Star. — London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. It is a fact, as undeniable as it is singular. that France is, at tills mo ment, one of the most tranquil countries in Europe, and one of the moat likely to remain so. Much is certainly due to the prudent arid firm march of the Government, and still more, perhaps, to the patriotic con duct of the people, taken generally, which, it may be truly said, Fe 'tents facilities, instead of obstacles and discouragement to the former, in the task in which it is so enviably engaged of securing to that the full enjoyment of the liberties they have so recently conquered l . l l: l confirm this state of things, every day brings with it the recognition of the new Government by some Foreign Power, and thus the blessings of peace abroad are supaadded to those of peace at home. But, whilst France is beginning to repose in perfect security under the protection of her new institutions, those States from which all improvement is so jealously excluded, are a prey to the utmost anxiety, whilst the precautions taken by their Rulers to: prevent the evils which these see in the future, are at best doubtful remedies. These precautions, it is now well understood, have no reference whatever to regenerated France, but are solely intended to repress in the subjects of these rulers a desire to imitate the example of the French people. Whether they will succeed in this object is a ques tion we have not time to enter into at present. But this remark, which upplies to the great Powers only--to Austria, for example, as respects her Italian possessions—has no application, as our readers must be aware, to such States as Spain and Portugal, in which tyranny has shot forth her rankest and most deadly weeds, and in which an entire change of system is as inevitable as it is desirable. In the two last, to judge from private advice* from 31adrid,which arc rcterred to by the Messages des Chambres,the death.knell has already sounded in the ears of their oppres :tors. The Captain. General of Catalonia has, in the most urgent terms, solicited the Government to send him powerful reinforcements; anti, now that the danger of his iron rule stares him in the face, he probably regrets, though too late, that he has not adopted measures less repulsive to hu man nature. The Captain-General of Guipuscoa is in a more terrible plight still; whilst the embarrassments of both the one and the other originate in the MCC cause—the movements of the Constitutionalists in their immediate neighbourhood. In Portugal, the danger is said to be still more imminent, if possible—the flame of insurrection having spread from Oporto to Lisbon, where the Constitutionalists felt so strong that, at the date of the last accounts, they paraded the streets, crying out. " Liberty for ever !" " Donna Maria da Gloria for ever!" " Down with Don Miguel!" Though it is possible there may be some exaggeration in this latter statement, yet there can be no ques tion but that Portugal is on the point of getting rid of the hideous le prosy with which she is now afflicted. With respect to another coun try, where a great change is on the eve of taking place, though the popular discontent is not so justifiable as in the two former, we have not:much to add to the intelligence we published yesterday. One fact, however, which is mentioned in a private letter from Brussels, written on Friday evening, throws a great light on the feelings of one of the parties in the dispute of which the kingdom of the Netherlands is now the theatre. This letter, which comes from a gentleman of unques tionable veracity, states that the King's Speech to the States-General was publicly burnt in that city, on Tuesday last, before the Hotel de Ville. On the other hand, the demonstrations and language of the King's Government are equally explicit and portentous; and this change, as coming from a party proverbially cautious, is the more astonishing, seeing its infallible tendency to bring the question to a violent decision. The Belgians, it is evident, are determined not to yield a single point ; and, besides Brussels and Liege, the trico loured flag floats triumphantly at Louvain, Moos, Namur, Charleroi, Aloft, St. Trond, Jodoigne, Thuin, Wavre, Jumet, Lodelinsart, Dumprcmy, Fleurus, Jemappes, Fmmecue, Weenies, Quaregnon, 31eisieres, Sincsse, Fayt--in a word, in every city, town, and villarre, in the Southern provinces. In all these places a Burgher Guard has been organized, and every one of them has sent a depu tation to Brussels. At Charleroi, the Burgher Guard has taken pos. session of the powder-magazine and of the artillery. At Mons, the spirit of the garrison is said to be decidedly favourable to the popu lar cats :c; and, indeed, the came thing is stated of all the Belgian troops; so that the military, as well as the people of the Noah and South, may be expected to take different sides in the event of a ci vil war.