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true he .hats Prot tke •pow present which- once matie him so formidable ite Europe that Kings trembled at his. decree, and the breath of his mouth absolved subleets from their.allegiance; but until be reuourna e s the right to do so, Protestant States must take care so t o p reserve t h e i r own in ititutiona and principles of Government, that if citmunstances should once morerender him politically powierful, he may not be politically 'mischievous.— Tlais is only acting upon that principle of self-pre •servation,Which it is not only the right but the duty of every State, as well as of 'every individual to act upon. The Duke c! Wellington very properly says that he sees no particular 'reason .why a belief in transubstantiation or purgatory, or other doctrines of the Rom-in Catholiet, should disqualify them to enjoy civ 1 privileges; but he objects to their ad mission to political power, on, the ground of the zature of their Church Government, and the state of vassalage in which it holds society. He says that " it is well known the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland acts as a combined body, and has complete controul and government of the Laity. It is to this controul that the present state of Ireland is to be attributed, which places the Aristocracy of that country completely und er t h e controul of priests and demagogues." But the priests paythe same prostrate and blind submission to the Pope which the Laity pay to themselves, and therefore it behoves Protest ant States so to legislate as to preventthe Roman Pon tiff from ever having that authority within their realms, which, if she should again become powerful, might be used to break down thealleoiance of their Roman Catholic subjects. But the question is, cannot this be done in the British Empire without keeping Rothan Catholics in the same state of poli tical disqualification which the laws at present en join ? This is a question which ought to be resolved upon - the examination of its own merits—and if it appears that the laws affeeting this class of British subjects can be altered without danger to the State, such an alteration ought to emanate from the Govern ment itself, boldly and honestly legislating on the principles of policy and justice, without any regard to the extravagant demands or intemperate pro ceedings of " priests or demagogues." We think we observe, in the recent speech of the Premier, an • intimation, though not plainly expressed, that Go vernment Will itself hereafter take up the question, and do what they think is right and just, without asking whether the course they take will be accepta ble or not to those incendiaries whose object it is to obtain a turbulent importance. —Morning Herald, The hotel-keepers Licensing Bill, at rather the 13i11 for licensing Wine-rooms, Shades, Oyster-rooms, Hells, Bagodos, and all manner of public nuisances, was last night thrown out in the House of Lords' This result we predicted two days ago; and to say the least of it, it is only what those who were ac cessary to the infamous and dishotiest means which were employed to introduce clauses into the Bill, which were never contemplated by its author, atost amply desevred. Men who are in pur suit of honest and honourable objects, never re sort to any underhand proceedings in order tif attain them—they pursue it in a straight-for ward and honourable manner, challenging niveSti gation and courting inquiry ; hut in the instance of the Bill in question, it was known that the object could not be obtained by a straight-forward course—that the Legislature would never consent either to plunder deserving individuals of their pro perty, or to let loose upon the community a host of disreputable persons, the throwing open of whose hoisses would be attended with the most pernicious effects on the public morals ; and it was therefore determined by them to employ the only means which could possibly obtain for them a temporary triumph—fraud ono cunning ! They have had their reward—and the Licensed Victuallers have had their triumph! We shall not trample on the former, for their own eonduct is sufficient punishment ; but we trust that the lesson 'which they have now re ceived will teach them in future, that however successful fraud and cunning may be for a time, they are in the long run sure to be detected ; and that if an -object, however valuable, cannot be attained by honest and fair means, it ought never to be attempted by foul. So much for the conducLof the wine-room and bagnio-keepers; Wlto a few days ago, wei-e insulting the Licensed Victuallers—iii . the full certainty of obtaining their ends—by the most disgusting familiarities. We should, however, but ill discharge our duty to the Committee appointed to watch over the interest of the trade, or to the great body of the Licensed Victuallers, were we to refrain from stating that the former are deserving the most sincere and cordial thanks of their constituents for the activity and zeal which they have displayed on this occasion, and that the latter are bound, by every consideration for their own interests, not only to ren der the Committee permanent, and to invest it with every power and authority necessary for a successfu management of their business, but to place at its disposal sufficient funds for the purpose. The shameful fraud which has been attetapted to be played upon them is only one instance out of the many which may in future be hatched; and when the next public meeting of the body takes place, we trust they will evince their sense of the important service which has been rendered them—or without the exertions of the Committee—without the aid of a gentleman whose name we shall not now mention=— and, let us add, without the information afforJad by the Sunday Herald and ltiorninr , Advertiser, the whole bade would ere now have been thrown open—by entering into such resolutions, and placing such liberal subscriptions at the disposal of the Committee, as may enable the latter to over throw any underhand and dishonest attempt which may be made in future to strip them of their pro perty, and expose the puha! morals to the seduc tions of the worst of charact ers.-111orning Advertiser. The commerce of this country has of late suffered severely, both in the East and West, from piracy; and our Government has been not a little blamed for not acting with more ener g y i n th e re p ress i on o f i this piracy, and n awing the Governments whOse subjects, with their connivance, commit such ag gressions on our trade. It has been observed, that the Government of the United States, .with very, inferior means at its disposal to those .of out Government, contrives to afford more efficient pro testion to its commercial navy, and to strike a greater awe into the different Governments of the New World. We believe that forbearanc e has been carried to a culpable extent byour GoVere nien. t The maxims received in Europe , the na tural growth of its - civilization, have been too liberally observed towards the infant Governtnents of Ln l et in the lowest stages of civilization. T h e population of all the States of America, wit h the exception of the United States, from a varie ty o f irettmstatices, no matter what name they ma y choos e t o g i ve t o th e ir Governments, will be hal f savage fora long. period to come, and, in order to awe them, we mus t a dopt a course of proceeding of much more summary and energetic nature than would be justifiable in the . case of the subjects of the (40eertnnent s of Europe. The Officers of the United states, aware of this, stand on very little ceremony 'when the object is to obtain redress for grievanceo suffered by American citizens. TheSe observations have been drawn from us by the scene inn the House of Lords last night. Lord 'Viscount Strangford, Nobleman who has evidently profited by his school ing at Constantinople, presented last night a petition from the Merchants and Ship-owners of London, complaining generally of the multiplied losses they had lately Met with from piracy committed by yes eels under the flags of Buenos Ayres and Colombia; a petition from the Merchants and Ship-owners ofthe Island of Jersey, comelaining that they had twenty vessels employed in the trade to South America,and out of these 20 vessels not one-half of theta were ever allowed to return unmolested by some acts of aggression committed by vessels bearing the flags of these States ; and a third petition from an individual plundered by a vessel belonging to Buenos Ayres, i ! and carried into Rio Negro. The authors of these enor mities, so far from being punished by their Govern... ments,on their return into port were prometeehto . the command of other ships, andreceived new commissnani. under which they might again go out on their . roving buccaneering cruises against the commerce of friendly and neutral Powers. li. is observed by the ingenious Captain Head, in a pamphlet pub lished the other chay , on the subject of. Emigration, " that the moral space which exists between the state of society in our own country and that of South America seems almost greater than the actual dis tance which separates us ; and the manhood and complicated arrangements of the one, compared wit 4 the infancy and simplicity of the other, form one of the strongest contrasts in nature." The fact is, that morality, like every thing else, is the creature of necessity ; and that till population has made such progress that food and other indispensiblc wants require the display: of constant industry, morality and law will always be at the lowest ebb. When the means of subsistence; can be obtained everywhere with little or no exertioa,•law can have no sanction, and there can be little motive for the preservation of a character for regularity or honest dealing. Hence the ancestors of every ancient family in Eu rope were robbers; hence, honesty or principle, in the European sense of the word, is not to be found in any part of South America; and hence in Russia, a country also still in its infancy, morality has yet to be introduced. Dr. Lyal says, that with the ex ception of one Judge . in Moscow, it was under stood that there was not a Judge in all the Em pire of Russia who was not grossly corrupt. Bri bery in all classes is as notorious as the sun at noon-day. Von Buch says, that a Norwegian never purchases the slightest commodity from a Russian, without taking the greatest precaution against fraud. - Men is always the creature of cir cumstanres; and though he may undoubtedly be mo dified by Government, among other circumstances, yet those who expect that the mere nature of the • Government, whether Aristocracy or Democracy, can counteract all the other circumstances in hie si tuation, know little of the nature of their species, and have read history to very little purpose. This puny Lordling, who seems equal to little more than the composition of a soft sonnet, and whose mind is ay unable to understand the mode in which man is in fluenced by the Circumstances in his situation, as any of the Eunuchs of the Seraglio, ventured to deliver himself of some observations, last night, on the con duct pursued by the British Government towards South America, which deserve some notice : "He thought it right (he said), to look else where fos redress, than to those Republics which were founded on rebellion, and prop ped up by piracy, the vice of their origin still clinging to them, and stamping on all their proceed ings its own characteristics. This creation of ours was any thing but creditable to us; for if the time should ever come—though he prayed to God it might be far distant : but if the time should ever come, when we were again at war with the United States of North America, we should find that we had been recruiting the navies of that Power, and then we should repent separating them from Spain, under the responsibility of which State we shall then wish we had quietly suffered them to remain." If the Noble Lord had said that revolutions of any kind, whether civil or religious, must, among their immediate effects, produce considerable demorali zation, we could have understood him. But this would not satisfy him, but lie mint try the South Americans and our own Government by the rules of the Metternich school of legi timacy. The Government of Spain, in the New World, was so nnnatural, that it necessarily /produced the various Revolutions. The history of the world is time history of Revolutions, and blame or praise is equally misplaced in judging of what is generally a matter of imperious necessity. It is not mere absurd to quarrel with a stone descending a hill for obeying the laws of gravitation, than to quarrel with the South American States for freeing themselves the first moment that presented itself &Um the unnatural position in which Spain at tempted to retain them. The Government of Spain had for object to prevent the people from availing