The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-31 00:00:00

TIM STATESMAN ► grocer — April 4 24 J. Gelsthorp, Molineux-street, Marstla bonne, carpenter—April 22, C. W. Rodd, Broadway, Wor cestershire, =lister—April 19, J. Evans, Wapping, linen draper. CERTIFICATES—Aram 19. W. Layton, Peterborongh-coutt. Fleet-street, gold-beater Osborne, New Brentford, fishmbngar—E. MtGarth, W inehester-row, New-road, dealer—R. T. Wood, Albany New-road, Walworth, merchaat—J. Johnson, Leamington, Warwickshire, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Stevenson and W. Parley, Northampton, wine and spi rit-dealers—W. and J. Beasley, Gosport, grocers-r-11. and C. D. Walther, Castle-court, Strand. bookbinders—J. Skel ton, W. Stones, J. H. Skelton, and W. B. Stones, Chandos street, Covent-garden, warehousemen—W. Dewbirst and J. Halstead, Bowerby, Halifax, cottoa-spinners—J. Dyster, J. Culyerwell, and W. T. Coker, Leadenhall-market. leather factors—J. Sanderson and D. Birelav,Old Jewry—E.Hodg son, A. Vaughan, and S. Hodgson, Hollis-street,Cavenclish square, milliners—B. Jowett, sea. and B. Jowett, jun. Red- Lion-court, Bermondsey-street, skinners—J. Jackson, jun. and J. Denniston, jun. Haliftx, corn-dealers—J. Carey, J. Burrows. and J. Wason, Shepton hlallett, Somersetshire, booksellers (so far as relates to J. Wasou)—T. Newman and J. Ilartwrlght, Cheltenham, woollen-drapers—Y. Bol ton and T. 11. Fretwell, London, Russia brokers—J. Whit more and R. Bayley, Farewell, Staffordshire, millers—W. and T. Darley, Moor Town, South Kelsey. Lincolnshire, coal-merchants—W. Chase and J. Sayers, Norwich, wine merchants—l.o index and M. Conway, Skinner-street. Snow hill, milliners—J. Houlden and W. Woodall, Manchester, stone-masons—F. and A. Hewitt, Clapham, ale-brewer s—N. Glossop and T. Thompson, Sheffield, cabinet-makers — J. Stevens, W. Durrant, and T. NVileman, Lindfleld, Sussex, common-brewers (so fares regards J. Stevens)—J- Hay' craft and J. Farrar, Birmingham, wine-merchants — H. Beaumont and W. Powley, Liverpool, brokers—W. Drake and T. Gillman, Liverpool, menagerie-keepers. ♦\ ERAGE PRICES OP CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN VIZ WEEK ENDED MARCH 22. PER. QR. S. d. PER Qa. 5' d. Wheat 50 9 Oats 2l 3 Rye.... .............30 1 Beans 29 0 Barley 33 ti Peas . .... ........ 32 10 Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cotn. plead from the Returns wade in the week ending the 21ith day of March, 1823, is Ns. 21d. per cwt. LOSS OF THE ALERT PACKET. The following additional distressing account of the loss of the Tormentera in the Alert Packet, from Dublin to Liverpool, is from the Liverpool Advertiser of Satur day : It is our painful duty to record the loss of one of the sailing packets of this port, by the sinking - of which while on her homeward voyage from Dublin, it is sup posed (according to the general reports of the few snr sivor-.) upwards of 100 (dour fellow-creaturis —men, wo men and children, have suddenly perished. "The Alert sailed from Dublin on Tueshy night, about half-past eight, and on Wednesday morning made the coast of Wales. The wind had been generally fa vourable, but about ten o'clock, a. m. the Captain finding the breeze abating, and the vessel driving towards the West 3louae ruck, sent the boat a-head, in full expects. t;on of clearing it by towing. There was, just before, a tine light breeze, which, bad it continued (and of which there was every appearance), the vessel would easily have avoided the rock. The tide, however, at this unfortu nate juncture, became so powerful as to render abortive the efforts of the rowers in the boat, and soon drifted the vessel upon the rock, which she struck, though not with very great violence. But it was soon discovered that the shock caused the vessel to leak considerably, and the pumps were immediately set to work. The water, in defiance of every exertion, continued to gain upon them, and in a few minutes reached the cabin floats All who could, now lent their endeavours to bailout with buckets. The leak continued to increase rapidly, and it was soon perceived that all efforts to keep the vessel afloat were of no avail. She became water-logged, and there being no wind, it was impossible to throw her on the shore, which was perhaps a mile and a half distant. In this desperate