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A CARLSBADIANA. A MOtiT EMPOR FA` I' I)OCLINIENT. Copy of a Dispatch from t Prime Minister, to the Ambassador of --, at the Court of St. James's. St pt. 13, ISM. (Fr4orx the 13a•iti,h..31,,iritor of Yesterrlay.) By the colum,llol of hi s NiAie st y, our most gra.. dolts Soverei::n, trunsrnit to yrnq Excellency the following coulidentia/ communication, the sub -s!unce of whrCtr you can, front tittle to time, and as -occas:on may require, slate to the English Se crctary St.ste fur roreign relations, as it is trot interLdvd thi4t tiiis communication should be en tere-d c,o do! Protocol of the Etohasq. The present agitated state of tire public mind in every Etitopvtiti Shirr may, anti must be attributed to that portion of liberty which loss sxisled itt England only for the last century. Brit for that, the Europ-an Con•inent wank!, belore the Fi.ench Revolution, And t.ioce the restoration of the flour- , bons, have cow eined onc grand and united family. I,Vitn es ,i ng its superior eieil;zat ion And prosp?ri:y, the inhabita , tts of t;ie Continent them have striveil to obtain, •with a sort of social compact, or a political adoption. The slao 4 liter of genera tions, aud tt:e devastation of nations would then have been ttn.trown. A slight chastisement vrtwlti titers have heft] ttlieittlt to in;ithidme the retraeloiy A nd t coirect- the di.ohedivot. Bot -when Rt.-hellion wet . .publiely pleat :lied op...as a vir tor.io both Chambers of tie lititich Parliament,' as was the case during the Revolutions of America . And Flance, it (vas not so Cdsy a task to punish AiAtchists. Hid it not beets for tho4e-prece dttits, (car God alot obedience to the King would have been the theme of all Nati.n.J.,,s, But When men' be r , ,,10 to canvass the ditorn , loll of tiicir heavenly Creator, •Rbey ,not long lit skate to assail the preroga7ives of their earthly Sovertigns.. Rebellion is tier grin brother of In.piery.—Auar chy and Atheism ate their common offspring. Toe English Wiekliff had thy sacril , gions=audaeity to propose innovations in Religion long before the Bohemian Huss am' the Saxon. Luther pro claimed themselves heretics. • The latter would nut have dared to stir, had not England alr;ady distributed its poison.among the Germans; they merely took adyJntag: of a contagion, suffered io -become popular by the ignorance and vices of the •-• Clergy, and by the apa:lty kind had policy of Go _vet ninents. Since this time it: particular, Eng land Ir.:is never been cp,ivt within herself, and has nevt:r ceased to disttt6 the. !ramptillity•of all other bta*ee. • As might have been overseen, the success 'of..'.the religions innovations, encouraged tb e _ tempt ok political •ineendiiries. The Confluent wens at.t hat time already inundated with tile btas -1,1.4/lemons and perverse reveries .of English arri •• , Chtistiaws and Arf!i-,Nlottatchists.• • They sapped -the -very foundation ‘of•social order. To prove their •utter. content-pi f:ir all institutions, divine and political, t!:ey opened -their temples to the most ignorant a:A vicious of fanatics and dema gogues, deiiveted the most virtuous of their Kings. into the hands of the most ferocious regicides. Ito . m many.tuil:ions of Europeans lave not, bled because the English - had with impunity braved their God .atid - hutchered their Monarch, and even in a lew y:-rs b3ashed -another, or what they c,►lled, in the jargon of the day, cashiered him for misconduct. But.for tl►ese wicked perpetrations, Louis Ate I, might still reign. In tAct, if the in fcrnal assassit►s of that unhappy, martyred Me- witch were deb.tsed .Frenchmen, they woe tutored by Engii3l; t,ortiistry : they have been misled by , examples e or seduced-by the gold of the Eng- list) factions. It is not Engle/id aluue which - He .this moment distracts Europe I There lies the - cancer which 4vill -destroy the Continent, unless the knife is applied to the gangtened part. Eng hied-has combeted with honour and with loyalty to annihilate Continental jecobinism ; but Eng land herself contains the most noxious of the ja cobinical lava, which, threatens the annihilation Of every social St.te on the Coruitient. England was powerful abroad, but at home she is too weak to dare to