The National Register.
London, England, 1816-02-26 00:00:00

Yuck 9'd.

time gives no relief, it sticks to the people's back, like the
shirt of Nem: that destroyed Hercules, and as a matter
of state policy, it ;;rasps all present and future wealth, an 3
tempts the crown to a constant increase of expenditure.
To use homely language, it eats the calf in the cows Lelly ,
anti it kills the goose with the golden egg. It is peculiar
lv a tax of extravagance, a tax adapted only to' a war i:
which the existence of a people is nt stake. Wisely,
therefore, was it promised, that as it was imposed to resist
the revolution in France, it should cnd with it; and
we do hope, that having succeeded in happily placing the
Bourbons on the throne, we may nut be burthened with
it, fur the mere purpose of keeping them on it in per-
petuity.
We have supported it during war upon principle; and
with the same view, and upon the same prnciplas, we
hope every loyal wan, who wishes to be again prepared fur
war when it may be necessary, will now oppose it. They
who wish to preserve the crown, will du the bcst service
by not exhausting the people.

&unDav amusemento.

"Divide SUNDA Y from the W eek."—SII4NESPEARIt.

TN furtherance of the intention lately announced to
our Readers, we propose, in the Mere numbers of THR
NATIONAL lietesexa, to give, under the above Title,
some short composition partaking of a Religious Charac-
ter, and possessing some conformity with the style of
reading and thinking recommended for the CHRISTIAN
fs,..venera. Without censuring the publication of a Sun..
day Newspaper, which we sanction by our practice ; we-
may be permitted to say, that a short Le-ey, dedicated
to the subject of Brun:lox, would be, in our opinion, an
appropriate addition to its contents; would act as a kind
of qualifying and redeeming ingredient, and, without
destroying the general interest of its coltimne would
render it more consonant to the wishes of the %yell.: ie-
peseil ; and, together with tare in the selection of inte:-
ligence, would constitute a passport into serious and re-
ligious families. The young and the busy might be
induced to peruse a siert portion of a Newspaper, cce-
tsining sacred instruction, or inculcating useful advise,
while their rolattility or aspeations moat render them
averse to look into a religious quarto, and who could me
begin a sennon without king reminded el the forma-
lities of Chundi service. In ectirg upon this impreseion,.
we shall avoid being obtruve in our manner, or tecliozs
in our details. No puritanical solemnity will he reseete-
melded, no asperity of remark itulu : we shall nbetu'.3
front all discussions concerning erects or (wife:Nit:us; v c
shall neither censure ncr support the tenets of atty SA.7.
Brevity will be most scrupulously olemrved, and greet
variety of subject will be combined with strict unity ef
design, and general tendency. Sometimes we shall enter
upon a short mid:is:n(la new religious tract, ur volume
of sermons, extracting from them valuable passeger;
sometimes we shall state, in a cersory and popular man-
ner, the principal evidences of our reliteion ; :.t efter
times, we shell give a short account of the ditlerent
stets into which religious opinions or ceremonies have-
divided the world ; and, at others again, lay before e. to
reader a train of moral reflections. a 14,,gruphical netiee
of u religitets character, a religirus poem, or easy other
composition whore tendeney accords with what we have
in view. In these Essays there will be no stateliness or
solemnity of manner aimed at, no attempt at any thin:;;
te:romlite. protintrel, or systematie. We make ee pee_
tensions to instrect those who either are alreudy in-
strteeed. or betieve themselves so, in religious matters ;
we despair of gaining the attention of the man of busi-
ness. who is employed in examining the last wetL's
( ;melte, to find his debtor on the life of bankrupts ; and
we lay :to eleira to the ear of Cee. politician, who is so
much engaged with rtn.tling the affairs of Errope, that
he has no time to think of higher interests ; but to ti' •
young. the ineeperls iced, and the decal' ffir'ernay con-
vey useful infinenation, or *wart . " etiOeltee
uriAki
ja
We shell, by the means alley-mentiorte.. " ilknt
that Sr snav is sti:l includol in the weak; that ltdrit cs.
along wirhin its periodical returns appropriate duties;
end that the communication of secular intelligence rhould, •
not prevent the indulgence of those serious refe.tiens
which the remission of seenlar employment, and the re{ e-
lay services of the day, suggese. We shall supply-Nome-
thing which the younger branches of a family may reed
to those more advanced, for the mutual benefit of both,
conformable to the Prover-book or the Ude, a ponies) of
which may have come under their review, and compa-
tible with the public worship to which the. °settee invites
elsem. It is superfluous to ray, that, to be of any t.se,