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tect aliens trying to rrAke their GOUT try free. If the conducted themselves according to the laws of this country, they had aright to stay in it. No measure had disappointed him more than the present Bill, because he had hoped aid expected a more liberal system of policy from them. If the Right Hon. Secretary for Fo reign Affairs would say that he approved of the Dill, and state his reasons for such approval, he should be relievnd from great anxiety upon the subject, for he thought that Right Hon. Gentleman could not consider it in aceoedance with the British Cni,stitution. As the country had changed its foreign policy, the !louse had a right to know from the Right Hon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs his retsuna few continuing it. It had been originally stated, that the Bill was our required for a limited time; and he wished to know tram the Ht: Hon. Secretary what view of the circumstances of Europe be had taken that made it necessary to his mind , o continue the measure ? The system that had hitherto been punned was odious. (The House 'hewed marked symptema of inipatienee.] In consequence of Gentlemen being extremely Testiest'', he should be obliged to begin with the statement of the Right lion. Gentleman. (A laugh.) Ile was aware that nothing was so unpleasant as for Gentlemen to be summoned suddenly to vote on a particular question, and to bo kept long.ir than they expected. (Laughter.) Some of those Gentlemen were affected with a violent coughing, which came on so suddenly that it became alarming ; and he thought on that ac count they would be much better at home with Or it families. (Mitch laughter.) It appeared really a serious epidemic. ( ton. tinued laughter.) lie wanted, notwithttanding all the interrup. tions that he had met with, the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Can- Woo) to state the grounds on which he O.:login the Bill necessary, end he hoped that he would favour the House with them. An other Right Hon. Gentleman had stated, that circumstances had chatted since the year II;l3, when he voted itaninst the Bill. He would tell that Right Hon. Gentleman what change had taken place--he had changed from that to the other side of the Houte since lAIB. (A laugh.) Hut he eared not what that Right lion. Gentlemin or the Right Honourable Secretary for the lime Department might say he wanted to hear their Right Honourable colleague the Secre tary for Foreign Affairs. Ile had more dependence no that Right Honourable Gentleman than on either of his Right Honourable Friends on his right and left, for his conduct had been hitherto liberal. and if he would state his grounds for continuing this measlier, the Houle would then sae how far it could place confi dence in him. In moving that the BiU be read a tiro time that day sia months, he hoped to hear from the Hight Honourable fi.ferr.ary for Foreign Attain, some remarks upon it ; lie hoped to be interned by him whether it was the Iva time that the Right Honourable Gentleman would deem it his duty to support the introduction of the Bill on a filtlap Occasion, or whether this was the last time it would be propolied to the House? He had as yet heard no case made out in support of the cline and therefore he should move that the Hill be read a first time that day Wm months. - 3i7.l4etXtary CANNING said, that the llonoura . ble Member! had such winning ways with him (much laughter) that although he had avoided, In the previous discussion, offering his senti ments, sad was still Inclined to put off's reply, he could not resist tram satisfying hint, disposed as he was to be silent at preseut on the subject. He could not be expected to enter into the question fully then; but thus much he felt bound to say, that under the present circumstances of the country, with the modifi cations that had been proposed, the Bill ought to be posited, and in a future state of it he would deliver his sentiments. Whether the power was conferred by statute or not, or was inherent in the Crown, he would not then stop to inquire; but to lay down the principle that a community could not hare the power to regulate her intercourse with foreigners, was monstrous. That the right must rest somewhere, becould not for a moment believe would be seriously denied, no matter whether it enia-ated from the executive or legislative body. If a single ncion could exist without the power of keeping foreigners under such regulations as it might deem necessary, he would say that there was one community strips of all its natural rights. Then came the policy of acting upon that right ; and no that point he had nn hesi tation in saying that this measure in the present instance should be acted upon as liberally as safety at home and a due discharge of duty abroad would admit of. The measure he hoped and believed would not be long necessary ; but such • crisis had ex isted with regard to this country, as had made it absolutely ne cessary ; and the time was not quite passed away when the mea sure could, with safety, be given up. SVhen he hail more strength, and a better opportunity presented itself. he would state his opi nions at greater length. (Hear, hear.) The House then divided on Mr. Hume 's motion, which arose on the Bill being brought up fora firs; reading. For the Motion, 126 I Against it, fig l Majority, 60. On our returned to the Gallery the Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed, and read a second time on Friday. COUNTY COUR'fet BILL The second reading of the vas postponed to Friday pelt. NEW COURTS OF LAW. Mr. BANKS, in moving fora Select Committee relative to the New Courts of Law, observed, that he should have three dames of opponents to contend against "-Ist. Those who approved of the buildings "Idly, Those who had no taste for architecture; and :Idly, Those who would say that the expenseha.i been incurred, and therefore the new buildings ought to remain. The Honour able Member then entered into various statements relative to the improvements at 11'estotinster, which he strongly censured. There was a noble public building in an unfinished state, and so beautiful was it in proportion, and so grand in design, that he con sitlerrd it as inferior only to Westminster Hall. (We understood the Hon. Member to allude