The Sun. — London, England, 1824-06-12 00:00:00

Painful question had never before been agitated within the walls . of Parliament.—(Hear, hear!)—For himself he could with truth 'say, that there was no part of it to which he could look with any degree of satisfaction. With respect, however, to what had fallen from his Hon. Friend who spoke last, he could by no means agree with him that the House was reduced to the dileroma of either, on the one hand, approving of the whole conduct of the court martial who tried Mr. Smith, or, on the i other hand, according the honours of martyrdom to that unfor tunate. gentleman.—(Hear, hear!)--The tribunal by which Mr. Smith had been tried was objected to upon three grounds; first, for its not being the proper one to which he ought to have been subjected • secondly for the informality of its pro- ceediage ; and, thirdly, for the violence of its conduct: ail which objections were qualified by an assumption of his inno cence. It was said that nobody could refuse his acquiescence in.the motion of his Honourable and Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham) who was not convinced of Mr. Smith's guilt. For his (Mr. C.'s) part he had no hesitation in stating it to be his ' , nu conviction, that of that crime (by whatever name it might be called) which consisted in the concealment of a guilty in tuition, Mr. Smith could not be acquitted. He was aware of that, which if he knew its character he ought net to have con eeelai, and the character of which the commonest share of pru dence would have enabled him to know.—(Hear, hear!)--Un der these circumstances lie could not consent to pass a sweeping vats of condemnation against the Court Martial who tried him, Particularly when their sentence had been accompanied by a recommendation to mercy, to which the Executive Government at home had attended without a dissentient voice. The Court Martial bad been arraigned for the severity of that sentence, and it had been asked, why they had not passed a milder one, but it was the mildest they could pronounce, when recommended to Mercy, which, under all the circumstances, must, they knew , be Aided to. Had he been condemned to an inferior punish 'Mein such as transportation, it must of necessity have been put into immediate execution, and no appeal to the Government at haute allowed. His Majesty's Government had in fact inter fered in the case of Mr. Smith before his trial took place ; for at th e first breaking out of the insurrection, when it was contem plated to bring him to trial in Demerara an application was made by his friends here to bring him to England, which application was complied with, and an order issued by his Noble Friend (the Secretary for the Colonial Department) to send him home. His trill had, however, taken place before the order arrived. In the state of exasperation which the civil inhabitants of the Colony felt towards Mr. Smith, he could not see how the Governor could have given him a better chance of a fair trial than by sub jecting him to be tried by a Court Martial. There was no malice aytetori imputed to that Court, and he thought it unfair, under eil the circumstances, to pass so severe a censure upon them as that conveyed by his lion. and Learned Friend's motion. If he thought, however, as his Hon. Friend (Mr. Wilber force) seemed to think, diet by abstaining from pronouncing that sentence be should lead the Colony of Demerara, or any other of the West India Colonies, to believe that his Majesty a Government was indifferent to the religious instruction of the Slaves, or that they subscribed to those—he did not know how to term them—monstrous doctrines which were propagated by home of the inhabitants of these Colonies, with a view of putting out the light of natural and revealed religion ; if he, thought seta would be the construction put upon the forbearance of that House, he would purchase exemption from such a miseon exption by subscribing to the Resolutions of his Honourable and Learned Friend, however unjust he might deem them. —But the Colony of Demerara could labour under no such misconception; the opinions of Parliament, and of his Majes ty's Government Would be put on record by the publication of that Debate, and the notice which this case had attracted, a notice for which it was indebted 'to the able manner in which it had been brought forward by his Learned Friend, who de. steered the thanks of the country for his exertions—(Hear!) --would convince the Authorities of Demerara, that, although they might have been lucky in the selection of their first victim —(Hear !)—any attempt in future to discourage religion or Molest its teachers would not fail to draw down the merited re probation of the Government of this country.