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PARIS PAPERS. {From the Journal des Nbats.l PARIS, JULY 13.—We learn from Cadiz, that on the King's arrival, his Majesty refused to re. some the shadow of authority which the factious :had left to him, but that he was induced to alter his resolution by the Chapter and the principal <merchants, who represented to him that his Con-, stitutionul inviolability was necessary to enable faithful ; subjects to defend him. The Cadiz 'militia have resolved to protect the King's life. Quarrels have already taken place between them and the militia of Madrid and Seville': The Cadiz Consulate has offered the King 2c2 millions reels, and the banker Gargano two millions on his own account. The principal merchants have left agents in Cadiz, and have retired to Chi ,claps and Puerto-Santa-Maria. General Horde-' - , soulle permits them to send a boat every day to • , kadiz. When the King appeared on the , terrace, of the Custom-house, the inhabitants of Puerto- Santa-Maria and other places on the coast ex pressed their attachment by loud cries, and dressing up their houses with draperies. The' Ministers have prohibited the King from taking that promenade. Lopez Banos has been severely reproached fur stopping two days at Seville, and thereby occasioning the destruction of his divi sion. lie -excused himself by the necessity he was under of re-organising his corps. , The troops were in want of every thing, and the desertion was very treat. General Alava is appointed In spector of Engineers. He is a declared de mocrat. (From the Constitntlonnel. 4 INTELLIGENCE front SPAIN and the FRONTIERS. 4 [mute= FROM TUE +:lotlitN,AL DE TOULOUSE.] Exv 'now a OF LA Sttt, JULY I.—Since .the affair of.; drat ,28th ult., the troops of' the line in the forts have no longer attempted a sortie. The Commandant has confined himself to firing bombs from time to time upon the town,' Which has already greatly suffered, anti it is this which pre yew a great number of the inhabitants from returning to their .homes. The militia and the miquelets from the fort in' the rear of Castelcieutat are continually at work carrying off the harvest. It appears that the Commandant wishes to turn to advantage the respite given to him by provisioning the forts, , where eat.. -allies iris sald'have become very scarce. He has caused to be carried off by the miquelets, and conveyed to the forts, a quan tity.of provnuonsfrom the villages of Arta, I'la, Pourroquia, haleata andM 'abel, the unfortunate inhabitants of which have thus already lost the greater part of their harvest. We loom that the Baron d'Eroles and Maier-Genera St. Priest are before Cardona, and they are about to form the blockade of that fortress, which will take place at the same time as that of La Seu. • OxitoNA,, 29.—1 t is stated as certain,. that the blockade of Barcelona is about to be formed, and the head quarters transferred to Mataro. The Ist light infantry has replaced here the 3d of the same arm, which set out yesterday and this morning .for Manresa. Mine entered Barcelona with a weak escort. lie is 'organiz . ing three-companies of partizans, consisting of a crowd of dan tterous men. It is stated that Bof these Guerillas arc already to operation, reckoned at front 200 to 250 men each. This is a great misfortune for these quarters, where hitherto one might travel without the slightest danger. PE ItYtti,limst i du 2.-,The day before yesterday a bri gade of mules was tired upon on the road nelr Fitments, by which some of the Conductors and some of the mules were killed. A brisk cannonade was again heard in that quarter yesterday. The head-quarters will quit Gerona on the Sth instant. A convoy or money set out yesterday from hence for Gerona, es -carted by two battalions, one of the 00th, and the other of the Ifith. These two regiments have arrived together, and serious *Weirs are expected. Since the 24th alt. the garrison of Vigo eras have, It may be said, recommenced hostilities. .t arrangements .which appeared to exist between the Spanish troops and the French, that the fort should not fire upon the town, has ceased. The motive assigned for this rupture .is the attempt made by the French to carry oft' the cattle of the garilaon which went ant to pasture. From that mo. meat the garrison have unceasingly fired upon the town and . made sorties. (PRIVATE COMIEE• ONDENCE, PCUPIONAN, JULY'S:-- , Mina arrived on 26th ult. at Sane, a village a quarter of a league from Barcelona, under the cannon of the fort of Montjouic, where he remains in come • queace of the gout, occasioned by the fatigues of his last march, and the snow he encountered on the mountains of Nola. The chief of his staff, Evaristo San Miguel, announced in his gene ra orders of the 27th, issued at Sans, that his Excellency the General-in-Chief of the Ist corps of the army of operation had for the present established his head-quarters at Sans, where .11e was indisposed, in consequence of his late expedition to the Pyrenees. General Tromelirt sets out tomorrow for Gerona, where he is about to take the command of the brigade of reserve formed of the 60th and 16th regiments of the line. Orders have been issued for the park of siege artillery to be -conveyed from Narbonne. Here 300 train horses are sta. boned on the road for this purpose ; 21 piece* of siege arta. lery have already arrived here, and several cars with stores.