The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-04 00:00:00

Jan. 1, 1918.

A letter from Venice, dated December 10, says—
•' The more rarely our city, surrounded by water, and
11 tilt of massive stone, is visited by tires, the more ter-
z.ir do they excite when they really happen. This was
the case on the night of the 6th instant, in which the
great Palace Corner, situated in S. Maurizio, on the
Great Canal, whether by accident or design, was on a
sladen involved in flames. The lire was dreadful, and
co.ild not be entirely checked till the following morn-
ing, when three quarters of that fine building were re-
duced to ashes. As it had lately been purchased by
the Government, and the Provincial Delegation had
been removed to it, with all its archives, bureaux, &c
the most important papers, original contracts, title-
deeds of houses and estates, and inumerable other do-
c intents of value, were destroyed either by the fire or
the water."

The brewers, with their usual rapacity, have deter-
mined upon a rise of 5s per barrel on porter, and have
distributed notices around to the publicans to that effect.
in consequence of this notice, the latter have raised
ts• c pot of porter to (id. This certainly is a great hard-
s!iip upon the working classes, atter the blessings of an
alumdant supply of all sorts of grain, with which Pro-
stence has blessed the land, and in the enjeyment, of
i tate too.

TI3E NATIONAL REGISTER.

TO MOTHERS.-IMPROVED STAYS.-
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public, that she has invented Stays peculiarly adapted to afford ease
and accommodation during pregnancy. These Stays will be found
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ceases of de-
bility when more than trawl support is required t and eral of the
most eminent medical gentleman having examined them, and ex-
pressed their unqualified approbation of elms. as the most likely
meats of restoring the shape, without the least possibility of injuring
the health, NAISH can with the fullest confidence recommend
them.
FRAICCES NAME'S Child-bed-linen Warehouse No. 37, Grace-
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A SERMON, Preached at the Cathedral Church
of Chester, on the esd of Novenider, 1917„. being the Sunday alter
the interment cf her late Royal Highne's the Princess Charlotte Au-
gusta. By GEORGE HENRY LAW, D.D. F.R. and A.S. Lord
Bishop of Chester.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON:

SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1818.

For some days past the Funds have been rather hea-
vy : Consols for account remaining at 82. Yesterday
they experienced an advance. Indeed, we are of opinion,
that the late depression arose entirely from temporary
causes, which a few days will entirely remove. ‘Vhen
the first decline commenced, a thousand political ru-
mours were circulated ; but now, even upon the Stock
Exchange not a rumour exists, with the exception of
some reports as to Finance, which we have no doubt arc
circulated with as little authority as the late political
rumours. The true cause appears to be the improve-
ment ix the value of land, and the great increase in
trade. On both these accounts extensive sales of Stock
have been made. This, added to many heavy payments
to the Exchequer for t:lis Quarter, are the only reasons
that can be assigned fbr the fall of the Funds. The
preparations made for the loan to France has also been
suggested to as having considerable weight in de-
pressing the money market on Friday, when so great
was the scarcity, that ut the rate of 20 per cent. was
given in the City for money till Tuesday next. It is
reported that above half a million was on Friday paid
at the Custom-house for Sugar Duties. One extensive
West India house paid in one cheque 60,0001. Wheu
the Dividends arc paid, which will be next week, mo-
ney will be as plentiful as it is now scarce ; and we
have no doubt a rapid advance will take place in the
Funds.

TAN: 4.

A Flanders mail received on Friday, brings the
following intelligence, which is more than usually in..
to resting :
" BRUSSELS, DEC. 26.—Letters- from the Hague,
which come from the best source, state, that his
Royal Highness the Prince of Orange is re-invested
with all the places and offices which he held before the
15th of lust November, at which time his resivatica
was accepted. It is with very lively satisfaction that
we announce this happy news, which will dt übtless put
an end to the ridiculous rumours with which the
public curiosity is continually fed."—Oracle, Dee. a.
" DEC. 27.—" The High Court of Justice was to
hear too day the appeal made by the public officer in the
affair of the Duke of Wellington against. M: be. Buss-
cher of Ghent ; ibut it has been put off, till a decision is
made respecting his Graces application to the Court
of Cessation, from the decree which has rejected his
appeal.
The American ship Two Brothers, recently arrived.
at Portsmouth from Batavia, with a cargo of coffee in
bulk; bound to Holland, left on the 9th September,
and reports, that the whole island of Amboyna„ ex.
cepting a very small part, was in the hands of tl‘e In.
surgents. A detachment of troops had been sent from
Batavia to endeavour to suppress the revolt.
. Madame de Krudener has obtained permission to pass
eight days at Leipsic, in order to wait there for au•
swers to the letters which she has written to Berlin and
St. Petersburgh. It is said that she has further written
to the King of Prussia, to ask the favour of a private
audience

