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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA I LY .Extracts from the Morning Papers, Aprit2B, [Tile TIMES.] Among the topics contained in 'Lord Ellen horough's . propositions offered to the House of I t ords, there is none, perhaps, more striking than that which stigniatizes the conduct of Ministers in recommending to the Spaniards to introduce changes into their constitution in order to con ciliate the Frencli. A'nentral system has been thought most advisable for this country ; and, looking to our financial situation, we are not in dined to dispute the convenience, at least, of that system to those uho profess toadopt it : but then our neutrality should be sincere and indiscrimi nate. Now we maintain, that in urging Spain to introduce the modifications recommended by France, we were doing the work of France - 7 ---we were acting on her side.—Had Spain submitted, France would have obtained her end ; she would have interfered successfully, by means of us, in the internal concerns of Spain, and that without being obliged to have recourse to arms. To show t ha t` this reasoning is true, let us take the other side of the question. Sup pose, instead of pressing Spain to admit the mo difications, we had, with the same degree of ur gency, advised her to reject them, and not to suffer her obtrusive neighbour to interfere in any way in her concerns. Would France have considered that as a neutral course? Would she not ratVer have accused us of acting against her interest aml for the independence of the Spa niards ? Up to the same extent, therefore, have we effectively acted against Spanish independence,. and in aid of French aggression. [MORNING POST.] The Debate of Thursday night in the House of Lords must have convinced every man who continued to doubt upon the subject, that the policy of thV British Government in the existing circurnstanceg of Europe is the wisest she could have adopted ; and that it has been pursued and ilinstrated by : , course of diplomatic proceedings, which, however they may have failed to accom plish their'immediate objects, have been conspi cuous throughout for sincerity, consistency, pru deuce, firmness, and tumuli.. This was the first formal attempt of the Parliamentary Op position to arraign the conduct of Govern mentin the performance of that critical and de licate duty which has recently devolved on it.— The failure has been so complete--the defeat So signal, that we imagine a similar attempt which has been threatened in the House of Corn. mous, will be abandoned in despair. In truth, if the Opposition wish to retain even that small share of , public confidenc(' which it may now supposed to enjoy, it will cautiously refrain from presentinr to the public mind its own po- Mical notions on the proceedings in question, as it will not fall to be inferred front them what its conduct would he, if unfortunately for the country it had any other duties to perform than those of criticism and speculation. To afford the coun try an opportunity of comparing the principles : or rather the rhapsodies, to which their conduct would have conformed, with the solid and practical wisdom of Ministers, is to expose their remaining influence to a danger which they ought most carefully to shun.--We have seldom known a debate which afforded less either of amusement or instruction. It consisted almost entirely of 6bjections to the policy and the conduct of Government, which had been al ready a hundred times refuted. Lord Ellett borough di liked the tone which Alinisters had maintained during the negotiations, but at the same time cautiously refrained from asserting that a warlike policy should have been embraced. Why did he not speak out? Simply because he knows that the country feels grateful to Admi nistration for preserving to it, thus far at least, the advantages of Peace. Ile fears to commit Ilk party to an opinion known to be unpopular, and he courts therefore the suspicion that if he had been Minister, England must have been loud and quarrelsome in words, gentle and neutral in meaning and in conduct. [MORN INO CH It ON ICTE.I Our readers will recollect the notice we took the other day of the disclosure in the Additional Papers laid before Parliament, respecting the se parate article in the Treaty between England and Spain of 1814. The separate article itself bore .that " his Catholic Majesty engages not to 'enter into any Treaty or Engagement with France of the nature of that known under the dettominat,ion of the Family Com pttetr itor any other which may affect the itictepetydenre of Spain, virhich may be injuri ous to the ititerests of his Britannic Majecty, or may be contrary to the strict alliance which is stipulated by the pi eseut Treaty." Mr. Can ning communicated this, article to Sir Charles Stuart on thk , 3-Ist of March last, when ht ob. sirved---" The article, of which 1 enclose a copy, is contained in the Treaty between his Mujes`ty and the King of Spain of 1814, but has never been published. It was originally a secret