— ' There is a talk of conveying front hence to Mataro, 30,000 . metrical quintals of projectiles, bartel .1 of powder, &c. The Bannonwill be drawn by. 80 0 train horses, attached to the siege pi , k. MI the magazines at Gerona have been transferred to Macaw, and the head-quarters are to leave Gerona to-mor. • row. Our troops will not delay to present themselves en matte before tlarcelwia, but it is supposed the siege will not corn. Intim, till September, from the want of the means, of convey. ence, little in this respect being afforded by Catalonia and the • uv r igfibouring quarter - s, rams Ju 23.—Ministerial aggression is not limited to interests, it piece* in jeopardy piastres of interests. • It is an error as well as an injustice. The spirit of persecution dospises details, it must have hectitombs. Thus we learn that - SO huissiers have been dismissed at once in the department of flout • Rhin. Tina measure eppears to us to be vexatious and illteraL • If le only considerstich a measure under the relation of um. talky, it will be perceived how much it is at variance with the ' just notions of equity. Citizens embrace a condition of life— they consecrate to it their studies—they employ the most - valuable years of their life in preparing for it ; at length they are established in it—they marry and have children—they have 'no other means of subsistence for themselves or their families, • or to educate their children, but the exercise of their profession. Ought they out to have some other guarantee then merely the -morality a the superior agents of power ; they.ought to be allowed to live without disquietude, and to preserve their labours • without feete for the future. On n sudden arrives a Ministerial decision which dismisses them—ruins their eircumstancete e.de. soils their future prospects, and consigns their families to the horrors of want, peritept, even of theireit;-- What morality is I 'there in such conduct ? We roguest all Frenchmen who have taken the oath to the 'Constitutional Charter, to meditate well upon the following pasame extracted from the Journo/ du Department do Nord, witidi we wish to believe is ' not edited, ince/m.40, like the Journal do Depot iment dee Hoot Wan t‘ Monarchs of Europe, you ~ho yet 'intact, and jealous of the welfare of the people, have the courage to put an end to - the horrors of a revolution ; for the safety of your heads, dread above every thing the fatal approach of a Constitution. Thi s ,•fitlie Palladium incloses In its bosom your inevitable destruc tion, 'as the wooden horse bore ruin to time Trojans—Rquo Teucri.'' Now prosectitions are now directed against the Mote, on •account, it is said, of an article containing reflections upon the last prosecution against t h at J ou r nal, which was published the day after the sentence. The airair will come on before the Sixth Chamber on Tuesday. we h a ve ;motioned the prosecution at Marseilles of some -young men of that city, on account of a dinner given on •glitudinotio Sunday. The trial took place before the Tribunal -of Correctional Police of Ma, to which it was referred by the Ow Rook. The two accused, MM. floste, merchant, and Sartuet, were acquitted. They were defended the Ist by 31. Palmate and the 2d by M. Aillaud, his brother-in-law, at. tonally to tire Tribunal of Forealquier. The two defenders dis played touch talent. The laW students and the young men of Aix have united to give them a banquet. The public are informed that according to a determination of the Imperial Court of Austria all direct transmission of any 'literary or sdentltic woiks whatever, without previous permission obtained through the intervention of the Aus strito AX)4IISSWIDK, is prohibited, and that in default of such authority, all packets of this kind will remain unanswered.—' (Moultrie.) ( From the Courier Francais.) PAnts, JULY 13.--The Moniteur did not publish yesterday any bulletin from the army. The day before, it gave long de. tails respeiting the march of. troops tinder the orders'of Gen. Huber. It is matter of general astonishment, that having such detailed information as to what is passing in the Asturtas, it, shoidd say nothing of what passes in Gallieia. It is also re. marked that the Moniteur has not yet published any thing in its official part respecting Morino. The last proclamation of Morino was of the 27th ult. ; it was known at Madrid the 11 instant, and at Paris the 7th. Since that time further events must have taken place. General Bourke had ordrrs to march upon Lugo. The progress made by General Huber, and the reinforcements he has received from Madrid might have enabled him to execute this order without delay ; he must therefore have met the troops of 31orillo, unless an entire: submission on the part of the latter should have prevented hostilities. The strange position in which Morillo is placed, and the consequences which his determination may produce to Spaln, - give rise to an impa tience for the result of the operations of our troops upon that point. This curiosity will doubtless be soon satisfied ; we may easily have at Paris intelligence from Gallicia to the 4th or 3th instant, as the Government' received correctly the reports of (;eneral Huber; and as this General connects his operations with those of General Bourke, we shall not fail to know soon the result of the movement of the latter, and the tate of Mo. rillo and of Gallicia. M. Martinez de la Rosa, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, the Journals of the South stay, has received authority from the French Government to reside in any place in the kingdom which best suits him. It is not doubted that he will choose the same residence as the Count de P;Abishal. (From the Journal des Matt.) WARSAW, JuxF 25.