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From the French papers, received this day by the Esta fette, we have extracted the spirit, in the subsequent columns. Our readers will see, in the passages from La Tribune, Le Moniteur, and Le National, on the subject of the Association, and the Foreign Policy, all that is current, pour et contre, in Paris. Our correspondent in a short private letter, accompanying the journals, says: " From all I can learn in a certain quar ter, where good information is to be obtained, there appears to be no fear of being able to maintain the peace of Europe, provided the popular current does not run so strong, as to overthrow the present French Ministry. This is even feared by their warm and sincere friends. With regard to Russia, for all that tirade in the National, there is no fear of her whatever ; and I understand that she fears more than she is feared, and will be glad to let alone, to be let alove. The King of Prussia ardently desires peace, and without the consent of Prussia, neither Austria nor Russia can march a sol dier. You will perceive that a courier has arrived from Russia; and I have been to-day assured, by the same unquestionable authority, that the tone of that power is materially altered; and that there is not the slightest chance of its willingly encountering war with France. You will fail not to observe, that it is believed here, that Austria is making a halt in her progress, and is not expected to enter Rome." The Times this morning continues its attacks on Belgium. Its reasonings are those of a partizan, and the writer so .• phisticates in every line. The Belgians do not find fault with the mediators, for putting an end to hostilities; but they object to the terms sought to be imposed by the minis ters of Russia, Austria, France and England. To recount the names is to explain the wrong, and its cause. Dissatis faction is felt therefore about the terms of adjudication, and not without reason. At the same time the protocols aro to be regarded as propositions, not as conditions : but there seems to have been a want of good faith in the medi ation, and the Royal Dutch interest obviously prevailedover the popular interest of republican Belgium. A circumstance is reported from different parts of the Continent pregnant with consequences, if true. It is the alleged declaration of war, by the TURKS and PERSIANS, against the Russians. Finding that the Bombastes Furies() of the Balkan had been degraded at Warsaw, and the elite of the Russian army destroyed, those Powers, oppressed and stript of their finest provinces by Russian encroachment, have availed themselves of the opportunity to take the field. Nothing would be more politic on their part ; and, though the Turkish government is one to which liberal men would wish no triumph, yet as none can be worse than the Russian, so as a relief to Poland, and as work for the leading member of the Holy Alliance, we hope it will prove to be the fact. At the same time, it is not very creditable to Christendom, that it should have to resort to the Mahomedans, in resisting the barbarians of the North. The Foreign Policy of the French Asseciators, of whom LAFATITTE, LABORDE, LAM ARQUE, BARILLON, CONTE, &c. &c. are at the head, is, whether right or wrong, the principle of the Revolution. It is not intervention, and not general war ; but resistance to intervention, and respect to the public cause, in other countries. The opposition to so powerful and wide-spread a party, is as bold a measure as the issue of the Ordinances. If there be any who considered the Revolution of July, as the mere substitution of Louis PIIILIPPE for CHARLES X. they do not understand the Revolution. It was never so considered by its authors, nor by its intelligent friends abroad. The Revolution meant a general restoration of Civil Liberty in France, and a direct hostility to the principles of the Congress of Vienna, and to the usurpations which thatCon greats supported, in various parts of Europe. Louis PHI LIPPE, on the contrary, seeks to govern in harmony with the measures of the Congress ; which measures are held in abhorrence by the liberals throughout Europe. This is the basis of the present contest in France. A further question has arisen to augment the difference in France, between popular feelings and privileges. The Chamber of Deputies, constituted even as it is, passed a law to confer the Elective Franchise on all who pay 200 francs, in any taxes, or about 81. per annum— a qualification about on a par with our ten pound householders; and the law required, as the qualifica tion of Deputies, the payment of 500 francs, or about 201. in taxes. But the House of Peers has limited the tax to property only in each case; and, to render the change plausible, have reduced the amount to 150 for an Elector, and 400 francs for a Deputy. This would, how ever, entirely change the character of the Electors, and shut out the majority of traders and inhabitants of towns ; and hence is as unpopular as any attempt in England would be, to raise the £lO to £l5, or .