The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-24 00:00:00

lIP . •rt . ~..ipliggeart.. • .^,mates.. -• • clot. INSOLVENT DEBTORS" ACT. • * 4 - r r TO Tall ZDITOR sf TOO•trail2ls3lAN. 7. 1 . ."*, * *Osg—Theve sispeate -4 Ise imicirsehnhostr abost • this. itadikitrit moat 'certainiy is.. There elosalet seem rifle any jaod reason gini . .fai. the repeal VIVO* At 'to be edvatited is the fact, 4;l4:l4•Wlitilistsri tiggViduals have hiconsit released . ;1041111r risen; by its.c o piigtioia in a very short spare of woubl ask ash- Who wish this Act to be repealed, whetter thrgliktild like to See more prisons ereited? • •Whetlser *by would fuel pleasure in seeing illriattalSilsOftheirfellod'oreatures desponding in prison? blots say there are such ebristians! but they Cannot be, tbey must not be gratified in this iestance. The Act . . Ina not be repealed - ) t m aybe aitended, but when can it be made more severe than it is ?I am of opinion, that it is a brie antidote to the oppressive spirit of some creditors. A - great number of *loos who at present have that dis position may very wow be glad to avail themselves of the protection which this act affords. There are very few solvent persons. Only let the credit of a good many 'bouncing Tradesmen be stopt ; let them come to a winding and the isitbri of their means would be -suds, as to prove them Insolvent Debtors. Then should • ihey not be able to get terms with• their creditors,- but be' driven to prison, they * will .he glad that tbere is an act . Which Wilt restore them to Liberty, and to thee families front a pia-owhere they oever had a right to be put ; un less indeed they had tbemselvesunmerci fully driven some pr or sufferer there previolisly, with a malignant feelini.. Creditors have a right to seek for, and get by reasonable mean*, that which is justly due to them; but, creditors have a discretionary . power when thee give credit. W hen a Tradesman gives credit it is with a view of bene - 'Elting himself, and not the person whom he trusts. and 'makes his agent, for snch be becomes. This is a mate rial point to he ohierved. lYe do not give credit with a view of enrichlrigenr debtors, but ourselves. Creditors 'honed then be, captions in, driving a debtor away from society—away from his family and friends, into a prison; creditors alcoield by all means endeavour to be cool on nets owisiors, look well into the circumstances, and be cautious in deciding to the injury of their fallen debtor. •He is down, anal it is cowardly then to oppress-1 mean to say, that debtorslought at all times toexhibit every thing clearly to their creditors;when it becomes necessary and proper to do so; and when creditors will give them the chant e & t oa cr; leut in many casesthey do not;t hey are bent upon putisiment, and that to brutal excess. The legis lature nay surely then interpose; by this ac', it does in to ne mea s eredo so.—lt rescues the person from a prison, s-place that never ought to be thought of, but as a Oar, of punishment. I sus of opinion, cerminly, tlent this set mar he amended ; it now allows 201. in value, to • eV dclatoi, widcle maybe in money ler necessary furniture ; , eloathing, let.. And in this particular, it seems not to ..'wake the. Irast difference between a debtor with a large • fainfle, and ore with none at all.—Hereis a serious in - tquality, an certainly requires a remedy. Suppose a deb'or to have a vtife and eight children, • Tl.e apuarel for those ten persona must be bad indeed if hr's not uorth the 201. allowed, IVell, there are the 201. now th•y arefto have -mo other—no bedding, or, in fart, shy thing sehatever. Suppose there are ten children, a r.di the doffing amounts to 241 , are some of them to be stripped and sent out naked? Ido insist that this is a grins inequality. in truth, lamat a loss to know how a debtor is to be strictly honest who is driven to prison. There are great expences; there are prison fees; there is an attorney to pay;. and, altogether, a man bad need of in money in his pocket, who is really sure of get ting mit without opposition, and in the very shortest time. Some persons, no doubt, benefit by this Act; such, for instance, as flash geatlemen, swindlers, and, gener.clly speaking, the officers in the army, when allcr.ted to retain their pay, although a tradesmen is cripped to their very skin. There is one thing io this Art, ton, which 1 think should be amended, for the sake or equality. An insolvent debtor' is only free in person, he still remains liable to leis debt% Now a bankrupt certainly is also an insol vinr, andice is for ever freed froni his li:dillies. I think thiti too tigress inegoality. Why should the one have an astratitage which the other has not ? 