The National Register.
London, England, 1819-06-07 00:00:00

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1819.

to be kept sacred and inviolable, us the grand and
only adequate instrument dour salvation from na-
tional bankruptcy and ruin; a measure greeted with
tl.e loudest plaudits of the whole ienatee anti front
which Mr. Fox, who had cordially assisted in its
rummies) and enactment, never to the day of his
death withheld his praise. The country, tißwithin
these few yerrs, held it in al the veneration of a
sacred palladium.' We went on, not unalarmed at
the rapid accumulation of public debt, but yet with
those alarms soothed by reflecting that we possessed
a resource .accumulating also, and were flattered
with the fund hope that whenever the bleasings of
Peace should *naive, that its whole premeds would
be fairly and fullynvailable to the diminution of our
public burthens. this resource no man relied
with a prouder sitisfaction than Mr. l'itt. Amidst
the deepest labyrinths of ti-uncial intricacies and
embarneements, the sinking fund still supplied a
thread to guide him through their nem s. and when
every ether pert of the horizon seemed obscured in
clouds and darkness, in this point he could still disc
cern a friendly beam of light which might guide his
vessel to the wisheefor harbour.---.1 he next great
measure of his public policy we shalledlude to is;
the admission• of theeornan Catholics to the rights
and privileges of tt.e Constitution. For this measure
Air. Pitt uniformly exerted all the powers of his
tdoquence, fur this he pledged himself in the strong-
est manner at the time of the union, to Ireland, anti
of his sincerity in which he gave the strongest proof
by quitting the helm of the State, when he found
his Royal Master inflexkbly opposed to the course in
which he was steering. It is true the love of place
and power did afterwards predominate ever both the
love of justice and Wit sense of honour ; for he
returned to the same post he had before abandoned,
and ender a condition not to nesi!ate a question
which he had before often and so facibly ussertel
to'be, in his own mind and conscience, essential to
the well-being, and even the safety of the State. But
excepting this single point, and it is one which the
friends of Mr. l'itt's memory would surely be very
willing to forget, what is there in all or ney cf the
topics we have mentioned which either his Majesty's
Mittistere, or the members of the P.tt Clue, profess
in • common with hint under the sanction of whose
11:1111C day have set up their banners? What is the
state of the civil list %thick Mr. Pitt contended and
voted fur retrenching, and how does the grant of
10,0001 a year to the Duke of York sqltare with
the sentiments expressed by him on Mr. Thirke's
celebrated Bill? What is t:te language of Minis-
teas am! of these gentlemen on those plans of reform
which Mr. Pitt himself originated and ereposed?
Ask Lord Castlereagh what he thinks of the destruc-
tion of his favourite trade ? Ask Mr. Canning, who
has deemed his jests and buflitenery epos reform an
essential ingredient of every speech le has made,
mum whatever question for the last eight years']
Where are now Mr. Pitt's hoecs respecting the
Sinking Fund so long and warmly.eket ished, where
are now the happy froi F of this darling child of
promise! '! We ten:emit:it.. got Last year, in the
House of Lords, when Lord Liveriseel, without the
least ceremony, in stating the provision for the curs
rent service, merged the whole preithwe of this fund
among the items of supply, etiat Lord Grey nue
anti begged to be informed whether the Sinking;
Fond was to be thencelhrward considered as to-
tally anahilated and gone, iensinucit as even its
distiartion crom the orditiare sooners of rove. Me VPIS
no more acknowledged. Where are tem those
mighty projects of fitetnce, wleele Ibteigh we ratty
believe them to have been, in smite iestanses,
the curse, :ma still t a threaten in their effects
the nen of tha country ; yet us no menthes.
of the Pitt Clubs ran entertain such sentiments
or admit such alarms, we shoulq think they
would at hest mourn to see them tan?. n'ii
append, and pace, in their *immortal of those teeier
whose eeitience their Mom has been oecupieti by a
state tit :leauttii:l eieltereinsaneut, and inef-
fwient.y wnidt. in the fifth year of pewee, we will
venture to asssrt never was equalled With respect te
the Catholic Question, leed curler( atilt a Ail

