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goods from any part of the world! Thus
are eight millions of people, who only four-
teen years ago, had not a coat or a gown
that was not carried from England, able to
supply themselves; and must, of course,
be, in a short time, able to export those
commodities, and at a much cheaper rate
than we possibly can.
Even ten years

ago, America did not possess the sheep to
grow a tenth part of the wool sufficient for
making her woollens.-What a wonderful
increase of means! To what must such a
country arrive in another ten years, if left
as she is!-But, my fear is, that, even
here will be found, with some persons, a
cause to make them wish for war.

"charged, according to the length of their "services; beginning in the first instance "with all those who were in his Majesty's "service previous to the 7th of March, "1803, and have since continued in it.-"When the reduction shall have been thus "made, as to the ships paid off, their Lordships will direct their attention to those "which it may be found necessary to keep "in commission, and as soon as the cir"cumstances of the war will admit, will "bring home and discharge all persons having the same standing and periods of service, as those before discharged from "the ships paid off; so that, in a few months, the situation of individuals will "be equalized; all men of a certain period THE POPE.The restoration of his "of service will be at liberty to return Holiness is not amongst the least interest-, "home to their families; and the number ing of the changes, which have, and which. "which it may be still necessary to retain, are about to take place, especially when we : "will be composed of those who have been reflect on the numerous publications which "the shortest time in the service.-An ar- have been made, since his fall, all shewing, rangement in itself so just, cannot, in as clear as day-light, that in this the protheir Lordships opinion, fail to give uni-phesies were punctually fulfilled, and buildversal satisfaction; and they are induced "to make this communication to the fleet, because they think that the exemplary good conduct of all the petty officers, seamen, "and marines, entitle them to every con"fidence, and to this full and candid explanation of their Lordships intentions. "Their Lordships cannot conclude with "out expressing their hope, that the valour "of his Majesty's flects and' armies, will speedily bring the American contest to a "conclusion honourable to the British name, safe for British interests, and conducive to the lasting repose of the civi “hzed world.—By command of their Lordships,-J. W.CROKER."- Thus, then, we have it explicitly declared, that there is to be an “AN AMERICAN WAR.” Now, we shall see, then, whether our Ministers are to be talked out of their views, whatever those views may be. The grounds of the war, on the part of America, were the invasion, as they insisted, of their neutral rights. The peace in Europe, I should have thought, put an end to the dispute, it being impossible that neutral rights should any longer be claimed.But, it seems, that I was deceived; and, I must confess, that the cry for war with America is general in this country, now that we have no other Powers to fight with, and the resentment of no one to fear. From America we learn, the most surprising fact, that a law has actually been passed to prevent the importation of either woollen or cotton

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ing thereon an unanswerable argument in support of the divine origin of the Scrip-. tures. What will the far-seeing authors of these publications, who, I dare say, thought themselves inspired, say now? I should like to take a copy of his. book to each of them, and, cramming it into his hand, thump him upon the back, and bid him tell me, what he has to say now! What is now become of the light of these wise-acres; these expounders. of prophesies? What is now become of all their visionary trash? Where do they now see the supernatural causes, into which they before penetrated as easily as my knife penetrates a piece of toasted cheese? If these conceited men; the solemn impostors, were now assembled together, and shut up in a mad-house, would it not be better than to let them ramble about bewildering the minds and debasing the spirit of the people?-But, it is curious enough, that, amongst the foulest abuses of the Emperor Napoleon were those fanatical and intolerant wretches, who were formerly continually calling the Pope Anti-Christ and the Whore of Babylon. They abused the Pope; they said his fall was foretold in the Scriptures, and yet they abused the man that pulled him out of his chair. To complete their impudence; to claim the title of the most impudent of all the human species, they have now only to abuse those who have restored him to his See and his tempoxal power. For my part, I am pleased

