The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-03 00:00:00

THE NATIO'SAt REGI6TI:II.

would be deluged with daugerous characters. Dange-
rous to whom ? Not to us, for amongst us they would
no longer find a single hand to clasp in friendship, a
single sentiment to share in unison, and they are not
backed by any earthly power to support and give effect to
any possible machination on their part.—" But to admit
them," it is urged, " would be to display a total insensibi-
lity to the real state of Europe." Why, then, do Austria,
Russia, and Prussia, not only admit, but invite them?
Do not those nations firm the greatest part of Europe, and
must we be more careful of their interests than they are
themselves? We close our gates to men of doubtful
opinions, lest they should endanger the peace of Europe;
and the three great European Powers etkr a shelter
within their dominions, not to men of this description
alone, but to the most notorious characters of the Revo-
lution ! What contradiction is this ? And why should we
volunteer, to the infringement of ancient customs and of
national credit, to remove imaginary perils from those
who most assiduously court them ? On no consideration
of English or European interests can, therefore, the plea
of necessity be justified. it may be agreeable to the Go-
vernment of France that we should adopt the measure ;
but we rather suspect that it is below the dignity of the
British nation to legislate for such a purpose, and to de-
part from the policy, the wisdom, and the hospitality of
its ancestors, to become, as it was truly expressed in the
House of Commons, " assistant police-officers to the
House of Bourbon."

COTTAGE FARMER&

A bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroy eJ, esti iie%et

The recent plan of parcelling estates into large farms
has nearly engulphed this valuable race. There is now
scarcely any medium between the large farmer and the
poor lubourer. The cottage farmer, who formerly sup-
ported, in the comfort of moderate independence, a large
and healthy progeny, now exists but in very few in-
stances.

" time there we', ere 17.ne1/it'd's griefs berate,
When every rood of eround maintained itA man "

Happy would it be for the country if this state of things
could be returned to. One hundred years ago the
country was spotted with cottages, each boasting its own
little plantation and cheerful garden. These monu-
ments of better times are now but scantily bestrewed.
It has been said, that the extended manufactures of the
country have given employment, and almost wealth, to
the poor ; but might it not be replied, that their extent
has also given an almost fatal stab to the morals of the
country ? Look to the districts formerly agricultural,
now the scat of manufactures. The village churches
within those districts were wont to be well attended;
the father, the mother, and their smiling children,
thought it an almost deadly sin to omit divine service ;
the sabbath evenings were spent in domestic innocency.
Alas ! what is the fact now? In many instances, what
the village church then had, the village ale-house has
now ; and, though the pecuniary means be increased,
the wife is no longer happy—the children, ragged, and
dirty, and starving! Again, look at the districts now
agricultural ; examine the classes of persons by whom
they are inhabited; and few will be found, excepting the
large farmer and poor labourer—the latter in part sub-
sisting either upon the elemosynary bounty of the for-
mer, or upon the pool s sate. How small the number
of those who, possessing " neither poverty nor riches,"
remind us of the country's best estate; and who should
be considered as the remains of a class from which that
country once derived its glory ; and as the patterns of a
class, without the renewal of which that glory can never
be completely restored.

it was lately stated in one of the Paris Papers, that
her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales had been at
Tunis, from which she was preparing to sail for Con-
stantinople. This account, although doubted by some
of our cotemporaries, is.perfectly correct. When the
Sparrewhawl., recently from the Mediterranean, sailed
from Tullis, her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
was living there, in the Palace, he having given it
up to her, whilst for her accommodation he had gone to
reside in the country. Her Royal Highness arrived there
in a felucca, which she had hired in Sicily, fur six
months, it being her intention to proceed from Tunis to
Constantinople and the Atom.
The following is a correct list of ships which have
sailed on the Peaoe Establishment for three years,
fur the Mediterranean, East Indies. China, and St. Helena :
MEDITEURAISEAS—EIIfiI!TACS, 38, ('apt. Preston; TaatiF.,
36, Capt. numbs Inter, 36. Capt. Forest; Erre, 20, Capt.
R. Spencer; Myrmidon, 20, Capt. Gambier; Wasp, la, Capt.
Worlege; Satellite, :8, Capt. J. Murray.
EAST INOICS—MigifiCIIIIC, 30, Rear Admiral King, Capt:
Purvis ; Orlando, 36, ('apt. Clay ton ; Iphigcnia, 30, Capt.
A. King; Towey, 20, Capt. H• Stewart; Conway, 20, Capt.
Taneock ; Challenger, IS, Capt. Forbes; Bacchus, IS, Capt.
Hill.
C inx—Aleeste, 38, Capt. Maxwell ; Lyra, 10, Capt. Hall.
ST. HELENA—Newcastle, 50, Rear Admiral Malcolm,
Capt. Meynell ; Phaeton, A. Capt. Stanfill ; °tante., 36,
Capt. D. N. Cochrane ; Spry, 20, Capt. Lake ; Vilmuuth,
20, ('apt. Festing ; Racoon, In, Capt. Carpenter; Patlarzir4„
It. Caut. J. Wallis: Julia, 14, Cant. \; :Rhine: (:lion,
('apt. J. A. Murray; Leveret, 101 Copt. need; Muskito, 18,
Capt. Brig..

DRAMATIC REGISTER.
DRURY LANE.

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Mrs. DAvisow, who is deservedly a public favourite,
had a very full attendance of her friends at her benefit
on Tuesday night. She appeared as Macheath in the Beg-
gar's Opera ; a character about the propriety of berassump-
Lion of which there may be some difference of opinion.
She played the part, however, with considerable success,
infusing into it much moreof that feeling, with which an
audience can sympathise, than is usually found in the re-
presentations of some, who seem to consider Macheath
as a case-hardened villain, with not a single spark of
humanity belonging to him. Mrs. DAvisos's Nell,
and DowTos's Jobs" in the Farce of The Dail to Pas,
which followed, were highly diverting.

COVENT-GARDEN.
On Friday night Mrs. SIDDONS performed Queea
Katharine, in the Play of King Ileury the Eighth,
for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemble. Her
reception was worthy of her distinguished talents. The,
I louse was crowded to excess, at an early hour, and peals
of applause front every part of it saluted her on her entree.