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- BAYONNE INTELLIGENCE. TIAYONNE, SEPT. B.—The army courier has brought letters from Madrid of the 3d inst., from which we select some particulars that appear to be most interesting:— MADRID, SRPT. 3.—The accounts of military operations are rendered so confused by the exaggerations of party spirit, that it asp difficult to obtain any thing more than an outline of the truth. Csa.d:z is the subject of the hopes and fears of the two parties. The Royalists flatter themselves that it wiU soon be reduced; :though'some think they will be disappointed, unless measures • asefomuld to favour the French, against, the place, by some -understanding within the walls, Meantime, an Express, which has arrived in fifty-six hours from Port St. Mary's brings the news of the taking of the Trocadcro. The Spaniards, it is said, did not resist as might have been expected, 'with the ex ception of 240 artillery, who were cut down standing by their guns. The Duke of Reggio, who has alone received the news, has not been able to satisfy the curiosity of the parties who are eager to know whether Matagorda is also taken. At the .departure of the courier, the cannon was firing both at Cadiz and the Isle of Leon. This new victory gives increased spirit to the Regency, which, depending on the support of the Russian Cabinet, will not hear of any compromise with the Cortes; all, or nothing,' -is the motto of its partisan. On the other hand, it is not easy -to imagine that the Cortes can be inclined to treat, if it be true, as reported here, that the Regency, in a secret council; sitting as a Chamber of Justice, has condemned forty Deputies to ca pital punishment, and fifty others to perpetual banishment to , the Philippine Islands. Among the first are the two Arguelles, Romero, Alpuente, Isiaritz, Oaliano, &c. This being the case, we may believe that the Deputies are resolved, as they are said to be, to support a bombardment, and to be buried, with the Royal Family, in the ruins of the place, as such a fall would be more honourable than an infamous death or terrible But how distressing would be the situation of our Prince, in case web a calamitous event . should take place. The partisans of the Regency, however, in their meetings, , airect to regard the Duke as of little weight. ' We have too many means,' say they, 'to subdue the Revolutionists;' al luding to the offers of foreign aid, whence we may infer that the cause of the Constitution is desperate ; hut shall we attain the pacification which is ardently desired ? It seems that the Cortes have given full liberty, to such Deputies as may desire it, to withdraw from the Congress, and that only two have ac cepted it who, on account of severe illness, have asked passports for Gibraltar. •• A:plot has been discovered st Palma, the object of which was to deliver the Balearic Islands from the revolutionary yoke, and to deliver Port Mahon to •the French squadron in the Medi terranean. A Rusidan Officer has been arrested there who gives himself out for a German, travelling for a mercantile `house in the North. Tranquillity begins to be established at Madrid; except the - Inquisition, every thing is returning to its former footing. The police is still very actively engaged : the Trench ere in•general liked; the organization of the Spanish troops goes on slowly, which seems to confirm what has been eften repeated, that the mass of the nation does not take any interest in the' contest, and even, to speak frankly, it does net like the Constitutionalists, either through the influence of the clergy, who begin to resume their place, or because their own troops have not been able to avoid being a burden, while the French continue to pay for everything with the most scrupulous . punctuality. Thus Chaleco, Eguaguiera, and the partisans, being unable to support themselves, have submitted. We have also the news of the capitulation of Palaces, Vigo, and Roselle ; nothing must surprise us. Those provinces, the in habitants of which are not naturally warlike, like those of Cata lonia, have not taken a step in favour of the Constitution, or to repel the invaders, who have not disturbed their tranquillity. This was one of the causes that hindered Ballasteres, whose troops are in the same positions, and paid by the French. • From the 25th to the 30th there were some warm disputes between that General and Molitor, so that a rupture was ap prehended, but till now they both remain where they were; all this seems very • strange. Alicant and Carthagena have re fused, for the third time, the armistice proposed by Belles- I teros ; it is true these two places have no great force to contend with, as the French have left but a few troops in Murcia and Valencia, • We have no certain news from Estremadura. The couriers • who come from that part say that 3,000 Constitutional troops have