The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

May 20. J. E. IloolbooM, Union Court, Broad Street, mer-
chant-20, W. Sensiott, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell,
scavenger-20, IL Farrcr, Bread Street, Cheapside, warehouse •
min-13, It. H. Plaw, Riches Court, Lime Street, merchant-
-20, .1. Graham, Birmingham, linen draper-20, J. Wilkinson,
W. Horne, and J. Wilkins m, Friday Street, warehousemen-
-20, I. B. Belcher, II:Miele! Broak, Essex, linen draper-20, G.
Kerdiaw, Romford, Essex, shopkeeper-2r,, C. Hensley, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, mercer-24, J. Ingham, Haiifax, York, and S.
Haley, Bradford, woolstaplers—•ls. It. Bramwell, Newcastle
upon Tyne, hatter-3u, 'l'. Parkinson, Fen. Stawby, Lincoln,
T. Yarkin•on, jun. Kingston upon Bull, and .1. Lilley, Soul-
comes, York, ruff merchants-51, W. Bowies, T. Ogden, and
G. IVynelham, New Sarum, arid J. Barrow, Shaftesbury.
ba, kers-24, J. Woodward, Banbury, Oxon, upholsterer-20,
.1. Davidson, Beer Lane, 'lower Street, merchant.-20, T. Law-
trird and S. Grins dick, St. Mary Axe, say factors-30, F. W.
Rutledge, Commercial Road, corn dealer—Su, W. Barton, Corn-
hill,
auctioneer.
CERTIFICATES to be granted May 20.
B. Tonnes, Burr Street, East Smithfield. merchant—J.
hams, Crowland, Lincoln, grocer—J. It. Forster and C. Dobson,
Norwich, manufacturers—W. Dickinson, Scalb):, York, coo:
rnerchant—%s . Tomlinson. Hincklev. Lereaaaer, 'nuke( per—J.
Keates, Leek, Stafford, innkeeper—W. Biter, Greenwich, butcher
—D. Aguilar, Devonshire Square, wine merchant—T. Rogers,
Worcester. hay salesnran•W. Goddard. Lowestoft, Suffolk,
1 miller.

We have been favoured with the following letter
dated

GLAESOW, ArBlL24, 1820.

" You h.tve no doubt heard a mat in al about tiler
It itIICAIS in this 1:11.1.111:1—It Is exaggerated to a great de-
-1.011 100,1 tat liekt•A e a word about Illandactur-
-1,1.: of pikes on nightly drilling. You need not wonder
o the necessities of tile lower classes, when pm think
.1 1,11% tar fo.ty thousand of weavers and
t,,,ir rem...clog on au, average not mole than is.
lied. to is 61. per day. How can you be surprised al
.t.eur gritiohdrig? . re begllllllg 10 ellligrJte, such
s can, in great mambos; and it is ploposed to apply to
Got eminent for a grllll, u 1 enable OW most destitute ot.'
mem to go to ; fur although the money
is no more than titre...guineas from this to Q..ehec, that
is a stint beyond the reach of the bulk of ;lie starved
rood: iron, as they have to provide their MCllle.ll be-
sides forthc voyage. in sheil a Stale 01 things tin uunder
otat trade is so bail, thy lower classes c-oa with the
et cutest difficulty keep soul and life together, and there-
inr: there is no mono, to lay ()tit in Ica and sugar, or
tier superfluities. Unless the Got er .iiient do some-
thnig this Parliament, either by commercial treaties or
O.IIeI*WPW, 10 11C11) the manneactining interests of this
country, the &sailection and distress must increase, and
the number or wreiched lutes sacnli, eil to the aws oldie
coritury, increase also—tor Government need not fear al-
ways having the victory; for so tar lioni their heing ally
e use for alarm, 1 am persuaded that a tcw, s.iv a tenth
part of the force they now have, st (101(1 be sufficient to
keep all toe Radicals 11l the country in awe. I was in
Greenock a few days aster the affair there: had the
scvile of slaughter been in Elect dud, it won't] Iliac
made twice the noise even of the ceielirated .Nlanches-
ter hit-itiess; but in this country the authorities are so
corrupt, and toe Id:races of the subj. ct so much less
than in Eti6land, awl those few they have, so disre-
garded, mat the tlitng is not staled in half 119 real char-
..ei r in the newspapers, and every means is taken to
hush tip them tiler there are no Coroner's I inpicsts in
Scotland—no nab, as Corpus act, for people are taken
tip Mulicesligntest suspicion, and liberated when tint
Niagistrates pleas-, so as the tittle dors Sot exceed thirty
(lays confinement , there is no opportunity as with you,
to bring au action for false inspri-onitient. 1 .iii proud
to think you manage those popular disturbances le. tier
in London Wail any where, dud had tire same mode-
ration been exercised at Greenock, as the Horse Guards
displayed at Picaddlv, those test lads throwing stones
might hare liven F. ptikcil without the loss of the
Ines of so in lily inimeein peoide. I
Co ILA eia.ht bul-
let holcs in two atljoming panes of glass in a window
at Greenock ! !—What a pity these uproars are not
lea to the regular cavalry to quell, who so perfectly ttu-
erbtautl it."

