The National Register.
London, England, 1812-03-29 00:00:00

Mt NATIONAL REGISTER, •

SERlPaimPlreajrrk
Gtlii. 11;1(1111t1 Said, that it was not a year since they had last
addressed the Prince Regent, and in very different language, and he
-would tell them why they had altered their tone : because his Royal
Highness tied rot taken into hisserStiee a certein description of persons
Whom, if lie had chosen to trust, they would have been to this moment
as firmly attached to bine, and he would have continued as good and
gracioys a rrince as he was a year ago--s(hisses and continued lisappro-
The various resolutions were then put by the Crier seriatim, and tar-
tied by large majorities.
Mr. WAI TUMAN expressed his regret that notie of the Representa-
tives of the City had come forward to explain why they did not vote
against Colonel MiMalion's appointment. He could account for it in
ho siay but from a persuasion that they were unable to face their Con-
stiteents.—(Hear, hear ! moved thu the pctition he transcribed,
signed by the Town Clerk, and presented to the Prince Regent by the
Lord Mayor. the Representatives, the Aldermen, the Sheriffs, the
Recorder, and twenty-one of the Livery of London ; and that the She-
tiffs should wait upon his Royal Highness to learn *en it would .be
convenient that the Address should be received. These several ;no,
Cons were agreed to.
He afterwards moved, with a view, as he stated, of lei:Ting the
Members for the City to confession, that. they be direTted by their
Constitueres, to support the objects f.f the petition its Parliament.
Sir 'V. R l'ls then confidently adeanced to the front of the hustings
ind spoke as follows :—" Gentlemen, I think you have knhein me lung
enough—(too long)—Theie never *as an instance in my private life in
which I was' ashamed of meeting my friends, or of my political life, in
Which 1 was ashamed, of meeting with his Majesty's Ministers.—
(111ktieg ti>ah them and treating with thent).—Unless I had been parti-
culatly called epon,- I had no intentic n to offer myself to your notice,
though I should certainly at all times pay a degree of deference to the
opiniens of the Livery of London. The motion is to instruct me-1
don't want instruction.—(A /augh.)4,--You know my sentiments upon .
the doctrine of instruction to Representatives. I have stated before,
and I will restate it now, that you sent me to the House of Commons
to hear, to deliberate, ard to decide, and not to do exactly as you bid
tnees--(egrpfoesi ).—I go there as free man, and there I act as a free
tnan, and will not be shackled in Illy vote, either by yoti or the Mi•
tlista.:--=-(Applause.)—As I am free myself, so it has always been my
study to maintain your freedom. 1 have an opinion of my own, and I
Will exercise U. I should he ashamed of n;ysetf if I hid uttered a word
disrespectful towards you; but I have also a respect for my own inde-
pettclence.—( Lottd cheers.)—lt is true the country is much distressed ;
myself any much distressed about it. What does it arise &cm ?
from circutpstauces which no human foresight could prevent—(Nosno,
they sewer tried toprewnt a).—l think so. Look round you, • look ewee
at America ; where will you see so many happy fares collected toge-
ther es those I now behold ?—(Appleuse and laughter )—Wauld you
cronch to the power of France to remedy your evils) 1 do not think
that is the way, hut I will tell you which is the way—(T dl _Ministers
they want teaching). ['lie way is, to Ill:Ant...in your liberties, and con-
quer your eneniies.—(LaufAter.)—t: you vela go on in this violent way
I cannot help it ; I wish } could."
The Hon. Baronet retired amidst. a load show of mixed disapproba-
t .)n and applause.
Mr. Alderman Cole ye was received with continued cheers, and de-
difE -eting his Constiltents, be--

dared that he never felt any _ Acuity in me_. ---,1 -
cause his votes, when not directed by. them, .were governed by an up-
right heart. In his opinion it was .the bounden duty of every Member
of _Parliament to obey the commands of those he represented : on this
principle he had uniformly acted, and he wished his character only to
be.elitectued as long as he continued so constitutional a practice.
Sir C. Peter could in no respect subscribe to the doctrines just laid
down by his worthy Colleague, and in .saying so, he trusted the I Avery
ketiiild give him credit for speak.ivg as an independent man.—(Cofitinuoi
crionf Nal . 4Nro! )—Tite Constitution under which we lived, and the
Gevernment that protected it, were the hest in the world.—(rou hare
pod reasoit tz; think so).—Arid great. care should be taken lest, under a
pretence of remedying abuses, the greatest injury were not done to
both.--(.loVred eijede use owl hi s i ng.)
Sir Jett.. SHAW could with great difficulty obtain a hearine
" Thrice lie essayed," and thrice the sound of his voice was drowned in
nshout that wc,uld " have torn Hell's concave." When the tumait
had somewhat subsided, he declared his sorrow that his opinions were
so much at variance with the majority of his Constituents, but he was
. botind in honour and justice to state, that he could in no re«pect sup-
, port the petition ' -ed► in his humble judgment it was a direct in-
salt uon the ' (Hieses pile all sides).—Ho never would be
tAII3-an (th( there were those who would feel no such
.3atY) 'crone, only to insult its occupant. If any
40 Aims to was always ready at his post —Wha
won* sm? Ilion in die resolutions or petition- was
%ruded In side,- and hooting). It stated the country to
if. burdeue it to be imbecile, and the Parliament to
be,:raarruPt. :ed that a more wise Government, or a
more hone rer existed.—(Unicersql . shouts and hisses
tSOW Millittes duty of alt good 'lien to support tkerr, and.
ose who did ni. .its to their country.—(Dvead fill h(rothigs).
011-thesnothm atiThtg.t:4; the thanks n 1 the •hleeting were

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passed unanimously to the Lord Mayor, who, in a short speech, ex.
pressed his high sense of the honour conferred upon lam, andlikewise
his satisfaction that the business of the day had been concluded,. so that .
the Livery " might part in peace."
A deputation of twenty-one Liverymen was nominated to wait upon
the Prince Regent with the Address, after which the Lord Mayor ad.,
journed the Common Hall.

