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LONDON JOURNALS. UM IL I EXTh4eTS.I FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. [Alorning Chronicle.] dobt now eatertainect of the fact of the 1-'6a - ruouEst att - c-scx having given orders, as we stated yesterday, to convene the Cortes ; the was brought over by a British Mes !..coger ; it is also announced in the illonileur of "; , I,`x - day. The latter Says, the Cortes have been . conveilrd " by virtue•of the powers with which the 41,egency are invested ;" but, if we judge r;z.litly, this is a case by no means foreseen by the Sovereion when he delegated his own power ts.) the:, atZd., consequently, not specially pro for; being warranted only by the exigency f circumstances. Difficulties evLiently _began. to press upon the Lisbon Government, and they recurred to the only alternative .left them, ex cept that of embarking for the Brazils, as they matt have had full .opportunitjeS-of seeing that they could place tit) great reliance on the troops, ant that they„Would be'.deserted by the , people as soon as a point d'apprii was at hand. ' The cir cumstance of General Partilillone.s regiment de s'erting and joining the Constitutionalists, when ordered to advance, mast have been appalling, more particularly to Count Amarante. This Oilicer, it is well known, was originally in the Oporto scheme, with and brother, now the Pre sident a of the Junta, nd it was through him the whole was secretly denounced to the Lisbon Re gency, an event that hastened the breaking out of the affair in Oporto. In this Count Amarante seems to have followed exactly the late example of Count Abisbal in Cadiz ; it remains to be seen whether the smile reward awaits him. [New Times.] The ADVICE'S from PORTUGAL induce us to hope that the late disturbances in that country will be brought to a reasonable and amicable adjustment. In some other continental kingdoms wild theoretical notions of representative Go vv..rnment have been hastily adopted, but in Portugal, we are induced to believe, there is reasonable desire to recur to the Cortes, as they formerly existed in that Country. This gratifying account of the state of Portugal was probably one reason. far the fivourabie turn that the Stock seemed disposed to take in die course of yesterday- There had been va rious rumours of an army intended to be sent out under the. command of the Duke of Welling ton—of an armament in France, and of menacing declarations held out. by Russia, all of which statements are entirely false. The Austrian forces are indeed moving towards Naples, ,and ?rill probably occupy that country ; but we trust that, this will . not occasion any great bloodshed. The Neapolitan soldiers are confessedly weak and cowardly, and cannot be expected to op. pose any formidable resistance to the Austrians, - 71.40 conquered them so easily in 1815. We hope, that should this event take place, care will be taken to establish the throne of the King of Naples on surer and better foundations than those on which it has hitherto stood ; that the . Muratists will be removed from power, the mutinous army disbanded, and a fair representa tive system of Government adopted, which may secure to the people at large their best interests, aul to the Throne strength and permanence.. [Mornin g Herahl.l The colour of our FOREIGN 'ARRIVALS is as variable as that of the Cameleon. According to all recent arrivals, the Emperor of Russia was about to stride over the South of Europe and chastise the constitutional innovators. Now it is stated from Frankfort, that his intentions are di rectly the reverse, and that his Minister has ac qutinted the Diet at Frankfort, that his Imperial Majesty does not recognize the right of one Na tion to interfere with another on account of any internal political innovations of the latter. W e remember also, that some time since a diclairner of, the document purporting to be " a Russian Declaration," issued from Frankfort. Austria, we are told for the hundredth time, is about to enter the Neapolitan territory with an over whelming force. But first an Austrian army will enter, amicably, the Roman States, and occupy ionte Corvo and Benevento, described to be at .present in a state of Anarchy. Austrian occupa tion will, no doubt, tranquillize them. In Sicily there is general repose—and the Port of Palermo is -open for trade as usual. The ruling party in Palermo is evidently in the Austrian interest. the Austrian Consul there has published a high eulogy upon the Junta. The Austrian paper falls every day. In fact, it is scarcely possible to conceive. how, in the deranged