to Somerset House.) He had no doubt but that sufficient nom might be found on the left side of Westminster Hall to erect Courts of Justice in, by destroying that noisome 1 tam eight, the Esehoques Office, and she trumpery buildings that looked to the Thames ; and by completing Somerset House, and removing the Exchequer (u ice to that building, all objection would be overcome, and the eye no longer offended by site present excrescence. In conclusion, he submitted a motion, that an estimate of the expenses to be incurred by the erection of courts of justice might be referred to a Committee, accompanied with a plan of the projected buildings, in order that they might re port their opinion to the House. dir. A. hLLIS made a few observations, we believe, in support of the motion, but from the noise that prevailed, he woo quite In audible in the gallery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER began by stating that his present situation was at least a novel one. He seldom ad dressed the House but for the purpose of procuring them to vote expenses; but his motive in rising now was to restrain them. He recollected, and he spoke it with some degree of shame, that three or four years ago, when the House was called on to vote away its funds for the purchase, he would not hesitate to say, of the noblest works of art that had enriched this country for many years, the vote was ("pored on the score of economy and the impoverished state of the finances of the country. He did not think that those grounds for caution had as yet completely subsided, yet be found those who then opposed that vote foremost in requiring of the House to go to a most unnecessary expense in pulling down works that were now nearly finished, fur the sole purpose of building them up on the op posite side. These buildings bad been contemptibly spoken of as excrescences. Wherever they were erected they must continue excrescences. And, if built on the site that the Honourable 3lember for Cafe Castle proposed, they would be attended by the inconvenience of completely overlooking the Speaker's house, and he thought scene regard ought to be felt far his comforts and privacy. Many of the observations which had been lavished on the architects he thought might have been spared. The Chancellor of the Exchequer here entered into a very high eulogium on Colonel Stevenson and Mr. Soule, under whose plans and superintendence the buildings had been erected. lie stated that another very serious objection had arisen against the buildings being erected on the left side of the Hall, which was the time which must necessarily be consumed in constructing them in that situation ; and the lemons and lectures that he had received front his lion. Friend the Solicitor-General and the Hon. Member for Winchilsea on the delay that had already taken place, was one of the principal inducements with him to urge dispatch in their erection, as the anxiety of the legal body to have AS few impediments in their way as possible in the conduct of their busi ness was very natural. (Laughter.) Foe three reasons, therefore, he was not prepared to give his support to the motion of his lion. Friend, which had for its object the pulling down of these build ings, metre draw down the whale weight of the censure of that House as men so eminent in their profession es Col. Stevenson and Mr. Soong were universally allowed to be. He would not sit down without expressing his °maim of the liberality that Parliament bad recently shorn in voting large sums of money fur the im provement and decimations of the metropolis and the country, but he did not think that this was a question in which any further In terference en their part was called tor. Mr. H. GURNEY made some observations in favour of the motion but we could not catch the exact import of them. dir. W. R kNKES said, that the object of the present motion was not to east any slur on either of the gentlemen who had been mentioned, and he admitted that the difficulty was to say too much in their prime; bit he certainly thought the question ought to go to a Committee. He had resided much abroad, and in consequence of the civilities that had been shown to him while there, foreigners had often requested him to point out the sights worth seeing in London. (Laughter.) He took a pride in dwelling on the archi tectural beauties and antiquity of Westminster Hall and various other public buildings, but he should feel shame in dwelling on such deformities as were then under discussion. lie should therefore vote for the motion. Sir J. MACKINTOSH rose to vindicate his Hon. Friends, who were absent, from any undue motive being attributed to their anxiety for getting these courts. Ile did not mean to speak with disrespect of any one in fact he was relieved from the painful feeling with which his voce on the present occasion would have been accompanied, by the explanation given by the lion. Member lot Cambridge, which d e ni e d t h a t a ny impeac hment of the profes !renal talents of the two gentlemen who had been named was in tended; he therefore felt la hesitation in deciding on the vote that he should come to, as be never heard a motion for an inquiry I ushered in such a straight-forward and moderate manner as had been done by the Member for Col Castle. And all the objections that had keen urged against the motion were no more,than so litany grounds fur young for a Committee. Mr- W. WILLIAMS made a few observations, in which he ' , wed, that he thought the exerescense might be removed without ennh expaise. Lord 0. A. If CAVENDISH haul never heard of any plan that ' 44 'menthe' to substitute for the present erections, but he thought bat at the question had undergone so much discussion, it was no name than fair that the Committee should be appointed, or else l'e town would be inundated with unsightly buildings. Mr. MIME suggested, that tha best way of avoiding such a di lemma in future would be to refer all questions of public build_ until to a committee, before they were begun. He certainly should l ';' , elsort the Chanc e ll or of th e E xc h eque r in the objections taken Y to the appoiatment of a committee. lie thought that Mr. s nsne had be en very unjustly sod severely handled. Sri LONO objected to the mode of referring every question °r Public buildings to a eolnmittee ; he concluded by eulogising the characters of Mr. Sane and Col. Stevenson. be. An ire ? iar• Colonel FRENCH offered some someeations ; after which the II eitse divided, when there appeared—. For the appointment of a Committoe - 431 Against it - 30 1111 njority . The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of ; and the House adjourned at ONE oll.oc a. PRICLII OF BRITIdH 8' Rank Stock 3 per Cent Reduced, 3 per Cent. Cons. 94 3 34 per Cott. 4 pet Cent. New 4 per Cent. 1061 I Loag Annuities, Imperial 3 per Cents. Bank tnr Account Cons. for Act. 94 Sj 1, I India Stock PRICES OF FOREIUN Austrian Scrip, 124 t 1 1 Ditto for Account 131 I Ditto paid in fun, (*ninon Pak 811 1 Ditto fa Acc. 811 1 Colombian Bondi, Do. for Acct. 641 4 Danish hlarks Banco 664 6 Itreek Scrip. 