Star. — London, England, 1823-04-23 00:00:00

s- I C 1 n )r. All in be as nd Kt mg rot hat c 1) or sistent witit his Hon. Friend's known liberality, to bring forward allegations against the Catholics, after their claims had been frustrated, and when they had no opportunity for reply. Sir J. MACKINTOSH said, that it was evident the House wa , placed in a painful state of uncertainty with regard t ,, the contradictory statements of two Ron. 'Members, each of whom equally believed what he stated, and each of whom was entitled to the be lief of the House. But there were other ch cum eurnstances which would enable the house to decide the question without abstracting anything from the authority of either Hon. Member. One party, whose cause had been espoused by the Hon. Member for Cambridge, had already made the same charge ; an opportunity for proving the charge had been offered ; but they had shrunk from the trial, and abandoned their allegations—(Hcar, hcar).—Accord- Lig to all the rules of evidence, the House was bound to presume against the party which advanced accu sations, and abandoned them when the opportunity for establishing them was presented---( Hear, hear). Now, the opposite party had had no such opportunity afforded; they had made no complaints, but merely called on their accusers to substantiate their allega tions by proof. The Hon. Member for Derry (Mr. Dawson) had said there could be no evidence, because the witnesses were Catholics, and were in terror of their Priests. This was an admission that there was no evidence at all in favour of the accusation. Why not call the witnesses before the Election Committee? (Hear). The Hon. Member for Cambridge held affi davits, stating that the conduct of the Catholic Clergy had been indecent and criminal ; why had not the makers of those affidavits likewke been called be fore an Electirn Committee? These affidavits were to be regarded with a very jealous eye. Th • makers were exposed to no c; oss-examination, su!;ject to no penalties of law, and chargeable with no perjury.__ The House would perceive, therefore, that although the Hon. Members stood on an etrality as to the cre dit due to their assertions, yet the pantie; themselve. were 11. ced on very different ground The on; lnving had all opportunities to prove their charges, ltad shrunk fro:n the trial ; and the other, havinq had I.ooppertm:i:ies, had called lot inquity—(Clieers). Colonel TRENCH, in explanation, said, that the reason why the petitioners had not gone into the rwff of their allegations was, that even if true, the election would nut have been ii.vrlidatt:d. Ti:e Petition was then ordered to lie o the table, and be printed. General ARCHDALL then presented Petitions against the Catholic claims from the county of Fer managh; from the parishes of Ohone (a laugh), De tenish, and others from other parishes of the same county, which were respectively ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. CONDUCT OF I'HE HIGH SHERIFF OF DLBLIN AND TIIE GRAND JUItY. Sir FR ANCIS BURDETT said, he rose in pur sa tnce of the notice which he had given of a motion E!owing out of the discussion of a question of a for mer night, relative to the late trials in Dublin. All v:ho heard him must have witnessed on various other occasions how unpleasant and even dangerous it was to touch on any of the circumstances connected with the misfortmei of Ireland. It was in such a state of peru:iar difficulty that no question really affecting its interest could b.: discussed without giving rise to irri tated feelin7 ; but at the same time th a t i t was pa i n f u l to witness this, it was also the duty of the House to find clt some allevia;ion for the evils of that country, and to amelior ate its condition, which was so intimately isterwmen with the welfare and happine.s of the Umpire. It was time to put an end to a state, which vas that of a smothered civil war (Hear, hear, hear), Inaking out, as was now the case, into acts of mu tool hostility. If he bl:lieved that bringing under the consiueration of the House any of the transactions of party in Ireland would, instead of having the effect tif palliation, tend to irritate the feelings and endan ger the pe.rce of the country, he should be the last person who would not be desirous to draw the veil of oblivion over every past event in the sister kingdom. But he looked upon it as childish, idle, and vain, to be apprelensive of discussing L ish questious through alarm of an increase of party exasperation. It was like the dread of a superstitious pet son who would not whistle in the storm for fear of increasing the wind— (Hear). None could doubt that events had'taken place, nom which flowed the necessity of a full and free- M elt into the state of that unhappy country. When te subject with which Isis motion was connected was last rimier the discussion of the House, the Honour- Ole Member for Armagh, who had introduced it sits an eloquence which gave so much gratification to the House, and which he hoped would produce a beneficial effect to his country, had embraced a va riety of topics, which he (Sir F. Burdett) was desirous of passing over. He wished not to speak the lan guage of party, or to deal out any measure of par tiality on one side or the other.. He knew the issue vas regarded in the light of a trial between the con tending parties, at the head of which were two high axial persons--the Attorney-General for Ireland, and the High Sheriff. lie had been inclined to sup pat the motion of the Honourable Member for Ar -114h; but when he heard the statement of the At-' t emey-General, he must confess that it converted his opinion—for, if ever there was an occasion when the Power of filing an ex officio information could be pro perly exercised, it was in that instance—(Hear).