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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA I LY :x1;0s - from the illorniog Papers, June '2 1 . • • [THE TIMES The motion of bis Grace tho .] Duke of Devon . shire an Thursday, which went substantially to pledge the House of Lords to the consideration of effectual remedies for the Morbid and revolt ing state of Ireland, was 'opposed acid' thrown out by the King's Delinisfers: introduced with no common ability, by a 'Nobleman of the highest rank'and most amiable character— one of the most • extensive and esteemed proprietors in that coun try, who has, and can have no interest to promote, but inch us belongs to the whole Irish nation—his Gracv's resolutions were powerfully supported by Lortll..ansdown, 'also an Irish -proprietor, and a !Nobleman qualified beyond most others to legislate for the, land of his possessions. This •rjse and useful vote was still more forcibly re-' cpfnmended by the wit, the reasoning, and elo ponce of Lord Holland, who may or miy not owner of an .Irish estate, but who has vs.tablished for himself, by an unvarying course of consistent and independent conduct in Parlia ment, a claim' to be naturalized in every free state of the world, and to be' looked up to as the • -vititlicator of justice and sound policy wherever thpre are wrongs to be redressed. We cannot yet. fully understand the principle on' which Ministers opposed the resolution. The horrible state of,the country they could not deny, and did not. That there was, to borrow the, words of the Duke, of Devonshire, 4 sole material defect in , the state and admi " nistration of the laws" of I reland, no proof need be required beyond this—that such a law as the Insurrection Act now finds a place among them. 'Where a remedy So corroding and so cutting is resorted to, will any honest man deny that the disease must be inveterate anti foul ? When a remedy so fierce in its operation proves fruitless, as is incontrovertibly the case with the InSurrec. tion Act, since the malady spreads'while the Act continues, can any human Witt* of sense or prin ciple deny that it is the bounden . duty of Par liament to investigate, at least, the expediency of a different application'' Ministers, God for• give them! talk as if their whole duty had been discharged, when the fear of some terrible alternative extorted from them on certain occasions a grant of money for the use of ire. land, or the repeal of an oppressive law. Lord Bathurst d Lord Maryborough boast of the boons bestowed on Ireland since the Union—so many thousands for this work, so many for that; but take away the spirit of jobbing from each transaction, and let any one judge whether or not it would have been completed. Take away, also, from the sums, voted, the amount plundered or misapplied, end see how much remains of these 44 boons." It is provoking to find men in the place of Ministers, and exercising power and patronage as such, whose language implies that they are ignorant of the first obligation rrml by every servant of the public--namely, that 'of acting for the public good. [monNilsio eunoNteee.l Things are advancing rapidly iu this country to 'a state that IntiSt give satisfaction even to the Quakers. Vormerly we were the most busy meddling people in the world, ready to fight for any thing or for nothing, fora smuggler's ear, for Nootka Sound, for a pragmatic sanction, for the opening of the Scheldt, for the libe r ivtion of the l'ope—ht short, no quarrel ever came amiss to tts ; and we were as ready-to pay others for fight leg as to fight ourselves. A German Baron could not even invade his neighbour's sour krout grounds but we would take him, to task for it. So jealous were we of the balance of power, that a feather take', from one scale and put into another ,have thrown us into agitation. - Now, 'however, times are sadly changed. Now half a dormer kingdoms may he invaded at a. time, while we Ip9k on with a happy indifference. We have attained the perfection which jean Jacques Rousseau a'signes to time philosopher, who, when Ire. ears fire bawled out in the streets, opens his whitlow, pokes out his head, and seeing that the fire is too far off to reach him, coolly draws in his bead and shuts his window. Net matter what the cause_ of aggressitin, it Is enough that we ourselves are suffered to remain in a whole skin. With respect to the affair of Wurtetnburg, the phlegm of Mr. Canning yea amazing. That Gentleman, who at one time was quite a Draw. (=sir, talks now of our having no interest except as spectators in the quarrel which the Holy Allies have ccuttrived to pick with the Sovereign of the State in question. I t is nothing that Wurtemberg js a well T govierned free Protestant State—that the ground of quarrel is that the King will not con• sent to deprive his subjects of the freedom se cured to them by their Coustitution. We have no interest - , it seems, in ell this, except as spec tators. What would, be thought of the man, who, ao being told th'ut his neighbour was strug- Ong with a robber, should exclaim,—" I have no hitt-Test except ai a spectator ?" There are few men, who, on seeing an abtolute stranger to them ill-used, would not call out at least shame, and at least endeavour to befriend the aggrieved party , . But we must not remonstrate nor seem dissatisfied, whatever injustice we witness. [NEW TI Ell.l We learn by expresses from Paris to %%redoes thy evening, that the French Funds on that day had experienced a trifling fluctuation. They opened at 881. and closed at 881. 