—Herald. According to accountefrom Madrid (by the Messagcr des Chambres, dated Sunday, Sept. 19,) it seems that the:Count d'Espagne, fearing the neighbourhood of the refugees, and the irritation of the Catalonians, has asked for powerful reinforcements. The Captain-General of Gui. puscoa is at a loes what measures to take in these critical circumstances. It Is stunned that the Captain-General of Estremaduta has announced that the insurrection commenced at Oporto and Almeida has extended to Lisbon, and that the Constitutionalists who have escaped the usurper have assembled in the streets, crying " Liberty for ever ! Donna Maria da Gloria for ever ! Down with Don Miguel 1" " It is announced that M. Duvergite de Hauranne is to be placed at the head of the Board of Customs. " Summonses have been issued to Messrs. Valliant, director of L' Aigk, De Murville, of the Independant, Billet, of the Patriots, Pawlowski, of the Tocsin Nationale, Fasy, of the Rerolution, and to the printers of those journals accused of having published political papers without giving security previous to their publication, without having conformed to articles 4 and 6 of the law of the 28th of July, 1821, and without daily depositing at the Parquet a copy of the said journals, signed by the responsible managers. " The writers who have been condemned for political offences are in vited to meet on Tuesday next, the 21st of September, to deliberate on the project of a petition to the King of the French. " A letter from Altkirch, department of the Upper Rhine, of the 10th of September, says— " This morning, before day-break, a first division of 15 Monks of La Trappe, of the Convent of Oelenburg, some leagues from Muhl hausen, passed through this town. They leave France to settle in Switzerland. They were dressed in the costume of their order, and notwithstanding the silence to which they said to be condemned, it is affirmed that they announced that their brethren (the other monks of Oelenburg) ' about 80 in number, will immediately follow them. The sisters of La Trappe, who live in the same place, will also fol low them ; it is said that the latter will retire for the present to Notre Dame-des-Pierre. The monks, as well as the sisters, are all strangers to France, and came to settle without permission at Oelenburg five or sit years ago." "The Spanish Caisse d'Amortissement has given notice in the Madrid Gazette, that it will proceed on the Ist of October next, to the payment of the interest of the consolidated debt, for the quarter ending with the present month of September. " The Royal Vales are to be presented at Madrid, from the 13th of September to the 31st of October, and in the provinces from the 10th of September to the 31st orOmober. " Al. de Bourmont did not embark at Algiers on the 3d of Septem ber, as we announced on the authority of a private letter. The late commander-in-chief was not to leave Algiers till some days after the arrival of Count Clause]. It is affirmed that M. de Bourmont intends to retire to Italy." From the Journal des Debate, Sept. 18. " MADRID, SEPT. 10. " Three or four days ago, the Duke de Montebello, Envoy Extraordi nary of his Most Christian Majesty, Louis-Phillippe I, arrived at our capital. It seems that this diplomatist has met with a most gracious reception from the King. He hal also been well received by the Mi nisters. The Duke's presence in the capital has produced a most lively sensation among our Constitutionalists. The sight of the tri-coloured cockade paralysed the apostollcal party. Still public tranquillity has not been disturbed. M. Zes Bermudez, Secretary of the Ambassador at Paris, leaves this night by post, and carries with him despatches for M. d'Ofalia. Persoos who are the beat informed, say that our Cabinet has followed the example set by his Britannic Majesty, and that 31. Zea Bermudez is the bearer of documents recognizing the new system France." Pairs, Sops. 18.—On Wednesday evening there was a meeting of he Society of Les Antis du People, held under the same roof with the Bureaux of the new Journal de Paris. As it was announeed that the sitting was an open one for all the world, I had the curiosity to attend, and perceived several English gentlemen there, attracted by probably the same motive. There were from two to three hun dred persons present, nearly all young men of respectable, se veral of fashionable appearance, which, along with other eircume stances, and the information communicated to me, left no doubt on my mind that the assembly was composed of young students of the cedes de droit and de medecine. lee jaws, gene de commerce, along with some redacteurs and other gentlemen of the press. Round a table at tile head of the room sat the President, with his souse, le for the call to order, his Secretary, and a few leaders. The seance was opened by the reading of the procca verbal of the former sitting, and the motions and business on the paper for this evening. A report was read of the reclamation signed by the Members, which had been presented to the Proeureur du Roi, demanding that the Society, collectively and in. dividually, should be included in the prosecution already commenced against the President and Secretary on account of the placard inviting the people to rise, and dissolve the Chamber of Deputies by tome; since they would not cease their functions voluntarily.