The Sun. — London, England, 1823-02-04 00:00:00

~_ , :. ~~# r ., ~ li'OREIGN INTELLIGENCE. . • Irnom TILE rntricu yArEns OP-SATUTt.DAY:I 'C AMBER OF DEPUTIES.--Sipriso OF JAN. 31. . After some preliminary business relative to the eligibility of newly-elected Deputies, the, :C/lairther proceeded to elect a President; on a 4crutinY, the 'Notes for the several candidates were declared as follows MM. Raved, 16t; ; de . Bonald, 464 ; de Causana, 1'16; de Martignac, 121 ; Florian de Kergorlay, 120; de la Bourdon nay t!, 66 ; de Vaublanc, 68; de Lalot, 48 ; Clause de Cous, • scrgues 34 •de Bouville, 17 ; Hyde de Nettville, . Lame, .26 , • Chabral de Crouzal,',lo Duplessie G renedan, 14 ; de Purnaurin, 6; and de Marcellus, 5. Several voices.;—" There is enough of them." Voice to the left.—" No; go on." The President resumed.-111. Donnadieu, 19 ;M. Royer Ctillard, 120 „. (Movenient •on the right. Several voices on .-that side, " It cannot be so,") • l'he.President.—" The figures are so shaped at to make up peat the number 120 ; but it is 11." —( Laughter.) • ' 'The President—' It may be a mistake."- s. The President continued,—M. OeneralOupont, ; 31. Fey, Courvoisier, 3 ; M: Castel-Bajac, 2 ; .31. de . Villefranc, 2 • and M. Spinautl, 6. 'The President, having read through the :entire list of the ..candidates, observed—" I proclaim,. in cOnsequence, as (midi " dates for the Presidency, M. ile'Bonald and M. Reyes, who .h we the majority in their favour. Does • the Chaniber wish to continue the operation?"--(Voices on the right, "'Yes, yes:" on the left, " No, no.") `A The operation -continued until past five o'clock, when the -President 'declared the scrutiny null, inasmuch as there was not a sufficient number of members present..--Adjourned. • SITTiNO OF SATURDAY, FEB. 1. [From the Etoile of Saturday . .Evening.l After some preliminary formalities had been gone through, 31M. de Corbiere, Peyronnet, and Villele, were introduced, and took their places on the Ministerial bench. The President read a letter from M. Manuel, in which that • deputy informed the Chamber; that having been elected by two' , Colleges of the department of La Vendee, he had determined upon choosing in favour of the electoral College - of Sables • d'Olonne." M. de la Bouillerie presented, in the name of the Fourth Butreau, ,, ' his report on the election of 31. Illeandre, deputy of . the department of the Loire. A protest from many electors of those Colleges had been addressed to the Chamber to point out certain irregularities which, in the opinion of those electors, ' had found .their way into •the procds-verbal, and at the same . time to complain of having been struck off the list of electors by the Prefect. The Fourth Bureau reported that there had been no irreg ularity in the proctis-vcrbal ; but it proposed to re fer to the Minister of the Interior the protest of the electors. M. Foy- demanded .to speaks—" Gentlemen," said he, " have been instructed by a great number of .Constitutional elec. tors--{Murmurs on the r ight,) --of the arronliissement of the Boanne, to present to the Chamber . their protest against the nomination of 111. Mcandre. It is upon, this ground that I • • shall proceed to add some observations to the report which has just been made. If the Prefect of the department, deciding in the Council of prefecture, conformably to the law of the 6th' of February, and giving the motives of his decision, had struck off some names, there would be a reason for complaint and ap peal on the part of those persons, and the Council of State would be coiled upon to decide it; but this decisi6n would be injurious to the appellants, becnuse in five years the Prefect ..might,again act as he thought proper." Here the orator enter ed unto the details of the .protest, .in which a Siour Laniblon complained of having been erased from - the list of electors, be. cause he did not pay the required amount of tuxes ; and because he belonged to another College. This arbitrary act,. continued tne Hon. Illentlier, was not unknown to the I.ing's Govern ment,. They knew it, both from the protest added to the pro cos-verbal of the electoral College, and from the public functionariett of the country. Well, then, after being thus ac quainted with it, .it might be supposed that.the Prefect would be cilsoilie.,ed, or reprimanded. No . such thing,-:-he has been rewarded—he has been promoted.; he.was the Prefect of a small &paw:lca—they have transferred him to another much more important ; and probably the publicity now given to this arhi. trary act will a motive 'for elevating hilt still higher—(A. Foy continued, and urged, that, but fur the irre gularity which was committed, M. Meandre would not pro. uably hive been-elected. He founded this opinion upon the numerical calculation of the namher of electors erased from the list. ilowrv,r, 'addetl , M: Foy, Ido not oppose myself to the atlmi , l , ,i , m of ?.f. Ideandre. (1f what consequence t me can an insulated case be, when there are no longer in France, any elections ?—(Tunittlt on the right ; " Order, order !") 111 .Foy.—" When there are no longer in France"— On the left—" Yes, yes." The President rang the belt. • On tip? Order, order."- • The Orator repeated the phrase three times. Each time the cries of" Order !" were renewed. M. de Oirardin.—" No ; there are no longer any elections." The uproar continued. • . M. Dudon ascended the tribune. Oitardin, Ltienne, Detnargay%-.