1c arother point, I think; an smendenent might be made. In cases where there is na creditor appointed assignee, the estate rests in' the provisional assignee ince lays dor s/14M. Now lam of opinion, that it would be better that ills estate should revert, after six or twelVe months, hack to 'he insolvent, ancl let him niske the best of it, if ' • the creditors do not think it worth their while to atreed • to it ;or if that was not theease, there should he a col . • 'l4'or to loth after the &lacier the Court. I, however, do think that it would be better 'that it revert to the debtor; would' rid the Court of a very great louden. • Should the above remarks - meet-your approval, you will oblige by the ineertion. ' 1 sun yours, very respectfully, • • February 14, 1823. R. TUE CAMBRIDGE COUNTY MEETING AND THE MOE,NI NEE ICHItoNI CLE. 1. TO tps ED! O l t or THE STATESMAN. gin,—Several friends of tniee Who were present at the lest Ciimbridgeshtre'meeting. end' who took an active part • In lti proceedings; harecomplained of the inaccurate. not to • •• oay . garbted. report which Las been given by the Jlorning - Meunier of the speeches made on that occasion, and which Mort, I am sorry to .say,•bas .beeti copied into the • 'STATESMAN. The'avcrwell' print iples of the Chronicle, and its devotion to•the maMed interest, ought. I think, .to render it erremelyrantiOes of exposing itself to the ' 7uniit 'dist int susirlcloir pirtiality on questions in •which•that interest IS so m aterially cot.cerned. That the shotrld be - desiebni of laying before its 'readers the Iteporti or tlid.'procetriings of public meet : sings. given by a publication entertaining and warmly de "reading opinions diametrically opposed to its own upon • the prinmpal porataitgitatedinthose meetings, is highly • immutable to ita•charlceet ;• that It should be able to du so would be equally creditable to -its opponent. But, trust I iiiiestified In- Itatitig..that the STATESMAN, to - the case of thWpriiceediags of the Cambridge meet '. Wok, hati carried the desire if - avoiding every imputation Ise partiality. to a blameable extent. I shall mention but one instance of onstssion els .tlie'put of the Chroni• • de, from wide% your readers may form. their own con clusions. 1 know from..thr beat authority that Mr. C.. • Mentes, the oroeer - of the Resolutions, in his address to the al•eting, expressed in the most.marked and wiriest lerate,his oats iadisidaalobligations.to Mr. Cohbatt, and also the obligatieos which, he ,conceived, the whole kingdom to be uoder to that. .Gentleinan, which passage has not been mentioned, oar has. the most distant alio -Mon been made to it by.the Chronicle. • • I tun: Sj?.. • . rim humble Servant. '•Tensple, Feb. 17,1114.1. W. R. • • The Right How greederiek John nohinson. the new ChanCellor of the Exehlguer, was. the second son of the ~ate(end beother of the present) ..Lord Grant.ham, by Mary imitate, daughter of the Earl of Hardwieke an, • thOlareltioneas Whip He was born October 30.174. " • aka *married the yoesioest doughterof the. Isle Earl of Hirekilighatfisltire,. and niece to the. Downier Macchio. se,* of Londonderry. your's, • VANDMIDDOE 'COUNTY ° • YrYSTING* AND • ". 