The National Register.
London, England, 1808-04-18 00:00:00

APRIL Is.

of the corrupt cault4.tbal agitate out miiitar/ state, and
an introduction of iuch a plan as by consulting at once the
ease, the liberty, the safety, and the morality of the peo-
ple, may supercede both the necessity and the desire of
any further alteration.

REVIEW OF POLITICAL DECLAIMERS.

Nu. XVI.

THE INDEPENDENT WHIG.

In the last Number of The Nutiunhl Register we warned our
honest and uususpecting countrymen rtgainq a belief of the poi-
sonous flatteries with which of late they have been so assiduously
plied. An opinion has gone abroad, and deserves to'be repro-
bated, that no mail concerned ita the Government of the enantry
tan be honest : this opinion tends to the or ell Lwow of all order
and of all society : and therefore against this opinion we are
determired most strenuously to combat. Dramatists and Poets
have (diva said these things; and ss lien they are said only by
Dramatists and Poets, they are attended with very little danger
to the country, because they are evidently said to di-pl:►y the
ss it rather than the opinion of the writers, and being circulated
only among the higher classes of society who think ti►r them-
selves, do not •tend to weaken principles. ll►tt now a notion of
this kind h..s become most truly formidable, because it 13 nu
longer the sportive effusion of the Satirical Epicurean, but the
determined via! iple of the mischievous republicanist. It is
propagated in debating societies, ;old published in Newspapers!
the people are r:msed by imaginary injuries, and become the
dupes of enthusia,ists or hypocrite: coarse►►ess and foil r are now
the paths to profit, aid the Editors of the Newspapers, having
poisoned the mind) of the mob, continue to accumulate wealth
by fomenting and iatlaming the unnatural heats (key have
created.

We tire sorry to rake in the dirt for an instance : but amid
tilth of ignorance, and the lowest sediment of vulgarity, lies
the example that we wish to present to the indiguatinn of the
public. That example is the production called i"se' //Wept's/-
dr/a IVhig It has nothin w hich can tntitle it esen to out
notice, except it; circulation. But when we find that such
thing has been imposed upon well-meaning, though inis-infoimed
reruns, as a fair statement of the grievances under which flu
people are labouring : w hen we understand that its sale
the lower classes of societN, like that of obscene pi rots in les:
humble, circles, is gaining ground in proportion to the mischiev-
ous tendency of the production itself: and when we reflect that
the persons n tio take in this lndependtat Whig are most
them people whom education has not quwilied to detect all the
absur,lit, inaccuracy, and vulgarits, N hich swarm along its
columns; we cannot help feeling, it incumbent on ourselves to.
ittplain to them the nature of the publication which they trust.
;nod to %tarn them against a guide, who, like' the celebrate,:
ct iminal, present, a nosegay to the passenger, w ith a lancet con-
cedled its flowers.

Let us observe the unreasonable style in which The ladepey.
drat W :assays
Whig :aays speaks of foreign affairs. lle quote a lead-
-I'4; article that appeared in that Paper on the Sd of April :--
" From ibe fvtocring indecision" (bu the bye how shriuld in-
tleci iiien be otherwise than wavering ), "and irresolute measures
that mark the feeble Councils," (that is ice suppose counsels ,
" and capricioua conduct of our Copenhagen ( um:
it would be ja.rl as gaud sense to say [hal their capricious conduct
inarkcd elicit. irresolute as to say that tkeir irresolut,
ileasarts mark their capricious conduct) •‘ it plainly appear:
" that at the present moment they scarcely know what to dr
" with the King of Sweden."
\Vital would The Independent Whig have them to do with him
march him to Paris i or send hire to over-rim the ut:kiiiiwr
di-16(1s or Africa I:tli tor seems to irnai;ine, that aMI
to be good fur any thing inust be oundinitent.
tide On; pensioned :Old oufortutiate Monarch, who set,
" the Lrink of ruin lu sshick lie bits buttered himself to be bur-
" lied, seems equall‘ dissatisfied and uncertain %%hat to do
liiiti-elf. At mir time, like the braggilig and bulk lug Fti/
he Imo., prowl!y con:Waft his ott Li %;14:4 i.;;;;!