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LONDON JOURNALS. taill Ll' EXTRACTS.) FROM TIM 'MOB:NING PAPERS. . , [Morning Post.] e have received many letters inquiring when the Lo v - At. AnATI os, of which we some time ' since published a copy, will be ready to receive the signatures of the public. We regret that we cannot 'rive a satisfactory reply. That Declara, tion, Which our Correspondents justly observe " would prey e, the' strongest preventive to disaf fection," and which needs only be produced to Le subscribed by thousands, if not by millions of real' patriots,' is still unaccountably kept back at the . very moment when -its appearance is most nrgently wanted, and "most anxiously desi;ed. W here, the blame rests we knOW not; but :we know that in such a crisis as the present, delay is danger, and neglect is guilt. Shall a spirit of slumber seal the eyes that ought to watch for the safety of the land ? Shall our institutions be me naced--shall we hear the daily,. nay hourly stroke of the axe Sapping the throne and the altar, and yet remain timid and inactive spectators, lament= ing what we abhor, and permitting what it is in ofirporzer to prevent Let'us not Ratter ourselves. Let us not call ourselves loyal subjects, because our may be faithful to our 'liing''aftd our God. To be real, - Loyalty must not be a' negative virtue ; it must be a living and active principle. It must prove its existence by works, not words and when the storm descendS or the battle rages, it must stand the encounter or defend - the breach, with all the energy . of zeal and the fearlessness of heroism. SUpineneSs in troubled times is little short of bc trugaL. - Without, its . intention it incurs its guilt, beiause it produces its effects. For when Re volutionthunders at the gate, the Loyalist, who slumbers in his bed, as effectually delivers his post' as if he threw the key to the enemy. - Who believes that when the world in arms was mar. slialled' against us--When the cry of invasion came on every breeze, and the plunder of our wealth, the desolation of our cities, and the anni hilation of our name, fired the heart of gathered nations—Who believes that - inactive patriotism could have saved us? Who is not convinced, on the contrary, that it would have delivered us bound hand and foot into the hands of our ene mies, and that nothing 'but the universal and magnificent burst of spirit= and; loyalty, which made our people - one army, and our coasts One wreath of spears, appalled the ravagers of the earth, and rescued us, to become in time its avengers? But invasion, we shall be told, no longer threatens oirr shores ; 'the world is our friend, and 'the Spirit which' shielded us at the hour of foreign menace may safely be sheathed in that of general peace. To this we an swer, that invasion is indeed 'passed, because it has been effected.. The invasion of Revolutionary arms was beiteti. backthat of Revolutionary principles has Succeeded. The storm no longer lowers upon tA from a foreign coast: it is col. lected' on our own. Nay it rages in our very bosorn. The foe is at our doors. His numbers walk throUghout the land. Our cities re-echo with their shouts, our hamlets are polluted by their presence and their doctrines. Our Constitution is shaken, the. majesty of the throne is insulted, and . the sicreduess.of the' altar violated. Is it under such a fearful combination of dangers that the spirit of the Loyal is' to be lulled to rest ? l s it because the 'foes to our peace - and our hap pines.' are no longer Frenchmen, but to our mis fortiine and our disgrace, bear the name and share the rights of Britons, that We• are to sur render the liberties, the authority, and the reli gion of the 'country' ivithout a' struggle into . their hands, that Revolution may be glutted, and Anarchy may revel ? •No ; let the thought - perish In its birth ! Let the Loyal and the virtuous be true to themselves. They still form the immense majority of the 'nation, they still, therefore, pos sess-the power of controuling treason and repel ling danger. Let them come forward with an Address to the Throne, pledging themselves to stand, ,and if it be necessary, to bleed for its support and that of our gbirious Constitution. Let 'than approach. with the confidence of inte grity and in the fulness of their numbers, and before their mighty phalanx -Revolution will sink appalled, and Anarchy expire. • [The Dmcs.l THE QUEEN.