The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-15 00:00:00

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only result in accumulated crimes and the prog:ess
of moral depravation. The Bank of England has
long absolutely become a tribunal, arrogating to
itself the highest prerogatives of the Crown, sitting
by its legal authorities in judgment upon the life
and-death of their fellow-creatures, hurling at one
moment upon the wretched victims of an unnatural
currency the full force of its sanguinary vengeance;
at others persuading the objects of their prosecution
to plead guilty to a minor offence when they know
themselves to have committed a greater, either
themselves horror-struck with the encreasing
fie-
queney of their executions, or dreading to try far-
ther the exhausted patience of a disgusted and
sickened public. Now, in a state of things like
this, what are we to think of a minister of this
country, who can have the hardihood to attempt,
or the folly to hope, that at his bidding a British
House of Commons would permit these scenes to
be continued, or hesitate to adopt the shortest. and
most effectual mode for their removal. No, hap-
pily fur the country, the spirit of its Parliament is
at length rising to a sense of its own dignity and
of the high and sacred trusts with which it is
vested. The ministerial majorities have gradually
dwindled from 109 to a minority of 19. The Op.
position is headed by such a leader, and has
embodied in it., ranks so great a weight of talent,
of integrity, of respectabilty, and of public virtue,
as can never fail ultimately to triumph ; and under
their mild and constitutional guidance Old England
will vet be seen, we trust, lifting up her head
above the waves and storms which have so long
assailed and almost overwhe;u►ed her fortunes.

There is an old Act of Parliament, passed during the
Protectorate of Cromwell (1637), ruined, " An Act
for punishing of such persons as lice at high rates, and
hive no ci,iblc estate, profession, or calling, answeralde
thereunto." The preamble recites, that " whereas di-
vers lewd and dissolute persons in this Commonwealth
live at very high rates and great expenses, hat lug no rl-
- estate, &c. to imontaio themselves in their licen-
tious, loose, and toc.cutly Practices, but make it their
trade and livelihood to cheat, deboyst, cozen, and d -
ceive the you m' gentry, and the other good people of this
Commonwealio, be it enacted, &c.- The authority
gi% en to NI E.; s.rates tinder this Act was curious. Every
Justice ni Race, •1.11,r, 0• other head cdlicer, might
issue lits ‘varritit to luring such perilous before him, and
r•mtire bail for his apraratiCe at the next Gent ral Ses-
sions, or in del oult of such hail, send him to prison till
rot idet!. They were then to he indicted at the
said Ses•ions, " for livinr. at litt,.h rates and great ex-
pulses, h..s-iiig nu ti;ible estate, prolessiOti, or calling.
aliswcrlble thereunto;" and upon COOS tenon, they were
to be sent to the !louse of Correction and kept to hard
labour (or months. Upon a second COM iciiutt for
the same offence, they were to I.e committed as afore..
and detained till dischare.ed 1w the Justices in open
Sessions. if this were Inn in .oiee 1111tv, lays a en.
temporary) the diff, rent Houses of C.itruCtivti would be
julat .ly Crowd:it, in5..,•:111 of thea:res at hallyrice,,
cod ilide-paih on a
Oo .Sontlav I.st, Airs. Lnittoolt, tt ite of Mr. Lein.
woo, WheelriAiii, of well: down to a c!ay.
pi:, near the ltoue, to lezch swnc tt. ter, when she
thitic timatelv fell and >nnk to Ise to ti.orti; the
pile! insult; eglit feet deep r, ner lath-r, who
Was ill the same field, Z!Ild not, SC:1114 her reitii n, com-
modore/1 a search, and snon found the deceased at the
tpittom. Every effort to restore animation pitted 1-
1...55, the %nal spark Lin_ quite extinct. A Comm
loupwit was held on the body, and the Jury rtturnt
tcrdiet of—.Arcidema:l.- Drowned.
The Varl of Fluntin?.,rtion, during the last wt
has been enpaged in tai.:ing possession of his vat
heritable property in this and the adjoining cotim
His Lordship met his numerous tenantry in

place with ,rent courtesy and condescension,
was extremely liberal in the dist•ibution of si,

and 41. c itlatmg the inhabitantq.—Lricest...: