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~, .~ ~~ I 1 114 . , ) first question bh would ask was, whether any answer to a despatch Cited the 311th of January, had been received from Madrid ? The second question he had to ask of the Right Honourable gentleman, was, whether his Majesty's Ministers were in possession of an au thentic, or even an aocurate copy, of the Decree of Ferdinand Vil. regulatepprrooppoosnoieg to edbad long 2 . 1 . 12 e a : ob i ni g d i n a El intercourse ao r ee of h t t fiLA th m a ytiycaon tCofonle, . which f the mother country. The third question he would pat, was, whey mess there was any. copy of a treaty,between Greit Britain and Spain, in 1810, to British subjects a free trade with South Americo c He new t was a treaty in 1809, but that was not she one to which he alluded. If 't had not been published, it was a document of great im_portanee, and ought to he produced. Mr. Secretary CANNING, !n repty, mid that be would answer the questions or his Hon. and Learned Friend in the inverse order to that which he had put them. There was no such treaty in ea istexce as that alluded to by toe lion. and Learned Gentleman in 11119. When It was propoaed to England to mediate between Spain atid.her Colonies, in consequence of an understanding between both Governments' the Coasting Laws were suspended in favour of this country. On that point, therefore, any motion was unneces. Gary, as ne document was in existence. With regard to the decree alluded to by his Hon. and Learned Friend, he could not tell whe thertt bad been communicated to this Government in such a shape as sts be a document in their possession ; he rather believed not ; but Hit was, there was no objection to its production. With re bard to the third question, according to the order which he had taken, he hod no objecunts to inform his Hon. and Learned Friend that an acknowledgment of the receipt of the document re ferred to had arrived, but it would not be courteous to the Court of Madrid to communicate its contents to that House until it reachisi Government in an official shape, because it might be known to the Spanish Government by the public prints, that the document had been presented to the 'louse before it had reached Minis. leis in the regular course of official proceeding. The object of laying the papers on the table was to shcw the (louse the pi in. ctpks on which his Majesty's servants had acted. If the conduct they had roamed, and the principles they mc-nt to act upon, were approved of by the House, end the communirations they nod made entitled them to the confidence of the country, he should consider that be was only doing his duty in resisting any attempt at extort ing information that was inconsistent with the public service. But It was certainly open to his lion. and Learned Friend to make any motion on the subject that he might deem proper. • Sir J. MACKINTOSH said, that nothing he had heard from the Bleu Hon. Gentleman induced hint to forego his original in. matzos.. GAOL BILL. ~~~ ~' ,~ . ~ ~_ F ~' # I, 1,1/ i ~ ~ ~~ I L' On the motion for the second reading of the Gaol Bill, • Mr. G. RENNET expressed his hopes that reorictions would be out on the powers of Magistrates in the use of the tread-mill. Those of Northallerion compered every person to work at the tread-mill, which he thought most unjust and criaeL Were there not other modes of hard labour that might be beneficially employed iosa-de less hardened offenders? When the Bill came into the Co: ttttt atter, he should feel it his duty to propose a clatter by which no person before conviction should be allowed, even by his own consent, to go to hard labour. His reason for not al:owing a prisoner to have the option of consenting to it was, because he knew, by solitary confinement or want of food, these Anitteur Magistrates would compel prisoners to go to the triad-mill, as a relief from what they might at the moment censitler a worse punishmeur. Ile was a friend to the tread-mill. but lie had always considered it a punishment that ought to be re served tin convictim. Transportation was looked upon rather as a ras our than a punishment, and therefore the tread-mill, if properly applied, would be a most salutary punishment, and do much to check crime. The Government thought with the people on this question, and he hoped on that account to have a clause to the elect he proposed. Ile had seen a groat many tread-mills at work, end lie had had a coeversation with a person who had seen them :.11, ard the alarming circumstance connected with that punishment if rot under due regulation, wag, that it was not the 3lagistrates who inflicted the punishment, it was not even the mechanics who made the machines, but the person who fed the mill could either make the labour light or severe, and it was at his mercy tie mesa • •re were left. In some piacos it was Mt or 70 per cent. rest• time in others, and in many Instances the greater labour was la:u on those least fed. The House must do one of two things— thee must either consider the whole question, or fix a maximum of laboer, and allow no Magisteste to go beyond it. The Hon. Alem. her entered into a variety of calculations to spew the exertion that was necessary to work at the tread-mill, and how much more se vere time labour was in some mills than in others. Twelve thousand tech accoreing to the calculations of Mr. Higgins, the gaoler of Lincaster, was the maximum of labour that might to be borne. Ile (31r. Bennet) said it was hit intention to propose a maximum or 10,00 d feet for men, and 8,000 feet ter women, and that in win ter two-thirds of the prisoners should work at out time, and in sum mer three-fourths. Front the liberal system pursued by the Right Honourable Gentleman, he looked with confidence to his not coffering the Bill to pass in its present form.- 31r. PEEL said, that in referring to the topics touched on by the lion. Member for Shrewsbury, he would endeavour to be as concise es possible, and with regard to the first point he thought they were both agreed, for he conceded that it was improper, and efentrary to the provision of the Act of Parliament, that untried prisoners should be put to the tread-wheel. In one instance, it c vainly appeared that a prisoner, who before conviction was or dered to the wheel, and having refused, was told that if be did not walk he should be allowed nothing but the strict prison fare, viz.