themselves of their resources ; and such a Government must, sooner or later, have been over turned. If this Lerdling imagine that any abstract principle—call it legitimacy,. or call it by any other came—can prevent either in the Old or New World the results which the nature of things prepares, he is under a very gross delusion. As to the idea of constraining South America to remain under Spain for the sake of preventing the contingent advantage the American Navy may derive from the change, it is as illiberal as it is ridiculous. The commerce of this country has benefitted greatly by the emancipation of South America, and as its population increases, our commerce will grow in value. Exaggerated notions, we know, were enter tained of the rapidity with which the commerce would increase, by men who were not aware that commerce is barter, and that it cannot be increased more rapidly than the production of commodities to be exchanged will admit of. We exported to South America without reference to the capabilities of the people to produce commodities to pay for the im ports, and hence we have to thank our own folly for our disappointment. We repeat, that we think our Government has been culpably negligent of its duty to our merchants, and far too respectful in the treat ment of the South Americans. 'Um latter ought to be chastised without much ceremony. We have merely said so much to mark our sense of the puerile observations of Lord Strangford, who ought to be sent to Constantinople, or 50111 C other place, where he may be debarred from public speaking, as soon as possible.—Mw Wing Chronicle. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 'I'II WEEK Per Quarter. Blum'ford Cambridge Chard Huntingdon Long Sutton-- Louth. Lynn Newark Nottingham ~,..... Peterborough - Plymouth Pontefract. _ tileafoul Uppingitarn Barley. Oats. 1 W heat. S. to s. 50 55 - 57 56 60 53 55 5U 58 50 55 54) 59 51 64) 59 62 40 60 59 55 50 54 52 55 46 58 F. to S. 31. :43 21 28 31) 31 27 '3.5 35 42 26 30 29 29 24 t6l 24 24 25 27 e. to s, 18 24 24 30 93 25 17 24 16 20 17 24 19 28 30 40 IS 25 20 23 18 21 18 :el it; 23 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—June 10. We had a fair supply of Wheat, but the market ruled dull, and goad fresh samples sold at 6d. to Is. per quar ter decline. and other descriptions were nearly unsaleable. In other articled there was scarcely any thing doing, and no material alteration in the value of theni. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. ---- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. - Bailey, Norfolk and Suffolk ...—... Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding ....... 335. to 345. Beans . . .... . ... . ............. .... 631 b Oats, votatoe ........ • 265. to 28s. ri —•slealing. Foreign 11d. to 12d ...English lid. to 12%d: per 6t. Shelling ............................. .. Rapeseed, English, 201. to 23/.. ........ • it;eiin, —l. to —I. per last. • .. ... k7s. to 28s. per load. M ANCIIESTER POTATOE MA MC ET.—June 7. potatoes, 2s. 4d., 6d., and 55.441. per load of 12 score and lh •21bs.tk ; Nov d itandto, 41s. Od., 485. od., and 52 5 . per d i tto ; T urn i ps. _5. load of 16 p ec k s ; On i ons, —s. (Al., core. i O5 ;n 0 06. Od. a. per 12 s per • dd J. .... DI A NCHES'rER WYA No. 110 ostle 'lNvibt, 20 10i to 11 ;;0„124 13 40„15$ 11 ~Sulccoprwisti SO 111 12; for wo p 44) 15 171 20 60 —2O 21 71) 26 60 —27 SO hiARKi '.—June 10. 10i to 111 40,-- Ili 12 14i 13 45i Iti 90 --- 19 20 22 2 U 3 6. _l2O 34 30 • 10 7 9 18 9 gi 24 10 IN MiileCop Weft.: Weft from waste 6LASGOVJ RETA IL Beef per lb. Os. M. to Os. Bd. 111utton 0 0 0 '8 Veal 0 Ii U 8: Thins Lamb perqr. 0 0 0 0 Quartet tamaf.,.. 0 9 0 .0 Flour, per stone 2 0 2 8 Itye ' 1 6 1 b NATIN,ETS.—June 9. Oatmeal, per et. Is &I. t 025 .od Peaseineal 2 0 n Pot Barley, cwt 19. 8 17 a Pearl ditto.... —2O A 24 0 Grey l'ease l2 0 0 0 White ditto l3 0 I t Blue ditto. IS 0 11 0 HOP INTELLIGENCE. Woat Ps rE a, JUNE 11.—In oor market on Saturday very little business w:ts done; prices were on the decline ; th e average may be stated at 935. to 103 v. The last ac counts froth the plantation speak of an increase of fly, but the plants grow rapidly and look healthy. L Beans. s. to S. 48 35 Sti 42 48 42 43 37 40 40 42 34 40 42 48 41 59 42 41 40 60 38 40 ISLAND IN THE RIVER NESS. (From the Inverness Courier.) In another column our readers will find a list of sub:- scriptions, made in order to carry into effect a series of pro jected improvements in the island in the river Ness. This beautiful spot is situated in the outskirts of the town, at not more than ten minutes walk from the Exchange. It is, however, perfectly secluded from the noise and bustle of the town, and surrounded as it is by woods and waters, and in the background by a chain of lofty mountains, forms a scene that may be said to smite the characteristic charms of soft and of Alpine scenery, and which is rarely to be met with in the immediate vicinity of a pOpulous and trading high. The Ness is here as broad if not so regal as the Thames at Windsor. It retains, after a course of six miles, all the purity of its parent lake, and winding on towards the town is broken into numberless little falls which add greatly to the effect of the scene, and in a calm evening m a y be heard at a considerable distance. In the very centre of the stream is the island alluded to—covered with ti ees and brushwood so as to resemble a forest in miniature, and isolated i❑ the midst of the waters in a way that has often reminded us of the " small green isle" which Lord Byron's prisoner saw from his " barred windows" at Chinon, and of which he gives so touching and beautiful a description. There are well-frequented walks on each side of the river, from Inverness to the island, but having arrived oppo site to this interesting object, the visitor must turn and retrace his steps to the town, for he has no op portunity of exploring the scene that wooer his approach, or of crossing the river, excepting at the distance of more than a mile. To remedy this defect in a land scape otherwise so complete and enchanting, some spirit ed individuals instituted the subscription for throwing chain bridges across the two branches of the Ness, and the liberality with which our local authorities and others Lave come forward in support of the undertaking augurs well for its ultimate success. We would in particular instance the handsome sums subscribed by his Grace the Duke of Gordon, the Right