The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-25 00:00:00

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her Majesty's contemplation) that the King would cause of fieial
nosifitattion to be made of Ler ?I.:j sty's legal character as Queen
tot he government of such stnt,. That censirtently, however,
with the reasons already stated, it rttnit 1,5 L \vitt) the Sovereign I
of wen tate what rttcption should be given to I:Jr Majesty in
tbat citteucter.
The King's Servants were particularly anxious to imptevs upon
tlie Queen's Law Officers the public grounds upon which this
principle. rested. The general rule tO foreign courts is, to re-
;naive only those who ore ree.:ivetl at home. 1 tie King could not I
with pn.); crty require tiny ',not of foreign governments the re-
fusel of which ould not and his Majesty just ground of re- •1
seuentoo .I:mon:fiance. It would be neither for the ;Ling's
',dignity, nor for the Quecii% comfort, :ha: the &Mould be wade ;
the stibject of such a questien.
To this it was replied for the Queen ; that with respect to this
new proposition on the 1o:re of the King's Servants, it should be
teken into immediate consideration; but her Majesty's L:fw
Ottlars nbserved, that her 'Majesty was tine in the situation
reierted to in the above reasoning. having been habitually
rezeiveil at Court in this country fur many yea's, and Laving
only ceased to go there in int*, out of regard for the peculiar
delicate situation in which the unfortunate unferences in the Royal
Family platcsi the late Queen.
The. latter observation was met. on the part of the King's Ser-
vants, by • re-a.scrtion of his ithtiesty's undoubnal authority on
'this point, whether as King cr as Prince Regen:, in tile exerciss
of the Royal authority. that the Conti held by her lute Majesty
was in fah: the Court of the Prince Regent, then acting in the
name and on the behalf of his late :Oaksty ; and that the present
Queen, then Print:gas of Wales, was excluded rat l'm mien Court.
(Signed as before.)
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TROTOCOL OF THE FIFTH CONFERENCF..
Foreign-oftice, June 19, 18'20.
'flit Protocols of the preceding conferences were read and
•;reed imam
Net Majesty's Law Officers scat. 1, that the proposition of yes-
terday had been submitted to her :‘,ajesty. and that it Lad not
produaal any Intel...me in her Maje-ty's 4catiinents. Its order
to avoid any misinterpretation of the expression tared hi me.i-
tioning their lychee that her Majesty might overcome her nine-
tame to go abroad, viz.. ender all the circumstances a her
position,"
.tney stated, that the), meant thereby t e
domesuc tldfactices which created the difficulty of her Maje ry
holding a Court, and the unnerstood sense of 'Parliament, that
tin Majesty's residence in this country might be attended with
jut him inconvenience.
They also protested generally in her Majesty's name against
being understood to propose or to desire any trims inconsistent
With the honour and diiinity of the King, or any which her own
vindication did not seem to render absolutely necessary.
MEMORANDUM.
The second and tnird points, as enumerated for discussion in
the Protocol of die first roufereitce, :.ere not brought into de-
liberation, in tsmsequence of no satilaciory understanding having
taken place upon the points brought forward by her Mii;esty's
Law Officers.
The five Protocols were then respecti• vely signed.

which we were told to sing and rejoice that riiiroise
wss emancipated, and England rewarded, is it
necessary to add to onr sten' ing army 15,000 men
to keep down discontent; ' And ore we further to
be told that a House of Commons, in which only
fifty men could he found to vote against such an in-
crease, is an honest and fair representation of the
people? If such an army be indeed necessary to ,1
the maintenance of tranquillity in this country, its
government must be bad. Circumstances have
lately arisen, which we apriehend. will give our
Ministers hczne uneasy iellSildOllS while advocating
the increase of the army. Not long since a gang of
smugglers, in open day, attacked the prison at Do-
ver, and released walr of their comrades. Now
Dover' it a place well filled with soldiers, and to
" asset a breach in the prison walls" must have
been a work of some time. We dire not commit to
paper the infereuee which we draw from this fact,
which, after being once mentioned, was mos: care-
fully hushed sp by all the London Papers. We
hinted, us far as we dared, last week at the mutiny
among the troops in the inctrepelis. On this sub-
ject, not one London Parer ventured to speak the
whole truth, hut float the vehement assertions of the
London Courier, that " polhie.ii feeling was dis-
played by the mutineers," every body suspected that
the contrary was the fact, That a spirit of .discon-
tent and mutiny did exist to such an extent in one
of the regiments of Guards, as to occasion its imme-
diate removal to a distant part of the kingdom, is,
however, certain. ['hese foots, one would suppose,
are amply safileicnt to inspire some doubt and hesi-
tation as to the po'-iey of relying solely upon military
aid for the support of the present system. Again
and egaiii we have protested against the madness of
resting for security upon the bayonet. Does Cor-
ruption suppose that the sons and the brothers of
the journeymen and labourers have none of the
feelings of nature left within them/ She is deceived
if she does. In vain does she endeavour "to place
them out of the pale of the constitution." We know
this is the intent. We need only to look at the
batracks, the fortresses, the military academies, the
everlasting shitting of regiments from place to place,
the outlandish dresses—every thing skews that the
intention is to efface front the mind of the soldier ail
citizenship, all the ties of blood and the claims of
friendship- The only security that Coriuption looks
to is the army. As want and misery increase, their
remedy is—increase the army. The bayonet is the
ready and effectual answer to all ixayers and peti-
tions. Let them beware. The bayonet is wielded •
by the sons and brothers of the labouring classes:
those journeymen and those labourers, • whose
fathers, sons, and brothers ha✓e fought the battles of
their country by sea and land, and out of whose toil
come more than four-fifties of those taxes which feed
the innumerable swarms of placemen, pensioners,
granters, finders, spies, and infoeiners. Let Cor-
ruption reflect upon this lac?.