article, but his Majesty having declined agree ing to it as such (from the opinion that it might to be communicated to his Majesty's Allies), its title was changed from that of a Secret to a Separate Article. It formed part of the Treaty communicated to the Court of France in 1814, by the Duk'e of,Wellington, then his Majesty's ,Arnhasszidor at Paris ; but it tvas omitted in the copy of the Treaty laid before Parliament at the express desire of the French G (moment. signifu:d by the Prince de Talley. , rand, then Minister of Foreign Affairs," This separate article formed the subject 011 conversa linn in the House of Lords last night, a conver sation which in all probability will not soon be forgotten by the country. Lord Holland wished to call to the recollection of Lord. Liverpool, that in 1816 he had distinctly stated, in answer . Treaties with a question from him, that in our - with Foreign Powers there were no secret articles—no articles that were not in the. Treaties as published. He had a distinct recut- lection that the Noble Earl. had answered in 1816, that there were no articles that were not in the published' Treaties ;. and on , looking to - the irregular Reports of what passed . in Parliament at the period alluded to, he found that what was stated' there coincided with his own recol lection."—Lord Liverpool observed, that " he bad lint had the advantage of referring to the re- Cords alluded to by the Noble Lord, nor had he any precise recollection of the question and answer in 1816, but he believed that the answer to which the Noble Lord alluded, as to there being no articles but what. were • in.the public Treaties, had no reference to any question re lative to the Crowns of France and Spain." [NEW TIMES.) Of the two great debates of Thursday evening, that which produced the less display of elo quence appears to us to have been infinitely the more important, inasmuch as it exhibited no less than 169 votes for that miserable delusion — Parliamentary Reform. As to Lord Ellen borough's proposed Address on the Negocia tion; it was really so unintelligible that we can not think it could - possibly produce either good or harm ; and certainly it will not create a thou sandth part as much sensation in the country as the.same Noble Lord's ingenious manufacture of a Marriage Act did last year. His Lordship has the misfortune not to see precisely the effect of his owm propositions. His Marriage Act pro moted any thing but matrimony ; and his Ad dress of censure on his Majesty's Ministers re dounded, as far as any thing could be made out of it, entirely to their credit. It charged them, in sum and substance, with not having plung ed this country into war, when it was most manifest that the whole Nation desires Peace. It accused them of not having taken up arms in the cause of the Spanish people, when it is no torious that that people are embarked in two opposite causes, both alike inconsistent with the principles of British liberty. If the object of the Address was not to make us break our neutrality, the language of the Address was in direct oppo tition to its object ; for it avowed the most hos tile feelings against all the Great Powers of Europe. Really, of the two compositions, his Lordship's famous Marriage Act appears to us the more rational. Either we wish to maintain our nautrality, or we do not. - If we do not, in Heaven's name let us draw the sword — And ran an Indian muck at all we meet. But if we mean to remain at peace, and most assuredly such is the wish of ninety-nine persons out of a hundred throughout the country—then let our conduct be neutral ; and let our lan guage be suitable to our conduct. Some poli ticians talk as if they thought that two great nations might be scolded into a war with each other. Violent and even scurrilous lan guage has been uttered, with no other view, as it should •seem, than to excite a personal an' iru►+4ity in Foreign Governments against this country. Singular enough too it is, that the Speakers, now so valiant, are the same who during the war were so extremely pacilic—who bent like bulrushes to the storm before the Despot that bestrode the Continent,and always counselled pence and submission to his sovereign will. We wore much surprised to find Lord Grey disclaiming that Speech which fame has for so many years attributed to him. how it has happened we know not ; but certainly the world has hitherto believed that his Lord ship once said, in three months from that date, there would not be an English soldier in the Peninsula but as a prisoner of war. But since the Noble Lord disclaims that unfortunate pro phecy, we are bound to believe he did not utter it. Only it would be.as well if he would state what it was be did say on the occasion. alluded to. We apprehend it would be found to afford a singular contrast to his present warlike orations. [BRITISH PRESS.] No project can be more utterly hopeless than that of France and the Allied Sovereigns to put_, down the rising spirit of independence in the Peninsula. If it were an armed insurrection of the