Hun. Charles Grant, Mr. Robert Grant, and Mr. Inglis of London, all of whom are ever ready to contribute to any scheme that promises to be either useful or ornament 11 to their native country. The Island is of a semi-circular shape, and is rather better than four acres in extent—a space that will afford sufficient scope for serpen tine walks, and other appropriate decorations. Plans have been received which give an admirable outline of the whole, and an excellent Lithographic print of the Island, exhibit ing the proposed Bridges, has been struck off. On the whole there can be but one opinion as to the desirableness of the projected improvements, and it rests with our towns men whether or not they will be carried into effect. The capital of the Highlands ought surely to exhibit some traces of the perfection of art as well as stature, and, though In verness is justly celebrated for the beauty of its local situa tion, it has no promenade of the description alluded to, while the two principal walks on the opposite bauks of the River, want some connecting link to render their mutual attraction complete. Dean Swift said long ago, that the man who grows two ears of corn where only one grew before, is more useful than warriors or legislators, and we cannot help thinking that lie who contributes to multiply the means of cheap and innocent recreation—who opens up the volume of nature and invites the weak and seden tary to walk abroad and gaze upon its beauties—performs a task that ought to be numbered among his good works, and entitles him to be considered as no mean benefactor of his species. . IRVING'S RAVINGS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—May I request the favour of your inserting in your very valuable paper, (of which I am a con stant reader) the abominable procedure of the Rev. Mr.. Irving, towards • the Protestant Dissenters. of this Realm, in the effrontery he has written to our most gracious King, I am, Sir, your very obedient Servant, v....a, 0,109 st. - A. 1 1 / 4 . A. Letter to the King, on the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Laws, as it affects our Christian Monarchy. By the Rev. Edward Irving, A. M., Minister of the Scotch Nati•Jnal Church, London. J. NI BET. Mr. Irving has said, in this singular Epistle, that he is " inapt to affairs of state ;" and with this specimen of his politics before them, Englishmen will give him full credit for sincerity. It is to be regretted, that his acknowledged inaptitude did not prevent him from obtruding his rash counsels upon the attention of our beloved Monarch, who is far better acquainted with the nature of his constitutional obligations, than is the Minister of the Scotch National Church, who, being entirely eaten up of toryism, altogether oveilooks the great principles which placed the House of Brunswick upon the throne of this enlightened empire. If the King has condescended so far as to read Mr. Irviug's Letter,--a thing which we cannot for a moment imagine, —it must have left upon his Majesty's mind a feeling border ing on disgust. The predictive, lordly, and fanatical spirit which pervades every page of this reckless production, re minds us of some of the worst specimens of the Commort wealth. If the King " should sanction" the Bill for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, " by the royal assent," he "will thereby," says Mr. Irving, " do an'act never yet done by a Christian prince, and effectually sign away the Charter of this kingdom as a Christian king dom ;"—if he should do so, he expects " a peril from the hand of God to come upon him ;"—he iutimates that " God will interfere with express judgment upon so hide ous an apostacy from the faith and honour of his own Son ;"—he professes to assure the King, " that God would nut fail to avenge himself upon the kingdom which should, from such a height, descend, of its own accord, into such impiety and infidelity ;"—he declares, that " as surely as Nebuchadnezzar was raised up in Sennacherib's room, to lay Jerusalem on heaps, and carry her people into Babylon ; so surely shall God raise up a scourge for Britain, to do that of which it will be a pain even to hear the report ;" he solemnly protests against such an awful act, and " warns all of the fearful wrath and judgment of God, which will alight upon the head of a nation, which, being lifted up to heaven, and exalted to all but Almighty power, bath, in her wantonness and pride, and boastfulness, thrown off the authority of God, and wor shipped human wisdom, rather than Christ. Surely such a nation shall be cast to the ground, be !nought unto ashes upon the earth, and made a terror unto men." In this way does Mr. Irving rave upon the subject of the repeal of the Sacramental test; stigmatizing the efforts of devout Churchmen and Dissenters to remove this stumbling block out of the way, as " an affected puritanism,"—as a " zeal which bath of a sudden lamed up." What grateful acknowledgments do the Dissenters of this country owe to the Almighty Ruler of nations and princes, that such men as Mr. Irving are without any power to carry their fierce and proscriptive measures into effect• The Protestant Dissenters of England have certainly de served well at the hands of Government; and it is their happiness to know, that "the powers that be" are not ignorant of their devoted loyalty and unbought patriotism. It is too late in the day for Mr. Irving to attempt to stay the resistless current of public opinion. By other and milder measures must churchmen, in our day, expect to re tain their hold of a nation's affections. The mightiest genius could net, and ought not, to screen the opinions ex pressed in this letter from contempt. They ale only fit for the middle ages; they are nu warrant in the free and tolerant spirit of the British Constitution ; they would net be listened to for a moment in either of cur Houses of Par liament ; the English bishops and clergy (with the excep tion of Mr. Hyde Cassan) Would feel themselves disgraced to utter them ; and our beloved Monarch, the descendant of a race of beings to whom liberty hits been as a birth night, has shown his proud rejection' to them, by adding his royal sanction to the repeal of laws which were a dis honour to religion, a weakness to the state, and a reproach to this enlightened age. May the King live! and may the prayers of the faithful on his behalf be more to him than all the honour of temporal dominion ! On Saturday next will appear, THE BRITISH POLITICAL GAZETTE. The First Number of this Publi cation (the Editors of which pledge themselves to the Nation to prosecute the commutation of Tythes to some legal and permanent enactment) contains the first part of a reply to " Lord GazbivimAt's Easay on the supposed Advantages of the Sinking Fund." In size of paper it is similar to that Old Established Weekly Journal " The Literary Gazette."