The National Register.
London, England, 1809-03-12 00:00:00

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NUMBER SIXTY-ONE.
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of all of Newspapers, that they accomplish the promises made to th OUR FOREIGN CONCERNS.
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world in their Prospeatusses. We are therefore proud to decldre, --r.."—
that we conceive THE NATIONAL REGISTER to have ex- This is a subject uncommonly sterile, when considered
deeded, in its progressive execution, the performance of those en- as a source of national exultation; and highly repulsive,when
, I gagenzents which we originally contracted with our Subscribers, taken as an object of individual research. The writer has
and the Public; and we now confidently appeal, in confirmation too many prejudices and false impressions to encounter ;
the citizen too much mortification and alarm to sustain.
of this our opinion, to the experience of those who have long and ,
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tzniformly honoured us by attending to the contents of our Weekly This reluctance, however, must be surmounted ; for the
Paper. subject becomes every day more urgent, more alarming.
We would willingly draw a veil over the past, were it not
Notwithstanding such unremitting exertions on our part, we for the impressive lessons it furnishes; but, were it fea-
Were contented, even at the opening of the present year, when 1,(1• sible, we would efface every recollection of the last fifteen
. ..,1 rioits other Public Journals found it necessary to enhance the years from our own and the memory of others. It is the
price of their labours, to endeavour to avoid, if possible, any history only of our folly and weakness. Not a trace should
increase in our charges to the purchasers of TILE NATIONAL survive; for it does not furnish a solitary record in which
REGISTER. Sorry arc toe now to state our utter inability to the nation has not been disappointed; and the government
remain longer stationary as to pecuniary compOnsation. We have betrayed marks of incapacity, intemperance, or want of
no choice. Either we must impoverish the Literature of our News- foresight. We have interfered, during that portentous in. I,
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tervals in every great, and almost every petty, transaction
paper, or we must solicit additional remuneration. Nor is this
of the Continent ; but our interference was neither dignified l':.
all. The sudden and rapid and unprecedented advance that has
enough to create confidence, nor sufficiently vigorous to
made in the price of paper, (the Paper on which THE Na- II!'
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secure effect. We displayed all the restlessness, 'melting).
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. l t io N A L REGISTER is printed being absolutely SO percent. dearer
that) that employed by any otherNewspaper),To SAY NOTHING.
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to our undertaking, renders it more than expedient for us, 4ttion, and extravagant ardour of youth ; but our :iloa itires
excited contempt by their unseasonableness, or irritatiott,
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by their insufficiency. On occasions, such as the I lit ails-
) relying, rian campaign, when delity was imperiously iire:ent, we
a; we do, on the justice of our Patrons, to add ONE PENNY only destroyed evert possibility of success by precipiracing the f -
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to- the price of our toils; which rise must lake effect on Sunda
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. very, march- the iOthookpp Tux N,erzos!t REGISTER will, for be alone efficacious. we blasted, as far as depended upon e
the first time, be charged NINE•PENCE. os, by our dilatory conduct, every reasonable chance of
Spanish independence. We have shown a pedantic, an ob.
Many poteetfulainsideratioas might be specified, which, be-
stinate adherence to fornix, when they were useless and
sides what has been just said, ought perfcctlg to reconcile our Sub-
even impolitic, as Wll3 the case with the installation of the
scribers to the Measure we now announce. Trilling as the sum of ii
• Supreme Junta ; awl in instances she their violation must .1
one-penny, when added to eight-pence, may appear generally, .I.
have been attended with the most imminent risk, re dis-
and must be considered individually, yet will it authorise us to ex- played an unpardonable levity, a dangerous indifference. . .
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ten d the sphere of our periodical operations, so as more than to
, Immense sums have been expended under the uarne of secret I'
compensate the
.generosity of our very numerous and, we know, service money ;we were, however, never able to anticipate
highly respectable Purchasers. Already esteemed, as we flatter the projects of the enemy, and (nett grossly ignorant of the
ourselves, for the original independence and intelligence of our extent of his resources, of the number and the organisa- ~.i.
Political Strictures, for the novelty and integrity of our Clerical tioa of his armies. Our agents at the foreign courts, with )
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Criticisms, for
the peculiarity and variety of our .lisceliz.neous very few exceptions, were conspicuously- devoid of the qua-
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Communication-, as uell (49 for all that relates to Arrangement lineations A alit+ render a man eminently useful in the di- .Im4
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and Typogi..ph:.,. in oil Wicith essential excellencies we hold our; plomatic career. A diffe..rence of manners, and the reserve, ii.
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so clraiiriatectrecroiastrisceomfittlhie ' fish character, rendered an in '47-
selves inferior to none, but superior to most, of our Newspaper
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to inzprove in oar public labout s, and, by the honourable assist-
speaking them, made them rather avoid, than seduloesly ! i
ante of our Purchasers, will sedulously exert ourselves to accom-
cultivate, familiarity. 3. ,outing under these restriet.ons
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plish the improvements we have long had in contemplation. We
it v,as impossible then could individnal7y inlience the re-
have, indeed, already ventured to engage a Gentleman, long and solutions of the court at which they resided ; and, though
well approved in f.iterature, to superintend the Fashi:lnable and they might have been respected for their integeity eed the
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