marched from Corks towards the banks of the Guadalqui vet., and that beyond Talavera they saw a party of 00 horse. O'Donnel observes and keeps in check the garrison of 'Ciudad Rodrigo, from which place guerillas sally out and ravage the , banks of the Douro. Morino is endeavouring to counteract the effects of the counter-revolution in Galicia. By a special ordonnanee he has declared that he will severely. punish every insult offered to the Constitutionalists who have submitted; but that he will also severely punish those who may abuse this indulgence, by seeking to mislead the people, and plunge them into anarchy. By following this system, he will certainly purify a province w here there arc no constitutionalists except, those who took up arms. Some detached parties, however, are about Aaterga and Leon , and hinder the communications between Galicia and the Castiles. —Morrill° has ordered the organization of a national guard to purstue them. The Pastor, Campine, and about fifty other prisoners, front Cozunna, arrived at Bayonne on the 7th ; there are many citi zens of Bilboa among them. PORTUGAL. Lrsnox, Atm. 22.—T0-day there have arrived in this port the English galley Porcupine and the Hamburgh schooner Louisa, In 60 days from Bahia, having on board, first, 33 pas sengers (merchants and civil officers) ; and secondly 85 per sons belonging to the ariny, and Major Antonia Pitnentel Mal donada. These two vessels are part of a fleet (00 sail), among which there are 20 men of war, which are bringing from Bahia the troops and many of the principal families of that city to Lisbon, The passengers on board give the following accounts " That General Labatour was taken three months ago, and that the command of the troops that besieged Bahia devolved upoa Colonel Jose Jeaquhn Lima. At the end of' June a council of War was held at Bahia, at which all the Chief Offi cers of the Army and Navy were present, in consequence of which all the Portuguese troops embarked, and left Bahia on the 2d July, on which day the squadron sailed with the con vay, consisting of above 80 sail, bound for this port. The squadron of Lord Cochrane followed the convoy for the space ut three days. This galley (the Porcupine) separated from the convoy the 4th day of the voyage. Some other vessels have armed that have separated from the convoy, bringing us the first troops and private persons. General Madeira has not yet arrived." _ _ . The Cardinal Patriarch made his- solemn entry into this city on the lifth, and was received by his Majesty with great honours. , Au°. 28.—1 t is certain that in the island of Madeira some few ill-disposed persons, connected with secret societies, formed a plot for the purpose of separating that island (unknown to its inhabitants) from the Portuguese dominions ; and though the number of these disturbers of public tranquillity , was not suf. flcient to excite the fears of the Government, his Majesty, who, is he deigned to cast a veil over past crimes, is resolved prompt. ly and severely to punish all those who shall in future attempt to excite disorder and defy the laws, ordered an expedition to be sent to that island, which landed on the 21st, with the new Governor, a corps of troops commanded by a distinguished of - H. composed ofJudges ofacknow car, and an Alcads (Magistracy), 'edged probity, to inquire into what has passed in this respect, *ad proceed immediately to inflict just punishment on the criminals. 'nos we see that the spirit of vertigo and faction is not extinguished; but if liberalism is not yet sufficiently unde ixived by the successive blows which it has received in the whole extent of the ground which it the most infected, it must shortly be necessarily dismayed at the punishments which jus tice, provoked to the utmost, will not fail to inflict on its ob. J ai nacy.—(Lisbon Papers, Aug. 28.) WEST INDIA DOCKS. REPLY TO MR. MARRYAT'S OBSERVATIONS MN THE WEST INDIA DOCK CHARTER, &c. &c. (cowriwrEn.) (No. IV.) No• 7.-SECURITY AGAINST PLUNDER. The only points, on which Mr. Marryat is at an correct under this head, are where he admits that .it " is a subject of great importance," and where he states, " that dreetual place " tion is given to property at the West India Docks, is admitted " on all hands." Notwithstanding this admission, however, he still dresses up the evidence in the•character he is disposed to give it, but the cloven foot appears undei the disguise ; the evidence of Mr. Til stone, Mr. Burne,lllr. Mitchell, Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Colvile, Mr. Drinkald, and Mr. Stuart,. are all slightly glanced over, and that of Mr. Inglis, Mr. Chapman, MT. Gibson, Mr. Eilbeck, Mr. Martin, Mr. Glennie t Mr. Lampson, Mr. Manning, Mr. Tooke, and Mr. Wilson (the two latter avowedly knowing nothing about the matter), is placed in conspicuous contrast, and Mr. Merryat conceives that his readers will