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at this restoration of the Most Holy Father, I think rightly upon the subject of religion;
because it so completely falsifies all the but, so long as religion has no influence in
elaborate expoundings of these impudent
-empirics, who are a million times worse
than the worst of Catholic Priests.I
shall be obliged to any bookseller, or other
gentieman, that will furnish me with a
complete list of all the publications, to
which I have alluded. They are very nu-
merous, but they ought to be known, and
an account of them sent to Rome. -If
the Lancasterian Society were to make a
sort of summary of these writings, and
send them forth with notes, exposing their
falsehood and folly, they might prevent
many of their scholars from becoming the
dupes of fanaticism.- -There can be very
little doubt but every thing will be done,
that can be done without violence, to re-
store the Roman Catholic religion wherever
it has given way to any other persuasion.
And, really, when I look at the divers sects
in and about London; when I hear the
crazy rant and whining cant of their
preachers, and see the people such admi-
rers of their trash, I cannot think it of
much consequence, whether the French be
Catholics or Protestants, and more espe-
cially when I see, that Catholics are by far
the most gay and agreeable of the two. As
for the principles of freedom, where do
you find them amongst the populous sects in
England? There are a few Unitarians
and Independents, who have sense; but,
the rest, with the exception of the Quak-
ers, are a rabble of senseless fanatics; and,
what is still more degrading than all the
rest, rant and cant are making their way
into the Church itself, where a preacher,
especially about London, is popular in pro-
portion as he departs from the use of simple
morality and sound reason.I think that
any country is more likely to be happy, and
free too, with one religion, be it what it
may, than with all this crowd of varying
sects. There is no such thing as walking
out of an evening near London without
being stunned, at almost every hundred
yards, by the bawling of some of these fa-
natical preachers, and the groaning or
squalling of their flocks Every house and
every hovel is occupied with readings and
explainings and expoundings of writings, of
which not one in ten thousand understands
any part of the meaning.- -Long live the
Holy Father! say I, who relieves the people
from all this gloomy work, and leaves them
to frolic and dance. It would be great-
ly to be desired, that all mankind should

politics and government, I really can see
no difference in the value of different su-
perstitions. Nay, there is a manifest evil
in the multiplicity; for it tends to divide
the people; to occupy and amuse their
minds, and to draw their attention from
things of real consequence, appertaining to
their liberty and happiness. The gloomy
superstition prevalent in England, is the
most odious that ever was heard of, and I
should be very sorry to hear that it had found
its way into any other part of the world.-
However, let those, who so clearly saw
the fulfilment of the Scriptures in the fall
of the Pope, now come forward and let us
hear what they have to say. The Pope
knew very well that their opinions were
false, and waited with great patience and
constancy for his restoration. The time is
certainly a time of triumph for the Catholic
Church; and, it would not be at all won-
derful if we were to see conversion to her
become one of the fashions of the day.
I have no scruple in saying, that I would
rather see my neighbourhood Catholic than
what it is. I would rather see the people
dancing, and hear them singing to the
sound of a fiddle, than see them kneeling and
hear them groaning to the rant of a metho-
dist preacher. Hypocrisy is the vice of the
age, and of this vice the meeting-house is
the mother and the nurse.—— -I hope the
Most Holy Father's toe is in prime condi-
tion, for it will have an abundance of kisses,
The Lady of Loretto was carried to Paris
and sold for fire-wood amongst other lum-
ber. Will she be formed again by the good
priests out of the ashes; or will a new one
be got from Holland? I beg the reader
to watch the event of this; for it is a mat-
ter of deep concern.-People, I think, will
never again cut one another's throats for
religion's sake. The axe and the fire are,
I hope, laid aside for ever; and, as to the
different falsehoods that men may be in-
duced to believe, one, perhaps, is just as
harmless, or as little mischievous, as the
other, providing that no one of them has,
in any way, a connection with politics and
government.