£2O. The • Bid is therefore to be returned to the Chamber of Deputies, with these alterations, backed, as it would appear, by the approbation of the Government. The contents of the Dutch and Prussian papers, received this day, are to the following effect : ANSTIRDAY, APRIL 6.—We bear that OW revered Sovereign, as etenpanied by the royal family, will honour this city with a visit at the end of this week. Tax Rums, Aram 4.—Two couriers, with despatches for our go vanment, arrived here last night, one from Gen. Dibbets, Govanor of Maestricht, dated March 31, announcing that on that day acme Dutch horsemen, sent from the fortress to reconnoitre, met with sporty of Bel. gie infantry, which fired two musket shot at them, and that the battery of two six pounders, which waa thrown up half way on the road to Ton. gres, and afterwards razed, was re-erected by the Belgians. The other courier was from General Chesil., in Antwerp, who states that he bad received a flag of truce from Oe. neral Beaulieu, now commander of Antwerp from the Belgians, who acquainted him that there was a great agitation in the city, and that probably it would be necessary to employ the cannon to restore tranquillity, but that nothing hostile was intended on the Dutch squadron. There was a long sitting of the Cabinet Council yesterday, after which a courier was despatched to the Duke of Saxe Weimar, Go vernor of Luxemburg. AMSTERDAM, APRIL s.—Actual Debt, 2i per Cent. 38481 Amort eynd. 4b per Cent. 64.66i.—Ditto, ditto, 34 per Cent. 61-62. Diach Papers, April 6. Emmy, Manua 31.—An extraordinary supplement to the Jour nal of St. Potersbury, contains a report from Fiel(l.lla/sisal Die bleach, to H. M. the Emperor, dated the 13th of this month. The Commander-in.ehief sap, that the state of the ice on the Vistula still hinders the passage over that river. This interval of inevitable inaction is, however, usefully employed ; the troops, fatigued by long and diffi cult marches, most rigorous season, have taken some repose; and all measures have been taken to secure the subsistence of the array after it shall have passed the Vistula. Meantime the rebels have already sent:3 flap of truce to the Though they confess that their force has been broken by two defeats which they have sustained, and foresee the inevitable destruction to which an obstinate perseverance will lead, they nevertheless ask terms worthy the presumption and extravagance of the chiefs of the revolt. These proposals have been rejected with marked con tempt. The Field Idarshal then proceeds to relate the military opera. tions of the Poles, in the midst of these negotiations, and which chiefly consist in the expeditions of General Dwernicki. He says that their efforts, however bold, promise them no solid ad. vantage, and cannot in any way impede the general operations that will be undertaken by the Russian army. Be mentions the massacre of a squadron of Dragoons by the inhabitants of Pulawy. The advance of Ocn. Dwernicki, with 15,000 men, his defeat of a detachment of Gen. Kreutz's corps, and his march to Lublin, with the avowed intention of penetrating into Volbynia. General Krauts calculating that so bold a movement (must end in the complete overthrow of Dvemicki, if be could draw him farther from the Vistula, suffered him to enter Lublin ; then, by an able manceuvre, turning the left wing and rear of Dwernicki, he impetuously attacked Lublin, and carried it by storm. He bestows the highest praise on the conduct of Gen. Kreutz. The details coincide with those received through other channels. After the rebels were driven from Lublin, the movements of General Hreuts obliged Dwernicki to abandon his position. lie sent part of his force to Zamose, and with the other took a position near Branowslaw, but left it In three days, and retired towards Buebow, pursued by Count Toll, whom the Commander-in-Chief had detached wiih s strong force to deprive Gen. Dwernicki of all possibility of penetrating Into Voihynia, to intercept his retreat to the Vistula, and to strike a decisive blow against him. WARSAW, MAZCH 28. The Commander-in. Chief has made numerous promotions in the army. The French Col. Baron Romarino has arrived at Warsaw to join our troops. The corps of Oen. Rosen, which the Field Marshall •sot to clear the Woywodeship of Plock of our troops has returned, and that Woywodeship is again free as far as the Narew. The Wormy Courier says, "The Jews in Makow arilettremdy hostile to our cause, they have given up many of our soldiers to the Russians." The Vice-President of Warsaw calls on the citizens and inhabitants to arrest all soldiers whom they Sod begging alms. In the military hospitals in this city there is still a great want of the most necessary articles, beds, shirts, blankets, tables, utensils, &c. Several members of our National Guards who, on the 24th and 25th, lett their posts at the Bank, without permission, have been put under arrest by the Governor General of the capital, and their names pub lished. KOWINGSBURG, MARCH 26.