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I • • A • 1 By enstbmisists a more tomiderable mass of citizens to participate in their honourable functions, the obligatiorse they impose become less arduous to dis charge. The Electors designated by ballot to form • Jury will be more numerous slum under tare pre sent state of things, and, in consequence, the right of challenge will be more retentive, which is an • . arrangement entirely in favour of the accused. it isreleo confidently said. that the Ministry is occupied lit digesting • general law on the press. , •We ore ignonint whether Juries will be summoned to take envie owe of offences of this nature; hot we may venture to believe the affirmative. from the 4111, consideration that since the celebrated Ordinance of the Sth of September, the Government has un ceasingly !showed to give us institutions which ••• Might be is Unison with the Charter. It has pro. , ; .seethed with mulish sod pradeoce, but it has never ma one retrograde step. • .. ...,Let us then hope, that, foil of confidence in the , Idriotimu and talents of the Electors. the Govern ment will he the 144 to !impose to the Chamber to confide to them the important duty of deciding upon s - fteiaces of the ;teem Who can imisprese that c:li -2eus invested with the right of thawing the Depu ties of Frame. the defenders of private and public , Lowest., and the orgies of the national opinion, do • not possess aulicien&discersiment to decide whether . • Affrallii; lons bee, dangefoui they who every day Amisie 1111/11, the liberty, she hotsour, sod the lives oestbilffthoi-ottiaeus •••••••• ON int stsemitvc SITUATION OF THE GO. • TERNMENT AND PARTIES OF FRANCE. (Frost s. lePitipliebton ,The public mind of Frame has been. during three years. divided between three principles of action. A pure arid simple attachment to the Goverinneut—an attachment free all party spirit, has uoitrd au immense ma titity of Frenclimeii. These hare trusted to time, and, above all, to the wisdom of the So. ',reign who gave them the Charter, a m nions to metier it co-ordinate with our habits and institu tions, to 'inundate it to our manners, and to ac commodate it to all our customs. In the mean . Time there exists a certain number of men. among whom the love of the Chorter,.joiind with on guiovil regret for ell order of things to which France owes her latest alrost cruel disasters , has created character silence sod discontent ; who p making no account of times and circumstances. *Stet to believe that the Goveruinent executer this Charter with regret, and refuses to let the notion snjoy its greatest advantage.. For this set of men, the most valuable part of the Charter must lie that which would teed most to the estuldaslatneut of a Lower more eminently popular, in which they might look to find a consolation for their regret. a more certain guarantee fur their interests. and, , perk ipi, a motive for better-founded hopes of the somas of their personal pursuits. This petty, which remained silent in 1815, beer *Atilt these two years, assumed a confidence found ed on Me just protection effordeal by the laws to all peysourt, and it is the party which, perhaps. causes itself now to be heard with more perseverance mid ardour in the numerous writings which the rem • doily produces. In ISIS there elided another party. composed of a certain number of men who then prided them • selves its the purest Royalism. From their victim* ' • end language, it might be imagined that the Charts! mirrored to them a creation to which inure re a ped was to be paid in words than in realities; thut i 4 was a concession made to the misfortosie of thsk times and to the 'Willowy of the public mind--s concession which it was necessary to support. Is which it was proper to accommodate theinselveq, still hoping. end 14bourisig to produce a bruit order of things. This mode of thinkiug has . hies so discredited by events and discounts.. trancia by public opinioni that it has bees renourreed. But in its defeat it has given birth' to a new firm of opposition. A great respect for tha Charter must lss professed even by them who were most opposed to it • But at the same time faithful to their principles, these new fries& of the Charter sea either in the Charter, or in the laws derived from it. to giro —• the prevalence to those applications most consonant to their own toting idea.. In a word. Aristocracy , has swanned among them the irlace of pure Royalism. This change is set without an advantage. It has placed the Government in a better situation, by enabling it to combat all its ebennes under their true