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FREACHPAPERS. LProm the Eleile, dated Tuesday, July 25.1 COltEt!, JItNE 27. "Ole Seraikiellias quitted the environs of Lepanto, and has fixed bitttead.quarters six leagues off, between Salons and Sidoriski. .'he Greek troops had made some entrenchments with the inten t.on of hairier their head-quarto', there, but they hare now aban striped that position. The Seraskier has had some engagements in tle*envitons-ofSidoriski, in which he last a great many men. They expect at Proves& a Bunten Consul to reside there. The Government has received orders from the Sersakier to assign the best house to the town, which is composed of mere barracks, to the expected Consul, for his residence. The inhabitants of Speacia, to - be better able to defend themselves, have joined those of Ilydra.• 'We bear from Napoli di Romani*, that a corps of 4 or 5.800 Arabs has advanced towards the province of Mains, calling on the inhabitants to submit; that the latter being able to defend them. selves, desired to communicate with Ibrahim in proton, which not having taken place, they opposed the entrance of the Arabs, and atter an obstinate engagement, defeated them, with the low of 2,000 men. I' is added that two transports laden with provisions of all kinds, bzlonging to Lord Cochrane's division, have arrived at Napoli. Travellers corning from Prevesa affirm that the garrison of M is oniurghi when it evacuated that place, carried away the remains of Maros Botsaris, which they happily conveyed to their countrymen ac a new Palladium. BRUSSEI 9, JUNIt 21. " We, William, &c. seeing the requestof the Archbishop of Mal :lles, and the Bishop of Namur. containing in their names, and in t;tose of the Vicara-General of the ether dioceses, observations rela. use to the regulations in Art. 44, of the Concordat of 18111, and ,the Decree of tad December, 1822, concerning private chapels sail oratories ; -` Seeing the said Art. 44, containing that a private chapel or ora tory cannot be erected without the pernalasion of die Government, on the application of the Bishop; • * "'Seeing the Decree of 22d Dec., 1829, whence it results that, indepenCeritly of the opinions of the managers of public establish ments therein interested, those of the local authorities and of the Gartman; of the provinces must be added to the applications for permisr4an to erect private chapels and oratories ; eselog the reports of our Slinis‘er of Justice, of the Director General of the Catholic worship, and of the Committee of the Coon oil of State for those affairs, with the advice of the Council of its 'et • We have thought fit ' lst. Derogating from the Organic Law of the Cotictrdat of 1881, and the therm of 221 Dec., 1822, and ad. witting the Measures to be subsequently taken to permit the heads te: the several Bishoprics to grant, geatnitously„ to individuals, to public establishments, sod congregations legally established, the erection of private chapels and oratories, delusively for the use of those individuals, or of the persons belonging to these establish metits or congregations, on condition that they shall be erected with • possible economy ; and that those permissions shall never be wanted, either in town or country, but to persons who cannot attend d. ire worship in the churches on account of their great age, ill f.s.dth, or infirmities. 2d. To decide that none shill be cm pinied for the service of those private chapels or oratories, Lai aged and infirm priests who have no other dui?. 3d. To oraer that the head, of' the Dioce,es shall transmit, at die and of every year, to the Governors of the provinces in which their Bishopric lies, an account of the private chapels and ora tones, the erection of which shall have been pcmti• ted during the veal by ecclesiastical authority. Collies of these accounts shad be transmitted within two months after their tieing received by the tiovernors. accompanied with their observations to the Director (..;eaeral of the Affairs of the Roman Catholic Worship, who will • them to us with his remarks and opinions. " Brussels, June 20. " W I 1J141.131." FRENCH 24.--Five per Cents. 99f. fite.; Thee per Cents. fill. 95e.: Bank Stock, 20f. 20e. ; Neapolitan Rent's, 72f. 55c.; Spanish ditto, 74 ; Royal Spanish Loan, lejf. l:tchange on London, one month,2st. 60c. ; three months, 25f. 40c. —Coot/ Authentilme. - - • We learn from Florence that their vessels have joined to go to- wards Suds, to intercept the supplies of provisions for the Morn, ohne the Turks are in great want. PRICES OP BRI fib II Pak* Stock 192 19t 1 3 jetr Cent. Red. 771 3 per Cent. Coes. 761 7 7 3l 1 • 10.tto Acct. 761 77 761 771 3$ ptr Cent. 641 2$ y.r Cent. Red. WI 1 J New 4 per Cent. 221 4 ?or Cent. tem: WI 4 ITOCKS YESTERPa T. Long Ann. 14 Id 15 16 India `Stock India Bonds 21 19 20 pm South Sea Old Annuities nt Es. Bill. 1000/. 11 13 pm Ditto 81101. 11 1:1 pm Him Small 11 17 pm Lottery Ticket* 24i To. PRICF:3 OF FOREIGN sal:ien Bondy Buenos Ayres Bonds 49 S;.si Amblers Roads 311 a; I lb to Monde (182.1; 32 1 3 2} P.rta Aect,3lj 21 3 3 31 Linda 3 French Route.. 5 per Cent. 99f. 23c. Etchange 21if. 4.5 c. 60e. 12. Bonds , 1824; 14 i Acct. 121 STOCKS YESTERDAY. Mexican Rontis Ditto Bonds ,1823) 471 it B it i Ditto Acct. 47 I 84 8 e3iii Peruvian Rondo 23 Portuguese Bonds 68 Prtmlan Rondo Ditto Bonds ;IST:, 99g Rugalatt Bonds 801 g Ditto Acct 801 spaniA Bongo 71 I 9 Ditto Bonds ( ir..l) 4 g 3 Ditto Acct. =:-,-- - ts ~..7.•• ••• ---- P: " - ;•;,, 5 . __ - -- - ,i 7, •.„.-:,.:„ aesa , . - av- $ • - T-17) - 33„ - -=:-:-_,..-•; i - r - ...••••.s. 44; -:-1k.,1,: • . 144:24 / r ~,,- • , .-; ..vt .• • 7 c-- • -----.=:_ - ----- --- -- Vie StittOft Vregio. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. This Keening, THURSDAY, July 27, will be performed the new Operatic Rornsitee, called THE DEATH-FETCH; or, THE STUDENT OF GO'TTINGEN. T:se &eters by Messrs. Archer, Permian, Bartley, and Keriry ; Misses Paton, Kelly, and Howard. To conclude atilt the Musical Demon of AMATEURS AND AUTORS. :sse;el Dulcet. Esq., Mr. Penman ; Mr. 0. P. Rustle, Mr. G. Pensan ; quit, Hr. Wrench; Elderberry. Mr. Bartley; Geoßry Sidfincapp, Mr. Kr.ie). Alin Mary• lisodscre, Miss Roden. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. Under the especial Patronage of his )lost Gracious Majesty. 