—Our Journals contain the following notice respecting the state, in utol, of the schools in the king dom of Poland :—The total, including the Institution for the Deaf, the private Pensionartes for both sexes, and the Academy of the Miners of Kielce, but without reckOning the provincial seminaries, the military institutions, or the' Sunday schools, gives 1,331 schools, 1,703 piasters, and 45,020 students, out of the population of eight waivodes, amounting to 3,505,804. In general what concerns education and the schools makes a more vapid progress than heretofore, both in the actual kingdom and the other parti of Poland ; for instance, in Lithuania and Volbynia. According to tLe official report made by the depart ment of public instruction in Russia, in 1821, these provinces had then 21,174 scholars , whilst in all the other parts of the Russian empire there were but 40,744. [PROM THE GERIIIXN PAPER9I TUNIS. JUNE 10.—Some days ago an English frigate ar rived in this port. It had two Envoys on board, who are com missioned to demand of this Government the liberty of all Christian slaves, who are subjects of the lonian Islands. TrixSTE, JUNE 20.—The new Greek Government is al .most exclusively engaged in military preparations for the ape proaching third campaign. 'lt will be very important and de cisive, considering the very great force which the Porte has collected against Greece, anti .especially against the Pelopon nesult.—llleantime, the Greek Government has sent Emanuel 'rombasi, with five armed vessels and 1,200 Moreote soldiers, to Candia, and is endeavouring to settle the little differences that exist between the islands el Hydra, Spezzia, and Ipitara. According to the report of the Captains of several vessels arrived here within a few days, the Turkish fleet, consisting of 120 ships, among which are several frigates of the largest size, with fifteen thousand troops on board, and attendeti by a great number of transports, laden with provisions and ammuni tion, sailed on the 4th of June, from Andre and Capo d'Oro, towards Peloponnesus. This number does not include the Egyptian fleet fitting out at, Alexandria, which consists of 31) sail, with troops on board, and is said to be destined against Candia. Rut at the date of the latest accounts it had not yet sailed. Captains of vessels from Durazzo say, that the Paella of Scutari lies set out, with 40,000 Albanians, to march by way of Thessaly to the 3lorea. This army will receive reinforcements on the road, so as to raise it to 00,000 men, in consequence of the repeated and ener getic Firmans of the Sultan, calling all the Mussultnen in Al. bania to arms against the Christians, and promising them the whole of the booty that shall be made. This great army is to join in Thessaly another of equal force, which Is forming - there of the troops from Romelia and Aida'. he march of these latter, who come front Constantinople, cont inues without inter. caption. According to the same accounts from Duran°, Jussuf Pasha takes the command of the corps of Omer Paella, Itasdit Paella, and Mehtnet Paella, composed of Albanians and 'l:pi rots, which have assembled to the number of 30,00 men in Acarnania and Emile, and will advance by way or Lepanto against the Noma. The Turkish fleet is to second, in, various points, the operations of this formidable army. . Co aru, JUNI: 3.—The latest accounts from the Morea are' favourable to the Greeks. Colocotroni has submitted, and their whole force is said to be near 50,000 men. Hitherto they havnbeen chiefly in want of.money., but, they have .now , re. ceived some from the Society in-Logland, and the promise of a further supply.—They are now negociating with the Alba nians; and tf they can raise the sum which these people re. , quire the consequencce may be decisive. The Sullota are with them even without money ; and the Albalians would rather be with them than with the Paella. of Scutari, who, on his side, makes them very tempting offers. Re requires from the Divan five millions of piastres, to gain the Albanians; but the Sultan seems unwilling (perhaps unable) at present to sacrifice so large a sum. It is true that the Chiefs of the Insurgents do not agree together; this proceeds from their ambition and ra. paclous disposition ; but when danger is to be apprehended from the Turks, harmony is soon restored. The declaration published by Lord Strangford relative to the resolutions of the Congress at Verona, has rather increased than depressed the; courage of the Greeks, who declare that they will not listen to any proptuals for a compromise: THE Facxcit PREss.—lt is said that the English residents in Paris a►►d other parts of France are to have a new English paper started for their accommodation. There is already an English journal in Paris, which is well circulated, and the proprietors of which are reaping a good profit. It appears, therefore, that there is a f a i r opening for a second enterprise of this nature. A list of the French newspapers published here, with the amount of the number of copies printed, will show that, notwithstanding the low price of newspapers (a paper being sold for W. English), there is by no means the same extent of intellee. teal anxiety here as in England. The Monileur, 3,000 to 4,000; Journal des Debats, 11,000 ; Jour. nal de Paris, 8,000; Courier Francais, 5,000; Quo. tidienne,3,soo ; Drapeau Blanc, 3.500 ; Journal du Comsnerce. 