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~ and to attend 7 4 .7 1 - carifrt, - Under these Titieesieellested we;tv.o:.eat thwrshoteasatter be referred to the Mas lar..ertort up.u. - 7-- ;7 7, e stanctsLoa—s" I perfectly' coingi9t with •; ire); nT that proposal; Let the case be ▪ :; . r totheMsster. The questioos that appear vVok;.". i irLp . et to be referred are, whether the father of ',mums was a Protestant, and whether in his :se iwrniitted his children to be educated .1 r., ' ',/•: . ol;usmti.L" And whether he did not r'f4":" A 'C:: t SANCILI.LOII-- :1 'That qiiestion does not to me material." :4 • . 11e:SlitCL—" As to the religion of the minors' 4 ""Pit tele controver , ed even in the documents of , A patite side, for Mr. Pim stares in his affidavit hit b: other was a Sr cisry, whilst the Master's • asorrts that he will a Protestant." M`KANE—" he word Protestant nay a persoss who proiesti against the errors of J. • • perry i . . t , . 11r., O'CoNNELT.—" That definition includes r worthy allies the 'rinks." iiI6.IIONAN CATHOLIC PEERS BILL. !•+ 1 :tow • fr/dillellit " DEVON/HIRE FRUHOLDEILI • A.; Mr. Canning's Rill for the restoration of the t • :twee Peers of Etighend so their hereditary rank • Mew sent to the Upper House, we he leave to •it ehe atieroiseet of our readers to It question which • mities not merely a great constitutional principle, *4lo l. lillearstse the dictates of common jostice. - By estedelishedeuerstetutiost of England the Peerage *4,644 the right of legislsting tit a separate soften •.• v haw the Representatives of the people, forming ✓ :in Om chain of our Caustiteition by which 1.1. po l Vier tit the Crown is connected wish the privi '• ihefunetantsity l , through the medium of an t aristocracy. allowed, that every legit itifrisegernent ott rights and liberties of Engliolimen ought to he • ,l.criell by ilteneent urgent necessity, wed tent mu • s•e•otitinutol bey ond the period for which it wl4O, acted: for, individual liberty is our uoblest hte ; •',ctsier,•and the mealiest persou cognate% be deprived s ghe most trifling privilege but loy.uu urbitary Wirttujust invasion ; the poorest freeholder hue that •• through his representative, in the enactment • ! . eeecy Lev,- which, 'by the theory of our Coast •toll, was 'encoded to sec u re to him the possession • ;;4 property sod the safety of his person. How c• a Catholic Pere situated in this respect ? len • eteting the most exalted privileges through a long .e of atict•stoes—a rink gained by the moat 1-attiOrtitle exertions of virtue and value, either en field or is the Cobinet—poosessang property ech ina.set nectionrily render the.seconty of his •:::iitty. at least to him. a point of the utmost it'l -1 'tance—atscl above ell, placed in a steno') which, • . te. is 'narked out by snore than ordsitary tfeitisie ,rso, buttes with it au NCCllimiliitiou of important .i..tres and consequent soliciterde—yet he finds him • I a member of a el.-waded race. To hem the -I.es of laudable asnititit; suit proacss uo tharnt ; • eaticise.•E aileutut faculties—no usduceinent ; I,opes of r prim. are .-blogiteed in the de;isse.. • .riakuf his program sod fits fell tide of his loyalty • • .his Kinig.4stisil.liis...stiathatient to his country •• :timed by the roalueioos and degrading pressure • penal wirstetiorsitit; his reitgioss.seendslised, and • ..very oath doubted. " The mime of a Catholic lartir." 'to oar the heeds of as eloquent Member of I Noise of Guanacos* (Lord Norindithy), to, iu :4:liviatputeets.. a Wont ; in the hopes and rx .l•ol:liatioate-of boa onsotizr. he is exalted but to be • cloded...cuirsidesl but to be degraded." • Oi eboervirg. through the medium of our hit the ettletue iambi''y mud enutlou evinced by bratith or the etionerunity when about to aa .•.'tlee the iuteteare•of another, the only ratoonal • • nuclueloo that eon be liras's) ir. that the Catho!tc V -rev truest here tonnueitert dome &mug coorpi- ..