7be Proprietors reapectfally acquaint the Pubitc. that in catuequence ot the great delight exrressed by the Company at the NIGHT ASCENT ot the BALLOON lad Week, they have made arrangements with Mr. tialiEN to make one more Ascent. To-morrow Evening, previous to his Ueparture foe the Country. To-mnerol Evening, FRIDAY. SW)* 28, a GRAND GALA will take p:ace, with, beside, the n mai Entertainments of the Concert, nee Hallo, ar. Wilson on the Tight Rope, Sc., Ike., the noVel Exhibition of THE RUINS OF AN ITALIAN ABBEY BY MOONLIGHT, By the celetaated Mr. Blanked, will he exhibited. Also the CAMBIA YEDUTA, consisting of Six changeable Views, by Mr. Cooke. Between the Act of the Concert Mr. GREEN will ascend In his new uso i trit.eaut BALLOON, and will feel womb pleasure In Leine honoured wal.the company of any Lady or Gentleman. Terms for a Seat mar be hoossu at the Gardens. To oonclude with bupetb FIRE WORKS, by D'Esto,t ; soil the FtIRRIFIC ASCENT. Deers open at Servo Clock.—Coneert communes at Half-past Elea A amil.sium 4*. . . Tim Billion Titans tiotomeatild publishing ynterday morning at ITO o'clock.. LONDON, THURSDAY, Jutr 27, 1826. The seal of our Whigs is certainly pure. They are disit.terested patriots—able statesman—high-spirited gen tleven—lualiourahle men—incorrupt senators. Principle with them is far above interest, and corruption never in esthes in the same air. Let na look a little at the career o. a Whig. The embryo patriot, if in middle life, fledges Lire-elf usually in some debating society, where he goes to 1 mitt°, es his attainments in elocution, which so delighted matrma in the holidays. At first his eloquence is elocution, being made up of patched sentences, from the Parliamentary debates, or ela4sical orations, which be was accustomed to spout at school ; and it is not till some time after his debit that he ran go the length of introducing a synonym, and varying a little the turn of the sentences. This in general crowns his attainments; Fe is then perfect. Ile is then qualified as M.A. in the political university, and bas only to wait for the title of M.P. to shine out in all bis splendor. Let no man thin dare to talk soberly to the embryo statesman. His tone is de lunation—his emphasis is decision. He reigns the tech of the coffee-house—:ha despot of the tavern. ou may see him in 'the evening, half-mounted on the ti able. in the parlour of the ale-house, laying down the law to gaping tradesmen, who cannot deny that such a t• an is exceedingly clever who can talk so loud, so fast, and so fine. We would recommend Ministers to hire in Manchester a few parties of these lords of the pewter ; it might save the introduction of the military. But, rAance, the embryo Whig (loth not delight in the ,t-house. His beverage is not beer. Ile hath been bred is. county hall. His hopes rise to coronets ; and while lie declaims about liberty and equality, he values himself on the superiority of his birth over that of the common herd. There are such things as proud Whigs, and we have seen such. The race is not extinct in our days ; nor do the signs of the times give any indication of their speedy de crease. We honour them for their pride, if it serves to keep them from meanness—if it tends to raise them to that elevation of feeling which ought to distinguish an English nobleman ; but when we see pride of manner as sociated with any tincture of dishonourable conduct, we abhor the semblance in that case as much as we should have respected it if it had covered substance. There is a sacred privacy in domestic matters, which neither honour nor discretion permits to be violated. It has been violated, and a high-minded Whig has ;violated it. We regret it sincerely. Every thing done by a Minister is wrong, according to the Whig; all is bribery and corruption. A noble Whig has spent an estate to bring his son into Parliament; but that was for the good erf the country, and he took care to do the thing with an air of independence, leaving his unauthorized agents to bribe as much as they pleased. Though he has lost his election, the candidate is sure of a seat in Parlia ment, for his family have the command of more than one rotten borough. Why do they not put away the polluted j thing as much as they can from amongst the people ? Un fortunately, without rotten boroughs they could not get into Parliament, to declaim against•rotten boroughs. Can the scions of haughty houses, those proud, unyielding, and high-minded Nobles, submit like common men, like mere untitled Nabobs, like the alleged hirelings in the ranks of corruption against whom they declaim, to be called in St. Stephen'a by a title derived from a rotten borough, to be put on a level with such men as they decry ? Must it not j be a septennial punishment inflicted on them, session after session, to hear themselves called by so galling a designa tion. Yet, with all the vexation arising from so irksome a prospect—with all the mortification incident to defeat, if not disgrace—would it be well to attempt to involve ' their antagonist in any portion of their vexation, by outraging his feelings, while they propagate thoughtless calumnies against other distinguished relatives? Would it be magnanimous, even if injured, to retort in this way ? If his antagonist were mad, would it be well for the noble and the generous to expose the weakness even of an enemy? If he were only labouring under the temporary effects of a passion, which sometimes produces stranger vaga ries than madness itself, would it be well for one, how ever high he might be placed above all human frailties, to take advantage of the weakness of a repentant and con fitting friend? We have named none, and we will name none. If no one is conscious of the vexation of defeat, heightened by wounded pride, no one will feel aggrieved at our remarks ; if no one has allowed his vexation to over ' come his prudence, no one will believe himself aimed at by I these observations. Let this, itt that case, go for a warn ing ; and let it be remembered, th :t defeated pride may sometimes lead men to treat pitiable failings as unpardon able crimes. Let it also be remembered, that rash things have been done even by Lord G—. CITI, IS EDNEsDAY NIGHT. The business of the Funds of this day