—bread and water. This he thought was equal to compulsion. NOW the Act allowed prisoners before trial, if theychose to be so employed; to work at the wheel ; bus this was contrary to another d a most excellent clause of the Act, which prohibited the clew • leg of untried prisoners with those who had been coneicted. The remedy diet he should propose for this grievance was, to prevent their work:ne on the tread-wheel, before trial, under any circum semees, whether with or without their consent. It certainly was • 717 t before competent to Magistrates to put untried prisoners to the wheel; but if threats similar to what he had alluded to, were n.ade use of, the Art is rendered nugatory; and he therefore was of opinion, that the method he now proposed was as effectual • any that could be devised. lie likewise considered, that neither harshness nor severity should be ahewn to prisoners before trial, as they were not there on account of their guilt, which had ;not been yet ascertained, but for the purpose of seaarity, that they might be fonhcoming to stand their trial : and they therefore ought to be treated with as much indulgence as was consistent with that severity. He also considered that it lessened 'die stigma of the punishment to put the innocent and the guilt indiscriminately on the name work, The second point to which the Honourable Member had adverted was the different degree of labour to which convicted persons should be liable. He thought it would be difficult to fit a maximum of labour; and he did not ex . actly agree to the theoretical calculation that the Honourable Gen ' denim had tletlarted, that 12,000 steps, or 1.000 yards, or 24 miles , perpendicular, were equal to a progressive walk of 37 mike : he thought the calculation falls/isms : in the lint place, the ascent was no: perpendicular; sachet there was not the fatigue of dragging the body up the step. Bat he would much rather that the Hou. ;Member ter Shrewsbury had adduced some instance wherein it would appear that this labour was prejudicial to the health of them saapleyed an it : he would prefer such an illustration of its was eiiiefs. to any far-fetched or overstrained calculation. Ile had Amena it stated that there were a set of prison -fancies, whose occu petite: it was to go about inspect the prisons, and see that their harem.. were as comfortable as crcumstatices would admit of. He wuglad to hear it, ashe was convimed the greatest good must result from it. Ati Honourable Baronet, lately a 31eather of that House (Sir J.C. Ilippeley) wits an ene.ny to tie: tread-wheel, and had dis -403w/red. as he supposed, great objections to it, and proposed sub atituting the crank-wheel ; but he did not think that at would be Leif en etlecutel as that now used : he therefore implored Honour. able Geatlemen not to lessen the effect of this punishment unless they could devise a better measure for the prevention of crime. The method lemeased by the Honourable Member. of a maximum of labour, he thought an injudicious one, as it would leave the Magis trate nu discretion in allotting it. The last objection which the Honourable Member took was to the small jurisdiction, and seem ed Wish that all peeseeers sheald ha sent to die County Gaol ; now he only wished that the Honourable Member would sonsider the meet:it:is of such a plan, accompanied as it must be by the .prisoner 'akin two painful journeys, perhaps in irons, under all the circienstauces of publicity and ;consequent disgrace; he must say that he thought local jurisdiction far preferable with respect to maniees, which was die only point left for him now to observe on, and he should wish that some regulative' might be made ; there was, in all prisons. aof 'thud ward, but, as the law now mood, th was ao place f i r them. The onourable 31euther begged, in tssncl msio,n, to renterk, that as this was only the second reading of the Bill, the Mujectior.s to it might be urged in the Committee, wiwre they wieria he better discusses!, but it should be understood th it die Act wee intended to refer only to County Gaols. Sir T. It ENG said, that he had great objection., to the use of the tread will, as he knew an instance of an athletic man bre og been put on it, and when he had worked at it few ten minutes he quitted it in u state of peepiration and coninlete exhaustion, isiet•if such was :Mew' to be the fact he contended that it was tw ee.e sad not punishment, besides which it was in evidence that premiere were more liable to colds and rheum: them since the adop. tine i.f this mode of employing them. Agein, it was not equalie e-e. immovnient ; for suppose two persons were put to the wheel, u.ee :a.' emelt had been inured to hard labour and the other not, it trerl to reason diet it would act meter harder on the one than en the °e'er ; and lie w could this be called proportioning punishaient ? lie would also instance the ea:• aif a woman of the ileme se :meg who had been put to this herd labour immediately afar tier delivery of a child, and she was taken front it in such a state of! os to %mace ber confinement necessary Inc fifteen days. sher settee she Vial. again put :au. 'rime lion. Member then read Isom the Peport the eircumataacee attendant on the wonian's caste. Mr. Pail, rose to explain that it had he ; :n suggested to hint by Le Doe. treed, die 31ember for Exeter, that before conviction etemsele for maniacs but the gaol. After convio. he sent to any Lunatic Asylutn. I; SU3INER observed, that the lion. Bart. (Sir only read a part of the Report that related to the mit. of Loader being put to wen t t the wheel. It ic he hut favoured them with the whole history oesrod that she went to the tread-wheel at her own tg it to solitary confinement. She sas nut at it more than halt' an hour ; and in the second, for Inwee. So far from its being detrimental to her red, that on the 31st October she weighed Ost. 21b , fain weighed on the 13th December, afar having of November at work on the wheel, when she was Mod 91b. He begged that the floe. Member fur .:a wait a little before he legislated oa the subject, present system operated. :tN observed, that punishment would fail in its not accompanied by degradation. :ENAV was of opinion that considerable difficulty in a necessity of every jurisdiction au a county to I to a County Gaol: AaarvED—l Gottertburgh. 1/1•E-1 I,i‘hon, 1 IlaniV,7h, 1 French, IHand, and l liii:dcr). 111401 , 14 s...•na. th-re ram rn rria tide they might I f t !Fir. 1101.111, T. flaring) had t female of the nap e :Oa be but I..it nt. as it awe r. ie4, prnferrie dr t.rat.twrie Ex uhly td.tien tom health, it rppeari and ).e wee ag. Leco tie whole Imsutl to have Rat 04.. - ewaharr and see hoer the r Ur. WESTEI alma if it were a Ile. Cl/01(TE vreald arise from sead criiaineda to Mr. Alderman wton defended tpe principle of the treed-mM, but thought the Secretary of State alight not to allow wawa to la bour there. The Bill was then read a second time. CATHOLIC BUR' ALS. Mr. WYNN gave notice, on the part of Mr. Phirkett, that the Catholic Burial Bill would be !nought forwent on Monday Deft. THE MUTINY BILL. On the motion that the House resolve itself into a Committee on the Mutiny Bill, Mr. HUM ruse: he referred to a former circumstance Mohr:: to the power by which his Blajesty could deprive an officer of his com mission without a court menial, and said that • Noble Lord I Pal. mermen) on that occasion used more wit th..a argument. Ilia (Mr. Hunte's chief object now was, to oppose the Bill, which rendered 73.1.1110 of our fellow_subjects 'table to corporal punishment. He re ferred to the circular issued by Lind Bathurst to the colonies, in which he called upon them to abolish flogging, and asked, why the same principle did not actuate his Majesty's Ministers towards the army and navy of this country ?