situation, several individuals leaped into the sea, to reach the boat which had been towing a-head, and which con tained the greater part of the crew. Those in the boat picked up as many as she could contain. numbering in al! seventeen, amongst whom is the Captain, who, by the ex ertion of the mate (who was before in the boat), was saved. The boat was but 12 feet long, and with this load, being nearly level with the water's edge. was with difficulty, though in a comparatively smooth sea, rowed to the shore. Meantime, terror and despair seized the e dor tunate beings left on board the vessel. But a veil, never to be penetrated, is drawn over the terrific scene that closed their earthly career. Those saved in the boat can but give a confused and imperfect relation of the horrors of those awfid minutes which preceded their escape. One only of the cabin passengers was saved, a respect able tradesman of Liverpool. He thinks there were abort' IN) persons on b• and : the Captain supposes not more than 70, exclusive of those saved. In either ac count we find a mournful reckoning; and as, with the exception of those in the cabin, the passengers were chiefly persons in the humbler walks of life, the troth it will be perhaps impossible to ascertain. The gentleman saved (to whom we have alluded) states that when the ho it pulled towards the shore they left those on the ves sel, amongst whom were three ladies, many . other fe lt ales, and some children, weeping and praying! On reaching the shore, (after rowing three Ruiners of an hour) a lVelchnian, wtio bad observed the disaster from a bill, informed them that the vessel had disappeared. The boat returned to the fatal spot immediately, and, we learn, saved two more individuals (men) who had con trived to keep afloat. The rest, to the number of one hundred to one hundred and thirty (for reports are various) had sunk to rise no more. We do nut consider ourselves warranted in publishing any of ' the names of those who, it is supposed, on no very cer tain authority, perished on this melancholy occasion. Little on this point is yet precisely known, and . to pat forth surmises, might hut unnecessarily distress the feelings of individuals. So far as we can ascertain, the dreadful catastrophe was purely aecide el al ; and we have reason to believe, that, considering the immediate peril • of every one on board front the time the vessel struck, every exertion wastnade to keep the vessel afloat, and to draw her towards the shore for preservation. The boat in which the survivors ezcaped, was bat 12 feet in length, and was loaded almost to swamping: And here we tan nin help regretting, that vessels destin p ro v ided ' so nainiVkssengers, should not be better with hosts, in case of accidents of this nature, or by fire ; and it is with sincerity and respect that we applaud our townsman, Mr. Gladstone, for his valuable exertions re s lative to the Steam-boat Bill, by which every steam p.,cket must be provided with a sufficient number of boats, to render effectual aid in the event of a catastrophe so dreadful as that which we have related. " Extract of a letter received in this town from Mr. 11. Evans, dated Holyhead, March 27:—"f he boats flow this place have picked up a few packages that floated from the Alert, and 28 of the bodies are now in this church, waiting the Coroner's Inquest.'" RIOT IN CATO•STRINIT, gDGEWARI-ROAD.AbOIII one o'clock yesterday morning, the ueighbournood of Paddington was in the greatest disorder and tumult,' owin to a numerous body of Irishmen who inhabit to-Str e et , having had a quarrel amongst themselves, and which was only quelled by calling out the Guards, who advanced with their arms loaded, aided by a posse of constables and watchmen (two of the latter are reported to be seriously hurt), and succeeded in taking about 40 of the most riotous into custody. The exact cause of the disturbance is not correctly ascertained. CLOSE OF THE SURREY INSTITUTION. The following conamonication reached us several days ago ; bat we were compelled by press of Parlia mentary and other intelligence, to postpone its inser tion till now : March 2.1,1823. This night, at ten o'clock, the doors of this Temple of Science, this agreeable retreat from the fatigues and anxieties ry of business, this fountain - head o f literary and scientific