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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts ,froin the Morning Papers, July [THE T1111:5.]. The news from . Portugal stiYl eontintres to be interesting. The proceidthgs ret Lisbon since tilt! restitution of the old Giovetnurent are given in the last arrivals of journals and Petters. The King and' Queen had a solemn procession on the '341 ult. to the cathedral, to return thanks to the King of Kings, an* the Queen of heaven (a title of which we Protestants are happily ignorant)— " the Queen of Heaven!" Humph ! Other fetes and rejoicings followed. But in the mean time, great pains, we obs'erve, are taken to sup press secret societies in Portugal. Now, if the party at present triumphant were really preva lent in power, what would it have to dread from secret associations? Secret associations may de- vise the means of petty mischief; but the very secrecy implies weakness. They cannot conjure np a power to overthrow an empire. The per sons employed on,. or deputed to, foreign. mis. sions, are men of high respectability. Marialva, Souza, anti Palmella, are names well known and highly esteemed' in the capitals of the French and. British kingdoms. Gomez is appointed Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Spain ; and that Court is, we believe, considered to reside at Cadiz. It may be said that every man who subscribes to the forthcoming French loan prepares the means of efeectually destroying the credit on which he tisks his capital , . If. the Bourbon GoLi virnment should happily,. destitute of fumf tb carry on the war, it must withdraw the army from Spahr, and may speedily, by a return to. pence and moderation, recruit its finances; and" preserve its credit unhopired. The existing, debt, the interest of whitch amounts to nine or len millions a year, might, in' that case, be consi dered as resting on a solid security.. But if money he supplied, and the war protracted, an other loan becomes inevitableond another, under vircnrustances which perhaps may endanger the whole fabric, of the present monarchy. Encou raging prospect this, for Englia'h sublicribers to 'a French loan of 1 3,000,000/. sterling !—(lbith). LAIORNI/MG Alonday/s Paris Pa pers reached' (is last night by express: they contain no fresh intelligence from Spain. The dissolution ..of the Constitutional Regency , ' and the restoration of the exetutive power to Yerdinand is fit ir.ngtlr acknowledged by them, though no doubt known some days be fore to the French Government. It appears to filive been a most unwelcome piece of intelligence at Paris. Had the Cortes-deposed Ferdinand it would 'have been heard with at least secret' ex nitatiow This would have given the French Cltras a theme for declamatory horror,• upon plausible, if not justifiable grounds. But the Cortes have disappointed them, and are on that account the more keenly assailed with invective and calumny. To all reasonable and impartial periolo, however, the declaration of the tempo rary incompetency of King Ferdinand, and his roteration to the head of the Government, when his CO' disposition could no longer prove fatal to the country, prove two' thing3—first, that the Cortes are determined upon the maintenance of the Constitution.—.next, that they are equally de termined upon the maintenance of the Monatchy. The Cortes , at Seville ' , when Verdinand refused to move,. evidently with' the intention of falling intlethe hinds of ti n enemy, indeed, con fessedly on his part, with that intention, must necessarily have adopted one of two courses , -- either submitting to the invaders—or transferring the person of the Sovereign mid the Legislature to a place capable of defence. Let it be fairly considered whether they could have' adopted the finmer course without incurring the odious re , preach of treason, or, what would make them not may odious but despicable, of the meanest pusillanimity. They were then under a moral necessity of adopting the alternative, as they have done. It is true the Cortes are charged iii the French Journals with having offered unnecessary violence and disrespect to the Sovereigw. , But there is not an atom of evidence that this is true. On the contrary, therris every Presumption of its falsehood'. Have they permanently usurped the power which the Constitution itself, as well' as the clear necessity of the case, vested in them for a specific purpose ? They certainly have not. By the speedy dissolution of the Regency as soon as its purpose was attained, they have prevented all reproach (us already observed) by the re storation of Ferdinand to his functions,, at a mo men t the mostlaveurable for setting him aside for ever—they have' given the best answer to the charge