—why they had extended justice and mercy in the one instance, and withheld it in the other ? Ile argued that in no army of the continent was the cruel system pus. sued, that it was not necessary to military discipline, and that the most bene fi cial results would follow its aholitiou. lie 'tad been informed that in a very public part of the town the inhebitants were in a continual state of alarm in consequence of the frequent beat of the drum accompanying the flogging of the soldiers, and if no pity ware shewn towards the individuals, he thought it should be to those who were subject to witness such disgraceful scenes. He (Mr. Hume) had been for five years with the army of the East India Company. and, during that periul, never saw but one man flogged out of 10.000 me' . It was a very difibreut ease with the British army in India, where scarcely a week elapsed but fire or six persons were thus punished in every regiment. He would al lude to another circumstance, which tended to degrade the officers, as flogging did the men—Every officer was obliged, en purchasing his commission, to declare, upon his honour, that he gave no more than a certain sum for his commission, when every body well knew that such a statement was untrue. He trusted, therehire, that the Bill now pending would be printed, and that such absurdities as those he had mentioned would be struck out of it ; lie hoped that his Majesty's Ministers would, at least, adopt some other system ' than that of flogging, for a veer, and see what effects it would pro duce. Ile understood that it had been abolished with success in one regiment—the Blues ; and why not in all ? There was another circumstance to which he would allude : in some regiments the men were placed in solitary confinement, and their pay stop ped during the period, which was put by the oliicers into their pockets. (Cries of No, no.) He understood so t but he should be glad to find it was not the case. He should, therenwe, under all these circumstances move, dun instructions be given to the Coin mittec to abolish corporal punishment in the army. Sir HENRI' Ilita DING, on the part of the officers of the Guards, who hail been aliutla: .o, declared no such circumstance had ever occurred • and that the neighbourhood of the barracks could not hare b een alarmed, because only one man had been flogged there during the la.; !9 months. Mr. tll'3lE stated that the feelings of the neighbours were hur ried as much as if there were. Sir It. %FILSON had always regarded enrpond punlsinnent in the British Army as the Ereatast of all evils. It was 1111)M strous that in this country, the freest and nosy enlightened in the world, mum shwild be brought into an honourabl_• profession and be subjected to the Loth. Such was not the C.LSC in any of the other annies of klurope —nut even a nong the Prussians, where melt could be hardly called men. Vet the Duke of York himself could ! not get rid of the system, because if any evils toll 'wed it, all the blame would be thrown by the officers on hint. Nothing but a law could effect the desirable end. At the Old Palley men were whipt only till the blood came, bin in the army they were t?ygged until a surgeon declared there was danger of destroying life. fie hoped the House would try the experiment of abolishing the degrading and disgraceful system. Ile would therefore second the maiion of his Hon. Friend, Mr. Hume. As to the other subject alluded to, he knew it was as clear as the sun at noon day, that in the pur chase of commissions, the buyer, the seller, and the Duke of 1 ork• himself, were all aware that a much greater sum than the regula tion price was paid. Col. WOOL) was of opinion that proper discipline could not be kept up in the army without corporal punishment. He was quite sure, that if the Hon. Member for Westminster, who first brought the subject before the House, now saw it in the same light, he would have been in his place in the House. There was consi derable difference between the principle of flogging blacks in the West Indies and soldiers in the army ; soldiers could not be pu nished without being first tried by a coutt-martiid. 31r. JOHN SMtTII opposed the system of flogging, on the ground that it was impolitic to torture men in the body for any crane. The effects of such punishments were always to excite sympathy among the spectators who witnessed them. Solitary con finement was a much better plan. The exertions of Mrs. Fry had made humble, contrite, and comparatively satisfied lOU prisoners within the wall• of Newgate. Mr. MONCK supported the motion for the abolition of flogging. His opinion wss, that in the British army there were too icw in citements to exertion. The motion that the Chairman do leave the Chair was then put and agreed to. Lord PA L3IERSTON observed, that the remarks of en Ron. Member oppusite (Mr. Hume) respecting the power of his Ma jesty to dismiss officers had been fully replied to at a former period. The same Hon. Member had forgotten, in his comparison of the soldier and the slave, that no soldier could he punished without a court-martial. With respect to his objection ready, to the pur chase of commissions, he (Lord Palmerston) was not aware that a greater sum than the regulation was given. On the subject of dis allowing pay to men in confinement, he would remark that it would not be punishing at all to show a man to receive a large sum on be coming free, nor, on the other hand, to permit bins to live as well as when doir.g duty with his re:di - Tient. It had always been the custom in Large armies to introduce corporal punishment; and where this was not used, punishments more severe were inflicted. He ar. rued in favour of the continuation of this punishment, as bring more mild and effe...tual in its nature than those methods of up,. holding discipline in foreign countries. He said that every dispo sition was felt on the part of authority to cheek any abuse of this necessary power. Ile considered that the Government of the army was vested in the Crown, and that it was in some measure taking back the power vested in the Crown, and in some sort an abuse of their constitutional limit, to attempt to interfere by a sr:eeping enactment of this nature. Mr. W. SMITH thought the argument of the Noble Lord the most extraordinary he ever heard. He contended that it was the right, as it was the duty of that !louse, to interfere in the manner DOW Irl e ft then proposed a clause for abolishing the punish ment of flogging in the army, on which the Committee divided. I'or the Clause . 24 1 Against it . The other Clauses went through the Committee, and the Report was ordered to be brought up on Wednesday next. MR. SMITH, MISSIONARY. Mr. BROUGHAM moved, that Copies of the Minutes of the Trial of John Smith, the Missionary at Detnerara, be laid before the I I °use —Ordered. The Annual Indemnity Bill w RA read a third time and passed. ANNUAL SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. BUSKIS;46. on thr irartOr the Chanttllor of the Ex.. chequer, gave notice, that on Monday next these ditties would be taken into their consideratinn. at as early an hour as possible. INSOLVENT DEBTO RS. The ATTORNEY-111;Nk:itALT4obtaiirerliCarc to bring in a Dill to amend the Insolvent Debtors' Laws, and brought it in ac cordingly. 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NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening. SATURDAY, March he performed THE MERRY AVIVEs OF %ViSTlsOlt. Fenton, Mr. Ilnaharni Sir John Fuktstr, NI:. IN. wit. Mrs. Ford, Mi.. Stephens I Mrs. Pn4e. StadAme emits. After which, THE. CATARACT OF THE GANGES. On Monday, The Merry Wives of Windsor; with Tekeil. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, sATtun IV, March a, 11 ill be performed NATIVE CAM. Primly& Charneters by Messrs. snirlair, W. Fajen. Cooper, and raw. eettt alissesi Paton. Love, and M. Tree. After weicit THE s or, - . 4 ete Meats. To conclude with SI %IrrON AND CO. On Monday, Hanilet:- with %Into, ADELPHI 7'111:ATIIE, STRAND. This Eveuing, S‘TURDAY. %birch A. will he performed WM/Sir:GE: , IN WAPPING. After WnWi, JEMMY OF AIiEIIDEEN. To whwlt will lie ndd,d, NO DINNEIt VET. RI diirtletilur desire. TIIE PANORANI 110,111ARDNIENT OF ALGIERS. To eioieloue THEATRE RoYAL, ENGLISH OPERA liOrsE. on Wednerdai A and ; , riditya In Lent. LECTURE on ASTRONOMY and the I.IIF:NOMENA of the ilLAbk:Ns and of the EARTH. The Second Lecture to he debt erod Mr. Bartley on Wednesday uext. lirgilla a 4 StbVert ; moue:wimp Mt TREAT RE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. rCRIIIII Ilo,f OF Tar t a rn I . II.t‘ITSVII.A:II. Mr. THELW. 1.1. will delver, nil ilia ‘ledne•agy and Friday Erelll . l4ll Of the pregeut Lent, A COURSE of i rit ATolth • U. and LECTI 111,S on r.11.1104?1:1116, said on DRAMATie I'oMPOSITIoN and RLPItESENTATION In general; including one. mad veredoti. un the reiroapeetive and presient . Card of the State: Uri. ti e t A g,g on the Perriirmera w ho ha..? *untanned the principal character* of snaLop.iare, from the days of Gar rick to the pre.ient time; and un the au. peejetenir Authors who ineig given :heir Wrte e a 11r1,11Stle form, or filruli.iied the in:aerials re.ient Dranias bud Melo-Drama,. Toe Li...ettires will he precede-I hq neneeellieneeetne 11.eiteiteee.14.Sereerene ur toeing. The te•erree will e•osts nt or Tell Lentl , : . P.. :uad.w nil eoranienze on We 4110.4 Itt) ova, the loth tit Soloierithoisia fir the Connie: Pit. 11. 4t. Tickets I A:I lie rah:, Single Atilt& ,elepelli T.. 116WeS. a• 4 FlTpt 011iy, oc usur 1. Tu begin it Seth,eriptieeie Tee':ene tee bin ivai of Mr. Bond -street; Mr. Sonic, ; Mr Hidgwa,, Pieeatlilly Mr. klithlwyn, Newitare..treet ; Meso ihe.edery rod Kerby, ''lit Mr. neynoldb, Oxford-14feet ; ;40, iltraitii; at Ili., le . il Collet Guide Oilier, 1, Leicester square; of the Lecturer, North Wigton Cothige, where Pr., ate 041 oeithrie to he given, in viviea or impediment, and in the Ekon:tag. or the Pulpit. liar, atui Senate. The BatTlan PnEa3 commenced putdiohing yesterday morzdag nt tire o'clock. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1824. We are happy to ace that the Irish Government has superseded the necessity of Sir John Newport's motion respecting the rights of burial by the Catholics in Ireland ; and that Mr. Plunkett, the Irish Attorney-General, on Thursday night, stated /is intention to introduce a Bill, which would meet the views of the Catholics and their friends. The Right Honourable Genrleman stated his in tention to move for the repeal of the Act of the 9th of William, which precludes the Catholic people of Ireland from rendering the last religious rights to the departed, or , their clergy performing the funeral service within Pro testant church-yards. This question, within the last veer, has created alarming discontents in Ireland,—it has called up the bitterest feelings. The rights of sepulture arc ge nerally respected among all nations, and by no people more strongly than by the warm-hearted Irish. The recent inter ruptions given to their clergy, when offiring up the prayer for mercy over the grave of the departed, were at once un charitable, nnehristian, and unholy. The Act of William WAX one of those proscriptive statutes, enacted in defiance of the Treaty of Limerick, and in violation of all faith. The Legislature of that aa y , sought to heap proscription and degradation on the Irmo Catholics, In every possible way : not satisfied with depriving them of all rights of property, and all civil possessions, they endeavoured to exclude them from even the peaceful refuge of the grave. We could cite one or two most unjustiiiable instances of the uncharitable interference of the Protestant clergy, oc curring some time since, in the south of Ireland. In I one instance, we remember the present Roman Catholic Dean of Cork, Dr. Collins, a most exemplary cler gyman, in the church-yard of St. Finbar's, that city, was rudely interrupted during the. funeral service by the then dean of the diocese, or by his orders. Dr. Magee has since risen, through the patronage of Mr. Plunkett, to the arcbi-episcopal mitre of Dublin, and has exhibited since his elevation more than the supercilious pride of the haughty Beckett. The Catholics, since his rise, have had to com plain of the deepest insults, received over the graves of their friends. Dr. Mageea advocates have denied that they occurred with his sanction ; but would his name have been used unless he authorised it? Would any Rector or Curate within the proud Prelate's archdiocese, have dared to offer these insulting interruptions to the funeral ceremonies of respectable Catholics, unless they hail the mandate of the Archbishop to support them in the un christian deed? It is nonsense to argue that they would; and Dr. Magee, or his agents, only repeated, •in Kevin's church-yard, in Dublin, to Mr. D'Arcy, the insult previously offered to Dr. Collins in Cork. That all this was most foreign to the feelings of the illustrious nobleman at the head of the government of Ireland, and equally repugnant to the sentimerts of Mt. Plunket, we never could have doubted ; and we have now the best I • proof: both have taken the earliest opportueidpito come I forward, and by a legislative enactment prevent the repe-, tition of these unhallowed outrages; and it is to their I high honour (however imperative the act of justice), that I they have done so. In fact, the policy of Marquie Wellesley, since he was deputed to his high but diffi cult office, has been to conciliate all parties, and to remedy all real evils that it lay within his power to amend. Let bigots on both sides, Orange and Catholic, declaim as they may : his secession from the Government of -Ireland would : be the greatest misfortune that country could now exrc rience. There has hose DA Viceroy MP popular or conci liating since the recall 'of the venerable Lord Fitzwilliam and toe %Ike sir ITedfore: - Let us contrast Lord Welles ley's Government with the administration of those thst preceded him—with that of the Duke of Itlehenond, for' instance, or with that part of Lord Talbot's adminis tration when Mr. Grant was absent from office. Let the acts and policy of bolt be compared, and the verdict of public opinion be returned on a calm review: what a refutation would Lord Weileiley's acts then present, of the calumnies eternally thrown out fet:hist ' hint ! V* ho can deny that justice is now meet imp ir dolly administered in that country? Can air' man of any religion complain of the prejudices cr partiality of the Bench? Has nor the Mae:stracy been purged, and all their tees watched with a jealous eye ? A vigilant necessary to check crime and arrest the perpetrators, exist.; all through the South. It' a remnant of that foul penal code which proecribed the Irish and pis; aced the Stitute • fleck of bolt countries still exists, its eleuses are scarcely fait in the mildness of the governineet. Lord