The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-14 00:00:00

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and according to the general law established by
divine Providence, there is no way of aiding the
progress, or retarding the fall of nations, except by
a vigilant attention from all quarters (for men who
act and advise with authority are surely not to be
judge an jury to decide on their own actions), to
the sources of their prosperity, or the causes of their
decline. It is to Mr. Burke's doctrine of certain
classes of society, constituting society itself, and the
barbarous absurdity of that doctrine, that we al-
luded in the sketch given last week of sentiments
which ought to operate in addresses to the throne;
and we will fearlessly say, who have read and stu-
died Burke's writings more than many, that more
mad, or inhuman doctrines, more inflammatory non-
sen►e, more riotous imagination, was never displayed
in the works of any man endowed with such talents,
and possessed of such acquirements; nor is there
any author which men ought so carefully to suspect
and guard against, in reading, from being hooked
by a bait of showy trash, and gilt gingerbread. He
appears to have been a Whig from accident and
connection, a writer from spleen, a madman from
constitution, a Papist in principle and in secret, a
renegade from convenience, and from the passions
and slanders which he mixed up with what he calls
his defence of social order, to have been the greatest
enemy to the peace of society. He was like a man
who would run to put out a fire with a lighted torch
instead of a pail of water in his hand.
It is truly surprising, too, that men in general of
that delicate sensibility for religion, truth, and mo-
ral and social order, who are always quoting Burke
and such like authors, should seem to have lost all
their sensibility to crimes which affect the people.
Where, among all the satellites ofpower, do we hear
of one expression of anger at the conduct, for in-
t stance, of Edwards, a man who, it appears, was the
instrument by which the spirit of crime was drawn
forth from the lurking places of the late unhappy
men's bosoms, and shaped into form, and into sub-
stance embodied. Such characters as these men who
have suffered were certainly a misfortune to society,
and their hearts a storehouse of danger but any
magistrate might fill all the prisons in England if be
were to allow and encourage others to urge on bad
men to the commission of offences to which bad men
may be prone. Whether Edwards was employed,
and by whom, we cannot ray, but a strict and awful
inquiry ought to be made into the circumstances
respecting him, which have transpired to the public.
Either he war of his own bead the prime mover, or
he was set on by others for base purposes. These
two points ought to be cleared up-1. If Edwards,
without being the instrument of others for any pur-
poses unexplained, planned or urged his devilish
project, why should he not be a victim of justice?
and, 9dly, Whether Edwards became, as certain
allegations intimate, and how he became, out of a
previous state of poverty, so rich as to supply others,
now executed, with money, or arms ?
Every honest man ought to join in insisting upon
the elucidation of these points.

Rio JANEIRO, MARCH 6.—The news from Bu.
enos Ayres direct reaches up to the 2d of February.
The Montoneros have at length gained a triumph
over the Government of Buenos Ayres. The Di-
rector, Rondeau, returned to the capital with only
40 men. Pueyrredon saved himself in time, and
we have subsequently learnt, that on the 6th Feb.
he arrived at Montevideo. Secretary Tagle, Diaz
Veles, and others, fled and took refuge in the C,olo-
nia del Sacramento, in the hands of the Portuguese.
In Cie mean time the Alcalde, Don Pedro Aguirre,
has been named Director ad interim. For greater
security. General Sun Martin withdrew from Men-
doza to Chili, where something similar, if not worse,
may be expected, for the spirit of anarchy is spread-
ing among them, and Cochrane's defeat will tend
to increase it. Melancholy is the aspect of that
portion of South America above alluded to, the Go
vernments are literally falling to pieces of them.
selves. It is thought that La Serna, who has ($OO
men round Potosi, will now advance, as the boasted
Tucuman army has frittered away since the over.
throw of its General.

DEITCII AND IMAIDURGH AWLS.
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EIS/SAVER, Afa►6 29.
A very singular circumstance, which occasioned
for a time great alarm in this town, has lately oc.
curred. The mineral waters have been long amongst
the most celebrated in Germany, and the number of
visitors increasing every year, it was resolved to
erect a new building, of considerable extent, for
their accommodation. Some progress had been
made in digging the foundations, when the water
in the wells began to sink. The proprietors of
these springs were seized with consternation,
which soon spread through the whole ►own.—
M. Seis, the architect, and director of the work',
to whom the blame was attributed, and whe,
perhaps, proceeded with too much precipitation and
want of precaution, had died of terror and vexation.
The baths are not yet restored, but the water, how.
ever, begins to flow into them again.
The fortifications of Coblents and Ehrenbreilstein
are to be carried on with the greatest activity.
The Court of A ppeal at Frankfort has rejected
Dr. Boern's application for an indemnity for his
short arrest without legal grounds. The Doctor has
again appealed from this decision.

STNEDELBURG, APRIL 24.
Professor de Witte (the same who wrote the let-
ter to the mother of Sandt, which caused him to be
dismissed from his Professorship by the King of
Prussia), lately came here to visit his friends and
family, for his wife is a native of this city, and he
was Professor of Divinity here before he was ie-
vited to Berlin. He had scarcely arrived here when
he received orders to quit the city in twelve hours.

