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London, England, 1817-08-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

" There are no plots,- except what I°4 and
cowaidiee may imagine, or a few desperate and
powerless persons conceive, or wicked and paid
4,i,,j'ectors plan. Every hour the country must
more satisfied that all its alarms were ground-,
teris, and that the Suspension of the Habeas Cor-
pus has saved nothing but the places of the most
(I..jointed, disgraced, and inefficient Administra-
tiwl, that ever was inflicted on a free people."—
Vlorning Chro3icie, August 1.)

We have selected, the foregoing passage as a
specimen of Party Poison,-and without any reme-
dies offered at present on our part, we shall merely
administer the following admirable antidote., which
we hare extracted from The (Dublin) Correspondent
of the 28;1) ult. - We shall administer another
Pati iotic dose, from the same Constitutional Doc-
tor, in our next Paper

CUISOItY .ItEM ARKS UPON THE TRANSACTIONS OF
THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.

" The last Session, of Parliament was preceded
by variouspredictions, an(P ushered in with no
small discrepance in the hopes and expectations of
'parties. Some prognosticated that the House of
Commons, would. not bc able to withstand the
outrageous reclamations of the populace, for a
radical change in that departMent.of the Consti-
tution ; o'theri thought, that some compromise
would be made with what they called the prevail.
popular Spirit ; many hoped, and still more
feared, that the advisers of the Crown would be
overpowered. by the,multitudinons embarrassments
of the petiod—and all seemed to,calculate upon
some changes, something temporising and experi-
mental, a kb the feelings and calculations belong-
ing to the principles and views of parties, respec-
tively. The lovers of Revolution dated to hope,
that every thing peculiar to the ancient fabric of
Enulish polity, and all the institutions and esta-
bl;shments co-ordinate_ with it, would yield to
the popular storm, and be soon lerelletl into ruin.
Their evil Prophet's promised the event—their
Orators maintained it as an inevitable thing—and
all their Writers laboured to promote it, by pre-
paring the Public to expect it. Those who were
next in the scale of mischievous expectation did
not desire to see so complete a subversion of the
Laws, Government, and Constitution of the coun-
try ; but they foolishly imagined, 41tat the entire
nr :chime worked ill, on account of some specific'
iMperfcctimas..in its component parts, and that,
by taking it asunder, and repairing what May be
formd defective, the whole may be put together
without any difficulty, and set inoperation,
exactly. in.the mariner in which the dupes of stick
visions would have it. These were actire and
clamototti in their way ; and, although they were
desirouS .to shew the demarcations, which 'sepa-
rated them in their doctrines from the root and.
branch pry, who aimed at a total overthrow of
the Constitution, yet they did not 'scruple to
as ail themselves of as much of the zeal and fury
of the most desperate, as promised to lend assist-
ance to their (sten projets. All the platoons and
sob-divi,ions of faction, however their facings may
hare differed, professed to act in a certain co-
opepitifor against the existing order of things;
end even the Opposition, the regular, constitu-
tional adveisaries of the Administration, did not
disdain to corptet with all those tumultuary fac-
t-ions, out of policy ;, to, observe neutrality
_to-
wards the most andacious and violent ; to pick
temporary fellowship with those who were
next in ferocity and temerity in their schemes;
and to adopt the prejudices and the ignoranees,
the errors and the intemperance, of all the other
fac,ions, As best suited their purposes, from, time
to time—as appeared most likely to aid their po-
licy in exaggerating the difficulties of the occa-
.lteeping up the fermentation which so
; many designs and contrivances had concurred in
producing in the minds of the people ; and itt en-
deavouring to bring about as much derangement
and embarrassment, as may produce popular de-
losian and impetnosity—just sufficient to expel
their political opponents from their places, and
to open the way to their own succession. ,
" Amid views so various, and motives SO ur-
gent—a ith clamour sounding from every faction—
ruin and destruction prophecying from so many
quarters—a, spurious philosophy
,scattering the
poisons of revolution-=-a frantic populace
theta voraciously—ambitions men preparing
to hazard every thing in the chaos that they were
seek ing for—and an ambitious party, turning.all
things to their own peculiar purposes—the Par-
liament assembled ; and, surely, under circum-
stances which may have dismayed, the stoutest
spirit that ever swayed the British sceptre—under
difficulties which may have appalled the firmest
Cabinet that ever counselled a Soveleign. With
such a Euripos of.schemes and projects, whirl-
iog its mischievous eddies round the base of the
State, it cannot be uninteresting to run our minds
over the manner in which this coothination of
evils--lierved and strengthened by adventitious
stinitaiants, by derangement in'commerce, disap-
perir;thient in finance, the expenditure of the war,
the utAgnation of the, peace, an unemployed po-
otadtlon, and an insufficient supply of food—woi
way : how it was opposed, and how it ittps
roUnked and compelled to retrograde. A manly,
enlightened Prince-,—anhonest, faithful, and effi-
cient Ministry—a wise, patient, and loyal spirit
among the great mass. of the people—and a firm
mind and laudable zeal in the body of the Parlia-
spcnt--..a1l co=operating, furnished a moral power
s:4cient to stay, for the time—let it be hoped
lihogether—the progress of ibis portentous aggre-
gate of evil.
"The Session commenced with a Speech from'
the Throne; in which his Royal Highness the Re.
lent lammed the Parliament, with' the utmost
frankness, of the nature of the public difficulties—
adverted to their causes, which were princi-
pally.ot a temporary kind—pointed to the remes
d'es!avhich a little time would provide—and repro-
bated, in terms restrained only by the eminence
of the illustrious person who was speaking, the
attempts-, which had been Jamie to take advantage
of the distresses ot• the country, for the purpose
of exciting a spirit of sedition and violence. in
such a state of things, the first step which would

