The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-01 00:00:00

'THE 'NATIONAL REGISTER..

on the " Infant School" for Children froin three to ax years of
age founded on what was actually in practice at his own este
llishment, and which hod eel-et-tall his most snnguine expects-
teens. lle then traced the plates or educating the youth of both
sexes till they approached years of neitority.
A etntleman asked what became or liberty of conscience in
r. OWele4 plena
Duke 111 Kent reneatetl the question, observing.. that
Nis. Owen had '-tug Colllttli the opportunity to speak on this
point.
Mr. Owen stated, that in leis own eatablishment, where there
str 23ie persons. and which homed in main particulars the
°imitation of his plans, there VIM no religion; unimosity. These
were several religious estublishments, said the verients itdiabit-
ants, although thtileing in religious opinions, went arm in-arm
to their several churches. .He mate it re point totrocure any re-
lieients assistance that might be rem:Med. and the consequence
was the most complete harmony. lie bad, he avowed, a Parti-
cular knowledge on this subject; the time few its complete-pro-
molgation hail not yet attired ; but he Legged it to be under-
, stood. that he made his principles give way to the happiness of
otleetse (Applause.) lie then proceeded with his statement,
following the doe:1.1;160ns of his plans. Iles sett. tuts had been
attacked- ley different parties as of must preja licial tendency—as
injurious to the interests of the poor, &e. but such attacks were
only the result of lianted views of the-subject. lie, however,
should submit to any odium, railier.thari lead the pehlic mind
ne,truy ; but he owned he was anxious that the eientimenis of the
people regarding his plans •shouhl be set at rest. and with that
vie., he ;imposed the Appointment of Committees. The plans
lutist he earned into effect from necessity ; extrareticoary difficul-
ties demanded extraordinary remedies. (Applaase.) Besides
the Committee. be should have the models placed in sonic large
room in the Netrooolis. Ile conciiiiled with reading a *cries of.
la:solutions on the distresses of the country, the use of machinery,
&c. awl declaring dog if the present State of thing-Ash:realism-1d
to cuatinue, society rust deseend into a State of :abject poverty;,
and that the adoption of his plans would change adversity into
ptosperity. Ile did not deeire the cotiatry .to mt. fronilits con-
viction ; he walled that the ietelligent of all classes Should give
his plans a full, lair, and open investigation. lie had no pri-
vate motives to gratify. no partial interests to porsuc ; and as his
objects were beyond suspicion, %mild. they deny him. investiga-
tion? (Applause.)
Sir W. lie Crisoigney then described the motives sch;ch in-
duced ;nimbi notice Mr. Owens Plans in l'arliament lie saw
the eetensiee degrees—be beheld the )weeny that every where
pervaded, and he therefore felt that something must be done, for
lie viewed with horror the system of tratoperting his fellow emu-
trymer. to fat distant end to barren Immense appiauee.)
Ile would adapt any plans that.wantid avert so dreadful, M) ap-
palling, se atfiicting it system..—(Continued appluree.) And
when air. Owen ft:Trred that his pleats would preside for the
population, even it it inteeased fuer-till, were they nut to inves-
tigate them ? A great objection to Mr. Owen's system wee, that
it mule male too omen of a machine. lie cared not how much
of a machine they made of man so long as the change led to eh-
me and prosperity ; bet he would ask them. if man were nut a
machine would lie not be a savege ?—(!sear, hear !)—lle taought
the country was greedy indebted to Mr. Owen, but, lie grieved to
state, that he feared insuperable difficulties; would tenth front the
slue of means. While mations and thousands. could be ex-
pended in necessary and unneeeesary wars ; in extravagant grants
and establishments; in pulling down streets and promoting fan-
ciful improvements ; when Plain to ameliorate the poor were
nsentioneel, not oar penny could be obtained from the Ministers;
the plans were visionary and impracticable—Wear, hear ty—lle
concluded with moving that.the Report be confirmed.
Mr. Tooke seconded the motion, expressing his conviction,
that the most beneficial results could hardly tail to result front a
single experiment of Mr. Owen's plans.
The Duke-of Kent, in petting the Resolittion, impressed the
hope that all who might address the meeting wieild keep to the
point ; that they world steer clear of politics. (Applause.)
Mr. Low denoanced the plans as calculated really to make
men machines, to elepiive then' of that spirit of independence
and liberty which might be deemed the great stimulus to good
actions.—t Hear. lieu le—The plans would also increase the pro-
duce of those articles elietie were !Moldy too easily produeethand
which a as avowed to be one of the causes of the extensive distress
that now existed.. The plaits might be practicable where were
were eilonies to he formed, but here they would he most pre-
judicaL
Mr. Theleall had no dejection to man teeing reale a " ma-
chine" where intellect was the moving spring, where the mind
was to be Unproved; and he imagined fit " had
been mentioned in that sree, and that the plans woe calculated
to improve the condition of society.
The Resetluti.m wee then put and agreed to. with two dissen-
tients, Mr. H. Montagu, the Barrister, and ant-titer.
Sir S. C. Jervis observed, that the fact nh tethers having devise.
plans, proved that Mr. Owen had relreatly done good ; anti
moved that it was expedient to promote an enablishueent on Mr.
Oween'si plan, by way of experiment,
Major Torrtr.s cerdiatly agreed in the resolution to promote
an establishment onlr. Owen's plan by way of experiment;
but he protested against all the intereaces drawn by Mr. Owen,
that if his plans were carried into execution, there woukl sit end
put to poor rates, pauperism, &c. Such expectations were wholly
visimary. (Hear, hear !) The causes of distress were not • from
the use of machinery and capital, as described by Owen—it
resulted from the erroneous system of our corn la as, of taxes on
salt, leather, etc. anti the excessive pressure of taxation on thc
workiag classes, (I.otel applause.) It was this excessive taxation
that penalized industry, and rendered capital unpneluctive
it c>tulklltd industry emigrate, and gave the products of ether '
countries advantage of er lieu own. (Applause.) lie denied NIT.
Owen's principles respecting the limiting of consumption within
the Ille4llS of produce; real declared, pasticalarly as applied to
agriculture, that the ratio of produce diminished as capital was
increased If iklr.O.litaited the consumptioa of the produce of the
entire: to the villages themselves, heat twee put an end to that
division of labour by which Koch miraculous effects heal been ac-
complished ; and was that to be desired ? If the proauce were
not to Le limited tat the villages, then the division of labour !
would ..low its effects, and what was to prevent those gluts in
the nuerkets, the con-equences.of winch were now so severely felt ?
(Applauee.)—Notwitlestaraling emigration teal been protested
against, lee 'le:claret that it was the best syeteni that could he le-
sorted to urekt existing-circumstance,; and he deeted that there