1. • ' • • /111 L. OUNNiNti. :1. • • . •I • • - . — 7 41 1 1111 " . . ; KDITOI U1P:.711111,,5TAT1F0 1 4.N,.. canna understand the reporter of the Monolog Chronic*: *teen he sap, be total' nith.eliffseulty connect My observations; for if I. were rightly informed asto,lsia person, he sat directly under me, and might, I thought, UM' easily taken down every word. . Hosneverthis may be; Lars dear thathe is incorrect whew he observes that, wais••tinterropted by hisses, mixed with some applause;" W/sioltavottld insinuate that 4 was more opposed than inapported. But those who do not personally attend a Cambridge Meeting, cannot understand what cheers and 'kiwi omen in that town. There are two parties there which 'ate not to be found in other places. Xise hisses that the advocates of iteforin received, came entirely, as far as I observed, from the gownsmen, sod the•appluuses ftom the whole body of the people. In • say owls case, this was the exact troth as far as I obscene's and 1 men tioolny own case in particular, because Mr. Gunning :afienvards endeavoured to make the peopld believe that he was snore worthy of their attention and.support than I was. How far he succeeded in this attempt I .will uo five hereafter. But Mr. Ounoing knoWs that the "ge neral fight," of which the reporter speaks, otigioated in the determination of the people to hear %taloa the subject of Whim: The opposition fr..ra the gownsosen was so loud, and so cont uuneed, as to ercite the inipagenee and indignation of the people. I had proceeded so far - ,as to shew, that genuine Christianity is the cheapes t and least os tentatious system of religion .n• the whole world, not reeuiring a single penny of expense for any purpose whatever, but for the support of its poor ; and that as for the tythes, they were not instituted till 300 years after the birth of Christ ; and that when they were first insti tuted, one third part was applied to the relief of the poor of the palish, another part to the repair of the churches, sad the remainder to the support of the priest. And now, Sir, such a volcano of opposition burst forth, not from the people, but from the Whigs and the Tories, the (larch:nen and the Chu-ch-Dissenters, the Mermen and the Place-him:ere, as hardly ever before assaulted the ears of man ; while the great mass of freeholders and ioltahit ants who. stool below, were pl.ased and delighted with the voice of truth, which is not often permitted to reach their ears. Fair play, is all that is wanted in the world ; underdts single protection truth would soon enlarge it self, like the Indian Banyan tree.-1 intended to proceed, to chew, that as it was deer that tythes did hot originate in the Christian religion, they must be founded on the laws of the land, and that those who make the laws, are permitte i , by the principles of the Constitution, to alter, modify, or reia.of them, for the ben efi t of the reople.— At the earnest request, however, of some gentlemen near we, lat last cohsented to close my address. I did not propose to t, injustice to any individual ur corporation. I spoke in perfect relevancy to the question before the Me cling, and uttered nothing but oil, truth, history, and facts, well support and sanction. . I shell nut suffer the present opportunity to pass with out a remarle or two upon what Mr. Gunniug said respect ing me.. First, he objected that I was not an inhabotant of the county; this was very true, but then 1 was, and am, a FREEIIOLUER of the county, and.consequently as much entitled to attend the Meeting as Mr, Gunntitg Such is the meanness to which our Great Whig. Reformers have recoume, when they find themselves in want of orgumcnts to defend a bad cause. It was treatment which Mr. Gobbets received at Hereford from those whO could not overturn hie fedi and rea sonings. Mr. Gunning then proceeded to say (according to the report front the Morning Chronicle, and which is, I think, nearly correct) that lie thought, " it was rather too bad that Mr. George Fordham, atter having proposed in his own county tit Hertford certain resolutions, to which he could scarcely find a seconder, should come into a strange county seeking that credit from strangers which had been denied him where he was known."—lt reminded Min " of an anecdote of a man who went to a neighbour of his, to *whom be was a perfect stranger, to borrow money. The Gentleman applied to, said to the man, am surprised at your impudence, I never saw your face before." Sir,' said the man, ' that is the rea son why I have applied to you, as those who know my face won't lend use a single shilling.'" Here there was a laugh, sod I laughed among the rest. ltd let tut are to whom It best applied ; to me or to Mr. Gunning? To that part af theabove sentence which states that I could scarcely find a seconder at Hertford, I reply, that I had no difficulty whatever ; and though the peo p le of Hertford did not finally carry my proposittons,it is undeniable that they approved of them, and (when I recommended them) received them with the greatest applause.