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. THE EVENING STAR. . ' LONDON, • '1 WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1321. Jauss.—Hislidat It the Du& Although this is a holiday at the Bank, the Stock Exchange remains open, and a great deal of business is doing. testerday Consols left off at 76%, and this morning opened at 76%1 they fell to 7671, and the Market l•oks heavy. It h currendy reported in the City this morning, that Lord EXMOUTH has received orders to be in readiness to go on active service. Our Readers will feel much interested, and, we should hope, gratified, by the result which we this day publish, of the first prosecution brought to trial at the instance of the self-styled Constitutional Asso ciation. From its being the first they have tried, we may presume, that they thought it the strongest they had in store ; and the verdict on that has been, viz tually, an Acquittal. A Mail has arrived this forenoon from Lisbon, with Papers to the 14th inst. They supply us with the following interesting details respecting the KING'S arrival and reception in the ancient capital of his dominions : LISBON, JULY 4. During the Sitting of the Cortes yesterday, a note from the Minister of the Marine was received, stating that the squadron in which his Majesty returned was in sight. This information caused some embarrass ment, as it was not possible to arrange, before mid day, what was necessary to receive his Majesty in a proper manner. The Cortes proceeded to elect, by ballot, twenty-four persons to be pre sented to his Majesty, that he might choose eight from among them to form his Council of State. —While the ballot was proceeding, a message ar rived, at two o'clock, from the Minister of the Inte rior, stating that the Deputation, composed of the President of the Regency, the Minister of the Ma rine, &c. were gone on board, to compliment his Majesty, and had not returned, and that it waited to know whether his Majesty desired to land or not ? At four, another messenger came to ask whether the Deputation of the Regency was to wait on board for that of the Cortes ; or whether it was to retire, leaving only the Marine Minister? After some de bate, it was resolved, on account of the lateness of the hour, which made it impossible to send a Depu tation on board in a proper manner, the Regency 'should be informed that the Deputation which it had seat should remain with his Majesty till the Cortes sent their's, and that his Majesty should be asked at s►l.at hour he would received the Deputation of the Cortes, which would meet the next day at the usual time? LISBON JULY S. In the Sitting of the Cortes yesterday, which be gan at half past eight o'clock, the President commu nicated several Notes from the Ministers of the Marine and the Interior. The first stated, that the Deputation of the Regency had remained on board his Majesty's ship, is the Cortes had ordered; the second, that his Majesty would land at ten o'clock ; the third and fourth, that he would not laud till four o'clock ; and that his Secretary for Foreign Affairs should have a conference with the President of the Cortes; but the Cortes had, previously decreed that his Majesty should choose some hour before noon, and he having first appointed ten o'clock, his Majesty should abide by this, and the Deputation of the Cortes go to com pliment and accompany him at that hour. Meantime, the ballot for Councillors of State continued, and the Deputation went to compliment his Majesty. At a quarter before twelve, a message was received that his Majesty would land immediately. It wa► five o'clock when his Majesty entered the Hall of the Cortes, supported by the Secretary, Folgueiras, pre ceded by the Deputation of the Cortes, and accom panied by all the Officers of his Royal Household and having taken his seat on the throne, the Rook of the Holy Gospels was presented to him by the Presi dent, or. which his Majesty laying his hand, pro nounced the following Oath: 6 ' I, John VI. by the grace of GOD, and by the Constitution, 1;14 of the United Kingdoms of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarve, swear upon the Holy Gospels to maintain the Catholic Apostolic Bun= MAigion, and cause to be observed the bases of the Constitution decreed by the General, Extraordinary, and Con stitutional Cortes of the Portuguese Nation, and the Constitu tion which they shall make, and to be in all respects faithful to the said Nation." After this solemn oath was taken, the President delivered a most energetic and pathetic speech, to which his Majesty listened with particular attention, and evident signs of approbation. His Majesty then left the Hall, accompanied by the Deputation; and the President presented a written discourse of his : Majesty, in answer to his, saying, that his Majesty being too fatigued to-day to read it himself, requested