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WIN Mr. Fen at a period when the prospect of greatest advantage uccruiag from his unequalled talents and peculiar intrepi dity, was the mast serious aggravation of his lose. They could mot expect two Sir. Fuses in the same age. Bet it was a true observation, that the emergency of the times sel dom failed to produce talents that were in some degree equal to the occasion. There was one individual who he thought eightbe rgnsembered at the prevent Militia( with moth pro. ',rutty, as be must he allowed by all parties to have been 1 1 11 e of the first of patriots. He alluded to the late Sir Salmis I Rowdily. The period at which his bright career was terminated, was, as in the case-of Mr. Pea, molt singularly calamitous ; for that lamented *memos , it would be recol. lectrd, was then engaged in revising the penal code of Eng land ; and, bad he been spared, might have succeeded in re. Inter kiag it of those sanguinary parts by which it is at pre. sent disgraced. Mr. Moocrieff depicted with great felicity the surprising traits which distinguished that lamented Eng lish lawyer, and coseleded by giving 7. " The Memory of Sir flamTisel Itoenilly," which was drunk solemn silence. Air, My lodging is uo the cold ground. Mr. LAM BTON, jots. said, that assembled as they were lb cekbrste the cease of aril and religious liberty, it was impossible that they could withhold some position of their comideration from a people who ware struggling in the same cause, and who had great need of their sympathies and as aistersee. It was to the British ciders, to the British scholar, t'ial he appealed. Let him imagine an enthusiastic people emulating their Brest ancestors, and think how glorious it to fall with • Hampden in the tirld, or a Sydney on the scaffold. Set them free, give them but ludependeuce, and, though scarcely in • few years, yet in the process of time they will learn to rescuable their illustrious progenitors. Let it he considered how Greece had grumped fur centuries tinder the tyranny of. the Turk. ; and knowing all this, when hey .find some Greeks performing acts unworthy of their some, whom will their hearts blame? It would base been well for those who held up to public execration the crimes imputed to' the exasperated Greeks, if they bed forgotten the atrocious history of their persecutors. He did .01 believe any well-educated man could bear of the Garlic. , lea of the Greeks, sod not with well to their earee.—llffe nut pretend to report this speech, nor eve, to present outline of it. The reader can better imagine what Is would expect from so five a subject, sod so eloquent speaker.)—Mr. Lewiston, jun. apologised fur saying so inch, fur he was sure that the ealighte•ed and iatelligest inhabitants of Edinburgh, had be not said a word, week' art doue what he proposed they sboold sow do—driuk :rev " To t►e Restoration of the Indepeodence of Greece."... 'lle toast was dash with three times three, sod the es s tbitaissm which the subject awl the eloquence of the speaks, cogild not fail to inspire. A Grutlemss who spoke at some lesgth on the integrity sod iactirrepsibdity of the late Mr. Erskine, gave to " The memory of the Hogs. Henry Enkiee." ♦fter some poweefal obetrvatmes, Ur. JAMES GIBSON propm.ed— " The Emil of Rossiya," il.ich was drunk with three times three, and the moot loud and spontaneous applause. The Earl of ROSSLYN rose to return thanks for the tistitering and distinguished 11114131114 T in which hie health bad been given. He should very much abuse their patience if lie Jetaiued them with any 'Activations on himself. If his conduct for the 38 years, during which period he had bees in public life, was not a sufficient test of his political prim elves, be could not expect that any profession of has would ba sufficierst. He would °sly add, that be had commenced his career under the teition of Mr. Fox, to whose prniciples Nit had cottonseed firmly attached. The great body of she /alga had beets united egoist all aggreesiwas of power, and •geiast apixatiou whieb bad dinsisimbed the isdependenee of Mot people, while it had strengthesed the hands of the MI . Notwithstandiug, they had suited together nut for say factious purpose, but fur the restoring's of those printitees 'lnch were established at the Revolution.—(Cheers.) far. COCKBURN—Ia an early part of the evening the Chan's:in gave a full, fair, and free representation." The toast which he was gentle to propose was certainly included an that ; but they most uut forget that ibis was a Scotch niett.ng, anal he thought they might turn with an especial regard to the state of the polineal represegitation of Scott -1 auJ. In our towns, it might literally he said, they had so reinesentatioo at all. It was coatroom to impute to the Scottish character a supineness ander this misfortune, and !lie sneer must freqateutly proceeded from our southern bre thren. But lass it once been suggested bow the blood and tre of the English character would be extinguished if it repreeentatiou was like ours? If Ibis blemish was wiped out, every other flaw, if taut immediately, would gradually disappear. Till this alteratiou took place, at was to vain to charge the people of this couutry with apathy. He con hided lay virtue— " May the People of Scotism' soon be admitted to the ....ill benefit of the Representative Systens.".