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~: I' 4111,11013111, Pelting' *as therefore' declared to • overrated A seine of rather more confusion than ordinarily takes place in these quiet and well-regulated Courts no* limed. Mr. Smith appeared very suddenly :o be by ens means so anxious that the Judge aloes- should be beard; hut he still continued to interrupt the Proctor Obis wile, his own Proctor, the Counsel, the Registrar, and the Court ; asd finally he complained that he was not Abused to be heard. SICORISTOPEISR ROBINSON expressed iris willingness to hear anything that was relevant to the question before the Court. Mt. Smith then attempted to impress upon the Court's mind, the extreme expediency of his being forthwith dismissed from all fat Cher observance of the suit, and the payment of Mr. Dyke's bill. Sir C. RoatssoN said, that there was no question at present of dismissal from the suit before the Court, and he could not sit there to hear irrelevant matters, having an imp , itant engagement to attend elsewhere. Mr. Dyke obtained a monition, warning Mr. Smith to the pay- Swot of his costs. Dr. Lee, as asticast curia, Wen addressed the Conn. He began by stating that he was not aware of the merits of this case; but as the Counsel who had assisted Mr. Smith with his advice was not at present in Court, be begged to submit—on behalf of a man who appeared to be a friendless and unprotected individual—that Mr. Smith's prayer appeared to be a very reasonable one; and the Learned Counsel added the expression of a hope, that under the circumstances which had been, stated, the Court would see reason to dismiss the party horn a suit of which it was stated these was now no longer a prosecutor. The Learned Counsel had un derstood his Worship to sax, that he had an engage. ment else.. here: but really Ile was at a loss to account what more pressing or important engagement his Worship could attend to, than listening to the prayers of poor, and it might be, oppressed, suitors in this Court. Sir CHRISTONIER Roe INSON.—You have offered the : best ar,ology, Sir, for your address to the Court, by stating at the outset that you knew nothing of the case which i, before me. I ousts that the Court, however, is sufficiently competent to the discharge of its duties, — to decide upon the proper course it should pursue, without receiving advice from you, Sir. Mr. Snitch was cot the point of again opening the case, when the Registrar declared the book to be over, and the Court broke up. TITIIE CASE—Beroac sus IRISH PRIVY COUNCIL. Saturday, a case was heard before a Committee of the Pi ivy Council, in which the inhabitants of the town of Wexford were the appellants, against an application of their Rector, the Rev. Charles Strong, for the levying of Minister's money on the houses of the said town, in confirmation of a valuation he had obtained, pursuant to a very old Act of Parliament, the 17th and 18th of Charles 11. The preamble recites, " That there are Small or no tithes settled by law upon the incumbents, who have actual care of souls in the city of Dublin, and in other cities and towns corporate in the kingdom of Ireland," &c. and it is then enacted, " that the Lord Lieutenant and Council may allot and charge Minister's money." The Rector conceiving that the cioAumstances of his benefice brought it within the provisions of the said Act, set forth in his memotial, that the town of Wexford, in which his glebe house and parish church are situate, is a corporate town, and the householders pay him no tithes or other duties in return fur " hip great expenditure CA their spiritual comfort." Tne itrh thitants, in answer to this allegation, sub /flitted to the Privy Council, in a counter memorial, that the Act of Charles 11. 17 and 18, was only in tended by the Legislature to enable the Pt ivy Council to provide for those Rectors whose care of souls being solely within a Corporate town, and having no titheable land attached, would be destitute of income—that said Act could not apply to the. living, of Wexford, which is composed of a Union of some large parishes, contain ing upwards of nine thousand acres of titheable land of prime quality, mostly under tillage, the farmers of which are in comfortable circumstances, and of such peaceable habits, that there is no,obstruction to the col kction of tithes—that the sole trade of the town being the exportation of titheable produce, afforded a strong inducement to the tarmeis of the Union to keep their land in that form of culture most profitable to the Rector—that so far from the householders of the tovin contributing nothing towards the Rector's income, they actually held upwards of one thousand titbeable acres within his parish; so that if Minis ter's money were to be levied, they would be con strained to pay the same Rector in their twofold eapaeity as householders and landholders—that the great bulk of the inhabitants of the houses from which he sought this impost were very poor, be ing shopkeepers without business, fishermen, and a wretched labouring population, almost destitute of em ployment—that his " expenditure for their spiritual comfort" could not be " very great," inasmuch as the greater proportion of the inhabitants were of the Roman Catholic religion—and that, finally, the income