The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-07-11 00:00:00

~cu knowledge that there was nothing in ••nits this country, with which the Scol leased ?ban the skill, the learning, and ti hich their Appeals were decided by than puma of Lord Eldon as Judge. 'They migh., t••ink that in some respects be varied from former • ions, some of those decisions being his own; but gene r.,lly they. all approve of Lord Eldon and of Lord Redes •lale, the other Learned Lord, who sgave up his time to the hearing of their cases, and both gave the greatest .atisfactitra to the Scotch lawyers. Nothing could satisfy - then less, or could so effectually shake their confidence nt the rectitude of the Lords' decisions, than to deprive ' . bent of the high judicial character of the Lord Chancel lor. His rank, his experience, and his judicial integrity s..*e a confidante to the country, because he was ready to ....once upon the Courts below if they appeared to him to attempt any thing like injustice. He never heard harsh- r Lingnage from any Judge than hedid from thatNobla tad Learned Lord from the Woolsack upon smile question • twit rams before him from the Judges in Scotland. It *as the case of en extravagant charge of a factor—so he o was called is Scotland—against a minor in doing hospi :ality and treating persons with meat and drink, as was final on such occasions. Lord Eldon asked the agent of • .las factor if it was near a circuit town he had made 'yoga charges--desirous to know if the Judges or .• l..wyers formed a link in that chain of hospitality, • with that caustic observation he at once disallowed vie Pill of charges. The Noble Lord's character in •,•ired a salutary dread in the Courts below. 'Nothing 1 1 . ••c was convinced could so much a ff ect the appellate „niiadiction as the proposed change. No intermediate, ourt of Appeal would give satisfaction to the people of , cotland. Ile spoke with respect to all those who might . fam such a Court. Suppose such a Court to be composed . . f the Lord Advocate and of any of the Ministers—sup t ftle it to have among its Members Mr. Clarke, a man of . Or most punctilious honour, and Mr. Cranstoun, whose i•itegrity and honour it was impossible to impeach or • • ..pest—suppose au intermediate Court of Appeal to be .owposed of such men as these, yet that Court could not . I sesstisfaction LS a Court of Appeal, because the Judges . allimsing a Court of Appeal most be outside Scotland, . 'saving no local interzst nor connection, mast beabove ..pieion. lie ,should not, therefore, be disappointed if House of Commons, w hen the question caine before rem, would negative those two branches of the Lords' • :.port- lie was satisfied, in the first place, that the • ...omission was desirable if able men were chosen to •▪ e moose it, and great good would result from it. in the nod plane, he was of opinion that nothing further • iglit to be done by the House of Lords in the present In the third place, the Lords ought to under - , kr nothing in so serious a business, but in•concurrence • .t 1; the House of Commons; and in the fourth place, be 4.. convinced that the people of Scot:and would never. • .istislied with a Deputy to hear Appeals in the House •• Lords. They ought not to be hurried into a new or.e by the present , particularly as that could ..t lier wise disposed of. .1 . 116 ATTORNEY-GENERAL said be did not mean to •t. into the range of argument adopted by his Honourable *ill Learned Friend. With respect to the Bill before the • . Look., his Honourable and Learned Friend complained it was not confined to the purpose of inquiry Into the .tetris of Law in Scotland. Tne House of Lords appoint-' • J Committee to inqu've whether some mode might not be n t pied to get HI of the present arrear of Scotch Appeals, .4 to prevent the accumulation of them for the future.— Hat 'inquiry was very properly executed by the Lords' • ..t.pitt.e. In pursuance of that inquiry, the Lords in : .oduerd a Bill which was then under discussion before the I , tlSlr. They considered some reform in the Courts of Law •• stn olls's(' necessary to prevent the accession of Appeals. Wi ih.t Bill and of its objects, his Hon. and Learned Friend t,•proved. But the Intern: diete COallaillaioo, of which his Friend disapproved, was deserving of the grPatest at • ;ion. lie did anticipate great benefits from that Coes tsion. by Its reducing the number of Appeals. As his II , :towable and L. limed Friend agreed that the Bill was a ••:.‘1 one, he would not make any :urther observation; on .. Rut it was not right for the other Haase to stop them • nilow the large errear of Appeals now before them to •:1.111 'indisposed of. Of the 221 causes of Appeal now la • • 181 of them were from Scotland. It was highly ex oil to get rid of those Appeals, and to obviate a future .ion of tnem. He thought that his Hon. and Learned most unfairly attacked the Lord Chancellor as if he (I to be relieved from Ills official duties. The object ic Lords was to get rid of the o ;ire relief to toe Lard Chancellor, except so far as • ~c otch causes were concerned. With strong satire, and • . . hohis usual humour, hi, lion. and Learned Frieod con ! that the I.lrd Chancellor wanted to relieve himself ' . his officio I dull 's, in order to give up more time to Rut the Lord Citaneellor's political avocations • • • not allowed to interfere with his judicial functions.