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ON THE ARMY ESTIMATES.
WE have been precluded, by the press of other
imprtant matter, from offering any observations
upon the debate on the Army Estimates, which
wok place in the House of Commons last week —.
It is, however, a subject of too great consequence to
be passed over in silence. The increase of a stand-
Ing army must at all times be viewed with dread
and alarm by every free nation; but the time at
which Ministers have thought fit to increase the mill-
tars force of this country 15,000 men, and the
reasons which they have given for well an increase,
are such fearful symptoms of approaching despotism,
that we should ill discharge our duty if we were to
pass them over in silence. Viewed merely as a
matter of expence, what are we to say to men who,
while they acknowledge a deficiency of at least 24
millions in the means of defraying the present ex-
Fences of the country, which deficiency is to be made
lip by adding 12 millions to the debt, and taking 1.2
millions from the sinking fund, can add to our
:-:?'ens the expence of maintaining 15,000 addi-
tional aeldiers ? Is there a man breathing, possessed
a grain of common sense, who does rot see that
Inevitable ruin must be the result of perseverance in
such a system ? Standing armies, and sedition bills,
anti restraints on speaking and on printing, are
tireadfully powerful things, but their power is not
of that kind which enables people to pay taxes. The
interest of the debt, the sinecures, pensions, grants,
end the expenses of a thundering standing army,
may continue to be made up I%ei, by loans, by
Exchegeer bills; by robbing the sinking fund, by
every species of contrivance, to the latest possible
moment ; but the time must come, when the whole

RELIGIOUS' CHARITIES.
Accounts of the Receipts of the principal Reli.
gious Charities for the year ending 31st March,
1820, as published in their respective Reports:—
. s. d.
British and roreign Bible Society 93,033 6 1
Church nod M is,ionary It 30.016 11 0
Loudon Missionary Sorirtr .. 0 0
Socirty for roliver,ion of :lc ws 0,9x0 12 Z
Pra er Book find Rornity Soci•ct,
.11:tiet nista Society
14411,61 and Military Llible Society
Total 166,302 4 6
lbw rihrvlld he 71(1 ded the estimated

~., 7,111,4•••
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baseless fabric" of paper, an. 6 To , ••
Ist the war of pro- Returns of those Soc toil's who do not make
jects, interests, and passions, will go to pieces hie a ur, their account' ,u Ludy-day, token on
the scale of 1519, which will be rather'
.itip on the rocks. 'lle increase of the standing sae, than livor-,ating them.
army iris a (Erect .I,:', inevitable tendency to hasten Society for proniotiN christiaa Know-
ledge...
this time. Ntethotli4 Al i,sini.o.ty lil.eiety 24,060 It 0
Moravian Mizsions
But viewed as a on'ter of necessity—aye, and a Ba • N. • • • •
Wilt ..lissiounry Society ►6,000 0 0
neceLsltv occasioned by the ,liscontent of the people; Society for prop Awing the G.,pc! l:i,eiol 0 0
• National Society Mr Education
for on :his ground Lord I'a7iLeistor. defended this Religious Tract Society
Collection oo the King's Let:er fur time
utiesoanentation of uLr militar.,- force, we are compelled Society for the Propagation of the 50,000 0 0
to ask-.:.. 7s Cris the end iota .:I.ject of a war of r.venty 1 t.i.o.rei—nearty
years? •Afu:r a ICaCC Of :ix years, at the In... Ling Of
• , O. 1 • k

