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9111 E ANNUAL MEETING of the QUALIFIED MEMBERS of the ROYAL UNION ASSOCIATION, will take place at the Crown and Anchhor Tavern on the 28th inst. for the purpose of receivirg the DIRECTORS and AUDITORS' F.PORT, arid ELECTING OFFICERS, Mr. SMITH, of Brydges-street, and Mr. MOUGHAM, jun. of King vir.et. Hatter, being CANDIDA rEs for the DIRECTION. l'o the WORTHY and INDEPENDENT FREEMEN of MA I DSTONE. GENTLE:MIN, IT is with the utmost respect and gratitude that I acknowledge the kind and Battering reception I have cape r !pored at your hands, in my canna-s for the distinguished honour of being returned, on the ensuing Elestion, one of the Representa tives in Parliament of your Ancient and Loyal Borough, and by which I am induced to believe that the principles upon which I &fitted myself to your notice are in unison with your own. Allow me most respectfully and earnestly to solicit a continuance of your exertions in my behalf ; and I feel confident, that with • uch powerful support I shall obtain the honourable distinction, to blob, by your kindness, I have been ltd to aspire. I have the honor to be, GENTLEMEN, Your most faithful and obedient Servant, HENRY WINCHESTER. Oakfield Lodge, Hawkburst, July 11. To the LOYAL and INDEPENDENT FREEMEN of the Town and Port of SANDWICH, resident in LONDON and its Vicinity. GENTLEMEN, FROM a sense of duty and respect to his late Majesty, whose loss we all so affectionately deplore, I have hitherto :abstained from any act which could bear the imputation of haste or indelicacy. To have addressed you at an earlier period would have been unbecoming; to remain silent, at the present moment, would he disrespectful to you. It was from no love of momentary distinction or popularity—no wish to harass a political opponent—no desire of personal ambi tion —that I determined, in an important aids of the Empire, to solicit the honour of your suffrages, and to afford to every Freeman the desired opportunity of expressing his sentiments upon a great Constitutional question. Time can never remove from my breast the recollection of your favour and kindness. I now redeem the pledge I have given, and stand forward upon those principles which were generally honoured by your approbation, with ardent hope, increased strength, and confident anticipation of success. To obtain the honour of Representing your Ancient and Loyal Town, is an object of the proudest distinction. To deserve it will be the study of my life. I have never shrunk from the fullest avowal of mypolitical opinions. They are not likely to be swayed by motives of temporary expe diency. I am no convert to that policy which yields to fear what is not granted from a sense of justice. In ability you may select many tar—very far—.superior to me; but in attachment—in zeal—in de votion—to our Established Constitution, in Church and State, I will yield to no man. To uphold the dignity of the Crown, the sanctity of the Altar,—the just order and privileges of every class in the community,—to consult all the interests of all (the only legi timate object of Legislation),—to alleviate the burdens of the People by a just economy, consistent with honour and public faith, —and to preserve with religious care what yet remains of our Glo rious Constitution,—is the duty of every man in public life. The trust which I venture to ask at your bands, is one of great responsibility. By the relaxation of some of those Ancient Laws, under which this country rose to eminence among the nations, the 3lsritime. the Commercial, the Manufacturing portions of the Community, have been materially embarrassed. In this depression Agriculture has borne its full share. Many apparently conflicting Interests require a nice discrimination and method to reconcile and adjust them. Never did the Empire stand more in need of salutary and judicious counsels. Upon these principles, unfettered by any party connection, I take my stand. It is for you to decide whether they shall triumph. It is my intention to pay my personal respects at an early period to every Freeman individually ; and, in the meantime, 1 have the honour to be, with great respect, Gentlemen, Your obliged and obedient servant, London, July 1, 1830. S. GROVE PRICE. PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock 220 S per Cent. Red. 94 13 3 per Ct. Cons. ex. 92f f I 5f per Ct. 1818, per Ct. Red. 1001 I 4 per Cent. 101 f 4 per Ct. 1826, 1051 Long Ann. 19f 9.16 Do. 30Years,Ap1. Oct. 19 3.18 Do. July. Jan. 19 18 15.16 FOREIGN FUND: Brazil Bds, 5 pr Ct. 4 Ditto Acc. 731 Color. Bds. 6 per Ct. Do. lids. 1824, 22i Do. Ace. 22f 3 Do. 100, 24/ Danish lids. 3r. Ct. 741 Grrek Bonds, 5 p Ct. 38 iDu. Ace. 39 Do. 100, 38 IDo. B. 1825, 5 p Ct. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHAM*. IPAID. ITS SHAM& Brazilian Company 20 5 ei Brazillanlmp. (is% XS pm.) 35 20 766 Do. National 25 12 30. ...... _._......