be. just.... It cannot, 'there, fore, be longer doubted that the Continent must continue to be disturbed until some changes ate made in the British Constitution, with re spect to the Liberty at ttie Press (the dangers of which are so ably exposed in the recent publica tion of NI. Von Gentz), and the liberty of Mem . bias of Parliament indulging themselves in bitter . sarcasms against every Continental Sovereign. In hoe, the Blitish• Constitution must, for the sake of the general I rauquilli y of Europe, be reformed in a manner more congenial with the spirit of the Continental Governments, which at present secure the digeity and the power of Sovereigns, and the obedience and safety of time subjects of the Con tinent ; and unless this be dime, all our efforts on the Continent to act in conformity to the spirit of the lioly Alliance will be unavailing.; as it is there where every - boutlefeu of the Continent will he able to seek - refuge, to obtain protection from the tactioos, atilt promulgate his dangerous dog tills with impueity and without restraint. When the pia t soe is at Dover the infection soon extends itself to the Continent. Treaties. Contracts, and Alliances, hound.Na duos to destroy JA'!Ohiltisal in France. The Treaty ut Chantnont, concluded in 1814, strengthened the bootie which united inure closely the legiti. mite Sovereigns against fraud, violence, And What if all thOse- Nations were to say to Enghtni, change To , tr Constitution, or a-solemn decree of every European Power will repudiate you for ever from roe great family of the Ettio pedn Cointtionwedlth, and' . pot you under ban ? nu-gland is a commercial Nation, -and-is not io titriviettr of the Continent. This- may appear severe towards her, considering the obligations w.ieb.the Continent owes to that Power, but it would he en act of huntanitv with tegard to all Nations !Ton' the Gate, not excluding-Britain bers,lf. This tact May be proved . witliout any , dif tcoity. or rite poisibiloy of a contrialietion. If were . triaie of those materials thit compose nil •ot her , peOple, it would require little ku :r.•tr.,tgr or the human mi►sd to foretell the mos' fivieriligis , ne, without resorting to extremities ; hut ;hey totiAily from he rest of the human sprees `1: cAtt sl,iny that a King, according (Irganized Constitutional Anarchy of his K;ngdoin, iy now the most humble of slaves 3. When the Alowirch is not free, how dare his sub j,cts_talk of Liberty ? The truth is, that the bon dageof Euglishmeo becomes heavier as it ascends; it Cm:lll,oes hoot the lowest of the rabble, a set of petty tyrants, ignotiant and brutal, corrupt and oppressive. Is that Monarch not a slave, who is deprived of selecting his own Counsellors and Servants ? Who, dutiog a reign of more than halt a century, has had,pmong scores of Ministers, not six he liked orAsteemed. Are the Letters of a Royal Parent fight, who during mouths was forced to see and hear a beloved Son the butt of the most malignant passions, of the most malignant and debased of men ? Do these Ministers s!eserve the name of freemen, who are obliged to be un dutiful and ungrateful to the Prinee.vsho has ele vated them, to flatter a licentious mob that de spise and insult them ? What must we think of the heads or hearts of sworn Royal Counsellors, who (tare not save the bosom of their Pt ince from rtosture, and the character cif his child from unjust igootniny, though they noi,t know that the tor mentors ire the at s t piotligate of villains, and the most unprincipled of con.ipiralors*! Can any decency or any loyalty be supposed to exist among the citizens of the fist City of the British Empire, who not only join the wild fiends of their Sovereign eve; y where, but encourage the sense less pratings of insolent and ignorant shopkeepets, never opening their mouths but to babble intrrti nenee—but•to hswl out treason ? You see,now what has been pissing at the Meetings of tbese coinspiratins ! Did the Aristocracy of a Njo, t ie County endeavour to check their eudacity ? Did not, on the contrary, evoryCtointy einitl-t , , in this race of Demagogi,, which sioold be foremnt to countenance : di,,ffection, ‘vbelt riiey call Reform% Is if tint esident, even to the most superficial ob server, that either sound morality or