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PIESBYTERY OF EDINBURGH. (Abridged fora the Edinburgh Evening antrant of Thursday.) THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Yesterday the Presbytery of Edinburgh tett pursuant to adjournment, to consider the motion laid sat the table at last ordinary meeting by Dr: Lee. The anxiety to bear the discussion was so great that many persons took their seats shortly atter ten o'clock, and long before tht , , bOur of meeting (neon) the Trustees' Hall was rros.vded in ever•; part—the members of Presbytery finding the greatest pos sible difficulty in gaining admi,sion, several having to make their way over the tab'es Dr. LEE—I proceed under every possible dieeourage meat to make thn motion of which I gate notice last Wednesday. 'Nothing but a conviction that lam actirt vonsiatsntly with my duty as a member of the Established Church would have induced me to del art so far from my usual habits, as to occupy any considerable portion of the time of the Presbytery, especially with a proposition which I have learned is unwelcome to many of my brtthren. It may he s tid that the scales of prejudice are not fallen f. om my eyes, and that I am far behind the age;—hut I hope that those who have scarcely yet read the standards which they must subscribe before they obtain a title. to teach others, will not be rash to speak of statute as disgraced by proscription and exclusion, till they have ascertained whether the principles to which terms of such unmeasured reprobation have been applied--he or be not contained in the Confession of Faith. To the framers of that great work I yield much greater deference than to the proudest land brightest of the names, either or the living or the dead, which are so vountingly mustered against us, Surely it cannot well be alleged that the opreFitiot how offered to this meature originates in faction. Those who are dissatisfied with it express themselves hot more strongly than the leading men in the Cabinet did seven or eight months ago ; and we do not petition for any thing more than this Presbytery did in 1813. In what respect lb our circumstances differ from those in which the Presbytery then petitioned ?—Daly in two, so far as I perceive :- Ist, The Bill now proposed is less favourable, having less Q,ppearance of security—And 2dly, -the Ministry are now sletermined to use all their influence to carry through such a Bill as was never proposed by any one, at td much less as a Government measure. What is the new light which they have received ? Terror they will not own ; trait they say there is danger. If the thing be right it should have been done before there was any appearance of danger ; if wrong, danger is tin excuse. I therefore move, that the Presbytery do petition Pariiament, that the Roman Catholic Relief Bill do not pass into a law. Dr. GORDON seconded the motion. Dr. INGLIs moved, by way of " That in all the circumstances of the case it is inexpedient for the Presbytery to petition Parliament either for or against the measure in question." Sir JAsles MONCRIEFF-1 beg leave to second this amendment. - Dr. CIIALMEI3 then rise and spoke as follows:—It - appears to me that tire spirit of the first ages of the Church is in direct opposition to the cry of the present times. The powers that be are said to be ordained of God, and yt these powers were heathen. Magistrates are called mi &eters of God, and thet at a time when there was not Christian, and far less a Protestant Magistrate in existence. Tribute was enjoined to be paid, though it swelled the magnificence and the means of an idolatrous sovereign, and who might, if he had chosen, have lavished it cn the ex peaces of idolatry. Those things which in our day would have given rise to the fiercest contention, and to questions without number of theological casuistry, were, in the best and purest days of the Church of God upon earth, acqui esced in without a struggle and without a murmur. There were Christian servants who attended on the person, and Christian proprietors who ministered to the wealth, ar.d e"en Christian solditte 3 who fought the battles of the Em perors. In short, they gave up all but their conscience and their faith to the will of idolatrous masters. Idolatry, they all well knew, disqualified from holding eny oftitee in the Church, but it never once entered their imagination that idolatry disqualified from an office in the State. The Apostle Paul would not, I am persuaded, have lent his authority and his name to the enforcement of eueh a disqualification. He would not have aided in com passing the deposition of Nero, even for the substitution of a Christian in his room. He would have kept within the strict es:mits of his ecclesiastical office, and never aimed at Chrietianizing the Government in any other way than by doing with Nero what he did with some of Nero's house hold—turning them to the faith. Whatever may be the right of citiaene—and I do not question it—to pull a tyrant front his throne, he never, in his ecclesiasticii capacity, would have put his hand to other than ecclesiastical -work ; that is, plied men with the overtures of the gospel es he had opportunity. To this the Christians of the primitive ages confined themselves; and by this they at kngth effected the Christianization of the empire. The principles and practice of the early ages are abundantly re cognised in our Confession of Faith, as will appear feom the following extract :—" It is the duty of people to pray for Magistrates, to honour their persons, to pay them tri bute anti other dues, to obey their lawful commands, and to be subject to the'r authority for conscience sake."— Now, mark what follows Infidelity, or difference in religion, (loth not make void the Magistrate's just and legal authority, nor free the people from their due obedience to him, from which ecclesiastical persons are not exempted ; much less bath the Pope any power or jurisdiction over them in their dominions, or over any of their dominions or liv e s, or if he shall judge them to be heretics, or upon any tither pretence wlettever." Now, the principle on which a man ought not to be sttipt of his lawful possessions is identicel with the principle on which he ought not to be resisted in his lawful claims. And whoever are judges of that lawfulness, we are not. It is a civil question, and not for us as a Church to decide upon. When the Papists were held dangerous to libezty, the Legislature shut them nut from certain privileges which they now restore on holding them to be no longer dangerous. If neither infi delity nor difference in religion, but something different from these was the proper ground on which they were dispossessed, they should that ground be removed, infi delity or difference in religion is not the proper ground on which they should be excluded. I speak in the very terms of the Confession of Faith. If other principles do not justify deprivation, then religioe is no mere a