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.1 < \ 1 14, pre Jf, I . -,,' Y EL, FO 1}9 4/. t NEER 9814 1 7 1CFUAL1.1AG-OFF ICE, Jan. 29, 1/M. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His 31.4.1ESTY'S do hereby give Notice, that on Tuesday, the 24th February next, they will be ready to receive separate Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the following quantities of BALTIC STAVES (either Dantzie, Memel, or Stettin), viz.:— Pipe ... 4O Mille. Brandy Hogshead 6O Barrel 100 • Long Heading too To be delivered one-half b, the 31st July, and the remainder by the 30th September, 1824, into the several Victualling Stases, and in the proportions under mentioned, viz.:— One-fourth part at Portsmouth, One-fourth part at Plymouth, And the Remainder at Deptford ;- .Ind to he paid for by Bills, payable, without interest, sixty days after elate. rhe Conditions of the Contract may he seen at this Office. Each Tender must describe whether the Stares offered arc hoe ttzie,Alenzel, or Stettin, and must also specify the Price sn Words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock cn the day appointed, and the Person who makes the Ten der, °r some Person on his behalf, must attend to 'answer when ealled for. AT. WALLER CLIFTON. VICTUALLING -OFFICE, Jan. 30, 1824. THE COMMISSIONERS f ar VICTUAL LING His MAJESTY', NAVY, 4.e. do hereby five Notice, that on Friday, the 6th of February, they will be r fttiy. to receive separate Tenders in writing (sealed *led tr., ' for 45 'le Hundred Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM, ' /th e usual strength ; to be delivered into His Majesty's V ictualling Stores at Deptford, one-half by the Ist Jarch, and the remainder by the Ist of April. And for Eight 7'ltousand One Hundred Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM, of the strength of not less than 35 per vent. over proof by Sikes's Hydrometer; to be delivered onto hi, Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, i n the space of a fortnight from the day of C on t ract. The whole to be paid for by Bills, payable, without Interest, sixty days after date. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Each Tender mast specify Me price in words at length, and et deli ee red before O ne o 'Cl ock On the day appointed ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his b e h a jf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. DEPTFORD PICTU4LLING-YARD, Jan. 26, 1824. NOTICE is hereby given, That on Thursday, the 19th of February nest, Will be expos.ed to PUB LIC S4LE, at His Majesty's Victualling Yard, Deptford, fondry Lots of thefolluwing Surplus of Unserviceable Stores, °ono lying in the said Yard, viz.:— Bread Bread Dnst !lour Flour Sweeping s n Pease Pease Screenings O atmeal Raisins Calavances Bakehouse Sweep- I ngs _r";2 eser ved Meats 4t P m • BeefeaY t C enlisters reserved Pork suet int At e „ t .crap s Balm Vinegar Butter Cheese Sugar Sour Krout Portable Soup Tea Cocoa Wine Anniseed Bags and Rags Cocoa Bags Waxed Bags Stares. Small Cask Irish Tierce and Barrel Cheese Cask, a n d Tobacco Cask. Heading Tight and Dry New Boards Ends Doublet do. Wine Pipes Wine Hogshaads Irish•rierce% Stave — s. Leßger Butt Puncheon Hogshead Barrel Half-Hogshead Kilderkin Irish Barrels Raisin Caslis Cocoa Casks Old worne Coopers' Blocks and Tools, &c. &c. &c. Posit of 25/. p er cent. in Cash or Bank of Eng at t 1 -L 'ee, is t o be made upon th e amount of each Lot he ntener J to ~~ of Sale, an d t h e rema i n d er of the purchase a ' ha d b efore the Stores are removed, f or w hi c h Purpose from Peri°4 o f fourtfe n working days will be allowed ro the t daY of 'Sale; the B u y ers particularly o b serv i ng hat not less than on e taken away within half of the quantity is to be the seven followin g / the J 7 rst seven days, and the remainder in "Ys,etherwsse the Deposit Money will be forfeited, and the Provisions or Stores remain the property of the Crown as no extensio n of' time will, on any account, be tranted. The Stores may be viewed during the working- hours of the rard, on the three days immediately preceding the day of Sale. Catalogues zany be had on application at the said Yard. JOHN HILL, Comptroller. INCCMPORATED SOCIETY for the CONVERSION and RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION and EDUCATION of the NEGRO SLAVES in the BRITISH WEST INIMA ISLANDS. REPORT of the PROCEEDINGS of this Ni rt SOC IETY, from J u ly t o D ecem b er, 1823, will be a"...Y t f,ot Place at Messrs. RIVINGTON'S, Booksell ers , n 1, N'T`i,ace, and St. Paul's Church-yard ; and at Messrs. 'X'GTON and COCHRANE'S, Booksellers, 148,IStrand, alb ° ' l.l b AY NEXT to the day of pu ;blication. with a List of the Donors and Sub ers 1 4,:b uk J. T. BARRETT, D.D., S ecre t ar y. "tt eet, Westminster, Feb. 2, 1824. 13 ) .. A.1r so 141, 13 BE SOLD BY AUCTION,. 