of their being intent upon the abolition of Mottatchy , . The fallacy in all the tirades on this subject is, that the mere naked fact of controulling. the sill of King is cried out against without cousideriug the circumstances or merits. We speak of 14 limit. c 1 Mooarch, without, however, giving any opinion upon the political justice or olitietgrty of controutling tut absolute one. In tin case, then, or limited Monarchy, the main goes tion is, which of the parties to the compact limi tation' infringed ? ho Constitution of the Cortes may not he, and most probably is not, the best and wisest in the world. But Ferdinand has ssi urn to maintain it—and the other party has its right to enforce him to observe his con tract and his oath. It may be said', that the res toration of the old Govermnent would be better for Spain. Reasoning would be thrown away uron those who are so infatuated its to thiok., or so hypocritical as to say so. istoazirNra rovo.l We received last night, by xpress, French Pripet: , to the Bth inst. They are remarkably barren of military intelligence : the only article apprvimating to something of that nature is a re port in the, , Quotidienne that General BerdesoUlt bad written a letter from Puerto Real to the Duke of Angouieme v in which he boasted that he would enter Cadiz on the Ist or Id inst. The Quoildienne has however the prudence to add, that it does not guarantee the authenticity of rtliis news. E'en the Ulttath begin' fo perceive that, the conquerors of Spain have as yet done more tsiith their pens than with their swords ; and that' when the case must end with downright fighting, it is not quite safe to predict an uninter rupted series of triumphs. The Journal des Debuts confirm the factor Ferdinand VII. hav ing been replaced in the enjoyment of all the prerogatives of Royalty immediately after his arrival at Cadiz, and declares that it is more in dignant at this restoration than it would have hem had the , dethronement of that Monarch been completed ; because it shows still less respect for the Royal authority., [NENV TIMES.] That memorable instance of folly, the Spanish Minty Bill!, has actually netted thctprOdigious sum of Three Hundred and Seventy-two Pounds Six Shillings! It was to mark the dal, the en thusiasm of the Whig Nobility 'of "Ebgland, in the cause of a gallant and oppiesied People—and it has netted 3721. 6s. It 'to re6ltiit the ex hausted tteasnry of the I):.. l tiOtkihit•--to buy shirts for the shirtless, and brrches forthe Suns culottes—it was to raiseAirmie's, lo purchase cannon, to store Magazines, in line, to build chateaux en Espagne-- - -and it he* netted 372165. We said that the Ball would be perfectly harm less. We knew it would not hurt the French army, nor the loyal Spaniards ;. and we had a shrewd slapicion that it would not much injure the fortunes of the wealthy Peers andPeeersses who gave it theh' poWerful support—but we really did think it would, net something more than 3721. 6s.—ln the Quarterly Review, just pub lished (No. 56), a circumstance is mentioned as a specimen of the spirit in which this nonsensical affair was conducted. " The profits of the Ball Were originally destined to the general support ;of the Spanith cause. The legality of such re dis 'position of money was questioned ; its prudence and decency. more than questioned ; and the future profits'became very doubtful ; when lo! 1 1 :fiy days before the Ball, the public was in formed that `‘ the profits were now destined to the relief of. the wounded Spaniards, an' exercise of Christian charity to which no one could ob ject, and to which both Whig and Tory ought to Contribute.' We need not observe (pays tl\e Re- Viewer) on the falsehOod and meanness of this Shift ; but its abstifikrity is too ludicrous to be passed over. At the time this advertisement was put forth, it was not/ we believe, known in Eng land that one single Spaniard had takers so much interest in' the Constitution as to be wounded in its defence." ••••••- [l3ltatSl l PR VAS.] A' Lisbon Mail arrived yesterday, bringing Papers from that Capital to the ‘2Bth of June.— The faction of the Queen and Don Miguel are now, through the aid of a faithless and ferocious soldiery,: triumphant in Portugal. All traces of the recent COnstitution are sought to r,e abolished, avid the despotism of' the old regime is every Where introduced.. The Queen, Ferdinand's ii t abe,. had returned to Lisbon on the 18th ; end the rebel Amarante, on his arrival in the capital on the 2.4thf was received with great distinction by the Infant Don Miguel., An inilated account is also given in these Pipers of. icsolemn procession to the Church . of SantwMariii, to return thanks to the " King Of Kings; and Queen of Heaven," for the ineffable favour bestowed on the Portuguese na. lion, by its recent deliverance froin an impious 'and execrable government ! What intolerable, 'blasphemy this is !