
misrepresentation.' It tAkie of the AriMeleA f •ICellOOdS which
have beets propagated respectinl the conduct of the Princess Char-
lotte.' Will it point out the laognage which has cast a stain upon
our columns, if it alludes to us is Will it prove any degrading sy-
cophancy ? Will it rondesceild not to deal in generalities ? Who
dragged the discussion before the public? Who has been .
more misrepresentation than this very Chronicle which now affects
to be so shocked, and to reprove them? Who seid that intended
marriage was broke off in consequence of the thread which her
Royal Highness telt at being taken out of the country? Who as-
serted that the Princess had been harassed by repeated attempts to
renew time negociation ? Who talked of the Prince having made his
communication to the Princess relative to her removal to
Carlton House in terms of unusual severity ? Who but the
Morning Chronicle made those assertions, and which of them
was correct ? For the Chronicle then to be indignant at
misrepreseotations is too mooch. 13ut it has got another ver-
sion and ;yank: r statement. It lia4 brought the Duke of Sussex
upon the stage t 6 play a principal part. He was with Mr. Buong.
ham, her adviser. She sent for him on the moment of her arrival at
I_'.'oneauglit place. She cheerfully yi.-Ided to his counsels, and re-
turoel to Carlton-house. His Royal Highness feels therefore a par-
ticular duty in enquiring whether she bas been made to suffer from
the advice he give her Royal Highness.' I'llis is the first time we
have heard of the Duke of Sussex being at all concerned im the
hosiaess. The Chronicle ioformed us that it was the Doke of York
that went to the Princess Cimarlotte, and not the Duke of Sussex,
and that it was upon his advice, backed by Nlr. Hiougham's, that
slit consented to return to Carlton House.---But let us take the
Chronioe statement to-day to be correct. Time Duke of Sussex ad-
vised her to go to Carlton The Chronicle uses the word
retort), a; if she had fled from Camiton House--she had not been
at Carlton Howe—she had fled from Warwick House, and we beg
our readers to bear this io mind. flat the Doke of Sussex feels it
a in (mbar duty to inquire whether the Prineess has be:'n made to
sutler front the advice he gave her I What jostified him in suspect-
fog that she had been made to suffer? Did lie believe his brother to
be a harsh aml cruel father, or rather did he not know him to he

a kind and affectionate one I Bust he feels it Isis shay to erg :ire--•
Of whom? Ot the Prince, his brother, as we alight nistaraliy ex-
pect? No such thing. Oi. the Pat-1440)cm, cO.c!I can know Lid-

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ildog. or the subject, and eamiat interfere. We trust, for seasons
that lutist he obvious to our readers, that this litairillent l'ChtiVe to
the Princess having sent for the Mike of i• incorrect."
What must the public (haw from all this, but that tho,e
who communicate the news to The Courier knew nothing
about it, or chose to disguise what they knew. At all events .
it is clear a deception was to he practised upon the people.
'l'he statement of The Sun and Chron;He was found to be
correct hi all its parts, and we believe them both in pfd.
ference to The Cour;cr. We congiatulate ?he San on its
honest and plain statements, though me !egret its vulgir an;l
'tidecent parenthesis,—it sheds there is truth so!»ewhere
or is a species of turning King's evidence. Wha.ever it
may be, the public have something to guide them : they will
make up their mind to the one fact, and., hew their detesta-
tion accordingly t hut we fear, with the Tioes, " that th'ese
proceedings possess an interest of whirh it is proP,oblii neither
in our power to abate the intensity by sil,:nce, nor to increase
it /,it comme»t."

The Chronicle of yesterday contains the following para-
graph :
" 'l'he Courier professes to he quite at a 1o;s to con:IN--
01re the nature and object of the motion announced ley the Doke
of Sussex, although in its nightly col:emirs it endeavonrs to irritate
the feelings of every one connected tvith Princess Charlotte, and
has the confidence, at the same time, to call upon us to point mit
the language which we consider outragetais. The twist:.l,meg.
of the paper in denying that the marriage %vas hick co of:', tinin
the apprehension that the Prioress culertaincd or being carried
abroad, is one of .the imputations our her Rosa! liigimess of whirls
tee complain, since
_it gin positive contradiction of her ov,l, It
It may he necessary to state explicitly, that up to r•i. 1:m16w! of
the 16 June there was no reluctance to the marthze. beranse
'tort flightless had confidence in the promises Ma! had lice!, made.
but on that inorninz she was undeceived by the Prinee r,t Oranze
himself, and she immediately wrote a It t ter, expressive Of the de.
terminition which the knowledge (It' what ,he W:A :0 expect !tad
forced her to conic to ; and she intreated the Ilere,!itary Pc;nce to
communicate her resolution to the Prins e Regent. which he de-
clined to do. On Saturt'7ay the 18th she did it ntiself, assigning
distinctly, a• her reason, the dicall of being taken mu oath. l'ln;!,e
farts :we not unknown to the Author of the article in IV! Courirr
and yet the Editor continues to insinuate the captive of her is ta'l
Highness in breaking oft the negaciation, without asogni a inn.
tive, after having given her consent to the marriage. We ri,rln'ar
enteling more minutely into the circumstance: that have (warred.
became it is not our wish to continue the investigation of it stihject
so delicate, anti to which only the unmanly insinnatinte4 of tile.
Persecutors of her Royal Highness lc:xi: forced us to return."

Accounts from Spain mention the seizure of three elktin.
guished patriots, by the order of the Governor of Gibraltar.
Their names are said to he Aldama, Azaili3r, and the well
known Cabrera, the author of a periodical paper. It is
added, that they were immediately time.ferred to Cadiz, and
thrown into a dungeon, with the ceicbrated At guelles, the
opponent of the Slave Trade.—Government, however, it will
be seen by the proceedings in the [louse, have no offit:ial
information to this effect, and the public will be Evatiticd to
see that Lord Castlereagh has not been idle in remonstrating
with Ferdinand upon the measures recently resorted to in
that country. hia4!ed, the advices gotta Nladri.: iitd:cate
much internal disorganization.—The gallant %OM
commands I .2,000 Spaniards, hoverinA on the frontier, 111;s
it is reported, tefused to accede to the measares of
government.

Wednesday arr ived in T,ondon, tli^ Count Toe
Snaniih Nobleman, who, ‘vhen the st Ind:lrd of indepe
was raised against Bonaparte, was among ti;e- j
cause of patriotism and of Ferdinand. He wits a diiti
ed member of the Corte.; and I:as:been of ieour.e
out as an object of persecution. Elcitir":"A".Ss4.i.f"und
to escape to Lisbon, and front thrnce

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