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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

hat no I.usiness to taunt him with this: Cobbett had
not yet begot to rake into Hunt's past life and actions;
but he will sum: These gentlemen statesmen never
agree long.
We have no room for farther observations relative to
the Palace-vartl Meeting, which appears to have been
assembled for almost any other purpose than that of
congratulations to his Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent.
On the character of the Parliamentary proceedings
of the last week week we scarcely need dilute They
are of great importance, and we have given as ample
and correct a view of them as our limits would permit.
The noble sacrifice made by the Marquis of Camden,
stimulated thereunto, in addition to his own sponta-
neous ti!elings, by the example of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, and not, as has been invidiously assert-
ed, by the bullying threats of such men as Cobbett and
Hunt, has furnished a pleasing and grateful topic of
applause in both Houses, and, indeed throughout the
country. The equally generous and patriotic sacrifice
of Mr. Ponsonby's pension, whi.th was given to him as
a compensation for the loss which he sustained in giv-
ing up a lucrative profession when he accepted the
Chancellorship of Ireland, has also been hailed with
signal marks of approbation.
Other sacrifices.are whispered about ; and probably
in our next week's Register we shall have to record
fresh indications of sympathy for the public distresses
and embarrassments. These are the Reforms which are
mostly wanted ; would to God the suffrage-men may
not retard their pro;.,rre.ss by their threatning, taunting,
and bullying speeches! Men do not choose to be dra-
gooned into acts of generosity, no nor into those of justice
neither.

MR. HUNT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Sin—The following letters were picked up on Mon-
day evening last, near Hyae Park Corner, soon after
Mr. Hunt was seen to pass through the turnpike.
There can be little doubt of their having dropped from
his pocket. I am, Sir, your'F, &c. G. S.

TO P. HUNT, ESQ. THROGMORTON STREET.
Saturday, Feb. 8, 1817.

- - -
DEAR Sta—l shall use the privilege of a long and
intimate acquaintance, in happier times, to reason with
you a little on the conic you are pursuing, and to lay
before you, in plain language, the consequences which
must infidlibly result from it. You cannot be insensible
to the general ferment which your conduct has excited
amongst all ranks of people, in almost all parts of this
great metropolis.
You arc become the leader of the lower orders, and
must now be answerable for the impulse you commu-
nicate to them. Your real intentions can only be
known to yourself; but you certainly have been the
cause of unspeakable mischief. You have roused a
sleeping lion, and that lion has gone about seeking
whom it might devour. Without tracing the imme-
diate connexion between the first meeting in Spa-fields,
and the excesses afterwards committed on the same day,
there can be no doubt in any rational mind, that it' you
had not seduced from their useful and ordinary occupa-
tions that great mass of the people, who, from their
education and habits, are least fitted to discuss political
grievances, or to deliberate on any politic-al change,
those criminal acts would never have been committed, •
which disgraced the metropolis, which have administer-.
ed a deadly poison to the public mind, and have since
ramified into acts of the basest outrage and insult to
the Sovereign authority. The evils you have thus
engendered, me incalculable ; von have unhinged pub-
lic opinion, and set afloat visionary notions of altera-
tion and reform, which can never be realized. You
have stirred up and deceived the people, by infusing
the mad and senseless notions of Universal Suffrage,
and Annual Parliaments, schemes of change so fraught
with mischief, that the wisest and best of men shrink
with abhorrence from the contemplation of them,
knowing that they arc only other terms fin anarchy
and mis-rule.
Now, Sir, if von reflect at all, think on the awful
responsibility you arc incurring. You have adjourned
your next meeting to Monday, the 10th ; on that day
the population of London is again to be brought from
their useful and necessary occupations, that is to say,
the industry of the working part of the community is
to stand still a whole day, the people arc to listen to the
vapid orations of any political mountebank, they are to
inhale the poison of discontent, and to return to
their homes at night poorer in spirit and in purse ; or, in
another alternative, inflamed with liquor, and goaded
to desperation, they arc to resume the riotous enormities
n•lai"•h took place on the first day of the Spalields meeting.
Can the higher orders in the state s e these scenes
passing; without evincing a well grounded apprehen-
sion ? Can the Government of the country look on
with apathy, and not take nicasitn:s to pr2vent a second
edition of rapine and tumult ? and is it not their impe-
rative duty, by every prudent measure of preparation
and precaution, to guard against the recurrence of mis-
chief, naturally to be apprehendal from such associu-
tions ? How long then, Sir, is it your intention to
keep up this delirium of your owa creatiou ? how long