rational li berty must be wantiag in the British Nation It it .ould be uncharitable to suppose die former- it would also beridituinus norto see the total absence of the latter. In ( GI eat Britain, faction meddles with every aid every body ; even the Ki.ig is com pelled to be. factious, in self-defeurn----for self proservation. H .ve not, however, both ancient and modern ; both in Greece and France ; hoot in Rome and in England—have not the fac tious always, always heel) the most oppressive of despots ? Have not the factious always, and every where, been the companions of licentious ness,- and the assassins- of freedom ? ,Have. not the factious at all tines been intolerant, daring, unjiist,and incorrigible ! To, judge of the Scan- dalous .proceedings now passing in Britain, which. an innignant Continent have lamented of late, Ile hope iemains that the factious there woold de- . sist from their ncftrious dco:is, were even France • (as she night easily do), to produce damming evil-. j dente (or.centut ies. past, to the downfall of4he late Imperial GoVernment) of every chief 9f fae. tion,aaf every usurper of the name of Patriot, and of every candidate for popularity in Great Britnin;- having either fixed his price to„, or intrigued with the enemies of his country; either accept: id bribes or receive& instructions from rival or inimical Cabinets. Though the majority might be convinced, .._a• .despciate minority would commend. In England,- as has been the-case of France during the Revolution, and at present, factions could not have been and never c an he mended ; they must be extirpated. Some few persons, ambitions, or bankrupts in character and fortune, will, always, _under the ~ existence of the Cons: itution .of a. Royal Democracy, fi n d opportunities to mislead the ignorant, aud to head .the needy and tiic disaffected, in committing ex cesses dangerous to the peace of Europe, by con tagious examples. In short, it belongs . to His tory to recapitulate the many acts of daring spirit of British factions, and of their influence on the internal and external policy of Great -Britain, mote especially during the wars of the American and French Revolutions.. • In all the branches of the constitutional esta blishments of Great Britain, factions .sway an anarchical sceptre, confounding, deranging,.. a nd invading all order. Do we not see Mountebanks travelling about the country exciting the lower orders to rebellio n ? Have we not seen a Captain in the British Nasty (Lord ernizing near England, drag his Commanding Officer • before a Court Martial ? Is it not notorious, that Bri tish Officers Who served in India seduced the foitliers to mutiny ? has not this been done in the very Senate of Britain, by the so called Patriotic Members, who under the mask of .com miserating the condition of the soldier held out language which excite him to mutiny ? Is not the licentiousness of the British.- Press the model for licentious German and French writers ? • In 18t)9, when Prince ---. was still 'Ambas sador at the British Court, the Proprietors .of a London Theatre augmented the prices of admis sion.—Elglishmen, like the Romans of Sangui nary memory, do - not miss such apropitioustip portunity to create new factious. Tire most dis gusting scenes, the effects of the most shameful licentiousness, •transformed the Theatre into field of battle for boxers . *ind bruisers, for prosti tutes and pickpockeis. • Now, indeeif, - British Anarchy exhibits itself in all its dreadtul glory. Faction combats faction. —Lives are lost wherewer the demagogues meet ; and when the *Civil and Military Authorities are called in-to quell Rebellion, they are called the murderers of the People All these machinations have their influence on the Demagogues of the Continent, as it is well known that their ramifications are pretty general in all Europe ; a species of propaganstaexists among the political 'incendiaries of Hogland—of France—of Germany—of Italy—of -Spain, and even of South Atnerien. What indeed 'can be mote diigracef u l than to, see equipinents made, and - troops levied, to assist distant- Prot‘inces,-in a - state of Rebellion to the Mother Cont.tty, State in alliance with 'England hocldina tiOn of the British Govertimetit,:. no order (d Council, whieli prohibited such ne f ar i ou s acts had any eff e ct upon those political,ineeodiarits, '" An this alludes,l inn,ginc, to the intrigu e s o f Wardle and Co, agaiust the Duke of Yurk.