many to plunder the few, or if it were an attack made by the idle and desperate of the lower orders upon the social and wealthy esta blishments of the middling and more indus trious classes, such revolutionists, if they could not be quickly enough suppressed from within, might, without injustice, be quelled from without. Any neighbouring state would have a right to in terfere whose commerce might be interrupted by their depredations, or whose tranquillity was en. dangered by their example. But there is nothing in Spain which bears the most distant resemblance to this state of things. It ought to be obvious to the allied Sovereigns—it is obvious enough to their sub jects—that the Spanish revolution arises out of that general spiritof improvement which for the last half century has actuated the efforts of the whole Christian world. It is not the fruits of capri cious disa&ctien or turbulent disloyalty, but proceeds from the gradual progress of a more enlightened system of thinking among the majo rity, combined with the more general diffusion of property,and the extended attachment to rational and moral freedom. These are feelings not to be beaten down ; they are the growth of the mind, their root lies too deep for the scythe of des potism to reach. The intellectual as' well as the commercial intercourse of Europe, has impercep tibly altered the condition and the character of the great mass of its people,and men cannot be governed like children. hence it Is, that the physical and moral force of every nation where revolutions are ripening are enlisted in the cause of political regeneration, and no Congress of Sovereigns can put a stop to their progress. It is as foolish as it is wicked to attempt it. Its success is among the beneficent designs of that Power whose provi , dunce watches over the well-being of man. And, after all, what is the true aim and object of the Allied Monarchs, but to subdue by force of arms a resisialice occasioned by their own inveterate sys tem of misgovernment ? It is not expected that these Sovereigns should worship at the shrine of freedom. We must not look to human nature fol. more than we arelikely to find it: but is it be cause they do not worship at her throne; that they are therefore to destroy her temple ? In- sane infatuation! Irt that holy temple all the nations of the earth, we hope, will one day sit in glory, irt spite of the intrigues of Ministers or the tilibitiou of Kings. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. IFrom the Bury Gazelle, April 23.1 So much business of importance has occupied the attention of Parliament during the past week that we have hardly room for a brief analysis of the proceedings. The pa pers and correspondence relative to the foreign policy of the country have, by his Majesty's command, been laid before both Houses, and subsequently given to the public. Their contents do little credit to the candour, sincerity, or gratitude of the French Government ; but are highly honourable to the cha racter of the British .Counsels; and we need no better proof of the soundness of the policy pursued by Ministers, than the con duct of their opponents, which has been marked by the most intemperate and groundless vituperation against the whole Proceedings of the Congress at Verona, unqualified British Billingsgate vented against the " Brummagem" Ministers of France, and the improbable assertion that the English Cabinet has either " truckled to, or been. duped by, the French diplomatists." To be sure the phalanx of whiggery does con tam some very keen politicians, same quick sighted patriots, deeply read in national polity and international law ; witness those profound reasoners and deep thinkers Hume and Wilson, Burdett, and Moore Moberly and Wood, Folkstone,. and Hobliouse ; and yet notwithstanding the prodigious mental prowess of these worthies, with Lennard and Haldinian, and Coke-and Rowley, to back them , we do think those weak and stupid and imbecile mortals Wellington and, Canning, and Elden and Peel, and Liverpool and Croker, &c. &c. are not likely to be so grossly duped. that the Whigs should bo able to discover, muclrleas avoid, the snare which had entrapped them. The plain fact is this; the 'Whigs and their adherents wish to plunge the country into a war of faction, a war against kings and governments; a war not to establish liberty, but to subvert Thrones and Altars, and as to theiexpence of such a war no thing can be more easily provided for; add a few millions to the national debt, commit an' act of bankruptcy, defraud all who have put faith in the national honour, and. " restore the youth of the constitution."