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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, May 26. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Marquis of Lansdown moved last night for certain returns, to shew how often the opera tion of the Acts of Charles the Second, to which be bad alluded during his motion of Monday night, had been suspended. These statutes en acted, that no individual should exercise any of f ice under the Excise, without first taking the oaths of supremacy and allegiance. Of late, how ever, the Noble Marquis stated, these Acts bad been practically dispensed with, and Officers of , Excise bad been admitted without the obligation of taking these oaths. Ilis object was tp shew the anomaly that existed respecting the laws the Noble Marquis had brought under the considera tion of the House on Monday night, and that while they jealously excluded English Catholics they admitted those of the same religion from Ireland to revenue offices, by a partial suspension of the Acts in question. Lord Lansdown con cluded by moving for copies of all instructions under the 12th and 15th of Charles the Second, and also for copies of any new instructions issued under these Acts since 1822. Lord Liver pool admitted, that by the statutes of Charles the Second alluded to, all persons holding offices in the Excise were compelled to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. When the late enactments, consolidating the Customs and Ex cise of both countries, were brought forward, they caused an alarm among many who had been admitted to hold offices under the Revenue in Ireland, on the intimation being made to them, that i❑ consequence of the consolidation of the Customs and Excise of both countries, their ser vices might be received here, and these indivi duals were apprehensive that they might be obliged to take the oaths or give up their offices. No regular instruction, Lord Liverpool stated, had been issued on the subject. Ile had how ever wished that some additio❑ might be made to the Act of Indemnity that passed annually, to meet this new case, and the Acts of the present Session had been framed for that purpose. The sentiments of the leading Minister of the country have latterly been distinguished by marked liberality, and al ways by a candour the most frank and conciliat ing. But how many difficulties and impediments do these proscriptive statutes bring with them, which a simple repeal, and that concession which is due to loyal and attached subjects of every persuasion, Catholics and Dissenters, would at once remove. We sincerely hope, that in this advanced age of liberality and knowledge, these penal enactments will not much longer blot the Statute-book, and that legislative proscription for difference of faith and religious conviction will at length be finally extinguished by a so hum resolution of the Legislature. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A Petition, presented last night by Lord Hol land, may well be taken as one of the favourable signs of the times. It was from the Magistrates of Lancaster against the Combination Laws. This affords another confirmation of the truth of the maxim, that ignorance is the cause of most of the evil in the world. Notwithstanding the de cided manner in which Adam Smith con demned the Combination Laws, so little effect bad been produced by him, that we stood alone only three or four years ago, when, in conse quence of some prosecutions in the North of England, we endeavoured to chew that all re straint on labour was both unwise and impolitic. At that time the Judges spoke as if they consi dered the Combination Laws the chief support of the nation. And now behold the Magistrates of the most industrious and intelligent county in England concur in calling for their repeal. [NEW TIMES.] The Paris Journals to Sunday evening arrived last night. Their contents are of little moment. On Saturday the discussion on the eligibility of M. B. Constant, as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies, was closed ; and he was declared a Deputy by a majority of 214 to 168.—Notlking is contained in these papers which gives the slightest countenance to the rumour of the dan gerous illness of Louis XVIII. On the contrary, it is mentioned that on Saturday his Majesty re ceived the Ministers, Ambassadors, and Dignita lies, as well as many Peers, Deputies, and Of ficers of all ranks.