••y, SINS 'heedful manreere. some complication Citrate, to render them end thew tleverodanta on roonorted ant ; dvinived not merely of the pectill•v vverogatives their tank allergy them, hitt tiltrotor of tt , mv ordliuvry privilege-, palsorartl by all freemen. !he fight of impontig t.s nn tharerlers unit aveng • voice to tne pameng of laws. How mart •-ternahment gather on urtonishrmot how moot e•cevd ilwbotioOs. on 11'..titoic that up to . . . . • time of the Popish Plea, iis 1678, tae Catlinfic l'rert *erre esnsidertd ow be woof% the droorst k.orbuls is/ the Siete. roil were et:o l mM en the :i•ire trsolionny of 'flies Omer and his infamous ••••irei.itert by eir perjoirire of there villaths aloof. iirre thry tilweed in their present oejust end unur rnrll•cetwititom • At the time of the Reformation, in the reign of Etiribeth, the Carbolic Perot sere admit , .; n, the tuft confidence of their ti..tcr.:igoi. When 1.4....rti tigainbt the Cot tiolle. u, grtirr.l, .. , 1 I'. c e.ere rzcluJr.S 1t ~ ••,.•. i:ir Queen declared Ie• billet h, the loptity . t t. , - l'eei• t o.; that the Pettis we ie. snifter her Incii ;..l ch.ervation ; nor would *be suffer site oath to t,.• imposed by which they could be uhut out from ter Semite. What more corivincmg proof could she 2 . ; ve than the employment of Catholic Peers in eat and important situations? The Act of Snore ., acy Sting dispensed with, the Earl* of Wor. ••,..oer and Northumberland held high offices, ~,c former. A mhawadur in France—the latter, Ad ...lr.' alpinist the Armada. Eveu the Gunpowder Piot did not implicate the Peer., who were still oc. ... ally employed in offices of tru.t, and retained .he confidence of the King ; even the !attempt to inveigle Lord filoolessle into Cecil's wiles v ioved ineffectual ; that Noblemen revealed his ~.).trrinas letter to the Moister. and was instru werdid in discovering the pretended plot. liut it ....during the Civil Wars, in the reign of Charles I. she Catholic - Nobility evinced their loyalty 1.. is nurunef sot oteistly inaguauisnoeft, but perfectly kiiialressta. Every Catholic Peer, tit that ~nthl period, adheres, wadi enshalten constancy to the in. . teen. of she Kiog. They relieved hits with the . bole both of mete foetuses ; they bud in the lead ~J ~ no particular place o, II) had affidavits how• Cetimlic, that he auto by • Roman Catholic fe-time he pPrmitted ..truction in the Catholic • with their utotliculeCotho. undeviating Lad advii tv[Uk in the Cabinet ; they accompanied the ily into exile. sod the Marquis of Wor. the last individuil in the kingdom who eel the sopremocy of Paefiainent. On the motormicso - of Charles 11. the Catholic -Peers again resumed their seats, still distinguished by the mine undeviating loyalty. They even proved their attach meat rather thou their enmity towards the church of England by their parliamentary conduct ; they una nimously voted that the Protestant Bishops shoald resume their seals : even in the reign of Charles I. when at least 25 Catholic Peers were Members of the Upper House, they opposed to the utmost the Bill by which the Bishops were at first excluded. The grateful return these kiudnesses have obtained. as yet. for the Catholics from the present Bench, needs not to be commented on; we feel unable to express ourselves in language sufficiently cool and guarded, to mark our opinion of such ingratitude. It is to be hoped that us the Claims of the Catholie Peers are now separated from the hulk of the people, the. Right Rev. Bench will redeem its character, by cheerfully voting for tlw present Bill. Such seas the state of af f airs until the latter end of the reign of Charles 11. when suspicion, alarm, and pretended plots—the vices of the King—and the dread of the religion of his successor. excited an extruordinmy degree of enmity against Catholics in general, arid the Peers in particular. On the 30th of April. 1675. ti protest was entered by the Upper House &Narita the'extension of the Test Act to the Catholic Lord.. Three years after, however, in the midst of a usiionel commotion, which has sever been equalled. thst fatal Art passed (30 Charles 11. c. I,) " Fur more effectually securing the King's person said government, by disabling Papists from sitting in Parliament. They are to take a test, or make u de. claration against transubstantiation ; that the invo cation of Saints is superstitious and idolatrous; to disclaim the Pope's power its granting diripensa. lions." This severe Act passed at the very time that Oates was unfolding, by his perjured narrative