has had two dis advantages, the non-arrival of any foreign intelligence, and the absence of all home news of importance. It may, how ever, be erroneous to call this dearth of information disad vantageous, since Consols have advanced to 774, at which price there were buyers, and more business was done than for some days past. Money Stock was more attainable, and upon the whole the transactions of the day were of sneh a nature as, if not to dispel the cloud that has en veloped the Market, yet in some measure to rent)er it less dense. Exchtquer Bills remain at Ns. premium, and ' India Bonds from 18s. to Ws. In the Foreign Market there is not much doieg; Co lombian Bonds are at 32 to 33. It now appears that the dividends due on these Bonds have not been shipped on board the Tweed, she having left Tampico and returned to the Ilavannah. It is however asserted that the money is ready in doliara, and that a ship was daily expected to take them on board. It is to be hoped that the patties in terested may not be deceived in this statement; great ex ertions will no doubt be made by this Republic, in order that the remittance may be made ; as, if it fails, its credit and honour will be lost. Mexican Bonds show an advance to l 4 .19. Ihe holders of Greek Bonds are anxiously looking for intelligence from Lord CoenseNe, in order to obtain their advancement in the Market. The arrival of Capt. ALLEN yesterday hada trifling effect upon them, but to-day they cannot be quoted beyond W. It is said to be Lord COCIIRANI.'S intention as soon as he • has formed his junction with MIAULIS, to proceed at once to Alt xandria, in order to induce MeIIEMLT VACUA to a more lii•eral line of policy, which if declined by him, may place his steres of cotton, &c. &c. in some jeopardy. The :Ira zilian Mine Shares have proved very unsteady again to day, having been down as low as 8, and leaving off at premium. The effect of overtrading is strongly illustrated at this moment, by the remarkable fact of a ship that left this country for South America, at the close of last year, laden with manufactures, having just returned home without breaking bulk, being unable to obtain a market at any of the ports which she visited. The Corn Market still keeps up its price, with very heavy sales; while Colonial produce is rather move in de mand, but at prices not superior to those which have lately predominated. FASMOS.IBLI: INTELLIGENCE. PARTIES. The Marquis of Clarrieattfe entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house in St. James's-square. Lord Seaforth had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in A ud letsT!s!le*. . . . . . - - Loid Robert Seymour entertained the Earl of Rocksavage, Lady Charlotte Seymour, and a select party, at dinner yesterday, at his house in Portland place. Lord Darin gave a grand dinner on Tuesday, at his house in Dover -street, to Sir illiant Parker, Sir Th.tmas Farquhar, Air. Parker, Mr. Powell, Colonel James llughes, Mr. Parry, Mr. Purling, Mr. Willinin Newton, Mr. Denison, Mr. Alston, &c. Lady Smith had a dinner and evening party yesterday, at her house in Piccadilly. i~ 11101"1:31ENTS. The 11Iarquis and 31w - chioness nrChohnondeley left town yester day, for their villa, Thames Ditton. The Dowager Marchioness of Exeter left town yesterday. fur Baroness Willoughby de Ersby's seat, Griinsthorpt Castle, Lin colnshire. The Countess of Ssndwieh has arrived at her house in Dover street, from her seat in Huntingdonshire. Countess St. Antonio arrived in town yesterday, from her villa at Wimbledon. Lord Strangford and family arrived yestettltty at the Burlington Ilatel. Ohl Burlington and Cork streets, from St. Petersburgh. lord and lady Barnard left town yesterday, for Brighton. Lord and Lady Farnborough left town yestet.hy, for their seat, Bromley-HI Kent. Lind 'Graves 11.4 left town, fur his seat, Bishop's Court, rear Exeter. Lord 31anners nag left town for lieltoir Castle. Sir Henry Halford returned to London on Saturday from Oxford, where he had been for a week, in come. quence of the decease of his brother Dr. Vaughan, end has atteuded the Duke of York daily since his return. Yester day morning, soon after eleven o'clock, Sir henry Raiford, Dr. Warren, Dr. MacMiehael, and Mr. Iliregor attended the Royal Duke at 1 1 .11 r. Greenwood's villa, at Brompton Park, and after a congtiltiajoU reported, we have the plea sure to say, that his Royal Highness was proceeding ra pidly towards recovery, soon after the consultation, the Royal Duke Toile out on Iscrsoback for about an hour. About five o'clock the Royal Duke rode out in his open carriage. The Princess Augusta took an airing yesterday in her carriage and four, and paid a visit to the Duke of York at Brompton. The Cabinet Minis ten dived yesterday with the Earl of Westmoreland. at his residence in Grosvenor-sqnare. Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town yesterday morn ing, from the scat of the. Earl of Liverpool at Coombe- THE BRITISH PRESS. CORRESPONDRNCE OF EARL GREY AND MR. IJEAUMONT. LFrom the Tyne Mereury,l We suspend the course of our political dissertations In order to give our first attention to a circumstance of as great local interest as any that has occurred in this neigh bourhood during the whole course of our editorial experi ence: we allude to the correspondence of Mr. Beaumont with Earl Grey, recently published in a contemporary journal. The tenor of the correspondence itself is of a very extraordinary kind. But the most extraordinary circuin stance attending it is, that its tenor being such, Lord Grey should be induced by any motives of his own, or any soli citations of others, to give it publicity. The pretext as signed for its appearance is, to show that Mr. Beaumont's calumniators have committed against him no other fault except that of a " too-long-continued forbearance." This fault, " leaning to virtue's side," they undertake to prove against themselves, by means of a private corre spondenx, from which an inference is to be drawn that two years ago Mr. Beaumont laboured under " a mentatdelu sion." Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that their inference is fairly deduced, and that Mr. Beaumont was for a moment visited with such a malady ; we arc still at a loss to discover in that circumstance any proof of a " forbearance too long continued." Indeed we are at a loss to conceive, under such circumstances, how any for bearance, Jess than complete and perpetual, could be suf ficient. If the inference they would have us to draw be correct, Mr. Beaumont, as regards this affair, was an ob ject of compassion and not of persecution. So far, there fore, from this imputation forming any excuse for the un wearied malignity with which they have pursued him, it does but exhibit their conduct in a more hateful and un pardonable light. It now appears, by their own showing, that it is not a crime with which they have been charging him, but a calamity with which they choose to taunt him ! Good God ! can Lard Grey be so lost to all humane feeling, to all sympathy with the infirmities of our nature, and so for getful of his own honour and character, as to publish a pri vate correspondence for the purpose of showing that he is justified in pursuing a man with the most relentless hatred, because he has offered him an insult under the influence of a mental delusion? Does it argue, we would ask, more mental delusion, or snore dereliction of moral principle, to write than to print such a correspondence? The offence of publication exceeds in magnitude that of writing, as much as a whole community exceeds in number an indi vidual. If we do not consider it as an act of insanity, we are obl;ged to consider it as an act of desperation—the last expiring effort of impotent and defeated malice. Having failed in th , ir attempt to beat Mr. Wriumont down by distorted and exaggerated representations of circutn• stances, hitherto concealed, Mr. B.'s enemies, as a last re source, try the effect of publication, for which no person ought to be so much obliged as the person whom they de signed to injure. They ha* thin expended all their am munition at one discharge. They have applied the match to their own magazine of defamation, and blown their own characters into the air. They may, indeed, have revived painful impressions, and harrowed up the feelings of their adversary, but they have left his honour untouched—not tarnished even by the very smoke of that infernal machine which was to annihilate him. But if Lord G. had no sympathy for Mr. IL, certainly he ought to have shown some tenderness for the feelings of his friends, Sir J. and Lady S. Are their honour. repu tation, and comfort to he sacrificed without a pang to the prevailing passion of ruining Mr. Beaumont ? How can his Lordship charge upon that gentleman insanity for writ ing, what he himself his the greater insanity to circulate in print? Mr. Beaumont, moreover, wrote the letter con taining the charges, under a conviction (however delusive) of their truth. Ceti his Lordship allege such an excuse ? We cannot think it possible that Sir John Swinhurne gave his consent to the publication in question ; and if it was made without it, we will not trust ourselves with charac terising such a proceeding, let every honourable man con , sult his own heart, for terms in which to execrate it. We have so far argued the case as if the publishers had made good their position,* that Mr. Beaumont laboured nutter temporary aberration of mind, which, however, we do not admit, and are prepared to refute, as far as any argu ments can be'grounded on the documents now before us. It is true that there is a passage in one of the letters, dis tinguished by an Italic type, in which Mr. Beaumont speaks of " circumstances of an extraordinary character, out of the usual course of events." But if every one that believes in any extraordinary interpositions of Providence, or any occasional deviations from the established and known course of nature, is to be considered as labouring under mental delusion, the world may be said to be peopled with mental dehtsionists. But Lotd Grey, forsooth, can imagine no other excuse for Mr. Beaumont. Now here we differ from his Lordship. And we can not only imagine, but see an excuse for Mr. Beaumont, if he was in fact surrounded with any thing like the characters and circumstances which he ascribes to Lord Grev. We do not affirm that he was. Indeed, we affirm nothing, but only argue from such pre mises as the correspondence affords. But assuming the facts as there stated, we can. easily imagine that a young man of high spirit and warm affections, anticipating the early consummation of his wishes and the completion of his happiness in his union with the object of his fondest love, should be so harassed, tortured, and distracted by obstacles raised from such sources, as to write a letter as indiscreet and extraordinary as that to Lord Grey, and yet not be entirely without any excuse besides a mental delu sion. We are not at all surprised that the enemies of Mr. Beaumont should endeavour to make sttch a case against him, it heing•the only frail thread left on which their re putation hangs. But we confess we do not see the means and proofs by which the y may effect that purpose, so desirable, so necessary to their safety. Our limits will merely allow us brief!), to ask why this correspondence, involving the character and comfort of so many individuals, should be published in the anonymous, unauthenticated, sad irresponsible form of an advertise._ [tient ? Is it that no individual may have the shame of presenting it in a garbled and mutilated shape, as it evi• dently is as to one letter, and probably is as to others? Or is it that this attack upon Mr. Beaumont shall, like all others from the same quarter, be cowardly, insidious, and disowned ? From first to last he has been the matilc. at which arrows have been shot by an unseen hand, guided by a malicious heart, itself trembling at its own act, and ashamed of its own motive. Against such foes, even while secure in their own biding-places, and triumphing in the success of their own artifices, Mr. Beaumont has stood with the firm front of conscious integrity. But it will not be long before a discriminating public, being now put in pos session of the facts by the indiscretion of his enemies, will find Mr. Beaumont infinitely more sinned against than sinning," and assign him that high place in their estima tion of which it has been the unceasing effort of a powerful conspiracy to deprive him. Since the above was written,: we have received the