_. _ Do. Cocaes 20 5 7} United Mex. (iss. at £1 pm.) 40 291 141 15 Liverpool &Manchester 100 100. 180 Anglo Mexican Mint 10 110 $ Colombian (W. at .e. 5 pm.) 55 40 111 12/ South Metropolitan 50 1 35 Genetal Steam Navigation 100 13 Alliance British and Foreign 100 10 9 Li' iglish 25 12 24 General Mining Assn. 2O 7 91— MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE TH D. ,A. D. o Dublin. 0 1 France ..... 0 o Waterford .....o 1 Flanders o e Guern. & Jersey 0 1 Holland. 0 O Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburgb .. . 1 O America........ 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 8 MORNING. A. D. O Lisbon ..... 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Sweden 1 O Malta . 0 0 Brazil .. 0 THE EVENING STAR. TU: DAY, JULY 20. We have the Gazette dFrance of yesterday's date, by express, and other Paris Papers and Letters of Sun day. The contents of the latter are of some moment. The latest intelligence received at Paris from Algiers, is dated the 7th inst. The French Government had re ceived positive information, that the treasure found at Algiers Would pay the expense of the war. It was un derstood that the Regency would be given up to the PORTE, on condition that tho Sultan engaged for the suppression of piracy, and changed the governor every four years at least. It was not believed in the high po litical circles that there was any question of a colony. This was the general statement of those persons in the habit of associating with the members of the diplomatic corps, who state that the ambassadors and Ministers of the powers interested are perfectly satisfied, that there exists no intention on the part of the French Govern meat to retain the territory, of the Regency in its pos session. The Chamber of Deputies" was positively to meet on the 3d August. The intelligence from France full,' confirms the anti cipations of all who have watched the progress of the - .. 31F,1p. 0* - 4f Ek ~ .c . -. e l-- A 1 t. 14 a. ig - S4:f. 6 • 1ti,1., Ilt co k. _,, i fe,. , ..- ", '4 e , .4.r?'.: , 1:.§.,;:t•-•:. 4 , '. 4 : Zil C. 470 -,...A.1. - 1 lA. )N 1)01k . AT TWO O'CLOCK. India Bonds as ir India Stock, 2461 6 New Annuities £lOOO Exch. Bills 81 82 £5OO Ditto 81 2 2100 and £2OO Do. 81 3 Commercial Ad►ertised India for Acct. Cons. for Ace. 95 4 33 TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto Acct. 3911 Mex. Bch. 5 per Cc. Do. Bds. 1895. 6 p Cc. Do. Aect. 371 Do. 110, 37j Perm lids. 6pr Ct. 63f Sp. Da. 5 per t t. Do Account 19f f Do. 510 19f I Fr. Rt., 3 per Ct. 79E. Sk. Exchange, 951.50 c Sli A ilEs. TWfl 0 CLOCK. elections, except that the result gives a more decided vic tory to the Liberals than could have been conjectured. Now has arrived the dread moment when the next step that is taken, in a wrong direction, will, in our opinion, lead into an abyss of which the bottom is not perceptible, , although no doubt it has one. Were we to judge of the ' chances, whether that next step will be right or wrong, , most discouraging, indeed, would be our presentiments ; for the future progress of the KIN°, if we judge by the past, would be literally the road to ruin. If we may be allowed a ludicrous allusion, on a grave sub ject, we would say that he really reminds us of the Scotchman, who, with a characteristic confusion of grammatical moods, exclaimed, when falling from his horse, " I wall fa' and nae body shall help me."— Such appears to be this King's destiny, judging from his past policy. We hope, however, as the imprudent step which we allude to, and which was mentioned in an extract from the French Papers yesterday, will, in its consequences, not only involve himself and nation, but probably all Europe, that the representatives of all Europe will en deavour to turn him from any such imprudent purpose, and induce a more temporizing line of conduct; and we farther hope that the chiefs of the liberal party will see the hazard of indulging the temper not unusual in victory; and by temporizing, likewise, moderate their views to ac commodate their opponents with something like a digni fied submission. Much as we prize any victory which can establish the grand truth, that it is the people which is the origin of all power, and that it is for their welfare only that the exercise of any power can be legitimate; and much as we should have regretted any victory which should have been considered as fatal to that principle in any part of Europe, we have such an apprehension, of any sudden imprudent diminution of the strength of Government in any nation, that we sincerely could have wished the trial of strength between the parties in France, had not been brought to issue. Now however that it is decided, we should deprecate the continuance of the struggle. The principle is victorious that should, for the general good of man, be victorious ; and those who main tained, or were supposed to maintain the con trary principle, should make up their minds to submit. The