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MISSAGE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF CO LOMBIA TO THE CONGRESS OF 1826. Cidiena of the Senate and Chamber of Repreaentadree, At the termination of your legislative career in the first period of the tonetitution of the Republic, a vast field presented itself for employing your wisdom and your patriotism to the benefit of the people of Colombia. The stare of internal tranquillity which the nation happily enjoys, and the improvement of its external rela tions, give us a favottrible eppottunity to ameliorate oar administra tion, and to perfect those laws In the wisdom and adaptation of which the prosperity of Colombia must have its inundation. At a distance from the noise of arms, and enlightened by the knowledge derived from public opinion and your own experience, you will be able, in the present session, to consolidate the edifice of liberty erected upon such precioes and incalculable sacrifices. The fundamented law imposes upon me the agreeable duty of assisting you with that in. tOrmation which an aoquaintance with the administration enables me to communicate; and I am now about to fulfil thin obligation, which is petfectly in accordance with the wishes of my heart. The Spanish Government, blind to the lessons which she is coo• tinually receiving in her'contest with America, end deaf to the Bug. gestionsof impartial and experienced Governments, testifies no in tention of abandoning her hostile designs against our Republic. 'The Government of Colombia, by a conduct worthy of the cause which it defends, has redoubled its efforts to induce Spain to ac zeds as honourable peace, In proportion as the success of our arms and the progress of the Republic more and more irrevocably ratified our independence. You will see, in the documents which I shall tame tote presented to you, papers sent to the Cabinet of Ma drid in oar favour by several of the Powers of Europe and Ame. rice. You will see the steps which the Executive has taken for the 1 , same purpose; and jOu will perceive with what firmness and dig- Ow it has maintained the cause and the principles of the people of olombis. It Is very disagreeable to have to enter into diminutions wah s Government 110 obstinate‘ but the Executive has not been discoutinxed by the difficulties in the way of . its negotiation for "nee. I shall persevere in these beneficial views : and I can assure yen, if we do not succeed in procuring a reconciliation at once sin cere mut worthy of Colombia, we have means sufficient to maintain the war with the same honour and success with which the Republic has already maintained it for the whole of the last fifteen year.. Or erelitions with the American Governments, and particularly thane with the United States of Mexico and those of 'Penn have been consolidated in &stunner proper to secure a permanent and a . ncere alliance. At Panama the Plenipotentiaries of the new State, of America are now about to assemble, in order to ratliy, in the most solemn manner, our common determination to maintain and defend our national liberty and independence against all the enterprises of oar ettemies. This assembly. a fruit, as it is, of the most incitations* of meserec t h e benefits derived from the sa crifices of the American people, and of the most ardent wishes of the timensenent of Colombia and bf the-Liberator for peace and amity beetroot all the belligerent c.ohrederates,•completra, in the opinion of the Executive, use guaranren of our independence. I hive endeavoured to make the true objects of the Assembly on the Isthmus understood in Romp', in order to remove any disagreeable impression which some Cabinets mtahf havereceived,lesn on ac count of theinsidious conduct of our enentiet, than on account of the magnitude of the undertaking which we have succeeded in accore The Republic of Peru has recovered its polhical existence by the sword and the conduct of the Liberator President. You know ;that has been the result of the efforts of General Bolivar, effec t:falls seconded as they were by the faithful adherence of the people of Peru to the common cause, and by the mar/cranes and intrepi dity of the defenders of liberty. At Ayacucho that hipanish army V' an otnquished, which before had commanded all that vast country; and from that glorious day down to the moment when the enemy's commandant in Potosi perished, the united thanes of Colombia and Peru, immediately directed by an able and :Orton ate Colombian, obtained a succession of the most glorious triumphs. In conse quence of these brilliant events, the provinces of Upper Peru, the cradle of American liberty, have assumed the onlitical existence of which they stood in need, by erecting themselves hit° an independent state. In the tranaporut of ice enthusiasm and gratitude, the people of this new nation have adopted the title of the Bolivar Republic, thus consecrating the illustrious name of the Liberator of Colombiato the moat di) tentage*. I cannot find adequate expressions to ex plain to you the moments of joy and gratitude which the Government felt on hearing of the homage whelk was heehawed on the Liheratoe, on We Colombian army, and en as Clemmal, by the Congress of Peru, by the Assembly of Chuquisaca; by the cities, the towns,and all the intitertia The Congress will efoosloes Deputation from the Repre. netfilifires Of Peru, whose primigml Object is to present to you a tentimony of its gratitude for the efforts which the Republic of Co -1 :tibia has made in favour of the liberty and independence of their Motel. in spite of all vulgar prtiudires. I hope that you will evrepathise with the Executise in its feelinsoann seeing an undertak. f -g accomplished which seemed to compromine our own destinies. A put of the auxiliary army has returned to its country, and the other wits remain in Peru at the disposition of that Government, in order to protect the deliberations of the people, and to preserve the internal tranquillity, as long as that state may require it. or this Republic does rot stand in need of its troops. In order is fulfil our ergegements with the United States of Mexico, I have disposed of a part of our forces in a manner of which you will be informed at a proper op. pertunity. The common cause of Americ.a, which Is interested this measure, will thus be secured in one of its mast vital interests, and