-141. ot who are ready to take up anus against every le gitimate Government. Since the wisdom of most of the Continental Sovereigns have thought proper to adopt mea sures to extirpate sedition and the seditious, it behoves the British Cabinet to do the same. The above remarks, as I have already stated, are en titely-confidential. * * * * * * * * To Ausbassador at the Court. of St. James's. Or in his absence to M. , time Charge critffairs. (Confidential.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, JAN. 22. CONTEMPT OF COURT. DEAN V. STABLES. [Furtl►er Particulars.) Mr. XVETHERELL was heard at considerable length for the prosecution, and was followed by Mr. DoWDESwELL ; after which Mr. HEALD, for the defendants, addiessed the Court for nearly three hours. The LORD CHANCELLOR entered generally into the facts . of the case. He regretted that it was not in the power of the Court to act in cases of this kind, according to its known and established rules of justice, without doing that which was calculated to wound the feelings of parties, who, Willi the exception of their participation in the . transaction in question, nigh he persons of ho nour and char,eter ; but it was : i.r . .essary to the due discharge of the functions of the Court, with reference to those 'ohm's , Alio were placed tender its immediate protection. ttia persons were not with impunity to mix thenise:ree,lir, transactions 'leading to a clandestine marriage. It was-difficult, if not impossible, for him to determine upon the degree of delinquency attributable to any of the parties promoti ,g, or concerned in the marriage, without minutely attending to all the • - tthdavits, and with respect to the -nature of the imput a tions tegaith might - rest on Mrs. Stables, .he could not make up his mind until he hatilsome fur rher explanation of What passd betwe*n her and D.r. Moore, the curate of St. P incrtrs; at - ter the !taints of marriage had been t mice publiithed. If 'there was any.thing with view to that - part which Dr: Moore wished to explain forth:4lfoot as ap peared upon the present affidavits, he was at liberty to lay before the Court any new affidavit he might think proper. With respect - to the question of the •legality of Are marriage celebrated in Sc , tfand, that was a question which it was necessary should -in the first instance be determined. He should diruct a reference to the Master ; whether a legal mar• riage had actually taken place ; and upon all the other points of the case, as referable to the con duct-of the parties, -he should take till Thursday next to con Sider what his judgment• ought to be. desiring- to have -it• understood, - that if, in the meantime, the parties were desittius of laying-be:. fore him, upon allidavits; - ank•furthee.facts or ex— platiations,•they were at liberty-so to do. • . Court was extremely crowded during the whole' ..irithe 'discussion, which did not terminate tilt a late hour in the day. (;otiier OF KING'S BFNCH ,sIifIGEANTe-INN-11ALL,JAN.2t, SPRING GUNS. ILOTT V. w ICKES, ESL This was an action of trespass, tried. last As sizeir •at Chelmsford before Baron Gaevow. On the trial it appeared, that the defendant had set, in a wood belonging to himself, several spring guns; they were loader► with small shot, ft , :(f pointed on-low level. Notice of such guns being set there was painted on four boards ; the - boards were black, the letters white. These boards were pot up at the outside of the wood, in different parts. The plaintiff, in company with another trien;went to the wood in the (lay time to gar her nuts. The plain. tiffhad been told that guns were placed in the wood, and his companion refused going into the wood un less the plaintiff went first, for fearof being shot by them. '['tie plaintiff went into the wood for the pur pose of getting nuts, and one of the guns went off, and wounded hint severely. The Jury on the trial of this cause, under the direction of the Learn ed Judge, gave a verdict for the ;deltoid,. da mages 501. A rule for a new trial having been obtained in the last term, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Dowling, and Mr. Chitty, • now showed cause against it. They. urged, that in order to support the present rule,, it would be iuctintbent on the o:her side to show, that if the defendant bad him self been present, and had given the plaintiff notice not to enter the wood, and he persisting in doing so, the plaintiff had shot him, he would have been just ificAl in ,so doing. The la whad given to per sons peculiar remedies for the protection of their property, and it was not competent for oily one to have recourse to a more violent remedy. Be fore a men can justify turning another off his land, he must first request him to depart, and if be refuse, lie -may endeavour to remove him gently; if this he not sufficient, he may have recourse to a greater degree of force, such as the tre.spasser makes necessary by his resistance, but he would not be justified in wounding the trespasser. If there 7 tore, a man could not lawfully do an act directly, he shall not he allowed to do so indirectly. The plaintiff is the mere instrument of letting the gun off. by treading upon the wire. The person who sets it is the real actor—it is the same as if be him , self were_ present, and committed the act. It would be watch more humane to allow a man the privilege of shooting at a,trespasser with his own hand. He would then be able to distinguish the guilty from the innocent, and he might, too, feel compunction at the shedding the blood of a fel low -creature for committing trifling trespass ; but this contrivance left no room for repentance • —whoever came .within its operation, whether guilty or innocent, suffered by it.. They also con tended, that it was Hot sufficierit.that the plaintiff lusd notice that gons.were placed in the wood; he ought to have bad notice of the particular place where the wires were placed. This was in the day time, and it was not usual to set such inatru inents in the day. The Court, vvitbout bearing the Counsel on the other side, said,, that in this case it Was not neces sary for thcm to droide upon tile general . ques tion' of the legality of this practice. That, in this case, as the diArtidant had had particular no tice that gunt, were set in the wood, and chose, rtotwi'kstanoi ng , to, enter, in c o ns e que nce o f which be received the. injury complained of, be Was nut entiiled to a recompense in damages.— The rule was accordingly m a d e Alulute, DREADFUL FIRE IN THAMES -STREET. FIFTEEN HOUSES BURNT. Yesterday morning, about half past two o'clock* the-utmost uproar and confusion prevailed in tbg neighbourhood of Thames-street and its envi rons, in consequence of a most alarming fire which broke out in the premises of Messrs.; CHILDB, porter and cider warehouse, in Swaere lane, leading to the river Memel, adjacent to London-bridge. Tiie fire was discovered by eltve family residing. in the opposite premises to Mr- Childe, who were alarmed by the flumes issuitlf from the windows at the lower part or the -frottee4 an alarm was immediately made, and the 'family made their escape with great difficulty. The bre spread with such rapidity, that in a short titre' the flames communicated themselves to the Were-. house of Mr. Matthews (at the back part), sepal a stock of wood and other materials used in Mc- Mattews's trade (brush-making) having caught: fire, the vvhole of time front premises were, less than an hour, completely burnt through Tharnes e street. The County Fire-office, the PhtlY' nix, and several other engines, were by aria time on the spot, hut, owing to a 'great scarcity of water, in consequence of the frost, and its be ing low water at the time, it was Overly feared that the whole of the street would be burnt dowel s as the &tines were spreading at a most rapid rate, and Had extended to other houses at the back. of Swan-yard, leading into Thames-street 1 114 1113.. expected cirenmstance caused several fam..lies to retreat fro.) their houses nearly in a state of nu dity ; the streets were lined with persons, some of whom rendered every assistance, while others committed daring depredations. The houses of Mr. Holland, hop-merchant, Garrett's tea ware house, Mr. Field. tallow -chandler, near to Fishmongers' Hall, which iV-aS threatened with destructio n a t various times, and