Tvt:.l uf oce year ~.....331,182 4 0

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THE QUEEN.
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The fullowine fact is illustrative of one of the
consergences of the omission of her Majesty's name
in the Liteney. . A short time since, the directors
of a well-conducted and excellent institution, for
the relief of the aged and infirm women of good
character, desirous of availing 'themselves of public
benevulence in aid of its funds, by the usual method
of a charity sermon, applied to the Rev. Rector of
an extensive parish in the city. The Rev. Gentle-
man immediately wonted the use of his pulpit, aal
not only undertook to advocate their cause himself
by a sermon on the Sunday morning, but else pre-
vailed upon the Rev. Doettie,••the lecturer at the
:Janie shire's, to preach in behalf of the society in
the aftcraoon. In the infancy of this society, her
Majesty, then Princess of Wales, had been solicited
to become its patroness, to which she had not. mile
consemel, but at the same time subscribed
to its funds, and to this her early ceuntenance was
to be ascribed the subsequent patronage uF the Prin-
cess Charlotte, Prince Leopold, the Doke of Kent,
and other branches of the Royal Fannie,. The
patronage was of mine acknow;esigeti ia all their
publications, and in every notice of sermons to be
preached in its behalf, the society had uniformly
been described as under the patronage of the Princess
of Wales. The Committee saspecting no impro-
priety, accordingly in their printed notice of these
twe sermons announced the society us patronized
by tree Qetten's most excellent Majesty ; but on a
copy of this notice, together with .the printed ac-
count of this society, being transmitted to the Rev.
Rector, as is usual in like cases, a few days pre-
viously to the day appointed for the sermon, he not
only expressed great surprise at the insertion of her
Majesty's name, but appeated highly indignant that
he should be expected to notice from the pulpit the
name of woman whom the Council had forbid him
to pray fur in the Liturgy, and peremptorily refused
to suffer the sermons to be preached unless they
withdrew the notice, and circulated others, omit-
ting the Qecen's name. To this act of ingratitude
and injustice the committee were most unwilling to
submit; the Rector, however, was immoveable ;
other notices were consequently substituted with
the omission, not only of her Majesty's name, but,
to avoid invidious distinction, of the names of all the
illustrious personages to whose patronage the insti-
tution was so highly indebted for its present
prosperity.
Mails !hive arrived from ilaniburgli, with Papers
to cite kith, and from Flanders, with Brussels
Journals to the 20th instant. The people of Ha.
nover seem to be positive that the King will visit his
dominions on their side of the water iminetliately
after his Coronation here. The Palace of Herren-
hansen has been thoroughly repaired for his recep-
tion, The health of Prince Schwaftzeuburgh is
improving, and he is now able to teke little exeur-
sions on horseback in the neighbourhood of Leipsic.
The Emperor and Empress of Austria left Prague
ion the 6th, to meet the King of Saxony at Kere-
seinstadt. The King of Prussia, accompanied by
•his sons, Prince William and Prince Charles, sr-
rived at Stralsund on the 7th, and was received with
every show of joy. On the 9th he set off for tile Isle
of Bogen. Soule exaggeration of the disturbances.
which took place in London on the evening of the
:6th, having reached Hambargh, the Exchange be-
came alarmed; but subsequent arrival.; in this city
bad restored confidence—The fortifications on the
frontier of the Netherlands opposite France ere
going oinwith rapidity. With a view to the encee-
ragement of the woollen manufacture of his domi-
nions, the King of the Netherlands had directed the
whole of his army, the persons en all charitable
foundations, and the persons attached to his Court
and Henseheld, to wear nothing else than cloth o:
native manufacture.
On his Holiness the Pore having been informed
of the erection of the magnifisent Rounin Catholic
Chapel at the east cud of tile town, lie not oily ex-
pressed his satisfactlen, but ordered n superb Chalice
to be made for its use, of pure Mexican gold, to b
ornamented with precious stones, which it is estimas
ted trill (set 51;00/.
A Penes Paper (The Conslittaionnel), says, " We
have received u notice from an Enpeli Gentleman,
roseectieg an article inserted in fhe Journal de;
De.bals on the 15tli, on Mr. Alderinua Wood. We
are assured that this article is a miserable falsehood;
and that Mr. Wood never did write in visiting
M. Wood,jeu Lord Maire de Londres—(Mr. Wood,
Tate Lord Mayor of London). It may be asked what
could induce any one to throw ridicule upon utt
esteemed and respectable citiseit, who enjoys a high
consideration, not only at hotne, but in the rest of
Europe, and who has occupied with lionobr the first
post in the city of London ? Is it because he pro-
fesses liberal opinions, and because he is attached to
an unfortunate Princess, who complains of being the
object of the most atrocious calumnies.

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