-Three limes three, sad lung-coutineed applause. Mr. STU AK r said, a bee representation bad been spoken by the Chairman, sad the present state of our "epee. irritation bad been eloquently desrribid by Mr. Cockburn; but there was our county which, had es that representation confessedly was, bad worked well fur the country. He al luded to the small county of Forfar, whose Member was -tau, in the room. He proposed the health of— " Mr. Mamie, and the iutlepeadeut Freeholders of the Comm) of Forfar." Mr. Mamie was the friend of reform of every kiad, and espe cially of a reform of Parliament. What must he the feel ings of fdr.llleule, the representative of the little county of Fan far, *bee compared with those even of Mr. Wudrhouse, the representative of the great cuissey of Norfolk, when It Was considered tbst Mr. Maule's whole time was spent in promoting the happiness and iodepeudence of Isis cowls- Imelda, sad the country at large. Mr. MAULS, in returning thanks, expressed his midi own so promote the objects of the meeting by every means his power. 11 Gentleman, after some brief but appropriate observe lions, proposed es s toast— " Liberty to Spain and Portugal," which was drask with the loudest cheers. Mr. JEFFREY then pronounced an elegant eulogium on lie Isle and public services of the late Mr. Horner, and con cluded by calling on them to drink in one bumper to " The filemory of Francis Horner," which was accordingly drank • solemn silence. Dr. *MADAN rose and observed, that it did not require the talent of eloquence to recommend the distinguished inch- Aid whose health be was abort to propose to the meeting. le was confident that the bare mention of his name would at once glee a sufficient warrant fur that (sordid acceptance with shichsbe toast would be received by all around bin. He 'tended to propose the health of Mr. Remy Broughams. As statesman mad a friend of humanity, he stood unrivalled among the rewerosa benefactors of his coaniry. There viers two 'bingo in which his labours sod extrtions stood pre eminently meritorious: the tint was, the abolition of the \lave & Trade, ohs( wicked sad abominable traffic, which sishnowtored every station where it existed; the other, uo less biterficial te e the inierems of big specie+, was Hoe ge neral difloston of kiwwledge, sod partite:arty among the lower dames of bis own country. He would therefore pro pose The health of Mr. Hem, Brougham, and success to his eXtliioll.l for the dissemination of knowledge among the lower classes of his rounicy."—i-Thres times three. Mr. J. W. BROUGHAM retereed his wannest scknow. ledgments for the honour which had been conferred upon his brother, cud regretted his inability to do it in such e meaner as was due to that imeetieg bat he was confident that his brother would duly appreciate the dirtioguished mark of respect which bad now been umferred upon Mtn.-- ir, English soon. The Earl of ROSSLYN nose to propose ■s a toast, the ie. dependence of the Scotch bar. He felt himself perfectly un violated to preface it in the manner which he conceived it ought to be done , but any insufficiency which aright be fueled in him be wee confident would be supplied by the tsteut, respectability, end importeece which the toast em. braved. The literary qualifications, the powerful eloquence, animated by the brightest imegisation end polished CillaileSl thSliNgliiihed the iudividusls included in the Lade. prudent teat of &mimed. It was such a bar as nut only hu moured HA country to which it belonged, but be could say, wittiest the fear of exaggeration, that it excelled say to the civilised world.—(Cbeers.) —lf they were ambitions of office, of preferment, or of personal emolument, be had so doubt bet they could easily acquire it.—(Clieree.)-e-lindeed it was the interest of the Ministry of the day to covet the support mod protection of the Gentlmes to whom be al. 'tided. Next to the free rights and liberties of a people, de rived from the fair representatiou of a delegated body, was the security which an indepeadtut, enlightened, and inter oid. bar afforded: He should be extremely sorry that any thing should escape him that would injure the feeling', or hurt the. reputation of that highly respectable sod honourable body of mew who filled the highest judicial (auctions of the country; • but be could not but observe, that if ever • time should occur an which a Judge should so far forget himself as in • incline to be 'Miaowed by the seductions of piety, or of secular inteve.t, which, God forbid, such a Judge would shrink from the appearance of such a bar, especially when he contemplated the support and protection which it would undusibtedly receive from the minds of the people. His Lordship coacluded by congrateilatiog the country upon its safety, while it enjoyed the protection of such a bar, and proposed to drink the health of— " Mr. Clerk, and the Independent members of the Scottish bar."