-:" Put on your dress." Thidon..- 1 I beg pardiin of the Chamber for not being en costume : big it may recollect that in the first sittint, , s" On the left,—" Veer ensAnnze 'pitt it on."' On the right.—" M. le President, call, M. Poy to order." The President."l have . 4..alled M. Foy to the question. veew that, he ,is no longer in the tribune I cannot call him to order." • Dudon, who still remained in the tribune, endeavoured to raise his voice; but M. de Oirsrdin, who made hinn4elf eon hpieuousfrorn his gestures, continued to excitant, " You have not got on your costume."' - • Etienne.—" You cannot speak without (The tumult continited-) • The President rang his bell, and silence was restored a Addressinehimself to M. Diitlon, he said, according to the regulations of the Chamber, you cannot speak .without btiing ei eortienza ; I cannot aecure you whearing. M. Duticm quitted the tribune, and returned to place. 11. Benoist.—" I demand to he heard. As a member of the commission directed to examine the election of N. Meandre, I .intended to support the report, if the question has arisen attacked the validity of that eintion; but it is al!.!pther chang ed ; it is , a mil to order which has been urged l‘y a part of the Chamber." (Murmurit on the left: " That not the ques tion," from many voices.) The President.—" I would remind M. 13;:loist, that .the call to order cannot be the present question ; a!•1 that what- the Chamber has to discuss, is the validity of the ,dmission 3leandre." The Orator then entered upon the question ; and he observed that the phrase which had been . employed by the preceding speaker was an insult to the Legislature and to Lei. ; :islation, because it assumed that the laws under which we live are nd laWs. fiebastiani ascended the tribune. l'he lion. Member repeated in some measure .what M. Foy had said, and concluded by observing, that Trance would learn that the Prefects made the elections, and, perhaps, even the gendarmes, On the This is shocking!" On the left.—" Yes,! yes !" On the riglit.--" To tne vote! to the vote!" • The President put to the vote the validity of the Alection : it way addpted, The adjournment, as well as the referring the protest o f th e lilectdra to the Minister of the Interim, was atioptetl. • 'They proceeded to the irrninatiiin 4. . the Vice President:. The number of the votes 1a207 ; absohne majority 104. The following was the. "result Martignee, 139 ; de tergorlay Florian, 12(11 de lionald, 1191 do,Causans; 119. These Deputies hiving obt fined the majority of - the suf. drages, , were declared Vice Presidents. - • - :The sitting rose at half past,five, anti adjourned till Monday. FEn. 1, • • (Front the Journal dee Dehats:) - The men who have seized upon the supreme* authority in ' -Spain never matte to reply, to the Powers opposed to their usur= pstion, that in 1012 those Powers recognized the Constitution which is now pointed out as the origin ,of the disorder which . agitates, the Peninsula, and the cause of the Joist solicitude which is nutniftted throughout Al liurope. Such tin objection ought to have no weight in a question which embraces -spa - natty reel interests, and which Fan only be nPPreciated by the immense good or evil that will be its result from it to 'society in general. However, if an impartial public need in be 'enlightened on this - point, it will be.casy to satisfy that . public; and to demonstrate the futility 'of ism argument ,so ,deitttuto,of any plausible grund.' Napoic'.on having 'invaded SPain to Subjugate it to.foreign, i nvestor!, Sri having carried the' legitimate Xing and the. •Vantily into elptivity, the ,netitxi wilt against such a =Volution, The men who took 'won thetnselveS the chruction of Oat noble 'movement allsembled and afteriverds at under diflitrent d,nontiratiens, 'and 'confined themselves *Welk .to: the exercise of : the powors,which circurnstatims rendered sic. ~ccesary for the defenee of t he 'wintry. ' hithe'ev e atit t the 'War td take reetiO•in Cadiz, Os compoicion Qr edites bccanni ossentiido- altered •the • • ; 4.4 r. Change of a greett number ofindividuals, or by themode of ad " mission, and'it Was then that this assembly, without any special comeniseion, deeey. up and proclaimed a constitution which cite racterized, the.gataire of its political existence, and that e& other assemblies, of the stone kind which werealestined to succeed ite That act was proreed, declared, andproniulgated, without: the participation or 'consent of the.lCing,• -who was then a pri soner at Valengay. ',lt was in efiect rather the organization of assemblies andpowees during the absence' of the sovereign, than the fundamental law of a monarchy, which, at that period, so little remote from ss, extended over a great part of the habi table globe. • • • Such was the state of things when Napoleon carried the- war into Russia. The first effect of that aggression was to unite all descriptions of resistance against the common enemy, without calling to account the nature of the political powers which dis tinguished them. In this spirit the. Assembly and the Regency resident at Cadiz sent a Minister to Russia. and proposed an alliance; in accepting :that alliance, the Cabinet of Peters.: burgh at the same time recognized the actual and immediate mode of existence of the power with which it treated. Such a recognition [arose out of the very nature of the