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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 20. [MORNING POST.] Paris Papers to the 18th instant have arrived by Express. The hopes which we had formed respecting the issue of the attempt to execute at Lisbon the infamous plot which failed on the. 7th of July at Madrid, seem to have been realized. The bribes of the French Government hive in both instances only brought forth abortions, and the exulting shout set up by all the Ultras of the . Continent and echoed by one or two dissonant voices amongst us, appears to have been as pre mature as it was unworthy. This pleasing intel ligence was brought yesterday by the Journal tla Commerce of Tuesday last, which states that letters had been received from Lisbon of the second of June (the day posterior to the pretended abolition of the Constitution), announcing that the traitor Sampayo had not only been defeated, but taken by the militia and the citizens, who had armed them selves to defend the King and the Constitution. Resolutions, it is added, had afterwards been passed in the Cortes, with the approval of the Sovereign, who displayed on this occasion a truly patriotic aiplrit, by which the Infant Don Miguel, the second rebel in his family, had been sen tenced to banishment. If, as we trust, all these particulars are correct, the triumph of the Con. stitutionaliamust have been most complete, as all their enemies seem to have fallen into their bands. INEW TIMES.) An idea prevails, how well or ill founded we cannot . say, that an Order in Council will appear in to-morrow's Gazette, prohibiting the exporta tion of arms and military stores to the countries at war.—Such a warning might, perhaps, not be improper in the present circumstances ; but those persons very moth mistake who suppose that in the absence of such an Order that they are at liberty to make donations of arms to a Bellige rent, expressly for the purpose of carrying on the war.—Once more we warn the individuals calling themselves the Spanish Committee, and all other individuals or meetings assembling for the purpose of sending arms to a Belligerent, to assist him in the war, that their avowed intention is contrary to the common law of the land ; and that if they attempt to carry such an intention into effect, they will be liable, by that law, to be severely punish ed.—Their otfence is not to be confounded with a trading in arms. Where a Neutral dealing in arms follows his own profit in his accustomed course of trade (not being specially prohibited), then he only runs the risk of confiscation of the contraband articles, if captured. Lampredi says, " le Nazioni d'Eurepa, nel tempo the coll'arrni alla mane predano' e confiscano i bastrimenti 4,4 carichi di merci di coutrabbando, non credono " pero che, la. Nazione, a col essi appartengono, " a che poteva impedirli, ebbia per queto rotta t 4 la pace, o violata Ta Neutralita." But the case is very different, where, with open , insult and offence to one of the belligerents, a neutral sub, ject ministers aid to the other belligerent to carry on the war. The difference is as great as be tween. the conduct of a gunsmith who Sells a pair of pistols to a chance customer, and that of a person who puts a loaded gun into the. hands of another, and urges him to use it iit abouting his neighbour. [DRITML NIESS.I As we anticipated, the. faction in France were roe confident in their wishes and assurances; but the attempt at counter-revolution in Portugal has again failed. The rebels, according to the Jour rut des Dads 9f Monday, had united at Seca vest, and it was probable, it added, that their army had entered Lisben on the Ist of June. The result, however, has been different. Let ters from , Lisbon to, the 2d of June, announced in the Journal du. Commerce of Tuesday, au uounce that the traitor Sampayo had completely failed in his attempt on Lisbon—that the militia and citizens had armed to defend the Royal residence—that the rebels were beaten,—and these accounts add, that their leader was a pri soner in the hands of the victorious Constitution alists. These► letters, the French Papers add, speak also of the resolution taken by the► King and Cortes with respect to the infant Don Michel, whose banishment was resolved on. The reserve, adds the Journal du Commerce, which it is our constant rule to maintain, induces us to wait for official information to communicate to our readers. Thus has ended, like the memorable 7th of July last at Madrid, the second attempt made by a band of traitors on the free constitution of Por tugal. Twice it has been assailed with armed force, and twice have the friends and sup porters of liberty triumphed. Unless the French succeed completely in Spain, they will hardly make another effort. But if Angouleme should be ultimately