The National Register. — 1821-01-01 (London, England)

THE " LICENTIOUS PRE .SS."  The Country grows sick at heart—the Constitu. tion totters—the House of Brunswick is in danger; but where arc 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 advantage—these loyalists attribute the evils under which the country labours to Me 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 firmer ? Does the licentious Press support the Government by the sword? Does the licentious Press grind down the nerves of the mechanic and the labourer? Did the licentious Press suggest the infamous Gagging Bills? Did the licentious Press oppose the Holy Alliance against mankind? Did the licentious Press produce the tyranny of Ferdinand, or the despotism of Frederic? Did the licentious Press destroy Alex. ander's just opinions, and till their• place with the disgus sing notions lately instilled? 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 Mr Murat, and the Sicilians ter fighting against him? Did the licentious Press teach Louis that he had been nineteen years King of France ? Did the licentious Press generate the loathsome herd of con. traetot s and sinecurists, which, like so many cancers, devour the body politic? Did the licentious Press draw from the suffixing 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 the licentious Press produce that host of political ills which make the people miserable, hopeless, and discontented ? Or, in truth and in fact, are not all these ills the fruits of the errors or of the crimes of Ministers ? Are they not the consequence of their tyrannical system—the re. sults of their mad efiiirts and base designs? To see the danger and conceal the incendiaries may be ley. ally, 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 human brutes, fits 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, we the equally benighted i racers of the causes of national calamity to the use of the twenty-four letters! lf we examine all the precious declarations which have been hatched in bye places by the trumpeters of loyalty to deedve their Royal Maser, they strike the same string, and draw forth the same tone:—to the Licentiousness of the Press, and to Blasphemy, with their hair en end and uplifted hands, the devoted sons of cupidity and loyalty ascribe our danger.  A cousin of the assassin Louvel, who hears dirt intionoto; name, and who belongs to a regiment of dragoons at Tidonville, having made some horrible propositions to a trumpeter of the regiment, which the latter rejected with shuddering, Louvel stabbed him dead. The murderer is in custody.  Lord and Lady Curzon have, with the kindest regard for the comforts of the poor at this period of the year, made a most accepLable present of blankets and clothing, to the indigent families in the neigh. bourhood.of Guinan.