1 1 pr. I)itto for Aix. Mexican Scrip, 61 Afii Do. for Ac. 64 Nespolitat , Bd. 801 Ditto for Account Portugunic Bonds Ditto , aip Prussian Bondi, 418.1 Ditto Bonds ( I &id) 974 Ditto for Account 961 Peruvian Scrip. COURSE OF EXCU, Amsterdam C. 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Scrip, 13i pr. ex. dir. Ditto toe Acct. YkSTERIIA Leghorn --- - ---------- - 4'; t ;mots - - 43 Venice . 0 Malts . - 43 Naples .ZB . Palermo - 115 L - i•bon 50 /Port() - - 11 li to Janeiro - 411 ltania . - 50 Dublin - tli . . 9 1 Cork BULLION. s. d. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold in bar. 3 17 6 Sew Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 94 Silver ia bars U U 0 NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. To-morrow Evening, THUR:4 . I?.,V, Spyth IRS, will be yerfonned IM.I('DFTII. Macbeth, Mr. Kean; MaeAurt, Mr. Terry. H 'rate, Mr. G. Smith. Lady Macbeth, ?An , . Bunn. To conclude with the Melo-Draena of TKKELL THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDE:V. T.-morrow Evening, THURSDAY, March 2.3, will be perfurnbed THE CABINET. Prince Orlando, Mr. Ulmtale: Whltn ticub, Mr. Fawcett; Count Curt °A n. Mr. Ilartley. Ilueetta, Mho Pukes. To conclude with the Comedy a SIMPSON AND CO. KING'S THEATRE, OPERA CONCERT ROOM, HAYMARKET. i Now beautifully arranged as a Theatre, with Rosen, Pit, and Gallery.) Mr. D. E. WALKER proposes his ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE on the NEW EIDOURANION, LARDP: TR ANSPARENT ORRERY, THIS and every WEDNESDAY In Lent. The Phenomena of the Heavens will be splendidly illustrated on this elaborate Machine. Drewßoses is.; L)r ditto, ; Pit. *I.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and Plates to be had of Mr. Seguin, at the opera Rug-office, quadrant. Doors to open at half-past Ste; Lecture to begin at half-past Seven, and to cud at Ten. TIIEATRE ROYAL, ANGIJSH OPERA-HOUSE. On Wedneedaye and Fridays In Lent. LECTURE ou ASTRONOII and the PIIENWICNA of the HEAVENS and of the EARTH. To b delivered by Mr. BARTLEY. THIS EVENING. To begin at seven; and conclude at Ten. Tlekets of Admission fur MuniHes to be had on moderate terms at the Doi-oil:1m THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. R. M\T"EWS AT HOME! To.rnotrow Evenin THURSDAY. Mereh ES, And on MONDtVe. T I(URSDAYI. and SATURDAYS, With hie ANNUAL LECTURE on PECULIARITIES, CHARACWAL, wed WINNERS; Founded ea Observations end Adventures during his late A TRIP TO AMERICA. In Three Parte. Pear 111.—A Sl.ntopolylogne7e;leTAll WELL AT NATCHITOCHES. All the Charnetersof the Evening's Entertainment to be regmented by blr. Si %THEWS. Doors lobe opened at halfesiit Seven—Performanee begins at Eight. Boxes. Places, Tkket*, Private and Family Doges, 1.. he taken of Mr. Stevenson. at the Box tienet. Strand Entrance. from Ten till Five. • THEATRE ROYAL, nitußY-LANE. This Evening. WEDNESDAY. Earth Si, A GRAND PERFORMANCE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC. rasa PIRACTION or NIL 1110CRAIA. PART I. A SELECTION of SACRED MUSIC. Between the first and second Parts, (Foe the last time) Fantasia, Lombardo Mandolin, Slpnsw Vinsereati. Hoeft. et Ada, Miss Patois. " Tu eh' accendi,* by particular desire (Rossini). PACT it. (For the first time) . ____.._.... A Manuscript SACRED ORATORIO. --- -- - - - ------ THE PROPHECY; the Words from Pope: the Music by an Amateur, by w hose permission this Compositlen will be performed. Between the menial and third Parts, Causerie Clarinet, Mr. Williams. PANT 111. A GRAN? MISCELLANEOUS ACT. Prineipal Salmon;Mi.. StepVhens.Miss Paton. Miss M. Tree, Mir tmodall, Miss Tenes, Miss Melville (Pupil of R , gnor Rossini since his arrival in this country); Mr. Brahana. Mr. Pyne, Mr. Phillips. Mr. Hawes, Master Lonahurst, and Mr. Bellamy. It Is respectfully announced, that the u hole of !lenders sacred Oratorio, " The Mewsiah." with the additional Accoisitaniments by Mozart, will be performed (by particular desire) on Friday next, at the Theatre Royal, ('ovoid-Carden, being the only time It can possibly be performed tido Serum NEW ARG)7.I. - RUOM - S, RI:GENT-STREE7. 11161111 TIM IMPBCIAL PATINOTIAOI 07 and MAJWITY. Master 0. ANPULL had the honour to announce that his First CONCERT will take place at the above MAIM, To-morrow. THURS DAY. March 23. Principal Vocal Performers—Mrs. Salmon. Madame Caradori, and Wise Paton; Mr. Regret, Signor Plod, Mr. Welsh, Mr. Hawes, and Signor de Segni*. Master ASPULL will perform several admired Pieces on the Grand Piano Forte, among which are, Himmel's Grand Brillion Rondo, lip. PH, with Orchestral Aecompaninients (never perfor-ed hi this eountryl ; Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prusida's Grand Quintets, Piano Forte, Violin, Tenor, Violoncello, and Double Baas, Obligati I and litircheleie Fall of Paris. The Second Part of the Concert with a Grand Overture by Musk. Clement'. Leader, Mr. Mori; Conductor, Music Clement'; Harp. Mr. Chatterton. The Performer. of the Orchestra will be selected front the Philhar monic and Opera Bands. Principal Instrumental Performers—Violoncello, Mr. Lindley; Dou ble Bon, signor Dragonettl ; Flute, Mr. Nicholson ; tYboe, Signor Ceti trout; Clarinet, Mr. Willman; Ilsweism. Mr. Mackintosh; Trumpet, Mr. Harper; Trombone, signor Mal Motto; Drums. Mr. Jenkinson. The l'isicert will begin at Eight o'Clotelt. eq. Further Particulars will be published In due time. Tickets, Half-a-Guinea each, to be had of Master George Aspen, t N... IS, Cork-street, Bond-street; at the Royal Harmonic Institution. Regent-street; at the Music Shop%of Birchall and Coo Chappell and Co.. and Addison and Beale, New Bond-street; Bounty, Holies-street; , Cocks, Prinees-street, Hanoversquare ; Goulding and Co., Soho square ; Monson and Hill, Regent-street, Piccadilly; (lenient! and Co , Chealstdst Ben., Royal Exchange s and Lacenu and Co., No. :N. Edward-street, Manchester-square. Parties of lax and upwards may be accommodated with Duxes by an early application to Master Aston THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sr Pilit3ll.l•loX or Till wan (31.