The National Register.
London, England, 1817-04-07 00:00:00

BMX.' riIRTL

The Morning Chronicle has inserted the following
character of Buonapurte, whiat. as far as it goes, is ad-
mirable although we may perhaps Le permitted to
" how the devil it came there."

" treatment by our Government of Buonaparte
excites oat little commiseration, because he sacrificed
the welfare of nations and the liberties of mankind at
the shrine of ambition, and fur the aggrandisement of
his family. Endued with an active and powerful mind,
but not of that high rank in the scale of intellect to
make him despise the pumps and vanities of the world,
he sought extention of territory in unjust aggression,
he preferred the bloody name of a conqueror, to the
more glorious designation of u benefactor of the human
race ! Had he 'linen after setting an example of justice
to Governments ; after exhibiting in his conduct a due
reward for the happiness of his flow mortals ; had he
exerted himself to break the fetters of the slaves of eon-
tinentul despots, anti to introduce true social liberty into
the nations of Europe, loud would have been the exe-
crations. and deep the curses which would have tidlow-
ed the career of his foes. Seated on the top of the wheel
of fortune, he grew giddy at the height ; like another
Collossus he would have bestrid the world. But now
stripped of his honours, his grandeur and his fame, he
lives to rut on a burning and barren rock in the midst of
the ocean, a captive and an exile." . .

Atter this very animated description, however, the
Chronicle proeeeds innocently to declare, that "upon
what principle he can be a prisoner of war in time of
peace, it would puzzle a sage to determine," and to ask,
"on what ground the English have a right to punish
Bunnaparte for his misconduct ?"

Buonaparte is " a prisoner," not "to punish" him
for the crimes that he has committed, but to prevent
him from having the power of perpetrating others. Buo-
naparte is " a prisoner," because experience has amply
s'iown that his freedom and the tranquilitly of the. world
are incompatible. Buonaparte is " a prisoner," because
unfortunately there are yet existing, and must for
years exist, in France, thousands of individuals, edu-
cated in the principles of the Revolution, and panting
tin. what they are pleased to call " glory," by whom,
were he to appear amongst them, he would be hailed
with transport as their leader in a new contest, which,
whateveimight be its issue, would again deludge Europe
with blood. If any proof were wanting of the existence
of such a spirit in France, or at least in Paris, the
details of the disorders which have taken place in that
capital in consequence of the representation of the new
Tragedy of Cermanieus would abundantly afford it.

The following has been sent to us as an extract of a
letter from Count Ilastopchin to one of his friends at
London :—" I was much surprised at seeing in Bunna-
parte's appeal to the British nation, that lie had incurred dan-
ger in wishing to sate. Moscow from the conflagration in the
year ISI2. His amazing efforts slid greatness of mind were,
however, limited to mounting his hose as soon as the fire ap-
peared, and galloping to the distance of two English miles
from the town, in order to place himself in safety. Ile passed
three days and 1111 IT III:4111s m a palace 111 the midst Of a corps
of troops, who liirotiacked, and only returned to Moscow on
the fulfill day, w hen the conflagration ceased, after having
committed 7,63 V houses. I was well informed of all that was
p t«irg in the t 0.% u, by means of si• officers disguised, who
r..tirainetl undicityereil the whole of litionaparte's stay •at
1110,eow ; but on his quitting it, he set fire to the palace of
the Kremlin, among others, and to the easth• of Petrousky,
ttlhit•ll had sorted hiin as an asylum during the great condo.
g ration. Perhaps this was done by hint as an act of kindness,
with the intention of pnrift ing them by tire from the evils he
had been the source of. nom ths tone of this appeal it would
teem, that lie dictated it at the moment when his mind was
gnided by the -ante feelings as during his passage to the 1:1a,.d
of St. Ileletta in IRIS; and he appears unwilling to forget
the style of his bulletins, which set yes as a proof that habit is
a second nature."

COFFEE-uousrs.—lt is recorded in a Review of
Tandem, published near a century since, that the first
coke-house ever established in England was kept by a
barber named James Farr, at the sign of the Rainbow,
opposite Chancery-lane, which still goes by the same
name. In 1708, he was presented by the Inquest of
St Dunstan's in th.,! West, for making and selling a
liquor called coffee, us a °Teat nuisance, and prejutlical
t I the neighbourhood.—NW o would then Itavu imagin-
ed, that in the progress of lily succeedin::. years, such
nuisances would have inerea ed to no less a number
than 3000 ? In 1768, vi hen the signs were taken down
to free circulation to the air in the streets of the
Metropolis, and the numerous taverns decreased, coffee-
houses continued to multiply, in consequence of the
opinion of the College of Physicians, who stated pub-
-I.cly, that entree was a whollsome beverage. It was
tam receive.t into general estimation, and continued to
be drank with agility tuna the present day, when it
by the register at the licensing office, that there
are upwards of 9000 coflix-houses existing in Lon-
dint and its environs.