at the her of the House of Commons, the pretend ed abomination of the Popish Plot. It was the consummation of that system of degradation which was now to overwhelm every Catholic. " Thus ended," says Dodd, " that barbarous and scandal ous contrivance against the Catholics. Besides aspersing the whole body, eighteen of them were executed as traitors; and an ()maims taken from hence to let loose the penal and sanguinary laws against all the rest. who had 110 other guilt than that of their religion." To mark the spirit in which this Act was passed. many who were convinced of its injustice main tained its necessity, for the purpose of quitting the minds of the people, considering that the belief of the plot was a mere act of frenzy, which the cool reflection of posterity would rectify, when the hardy of the witnesses should be discovered ; never supposing that a race of beings could exist who would convert it temporary into tin eternal expe diency; who would exclude the hereditary nobility of England fur ever from the enjoyment of rights, which even the friends , ref the Reformation had not invaded—of rights which had been preserved in ' every revolution . of religion, said in every vicissi- Nide of the State. As the plot of Odes was con trived chiefly for the exclusion of the Doke of York, but of which the Catholic Peers were the role victims, it may riot be amiss to remark, that con temporary as well as recent historians—that PIO• tesiants as well as Catholics—that IVhigs as well as Tories, are pretty nearly agreed on the point. On the subject of the Popish Plot,' arils the Right Hon. George Rose, in his observations on Mr. Fox's History, page 51, " there can now hard. ty he two opinions in the country, although the be• lievers in it, when the trials took place and long afterward,. were both numerous and respeciuhle. Reflecting on the fatal effects of the public credu lity in this instance, what lessnri does it afford to guard our minds against giving too ready a belief In stories likely to have currency boos popular pre judices." So much for Odor and his plot. We must now refer to circumstances of more modern date, and we cannot last express our coil• viction, that the adnri. of CIIIIIOIIC Peers does ill no respect iuterfere with the general question of Emancipation. The Peer. wr re the last Catholics who lost their rights under circumstance', of a pecu liar nature. and by u train of accusations now proved. to be false: they ought therefore to he the first to benefit by the rising inquiry and strict jes. Ikea the present age. As their exclusion w e . founded on pretended crimes, their readmission should likewise be molted with a corresponding honour ; and surely the House of Prers, which is the suadstary of katonr will not refuse in list. ii to the DEMAND or Till COSINONS Or ENGLAND, to make a reparation to the wounded arid mimed feel ings of the Catholic Nubility. • We wish to my a few words respecting the Poi tione against the present Bill. and nothing marks the progress of public opierion more strongly dram that with all the Worded excitesuem from certain 'quarters, no hostile Petitions have been presented Irons the body of the PrOrLt. The Clergy of an Arclidescutiry shot Op in close conclave. or the •tuerobers of a Corporate Body arsembled in a se ire, 'chamber, are the only Petitiossere. There have /seen no County Meetings. no expression of dislike from the Cities of London soil Wesiviiii-ter. the Borough at Southwark, or the Cooley of Middle sex; those enlightened bodies. who lead the way in Petitions, are friends to Toleration awl to Liberty ; they are unwilling to continue ally restrictions ou their fellow-subjects fur their religions belief, when not the shadow of a reason any longer exists for the Cosonsissoire of those nonaimul restrictions. That the Clergy of the Church of England (a body of men the least fitted, from their education and prejudices, to form an is►partial opinion on questions iiivolviog the religious hinnies of sects differing from them) ►hould petilion sigaisot the exercise. 