The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-24 00:00:00

AN. N.

THE NATIO:

(epithets so coarse and violent, that few would venture, for
or own credit, to employ them ; stud a determined and mini.
run reprobation of all the measures of our Government. Such
pies and such a sty le are very apt to become popular among the
immon people, to whose habits rudeness and discontent are
mcenial ; but it is evident th::: iu proportion as they do be-
rme popular, they contribute to interrupt civilization, and sap
to foutila t ions of our public prosperity.
The uniformity with which The Independent Whig rails at
;Try measure of ourown Covermaent, and extols every measure
the enemy is truly curious, if it were not trul cri 110 . Very
ARICA economist knows that however great us a conqueror, Ito-
iparte has talked and acted more w with regard to commerce
lan any other Prince who has sat on a ehrone. lie imagined
lan, by his simple mandate, he could cover the seas w ith tmis
rchaatnteo and ships of war ; and yi hen he found this could
St be done, he resol7ed to destroy our commerce forsooth, by
nspletely ruining that of his own subjects, and of every nal kr,
could overawe. Yet all these trier.vures appeared to The
'Ng the consummation of II is ism 1 is Idle esery retaliating ,
der of our Minister; was considered as Ow height of folly and
surditv. When the Russian Declaration made its appearance,
was panewised ai unanswerable,- as manly, explicit and
rgetie it was found to have nu weak side; Alexander's
mplaiuts, that we had deserted him. were declared to be
11-founded ; and his word was at once taken for the numerous
ievances which he said his commerce had sustained. %%lien
r counter-Declaration appeared, it was flatly stigmatised as
maining " nothing bet vague and iltra.y rettionin asgertimai
un-alpported by. proof, declamatory invective sob-mantra cot
uzical deduction, substantiating scarcely any thing but the
impotency of our Ministers !" But the remarks on our De-
ration, which lately appeared in The Nowiteur, met s ith
ditTernt fate. " This able and eloqnsat production," says
Whig, " which, in our opinion, ennipletely exposes the
hsurdity and refutes the falsehoods of our Ministers, itt their
nswer to the ilavaian Declaration, certainly merits the se-
boos and deliberate attention of every rational and re tlecting
A discussion follows in which The Monitetie is found,
rue!, instancel, to be. perfectly unanswerable. Such is the
nt,vr in which The Irhig uniformly proceeds, rendering the
plc discontented, by traducing our aka Government, and
thing every measure of our enemies.
'he manner in which The Isedepeielent Whig courts popu-
itv, b. converting to its use all the prejudices of the common
pie, is art less scandalous than its perpetual declamations
avour of our enemies. We shall not select a political in-
ice, where some might doubt what is prejudice anti what is
: we soon only advert to a recent instance, in which it has
avoured to gain credit with all the weak women and gossip-
nurses in the kingdom, by calumniating. the greatest blessiog
f.Tred on society in our days—the discovery of the cow-pox.
does not scruple to announce the complete failure of
remedy, the horrid spectacle* it has produced : and pro-
-, a still more thundering essay on the subject, when we
e uu doubt that there w ill be introduced the cosss' horns

tail', with all the other stories which
.Drs. Moody and
iirrel, aml numerous other old women, have sedulously cir-
tted. What heart muot the man have who, from selti,h
lives, can thus, alarm the• fears and prejudices of the• common
,pie, ana prevent them frOin enjoying the protection Of that
;‘.,uar.l from death and deTortnity, which heaven has scut in
rey to their families ?

the Independent Whig has at present two heroes—the Em-
r Napoleon, mu! Sir Francis Burdett. Of the former it
ks in the loftiest terms : of its style on this solsiect, the fol-
ing extract from In of its late numbers will afford a speci-
:—" The Emperor Napo!elm has set out on his journey to
aly. Like the sun. be appears to hold 00 a perpetual untie-
iating course; and, like that glorious luminary, travels over
r wide extent of his vast dominions, to vivify and invigorate
ens by bit presence ! Extraordinary man Wherever he
ives, the earth appears to tremble at his frown; and Kings
d Emperorseroutb beaeatb his feet !" Such are the panegyrics
which Napoleon is incessantly loaded, while no expression
fitted to make our Government appear oppressive, feeble,
cuntemptibll. It is fur the Editor of The ;Vhig to explain
t other eireet these panegyrics and reproaches can have,
circulated among the most ignorant classes of the people,
to render them enemies to the British Government, and
to exchange it fur the domination of the magnificent Na-
ti !