—Their ineen sistency is chargeable o.lly upon themselves. They w;11 know better this lime next year. But as to that part of the anecdote in %ditch I am compared to a mai who ap plies to a stranger to borrow money, because those who knee hint would not lend 1 • a shilling,—how could that apply to me? The strangers, that is, the Free holders ofCambridgeshire,did nut refuse to fetid me money,. meaning political support ; on the contrary, they anxiously wished to hear me; they even fought for it ; and by my assistance, notonly threw out Mr. Maberly's amendment, 'but carried the original resolutiuns almost unanimously. This did not look like want of credit. On the other head there stood Mr. (limning in the face of his own county,' where he said "hie opinions were well known for thirty six years," begging, praying., imploring, almost crying for political credit and confidence from those' who were so intimately acquainted a ith hint. And whit did the County say to hint? They said—" %Vc are astonished at your impudence, and though we have seen your face be fore, we won't lend you a single shilling. —Thus the biter was bit. He mule a looking glass fur use which %I-Mild only reflect his own beautiful countenance.—l re e.- tnatt ' • S . ! • :1f 060. FORDHAM. Jon. P. S. As to the charge of urging the people to attack he students, it is not true. Attack and defence are different things. Attack I always disapprove of; but self defence, is no transgression either in law or religion. This is what I said to a Gentleman near m•,,, and added in way of illueration, that if he were to strike me, I would knock hint down if I could; and all other men will. ray the same, except a Quaker, a profession to *lsiah . 1 do uot.at present belong. BOURBON WAR. • • • Ti.t re•ag- • T Sir A-T gsm th . • - • affairs (and who ronsequensly cannot live far from we,) must Isevelteown.thae my father, another brother, and two sisters, not pa inegtipp others, ought at least in such , a Statement as this, to have been included with my' bro ther EDWARD, RIBORk exceptions. it is this. that above all things elm in .the whole paragraph. shows ' the extreme blackness and. iofernal malignity of th .t, man's heart who ;Quid. pen .that sicked decl Ara. ion. The wretch who endeavours to'bold me up to the abhorrence of mankind, wOnfri ifo("ittow me my father, in own father,•fair iffy frienchrtirreotripaelon, though it is notori ous that he has great affeetiog for lON approves of my conduct, and.is almost consta.ntly with me, supporting me in private and inpublielife. I leave this writer to his own conscience ; and 'proceed to observe, that, he makes a distinctten between me and some of the family, in order to fix the charge of oppressing the poor exclu sively on me "ass disciple of Mr. CORBETT." Here then I meet ;his writer.Thequeitionnow is, whooppresscs the poor (both as respects their wages and as it respects all their rights and property) the disciple of Cobbctt, as the writer calls me, or those who have " disclaimed " me, among whom is particularly and justly named Mr. KING Fuel:mast, of Royston; and Mr. ELIAS and Mr. WI t.- • LTA BS FOR DHA M. must be added, who live in the parish of •Sandon with me? This is the trite question, and Ido not know how it ran be better decided than by applying to the poor themselves; and not to a part, but to the whole of the poor of the perish of Sandon, in IMO tbe above-named three gentlemen have their propert . 3.. invite, therefore, the Editors of the Times, or their kr formant or agent of any kind to' cone to the parish : ot: Sandon and examine the poor for themselves, in order to ascertain the followingrestions : FIRST, who pays the highest wages, Me disciple of Comm= or those who " dis chum" him! Sacasoot, Whose names are l 4 ri , ten (limn on the Court Rolls of the Lord of the Manor of Sandon, for committing gross trespasses on the rights and pro perty of the Poor? THIRDLY, who has lately put aside footpaths, to compel the Poor to walk in the lanes and highways? And, LASTLY, who is most respected by the poor in general,' myself or those who have disclaimed ore? These questions, and many others which might occur, I am willing to leave to be answered by the poor themselves, as the most direct and " authentic" mode of deciding the question between the respective parties. 1 require the ihs-rtion e f this and the following letter from my father, as an act of justice to us both, and I am, Sir, • Your' , &c. Geo. FORMIAM, JUDE. Sandon, Feb. lath, 1623. TO TAR EDITOR OF THE TIMM SIR—As there are two paragraphs in your paper. or last wee k, fur Monday and Tuesday, which grossly libel the character of myself and tau sons, respecting our• treatment of the poor, &e., I request you, for the sake of justice, and in vindication of yourself, to give me the names of the anonymous slandere►s aho gave you, or your reporter; the information contained in them. Yours', &c. Oan. FORDIIAM, Seor. Odsey, near Roysion, 15th Feb. 19.23. ST. MATTUIAS.—Ifoliday ■t the Public Offices. fekt 2tatcontait. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1823. There is no change in the apparent intentions of the French. But, what shall tee do P The GAZETTE of Sa turday contains a revocation of the prohibition to export arms aid ammunition to Spain and the West ladies! — Now, this is little short of declaring onr wish to, supply Spain with arms and ammunition. Things cannot re main in this state long. This revocation tends to confirm our speculations of Saturday; and, in short, we know that a great majority of those who have the thin: pretty much to their own wishes generally are for war e. fo r war, not for the sake of the Spaniards; still less for the sake of freedom and justice ; but in the hope of seeing the paper out again, and of paying off Jerusalem in its OWN COIN ! That is the thing which is at work. Then, there is another matter: Mr. PeEL's speech, on the opening of Parliament, was clearly for peace and against the revolutionists.—Mind that.—Then, mind, Mr. Putmand Mr. CANNING MUST DIVIDE upon the Orange Question.—Then, mind, this question must be decisive as to the predominance of the parties at i•s'ie and the issue must speedily come. The parties might agree very well, as to the trestioti of war or peace ; but, as to the other, they must come to issue.—Now, then, what we think is, that Mr. CANNING will bring Mr. PEEL to open conflict and trial of strength, on the war goes tion, where the former will certainly be victorious.-- These are our conjectures. Mr. Palm wonld have the a. vantage, if he were first to push his rival on the ques tion of no popery ; aye, in•spite of the GREAT BACK which the Anti-Orange ponple are said to have ; but, the landlt , rds so thirst Ar paper to pay off honestly with. that Mr. CANNING is sure to win, it he make his push on the side of war. THE MESSRS. FORDHAMS. TO THZ IDITOR OP Till TIMES. sStBer,l saw in the STATIMMAN of Thipsday, for the first time, two paragraphs from your paper. The first ;contains a charge from some maintain in the dark, against me.aad the whole family of, the Fordhams, of havinx .“ , beaten down the wages of their poor labourers; even ~.these with wives and families, to the untenable " pittance of :Is. 61. a week." . „the ne;t day, another p.r graph appeared, evidently trout. another .quarter (I think nut far from yon); but _milk, the author of it, conscious of the baseness of his own , hewn, hides himself under a. cloud. The object of this last paragraph, is, to make* marked distinction be tw.en the persons who are implicated in -the chsege of •tlai first . paragml.h ; and thwi to throw Me whole of Mat chow of oppressing the pbot isclusaily ba me.— rrekrice at . the distiactiom *befaitse ray - 'conscience nessiret'inb that hondirahle to my character. --irlCslauritig;horeetote,. 