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VIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ILontion
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17•

In the House of Commons on Wednesday last
Sir Robert Wilson brought forward his promised
motion, with a view to promote an enquiry into his
conduct on the 14th of August and the days pre-
c :ding it—he did this in a style of candour and
fairness that attracted the admiration even of those
who, to retain their seats, were unhappily in so
debased a situation as to be obliged to pronounce the
monysyllable " No" with their mouths, while their
hearts would willingly have vociferated "AYE,
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and with a degree of coolness and ability that has
placed him higher than he before stood in the esti-
mation of all these who have read his speech atten-
tively ; it was of extreme length, and our limits have
obliged us to curtail it, but we have preserved the
points, and all who do not belong to the majority
which voted against his motion will agree with us,
that a grosser case of cruelty and oppression was
never made out-,-that he was dismissed either with-
out any evidence at all, or upon that which was
confessedly fouaded in falsehood and perjury—that
the parties giving that evidence were shielded by
Government from the visitation due to so dan-
e.oug an offence against the laws of God, of Eng-
gland, and of Morality—and they will probably be
inclined to think with us, that Sir Robert Wilson,
was punished in truth and reality for the double
crime of having opposed a lavish, bad, extravagant
government, and having commiserated and endea-
voured to alleviate the sufferings of a persecuted,
injured, calumniated and deserted Wife, who was
his Queen. Lord Palmerston, and Lord London-
derry, took post behind the phantom of PREIIO.•
OATIVE. We know not if it extend so far, but we
are surd if such be the case, it ought to be lessened
as affording a most dangerous intlaence, while mi-
litary and naval officers, are allowed seats in the
I-louse of Commons :—by this arbitrary, unjust ex-
ercise of this right, if it be a right, Ministers have
drawn down upon his Majesty a degree of odium lie
ought not to labour under—some persons dare to
think it was the result of petty, personal revenge on
the part of the King, fur the part Sir Robert NVl:son
took in the Queen's affair, but this we do not, we
cannot, we will not believe; and even if such had
been the case the evident duty of Ministers was to
have resisted so degrading a sacrifice of the dignity
of a King of England, and if their resistance had
been ineffectual the alternative presented to them
was resignation of those places they could no longer
hold with propriety. For six months past all the
hirelings of Government, the Morning Post, the Nen;
Times, the Courier, and last, though not le:est in

infamy, the John Bull, have been dealing in myste-
rious grandeur on the subject—" We could an if we
would"—" An if we list to speak," with a long list
of similar ambiguities—which, if stripped of all their
villanous clothing, come to an assertion that Sir It..
Wilson had been guilty of high-tr:ason, and that if
he were not executed fur it, he would have to thank
the loving mercy of his Majesty's Ministers—noN,

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atter all, what is the extent of his crime, according
to the statement of those Ministers themselves?—
Why,that perceiving the soldiers were firing unneces-
sarily and without orders on an unarmed multitude,
he reminded them that by such conduct they were
disgracing the laurels they had gained in the battle
of Waterloo—thus by his intervention the lives of
hundreds were probably saved, and for that inter-
vention he was dismissed, after 29 years service, and
against all rules of honesty and of the army, robbed
of the money he had paid for many of his commissions.
Col. Cavendish took umbrage at Mr. Lambton's call-
ing the massacres at Cumberland-gate " murders,"
and asserted that the Coroner's Verdict, which estab-
lished the fact was obtained by perjury—this we
positively deny and dare contradiction—if any sub-
ornation of perjury, or perjury itself took place, it
was on the part of the officers, the soldiers, and
those who wished to justify them to the world—
can our readers forget that the man who was own
servant to Lieutenant Gore, could not tell if be
was 20 or 50 years of age—or, whether his hair
was black or white, or ran they forget that Mr.
Adolphus, aware perhaps of the existing proof of
another falsehood, was prudent enough to antici-
pate it, by saying that he found—" that an officer
who it had been sworn was in Barracks, the whole
of the 14th of August, had been out two or three
times that day"—yet there are the men who can
mind up and declare, that the verdict of " Wilful
Murder" against a Lifeguardsman was obtained by
perjury ! !!
Rumour has been extremely busy for some days
past, relative to the expected proceedings in the
House of Commons on Friday last. Every body
said that a Message from the King would on that
night be delivered—some surmised that his Majesty
had been advised to defray the expenccs of the Co-
ronation out of his private funds, or out of the im-
mense property which came into his possession on
the death of their late Majesties—others went so
far in the wonderful path, as to assert that Ministers
had prevailed on his Majesty to renounce one-fourth
of the Civil List, and to declare that all his officers,
even to the highest, should submit to a similar re-
duction. For ourselves, we had no such expectation
—we do not look to " gather Figs from Thorns, or
Grapes from Thistles," and the event proves we
were right—the Marquis of Londonderry, and his
lionour•able colleagues, are too much " children of
this generation,' to allow their master's enjoyments
or their own to be lessened by a reduction of in-
come, and therefore the minor, the inferior classes of
locusts only are to be contributive to the retrench-
ments projected. The whole of the reduction in-
tended in the army, navy, and miscellaneous expen-
diture, is about two millions, of which the general
cry fur retrenchment, and the King's promise to for-
ward it, has produced a diminution of the Civil List
of 150,0001 only ! The public faith is to be bro-
ken by obliging the holders of Five per Cent. Stock
to accept of an interest of Four per Cent., and four
millions arc to be borrowed of the Bank, to enable
Gurcrnnient to lend money to the different parishes
which are now oppressed with poor's rates, taking
their rates in pawn, as security—the plan is
before our readers in abstract, if we add, that a
reduction of one shilling per bushel is to take
place in the duty on Malt.—Taking it altogether,
never was " the mountain in labour" more coin-
plettly realised than by this din: ncil production of
the present Cabinet. No Charlatan ever atte;:iptLa
to gull the surrounding rabble from his cart tad of
Nostrums, than are the cheated by this
contemptible exhibition of Ways and Means. None
of the useless lumber is to be cut away—all the
Leeches are yet to suck at the reduced system of
pour John Bull—the distresses of the Country, the
ruin of the Agriculturist, the general appeal of the
people cannot prevail upon Government, to lop off
a single branch of the Sinecure List, nor to reduce
in the seventh year of peace a s.:1! :e lay Lord of
the Admiralty.

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