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NEGRO SLAVERY. (EXTRACT FROM THE ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER FOR JUNE, 1829.) _ _ _ _ ‘. At one o'clock of the morning of the sth inst. in a veay thin House, Mr. Otway Cave moved the following Resolutions, which were negatived with out a division, and, indeed, without a debate, if we except some weighty preparatory observations of the Honourable Mover.")—(Here the Resolutions are given.) " We respect the motives which have influenced Mr. Otway Cave on this occasion. We must still, however, think the course he has puasued unfor tunate, and the time ill chosen. Who could ever have supposed it possible, that after a Session cf four months' duration, a motion of which formal notice had been given in the preceding session, a motion, too, of such vital importance, and big with so many vital interests, would at last have been shuffled into a corner; that at the unseasonable hour of one o'clock in the morning, on almost the last day of the session, when no rational bode could be entertained of a beneficial discussion or a favourable result, when the House had been nearly emptied, resolutions so momentous, and so sure to be opposed, should have been brought forward and attempted to be passed ? Such a coursa was hardly fair either to the friends or the opponents of our cause; and not even dream. ing that such a thing was within the verge of possi bility, almost every individual who felt an interest in the question had withdrawn; though, had they remained, they could only have used their influence to induce the mover to seltet a fitter time for his propositions, to which, independently of this circum stance, we ourselves could not but be favourable." —.4nti-Slavery Reporter. In reply to the above remarks (apparently intend ed a, excusatory of the conduct of what is called the Anti-slavery party in the House of Commons, on the occasion of their opposition to or extraordinary dereliction from the principle of the Resolutions proposed by Mr. Cave on the evening of the 4th of June,) it may not be inexpedient to point out some few of the inaccuracies and inadvertencies into which the writer of those remarks has fallen. That the Session was of four months' duration is true, but it is well known that the first part of it was wholly absorbed by the Catholic Question. The duration of the Session for other purposes, therefore, must be calculated for the 21st of Apiil (about nine weeks), and Mr. Cave brought on his motion three weeks before its termination. On the first of June, it will be seen by the published notices, that Mr. Cave gave notice for the 2d of June. On the 2d, at the request of a Member of the Govern ment, he postponed it to the 3d, and on the 3d his attempt to bring it on was objected to by the leaders of the Anti-Slavery party. In their presence it was again postponed to the 4th, with the understanding that it should then positively come on. Pursuant to this positive understanding, on Thurs day, the 4th instant, in a House for the time of the year and under the circumstances of the case, un usually full, Mr. Cave moved his resolutions, which were not negatived, until a division and a short de bate had taken place; in which Messrs. Huskisson, Wm. Smith, Lumley Saville, Sir George Murray, and Mr. Goulburn, took part. That it was hoped that the resolutions would be negatived without a division, is probable, as in that case the desertion of the cause by individuals would have escaped notice. But the Morning He rald, June gth, in alluding to Mr. Cave's motion, gives the following extract from the Journals of the House of Commons, which shows that the resolu tions were not negatived " without a division." " For the division the noes went forth. Mr. 0. Cave was appointed one of the tellers for the year, but no other Member remaining in the House to be a second teller for the year, the noes returned into I he House, and Mr. Speaker declared that the noes had it." So far from his motion having been " shuffled into a corner," every means have been taken, both pri vately and publicly, to ensure for it a sufficiency of Parliamentary attendance and support, as will appear from the subjoined statement of a member of the Anti-Slavery Committee, whose authority is unim peachable, and whose name is forthcoming if neces sary. " As early as February I brought forwar►l a mo tion. in the Asti-Slavery Committee the object of which was to secure the support of the Society and ;di its friends, both in and out of Parliament, to the principle involved in Mr. Cave's notice of motion. My proposition was, however, like Mr. C.'s, nega tived." It does certainly appear, that the leaders of the Anti-Slavery Committee, who rejected the above proposition, are bound to give tb.?.ir reasons for so doing to the great party in the country which they profess to represent. They will do well at the same time to explain why nothing had been done in Par liament this year, why the annual meeting which had been actually fixed for the 2d of May, was suddenly and mysteriously abandoned, and how it has hap pened that the facts connected with Mr. Cave's re solutions are thus strangely represented. That en the evening of the 4th, when the motion was actually made, the leaders of the Anti-Slavery party in the House could not possibly have been taken by surprise—as is clearly insinuated by the tcnour of the article in the Reporter,—may be seen by any one who will take the trouble to refer to any of the official documents of the Parliamentary pro ceedings of the day previous, or to the reports of the debates as given in the Mirror and public Newspapers. (From the Times, June 4. ) " Mr. 0. Cave rose (last night) for the purpose of bringing forward a proposition