The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-10 00:00:00

[PRIce 944.

opinions and rotnplamts, t feel no ditficulty is saying•,
that nothing ran be more obviously useless and mischiev-
ous than the assembling of immense multitudes, not in
their own communities or neighbourhoods, but moving
upon other thronged and agitated districts. Snell Meet.
'ings, however legal they may be, cannot but be dangerous
to the industrious poor, collected at a distance from tLc:r
own homes only to disturb the industry of others, aggra-
vating the sufferings of poverty by the interruption of
employment, by the hazsrd of fatal ace:lents, and the
prohable temptation to crimes.

"Nothing. but proceedings of this ill-t:v.ved doseription
can bring the immemorial an 1 insa!uable rights of t!te
People iuto question. They tender the calm nod dignified
cause of iteierm an object of terror to many, tv ho wt),1,1
otherwise support it, and tut nisi, its adversaries witli
plan-ible arguments agaiust popular exertions,
ever well intended they may be.

" The real interests cf the People ought not, however,
on any 'recount, to he compromised nor neglected. The
privations and distresses of thousands in every popnlacs
district are at this moment so grievous as to rinuand the
most indulgent consideration ; 11111 if, instead of ettintinz
tights to which the laws are strangers, they were advised
by those they trust in to aubmit the exp.dicory of All ex-
tended Representation to the wisdom and justice of
Par-
Hewn,, their infoence conld trot lint be powerful in the
opinions of all reasimable men.

" If indeed the visionary chins) of Universal Sitffeazo
'and Annual Pailianients, or extreme changes, were
entertained and acted upon by numbers of enlightened
man of any description, it ought then be thought liazar,l-
- (as has beet: often alleged) to withdraw the high &auc-
tion of antiquity from the present forms of election, lest
when a breath hat been made in theta by the Vd.itrality of
Parliaincht, the Radical Reformers might brzak in lake a
flood; hut such an apprehension is now surely at an end.
This claim of right has no supporters %tar can give it than.
grion•, or even plausible effect; awl every other theory
having hero happily swallowed up by it, Parliament it
thus left the undisturbed masters of the field.
" Let Parliament then avail itself of this crisis. I can-
not but think, that if the elective franchise wet coots, fairly
and julicionsly exteolieti, without altering the character
of the House of Commons, or violating any pi ineiple of
the ancirrit Onistilo!ino,tt 11111 l Its could not easily be raised:
the orators of sedition would be silent, alien their topic&
of invective weie destroyed.

" I consider the ntesent time also as a crisis in another
respect—Represenotive Governments, though ceriainly
neither ewitemrlated nor wished for by those who lir;t
interfered with the French Revolution, already begin to
be looked for throughout tirrope—Frarice, at oer very
doors, has obtained une, and England, by too sign' an
adherence to the forms of the feudal world, should not
remain au exception herself to the principles she has
taught the world.

"'When the circnrastances whirl' I have been ohlige4
to dwell upon are actively con■idesed, the duly of the:
Aristocracy .cems inestionable. Placed ■s they are
between the Crown and the People, they ought at this
moment to exert the inalietiCCS of rank and properly,
which, when wisely, honestly, and seasonably exerted,
are of incalculable value in every Slate.-1 took fr,.
therefore, with a strong interest to the re•nit of L rot
John Itessell's proposition on this mono molts subject in
the etistein4 Session of Parliamer.t Ha rank and e ha-
lacier ought to be accepted as •ecutihies !.y Government,
and the principles of his family are a sutii:l,l.l pie Ige to
the People.'

These truly constitutional sentiments, expressed
so worthily of thew noble promulgator, are so arias.
site to the present state of utfeirs, that we should
have accused ourselves of a dereliction of duty had
we not given theta it distinguished place in out
columns.

The letter of condolence written by his Nfajestv
the King of Pruhsikt to the Princess Biucher, of
‘Vithistadt, is as Inflows:—

" I received wi.h.turet •vorrow the news of the death of your
husband, Prince Blucher, of Wahl. tadt, I unwillingly renew
'Gault-M.1%17 the mentioa of the great lose which you hare sus-
tained but I am unable to supprces the exprersion of my most
cordial participation in it. The country mourns wi,ll U 4 over
the logs of its greatest Cumniande:. It will gratefully hold him
in eternal remembrance. To oiler you consolation, the want of
which I myself fill, I can only wish that time may alleviate your
anerOws and add the assurance of any unalterable regard.
(Signed) "FltP.l)LiiitA NVILLIAI!."
" 14, 1810.