—Wise statesmen ! Profound pa lilicians ! Honest • men ! lf, however, his Majesty's Mi. nisters are not quite so wise as the Whigs nor quite so pure, they are rather more prudent , for, if the war be tween France and Spain were really all the patrons of treason represent it to , be, and - if our means and resources were tenfold what they really are, sound policy would bid us pause before we again embarked, unsolicited, in the quarrel, of a nation whom we not long mince rescued from the bloody fangs of the. Whig Moloch, the late ruler of France, and whose ingratitude towards this country after such signal deliverance is inscribed in the never-dying recollections of thou sands who bled in the cause of Spain during the peninsular war. Britain then succoured and rescued Spain from the ag gressions of France in spite of the Whigs, in the very teeth of their denunciations and scorn; and the return she received from those she had redeemed was slight, insult, and contumely. Now France has again made inroads upon her, . the 'Whigs would have us arm, would have us forget her unworthiness, and again fight her battles., For what ? She insulted her de fenders—let-her defend herself Besides, do these penetrating Whigs, who see so far into futurity, not perceive at a single glance that were we to take arms against France we should draw heroines into the field in her defence,"and plunge aliEurope again into a war, of which the termination could not be hoped during the present generation. What quixotic folly would it then be in us, to drain our blood and treasure and disrupt the peace of the world in such a quarrel and for such a people ? Neutrality, so long as it can be preserved with honour, is our wisest policy; a policy which justice, prudence, and self.preservation dictate, and those men who would enforce us into a needless war are ha common enemies. of England. 2 3 3 4 4 ADMIRALTY SESSIONS. TRIAL OF THE FOLKESTONE SMUGGLERS. Yesterday the Sessions for the trial of offences committed on the High Seas, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Ad miralty, commenced at the Justice-hall in the Old Bally, be fore Lord STOWELL, Chief Judge of the High Court of Ad- miralty, Mr. Justice PARK, Mr. Baron Hu I..Loca, Site, &c,— The Court was crowded to excess during the whole of the day. Lord STOWELL -took his' seat on the Bench at nine o'clock, and the Grand Jury having been sworn in, his Lordship address ed them, and called their attention to the facts' of the case of the 21 smugglers; they left the Court, andl at 25 minutes after 12, re turned, finding a true bill against Marinel Krans, aged 37 ; Carle" Kulke, aged 30; William Dangertield, aged 18 . ; Van Schmidt, otherwise John Smith, aged 31; Jacob Bobileau, otherwise Jacob Peters, aged 26; Yan Lamp 6, otherwise Jeremiah Watson, aged 33; Martin Kappee, aged 34; Van Vanness, otherwise John Eastwicke, otherwise Essex, aged 22 ; John Harrison, ajed 27; Yan 'Yenner, otherwise William Wilkes, aged 22; Volhn Mar ree, otherwise Joseph Milton, aged 32; Van de Frieze, aged 26; Kiest Mollinear, aged 34 ; Hendric tie Breyne, otherwise Thomas Feswicke, aged 25 ; Van tie Frenchberg, otherwise John Greenland, aged 82;. Jonathan Vandyke, otherwise John Kallee, aged 24 ; Van Crat, otherwise John John Malice, aged M ; - Hendrick Allason, otherwise' Richard Boxer; Van de Frenark, otherwise Bitnald Eastwicke, otherwise Essex, Corneliusßeymer, otherwise Joseph Willes, aged 38 ; and Abram de Mollinaar, aged 24. The prisoners were immediately . put to the Bar, charged with wilfully and feloniously firing into the revenue cutter, the Badger, onthe 13th of January last, on the high seas, about eight miles Off Dungeness, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty of England. The indictment contained nine Counts, charging the offence to have been differently com mitted. Krans Kulke, Bobileau, Kappee, and 'the two MollinaarS, were then asked if they understood English ? to which they answered in the neative, and an interpreter was sworn in, who informed them in Dutch of the nature of their offence. The other prisoners were informed of the nature of the indictment, in the usual way. They all pleaded Not Guilty. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr. ROLLAND, Sir CHRIS TOPHER ROBINSON, Mr. GuasY, Mr. JEavis, and Mr. SHEPPARD, appeared fOr the Croln. Mr. 1 3 / 1 0VOIIA31, Dr. LESIIINGTON, Mr. ADOLPHUS, and Mr. PLATT, appeared for the prisoners. An affidavit was put in, stating that Mary-Jane Greaves, who was a material witness in the cause, had absented herself from a fear of being ill-treated, in consequence of the evidence she would have to , give. An .officer was accordingly sent to protect her. Mr. SIIEPPARD opened the case, and Sir C. ROBINSON addressed the .fury. In the course of his address, 'the Grand Jury came into Court with a second, bill of indictment for ful murder against the above prisoners. The Petit Jury betin sworn in, the witnesses on both sides were ordered out of court. Sir COUISTOPIIER Ronrissox stated the case to the Jury, en the part of the prosecution. Lieut. Henry Nazer examined by Mr. JERVIS—Is a Lieu tenant in his Majesty's Nary ; on the lath of January bad a Commission front the Excise, and was Commander of the Badger revenue cutter ; his station was off Dungeness, on the coast of Kent ; she was stationed there to prevent smuggling. About half-past seven in the morning, in consequence of some thing that fell front the. person on watch, witness