to declare that children born of slave parents in his Majesty's Co lonies, after a certain period, should be free. " Mr. Brougham, Sir J. Mackintosh, and Mr. F. Buxton, recommended the Hon. Member to with draw his motion under existing circumstances. " Mr. 0. Cave deel4red his determination to per severe. " The gallery was cleared for a division . , but none took place, as, on the suggestion of several Hon. Members, Mr. 0. Cave agreed to postpone his mo tion till to-morrow (this day), with the understand ing that it should then positively come on." Left as he was in ignorance of the motives by which the party were now actuated, Mr. Cave could not do otherwise than follow a former exhortation of its eloquent leader, Dlr. Brougham, who, in the debate upon Mr. Buxton's resolutions in the year 182.3, made use of the following forcible and memor able expressions on the subject. " It seems to me now to be the imperative duty of a legislature, to pass some act with r espect to the freedom of unborn children. We shall be wanting in our duty to that part of our fellow subjects, if we do no not immediately announce our intention of taking up that part of the subject. Difficulties doubtless will be to be encountered; difficulties there are in every change; but are they insurmouiit able ? I trust that no man will be stopped by them, who does not wish to be impeded." That Mr. Cave's motion was not made on " al most the last day of the session," will appear from the fact that Parliament was prorogued on the 21th of June, and that consequently an interval of about three weeks elapsed between the close of the Ses sion and the day on which Mr. Cave renewed his notice ; that half-past twelve was not an unusually Lae hour for proceeding with business is well known; and Mr. Cave was preventeit from bringing on his motion earlier by a long. 'and very unusual discussion, which was raised on a petition present ed by Mr. Brougham. But after what had passed the night before between Mr. Cave, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Buxton, and Sir J. Mackintosh, does the editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter really mean to insinuate that if the hour had been earlier Mr. Cave's motion would have been supported ? Does the Editor mean to say that if Mr. Cave " had selected a fitter time," •' he himself could not be favourable" to the propo sitiwis, after what had passed months More in the Committee ? On the same evening, Mr. W. Hor ton went at length into the subject of his important motion respecting our surplus population. On the 2d Lord Blandfor4l brought on his important re solutions on Parliamentary reform, and on the Ist of June, Sir J. Mackintosh brought on his import ant motion respecting our relations with Portugal, when the House sat till a quarter before four o'clock in the morning. Yet, these gentlemen are not charged with unreasonable hours, or delaying their motions till almost the last day of the session. That the House was not " nearly empty," will also appear from the circumstance, that a majority of forty-five was still left in it to oppose the carry ing of the resolutions, exclusively of a considerable number of what is called the Anti-Slavery party, who had thought proper suddenly and simultane ously to leave their places, both on the coming on of the motion, and while the gallery was clearing for the division. It was impossible for Mr. Cave to know that his resolutions were " so sure to be opposed," because more than one member of the party alluded to, who either voted and canvassed against him, or went away as the division was taking place, had up to the very day on which he brought forward his proposi tion, repeatedly and unreservedly promised him countenance and support. Here then is a notice of a motion for the 2d—on the 2d it is postponed to the 3d—and the attempt to bring it forward on that evening gives rise to a discussion between Mr. 0. Cave, Mr. Brougham, Sir J. Mackintosh, and Mr. F. Buxton, which ends in an express understanding that this motion shall positively be made on the evening of the 4th ; and yet, suppressing all these facts, the Anti-Slavery Reporter informs his readers that on the evening of the 4th almost all those who felt an interest in the question had withdrawn, not even dreaming that such a thing as Mr. Cave's motion was within the verge of possibility ! ! Can any one believe that be fore those gentlemen withdrew, they did not look round and see Mr. Cave in his place, actually wait ing to make this undreamed-of motion ? Can any one suppose, after the understanding of the preceding evening, that they would not have taken the trouble to ask him whether from any cause he had changed his intention, if they had even entertained a doubt on the subject ? Is it possible that these gentle men should have gone away,not even dreaming that Mr. Cave's motion was within the verge of pos. sibility ? FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Hank Stock 214 14 3 per Cent. Red. .....90 16 8974 3 per Cent. Cons. 8.94% 1% 314 pet Cent. 993 Ditto Fed. 991% I per Cent. i 033,4 Ditto, 1 , 26 106 Z. , % 6 Ditto Scrip — Bank L. Ann. 0 1-16 India. Stock 22914 9 Ditto Timids 57 58 pm. DUTCH AND HAMBURG PAPERS. STOCKHOLM, JULY 9.—We hear from Elsinore that a Russian fleet is daily expected from Cron stadt, which is bound to the Mediterranean. CHRISTIANIA, JULY 10.—According to the ac counts received from all parts of Swedes, an almost total failure of the crop is to be found there. This is supposed to be the cause of the decline of the Swedish course of Exchange.—Hamburg Papers, July 17. HAGUE, JULY 21.—Sir Charles Bagot, the Bri tish Ambassador, is gone to London. Admiral Sir Sidney Smith and General Count de Flahault, with his Lady and suite, have arrived here from England.