—A letter from Toulouse, in the Etoile, says—" In private advices from Paris it is stated that the Count of Carthagena, General Morino, who has arrived in that city, has fur important information to the Government respecting the French refugees, who are to be tried on the Vst of next month in this city. It is known that the greater part of these refugees were at Corunna, where General Morino com manded." LITHE TIMM] TO Paris Papers of Sunday, which arrived fast night, are chiefly filled with a report of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the ad mission of M. B. Constant. General Foy sup ported in a long and eloquent speech ; but the chief interest of the debate . revolved about the contact and the .speech of - M. de la- Bourdonnaye, the leader of the anti.ministerial Ultras. The Hon. Member Contended with con siderable warmth, that the Chamber could n o t refuse the rights of citizenship to _M. Constant,anterior without showing au entire disregard of .judicial decisions, withotit affectincg terests and security of great classes a t ! is Ma. jestrs subjects, and without bringing and dis cuss i on th e repose of a whole After M. Constant had been himself heard, and into doubtu (ion; the Reporter of the Commission had declined the exercise of his right to address the Chamber, the vote was called for. Three of the Ministers were present, but took no part'in the decision. 7--- The number of Mi.adiers in the Chainber was 382 of these, 214 voted for the admiisibility of the honourable Deputy, awl 161 against it. The President then, to the great satisfaction of the Jeft side, declared M. B. Constant, who was wa i t i n g the decision with anxiety, duly elected. No other business of any importance was trans acted. The Journal des Debuts mentions that Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador at Lon don, is shortly expected at Paris. It is men tioned in the same Paper, that when the Duke of Levis presented his report on the Ministerial pro ject for the conversion of the Rentes, Count Mollien and Count Auguste de Talleyrand, two members of the commission, inscribed their names to speak on (sur) the proposed law ; the Duke de Doudeauville for it ; and M. de Saint- Roman, M. Roy, and M. Pasquier, against it. As the Minister has the two Dukec, and may make himself sure of the others, there is no doubt he will carry his measure. [MORNING POST.] It appears by the answer of the Earl of Liver pool to a motion made last night by the Marquis of Lansdown, for an account of the oaths taken by persons serving in the Excise, under the 12th and 15th of Charles the Second, and for any in structions issued upon the subject since the year 1822, that since the consolidation of the Irish and English Excise, the oaths of allegiance and supremacy have not been enforced in all cases,on the ground that it would be a grievance to compel individuals long invested with situations to take oaths when transplanted to this country, to which they had not been submitted before. The Noble Earl stated that they were covered by the An. nual Indemnity Act, the 12th of Charles H., which had hitherto been most unaccountably omitted in that Act, having been inserted in the one passed for the present year. He also an— nounced that he had given directions for a Bill to be drawn up to make the law regular and uni form on that subject. The business which occupied most of the time of the Commons yesterday was a Petition from Mr. Buckingham, late Editor of the Calcutta Journal, whose removal from India, and all the details attending his case, are already fully known. It was presented by Mr. Larnbton, who abstained from discussing the great question of the Liberty of the Press in India, because, he said, it was his intention to bring the subject be fore Parliament early next Session. Yet, though limited in its extent, the discussion took an inte resting turn. The Speech of Mr. Secretary Can ning will be found particularly so. Considering that legal proceedings were pending between Mr. Buckingham and l‘fr. Adams, he wished the case to be decided, and after that " he should not only not object,but should desire that theadvantages or a free press in India should be fairly considered, together with those restrictions which might be necessary to regulate our intercourse with the Indian Empire, with a view to apply those prin ciples which were acted upon here so far as that should be suitable to the progress of wealth and civilization in those regions." The Petition was received without opposition, and ordered to be printed. Sir John Newport then moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the subject of First Fruits in Ireland. But the motion was rejected on a division by a ma jority of 85 -to 71.—(Ibid.) [MORNING HERALD.] Mr. Lambton presented a long Petition last night from Mr. Buckingham ; and that gentle man's treatment from the Marquis of Hastings and his interregnal successor, Mr. Adam, was discussed by the House of Commons, as it had often been before by the Press of England. The Marquis of Hastings had found a censorship esta blished in. India, and abolished it. He, however, was frequently offended by Mr. Buckingham's political criticism in the Calcutta Journal, and as frequently admonished him to be.more careful, under pain of being sent out of India.