of the parish, arising from tithes alon., was most abundant for the spiritual and temporal purposes of the living ; in proof of which, they mention that Archdeacon Elgee, late Rector of Wexford, of whom it is not too much to say that he died universally regretted, as he had lived beloved by all his parishioners =- he was one whose mo deration has been scarcely equalled—whose charity knew no bounds—whose liberal and pe sceful habits, as a true Christian Minister, they trust, will he imitated by all his successors—that the said Archdeacon, shortly before his decease, in 1823, ordered his Proctors to value the tithes of the Union; 'his directions were, in doing so, on no ac count to exceed a 16th ; and where any doubt arose as to the value of the crops, always to bear against the Rector. —According to this valuation, the tithe to which he was entitled as Rector of Wexford exceeded 9001. and as an additional corroboration of the accuracy of the Memo titbits' estimate of the income of the parish, they sub mitted, that the Bi,hop of the Diocese, (and no one will dispute his Lordship's acumen with regard to Church property) having instituted an inquiry into the revenues of the Union, previous to disposing of the vacant living, was so well satisfied that the income arising within the parish of Wexford alone was quite adequate to the ex poses of the Rectol, that the dignity and emoluments of the Archdeaconry of Leighlin, and the Surrogateship of the Diocesan Court, were severed from the living of Wexford, though hitherto enjoyed by the Incumbent of strength and justice of their cause. to be heard before the Privy ~ their final decision. having heard Counsel on both sides, to report to the Privy Council, .C. Strong did not come within of Parliament. ______ - that parish. Relying on the strengtl She inhabitants prayed to Council. previous to their The Committee having ilallotillced their intention that the claim of the Rev.l *simulation of the Act of '_ .-- t om _ "'1 - egiqt t MR. SECRETARY CANNING. ' 1 PROM THR JOURRAR oha OROATS. There is so much ign tAnce in the articles of the Ministerial Journals, that we blush to employ ourselves in refuting them ; but, as ignorance is the lowest stage from which men can stmt to ascend t 6 knowledge, the Ministerial Journals offer the most certain. point which could be chosen to start from iu search of truth: In this re-pect they are useful. They ask—" what has Mr. CAWING done to merit the praises which are lavished on him ? He is -pro claimed the greatest staterman_that ever existed, for having secured to his country the gain of some millions." Men who occupy themselves seriously with political studies, have never formed their judgvnezt from a single fact, of the power and the talent of those who are placed in a situation to influence the destiny of a nation.; for, in so doing, they do not comprehend even the value of the fact on which they would ground their judgment. Nothing is insulated in politics. • The following is the way in which such studies are connected: Ten years ago, Mr. Canning offered himself as a can didate at the Liverpool election ; England was then led astray from her true policy by the dazzling effects of the prodigious success which she had obtained, in common with those who have since been called the holy Alli ance; and the English Aristocracy, for the first time since the establishment of liberty in that country, seemed disposed to forget those principles, which, in justifying its pre-eminence, have always constituted its _glory . and its safety. • In England, a candidate must speak to the electors whose suffrages he solicits. If thi- usage be attended with-some inconveniences, it has also its advantages, since it compels a declaration of principles which can not be violated, and it furnishes a pledge that the me diocrity.of the candidates shall not .extend to the must complete nullity. In the then state of England, what speech did Mr. CANNING address to the . electois of Liverpool? " I know that the Opposition Members, who wish to concentrate the Ministry in certain great families, and who, while mocking legitimacy with respect to thrones, pretend to hereditary political talents, treat me as an adventurer. Ido not understand what such a reproach can mean in a country where all the highest offices of the State are open to every one, but I accept this deno mination, it it designate a man, who, as a repiesenta tive, wishes but to. depend upon the nation, and who, to serve his country, conceives that he has no occasion IT the support of a hunched generations of illus trious ancestois." Nerier was a declaration conceived in clearer terms ; yet, it was but a simple candidate who dared thus to express his thoughts and his sentiments. The man who, in silence, gives himself up closely to political studies, transcribes this avowal into his collec tion of public statements, which he deems it necessary to refer to, and puts as a note, under it, the following : " This speech is either mere rhodomontade, or an act of the most splendid justice which a man, conscious of his own powers, can render to himself. In any case there is prodigious greatness of mind in thus declaring war against the loftiest pretensions, before even being secure of entering tie li,ts." Mr.CANNI NG was chosen by