The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-08 00:00:00

SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1819.

sensible fact that no man can deny ; and very few
are prepared to assert that all that could be, has
been, done to relieve it. No man can look back to
the means by which, and the objects far which, the
accumulation of debt that is now pleaded as the
apology for our burthens has taken place, without
sighing over the fortunes of his country—and ex-
claiming with the Poet

" Prdrl Nee I Ipprol-riti nobis
" Et diet pt.tuip,e, et von potu,se

No man, again, can say that these evils would not,
most probably, have been prevented it' the House of
Commons had more fairly anti fully represented the
sentiments of the whole People of England.—At
all events no man can deny that the thetn•y and
practice of the Constitution are in this point grossly
at variance with each other. Again, in asking as
these people do for a more fair and equal Represen-
tation than exists at present, even Mr. Canning
cannot deny that they are asking bet for that which
his own great master once proposed to give ths:m.
Instead then of directing all their thoughts and con-
trivances to find out some method of extinguishing
this spirit of truth as well as error, would it not be
better, would it not be more worthy Loth of honest
men and wise Politicians, if all reasonable grounds
of murmur were first carefully considered, and an
honest endeavour made to remove them Their
follies and absurdities would then find no advocates,
and even Hunt himself would mourn or declaim in
solitude. His Majesty's Ministers might have been
long ago convinced how ineffectual are their own
miserable positions. To tell them of "an igno-
rant impatience of Taxation," will not do ; to disre-
gard their cries and their sufferings will not do ; to
invite them to quit the land of their fathers will
not do ; to suspend at once their liberties anti to
scatter them in distant dungeons will not do ;
chains and timers are alike Meth:dual, and we
would earnestly implore that they may not twain be
tried. The organization is, we really believe, firm,
solid, and exteonve, but it has hitherto observed
a quiet and decorum which defies the interference
of those who might perhaps wish for more tangible
materials. to work upon. They are bodies of strong
and resoluts Petitioners, but they are not Rioters,
-tad Petition is the right, the inalienable right of
Englishmen. We would beg again and again that
no imams may be used, that no rash and ill-advised
councils may be adopted, which may render these
men desperate, awl make them as Iloratius said to
the tyrannical Deceinvirate of Home, " Esteem
their sufferings as greater than their fears."--
The Country will not suffer itself to be again
placed at the arbitrary disposal of the servants of the
Crown, they will not again suffer their Liberties to
be suspended without rememberiag that a crisis
nets, occur in %shalt submission kaaimes treasonable
and resistance a duty. TheConstitu t ion of Ent'attd
was not made for fair weather only ; it Las strength
and energy enough to struggle with a storm, mid
our Laws are both better and safer pilots than any
Miaisterial Oligarchy, be they who they may. The
spirit of our people is awakening indeed to abases
and corruptions, and the march of this spirit is not
to be resisted. 'Those abases and corruptions must he
done away,- and the vessel will then puss on with
her won:ed course. The people of England love
and tcvere their Laws and know how to respect
tins e authorities which are their appointed guar-
dians, but their flux is fully set against oppression
and wrong, awl it highly concerns our rulers to
know and feel this truth,

[yam). 94d.

Extraordinary Hire Bi6ber.—.4 vine dresser,
from the neighbourhood of M-trly le Hui, laid a
wager some days back with another vine dresser,
that he would &Mk half* hmrshead of nine in ti-3 •
hours, After the lapse of .f2.3^hours there remained
only three quarts to be drank, and he easily won tha
wager, which was WO francs.
As considerable anxiety was created in this city
by a report, that a vessel, conveying nut a number
of troops destined for South Aaietica,litid bzen seized
at Dualuary, and as different causes were assigned
for the circumstance, we consider ourselves for:uaate .
in being enabled to state the fact precisely as it
eurred:—The vessel being a tbreign one, was nos
entitled to carry above one half the ninuLT of men
which a British bottom °file same dimensions would
be allowed to take out. The captain, however, int-
prudently regulated his arrangements rather by the
amount of his tonnage than the provisions of the law,
and an information Laving I),•en lodged against him,
the revenue cutter c t Dunleary follow:NI and arreAted
the vessel for a breach of the Navigation Act, in re-
ceiving on board a greater 'Limber of persons than
that act permits. This eras the sole ground of the
seizure ; the Foreign Enlistment Bill hart nothing
whatsoever to do nith it, nor will the occurrence
alter at all the course of the itidici•lools concerned:
this our readers may rei' upon.—Dliblia Paper.
The following is extracted Nat a Paris paper:—
"A private letter frmn London gives reason to •
believe, that an old process, which derives its im-
portance more particulaely front the elevated rank
of the parties interested, and whi,h is of a nature
to call fur the intervention of the Engli di Parlia-
ment, is soon to be revived. The new proceedings
are said to be the result of ,an investigation lately
instituted in Italy, by means of wltioli int:inflation
and evidence regarded as decisive have been oL-
tained."

An official, despatch was received on Tuesday,
dated Angustuiu, May 28, front Itoscio, succes,,or
Palacio, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the
republic of Vencattela, confirming the account of the
defisit of a reitit;,..reentent of 3000 mon, s.:nt Mont
Santa Fe to juin Nforillo. This victory was achievoi
by the division of the Patriots under the command
of Gen. Santander.

The Exeter Paper of Thursday says, this City
was yesterday visited with one of the most tretoea-
I
dons storms of thunder, lightning, rain, am!
within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. The
rain poured down in torrents, and haiistones of im-
mense size fell with such force as to break the glass
of many windows. The frequent peals of thunder
were so loud as to reader the voice of the Counsel,
pleading at the Assizes, inaudible. A bull of fire
tell on one of the houses in High-rreet, which
shivered the chimney top in pieces. The market
people were forced to fly into the different shops
tbr shelter, where they had the mortification of see-
ing their commodities washed off the par.iers into
the street, without being able, 33 great was the vio-
lence of the tempest, to save them.
Uu IVednesday a tonne, man uniered 'hi-Court of Clui-
cery between t welt e and one o'clock, and hiking 14p a
Gentleman's hat departed. ii, ormition it as insincli-
July given and Mr.'llaker, the officer, pursued awl toelt
him into custody. I la, big cow eyed him to a boom in
the tieitthbutirhood for the inirpom: of scarcionghim,
112 was losmil or be wholly without linen, or waistcoat.
and in fact with nothing to CilVcr the tipper par; of his
pa,on, save his peat coat, which was bottoncii tip so as
to conceal the distress tinder which he labisured. lie
declare.' that he had not hurt n able to obtain a bed, with
the exception of two or three niglnt, for the whole of
.he last and piesent month, and that for the last two or
three 615 ice had not hrok ell hi, list. His store excited
tits comp.'s:ion of all present, dint a few shillings were
among the coattibutors to whicit
was lin. gen tlem.h; whose hat had been stolen, whogave
11,!. u t RTIOVIIZCII to have Leen tingled)
ill attorney's clink. Ile was se: at liberty strongly ex-
pressing Insp.:tit:ode.

The Provietors of life rd eolith which mpg,
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.isenti ite• bate %tet hts• in 1,40 or thin u.iis
to tln. tlfspe Inii,l4tga and ii;1101411“ of 411
p;cl,l tniptitt..

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