—a perjured tyrant and his vile associates and janissaries,.insultiug the Al mighty, by offering; thanks ..for the .ensVaveinent and degradation of his creatures—approaching his thrOne to offer up their unworthy homage with lips yet reeking with perjury ! On the I tith the former servile Senate' wive restored, the constitttH donut Camara being abolished. To this has been added a decree, Suppressing all' secret communeros, and carbo-1 societies—freemason s, nevi. Tyrants are al ways suspicious, and' sleep in hourly apprehension. 'The members of these societies still meeting after thii decree,. are subjected to tim mild punishment of exile to. Attica, for at least five years, and a tine of 100 . vollrees. 'Ferdinand, the Portuguese despot's' brother An-law, sent Arguelles and his victims also to Africa, to work in chains on the ramparts of' Ceuta,:, beneath u burning sun. Our private accounts say, that revived tyranny was surround. eel by universal gloom and 'distrust in Lisbon.--- The s'oldiery who had caused the counter-revo.' lution were feared by the. Court, and discontent was known to be general. The permanence of despotism in that: country will depend on the fate of Spain.. alf her patriots succeed in pre. serving, their liberties,. Portugal will again he free. [MORNING CIIRONIGLg.] The Journal des Dads seems greatly chagrined that Ferdinand has been allowed to retain his head. " Monarchies (observes this Journal) are in more danger from these derisory attempts, which at once degrade misfortune and the Mo narch, than by the serious crimes which leave to the King his grandeur, and to misfortune its dig. nity." This most loyal- Journal would wish to add a third to the list of Royal Martyrs, that legiti macy might triumph in Spain in its Ferdinandyas it did in England and France in its Charles and its Louis.• We question however r whether Ferdi nand views matters in this light—whether he does not think that snug lodgings in the Custom House at Cadiz are, after all, to be preferred to the. honour of mounting the scaffold for the good of his successors.—The Historians of England have taught the important lesson, that the execution of our own Royal Martyr threw a veil of oblivion over his misdeeds, and greatly injured the oppo nents of Monarchy in the pubtic mind, and the effect produced by the beheading of Louis the Sixteenth wilt not soon be forgotten. Judging from the language of the French Journalist, it would seen' that the lesson has not been lost on the 'partisans of legitimacy, and that they would have reconciled themselves without much difficulty to the martyrdom of F erdinand, in the hopes of reaping Advantage from it.—The solute Royalists at Madrid are quite indignant at the indulgence of the Regency. In the Courier Francais there is a paper, said to be in profuse Circulation an over Spain; with the title, "'Clues. iion or a Royalist---Whitt has passed at Madrid since the pitiful retreat of the very humane Zayas?" in this loyal production it is said, " Some individual; who called themselves Gran dees, because their ancestors bore this title on account of the virtues which they themselves have not, hope to cover their opprobrium by a compromise between the Throne and its ene mies; they solicit' and demand audaciously that the Sovereign should be forced to recognize the Code of 1823, as the Riegos and Quirogas obliged them to swear to the Constitution of 1 1812, and they present themselves gratuitously; to occupy the convenient seats of the Upper Chambers The . French will have something to do ere they settle matters at Madrid to the satis factiotv &Call parties. PARIS PAPERS. • (Pewit: the Courier Francais.) • PAILIR, JULY 6.—The General Direction of Posts. has , adopted &measure useful to' commerce and the administration at the sameliine. Paris was perhaps the only place in Europe where the absurd practice was retained of dispatching couriers before the opening even of the Exchange. ( From" the Constitutionnelq : • PARTS, JULY 7.