—Dutch Papers, July 22. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. BERLIN, JULY 14.—Three months, 6 24k. STOCKHOLM, JULY 10.—Seventy-five days, 11 26. VIENNA, JULY B.—Three months, 9 53. HAMBURG, JULY 17.-1 S 111; two months. 13 10. [The Prussian State Gazette of the 18th July contains no further news from the theatre of war.] IRELAND. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. (From a Morning Paper.) DUBLIN, JULY 21.—The disturbances of the North still continue, but it is very difficult, among the conflicting accounts, to reach the truth. The following is an extract of a letter from Ar magh, July 18 : " The country continues dreadfully disturbed. General Thornton has been at Stewardstown (near Coal Island), and his prese►rce seems to have had some effect. But the hedge-firing, the Indian war fare, is still going on. The numbers actually killed are stated at various amounts. Some say .50. This is probably an exaggeration. The infantry have net -yet returned to Armagh, nor the artillery to Charlemont. The country all round is in a state of the most terrible alarm. Groups of people lined the roads, or were collected about the public houses, most of them armed. Never was there any thing like it, in this part of the world, since the rebellion of 1798.* The following account of the battle of Glenoe, near Coal Island, is the least confused I have seen " The Orangemen of Stewartstown and Killy more marched from Desacrcat towards Ardboe, where they had learned that one of their brethren had been killed. On their return home they passed by Glenoe, near the chapel of which place the Catholics had erected a green arch, which the Orangemen were determined to pull down. On arriving near the chapel they found it defended by a large body of Catholics, many of them armed. They would have retreated, but they advanced too far, and attempted to force the passage and de molish the arch. Four Orangemen were killed in their attempt to cross the bridge, and six or seven Catholics, besides a great number of wounded. The former, however, were better armed, and having a larger supply of ammunition, succeeded. They ef fected their retreat, and even brought away their wounded." The county of Down is in a state of equal agita- don, which agitation, I am sorry to say, has been much increased by the conduct of several of the clergymen of the Established Church, who chose the 12th instant as a proper opportunity to preach seditious and even treasonable sermons. At Inch, near Downpatrick, the clerg3 man inveighed against Popery, his MajEsty's Ministers, and particularly the Duke of Wellington, whom, I am told, he de scribed as plotting for the Crolvn, to place it on the head of his son, which son, according to the reverend preacher, was to marry a Princess of Eng land. He then launched out into a flaming pane gyric on tint truly Protestant Prince, the Duke of Cumberland. Protestants, he said, should take care of themselves; and the way to do so was to keep down the Papists. The religion of the latter was a most horrible superstition, and a curse to the coun try. While he was preaching, the son of another Protestant clergyman sat opposite, exhibiting a string of beads, mimicking the form of Roman Ca tholic worship, laughing occasionally at his own buf foonery, in which he was most heartily joined by the congregation. This gross and hideous farce occurred in a church belonging to the diocese of Dr. Mant. This Bishop is an Englishman. We shall soon see whether he has any power, for I can not for a moment doubt the will, of saving the places of public worship from sacrilege and ribaldry. Aughnacloy, in the same county, was still more agitated. From morning till night the streets were kept in one continued uproar, and numberless in sults were offered to the Catholics. The Orange men of Belfast have published a vote of thanks to the Magistrates of that town, thanking them for their assistance in arranging the procession on the 12th. I believe I mentioned to you in a former letter that the police assisted at the ceremony. The robbery of arms by the Orangemen is quite general in most of the northern counties, and it is said with the connivance of some of the Magistrates. Half-past two o'clock. P.S. A most afflicting and a most alarming ac count has reached me from Clare. I believe it may be depended upon. About 2,000 people, armed in all mariner of ways, proceeded yesterday to Miltown where the Assistant Barrister presided at a Court of Quarter Sessions. It was ejectment day, and many persons apprehended banishment from their holding 9. They drove the Barrister, the Court, and the police out of town. I have not time to say more. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1829. The French Papers have more interest than they have had for these few days past. The Illessag,cr des Chambres, in a letter from Ma drid, dated July 9, states, "it is affirmed in the highest circles that immediately after the KING'S marriage there will be a general amnesty, which will be applicable to all individuals implicated in political offences from 1808 up to the present time." The Conslitutionnel is filled with particulars and speculations respecting the conduct of the war in the East between the Turks and Russians. ft has an evident bias in favour of the latter, the difficulties of whose position at the opening of the campaign, together with the very superior local advantages of the Turks, it labours in every sentence to c:.:aggcrate. A single day ; it adds, changes the situation of the two armies. " The Turks have lost all con fidence by the dispersion of their best troops, and the fall of Silistria, which was the first con sequence of their defeat on June 11th, by per mitting General