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LONDON JOURNALS. [nd L XMIC TS ] FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS. [Morning. Chronicle.] THE QUEEN.—The shifts to which the Minis terial Papers ays: reduced in accounting for the popular feeling ,universally displayed in favour of `,the Queen are truly ridiculous. cc The Leicester Address cannot have been prepared, and ,carried about twice for signatures,' but at a con siderable expellee of money." Then the Sailors who proceeded to Ilannut , rsmith i on.AVednesday, wore .white cockades - in their hats, and where carnothe-rooney from "to purchase-so many yards pf ritl)on t" It, has' been, well obsexve.d by one of ~odr contemporaries, that " those who could rouse the hundreds of thousands of Addressers to the and the .whole of the population, to the very children, must ltaVe had a great .deal of porjey if they protitteedithis effect. by rcennS of it. flit how happens it, that thoie whp.have the. whale money of,the nation, and,all its patronage at their disposal; have been able to ,c:xcie no feeling in favoitt 3,--But those gen tiemQn who entertain. sq .. degradiwg an opinion of tller countrymen, as 13 iupPose them universally venal, Will i no donbt, be ready t'o - as.F.ure-us that they moUopolise the whole virtue of the nation, and thf i tt they di'daiu to have recourse to any of the t;ts of corruption. We understand the idea of leavin3 out the Divorce part of the Bill is now . • , teimqutEned, but that' it 'is in — contemplation to pr-cpp.se a, clause prohibiting either of the parties fr,orn:rpair)ing again. To till, 'Majesty will 01; Cof \ itSerc44ily:ticcetle; for Lord, Liverpool in- Honsc`of LOrds, tbat the:Kiug enter taiizecl no - Wish for pers-Onal relief. [British Press.] THE QuEr.N.—lt is remarkable that the Queen is..charged with hazing commenced an. illicit corn 13ergami shortly . after her arrival on the Continent, and that its continuance is only traced in the evidence before the Lords for about three years during her . absence from - 2 England, although he remained.inherservice until her. de .a‘r.ttire from - fit. Omer. What then has become of their criminal conversation for the last two years ? Was the evidence of it less accessible or less fresh.than that of circumstances, which -ot.. cuffed #ve years ago? /Alderman Wood . threw some li;Jlt on this point at the CripplegateMeet iiig held y - esterday. - Mr. Peter Moore, . in" his speech at the Paddington Meeting, alluded to the same circumstance. [Dior ning.Post.] - THE QUEEN-The shameless scribes, who with such cruel and brutal irony continue to insult the feelings of the poor Queen and the common sense of their-readers,. by their daily and- unprovoked declarations sof•her . IVhjesty's angelic chastity, virgin innocence, and " unsunnedsnow" purity, While she' has yet to answer to the dreadful charges evidence against her, are beginning to direct . their 'venomous shafts against the charac ters. of such distinguidied men as prove them silves honest in these worst of times, and who, la he' conscientious 'discharge Of their duty, have. tie courage to pursue a fair and . patriotic course, uninfluenced , bly base clannour, and unawed by the infnrrioiis designs of the tiiiSchievous and dar ioq• lactlons.arnong- its, who seek whiling .short of the overthrow and •order in the State. Triuinberless have of late' been the instances of, attacks of this , nature ; but that to: which weino - w Niti3h 'to Cllll the attention of the Public is Of a: glaring, thou4h not. less 'Unfair and iniidious description, than those to which in a general.sense we here allude. 'readers Will find inserted in...another ; part orour Paper an answer made by tiro Earl of. Lauderdale to some queries addressed to ' - hirn in :a " - Paper: 'of Tuesday; uPOrt which we roust take -the-liberty of expressing our opinion, that_ his Lordship has• shewn much more condescension than prudence in taking this notice of a cowardly, adversary. If his Lordship -will . thus encourage attack from ar:y individual Who Can . put two letters of the alphabet at the . bottoM of a' list2of insinuations, he tided not reckon upon passin g many days 'without such calls- Upon his notice, Moreover, if a British Nobleman; dUring'a tour ahroad, had heard reports, relative to the wife of hrs 'Sovereign, would he have doneany thing ,urt. worthy. of his character, supposing that he had made some inqUirieS:upon- the sUbjeCt ? - Would it. not have the More becothe hith to . so,. if he were, as it is known the EartolLauderdale was, the. confidential frelid of the Princess 'Charlotte and of Prince 14?opold., the esteem of the latter of, whom_ he st'.l.l enjoys ? Considering thee latter.eirctinistances,, we Must think that L: M.. has acted inigdiCionsly. for his owri . :canse in leading the reciillection of the public to them. That Lord Lauderdale. had heard such te'Portii we do not pretend — to have been told,, any more ail: that he had made such inquiries ;. but it