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mirr • .") . st: .~ sem diarnnutiAniir to the public principles w sitt . 7 professed, or the smalls,* I r e e l h aiNia oNn v n sutaport of them. When called to office in 1816, I was called to a depat tment perfectly alien from my official habits, and with the busjoess of which I had no previous acquaintance; but, in .. the course of nearly five years diligent administra tion of that department, it has so happened that I am supposed, by those in Wham the law has vested the power of appointing to the Government of India, to have qualified myself for the more immediate direction of that Government, over the concerns of which it has been my duty to exercise a distant super intendence. Many obvious circumstances, undoubt edly, would have made it more agreeable to mto have remained iit this country —(Loud heers).— e I see around me more than one hundred and sixty motives for having so wi,hed to remain —(Renewed cheers). But, Greilemen, I hold that a public man is, unless he can H cause of honour or duty to the contrary, bound to accept a trust which he is selected as com petent to administer for the public interest. Gentle men, those in whom the law, as I have said, vests the power of appointment (subject to the approbation of the Crown), have done me the honour to think, that I may be the humble instrument of conferring some benefit *a the population of an extensive Em pire. I fear they overrate my capacity for the task which they impose upon me, as your kindness has overrated my services to you— (Cries of " No, no"). — But I have not felt myself at liberty to decline a task at once so difficult and so honourable; I must exe cute it to the best of my ability. Gentlemen, in leaving your service, it is my pride to carry with me such testimonies of your satisfaction. 1 hope I may, without indecent vanity, add, that •in quitting the House of Commons, it is a consolation to me to quit it not defeated nor disgraced. If, Gentlemen, you and I are separated by space, let us, then, continue united b) sentiment and by kindness. I leave here . in your keeping, a name, insignificant as it be longs to an individual, but consecrated by the prin ciples of which you have made it the symbol.— Guard it, not for its own sake, but for the sake of those its accompaniments. While it may be my lot to administer a Government, of necessity in a great measure discretionary, I shall reflect that there is, in my own country, a community in which my name is cherished, as associated with rational liberty, with the principles of a free Government, and with the institu tions of a free people. Guard you my memory, and I shall cherish your's. Removed from you by thou sands of miles, it will be a pleasure to me to think that I aai occasionally remembered by you; .and be assured, that in whatever part of the world I may be stationed, the members of this Society will have a place in my remembrance and regard. Gentlemen, permit me to conclude with proposing, with a slight variation, your usual standing toast—" Permanency and Prosperity to this Club." The speech was received throughout with loud applause, and the Right Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst the cheering of the company. There were various other toasts given, and speeches in rejoinder. 'At a late hour Mr.Catesmos again rose and said— Gentlemen, permit me to take leave of you for the night,with renewed acknowledgmentsfor the kindness with which you have received me. These acknowledg ments I cannot better express than in one of the toasts which I find upon your paper, embodying as it does the sentiments which I entertain towards you and towards the community of which you are a part, and of which I have been now nearly ten years a faithful, I hope, and, I am sure, a favoured Representative. It has been held, Gentlemen, by writers and speakers upon public subjects, that however commerce may enrich a State, it has drawbacks which more than balance its advantages, in debasement of principle, and in the lowering of high-minded feeling. If this was ever true of any State, it is not true of Eng land ; if it was ever true of any town, it is not true of Liverpool. In proposing to you therefore, Gentlemen, your accustomed toast—" The good old Town of Liverpool, and the Trade thersnf," I express, in homely language—of which, however, every word has its value—your cultivation of " good" principles; your attachment to the " old" institu tions of England ; and the combination of those prin ciples and those attachments with a flourishing " trade," which, so far from debasing the community which it ens iches, has, with expanding wealth, brought proportionate expansion of intellect ; and, with increasing prosperity, has increased your devotion and attachment to the Constitution of your country, as the source from which national prosperity springs. The toast was drank with thunders of applause. Conviviality and harmony reigned till a late hour; and the company separated highly delighted with the intellectual enjoynient, as well as the festivities of the evening. PUBLIC WORKS IN IRELAND. Along the coast of Connaught the following works are now in progress, under the authority of Govern ment and of the Boai dof Fisheries. Boat Harbours: In Sligo, three—Mayo,nine—Gal way, fifteen,--Clare, five—Kerry, five—and in Cork, four ; or in all forty one Boat Harbours. The benefit which must neces sai ily arise from the completion of these works, will soot, we suppose, become manifest in the great ex tension of the fishery. A general line of road from Galway along all the coast, and by the heads of the bays to Ballina, on the border sof Sligo, is also in progress, with Other lines directed from the principal fishing bays through the interior, and to the extremity of the Royal Canal. These operations must lead to the permanent im provement of the country, while, in the meantime, they furnish employment to an immense number of people. They not only afford facilities to the fisheries, but they open up di,tricts, and markets hitherto un known, which, by supplying a new demand from the interior, will stimulate the exertions of the industrious on the coasts.— Dublin Journal. STEAM LAND Cmut G ES.—The Alonthty Magazine to be published September let, contains the Li' igraving and De scription of (iiiirrtio's Y.,tuit Land Carriage, for conveying Goods and l'aisengers on our public roads without the aid of Horses. 't he Carriage, here represented and described, will be worked by an Engine of s Seven Nurse rower, and will trans port a load ui six tons at au average rate of five miles per hour, which may be varied and increased indefinitely for other Car riages. The genetst introduction of these Carriages for all kinds of purposes, wiii couslitaite aukusiik of mechanic* lover antici paLti by our aucootuestr- ~i' T ~' , 1 : .. .~ . ~ , II , •- FRIDAY, Aucxer 30, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. , There has been some improvement in the market this melt ing, owing to £BO,OOO, Consols, having been purchased at the close of yesterday's market, and to the shutting of Reduced on Wednesday next, to pay the dividends. Consols were done thii mornintat 81 for the Account, since which they are 80ft0431 ; 1 for Money, 801 1. Reduced shuts 4th September—Open's 24th October. . Four per Cents. shut 4th September—Opens 24th O cto ber. 1 Long Annuities shut 4th September—Opens 25d October. , Foam!' Fuens.—To-morrow being settling day for all Fo reign Securities, most of the Brokers are busy in winding pp their accounts this morning, and little business is doing except in China?' Bonds, which have somewhat declined since yesterday. New and Old Spanish ponds maintain their prices. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Funds remain steady at 801 to 81 for the Account, and 801 i for Money, with little doing. • ' ' Folmar: Funds,—Foreign Securities are as follow this morning' —rhilian 831 if 1, New Spanish 631 to 641, 014 641 to 64 New Prussian 871, Old 90, Russian 8511, Danish 89, Naapeil.' tan 761, Colombian 87, Scrip 8 7/1. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Ct. Reduced 81 3 / 8 1 / 8 1 / 4 -2 per Ct. Cons. 80 5 / 8 1 / 2 3th per Cents. 92% 4 per Cents. 99%a % • 4 per Ct. New 99%8 sA—Bank Long Ann.2o 15.16 21 Imp. 3 per Cis. 80 1 f 4 —India Bonds 51$. 49,. 50s. pr Exchequer Bills of 4:1,000, 6s. 3s. Ditto £5OO, 7s. 4s—Ditto Small, 7s. Bs. ss. Cons. for Oct. 81 8078. AR.. The Paris Papers of Tuesday have been received. They contain another day's proceedings of the Court of Assize on the affair at Rochelle. The Serjeant- Major of the 45th Regiment, to which several of the alleged conspirators belonged, was examined, and de posed to the discovery of the plot by Goupillon, who alKays appeared to be thrown into a melting mood when he denounced his fellow-soldiers. ' 6 The witness found, on the 17th of March, Goupillon in the inn called the Golden Sun, at Rochelle. He per ceived that Goupillon wept; he asked him the reason of his sadness ? Goupillon hesitated at first to answer him, but he soon went out with him into the court, and said to him, lam a lost man. lam going to bring dishonour on my family, and my head to the scaffold. I am a Carbonaro : this is a Society of which almost all the Subaltern Officers of the Regi ment are members.' Goupillon then spoke of a plot; ' the witness asked its object ? Goupillon replied, that the