war any degradation in it.
Mr. lloweroft said, the condition of our manufactories shewed
the correeinewi of advice given to the Emperor Alexandtv—
.6 Never inir.d iniunifailturs, attend to your land, your cattle,
and your po Pple." lie observed that ~sonctiiing must be done ;
and the ;elven: plan, if adopted, maid be stopped, should it not
answer, and advanced with increased forte. 6!iuuld it be SUCCA....hh
1111. H cur, neat !i

The Resolution ivai cten put tn:d as to.
Mr. Ito wcruft then moral. that to carry t:te plan into execra-
tion. i00,419,g. tie nti9ed by general subscription ; that hooks be
op.ned at Mews. Smith, Payne'', and CO. s, un the understand-
ing that the urns should not be called fur till after aoutiter.Gette-
ral Meeting Le convened to dam-wine eta details. &c.

The Duke of Kent, in plutin;; this Ite.olution, announced
st.Useriptterh. of 1 .0i ed. from J. Smith, Esq. M.P., 1.0001. from
Mr. Owen, acc. Itea0:::Ii0:1 agreed to. several ocher subo:rip-
tio.o. were.aflerward. aimouneed.

Thank:, Saving Lnn total to the nuke of Kent. his R0y..1
IS ighnesa returntd Lit. acknowledgments. And mot.. II thanks to
, Mr. Owen. inotion Nw agreed to, and t'ae Meeting ad-
journed at iv.; o'clock.

AUGUTS 1:

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

('toner: P. K.