case, without adding any legality to the Spanish Constitution, and still more withont_ guaranteeing it or rendering it better or .more legitimate. Had it been otherwise, it would have been necessary to refrain from treating at all; and from offering, or alternately - receiving, reciprocal succours, essential to the com mon safety. Spain being afterwards delivered, as much by her own efforts as by the success ofthe allied armies, the question of the legitimacy and the utility of the. copstitution formed .at Cadiz .was -sub mitted to him who had in the first place the right to judge that is to say, the King, - the sole legislator in Spain before the !events and the innovations- to which we haveyeferred. This invariable principle -of public -law in Spain triumphed even amidst the convulsionsof the monarchy ; for the authority con: tinued to be always exercised in the name of Ferdinand VII.; no other was entitled to command obedience. - His Catholic Majesty, on returning to his kingdom, per • ceived that the conditions on which lie was to be. permitted to reign, placed royalty in a state of :degrading servitude, fatal to the real liberty of the people, and only.useful to the ambi tion of some men. Impressed with his duty to the throne and to the people whom Providence had committed to his care, the King refused to submit to the bondage which it was attempted to unpotie -upan him under the name of a con etitution. He resumed the rains or the government , according to the forms and the ivies ob served by his predecessors. :From thatenoment the constitution had no loner an exist ence for any one. Even those who proposed it, a dmitting that the. King's acceptance was necessary. to render it legitimate; and the Monarch having declared himself in et manner altogether opposed to it, the act became merely a project, which had not received its completion either in the opinioh -of the Spaniards, or with still more reason, in that Of foreign governments. During the space of six consecutive years. the nation never testified a wish for the revival of the reign of the Cortes ; and if sonic secret conspiracies were fabricated. they were con stantly the work • of revolutionists, without the people connect ing themselves in any manner with them, or performing any' ostensible act to prove that they took part in the principles or. conduct of those plots. At last, an army which the King-had destined to defend the honour and ,the interests of the State in the New World, seduced by the agents of' the same conspiracy, abandoned the standards of fidelity to hoist those of revolt. In delivering up to disorder the countreewhich geve them :birth, and which had put arms in their hands, the Chiefs of that army invoked the absurd and illegal Constitution which was destined to be the source of so many misfortune ; and sought to justify their defection .as soldiers, by the hypocritical affectation of wishing tti eppear legisletors. Without entering .into the history of this famOus rebellion; every one knows that the King, forced in his palace, was obliged under pain of life, to accept the act : which on just grounds he had rejected. when he was at liberty.. • The conseqtienees of this forced acceptance were—disaster in the transmarine provinces, •which still maintained the struggle in favour of the mother country ; discontent, agitation, LlM sione and finally civil war in the interior ; ruin, anni. hilation of all authority, even of thatewhich the revolutionists -.wished to establish for their :own profit: finally, the contagion of bad principles - and bad examples extended so fir as to en, dahgcr the security of other States, and. to realize the case in winch it is mot only allowable, but a duty, to provide . for self ( 'defence by all necessary means, in order to obtain:so legitimate an object. Such are the events and the causes which form the motive for the steps taken liy.continental,Europe Against - the oppressors. of Spain. To pretend that. the- Cvil which those events and sautses have produced ought to he endured, because; under circutristences in no way resembling those which have occurred, all the criminality which might be Conunftted could not be foreseen, is to ask Impunity for those oppressor* because : their acts were not conjectured in sufficient time, and because a more sinister augury ehoeld have been for Mid of their igno rance and presuiiiption. There ,exists at the bottom of the human hart a sentiment of justiceand.rectitude which the Sophisms ofadversity cannot stifle.. Soldiers who abandon the standards under which they ought to combat, who betray their oaths and sacrifice the great interests of their country, seek in vain their justification in demagogic orgies. 1t is uot in the bosom of revolt, and in the oblivion of every duty, that justice and good laws can arise. History is full of brilliapt proofs of this great treth, and of it Spain now furnishes. the most terrible alai instructive example. It is said that many English families, alarmed, doubtless. by the certainty of the policy which their Government may follow in the present circumstances, are preparing .to leave Paris to return to their own country, or to pressed to die Netherlands. (Journal de Paris.) An extraordinary courier,who left Madrid on the 21st, stated, 'on passing through Bayonne, that Bessieres, one of the in surgent chiefs, who advanced with his troop to Guadalaxara, within if, leagutim of Madrid, had been completely beaten by the Constitutionalists, who took .100 know the nutuher of the. ) The itioniteur . of yesterday contains the following state. 