tri-coloured Bag was to be hoisted; that the mo ment for action was not far distant ; and that Pomier (one of the prisoners) had been arrested at the mo ment he was setting out with dispatches for General BEIVIIION." Nothing of any interest occurred during the subsequent part of the examination. In an article from Petersburgh, dated the Sd inst. we find that the EMPEROR was still in that capital, and that he was on that day to celebrate, by brilliant fetes, the birth-day of the EMPRESS, his mother. The following Ordonnance of his Imperial Majesty, lately issued, shews both the love of his subjects for the military, and the tender mercies of the Imperial Government towards those who harbour deserters : " In every village or place where, unknown to the Lord, a deserter or fugitive finds a forbidden shelter with a peasant, the community of these peasants shall be condemned to a fine of 2,000 roubles for every such deserter. If this shelter is given with the knowledge of the Lord of the village, he shall pay the same sum, independently of that paid by the peasants. If the concealment has been effected by the Lord, and if the deserter , has been received into one of the villages by him, in that case the Lord shall be obliged to pay alone the sum of 2,000 roubles for every deserter, besides being liable to the other rigours of the law. Whoever shall denounce a deserter or a fugitive, shall re ceive for each individual a reward of 500 roubles, derived from the fine imposed on the harbourer." The following are extracts : PARTS, AUGUST 27. On the 21st August, in the Court of Correctional Police at Nantes, a young man, a clerk in a consi derable mercantile house, was tried for having called out at the Theatre "Down with the Mouchards !" (po lice spies), and of having insulted General Despinois (who has been brosght into notice in the trials pend ing at Park), by writing on the sand the word Espio nide:. The Counsel for the prisoner applied himself chiefly to this last fact, and asserted that this word, which General Despinois had taken as an insult, was not a correct anagram of the General's name, and as it was a word void of meaning, and of no language, the General had no right to interpret it as an offence. The Counsel, in illustrating this point, cited some happy. anagrams, which had been made the means of conveying satire or censure, ex. gr. that on Father Proust, pursot (absolute fool) ; and that on Frere Jacques Clement, c'est teller que cde (it is hell. that has created me) ; but he was astonished that the public prosecutor should have tried to shew that the first syllable of the word written by the defendant (espion, spy) was applicable to a person holding the high station of General Despinois !—The young man was condemned to a month's imprisonment, and a fine of 200 francs. Despinois is a Prefect, and has been very busy in finding or making plots. An article, it appears, had been published in the Miroir, a periodical work, giving an account of him under the tide of Espio nides—a word which, from its near resemblance to an anagram of his name and its indication of his em ployment, was very offensive to the General. ODESSA, AUGUST 1. The differences with the Porte are looked on as settled. It remains to know whether the Greeks can . .-~- -. • ft HAMBURGH, AUGUST 23. general Vienna, and Metsburgh, to make knows to the Sul- tan the general point of view in which those Count consider the affairs . of Greece, and to engagethim to comply therewith ; but as this declaration cannot be accompanied by any menace, considering the amica ble relations which actually exist, it is to be feared it will not have the effect desired. Besides, how want of the innocent Greeks may be sacrificed in the meantime! AUGSBURG, AUGUST 21. It appears that immediately after the death of the Capitan Pacha, the Sultan, wishing to raise the cou rage of the Mussulmans, gave orders to Chourschid to strike a decisive blow. Chourschid consequently made a general levy in Macedonia of all Mussulmans 'from the age of twelve to sixty. In concert with eight Pachas and forty-eight Beys who joined him, he assembled all his Officers, and engaged them to conform to the intentions of the Sultan. On the fol- lowing day the first battle took place, and it was not till the day after that the grand battle was to take place, the result of which the next courier will bring with exactness.—Gazette er Augsburg. Just as we said yesterday, the Austrian Observer pretends that the Greeks were completely beaten, but the details appear so obscure and so incorrect, that we are not far from believing thit the article was fabricated, as at another time, to favour speculations in the Funds. Our own correspondence from Corfu, of 23d July, announces, on the contrary, that Chour schid was beaten in the same place by the Greeks.