The Duke of Cambridge is expected to arrive in
England, about the middle of February, to settle some
preliminaries, relative to his approaching marriage.

THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.

The following beautiful tribute to the memooy of'
the late Princess Charlotte, is extracted from a Ser-
mon preached at Chester on the Sunday after her inter-
ment, by Dr. Law, the Bishop of that Diocese :
" Youth, under any circumstances, seldom sinks
into the grave unlamented. The sympathies of our
nature, too, are generally and powerffilly awakened,
when they whose morn gave the promise of a resplen-
dent day, prematurely close their earthly career, and
disappear from off the face of the earth, to be seen on
it no more. But these regrets are naturally still far-
ther augmented, when comeliness of form has been mi.
peradded to the attractioes of youth. And such semi-
bi?ities are excited in the highest degree, when the
shaft of death has fallen upon one, who I‘as early
treading in the paths of religion, and who was exhi-
biting a bright pattern of every rising virtue. Our
grief too is always embittered by contrast. • Never then
could any disappointment be more aggravated, at no
period could a female sink into the tomb more deeply
lamented, than at that moment, when expectation was
about to be realized, and when a new source of duties
appeared to be opening to her, in the person of her

" Neither on such an occasion should the distinctions
of rank be disregarded, or the important consequences
of an event be overlooked, by a reflecting mind.
" Now ALL these particulars alas! were combined in
her whom we are deploring. Comeliness and youth
were her's, but they were her last attractions. How
early she had imbibed a principle of devotion, how
strongly she felt in her tender years the sanction of Re-
ligion, has been evinced by an interesting trait, recorded
in the life of that eminent Prelate, whose memory is
still fondly cherished in this place.
"And in estimating our loss we cannot surely forget
—that the object of our regrets was the only daughter
of a Prince, endeared to his people, and most justly, by
every public obligation and principle, and to us indeed,
by even local and personal consideratious—that she was
the Grandaughter of our King—a King, during u,liese
reign most of us have been born—a King, who in sick-
ness and in old age, still lives enthroned in the hearts
of his subjects."
" Under the present illustrious House, we have en.
joyed a degree of happiness and glory, certain'y not sur..
passed by any other nation, if indeed they have ever
Leen equalled, in the annuls of the world. We have
been no less distinguished in Arts, than in Arms : and
though a transient shade may sometimes have obscured
our prospects, yet have we seen darker clouds impend.
ing over every other kingdom. What soil is there, ex.
cept our own, which has not lately been polluted, by
the hostile tread of an Invader? For the secure enjoy-
ment then of our country and home, for the spread of
our manufactures and commerce, for as great a share cf
liberty as we are perhaps capable of enjoying, for religi-
OUR toleration, the great and unrivalled privilege of
worshipping God as our reason prescribes--for these
and numbed.:4 other blessing, let us new, when thus
called upon, draw nearer to the throne—let us by an
increased attachment, and a still firmer support, testify
our devotion to the family of the Monarch, in this their..
hour of trial. The sympathy of the subject cannot but
be gratefUl to the heart of the Sovereign. It will fill up
the chasm and the void which Royality bus experienced.
It will shed the balm of c.nsolation there, where the
wound must be the west painful, and the deepest,"

1A1.4. 4.

THE REFORMATION.