obserVed a suspicious sail yet/ rigged : she appeared to be coming from a foreign port ; she was on the leeward tack ; the Badger was about eight or nine leagues from the coast of France ; on ob ssherevtiandcg e t d h , e n v n e c e i se i l v , itn witn ess ee s s ec i i ro ilg tu l e ie d r iatei on t e r m b a e d a e m a tacked i 1 it t't r a h h e o r .;; came near her about nine o'clock in the 'limning, and hoisted the revenue pennant at the mast head ;. it was marked with a red field, with a crown next the mast; a revenue ensign, marked with a red field, with a union jack in it, was also hoisted at the peak head ; the peek was the gaff of the main . sail; the .flags were hoisted at the usual and proper places, and denoted the Badger to be a reveene cutter.--(The flags were here productsi.)—The flags had been hoisted before the unshotted. wax fired, which was. done to bring her (the strange vessel) to. A shotted, gun was then fired; and in about ten minutes a secon d gm which was returned from one of her stern guns ; she had' no colours up to. this time : wit ness continued firing, which: was kept up on both sides until nearly half-past eleven, at which time witness ran her on board on the starboard quarter ; the action was continued for about ten minutes, when quarter was called for in' English by the greater.part of the crew . ; he particularly noticed Cornelius Rey. lner, who asked forgiveness, and said he hoped witness would' look 'over what had happened. He spoke in geed English; witness said he would, and the firing stopped for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour; witness. ordered the boat to be lowered, ' and while this was doing the strange vessel commenced firing again ; the Cutter had not fired again before this ; the con sequence was that William Cullutn, a reputed mariner, was killed; the deceased was standing by the windlais; witness was certain that the shot came front the strange vessel ; the Badger then returned the fire;' and the action recommenced, and con tinued about ten minuted ; the craw of the *range. yeatacl,again called out for quarter in plain English, whisk was again promised, ,and the firing was not renewed ; witness then ordered the boat to be lowered; and 'sent the mate and . some of the men on board ; Mr. Wingfield, the mate, sent the prisoners on board the cutter. .in their 'own boat; they were 23 in number, seven of Whom were wounded, one died.the next morning ; witness put them on beard the Severn on the' following day ; 'witness went'on• board the strange vessel, and found two of the crew dead. • The burthen of the vessel was 119 tons. Six or seven men would be the ordinary number of her crew. There were about tiOn bales of tobacco. They ;were marked 601bs. each, .There was also foreign gin and. brandy on board, in small casks, commonly called half ankers, which.hold about font. gallons; there were about 50 of these. There were also 13 chests of tea, about 14Ibs. weight in each; they were ready slung; to.carry, over . a •person's shoulder. Witness found a great deal of beef, but very little bread, on board ; found no' ColOtits on 'bointl.' . 'The vessel had four six-pound carronades and a large quentity.of small anus, such as muskets, sabre, &c. There was, a large quantity of gunpowder and cartridges laying about, the deck • he swivel was gone. W it 'loss h s eard at least a dozen of thettt. speak in good English. Witness was wounded , in the left shoulder by a musket kill, fired from the strange vessel. Wit ness did not know any of the prisoners. Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPirns—Witness could not swear that he had not Said tile strange vessel was eight leagues off the English shore; When witness first saw her, she was standing on the starboasAl tack for the French ehore ; the Badger was three Or'foni miles distant from her at that time; the gaff. topsail was .hoisted, .anal continued so during .the hase ; the name of the vessel was the Vre Biodiers ; she, during the chase; endeavoured to get away ; witness had been twice examined re lative' to the transaction;' had said, when Culluin was the firing was general; the strange vessel fired first, which was returned, and then Cullum was killed ; witness did not find any papers on board; knew that the vessel had been valued; it amounted to about 11,0001. ' Vice-Admiral Verner, examined by Mr. aunxr.Y, proved that the descriptions of the flags answered the description in the indictinent. Peter Henry Valley, Clerk in the Privy Council Office, pro duced the Order in Council of the Ist of February, 1817, dired. ing flags of the above description to be used by the vessels of the Preventive Service. . . Crose,exticnined by Mr. Buoy Ott A st.