Welleeley, as we have Olen aai.l befere, does not form the Legisia- lure ; he =not repeal existing laws ; he can neitli r cutlet , not-alter: his is only an administeative poN els And where is' the iiiii•artiel or honest man that can say he has a1m5...1, for • one moment, the sacred trust coiniuittc d to his hands? Ws re he recalled to-morrow, and a successor appointed, elthrr through the cabals of a party here, or the vituperation of ad- verse factious at the other side, his loss would soon he deeply felt eed regretted ; the peaceful days of I ie mild and tolerant administration would be recalled with poignant 50100 W ; a few bigots of either party might exult in the calamity, but the great majority Uf all that is reFketable and well disposed in Irelaud, would behold his departtire from their shores with deep end uniningled reset. His' period of office has yet been hut slier:; but were it to close to-morrow, it would be long remembered in the altered policy it has brought with it, and the important benefits it has even new conferred on Ireland. The Court of Common Council yesterday unanimously agreed to petition Parliament for the repeal of the house and window duties. This is another proof of the strong 6,41 ng which exists throughout the country against these obnoxious taxes ; and we have no doubt that, before the close of the present Session, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer will give the same attention to public opinion which has hitherto distinguished his ministry, and repeal a tax which is certainly more generally and directly felt than any ether. _ . The King is expected in town next week, to hold a Coancil, at which the Recorder will present his report to his Majesty. Their Royal Ilighnee.,es the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester attentkd ,iivine service. at the Rev. Mr. Irving's Owe', Hatton-garden, on Sunday morning last. MARQUIS WELLESLEV.—We think it necessary to state, that the rumoun propagated by two of the factious prints of this city, with :mad to the intrndrd removal of his Ex cellency from the Viceroyalty of this country, are utterl7 l ilestibdte r./'truth. As to the other fabrications of these notorious and shameless journals, they are equally un worthy of ctedence. The Attorney-General has proceeded to attend his parliamentary duties. Mr. Johnstone holds an official situation in London, which sufficiently accounts for his departure.—DuMin The following bulletin was lamed yesterday at the Duke of Portland's, in S:. James's-square:— " The Marquis of Titchtield still continuos in &dangerous state." In the course of Ft Way night, the 27th ult. M. do Cam baceres had an attack of apepli.xy. There is little hope of his recovery.—Emile. We have great pleasure in stating, that the measure of concerting the Four per Cants. into a Three and a gait* per Cent. Stork, has ken so well received by the holders, that assents to a large amount have been already intimated at the Bank of England. Mr. Samuel Gurney, the banker, of Norwich,exchanges nearly 400,0001., and Mr Rothschild 360,0001.—5/dr. We learn that one of the capitalists in the city. on Thurs•lay signified his assent at the Bank, to the reduction of four per cent. stock, to stock bearing 34 per cent, inte rest, to the amount of 390,0001. A meeting was yesterday afternoon held at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of raising a fund for the Relief of the Distressed Settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, Alderman Thompson, in the Chair. After some preliminary business. a Committee was appointed, and several Resolu tions wt re passed, which were ordered to be made public. A communication from Earl Bathurst was read to the Meeting, stating his Lordship's readiness to aid the good work which the Meeting had in contemplation. His Lord ship also enclosed a liberal donation. On Wednesday last Wm. Manley, Esq. Barrister-at. law, was elected Recorder of the Borough of Wallingford, in the county of Wrks. A private letter from Buenos Ayres, dated the 29th of November, states that the Indians in great force, were menacing that place, which had excited general consterna tion, as they could only muster about 2,000 or 2,500 troops, which would not be sufficient successfully to resist them. Trade Was, in consequence, entirely at a stand. DEATH OF MR. hoWDICH, THE AFRICAN TRAVEL LEY.—It is with feelinTi of the deepest that we have to an nounce the death of tins enterprising trav r = lie had been em ployed in surveying the river Gambia, and after exposing himself to the heat of the sit:: during the d s sy, he became excessively chilled by the land breezes in the evening, whilst making astronomical observations, and caught the fever of the country. His youth and temperate habits were so much in his favour, that he revived two or three times in a surprising manner; but his extreme impatience under :he intemtption of his pursuits constantly threw him back again, and lie expired. after great sefferings, on the 10th of Ja nuary, a victim to the cause of African discovery. His widow and three young children are left entirely unprovided for; she accompa. , need him to .Ifriza, and entered with the utmost zeal and enthusiasm into all his views and pursuits, which she was eminently . qualified to promote by in•r fine talents as an anise, and her extensive know. ledge of several branches of natural history. Mr. Howdich was well knows to the public by his interesting account of the Mission to Ashantee, and by sesetal other publications: he had devoted himself, during the interval between his two journeys to Africa, to a most laborious course of preparatory studies in natural history, gmlogy, and astronomy : and few travellers in modem times have left their country equally qualified with himself, to make observe lions of such extent and accuracy, and consequently so important fur the interests of science.—Cantbridge Chronicle. . . MU HD E I.—At the High Court - of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on the Ist instant, Robert Macleod, alias John APhrtyre, with three others/Lars, was arraigned on the chargeof murdering a poor woman, who went by she none of Elizabeth Money, or soma other name to the nro.ecutor unknown. The prisoner represented him self, in his declarations, to be a journeyman coppersmith, to have learned his tribe in Ireland, and to have since gained his livelihood as a travelling tinker, in which capacity he had, fora number of years, been in the habit of visiting the principal counties of Scot land, England, and Wales. The deceased was a poor woman, aged about 31, who travelled the country with a bast e et i O r f tea-cemtusters, and small articled of hardware. So far as we gathered from the evidence, it appears that she had, for several days prier to her death, travelled in company with the prisoner, and according to the prisoner's own declarations, had during that dine passed for his wife. On account of the atrocity of the case it was certified to the High Court. It appear e d from the evidence that, whilst journey ing with the womac, he barbarously murdered her with a small anvil. Ifo reasan was assigned for the commission of the bloody deed. The prisoner, in one of his declarations, stated that the de. ceased and he had gone up the