'tient : —" On the 21st of January, the anniversary of the death , of 'Louis XVI:, all the vessels in the. port of 3larseilles struck their yards, and hoisted their flags half mast high. One only refused to do this. It was the Spanish ship called " The Con stitution or Death." The people, offended at such conduct, began to assemble .on the quays, and loudly manifested an indignation, the consequences of which might have been seri ous, had not the Spanish Consul, and the Captain of the port, gene on board the Spanish ship, and forced the Captain to hoist the sinal of mourning conformable to the order of the Mayor. It' is added that he yielded very unwillingly." Th e following is the result of , the trial at Orleans Baudrillet is unanimously found guilty of participation in the plot for taking the Castle of Saurnur. Lalautle, by a majority, not guilty of the fact, but guilty of misprision. buret unani. matudy guilty of recruiting against the lawful authority. •'.'he Court condemned Baudtillet and I)uret to lie executed ; and Lalonde to three years' imprisonntent. On Friday the 22d regiment of the line left Paris for the army.Of Spain ; it will be replaced by the Is9th regiment of the line. The 3501 regiment Will set off on Sunday for the *ritzy, and will be replaced by the 3d regiment. On the 27th ult. the 9th company of Miners left Dousy for the Army of Observation. '. - companies of the foot artillery of the Toulouse regi ment left Rennes on the 27th ult. fur Bayonne. The 10th company of•Mineri, 50 men of the light horse ar. riflery, two companies df.the train carps, and 54 teams of tum brils and forges, passeitilirough 'foul-on the 26th tilt..tin their route from Metz to Perpi, .enatt. It is affirmed that the Jody Guards, who ore under orders to join the.A tiny of Observation, will march on the 6th instant. M. Guira, Chief ;! ,, eirgeon 4f the .11ilitary Hospital dllnStruc tion of Strasitrg, is, it i 3 said, appointed Surgeon.ln-Chief of the Army of Observation. . . The King this day ,receivo4 in private audience. Count de la Ferreimaye, Ambassador of his Most Christian Majesty to the Court of Russia. • • It hasbeen' rumoured, that a division of the French army, united to a corps of Spanish Royalists, has proceeded onward to compel Mina ionise the siege of O'eo. We think this intelli gence iaretnature.-- f L'EteilE. ) M. de Lauristort will, it is said, command the division of the Western Pyrenees. : - The four hrigadis of the Body Guards, selected by ballot from four companies, will depart for Spain on the thlt instant. Two parks of field artillery are actively completing•at Tou louse and Narbonne ; one is destined for the aunty of tha Eas tern, and the other for that of the Western Pyrenees. The second regiment of the Cuirassiers of the Guard, which at eight o'clock on Thursdey evening, had received marching orders, received counter-orders, the same evening at eleven o'clock. _ . • • Three squadrons de Guerre march to-day ; the fourth to. morrow. 'This regiment passes 'through. k'ontainbleau it is presumed that the...depot will remain there. Four squadrons of Cuirassiers of Dragoons and 'Chasseurs of the Guard are destined to march. It was decided, by harlot, that, the Hussars and Lancers should remain. The artillery of Vincennm, andllie 2d Regiment of Cuiras. s i ers o f !be. Quard, marched this: morning for ilia frontiers of Spain. The inf,intry _will depart to-morrow. It is not true tiuit IVI. Balrnaseda has had an interview with the Dulte of Angoulerne:--(fiforiltext.). It is asserted thatthe gendarmerie has arrested and conducted to the pUiSape et Toulouse, an individual, who is accused of having witdittl to .nro cartons soldiers in our army undo The flag of the Constitutional Spaniards, by showinethem a letter from Mina.-• We may imagine how such proposals have been received trv-tht , faithful servants of the King., This person is to be:tili'd by ill° Second Council of War. In..the 'General Assembly-of the Bank of France, which took •fylaee. an the 14th of January, the Duke of Gaeta, Governor; in t h e n•ime of the General Council; presented the, annual ac count of the operations nithat establishment for the last year.— The,clividend for.the .first, six months, augmented by the pro. fits produced by- the extraordinary advance of 60 million's, which the. Bank made to the Royal treasury, was raised to 41f. ; that of the last six months, deprived of this aid, was 32f.: this amounts to 73f: 60c. for the year, independent of a reserve of 588,000 f. . The Duke of Gaeta has also submitted to the Cannella detailed account of the expences of the Bank fertile first six months of 1822. • 'From Journal des Debats, of Sunday,:F eh. 21 We have qUoted an article from the Espectador, containing ridiculous exaggerations on the military means at the disposal of the Cortes, and we have pointed out vulgar method of deceiving the multitude. % e have to-day received positive in formation on the real state of the armies of Spain., Twenty-three -thousand infantry, including the army of Mina, are all the troops which they posieis to guard the Pt renees and 'the whole Peninsula from Barcelona to Cadiz, from Corunna to Carthagcna. This fact shows how the royalist guerillas can Maintain themselves and advance