'is.y lar . othec, tMr. EzpwAltp FOIL DOA ?I, anAiiireption from those sib , ' "'disclaim", .um.thg,writer kittonds to convey the idti Oat ,niy bro ther; ist(reonly osteof consequence who he *ot disclaimed me. lie who is so intimately acquainted with our family CASII LAW CONFISCATION. The Petiti'n of Mr.'Ttiemsow, which, es one aeaders will reniecnt , er, was pres..ntedby Lord FOLICEITONE of Friday night, and which they sill find in another part of this paper, will show a little of the " robbery" which Mr. IVssTsast has so distinctly insisted On. Here is one instance out of thousands upon thousands ! And, does Mr. Hems cell it " ro:bery" of the money-people to compel them to take what is due to them, and no more If he mean to stand to this, his taring efforts really are to be viewed in. the light of endeavours to get money from the Chetah, or from any . body, to give it to the money-lenders; anti, if skis be what he means, we must. look at his movements • wish a different eye from that which- we have hitherto looked it them with. We oliosis:like'. to s hear his answer to this question. Dope he Hsieh, that Trenchard ought to have M r.Thomson's estate thee costs him 72.000/. and 18,000/. is money besidesdhtnetking? We are glad that this question is to be fully •disenssed. Lord Fosacirroeta gave ounce o f a motion, fur "next Wednesday week, for e Committee to swim inbeAc ease. Let Mr. Hume then tel l us w h at h e le mma,- Lat him tell us how Mr • THOM SON to •' take kis changq", if Trenchard be to swallow him in this tray. talk of saying here a thousand and Aare a thousand. of ponwlsovhile the ownems anti two , piers of laad-are mewed .dawn-in this way, is - worse than •nonveissi. - _IIIE n SSItS: FTORDNAMS. • " ja 'pother pet"( Ow paper will befoondectitiesof two leters from these Geotletoen to the Editor of Ale • r 6 ~~sa.. .A ; - ,,ora&'"%nr., liaonto's paver, the vile and bloc, iy Otrtiiimes:"Tri fptiers themselves were sent to that iniatenh; -Awe ore the ljth instant, The bloody-otin , led popei: iha pa i"r which actually instilled the murdering Of flie ;hem. aids' est Nimes; this ferocious psPer.• the effbsiohii sof which would appear to proceed from a kusils heads thieriper, when it pet forth its alsominableitadders oi trit gentlemen above-named, and their family; sail,lisat St shoed - be happy to he able to contradfct" - *lfni' it had said of them. Well ! M .FORDNAM site their lettere ; and, though the slander .was so desperately wicked, and tending so directly to real breaches of toe peace; tending to injare the-parties so greatly ; tending 46expase them, not only to general hatred, but to bodily assault from the poor people; notwithstanding this, the miscreant Old Times has not yet leserted a word Qf eithet of the Letters!—What Messrs, Fa:atlas will d ), we know not ; but, we know what we would do, if we were in their place.—At any rate, here is a pretty•in stance of the enlightening faculty of that press, which dear little DON CARLOS cites as proof of a want of Parliamentary Reform, and which his adversaries cite as a proof that eso reform is wanted. DR. O'MEARA. I pever read the Doctor's book; nor any book, made gp.of accounts of what took place at St. Helena. I newer, upon any occasion, referred to any of these accounts. thought that none, of them were to be relied ou I care nothing about, or, rather, I greatly dislike, all the par ties that had any thing to do with the imprisonment of Napoleon, wbo was, to all intents and purposes, a pri soner of war; and, I'do not forger, that, in order to send him to, and keep . him in, St. Helena, two 4c16 Parliament were passed! No man can hold in greater abhorrence the treatment of Napoleon, and all those who had any hand in it, than I do. But, l never would read the Doctor's book. I should now leave the tikc!o sure, made by the Quarterly Review, to find its way, or not, through the world ; but, in an article in this paper, ahoot three months ago, I said, that I heard it talk.el j all over the country where I had been, which was ve. v true; and, as this remark of mine, may have tenti,i, in some small degree, to give comtenance to the book (though I said that I had not read it), I think it an set of josticn to the public to insert, in this paper, the article of the Quarterly Review, to whiCh article I have jrt alluded. I shall do this to•morow. Wm. C. STOCK ESCHANGE, HALF•PAST TIVIILVII O'CLOCK The revoking the order which prohibited the transporta tion of Arms and Atnnumition to Spain, has creates! a lively sensation in the City this morning, and all parties are now of opinion that war is certain between Prince and Spain. In con•eynence of thin, Consols opened at 733, at which price they continue. A great deal f business was done in the earlier part of the nanroing:— The Expresses from Paris bring the . French, Feeds 79., 89, and Spasish 37. Private letters from Palls seem to treat the English interference with Spain as contemp - ible. Fulmar/ MARKET.