there will not then remain any part of the New World in which the Republic of Colombia has not concurred in pursuing Its ancient oarsmen, and procuring peace and amity for its brethren. There is no motive of complaint against the Government of Brazil. The Government has deferred opening those negotiations which it in necessary, Pram its vicinity, to establish with the Go vc-ement of that country, till it can be assured that the Minister of the Republic will be received on the terms acknowledged by the law of nations. The foreign periodicals repreeer.t the Eroperor to Le st variance with the Government of Buenos Ayres fof the pos. session of the Banda Oriental. The Executive has no official knowledge of the question. The treaty of peace, amity, navigation, and commerce, which we have entered into with the United State., being ratified by the Pre. sident of that Republic, our relations with them are placed on the most flattering and happy footing. The Convention about the .Africin slave trade has not been ratified, on account of the doubts von•,11 hire arisen in the American Senate, of which the Secretary of Foreign Affairs will inform you in detail. The treaty of peace and amity with the British Government, which met your approbation last Session, must elm have been rati. had by this time. From this period the political and commercial relations between the Republic and Oran Britain will be esta. bitshed in a permanent and advantageous manner for both nations, as well as useful to the American cause. After the signature of this treaty I received the Envoy of his Britannic Majesty, who is row resident in the capital. The commercial agents continue in our ports, in the manner in which I mentioned In my former Message that they hail been "ermined to exercise their function., because, as the cause which gave rite to the proceeding of Government still sub s isted, it would have been improper fur me to alter my conduct. Our con,ni a anti commercial agents to the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland will be despatched, at the proper time, to the ports which are most convenient for our mercantile relations. The Executive has laboured with the greatest anxiety to obtain from the Government of his Most Christian Majesty an explicit declaration in favour of the Republic. A preliminary step towards the success of our desires and efforts was to give that Cabinet cer tain explanations, and to lay before them the true principle. which regulate our conduct, with a view to explain certain points on winch disadvantageous opinions were entertained. To this effect I apponted a commercial agent, in the way moat adapted to the cir cumstances, and his conduct has come up to our expectations. His actin communications will be presented to you, and I am certain that Caruso sill approve the circumspection with which lie con ducted himself, in circumstances of considerable difficulty ; and will applaud the firmness with which we have maintained the sys. tom proclaimed by the people of Colombia. I have no reason to doubt that the French Government. supported by the opinion of the nation, will in the end acknowledge our i-deriendence, in Imi. tation of other Great Powers, anti will proceed to establish friendly relations with us, which may be useful to both countries. The relations with the Apostolical See continue to bear an inde finite character, on account of causes which it is not difficult to point out. The very particular circumstances of the eats hare induced me to conduct this negotiation with the utmost prudence, trusting that the coarse of events will produce in the end a result favourable la the stability of public order. The laws which the Congress has enacted on subjects connected with public wm,hip and acc i n i m i. cal discipline, have been coinniunicated to the Roman See, and you may test aoored, if it should he found necessary, that the Govern meat will support the rights of the people of Colombia with dig nit," and firmness. :he Republic enjoys continued tranquillity—the constitution is rovonsomid—the laws are observed, and tne Colombians enjoy freely the right of demanding their execution. The constitutional elec tions, to renew the repres-ntation of the nation. have been carried into effect without disturbance, and with that liberty which is due to the sovereignty of the people. The press has executed a part of its duty by the examinicion of the important points which the Re soillic had to decide in the exercise of it. rights, and though it was ireposslble„ and Mon witless, to lay any restraint on the insidious language of the jsawona, we have seen with satisfaction that it could never teYsi the sinews of the moral force of government. The political adosiniatratioo of the departments anti provinces, and that of joatitc, have received a considerable amelinra. tom by the laws of the 11th of March, and the I I th and 131 h a s May, which are in the act of being put in execution. There are. notwithstanding this, imperfections still remaining to be cor rected, voids to be billed, and doubt. to he resolved in this—de partment, so important for the happiness of the citizens; and although I am not ignorant that it requires a long course of time, so advance in civilisation. and a greater difro.ioo or information, in order to succeed in forming a complete body of laws to.protect Ofierty, to secure order, and to raise the nation to a high drgree of prosperity and of glory, I cannot but flatter myself, front your wis. dam, and from the inforanition that I have solicited from the tribunals of justice themselves, that we shall obtain a result stall mare perfect. and still more conformable to our institutions. Comider with scrupulous &dentine, if it he now proper to rata knish universally the beautiful institutions of juries; or ilk can only be rounded from mercantile transactions and abuses of the press, to which it is now confined, to criminal affairs, or at least to such delinquencies as are most' injurious to society and of tnost frequent occurrence. Education requires a uniform plan, and funds put*. ficient, to enable it to be extended Over the whole of the Republic, till not a parish shall be seen without its Lancastrian school, nor a province without la college. Although die views of the Execu tive have been opposed by difficulties, we may flatter ourselves that an astonishing progress has