—, Mr. Adam, soon after the Noble Marquis had left India, threateued not, but executed the deportation of Mr. Buckingham. This was the main point of complaint. Mr. Wynn the President of the Board of Controul, con tented himself with saying that Mr. Buckingham had, in January last, commenced proceedings, in order to bring the subject to a judicial issue, and that Parliament ought not therefore to interfere. Mr. Hume gave a lively account of a propo sition made by twenty-three out of twenty four Directors to Mr. Canning, when Presi dent of the Board of Controul, to rescind the Marquis of Hastings's Act, and restore the Censorship, which Mr. Canning kept locked up until he left the office. He thought it a misfortUne for India that Mr. Canning did not go to that country as Governor-General. Mr. Canning admitted the locking - up of the proposal of the Directors, and withholding the assent of the Crown ; contrasted the regulations of the Marquises of Wellesley and Hastings, and highly eulogized Lord Amherst. He excited much mirth by reading regulations of the Marquis of Hastings, prohibiting any remarks in newspapers upon the East India Company, upon any person in office in India, or upon the Bishop of Cal cutta. He said he should as soon believe that Lord Amherst had become a tiger, as that he had turned a tyrant. It would be the greatest physical phenomenon he had ever heard of. Mr. Denman happily quoted the Bible to shew that an amiable private man had become an incom parable oppressor when he got into power. Mr. Adam had been his school-fellow, and a most gentle and amiable youth he had been , yet the act here charged against him, and made out by his own defence, was utterly unjustifiable. Mr. Buckingham had taken his advice professionally. His advice had peen not to attempt judicial pro ceedings, and Mr. Buckingham had now aban doned ail idea of bringing the case into a Court 1::4 Justice. Mr. Astell, Sir C. Forbes, and Sir Francis Burdett, had spoken at length before Mr. Canning had risen. Sir Francis recom mended a distinct inuir into this subject, be sides the m ore g q eneral inquiry y into '- the state of the Press in India, which Mr. Lambton had given his inVention to move ear ly i n the next S n :s tie s c ion o : Mr. Lamhton made a powerful reply, an d declined moving for an inquiry, knowing t h a t it would be fruitless. His object was pub licity.' On the House of Commons he devolved the disgrace of suffering Mr. Buckingham to be oppressed without redress. EDINBURGH, MAT 22. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. On Thursday his Majesty's High Commissioner held a Levee at the Merchants' Hall, but was prevented by in disposition from walking in state to the Church. Captain Lord NAPIER, with the. Lord Chief Baron on his right, and the Lord Chief Commissioner on his left, walked as his Grace's substi tute, followed by a number of Members of the Church and the Law. The first Dragoons kept the streets ; and the day being fine, there was a great concourse of spectators. Amongst those present at the Levee were-- The Lord Provost, Lord Napier, Honourable General Duff, Lord Chief Baron, Lord Chief Commissioner, Hon. Baron Clerk Rattray, Hon. Baron flume, Sir J. Connell, Sir Patrick Walker ; the Moderator; Principals Baird, Nicoll, and Macfar lane ; Reverend Drs. Inglis, D. Ritchie, Grant, Duncan, Lee, Bryce, Mearns, and Russell; Professor Meikleham of Glasgow ; Henry Jardine, Esq. King's Remembrancer ; the French Consul; Commissioners Earl, Parish, and Fer rier; Colonels Teesdale, Thackeray, Ramsay, and Harvey ; Majors Webber and Sinclair; James Hope Vere, Esq. of Craigiehall ; John Trotter, Esq. of Dreghorn ; John Horn Elphinstone, Esq. of Logie ; George Abercromby, Esq. of Birkenbog; Drs. Wishart, Abercromby, Ballingall, &c. An excellent sermon was preached in the High Church, by Dr. Brunton, one of the Ministers of Edinburgh, Moderator to the last Assembly. The Rev. Doctor read as his text the 13th chapter of first Corinthians. After Divine service, they pro ceeded to the Assembly Room, and were there joined by his Grace the Commissioner. _ Dr. BRU NTON, in proposing as his successor to the office of Moderator Dr. Duncan, Minister of Ratho, and Principal Clerk to the General Assembly, paid a high compliment to the character and talents of the Rev. Gentleman. It was not so much from the opportunity which his office afforded him that he presumed to move the Assembly to appoint Dr. Duncan to be Moderator to the Assembly, as from the opinion he had