4,000 ; Gazette de France, 2,200; Mote and Etoile, together about 4,000; Uri jlamme, 500; Constitutionnel, 17,000 to 18,000. These are all daily papers : no weekly.news. paper, or three-clay newspaper, is published in Paris.—(Paris Paper). ) weecEr.r.Att. T moscoE s translation of the life of that celebrated artist, BEN'VEN UTO C t. I. Nl, the following account is given of this exquisite piece of workmanship —."• 'd e signed a n oval • 'almost two-thirds' of a cubit in size, and upon this oval as the sea ap pears to embrace the earth, I made two figures about a hand high in sitting posture, one with its legs within those of the other, as genie long branches of the twit are seen to enter the land, and in the - hand of a man figure representing the ocean, I put a ship contr i ve d w i t h g r ea t ar t, in which was deposited a huge quantity of salt ; under this I repre sented four aea.horsee, and in the right hand of the ocean I put his trident. 'Fite earth I represented by a female figure, the most elegant and beautiful I oould form an idea of, kaning with one hand against a grand and magnifieent temple : this was to hold the pepper. In the other hand I put a cornucopia adorned with all the embellishments I could think of. To complete this idea, in th a t part which app eare d to he earth, I represented all themost beautiful animals that ele ment produces: In the part which stood for the sea, I designed the timett unto of fish and shells which SO small a space was ca pable of containieg ; in the remainderof the oval I placed several grand and noble Ornaments." The works of this celebrated man are become extremely scarce, particularly in this country; there is, however, one remaining gent which bears testimony to his transcendent genius, in the collection at Fonthill Abbey. It consists of a cup hollowed out with vast labour from one of the largest known blocks of Hungarian topaz. The shape Is an oval, with green enamelled dragon handles, supported on a tripod of dragons of the same materials. The handles and the feet are very thickly studded with diamonds, ru hies, etnerallis, sapphires, and other precious stones. It is said to have been executed and intended as a marriage present to Catherine Cornaro. There is an anecdote - told at Foothill, ilia. 11r. Bedford, to obtain only a sight of this magnificent cup, gave a hundred guineas. its estimated value is said to be four thousand guineas. ISLAND OF BERMUDA. CHIEF JUSTICE ESTEbi'S CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY.— COURT OF GENERAL ASSIZE, BERMUDA, MAY TERM -4 GEORGE IV. HIM Air. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Jury—lt is no mean part of legislative wisdom, to watch the progress of society, and to adapt the laws to those changes in it. which necessarily re 'atilt from the march of intellectual improvement. A law which at one period may not be improper, may very' probably at another not only do no good, but be productive of very great mischief. These observations have been suggestaby what I consider a defect in that part of our law which rejects the evidence, in Courts of Justice, and before Magistrates, of free persons of colour, in - all cases except upon the trial of a slave for any offence ; and then prohibits an oath to be administered to them. In the year 1764, when the Act passed to which I have alluded, there were comparatively very few persons of this description in : the Colony—and, consequently, the loss of their judicial evi dence was of trifling inconvenience to the public. The few, too, whd were in the Colony, were comparatively Ignorant, and perhaps altogether unlettered. The ease, however, at present, after the lapse of more than half a century, is widely di ff erent. The abolition of the Slave' Trade, the diffusion of general knowledge, and the consequent progress of liberal, opinions upon all subjects, have by various modes of emancipation, con siderably increased the number of this class of persons, who, partaking themselves of the general spirit of improvement, h a ve by no means been deficient in the culture of their intel lect. I imagine that at the present moment the greater number of them can read, and many can write. It is but reasonable to suppose (what I believe myself to be the fact), that, upon the whole, their moral character is improved ; and that the most respectable among them feel the value of their inure erect posture in society. With respect to religion, they have doubtless views sufilidently deer to make them fully sensible of the grave sanction of an dath.:,Many of those persons obtain credit in our Stone; in the ordinary transactions of life, we do not hesitate to believe them precisely as if their colour was white; it is only in Courts of Justice that the law forbids us to believe them, except in one solitary case. Thus it appears that their evidence has a moral but nut a legal efficacy; that it is without the smallest scruple used in all cases, except where it would be most useful ; and that a person, whom at the bottom -of 'the Court-room we should implicitly believe, trust with a sum of money, or with important concerns, the moment he advances a few steps, and offers to give evidence in the most trivial cause (if it be not the trial of a slave for some offence), we are bound to tell, that we utterly disbelieve every word that he says. The Act to which I have referred seems therefore to require revision. Indeed it bears abundant internal marks of haste, and of having been passed upon the spur of an occasion;; and it is not a little sin gular that so leng an Act, with such severe enactments, should have passed the three branches of the Legislature on the same day, the 25th February, 1764. 