been made in this department. The culture and colonization of the national lands which Congress has placed at the disposition of Government, must soon begin to be carried into effect under the remilatigns and conditions stipulated with the contractors, of which the nation has been informed by the iref.cial publlcntions which have taken place. The Exe cutive has distributed ste three millions of fitnetradas ac cording to the Instal the 11th of June, 1R'2.1. in all the provinces of the Republic to which the grant was assigned, and particularly in those for which the Government, on account of their climate and scanty population, is most anxious. The Colombians have formed associations, not only for this purpose, butt fur other ob jects of common interest, and by this means they now begin to exert themselves with that spirit of enterprise which in all quar ters proves the artificer of national and individual prosperity. Some publicatipns have pointed out the defects which exist in our laws relative to settlers ; anti it is your duty to examine their found/Ilion, in order to dictate resolutions worthy of the age, and compatible with the institutions of Colombia. I leave to the Secretary of the Home Department the office of pre. sentirqt to you the details In his department, which may serve to assist you in your labours. and to give you a complete idea of the internal state of the Republic. It only remains for nie to request that you would pronounce the perpetual abolition of those fatal and temporary laws which disfigure our institutions. If they served to ,assist the restoration of the Republic at that dangerous period when a strong anti active enemy alternately occupied each part of our territories, now, when all the country is tree, and when the pro gress of knowledge has rectified and evablished the general opi nion, they can only serve as a terror to the people and an induce tnent to the abuse of power. The Minister of Finance' w3l present to you a general statement of the receipts and expenditure of the national funds, and the esti mate of the expenses for the present year, and all other information which Government can furnish you whit in a department so cotnpli uteri as that of the finances. The Executive has continued to be surrounded with innumerable difficulties in order to cover all the expenses of the administration—nut exactly because the necessities of the year were greater than the produce of the revenue, but be cause the greater part of the creditors of the Republic have insisted that the Government should immediately discharge all that was due to them since the year 111111 Congress will perceive by this remark, that the Executive being obliged to cover in one year the whole deficit which had accrued in the former years, I was placed in a very etnb rig and disagreeable situation. The method adopted of paying the different creditors by successive instalments, sometimes with the fourth part of the proceeds of the customs, and sometimes with the ordinary revenue, in progressive periods, has satisfied in part the demands of the persons interested; but it has diminished the amount of the annual revenue by the very considerable aunt which has been required to meet the exigencies of Government. Congress will have much to do in the department of the finances. The legislative part of it requires nom your wisdom continual efforts and a very particular attention. It will be necessary in the first place to establish a general system of revenue. and on that hate to •lictate laws which may create a public treasury, and afterwards to proceed to organize and render uniform the method of administering it. On the one hand, you cannot forget that the common treasure must be created from the fortunes of the citizens, and from their dealings, in order to meet the indispensable exigencies of the Republic ; and, on the other hand, you must bear in tnind, that the citizens cannot acquire their fortunes, nor give themselves up to the spirit of commercial enterprise, if they be not favoured by laws which protect and sti. mulete them in an effectual manner. It is on this account that one of your first duties, one of your principal objects of atten tion, is, to establish a system of harmony betweent the laws whirh protect private property, with those which enforce the public contri. butions. I fear, in the present Session, you will not have time teenier into all these points ; but I urge you most earnestly, on the ground of your duty and of your zeal for the Republic, to examine scru. pu lowly the estimate of expenses, to make reductions where you may deem it necessary, to fix the sum to which the expense of the present year is to be limited, to support the public credit, and to increase the salaries of those employees whose daily incomes are insufficient fur their maintenance. On observing the demands upon our re venue, and the expense occasioned by the stoic of war in which the Republic still continues, you will be convinced that (when our plan of taxation is once organised, and the administration better regulated), there are resources in our hands which will enable us to discharge all our foreign and national engagements on the very day that we shall lay down our arms, and enter on the enjoyment of those blessings which our country presents. By the accounts al the sale of the property, granted by the loan of 11124, you will ace that, by felfilling the law,we have d ischarged several foreign and do mestic debts, with the proceeds we have supplied the magazines and park of artillery, we have maintained the army, we have augmented the revenue administered by Government, we have paid the interest of all the foreign loans down to the present month ; and the awl cultute of certain provinces bas received such protection as our circunistancespermitted. It has been found impossible to conclude the liquidation of the Peruvian loan in favour of the Republic. A IthoughColombia is apparently the creditor, she is in fact a debtor to many citizens of the southern departments, from whom she so. 