—To be had. of all-Newsmen and Book sellers, and at the several Post-offices in the eountry.— Price Tenpence, postage, ftes.—Pub!jibed by .Wita..1.431 Joy, Bookseller, 66, St. Patara.Chutvii:-yard. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE B. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at a Quarter past Five o'clock. Sir A. GRANT and others brought up copies of the Reports of the Salmon Fishery of Scotland, and the United Kingdom, and the Laws affecting the same. Sir A. GRANT, Mr. H. DRUMMOND, and others, brought up several private Bills. Mr. Mason, from the East India House, delivered in an account of the Salaries and Pensions granted by the East India Company. Lord DERBY presented a petition from the woollen manufacturers of Bury, Lancashire, against any further tax on the Importation of Foreign Wool. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented petitions against the introduction of foreign wool, unless sub ject to a higher duty, from Porchester and from Len ham, Kent. Lord LAUDERDALE presented a petition from the owners and occupiers of land in Whitby, against the proposed scale of duty on Corn ; also a petition from the owners and occupiers - of land in a parish in Lincolnshire to the same effect; also a petition from the same description of persons in various parts of England to the same effect. Lord SIDNEY presented a petition from Mr. Montagu Burgoyne praying that an early day might he appointed for the hearing of the case of Dr. Farr, as the parish of Sutton was in a sad state. Lord GROSVENOR thought that the prayer of this petition ought to be attended to. The LORD CHANCELLOR agreed with the Noble Lord that an early day ought to be appointed but he felt it his duty to state that the whole delay in the case had been caused, if not by Mr. Bur goyne himself, by his own agents. Lord MALMESBURY presented petitions from the owners and occupiers of land in various parishes in the county of Lincoln against the proposed scale of duty on the importation of Foreign Corn. Also a petition from the same class of persons residing near Banbury, Oxfordshire, to the same effect; and wishing their Lordships particularly to take into consideration the propriety of adopting some measure to improve the taking of the averages. Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE presented a pe tition from the Truro Slavery Society, and other friends of Liberty, praying for the abolition of Slavery in the Colonies. The Earl of GROSVENOR wished to ask the Noble Duke opposite if Monday next would suit him to answer the questions he (the Earl of Grosvenor) wished to put to him on this subject ? The Duke of WELLINGTON begged the Noble Earl would defer the questions till Thursday next; to which the Noble Earl agreed. Lord DURHAM presented petitions, praying for the Abolition of Slavery, from Sunderland and Bishop Weannouth, and from the City of Durham. Similar petitions were presented by the Earl of SHAFT L SBURY, from Lostwithiel (Cornwall.) Lord SKELMERSDALE presented a petition from the Manufacturers of Wigan, Lancashire, against the payment of wages in any thing but money. • Earl STANHOPE presented a petition, in the absence of a Noble Duke, from owners and occupiers of land in Bedfordshire, praying that no change might be made in the Corn Laws of 1822. The Noble Earl supported the prayer of the petition, and declared that he should oppose the principle of the Bill. The.NOble Earl presented a second petition from the Committee of the Norfolk Agricultural Society, praying that if the Corn Bill should be'passed into a law, they might be permitted to annul their leases. '1 he petition prayed also for a higher scale of duties, if the Bill should pass. His Lordship presented a third petition from the Agricultural Society of Holderness, praying that no alteration might be made in the scale of Duties pro posed last Session; and petitions from Lenbam and New Romney, praying for a higher scale of duties. Lord GODERICH prospot:d a petition (rani et. person (as we understood called Samuel Curry), praying their Lordships to recommend to his Ma jesty to appoint Commissioners to enquire into what he called, but which the Noble Lord really did not understand, the Cambridge Protestant Divinity Statute, and moreover to inquire into the system of education adopted in this country. With respect to the first part of this petition, the Noble Lord really knew not what was meant ; and with regard to the last part of the peti tion, he was not aware that there was a commission now in existence for the pur pose. The whole was one of the moat unin telligible petitions he had ever seen—(A laugh),_ but in compliance with the petitioner's request he begged to lay it on the table of the House. Lord GODERICH presented a petition from the Mayor anti Corporation of Ripon, praying for the Repeal of the Statute restricting the circulation of Small Notes. Lord CLARENDON presented a petition from a parish in Glamorganshire, against Slavery. Lord BROWNLOW presented a petition from a variety of parishes in Lincolnshire, against the pro posed scale of duty on the importation of Foreign Corn. Lord CARNARVON presented a petition from Lord Shrewsbury, praying that the standing order of the House might be dispensed with, that the Noble Earl might be permitted to be heard by his Counsel at their Lordships' bur, upon a bill he wished to have passed by the House for the purpose of enabling him to make certain settlements of his estates. The Noble Lord hoped there would be no objection to this-petition; he, however, mould only lay the peti tion at present on the table, and move that the dis pensation of the Standing Order of the House, be taken into consideration on Tuesday next. Lord LAUDERDALE considered, that if their Lordships ever permitted a petition to be laid on their table, praying them to dispense with the Standing Orders of the House, which were for the government of their own conduct, they would be setting a most dangerous example, and affording facilities to most - mischievous consequences. — (Hear, hear.) The Duke of