—He could not, therefore, concur in a vote of censure on the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The ex officio i nformation in that case was used in a novel and unac customed manner, he would admit ; but it was exer e'sed to re s i st oppress i on aga i nst the People—Weer). tllat power, which had been too often used against Popular rights, was then exerted for their protec -I°N an , l the more he considered the merits of the "lotion of the Hon. Member for Armagh, the less :Neight he saw in his charge. The power of the At -011 General had been exercised, but it was in the least objectionable manner, as he first preferred an iindictment to the Grand Jury ; and it was only when se found all the ordinary modes of obtaining justice .were Obstructed, that he had recourse to the ex officio information; and, on reflection, lie was so far from calling that oppression, he wished every Attorney General would follow the example. He was de; idedly of opinion that there ought to be no prep ice against the Right Honourable Gentleman for .e course whiels he adopted. Ile had only filed " ." gllicio information on account of a refusal !"slice, and under the Imperative circumstances of this peculiar case, which were sufficient to ex culpate him from all ground of a vote of censure. The present motion he would not have brought for ward, were it not for the statements of the Learned Gentleman (Mr. Plunkett) with reference to the con duct of the High Sheriff. As those statements had 1 1 been met by a direct negative, as they were repre sented by the parties concerned to have been made incorrectly, it was impossible that any good could arise from the course formerly recommended by an Honourable Member opposite, who said lie would give neither party a triumph by going into inquiry. That would be doing justice to neither party, but de nying it to all. It would not be doing justice to the Noble Person at the head of the Irish Government or to the Attorney-General for Leland, if they had voted on the question the other night without farthe r in formation. Il e f e l t justified, for those reasons, in saying that the Learned Gentleman had not been handsomely treated by the Ilenourahle Gentlemen about him, who had abandoned him to his own exer tions, and who had, by the amendment proposed by them, left the question in a state quite unsatis factory and incompatible with the demands of justice. He had no idea in what manner the motion with which lie intended to conclude could be resisted. He felt confident the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman himself would not resist it ; nor could he imagine how any party could oppose it—(Hear, hear). He should therefore conclude by moving—" That the statement made by the Right Hon. the Attorney. General for Ireland in his place on Tuesday the Is:h day of Apt it inst. respecting the proceedings that had taken place on the trial of Forbes,. Handwich, and Graham, in the City of Dublin, rendered it incum bent on that House to institute an inquiry into the conduct of the Sheriff of Dublin on that occasion." Mr. PLUNKETT rose, anCessured the Hon. Ba ronet, that he did not mean to 4 oppose it, though at the same time he did not think the question stood pre cisely on the footing on which he had put it. The question was not whether his (Mr. Plunkett's) con duct was oppressive or unjust, but whether he had acted wrong in the exercise of his discretion with re spect to it ? A public functionary would be miser able if lie were to be cenaired for the exercise of his dis cretion whenever it might not agree with particular interests. It would be for the House to consider if there had been on his part a severe exercise of the dis cretion he possessed in this case—whether he was in fluenced by any undue motive ? He certainly thought,• from the arguments of the lion. Baronet, that, in his mind at least, he should stand absolved from any such imputation, even if he had not made any state ment explanatory of his conduct. He had not come before the House as an accuser, being himself the party accused ; all he had done was to state the grounds upon which he had exercised his discretion under the arduous circumstances in which he was placed. It was only in his own justification that he had stated facts, involving the conduct of a responsi ble Officer of the Crown. If in his conscience he felt satisfied that the facts in question were true, was he not bound to pursue the case to the utmost, and see that the. voice of justice was not stifled ? From the time the transaction took place, his suspi cions were not removed, but strengthened—(Hear, hear).