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TVs day was published, In Tw6 Volumes 410. price d. 7. 4a. in boards, ETYMOLOG ICON UNIVERSALE; or, UNIVERSAL. E'II"MOLOCICAL DIC 1 IONAillt", on a new plan: in which it is .hewn that Courforan . a are alone ro he rt•garded in discover:ng the Affinity of \Voids, avid that the Vowels are to he wholly rejeeted—that Languages contain the same Fundamental Wert—and that they arc derived. from the EARTH, and the Operations. Accidents, and l'r,,perties ing to it ; with Illus,ra.iont., dra•.vri from vgiiru, Larguages-- • the Teutonic Dialects, Engl sh, Go, hic, S.OLtOI., German, Lani.h, &C. &c. Greek, Latln, French, ha:i3r, Spi - I.:ft—the Celtic Dia. feces, Gaelic, Irish, Wei,h, Drew ne, ere. &c —the Dialecof of the Sclavtutic, Rthsian, arc Fas; ern Languages, Hebrew, Arabic, Fenian, Sanser:t, Opsev, ('optic, Bre. &c. By WALTER WHITER, A. M. Rector of Harclingham, Norfolk, and late Fellow of Clare Hall. : Sold by W. H. Lunn, Classical Library, Soho-square, Lou doe.; and J.Deighton, Cambridge. C./. I DIZ PAPERS. • * PROCEEDINGS OF THE CORTES. NI Anc Ft 17. The second title of the Constitution, which relates to the succession of the Crown, approved in secret, was read, to . the following effect : 4 "rhe kingdom of Spain is indivisible ; and the succession to the Throne, from the promulgation of • the Constitution, must be constantly governed by the regular order of primogeniture and representation among the legitimate descendants, males and females, cf the lines designated in Art. 175. Only legitimate . children, born in lawful wedlock, can be Monarchs of Spain.—Art. 176. In the same degree and line males shell be preferred to females, and always the • elder ti• the younger; hut the females of the higher line, or of the higher degree in the same line, shall be preferred to the males of an inferior line or degree. se-Art. 17 7 . The son er daughter of the first-born of the King, in the event of their father's death without Jraving succeeded to the '1 hrone, shall be preferred to the males, and succeed immediately to their' Whilst the by right of representation. Art. 178. Whilst the line in which the succession is fixed is not extinct, the succession in it cannot be intetruoted.—Art. 179. The King of Spain is Ferdinand VII. of Bourbon, who is now actually reigning.—Art. 180. His legiti mate descendants, both males and females, shall suc ceed to him ; in failure of issue his brothers and sisters shall succeed. and next his paternal uncles and aunts, .and their legitimate descemlants in the order provid ed; the right of representetion and the preference of the higher to the lower lines.beime deserved in all.— Art. 181. The Cortes shall be empr,wered to exthmt from the {accession any person, or per:ons, w.So mly le incapable e 'eventing, or who may have done ray to merit heing deprived of ihe Crown.--Art. 182. It all the lines here des:glinted shall become extinct, theCertes shall be empowered to nominate miters to the succession in the manner most beneCcial to the nation, always , following the order and rules of succession here esta blished. When the succession shall have fallen to a female, she shall not cheese a h e;hand without the consent of the Cores ; and if she should do so, it sl:all he understood as an abdication of the Crown— . 184.. In the evert of a ferna!e succeeding to the Crown, her husband shall not have any authority in the kingdom, nor take any part in the Government. staticia 18. The constitution was read by the Senators Terau and Naeazette ;• the one reading, and the other com _paring reciprocally. Sencr Terau asked, " is this the Constitution which the Cortes have sanctioned ?" the Deputes rose up, and the Secretary said, " It is declared that it is." The President then pronounced an elegant dis course, congratulating the Representatives of the Spanish Natter) that the wished-for day had artived which had completed and confirmed that constitution which was adapted to secure the prosperity and hap piness of both hemispheres. 