The National Register.
London, England, 1809-09-10 00:00:00

SEPT. 10.

It will tic tit vitin that Ministers will endeavour to defend
Lord CUATTLANCS conduct without sOhmitting it to the test
of a 'mist rigorous investigation. ,We do not mean such
a one as took place with respect to the Cintra Convention.
We mean a candid and fair enquiry into the causes of the
failure of the greatest armament that was ever scut urn'
the ocean from this country. It will be in vain for Ministers
to pretend that they consult the interests of the people in
opposing their wishes upon this subject, and by substituting
their own for the express and obvious opinion of the na-
tion at large. The clanger of such a step even to them-
selves can be equalled only by its folly and presumption
What Call be a greater mockery of common sense and
common propriety than to make the opinions of thousands
who arc douied the means of forming them accurately,
subservient to the oilinions of a few, who resist an
ecainination of that evidence _upon which their own is
made up. The more tenacious any administration. has
been of inaintaillin4 their own. rower by resisting the pro-
per claims of the public, the more it has lost of that power
which can exist with adyantage to the state, so long only
as it is supported by the confidence of the people. Indeed
an unreasonable opposition to their just and proper de-
mands, has frequently been attended with consequences
itnexpected to themselves. The people of this country
have sAlont failed of succeeding. ullienately, and gai:iing
their original object, when they have carried reason,
justice, and temperance along with then ; and it will not
he denied, at this period, that with prima facia evidence
of incapacity, mis;otidnet, and consequent calainities, the
people have an innionhted right to call for a most severe
and rigorous account of what has produced them.

Among the reports circulated on the Continent is one re-
I4ting to a difference which is said to exist between Buoy A•
PA run; and the Emperor A LEx.tNoca, resrcting Ga
and Turitey. It is said that the former nas demanded the
cessioa of a considerable part of the Pritssisn territories,
including Berlin, Seth), &c. and that Prussia was to be in-
demnified by the cession of Austrian Silesia. A more in-
timate connection is said to 5c forming between Ittnssia and
Prussia. That these two Potentates will quarrel at present
Nye do not believe. Russia has not vet learned from ex-
perience what is the Lion's share when the Royal Hunt is
ov:r. When we recollect the spirit that guided the politits
of the long reign of CATit.t aINC, When We recollect her
jonrhey to Cherson, (or rather to Taurica Cherscmesus)
to be there inaugurated by anticipation in the Creek, or
I:vteris Empire. When we recollect the ridiculous de-
cep? ions put upon her in that journey, the Greek names
given to her grand chit:ll%-n, whess we join to all these pre-
paratory circtunstancey, the Treaty of Tilsit, arid the
otherwise unaccountable subsequent policy of A LCXA
'.sit! cannot doubt of what will continue to be tin: tech;,er
and conduct of the Russian Court, and what her ohjccis
and must he with respect to the Tut 'tisk don-iittotts, anti
to -Asia generally.

Lord Cu kilt.% lc, tf.ter consumjg: almost a month ir. South
Fewlaud, teik us tinit his duty lea% 04 him no alirri.ative but

o abandon all the tilterior ohfretg f the :',%petlition. 1 hi,
is said with as mach swig
*fruit! n 4 it the \nhle Corammttler
in Chief had merely scut home.a-.1. thnt, he had
reii,eived the kit dispatches. from the cberittarF of siate ;
and think his Lordship would have bestowed inure eon-
, latiQraetion upon a kite( that aCkuowleOged the receipt of
1!11:11C. • . . • .
I's the Nohie .Coumnatior .S 1 little acquainted with the