will be observed, that the queries become 'ridiculous, utness the former fact . be assumed,' for certainly unman, noble or ignoble, would 'trouble himself with inquiri e s,- to whiCh he had not been invited bt.:reports. A letter from the Iron. William Waldegrave, who is married to one of Mr. Whitbread's sisters, dated : Stockes, Ileniel ,Ifempstead, Sept. 13, after noticing, the statement which appeared -;in* The •Times, as to Me. .Whitbread's sisters h-aving aocompanied their brother f . when. the Mary-le-• bone Addrep: was presented, thus proceeds :--,- " I request that yen will contradict it, as both Mr: Whitbread's.sisters have;boen in the country for two months, and have taken no part ,what ever in any Address tolier Majesty." The Times of _yesterday says that no CG authority is-given for the counter-assertion." Peroaps it will consider the husband of one of, the_jAfiies .who:have thus been Iftelled as no authority. Perhaps, too, it will endeavour to explain why so much anxiety should be felt to contradict what would not once have bee'd so eagerly denied, an alleged visit to the Queen of England.—Clbid.) From SOUTH AMERICA we areauthentitally in formed that themegociations,,having for their ob ject the re-union of the- Colonies with the Mo ther Country,. had totally failed, the unanimous Resolution of the Congress being, that nothing .short of the acknowledgment of their absolute independence. could be admitted as. the basis of any treaty. This Revolution is perhaps more important than the convulsion by which the poli tical separation of the Colonies from Spain was first ehected ; ,for, until now, there was al- . ways a possibility , that some change in the Go vernment of the Parent Country .might .bring back - the revolters to ,their allegiance. The great approach to unanimity with which the .Revolution in. Spain has hitherto been ronduct ed, can scarcely be accounted -for, \otherwise than by supposing that very many classes of per sons had a, view to this.possibility. Most,of the Spanish NobleS have property in South America; great numbers of their adherents, and of others in the professional classes have been accustomed to prospects of promotion there. The lingering character of the war left little hope of its conclu sion 'by any other than political means ; the re luctance of the troops to embark rendered them a ready instrument of change; the greater part of - the Cortes of 1812 were waiting for any (oppor tunity to regain their authority., and thus,in our opinion, arose, the great motives; - which have nearly giVen to Spain the yractices of a Republic, .and yet, ps it now seems, have not persuaded - the Colonies to relinquish their independence for a share in her new politic's. We are - used,.on al most .every occasion, to consider, " Will this be beneficial, or otherwise to England;" Theques tion, in the preaent instance, is far too compre hensive to permit much positiveness of opinion ; but our expectations lean to the favourable side. no new dictum - with us that the.'exist once of some vigorous and enterprising commu nity in South America will be the best •balanee and the most effectual counteraction to the busy ambition of the United States. To this con sideration. Dre now to be added the probability that Old Spain will gradually become more re publican than she is, and the certainty, that the less power she has, the less is the peace of Eu rope likely to be disturbed. New rulers are always,fond of foreign 'adventures, that they may give some eclat to their authority ; if- those of Spain should not embarrass themselves with a continuance of the war in South America, it is well, at all events, - that they should not have the wealth of that country to support them in any projects against others.—(ibid.) [Mornizig Herald.]' PORTUGAL.--The foreign intelligence which reached' us in the course of yesterday is not of . striking. importance. From Portugal nothing .new has reached us ; but we publish, in conti nua,tion, the official papers . published at Oporto Aindey'the ReVolutionary Authorities. They are interesting from' their minute detail of the be ginning and progress of the insurrectionary Move ment; In the . French papers„as will be observed, not one word,—not a hint„ . has been permitted to w:cape, relative to the business in Portugal. It is hard to conceive the meaning of this. lit,can :be solved only in either of two ways, viz. assum ing the advisers of Louis XVIII. to be wise above the ordinary reach of human reasort—or else that they have not a sufficiently clear and *steady vision for the elevated and dangerous po sition in which they are placed,. Do they sup 'pose that the Portuguese Revolution is not known and talked of in Paris?, And does not the silence imposed 'by power give those who are disposed to Magnify or invent, the rest pernicious facility to do so with effect? Is not this humiliating, and palpable thratdom'of the press, calculated to ir ritate the French mind into a vindictive sense of insult ? The