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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY .• Extracts from , the Morning ,Papers, May 17. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A discussion on,the Irish Tithes Commutation . Bill took place last night, on the motion for going into a Committee. t•uch is the change in opinion which a short but eventful period his produced, that the only opponent of the principle of the Bill was Mr. Wetherell. This Honourable Member, in a speech of which it is difficult to say whether learning or facetiousness formed the principal characteristic, dwelt a good deal on the .usual topics of the sacredness of property, and the necessity of proteCting it, contending that the effects of the „Hill would be to cut up by the roots the principles on which all property, whether civil or • clerical, was founded. The Hop. and Learned Gentleman observed, that the peculiar merit of the Tithe was, that 44 it mixed up the Clergymah harmoniously with the rest of the Constitution, and brought him constantly in contact with his parishioners.", The Honourable and Learned Gentleman might have added, that in many places the Clergyman would never come in contact with his parishioners at all, but for this last hold which the Church has' no the Laity. If this tie be cut asunder, the beheficed Clergy of Ireland Will resemble the Bishops, in pailibus of the Roman Church, and know as much of the state of their parishes, as the pious Abbe Fray . ainoui; for instance, knows of the state of his diocese of Herntopolis. At present the Honour able and Reverend Fashionables, to whom the souls of the Irish are by law committed, know that potatoes pay tithe in Munster, while they are exempted in the North and West, and pos sess some other local knowledge of a curious and intererting description ; hot should they become State pensioners instead of :burdens on their re spective parishes„involved in the seductive amuse ments of Bath and Cheltenham, they might. soon forget even to inquire where their parishes were situated. These points, however, did not escape the penetration of Mr. Wetherell, who knew that as long as tithe existed it would bring-the cler gyman frequently in contact with his parish ioners. lie must necessarily be in possession of much statistical information respecting them, at all events, whether he reside or not ; because, for instance, wheh a high rate - of mortality in the class of Tithe Proctors raises the rate of tithe-inSurance, the deduction from the gross amount will naturally stimulate to inquiry. The contact between the Rector or his Tithe Proctor and the Otrishioners leads often to another kind of contact, which could not of course escape the acute ness of Mr. Wetherell,—we allude to the con tact between the Tithe Payers or Tithe Receivers, and that important class of the community to 'I which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman himself beloilgs—tt class which, like the Deities of the Savage, is principally worshipped from its supposed power to injure. The interests of all the Hierarchies are intimately connected, as the Honourable and Learned “entlematt knows. It would have been rather unfortunate if Mr.We there!' had not opposed the Bill, and more parti cularly had be not observed in his usual impres sive manner, " that it forced the parties, miens volens, to a commutation, bringing them to the measure in vinculis, and subjecting them to the hnitum fillmen of the Government ;" for if he had not made this observation, Mr. Peel, a friend of the Bill, would have been placed in the ungracious situation of being obliged himself to start the objection, instead of ap peering in the character of a liberal and candid opponent, who gives way to the overpowering force of the arguMents of his adversary. Mr. Peel's conversion was rapid no doubt, but it could have no connection with his desire to stand well with the University of Oxford, or his suspicion that they might think with Mr. Wetherell, that this 13111 would, " one time or other, become a precedent for similar measures against the Church of England." - No, he knew that neither the Church of England nor the Tithe-payers of England are paying the least attention to the provisions of 'this Bill ; and in truth it was not till he heard the forcible argu ment of-Mr. Wetherell, Hurt it occurred to him there could be any objection to the compulsory payment. The bill will yet benefit much lyy Mr. Peel's friendship, or we are much mistaken. [THE macs.] The issue of the debate on Negro Slavery in the House of Commons on Thursday evening was, all circumstances considered, a substantial triumph to the cause of reason and humanity. If Mr. Buxton's proposition was withdrawn, Mr. Can ning's was unanimously adopted. Mr. Canning pledges the Parliament and comitry to three dis tinct positions—ist, That the condition of the slave ought to be itmeliorated ; 2d, That he aught to be prepared for civil freedom ; 3d, That this great policy should-be fully realizes.) at the earliest period that may, be consistent with the welfare of the slave himself, with that of the colonies, and with a due regard to property. As to the certainty of etfectiag the , objects 'thus recognized, we are not altogether so certain. It appears that the system of re