%1IPIRLAIT. WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS DURING LENT. Yr. TIICLWALL'S ORATORICAL and CRITICAL LECTURES, This Evening, WEDNESDAY. March Se. SHAESPEAREN Historical Tragedy and COLLEY' CIIIBEICS 'neon gruoita Melange of RICHARD THE THIRD; and the successive modes of Representation by Garrick, Smith, Henderson. Keinhl• , Cooke, Kean, Rooth, and blaeready. Rowe's JANE SlIoltk:: Dolt: tat' . Plagiarists, and Emendators of Shakspeare. Recitations ur the On FRIDAY—The Romantic Comedies of Shakspeare and the Melts Dramas of the present day • Melns..(Sar Walter Scott ; and ilistorks I Novels of the sot [t reat Unknown. Further Particulars in the Theatrical Otwerver of the respective days. 11;xes Zs., Pit aw, Gallery 2.. BOX Subscription Ticket. for the remaining course. One Guinea, to be had at Boyle'. Court Guide Office, I. Leicester-square; ausel of the Lecturer, North Brixton t'uttage. where Instruction. are given, in emirs of Impediment and in the Llueution of the Pulpit, Bar, gild Senate. Mr. Ilassingtuun attends at the Box °Mee, N'ednesdays and Fridays, front Ten to Four. Thal BRITISH Pa Los commenced publishing yesterday morning at Ilalf.past Five o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAR C H 24, 1821. Brasil Papers to the 16th of January reached us yesterday. The Diurio do Gorerno contains several ordi nances of the Brazilian Emperor. One account from Rio, under date of the loth of January, states that the ship of the line, Peter the First, the frigates Peranga and Nctheroy, and the Atlanta schooner, were to sail from that port on an important expedition, under the command of the Chief Admiral, the Marquis of Ilaranhain. The order was given on the 30th of December. .Inother order directs Lord Cochrane to send out the Atlanta on the 10th to Bahia, with the Brazilian officer C'altleira Brant Ponies, who was to be landed thcre with two English Officers of (the brig Bahia. A subsNuent ordinance of the 13th January, after a preamble, which states the desire of Don I Pedro to avoid all causes of rivalship between the citizens of Brazil, whatever may he the place df their birth, aid that all may enjoy their rights, under the protection of the law; and on the other, that the tranquillay of the empire may never be diatnalstil by the influx of persons, who,. under the name of friends, and on pretence of desiring to settle, same with sinister in teutions to sow disorder, orders that the loteulant • G.• neral of P.dice. 'proceeding to the most serupultius domi nation, shall cause immediately to quit Brazil all Portu guese who, having arrived since or during the time of the decree of the 1 lilt January, 1823, hare not taken in the Chamber of that city the solemn oath of fidelity to the cline of Brazil and the person of the Emperor, and also all these who arrived since the decree of the 20th of IlfoL vember of the same year. Circular letters to the sant* effect were lent to all the provineov. By a subsequent or dinance of the 16th, Don Petit%) restricts the admission to holy orders, and orders the His not to admit per h r E neti without his special permission; pt's orders, ho , to be given to those already o in merle. i restriction was necessary, from the crowd of Prig* and Friars in Brazil. The decree states justly, " that the " numbers of the Ministers of the Church ought not to " be increased without real necessity, depriving the country " of the arms of those who might defend it against its " enemies." Other ordinances relate to delays in the proceedings anti condemnation Of 'rises; and the in these causes is ordered to give • nt, without4:7, of the cases which have been d :n the first instance, and of the causes which have mimed their progress. The Emperor referred to the Board of Commerce the piititions of Brazilian merchants at Rio, • ,com of having paid higher duties than the Bel. • the M. Addresses had been forwarded to Don Ped i various places, ap proving of the liberal (7onatitn il • . A • • - • by him, and requesting that it 'haul(' be • •- "' ed as a law of the empire, without waitinsafes. 'nen of a future as sembly. The conduct of the A 4111 , - n Emperor appears, on the whole, liberal and moderik end Brasil is rapidly ncreasing in commerce and pow.% ___,............. That ungracious measure, the Alien Act, liras brought forward in the Lower House again, and revived last night. We had hoped it would have been suffered to expire—that Ministers, when they were pursuing a liberal and enlight ened course of policy, creditable to themselves and ap plauded by the country, would not have mixed up any Or the bad leaven of other days with a better systemi L and would have, at length, divorced the country altegeker from any connexion with the circle of despots, who trample on the fairest portion of Europe, and have extinguished freedom throughout the Continent ; but we have been dis appointed : the Alien Act was again called for last night by the Home Secretary. He founded his claims on the history of past days: unable to reconcile a measure so illiberal and despotic with the enlightened principles of the present period, he was obliged to recur to the reigns of Henry IV. (a usurper); of Elizabeth, despotic in her temper, and in every act of her long reign ; and of James 1., whose quaint and pedantic language was always full of the indefeasible and hereditary rights of Kings; and whose principles, in stilled into the tender mind of his son, nurtured those feelings that afterwards led the unfortunate Charles into the contests with his Parliament, and brought the unfortunate Monarch at length to the block. In those reigns, Mr. Peel said, foreigners in this country were not allowed to work at handicraft trades, nor g#l any articles by retail : now, however, the liberality off our institutions had re moved such restrictions, and allowed them to do both. But can Mr. Peel, with his discrimination, take this period of our history as an example for the legislation of the present day? The merest school-boy knows that nothing like freedom existed in those reigns. Bo lingbroke was an artful usurper, who violated all his professions to Northumberland and the armed nobles who pavell his way to the throne, and when con firmed in power, thought of nothing but confiscation and vengeance on those who opposed him. In that and the subsequent reign a claim was set up to the French Crown ; and his son, Henry V., immediately on his accession, landed at Ilarfieur, to main his claim in arms. The two countries ware Aben...in and the manufactures of Englund were then in their most infant state: those of Are oiothg, now the staple of Eng land, were not introduced into ship country until the reign of Elizabeth. Would Mr. Peel *cur to any of the enact ments of the preceding reigns as a test by which to regu late our laws for manufacturers now? On looking over the statutes of those days, we find one, in 1463, the 3d of Edward IV., which enacts, "that no servant in husbandry, " nor common labourer, nor servant to any artificer, inha " biting out of a city or burgh, shall use or wear in their " clothing any cloth above two shilling! the broad yard." If a sumptuary law of the same oppressive and impolitic description were now proposed, would Mr. Peel stand up in his place to defend it, because the barbarous legislators of 1163 had put it In the statute book? A jealousy always prevailed in this country against foreigners, and particu larly against France. That country had a considerable share of foreign commerce near a century before England was distinguished for any trade; the marine of France was considerable, according to the notions of those days. Before the expedition of Charles VIII. to Naples, England and France were neighbours and rivals in power and in wealth. England is now infinitely more improved and wealthy, and this unworthy jealousy and proscription ought to cease; but if the sanguinary and exploded statutes of early' periods of our history are to be cited as examples for the potent day, what a legislation would we tr)w be subject to! In the reign of Elizabeth, to which Mr. Peel referred, we find a statute (Bth Eliz. cap. 3), by which " the " exporter of sheep, lambs, or rams, was, for the first " offence, to forfeit all his goods for ever, to suffer a year's " imprisonment, and then to have his left hand cut off, in " a market-town, upon a market-day, to be there nailed " up ; and for the second offence, he was to be adjudged "a felon and executed." Would Mr. Peel adopt this barbarous statute as an example for our commercial legis lation of this day ? or, because stockings were unknown and not worn in England until the days of Elizabeth, who received the first pair as a present from the Spanish Ambassador, would Mr. Peel refer to the cloth hose and rude luxury of that period as an example for this more advanced age? If not, why should any other enactments of that or any preceding reigns be cited as precedents to govern Parliament at present in its regulations for indivi dual liberty ? Freedom was then as little understood and enjoyed as domestic comfort or • luxury ; and the laws of those days respecting one are just as applicable to the present period as they are in the other. But Mr. Peel took up another position, and argued that the Alien Act ought to pees because its arbitrary powers were leniently used. For the last ten years (he said) only twenty-three individuals, out of the numbers of foreigners who had crowded to these shores, hail been sent out of the country. The non-exercise of any tyranny can be no argument for its continuance: if originally evil or oppressive, it ought to cease. We believe the Alien Act is seldom put in force, and that Ministers are generally unwilling to resort to any exercise of its powers ; but it may be made, by a bad or arbitrary Minister, an engine of w:vere oppression. It is, against the principle we contend—a principle sought now to be interwoven with the law* and institutions of this free country. One most objectionable clause in this Act has been withdrawn—that by which foreigners who were domiciled in this country, and had their property vested here, were subject to its operation. That clause, as Mr. Wynn stated, has now been omitted, and takes much from the odious tyranny of this Act. Sir James Mackintosh, In claiming credit for the abolition of this clause, took nothing beyond his deserts : his enlightened eloquence and his zeal were ceaselessly directed against it, and we are most happy it exists no longer. We trust this Proscriptive and illiberal enactment will not disgrace our statute-book much longer. It is a part of the Castlereagh legislation, and conceived in the spirit of the " Holy Alliance." With this knot of despots we wish to have nu league or understand ing whatever : their proceedings are equally hostile to the greatness and the character of this free country. We understand the 10th Hussars, now quartered at Portobello Barracks, in Dublin, are ordered on foreign ser vice. Though they contrived to exclude Mr. Battier from their ranks, and would not suffer him to come between " the wind and their nobility," they will not be let bully " the people at the Horse-Guards," as they imagined, and they will no*, is all probability, hire to trafil-pok their " mobility" to the Colonies, and exhibit their furrtil and mustachios in a foreign clime. Hotspur's admi= description of the military coxcomb who demanded his pet; soners seems to have been written fur these haughty bertain Every line of it is in point • When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, " Breadths* and faint, loaning upon my. curd, " Caine there a certain Lord, neat, trimly droni'd, t• Rau :w a hnde and his thin, new-remiti, " Shou'd hitt a stubble at harvest-home ; •• He was perfumed like a pOnee, " And %watt his finger anti& thumb he held " A poeneer-box, ;bleb tom and anon " lie email'. nose, sad took 't sway again." These military foplings are no credit to the army ; their aristocratic airs are equally insolent and unbecoming ; they have been resident in