formed of his general character after an acquaintance of twenty years, and the intimate knowledge of all the forms of House which he had acquired during the period he had performed the duties of principal clerk, which eminently qualified him for the office. The motion having been seconded, was carried unanimon sly. Dr. Durrcax was called in, and his election intimated to him, when he took the chair. Dr. BRUNTON then stated, that as Dr. Duncan's office of Principal Clerk was now vacated,py his election to the Moder ator's chair, it was incumbent on the Assembly to appoint a person to officiate in that capacity. The MODERATOR proposed that Dr. Ritchie, one of the mi nisters of St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, should officiate as Principal Clerk. A letter was then read from Dr. Macknight, in which he stated, that although considerably recovered from his late severe indisposition, he would not be able to undertake the duties of his office of Depute Clerk during the present session, and proposed that the Assembly should appoint the Rev. Mr. Simpson, Minister of Kirknewton, to officiate for him. 'lt was then proposed that Dr. Ritchie and Mr. Simpson be elected Principal and Depute-Clerks, which motion was se conded by Dr. Inglis. Dr. FORBES, of Old Machar, said, as he had some observa tions to make which applied merely to the gentleman proposed as Sub-Clerk, it would be better to elect the two officers indi vidually. Dr. Inglis accordingly restricted his seconding as applicable to Dr. Ritchie's appointment, which was unani mously agreed to. Mr. Simpson was then put in nomination as Depute-Clerk, when Dr. FORBES said that the office which was now proposed to be filled was one of much importance. He had no objec tion to the personal character of Mr. Simpson ; but the Assembly had had no proofs of his habits of business and fitness for the duties of the office. Being of , that opinion, it had been his intention to recommend Dr. Lee for the situation, of whose business habits the Assembly had had strong proofs in his anxious research to recover the lost records of the Church ; but since he had entered the House, he had been requested by Dr. Lee to make no opposition to the wishes of Dr. Macknight. To this he (Dr. F.) had con sented, but he hoped the Assembly would not lose sight of the eminent services of Dr. Lee. Mr. Simpson's election was then agreed to. His Grace's commission, and his Majesty's most gracious let ter, were then read. After commenting on the religious and loyal habits of the people of Scotland, which his Majesty attributed in a great degree to the Clergy of the Established Church, it added, that his high opinion of his Scottish subjects was not formed from the humble duties from time to time expressed to his Majesty, but of which, on a late happy occasion, he had had occular proof. His Grace then . gave in the Royal warrant for 2,000/. to be employed in propagating Christian knowledge in the Highlands- and lislands of Scotland. The Aloxir.u.s.-rou.; 'after congratulating his Grace on his re-appointment as Lord High Commissioner, expressed the gratitude of the Church for the protection it received from the Civil Authority. A Committee was then named to answer the Royal Letter. Principal NrcoLL suggested some improvement, with a view to facilitate the business before the House. Mr. WALTER COOKE proposed that a list of the causes should be put up on the walls of the House, in order that members might, without further trouble, ascertain what busi ness was to come before them, which was agreed to. The Assembly then adjourned till two o'clock next day. Yesterday the Assembly met at two o'clock. After prayers, and some routine business, the following Gentlemen were appointed to preach before his Grace the Commissioner, viz. Reverend George H. Robertson, minister of I ,adykirk, in the forenoon (to-morrow) and the Rev. Thomas Barclay, minister of Dunrossness, in the afternoon. The Rev. Patrick IVlTarlan, minister of Polmont, to preach to-morrow week in the forenoon, and the Rev. David Wilson, minister of Stranraer, in the after noon. The Assembly then adjourned till this day at noon. Eco It DER'S REPORT.