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Muggeridge, Esq. 1 0 Mr. Croom 0 5 Psi Dlasts CORM AND Stamina. 5 5 6- 5 1 • 10s. 6d. O S O 3 " Domus et platens uxor."—lion. Thy house, and (in the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. HAPPINESS" the gay to-marrow of the mind" is insured by marriage ; the strictest tie of perpetual Friend ship," Is a gift from Henven,- cementing pleasure with reason, by which, says Johnson, "we approach in•some degree of association with celestial intelligence." Previou4, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, hut to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the free dom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention, are attributable many of those hapless instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the he holder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. l.uiurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the triples will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the na tunl dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonized =Serer more than doubts the chance of relict. To all such then, we address ourselves, offering hope, energy, muscular strength, felicity ; nor will our advances appear questionable sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of 20 years' successful experience. The easy cases of married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath —for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy improved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic Intrusion, as well as in every relaiation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling esnpyric from the position so presumptuously taken up. we deviate from general principles with less hesitation ; and confident in our own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we afar the startling community of either Sex (especially those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our boast, where daily attendanse is given for personal consultation ; and letters from the calmly are immediately answered ; these must contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons, No. 11, llouverie-atreet, Fleet-sueet, London. JEOPARDY AND ESCAPE; OR. SWINDLING INGENUITY. IN Brussels, where priz'd is the durable fame Jay BLACKING, a far Lady came, In splendid array, :o a Mercer's shop door, And purchas'd of silks a most valuable store: The tradesman then ent'ring, with gratetul espandon, Her carriage, her cash to receive at her mansion. Arriv'd, for a moment the Lady retir'd, The drawing-room suite while the Mercer admied; At last his companions return when invoking— " She's gone !" said a servant, with coolness provoking, " What, gone !" cried the Mercer, " gone off with my silks ! " So thus then it is that a tradesman she bilks ! " This is not her mansion?" " 04, no, &r," " Whose then r no calm," said the servant," your wildness restrain, " And know that from Beason Derangement to wile him, " You now ate confined in a Maniac Asylum !" The Mercer, array'd in a pair of bright Boots, Now rav'd 'gainat the female of swindling pursuits; " Yes, yes, I am mad," he exclaimed, " and my brain " Shan never its wonted serenity gain !" His feelings of fury now mounted so high, That measures proceeding at once to apply Of rigid coercion, the keepers then saw Their shades in the Jar of unrivali'd eclat ; And sea, as they stood, with amazement aghast, To freedom the imputed !mimic pased! Oh, fortunate event, the swindler was treed, And thus the rich silks in the shop were replac'd. The Mercer adverts to the chance with much glee, That Kt him from duress and jeopardy free ; In Brussels while Taste and high Fashion are backing The wizard of incident, Waanzies Jar BLACKING! This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by 471 liezoz. 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID in Bottles, 6d. 10d. 12d. and lad. each. Also PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. ted. and lad. each. 4 :haling Pot of Paste is equal to Four Is. Bottles of Liquid. cp Ask for WARREN% Nadia lt. 2 0 ~ _ _ n• -- .^.. 4,, - • ....- . • , . .... , . - - 4 - . . - 13- . • • , . - 1 ,e. 47.1* re.,l . • -.- L . - • 'iltr:,r: • . ar / 7•47 ' "foi 411 P --• ! . 4 . .. 1 4 . ..1- • f , ,' . • , If ! • , do i 7 ' ,' ; :-:.-I.'''- ' - ' l. ,' :-. - • i l . • • now' '.. .-. ••• , .- ..- . ._ .., . ... . . N ( C/ 1. :. / I[ o IH je ~4,,1 *2 % 91 1 1:10i , f c s. ". . (I • r ., ~....,, .. • • . , • - 0 k's F.../A 7 • )'"' fat. _. . • '' 1 . . • • ~, . 