Dublin for some time, and tlicte are uuiverwilly spoken of with indignation and contempt. The conduct of LIMO o":' these lordlings, at the Theiwre and elsewhere, to ladies in particular, was Sii ungentlemanly and unmanly, that Sir Colqiihonn Grant, while in emu.: mind of that garrison, issued au order restraining their, 46i future ap ram: at any public places whatever. The; man to • studied to make themselves generally detailed! sod ; and to do them juiliCe, appear to ham% secomptuilted their laudable object •Ittost fully. Thetirl oendoctto Mr. Battier, on his own statement, which remains uneentesdieted, appears to have been must ungenerous and unmanly, and Lord Londonderry's proceedings, on the face of this statement, seem full as anwarrantabie and un just. The roll of hit. Lordship's own ancestry was not as very lengthened as to call fur a proscription of thin sort. A., generation or two would have trued it to a very muddy, source--but our noel homilies are always assuming. Nei ther was there any thin , ' very " sable" about the gadgety Colonel in actual contained of dikt regiment. Colotielil quentia is a foreigner, and soar lew years since well I ndingzmaster either to that 'rime other in Leadenly We de ivit iamialtitt this ement to him ; on the contriry, the principle that oug it to be pursued in the anuy is that of lioneparte--o" I a esrriere °overt asz M. /eats." It Was in that way he made officer,. Merit ought to be the only distinction, and any thing else niust be the ruin of the army. We have no objection to see young mess of high rank enter the service, but the experience of every day skews us that birth brings with it no monopoly of ta lent. The best officer! we have had, both in the army sad navy, have sprung from middle life. Napoleon's Marsha ,almost to a titan, risen from the ranks, and been selected ilibeir capability. The late conduct of the officers of the Hussars, and their titled Colonel, is calculated to st those who may not possess wealth and high birth wi the service, and cannot b.! too strongly reprobated. Our cavalry, when opposed to the French during the Peninsular campaign, were found in general most blear.. live. The German brigade alone formed an exception. This body of cavalry was raised for service ; the foppery of dress and aristocratic distinctions were disregarded, and they were fitted, in consequence, not for idle parade, but for die field. We arc assured, however, that Mr. Battier's statement has produced a strong impression in the highest quarter, and that strong reproof from the " Horse Guards" has followed on it. Tho professed objection to his admission into the " noble" ranks of the 10th " Pan dours" was, that he was not an adept in cavalry tactics. But could he have learned from intuition ? Were the titled youths who put him in such jealous Coventry at home in the exercise of the sabre on their first entry ? Was not their skill derived from the drill-serjeant and the ridings master ? Yet this formed no ground of exclusion to them. We hope that justice will be done to Mr. Battier ; he ap pears to have been most grossly ill-treated. The character of the army requires that such conduct should be met by the most decided reproof. indeed, we fancy the No bly Marquis who commands this corps, and his officers, are now heartily ashamed of the exhibition they hive made: The figure they cut is anything but a flattering one, and very unsuited either to the frankness of the soldier or the generous feelings of high-minded Gentlemen. THE KING. WINDSOR, MARCH 23.-11 is Aijesty rode out dais morning in his phaeton to the Royal Lodge. The Duke of York, the Duke and Duchess of filarsiaeel. the Princcss Augusta, &ode c. ars expected at the C I!, flits wide the KiWeg.;-thio ay. - • The Earl of Clancarty is also expected to 'arrive, do visit to the King. Yesterday evening the band of the Royal Horse Guards attended at the Castle, and played several pieces in the course of the evening. Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'clock, the Duke of York left town in his travelling chariot and four, to dine with the King. His Royal Highness transacted military business with Sir Herbert Taylor, his Military Secretary, previous to his leaving town. The Royal Duke's intended levee was put off, in consequence of his, going to Windsor. Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York. _ ELECTION OF AN EAST INDIA DlRECTOlL—Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India House, for the election of a Director, in the room of Sir Thomas Reid, Bart. de ceased. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and deli vered to the scrutineers, who reported the election to have fallen on John Petty Muspratt, Esq. Captain Charles Fox, eldest son of Lord and Lady Holland, is appointed Aide-de-Camp to Sir Frederick Adam, Bart., successor to the late Str Tbomas Maitland in the lonian Islands. Mr. Drummond, of Strathallan, son-in-law to the Duke of Athol, retires from the representation of Perthshire, which, it would appear, will pass very quietly, after our fashion, into the hands of Sir George Murray. It was whispered a long while ago that the former was to receive a peerage. The letters of the two gentlemen exhitiit a i most edifying silence as to all the questions which are agi tated in the country. There is not one word as to remit ting taxes, amending laws, or improving our Courts of Justice ; no professions of a zeal in the cause of economy, or in the defence of public rights. In short, it would appear that, in Scotland, politics are the business of every body except Members of Parliament !—Scotsman. FRENCH CHAMBERS.—The Session of the French Le gislature commenced yesterday. The Speech from the Throne, though a matter of much less interest than the same document was last year, is still expected with consi derable anxiety. Meanwhile, we can state from authentic information, that three of the principal points which it will embrace will be the following :—l. The intention of making the Chamber in future septennial.-2. The ques tion of the Spanish Colonies, which will be adverted to in a manner nearly similar to the views taken of it by our Government. France will take no part in the business.