—Three times three. Mr. ADAM BLACK rose to call their attention to • Nobleman of distinguished merit and ability, whose career in public life was conspicuous for the muenster in which he had advocated the canoe of independence and political free dom, more especially for his exertions to emancipate the burghs iu Scotland from that close and iniquitous system is which the majority of them were established. The Noble man to whom he alluded dirt not enter into the House of Commons, as many others did, to represent their own fami le-a, anal to secure for their uncles and cousins personal ento lemmas anti gift. of lucrative offices, which erne only con ferred upon the minions of the present Ministry. He suffered reproach fur being opposed to the oppression of his country. While one Member of a city could boast of his emolument:, and another Member of a county of being a sucking states man, Lord Archibald Hamilton could boast of his unshaken sad steady perseverance for many years in the cause of isidepenalence and freedom. He proposed that the meeting drink— " Lorl Archibald Hamilton, and . success to the cause of Bergh Reform ;" three times three, and vehement applause. The following toasts were afterwards proposed by differ ent gentleaseu, in appropriate addresses, and drunk by the company with the imitable indications of respect : " Memory of Mr. Whlibresel."—" Simon Bolivar, and may the speak of liberty which he kindled in Columbia soon extend itself through the whole provinces of that Republic." —" Earl Feimerilliam."" The lodependeut Periodical Press of this Country."—'‘ Sir James Mackintosh." Mr. COCKBURN then ruse to &we've, that he must re quest the farther indulgeoce of the meeting, while he endea voured to pesform a tank which perhaps was the most diffi cult, sod at the same time the must irreconcilable that it was possible fair any individual to conceive, eamely, to at. tarts independence to the Town Council of Ediuburgli [Laughter pnvenied the Learsed Gentleman, for a con siderable lime, from proceeding]—He was exceedingly happy to be relieved, iu some measure, from the task of entering minutely Mtn the merits of that Corporate Body, as the manner in which the bare mentino of it had bees received, diacovered how they were appreciated by the meeting.—(Much laughter.)—Rut in order most effectually to form a just idea, it would be necessary, is a shag •manner, to describe what en upright and independent Town Council really is. A Town Council, properly constituted, considers it to be their glory and honour to preside among their fellow-townsmen; to prosecute their business fairly anal openly in the eyes of Mae wield; and to act in accordance with the views and wishes of 'hues whose interests they superintend. It would be as easy to Imagine a council constituted on the opposite principle. Is it to be expected, then, that in the latter honest and liberal system of burgh government, there will be found individuals of character aud principle congenial to the systens?—(Lauglo ter.).—They were all aware, he believed, tut fully as be was, that there are nut any very radiant stars to be fumed in each a couecil.—(illuch laughter.)—Notwitbstaadiug all this, such a council does curtain some exceptions, and which will go some length to redeem its character —(Laughter.)—And although the noble spirit of independence may be stifled at ' the council board, yet he doubted 'tot bat that it did, mil still would comnimue to receive the admiration and respect Of all just and liberal-minded citizens. He world therefore conclude by proposing the health of The independent members of the Towo Council; and who have been rendered doubly independent by appearing in that hody."—(Much laughter.)—Three times three. Mr. JEFFREY was riming to address the meeting, when he was interrupted by the Chairman, who inquired whether be was a memba r of the Town Council ?—(Much laughter.) Demme SAW ERS returned thanks for the boomer which hod just been dune him, and arkeowlsdged that he was en tirely taken by surprise, not being aware of the toast which Mr. Cockburn had submitted to the meeting. All he could do therefore was, simply to express his satisfaction and pleasure et the very &Moire manner is which hie health had been drank, aud hoped he would still continue to enjoy their approbation. Mr. JEFFREY then gave— " The health of Mr. James Stuart, of Danesen.