'kited supplies in order to assist Pent. The Executive hopes that Coupe*a will appropriate to the satisfaction of that debt, a part:of the sum which the Republic of that state has to pay. In this way we shall do an act of justice, and we shall protect the people of the South, whose services in the contest in Peru were prompt and effectival. The Colombian army deserves n fresh public testimony from the Executive of its satisfaction with Its conduct. The armies of Co lombia have fought at a distance from our country with the same constancy as they formerly displayed in the cause of the people. The army continues on the war establishment on account of the Spanish policy, and as the greater part of the estimated expense of the present year is appropriated to the war department, I recommend to you, as a method of reducing these expenses, to regulate the na tional militia in such a way as may be conducive to the purposes of its establishment, to put on half-pay, or discharge in an honourable way, such persona as can do ditty in active service, and to protect in a particular manner our marine. In the course of the present Administration I have met with many difficulties, as well for regulating the debt of the army, as to manage it in accordance with our Institutions; because you know that the Republic has no laws of its own in this department, and that thel ancient Spanish laws arescalculated for an absolute me. narchv. The Secretary at War will inform you in detail concern. ing this part of the Administration, by informing you of the state of the army, of our fortresses, magazines, quarters, education, and of the ideas of the Government. I must put you in mind of your obligations to this inestimable part of the Republic, by the efforts and virtues of which, this beautiful structure began to be erected, and which will assist perpetually in preserving it ; and I must entreat you to devote some part of your labours to giving it laws which may secure it from arbitrary and vexatious treatment, which may insure for it a competent subsistence, which may open to them the door to honour and ease, which may favour justice by the Aistribution of rewards and in the exlcution of the penal laws, and which must not forget their families after their decease. The maritime forces of the Republic is now receiving a pretty considerable increase by the means which I communicated to you last Session. In short, the Executive being overwhelmed in that abyss of difficulties which I mentioned to you in my former mes sage, for want of organicsl and administrative laws to regulate its premedings, I cannot flatter myself with being able to give you in formation in all respects witisfactory. If Congress can remedy this urgent necessity. the maritime force which the Republic will pos. sews will be sufficient to co-operate for Its defence. and to make it respected abroad ; and being able to cover the coast of the Atlantic against a sudden invasion, the land army may be considerably re. duced; and in this way expenses would be saved to the treasury, and hands would be rained for agriculture. Nautical education is conducted with success, notwithstanding the scantiness of the funds. Nothing could have been more flittering to my wishes than to be able, this day, to present a highly satisfactory account of the state of Colombia in all departments : but it is impossible in four years to destroy the work of three centuries. You know because you have experienced, the great difficulties which oppose in its infancy a people, which, from the most abject slavery, has raised itself to the rank of a free nation. after finding itself obliged to ntuintain alone, and with very limited resources, a struggle like ours, which was both lorg and disastrous. In spite of this circumstance, antlof all the particular circumstances which have clistacterised our political transformation, it is our happiness and our glory that the Republic of Colombia has not only burst asunder the chains of her own slavery, but has established elsewhere a system of liberty founded on the dignity and on the rights of man ; that she holds among ancient and modern nations a rank which she has acquired by her politlad organization, by the admirable conrancy of her deleoders, by the glory of Imams, and by the good faith of her administration; that it owes to its own heroic ants the station which it holds with respect to two powers whose physical and intellectual power is univer sally acknowledged ; that our people enjoy itspolitiral and civil liberty without having sees itself exposed to 'hose internal convulsions of which new societies are frequently the victims ; that our constitution and our WWI are supported by public opinion and by the freedom of the press; that knowledge is gradualiy diffused and propagated throughout the vast extent of our territoties; that the spirit of enterprise and of activity begins to animate out fellow citizens; that the foundations have been laid for peopling and cultivating large and almost unknown districts, which in six years will have augmented the population and the riches of Colombia ; in short, that the Republic, by the generous assistance which our brethren have lent us, deserves to be considered as the protectress of Ameri can liberty end independence. No single power can arrogate to itself an exclusive claim to this flittering situation. It is the work of the people, of the army, of the representative body, and of all the authorities, whose unanimous anti persevering efforts have been protected by the Supreme Author and Legislator of the Universe. The Republic has placed in you a great part of the hopes which it cherishes, of protecting her liberty, t f preserving her rights, and of increasing her wealth, both public and private. by means of s prudent vigilance and of sage laws, to restrain arbitrary power, to maintain order, to favour innocence, to punish crime, and pro tect liberty. By the assistance which it is my duty to give you for such important objects, I hare complied with the injunction of the law. It is your duty, in your turn, to discharge your duties with that zealous and enlightened spirit which you have hitherto dis played, in order that you may carry back to your fire-sides the satis. faction of having accomplished the intentions of your constituents, by supporting the constitution, watching over the public agents, assisting the executive power, t.r.cl disseminating happiness and prosperity through the whole Republic, und e r t h e in fl uence o f prosperity theouyhu the whul Republic, untice the influence or pc.cc and of the laws. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This Evening, THURSDAY, April 6, will be performed the Romantic Opera of DER FuniscHuTz. Adolph, Mr. T. Cooke; Caspar, lir. Hon ; Bernhard, Mr. Bedford; Kilian, Mr. Pittwilliam ; Zomlel,ift. 0. Smith. Linda, Mill Graddon ; Rose, Misa Povey. After which (10th time) a new Ogind Romantic Fairy Tale, called OBERON • or, THE. CHARMED HORN. 'rifles—Oberon, Miss V incent; Titania, Miss 3tacdonald. French—The Emperor Charlemagne, Mr. 0. Smith; Sir Htion of Guyenne, Mr. Ben. nett; Sherasmi n, Mr. Browne; Sir Milken, Dfr. T. Blanchard. Arabians— The Caliph of Bagdad, Mr. Pope ; the Prince Babekon, Mr. Howell ; Saduk, tar. Webster; °rotate, Mr. Mercer. The Princess Amanda, Mina Smith. 1 , 9 n ' • Fatima. Dirs. C. Jones. Tunjalans—The Sultan of Tunis, Mr. Youngs; Beluga, Mr. W. Bennett ; risherrnan, Mr. G. Smith. THE BRI'T'ISH PitESS. NATIVE SCHOOLS in INDIA.—The immense im portance of establishing Schools for the diffusion, in the brat place of European, and ultimately of Christian Knowledge, amongst the Native Children in India, must be admitted by alt who have eeriously reflected upon the mauls of propagating the Gospel in the East. Little progress can 'be expected in this great work, uhlesa the mind has been prepared for the eeception of Christianity by home previous instruction. This point was repeatedly ant earnes tly pressed upon the attention of the Society tor Promoting Christian Knowledge by the late lamented Bishop Middleton The advan tages to he derived from hence appear to be no less highly esti mated by Bishop Hebert and the opinion of persons hest acquainted with the Eaat, accords with the sentiments of these distinguissed individuals. To make provision for such instruction has long been an object of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; and it has ter &considerable time had Schools in India under the superintend. ante and direction of its agents. With a view to provide the means of extending the system, the Society has resolved to to a separate Fund for the establishment of Nctive Schools in India, and has for that purpose voted the sum of five thousand pounds, in addition to an anonymous benefaction of one thousand pounds, and another of two hundred pounds. ft is proposed to extend the benefits of this measure to all parts of India ; and to empower the Bishop of Calcutta, the Archdeacons of Calcutta. Madras, Bombay, and Ceylon, and the Committees of the Society at those places, to ap proprice portions of the Fund to the Native Schools in their re. spective districts. The system upon which the Schools are to be &inducted will be left to the decision of the Ecclesiastical and Civil Authorities in India, in conjunction with the Committees of the Society. and the Managers of each local Institution, Grants of money will be made for the erection and enlargement of school houses : books in English, and in the various native langu gee, will be provided ; and native schoolmasters will be educatedawith the ssistance of the Society. That the Native School Fund may be made in some measure proportionate to the vast field on which it is to be expended, and to the acknowledged importance of its most desirable and truly Christian object, the Society earnestly entreats the aid of the pub lic In donations or annual subscriptions. Subscriptions already received : .C. a. X. s. Society for Promoting Right Hon. Earl of Li- Christian Knowledge 0000 0 verpool 100 0 Anonymous . 1000 0 The Earl of Shaftesbury 50 0 Anonymous . - 200 0 Hon, Philip Pusey 100 0 The Lord Archbishop of The Lord Kenyon 50 0 Canterbury : 100 011 The Lord Bexley 50 II The Lord Archbishop of IA.C. L. and N. C. L. 3h 0 York . . 100 0 Rev. Daniel Wilson 10 0 The Lord Bishop of Lon- Mrs. Heber . 10 0 don 100 0 A. B. . - 1 1 - The Lord Bishop of Dui.- Rev. W. Hancock, ann. 1 I ham - 100 0 Joshua Watson, Esq. 60 0 The Lord Bishop of Win- Lord Gambier - 10 0 cheater - 50 0 Amount of an Article in The Lord Bishop of 01. the Theol. Review fi 0 ford - 30 0 Rev. Dr. Syry . 10 0 The Lord Bishop cf Ex- Rev. W. 1 aux - 10 0 titer - 20 0 Right Hon. C. W. Wll. The Lord Bishop of Pe- Hams IVynn . 50 0 terborough - 23 0 Rev. H. 11. Norris 20 0 The Lord Bishop of Bris. Rev. Dr. Wordsworth 10 10 tot . 10 0 Miss Hoare, (annual) 2 0 The Lord Bishop of ',itch- Miss Beardmore . 5 0 . _ _ tideland Co +entry 20 0 Rev. B. Woold - 1 I Ditto (annual) . 2 2 Geo. Dip r, EN. M.P. 10 0 The Lord Bishop of Llan- Rev. A.. 1. Campbell 5 0 (laif . 30 0 Richard Heber, Esq. 2U 0 The Lord Bishop of Ches. Rev. Charles C. Chol ter . 30 0 mondeley - 5 5 Deddington Committee 10 10 I 011ev. C. Benson - 5 Subscriptions will be received at the Society's Office, 67, Lin. coin's Inn-fields ; and at the Banking-housca of 3lessrs. Gosling, Fleet-street ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross ; and 3lessrs. Bounquet and Co. 73, Lombard-street. PRICES OF BRITISM Bank Stnek Ditto Acct. 2 0 73 3 per Cent. ConA. 79j I 714 Ditto Acct. 79 i 3 781 Net, 4 per Cent. 931 tilSi PRICES OF roustaN Brazilian Bond. 561 Si Chiltan Honda Sa Colombian Bonds Ditto Bonds :102.4; 554 5 4} 3} 4132 Ditto Acct. 438 I 68 48 5 48 31 81 41 3 1 Danish Benda (1823' 47e 7 French Rentee S per Cent. NE 73e. 50c. Exchange 2t. 60e. 70c. 4 Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds (1825) 17 164 Ditto Aevt. 178 161 1 7 164 1 7 STOCKS YESTERDAY. Mexican Bonds Ditto Bonds (1625) 68 71 5 75 65 74 61 Ditto Acct. 671 9 71 i 71 5 6 5 7 6 5 75 6 1 Peruvian Bonds an 5 3 2 90 Ditto Acct. 335 3 290 Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds 805 Ditto Acct. MO Spanish Bonds Ditto Acct. ill 10 Ditto Bonds l 1 etti ) PRICES OF SI YESTE It RDAY. Share. Paid. A nelo-Meaken ..... • ••••4 4100 45 15 die Bra:lhan ......... ..... ........ 100 10 2 die Colombian lOO 7* idle P.iseo.Peruvian Heal del Monte 4OO 400 40 die 400 30 par United Mexleah Ditto New 4O IS 4 die Weleh Iron sad Coal .. 25 20 13 dls AVIVRANCII 0 AAAAA IIS. All Anne British and Fonts Ditto Marina . 11A1 h Idle sitansas.anisve. Gas Engine Canis r• . • • lOO 1 Ipm West India Company 04 Kt ritisift COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Thu Evening, THURSDAY, April 6, will be performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Tearle, Mr. iiroll;eritwface, Mr. Fawcett; .Irereph Surface, Mr. Warde ; Charles Surface, Mr. Cooper. Ludy Teazle, Mrs. Cheater; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Gibbs. Alto which the Farce of A ROI.IND FOR AN OLIVER. • Mr Mark Chase, II r. Fawcett ; Alfred lllghdyer, Mr. Jones ; Flzadze. Mr. Rayuer. Marti Derllskytou, Madame Vertris. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. MATHEW" AT HOME This Evening. TIIIIRSDA V, April C, With an entirely new Entertainment, in Two Part.. fottnded on hi. Ob4ervation. on Characters, Manners, and Rocaßarbie., entitled MR. MATH( W:4' INVITATIONS. PART lII.—A Monopolylonise, to be called THE CITY BARGE Seven Characters by Mr. Mathews. Doom open at Half.pa4t Semen (Instead of Seven. as heretofore) ; the Performance begins at Eight preci>ely. - - The BRITISH razes commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1826. Parliament met yesterday, for the first time since the Easter Recess, but no business of public interest occurred in either house. The lateness of the hour at which the account of the Quarter's Revenue was made up, prevents us from giving the details as we had expected ; but this we can confidently say, that, taking the existing circumstances of the empire into consideration, the financial statement of the last three months will be by no means uniatisfaetory. Some of our contemplraries appear quite out of their element when they cannot find an opportunity for censuring the Govern ment, or foreboding evil against the country, and the finances they deem at present the best point for attack. The late Quarter's Revenue presented a fine subject for them, and they boldly ventured an opinion that a defi ciency would appear in it. This may or may not be the case; and, therefore, we will not argue upon probabilities, when we shall so soon have facts before us ; but we cannot refrain from remarking thus far upon the anticipations of the Opposition Journals, that if no deficiency should exist under the present commercial embarrassments, it would be matter for extraordinary congratulation, and if a decrease in the Quarterly Accounts should appear, even beyond the sum that has been so industriously bruited about by the contemporaries we have alluded ta, we can steno reason for gloomy forebodings ; because the financial system has been seriously affected by recent circumstances, and that system it is fair to infer requires time to recover itself, as well as the other great interests of the country. In the letter of M. EYNA/ln to ►he Duc de CHOISEUL, in the French Papers received last evening, mention is made of attacks on Missolonghi on the 25th and 48th of February, which, on the authority of a letter of the 25th of March, are said to have been repulsed with considerable loss. If we can suppose that the remainder of the letter refers to the subsequent attacks on the 28th February.and the 2d of March, the evidence of the late successes of the Greeks will be complete. KitoaF.n, the Capitan Pacha, and REDSCIIID PACIIA are marching towards the north, and it is supposed they are proceeding for the frontiers of Russia. A letter from Corfu of the ith of March contains further intelligence of the successes of the Greeks, and confirms to a certain extent the latter part of M. Ev N•kD ' S letter. Time Duke of WELLINGTON, it appears by the Petersburgh extracts in the French Journals, has frequent interviews with the French, Austrian, and Prussian Am busailors, at the hotel of Count NESSFI.RODE. The private letters state that the Great Powers will menace the Porte, if that Cabinet will not consent to put an end to the war in the Morea. [From the ',toile, dated Tuesday, April 4.1 PARIS, APRIL 3. A letter from Corfu of the 7th of March says--" NVe have re ceived from Zante, Santa Maura, and Prevesa, the news that on the 24th of February the Egyptians began to cannonade Miss°. longhi. According to the Journal of that place the enemy were to the number of 25,000 men, of whom 111100 were regularly orga nised, 6450 irregular troops, and 10,000 of those of Redschid Paella. After three days' constant firing the besiegers supposed that they had wearied out the Greeks, and proceeded to attempt to carry the place by storm. But the Greeks repulsed them with their accustomed valour, and they sustained a severe loss. Two other attempts had a similar result. On the 3d the Greeks made a sally, pursued the enemy to the foot of the mountains, made themselves masters of their batteries, spiked the mortars and cannon, and took a great quantity of booty. The three attacks succeeded each other in the space of nine hours. Ibrahim had pre viously offered large sums to the Governor to surrender the place, promising to let him carry away the guns and &lithe moveable pro perty. His proposals were rejected with contempt. It seems that the retiringof Redschid Pacha was not in consequence of a mis understanding, but a stratagem concerted with Ibrahim to throw the Greeks off their guard, but the project failed. The loss of the enemy is estimated at 6000 killed." The Gazelle of Florence contains a letter from Santa Neon, of the 4th of March, which confirms almost all these details, and adds that the Greeks also lost many men. [From the Journal de Paris of Mooday.l FRANKFORT ON THE ODER, MARCH 25. (Private Letter.) "The last letters from Petersburgh say that Lord Wellington and the Ambassadors of France, Austria, and Prussia, continue to have frequent conferences with Count Nesselrotle, at the close of which their Excellencies alternately send Couriers to their re spective Governments. Great activity prevailed in the of for Foreign Affairs. It is affirmed that a plan is preparing there, the result of which will be to put an end to the war which ravages the Peloponnesus, by means of conciliatory proposals, which will be made to the Porte in the name of the Great Powers. According to persons who are well informed, the plan is to establish the indepen dence of Greece, founded on a system of Government like that in tended for Moldavia and IVallachia, if the Porte at length conforms to what in the treaty of Bucharest was formally stipulated, with respect to these two principalities. [From the Pitote of Monday.] PARIS. AWL 2. Letters from Port-au•Prince of Feb. sth says, that several rich inhabitants of that colony have offered to President Boyer to sub scribe the 120 millions still remaining to be paid to France, in order to participate In the advantages which must necessarily accrue to the Indent. Letters from Berlin inform us that Austria requires of the Congress of St. Petersburgh, that in conformity with the stipula tions of the Treaty of Chamont, or of the defensive alliance of the five Great Powers, measures of precaution shall be adopted against revolutionary principles. England, it is said, refuses all co-opera tion in this respect, fearing that these measures may be of such a nature as to injure constitutional liberties, and to sanction the prin. ciples of foreign interference in the internal affairs of representative Governments. The Afasheim Gazette states, on the authority of private letters from Russia, that arrests continue to take place in several provinces of the empire, but that St. Petersburgh, Moscow, and the other great cities are perfectly tranquil. FRENCH Ft/NM-PARIS. APRIL 3.