—We have already advised the Journal' des Debats not in future to stultify the news which it publishes, by accompanying it . by facts evidently false, and of which it takes care itself to demonstrate the incorrectness: How can the writ appear to it to be terminated, when it pub fishes itself the actions which have taken place in the Asturias —when it announces that oar army of Catalonia is about to make a movement to approach Barcelona ? How can all Spain enjoy the most profound tranquillity, when it tells us every day of massacres at Seville, of popular vengeance, and of guerril las, and when even the. Proclamation of the Corrigedor of Madrid against the tumultuous movements of which that capi tal h as heenitise theatre, may be read in all the Journals ? When the Journal dci Debuts announces our sticcess, we willingly be lieve it; but when it tells us that there is no longer any war except in Andalusia, and that all Spain enjoys the most pro. found tranquillity, it risks having the most ccvrect intelligence doubted, and losing every kind of credit. Since Mina has been pursued, sword in hand, andbeen every day on the point of being taken, every one endeavours to ertillun in his own way how he has succeeded in escaping our Generals. Some think that he liae , much activity and pre sence of mind, and great local knowledge. The Journal des Dana:, says, that he has none of the talents which constitute an able General. The Draprau illanclu9 for sonic time in sinuated, that if he is not attacked, there exist certain secret reasons' for it, which will be revealed itv due time. One of its correspondents, who asserts that though not a soldier, he has followed the operations, and the march of the tenth divi sion of the Army of Spain ' affirms, "with a little good sense and much good faith, and without fear of being contradicted, that die most complete success might have crowned the efforts and the plan of Viscount Donnadieu, in the first pursuits which he directed against Mina." Amongst the toasts given on Saturday, at the fete of thelAn , nivcrsary of the Republic of the United States, was the follow'. ing, given by M. George Washington Fayette :—" To the prosperity of the - United States, may it be an encouragement to nations, and a proof. that public happiness is the necessary consequence of liberty." Ft is not merely Prefects and Sub-Prefects that arc dismissed —it is not merely libraries chat are closed, or Journals sup pressed—the operations strike - at the most peaceable societies; at establishments the roost tiseful and the most inoffensive The societies of agriculture and the arts,—that centre of all local experience, which hail particularly the valuable advantage. of bringing together men of the most, oppiisite opinions by means of the ties of science„—the agricultural societies are Ow epurated. When authority gives all the' salaried,. places to its friends...— what it dismissed without pity 11),Aliose, , ylioin it suspects— when it dismisses them, even wit ioutA Motive, it has a right to clh'so, and it exercises that right at its own risk and peril ; but when it strikes at men who occupy themselves gratis with the amelioration of our fields and our docks, and the prosperity of our manufactures it 'in a manner which appears to u 4 to be not conformal& either to 'the interests of agriculture or the interests of the Government, or the Administration. There existed, for instance, a society of apiculture and 'the arts, in tbe department of La Meuse. It consisted of 120• Members, chomitn from amongst the most honourable and the most enlighteved then. It has been disttolved by the new Prefect, irwas tuted by the late Prefect. Political opinions are not even mentioned as a ground for the dissolution of this Society, which appears to be a strangely contradictory measure. The Prefect dissolved the Society be cause it was too numerouir ; it consisted of 120' members, ands is henceforth to have do more than sixty. .It would seem,. therefore, that it might have been merely reduced one-lialf, or not at all;. only a part of its old members are preserved, and. 20 new ones have been appointed who never sat in it. The chief place of the Department, the town of par le Due, Which 30 years ago might be called a deserted town, has seen since that epoch 200 manufactories rise, as if by enchantment; It h a s become one of the most inthisfrious , lnwns in the king dom.; six of its manufacturers formed part of the Society of Agriculture and the Arts, and five of theni are excluded; one only remains. and he has quitted his establishment to act as a .lustice of the Peace. Thus one of the - most manufacturing towns of France will not have aivaigifacturer in a society of the Arts of Industry. • ; POa r ru.4AL, 2,,lsnnsr, JITNE .12:--On the liith her Majesty the Queen of Queluz, amidst the 'left Riimalhao for the 'ILIA Palace. ge neral acclamations of the people of all the places through %filch she passed. On the 18th her Majesty came to. the Palace of Bemposta to visit the King and her sons. When she reached St. Sebastian da Pedreira, the people took the horses from•her carriage and d rew i t to B em posta, with extraordinary demonstrations of joy, and it was with difficulty they were dissuaded from doing the same at her returti• On the 19th the ancient Senate (Snail° de Camara) .of this city of Lisbon was reinstated with due pomp, the Constitutional their Camara being abolished. JIT)rE .24.