The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-17 00:00:00

No. 1,248 —Vot. XIII.]

Votitital aroopect.

IT was our intention to have continued our
remarks upon the series of bills, av they slow stand
...enacted by the Legislature for securing the tran •
quality of the country, .er rather fur teac'ing us to
'walk in fetters. But Whilst the•cry of distress, and
and the lansenutions upon .theiliadnem (fillse limes,
are ringing au loudly in our eavo.on every aide, it

is impossible,not.to give them the first place in our
thoughts and attention. We have heardanuch and
long of the stagnation of trade and manufactures, of
.bankrupt masters, und-starvingiabourers, ofcapital
withdrawn from employwent, and of skill and
industry looking for•a field for its exertions in other

tcountries. Within the last two or three weeks,
. however, trade is reported to have felt a beneficial

Influence from various causes, but chiefly from the
policy of the Russian Government having under-
gone a change in our favour, by a more liberal
extension of her laws on importation. How far
'dais opening may avail us in the end yet remains
uncertain. at may, and does furnish a ground .of
• speculation, and thus contributes to the increase of
labour at least, and perlieps of wages in some per-
.. denier districts and branches of manufacture. But
the speculations of trade were equally ardent, we
remember, two years %Javan the markets of South
America, nod when weNreanenitheralso.theiniierable
issue of Chat enterprize, we confess we sire not very
sanguine on ,the sulijeet of our commerce with
.Russia. The Russians am moreover both a poor
and, generallyspeaking,a frugal end hard living race.
They must buy cheap or not at all, awl the mis-
fortune is, that England can now furnish nothing
that is, when compared with other countries, really
to Ale galled cheap. Her common public burthens
shut mar or.t from a fair and honourable competition
with her neighbours. She has fonglit for them,
she has bled for them, she has paid the bills alai!
Europe fur twenty-five years past, and her Rulers
now tell us of her proud and matchless glory.. But
alas her glory neither feeds the hunory nor .clothes
the :naked. She has, unfortunately far all her
people, except de few who have fattened on her
folly, departed from that ancient maxim sv4tich
thoula bind nations, as well as individuals, of being

just at home before they are generous abroad.—
['ranee is come out of the struggle renovated,
strengthened, and improved. Her finances and her
system of legislation Are both infinitely sounder
4han they wens before her Revolution, and her
people are bath happier and occupying a nobler rank
in the creation. Ohl whet a triumph do the
present eciduing circumstance* of Great Britain
furnish to those principies and to their firm and
consistent advocates, which are denominated Whiz
Yes, the fruits of Tory principles are now fairly
before us. We taste them in every thing we eat,
we Imbibe them in evory thing we drink, we bear
them in every note of murmur and discontent, and
above all we feel them in our ab,idged Rights and
impaired Liberties. Other evils might be con-
sidered as transient; trade may revive under some
better auspices, and taxation be alleviated tinder a

final and more patriotic aaniiiiistration, or a crisis
of public credit may arrive, and some tiesperam
measures, partaking of the nature of national.
bminkruptcy may be p;uclaiu►ed. flue our whole
history can iufcri us that the encroachments of

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