— It declared the desire t t the subscribers to participate in the ,wins and penalties, whatever those were, which might attach sr their proceedings, always however protesting their desire to march within the path of law anri order. A member then rose, and proposed Sat s report should be prepared of the history and present state of the society ; in the course of his speech he stated that it had actually been .4 existence for Aiken months, although the members could not have ven in any numbers. The report was ordered. The next who rose i eed my attention in no common degree. He was probably not more •la 24 yens of age, but the development of the features—the lines of '':ottlitenance already marked with deep thought, and sallow with the tre.tous inhalationsof the midnight oil--the fire of the full eye chssaned 11 t , h an expression reflective and profound, and the lank visage sesualle f' f roitnee a gmater maturity of years. Hi s i n t onat i on was sonorouseineie '!_ed, and distinct, entirely free from th a t re d un d ance o f action, se coon,,9es m with his countrym e n , w h o , i n t h e i r haste and vivacity, sans b l i rous to coavert muscles and nerves into accessory organs of speech. 4 ngtuage was clear, defined, unincumbered with meretricious adorn. ; his argument logical, if not convincing. The speaking was its. tovss e tols yet were there no displays ad captaaditm ; he spoke as If already a Member, or conscious of the ability to shine in a Legislative Assembly. I own I regarded this orator with interest. I could not dis:;ard the f.elin that he might be destined to a distiremished part, uhether for goeti or for evil, is the Revolution of 1830. He com menced by stating that they were even yet too ignorant of the state of feeling in the Departments, and not likely to be enlightened therein by the press of Paris. In fact, there was no free press ; the journals were conducted solely with reference to the profit of the proprie tors, or the private interests of the redacteure. Information had been tendered to several of them, or corrections of facts, mis.stated through ignorance or design, respecting the provinces, but the off'rs were declined, for the blindness was wilfuL The journals were noto riously partial, and would not give fair accounts of the state of the departments. He observed that the Society already counted many affi liations throughout the country ; that it was a matter of urgent neces sity to extend them far and wide ; but that up to this moment there was no organised body charged with that peculiar branch of their af. fain. He should therefore move the appointment of a committee of twenty-one, for the especial purpose of correspondence with the affili ated Societies In the departments, and to promote their universal for mation. This committee would likewise have to undertake functions of an instant and pressing nature. The elections about to take place in renewal of that portion of the chamber which had refused* to sit, required all their vigilance. Undue influence would he employed to procure the return of men addicted to the present anti. gusted system; and it was their duty to detect and stultify this in. fluence. It would be the care of the Committee to see to and promote the elections of men of the right stamp. The present Ministers, he observed, change only men, not things ; they were themselves not men of the Revolution, but of the ancient Charter; they were men in every way unequal to their calling. In conclusion, he begged to remind the Society of what the Committee of Liberals h ad achieved under the late King, in returning majorities against the Government. Their motto had been, those who are not with us are against us; and he recommended the Committee of les Amis du Peuple not to lose sight of the successful pre cept. The Committee was appointed. The same individual subse quently moved that a Report on the State of the Nation be drawn up for publication. The Report of the Ministry was so meagre, so com mon-place a document, as to be dearly no more than a compilation from the blonilcur and the Journals. It became the Society, therefore, to supply thedeficiency of facts and reasoning. Ordered, after some dis cussion and opposition. During the debate, a speaker having made use of the term Monarch, he was immediately interrupted by a leading member, who observed emphatically that there was no such person as Monarch—that no such word was understood in France. This was the business treated of during my stay, and I left before the flit• ting was concluded. If occasionally some little confusion arose through the impatience or vivacity of the hearers or the speaker, yet, generally speaking, order was tolerably well maintained. At one moment, the uncontrollable feelings of a young man, who stated that his press had just been seised by the Po lice, for working without the privilege required by the law, caused a considerable obstruction to the proceedings. He indignantly observed, that the old laws should have expired with the old monarch and the old Charter. Among those present, and appearing to take a leading part, was a Redacreur of one of the daily papers, whom the Revolution de , livered from prison, where he was suffering a six months' sentence, and lying besides under a fine of 10 or 12,000 francs, for an inflammatory publication. On his defence this man addressed his Judges with great , intrepidity—Yes, I awe a Republican in my principles--I glory in and , shall never deny it, although I defer to the institutions of my country, established on a different basis.—Ltgler in the Post. SPIRIT OF TilE JOURNALS. TIKES.