—A great deal of business bas been done here this morning ; mostuf the parties aching Spanish Bonds. MILK/I.—New Spanish, 3d—Old. 19—New Prussia. 74-01 d, 791—Danish, 75—Neapolitan scrip, 87—Coloui hien, tat—Spanish Scrip, 341. French papers to the 221 instant bare arrived. These of Friday do not repeat the account that appeared in the Etoiie of Thursday evening, of Bessiere's being in f tree within 10 leagues of Madrid, neither do they anoonnce any change in the time appointed for the departureuf the Duke of Angouleme to the army, though private letters say that he would quit Paris sooner than was Lary Sx pected. The same letters assert, that the Frenchbech ration of War against Spain would appear in a day or two, and to this expectation .and the sailing of the Brest Feet was ascribed the recent fall of nearly two per eent in the French Funds. These Funds had 'risen oh Wed nesday to Sif. tic. and afterwards declined to 19f. 40 The Cortes and the Spanish Government are repre•ereed in other., as having adopted measures whieli ccrild only proceed from a consiction that hostilities were ruit only inevitable, but - declared; for, after loosing a I tor to authorize the issuing- of Letters of marque, they are said to have instantly carried its provisions into effect, and to have issued not less than forty of those Let ters io various individuals, who proved that they had the means of fi.ting out one or more vessels as privateers. The commanders of those vessels, it is added, were n t merely authorized to captnie tliose. of Frame, but those Irsaring the ti et! of one of the Powers wh , are in a 'tale of hostility with Spain." This statement is increilib!e; but another report by private letters respecting the deq filiation of the Brest Fleet, is much more probable. it is said to be destined to idt.ttek.Cisdli, sorl.that that city being unprepared for defenceolvild easily be taken by a coup delnaia. • L'Oou pipets itaveltreiled this mottle?, tite-eentents which stre''bigisly lisportint.- In the . sitting of *the Portu guese Cortes on the 10th, Sig. %lours rose to riale a mo tion, which. the Assembly revolted with acclamations Should be immediately read, and which was thus prefaced: " Ac cording to the accounts which we hava.juat received from England, it seems beyond a doubt that. the French Cuti• net assumes a really hostile attitude towards Spain. The speech of the King,at the opening of the Session,is very clear Whatever meaning, mere or less extensive, may be given to it. And can we suppose that this war, 'being made Realest principles, it is cot made directly against Portugal, when Portugal has adopted the same Principles, aml : ltbOsfeJ. together with Spain, to destroy absolute poetrro.qd eon. •solitlate the system of a moderate filouarcla wjeb a Con• stitutiun and national representation? Whe cast !oppose it! Unly he who Who purposely • rhUts hit eyes. It is therefore necessary that the true Portuguese patriot should consider as themes) , to their itislitoLoss. and Consequently of independence, the.tirst Frctleu soldier "rho shall set his foot on the *Outh- , rids' of Mt Pyrenees ; aid in this case itisimperlottilinteeseiry sot • ink' to org - aviise the forces neeesiary fo u r our defence, but • likeeise to provide assns far suPP O ‘ l . l 4 the de ' leaders ". le the condoles-Xi& IL :proposed. W oropsisfs: 7 Whetterliesitles4hollailitety feeratwhielvalstOr,ol have d irrained, it Win be pert wary to form intmediately . this pr( lovies z sitting antmat Ilrazili tendin, lions n In I brougl Cowin the eff den, • the ne cal co shops four c Sat jest), Ilea. .! kit n dit si Fore 1111 ig at th , .echcb Medi . . . DI • :al At • • fintst , ut:4l *Pim' higi ~w~ r' Sir. devil yp 114 - 41 '244? • .19i rive the Cal 1/11 ofit Ma' to t vtOi aer teal boo bye fikc : ' As