The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-16 00:00:00

Since our Observations of last week, every day
'has tended more and more to-establish the doctrines
we then laid down on the subject of those popilar
Commotionswhialoltave so such eagagail tkelastiss.
tion of the country for some time past ; ae-shew on
one hand the folly of the alarms attempted tobe ex-
cited, and on-the other the wickedness of those who
would have gladly made them instrumental to pur-
poses of encroachment upon the little we still enjoy
of civil Freedom. Nay, the very seizure of liar-
Tison, at the acme of popular phrenzy, wits found
inadequate to the purposetf creating a Riot, and as
-there was neither an old stocking filled with balls,
nor a single pinch of gunpowder detected in any
body's snuff-box, as Mr. Oliver has declined busi-
.ness, and retired into a quiet corner tif Norfolk to
live like a gentleman, not even a tolerable farce, and
-wool less a tragico-contico piece oF five acts, rot ti!o
amusement of some, the misery eZothers, and the be-
-rick of his Majesty's servants could be produced.
•The good men of Cheshire have sworn upon the al-
tar of their valour to defend their King and support
the dignity of the Crown, and thoir Lord Li,..ate-
atant has published a meet flaming Manifesto, and
called upun the Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire to
fellow him in this path of duty. Lord Fitravilliam,
;however, was too add and experienced a bird to be
..caught in an palpable a snare, and again made the
tool of ahridgiug or suspending the Liberties of his
Conntrs. Government has also sanctioned the
forinatien of volunteer corps fir: the protection of
Manchester and Salfiird, as if the enormous military
et tablishment previously on foot was not either ade-
quate or disposeable fur the dispersion, if it should
be necessary, of a wretched and paltry rabble. But
a little time has alas effected wonders in another
respect, it has enabled the lies and exaggerations of
the Ministerial papers to meet with that conviction
of their falscluxxls which is sure to overtake then at
last, though unfortunately the mischief they pro-
duce has sometimes taken place before the' antidote
to the poison could be administered. No one can;for-
get how Lord Fitzw'iUiatn himself was duped upon
the last suspension of the Liberties of Englishmen,
and "how vainly be afterwards had reason to deplore
his error, when a minute and personal examination
of the state of his own county had enabled him to
ascertain that truth witick had been so grossly and
vcandaiously distorted. Yes, the deliriont of the
moment has subsided, but the misery which led to it
'till ne fear remains. The harvest expected to be
4;atlicrecl irma it by those wi:o fatten upon such
oil's' has eviirtly failed. Lord Castlereagh cannot
even Julie for the plaudits of listening senates on
having put down reb,:iiion, tier can his beloved as.
sociate Mr. Canning again exercise the humanity of
his eloquence upon the ruptured and metered. But
though these poor and deluded wretches arc now
partly by the laws of the land, and partly from the
+ewe of their own late follies iuduced to abandon
their Meetings, and to withhold the expreseiosaof
their discontent, yet it wild deeply behove both Go-
vernment and the Leei;latare not to'be unmindfid
of the spirit, that will still anlan though forbidden
loudly to complain, and to apply themselves to.re-
away those evils which it is impossible either to de-
kwl or to disguise. Let them give to the l%se and
populous places in which these disturbances, if so