The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-02 00:00:00

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1816.

which ascertain the point of resemblance between an-
cient, and modern man; and those, also, which render
him almost u Being of a different class, actuated by
a different destiny, and exhibiting, in many prominent
features, u different object of investigation to the eye of
contemplation and philosophy.

In traversing the fie hl of modern communities, he
analises their varied systems of Legislation, their intel-
lectual and mural heats, their increasing knowledge of
the haws of nature, their extended manufactures. their
enterprise in commerce; and the rapid developement,
and enlightened occupation of those regions of science,
which were utterly unknown to the most penetrating
genius of ancient times, and which constitute a new
tem in the annals of the human intellect. And he dc-
rives a pleasure, to which a etnninon mind has no access,
from a scientific view of the comparative merit, exhibited
in the varied lines of mental exertion.

In surveying the enranatnities of modem times, this
comprehensive investigator of human intellect, and hu-
man actions, is specially attracted to that magazine of
political, moral. literary. and commercial wonder. which
his native land presents, not only to his own contempla-
tion, but to the itenetrating eye of every philosophical
spectator, however separated by diErenee of climate, or
the interfering interests otifivid nations. And, when he
has minutely examined its principles of legislation,—its
socis,:t-ituititutions,—its moral eharacter,—its ingoinity
and tadustry,—its native energy, equally forming the
basis of its commercial enterprize, as of its military and
naval supremacy : when, with a rapid, but, critic eye, he
stretches the institutions of contemperary States. and
compares them with the far-famed system of liritish
laws, and the multiplied benefits derived from their ope-
ration, he will not marvel at the tli;nriified and awful
attitude, which Britain lwlds amidst surrounding na-
tions, or the confident ilnneamour other highly Etvonred
sons. As an individur • member of so atq,rust u tinnily,
he indulges the pride and importance of his envied lot ;
an& being imbued with right principles, and directed
by right feelings, will constitute no mean support of the
general fabric. Ile will become an enlightened patriot,—
a strenuous assertor of his country's rights,—a the to his
country's foes, whether foreign or domestic,—and equally
so, whether the latter be found in the higher, or lower
orders of society.

By patient an.l invarti!d investigation-1u a recurrence
to the acknowledge:l principles of the British Constitu-
tion, he is aware, that the duo tempt:rament of the mo-
nurehical, Aristueriiiiild, and popular britches of le-
gislation, is not a ukre figment of the imagination—a
pleasing, but impraeticsible reverie of speculative minds—
bat reducible to practice—constituting the happy result
of successful experiustnt, and carrying with it all those
prominent advaut ige3, which firm the basis of his coun-
try's greatness. Yet, equally aware, that. as the work,
and necessarily on I.or the dirortion of erring mall, it is
exposed to the inivapprebensions of the weak, and the
misrepresont:t. ions of the itelip ing ; it becomes his especial
ears—by the constant exercise of his cultivated talents—
by his patriotic energy—and by his example, to support
that jiml &dance of its parts, which constitutes its sod—
its !Eddied umniptence f—{To 6e eusitimwed.]
NIANLICS.

The Austrian Caisinet has lie-en for some time occupied
with delib..ratrins respecting the Order of Malta, and
much curiosity hats prevaikl ok:tow the result. We at
length learn, that the Order is to remain in its present
state until its eutia, extinction ; that is to say, that all
the Dignitaties will continue to enjoy the revenues :nal
benefices of the Order during their lives : the vacant cont..
manieries will b.! given to the professed Knignts. The
simple Knights alreidy received may fallow their career,
but no inure will b 2 atltnitted ; and at the death of the
Titulars, the mess of the property will be disposed of.—
It is generally supposed that it will be employod in firm-
ing n new dotatioa tin• the Military Order of Muria The-
resa, to which more eonsisteney and a more extensive or-
ganisation will Ito 'even. Thus ftill to the ground :ill
the reports which have been in circulation respecting the
Isle of Eysts;‘, and other parts et the Adriatic. This mea-
sure of tit.... Emperor cannot thil to create a great s''nattion,
and must have infiteux in the decision to be adopted by
the other Stweeeigais. R•e are ansured that Count Niarv,
who Int: been thr some time at Vienna, is using endeavours
to get the Archduke Maximilian appinntod Grand Master
of the Order.

Pnwp: 94d..

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TO the eye of a.discerning politician, the afTtirs of a
neighbouring (wintry have been, f'or some time past, as-
suming an appearance, awfully plrtenttnis•; and our ap-
prehensions fin. the re oilt lime been painfully acute.—
They are, in no 41,gree, diminished by al,• studied dis-
piny, in the last offieial papers, ofpublie unanimity, and
affectionate loyalty.
When States have no settled' political Qmstittition
guide the arm of power, or fix tire wavering opinions of
the governed, or, which is worse, when an acknatvhsigeti
system of legislation becomes a dead letter in the hands
of a faction, surrounding the throne, to such a crisis as
this will their public afl'airs frequentlytend ! The house
of Bourbon, on the downfall ofthc most hideous military
tyranny that ever threatened the Frmanaut subjugation
of mankind, returned to the land of tluir falters, wit 4
our best and most cordial wishes for their honourable-
establishment. We conceived, that the Constitatioe,
which was tendered as the rondilion of their return, and
provisionally nekmnled'ed by Monsiuer, in the name
of his Itrother, would have been accepted with enthusiasm,
and acted upon with vigour, on the arrival of the latter.
NVe conceived, that every feeling of his heart, and every
power of his intellect, would have been absorbed in the
single objet of healing the wounds of the nation—of re-
conciling every hostile passion—of vigorously exceutiii:;
the laws, without regard to individual affection, or indi-
vidual resentment : that the future throne would have
been built on a manly and, liberal acknowledgment of' the
rights of the peop!e, and the renunciation ofevery despotic
and superstitious dogma. We conceived all this would
have been done, because we were inclined to attribute
patriotic views to the head of the Exiled House, generated
by right conceptions of the wishes of his petiple, anti
matured in the whoop of naisfiutinte.

Our expectations were soon withcred—a flnv days ex-
hibited a manifest and chilling reluctance, an the side of
the Hourlams, to meet what we conceive to In the wish
of the largest and best part of the French population--
a system of legislation similar to our own—leaving to the
Prince all power in doing good, and no power to do,
harm ! That reluctance Ins been fidlowed up by acts
which have thrown into the shade all present hope of an
ameliorated condition of that distracted people: and
appearances warrant the most paiotill solicitude in every
breast, friendly to the general interests of mankind, and
the tranquillity acme of the finest regions on the ince of
the globe. But our limits forbid present enlargement.
We, there re, refer to the attention of our intelligent
readers the weekly documents we publish respecting that
unfortunate nation.