The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-27 00:00:00

measures strongly resetnblant to those which Lord
Castlereagh dared to propose to, and had the power
to carry through, the English House of Commons.
We hope, on the approaching election, every Mem-
ber will be recompensed who voted away the best
palladium of English liberty, when he assisted to-
wards the recent destruction of the liberties of the
press. It is worth observing, and it is an observa-
tion easily confirmed by any one who has the power,
like ourselves, of reference to the original French
Papers, not only that the CANT of the. Ministers cf
France, as to the necessity of the restrictive Itws
they are about to hAve enacted, is precisely the same
as that we lately heard from the Treasury Benches
in the Chapel of St. Stephen, but that the speechet
of MM. Cazes, Latour-Maubourg, Pasquier,
&e. appear to be literal translations of those pro-
nounced in December last by the Earl of Liverpool,
Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Canning, &c. &c. tut
" There is more in this than is dreamt of in our philosophy."
M. de Cases exclaimed from the Tribune—
" (.entl.•nten, in this alarming crisis, we demand of you
fur tine y ear, the renewal of the law of the 11th of Fs bruary,
1817. We demand the means of watching, in particular,
over the safety of the King, of his family, und of the ►tate.
All these are menaced. We demand of you, t herefure, t. e
power to arrest, w it hunt being compelled to go through any
pi climinaryjudicial fee, any isidividnal suspected of plots
or machinations against the person of the King, the safety
of the state, or that of the Itoyal Family. We hope not to
have occasion to u-e it, hut we ought to he invested with it,
that we may not he unarmed before opinions, plots, and
crimes of the same natm e, which might have the same
sourer, lush which we must turn aside or present. The tens.
parlay power which we demand a ill he exercised with all
the circumspection which its importance minims ; the
warrants of arrest will not be delivered but in the ccmticil of
ministers, and signed by thr, r of divot."
We need not remind our political readers hew
nearly this resembles the late jargon of the House
of Commons !

The French Papers of Saturday arrived on Tuc-!..
day. The Quulidienne and the Journal des Debuts
mention as a report, that Count Decazes ha:. given
in his resignation. The state of politics in France
seems critical. The new measures proposed • will
meet with m►uch opposition, particularly if the
Ministers do not establish strong and substantial
;rounds to show their necessity. The ministerial
papers are anxious to have it believed that Louvel
had accomplices, and that the assassination of the
Duke de Berri was planned by the assassin and
other conspirators. If so, it will be urged us an
argument in favour of the suspension of the French
Halmos Corpus law, and we shall hear of the arrest
probably of several suspected persons. The. Minis-
ters di,et to be very much alarmed.

With i•espect to Spanish affairs, it appears, that
on the 3d inst. the g.ttcs of' Cadiz had not bten
thrown open to the Constitutional Army. The
report of the capitulation of that city to the troops,
is in a good nwasure amounted lot by the Bishop
having visited the Staff of Patriots, in hopes of
haranguing them into compliance with the terms n.
submission which had been devised by the authori-
ties of' Cadiz. It is said, in new& front Madrid,
(but intelligence from thence is least to be depen-
ded upon), that a provisioning party, going out
from the Isla, on the side of Vexer and G.mel, was
cut off by the troops tinder the command of Gen.
Jos. O'Donnel, and obliged to separate and take to
flight in the direction of the Gibraltar camp.—
Catlin is represeLted us very tranquil, which may be
the case ; but it is unquestionable, that several
persons of consequence are every day arrested, and
who have heretlirc tilled high offices. "Mcichoir, it
scents, has been executed.

Thursday, Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Aru-
ba's:oot, was introduced t..) his 'l4:sly, ut his Va-
i:tee in Pull Mull, upon his rcturn to England front
Vienna His Excellency had the honour of a pri-
vate audrence of the King.
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