HOAX ON THE STOCK-EXCHANGE.The managers of the affairs of the StockExchange, who, I suppose, are the same Committee that were acting and publishing of late, have preferred a bill of indictment, in which they have lumped Mr, De Beren

other transactions by which it will have been preceded. At present it would be improper to do this; and the public will be just enough, notwithstanding all the shame

MORE STOCK-JOBBING.

SIRI perceive by the Public Papers, that my worthy brethren of the StockExchange have removed the indictment against Berenger and others into the Court of King's Bench, and consequently the trial cannot come on for some time. They surely cannot give any satisfactory reason for this removal, or for the delay; their witnesses must be all ready, as they are near at hand; probably it proceeds from their anxious desire not to suffer Lord Cochrane and the others, to experience the indignity of being tried at the Old Bailey; and as Lord Ellenborough never allows political motives to mix with his charges to a jury, that, therefore, the

ger, Lord Cochrane, Mr. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Butt, along with several other persons. The bill has been found by the Grand Jury at the Old Bailey, and, in due course, the trial would have taken placeful efforts above mentioned, to suspend its there in about a fortnight-This has been judgment, till it has heard that trial. prevented, as it is stated in the public prints, by a removal of the matter into the Court of King's-Bench, which will cause considerable delay. I did not know that our Jaws allowed of this, and certainly always thought, that (except in the proceedings of the Attorney General indeed), when a bill of indictment was found against any man, his trial must come on in the same Court, and that, too, as quickly as possible have been reading the Code Napoleon so much of late, that I am quite lost when I come to the operation of our own laws. But, what I took up my pen to notice, is, the infamous conduct of those newspaper writers, who have published to the world, that the removal was THE ACT OF THE ACCUSED. This falsehood has been exposed, in the public prints, by let-parties will experience from him the most ters under the hands of Lord Cochrane, upright and impartial conduct. But, Mr. Mr. C. Johnstone and Mr. Butt, who have Editor, I am an old retired broker, and all declared, that they sought not a mo- am well acquainted with the tricks and ment's delay; that they wished the trial to views of my brethren; they wish to defer this come on immediately; and that they were trial as long as possible, and particularly quite satisfied with the same ordinary sort until after the new loan has been taken, of jury and of trial as other indicted per-in order that they may, in the mean time, The public will not fail to perceive profit by the fluctuations; for, after the the venomous spirit, by which the above trial, adieu to all the sweet profits of mentioned falsehood must have been dic-Change Alley. The persons who were tated. The object of it manifestly was to the brokers of Lord Cochrane and the cause it to be believed, that the accused other parties, upon the 21st of February, parties had put off the day of their punish-must give evidence at the trial, not only ment as long as they could, as it is very na-from whom the stock possessed by the tural for men conscious of approaching above persons was purchased, but also to punishment to do!-Is not this the ex-whom it was sold. This disclosure must cess of prostitution of the press? Is such implicate hundreds of persons, besides the a press the protector of innocence? Is such brokers, whose books must be produced at a press the "palladium of free men"; or is the trial. The public will then have an it not the greatest curse that ever afflicted opportunity of knowing who were the a people?- -To have put off the trial; greatest winners on that celebrated day. voluntarily to have existed with a true bill This developement will be fine food for hanging over their heads, for several weeks the Qui Tam actions. I have observed longer than was necessary, would have in a daily Paper, that my worthy friends, been a presumptive proof that they feared Messrs. WAKEFIELD, CHAUMETTE, TERthe result of the trial. No one will deny RY, and others, who were upon the Subthis; and, therefore, to promulgate that Committee, have already been served with they had done this was, in direct terms, to writs, and that the same kind attentions tell the world, that they were conscious of have been experienced by Messrs. ANguilt, than which it is scarcely possible TROBUS, HANCOCK, GOLDSMID, SPICER, to imagine any thing more base and RICARDO, and hundreds of other brokers, detestable. After the trial, there will all of whom have done an immensity of be plenty of time to comment on the treat-TIME BUSINESS. No person is now safe ment of Mr. De Berenger and on all the in doing this sort of business with any

sons.