be brought to his conclusion, " that in the estimation eon the witnesses, those " connected with the West India Docks excepted, full security " is given to property by the regulations adopted in the other " Wet Dock establishments." With the same ingenuity with which he paised over all dan ger of navigation from Blackwall to the London Docks, Mr. Marryat has here as dexterously evaded the risk of plunder which occurs in that passage. The evidence of Mr. Domatt, he has neither commented upon nor extracted ; 'probably because he well knew, that from the character of that Gentleman (who cannot come under the illiberal imputation of being connected with the West India Docks), and, his ability and experience, his testimony alon e would. outweigh all that has been adduced on the other side ; even if it was not in strict accordance with that of Mr. Drink ald anti Mr. Clippingdale, and with the still stronger evidence taken in the year 179 d. Mr. Dom:tt's replies to the following questions show his opinioa.upon the subject : " Do you consider that there would be a greater risk of plunder in a ship that was coming to discharge her cargo in the London Dock than in a vessel that came up with a flowing tide, and entered at once into the West India Dock; would the passage between the two affbrd additional facilities to plunder?--I think it does afford additional facilities to plunder, because part-of the cargo is stowed where the people live, and is accessible consequently to the menthemselves, or to any of their friends that may come on board to visit them. Notwith standing any activity of the police, or any vigilance of the cap tain, might not plunder take place in the way .you describe, between the entrance to the West India and the London Docks ? —Yes ; I think so, because it is much more exposed between the entrances to the two docks. Would you consider the lock ing down the hatches an adequate protection ?—All the hatches can hardly be locked down, because the people live under the after-hatchway, and there they have access to the cargo ; you cannot do that unless you lock out the people. There is 'no difficulty in preventing persons coming on board, if the captain and crew are determined to prevent it ?—I think, under the cir cumstances I have stated, it is difficult; when a ship is moving in the river, every person is actively employed. 'lf the ship stop s a whole night in an intermediate place between the West India and London Dock, I think there - would be great danger of plunder." Mr. Dornett also considers that a ship (even after getting into the docks) "world not be so _safe and secure from plunder, laying alongside a foreign vessel with all the crew on board, as if the crews were entirely excluded ; that sugars would not be so safe upon the quay, to which every person had access, and where persons were passing and repassing, as at the West India Dock, where all persons are excluded.' He considers the ex port dock attended with great convenience ; and is asked, " would you consider a dock where there was not that accom- I Imulation for export; and where vessels discharging their cargoes' inwards, and taking in their cargoes outwards, are all mixed together, as equally advantageous to one where they were sepa rated, as in the West India Dock ?" He replies, " I do not, for the reason I have before given ; that property would not be an secure." From Mr. Clippingdale's evidence Mr. Marryat makes an extract, but omits to notice it in his observations—it is this— " If such a vessel as this " using the West India Trade, and " with a 'rest India cargo on board, were detained in the " stream at Deptford, is it your opinion that the risk of plunder " would be increased to any consequence ?—No doubt of it.":— This must have been unintentional. As a specimen of that peculiar candour and disinterestedness • uhich, it is universally allowed, distinguish Mr. Marryat's conduct in all public questions, whether he is the advocate or opponent, the following may he taken : he says— " Mr. Lampson does not know that there is more liability to plunder, from crews being permitted to remain on board, un less they can remove articles out of the ships ; and he does not know where they could take them to. Ile imagines they could not be carried out of the Docks. He never was there at night ; but he supposes the dock gates are shut, and they are guarded during the day-time, and persons searcheilon going out." Now the following are questions put to Mr. Lampson, and his replies ' not one of which has Or. Marryal thought it safe to.notice ; the Public will judge whether they are relevant or not:--" Were those goods - liable to plunder? They were " liable to plunder, because plunderage has taken place. In " the Commercial Docks?—Yes ; but not in the state in Which " the Commercial Docks are now; they are in a different 51- " tuation. You would not consider that with a fence of twelve " feet high, the produce left in the course of discharge there " would be safe ?