—it may be expected that we should make some remarks on the frequency of those Meetings and Addresses. in whicli_fenuiles partake,: on the subject of the present procedure against the Queen. The advice, c.ertainly,. is as old.asllomer—that this softer part of the crew. tiori 'should attend exclusively to household af fairsoind the labours of the distaff: and Jtonter was' one, as the most excellent judge .of human • ~ Qui row sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Plt.nius ac turbos Chrysippo et, Craintore dicit. Still, hoWever, a series of, unabated persecutions, carried. on for more than. a qtiarter of a century against One galllnt and Royal Lady, is so singu lar an event in the history of the. world;'that the proceedings connected with it may well plea d an exemption from ordinary rules: Antecedently to, and during. the process against :Marie . An toinette, the unhappy Women of the Fren c h ca pital Or . , cou ntry dared not indicate their attiach ment to her Majesty . , or their disbelief of • the filthy charges imputed to her ; but had they so far despised the vengeance .of the miserable wretches .who were heapin g CalumnieS upon the head .of their Queen. as toform,addresses of the nature 'of. those now presented to Queen Caroline, we have no doubt that though the dameS• of )France might have beeA' treated as are now the British. females by her Majesty's Jacobin perse cutors, yet would the act have met with the universal applause of the , virtuous, the just, and the humane ,of all nations. Nay,,. it must be 'recollected, that it to women, to mothers, that the Queen of France appeals' when 'ln decencies were attributed to her of the same nature as those now imputed to the Queen: of England.. But the charges against the Queen of France rested at least upon the eVi deuce of Frenchmen, ba3e and recreant as they were ;, so that they could be interrogated, and rendered yesponsible afterwards. But as to this Sacchi; had the man himself been made as well as his evidence for this very occasion, (as it has teen thought possible to fabricate a man by a philosophic process,) and had he •been after wards,dissolved into his component parts, such a phantasma, which had no other existence than in Cotton-garden and the House of Lords, could not have been less amenable to human feelings and motives than is Signor Sacchi. But it is as serted that the women who address'the Queen are not respectable women : neither,:we answer, would those have been called respectable- by the- Radicals of Valls to whom the Queen of . France appealed, if they had answered to the appeal.— However, it is not worth the while to oppose as sertion, by assertion,though we suspect our word will go somewhat farther than that of those who slander the Queen and. her adherents. If the women who address her Alajesty are not respect able, then they lose no character by these their proceedings ; and if they are respectable, still they lose no character, because they address upon the conviction of her Majesty's innocence ; and surely one virtuous woman may congratulate another upon the detection and exposure of a se cond conspiracy to blast her honour. At a time w hen it is imputed as a crime, or at least as affording suspicion of criminality, that the Queen of England should have raised a per son from an hunible station to that of Chamber lain—no great advance, however, when we con sider the condition of the Royal benefactress — it is rather remarkable that two men should have died in France, whose respective histories would of themselves show that, in the present state of Continental-society, Berganzi's advancement, even from the ordinary cause of personal merit, -need excite no surprise, nor give occasion to any re flections. Kellerman and Lefebvre died' within two days of each ether. They were both Dukes, both :Marshals, both in possession of the first honours of the State, and both in the enjoy ment of princely domains. Marshal Kellerman, Duke of Valmi, was of the old nobility : the birth and parentage of Lefebvre are unknown : some say his father was a. miller, some that he was a common soldier ; in the latter capacity, however, the son entered the army. The French Journals mention these circumstances in the sim plest manner possible, the writers not in the least conceiving (such are the habits of thinking induced by the Revolution !) that they are say ing any thing respecting the • Duke of Dantsic that can in the least disparage him in public esteem, or that his rise is in any degree more ex traordinary than that of Marshal Kellerman.— ( Mid.) [New Times.] We congratulate the Lathes of London,'West- Minster, and . Southwark, on the happy choice which they made at the Freemasons"favern, of a lecturer on manners and morals. Mr. John Cant Hobhouse is a Gentleman of such known delicacy, his principles are so pure, his piety and loyalty 'so unaffected, that they could not but be alike charmed and edified by his oration, Among the numerous beatifies and brilliancies which crowd upon us in the perusal of this choice morceau, selection is extremely difficult, yet Mr. Cain might well blame us it .we did not notice one or two passages as specimens of, the richness of his fancy and the classical elegance of his taste. The great point which is established by thisaccomplised young Philosopher (for.he hap pily unites