The National Register. — 1820-12-31 (London, England)

THE " LICENTIOUS PRESS."  The Country grows sick at heart—the Constitution totters—the House of Brunswick is in danger; but where are the authors of so much mischief? Let us see.—The loyalists, as they term themselves —too many of whom mean by loyally a saleable commodity, to be disposed of for their own advantaee—t hese loyalists attribute the evils under which the country labours to Ike Press!—Not to the moon or the magnet—not to solar influence, or mysterious magic, but to the licentious Press! Did the licentious Press increase taxation ? Does the licentious Press overload the sinews of the former? Does the licentious Press support the Government by the sword? Does the liceatious Press grind down the nerves of the mechanic and the labourer? Did the licentious Press suggest the infamous Gaging Bills? Did the licentious Press oppose the Holy Alliance neitinst mankind? Did the licentious Press prcduce the tyranny of Ferdinand, or the despoiiin of Frederic? Did the licentious Press destroy Alexander's just opinions, and till their place with the disgusting notions lately ? Did the licentious Press blow up the Spanish frigate in time of peace—bombard Copenhagen to prove our friendship to the Danes—pay the Neapolitans for fighting for Murat, and the Sicilians for fi,;liting against him ? Did the licentious Press teech Louis that he had been nineteen yearS King of France i Did the licentious Press generate the loathsome herd of contractors and sineeurists, which, like so many cancers, devour the body politic? Did the licentiate; Press draw front the suffering nation its hard-earned treasures, to subsidise the banditti of Russia, Austria and Prussia? Did the licentious Press cut off the springs of trade? Did tile licentious Press produce that host of political ills which make the people miserable, hopeless, and discontented ? Or, in truth and iu fact, are not all these ills the freits of the errors or of the crimes of Ministers ? Are they not the consequence of their tyrannical system—Ole re. sults of their mad (sings and base designs? To see the danger and conceal the ilicendiaries may be loyally, but it is not justice. To witness the wrongs and abuse the sufferers is cruelty : it is worse than the ignorance of old, which heaped upon some poor, but innocent woman, the curses of lantern bru•es, fire the murrain of their cattle or the blights of their harvest ; and just as wise and as rational as the witch-pursuers of past ages, arc the equally benighted tracers of the causes of national calamity to the use of the twenty-f Our letters ! If we examine all the precious, declarations which have been hatched ill bye places by the trumpeters of loyalty to deceive their Royal Master, they strike the same string, and draw fbrth the same tone :—to the Licentiousness of the Press, and to Blasphemy, with their hair on end and uplifted hands, the devoted sons of cupidity and loyalty ascribe our danger.  A cousin of the assassin Louvel, who bears that infamous name, and who belongs toy regiment of dragoons at Thionville, having made some horrible propositions to a trumpeter of the regiment, which the latter rejected with shuddering, Louvel stal;be,l him dead. The murderer is in custody. Lord and Lady Curzon have, with the kind.^!:t regard for the comforts of the poor at this period at the year, made a most acceptable present of blaiskets aid clothing, to the indigent families in the in:iglibourhood of Gopsall.  I