—• gentle. man whose activity and unsparing toil in the prosecution of every thing that was calculated to advance the ieterest and political freedom of his country, deserved the approbation and respect of every well-directed mind." Before they cep rated it was his wish that that gentliman should receive& mark of their esteem by drinking his health. The toast was drank with long-cuntinued cheering. Mr. STUART rose and acknowledged the honour done him, but professed himself perfectly incapable of meriting such a testimony of respect, aud especially at the suggestion of an individual who was not only an honour to his country, but to the age to which be lived. He should consider him self the must ungrateful of beings were he to abandon the e@ principles which bad procuced for him such a flatteriog distinction. The following toasts were then drank Lord Abe. merle."—" Mr. Bootb."—" Mr. Lambton."—" Mr. Bowman, and the 'adept:West Electors of the counties of Durham and Norfolk."—" The Memory of Professor Playfalr."— " Sir, J . Maxwell, and the Whigs of Glasgow.."—" The nose for which Hampden died in the field, and Sydney on the scaffolal."—" The Memory of Lord Newton." Sir Ronald Fergussosi left the chair at twelve o'clock, sod the whole of the company immediately afterwards dispersed. The compete) , appeared to consist of room 250 to 300 I i gentlemen. Mr. arfl f.lll wee JOU 10 1 prle one Sam t•ro cal. left , 13141 17.61 seal the lieh tt in a So € Imo cum ram .1511 t ' bXl tint iY II ral thni I he , Stt ¶lOll VIII' all bee. cra Intl 101 Iles 410 ell 1501 a TOO iuh Itu "th 111 II cu. 4 pry ant 1 fl al bee coo in lot his he I 111 0(0 the Cu, ' hl Ch; toa au met Teo 11u rep Sru he thr Yee rep not cba cle for Ulu elf urn boi Cu' l_ n u d tog Cu Mg cia to 1111 wit • yr( tee is • tie the tbt -clu le iu the • ill He } 0141 wh int ta 1115. 1115. deto elm 11to nei lug l y 0 his rLe led ma tim Ai ma del for • i lel be' an Mu toi FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, JANUART 24. The Journal of Me Upper Rhine, under the head of Colmar, January 24, contains the following : " The Pavia Papers mention that the /flew. Tellies- and Wahlble, Adjutant-Sub-officer and Serjeant•Major of the 29th regiment, who, after the discovery of their plot, bad fled to Porrentrni, have hero delivered up by the Grand Badly. These two Sub.oflicers bad really been arrested at Porrentrui, but they were shortly after restore.l to liberty. having assumed the names of Castor and Pollux, between which suit the names Tellier and Wahlble, the police of that part of Switnerlaod discovered no resemblance. We have re ceived some information respectiug the articles found in the house of the Sieur Pttit•Jean, Advocate of Britoil. These articles consist of two tricoloured flags, and the cravats which were detached from them, 17 cockades with silver edges, 600 woollen cockade., • counter epaulette of a chief of battalion, 400 balls, and about 1,200 cartridges. Some new sabres were found in the streets of &Wort, which bad been left there by die men who wished to elude the investi gations of the police un the failure of tlie plot. The son of the Sinn Petit-Jan bas fled, and the number of persons over arrested umuunts to 37. " la the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the 14th isstsat, N. d'Argeosou applied for leave of +Ware lo customise the injury be had salaamed from a dunikiisr, visit made in consequence of the discover/ ti the 014 of B*lfort. We hare received some positive informatics! os /his subject, from which it appear dot AI. d'Arsessou bad so Irate of violence in his home. A visit really look place, hot could it sot bays bees anode to the residewce of a man whom M. d'Argeolon lodged Is his house, and who bad has. arrested at Belfast? TMu mos is the Sieur Pergole s and who was accused beffire the Court of Peers is ISIS, sad who had implicated in his escape the officerelf lbs past to whose care he was intrusted. We know not chat 'eduction were employed to corrupt this officer, even after the plot had f a il e d ; but we know very well, sod it is a foci of which n o b o dy cam be ignorant, that the Magistrates were charged to collect proofs of the crime, mid that their first steps were naturally directed towards the re. Wilmer of the accused. We are assured that after his flight from Seifert, tke Nene Pegslu returned to the chateau of M. d'Argesson to secure his effects, which, at all events, were not found there at the time of the domiciliary viols. Those who are unfortunate enough to lodge • conspirator i n their Imam *est not be surprised at the legal measures of which their Ambience becomes the object; and M. d'Argesson may be assured that in the present instance the Magistrates bare itali performed their duty. Some time ago a Decree of the Uri Court of Colmar might have convinced M. d'Argenson of the same fact, in a case in which the Sieur Pegulu was likewise concerned. The latter had 'refused to skew hie pass port, and the officer of gendarmerie having threatened to ar rest him if he did not prove that be possessed the legal right to travel, M. d'Argesson prosecuted the officer of gesder "aerie, end thereby constituted himself • civil party, by reamer of the injury he had sustained from the loss of time steideped by the explanations of the Sieur Pirgolu, rebel was is his service and pay. The Court