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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S UNPUBLISHED NOVEL, • - QUENTIN DURWARD. THE MUSEUM of Tomorrow will contain a A. detailed Account of this interesting Work, with ;opiate Extracts. Also, Olig!nail Letter from Paris—Don Juan,, stn Anecdote -- Pyr amid of Drlnh—Philosophy of Advertisements— Scientific Intalgeece—Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Per sonages—Exhibidon of Society of Painters in Water Colours — Royal Rxhibidoh— Varieties, Anecdotes, bcc. Published by John Miller, 69, Fleet-street; and sold by all Booksellers, Newsmen, &c. &c.—Price Bd. or is. stamped. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY I. It was arranged, that the Royal Assent should have been given by Conunissloo this day; but as the House of Gammons had ad journed till to-morrow, the Commission stands for another day. Earl STA N HOPE presented a Petition from Charles Andrew Thomson, of Chiswick, in the County of Middlesex, complain ing of the mighty mischiefs resulting to individuals, and pro perty hi general, by returning to Cash Payments, accompanied as they unhappily were with measures for rectifying contracts; and stating, that amongst the thousands and thousands of suf ferers, the cases of very few could exceed in hardship the one now brought before this House. Petitioner and his father were for many years Oporto merchants, in which capacity they gained a large fortune, and were enabled to purchase the estates of Northaw, In Hertfordshire, and also at Pontriglar, in Hertford shire, which, owing to reverses hi commerce, he offered for sale, but could not obtain a price at all equal to the sum for which, meantime, they had been mortgaged. It was represented, in like manner, that Petitioner and his father (now deceased) bad purchased some estates in the Counties of Middlesex, Sussex, and Hams, for upwards of ,1133,000, which actually sold for .C 12,000. Petitioner and his late father,owing to the depression in the price of land, and to a like depression in that of their stock in trade, were, In 111611, reduced to a state of bankruptcy, In con sequence of which their families were left destitute, while Pe etioner's fa:her died broken hearted. "It is," concluded the Petitioner, '• to prevent this act of crying injustice and cruelty that your Petitioner humbly implores your Lordships to inter pre the exercise of that power which you possess, for the pur r 1.• of protecting his Majesty's people againt oppression. tour Petitioner thinks it wholly unnecessary to take up the time of your Lordships ha :hewing, that this threatened confiscation of his property has arisen wholly from those legislative measures Which have produced that change in the value of money, which bas taken two-thirds from the price of agricultural produce, and which has, of course, lessened, in the. same degree the price of land. His cue is so plain that it cannot be misunderstood; and, therefore, begging leave to remind your Lordships of the Bank Suspension Act in 1797, of the suspension of actions against the non-resident Clergy in 1 600 (which actions were afterwards quashed by an Act of your Honourable house), and of the sus pension of the landlord's power of distress agaiust tenants, in 1u12.; your Petitioner, begging leave to remind your Lordships of these precedents, most humbly prays your Lordships to sus pend the power by which the mortgagee may be enabled to take :rum hint his estate; and he further prays your Lordships to cause such equitable adjustment of contracts between man and ran, as niay prevent the utter ruin of your Peiaoner, and of the hums foes persons dependent for their bread on his peas- Pi lry means."—The Noble Bail, the Petition being read, sup- Totted its prayer at °onside:rail: length and, in conclusion, said, that at some future time he should certainly call the attention of their Lordships to the measures of a more equitable adjustment of contracts, and a more equal assessment of rates.—The Pet& ti:— was then laid upon the table of the House. 14 , Yra the motion of the Earl of SIIArTZSIIERY, the Profane S xearing Act Amendment nil was reed a third time, passed, and messaged to the Commons. The Report of the Warehousing Bill was received, and the an: er.dre enta were agreed to; after collets the Weights and Mea se-es I:111 was read a second time. Cp the motion of the Earl of SUATTNIIIITAT, their Lord row acijoc.racti to tun o'clock to-morrow. THE EYENLNO STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1825. STOC ENCLIANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Corso% openel this morning at 77‘ and got up to 7s, I, with a good Market. Au Express arrived this morning from .Paris, bringing the French Funds of Wednesday at 8.51. 10c.— Spanish Vt. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened this morning .at 31i, I, and got up to SSI, 6, with the Market looking op. Current Prices :—Chiliart 68. New Spanish 32f, New Prus sian 8! I, Old 83, Russian 76f, Danish 86, Colombian 60. Pit ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 215 1 A-3 per tent. Reduced 77A 5 4 3 per Ct. Cons. 77 7 / 8 78% 1 / 8 I A-3 1 / 2 per Cts. 89A 4 per Cents. Old, 95% 96 1 / 4 4 per Cents. Net", 98 981 Bank Long Annuities 19 15 16 20 . Imperial 3 per Cents. 76% 3 / 8 India Stock 245% 246—India Bends 355. 38s. South Sea Stock 88 1 / 8 Etchequer Nils of Cl,OOO, las. 14s, 15s. Ditto Small 15s. .18s. Consols fur Payment 77 7 / 8 78 3 / 8 1 / 8 1/4. A report prev ails among the best informed persons in the City, that the war commenced between France and Spain is likely to be arrested in its progress, by these Powers submitting the cause of their quurel to the mediation of foreign Courts. Although the inter position of Great Britain may be said to have ceased, yet it is to our mediation that both France and Sdain ace said to look for averring the further calamities of war. In consequer.ce of the general belief this report obtained in the City, a rise has taken place in all the Funds. Wu cannot sufficiently, call the attention of our Readers to the proceedings in the House of Commons on the late ; uestion of the Foreign. Policy of this coun try. Nevir did the proud feeling of being an English man burn in our hearts with gi cater ardour, and never did the Lower House do itself more honour. It was quite delightful to hear the fearless expressions of manly independence, the just detestation of arbitrary power and of unnatural aggression, and the wise arguments of the advocates of neutrality. If the love of liberty, and attachment to the Throne and best interests of the country, are fitobjects of the admiration of man kind, the Members of the House of Commons are justly entitled to the praises and esteem of their countrymen. We hate bceu speaking of the House of Commons generally ; we mean now to offer a few particulay-observations on the Opposition. Never, in the annals of Parliamentary history, did One party obtain such a triumph over another as on Wednesday night: never was so large a mountain in labour, and so little a mouse brought forth ; and now that this poor little marine abortion wishes to creep into the first hole it can find, the cruel, unnatural propagators turn away from it and disown it.— A short week ' sinte and nothing was heard but the note . of preparation for the overthrow of Ministers; von knew of the plotting of the conspirateit ; and Mr. Eaitxttßs was told to beware of the Ides . of March; and we have no doubt that Gloucester Lodge was 'often disturbed by the unquiet dreams of Mrs. CA24;. NINO, forewarning her to advise tire Foreign Se cretary not to go to the Senate during the fatal Ides. bey were to turn out the Ministry, they were to shew Kipgs they had better mind what they were about -9.--.-...500d0 reges, atque tetrarchas Omnia nukes towns; mod* Barret strive Glenorehy ! —for these two Gentlemen, - with five or six others, were all who could be found with sufficient hardi hood to vote an inculpation upon Ministers s the rest of the vast minority of twenty were forced back (" necessity makes us acquainted with odd bed-fel lows !") into the House, from the pressure in the lobby. It is quite delightful to see the confusion the Opposi tion are in. Mr. TIERNEY, and the shrewder part of it, says, " You don't imagine that the voices .of-feur or five wrongheaded fellows are to be "ten as the opinion of • our body ? They don't. mind me more than a deaf donkey, and the more I tell them that by following such a Course they will get into a scrape, the more they do it." The Morning Chronicle, (which is written by JOS:Ell Hume), ingeniously says, " Mr. MACDONALD expressed his intention of withdrawing his Motion that an unanimous vote might go forth to the world, expressing their abhorrence of the conduct of France." No, no, Mr. MACDONALD, this is too capacious a bit of humbug for our easy credulity to swallow. So that, forsooth, all his address, all the tedious debates during three whole nights, had only this object in view, that the House might erpre,s its disapprobation of the aggression of Prance. The truth is, that the only object was to overthrow the Ministry, by obtaining a vote of inculpation upon their conduct during the late negociations. The Ad dress of the Opposition breathes nothing but blame throughout, and the Amendment of Mr. WORTLEY has nothing but commendation upon the course they have pursued ; and what was the result? As we said before, there were only about half a dozen volun tary voters for the Address and 372 for the Amend ment. As Mr. CANNING well expressed it, if he who, unconsciously, has bestowed on as a benefit; is entitled to our gratitude, we ought to be particularly grateful to Mr. MACDONALD. By his absurd mo ,tion, he has elevated Mr. CA brxrNo and his Col leagues still higher in the estimation of the country. He has obtained almost an unanimous approbation of the course of policy they have pursued, and in the words of the Amendment, he has