names, end mailer colours by which they can slw,r)s be known. Trios the Royal Goverisment can iso longer be reproached with being constantly opposrd to the RoyAlasts par eieellence, truce theft Royalists are in reality nothing more than the taiga zealots of an exclusive Aristocracy It is with institutions as with meta; the one caw tin more continue in a coniplete nod alnolute stage nation than the other. The greatest urt ut thosa who are called to s otoluct fist affairs au State, pre. serririg the institution.. consists, perhaps, in ob.. serving this natural tendency, which, is lite...int; on very thing a movement wisely progressive. is also • the principle of an action always vitifying and pre. e.ervittory ; and in diatinguidiing it horn artiliviid :ind disorderly tendencies, of whir la lie result would lie to give the political machine a false movement. and perhaps bring ou its ruin trod rl:Mritction, lay, • 7 • 111Wil exposing it to perpetael and conflicting revolatioss. Happily the shock and conflict of the Disposing par• ties present this advantage, that their reciprocal contrary efforts tend continually to neutralise their strength, ■nd by reducing both to an equal debility, naturally replaces tlivrn under the influ ence of a wise and well-regulated Government. This, in u few wordy, developer to us our future. The Government will proceed *ills the Charter, it will defend the Charter, and be defended by it. The Charter is neither democratic nor aristocratic— it is the Royal Government, supported by institu tions whereby every right and interest are alike supported and defended. The aristocracy and de mocracy will alike strive to imprint its peculiar character upon the law, and both will censure those laws and acts that may he conceived in a spirit hostile to its wishes, but it will be the duty of the Government to oppose itself frankly to both extremes. In pursuing this coarse. the Government will be opposed to both parties. but it will have the nation with it; the conflict will be sometimes pain ful, hot it will never he dangerous. Moreover. the contest will each year become less difficult' The ponies live on hopes, but these hopes are nourished by remembrances and regrets; these become weak by time, which riposte so mail illusions, ST. SIMON AND Juss.—Holiday at the B.ak, Exchequers Eut liens, sod Swath See tissues. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, °MIER 2s, IBIS. THE CUEEN. The Panics REGorr remained at Kew Police on Monday night till post eleven o'clock, when his Royal Highness left fur London. Sir FRANCES AIRMAN visited lier MAJEATT yes. terday morning shout eight o'clock, alone, Sir HENRY HALIUID not having returned from Wind sor. Sir FRANCIS afterwards drew up a full ac count of the state of the Qtattes's health for the PRINCE REGENT, the Duke of Yoal, and other branches of the Royal Family, and also the follow ing for ptihlic inspection at the Queen's Palace and at Windsor:— " Lew Prism Otto!or 47, IBIS. "The Qneen has had alined night, from which her Ma jesty has derived sodas ease. " F. MILM AN." The QUEEN Was removed from her chamber, and passed a great part of yesterday in the sitting room adjoining. Paris Papers of Saturday last have arrived at Our office. The Moniteur contains a copy of the Convention of Evacuation concluded at - Aix-la- Chapelle, between the Ministers of France and the Allied Powers; but this important document has already appeared in our Paper. The satisfactory state of France is stated in the preamble to this Convention to be the motive for acceding to the desire expressed by her Sovereign; but there are some people who will persist in saying, that the King of FRANCE and the Allied Sovereigns know nothing about the internal state of that coins try. and that by their premature confidence they are again endaugering the tranquillity of Europe. Nothing is easier than to speak of plots and con apiruciel, sod to excite alarm in timid minds by threatening some future danger. which is the more terrible in proportion to the obscurity that seems to envelope it. Trifling events can easily be distorted into indications of a rebellious spirit, and the mere ebullitions of party zeal, however coasisteot with the nature of a free goversiinent, and impliedly sanctioned by the constitution, might be represented as the harbingers of a Mb. pinery revolution. We have extracted front one of the Paris Papers an article on the state of parties in France, which in the present circumstances of that country will be read with interest. It rep►e sents the public mind as divided between the Con stitutionalists, or Government