'lbis discourse was re ceived with universal and unequalled applause. • The Decree of the Cortes was then read, which, according to ar•ele 18 of the Constitution, excludes from the succession to the Crown of Spain the in fant Don Francisco de Paula and his descendants, the Ex-Queen of Etruria and her descendants, and the Princess Loiiise (present spouse of Nepole m Bo naparte) daughter of the Emperor of Austria, Fran : cis 11. and her descendants ; and, in consequence, in case of the failure of Ferdinand VII, the Infant Don Carlos, and their descendants, the succession to the Crown will be in the Senora Dolma Carlota .loa quina, and the Senora Lonna Maria Isabel, Infantas pi Spain. PRIVATE LEI TER.—ALICANT, FEB. 2R. Ilething new here of consecptence, except that Mr. Tupper has been tainted oat of his place by the Go vt.rnt.r, Nxtm it,f ,, me , : him in an official letter, that he did t: , .t ish to: atiy E glish agent in Alicant. He is gone to Carliz, the e:tprcss great slisplea sure,against Ctuz, the Gt , vc.nor ; so much so, it en couraged, they certa;nly denounce him. There eras Some arrear.race of dis , i i-bance the other night. Gencrai Itoche was applied to, who very properiy de ' (-lined any intNic:ei , Ge. A battalion of the W..Uocn foams is here, at,..1 the G ,vcraux has great reliance Lai they received an order front Don Joseph t!te new Captain-General, to • repair to him at f•linci?. When they (!epart. l should net be surprs,td is a set:tt.ts cl; , .,titrhanc , s tak. s place. At preent the sttcets ate crew:le:Ll with patroles, and. six persons ate not allowed to commtme together.— Cruz has lrid two private ct;trantinicatiors with iiarisi-e, the French Ccaeral. nna w rites, that between the `2oth and 30th of 11,(:(X) nim had left Spain for France : and report says, that the greatest part of the army of Su clic' is gone into tfe interior; as.d that the protection of Valencia is co,:f 4 at.d to an inconsiderable force." MADRID, FEDRIJARY 2€l. The Bench and the 7r pat jeans she w, nettv:th standing al their er.eleavonis to conceal it, their great fear at the moeernenis of the a lies. Joseph has every thing edacked up and is ready to set cut on the rst ; and the partisans of the f:ench, who know what !! eir fate will be under such circum stances, bitterly complain of the tr.an:er in v hich they have been deceived, aad many justly mermur against NApoleon, After Laving wishcd to persuade us that tits aunies i.f Valencia arid IvleTcia had been entirely dispersed, the French are now obliged to cpritc:,s that in Murcia, Leer: t. and Carzvala, there are insurgent troops, and that General Maiii has or ; 05.0 47 . ,u5e wei e dispersed to unite in the.:e points. PARLMMEATAPr PROCEABINGS. ..--. HOUiF. OF LOADS, APRIL 11. The Earl of PLYMOUTH and the Bishop of OXFORD (Doctor Jackoin) took their oaths and their seats. lievetal Publie Pape•r.s were presented from Jiff: rent Public Offices hy the proper Officer:, and ordered tribe laid on the table•. he fi,liciwing bill, were brought up from the House of Com. mo::s, vlz.—Larl of Wellington's Annuity Bill, !IR. Mahogany Duty Bill, and several Priv:le t3ii!s, which were mid a first time. Lad G'itosverioit moved, that the Order of the Day for their Lordships to go into a Committie on the Reversiunary Hare Bid for to-morrow should be diseiarge(l: and that their Lord ho summoned for the same obj,ct on Friday se'nnight.— Agreed tu. The Lan of LIVERPOOL presented a Pethion from the Corpo ration of the Town of Paisley, against the continuance of the East-India Company's Charter, which was crdcred to be laid on the Table. CAPTURE OF CIUDAD ROORIGO. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that when he m wrd the th;:•iks ot their Lord,htps to the Earl of \Wellington on 10th ot frill - nary, and the Oflkets under Ins colon - and at the taking of Ciudad Rodrigo. several Officers' names, who were of rat.k stillieet.t to have had ht)imurable mention made of in those thanks, were lift out by mistake in that vote. He would there• fore move, that the list of names which he had delivered to their Lordships Clerk should he in.erted in the vote, (for which list t-t the Report of the House of Commons.)