she wn to all Europe, that however highly we, estimate the *Op:gage of `peace, particularly in the present moment, we shall be at all times ready to affoi d his MAJC.STY the most zealous support to vindicate the dignity of his Croin, or to maintain the rights and inte rests of bisfeople. We say, and we say the truth, that the - Opposition expected to have a very strong division to inculpate the Ministers, and that too up to the delivery of Mr. CANNING'S .speech, -which flashed conviction upon the mind of every catdid person. He, in a speech which has hardly everbcen equal led, warded off the attack with the shield of eloquence and truth ; and now that the dart his fallen harmless at his feet, they disown having had anything to do with this. " "re ltun irnbelle sine ictu." Never yet was there a vanquished party who did not attempt to gloss over its defeat by some pretence or other, sheaving clearly how, if the faits had been just, it ought to have borne' away the 'wreath of triumph ; and, generally, in proportion to the mag nitude of the defeat, has been the extravagance of the eitepuating pretences pot forth en the occasion. Of all the instances of the kind, how - ever, which have come under our observation, we recollect none' more remarkable than the attempt which the Whig Party are now making, through their various organs, to spew that by their glorious minority of twenty, on the division yesterday morning, they sustained nei- . j thee discomfiture, nor disgrace, nor shame. The division, we are told, was only a division 'in " appearance," for, " in fact, there was none !"—lt was all brought about by " trick ; " the Opposition, j kind souls, did " not seek any triumph over their op ponents ;" " they did not mind any apparent triumph over themselves ;" and the Amendment, approving of the conduct of Ministers, was so much to their minds, that " the few who voted against it did so by mi;take!" All this is so extremely feasible, so Whig-like for meekness and consistency, that we wonder the Chro nicle should have been at the least pains to search for precedents in confirmation of its truth. But so it is. " This trick," we are .told, "was tried ten years ago byldr. SWAN, who was left to site by himself; and , the same thing—(What ! Mr. Swas again?)—would have happened on Wednesday night, if the hurry, noise, and confusion, had not so puzzled several Meta ( hers, as to prevent them from understanding the bed joke which was played off." Ch monstrous bad joke, indeed: To force Gentlemen, so disposed to harmony on the occasion, to declare by their votes, how many of them, on their honour and Conscience, approved of the Address of censure for which they had been contending through three long nights of toil and trouble Oh, cruel jokers, thus to sport with the repentance and confusion of a fabiltiiilied; dying roe We have one fact A 0,411,14 rather terrepeas;:faw we yesterday adverted tali birt,..l which we think ; will enable the Public-toie4reiti clearly in what the only " bad joke" in the case consisted.--r, The amended Address, against which " the twenty" (ever memorable phalanx I) voted in the House of, Commons, was word for word the same as the amended Address against which forty4ight Whig Peers gave their votes in the House of Lords. Will it be said that their Whig Lordships too voted by mistake? We presume - that any such story, as to them, would now come rather late in the day. The Minority in the House of Lords voted, we dare say, deliberately enough; and if that in the Commons was less in numbers, the fact can only be ascribed to the progress which a sound and rational view of things had made with every new discussion of the conduct of Ministers. So shamed out of their partizanship were the great body of Whig Commoners, by the invincible explanations of Ministers, that the greater number would not vote at aJ for that censure which their noble friends and patrons had voted for before them ; and the few who did so, are now glad to save their claims to respect with the Pub lic, by pretending that it was " by mistake." We conceive—indeed. we know this to be the real state of the fact; and if there is any bad joke in the case, we are persuaded the Public will agree with us in thinking that it consists in certain Honourable Gentlemen heaping, night after night, the coarsest abuse on Ministers, and declining in the end either to confirm by their votes what they have said, or to make a manly acknowledgment of the clear and satisfactory manner in which Ministers have :hewn themselves entitled even to their approbation. That of the country at large Ministers have had from the beginning ; and it is the voice olfaction alone, which, though silenced, does not join in the meed of applause. F. Bayonne Papers to the 25th of April reached us this forenoon. The following are extracts : BAYONNE, APRIL 44. The Mail from Madrid is not arrived this morning, but we expect it in the course of the day. Troops continue to pass through this city. The 