20c.; but were afterwards done for the Account at 811. 95e. Spanish Bonds had recovered to 38x.—Neapo. litany,7o.—The old report of the removal of the king of Spain to Cadix had been revived. This event was said to have taken place on the 10th ; but the statement appeared to obtain little credit in Paris. It was expected that General Borde aoult would enter Seville before the -4 -2.2 d, the day earned ht his last dispatch. The Cortes had already divindied to sixty Members. qeveral towns Estremadura had declared the anthority„of the Cortes no longer to exist, Our Funtts ore steady at 811 ; and Spanish_Bonds ate'tecovering from the late panic. They were the morning of yesterday 311, and closed at 33j. Colombian Bobds have again experienced an alteration in value ; they were on Thursday at 58, and were yesterday at 55, and closed at 56. The long continued northeasterly winds pre-: vent any ariivals from the westward. The Lis bon PaCket'has been Over-due for several days, and her arrival is looked, to with intense interest. According to the French Papers, the Counier-re vilution has spread both through the North and South of Portugal. The entire province of Beira, as well as that of Minho, and the district of Porto, has declared for the Royal cause.—Some uneasiness was created'. at Lloyd's, by the re port of a rich French East Indiaman having been captured by a Spanish cruiser. The amount in.: sured upon her at Lloyd's is estimated at 100,0001. but it is lipped the report may prove incorrect, as most of the Spanish privateers, consist of armed boats, and there are few or none suffici ently large to effect the capture of a vessel of this description; We observe among the sub scribers for the violation of English neutrality the name of Mr. Marryat,.the Chairman (we presume) of Lloyd's. It would be curious enough if the President of the first maritime insurance Company in tire world' were to furnish pecuniary means to a belligerent cruiser to inflict a severe loss upon those very insurers l--The lust advices from L'Orient mention the sailing of a strong squadron from that port for the coast of Spain. [MORNING.. POST.] The recent debate in the House of Lords upon the slate of Ireland, to which we could yester'. day only very briefly allude, demands our re newed attention ; not on account of any novelty in the topic that were introduced, but because pf the intense and universal interest which every thing relating to that' cOnutry is sure to e.cite. The object of the motion submitted by the Duke of Devonshire was, we believe; fully at tained at the moment when the disonssion con eluded, since we cannot imagine his' GraCe to have had any other view than that certainly fair, honourable, and discreet one, of raising some question which might afford a convelient Parliamentary opportunity for any Peer to ex press his'opinions on the actual condition of the Sister Kingdom, and to suggest the means by which, in his estimation, it may be 'A - Frost safely and speedily improved. The Radical . Press, we however perceive, affects to censure a decision, by which the' HOuse'refused to pledge- itself to an inquiry, which of, necessity must _have been not only unsatisfactory, Useless, and interminable, but which could not have failed during its pro. gress to produce the most direct and positive mischief. Where would be the' end, or rather, to ask a question equally puzzling, where could be the beginning' of a Parliamentary investigation by evidence into a subject so Vast and com plicated as. the system of Government which prevails in Ireland'? If to postpone indefinitely the execution, or even the consideration, of any project of practical utility ; if to increase the disquietude which has long unhappily existed by calling into active existence a new cause of general agitation, jealousy, and alarm ; if to place all jarring interests in a position of premature and simultaneous conflict, are the ob jects which a Government ought to pursue—all these objects would be immediately attained by the mere pledge of either House of Parliament to enter upon such an investigation. The motion answered fully its beneficial, and we trust, its real purpose, that of provoking a general discus sion of the state of Irish affairs ; if its ostensible object had been attained, it would have been inductive, we are persuaded, of nothing but ca lamity. —arra— [MORNING lIERA_M] A paragraph in the Court Circular informs us that a courier