dismiwied this aiugslar demand, and M. d'Argenson may now see that the mar fur whose be said be was ready to answer at that time, well de served to be compelled to fulfil an obliptiou which the law imposes on all subjects." CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, WEIMICIDAY, Jut. 23. The debate was resumed cm the law project relative to the offences of the press. M. de Danville recd a long speech in support of the law project. The Journal de* Debate being apprehensive that an analysis of ti. de Demille's oration .would weaken his argemeats, omits it altogether for the present, but pro- miles to give it at length in a supplement. N. Mechia addressed the Chamber. In the midst of peace, he towed Preece full of disquietude. Though, from pedlar"! storms, the country anticipates dangers, we have been for six years wader laws which have been iucapable of producing concord. The nation is tormented by an internal dironkr„ the symptoms of which are manifest. Is the canse interned also No: ti exists solely in the political faults of those who are daily exciting the public solicitude; for the instability of the agents of power renders daily more remote the hope of adopting a steady course. No system can be fixed, whet it te in the hands of men of no settled political character; who to-day abjure on the ministerial beach the principles which they dtfeuded as Deputies.—(Mormors.)—The coostitu clonal law itself, gives up to the interpretations of diverg. leg interests, is not secure against the constantly rising pre tensions of those who possess power. The Hun. Drolly then proceeded to trace the vicissitudes which the liberty of the pre.. leas undergone since the invention of orbiting. He reminded the Chamber that Henry IV. owed his establish tarot on the French throne to the Satire Menippie, sad that it was the subjugation of the press under his reign which promoted the success of a society (the Jesuits) whose re appearance at present constituted she terror of all Fraser, and which society had whetted the poniard which put an red to the existence of that good King. One of the capital crimes charged against • prodigious man, who belongs sow oaly to history, and who fell from a throne erected by innumerable triumphs —one of the capital crimes against him, in the Act of Forfeiture, was his having sub jected to the censorship of the police the liberty of the press, which had been established as a national right. But the violation of • right so sacred, which had precipitated the Misquerer from the summit of the Tsrpeian rock, now mode the Ministry ascend to the espial. He concluded by moving for the rejection of the project. M. de Peyronnet (Keeper of the Seals) rose neat. He spoke at considerable leagth in visdit aline of that part of the project which relate to attacks on religion. The protec tion •Iturded was lodispeasable ; and if it was due to soy form of worship, it was still more su to the national relig.oa. The suppression of the word constitutional, 'both was at tached by the law of the 17th of May to the words royal sr- Inid been made the subject of remark, and describ ed as an infringement of the Charter. This was as much a mistake as the assertion that the suppresaion OM recent. The word had not been suppressed by the Committee. It was not in the original project. Voice on the left—We have made no such reproach against the Committee. M. de Peyronnet did not point out the mistake for the purpose of avoiding the discussion of the inconveniences which may belong to this omission, if any such exist ; but no- thing can be more easy than to justify it. Some deputies are of opinion, that since the Charter has been given all powers must procredfroas it. That is certainly trite; but the maxim is susceptible of some important explanations. Powers pre ceded the Charter, and it would tie very extraordinary were the Charter to prevent the passing of • law intended to secure respect to the very authority by which the Charter was giver. He bad heard disputes respecting power de facto and its limits, respecting power di jure and its limits ' • but be never beard it denied that daring the existence of the de fads 'power; spit is to say, before the Charter was granted to us, the pallier of the King did out reside in the person of the King. That right then preceded the Charter, and was indepeadeit of it. What has been Ilse consequence of the silence of repressive laws on this subject? That serious attacks have been directed against the royal authority, with refereuce to times anterior to the concession of the Charter, and French juries have been found, with Iwo it must he stated—(laughter and murmurs um the left)—French juries Imre been found, who, adopt ng Ihe strange and pernicious so phism, by means of which it had been attempted to establish a distinction between the constitutional authorily, properly so called, and the authority which preceded the promulgatioa of the Charter, have acquitted persons whose criminal (loc h ines it would be impossible to tepee( here. (Another move ment um the left.) A voice on the left... This, then, is the great evil ! M. de Peyronnet proceeded to defend the article of the project fur punishing libels on classes of pennies, which he considered as jest as the punishment of libels un individuals With regard to the question of confiscation, he argued that no confiscation could take place when nothing was forfeited to the Exchequer. To suppress a journal, was the same thing as putting down any establishment in • town which might be injurious to the inhabitants ; or as seizing Was es the frontiers which might introduce contagion,-(Voices on the left—This is the argument of M. Chile is report over again.) N. de Peyronnet.