valid plea for stripping a man of his rightful power, than it is for stripping him of his rightful property; and whether the question relates to the one or the other, the language of the Chorale of Christ should be that of its Founder, " Who made me a judge and a divider over you?" Yet we are accused of having put aside principle, and rested our whole cause on the basis of expediency. Now, we hold the difference between us and our antagonists to be this. In regard to principle, we can plead the declarations of the New Testament and the early practice of the Church ; and, in regard to expediency, ours is a public, und theirs is altogether a personal expediency. The outset of our cause is in principle; its outgoings only are in ex pediency ; and what a much higher expediency than that of our antagonists ? We hold that this dreaded emancipation will open a wide and effectual door for the entrance of the Gospel into Ireland. That is one expediency. Our antagonists hold, that the same emancipation will not, in the least, hurt the cause of the gospel, but by means of persecution, which in general purifies and s trengthens the cause of truth, will hart the ease, and the comfort, and endanger the lives of those who profess the gospel in Britain That is their expediency. It is a fear for themselves, and not a fear for the interests of the gospel, by which they are ac tic ; for, amid all this care, which the Church pro poets to take of the government, one would like to knew Low the matter stood in the Church's purest and most I flourishing period, I mean during the three first centuries. One might imagine, from the alarm now abroad on so many spirits, that, because of certain political changes about to be entered on, the Church was now on the brink of instant annihilation, and the alarm is, lest the country should fall under the power of an idolatrous government. Now, let us suppose for a moment this apprehension to be . in all its extent realised, it were surely inter eating to know hew the Church might possibly fare in these circumstances, and it would appear the likeliest method of ascertaining this just to revert to that period in the Church's history when all the governments of the earth were idolatrous, and the Emperors of idolatrous Rome were the fountain-heads of all that civic authority which Christians had to do with. If it be really a religious fear which is making these alarmists so tremulously alive to the changes that are com ing upon us, -if after all, it be some thing holier and higher than a sordid fear for their persons and properties, if in stead of a carnal affection for their own private interests, it he a spiritual and sacred affection far the high interests of truth and righteousness in the world ; it should surely yield them some comfort to be told that never did the Church more prosper, and never did the Church's right and peculiar business go on more prosperously than when all the high places of society were filled with idolaters, and the sove reigns of the earth, besides being idolatrous despots, were the greatest monsters the world ever saw. This content poraneous existence of a moat Christian Church, along with a moat unchristian government, is worthy at least of being noticed by those who are now charging themselves with the regulation of the one as if that were indispen sable to the well-being of the other. It may well prompt the misgiving thought that possibly after all they are look ;ng and labouring in tile wrong way, an] that the vital prosperity of the Church comes from another quarter alto gether, than that whither their cares and cogitations are now carrying them. It may well beget the suspicion that there is perhaps a misjudgment and misdirection of effort and zeal in this whole matter. Certain it is that neither apostles nor apestolie run took the direction which they are now thing. They never thought of Kings and of GoVernors but to pray for them ; and !caring states and statesmen, and all the elements of this world behind them, confined themselves to their own high and holy walk of labouring with the souls and consciences of men. Yet they have never thought of charging themselves, they only charge us with the sacrifice of principle at the shrine of expediency. Now we hold, that though there be the highest expediency attendant on the Catholic emancipation, there is also the highest principle involved in it. And the principle is, that we are not to fight the battles of the Lord with other weapons than himself has consecrated. After comet:v - sting, at some length, the arguments of intolerance, the Rev. Gentleman proceeded as follows : In the great changes that take place on human opinion, men do not generally repeal the acts and the documents of other days. They simply lose sight of them. They are carv=ed forward on the tide of change, and the creeds and - Constitutions of by-gone times rank among the forgotten things that have no influence whatever on the actual gene ration. Yet I can inltge to myself an antiquarian, a resurrectionitt of old parchments—(a laugh)—conjuring no from the deep oblivion of ages those shades of departed folly, and telling us, because they have never been rescinded by any competent or authorised Court, that we must still watch and tremble and be on our guard because r f them. May Ibe permitted one word here on the politics of the question. Gentlemen would need to be strongly confident of the goodness of their cause ere they would push it so, to the hazard of all that carnage and desolation, which it the event of the success their hearts are so much set upon, might ensue in Irel.nd. I rejoice in thinking that our religion rests on other foundations than those for the deference of which the sword roust be unsheathed, and the cruelties of war be let abroad among the families of an unhappy land. I envy neither the opinions nor the feelings of those who could look forward without a sigh to so dread an alternative. It reminds me of a whimsical receipt I once heard for the regeneration of Ireland, which was jug to let it down to the bottom of the sea for half an hour, and then bring it up again.—(A laugh.)—And really, to behold the exceeding fervour, not to say fury, of many out of doors, one might be almost tempted to think that they would rather have the question settled in this way—rather have the whole population swept off from the from the face of the Island—than have the dearly-beloved enactments they so zealously contend for swept off from the face of the statute-book. I could not vote for Dr. Inglis's proposed amendment, because there is in it a clause expressive of a sense of danger; but I can vote for the counter motion. I apprehend no danger. The measure needs no security. We shall stand our ground against the Papists just ae the Church of England stood her ground against the Methodists. We have nothing to fear from any species of Dissenters, if we are true to our selves. Our single defence against one and all of them is, to outpreach, outpray, and outlive them. Whatever the vote may be, I sit down with a triumphant feeling of the superiority of our principle over that of our antagonists. Our sentiment is, that Protestantism can uphold itself. Theirs is, that it cannot be upheld but at the inevitable ex pence of blood and violence.