every one

broker. The penalties by the Act of 7th have been the motives which induced the George II. are very severe, and Allies to allow Napoleon to retain even this who has not a copy of that Act ought to semblance of authority in Europe; whether purchase one immediately, and he will, by they have been actuated by gratitude to a the perusal of it, be convinced of the im- man who, when he had it in his power, did propriety of continuing these transactions not overturn their thrones, but, on the confor TIME, which are not only illegal, but trary, gave them strength and stability, at subjects all parties to ENORMOUS PENAL- the expence of general liberty, it must be TIES. The actions now pending must be acknowledged that the bart circumstance the ruin of thousands: the penalties, I of Napoleon stipulating for the empty title hear, upon those already brought, will ex-of Emperor, after the power was gone, afceed two millions.-A RETIRED BROKER. Pimlico, May 4, 1814.

fords a pretty decisive proof that his predominant passion is vanity; that vanity which occasioned all his misfortunes; that vanity which has arrested the progress of freedom, perhaps for a century to come, and which, in my opinion, will always prove an obstacle to his being again employed by the people of France, should the defence of their rights ever again lead them to unsheath the sword. But, in stating what I consider reprehensible in the conduct of

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.-The fact of Bonaparte's title being recognized by the Allied Sovereigns, is no longer disputable. He has also, in addition to his pension, had the entire sovereignty of the island of Elba confirmed to him for life; and the Empress, whose title seems likewise to be continued, is to have the full possession in property of the Duchies of Parma, Pla-Napoleon, it is but fair, at all times, to accentia, and Guastalla, with the right of knowledge, that he has done much for transmitting these States to the late King France in consolidating that admirable of Rome, who is immediately to assume code of laws, which was lately distinguishthe title of "Prince of Parma and Pla-ed by his name, and which, every friend of centia."-Mr. Whitbread attempted, the freedom must be happy to find, is still to other night, in the House of Commons, to be administered in France. It is also obtain some explanation from Ministers right to give place to a vindication of Naon this subject; but he was defeated in his poleon from those charges brought against object, and the answer which he received him by his enemies; the number of whom tended very much to confirm the state- have increased, as they always do in simiment, which lately appeared in the Courier, lar cases, with the increase of his misforthat Great Britain was not a party to the tunes. On turning to No. 16 of the Register, treaty which had been concluded with Na- the reader will find, in page 504, a decree of poleon. The fact, however, of the exis- the Senate of France, passed at a Sitting tence of a treaty, such as I have mentioned, on the 3d ult. in which they attribute all is established by the following official article: sorts of crimes to Napoleon, and, on ac"Vianna, April 22.-The Court Ga- count of which, they declare, that he had "gette of this day contains the following forfeited the throne; that the hereditary "article:- Paris, April 13.--In virtue right established in his family was abolish of a Convention between the Ministers ed; and that the French people and the "of the Allied Courts and the Envoys of army were released from their oaths of fi Napoleon furnished with powers, to delity to the Emperor. To the charges which the Provisional Government ac- contained in this decree, Napoleon thought cedes, the ci-devant Emperor renounces it necessary, on the day following, to pub formally all kind of pretensions to the lish an answer. This answer, however, Crown of France and Italy, and shall was not allowed to be published at Paris, "enjoy, in exchange, during his life, the and we are now indebted for a copy of it to Isle of Elba, where a pension shall be the Dutch papers. It appears to me oposses "paid to him and the members of his all the characteristics of being genuine, family. The Duchies of Parma, Pla- though, I dare say, it has been much curtailed. centia, and Guastalla, shall, at the ap- Its authenticity has not even been de"proaching peace, be ceded in full property, nied by our hireling journals; but although "to the Empress Maria Louisa, who shall they have given it publicity, they have not"transmit them to her son, to whom the ventured to make a single observation on "title of Prince of Parma and Palcentia is its contents. Considering the class of men granted from this time."Whatever may to whom it was addressed, and the nature.