Kim; should change partially, and if that will not do, change entirely, his Ministry, rather than attempt to injure the Charter, or to dispute the truth of the trium phant principle ; for it is really the dispute upon that principle which commenced the revolution, and will con tinue a revolutionary state as long as it is brought for ward as the subject of question. We think the PoLIGN Ac Administration have been treated rather ungenerously in not having been al lowed even the opportunity to inculpate themselves. They were subject to a prejudice—not an unna tural one perhaps. A little more temper in their opponents would have been, in our view of the state of France, no hazardous experiment; but, on the contrary, an expedient one. It is possible they might never attempt any thing against the liberty of Frenchmen; we think judging from the high and honourable character of the leader, that it is even probable ; and when they should have done so, would have been the time for denying their farther confidence. This would have added the weight of justice to the cause of the liberals in the con flict. Such, as appears to us, would be the dictates ofi common sense on the present situation of French politics ; but we know in our closet it is easy to admo nish King's how to act; we know likewise, that the poor Kings cannot always act as appears to the specu lative politician right; because circumstances press upon them, and bear them often into a course they scarcely themselves contemi .±L CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened at the same price they left off yester day, 93i to 94 for the account, since which the market is not so good, and they are at present 93i sellers, with little doing. To-morrow being settling day in the British market, the brokers and jobbers are busy in arranging their accounts. Console for next account 94 to Not a feature in the Foreign Market worth noticing. In shares nothing doing, except Brazils, which have improved. Metropolitan Gas 2i premium. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE. We have not a feature to communicate, either in re gard to political information or the Funds, to the present hour, which causes a great dulness in the City. Consols have been during the morning at 93i for the Account, alternately buyers and sellers, without any spe culations of importance ; for next time, 94é. The Foreign Market is in the same inanimate state as that of the British. INSPECTION OF TAB FOOT GUARDS BY THE KING. The third regiment of Foot Guards wore this morning drawn up in line opposite the Horse Guards, awaiting the arrival of the King. A few minutes past ten o'clock their Majesties drove into the Park, when the band im mediately struck up the national anthem of " GOD save the King," amid the cheering of the immense multitude assembled. The King was accompanied by the Royal Dukes of Cumberland, Sussex, Gloucester, Prince Cobourg, Prince George of Cumberland, Lord Hill, &c. &c. and, as he passed down the line, was en thusiastically greeted with the hearty plaudits of the people. The band played a favourite martial air, and the party proceeded through the centre and up the rear of the line. The regiment then performed a number of evolu lutious, and again formed in line, his Majesty expressing himself in very flattering terms of the appeara nce an d discipline of the men. The review having terminated, his Majesty, in order to gratify the immense assemblage, appeared, with his Queen, at one of the wi n d ow s fronting the Park, when their Majesties were in stantly recognised, and hailed with loud cheering and waving of hats. Their Majesties appeared highly de lighted, and returned the greetings with the most cordial acknowledgments. Several of the Royal party, i n p ass _ ing through the Parks, were loudly cheered. The fine nese of the day attracted an immense concourse of spec. to ors to the Park. It presented one dense mass of peo ple ; but, notwithstanding, we are happy to say, that not one accident occurred, nor, although the police were in at tendance, did we hear of anything happening to render their services necessary. Immediately after the Review his Majesty came to the Academy at Somerset House. COURT INTELLIGENCE. Ills hIAJESTY, after inspecting the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, on the Parade in St. James's Park, yesterday morn ing, went, accompanied by the Royal Dukes, and attended by his Staff, to the residence of Earl and Countess Bathurst. in I/own ing.street, from whence the Queen and the Princesses had witnessed the spectacle. The Earl and Countess gave a public breakfast, which was served in the grand dining room, of which all the party par took. In addition to their Majesties, there were present the Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland, the Duke of Sussex, the Princess Augusta, the Duke and Duchess of Glocester, Prince Leopold, Prince Frederick of Prussia, the