The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-14 00:00:00

Tun NATIONAL REGISTER.

lucasur .s are honestly conceived and fairly meant, they need
not li.p* )inler the slightest appretP. sions for the result : but
;-a and indeed know, that Louis tilt. 18th only wants an
OCCIV•1011 to abandon ev..ry previous pledge he made the de-

luded country, and to re-establish the form of GoVernment
s" congenial to hi:; education and to the habitual policy of
MI; house. But the time is gone by when mankind shall
be swistied with name,.,, and when the charm of repeated
promises shall qualify the renewal of hopes never to be
realized, and the good never to be obtained. Those who
imagine otherwise are deceivAl, for the pericd has net
gone by withont enlightening thy' rights and enforcing the
power which P`MalllS alone with the people.
It is on this account we deprecate the fulsome eulogiam
which some of our pr'nts are hi the habit of lre; ow ng on
the character of the French King. They are as vautless
to us as the Carmen Britunieum of Lord Thur-ow, who
generates a poem in a kw hours in honour of the Prince,
because he ha's had the felicity to be introduced by his
Jester. But what we ask for and have a right to expect,
is the deve!opement of some of those principles in prac-
tice, which are so reaklily'subscribed on paper, and which
ought to b. come the corner-stone of that regenerating
principle that has brought hack the Bourbons to the
Throne of their ancestors, and which it Is still hoped
may ameliorate the condition of the European (:overn-
mbnts; *We ourselves have no Objection to an universal
monarchy, founded on the equal communication of popular
right-, mend whose uniformity of laws would the more
readi!y approximate the improvements of which mankind
ar, susceptible, to lb!. moral happiness of the individual
and the progv.ss of scieiice and philosophy: But there
must be sometking.decisive in the character of a Govern-
meut before it tali hope to obtain the affections of the
people : and we defy even the eloquent Monsieur D'Am-
bray, whoie character, as a passive intriguer, somewhat
assimilates with the Chancellors of other countries, to
carry his. ciident!), sinister design, by what is elegant!)
called in this country 'mincing the matter, without danger
to the security and popularity of his Master. France, as
we have said before, to be truly great must be free, and
Louis the 18th to be truly safe must adhere without re-
servation to the conditions of St. Ouen.

'The Dobat..s of the House of French Deputies have,
since our last publication, assumed an inferest, that has
even communicate d itself to this country, notwithstanding
the dissipatioi; of the public mind.
Those who" look forward to improvements as the na-
tural consequences of the moral convulsion w Web the pre-
jndices and habits of mankind have undergone, will be
pleased to see that the' recent despotisni eiercised in
France has not been able to subdue or extirpate the ra-
tional principles of the true friends of liberty ; and it
is highly honourable to find those men, who have chiefly
suffered by the prevalence of arbitrary prineiples, still
combating for that enlightened 'policy; which .Bien 'alone
contribute to the happiness and gory of France : and; on
the contrary, to observe those men most connected with
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the late tyranny still ranged on the side of those cloctlicws
that brought that unhappy country to ruin.
There is such an evident want of wisdom, such a do-
parture from the most solemn engagements, in the line of
conduct pursued by the returned Prince, that it is impos-
sible to reconcile it to any pule known acknowledged prin-
ciple of political security. The vices and crimes of France
have betty rather owing to the want of the Liberty of tho
Press, than to its licentiousness ; and, it is more thnn
probable that its liberation and freedom would correct
the abuses that have sprung up rather than contribute to
their extension. If, indeed, there be any spring in tho
public mind, all efforts to suppress it would be most
fatal to the durability of the present Government ; rnet,
on the reverse, temperate indulgence will but invigorafil
and fructify the bounteous donation of a wise Providence,
that always intended to adorn any support the social com-
pact, by the tree auel indelmndi!llt istrihotion of tho e
rights, which ennoble and sustain the; labours of our fel-
low cre'ature's.

It appears to us that Irance fluctuates between its ex.
perience and prejudices, and, like the dog in the fable, en-
deavouring. to ,ecury too much, quits the sOlstance for the
shadow, and would rather be oalled powerful than great
and splendid than happy.

We were the Gist to speak of the insane project that had
hcen conceived in this country of adding Atoerica once mole
to the crown of Great Britain; and the importance our
information may he judged by the feelings that ap-
prehensions have excited throughout America. It can be
no diflit.al,y to spec bate on a result that most n tot ev unite
all classes of people. to the defence of their indepeotlence.
In the mean time our Expedition is constrto ting upon a larger
scale. tit w expences ate incurred, and it seems as we cue
determined upon a new War, toe e!y to meet a Wa Esti-
mate.--A little patience, perhaps, woulal have euali;ed our
Ministers to figure neater home in all the military paraplier.!
oaha furnished to decorate the Imp& of Cuncard.
Monday, we received Ames lean papers aed letters from
Halifax, of a late date. The intelligence is of a mixed na-
tore. The hostile operations on the mat ititne frontier of tbe
United States have been prosecuted with a vigour aid activity
calculated to impress the enemy with a just idea of lit itisis
power. Our naval forces ascend the rivers, and land hoops.
who attack the principal towns, and spread alas m in e% y
direction. A detachment which di.embar keel in the
bow hood of Halo:mire appears to have done considerable
damage to the enemy. A number of was ehotts..ti, cotrain-
ing a valuable stock of tolacco, were de:so-cm' d The ac-
counts from Canada are not so satisfiietorv. ()n the r,d of
July, the Americans slanded a considerable force on the
Niagara frontier, and on-the ~th had au engagement with a
small lifiti‘h force, which, after biavelv sustaining tie ho-
nour of the WHO) flag, was compelled to with awwi
loss. A number of officers, among whom are the Ma. quis
of Tweeddale, and Licuienant-Colotiel Cot don, have been
woonded. The particolars of this reverse ate given in dis-
patChes from Sir G. Prevoit, imerted in Tuesday's Gazele.
The President of the United States considers the order for
the Amei lean coast, a line of 2000 miles, a mete paper
bloc!:ade, O.tur naval means not` being corm etent to .st ict.ly
enforce it and thetotore.has issued a Proclaftia?ton,
all friendly ard tieutral pi,s•els to enter the harbour. of Wit
United State's, without fear of interruptiou.