information, will be finally ,closed to its sub scribers. When we look back to the pe3nliar adlantages which this place offered to the )oting and inexperienced, I and to the pleasant relaxation which it afforded to those advanced in years. who, here, whiled away their hours man agreeable and improving occupation ; when we recollect the very usefel and excellent library of more than 6000 volumes, which was ever open to the wants of the subscribers, and above all, the various Courses of Lectures winch Lace been delivered at this Institution; we cannot but regret that the wealthy and enlightened inhabitants of the County of Surrey should have suffered this Temple of knowledge to fall into irrecoverable ruin. But the scientific and literary prelections delivered at the Surrey Institution, deserve something more than a cur- 1 sory notice. We shall briefly enumerate some of the 1 , oust distinguished persons who have added lustre to the Lecture-room of this Institution. Among those who have paid the debt of nature may be named Dr. Shaw, 'the able and scientific Zoologist, and Dr. Lettsom, the humane and benevolent Philanthropist. Among the living luminaries, we may mention Mr. Samuel Wesley and the correct and tasteful Crotch. In Chemistry, the acute and ingenious 'Thomson, and the classic and en quiring Murray. In Physics Mr. (now Dr.) Millington, who is now a Professor in the Royal Institution, and whose first Lecture was delivered at the Surrey. In Geology, Mr. Bakewell. On the Philosophy of Ate, Mr. Landseer. On Perspective, Mr.Jolin George Wood. On Architecture, the classic Elam,. On Ethics, Dr. Collyer. On various branches of the Belles Lettres, the discriminating Hazlitt, and the lofty anti truly poetic Coleridge. On Aerostatics, the Aeronaut Sadler. On experimental Philosophy, Mr. Partington. On the Steam-engine, Mr. Webster. On Pneumatics and Elec tricity, the ingenious, lucid and indefatigable Mr. Charles Woodward, whose gratuitous labours in the field of sci ence, are worthy of all praise. Mr. James Jennings, whose lecture on the Listory and utility of Literary In stitutions, afford a pleasing evidence of his zeal in the cause of Literature and Science, and Mr. Golds worthy Gurney, whose Lectures on Chemistry, this season, have afforded such a treat to every lover of science; and it is due to the Managers of the Surrey Institution to state, that Mr. Gurney's newly invented thxyg. Hydrogen Blowpipe, whose simplicity, perfect safety, intensity and power, have been the theme of admiration to every chemist, was first introduced to public notice through the medium of this Establish ment. A great deal has been said respecting : he fate of Literary Institutions in the Metropolis, and abundant vituperation has been bestowed upon the ma nagers of these Establishments. The Surrey Institution has not escaped this general obloquy. We think, how ever, that this last Establishment forms a prominent ex ception to the general rule. At the commencement of this Institution, each subscriber paid 30 guineas for his share , and for this moderate sum, lie has had, or might have had, fourteen years full and free enjoyment of this ex cellent and well conducted Establishment ; lie might have had daily access to a room containing the Morning and Evening Papers, Gazettes, ;to a room containing the principal Magazines and Reviews, and every new book of character; to an extensive Library of Reference, con-, slating of the most valuable works; to an excellent and well selected Library of circulation, containing popular and standard works, and the best floating Literature of the day; and twice a week, fur six months in the yeas, to Lectures illustrated by the most curious and costly experiments; to which rimy be added the use of Philoso phical Apparatus, and access to a convenient and well arranged Laboratory. All these and other advantages every subscriber to the Surrey Institution might have en-1 joyed every day, from eight o'clock in the mo rnin g ' till ten at night, for fourteen years, for thirty guineas!!