4 FRIDAY EVEN This day was published, In Four Vol.. Ulm. price XI ts. G ERALDINE MURRAY; a Tale of Fashionable Life. By MissiiTLEOD, Author .f Tales of Ton, Principle, Ste. Printed for A. K. Newman and Co. London. The following will appear this Autumn : First and Last Years of Wedded Life. By Rosalia St. Clair, Author of the Highland Castle, Banker's Daughters, &c. 4 Vols. Uncle Peregrine's Heiress. By Anne of Swansea, Five Vols. Ruins of Ituthvale Abbey ; or, Secret Causes. By Mrs. Oa laud, late Mi ss H a y nes , Author of Eleanor; or, Spectre of &. Michael's, &c. Four Vols. Farmer of Inglewood Forest. By Mrs. Reline. Fourth Rdi. Lion, Four Vols. tlasfrone; or, the One-Ihnded Monk. By Mrs. Radcliffe. Third FAlition, Four Vols. LISBON. - "t_ INTENDANCY GENERAL OF POLICE. C PT OF A CiocuLAß TO ALL THE CORREOIDORS OP SEPTEMBER 8, 1826. of the House•_or at least of that portion of it, who are now present—to a subject of such "vitt' importance to the maritime power and greatness of the country. I am well aware of the reluctance which Hon. Gentlemen must feel to a statement, from its nature, neces arily dry and tedious; but, I am also aware, that the matter involved in it ii of too much importance not to demand the deepest attention ; for, if the fears expressed in the Petitions on the table of the House be well founded, it is scarcely necessary f.r me to say that the sooner an inquiry takes place the better. The House, Sir, is aware that our Navigation Laws have a two-fold object. First, to create and maintain in this country a great Commercial Marine; and, secondly,—(an object not less important in ti.e eyes of Statesmen)—to prevent any one other nation Eton en grossing to large a portion of the Navigation of the rest of the World. Acting upon this System, the general rule of our ',obey has been to limit, as much as possible, the right of importing the ea - oductions of foreign countries into this country, either to Ships of the producing country, or to British-Ships. There certainly have been exceptions to this general rule, but it is the broad principle upon which the Nari gation System of Ihis count) y was founded ; and it is obvious, that the motives for adopting that s) stem were,' first, that such portion of the carrying trade of foreign countries as doss not devo!ve to British shipping should be divided, as equally as possible, amongst the other maritime states, and not engrossed by any one of them in particular; and, secondly, that countria entertaining relations of commerce with this country, and not pos- sessing Shipping of their own, should export their pro duce to England in British Ships only, instead of em ploying the veseels of any third power. But, when I state that the first object of our Naviga tion System was to c:eate and uphold a great commer cial marine, I think I may add, without fear of contra. diction, that that object could not have been effected solely by regulations, restrictions, or prohibitions, how ever judiciously devised. The only true and durable foundation of a large commercial marine is to be laid in the means of affording to it beneficial employment. Without such employment—without, in short, extensive commerce, and great capital, to sustain and invigorate that commerce—no laws, merely protective, will avai'. Whatever, therefore, contributes to extend the general commerce of the country must, incidentally,—l may almost say directly,—contribute also to improve and extend its navigation. These two great elements of our power and wealth are, of necessity, closely and inti mately connected. Ido not mean to say that their in west; are always identified. I know they are not so. I know full well, that every thing which interferes with the freedom of commerce is more or less disadvanta geous to the capitals which are employed in it. lam ready to admit, as consistent with this general principle, that the regulations of our Navigation System, however salutary they may be, must, more or less, act as a re straint on that freedom of commercial pursuit, which it is desirable should be open to those who have capital to employ. 1 am, however, at the same time, bound to say, that those regulations are founded on the first and paramount law of every State,—the highest ground of political necessity,—the necessity of providing for our own safety and defence ;—the necessity of being pre pared to afford security to our numerous colonial pos sessions scattered throughout all the seas of the world ; the necessity of protecting the different branches of our widely spread commerce, against all the risks attend ant on a state of war ;—and, lastly, the necessity of pre serving our ascendancy on the ocean, and thereby sus taining the high station in the rank of nations, which that ascendancy, more than any other circumstance, has given to this country. Entertaining these opinions, I am as ready as any man can possibly be, to say that it is our duty, on all occasions, to look to the peculiar nature of this State