—••
Igeors. IlraU,rnir aril Baden, of Leicestershire, have ob-
t.ii..a a ss•rili. t of uggilist the Ito:wired of West
G•„t.„tt ie.,' ilia it 1,11 raises, destro)cd hn the Luddites
w.:.• '4111101"Si, r4,(Preliee.
A fest flu • a_•n, •s Alr. A Vras. r, wine cooper, of Toyer.
n s., Mn 4 emint: it bCrrillie (Amu •t row., the
loves rnin i,. the body ; it is a Russian tauce, marked 5 kop,
or ah•tut 21r.--thne 1776,

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MR. COBBE7'7'S HGNOURABLE FLIGHT.

• We have read over Mr. Cobbett's Farewell Sermon,
on " tukingh.4vo of his countrymen." It is a canting,
whining, hypocritical production—fraught with the must
mischievous, false, and malignant insinuations.—lle is,
however, very, very careful, again and again, to
caution his retelcrs not to believe what " Corruption's
press may hereafter say against him.—l I.! is evidently
afraid of the truth.—The truth, however has come out ;
and he has lent time euough left him, during his,stay
in Liverpool, to " answer it."—But not a single syllable
appears about his debts—not is word about the deranged
state of his priyato affairs.—fle has the consummate
impudence to tell his readers that "a pro//l more
than ten thousand pounds a year" has accrued to him
from his " works ;" yet he has not condescended to add
a line in explanation of his unpaid bills.
Ile plead:: not guilty to all and every charge that has
been brought against him of a political nature; and
has theefliontery "most solemnly to declare thatbe never
associated with any man who had not in view the pre.
servation of all the establishments and orders of the king.
dons!" Did he never associate with Dissenters, who frosa
principle are averse to the established religion "of the
kingdom Is he not himself, in private conversation
an avowed enemy to the established church and all
"orders" of the clergy—Oh ! but his dear readers must
nut believe a word of what may be written against him.
They must wait in Patience, "if they can," about
three or four months, and then he will give them
a continuation of his " Cobbett's Weekly Political
Pamphlet," warm from America ; where he now
says he shall have the " sight of a free, happy,
well-fed, and well-clad people." The abominable in-
consistency and hypocrisy of this man arc equalled only
by this his still more abominable and disgraceful flight
from his friends and creditors in Great Britain.
With what ftce this " political harlequin" can again
look upon the Americans we know not. In our last,
we gave a short specimen of his former style of writing
concerning that nation. The tidlowing may serve to
complete the picture ; and with it we shall be glad to
bid Mr. Cobbett farewell, till we are again culled upon
to enter our protest against any fresh poison which he
may think it his interest to export from the Trans-At-
lantic Contineut.
" Never vtas there a country," said lie in 1700, "which In
so few years Itemineed so many traitors as America. Were
I President, I a mild hang them, or they 'Mould murder me,
I never would hold the sword or jostle.: and smaller such mitt-
creants to escape its edge." Listen to the liberal and
charitable sentiments n Melt he expresses toward the Ito.
former Muir, Who had the misfortune to lose an eye in a sea
engagement. "The reseal has lost one rye. So far so good:
but he should have lost two--He was a tine rosy-gilled fel-
low, when he stood like an impudent villain as lie was, and
dared (Sort of Session in Scotland. He has now got the
marks of Liberty and Eqnality, an empty purse, [auk sides,
and a mutilated face. A thousand blessings on the ball that
caused his wounds! May such never be wanting while there
is a Jacobin on earth!" So much tilt Master Cobbett's
humanity! He now goes from England in search of freedom,
and he goes to America for this purpose.—Good again! lie
had resided several years in America when be wrote tens—
" Englishmen—to prove to you that you are happier and
more free than the people of America, duel to du it by
inconeovertilde facts, is what, with the permission of God,
I pledge myself to perform:" and speaking of the American
Legislature, he positively asserts, that," the House of Com•
moons in England is, in the most essential point, more iii-
dependeut of the King and his Noitles than the Represen-
tatives of America are of the President and the Senate."
tint pet Imps it is moral purity that he expects to find across
the Atlantal. No ; for he says el owliere, that" in Amerit a,
most assuredly the people are as emmiug and as corrupted a•
in any part of the world, France excepted." And again.
" I assert, I am ready to meet the inquiry at any I that in
proportion to the population of the state of Peons)lxsnia,
thtnie ale more crimes tionnnitted than there arc 111 thy 111111.411
du1111111141116, not excepting 1.01/11011 41141 it, vicinity ; and as to
moral offincea, there is inure delinquency In Office, there are
more public defaulters, more acts of swindling, more fraudu-
lent debtors, more bastards begotten, more divorces, more
I eloped wives, more runaway apprentices, in the single State
1 of Penosyl%ania, which contains not 200,000 soots, that; there
are in the whole kingdom of Great Britain, which contain,
above I1oot:1,00o." Nor is this all : America, it seems, is as
little the seat of superior comfort as oh' superior murals. " I
know a little of this matter," says CoLthett," and I know that
a farmer in Pennsylvania pays, in proportion to what can be
e1e141411 I.l'olll his firm, mole than is paid by a farmer in Great
Britain ; tr which I will add, without the tear of being con-
tradicted by any one acquainted with the fact, that the far-
mers and peasants in England are in ClllllllOll better fed, clad,
and lodged. than people of the same description in Penissyl-
vania." In foie, he thus sums up the numerous excellencies
of the American Government, and state of society—" 111441
the American Representatives have abandoned to the Es.
ecutive essential privileges which the British Howe of Com-
mons do yet preserve"--" that the Congress have mink
laws to restrain the Press more severe than those in Englatail"
—" that there is in America 4 burdensome end dangerous
Standing Army"—" that heavy Taxes arc raised and 111111/111-
tiered on no less objects"—" that tie• comm.) is destitute of
load, bridges, and other useful scrommodainins"—" that
childi iiiii and lay arc the charactetedies of the nation',—
" that the people have less knowledge, leas virtue, less role
gion, than in )))) 111,. countries or Europe"—" and that In-
fidelity is making rapid and umepelled strides, whilst political
animosity threatens not only to destroy the government, but
In tear the country to pieces." One feature in this gloom.
picture mast have shocked the Cubbett of that day,
beyond measa le—we mean the Infidelity the A mei hauls ;
for, speaking of Religion, he says, I have at all times, when
MI opportunity offered, repelled the attacks of its rummies,
the aotiminahle hatiali.ms to Heists and Atheists, with all hi%
Mart, with all u y Mind, with all my soul, and Wi4ll all 111%
strength. The him ii.st dill,. in my pen lass eve, been he.
mimed on them, becoose or all the foes of the human race,