arrived at the Foreign Office, at a late hour on Wednesday night, with dispatches from the Regency of Spain. Without knowing any thing of the contents of these communica. Lions, it is sufficient to understand that they have been transmitted to our Government, in order to come to the important question—Will our Government recognize the. Regency ? It is not necessary that a formal demand for such a recognition should be made. The mere an. nouncement of their existence opens the discus sion at once, and the very manner of receiving it will decide the line of conduct which his Mat jesty's Ministers mean to pursue. . It appears to us that there can hardly be any doubt how they will act. At the Congress of Verona the Duke of Wellington refused to offer any opinion upon the grounds of complaint which France had against Spain, because his Government was igno. rant of them. It is in a slate of similar ignorance as to the Constitution of this Regency. Mr.Can ping may indeed have read in the French Jour- nals that the Duke of Angouleme appointed such a presiding body at Madrid, but how is he informed that his Royal Ifighttess had Ferdi nand's authority to do so ? Five or six Noble. men and Et clesiastics write over here to Say that they are a Regency. They may be very respectable individuals, or otherwise, but their assumption of such a title, upon the dictate of a Foreign Prince, is not of itself sufficient to legalize their authority.—Again, the necessity for the establishment, in Madrid of a supreme body to perform ac t s of Government in the name of Ferdinand Vtl., is grounded upon the sup. position that his Catholic Majesty is a captive in the hands of a portion of his subjects. Now, this is a supposition to which the British Governs ment cannot accede so long us they continue their Minister at the Court of the ling of Spain. Every hpur of the residence of that Minister in Seville, or wherever the King may be, is a fresh acknowledgement that be is in the legal exercise of his authority, Sir Wm. A'Court is in daily communication with the Ministers of his Catholic Majesty, transacts business with them, and therefore they form the only Government which Great Britain tern* nitances in Spain. Again, it is said, the Finance .Minister appointed by,the Regency has declared that the new Government will not pay any of the debts contracted by the. Cortes. Among these debts is one of no inconsiderable amount, which ,the Cortes incurred when, they pledged them selves to indemnify those Aritish merchants whose proPerty was plundered in the South American Seas: It can hardly be supposed that our Go vernment would afford any encouragement, not to speak of> authority, to a Junta which begins its proceedings with such an act as this. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Wednesday reached us yesterday by private express : they contain nothing of importance, or worth recapitulation. Angouleme is now in full possession of Madrid, and to the boasted vivas which greeted his army on' 'its entrance, general discontent is already beginning ;to succeed. Bourmont and Bourde soult are in full march on. Badajos and Seville. The former will defy attack, the latter may be taken possession 'of ; but though the nest may be found, the birds will be flown. Feidinand and the Government will be safe from a . much larger force, 'within the walls of Cadiz. But now that the French have proceeded so far, at incalculable expence, and with repeated annunci ations of victory, the question is, what permanent effects have they achieved ? Has Spain risen al together against the Constitution, as they de clared it would ? Have the pure Royalists, the liands of the" Faith, been received as delivers ? or has this execrable party been annihilated, morally and physically, by the atrocious attack on Spain? Do the Spaniards wish for the return of the days of the Inquisition and absolute power ? If so, why heve the authorities of the different towns the French occupied stipulated for protection against the bands of the Faith ? Why were Bessieres reperrted attempts repulsed in Madrid, and his last endeavour' to gain possession of it defeated with slaughter? Why did the very Councils of Castile and the Indies, summoned by Angou !erne, refuse to name a Regency ? Why was the traitor Abisbal arrested by a Spanish Royalist, and on the point of being sacrificed, though known to be protected by Angouleme, when a French regiment arrived and saved him ? The truth is'plain, that:despotism is not palatable to the people, and, that a French army is less so.