it might be read; and it being observed that this should be done by one of the Ministers appointed by his Majesty, this was communicated to the King, who sent his Minister for Foreign Affairs, who read the speech. SITTING 01 THE CORTES, JULY 5. The PRESIDENT stated, that when his Majesty had taken the Oath, he added these words, which were heard by all the Secretaries who were near his Ma. jesty—it And an this is true—and I swear with my fwhole heart." - - Some Deputies who were near the President de clared abo that they had heard these words. M. Patina proposed that the Archbishop of Bahia, as President of the Deputation which had been to compliment the King, should present a Report of all that had passed. This was approved, and the Arch bishop said he should do it with pleasure. as he would testify that his Majesty had received the Depu tation with evident marks of satisfaction, and re peatedly declared that he voluntarily, and with all his heart, approved of what the Cortes did. LISBON, JULY 5. Though his Majesty had expressed from the first moment of his arrival the most ardent desire that all proceedings should be in accord with the Sovereign Congress, and though the latter had resolved by a Decree that his Majesty would choose the hour at which he would land, " provided it were before mid day," a certain ancient and often dangerous influence endeavoured to delude the Monarch, abusing his ex treme goodness, without regarding the consequences which might ensue. But the Sovereign, sincerely disposed to listen only to the voice of the Representatives of a Nation, which, in saving itself from the shipwreck in which it was about to perish, saved his Crown and Throne, did not yield to the insinuations of his agonizing Cour tiers, and, landing at a quarter before one, was re ceived, with thousands of acclamations to the Con stitutional King by the countless multitude which covered the Terreiro do Paco under a bottling sun. His Majesty having got into his coach, with the Infants Don Manuel and Don Sebastian, proceeded between the line of troops to the Cathedral, to return thanks to GOD. A solemn Te Devon being performed, his Majesty then went to the Palace of the Necessi dades, where he took some refreshment before he proceeded to the Hall of the Cortes. _ . M. TRANZINI moved, in the Cortes, on the sth, that the Cortes should declare, first, that the patriotic behaviour of the inhabitants of Lisbon, and of the troops, on the 4th of July, was deserving of particu lar praise; secondly, that, for the same reason, espe cial praise was due to all the Officers of the 182 d Corps of the Line, and to the Generals who com manded them ; and thirdly, that the anniversary of that day should be observed as a national festival. SITTING OF THE CORTES, JI'LY 7. A long Report from the Committee of Commerce was read, relative to the tree meaning of the 26th Article of the Treaty of Commerce with Great Bri tain, made in 1310. After the Report had been read. some discussion arose, in which several Deputies spoke of the immense loss which Portugal sustained by the reduction that had been made of the ditties on Eng lish woollen manufactures, from 30 to 15 per Cent. and it was resolved that they should pay in future 30 per Cent. as they had done till the year 1813. LISBON, JULY 12. The Regency announced, on the 4th, that it had laid down its functions, in consequence of his Ma jesty having assumed the reins of Government. The Cottes have returnel thanks to the Members of the Regency for their con2uct in the exercise of their important duties. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon. Letters are stated to have been received in Paris from Smyrna, on Saturday, which mention, that after delivering themselves up to all sorts of excesses, the Turks had set fire to that unfortunate city. All the Franks had taken refuge on board the ships sta tioned in the Roads. The latest intelligence from Madrid represents that capital as being perfectly tranquil. The accounts from various other parts of Spain concur in repre senting the several parts of the Peninsula respectively AS enjoying an uniform state of peace and confidence. Mentxo's efforts to excite a civil war were the last feeble attempt of the partisans of the old system to disturb the Constitution, but his band of robbers is disperse], and Mcnixo himself is said to have been obliged to seek for safety in France. French Five per Cents. Saturday, S 5 fr. 90c. We have received Jamaica Papers to the 4th ult. from which we extract the following intelligence re specting the state of affairs in Venezuela : The !'resident, General Bou VA R, had marched for the Caraccas, at the head of 13,700 men. Admiral BRlox, with his fleet, was at 'Maracaybo ; it consisted of three brigs, three schooners, and a sloop, and was undergoing some repairs. The Patriots are said to