'fhe repudiation of the evidence of a particular class may, to a superficial view, appear only to affect that class; and if that were the case, it - woald be sufficiently objectionable. It is 4 great hardship, considered only with respect to themselves, that the evidence of free persons of colour should not be achniteible In Courts of Justice, both for and against free persons of colour in civil and in criminal proceedings. But the evil is by no means confined to them ; it extendi its baneful operation to the public. The class in question having become comparatively numerous, to shut out their judicial evidence is an inconvenience to the public, even in civil transactions ; but to reject it, when It fur nishes the sole prpof of an offence committed by one of them. selves, ie to expoee the community to all that increase of crime which is sure to follow upon a foreseen impunity.' Instances have occurred in this Court, where the Jury were necessarily directed to acquit, although no doubt was enter tained of the guilt of the prisoner, solely because there was no other evidence but that of tree persons of colour. This is an evil, Gentlemen, which neither you nor I eau re medy; that de t ends on the Legislature of the Colony.,. Out it may not be without its use thus publicly to state and discuss a subject in which ' the public welfare is so materially concerned. And I have been induced to do so at the present time from there being reason to believe, that a crime of deep and compli cated utali nits, at which human IlatUrehillitidellt, has been ceni rnitted in these islands, by a free 'man of colour, who cannot be brought to trial because the material' witnesses are all persons of the same description. The revision of the Act of 176 i, with respect to the admission of other evidence than that of white persons, has in two instances been brought before the Le gislature ; but in consequence of a difference of opinion be tween the two Houses about the extent of the proposed alteration, no change in the law has token place. My own opinion is, that the evidetiee of free poisons of colour should be put upon precisely tile same footing as that of whitepersons that is to say, that they should be competent to give testi mony In all cases, civil and criminal, where white persons arc competent, and be subject to the sate objections to their credit, (and no other), to which white persons are by law subject. I am sutisfied that this change in the law, besides removing a hardship froM free persons of colour, would be a great improve ment to tsar Co)b n i al Jurispruden c e, and a benefit to the whole conanunity. I belieye that the objection which is sometimes made to this chant/0 in the law rests solely upon the apprelien- Ilion, that if once tee persons of,colour were admitted and sworn as witnesses, like white persons, there evidencetuust be taken as truth, and would in sissy cases lead to injustice. But .1 am sure, Gentlemen, it is unnecessary fur me to state to you that this is an erroneous apprehension. You all know very well, that when a white person is produced before you pas a witness, you are not bound to believe him upon his oath, if, from your knowledge of hie character, the other evidence of the case, or your own Information of the circumstances, you have good reason to disbelieve, or doubt the truth of what he may have sworn: It w o uld be precisely the same with free persons of colour.— The leading fact which a Jury has to try in every ease l is thedegree of credit due to the witnesses, before they can decide upon the other, facts submitted to them. It is not therefore but redible swearing that they are bound to lie lnil:vlee.liwgriiellag; r being thus guarded, I think you will agree with me, Gentlemen, that there would be no danger whatever in ad tnitting the evi dence upon oath of Ate persons of colour. Being iwell Upon when presented as witnesses in a Court they weed have that degree of credit, and that alone Justice,e a l given to them,_ to which their character for integrity would entitle them .. If a failure of justice were to take place, there would, for obvious causes, be more reason to appre. hend'lt from their being disbelieved, when credit was due to them, than the contrary. The' evil arising from the present state of the law upon this subject is of a magnitude to adndt of and I anxiously hope that the Legisla. the earliest poseible opportunity to arrest enactments. itst uor lure wn will c prog r essa s y s a a bi r by l yi new f a of There are:, Gentlemen, several indictments to be laid be. fore you for larcen y, of which two or three are capital, and one glider the Colon ial Act, for the punishment of theft. Some indictmente fur common nuisances will likewise be submitted. to y ou . their importance may To t degree of consideration to which hese you will give that respectively entitle them. RAybiARKET TR cvntE.—The fourth report of the Crown-land Revenue Commissioners (just Printed by order of Parliament) states, that " a plot of ground on the east side of the Hay market, a n d west-side of Suffolk-street, with a theatre and messuage thereon, was leased for 99 years, froth;4nary 5, 18'21, to DAVI n Monnts, EstF t at tb a yearly Tent - pepper-corn rent for the first two years) of 3561. 