—(Cheers.) Mr. TAIT s'ipported Dr. Lee's motion, and Mr. Stem roe of Kirknewton, that of Dr. Inglis. Dr. THOMSON, after discussing the character of the Irish church, and asserting that it would be strengthened not injured, by Emancipation, the Rev. Gent. con cluded in the following terms :—The measures now pro posed go to the preservation of the Protestant church from the perils with which it is surrounded on every side. We are all agreed as to Popery. We hold it to be an Anti- Scriptural system, corrupt and fraught with errors the most dangerous, and which we are all agreed should be put down, and put down for ever—(applause)—as we would ilehl with all other errors. We just differ as to the most efficient means for accomplishing this end. Therefore we should be as one in the public estimation in regard to the evils of Popery, and the necessity of getting quit of it. But we differ as to the means of attaining that great object. My Rev. Friend who made the motion, gave us a histori c of detail regarding the conduct of our forefather., and the estimation in which they held Popery. All this may be very correct; but he did not come down to the present time. I say all this might have been then very well ; then very expedient and very necessary ; but from a change of circumstances, I du not care whether in religion or not, from a change of circumstances, I say, in which thet re ligion operated, things are totally altered. The Rev. Speaker detailed at considerable length the advantages that would result from emancipation, and concluded as follows : Three Catholics fight your battles, overcome your foes, and wreath your brow with a laurel of victory; they make your name a tower of stren:th all over the world—they secure to you every privilege to which you sling so closely, but in which you will not allow one lof them to participate. And in doing all this they belie the allegation that is made against them, of being under improper influence, for they contend against Catho lic Powers, and even against the Pope himself, if he was an enemy of Great Britain. In doing this they expose themselves to numerous hardships and perils; and, after all is lone, then you reward them or punish them—for, according to this monstrous system, these words may he synonimously employed—by telling them just to go bark to their wretched homes, having performed these mighty services, to live contented under the burden of their op pressions and insults heaped upon them merely because the inhabitants of that country differed from our religion in their creed. What is the aeisequence ? They resent this. They are men of like passions with yourselves. If wa prick them do they not bleed—are they not sensible of the injuries done them—and have they not the power and ability to avenge themselves on this country.—(Hear. ) Then you give them the second edition, improved amid cor rected, for their past services. Instead of consolation, ;sou put them to the sword—you scatter their poor fami lies you burn their hovels, which wretched though they be, are their homes —you carry despair over their country, and you do them all the mischief you can. You may succeed, in the contest—l do not say you will not sue• teed, but don't forget this, even your success is disas trous—every victory you gained over them is tantamount to a defeat—every gun from our ancient citadel that would announce a victory over them would go like a knell to the heart of every patriot in our land—(Great cheering.)— 'And then your triumph is your ruin. When all this is passing over the Catholic, Powers would be glad to take advantage of your conduct. Do you think they would be idle spectators while the contest was going on ?—(lkar, hear.)—At last when you had exhausted yourself in this warfare they would pounce upon you as eagles do upon their prey.—(Applause.)—You may cut off the locks of the strong man, and put out hie eyes—you may make him the subject of mockery; but though he perish under your insults, he pulls clown the pillars that support the house, and you are crushed along with him.—(Applause.) I do say that the measures proposed in Parliament is the only safety for us and the Protestants. And it should be re membered if they fail to be carried, Catholicism and Pro testantism must go together. lam wrong ; the Catholic powers would take advantage of this and resuscitate Popery, hut Protestantism would be gone for ever. Admit Catho lics to the privileges that are now proposed, and I do say, that according to the nature of things and the whole his tory of our race, you make friends of those who are your determined enemies ; and then you are safe ; then you are a united empire. Only do not pass the measure, and you may say of our country " but yesterday she might have stood against the world, but now none so poor as to do her reverence "—(Great cheering.) Dr LEE said a few words in reply. The Presbytery then divided, the state of the vote being first or second motion—it being understood, if the first motion was carried, that Dr. Lee's motion would be adopted, and if the second, Dr. Inglis's. For the first motion, I I—For the second motion, 20. Majority 9. —T he Presbytery separated at six o'clock. The following is the House List of Gover nors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz.:— FOR GOVERNORS. Samuel Drewe, Esq. Governor. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. John Bowden, Esq. __ James Pattison, jun. Esq. Cornelius Buller, Esq. John Henry Pelly, Esq. John Cockerel], Esq. Charles Pole, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. Richard Mee Raikes, Esq. Timothy Abrah. Curtis, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart. George Dorrien, Esq. John Baker Richards, Esq. John Oliver Hansen, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Samnel Thornton, Esq. Samuel Hibbert, Esq. Stephen Edward Thornton, William Manning, Esq. Esq. William Mellish, Esq. Thomas Warre, Eq. Humphrey gt. John Mild- Money Wigram, Esq. may, Esq. llelvil Wilson, Esq. The Election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held at the Bank, on Tuesday the 7th, and for Direc tors on Wednesday the Bth instant, from tea o'eleek in the forenoon till key is the afterxes* MOON PAPERS. CRACOW, MARCII 15.—Private letters from St. Peters burgh say, that the Empreis will !rave that C.spit4 at the 2nd of nett month, and meet the K;ng, her father, at Kaliseb, to which place the Emperor will probably come for a few days, from Warsaw. Whether the Empress will afterwards go to Berlin, to he present at her brother's mar riage, is not mentioned. BucnAaasr s IV:Asters 6.