and impoverished state of the finances, that power could make - a single step in war. The old system of being subsidized from this country is now at an end. It was mentioned in some German Papers that Car sipt had fled from Magdeburgh, the place assign ed for his residence. There was no truth in this account. lie soon returned, after having been to Ilfalberstadt, to direct the publication of his Me moirs; ' 7'imes .1 We look with extreme anxiety and pain to the &FrA I us of PoRTITGAL: she is our old and faith ful Ally. It is our duty, certainly, to leave her to herself in the arrangement of her domestic conOins ; and we are afraid foreign Counsels are-lik little listened to in th e f ur y o f civil ,Bat let not the advocates for a new Constitution shed blood needlessly, or adopt violent courses, when the more peaceful seem as likely to pre sent a favourable result. If a people can legiti snately obtain their rights, they ought not to cast , off their allegiance to a Sovereign, who, as a con stituent part of the Constitution, may .conduce Bch to their happiness and comfort. Civil wars seldoin end otherwise than in military tyranny. The affairs of Spain are.in.a perplexing situation. iLiego has been banished, but only to hii.native town. If the charges against him (not but rumoured) be true, he should appear to be a coarse unmannered man. In &pular tumults, however, we must not always rely upon the total defeat of a party because it is at one time depressed. . [iliorni . n g Post.] It is with much pain we return, even for a single moment, to the subject of the PROCEED INGS of the HOUSE of COMMONS 011 Mondry even ing. 'Certain minor gentlemen and . a few old womfn thought it a fit opportunity not Only to make a general attack upon his Majesty's Mi nisters, but to comment in terms the most un candid and unjustiliahle upon the proceedings against tile Queen. It has generally been con sidered as the.duty of Judges to hear the whole ease before they decide; but here we have Judges who feel themselves warranted in decid ing even before the case has come before them. —We do not wish to question the purity of the motives which have induced these young gentle men and old ladies .to invert the general course of proceedings, and to give decision the prece dence -to inVestigation; but we confess the sur prise which we felt was not a little increased by hearing seine of them censure in no gentle terms certain Noble Lords who were stated to have evinced a strong feeling upon the case before them, while they were only conscientiously per forming their duty. Thus we find, in every in stance, and in every stage of the business, that the_ prejudging is entirely with .the leaders of faction ; and that while reason, candour, and justice are the governing feelings on one side, sentiments of party, of passion, of hateful prejn dice, and wilful error, prevail on the other, to the exclusion of calm,, solemn, unbiassed senato rial judgment. [British Press.] Some of the speeches delivered in Parliament on Monday evening, were characterised by -ex treme severity of language against the Ministers of the Crown, and all who had participated in the proceedings against the Queen. We were sorry to perceive that even the House of Lords did not, on that occasion, escape the harshness of invective. We are as ready as any person to censure the Ministers of the Crown for having instituted the present proceedings against the Queen, conceiving that they must tend to -de grade the dignity of the Crown, to disturb the tranquillity of the Country, and to establish a precedent of a dangerous and alarming character ; but even this cannot be fraught with worse consequences than an attempt upon the part of one branch of the Legislature to degrade the other in the eyes of the people, and to shake that basis of public opinion upon which the authority of that branch in i a particular de gree rests. The judicial proceedings having commenced, her Majesty's friends evince but little wisdom. in seeming to anticipate a . conviction of guilt, and nothing but such an anticipation could ever induce them to indulge in violent and unconstitutional invectives against the integrity of her Noble and Learned Judges. For our selves we repOse the most religious confidence in the justice of the House of Lords, and feel as sured that the Bill of Pains and Penalties will never be read a second time, unless the majority of the House of Lords be conscientiously con vinced of the truth of the allegations contained in the preamble. There are two classes of rea soners among her judges,, who would feel it their duty to oppose the Bill : those who may not think that the evidence amounted to convic tion, and those who yet believing the evidence sufficient, would. be unwilling to establish so dangerous a precedent as the enactment of such a Bill. FRO VINdAL JOURNALS. [F or: The Leeds Independent, Sept. 14.] Our last publication contained a brief account of a Meeting held on the preceding Monday at Bean lug, to " consider of the propriety of pre senting addresses from the male and female in habitants of Leeds to her most gracious Majesty Queen Caroline." The leaders on this notable occasion, as well as the generality of those pre sent, were of the same respectable stamp as usually attended the meetings for Radical Re form ; and her Majesty will, no doubt, have rea son to ft>el herself highly honoured, when she is informed of the characters of her addressers— when she is told that those who refer her for consolation to the promises of the Deity are Free thinkers!--that some of those who extol her in nocence and purity introduced and conducted the Meeting with a. delicate specirnen.of " menda city ;"—and that The respectability of the Meet ing was established by their choice of a Radical wool-sorter to fill the chair, who congratulated his surrounding admirers on that essential qualifica tion .which we have just mentioned. Are not all these circumstances highly calcu lated to confirm the opinion, which is not uncom mon, of the innocence of the Queen, when indi viduals so peculiarly qualified by their situations in life, by their habits of thinking, by the depth of their acquaintance with the forms of law, and the nature of .evidence, compared with the in ferior knowledge of the great Law Authorities and of Parliament,—when such individuals, we say, declare her innocence, is it possible to doubt it ? especially when, instead of waiting the result of the trial, they resolutely pronounce it before hand—who, we ask, under such circumstances, shall presume to entertain an idea to the con ttary ?----But we have alluded to "a delicate speci men of mendacity" with which the Meeting was preceded and conducted. It was announced in the hand -bills that the Meeting was held with the consentof the Mayor ; which consent, however, he refused. Further, they were told by their Chairman that the whole Meeting was influenced by " that species of loyalty which consisted in obedience to the laws, and which for years had been inculcated upon them with so much .effect in The Leodslliereu rN ; 7-0h mirahile dictu but why was not this highly important declara7 tion hailed with repeated cheers and appiauses For o'nr parts we can account for this singular omission in no other way•than this ; either that the respectable auditors were struck dumb with admiration, on hearings° unexpectedly of loyalty and obedience to the laws being inculcated from such a quarter ; or that many of them must have thought that the speaker, to use a high-sounding phrase of The .Mercur3g, Was " guilty of the grossest mendacity," or, in other words more familiar to their understanding, that he had told a***—. The authors of the proceedings against the Queen were stigmatized with a profusion of epi thets—a►►d their " conduct as diabolical, which collected hosts of unprincipled spies and infor mers to calumniate a virtuous woman ;" but her advocates always wilfully keep out of sight, the important fact that, until the charges brought against her Majesty were inveStigated s the claims advanced by her to the full possession of her rights and privileges as Queen could not be granted. Yet it must be allowed her partizans act consistently in keeping this fact out of view, for they must or ought to know hat their sophis try- would not hold- together without doing so. In conformity with this crafty policy, is another confident assertion of theirs which consists in i►'nputing the mischief (arising from the publica tion of the evidence, as tending to contaminate the public morals) to the prosecutors of the Queen ; when it is notorious that she decidedly and pertinaciously refused to yield to the House of Commons, which deprecated the disclosures consequent on that refusal ! COUNtritY NEWS. CH EsHIRE THE 88TH REGIMENT.-The same reasons which last week• induced us to withhold publi city of the particulars relative to the conduct of several individuals in this regiment towards the inhabitants still operate ; and we have no dispo sition to a g itate questions likely to produce mis chief. Sir James Lyon, second in command of the district, has been for several days in the city dur ing the last week, between whom and the Magis trates some consultations have taken place._ His conduct has been represented to us as highly cre ditable, both in reference to the regiment and the civil authorities ; and we sincerely trust the in terposition of his authority will effectuate the ob ject of his special tnission.