DIEBITSCII to occupy Ras grad, whence he keeps Shumla in check, and renders the speedy submission of Rudschuck, Giurgevo, zertain." The article, in the drawing up of which great and manifest pains have been taken, concludes with the opinion, that nothing can stop the passage of the Balkan, if it has been decided on at St. Petersburgh. There is some truth in this remark ; but, indeed, the whole article deserves attention, though, as we observed before, it has an evident bias in favour of the Russians. The Austrian Observer gives in detail parti culars of the arrival at Smyrna of the French and English Ambassadors on their road to Con stantinople. They were received with great re spect ; and Count GUILLEMINOT made pro mises of protection to, and interference in behalf of, the French merchants who have suffered by the confiscation of their property during the late troubles in the Mores, which greatly pleased the Deputies. The Courier de &Trite contains a proclamation issued by Mr. GORDON, in answer to two decrees of blockade put forth by the Greek Government, in which it is said " not only that the said blockades arc not recog nised by Great Britain at a moment when it is engaged in a negociation, the object of which is the pacification of Greece, but also that the most decided measures will be adopted by the Com mander-in-Chief of his Majesty's fleet in the Mediterranean to prevent every interruption of the free trade of British subjects with either coast of that continent." The following arc extracts : NEWS FROM SMYRNA. VIENNA, JULY 12.—Mr. Robert Gordon, Ambas sador from Great Britain to the Porte, arrived at Smyrna on the 6th June, at two in the afternoon, on hoard the Revenge, and Count Guilleminot, the French Ambas sador, 24 hours later, on hoard the Breslaw. The two Ambassadors were saluted by all the ships of war lying at anchor in the Roads of Smyrna. The French Rear-Admiral Rosamel (who commands the French squadron in the Levant during the absence of Vice-Admiral de Rigny), arrived on the 7th on board the Trident; and Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcohn on board the Asia, at Vourla, on the 3d June. The English ships of the line Windsor Castle, Ocean, and Spartiate, seve ral frigates, and some smaller men-of-war, are also at an chor in that port. The Courier de Smyrne, of the 14th of Juue, contains the following account of what passed during the stay of the two Ambassadors in the road of Smyrna : The Kiaga Bey of Hassan Pacha, the G overnor of Smyrna (who had been officially informed by the port dragom an o f the General Consulate of the Netherland s , of the arrival of the two Ambassadors) , repaired on the 7th on board th e r espective ships in which they had arr i ve d, to compliment them in the name of the Vizier, wh o , a t th e same time, according to ancient custom, had sen t t h em presents of baskets of fruit and vegetables. The Kiaga Bey was received with great distinction by the Ambassa dors, and then waited on the Admirals, to whom similrr presents were offered. On the same day the English Admiral, attended by part of the officers of his squadron, paid a visit to Hassan Pacha, the Turkish Governor. A similar visit was paid him the next day by the French Admiral and his officers. Both Admirals were introduced to the Vizier by the Dutch Consul-General. Immediately after the arrival of Count Guilleminot) the Deputies of the French merchants called upon him, and requested him to give an audience on the following day to the corporation of the French mer chants. Accordingly on the Stb, at eleven in the morning:, all the French merchants assembled at the resi dence of the Dutch Consul-General, under whose protec tion they had hitherto been placed, and accompanied him on hoard the Breslau, when Count Guilliminot received the congratulations of the natives. Through the Consul- General, and the first Deputies of the Merchants, Count Guilleminot paid the most friendly attention to the re quests made to him by the merchants, and promised them all the protection necessary in the unpleasant situation in which they were placed by the events in the East. The Corporation then went on board the Trident to pay their respects to Admiral Rosamel, to whom the first Deputy expressed the gratitude of the French Merchants to the French Marine, for the attentive and constant protection which they had received from all the men of war of his most Christian Majesty in such critical times. _ _ On the 9th in 'the morning Mr. Gordon received the English Merchants at the Dutch Consul-General's, and promised them that one of his first endeavours, after his arrival from Constantinople, should be to enforce the payment of the claims of the British subjects on mer chandise and effects in the hands of the Greeks who fled at the breaking out of the Greek revolution, and which were at that time confiscated by the P,:rte as the property of re bellious subjects. This assurance was extremely agreeable to the merchants whose claims amount to large sums. It was no less welcome to the merchants of other nations who are almost all of them similarly situated, and hope that the united exertions of their Excellencies will obtain, if not the whole of their demands, at least a suitable indemnity fur claims, the Justice of which cannot be called in question. On the 9th, in the evening, Count Guilleminot ho noured with a visit the two deputies of the merchants, who consider this es a new proof of his Excellency's favour to the French merchants in the Levant, who are placed under his protection. The two Ambassadors sailed on the 10th, at day-break, on board their ships of the line, which were accompanied by many frigates and smaller ships of war of both nations. At Tenedss their Excellencies will leave the ships of the line, and go on board frigates to proceed through the Dar danelles to Constantinople.