—Five per Cents., 97f. 25c.; Three per Cows., 66f. 85c. ; Bank Stock, 2,000 f.; Writes de Naples,74f.3oc. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 48A f.—Exchange on Lon don, one month, 23f. 70e.; three ditto, 25f. 45e.—Couss Autlien ague, April 3. The policy of the Law of Primogeniture continues to be strongly contested among the French politicians. It is quite natural that the Royalist party should be anxious to restore the old feudal principle.; of succession, since the abolition of entails is decidedly unfavourable to that con centration of wealth which is the soul of family influence. The fears of the Aristocracy are, in this respect, well grounded. The endless subdivision of the landed property is essentially democratic. The principle was well suited to the republican era in which it was introduced; it was fitted to work out the designs of the Revolutionary Govern ment; but as the basis of a restored Monarchy—that is quite another thing. That it may be favourable to general industry, and to the improvement of the soil, may be true; but that its effect will be to form, upon the whole, a more enlightened and independent population, is yet to be determined. The progress of improvement is retarded at present in France by so many causes, that it becomes im possible to ascertain the exact effect produced by the re publican part of its constitution. One thing is certain, that the equal distribution of landed property will not necessarily produce an equality of rank. Opulence may be gained in a nation like France, without those liberal en dowments which generate genius, and talent, and know ledge; and the more, in other respects, men are on a level, the more must wealth make the scale preponderate. It is not a little singular that we should be indebted to foreign writers for the most correct arrangement of all the ditTerent sources from which this country derives that wealth, and power, and greatness, which place her at the head of all the nations in Europe. Pre-eminent as our own authors are in every branch of Literature, it is, neverthe less, not uncommon to find those who wish to acquire a knowledge of our form of government studying its con-, ifilrtiun in the pages of De LOLIIE. For the most useful digest of every thing relating to our naval and mili tary system, we are indebted to the laborious inquiries of BARON DVPIN. In a work by the same writer, lately translated from the French, and exhibiting a complete , iew of all our public works, our Streets, Roads, Canals, Aque ducts, Bridges, Coasts and Maritime Ports, we have a mass of intelligence brought together, that prevents the clearest view that ever yet was given of the exhaustless wealth of Great Britain, and the solid and indestructible basis of her commercial power. But the labours—themostcxtraordinary of their kind—towhich our merchants, political economists, and public men are, beyond all others, indebted, are those which have been given to the British public by M. Mo iteAu. The progress of our commerce—and the com parative advancement and decline of those manufac tures which commerce produces—is detailed with an accu. STOCKS YESTERDAY. Indis Bonds 7 cm Ex. Rills 10001. 6 S 7pist Ditto SUM. 6 5 7pm Ditto Small 6 5 7 pm Lottery Tickets 211. I Is. racy that must have cost incredible pains. Researches, that would have baffled all ordinary perseverance, have been patiently waded through; materials, scattered through the most neglected and dust-covered documents, have b (en collated and arranged—and the most curious and valuable result! are set forth, as to the extent in which, at different periods, the manufactured exports of Great Britain bare supplied the general market of the world. In these times, when the philosophy of trade and commerce forms m o v e or less a part of the study of all the well-informed dames, these details become of inestimable value; they are more especially so, now that the administration of our fin anc i a l system is conducted upon those enlightened principles to which the information, conveyed by this intelligent e a reigner, is more than ever essential. We hav e g i v , n an extract, spewing the estimated value of Cotton Manufac tures exported in the four years ending the Sth of January ISYS. It furnishes dote of great importance, which those whose enquiries arc directed to these invese.gation a pill know how to appreciate. CITY, WUDNESDAY ECEXIXO. Some very heavy sales took place this morning, which deptessed the funds considerably; and this cireums.ance, as was quite natural, was followed by a rumour that a much greater deficiency than was at first anticipated bad occurred in the quarter's revenue, and that a messag e re. lative to funding Exchequer Bills had reached the City from the Treasury. The funds, in consequence of these Reports, closed this afternoon at 781. The Exchequer Bill market was more buoyant to-day than it has been for some time, and the quotation was as high as 6s. Ss. 7s. premium. Bank Stock was 207 i, and India Bonds 7s. premium. The Foreign market was heavy, particularly in South American Securities. Many unfavourable reports from the Southern States were current. They proved to be unfounded, hut the prices continued heavy. Colombian Bonds 53i 34; Mexican Bonds 61} 64. Greek Stock fell top 1 - 6 i. To account for this, there were rumours, and the name of one gentleman connected wills the Greek Committee bas been mentioned as an authority, but we can contradict the re. port of his having received unfavourable news from Greece. The Committee of the Foreign Stock Exzhange have this day announced the expulsion of four of the members of their body, for conduct which is deemed im proper; one