will you awaken the fears, disappoint the hopes, and
mislead the min& of the people? Let me conjure you
not to be so enamoured of a " little brief authority," as
to misuse it to the destruction of all social order, but,
to leave to the wisdom of the Legislature, those re-
forms which individual demegogues never can, and
never ought, to be able to carry by an appeal to the
blind passions of the multitude. You will derive more
satisfaction in your reflecting moments by so doing, and
by extinguishing the flame you have imprudently rais-
ed, than by fanning it till it breaks out at large, and
consumes in one indiscriminate- ruin, the sacred edifice.
of social order anti public happiness.
I am, Dear Sir,

Yours,
I &c.
JOHN MEANWELL.

DEAR SIR—I have given my undivided attention to
the lecture you hays been pleased to send me, and I ant
ready to admit there is some truth in the severe stric-
tures you make on my conduct. Perhaps if I was to
lay open my whole heart to you, I should confess that
I ant sorry I ever embarked in the cause in which I
am now engaged. I own I look forward with dismay
to its possible consequences ; but—
" I sm, in blood
" Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more,
0 Returning were as tedious as to go o'er."
In short, power is so sweet a possession, that I cannot
relinquish it. I govern the will and affections of more •
than a hundred thousand men :—this fills to the
lot of few individuals, however high in rank and sta-
tion. I cannot descend from this enviable pinnacle of
power, to return to rural amusements, and the tedium
of private life. I must therefore make common cause
with the people, and sink or swim as their interests
preponderate. This is a confession I would make to
few ; but, in so doing, I unburthen myself of a weight
which heavily oppresses me: I have faint hopes of
ultimate success, for I perceive how difficult it is to
guide the many headed monster.
I am, my old friend,
Your's truly,
P. HUNT.

What can be !aid after this to Mr. Orator Hunt ?
He sins doubly, for he sins against conviction and his
better judgment. May his offences be visited solely on
his own head, and not on that of a misguided, ignorant,
and deluded people !

THE DRAMA.
DRURIAANE.

After the Tragedy of Oroonoko, which was received
on Wednesday night, by a crowded house, with increased
applause, the Comic-Opera of The Follies of a Day was
performed thr the first time at this Theatre, the part of
Susan, by Mrs. Alsop. We have given to this Lady, in
the characters of Lady Bell and l'iolante, the praise we
t hough ther so highly deserving of; but her perfi win ance on
Wednesday proved that her Arte andgreatest excellence
would be found in her enactment of another line of
characters. Her performance of Susan exhibited talents
of a very superior order, and peculiarly fitted to the
personification of the pert intriguing chamber-maid.—
She was greeted throughout the piece with the loudest
approbation. Mr. Rae's Count Almaviva was excellent.
Harley showed himseif quite at home in Figaro ; and
Miss Kelly supported the character of the Page with
ber usual talent. The piece teas extremely well received,
and so strongly cast, will, we doubt not, prove an at-
tractive favourite with the public.