necessity :—and that, whenever the interests of corn- merce and navigation cannot be reconciled, the feeling which ought to be uppermost in our minds should be,—. (I, Sir, have no hesitation in stating it to be my feeling) --that the interests of commerce, in all such instances, ought to give way, and those of navigation to have the preference. . THit KINGDOM. By a decree of the 14th instant, I have been nomi nated Intendant General of the Police of the Kingdom. This grace of her most Serene Highness the Princess Regent imposes upon me many and sacred duties which it will be impossible for me to execute without the faith ful and undeviating co-operation of the magistrates who are charged with the police of the provinces. Police may be divided into two parts. The adminis trative part consists in prosecuting crimes, in maintain. ing peace and order among the citizens; the- judicial, in discovering the crimes which the administrative Can not prevent—in collecting proofs of them—in securing the perpetrators, and in handing them over to the cum• pet nt authorities to be punished according to the laws. This task requires much care, much vigilance, much zeal, both on their part and that of the subaltern officers. But rebellion bring the greatest of crimes, the greatest vigilance at all times, and especially at the present,ought to be exercised in preventing ir. For this purpose it is necessary to rectify the ideas of the public by all the means which are at their disposal. It is only by being misled that they can cease to love the new order or things, which offers so many guaran tees for public happiness, and a future so pregnant with advantages over the past. The Constitutional Charter, decreed and given by Don Pedro IV. to the Portuguese, is an eternal monumeat of wisdom and gen.-I-fluty, which demands the most lively and the most unlimited gratitude. The political powers are found combined in it, combined in a form sanctioned by experience and reason; and the guaran tees which it contains are all those which reason and experience have proved to be necessary for the preser vation of the rights of individuals and the prosperity of nations. Having, in addition to this, emanated from legitimate authority, it has no fears to entertain from the opposi tion of foreigners. And how can it experience internal resistance, but from as excess of perversity, or an abso lute blindness of understanding? It %ill be your duty to point cut these and other truths oft iis kind to the people under your jurisdiction. As president of a district, you are responsible for its police, arid for all the disc riers you do not prevent while the power of doing so remains in your hands. Her Royal Highness, sacrificing her repose, and even her health, declines no cares or labours which can ad vance the prosperity of the Portuguese; and it would be a great misfortune if any of them were pre►ented from enjoying that prosperity by the fault of the dele gates of her power. It is likewise necessary that you should promptly ac quaint me with everything deserving of notice in your district, and with the spirit by which it is animated. For ordinary events it is oily necessary that a weekly report should be mauve; but extraordinary events, and especially those which require the of Government, must be communicated to me by special couriers, and at public expense, according to their importance or weight. The commission of your subaltern judges will not exculpate you from any charge of neglect, as you are responsible to me for everything that belongs to- the police of your district, in the same manner as your sub ordinate officers are to you. (Sired) JOSE JOAQUIM DE RODRIGUES DE BASTOS. Lisbon, August 23. I trust that I have, in this brief statement, now placed myself fairly before the House. And, if the measures, recently adopted by h:s Majesty's Governmect, have laid this country open to the danger, with which, ac cording to some, it is threatened, certainly I have im posed on myself no light task, in attemptibg to vindicate and defend those measures. NAVIGATION LAWS. [PRICE SEVENPENCE. ~.......... mark more distinctly the alterations which have been made in it. SPEECH OF TILE RIGHT HON. W. HUSKISSON IN THE HOUSE OP C SIMONS, FRIDAY, THE iiTH OF MAY, 1826, ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SHIPPING The Great Charter of the Navigation System of this country is the Act of the twelfth of Charles the Second. The different mocks which that Act provided for the encouragement of shipping, may be arranged under the 6ve following heads: First, the Fisheries.