—The paper produced was an unsigned draft. I:The witness was directed by the Court to bring the original, which he did.] Several other witnesses were examined as to the facts of the case. • The case for the prosecution being closed, - Dr. LusitmoTon then rose for the defence.. Ile had ob., jetting to make to the present proceedings, which be relied on with the fullest confidence.. The first was, the attack had been made by the .Badger • in their attempt to search the vessel, which was rot authorised by. any Statute, nor by the low of nations. His Learned Friends had not at. tempted to show that the vessel in question was a British ship. In fact, not the slightest evidence had been offered to that effect. She was not said to have hoisted any colonr at any time. She was not, as he had before aaid, shown to be a British vessel, and therefore the cutter had no right to seize or examine her, for in fact by so doing they were violating the Lftwofliations. If such'a doFtrine was to be held. up, as was contended for by his Learned kriends, and the judgment of the Court shOuld no*, for the first time, fp in unison . with it, the consequ ence* would make their Lordships tremble for the issue. MS second 'objection was, that there. existed no Statute that authorised any act against- the Law of Nations. During a time of peace, it was not tohipeteist • for any British cruiser, liewever authorised by the British Legislature to detain any vessel,_ but those of British subjects, with the exception of " known and true pirateti.' This vessel was seized contrary to law ; she was on the. high seas,' and even nearer to the French coast than to the English. That was admitted; and, if a British vessel had a right to capture her, a French ; vessel possessed the same right. If the present prOseeution was main tained, there was no pretence for saying that every merchant vessel, not only ()wan! high ' but even inharbonts, might not be searched. Re might detain their Lordships with 'quo tations from all - the great writers on the taw of NetiOns for the last hundred years but he Amnia, after all; 'return to where he set out from,.nernely, to the; Noble Lord (4:Tell) who then presided on the Bench. He , would, however,.. content himself with calling their Lordships'.'ettentien to the Jugdment of his Lordship in the case of the ship Louis (captured in 1816 by the' Queen Charlotte) in which eight men were killed and twelve wounded. The . Learned Doctor then went at some length into the proceedings on that case, and concluded with observing that, by the judgment of Lord Stowell, the yawl restored, and up to the present day not one person had .livn tried for the lives that were lost. He then noticed the claim set up by the Danish Government to search English vessels, which was I opposed by the British Government, and eventually withdrawn, and asked what would be said if a British vessel Was attempted to be searched by one belonging to France, and resistance ensued, would this country suffer her subjects to be taken to a French prison and sacrificed ? The idea was preposterous. Be would not argue that the Legislature had not a right to regulate the conduct of British-born subjects engaged as thee* individuals were ; but under the very first clause, even under the preamble itself of the 45th Geo. 111. chap. 151, LeoO toms were not empowered to search within 100 leagu the British shore. The first words of the statute were " Vessels coming from foreign putts." What was meant by these words but coming to England ? Was this vessel proved to . have been doing so ? No ; and consequently on the vets first clause this prosecution must fall. Mr..lustic PARK here interrupted to the Learned Doctor, by observing, Lord Stowell, his brother flulloe/r, and him self .had determined to give no o pi n i o n on the question at present, but to leave it for the solemn decision of the Twelve Judges. He (Mr. Justice Park) pr o p osed "so leave the important po ints, fur very important they were,, sugge , ted by the Learned Advocate, an d which bad be fore struck their Lordships, as he had ' stated, fur the Jury, and consequently, to, hear bim, Doctor -Lishingtbn, news and his Learned Friends, who will no doubt follow him, would be only to suffer him and them to underg o unnecessary' fati A gu e e on , v as ers t e h ti e on cas et e m w ed ou na ld tobethaergued by Counsel before the Judges. Jury having already sat nearly 12 hours Mr. Brougham said he bad 2 - 2 witnesses to examine, and if She evidence was gone into he could not promise that it would close before six or seven o'clock in the morning. The result WU that the Jury were removed to the London Tavern' ncltice s sent home to their families and the Court adjoarned until e n o'clock to-morrow ( this day.) propri etyin tileadcojtruntie --------_-..== .. FINAL EXAMINATION OF MESSRS. HOWARD AND GIBBS. Building, Guildhall, • . ---..-- Thursday the Adjourned Meeting of the Commissioners of ___,. Bankrupts in this' important ease took place at the New it is now for me:to examine grm were finally investigated, and 3 Commission of two yeali and eight months' standing was brought up to its Pra trE 'F' close. little; for myself, I 3 when the extensive accounts of the Ir. Senior Commissioner TREDECX.