--(Chester Courant, Sept. 19.) At the Chester Sessions, Ralph Jackson, aged 41, a labourer, from Minshull, was indicted for an assault and rape upon the body of Sarah Pol litt, of Stockport, aged eleven years, and found Guilty.. In passing sentence, Mr. Justice WAR REN did it with great feeling. The Jury, he said, had returned a verdict of guilty, and, in deed, he thought they could not return any other. The prisoner had now but a few hours left, and he exhorted him to use the short time allotted him in prayer to God, with whom there was' mercy, for there Was no forgiveness for him in this world. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—AS John Cole, formerly a schoolmaster of Fingriaghoe, in Essex, who is now in the 66th year of his age, was sitting with others in a field belonging to Mr. Elijah Clark, farmer, of that parish, while viewing the late eclipse of the sun with his right eye, he being stone blind of the left, partially shaded by his hand, his left eye was instantly restored to sight, and he can now lee with it as perfectly as he did 30 years ago. STAFFORDSHIRE. • MURDER.—On Tuesday last (the sth instant), John Wright, of this town, locksmith, was taken into custody for drowning his son, James Wright, a boy about five years of age, in the Birmingham Canal. An Inquest was held upon the body of the boy, on Wednesday, before Henry Smith, Esq., Coroner, and we extract the following par ticulars of this distressing circumstance from the depositions. Wright's wife, who has been from him some months, attending a sick person, went off with another man to Darlaston, on Sunday, the 3d inst. where Wright found them, and brought her borne to his lodgings. They slept together, and appeared perfectly reconciled; but as soon as he went to his work on the next morning, his wife left the house, and did not return. When he came home to his dinner, and found she was again gone off, he became extremely agitated and fran tic, and continued so during the day. He that night slept with the boy, and on the following morning got up about seven o'clock, and taking the boy with him, proceeded to the Wyrley ca nal, into which he threw him, but relenting,jump ed in after him, took him out, and went to a cottage to dry themselves; when he was desired to take the child home and put him to bed. He went away with an intention of doing so, but feeling at a loss to account for the state in which they were, he again resolved upon effecting his purpose, which he accordingly did. He then came back to the town, and very shortly after wards communicated what he had done to two of his relations, who went with him to the Bir mingham canal, near Autherley, when one of them want in and found the body. Upon its being taken from the water, the prisoner mani fested the strongest markS of affection towards it. Witness spoke to the uniform kindness with which the prisoner had treated the child, and to the agitated and confused state of his mind, be fore and after the perpetration of the crime. Tile Coroner's Jury returned •a verdict of TVilful Murder, and Wright has been committed to our county gaol thereupon.----(fVolverhamptazz aro- YORKSHIRE. The following horrible instance of Religious Madness is taken from The Rockingham Ga zette :—A poor woman in the Groves, last Satur day, attempted to cut her throat under the painful conviction that she could not be saved. We have seldom heard of .11 more distressing case.. Her character was. altogether respectable, and she lived with her husband and 'family in great do mestic comfort.. Yet she had persuaded herself 111:1 1 that she was an object . of divine inexora wrath, and her misery became so intoler abig that she resolved to end it by committing, the - dreadful act above stated. At the 001, moment, however, her fortitude seems to has' failed her, for the .wound inflicted was not 10 . " tal, but so severe as to cause an immense effusl° a of blood, wltivh, when she was discovered, lied brought her to a state of great debility. Sti ' she might have been saved, but unfortunately 0 1 1 young man sent to examine her, on the velf point of putting in the needle to sew up till wound, fainted away, oppressed by the distres s ing sight of the patient,and the blood with whic,' the room was deluged. Thus time was lost, 8 13 v before farther assistance coup be obtained 5 14 was a corpse. IRELAND. Head Police-Office, Dublin, Sept. IG. BIGAMY.