The National Register.
London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

THE NA.TIONAL TIEGISTER.

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of hi, M:,estv's arms throughout that part North Anurica
mi! be eft'ectuallv established."
This is a paraaTanh in the Speec-a which we cannot clearly
un-erstaini. If Nlinisters Mean to sae that no force, in
addition to that poi: scrciug in Canada, is necessary to bring
the war to an hal,pe termination, we fear they will be disap-
pointed. A notch inure powerful armament will be neces- !
sarv. As to the latter part of the sentence about the ascend-
ancy of the aims in that part of America, we are
perfectly un,o.eate of it, meatiiog. If " that part" includes
the New Enlant. States, and the country into which Sir G.
Prevost appears, had success attended his naval operation,
to have proposed to advance, we arc also apprehensive the
" expectations" of Ministers will not be answered.
As to the conduct ef that officer. it will be well to wait
his jtwitiFation can be tendered. Respectable and
:,allant as mar be the Peninsular officers, who seem to have
dissented with him on the subject of the operations, we think
Sir G. Prevost will prove himselif right in not advancing, at
that season of the year, into a country distinguished for'its
strength, and the tine opportunities it affords for defence to
an irregular force.
The Debate on the subject ef the affairs of the Con•inent
was spin lied. In the course of it the important secret was"
filially disclosed, of a treaty having been signed, but not
rat,fwal. «iih Buonaparte ehatilion. Some of the pro-
letWe oreoo/iz,mon's were alluded to, and particularly that
of Saxony being ahsorhed in'o Prussia. Saxony has been
te•mcd the cradle of the Reformatiou—the garden of Ger-
m:ono fence, without a great degree of interest, the ques-
tion cannot be agi•ated. axonv has afforded the admirable
example of a 'really Catholic spirit—a Protestant people - go-
verned by a Roman Catholic monarch—a picture of tolera-
tion in its full'st extent, in its most deft:laid gad). To
these facts a!C to he added the pet sonal character of the mo-
narch. W hen all these circutes'ances are recollected, they
cot'!d not but excite a powerful interest.
The Sperch not having alluded to the state of the new
kingdom of Belgium, or to the means talien by us to secure
it to its projected Sovereign, much was not said about it.
however, it should appear that we have 40,000 men to find
for its defence. But, on the other hand, there is reason to
'hope that the troops which arc there will be speedily re-
called and sent on a destinatien where their services are
mech more wanted, and will be of infinit lv g.eater use.
We expect this circumstance to take place, as, in war, they
would tie unable to make a stand against nearly the whole
force of France, applied as it would be to an in up-
tion from the Flemish frontier ; and as in peace their
presence ran ;to odece no other ffect than continuing to
exci!e those jeali-qisies now existing against us" in by far
too great a . e.. r ee.
The `4peech conc;uded. molt an allusion of rather an am-
bignous nature It woke of :he ,eternal situ ti.:tt of the
c ultry and the necessity of alending to measures that
would ex,end our tiaee Lord (=r n isle ap; dto con•
side' the lusions as wade t the Bullion Ret opt and the
projecoed Corn Laws On 1)001 subjects, and patticularlv
the latter, V: c, are iced to floc.' Noble Lord (confess-
edl, one of !lie ereatest political t oonotnists of the age) pre-
part dt • enter into a d,seussion. •
We c( nchide flee, subject by sta.ieg, that if any Thing
could add to the truth, jesti-e, and :,isdotn of the Noble
Lord's sentiments or alThrtil a proof of the itec,'ssiv r f search
log forthwith for the remedy, it is a fact stated by Mr.
Tho ilia in the Ilouse of Commons, that su, la was the abund-
France, that it was pow to be had for three

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However, to spew the practical wisdom, and philanthrophy
of the ideas so happily and so elegantly expressed, we cannot
avoid quoting his own words :
" This, my Lords," said Lord Grenville, " the corsomingeim.
" ker that preys on the vitals of the state; the depreciation of oue
" coriency, which, by gradual augmentation, year after year, has
" reached its present state, is, I will venture to atlirm, a greater
" cause of tfte depression tinder which the people of this country
" labour than all the taxes which are paid by them. in the present
" state of our circulation is to he found, the origin of all those dlr.
" ficulties which some persons have improvidently attempted to re.
" move, by imposing duties on the imports of the necessaries of lac.
" These attempts for two years together has Pareament most pro.
" deafly checked. I, for one, will ever raise my voice against
" them. I will never consent is remedy the artificial difficulties,
" which have been created by the neglect of Parliament, by
" posing a tax: on the labonring classes of this community. I will
never consent to pass laws which not only are utterly impolitic
" and unjust to the community, but which stiike at the very root
" of the ink rests they affect to protect. Far from assisting the
" favour and supporting the land holder, I believe that if all the
'' catalogue of proposed measures were searched, there is not one
,t that would wale certainly brine tlllll on both these classes, than
imposiog great ditties oo the import of wain. That the agric4
" tote of this country labours under great difficulties I do not deur:
" it is untortimately Lobo p• 11.etly shewn by the reports on your
6 ' table. littt the true eansc the depression kin the state of the
" eircalal ion of the eouuttv. :•-• tile tine remedy that, unterritied
66 by the magnitude of tle! subject, And nbot on that account
" finttely postponing It, we should procred to the discussion, miLt-
" ing the difficulties that must attend it."

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