— The bands of the Faith and the Royalist party have as yet done nothing for the French arms ; but if the . war is prolbneed, they will do much against them. Before the close of the summer, the French will find the very Royalist bands in arms against them, in every part of Spain and their worst and most implacable enemies among those they clothed, subsidized, and armed. The French assert that the Constitu tional party has now no organization in Spain, and the Government of Seville no support ; but is it really so ? Are the Cortes and the Consti tutional Government so abandoned? If so, why have Pampeluna, St. Sebastian, Santorga, Fl' guieras, Barcelona, and other places capable of defence, held out ? Why has Abisbal, instead of seducing his army with him, fallen single and powerless ? Does the arming and organizing of troops by Morino, in Galicia and the Asturias, mean nothing ? Why was pessieres repulsed at th e gates of Madrid ? Why did not Zayay surrender w ith his troops in place of retreating on the province Andalusia ? Royalists' principles prevail—Ballas tyros is still in arms, and entered Valencia, after , routing Ulman's banditti, who surrounded its !calks. He obliged Molitor to march on this province, when his presence, and the aid of his troops, were most necessary to Moncey in Catalonia. Let us then lastly look to Cate ' lonia, to the combats at Castersol, of Mataro, and Vich. Mina suddenly appearing everywere, but found now here; last spewing himself within the very dominions of Franc e with his troops. All these are proofs that, the power of the Corks is not extinct, and that the Constitution has yet the support of the great majority of the Spanish na tion, who are attached to liberty. The French or hold it if they were acabnleno ,to e c o o l l t i q q t u fl e .r r The feelings of the people are inseparably opposed to foreign thraldom. Nor can ancient tyranny or superstition ever be revived in Spain again. The French Funds on Wednesday opened, at 88f., rose during the day to 88f. 30c., and closed at 881.20 c. BEACON. NEWSPAPER. HOUSE OF LOIIDS, FRIDAY, JUNE 20. IN THE APPEAL OF. THE SUBSCRIBERS TO TUE BtACON FOND V. GIBSON CRAIG. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the woolsack atliall.past ten O'clock this morning, and immediately pro. ceeded to deliver his judgment in this case. After stating the proceedings which have occurred in it from the commencement of action down to the interlocutor of the Jury Court- pro. nounced on the 28th of May last (an account of which wo uhlished in our paper orrhursday), his Lordship said that the petition of the defenders 'affirmed that the Jury Court had. acted erroneously, and contrary to law and equity, in not re. mitting back the whole case to the Court of Session, in tonne. (pence of their having pleaded that Mr. Gibson, since he had Commenced his action a gainst _ them, had recovered a solalium or compensation from Puncan Stevenson, the printer of the Peacon newspaper, for the injury complained of, and therefore was not entitled to recover damages of them ; and his Lordship further added, that upon such af fi rmation the petition prayed Chet they might be allowed to lodge their appeal in that - House against the interloc u tor of th e Court below. Now, without pronouncing any opinion on the point of law, on which the he defenders in that tllietotzinal action rested their ground of appeal, preliminary point which the House had to settle was this—Can it 'proceed upon an appeal against an interlocutor of the Jury. Court under the Acts of the 56 th and the 69th of the late King ? The Learned Lord then read over the principle . clauses in those two Acts, and comment: ed tqu'll them as he went along, showing in what cases and of what stages appeals could be received from the different courts in Scotland. Prowl . the Interpretation which he thought ought to be pia upon those two acts, he declared it to be his °pillion that the. House .was not competent to receive any appeal against an interlocutor of the Jury Court, much less to receive the priwint appeal from the persons who were charged with a combination or conspiracy to support the publiiation of the Beacon newspaper—an appeal, too, which was remarkably 'deficient in the specification of dates and other circumstances that were absolutely requisite to the forma. tion of a correct judgment on its individual merits. He was theirther uo eforevuiolf o ip p s in to io e n ;ne t r li ta at i :l t t i e le petition al i e p t p it e iOno t f the defenders in the original action mu s t b e dismissed, as it was not competent for prayed for. Tidy juilgmenebeing senctioned by the other Lords present, was accordingly pronounced. The eflbct of it is to send back the case to the Jury Court, which will, we understand, have to decide whether Sir W. ,Ree and others did enter into a bond to support the Beacon, and' to determine, if they did, what damages they ought to pay to-Mr. Gibson Craig for the injury which they endeavoured to inflict upon his character. A duel was fought on Thursday morning on Wimbledon-common, between Capt. S---t —A and Mr. The dispute is said to have ori ginated at a gaming -house in the neighbourhood of Pall Mall. The Captain was shot in the right side, but the ball did not lodge, The parties were attended by Mr. Hughes, a surgeon, who dressed the wound on the ground, and which is note dangerous. I It ELAN D. tFrom the Dublin