—( Hear, hear 1)- 1 shall propose to the House, said the Right Hon. Gentleman that the motion of the Hon. and -Learned Member be met by the previous question, by this means we shall avoid condemning Men who have done their duty, I believe conscientiously ; a duty which is said to have condemned an innocent max on one aide of the House, and guilty (I must say in my conscience) on the other. He had knowledge of some intentions on the part 'of the slaves to rise on the 17th August ; this is obtained from his own confession on the previous day. I feel as strongly as any man, I may say, the disgusting details of his journal. But the question I have to bring forward for my own conviction is, whether there was any knowledge on his part that a something Was meditated to effect a change in the Colony ? Indeed it is quite clear that he did apprehend some convulsion taking place there ; not perhaps as to the mode nor the time, but I am well Persuaded that lie was convinced there were the elements of a convulsion existent. By his own confession it is quite clear that his mind was in a doubtful state, expecting something, he did not exactly know what. I say that when I find his mind previously Prepared with a general expectation of some undefined danger, when in this state there comes to him a communication to that effect which makes no particular impression upon him, what can I think of such a man ? He himself admits that the next day after the intimation he received a letter, and what did lie do with it? Tore it in pieces, and communicated nothing of its con tents to the Authorities of the Colonies.—(Hear, hear ! )---Was this the conduct of a man w ho was innocent? I say it would have been much better had he been tried by the strict rule of evidence ; but that is not the question before us. lam per suaded that the corpus delicti was there, and I cannot condemn the Court in a moral point of view. I take no farther advantage of the journal, but I will take it as an evidence of a state of mind in which light circumstances must have weighed much With him.. I recollect a passage from Mirabeau relating to the disturbances of St. Domingo, in which he said that the par ties who were victims to time convulsions slept upon the verge of a volcano, and that the first sparks gave them no apprehension. (Cheers.)—lsay that Mr. Smith was sleeping upon the verge of a volcano, and that its first sparks gave him no apprehension of any danger.—(Hear !)—But do I impute to him any view of aggrandising his own fortune? But I do impute to him an unwillingness to betray those with whom lie was in communica tion. A s - to the moral feelings, it is impossible that a Court Martial, or any Court of Justice, ever can take cognizance of them. It was well to indulge those fine feelings of not disclos ing secrets; it constituted in many instances strong marks of heroism. Who is there who has witnessed that fine Tragedy of Otway's Venice Preserved, and has not felt when Jailer and Pierre come from the Council, in which it was agreed to deluge the city with blood, when the former to preserve the lives of the citizens goes and informs the Senate of the guilty plot framed to destroy the Government? Who is there' ' I say, who does not feel a contempt—a natural contempt, forJnaafier, -and a feeling of honour for Pierre, although the State is saved by Jaffier's interference. But this is the language of poetry, and cannot be the practice of law and of States.—( Loud cheers.)—We can not call misprision of treason delicacy of feeling—nor preserv ing secrets honourable confidence.—( H ear ' hear, hear !)—We must put out of the question all those fine feelings when we are conversing in law and justice. It was very natural that Mr. Smith should not wish to betray those who had eaten his bread and trod on his threshold. Perhaps there was a little vanity too in not wishing to have any whom he had taught religion, to be brought and accused of crimes. But whilst I admit this, I can not forget that Mr. Smith was the subject of a State to which be owed allegiance, and it was his duty to give that informa tion by which the Colony might be saved from convulsions, let whatever might be the consequence to himself. But in giving that information, was it necessary to bring down condemnation on any ? Might he not have stated to the Magistrates what he knew, and what his Journal contained. Might he not have told the authorities to be on their guard, or if he had given up indi duals might not a reservation of their lives have been stipulated for ? But did it never occur to him that there was another way in which he could have served the Colony ? If he had gained over his congregation that influence which he is repre sented to have gained, might be not have' buckled on the ar mour of religion, and instead - of deadly weapons being brought into the field, . might he not have repressed the disturbance with exhibiting his own brighter arms of religion ? I will an swer that the slaves would have returned to their duty had this been resorted to. If Mr. Smith had been the man that be was represented to be, such are the uses he might have practised with his religion. On the Monday he passed by the door of the Go vernor, and he repassed the door the same day. Was it not worth a moment's pause to .o into the Governor's house and disclose all he knew of the meditated proceedings ? Twice did he pass the door that day, and yet be gave no information. I enter not, Sir, into the question of his motives ; deeply do I deplore his fate; but I will confess that I do not either see that complete exculpation which is so strongly insisted upon on the other aide of the House, seeing there was that mains animus in his conduct ; neither, on the other hand, do I think the Court deserving unqualified approbation. I feel convinced that our motives cannot be mistaken; and I am persuaded that we cannot be justly accused of lukewarmness by declining to enter into the question ; nor can be justly blamed of being indifferent to the welfare of the Negro population ; nor that we do not believe religious instruction to be the only means by which this was to be affected. The Right Hon. Gentleman then moved the previous question, and sat down cheered from all parts of the House. Mr: DENAIAN, after lamenting the feeling which he had to encounter in the House, said it seemed an extraordinary thing, that of this sentence, now condemned on every hand— which all the distinguished Members of the Legal Profession had uniformly and successfully surrendered to reprobation, -and which had receivaLits climax from the statement on the part of the Minister of the Crown, that by the Crown the sentence had been annulled, the House of Commons alone withheld their condemnation. If the sentence had been really and substantially rescinded in the first instance, his Hon. Friend would not have brought the question before the House, but when it was only ' annulled conditionally—when, in truth, the sentence of death, that he should be hanged by the neck, remained still on record, it became Parliament to look to the case as it existed, and give effect to the present Resolutions by condemning the policy which had been pursued. It was a s range argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that Mr. Smith should have put on his spiritual armour, and attempted to pour back the tide of blood by exposing his naked breast to the swords of the insurrectionists; for could it be believed that lie would have been allowed to have escaped, or that a soldier would have let him peas safe from the field. He (Mr. D.) condemned the whole of the proceedings from first to last—he con demned the beginning, middle, and end.—(Hear, hear! ) e called on the House of Commons not to be afraid of recording that opinion, 'and not to give Government the authority and power which such a sentence would be sure to place in their hands. He shrank from th e a ppli cat i on of-the term of murder. but if the Court had no jurisdiction to try the individual—if martial law was, as Lord Hale said, no law, but a suspension of all legal power—if the tribunal acted without authority, sup posing the party had been put to death, was there any other name that could possibly be assigned to their acts ? If on looking at the great proceedings of this cause, we found these individuals departing from the ordinary and natural course, and assuming a jurisdiction they did not possess, that was the necessary con clusion to come to. The Court Martial was ono of the greatest abuses of power recorded in the annals of mari kind. It had been admitted that martial law was not the course that ought to have been taken—contrast it with what would have been taken provided martial law had not been resorted to. The President would have been surrounded by the in habitants of the Colony, who night be planters, but who would be persons In the habit of exercising judicial power. The advantage of a Court Martial to a military man was, that he was tried by his Peers, but that advantage did not exist in the case of an unfortunate destitute Clergyman, stigmatised as the author of this revolt, which from first to last he be lieved in his conscience he had endeavoured to prevent.— When he first saw the evidence, having conversed with no man, being no fanatic, and unconnected with all those socie ties, he was struck with astonishment—he turned over every page for proof against Smith, for not only was no case proved, but the imputation on which alone he was brought before the Court was positively disproved ; so that, if asked, upon the whole, what was the impression of his mind, he could freely answer, that this man was unjustly accused.