fol lowing :--- Parturient mcntes, naseitui ridiculus mus. The mountains laboured, and out came a mouse. The famous cot respon4ence is at length before the public, and, as might have been expected, there is but one opinion upon the subject, an opinion, whatever else may be thought, that Lortl Grey (to whom the publication of this correspondence must be attributed) has given the most indisputable proof of the malignity, of his feel. ings towards Mr. Ikauniont. I baleve no man in the county but his Lordship would hare been guilty of an act of such perfect des peration and folly ; it is known that tile letters in question were transmitted (tithe Chronicle not onli without the consent of 6ir J. Swinburne, but decidedly against his wishes ; it is known, too, that the principal Al'llig gentry of the county disapprove equally with Sir John of this most uncalled-for, sod most u ss i oa suad e , exposure of private affairs. But it seems that Mr. Beaumont. in his speech at the final close of the pull, had retwertett that `. the folly oft is enemies had made clear their malignity against him," that " the falsehood of the charges brought against him had been discovered," and the " motives of his enemies were pitiful and spiteful." In order to disprove these assertions, the Earl they, in his profound wisdom, submits to the public the correspondence which we have seen ! Talk of infirmity of mind ; what stronger 'audio' mental imbecility can Ise adduced * an that of a publics. tinn which completely and obviously cstablodtea the very p o sitions it was meant to disprove, viz. tote folly and inaliguity of Mr. Beau. niont's inn:tuns, that disgrace attached to them fur having hoped to sit disgrace upon bin), and that their motives were pitiful and a r rileful. I shall have a word or two about the falsehood of the charges by sod by ; hut, in the meanwhile it may be observed, that if any doubt had existed of the justice of Mr. Beatimmit'n re marks, his Lordship by the publication in question would certainly have had the merit of removing it. I do not suppose that it is Mr. Beaumont's intention to make tiny statement in explanation of that part of his conduct which, t o thoe unacquainted with all the particulars, is the most difficult to I account for. flit rcpeated assertion " that he will not advance any thing in his own justification which can wound the feeling of others." appears to preclude him from affording much information to the public. The attempted proof of the existence of " mental de rangement" is so closely interwoven with the private affairs of the family at Capheatan, that tt show the fallacy of that proof would almost be tantamount to the establishing of what Mr. Beaumont has debarred himself front approaching. Involved as at present the whole transaction is in mystery, regard for the opinions of Mr. Beaumont, and delicacy towards the feelings of a family which Lord Grey has treated with such unprecedented cruelty, constitute in my mind sufficient reasons for our refraining from offering any further observations on this branch of the subject. I shall, there. fore, turn to the charge of Mr. Beattmont's having, in an advertise ment, published on his return front the Continent, declared his own unlitneas for acting as a representative in Parliament until be had repelled the infamous allegations which had been urged against him. These allegations arc shortly afterwards stated by himself to relate to an assertion, Ist, of his having been within a late period " under a mental delusion ;" 2dly, of his intended marriage with the daughter of Sir .1. S. having been broken off front a discovery of his having already married • foreign lady. A third point to which the assertion extends can be deemed of no consequence whatever. As to the report mentioned under the second head of these allega tions, it can only be necessary to say that it was entirely without foundation. But with respect to the first and principal ground of disqualification alleged against him, what was Mr. Iteaunmot's conduct ? After some preliminary coirespondence with Lord Grey, he instructs his solicitor in London, C. C. Wilson, Esq. to bring an action against his Lordship, fur having " used and pub. hailed certain libellous and malicious expressions to the injury of his character, and which he believed his Lordship to have been aware were contrary to the fact." Proceedings, it is true, were not instituted against his Lordship; but the intention was not &ban cloned because his Lordship wan prepared " to justify"—it was abandoned, as his Lordship must well know, upon considerations widely different. The motives which really operated with Mr. Beaumont to induce. him to-relinquish the idea of prosecuting his Lordship, I may take an early opportunity of stating to the public. At present lam not at Ebert) , to explain them. 1 may remark, however, that if the determination of Lord Grey " not to retract an iota of the opinion he had expressed with regard to Mr. Beau mont's conduct," had really been the reason of Mr. Beaumont's not persevering in his threatened action, the measure would have been abandoned on the receipt of his Lordship's letter to Mr. Wit. son, in which his Lordship distinctly declares his intention " not to offer any explanation by which proceedings may be rendered unnecessary." It is superfluous, however, to enlarge upon this point, as there are circumstances not yet brought forward from which the fact must he readily obtained. Mr. Beaumont having now been dissuaded from the idea of a prosecution, he adopts the next best means in Isis power of contra dicting the reports to the prejudice of his charac:er ; he rums the officers of his regiment at a farewell dinner at Hesitant, and on that oceaCon (I quote from the newspapers of the day) addresses them as follows: presence among you this day has, I hope, done much to dispel such an idea (an idea of mental delusion) from your minds; but should any particle of ottanicion still remain in any one, I think I can remove it by observing that those who have been most indus trious in giving currency to this report neversurntised for an instant the bare possibility of such a thing until I had left their house. I had been in daily intercourse with them for some time without the least hint having bren given of