—The French nation must be presumed to understand best its own internal condition, or, at least, whether correct or otherwise the view which any people may take of their own interests, it is they only who bare the power (which foreign dissentients have not) of carrying such views into action. We find from the Paris journals, as well as from our correspondents, that however the institution and the prodigious extension of the National Guard may be looked upon by distant ob. servers, like ourselves, as a body in some measure distinct from the nstion, because regularly organized, and devoted to peculiar uses, or as a fair object of watchfulness, if not of suspicion, from being a body self-officered and completely armed, the French regard it as in. corporated, or rather identified, with the country, and incapable of being moved by any interests or impulses which are not com mon to it with the whole of constitutional France. Undoubtedly if it is to be understood, as some of our contemporaries have informed us, that the National Guard of France is commensurate with, and does actually constitute the entire French people who have means of provid ing themselves with clothes and firelocks, there is an end of the ques tion,-so far as concerns the distinctness of the two communities. Still we may be permitted to remark, that even a people might be disposed to act differently with arms in its hands, from its mode of behaving itself without them ; and that its own interests and those of other na tions might be affected through the immediate operation of a million of hands each grasping a musket, and prompt in the use of it, rather more critically and Irreparably than by any civil government and legislature, were it even possible to conceive a legislative body amounting in num ben to a million of men. As we have said before, however, the French ought to know their own affairs best ; and if they feel that a general armament of the nation is requisite towards the assumes it abroad, and towards the consolidation of order and liberty at peas abroad, it becomes a manifest indiscretion in a foreigner to press opposite counsels on their notice. Such an establishment, nevertheless, will exercise unavoidably—we must not venture to say injuriously—a para mount and permanent supremacy in any country where it exists. But then, say the optimists, that is still the government "of the people." Undoubtedly, we admit that it is so; but it is the people making and administering laws in person, not through deputies, and thus discarding from its practice the noblest improvement of modern times upon anti quity—the invention of representative constitutions. We see that the Coustitutionnel puts in the same rank, as equally essential to the well being of France, the trial by jury for offences of the press, and the spread of the National Guard, or civic soldiers, to the remotest extre mities of France. Molimn° Port.—lf we may judge by past experience, combined with existing symptoms—and we know of no other mode of judging— the Revolution of 1830 is obviously destined to proceed in the same miserable course, and to arriee et the same deplorable conclusion, with the Revolution of 1782. It is not yet easy, whatever the march of in. Itellect may have done to enlighten and improve mankind, tor a nation like France—for thirty millions of people, to concur in the construc tion of a government suited to their various interests, feelings, habits. degrees, and niodificatons of intelligence. Nor is it so certain even as the dreamers who arc haunted by the beatific vision of political regene. ration imagine, or as the imposters who spread this captivating illusion to bewilder and ensnare the minds of others pretend, that the march of intellect can have had the least tendency to qualify any nation to undertake this most delicate and arduous task. In multiplying beyond calculation the number who will think themselves qualified and entitled to tote whenever the important question as to how it shall be governed is opened for discussion to a nation, it seems more rational to conclude that the march of intellect has, to the same extent, diminished the probability of that concord without which the successful execution of this task is manifestly impossible. We see the Society calling itself the friends of the people, and the Chmnber of Deputies which assumes to represent the people, diametrically opposed to each other, as to the actual condition of France, and as to the kind of government which her welfare and happiness require. We see no reason, however, to doubt that the march of intellect has been as vigorously followed up by ode of these bodies as by the other; or, if there be any difference in this respect, that the self-elected friends of the people have ra ther the advantage over the Deputies, whom a small fraction of the people, by virtue of a Constitution now exploded and repealed, have elected to represent them. And who shall say that the former body has not as good a tight as the latter to speak to the French nation—to endeavour to convince the nation that its intentions are pa triotic and its opinions sound—to attempt to carry the nation along with it, now that the question is fairly opened in France as to what kind of Government is best calculated to contribute to its prosperity and hap piness ? Do not the facts plainly shew the folly and wickedness of opening such a question at all ? D 6 they not show that this is to the full as foolish and wicked now as it would have been before the march of intellect began ? Some of our liberal contemporaries affect to place much reliance on the efforts of the National Guards to prevent that confusion and anarchy to which the Revolution is visibly and ra pidly leading the unfortunate and misguided people of France. Let them peruse, for their better information, the very instructive anecdote, extracted by our Correspondent front the Mesiorial Ifordelais, of the conduct of the National Guards at Cambes. CHILOWICLE.