.Al'lllL 7.

look upon them, after the I)evil, as bring the greatest and
most dreadful. Not a sacrilegions plunderer front Henry
VIII. to Condorcet, and front Condoreet to the impious San,-
Culottes of N'irgittia, has escaped my censure. All those who
have attempted to degrade Religion, whether by open insults
mid enmities to the Clergy, by blasphemous publications, or
by the more dangerous poison of the malignant modern phi-
losophy, I have ranked among the most Mammas of mankind,
and have treated them accii..dingly."
And yet it is to this country of " it is to these
" impious Sans-Colottes," that Coil!lett now resorts for conso-
lation in his old age! He will tell you, lie is enlightened ; and
that tivitigli he oiler 01,,aglit that " libels against religion ale
certainly more heinous its their nature, as well us more des.
triictive in their Clett.etille'llet a, than any that can be pub-
lished against men, however estimable their characters or ex-
alted their rale k "—that " their evident and Incs•ilable ten-
dent•y is to corrupt the pming, mislead the ignorant,
alia.li the timid, degrade the priesthood, and, finally, to sub-
vert and destroy, root and branek, the t Isristian Religion
and all its inestimable blessings," that " Clirktianity
is part of the law of the land; that to deride and blaspheme
it is mui.•h'tble by the iv( 111111 l eit law ; and that it is the duty
of all Magistrates la make the law to-peet known, and
see it executed;' ye* teems% he has limit soperlor to these an-
tiquated prejncices, he Call write directly annalist religion,
lee can make the elvegy t whom he always contemptuously
calls t the parsons') the perpritail but of his t•lumsy and
pointless ridicule. noel's, let Min sellect " that he who has
ht •n a bad subjeet to hi; ow•n eenn!ry, though from, louse
latent motive he only be well receiv.-d in another, will never
either trustral or respected."

