The National Register. — 1820-04-02 (London, England)

CARDINAL CONSALVI."  In an article on the recent alarms, the Edinburtylt llevlew has an article containing useful information respecting the plots, and ably examining the evidence adduced at the several periods, and it observes, " It' we shall ever live to see the country cured of its truly mortifying, we may say, humiliating, propensity to be the easy dupes of such panics, as often us any tottering Government finds its account in raising them, this salutary change can only be wrought by soberly reflecting on the past, recalling to mind the stories told, and examining these at a season when the panic having subsided, re-,son may be allowed to operate, and demonstrate their false. hood; or, at least, by showing that the event has disproved them. Nothing can be further from our intention than to deny that a general discontent has for some years prevailed through the country ; that it has been on the increase of late; that it especially nfeets populous districts, like those w here manufactorers are spread ; that it is ready to be turned by factious and unprincipled demagogues to dangerous purposes; that when distress prevails, it is always most to be dreaded; and that to secure the peace of the State against its effects demands the vigilant care of the Executive Government. Whatever be the more remote origin of this spirit, we conceive the load of taxation under which the community labours, to be the chief proximate cause of its increased diffusion, to which we may add, the generally prevailing distrust of the Government. That the old law of the land was amply sufficient to cope with the disaffected, bad it been administered by steady hands, and accompanied with the spirit of conciliation, we held to be equally manifest; and if the York trials of 1812—those of Derby—that of Cashman, &c. did not establish the sufficiency of the OLD wiry to meet conspirators, rebels, and libellers, will not the recent events at Leicester and at York carry conviction home to the minds of all, even to Ultra Lolialists?—Wbere, therefore, was the necesisity for the nut, laws, and can they, will they conciliate discontent?"  Letteri from Dole state, that a horrible crime, attended with peculiar circumstances, has been committed at the village of Ougney. A woman, who was travelling with a considerable sum of money about her, stopped at an inn, and asked to remain there fir the night. The mistress of the inn and her two sons immediately formed a plot to rob and murder her, and fixed upon the middle of the night to execute their crime. Their guest in the meantime became suspicious, either on accotmt of the sum of money which she had, or by being struck with the badness of the physiognomy of her hosts, and could not conceal her apprehensions. In order to encourage her, the mistress of the house promised to sleep with her, telling her at the same time, that she would sleep inside. Midnight arrived, the two sons entered the room without a light, crept up softly to the bed-side, ascertained with their hands the position of the two women, and plunged a couple of da,ggers into the breast of the nearest of them.— The woman who was inside shrieked out, and the brothers started back with horror, perceiving that they had murdered their mother. It happened that she had fallen asleep, during which, the traveller, at the first noise she heard, sprung from the place she had occupied to the inside of the bed. The cub. prits arc in the hands of justice.