—The amendment of the Committee. which refers the offences of the press to the judgment of the Royal Court has been made the subject of reproach naiad the Ministers of the King; and perhaps naiad the King himself.—(Violent agitation on the left.) M. de Girardith—The 'King was never oseutiooed.—(oe. der, order.) M. de Lenteth.—We sever speak of the King, bat Minis tree wish to cover their responsibility with the mantle of royal inviolability. 91. de Peyrognet—On account of this article, Ministers have been reproached with having consented to the abolition of the Charter. If Ministers did consent to this change of joriselictios, such an arrangement, far from belog contrary to the Charter, is textually conformable to it. The Charter maintained the institution of the jury such as it existed. Now the jury was then exclusively employed for the sup pression of crimes. It had oo jurisdiction over misdemeanor, still lees over offences of the press, which, like all other offences, were subject merely to correctional penalty. Vosce on the left—it it plain, thee, that you adhere to the amendments of the Committee. IC de Peyromiet, in continuation, replied to some points in the speeches of MM. Etienne, Sebastiani, and Royer Col lard. The last speaker had stated that democracy overtherred society every where—that it existed amongst us. This is true. He also stated that it was infused into all our Wed lotions. M. Royer Collard.-Ne; I said precisely the contrary. IPreresualteneel'aplikituriatiebdathla. my memor y co y lialardbetilargstualir swots.) It was not surprising that things so true aid welt , depressed should be caroms oa big momodp got as iE was true ihat aristocracy had almost disappeared, aid that democracy overflowed every thing, would It bo eight to is. crease the influence of the lilts, ? With respect lo orioles. macy, . since it has boom ackstowledged to be newly a is. lion, it is surely very incunaisteat to pretend to dread LW encroachments. There is but one question before the MO ober. Are attacks upon religion, upon the royal authscitgy, upon the Chamber 4 and upon functimiarlats, main unpunished! Were the Chambers to shaming es care of their own dignity, they would be Otani tit.. wards society, at the bead of which they weir placed:" He must notice • phrase which had dropped from • pew ceding waiter (M. Payee de Vaudrruvre). That speaker as. serted, that to propose such laws was to instigate the people to sedition and revolt. God forbid that than words shout" be regarded as an instigation, which the speaker tended ! God forbid also that we should du an much injus tice to the French people as to think it necessary to reply S. such instigations! The French people despise and reject them: they wish only for peace—the profound peace which their King has given them.—(" Bravo!" on the right.) Voice on the left.—They wish for liberty! M. de Mareellue—They wish for the Bourbons! Other soices.---(Order! Order!) M. de Peyronnet repeated the words be had just mid. Me then adverted to the declaration of M. Etienne, that the .present Ministers were not formed to govern according to the laws. The present Ministers, however, were subject to the laws, and would always govern by the laws. They would act with strict impartiality, sad that moderation which the laws prescribe; but they would employ the force which the laws granted them, and which bad citizens only could wish to while them. The Minister descended from the tribune amidst marks of approbation from the right. M. Devour( spoke against the project. He •ook for his text one of Pascal's maxims; namely, that the liberty of COIIIISIB in thought. He regarded the suppression of the jury fur offences of the press as eqsivalent to the ancient parliamentary jurisprudence, whirls condemner' a man with out impressing the grounds of the condemnation. The whole law was reducible in this—that the journals of the Opposi tion might be suppressed at pleasure, sod that no journals should be allowed except such as are written in the manner the Welders approve. TIN stem e was adjourned until lo•morrow. The speakers first inserted stand in the following order : MM. de Kergorlay. Foy, de Monthron, Bignon, Clause!, de Consergnes, and d'Argcuson. The last•ateationed Deputy was present during this day's debate. SITTING