4 conscientious belief ►n matters of reli gion, is linked pa►sing strange, when se ref ect that the fund.meotsl basis of that Church was foiluded on the letssoctple, that every one bad • right to judge . for himself with respect to religious faith. Lint as it consistent with the spirit of chanty and meekness to vote such petitions? In what part of the Sacred Scriptures is such a proce dure recommended ? Does ally other Church in Europe .purser such • course?. Did the French Clergy ewer petition the Legislature egslust the acheissten unsung theta of either Protrstiiir Peers or Coseemossers ? No !.—The Clergy of England present a snaking difference at present le every :4 ... .4,.• 4 . 14 .r i r,, / ; g., ttoll that he frequented ne -:,lir.• i • .01.1iip. Ile (Mr. ('Connell) i •-‘•,. to prove th a t h e rh e d a C , • ~ ibpi on his death-bed by t; • ~,y, e n d th a t d ur i ng hi s lit I • • Aplren to receive flaunt * .: .., • and to attend with tbei i• , r- r...5 ) ..1. Under these circum I I I I I I . ~', ~: C I f T. . other Christian Church; they east es persecutors in nit age of enlightened inquiry ; they rent ou ex clusion_alone as the support of their establishment. Of the fate of Mr. Canning's Bill in the house of Lords we cannot determine; brit this' we know, that if the Peers will not support the rights and privileges of members of their own body, they must nut be surprised if the people should learn to undervalue and contemn them. We must now conclude by expressing our conviction, that the time mast be near when Religious Liberty will per v.rde every portion of the British dominions, in spite of the ravings and ■nuthemst of intolerance and bigotry. FOREIGN IN I'ELLIGEIVC'E. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, MAT 24. The Duke De Cases, who was •bout to set out for Denmark. is detained et Paris by the serious iudisuosition or the Duchess. DEPUTIES ELECTED.-DiPARTMENT OF L'HERAULT. The Baron Sarret, iiiCipiii•ergasts, and M. Arco*. The 13th regiment of the hoe i• marching to reinforce the sanitary cordon. Flt F.NCH FUNDS. The Five per Cert. opeueJ al 89 f. 40 c. ; sod cloned 89 f. 25 c. Etichn■er ou landoe.—Ose month, 2,5 f, 20 c.; three Peuotbs, 23 f. 10 e. (Coors Astienlique, May 24.) CORFU, APRIL 20. An Act of the Parliament of the United States of the lonian Ides fixes the punishment to be in• filmed upon the infractors of knout neutrality.— The subjects of the said States, taking an active part for or spins( the belligerent parties in Epirus, Pelopotinesini, or the adjacent islands, countries or sees, shall be exiled from the !onion Isles, and their dependencies, and their property, real and personal, confiscated. ZANTR, APRIL 16. The system of uentrality which has been pro claimed in the lonian tales goes directly to the con tiscatton of the property of all the lonian Nobles suspected of being favourable to the cause of the Greeks, who are combating for their independence. Several of these Nobles, known by their fortune and their principle', have been obliged to expatriate themselves, and seek for safety in the Insurgent lairds. Amongst them are the Count Meats, a nch proprietor, M. A nzii lacato, known for his wealth and she honourable employment of his fortune, and the venerable Archbishop of Cephalonia, Typeldo, known for his piety and Ili* learning. MADRID, MAT 13. [PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.] Ors the 7th Lieut.-Colonel Conjurer was arrested, who wus condemned to death par contingence, for being implicated in the affair of Burgos. It ap pears that he was preparing to proceed into Castile, in order to organise a party in concert wiLls one of his accomplices, also arrested on the night of the 7th. Another individual has been apprehended at the moment of his arrival from Iran, by the way of Aranjues. On hi, person was found the plan of • conspiracy. which was to have taken effect on the 16th instant, the day of St. Isidore. Yesterday morning the Volunteer National Guards of Madrid, infantry and cavalry, were assembled in the Prado, fur the purpose of hearing read • decree of the:Cortes, sanctioned by the King, declaring the hymn of Riego a natioc,l hymn. This citizen militia traversed the cupit.l, and contributed to excite the enthusiasm of the people, and augment the sentiment of national strength. The Special Committee of the Cortes relative to respoirvibilsty proposed iss the sitting of the 1 Ids. to bring to trial the Political Chief of Madrid. This functionary is strongly protected by the Ministry, whose whole confideuce he enjoy.. Yesterday the Cortes decreed. that the 13th. the anniveraiiry of the return of the King to Madrid. bring a day of matt g for Spaniard. on account of the overthrow of the Constitutional regime. it should be henceforth forbidden to celebrate it at Court. 