* M. Dawkins, English Resident at the seat of the G/ eek Government, has passed some days et Smyrna, and accompanied Mr. Gordon to Tenedos, whenca he will pro bably return to Egina. The Courrier de Smyrne contains also the following article : " As the publication of the two decrees of blockade issued by the Greek Gover nment, in our paper, took place in consequence of a communication of M. J. Van Lennep, Consul-General of the Netherlands in this city, who bad received them officially from the Provisional French Charge d'Affaires at Egina; for this reason Mr. Gordon, Atnhassadsr of GI eat Britain to the Sublime Porte, fearing that this Notification, provided with the authority of the officer, to whom the protection of the British interests at Smyrna was at that time confided, might mislead the Eng lish merchants with respect to the light in which the Bri- tish Government considers the said blockade, was pleased, before he sat out for the capital of Turkey, to authorise M. Van Lennep to make the following communication to the English merchants : " The Greek Government having issued two Decrees, one of which referring to the blockade of the coasts of At tica, Negropont, and Volo, proclaims the extension of this blockade to the gulf of Kissaros, and the other relates to the blockade of the coasts of Western Greece ; " Notice is hereby given to the English merchants in this City, not only that the said blockades are not recog nised by Great Britain at a moment when it is engaged in a negociation, the object of which is the pacification of Greece, but also that the most decided measures will he adopted by the Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's fleet in the slediterranean to prevent every interruption of the free trade of British subjects with either coast of that con- tinent. " It seems unnecessary to add that the raisin , ' of the blockade of the ports of Candia is included in the above notice. The il!egality of that blockake is in fact as clear as day, since the allied Powers are agreed that Candia can in no case make part of the future Greek State." All the Consuls and Vice- Consuls of England and France, in the several ports of the Ottoman Empire, have received orders to repair to their respective posts with as little delay as possible. This news, adds the Courier de Smyrw: has, been received by the merchants with the greatest joy. Where they arrived on the 18th, and were received with great joy.—Austrian Observer. Mr. O'CONNELL has addressed a long and animated letter to the Electors of Clare, in which he exhorts them to be ready to come forward and support him on the 30th—the day fixed for his election. In this letter Mr. O'CONNELL goes over the old ground : he avows himself more decidedly than ever, a party man, or to quote his own terms, " the partizan of the people," who, he declares, have never yet been repre sented in Parliament; and proclaims his resolu- Lion to enter St. Stephens as the unflinch ing, uncompromising supporter of their rights and privileges. The plain English of this— coupled with his late political declaration at the Crown and Anchor Tavern—is, that he means to start as an Ultra Reformer. In the prosecution of these extreme opinions, he will, we suspect, encounter more formidable difficulties than he is at present aware of. The season of Ultra Reform is gone by. From par ticular circumstances, it was not wholly unpo pular at one period in England, but that period has past, and we trust, for ever. The country just now stands in no need of any levelling or Radical Reforms. What it wants is a whole some and gradual change in its system of repre sentation a change that may serve to strengthen and improve, not to pull down or remodel, the present fabric of the Constitution. Radical Reform is but Revolution in a masquerade habit, and this, thank God ! we can dispense with. Of the remaining portions of Mr. O'CoN NELL'S address, we can speak in more favour able terms. He impresses on the electors of Clare the necessity of strict obedience to the law ; h e conjures them to abstain from the use of spi• r r i liquors; to assi s t hi m as much by their tranquil demeanour as by th e i r votes ; and, above all, to remember that Catholi c E manc i pat i on wa s a necessary conseque nce resu l t i ng from the extraordinary union and tranquillity of the Irish Catholics. The letters from Naples of the Ist inst. infortn us that the Commission for the Redemption of the Public Debt had, on the preceding day, re-' deemed 603,973 ducats. b e Dutch and Hamburg Papers state, that it is reported at Elsinore that a Russian fleet is . . daily expected from Cr onsta d t, w hi c h i s b oun d ; to the Mediterranean. Th ey a dd t h at, accord-. ing to the accounts received from all parts of Sweden, an almost total failure of the crop is to be found there. 'The accounts from Leipzic state that the late fair had proved very favourable, the merchandize disposed of having been very considerable: This was caused by the franchise of Venice and the demand for the Levant. Advices from Cuba furnish us with a state ment of the commerce of that place for the last year, by which it appears that the imports were 97,674,615 francs, and the exports 65,571,815, of which 4,931,820 francs were in gold and silver. The imports had been made in 1,889 vessels, of which 279 were Spanish, 990 Ame rican, and 175 English, and the remainder of various nations. The: arrivals and sailings ex ceeded last year by 85. The imports from Eng land were 8,850,425 francs, and the exports were 8,059,100 francs. The American imports were 32,995,480, and the exports 15,884,820. The import duties to the customs equalled 20,972,475, and the export duties 5,573,205. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. The Account day has passed, and this day is taken up in paying and receiving differences. Only one defalcation, and that scarcely worth noticing, took place; but it is yet to be seen whether the cheques will all be duly honoured. Consols maintained their price, and opened this morning at the same price they left off at yesterday, 898 buyers, dividend, for the Account, and 8911 for money. We are credibly informed that the invasion of Mexico by the Spaniards, from the Havannah, will certainly take place, and that the Proclamation of the Spanish Government is positively in town, to be issued on the landing of the expedition. The mission of Count Ofalia to this country, and that of France, positively related to the above expedition, to obtain the consent of our Government and that of France. Boston Papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house one day later, to the 2d July. The schooner Ilannah arrived at Philadelphia, from Cape Mesurado (Africa). On the sth April, off Grand Drewin, two canoes came off, having a white man with them, whom they wished to sell ; but they demanded an exorbitant price for his ran som.- Possession was taken of the canoes, and the white man rescued. His name was Samuel Goslin, of London : he belonged to the British schooner Lydia, from London to Cape Coast. On the 22d March, while trading en the coast, the Captain himself and another were knocked overboard by the natives, the Captain mas drowned, and himself and another person taken prisoners, The rest of the crew succeeded in making their escape with the schooner. The Hamburg Papers state that couriers arrive daily from the theatre of war ; their despatches do not transpire. It was generally stated that since the battle of Koulertscha considerable reinforce ments have arrived at Shumla. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet, and the prices nominal as yesterday. Three per Cent. Consols, 894 g; Ditto for Au. 27, 898 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 908 ; Three and ' a half per Cent. Reduced, 991 g; Four per Cent. 1038 ; Ditto, 1826, 1058 6; Indid Stuck, 228 9; Bank Stock, 2131- 141; India Bonds, 56 8 ; Exchequer Bills, 73 74. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols continue at 891 j for the account, and 89i for money, with little business doing at present. The Foreign market is in the same stagnant state as in the early part of the morning. They write from the Banks of the Vistula, July 8, that the departure of Count Nesselrode for Tulezyn tends to confirm the report that the Emperor of Russia will proceed to Jassy, and perhaps to the Russian head-quarters. A Paris Paper received this morning by the Mail states, that a sale of the effects of Marshal Hohen lolie took place, and amongst the effects which was put up fur auction appeared a handsome portrait of Don Miguel, a present to the pious Marshal by that Prince ; this precious portrait was put wp at five francs, and was on the eve of being bought in, when a person of great character ventured to add 20 sous, and was immediately declared the fortunate purchaser. THREE O'CLOCK. - - - Consols for account, 89f, FOUR. O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 89 Danish 70i Do. for Ac. 894- Greek, 1825 Brazilian Bonds 581 Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres Peruvian Chilian Do. Russian 1003- Columbian, 1824, 16 Spanish 9 EXTENSIVE SALE OF COTTON.--(TIIIS DAY'. )-The East India Company's Sale began this morn ing, and was fully attended. The biddings were languid. Of Company's goods offered, 2,700 bales of Bengal, com mon to fair shipping qualities realized from Sid. to 311. ; 200 B,urbons, half sold, ordinary to common, 6d. to ; 1,200 bales of Swats, common, bought in at 3d. and 3. 1 ,-.1 . 3 per lb. The other portion of the Company's declara tion was also bought in. 300 Aladras, from 24 I. to sid. After the Company's sale bad concluded, there were nearly 6,000 bales of cotton offered, being stocks of private individuals. They were Stunts, and were bought in almost without exception at from 3d. to aid. per lb. The result of the sale is, that Bourbon range 04d. to Oid. per lb. lower, and Surats a shade lower. There will be found in our City article an account of the manner in which the Russian General at tempted to open pacific negociations with the GRAND VIZIER, after the recent successes of the Russian arms...— The narrative is probably true. The Russian is kind, and condescending, as became the conqueror; the Turk as surly, as was proper for the conquered. But accounts from Constantinople are calculated to inspire stronger hopes of an amicable adjustment than the narrative of the pro ceedings in the VIZIER'S camp. The accounts to which we allude were received yesterday from the Turkish capi tal, and relate to the arrival and reception of our Ambas sador, the Hon. R. GORDON. He landed on the night 01 the I Sth June, from the Blonde, as did Count GUILLENII NOT from the French frigate Arniide. Their arrival excited an extraordinary degree of interest, and particular attention was paid by the Turkish authorities to Mr. GoitnoN.