OF JANUARY 44. The debate on the law of the press was resumed. M. Ker r orlay, General Donnadien, stud the Minister of the Interior (Corbtere), spoke in favour of the law. M. Humann, M. BiEnon, and M. d'ArEenson argued against it. The discus. sion was then adjourned, with the understanding that the Reporter, only should be heard the next day. PARIS. JANUARY 25. Yesterday the King transacted business with the Marquis de Lauriston, Minister of his Household, and his Excellency the Keeper of the Seals. Accounts from Smyrna, of December the 15th, announce, that they had at length begun to enjoy some degree of tranquillity in that city. A judge had arrived from Constantinople, to make inquiry relatively to the events of the mouth of November. A private letter, dated Venice, January 8, con tains the following intelligence Omer Vrionr, Pacha of Delirium', who occupied the citadel of Adieus, has capitulated, together with the com mandant who held the castle of Thebes ; they sur rendered those two cities, oil Condition that the Greeks should allow them a free passage to Janina. The capitulation has been strictly observed by Ulysses and Palisscas. the Greek leaders. Both the Turkish commandants have arrived at Janina."— (Coustiirtionmel.l The Journal des Debate of the 21st of this month published a letter front Miss Emily Lovedsy, in which she declares the statement that the essay en titled " Miss Emily Loveday's Reply to the Peti tion presented in the name of her Father to the Chamber of Peers," wee composed without her knowledge, to be fulse ; on the contrary, she affirms " that it was written according to her intentions." We have just received the following answer to that letter : "To the Editor of the G'onstitittionel.' " SIR-I bare jnat read, in the Jewess! des Debats, • letter signed' Emily Loireday: in which my daughter declares that the reply which has bees published io her same to the petition prismited by me to the Chambers, was composed ar. carding to her intentions. Notwithstanding this formal de claration, 1 cannot bring myself to believe that that reply, so offensive to a father, and full of inaccuracies, was composed according to my daughter's intentions. would more willingly suppose that site did not understood it, and that if she had written it herself, she would have shewn more respect fur her father and for truth.—l have the honour, Ste. " DOUGLAS LOVEDAY." French Funds on January 43.—Five per Cent. Commis, 85 f. 85 c. ; Bank Stock, 1,540 f. On January 24.—Five per Coneolo, 86 f. 35 c.; Bank Stock, 1,340 f. Exchange on London :. At ooe moulb, 26 f. 20 c. lAt three mouths, 25 1. Se. SPANISH PAPERS. MADRID. JANUARY 10. The Government has received dispatches from Vulencia, dated the Bth instant, by which it appears that there have been occurrences in that city of u nature to disturb the public tranquillity. On the 7th, in the evening, a lumber of pea sants assembled. and demanded that the regiments of artillery and that of Z4OlOlll, which formed the garrison of the city, should lease it, especially the first, and desired that the battalions of the local national militia should be formed. The Municipa lity assembled. and the Captain-Ge•ierul sent en officer to inquire into the affair. who brought word that he was stopped on the way by a troop of pre sents who insulted him, and even went so for as to exclaim. " Death to the King's Lienie narit !"—" Death in the Captain-General, who tries to insult the people !"—" Death to the Political Chief, who is a servile scoundrel, a despot !" with other expressions equally offensive to these officers; sod that many of them had arms, which they flourished over their heads. The Captain-Gene ral tieing informed of all the particulars, and learning from the Political Chief that he was besieged by the rioters iii the Town-hall, pro. ceeded with fifty men of the regiment Zamoni, with some officers and a Colonel, to the Place of the Constitution. where he occupied the gate of the house of the Muuicipality, and dispersed the crowd to the square ; but some of the rioters having taken possession of the balconies, &c. of the Cams Capitu lates, the Captain-General went with some soldiers to disperse them, and enable the Municipality to take its measures at liberty; but several rigidors opposed this, pretendiug it was a violation of the rights and liberties of the people, shewino an extraordinary warmth which they had not manifest ed when besieged by the rioters with arms in their bands; they were passive witnesses of the violation of the law, and felt the nullity of their power to ' express them. The Captain-General, however, made the rioters refire, and enabled the Munici pality to deliberate with the necessary The Captain-General and the Political Chief p a . trolled the city with soldiers of the regiment of Zamora till past midnight, and till traiainillity was fully restored, without any accident having happened. The next matting-the Municipality pithinesad a proclamation, accusing thrfCaptsin-General of hay ing illegally entered their place of meeting at the head of the armed force, of hafing dispersed the citizens who were there assembled to deliberate, it:c.; but that the Municipality was resolved to follow thE road of honour and patriotisra. The Captain-General issued a proclamation or dering the above to be torn down, and proinbili n eif Appeaser number of persons than .four to colltri is the. streets,—(Universel. January 11.1 Eno Geowas IV.II Accutiott.