party, comprising the greet majority of the iieopleL-the Ultra- Royalists, whose principles ore represented as nothing more than those of a pure aristocracy, and who affect to admire the Constitution only to cover their attempts at uoderm' ' g it—and the Demo crats, who do not think the Govern..ient sincere in executing the provisions of the Charte►. The Go vernuient thus holds a middle course between the o►her parties, and thereby best proves its own proximity to the more correct line of action. The opposing parties are well balanced, and though in their political squabbles they may evince much vio lence, and perhaps alarm some of the well-meaning tremblers for the " tranquillity of Europe," yet it is impossible, (ruin the nature of their contests and from the happy peciiliality of a representative mo narchical form of government, that they can be at tended %Ali danger. The Kingly power is too strong fur tither, and it exerted with prudence and sigma, can easily control both. The Emperor ALI 'LANDER and the King of Prlt'ssts are exyciAtil to be at Paris to-morrow, to dine with will, it is sleep at Chapelle. The troops was to have taken place of the Prossiewteropt-on *Olll , - regiments ni the line ere eppeineed to succeed the Allies iu Valenciennes and-loille, which, with the, other cautionary towns, will probably be surren dered to the French tielltoritin immediately after the grand reviews. Thi elections still continue, hut the results me sent no circumstance particularly interesting to au English render, if we except the defeat of the Mar cols de Is FATSM in the department of the Sl* and Marne. The ballotting goes on rapidly in several parts of France for completing the army. The men are be e said (of course) to animated with the best spirit. The Five per C to. have fallen. They are 75 F. 25 c. ; Bank St k, 1,655 f. We have have received Aix-la-Chapelle Papers to the 23d instant, at which date the Emperor of AUSTRIA remained in that city. We have also received Brawls Papers to the 251 h, from which the follow. ing are extracts :—. OCTOII2II 24. We have eiready said that the Count de Loben (General Mouton) hail obtained permission to re turn to France. The same foreur Um just been granted to Messrs. Courtin, Forbin Janson, De. ferment, and to General Samarge. SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL. srrrira or NO OCTOILS. The President communicated to the Assembly a Message from his Majesty, with the copy of • Treaty concluded on the 4th of last May with his Britannic Majesty, for the abolition of the African Slave Trade ;*as well ai the project of u law. cnn furmably to the 58th article of the fundamental law, containing legal regulations to insure the foil execution of this Treaty. These two piece* were read. The project contains also several proud en •ctmeots for the repression of this inhuman traffic. Those who from the date of the promulgation of the law should will attempt to carry it on. to be liable for due of 5.000 florins, beoides two years imprison ment. All those who should make ure of menu* become illicit, to encourage this prohibited traffic, to be punished with confinement for six months at the least, and of two years at the most. The Chamber ordered all these pieces to be printed, distributed among the Members, and re ferred to the Sections. AIX-LA-CHATELLIt. OCTOBER His Majesty the Emperor of Austria. who is now the only one of the three Sovereigns here. continues to visit the environs of the city. every where endear ing himself by his affability and condomension t and leAog solvable proofs of his liberality. Madame Cobden?* lest concert, which was ad vertised fur this day, is put off till Thursday, the with. It is said that the Government at Hanover will lay the affair respecting the Students of Gottingen before the Diet at Frankfort, for the purpose of leading to general regulations fur all the German Universities i 0 this particular. Yesterday the Duke of You transacted military business mils the Yttittcr Hunan at Carlton House. The MASTER or the MINT, not content with die. figuring the condemned Crown with the name of PtiTitvcct, at full length on both aides, hod Also contrived to introduce his owu initials, W. W. P., on the buckle of the garter. It will be seen in an advertisement in front of our Paper, that the Napoleon Medals are now on sale in tins city. It is a curious fact, that a series of these medals in brassie, which, in the time of NAPARTZ, ►old for 400 francs, about 181. now sells for g5O guineas, and II series of silver in the same proportion. The value of these medals increases with time, and $ few years