—According to accounts from Jassy, there seems to be no doubt that General Diebitach will, as soon as possible, transfer his head-quarters to the other side of the Danube, and commence the siege of Silie tria, with which the Russians, it appears, will open the camp:rips. CONSTANTINOTLE, FED. 26.—1 t is now asserted, that on the 15th of March (a peculiarly fortunate day) the Sultan will leave the camp at Ramis Tehiflik with the standard of the Prophet; the whole army will be as sembled there; the volunteers, and all the inhabitants of the capital able to bear arms, (stated at 150,000 men,) and will proceed to Adrianople. One hundred Tartars hare been dispatched within this week to carry this news to the provinces. The Sultan is said still to intend the recovery of Varna. His resolution to take the field has made a very favourable impression here, and si lenced the murmurs of the discontented. Since the last post-day provisions have risen a little, and the Porte has been obliged to adopt measures for the tran quillity of the capital. Two hundred Greek families, and a great many Armenians and Jews, have been sent to Asia, and it is said next week 15,000 Greeks, 10,000 Arme nians, and 5,000 Jews are to be sent out of the capital. The European agents, indeed, intercede for them, but if the corn expected ley land from Smyrna does not arrive, it will not be easy to save them from banishment. LISBON, MARCH 16.—The official part of the Gazette contains an order front his Majesty, who taking into his most serious consideration the difficulty of sending to their destination without great delay the numbers of persons condemned to transportation to the Colonies, who have been for some years accumulated in the prisons of Lisbon, and the injustice of adding to their punishment by long imprisonment, previous to their em barkation, and his royal heart being always disposed to clemency, as far as justice will allow, has been pleased to order that all persons now in prison at Lisbon and Oporto, who have been condemned to banishment beyond sea, for any tsrm not exceeding five years, shall instead be banished so places in Portugal, viz., Linheres, Lagos, Penhel, Mira , ,da, Castello Branco, Guarila Francoso, Moncoroe, and Braganza. Persons, guilty of blasphemy, sacrilege, crimes against his Majesty's person, or the safety of the state, and robbers of every description, are ex cepted. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTIT, APRIL 4.—His Majesty's yacht Herald, Captain E. W. C. Astley, arrived yesterday in thirty-two days from Jamaica, bringing a mei! up to the let ult., and despatches for the Colonial Department, from his Excellency the EMI of Relmore, Governor of that island, who, with the Countess &Imre, his Lordship's family end suite, were landed on the 20th February. The He rald left England on the sth of January last, and arrived at Madeira on the 13th ; sailed on the 20th following for Barbadoee, and anchored in Carlisle Bay on the 6th February, where she landed his Excellency Lieutenant- General Sir James Lyon, K.G.B. &c , the Governor of that island, and suite; from thence she proceeded to Port Royal harbour, and arrived on the 19th, making sixty four days at sea and twenty-four in harbour; and after lauding his Excellency the Earl of Be lmore, his Lordship's family, and suite, left that anchorage for England on the Ist ult., in which time she traversed 9,439 miles. Her run from the Caycas passage to soundings was only nine teen days. When the Herald left Port Royal the island Ives quite healthy, and the troops in the highest condition, under the judicious and very able management of Major- General Sir John Keane. Some few cases of fever had proved fatal in the Magnificent and Harlequin, in the har bour, but otherwise the squadron were doing well. The crops had been scanty only at Barbadoes and Antigua, at which islands aidearth of rain had been experienced. The Barham, bearin the flag of the Hon. Vice-Admiral Fleem jag, arrived at Barbadoes on the 12th of February, after the Herald had quitted that anchorage for Jamaica. It was the Admiral's intention to visit all the islands within hie command previous to his return to Jamaica. The Magnificent, Capt. Dean (acting), the Harlequin, Harpy, and Espiegle were at Port Royal ; the Harlequin having just returned from the main land, but without any intelli gence of interest. The Espiegle was on the point of pro. ceeding to the same quarter. The Druid was collecting specie at Vera Cruz and Tampico, and was to proceed to the Havannah, and then to England. The Slaney was at Trinidad : this ship had encountered so severe a gale of wind on her passaee from Bermuda as to render it neces sary to throw some of her guns overboard. The Grass hopper bad recently chased two slave vessels near Cuba, but lost them in the night. The two vessels she had cap tured had been condemned at the Havannall, and their cargoes (892 slaves) given up to the Spanish authorities, and by thew app4nticed to different trades for seven yearr, at the expiration of which time they are to to be consi dered as freemen. Letters from Malta to the 16th of February announce the arrival there from Naples of the Asia, SO, with the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Windsor Castle, and Spar tiate. The Revenge was at Naples, in attendance on Mr. Stratford Canning. The Ann and Amelia, hospital ship, was on her passage to England. An order has been con ferred by the King of France on Captains Lyon and Lush. ington, and that of Legion of Honour on Lieutenants Luckcraft and Davey, of the Blonde, and Lieutenant Logan, R.M.A. for the Patras affair. The Onyx transport, Lieut. Decceurdeaux (agent) ar rived on Wednesday from Malta, after a tedious passage, having sailed thence on the 2d February, with a few inva lided soldiers. The passengers by her are General Cara scosa, Lieutenant W. Hubbard, R.N., and Messrs. Sidney Grenfell, Alfred Crayler, George Milner, John Rogers, Robert Sparehott, and George Bamber, midshipmen, and Mr. John Basson, assistant-master. The Onyx has also brought to England nine Greek convicts, wkose lives Ge neral Ponsonby had spared, hut who are doomed to suffer transportation for the remainder of their existence. They have since been transferred to the York hulk at this port. The Britomart transport arrived on Wednesday from Fernando Po, which island she left on the 21st January. We learn that the clearing of the ground, a step from which much was hoped, had tended but little to render less sickly that wretched establishment. The Britomart has brought home some invalids, and nine pirates' for trial, who belonged to the Missolonghi schooner, and who it is clearly ascertained have been guilty of great atrocities. Two tither prates died oa their passage to England. They were yesterday sent round to the river in the Lightning steam •vessel. The ship Lady Raffles, from Bombay, and the Eliza, from Penang, passed up Channel yesterday for the river ; the latter ship left on the 3d November. Admiral