the electors of Liverpool. Through difficulties, insurmountable in a country where talent was not the greatest power known, be teaches the Ministry, not ignorant that England is entangled in the trammels of the Holy Alliante; he withdraws her, places her oli one side, and finally, in opposition, gibing always to his conduct that appearance of frank ness which enables him coolly to say, to those whom it disconcerts—" I forewarned you of it." And this goes so directly to the object, that the French Ministry, who cried out that war would be rekindle.' in Europe, it England recognized the independence of South America, says, two days after the public declaration of that inde pendence—" Nothing new has happened—we were foie warned of it!" It is not, therefore, for having secured the gain of several millions to his country, that Mr. CANNING takes his place in the first rank of Statesmen, but because, having a system, he at once avowed it in the face of those who could counteract it, and before he was himself in a position which enabled him to put that system in operation ; because, having publicly professed certain principles, he has never swerved from them ; and, above all, because there were formidable obstacles to overcome before he could accomplish what he now has accom ',fished; and that he surmounted those obstacles, with out,. for a moment, balancing between the resignation of the seals of office and the dishonour of acting con trary to his own principles. His strength did not consist in his Ministerial position, but in his personal character and in the wisdom of his opinions. His antagonists, England and the Opposition, always to respectful to wards him, are equally convinced of this truth. The weakest Ministers in point of talent, always know and believe some things. It they are conscien tiously misled, the Public feel it, and attribute the mis chief they do, not so much to the men themselves, as to the institutions of the country, which prohibit the application of general knowledge, and the force of pub lic opinion, in opposition to individual incapacity. But the Minister who belies his conscience, who acts against his conviction, who, giving nay constantly to a pity whom he neither respects nor esteems, and the dupe of his own artifices, more and mute involves himself in a false porky, with the frivolous hope of regaining by subterfuge the ground which he yields without honour; such a Minister would be judged by the Public as' he deserved, and more severely than a Minister who errs with good intentions. They would say of the lattet, "he has been deceived ;" of the former, "" he has pot even known how to deceive, and yet hat was all he aimed at." In thus contrasting the end now attained by Mr. CANNING with the point from which he set out ten years ago, we have' been anxious to demonstrate that it is not upon insulated fads that enlightened men form their judgments. The Session of the English .Parlias merit being 'about to open, the simplicity which Mr. CANNING will adopt in his language, will form a fresh subject for political study. The bold and uncompro mising candidate for Liverpool will be found very un assuming; but he has nothing now to brave, though he knows very well that there may be a great deal with which be may have to contend. Hence it was not without a reason that he preceded the opening of Par liament with the recognition of the independence of South America. As soon as it shall be well understood. that this measure has the approbation of a country whkh thoroughly comprehends its own interests, all the Cabinets of Europe may send Notes .and Counter-notes, without any ether result than that of opposing phrases to facts. ....11.•••••" , In the wily of apolitical study: Frenchmen may re mark, that the most important affairs are decided in England, while the• Loudon Journals regularly an nounce, that the Ministers are gone into the country, to the watering-places, or to patties of pleasure of long duration. In considering our system of administration, we might be led to suppose that Ministers are like arti ficers—that they work only with their arms, and on the spot where they are placed. It is not thus in England ; there they work sith the profound knowledge which prevails, with the mind, and with reflection; and these can be transported anywhere. There is nothing more Calculated to enervate the moral faculties, than the supposed necessity of constantly affixing signatures, of distracting attention by giving trivial audiences , w hich are incessantly repeated, of passing continually from the details of one affair to those of another wholly dif ferent. It would be impossible to find an able man ' ', in England who could and would discharge the office of a Minister in the way it is discharged in France.