Firmonth in company with some smugglers, who had given them whiskey, and that the woman bad become so much intoxicated that he could not get her on, and he had been obliged to leave her behind him. The Jun', after a very few minutes' conference, returned an unanimous verdict of Guilty. When the verdict was recorded, the prisoner addressed the Court, and said that he should die innocent of the murder, and that the witnesses had perjured themselves. The Court awarded the last punishment of the law against the prisoner ; and after a suitable address from the Lord Justice Clerk, he ass sentenced to be ere cuted in that 64 on Wednesday, the ' Uth of April next. The pri suncr heard his sentence unmoved. THE ARMY. Major-General S:r George Murray, G.C.B. and (I.e.'', l• ap pointed Lieutenant-General o( the Ordnance. _ The abme appointment will appear in the Gazette of this • • - • • --••• • • The Governorship of the Royal 3lilitary College haa, in cone. quence of the appointment aforesaid, become vacant. The 6. - eh (2d York North Riding) regiment of foot, marched in two divisions, viz. on the 16th and 17th ult., from Edinburgh to l'aisley. A detachment belonging to the 65th regiment marched on Thurs day from the lieeruiiihg Department, 11 estminster, for Paisley. l'he 61th regiment of infantry marched in two divisions, viz. on the 20th and 21st ult. front Glasgow to Edinburgh. The last company of the 76th regiment of toot has arrived on board the Prince of Orange trans,purt, lit Portsmouth, from Gib raltar. Major-Gencral Sir Patrick Ross is appointed to the Stalfof the lonian States, in the room of Lieutenant-tienoral Sir Frederick Adam, now Lord lEgh Cotnmissioncr. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Earl Whitworth and the Ducl= --- ms of Dorset entertained his Ex cellenFy Baron Pagel and a distinguished party stdioner yesterday, at their housein Orosvegw-square. The Archbishop of York entertained the Directors of the Ancient Music, the Marquis of Lamulown, and a large party at dinner on Thursday, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Count Liercn will give a grand dinner on Monday to the Duke of Yoh It and a large party of distinguished personages, at Ashburn hAm House. Emily Marchioness of isnntlanderry will have two grand dinner parties on the II th and 12th instant, at her house in St. Jamess. square. Mr. Seeresry Peel will have a grand dinner party this day, and another to-morrow, at his house in Great Stanhope-strcet. The Duke and I)uchess of Leeds and family are expected on Wednesday next, at their new residcneeiu Lruton.street, Berkeley square, from ltrighton. The Alarquis of Exeter left Thomas's lintel, Berkeley-square, yesterday, for his scat, Iturleigh, Lincolnshire. q•uis and Marchioness of Salisbury, have left town, for ssat. The }:all of Kilmouth has left town for his seat, Tregothan, Corn wall. Sir lreogion, 'tart., has mired in Scath Audley-street, from his scat in Su -sex. Sir John m:.l I,a!y Stanley and family hare arrived at their Louse inAudr:y : square„ from their sat in i'he■hire. Th: II: V 411: Powlett has arrived at hi:. house in Carton_ street, May-fair, fruta his seat, near 31chon 3lowbray, Leicester shire. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—Capt. Burton, P.N. from Ilastir.gs, Susse;.. ; and the Bev. Air. Forrester, from a mur. Departures: C. Baird, Esq. for Cheltenham ; and G. T. Smith, Esq. on a tour. J. Barron, Esq. arrived yesterday, at Reddish's llotel, Jermyn.. street, from Hutson. Arrivals at the British hotel, Jertnyn-street :—L. Deliwyn, front Salislatry anti CApi. Irain, from a tour. Artie tie at Kirkham'. thud, Lower Brook-street :—R. Ber keley, I:sq., from his sat Illarkmoor Park, Worcestershire ; and Mr. and 31iss Jill, front a tour. Departures:—Lord Thomas Cecil, for Burleigh. Lineoln.4ire; and General Walpole, for Paris. Arrival. at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-saret :—Lady War ron. front Basting•, Su..ea ; the Hon. Miss Ilarboard; and R. 1)e Burgh, Es q. from his a. '. Berks. Arrivals at Batts' Hotel, Dover.street :—Mr. and Mrs. Haines, 31r. and Mrs. Wilma, Captain Ponsonby, and C. Chambers, Esq. Departure. from ditto :—Mr. and Mrs. Smith, for Northampton ; }:arl Roden, tOr Ireland ; Capt. 3101., ditto ; at:d 11:. and Mrs. Guinan. for Dover. FRENCH PAPERS. We last night received the Paris papers of Wednesday They arc wholly without interest on any other subject that, the elections. Some notion may be formed of the pewe r o c the French Government over the whole body of the eke, tors, when it is known that out of 216 Deputies, who ar e already returned by the Colleges of Arrondissement, the Liberal party can only claim about sixteen Ilember. The Departniental Colleges have yet to elect 111 Deputies; but in these the Opposition Candidates have, if possible, less chalice than in the arrondissements; and altogether it is calculated that out of the 430 Deputies who make up the Chamber, not more than forty or "lily will compo se t h e Opposition. This fact is the hest possible illustration of the freedom of election in France. Tile accounts from Greece in the Paris journals give additional reasons for anticipating the final and complete triumph of indepen dence in that quarter of the globe. Our Nehle country man Lord Byron, we learn, is renderin s ; th: most siEnd service to the great cause. On the ether side, the Oriental Spectator, a paper decidedly ho.ii le to the t;reek , , tells us of preparations making by the Otimilan GJY:rn. ment to meet its rising and powerful enemy. It app ears that the French funds continue rising. On Toesdav tha renter reached 104 fr. [lron: the Conatifutionnell CoNSTANT INOPLE, JAN. tit. The conversation of the day at Pere is the Arnim of :I. Bin. siacky, and the order fur the reieasc of Ilanesi. The latter was at lion in exile, under cause confinement, and is said to I, e i n N A health. The annunciation of his liberty makes but litrie impres sion on the Greeks here; nay, many of them do not byneve Mb:- cause it was only s few days ago that the Bishop of Wracks. a man universally respected, was arrested and thrown into the prison of the Boorangi Baschi. Many are afraid that he has already been executed. Letters have been received fro.:l Armenian ma chants at Trebisuod, which mention fresh hostilities on thepan of the Persians. _ _ [From the Journal de. Debate.] ZAYTE, Fri. I. A number of Greek vessels strictly blockade Pares, which he the same time besieged on the land side by Colocotruni, Count A. die Metaxas, Zairnts, said twenty other Stratarques, who clusdy press the citadel. To avoid any surprise, the Greeks have established a camp be. tween Sichena and the Castle of Cape Rhion d'Achaia, towarei which su Hydriot verses are in observation fur the purpose Ef blockading some Algerine vessels which have taken rc:uge mita the Canon of Lepinro. In the mean time 31aurocordato„ Colonels Delamay. Stan and rd Byron, who are at INissolonglii, make considerabl e. partitions, it is said, for tie siege a Lepanto. Lord Byrn has been ecognized by the government of Western Greece as Prordrus, or Pseuttent of strangers; over show he a. cises a kind of patronage, which consists in rendering theta osefil according to their means and capacity. The most perfect harmony reigns