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SE. o an nc of oars. )(nett fine rears. cTee ; duct g the rnick 1. II 4. SI ng ;he nu 111. of ulil Aut 'tend cf :outril tact , be ill oca. it 7 Italy it 'HI :AI hrrn In Prince s not at u 17• 1);11, nor coo& Remo nsei at Da Pt , rill te ibe ut any s, *ea and's,- rde4ll* 4,164- V. cc wly of ;Qt the or no- ▪ 17. .iggin• 6 2 ' le kw 0 ( ghat s ae. The Dry haehig bees informed of the arrival of these un fortunate persons, received them in the moat friendly manner, and a pt fur the Neapolitan Consul, to whom he said, that it was his in order to hinder them from becom duty to afford them assistact:e , in robbers and brigands. The Dry has done still more ;he has d r awn a bill of exchange for 10,0h0 ducats, on the Neapolitan fin 'eminent, for relief afforded to these exiles; and it is believed thwi the florernanent sill not hesitate to honour this bill, for fear the I)ey a b 0 , 11,1 use te;trinas on the Neapolitan uterchanutien, to indemnify hiruselt for the sum he has advanced. TRITSTE, FEB. 13. The importance of Missolonghi is now more fully apprecia.e.l than ever. ice the raising of the blockade, a Greek corps has emend it; and this fort, "buntlattly supplied with AMMUllitiO , an d p m einions, has become the most important place of arms • f New Greece. It contains a reserve of artillery, consietinF of can ton sent by the Provisional Greek Governntents of the K at. a•• , t these bought . in the adjacent countries, or sent by the Philbel. Imes. Notwahntanding the bad weather, workmen are employed in repairing and extending the fortifications, in order to secure the place against a cosp-dr.wiaia, or a regular siege. Large sums ar: expected for thin purpose. BASLE, Maecu 3. The city of Lucerne has done itself honour by a remarkable Kt of toleration. The city is inhabited by Catholics. who alone erjoy the public exercise of their religion ; the few Protestants do not enjoy it, and their dead have .hitherto been buried without any funeral attendance. Some of the Catholics disapproving of this Intolerance, resolved to put an end to it, and the members of the Government consented. This resolution was carried into effect CM the death of a lace-ntaker, a Protestant born in Saxony. Matters were arrang , ,d to give him a Tory brilliant funeral, at which the majority of the inhabitants of Lucerne, almost all Catholics, at teuded. .11. '.fuller. the principal Catholic clergi men of Lucerne, one of the mom enlightened men in Switzerland, followed, and de. Ilvered at the grave a discourse suitable to the occasion, which was geuaaliv approved—( Dress& Parer', Mardi 16.) Greece, we are happy to learn, is gcimg on gloriously in her career of emancipation ; and the slaves of oppression will ere long become die sons of fre_slom. The Holy Allies no doubt regret that they arc withheld, by the exigencies of the times, from sustaining the legitima le Empire of the " turbaned Turk ;" _es they can have no very favourable forebodings, from the establishment of a constitutional Greek empire in the neighbourhood of the Holy League. The rights of man, supported successfully under the very nose of the Muscovite ! Verily, the magna nimous Emperor of all the Russian must look mournfully 'Aide while this scene is acting before him ! GREAT BRITAIN, too, going onward in its own straight-forward policy, in spite of the concert of Sovereigns !—the patron, on a sudden, of successful inJurrectioni ! Who could have thought it ? There is no comet that " With fear of change perplexes Monarchs," is half so disastrous in its omen to the governing powers of the Continent, as is this tinge of endiedism in the British Councils! While the three great Powers were establishin4 a sort of racing -hank, out of which each might draw assistance, when either their own subjects, or tl.e subjects of the surrounding States, should wince under op pression, or testify anything like a troublesome attach ment to constitutional freedom—that England should not only disavow its connexion with this firm, of ALEXANDER sad Conspus.s, but should ally itself with hostile interests, and confetlersts with opposite views, is a riddle which those who have not ploughed with her heifer— and these Potentates have not—will not readily solve. They may, howeieF, And out, ere long, that the progress of knowledge threighout the great community of Europe has changed thelpee of affairs, and that when Sovereigns will not think justly for their siih'ects, their subjects will reason a little for themselves. The time is come when Freedom wild make itself respected. Great Britain has given an example of this, and other states must follow it ; the necessity may be galling, but there is no help for it. The Russian Emperor has no very profound attachment to the Grand Turk. Indeed we know, and from the list authority, that the sovereignty of Greece has been offered, in pretty direct terms, to BERNADOTTE, , who In exchange was to surrender the Swedish Crown to Prince GUSTA cos. The restoration of this Prince to the Throne of his Pothers is en object of anxious interest to his Imperial Uncle. But Bernadotte was too wary to be caught by such a compromise ; he was not disposed to exchange a sceptre of S'iredish iron for any " likeness of a kingly crown," that the acquisition of Greece might give him, even though it should be guaranteed to him by the mighty Monarch, who, not many years since, in adjusting the rights of Sweden and Denmark, plandcred both litagdoms in stow:seal. This military chieftain is quick-sighted; he is aware of the anxiety of Russia to have a Gmek Empire, as well as a Greek Church, and he has no inclination to re move into a bad neighbourhood. We thought that Ministers were sufficiently strong in both Houses this Session, without any fresh accession of, numbers, and yet new auxiliaries—not of influence, but of expected talent—have been sought out, and introduced from Ireland, into the Lower House. Mr. North and Mr. Dogherty, have both, within these two nights, taken their seats, under, it is said, the fostering patronage of the Fo reign Minister—the first for the borough of Plymptoo Earle, in Devonshire ; and the