— Mediocrity may easily conceal itself behind that mass of papers created by the concentration of affairs, but talent would find in them its tomb; and the custom of England having proved that talent is more necessary to the prosperity of States than signing -machines, the Government and the general Administration take espe cial charge of those matters only which the citizens cannot execute for themselves. It is thus that the na tion husbands a strength which it imparts, when there is occasion, to those who govern it well, and which it withholds from others. But, in justifying the impartiality of those who con sider Mr. CANNING as one of the greatest Ministers of England, our principal object has been, to skew to those who do not seem to be aware of the fact, that the France of 18'25 has no resemblance to the France of 1788. At the latter period we could not have reckoned' as many Frenchmen who merely knew the names of the Ministers at Versailles, as we could now reckon those who underszand perfectly well the men, the pub lic interests, the policy, and the r.dministration, of the States of the Old and the New World. IZOY.IL 111 UERNIAN GENERAL RAIL-ROAD COMPANY. A. PROSPECTUS of this COMPANY, intended to combine great National and Political Benefits with the full advantages of Cons mercial Enterprize,will be published in a few days. Such Prospectus will be best authenticated by the Extracts it will comprise, from Letters received from many distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen, large landed Proprietors in Ireland, expressive of their opinions in favour of the Plan, and of their zealous desire to co-operate in it. Many eminent Capitalists, Merchants, and Bankers of this Me_ tropolis, have been also consulted on the occasion, and active mea sures pursuing, under a Committee of their nomination, in maturing and giving fukl effect to the measure, with a view to constitute an extensive Company, on the solid basis of public and individual good, by the combination of the Proprietors of the Soil with the great Mercantile Interests of both Kingdoms. . - Any precipitate or partial measure, elicited by a knowledge of, and in anticipation of this noble object, can have no other effect than to stimulate the parties promoting the present Plan to in creased exertion in bringing it to completion. Applications for Prospectuses, and further particulars, may be made to )li.nrs. Ravi... a +.l Co. Bank er, Clement's lane ; Messrs. Fresh- Atli', Kays, and Solicitors, New Rank-buildings; and to Wm. Tooke, Esq. Solicitor, Gray's-Inn. THE EVENING STAR 14 . 0NDON. • . TUURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1825. 1 . THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols appear rather heavy, and opened at 1031 i for the Ac count, with scarcely anything doing. F.WF.IGN FUNDS. . The same dullness exists in the Foreign Market ; scarcely a bar gain has been done. Current Prices: New Spanish 15, Old 211 e, Russian 961. Mexican 801 Colombian New 89} 901, Chilian QS, French Scrip 141 15 pre. Austrian 961 97, Portuguese 891, Brazilian Scrip 15.1 pre. New do. 21 pre. Gas 11 9 pre. SHArtF.. PAID. seW ?RIC/ TO-DAT. £ Se Alliance Assurance - £lOO 1)o• Marine - 160 Anglo Mexican Mines • 100 United Mexican ditto - 40 Real del Monte ditto 400 Brazilian ditto - 100 Colon t:.)1.111 Jitto 100 Rio de la Plata ditto 100 Buenos Ayrrs ditto - Peruvian ditto Milian ditto Anglo Chiliso 95 105 13 14 pre. 32 33 25 27 71 pre. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. Ihatavoon, J.P. 21.—0 n London, 56. 51. 2 Us. 56.0#. Sr. Paramount, JAN. 7.—On London, 9 27-32. Pun, 101. Lursic, JAN. 17.—0 n London, 5 M. 6. 15j. Boast', JAN. 18.—On London, 3 M. 6. 24. Dzsatso, JAN. 20.—0 n London, £lOO 2 M. 592 to 591. PN ICE OP STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 232% 231% S per Cent. Bed. 94% - 3 per Cent. Cons. 93 3 / 4 3 / 4 3 / 8 Si per Cent. Red. 100% 101 1 / 8 100% - 4 per Cent. New 10534 106 105% Long Ann. 23 3-16—India Bonds 99 100 New Annuities 9534 3 per Cent. 1751.93 3 / 4 • £l,OOO Excheq. Bills (1%d.) 63 4 £5OO ditto (1 WO.) 64 £lOO and £2OO ditto (1 lifid.) 65 Cens. for Acct. 93 7/ E % Frankfort Papers to the 20th ult. reached us this forenoon. The following are extracts SWITZERLAND, JANUARY 14. It appears that fresh applications cannot change the determination of the Cantons who have refused to take .part in the capitulation for the Neapolitan service. Being scarcely able to maintain at the full complement their corps in the service of France and the Netherlands, they think they sisould.riA . the violation of tlfeir ex isting engagements by contracting new ones. This, at least, is the explanation given by the Government of the Canton of Zurich, in reply to .the new circnlar of the Federal Directory, VIENNA, YANUARY so. h. nomination of . his 'Serene - Highness Prince Alex , *ander Voh Hohenlohe b to the dignity of Canon, at Gros , wardein, in Hungary, With a revenue suitable to this -elevated ecclesiastical dignity, is in many respects a mwn.pm:lrmiurv!Pqr: ii 'subject' of tongratulatiod. ilis Highness, however, still in this capital, residing as hitherto in the Palace of Prince Schwartzenburg, and will not go, as we hear, to his new destination till the spring. this Hamburgh Papers to the 22d inst. reached us forenoon, from which we make the followirig.estta ST. PETERSBURG% JANUARY S. We have heard it stated as certain, that there is as intention of giving to the Neva a new and, straight course, for the purpose of preserving the bridges on the breaking up of the ice, and preventing the interrup tion of the communication between the different parts of the city; perhaps, ton, the danger that threatens the lower parts of the cit y,by iturndltions,would he lessened by the execution of this project. The able:A