ST. APRIL 14.
Some alterations have been made in the new
tariff; they relate to some cotton manufactures and
foreign brandies, in favour of our national manu-
facturers.

YRO4II LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
C*IL.TOS Howie. Mai 10.
Dia Majesty was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood on
W. D. Evans. Esq. Recorder of Bombay.
_ R. Raker. Eq. Chief Magistrate at the Public Office, Don

Street.
J. Tobin. 1162.2 Maya of Liverpool.
T. Mantel!, . Mayor of Dover.
G. S. Gmith, Bath, M.D. F.R.S. Physician to her late
Majesty.
BANKRUPTS.
B. Coney, Strand, oilman. Solicitor, Mr. Norton, Ncw
Union Street. Maorikids.
W. Lipscomb., Exeter, grocer. SQL Mr. Brutton, Broad
Street.
G. Phillips. Manchesta. plumber. Sots. Messrs. Willis and
Co.. Warnford Court.
W. Green. Liverpool, money scrivener. Sob. Mesas.
Blackstock and Dunce, Temple.
W. Swahili. Stewkley. Bucks, butcher. Sol. Mr. Ashfield,
Staple Inn.
J. Carr. Leeds, and D. R. Tetley, Armley, York, merchants.
Sole. Messrs. Few, Ashmore, and Hamilton, Henrietta Street,
Covent Garden.
L. Searle, Weybridge, Surrey, baker. Sols. Mesas. Thom.
Boson and Co., Wuntord Court.
S. Cramp, Vine Street, Westminster, corn dealer. Sols.
Messrs. Sudlow and Co., Monument Yard.
J. Wilde, While. Derby, cotton spinner. Sole. Messrs.
Milne and Parry, Temple.
H. Jones, Holywell, Flint, draper. Sol. Mr. Chester, Staple
Inn.
C. Harris. Bradford, Wilts, tanner. Sols. Mears. Du. Son.
and Meredith, Guilford Street.
T. Parrish, Kingawinford, Stafford, glass cutter. Sol. Mr.
Williams, Swithin's Lane.
R. Kay. Bury, Lancashire. cotton spinner. Solt. MOWS.
Clarke. Richards. and Medcalf. Chancery Lane.
S. George. Narberth. Pembrokeshire. linen draper. Soh.
Messrs. Alexander and Moline. New Inn.
J. L. Sludd. Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, merchant. Sol.
Mr. Wilde, College Hill.
J. William Birmingham, japanner. Sols. Messrs. Long and
Austen. Holborn Court. Grays Inn.
C. and J. N. M 0.., Portsmouth, grocers. Soh. MOUS.
Alexander and Holme. New Inn.
T. Abell, Nottingham, lace manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Knowles.
New Inn.
J. Fitagerald, Narrow Wall, Lambeth. timber merchant.
SoL Mr. Shuter. Alillbank Street. Westminster.
J. Longliurst, Kghain Hythe. Surrey, carpenter. Sol. Mr.
Ronalds,Tokenhouse Yard.
T. Watkins, Ross, Hereford. grocer. Sol. Mr. Jana,
Boltlerdoury.
Newell. Horsham.
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S. Horsham. Surrey. baker. Solt. Messrs. Fisher
and Munday. Furnival's Inn.
DIVIDENDS.
June 10. T. Jones, Liverpool, ship owner-6, J. Harrison.
Sheffield, grocer-4, C. Mill, East Smithfield, provision dealer
—3, J. Knight, Coppice Row. Clerkenwell, iron founder—ln.
W. Founder, Basin coke, Hants, coach proprietor-3, W.
Jennings, Aldersgate Street, butcher-6. E. Davis and W. Phil-
lips, Lambeth. brewers-3, E. Cohen. Broad Street, merchant-
3, E. Parnell, Congleton, Cheshire, milliner-3. W. H. Cos,
Broad Street, warel,oureman-24, C. A. W heelwright, Cullum
Street, merchant-6, S. Grimwood. Bums, Suffolk, merchant—
', A. Aaron, Plymouth. silversmith-5, J. Moon, Manchester.
cotton merchants-3, J. Harris. Haselot, Warwick, dealer-3.5.
Hamblin, Woott n Underedge, Gloucester, innholder-3, W.
Fisher, Union Place, Lambeth, mariner.
CERTIFICATES to be granted J.me 3.
D. Gerrard, Old Cavendish Street, milliner—J. Wood, [King
Street, St. James's Square, breeches maker—R. Johnson.
Francis Street, Tottenham Court Road, watch maker—F. W.
Bowser, Bristol, sugar refiner—J. Sandbach. Liverpool. mer-
chant—R. Garnett. Nantwich, Chester, shoemaker—A. H.
Matthewson, Gateshead, Durham. grocer—G. Steedman, Vans •
hall, Birminggham, victualler—l. Hart. Southampton, grocer—
W. Briant, Bennington, wine merchant—A. and J. R. Frost.
Maetlestield„grueers—C. Poole, White Cross Street, . manufac-
turer—S. 811114 Darlaston, budford, dealer.

Jerome Buonaparte, the Princess, his consort, his
sister Elise, and Fouche, Duke of Otranto, are at
present settled at Trieste, with tie permission of the
Austrian Government.