— And yet (mirabile dictu !) we are told that the money has been squandered*, and that the Establishment has been badly managed! For our parts we think, with ao ingenious author, that "Literary Institutions are the cheapest of all the known methods of diffusing know . - ledge," and whatever may be the sentiments of those who have not attended the Library and Lectures of the Surrey Institution, we have no hesitation in saying, that while we award the full need of praise to the other Lite rary Institutions of the Metropolis, we think that 'no Establislinient of this nature has been more ably con ducted or succeeded better in combining " the useful with the agreeable " and at a moderate expense, than the Surrey Institution. • Notwithstanding this alleged extravagance, there is still property remaibing, which cost between Li or 9,000/. a nd which is shortly to be sold for the benefit of the Noprietors. ••••••,••••=atoo EARTHQUAKES. By letters received on Saturday from St. Jago de Chile, it appears that on the night of the 19th Novelsr bee, a shock of•an earthquake was experienced, the most severe ever remembered in that country. Its duration was of the very extraordinary space of four minutes.' during which the earth is described as being in continued motion, resembling the rolling of a heavy sea. Its ef fects were most fatal at Valparaiso, where, it is said, a few houses were left standing: of those but a small pro portion were habitable. There is some variation, how ever, in the accounts as respects Valparaiso, and as it is natural to expect, under the first impression of so - awful a calamity, that there should he much exaggeration, it is probable that hal been the case in the present instance.l The loss of lives in Valparaiso is stated at from BD tol 2.00, among when are same English. The only names mentioned are those of a Mr. Stevenson and of Sir. and Sirs. Kelly. Most of the villages in Chile had suffered severely, and souse of them were destroyed. No intel ligence had been received from Conception, but equally dreadful accounts were anticipated from thence. At San tiago the shock bad been comparatively slight; Ano lives were lost there, gor any houses thrown down, but all the churches except Ihree had been much injured as to re quire taking down; and it would be necessary to rebuild many of the houses before they could be rendered habit able. From the 19th up to the 26th of Nov. which is the date of the letters, slight shocks had occurred daily, so that many of the inhabitants slept in tents without the city, only venturing into their houses to take meals, daring which time all the doors were kept open. Letters from Naples of the 11th inst. received on Sa turday, stste.that a severe shock of an earthquake was felt on the stls at Palermo, by which a number of houses and churches were destroyed, 21 persons killed, and 125 wounded. The damage done to the city alone was esti mated at 50,00e1. It was nut ascertained that any other ,part of Sicily had suffered. Captain Burdett, of the 10th Hussars, eldest son of Sir F. Burdett, Bart. was thrown from his horse, which rolled over him, on Monday morning (the 24th inst.) be tween Carrick-on-Suit and Kilkenny, and suffered a se vere contusion of the shoulder and thigh. He is now at the Hibernian Hotel, in the city of Kilkenny, attended by Dr. Wan. Ryas, and we have very great pleasure in being able to add, will be able to ursue kis journey in a day or two.--(Dublin Freeman's Journal.) TRIBUNE OF CORRECTIONAL POLICE. (PROM TOM !!INCH PAPERS.) The affair of the editors of the Journal du Commerce and of the Courier Francais has been decided before the Tribune of Correctional Police. M. Carrion, the editor °f the Journal du Commerce, was first heard for the ar ticle in that paper of March 11, 1823, which was de nounced to the Chamber of Deputies by M. Frenilly. The Court condemned Cardon to three months' imprison ment and a tine of 3,000 francs, ordered that be should be hound to insert the present sentence in his paper within three days, and condemned him besides in costs. The tribunal then proceeded to try separately the accu sations against the Editor of the Journal do Commerce and of the Courier Francais , fo r having given an account (without being authorized) of the secret sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, on the Bth of February, for the discussion on the Address, and for having, besides, ex cited the citizens to hatred and contempt of the King's Government, by attributing to the President of the Coun cil of Ministers, language which he did not hold, viz.