successful, and despotism again throw its deadly night-shade over Spain, Portugal will be openly attacked. The French faction , will never suffer enslaved Spain to have a free neighbour ; the example 'would be dangerous and contagious, it would remind thu Spaniards too strongly and continually of the invaluable. blessings of which they had been deprived. But much remains to be done. in Spain before that, country can be seb slued. Strong and wide spread opposition, to, foreign force and tyranny is yet c m foot throughout its provinces. The contest, if, per severed in, will be doubtful and prolonged, Red • Portugal, in the interval, will. have ti me , t o col. Jeet all her strength, to appeal to, England, and , rally her best-resources around her, She may be assured of the deadly, hostility of the Ultra Fee. tion and Despots or Europe, and, that they only, 'ent a plausible pretext to assail her, and carry plunder and massacre into her provinces. If she is taken unprepared with suet) warnings around her, she will deserve to suffer. Englund is bound by solemn treaty to defend her, but Portugal must rely , mainly on her own resources, aced the resolution of her people. CatnaNlNG cnnorftc.t,E,l, Want of.tipace will only 41)p.w us - to refer our leaders to the important Debates last night in both Houses.—The Duke of Devonshire pre faced his motion on the State of Ireland by an able and eloquent speech, which it was impossible to hear without regretting that he does not more frequently deliver his sentiments in the House of Peers. Nothing can be more. true than his Grace's observation, that " its a country where the laws are not respected by the people, and the people not protected by the laws, the system s pf Government must be defective." Ministers did not go so far in answering him, as to deny the fidelity of the picture he drew of the misery of Ireland ; but they wondered how things should be so, when they were always conferring so many favours on that coun try. They had remitted taxes, , they had contributed to Chartered Schools, they, had allowed the exportation of produce to England to pay the rents of absentee landlords; yet still the people would continue miserable ! The time for trifling seems, however, , now past ! The parties are preparing for a conflict, which, however it end, must be infinitely calamitous. — Indeed, we are afraid that the affair in the county of Londonderry may be. considered, in some sort, as the , commencement of hostilities. — We are mistaken if, in the present agitated state of the public mind, this affair do not lead &se rious consequences. [MORNING Itiatm.n.] The expresses. from Paris brought over a copy of an official notice which has been posted on the Exchange at Paris, on Tuesday, declaring that the loans contracted for by the Spanish Cortes , would not be ratified by the new Regency. This, added to the uncertain state of the prices -which the Spanish bonds fetched on the Parisian Ex change, tended to increase. the panic which previously existed amongst the holders of the Spanish Bonds here ; before 'the news re- - ceived by the expresses was made known,' the Bonds looked rather better, but immediately the copy of the, document alluded to got circu lated, the Bonds went down to 27-fr, 'and it is said that one .or more bargains were effected as low as 264. They did not, however, remain, long at these low quotations, for : the appearance„ as large buyers, of several of the. leading specu-, lators, who, a day or two ago, were foremost' amongst the sellers, caused. a . sudden ; alte ration in the . market ;, the pews brought by the expresses seemed at once forgotten ; the Bonds rose gradually, and 'Puichaiers . cone' tinning to come forward, the,!xise was .nlgirt-. 'taiued, and finally they... eltred.,_at',, 3011. — The alarming fluctuations, of the last few days in these Beide . : has caused , great . ' consternation amongst the' small jobbers as A those persons are totally unable to pay the differences, and cense-, luently may, of them hav*e to-day made their 1 exit—at least for, a time. Colombian Bonds have I advanced in'price more than one per cent. to-day, and the Bonds of ,Chili,' which generally follow tlte,exatriple of .those of Colombia, have under gone the same improvement. In the other F 13.. faign Securities there has been but little business, 'and no alteration in the price.:. : • (TIM TimEs:3 t The accounts from Ireland are altogether shoe:1011g. There is nothing like them in the history of any other country on earth, and they prove its condition to be every day declining from one degree of wretchedness to a worse.,-- Hitherto--that is, during the last two years —the south has been the principal scene of outrage ; but an event has taken place within these few days, which transfers this dis tinction to the opposite