—Our Journal of today gives, under the head of " News from the Polish Frontiers," the fol lowing particulars :-- 44 The heed quarters of : ount Diebitsch are still at Biennia • General Von Rosen at Weilakie ; General Count Pahlen at Jrusalem ; Prince flehaehoffski in Paryzow ; General Baron Gueisenau with the van guard in Grochow. Of the second corps of the army, which has entered Volhynia, one di. vision, under General Rafter, has already advanced to Useelug. Ge. neral Pwernicki, pursuing the trilling advantage which he had gained, continued too far towards Uscelug, and the Field Marshal having sent Count Toll with a sufficient force against hint, his corps has been de feated at Lublin, and is at present shut up in Zamore, where it will Poles not be able to hold out long, for want of subsistence. The Poles have sent several flags of truce, and proposed terms,which the Field Marshal has rejected, requiring unconditional submission. The last flag of truce sent was not received. The Russian army is said to be in ex. cellent condition, and the Guards in particular very fine, as the pas sage over the Vistula will soon be effected • a speedy lamination of the troubles in Poland can hardly be doubted. The Silesian Journal says— , According to present accounts from Warsaw of the 23d March several families have expressed a wish to leave the City and go over the frontiers ; but the Government suffers only the women to escape, the men of every rank are detained. As insurrectionary movements among the citizens ate apprehendtd, all numerous assembages of people in the streets are strictly forbidden.— Persons are continually brought from the country as prisoners accused of favouring the enemy, or giving them a kind reception. The Amsterdam Observer, of March 27, contains the following ar ticle :—" Letters front Warsaw, of the 18th March, received at Cracow on the 21st, say that the Russian army appears to be preparing for ef. fecting the passage over the Vistula, at Sten:yea. This operation would be favoured by the windings of the river at that part, which make it practicable to protect the passage on both flanks by the erection of but teries, and also by the numerous islands on the river at the point in question. On the 16th, General Uminski suddenly left Warsaw, with the remainder of the cavalry, but it was not known in what direction. There is no military garrison to Warsaw besides the troops that occupy the Tete de Pont at ..—Preissian Male Gaulle, to 2d April, inclusive. CITY, ONE O'CLOCI. • Consols, which left off yesterday at 78i for the Account, opened at the same price, and are at present 78f. A Jamaica Mail has arrived ; sailed on the 22d February, by which Jamaica Papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, as well as Singapore Papers to the 28th Nov. The Singapore Papers do not contain any news of con sequence. We are happy to learn by the packet from Carthagena, that every thing remained quiet ; the present Governor; who is a man of great firmness and impartiality, has gained the good will of the inhabitants. A fire [had taken place at Guayquil, which destroyed fifty houses, and property to an immense amount. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. Preparations are making at the Bank for a considerable shipment of the precious metal. Gold bars to the amount of 200,0001. for Holland, which are to go on board the steamer Batavia, is of the best quality of gold, for the coining of Dutch ducats ; and there is no doubt that part of it will soon find its way to Russia, as the same coin is current there. It is to be hoped that our sovereigns will not bear a premium, as formerly the guineas did, at the time they were sent out of the country by hundreds of thousands. We have no further political news since the arrival of the express from Paris. Consols, which were done in the course of the morning at 79, have receded to 781 for the Account. The report of another change in the French Ministry has rather damped the market. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.- EXCLUSIVE. FOR THE STAR. PARIS, Aran. 6. St Rogier, attached to the Belgian Legation, left Paris this evening for Brussels. It is believed that he is the bearer of a notification, concerted between our Cabinet and that of London, to engage the Government of Belgium not to oppose the occupation of Luxembourg, by the troops of the Confederation of the Duchy. This note grants until the 15th of this month, to decide and take measures, which are believed necessary to prevent all collision. Here is the brilliant result of the conferences of London, and of five months negociation at Paris ! Courrier Francais. There arrived yesterday at the Russian Embassy, a courier from Saint Petersburgh, with dispatches, which we are assured are of the highest importance, and which have occa sioned a conference between the Ambassadors. This even ing, Count Pozzi di Borgo dispatched a courier for Russia.— Le Temps. Tic E ASSOCIATIONS.