The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-25 00:00:00

THE NA rIONAL REG/STIR.

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go forth to such a Culdcentan harvest !—Resides,
the men themselves are nu longs the same indivi.
duals that they were !bur years age, flushed with
conquest, and inebriated with blood. Peaceably
dovniciliatel among their tirionds, they have all Ibis
while been gradually collapsing into their civil cha-
racter ; and to a great degree, they have become
amalgamated with the people. The prtss, also,
must have had its necetrury influence upon them ;
since a principal branch of its circulation has ken
running among their immediate relatives and con.
nectious. So that they cannot have escaped its
contaminating effects any more than the people;
although their luibitual subjection to consuattod, and
their ideas ever reverting to discipline, would twit.
rally hold out a longer siege against the incursions
of the poison.

" On no military movement, then, unsupported,
by the great class of tho middle rooks, can your
Royal Highness place the least reliatoce, ur hope
from it the simillest advantage. Oar sulvatmn is
in ourselves alone. We must effect the best issue
that we can, to a contest nu hanger avoidable ; and
I hope, Sir, we shall not be slow, in this tremen-
dous crisis, to rally round the fairest political ell-
fiee that ever yet human ingecuity raised up, and
mankind admired could place in a yet stronger
light, Sir, the futility of trusting to your soldiers,
without the countenance of your people: but, I
think, have done it sufficiently.

IVitli a beating heart, I am now going to
touch upon a subject, which, when I sat down to
address your Royal Highness, I had determined out
to disturb; but my feelings carry me awuy. I have
heard, since I begun this letter, that it is the
fixed resolution of Ministers to make no coo-
cession upon that point. But it will be at their
peril, Sir, so to disregard the voice of the people,
and to confound it with a radical clamour*. The
Government; and, those who judge it, are at issue
upon many points, the currying of which would be
of much more lasting political importance and bene-
fit to the country : such are the Triennial Parlia-
ments, fur instance, which I spoke of to Lord
Hertford ; and the disfranehising of such lioreughs
us Grattau and Old Sarum, and such obnoxious
anomalies us Cortle Castle; together with one or
two other of the desirable delende of moderate re.
forme
" But all this, and ten times more tl:an ever was
asked, or expected, might now be conceded in vain.
There is a bone of contention between the people
and the Government, about which—with the extep-
lion of the. interested parties—there is but one pre-
vailing opinion: and however the timid, and those
who hate extremities, may be disposed to sacrifice
against their consciences, the multitude is too much
irritated ever to listen to any accommodation, short
of the most signal justice. The pertinacity wish
which Ministers continue to refuse this, has luought
all the mischief to a head:. but it is a mural Utile.,
sibility to elude it longs
"I will not trust myself with.any remarks upon
the temerity of your Royal Highness's adviser, in
that business, nor the precipitancy with which their
advice was followed. We uheilve you, Sir, altoge-
ther, for your impeccability seals our lips: besides,
we have a thorough conviction that the act was not
your own. But the cry tithe nation is too general,
to be impngnly slighted; auLl the sooner your Roy.
al Highness dissolves partnership with the present
men, the safer will it be fur you, and the better for
your people! Let me not be misapprehended
an instant : I only speak in the anxiety of attach-
ment ; those who are not aquainted with the Rs.
dical Press, as I am, can from no notion of the
daring threets which arc weekly levelled at your
person and your life, To see and hear these, And
be silent, would be compromising treason."
• "Although a mixture of jealousy and caution may be re-
marked in the towing p.ssitiv, it breathes too detenuMed s
resolution to vindicate the Rights of the Potpie, to be silently
overlooked. Will Ministers call this writer * Radical

• • • It•. in the repr.ssion of any mietings of the people fur any
object of flow in. wise or impracticable. their rights have been
iniringed, or any wrongs to individual* have been cominittal. I
shall be amongst the hrst to %indicate every ruircias wlueli ass
laws can sanctum. and shall be foamd at all tildes toady to resist
the slightest enema;linient upon the notional fre.ahnn. In inch
a case, mistaken opinions, or the groNsest misconduct of hulk i-
duals, ought to have uo kind of ettixt to disappoint pabLc jus-
tice, nor to prevent the union of ail classes, to uphold the vital
occurity of our liberties. lam nut AL all acgtiaiiiird with the
01 this interesting and aftc log sub**. but in a baitever
shape I can be called upon to tunuider dicta, I shs.l be fully
preparsd to do my duty.'"—Prejita to the !ideas": of tho
Whip.

