The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

15. To prohibit the anderletting of land fur agricultural
pnrposeu and permit no proprietor to let excepro oc-
etipier, nor occupier to pay real, except to bona fide pru-
prietor. • -
lb. To limit parochial relief of the poor to childhood,
old age, infirmity and sickness; and to cause the appoint.
meat in every aft tish of an agent to support the just claims
of poverty, while the overseers continue to act for the
interests of the parish.
17. To cause disputes between masters and journeymen
to be referred to arbitrators named by each, and to pro-
secute associations of masters, as rigorously as conspira-
cies of journeymen.
Id. Tu limit enlistmeats and re-enlistments in the naval
and military service to periods of seven years.
19. To limit prosecutions by hitormations cs eijicio to
public crimes of magistrates and peers.
20. To repeal the corporation and test acts, and allow
no civil disqualifications to be consequent on variety of
religious opinions or practice.
21. To establish a general law for the equitable commu-
tation of tythes.
22. To enact a general enclosure bill, with due respect
to the rights and interests of the pour.
23. To liberate all crown debtors, and place them iu
future, on the legal footing of private debtor*.
21. To enable all insolvent or embarrassed debtors to
arrange their affairs, v.vith the consent and participation
of two-thirds or three-fourths of their creditors.
25. To defend every point of the empire by local mi-
litia, officeted by educated military; to send no British
regiments on West India or other foreign service • and to
pay all men employed by government as well, at least, as
they would be paid in private employments.
26. To cause cottages tOr road labourers, with one or
two roods of attached land, to be built on or near the
site of every mile stone on all turnpike roads.
27. To refer all claims ou government to the arbitration
of respectable and independent persons, nominated by
the opposed interests.
28. 'Co require the receivers of dividends from the funds
to pay a proportion of the taxes equal to what is paid by
incomes derived from other properly.
29. To diminish the national debt, by assessing all
rentals and dividends three shillings in the pound, re-
deemable in stock at the average price of the last six
months ; and after seven years to repeat the operation its
such rate as may then be necessary to extinguish the
whole debt.
30. To transfer all taxes which interfere with indivi-
dual liberty, commercial enterprile, and domestic inde-
pendence to assessnmatts on real property and stock divi-
dends.
31. To adopt effectual measures for putting an end
to the trausport of slaves from Africa to the American
colonies.
32. To ameliorate the criminal laws, and proportion
punishuieuts to the aggravated character and repetition
of offences.
The adoption of which measures, or of the greater part
of them, would not only remove most of the causes of
discontent, and be the means of substituting happiness
and comfort in place of misery and distress, but would
raise the sovereigu to a pitch of popularity and pinnacle
of true glory, without parallel , while they would violate
no principle of the constitution, and affect no privileges,
rights of property, or assumptions of authority worthy of
respect.

A rrALr BY THE SEA SIDE.
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[From " Me Dijeuni.)

Ocean! flove to view thy dark blue face,
To hear thee ripliog on the shelvy shore.
To me, thy form has greatness, grandeur, grace s
To use, there's more than music in thy roar.—Arrort.
Though inland landscapes are not without their
attractions, vet they sink into insignificance, when com-
pared with the everlasting ocean, as viewed from its
shores. The apparent absence of all boundary, the deep
blue sky, which in the dimly defined distance seems
bending in reverence to the wave, strike on the mind
with a sentiment of eternity, an expression of holy
grandeur, deep, wild, and unearthly. Though the
Creator has on all things stamped the plastic hand of his
divinity, though by the dark forests, the mountain
glens, the roaring cataracts, he is seen, as if he wes
bodily present, yet it is over the boundless expanse of
ocean that he delights to throw the expression of his
mightiness, the proofs at once of his benevolence and
his vengeance. When in the creeping tranquillity of
twilight, we wander along the shores, and see at a dis-
tance the sun eneanopied in his pavilion of clouds,
throwing the hues of glory over every object that he tints.
when we see the waves reflecting back his last lingering
looks of softness, and then murmuring calmly to the
coast, as if afraid to break the stillness that reigns around
we are hushed in the repose of gentleness. and partakii.
in our thoughts of the silence we adore in nature, thin
of the Deity only as the emblem of meekness and bene-
volence. But, when the winds are high, and the storm
howls across the ocean—when blasts that " will be
raging at all hours," lash the sea into a white mass of
0:111I, and hurl it with violence to the skies, it is then
that we feel in unison with the restless spirit of the hour,
and taking our tone of action from the horror we behold,
bend with mute reverence before the footstool of an
avenging Deity.
Perhaps in the whole range of external nature, there
is no scene that so wholly absorbs 'he soul as a walk by
the sea shore. The boundless magnificence of the land-
scape, the wonderful extent of sight, the receding or ap-
proaching tides, look us. as It were, in the face, and au-
dibly pronounce that they are glorious scntillations of a
light that burns from above. every faculty of the soul
may here find the moat exquisite gratification. The
lover of the wild and the sublime, while he roims along
the sea coast, when nature, like a bashful beauty,
clothes herself in the veil of twilight, and hears the hol-
low, sounding waters welcoming the approach of evening,
and the wild Jowl screening around the star-beaten
crags, may be filled with transport even to satiety. '['he
admirer of the picturesque and beautiful, may find oh-
jects of adoration in every step that he advances.—Ht
mtay•see the upraising sun-beam stealing from the em-
brace of Thetis, and then mouming his chariot of the
sky, the deep blue ocean whispering as it were the tale of

lover's bliss; The clear cloudless firmament, pure as the
earliest smile of infant innocence, feeding the beauty of
the I. smell its sunshine: the white-sails of the
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'easels maim kirily onward :—the
richly It ted shells glistening upon the sands, and a
thousand other objects of infinite grace, that may ex-
haust even the language of adoration and of reverence.
This subject is sugtresttal by the ramble that we have.
at present cnosen. Far removed front every haunt of
man, on the desolate shores of ocean, which is now
gaining imperceptibly on our home-returning steps.
makes us feel, deeply feel, the silent awe of the moment.
We are here alone, with nothing to interrupt the medi.
tations of the hour, or break the tranquillity of the pros-
pect, but the sullen scream of the cormorant, as he
wheels his tight among the beetling crags that tower to
an awful distance above us. But hark ! a sound comes
pealing on our ear, it is the voice of the evening breeze,.
as it wakes the shimberin?, music of the tides, and
rouses the full chorus of celestial harmony. From the
darkened hills of the West the sea-log is raising in his
in,tiesty, and hastens to spread the dull path of death
over the living linaments of nature. At distance, on
the very verge of the horizon, where heaven embraces.
earth, anti mingles with it the sweet .influencings
of his spirit, the Needle rocks are discovered :
and when the fog accumulates on his sterile sides, and
conceals them from the view, woe to the adventurous
mariner who approaches them with his little barque.—
But while thus enrapt in contemplation, the increasing
shades of twilight remind us that we are yet far from
home; the last footsteps of departing day are now
hovering on the dark abyss of night—a moment longer,
and they will be no more seem, they will be num-
bered with the things that once were, and when the
imagination is awake, you shall hear the dying voice of
the day. that has just gone,by, and see its visionary
form as it shivers like a night-ghost on the dim shores of
eternity.