latter for that of New Roan, in Ire and. Mr. Dogherty is a King's Counsel in Ireland, and, we believe, a distant relative of Mr. Canning : Mr. North has been always mentioned as a man of acknow ledged talents. His career at Trinity College, Dublin, was a very brilliant one, and yet he never rose into any thing like full business at the Irish Ha, where he has been called for several years. His eloquence, though highly cultivated and finishe.l, is rather cold and studied ; he is to) declamatory on every subject, however trivial ; and an ornate more than a ready or persuasive speaker. Mr. North possesses considerable talents but no fortune ; he is married to a sister of Mr. L-slie Forster, the Member for Cavan, and is thus connected, also with the Count de Solis. who has large estates both in this country and Ireland : to them he probably owes his intro luction into Parlia ment. It is yet to be seen what accession of strength, as a powerful and ready debater, he will bring to the ministerial benches. Our own opinion is, that he will fail ; and that, opposed to such men as Mr. Brougham, Sir James Mackintosh, or Mr. Hume, he will be utterly 'overmatched. Mr. Dogherty has not the high repute of Mr. North, but he possesses some talents as a ready and sportive speaker; to use a homely exprevion, he has "more .sea ly coin" than Mr. North. Mr. l'itt was fond of seek ing cut young men of distinguished talent in this way, of whom that great Minister and splendid declaimer formed - his body guard, and Mr. Canning is now acting his part :n the same great theatre, with Isis great patron's example before him. Of the numbers, however. whom ambition or influence have introduced into the House of Commons, • :19w few comparatively have made any figure. The orators of their own little circle have shrunk. into insig niticance on the benches of the Commons Home, and after one unhappy (Hirt or two, silence and oblivion have ken their fate. The debate of Thursday night afforded us, we confess, very high gratification. The speeches of the leading Mini sters on the Treasury bench are now distinguished by marked liberality and courtesy. With the soar of arms abroad, the fierce contests of inveterate party seem also' to have expired. A striking change has taken place, not only in the policy of the Cabinet, but in the debates of Par 'lament; and we think we may, in a great degree, date both from the period of the accession to high office, of, Mr. Canning, and his distinguished friends, the Chancellor Of the Exchequer and Mr. Huskisson. The polished courtesy displayed by the Foreign Secretary, during his animated and brilliant address, on Thursday night, threw an additional lustre round his eloquence, and was equally worthy of his talents as a minister and his heart as a man. Mr. Canning possesses, in the elegant language of the pathetic Massillon, " Us art (Toast:Wafter ks Graces qui tauchnit plus qae les Graces names." Through the most brilliant passages of his reply to Lord John Russell, when his rich and playful wit flashed from him at every sen tence, and its corruseetions threw light on all around him, he was still kind and conciliating ; and not an expression fell from him that could wound the feelings of those to whom lie was politically opposed. The polished weapons he wielded left no gangrened wound behind. The day has passed, when it was necessary, amid the fer ment of domestic treason or the alarm of foreign danger, for a powerful Minister to pour forth the torrent of fiery indignation, or discharge the brimming cup of bitterness on the heads of his enemies, within or without the walls of Parliament ; personal and party antipathies have now in a great degree passed away ; the dark feelings of gathering discontent and faction have fled at the approach of re turning prosperity ; that frenzy of political fanaticism, which originated in passing distress, and was fed by bad men, full of the leaven of every evil passion, has left the people's minds, and given way to better feelings of hope and of contentmont Ministers can now afford to exercise their natural and kindlier feelings—they can appeal to the reason and the gratitude of the great majority of the nation. The eloquent Minister who now leads in the Lower !tense, can rise in his place, and, discarding all the acerbity of party, reply to the charges of his adversaries, without forgetting for a moment thcsconciliating courtesies of polished life. Thus, when the storms of faction have passed away, and peace and prosperity have risen in the country, he is at length enabled to appear in his real cha racter without any disguise, and to secure by his eloquence and his moderation that universal respect, admiration, and approval, which could scarcely be expected amid the tur bulence and animosities of other days. We took the first opportunity already to allude to Mr. Canning's marked courtesy to Sir Robert Wilson through his whole address on Thursday night. The Minister's gratifying example was not lost on the house ; it was followed both by Mr. Littleton and Mr. Gooch, and met with universal support and approbation. Such a tribute must have been most consoling to the wounded feelings of the gallant officer, whom a circle of tyrants sought to insult and degrade. Amid the respect and sympathy of the distinguished cha racters who sate around him, Sir Robert Wilson could feel little for the privation of the foreign honours and baubles won by him in many a sanguinary field, when the thrones of the despots who conferred them were endangered, and who, but for this country and its aid, must have been crushed by the power that had in turn subdued them. Sir Robert Wilson's character is peculiarly high and chival rous. We will not talk of him as a Bayard, " sans peer et sans reprorhe," for he may have hail his errors, but they were not those of the heart. His services in the cause of general liberty, when the military dominion of Imperial France was almost supreme, were most distinguished ; and his last effort in the cause of fallen Spain was marked by the greatest self-devotion and disinterestedness. When the prejudices of the present day are forgotten, full justice will be