engineeri are already employed in surveying the ground, and a corps of soldiers will be employed in this undertaking. The day before yesterctry Te Deem, was performed with great solemnity in the Cathedral Church, in honour of the 12th anniversary .of the deliverance of Russia from Bonaparte. The Char i itable Committee for Artisans who are re duced to poverty by the late inundation, has received 25,000 rubles from ,Holland, through the medium of M. Streglitz, the Banker. The subscriptions at Moscow already Mount to 150,000 rubles. The second of this month was ob!erved in all the Protestant communities as a day of fasting and humj- Lotion, in commemorati , n of the late inundation. HANOVER, JANUARY ts. The 12th No. of the Collection of the L aws contains a circular letter of the consistory, to all the General and Special Superintendants, &c. relative to the Cen sorship of the Press ; in which, referring to the Royal Edicts on the same subject, of 14th October, 180, end 9th September, 1824, the ancient edicts *f 1705 and 1731 are mentioned, by which no subject or inhabitant of the country, whoever he may be, shall have anything printed, however little or trifling, in or out of the country, till it has been laid before the Censor, and ap proved, on pain of a fine of 50 dollars. A copy of this circular is to be sent'to every Clergyman, to be deposited in the archives of the parish. By the latest Papers from the United States, which are to the 2d instant, we learn that the merchants of Boston have strongly petitioned Congress for the adop tion of severe measures against the Pirates. Mr. LLOYD, who presented the Petition to the Senate, de clared it was in unison with the voice of the whole country, which called for vengeance on these blood hounds ; and that scarcely a day passed that was not marked by some new recital of murder and plunder perpetrated by them on the lives and property of Ame rican Citizens. The Senate appeared to pay great at tention to this Petition, and it is expected that they will empower the Executive to act, as the emergency may require, with promptness and energy. On the motion for a Committee. in the House of Re presentatives,to consider the claims of citizens who had suffered by our invasion of the territory of the United States in the last war, two Members declaimed with great acrimony against our mode of warfare, as preda tory, savage, and.unnecessarily injurious to individuals. It is,however,somewhat curious,that of the two Members of the House ofitepresentatives, both alike unfriendly to England, one refines the charge of the other, as applied to England. Mr. WILLIAMS opposes indemnity to the sufferers, stating that the refusal would serve to ani mate the citizen-soldier on the frontier to repel the enemy—that is, according to every rational version, would render the destruction of ,his property by the invader at once unavoidable and justifiable. Mr. CAM• RIMMING'S argument, contrary to his intentions, we sup pose, produces a sufficient apology for those troop:whoa% he accuses ,of wanton devastation and violence. He advocates the claims of the sufferers, and proves they have a right to indemnity, inasmuch as " wherever by military occupation property has acquired a military character, it is rendered liable to destruction by the enemy." It is, however, proper to add, that the two worthy members are not persons of any great consider ation in America, for their talents or influence. The current of authority sets the other way. Intelligence from Madrid to the 14th inst. states, that encouraged by the good sense and moderation of a pa:t of the Ministry, the Ambassadors of the Foreign Powers had demadded the suppression of Military Commissions. and that of the Tribunals of Purification. Their de mand is said to have proved successful so far, that the individuals who had-not yet purified themselves, were to do it before the ordinary tribunals. Official intelli gence of our determination to recognize the indepen dence of the States of Mexico, Colombia, and Buenos Ayres, had reached the Spanish Government on the 10th of the present month. The effect which it produced on the King and his Counsellors is not mentioned, but private advices represent our act as destroying the last hope which the Spanish Government still retained of reconquering its insurgent colonies with the aid of fo reign troops. Instead of making vain efforts to send expeditions against South America, FIUIDIWAND ought to protect his own coasts from the attacks of Colombian privateers and Algetine corsairs, by whom they are so thickly infested, especially the Straights of Gibraltar that Spanish merchant vessels cannot pass from the European to tote African side without incurring great of being taken. danger Yesterday, the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council assembled for the first time this season at the new ternporas7 Coun cil Office, in. Whitehall.place, to hear French Appeals. • Yesterday aiternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, Downiakstreet, which roe attended by the F,arls of Llvaarota., Wavratoiu-tway and liatinuurr. Mr. Secretary Prat, Mr. Secretary CANNING, lIKCJIANCIOLLOS of the Simi:was, Viscount filiamata, Mr. Wawa, Mr. livricik SON, &c. The Cabinet broke up soon after five o'clock. 0.,,..,.