9s. 6d., and 381.105. in lieu of l an d..tax redeemed by the Crown the costs, champ s , and ex peaces , incurred in erecting and fi nishi ng t h e sa id theatre and tnessuage being 8,0001." Titus, the ground rent alone of the 46 Little Theatre" ie nearly 4001. a year. On Tuesday, the Bth instant, and on Monday last, M r . II MOON, the Magistrate of Hammer smith, and Mr. S coTT , another County Magis. trate, were engaged in investigating a charge of bastardy against a Clergyman of that place.— The mother of the child was a young girl, a ser vant in th e h ouse. Th e Magistrates made the or der of filiation. Some circumstances were stated tending greatly to aggravate the charge, and indeed involsing.an accusation of a most serious character; but as they were not a part of the case to be decided on by the Magistrates (th only question before them being es to the order of f iliation), and consequently cannot be regarded as legally moral, we conceive that it would be unfair to publish them, and especially as , the affair may be brought before a higher tribunal. SHROPSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The 14th Anniversary occurred (we cannot say was attended) on Tuesday. There were exhibited 9 pens of sheep, 2 pairs of heifers, 2 bulls, 1'1)(12 pigs. Of these, one pairof Durham heifers, bred by Mr. White, were disqualified, thargentleman having last year won a premium with the mime kind of stock ; 3 Southdown wetbers and 2 rams, bred by Mr. T. Block, were shown as extra stuck, andspartOolc of the merit of his prize sheep; and a bull 7 years old, bred .by Mr. Griffithes, of the Meadows, was also shown as extra stock, and admired by those who knew the stoekiind its aptitude to fatten. There were 2 Kyloe, or West Highland cows, belonging to Dr. Johnson, which were hurdled off from the_ *bow ground, and ruminated remotely, with as much indifference as to the bit,iness of the day, as some of the early friends of " The ,Shropshire Agricultural Society." After the usual toasts—the King—Royal Family, &c. the health of the President, W. Wolriche Whitmore, Esq. was then given.—Mr. W. Whitmore returned thanks, and said that nothing gave him greater gratification than his endeavours to_ promote the interests of agriculture, particularly in this County, and the prosperity of the SoCiety. He believed the present was the thinnest Meeting which had occurred, and he knew not to what cause to attribute this. He believed several of the leading Members were absent from the county at this moment : one Nobleman (Lord Bradford) he knew was confined in Lon don 'with a wound in his leg. He had heard that a feeling pre vails among some persons that the good which was in view when institutions like this were founded, had been now attained by them, and, therefore, that they need not be continued. He should like to hear the arguments for and against such an opinion. But if it be desirous to discontinue this Society, it should be done in an intelligible manner ; it would be better that it should be done by aspecitic vote of the Members, rather than be starved and allowed to dwindle away. He not only regretted the absence of several Members who were strenuous at the formation of the So ciety, but he also regretted that the show in the field was deficient, compared with other years ; there appeared an apathy in the sending of stock ; and surely it stock be not sent, the Society must tall to the ground. The Committee were well aware of the feelings of several Members, and that some had withdrawn their names ; but they were not prepared for the defection which does exist. It was deemed desirable ' therefore, to call a General Meeting, to know , whether the Society should be continued ; and if so, he had no doubt it would start with re newed vigour in consequence of the discussion which would take place. The Committee therefore commissioned him to propose—" That a Special General Meeting be held at the Lion Int:, on Thursday in the Hunt Week, to consider the propriety of dissolving the Society, or of supporting It with greater spins and elfect.' J. BATMER, Esq. in seconding . the motion said, he hoped it would not be considered out of time to make a few remarks on the question, even before an audience all on one side. %Vben they met last, it was in a season of gloom such as had been sel dom known ; but he trusted the time was arrived with brighter auspices, when a man who invested a capital in agriculture would know what lie was doing, and would be able to calculate upon moderate gains. What reason then is there at this mo ment for abandoning this Society? Yet it would be far better to abandon it than suffer it to dwindle away, and appear like a Parson going to his Church without having a congregation. He spoke as one not originating the Society; and he (Mr. B.) submitted, whether the gentlemen of moderate rank and prac tical agriculturists, had not a right to hear from those leading characters who did originate the Society, why it should be given up ?., Those gentlemen ought not (he spoke it with conciliation and courtoy) to withdraw in silence and leave the young member', drawn in by the example of others, to strangle the offspring which great men begot. The funds of the Society ere good ; and having withdrawn the premium "for the best cultivated farm, " they could now afford to give larger premiunie fer the exhibition of .stock : he for one should he happy to hear the opinion , of practical farmers on the subject and any suggestions.' Te pursuit of agriculture is raised from the dunghill and the plough-tail, and exalted to a liberal pro fession; it *Worded amusement to the gentleman, profit to the capitalist, and a livelihood to those engaged in it ; and whilst better days are