the fires. tryn played on the element with the greatest ace. Ttie violence of the conflagration three a glare of light over the whole neighbuerhoUtl, and viewed from•Londoo idge. #tie fire present ed a magnificent though melancholy spertadc. The house l end weeehoeses of Mr. R „nide, cheesenionger, shortly suer caught fire, and were much injured ; awl the DI idgeward School wick four or five other houses' in Swan-lace au:l thack. Raven alley was materially damaged. I t an ticipated several times that Fishmongers' -Hell would be destroyed, but the attention of tue fi4e men apparently was fixed upon it, t h ey playeA,,:rea the adjoining houses, and it escaped with less in jury than Was expected. At about bait-past four o'clock, the roots of Mr. Childe's and Mr, Mat.. iliews's houses fell in With a irtellitlldOtlS and greatly spread the flames. The iron MAIM' rectory irftize sve7 surro'Unded by- flurries; bist eseapett.wiihout Tbey continued burning at an alarming rate e east ten o'doele yester day moreing, when an '` oping explosion of cembirstible matter took pteee, wt,ich tore of the roofs of several of the houccs, sensed great fear ; tiles, bricks, and wood were ',ice( tt2:;,:i about in every direction. Some persons stan near the spot were greatly injured in consequence of their falling on then), a boy had his area lace rated very much, and some of his fingers tOtri of Shortly after, the houses in Swan-lane fell dezae, and completely blocked up the roati-•way, suet ifie whole of the other houses mentioned Were' corme. pletely destroyed, and, with the furnittlie property, became a Mass of ruins. The whole toss is domptred to amount to nearly three.huo dted thousand -pounds. A fireman narrowly escaped with his life, while playing . on the pre-. raises near Mr. (Milt - Ws house ; a high wall gave way and , neatly- covered .-him, but by a s ' n ed c ia jump backwards he escaped. A report was in circulation thai a man had perished; but .froza every possible inquiry that/could be made, we, .consider the .report to be unfounded. Several trifling accident! occurred. The City officers end parish coestables attended, and a great number of pickpockets welecollecled in the hope of plunder. The Comity Fire Office and the Phoenix engines were excellent order, and it is owing to their wonderful exertions that Fishmongers' Hall wti n ot !strut down. It is not ascertained bow the . fire commenced. rSvVoRD FISH. The W , lkinson, Beta.,, of Whitehaven, ol her passage iron) Buenos Ayres, was pierced' in the bottom, th-rOugh copper and plank, by that fish Supposed to ba of the sward . , of unicorn species; in. atterriptiog to take it, aftbort one half broke away, and the other remained is the ship. . • A felt days ago, at Lewisham, while a balker, whose horse and cart was at a Gentleman's 4i emir, and the. baker was being !laid his bill in the .hottfie t a thief mounted the box of the cur, and drove of with it. Upon the baker dkcovering his loSs., be procured a horse, and rode atter the thief, who was apprehended at -Deptford.gare, taken ber.ore Mr. MASON, the Magistrate, and fully committed for trial. ~,:. .~ SuoAß.—The Average Price of Brown or MUSCOVadp Sugar . tioroputed from the Returns made in the week. ending. Jun. O. 1 . 820,. is 34 3. 7di. per cwt. ~~ MARRIED. Ou :Saturday, the 15th inst., at the residence of his F4oel lericy thu British Ambassador, at Paris, • James BlateAtica Est; ; of Bedford-street, to Charlotte Henriette; y9ktngtelt daughter of Monsieur Thiband, of Epernay, Champagne. • On Saturday last, at St. Paul's, Deptford, Lietneoasii acts , Franklyn, of the Royal Navy, to Barbara, y ounges t daughter of the late Joint Duncan, Esq. DIED. On Saturday the 15th inst., at her house in Clopel-streets Grosvenor-square, atter a few days' illness, Mrs. Hoare, 'Beckenham, Kent. On the 9th Stptemher last, at Cartbagena. of the fever, Edward, 2d son of William Chippendall, Esq. of Groat Queen-street. On Thursday night last, in Bernard-street, Russell-spore. Bridget, the wife of George Glenny, ESfi. At Grant's Braes, near fladdim , ,ton, Scotland, on the lei instant, Agnes Brown, the mother of Bul'Us, the Poet, the 8 8 th year of her age. ,0N11ON: Printed by . .l. B. 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