more will multiply their price. They will then be found only in the cabi nets of the carious, where they will remain at once the historical records of one of the most extraordi nary and interesting eras of the world, and also as the most beautiful monument. of the state of the arts in the present age. Sir Gums Nl`Gargois sails in a few days fur South America. in the brig Hero. The plan of the triorn_phal arch intended to be erected in honour of The Dike of Winunarou, at the extremity of Waterloo-place, between the bury ing-ground and the gaol, we utiderstand, is given up, and, in its stead, it is proposed to have in elegant equestrian statue of the gallant Duke ou the Ain*. Mit 4f the portion of the Miller's Known which still remains. No pedestal could be better adapt ed to the purpose. The enormous maws of granite, dragged from the deserts of Siberia, in which the statue of PUTER the GREAT is placed iu St. Peters. burgh, is the only monument we can compare with this; and nothing that we are aware of can make a more splendid finish to the grand operations which have been carried on in that quarter.— (Edinburgh Paper.) Mr. RINKIS i the celebrated engineer, has been actively employ ed during the last week in viewing the batiks of the Severn, between the Lower Lode and the Mythe Hill, in order to determine the most eligible spot for erecting the proposed bridge across that river near Tewkesbury. A typhus fever has for some time past made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Pontypool; but we are happy in being assured, that although it has spread considerably, it is by no mesas of a malignant kind, being easily subdued by medicines judiciously administered, and by strict attention to medical advice.—(Gloacester Paper.) •• ~. th the tint Or FAMICIL their Migjeitlill is said leave Paris the Goose evening, sod t ott" Vit 1 1 ~7 q Senlis. whence they will proceed to Aittvhs.' , .... I `'. f— , V J , ,,, 4 4 613 1 74: k ..2 - ......-.7_, 4 c....:.,„ b 0r if e. The review of the English sod Russian to o rt. ••=>1%,11 4ts to have token place on the tScl, and that .1 43 z.v.‹.,-"'fiii r4f -; 4-15 trti PO inn rattles . koontsseD TO Mc Diatom. or *miasma Rua aosoiemitas rroroomarce or *MM. IM VIE " ZVI OP IIMILLII." Welcome, sweet Songstress. to Old England's shore, Cole, come and charm again thy native plains; Upon the ravish'd ear, delighting, pour The melody of tby enchanting strains. The God of Marie oe'er hes ceased to mourn Thy absence from the Muse's sacred bowers; Joy boor his chaplet on Regret's sad urn, And wateit'd in agony the fading flowers. lint thine the trinnspb ! slightest by a few, A few, unskill'd—thy varied worth to price Nom deck'd with wreaths of never-fading hne, Gathered by Fame, beneath Italia's skies. Apollo view'd with joy thy merit's Richt, He saw tby honour, and thy name retrier'd, While in an eestaey of fond delight, Waite , confirmed what Britain long believed. Hail then. sweet Songstress of the ftritish Rapture reseals thee on thy native throne ; Glad Acclamation aspen. thee with her smiles, Aid Harmony still claims thee for her own ! October 14, 1818. CLIO. • Alluding to the election of Mrs. Dirkons, as an Hono rary Member of the Phil.Harmouic Institute, at Venice. DRURY:LANE THEA7'RE. The pleasing comedy of The Poor Centkinan was last night performed. Mr. MUNDCN per rousted the testy but good-natured Sir Robert Bramble. A considerable time has elapsed slime we had the pleasure of seeing him support this cha racter—and while, during his absence, we have witnessed the efforts of many copies, we have only had cause, superadded to came, for lamenting the absence of' the original. Mr. Mem' played, last night. with infinite humour. The argumentative disposition of the worthy Baronet, which tits him for the rank of Senior Wrangler at one of the Uni. varsities, was presented to the audience, in the most amusing shape—and the more serious parts of the character, where the feelings of nature overcome the follies of is vicious education, were very powerfully acted. The part of Frederick was, on the whole, well supported by Mr. STANLIM. He was, how. ever, happier in those parts of the character which approach the seutimentel, than in its more light and lively displays. Mr. HAZLET rendered Cor nett Blies Apothecary (Moped, a most amusing, if not important, persotrige. His anger was truly laughable. it reminded us of the effervescence of a sodaie mixture—hiss. bubble, and, in a moment, subside, Corporal Foss was repre sented by Mr. OXIIIRRY. We never before saw this Gentleman in the character...but we doubt much whether it was ever played better. Stephen ' Harrotcbm was excellently supported by Mr. KNICIIT. Stephen's simplicity of manners—his -mischievous thirst of setilintary glory, which spares neither pigs nor poultry—his honest warmth of heart—and uniform kindness of intention—were united by this popular performer in one fine picture of rustic simplicity and feeling. hatily Worthington fonsad, in Mrs. Kniuirr, an interesting and in• telligeot representative. 