the Adonis with the Stoic) is, that the whole question is rather one of manners than of morals. This is fortunate; for whatever doubts the stiff or sanctimonious may suggest as to Mr. Cam's morals, nobody will question his man ners. - We shall not go back to his letters from Paris, where he so elegantly declaims against 44 grubbing up the old bones" of the: King and Queen of France - , for the pur poseof affording them Christian burial ; nor will it 'be necessary - to cite any of those elegant flowers which distinguished his Covent-garden rhetoric. Without goin g beyond the limits of his present speech, we find him gently hinting, that his present Majesty, to whom he owes at least a ' deCent respect, is 64 the most besotted Prince that ever filled the English Throne." We find hint asserting of Sir Robert Gifford (whom he cannot but know to be- a Most amiableman); that he ." may be a lawyer, but is no Gentleman." This freedom Of speech, it must be allowed,_ has hitherto been rather rare in our higher circles ; •but - Mr. Cam'S authority will,, no doubt, in future make it ,pass current. Not only our conversa tion, but our customs, are likely to be much im proved by this young Gentleman's public lectures: lie has been - (as the booksellers know • to their cost) a great traveller. lie has seen the Emperor of Russia go into a warm-bath with the Ladies of his Court. lie has seen the Duke of Tuscany go with all his Courtiers, male and female, to look on upon certain indecent pro ceedings. lie has seen hundreds of Ladies, in Asia, (mocleie ones too!) look at the dance' which was so unequivocally described . by the witnesses- against the Queen. Now, far be it from us to doubt his having seen all these de, le.ctable sights,: and, many others,still more gra tifying to his laudable - 'curiosity.! 'We think it . even, prObablethat many of the Ladies that heard and cheered, and laughed at his_recitals r may be eager to get a peep at similar exhibitions. But -in behalf of that more decent portion of,the British fair who do not flock .to Taverns to' hear , such 'discourses, we - must say, that their present mode of life appears to: us infinitely more favourable to virtue than if "they were to- adopt all, those foreign customs which Mr. tam so .eloquently recommends. But how-does. .all , this bear upoii her Majesty's defence ? Why, we presume, Mr. Cam means to adopt in ,the ,fullest :latitude that • • cOnvementplea, first advanced in th e 44 Leading. Journal," which explains eVery thing by the ens , tom of the Country. - 'So- the bathing - scene oit board the polacca l for instance, is to be admitted and justified ! Well might Mr. Cain say, he did not mean" to impair the force and effect of the defence to be made by lier Majesty's Counsel, by anticipating their arguments!" Those Learned Gentlen - ien, we dare say, will not be quite so candid in their admissions, nor quite so profound in their distinctions betsteen , manners and morals. [British Press.] Scarcely a day passes on which it does not be come our duty to record some demonstration of public affection to the QU EEN, and of the intense sympathy evinced by all classes of the people in her Majesty's sufferings. On Tuesday an un usually large meeting of the inhabitants of the metropolis in general was held at the Free masons' Tavern, for the purpose of congratulat ing her Majesty upan the termination of the case submitted to the House of Lords as the pre text for depriving her of her Crown and dignity. A meeting not less respectable was held yester day of the inhabitants of the Parish of St. James for a similar purpose, and in both instances the conduct of the Ministers in instituting a process so disgUsting in its nature, so revolting in prin ciple, and so alarming in its consequences to the well-being of the State, was warmly and unequi vocally censured. Addresses continue to pour in to the Queen from every parish in the metropolis, and from almost every town in Great Britain ; and even upon the day appointed by the House of Lords for resuming the trial of her Majesty, several Addresses—one of them of a most re markable nature, from 18,000 of the Watermen and Lightermen on' the River—will convey to Brandenburgh House the confidence of many thou sands of the people in her innocence, and the ex pression of their indignation at the unworthy treat ment she has experienced during the long course of five-and-twenty years which have elapsed since her Majesty, in the spring time of joy and confidence, first touched upon the shores of Britain, Can it be believed that so lively and general an excitement could.have been produced in the public mind by the practice of any decep tions or fallacies. such as are attributed to the Queen's friends by the Treasury Journals ? It is the worst and most dangerous of delusions to imagine that the voice of the people, energeti cally expressed, is not the result of strong and honest conviction, and that when it speaks of oppression and injustice, sufficient cause does not exist for giving utterance to such imputations.