dread of the free circulation of opi nion, is the rock upon .which weak Ministers lose themselves, whilst men competent to rule a State know this . circulation of thOught to be, the health add Vigour, of the State. If we were to take the con dition 'of France On the showing of its Govern trietit, 'What could 'be more alarming ? Their mandate to the newspapers declares, in substance, " - the:public tranquillity is so precarious, that it would be compromised by lelting the people read in t c he public In'eSS that a retolation is going on in a'heighlicuring country." It 'would seem as if they:apprehended some such effect upon the French, from 'the news of a revolution, as the Swiss air produced Upoh the Swiss troops in the pay of Foreign Poivers. [The - i TiTes.] SICILY.—The letters received yesterday from Naples, in regular course of post, are dated the . 25th ult.,' aad contain no political intelligence or information on the state - of Sicily ; . but we 'un derstand..advices-,are in town of the 31st, which encourage the hope that: the differences between the two Countries will terminate in amicable ac comMadation. [New Times.] PUBLIC MEETINGS.—We lament to say that two. Churches: were yesterday profaned b y Public Meetings utterly unconnected with the con cerns of the respectiie' parishm The principal speakers dared, before the very altar of God, to vent sedition and slander ! It is shocking to re flect, that a Christian Church should be de'voted to such unchristian practices. It is still more Shocking that the Churchwarden, who is bound by a solemn.oath to prevent the Church from pro fanation, Fhould .be so utterly regardless of the duty which he has sworn to observe..--We have in this country most admirable laws, which, if observed, would be a sure protection to Religion and Civil Liberty, .and their observation is in many instances provided for by the solemn obli gation of•._an oath ;• but at these oaths the Sedi tious Press openly laughs. ,It persuades Church wardens, Jurymen, B,:c. to set them at naught, or so puzzles and : confounds their understandings, as : to the nature of the duties imposed, that the oath becomes wholly nugatory and inefficacious. Persons wilo were not paristuonert, and who were therefore themselves ,trespassers on the Church, had, in one instance,. the , impudence to pass a vote of thanks to the Churchwarden, for an. act in itself manifestly illegal ; but these. thanks 'will stand him in little.stead,if he should be prose cuted for a violation of his. public duty. This..is a matter which the respectable inhabitants of the parish should take into •their serious considera tion. It is a very important object to exclude Faction and Tumult at least from our Churches. At the beginning of the. horrible Revolution. in France, the House of Prayer was first converted into a Den of. Thieves, and- then it became the scene of an impious Idolatry. The- divine ac cents of the .Gospel were superseded by Jacobi nical harangues on the 46 Rights of Man," and these were followed by blasphemous orgies in prarience of the naked " Goddess of Reason." PROVINCIAL JO URNALS. (Fro»: the Leeds luterligeneer, Sept. 11.) The fact stated by the Attorney-General, on Wednesday, is one of the utmost importance. It proves, that the interests . of justice have been in jured--that witnesses have been deterred from corning to give evidence, perhaps of considerable moment—,from the outrages which. a rabble, insti gated by a licentious press, committed on some of their countrymen. And, the same press, which, by the infamous calumnies it circulated against the witnesses, instigated the outrages—afterwards approved of them, and yet remains unpunished 'Snrely, this is a - g - ross violation of the first prin ciples of justice. If witnesses are not protected by the authority of the,Couit, before which, they have to appear, from insult and violence, it is ridi culous, to expect impartial and substantial justice, in any case.of sufficient importance to induce a factious journalist, who '" possesses unrivalled power over public opinion !" to use that power for the purpose of ,misdirecting and misleading his credulous dupes. The conduct of.that part of the public press, which has indulged in these appeals to the, pas sions of the populace, has, been severely repro bated in the House of Lords ; yet Ave find the Editor of The Leeds Mercury, on Saturday last, charging the Queen's: prosecutors With having first tried " ordinary falsehood," and then with bringinrY forward " perjury, in its most palpable L and , undisguised form !" And a laboured at tempt is made to disc . redit the evidence of Made moiselle Derriont,' from the assumed contradic- Lions given in her letters to.the - Statements in her evidence. If a regard for the interests of justice, which forbids the attempt to bias the . minds of our readers in any way, did not lead us to for bear offering comments upon the evidence, it would be .no diffifult matter to retort the argu ments of The. Mercury