extremity of the Island. The manner in which the factions have been balanced against each other by a Go.. vernment which has just interested itself enough in their feuds to inflame the passions of both sets of combatants, and then, under pretence of nen- , trality, left them to fight out the battle into which they bad, been precipitated—that species, we say, of shuffling policy has begun already to produce a small part of those evils which are likely to flow from it in endless and irremediable abundance. The Orangemen, and Ribauduien, or Catholics (for we fear that most of the lower or der of Catholics are to be found among the itiband men's ranks) met at the fair of Maghera, in the county of Derry on, the llth inst. That parties so inveterate in their mutual hatred should find means to quarrel, was a natural consequence of their meeting. They did so accordingly on this occa. sion, when the Orangemen, being driven to the barracks, (as some accounts say), there provided themselves with arms and ammunition, and fired repeated volleys upon the country people, of 'whom the most moderate calculation states that from eight to twelve were shot dead, and that from 16 1,1) 30 (others allege from 40 to 50) were wounded : the Orange triumph was after wards celebrated by an attack on the houses and. windows of Roman Catholics. What the effect of such a catastrophe must be on the feelings of the population throughout the whole of Ireland, it is easy, but most painful', to an ticipate. In truth, the elements and materials of convulsion are overgrowing that island on every side. Not a 'day passes in which some deplorable addition is not made to the general body of mischief. If this late scene of bloodshed be not the actual commeecement of civil war, the spirit 91 which has so long been raging between the lunatics of both parties, no rea sonable man doehts that such a war must be th more immediate or more distant issue of the uninterrupted convergence of so, many interests and passions towards a single. point. It is not, therefore, what a trimming Government would wish to do, but what it nil! be compelled to' do, that becomes the im portant question., If the Catholics arid Orange men go on es they have been, separating iuto dis tinct and hostile masses,, the desire of the Ministry may be, no doubt, to prevent that cons flict whichlhe latter, unassisted, must soon he overpowered.; but let them beware lest the opportunity slip away from them—lst, of pre. serving the name of peace ; 2d, of saving t he weaker faction from en utter and. final owe Now. The cabinet seems as blind: to, tits a ctual condition of Ireland, which this, Court has had the name of governing for so many cen. tunes, as were the Spanish Ministers to that of the New World before Columbus was born. A great portion of the county of Kildare is to be placed under the Instrrection Act—that county bordering on the county of Dublin ! IRELAND. DREADFUL AFFAIR AT MAGHERA. DUBLIN, JUNE 17.—We have this day to lay before the public an account of one of those horrible scenes of blood which are of periodical recurrence in this miserable country. On the fair-day of Maghera, in the county of Londonderry (we believe it was, Saturday), some of the Orange Yeoman of that district, quarrelled with the people of the fair;, it has not been stated to us which party was in fault. The yeomen being fewer in number than their assailants, retreated to the bar rack, in the town, where some regular troops were quartered.— The commanding officer refused to admit, the yeomen, into the barrack, but had the men called out to afford them protection' -4-The crowd in the mean time pressed forward, and assailed the Military as well as the Yeomen with a volley of stones, which hurt some of the soldiers, and the. Commanding Officer himself was struck, it is stated—he, however, prevented. the men fpayp firing, until every effort proved unavailing. At length, the Yeomanry having been furnished with fire-arms from the barrack, the orders to fire were given, when several volleys were fired amongst the crowd. The carnage and con fusion that ensued need not be described. The crowd having taken to flight, were followed by the Yeomen and Military, and some of the houses entered and sacked in thepursoit.--The numbers kiled and wounded are variously stated—from eight to twelve are said to have been killed, and from 40 to 60 wounded. The streets were covered with blood. This shocking affair is not a matter upon which we are dis posed to make any comment until we shall have full and au thentic particulars. AxoTntn ACCOUNT.—The foregoing is the substance of several private letters which we have seen. One other-letter differs as to an important fact. In that letter it is stated that the Yeomanry, followed by the crowd, actually entered the bar rack by force, and supplied themselves with arms, and a quan tity, of, ball-cartridge, belonging to the soldiers.