- - oc.it was, that no Lord Chancellor ever did give more to the Court of Chancery than Lord Eldon. No Lord •tcellor riser did the business of equity with more expo :a—(lleat, hear)—than Lord Eldon. It was not right to t that that Noble and Learned Lord wanted to get rid •to business to attend to political concerns. It was never - tiled by the Lnrds, in their Report, that the office of • •• c-llor should be given to a Curt favourite, or to any et than a person fully competent. His lion, and Learned .. end should admit that the Lords had a right to arrange nod iu what manner the Members of their own House • .r to all, without c•msulting the House of Commons.— , b respect to the expense of the new appointment, the . se would, when a vote for that purpose came before . 1 , 6. e so opportunity of exercising their cuntreul, and • •.0 d not agree with his lion. Friend that the object of • T. mit was to refuse such controul. It was impossible • -I rid of the present arrears without the appointment of • :watt. He would admit that that appointment was not ciut Its difficulties. But the question was, whether it it better to appoint a Deputy than to delay the hear : A' those Appeals in such a manner as to amount to a • •al of justice?—whether the evils of delay were not . ...ter than the d,fliculties attending the appointment of a •sty to preside in hearing appeals in the absence of the • f. red Chancellor. He could not see how those arrears could • therwise got rid of. The Chancellor would not be idle are meantime, but would have the Court of Chemistry to . mt. and would also preside occasionally at the appellate .v/fiction in the Lords. But in respect of the increased ewe of Scotch Appeals, it was necessary to give the L.rd Chancellor some aid for five days In the week, at those • in winch lie could not attend. Another difficulty was, • ...• liter, while the Lord Chancellor and the other equity • vies sat in the Courts of Chancery, competent and 8015..c00l ..cool Barristers would be found to attend the Deputy . • atter in Appeal cases la the Lordt. He believed a regu :.r sufficient number of Scotch barristers would come would °online themselves to that branch of the profes ses.. lie was led ti anticipate that a great diminution of • Ws Appeals would be the result of the present and I.e• saerefore approved of it. %Ir. CANNING said that with respect to the plan pro he would not then offer any opinion, as he would .I°.er wait for some eaperleace of its workings. There however, but one opinion on all hands as to the exist c. c- of certain evils which it was desirable to get rid of; • ”tt if the plan could effectually do this, it deserved a trial. acre was but one point to which be would direet his anen t' 'u at present. The Learned Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) expressed an apprehension that the election of a Deputy iirtnan would, in fact, be an appointment beyond the con . • •11; of the House of Commons. That apprehension was well founded, as the situation and duties of that office - annually come before the House. when the votes for . sa'aries of the officers of the other House of Partiamist a: cording to custom, .submitted to the Commons. A • e..ssion of that nature took place in ISIS, when the vote s proposed for the Earl of ithaftrmbury, as Chairman of . 'moistures. The mode now adopted, was One giving the ems the fullest controul as to the salaries for all oMeers, . 'mug which the proposed appointment would he. found; It • .0 that of voting not retrospectively in the civil condo • ,et e s for these salaries, but prospectively by estimate. .f VI that reason, whatever objection there might be to the • instioa of a salaried officer, there could be no question t0. , ,1N ft. \ his lion. Friind observed, that the subject should be }o il y Investigated before the appointment of the officer, then atter the experiment was tried. He regretted that an culler opportunity had not been afforded the House to express an opinion upon it. He objected to it on the first and only occasion when the Session might be truly said to be nearly expired. In ant:eller place they were told that it was too late a period to bring forward a Bill which went to relieve a certain portion of his Majesty's subjects from the exclusion to civil rights, but it appeared not too late a period to Introduce a Bill like the present, involving that right in which all were equally interested, and the pro perty of every individual concerned. The subject was one of great Importance to the hulk of the people, but more partieularly to the people of Scotland. Their dependence on the Rouse of Lords was shows from the number of appeals themselves. The Hon. Member then prooseded to remark en the state of the Court of Chancery. He was not eertsta whether the Honourable Member for L nimbi (Mr. Williams) intended to bring the state of the Court of Chan cery before the House in the ensuing Session.