—I mean to say, that no produce Can be safe, " If left upon the quay. after the legal hours. When you " speak of sugar not being liable to plunder at the Commer " cial Docks, have you ever seen sugar there that had not un " dergone cooperage at the West India . Docks ?—No. Then " is it liable to plunderage at all after being so coopered P—l " am not aware that it is. Does not plunderage take place be " fore cooperage ?—Certainly. A fter cooperage, is it in . danger " of any depredation ?—No ; I think it is not. ' Probably some excuse for this omission is to be found In the circumstance of this evidence having crept out of sight, as it is not to be found in Mr. Marryat's Lucid Analysis, under its proper head, but under that of" Means of Accommodation." It Is hardly necessary to confirm Mr. Marryat's own witness, but if such confirmation were wanting, it might be found throughout the evidence; all the most competent witnesses de claring, that West India produce, from the nature of the packages an whiCh it is imported, would be exposed to exces sive depredation in a Dock of indiscriminate resort, while it wag, as it necessarily must be, exposed upon the Quays. With reference to the insufficiency of all ordinary precautions against plunder in a-trade so peculiarly liable to it, Mr. Ilib ben gives the strongest opinions, and declares that he thinks, " with the present accommodations of the port, the principal apprehension is of a loss before the goods have passed the King's beam." When asked it' the West India trade resorted to the Commercial Docks there would not be as great security from plunder, he replies, " i f am so far from believing it, that I do most firmly believe the direct contrary. I do not see how they could adopt the West India Dock system, unless they bad a monopoly of the trade." lle declares his opinion, " that the monopoly is essential to the system, which' at present protects both the planter and the revenue," but that it is not essential eithet to the prosperity of the Dock Proprietors, or to their di viding ten per cent. yearly. In explanation of his opinion as to the danger of plunder, he says, " I meant to say, that now I should apprehend plunder more before the goods arrive at the King's beam than I should subsequently, if the goods were to be warehoused in warehouses approved by Government. I should not dread a loss in those warehouses equal to that which did take pike in the ware houses which received West India sugars before the construe. Lion of any docks. I am quite sure no such loss would accrue. I But my apprehension is, that a great part, if not the whole, of that loss which formerly took pla 6 before sugars arrived at the t King's beam, would a ga i n t a ke dace, if ships are allowed to go, at their o w n di scr etion, to thi or that dock further up the river than the Isle of Dogs." He states his reasons in reply to subsequent questions, " that' it is a difficult navigation; the vessel is more in the neighbourhood of that description of per sons who formerly lived on plunder; the crowded state of the river, and so on. The chief scene of plunderage was between Liniehouse and 'Wapping, where the depredators lived. I think the great scene of plunderage was between Limehouse and the Legal Quays." All this took place notwithstanding the hatches of the ships being locked down, revenue officers being on board, and there being a River Police part of the time, anti other precautions taken." This accords with the opinibn of Mr. Domett ; and in reply to the following question, Mr. Hibbert emphatically declares the sincerity of his conviction : " If you were totally unconnected with the West India Dock Company, would you not, as a planter and merchant, and agent for the island 0( Jamaica, and solicitous for the pro sperity.ot that community, desire a continuance of the present system of the Company, as feeling it most essential to the secu rity of property ?—I should most earnestly desire it.' ' Mr. Marryat,_with his usual good 'taste, thus alludes to the honourable zeal which hns distinguished Mr. Elibbert and those who have acted with him " It is very natural, that they who have framed a system " should extol it as a model of perfection. We have the same " partiality for our intellectual as for our natural offspring; " and as ()lay asks, " Wherever yet was found the Mother " Would give her booby for another ?" The same sentiment is expressed by the Honourable Com mittee on Foreign Trade whether in a more liberal manner or not the Public will decide. Your Committee are fully prepared to believe that the Di " rectors of the West India Dock Company, in contending " against alteration; are actuated by no feelings of pecuniary " interest,—that their interests, in fact, as Planters or Mei.