COVENT G %RIDES.
The play of Rlthard the Third was got up rir the
sake of introducing a Mr. Booth to the audience, a
gentleman who, as we are informed, has performed on
the Brighton and Worthing stage, and has never hitherto
appeared in the metropolis. Mr. Booth is a vigourous
and spirited actor ; and, viewed through the inevitaVe
gloom Of a first appearance, may be pronounced an ac-
quisition to the theatre of very considerable promise.—
His figure is more diminutive than that of Mr. Kean ;
his voice, in some of its more moderate tones, sweet and
touching ; yet, with thew qualities, reminding us very
frequently of the tragedian of Drury-lane. When
strained beyond a certain pitch, his voice seems to be
afflicted with the singular disease of falling into a deeper
bass, instead of rising like that of other speakers, until
it brakes into a hoarse and scarcely audible .murmur.
His countenance is nauily and expressive. His action
is often natural and pwerful, and ivould be more so
if it were more teineprate; He stamps too frequently,
a fault which he will learn to subdue by practice : he
fights in a very bad taste : he also fiegets, on snraa
occasions, that, although d is a fierce alai sinewy
ruffian, he is a prince in what relates to warners, and
thereihre, that the same swaggering vulgarity by which
a low-lived villain might accompany his threats, or
announce the execution of them, would not become a
person of the highest rank, and certainly, as the great
dramatist his painted him, a man by no means void o'
dignity in his general de:nem-lour. Mr. Booth Was
very unhandsomely treated by a few hulividuals in did' r-
ent parts of'his perfiamance ; but the public did him ;us-
tice, by the cordiality of their appluoses ; and when the
curtain fill, and Mr. Abbott had announced an tie::
pl.•ay ii r 'Ch-. rsday evening, the pit almost unanim
cried tat fn a repetition of King Richard.

Li 2 ',ULM Y A .ScS'CltaVillFlG LVE0131.1710.V .

PAMPHLET FEU. No. XVII.

WE beg leave to direct the attention of our reatlers
to the 17th No. of the Pmseitbs:Trrn, of the contents
of which, as they are pauliarly interesting at the pre-
sent crisis, we submit to them the following Analysis.
For the first article in the work, we are indebted to
the pen cf JEREMY BLNTHAM, Esq. a writer well
Mr his Jule d-fenee of Ust•ni,, wtitela contains mooli
ingenuity and solidity of arzumont. The present treatise
was ori.tioully written in under the title of [Weave if
Etonotry against Mr Bight Han. Edmund Burke, together
with anotht r, containing a Du; at: of the same more useful
than tsvlcome virtue against the Hon. Gtorg.: Rusr.The
florid ebillisence of !qr. Itorke, in what may be termed his
tit fim-e Prodation, is %%.'ll e•posed ani ably refuted by
Mr. Dentinal. au I the damterons tendency of his principles
disrobed of their flowery mid seducing exturior, in the course
of 'a cool and deliberate incestigatioo, towards the illeCe,S
fill close of which, the author makes the following apolecy
for the severity of his remarks, and to the justice of et hiCil
Are fully subscribe. " lu exhibiting the orator iu one of
those fits of extravagance to which he was but two subject,
in exhibiting the orator's own figure. ace:ailing to the mon-
strous caricature we have seen hint Mar. irg of himself;
that of a man, in whose inestimation nothim: but mont•v
any value—a man by whom all breasts that have any thing in
them that is not sordid, are to be marked oat as fit objects
of abhorrence, let me not be accused of wasting time and
paper."
Wear encxt presented. with a" Treat;seon Grt:qhounds,
with observations on thetreatment and disorders of them,
by Sir Richai d vi bust, 'Phis is a writ written per•
tormance. Nee tP:i care ,'teener, i. tilt` motto alto•ea
by the author, and he 118.4 well tonivinced us of the troth of
it, as far as it applies to Mtn, at the same time the
.juirlieions
-add elegant references and quotations with whit It tikes little
article itOounds, ketve to conduce the reader, that his
time must, at least, have been as much devoted to the study,
.as to he field.
To this succeeds an essay on the Cultivation of the
Peat Bogs in Ireland, in which the projector promises
to the century an increase of popolutian, security and 'mink
happiness. A plug which has such impel-tout objects in view
tonsi b" well worthy of consideration. The means of iteColll-
- the scheme are Inn; detaikil by this ingenious
write., and it appears timm his statement, that they are ea•ily
to be pot i pract;ee, and that the land so reclaimed would
be likely to be permanently productive. The benefit of the
enclosure of so large a portim. of waste, 1,500,003 acres, in
.a country like Ir4ind is 'no obvious to aced a eu nment.

T,:irorivEs is the title assumed :or the next produc-
tion in the work before us, anti professes to be a brief
outline of the Uo!verso% System. M. FIEI.II, the itettil.wr
it, profi.sses " to investiguie tin• root and gra.nsed of /Ph dasuidsy,
iu quest of Mr principles, rclatiods, gad purlieus mutate, tut
and scirucc."

