The National Register.
London, England, 1822-02-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

after all, what is the extent of his crime, according
to the statement of those Ministers themselvesP—
Why,that perceiving the soldiers were firing unneces-
sarily and without orders on an unarmed multitude,
he reminded them that by such conduct they were
disgracing the laurels they had gained in the battle
of Waterloo—thus by his intervention the lives of
hundreds were probably saved, and fur that inter-
vention he was dismissed, after 29 years service, and
against all rules of honesty and of the army, robbed
of the money he had paid for many of his commissions.
Col. Cavendish took umbrage at Mr. Lambton's call-
ing the massacres at Cumberland-gate " murders,"
and asserted that the Coroner's Verdict, which estab-
lished the fact was obtained by perjury—this we
positively deny and dare contradiction—if any sub-
ornation of perjury, or perjury itself took place, it
was on the part of the officers, the soldiers, and
those who wished to justify them to the world—
can our readers forget that the man who was own
servant to Lieutenant Gore, could not tell if he
was 20 or 50 years of age—or, whether his hair
was black or white, or can they forget that Mr.
Adolphus, aware perhaps of the existing proof of
another falsehood, was prudent enough to antici-
pate it, by saying that he found—" that an officer
who it had been sworn was in Barracks, the whole
of the 14th of August, had been out two or three
times that day"—yet there are the men who can
stand up and declare, that the verdict of " Wilful
Murder" against a Lifeguardsman was obtained by
perjury ! ! !
Rumour has been extremely busy for some days
past, relative to the expected proceedings in the
House of Commons on Friday last. Every body
said that a Message from the King would on that
night be delivered---.some surmised that his Majesty
had been advised to defray the expellees of the Co-
ronation out of his private funds, or out of the im-
mense property which came into his possession on
the death of their late Majesties—others went so
far in the wonderful path, as to assert that Ministers
had prevailed on his Majesty to renounce one-fourth
of the Civil List, and to declare that all his officers,
even to the highest, should submit to a similar re-
duction. For ourselves, we had no such expectation
—we du rot look to " gather Figs from Thorns, o:
Grapes from Thistles," and the event proves we
were right—the Marquis of Londonderry, and his
honourable colleagues, are too much " children of
this generation,' to allow their master's enjoyments
or their own to be lessened by a reduction of in-
come, and therefore the minor, the Mies iur classes of
locusts only are to be contributive to the retrench-
ments projected. The whole of the reduction in-
tended in the army, navy, and miscellaneous expen-
diture, is about two millions, of which the general
cry for retrenchment, and the King's promise to for-
ward it, has produced a diminution of the Civil List
of 150,0001 only ! The public faith is to be bro-
ken by obliging the holders of Five per Cent. Stock
to accept of an interest of Four per Cent., and tbur
millions arc to be borrowed of the Dank, to enable
Government to lend money to the different parishes
which are now oppressed with poor's rates, taking
their rates in pawn, as security—the plan is
More our readers in abstract, if we add, that a
reduction of one shilling per bushel is to tal.e
place in the duty on Male—Taking it uitogether,
never was " the mountain in labour" more com-
pletely realised than by this financial production of
the present Cabinet No Charlatan ever attempted
to gull the surrounding rabble from his cart full of
Nostrums, than are the English cheated by this
contemptible exhibition of Ways and Means. None
of the useless lumber is to be cut away—all the
Leeches arc yet to suck at the reduced system of'
poor John Bull—the distresses of the Country, the
ruin of the Agriculturist, the general appeal of the
people cannot prevail upon Government, to 101' oil
a single branch of the Smecure List, 110 r to reduce
in the seventh year of peace a sin.,le la.rd of
the Admiralty.

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