-The Recorder made a Report to the KING in Council of the prisoners who were capi tally convicted at the February and April Old Bailey Sessions, in number 53, viz. :-William Hill, aged 36, uttering a forged Bank note for 5/. ; Richard Stagg, 57, uttering, counterfeit coin, he haVing been before convicted of the like offence ; William Sykes, 22, John Willis, 17, John Gibson, 15, Edward Salt, 16, housebreaking; Samuel Briggs, 21, Samuel Moore, 30, John asterby, 34, Peter Ryan, 18, Jas. Baker, 19, Thos. Pearson, 19, George Lock, 20, J. Thomag, 18, Thomas Oakes, 14, John Kesler, 17, Edward Brimmell, 20, Wm. Clutterbuck, 23, John Wales, 17, burglary ; Joseph Thompson, 22, William Thom son, 24, James Thomson, 'l9, John'Adams Henley, 24, James Lovett, 21, Mary Webb, 16, Catherine Driscoll, 17, Sarah Amelia Milford, 21, James Nelson, 39, Th omas Phillips, 20, Thomas Sutton, 17, Jane Moore, 26, Thomas Frederick Crees, 27,-Richard Hughes, 16, Richard Evans, 21, James Whitby, 45, Frederick Bolton, 18, Geo. Thomas, 24, Stephen Becks, 19, Geo. Boswell, alias biddy, 17, Benj. Holloway, alias Henry Griffiths, 17, Francis Henry Jermaine, 14, John Corbett, 18, Sheik Broom, 22, James Lamb, 18, Eliza Hillory, 24, Wm. Whitehead, 27, Mary Ann Hudson, 28, Wm. Williams, 22, and James Sutton, 20, stealing in a dwelling-house to the amount of 40s. and upwards ; John Hill Wagstaff, 27, uttering a forged check for 250/. ; James Williams, 19, Fred. Scott, 18, and John Bass, 14, highway robbery.-When Wm. llill, John Easterby, and John Hill Wagstaff were ordered for exe cution on Tuesday next.-All the other prisoners were respired during his Majesty's pleasure. Newfoundland Papers have reached us, bear ing date the 13th ultimo. Several ships engaged in the Seal Fishery had put into St. John's. The success of the fishers had been very indifferent, and there was every prospect of the season being a had one. A letter from Honduras, dated 3d April, says, " The undermentioned vessels, Zephyr, Glutton, Elizabeth, Scotia, Treasurer, and Horsley Hill, are about quitting our harbour, without convoy, through the Gulf of Florida, and with full 100,0001. of British property on board ; although a schooner with Spanish property form the neigh bouring port of O rno a, and going to Jamaica, has obtained the p rotec ti o n of his Maj e sty' s s hip Helicon, Capt. D AwKl Ns.—Prince ROBERT ar rived here, with the intelligence that his brother, GuoilGE FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, King of the Mosquito nation, was lately accidentally drown ed. - This Princ e desires to be crowned, as vas his predecessor, at Beltze." Letters from Malta, received by an eminent house in the City, fully confirm the account of the 'explosion at Cairo, which appears to have been more ext.ensive•than at first reported. Five thousand persons are said to have lost their lives, and property to the amount of - more than half a sterling was destroyed. This letter states that tile Turkish t roo ps wilfully set fi re t o the magazines, to avoid marching against the Greeks FOR TIIE SUN. HOLY ALLIANCE. MR. EDlTOR—Nothing is more deserving of public attention than the league which some of the leading Powers of Europe have formed to op. pose a barrier to the improvement of man kind. That such is the real object of the Holy Alliance, cannot for a moment be doubted by any one that has paid the least attention to its proceedings. No sooner had the principal Sove reigns of the Continent succeeded in effecting their emancipation from the yoke of Napoleon, than we saw them enter into an alliance, the avowed object of which was the maintenance of legitimate authority, and the preservation of the peace of Europe, but whose secret views went to prevent the efforts which they anticipated would be made by their respective subjects to obtain a less arbitary form of government. In this matter, it must be owned, that their apprehensions were not groundless ; but they had themselves been the means of propagating notions of liberty and of independence. When they were aroused to a due sense of what they had to apprehend from the ambition of 13uonaparte, and were convinced that their own safety could be secured only by his destruction, they manfully prepared to enter into the awful contract which must either make them free, or lay them prostrate at the feet of their foe. England not only hailed, but, fanned the bright flame of patriotism, which seemed now bursting forth from every part of the continent. Her forces, but, more than all,her treasures, were placed at the disposal of her Allies. On their part, they will shew that unless their subjects entered cordially and with zeal into the con test, its final issue must be doubtful. Hence they failed not to arouse every patriotic feel ing, by the most animated addresses, and they fully succeeded in calling into activity ail the talent and energies of the people over which they ruled. It was truly, as they imagined, for freedom and independence that the peo ple were now called upon to fight ; for the Al lied Sovereigns had found no method more effec tual of arousing them to action, and of obtaining from them great sacrifices, than that of promising to give them the advantages pf a more limited, and even of a representative form of Government. It was in the name of freedom that