—There never was a question which excited so deep, so strong, and so ge neral an interest In the public mind—whether he would o r would not go forward, the public mind would proceed. The public would not stop—it had taken a strop hold on There the public mind, and could not be displaced. was one objection he had to the proposed measure, which was, that it would in some cases make the Deputy a greater per. son than the Chancellor himself. if the plan should be ear ried Into execution, every one of the present Appellants should be allowed the election of withdrawing their appeals. Hy the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor. the Chancellor was relieved from the greater part of the burdens of Chan ter* and by the plan now before them, he would be re *Ted from the burden of his duties In the Douse of Lords. What he did therefore object to was, that the measure would have the effect of stripping the Lord Chancellor of judicial • functions, and prove truly the means of relieving a great officer of his more solemn and natural duties. It would lead to the entire fulfilment of a prophecy which he regretted to see was every day more likely to he iftmomplished, that the Lord Chancellor would become solely apolitical cha racter. He would be left a political personage, without sympathy or knowledge of the Der, and to distrioute re words or give elevation on political motives only, without reference to the legal merits of the ludlviduals. He objected to the measure as a great evil to the people of England's end he objected to any part of the law of England being left to the decision of an inexperienced person. and that all that was useful and respectable would be taken from the station and character of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. WILLIAMS (of Liacolo) said that he objected to the measure, as an experiment likely to lead to no good, but which might do harm. He objected to its being brought before Parliament at that late period, when so many Members had left town, and when so few of the Scotch Members, who wereniost interested in the subject, remained. This, he contended, was the proper time for discussion, for when the appointment came to be made, and a Hentleinan had been installed into the office, there would be a degree of invidiousness inclining his title into question. Upon every ground of propriety and paler, the inquiry should precede the measure; but here the House had began at the wrong end, for the plan was formed be fore they had ascertained the grounds upon which it was to he executed. It was not true that this question was not intimately connected with the duties of the Lord Chancel- I for. But a good-deal of illiberality, he was obliged to say, was shown by Henilemeo opposite, when any allusion was made to that Learned Person who now filled the Woolsack. Whenever any doubt was raised as to his being the wisest, as well as the most rapid Chancellor we have ever had, these observations were invariably characterized as per sonal abuse, and thus the question was ever evaded. He contendedthat the Committee should have sought better evidence than the three or four Noble and Learned Lords whom they examined in the tithe Howe. It had been said that as much as was in the power of man to do, had been done by the present Lord Chancellor, id " keeping down" the business of the Cond. Bat what is the testi mony of the lete Sir Samuel Hominy in this respect ? In speaking of the accumulation of business at different times in the Court of Chancer3r, be stated that , in th e time of Lord Hard wick., instead of the Court rising at two o'clock in the day, it more frequently rose at two in the morning—{Hear.)—He believed that more might be done in this respect: and be was also persuaded that the Equity Judges were sufficiently numerous for the dispetch of all business which could come before them, without adding to their numbers. Upon the plan proposed by this Bill, he had only one or two words to say, It was admitted that the Scotch were already dissatisfied with the decisions of their Judges but how was that to be amended? Four Lords were to be appointed as Commis sionere (persons no otherwise knowing Scotch law, than ...they were presumed to be lawyers by the Constitution —a fiction of law, not a fact,) to whom were to be added an auxiliary in the shape of a lawyer, and this was the tribunal which it was supposed would possess more wis dom, and know more Scotch law, than the collected Bench of Scotland. But, in fact, however courtly it might be done, the real object was