- 3. The reduction of the interest of the public debt —The adoption of these measures will be recommended, as being calculated, among others, to heal the wounds left by the Revolution. Letters from Buenos Ayres, dated 4th December, state, that the Indians had assembled in great force within ten leagues of Buenos Ayres, defeating the Buenos Ayres troops in every instance, and putting to death every one who happened to fall into their power: they had cut offal! communication with Chili. By the latest account the Indian, had retired a little. AMERICAN TA RI FF.—Extract of a letter received yes terday by an eminent mercantile house in the City, dated New York, Feb. 22:—" The Tariff Bill now before Con gress is likely to pass the House by a large majority, and the merchants now have only to look to the Senate to avert the evils which its passage into a law would create. The ' effects of this Bill, if carried, would be, that the Labouring' classes would pay 30 to 40 rer cent. additional fur clothing, working implements, and materials of every description. llofffm's Naberal History being more eloquent than exact, and more poetical than scientific, a new Ilistory of Animals, classed according to their organization, has been published at Paris by the celebrated Cuviet. This work being of the first order of merit, and of standard authority in this branch of natural history, an English translation has been under. taken by E. Griffiths, Esq. F.L.S. and has just appeared in Parts, with Engravings chiefly drawn from living sub jects. It will be completed within five years, and make about ten volumes octavo. No less than twenty-two persons received sentence of death at Salisbury Assizes, for tobberies of different de scriptions. The calendar of prisoners to be tried at the ensuing Devon Assizes is very heavy.—There are already one hundred and two tut trial, includirg several heavy crimes of bur. glary, &c. Cent r ex _ . .. . . .... iP, 4 / 1 / 0 YA/1414 4 .4 . /fratLaCINC/. I • Emily • Marchioness of Lewoonderry's assembly, ea bttadai everting in St. James's-square, wee attended by about 111 die: ' tr e t isl;ed fmhionables, includiag die Duchene' of Madame and .._ lion. Uri . Agar Ellis entertain& * Urge yof the/beat krt on Monday evening, at her honey ip Ttic Hon. bade Sruhli had a 6r an )I at her house in Piciadillyn among whom were, 144 lin:ltch/mil; Thi; Ite to of Carlisle, Sir Charles Hodson, Colonel and 3lrs. Vansitta it, Major sine espraiii Gardiner, 31r. and Mn.. Neave, Capt. flexion; Mrs. and Miss li , riyon, B. de Itouvoir s * Esq., &c. hie. Countixi AI ur •:r hat issued cards of invitation for a tour, 'on Friday nett, at bee Noise in Grorvenor-place. The Within of London will give a grand dinner on Siatur.lay next, at hi; house in Sr. Jame:it-square. The Countess of Arran had an Megan( circle of fesliii:nat.::v yesterday even?fig, It her house in Dover:street. The Marquis and Marchioness of liansdown enterisilned e d,..• tingdished party to dinner on Monday; at Immirtoen Hui", Berkeley-square; among whom were, the Archbishop bf Yin. the Itinheas of Ilitnititon, the Earl and Conntera of. Homberiy; Earl limiter. Earl of Nowt, Lord Sandal, Sir Jamla Mackintotiti, f Sir_lienry Hunbury, he.. It:. H. .Igar Ellis has aimed eerily of invitation to a distinglic:hej part to to meet. P ' leervol4 no the 10th April, at dinner. The Earl aria ( of Hoielierty have **Ord cards of invite ' tip lbw a grand dinner pato, on the 24 April, at their bolter id liv. Iti ll eAlsorquis of fisajtain hie arrived hi lawn from I Halt to dis: Duke and Login*" of Rutiand. at &Noir Castle. e square, from seat, Long //tom, Lord Boinon•t striVed at his house In Lowti Onivenetmttatt; from his neat, sue Lodge, Radii. einoo__-.-r.e.sa_alllPtmi, isg t FORRIGN INTEL!. RA E. FRENCH PAPERS. The Paris Journals of Sunday reached tti list night Gf eapresz. Their contents are nnintereating. The foDoiviv are extracts : L rasa die forks! deli 15441.1 • PA2III. APOW4 dri k. bn &trade la st; at eight o'clock is sksgisotidng, some re words toward. his Majesty dere traced testhentroyi be gr i die of the Tuileries. Three individnals, atiarsed or imipigOtted, this outrage, were Immediately weeded. tine or thou lOW ekt pi liberty in eels moments afterward& Thetis, others contra be. Mee the Sixth Chamber of Carettional Police. named defended by Mr. Mem, was aettuitted. T other: named Suraleau, a coven 'planer, 41110 avowal himself the only guilty person, was condemned to silt months imprisonitilot, Meld pay i fine of WO francs, the minimum of the penalty. COURT OF ASSIZEK, ArrAin or THE STAGE cosCa aisdieastir. The Court, after havi:4 deliberated anew on iho pf the law, pronounces, at halfzpaat four o'clock, It " whisk condemns to death Ochard, Renaud, and Delafbne te 4 66o n. Charpentier, Clem, Renard, and Pigeonnat, are re hard labour for life, to the pillory, and to be bread *Ws the letten T P. Ochar on hearing this sentence, protested his Innommte j ge; naud shed tears Delaporte remained unmoied t Raillin and the others were silent. At the moment the gendarmes took them sway, Charpentier exclaimed, " This is a judgment worthy of the 12tk century—l am condemned dithorit any evidence being producit# against me." The three who were condemned to death, hitt annoinic,nl theif intention of appealing to the Court of Cessation. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. Tuesday, the 231, is the die on which the Itoyal Sitt:ng place, when the Chancellor sill make lumen the time of the open. tog of the labour* of the mil Climbers. The find sitting of tLe Chamber of Deputies is always employed in composing the nine bureaus, amongst which be ditided the electkth. On the following day, the reports and discussions oft the rhea verbal elections begin. When these preltyninery operations are terminated. the Chamber of Deputies will proceed to constittate itselfidby the ency, an f d or b m y to e n of a quintu homination ple .60 itt candidstes, , Zi the Pres lost of four Secretaries. The nomination of MO Questoes will take plate tabpir ' out of a t iple list of candidates, presented vs his Majesty. Thepresent Quegton are AIM. GermeeDufougeray, and Void* de gab* Lary. The fi rst only hat been elected. The ATOM.* to ad( harre bee of about a hundred, assembled to-day in the Hall of the Pib tinge, under the Presidency of M. de Granoun, the senior of those present, to choose by lot the great deputation which le to meet hie 314;festy. 