Correspondent, June 171 The following dreadful occurrence illestrates the deplorable conilition to which the acerbities of party hatred; have brought this most devoted of an countries. It would be unavailing labour to comment upon-a transaction which indi cates how high is the crest of the Ribbonman ; how atrocious and deadly his enmities are to the opposer of his political creed. What we subjoin is extracted from the Belfast Commercial Chronicle, a respectable and accurate print ; it differs in many respects from the version of this transaction which appeared in a Morning Paper of this day :- 46 FATAL RIOT AT MAGHERA. " We are sorry to have to state, that on Thursday last, at the fair of Maghera, Derry, disturbances, originating in party spirit, broke out to an alarming degree. Three or tour letters on the subject have been received in town, and having been kindly permitted to avail ourselves of their contents, we are enabled to publish, the following outline of the deplorable oc eurreonces It appears that about six o'clock in the evening an immense number of Ribbonmen assembled in the town, and proceeded to attack a house in which an Orange Lodge meets, and broke thowindows, &c. A small party of the 77th regiment, con sisting of an Ensign, Serjeant, and eleven men, stationed in Maghera, were called upon by the Rev. Mr. Colthurst, Curate of the parish, and acting Magistrate in the absence of Mr. Knox, to endeavour to quell the riot. They accordingly proceeded to the scene, but were assailed by vollies of stones by the Ribbon. men; the Clergyman was struck in the face with a stone and much injured, and Ensign Elliott received a severe contusion over the eye, and was knocked down ; upon which the soldiers, for the purpose of intimidating the rioters, fired four shots, and retired to the barracks. The rioting continued, and the win. dows of almost every Protestant's house in the town-were broken. The soldiers were again called out by the constables, and some respectable inhabitants ; but on repairing to the spot the officer found both parties extremely violent, and many of them intoxi cated; ,he therefore retired with his little party to their quar ters. The fighting and rioting continued in the most furious manner, the Ribbonmen attacking the houses, and the Orange. men, who were few in numbers, defending themselves with difficulty, were driven into the houses. Shots were fired from the windows of the Orange Lodge-room on the assailants. Late in the evening a party of yeomanry having entered the town, from Tubbermore, the Orangemen rallied, and, assisted by the yeomanry, charged and fired upon the Ribbonmen, and finally succeeded in driving them . out of Magliera. The riot: ing did not entirely subside till two o'clock in the morning cf Friday. The Ribbonmen suffered severely; nine are known to have been killed, and between 60 and 70 wounded. " We have heard that one Orangeman from Castledawson was. killed, and that Several of that party have been Severely wounded: _ _ " On Friday morning a party of ampulla from the neigh. bourhood, accompanied by a Magistrate, arrived in 3laghera, and an Express was dispatched to Lieutendrit Douglas, who commands the detachment of the 77th in Catledawson. No attempt, however, to renew the, disturbances had taken place when the last accounts came away. The yeomanry have been under arms night and day since the riot. "- The coolness and forbearance of Ensign Elliot seem to have been very creditable to so young an officer. Only three or four shots were fired in the direction of the barracks ; but had the Riblionmen succeeded against their opponents, the little party in tlN,harracks, it was expected, would have be. come - the next object of attack. Ensign Elliott Communicated every particular by express as soon as possible to Colonel M'Laine, in Belfast, who commands the regiment. ": We have not heard what was the result of the Coroner's InqUeit on the bodies of the unfortunate men who were shot ; but it was feared that some disturbance might take _place at their interment. A strong reinforcement of the 77th, therefore, under the command of a Captain and Lieutenant, left this town at six o'clock on Saturday evening, to proceed, by forced marches, to Illagliera, where they were to arrive at nine o'clock yesterday evening. " A Meeting of the Magistrates of the district is to take place to-morrow at Maghere, to investigate into the particulars of this lamentable transaction. " We are informed that at Magherafelt, onthe same day, (Thursday,) party rioting also *lt place. No lives were bat there, though one man is said to have been desperately wounded with a hatciet.' COMIIE*. Esq., c, r l e :it l r ut s rh d se a e y oB3 ;tio ly: r io n ea : r t r g ootf t rac li i e i c ti l eds , a b lig e ef t e. w , e h e i ti cei t sw i u le afFs l ered m a u u ta mena af te ' rn t f l i i on r nr e t e tro a lm n io d , four, at his lodgings in Lambeth-road, t, tA 31 C 0 °mut , in t tp a o n ea d ir h ale a w d inh b ie e sv e ce o hr m ya e Aa k ca n tek o r wn .ar , son ti e o tly r tfho v ar a btra i i l i i d us incidents, to so many forbade his a s h te ara ppi l n Y g l'e a ce sid ss e a l y n i o t rd s e a r ,atptletalong; the st ;i r l e a iim of life swanl,inia p g as lt s by, . da and observe itiitherest whom down the current; but with just so much elevation above the surface, as enabled him to perceive the sinkings and risings of all around him ; so that there was hardly a person of any note in his time with whose history he was not in some degree acquainted. lie knew others as well as lie was known to them. Upon every branch of art,—it might almost be said upon every department of science, —he could expatiate in an instructive and interesting manner.