Cabinet Illinisters and their Ladies, Earl Jersey, the Lord Chamberlain, and Countess Jersey, the Queen's Chamberlain, and Countess Howe, Lord and Lady Clinton, the Ladies of the Queen's Household, and the Officers of his Majesty's Staff: The King held a Court at one o'clock, at his Palace, at St. James's, for the purpose of re ceiving the addresses from the Universities of Oxford and Cam. bridge. His Majesty held an Investiture of the most ancient and noble Order of the Thistle. The knights present were—Earl Cathart. the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Castidlis, the Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount Melville, the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Aboyne, and the Earl of Fife. Mr. Quarme, the Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod, introduced the Duke of Sussex, when his Ma jesty was pleased to invest his Royal Highness with the insignia of the Order of the Thistle. OXFORD ADDREBB.—The deputation from the University of Oxtbrd came in grand procession, at two o'clock yesterday after noon, from Willis's Rooms, where they had assembled, to the Palace. The deputation consisted of upwards of three hundred members, preceded by the four Esquire Bedell*. The Vice- Chancellor, in the absence of Lord Grenville, the Chancellor of the University, who was indisposed, headed the Deputation, and was supported by the Heads of Colleges and Halls, the Pro. fessors and the Alastets of the Schools. The deputation were ushered into the presence of the King by Messrs. Mash and Martin, and Colonel Masters, the Gentlemen Ushers in waiting. The King was seated on the throne, habited in an Admiral's uniform. On the right of his Majesty stood the Marquis of Win chester as Groom of the Stole, and on the left the Duke of Leeds as Master of the Horse. The other Officers of State, the Cabinet Ali. filters, and the Officers of the Household, arranged themselves in the same manner as on Saturday, when the King received the City Address. Among the noblemen and gentlemen who came with the deputation were Prince Leopold, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Carlisle, Earl Powis, Lord Bexley, Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Sir C. Robinson, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir B. Gardiner, Viscount Clive, the Right. Hon. C. Wynn, Rev. Dr. Barrett, Dr. Macmichael, Rev. Air. Wilcox, Rev. Mr. Gilbert, and the Rev. Mr. Fallow. field. The Vice-Chancellor read the Address from the Univer. sity, which he afterwards presented to the King. His Majesty returned a gracious answer. The Heads of Colleges and Halls, the Professors and the Masters of the Schools, were all severally presented to His Majesty, and had the honour of kissing the King's hand. The deputations were retiring from the presence when His Majesty, addressing them, told them they need not withdraw, as the Queen would be shortly ready to receive them. Her Majesty was conducted from her private apartments by Earl Howe, Chamberlain, the Earl of Errol, Master of the Horse, Captain Usher, Capt. Cathcart, and Colonel M'DonneU. The Queen having taken her seat on the throne, the Vice-Chan cellor read the address, to which her Majesty returned a gracious answer. Those who had had the honour of kissing the King's hand, then kissed that of her Majesty. The Queen and her attend. ants then retired. CAMBRIDGE ADDREss.—.The King having resumed his seat on the throne, the deputation from the University of Cambridge entered, preceded by the three Esquire Bedells, H. Gunning, M.A. G. Lupingwell, Esq. D.W. Hopkins, Esq. and headed by the Duke of Gloucester, as Chancellor of the University, in his splendid robes of office, his train carried by Colonel Higgins and Mr. Currey. The principal members of the deputation were the Vice-Chancellor, the Rev. Dr. Chafy, Muter of Sidney Sussex, High Steward, the Earl of Hardwicke, Commissary F. Pollock, Esq. F.R.S. Mr. Serjeant Frere, Rev. Doctors Wadsworth, Thackeray, Webb, French. Godfrey, Lamb, Ainslie, Le Blanc, Woodhouse, Tatham (public orator,) Rev. Messieurs M'Envoy, Shelfurd, Gibson, H. Kirby, G. A. Brown, Professor Henslow, the Rev. Mr. Carrigan, Deputy Registrar, in the absence of the registrar, who was indisposed. The following noblemen and gentlemen accompanied the deputation Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Gordon, the Duke of St. Alban's, Marquises of Lansdowne and Camden, Earle Brownlow, Hard wicke, Denbigh, Aberdeen, and Westmorland, Viscounts Bar nard and Palmerston, Dr. Mond, the Bishop of Gloucester, Lords F. Beauclerk, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, Rev. Drs. Wellesley and Blomberg, Rev. Mr. Hyde; Messrs. Moore and Atkinson, and Mr. E. Alder. son, counsel to the University. The members present amounted to four hundred. The Duke of Gloucester read the address from the University of Cambridge. His Majesty made a suitable reply. The Junior