—The Motion was a;reed to. BANK AND EAST-INDIA COMPANY. The Eail of LAUDERDALE gave notice, that to-morrow he would move for the correspondence be tween the Government and the East-India Company on the subject of the renewal of their Charter. His Lordship then adverted to the Bill now in progress respecting Banknotes, and observed, that it was of the last importance thzt the merchants and people of this country should understand what was the condi tion of the Bank Company, and what th i e profits which they derived from a system which to others wss the source of so muck loss. He therefore gave notice, that he would move for an account of the di vidends on Bank-stock, from 1797 to the present time, together with the bonuses which the holders of that stock had received during that period ; and he pledged himself to shew that the Bank had derived a profit of about 16 millions sterling from the restric tive regulations. This was a subject well worth the attention of their Lordships and the whole nation. IRISH PEASANTRY-RELIGIOUS TOLERATION. Earl STANHOPE stated, that having had the good fortune, at the close of the last Session, to quiet the minds of the people of this country on a subject of very great moment (alluding to the Bank-note Bill) by a measure, which, though not agreeable to all, w.is satisfactory to most of their Lordships ; it was now his intention to set the minds of a great portion cf the population of these kingdoms at rest upon two other subjects of the greatest importance. In the first place, he had to otsserve, that at present the Irish peasantry were liable to be compelled to pay the same rent tw:cc, three times, or four times over. He pro posed to nuive fcr leave to bring in a Bill to remedy this evil to-morrow se'niiight. The second point was one or no less importance—it related to religious dis tinctions. There were but two opinions on the sub ject : either religious distinctions ought to be a ground of civil ci,abilities, or they ought not. Some held the one opinion, some the caber ; but ail, he suppos ed, would allow, that intolerance and persecution ought to be avoided. He intended therefore to bring in a Bill to amend the law in this respect—a law b.,- which many members even of the Church of Eng land might be subjected to serious incoavenience...-- He would not name any particular day at present, as it was desirable that the Catholic qeestion should be first discussed ; a subject, which, though not the immediate object of his Bill, was certainly connected with it.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the motion of Mr. WARD, the consideration of the Petition from Wootten 13a.sset, complaining of an undue election, was postponed till Tuesday next. 1 be s. toad reading of the Clandestine Marriage Bill was post poned till Friday se'nnight. The Princesses' Annuity Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed on Tuesday nest. tit - Joust NEWPORT gave notice of a motion for to-morrow for the appointment of some new Members to the Irish finance Committee. Mr. WirNNt postp.ned till Tuesday his motion respectipg Colonel M•Alahon. Mr. CRP: ItVtir gave notice, that he should move to•morrow for copies of the Patents of the Trine. Regent by which certain sala ries were given to Lord Melville and the Earl ut Buckingham shire, as Presidents of the Board of Controul. Mr. ROBINSON informed the House, that the Lords of the Adnura'Ay had conceived it their eiti:y to have Lord Wm. Stuart, vc::o commanded the Conquestadur, tried by a Court Martial for utmine the ship on a bank. I: would be necessary, therefore, that Ids Lordship should be put under an arrest , and, as be was a Member of that I•iouse, the Lords of the Admiralty concaved they owed it to that I-louse, to inform them ot the circumstance. CATHOLIC PYIITION. Mr. GRATTAN rose to state, that it would be impossible for him to bring forward this ques:ion no early as the luh. Ht• was not prepared to say on what day he euu'd engage to bring of for ward; but be thought it necessary to state so much, iii cotter that Gentlemen tniett not be brought to Town I:mace.. nil, OP a the suppmition of its eonsi , •g on ul on th tt eiy. The CIIA NCELI.OI4.. of the i.XCHEQUER wished Oa: the Right Honourable Gentleman would iulornt then;, as nearly as he could, abs ut what tune he thou A lit he could hi lug it forward, as he would wish to postpone the call of the House to tne day prtvioaa. Nir. (=RATTAN, af'er some consideration, sitid that he thetylit he migEt say on Kura ay fortnight he would be ready to bring it ferwaied. Oa ta- monor of the CHANCELLOR of the Even r2ticr., the er der Icr the call of the House was postponed t , ll thii day se'unigh7, TrIANKs or rilE itou4E. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, n'tlce moving the Vote of Thanks to the Officers and &ldiers employed in the capture if Ciudad Rod riqo, he ::bserve.l , thataLveral names of °dicers whom the lionse would have wished to have included in that vote, had been omitted. He should therefore, with the leave of the House, move, that the entry of that Vote of Thanks on the Journals should be read; which being Accordingly done, the Right Honourable Gentleman moved, that the names of Major-General H. Campbell, Major-General Charles Stewart, Major Generat 3aron Major-General Clemis, and Brigadier-General Harvey, of ti.e Portuguese Army, be added to that Vote.—Agreed to unanimously. EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S CHAIM:h. Sir CHARLES MORGAN presented a Petition from the Town of Birmingham, signed by ab ,, ve 16,000 persons, complaining if the monopoly of dit East-India Company, and praying reiiet.—The tioa was ordered to lie on the table. Some other Petitions were priiented of a simila: import from other places ; but they were read by the C:erk in so low a tone of voice, that it waiimpossi'of: teetollect in the Gallery either the names of the places from whence they came, or their precise import. Ow the question for receiving the BirminghamVe tition, General GASCOMNE roc to state, that h'e wished to wait for the production of the papers already moved for, before he submitted to the House there solutions of which he had given notice yesterday. Mr. WALL./ CE thought that it would be rather an unusual course which the Honourable Gentleman proposed to pursue, Of anticipating the Government, and bringing forward resolutions of his own, with out knowing what it was that Government meant to propose. Mr. CREEVEY wished to know whether the ac connts which by the Act of Parliament the India Company ought to have laid before now upon the table, were to be presented before the resolutions were brought forward. This course had been pursued in the yea- 1793, and indeed. it appeared to him abso lutely necessary that the actual state of the %%hole concern should be before the House, before resolu tions of such great importance should be submitted to their consideration. The country had been for a long time in anxious expectation of something bejne done for the public on the expiration of th e . prat' of the East India Company. ."" Mr. WALLACE said, that he had every reasonto suppose the papers alluded to would he laid before the House previously to any sops being taken for the renewal of the charter. The only accounts, however, which the Act of Parliament required to be laid be fore the House early in the Session, was the home account of the Company's affairs. As to the accounts from India, it was necessary to wait for the rival of ships, which did not come till late in the Session. If then, they were to wait until the whole of the ac counts or what was generally called " The India Budget," should be laid before the House, it would put off the business until a period so very late in the Session, that there would not be titne enough fi r the due discussion of a business of so much impo rtance. General TA RLETON thought it would be better to wait until the business was first broached by his Majesty's Ministers. We should then see how the Indian loaf was to be cut up and carved among 'the out-ports by his Myjesty's Ministers. .The petition was then received, and ordered to lie on the table. SCARCITY IN IRELAND. In a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the exportation of Irish spirits, Mr. W. POLE said, he should have to propose a Resolution f r suspend ing the Exportation of Irish Spirits. This measure arose out of the present scarcity of grain. ner.! was, he conceived, four several ways in which a remeJy might be applied to this evil ; first, the suspension of the importati.on ef grain from lt eland into tins coon try ; that was a measure which there was no person who would not feel reluctant to adopt ; the seem d was one wLicii would be adopted with equal regret, namely, to prevent any supplies being sent from Ire land to our army in the Peninsula ; tl.e third was, the suspension of tl e distilleries ; this was a measure which, in h& opinion, was equally objectionable with the other two, on account of the effect it would have on the Irish revenue ; the fourth and last was, the measure in question, which, though it would press heavy on a certain class of peri•on , , yet he hoped, when the benefit the public would derive was con sidered, they would have patriotism emough to hear it. He should, therefore, propose th it the exportation should now cease till the last day in December, giv!ng power to the Lord Lieutenant to continue the prohi bition till 40 days after the meeting of the next Ses sion of Parliament. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by rr.oving a Resolution to th a t effe c t. _ _ Mr. STEWART thought the Reso,u.ion would have all the effect expected from it. Mr.. CURWEN considered the measure would tend to give a partial relief, and wished Ministers would endeavour to adopt some measure which might prove permanently beneficial. in his opinion, could only be done by encouraging our own corn growers, by raising the price at which importation of corn was allowed. Mr. SHAW opposed the measure as ineffectual. Sir J. NEWPORT thought the measure could not prove equal to relieving the pressure which was felt in many parts of Ireland. Mr. PARNELL was of opinion the • quantity of spirits exported was too trifling to make any altera tion in the quantity distilled. Mr. W. POLE was surprised to hear the Honour able Gentleman (Mr. Parnell) should he so ill- n formed on the subject. He would, perhaps, be sur prised to hear, that the quantity of spirits exported in the last month amounted to between one fourth and one•tifth of the whole quantity distilled. Government were not so s4n2,uine at to suppose that it was certain this measure would operate as a cure the evil; but, ii it should not, they might then have recourse to any et!ivr:nvasure in aid of this. ;Alter a few words from Mr. GRATTAN and Colonel BASTARD, the Resolution was agreed to, and the Re port ordered to be received to-morrow. in a Ci;mniittee of Ways and Means, Mr. W. POLE said he should have to propose a Resolution hich would have for its object to increase the duty on spirits in Ireland 2s. 6d. per gallon—that would to double it. One of the objects of this measure would be to raise the 'price of spirits, and thus prevent the great consumption amongst the lower orders. A second object in lessening the consumption, would be to assist tne measure, which be had just submitted to the House. One of the objections against tills mea sure would pr 'bably be, that it would increase illicit distillation. But he was persuaded the regulations adopted last Sessica had proved so efficacious, that .hey would, in a short time, have the effect of almost entirely putting down this species of fraud. He con cluded, by moving a Resolution, imposing an addi tion of 2s. 6d. per gallon on spirits distilled in Ireland. After 4 few observations from Sir Joan Newport, Mr. Grattan, and Mr. Parnell, the Resolution was agreed to. Mr. POLE then proposed a Resolution for re pealing all the duties at present existing on tobacco n Ireland, and imposing, in their stead. one general luty, to be paid previi.us to the article coming out t the Custom-hotice stores, which was agreed tci. Several Resolutions, relative to the duties on snuff, Stc. were put and agreed to. The Report was c ! cdere4 to be received totinorrow.—.Adjourned, THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 9. PRICE OF S THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCIC Bank Stock 323—India Stock Mt 1711-41tands OIL I, pm a per C'. Font. 1 0r rponry 9}—Do. 13r ace. 64 I per Ct. Reduced ssf 59—..4 ler cent. 5 per Ct. uut —5 per Lt. Scrip ti ore. Long Anne. t S. 7- If:AS—Etch.. Bali St. CL Ye•terday the Bank bepn pay:n; to the Public the Th ree m , Cents. tour per Cents. Long A:::lus.Let s and o.her Dividends payable this quarter. The Anco frigate railed yesterday from Pon._ mouth, with Mr. LISTON the Ambassador, and su on board, for Cons' atr.inople. The POICTIEI/S man of w:lr has arrived at Ply. mouth, and brings cor.firmation of L'Orient 'T M , drop having got safe into Brest ; and it is stated that they carried in several pries with them. The extracts which we hare given to-day from the Spanish Papers, received by the Cadiz Nail of yes. terday, afford cheering prospects of what may be ea. petted from the new order of things in the Peninsula. The Constitution is