they' - ware called into the field ; it was in the name - of fa‘e dom that they were led against the formidable post of their foes ; it was for freedom that tfep fought, that they bled and died. Hence did tVe contest now assume a character it had never had before. The Allied Armies were inspired with an enthusiastic bravery, an heroical contempt for fatigue and for death, which finally enabled them not only to free their country from the fo reign oppressor, but even to fix their triumphant standards upon the very walls of his capital, and finally send him, who had seep Kings at his feet, a lonely exile, to die upon a barren rock in the midst of the Atlantic. It was the revival of na tional honour, and the love of national independ ence, that occasioned his downfall. It was be cause these Sovereigns, protesting against the existing- system of despotism, held out the hope of more liberal institutions, that the people ex hibitedso much zeal, and displayed „so much heroism. It was the love of freedom, inherent, in every human breast, that gave them a decided superiority over the tools of military despotism, and proved the cause of its final destruction. This important object having been now acc6m plished, Mere was, for a while, only symptoms" of good humour, and of cordiality, between the people and their Sovereigns. The former were now in arms, the spirit of liberty was aroused, and now blazed forth with surprizing brillancy, from one extremity of Europe to the other. This was no time for throwing off the mask, and ex hibiting the falsehoods of despostism, in all their native deformity. Hence, Charters were readily granted, and the promise of Constitutions spon taneously and openly. renewed. But this con. descention on the part of the Governor, and the good h umo ur on the side of the gov e rned, did not prove of any long duration. The great work of emancipation having been completed, the tools employed to perform the task, being no longer useful, were now considered as mere pas sive instruments, which, when they were no longer wanted, might be laid bye with contempt, or at least with impunity. Strong, by mutual alliances, and closely united by similarity of views, the Sovereigns soon re lapsed into the very follies and abuses of power, which had been the cause of former disasters. Forgetting at once all their promises, and despis ing the opinions of their subjects, and wholly indifferent as to the possible results, they imme diately pursued the most arbitrary measures.— They scrupled not to revoke the charters they had granted, to break the solemn promises they had made, and put forward the most offensive pretensions, to countenance the most revolting prejudices, and unblushingly to sacrifice the in dependence of minor States at the shrine of the slavish doctrines, which they openly avowed, they were determined to maintain by the sword ! And is it for this, that during above thirty years, Europe has been deluged with blood, and mil lions of human beings have met an untimely end ? Is the human mind no longer capable of progressive improvement ? Do human affairs revolve in a circle ? Must the principles of civil liberty blaze for a while, then be for ever ob scured ?—No, no, this cannot be. The energies of a nation may be kept down for a time, and for a while arbitrary power may raise its throne upon scaffolds and dungeons, but so unnatural a state of things cannot long endure in an en lightened age. The more one reflects upon this matter, the greater must be the. conviction of every impartial man that the system at present adopted by the Members of the Holy Alliance is hollow and in secure. The human mind cannot be made to retrograde. Tyranny and oppression may for a time impede its progress, but no earthly force can its steady whichs d y Providenceadvance t o ard s ameliorationthat itself has pothat ssibly re astonished e to v forins man. Events such as those ,prevent ed the world during the last thirty years, have" left 'behind them traces which will never be erased. Holy Alliances may be formed ; a system of political tyranny may be established ; liberal sentiments may be prescrib ed, and the arbitrary form of government may be rigorously supported ; still, so decided is public opinion against it, and so much are its maxims opposed to the present general prevailing notions of rational independence, that the whole fabric of despotism must inevitably crumble sooner or later. It is not in the nature of things, that any advance towards improvement should be irre coverably lost. Time, and the events which it brings forth, leave behind them as they roll on, impressions that are necessarily durable ; and this is eminently the case in respect to the times upon which we are now looking back- A mighty