-1-le now declared before the House, that in his conscience he believed the Sheriff a proper subject for prosecution fur his conduct, and unless the mea sure was taken out of his hands by the House, lie would certainly institute a prosecution, the object of which would be to attain the ends of justice in the case. Here he must observe, that he meant to proceed by ex-ecio information—for as to the Grand Jury of the City of Dublin finding a Bill against Sheriff Thorpe, after what had already occurred, it would be quite useless to expect it. He intended to apply to the Court of King's Bench to have the case tried at Bar, and that the venue should come from an adjoining county—( Hear, hear).—The Sheriff would thus have an opportunity of justice being done him. But if on the other hind the House should sanction the inquiry, he should offer no opposition to it, not feeling himself called upon to interfere on either side. He thought it would be gross injustice if the Sheriff had not, one way or other, the fair' means of clearing up his conduct. Mr. DENMAN was one of those who did not think 'that the Right Honourable awl Learned Gentleman was exculpated by his defence, even if he could prove his assertions by evidence. When the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman became acquainted with the way in which the Grand Jury had been impanelled, he ought to have taken the earliest opportunity of vindicating justice in so important a point, instead of prosecuting half a dozen journeymen carpenters ; and not to have allowed the matter to sleep, until he found it convenient to introduce it into his defence. The High Sheriff would be hardly dealt with if, after what had passed, his conduct should not be fully in vestigated. He denied that this was a party question. It was one of much more general importance. When he heard of the censure to which the Grand Jury of Dublin had 'subjected themselves, by throwing out the Bill, he could not forget that no censure followed a similar act of the Grand Jury of Lancaster, when they threw out bills preferred before them against the actors in that sanguinary transaction at Manchester, in which hundreds of people, peaceably assembled, had been cut and trampled to death. For his part, however, he should prefer the decision of the worst Grand Jury to that of the best Attorney-General. A Grand Jury might be impartial and an Attorney- General must, ex necessitate, be a party man. If such abuses existed as were stated, it was not for the Courts below, but it was for the House of Commons to skew the people of Ireland that they were ready to afford them that protection which was their due. Mr. BANKES condemned the conduct of the At torney-General for Ireland, but he did not think that there could be conveniently instituted an inquiry at the Bar of that House. Lord MILTON was of opinion that if there was a case in which the Right Honourable Attorney-Ge neral for Ireland could properly exercise his power of ex officio informations, it was in the case which he had made tut against the High Sheriff; but at the same, time it appeared to him that substantial justice could not be done unless the Sheriff of Dublin were allowed to defend himself at the bar of that House. Mr. BROWNLOW hoped that the unanimous sen-1 timent of that House would be to inquire into the . conduct of the Sheriff of Dublin, and it as guilty as! he (Mr. Brownlow) believed he was innocent,' that he might draw down upon his head the censure of that, House ; and that that !louse might destroy root and branch that bad system out of which have grown such monstrous abuses. The Right Honourable Gen tleman had told the House in plain language that the Sheriff of Dublin conspired to stop the,stream of jus- tice, or worse, to turn it aside to his own base paltry party purposes. Such a chail. , ,e having been made, the House owed it to justice and to the interests of Ireland not to stop short. If such enormous abuses —such terrible grievances were found to exist, it was time that they should be removed. The Honourable Gentleman did not however agree in the assertion that such abuses existed, but entered into a long sta.ement of circumstances connected with the riot at the Dublin Theatre, with the view of shewing that it had been grossly exaggerated, and the conduct of the Grand Jury in ignoring the bills most unnecessarily ini ptignei. In conclusion, the HolloHiable Alembei alluded to the oppressive effect which an e.r officio in formation must necessarily have upon the interests of NlE.Thurpe, who, though acquitted, must still bear the .expense as well as the disgrace of such a proceeding. Mr. GOULBURN opposed the motion of the Ilonourable Baronet, because an Inquiry in that House did not admit of the proving or disproving any allegations on oath. But there was a still stronger ground against this proceeding: it was that the I louse ought not to abdicate its higher powers by taking up one which belonged to the other tribunals of the country. Ile begged to warn the house too of the practical effect in Ireland which such an inquiry as this would have. The people of Ireland would have doled out to them from day to day pieces cf evidence re specting the Sheriff, exciting angry feelings among them, and at last te,minating without any purpose being answered by that proceeding. Colonel RRY said, the accused partiet were now in Lon li - don ; they prayed for an inquiry, and were ready to .meet any charges that might be brought against them. Would the House then, he asked, deny them the justice which they calle.l for? He (Colonel Barry) bad asked'the Right Honourable Gentleman if he intended to take any ulterior proceedings against the parties in queries'', and the answer was, that he would take no proceed ings unless ordered to do so by the House.