The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-26 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Lormon.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26.

By our Parliamentary report, it will be st, - hat
the two Houses were prorogued on Thursday last,
and hew they were prowvued—we huve.been uni-
formly admirers of c,nsistency, and however , rare
an occurrence it ivy. LeLe in the present instance,' we
applaud ministersA" And the Lord commended
she unjust Steward, because he had acted wisely,
for the children of this world are in their genera-
tion wiser than titer_ children of light."]—they had

acted in a way that caused them to fear meeting
the representatives of a people, justly enraged at
their recent conduct, and they therefore determined
to prorogue Parliament—to put off at least, the day
of bitter reproach. A'dissolution is expected forth.
with, and what can ministers promise themselves
front such a measure—can they suppose that the

event of an election at the present moment, can by
any possibility, be auspicious to than. Can they
anticipate returns to the writs more favourable to
the views of oppression than those that were last
made, when the public execrations had not been
drawn towards them by their infamous, unmanly,
disgraceful, and defeated persecution of the Queen.
Or, is a partial change of ministers contemplated.—
Is it proposed to invert the advice of Hamlet to his.
mother to " throw away the worser half," and is
it meant after having cobbled up an administration,
on which only Fools and Rogues can rely, to appeal
to the voice of the electors, under the belief that
they may be once more cajoled. If such be the in-
tention, to those electors, would we speak in the
stentorian tone of awfal prophecy—we would as-
sure them that politically—" Now is the appointed
time, now is the day of Salvation" and that if
they embrace it not,despotism; or revolution, sl tvery,
or licentiousness, must and will be the unquestioned
lot of their posterity. Ministers have placed them-
selves in such a dilemma, that resignation itself
cannot shield them from punishment, unless they
can prevail upon their successors to held the iEgis
of power between ministers and their offences.
On the conduct of the Speaker of the House of
Commons we make no comment. While the present
Lords Sidmouth and Colchester held that situation
their impartiality was laudably conspicuous ; they
seemed nut to belong to any party—how far the
present Speaker (who is the son of the Archbishop
of Canterbury) may deserve the same praise, we
leave it to our Readers to determine, after having
perused onr account of the prooeedings in the House
of Commons yesterday.

The French papers of Tuesday arrived yesterday.
—The Con.siiiutionnel contains a letter from
Lisbon of the 7th inst., which, particularly in con-
sequence of the accounts, five days later, brought
this day by the Lisbon mail,. deserves attention.—
After stating that the Portuguese did not need the
example of Spain to effect the recent revolution,
inasmuch as every one desired it : the writer ob-
serves, that the present situation of the country
requires all the attention of those entrusted with the
conduct of its affairs. Every one expects he adds,
that the King of Portugal will protest sgainst all
thit has been done, On the other hand, notwith-
standing the acts of the Provisional Government for
maintaining the old regulations in favgur of English
commerce, the late occurrences must be sooner or
later prejudicial to English manufacturers. Sitaated
as Spain is, between Gibraltar and Portugal, while
tie latter was exclusively an English market, it was
impossible to prevent a contraband trade in English
goods both iu Syaiu ona to the Sit.tuizh