—The ocean is a common field, alike open to all the people of the earth. Its produc tions belong to no particular nation. It was, therefore, our interest to take care that-so much of those produc eons as might be wanted for the consumption of Great Britain, should be exclusively procured by British in dustry, and imported in British ships. This it so simple and reasonable a ruse, that, in this part of our Navigation System, no alteration whatever has been made; nor do I believe that any will ever be con- , templated. Toe second object which the Navigation Laws had in view was to give, to the shipping of this country, eni pleyment in what is called the Coasting Trade. Whelk those laws were first passed, that trade was confined to England only, but, since we have become legislatively united with Scotland and with Ireland, it has embraced the whole of the British Islands. In this important part 'of our policy also there appears to be no motive for al teration. I shall, therefore, dismiss it with a single observation. The law, in this respect, remains un changed, and will remain unchanged, so long as we . have a de,ire t 3 maintain a great commercial marine. The third object of our Navigation System was the European Trade. The rule laid down, with regard to that trade, was—that the ships of the other States of Europe were to be at liberty to bring, from any port in Europe, any article of European production, wi:h the exception of certain articles, since known in trade by the name of the " enumerated articles." They amount in number to twenty-eight, and include those commodities which, being of the most bulky 'nus*, employ the greatest quantity of shipping. With respect to these " enumerated articles," the exception was this, that they should not be brought to our ports in ratty other than British ships, or ships of the country in which they were produced, proceeding directly from such country to this. This was the general state of the law in respect to European Commerce, from the time of its enactment, in the twelfth of Charles the Second, down to a recent period. Its provisions however, were more rigorous and exclusive towards Holland and the Low Countries. The regulations of that period were not framed merely for the preservation and encourage ment of our own commerce, but also to weaken the powerful marine of Holland. Guided by this policy, our ancestors applied more severe measures towards the Dutch, than they thought necessary towards any other nati In. In this spirit it was that they prohibited the importation, generally, of the productions of the other countries of Europe from Holland; instead of c-nfin ing that prohibition to the twenty-eight enumerated rVes. e fourth, object of our N av i gat i on S ystem was to ieg late our Commerce with Asia, Africa, and Ame rica, The rule of law on this head was, that no article, the produce of either of those three quarters of the globe, should be allowed t 3 be brought into an English port, except in a British ship. Tt.effth and last part of the System of our Naviga tion Laws related to our Colonies. The principle on which we acted towards those Colonies was strictly to confine them, in all matters of trade, to art intercourse with the Mother Country. They were not allowed to dispose of any of their produce, otherwise than by send ing it in British vessels to this country. They were equally restricted from receiving any articles necessary for their consumption, except from this country, and in British bottom!. This, I apprehend, is a fair summary of the main points of encouragement to the Shipping Interest of Great Britain, and of repression of the Shipping of other States, aimed at by our Navigation Laws, as those laws existed from the twelfth of Charles the Second down to the year 1783. In mentioning this latter period, I ad vert to it now as the commencement of that mighty change in the state of the world, the foundation of which had been then laid in the progress, and unfortunate issue, of the American war. But before I state what that change has been, so far as relates to Navigation and Commerce, I shall, perhaps, be permitted briefly to notice sonic of the circumstances which had prepared the way for this calamitous contest : the result of which as I shall shew presently, rendered the revision of our Navigation System a matter no longer of choice but of necessity; a result which, in its consequences, in less than half a century, has dragged after it nearly the %hole Colonial System of the Old World. INTEREST. A Petition from the Ship Owners of North Shields having - been presented to the House, on the 27th of April, complaining of the Alterations recently made in the Navigation Laws, Mr. Has kisson took occasion to give notice, that he would, on an early day, enter into an Exposition of the present State of the Navi gation of the United Kingdom. Accordingly, on the 12th of May' Mr. HUSKISSON rose, and spoke, in substance, as follows : Sir—ln the course of the last Session of Parliament, the Hon. Member for Grampound • frequently trok oc casion to indulge himself in c. rtain oracular denuncia• tions, foreboding the ruin of this country, as the result of the Commercial and Foreign Policy of the Govern ment. At that period, the Commerce of the Country, it most be allowed, was at least sudicienCy active, and the demand for mercantile Shipping greater, perhaps, than had ever before occurre i. Whethcr from these circumstances, or from the solemn tone of mystery in which the Hon. Member's denunciations were delivered, they dii not, at the time, make any considerable im• pression, either in this House, or out of doors. Recently, however, a variety of Petitions has been -presented to Parliament, from persons connected with the port of London, and with several other commercial towns, expressing their apprehensions, that the Shipping Interest is in a state of decay, and that the foundations of the prosperity and security of the country are, in con- Elnence, likely to be undermined. When such im pressions have been created in quarters, where the au thority of the Peti.ioners, so far as their observations , go, is entitled to the greatest consideration, I trust that no apology will be requisite, for claiming the attention I begin with laying it down as a general position, that, in looking to the interest of the Ship Owner, we 'ought not to cramp commerce beyond the degree which State necessity requires fo►r the protection of out navigation. I sa• that, apart horn the considerations upon which the Navigation - Laws were founded, we are bound not to depress one branch of industry, in order to give undue encouragement to another. The question!, therefore, which we have to consider are these— Sir, the war which began in the year 1756, corn. monly called the Seven Years War, was, strictly speak ing, so far as relates to this country and to the Bourbori - Governments of France and Spain, a war for Colonial privileges, C lomat claims, and C , lonial ascendancy,— In the course of that war, British skill and British Ira* lour placed in the hands of this country Quebec and the Havannah. By the capture of these fortresses, Great li~itaia became mistress of the Colonial destinies of the Western world. What use we made of our successes in that quarter, I will not now stop to inquire. But if the proceedings of the Government of this country, after the peace of 1763, be closely examined, we shall find, that many.of the causes which, ten years after Wards, led to the unfortunate rupture with our then Colonies, now the United States of America, may be traced to our unseasonable attempts to enforce, in their most rigid and exclusive application, our Colonial and Navigation System. Every complaint, every petition, every remonstrance, against the oppressive tendency, and vexatious consequences, of that system, on the part of the inhabitants of New England —every temperate effort made by them to obtain some slight relaxation of the trammels that shackled their dispositi on to engage in commercial enterprise—were only m et , on t h e pan of the British Government, by a constant succession of new laws, enforcing still more restrictive regulations, framed in a spirit of still more vexations interference.... I One instance of the character of that legislation will be sufficient; and I give it, as a slight specimen of the com mercial jealousy which prevailed in our Councils, in re ference both to the Colonies and to Ireland. First; whether the alterations which have been made in the system of our Navigation Laws have, or have not, exposed the great public interests, for the support of which that system was established, to jeopardy and hazard ? Secondly; whe:her those alterations are such as to have placed any particular branches of the shipping interest of the country in a situation of difficulty, such as to entitle them to specific consideration ? %Ai►dly; whether, in the alterations which have been adopted, his Majesty's Government have been ac tuated by a mere gratuitous desire to make experiments, .and to try the effect of innovation; or whether those alterations, even if attended with some inconvenience to particular interests, were not called for by circumstances, in order to obviate greater inconvenience, which might have arisen to the general interest, if we had rigidly persisted in the course which we formerly pursued ? Now, Sir, before I join issue with those who call in question the necessity or expediency of the alterations which have heti made is the system of our Navigation Laws, the House will, perhaps, permit me shortly to recall to their recollection the principal outlines of that system ;—a course which is necessary, in order to • Mr. Robertson.