25th - of the line arrived yesterday, and a Regiment of Cavalry is expected to-day. Considering .the number of Cavalry already in Spain and those that are to follow, it seems inconceivable how means will be found to feed so many horses ; and, in fact, we hear that the Prince, in a late Order of the Day, had decided that all per sons who are not entitled to have horses must send them back to France. People speak,' as a thing that cannot be doubted, of the removal of M. Sicard from his place as Intendant-General of the Army; the ex cessively disadvantageous -contract that he made with M. Ouvrard, and for which he would have. re ceived a douceur of 50,000 francs, is stated to be the cause; and the more justly, as, notwithstanding the ex tremely high terms, the service was but ill performed. —M. Regnault, who takes his place for the ptesent, is gone, it is said, to head quarters. It is further, re ported that a number of foreigners, among whom there are several very rich Prussians, have made much more advantageous offers, and that they have beep at last listened to. . . We have not any bulletins or news from head quarters, but weshall, doubtless, hear something this morning. Meantime people still talk of the affair at Logrono, and they affirm that our loss in the engage ments. which preceded and followed the taking of the town was considerable. It is reported that a General dangerously wounded, is on his way to. this oity.-- There is also a report of an affair near Burgos, but these reports are so vagee that they cannot be im plicitly credited. . . In a Proclamation, addressed by Count l'Abisbal to his troops and the Province, he says.a— • " The French come with one hundred thousand conscripts to modify or destroy the Constitution ; but we will return them good forevil,,by giving them our Constitution, because It is fit to serve as a =delta all codes which are intended to govern men." Some Officers attired here yesterday from head qua' tea s, to fetch shoes far several regiments that are barefoot, but they have found nothing in the maga sines. It is positively said that the distribution of the rations, especially of liquors, .is very irregular. Bread is very dear. It is likewise said, 'that all the Spanish Priests who have taken refuge in our city and the environs, have received orders to depart for Spain without loss of time. They are auxiliaries, who are to be employed, if not to combat, at least to maintain the good diiposition which some fanatic in habitants chew towards us.. The Bishop of Tatra sano, formerly Grand Inquisitor, is of the number. We learn from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, that the head-quarters of the 3d Corps were at Vane; that the city of Pampeluna was still surrounded," but not attacked is form, which it will be necessary to do to get possession of it. The French corps are also in possession of Sanguesa, Tafailla, and Olyte, which have been deserted by the inhabitants. It is said, that the Trappist, dissatisfied With the treatment be has met with in the French army, has passed the lines, and none to join Merino, in the province of Lerma. It would appear, by the follovring article, that the halt of the Austrian troops in Italy, has created much uneasineis in Switzerland. ' - LAUSANNE, APRIL ig. . The unexpected halt of the Austrian troops in Lombardy, excites many reflections. Great actin is.. observed is the offices of the Military of the Confederation: Officers of the Staff go b at : : wards and forwards. Our Representative Cuur,cl assembled three days ago, and appoirved a C et. mittee to deliberate with the Council of State, o .: measures to be adopted under present circumstan.. The usual formalities have been dispensed witk; order to proceed the quicker. The Committee 4 already met twice. The Council of State has co , . nual Sittings, and at all hours. What is in at. tion; what is intended; what is required or Swiss, we are ignorant of. A thousand repo t -u nto circulation on the subject. People speak of plans disclosed to the Federal t rectory by an English Minister, to we know not tr' Court.. The Great Councils of Vaud and are said to be assembled as Well as ours However, we still Hatter ourselves that the pre, ent of the Austrian troops near our Southern fronftr will be but of a short duration; nevertheless, :! Canton of Tessin has conceived alarms, which geographical position naturally explains, but however, do not yet seem to have any lout Since_ the passage through Switzerland a-as for foreign troops, in 1813 and 1815, we cannot the storm howl around us without lancyin; that going to burst over our heads. In this Canton and that of Geneva, most measures have been adopted cowards the Italia fugeet, uho, not having been included in ally list proscription nor individually claimed by their vernments, had till now eijoyed an asylum in ' zerland. The Greek emigrants are going to away, without knowing to what quarter they turn, considering the measures that have be en I: with respect