;price
Bauk Stock
j per Ceti!. Red. 6SI
per Cent. Cues. 69i
3i per Ceot.
4 per Cent. 87/
5 per Cent. Navy 1054
Long Auu.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

IL 011bOlt.
310NDAY, MAY 1.
.........

We some time since alluded with pleasure to the
assurance given by Sir F. Burdett of his support to
the new Whig Candidate for Middlesex, because
we hoped it was a proof of a wish for a r%; union
between the party known as WHIGS and the Ultra-
Reformers. This hope is strengthened by daily
occurrences, and we have confident reliance on our
seeing► the two parties unite for the one great end
of REFORM.

There arc points, undoubtedly, in the conduit
of Mr. Cobbett respecting Thomas Paine, and
an external countenance, (though, probably,
merely intended with reference to politics) given
to the defence adopted by Mr. Curlile, too pain-
ful to our feelings to dwell upon. But, as
political writers and speakers, we have merely to do
with their arguments; and these arguments, if
pressed, as they arc, with resolution and ability, we
would either refute, or reduce to the standard of
reason and propriety, rather than attempt to run
them down by abuse, or silence them by force : and
we are more apprehensive lest from prejudice to per-
sons and inferences, that which is reasonable in
their argument, should be rejected altogether, than
that the objectionable parts of those writings, or
speeches, or particular points of their conduct should
have many admirers.
Of Mr. Cobbett we have nothing further to say,
than that whatever we may think of him, it is nei-
ther safe, nor can be just or prudent, to neglect those
topics of public grievance alleged by him, or to spurn
at those convictions on those topics, which, to a con-
siderable extent (and modified more or less according
to the conditions, acquirements, and understanding
of those who think generally that some efficient
improvements in the representation of the people are
necessary and proper), pervade a very large, and, in
point of number and talent, a very formidable part
of the British community; and if it be objected that
the multitude cannot reason, yet it cannot be denied
that they may feel the evil effects of any thing se-
riously unsound in the provisions for the happiness
and freedom of all.

With regard to Mr.llunt, we should withhold the
tribute due to him, and fairly to be inferred from the
acknowledgment us to his behaviour upon his trial
at York, if we did not acknowledge, that the tem-
perate, manly, and respectful behaviour which he
evinced during the continuance of it, is a proof
that rethrmers who arc violent, if treated with the
urbanity and propriety due to them as assertors of a
public question open to discussion, may, in
return, treat, with respect and graniude, institutions
and authorities, attended with moderation and jus-
tice.

We leave Mr. Hunt anti Mr.Cobbett now to repose,
and to Lord Castlereagh, anti to that which :dime
important, the opinion of mankind: but wc must re-
mark,with reference to rethrmers generaLthat hlf
the calamiti,,s in which mankind have been involved,
the death and dethronement of kings, and the ruin
of thousands who have been high and mighty ones,
has been owing to vain and silly notion of firm-
11CFS, as it' firmness consisted in rejecting change or
alteration, hee,,nse something suspicious or offensive
existed in th.. ;•:;aracters of those by whom that
change or ;:it,7ration may have been recommended
At ail event', when resistance to changes and mo-
difications, the necessity of which is insisted upon
by a great part of a community, has so often proved
the cause of that very wreck of revolution, with the