to relieve the Lord Chan cellor from part of the Appeal business, and give him more time to attend to his own Coma. and this was to be done at the expense of the Scotch suitors. Some short time ago, his Lordship was relieved from the business of his Court by the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor, and lie was to be relieved from the appeals to be sent back to his own Court. He (Mr.W.) believed the new office to be perfectly useless, and as he wished to bring the whole waiter before the public, he now stated, that early next Session he would move for an inquiry into the delays of the Court of Chancery, and the cause Of those delays. —(Hear.) Mr. Secretary PEEL said there were four reasons why he had not entered more fully into this subject before; first, that two speeches had been made upon his side, in which he concurred; secondly, having been exhausted from the fatigues of last night ; thirdly, because the Hon. and Learned Member h ad stated his intention of laying the whole matter before the House early next Session ; and fourthly, because he concurred with him is the views which he took of this Bill. As to the expediency of the office, be thought the better time for discussing that would be, when the officer's salary came to be voted early next Session. It would not then be too late, for the officer would not have been in office more than ten weeks, and the stopping of his salary would be an unequivocal mode of expressing the sense of the House upon this subject. Mr. WETHERELL said no one had pronounced an unqualified eulotiuw upon this plan, which was at best but a choice of difficulties. The legal Corfiniissioners proposed by the Bill was not likely to be a perms- neut office, tor the exertions of the new tribunal would in a little time greatly diminish the number of Scoth appeals, and it might be therefore expected that the Lord Chan cellor would be soon restored to all his functions. He was as anxious as any one to uphold the Ligh office of Lord Chancellor, and he would be the last to vitiate or encroach upon it, if he were not urged to it by a press ing necessity. Mr. DENMAN looked upon the proposed legal Com missioner as an ignoble appendage to the high office of Lord Chancellor, and it was with reluctance that he should feel himself called upon to vote a shilling to support this proxy Judge. He hyped the Hon. Member for Aberdeen (Mr. Hume), whom he saw in his place, would look closely to the Civil Contingencies next Session, when the salary of this officer would come to be voted. He watafraid that the suggestion bad been as originally in order to increase judicial patronage, which was al ready too extensively and often improperly exercised.— R (1:4 was induced to make from the Mem a (Mr. Brougham), and the Member Williams), were treated, who, be con ban been placed in the front of their then read a third time and passed. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Mr. WILBERFORCE gave notice, that to-morrow, be would move for a Committee to inquire into the condi. Lion of the slaves sod free Indians of Honduras. Lord A. HAMILTON presented a petition from some town is Scotland, praying the total abolition of slavery in the West Indies.—Laid on the table. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN INDIA . Mr. HUME said he had a question to ask of the Right lion. Gentleman opposite which nearloncerned the liberty of the press in India. He had bard that after the Marquess of Hastings left the country, the new 0.- sernor caused Mr. Buckingham. who for malty yeambeil been Editor of the Cake:tit Jerrie& and was s roost ra. spectable man, to be sent to Europe, in punishment of a charge of which be bad bees tried aid acquitted a consi derable time before. He wished to receive an answer as to the truth of these facts. Mr. WYNN said that he had that morning heard that Mr. Buckingham had been ordered to leave India. This set, however, bad no reference to the charge alluded to by the Hon. llember, but was for a repetition of the same conduct for which be had been cautioned by the Mar quess of Hastings some time before, that if he persevered, be would be obliged to put the law in force against him, and send him out of the country. He (Hr. Wynn) bad not had time to examine minutely the papers eons netted with this affair, but from the general good opinion which he had ofAir. Allen, he was sure that no act bad been done by him is which he was not warrant ed. He wished it to be understood, however; that he did not speak from official knowledge, but from the con fidence which he placed in the Gentleman to *lsom he bad alluded. • QUARANTINE LAWS IN MAUTA. Mr. HUME said, that in consequence of information which be had lately received, he was indticed to bring forward the present motion regarding the Quarantine Laws of Malta. By this information he had received an extract of a letter from Lord Bathurst, whether it was correct or not he did not know, which stated that