The nuptials of her Imperial and Royal High-
ness the Archduches Caroline, of Austria, with the
Prince Royal of Saxony, was celebrated by his
Imperial and Royal Highness and Eminence the
Archduke, Cardinal Archbishop of (Minute, in the
preseam of the whole ('nun, with unusual pomp.
The Archduke Cardinals de Saline-Salmi sad
TrautmansdorlF 116 Holiness has conferred upon
their Imperial Highnesses and Eminences, the
Archduke Antony, Cardinal Archbishop of Grim,
and the Archduke Rudolphus, Cardinal Archbishop
of Olaiuts, brothers to his Apostolic Majesty, the

Maim. Prince Napoleon, Duke of Reichstadt
has been nominated Ly the Emperor coadjutor to au
Arelthislaip of °lanes, and leaves Vienna f r
°limits, to reside with his uncle, the Cardinal
Rudolphus, were three priests of the order of SOWS
will take charge of his theological studies.
On Friday the intentions of Guvernment war.:
made known relative to the proposed inurease in t:.e'
army establishment, and eroduced a sensetioa in ti.e
mouey-market greater than any to which it has fur
a long period been subjected. The actuation was
not produced immediately, for many doubted the
tendency of the measure to produce a depression in.
the reads. ft was not some hull awl determi •
ued specufators led the way that the alarm was given:
as soon us the prices began to give way, numbers
rushed into the market to sell, and the decline, in
the course of a few hours, was out leas than I .1 per
cent., without the smallest reaction. We scarcely
recollect a time when so great apprehension has pre-
vailed ; every hour furnished a lower quotation then
that which preceded it, awl there seemed scarcely
aeor limit to the depression. As almost always hap-
pens on these occasions, owing to the great multi.
tittle of speculators, the panic was milled farther
than the cause justified. In continued, however.
to the termination of Fraley's transactions ; but
when the market opened on Saturday, many who
had previously sold appeared willing: to close their .
accounts, and a re-action in the market appeared
extremely probiede These symptoms of improve.
meut had scarcely become evident, when a fresh
alarm was excited Ly a false and absurd report of ti
assasaivation of one of his Majesty's Ministers (Lord
Castlereagh,) which is only deserving. of notiev, as a
proof of the extent to which, in the critical specula-
tions of the monied market, the boldest iinpositions
are practised, and obtain currency. Althuugh with.
out any circumstantial details to procure credit for
it, this rumour seems to have been the only cause of
the depression of Saturday, and to have actually pro-
duced in a market forced below its level by spece—
lu.ion, a farther decline. of full •I per cent. Consols
for Cie account were done at the low price of (St>
and at that quotation same very extensive bargaies
were transacted. This was the lowest price or Sa—
turdey, and of the whole week, produced in a great
measure, by the over-eagerness of the sellers, who
seemed to care little what the stuck sold for, previ-•
tied they could dud a purchaser. Many will praba-
bly have reason to repeat this temerity. It was L..,
in tile day before the current of opinion Lege.) to
change, and the eyes of ruauy to be open to their•
danger. A re-action then cotumenced, and before
timeliest, closed Consols for the account had risen
per cent. Etat stock leaving off ut (7 ; buyers, and
the gehcrel aspect of the market, appcariag line and
steady. Oteniutu has been dune at a discount e f
p.r cent.; but as very few bargains were transacted,
It has net varied equally with, ur maintained its due
proportion to Consuls.
Aiinisters mean to propose to Parliament, we un-
derstand, a Five per Lat. Property Tax. We have
out heard whethea this es to be in addition to the
late increased taxes, which eere expected to pro-
duce three millions a year, or as a substitute fur
them, in whole or in part. The deficiency of tba
revenue, and the increased expenses induced by the
extraordinary measures fur the secarity of the coun-
try, will, no doubt, require correspondent means.

Extract of a letter received from Newcastle, dsted
October iO:—" There is no settlemant• whatever
with the keelmen. They met Mr. ('hennell and
some of the coal-owners on Monday morning, when
they offered a farthing per chahlron on spout coals,
to be paid our the extra quantity carried since
January ; and when (A work, Ys. 61 per day.
This would not, however do. They seem quite de-
termined to have the spouts done away in part.
They say now eight keels may be taken under the.
spouts ; betUre they stood at six keels. When any
arrangement will be made is nut known. The
inquest is still going on at Shields."
H lAtitE AND I)UCH6Ss mP CLAHESCE.—Extract
from A letter .11,:eo Donee, Ou. 17 :•—•• I'hr I rescuer
mew Highnesses the Duke and lhictiess 01 Cla-
rence has imparted an extraordinary, interest to tl.is
A %cry plain carriage and a pair id hotses constitute the
vh de in Inuit equipage, 211.1 C‘eis of this they Olalte
tery little use. Tot y walk almost daily airmail' the
town and iis vicinity, dressed iii the soupiest style. A
)o.tog G..rinan Ctrat.tess, of .ihr•to her out, ace, is the
prineilial co•np.luion. pier
Ililthneu fainctitly refers ritlintt on ai.s•:.ek I and late-
ly rat, ha, availed herself of a hole carriage hods by j
tradesman of the ;own, out the pl:to 'dine WO4lOll atul•
CllellellhJlll FllO4. which lie has deliOnt.lialril the
rene, Fly. }LI- ;loyal Ilishoes> s principal erre-alio.;
s„„.e. her a1r.1.11 15 5e4.6,01;111,1, lel SIIi11:11 5111: appears to•
take gnat tlehglit ; ..pra s be really
beitellited by i,. lit Cie roui.ote,t and itio.l hhos 'mg
weather her Royal ilightirss the optrn era..
and uses the cap alt,l Cie dress t..at first conies to h 411,1
amigo those profited for the ladies of the pace. Tot ur
I I ighnesses live very retired, and see little or sits
company. Colonel Fitz Charente lately spent a live.
days ...ilia thew."

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