to them in all the surrounding cc The latest intelligence which has been from the Eastern Army of the Pyrenees, c to the 23d ult. The fifth and the ninth divisicins of the of the army, and three Spanish battalions manded by d'Enot.r.s, begin on the 9.3 d of flgueras. An Officer with a flag of trice sent to summon the garrison to surrender. ficer was received without difficulty, and respect, but sent back with an answer which have made Marshal MoNcaT blush at his . We are happy to be able to give our Readers spirited reply, which will be found below. was every appearance that Figueras would ' long. MONCRY has left 5,000 men, French niards, to invest the place; of these, troops. The French are beginning already , difficulties is obtaining provisions in Catalonia. is therefore determined to fortify Rosas, that may use it as a port for receiving supplies France. All the troops not to be employed i/ blockade of Figueras and the other fortresses; taloni4 are to be divided into small parties, and sent against the Constitutional Guerillas. SUMMONS ADIAESSEIII . TO THE COMMANDER OP Fl !Rite BY MAZISUAL MONCEY, APRIL '23, 160. 0 tat lamituAa Or IrILANCI, comgauxemo 114 CMIZT 07 nit MUST 07 THE 7111171rt75. " In the name Olds Most Catholic Majeuy rem " Considering the disposition of the Spanish people, reception with which the troops under our everywhere in their passage; considering that the fart _ Una sentiment 'of the noble and generous minds who diem the movements of the royal army is to appease the oniessalis which spring from revolutions, to unite in submission to their Sovereign all misled Spaniards, and thus to spare the elision d precious blood, I unit* the Goveenor of Figueras to imager that fortress to the combined Royal armies of France asd Spats. " The act in which the Governer of Figueras will find all the guarantees which he can desire Is the subjoined proclamation to the Spaniards by his Raja Highness the Duke et ingouleme. " The Spanish colours win continue to Hunt on the tamr. ll of Flgueru. The coofidence of the Governor towards the ROO Army In this conjuncture cannot in the least wound the Ism d honour. It will be entirely national, and will ensure to bin de good will and satisfaction of his august Sovereign, FerdinandVil " The Marshal is authorised to give to the Goverrorthe mance That property will be respected, that persons Wen be molested on account of their political opinions, and Alegi,* eelleney, and an those under his orders, will preserve 001111 , noires, their ranks, their emoluments, and prerogatives. • "'. " Done ak head-quarters, under Pigp e n s , April at' '"P . (Signed) " MONCV , To this summons, the Governor, St. Miguel,* turned the following aniwer:— Senor General,—The fortress of St. Fernando &Flews which the nation has intrusted to my care, and to wigs owl deuce I desire. to make a return becoming a true Spingsrdgill free man, shall not be surrendered, nee placed in the MX" the Royal armies of France and Spain, as your Ewing it quires in your letter of this date, delivered to me by CIO Lamers, your Aide-de-camp; and its garrison, penetrated IPS 1 1 the same sentiments as myself, are resolved to bury tip under its ruins rather than fall in the *lnerrant, of thsirlisinild and their oaths. " I am sensible to the fact, and lament the prospect, dull"' cious blood must now on both- sides; but it is not in my Volt to prevent it. With your Excellency and your army slops elk sides the power to prevent the calamities which yen dePkire• uniting yourselves with a people who so much desire SINOP stead of unjustly and forcibly imposing claim upon IWO which enjoys that liberty, and which neither acknowiedt 6 , l l l will ever acknowledge, the right of any other Power to IMP fere in its political concern:, or receive at foreign dictaden. lAt it alone must frame for itself. • • "Asl am very far from accepting the proposals of b cellency, I lay entirely aside as irrelevant the Protium ' which his Royal Highness the Dolma Angoulemc has addre.l to the Spaniards, which can only be good and useful for ref' (lions Spaniards and unnatural children of their country; WWI to true sons of that mother, whom they do highly value, and P whose prosperity and bapeiness they . Ito . illipoied to sagg. themselves: • • r,cesciet " This is the only answer I have to return to your alarms, hich plains, but *hie any foundation, land was o '5, we cannot h, lancyin that it va, most rilorc ids the Italian Wed in ally lilt , ned by their asylum in S • e going to be loaner they d t have been to nundlng consul'. las been recei ences, comes do )1 the fourth co battalions c 23d the block Flag of truce Tender. The and treated nswer which en h at his de our Readers , • Id below. is would hold , French and , 3,000 are F • ig already to in Catalonia. Itosas, that ng supplies he employed in th r fortresses in Ca parties, and to la HANDER OF FIG , PUIL 23,1529. cnirr ens !sr esty &Miami 'IL 'MAI people, saddle command are loilt4 it the hut duty—de il