—It would seen that w e ' are at length arrived at the termination of our arduous labours; whether we (the Ccontaifi lesilers) have done our duty, whether the assignees have done their duty justice to all parties. and the bankrupts theirs ; as to our conduct I shall say.bue greater attention to any matter than to this estate, neither have I ever bestowed more pain in invest i gati on than in that s any , of this bankruptcy : we have heard all that has been advanceu on either side with impartiality, and have sought only to do can truly state that I have never given, , signets have done their duty. I do not think that the assit,ne!s should ever be limited in the examination which they oa,gn' to make, still less do I conceive that the assignees of this e l' cern have done so ;. as far as I can judge, they have faithfu y. discharged their duty to the creditors whom they have reprei 'The second question is, whether die as sented. Lastly, have the bankrupts done their duty ? n ot . such is the nature, such has been the extent and imparg to , the present commission, that I think they . have a ri g" . it • • claim at our hands a judicial opinion of their conduct, as ~ commissioner for nearly has come before us. I shall say but little about Mr. ilawart,:t .' for almost the whole matter has devolved in all its bounden nPle' ramifications upon Illr. Gibbs, and 1 think it my ; sv , 1 duty to that gentleman to state, that having nov 1 or bankrupt more ready to Comply with the requests of I is. the ditors than Mr. G ib bs . Under all the circumstances o f ~ ; case, I am able to fiprm but one opinion as a jiidgments:),lt';i; case, and that is, that the bankrupts are (ally end" being their final examination. Sittil t Mr. Commissioner SEATON and Mr. Commissioner , spoke to the same effect. '2O years, I have never met vio l . eye _ bankrupts and Commissioners, and thus terminated p _ . ri i! .. The necessary and usual papers were then signead by tilt Ligation into an estate that has excited the most sl d in e ' l i: interest among all classes throughout the c ountry that l'" itted for many years. . 1 _—......... if _ 'red Fear Plant, ----- ~.. __ u A n, _ beautiful specimen of the Enes Glori°s.n, ° . r is at garden of Colonel t. Abbey Park, St. Andrew's, :scot land. The Glass , gardener asse r ts a rt , - h e has known the identical plant for more than 30asse- drat d has never seen any *pen ance of flower before. "3"' an A t Cltatley Green, Ombersley, an Inquest li,as held on the body of Charlotte Bristol, aged sit whose clothes took tiro ou Friday se'pnight, In the act, of ha nging present going into flower inult-, on the tea kettle, and we re' entirely consumed. She was discovered in the garden quite naked, and died on Sunday intu n ' ing- Verdict—c 4 Accidental Death." COAL-MARKET, _ APRIL 25. pri Slif at Market. • I • old '' . as i Xevicastl • - Ship I ' 338 ad to 413. 2 Sunderland c - - fli - . thi , u , Or 41$ os 0 Such , -•-• .- 1 • od to ....s - tch Coal - - 0 - —2 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, . . Imstei dam Ditto, at Sight ' li ' Butte) dam .......... . 0 . , 9 Aniwerp ..... ..: .. •.. . .... . ... . ' g i g ii — 4/ s Hainhttigh P -- 3 i U.. ARonti .. ss , 1 ~ .. . ........ •.• • so oU. • Paris, 3 Day's sigat ...................... 0 t , vi. Ditto ....... . ... .. ...... ' Boordeaux, ditto ....................... • 4610 ;; MO 4 rimilt rot ton the Main . ... ... • • • 159 " % igeeti w° Madrid Cadiz ....................... . anima. ... . ............... ;. . ..... .'. .... .• • J 5 Barcelona ... ; .......... .... iteville Gibraltar ..,'. ........... ... ............ :. ....... 3_. Leghorn • ............ 0 10 Genes ••... l'i---.:1: .. ........ Ital. Liv• 16 Matta 46 Naples .......... 3 8 4 .op Palermo . .......... . . )14 pe r 1151)011 .......................... .. ......... jo i Oporto .. ..... . ............. . .......... 64 Rio Janeiro , .............. •• . •-•,.• • yi I , e , Cietib• Dublin .. 9} C0rk...... BULLION. n 0 Pel "l ' Portugal Gold, i n Coin ........ ..... I " - ,P." Foreign Gold, B . in ars ................... .... S " .. 3 15 0 New Doubloons New DOi lAri ' ' ' ' 104 ........... ':• 0 4 saver in .. • ... •.. • .............. 0 , Bars. Standard .................. ' I :: i n nia F tn rid n a l y oo , atillefid2:tihoifnasßt.sonilliu:ciiniturY-Place' .... Mrs. illethiet s t i a ; of O n daughter. ' S ir Tbolll - the 22d inst., at Shooter's-hill, th e Lady of S pa/t, MARRII:3I. ► ,„ on ° f naps On the 23d instant, at Charlton, John, o " 4 7 l ,, T iiierts4 Y..- Clf James, Esq., of the firm of Budgen and isoftk7oo, Sol" ' ford, to Emily, eldest daughter of Josel? 11 • 1 .7 P. Kidbrook-lodge, Kent. • M ot,J" or On the 24th instant, a • Distey, 010UCCSterablrioilet A., Ross, of Hammersmith, eldest son of Mr. Itoss,:e luo that,pl,cfl toAun, only daughter of Mr. lArgt 7 , >....4 hire. -40 Gloucesters' G r ° o s n v e the n tne o ri n y ----,5-1---r--- On the 25th ' t,,, •' D tre es, the • P ° " - Viscountess Torri l n ls g ul to n n - in renterden-s- - , g ee , 1 instant , d,o at 0 il i his n i ot .houser., .i n North it.lUilettlii:lettt . 