WELLINGTON would feel sorry to raise any impediment in the way of the Noble Petitioner's selling his estate is any way he might desire, but he really did not think the present mode was the one that ought to be resorted to for the purp9se of accomplishing his end. Lord CARNARVON then withdrew his peti tion for the present. BRAZILS AND COLOMBIA. Lord , STRANGFORD, in presenting three pe titions respecting the piracies committed by vessels belonging to the Government of Brazil and Colom bia, said, that the petitions deserved the most serious attention of their Lordships. That the first was from a numerous body of merchants and ship owners of London. Among the signatures subjoined to it were these of the most respectable and wealthy individuals of the. empire. The petitioners com plained of. the vast and multiplied losses which they con tinued to sustain in consequence of the sys tem of piracy carried on under the flags of the Governments of Buenos Ayres and Colombia. They complained of the suspension, he might almost sa y the annihilation, of fair commerce in these quar ters ; they complained yet less of the annoyances which they themselves suffered, than of the revolting atrocities perpetrated on their fellow subjects. In one case that of the Morning SE,ar, which was pro, ceeding from Ceylon to this country, atrocities of such .a nature were committed that sentiments of re spect for their Lordships, as well as common decency, prevented him from . describing the manner in which English subjects were treated by the subjects of those countries which England made it a boast to call into being. Those persons who 'were disposed to find nothing but virtue under republican institution s, might, perhaps, think that these revolting atrocities were in those young States .only juvenile indiscre tions, which we might pass over, expecting. better things from.their riper judgment, and not condemn lag the many on account of the few', or condemn- ' ing the Governments onaccoutit of the act of indi viduals. But when he aw that no steps were taken to punish *authors of hese enormities—when he foundSthatS on their rettui into port, they were pro moted to the command f other ships, and received new comMissionsS undeiwbich they might again go out on their roving, buconeering cruizes, against the commerce of friendly andneutral Powers, he thought it right to look elsewhee for redress than to those republics which were founded in rebellion, and were propped up by piney, the vice of their origin still clinging to them, aid stamping on all their pro ceedings its own charm eristics.—(Cheers.)—This creation of ours was atything but creditable to us— for if the time shoull ever come, when we were engaged in war with the United States of North America, we should find that we had been recruit ing the navies of tha Power, and then we should repent separating the colonies from Spain, under the responsibility of whist] State we shall then wish we had quietly suffered them to remain. The second petition was from tie merchants and ship-owners of Jersey, who comilained that they had twenty ves sels employed in tie trade to South America, and out - of these twenty vessels, not one half of them were ever allowed to return unmolested by some acts of aggression committed by vessels bearing the flags of those States. This was not a case of violated blockade; it did not depend on any metaphysical principles of Maritime Law, nor was it a case of vessels carrying contra band articles of war ;—it was the particular case of a ship pillaged on the high seas, or what was called the highways of nations, while legally on her voyage. The petitioners complained in particular, that the ship Gaspar, we understood, vas plundered by an armed ship; and her crew turn ed loose in South America., The third petition was a case of individual hardship; it came from the Commander of a vessel, though the petition was not sent by himself to their Lordships, but by a Mr. Duke (in using this word, his Lordship turned round to where the Duke of Wellington was sitting, which created considerable merriment among their Lord ships). This Captain complained of having been plundered by a vessel belonging - to Buenos Ayres, and carried into Rio Negro. lie complained, also of the vessel having there been condemned by Com missioners belonging to the Buenos Ayrean Go vernment. This took place in May, 1827. His Majesty's ship Cadmus was sent round to Rio Negro to reclaim this ship, and immediately after she left the port they proceeded to carry the con demnation into execution. The Captain was com pelled to give up the vessel. There was, in this case, no violation of any blockade; there was no law for it, but the law of the strongest. The ship and the cargo were wanted, and they determined to take them. They were induced to do so, probably, by the name of the ship, which was the Huskisson, and they therefore thought she was a very fair sub ject for them to exercise their principles of free trade on.—(Cheers.) —The ship was called the Haskisson ; and if the coincidence was not extraor dinary, it was entertaining.—(Cheers.)—The Has kisson was chased on May 20th, 1827, and was ob liged, at the inauspicious hour of two o'clock in the morning, to strike her flag,—(Cheers and laugh ter,) —and the Captain was turned out a desti tute wanderer.—(Laughter.)—Perhaps it might be said, that peace would be speedily restor ed between the two belligerents, - and that the state of things, which had grown out of the war, would do away with it. Although that had been reported, lie thought that the prospect of peace was not so near as . some persons seemed to hope, and he was not disposed to believe that one of the parties would be anxious to promote it, when some of the members of the Government derived a pecu niary revenue from the mode in which the \ var was carried on. If peace were made, he should beg leave to remind his Noble Friend that something more was to be looked for than a mere cessation of these piracies. His Noble Friend belonged to an Admi nistration that commanded the confidence of the country. and obtained its concentrated support. in this his, Noble Friend largely shared, and he would see that protection for the future was not enough, and that for the injuries we had suffered reparation was due. His Noble Friend would find," on inquiry, that the injuries were great; and that reparation, rigorous reparation, was required for the outrages committed against the liberties of Englishmen, for the violence and injustice to which our people had been exposed; and that reparation was due from the Government, for that misery to which unoffending British subjects had been exposed ; who, though not of the highest classes, were all his Majesty's subjects, and as fully entitled as their Lordships themselves to the protection of the Sovereign.