amongst all the Chiefs nom which the most beneficial re sults must spring. [From the Novsksor of Wednesday.] The Official Part contains only an Ordinance relating to a ph. irate person. The Non-official Part contains a very long extract from the Oriental Speetatear, dated Smyrna. Jan. 23 and 30. of which the following are extracts •• Then: is every reason to expect that the preparations fir the fourth campaign will be formidable. Eighty thousand men we said to be destined to act against the Mores by land, while the Ottoman fleet and the squadron of the Viceroy of Egypt will co-operate by sea. The lase accounts from Seio indicate that the alarm had sub. sided, which was caused by the report of a formidable attack ime dinned by the Greek. to conquer the island. The accounts hom Cauca of the beginning of January, reprewert the situation of the Turks in the island of Crete, to be still is ruurable. They were in quiet po.scasion of the fortresses, sad even masters of the plains, where, however, for fear of a sudden at tack, the harvest was gathered under the protection of an amid curt. The expedition sent by the Viceroy of Egypt bad arrived, sod we learn by letters from Selo, that it consists of several thousand troops commanded by the % . iceroy's son. tipeuia was at that time the only place in the hands of the Greeks. home cams plague occurred from time to time at Cauca. BARCELONA, FMB. 21. Fresh orders have been given to bring, without expenee tine the Presidius in Africa, the houses of correction, dec. in t 4 kingdom, the individuals who are there in consequence of the orders of the revolutionary government, without any lega: sm. more, merely because they shewn themselves attacbol their legitimate sovereign. The 31agistrate of Fabians' informed the Governor of Giroas, on the 13th, that the preceding day a three-masted vessel, sop poled to be a polacre, bearing a red nag, had been descried lieu that port ; the crew were is Moorish dresses, and the vessel a soproeed to be an Algetine. This news was immediately comnituskated to the merchants at BM celyna, and all along the coast. A similar twain we. published on the 20th, by order of the Captain General, •• that the French vessel, the Chamois, of four guns, arrived the ear h. tore : it came from Toulon, and touched on the 12th at Fillies% and saw off Cape St. (Se bastian, two corvettes with three tea u, which, from their manceurting, the Captain (M. Louche) comeired to be Alguines." - PARIS., MARCIE 3. FRevtca Fuirris—Five per Cents, opened at WI f. ; clouds: 103 f. 7U:. Bank stock, Neapolitan Five per Centi,ll6if. Rennes d'Espagne, !4 t. Royal Spanish Loan, 1023, change on I,o.tioti--oce mouth, 2a. 40c.; three wonths, —Cours Authentigue. BAYO NNE. NEWS. We yeetertlay received the following letter from Bayonne : BAYONNE, FEB. 21 The news from Mifirid is of the 19th. A Governor who bad strived with General heave was arrested the same day, and taken to prison. General Chenabon is not satisfied : he CM plains the his Army is daily diminiehing, and that Ise shad soon be without soldiers. The Trappist had received orders from the King to return to his convent, but the worthy tidier was in no hurry to obey it: it stout that he was very well satisfied in the Nuns' convent at Madrid, where he took up his quarters oo his arrival; being, however, urged by fresh orders, he has at length departed. klenno Ippon to have decidedly renounced the ecclesiastical profession ; be Ina , not return to his church, notwithstanding the order which he hi received from the King. On the I ith he was at. Segovia, It the head of 2,100 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. It is reported that there has been an action between his troops and a French detachment which was in the same city, and that the latter suffered considerably. it is certain that two battalions of the tiil regiment of infantry, and some Spaish carabineers and sonic artillery, left Madrid on the 18th to go against this guerilla chief. [From the London ffew Price Current.) COTTON.—Though we have had but a moderate demand fee Cotton this week, the bolder, continue very firm, and are not dies ' posed to offer their mocks at the prices of the day. The sale this week are about 000 bales, of all kinds, which arc chiefly taken by the trade, without the assistance of any speculative demand. SUGAR—The Sugar market has been in a very inactive state this week ; the few purchases made are at the previous prices, and continue to be chiefly confined to the grocery descriptioos. The demand for refined for home consumption continues steady, but the purchases are limited : the request for export is confined to lumps for crushing and packing, for which there is • considerable de mand; all the other qualities are exceedingly heavy, though the quantity m market is more limited than for • length of time pre ceding. In Foreign Sugars scarcely an sales have lately been. effected. The puiltle sale of 1,11011 hags l Sugar, yeinaday went off mach about the India House prices -375. duty.. - COFFEE.—In the early part of the week the public sales of Coffee went off heavily, and the ordinary descriptions, which were not clean, sold at a redaction of about 2s. per cwt.; the dean tof- fee and the finer qualities supported the previous currency. The public sale this forenoon consisted of 83 casks 63 bags Brinell Plantation ColUe, nearly all Jamaica descriptions, which went ad freely at an advance of la. a 25.; the quality was considerably better than what has appeared for some time previously; fine cr.ii nery colory mkt at 113,. a Ns., fine fine ordinary his., crdiasty middling 265., middling at 102 s. HEMP. FLAX, and TA LIA)W.—The Cemeni tot Tallow continua limited ; the prices remain very depressal : for some days past the quotations of yellow candle Tallow has been 34 a 3 it f , e. to-day there is not th t slightest variation .— Hemp is apia lea tr.— In Flax there is no alteration. FIII7IT—A public sale was brought forward en Weentsdar consisting in a great nart of damaged and old Fruit. none of die latter appeared to have been sold: a parcel of new Currants was sold last week by private contract at about the lowest cit..,•r.:tivo; also a cargo of Dcnias and Valentias; the demand for Denis., in baskets continues, and they would men , a ready sale at the prices quoted: for the other deactiptions there is at present very litde demand. RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLA NDS.—The Rum market re mains in a very depressed state, and at nearly nominal quototora; for proof Leewartis the nearest price is Is. 74., but there 111 no busi ness duing.—ltrar.dy retnains heavy at the reduction we lately stated, at 2a. I 1 d. a 3s. free on board to arrive.--Pale Genera is still quoted at 2s. Dt TV ON RU3l.—The duty on deficiencies withdrawn. The Rums, after being in warehouses two years, re-gauged, and duties levied on the quantity ; after that time no allowance wal be mad: by Hovel n rent. COO public axle on Tuesday, 132 bags Trinidad Co coa, 711. a 91w. ; 112 begs ltrasil were taken in at Ms. OILS.—The demand for Fish Ois for home consumption has lately been general and extensive ; the prices are fully niainuirad I South Sea Oil has advanced materially : at the public sale or Monday. 