done to his merits. In fact we think we see that better feeling already taking place. Let us add, that in , an hour when he has again returned to the bosom of his country and his friends, after his battles for liberty on a foreign shore, and when the ungracious tyrants for whom his arm was raised in their day of peril, have leagued with. their satellites to insult him, it would be an act every way worthy of Ministers to advise the restoration of his military rank. The suggestion, we are convinced, need only be made to insure from the kind feelings of his Ma , jesty its instant concession. The boon would be just now , a kind and gracious one, and yet only an act of justice to the gallant officer in question, who would thus possess in , the kindness and revived confidence of the Sovereign of this great and free country, more than a compensation for the worthless titles, unjustly torn from him by the despots, who can now, in their hour of security, venture to insult the man to whom they owe so much. THE KING'S COURT. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, his Majesty, accompanied by the Lord Steward and Sir William Knighton, escorted by a party of the 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons, ar rived at the Palace in Pall-mall, from his Palace at Wind sor. Soon after the King held a Court, which was at tended by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lard Privy-Simi. the Secretary of Stare for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, the Secretary of State fur the Colonial Department, the slants-General of the Ord nance, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board of Control, Viscount Sidmouth, the Judge of the Ad miralty, the Lord steward, the Master of the Horse, the Vice- Chamberlain, and the Comptroller of the Household. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Green attended as Clerk. Lord Stowell, Judge of the Admiralty, reported the case of John Castle, mariner, for stabbing his Captain with intent to murder, when he was ordered for eatcution on the Yd of April next. Mr. Arabia, the Assistant Recorder of London, in the absence of the Recorder from indisposition, was admitted into the presence of the King in Council, when the Learned Gentleman made a report of the convicts confined in New gate on capital convictions, which occupied about two hours. Ilis Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Canning, the Earl of Westmorland, the Duke of Welling ton, Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Harrowby, and Mr. Wa llace, the Master of the Mint, who laid before the King some specimens of coins. The Court broke up soon after four o'clock. At half-past four his Majesty left town for Windsor. WI NDSOR, MARCH 19.--7'estesday, the Roy al Horse Guards Band attended during the evening, for the amuse ment of the King's party.—His Royal Highness the Duke of York did not leave the Castle for London till about one o'clock.—Thi! morning his Majesty left the Castle soon after ten o'clock, for London, in his travelling carriage, escorted by the Royal horse Guards.—Lord and Lady Ware ick arc still visitors at the Castle, and also Lord Palmerston. At an early hour yesterday morning, the Duke of York arrived in town, after dining with the King at Windsor. Prince Leopold left town yesterday afternoon for Clare mont. His Royal Highness honoured Covent-garden Theatre with his presence on Thursday night; and afterwards honoured Lady Ravensworth with his company. It is thought that the Lord Lieutenant will lay the first stone of the new bridge in Limberiek. A memorial to this l effect has been sent to his Excellency.—Dtddia Freeman's Journal. Private letters fr3rnNetremberg, dated March 9, mention that the police of Berlin have been making new political arrests, even on the frontiers of the Netherlands. At this moment, five hundred persons are confined an secret. The same letter states, that the King of IVirtemburg has nearly settled his dispute with the Allied Powers, by promising to withdraw from his subjects gradually their Constitutional privileges. Accounts from Constantinople state, that the Turks are in absolute despair as Arc progress of file Greek insurrec- 1 tion ; the more as a threat has been made by the Emperor of Russia, that if a satisfactory answer to his demands be not received before the Ist of May, his troops shall pass to I the right bank of the Danube. IP 411311110 VAIL, IterELLIG ENCL. Yesterday Dowager Lady Rodney entertained at dinnan, id Rid house in Harley-street. the Earl and Countess of Ran, the hid and Countess of Fowls, the Earl of Somers, the Earl of Oxftwd and blortimer. Lord and Lady Harley, Lady Lloyd, Lord Ilotharn, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Bragg. Mr. gni Mn. Minium), Mr. Ark wright, Miss Cornwall, Mr. and Mrs. Foley, Mr. Rodney Harley, and the two Misses Owen. The Marquis of Lanedown had another dinner-party yesterday, at Lamidown House. Berkeley.square. The Marquis of Choimondeley entertained a distinguished party at dinner yisterday, at Cholniondeley House, Piccadilly. The Hon. Lady Smith commences her fashionable parties on Monday, at her home in Piccadilly. Sir R. %%gram. Hart. gave a ball and supper yesterday even ing, at his seat, Walthamstow House. Essex. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury had a select party at din. nee yesterday, at her house in Arlington-street. Viscount Hampden had a grand dinner-party yesterday, at his house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square. Arthur Stanhope, Esq. had a dinner-party yesterday, at his house in Tilney-street. Admiral Sir Charles Paget has arrived at Uxbridge House, from Portsmouth. . _ I.a !ii;tinise de Choiseul arrived oo Thursday evening at the Pulteney fluted , Albentarlmatreet, Irmo Paris. Departures—J. Brodrick, Esq. for Belvoir Castle ; and Capt. Rose, R.N. fur Portsmouth. _ _ _ _ Departures from Warren's Hata, Regent -street :—General Fuller, for Versailles t Hon. Rev. Rs and Hill and Son, and Thomp•on, Esq. on a tour. Arrivals at the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-street:—Colonel from Ireland ; Ralph Richards, Esq. and family, from Br' ton. I on. Captain George Elliot, R.N., has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Scotland. J. Barron, Eaq. left Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, on a tour. Mrs. Balfour and Mrs. Macgregor have left the British Hotel, Jemiyn-street, fur Paris. Arrivals at MI i vart's Hotel, Lowev Brook-stmt.