The National Register.
London, England, 1817-12-22 00:00:00

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POLITICAL DISQUISITION.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9,2, 1817.

the measure should instantly cease. We are not insen-
sible to the various modes lry which the animosities of
the people aro excited against men in power. The
daily and weekly labours of a swarm of pestiferous
writers, are little less effective in debauching their
minds, than the use which is made of every acquittal
upon a charge of treason or libel, nay such is the inge-
nuity of the uneasy spirits of the present day, that con-
viction or acquittal, alike tarnish subjects of charge
against the Government. lithe accused is found guilty,
the jury has been packed and the witnesses suborned ;
if acquitted, the virtue of a jury has been proof against
the corrupt endeavours of the Court ; thus, whatever
be the event, the Government is guilty still, and the
idea of guilt in the accused is never for a moment en-
tertained. Doctrines like these, industriously Mien-
' late& have prodigious influence even in London, where
men by their habits of close association, have supe-
rior means of sifting and inquiring into passing events,
no wonder, then, that in the country, where society is
so much less united, they have tentiild influence ; as
has been well observed by our neighbours, the poison
circulated by one journal, canna be eradicated by ano-
ther, for, to say nothing of the influence of a first im-
pression, those who arc far removed from active scenes
of life rarely read on both sides of a political question;
and where the industry in circulating the most danger-
ous opinions is so great as it has been for some months
past in this country, we may easily guess on which side
is the bias.

All this is in itself evil enough, and requires the
watchful eye of the executive to guard us from the
the evils which it may produce ; but the calamity it
encreased tenfold when men; who should be our guides
and examples, shrink from the duties of their station,
and, as in the case of Sir John Egerton, decline the op-
portunity of justifying those acts which a sense of jus-
tice Fad prompted.
Let the Electors, then, well consider the responsi-
bility which lies upon them, let them weigh the situ a-
tion of the country at the present moment and what it
was twelve months ago, and then say to what cause the
change is to be attributed. Let them rementb:.‘r that it
is no trifling duty which they will soon be called on to
perform, nothing less than to choose between men
whose avowed principles are in unison with those who
have whetted the knife of the assassin, and those who
ty layiitg a well-timed restraint on the heated passions
of the misguided and ignorant, saved the nation from
all the hurors of civil commotion.

!n addition to the bust of Blucher, in the Roman
style, lately put up in Carleton House, there is another
of the same great warrior in marble, in his military
uniform, by Turnerelli, to whom he sat when he was
in this country. There are also marble busts of Wel-
lington and Platolf by the same sculptor.
The Baron de Stjerneld, Chamberlain to the King
of Sweden and Norway, arrived last Wednesday,
charged with the special mission to express to the
Prince Regent the lively part his Majesty and the
Royal Fatuity of Sweden take in the untimely and de-
'thimble death of her Royal Highness the Princess
Charlotte Augusta, his daughter, and to deliver, at
the same time, to his Royal Highness a letter to that
effect from his Majesty.
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In the Court of Chancery on Wednesiay the Lord
Chancellor gave judgment in the matter of )lawman
and others against Nuttall, Fisher and Dist n. An in-
junction had been obtained by the plaintiffs to restrain
the defendants from selling an edition of " Cruden's
Concordance ;" on the ground that it was pirated by
the defendants from the sixth edition, published by the
plaintiffs. The Chancellor not being sati..fiA that the
plaintiffs had any copy-right in the sixth edition, order-
ed that the Injunction should be dissolvisl, that the
plaintiffs should ti,rthwith bring an action to try the
question, the defendants in the mean time being at full
liberty to sell and dispose of their baok, keeping so ac-
cOunt dutch WO (without rejuilice).

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