spoken of in tile highest terms at apjrobation; and the acts of the neer Regency ban given universal satisfaction. General Eeto has arrived at Cadiz, from Monte Video, on board the INIIGINIA, and luiligs with hire 54,000 dol'ars,' as an additional grant fr m the Ce!o. nits to the mother country. Suttee, whose departure from the lines before Cadiz we noticed yesterday, hrs proceeded in the first instance tweeds Seville,. eith Six thousand men, but his ultimate destination eas supposed to be Dadajoz, to join Mertmoe:, in cr.st he should attempt to relieve it. Five thousand Frtch had aiso proceeded to Xeres ; but net for the purpose et continuing there, as that place SCJS more than am ocher distressed for want of provisions. Cadiz had equally felt tl:e scarcity of bread ; and the irhati. tarts were under some alarm f rr future cow a quencre when, on the '2sth, ; ust before the packet sailed, a little fleet of American ships arrived in the Bay, al; ;mien with flour ; and the article which had pre viously.been very high, was then otte.ed bit eig:iteen dollars per barrel. What will BOhAPARTE viN totLis? General LtSCY, it is said at Castiz, has increased his force considerably in Catalonia, where he was car rying on the most active warfare. General B.u.tas kisw, with 10,000 men, was expected on t'ez oppo. site side of the water, to make an effort for the 144- Ivg of ale siege of Cadiz, which WAS believed to be no very difficult task, so reduced was the besieging army by the detachments sent away to different quarters. General DOYLE had lately gone out with'a party for the purpose (.1 riconiwitring the enemy, and was said to have obtained all the information he wished. The French have no troops at Ayamunte. Some people from the Government of Cadiz had recently been there, for the purpose of making artatagemeau for the embarkation of some cavalry expected flat Lord WELLINGTON'S army, to joie BALLANi ULU. WIIO was entirely destitute cf that description of farce. In addition to the tidings from Cadiz, letters were also received from Alicant, to the latter end of Fe. bruary. They all tend to prove that the enemy tore suffering greatly from the want of provisions. Mr. TUPPER, we are surprised to learn, has been ordered from Alicant by the Governor, and had Arrived from thence, at Cadiz. Though Britain, under the blessing of Provides@lo has had the happiness to escape the direct defi•lalsol4 of the Gallic revolutiontiry mania, it cannot be gat nied that we have indirectly sustained material sto• jury from the concus.aun with wli;ca it was Act a. pitied. Indeed, the tempest ha. not yet comptetely subsided. ft is true that the howling detattaucm which threatened to submerge all the instimuoos aE civilization has somewhat abated ; but it %111 be long bcfore the disturbed elements of national ibtacoune and reciprocity find their just equilibrium. In fact., the political frame et the cot . dized worn has undergone so complete a change, that tlaose old parts of the machine which have resisted the stock, have had their motion more or 1::ss 'maned, and. of course, have ceased to operate with their luftaer lacility. The necessity of adaptati:At and meliora- tion is imposed upon them ; nor is it a lght task that in consequence devolves upon those Mho siloold direct the movenients. NVe siy that it is no longer a matter of choice• hot of necessity, that changes, adapted to the altered circumstances of the world, should be made in our own s ) s.em ; and sound wisdom demand. that our motet and physical c..crgies should be eniployed to influence the direction ot that toireut which we coll' not stem. To what does Britain owe die present deranged state ot her manufacturing, comma:A.ll,2nd cold s) stems, but to the very circumst..nces 10 whitb " have ailuded, and to winch we wish to call the attetr• Lion of the pubic, and particularly those who boo the direction of our national affairs. Can =lsle' zr.ent be necessary to sliest , that legulatiuns and re' s.ratnts, which were framed f.r another state at doer than hat now prevails in the world, shall be J ed, moditieJ, or entirely abrogated. The MP"! Lion is so selt-evident, that we must aratbe continu ince less to any biledo-Per!.ian qqalitY tf I hri° laws, than to want of due consider:ratio* WO gl ou-, An tut 1 u I 7 alre duc Ur) tu to fir 0%