—(Dublin Morning Post.) "Frtrm the bublin' Freeman's Journal, of Tuesday last.] Du BRIX, JUNE 17.--Aire lament to say, that letters were re- Oived in town yesterday, written by r espectable persons, stating, that on Thursday last, the 12 ith nstant a violent affray took plape at the fair of Maghera, in the county of Derry, be tween - a numerous party of Orangemen and their opponents, whom these letters describe as Ribbonmen ; that it continued for more than two hours, when the latter were driven out of the towii, leaving behind them eight shot dead, and sixteen wound ed. Another letter says thirty wounded. We have not heard that any of the Orangemen were injured. This circumstance is to be attributed to their opponents not having fire arms. It is added, that after this melancholy event, the Orangemen paraded the town,and broke the windows of several of the Ca tliOlic inhabitants. We cannot vouch for the correctness of this inelancholy detail in all its particulars, but we have reason to fear it is substantially true. I , Ve would willingly indulge the hope that it is at least exaggerated. COUNTS OF KILDARE. NOTICE.—The undersigned Magistrates of the county of Kildare give notice to all the inhabitants, that they have, with Brat reluctance and grief, been otdiged to apply to Govern. men to enforce the Insurrection Act in the Baronies of East Ophaly, Connell, West Ophaly, with the exception of the parishes of. Manastereven, the Union of Lucca and Dunncany ; the Union of Kildangan, Watterstown , and Nurne y ; and in the Barony of South Salt, in the parishes of Ratlimore and 'Kilteel . ; and that they have determined to meet, from time to time, to hear of the conduct of the people in all other Baronies, and that. whenever any robbery of arms or nocturnal outrages be committed, they will apply to have the sarse Act extended to the entire neighbourhood in which such outrages or robbery have been committed, as they arc determined to protect the peaceable inhabitants, and to punish all disturbers of the pub lic peace.—All well-disposed persons living in lonesome places or thatched houses, are called on forthwith to deliver their fire. arms to the nearest Magistrate, Clergyman, or Constable, and "to take 14 receipt. PIRACY IN TIM CATTEGAT.—A Letter dated 'Oottenburgh, 20th ult. gives an account of the following horrid act of Piracy committed in the waters of the Cattept, not far from the coast at Gottenburgit. The Danish vessel, the Frau Metia, Captain NOrbye, sailed a few days prior to the date of this letter, from Copenhagen for liambnrgh.. Two days sub. sequently she was found at sea without any person on board. It appears that four Swedish fishermen had attacked the vessel in the open sea, and after shooting the Captain and the whole 'of the crew, threw their bodies overboard. They then pro ceeded to open the hatches, with a view. to plunder. While doing this, however, they were disturbed, and fled. Great praise is due to the Du kerie lieamteu (the Marine Police) to whose vigilance it was owing that these horrid wretches were prevented from fully executing their piracy ; at the same time In was an accidental c ircumstance that led to the discovery of the murderem One of them had given his shirt, which was terribly besmeared with blood, tube washed the washerwoman gave notice of the suspicious circumstances to the local Mitgis traGY- i the miscreant was in consequence arrested. Other proofi appearing against him, he made a full confession of his guilt and denounced his three accomplices ; all the four were speedily in custody. After being he a vily loaded with irons they were committed to prison, preparatory to their trial. This diabolical crime has, as might be expected, seated the greatest sensation in the minds of the Swedes. MURDER IN UM! liini.--Yesterday even ing the Coroner's Inquest resumed its inquiries into the cause of the death of Michael Delany, when, after a patient investigation, they returned a verdict of " 'Wilful Murder" against J. Hussey, who has absconded. CAUTION. —Base shillings are very generally in circulation. They may be detected by a slight inspection, being very badly executed: the 0 in the contrac tion of Gratia is lir formed, as is also the figure 8 in 1819 : the F and D stand irregularly, and the milling on the edge of the coin is imperfect. ESCAPE FROM Tilt 1.191t0U011 COMPTER.