—You say the associations inspire fear : why were you not the first to inscribe your names upon the lists ? Why do you not affirm, in the face of Eu rope, that at no prise will you transact, or treat, with the fallen Bourbons? Why do you not call openly upon them the rigour of the laws, if they should attempt to venture upon the soil of the country ? Why, in fact, do you com promise the nation with Kings by the grace of God? Then the nation would have confidence in your professions ; then they would believe in your patriotism ; and the associations would be in your bands a powerful arm, which would make the potentates tremble upon their thrones; then the Ministers of Austria, Prussia, Russia, and of England, would respect you, because they would fear you ; then you would surround the throne of France with force and splendour ; for the strength of kings is in the love of the people. A king whose councillors separate him from his fellow citizens, can with difficulty make head against storms ; and if storms should ever arise around the throne of Louis- Philippe, it will be upon you, his unskilful councillors, that will fall the overwhelming responsibility. All frightful as is the future, the salvation of the country is not desperate ; energetic patriots can be reckoned upon ; they are known : and you at least render us this service, —you make us appreciate the friends of the national cause, upon whom we can reckon for life and death. Let the Cossacks come, and they will find Frenchmen to conquer ei; let the Carlists dare to rise, and they will find people to repress them. As for you, still a few days more, and you will already have fallen ; the torrent of your faults will drag you with it. Yon will have prepared for us the great est evils ; you will have done us much harm ; but we love to hope, that they are not evils without a remedy.—Le Tribune. False premises must be drawn in, to support bad doctrines; with the want of power to convince, they seek to delude ; for want of good reasons to justify the associations, they swell the lists of names. It is our brave and faithful army that they would this day injure, by supposing that it was distrust ful of the Government of the King ; but it knows, better than those who calumniate it, by the solicitude of which it is the object, how much the government merits the confidence of the country. This morning was imputed to se veral regiments in garrison at Mentz, the crime of having signed, nearly en masse, the act of As sociation of Moselle : reports, arrived at the admi nistration of war, state that there were found, in the gar rison of that place, but two officers, belonging to any regi ment, who had given their signature. All the troops sta tioned in Moselle, officers and soldiers, observe the most perfect discipline. One may judge of the efficacy of the succours given to the national independence, by those who would offer to foreigners the spectacle of the insubordination of the troops, and of their distrust against the Government! A strange means of making our cause respected from with out, and of discouraging hostile views—if we had subject for suspicion! Happily, the army understands patriotism better than those who would instruct it. It waits for orders to act only from the King !—..hfoniteur. In spite of the habitual reserve of M. Sebastiani, and the care with which he so skilfully endeavours to speak nothing, there escaped from him yesterday a positive denial. M. Mauguin said, that at the moment when the Russian army commenced the campaign of Poland, the Major-General, Strogonoff, negociated at Berlin, the passage of the Russian army across the Prussian states ; and to allow conditionally the march of provisions. M. Sebastian' denied the fact.— " You are badly informed," said he, " it was not the Major- Gen. Strogonoff, it was Marshal Diebitsch himself; it was he who was charged with that demand, and who opened the negociations ; I can speak to the purpose, because I am suf ficiently well acquainted with what put." We are entirely disposed to believe what the minister said ; we are convinced that he spoke from certain knowledge, when he aimed that it was Field-Marshal Diebitsch himself, and not the Major-General who went to Berlin; we admit that, for this time, Prussia did not condescend to grant that which was required of her. It is not less convinc ing, however, to all the world, that Russia bad the intention to proceed upon the Rhine, across Germany; and that, if she has not done it at present, we may consider that it has been caused by the campaign in Poland, and the re • fusel of Prussia. He must be very obstinate who will not see, in a fact so clearly established, at once, by what has been said, and by the avowal of the Minister, new proofs of the amicable intentions of Russia in our respect, of the sin cerity of these pacific protestations, with so much of false hood in them ; and this is the certainty with which our Ministry is sure of maintaining the peace of Europe ! ! ! —Le National. SPAIN. Extract of a letter from Bayonne, dated March 27th.