naturally suggest l't•elf wottld Tte, to take mea-
sures to frnstrate all those attempts to svnicn
al-
lusion had been made in' the Speech from the
Throne ; because, sedition and violence are so-
cial evils, which must alarmingly enhance the ill
effects of unavoidable.misfot tune, and incommode-
the very best efforts of policy and wisdom, and
circumscribe the sphere of their 'services. If we
would abate any actual evils with which a people
may be beset—or if we would render the expe-
dients of zeal and wisdont effective—or if we would
keep in view the accomplishment of both those
ends, as far as possiblc—we musl, first, take clue
and proper care that sedition and violence do not
_intercept our good works for tile public advan-
tage. These, must be suppressed, before any sa-
lutary energy can work ; and, therefore, it was
incumbent upon the advisers of the Crown In see
that so essential a preliminary measure slrould not
be omitted.
•
- ir! Parliament addressed 'the Throne in a spirit
congenial to the sentiments which they had beard
delivered by the Sovereign. The
‘opponents of
the Ministry iu Parliament, however,- were re-
solved not to allow these useful designs to be
smoothly execnted-7--they thought it expedient to
meet the difficulties of the crisis, by discovering

that certain paragraphs in two distinct Speeches,
delivered by leis Royal Highness the Prince, Re-
gent from the Theoue, upon two different ocea-
sions„ were not of the same import ;—and.assum-
ing, that because those paragraphs 1..4 not the
same tendency, his Royal Ilighuess's advisers
were incompetent to their stations, they moved
certain amendments to the Address, for the ob-
vious purpose of embarrassing theinmeasmese—
Those amendments were moved by the late Mr.
Ponsonby—a gentleman, 'whom it was impossible
to know without esteeming, and whose sudden
fate it is impossible to reflect upon. without deep
regret. He was a man of a mild and amiable na-
ture ; but, in the course of the public life which
he had elected, be found himself associreed with So
many refractory spirits, that, in order to maintain
any restraint over their passion for excessive poli-
tical enterptise, he was drawn out of thesphere
which he would have willingly revolved, and
obliged to go a certain length in their -erratic
movements. He had a great love for the-C.4' insti-
Union ; possessed a certain good breeding in de-
bate, which did not deduct front his vigour. He
was always more plausible than convincing—
scarcely ever the author of any political 'proposi-
tion of arty comprehensiveness or pregnancy—Was.
more of the private than of the leader, in the man-
ner in which be acted during his Parliamentary
warfare; and was, without a question, one of the
best perverters of an adversary's speech that ever
was in any public assembly, ancient or modern.
Mr. Ponsonby's powers were not spared in sup-
porting the amendment to the Address which his
party lead predetermined to press. He prefaced
his motion with a long and a miscellaneous speech,
in which he swept' together as many topics as were
likely to remind the Parliament and the Nation,
of every real or imaginary difficulty. He 'ranged
through the circle of ;grievances ; touched many
topics on his way in which he Was not praoundly
informed ; and concluded with moving those
amendments, with which the public .are already