By his K,..i1 liightscs4 the Prittee of Wmlea, Recent or
the United kingdom Ot eat Iliitain rnJ Irkii&lld, to the
!taint: Audi tut the heh.lf of hi• Majesty.
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas in dives* yarns of Guest Britain meetings of
large titunitiets of his Majesty's subjects hove hens held
ilium the requisition of pet sons, a ho, or smite of ohom,
have, together with others, by seditious and tr-asonaltle
speerkes, add dto the pessunsas• led,endeavoufrd
to Wing into Barred mid contempt, Ike Government and
Cousi it ti established in this Realm, and pailietilarly
the Commons noose of Parlriment, and tn. eheiie disobe-
dience to ibe tans, and illsOrrection.dgaiii,t lies Majesty's
asithoritF.
Awlwhereas. it bath been represented oath Its, that at
one of. suet* meetings, the prisons there a.sembled, in
grose.vialation or the Law, did al tempt to conslitts'e and
appoint, and did, as ranch as its them lay, emisti; lite mid
appoint a, persqii then wthiioateil, so s.l iu their name awl
on their behalf in the Commons noose of ;
and there i, it :isms to be:teve that.atiter Mectiags ate about
10 he held tar the like militedid purpose.
Awl Isetras wally a irked and seditious writings have
been prosiest, published, and industriously circulated,
tending to promote the several pm-ow:cc Riolecaid, and to.
raise ilisemiteuts its the ;Muds of
hi. Majesty's taithful and loy ..1 inibirets.
And whet eat, w.t. have been ta Filter given to mitlcrstand,
that with a view of the better enabling themselves to eat ry
tato rivet, the wicked purposes aforesaid, in scone parts ,
of the Itthedolii, men elainle.tinely uniitwfully :went-
bled, hoer practised mil:tot) 1, g and esecei.e.
• Atod o hereto. tne nett:ire oad baryon,' of this Kingdom
do, moter•Div ism Providence, chictts depend upon is due.
sail••.”101t to the laws, is joint rt fiance on the integrity and
st isclomisf Parliameut, and a steady perseverance in that
attachment to the Government mid (*oust
Realm, n hich has ever prevailed in the mind. of the people.
Ilwrrot ; um! ;whereas there i: hich we so earnestly
salt as to preFerve the public peace and prosperity, and to
secure In all his Majesty's liege sub:lei-1.1ln: col ire enjoyment
of their riglib and liberties" We, t het...tote, re.tilsed
to , repress the ni.-ked.. seditious, ;ma treasonable practices
aforesaid, have thought tit in the nasne and on the behalf of
his Slajesiy, and by and w ith the stake it his Niatiestis's
Miss Couocit, to issue this our l'ioctainaliun, so-
lemnly waruiug all his Majesty's liege soltiects it guard
aAanut ever, attempt to ',iterative. the , ;old to solivett
the Governmont so happily established within this llculm ;
end to abstain from every measure laic otise•let.t with toe
peace had good order of society, and earn sity ethortiog
them, al.. II ikn's, Laid ill the utmost of their you er, to as aid
and itircountem.ace all to produce the
cull silitets above ile,coibcd.

And sv; do strietß miaow all his lllajesty't tieing sietjects
to forbear f the practice of all mien military
awl exercise, as afores.iid, as Cory shall ansit cr. the r.iry
thereof at their petit.
And use do c Ivo ro and command all SheriCs,3 ieos of the
Peoce,.o Mel Magistt ate. of Cities, Boroughs and Corpo-
ation., atilt all other Magistrates tl.romthout Go at 1;9 :Milt,
that thee tho. within their respective jut isdiellnt. , make dili-
gent encmiry in order to dicover and bring to justice the
author.s mad priuters of such 14 irked and 84.4iiiillUt writings.
ay aforesaid, and all who shall circulate the >rule, nail that
they do use their hest endeavours to bring to :loon a al per-
vim who. have been. or may be guilty of utternig seditious
speeches and harangues, Anil all. 11.:LitIllh tuneetneil in any
riots or uolawfill ass. nitdies, nhieh, on sa h..terer pretest
they way be grou.tiled, are not only contrary to lava, but
daugerous to the otost important interests of the Kingdom.
Given at the Coast at Carlton-)!ou•e, this :A/1h day
ul duly, tail, in the 59th year of his Nlojesty 'a
rein. lion stss nuts Man.
tTliisGaystte notifies, that the Priam Bct,rnt has /iv,' pleased
to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom for granting the dignity of a Baniaet to Alexan-
der Allan, of Kingsgate„ Kent, Esq. I.leutenant Colonel in the
service of the East India Company, and to the heirs male of his
body lawfully begotten.-.4t also mentions the appointment of
Mr. .11.111 C., IICII to be Coixad at Gibraltar for the Kingdom of
Ila.loVer ; and the appointment of G. G. Day. of St. lie.,
in the county of Huntingdon. to be a Mutter Extraordinary in
die High Caw t cf Chancery.]