have about 64,000 men under arms ; 16,000 are at Cucuta, under the com mand of General URDANETA ; and General PAEZ has 12,000 Cavalry on the borders of the river Apure, which have orders to join the main body ; 10,000 men are at the eastward of the province of Santa Martha. The army of the South, about 7000, are at Popayan, under General VALDEZ, and another divi sion of 5000, under General BERMUDAS (who will b• superseded by General ARISMENDI), are between Cumana and Caraccas, and have received orders to proceed to the latter place, to create a diversion in favour of the troops that are opposed to General Tort Ras, the Commander in Chief of the Royalists, who is in the heart of the Caraccas, with about six thousand men. Cumana, Porto Cabello, Laguira, and Coro, are still in possession of the Royalists, who have about duce thousand men in those places. THE ARMY. The 4th Ught Dragoons, which cam* from Cinterbnry ob account of the Coronation, left town this morning. Yesterday morning, upwards of 700 men belonging to the In valid Depot, Fort Pitt, marched from Chatham, on their route to Chelsea, to be disbanded. The Provender Squadron of the East Kent Yeomanry Ca valry, commanded by Sir EDWARD KIIATCIIMULL, Bart. assem bled at Sittingbourne lye days during last week. On Thurs day, in honour of his Mastrry's Coronation, the Hon. Baronet gave an excellent dinner at the Rose Inn, to the whole of his squadron and many of the neighbouring Gentry. Friday, the Mid Lothian Yeomanry were reviewed on Porto bello Sands, near Edinburgh, in presence of the Commander-in- Chief, and obtained the highest approbation from the military men present. The Regiment turned out 360 strong, and was put through its maneuvres in a very masterly style, by their commanding officer, Sir Jour Hort. Having compkted their permanent duty for this year, they returned to their homes on Saturday. Commissions in the Stirlingsbire Gentlemen Yeomanry and Vo lunteer Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Stirling. Thomas Graham Stirling, FA+ to be Major, vice Speirs, re. signed ; Robert C. Graham Bontute, jun. Gent. to be Lieu tenant, vice Fuilayson, resigned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Lady Arabella packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, has ar rived at Falmouth; sailed the 14th instant. MILFOOD, JULY 22.—Arrived the Miens, Score, from Mira michi, whence she sailed in company with a fleet of about 25 sail, mostly for Liverpool or St. George's Channel. HAARICH, JULY 24.—Arrived the Mary Ann, SHAW, from Gainthorough ; and Fidissima, Boca, from Arundahl—the for mer with loss of windlass, and the latter leaky. FALMOUTH, JULY l .—W W. S. W.—Arrived the Mis sionary, DAVVI, from Georgetown, in 35 days, for orders. ' PLYMOUTH, JULY 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Wanderer, WAYOUOD, from St. Andrew's(New Brunswick), in five weeks; and the Alfred and Intrepid transports, from Portsmouth, for the Cape of Good Hope, with troops. Drat., Jucr 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Waterloo, Wuxi:now ; Hector, flowczrr ; Medina, Konirisv ; and Wellesley, SMELT, from Jamaica; John, JACK.. SON, from ditto for Newcastle ; Pursuit, Mamma, from St. Domingo; Woodman, KTIALIZ, from Bengal; rAigle,Sranazcz, from the South Seas; and several more, names not known. Hutt., Jour 25.—The following accounts are brought by a vessel arrived at Oluckstadt, and the Patriot, arrived at Bremen, of the success of the undermentioned ships, belonging to this port, at the Greenland Fishery :—The Tibor, 2 fish, 35 tuns ; Nep tune, 2 fish, 20 tuns; William Torr, 4 fish, 50 tuns; Shannon, clean ; Jane, clean ; Alfred, clean ; Cicero, 4 fish, 60 tuns ; Ve nerable, 3 fish ; Fame, 5 fish ; and Manchester, 4 fish. A Grand Musical Festival, for the laudable object of raising funds for the rebuilding of Westminster Hospital, was yesterday given in Westminster Abbey. The splendid decorations prepared for the Corona tion still remained, to gratify those who wanted any allurement beyond that of the finest music, executed by the most accomplished artists. Notwithstanding I the threatening aspect of the morning, there could not be less than 5,000 spectators present, and per haps a more respectable and brilliant society was never collected under one roof. The sight was equally beautiful and impressive. The selection was from the masterpieces of HAYDN, MOZART, and HAN DEL, on sacred music : the graceful dignity of the first, the delicate and refined fancy of the second, and the deep expressive radios of the third, lost none of their power, either from the instruments or voices of the various performers. Mrs. SALMON sang with that union of sweetness and force, of richness and just taste, which place her at the head of English singers. Mr. BRAllAst gave IlAtioet.'s Recitative in a firm style, and the air