The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON:

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1818.

Tr has been very confidently reported during the put
week, that it is the intention of government to continue
the Rank Restriction Act for two years longer. The
mere rumour of such a proceeding has produced cousi-
derable sensation, although the appearance of the gold
c linage some time ago, was looked upon ~with no very
lievolirable eye, and the expected abstraction of paper
ciiishlsxed as an approaching inconvenience. The rea-
•son assigned for this prolonged restriction is, that
the couraz of excl.aege is against us, and that in come-
-quenee, a profit of four per cent. is to be obtained by
-the export of gold coin. Under such circumstances, it
would certainly be highly imprudent to subject the
country to a repetition of those losses, which it has lone
indurcd by the exportation of the precious metals.—
Until, therefinc, our armies arc withdrawn, until the
3 ,:ccs-ities of our allies render foreign loans unnecessary,
.:ceui it an act o:srue,ence, to 'cumin cash pay metns;

Tnr NATTONAT, na•ritATEn.

the cow:try generally, is too well satisfied as to the
ability of the Bank, to believe that any other than
prudential motives dictate this proceeding, though we
doutt not the party who so confidently anticipates the
ruin of the country, will hail it as a certain indication
of the approaching fulfilment of their prophecies.

American papers received since our last, contain ac-
counts of military movements, but little according with
the pacific language, of the President's message. Large
bodies of troops are passing to the southward. though
for what purpose is not distinctly stated. Amelia Is-
land is too insignificant an object to engage the atten-
tion of such a force. In the House of Representatives
on the 18th Dec. Mr. Harrison's motion for continuing
the pensions to the widows and orphans of those who
were killed or woundedin the late war, was carried with-
out a division-

No French Papers arrived yesterday. Th9re are
now three days' due. The boisterous weather which
has prevailed during the greater part of this week, has
prevented the usual arrivals from other parts of the
Continent.

The French papers present, at considerable length,
the trial of M. Scheffer, before the tribunal of Correc-
tional Police, for a publication, entitled, " The State of
Liberty in France." The Government, considering
the temper of the work which it prosecutes, does not
appear to be actuated on this occasion by a very vin-
dictive spirit. The counsel for the Crown was contented
with playing, against the accused, three months im-
prisonment, and a fine of two guineas."

The Gazette of i'laples, of the 16th of December,
contains a decree of this king of the two Sicilies, crea-
ting Prince Talley ran d , Duke of Dino, with remainder
to his brother's heirs. This dignity may, perhaps, be
designed as a compensation for the Neapolitan princi-
pality of Benevento, conferred upon him by Buona-
pane, which M. de Talleyrund thought it right to re-
linquish soon after he became a servant of Louis
XVIII.
In another part of our paper, we have given, on the
authorsty of the Mexican Gazette, the account of the
capture of Mina, with 25 of his followers, and the
dispersion of his party, above 200 strong. The fate
of men taken with arms in their hands against the
existing Government is not doubtful. But though we
, do not positively hear of Mina's execution, information
of an officialnature has been received, " that the foreign
adventurers engaged in the insurrection in Mexico who
had been taken with Mina, had all been shot as incen-
diaries, traitors, invaders of the public tranquillity of
the province, and mercenary eiders and fomenters of
rebellion against the Sovereign of Spain and the Au-
thorities of Mexico." This will surprise none : and it
is from motives of humanity that we give the intelli-
P•ence the readiest circulation. British adventurers
cs
must be aware that, when once embarked in an enter-
prise of this nature, their Government can lend them
no aid. We may esteem their courage, and may pity
the difficulties in which peace at home has involved
them, but it is a desperate hazard, in a cause nut their
own, to which they expose their lives.
LORD SEFTON'S LeTTza.—The following letter
from Lord 'Sefton to Mr. Waitliman, the chairman of
Mr. Hone's Committee, was accompanied by 100 gui-
neas towards the, subscription now going on for that
Fentleman. We have befbre stated our opinion of Mr.
one's conduct in suppressing the parodies ; we think
did wisely; but we cannot fall in with the opinion
of a Morning Paper, that Mr. Hone had shewn his
disapprobation of parodies. He did, indeed, express his
determination, after the trial, not to write any more,
and distinctly stated, that he would not again publish
what he had written except as a part of his trial.
Many have taken this as a good sign of Mr. Hone's
returning sense of propriety ; for our parts we cannot
help regarding it as a very skilful and effectual mode
of advertising his trials, and we are rather disposed to
believe, that that consideration, more than an abhor-
rence of parodies, dictated the proceeding. We would
be sorry to impute any improper feeling on this sub-
jest to the noble Lord, whose letter we give below ;
a bed of sickness is usually a bed of repentance, and
probably his Lordship chose to adopt this mode of expi-
ating some trifling errors which the calm of his cham-
ber gave him time to recollect. In doing so he has
served a distressed fellow-creature, but we think it
would have been qnite as well, had he done it less os-
tentatiously, and without giving the world reason to
suspect, that an oetrage upon religion, was agreeable to
the feelings of a dying man.

Crossed, Hall, near Liverpool, Jan. 17,1817.
Silt—l address you from :Isla bed, from which I stay per-
haps never rise, and take advantage of an irtervid from pain
to send you a draft for 100 guineas, to be applied to the sub-
scription for Mr. Hone, of which you are 'treasurer.
I am happy, whatever may he the issue of my illness, to be
able to mark my abhorrence of the tyrannical, vindictive,
and peisectrting spirit which was manifested on the late
Trial,—my contempt fur. the spiteful imbecility which urged
a continuance of them, after the failure of the first, and lily
admiration of the intrepidity and aliiiity of the individual who
so triumphantly defeated the greatest and moat clang...rims
couvirary of the year ISt?.
Lle.tr my letter will be hardly legible, as I have some dill
cnity in even holdingtny pen. lam Sir, your obedient WM-
ble servant, SEIfON.
To U. Waitlimaa,Estl.