--The Dowager Countess of St. Germain' and family, front St. James's-square; Mr. and Mrs. Mount and family, from their seat in Berkshire; G. C. Oxenden, Elf.q front hi. seat, Broont-park. Canterbury. The Earl of Dartmouth left town yesterday for his nwther's (the Counter of Dartmouth) sat at Hariekhogh, for a few days, pre vious to his going sa dui Condom& Arrival. at Loafs 1104 Bood-spreet t—Captaln Humphreys, fedin Llsasham r James Diseisowsli Sag. trout Scotland. De tures t—f:aptain Sherwood, for Paris s •I'sn. Strachey, Esq. for Brighton ; N. Chambers, lA. for his mat in Hants. PARISIAN FURNITURE, Mr. Robins's rooms, in thePiazsa, Covent-garden, were again crowded last night with a most fashionable assem blage of persons, who were drawn together by the rare and splendid collection of Parisian furniture and articles of taste, which are now exhibiting there, previous to their' sale this month. The variety, value, and splendor of this choice exhibition, excited very great interest and at tention ; many of the articles are truly beautiful and I unique, and were greatly admired by the company. There are several splendid vases of Dresden porcelain, in the Me- 1 dicean shape, which are extremely rich in landscape and figures : the services of china arc equally elegant, and of beautiful colours. Amongst the furniture a great portion is tastefully mounted and chased, and is rendered more cu rious and valuable from its being of the timr of Louis XI V. We observed several ancient or-mole clocks, and a number of curious carvings in ivory. A mass of amber coloured Oriental sardonyx attracted great attention ; and we should notice that, amongst the china, is a pair of Sere vases, with miniatures of Louis XVI. and Marie An toinette, very highly wrought. The gold and silver plate is $ valuable and complete collection ; and altogether we may remark, that so rare a catalogue has seldom been wit nessed. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The name of Shakspeare operates like a talisman upon the mind, and calls up a host of the most blissful and in tellectual associations. From him the brightest faculties may derive • perpetual succession of new and expansive Ideas, in aainuch as his works afford a true transcript of the infinitely diver sified characteristics of nature, which, the more they are studied, the more various, deep, and illimitably original they prove to be. It was therefore with no unabated nest that we looked forward to the oratorical and critical lectures of Mr. Thelon!! on Shakspeare sad the Drama; the latimb of which was given by that gentleman last night. The .abject selected for the eeteing's lecture was " Shakspeare's and Garrick's "Richard the Third." contrasted' with that of modem dramatists and actors." In describing the several characters, which the mighty pen of the poet has delineated, in the plays of Henry the Sixth and Richard, the lecturer particularly remarked upon the peat difference between those characters as they are represented on the stage, and as they were really and is drawn by Shakspeare. The gar bled melange of the grein-room library, and the energy and truth of the original, were well colossus& and forcibly insisted oa ; and most justly instanced as a timpani violation of the text of Shakspcare, and an abuse ail detanoration not only of that great genius, but of the taste and litsratime of the age. To correct this ' injurious andmerverted system, is one benefit which must result from the labours of the lecturer. The idea which the gene. rality of us have of the personages of Shakspeare Is mostly derived from the portraiture, not of the author, but of the actor. This is evidently a source from whence many errors must originate, when it is considered bow arduous • thing it is to sustain, with full fidelity, any mie of Shakspeare's characters, and what a combination of taste, deep penetration, justness of conception, and energy of action and voice, are required to do so in any efficient and masterly manner. The enthusiastic admirer of the great dramatist would above all things be most anxious to impede and altogether prevent this fatal and prejudicial mode of estimating the merits and demerits of his master; and this is a further object aimed to be effected by the lecturer. Mr. Thrlwall declares that Richard the Third, as represented by Mr. Kean, is a morose, cold-blooded, murderous, umatellectual villain, warped in his very soul by the lowest and most vulgar passions, capable neither of sympathy nor one light exhilarating feeling, but absorbed in a dark and gloomy misanthropy, which rents itself through the medium of the direst propensities. Mr. Thelwall's idea of the chit meter is quite the reverse. He maintains that Richard was, and is, historically and poetically, cf • c attic turn—that his pride, and consciousness of superior mental power over every one around him, and capacity of making them subservient to his purposes, burst forth in frequent ebullitions of exulting and tri umphant chuckling. at the weak and powerless resistances opposed to his uncurbed and ambitious will. His was the very perfection of self.love. lie harmed no one wantonly, or from a spiteful or selfish motive. All his deeds bloody as they were, sprung not I from hatred, but an overweening and excessive egotism, and a grasping and insatiable ambition, which,. to aggrandise itself, would annihilate the w h o l e h uman ra ce. such was the character, he contended, of Richard the Third, and such was he represente d ' to be by Garrick. Ala Thelwall, in the course of his Lecture, gave, among other quotations in support of his opinions, Richard's soliloquy in the third act— .' Ale , Edward will use women honourably;" and tho manner in which he delivered it was a most excellent coin. meet upon the positions he had been previously endeavouring to support. For an ambitious reatlessnes., an intellectual ovenower ing urging on, and a ruintrling spirit of buoyant confidence, the re sult of a conecioua superiority, which throws a degree of comic feeling over the character • Blithest striking attributes of Richard art,rnost conspicuously displayed in this fine soliloquy. We will conclude our notice by expressing the great pleasure we derived from the action and delivery of the Lecturer, combined as these were with opinions which we sincerely believe must tend to sustain the high reputation which the taste and literature of our country haves° long enjoyed. The contrast between the different actors of Richard is to be the subject of a future Lecture. The audience was very respectable, and departed much pati:led. ——-- - - - GLASGOW THE•TRS.