The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-21 00:00:00

No. 'MO.—VI

Itticat uettosprct.

calumnies, and falsehoods, will no more be allow-
able in defence of a wicked administratir, than lies
and groundless charges against the same administra-
tion. That if justice is intended, the Times and, the
Courier must, in this respect, stand upon the mine
level. If we are told that blasphemy and-profana-
tion are the objects of restraint, we must insist not
only that the works of all these abominable Tories
above mentioned ought 40 be suppressed, but we
must urge that the laws now-in force are adequate
to every needful purpose. Mr. Csrlile has been
prosecuted, found guilty, and is now undergoing his
punishment for selling Paine's Age of Reason.
Nobody attempts to defend elthatatbs conduct orthe
principlesvf the man, er the puWicatieri he was the
instrument of spreading. The laws have done all
that laws can do, and will again and again do the
same, as often as they are constitutionally appealed
to. The itch of legislation is a mischievous disorder.
Let us alone, do justice by the laws yeu have, and
those laws will do juatice by you in their turn. They I
were framed in better iimea,mid assuredly by wiser
heads than those to whose hands our destinies are
now entrusted. Christianity is not likely to 'be
much recommended or supported by the legislative
enactments of the Duke of Wellington,•Lord Cas-
tlereagh, and Mr. Canning. Tbe two noble Lords
first usentioaaluive lately beentiin Norfolk ; one of
taxn them is said to-have attended d ' e service, during
his stay in the amity, but the' ent tho Clergy-
man ascended the pulpit, as if s quite satisfied with
what he had already heard, fit have deliberately
walked out of Church. And 11$ •aaligion and good
el morals are to be protcctdd lry: cm of 'Pruliament
upon a scole and with toren that our forefathers
neither knew nor dreamed of'. We cannot a$ pre-
sent pursue this further, but a • future opportunity
will doutbless soon occur.
I

"Evaav eye from every quarter of the country is
.now anxiously directed to the approaching 4... meting
of Parliament, and with good reason, fir it will
be a Session, upon which we verily believe will
hinge the liberties of Great Britain. If the alarm
so studiously fostered, aided by other means which
we know, alas ! too well, shall be found adequate
to secure to Ministers a support upon which they
oan safely rely, w... 1 have every reason tc dread that
measures entirely calculated to change the character
and destroy the, essence of the Constitution are in
their intention. The Ministerial Papers have
s)ptily declared that Parliament is assembled to put-
down Tveason, Blasphemy, and Sedition. This
litaguage, when plainly construed, means neither
more nor less, than that the laws by which we have
hitherto been governed are to be suspended by new
ones of greater force, and of a more despotic ten-
dency. It means, we fear, that the public voice
• shall, if they can prevent it, no more be heard from
the assembled people ; that the proud boast of our
kwountry a free Press shall exist no "more, anti that
opinion itself, as far as regards political questions,
shall be annihilated to the utmost stretch that
human policy can effcet so tyrannical a purpose, viz.
that though it cannot forbid us to sit down and
mourn, and weep over the calamities •of a fallen
-ountry, nor to groan under the weight of the yoke
we arc doomed to bear, yet that our tears shall flow
in secret, and our groans issue only in retirement.
This may to culled the language of extsavagant
party spirit or extravagant alarm,'but What we look
at what has been done of late, and from our conjec-
tures from the symptoms, already too manifest, of
the future, we challenge any man to say that then
is not good reason to dread, if, as we befiwe ob.
served, the ministerial majorities be decidedly tri-
:l.-Thant, that the British Constitution is not near
its end. it, censorship of the press has already Leen
~:uctioned by the Prince Regent for his dominions
3u Hanover, and what he has consented to abroad,
his Ministers may, with reasonable presumption,
recommend to-his adoption at home. It is true that
much evil, as well as good, is the fruit of a free and.
unfettered licence of public discussion, •both on po-
litics, morals, and religion. Hume wrote his beau-
tiful history as a defence of thelamily of thet3tuarts.
Hobbes, another infidel,• wrote his Leviathan to
prove the divine right of Kings, and boldly declared
that the authority of tke Prince was greater than
the authority of the Bible, and that the command-
ment, for instance, of 4' thou shalt not commit