On Mon4uy an Inquest was held at the sign of the Coach
and Horses, in Dean/watt, Manchester, on the body of Mary
B eels. It appeared -that the military were cornering soma
prisoners to the New Bailey Plisoth anti the deceased w:o4
coming up the sheet, but ov. ing to the exile:tie pressure of
the crowd she was knocked down, and rode against by
horst man. Verdict—Aceidental I)eath.

NATUItAi, or ARTIFICIAL TEETH, with con.
mei. which do not change, skilfully fixed without pain, from one to
a whole set, ha as to be worn with or without tying. Whoh fitts of
teeth. batund or artificial. with gold, on re:eta:able terms. lie has
an easy method °nixing teeth firm to stumps, rerulates uneven teeth,
removes decayed snots to prevent further decay. Teeth dowsed from
tartar, assists dentition in children. OM wlvtre, and perMrnis every
operation on the teeth end gums.—Prinee, Pentist. atteiets (tom a n
ten till filar, at his house, 9, Ostivd-street. tin.ro
are two numbers 9 in John-street, observe Prince's house is the second
front the Coach toaLer's.

55hite Teeth are the flea Ornament. Prince's Cherry Paste, for
cleansing. preserving. and immediately whitebing the teeth, keeping
them tree boot tartar, clears away specks or decayed parts, and pr.-
verai farther decay ; curing scurvy in the gums, which is the enuso
of teeth getting loose. and dropping out quite sound ; also thstens
teeth that arc louse, makes the gums and lips of n healthy red.—Who
once use it give it 41 preference to tooth powders.—The proprietor. as is
Dentist, often finds the enamel of teeth destroyed and the gums a ten
off, by IWTSIMIS using tooth powders, occasioned from the saraly, acid,
and salt ingredients they stre generally composed of. But hinee's
Cherry Paste is warranted innocent, pleasant to the palate...a eetening
to breath, and if constantly used, is n sure preventive against art 1%-
plaints that are incident to the teeth and gutus ; in short, on ttial,
will be Mutat the best for preserving the teeth of italics, gentlemen,
and children. If parents and guattinms kitew tho value of it, they
would not let their children be without it, as it prevents the tartar
from settling on their teeth, the tartut being the first destruction, and
anti prevents their having a good set at a. future period.. By cleaming
artificial teeth with the Cherry Paste, they arc kept sweet and titan,
and m event changing colour. Ask for Prince's Cherry Paste, 'ls. fit:.
per pot, or one dozen It 3us, stamps included.
Sold wholesale, retail, and Mr exportation, by the sole Proprietor,
Prince, Dentist, No. o, Johmstreet, th.frad.atreta.—Sold viso by
Bacon. ISO. Ostind eareet, opposite New Bohol-street; Prom,
Strand; Davison, 59. Fleet-street; Iligge, 65, Cheapsitle; Tutt,
Royal Exchange; and by most principal Medicine Venders.

LONDON 114 lIK F Ts.

CORN.I:!CCIIANGE. ArRI!. 7,

We hail a good supply of Wheat this morning from F.SSCX and
Kent. constaimntly the !,ale tea, ih:11, at a decline of 2s. per quarter.
nye is 2s. Itorley from ss. to i.. Gad Malt from Is. to Ys. per gear.
ter. New lick Beans support thrir prim, but old are very dull.
Having a large supply oft kits they may he eutuldortal from ts. to
per quarter. In other articles no Aviation.
s. s.
AVllltr PeaseGi a fir,
Orvy l'case 5+4 a Ili
Beans VP a 34
Ticks l6 a 42
Oats . 2O a 21

S. S.
Wlicat co a
Fine ditto .too t It.:
Rye 44 a tiV
W:ne Barley (.1i a fol
Malt.

I. a.
Poland Oats len a tfe
I'4,tatoditto 42 it 5 t
Fine Flour al(,i
Second ditto 93 aim
!tape 5C0.1... 501 I

11,11LAI).

The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread throughout the Mts.
trnpaS, Is stated by the Bakers to be UP. the Quartern Loaf.—
Soine Bakers sell the Qiinrtern Loaf titan Id. to Sd. loser.

AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN PER QUARTER,
ENt;LAND AND WALES. FOR TUE WEEK ENDING MAR..'9.
Wheat Rye Barley I Oats Beans I Mast.
1(4 16110 I I
31 8 I 32 6 54 1 33