17ATER1;:0"0110,,,t his House, WELLINGTON-STREET, ('F. STRAND, on MONDAY, Fe. vruary 9 , and vi7.eii-; 7-, . C , Daps,at Twelve o'Clock, AL PORTION CURlOUS4: l" th if e r- Prisin g —"WARD JONES, BARD to the KING ; corn 50n..0 ~an Alit) and rare Collection of Old Poetry, e A u r lvdi Ball.ads, a a n r d Y 1 k lative to Music. ° Sale. ew eQ, and Catalogues re (p ' rice Is.) had at the Place *"........._ TiltDß. GRAHAM ON EPILEPSY. Lately published, price Is. Gd. RESULTS of EXPERIENCE in th e int 0 SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of EPILEPSY ; Pin!'" sik_ ut a Safe Remedy that has been effectually employed in vulre,r, cifty cures. - Mem ber liy T. J. GRAHANI, M.D. „ 1 :;,. oft he Royal College of Surgeons in London. 84,fet', by Callow and Wilsn, "s I U3 ) Strand, Princes.street, Soho ; James London ; and all booksellers. NATION AL SO C I ETY.- Y es t er d a y t h e G e neral Committee of the National Society for the Edu cation of the Poor in the principles of the Established Church, held their Meeting at St. Martin's Vestry Room. Present : Archbishop of Canterbury. Sir James Langham, Bart. Bishop of London. Archdeacon Pott. Bishop of Gloucester. Archdeacon Cambridge. Bishop of Exeter. I J. 'Watson, Esq. Rt. Hon. Richard Ryd er . And other Alembers of the Committee. _ _ Twelve fresh schools were united to the So ciety ; and several grants of money, from gOl. to 1501. each, were made, towards the building and fitting up of school-rooms. From the late appeal to public bounty, by means of the KING'S Letter, the operations of the Society will now be more extensively useful than heretofore. The total Abolition of Lotteries is the more universally lamented since the immense Number of SEVEN of 2 20,080 ! has been introduced into One Scheme, for which it is now the interest of every one to Purchase a Ticket or Share—for if this capability had been discovered many years ago, what Riches would have been distributed through every Country in the United Kingdom. The DRAWING will COMMENCE on the 1901 FEBRUARY, when from 7 to 8,000 Tickets will be Drawn, and every Ticket a Prize. The Two FIRST will each have ,e 20,000 ! All Money extra, in the First Five Minutes, which the Con tractors trust, with their usual good Fortune, to distribute to their Friends at 37, Cornhill, 11, Holborn, and 38, Haymarket.—J.and J. SIVE WRIGHT, Contractors. ToicAy WINE.—A letter from Hungary says— " A great reduction has taken place in the price of TotEAY WINE. The Hungarian flask, which used to sell for a ducat, may now be bought for 14 florins, about 3s. 6d. sterling. We wonder (says the Hesperus) that this precious, generous, and innoxious wine does not rank higher with the medical world ; for it is well known that it affects neither the head nor the nerves, nor does it fire the blood. Hence to all Valetudinarians, and others in a weak state of health, it presents one of the first restoratives. Its virtues should be made known. By proper management the alleged difficulty of obtaining it genuine may easily be obviated." ck-04 .Castle, 'e, Esq' 4. t Haur House , ESV ;art. ss, Bt- Esi• 2, .bet 1, E 94• 824.1 {tic, ster for tosses renal' Fins' Feb.? , lcoir q [a, Ar# Feb' ionets.'_, sow' arch 6+ n.dri v ir ' sge J. 111 011 .13.2a4' tiller' a, os' to tege, aker, - 4 itheri'' rf (4' • t a-T‘ it -f NAVY OFFICE, February 4, 1324. C HAPLAIN'S BO UNT Y.—MONEY be ing in the bands of the TREASURER of His MA JESTY'S NAVY, to pay BOUNTY for the Year 1823, to such CHAPLAINS of the ROYAL NAVY as are entitled thereto, under His Majesty's Order in Council, hearing date the Ist February, 1763, Ist February, 1784, and 22d October, 1902, and who have been entered upon the list, by virtue of the Papers they have respectively transmitted to this Office ; Notice is hereby given, that the payment of the same will commence at the Pay-Office, Somerset-place, on Monday, the 9th Instant, at Ten o'Clock in the Morning.—And it is desired that in future the Chaplains entitled to the Bounty will, as soon as Et may become due, cause their Affi davits to be delivered at this Office, in order to expedite the payment. AGENERAL MEETING of WEST INDIA PLANTERS, MERCHANTS, ANNUITANTS, and OTHERS interested in the BRITISH WEST INDIA CO LONIES, will be held at-the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, in Bishonsgate-street, on TUESDAY, the toth of February next, at One &Cluck precisely, on IM PORTANT BUSINESS. WM. HOLDEN, Secretary•. N. 8.--1111 Gentlemen who attend the Meeting: are re quested to leave their Names and Places of Residence at the Door before entering the Room. To T. TAYLOR, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. Hoisiotravai St a, JBEG- leave to inform you, that ever since the year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lucs Venereal, which, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and un dergoing severalsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis charged from the Hospital with little relief, would appear to b e o f the mast inveterate nature. In the spring of last year my disorder had got. to such a head, as nearly to put a period to my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, on e aa each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful manner; my right was dreadfully painful, and had been in a s tate of ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also two large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, -and gave me such excruciating pain, pa - rticularly when warm in t•ed, as n early to deprive me of rest ; in this lamentable state, I was recomrrowded by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so great a cure by them herr), to take Votir Leake's Patent Pills, which I began to do on the 4fitli is. May; in the course of a fortnight I began to receive benefit—in little more than a month the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed-- soon after, the sores ms my legs healed also ; leaving, how. e ver, considerable discolouration in the skin, and pain in the hone of the left, which, by the blessing of God, an a little longer perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided; the nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue, and the nocturnal pains grads ally going thus became, by yo.,:r liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my former complaints—have recovered my former spirits a nd strength, and pip become jolly and fat, in which state liariag continued malty months, to the astonishment of all who knew we, I an at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but beg you, for the good of other suffering mortals, to make this my ease as public as possible, as I shall on every occa• sion ; in so doing you will I,;reatly Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humble servant, ALEX. M U Malt Swan's Close; lligh-street. Edinburgh. Witnesses tattle above Cure:— John 'll ,, D2liton, No.:, New Po'ultry . Market, Edinburgh, Jahn M.intosh, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh. Prepat ed and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY. 1,011, Jlember of the Royal College of Surgeons, at bis house, No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; where, after a constant residence of more than 40 years in a practice parti cularly directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints and those incidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable secrecy which tuen of his profession should always observe in guch cases, he Clatters himself the advice and assistance be sratuitostsly administers to persons taking this Medicine, will be esteemed, by a discerning Public, as an advattage seldom attainable, and veld of all ambiguity. Also sold, by his appointment, tor the convenience of those win g at a distance, at the Tovsbop, No. ion. Oxford-street; Mr. D isb°rouga's , No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter, South-brid ge , Edinburgh ; Ale. c 3 llwel.'s, Dublin; and of one person i n every considerable town in Groat B r i tain and Ireland, in boxes e sonlv 2s. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up with full and plain directions, whereby persons, of either sex may cute themselves with ease, speed, secrecy, and safety. STATE PAPERS. The following are the State Papers presented last night, by command of his MAJESTY, to the House of Commons by Mr. CANNING : CONVENTION BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY AND THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, FOR THE DEFI NITIVE SETTLEMENT OF THE AUSTRIAN LOAN, SIGNED AT VIENNA, NOV. 17, 1823. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of Aus tria, being equally desirous of coming to a definitive agree ment upon the subject of the Austrian Loan, and of can celling the whole debt with which Austria is burthened under this denomination ; their said Majesties have re solved to make this the object of a Convention, and have named their respective Plenipotentiaries for drawing up and concluding the same, vis.,--his Britannic Majesty, the Hon. Robert Gordon ; and his Majesty the EmPeror of Austria, Clement Wen cezlas Lothaire, Prince Metternich-Winnebourg,. Prince of Ochsenhausen, Duke of Fortelle, Knight of the Gol den Fleece, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Stephen of Hungary, of the Civil Cross of Honour, and of St. John of Jerusalem, Chancellor of the 31ilitai*Order of Maria-Theresa, Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order, and of several others ; Chamberlain, Privy-Councillor of his Imperial Majesty, his Majesty's Minister of State and of Conferences, Chancellor of Court and State, and of the Imperial House, &c., &c., &c., who, after having communicated their full powers, have agreed upon the following Articles : Article I. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria engages to pay the sum of two millions five hundred thousand pounds sterling, in satisfaction of the whole of the British claims upon his Imperial Majesty, under the head of the Austrian loan. Article 2. It is agreed that this sum of two millions five hun dred thousand pounds sterling, shall be paid into the British Treasury, in the name and on the behalf of the Austrian Go. vernment, by the Houses of Baring, Reid, anti. Irving, and Rothschild, in London : the said Houses having been appointed and fully empowered by the Austrian Government to make the above payment, according to such terms as they have been agreed to, and are judged satisfactory by, the British Govern ment. Article 3. Immediately after the ratification of the present Convention by their Majesties the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the. Emperor of Austria, his Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary will deliver up to such persons as shall be appointed by his Imperial Majesty to re ceive them, the original letters of octroi, and the whole of the Imperial Bonds, which have been held in the possession of his Britannic Majesty's Government, as securities, from the time of raising the Austrian Loan ; and his Britannic Majesty's Government will henceforth be responsible for the complete release of the Austrian Government from all British claims that could be founded upon the said Limn. Article 4. It is expressly understood that, in virtue of the present Convention, all pecuniary claims upon Austria that are connected with the Austrian Loan, as well as all pecuniary claims upon Great Britain, of whatever description they may be, which have existed, or might be considered to exist, on the part of the Imperial Government of Austria, are declared to be extinct, and are hereby totally abolished. Article 5. The present Convention shall be ratified within the space of six weeks, or sooner if possibl e , and the instru ments of ratification shall be exchan ge d in London. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have hereunto affixed their signatures and the seals of their arms. Done at Vienna, this seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. (L.S.) R. GORDON. (LS.) METTERNICH. SLAVE TRADE. ADDITIONAL ARTICLE; TO THE CONVENTION BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY AND HIS _MOST FAITHFUL MAJESTY, SIGNED IN LON DON, ON THE 28'ut OF JULY. 1817. His Majesty the King of the United Kidgdom of Great Britain and Ireland. and his Majeity the King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and algraves, wish ing to remove every obstacle to the faithful execution of the convention signed in London by their respective thspeectipvteupPolsee nipotentiaries, on the 211th o f J u l y , 1817, for of _preventing their subj ec t s f rom engag i ng i n any illicit traffic in slaves ; and seeing the necessity of adding, to that intent, certain articles to the said convention, have, for this purpose, named their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Edward Michael Ward, Esq., his Charge d'Affairs at the Court of Lisbon ; and his Ma jesty the King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves ' Joze Bazilio Radem a k er' Knight Professed in th e Ord er o f Christ, and Chief Cl er k o f the Department of State for Foreign Affairs : —who, after having exchanged their re spective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles. .Article I.—Whereas it is stated, in the first article of the instructions intended for the British and Portuguese ships of war, employed to prevent the illicit traffic in slaves, that " ships on board of which no slaves shall be found, intended for purposes of traffic, shall not be detain ed on any account or pretence whatever :" and whereas it has been found, by experience, that vessels employed in the illegal traffic have put their slaves momentarily on shore, im mediately prior to th e i r b e i ng v i s i te d b y s hi ps of war, and that such vessels have thus found means to evade forfeiture, and have been enabled to pursue their unlawful course with im punity, contrary to the true object and spirit of the Convention of the 28th of July, 1817 ; the two high contracting parties, therefore, feel it necessary to declare, and it is hereby declared by them, that, if there shall be clear and undeniable proof that a slave or slaves, of either sex, has or have been put on board a vessel for the purpose of illegal traffic, in the particular voyage on which the vessel be captured, then and on that ac count, according to the true intent anti meanijig of the stipu lations of the above-mentioned convention, such vessel shall he detained by the cruizers,. and finally condemned by the Commissioners. Article 2.—lnasmuch as the Convention of the 28th of July, 1817, does not stipulate the mode of supplying the absence of the Commissioners, occurring from any other cause besides that of death, which is the only case provided by the fourteenth Article of the Regulations for the :!'fixed Commissions, annex ed to the said Convention; the two high contracting parties have agreed, that, in the event of the recal, or of the absence on account of illness, or any other unavoidable cause, or any of the Commissioners, Judges, or Arbitrators ; or in the case of their absence in consequence of leave from their Govern ment, (which must be notified to the respective Commission), their posts shall be supplied in the same form and manner as is determined for the case of death, by the above-mentioned 14th Article of the said Regulation. These additional Articles shall have the same force and effect as if they were inserted, word for word, in the said Convention, and shall, be considered as forming part ofthe same: they shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof exchanged in Lisbon, within three months at latest, a ft er th e date of their signature. In witness thereof the undersigned, being furnished with full powers to that effect, have signed these Articles, and affixed thereunto the seals of their arms. Done at Lisbon, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of our. LORD. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. (L.S.) E. M. WARD. (L.S.) JOZB BAZILIO RADEMAKEIL PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS. FEB. 4. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW gave notice, that h e wou ld to-mor row move for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the existing laws for regulating the rate of interest. Sir W.M. LEMON presented petitions from two parishes near Penzance, Cornwall, praying for the repeal of the Duties on Coals: Sir MILES NIGHTINGALE presented a similar petition from the boroush of Eye, in Suffoljc. Sir J. NEIN PORT presented a petition from the Currier: of the City of Waterford, praying for the repeal of the Leather Tax. SUN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1824. THE VAGRANT ACT. Mr. LITTLETON said, that he was requested by the Hon. Member for Staffbrd (Mr. Chetwynde) to move for certain pa pers which were intended to show what had been the operation of the Vagrant Act, which had been passed last Session. The Act had been the object of muchiclamour, which arose from its having been misunderstood. By having obtained the passing of that Act, his Hon. Friend had saved the counties of England and NVales• the .sum of 100,0001. annually, which had been heretofore, expended in passing vagrants from one part of the country to another. To his lion. Friend also belonged the credit of having consolidated about 50 Acts relative to vagrancy in one Act. When the subject should be discussed, he believ ed that it would be found that the clamour to which he had al luded had been excited, not so much by the law as by the in discretion of some Magistrates who had administered it..— (Hear !)—He moved for a return of the number of persons committed under the Vagrant Laws to the respective prisons in England and Wales, specifying the particular act of vagrancy for which each person was committed, from the Ist of January, 1820, to the Ist of January, 1824; likewise for a return of the sums of money paid by the treasurers of connties in England and Wales, for the passing of vagrants, from the Ist January, 1820, to the Ist of .January, 1824.—Ordered. Mr. CANNING presented a copy of a convention agreed upon between his Majesty and the Emperor of Austria, for the settlement of the Austrian Loan ; and also a copy of an addi tional article of a convention between his Majesty and the King of France, respecting the Slave Trade.—Ordered to be printed. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. HOBBOUSE gave notice, that he would move em the 2d of March for the total repeal of the Window Tax, unless the Chancellor of the Exchequer should previously declare his intention of remitting that Tax. Mr. CALCRAFT stated, that he would on the 25th inst. move for the total repeal of the Leather Tax. Mr. ABERCROMBY gave notice of a motion that he would make on the 26th instant, for leave to bring in a Bill for the more effectual representation of the City of Edinburgh in Parliament. 111 r. WESTERN said, that on the 11th instant he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to make some alteration in the qualification of Jurors. Sir J. NEWPORT stated, that he would on the 19th inst., move for the repeal of cap. 7of the 9th of William. His object was to secure the right of burial to Roman Catholics and Dissenters. he w l r o . u J ld . s lir b I m l t L a I A m i COURT OF CHANCERY. ce, th t e ha c t o o u n n th of e u 2-l h t a h ric in er s y ta . nt Sir W. DE CRESPIGNY a ddressed a few words to Mr. Canning, but in suc h a l o w tone that we were unable to hear him. , We und ers t oo d, h o wever, that he asked whether it i t motion n g respecting ate no i was the intention of Ministers to increase the amount of the army. Mr. CANNING replied, that Ministers did intend to ap ply to Parliament to make some alteration in the present num ber of the land forces. When that application should he made, every proper explanation would be given to Parliament. In the mean time not a single man would be raised beyond the vote of last year. Mr. WM. LAMB presented a Petition from the Mayor and Common Council of Canterbury, praying for the repeal of the duty on coals. THE ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY. Mr. ROVVLAND HILL appeared at the bar with the re port of the address to his Majesty. Mr. BOBLIOUSE said that lie would take that opportunity of proposing one or two questions to the Right Honourable Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He must enter his protest, as his Honourable and Learned Friend had last night done, against being supposed to concur with the sentiments con tained in the