form is to be managed between the King's Mitiisters and the Colonial assemblies. This is too likely to fail. The West Indian Legislatures have always proved refractory : and as no minis terial patronage is affected by the good or bad relations existing between master and slave, 'a Secretary of State has seldom fought the battles of the unfortunate negro with such zeal or energy, as to overcome the distaste of a House of Assembly towards legislative measures for his protection. No Minister has yet prevailed upon the Colonists to receive the oath of a negro against a white man. The consequence is, that in 99 cases out of every 100, a negro sufferer has no redress; for there are none but negroes to witness an act or bar barity. No Minister ties possessed ortexerted sufficient influence to get females exempted from the horror of the lash—to give due time for the culture of their provision-ground to negroes—to secure their little property by law, with many other points :not here enumerated ;—what proof have we, tfieti, or *fiat ground of reliance, that the King's Ministers will in future be more vigo rous and successful than they have hitherto shewn themselves, in engaging the Colonial Governments to a humane line of policy towards their slaves ? The Parliament must act in its own per son, or we may pronounce that Ministers will accomplish little or nothing. But that the co lonists should themselves be insensible to the increased profit, even as a speculation, of im proving the condition—nay, of enlarging the free dom of their labourers—nay, farther / of at the earliest practicable season abolishing slavery al together, is, to us, not easily conceived. A slave, before he can become profitable to his master, costs on the average boot. If negroes were free, a free labourer, executing treble the work, could be got in full perfection for his daily wages.— With that single observation we conclude. '[NEW TI MES.] There has been much idle speculation about Mina's movements, and some of our Colempo raries will have it that he is about to invade France forthwith ! To execute this notable plan with the greater celerity, he has disembarrassed himself of the main body of his army, whom be has judiciously dispatched to Hostalrich near the sea coast, while he himself, with a chosen few, is scrambling through the mountainous de files of the Cerdagne. to favour of this ingeni ous supposition, it is alleged that " Mina is con fessedly a skilful General."—For our part we never heard of him as a General at all in the proper sense of the word. lie is the son of a day-labourer, and late in life put himself at the bead of a Guerilla party, which increased in numbers owing to'his boldness, activity, and en terprise as a Partizan leader. In this kind of warfare he shone, and in this alone ; and we very much doubt whether' he is at all capable of directing a campaign ; certainly he has never yet shewn any such ability. The real nature of his late movements is very We have before stated how be had called in the garrisons of several strong places, and posted himself with his whole force on the Fluvia, at Tordella and Besalu, about twenty-six miles South of the Perthuis-pass, by which Marshal Moncey's Army entered Spain, the only one on the Eastern Pyrenees that is practicable for can , non. We have stated how he broke up from his positions on the Fluvia, and marched off his troops by different roads, meaning to concentrate them again behind the Ter, near Vich, about 25 miles South West of his former station. This was on the Ist of May. Mina himself marched about' ten miles Westward to Olot, while Milans - and Llobero marched twelve miles Southward to Amer. Bat the Allied Troops were close at their heels in both direc tions. Donnadieu, who was coming down by the right bank of the Ter from Cam predon, cut off Mina from Vich, and entered into that town himself on the 6th instant. Curial and D'Eroles ascended the nuvia, toward Olot, in pursuit of Mina, and thus cut him off from de scending the Ter on its left hank. Necessity therefore, and not choice,- led him to ascend the Ter by Besorn, and thus approach the frontier by Campredon. But in what situation was 110 left on the 7th inst.? Between Besora and .Campre don; that is to say, in the mountainous country neapthe head of the Ter, with nothing before him but almost impracticable defiles, and with the Allies cutting him off entirely from all possi bility of rejoining the troops from whom he had separated on the Ist. Romagosa was at Ripoll, on the Ter, fifteen miles South of Campredon, Curial at Olot, twelve miles East Ripoll, D'Eroles at Besora, five miles South of Ripoll, and Donnadieu at Vich, 15 miles South of the same place.—Meanwhile Milans and Llobera, finding that Marshal Moncey had entered Ge rona on the lower part of the Ter, and that. General Donnadieu was descending on Vich from the upper part, had no resource but to retreat to the southward, on the town of llostalrich, and are thus separated by an interval of 45 miles from Mina, the intervening country being wholly occupied by the Allies.— We do not say that Mina may not extricate him self from the difficult and dangerous position into which he has been driven ; but that he has been driven into it by force, or by an utter want of mi litary skill on his own part, is most evident. As a Guenilla Leader he may know how to dis perse his men in the mountains, and to reas semble them again at a distant point ; or he may, by hard fighting, break through the toils in which he is nearly enveloped. These are efforts to which, as a Guerilla leader, he is perhaps com petent; but it must be remembered that he is op posed by Guerilla leaders as experienced as him self. D'Eroles and Romagosa are both habit uated to that kind of warfare ; they are natives of Catalonia, well acquainted with her mountains, and above all they and their followers are exasperated to the utmost against Mina for those atrocious butcheries which will stamp his name with infamy to the latest posterity. From tine mo ment that this monster issued his blood-thirsty Proclamation at Castel follit, from the moment that he executed his diabolical threat by gloating his prisoners in cold blood, from that moment. we felt confident that Divine justice would soon over take his crimes. The, moment is perhaps ap proaching, when he wilfpay the forfeit with his life; but should he even escape now, the thoughts of his inhuman murders will be lead within his bosom, And weigh him down to ruin, shame, and death. [IIItITISII PRESS.] The French Papers of Wednesday reached us yesterday by private express, with our correspondent's com munications. We had, in fact, anticipated every thing in these papers, by ou express of the day befoe, which gave us the Etoik and Pilote of Wednesday. We stated, in a second edi tion of our paper yesterday, the arrival of Amirante as a fugi tive at Angouleme!s head-quarters, Burgos, where he is said by the Ministerial French papers to have been rejected by the Alike. We mentioned alSo the immense drafts, for money made on the French treasury by Angouleme. This " thrifty" and 'successful warrior has drawn, it seems, in one bill for no less a sum than eight millions, at the suggestion of his Commis saire, Ouvrard, who.it appears informed the Duke that this was the way in which his Grace of Wellington supplied the im mense resources squandered by us in the Spanish campaign, The faction in France have made our unfortunate conduct a mo. del and ground for all their vile actions latterly : they justified the attack on Spain by our early interference with the internal con cerns of revolutionary France; and the Duke now exhausts the French Treasury, because the British Marshal drevi largely in his day. But to do the latter justice, he gave some value, both in national glory and Spanish redemption, for the money ; Angouleme is likely to purchase nothing but disaster and dis grace. The Journal des Drbats labours hard for its employers to prove that Mina's army has been cut in two by the ma neruvres of the French Generals. One division of it (that un der Milans and Lobera) has, this Paper states, thrown itself in Hostalrich, where the French cavalry already pushed their reconnoissances ; the other division, it alleges , under Miba, was obliged to ascend the Ter, and was pursued by General Curial, D'Eroles, and Romagosa. Mina, it goes on to say, has in his rear almost the entire army of Catalonia, for Donna dim had entered Vich amid the acclamations of the inhabi tants. The Journal des Davis asks, " What will become of Mina in this hopeless situation ? Will he fight, or disperse with the remains of his petty band in the mountains ?" Does this Paper call ten or twelve thousand men apetty force ? The latest accounts of those who asserted they counted the soldiers of the Spanish Chief, man by man, stated his force at 14,000 effective men. How can, this Paper have the front to assert that the army of Mina' was cut in two ? The fact is, that the Spanish Chief, by a most bold and dexterous manoeuvre, passed completely both Moncey and Curial, and placed him self, with an imposing and increasing force, between the French Generals anti their own frontiers. The French, in truth, are placed between the Spanish troops and surrounded by them. Mina at the last accounts was at V'olfagena, near Campredon, within nine miles of the French frontier. Curial was at Olot, more than one day's march in the rear. Campredon lies at the foot of the Pyrenees, on the river Ter, 45 miles north of Bar celona. Ripoll, where Rotnagosa was, is considerably in the rear of Olot. Viet', which Donnadieu is said to have entered by acclamation, lies 30 miles north-east of Barcelona; and Hostalrich, on which the Constitutional Generals 111 dans and Lobera have retired in considerable strength, is in the rear of all, and they keep up the important line of communication with the strongly-fortified city of Barcelona ; they will also be enabled to act on the flank of any division Dortnadieu may at tempt to push forward from Vich. Thus Mina has most art fully out-manoeuvred the feeble Moncey and his Lieutenant Curial, and given them completely the slip. He is now, with troops inured to fatigue and conversant with the country, be tween the French and their own frontier, and may at once carry the war into France, and both subsist his army anti levy immense contributions in that country. He may also seize hostages for the safety of the constitutional Spaniards thrown into dungeons at Puente la Reyna, at Bilboa, and Vittoria. There is not a single French soldia between the