—( Loud cries of hear.) Mr. PLUNK ETT.—The Honourable Gentleman asked me if it was my intention to make any motion for an inquiry? and I answered, that I did not intend to move anything ; but would obey any order the House should give me. Colonel BA RRY.—I asked the Right Honourable Gentle. man it' he meant to take any ulterior,proceeding ; and he said he would not, unless the House ordered him. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, he should support the motion for inquiry : the agitated state of the country made such inquiry necessary; and the longer it was delayed the longer would the disorders of Ireland be perpetuated. It was doubly necessary to have the inquiry here, because the conttoul over public opi nion would be rendered more efficacious, and it was here they were most likely to obtain substantial justice ; therefore he should give his hearty concurrence to the proposition of the Right Honourable Baronet. If the Attorney-General of Ire land declined taking any step, it was an unworthy compromise with a party( Hear, hear)—and if he neglected his duty, he hoped the llouse would take care to peforns theirs. Mr. S. RICE supported the motion. Mr. PEEL implored the House to throw aside all party feel ing, and adhere to the practice which was founded in equity and good sense. He would appeal to them to say whether the argu ments employed to establish the preference of an inquiry at that Bar, were such as ought to satisfy impartial minds. In a Court they would have the advantage of the -solemn obligation of an oath, which could not be administered at their bar. It was a mistake to say that the Courts were only capable of deciding in civil cases; for no public functionary, however high, was above their jurisdiction. He remembered one case in which the House of Commons thought proper to adopt an inquiry, and they must all of them recollect that it was found necessary to postpone it from time to time, in order to wait for evidence. But suppose they were to direct a prosecution, how could they apportion the punishment? His Right Hon. Friend ( Mr. Plunkett) had addressed a letter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, stating, that in the exercise of his own. discretion he might feel it expedient to file informations e.egificio against the Sheriff. It was uot, however, competent to him to decide on that question until the motion of the Hon. Member fur Armagh was (leaded. That being now done, his Right Honourable Friend had'cle dared himself ready to file the informations. If they came to a decision that the High Sheriff should take his trial, they were bound to send him to it without exciting any prejudice to his disadvantage by a previous decision in Parliament. 11r. TIERNEY said, that if he could look at the question in the same way in which the Right Honourable Gerftleman con sidered it, as a mere contest whether the High Sheriff should he tried in a Court of Law or at the Bar of that House, he might concur with him in the ct nclusion to which he came ; but lie could not help regarding it as much more extensive in its nature and important in its result. He looked upon it as one in all its bearings of more politic value than any question of Irish interest brought forward since the Union—(Hear).—ln Ireland there appeared a new Administration with a bond of union (admitted at one side, but denied at the other), which was to be impartial justice—(Hear).—Here then was the source of the whole flame. If he were an Orangeman (he meant no disrespect to that body) but if be were, he would naturally feel great alarm, and say, here is one half of the Cabinet coming over to tell me to cry— " No Popery," and here is the other half ready to prosecute me if I do—(liear, and laughter).—Under that state of things the Lord Lieutenant goes to the play, and an outrage is committed. The Attorney-General commences legal proceedings. Ile goes to the Grand Jury and fails: he units to the Petty Jury and fails ; and at last he is put on his trial himself!—(Hear, and a laugh.