—(Hear, hear!) — The circumstance of keeping back part of the Journal was a strong proof of the sort of charge a.gainst e him. There was no thing on the evidence but what chewed as anxious desire to prevent this mischief, and he had too much confidence in the belief be had succeeded. Mr. Smith did not keep back in formation ; be gave the alarm, and those who kept back, the Resolutions of Parliament were the source of all the mischief. It was too much to argue on the letter as con cealing the mischief, when it had actually taken place.—. There never was a greater perversion of evidence. An hour's examination would be a complete acquittal of Ma. Smith, and no man who looked at it could put his hand on his heart and say, Smith was a guilty man. Not one individual in the moment of death, uttered a complaint against his having en couraged the rising. He did not recollect any instance of such hard measure dealt out to the lowest felon, as against the me mory of Smith. Credit was given to him up to the point which betrayed him into danger, and credit was refused hint in any thing beyond that.—(Hear, hear !)—lf th.e House did not adopt these Resolution, they were holding out a general proclama tion of impunity to all persons who committed abuses, Sir J. YORKE said the Learned Doctor (Lushington) had advised the Members of the House individually carefully to read the evidence—he had so done, and he saw so reason what ever to believe Smith to be guilty of the charge. As a petit juryman be should have acquitted him. It took a whole lunar month to find him guilty. In the early part of the Revolu tionary War with Yrance, Lord Eldon, then Attorney-Gene ral, occupied nine hours in a speech against Tooke, Hardy, and others. A friend of his observed, if it had taken nine hours for so sharp and shrewd a person to prove a charge of high treason, depend upon it the prisoners will be acquitted. The brilliant apology of the Minister of the Crown did not satisfy his mind. He thought the bloody record—(Hear, hear, hear !) —ought to be blotted out, and he should. vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Winchilsea. Mr. BROUGHAM rose to reply. He combatted the argu ments offered by the Attorney-General and Mr. Tindal, and con tended with considerable humour that they had not felt them selves quite secure on the ground which they had taken. The laws of Holland, he said, did not countenance the proceeding by Court Martial, neither did the English law adjudge a person to death who was guilty of misprison of treason. the Attorney Gen. had applied himself to patch up a hole in one part of his Learned Friend (Mr. Tindal's) arguments, and endeavoured to steer &middle course. The Dutch law, it seemed, gave capital punishment for misprison of treason, and the English law gave jurisdiction. By this mode of procedure the door was let open for the Dutch Lady, with all her attendants, Van Cooten, Binkershock, and others to enter ; but the English lady with all her hand-maidens, was shut out.—(A laugh.)—Never had there been shewn a contempt for evidence equal to that of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning) with the exception of that of his Hon. and Learned Friend, the Member for Peter borough, in whom however there was naturally a bias from his West Indian connections. Let them not talk to him of the letter received from Jacky Reid—received by Mr. Smith at six o'clock on the Monday evening at the earliest. If it had been received on the evening before, and then torn up, instead of being shewn to the constituted authorities—if it had been re ceived before the insurrection broke out, there might have been something like that sort of guilty concealment which had been called by a figure of speech, for it was nothing else, misprision of treason. But it was received at half past six at the earliest, while the insurrection had broken out at half past three.— Quamina and Jack had been taken into custody, and rescued again two or three hours before that letter reached the hands of Mr. Smith. And why should he then tell them of what had already happened—why should he tell them of the sun shining at noon day—why should he tell them of what they already knew—why should he tell them of what was self-evident ? What sort of an answer would have been given to his communication ? ' He would have been told to keep quiet—not to meddle with other people's business. He had already received such answers ' before ; and he (Mr. B.) was not the man to wonder that, ' having received them, he refrained from making any superfluous communication of what was already sufficiently well known. He had been told that he had been guilty of great injustice to the Court Martial, to censure it so violently as he had done. His motion itself, stripped of the matter that had been unfairly im ported into it, only stated, censure he would admit ; but, in his humble opinion, mild and temperate censure. What was the conduct of their ancestors on it ? When a case that was parallel to this—the case of Sidney —came before Parliament —( Hear, hear!)