Spanish Chief and the French terri tory, or a force of any amount in French Cerdagne, or any part of Rooussillon. . The entry of Mina into France with the French and Italian refugees, bearing the national emblems, may be productive of the most important results ; at all events conquest in Catalonia, for the present, is at an end. The French Generals are retracing their steps again as fast as they can to defend their own territory from invasion. Accounts from Aleri, to the 23d, state that the siege tic Valencia was raised by the factious around it, who were diimayed by the approach of 8,000 men who had assembled at Venarez, and who were to act in concert with 2,000 foot and 300 horse who were in Alcira. This account states, that the inabitants and gar rison of Valencia *ere most determined in their resolution not to surrender. A black flag was hoisted on the walls, and a skull placed on a pole, intimating the determination of its defenders to conquer or die. The Guerilla system is at length beginning to come into full play all through Spain, and to be most harrass hig to the Franca. The French Minister's intimation to the Syndic of the ileens de Change, relative to " Mina's move ments," had the effect of raising the French funds somewhat.— They opened on Wednesday at 87. 70., and doted at 87. 75. . (,MORNING eosT.l The French apers received since our last, contain no further intelligence to satisfy the deep interest ex cited by Mina's bold enterprize. It is• not improbable that his advance, and the positions which he may take within or above the Pyrenean defiles, may for several days prevent Moncey from having any Communications with France. The courier who carried the last Bulletin crossed the frontier before Mina bad reached it, and theretbre met with no obstructions on his way ; but if once the Constitutionalists spread themselves into Guerrillas along the mountains, every passage will be stopped, and all couriers and convoys will be intercepted, until the return of the Marshal's army, or at least of some strong divisions of it, shall effect a temporary opening and enable the boasted in. vaders to re-enter their own country. In the absence of official advices, private letters from Madrid, dated the 2d inst. and received yesterday, throw some light on the military disptisitions of the Spaniards in the interior of the Peninsula, anti afford grounds for believing that Mina's advance is not the result of individual enterprise, but part of a combined plan, which was to be kept carefully secret until the moment of its execution, and Which, according to the writer " would, if succeasful, make the Bourbons tremble on their throne, or . bury them under its ruins." Snell a threat would seem to in dicate that the object was a real invasion of France, in order to afford the people of that country a military nucleus, round which they =gilt form without having to dread the acti vity of the police or the interference of the Gendarmerie. The letter states, that Abisbal, who had assembled an army of 16,000 men, had quitted Madrid, and advanced to Goa dalaxara to join Ballasteros, who'had also a considerable force under his command. These united armies would main tain the communications with Catalonia open, and if neces sary wot%ld perhaps march into that prow:lce to support the operations of Nina. The celebrated Empecinado was posted near Avila with a strong Guerrilla party, organizing other corps of the same kind to harrass the flanks of the Duke of Angou leme as soon as the appointed Aime for acting on the offensive oii every point throughout the Peninsula should arrive. Bal listerosis said to have had repeated skirmishing with the French during his retreat, in which his troops behaved with the greatest bravery and resolution, and killed great numbers of the invaders. Such are the contents of private communications from the Spanish capital, which remained tranquil notwith standing the threats of,the approaching enemy. The Papers inform us that the head-quarters of the Duke d'Angouleine were to remain at Burgos until the 13th inst. The Oeneralis sinao, it appears, does not want Prudence,' and probably lie begins to perceive that to penetrate deeper into Spain is only ,to increase the difficulty of afterwards .getting out of it. We shoUld not be astonished if lie postponed his visit to Madrid till the result of Mina's enterprise should have been ascertained. [MORNING itritaLn.] The meeting in favour of the Greeks (of which the proceedings were given in our Paper of yesterday) will, we trust, tend strongly to. rouse the sympathy and exercise the liberality of the British nation. It would be invidious to insti tute a comparison between the present and other occasions in which appeals have been made to the public feeling but it may with truth be said, that on occasion has the public heart been appealed to in favour of a lmore interesting—a more affecting—a more noble cause. We will not dwell upon the reminiscences left of Ancient (Treece,—the obligations which she conferred in arts, in literature, in arms, and in what is per haps the very first endowment of a people---freedom upon all posterity,—or • the claims which those obligations give her diStressed, and, we will add, heroic children of the present day ;—yet these are motives which should be, and