—. Wm. Mason, one of the prisoners committed to the Borough Compter on suspicion of robbing the Cranbrook waggon on St. Margaret's Hill, of bank-notes to the amount of 1,5381., and whose attempt to escape by boring through the prison wall, In concert with his confederate Henry Walsh, was noticed In 'all 'the papers about a fornight since, effected escape on Wednesday aftentoon, abouL four o'clock,, by scaling the out ward wall by the means of a water-spout, and throwing himself down nearly 60 feet on the other side, and made clearoff. On Wednesday a detainer was lodged against him at the Town hall, n oath of his having been tried at the Old Bailey, in Sept., 1816, for feloniously stealing in a dwell ing -house, and sentenced to death, under the names of Wm. MRSOII, otherwise Morgan ; which sentence was afterwards changed to transporta tiQU for life. His trial was to, have come on yes- , terday at the Southwark Sessions. Accr DEN T.—W e are concerned to learn, that Mr. HANSARD, who, seconded the motion in Common Council fur the sum of money in aid of the Spanish cause, met with a serious accident on Wednesday evening, coming to town. By the Crown at Norwood, his horse fell, lie was pre cipitated ,out of the chaise, one wheel of which went over his body, and fractured three ribs. Mr. MANSARD was taken into the Crown,. where Mr. ST anET, a professionak gentleman Who , was fortunately close at hand, bled him, and sup plied other surgical meats; a carriage was pro-, cured,, and Mr. I,lAgsAito was conveyed to his town residence, Salisbury-square, where he re mains dangerously PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. The following Letter, which lately appeared iu The Bury Gazette, presents a more distinct de velopement of THE PITT SYSTEM than we are accustomed to hear even from those who exert their eloquence in support of the political prin ciples of our late wise and upright Minister, but who do not distinctly and accurately state their conception of the nature, substance, and ten dency of those principles. The Earl of HARE.. W,OOD, at the last anniversary Festival in honour of the birth-day of the great departed Statesman, at 'Merchant Taylore . liall, gave a succinct but clear and emphatic exposition of what he con ceived to -be the true principles of Mr. PITT. As this nobleman is distinguished for a sound under standing, and may be justly considered as a genuine, independent Statesman, above all Minis terial allurements, his opinions are entitled to respect and confidence. We wish, therefore, that he could be induced , to take some opportu njty of communicating his sentiments on this sub ject to the public at large. We heard his speech with great pleasure, and regretted that, being delivered late in the evening, he could not well detail his opinions at a convivial moment, but we may venture to say, that what the Noble Lord did utter, so far as it went, gave a distinct and striking form to the PITT SYSTEM, and might, if expanded, constitute a sound POLITICAL CREED for every real friend to the Constitution in Church and State. TILE PITT SYSTEM. Silt--'There is a very industrious endeavouring at present, among a certain party, to persuade the public that Ministers are receding from some of the most decided principles upon which the British Government has acted, ever since the first accession of Mr. Pitt to office. Give me leave to examine this allegation. It supposes two things, viz. That the Pitt system, as it is called, was something new and different from the previous habit of the Government; and that it has been recently dis covered by the Ministerial party to have been erroneous. The Whigs take credit to themselves for having always seen its erons ; and are mighty vaunting at the alleged change. I shall therefore divide what I mean to say on the subject into two parts ; and in the end I may administer a little birch to the Whigs, for their Impudence in making—but that is their cus tom—an unfounded allegation. In the first place, then, I do, contend thit there was nothing new introduced by Mr. Pitt into the system according to which the country had been long governed ; but at the close of the American war new circumstances came into operation, and the effect of them did induce a change, which must have taken Place had the Minister of the day been the Great Mogul. kilt flattering to statesmen to be thought the movers of the world ; they are, howeVer, but the cogs of the wheels ; the machinery works and winds itself among the people ; and ministers are more or less enlightened, just in proportion as they discern the tendencies of public opinion, and square themselves ac. cording] y. That Mr. Pitt, in his measures, was supported by a large he estimate s ll a t entitled e of p ubl i c to b e opinion h a a lt v i i io n t g ,g f i o i rm th ed is awpilrletbtey seedily but granted, it may nevertheless be said, and it is so said, that his Measures were not wisely conceived with relation to the deve lopment of circumstances. It is chiefly with respect to them that I propose to conduct my inquiry. Prior to the American war, the administration of public af fairs was considered as the natural