Wednesday, a very numerous meeting assembled at the
City of London Tavern, to commemorate the tri-cente-
nary of the Reformation. The Rev. Dr. Coßyer informed
the meeting, between 12 and I o'clock, that his Royal
Ilightiess the Duke of Sussex was expected to pre-
side, that he had not yet arrived, and that he would
therefore propose that a Clegy man of the Established
Church should take the chair pro impure. After
waiting some time, the Rev. Mr. Simeon, of Cam-
bridge, took the chair, apologising at the same time fur
his incapacity to preside over such a meeting.
The Rev. Mr. Cox, of Hackney, rose to move the
first resolution, expressing the right of every man to
worship God according to his conscience. Having'
taken a part in the formation of the Committee, it
seemed proper that, in bringing forward this resolution,
he should state the motives and principles by which
those who called the meeting had been guided. No-
thing could be more remote from their views than to
promote any thing like party feelings by the notice
which had been given of this meeting through the
medium of the newspapers. Their cause was indeed
truly popular ; but he wished to be regarded as only,
in that meeting, advocating human rights, in so far as
those rights involved freedom of conscience. That
freedom was the true principle of the Reformation and
Protestantism. Ia was the character of all intolerant
religions to maintain an equal enmity to the persons
and principles of those who maintained other opinions.
It was their maxim to exterminate at once the heretic
and the heresy. This was the real character of all false
religions ; they were like two-edged swords, made to
cut at once both against the heads and consciences
of their victims. It was thus the Romans had en-
deavoured to exterminate the early Christians. Such
also was the character of the Mahometans. True reli-
gion,
like the sun, enlightened and animated the earth;
but persecuting religion was a firebrand of destruction.
They had, however, met on that clay to celebrate the
religion of love—a religion which presented to man
the olive branch, which with angel voice proclaimed
peace on earth and good-will to men. He might be
told that reformers did not understand their own prin-
ciples, and that they had in their turn become perse-
cutors. If he should grant this, what was the conse-
quence ? That meeting was not assembled to vindicate
every individual act of the reformers. It was to be
hoped, that they who had now met to celebrate the
Reformation understood their own principles, which in-
culcated this maxim—that the spirit of Christianity is
in contradiction to every kind of persecution. He con-
eluded by moving the first resolution.
Mr. J. Young seconded the resolution, and while
addressing the company, the Duke of Sussex entered
the room amid loud applauses. He made an apology
for his delay, stating, that his carriage had broken down
under him.
Dr. Collyer moved the second resolution, declaring
that Religion was not intended for an engine of State.
Mr. Ilenry Weymouth moved the third resolution,
That the Scriptures, as the only fountain of religion,
ought to he accessible to all."
John Mackenzie, Esq. moved the fourth resolution,
against all authoritative expositions of Scripture.
D. Itippon moved the fifth resolution, expressing,
that the violation of those principles caused multitu-
dinous evils.
The ltev. Dr. Vowls moved the sixth resolution,
awl represented, by strong rhetorical figures, the fas-
cinations the delusions, and the impositions of the Ro-
rnisla superstition.
John Wilks, Esq. moved the seventh resolution,
expressive of grateful remembrance of Wickliff, Je-
rome, and Huss.
The Rev. Dr. Newman moved the eight reeelti-
purportin4, that the object of the meeting was to
celebrate the trammeling period of the Reformation of
1517.
The Rev. Thomas Styles and Alexander Fletcher
explained the ninth resolution, which enumerated the
political and social benefits that resulted from the Re-
formation, though they had not yet attained that state
which piety must desire, and philanthropy approve.
Mr. Ivermy moved the tenth resolution, ranking
Luther and his a.asoeiates in the Reformation as great
among the greatest of mankind.
His Royal Highness having repeatedly requested
greater brevity, now directed that the five remaining
resolutions should be moved nt once.
Mr. Davies accordingly moved five resolutions, the
11th commemorating Knox, Tyndale, Latimer, and
other martyrs ; the 12th rejoicing in the similar re-
spect for the Reformation proclaimed in Germany ; and
the 13th exhorting European and American Protest-
ants to guard the principles of the Reformation now
that monastic institutions and dangerous societies were
revived, and inquisitions were continued, or re-estab-
lished ; the 14th and 15th deprecating persecutions and
uncharitableness.
The Rev. Jas. Townsend seconded these resolutions,
and animadverted on the ingratitude of the Pope, and
theivant of gratitude and good faith in Louis: XVIII.
woo not only tlused to protect, but pc:welt:ea Pro-

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test:tuts, though the Protestants of Liglaud restored
them.

Those several resolutions were carried with accla-
mations.

