The National Register.
London, England, 1809-02-12 00:00:00

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Here, as his Royal Highness observed, when vainly soliciting
military promotion among his conntrvruen, were soon seep
" those advantages which his example might produce :" far,
" the Prince's patronage," says the account of the Institution,
" drew the attention of Sir TIiOSIAS NEWTON, Esq. repre-
sentative of Sir Is Asc NEWTON ; the great philosopher, hav-
ing no descendants. At the age of eighty-six, he exclaimed,
with enthusiasm, This is the Institution for the Representa-
tive of NEWTON !' and he bequeathed his property to the Lite-
rary Fund." This extension of his ROYAL HIGHNESS'S patro-
nage was no less politic than princely. W bile others arc per-
secuting literature in its professors, let him, by fostering its
cause, generously s: -Lire its attachment.
Easiness seems time principal defect in his ROY A L H IGH•
NESS'S character. His virtues arc his errors. It would not he
dill-16H to illustrate this position by facts ; but the elucidation
would prove too painful to certain inlivifinals, and he cannot
himself be insensible to the justice of the remlirk. He cannot
have fs:rgotten all family oppositions, readily followed up by
unmerited forgivenesses ; nor can Ise have obliterated from his
mind all recollection of the unprincipled defreion he ex perk
enced during the public discussion of his claims to military
command ! " Separate thyself from thy enemies," says the
wise man, " and take heed of thy friends."
Britain, whatever are his defects, ought to be proud of the
real character of the present Prince of W A LEs. His errors,
which are apparent, will be found, if candidly estimated,
more than counterbalanced by the general and acknowledgsd
excellencies of his disposition. His personal accomplishments
have obtained him universal admiration, and his mental acqui-
sitions are highly respectable. He loves his country, without
the least alloy of continental prepossession; and, while he sin-
cerely respects the political privileges of the People, he will,
if it be the designation of Providence, prove himself to he
deeply sensible of the great duties inseparable from the Monarch.
Feb' 10, 1809. ONESIMUS•

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

lIOCSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, 1? Ea. 1. •
THE DUKE OF YORK.
The Duke of Kent said, that observing an imprevion had gone
abroad respecting a daerence, suppw•eil to subsist between the
Commander in Chief and himself; he wished thus publicly to
state, that. however there might have been a professional (lir.
fei%.nce. there was no schism between them, there was no schism
in tit:, regarded the Commander in Chief with the
feelings of a friend and a brother, and he wished to give him
every possible support. lie was firmly convinced that the Com-
mander in Chief was quite incapable of the conduct imputed to
I him.

ST NTS Or TJLF Nartos.
Earl On oSV EN 11. WOUid observe aS a preliminary, that it
their Lordships should accede to the motion, and it should ap-
pear upon the inquiry which must then take place, that his Ma*
jestv's Ministers, had, by their misconduct, disappointed the
hopes and expectation; of the nation, he should then follow it
up by a motion to addre-s his :%lajesty to ditamiss them from his
confidence and Councils. It had been sail, that tht re existed
st
conspiracy to write down illustrious persons, and to wilte down
the Constitution; he did not know that any such eonspiracy ex-
isted, but he was aware that most improlser paragraphs had ap-
peared in some of the public innrhals. Ile trastel, that the
licentiousness of the Press could ho restrained by the existift
laws, and that no attempt would btu m:ote to Mu-wince any new
law to curtail the Liberty of the upon which rested sto
much of the freedom of the people.
The illation of L tit Ciao EN or. aS negatived without a
I)uri'.i a disett.-4ion of it, however, Loan ELDON,
its the Earl hal thoul.,ht pcorr to advert to Lithrtg
of the Pecs,, tank the occa,ion of expre;siag his opinion, that
" the /me, 113 it at 1,-,0 crate :vat t 4 curb its
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miliousness, pcJvided it was duly chcortcd." LORD ERSICINS