of the persons expelled has been deeply con. nected with joint-stock companies. The private letters that we have seen to-day from the manufacturing districts speak of a gradual improvement in the state of trade. GER3IAN PAPffRS. LEI MC. Magni 21. Kampffe, partner in the house of Peter Richter, was broiled in here under arrest the day before yesterday. lie hail drawn bills of exchange to the amount of %MN dollars, and when they became due it appeared that he concealed the matter from his partner, and had employed the proceeds to his own benefit. He had. In cone. quence, absconded, but was overtaken and arrested at Gera. GIESSE7I, MARCH r. Dr. F. Schultz, professor of philosophy in this university, who, with the permission of his Government, and supported by it, has been for these three yeses in Paris studying the Oriental languages, has now received from the Grand Duke's Government unlimited leave of absence, to travel:to Persia at the expence of the French Government. [From the Atlgemcinc Zcilung of March 301 PRESIIUBG, MARCH 20. The Sittings of the Diet continue without interrup inn. In the 77th, held on the 17th, his Imperial Highness the Archduke Pa latine was pleased to communicate to the ehiunber of Magnates, the happy intelligence that his Majesty the Emperor was out of all danger, and it was then announced to the Chamber of Deputies. It was received by both with the most ardent enthusiasm. In the 78th Sitting, on the 18th, a letter was read from Count Joseph Telekyt Szek, by which he not only gives a large aunt of money to the is. tended National Academy, but allows the free use of his private library, consisting of thirty thousand volumes. The reading of this letter called forth the most lively expressions of gratitude to the patriotic writer. On the same day both Chambers complimented his Imperial Highness the President on his fete, or Saint's day. The Jamaica Papers that arrived yesterday are to the 20th February ; their contents are unimportant. It appears from the following letter from the Privy Council•office, that though the Order in Council which prohibited the exportation of military stores is not F. uf. fered to expire, yet the one which prohibited the expor tation of cannon and gun-carriages will not be renewed:— ORDERS IN COUNCIL. " Council.office, Whitehall, March "ft. " am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Cominissioners of his Majesty's Customs, that the Order in Council dated the 30th of September last, which prohibits the ex (rtation of military stores, will expire on the 30th of this instant larch). but which will be renewed at the first Council to be held y his Majesty. As, however, such Council may not take place before the expiration of the present Order, I am to desire that the raid Commissioners will give directions forthwith to their officers, to consider the said prohibition as being in force, not. witty:tending the said Order may nut be renewed previous to its expiration. ." I am, sir, &c. " C. C. GetriLLt." " P.S.—The Order in Council, of the same date, WtTiih iro. hibita the exportation of cannon, gun-carriages, ste. will not be renewed. "ZThomas Whitmore,Esq:" The proprietors of the Alliance Insurance Company held a meeting yesterday, at which a dividend of 8 per cant. was declared. The price of corn is rising pretty rapidly both in Bri tain and Ireland. In Boston, Lynn, and the other leading corn markets in England, wheat has advaneed Gs. to Bi. per quarter within the last three weeks. The, only ap parent reason for this start in the price, is an opinion which gains ground among the farmers, that the supply of corn in the country is rather short.—Country Biper. Messrs. Sparrow and Co. have informed the public, that some alterations will take place in the arrangement of the proposed new partners in their banks ; at the same time they announce that, whatever arrangements may be finally en tered into, the banks, both at Chelmsford and Brainuce, will open on the 17th of April, as declared by them at the public meeting on the 19th ult. ; nor will the application made in the Court of Chancery, on Tuesday week, as re ported in several papers, make the slightest alteration in such arrangement.—Bury Gazette. YoRK M A N rs' Com PA KY.—Considerable interest has been occasioned at our Assizes, in the antieipation that an assumed right of the Merchants' Company to oblige every inhabitant of York, trading in articles of forign produce, to purchase their freedoms of the said Company, would be decided in a Court of Law. The case is as fol lows :—There are several freemen of the city, who are thus trading, and who, till lately, have long uninterruptedly so traded. Amongst those are Mr. Seawin and Mr. Harwood, druggists, both of whom have had notice from the Mer chants' Company, on the imagined authority of an a nciint charter, that they must become members of their fraternity (the entrance fee of which is, whatever the CompallY may think proper), or for ever cease to trade in those ar ticles over which they claim this exclusive domination. To the demand a refusal, was given. and the Company then resolved to call in the assistance of the gentlemen of the long robe. Law proceedings were consequently insti tuted against Mr. Scawin, but were soon withdrawn, and Mr. Harwood was fixed upon as a more desirable subj. et for litigation. Counsel were retained, and witnesses were subpeenled, who day after day waited in court, expecting to he called up m to give the sanction of their evidence to this act of monopoly ; but at length, on an alleged inac curacy in the pleadings, the record was withdrawn, and the power of the Company to enforce th2ir injurious claims remains to be decided at the next Assizes. We are con vinced, that all who feel interested in the prosperity of our city must most anxiously wish for the abolition of a power which has so deteriorating an influence over its trade. Besides, if the demand now made be proved legal, who can say where the next attempt may be made; and the freedom of the city will be of little use to the young tradesman, if, after this, another mulcture must be sub mitred to, at the will of the Merchants' Company.—York (Antiwar. Tbi bar 1 1 ! Lady Th( • ling Thl Aden' tali I TOI :torte Irt. the C pas 1 lib boot An Mn. Coe.' Jame Bart. ...~. -- b am, _ 1 GO' Th ton-v SI! ism —_. 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