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Mr. Canning's regard to honourable consisteucy pot
the whole body of the Pitt Clubt absolutely to the
The former totally declines attending then, -
and the latter has publicly sated be would not be
present at u meeting, convened under the *lamina
of such a name, to drink such a toast as " Prates.
tent aseendatscy," knowirg the sense which that
toast implied, und.the spirit it was meant to animate.
Mais n'intportel the.glorious revolution of 684--.
down with Popery---Pitt for ever—his Majesty's
Ministers—Hip ! Hip ! Flip! Hurrah I!!
But it may be said that there is one point yet
unnoticed, sad apon which hinge rests that Politi-
cal Fame which is alone sufficient to entitle biro us
the grateful remembrance and admiration of him
country, vii. his resolute aerl umlaut:het resistance to
French Philosophy and tke whole train of revo'hi-
tionary doctrines connected with it, and which
threatened to overthrow all our ancient Institutions
whether moral, political, civil, or religious. We
are neither the friends trf 'anarchy nor the advocate.;
of irrelEgion. The different ranks and orders of
society arc agreeable to the dictates of nature her-
self, and essential to the very existence of man in
his social state. But whether the revolutionary
war was just in principle, whether it was indispen-
tibly necesh:wy, ivithont which no war can be just,
whether we might not by a 0
strong
and vigorous
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domestic polity have effectually guarded against
every tiam;hr whether from shititin ur wilhout,
whether oar engaging in the war did not :lineally
contribitte to consolidate the strength' and fihee
the revolution, and divert them from quarrelling
with each other by furnishing another object, anl
thus lead to all the calamities which have ensued
from it, are piestious which may be denied if was
should now assert them, but which posterity can
never fail to estimate justly. In foci, the Pitt Sys-
tem, as this part of our national policy is particu-
ltrly called, is already fast emerging from the false
glare with which it was to lung surrounded. Its
evils are now felt, whilst its pump aid pride and
eircurastaore are vanished. The measures adopted
to support it are now pathetically deplored ewe by'
the great-_.st, and we will silt! the best, of those ori-
ginally associated in moviog and upholding theet.
But, however this may be, his Mlijhoy's Ministers
live bat very little to do with the policy we aro
now discussing. Lord Grenville, Lord Spencer,
lord Fitzwillium, Lord Wellesley, and Mr. Wind-
ham were the efficient coadjutors of Mr. Pitt,
during this extraordinary era, and every one of
these have declined every connection with those who
are now in power and with very good reason as
far as ,consistency is concersedi; for whey Lord
Sidmoutli, with his present associates, succeeded to
die Administration of NI r. Pitt, the-very first act of
tliAr °dice was to make peace with that very enemy
whom Mr Pitt had so per everingly pursued with
the most inveterate hostility. The l'eas'e of Ainicus
is tar too memorable to be forgotten. It acknow•.
letlged in the fullest extent the Legitimacy of Bi: •
naparte's Government, and the flow that oppietof
this Peace were to a man the late friends of the
Ex minister. Nay, what is :roost' extraordinary in
these Pitt Clubs is, that Mr. Pitt kisssed and ultis
mately turned out, as incompetent to their situation
and unworthy of public confidence, those very
men by whom his n.'me
.is now borrowed as the
instrument of cumin ttiog support. " But, they
terminated, and gloriously terminated a war," soy
these dceihreasoniog and patriotic Societies, " which
.Ir. Pitt begun.' Hoar they once terminated t
we have already noticed, snit with respect to its JAW
termination. they might just as well assert time Lam
hiveriviol had hem I avested with the controul of
the Elements of Heave", :Ina that the rest of his
associates had spit Erma their own at uttlis the feests
a:tl snows of Rohde. Eshn the Doke of Welliag-
ton was not the obj•ht of their choice. hie was
fihhool spoo them, potty by thiheitatic:s t'f femme,
an? patsy, by his own msteldes.s skill old valour.
It is true. Mr. Pitt intrtslochl the Prop.-rty-Ta7,
but it was tally at War Tax, mil his Majo,l v's
Ministers would have contrived+ us a Peace-Tom
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as their attempt was unsuccessful. Mr. Pitt ulso, •
introduced the Bank Restriction, but his 'Majesty's
Ministers laving kept the bubble entire as long as
they could or (liana, have now at once de4erted " the
right path" as Sir It. Peel c .Ils it, and tlisAvawing
every opinion they had befi,re held, boldly gone
over to the sentiments of Opposition, pronounecd
their gr.:ial culogium on the memory el Mr. Mon.
tic r, nod agreed to let it burst at once. We have
thus gone through the whole series of the lending.
cycles connected with our subject, and challenge
the ingenuity of the Pitt Clubs to controvert the
plain :.t:Acnient we have made, and. to find out flu.
themselves any arrangement by which the can
priflv their claim.: to assemble ender such a naiw,
and vet mnintain the tenets so boldly and miserably
maintained amongst them.