—The 9.,2a was a liy.of real triumph, on which 10)01 Highnesses went in .solemn proces sion to the Church of Santa Maria Major, to return thanks to the King-,Of Kings and the .Queen of_ 'lemon, for the in. Maie2ties and effable favours bestowed on the -Sovereign and Portuguese nation, by delivering us from the most impious and exe crable Government, whose sole object was tb destroy to the very foundation the magnificent .eilifice of the Lusitanian Empirci • ' • [Here fallow very long details of the soleinnitY, the tri umpire' arebes y the military parade, the rejoicings, the inn minatioh*, &c. &c. Among other occurrences, the people, permission having been obtained, pulled clown the monu ment which was founded in the RoCio on the 15th of Sep teniberl 18211 Ilis Mtilelity has nominated the Marquis de Marialva to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary to his. Most Christian Alajesty ; Don Jose Luis de Sousa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his. Bri tannic. and till that Minister shall arrive in London, • his Majesty has been pleased to appoint Rafael de Cruz Ouer retro to act as Charge d'Aiiiiires. .ICSE 25—if the 211 was remarkable for the solemnity of which we gave an ,account biota preceding number ,. the 24th: was rendere d equally Memorabe ,hy the arrival of the uncon. quered Count Am arante , w it h •his brave division of above 3,000 men. The Gazette Cpo int of the gracious recep tion a Ong aCe don given the Count by Donilifrucl, who went to meet him, and by their Majesties at Bemposta,- and of the rejoicings of the soldiers and the peep*. „ 'NNE 27.—')'lie Gaze/ c ontains a long Decree ( Carta de . bet ), suppressing all Secret Societies, whatever may be their institutions ordenominations, which shall never be again re-• stored. The grOhnd assigned is, that the F reemasons, as well as the Clarbonari, Communeros, and others of the same na ture, have notoriously cau sed' gr eat injury to all nations; that they have multiplied eau extremely, and formed a conspinicy to destroy the Altar and the Throne ; that the most enlightened Governments of Ettiope have become sensible of the necessity of averting the clanger ; and that it is especially notorious that their influence ro t l . need the revolution in P o r tu g al. has • His Majesty n a wi e d Daron de Texeira, Minister of Finance of the Royal Treasury. • CO ILO N ELL'S IN Q UghT. —Oll Tuesday au Inquisi . tion as held i n Alaidenhead-cour t, on the bod y w of Thomas Hornsby, who was struck s p eechless on Saturday last, in a fit of apoplexy, and died soon after, notwithstanding surgical aid was im• mediately afforded. The Jury, without hesita. tionaronouncedv a verdict to that effect. LITERARY NOTICE. The PAST, PRESENT, and PROBABLY the FUTURE STATE of the WINE TRADE ; proving that an Increase of Duty caused a Decrease of Revenue, &c. &c. &c. By JAMES WMIIIE-4823. We have examined this Pamphlet with a feel ing of satisfaction, which has been not a little en hanced by the well-grounded expectation which it affords, that the arithmetic, the logic, and the humour of its Author will materially contribute to enable us one day to enjoy our bottle of ex cellent Port at the moderate rate of 28s. or 30s. per dozen ! Mr. wARItE Is himself a veteran in the Wine Trade, having,by his own account, been an importer of Wines from Portugal, Brazil, and other countries, for nearly half a century. If we may judge from the following joyous specimen of his style, and the humorous air with which he expresses his sovereign contempt far the " miser able bottle', no bigger than a vinegar cruet," which is so often seen to " disgrace the table of a coffee-house,"—for the mere tasters of wine, in cluding " the field officer," whose limited means compel him to " stint himself to a single glass of Port or Sherry,"L—and for the whole tribe of "soda water and ginger beer drinkers," and of the " un fortunate individuals with disorganized stomachs, who cannot drink wine," and the " water-pre scribing doctors," who, however, it seems, gene rally 64 instruct by precept rather than by ex ample,"—we shall be warranted in inferring that Mr.. WA altE'll importations have not been entirely on account of the community, but that a due pro portion of choice samples has been occasionally reserved for his own use, and for that of his im mediate friends :. "As to the opinion entertained by some people, that wine is gone out of fashion, that our habits are changed, that soda water and ginger beer are now our only drink, it is a mistake ; it is the price, not inclination, that compels abstinence. Most true it is, that there are some unfortunate individuals, with dis organized stomachs, who cannot drink wine ; others are male the influence of water-prescribing doctors, who fancy they gain celebrity thy the singularity of their prescriptions; doctors, however, frequently instruct by precept rather than by ex ample. I remember :whet, tar-water was all. the fashion : health could not be preserved unless the' stomach was as• well saturated with tar as the hold of a 'hip. In proof' that the consumption of wine' will again increase, if the price Is reduced, I refer to the account, Appendix C, which shews that the additional duties- from 1778 to 1781 had reduced the consumption to 16,000 tuns per annum. Wine might then be supposed.to have gone more out of fashion than at present, .but on reference to that account it will be seen, that the reduc tion of the duty in 1786 had' immediate effect, for the consump tion the very next year increased nearly 10,000 tuna, or about half more than it was;. and, moreover, annually progressively increased, so that in a very short time it amounted to upwar4, of 35,000 tuns in Great Britain ; and would, perhaps, now (taking oute Very great increase of population into consideration) have been double that quantity, had it not been checked by the 'impolitic duties imposed. That the present state of society is much improVed, .is not denied : happily, inebriety is not the vice of the age. It is not, however, those who indulge in occasional debauch, nor your three-bottle men,' that affect the general consumption of wine, for they are but few in number ; it is the daily, though perhaps small consiimption of the middling classes of society, the coffee and chop-house frequenters, that promotes the revenue. They cannot, or will net, pay six shillings, and at some houses seven shillings, for a bottle of' wine : but, let the price of wine be re duced to three shillings for a bottle of. Port, and, provided the prke is net Surreptitiou s ly kept u p in Portugal by means whiaf 1 have already stated, but the fair and natural course of trade be permitted, I know that, upon die reduction of duty I shall propose, Port wine might or ought to be sold at that price, and afford ample remuneration to the farmer, the exporter, the mer chant, and retailer, and that a pipe of Port 'night be laid in at a much lower rate,---no doubt need be entertained that the con sumption would be equal to what, it was in Great Britain and Ireland in the year 1803. If wine . was restored to nearly the price it was at that period, it would not want etisterhers ;—We should no longer hear that, at a celebrated and: highly distin guished s o c i e ty, a fi eld.officce stints himself to a single glass of Port or Sherry, though he reindfribers that his allowance, when an ensign, was the third of a bottle l—we should no longer see a miserable bottle no bigger than a vinegar-cruet disgrace the table-of a coffee-house !' But we must not leave the Reader to ittlag.inv i 1 from the foregoing sample',. tha t the whole of tlre pamphlet is composed in the same exhilerating strain. Mr. WA.ILRE, ass fervent admirer of the juice of the grape, has his Micitnents of jocularity; but as a man of business he also knows very well that it is neither by cracking an extra joke, nor an extra bottle, that his favourite project of ob taining an effective reduction of the Wine Duties is to be accomplished. His work, therefore, !very properly consists chiefly of sober reasoning upon solid data, and of a formidable array of dommientary proofs and dry calculations, which incontrovertibly establish his grand position, via. that an increase of duty causes a deCrease of re venue, whilst 6 , decrease of duty, on the other hanth,-occasions an increase of revenue. We can not better give an idea of the method which he has adopted for this purpose, than by tran scribing the Table of Contents prefixed to the Pamphlet : CONTENTS. 31eworial adaresscd to the Right Honourable the PreiJidenl and Members of the Board of Trade. Postscript. APPENNIX AND VOUCHERS. A. arid 11.