- chants, are infinitely superior to any they can have as Dock " Directors; and that they are influenced only by.their im " pression of the utility and advantage of this Establishment " as affecting the public through the peculiar branch of corn " merce to which it is appropriated; increased, perhaps not " unnaturally, by a solicitude for the preservation of that " which they have, with great care and attention, fostered and " brought nearly to perfection." No. B.—EXCLUSION OF CREIVS AND APPRENTICES. " This (says Mr. Marryat) is a point of considerable inte " rest, not only as it affects the security of property -but as it " relates to the owners, officers, crews and apprentices of the " shipping employed in the West India Trade." Mr. blarryat well knows that the crews never were retained on board their ships formerly; that their employers could not now retain if they would, and would not keep them if they could.— To give interest to this subject he has embellished it with some benevolent sentiments, as to the " regard due to the interests, 64 the comforts, and the morals of British seamen, their acquit-. " fug regular habits, and contracting an attachment to their " officers and Owners!" This may sound pretty enough to certain sea-faring electors, but his own experience ought to have taught Mr. Marryat better; a case in point is to be found in the evidence of Mr. Mitchell ; it is this Have you not heard of British ships " discharging their crews, on entering the London Docks, as a " matter of preference, although they had the option of retain " ing them, and hiring lumpers to discharge their cargoes ? I " had occasion lately to observe a ship that had entered the 46 London Docks which I believe was formerly a regular ship " in the West India Trade, that discharged a cargo from " South America ; and I understood, that upon her entering 44 the Docks, her seamen were immediately discharged, and the " owners of the ship hired lumpers from the proprietors of the " London Docks to discharge her cargo. The owner or char ' " terer, therefore ' bad no greater confidence in the fidelity or " attachment of her crew than in perfect strangers ? Certainly " not; in that instance where they had the option, they pre " ferred discharging the seamen. Can you state to' the Com " mittee what became of the seamen in the, case to which you " refer ?—I do not know ; it was the case of a ship that I be " lieve belonged to Messrs. Marry;rt and Co., called the Baltic Ai Merchant: - " As you seem to know something about the shipping " concerns of the owners of the Baltic Merchant, perhaps " you know that the crew that sailed out in that vessel " were induced to desert at Valparaiso by higher wages, " and that the crew that came home in her were not " people in whom the owners could place confidence The last question is very unfortunate for 111 r. Marryat's argument, whoever put it ; it requires no answer, the witness did not know the facts in the particular case, but all the world knows that the circumstances are of continual occurrence, yet after such evi dence as this, the Member for Sandwich would induce his Readers to believe, that all ties between the seamen and their employers " are broken and destroyed by the roving and un " settled mode 'of life forced upon them by the West India " Dock System," ." that if any thing can promote a tlisposi " tion to plunder, it is the loose and vagrant habits of life now " forced upon those valuable classes of individuals," ( risum teneatis ! ) ll' there were no other se amen in the world but those whose ships go into 'the west India Docks, the roving and unsettled mode of life by which that class of men are uni versally distinguished, might be ascribed to some particular Idefect in the Dock system. The evidence completely estab lishes the im portance of dill. eprtloyy;intt the crews, both as to di spatc h charging vessels by the officers an d servants of t he Dock Com. P a ren ceto, property the Secretary of the Company ; " e following facts are st a t e d b y In the month of July, 1818, rd Y the in securitypr preference of io 161 ships were finally discharged anti searched, of those ships `..P were reported " clean," there was fraudulent concealment found in 15 of them, and quantities of various produce found in 124 ; the total quantity of produce is 23 tons, contained in 506 packages." When asked, if even after the first search, articles have not been found more artfully concealed, he replies, " I have seve ral instances of that, but it may be sufficient to refer to one of. the 4th July, 1817 ; this is a report of a second search on that day, after a most vigilant search by the Company's police; it states, that on board the Sir Edward Hamilton, Captain Bell, from Jamaica, there were found 14 cwt. of clean sugar, in twelve small bags,. and ewt. of clean coffee, in eight small bags, concealed inside the linings of the lower deck, discovered by J. B. Clarke, excise clearing officer, and taken away by him; that there were 28 lbs. of clean sugar, in one small bag, and 20 lbs. of clean coffee, in three small bags, inside the lining in the lower-deck, discovered by John Hanover, one of the Com pany's constables, and delivered to J. 13. Clarke, excise officer; the report also states, that on the 2d,July there were discovered 20 bottles of rum, under the limber boards io the hold, disco vered by Wm. Taylor, one of the Company's constables, and delivered to T. Dixon, an officer of the customs." The following examination ensues upon the statement of t h ese facts:—" Do you think that b any vigilance such plun der could be wholly prevented?