CROWN OFFICE., Jyt.Y 31.
MEMBERS returned to serve in this preset t PAR !JAME:NT.
Borough of Eye.—Sir Robert Gifford, Knight, his Alojesty's
Attorney General.
Borough of Milhorne l'ort.—Robert :dottiest, (:asberd, Esq. of
the Middle l'emple, London.
burghs of rittenweeni. Ansdruther Easter, Anstruther Wisner.
Kilrcany, and Crail.—The lit. lion. Sir Wm. Roe, of St. ('.mi.(
ine's, Bart. His Majesty's Advocate kir Scotland, in the rooni of
the lion. A. Machonqchie. who has accepted the Lidice of Lord
Seikion and Justiciary. in Ssothand.

BANKRUPTCY SUPKIISEDED.
T. Corxle. iliockley, Leicester, hosier.
S. Young, Manchester. cotton spinner.
BANKRUPT%

J. Taylor', ' ''''''''' mealinan.
Stephen Msler, E,nsworth, rope maker.
11. 11. Ashby, Budge Row, copper plate printer.
fl. Par't, Tailcaster. Yoi k , butcher.
AW. Bloomfield, sen. at.l W. Blm.nfield, jun. Waworth.
bricklayer.
J. Hartley. Red Gate Court. Minories. merchant.
A. M•Nair. Attchurch Lane, merchant.
in VIDENTIS.
Aug. 3. J. Mayers, Yarmouth, Norfolk, merchant—s,
P.
Bradley. King Street. Portman Square. trphol%terer-7. C Cran-
don. America Square, merchant-13, Gaugain, I:hurc
Street, Soho Square, jeweller-14, T. tSitnniontia, Alaidstune.
Kent. WMe nterehaht-3, .Srnyett, St. Alartin's Court.
shut inaker-30. C. Jlagee, Whitehaveu. Cumberland, ileakr.-..
24. T. Green. Cpper, Areley, State nil, firmer-7, It. Swell.
Piccadilly, coal inerchaht—vti, G. Strong. Exeter. dealer-
V3..1. Duxbury, Manciester, tl.aler—sti. R. Edgar, Ilamniond's
Court,Nlincing Line. %vibe merchant-V.S. Venue. Mark Lille.
Sept. 1, 11. W. Vanderclert, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, oil mar-
ching.
CERTIFICA'FES to be granted Aug. 21.
G. Tallman, New Kent Road, straw hat manufarturer—W.
L. Browne and T. Hunter, Wood Street, warchousemen—W .
Blackburn and I'. C. lionsseau, City Road, corn dealers—W. and
.1. Shirley. Shelton. Stalthol. potters—G. Cooper, Walton upon
Thames. brewer—l:..Keriliaw, Rumford, Essex, shopkeeper—
.1. Irtitt!e. Tokenlionse lard. tnercliant—J. lsevgatc
Street. printer—J. Fwbank, Little Bush Lane, Cannon street.
bottle merchant—W. Peart. Northampton Street, Clstki.uwells
printer--J. and E. 11. 'Puckett, Bn.tuh, grocers.

Vritt
liatok Stock 22')
: per trot. 94
:4 per Ceot. e".. 711
3i per Ceti.
4 i;er Let.t. VOA
per Crut. 1041
1.401/C Atm. lt4