Proctor then introduced the Heads of Colleges and Halls and the Professors to the King by name, all of whom had the honour of kissing his Majesty's hand. The King then addressed the deputation, and informed them that the Queen wu near at hand, and would be introduced to them. His Majesty and his attendants then withdrew; and the Queen, accompanied as be fore, when Her Majesty received the address from the University of Oxford, by the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloster, and attended by the Duchess of Leeds , Lady Caroline Wood, the Misses Hope, Boyle, De Roos, Eden, Hope, and Sneyd, together with the officers of Her Majesty's household,: entered and took her seat on the throne, the Princess Agnate standing on the right and the Duchess of Gloster on the left; Earl Howe, as Lord Chamberlain on the right, and the Earl of Errol as Mas. ter of the Horse, on the left. The Duke of Gloster read address, to which Her Majesty returned a gracious answer. The same members who had kissal the King's hand were presented to her Majesty by Earl Howe, the Lord Chamberlain, and had the honour of kissing the hand of' the Queen. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Oloaster also accompanied the Queen on re ceiving the Oxford address. The deputatien then withdrew. The Vice-Chancellor, the Rev. Dr. Chafy, gave a sumptuous dejeune to the members of the University, at the Oxford and Cambridge Club- house, in St. James's-square. PRIVY Couxcir.---His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Ureville attended u Clerk. The Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Earl of Jersey, and the Earl of Belfast, were introduced, sworn in members of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council. and took their seats at the Board accordingly. The Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir William Keppel, and Earl Powis, all of them members of the late King's Privy Council, were re-sworn members of his Majesty's Privy Council. The following were re-sworn Lord Lieutenants : Bedfordshire Berkshire». Buckinghamshire ..... ..... Duke of Buckingham Cambridgeshire . Berl of I lardwicke. Cumberland .... .. Earl of Lonsdale. Derbyshire ....Duke of Devonshire. Dorsetshire..... . ...... Earl Digby. Durham........... ........ ..... Marquis of Cleveland. Gloucestershire-- ....... ..... Duke of Beaufort. Hertfordshire Earl of Verulam. Kent . Lincolnshire Earl Brownlow. Middlesex . Monmouthshire__ Duke of Beaufort. orthamptenshire .. Earl of Westmorland. Oxfordshire . Earl of Macclesfield. Rutland • . .. Marquis of Exeter. Shropshire . ... . Earl Powis. Souton . Duke of Wellington. Stafford.. . .. Earl Talbot. Suffolk .Duke of Grafton. Sussex Warwickshire Westmoreland Earl of Lonedale. Wiltshire. Marquis of Lansdowne Yorkshire (North Riding)... Duke of Leeds. Brecon •W. B. PoweU, Esq. Denis ........ .......... Bir W. W. Wynn. • Flintshhie ..... . Earl Grosvenor. Glamorpnahire Mamuis of Bute. Merionethshire Sir W. W. Wynn. Montgomeryshire Radnor.... Roxburgh •• ..... ...Marquis of Lothian. Selkirk Nett Duke Duke of Newcastle. • A Duke of Argyll.. His )(MIY 111111111111 INS to the Dukes of Weill Buckingbant, ST and VII Mann" Marquis of lAndowciorry = Bathurst and Jersey, Vienna Mel4le, Sir *Robert Peel, and Sir O. Paget. The Marquis *ef Chehnodeley, Deputy Great Cham berlain ; Lord Ceshmate, OM Stick in Waiting; and Sir lir• Emmet* Tremor et the asseinid, attended the court. Lad Glenlyon and the His. Mr. Teendbied were the Lord and Groom in waiting. The Coen beak s ........ ahee doek. Lzvezroor., JULY 17.—The import this week of Cotton is 13,227 bags, and the sales are very extensive, reaching 34,390 bags, including 4,000 American and 1,500 Brasil, taken on speculation at a farther advance of etol of a penny per lb. In sugar a good business bu been done this week, 1,300 hogsheads having been sold. No sales have taken place in Foreign. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. The Quarterly Reviews are different from those which a pike, monthly, not only in time of appearance, but in their charac.e; They arc not, properly speaking, reviews of books, but collections ut treatises on the subjects of new books. They commenced with the Ediriburyh—the first twenty volumes of which display more spe. chums of accurate reasoning, and original thinking, than, perhaps any twenty volumes in any language. The Quarterly soon ap. peered, and became a most powerful rival. The Edinburgh los: its spirit, as its original authors were drawn aside to politics and other pursuits. For some time, its rival preserved the ascendancy, and indeed may still be said to preserve it; for, although the Edin burgh frequently shows vigour, it is not so uniform, and indulges, ocanionally, in disquisition on obscure points of Scottish jurispru dence, ani other and lore, which is not taking to the general reader, however ably argued. The political views of the Quarterly Review and Edinburgh Review, it is well known, have always been opposite: the latter grew tame when the Whir got into power ; and it seldom reaches its original vigour.