-- I do not conceive that it can be possibly prevented during the discharge of any. cargo. If ships were to be discharged by their own crews, or by inferior people, not under the controul of the Company, do you think such practices would increase ?—I certainly think they - would increase inn very great degree, inasmuch as those reports show, from the mode of concealment, that it must have been done by the crews of the vessels." Is the tiovernment of the country to allow the revenue to suffer, or the importers of goods to have their property exposed to plunder in deference' to speculative opinions as opposed to such facts as these ,—and fur what object R Mr. Mitchell was particularly examined to that point as follows :—" Mr. Chap " man, when asked if the London Dock Company are able to " exercise the same controul over the sailors as over their own " men, replied, 404 on board the vessel;'—what is your " opinion as to the probability of exercising such controul in " the West India Docks if the crews were admitted ?"—" It " appears to me there would be no controul whatever on the " part of the Dock Company. If the West India Dock Com " pony pursued the system which I understand is followed at " other Docks, the expellees of the Company would be lest " and little or no responsibility would rest upon the Company."' '—`‘ What would be the advantages to the revenue ? I " conceive none."—" What would he the advantage to the " owners of the produce ?"—" It is my opinion that the owners " of the produce, so far from s deriving any advantage, might " be subject to expence and loss."—" What advantage would " result to the Ship-owner ?"—" No advantage could result to " the Ship-owner, unless it was at the expence of the owner of " the cargo." And what advantage is the seaman to derive ? Let Mr. Marryat speak for himself. " Every Ship-owner wishes to en " courage his officers and crews as much as possible. A " West India voyage does not occupy them, in general, more " than seven or eight months, and the remainder of the year " they are without employment: The wages they earn on the " voyage will net furnish them with means- of subsistence while " their ships remain at home, and thus most of the seamen are " obliged to change their ship every voyage. Instances, how, " ever, occur of their making shift, by occasional employment, " to continue with the same master for many years together ; " but how much would their so doing be facilitated, and the " interval they are out of work be shortened, by their being " employed to discharge their own vessels, instead of being. " turned out o f t h em t h e moment they arrive at the dock " gates?" Even' Ship-owner who thus means to encourage his crews, must find something more for them to do, than merely dis charging theirown vessels, that would, upon the average, just give them five days work ; Mr. Marryat, therefore, in further ance of his benevolent object, must intend that his crews are to take the ship into a dry dock, when necessary, and to be ex clusively employed in repairing him; or, should she not require repair, that they are to be profitably employed in the ship while she is laying up; h e knows that, in the West India Ex port Dock, he may keep his ships full of men for months top. titer, if lie likes it. Marryat has overlooked one circumstance, viz. : that neither tires nor lights at ermitted within the Impo r t Dock ; if the crews were admitted, they must be allowed.. He may argue that sailors would be as honest as labourers ;_ but lie Can hardly co nten d t h at t h e ' r isk of conflagration would not be increased. The Insurance Companies attach a proper value to this important regulation, their rates of insurance on goods being much lower if they a re lodged in the West India Docks, than if-deposited in the London Docks ; if it were, therefore, only for the sake of nreserving this part of the system, the Dock Company ought to which do not discharthe ir crews. ge • As to the apprentices, it is stated by Mr. Marryat, that, " instead of livin on board their own ships, under the care of " their officers, they are lodged in different public-houses in Wapping," —if it be