'Else bit of ri decayed ' nobility," Miss Lucretia Mac Tab, could not, in the hoods of Mrs, SPARES, fail of creating much amusement. She dres'sed the character uncoininouly well—and gave much effect to all the observations, satirical, abusive. and sometimes adulatory, of this seedy paktum** of poor familite. BRIGHTON, OCTOBER 25. On the departure of the Prince Regent, it was the intesiti 0000 of Lord Lowther to cross the Chast ise! for Dieppe and Paris, and his luggage was sent to tlie Custom-house, to be exisinioed and convey ed thence ass board one of the packets. His Lord. ship, however, changed his intention in the course of the day; his luggage was ordered back, and yesterday, with the Earl of Yarmouth, he de. ported fur town. There has also left us— Sir John Leech. for his town residence; Baron de Thierry. for Chichester; Lady Fraser, for Canterbury; General Fer. mor, fur North Andley-street • Sir W. Heron and Lundy, fur Maidenhead; the Earl and &mien of Jersey. fur Lord G. H Cavendish's, Compton-place; and the Hun. Airs. Carpen ter, for Hastings. The last arrivals are—. Legal tielbssiume, on a Wit to this Earl sad Camden Cowper, Noish Parade; Lord Viaconnt kfulesworsh, she Prince and Princess Laliondraki, Lord and Lady Gale Sir Carol Lady A. Ckadd, Lady J. Ternour, Lady HcashCose, Colestel Warren, Sir A. sad Lady Bryce, Sir W. Pringle, Alderman Goudbehere, Sir G. Brugrave, acc. The Duke of DSVoNsMi RE and the Hum JAMES Assacaomsv. M.P. arrived yrsterd.iy afternoon at Devoissistre House, from his Grace's seat, Chant worth, Derh3•shi►e. Baron HUMBOLDT. the Prussian Amh.rrsador ► leaves town in u few days for the Continent. Viscountess CILEmoMNE left tows' yesterday. fur her seat, CiteNeu Farm. New MILITARY HOSPITAL. —There is now • most magnificent hospital bu►lding in the Regent's Pork, solely intended for soldiers offrettil with tl e ophthalmia, and other s licuuus in the eyes. FIRE.—A tire broke out yesterday afternoon at the house of Mr. SAM). carpenter, Greystoke-place, Fetter-True. The times burst forth with such ve locity that the building soon became a prey to the devouring element. The tire was su rapid that K soon communicated to the back of several houses adjoi tt i o ig, which have nearly suffered • si. toiler devastation. The Rev. Mr. BORDER'S Chit. pet has sodomite' severe damage. The walls only remain where the tire begun. PUBLIC I N STRUCTION. The importance of the System of Public Instruc tion ring forward in France, both to that country, and, p►►haps, to all Europe, may he seen from the following extract of a letter, lately received from " Here (in France) the seed tows by the Zillah and To. reap School Society in 1915, hal produced a moot attion.h -' " • &hundred schools are tiptoed eats, and every week Inertia bat for the facts which aitcA tug with w rapidity the truth t " I ash tided the meeting of the Committee last evening (which tak. s place every fourteen days) with Count La "turtle. Lasteyire, Baron de Gerando, lee. So immerwis an assemblage astonished me—there wire 40 or 50 men of the that talent and zeal, and many others whose eagerness to propagate the system of education, was evinced by their at. lentlance on the occasion; there were thirty or forty letters rehd, which had been received within the last Alm-teen days, all of 'which evinced the rapid progress made, some cull:taw. ins the iufermation that the boys of the city or village who bad formerly attended the schools on the old system, refused any longer to go there fur inettaction, and were pressing I. crowds to the schools of mutual iuetruction. In flue, the spirit which enthiates the souls of these energet ic men, will never relax; the Cosset Lasteyrie was in th e c h a i r , fi ve Secretaries forwarded the business, and the dispatch and pre coking with which the whale was forwarded surprised and delighted me. A bust of the late friend of mankind, the Abbe Gasifier, was voted to be placed iu the Hall of Meet. ine, and cologiums to his virtue are to be delivered and printed." IRELAND. DUBLIN, OCTOBER. itg. CORK THEATRE. (From The Southern Reporter.) Mrs. Spread, 'whose intended debut in this city, as an actress, we had previously