— Cons/ itutionnel. • The true state of affairs in Greece is more uncer tain than ever. One thing, however, is certain— namely, thit some important eventi have taken place, and those are interpreted in &volr of one party or the other, according to the cause wAich . one espouse. The' Universal Gazette, of Augsburg, gives news from Constantinople of the 25th and 26th, announcing a great victory of the Greeks over the Turks on the Bth July, near Zittury, or Thermopylae.—(Ns ac count we gave two days back).—But the Austrian Observer, of the 16th of August, publishes a fresh mass of news about Turkey, all unfavourable to the Greeks, and not one word of this victory. On the contrary, it says the Greeks suffered a great defeat near Zittury, and Chourschid Pacha was marching on the Morea with 40,000 men, having entered Li vadia and Salona, and even Thebes and Athens.— This defeat is ascribed to the division among the Greeks. The Austrian Observer confirms the account of the defeat of the Greeks before Arta on the 16th July. Of the corps of foreigners under General Nor mann, consisting of 280, 160 were killed. The Ge neral, with 70 men, saved themselves in the moun tains of Combotti. The other 40 were led captive to Arta, and beheaded as rebels. Colocotroni, who com manded the blockade of Patras, had, of his own au thority recalled the corps of Peloponnesians,who, un der his own son, were going to march against Arta. To these sad accounts the friends of the Greeks oppose private letters from Vienna of the same date with the Observer. They maintain that that Journal, according to its system, conceals the victory of the Greeks to reconcile its own public opinions. They pretend that Lord Strangford himself, in a letter which arrived at Vienna, has avowed that the Greeks gained the victory. They also circulate a detailed account of the advantages gained by the Greeks. This account, true or false, says the battle was fought on the 13th, 14th, and 15th July, new style. The account is dated the Bth July, old style, or the 20th July, new style. A Proclamation of Demetrius Ypsi lanti to the Greeks, dated the 12th, is in point. He reminds them of ihe fate of Chio, and the necessity of combating for their hearths, wives, and children, and for their lives. The young Bozzaris died fighting —his last sigh was liberty! Farm' FUNDS, Am 27.—Five per Cents. opened at 94f. sc. closed at 93 f. 70 c. • This forenoon we received a Dutch Mail, bringing Papers to the 28th inst. The following are the only articles worth quoting: We have the following account from St. Peters burgh, of the 10th instant : Yesterday his Majesty the Emperor reviewed at Strelna a corps of 30,000 men, which was distin guished by its fine appearance. On the 16th, his Ma jesty sets out for Warsaw; and thence, after a short stay, to Vienna. How long his Majesty will be absent is not knoWn, and, indeed, seems not to be deter mined. Count Langeron, the Governor of New Russia, is going to the Baths. His place will be filled by General Insoff, whu is now also Governor of I3essarabia. ,~,. ~. • ... the rod coodect of the European and dicers, might have been attended with consequences for the most opulent inhabitants important district. A band had as.embled Nigello, under the conduct of a fr.v Chiefs, among whom was one Kerte the deposed Demastrof Minoreb. It does ' net appear what was the real object of this band; hat it seems to have been plunder, as they surprised seve ral' bothii,ffia;thstrict of Magelong and in Probolingo, without much increasing their numbers. The Resident hastened ieith the few European civil officers, and the small native garrison, to go in pur suit of the robbers, whom he met with and.put to fight on the 27th : they afterwards made a sally from village where the ground favoured them, but we:e driven back and dispersed. Detachments of cavalry from Samarang and Djokjokarta arrived on the 2bth, and on the 29th went in pursuit of the robbers, who had so completely dispersed that none of them were as with. On the 30th all was tranquil, and the Re. aident of Djokjokarta, who had come to the assist ance of his colleague, returned home. Ills Excel lency the Governor-General has expressed, in the most flattering terms, his satisfaction ,with the con duct of all the Gentlemen concerned, for their judi cious and prompt measures on this occasion. • ' Nothing can be more contradictory in appearance than the statements relative to the late engagements between the Greeks and the Turks ; and yet t'!e ac counts in the Austrian Observer, which give tile vic tory to the latter, are so vague and unconnected, as