—Those who name the majority of the Members of the House of Commons, have an interest in seeping the expenditure high, and Ministers can only obtain the support of that majority, by continuing the large expenditure. The country called loudly for to last year, and obtained it not. But it is possible that cir cumstances may lead this year to that which could never before be oh. tained. The Duke has a formidable opposition to encounter. In this country, whatever the views of an opposition are, the grounds of at. tack must always be liberal. To attempt to oppose the measures of a Ministry of mere aristocratical pretensions, would excite such general indignation throughout the country, that if a Minister were to dis solve Parliament, they would gain in consequence greatly in the new Elections. We take it for granted, then, that the mutt exclusive and haughty Aristocrat that ever entered the House of Commons, must at least assume liberal pretensions. A Minister who can count on the Sovereign, may follow the plan alluded to by our contemporary (The seethes's) of panting as much as the position would venture to ask. If he were a hollow Reformer, be would thin the ranks of the Opposition, by letting the principal families know confidentially, that be should be obliged, in his own defence, to adopt measures which would break down the Aristocracy ; and that, therefore, it was not for their interest to drive him into a corner. If he were really Inclined to retrenchment and reform, he would allow the Oppo sition to commit themselves so far that they would be obliged, for the sake of consistency, to push him on liberal measures. We assume that the Ministers of this country are almost always more liberal than Paella mast. Hence the well-known expedient to which several Ministers have had recourse of naming Committees, composed of the mos.. honourable ;Ad respectable blembers. to propose savings, and thereby shame the mho- altsulnrs out of an opposition to the Ministry when they an: proposed. But still, a Ministry, though generally better than Parliament, caiiriw be much better. The advocates of econtmy in Parliament amount to about twenty, or thirty at most, anti seldom divide more than a dozen. The eagles must be fed. Ministers will always, we suspect, take care not to allow their virtue to carry them so far as to make them risk losing caste. There is no making bricks without straw; no cutting blocks with razors; no making virtuous men out of those who think only of their separate order. Mr. Huskisson, who had nerves of iron, was able to make head against the hatred borne to him by the Aristocracy for his liberal measures, which they viewed as sapping the foundations of the Corn Laws; but how few men there are who would not have sunk under the trial. This extraordinary tenacity is not a quality on which we are at liberty to count. Most Ministers will prefer an easier course ; the approbationof Parliament to the approbation of their consciences. The time is fast approaching when it will be seen whether better measures will be dealt out to the people in this than in former Par. Laments. Events have been teaching us, and the country is more in earnest about reform than it was. It remains to he nen what Par. liament and Ministers are to be. MR. HUSKISSON'S CONDUCT WHEN AT PARIS. TO TILE EDITOR. Sir-1 feel it an act of justice to the memory of the late distinguished Member for Liverpool, to request you to insert in your paper the fol. lowing letter, written by that ltight Hon. Gentleman to a friend of his now in Switzerland.—l am, Sir, &c. Richmond, Sept. 18. G. P. "My Dear bir,-31any thanks for your very kind letter. lam aware how industriously the calumnies to which you refer have been circulated by malevolence, and I ant equally aware that in many in stances they have unwittingly been received as truth. " I never was in the Jacobin Club but once in my life. I went there as a spectator, and in company with the late ➢lr. ♦Windham, and the late Lord Chichester, who were about as good Jacobins as myself. " The club was an object of curiosity to foreigners ; and, in the in dulgence of that curiosity we went to one sitting, as we might have gone to a bull-fight in Spain. roila tout. But every man who aspires to distinction in public life, must lay his account to be assailed with such unfair weapons.—Yours, very sincerely, " C. Gardens, July 7." '' W. HUSEISSON." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Pembroke, Thomas, from Memel, has arrived at Dartmouth, leaky, bound to Milford. The Dorothea, from Liverpool, has arrived a: Londonderry, with damage, and loss of rudder, bound to St. Petersburgh. The Sarah, from Newry, was on shore at Liverpool river on Sunday. The Amelia, late Whiny, from Sierra Leone and Lisbon, has ar rived at Dartmouth with damage, and leaky, bound to Guernsey. Dear., Sem 20.