The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

the annual application of large sums to the discharge
of the public debts, and eye* justifies a hope of the
speedy- diminution of the individual burdens of the
people. Ilis Majesty expresses a desire; so tar to
alter the Constitution of the Chamber of Deputies,
as to repeal the present practice of partial renewals
in every successive year of the Chamber, and, to
" ensure its duration more confbnuable to the ex-
istence of public order." The King feels himself
sufficiently strong to exercise mercy towardt the
exiles, and we (Lid a long list in these papers of the
persons v. ho had been banished and are now permit.
ted to return. At the. conclusion oldie spetch, the '
Peers and Deputies present took the oaths of fidelity
to the King, constitutionalcharter and Lawn: It was
generally known that the Abbe Gregorei had re-
solved nut to brave the significant intimation which
had been given hiin, by the omission to send I.ini
the usual letter of invitation. Not, only was he
absent from the Sitting, but the name of the soi-
disant Deputy of the Isere was omitted in calling
over the list,. according to the alphabetical order.
Thivaireumstanco did not escape the observation of

the Assembly, who listened with extreme anxiety
from tile end of the names which begun with F, to
those which had the letter H for their initial After
this ceremony of swearing, the King withdrew, and
the Sitting broke up. The Chambers were to meet
in their respective Halls on Thursday.

HIS MAJESTY**. HEALTH...-We have great
pleasure in stating, that trout the latest, and as we
believe the best authority, we are assured that the
symptoms Mach recently gave rise to alarm fur the
!lib of our revered King hive entirely subsided, and
that his Mi.jesty's health is now better than it has
been for a considerable time !Kist.

COSIIETT.—A dinner wr son Frit'ay given a► the
Crown anti Anchor, by the friends of Cobbett, in
honour of the return of that demagogue to his
native country. The numbers- that assembled
amounted to about .500, but many of them wire
attracted more by curiosity to see a Radical dinner
than any attachment either to Cobbett or radicalism.
About 6 o'Clock, Cobbit entered the room accom-
panied by " My dear Hunt," and some other
reform worthies. The runagate was received with
enthbsiusin A scramble then took place for the
dinner, as the five an,l sixpenny tickets did not afford
viands enough for all present, and the sce.'e appeared
like that of a garrison receiving its first meal after
being obliged to surrender by famine Tue business
of the awning was of no interest to any but the
radicals.. Tlie only two things curious were, the
reconciliation between the " base' 11'ooler (as he is
called by Collett) and Cobbett ; and the rentincia.
tion.both on the part of Cubbett and Hunt of any
acquaintance with. or any respeit for, Pairt's infidel
works. Cobbett tank particular care to separate
Paine's bones (of which he 11115 got possession) front
his blaspltens,. The company magnanitnottsly. re-
solved not to grati:y their aristocratic taste for wine,
and determined to bring their enemies to,terms by
attackinA the treasury through the mediutu of ab-
stinence. We observed several guests, however
who loved port more than reform, and finind, no
doubt, their "stolen 'potations sweeter than water.
Istourier. ON Lcesh—The Jury were in attend-
once, at the Star-inn, Mtncliester, on Wednesday
morning, according to their recognisancen... Messrs.
Harmer and Denison were also in waiting. Mr.
Ferranti (lid not appear; but his clerk, Battye, came
and informed the Jury that the Court of king's
Bench. had set aside the inquest altogether.
An inquest on time body of one Rhodes, another
person who was reported to have died of wou !ds re-
ceived on the 16th of August, tsas held on Tuesday
last, before Mr. Milne, the Coroner, at Hopwood.
The Jury, after hearing the evidence of' several
inedicalmen, returned a verdict of—Natural Death.

, Connor: tOUNEIL.—A Deputation of !Jetubers
of the Court of Common Council wairzil upon.: the
Right Honourable the Lard Mayor, at the Mansion
House, on riday, with a Requisition, very respecta-
bly signed,. of which t'ie followin* is a copy :+
u the Idyls 11.., unsahli• it. Lind
tu,drr•iFnrd Al* isiiihrs of the Coax. of Common
Conn( nl, ',quest your "(writhing' to eunherie a Court spun
is. day, in rrosidrt the propri►ty of pelt': g
tkithasstrat againsi Ihu>e *tainting enerhurea now ander
ii heohhion in Pinn.iniceit, %1,.( Is 1.(4) tend to 11:11114111te ib.•
Con•hlurionai li•gnt• of the Pi ople, mail to rehtlion liar
L.. 11.1.1,, of lh.
_

His Lordship received the Deputation with the
greatest polite and utErbility, acceded with great
:rashness to their lktioisition, and has directed u
Court of t woruou Coancil to he summoned ttpon
that subject forManday, this day, at tw,:lve o'clock
ut 1:(PM.

MTATE OF TIIE COUNTRY.

31)9

EXTRACT FROM " A L'T I It TO THE GENTLIIIIIIi

op Ksaf.Atio." JUST PIUIILISHED.
GENTLEMEN--.lt would be superfluous in such t
work ter this, to detal the great and paramount
inflaence which your opinion must at all times hays
with the public, whenever that opinion shall be ex.
pressed through the constitutional medium of County
Jl eetings.
You, Gentlemen are the newel guardians of the
rights and the liberties of the people; and it be•
hovel you to be active, prudent, and jealous in their
defence, bee fuse the rielies and comforts you pos-
sess—relics and conithrts which no other country
affords—are derived solely and entirely from the
uncommon industry of the English people; an in-
dustry which has been excited and *interred, and.
which isunlv to be maintained by the security they
have enjoyed, or arc likely to enjoy, under the pro-
tection of just and equal laws, supported by a free
representative Government.
You are a link in the chain of ostler and govern.
meat, resultit.g from that combination of events-
which prottuced the British Constitution, and with
that Constitution you are co-existent. No other
country in Europe is possessed of such a powerful
engine for the support of tree institutions, and
accordingly nu other country in Europa la really frees-
You are indeot tae true middle class, which pro.
serves the balance of powers and interests in the
country. Ido not speak with relation to your pro.
putty, education, cr importance, for in all of these
you are at least Lilted to any other class in the cont.
immunity, but with relation to that peculiar political
station which you hold, a station which gives you
the means of speaking with effect to the highest and
the lowest, to the weakest and the most powerful.
From your habits of lite, being intimately ac suaint-
ed with the feetings, customs, and dispositions of"
the working classes, you are able to appreciate
justly their wants, their discontents, and tile effect
of legislative enactments upon their welfare ; while
from your ed,teation, and your independent dignity
as gentlemen, you are enabled to see through and
to check. time sinister or the foolish desi.:na of those
numerous and aspiring intantx.rs of the community,.
among whom 'he executive powers of the state ar
usually distributed- _ _

Peace, tranquillity, and order, being the very
sources front whence you derive your power in the
state, you cad never, as a body, entertain any
ambitious or vi lent intentions—anti hence it follows,
that wlteu .necessity calls for your interference, you
are enabled without danger of misrepresentation
or even suspicion, to assume a high and determined
tone in your remonstrances to Government, and a
confident one when you step forward as the leaders
and directors of the people. The former would
feel it absurd to accuse you of exciting tumult for
the purposes of anarchy, end the latter would bus•
ten gladly to arrange themselvei under the banners
art their natural and must efficient leaders Your
power then is equally great and beneficial : it is in
act toe power of public: opinion, which must al.
ways be favourable to you. in as much as it is your
plain, direct, and inunediate interest to support the
cause of justice and freedom, the parents of trait..
quality.

Such, gentlemen, i 3 your situutiou ; and although
I would by no means recommend a light or hasty
display of your power, yet then: are times when not.
to put forth your wholestiength would be base and
criminal.. That such an ecoision has arisen—that
now is- the time for you to display your power and
your patriotism, it shall he the object of this Ad-
dress to prove

In thi; first place, I.tal•e it for gmnted that aeon.-
viction of the absolute necessity of some kind of
reform exists generally throughout the kingdom.
It is self-evident that c state cannot be rightly
governed in all its p.trt", which, peeeessing the re•
sources of industry, science, and• morality, after a
series of victories, and in the midst of triumphs occa.
slimed by the must complete success, discovers in,
the stem year of thy most protOund peace! a deep.
rooted discontent among the working classes, and an•
undefined tenor among the upper, a dread of some—
thing terrible about to happon, something to which
they. t6nt to give a name. To produce such a state
of feeling among a rich, industrious, and moral
people, some evil principle in the Government,.
'some abuse in the Constitution must be at work,.
and the only etkettial remedy is to discover and..
eradicate that evil.

1 he question is, how s':all that lie done, and by
whom? -hall we expose tha infected parts, to be
cut out by the rude heads and jagged knives of a
starving and irri•ated population ? Or, shall we
allow it to spread. the cover of a court plait'•
ter, till it cut out every healthful part of the Con.
stitution, and. present one diseased and disgusting.
mass of corriqiiion Sh:.ll we not r idler remove
the knife from tie hands of the populace, and tab.
ing advantage of their zeal, make use of them at
assistants, while we skilfully avert the mischief, sad
estore the p.victit to health r

Itloper.4l P•rlistmeNt anainafred /rem pegs 597.)
mpprtant questions before the House; and whatever might
lie hi, anxiety un the subject, he felt that the call wadi have
inounvemeneed Nleusbeni at a distance, %Mame insuring a much
fuller attenthuwe. .

;file- uwitipn tor- the call am. accotorngly abaudonal.
stTITLY.

fto the morion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the
lure rewire reef tutu a Committee of Supply.

Mr. IittOUGHA3I rose to ()mast it.
Cli A 14CEL LOR of the 1....XC EQUER omid the question
of Stamps was not brought forward now.
Mn BROUGIIA NI said, he must still urge his opposition.—
It was the constitutional course on a question of Supply to usge
the sub:teet of grievance ; teal lie therttfore complained of the
highly indecorous and indecent haste with which it sat, endea.
youth' a press diose important measures which the Mini-ten
now proposed for adoption. The ',topic ought to have time to
snake their fCetings rid sentiments known in that Ilouse. In
I'M, violent as wise the measures of that period of t, he be-
hests; three weeks, was allowed; but now not even two days would
be &Cowed to the people to consider those IIItILAIITS which were not
. only to suspend but to overturn the Constitution. If they were
on oral of it five Constitution, that it tutor be suspended without
delay, then naked %mulct it be usek ss for Members to attend their
emus with any vcry anxious desire to watch the procetdingsof the
ilinisters,—Nation agreed te.

The lltiuse being in a Committee.
Sire. WAHRENDER moved, that 23,000 men he granted
Au, seamen, including B.ono nirrines, there being an addition to
thisdlariniN which soul(' release as, many ia the army hunt
punier in toe dock "aids.
Mr. J. P. GRAN observed, that .if there were to be an ad-
dition olo,iihir marines, and thereby relea:t 2,ufx) of the army
t.orts the duck yarn ditty. that change would he RV actual increase
of the a, my ; and why was nut suciiincrwm of the runty put in
ouch form
Mr. I'IERNEY renyttired, that the Marjr.e puree was the
MOM natural tin the protection of the Dock Yards, but if there
were out to be a corresponding diminution of the Army, the
increase of the A 'my would be 11,000 instead 4410,000.
Mr, CHOKER suited, that by the regulations there would be
tut therense unty of about 1,200 Alarilw,

. .
Atution azre.ed to.
Sir Nlll'.ll then moved Grants of 630.000/. for
itrisge. sof thy batmen ; 612,500/. for the Victualling of that
'winner of men ; and titit.mati. for %eor and tear. .

r. UAM complained (deli:awes that had been made in
the erode minoring the Grants, and contended that it was tut
aufficitet to say that they had received the approbation of the
',raper department.
Mr G. WA It BENDER observed, that they had received the
the approval of the department which understood these memos
better titan Minkel( ; and that he would therefore not presume
Acs enter into details where he was not so conversant a%others.
Mr. BARING could nor but feel that if, any weather of the
Government stepped forward to promote an augmentation,
that he ought to be prepared to show why it was wanted. (Hear.)
Grans agreed to, as was that for 1n4,6901. for Ordnance.--
Deport to-morrow.
NSWSPAPEIt STAMP DITTIES.

The llouse resolved itsehl into a Committee on the Newspaper
Stamp Acts, when
The CHANCELLOR of thc EXCHECWER rose. He said
he should not now go to any length in detailing the business, as
Vie present was decrial by lama preparatory prooseding, but it
was 11111t1 hat that there had been a very considerable evasion of
toe Newspaper Stamp Duty in public. ionscontaining comments
and wtricn want greatly to supersede. newspapers. .He can-
chided. with moving as a resolution, that all newspaper
should be imposed on all publications containing comments
or remarks on matters concerning church or state, nut exceeding
two sheets, win sold ter a low sum than sixpence ; that they
ebtruld.be taken to be newspapera.
Mr. BROUGHAM denied that there had been evasion or
etand : toot the.Aet extended only to sheets containing 6. News,
vaeraiXrhsrs er occurrences;" and that pamphlets containing
comments were expressly omitted by Cu- h Act. He ai-o conten.
ticd that the mesaute now proposed would not have the desired
Ethel; that the Governnint had been culpably neglectful of
norwung to dia means placed in their hands; and that the
Alirusters woad Rod that they must at last resort to the laws.—
He also again urged the necessity of delay, to enable the people
linglandto consider, pethaps for the last time of punning
sucu course, the propriety of such measures.
Agreed to alter sonic explanatory remarks between Lord
Cilatiereagli; Mr. Brougham. Mr. J. P. Grant, etc.—Adjourned

TIIUKSUA Y. UCC.

Mr. IMOGULN presented report of the Committee
of Supply. winch

Tli I. sx DI I'IOUS l'lt

The Repot of the Stamp Duties Act Committee WRS pre-
heated, Pend, itiM agreed to, and a Bill ordered aecitcdingl).
" to restrain the Abuses arising from the Publication ur
iSliOpheepoUs ink" Seditious Libels." The Law ("Sleets of
She CroU u and others were ordered to prepare and bring in
the raise.