Gage, in the Java, 50, was lying at Penang. On board of this ship the officers had recently entertained the gentry of that settlement w:th an amateur play and a grand ball. The Rainbow, Hon. Captain Roos, was expected to join the Admiral from Sydney, having been relieved by the Satellite, Captain Laws. The Success, Captain Jer voise, was at 31adras ; the Hind, Captain Furneaux, had been sent to Singapore and Bombay, and would be laid up there. Her crew is to bring the new frigate Andromeda, of 40 guns, to England. The Pandora, 18, Commander G&f don, had been sent to 3iergui and Amherst, on the Te nasserim coast. The whole squadron was healthy, as was the continent of India generally, though occasionally a vein of cholera wool i run over a district in so extraordi nary a manner as even to reach far out to sea, a fact re cently experienced by the ship Abercrombie Robinson, which in her passage from Bombay to Singapore lost twenty-seven men in a few days. It was observed that all who died were seized with the malady while on duty on deck. From Madras we learn that the nizam's second son had collected a large body of Pitans, in the city of Hyderabad, and refused to disband them ; that in conse quence the Russell brigade had been called in from Bola rum, and the whole of the subsidiary force held in readi ness for immediate service, forty rounds of ball cartridges having been issued to each individual. The author of this commotion has been in confinement more than once, and is considered to be of a most turbulent diiposition. On the 18th of October Calcutta was visited by a smart shock of an earthquake ; the motion was almost vertical, and the shock one of the severest that had been felt for many years. Rear-Admiral Thomas Baker, C. 8., hoisted his flag at Plymouth on board the Warspite, 76, on Tuesday last. The Southampton, 50, with the flag of Rear• Admiral Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., arrived on Thursday from Chatham. Site was paid yesterday, and will proceed to morrow to the East Indies, in the command of which sta tion Sir Edward will succeed Rear-Admiral Gage. The Southampton will touch at Fernando Po, and take out the lady of Capt. Owen, the Governor of that settlement. The Alligator, 28, Captain Charles Yorke, went out of harbour yesterday, and will be paid on Monday. She is placed under the orders a Vice• Admiral the Hon. Beir Hera). Blackwood, and will proceed on Tuesday to the North Sea Station. Ships at SpitheatLLSoutharoptori, Briton, Alligator, and Herald. In harbour—Victory, Melville, Galatea, Champion, and Proeria. Commander 'William Mudge is appointed to the Royal Charlotte yacht; Lieut. Grandy to the Fancy revenue cutter; Mr. Joseph Dallaway, surgeon, to te Hyperion ; Mr. Peter Ramsay, surgeon, to the Dispatch ; Mr. John Kidd, surgeon, to the Sybille. GENERAL JACKSON'S INAUGURAL AD DRESS. (From a Philadelphia Paper of the 7th ult.) Fellow Citizens,--e-About to undertake the arduous du ti,s that I have been appointed to perform by the choice of ' a free people, I avail myself of this customary and solemn occasion to express the gratitude which their confidence in spites, and to acknowledge the accountability which my situation enjoins. While the magnitude of their interest convinces me that no thanks can be adequate to the honour they have conferred, it admonishes me that the hest return I can make is the zealous dedication of my humble abilities to their service and their good. As the instrument of the Federal Constitution, it will devolve on me, for a stated period, to execute the laws of the United States; to superintend their foreign and their confederate relations; to manage their revenue ; to com mand their forces; and, by communications to the Legis lature, to watch over and to promote their interests gene rally. And the principles of action by which I shall en deavour to accomplish this circle of duties it is now proper for me briefly to explain. In administering the laws of Congress, I shall keep stea dily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the exe cutive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office, without transcending its authority. With foreign nations it will be my study to preserve peace, and to cultivate friendship on fair and honourable terms; and, in the adjustment of any difference that may exist or arise, to exhibit the forbearance becoming a powerful nation, rather than the sensibility belonging to a gallant people. In such measures as I may be called on to pursue in re gard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be ani mated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our union ; taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves, with those they have granted to the confederacy. The management of the public revenue—the searching operation in all Governments, is amongst the most delicate and important trusts in ours; and it will of course demand no inconsiderable share of my official solicitude. Under every respect in which it can be considered, it would appear that advantage must result from the observance of a strict and faithful economy. This I shall aim at the more anxi ously, both because it will facilitate the extinguishment of the national debt—the unnecessary duration of which is in compatible with real iudependence,—and because it will counteract that tendency to public and private profligacy, which a profuse expenditure of money by the Government is but too apt to engender. Powerful auxiliaries to the attainment of this desirable end are to be found in the re gulations provided by the wisdom of Congress, for the spe cific appropriation of public money, and the prompt ac countability of public officers. With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of im ' post, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the constitution was formed, requires that the great interests of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, should be equally favoured ; and the only exception to this rule should consist in the peculiar encouragement of any products of either of them that may be found essential to our national independence. Internal improvement, and the diffusion of information, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the federal government, are of high importance. Considering standing armies as dangerous to free go vernments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power. The gradual in crease of our navy, whose flag has displayed in distant climes our skill in navigation and our fame in arms ; the preservation of our forts, arsenals, and dock-yards; and the introduction of progressive improvements in the discipline and science of both branches of our military service, are so plainly prescribed by prudence, that I should be excused for emitting their mention, sooner than for enlarging upon their importance. But the bulwark of our defence is the national militia, which, in the present state of our intelligence and population, must render us invincible. As long as our government is adMinistered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their long as it secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press,—it will be worth defending; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable cegis. Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power. _ It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe to • wards the Indian tribes within our limits, a just and liberal policy ; and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which are consistent with the habits of our government, and the feelings of our people. The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes, on the list of executive'dtaks, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform, which will require parti cularly the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the federal government into conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appoint ment, and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands. In the performance of a task thus generally delineated, I shall endeavour to select men whose diligence and talents will ensure, in their respective stations, able and faithful co-operation, depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers than on their numbers. A diffidence, perhaps too just, in my own qualifications, will teach me to look with reverence to the example of public virtue left by my illustrious predecessors, and with venera tion to the lights that flow from the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffi dence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches of the Government, and for the indul gence and support of nay fellow-citizens generally. And a firm reliance on the goodness of that Power whose Pro- vidence mercifully protected our national infancy, and has since upheld our liberties in various ♦icissitudes, encour ages me to offer up my ardent supplications, that he will continue to make our beloved country the object of his divine care and gracious benediction. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA. The Claudine, Flinn, from Bengal has arrived in the Downs; sailed from Calcutti, Nov. 6 ; Saugar, Nov. 14 ; and St. Helena, Jan. 26. The Augenoria, , from Bengal, in the Downs ; sailed from thence September 28 ; and the Mauritius, 25th December. The Warrens, from the South Seas, has arrived in the Downs. The John Palmer, from the South Seas, has arrived off Margate. Vessels spoken with—The John Bigger, Morley, from London, for Bengal, Dec• 6 ; the Andromache, Laws, from ditto, for Bengt!, Feb. 1 ; Runnymede, Wildridge, from ditto, for Bombay, Feb. 1 ; the Fortune, , from Liverpool, for Bombay, Jan. 29. The son of the Common Councilman who was reported to have declined attending the grand dinner at the Mansion-house to-morrow, because he could not 6 ' turn his coat" so soon, has puldished a denial of the ru mour. It is true that the above Common Councilman is one among the number who have announced their inten tion not to accept the Lord Mayor's invitation, but we understand no individual has couched hie answer to his Lordship in such uncourteous terms. BROTHERLY LOVE.— A man named MA GUIRE was convicted at the Maryborough Assizes of steal ing a cheese, the property of his brother, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The prosecutor had promised his parents that he would not swear against his brother; in return for which lenity they were to give him a flitch of bacon, to make up for the loss of the cheese. When he went to Maryborough, however, he swore with such good effect as to obtain a conviction. Immediately after wards be returned to Mounttath, and, telling the old couple that their son had been acquitted, claimed the promised reward. They cheerfully complied, and the scoundrel was carrying off his unr:ghteous booty, when the boys of the town,. having l earne d the true version of the affair, gave chase, and he thr e w down the flitch and fled, too well pleased at having saved his own bacon to look back upon that which hp left behind. LAW OF ENTAIL. The following Resolutions of their Committee hare been adopted, almost unanimously, by the So- Ciety of Writers to the Sig - net :- Ist. They are unanitnously of opinion, that the statute 168 G, taken in connexion with the Acts 10 George 111. and 5 George IV. has been productive of great evils, and must, if allowed to remain unal tered, be productive of still greater, and that it is now necessary to provide a remedy against these evils. 2d. They are, by a majority, of opinion, that it is inexpedient that the power of entailing property in perpetuity should be continued as to Entails to be made in future. 3d. They are, by a majority, of opinion, that in Entails to be made in future, the limitation as to endurance should be fixed upon the principle adopted in England the same having been found, by experience, to answer every useful purpose. 4th. They are, by a majority of opinion, that in future Entails, the heir in possession should be con sidered a liar as at present, subject always to the specific restrictions and burdens imposed by the re spective Entails under which the lands may be held, and that his interest in the property ought not to he confined to that of a mere life -renter, whose rights, as now ascertained under the law of Scot land, are too much limited to admit of a due admi nistration of the estate. That, in other respects, the effects produced in England by the system of entailing adopted in that country, may, or ought to be accomplished in Scotland by means of deeds cal culated to produce those effects, without departing from the general principles of law in Scotland affect ing heritable succession. sth. They are, by a majority of opinion, that in place of existing Entails being preserved until the death of all the heirs now in existence, and of a re gister being instituted as proposed in the Bill, the interests of the parties called to the succession in such Entails, and the interests of the public in bringing such Entails, gradually, though at a con siderable distance of time, to an end, would be more effectually gained by either of the following methods, viz. 1. By a provision, that the heir in possession at the date of passing the Act, with the consent of the next substitute of lawful age, and a descendant of his own body, and also of the next substitute of lawful age, not a descendant of his body, should have power to execute a deed, putting the estimate under the modified form of Entail, but continuing the destination in the original Entail; the statute further providing, that the heir of Entail executing such deed, shall, in respect to the endur ance of the Entail, be considered as the maker of it, whereby the parties having right to put an end to such Entail, will be the issue born after the death of the maker of the deed, on their obtaining majority, and coming into the possession of the entailed estate ; and further, that at the end of 70 years, it should be in the power of all heirs, then in posses sion of entailed estates, to put an end to them; or 2dly. By a provision, that, after a certain period to be fixed in the Act, it should be in the power of every heir in possession to put an end to the Entail. oth. They are unanimously of opinion, that it is expedient that heirs, under existing Entails should be allowed to disentail such part of the estate, not exceeding a fourth in value, as may be necessary to pay off entailer's debts, provisions to children, and sums expended in improvements, made under the Act 10 Geo. 111. 