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the inhabitant
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Lordship's arr
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there will be
general mceti
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manufacture%
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soon be plum]
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The following in an extract of a letter written by
Lord Cochrane to a friend in London :
VALTAIPAIIIO, JULY ba, ISM. •
My ny F's irvn,-LI thank you rowtkindly for your lung
and circumstantial letter of January Jaws With it I - received
your book, containing rthe whole ronivationdenee• between you
and —;.and I paired, concur in *pinion-wish you, as to
the character of all she purees. I have jtait handed over to the
Chili government, in putt of their sham of my late capture, up•
wanl. of tio.otto dollars; and newt •trip, now I understand how
to carry on the v.ar here, I shulflpt,' I *rpe, at least some mil.
lions. be%lks having the still li oadsfaction of chastising the
eneinict of liberty in the quisetea of Ora globe :—The omission of
my now writing to you is quite. uweapiotal and accidentaL I
send it by a winder which happen. to be passing, and t have
muunwitted toldr..-- funds to pay your bill for the goods you
have sent me. and those f• now order. &member me kindly to
all friends. You shall lure AS 1141 g servant *our rue of all thinip
here in a abort- time; but hitherto I ben, had no leisure fur
letter-writing.
Thefollowing circular letter has been issued by •
the Pmv.rst of Glasgow, calling won the Citizens
to enrol themselves for military norvice in moo of
necessity.
" present alarming situation of • this part -df the"
country make. it generally tigyvebeeried, that it may
become necessaty to call for aid of Illy loyal
rod wlll-disputed pet of the torintoottity, to nippiest the
attesuptsof Ibe turbolrott and ralsoirected.
" Circromtairces way stern* wltiels may reader the re.
moon' of a larue part, or the "atoll, of the regular military
Curry quite intlivemiable, sup,* assets a rase, ilir City
would be left without soy pr:dention whatever.
" biting situation, it has issorksleett propai to rag for
a pledge of service from every tudividnai niw• east afford,
android pay, to take up arm., in defence of hie King and
Country—of the peso* and traninillity of this City—and
of his own Isle and property. •
" HENNY MQWEE:ITII,.Provost.
" Glasgow, 15th Noosionter. 1549.

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vent ti►e at

adultery," was of no value unless the Prince should,,
by his own prooest and esamplc, forbid adultery to
Ibe committed within the scope of his dominions.
Lord Bolingbroke was another profligate Tory who:
•equally set at defiance reason, and religion, and:
conscience, by his writings and his actions. .Joland,,
the most shameless and abandoned infidel of his
age, Wl4s yet employed by Government, auttencou-
raged as a spy ; so that, considering the matter in
this point of view, we would recommend all these
'Cattlemen, and many more whom we could men-
tion, to the grateful remembrances of Mr. Vansittart
and Lord Sidmouth, and remind thenrtfmt the blas-
phemers of their God, and the enemies of faith :gal
christianity, have been generally such tools as 'Go-
vernments, conducted upon certain principles, have

now widely distr
the l)uke of Norf
and many others
Magistrates, cullit
teem for the chars
We are told,
gold sovereigns si
seized on boards
from .Depttbrl
in consequence
Ansun•at the late
of Ifbarty in that
disposition to tall
it is said, been eel
the Sheriff, to con
which the mass
anxious, ,for .then
sounded with the
at Stagord. The
county arc repari

His RoyalAimhues, the Prince Regent has
lately received from the Emperor of Rossia.n very
curious ti►nr-M•hoeled summer carriage, 'called a
drosehki. ,It consists of a front and a aide scat, con-
trived ins new but very commodious manner for
two perscos. It possesses the Moveable males, which
arc now very generally...o6,W throughout the
Con tine ,t.

.hcen glad to find and use. If the press also is to
restricted, we would remind them-that Lea, and

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