made acquainted.
" There was no great merit in the Opposition
for suggesting to the: licuse to declare, that they
saw, with the deepest concern, " the continued
embarrassments of our agriculture, manufactures,
andeomMerce ; the alarming defleiencY of the re-
venue, and the unexampled and inereasing di-S-
-tresses of all classes of his Majesty's subjects"--
especially as the distresses were not unexampled,
nor the causes of them new or unknown, upon
former 'occasions, after the Nation had passed from
war to peace, or froni peace- to war. In short,
there was nt)thing suggested in those amendments
that could he of 'lse ; nothing palpable in sob-
'stance, and remedial in design ; -nothing, thd adop-
tion of which could afford either
.benefit or re-
lief—and it was finite plaits, that the design with
.which they were moved was, to collect together
a , few notorious circumstances, prefaratory. to
the favourite motion of all regular opponents,
in Parliament, of the measures of Govern-
ment—zainely a motion for going into a Com-
mittee upon the State of the Nation. A motion
of this sort is rarely intemied for any otheripur
pose than to afford an unlimited field for opposi-
tion to disport its ; -a boundless ranee for attack
to practice in ; for ail sorts of disputants—the
.prosing calculator—the high-mettled debater—the
copious harangner-s—and the frOntless vilifier of
motives and measures--to act in concert. The
State of the Nation, as a subject of a Parliamen-
tary motion, really means nothing palpable or
specific. It is a mere tactical effort' of a patty, to
employ all their force with effect ;—it is, more-
over,
an opportunity for placing in a state of
jnxta-position, every thing, under the popular
idea of a grievance, that-industry can rake out ;
anti to deceive, by placing. in a' mass, all those
im-
perfections which are scattered over the whole
surface of the public affairs. There never has
been, nor will there ever be, to the day of judg-
ment, a nation, however prosperous, glorious, or.
splendid. 'its condition, la the state of which,
those, whose object it is to find causes for de-
jectiog representations, will not discover some-
thing, which, in popular prejodice, will appear to
be avoidable misfortunes—such as exist, but such
as the Government, it they would, may remove.—e_
Hence all disciplined opposers of Government are
eternally struggling to have " the State of the
Nation" brought under discussion—for, if the
nation were the admiration and glory of the
world, it would be an easy matter, argumenta-
tively, to make out, that it was deformed by the
number .and severity of its ruisfortunesand
sufficiently, to spread delusion and error amoug.
those, who neither do nor cal think for them-
selves, as well as among those, whose expecta-
tions and interests depend upon changes in those.
entrusted with power.
The Opposition, however, were too much irs
dread of the Reformers, to advert, in their amend-
ments, to that part of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent's Speech which counted upon the
indignation of the House, at the attempts which
had been made t• take advantage of the distresses
► of the country, for the mirpose of exciting a spirit
lof sedition and violence. They did riot pledge.
I themselves tst oppose the practitioners its setlitiot,