near to the gates of the ca pital. There are, - further, five"orsix regiments of cavalry, but they are reduced to two-thirds of their numbers.' The corps of artillery and engineers are likewise far from being numerous : they almost universally Want a war thateriel, complete and or ganized for service. The extreme weakness of the Spanish ma rine is a fact acknowledged in ministerial- reports of the Spa niatds. • Six ships of the line, and seven frigates, are all their hal.) , that can put to sea. Such at present is their tied. It is known that Spain purchased some vcars ago four bad ships of the line, ready to All to pieces. We can add,' that they were. on the point of purchasing from us two old hulls, which are now breaking up in theport of Breit. • We do nut desire to humiliate Spain by this true picture of her weakness. .ller honourable poverty is the fruit of her ef forts to defend, her, 'King; but can the Cortes resist with so ; feeble means, especially when a grrat body of the nation' seems opposed to the existing system ? now guilty, then, are , those men, who by falsehoods 'endeavour to deceive a people who have it still• in their power to• save themselves 'from the horrors of war. • [From Me Courier Franeaiol PARTS, JAN. 3l.—Many conjectures have lately been made concerning the cause and object of ;he journey of Prince Met ternieh to Munich. The following letter,,written by a person filling an important situation, will give our readers accurate information concerning this journey, as well as concerning, the present Sta:e o 1 Bavaria. • - " Mtinie4, Jan. 20. - " Prinee•Metternich passed through Munich, .on his return from the Congress - of Verona, and stopped there three days.— Ilis presence in our capital caused a general 'uneasiness, is not yet over ;• it was - k nown . bethre hand • that -.he . did not conic .to add one jot to-the little liberty . we-enjoy ;we are not acquainted in all their details with the communications , which this Diplomatist has had -with • our Ministers ; but we have at length been able to learn the principal, an d- we can now affirm .with.certainty„that • after a long commentary on the Verona Cir cular, Prince Metternieh presorted a Note.to our Government, on the subject of assembling at Vienna a near !German Congress, in which changes under the name of moditications in the-German Constitution, and particularly therumns tit' suppressing in Ger. ninny all manifestation of .pdblic 'opinion, either by the pub lication of Parliamentary and jadicial debates, or by the ;nib.' lication of newspapers and periodical .works will.be discussed. It has also been .propased to abolish:all the •- - Unireriities of Ger many,. and tosupply their places by instinftions similar to those of Prance; The action also of a Corpsof observation, composed of Austriatls and,BaVarians, on •the side of, Landau, in case,of war betw74l'Pranet: and Spain, which appears inevitable, was proposed. On;thiS - occasion also the project of.tertain territorial changes was brought on the. carpet, and Austria - has, it is said, manifested a. desire to•aequire Passau. indemnifying Bavaria at tl)e. expellee of Baden, or of some other .country.. .}fowever this may be, it seems certain, that the Prince did not find our Mi nistry wholly favourable to his vieWs,• and all the Bavarians, friends of order and tranquillity, hope from the wisdom and pa triotism of our Ministers, that they will. firinly persist in their resolution of:maintaining• what already exists. . • . _" But it may be asked, whatdoes that diplomacy definitively mean, whicli for &Mit, years h a s r e gulated the afi:urs of r.,urope . by. Congresses ? When will it cease to occupy itself periodically with people, who only desire, to enjoy in repose the benefit of their .mstitutiontt, Jn Bavaria - .we are tired ,tif. perpetual cluingeitinited in the interior, devoted to one Ring and his dynasty, we place all our hope in - the fundamental la* of the kingdom, anti in the (good Nth of those Who - are charged with carrying it it into execution. This Charter, the immortal :work of our :august . 11 . 1onareh,•is for us the pledge of 14pineas.and repose. We have no factions, no spirit of party divides us— +we only 'know froM hearsay of the existence of demagogues and Mired ; and we have some reason' to expect that the pe, licy of threign Cabinets will not trouble the,repose which we enoov. Moreover, the Diplomatists cannot be ignorant that our Princes—our great public bodies—our Nuctionaries—all our ciiizens,'haVe selemnly sworn fidelity to . the Charter. We are constantly told that religion is the firmest support of thrones, of social order-rand of this we are convincedr-but is the sane tity of oaths then to' be excepted ? And how does it happen drat those .wito desire-to combat the. revolutionary spirit act precisely as if they fuilowed the same principles, since .they in. cessantly proVoke changes and destruction of the most legiti mate institutions? Among us the publicity of the debates of out Chambers, the moderate liberty of the l'ress, troubles neither our, repose nor public order: they compromise neither the dignity nor the security of the Throne. The Emperyrs of Austria and Russia may have convinced themselves of this in seeing our dignified 31onarch at his castle of 'regernsee without any. other guards than the respect and love of his subjects. They slept there themselves under the safeguard