7th. They are unanimously of opinion, that while Entails, now existing, shall remain on the footing of perpetuities, and until they shall be modified by sub• sequent heirs in terms of the Act now to be Fused, if no provisions, or only adequate ones, are made for wives and husbands in such deeds, it is expedient, that the powers already conferred by statute, should be continued, to the extent of authorising reasonable provisions to be mad• for them. Bth. They are unanimously of opinion, that it would be expedient that there should be three se parate Bills; one confined solely to future Entails; one fixing the mode in which present Entails may be brought under the new system; and one fixing the relief to be granted to heirs under existing Entails. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Lord Chamberlain's-Office, April 7, 1329• Notice is hereby given, that his Majesty will hold a Levee at St. James's-Palace, on Wednesday tlae 29th in stant, at two o'clock. Lord Chamberlain's-Office, April 7. Notice is hereby given, that the King will hold a Draw. lug-Room at St. James's-Palace, on Thursday the 30th instant, at two o'clock, to celebrate His Majesty's Birth day. 'N'. B. The Knights of the several Orders to wear their Collars. Ordnance-Office, April 6, 1829. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Captain Arthur Carter, from unattached half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Main oaring, retired on half-pay. March 21, 1829. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Dickinson, Liverpool, timber-mercbant. Thomas Ilercock, Middleton, Northamptonshire, herte dealer. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. William Radley Mott, Brighton, builder. Thomas Gres, Newton Abbot, mercer. John Quick and Frederick James Chown, Stonehouse, Plymouth, millers. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Bedford, Goswell-street;carpenter, to surrender April 14, 28, and May 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Fisher and Rhochs, Davies-street, Gros venor-square. James Cramp, Photnix-wharf, Pickle Herring, Surrey, corn-factor, April 14, 24, at eleven, and May 19, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Barlow, Austin Friars. William Walton, Liverpool, cloth-merchant, April 27, 29, and May 19, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver pool. Lowe, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane ; Lowe, Liverpool. George Bell, Regent-street, tailor, April 14, 24, at eleven, and May 19, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Leigh, George-street, Mansion-house. Thomas John . Gibbs, South-street, Eastbourne, Sussex, wine-merchant, April 14, at twelve, 24, and May 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Adlington, Gra gory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row. Lewis Lewis, Throgmorton-street, stock-broker, April 14, at twelve, 24, and May 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Wilde, Rees, and Humphy, College hill, Queen-street, Cheapside. Matthew Pott, Manchester, coach-proprietor, April 24, 25, at three, and May 19, at two, at the Warren Bulkeley Arms, Stockport. Lowe, Chancery-lane ; New ton and Winterbottom, Heaton Norris. Hurdman Luca., Donington, miller, April 15, 16, and May 19, at eleven, at the Red Cow inn, Donington. Smith and Wilkinson, Horbling, Lincoln ; Tooke and Carr, Bedford-row, London. Alfred Shrimpton, Newman-street, Oxford-street, gold smith, April 14, 21, and May 19, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Ellis, Walmsley, and Gorton, Chancery lane. _ _ Thomas Chandler Rips, Russia-Row, London, si!k manufacturer, April 14, 21, and May 19, at eleven, et the Court of Commissioners. Smith and Jay, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. John Wolla.ton, Great Castle-street, Oxford-street, wine-merchant, April 14, 21, and May 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Freemans, Osborn, raml Bothamley, Coleman-street, London. John Robinson, Keighley, York, worsted-stuff-mann facturer, April 18, at five, 16, at ten, at the Talbot Inn, Bradford, and May 19, at eleven, at the Devonshire Arms, Keighley. Constable and Co. Chancery-lane ; Dawson, Keighley. . _ Gray's-inn-square, London ; Willowby and Horne, Bet" wick-upon-Tweed. George Worthington, Wigan, Lancaster, butcher, April 21, at six, 22. at ten, and May 19, at twelve, at 11 10 Office of Mr. Henry Gaskell, Wigan. Adiington, gre P . gory, and Faulkner, 13edford-row ; Gaskell, Wigan. Thom:ls Wharton, Wyton, York, merchant, Aprilrr May 1, at eleven, and 19, at two, at the George Inns Kingq(a-upon-Hull. Knowles, New Inn, London; Schokfiehl and Earnsham, John Baines Bond, V,'indmill-street, Haymarket, 4 ii? bailer, April 10, at one, 24, at twelve, and May 191 at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Hensbnn, street, Waibrook. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at five minute' before Fire o'clock. Sir ALEX. GRANT and others brought up three Voirtte Bills. Mr. ESTCOIIRT and others brought up another Privates Bill. Mr. Johnson, from the office of the Chief Secretssis Office for Ireland, presented a Return of the number of Freeholders registered in Ireland. It was ordered to be printed. Several Private Bills passed their various stages. Lord GROSVENOR presented a petition against on of them with a view that the parties might be heard by their Counsel before the Bill was read a third time. _ Lord DUNALLY presented a petition from the BislAP and Clergy of the diocese of Cashel and another places against the clauses in the Bill for relieving the Roma' Catholics from their disabilities for regulating the Mones o Establishments. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the town of Carlisle in favour of the Catholic Relief Bin. Plc' person bad been permitted to sign this petition who I lia not fully understand what they were doing. Lord FARNHAM presented what he conceived to be rs petition of a peculiar kind. It was from nine hundred and eighty females who belonged to the Wesleyan ream gious denomination of London, who conceived their religiott would be in!danger by the passing of the purposed Mei.' sure for the relief of the Catholics ; and it prayed that the - House would not carry it into a law. Those petitioners , ' the Noble Lord conceived, had as much right to petitiots the House as any subject of his Majesty. The Noble Lord presented a great many petitions frons various parts in Ireland and England to the same effect. Lord LITTLETON presented a petition from the Inde pendent Protestant Dissenters of Northampton, praying for the relief of the Roman Catholics. Lord ELDON presented a petition from Whitby ag ainst further concessions. Also from Eversdale, Sudbury, Suf folk, Montrose, Poole, Johnstone, Burowstowness, HA/ Trinity, Cambridge, Woollerston, Aberdeen, Paisley, th e ; Lord Provost, and 18,900 individuals of Edinburgh, great respectability, and of all professions there; as sr . ,,e° . as from many other places to the same effect. wished to say, that many of these petitions had tele' rence to the Bill which he understood was the subj of their Lordships' deliherations last night,-..be mean t the Bill for disfranchising the forty-shilling freeholders. - "' The reason of his absence was ill health. With regre t to that Bill, he should certainly have said it was within the competency of Parliament to pass that Bill, whethe e occasion called for it or not. He should have looked 1 ° the Bill as a sort of purchase-money for the Catholic Be' lief Bill, and therefore he should not have given his COn' sent to any such Bill. The Duke of WELLINGTON observed that no ohs re' gretted more than he did the absence and ill-health of th e No'de and Learned Lord. Lord ELDON resumed—as to the Bar of Scotland, h e thought it his duty to say the learning, the knowledge they had of their profession, and of matters not immediately be longing to it, would do honour to any class of individuals to get them to present to Parliament a petition against the proposed measure. A petition was presented by the free' Mr. Lee, of high respectability against it. The PresbYW r Y, discussed the subject, and it was rejected by a majority 20 to 11. In the minority there were three. clergymen' , and in the majority thirteen. Lord ELDON gave notice, that, on Thursday, he shoo° present a petition from Liverpool against the Catholic!' Viscount TORRINGTON presented a petition onc e Harrowgate, in favour of the petition now proposed. Lord GODERICH presented a petition from Evert° to the same effect. The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented petitions frail* the Wesleyans of Woodside, W orces t er , Bloomfield, S numerous other places against Emancipation. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a pet'i"^" from the Roman Catholics of the town of Cialwaibprall e that in the Bill on their Lordships table, a clause be inserted, enabling them to enjoy all the corporate privilege° of that town which an ancient Act prohibited them trol l ,: The Noble Marquis presented several other petitions "" favour of emancipation. The Bishop of ELY preeented a petition from a P s tis in hls diocese against emancipation. to T tht e Lord FIFE presented a petition from the Roman-Cs saßmisehoepffecotf. CHICHESTER presented a petition • tholics of Kirkmichael, in favour of the measure. Lord SIDMOUTH presented two petitions against tlay measure. Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from Dissentiug Ministers in the county of Essex, in favour of the Bill. L also losuon o at r Lord yp eo G tfi tc ß i ol E an r Y ef,r presente d a petition same eparish, from a Sub -let t i ng p raanydi n rpaatr praying foritsh in rytiliec t t h ;" moval of Catholic disabilities. The NOBLY. Loan presented another petition froa!' • Mr. Mahon and another, praying to be allowed to b e ' heard by counsel at their Bar, against the Disfrancbis ill t Bill. The petitioners were not personally interested, Ir d stated that the franchise of a number of individu a l s depuPu e upon them. In the address of th e p e titi on th e p e titiou" .., did not state that it was the "humble" petition, they, however, " humbly" prayed, !cc. ; and a questl° ll would be, whether this was sufficient or not. The Nob le Lord begged that the petition might be laid on the table a Lord ELDON considered that as respected the WO humble, the petitions was such as might be received; hi ' that the petitioners being themselves no interest, it '9 O not competent for them to make the application. Lord MOUNT CAS HELL said, that Gorman 141 0 ,_ °11 and the other petitioner having been ringleaders of tn e agitation in Ireland fur a long time, any application coining from a quarter so suspicious ought not to receive nauc h encouragement from their Lordships. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Lord WINCHELSEA presented numerous petiti ons from various parts against the measure. The Duke of SUSSEX presented a petition from th e individual clergymen of the archdcaconry of Cl eve land; t was also signed by other persons in favour of coonceeei"' The Earl of HADDINGTON said there had b e en as attempt to get a meeting of the Presbytery of Edinburg h were in progress. The petition had been got up in °PI: sequence of accounts of a contrary nature that had already been presented to the House. After a few other petitions were presented, their Lord ships resolved themselves into a Committee upon the Bil l for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subject& (LEFT BITTING.) DOUSE OF COMMONS. - - - - - --- Mr. Alderman ATKINS moved the second reading the St. Albans Court-house Bill. Mr. HUME presented two petitions against the.Aber" deen Police Bill. Haynes', Divorce Bill went through a Committee, an d on the motion of Mr. TENNYSON Counsel were called in' and witnesses examined. The House resumed, an d th e Report ordered to be presented on a future day. Mr. FYLER presented a petition against the Coventl Canal Bill, and praying that the petitioners might be beard • by Counsel against the Bill. Campbell's Naturalization Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed. Mr. BELL moved for returns of the quantities of Coo TS hroueht into London during the years 1823 and 1826.-"" Ordered. _.__.___ Mr. LENNARD presented a petition from the silk weavers of Halstead, in the county of Essex, praying th e ; House to take into its consiseration the present state Of th u laws affecting the silk trade. Mr. HUME said no one was more anxious to see difficulties under which the petitioners labour remove" than himself, but he must say he thought they were under a great mistake as to the real cause. Mr. D. W. HARVEY had no doubt but thitit,*' Bl owing to the large quantities of French-silks intpo(te,4,o! !: this country ; he wished the advocates of free tratieoior point out some means by which the starving guloisitt. could obtain a livelihood. He trusted they woula.lith us prepared when the subject cattle before the " Ho p; s. Thursday next. . _ Henry Johnson, Berwick-upon-Tweed, corn-merchant, April 22, at twelve, 23, at ten, and May 19, at eleven, at 1 the King's Arms Inn, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Bromley, PAINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at OTTICS, 112, STIAND, imurox.