will be felt; and they who taunt or scout, or damp them, had better go back and dispute the food of acorns with their fellow-savages in the woods —or, like the savages of another class, who extin guished " the genius of discovery" in Lavoisier, boldlyproclaiin that" the Republic does not want philosophers." Who is the man that will not " find something to attract him in the Greek cause ? To those who are animated with the devotion of cell, gion, it is the cause of fellow Christians struggling against the most abominable system of fanaticism recorded in ' the known memorials of human error, or human imposture. To those who can grow warm with thoughts of liberty, it is the cause of men who have burst their bonds and are bravely vindicating their freedom. In one comprehensive word, it is that which claims the sympathy of man, wherever man is worthy of his nature—the cause of humanity. There were some obsevations of the Noble person who acted as Chairman of the Meeting, which merit particular attention, as they tend to remove or to prevent error respecting the objects of the Committee. The purpose is not to ex cite or extend insurrection in the Turkish provinces, but only to assist those who are already de facto, free—and to whom reconquest would be .the most horrible visitation that boundless power and brutal fury could invent and inflict. Policy is a cold principle of action to set in motion upon a theme like this ; yet there is one view of the Greek cause in which this country seems to us interested deeply in the present success of the Greeks. They have often been shamefully betrayed and abandoned by Russian Cabinets. Still, new promises, conti guity, community of religion, distress, which will catch it any thing, kept up an inclination tolvarfts Russia, until the recent disavowal and abandonment of their cause by the Emperor Alexander. If they make the conquest of their independence, alone, and at present, they are for ever aleniated from the Russians. Moreover, it is generally and well.understood that they at present strongly incline . to England, from motives both of sentiment and interest.—their maritime genius, their zeal for liberty—the commercial industry, and the security of their internal and external independence. We will only add, that the objects of the Greek Committee are such as would not compromise the policy or thq councils of this country with and Foreign Power. , AFRICAN INSTITUTION. The seventeenth Anniversary 'Meeting of this Institution was yesterday held at Freemasons' Hall. His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER filled the Chair. There were also pment the Marquis of leensdown, the Earl of Gosford, Lord Gambier, Lord Althorp, M.P., the Count de Torreno, Mr. Wilberforce, M.P., Mr. F. Buxton, M.P., Mr. W. Evans, M.P., Mr. Sykes, M.P. Mr. Stephen, the Chair man of Surrey, and several other Gentlemen of respectability. , The body of the room, as well as the galleries, was filled with Ladies. The Royal Chairman having taken his seat, Mr. HARRISON read the Directors ' report, which was ex tremely long. It commenced with an account of the negociations which took place upon the subjectof the abolition of the slave trade, in the Congress atVerona. " The papers," it stated," con taining the detail of these transactions, have very recently been laid before Parliament. From them it appears that: it in the month of September last, the Duke of Wellington, during his stay at Paris on his way to Verona, took an opportunity of urging the French Minister to adopt some effectual measures for the repression of the slave-tracle. His representations do not appear to. have produced a disposition in the French Government to propose any new laws for that purpose.— On the contrary, the French Minister stated, that although the King and. his Government were sincerely anxious to .put an end to this traffic, yet they could devlse no mea sures for that purpose which they could hope would be adopt ed by the Chambers ; and that the subjecting convicted slave-traders to a peine infarnante would be inefficient, even, if passed into a law ; adding, that he could not conceal the fact, that the abolition of the slave-trade was unpopular in France. On the receipt of this report from the Doke of Wel. lington, Mr. Canning . appears to have entertained' scarcely a distant expectation of a favourable result from the approach ing conferences at Verona, respecting what he calls in his in structions to the Duke, • that scandal of the civilized world, the slave trade ;' and he justly remarks, that the refusal of France not to enter into any new engagements, or to pass any new laws fin the suppression of the slave trade, but her neglect and apparent repugnance even to execute those by which she has already bound herself, notwithstanding the too notorious continuance of that traffic by her subjects, leave little hope that the authority of France will be employed otherwise at Verona, than to prevent the adoption of any effectual resolution.' Mr. Canning added the following observations :---" It is the truth (however lamentable or incredible), that by the testimony of the French Government itself, there 17 no public:feeling-- none, on this subject, in France, which responds in the small est degree to the sentiment prevalent in England ; that