his Lordihip saw no reason for altering the Quarantine Laws of Malta. The mercbints bad received this intel• ligence with the greatest alarm. It was well known that the European Powers bad forayed a Code for the purpose of preventing the importation of the plague. In the year 1813, it fourid Its way to Malta; and shorily afterwards, a breach of the Quarantine Law took place there, which occasioned the placing of Malta oat of the European line. Notwithstanding this, Sir Thomas Maitland bad been allowed to land, in spite of the sup posed danger of infection. He thought the Commercial Interests of this conntry at Malta ought to be protected, especially as Malta had been thought of consequence enough to justify our going to war about it. In France the laws were very strict; the Duchess of Berri in one instance, and the Duke himself afterwards, bring obliged to perform Quarantine at Marseilles. All that the people of Malta desired was, that the rules might be certain, and might not, if once made, be relaxed, ior the convenience of individuals. He wished therefore for copies or extracts of the correspondence between the Merchants and the Colonial Office on this subject. He complained also of the imposition and increase of duties on importation at Malta, made by Sir Thomas Maitland. He moved therefore for " copies of all correspondence between the Hovernment of Malta and the Colonial Office, and the Committee of Merchants at Malts, re specting the quarantine regulations at Malta." Mr. W. HORTON opposed the motion. The Committee of Merchants had admitted that, in point of regulation, the Quarantine Law was perfect. In practice be contended it was impartial. The landing of tlir Thos. Maitland was jus tifiable, under the peculiar circumstances, the plague not basing appeared for 10 years. All the other Islands of the Mediterranean had adopted oar Quarantine regulations at Malta. It was a little remarkable that the Merchants some times admitted that the foreign regulations were too lax, and hoped they would not be adopted as a precedeut in this coun try; and at others, complained of them as being too severe. Mr. Hums shortly explained ; and, after a few words from Mr. W. HORTON, Hr. Huns withdrew his motion. .- .• 4.• • N / . 4:0 • *Mit. A A` ' ...' , . . sPr their connectiJn is to the fill eat wllleb the ouse,4ou ,bays. the This observation he 1 itch were botany whole sabibet would come before them in the early part her for Mac - belies of every Session—in the same manner in which the esti- for Liecob (Mr. Wi theintegrity with mates for the officers of Parliament were submitted or tended, ought to hat It y a m L ig o h rts i to e t e h d e , the 2lst of February for the preseet Session. )ie did efe f ess ioll. . not intend making soy farther observations for the present: r T he Biti was th ee rout fo r . orr dsci- Mr. ABERCROMBY said It would be much better, as Ann!. PENITENTIARY. Mr. HOLFORD certain returns relative to the allowances made to the Prisoners confined in the Peniten tiary.-Ordered: and the Returns were presented in the course of the evening, end ordered to be printed. The Slave Trade Acts Consolidation Bill, and the Marri age Act Amendment Bill were read a third tints and passed. The Report of the New South Wales Bill was brought hp and agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. RICE mowed for a return of the Revenues and Ex. penditure of certain Irish Behools.—Ordered. The Foreign Marriages Bill (from the Lords) was read a first time, and ordered to be road a second time to-morrow. —Adjourned at nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--Fgto,t; JULY 11. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Combination of Workmen 8111.—Second Reading. 9. Corporators (1• eland) Bill.—Sacohd Reading. 3. Capital Crimes Defence Bill—Second Reading. 4. East India Mutiny Bill.—Third Reading. 6. Usual Sessional Addresses.—Report thereupon. 6. Penitentiary Bill.—Third Reeding. 7. New South Wales Jurisdialon BBL—Third Reading. 8. Foreign Marriages Bill.—Committee. NOTICE OF MOTION. Mr. Wilberforce.-;-Select Committee, relative to the con dition of Slaves and Free Indians, in the Settlement of Honduras. PUBLIC COMMITTEE, Employment of the Poor (Ireland).—At Two. THE ARMY. PORTSMOUTH, JULT 9.—Tbe 24th Regiment is landed' and marched into Ha.slar Barracks, Gosport. The 17th Regiment will march into Colewort Bar racks on Monday next. ►t is reported that the Royal Marine Artillery are to occupy Fort Cumberland, its neighbourhood aifurding extent of ground sufficient for throwing their shells, without interfering at all with the public. The Review on Hounslow Heath on Tuesday next, will be rendered peculiarly interesting by the presence of a detachment of the Rocket Corps, who will exhibit the powers of the Congreve rocket. PUILOSONI6IOI Sropra.