— We are extremely sorry to have occasion to re mark—and to this we desire to draw the parti cular attention of - the superior classes of society —that the evil consequences' of the proceedings against the Queen begin already to be percep tible. There is no evil of greater magnitude .than that public opinionshould cease to repose with confidence upon the depositaries of power, i or entertain the suspicion that the noblest and most venerable of our institutions are exercised, not for tire d public benefit, but for the gratifi cation of individual caprice or personal vindic tiveness. Feelings of this nature have been but too perceptible in some of the. late meet ings, arising solely and exclusively from the impression produced by witnessing the recent proceedings, and observing how uncontrolled has been the authority of the Ministers in the con ducting of the entire case. It is with unfeigned sorrow that we have observed in the reports of several public meetings the little respect, we should rather say the disrespect, and even ridi cule with which the names of the House of Lords and of the Reverend Bench of Bishops are treated. We have made particular inquiries upon this sub ject, of those Gentlemen connected with this establishnrent, whom, in the discharge of our duty to the public, we hive requested to attend such meetings, and we have had' the pain to learn from them, that the mention of the House , of Lords as a Court of Judicature—of a Bishop, and even of the Clergy in general, is uniformly received with bursts of laughter! This is an alarming feature in the present agitations, and surely the causes of its existence cannot be misunderstood. We can not apprehend that our motives in thus noticing the circumstance will he mistaken. We speak in 'the spirit of conservation, and Announce a dan ger of alarming magnitude, as the warder pro claims the approach of an enemy. [Morning Chronicle.] Letters, dated 30th July, from on board the Ontario, British sloop of war, mention, that in the action between the Rose, Chili ship, • bound from Choco, and Primavera, Linia armed ship; Captain Foster, commanding the former, was killed, together with 20 men. We believe the Rose is the _ship Lord Cochrane went out in.; and her name, as well as .the - Aim.of money she had On board, - are both incorrectly stated in the Jamaica Papers we published yesterday. Confidential letters, dated Kingston (Jamaica}, August 7th, positively affirm, that an Armistice had been concluded between General Morillo and Bolivar.—(lbid.) Extract of a Letter, dated Lima, May 23. " Our appehensions of an attack from Chili have now vanished, so disorganised and wretched is the present state. of that unhappy country. In cOnsequence of this, many of our fine corps of men who had been collected and kept together, have been disarmed, and the soldiers sent home to their.families ; ,so that instead of 8000, we hive hardly now more than 3000 assembled. Arrangements have, however, been made, in case of an emergency, for them to be again collected together at a very. short notice."—( lbid.) • . publish the CiacuLAß . of the Lis noN REGENCY, dated 9th instant, for the convo cation, of. the Cortes. As we anticipated, they a.re,to.be convened. after the old fashion,,that is, are to send up their representa 7 t t h iv e es t , hr... three estates are. to be joined by thOse of the PriYileged cities and towns, entitled by .ebarfer to elect deputies. This may be justly.called, as semblhiff the Cortes for the sake of parade, as thelormer. I(ings were wont: to _do _ whew they wished to enact au odious measure, but own shoulders. In every other respect, i t is were tearftil of the blame resting .on their a i t complete v k m w o e c d ke b be deduced from all their previous decre e'! and more partietilarly from the one we inse rt . r y l y he at Ct 4 On h ti a t t lati i o n na t l h is i t s s, lllll-g4 this day, addressed by Colonel Sepulveda to th e inhabitants of 13reira, itt the name of the ne' g , Government(ht Tilt SUN of yesterdao". It shows what their opinion is of the Ex-Gova n. nors of Lisbon, as they are called, their past Con" duct, and it is easy to conceive h ow they treat a measure emanating from . them, which C?' in no way satisfy the wants of wishes of t lie pedple. They already stand in an attitude i hating formal redress and security for the ftr:' titre: They will have what the laws and reasoner title then to, and again rise to the rank .of a tiatiet ; They will be no longer dependent on one of they own distant Colonies, or governed by such deb" gates as the tattermay be pleased to send am" ; them. They will have laws, and their due a 4 ' ministration properly guaranteed. Their Mi 4.l " .