—did they shrink back from the plain expression of their feelings ? Did they say " don't be violent, there's only a man murdered ?"--(Hear !)--The language of his motion stated merely that there had been a violation of the laws;, in that case the word murder was used.—(Hear !)—The Hon. and Learned Gent. then proceeded at some length to draw the parallel between the case of Sidney and that of Mr. Smith. In the production, as evidence of a private and unpublished manuscript—in the ab sence of legal evidence of their handwriting—in the admission and 'rejection of hearsay evidence—in the wresting of the evi dence against 'the accused—in all these things the cases were like each other, but the demeanor of the Judges completed the resemblance. For it was stated in the former case, that " the Lord Chief Justice in allowing an account of the proceed ings to be published, took care to make such alterations and suppressions as might vindicate his own conduct in the proceedings." By the steps which our ancestors adopted on that occasion, the name of Jefferies had been placed at the head of the list of sanguinary and iniquitous Judges; but how far different would have been the character in which he would have come down to us if our ancestors, instead of speaking the truth, careless of whom it might strike, had only studied, as they were desired to do in this case, how to express themselves in the most courtly manner of censure. Therefore it was that he could not agree to the previous ques tion, rather than be met with a direct negative; for by this mode, instead of justice to either party, they ran serious risk of doing injustice to both. The Hon. and Learned Gent. said the violence of his language had been made a topic for ani madversion ; but he referred to a late resolution of the friends of the Right Hon. Gent. in Demerara against Missions and Mis sionaries. The question in this case was not as it might be here, where a matter of doubt might fairly arise'as to the expediency of founding Missions or employing Missionaries; but it was a question whether there should be any instructor at all—any means of education for the Negroes, for not only the Mis sionaries themselves, but the very Church Establishment, ad mitted the necessity of attending to the education of those un happy people, and that there was no other means of doing it. It was in vain for the House to say that it would leave the ques tion in the hands of Government ; it behoved it to take its own course, and to pronounce upon the subject as the justice of the case required. As to the late Mr. Smith, he deserved the name of a martyr, for he had exhibited the courage and constancy of one; and though he had not been honoured with the crown of martyr dom, he had shewn himself possessed of the patience and fortitude to merit it. Whether right or wrong, in his views, he (Mr. B.) cared not; he respected his name ; he revered his constancy; he admired his firmness. He had died amidst oppression and con tumely ; his blood cried out from the ground, but not for ven geance 0 ; nhe hi s d died, tr a c,y h er e s h , informed, b a t i lt b p e r e anyingfor for gi not ve i n n e r s p s r t e o ca t t h t s g e v w e h n had brought him to his untimely end. The House was called upon in tenderness to the white inhabitants of the West Indies them selves, in jestice to those colonies which had not mixedththeemm s selves up with the proceedings in Demerara, to hold out to this lesson, that the Mother Country would make her autho rity respected ; that though for a season she permitted them to hold a right of property over the Negroes, she would never allow them to forget that they were their fellow-subjects, and their fellow men ; and if warmed by no auguries—scared by no warnings—they continue to hurry forward to their own de struction, then the Mother Country was bound in mercy to the Whites, in justice to the Blacks, to exert her authority, to assert her supremacy and dominion over her Colonies, to compel them to submission and obedience, and to vindicate her tarnished honour. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down amidst loud and continued cheering from all parts of the House. The House then divided— For the original motion _ 14 6 Against it - _ _ 19 3 Majority against the motion - —47 The announcement of this division was received with loud cheers. _ . The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Three. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. MOUSE OF COMMONS. Veneris, 11 0 die Junii, 1824. mzssAGx FROM Tilt LORDS—That they have agreed to Pauper Lunatics Bill, General Turnpike Act Amendment Bill, Teddington and Evesham Road Bill, and Bristol and Taunton Canal Bill, without amendment; and to Insolvent Debtors Act Amendment Bill Brenogue Harbour Bill, Bol ton Waterworks Bill, and Manch es ter Road Bill, with amendments. That they have passed a Bill , intituled, " An Act to enable certain persons to hold Offices in the management, collection, and receipt of the Revenue, without taking or subscribing certain Oaths and Declarations." Also, a Bill, intituled, .