1 his operation terminated, one of the Secretaries realls.thepolie monial to be observed on the day on which the Maas of the Haig Ghost Is performed, and on the 21d, on Which day the Kai leaf . the Session of the Two Chambers. A hundred tickets of invitation tee delivered ter the eafilfal - • This number is nearly equal to that of the otunhera r . We can make Swett the names of the M sea a compose the Provisional &ren . fot the Pessidency (Senionil SI. )f. Chilhaud de La en the 17th Nov. 1719; De Vatismeui on the 1 1-4thesillest - wether Febrfois th April. 171 et - Stormier* (thi Juniors)--MM. De Seet, been do the ilk& Jamintry. 1786 ; Count De (felon, 18th October 178)1 Ilitelaed; 31st July, 1783; Marquess De Alartinville, sth May, 1755. (From the C'onstitriietoteLl PAilif. Mitt O. The Atottifene of yesterday contains a document whiel e i c s o u t izats the most serious reflections oil the tendency of the present ce. and on the confusion and encroachment of power. A ing tO the 145th article of the law of the 27tH Ventage Bth eat, Solicitors are appointed try the King, on the presentation o f the Tribunal, in the jittimitetido of which they are to practise. 111••• hating asked, In conscquenoe, to be presented for a charge of solicitor la the Royal COWS of Dijon, this Court, all the differebt *lotions united, has decided on the 12th of last February, that lit*" Mall not be presented to the aant:to( his Majesty. And on what ground p this decision foun d—on the moral character of the applicant ?—on his want of ability ?—;butt at all. He is rejected because he does not present the undeniable guarantee of a sincere attachment to the legithrtate Government. BRAZB.S. Yesterday i►e received Papers from Brazil to the 16th of January. Great anxiety ►s evinced by the people for having the Constitution immediately promulgated and sworn : . . IFrout the Marto do Corerno.l Rio DE JANETIG, brig. It The Emperor has resolved that the ship of the line Peter I. ; the frigates , Prangs and Nitheroy ; and the Atalanta schooner, shall sail from this port on an important expedition, under the command of the Chief Admiral the Marquis of Maranham (dated 30th December). A Resolution, dated lithJantiarr, Went the Admiral to send out the Atalanta on the 10th to Bikhia with MajorAleneral F. Cat deka Brant Pontea, whom it is to land these, with two English officers of the brig Bahia. An order from the Polite to the Judge% of the Ottersl districts of the city, desires them to hare patrols made in the bight to arrest suspicious persons. Those who are found with.arms are to be se rarely punished. A daily report is to be made to the police. 13. . . His Majesty the Emperor, desiring. on the one 1,;.;a, coavoitrall causes of rivabthip between the citizens of Brazil, whatever may be the pis+, of their birth, And that all may peaceably enjoy their rights under the protection of the law ; and on the other, that the tranquillity of the empire may never be disturbed by the inflow of persons who, under the it..ote of friends, and oo pretence of desir. ing to settle here, come with sinister instructions to tow disorder, and pervert the Food and peaceable clSsesse of this emptreohe tranquilli:y of which is the first object of hie al cares, orders, through the Secretary of state for the A efJiretioa, that the Intendant-General of Police, prom:lW Iti o si mi t tai iiellt scrupulous and serious examination, ca ination, shall use yto leave the Empire : First, All Portuguese who, having arrived since of during the time of the Decree of the 14th of January. IMOT., have not taken in the Chamber of this City the solemn oath of lidelity•to the cause of Brazil, and to the person of his Imperial Majesty, as pirescribed is the second ankle of that Decree ; giving eiders to examine whs. thcr, in the other Chambers of the province,tbere are any who hare not token this oath, who are to be proceeded against in the same manner. Secondly, All those who have strived since the Decree of the 211th of November of the %Mlle year, which suspends the operation of the first. His Majesty recommends the most strict attention to these orders. (Dated Jan. 3.) Circular letters to the same effect have been sent to all the pre. inees. JANI'AILY 16. The Emperor, wishing to reconcile as far as possible the service and splendor of the Church with the prosperity and safety of the empire, of which he is the perpetual defender, and judging that the number of the Ministers of the Church ought not to be increased without real necessity—depriving the country of the arms of who might defend it against its enemies--orders the Bishop not to admit persons to holy orders without his Majesty's a *vial pereat.s sion. Priests orders may, however, be given to tb YOC wbo hays already been ordained in earris. In a notice of January 3, it is stated that corriplahts have been made to his Majesty of the delays in determining, the cases of the prizes taken by the navy; and the reporter on these cause is order ed to give an account. without delay, of the cases which hare been decided in the first instance, and of the causes which have retarded their progress. To this the reporter answers, that he has proceeded with all the despatch that he was able; and the delays have arisen from the obstacles thrown in the way of the final sentences, either by the captors or the owners, who cannot be denied the right of appeal. An order of his Majesty, of the 7th, commands that the cargoes , of the prizes in the port, and of those that arrive in future- shell be landed at the Costom.honse, there to remain for greater security, till they can be delivered to those to horn they shall be &nay adjudged by the competent tribunal. The Emperor refers to the Board of Commerce certain petit ars of Brazilian merchants at Rio, who complain of hostas to pity higher Custom-house duties than the British nierehane. Addresses from various cities have been sent, highly approvingte the liberal Constitution proposed by bat Majesty, and request* that it may be proclaimed as the law of the empire, without wait* fur the decision of a future Assembly. • •• , 2,5 •, r - • t , 6 . , • Sv V\ ' I ( ' i ' I 4 ; 4 I i , 1 t 1 'I , ' 4 i 4 '. . ill li , . 1 I I , 1 , 4 I I 1 4 1 1 ,1 I ,1 1 , ii I ; II ; i , li% 'll/4 _ 1 1 L. ;