so, to the disgrace of the owners and capiainsbe It said. No man, however, who knows the respect ability of the owners and captains in this trade will believe such a libel as this. _ _ Thefact is, that they are all of them in one or other of these three situations, either on board the Naval School ship, main• tained by the West India Dock Company*, on bpard their own ship in the Export Dock, or on visits to their friends. The Committee on Foreign Trade, although they express a doubt " whether the discharge of a ship is performed with greater promptitude and facility by hired labourers, under " the inspection of the officers' of the Dock Company, or.by " the seamen under the inspection of their own officers," have nevertheless guarded themselves against being considered as recommending such dangerous innovations as Mr. Marryatt's benevolent but mistaken feelings have suggested : they report as follows .-..-..- . " Your Committee, in recommending the adoption of an " open system of competition in preference to one founded on " exclusiye privileges, cannot omit a reference to the tti " monies, borne by Gentlemen deeply interested in the " question (Mr.' Pannier and Mr. Turner), to the advantages " of the West India Docks, which accord with the strong feel " ing expressed by, the Dock Directors, and are desirous not to " he und.erstood as intending to convey any objection to the " continuance of as much of the regulations, to which such im. " portance is attached, as, in the discretion of the West India " Dock Directors, may be found compatible with tho interests " of the Company, and useful to the particular branch of trade " they are desirous of receiving." • The charge being seven shillings only, per week, for each apprentice, including board, lodging„ and education, as an in ducement to their masters to send them. (To be continued. ) °,„' For DONCASTER RACES, - see the Fourth Page. 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Three per Cent. 70. liloll WATER A' Morning, 27 minut4 ,T LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. ,es after 0. ( Evening, 49 minutes after 0. THE SUN. SODEN QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDE4T LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1823. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have, at a late hour this forenoon ; re ceived the Paris 'Papers of Monday evening, and the Pitote of yesterday. We have also seen a private letter, which states that Malaga has been taken by the French, and that the Duke de GUICIIE had been admitted to dine with King FERDINAND. The following are extracts from the Papers : ( From the Etoile of Monday night.) TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH FROM BAYONNE. BEBurtEtt-MAYOR, SEPT. 11. 7 o'Clc.ck in the Morning. MARSHAL LAURISTON TO THE MINISTER OF WAR Yesterday at eight o'clock at night the trenches were opened before the Citadel of Pampeluna, at a distance of 200 toises from the Citadel. Notwithstanding the fire of the enemy, with a continued storm, and rain falling in torrents, during two hours our soldiers braved every thing. The whole of the parallel is under cover from the enemy's balls. We have had but few wounded. PARIS, SEPT. 15.—As we announced yester day, his Royal Highness the Duke of Angou lethe would not receive General Maya, and de clared that he would not listen to any thing until the King of Spain was at his head -quarters, when his Majesty would be free to grant a general amnesty. His Royal Highness offered at the same time, to those Members of the Cortes;who did not wish to remain on the Spanish Continent, the protection of his fleet, to transport them wherever they might think fit. The Duke do Guiche, who went to Cadiz on the sth at eleven o'clock in the morning, had not yet returned to head-quarters at eleven o'clock at night. BEFORE BARCELONA, SEPT. 8.--Two Aides de-Camp, one belonging to Mina, the other to Rotten, attempted to make their escape from Barcelona. Unfortunately, they were perceived from the citadel, and were arrested the moment they were going to embark, and have been con ducted to prison. It is probable that Rotten will have them shot. They write from Grenada (22d August), that the troops of Ballasteros, since his submission, remain quietly in their cantonments. Romagosa has not yet entered Calvigna, where his troops are. [From the Moniteur.] PORT ST. MARY, SEPT. s.