inheritance, property, and office of the higher classes. The people looked up to the nobi lity and the great families as the appointed guardians of the state. But the causes of that war, and the questions which it elicited, had made them doubtful in many cases of the disin terestedness of their officers • and it must be admitted, that many enormous abuses had from time to time been committed by different adMinistrations ; in so much, that at the p e riod of which I em speaking, the necessity of a reform somewhere was very generally felt and. required. Then, as now, a change in the constitution of the House of Commons was deemed the most effective remedy, and Mr. Pitt, like many others in his green years, thought so too ; but, on acquiring office, he saw that Parliament, as it stood, was adequate to the accomplish ment of all that the state of things demanded, and he tare . nuouily endeavoured to manifest this, by introducing . a series of measures which had for their object to in crease and st n iplify the checks on official disbursements, and to improve the collec tion of the revenue. In so far, therefore, if there be any thing 1 an efficient new in following public opinion t and in aPp-y-nis remedy to public evils, undoobtedly it may be said, that the principles with which Mr. Pitt conducted his administration, in its earlier stages, were peculiar to himself. The true question, however, is, whether the abuses in the public expenditure, and in the collection of the revenue, were the evils that required re formation ; and, if they were, whether Mr. Pitt acted well or wisely in trying to accomplish this reformation through the means of the ancient and existing frame of things, rather than by following out his juvenile scheme of changing the constitu tion of the douse of Commons. I think he did act wisely— he may not perhaps have carried his system of checks far 'lt but he did sufficient to show that the House of Corn enon , • mons, as it is constituted, is so far under the influence of, and in obedience to, the voice of the country, that it esca pable of instituting all reformations which may be requi site in what relates to the Exchequer, and to the de partments connected with it. Moreover, I also think that abuses in these departments were the main gievances then complained of. Now, Sir, 1 should like to know if there has of late been any thing admitted by any of his s Majesty' Mini sters, of the slightest tendency to show that they do not think the Heuse of Commons as at present constituted, adequate to supply a re medy to all existing abuses. If there have been no such ad mission=and there has been none—how can it be said that they are receding from the principlts of the Pitt system ? It is true, that just after Mr. Pitt had brought his system into action, a great revolution arose in the theoretic dogmas of politics, and that out of the events which occurred in Franee, circumstances were evolved which obliged Mr. Pitt to set himself against any change whatever in the frame of Government, and, above all, in the consitution of Parliament. He considered the evils with which the dissolution of soceity in France at that time me naced the world, to be so overwhelming, that he was afraid to remove any, even the Oldest abuses, lest he should open some vent that would give entrance to anarchy. But when the chaos subsided, will it he said, that had Mr. Pitt survived the storm, he would not have resumed the improvements in those departments with_ which he commenced his official career ? The storm has snbsided, and his successors are just doing what he would leave done—reducing the establishments, and improving the methods of managing the revenue— In what relates to the reduction, I think they have pro ceeded too fast—but that it mere matter of opinion.—How , ' then can it be said, that in adapting their measures to the changes which have taken place in the circumstances of the country and of the world, they recede from any principle of the Pitt system ?—a system that may be fairly described as one 'which professes . to govern the country according to the wants and tendencies of the time., But, say those who are now so busily representing the, practical wisdom of that system as departed from, there is a • greater disposition in the Cabinet at present to attend to the . public opinion than there was during Mr. Pitt's administra tion. This is not the case. The grand characteristic of the Pitt system is deference to public opinion ; but it happened, during the greater part of 111 r. Pitt's time, and till the latter years of the war, that the nation was very much divided in opinion upon several great doctrinal questions, and that the 1 party, siding with the majority, was necessarily at varis ante with the minority.. Now the country is more unanimous, And the Pitt system