—On Saturday last, Mr. George CO; roll, of South King-street, Attorney, was brougb before the Sitting Magistrate of this Office, 0 ! 1 the above charge. What appeared in e4A1 131 ; nation was as follows :—Frorn the testimony 0 the lady he had last married, she stated that she and her former husband had gone to reside st Brussels ; that in the month of November last, bet husband died, and she,. wishing to return , to Ire' land, wrote to some friends in Dublin, stating tha t wish : and that, if they knew any person or persons who were on the Continent, or who had to pas * through Brussels,w hom they could recommend, She would take the advantage of their escort, and revs' sit her native land. Mr. Carroll being acquaintes with the contents, stated to the lady's friend that he was going to London on business, and wouil think it a trifle to go to Brussels ; he obtained the lady's letter, and proceeded to that city, 8 4 by it ob - tabled an introduction to her, where acted the part of an unmarried gentleman with much gallantry, -and escorted her to. Lon' , don,. where, on the 4th of July last, they we l l regularly married, according to the rites 0 the Established Church. Here they lived a l man and wife until about three weeks bac l 4 when he came to Dublin to provide a suitable residence for her, and had the folly to make $ request of her friends that his first wife's beil4 in existence should- not be told to the lady; he r friends, indignantly, but silently, applied t ° ' this Office, where they were advised to Wai t until the unconscious dupe of the transaction should arrive in Ireland—which she did ca Saturday last.. by the steam packet, and wa s escorted to lodgings in Harold's- cross, by her supposed husband. Information was inamediatelf serf to Mr. Farrell, Chief Peace Officer of 0 14 city, who dispatched Peace Officers, Lynch and Manly, who arrested the Gentleman at dinner+ on a charge of bigamy, to the great consternati ol , of the lady,who for the first moment was acquainteo with her real situation, and that he whom she looked upon as her husband, had a wife liviu4 in his house in King-street, to whom he was mar' tied several years back, in Rathdrum Church/ and whose family are as respectable as any ja that part of the count? of Wicklow. These facts being- sworn to, the Frisener was sent to Nes" gate, to abide his' trial at the next Conunissionr' (Sounder's News-Le'ter .) Sr'n BLAND. On the night of Satc-clay, or early on Sandal morning last, six gm - were ;eft at the door of small public-house, by the Cumberland road side, a few miles from Gia ,, gow, which had bee°, taken from different horses in that neighbourhood in the early part of the radical week. Each gull' had the name of the owner affixed to it, and to one was attached a I ete, stating that a se' venth gun, which had been borrowed in the same way from a farmer at Frankfield, was, for the present, " a se. king," but either it, Of one as 'good, would if possible ere long be seat him. Some of the runs have evidently the appearance of bavinz been concealed under ground. It is worthy of rt. , :rark, that when they arms were taken, a pr -rise was held out to proprietors that when th purpose for which the! were seized was over they ..vould be returned' (Greenock Adz:el-IL:et-, Sc' i nt. 1 5.) BIRTH. Monday se'onizlit. at Bronmhead, the Lady of James 1 1 i ° ' ington, Esq. banker, Sheffield, of a son. MAERIED. „ „ r cro At Camberwell, on the 19111 instant, Mr. George of Peckhant-rFe, to Elizato third daughter of Aimler last, Esq. of the Terrace, Caniberweil. On thr I , lth inst. at Dorei. D , IED af:er a short and severe Sir Alexander AlI i.i, Dirt. of Ilal , er-street• I: s t mail-square, aril 56 years: 07,e of the I)ireetors of the Berta 111(Cla Company, and late Member of Parliament fur Be"' on Tweed. .. • n st• At one o'clock on the moi .iinty of 11ifonf1ay, the 18 0 '",, after a short lint severe illness, aged 58, James Char les blo t ' ley, of Portsmouth, Esq. .fed Atignst. 2a, in Belida in-cireet, Bristol, Mrs. Centel , 70, 107, a native of Ireland : s h e r e tained h e r faculties to the j 4 LONDON: Printed hr 3. B. crutsTAlßs, of No. 29, Ormond-street. Qneen-sluare; and published hV SCIIIITS, of No. 7, Soitli Molion•street, at Vi r (Mice, No. 112, Strand ; w!ivrig Atlrestisemenno, ' ~~ t 1;; re ceirc Tors t° le , 7-, 7 : 4, 4es a th at jut teren, frise ` 4 rt s Uri 41elirtr vast, t kJ," , F;ire wlt two t k 14tic r 5 t 1 .1 ' 1 !11 C U ge laStW t om t . l mu. th e ( I' lkr ei t4C COURSE OF EXCHANGE, SEPT. 19. 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