no credit is given to the people or to the legislature of this coon try for sincerity in those sentiments ; that our anxiety upon the matter is attributed to a calculation of national interest ; and that a new law, formed on a proposition from England, for nevi restrictions on the illicit slave-trade, would at this, moment infallibly be thrown out in the legislature of France." He then expresses serious doubts, whether, should the other power assembled at the Congress agree to declare the slave trade to be piracy, the French plenipotentiaries would concur in such a deefaration ; whether such a declaration by powers who have no colonies of their own Would carry any great weight, and Whether an assumption on the pan of the Congress of a pretension to legislate on matter of public law, and to establish a new principle of maritime police, would not excite in other powers a disposition to demur to its jurisdic tion. H e suggest.% however, that the SoNereigns might with sonic immediate, and perhaps with greater ultimate effect, and in the exercise of an undoubted and legitimate authority, prohibit the introduction of colonial produce from the colonies of states which haie not legally and effectually abolished the- slave trade. Mr. Canning, therefore; recommended to the Duke of Wellington, to propose—lst, ein engagement on the part of the Continental Sovereigns to mark their abhorrence of this ac cursed traffic, by refusing admission into their dominions of the produce,of Colonies belonging to powers who have not abo lished, or who notoriously continue the slave-trade. 7.d, A de claration in the names, if possible of the whole Alliance; but if France shall decline being a party to it, in the names of the three other powers, renewing the denunciations of the Congress of Vienna, and exhorting the maritime powers who have abolish ed the slave trade to concert measures 'among themselves for proclaiming it, and treating it as piracy, with a view to found ing upon the aggregate of such separate engagements between state and state a general engagement, to be incorporated into the _public law of the civilized world." The report then pro ceeded to state the contents of a memoir brought forward at a conference of the plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and itussia, by the Duke of Wellington, con taining observations on the continuance of the Slave Trade, and recommending certain measures to be adopted with a view to effect its total suppression. Amongst other facts it stated that, in seven months of the year 1821, not less than 38,000 human beings had been carried off from the coast of Africa into slavery; and that the traffic was generally carried on under the French flag. The Marquis of Lasesnowst then came forward and said, that it was not until he had come into the room that he found himself called upon to move a *solution expressive of the meet ing's a)iprobation of the report, and their thanks to the Directors for their unwearied exertions ; of the utility and importance of which there was abundant evidence in the report. The Noble Mania% proceeded to point out the pOwerfut effects of the public voice, and to exhort them to continue their exertions until they completed the' extinction of this abominable traffic in every . part of the globe. He was sure that they all felt the pain that must actuate every liberal mind. on perceiving that • the attention of the great powers of Europe was directed from this subject to objects which he would not describe here ; but which, to use the mildest terms, were ob. .jecte far less wise, less holy e less just, and he would add, less practicable, than this most wise, most holy, most just, and he would add, most attainable object—the extinction of the slave traffic all over the world.—( Hear!) Mr. F. BUXTON seconded the motion, and reprobated the conduct of France as base, wicked, bold profligacy, which was only to be surpassed by the man, despicable, and Iniquitous subterfuges by, which she endeavoured to veil it. He then com bated the various arguments usually adduced against the final abolition of slavery in the West Indies. The solemn pledged ob tained from his Majesty's government the preceding evening. he assured the meeting, should not be forgotten ; and as all that had hitherto been done was effected by the voice of the people , _ he expressed his most anxious hope that the tables of both Houses of Parliament would be crowded with petitions on this subject from from every part of the empire.—The resolution was car- He unanimously. The Count de Tonntwo addressed the Meeting in the French language. lie wished to assure them of the sentiments which these proceedings had inspired, and he was prepared fully to acknowledge their justice and propriety. To the peopde of England he and his country must ever feel grateful for the sympathy which they had evinced for the national cause of Spain. They had established a constitution under the allspice* and upon the principles which governed this great and glorious nation. The Cortes of Spain, acting under the sacred and in dubitable rights of human natUre, had asserted the principles of freedom. He knew that they would follow them up with i similar principles in their commercial system. He could assure them that Spain would, in every situation in