— Immediately after his arrival had been officially announced by the Secretary of the English embassy, on the 22d, he was waited upon by the principal Dragoman of the Porte, who was preceded by sixty servants bearing presents of fruits, flowers, and confectionery. This number of sixty servants was considered a particular distinction, as the number always sent to wait on an Ambassador on similar occasions is only forty-eight. It was also re marked that the vases and dishes were infinitely richer and more elegant than usual. On the 24th the Secretary of the Reis Effendi delivered to him three horses as a pre sent from the Sublime Porte, and at the same time a snuff. box, set with diamonds. The l , ox is of Turkish manufac ture, and such a present is quite uncommon. It was ax pected that in the course of a few days Mr. GORDON would, after being introduced to the Caima, have an au dience of • the SULTAN. These distinctions, and the marked respect which is paid to Mr. GoanoN, have re virtd in Constantinople a very natural hope that the Porte is at last disposed to listen to apacific arrangement.... Times. riocEs OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK Austrian Bonds — 'Nespolitan — Brazilian Bonds 58% 9 Peruvian Bonds — Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 3 Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bonds — !Prussian, Old — Colombian Bonds — 'Ditto, New — Ditto, 1821 Danish — Spanish, INI — Greek Bonds — ----- 1823 — Ditto, 1825 — French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala — -- Exchange —f. —c. Mexican Bonds —— 3 per cent. vrr t. —c. Ditto, 1825 — Exchange ....&ef. —c. • —H - JEL" . . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE o'er 0 0 1‘.. Paid, Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss.:at 51. pm.) £2O 65 Guardian Assurance Co lO 22% General Steam Navigation Co. l3 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 21. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 34 per cent. 96 1 / 4 National Ditto 2334 Ditto, New — Patriotic Ditto l l4 4 per Cent 102; Hibernian Bank 17% Gov. Deb. 3% percent.... 96% 'Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stock —, Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock —, Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. :Commercial Buildings — Due. 'Arrived. Arrived. 0 America 0 0 Brazil Duc. 0 Hamburgh 0 1 Holland O Buenos Ayref 0 0 Jamaica 1 Dubl;n 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 O Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 France 0 0 Malta 0 O Gottenburgh 0 0 Mexico O Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 51, ruing ...12 minutes after 9. I Evening ...48 minutes after 9 . THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE, STRAND. THIS EVENING will be performed, the Romantic Drama called THE SISTER OF CHARITY. Col. Saxe, Mr. Baker; Capt. Wiemar, Mr. J. Vining; Paulo, Mr..lyeley; Andrea, Mr. O. Smith; Joseph, Mr. Perkins. St. Ursula, Miss Kelly ; Nannetta, :Hiss H. Cawse. After which, Dibdin's popular Ballad Opera of THE OUAKER. Stea,ly, Mr. Wood; Lubin, Mr. Thorne; Solomon, Mr. Keeley, Gillian, Miss Cawse; Cicely, Mrs. C. Jones; Floretta, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the New Comic Entertainment caged MASTER'S RIVAL; OR, A DAY AT BOULOGNE. Sir Colley Cowmeadow, Mr. Bartley; Peter Shack, Mr. Wrench; Paul Shack, Mr. Keeley. „It Tibby Postlethwaite, Mrs. Keeley. To-morrow, The Robber's Bride, with He Lies like Truth, and The Middle Temple. az. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX. (South Sea Stock Old Annuities l3 3Fi (New Ditto Ex. 8i115,X1,1,00 2d. '72 74 pm. Ditto 501) 2d. '72 74 pm. Ditto Small 2d. 73 '75 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm Bank for Account India for Account Cons, for Account ...895 it LAW INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. IN THE MATTER OF STEERS, A LUNATIC. The SOLICITOR GENERAL stated on a petition, that the testator, who made a will in this case in the year 1800, died in seven years afterwards. BY the will lie appointed two trustees, who were to pay to his widow an annuity of 1501. a year. The two trustees were also the executors. For the last twenty-two years this annuity had been regularly paid. One of the trustees was dead, and the other had now become a lunatic. The present appli• cation was, to have as order for the appointment of a new trustee in the room of the lunatic, who would continue to pay the annuity. There was no evidence that the legacies er debts of the testator were paid, nor could any affidavit on the point be made. After considerable hesitation, The LORD CHANCELLOR stated, that had this ap plication been tnade within two or three years of the death of the testator, he should have referred it to the Master to ascertain whether the debts, &c. had been paid ; but considering the lapse of time, and the smallness of the legacies, (only amounting in the whole to 5001. or 6001.), he would risk 8 proceeding, upon the assumptiOn that all had been paid, and make the order without incurring the ex pence, &c. of sending the parties before the Master. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT. WEST V. FOLKS. This was a petition to confirm the Master's re- port. Mr. KNIGHT said lie was instructed, on behalf of Miss Folks, to oppose it. The circumstances of the case are as follows Angust, 1828, Sir Edward West, Chief Justice of Bombay, died, and in the October following his lady followed him to the grave, leaving an only child, a daughter about nine years of age. Sir Edward, at the time of his death, was possessed of property to the amount of 30,0001., the whole of which he bequeathed to his daughter, and appointed Mr. West, Sir Wm. Folks, and Miss Folks, guardians, who not agreeing,between themselves who was to have the superintendance of the infant's education, made an application. to this Court, and it was referred to the. Master. The Master reported that Mr. \Veit and his wife, Lads Maria West, were fit and proper persons to be ap pointed. This report was objected to by Miss Folks (sister to the late Lady West), on the ground that it was the particular desire of her sister that the 4 - Ant's education should be under her wholeand sole command. This was her request, as appeared by several letters long before her death, and it was also her dying injunction.. The Learned - Counsel therefore contended the Master's report ought not to be confirmed, as the Court were bound to pay atten tion and respect to the wishes of the deceased parents. and act as near as possible in accordance with these wishes. 