The Rev. Matthew Wilks moved the 16th resolu-
tion, expressing thanks to the Royal Chairman, and
amused the assembly with his very eccentric and an-
tithetical utode of representing the merits of his Royal
Highness.
Mr. Frend, in seconding the motion, said, his Royal
I•Highness studied the Scriptures in the original He-
brew, and thus by his example encouraged the know-
ledge of them.
The motion was carried with rapturous applause.
The Duke of Sussex expressed his gratification at the
honour which had been done him, though for what-
ever had been done, the meeting had to thank them
selves, not him: for he always considered it his duty
to attend wherever it appeared his presence would be
advantageous to the public interest. When he was
applied to by the Committee, his first object was to
examine the resolutions, for he felt that when one of
the Royal Family came forward and presided on such
an occasion as this, it gave a certain sanction to the pro-
ceedings. He had accordingly well weighed the re-
solutions, and he could declare that he heartily approv-
ed them. If, theretbre, any persons wished to raise
alarm, and to excite a fear of anarchy and confusion,
he should tell them to come there, and witness what
passed. If in any discussion which might arise the
proceedings of that meeting should be blamed, he would
treat the censure with contempt. Fair investigation
was, however, always to be desired ; fur, if the press
was not free, there was an end to all civil liberty, and
consequently to all religious liberty. If any one should
take up a contrary principle, and argue against that
liberty, such a person could be no friend to the coun-
try, and, if possible, still less a friend to the Royal
Family. It had been well said, that the bill of settle-
ment was a part of the principles of the Reformation.
By that Act his fiunily had been called to the throne,
he said, called, not put upon it ; for it was upon the
ground of mutual advantage they came to this country,
and upon that basis the compact between the Sovereign
and the Subject rests. When he wa stalled upon to
give his opinion on such an occasion us this, it was
always his wish to state that opinion freely and openly.
Ile would ask, could there have been that feeling of
independence, that practical freedom which now exist-'
ed, had it not beer. for the Reformation ? There had
been, it was true, opposition to Sovereigns in Catholic
times, but the trite principle of resistance, founded on
the just rights of the people never acquired any con-
sistency until after the Reformation. That great event
awakened men's minds, and the institution which in-
terposed a shield for the protection of the innocent, was
the great security of civil and religious liberty. The
people of this country had been charged with disloy-
alty ; but recent events had proved them to be as well
informed respecting their rights, as firm in support of
them. It would be recollected, that when his Sovereign
ascended the Throne, in the first speech he addressed
to the Parliament, he declared that, having been born
a Briton, he was proud of the name of a Briton.
And he was justly proud of that name, for with it
was connected his own, as Sovereign of a great, a
free, and independent people To be called the King
of such a nation, is far more glorious than to be called
Autocrat, Emperor, or any other title assumed by man.
Through life his ajesty had preserved those princi-
ples which he avowed on ascending the throne ; and
he had, in return, been rewarded by the constitutional
support of a loyal people. He had, through a long
reign, been beloved, venerated, nay, he might even
say, adored ; as a King who reigned by law and in the
hearts of his people deserved to be. In his attendance
on the present meeting, he had been highly pleased and
gratified: he had also received much information : in-
deed he might say, with a reverend gentleman, that he
had been electrified ; for he had heard many truths in
that place which did not easily find their way to a
Court. If any attempt should be made to spread the
idea, that in consequence of this meeting the Church
was in danger, that any confusion was likely to take
place, their answer would be, that they were met in
the cause of truth. However different their opinions
might be, they were all united in the conviction of the
great benefits this country and mankind had derived
front the Reformation, and to declare their opinion of
those advantages was the object of their meeting. If
any attack on the proceedings of their meeting should
come from any dissatisfied individual, he for his part,
would disregard it. lie trusted that any such attack
• would only animate them to greater exertions in sup-
port of the principles they had that day avowed. All
unjust insinuations he should despise, and leave to time
to prove their falsehood. While he supported the
rights of the people, he should always at the same time
resist all undue encroachments on the throne; for the
rights of the Sovereign and the were insepara-
able, and ought to be held equally sacred. He was not
to be deterred !rum what he considered his duty, by
any fear of consequences. They were contending for
the rights of conscience ; and when a man considered
himself following its dictates, he might despise the