—We have had Mr. Macready with its for a week, assisted by Miss Kelly. The per formances of each were excellent. After the play of Virginias on Saturday, the petite comedy of Matrimony was performed, when our astonishment was only equal to our enjoyment. Miss Kelly will certainly prove as great, if not greater, in the comic than she is in the tragic line; and should the latter fail bim (which can never be the case, so long as taste and natural feeling have any influence on the stage), Mr. Macready will find few to surpass him in genteel conictly.—Glavore Free Press. Another information, ex-Ifficio, has been filed against the Slur newspaper.—Delhi. Evening Post. A ro EarNes.—lly a letter from Barcelona, dated the 6th March, we learn, that a despatch had been addrersed to the Commandant of Marine of that place, frem Blanes, by which it appeared that the Captain of the Sardi nian vessel the Misericorde, receirily arrivA from Al giers, had been on shore with the American Consul at that place, at whose house he met four Spanish Captains, wh o had been taken by the Algerines. These persons and their crews were treated with mildness by the Algerines, and al lowed the whole range of the city for their prison. When he left they Bay of Algiers, there were eight Algerine vessels of war in it, which were being dismantled. When Riego was taken prisoner in Spain, there was' with him an Englishman named Matthews, who held a regular commission from the Constitutional Government. Of this individual we heard nothing since his arrest with Itiego. It now appears, from the letter of a respectable inhabitant of Madrid to an eminent house in the City,' with the perusal of which we have been favoured, that he has been for months in solitary confinement, exposed to all the uuelties and horrors which the refined malignity of Ferdinand could invent, and that he was at one time kept without food, in his dungeon for fifty-three boors. The facts have been laid beferc Canning. FIRST REPORT FROM TEE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ARTISANS AND MACHINERY. The Select Committee appointed to inquire ioto the state of the Law itt the enited Kingdom, sled its consequences, respecting Artisans leaving , the Kingdom, and residing abroad ; also, into the state of the Law, and its consequences, respecting the e•- portstion of Took and Machinery; and into the state of the' Law and its effects, so far as relates to the combination of Workmen, and othe rs, to raise wages, or to regulate their wages and hours of working. (Con(i:turd ....on, oar Paper of Thursday.) We have already averred that it may he laid down as a fundamental axiom that government ought at no time to interfere with the natural right of any individual to employ his industry in the best rnonocr he is able fur his MCllhfßefii.l The skill of a mechanic is his capital ; and he has a right • to employ it to the best advantage. If he can make it' more profitable in another country than in his own, to that country he is justified in taking it ; to et..tet a law that shall prevent him from so doing, is to legislate without any legitimate duty ; such a law is, In its principle, immoral! and unjust. Merchants may transfer their money copii.d; where they please ; they may remove it, if so ilisposed,! from London to Labrador : why then prohibit the artificer front carrying the capital of his industry to whatever spot he can best turn it to account? There is no answer that, on any principle of common justice, can be given to this. The plain truth is, that arechtsaks, in the mom, are poor ; they have no means of contending against the infiuenm of j wealth and the advantages of permanent authority, The ! laws to which this Report relates originated in the spirit ofd monopoly. The language held to Government b' the manufacturers has always been this—" If you permit our artisans to carry their skill and labour into another country, the British manufacturer will be undersold in the foreign market, our commerce will speedily stagnate, the revenue j will fall off, and our prosperity will go to Bray. All this cannot but sound terrific in the ear of a Finance Minister, who is naturally not very anxious at any time to encounter j the tumultuous opperri of a host of opulent capitalists. Ac cordingly, by the nth Gee. I. c. v, any person who shall be convicted of inducing any artificer, of or in any of the manufiwtur et of Great Britain, to ko into any foreign parts, in order to practise his trade, is nude liable, fur the first offence, to be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred . pounds, and to three months imprisonment ; and for the ..econd, to be fined in any sum, at the discretion of the Court, and to be imprisoned for tw:lvc months, and until such flue be paid. 