it to any one ! If thii is not suf. ticient, there is a fact which must carry conviction to every one him/ entirely f. lie, and without the shadow even of a foundation, such a report has always been. It is this : that up to ten days after my departure from a house which I shall not name, I know, from a letter received by one of my own family, that it was the wish of those persons that matters should be amicably arranged. And, in point of fact, an overture was made to me shortly after my de parture fromithat house through a person (who, if required, will not hesitate to come forward and say so,) (or that purpose." The tacta above-mentioned, which have never been refuted, af ford I think a moat conclusive answer to the reports which have been circular d against him, and justify his assertion on the hust ings, that " the falsehood f the charges brought against him had been discovered." - here I should have concluded, but having heard it 'asked why Mr. Beaumont took no notice of the letter from Lord Grey, dared Tunbridge Wells. 31st Aupust, I think it proper to say what is known to many, that immediately on the receipt of that letter Mr. Beaumont determined to proceed to London, and Fai actually pro ceeded as far MS Ferrybrulge when he was met by a friend who stop ped his progress, and who has declared himself to be " solely re sponsible for the abandonment of his purpose." A LOOKER-ON. *STATE OF TRADE. LIVERPOOL, JULY 25. Throughout the different manufacturing districts, and more particularly in those of Lancashire and Yorkshire, the distress by which the lower orders are weighed down appears to be increasing every day. No improvement has taken place in trade, and there is consequently no addi tional demand for labour. All the little savings of the poor are expended ; the greatest part of their clothes and furni ture have been pawned or sold, and their only resource now is in the parish rates, or in the precarious fund sup plied by private charity. The latter of these sources, un less speedily and liberally recruited, must shortly fail; and as for the former, the relief which it affords is altogether inadequate to the distress. Unless a speedy change takes place in the state of the country, the consequences arc likely to be of the most serious kind. It is perfectly vain to reason with men who are starving. Vriven to despair by intolerable sufferings, they feel that they have nothing to lose but a miserable existence, and arc ready to engage in projects of the most dangerous and desperate kind.— Billinge's Advertiser. MANCIIESTFR, JULY 25, 1826. It has been mentioned in some of the London papers, within this day or two, that the extreme low prices at which cotton goods can now be made in this country, is producing the most fatal effects on the infant manufacto ries of rival nations. This is a fact which, as connected with the extreme depression of manufacturing labour in the cotton-trade, we have often thought of, and it is one of the many instances in which good springs out of evil. In a recent speech in the French Chamber of Represen tatives, Mr. Lafitte spoke of the manufacturing interests of France as being in a state of extreme depression ; and it is said that many of those in America have been absolutely stopped. " The weak and half formed establishments of other countries," observes the Glebe, " are continually liable to be overwhelmed by the mere convulsive move ments of a great manufacturing community." It may he said, and, unfortunately, in this case, there would be much force in the remark, that whatever prospect of advantage there may be in driving our . rivals from the market, we are in danger of being ourselves mined before it is realized: that, in other words, " the steed will starve whilst the grass is growing." We certainly, however, do anticipate an increased demand for the pro ductions of our manufactories at no very distant period ; and we consider that much of the difficulty in disposing of them at this time arises, not from the circumstance of there being no vent for them, but from the extreme want of con fidence with respect to the solvency of the merchants who have been accustomed to export them, and who cannot now procure the credit they have customarily received. rho restoration of confidence must be a work of time ; however, it will come, and with it we shall experience a revival of demand. There is another circumstance too. Most of the South American loans were remitted in the shape of British ma nufactures. Of these, cotton goods formed a considerable proportion, and the stimulus thus given to their production was undoubtedly among the causes which led to that un duly rapid extension and multiplication of our manufac turing establishments, the efrect of which we now feel. Here again, however, we are not without a fair topic of consolation. The goods imported into South America, on account of the loans, would neon ssarily get spread over many districts where British goods had scarcely, if at all, been introduced before, and a taste would thus be created, which, it is quite reasonable to expect, will lead to a com mercial intercourse, durable as regards time, and progres sively on the increase as regards extent. From the present state of their affairs, many nations of the eat th may learn important les:anis for the regulation of their future conduct. We, in Great Britain, have seen enough of the importance of bein; permitted to derive supplies or food from those who cm furnish it most cheaply ; and America, and countries in her situation, may learn that with a large and fertile territory, far more than ade quate to the support of her own people, her industry may be most profitably directed to those pursuits which do not require the concentration of large capitals, nor the united efrorts of a crowded population. We trust she will not long have to urge in excuse, for her endeavours to fore:: manu facturing establishments into premature existence, the re fusal of Great Britain to accept her most valuable produce in exchange for her own goods. The time seems to us to be favourable, expecting, as we do, that a decided change in the Corn Laws will he made in the next Session of Par liament, for attempting to make commercial treaties, not only with America, but with several of the nations of