'fbis remarkable division was come to at nine in the evening. The accounts from the Provinces state, that the national fete of the 2d May hee been celebrated wish the greatest enthusiasm at all points of the monarchy. Some litigious reappear on different points of our provinces. but the zeal of the outho.iiies, and the urdour of our troops incres.e. and success alusust ❑I wis rewards their cositamy and devotedness. Our Minister in the United States has quitted IVa,lnogton end retired to suddrii departure atlrulintell to tl.e _Message rent to relistuve to South A wrrico. Porrlo Iltcu bac 1101.1 rd the siutidttfti of lade pentleoce.—(Constautiomnel.) DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAILS. OSTEND, SAY 19. His Excellency the Governor of the Province was present to day' arthe first trial of the new sluice lately erected at the month of our harbour for the purpose of clearisig away the sand that im pedes the entrance. The result perfectly answered the expectation formed of it, and there is no doubt that by the rt prated operaticm of this sluice the entrance of the harbour will be deepened, so as to admit not oitly the largest merchantmen, but even chips of war. The whole population of the city Rocked to see the effects of this great work. The various soil extensive works of our fortress, as well as the useful works of all kinds, which his Majesty has caused to be executed within these three years, excite the admirlitiou of strangers and the grati tude of the iohabitatits.— (Dutch Papers, May 25.) OUDENARDE, MAY (10. Yesterday afternoon a dreadful had storm ra vaged the whole western part of the country of Necker.; all hope of harvest is deatroyed. The hailstones were pointed and of prodigious size; even to-day soot bate been picked up es large as a , pigeou's egg. FMANSIPOtT. MAY 17._ An wenn* No Monster asp. •• All Ow diL cables which hove hindered the Prelates nesimitsd • to the new area to tccept tire .epiocepal funding have been removed, and the toncordat concluded last year at Rome, by Prince flarrienberg, is on the point of being carried into entire execuli tttt ." VIENNA, NAY H. We le•iru from Trieste that the Executive Go vernment leas appointed the following diplomatic agents, viz.— To Russia—BS:hop Ignacio and two others. To France—Dr. corny, Giovanni Ziimi , and Dernetrio Peniea. To England—W. Giovano Calania and another. To Austria—Messrs. l'apadismandopnlo,Giovano Orlando, and Antonio Galli. To the Nellie, lands—M. Droste!), Month, and another. To Naples, Tuscany, and Rome—One •Rent only, whose name is not yet made known. And, lastly, to Spain—Two agents, whose names also Sr. not yet made known. Letter, worthy of credit say, that the negocistions between the Servian Chiefs and the Nebo of Bel grade were broken off, and the entrance of Turkish troops into Servile will be looked upon by the Set.. visits as the sign!! for war. TRIESTE, MAY 7. Salonichi being a place of great importance, the occupation of which would be of the greatebt advantage to the Greeks, they have lately sent an expedition from hydra with troops on board. These troops are to he Is►tded near Cape Karaboutnon, to the south of Salonichi, to approach the city on that side. We have not yet received any news relative to this 'audio* Merchants' letters say, that the whole island of Negropont is now iii the possession of the Greeks, and th■t the little neighbouring islands depending on Negeopont hive likewise declared iu their fa• your. BROSIELS, MAY 23. Viee‘Admiral Van Brum died on the 17th, at Delft. at the age of 64. His huseral took place on the 20th, with all military honours. Many of the hlrnbersUhis spoke in the mentor:: able debate on the 141.1 t mad 15th instant, upon the personal tax, have sent their discourses to the edi tors of the journals for insertion; in that of Duval de Beaulieu, Deputy or Hainault, who like almost all the Belgic Deputies spoke ►gaiost the law, we find it stated, that the Committee which has been long sitting to deliberate on the Petitions of the agriculturalists is believed to have nt length adopted the measures so loudly called for, of e asasiaityla and mine:num for the importation mad exportation of grata.