The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-22 00:00:00

THE MINIM'S. NIENIORIIJ,

Of the undersigned, being 3laster Maufacturers of Cotton
Goods, and Workmen who have been employed in the various
Braneitos of that once extensive awl important Manufac-
ture :
Shesreth,
That your Royal Highness's limbic Memorialists, who arc
true and faithful subjects to his Majesty, under whose royal
banners many of them have fought and Wed, but now arc re.
turned home, commit n!;tain food, are brought to dire distress,
which is every day becoming inure poignant; and unless 80Itie
means of relief be speedily discovered, one common ruin must
involve masters and
Tlett the genet al and universal evil may be ascribed to seve-
ral CA,ttes---as. first. to a prevailing system ars:Miring warts.
This system 1111 l st at all times deerease the value of the stunk
nu band, whirit is sometimes immense, and hatli often pros ed
ruinous to the best houses.
Second, the exportat Ma of the half-wrought material, as Twist
and Wee. Hy this traffic, one part of his Majesty's subjects
work to enable foreigners to do • ithout the other part, and
hence tin restrictive measures adopted by foreign Governments
agoinst the finished tnanofactures of Memorialists. And also,
a third evil, growing out of the former two, vie. the must One
of the maulers have, either altogether or partly, declined the
manufacture ; whilst others, by repeated saernices of their de.
preciated stocks, have become bankrupts. 'fence many thou.
sands are out of employ ; while those who base any ea imot,
ou
• fair average one with wither, earn more than par shillinas
sad three pence per reek: and two years store they could vain
twelve shillings *ad /Mar nee in the balllC
The cotton niamithetnre has given employment to many hun-
dred thousands of venons in the United Empire. Multi these
~id the trade perish together ? —No ; Your Princely breast will
fr. I for your Wore People—your present ward ; all of whom
and many h tyc rotlght fur your Royal House, and the
liberty of Neu dear native land.
Your Royal Highness is the Memorial;sts' only hope under
Heaven ; they therefute humbly pray. that your Royal Flightless
would be graciously pleased to take into your Royal IlightiVos's
most giaei .... "consider:it ion their did/trek/ ; and a illtout dictating,
or pi esuming to point mat Whitt should be done in this arduous
ease, the Memorialists pray for speedy relit f.

A person recently returned from a trip to Paris states,
that ele metropolis resembles an English town, from the
ui,r country folks witll which it is crowded.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MR. SHERIDAN.

In enumerating the early and steadfast friends of Mr.
Sheridan, who were prevented from attending his funeral,
we ought to have mentioned Lord John Townshend, who
vas only prevented from paying his last mournfid duty
by the alarming relapse of his own am, who was at that
moment in great danger, but from which he is now hap-
pily recovering. Lord John Townshend was one of the
oldest, we may say, the very earliest, of Mr. Sheridatt's
political friends ; and we cannot HI feelingly express his
sentiments on the loss of this nmst distinguished character,
as in his own words. In a letter to a friend, stating the
melancholy cause of his absence, he says—

" I ant one of Mr. Sheri(lmes earliest fa knits. He, I, and poor
'fit-kill (whose memory, va ith all his faults, will ever be dear to
me), eked together in the closest habits of friendship from ear-
liest life—long before Mr. Sheridan's introduction into puddle
life—before The Duromu's appearance - before hews known to
Vox, to whom I had the pleastne of first intrishicing him. I
made the fit st dinner pal ts at which they met ; having told Fox
that all the notionshe might have conceived ofSheridaa's talents
and genius, f the remedy of The karats, Ac. would fall in-
finitely short of the whole: lion of Ids Aswan:dung pow. ra, which I
%IA sure he would entertain at the fit Si interview. 'this first
interview bcta4 ern them (there vs eie very few present, only
Tiekihl and env self, and one air two inure) I shall neatr forget.
For told toe after our tweaking lip from dinner, that he had
always thought Hare (after my Uncle, Charles Townshend t the
lama he e* er met sv ith, but that shetidan surpassed them
both inlioitcly. And that Stolid:in Ito next die told me, that
be was quite lust in admit at ion of Fun—and that it was a puzzle
to him to say as hat he admired most--his commanding sat pe.
riority of talent and antiversal knowledge, or his playfhl fancy,
artless manners, anal the benevolence of heart which slowed
itself in every word he uttered. Ever afterwards we continued
intimately and closely conneeted to the I of his death, and
nothing could give me a severer pang titan to have it supposed
that I was remiss in my dud( s upon the last sad occasion."

The list of distinguished literary characters, who join-
ed in the composition of the halliard and Probationary
Odes, is now reduced into a narrow compass ; the follow-
ing having paid the common debt of Nature since the
original publication of them ; viz. Messrs. Fox, Burke,
Tickel, G. Ellis, NVhithread, J. Richardson, Dr. Law-
relive, Mr. Hare, Col. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Sheridan.
The coffin of the late Mr. Sheridan is placed longitu-
dinally, East and West; at his feet lies that of Dr..lohn-
son, the Cdossits of Modern British Literature ; and at
the head the remains of the matchless Handel are moul-
dering into dust. Immediately on his He t the earthly part
of the respectable Henderson reposes; adjoining whose
grave is that of Cumberland, the British Terence.

" Oft let me range the gloomy ai.lev alone,
"tied lo•nry ! to vulgar "rinds unknown."

As circumstances of coincidence, we have to observe,
that Gen. Brereton, whose death we have announced, was
one of the oldest and most intimate friends of Mr. Sheri-
dan, and connected with him by marriage. NI rs. Jordan,
whose death also happened about the same time, owed to
the discriminating taste and judgment of Mr. Sheri-
dan, her first professional engagement at Drury-lane
Theatre.

Mr. Sheridan's Speech in Westminster Hall was pre-
served by the care of the late Duke of Norfolk. It was
in his house, near Dorking, that Mr. Sheridan left it, in
one of the old-fashioned cupboards that used to be formed
under window-seats. The Duke had lent the house to
Mr. S. for a year or two ; and on returning; to it, he fund
the only copy of it then in existence. A few nights after-
wards, -he met the Orator at Brookes's and pressed him to
publish the speech. Mr. S. said it was his intention to
do so, and that he had by him a pethct Report of it
Duke contrived to make him repeat his mistake seve-
ral times, and then raised a laugh by throwing the Manu-
script on the table.