--The Brestmineter Re view has had the merit, ever shire its commencement, although its short history has not been unchcquered, to preserve a boldness of research, and freedom of investigation, far beyond both its pre. decessors. Its writers let the plough go deep into the soil, and turn up the ground fearlessly. The last number is a fine exhibition ot this character. The first article on the Ballot, in our opinion, can not be perused without producing conviction. We shall attempt an analysis, or abridgment, of this essay ; at the same time premising that, although all in the author's language, the language is ofter. mutilated, for the sake of brevity. This article is destined to the consideration of the ballot alone . Its utility is so clear that, to prove it, appears useless. As matters stand at present in England, in determining our preference of th, secret, or open mode of voting, the real question is thin—whether the people who vote, should really have the choice of the member, or only go through the mummery of voting; while the power of choosing should really be by others. It may be—indeed it is sometimes affirmed—tat the is the proper result; that the majority of the Parliament ought to be chosen by afew of the most powerful and wealthy men in the kingdom. Allowing this monstrous assumption for the moment, why do we not abolish the fraudulent pretence which we now uphold ?—lf it be affirmed that the fraud is good because, though the people should not have the security for good government in their own hands, it is useful to let them dank they hare it :—we answer that all such delusion has become vain. There is a new element among the principles of society. The art of printing exists, and its inimitable effects produce not merely a change, but a complete revolution in the art of governing mankind. In the times that are gone, the art of Government was a mixture ot fraud and force, in which fraud predominated. In the time to come, fraud will be impracticable; and a know ledge of good and evil in the management of national affairs, cannot be withheld from the nation. Government I will be left either to rational conviction, or to naked force. This is the grand revolution of modern times—this is the new era. Fraud ilss tofore been combined with force—fraud must be supplauted W knowledge ; and force, by itself, cannot insure the obedience of mankind. It follows that rational conviction will not afford its aid upon any tams but its own,—for rational conviction requires no force. The abettors to delusion seek one plea for their mendacity— that the ballot is unfavourable to truth. They display the %che mises of outraged moral feelings, when they contemplate the chance that, under secrecy, the voters for a member may break theit promise. Was there ever any thing so glaring? What is dif. fereat in their cases is not the mendacity, but the end. In the one case, the end is to place the power of government, without limit, in the hands of the few. For that reason they argue active fraud is laudable ; in the one case it is to limit the exercise of the power of Government to the attainment of good; and in the other to make the few who govern accountable to the nation at large.. Another class argue, that those who have the suffrage, exer cise it substantially. This is a pretext employed to create delusion on this subject. We are asked if we would destroy the legitimate influence of property ? The friends of ballot are repre. seined obliquely as the enemies of property ; and then comes all the images of spoliation, confiscation, anarchy, and bloodshed, to annex odium to the cause. The folly of this is easy to expose. We, the friends of ballot, the plebeians, the dernociatical, the base, are fully persuaded that there are two influences of property ; one good, moral, bene ficent ; another bad, criminal, pregnant with baneful consequences. —The first of these we are so far from desiring to see extinguished, that all our endeavour is to increase it. The course we propose is to raise the moral influence of property. With respect to the im moral, the baneful influence of property, we confess we are demo. cratical enough to wish to see it wholly destroyed. They are not so explicit—we will explain the reason. Their term, the legitimate " influence of property" includes both meanings—the moral and immoral this is extremely convenient. In this we see an ex ample of the mean artifice by which discourse is rendered the instru ment of fraud. Let two things, one good and one evil, he confounded under one name ; it is not difficult to transfer the approbation, or detestation,which they severally deserve, from one to the other. Riches mean a certain quantity of power : power ot bestowing good—or inflicting evil. It is possible , we all know, for a man, possessed of this power, to exercise it to become the object ot affection, and to influence affection; but he, possessed of the im moral" or legitimate" influence of property or riches, may exercise it without producing any affection towards him. This power over their happiness is unavoidably attended by power over their wills.