—,An Account of the Import and Export of all Wines from 1780 to 1020, with an Estimate of the-Anneal Consumption at the different periods when any Alteration took place - in duties. C. An Account of Wines imported in 1784; 1785,1786; corm pared with 1788, 1789, 1790. • D. An Estimate of the Annual and Daily Average Consump tion of the different kinds of Wine in Great Britain, Ire, land, and Scotland. E. An Account of Revenue derived from Wine 1801 to 1803, compared With 1819 to 1821, strewing a diminution in the latter period of £1,061,530. • F. An Account of the Quantity of Foreign Wine imported in the same periods, also thawing a diminution of 60,419 tuns. G. An Account of the Average Produce per Annum of Bo venue, Trade, and Rate of Duties,—chewing Increase of Duty, and Decrease of Revenue and Trade. li. Extract of Memorial to Lord North, when First Lord of the Treasury, 1783. I. Ditto to Chancel:l6r of Exchequer, March 1815. K. Second - Ditto to Ditto, March 1.4. An Account of the Product; of Alto Douro , from 1779. M. An Account of Export of Wines firom Oporto from 167(1, with a Report of the reputed Quality of the respective Vin tages from 1771. N. An Account of the Importation of every Species of Wine into Great Britian from the year 1097. • • 0. An Account of Duties on Wine from .12th of Charles IL 1672, specifying the Rate and Amountin each Reign. • In short, all persons who are desirous of rtaining the precise effect which various ,degrees 'of taxation have had upon the consumption of foreign wines in this country, will Gad in Me tables which Mr.' N'VanitE has, evidently with much assiduity and labour, prepared for his corn ..• itrehettsive pamphlet upon the subject, all the in formation (anti that too of the most authentic description,) which is necessary for putting them in possession of the object of their inquiry. Though we so fur agree with the views of the. author, as to be of opinion, with him, that a re. duction of . the Wine Duties would be beneficial to the revenue, and, to the fOreign cOMmerce of the country, it is necessary that ave. should ex press our decided dissent from the notions which he seems to entertain respecting frecdOm of trade, and some others of the visionary theoretical pro positions of the modern and spurious school of Political Economy. Indeed, we would almost require to he assured that no injurious conse quences would result to the producers of the Cape wines, before we gave our hearty assent to such a reduction of the duties on foreign wines as is proposed by Mr. WARR e. SIH HARCOURT LEES. This Protestant and patriotic Baronet, who it indefatigable in his efforts to support the British Constitution in Church and State, has recently addressed THE ORANGEMEN of the United Em• pire, In a very animated letter. We have not, however, room for the insertion of more than the concluding part, as follows, in which, notwith standing his zeal for the memory of WILLIAM the THIRD, he exhorts them, for the sake of the national peace, not to perform the ceremony of adorning his STATUE, according to annual custom. t° Gentlemen, it affords me the most perfect satisfaction to be able to assure you from authority, that the Orange Institution is rapidly extending itself throughout all parts of the British Empire. The great pillars and chief supporters of our glori4 our Constitution have their eyes at this moment fixed with the most intense anxiety, and I fear with no small degree of alarm, on the Orangemen of this country, lest, through over zeal, or indignation at unmerited but well drsigned insults, they should, contrary to every principle of wisdom, and in de fiiance of the expressed wishes of their ablest and best de fenderr, be induced publicly to parade through the country parts of Ireland on the 12th inst. Every man in this country who deserves to be called a protestant, and who venerates the Con-. stitution with the recollection of its immortal Restorer, William the 3d, Prince of Orange, deprecates with horror (foreseing the. fatal consequences) any public and ostentatious parading, at this moat critical and important crisis of our much loved Ire rand's salvation or eternal destruction. Well I know what ' Will be the result both in a political and religious point of view, and well you ought toknow that notone promulgated judgment . of mine has in 3 single instant yet proved erroneous. I have with consistency, and without fear, fought the battles of our Religion. and our beloved Monarch, unceasingly, and with unparalleled success. Recollect, Gentlemen, what Popery was when I first commenced the holy crusade, against the monstrous system of imposture and impiety, invented by villain Monks, and supported by credulous and superstitious fools— behold that apostate church, now in her expiring struggles, to what I have driven her at last, to the working of miracles even in her dotage, to support a little longer, an idolatrous, a' bloody career, throughout a short fleeting period still of a corrupt and detested existence. My objects never were confined to the carrying of banners, or the fluttering of ribban4 on a statue, like pagconts of a country flair; no, Orangemen : harmless as these symbols of our loyal principles are, rtir mind contemplated a far more transcendent exhi , hition in the . proutl triumph of the Protestant Reformed . Religion, over - all the errors and wiles of Popery . and Priestcraft. That triumph we are now certain of, if