dawning—the manufacturer flourishing, taxes decreasing, and a greater degree. of comfort and happiness spreading throughout the country, the prospect must be melan choly ind ee d If the landed interest should neither partake of the general improeeinent of others, not meet to cheer themselves. and walk down gently without a stumble, which might be fetal to the interests of their country. Lord Wu. read a letter from the Earl of Bridgwater (whose state of health prevented his attendince) . stating that he con ceived it the duty of persons of property to encourage Agricul. tore, most especially et the moment of depression. The Earl of Bridgwater's health was then drank; and a deposition of the state of his flock this year was read, viz. that 436 ewes had yeaned 667 lambs, and that 561 had been reared. The Pnxsiiixx r proposed "Success to Agriculture;" and said it was of great importance that farmers should reflect upon the times through which they had passed, and endeavour to as certain those on which they were entering ; the subject should be investigated in the closet, and by discussion between man and man, so that they may understand the intricate and dark road which agriculture has yet to travel. He (Mr. W.) believed the price of cern had notreached its maximum, and this opinion was formed on the ground that there never was a period, ex cept in one of scarcity, in which the stuck of corn was less than at the present moment ; that there never was less specula tion, nor ever less corn in the farmer's hands. He always hail an impreseion, that we should be sitiliged to have recourse to an import of foreign corn before the next harvest, and this he inferred from the fact, that an average year's growth of corn WAS not sufficient for the consumption of the coun try. But should there he no import this yeas the consumption would reduce the stock in hand so low as to lead to the neces sity of a larger importation in the next year. It Is well known that by the existing law, all corn under bond, that had been imported previously to May twelve months, would he allowed to come into the market duty free, wheneverihe average.r.rice amounted' to 70s. per- quarter. Now, although the precise quantity then in bond he did not know, yet he did know that it could not exceed 800,000 quarters, and some little may have been admitted since the time just mentioned. Judging then from the stock in hand end the growing crop, he was of opi nion the average price next year would be high. But the still unmitigated distress of small farmers, and the demands that would be made upon them as soon as they had any funds to pay with, would force the grain into the market immediately after harvest, and thus occasion a glut. This opinion may induce tenants to hold back their corn, and landlords not to force them before the extent of the crop be known. But at. though a high average price may last for two or three years, " T should (continued Mr. %V.) tail in my duty if I said high prices can long continue. You will have to pass through other degrees of ru i n . The capitalist may standit, but the mass of farmers cannot stand the ruinous fluctuation of prices occa sioned by the present system of Corn Laws." The following toasts were then given:—Sir John Trill ; Lord Hill returned thanks. The Vice-President, Penton Corbet, Esq. who returned thanks. The Members for the County ; Mr. It. Hill returned thanks. The Vice-President elect, John Bather, Esq. ; Mr. B. thanked the M ee ti ng for drinking his health, and jocularly remarked, that although he felt no syrup tonic of mortality, yet he had little hope of enjoying the honour of Vice-President; but should the Society survive (he hoped It would sur v ive, for he believed It had done much good) he trusted there would be a larger company, which always makes thing,' go off better.—The Member for NVenlock t Mr. Childe returned thanks. The Secretary, Win. Eg e rton Jeffrey s , Esq. to whose exertions they were indebted for the prosperity of the funds and other advantages; Mr. J. returned thanks. The Judges of the Show ; Mr. Matthew Jones and Mr. (I. Fanner (the Judges) returned thanks. Mr. Sutton; Mr. Childe, of liinlet; Lord Bradford, &c. During the evening, questions and suggestions on subjects connected with the Society, and hints far establishing it on a wider basis, were discussed-with animation, freedom, and hu mour, by Messrs. Sutton, Bather, Ravenshaw, NV. I. Childe, Lloyd, (the Grove), A. D. Jones, &c. and the general opinion seemed to be, that from the present evening the Society. would be re-animated with new vigour. When_ the company wp.., breaking up, the l'resident rind Mr. Bather urged the sstbscri hers at large to come forward at the meeting in the Mint week, and deliver their suggestions ; for their attendance would per haps materially sway the decision of the Land-owners on that occasion as to the utility of continuing the Society. "If (said Mr. Bather) the Farmers attend at that meetin g , and e xp ress a wish that this Society he contin ue d, an d prom i se to support i t with spirit, will the Aristocracy desert it? And even if it be pt r mined to expire now, will not the fl ame o f s imil a r instit u ti ot 8 , in surrounding counties, he extended to Shropshire on a future occasion, and rekindle this Society once more." Front some expressions which dropped in the discussion, it appeared that the names of about 15 gentlemen had been withdrawn from the Society last year : live of these in consequence of deaths. Besides the names above mentioned, the