address•• so far as regarded the foreign po. licy o f the Govern ment. H e should think that he dis graced himself by approving of the foreign policy of Mi nisters, for, in his opinion, they had been totally unmindful of the renown of their country. He had attended with the utmost attention to every word which dropped from the Right lion. Secretary opposite last night. It was not surprising that he should do so, for ail Europe was attending to what lie said, conscious that on his words, in some degree, depended its very fate. There was one point upon which he thought the Right llon. Gent. was not sufficiently explicit in his explanation,—namely, the South American States. The Right Hon. Gentleman ap peared to be aware of the difficulty of the subject, anti touched upon it so lightly as to satisfy no person, except, perhaps, his colleagues, who might h a v e reaso ns for wishing to preserve secrecy on that topic. The Right Hon. Secretary had said that he considered it a " grace and favour done to Old Spain to allow her an opportunity of attempting to recover possession of her colonies." He would admit that if the King of Spain were capable of governing his kingdom without foreign assist ance, he should be allowed an opportunity of employing the resources of the once mighty Monarchy of Spain in the attempt to re-conquer his trans-Atlantic colonies. But did the Right Hon. Gentleman mean to say, that whilst the King of Spain was only kept on his throne by the presence of 70,000 French troops, whilst Barcelona, Cadiz, and every important fortress in his territory were in possession of the French, Ferdinand was to be suffered to employ his armies in an expedition against South America ? It could not surely be said, that because the constitutional system had been put down in Spain, and there was at present no appearance of a re-action, Ferdinand was therefore to be called a free King. If he was before a prisoner to the Constitutionalists, what was he now ? He was hemmed round with foreign bayonets; and every body who was acquainted with the state of Spain knew that if the French army was to withdraw from that country to-morrow„ the unfortunate King—unfortunate he meant only with re spect to his bud character, and not for his misfortunes— would be driven from his throne. He wished, then, to know from the Right Honourable Gentleman, whether, while the French troops were in possession of Spain, the Government of this country would allow any attempt to be made on the part of a merely nominal King to recover possession of the south American States ? He might allude to an important omission in his Majesty's speech. The House had heard a great deal during last Session about a positive guarantee on the part of the French Ministers, and that there should be no permanent oc cupation of Spain by the French troops. The Right Hon. Gentleman had not told the House whether he had asked Mon sieur Chateaubriand how long his master meant to keep pos sessimieif that country. lie (Mr. Hobhouse) dared to say that the Right Honourable Gentleman had asked the question, and he thought that the House of Commons had a right to know what answer had been returned. He hoped that the Right Honourable Gentleman would not take the word of the French King for a guarantee. The word of no king was a guarantee, much less of that king who had pledged his sacred word of honour, and the sceptre which he wielded, that what he called the Army of Observation should not cross the Pyrenees. After that shameless breach of promise—after that falsehood which would have disqualified a private individual for the society of gentlemen—he trusted that the Right Honourable Gentleman would not attach much weight to the word of the King of France, or of his Minister Chateaubriand.—(Hear, hear t)—lle would now take the liberty to allude to another matter not unconnected with the foreign policy of Government. He would wish to know whether the Colonial Secretary had been informed of the reasons for the issuing of a recent pro claraation in the lonian Islands.—(Hear, hear I)—The pro clamation was so very extraordinary, that he should suppose it to be the result of a drunken frolic, did not the high situa tion which sir Thomas Maitland held render it impossible for him to suppose that that officer could so far forget himself as .to be guilty of such folly. But when they knew that Sir Thomas Maitland had issued such a proclamation as.tkis, put- • ting two of the lonian Islands under quarantine for thirty days, and when they recollected that this same Governorhwi aka , miued one of the most flagrant breaches of quarantine in his own case, one. ould not help feeling astonished at the occur-, rence of which he (Mr. Hobhouse) now complained. The reason assigned by":6ir ThOmas Maitland was also singular ; he states', that Prince Maurocordato having approachett'tOo . • near'• thd islands, the quarantine became necessary, Itztlhe British -Ge)- vernment should appear in any way involVekor•as partakers, in the cruelties "elsewhere inflteted—and inflicted 'by -*bent ? •By the Greeks for he appeared in e v