231. and 231. Ilk. was obtained ; and the holden now sal 211. a 231. The request for Spenn has been brisk, and a great ad. ranee would have taken place, if the arrivals bad not been to IP tenaive. Seed Oils are heavy. TEA.—The Tea sale cootinties at the India Howe : Rol!. sold 2s. ald. a 2s. Bd. ; full lid. above last sale: Coypus 10 4 off 2s. 7d. - a 3s. 7d. ; about id. per lb. above lot saki. : - • ORATORIO AT COVE. --row— So greatly were we g:atifictl wi . Bochsa c selection for what ma t night of the Oratorio Season, t that the space unavoidably occ important matter, prevents our ould wish into the merits of a pe 1 excellence of which we receiv e beautiful aerenata of ,I , is and ( . flush, ye pretty warbling choir, In her eyes sits playing," 31r. Bella So ~. • cherry," Mr. llraham's " Love = trio, " The Flocks shall leave th Salmon, Mr. Brabant, Mr. Sapio, Mrs. Salmon's " Heart, the seat of it were, a new charm to the at one energetic efflorescence of Ilandel's i ened a delight the demonstrations by applauses as warm as we ever wi the whole of the execution of one the productions of the great G impressive, it will almost seem invi . sively the merits of any particular not resist the demands upon our superiorly-happy efforts of Brahm and Miss Ste phens , who so felt an. parts as to affect the coldest heart car in the house. Of the second evening's performance, suffice it to ham and Sinclair's duet of " All ! v " Let the bright Seraphim," AI despised," (by the way uncharacteri its original key of E fiat to that of K . " Sweet Bird," and " Biontlina," the taste and judgment of Mr. 80. Miss Paton, a ballad by Sinclair, site solo on the flute, as also Si. on the Lombardo mandolin, were order of excellence, and very often crowded and respectable audience. F our own gratification, that it indu . season highly favourable to the tas . ' . of the scientific and ingenious direr DIBDIN'S FES . —........._ Yesterday a grand musical fix Freemasons' Tavern, in aid of the a Monument to the memory of t This festival was arranged and det of gentlemen to consider the propri tions for the above object. Amo i then agreed upon, was the folio the ground and foundation which the distinguished honour of a p That : " That it is the opinion of Ms meet talents and perseverance of the late greatly to benefit, as well as amuse and but that the tendency of his writings promoting a brave ~red daring spirit i his name and memory to the highest t- classes." The numerous and very respec Freemasons"favern, gave ample resolution lu O ti n on r a o cc Oc rt c le as sl ia to n, th p e e p ri r l e a v p a s ilin. meeting a man (tr such ofie lr i mm e diat e ldl /i b in fri e nds reall w a m factorily responded by the general four hundred gentletneu, and the a number who applied for tickets, b milted for want of room and ac . publicly prevailing sense of the me individual whose memory the festi higher tribute of posthumous praise to the memory of any man than was that of Mr. lithdin, in the warm, gl. sentiments of respect and admir the meeting. The lovers of song muster upon the occasion: but ind • which the muse of Mr. Dibdin h " fond of fun," and ready to pronaot , claim on the national gratitude of encouraged and augmented that fra meter—that proud independence of fecli :merit to Kir.g and country, which are so the British seaman. This is no ordinary of the character of political service. list Important also. It e are very much of on this subject, and applaud with hi m th merits of liberty which enlarge the mind, and give it a firmness and elemmlinati. This certainly bas been the tem! icy a songs; and though. Cc we hare said, hi another eminent bard has called the mai reasoning fools," yet we do not think th vices and merits at all disentitle him to mony that was yesterday paid to them. So great was the expectation and festival, that at an early hour the w masons' Tavern was filled. A few Sir J. YORKE, K. 11., as Chairman, Stewards. A very elegant assemblage of gallery to witness the entertainment, an meat of " the flow of song" which was • spirit of social delight throughout th was served up in very creditable styl excellent. During dinner, a band w played '‘ The Rout Beef of Old sprightly tunes. On the removal of the and eminent hotly of musical gentlemen Dontioe." Amongst those who joined who contributed their vocal port en to t • entertainment of the evening, we noticed hang, Mr. litzwilliam, Mr. C. Taylor. Muter Smyth, Mr. Goulden, Mr. Gatti *obis Donahoe" was sung, The CrtateMANt gave—i" The King.' a line from a song of Dibdin„ expressly attachment to the country. (Three tint " The Duke of York and the Army." " The Duke of Clarence and the Say " The rest of the Moral Fancily." The CHAIRMAN then roe --Gentlem shall propose is one which, I ant sure, y la one which I am obliged to accompany noble person to whom it refers—the Earl of the Society, is unavoidably prevented tendance hue this day. I can assure y warm supporter of the present design, health will be toasted with that rest . station that he holds amongst us. (Ch. [We should here mention, that a in Di 'n was distributed amongst the cord which were so distributed were sung thro very eminent vocalists whose names we After the last-mentioned toast Mr mired song, " The Standard of Freed (fude sang the finely nam , nal air, French, Dutch, and Spanish bravado,' next sang the beautiful and feeling gluey-shearing'. over, surround the gay with that correct taste and impressive distinguishes the professional efforts of vocalist. Before we enter upon the specs to motion the gratification afforded by Mr. Fitswilliam, who, in the song of ' was warmly encored, and in that of " S. newer get Mellow," won the " golden opi The Cituamos then HAW, and in p Charles Dihdin, spoke to the following next toast which it fi; my duty and intro the " Memory of Charles Dibdin" 11l this toast, I feel it unnecessary to acconi illustrative of his character, for I ',retro well known to you. It is net for me to his own music speaks for him, for his (Cheers.) The prescrit meeting. numero constitutes, as 1 conceive, a tribute of to individual whose name is this day releln did he labour to promote patriotic feelini, sentiment. f 11car, hear.) 'f nemfore it exploits he commemorates, should be i , feel, indeed, that there is no expression o use that will not fall short of his real (1., your permission I till rend an extract daily Paper ( Tier Lettish Tsetse, witch i the sentiments which we all feel on the p mare induced to read this extract, bees Dibdin has been represented as a tccre b lowing extract is, I think, calculated t imptenion of his merits. I slinil there secit; the following passage, which 1 a the prevailing sentiment of dn. mein in , " : • There is certainly no individual, in in which his distingclished talents were mory the British politic owe so much Dibdin, who may with truth be styled The subscription set on foot to erect a may embalm the remembrance of his grateful sense which his countrymen ant services derived from it, is honours sraelsr. Jt has been, tiU now, a reproach whose whole life was spent in protnoti and meal festivity of his country, an the full resources of his fancy and h uf neelsond music and of national itesedred to his country, should have reset "at might put its gratitude on record. N