—A letter from New York, dated June 9, says —" If the long-sought-for philosopher's stone, by which baser substances could be transtnuted into gold, has not yet been found, an invention of still greater importance has at length crowned the efforts of American chemists. It has long been known that tho diamond, the most precious of all sitbstences,is composed of carbon in its pure state. But although the powers of chemical analysis have been sufficient by repeated ex periments clearly to establish this fact, yet the know. ledge of it was of no practical importance to the world. because the powers of synthesis failed, and no mode bad been devised of imitating nature by uniting the consti tuents of this precious gem. In other words, the philo sopher was able to convert diamonds into carbon, bot he was ignorant of the art of converting carbon into dia monds. If the experiment! of Professor Silliman can be relied on, this desideratum has in part been @applied., The last number of his Journal of Science contains an article on the philosophic instrument called the Delia grstor, iovented by Professor Hare of Puilatlelphia, by which it appears that charcoal, plumbago, and anthra cite, have been fused by the power of that i ns t rumen t, ' and transmuted into diamonds. " 1 f. 10 ki ( Jo il/4 - 11..141*PERS OF TUESDAY. (From the Journal des Debate.) Extract of a private letter from Madrid, dated 2d July —General Morillo, having learnt that the Cortes had de. creed the degradation of the King, has add dto his army and to the inhabitants of the provinces which he commands, the two proclamations afterwards noticed.— We are assured that he demanded, at the same time, au armistice, but that be had received for answer, that there' could be ao mispeuelos of arms, except on condition of his recogoisieg the Regency (of Madrid). It is announced that Morillo has dismissed Wraps from his command, and that the latter has retired to Co. flume, where he wishes to embark with his wife and fa mily. The first Proclamation by Morillo to the " Soldiers of dm Fourth Army," is dated Headquarters, Lugo, 26th Jane, 1823: " Soldiers—You hate declared your resolution not to obey the orders of a Regency which the Cortes have in stalled at Seville, depriving the Constitutional King of his attributes in a winner reprobated by our social paot. Meted by the same sentiments as you are, I have formed the same wishes, and I declare to you that I do not recocnize the Government which the Goats have established in art dilegal manner; but nevertheless it is not proper to abandon these provinces to the horrors of anarchy. I will preserve the command of the army, and, aided by the Junta of Go• vernment, I will take such measures as circumstances re., quire, owning no other authority until the King and the Nation establish the sort of Government which ought to rule the country. ".Our first duty Is to preserve the public tranquillity, and not to suffer any person to be insulted, nor any disorder to be committed, nadir the pretext of political opinions, or I any other pretext. " A flag of tree* will make known our determination to the French General who is opposed to us, and to whom t will propose to suspend hostilities. If he do not accede to my propositions, and if he require from us humiliating conditions, then you must prepare to fight. Yoa have told me that I merit your confidence, and you have made me the depositary of the honour of the army. I well know now to preserve it; mud whatever may be the douses which' sur-* round as, never will I yield with ignominy. "Soldiers—Almost all of yoq belong to these provinces, and your fathers, your brothers, your fellow-countrymen, have need of you to preserve peace and tranquillity, with out which persons and property are compromised. Never wad your presence more accessory under your standards ; and I doubt not that, penetrated with the noble duty which is confided to you, you will give me constant proofs of your discipline and union. " Read-quarters, Lugo, Jdne 20. (Signed) " The Count de CARTHAGENA." The following is the woad Proclamation addressed to the Inhabitants of the provinces:— " Inhabitants of the provinces, comprised In the district of the Fourth Army. " New that we have seen fell oonermadon of the intelli gence, that dos Cortes at Seville have named a Regency, by depriving the King of his powers without the case pros ided for by the Constitution having arrived, without any of the forms required by the regulation and the ordinances having been observed; 'I have received deputations of the chiefs and officers of the 2d and 3d divisions, who have declared to me that the troops were determined not to recognize this Regency. The Inhabitants have declared themselves in the same sense ; and as I would not wish to suffer the army to disorganize itself, and a ferocious anarchy to carry dessola tion to the provinces, I hate determined to proclaim in a public and IL:teflon manner, that I do dot recognize the Regency established by the Cortes in Seville, because the Constitution has been violated by this illegal act, and be- , Muse