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the Sheriff was on his trial, but the Attorney-General was on his trial also. In fact, it was not easy to know who the defendant should be, and it afforded but a bad remedy to say that the Sheriff should be prosecuted by the very person who had attacked him —( Hear). They put the Attorney-General on the back of the Sheriff, and would probably put the Shuriff on the back of the Attorney-Ge neraL They might suppose the Sheriff to ask the Atto ry-General, " Well, have 'you been tried?" The Attorney-General would say " yes." " And were you acquitted?" " No; but I was told that I may convict you." The office of Attorney-General must sink in dignity by going into Court liable to the animadversions which a case must expose him to. It was too much to say, that this was done to tranquillize the Irish mind. The way to accomplish that object war to shew them that they should have justice here.— But suppose the Sheriff were convicted in the Courts in Ireland, one person would be punished while the mischief remained un touched. It was asked, would they interfere with the Grand Jury ? 07 tonne they would take up the whole question, and not be deterred by any prospect of delay from doing their duty. Every man must feel a wish that Ireland could be tranquillizea. Did the Government wish to wash their hands of them? Ile had heard that the Insurrection Act was to be renewed. They had Insurrection Acts and Martial Law at their command, and were willing to try ev et ything, to check the discontents, but doing justice. His conviction was, that instead of being an exception, this was the very case in which Parliament ought to interfere, and. that it must suffer in its own character if it omitted to adopt that interference in the only way that could render it effectual. Mr. CANNING said, the Right Honourable Gentleman had indulged in topics wide of tfie question. The object of the mo. tion was, to institute an inquiry into the eonduct of the Sheriff of Dublin; but the Right Honourable Gentleman said, going into the inquiry would bring the whole state of Ir.land before the House; the Right Honourable Gentleman must see that either the motion should be enlarged to meet his speech, or his speech should be very.much narrowed to be made to apply to the motion. The speech of the Honourable Baronet who made the motion was marked with a clearness and temper that did him honour; and he (Mr. Canning) agreed with him more than with any one who had spoken on the same side of the House, or than some who had spoken on his own (Mr. Canning's) side. Indeed he agreed with it all, except i part that he could not be expected to agree with—that which contained an accusation of himself and his Colleagues—(A laugh). lie perfectly agreed with the Wm. Baronet that the Attorney-General of Ireland stood pure and. unsullied, and he should have voted for his acquittal on his speech the other night, before he had made his statements of the conduct of the Sheriff and Grand Jury ; but, after those stat e . ments were made, he hesitated respecting the vote he should give; because, although perfectly ready to acquit the Attorney-General on the met R&M' his case, he was not prepared to condemn others. He therefore gave a vote which, white it acquitted the Attorney- General, did not inculpate those he had accused. The Attorney- ' General was acquitted on the general grounds that be had acted i ••.•• , . •, ' on Information on curb; which he believed, but his belief of it was not AbOicient to in .ke the House act es if they also believed it, but made it perfectly proper that the Attorftey-General should put the matter in • course of so!ten inquiry, whirl. his office gave him the power to do i , but which the House could tot with propriety dn. as they were precluded front examining witnesses upon ectli, and the evidence nainst the Sheriff was already sworn, while the testimony in • his defence should be unsworn : in justice to the Sheriff, therefore, the in: 7 quiry 'should be ref.•rred to a Court of Law. lie agreed with the f lon. Baronet, that it IVe!t: I not he proper for the House to order she Attorney-Central ut ire..nd to prosecute the Sheriff at pre sent; but IL!, as th, Law-Officer of the Crown, was willing to prosecute on his own re-polisihility, and bring fairly to issue all that wis stated to him on oath and that he 'believes.— lie could b'tr testimony to the fact, that months ago the Attor ii; y-General of Method had stated his intention of filing an ea rots infinn.atinti against the Sheriff, but had delayed It in consequence of being accu4.ll himself. An examination at the bar of the I !Oil 't . mast op.-rate in one of two ways: if the Sheriff were acquitt..;!,;t mould he on unsworn testimony, after he had been aceic...ii on 'worn testimony ; and if he were thought guilty, the house could only end where the matter without any inter:. ference attic I louse would now begin, by the prosecution of the Sheriff bytin• Attorney-General; but with this difference, that the Sheriff would go to his trial with the weight of a declaration of the Ilouie z.g.,ilist hint. Cu every consideration,therefore, both of con venience and justice, he thou:;ht the House should not interfere. He did not di-pute the high ;sowers of the House to institute an inquiry into the Aniiiiistration of justice when necessary ; but those transcendent powers were only fit to be called into action on e mergencies, iu which the or dinary proceedings of law were in-efficient to grant redress. But no such case existed at pre sent, and th...tetore he