The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-26 00:00:00

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Our Ulna, Congtitution ann IL Mug.

MONDAY JANUARY 28, 1818.

operation. Upon this subject, it may be observed that
the greatest enemies of Government will hardly have to
complain of rigorous severity, in carrying into effect an
act, whleli vested in the hand of Ministers such extra-
ordinary, such unlimited powers. Wooler, Sherwin,
and the publisher of Cobbett, might long since have
been incarcerated, had not the Government wisely suf-
fered them to put furth their publications, and thus
give the people of England the opportunity of judging
of them by their own works, and the doctrines
which, from the passing of the Act, ti.ey have never been
hindered from promulgating. The thing is, however,
gone by, and we trust the country will never again
have the misfortune to witness the operation of an act
so foreign, so inimical, to the feelings, to the disposi-
tions of Englishmen.
A Royal Marriage will, there is little e,tllat, form a
subject of Parliamentary deliberation. The Duke of
Canibritlge, who is repotted to have fixed his matrimo-
nial choice on a Princess of Hesse Ca.,:sel, is entitled to
the respect and esteem of the nation at large for his
amiable qualities, and the general goodness of his un-
sullied character.

With regard to the. public finance, there is reason
to believe that lea difficulty will be eeperienced than
many are ready to anticipate. The Nltiteer has, dur-
ing the recess, been using great exertiene to render the
old taxes operative and effective ; by which means, with
the aid of economical retrenchments, we trust that no
new burthens will be found necessary. The flouri:l-
- state of the Money-market is such as to facilitate,
if not render highly advantageous, any financial ope-
rations which the Chancellor of the Exchequer may
find expedient to put in practice. Many statements
have been put forth, tending to create alarm, as to tle-
felcatioa is the reeeipts of the public revenue, &c.
these, we have some reason to think, are far front cor-
rect. A deficiency certainly has existed, and, perhaps,
may. exist for a time to a minor extent, but by no means
ef a nature to create despair, or the least doubt that
the Pitlntinistration hare it ih their power to supply the
&Ail without making any additional call upon the
people, who may look forward to a diminution, rather
then an increase of the weight which they have so long
and so patiently end:tr.:la. •
A coeeitierahle portion of the time of both Houses,
a ill, it is matt likely, be occupied by the old and stale
subject of the " Catholic Claims."—Nor will there be
wanting hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Petitions on.
the subject of Parliamentary Reform—these will, we
trust, be considered on their own merits without pro-
ducing party spirit, on giving rise to invidious objec-
tioes tending only to create popular clamour and dis-
content, when much might be done to allay the excited
feelings of a loyal and deserving pceple. We sincerely
hope the wisdom of Parliament, will not fail, among its
earliest enactments, to provide some salutary remedy
for the relief of the distressed poor, by a revision of
those laws by which they are peculiarly affected, nor
ought they to lose sight of other objects, in which not
only the lower classes, but the public at large are ma-
terially interested, and which are so fully illustrated by
the Reports, long ago laid before both Houses by the
Committees appointed for that purpose, We refer more
particularly to the Report, of which the public are in
possession, on the subjects of Mendicity, and the Police
of the metropolis, embracing also the arcana of the li-
censing system, with an exposition of the alarming mo-
nopoly existing among the Brewers, and others concern-
ed in supplying the public with those articles of con-
sumptioe, which, in the present state of society, may
he ranked among the necessaries of life A ptifilic meet-
ing has been called in the metropolis, " for Me peeps-
of cmsidcring the best means of con Ocradi this
PU3LIC Ga.rvaNct," and we trust that
in their e.ncleavours to promote the geneeal aeieiioration

of society, will not lose sight of objects of such inte-
rest and importance to the great mass of the populatien,
who are looking forward with no small degree of anx-
iety, to the good which they have a r!,;ht to expect
from the deliberations of the ens;:iti; sesi.on.