nor tLe calculators upon the efficacy of violence ;
they did not deprecate the abuse and theperver-
sion of the public distresses into means of.revolu-
tion and uproar—they, did not assist in giving one
salutary admonition in their amendments, designed
to rebuke the.enorthons speculations which were
afloat, concerning the expediency of changing the
Government, as well as' the social constitutibn of
the country; and, for any thing they had, done,
to maintain the established order of things, as a
body, the Spenceans might have divided the land
into agrarian minuteness, and the writers and
orators of revolution have dictated a new form to
the Government.. Events, however, presented an
unerring commentary upon the necessity there
was of the Parliament paying a prompt regard to
the allusion in the Speech from the Throne, to the
attempts to inculcate sedition and ,violenceamong
the populace. The person of his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent was assaulted, whilst returning
from the exercise of his Sovereign duty, on the
very day that the Opposition were pressing their
amendments, to lead to an inquiry.into.the State
of, the Nation. While their lips were.nttering
• the language of hostility to the sentiments con.,
taiiied its the Royal Speech, as well as in the Ad-
dress from both. HOuses of Parliament, the despe-
.rate and inipat lent abettors of revolution were at.;
tempting ,the most atrocious • outrage _.upon the
person or the Sovereign. The Amendments were
negatived in the Lords without a division ; and
-the AiHress there agreed to, was adopted In the
Commons withon; any dissent—the attack upon
the Prince Regent having been communicated to
the House, and the circumstances invest.igated,
to a certain degree, before the question was put
upon it."

from the LONDON GA7grl'l?,, Aug. 9, 1817.

Carlton-House, July 1, 181 7.

. •
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent Ivas this day pleased,
in the name and on the behalf :of his Majesty, to confer the
hcnuur of -Knighthood on .riA'n Evans, Esq. of Ethistock-
Ilail, High Sheriff of Merionethshire.

Trar- °lice, July 29, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince. Regent has' been pleased,
in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve of
the 57th Regiment being permitted to bear on its colours
and'appOinuncnts, in addition to ally other badges or de-
vices. which may heretofore have been granted to the Regi-
ment, the words—" Vittoria," " Pyrennees,' "
and "Nice," in commemoration of the services of the-Re-
giment at Vittoria, on 21st June 1813; in the Pyrennecs, in
the month of June 1813 ; at Nivelle, in Novemlier 1813 and
in the action of the Nice, on the 9th, 10th, and 11th Pe-
cember 1813.

Trar-Ogce, dztg. 5, 1317.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards, Captain Richard Montague
Oakes, from the Ist Ceylon Regiment, to he Captain of 'a
Troop, vice John Pitt Bontein, .who exchanges.
7th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lieutenant Honourable
Giles Digby Robert Fox Strangw•aya, froM half-pay of the
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert Uniacke, who t x 7
changes, receiving the difference.
11th Ditto.—To be Lieutenants, Lieutenant Barton Parker
Brown, from the baif-pay of the Regiment, vice Archibald
Frederick Paxton, who exchanges. . Lieutenant Myles San-

• dys, from the half-pay of the Regiment, vice Richard Coles,
who exchanges, receiving the ditrefence.
13th Ditto, Cornet John Hall, from the 19th Light Dragotons,
-to be Lieutenant, by purchase, 'vice Mill, promoted.
13th Ditto, Lieutenant James-M‘Bean, front the half-pay of
the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Honourable Lionel
Charles Dawson, who exchanges, receiving the Oitference.
2d Regiment of Foot, Major Alexander Thistlethwaite, from
half-pay of the 90th Foot, to ',be Major, vice GeOrge Ed-
ward Raitt, who exchangs..
23d Ditto, Lienteuant"-Colonel Thomas Pearson, from the
half-pay of the 43d Foot, to be Licutenant-Colonel; vice
. Thomas Dabney, who exchanges.
33d Ditto, Captain William Bennett, from half-pay of the
sth Garrison Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice
Edward John Pt iestley, who eXchanges, receiving the dif-:
ference. Assistant‘Surgeon: James Hnrst, from half-pay
of the 47th Foci, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice William