—Wind squally.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Lady Nugent, —, from Bengal. Put back, the Fame, B ullen, for Mauritius. Arrived the Waterlily. Bruce, from Demerara; and St. Catherine, Nicholls, from Teneriffe. Porramouvn, Seer. 20.—Wind W.S.W. to W. squaUy..—Arrived his Majesty's ship Clinker, from Africa. Purmours, Sin r. 19 —Wind S.S.W.—It has blown a heavy gale from S.W. to W.S.W. this afternoon, and there is every appearance of a very dirty night. F.m.mouve, &pr. 19.—Wind SW. strong gales, and squally.—Ar. rived the Stanmer packet, from Lisbon—sailed 12th inst. LIVRIMOI, Sm. 19—Arrived the Dido, Peel, from Africa ; John Encklin, Thompson, from Sc. Lucia; Sylvanus, Jenkins, from New York ; Henry, Jenkinson, from St. John's, (N. 8.); Sarah, Hayman, from Palermo; and Hope, Dalrymple, from St. Petersburgb. MAZOATs, Sit'. 20.—Arrived the Diamond, Reed, from Bengal; and Thomas, Garland, from Savannah. MR. CORBETT'S LECTURES. Mr. Cobbett delivered his Sixth Lecture last night to the working classes, at the Rotunda, Blackfriar's.toad, which was as fully attended as on the former occasions. Before entering on the subject of his Lecture, he animadverted in sarcastic terms on the observations of one of the Union Hall police Magistrates, regarding the illegality of his (Mr. Cobbett's) proceedings, in demanding two-pence for ad mission. He insisted test the Magistrate added ingratitude and au. dacity to the insulting iemarks attributed to him, for he received a thumping salary, which was paid from the pockets of the labouring classes. Even the Parson Magistrates, in the twenty counties in which he had delivered lectures, knew more of law than this magistrate bad exhibited. There was such a law ; but, thank Gon, it was not now in existence. Physicians and surgeons were allowed to take money for their lectures, and parsons. too, received a little money for theirs—(immense cheering.) Oh ! they cried ; but it is a shame to take a penny out of the poor man's pockets, to hear a political lecture. He proceeded to say, that if people would not take the trouble to walk a short distance to sign the petition which he had drawn up. they disqualified them. selves from being relieved from the taxes. The objects they contem plated in the petition were materially aided by concurrent dream stances in other parts of Europe. With regard to the events in Bel gium, he (Mr. Cobbett) considered that this debt had been the chief cause of producing them. It was here said that our debt was contracted for the good of the country, that it was done to pro tect it from anarchy, confusion, and atheism. In Belgium, however, the debt arose from the Emperor of Germany in 1793 having creditors in the country, and his Imperial Majesty then consented to cede that portion of his territory to the Prince of Orange, on condition that the population should pay the debt which he himself bad con tracted. He next alluded to the French debt, which was a remnant of the subjection in which the old tyrants of France formerly kept the country. They allowed the tyrants whom they had just driven from the throne, the enormous income of 140,0001. a.ycar. If he was a good man, why drive him away ? If he was a bad one, why take the money out of the labouring classes? The present unsettled state of the people of France arises from the resolution of the people not to pay theamount of their debt. He contended that the Chamber of Deputies did not I represent the opinions of the nation at large • and that if we had reform, and still had to pay the taxes which are imposed upon us at present, we would be as discontented as the French.— He considered that the appointment of Talleyrand as .Ambassador to this country was a convincing proof of the hollowness of the existing French Administration. He then entered into the history of the Na tional Guards of France, and described the system of taxation imposed on the French in the shape of the Draft; R: unit. Mr. Cobbett then impressed upon the meeting that they should petition the Parliament to do away with the national debt by an Act of the Legislature, which was the only way they could hope ever to see it wiped of, and the surest way never to have such another incurred (cheers), and said their cries should be " William the Fourth and Reform !" (great cheering). It was right too, when the question of reform comes forward, that the House should know that ZOO,OOO men awaits its decision outside the walls—(Cheers) —by the way it is rumoured that the Duke means to bring down something respecting this said reform, and that he is to be opposed by the Aristocratic and Whig party ; but let the Duke go on, and he will have thent (the people) at his back, and they, he promised. will do the job--(Cheers) and do it, too, without bloodshed, without disturbance, and with. out that nonsense which is now distinguishing other nations. (Immense cheering.) Mr. C. concluded his lecture, which was heard through. out with intense interest, by stating to the meeting that he will, on Thursday evening, if he has strength, and they have patience, layebefore them a complete history of the Church, with all its shines. That ise 'sense Co'ouus, he continued, of overgrown and pampered wealth.