I would by no means wish to be an accomplice of those evils which, according to all appearance, will be pro duced by this inconsiderate proceeding. " Bat in order not to act lightly, and to be entirely as sured of the state of public opinion relative to :he events at Seville, I have assembler, this 'doming all the Authori ties, ecclesiastical, civil, and military, and I have con vinced myself that the inhabitants participate absolutely in the sentiments of the troops, and that it is impossible to recognize a Government which is the result of an act the most illegal. " In consequence I have made the following order " I. The inhabitants of the provinces which and end prehended in the district of the Fourth Army, and th troops composing that army, do not recognise the Regene . instal led by the Cortes at Sethie on the 11th inst. " 2. In order to maintain order in the provinces, and to protect the persons end properties of the inhabitants, I pre serve the command of tie army with the same pdwers which I had before. Desiring, moreover, to give My measures the wisdom so necessary to actual circumstances, I have re solved that each provincial deputati ,n, in concert with the superior eeclesiastieal, civil and military authorities existing In the capital, should name an individual from within or without their body, who will repair immediately to our head quarters for the purpose of forming, with other members nominated by the different deputations and authorities,a.funta of Government to which the examination of difficult affairs may be submitted. " 3. This order of things will subsist un4l the King and the anion adopt a system of regular government. " 4. Persons and property remain under the protection of the laws, the Authorities, and an armed force. No insult or disorder will be perm • d under the pretext of past opinion or political conduct ; sod he who will excite disorder shall be punished, as a disturber of public order, to the utmost extremity of the law. " 3. The existing laws shall be maintained in all their vigour, except those relative to offences for opinion, which are henceforward abolished ; because no person cam be prosecuted or disturbed fot those opinions which he heretofore entertained: and hereafter he only shall be punished in this respect, who shall attempt to trouble pub lic order. " Such are the rules which I thought it necessary to esta blish; as the basis of Government, during the time that this provisional order of things shall continue. My intentions are pure, and I have no other desire than to preserve, as far as is possible, this province from invasion, end to maintain peace and order, and to preserve inviolable the honour of the nation and of the army. " As some days must pass before the individuals whose duty it is to name the provincial deputations to compose the Provisional Junta cf Government can inert, I have in the mean time formed one. composed of the Bishop of this Diocese, of the Political Chief of the Province, of the Mar quess de Vella 91v.!4, Deputy of the Province of Vigo ; of D. Jose Montero, Deputy of the Province of Corogoe ; and of D. Francisco Andres Alvares, Deputy of this place. " Inhabitants of these Provinces ! If you wish to give to Europe a noble example, by showing that you have na need of foreign troops to maintain public order, and de-. fend the national honour ; if you wish to p peace. ■nd the inviolability of your persons and properties, do not allow yoursel►es to he led astray by your passions obey the laws and the voice of the Authorities, who only desire order, and the oblivion of r-senttnents and injuries. You wilt then reap in abuudanee the fruits of your wisdom,. without experiencing the incalculable evils which oppress the other provinces. " Head-quarters at Lugo, June 20, 192 a. (Signed) " Count du CARTHAORNA." General Murillo has written to General liourck, and is disposed to send an officer to the head-quarters to the Duke d'Angoulrnae. On the Ist of July the Civil Commissary of his Most Christian Majesty, 31. de Martigu■c, in the name of his Sovereign and of his Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleine, inthe p.esencr of several Generals and Spa nish Chiefs, presented with treat ceremony to the Re gency of the kinvdonr, fifty standards, which were taken by the French troops in the last war, in order to plate them at the feet of his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII" when he returns to •occupy the throne of his ancestors. FRENCH FUNDS, JPLY 4.—Five per Cent. at the close on Monday tiz--S5--Nespoli•an Mertes, 7-1 to 74L—Spa nigh, 361 to 33; —Dill() MI account, 37 to 36. hxcn+Nar. ()sr I.oxlmx.—Uue Month, 251. Pk. — Three ditto, 25f. LOc. a . ~:~ ~'- w,..~, , ♦AI I Bu p 3 p. 3 i I 4 pi Ne , (.0 1 MI `PR elle brill port ant eon Fin Ps r Loa S 9.1 o tort aid thee pert lent porn 14V.121 Iron • issue pa pi tag fi Q i 114 t i took reed row that The Nrar4 •anil t'!ry and, Lust, :to g 1,111 • aat.l