'lbis proscription, harshly enough enforced one should think, was not however deemed sufficiently tim orous to sa tisfy the manufacturing capit a li s t s ; an d by t h e 43 Geo. 111. c. 13, this penalty for the first offence was increased to fire hundred pounds and twelve months imprisonment, and for the second offence one thousand pounds and two years impri sonment. If any artificer shall go beyond the sea, and it exercising his trade, if he does not return within six months after wanting is given to him by any of his Majesty's Mi nisters or Consuls abroad, he is from thenceforth deleted incapable 0 / taking any legacy devised to bins within this kingdom, et of being executor or administrator, or of tak ing any lands within this kingdom, by descent, devise, or purehate. He likewise forfeits all his lands and goods to the King, is declared an alien, and is outlawed. And all this has hitherto passed for wisdom in the manufacturing world ! It is rein siting, however, to observe the coming on of a more enlightened season, and to witness the more in telligent among the master manufacturers coming forward to bear witness against this monstrous and unnatural per version of legislative authority, to effect a change in so erroneous and impolitic a system. It is gratifying to see that we arc fallen upon times so good, in which the day-star of freedom is rising, and the delusions of selfish ness are giving way : monopoly has had a signal triumph and a long reign • it is time that right and wrong w e re brought, as here after we trust they will be, to a more car met anduitable standard. equitable The following is the evidence given by Mr. JOHN MANTINE•U to the Committee, with respect to the penal restrictions we have just before detailed : Does nut the letter of the law in fact prevent our artisans from going out of the country P—Certainly. To what extent do you think the number of artisans who emi grate would be Increased if the law was repealed?-1 thought the question alluded to the possibility of theitleargsg_ the kingdom my own opinioh is, that they go out in quite as greet numbers as they ter:ad do if the law did not forbid them. Are they enticed to go abroad both by Englishmen and forelga ers ?—Certainly. What kind of workmen is it that are generally enticed to go abroad ?—They invariably entice the best workmen; *considerable risk and expense is incurred in getting workmen over from this country; and, added to this, a large bribe is necessary, so that it would not be worth while to incur all this risk and expense for the sake of obtaining inferior workmen. . Can you state any cases in point ?—I have myself had repeated instances of attempts to entice away my own men ; about three years ago I had a considerable number of my men enticed away for the works at Chaillot ; they were of the best description of workmen, and men employed by me on work which I wished for a time to keep private, for it was the subject of a patent. Have you any late examples where any attempts have been mode to entice your men ?-1 have received within these few days a letter from Parts, stating, that two Englishmen had conic over, aid that one of their objects in London was, to entice men from our manu factory In particular ; I immediately sent this letter into the manu factory, in order that the men might ace, if any of them were dis posed to go to France, that an opportunity offered itself, and Mat I did not intend to prevent their going; the consequence was, not a single man Left nie, though I had reason to believe that the terms offered were very high, and very, advantageous to them. You have stated that, under the present circumstances, your best men are enticed away ; is it not a great loss and inconvenience to have your best workmen, accustomed to your factory, thus enticed away ?—Certainly. Suppose the law now existing to be repealed. what description of men would be the most likely to go abroad ?—I have no doubt but ' that the inferior Woool4'lB would be the first to go ; those, in fact, who jollied i; difficolt to get employment in this country ; I am persuaded that our superior class of workmen would never leave their country, if attempts were not made, under tkc existing lows, to entice them away by high bribes. Do you think that many of the best workmen who go abroad now from a freak, or perhaps to see the country, would be disposed very soon to return, but fur the penalties of the law which now prevent them ?—I think that very few would leave ;he country, but that those few who did leave it from the circumstances referred to, would be very glad to return. Do you know, of your own knowledge, that such would have been the case with many who have gone abroad ?—Yes. I am aware , that mut t are at Mis limn wishing to reborn to England. ' Would not perfect feeedmn to go or stay, render the men more as. tisfied, and less likely to make a permanent emigration than now ? —1 am persuaded, if the law were repealed, very few of them, or, at any rate, of such as are worth keeping here, would go ; from my knowledge of the habits of the men, 1 tun persuaded they would be quite satisfied, if they only had the right to do ea. flare you any fear that the country would suffer by the rivalry of other countries, if perfitet freedom were given to the artisans to Al, abroad ?--I am *untied that d would not surer, for the reason I have already given; viz , the inferior workmen going instead of the superior. Have you seen any men who have returned, and can you state what report they made of the establishments abroad, or ot their lik ing the situations they are in ?—Not of my own knowledge, but my partner was residing at Paris about two years since, and, had opportunities of conversing with English artisans there, and most of those he saw expressed a strong desire to return to England, but their passports were refried to Own. By whom 7—By the interference of the masters with the French police. Would not they, on application to the British Minister, have ob ' tained a passport?-1 am not inclined to think that the British Minister would interfere in a ease of that sort. You state, that the increased emigration of artisans, consequent on the repeal of the laws in question, would probably reduce the wages of English workmen in France ; would not that reduction tend to keen our artisans at home ?—I certainly think it would have that ettect. Are these laws often enforced by the wasters against thr work men i—They have been in various instances lately ; there are some instances in the neighbourhood of Tipton, in Staffordshire, at the present (hue. Would the French manufacturer have the same motives for offer. log high wages to our best workmen to come and establish them selves in France if the Gies were repealed, which he has now ?