— Tremendous cheering, which lasted for several minute., followed this announcement, and the meeting separated quietly. well satisfied with the sentiments they had heard, which, it was manifest, were the echo of their own. OLD BAILEY-(THIS DAY.) NEW COURT. Before 31r. Common-Sergeant DENMAN. Wood Hill, aged '4 years, was indicied tin stealing five silver spoons. value 21. two gold seals, six toss I.f c.nals, a pair of silver spectacles, and other articles, the property of 11 M. 11. Piny, his bro ther-in-law. The prosecutor stated, that on the 26:h of August last, the prisoner called at his house, and after staying there about half an hour, he left in a very abrupt manner. The next 'naming witness, on going to his bureau, missed the articles in question ; suepectirg the prisoner, he went in search of him, and found him in a public-house; he gave him into custody, and some of the articles were found upon him. Robert Smith, a police-officer, corroborated the latter part of the prosecutor's statement. The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence, and was found Guilty. Two young urchins, named Tistotky Gregor% and Matthew White, both under 12 years of age, were found guilty of stealing seven books from a stationer's shop in Earl-street, I,lsson•gtove. Mr. Wanner informed the Court that White, though so young, had been there before. THE BEER ACT.—Any brewer of beer for sale, or dealer in beer, on obtaining a license, pursuant to the lei William IV. c. 64 (the New Beer Bill) may become a retailer o f beer, ae (wording to that act, the only parsecs prohibited flan receiving such licences being &era' officers, officers executing the legal pnxree of any court of justice, persons not being housekeepers to the poor rates, and pastime disqualified by offending against the provisions rf this am. THE IWICPS COUh7 BLIGHTON, SErr. 2t.. fis l'lince and !'.itiees.:: CA I.ULIT Tit the Baron mai B.:- rem:s Bu w, Admiral and Mrs. MA ITL AI D, and Mr. and Mrs. DA wsoN, hat: the honour of dining with their N,.- JESTIES yesterday, at the Pavilion. This day his Royal Highness ti:2 Prince LEOPOL . D ui Saxe Cobourfi and Baron Sroca mA it soak their departwo from the Pavilion. This afternomi, their Royal filigbnisscics the Duke raid Duchess of Gtouc EST EU, and Capt.tin Usu rx, arrivuld uu a visit to their MAJESTIES. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAM nKI Dc. E retp from his shooting excursion; and Sir WI 1.1. IA M PEACH r e had an audience of the KING ; after which his MAJ E.6T 1 accompanied by the PatsicEssys, ride out in a The QUEEN, MISS BOYLE, and Miss Firrzcf AK CF , r9d.. out on horseback. In the course of the day, tl.e followiag Noblemen and Gentlemen made their inquiries, and Ira t'►eir Pavilion : Sir 11.011ERY WILSON, B. Lord BERESFORD, Admiral Sir SYDNEY SM . The Prince LEON SAPILTEA, The Prince and Priums C. 10): • rii Count DONIIOFF, Rear-Admiral MA ITLA N 0, Mrs. MAITi. Count Kt EL3:INN EGG e, Mr. litmr, The GAllLlCStillowag,m. of Su LI I I LLD, The 11onouralL3 Mrs. Henault D, Miss NV ERA NI, and The Barou and B::roness BuLow. W 11 ~~, t hi ~t. t ; ! I I . d COURT INTELLItiENCR TALLEY ItAND.--Upon the Hotel of the French A .. bassador at London, we understand, there is to be placed :L., immense weathercock, indicative cf his fame and reputation. It is to be surmounted by a white fia,g, upon which, wk. the sun shines, the three colours will appear (Wind: . marked. The four cardinal points are thus indicated - north, a cap of liberty ; south, an imperial eagle ; east, Gallic cock ; west, a fieur delis.—Le Corsaire. Their Royal Hinncsses the Duchess of Kent and ti., Princess Victoria, on their taunt from Raeford, honoured John lii.! dulp, Esq. with their company, and spent some time in viewing tilt• grounds. Their Royal Highnesses were warmly greeted in passin.; through Ledbury. It is said that the Duchess of Kest will rennin at Ma! vern until the beginning of October. The Prince and I'. i fts Est, hazy were expected to arrive there yesterday; they have Pleasant House for their reskience. Friday last her Royal Highness the Duchess de Ikrri and suite slept at the King's Head Hotel, Gloucester, on her way the North. The ex-King of France, accompanied by the Duchess (.:* Beni and suite, passed through Macclesfield on Friday afternoon, trout Chatsworth and Buxton. The royal travellers changed horses at ti., Angel-inn, and immediately: proceeded towards linutsford.—ifaccles fseid Courier. The ex-King of France, who is said to be a very good shot, has kept his band very well in practice during the present se.mur. He has been " liunsed to kill," if common report is to be believed, by two different authorities—he took the license for shooting partridgci from the King of England, and that for shooting his subjects from Ole Pope. It is stated in the papers that the Duke of Brunswick, now• in London, has bad an interview with his Majesty; but that is not the case. The Duke went to Brighton, and sent a letter to Sir Herbert Taylor; but, having received no answer, he went to the Pavilion. Now his Majesty declined this interview in these terms:—The King. as a private man, would receive the Duke ; but as King of England, and brother of the late King, that would be impossible for his Majesty.