which she was placed adhere to those principles in the whole system of her Gov ern in en t. (Ch eers.) Lord ALTHonP defended this country from the charge of'' endeavouring to procure the abolition of slavery from selfish and interested motives. He moved that the Dukes of Wel lington and of somerset be appointed Vice-Presidents, and thata hat of 30 individuals be agreed to as directors for the ensuing year. Mr. STEPHENS seconded the motion, and argued strongly in favour of the registration of slaves. This and several other resolutions, which were those usual on such occasions, were carried unanimously. After addresses from Mr. WILBERFORCE, the Duke of GLOUCESTER, Mr. SYKES, Lord GAMBLER, and Mr. HAn nisoN, the meeting then broke . up and a collection took place at the doors. SPORTING INTELLIG :NCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1823. THURSDAY, MAY 15. The Jockiy Club Plate of 50gs, run for by horses the property of Members of the Jockey Club, four-yr:olds carrying 7st. 211.. five, Bst. 31b. six, B st. 911).tand aged, Bst. lltb. Mr. Wyndham's b. h. Centaur, 6 yrs . Mr. Rush's ch. c. by Rubens, 4 yes - - 2 Mr. Greville's ch. h. N o t i o n C Wsteren, tau s yrs - - dr. or. Sweepstakes of 20 soy. each. A.F. Ld Verulam's f. by Rubens, 7st. 41t. - Mr. Hunter's Tressilian, Bst. - - - 2 D. of Grafton's Pastille , 21h. 3 Mr. Fox's Macchia', Bst. 4th. - broka down. 5 to 1 agst Rubens f.-6 to 4 on Pastille. • Sweepstakes of 20 soy. each. T.Y.C. D. of Grafton's Logic, Bst. 101. Mr. Hunter's f. by Rubens, list. - 2 Mr. Thornhill's 1. .out of Fandango's darn, 7st. 111 t. 3 Even on Logic. Fifty Pounds, for three-yr.olds, carrying Fist. 21L. four, Bst. five, Bst. 7th. six and aged, ttst.l2th. T.M.M. Charlton's h. F. Gulliver, 4 yrs I D. of Portland's b. c. Joseph, 3 yrs - 2 10 to 1 agst Gulliver-73 to 1 agst Joseph. Twelve started.—The Judge placed but two. Ld, Exeter's Athenian, llst. 10%. beat Mr. Wyndham's Ve ; dette, ist.2lb. T.Y.Y. 100.—Even betting. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH . , MAY M. - - The Court was occupied in the trial of causes which were en tirely destitute of public interest. In answer to an inquiry of Mr. SCARLET T, the Lord CHIEF. JUST ICE said, that he would take only_one special jury cause, "The East India Company v. Tritton,"this day, and would after wards try common jury causes. There were 2 indictments next in the list of special jury cause, " The King v. Dyer," and " The King v. Dyer and ffitchins," which involved a question of jurisdiction between the city of London and the Inner Temple; but these he directed to stand over; observing, that the City and the Temple could much better wait for the decision, than suitors who had pecuniary claims could suffer delay. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. An Inquest was held yesterday morning at the Peacock, Newington, ' before Mr. JEMMETT, Coroner for Surrey, on the bodies of Eliza and Mary-Ann Woodruff, the former five, and the latter three years of age, the daughters of Joseph Woodruff, of 44, Regency -place, Lambeth, who were killed on Wednesday, by being run over by a Brighton coach. Mr. Samuel Rainer of Manchester said he was a'pas senger on the box of the Ne w Comet co kch on Wednesday, from Brighton to London : when the coach arrived near the church at Newington, going then at the rate of six or seven m iles an hour, witness saw the children playing nearly in the centre of the road; witness called to them, as well as the coachman, several times, but they seemed to hesitate and did not get out of . the way, when the horses instantaneously struck them and knocked them down. It was done so suddenly, that witness did not see whether the wheels went over them. The coachman drove very moderately. He drew up directly Miss Martha Hippie, of Manchester, deposed that she was an outside passenger on the coach at the time of the accident; she saw four children near the middle of the road ; the two were run over being liend.in-hand ; the eldest child ran across, and the two deceased were going across; the coachman called out several times, and was pulling up when the horses knocked them down. One child was pulling one way and the other another way, doubt ing which way to go ; witness saw the wheel go overone of them, but could not say which. They were taken up instantly : be heves that the coachman used every exertion to prevent the accident. Edward Strong was looking out of Mr. Gununer's window, opposite where the accident happened; pFceived the deceased lying behind the coa ch, which had gone over them ; witness ran out and took the younger up ; his brother took the eldest, and they went into Mr. Mason's, a surgeon. fir. Ma son was not at borne, and witness's brother took the eldest to Air. Dixon, a surgeon, where she died. Witness remained withz the youngest until she died. Henry Willis Laver, as sistant to Mr. Mason, surgeon, of Newington, deposed, that the deceased children were taken to Mr. Mason's shop ; but Mr. Mason not being at home, one was taken to Mr. Dixon, and the other lived about a quarter of an hour in Mr. Mason's shop, andsdied in consequence of a fracture in the skull. George Baillie, assistant to Mr. Dixon, surge on . , of N e wington, deposed, that the other child was taken to Mr. Dixc<s, and died in about twenty minutes, also by a fracture in the skull, and the breast bone was completely stove in. The Jury, after about three quarters of an hour's consultation, returned a vereict of " Ac cidental Death—Deodand on the horses 5/., and on the coe.o). 