-1 think not; because France would be supplied with the inferior class of workmen, and would probably be satisfied with them, so that they would not have the same inducement to bribe our better clams of workmen ; but if they were to attempt it, my opinion is, that they world not sacred. Your opinion is, that the indifferent workmen flocking to France would reduce the wages so much, as to render the temptation held out to the good artisans nugatory I—That is my vitslon. Can you inform the Committee whether there are, in any other country, any laws now existing of the nature of those in England. which prohibit artisans leaving their country 1-1 am aware of none. unless it be Resale : I believe there are laws to that effect in that 'country. Thus we see that these penal statutes not only defeat their own purpose, but aggravate the evil they affect to retneily, by making it the most profitable policy fo r foreigners to tempt away our best workmen. kvary end_ gala artificer is moreover placed in this extraordinary pre dicament, that should he, from whatever cause, be in. clincd to return within the period 'inscribed by the the statute Which arisib Aim With such ruinous ewm city, ha is prevented by the refusal of a passport, and is thus left at the mercy of his . foreirr employer. The, resident British Alf haste- trill not isteVire la obtain for him that pompon without which he cannot ale, the very law which, air we have sees, pernishes his disoSedielete by depriving bim of all pry diaposalwaittp him of all the rights of a British Ltd mating. him upon the world as an alien and an outlaw !! And - in the teeth of all this, we are told, that our aandribleform of (Myrrh.* went furnishes a degree of protection to the subject Unknown in any other country ! We sincerely hope that Ministers will, by the speedy repeal of these laws, not leave this assertion in future so open to the contndiatien si cep-rioter. The questions put by the Committee to Mr. ALT:dribs' OA 1.1.0"/ A v ire answered With the same manliness and nut , • dour as by the last witness. What is the elms of men diat we at firmed enticed Shot ate they the best, or the ordinary ?-6enerally spealthiLlier ate , cenainly the belt ; we have always found cons 'i ty id Men going to North America, because they hate helm, gesetally ' tweaking, called to undergo examination at the stitichm • otter. at tirantend, and the captains of every Vessel are under a penalty of 200 t. for taking any person who has est bean so mtatnined i Ml what guarantee have we that a man who is sii estorsimeerholi call himself a laboorrr or a farmer ? they take his ash from himself, and he will take especial cate to pre hiseseli;W; description as the law cannot take cognisance of. You have stated, that at present your best herds ale pettemlly enticed away; is it not often attended with very great inorisneniencs fora factory to lose their bout men, in the wag which has Lady taken place ?—Coniiderable t there is nd evil equal to it, by the disappointment it occasions. Supposing the law to be altered, do you thibk lie mime dam of then would chiefly go abroad I—l do lot Mb& They wwwid. mid I • will state why ; the principal men in every sloop better known than the inferior ones, and all perae Waft ' wish to entice men away, will neceeseeilf • de r superior; but if it was free for every an to go, keep our superior, but lose our infen .ot Iseekglae tie will not enter into any engagement to lease the . ho • receives very considerable wages, therefore thcht e nit I no meat to the superior men t whereas half the money wee very great inducement W the inferior and aa they de ask wag ht I France that kind of directing at st*ribt - capability now, dist they did sonic years ago, I should consider th ey would be dispelled to, take,if any at all, our inferior men; besides, out infealert men Would be On the lark-mit fur Curb engagements. Why do not they seduce the inferior men now ?—netirose the ditylettity and dancer with the cost of these engagement*, are sit I well known, that foreigners do not like to ingot them tot frrior men. What is the comparative rate of wages In Paris and in London, l for men capable of doing the same work, or for the situ, men should think, as far as my knowledge extends, that French workmen in France, and English workmen in England, it would be in the proportion perhaps of twrsty.hro to thiitruir T 1 should think the same man in Paris would receive a guinea er 2:ls. a wale, while a similar workman "mild receive I. London thinywix au. tiv. ; yet English workmen in France *mild, if sasenigagad, it. eelre two guineas a week, or double the wages of a ditlve,illse was lived workman. Y ea. DJ - yon mesa that wages are higher in London than in Paris lc-. New fir would that difference in the actual payments be made up to the men by the greater cheapness of provisions In Paris P—l can only say from what I hare heard from Englishman who WWII there, that the difference is not so great in the *Xmases of Nieto& if they indulge in English habits. Have you known many men Who have been abroad and hare re• turned, and it so, what report do they make of their service memo rally P—l do not know many who have returned ; they have,arwer. been afraid to retire ; and those who have returned, haws totted it prurient to keep their own counsel. Would not many of your best workmen, who. go *Wed now fuel freak or to see the country, return P-4 think many would; I have a man shorn I hays employed lan week, who hat bees, I artier. stand, 'lira years is Fromm s he returned on an tiodennandirg that his return to England *mild be kept per:redly secret, and t Ist he would be employed :Mama being known; Ps yes, ie feet, Wens:. to ask employment in • shop, where he hid never before worked ; he states to me, that lee should have tainted tiWeke months ago, if he could herr fused the same means of returning that that he has Now done. Would not perfect freedom to go or stay reader the as much more 'seabed, and much less likely to make pit.irrit stederw , tine I—l believe that the mere tact of their ksowssg that they world hare a right of going, would almost preontt its exercise. Is it not generally the rase with workman deny dam, when tke fancy themselves to be under resttietione, to basiggdus to remove them N.