8 0 pr i s9uare, in the 76th year of his eget:l4ll%w friorY L.; 9; . , e l lightun, near Canterbury, and of Lnini , , tils . On the Nth blot: at her house in Pevonshire.stieet, 11°1115 Pi4eBl Mr s. 31`11c;n1 w idow 9 . • i ilexander isl`.oesll' . n tliol the inst. at Greenwich, willtam Fred' , „it son o u_f i l a r. William Ilolarn, of that Place. ' , v iand. '-' On wPfth Instant, at Percy.mount Sligo; ~ ! 1 e of Str Percy, Gethin„ Bart.. itigr (OA 1,4 On the 23d inst., at lus residence, No. 19, Puke.; 101. ,11 3 gpte:araillnre.eburlaassliodiShannon, at the alt,:ngteiftiftertl, gerarifile,o in the child of Iltieruirelletigriers3 venerable. :Jutish A 1 0 6.6 1 . 1 13 . the merchant of Lon on , - wh n o was *united in Illoril,,gliooft. tlatiitor of . Lindo, Esq..of Lentan:street,7 fields, about two .years ,ago. • ___„,--- ______— —_---:____--_-----------the sti te Printed' anti Published for the PnCifattroni, at_ ' by J. D. CAula AT"' Office, No. 112, Strand, oft 223de tlh4.Lu SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. PETTING-ROOM., Arum D !4.—STATE OF THE ODDS tRY. 11 to 1 agst Fanatic 11 to 1' agst Tancred 29 to 1 agst Lamia c. 7 to 4 agst Endlius 0 to 1 sgst Cinder 0 to I agst Aladdin c. 14 to 1 agst Pantina The above odd; were all taken. PONCASTEIt 6T. LEG Kit. sto 1 asst Sherwood I II to 1 not Tinker. TWIT 11 LE iivrs. 3tol&g at Etniliut4 and Sher. 17 to 1 agst Mullins and Tip wood winning both Derby ker n ditto. and St. Leger OAKS. 3 , to I agst Zinc 9 to I art Tint •l to I agst Whalebone f. out 11 to 1 ogst Olivera. Sister to Wanderer. HESTON PARK Hurgr RACES, Aran. N. Hunters' Stake of W. by a Subscription of. V. each, with 15, added; lleats two miles, and to carry list. Captain Stone's Corinthian . . . . Mr. James's Mountebank - • Mr. Howard's Frisky - - .. Mr. P. Udney's Amy .. - - Six started.-6 to 4 agst the winner.. Sweepstakes of 10 sovereigns each for horses not thorough-bred. One two-mile heat. Mr. Owen's R - Radical . .. - - Captain Smith's b. in. - - - - Mr. Harvey's Frolic - - - - Five started, hut the other two were not placed. MATCH from LONDON to BATH and BACK. Mr. JACQUES, the pedestrian, undertook . to accomplish the above match last week, in seventy-two hours, for an hundred sovereigns, but time beat him by nearly twenty miles. A Mr. lloldsworth started on the same kind of match on. Tuesday, for two hundred sovereigns. He reached Marlborough Forest at ten o'clock at night on the first day (seventy-two miles.)-- After halting two hours, he proceeded on his herculean labour, - and touched - the )Oath mile-stone in thirty-four hours. Ile arrivetrat Hungerford on his return, keeping time nearly two hours in his favour. He had the last 32 miles to do from Hare: hatch in 8 hours, and he won the match with much difficulty, and had 12 minutes to spare. Time was backed at t 3 to 4. TowNsuEND completed his task of 60 miles per day: of 12bonrs, balf backwards, yesterday evening, at a few minutes before eight. - • FUNERAT; - 01 , -rum, BART. —Yesterday morning, at eight o'cloch, the re• mains of the above unfortunate deceased gentle man, who lost his life by assassination, were re- , moved from his late residence in Montague square forinterment at Huntington, in Somerset.: shire. The procession consisted of several at tendants on horseback, a heaise and six horses carrying the body ; Olive mourning coaches and four, containing the relations and intimate friends of the deceased. Upwards of twenty gentlernato carriages next followed, which proceeded at a very slow and 4olemti pace along the western road, and thus closed the melancholy scene. A crowd of spectators were assembled, who ap peared much affected on the occasion. Co-Nei MAT lON.--011 Saturday morning the walls of Dub. lin were placarded with the followmf, and similar sentences, in print and manuscript Plunket a Triumph"—" Defeat of the Gone..." Down with the Protegants"—The Orangemen to Brownlow defeated."--4 Dublin Payer.} ratifyi From the sources of information open to us, we are enabled to communicate to our numerous frielols connected with the Linen Trade, the g intelligence that the Transit Duty will Temki unrepealed. ng This is, in a great degree, to be attributed to n the vigilance and timely Interference of Sir George Uill,--(fdent.) The Rpv, fu loT y, we learn, read his solemn recanta tion of the errors of the Church of Rome,. in Cork,on yesterday sennight. ,On coming from the House of God, where he had made his' solemn abjuration. he was assailed by a mob , who violently assaulted him !---lidenb Ont. theatrical campaign commences on the 12th of May, under the most favourable auspices. The company already engaged comprises names of the very highest talent. Mr. Wrench, Mr. Oxberry, and Mr. Salter (from Manchester), are the leaders; Mr. Hooper (a considerable favourite here two years ago) , returns; as al so Mr. Butler, Mr. Thorne, and Mr. Shuser.- -Among the Ladies, our distinguished favourite, Mrs. Way lett, takes the 'lead ; together with Miss Brunton, so long known in this town, - and Miss Haminersley, a first rate singer from Liver pool.7(Birminghom Chronicle.)