— (Cheers.) The Earl of ABERDEEN was sorry he was not presentpu a former night when certain questions were put to the Noble Duke, then present, by a Noble Lord opposite (Grosvenor), and which were in tended to have been put to his (Lord Aberdeen's) predecessor in - office. But his noble predecessor had assured him that the Brazilian Government had promised to make all the reparation in its power for any outiage that had been committed by vessels tin der its flag. With regard to the probability of a peace being concluded between Buenos Ayres and the Brazils, he could only say that the last accounts re ceived by his noble predecessor held out that there was every prospect of an arrangement being shortly brought about between the two countries ; and nothing had occurred since he (Lord Aberdeen) had been in office, that would change the appearance on that subject. Lord GODERICH remarked,. that his Noble Friend (Lord Dudley) who. had recently been at the head of the foreign department, was not at present in the House, but he• took- •it for granted that the Noble Lord who had just presented a petition to their Lordships, and whose comments applied to the public conduct of his Noble Friend, had intimated to his Noble Friend his intention of bringing forward the question to-niglit.—(Hear.)—and in bringing it forward not to confine him Self to the particular cases to which the petition referred, but in a more general manner, as applicable to our relations with the states of America. With respect to those particular cases, certainly he (Lord Goderich) could not pretend to. have any knowledge ; but this he was quite prepa red to concede, - that if wrong had been done, it was not only the right but the duty of Government to exact reparation from those states. But he could not admit that any part of the difficulties which might arise in obtaining justice, was to be ascribed to that act of his Majesty's former Government by which the independence of those powers was ac knowledged. by us.—(Hear.) ..It was equally true —and the fact could •be proved,—that cases of ex actly time same description as , those which the Noble Lord had mentioned, of enormities hardly to be spoken of, had been committed by those states and the contending powers, before the British Govern ment had felt itself called upon by the, pressure of circumstances which it could not control.--(Hear, hear.)--to enter into any immediate connection with them. It was as unfounded in fact as it was unfair in argument, to charge any one of those acts as the consequence of that recognition, made just by the circumstances of the case, and which was consistent with the -law of nations, and rendered inditpensably necessary by events, which it was out of the power of this country to control.—(Hear, hear.) Earl GREY called the attention of the House to au interlineation at the commencement of the petition. Lord STRANGFORD said these words had been interlined by him, and were merely intended as a private note or memorandum of his own. Earl GREY said, that it appeared, then, that the words were interlined after the petition had been signed for that reason; as well ats because it con tained no prayer, he suggested that the petition be withdraWn. Lord . STRANGVORD was willing to wi hdraw the petition. However, upon referring to i•, their Lordships would find that it did contain a pi yer. Earl LGREY ,Observed, that tins ords interlined were these : the petition of the undersigned met chants, &c., "complaining of the piracies and v i t leuce committed under the flag of Buenos-Ayres." This was what was called a memorandum. The petition was then withdrawn by leave of the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR inquired if the other petitions were liable to the same objection? Lord STRANGFORD said, that it was mine .cessary to move to withdraw the other petition% kr l he had not yet presented them. The Marquis of CLEVELAND presented a pe' tition from the merchants and ship-owners of South Shields, deprecating the suppre s si on o f b an k- n otes. The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that as the Mint regulations stood at present, there was an abso lute necessity for adopting some steps for the seen' rity of one species of circulation or the other. One of the most important, as it struck him, would be, to allow a free mint in silver as well as in gold, a nd then the small notes might be suppressed with safety, He therefore wished to ask his Majesty's Ministers, if it was the intention of Government to adopt a ny regulations having for their object the establishment of more perfect silver currency ? The Duke of WELLINGTON said, there was no intention on the part of his Majesty's Govern. merit to adopt any regulation on that subject. RELATIONS WITH PORTUGAL. Lord DUNDAS said, that in consequence of certain rumours circulated elsewhere, he wished to ask a Noble Lord opposite (Lord Beresford) whe ther or not there was any foundation for these •ru mours. It \vas not necessary for him (Lord Dun das) to explain more particularly to what he alluded , as the Noble Lord, he was satisfied, knew what he meant. Lord BERESFORD said, that after a long re sidence in Portugal, and an intimate acquaintance with that country for now upwards of 20 years, it was not extraordinary that he should hare been on terms of friendly intereourse with many individuals there, or that he should have occasionally :corre sponded with them. Accordingly, be had been io the habit of corresponding with the late King, anti with many of the Ministers. Some of these letters were on matters of friendship, some on matters of business. He had been occasionally :consulted, as an individual, on subjects of policy, and had stated his opinions in reply ; but whatever those opinions ' might have been, there was no great danger to be apprehended from them, for in no one instance had any counsel which he had ever'given been followed. —(Hear.) He repeated, that he had had corre spondence, and should continue to have correspond - • ence, with many people in Portugal.