of German honesty: They have seen that a Constitutional King, when faithful to his engage ments, is in the midst of his peoplelike an adored father in the midst of his children. This is a truly paternal Government, and not that which displays at every moment the employment of force. ." The Liberty of the PresS is reduced in Bavaria to a reason able tolerance, which has exited from time immemorial- In Austria they may . have forbidden the publication of the work of our Agriculturist, M. Ilarzi, orr Manures; but such a literary oppression could of be practised in 11:-.varia, without leading to important constmAtiences ; it would make every, body discon tented, and producrj, as at the truce of Napoleon, a s ec ret agi tation, and an etfeef quite contrary to that which they desire to produce. It is the same With the Daily Papers ; the little liberties which they enjoy, far from exciting trouble or inspiring discontent against.the Government, ainnse the public, satisfy curiosity; and calm the uneasiness which an unskilful policy his so long nourished in Gm erany.—Shall the Bavarians, then, be reduced - to the melancholy condition cf neither seeing nor judging but with, the eYes,and mind of the Austrian Observer ? The liberty of the ,Tribune offers even less inconveniences, and c a nn o t be digpleaSing, except to some blinded or corrupted• courtiers, who have -collected abroad maxims et despotism, which can never be successfully transplanted into the German soil. Bcsid7l, the Gallery open to the public in. our second . Chamber, scarcely contains 50 persons, and they now - speak of re/Awing it still more; arwas done in. France sore time ago." We shall not examine thoroughly the question of thesuppres-, shot of the Universities; those of Bavaria have always been very tranquil. We shall content ourselves with observing, that if ideas of politics and liberty have been introduced among the students, the Goventnients of Germany have only themselves to thank for it. It was.they who kindled in young hearts the love of independence, by.exciting them to hatred of the yoke of Napoleon. It was repeated to them that this Conqueror Would destroy all the liberties of Germany and suppress the Universities. How can' it now -he pretended to make them - .think good what was then represented to th e m as - so odious ? n . 6 • G eri t a n youth has too much candour - and rectitude of soul, and we shall add, too much good sense to enter into the terms and subindex of the policy of diplomatists. But we must above all be astonished to see Prussia adhere to similar projects, she Who owes her rank and he r p ower to t h e lights of the age; to the liberal' ideas generally difili ci d • i n a word, to that mora l strength established by her immortal Pre derick. It is this strength, joined to the patriotisni of he r army and her l an d w ehr, - which puts Prussia in the rank or great Monarchies ; it is that winch alone Will give her the power of ta nn i ng freely a beneficent policy, which is mark ed out to her by national interests opposed to those of her neigirbour s . We cited yest er d a y e xpressions of the Quefidierrne, proper to make known the real objeet which a party proposes to itself in rushing into a war with Spain. The Drupeau Btunc, whose fire des.iises all considerations of the suitable and the politic, contains to day an avowal still more ran;/ ; we transcribe it literally. Si There has glided," it gays, " undoubtedly through hied doctrinei thi s s i ngu lar phrase Representative Govern.vertence, intOa Journal which has constantly defended wind an T,l a li . s h i ss n o v n ol o n i nt c a i rl iti n tr , c , at i ls by to itt u e4 s a u mew.* soon. h ave paling but admirer s , if t h ey contr i ve to pat an e p td rof t so re r vi ; il w uti h o 6 ns b .: words:--e Gentlemen; antimony would beavery wholesome ,üb, toce, if it i li a not a very-dankteroits poison: !, • . ~. x . LITERARY NOTICE. The commencement. of a new year never fails to give birth to a variety . of literary spe culations ; among those produced by the pre. sent is anew Spaniih Magittine, the object and execution: of ~which demand our unqualified approbation. It is designed to promote the in tercouse, as wellintellectual as commercial, be tween ibis countr y and the late Spanish ColOnies in particular, though the care which has been taken to abstain from every topic calculated to excite political irritation renders it equally adapted for circulation in Old Spain. Now, that recent circumstances seem to strengthen the pro bability of a more intimate connection between that country and the British empire, the appear ance of such a publication is peculiarly seasonable. According to,the original intention of the Pub lisher, Mr. ACKERMANN, this Miscellany, intituled .Variedades o illenzagero de Londres, is to appear quarterly; but from an advertisement prefixed to this first number, we perceive,' that he has prudentlY resolved not to proceed with a second till he knows what encouragement the plan is likely'to. receive from abroad. It therefOre . behaVeS all who feel an interest in its continua tion r and we .presume that all our comiuer Oat houses trading with Spanish America must 'he . more or less interested in it—to come forward and to assist in supporting and ' giving permanence to the work. The 'plan or,' the proprietor has been ably seconded by the editor, who, if we are not mistaken, has lately