Dowell Fry, who exchanges.
55th Ditto; Lieutenant Francisßawksley Hall, from half-pay
of the Regiment, to be Lieutenant; vier Delgairnes; who
exchanges, receiving. the
,difference. Lieutenant iEneas
M. Nichols:sn to be Adjutant, vice Delgairnes, who resigns
.the Adjutaney only.
57th Ditto, Lieutenant Edward Powell, from half-pay of the
.Regiment,. to be 'Lieutenant, vice-William Henry Hollis,

who exchanges, receiving the difference.
39th Ditto, Lieuterntot Edward Duncan, to be Captain of a
COmpany, by purchase, vice Fuller, promoted.
60th Ditto,Lieutenant Wynne, to be Captain of a
' Cowpany, by pnrchase, Vice Goner, who retires. En-
sign Walter Bernard, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice

Wynne.
Sd West India Regiment, Ensign James Robert Young, from.
belf•pay of the Rth Foot, to he Ensign, vice Johnstone,_
whose appointment has not-taken place.
Ditto,, Captain Lewis Charles Appelins, from half;piiY of
the 60th Regiment, to be. Captain of a Company, vice Sa-
nowt PrOndfoot Hurd, who exchanges.
.Royal York Rangers, Captain William Maxwell Mills, front
the 6th West India Regiment, to he Captain of •a Com-
pany, vice:_ Walter Radford, who retires upon half-pay of
the 6th West India Regiment.
Royal West India Rangers, Major William Massy; from half-
pay of the 6th West India Regiment, to he Major, vice Da-
vid July, who exchanges.
HOSPITA L STAFF.
Apothecary George John, from the half-pay, to be Apo-
thecary to the Forces, vice George hlume Reade, who ex-

chanKeg.
Hospital-Assistant John Ferriar Nichol, from . half-pay; to
br, Hospital-Assistant to the Forces, vice Maim Gilmour,
placed on half-pay-.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.

'James Bleads, Chester, umbrella-maker, from August tG to

September 2.
Bainton .Leader, Brictol,, earthenware dealer, • from August
19 to September 10. .
BANKRUPTCIES- SUPERSEDED.
Georve.West, Kingston-upon-Hull, draper.
John Bristow, Cholsey, Berkshire, shopkeeper.
Thomas Story, South Blyth, Northumberland, master-ma-

•
riner.
Thomas Christopher Qat-drier, Brentford, ironmonger.

BANKRUrTS.

Richard Frisby, Leicester, horse-dealer, to surrender August.
}9, 'lO, at eleven, and Septeinher 20, at five, at the Stag
and Pheasant Inn, Leicester. Attornies, Mr. Makinsun,
Middle Temple, or Mr. Pilkinton, Leicester.
Pattick Kearney, Manchester, tailor, August 25, 26, and Sep-
' tember 20, at nine, at the Dog. Tavern, MancheSter. 'At-
igrnies, Messrs. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row, or
Messrs. Claye and Thompson, St. Mary's-gate, Manchester.
witham Wise,
,Both, bookseller, August 21, 22,. and Sep.-
*ember 20, at eleven, at the Full Moon Inn, Bath. At-
tarnies, Mi. Young, Charlotti-row, Matision-hOuse,"or Mr.
Wingate, Bath.
•

Wiliiam Knight Northall, Wolverhampton, Stafford Shire,
, school-master, September 17, at four, 18, acid w, areleven.
Attornies, Messrs. Mayhew and Price, Chancery-lane, or
Mr. Griffiths, Broseley, Salop:

John Morgan, Taunton, Somersetshire, linen-draper, August
24, 26,, and SepteMber 20, at two, at the White 'lkon Inn,
Bristol. Attornies, Mr. Clarke, Bristol, or Messrs:Jen-
kins, James, and Abbott, New Inn.
. ,
Benjamin "A'etton, Manchester, tailor, August 25, 26, at
ten, and September 20,.i.tt four, at the l)og Tavern, Man-
chester. Attornies,
,Mesirs.. fluid; Shaw," and Johnion,
ritiaple, or Mr. Baron, kiing-street, Alanchester. -
Samuel Uowsett, Borehain Wow!, near, litstree, Hertford-
shire{ August 12, and September 20, at ten,
Gin hibitn, Loridon.: AttortalesiMesses:-tAVecrand•Stoket,
13a$iugh:t11-street.