is accordingly more in unison with the general voice- , sand Ministers, in consequence, are necessarily, more : popular, not by, any change in themselves, but,by the change which has taken place in the circumstances of the world. I am, however, aware, that many of those who are now 84 • loquacious abou t abandonment of the Pitt system, dwell chiefly on two things, very different from those to which 4I have adverted. They mean the change upon the sinking fund ; and that change in policy by which the Government addresses itself more to the popular sentiment than it did during the confusion , of the war of the French Revolution. I shall be brief in my remarks on the former ; but I may not be the less conclusive. Do those who talk of the change in the sinking fund intend. us to believe that Ministers 'have abandoned the principle of reducing the national debt ? If they do not, what is it they mean ? Is it not the fact that there has been a raging clamour for a reduction of taxation, and of the national establishments ; and that in deference to public opinion on these points Mini sters have adopted the principle of a definite sinking fund, in stead of a general appropriation of surplus ? that is to say, they have now considered the sinking fund as a portion, if I may use the expression, of the national expenditure ; and seem to have agreed that it, shall be regulated accordingly, viz, that means shall be found in the revenue to supply it to the extent , of five millions annually. What principle of difference does this modification imply, to justify either the allegation of change, or the assertion, that in making the modification a doubt is conveyed of the wisdom of the Pitt system ?—a system which commenced its career with the simplification of the public ac. counts ; and when in fact all the alteration which has been made is but the introduction of a greater degree of simplicity— for the benefit of my friends the country gentlemen. " Well, then," it may be said to me, " not to insist upon the matter of the Sinking Fund—What do you say for that change in policy ?" " Why, very little ; just nothing more, than where is it ? In what does it consist ?" That moral earthquake, the French Revolution had thrown down and shaken many of th e b u l war k s an d most vene rable structures of society. During the alarm of that time, while the charnels of the waters were changed—while kingdoms were in panic, and the whole air filled with obscurity, and as it were with a whirlwind, preservation was with the Pittsystem the order of the day. It was no time then to think of calling in carpenters to cobble locks and hinges within, when a storm was raging without, that rendering it very doubtful if the edifice would be able to weather the concussion—and because, in a period of calamity, the Pitt party, disregardin g th e new -fledged doctrines of the hour, reverted to the tried principles by which society had, from the beginning, been held together, and had gradually risen from Barbarity to Science ; shall it be said that it did not consult the interests of the people, when in the plainest verity it had left but the choice of two things, either to yield up all a prey to individuals, who had no authority save only the delega tion of a temporary frenzy, or to endeavour to maintain those institutions and classes, to which in their sober senses mankind have in all ages ever shewed themselves sufficiently disposed to do homage ?—But, " oh," say the changelirms, now you are contradicting yourself, and telling us, that in thte most ma' mentous period the Pitt party suspended its deference for pub lic opinion,—which deference you have just told us was one of the grand features of the system."—l am doing no such thing. I have told you that the public were divided in opinion during the war of the French Revolution, and that the Pitt system naturally sided with the majority. But it was some time be fore the sense of the majority could be obtained ; and Govern ment in the meanwhile was obliged to act from itself. In do. ing so, it chose to adhere to the ancient doctrines and senti ments of the world ; and in so doing it acted wisely, for all those who were the building worshippers of that Babel—" that stupendous monument of human wisdom," as Mr. Fox called the French Revolution, have recanted their political heresies. Those who were, as Mr. Burke said, " beyond Aurora and the Ganges" have returned home ;—the Pitt system was always in Britain. " Then what will you make of this new respect for the in ternal rights of nations ? How will your opinion of the Pitt system harmonize with this reverence for the Spanish Constitu tionalists, and those remonstrances both to France and the Holy Alliance, which have won such universal applause—nothing of the kind ever took place under the Pitt system.