The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-27 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

March 18, E. Saeage, Cpper Xorth Piace, Gray's Inn Lane,
Btoter—ls, 'l'. W. Baseley and W. Stapleton, Newport
ucks, brewers-21, J. and R. Potts and 11. Cooke, Loninan
Street, merchants-11, S. Nclorme, liislimi,gate St act, merchant
—2O, %V. Dickinson, Sc.aby, Yorkstiir.:, coal inere!..tt,t—s:l, R.
ice, Great Winche,ter Street, underwriter—Vs, T. Cl:iiptia.•l,
iittlebury Mills, E,sex, meillina.l-14, %V. Eminott, Lawrence
Pountiley Lane, oil merchant-25, .1. Oulet, Charlotte Street.
Fumy Squ:ire, jeweller—is, W. %V 0u,1,, Crawford Street,
Maryielone, liner, draper-18, J. Jackson, Duke Street, Man-
chester Square, lialrerdustier—e3, .1, Newell, Redbridge. Sotott:-
anipton, timber merchant-28, W. Simkins, Southampton.
waiehmakei —2l, T. Cooke aa.d M. F. Brennan, Strand, &tilers
in music—lS, It. Strachan and T. Stubbs, Cite:fside, ware-
housemen—Apia 6,C.1: hating. Bristol, pfumb,r—s, A. Philliks
and 11. Loser, Salters' Rail Court, merchants-14, A.Walter and
J. Stokes, llishopswood and I.ydbrool: Works, Gloucestershire.
iron masters._ _ .

CERTIFicAT ES to be granted March Itt.
C. Mackenzie, Caroline Street, Bedford !squaw. merchant.—
E. Maddock, it. Quinn, and J. CMarkv. I.n crpool, membunts.
—B. Gash, Bridge Howl, Lambeth. coach 1. aker.-11. Juba.
son, Waldron, sussex. tanmr.—C. Reid, Plymouth, mer-
ehunt.—W. Garner, l'oultomzuit -Seacotrot, Chester, Mailer in
Crome. victua:kr.—M. Taylor. Long
Laic, cotton dealer.—W. Ilcvcy, litaand Street. Christ-
church, and J. Levey, Coal Exchange, coal and ship 011.11crS.
W. I I Caltil, Lower Street, Farmer. Ashburn',
Derby, grocer.—C. Bee ley. Manchester.—J. Fuller, llilierrcay,
Essex, horse dealer.

The following is a etpy of the answer returned
by the Duchess of Kent to the Address of Condc.
lence, which was pa clieoted to her trout the House
of Commons by Lord Morpeth :
.‘ I am va of the lettings which ilidtlf. d
Ihr Iliunse ul Cuitain.n. lu condole with me on Vie calantt-
lams anal untiinel) death ut. Ws late 1t..)al Highness tale
11)Llse (.1. Krill; Asti I request that tiny will accept my
gra,a I'o acknowiedgenictils for llacji Niva,ate, as if billows
use !kilt lily hrluse•.l Inishand's no awry will I.? preserved
isa this 1 wintry, new, I am pt.ros3 iv say, neetasie mine
lay aatiee:t.. ine'inataute, as w a II as trona any •soon
will' it la neap eagt to a mast 411114U1e and exevllcut Palm u
0d,(14., lu..i. to limeitrep4satile:"

The Duchess held. the little fatherless Princess
Alexundrina in her arms while the Address wos
read to her, and received the Deputation, Lolls
Morpeth and Clive, with evident feelings of grate.
ful Sa:6filCtiOn)

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Bank Stock
3 I.er Cent. Red. 38}
3 per Cent. Lou.. 6SI
31 per Cent.
4 per Colt. 871
S per Cent. Nay) 1031
Long Anu.

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27.
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Jx the midst of so much official and ceremonious
mourning fur the death of our late Sovereign, we
cannot help feeling real affliction, when we contem-
plate the rapid decline of freedom in this country
The removal of our late Sovereign from this sublu-
nary scene, we consider as a gracious dispensation
of Providence, us he had long outlived all hope of
recovery from a state of mental darkness: his pri-
vate virtues were many, Lut, to the false policy
pursued during his reign, we have to truce the
principal calamities of this country. Witness the
loss of America, the Rebellion in Ireland, the fruit
of disappointed hopes, and of just claims denied.
IVitness, above all, the war with France ; so unjust
in its origin, so glorious and expensive in its career,
and so ruinous in its termination and consequences
to the finances of the Empire.—During the con-
test our sailors and soldiers atchieved unparalleled
deeds of heroism and of conquest, and furnished
matter for a splendid record of valour in the annals
of history. In the outset Burke displayed almost
super-human eloquence, as the advocate of an un-
hallowed warfare ; and Pitt, backed by over-
whelming majorities, got money without stint fr,m
those venal Parliaments, whose wisdom he panegy-
rized as little short of omniscience itself. We,
however, who have lived throughout the piece, who
have witnessed its Origin, progress, and terming.
tion, may be allowed to pronounce the late war us
partaking of the must pernicious character. What
Solon said to Crcesus, that he whom heaven blesses
with success to the last, is in our estimation the
happy man,

dicique bealux,
Ante obilum now, supreme:re fitneral debel,

may with justice be applicil,as to the sentence of hap-
piness or of misery which we must pronounce, from
a survey of the situation in which the termination
of the lute contest has left us—
" The wine of life is drawn,
And nought is left the vault
But lees and dregs to brag of."

The n..tional debt is intolerable, the tax ;s are
intolerable, commerce stagnates, agriculture lan-
guishes.—Trade is nearly paralized ; and, above all,
such breaches have been male in the freedom of
the country, that to some men constitutional resis-
tance appears us inefficacious, as to roll up hill the
stone of Sisyphus; and they are content to sit down
in tame acquiescence, and exercise rather the
patience of philosophy, than the zeal of patriotism.
To us, however, vigilance and alacrity, indispen-
sable at all times, appear particularly requisite at
the present moment ; and however mutilated the
fair Corm of freedom has been by the barbarous
Lands of our Goths and Vandals, we will still
cling with affection to the defaced fragments of so
much excellence; and, as the statuary gazes with
enthusiastic, but imitative admiration on the Torso,
we never cease to attempt the restoration of
the original form, from the emulation kindled in
us by a view of the disfigured relies.
The approaching dissolution of Parliament invites
the country at large to make a great stand agaiast
corruption and despotism•--It culls upon every
fireman of the empire to weigh accurately, and
scrutinize strictly the political conduct of their
representatives, and to make it the criterion of
senatorial integrity in every man, to ascertain
whether the trust reposed in him has been exercised
to improve and protect, or to diminish and degrade
the liberties of the people. This simple test, it
applied at the present moment, will be of essential
service in regulating the choice of the Freeholders
of this country at the next electicn, and will