The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

ON THE " LICENTIOUS PRE .SS."

The Country grows sick at heart—the Constitu.
tion totters—the House of Brunswick is in danger;
but where arc the authors of so much mischief?
Let us see.—The loyalists, as they term themselves
—too many of whom mean by loyally a saleable
commodity, to be disposed of for their own advan-
tage—these loyalists attribute the evils under which
the country labours to Me Press!—Not to the moon
or the magnet—not to solar influence: or mysterious
magic, but to the licentious Press! Did the licen-
tious Press increase taxation ? Does the licentious
Press overload the sinews of the firmer ? Does the
licentious Press support the Government by the
sword? Does the licentious Press grind down the
nerves of the mechanic and the labourer? Did the
licentious Press suggest the infamous Gagging Bills?
Did the licentious Press oppose the Holy Alliance
against mankind? Did the licentious Press pro-
duce the tyranny of Ferdinand, or the despotism of
Frederic? Did the licentious Press destroy Alex.
ander's just opinions, and till their• place with the
disgus sing notions lately instilled? Did the licen-
tious Press blow up the Spanish frigate in time of
peace—bombard Copenhagen to prove our friend-
ship to the Danes—pay the Neapolitans for fighting
Mr Murat, and the Sicilians ter fighting against
him? Did the licentious Press teach Louis that he
had been nineteen years King of France ? Did the
licentious Press generate the loathsome herd of con.
traetot s and sinecurists, which, like so many cancers,
devour the body politic? Did the licentious Press
draw from the suffixing nation its hard-earned
treasures, to subsidise the banditti of Russia, Austria
and Prussia? Did the licentious Press cut off the
springs of trade? Did the licentious Press produce
that host of political ills which make the people
miserable, hopeless, and discontented ? Or, in truth
and in fact, are not all these ills the fruits of the
errors or of the crimes of Ministers ? Are they not
the consequence of their tyrannical system—the re.
sults of their mad efiiirts and base designs? To see
the danger and conceal the incendiaries may be ley.
ally, but it is not justice. To witness the wrongs
and abuse the sufferers is cruelty: it is worse than
the ignorance of old, which heaped upon some poor,
but innocent woman, the curses of human brutes,
fits the murrain of their cattle or the blights of
their harvest; and just as wise and as rational as
the witch-pursuers of past ages, we the equally be-
nighted i racers of the causes of national calamity to
the use of the twenty-four letters! lf we examine
all the precious declarations which have been
hatched in bye places by the trumpeters of loyalty
to deedve their Royal Maser, they strike the same
string, and draw forth the same tone:—to the Li-
centiousness of the Press, and to Blasphemy, with
their hair en end and uplifted hands, the devoted
sons of cupidity and loyalty ascribe our danger.

A cousin of the assassin Louvel, who hears dirt
intionoto; name, and who belongs to a regiment of
dragoons at Tidonville, having made some horrible
propositions to a trumpeter of the regiment, which
the latter rejected with shuddering, Louvel stabbed
him dead. The murderer is in custody.

Lord and Lady Curzon have, with the kindest
regard for the comforts of the poor at this period of
the year, made a most accepLable present of blankets
and clothing, to the indigent families in the neigh.
bourhood.of Guinan.

FROM SATURDAY" NIGHT'S GAZETTP.
This Gazette notifies theappointnient of A. Hay, of Fording-
bridge, ilunts, and G. limper. of Whitehurch. Salop, Gents. to
be Masters Estruonlinary in the high Court of Chancery.