er y ins t a nce to'attae'k the Greeks, and to overlook the Turkish share of the atrocities which had been committed. • Now he could assure the. House, and on the authority of an. eye-witness of what had • occurred, that the affair off the shore of Ithaca had been much mitre- , presented. The facts were these—A small Greek squadron having chased three Turkish armed vessels off that coast, mastered one of them, the crew of which, however, escaped .on shore ; and then, while the Greeks were rowing to the captured vessel, poured from the land upon them a murderous fire. 71 4 , Greeks immediately landed in their turn, and ,took sonacre-,•: venge upon their opponents. .But so far from the Greek standing upon their justification for this retaliation, 'Prince Matiroconlato made on their part the humblest apologies for the infraction of the neutral shore ; and similar apologies were now on their way to England.—But why throw all those acts • upon the Greeks ? The Turks had repeatedly been guilty of similar refractions, without drawing down upon their heads the anathema of Sir Thomas Maitland. When he adverted 'to the conduct of this Gevernor, he by no means wished to impugn the conduct of the Government at home ; he knevrthat they could not prevent the atrociti es o f e i t h er. side, as long as th e y o b serve d their neutral policy ; they could no more prevent the Oreeks and the Turks, than they could the Spaniards and the. French,- or the Italians and the Austrians, though he preferred the Turks to the latter, and he knew both.—(A laugh.)—He had the original Italian proclamation in his hand, and was ready to present it to the Right Hon. Secretary. Mr. CANNING said, that he should be always ready to re ceive from any Hon. Member whatever information upon foreign affairs he thought proper to favour him with ; and also ready to afford such information as his official duty permitted him to furnish, in reply to any specific inquiry. But when the Hon. Gent. adverted to some part of the observations which fell from him (Mr. Canning) last night, he seemed to have compounded his statement of principles with his statement of facts. What he had said last night respecting the relative in ternational situation of a mother country and her colonies was this—that in principle, a mother ceun'ry snd her colonies was this—that in principle, a mother country had a right, if she thought she had the power, to endeavour to recover possession of any colonies which had by any effort of their own thrown off her dominion; and that no other country in amity with her would, upon the naked principle, be justified in intercepting her efforts, or interfering in the first instance to endeavour to prevent them. She had a right bona fide to a resumption of her colonial possessions, if she were in a condition to reclaim them, and it would not be correct in a friendly power to mother dru la r ra l tr interferingti y prevent her. Wh en h e sa id correct, he meant upon the Strict principle of th e l aw o f nat i ons, for circumstances might ren der n s t a it n c correcteot matheybi abjured uh t rt o we dob g ubel o yd de t t o i h:eemw avowedly 00, a e declaration , and the interference os nanodfwwwitoahur l.a i d n bet Thish aiding i-dfii legitimatenr was s g t i pain, the abstract principle he had state d , and which he maintained ; t ro h itgh e leur governed e against the governor. Thel:oadnoulariadbledown 1; Gen tleman had gone on to put certain possible volations of neu trality ; now, he would not follow him by. arguing upon as sumed prob a bili t i es , or poss ibiliti es , w h ic h might demand a depart ure f rom t h e a b stract principle he but he (M r . C ann i ng ) wou ld most distinctly state, that . S i that Europ e , k new most unequivocally, that whilst England admitted the right of Sp a i n t o recover h er l ate Americatrpos- I sessions, she denied the right of any foreign power to interfere in aid of thelmother country in the attempt.—(Hear, hear !) . With respect to the ultimate intentions of France upon Spain, he felt a difficulty in satisfying the Hon. Gentleman, in conse quence of his observation that the British Government ought not to give credence to the declarations of the French King or his Ministers ; for he knew not how to satisfy the Hon. Gen tleman if lie refused him access to the official channels of com munication which the Government had always.maintained with the other powers in amity with them. But if the Hon. Gentle- , man would permit him to resort to the regular information of his office, he could assure him in reply, that the Government had the most positive assurances from the Court of France, that they did not contemplate the permanent occupation of Spain. He gave credit to those assurances, and would believe them still, notwithstanding the doubt which the Hon. Gentleman, had cast upon them. When he stated this, he begged also to say, that he retained all the sentiments he had last year expres sed respecting French aggression upon Spain ;. but whilst he retained those sentiments, he must be permitted to add, - that the vice of the aggression apart—(Hear, hear !)