2/." No blame was considered to attach to the cachatatn.. Died on the 13th of December last, at Canton in China, of a malignant fever, in the twenty third year of his age, Mr. George . Lernon, of the Honourable East India Com pany's ship Orwell, and younger son of Robert Lemon, Esq. of the State Paper Office, London.— Mr. L. died five days after his Captain (Saunders) an d they were id terred side by side in a place called " French Island." As a son and brother; his loss is severe and irreparable; as a friend, his amiable and conciliatory manners endeared him to his acquaintance; and by hi s brother officers andship's crew long * ill his name be held in affectionate remembrance. ExECUTION OE K RAGO N, AT CHESTER.—On Saturday this unhappy young man, condemned, at our late as sizes, for a rape on the body of a g irl at Stockport, underwent the sentence of the law at the east front of the city gaol. From. the moment of his trial, the youn g man has conducted himself not cmly in a most respectful; but exemplary manneroind procured f f e cir it h ow iin . eadffielcittlilanaFterorner firdrststoofilaisist he invariably maintained his innocence of the offence, by the most positive declarations. He was attended in prison by the P se r i l so rth ne e r k + i a n ild est th sy os m e p w a l t i hoiaesttenamdi Rev. John Briggs, the Catholic clergyman, and, we are assur ed, he was unceasingly attentive ~.c his icu g ious iLittes. garly .. on the morning of Seiurday, the unfortunate man was anvey. ed from the Castle, delivered .to the Sheriffs for the city at Glove:'s.stone, and taken in a caret() the city gaol. Here he Ras also attended by the Rev. Mr. Briggs, who ministered to him the consolations of religion ; and when the fatal hour arrived, between twelve and one o'clock, ascended' the scaffold with him. After joining the Clergyman here for some time in pr a ye r, in in which he fervently engaged, he intimated a wish to a the multitude, which was extremely dense and numerous. Ile then, in a strong Irish accent, spoke nearly as follows :—" MY dear friends, I am innocent of the crime for which I am goi n g to die—as innocent as the child unborn. It was sworn agalfist me at the trial, that I knew the girl, but I declar, rdid Pa know her, and, to the best dm) , knowledge. 1 r. .er Saw her be fore my committal. I freely forgive thr Cllr jury, and alt verf.'" This dying declaration tf innocence, at a moment that sworeagainst me. I beg you will r, . 4 , - . l :PoCal istian pea Pie. pray for my soul, that when I die, I I,:ily be received into hea when the unhappy malefactor was about to be launched into the pre" sence of his Jude,g created a strong feeling in the surroalla,ink multitude. ' Having concluded his address, the cap was ra" e ,," over his face, and the drop fell ; he struggled but little ,. an d was very soon lifeless. Kragon was twenty-one years f ages an Irishman' by birth, and issa i d nexions.—( Chester Courant.) ......J. to have had respectable on' COAL-MARKET, MAY 16. Ships at Market. Ships sold 40i Newcastle - - 294 13 Sunderland - 7 0 Scotch Coal - Pried. o t i 33s &I to 4vz , od 348 Od to 41 ° Ike —$ od to COURSE OF EXCHANGE, M a / 16 ' inrstet dam •• .•• 12 10 C. F. Ditto, at Sight l2 8 Rotterdam l2 11 it 11 t •, Antwerp ..... .. 38 4 '' . Hithilltligii . A Bona . ..... •• • 2 , 1 ., 0 0." Paris, S Day's sight Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto 2 1 8 : 55 1 : 0 t r T I I: 1 s:: ,e ' _ ...... 159 Ex. mei. 7 Frankfort on the Moin —' —26 k f la I T ' e Madrid Cadiz .......... 9 3 6 1 i' l l :tiltec‘t.ii:: Bilhoa •• . • • 35f Barcelona ..... Sb ierille ' '' tSO Gibraltar •• ' . 2. 40_ _ Leghorn .• • '•• • 2610 Gel '.a.... 4€3 -Venice, hal , ' jsj ~ Malta •43 -Nap1et,....... •• • , 0 r e I ia . Palermo .. • " bi Lisbon Oporto .• •• • 0; ltioinneiro . Onlolin .... 91 Cork 94 e' n net (-)°' BULLION, b . 0 0 ,-- • Portugal Goldin Coin .'' • :I 1 ' 7., Foreii G a n old, in Bars ,., • 1 5 u • New Potobloons 0 'I 9 , • New Dollari • (1 4 101 Silver in Bars, Soandnrol .. -A d o ck, lIIIITHS. grs. T. Bal Alay, 8, at Gibraltar-place, Ch at i l soi , 13r° "' l' s sti. Jun. of a son. hl' On Saturday last the Lndy of J o er Kingston, of a still-boon son. t BOP or" • -.house, a ..i. Barnes, Fenchurch-street, to Illiss Th ettili a daug ht e r . On the 15th instant, n it t. Ott the 14th instant, 3t the Vriends' Ar, It$CU , i ing, James Foster, of Stan. Cord-hill, Tu ....• Joseph Foster, of Bromley. ' • 0 d , a nd daughtt , Lately M Clifton, Mary Ann, wilt o ua r , Acklem,famierly of the King's b rag et c . I(l.4laEhlr)iej•l'osel.ehercb, Mr. T. el: , of the late Rev. Dr. Fell, of WartviitlSiscilb Lydia. an fain-_' On the 13th instant, at Hampiteadit 1 SlTastar, Nark Lieutenant 'William Sinith, of the 1 D., ,•,,„ daughter of the Rev. Steithen White, r Mr- Pai r atuptonshire. , A , 24t11 Yea ' On the 12th instant, at Peckham, inr - D /El) "*" ."----------- f iiieut:nwi l fe ni Lafosse. ..............,s a t the Su Printed and Published for the Pno ft CA asTAllt''• OFFICE, 112, Strand, by