‘ An Act for better regulating the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments." Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act to enable the devisees under the Will of Thos. .Jas. Warren, Lord Viscount Bulke ley, deceased, to grant building and repairing leases of parts of the devised Estates, and to establish, and render valid and effectual, a terra of 500 years limited, or intended to have bean limited, by the said Will, for the purposes there by intended." Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting certain Estates in Leicester and Cheshire, devised by the will of Nathaniel Wright, Esq. deceased, in Trustees, to be sold, and for au thorizing the purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the same uses." Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act for separating the parish or vicarage of Bray from the parish of Kilternan ' and for uniting the said parish of Kilternan with the parish of Kil gobban, situate in the Barony of Ratladown, and County of Dublin, in Ireland." .. _ Also; a Bill, intituled, "An Act to dissolve the Mar riage a Robert Scott Wilson, a Captain in the East India Company's Military Service, with Clarissa Philippina his now wife, and to enable him to marry again ; and for other purposes therein mentioned." ESTATES—EccIes Vicarage, Edmondstone's, and Campbell's —Bills road a third time, and passed. Lord Bialteley's, and Wright's—Bills read a first time. Co at Palr t s—ltoyal Irish Mining, and St. Patrick's Assurance Bills read a 341 tint*, ROAD—Shepley Lane Head . p d NATURALISATION—SiIIer's and asse EAST INDIA TRADE KILTERNAN ANDKILGODNANUNION Bills read a first time, REVENUE Orricas to be read a second CLERIC Or TEE PARLIAMENTS time on Monday. 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Ditto New Itussian, New, I per ct 941 Spanish 1821, Slier et. .11323, ditto Alliance Shares Palladium par Equitable Loan i! Irish Ditto -- I Manchester Ditto Scrip Portuguese Bonds . French Rentes Scrip ...... VOItEIGY MAILS. ARRIVYD. I. French DUE. 1 Lisbon HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 19 minutes after 3. 1 Evening, 53 minutes after 3. TUE SUN. SOLIM QUIS DIC?RE FALSUM A UDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1824. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Little business has been done this morning in either of the Stock Markets. Consols for Account opened at 958., and have declined to 95. South American Securities continue depressed. The im provement w ithi n the last few days in Spanish Bonds is attributed to a report that the Spanish Government is about to recognize them at their full value, as a condition in a contract for a new Loan. We have received the Paris Papers of Monday and the Et o il e o f Th u rsday. Th e P ro j ect of Law for sept enn i a l e l ec tions of th e nat i onal De puties wa s carr i ed in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, b y a ma j or ity of 292 to 87. The French P a p ers are c hi e fly occupied w ith remar k s MI the late unexpected change in the Ministry. No successor to M. de CHATEAunaIAND has as yet been appoi n t e d. The Duke de CASES has been mentioned ; but there are many reasons for thinking his re-appointment to' Office extremely improbable. The- Journal des DAats, having taken the part of M. de CHATEAumu AND, has imprudently let in a little light upon the secret movements of the French Cabinet, as it was re cently composed ; for in- boasting of the services of M. de C-HATEAUBRIAT , ID to France, it says, " The affairs of Spain,—of the East, —and the 4merieas,—conducted, as they were, prudently and in silence, would have appeared in their proper light :—the noblest futurity was before us ! It was wished togather fruit before it was ready. It has not been obtained." We leave our Readers to form their own conclusions, after this, as to all that we have said respecting the peril to which the independence of South America has been, and is still exposed by the intrigues of France. We shall not be surprised if so bare faced an avowal of his political projects, by a discarded and exasperated French Minister, should decide the British Ministry, or at re cognizing the independence of Colombia, that being apparently the most consolidated of the South American Governments. The following are extracts from the Paris Papers : From the Constitutionnel ) PARIS, JUN F. 8.