— That M. de Villele, replying to Messrs. de la Bourdon naye and Delalot, had said that the French Government has, relatively to Spain, done all it could to favour the intrurgents. The King's counsel, after some observations, prayed for judgment oe both the accused, and that they should be sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment, and a fine • of 3,000 francs each. The Court sentenced Messrs. Cardon and Legraiveaux, responsible editors of the two journals, as they refused to give up the names of the authors of the articles, to three months imprisonment, and to a fine of 2,000 francs , eacji ; declared the seizure of the nu mbers of the 9th of February to be valid; ordered the copies to be torn to pieces ; and condemned these editors also in costs. The affair of the young men arrested in the tumralt of the 3d and 6th of March, was divided, and tried by the Court of Correctional Police, on two separate days: on the first, six persons were implicated; viz. Blochet, aged 40, tailor; Choffard, apothecary pupil; knout, 33, merchant's clerk ; F.vrard, cutler ; Diolot, 26; and Claitte, traveller. The last appeared on a summons, the others were prisoners. M. Bellot , the Ki n g' s Advocate, gave a summary of the grounds of the &cessation. Blochet was accused of having violently resisted gendarmes, who wished to !tinder him from crossing the Pont Louis XVI., and of having insulted, by gestures, a Commissary of Police, in seizing him by the collar. , The others are ac cued of having added seditious cries to those of " Vise Manuel!" " Vive le Cote Gauche! Vive la liberte." The witnesses being called, most of whom were gend armes who had assisted iu arresting the prisoners, one deposes! diet Diolot had cried, " Down with the hussars of the guillotine." M. Blain% Mier, a young advocate, in his defence of Choffard, pretended that the assemblage of the 3d of March was not seditious; and was interrupted by the President, who told him he was preaching resist ance to the armed force, and the defence of the sove reignty of the people. After hearing the counsel of the other persons, the Tribune condemned Blochet to two months' imprisonment and a fine of 50 francs; Choffard, eight months and lOU francs; Aruout and Diolot, each six mouthu'.and 50 francs; Evrard, two months and 25 francs; and Claitte, fifteen days' imprisonment and 16 francs fine. By a Flanders mail which has arrived since our last, we have received the following intelligence :- 11.ti.t.e, filancn 21.—1 n French Flanders and Artois, which forms the 16 Military Division, there is.a great number of officers on half-pay, who, while they are in the receipt of it, await the time when they may be em• ployed in active service. These officers have chosen the places where they desire to liz their abode, and cannot quit the Department without permission. Yet we are informed that several of them have successively disap pe • ed. It ',supposed they have found means to embark for England. and thence, without doubt, have proceeded to Spain, which has given occasion to stricter measures of turveillance. BRUSSELS, MARCH 27.—1 n the Sitting of the Second Chamber on the 24th, some chapters of the new civil code were discussed and agreed to. In the Sitting of the 25th, the Order of the Day was the new project of law on the Stamp Duties. This project met w►th very great opposition, and was at length rejected by a majo• , rity of to 9. • German Papers to a late date have come to hand. An article from Bucharest, dated the lit inst. informs us, that according to a decision of the Divan, the Greeks who are iu the Principality of Wallachia must give se curity for their good conduct under penalty of being obliged to leave the country. There is now not a sinee individual of that nation who holds any place. The Divan besides importunately solicits the expulsion of all the Greek Bishops, Priests, and Monks, and it is affirmed that the Igownenos, or Abbots of the Convent, founded by the Greeks, and belonging to them. are to be dismiss ed, and iVallachians put In their places. BERLIN, Menem 21.