—We are now lodged at the Trocadero. Yesterday our batteries set on fire the com mercial magazines of wood at Puntales. The wind was high. A number of reports prevail here respecting Cadiz. It is said that General Valdez assembled a Council of War, and told them that he could not any longer defend the place. It is also -stated that General Maya confessed that their best troops were destroyed at the Trocadero. [There is a long Bulletin from Marshal the Duke of Reggio, Commander of a corps, with an account that - the reduction of Corunna has permitted General Bourck to dispose of most of his troops ; and also stating, that on the 3lst August the gar rison of l'ampeluna made a sortie, and that after a combat of three hours the enemy were forced to retire. Also that the works be fore Cadiz are pushed on with great vigour. The flotilla receives every day fresh reinforcements.) M. Magnan, of the 60th regiment, sent as a Courier to Paris to the Minister of War, quitted the army on the Bth. Marshal Mon cey had still his head-quarters at Torre Ambarra. The gar rison of Tarragona had retired to the place. They are become demoralized, and desert la great numbers to our advanced posts. ( From the Pilate of yesterday.) BRUSSELS, SEPT. 12.—The Marquis of Hast ings, heretofore Governor of the Indies, has ar.; rived here with his family. (From the Journal des Debuts of Monday.) MADRID, SEPT. 9.—We are here in great joy. Since the taking of the Trocadero a thousand different reports have been spread. This affair has produced a wonderful effect in Cadiz. Ile cording to the reports we hear several persons have been killed. Valdez having declared that in the present state of things he could not defend the town, they sent General Alava, with a letter from the King to the Duke of Angouleme.— His Royal Highness answered, that he would , not treat except with the King, and that he would not communicate with General Maya. The Duke. of Guiche is charged with the answer of the Duke to Ferdinand ; but there has been no suspension in the preparations for a descent on the Isle of Leon, and in a few days Cadiz will open her gates, or we shall be masters of the Isle of Leon; when a capitulation must take place. We yesterday extracted from the Quotidienne - of Sunday part of an article, dated Vienna, 3tl September, and stating that an interview is about to be held at Czarnowitz, between the Emperors of RUSSIA and AUSTRIA, preparatory to the holding of another General Congress on the affairs of Spain and Portugal. The Vienna article alluded to had been taken by the Quell dienne from the Allgemeine Zeitung. The original, contained an additional and important paragraph, which we now submit to our Readers:— Prince Metternich, who will be present at the interview of the two first Sovereigns of the North, is to submit to them a plan which has for its object to consolidate the peace of Europe ; on new foundations, by founding a new sort of national repre sentation, without at all derogating from the monarchical prin ciples established from time immemorial, or from the system of legitiinacy recognised by all the Members of the Holy Alliance. It is presumed that this Minister did not think it right to pre ' sent his plan at Verona, where be would have experienced a dangerous opposition on the part of the British Minister, but he desires to have the previous approbation of these two Mo narchs, before submitting it to the examination of A great as sembly." It seems to be at length evident, from the annunciation, that the design is sc riously entertained, as we have for some time past conjectured, of introducing the representa tive principle into the governments of ail the great continental states. The King of OnnsstA, as our Readers are aware, has declared his inten tion of setting the example. Denmark has al ready determined on the adoption of a similar measure r —and unvvit is announced that Prince METTERNICR is to submit, for general adop tion, at a Congress, under the auspices of the two Emperors, a plan for " consolidating the peace of Europe," by " founding a new sort of national re presentation !"—We cannot see any good reason Tor withholding the expression of our sincere sa. tisfaction at this prospect. Institutions pro ceeding from the will of arbitrary Monarchs, may not, it is true, come up, in the first instance, to English ideas of perfection and utility. But when the career of improvement has been once fairly entered on, and when the erection of ite. presentative Legislatures has in every country of Europe given to an enlightened body of its citi zens the right and freedom of reasoning, of speaking, and of deciding upon national affairs, and particularly if the right of controlling tax ation be vested in their hands, we need not fear but that the time will eventually arrive when every thing must be conceded to the popular voice, and that it is really necessary to the public happiness.—We cannot under stand why the Ailgemeine Zeitung has pre sumed that this measure has been delayed from the apprehension of its encountering oppo sition on the part of England. It must be quit ( ' evident, on the contrary, that England cannot be otherwise than favourable to every thing which tends . to assimilate the institutions of other countries with her own. By intelligence from Leghorn of the St ll inst., we learn that the captains of several vessels, ar*