— " Arrests continue at Madrid. More than forty of the principal families of that capital have been delivered over to military commissions. The insurrection at Valencia has been suppressed. They have also arrested several persons of distinction at Bilboa, Vittoria, and Saragossa. We learn that the four hundred prisoners of the Isle of Leon have been, or will be, shot. Torrijos had but 1,800 men, and not 3000, as I at first wrote you. They have opposed to him considerable forces, to which it will be impossible for him to offer resistance, whatever may be his efforts and his courage. It appears certain now, that upon all the points where they essayed to raise the constitutional banner, the discontented found the population at least indifferent,and the troops faithful to King Ferdinand. This has, for the pre sent at least, annihilated all their hopes. NIPANIES. Trish Grand Canal, 754 Forth and Clyde, £625 Ui. & Man.Railway,.£lB6 to/190 Cromford, X 45 Guardian, Albion Fire, 175 Affiance, 18 51 County, £4O Bolanos Mines, £lBO Steam Navigation, dis. £6 151 r, 59. Wind S.— ITALY. It is certain that the Austrians have received orders not to enter Rome.—Gazette de France. Every one this evening continues to be occupied with the consequences of the negociations, relative to the occupation of Romagna by Austria. We are assured, that the com munications made by Austria are favourable to the main tenance of peace ; and that the Ambassador has given explanations upon the occupation, that it will be but momentary, andto re-establish order. It is added, that the mediation of England has been admitted by the two contending powers, and that Austria makes great protestations of disinterestedness. This intelligence has been commented upon, by the friends of ministerial temporising, wbo extol themselves for the result obtained ! What result in fact 1 No person can ever think but Austria will definitively seise Romagna. That which she proposes is accomplished ; she has destroyed the popular and national government ; she has brought back the bigotted despotism of Rome. It is possible that Austria may evacuate Romagn a ; but she has rendered the revolution abortive, and that is p re _ clkely what France should have prevented !—Courri t , Francais. SWEDEN AND DENMARK. Our correspondence from the North tells us of prepara. lions, which are making upon all points, to carry the dif ferent contingencies to a grand completion— not even excep t . ing the cities of Lubeck and Bremen, which equip and a rm , Denmark moves equally its contingencies fot the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. The nephew of the king, Prince Frederick Augustenbourg, will have the command.— Journa/ de Paris. STOCKHOLM, MARCH 18.—We are assured this day that there will arrive in the Baltic, at the cen-mencement of the summer, an English and French fleet. As may be well thought, this intelligence causes here the most lively sensa . tion. Our politics are exhausted in conjecturing upon th, frequent exchange of couriers, which has taken place foi about a month, between Petersburgh and Stockholm. The Augsburgh Gazette speaks thus :—" Our military authorities are very much occupied in completing our federal contingent, because, from the instructions emanating from the Diet, it must arrive, before the end of April, upon the frontiers of Luxembourg. The opinion of an approaching and probable war, becomes daily more general, and influ ences already the prices of several articles of commerce.— Private letters from Sweden assure us, that the Emperor of Russia has demanded of the Swedish Government to dispose itself to execute the clauses of the treaties passed by the Holy Alliance, and which obliges it to furnish an auxiliary corps of 10,000 men. This news is also in the journals of Stockholm." POLAND. CRACOW, MARCH 20.—General Klopicki is a little better, and it is hoped that he will be preserved to his coun try. Since yesterday a report has been spread here that the Polish; deputies, sent to the Russian Head-Quarters have been received, and have opened negociations. This circumstance, should it be confirmed, will have a good augury, because np to the present time Marshal Diebitach has refused all kinds of negociations, under pretext that the orders of the Emperor would admit of nothing but a blind submission. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS, OF TO•DAT AND TUTERDAY. Tar DUBLIN MORNING PO/S.—PUNISHMENT OF DEATH— Foacizar Laws.—We cannot forbear returning to this subject. The perusal of the admirable report submitted to the public meeting held on the 9th March, the Lord Mayor in the chair, must carry conviction to every unprejudiced mind. We must admit that Sir It. Peel appears to us to have been mistaken, or manifestly inconsistent in the course he pursued on this question In the debate which took place in April 1830, he is reported to have said, " I shall remit the capital punishment in various cases, where there seems to prevail a serious difference of opinion upon the propriety of its infliction"— and after such an avowal of " his rule of conduct," he complacently opposes the abolition of capital punishment " for the forgery of all do cuments which represent money," by which he declares be means bank hills and notes. How can Sir Robert Peel maintain that no serious difference of opinion exists on this subject ? Has he not petitions from bankers, merchants, and professional men of all descriptions, for the abrogation of those cruel laws?