—" The consultation (at which his Royal Highness the CROWN PRINCE has presided) with the Deputies of the State from the various provinces of the Prussian Monarchy, and which have now been con tinued for nearly two years. are at length terminated, and it is expected that an official statement of the result will be shortly published; hut it will however relate ex• elusively to the provincial atsemblies." The King of SWEDEN has proposed to the Diet, to mitigate the penalty of death which the law now decrees against those who are guilty o f ex p ressions a g ainst the Uoveronrmt. It is calculated that the Import duty of 61 per lb. on foreign nool, with the additional capital required in manufacture, amounts to a tat of one shilling and six• pence per yard upon broad cloth. From this tax the foreign manufacturer is exempt; and yet, according to the warehonsing bill, he is to be allowed to meet the ma nufacture of Yorkshire and Oloacestershire in the Lon don market. MußlMlL—Sarnuel Follows has been committed, after the investigation of a Coroner's Inquest, to Ches ter Castle, to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes, for the murder on Friday evening the 21st. instant, of Betty Shallcross, at Butterhouse-green, near Stockport. The unfortunate woman was a servant to Mr. R. C. Morrey, of that neighbourhood, and was pregnant by Fellows. Her parents were very respectable people, and her father has occupied the same farm for more than 30 years. — The prisoner is also a respectable farmer, and has oc cupied for several years, the same farm which his father held for above 40 years. The connection between him and the unfortunate woman had existed fur some time to ' the grief and vexation of her parents. When the body was found, in one of the out-buildings belonging to Mr. Morrey, it was in a sad mangled state, and excited sen sations of deep horror.—(Stockport Ado.) EXECUTION.—On Monday morning, Johnson, the murderer of Richard Walker, of Leckonfield, was exe cuted on the New Drop, behind the Castle, at York. At the time .of his conviction, he seemed obdurate and im penitent, but the near prospect of death subdued his haviened heart. On Saturday morning he made a full confession of his crime. On Sunday he was much en• gard in prayer,and received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and at the place of execution his demeanour be came his situation. He united fervently in prayer with the clergyman that attended him, and was in the act of exhorting the multitude to take warning by his fate, when the drop fell, and precipitated him into eternity. f MAILS. ♦RR. DI:E. ♦RR. DUE, I.... Dublin 0 1. .. Doll und 0 2.... Waterford.. • . . 1 1....111mbr0. .. 0 0.... G & Jersey . .0 I—. France 0 0-- Lisbon 0 1 }limners 0 i o....Gottenburg.... 1 0. Malta ..0 E. 4 SIMI MONDAY .—lfolidayal Ike litimk. the atatcontan. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 192 j, BOURBON WAR. We have long had to correct the statements of Our cotetnporaries upon this subject. Many thousands of families would have escaped something very much like ruin, if our opinion with regard to this war had been ge nerally adopted. Seeing that the war will inevitably take place, the stock-jobbing press of London has recent ly conjured up a conspiracy in the French Army. Th:s is a lie invented in London. Not one word of truth in it from the begiuning to the end. Yet the whole thing was stated in the Old Times newspaper with as mach confi dence, and as much in detail, as if it had been the report of evidence taken before a Judge and Jure. The lie has died away ; but has never been contradicted ; and nine-tenths of the people of England believe ie the cur spiracy to this moment ; nay, there are no small part of them who like the thing the better because it is a lie.— ' Strange as this may seem, It is perfectly true, and people of this description would almost cut your throat for exposing the lie. This is a natioumuch more ignorant than any other in Europe ; and this ignorance it owes to its corrupt and stock-jobbing press. The ignorance, however, like tha t of the cuckold, may be deemed a blessing to it; fur while it is less free than any nation that we know any thing of, it puffs itself up with the opinion, that it is the most free upon the face of the earth. The speculations of our friend the Chronicle, as to war or peace; we mean. our remaining at peace or going to war, have long amused us. It gives us to-day an extract from its friend, the SCOTSMAN, calling for war. The words of the Scots. man are these;—" We believe honestly that, had our " Ministers expressed at the first a firm resolution to " make a common cause with Spain, this atrocious at " tack would never have been made. Wt.r may be in " convenient for us; but we have it from the two /cad. " big. men in the Cabinet, that we are in circlunstak.ces to fight, if honour or policy require it." Now "we have no hesitation in saying th it honour: " humanity, freedom, our ancient renown, our national .4 glory, and the whole course of our policy, nay, 0 our self-interest, call loudly on us to succour Spain."