Eu rope; and we hope the opportunity will not be neglected. —.llunchcster 211vrcery. EAST INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a Special General Court of Proprietors of Ewe Irwlis Stock was held at their !mum iu Leadenlitill.street, purqtant to it ee . quisition of nine Honourable Proprietors. for the purpose of taki into consideration the two following motions:— eg " Ist. That, adverting to the A - ct of Parliament recently p avg, which contains the following clauses :—"Fhat at any time within three years from the passing of the Act, it shall and may b e t ow. ful for the Court of Directors of the said United Company to „ mi. nate and appoint, and to send to the Presidencies of Fort {ti' A m , Fort Sr. George, or Bombay, in the capacity of a Writer, any per : son who shall produce such teatimoriials of his character and c on . duct, and ;met such an examination as by rules and regul at i ons to be framed and established shall be required. That the said c owl of Directors shall, ai.d they are hereby required, with all convent", speed, to frame and establish proper Rules and Regulation s r e . apecting the due ;rid necessary quiilitications of Writers; and u tit it shall and may be lawful to alter and vary such Rules and R ego , laions from time to time, as circumstances may appear to req uite. This Court, therefore, requests the Court of Directors now to sub. mit their intended Rules and Regulations, that the same may b e deliberately discussed by the General Court of Proprietors also, iq order to obviate every attempt to establish any unfair nionopoi . Oriental education, while the College Suspension Act i s to fore, like the one lately made by a regulation of the Court of ihreeton, I which, though published in their Court Ctlendar, or Rea &HA, has since, on mature reflection, been rescinded. " 2d. That, considering the manifold advantage; of rrrenciling the feelings and interests of the vari..us Public Deparments and Official I;oinmunities at the different Presqlencie; in Gric i i i ' no* with each other, in every branch of the Service, this Court recant. mends, that the Executive Governmenis there be instructed to alio. lish immediately the odious practice of paying tae civil servants ir. sicca rupees, and the army in a less valuable currency, called aonat rupees; to prevent all discontent from the continuance of that unreasonable distinction among the King's or Company's civil, military, and naval functionaries, in future, by the whole receiving their respective allowances in the same species ur equitable rata of the local coins, where such payments are made." After the usual routine business of the Court had been gone through, the Secretary read the requisition, in consequence o f which the Court had been called. LORD AMHERST. Colonel Le TCESTEIt STANHOPE said that, previously to their enterirg upon the immediate business of the day, he wished to ask a question of the Honourable Chairman relative to a subject which he conceived to be of vital importance, as well to the interest' of this country as to the safety and welfare of British India. lie had lately learned from a very high authority, connected with the Go vernment of India. that the expenditure for carrying on the in o , mem war amnuntod to the enormous sum of one million of guineas a month. What he was therefore anxious to ask was, whether his al 'jetty's Minimises, who in all other respects formed the what and greatest Administration that ever governed this country._ (heir, heer, hear)—whether those enlightened Steteiemen were ob. etinate in one praticolar only, ands in opposition to the universal reeling of the public, were determined to persevere in upholding Lord Amherst in the Supreme Government of India, and thereby ' suffer not Only India, but also this country, to be at the mercy of that person, whose incapacity was ao notorious? That this bogs expenditure did materially affect the people of England be would maintain, because the debt of the Company was in fact neither more nor less than the debt of tee petite,. TheCHAIRMAN (Sir G. Robinson, Hart.) begged to sate, is answer to the question of the Gallant Colonel. that in the first place this Court had been summoned for a special purpose, sod therefore, if he had it in his power to state what were the sentiments of his Majesty's Ministers with regard to the subject to which the Gallant Colonel's question referred. still it would not be regular for hint to do so at this stage of their proceedings; though he wculd declare that he was utterly ignorant of what those sentiments were. Alter the business of the day had been disposed of, it would be quite connetent for the Gallant Colonel to make what observant ns lie pleased ; but until then lie °mug's° any discussion on the sub ject would be irregular and impreper. Colonel L. STANHOPE was extremely grateful for the courtesy of the Honourable Chaimun,und he could only repeat his extreme regret at the circumstance of an expenditure taking place in Intel to the extent of one million of money a month, while the nia. nufacturers in England were actually in a state of starvation. (Hear, hear.) PAY OF THE ARMY IN INDIA. Dr. GILCHRIST rose pursuant to a notice he had given, to moye a resolution regarding the practice of paying the Company's civil servants in India, ins species of coin oh' one denomination, anti the army in a species of another denonieation and of less intrinsic value. He hoped he should meet with a fair and patient hearing, especially from those Gentlemen behind the bar. It had been toe much the fashion for the Proprietors to forget the powet which they possessed, and to bow acquiescently to eves► thing which was suggested by the Court of Direc:ors. But lie was not one of those pti. sons; and he therefore begged to remind the Court that they were the creators of those lionottrehle Directors. It had been coesithred that an opposition mar was destroying the establishment to attire he belonged. But he denied the truth of such a proposition. be knew of many instances where the opposition, so far from retarding good tneasui es which might emenete from the men in power, they joined in supponieg them. So far from an opposition ruernbee being an enemy to those in power, he was oftentimes the r best sup. porter. Satan had been considered an enemy of the Church tat upwards of 1,800 years ; and the Church had to be grateful to him fur it; for let him but once be taken out of the system, as the Cni. 