upon himself ; but it will not be an infringement on our original resolution to observe, that these letters were ;written with ,a knowledge on the part of the writer, that let ters addressed to individuals in the family of the Princess, had been intercepted ; and that a let ter had been taken from the post-office, its terms altered, and then, in that altered form, forwarded to its destination. With this knowledge, and anxious for a sister wholly dependent' on the Princess,. the extravagant praises of her Royal Highness are easily accounted for ; sensible as the writer was, that the letters would fall into her hands. When a Princess descends to the meanness of intercepting the letters of her ser vants, the less that is said about it by her friends the better. We are sure the circumstance does not redound to her honour. In another part of our paper will be found an account of the Meeting held at this place, on Monday last, for the purpose of voting addresses to the:Queen The proceedings at that meet ing, and the character of the persons who took the principal part in the" management of the bu siness, are a fair sample of the respectability, and the principles, of that part of our population, who have thought fit to sanction such an indeco rous proceeding at the present moment. With out one exception—it was precisely the saute class, who figured at the Radical Meetings held during the last year; and whose feelings were equally 44 strong, enthusiastic, and universal," in favour of Hunt, Garble, Wooler, and the rest of the herd of convicted infidels and demagogues, as they now are in favour of the _Queen ! It is lamentable to think, that the Queen of England should have thrown herself into the hands of such a faction. If she be innocent, their applause cannot grace her triumph-=--if guilty, she is ag gx'avating her crime by encouraging (as she does, by the tendency of her Answers to the Addresses which ,are presented to her), an ignorant and deluded populace, to insult and traduce the So. vereign,,the Clergy, the Nobility, and the .Gen try: of the .land ; inspiring them with a spirit, which has led to.acts of outrage against the sa viour of Europe; ,against . the hero whom they once followed yvith applauses really enthusiastic, and greeted with the warmest fervour.. Such is the stability of popular' favour ; .and the same men who now make, the. Queen their rallying point, for the purpose of more securely attacking the Constitution of.their country, will be the first to execrate and _forsake her, when she has an swered their foul purpose ; and can no longer serve as a cloak for factiona pretext for se dition. We are sure every honest man will read with disgust, the language of l3rayshaw, on Monday last, when speaking of the •clergy of the 'esta blished church.' This Language, Mr. Baines has carefully.suppressed ; well :mate, that it•spo'ke volumes as to the principles ofEa meeting, which cOuld hear it without indignation. Our readers sail not forget the. pa-rt,• which this same Bray shaw acted, at our radical meetings, last year ; nor, that -he was the• apostle, of sedition, who • This accouut is too long for insertion in the SiN, the Speakers are too obscure. to be known.in the Metropolis, and their sentiment s too, vulgar and vicious to (test:l-Fe a fort:let el. ciliation than in the respectable Journal which_spiii tiently exposes then) within its immediate circuleion• BAINES is the co n d uc t or o f Th e L ee d s M ercury , a notorious channel of Radical mischief and absurdity. formed the Union Societies in the North of Eng' land, and in Scotland, from which emanated th e rebellion 'of April last ; a rebellion, that has cost some their lives ; and caused others to be ba nished from their native land the heaviest sew, / tense which can be inflicted on a sincere lover / his country. 011! how sail a man graces the cause of the Queen ! (From The Royal Coraw,2ll Gazette. Sept. 9.) The Trial of the QUEEN continues to rivet the public attention, to - the exclusion of almost evert other topic of rational or amusing conversation' The publication of the disgusting details, 1%41 0 , for the lionour,and dignity of the C r own an Royal Family we wish their Lordships had for' bidden, has engendered a spirit, has furnished 3 theme for licentious discussion, which Must prove highly injurious: to the moral feeling of the coon' try, and we fear tend to lessen that profound re' spect which it has ever been the pride of Eng' lishnien to entertain for the persons and charac" ters of their Sovereigns. Five and twenty wit' nesses have been examined for the bill, and it j 5 with-pleasure we do justice to their Lordships , who during so long and so arduous an inctuirl have manifested but oncf desire—that of eliciting the truth. On theluestion of guilt or innocence/ on the character of the witnesses, or on the nature -of the testimony that has been adduced, it would. be highly improper to hazard an opinion until ber Majesty has been heard in reply : and