David Hinckley Lakeman, Lirerptail, merchant, August 21k,
2.3, and September 20, at eleven, at the. York Hotel, Li-
verpool. Attornies Mr. Whitley, Liverpool, or Mr. Win
dle, John-street, Be ..
dford-row.
Thomas Reeve and Joseph Leigh, BUchlersbury, London, and
Manchester, warehousemen, August 12,26, and September
20, at ten, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Adams,
Old Jewry.
'James Cottell, Doncombe Mill, North Wraxall, Wiltshire,
paper-maker, August 21; 22, and SepteMber 20, at six, at
the Full Moon Inn, Bath. Attornies, Mr. Highmoor,
Scotts-yard, London, or Mr. Hodgson, Bath.
Samuel Humphreys., Charlotte-street, Portland-place, mer.
chant, August 16, 28, and September 20, at ten, at
hall, Attornies, Messrii.Knight and Freeman, Basinghall-
street.
Zechariah Skyrincr, Threadneedlestreet, builder, August 12,
at ten, 23, and September 20, at eleven, at Guildhall—.
Attorney, Mr. Hutchison, Crown-court, Threadneedle-
street.
Georce Diggles, Newman-street, Oiford-street, money-scri-
vener, August 16, 23, and September 20,_at ten, at Guild-
hall. Attornics, Messrs. Barrett, 'Talbot, and
'Gray's Inn.
Henry Phillips, Carey-street, Chancery-lane, coffee-house-
keener, August 19, 22, and September 20, at tea, at
Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Knight and Freemen, ik•-•
singhall-street.
James Frewing, Blackwater, Surrey, grocer, August 23, 25,
and September 20, at eleven, at 'the house of Robinson
Bartram, under the Town Hall, Oxford. Anomie', Messrs.
Walsh, Oxford, or Mr: Pii*riall., Stqle
DIVIDENDS. • ' '

Sept. 10, R. Livie, Austin-friars, merchant—Sept. 2; T.
Clark and C.Gray, Keswick, Curnherland, nurserymen —Sept.
1, C. Besself, Prospect-place, .Lambetl4 initirance-broker-i
Sept. 27, E. Isaac, Queew--square, Bloomsbury, wine-mer-
chant—Ain:2st 30, .1. Henrickson, Litchfitld, cotton-spinner
—August 30, G. islibotts, -Laches, Staffordshire, corn-dealer
—Sept. 2, T.. Crump, Bishop; Burton, Yorkshire, timber-,
meretrant—Sept. I,W.Bell,Borncastle, Lincolnshire, grocer—
Sc'pt. 1, T. Hird, Bishop-Wearmoutii, Durham, ship-dwner
—sept. 15, P. Weston, Bilton, Warwickshire, innholder—
Sept. 19, T. Heathfield;Tiverton;Devimshire,cotton.spianur
—August 30, J. Delahoy, Deptford, printer—Sept. I, .1.
Slinderland near the Sea, draper—Adgust 30,'
W. Paxton, Goodington, Oxfordshire, baker—Sept. 3, 'W.
Oakley, Bash, coach-master—Angtist Qom, W. Disston, Nafford,
W incestershi re, mealtran—August 23, D. Tubbs, Liverpool,
merchant—. Sept. I, E. ilinydn, Vencliurch-street, hardware-
man—August 30, .I.Graingier, Makin's-lane, Catunoir-street*
• provision-broker—Sept. 1, E. Asling and .1. l-.-open, Spa-road.
Bermonds'cy, merchants—August 30; G. Yearsori„Leadenhall-
street, tailor—AuguSt3o,T.Willianrs,Colemanst reet, packer.
August. 30, T. Sutcliffe Lad-lane, and J. Broadiretir,Hali tax,,
calico-tuanufacturers=-August 12, J. Mow.reth and J. Se-
tpteira, Gracech u 1-th-street, druggists.