following were at the field or the dinner :—E. (Amide, J. Gen. Lethbridge, Col. Gooch, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Buyley, Mr. J. Black, Mr. S. Bluck, Mr. Blakeway (Wootten), Mr. Bowning, Messrs. Croxons, Mr. Playfair, Air. Fox, Messrs. Oatley, Mr. Winters Mr. W. Price, Mr. T. Price, Mr. Whi te , j un . &e. &c... —GY/trctes&riry Chronicle, July 11.) On the 20th January died at Triclunopoly, of cholera marina, Mu N(10 PATIK, M.D., eldest son of the cele brated African traveller. . BETT Y has been performing with consider. able success at Croydon, and by paxticular desire, has extended Ws engagement fora night or two. THIS DAY AT PRICE 0 : STOCKS ()NE O'CLOCK. India Stock India Bonds 475. South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ex. Bills 26 28 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct....... Cons. for Account B3/ 64 sank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 pet Cent. Cons»..B2i I ex div. 34 per Cent. 4 Der Cent. 10111 . lOO4 • . New 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann.... 21 1..16th Imp. 3 per Cents. PRICE or FOREIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, JULY 16, AT ON} O'CLOCK. f Five per Cents. 00. 1 Scrip, 2i pr. Six pet Cents. 00. - • Russian , Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. . Ditto New 83. - - -- Five per .Cent. Bonds. 751. i .. '. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. 1 Five per Cent. Bonds, 1020, 00. •• Ditto 1821, 32i. . Ditto 1022, 00. Five Cent. Bonds O' n• Prussian t p ',r - ' Ditto NeW, 85i. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 87 ex div. . Chili 00. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, K. Peruvian New Loan, 00. Bank Shares I`2l sa. Seven per Cent. 94. Six per Cent. 92 —99. Five per Cent. 96-97. ,Three per Cent. 0/1. . . Fren all Neapolitan A ustrian Spanish American 111011 IVA TElt A Alorning, 3 minut, T LONDON:BRIDGE TO-11ORROW es after 9. 1 ;vetting, 35 minutes after Y. THE SUN. SOtE.V QUIS DICERE, F.4LSUM AUDRAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1823. The further arrivals of French Papers have • I brought no news of importance from the Peuin soma. The Monileur continues to preserve mysterious silence respecting the Proclamations attributed to Monium, though their authenti city seems to have been acknowledged at Madrid, where they appeared in the official Journal of the Regency. it would seem, however, that Nfottut.o has not given entire satisfaction either to the French or to the Spanish Royalists, or they 'would have found some means of commUni" eating agreeable intelligence. The French con tinue to observe profound silence respecting the destination of Sir WILLIAM A'Coutur after the restoration of FZRDINANU to the Royal dignity. Of Gen. DONNA DI ru, too, in Catalonia, we still hear nothing. Indeed, the Frendh Government and its Generals appear to have taken an inflexible resolution never to say one word about any thing that is not, favourable to their vieis, g c n o i i f i y s t every rue dit o oc t c h u e r i r r en a d ce . and that on u t t i t ; means itics) vantage. The news from Greece anti Turkey continues to indicate the approach of great events; and the preparations oh both sides for military opera tions of increased vigour, and on an extensive scale, being completed, we shall doubtless soon hear of important results. The Russian Manifesto, to which we yesterday requested the attention of our Readers, not only m isrepresents the actual result of the oecupation of 'Madrid by the French, and the actual con+ dition of France when she undertook the present iniquitous War against the Peninsula, but, even l . France had been in that state of internal disquiew tude assumed at St. Petersburgh, and which ,the French KING'S Speech so completely disproves, the Russian Diplomatist would be equally mil" taken in his assertion, that Spain was attacked on the principle that it was right 44 to Insko use of a nation not yet tranquillized (Spain), to bring back another nation (France), und with that all Europe, to a fully conso lidated repose." Whilst the St. Petersburgli article alleges this pretence, not less atro cious than tlisttsy, for the aggression against Spain, Louis XVIII., in the Speech already alluded to, on the opening of the Session of the Chambers itt January last, not on:lbaasted of the internal tranquillity of France, and of alk "'V ie which she gave to all Europe, of the prgr:-/.i obtained from a return to religioo; to legilim ary to order, and to true liberW ; b u t h e f ran ol avowed that the real ol;ject of the war which lie ittirtifilat to u,.ldertr,lie was that of 44 prieSerVing the throt,w of Spain to a descendant of fluNalr IV.,—of saving that line kingdom from its rains —and of reconciling it with Europe ;" and f ur enabling " Fun DIN AND VII. to be free to give to his people institutions which they cannot hold bat from him !" The positions, therefore, assumed by the St. Petersburgb document, as respects the conditioo of France previous to the war,—as respects the motives and objects for which she war was LW deitaken,---anci as respects the fruits whlcb it has hitherto produced, are proved to be utterly fallacious by the very best and most unottißstieu° able evidence that can possibly be produced, vi z ' that of the Sovereign Power in Frotitce, t o whom alone the internal condition of OW Monarch,' could be accurately known, stud In whose solo determination the w ar orig,iaated,--and that or the parties by w h om the elfects of thy sitcce4*.Qg