'Arians had done with him, and the Church would instantly fail to the ground. (Laughter.) After attending to an affront, which the Honourable Proprietor said had been offered to hint by 31o3larjori. banks, when Director, he referred to a book which had been pub lished by an Honourable Proprietor, then present, and from which he had made an extract that concerned them all. The Honourable Proprietor then reed the extract, which stated that the Proprietors of Stock, to the WOolltit of 50u1., possessed the power of calling a Court to dieplace y Director on account of mismanagement, and might hear any complaints against such Director, anti also hold a Coete for the despatch of any business relating to the affairs of the Company. Such a law did not (observed the Honourable Plopri etor ) treat this Court as a parcel of people that had co rights, co authority, and no power. A PaoPanET oa rose to call the Honourable Proprietor to ender. half en haste had been consumed in a speech which was no more relative to the subject to be cite day discussed, than any other ques Lion that was now agitaring on the Royal Exchange. The CHAIRMAN said he certainly had felt but very little (lino. position to interrupt the Ilon. Proerietor In the exordium which he had given them with respect to the relative power proposed by the Court of Proprietors and the Court of Directors, especially vo far as regarded the power of the fernier to retrieve the Directors fro.n olhce; and he iiket.iee had not felt any disposition to interrupt the Hon. Proprietor when he talked of nn insult he had received from their Chairman. betanse, although he was much astonished at the accusation, yet he did suppose at the time that the observations of the lion. Proprietor were directed to himself (the Chairman). Therefore until the lien. Gentleman had better explained himself, he was not diepesed to el! him to order; but lie should now most earnestly request the lion. Gentleman to enter upon that which was peculiarly the business of the day. Dr. Oteetioi sr said he was just about to proceed to the sub. jest, and in bringing it fors tad he tad not mean to deny that the civil servants shouldhave an authority over the military in belie. Ile admitted also .list it was tie they should have Welter aliew tutees than the military. The latter enjoyed prize-money, and had honours confarred upon them which the civil servants had not. But the evil of which he compleined woos this—that the civil servant received his ply in a more valuable coin titan the military. This gave rise to a great deal of heartburnieg. There had been aye y clever publication sent fo th lately by a mi litary other, respecting his Jl j m e 's service in India, which cur.. . mined much (Istria ; though he was sorry to learn, Isom this ptutl sh r, that rot one copy had been sal of the emit. This circumstance showed how little interest the public felt in what concerned the efladis of India. (Hear, hear.) In that work the umber stated that, whatever might be the current value of a sicca rupee, it was rated at the sum of two shillings and se ver pare. to the officers and soldiers, when paid to them, yet, should they wish to ntake a remittance to England, they leund to their surprise that the Governmeet would allow them only Is. Ithe for each rupee. In a Moir which he had recently received from Bengal, it was stated that the pay,to the army was in a species of rupees which were 4.1 per cent. of less value than that in which the civil service were paid. The latter were r it'd in what were callid sieca rupees. while the military were paid in what was termed moat rupees, though the former kind constituted the currency of the whole of the Presidency of Bengal ; wages a n d provisions were consequently mid for in that coin. So that while Government pro . teemed to pay them 1011 rupees, they in point oh' fact paid them no more thee 9al. The (ME ranee would pay the wages ef one servant. This, however, though a severe hardship, was not to be compared with that which the military man experienced, when he wished to make remittances home to his family in England. He was com pelled to take bills of exchaege at the rate of the day, which had been belie es., while he was at the same moment foretd to receive his money front Government at the rate of 2e. ed. the rupee. At any time this would be hard; but at present, when the prices of provisions were high, it was peculiarly so. Ile would not trouble ' the Court with any further observations, but would conclude by moving the second 1L solution, to which only he had applied his ' arguments, as being, in his judgment, a subject of greater import .' /ince than that which was embraced by the other Resolution eon ta } al I t h l:t. t, S re e lieved i • o . es ec onded the there t,(.re persons present motion, who and considered(l ie t ra,!! he anti his Honourable Friend (Dr. Gilehriet) were testing dsngtrous ground. when talking about the pay of distant partns, who were engaged in war, with armour on, with a pest prevailing in their camp, and with Lord Amherst directing their councils. It was moat true; but then, by discussion they should terse the Cou:t of Directors to look into these oppressions, and either from a motive of shame, or from a motive of fear, or from the more noble impulse of a desire to do justice, eventually do away the existence - of the evils complained of. If were blind to the page of history, we could not be blind to those momentous events which were now paining b?fore us. We had seen, in cur own times, the army taking the field in rebellion against us. But besides this, we hal wen France. Spain, Italy, Naples, Sicily and of late we had seen Russia—we had seen South America, Greece, Toikev, all shake by a military rebellion ; while in America. In Enclatas and in Switzerland, where the voice of the press was free, se seen none of those commotions. Standing upon the sound grounds of experience, he should call upon the Court of Directors who had the good fortune to exercise power and dominion, and to be lirgely pat fa It, not, it Was true ; ut money, but each of them to the i ~{ ~~i~ 11 ; 1 ' 1