of Waft her Angels with a more faithful and exquisite expression than any other living artist could have done. With admi rable sense and taste, he avoided all ornamental varia tions, and gave the text of the great master with a simplicity and delicacy which enchanted the au dience. Messrs. VAUGHAN and BELLAMY acquitted themselves well; so did BECHER and ANGRISANI: and we cannot close our account without expressing our admiration of the rare combination of strict science and enchanting sweetness which distinguished the e ff orts of Madame CAMPORESE, particularly in the air of Gratias agimus tibi. The orchestra did its duty nobly. The whole affair, indeed, WAS projected, arranged, and carried into e ff ect with admirable taste and judgment. Its object was to celebrate the most interesting event in the history of a People—the so lemn recognition and inauguration of their KING; and, at the same time, to raise a fund sufficient to rebuild a Hospital "for the relief of the needy.frona all parts of the world" (the Westminster Hospital, established in 1719), and which has, of late years, been rapidly falling to decay. At the Vauxhall Masquerade . given on Monday evening in honour of the Coronation, the Proprietor and the Manager seemed determined to outvie all former precedent in the character of the supper which was provided. Nothing has ever, in our recollection of Masquerades, come up to the standard of the bill of fare of the Vauxhall Masquerade. The tables, at one o'clock. were profusely spread with every delicacy. Shell-fish, boiled and roast fowl, ham, sallads, roast lamb, pigeon and meat pies, jellies, strawberries in abundance, ices, pastry, and sweetmeats. For the Manager's sake, as well as the Proprietor's, we had to regret that a provision so ample had been made; for after the supper was concluded the hospitable board remained covered with untouched dainties. —This liberality, which forms so striking a contrast with the conduct pursued by our town managers of masquerades, may prove a beneficial lesson to those Gentlemen on future occasions. During the evening the rain fell. This, no doubt, discouraged numbers from joining the festive scene. With the exception of Sir WILLOUGHBY COTTON, and a few others, there were scarcely any persons of haul ton present. It is true there was a variety of character masks admirably sustained—the wild man, Doctor Eady, the owls, the flip-flaps, clowns and harlequins, gypsies skilled in divination, and girls more fair than the flowers they offered for sale. France contributed its veritable marchandes de modes and faiseuses de robes, its belles laitieres, and grisettes indulgentes. There was no scarcity of French wits, or English beauties, Jews or Gentiles, the peripatetic philosopher or the eternal fireman; yet still the even ing dragged heavily for want of that stimulus which alone can give our phlegmatic character a fillip.-- There was no crowd ; and long before the sun had risen, three-fourths of the visitants had retired to their pillows to dream of the uproar which it appears is so essential to the enjoyment of a masquerade. The Proprietor, we regret to say, must have sustained considerable loss. We trust that fine weather, and I public taste, as well as gratitude, will yet re-imburse him for his loss. LAW INTF:LaGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 24. TILE KING V. BELE, alias SERE. 'this was an information filed by the Attoil y. General against the defendant, for a seditious published in The Republican on the 20th of Octob er , 1820, printed by Jane Carlile. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated the nature of the libel to the Jury. It was a gross libel on his %je sts . , which he (the Solicitor-General) would content hin.. self with reading to the Jury, for he was of opini on that if, on the bare reading of the libel, it did not satisfy every well-informed man that such was it s nature, no ingenious collateral arguments could have that effect. The libel ran thus—" There is not one vice that the King can put his hand to his heart and say, 'I am innocent of it. He has inherited thegross obstinacy of his father, and the avarice and meanne ss of his mother, without any of their domestic quail. ties ; to this he has added all that vice has taugh t or conjectured." The defendant stood in the sittutinn of servant to Mr. Carlile, and sold the number of Th e Republican in which this gross libel was published,and could not be ignorant of the nature of the w ork. S. Houlditch of the Stamp-Office, proved having purchased the number of The Republican containing the libel, from the defendant, who served in the sho p, The libel having been read, Mr. PRENDERGAST, for the defendant, trusted that the Jury would consider the extreme youth of Isi s client, who was now only nineteen years of age, and was merely in the exercise of his lawful calling, en. deavouring to procure an honest livelihood. Mr. H. T. Willis gave the defendant a good ratter for moral and religious principles. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL shortly replied. Mr. Justice BEST said, the publication was certainly a most gross and and scandalous libel. The Jury immediately found the defendant Guilly. TIIE KING r. sIISS MARY ANN CARGILL The defendant in this case, on the Jury being called into the box, desired that a written paper should be handed up to his Lordship. Mr. Justice BEST having read the paper, said_ Gentlemen, the defendant is desirous I should ask you whether any one of you are Members of tie So. ciety for the Suppression of Vice ? I do not mys e lf consider this as forming a legal ground of c , but still I put the question to you, and should any one of you be a Member of that Society, you will perhaps retire. Under all the circumstances of the case, I should recommend you to do so. The Jury individually said, they did not belong the Society. Mr. Justice BEST.--I am also desired to ask whether any of you Gentlemen are Members of a Society called—' The Constitutional Society? We have nothing to do with that; as the Society which has been alluded to, has nothing to do with this pro. secution. Though even if it had, Ido not consider that as a good ground of challenge. The Jury said, they were none of them Member' of this Society. The defendant.—My Lord, I see a Gentlemn whose name is Hodgson, in the box ; his name a amongst those in the list published by the Society. Mr. Hodgson.—My Lord, I am not a Member, there is a person of my name in the list, but it is spelt different to mine. Mr. GURNEY then stated, that this was a rascal tion instituted by the Society for the Suppresion of Vice, against the defendant, for the publication of a blasphemous libel on the Holy Scriptures. The qua tion which the Jury had now to deci,le was, which should be the strongest, the criminal or the law? It would hardly be credited that, in the present stated society, there should be existing in the mot public street of this Metropolis a shop opened with the ut• most ostentation to defy the law : that such was the fact he would prove in the progress of this case. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to state that the present defendant now held the shop formerly met pied by her brother, R. Carlile, where the publics• tion, the subject of the present prosecution, was pup chased. The title of the work was, "An Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine;" and it would be sufficient to read the passages of the libel, and to prove the publication, to entitle him to a ver. dict. The Learned Counsel read several passages from the publication, and called the following witnesses: J. Regnald, sen. purchased the pamphlet now put into his hand on the Sd of March last, at the shop, No. 55, Fleet-street, of the defendant ; he paid 6d. for it. He also purchased a second copy on the 12th of the same month. By the defendant.—Did I give you the book?— You did.-1 did not. You took it up off the court ter yourself. By Mr. GURNEY. —Defendant seemed to recollect me, and appeared alarmed. She quitted the shop and soon returned with Bere, the shopman. The witness asked defendant if she was alarmed at having sold him the book? adding, if you are, you have your remedy ; give me back my money, and take your book again. She would not, however, return the money. By Miss Carlile—Will you swear I took the money up"? I will. The libel was then read, and consisted of cow merits on the Scriptures, in the style usually adopted by the writer. Mr. GURNEY said, he would here close thecase. Mr. Justice Barr then asked the defendant if the wished to say anything to the Jury? The defendant handed in a written defence, and desired to have it read. Mr. ABBOT accordingly proceeded to read it. The Address commenced by calling on the Jury to comes sider the publication now before them with candour and calmness, and if they did so, she confidently an• ticipated an acquittal at their hands. She was cafe vinced they would not by their verdict send her to a prison for two or three years for having published that which had circulated for months and yea r through the American States, having been publish ed in an American Newspaper, without doing any jury to morals or religion in that country, although there was no Society for the Suppression of Vice ek isting on the other side of the Atlantic. The defence then went on to contend that the publication, 1 10 W the subject of inquiry, was no more than a Uri calm, and dispassionate discussion of the merits of the Christian Religion. Oa the trial of Richard Carlile, the Chief Justice said, to do this was no offence. no . the Christian Religion did not wish to shelter under the wing of the law from fair difcusiorl. ;, h ii I I f E E s