rather to confirm than negative the triumph the Greeks. The Austrian Journal states, in very terms, and with a marked disposition to der - I the Greeks, that CHOURSCHID PACHA had defeated Mart with great loss near Thermopylx—passed into Thr..s saly—thence to Livadia--and even reca i ltured T. t•I)e. and Athens! No dates are given—there is no pre tension to detailed narrative—and the whole is tn :,- tioned in the dubious style of " they -ay " and " it is supposed." Under these circumstances, it deceives no credit as to its statement of Turkish succe,ses. It may, however, h,te a colouring of truth, though mainly false, if th 4 fighting really took place as de tailed in the accounts giving the victory to Greeks. These admit that the Turks did repu:se the Os,eeks with loss on the 7th ; but that on the Bth the fight was renewed, and the issue was the total defeat of:the Mahometans. The Austrian version, which professes to be c: n• in a letter from Constantinople, and is a date one day elder than its competitor for credit, ma: possibly, and even probably, refer only to the first day's fighting (the 7th), and have constructed upoli this transient success the imaginary strides of Cnoort- SCUID PACHA—SO at variance with the slow move ments of a Mussulman army, over a large portion of Ancient Greece, reconquering two capitals in his way. • All the accounts agree that important battles have bee►► fought, and they coincide as to time and place; nay, they even agree as to the result of the first day's engagement, namely, that the Greeks were worsted. It is, however, on the second day's fighting that the Greeks claim the victory. Intelligence from Corfu, which also first appears in the Austrian Observer, speaks very decisively as to the success of the Turks in another quarter, and represents NORMANN to have been engaged in Alba : . nia, fighting a series of unfortunate actions, or (from the small number of troops employed) sharp skir. mishes, against the Pacha of Arta, in the la't of which the entrenched camp of the Philellenes (Ent - - pears volunteers in the Greek cause) was stormed, after a severe loss to the Infidels, and NonslAss little corps of 180 men reduced to less than 100. That Officer and BozzArts, a Greek leader, are said to have thrown themselves among the difficult defiles of the Macronosa mountains. But this same account contains a very improbable story of the defection of ODYSSEUS, who is said to have betrayed his country and joined Crtourtscriro Pecs* ; and to have fallen fighting in the Tnrkish ranks instead of those of his brave countrymen. We repeat, that though the intelligence is shrouded in mystery, yet we still think it balances in favour of the Greeks. A few days will, however, probably determine this point, although it must be confessed that the news from either party is seldom very clear and distinct. While, however, the Greeks are nobly contending single-handed and unaided for their independence, they have got a powerful advocate in their favour in this country, in the person of the venerable Lord ERSKINE, who has just written an eloquent letter to the Earl of LIVERPOOL on behalf of the Greeks.— We hail the appearance of this production as the har ' binger of better fortune to the cause of that unfor tunate people. Religion and humanity have here guided the pen of this amiable and venerable Noble man, whose voice has so often and so successfully been already raised is behalf of the oppressed; and the heart that can read his powerful appeal unn:oved must be torpid indeed. Ott the religious east of the community, we are warranted in believing that it will produce a strong and durable impression. His Lordship commences with informing Lott! Ltvaaruot. that " he s solemnly and indispemalAy forced, by a duty paramount to that of a statesomn, to Take au insigne effort to enget4c the natioth iu Jopg.esco,pc the sword Which . dent. and tilt The initifoitkof the Sultan. • • .ItY native civil off remove all his troo • v:' bias . of • I. X - a parlous consesp . Ar we to them perha .0101! in i that import `ilk.* Partizans flatter : es will • • noir the river . Stithi ensuing Congress, to send to C6n .• ' •• e s inferior native =it*. general declaration of the Courts of Path, Loadon, Widyorzo, the HAGUE, AUGUST 27. We learn that the Council of State is to meet at Brussels, about the Ist of October; and that the Session of the States-Ge9eral will open at Brussels, on the 21st of October, being the third Monday in that month BATAVIA, FEBRUARY 7. On the 27th, 28th, and 29th of last month, a num ber of robbers assembled in the Residency of Kadoe, which, but for the judicious measures of the Resi- Ir V~ it ~~ r I di vt a! di ce Of th t( YI .ft} fr A _ I ff h