--Holitlay at Is Bask' ExeYelper, Fast I'l4lWe/fad tiseibillea Howe. THE MUTT SE FRE S S. • • tiONDON. : • TLINWAY, iillolllff 49 1 MIL The accounts which reached our office yesterday from behead offer a subject for public attention of u character equally novel and distressing. An engageMent has actually taken place between the peasantry mod a small detachment of the 39th regi ment, in which the latter were compelled to re treat. The peasantry assembled on this occasion are represented to have been very numerous and well armed, amounting, indeed, according to one account, to the number of 800 men. It is very probable that there was a considerable crowd of persons collected upon the hills; but that there Were 800 men armed and engaged in firing upon the King's troops, is a statement which we do not find 3 very easy to credit. The insurgents, whatever [nay have been their numbers, were advantageously posted upon some hills very steep and difficult of ascent, situated between Bantry and Macroom, and effectually intercepted all communication between these towns. Lord BANTRY, at the head of a party of the 39th regiment, under the com man& of Major CAITHEW, undertook to dislodge them ; but, after some distant firing, his Lordship was under the necessity of retiring. This event was quickly communicated to Mr. HEDGES Evac, • Magistrate in Macroom, who immediately pro ceeded at the head of a detachment of cavalry and infantry, under the command of Captain Cm- CLAititifcE, to attack the insurgents; but the po sition which they still occupied appeared too strong, and Captain FITZCLARZNER thought it expedient to await the arrival of reinforcements from Cork. An express was dispatched to Sir JOHN LAMBERT apprising him of the state of affairs, when the gallant General promptly dis patched a considerable body of cavalry, and on the following day a strong party of infantry to the assistance of the assailants. The insurgents lost in the first attack one killed and some wounded, The King's troops lost only one man, whore head we are told woe severed from his burly, and bunie in savage triumph by the victorious party. The origin of this circumstance is not distinctly stated in the very hasty accounts which are given in the Cork papers. We have, indeed, as yet nothing more than a vague and probably exag gerated report, such as usually first takes wing from the scene of action. But it strikes us that the assembling of so considerable • force of the 1 peasantry was not the result of any previous arraugements, and that those who found them selves engaged in battle with the King's troops under Lord BANTRY had not contemplated such • circumstance one hour before it actually occurred. We can conjecture, by comparing the various ac counts, that a party of troops had gone into the neighbourhood of these formidable hills in search after some suspected persons ; that the communion of interest which, as we noticed some time since, smiles very closely certain families or inhabitauts of districts among the lower classes of the people of [rebind, induced the peasantry to assemble for the purpose of preventing the seizure of some relatives or friends. Horns were sounded ,upon the hills as signals of distress, and the pea sants flocked from every quarter to the sounds. some with the intent of opposing the troops, u, .1 some influenced solely by curiosity. The imp , - bile severity of the revenue laws against illiett dr. tillation in Ireland, has rendered conflicts with de tachments of soldiers familiar to the palmitin ; they have become habituated to the use of bre ams; soine of them are probably discharged sof. dim, and now posted upon the summits of their native hills, with their kindred and connexions around them, they may become very dangerous enemies. One account says that six of the pea santry have been lodged in Bantry gaol., An in timation is given in a letter from Bantry, that the ultimate purpon of the insurgents in the south of Ireland is not limited to the abolition of tithes and the reduction of rents. A fellow was recently ar rested by two officers in Newmarket. who took from him coma papers of a very dangerous tenden c y . They had surprised him in the act of admiaister log illegal oaths to souse people at a public - hou se. It is to be hoped that the papers which apprise tke Government of the existing danger will ales afford the means of most effectually counterscting We hove received the Paris Papers of Today list. They are chiefly occupied with the de' bates in the Chambzr of Deputies ups. the law