—(Brussels Papers. May 24.) GERMAN PAPERS, CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 25. The enterprise of the Greeks against the island of Scio has come to a melancholy conclusion, sooner than we, expected. The authors of it have received their merited recompense; the misfortune is. that is population of above 100,000 souls, who would never have revolted of their own accord against a Government by which they were treated with special favour, has been led by them to ruin ; and en iiland distinguished beyond all these in the Egesta Sea by cultivation, industry, and riches, is given up to misery and desolation. Though we have no details, and the Government has published nothing respecting the expedition, there seems no doubt of the fact that the Captain Poch& has, in a few days, totally defeated the Greeks (chiefly Su miens), who had landed on Scio, and reduced the inhabitants to submission. According to the ac counts we have received, he conveyed to Scio the troops assembled at Tscheeme, jest at the time that the insurgents were on the point of storming the citadel. As soon as the Captains of the shill* of Ipsara and Hydra. which had conveyed the troops to the insurgents, perceived the Turkish fleet, they cot their cables, left their anchors be hind, sold fled precipitately. It is said that seven of these ships fell into the hands of the Turks. After the Captain Perlis had lauded his troops, he first tried means of conciliation; he sent several flags of truce, partly to the officers of the Greeks, and partly to the magistrates of the districts; cries of 1 , Rebellion !" accompanied by cannon shots, were the only answer he received. A murder ous conflict began. The insurgents were driven from one strong position, from one battery to an other, rod were pursued with unabated fury into the streets of the town. The massacre is not to be described : the loss of the Turks, in killed and severely wounded, is stated at 5,000 men; hence we may infer bow great the loss of the vanquished most have been. The Catholic inhabitants of the island, who here, as well as in the other revolted islands. had taken no pert in the insurrection, were protected, partly by the Governor, Vehid ['ache, and partly by the foreign Consuls, who did not experience any insult whatever. We look forward with real apprehension to the further accounts of these events. It may be easily calculated what bad consequences it will have for Sotyrsio,Scala Noose, Samos, &c. But even in it self the catastrophe of Scio is one of the most la mentable and fatal. and will besides be followed by the ruin of a great number of French, Italian, German. end English merchants at Constantioople and Smyrna, whe had very extensive mercantile connexions with the Schnee. Private accounts say that the High Admiral bM gone to Samos. sad hal sent a division of his Suet against Iran. , Greet liars 14evaited at fialotaiebt at thulaegio sin of this mouth, because a Coyish. Dieseeadi, whit hid t~MerMcd lereral thousand men in T;les selys was advancing 'from Tirhaiu spina city, and 'with t& help of Sinn, *vessels of the insurgent., stationed in the Gulf of Silonichi, hoped to sin's: a decisive blow. Yesterday, however, we learnt, that Abahsbat Whined ('acid has mucked him with considerable force, his driven him back 2.4 dispersed his troop/, and taken part of his annua l and ammunition. Many standards sod other tr,. pines have been braeght to Comtantimple, and seven of the rebels ptilalicly beheaded. On the 17oh of this month, Stawralti Aristarc!;;, the temporary Dragoman of the Porte, war dismiss ed and exiled to Bob. Ifis plies was giant to a Mumelman, which might be Camidered as some: thing extraordinary, were it at explained by the fact, that the new Dragoons's; &trellis Effendi, ii by birth a Greek, of a well-knbwn family in Corfu, who apostatised to Malionoetanitin in his ea►ly yank and has been for some years at the head of an