The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-23 00:00:00

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1820.

which has produced the miseries under which they
groan. and are petitioning for an alleviation of.—
Others again arc so absurd as to profess that their
petitions are in no way connected with party objects,
and have nothing of a political character about them.
Now really the only sewer to these professions of
confidence in His Majesty's Ministers, which
those Ministers can or ought to give is, i• pray,
continue it ;" it is our wisdoms which has placed
you in the condition you are in, and if -wisdom
half been manifested in your ruin, it would be arrant
fully to do any thing to help or save you ; you
have like good and faithful subjects supported our
measures. a.el all those who follow in our train ;
you have most properly returned representatives to
Parliament. who, like yourselves, have reposed in
our wisdom, have voted fur wars and taxes, and
whitever could contribute to promote our continu-
ance in power and the Glory of a Great Nation;
you have to :recollect that it was under your express
unction that an enormous debt has been contracted,
and it would now be not only disloyal but shabby
and inconsistent to shrink from paying its interest;
you have for live and twenty years supported that
very system of policy which we are now pursuing.
and man to sentinuc; we are glad it has met
your approval, and glad to hear that your confidence
is not diminished; your Petition shall lie upon
the table." Such is really the only answer which
such documents as we have mentioned can either
expect or deserve.
Nor are their sentiments very different who would
pretend that their petitions Lave nothing to do who
polities. The fact is, that the whole question is,
and must be, purely polilkat But what these
gentlemen want is to get the aid and assistance of
those, who have uniformly and consistently labonred
to ward off from their poor county the calamities
under which she groaned, for this express object, and
then return to kiss the rod that has afflicted us,
and fawn and cringe like spaniels with encreased
I affection for those who have scourged and whipt
them. They have year after year pursued with
unmeasured obloquy that opposition to a wasteful
and profligate expenditure, which fur a single point
of direct self-interest they would now gladly them-
selves join, and if that end could only be carried,
cast them off again, and return to wallow in their
former sink,—unntanly dependence and corruption.
But this is not all—for supposing this unnatural
coalition once funned, we do not see how the
opposite parties could proceed one single inch
together. These can be no doubt that the whole ,
evil is the sole and natural fruit of our enormous
taxation. You must either pray for relief from
this or you pray for nothing, and are those who
profess this anxiety to combine all parties prepared
to admit their own past errors, and to join in
reminding his Majesty's Ministers of the miseries
they have caused and the ruin they arc spreading
round us ? We fear not. On the other hand, the
only plan to which Ministers mould listen would be
for a duty on importation. This tax, from their
known propensity, they might probably be easily
led to impose. But would thou who have seen and
felt, and exclaimed day after day .against the wanton
waste of public money, be inclined to vote for a
measure which would place still more at their
disposal. Would those who have for years been
struggling against fresh imposts being laid upon the
peer, pow lend their sanction, to tax even the
bread they eat ? Would they lend a hand to aug-
ment that wretchedness which is already so elect,-
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sive, as to threaten the most serious

and as a cure for which our liberties are gone, and
the proud name of a free Englishman suffered to
exist no more ? Is it a crisis that can admit of inch
a palliation ? If trade were prosperous, if our
finances were sound, if our Rulers were really to
be trusted, there are many consideration" which
would induce us to believe that a duty upon im-
ported corn, and the trade then lett free and other-
wise unfettered, might not be unreasonable. But
with starving manufacturers and universal poverty,
with no disposition to public economy, no wisdom,
no symp-.thy, no system but that of direct tyranny
and positive subjection of all to their sovereign will,
at the helm of State, who can wisely or prudently
lend a hand to support such policy, and that at the
expence of the poor and indigent ? No, we fear,
seriously fear, that nothing short of a great crisis is
destined to set us right. We have been proceeding
with most rapid strides, of late, in that course which
generally precedes, because it can hardly fail to
produce Revolution. The only mode of actual
relief to agriculture, in our present state, is to enable
it to contend with success .against foreign grower 4,
but this can never occur whilst a much larger sans
is actually paid to Government upon the production
of corn in this country, than the whole price of the
corn itself upon the Continent. That his Majesty's
Ministers arc fully responsible for our situation is
true, that they should be loudly and earnestly
reminded that they are so is true likewise. But as
long as they can.go -on without interruption in their
eareer, it is worse than madness to hope that they
will seriously set About any plan of reformation.—
Let the friends and supporters of Ministers then
have the whole subject in their own exclusive
hands. They can plead their claims to gra-
titude and attention, and indeed the supporters
of our present Rulers do deserve something for the
for the services they perform. The present Corn
Laws are infinitely worse than none. The zaischief
they occasion is qualified by no good whatever.—
Their repeal would be a work of wisdom, but what
is to he substituted in their stead, Ministers and
their friends had best consult together.

LEEDS. Jan. 1 a.—.l committee has been formed here and
measures are taking tio make out a strong case, to induce Mi-
nisters to consentro a repeal nfthe woolsluty, immediately on
the re-assembling df Prrhsanent. It having been industriously
circulated here, and published in some of our newspapers. that
Lord Milton, one of the county members, supported the bill in
the last session of Parliament, for laying a tax on foreign wool
imported, his Lordship has written a letter to a respectable
gentleman in this town, denying the charge, and appealing to the
debates in the house at the time, for a retutationef the calumny.
The noble Lord further says-•-•. I not only opposed to the
utmost of my ability, the obnoxious measure passing into a law,
but I will likewise support any motion that may be made for its
repeal ; and your Committee may rely on any best exe,tions on
behalf of themselves. and the manufacturing intt rest generally."
The business in our clotit•halts to-day was rather brisk, as
compared with last week: bet there is a shocking deficiency et
cash t all is done on the credit or kite system and aasignmtnts
and compoundings are daily taking place. The body as females
whose name is at present unknown. was found this mot cling in a
pit at Whitley, near this town, into which she is supposed to Lye
been thrown by two villains, who were seen to follaw her out
of a public house list night, where she had tatted tor refresh.
meat.