HEADOMADARY;
OR, EPHEMERIS FOR THE WEEK.

MARCH.
29. EAsTla Stnuni,Y. El,ist. C 01.:,. 1. John 10. I.—There is no
doubt but that from the earliest ages of Christianity, this day %VW' kept
;a, g..Mitrat Mad a day of rejoicing in commenwration of the resurrection
41.3 CC t; -an event which sanctioned, in an indisputable manner, his dit
;wipe ion. kis always celebrated on the Sunday following the full
miaon of Marcb, and is.called the Passover of the Christians ; one of the
dew links which unite the Christian. to the Mosaic law.—The word
Easter is not to be derived, as some imagine, from a goddess of the Saxon
superstition, called Easter,. whose feast was celebrated about this time,
hut from ase, in Latin Oriem.!, " rising" in allusion to the rising of
-Christ from the dead, as the sun rises in the East from the darkness of
night. 1807.—The planet Vesta, discoVered by Dr. Others, making up
the number of eleven primary planets, and eighteen secondary ones, all
Wowing to the Solar System.
The Sun rises at .sh, 41 min. sets at 6 h. 19 min.
..Ifouriay.—lioly day. St. Quirinus, martyr.—. The fair at Green.
wick, which is kept also the day following, seems to be of ancient date,
and exhibits more of rejoicings and popular mirth, than any of those sorts
of meetings in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis. 1'282. The Sicilian
vespers, or massacre of the French, in the island of Sicily, to the number
of 8,000, who were murdered at the first toll of the bell that called to
vespers at a given signal. 1109. Buonaparte repulsed by Sir Sidney
Smith at St. John d'Acre.
The Sun rises at 5 h. SO min. sets at 6 h. 21 min.
, 31. Toesday.—Holy day. Commemoration of the prophet Am.,!.
1757. Death of the Prince of Wales, father to the present King, and son
to George the Second. 1598. Birth of Descartes, at la Flaye, in Tua
raine. 1654. Cockfighting prohibited by the protector Cromwell.
The Sun rises at .3 h. 37 min. sets at 6 h. 23 min,

11. m.,,,•,.

APRIL. XXX. Days.
The Word is derived from the Latin, Aperzre " to open," bccanse it
this Month the earth beeins to feel more powerfully the influence of the
Sun, and seems to' open her fertile bosom for the production of vegent-
bles both for the pleasure and use of man. It was sacred to the goddess
of Beauty and Love. To?train Cithercea tuetur, and some authors are of
opinion, that the word Aprilis is derived from the Greek Aphros," the
foam of the sea," out of which Venus was supposed to have arisen.
Certain it is. that on the first of that months a great feast was celebrated
among the RoMans in honour of Venus: Sec Ovid. last. 4. 119.
1. Wedurst/..??7,-,St, 'Theodora, virgin and martyr. The ancient cos-
! tom of playing tricks to children, and of calling this day "
day," extends to -several other countries, and yet it is nut easy to asce
tain the origin and cause of it. 1810. Marriage of Buonaparte W
Maria-Louisa Arch-Duchess of Austria.
The Sun rises. at 5 h. 35 min, sets at 6'll. '2.5 min.
2. Thursday.—St. Francis de Proda the founder of an order of Menthe
dicant-friars, calling themselves by 'humility IlliPints„ that is, "
least and most contemptible of all God's servants," died in 1507, after 3
long life of prayer and abstinence, at the age of 91. 1801. Battle of Co-
penhagen, where 18 ships were either destroyed or taken.
The Sun rises at 5 le, 33 min. Sets at .6 b. 27 min.
3. Frid,,y.—Richard de Wicke, of Worcester, and nlade biihop of
1! Chichester, in the year 1245. lie died in 1253, and was canonized f",
I'26l—This is supposed to have been the day of the crucifixion of

Christ.
The Sun rises at S Is. 81 min. sets at d h. 9.9 min.
4. Saturday.—St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan, in Italy, in 397. It 19
reported that the hymn Te daunt, was composed him jointly with st;
Augustin, at the moment that Ambrose baptised him. 1744. Death 0.1,
Goldsmith, the author of 44 The Deserted Village," "The Traveller,'
and other estimable works in verse and prose.
The Sun rises at 5 h. 29 m. sets at 6 h.:41 nu
Last quarter of the Moon, at 11 at night.
N. B. We aro sorry to end, that our Correspondent J. C. has entirely
mistaken St. Patritk for St. David, in applying to the former what we
had said the-4acter on the Ist of March. He will have, by looking
back to that number of:the.National Register, a complete and saticti.‘c"
tory answer to his letter.

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