struggle has occurred, and violent storms have arisen, which shook the founda tions of society to its very basis : but the storm gradually subsided. The States and Em' pires which had been submerged began to re appear. The sun of national independence once more shone serene over the political horizon, and all seemed restored to its original state of order and of tranquillity. But these appearances are fallacious, and it is because the sovereigns seem determined to take them for realities, and to di rect their conduct by such a notion, that a terri ble re-action may be jointly anticipated. It were folly and madness in them to imagine that they are restored to their former condition, because they are replaced in the same situations which they formerly held. The spell that once sur• rounded them is now effectually broken. A king may be again seated upon the throne which his ancestors occupied ; he may nomi nally, be possessed of the authority they once enjoyed ; but the changes that have taken place in the opinions and ideas of his subjects, have produced a material change in his situation, relative to them. He rules indeed over the same nation, but not over the same men. It is not upon former institutions that the stability of s government depends, but upon a similarity in the political notions of the Governors and the go verned, without these no stability can be expecte4 • _ _ But - the ,erei„ans of Europe are well aware of the differen'ce the revolution has made in their situation, and it is this consciousness that has in duced them to adopt what they considered as the most 'effectual method of preserving their autho -city. netyle, it is, that they stand forth us the avowed enemies of every form of government, - bf which the form is not consonant with - ..he principles which they uphold. It ; 5 in pursuance of this plan, that we now see the Holy Allies, strenuously labour to pre vent the establishment of every institution that has for its object an increase of the liberty' of the subject, and thus declare themselves full,' determined to arrest the progress which the hu man race was making towards a more desirable mode of existence. How long these vain efforts may be attended with delusive success, it is not easy to foresee ; that this must eventually ter minate in the discomfiture of their plans, it is scarcely possible for any reasonable matt to deny. A. P. MET EOROLOGIC A L JOURNAL. BY R. B ANKS. PHILOMOPHICAL INFTRUMENT MOKBR. Thermo- meter. Weather. I "-c 4 ' 47, .4 • -• • a, • e. 0 0 Inches May 17 49 56 47 30.10 Fair Cloudy 18 50 56 47 .05 Cloudy Rain 19 49 56 44 29.95 .01 Fair Do. 20 48 52 40 .80 .02 Do.* Clout!!! 21 48 55 40 .9.3 Fair Fair 22 44 53 42 .99 .05 Rai nf Do. 23 50 59 50 .98 Fair Cloudy of Rain h lave fallen H. B. 'e❑ d ,howl 1 - Wit Flail. COURSE OF EXCHANUE, May '25 in the above knistet dam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l9 4 Antwerp l2 5 Hamburgli 37 6 s g- T6 -- - Aitona Paris,3 Day's sight 25 45 01.15. Ditto llonrdeaux, ditto Berlin Frank fort on the Main Petersburgh . 9 Vienna Trieste lO 9 Madrid Cadiz 956 Effective Whoa 3si Etregtive Barcelona - , ieville Gibraltar Leghorn Gei , tui Malta 45 -Naples 3B Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia . b 0 Dublin .... 9/ Cork 9/ pci Cent. BULLION Portugal Gold,in Coin 1 .0 0 0 peiV ir ' Foreign (;old, in Bars . 317 6 New Doubloons - .. New Dollars 0 4 911 Silver In Bars, Standard 0 4 114 BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Portsmouth, the lady of Lieut. T. Sim' kins, of his Majesty's 34th Regiment, of a son. On the 22d inst., in Doughty-street, Mrs. Picard, of a son. MARRIED. On the 18th inst., at Dedham, Robert Whalley, Esq., or Aldgate High-street, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Georg Witheat, Esq., of the former place. On Tuesday, the 25th inst., at the new church, St. Pancra s ' Joseph Wainwright Hodgetts Esq., of Burton-crescent , to Sarah Mayo, only daughter of ' Samuel Parkes, Esq., of 11Iecic.- len burgh -sq u are. DIED. - At Cork, on his way to England, Cliffon Jackson Monc ton, Esq., of th e count y of Limerick, who distinguished him' self in putti ng d own th e rebels in that county, which drew for th the public thanks of the Nobility, Magistrates, and Gentlemen of the country. On Friday the .2,lst, at his residence in Welbeck-str eet i . Richard Scott, Esq., late Lieutenant-Celonel in the Beng al Army, aged 74. On Thursday last, at Mortlake, Frederick Seymour, infant son of the Rev. Edward James. On Monday, the 24th inst., at his house in Bedford-row: Mr. Sergeant Manley, one of the Commissioners of the Board of Excise. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sys." OFFICE, IL2. Strand, by J. B. CARSTMfIS. , rl th• Cl No "at