The National Register.
London, England, 1815-02-26 00:00:00

.n a series of protracted conflicts creep
into and deform every state, unless carefully watched and
zealously guarded against.

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CITY ADDRESS.
the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, the Ahlermen,
Sheriffs, Common • Council, and City .Officers
,n the Prince Regent, at Canton House, with the
address, which was reaJ by Sir Jolla Sylvester,
Recorder :

Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
bumble, loyal, and dutiful Addretai of the Lord Mayor,
liermen, and Connuorti of the City ut London, in Common
)uncil assembled,
't please your Royal Highness,
, Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the
ror, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of Lon-
ornmon Council assembled, present ourselves be-
Royal Highness, to offer our zealous and heartfelt
.lions, on the auspicious circumstance of the sig-
a Treaty of Peace with the United States of

Isider this event as the fortunate and desirable ter-
of that prolonged series of political calamities,
itatever may have been their causes, or in whatever
icy were unavoidable, have at various periods of
,trous course filled his Majesty's loyal subjects with
it the welfare of these kingdoms, and with deep af•
the unavailing slaughters, desolations, and raise-
which they have covered the civilised and ehristian

had concluded an arduous struggle against a formid-
of the power and prosperity of this empire, in a
seclitable to our resources, and glorious to his Ma-
•nu by sea and land, and as the rupture with: the
Yates of America was but an effect of the mutual
of the pre-existing Belligerents, it was reasonable
:hat peace with America would have been the itn-
!onsequence of the pacification of Europe.
'0 the honour as well as to the interests of the United
, ought not to conceal from your Royal Highness
hould have been far more gratified had. the object
•gociations been sooner accomplished, or had suit-
ns been employed and properly exerted for sup-
tie character, and ensuring the triumphs of the Bri-

egrets would, we acknowledge, have been much mote
under the circumstances of the great superiority of
ns and resources, were it not notorious that our oc-
losses in the varied scene of naval hostilities, are to
ited, not to any deficiency of decision and energy
iritiAr character, nor to any want of gallantry and
Ince on the part of our naval commanders and
but to the want of due information as to the force
Iruction of the American ships of war, and to the
ble description of the force employed against them.
,ould not have done justice to our feelings had we
rer in silence the topics at which we have thus briefly
Awl), glanced; but we contemplate with satisfaction
,Peet of speedily returning to that state of society
,ffords free scope to the commercial energies of this
!me, and the approaching renewal of an intercourse
.cat, free, and rising people, connected with us by
ties and sympathies, an iptercourse which has been
advantageous, and has greatly promoted the power
Tosperity of this nation. Nor do we view with less plea-
opportunities which will thus be afforded for dimin-
our unexampled expenditure,—for the removal of
galling and debasing of our taxes, such as we hope

occasion to name,

and for

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That we may uninterruptedly devote ourselves to the pur-
suits, and enjoy the blessings of peace, and that the Royal
House of Brunswick may long reign over a free, happy, and
united people, is the ardent wish of his Majesty's faithful
tizens of London.

To which his Royal Highness was graciously pleased to
return the following answer :
" 1 feel great satisfaction in having brought the negocia-
tions with the United States of America to such a result, as
affords a fair prospect of the speedy re-establishment of peace
with that country.
" Whatever may have been the calamities occasioned by the
extended warfare, in which we were so long engaged, they
are in no respect imputable to Great Britain. It was the
conviction that our cause was just, and that we were unavoid-
ably contending for all that was valuable to us as a nation,
that produced those extraordinary exertions, which under
the favour of Divine Providence completely frustrated the
designs of our enemies, and which will be contemplated with
admiration and gratitude by our latest posterity.
"No endeavours will be wanting on my part to promote a
friendly intercourse between this kingdom and the countries
with which we have been at , war, and to secure and improve
all the advantages of peace."

A Foreign journal contains the following laughable %c•.
dote of a French fiddler of the name of Boucher; who lately
came to posh his fortune in London. On his arrival at Dover,
across the channel, he had the mortification to see Lis fid-
dles seized by the officers of the Customs. It was in• vain
he protested that they were not articles of commerce, but
instruments for his own use-. and 'that if he meant to make
money by them, it was not at least by their sale. The Meat
agents were deaf; the fiddles must pay duty. To fix the
amount, their value must be estimated: and Mr. Boucher was
desired to set his own value on the.fiddles; he fell into the
snare, and fixed a very moderate price. Then, in virtue of
Custom-House regulations unknown to our travelling musi-
cian, they offered him fifteen per cent. more than the lealtid-
lion, and declared they would keep the instruinen's. Our
artist wasin despair; he complained, he prayed, het hreatenefl.
but all in vain; there was only one resource,--,that of going
to London to claim the interference of the French Amhassa-
d ; but to do this he must part from his dear fiddles, the
instruments of his glory and his fortune. He wished atleast
to bid them a last adieu, and, taking one of them, be brought
from it such melodious but doleful sounds as -corresponded
with his feelings. The Custom-house officers attracted by the
notes, formed a groupe around him, which gradually increased
so that the office could no longer contain the collected-audi-
tors. They begged the musician to pass into a large lobby:,
to which he willingly assented. Thee, mounted on a 'step
of the staircase, he performed several pieces which charmed
even fiscal ears. Animated by his success, the artist surpassed
himself, and the enthusiasm of the audience was at its height,
when they heard God save the King executed with the most
brilliant variations. How repay so much talent and com-
plaisance? Every thing was forgotten; even the regulations
of the Custom-house; " Sir," said the chief of the customs to
the French virtuoso, " take back your fiddles; you may
boast of a finer because a more difficult triumph than that of
Orpheus. lie melted only the infernal deities, but :on have
made the donaniers of Dover relent."

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