—With tt Monarchies were all in all." My answer is shortly, that • it is nothing new ; that it is an old British principle, and never was departed from. It is the parent of our own iberties, and we have remonstrated with . France and the Holy Alliance, because they are now setting up a doctrine as dangerous to the peace of the world and the free dom of nations as itnyof the monstrosities of opinion broached ' by the jacobins of Par is. In a word, it is perfectly evident that mankind will not be chained down from improving their political condition, and that any attempt to do so will provoke doctrinewars— revolutionary ily the eo t h rone divine o f r t i g h h e s e' : os t Charle s u kingdoms and this new-fangled fantasy of ligitimacy :among the H ol y therevo Fltiintiotnhairsyiiewaadr: and. Allies, if p e rsevered in, will do as much for them. But could the B ritish Cabinet seeing the inevitable tendency of the chartering theories of L ouis th e E i g hteent h , and the meddling propena ine s of the Russian policy, with its Prussian and T h h i s e Austrian subalterns, do less than remonstrate ? To have done more would have involved ot h er consideratio n s, wh i ch I sh all touch on at present. But the Pitt systent , of preservation required that they should do no less ; for the pretensions of of the revolutionary dogmas of the National Conventiom France and of the Holy Allies are as new and as unsound •as any But " add the changelings, " suppose we allow you so much . , wliat have you to say in defence of the Pitt system for so resisting public opinion with respect to Parliamentary Re form ! How does that coincide with that deference of which you have said so Much ?" Ah, you Whigs ! have I caught you at last ? Then all this stuff' o f yours about the abandonment is mere cajolery, in the hope that you may seduce 4inisters to yield themselves to some of your tricks—by which the demagogues among you may get into power and office, Your soft speaking, and your sweet words, and your liberality—does it then come all but to that ? However, not to birch your bottoms too sharply, I would say, in the first place, that the defence of the Pitt system, and the aban donment of the principles of that system, are two very different things; and with the former I have nothing to do—all I con. sau s tend for is, that in no one thing has there yet be e n th e slightest intimation on the part of. Ministers to m a ke th e p eop l e d ou b t the wisdom of that system, by which the coun t r y ga i ne d so much glory, and rose to such pre-eminent wea l t h an d prospe . rity. Nor, until it is confessed by th em , t h at t h ey d o not think Parliament, as it is constituted, ade quate to supply a reme d y to Parliament is is, that an imp rovement i n t h e con - now much less n ecessary t h an it was when Mr. Pitt came first into o ffi ce . F or a l t h oug h all existing abuses, can it for an instant be said, th a t t h e y h a ve permitted even the slightest occult a ti on o f t h e pr i nc i ples o f theirt theret iso hyna oefm* been ,lianei s there ( a t prodig i ous o existliiou s a ma mass acquisitiono tse n v nr of e p w r e e a lt h t n i d al t hou g h t ed properly in the kingdom, as great, if not, greater,_ than the represented, it yet happens that the v e nts of public opinion have been in an equal degree multiplied. The uses of a repre sentation consist in enabling the executive to know what the people want; and a single newspaper is worth, in this point cf view, all the members fur the Aberdeen and Fife districts of boroughs—with those of Westminster, Southwark, anti Win. chelsea to boot—insomuch, that there never was a period in the history of any nation when the means of knowing public opi nion were so extensive and efficient as they are in this country at this time. And the practical effect of these means is, that they partially tend to lessen the value of oral representations in 'Parliament. But there is no end to this subject, and its very importance becomes a reason why I should not proceed fur.. ther with it at present. BANDANA. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-1400M, JUNE 19.--STATE, OF TIIE ODDS DONCASTER 7 to 2 agst Sherwood 9 to 2 agst Tinker 7 to I agst Tanered ST. LEGER. 10 to 1 agst Miss Fanny 26 to 1 agst Claude Lorraine 50 to 1 agst Ypsilanti. JULY STAKES, NEWMARKET. 4 to 1 agst Vourneen 9 to 2 agst c. out of Skipjsck's dam ft to 2 agst silt. to Guerilla 8 to I agst Laurel Leaf 10 to 1 agst 'rarandus.. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., at Munster House, Fulham, the Lady Jane Laurence Peel, of a son and heir. On the 17th inst., at Welwyn, Herta, the Lady of Henry Fynes Clinton, Esq. M.P. of a daughter. MARRIED. On Thursday lasts at Halifax, Yorkshire, Mt. 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