— We should like to ask the Scotsman what would have been the use of saying that they would make common cause along with the Spaniard:, unless they had prepared to make good the saying? The Scotsman says, that two leading men in the Cabinet said, that we were in (*cum• stances to fight, if honour or policy required it. Well then, says the Scotsman, honour or policy do require it; therefore, go to war. Bat the cunning Scotsman does not say for himself that we are in circumstances to fight. Ile only says that two leading men in the Cabinet say so ; which is a very different thing. Our friend, the Chronicle, endeavours to hold its brother Scotsman is checic, and observes :—" We have already expressed it as ' " our opinion tkat this country ought et present to " remain neutral; but the grounds on which we Ifs " are, we suspect, very diferent from those that inl , . " once his Majesty's Ministers." We should be glad to know what are the Chronicle 'n "grou n ds.' —lt has told us very frequently of late, that it is fx any thing bat war ; but it has never distinctly told us the grounds. It wishes the Bourbons to be overthrown ; it is sure that the invasion of Spain will overthrow the Bourbons; and yet it rails against the invasion of Spain. It cries out dreadfully against the Minister fur not pre venting the invasion of Spain; it knows, and indeed says, that the Ministers can prevent this only by war ; and yet I. it says the Ministers ought not to go to war. Such in consistency ; such nonsense, could not find its way into print in any other country in the world. It is a bullying'. bragging, empty, stupid country become. In proportion as a nation becomes base and enslaved, it generally be comes empty and bragging. This used to be a modest nation: in the.exact proportiou in which it has lost its liberties, it has lost its modesty. There is not a people in Europe that might not laugh at us, if they chose to condescend to notice the stupid braggings that are pet forth by our press; and as to the French people, how mach do we owe to their forbearance. However, this thing shall not go on thus. These bragging writers are the worst enemies of this country. Had it not been for them, we never should have been brought to the present pass. We will warrant it, that, as long as there is a press to call our THING the envy of surrounding na dons aad the a,cimiration of the world, so long will those, pito have the carrying on of that thing, take care never to make any changes in it that shall produce a diminu tion in their power.—We have several times challenged the Morning Chronicle to show that the French people ,are less free than we are. It dares not accept oer ' challenge ; but one week more shall not go over our beads before we vindicate the people of France, All this bragging, and all this humbug, shall not go quietly on without exposure. LORD BYRON. It seems that Lord Byron is beginning to follow oar advice. We begged of him, some time ago, to come to a truce with his Wigan, and to lay the lash a little upon the Jolterheads; the indescribable cowards, coromouly allot country geode's:ten. In another part of our paper, is as extract from a forthcoming poem of his Lordship. We offered a premium some time ago to any one who would verify Peel's Bill. We thank his Lordship for this littk touch at the Jolterheads. Paris Papers to the 30th inst. have arrived. According to those of Friday, the war between France and Spain my be said to have actually commenced. The French Arlll on the line of Bayonne, CAW strong, is, it w•as understood , to enter Spain on the Ist. But on the other Frostier , between Perpignan and the Pyrenees, a corps of Spanish Royalists had been statio , ed under the Baron d'Erol4. On the evening of the 17th. Mina and Gracral Llobna , II 111 C n' b ti 7 t