, JAN.. is

COBBET? AND WOOLER.

Every man who has paid any attention to the
career of William Cobbett, must have been struck by
the practice which he has long indulged in, of pointing
out certain persons in this country, as fit to be, what he
" remembered" by the people. In the former
numbers of his political pamphlet, we have had re-
peated lists of those ustfortunates who have incurred
the displeasure of this doughty champion of Jacobin-
ism, and in the one published last week, we find one
more added to the number. General Ackland, for the
part which he took in suppressing the disturbances
among the Luddites "ought to be remembered." Twice,
in the same pamphlet, is this horrible incentive to
as-
sassinatlon repeated, for what else is meant by it but
assassination? In former numbers he has told us that
the day will come, when the people may be benefitted
by ". remembering" such and such a man. Thus mark-
ing them down in his black list—in his bloody book of
proscription, as victims for :the knife, should the hour
of tumult which he so eagerly anticipates, ever arrive.
Well may the persons, however, whom he calls his
enemies forgive him ; for his cuts and his stabs at
those whom he ha% designated as his friends—at those
uho have laboured in the same vocation, are not less
malignantly given. He gets into debt, and then pays
his creditors by abusing them : he runs away and the
political friend who dares hint at his cowardice is doom-
ed to feel the scalping knife of this barbarian. Among
those who hinted ut this cowardice was Mr. Wooler,
(the Black Dwarf) who thought, with many others,
that Mr. Cobbett, in his flight, had shown more regard
to his personal safety than to the interests of the great
cause in which he was engaged. This drew forth much
abuse from the Sydney of Long Island, which appeared
a few weeks ago in the political pamphlet. But the full
measure of his wrath was reserved tbr his publication
of yesterday week, in which we find it thus poured
forth :—" Mr. Wooler's ground of action upon this
occasion arose from personal revenge, and revenge, too,
growing out of mercenary motives. To make good this
charge, which is the heaviest that I ever preferred against
man, I have only to state to you, that I have it in my
power, completely to prove, from evidence recently re.
ceived, that his unmannerly, his ferocious, his cowarnly
attack upon me when he knew that there was nobody
to face him but women and children, arose from his
having been turned Or, as printer to the Register in
London, on account of his dilatoriness, kis inacossracies,
and his slovenliness, arising Jiom his drunkenness and
dissolute life."
On the publication of this at New York, (the pam-
phlet being always published there previous to its de•
parture for England) a friend of Mr. Wooler stept
forth with the following deposition, in the authenticity
of whose statement, Mr. Wooler's friends here will no
doubt implicitly believe. A New York paper thus in.
trcduces it :

" It may be remembered, that on the 19th of November
we republished an article from Cobiett's Register, in which
he chergesWooler with dilatoriness, inaccuracy and slovenli-
ness (in his business), arising from his drunkenness and disso-
lute life. In answer t• an attack so serious, a personal friend
of Mr. Wooler has requested us to insert the following depo_
shim). Impartiality demands of us to give a fair hearing to
both sides :

" Dec. 1, 42 of Independence, or 1817.
" Whereas I, William Clark, late of Loudon. having been ind-
snately acquainted with T. J. Wooler for between two and threw
years, make oath that the charge Mr. Cobbett has made in his Regis-
ter of Oct. 30, 1817, is infamously false to wit—his dilatoriness, his
inaccuracies, and his sloveliness, arising from his drunkenness and
dissolute Itfe." The fact is, that Mr. Wooler is a remarkably sober
man, and of an irreproachable character as to morals and virtue,
Having known Mr. Wooler in different circumstances of life, I do
positively swear that I never knew a falsity to escape his lips ; and
further, that heholdsinabhorence any person that has been known to
tell a lie. " WILLIAM CLARK.
" Sworn before me this Ist day of December, 1817,
" JAMES HOPSON, Special Justice."

BRIGHTON, JAN. 14.—At two o'clock this afternoon,
Prince Voroniesky and General Count D'Ojarowsky,
the Russian noblemen who arrived here on Monday
afternoon, with a letter from the Emperor Alexander
to the Prince Regent, took their departure for Came,
to deliver a letter of condclence from his Imperial Ma-
jesty, addressed to his Serene Highness Prince Leo-
pold, upon the death of the Princess. Baron Stein-
hold, from the Court of Sweden, arrived at the Pavi-
lion on Monday last, with a letter of condolence to ha
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on the death of the
Princess Charlotte of Wales. The Prince Regent does
not leave the Pavilion beliire the 10th of next month.
His Royal Highness yesterday enjoyed his perambula-
tion about the Pavilion enclosures : he looks remarkably
well iu health. Yesterday the foreign noblemen front
Russia and Sweden inspected the whole of the interior
of the Pavilion.

JAN lb.—Prince Vuroniesky and Gen. Ojarousky,
lave returned to the Pavilion from Came, near Wey.
mouth, where they delivered to Prince Leopold the
autograph letter of condolence front the I. niperor Alex-
ander, upon the loss of his Illustrious Consort.—Hie
Serene Highness is gradually improving in health and
spirits since his vitiretneut in that neighbourho,xl.
The principal amusement of Prime Leopold, since
his arrival at Came, is shooting, accompanied by Baron
Hardenbroke and fir Rclert Gardiner, or riding Ora tid
neighbouring

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