—Has he not declared the opinion of the mat eminent men in the Houses of Lords and Commons. It lea fal lacy, and will be said to be a pretence, to uphold a system of paper credit at the expense of civillsauon. We contend that the views of Sir Robert on this subject are contradictory and narrow. If it be neces sary to outrage the best feelings of humanity to maintain the credit of the Bank of England, that establishment cannot: be on a sound basis— but we assert, that other punishment less than death would be more ef fectual, not only for the protection of banks, but of society. Criminals would not be permitted to escape—and impunity (often through the extreme severity of the present law) would not :lead' to the commission of crime. We have that opinion of Sir Robert Peel, that we anticipate he will yield upon the subject, and not emulate the Duke of Wellinr ton upon the question of Reform ' by declaring against at/ reform, in opposition to the declared opinion of, we might say, the people. Hza.at.D.—lt appears that at the York Assises a man named Thomas Gregg, convicted of sheep-stealing, has been doomed to suffer the sue tr.i. enaltp which our improved criminal code annexes to this aimo, which is death. We had hoped the time wan come when an offence of this nature would be thought sufficiently atoned foe by some punishmert short of taking human life. But the Judge who tried the case (M . Justice J. Parke) is reported to have given a reason for inSieting, in the present instance, upon a sheep-stealer, the punishment which he would have awarded to a murderer. He is stated to have told the prisoner that "the offence of cattle-stealing had become so common of late in the country that a severe example must be made, and, in his opinion, there was no case so glaringly fit to afford that example as his." This way of putting the cue we consider, with v.ll submission to the learned Judge, to be founded on the doctrine of expediency, not on the principles of justice. It is but a new application of the dogma of Judge Buller, that a man Is hanged not because be steals a sheep, but that sheep may not be stolen. Carry this doctrine to its full extent. and to what will it lead ? To the enactment of the penalty of death for every offence whatever. For if legislators and judges Save a right to take life in any instance, on the ground of expediency, without any consideration of the proportion of the punishment to the offence, they have an unquestionable right to do It in every instance. The whole moral foundation of justice is subvestsd. An enlightened public calls for a repeal of the forgery laws, and demo& that the crime shall be treated, even in its worst *live, as an voted species of fraud, as it really is, and not as an offence of or blood : but the doctrine in question, if of any weight at all, most prevent all amelioration of the criminal Code. The eminent isilelimi who holds the highest judicial situation in dit country eked his splendid and useful career in the House of Comma the by pouswir ii petition, which petition stated that thaw who dyed it 'We.ud with deep regret the excessive and indismindoste severity et the I eeiminal laws, which annex to offences of dillimmt degrees of amid guilt the punishment of death, and confound the mere invasion of the rights of property with the mipiselignest mad atrocious about spin the person and the life of man. " As to ng, umber *epee• tem* of amendment, Sir R. Peel has made law more empthery than itiwas before, as he has made it a capital lima to kill a sheep, or, indeed, any cattle, with intent to steal the skin—which was net es piial by any previous law ! Tunas.—Of all the champions of anti-reformation, the Duke et Wellington stands alone in his daring, we doubt not honest, but almost ludicrous denial of the necessity for any species of reform. It is not therefore the Duke of Wellington we fear. His doctrine will not make dupes or proselytes. The shuffiers—the sleight-of-hand men—are the real parties of whom the people should be apprehensive. Although Sir R. Peel and his party one and all refused—refused as dogge d ly as the Duke of Wellington himself—to admit the least accession of popularity into the representation, when the proposal was made to them for transferring the franchise of worthless and despicable boroughs to towns of vast wealth, population, and intelligence • and although the present universal hunger for a sweeping demolition Of the close boroughs may be traced to the just indignation of the country at those shameful votes, the very same suss have now the impudence to assure us that they. forsooth, are Meadow Paelioneentary reform, but not to this reform. In other words, they would take credit for the truth of declarations which every act of their previews lives has contradicted. Still, we enjoin the people of ingland, as Mr. O'Connell does the Irish, set your shoulders to this one weekm.oMminp nothing—think of nothing—until you have aceempliehod that. erm will do every thing for all of us: without referee, there is neither puce within nor power without, nor security for whet we have, nee hips that which is wanting. 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