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iftnunrcri FMB AND LIFE OFFICES.
'RESEW! 41 IvN UM A PL CA UV PLATA. 10 M.:. A VIER-

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This ceremony took place on Wednesday. the 27th
ultimo, at the Norfmk flotel„ it Nut with. 'Air. Alder-
man t., s presided at a dinner upon the occ..stott,
att.l whin :he burs, Ste. &C. had been Kitten, the
Ctlatrinutt rn.o, and iii a short speech presented to Mr.
Aitiormati Patteson a candelabrum, wieldy ornamented
with his son arms and those uf tile N ireten Union
Fite and I.lle Assurance St.,eiety, with the following

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Presented the 26th day of May, 1819. by several Gentlemen.
members of the Norwich Union Societies for Fire and lore In-
surance. to Jolty ratiesoit, Kip (Mayor of Norwich A.D.
ntss. M.Y. far tB.r2 to nok, and M.P. tor Nor-
wich tan') to tuft. and 1407 to 13110 as a grateful acknow-
lialginem of the urbanity, firmness. anti impaniolity evinced
by how on soins meat occasions. upon which he stood forward
as the advocate of these valuable lc...amnions, and took a lead-
ing. part in inaintiming the correctness of the principle upon
Much they are founded ; dttliding those coinerned in the ad-
mit.istration of their affairs agsitist unjust aspersions. and re-
storing the reputation of the Societies to that rank in the esti-
nioriao and confidence Of the public which they so justly de-
serve.
After the bellib of the worthy Alderman had been
thank with three limes three, lie rose and made his ae-
t. in a long speech; for a. lull report of
which we hare lint mom ; but for the nrotificotion of
those of our readers who May hare Lite Policies in the
Office, we beg to inform them dhoti Mr. Alterman
PilleWlll tOOk upon himself to assert that the Life 1)e-
-parintent was entirely iolnent, alt assurance which we
record with the greale.t pkasure, because if they call rely
upon this inelapeinlent, untiumwd iusertion, we are con-
vinced it will allay an eneestive degree of alarm which
has been felt by a large }ortiou of the Life Itioirers in
that ltinistitton since the last report was fliat:e by the
" London Committee" appointed by the I)irectutr

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themselves.
Toe es min.; was occnple.l with complimentary
*!•evehes front A. to B. and B. to C. firms which, we
doubt not. great pleasure was derived by the parties eon-
ceritigt ; pet t1:1;)4, a More perfect ex hibition of a sci-
entific game ba.tle-thior and shuttle cock was peter
witnessed. We may ;tow be allowed to ex•unine into
the pruprioy of Me insertption on this " IVontlerful
w inch, by int- bye, might acquire an
adJi:inusl tai.,: Is. the present prissessor. if, like its
ancient proems pr, it hail the twosver of ad,:ing 19 the
riches of its otracr. Bit to the inscription—we do tilt
objoct tit tie recording the rlitierent cit le and prrlia-
sorthaty whioti lhase been tottnuoltsly
siisidayed and we doubt not their chronological col.
r:ctlics!, as loo'va'ily the worthy A:detinan assisted
t!, Ciohatistee :to prevent coot: it is ote hitter part
we t it tells a falsehood ly Minh-
c..ition," tick: pi: !hoar concerned in the ticliiiiwitratinii
of titsir alLitt ntijust aspersions." Whet I was
Tlunii is Itg•! Men Loop/say aspersid? if so,
in • tot 11, s tr r i-t ce t, t illy:gentlemen uho have sub-
scribc.ll,r tit!" Candlestick" come forward
ni it in the situation fin which he has
been (wc dint!: most tbsmissed. .NVe heard Mr.
Pet teson, at she it liir London Tavern, declare
instinettuns re e, ritten down," and if the
DIN ss.te titHoy..rs, IIe" indeed llie
t, der CI:" is I; : rI to trace or ',Mitt out
the that prim'', • .:!s ~• •••ny Aldermen to per-
ire .•• if %se r. we believe, those rea-
sons J• .! WI 11 kltti,Sti lii ut), too s.'e never wiii knowing.l%
allow :I,s,reil, nor ,:‘4:11 in inlplicJ untruth to pa,s

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