— This statement is correct. Prince Polignac is closely connected with the English Nobility. He has been twice married to English ladies—his second wife being sister to the prestnt Lord *Lanett& ; and he is tall further allied with our Atistocracy, by the marriage of his niece, Mademoiselle de Gramment, daughter to the Duc de Guiche, with the had of Tan- It is understood that overtures were lately made to Lo Ids Me'bourn and Palmerston, Mr. C. Wynne, and Mr. C. Grant, but they refused to join the Administration without Mr. Huskisson. This cir cumstance sufficiently indicates the arrangements on which we may c:.l - STATUE OF GEORGE 111. ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The damage done to this piece of sculpture, in attempting to place it in the appropriated niche, in the Royal Exchange, having been repaired so as to escape observation, the partial skean thrown ova it has been miaowed, and it now has become a general object of remark. The statue is of free stone, eight feet and a half high, and weighs out ton and threeequar ten ; if not so bold and free In the execution at some of the others, it nevertheless is generally admired for a faithful delineation of cosmic. Dance. Under the statue is the following inscription :—" Georgius 111. D.G. Mag. Brig. Fra. et fiber. Anno. Dom. 1700. P. S. Q. L." .The whiteness of the stone forms a striking contrast with the sooty appear ance of the neighbouring statues, which, though having been cleaeasi about 18 months ago, are again begrimed with cobwebs and dust. Matthews has met with but indifferent si:evess in the ex hibition of his "At Home," during his summer visie in the provinces. The elections, anti other occurrences, have latterly beeu extremely pre judicial to theatrivels of every description. Maeready, a week ago, performed three nights at Margate; on the first everorg the receipts of the house were 31. 17s. 6d; on the second, 41. 7s; and on the third, being his benefit, 91. Is. 61 I Charles Kensble arrived in London a few days ago, when he finally arranged with his own s:age-mansger, and the manager of Drury-lane, the ptrind for opening the winter theatres. Bliss Fanny Kemble, at the pressing invitation, we believe, of the Earl of Witten, remained in the North, to be present at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester rail-road. Mr. Kemble has since left town for that trict, and will return, accompanied by his daughter, in a few days. Royal titles, it is well known, have often very little ap plication to existing circumstances, and retain no correspondence a ith their original meaning. Thus our excellent Protestant King derives his designation of " Defender of the Faith" from a Pope who bestonea it on one of his predecessots for writing aphis' the Protestart came:: ; and the little monarch of Sardinia is King of Jerusalem, in the Red Book, though he has not a foot of land between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. But even on the supposition that we are to attend to Lets in the matter of titles, no good rea,on can be assigned why Philip the First should not be called " Most Christian King as well as Charles the Tenth, though lie has rot mass said to him by a Cardinal, though he was never anoir•.ted with the miraculous oil of Clovis, or fell on his belly before the Archbishop of Rheims.- This may, indeed, be offensive to a part of los free-thinking subji rts who have no religion at all. but in order to reconcile their scruples with the retention of the venerable capitals S. M. 'l'. C. prefixed to the name of their titian king, we would suggest that the words which these ini. tials represent should be altered for their especial tninvot; and t 9 suit their peculiar views. Why should not t. M. T. C. mean Sa piss jeste ire, Ohioans as well as Sa Majoste Ire s Chrelietuaell " His most civic of citizen Alejesty" would sound as well as His most Christian 3lejesty," though not so piously.—pines. Tho funeral of Mr. Haskins°. is fixed for Friday next. -- Le.ters of invitation to attend the ceremony have been forwarded this morning to the right honourable gentlmnan's personal and political friends. The late Mr. Huskiseon's inuoduetion into public life has not, we are informed by a correspondent, been quite accurately stated. It is true that he was intended for the ►urgical profession, that be went to Paris for the purpo , e of usedisd Nod', and that king their, a young man, at the breaking out of the heenhation, he partook of the fervour of the day, and was, it is said, actually a member of the then Jacobin Club, but without being much bitten by the revolutinaary mania, as the subse quent event proves. At Ibis period the then Ambassador to France, Earl Gower, was in want of a dorm young man to assist in his seem tary's department, and the young surgical pupil, 91r.Huskisson, was re commended to him for the purpose, which the latter readily assented to. This was about ti's dose anti& In January 1793, the French Kirg, Louis XVI. was beheaded, anoint which led to the meal of the Ant. bassador, who, with his suite, Including Air. Hmtkisson, returned to Eugh,,,,i. Thus situated, Lord Gower felt himself 1111 duty bound to provide, se far as possible, fur persons ties thrown uneepectedly out of employment; and 31% Residues having shown a peculiar aptitude for h ug no s, We' placed as a supernumerary clerk la the Treasury, under Sir Even Nepeati, from whence he rose, as has been stated, to the various official situations he ►ubsequently lived to fill I i I=