* sters must hereafter be accountable for the nies wrested from the starving peasant, and theme must not again be lavished on worthless Nor terers and favourites.—(lbid.) [Morning Herald.] If we may trust the A CCOUNTS f rom L is no o r the 13th, there will be no civil war. The not yet revolted, is said to have declared gill' firing against their countrymen. Indeed there are but few troops to oppose them, after the lir. fection, of Count Amarante and some slot regiments in the provinces. The tone of tir, Lisbon Authorities too , is timid and despeo,,q'' in;. They have o ff ered p ar d ons an d rewall' which no one has accepted. They have ..- 44 1 , to raise a loan front the monied men, aft an engagement that the names of the subserl v ers should appear in the followina. official Or zette. But the Gaz e tt e a pp eare d withoui name of one lender. There seems a general''' for the return of the King, or of one of the Princli to govern the kingdom in person. The Houle it Braganza must still be popular in Portugal. was raised-to the Throne by one of the best co!: certed and regulated revolutions in history—ands we are to agree with the remark of an emitsteL. • man upon this subject—that it was merelr best narrated. At all events, however Verri may have dramatized the even t, it i s cer tain he, or rather his partizans, liberated the countr; from an oppressive and insolent foreign yol'e' sufficient to invest his name and that of his sit y cessors, for some centuries, with magic recolle c ; tions of emancipation and i n d e p en d ence . I.°. tranquillity, and for restricting the Revolut to a rational system of Representative Govern, ment, the best means probably would be the r e ' turn of the King to Portugal. As for the Pr' . clamation of the Regency to call the Coil such call would be nugatory. Not a wordA said by them about granting a Constitution, A , T the idea of a Constitution is tr ea t e d a l m ost vt .A‘ li derision in the official columns o f th e Lisi' Gazette. HOP INTELLIGENCE. SotrrnwAtm, SUPT. 2g We have a tolerable good trade for fine pockets, but the midtni g :l samples are very dull sale.. The Duty i 5 ___ _ _ . 85,000/. MAIDSTONE, SEPT. 25.—Most of the Pia . ' -e e in this neighbourhood are now finisl le d pick ti and all accounts concur in the shortness the crop, many of the grounds not PI: ducing one-half of what was expected. he t veral samples were produced at our 11 10 0 on Thursday last, but there appeared v e little disposition to sell, in consequ e nce of the prices offered, being so /ow, and there sw e de , very few sales effected. The Duty nerally thought to be much overrated, anti Planters look forward for better prices. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. EXAMINATIONS ) DIVIDENDS, &C. 00° David Ritchie, merchant, Arbroath, to be examined Sheriff Court-room, Forfar, on the 9th, and in FairwestP Tavern, Arbroath, 30th october. to sion!.:;ter Donald Macdonald, grain and victual dealer at be examined in the Court-house, Dingwall, 49th SO te apd 13th October, at 19. - • • bia!k Creditors of Thomas Gillespie Ferguson and Co. SKI ° 610' Greenock, meet in the office of J. M•Grivin, account:lA gow, 10th October, at 2. • -Or ea t Creditors of John Hutton, late chemist, Water sir ii 4€ - near Edinburgh, meet in Ferguson'a tavern, Law!'"' here, 9th October, At 2. f et Tr Creditors of Donald Graham, merchant, Obatten i-- 177 - office of Macpherson and Maclachlan, writers , Gl*egd ,„, October, at I. bett lev- Creditors of Charles Pyle and Co., merchants in A ti.ocattt will receive a dividend at the office of John Ewing , 3 there 43(10ctuher. 'Creditors of James Gillan, merchant, Peterlseotl, criee a dividend at the office of It. Gras, writes there,volar! Creditors of R. and A. Herres. and 'Co., merchant?;_deff gow, will receive a dividend at the office of Gilbert !" " accountant there, 28th October. e e• g. DIED. WO' On Wednesday mornin the 27th instant, an- . , f esr °i William Nansoni Esq. of Russell-square, in ,be Vita Iti rP 111 " his age.. ..,,„05, On Monday, the 2511) inst., after a few cl a y s ; J$ On tbe 9th of July. at the Rectory, in Wes tlTl°rl3 ' ' Curtis, of Assembly-row, Mile-end. f id, 1 3 e Sji" naica, the Rev. Dr. Pope. - On the 17th instant , at his house, Baccleucb-P- c ' burgh, Mr.. George % . istson, jeweller •••..........••••••••••••• .- 69, r p• LONDON: Orinteol CARSTAIRS, 111 : 1 0 1, Ormond-street, Qoretf-square;' and' Pub" l " - • 1 11 ' SCRIPPS, of No. 7,• South Nlolton-street, 2 • 0 Or Office, No. 112, Strand'; where Adreitiseptil. 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(of Yesterday, at St. James's, Mr. Nathaniel Thornton. tooo' Faber, daughter of Robert_Faher, Esq. , Brook-green' ~ i 0 • merstnit h • Du rs t sj ' On the 25th init., John 'Wallington, Esq. of.P Use County of 01nester, to Anne, secon d daug hter ° ward Sheppard, Esq. of the Ridge, in the same cotlft>, m: