The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-04 00:00:00

• " QUEBEC GAZETTE. SEPTFMIIER, 1811.

44 A stranger, on looking over some pieces which have been lately
printed at Montreal, would fancy that that city had at length fallen
under the dominion of the United States. He could never imagine
that, in a British province, the person entrusted with the supreme
civil and military command could be made the object of similar
attacks.

" Every man who wishes well to the cause of his King anti
country ought to ask, " what is the probable effect of such pub-
lications?" '‘ Have they not a tendency to loosen all the ties and
litiks of military subordination ?" " Could there be any purpose but
one in view by these public:lo°llg ?" 45 A fleet is sacrificed," it is
said ; " the Army disgraced by the Commander in Chief!' alsd these
shameful assertions are thrown abroad in a shape to he circulated
wherever there is a camp, guardroom, or a cantine, within his
command
" Are these scandalous assertions true? In that cage, are there
no superiors to whom the aletidet is answerable? or does it require
a mutiny in the army to make these superiors listen ? There is, we
fear, a deliberate guilt in these publications; for the cm sting with
which a moment, mortifying to all brave and loyal men,*Altl.4 seined
for giving them (live, and the imposture about '' the public voice,"
(the voice of some dozen persons at most) seem to distingui.h tfiese
vilifications from the ordinary effusions of melevolence and dull-
ness.

" We deny the tight of all public discussion of alleged pnlilic
evils, where its immediate tendency not to produce a r..inedv in
a mode authorized by law. liaw and common sense cAmdeum
iothminatory and seditious diqcossions. The government of the
Army, in particular, has been delivered over by the law to an arbi-
trary authority. Civilians in the Colonies have no right to iotei le
The Commander of the Military force, in as 'far as we me
concerned, is entitled to '' a liberal and candid view of mea-
cores." All pat!ii- agree that the enemy's works at rattiibing
alight have hem, t ikeo. All mni.t agree their capture would bare
giv,l a certain el:qui Zo his expedition.. By a ‘trengt% of mind, in-
coact ivabie to tho.ie who think only of Ilo•niselvy:, he ,aroitiee4
his per,onal advaotinsc to his ideas of the good of the service. He
knew that he wooid have to encoonter the irritated feelimoi 011(1
lemest pieindices of the bravest soldiery in the world ; he knew
that per.oimily, he would ILIVC iV enconoter all the ca:aomy v they
tae malice of the factor!). atol disappointed eou;d invetit, a!!
igeoraure and pr,..indice conld be made to lylieve. He khrtv all
this: and deviwil it all for the service of his Soverei:,.:l and coml.
try. His exam!ile i.;•lost on ail his cal,moiiimrs. They 10i:y :
hut his Ex'..elw:icy e ontioile to eu.p:v the roehtience tin!
army and the peii.pie ; he 'Ail{ meet with their ar::ent gipport
in
whatfver he may conceive to be i,.r the gull it the klot.oA vice,
whilst these calumniators will it toliversally known and detested."

According to an article from Brussek respcctingt+te union
of Re!giom with Ifoliand,:the two coontries are each fo l'Ave
their Own Jaws and form of government; united uncle': of
Sovereign, and concurring in commowin.the pnhlic cha,g(
and io the cleans of guaranteein4 their safety and indeiwu,
deuce.

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IMPERIAL PAR I.L-131E2VT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

tInNDAY, NOV. 1:8.
The Trish Race Preservation, and several Irish Excise Bills
were read a second time.

TUESDAY, NOV. 2P. •
Lord Dosrovoitmont; rose on the order for the third reading of
the Peace of Irti uoi Preservation Bill, and eon:tittered it his duty
to state a few obst•rrations before the Bill passed. He had ex-
es.ed his opinion en the subject he awl had only to add On
this occasion, that fte Bill was not calculatrd to promote the peace
of Ireland. It .vas more a measn,r calculated to extend the p
tronat..e of tlw Clown. His Lords! tn ,iid not wish to picveat the
Bill from passing, but he could not entertain the least hope of be•
nail from it.
The Bill was then read a third time and paned.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. SO.
The Bills on the table were advaucei. in their various stages with-
out discussion.—Adjuurned.

THURSDAY, DEC. -1.
The Royal Assent was given by commission to the 12,300,0001.
Exchequer, the Exchequer in Aids, the Irish Peace Preservation
Amendment, the Promissory Notes Suspension, the Neutral Ship-
ping, the Foreign Colonial Ships, the East India goods, the Trish
Glass Duties, the Irish Woollen Importation, and the Irish Spirits
Warehousing Bilk
The Loins CHANCEELnR presented a Bill for introducing into
the Laws of Scollasid Trial by Jury in civil cases; read a first time,
acid ordered•to be printed.
The rail of FGRESIONT gave notice, that be should move, after
the recess, for the minutes. of the Naval Court Martial on Captain
Brous: ; also for the minutes of that on Colonel Quentin. His ob-
ject Was to propose some regulation with respect to Courts-Martial
in gt neral.

Lord Dowounitmottr, in consequence of the thin attendance of
Peers, withdrew his intended motion on the negoeiations now car-
rying on at Vici:na, but intimated that lie should renew the subject
some future opportunity. •