demonstrated his familiarity with our language by thenaMe of Don LEUCADIO DOBLADO, in his' animated Letters on Spain. if farther proof of this were wanting, he has furnished it in the numbern'before us; in the translations not only from works belonging to our current literature, but from SHAKSPEARE himself. LIVERPOOL REPRESENTATION. ( From the Liverpool Advertiser, Feb. 1.) Meetings were held yesterday in the large room of the .King's Arms Inn : the one of Mr. CANNING'S friends at twelve ; the other of the freemen and other friends of Mr. fluiltisson,-at one. We were unavoidably prevented from attending the former. Wegot into the room, which we found crowded a quarter before one, when we. found John Gladstone, Esq. on his legs, concluding an eulogiu m on Mr. Canning, in troduetory to two. Resolutions which h e p r op ose d: t o' the -Meet ing, expressive of their regret at the termination of their public connection with him (Mr. Canning), and of every sentiment of warm respect for his ,talents, antfcharacter, and conduct. JOHN 130.T0N, Escp.was in the Chair. The ilesolutions were, unanimously, passed. Soon after one, - Sir Was. BARTON rose to move the Resolutions, expressing the sentiments of the freemen that Mr. Huskisson was a proper person to represent them in Parliament, their desire that he plight be, invmdto allow himself to be put in nomination, and embodying the letter of invitation. 'Mr.' GLADSTONE rose to second the motion. It cannot fail, he said, to be matter of high gratification to us, that in present ing the invitation embodied in these Resolutions, we are not soliciting a new and untried person. Mr. Huskisson has been long known in Parliament and to the country, and has beenre cognised as a man of distinguished talent and integrity, and einmerktly well-inforined on subjects of finance., commerce, ma nufactures, and every other department of public- business--a knoWledge most desirable andamportant in the Representative of this great commercial town. 31r. Huskisson has held d high place in the councils of his Sovereign, for which he has not been indebted to accident or to any of that influence which sometimes is the agen tin placing men In responsible and hi g h s t a ti ons , b ut -solely to those qUalities inherent in himself which I have just commended to his. talents, his integrity, and . his knowledge of business. If the acquisition of any man f or our representative •could malt° us fool, less sensibly the:loss which we have suf fered in Mr. Canning'it resignation, that man is Mr. Huskis son. We cannot be insenstble that Mr. Huskisson will make a considerable sacrifice in allowing himself to be put in Doming. lion as successor to Mr. Canning. Mr. Huskisson represents the borough of Chichester, an open borough like this, to which lie has been chosen solely on account of his talents and charac ter. •He cannot but feel considerably at breaking a connec tion so.honourable to himself, during the continuance of which lie has back treated with the wannest respect, and re garded with the highest affection. I have confidence, howe. ver, that Mr. Huskisson will not hesitate, when he receives your warm and unanimous invitation. He will not be insen sible to the call.uf public duty ; nor can he fail to be moved by the honour ,of succeeding Mr. Canning in representing this great, loyal, and enlightened town. Mr. Gladstone then read the resolutions seriatim, which were unanimously passed. then said that the election would take place on Wednesday , week, the 12th instant. On the Monday previous, he hoped Mr. Huskisson, Ulm should consent to allow himself to be put in nomination, would visit them. It was usual for the freemen to pay to their representative the eemplitnent of meeting him on his approach.on.stieli oecaions. He hoped they would at tend for this purpose -at how-hill, on Monday ; the probable hour would.notlail to be intimated by some means. Mr. Glad. stone'also assured the freemen, that the customary ceremonies of happy and merry memory, the potations and libations dale, should be as amply attended to as usual, and concluded with moving that a stibscription be opened on the spot, for defraying the legal expences of the election. The Meeting concluded with three cheers f or M r . H us ki sson, as ninny as had a right and who chose, remaining to sign the letter of invitation. A private letter of the same date says :—" The requisi. tion has been signed in this short space of time, by upwards of 3000 persons, amongst whom are some of the most respectable merchants and inhabitants of this town." COUNTY MEETINGS. lIERTS COUNTY MEETING FOR REronat.--The High Sherift'of Hens; in pursuance of a revisition to him for that purpose, has appointed Saturday next for holding a meeting of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeh o ld ers of that county. " to take into consideration the present state of the House of Collllllona, anti the necessity for a Reform thereof." • HANTS.—III ionsequence of the refusal of the High Sheriff of Hants, to convene It county meeting, Sir Th omas R ar i ng has offered his so-vices to join four other Magistrates in giving a legal chaeactcr,to..a county meeting, for the purpose of dis. cussing the causes of the present agricultural distress, and de vising any means of amelioration that may be suggested. Sur eit.x.-, , A requisition is signed in Suffolk, requesting the High Sheriff to convene a Meeting of the County on Par. liamentary Reform. - .