We have next a pamphlet from the able pea of Mr.
PnEsToN, entitled " Further Observations on the
Stale f i r Nutran—the I.:11!):41 mein, of Labor, the
'Sinking-I'unit and its appie•atem—Pauperisin—Protection
-requisite to the Lauded and .t.rimildiral Interests." Mr.
Presto's sappases the dittietilties tinder which the country at
present labm:rs, to arise front the foi eo iag cunses--•' Ist, The
Inability to net. Taxation to tlw nount r..ynired by Govern
ment.-2d, 'rite 'treasure of the iti,es, and the increase
of Pauperism, without adding the T)thes, sinea they are
more immediately tinder parliamentary coat izatwe.-I,l,'llie
want of work by those who are able to labour, alai who are
nosy without employment, and for hose whit, as the winter
advances, still he disehargel from their resent '
means, without any prosprets of new eugagenicnts:" To re-
medy these alarming and growiug evils, Iklr. Preston pro-
poses, that, there shall be adopted oil the part of government
a system of retrenchment, eatending to the reduction of all
titorntoN4 -alaric- to those who perform the necessary
of the state, and to the aeolition of all sineenres ; at the
same time an equal taxation on property, and even income is
strongly recommended.
To this article follows an able Treatise on the Game

LaWS, by Mr. CHITTY, comprehending an histor.-cal,
and aIL :;.11 1 icw et the .object, %%lit feud witch Curion and int•
portant investigation takes place. The alterations which
Are here submitted for the iniprovetnentof thc..e laws, are
highly joiliciuns, and wonlil tend to protect the owner Of the
Land, ns /veil es to eacresse tho qua:ally of came_

The seventh pamphlet is a letter on the prescn! Si-
Mallon of hie Counity, by A. H. lioLostionni, Esq.

aid is the produrtion of an iiitelltgeot obsertine mind
A plan is next suggested for mature considefutiou fur
superseding the Necessity of the Poor Rates, by means of
cm ta am es and farms, tet toed lea% en ferins,froni •ht :Intel tied
benefits likely to result from its pervading the whole mfrs,
This propose' is as st orthy the atten'ion or the benes..lent
front the comforts which it would pradttee to the poor wli
are its iintartliate object, as to the financial speculator
the relief which it would atiord to :le public in the tlimitintitta,
if not in the total reduction of the par:sh rates in those plitt,,
where at present they press the most kelt: ily.
To this succeeds a spirited pamphlet, by Dr. PELLET,

entitled " Conatitulitn;al Air 6," turns prin-
cipally upon the pi ogress or t.exatien, with ;I 'kw 0" of
iiettee. The elector distimplishen netweeit red end iineette.
nary wedth, and boldly enquirer; into the value et vi;
as compared nitit the expense: I keepitiT thrli r.p, the lestia,
of thar astrietti!nr.ll pi overity ‘iltielt, atter claiiidt tit, minify
with an idea of its inexhaustible. resources, slttiiiculy declined

to the pr.'s, tit alarming state M. civpression, and the (iv gin at
our present tlistreAses. Thee subjects leatl him to the pro-
ignition a a variety of e,:e, rotia measures adapted to their
relief, which arc well worthy the attention of the realer. •
The last article we have to notice, is an " Erquiry
into the Causes and Remetlies of the late and present
Search y and high Price of Provisimm,lll4l,4:ll..l'l..lli.• alt he

lion. 1..4 perier," by Sir GILUKRT iILANI2, F. R. S. lios
was origiba:ly written in 800, and is now, with consider-
able alterations and additions, printed exclusively in the
Pampleteer. We should rev:red that the limits ofnur Adilysis
.preelnde oer entei ing thlly two the melts of liii4 pamphlet ;
but as its merits have aireatly been acknowleilged by the
public on its first appearance, we need only add, that it w,ll
be found still more interesting in its present shape, from the
.notes and remarks %chick are now added, it bearing .i parti•
roar reference to the events %%Lich have occurred dr.t neg thu
.att thice3-cals.