announced, ap peared on Saturday night in the characters of Juliana. in 'the Honey Moon, and Priscilla, in 'The Hump. As our wish is neither to wound or offend we shall not eater into minute criticism on these performances ; but if it be the Lady's inteution to follow the one NA a profession, we think she ought to be warned in lime that she has every thing to learn, and much to unlearn, in order to qualify her for that arduous' pursuit. Miss Stepheus's benefit took place lad (Wed nesday) night, and we believe the pressure for admission was as great as on any former °era. sion. The performances were--" Brother mid Sister," " No Song no Sapper." and " rd [age Lawyer," with the other strong inducements of several songs by Miss Stephens and Mr. Flom, It is isuperative on LIN in the name of a great por tion of the •iiiiience, to express the moat unquali fied reprobation of the measure resorted to last (Wednesday) night, of railing in a considerable part of the pit, and attu"iiig it to the boxes, thus curtailing the accommodation of those who are in the habit of frequenting the former. A Court of Naval Inquiry has been held at Holyhead, on the conduct of Captain Davis, of the Countess of Liverpool packet, which vessel. on the 18th August last. struck tl:e ground on her coming into the harbour of Howth, with the mail and passengers on board. The Court, we hear. broke up on Monday, and honourably acquitted Captain Davis. The written deposition of the Irish Lord Chancellor, who was on board the packet at the time she struck, was read to the Court. LONDONDERRY, OCTOBER '2O. The heavy rain which fill on 'Fundsy morning last, swelled the rivers to such a degree, es to carry away several bridges in this tivighbourhood; the bridge of Carrowketl, from which nine young men and women were viewing ihe exertions of a duck which had been carried down the river by the flood, gave way, and they all fell into the Libra of the deep, and but three of them were rescued from a watery grave. A letter f ro m Larne, dated Friday last, states, that, •6 The Norr, Statecial, from Belfast for Oran. them). with tobacco, sugar, gluts. brickr,llcc. after having landed the tobacco, was captured in Bally galley bay. on Friday. by a few of the Larne re venue officers, and that the tobacco was afterwards found concealed by some of the Larne officers, as. stated by a detachment from leis Majesty's cruner Townshend, Captain Stewart. CLONMEL, OCTOISER 41. On Friday lost six boys got intro it tot, without either oars or paddle, near May between Car rick and Waterford ; and basing beets drifted off from shore in a brisk gale, the boat soon Ingin to fill, when ous of the lads leaped out and swam to shore ; four more attempted to follow his example, but were unfortunately drowned. A child, of shout seven years of age, remained in the boat till it drifted to laud, and was !nippily saved. Yesterday, au a gentleman end his Dermal had just alighted from • siogle hone chaise, is Remit Mews, Rumelhsonare, and had only left it about three minutes, in the short space of which the servant was preparing to take the animal out of the vehicle, when the Vowed on which it and the chides stood, suddenly gave way, and the bum and car riage immediately fell in nearly the depth of four yank. The circumstance created considerable consternation, and no doubt was etitertaiutd but that both were daslieJ to pieces; but notwithstanding the depth and ighe slate in which the poor horse with the linnets were stioodrd, instatit assihtanec being obtained, both, after a short lane, acre taken out, without being in the least iojoeed; sod on exausiuiug the place, it was found the grated which bad fallen in was au arch, belongiug to an old cellar, net !Afore pertrf• tihte or known of. 'The interesting battle between Eaki and Isle of IVight tide , will take place to-morrow, for Wit guineas, in a tt4 feet ring, 40 milts from Low.loll. They are decidedly the two best stieuceJ into of the day. Bening six to four on Hall. INCAUTIOUS SUOOTIN G.—Yesterday mt ruing as WYATT and AUDLEY, constables. were pa•wug along the road, near Smith's Fields, Battle-bridge, several shot struck WYATT about the head. slid it turned out to be from the gun of* young Gentle. man named WI tmor, who was shouting spJ,roio. He was taken into custody fur the assault. SMOCKING ACCIDENT.—A child, eleven months old, was drowned in the fiat of a butter-firkiii, mo isining only a kw iucheq of water, on Mousidy. 1 ,1 Colonel-buildings. The vareuts had put the child out of bed early in the morning to play shoat the room. and they were asleep when the sccidevt happened. ^