-Ittourial4; I believe every regulation canes is the shape of a restraint, cantos in moat of their mind*" constant desire to break through the restraint; but When the frotritios has been rt. moved, there has been no great dispdsition to okay ihat which wad no longer prohibited t they are a peculiar clam, and am governs I by those considerations Which do not biluniesnust of toottenlarged minds in this country. Do you know in what manner them with animus a dmit Ahmed have bean keps.ia France O.- keno known iostancei on the continent, where four and five guineas a week have been pro mised in England, and the men have left it fa the expectation of ecit Lag have lbw •or fire guineas a reockoind si ft er they \weberm abroad fur a few months, and after, in fact, they had instructed their employers and gave them peosass.an of their knowledge, par ticularly as regarded the instruction or fhe native workmen, tiwir employer: Aare had the isifesticr turd *Vein. to redact their essery to two gnineas a week or less; and them Ensile% work-new have been obliged to submit to such reduction, from Me difficulty end danger tf grtangback; this is a fact within wry men knowkd,gt. have you any fears that the country would sutler by the rivalry of other countries, if perfect freedom wan given to the artisans to go and return ?—I am perfectly persuaded that if the Art .11 , r tiro prohibition of machinery were repealed, then would be hardly en instamee of is 014111 being indsced is fuser this cowntry ; nor shoeild I be afraid( the wv, honied exertions of my (vestry while we hate scope fbr oar tokat and indastry. You think, almost uniformly the workmen who have been duced to go abroad, have found themselves so much worse off, to r they have been prevented returning only be the difficulties P-1 not say that they have been much worse oft, but that the expecni• don of considerable increased advantage has not been reality'; that their comparative conditions have been Minty needy the saino, much lets improved than they expected. Are the Committee to understand, that is mootguence of that failure of engagement, if the laws were now removed, those merz would generally be disposed to return to their own country ?—r should think it weak, hare the certain eftel of bringing br ea k numbers qf the most rateable wets—valuable not only from their own.knowledge and exertions, but particularly valuable for their example, upon the rest of our men. From your expetience of thirty years with artisans of every kind, is there not a very great indisposition in every man to leave h.. home, unless some very extraordinary inducements are held out ? I certainly think they are a body of men very little dispond to emigrate, if they hate the meows rye ordinary comfort at hornet if I want to send a man even to ha a maclolne, to who inve two week guineas a here, he will not ga avian I give him th ree ess: I had to give two men I3ot. a year, together sith provi them with board and lodging, to induce them to go to a foreign country to tit up some machinery I had manufactnred. There is no doubt but the repeal of this law would be measure as salutary in its effect as it would he sound in its principle. Ministers cannot better pave the way to that I five of trade which they seem well inclined to pstro nine, than by ridding the statute book of that perseentilg spirit which it has an long exercised towards the great body of mechanics and aetiarns, without whose skill anal in dustry they, would have no trade left to protect. We shall reserve the evidence on the Combination Lao A, with our observations thereon, till our next. ••••_ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Last night we received the Pans' Journals of 'Wednes day, from which we copy the following articles : ( From the Courrier Francois.] F AAAAA ONT, M•ACH 12. Private leans from Vienna state, that a few days ago in n• communications were made to the Austrian Cabinet by the British Ambassador. One of the principal topics of conversation in the cir cles of the capital is, the diffrtenee of opinions and of political sys tems which exist between the Cabinets of London, Vienna, and St. Petorsburgh, concerning the new states of South America, and the Government actually established in Brasil. It is reported that the Emperor Don Pedro has manifested the intention of granting exclusively to England great onalmercesl ad.. vantages, on the only condition that the British Cabinet would recoknize him as Independent Sovereign of the Empire of Snail. A czuding to the latest intelligence from the Mediterranean, the Angeline" made important eapteres, not only from the Spaniards but also from the Saidimana. They bare sent several prizes into Tunis, and amongst others a brig which entered that port on the :Id of February. [nom the CorestigHtLinnen A/IMF, Fr.. 11. Patna continues to be closely pressed both by land and sea: whilst on the other hand, Alaurocordatos, Colonels Delaney and Stanhope, together with Lord Byron, who are all united in Alisso longhi, are r:aking great preparations to attack Lepanto. In general the bes: understanding exists between the chief". .lcarnania, Etolia, Pelopooncsus, and the eastern firosinrai , vie in courage and devotion to their country, with the inhabitants of the islands. The Shatargues, Medals, I I yrkos, and Constantine Theateris, arc encamped am the shores of the Ambit.. ie gulph. Sim:mune Dm. pies Melanoma, and Zengoe has nonrated into Djourrcska. Th, object athirst movements towards the north is to form a juiseti•ot with Ismail, who commands in Epirus. There is much agitation in Upper Albania, since it is knom that Alustapha Paeha, baniehrd by the Sulam, had taken mea sures for his personal safety. [Fran the Jorrnal dra Diets.] The journey of our Stomach, and of the Court to the view of trending the winter there, has be,. postponed month of September. The marriage of the Archduke, hereditary Prince, - fent* Louisa of Lucca, is spoken of: but this IMMO rumour. I I N a (acct ales- blawcze R. to Italy, with *weal to thr e, with the In. t be a mere )** • r . - s ... I