—A new Blow-pipe has been in vented .by Mr. Guaxey,' which includes . the wonderful properties of at once perfect safety, and a power equal to at least ten times that of any other instrument of the kind hitherto in use; To those who are acquainted - with this subject; it will be sufficient to say, that Mr. GURNEY'S .blow-pipe is capable of permitting the use of a flame . of the mixed gases twelve or fourteen inchesin length when required—that no known substatice resists its power—that a platinum wire a quarter of an inch in diameter melts before it ahnost immediately ; tobacco-pipes have been converted into perfectly transparent glass, and a steel file had a hole burnt thrOug.h it in less than half a minute. It will be recolleded that the flame produced by the wmmon condensing blow pipe is not more than three-fourths of an inch long, and that the late Dr. CLA REA:, in using that instrument, considered it as a complete triumph d'art to be able to Melt a, platinum wire the size of a knitting needle. Even this was effected at imminent risk, several . destructive explosions havingtakeit-plaCe, and Dr. C. latterly resorted to Oe'expOiehi of building .up a brick wall titeen'hitriself and'hii instrument. PRICE G THIS DAY AT flank Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. 77/ 3:per Cent. Cons. 76 3i per Cent. t ptr Cent. fPP 951 1 New 95ii 5 ter Cents. 1797 Rank Long Ann. 2oi 13-16ths Imp. 3 per Cents. — STOCKS NE O'CLOCK. India Stock ....... India Bonds ........ ..... South Sea Stock ..... Old Annuities ........... Ex. Bills ............... - Ditto Small .• . .... Bank for Act. ........... India for Con. Acct. .., Cons. for Account ...... --...-- . PR h l us C s E ian OF FOREIGN ST OGO IN LONDO N, I AT ONE O'CLOCK. Five per Cents. ni. .. Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.. Ditto 'New 74. Neapolitan Five per Cent. Bonds, 67. lip' 00. Austrian • Five per Cents. (Bletallie) 00. * {Five per Cent. Bonds, 4 1. . Spanish New Ditto, 374. Scrip, 28 disc. .„ ' P rus „d an , • s Five per Cent. Bonds, Pk. •' ' - 1. Ditto New, 75. Ch - Five per Cent. Bonds, 80. : • 68. Colombian - Six per Cent. Bonds, 47! . - Peruvian New Lottn, 00. . .. . Bank Shares £2l ss. American / Six Per Clnt- 90-98 ,i* Five per Cent. 95-9 0 . • Three per Cent. 70. French HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE T0.3.10P Morning, 15 minutes after 9. I Evening, 49 rninutel THE barn. • tg.1ra1..... * i . . ...._. Edr y SOLER QUIS DICERS FiILSC.II AO -- ' LONDON.. TUESDAy, FEBRuiRi isa OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. ....11141.. - The House of Lords assembled this +1 3 .1' as Ills MAJE STY was not we ll enough 10 he , sent in perso n , th e L or d s C o mmi s sionerW a Al-IJESTY'S name s delivered the Speech fr o m Throne, of w hi c h t h e f o ll ow ing is a c orrect ample Outli ne : • The Speech begins by assuring WO % ftf that since th e l ast S ess i on the. 100" ~.l e le Peace of Europe. I have been unremittingly exerted' to . P l—r , faithful to the Principles • which I)3' 1) be gated to the World as constituting 1 It states thatlbit 111.titi - . to of his Conduct, d ec li ne d b e ing Par t y bi proceedings at Verona w hich c ould Jeef an Interference in the internal " 11 cerM la Spain o n th e part o f F ore i gn I'overs: since used and continues to use his roost 311- Endeavo urs an d goo d O ff i ces to silo , 11, 1° tion unhappily subsistin g between the Fret'cli ! Spanish Governments, and to av,lt if r'l) A the calamity of 'War betwee n F ra nce 0° ?'3 0 .11 The KIN G flatt ers hi mse lf that Pe'ce iio preserved in th e E ast o f Europe, 1111" -‘lll to receive from his Allies, and other Powers, assurances of their position to cultivate with Hts 1411jE'T.v friendly Relations, which it is equaill Ills 1 JESTY'S object to mintain on his dar t ' t The Lords Comminsioners farther state, cu discussions have been long pending Court of M a d r id respecting IlePredliti°) ce is mated on th e C ommerce o f British 544 the West Indies, and other grievances( - KING has been under the necessity of c( '` 9l 4191' ' which discussions hive terminated in 8° of the Spanish Government of the j ustic° complaints and in an engagement for -9 r ‘o e tf i d ia di r ,r a ea t sr i sl o i t a t. —T be y convey His IN ipor o , 1 (1 surance that he has not been Imm i nent Netherlands, lilloaenlr.ese r esented fboir e ve s tm.hb p te.etietnA . - r _ II : c Trade, and o m ore effectual i itnhro ral' ril ' il ° • soppressl° it 'O at ' evil were brought forward 'by-IUS lent I J t' Jo Harp • Yin the Conferences at Vero ll3 ' , _ • s e 11 r sp 4 t: °tit::: PCrl; 10 . dos subject already concluded bet 40 01 , j 4 ; 0 'te I tn , dorn and the Gover.nment of -. °I IJ Governments ne yll them n added to the Treat''' „ Articles exten di ng ib ! mild of those Treaties, and greatly fo ciP exe.cution. The Lords Commissioners trw' s louse of Com mon s, an d apprize he" KING has directed the Estimate s "f th:‘tilf:lll year to be laid before the lionset uua -M f 1 have been framed with evert 1 ° b 416°11 i° l 4 fori b r e y , ,a a i t id the total Expeigl iturB to will e .m erially . . ..; .11 . . A 'll l,ll'° observe, They then that ibis ui" , Ira },, , Char below thai of las t Charge combined with the progresslv °la .. , meat of the Reventte-7 has . priOacea OF - - . • .09 exceeding His.MAJE.SZY:S mos t Say' l.