—the conduct of the French armies (always separating their conduct from the principle of their entrance) was as unexceptionable as it possi bly could have been under any circumstances of military conflict. He doubted whether history furnished a similar example of the discipline of a foreign army engaged in the invasion of another state ; or rather, as in this instance, called in by invitation to assist a predominating party in putting down a rival faction. Ha hoped he had said enough to explain the principle he had laid down respecting Spain and her Colonies s he denied the right of England to interfere; he equally denied the right of any other power to interfere in the contest. flow far a species of connivance to blind the plain meaning of his principle might hereafter be set up by one power or another, he could not say, and he would not now ar gue. He wished to be judged solely by his principle, according to its plain and fair construction, and that he thought enough to argue on the present occasion. As to the Hon. Gentleman's second question, he had only to repeat, with the same confi dence he had stated it last year, that he apprehended there was no danger of the permanent occupation of Spain by Franee. If a question were put to him how long the duration of that occupancy should continue, he would reply, that was an event so entirely dependent upon circumstances, as to render it im possible for him to give an immediate reply ; but there was one question to which he was ready at the moment to give an eir pile's answer. If he were asked, ought she French army to evacuate Spain to-morrow, as a friend to humanity, he must say no. With respect to the affairs of Greece, he believed he was in possession of the requisite information upon that sub ject. Ile had not at present, although he had received the dO cument, an exact impression upon his memory of the facts' Of the outrage to which Sir Thhmas Maitland's proclamation'ire ferred ; but he believed the facts to be these—A small Greek squadron had pursued some Turkish vessels into the harbour of Ithaca, where the crews of one of the latter landed ; they were pursued ashore by the Greeks, who butchered, in cold blood, 90 out of 120 men, of whom the crew was composed; and this was done upon an island guarded by British neutra lity. On the subject of the impartiality with which the neu trality was enforced, he could distinctly aver, that according to the best information he had it in his power to obtain, from the moment the neutrality was proclaimed, it was most strictly en forced against both parties. That outrages on both sidetthati been committed, was as clear as it was to be lamented; but not the smallest desire had been evinced by the British Autho rities to incline the balance either to one side or the other. : Mr. WESTERN expressed his surprise at the declaration of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that were he asked, if the French army ought to evacuate Spain to-morrow, his answer should he no.—(Hear, hear !)—Such a declaration opened the door to ott* powers to prolong the continuance of a daring aggression 'uiiiirt the rights of an independent state, according to their notidn'Of the indefinite duration of motives of humanity. it was hilin tention, last night, to have moved an amendment to the Ad dress, had not his Honourable and Learned Frieed'(r.lt. Brougham) anticipated what he'had to say in the able Old eloquent speech which he made on the occasion. His *lts decidely opposed to the policy of the present Cabinet lespaet ing Foreign Affairs, founded as it was upon a determinatiop 'to preserve peace at all events. He appreciated the value of peace as much as man could do; but still he could not go the kneh of the Right Honourable Secretary in looking calinly- tr;Oh aggressions like that on Spain, and in considering the iefriirge ment of the right of an independent nation to regulate jelling% concerns as a matter of little importance to the - -interest and security of the British empire. Such an interference itith-the internal policy of an independent state, as it had been Our. for- - tune recently to witness, w o u ld h ave called forth the strierg'ie probation and decided opposition of our sturdy ancestors 's and he, for one, could see no reason why we should abandon' the heroic policy which they had bravely pursued at everylutzaid, in various periods of our history. The principles whicJilhe Holy Alliance had avowed on different occasions, ai'd'e als . tita_ larly in the state papers which they had sent forth bach, had opened the eyes of every man in the cote his Majesty's Ministers, to the infamous nature t -signs. It would be in the recollection of the Houae the lion. Mereiber for Yorkshire' moved for the pr 'those papers, Lord Castlereagh objected tolhe'enett ,ground that the peelers in reatimirtdrititined nein than ,a promulgation of principles on which , then' was 41 tion of acting`,' and the 'flldtiOu• trati " iti oonsivpike fiegt PRICE SEVtNII27Cts Esq• Esq. 7, it' A ttO.' tit ) I t 00° 4 reo,l recl; fro rat °" Pb°