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of the accusations which they preferred | -The Senate is not ashamed to speak against Napoleon, it appears to me that " of libels against foreign powers, and forhe has, at least, completely exculpated him- " gets that they were composed in its own self from being the sole actor in the mea- "bosom. As long as fortune remained sures pursued during his reign; and that," faithful to their Sovereigns, these people if he had not been flattered, and his aun-"never let a syllable of complaint about bitious views so much encouraged by men "the abuse of power escape their lips. If equally vain and ambitious, he might per-" the Emperor had despised mankind as haps have still been at the head of France," he is upbraided with having done, the and the French people enjoying all the "world must now acknowledge that he advantages of a republican government.— "had some reason to despise them.-He The following is Napoleon's answer :- "has received his dignity from God and "ORDER OF THE DAY.--Fontainbleau," the nation; they alone can take it from "April 4.-The Emperor thanks the army" bin. He has always considered this "for the attachment it has shown to him, dignity as a burthen, and when he took "and, above all, because it acknowledges" it upon himself, it was from the convic"that France resides in him, and not in "tion that he alone was able to support iț "the people in the capital. The soldier" in a becoming manner. His fortune "follows the fortune of his General, his" seemed to be his destiny. Now that for"honour and conscience. The Duke of" tune has declared against him, nothing Ragusa has not inspired his brothers in" but the express will of the nation could arms with those feelings; he is gone prevail upon him to remain any longer over to the Allies. The Emperor cannot" on the throne.If he must consider approve the conditions on which he has "himself as the only obstacle to peace, he "taken this step; he cannot accept his most willingly, makes to France his last "life and liberty as a boon from a subject." sacrifice. He has accordingly sent the "The Senate has allowed itself to dispose" Prince of Moscow, and the Dukes of "of the Government of France; it has" Vicenza and Tarentum, to Paris, to forgotten that it is indebted for the power open a negociation. The army may be "which it now abuses to the Emperor" assured that its honour and the happialone; that he saved a part of its mem- ness of France shall never be opposed to "bers out of the storms of the revolution," each other." "raised another part from nothing to INDEMNITY FOR THE PAST.- -The greatness, and protected them against the Bremen Gazette of the 28th ult. contains "hatred of the nation. The Senate ap- the following article:" It is reckoned peals to the Articles of the Constitution," that Bonaparte has debts to the amount "in order to overthrow it. It does not" of two milliards. The Allies have laid "blush to make reproaches to the Emper- upon France a contribution of 1500 or, without reflecting, that the Senate it-" millions [upwards of 62 millions sterself, as the first body in the State, has" ling]; fifteen French fortresses remain "had a share in every event. It has gone as security in their hands, one of which so far as to dare to reproach the Em-" is to be restored at each payment of 100 peror with having falsified the official do-" millions; so that the whole is to be paid cuments in the publication; the whole" and the fortresses restored in 15 years." "world knows he had no occasion for such The Courier adds, "that the distribution 66 artifices, a hint from him was a com- of this contribution will be among such "mand for the Senate, which always did of the Allies as have been exposed to conmore than was required of it. The Em-tributions levied by Bonaparte." Is it in<< peror has ever been ready to attend to the tended by this that Great Britain should "well-founded advice of his Ministers, and come in for a share of this immense requihe expected from them, under present sition? It is true that no direct levy has circumstances, the fullest approbation and been made upon the good people of Engsupport of his measures. If, out of zeal, land by Bonaparte; but I apprehend it exaggeration has slipped into the public will be no difficult matter for our political addresses and speeches, the Emperor sophists to shew, as Napoleon has been the may certainly have been deceived; but indirect cause of the greater part of the 6% ought not those who have held such lan-contributions raised here, during the war, guage to him, reproach themselves for that we ought to participate in the indem.... 66 the consequences of their own flattery? Inity money to be paid by France.

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