—(Hear.) It was said, that he had had correspondence with the Duke of Cadayal : he certainly had. From the friendship that existed between that individual ant himself in Portugal, when he (Lord Beresford) was there, some intercourse had been continued between them after his return to this country : they had each written three or four letters. ?Toy the charge mooted in another place, and Which had escaped his earlier observation in consequence of the Catholic debate, he wished to meet fairlY. The accusation against him was-first, " that he Lad encouraged Don Miguel to pursue the course which he had adopted ;" and secondly, ." that lie had given him to understand that that course was approved of by his Majesty's Ministers." Before he went farther be begged to supply an omission which he had made, by stating that the correspond'. euee to which he had referred, had been well known to Lord Liverpool, to Mr. Canning, mid to all the Ministers of the Crown ; and be never had the slightest doubt of the propriety of that correspoOk ence suggested to him by any one of them. Th ts was the first time he ever heard of the existence o f such a doubt. The letters he received he made-ito of. The answers he gave he never showed certainly ; but there was only one part which alluded to the opinions of his Majesty's Ministers, and,that was in strong opposition to the accusation bro:it ht against him in the other House of Parliament. (Hear.) Ife had described the opinions Of h i° . • Majesty's Ministers as decidedly opposed to the aoucrosneput:y course r!iediz i to b Portugal,eadopted.liadhestr(oitarlrs ivised a tiHis Lordship further stated, that one of the letters on this subject he had not answered, and made some few further observations which we could not collect. The Duke of WELLINGTON, who also spoke in a very low tone, said that his Noble Friend had certainly shown him certain letters, which were principally on topics as immaterial as any lie had ever read. (Hear.) He (the Duke of Wellington) had never authorized any one, on the part of his /q . ...!" jesty's Government to enter into any correspontleocc on this subject; nor had they received communica tions upon it from any one, on the part of the o°' vernment of Portugal. He did not think that 01 party had a right to be called on to show his private correspondence. (Hear.) At the same time he would suggest to his Noble Friend, that he must We his discretion not to continue to keep up a Cor respondence which might lead to inconvenienc e, under the 'present circumstances of that country- Lord BERESFORD observed, that ho bad dig" couraged any attempt to disturb the Constitution Portugal, or overturn the two Chambers. Ike had not answered the Duke of C a d ava l' s l as t l e tter o ' , the 26th of April. Here the matter dropped. Some conversati on took place around the table, as to what measure s were to be brought on for discussion ; in the course of which, we believe, the consideration of the Scotch Peerage Bill, and the Irish Linen Manufactures Bill, was postponed to aluture evening. On the motion of the Earl of Rom BER y, the re port on the Scotch Madhouses Bill was'lrought agreed to with the amendments, and order e d to be read a third time on Monday next. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, on, the l e port i on the Hotel Li cens i ng Bill b e i ng b rou ght up; mulef!.. that it be read a third time this day three snontb:: which was agreed to without any discussion.--Ak journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Juxr 12. Sir H. HARDINGE having taken the austomerY oaths, took his seat for Durham. Returns were presented from the office of Chid Secretary in Ireland ; and from the Court of Dire" tors of the East India Company, stating the resolo tions of the company respecting salaries. Returns connected with the office of Deputy 1"." " gistrar in the Court of Canterbury were also pr e sented. FINANCE COMMITTEE. Sir H. PARN E LL presented the first Report the Finance Committee.—Laid on the table, ar' ordered to be printed. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from Orel. Duffield, in Yorkshire, praying for the Abolition (./ Negro Slavery. Lord J. TOWN SHEND presented a similar tition from Helstone. _ ---- --- Mr. F. LEWIS presented a petition from th e Wool Growers of Radnorshi re , praying for t he Wool ; altho ug h h e cou ld not suppor t th e i imposition of a high duty upon the importation , thenof e th a t some re li e f m i g ht b e green r thought • Petitio ners f or a hi g h d uty on Fore t iA)7 o Vroa(r t y: t h e Wool h Wool Grower by affording greater e ncon' . ragement to th e ex p orta ti o n of Woollen Yasl 4 which he felt satisfied would, under proper encou ragement, become an export of great value. _r the Sir E. KNATCHBULL supporte d t h e pra yer of petition.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. DAWSON brought in a Bill for the reel i t i tion of t h e E xc i s e.—Read a fi rs t ti me , an d ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. Mr. DAWSON brought in a Bill for repealing the Duties on Glass, and granting other duties io lieu thereof. Read - a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. Sir ‘L YORKE said, that in consequence of the pre sent system of taking the, duty on glas , , ship window glass was made so thin its not to be capable of with' s tanding a common squall, and he trusted that thi s Bill would enable the glass manufacturers to produt o a better article. Mr.' DAWSON said, she chief object of this Bill Was to • 'til'ualitze Engit , n d - an d sm - ut ogling i n t h ' .1 t' ZDAWS( 1"" r e of Excises a few wor :"` 7 to 1101ISON, the b • be re a d a secc kr. Dutie s ' DAWS &tad a second tin DAWSC "of the commissit "PY of the Metz on the Holyheac stn. 'TRANI' t. the Ale-! 4r.. BASTA] ce aga i nst Abolics. yRON -- ';praying for lir. LEGE.' 14 an tlotvner s in flte circulation. Nvie DUGDA shir e praying Sir J . NE WP ,t „ s ae, co merchatn ft;ite duty on to kr. Alderman "nit fretn the Ma: 7'li n ster, against t ' h e Petition ers s i 'lithe removal w koitt of penny P' It °4se would poi 'ute up on this su 49 had no dout 14 1 d, between 1 e which wot lhained of by ape Sir J. YORK] 4aterent relativ , t ited paper put :louse, it was htl to do away with fend Junction t title th e this T n g e neral vomit thr ik Col one l 'IRE] ‘ 4 % necessity de nThe suggestionq l3 pted in Paris, n efit to the Tr sugg c A th t ha a fi rk e e s t ulcl ti tle , ti4 i , at Millbank . 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