esti. blishineot where young Musselmen are instructed at the expense of the l'o►te in foreign languages, geogiaphy, history, aid metharnatics. The Deputies of the Bojars of Wallachia and Moldavia arrive here to-day. They are to be re. ceived with distinction. Lodgings are prepared for them in the Futter, and the Porte has typo:ru ed them a Mehinander*. FRANKFORT, HAY 90. The Frankfort German Paper of this thy has i private letter from Constantinople, doted isth April, which says--4. We continue to enjoy here perfect tranquillity. For these ten days past our hopes of peace have increased. The Porte has changed its tone and mode of proceedin g towards Russia; it begins to be more compliant. It is affirmed that the principalities will he evacuated. Heaven grant it !" [This letter likewise gives a short account of the events at Seto, where the Turks are owed to hare lost 6,000 men. The arrival of the deputies from Moldavia and Wallachia is also mentioned.] • TIN, are the some whom ull the public journals stated " to hove hers dragged by force and ill.iresteneut to Con statitinopte." The fact woe, however, quite different, nod their reception at Constantinople thews what we are to think of these statem.nts.--(44nstries Observer, Nay 14.) Wntr TUREDAV.—HoIiday at the Bank, Eachequer, Eut India and South Sea Houses. THE BRITI S H PRES S. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAT 28, 1822. The mania for visiting the Cootitseot .has heen always • source of jealousy among the people of England, who are either nailed to their counters by their business, or by other circumstances unfit. voureble to migration, left prisoners at home. The present distress of the country has given incres•ed poignancy to the feelings excited by this stmte of society. It has been noticed in Parliament as an evil grown to a height requiring legislative interpositioo, and badly demanding a tax open absentees; and from the Parliament it has foetid its way into pamphlets in set and formal phrase upon the subject. Absentees most be of 11l Cte• sity regarded with an envious eye by their coun trymen. whom they have abandoned to the pre. lure of taxes, in which they should sustain equal share. and left to bear the brunt of the battle, of the benefit of which those who thus abstract themselves from any putt of the burden enjoy the fruits. Any restraint upon our intercourse with the Continent, under any circumstances, is evidently inconsistent with a liberal policy. That the inter• course may work some partial evil is admitted, bat it is not equally plain that the evil is not more than counterbalanced by various consequent *dean tars. It is impossible to draw a line between the man who visits the Continent for health, business. and improvement, and him who is only flying from the payment of times. The attempt would be IPS vain as it would be imprudent : it would produce an unfriendly feeling towards &gilled in every country in Europe; it would also work a great injury to ourselves. It is monstrous vanity to suppose that Englishmen who go to the Continent, return deteriorated by its manners. The position modestly supposes that ea Englishman, in whatever part of the island he may have been born and edu cated, of necessity a model of perfection, iocspa ble of improvement by any acquaintance with fo. reign rations. '%'e prefaced these observations by stating that the subject has found its way into the pamphlets of the day. The following is en extract from one of these publications, entitled "A Letter to a Legislator:" — •r It has been the policy of England at various periods to pass restrictive laws, abrogating the li berty of person, or materially altering some acknovr. ledged feature in individual right, when and es often as the public weal lies been endangered by the exercise of it. I shall not occupy your time by • recital of the several statutes which support this assiertion ; one or other of them is in daily reclaim. tion, either arresting the artificer is his migration to a country where his ingenious inventions are more sure of reward than in this, or dispersing large assemblies, or suspending, for the protection sf Oar commerce. internal peace. or as the essi May be--110111* boasted prerogative of . 11 Briton. A T