you, by your imprudence and supposed loyalty, do‘ not over turn the structure that ii nearly completed for your final security; I charge you then, my faithful and beloved brethren, in the name of the living God, to resign your processions for this year. If you choose it (unless the in tended Bill should prevent it), assemble, as you have been accustomed ttedo, on general occasions in your Lodge Rooms, without parade, or procession, and disperse when your usua l prayers are offered uto your Redeemer without riot or dis turbance. Thus wil l you really gain an exalted victory, over your unprincipled and insidious enemies, who have had the art to persuade your deceived countrymen that you are their I sworn and . mortal foes. Should our forbearance be misre , presented, or our feeling be subsequently outraged, then, Gen tlemen, we have the proud consciousness to support our future procee di ng ,withouto b ur e se w l i v t e h s ou t t o re l p ie roach. guil e, now, Gentlemen, after the most mature cons i de ration, after so we th a t must ever we b havee considered P ved m re flecting upon what I know to be the actual state of this coun try, the plan contemplated by foreign and domestic conspi advantage in die administration ., and the cer tain conse q uence* raters, the possible effects as connected with changes to our ills to the Established Church, most solemnly and impressively call upon You all, to follow implicitly my advice ; and if you will not comply with my injunctions from a principle of a true attachment to the Constitution, I shall, in weeping over the rashness and imprudence of my Brethren, never, again conde scend to require your obedience, from a principle of affection for myself. With perfect confidence in your Judgment, your loyalty, and your true patriotism, I have the honour to be still your friend and supporter, HARCOURT LEES ° On Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, 'ma . party of young men were returning from Rich. mond, where they had spent the day (and it iw presumed had been making rather too free), when about to land it was discovered that one-of the party was missing:. search was instantly math., but wahout success, the night being der% and stormy. From some circumstances, at pre sent unexplained, it appears that their unfortu nate companion fell overboard somewhere be tween Leader's Distillery and St. John's Wharf, Battersea, opposite to which place the body was found the following morning. ROBBERY BY A SwEep.—Yesterday mottling, between seven and eight o'clock, a sweep (or lad disguised in a sweep's dress) went to the house of SILVESTER PULPIIIR, Esq. in Portland-street, and Wing let into the kitchen by .a female ser vant, be told her he had been sent to ask when it would be convenient for Mrs. PuLentit to have her chimneys swept ? The servant said she would go up stairs and make the enquiry or either her mistress or the housekeeper, and during her absence from the kitchen, the sweep carried off a large silver gilt cream ewer. COAL-MARKET, JULY 9. Ships at Market. Ships sold 211 Newcastle -21 i - 4 Sunderland - 4 - 0 Scotch Coal . . 0 BIRTHS. On the lith inst., at Brighton, the Lady or Lieut.-Colonel Monier Williams, of a daughter. On Tuesday morning, in York-place, City-root; 31re. Ben— jamin B. Williams, of a son, still-born. MAItRIED. On Saturday last, by the Rev. Lord John Thynete, the HO !Mumble Henry Laseenes, to Lady Louisa Thynne,,daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath. On Monday, the 7th inst., Richard Stokes. of Chipping. Ongar, Essex, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas. Shadrack, of the same place. • On Tuesday last, by special license, at the house of Marring. ton Price. Esq., of liaslemere, Surrey,. by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, Robert Price, Esq., ALP. for the county of Hereford, and only son of tivedale Price, Esq., of Foxley, to Mary Anne Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Price, Prebendary of Durham, and Canon Resii dentiary of Salisbury. Price. 35s 6d to 43e 3d 37s Od to 44a (hi —8 Od to DIED. On Sunday, in Jermyn.street, Major-General the fon. Arthur St. Leger. On Wednesday, the 25th of June last, Eliza, the wife of Richard Woodland, Esq., Banker, of Bridgewater. At Greenwich, on the 4th inst., the Rev. William Morgan.. D.P., late Chaplain of the Royal Naval Asylum, aged . 6? years. On the Bth inst., in Upper Wirripole-street, Charles George Purling, son of John Charles Purling, Esq., of liinpton Rus . sell, in the county of Dorset, aged 15 years. On Thursday, July 3d, at Rnutsford, the lion. Ur. Booth Grey. Printed anti Published for the PHOPAIECOItiI, at the Sux. OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CAUStAIRS