— The destruction of his fortune, and the incessant calls for his pen, rendered profundity unattainable, nor, indeed, in his case was it necessary. Irwould be difficult to sum up the va rious works of which lie was the author or compiler. The Devil upon Two Sticks in England was as popular as any in its day, and still retains a reasonable degree of celebrity. - by the delineation of character and display of anecdote when thee: of whom it treats are no mere. The spurious breed of Dr. Syntaxes, to which his work has subsequently given birth; attest the fame of the original; and without subjecting this work to that severity of criticism which it never meant to challenge, it displays such readiness of versification, such g mat f add th e such little a I n a e a n n e i s i a a b i l ed domes. pliability of intellect, t f i v a l nl life, of as i a n r i e n d ra , r w el i y th to kann b do e wwl f ed o e und in onetwhom adversity might have steeled, and ago benumed. . lie was educated at Eton and at Oxford; and Ina first entrance into the world was at tended by those adventitious circumstances which but too 'often seduce the posseastir—some fortune, a graceful per son, an extensive acquaintance, elegant manners, and a taste for literature. lie played, he sang, he danced, and it might Almost be said he was -undone • but his literary attainments whi c h remained, when in the course of nature lighter accom plishments had left him, were converted into the means of support. 'Though mild and unresenting in his nature, an d habitually sparing of his censures, his first work was a sati rical poem, entitled the Diaboliad, the subject of which has, we believe, sunk into the grave about the same time the repetit , io a n al o y f with the author. A singular Work, entitled Letters q( the late Lord Littleton, was, written by him ; an assumed similarity of style to that of the 'deceased Noblemaii,itaniaa supposed and l some unimportant incidents, known, as in the family, deceived, as we have been informed, Mr. 'Wind ham, one of the most acute judges, and Lady Littl e to n , the nearest friend of the deceased, into the belief that the letters were the genuine production of .his Lordship. With the de grading vice of drunkenness Mr. C,onibe was totally unac quainted ; lie was equally free also from the practice of gaming of every kind ; and we may add, that his general qualities, united to his excellent talents, which, under happier auspices, might have raised an humble man to fortune and eminence, served to diffuse a lustre round the declining fortunes of one born In affluence," • Though we gave an account of this Gentleman in our Paper of Thursday, yet his works are so well known to the public, and his character is so well described in the preceding article, that we nave tali" it from The Times ci£ yesterday, In our own account of Mr. COUiIE, we forgot to mention, among his other works, The Royal Reel:ter, consisting of nine volumes, in which out late excellent - SOVEREIGN was sup. posed to give sketches of the most distinguished characters who surrounded his Court, or who had rendered themselves conspi.: cuous by . their talents or their conduct. These sketches were drawn with a due reference to the benignant feelings and known discernment of the supposed Royal Author, and were illus trated by notices comprising shrewd remarks and interesting anecdotes. Many of the sketches and the annotations a few years ago were inserted in our Paper. 11r. COMaE, as we stated, never put his name to any of his works ; but in the year 1796 he issued the following notice in print i-- " PROPOSA L 8 For publishing an HISTORY of ENGLAND.. From the Accession of his present Majesty GEORGE THE to the End of the Year 1795. By Mr. Cosset:. This work will consist of Four Volumes in Quarto. The First and Second Volumes will contain the Political Occur. rences of the period ; the Third Volume will give an account of the Arts, Literature, Manners, and Religious Opinions the Fourth Volume will consist of Biographical Sketches, acc.— The price to Subscribers ill he Four Guineas ; two to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the remainder on the delivery of the Work." • , Mr. COMM was, however, so; little known at the time, ex cept among his higher connections., that the subscriptions ceivecVnosupport from the in general, ,and was never brought forward, if actually writtva. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDlTOR—Leaving entirely out of the question the all-acknowledged heinousness and blindness of the present ambitious attack of the French Government up - on the pacific unoffentling Spaniards, the more deeply and dispassionately one reflects on the issue at stake, the more con viction is forced upon the mind that this vitally interesting and bloody struggle involves the best interests,' the future safety of the British Islands. The merest tyro in politics knows that the real object of those crafty Statesmen who guide the French Councils is not the preventing the people of Spain from enjoying an improved, en lightened, and free Constitution, but the perpe tuation of their old exclusive influence over that country, through the means of the former despotic and incapable admiwistration, which they are en deavouring to restore by their bayonets, and which rendered the Peninsula in effect little better than a most advantageous, because a slavish appendage to France, always our rival, and open or covert enemy. For this reason,and because the French feel that England particularly would be apt to derive extra ordinary advantages from Spain through her en larged and improved commercial intercourse, and probable friendly independent alliances, when her people were, as it were, resuscitated by a mild, equal, Representative Government—King Louts has been instigated to'mak; war upon those who were so nobly instrumental in overthrowing the. inordinate dominion of NAPOLEON ; but those are the very reasons why the people of Great Britain should, by all the means in their power y mark their abhorrence of French , interference, and endeavour to counteract the dark designs of that proverbially lawless and restless nation. Under Louts XIV. France played the same domineering insolent part we saw her lately re act under BUONAPARTE,and now she has the will, though, thank Heaven, not the power, to renew the same audacity ! Britons gave a death-blow to her Navy at Trafalgar, which she has not been enabled since to recover : we thought we gave a death-blow to her Army at 'Valeria° ; but, under the stale pretence of restoring FERDINAND to absolute authority, and thereby indeed strewing hiM to the world the most perjured and jesuitical Prince, she is creating the dethents of a formidable land force, by sending her recruits to campaign In f peisecuted Spain, and by reviving the military of the veterans, which was, we vainly hoped, annihilated, for at least one generation, on that glorious but dear-bought day, of which. this is only the eighth anniversary : and we, Sir, have a fine irresistible - and expensive army re maining idle at home,' while the BOURBONS are pleased to make this moral and modest experi ment. Yeq, in furtherance of their ex p eriment to attach the French soldiery, by indulging them with conquest and plunder, an unoffending Na ally of England, is converted into a tvastion i le la rnei-house, and through the means of ever y underhand and unfeeling intrigue, backed with millions of money in the atrocious attempt, lavished not only abroad hut (as there is too good reason to believe) at home, that nation, Spain, is gken up to all the horrors of civil and foreign war. .. , 4•The wand'ring babes from mother' s b reasts are rent, And sutler ills they neither fear'd nor meant; No silver reverence guards the stooping age, Nor rule, nor method tie the boundless rage : Nothing butfire and ;laughter meet the eyes, Nothing the car but groans and dismal cries l" The men of England are, however, at last aroused from their apathy ; even our fair coun trywomen are exerting themselves in the cause of Spanish justice; and that cause, let us rest assured, will ultimately succeed over all iti enemies. June 18. %V. N. S. COAL-MARKET, JUNE 20. Ships at Market. Ships sold Prato. 19A Newcastle - - 134 . 33s lid to 43s Ott 8 . Sunderland . . L li . 33s Od to 43s 0d 0 Scotch Coal - • 0 - —s Od to —s Oa . • COURSE OF EXCHANGE, June ill. Antstetilmu , It 9 C. F. Ditto, at Sight l2 7 ltotterdatu Antwerp l2 9 fiumburgli t Altona Paris, s Day's signt Ditto Row deans, ditto Frank forte's the Main Madrid Cadiz Gilboa` 36 Effective Barcelona ieville Gibraltat Leghorn Get ua .......... 43i---Venice, Ital. Lir QS I 0 Malta 45 -Naples 39 Palermo Lisbon Oporto ltioJaneiro Dublin .... 9}. Colic 94 pas Vent', AUI.LION. Portugal Goltl,in Coin 1.0 0 0 per os„ Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 6 Nvw Doubloons New Dollars Silver in Wiry. Standard 0 4 11 BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Cannington, Somersetshire, the Lady of John Sealy, Eig., of a son. On the 20th inst. ' the Lady of the Rev. John Kirby, of Mar° field,..at the house of her father, Mr. Murdoch, in Portland place, of a son. MARRIED. 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