Intelliv,,ence from the Cape of Good Hope state/
that the news had just reached the Cape of the in-
tention of Government to form a settlement on the
Fish River, and produced, as might be expected, •
very pieasant impression, as the importance of the
cokmy would be increased by this new arrange..
went.

Letters have been received from Gibraltar of the
28th of last month. The commuoieation between
that place and Spain waa opened on the 23d by a
Proclamation from his Excellency the Governor, it
having been closed for several months to prevent
infection from the yyllow fever, which had been
raging at Cadiz, the Isle tie Leon, &c. Trade a 1
the British fortress, which had, for a lung time,
been in the most deplorable condition, owing to
those restrictions, scented to be imp-ming.


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LiIV INTELLIGENCE.

SERGEANTS'. INN- H A LL, MONDAY, JAN* IL
THOMPSON V. LACY.

This was an action of hover for wearing apparel,
whereby the sought to recover the value of a
quantity of clothes contained in two trunks. The defen-
(taut is the keeper of a tavern, called the Globe tat ern,
Moorgate ; there are no stables belonging to it. The
plaintiff, a merchant's clerk, in company with moodier
person, came to the defendant's home, and dined there;
after dinner, Ise said they should sleep there, anal ordered
a double.bedded room. Tile plaintiff afterwards told the
defendant he expected lan truns•., Mat lie was going to
Scotland in a few months, aucl that lie meant to stay there
till lie went. The defendant asked him for his name,
‘,4 Inch he gave him, and informed lino what he was. 'the
winks came, and the defendant it-sided there !Mee
months, sleeping in the house, and taking his nirals Mere ;
liming a friend of his value and stayed several
nays ; and the plaintitfordeied the ishaages of his friend's
to be pot into his bill. Alter the plaintiff lett, lie
tendered to the defendant inure than sufficient to pay for
Lis sleeping, but out (aweigh to discharge the whole bill,
and demanded his luggage, which the defendant is fused
to give Hp and the question on the trial of the came was,
whether the defendant bail, in the Cll4llllnler of innkeeper,
oil the iiiggage for the anionnt of his bill.
'foe I:roiled Joilze who tried the ease was of opinion
that the delenolint had a lien, and nonsuited the plaintiff,
Aid
I leave tO move fora nor tube, aside the ...nit.
And now ilm. Marlys! 1 and Mr. E. Lis' es moved to 111/.
cll4l ge that rule. They contendrel, that there ads HO
illll.l come between the keeper ul'a tavein ur co:lre-house
and an innkeeper; that they were but haute to the same
burdens, each bring obliged to lake wit an ale licence,
awl 114411 being also subject to have soldiers (pattered
411 them.

Mr. Gurney and Mr. F. Pollock, in snptimt of the role,
contended, that these was a material dittrience between a
.ogee-boast• and an inn : a cold. was out intended
fur the leception and abode of iravellei•, hot swirly to
furnish (linnets and other entertai ttttt eat to the inhatiitants
of the place where it SIMS si sli r; that oftentimes the
raft e-house keeper found it cunienient to foriaish his
gue,,tb with beds, %stitch he did.; Mit that inost be (*Mist-
derv(' as a letting of lodgings to them, sod iltd MA COOS ell
the ruder house lilt., en 11111.
The Lind elner Justice said, the defendants were the
leepel• *if a boost. in %stitch they supplied beds 4111.
imtml to such persons as required them. lie thought
this could nut ue distitigni.lied in pi inriple 11u111 an inn,
mud this case it II wit bin the tide of law applicable to the
eases ut nudist-tilt r.. It wwild, be fur the benefit of all
parties so to cuusitier It, FIJI in this case nut only %mild
the inukeepi r he emitted to a lien on his gisrst's goods,
hut he also in lemon uou'ol be liable to his giii sta fur the
safe custody OI thee• goods, lie thought it was nut ne-
cessar) that the defendant .huold Kase stables; ovine
(:iglu he fur the aecui eeeee odalion or toot traveilers. Here
ti,e lauthutll tiuuished all utlii r things necessary fur the
aceetuniolittion ill ti 111.1.. Tilr other learned Judges
present, Mi. Jii,tire Ray try dud Jnstiec Best, deli-
re led thiii uputwu to toe saute etirci, and the rile was
d..chat•ged.

XIPDLESEX SE.SSIOIM.

SWINDLING:

Saturday Abraham Vain Hi teteen, who has, during the
last ten days, occupied so much of the attention of the
Police Officers, tracing the many frauds be practised
throughout the metropolis, by [Mani of a satiety of
specinus astifices, was put to the bar, and arraigned
upon time indictments, for defrauding, by false cheques
on bankers, J number of tradesmen at the %Vest end of
the town, an.! among them Mr. Cathounier, the Messrs.
Risingtons, Mr. Hou'disci), together with tusiliy others,
from whom he had obtained property to a considerable
amount, on the faith of his credit at bankers, where lie
bad ingenuity enough to persuade them he had credit.
His trial occupied iAtit a short time, as all the facts,
already disclosed to our leaders in. the recent Police
were proved against him.
The Court, without much ptefatory ceremony,
apprised Mr. Van Brieneo, iu die langtia,.e so oftett
used by the Learned Recorder of London, that he was
qaite ton clever a mart for a permanent residence in this
country. lie was therefore ordered .0 take tie ilia mil.
dence fur seven years in Botany Bay.
The prisoner, who is a dashing looking fellow, re-
ceived his sentence with perfect composure.