considered an examination at the Bar of :be !louse wholly unnecessary. Mr. lIIIOUG Hall said, if justice could be better done to the individual in a Court of Justice than in that House, it was strange that the individual himself had not adopted that course; hut, on the contrary, had petitioned the House to take up his case. The Hon. Secretary, however, said, " Oh ! but the Sheriff does not understand his own case, and therefore the House must interfere to pr otect him. He (Mr. Brougham) however, was not so ignorant of the benefits to be derived from the interference of this house, as to agree to this 4octrine. He knew the con trary ; and if an instance to chew this was necessary, he need only refer to the case of Mr. Wyndham Quin, where an authority would be found—( Loud cries of Hear, hear, hear). — But he would say, even if this was the first case, it would be the duty of the House to interfere. What was the charge? Why it was the charge against a Corporate Officer, of having tainted the source of justice, by packing a Jury, and that for a political purpose. And by whom was this charge against the Sheriff brought forward? Why, by his 'Majesty's Attorney-General, who, if this inquiry was refused, he could nut consider as acquitted of the charge which had been brought against him.— The Attorney-General had, on the occasion to which he alluded, made out a case for himself, which had convinced many who before had doubted, and would have insured to himself an ac qaittal, had ant one of his Friends proposed that the House, in stead of voting on hi s ek e , s h ou ld go to the Order of the Day, namely, to the reading of an important Exchequer Bills Bill, leaving his Right lion Plend's acquittal a doubtful matter. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to contend , that enquiry by the House would be the most regular and moat effectual in obtaining the ends of justice. Sir H. PAR NELL said a few words, which were rendered inaudible by the cry of " Question !" For the Motion - 219 Against it - 185 Majority against Ministers - - —54 The other orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned at lialf•paSt One o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1523. Ihs Mancsty% 8113.711-DAT (Kept).—holiday at the Bank. POSTPONEMENT OF THE DRAWING ROW! The Drawing Room intended to have been holden. this day, in celebration of his MAJESTY'S Birth-day, is postponed, we are sorry to say, in consequence of the indisposition of the KING, which . was officially announced by the issuing of the following Willetin: " CARLTON PALACE, APRIL 23, 1823. " The KING is not able to receive company at the Drawing Room to•clay, his MAJESTY having expee ricncod an attack of the gout in the night. (Signed) " HENRY HALFORD. " :%lATTIIEW JOHN TIERNEY, EXPRESSES FROM PARIS AND THE SEAT OF WAR. We have received this forenoon, by different Ex. presses, the Third and Fourth Bulletins of the French Army, and the Paris Papers of Monday ; and a copy of the Pilote of yesterday morning : ARMY OF THE PYRENNEES. THIRD BULLETIN. The Stair of his Royal Highness the Comma^der• in-Chief have removed from Tolosa for Vittoria, where the Head-quarters will be fixed on the 17th. On the same day the Duke de Reggio will be on the Ebro with the first corps; his advanced guard will bear on Pancorva. Count Alontor marches on Navarre with the 2d corp:, in order to operate in Arragon. Prince de Ilohenlohe, with the division of General Conchy, and the Spanish corps under the orders of General d'Espagne, has invested Pampeluna. The division of Cannel, destined to occupy the Province of Guipuscoa, is in march to relieve the di. vision of Bourcke, which was left before St. Sebastian. The latter division having sent two battalions of the 3Sth and 35th regiments of the line against the port of Gueta, ia, that place was soon captured, and some men and a piece of cannon taken. The troops who defended it retired into the citadel, and their Commandant shewed at first an intention of holding out there ; but blockaded on the sea side by ships minned by Spanish Royalists, and menaced with a brisk attack from our troops, he surrendered yesterday. The garrison, composed of 200 picked men, among whom 31e two Colonels and ten Officers, were made prisoners ; end in the fort, which had been newly provilioned, there were found five pieces of cannon, and a considerable quantity of ammunition. Lim.. General Count Bourcke has transmitted to his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief a most favour. able repot t of the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Mesh; of the 35th regiment, who directed the expedition, and who was ably seconded by the Chief of Battalion Howie, of the 30th. The troops have given new proofs of their :ardour on this occasion. The Spanish Royalist cot ps, under the orders of General QUEXADA, has entered Bilboa.- At every step our troops receive the most flattering reception; confidence universally prevails; the Most perfect dis cipliue exists in the army ; tho supplies are abundant; 1. 1 1 i ~ I . 1 . 1 .1 1 11 , t it 1 1 i i 1 . 1 1 11 . i . i . 11 ' I I . i i .l 11 i i. , 1 i .• 4i ;1 I , II 1 1 r • 1