— Men do not choose to act in opposition to amen who can injure them greatly. This we call the immoral influence of property. Let u . now ask under which of these influences should we desire the country to be governed ? Could we give scope to the moral, and suppress the immoral, will any man say that it should not be done P What we affirm of the ballot is—that it has this precious quality. —Let us now ipply our thoughts to th e man vested with th is power in this country. It is a matter of fact, that a certain number of opulent men hold the great majority in dependence, and com mand their votes. Whatever may be the opinion of an individual o: this majority as to the candidatts, be will give his vote to him who commands his fears and hopes. The question we have to resolve will now be seen to be easy—all the evils of migovernment which ' we suffer, and to which we are liable, cumulated with all the evils of that horrid immorality which results from the giving and suborn. ing votes, arisefrom this—that the people of England do not choose ' the members of Parliament—that the majority are chosen by a small number of men. What gives this power to . a small numbei is the openness of voting—it is the openness of voting that corrupts the government of England, and corrupts the morals of the pro. pie. That which enables the man who holds the voters in dependence, to suborn the votes, is then knowing how the vote is given. Bender this knowledge impossible, and their power is gone. The ballot alone would do all the good. Allow every thing else to remain as It Is—the ballot would render all other abuses hos felt.—But, it is said, " the ballot is net English" : why not ?—if the ballot be a necessary means to the most important of all ends, and the word " English" is not applicable to it—the word " Engl ish" is then not applicable to one of the best of things—that is aIL Among the opponents of ballot are others who cannot be said to argue on the subject, but to groan and utter inar ticulate cries against it; of this sort are those who say they hope they shall not live to see the time when Englishmen shall not have the spirit to deliver their votes in the face of day, &c. It would be as honest and about as wise to say, they hope not to live to see the day when an Englishman shall not have his carriage and pair.—; cannot abide muffling up, says another. If a great end is to be ob tained by muffling up, why should there not be muffling up ? The last resource of these controversialists is to deny the possibility of secrecy. How do they make it out ?—not at all. They make out nothing. They assert, sometimes more nakedly, sometimes covertly, but still they only asserts—" Voters will sheet how they vote." Your word chew has a double meaning : it means either secrecy or hearing. If you mean that it will be seen how he votes, we can take care against that; but if you mean he will tell how he votes—why let him; the secrecy of the vote is the same. The above is an attempt to condense much of this writer's valu able matter into a small space. We are aware we have been doing the work much injustice ; should he condescend ever to peruse our literary attempts, we beg to apologize for our imperfections by de claring that they have arisen from:an honest anxiety to disseminate, by every means in our power, the cogent piece of reasoning his talent has produced. Several of the other articles in the review are not inferior, and we recommend the whole to our readers. Her Royal Highness the Dowager LAN DGRATINE of 'friss HOMBURG (OUT Princess ELTZANITH) 11 shortly expected in England, in company with the Duke and Duchess of CAN. memos, on a visit to the Sing and Queen. A correspondent who was present in the church of Notre-Dame, at the celebration of re Dews on the progress of &a French arms at Algiers, and who sat very near the Naze, remar k e d that he trembled very much during the ceremony. p er h a p s this trembling may be nervous and constitutional to his MAJZSTT....it certainly was very discernable to the spectator. The Duke of CUMBERLAND was in the House of Lords last night, and seemed to be much interested in the debate en the East Retford bill. The noble lords who ss g against toe second raiding, bad the distinguished honour of 4 sFally patronised and loudly cheered by him. The panel don bench exhibited ra th er a strange appearance to those be w the bar. In the middle of it sat Earl GMT and Lord Demure, and these two noble lads yes flanked by the Duke of CuNizaLawn and the Earl of ELDON. The oommuninp between the four were close and frequent.Tinies.