it is hn possible not to wish that she may be able fair!! to clear her character from the weight oichargest which, if true, would for ever disgrace the mo:4 abandoned and profligate fet'nale. In this great cause the honour and character of their LordshiP 4 is at. stake,--as as the honour and character of the Queen,and as f a r as we-can discover,everf thing promises a just and equitable Verdict : e vert 'thing indicates that the Country will yield to 'such a verdict with the respect due to the Il Court of Parliament, although the writer of the 'Queen's Answer to the Cripple gate Addrosl Makes her submit a doubt to the Public, win titer, in the event of a Bill of Pains and Penalties be.in4 passed against her, it will be right submit to its authority. These answers become more lay prudent, bolder and more objectionable on al most every new' Address that isTresented : -and if this course be persevered in, she will exhaust every radical idea that has been floating in minds of the diSaffected from the year 7:43 to .the present period. We marvel that she . haS no .sin cere friend to opposer hiinself to such conducts The evidence for the bill was expected to have been closed on Wednesday, and it 'is said the Queen is prepared immediately to enter up o n her defence. COUNTRY BANK NCTES.—There can be no doubt, that whenever the Bank of England Notes are, by the new issue, rendered more secure against imitation, the ingenuity of the forger will he directed. against the Country Bank Notes, which are -now in a very deft4iceless state. It i 5 a source of much satisfaction to us, therefore, ro have learnt, that a plan ,for . the protection of r.le Country Bank Notes has been adopted by Jie Government, which-will, by art immediate eye' ration, secure the whole of the Provincial. Bano from forgery, without requiring any chain g,e of their present plates, which would neces: , Triy be a work of much time. A Stamp of great ditli culty of imitation has been contrived, and pre- parations are making at , the Stamp-office for stamping all the Country Bank Notes with this Stamp, after the new year, by which means the revenue collected on Country Bank Notes 1.1 111 be secured, while the Notes themselves will be protected from 'the forger—because he cannot forge-the Note without also forging the StaroP This Stamp is. combined with beautiful coloured printing, intended nearly to cover the back of the Note, so as to preclude the necessity, and a lso to save the E xpence at present incurred by many Country Bankers in printing a back to their Notes by way of security, that security being thlts given them by the,Government gratis. It is pro posed also to connect this with a change in the paper for the Country Bank Notes, by substituting 3 description of paper, the water-mark and ttP" pearance of which can only- be produced in its first - construction at the paper mill; •whereas there are various' ways of - forging the present water mark in ordinary paper, which may be purchased in any stationer's shop. The -most importan t features in this plan, are—First, the eapeditiog - with .which the. Country Banks will thus be se' cured against • forgery. And, Secondly, th e economy, - as it .requires no change whatever, ill their present plates. A Gentleman, who conceived it his duty t° differ from Mr. Thompson, of Holborn-hill, Yes' terdav, in St. Bride's Church, was tumultuous i f followed, on the breaking up of the Meeting, t ° his residence by a hideous rabble., who took their accustomed liberty of grossly insulting / 1414 merely for venturing to txpre , :s his frank opini o9. as to the inex.p.sdieney of addressing the Quc ell at this critical time. BIRTH. ' - On the I ith instant, the lath. Kiglitlev, Esq. No. 49 ' Wirunre-sirect, Carendiqi-sware, of et son. MATIMED On the 14th inst. at St. Nit:Tneas Church. 11,cbester, the no, Wilfred Cartel', D.D. Chaplain to the . Marquis of Onee i rls , berry ; to Malgaret, only . dan4hter of the 14. or, Ri c hard ,°- i. dan, ;t:littor ('anon of Rochester. On the 1411) inst. at Isle worth, Captain Albert Coldstnid• of th e Hth Itoyal Lance,. to Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Daniel Unkett, Esq. PIM • •_1 c , • Yesterday , at Major-General Barton's, in Nl o ntagu-P' 3-e Mo O ntagu-square, the Right Hon. Lady Masse. , , t i c h n'Tnesd.ay err qing, t he 12th init. at his ho y us e in Ne r ' Tow" , •Th"mas Layton. Esq. in the SSt h year of hit al:'''' n , On the sth inst., at Lynn, aged 7:1, Martin Fol'hes it isht( Esq. _.......-.1 e a t LONDON: Priuted 3. B. CARSTAIRS,' of No. ", • Ormond -street, Queen-square; an .1 published :by ( rt.' OttofSouth Alolton-street, a t TR , ' ar ,,, ce, No. 112, Strand ; where Adrettisements , Letters, &c. (post-paid) must he addressed. «t„, ~, tgq ., i "g• yo Carl( sent 0, The Zile fro *Lich curtist; ellar,;(1 tour)i. 1 La. tp e„ . pl Preeht siuns ; for the Attser l ir, ~,, 41 * crl r . 4. a iutpi 4t the to t" 4 . , Gt l , ‘;(:)1 PI N k ur 11 101 Ti B( rive r the w S auc Whr, AA