'phis was the opinion always expressed ,by Lord Eldon, who had declared he would in all cases comply with the wish of a parent, unless very strong and cogent reasons were adduced why he should not. Sir GEORGE GREY followed on the same side ;, he trusted the Court would never make an order which would frustrate the fondest and dying hopes of an affectionate parent. It was clear from the letters that the mother of t his infant, when she expressed is wish for her daughter's education to be,„Mider the care: of Miss Folks, was also speaking the wishes of her husband (to prove which the Learned Coun sel read several extracts from her letters 'to Mi..o F.) Ile therefore trusted the Court would order the master to review his report. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then rose, when The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, do you, Mr. Soli citor, appear to confirm the Master's , report ? . SOLICITOR- G ENERAL — Y es, your Honour. The VICE-CIIINCELLOR—Then I will not trouble you. Iha ve read and well considered the whole of the evidence, and my deliberate opinion is that the Master has come to a right and proper decision. The Court always entertains the most profound re gard for the wishes of a deceased parent, but it wag not absolutely bound in appointing guardians to be guided by those wishes. It had a duty of its own to exercise in such cases. After looking minutely into all the circumstances, I am of opinion it would not be to the advantage of the child that her edu cation should be placed under the superintendance and controul of a young lady. Sir GEORGI GREY—Tire lady is not young your llonour, her age is 45. The VICE-CRANCELLOR—WeII, never mind her age, she is unmarried, and does not appear to have any fixed residence, and I should think knows but little of the management of children. speak %% ith the feelings of a father when I say it is my opinion that it will be to the advantage of this child to mix with and be educated with other children. It appears that Lacly --- iria West has four children, and it is not for a moment attempted to be denied, but what she is in every respect qualified for the trust. The affidavit of Lady Arden was sufficient on that point. 'lt certainly see►ned from the letters of Sir Edward and Lady West they wished Miss Folks to have, in case of their death, the superintendance of their child's edu cation. This could only be from a desire for her welfare. I wish to pay the greatest attention to their wishes, but lam of opinion the Court has a betteropportunity of judging what would be most to the infant's ad vantage, and am decidedly of opinion a single lady is not the most proper person to be entrusted with it. There appears to be the greatest harmony in the two families, and I hope it may continue to be cherished, and that the child will be taught to vene rate the high character of the departed father. The Mas►er's report must be confirmed. SOLICITOR GENERAL—I feel called upon to state that the character of Miss Folks is of the highest description, and the greatest harmony exists between the parties, which I am sure will be increased by your Honour's decision. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. S t Jul IVII Ito TRIAL OF SUSANNAH SCOTT FOR PERJURY.--THS KING V. SCOTT. on, This was an indictment against Susannah Scott For wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Common Serjeant PENMAN requested that all the witnesses should be ordered out of Court, wl ich being done, Mr. PLATT stated the indictment to the Juiy. Mr. ATTORNEY.GENERAL then stated the case to the Jury. The defendant, he observed, was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury, arising from transac tions which had unfortunately already occupied too much of the public attention. After a few more preliminary observations, the Learned Counsel then proceeeded to state that this proceeding arose en tirely out of the part which Mr. Wellesley took in the case of Wellesley v. the Duke of Beau'. fort, in which he contended for his right to the control of his children. The public press had fully reported the transactions relating to the cause, and he regretted that it produced so great an 'in terest in the public mind, as it showed in his opinion a depraved taste. • Without any further preliminary observations he would relate the facts of this ex. traorditiary case. At the latter end of the year 1827, Mr. Wellesley received several anonymous letters from Paris, of which he took no notice. One, however, arrived bearing a name and address, and to that lie sent an answer. A reply was sent to his letter, stating that Mr. Pedley was willing to bring over Susannah Scott, the defendant, to state roc ab~ the circumstances which had induced her to sweat -0 certain affidavit against Mr. Wellesley which she had sworn in the above cause. Mr. Wellesley next heard that Mrs. Scott was in England, and wished to see him. lie had no inclination to see - her, and for private reasons did not wish any of his household to see her, except one, whom he directed to spew her - . into a Titivate room, where she was detained. She had arrived with Mr. Pedley ni Baker-street, in 1828. Mr. Wellesley was then confined. to his bet' from illness, and was unable to see her and Mx• Pedley, who were shewn into the .dining-roorot and strictly guarded, to prevent .any of the domestics having any communication with bea'• They waited fur some time, but `lr. Powell, .thett t i