-:-Every one knows there have long been two parties in the Ministry, and that each of them wished to attain the same end, but by different means ; the one promptly, and as it were ostensibly ; the other, less ardent, more slow, pre ferring r oun d- a b out an d cro oked roads, calculatin g , an d 'dis posed to displace obstacles rather than break them. The for mer wished to employ force to arrive the quicker; the latter expected every thing from time and money. The shades which divided the two parties were marked in the Ministerial Newspapers. Thus for example—the Quail dieting was devoted to the foreign affairs, while from time to time it thwarted the Treasury, when the latter forgot or dis dained to renew negociations with it, to place itself, or replace itself, in the Quotidienne.ls good graces. It is natural, there fore, that the Quotidienne should be enraged at the retreat of M. de Chateaubriand. The Journal des Debats too almost threatens ; but that Paper, in pleading first against, and then for the war in Spain, has in formed us net only on this occasion, but on many others, that it knows how to recant in good time. The Journal des Debuts, besides, is not fond of the Jesuits, if we may believe it ; and if it has espoused the part of M. de Chateaubriand, it has not pro nounced decidedly against M. de Villele, who to-morrow will perhaps be against the Minister par excellence, according to the opinion of the Rue de Pietis and the Treasury. For our own part we are nearly disinterested on this question, for we do not see what liberty can lose by the retreat of M. de Chateaubriand, nor what it can gain by retaining M. de Villele. [From the Journal des Debats.l Pants, JUNE B.—The more we consider the matter, the more we are astonished at the inconceivable pride of those who procured this Ordonnance, or their profound ignorance of pub lic opinion. Could they really believe that the dismissal of M. de Chateaubriand, like that of such or such a Minister, would pass as a matter of coarse ? The man who dared to brave Buo naparte at the death of the Duke D'Enghien, the man who, since the Restoration, has overturned a system and personages somewhat more powerful than those who have now the ascen dancy—was he to disappear immediately on his new disgrace ? All those attached to Constitutional doctrines, in whatever rank they were placed, were equally hurt and frightened at the dismissal of the author of Monarchy according to the Char ter." If M. de Chateaubriand was riot the man of their choice, they were at least certain that nothing essential would perish ' in the Constitution, so long as he was in the Ministry; they knew, that if the war of Spain took place in presence even of the liberty of the Press, they owed that act of force and good faith principally to the fixed opinion of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. His Administration had conciliated to him a number of persons; it was remarked that this Royalist, so ardent, carried into his Ministry no spirit of party; that all those who wished to serve the King with him, were not troubled in their career, and that this man, who it was pretended was so exaggerated, was the moot moderate, the most conciliatory, and the post polite of the Ministers. To add to the failure adze law of the rentes the dismissal of M. de Chateaubriand, whose only crime was the not having spoken for that law, is it not really an inconceivable peurility ? Who would have said at the opening of the Session, that we should thus spoil all the results of the Spanish Enterprise ? What did we require this year ? Nothing, but the law respecting the sep tenniality (but the complete law) and the Budget. The affairs of Spain, of the East, and the Americas, conducted as they were, prudently and in silence, would have appeared in their proper light—the noblest futurity was before us; it was wished to gather fruit before it was ready ; it has not been obtained ; and violence has been resorted to as a remedy for precipitation. FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents. opened at 102. 80.; closed at 102. 30.—Bank Stock, I,96s.—Neapolitan Rentes, 90.—Royal Spanish Loan, 6 4. - -Exchange on London, one month, 25. 40. ; three months, 25. 25.—(Coors Auth. June 9.) In the House of Commons, last night, the Re port of the Marine Insurance Bill was brought up. Mr. complainingMr.Huucp presented another petition from of the manner in which he was treated in prison, which Mr. PEEL showed to have been extremely proper and forbearing. The Right lion. Secretary also informed the House, that MARY ANN CARLILE had received a free pardon.—An assault , committed by Mr. Gourlay on Mr. BROUGHAM in the lobby of the House brought the conduct of the former individual into question. It being considered, however, that he was subject to temporary insanity, he was merely kept in custody till it should be ascertained whether he was insane or not. The House then resumed the adjourned Debate respecting the proceedings against Mr. SMITH, at Demerara. In the course of the discussion, which lasted till half-past three o'clock this morning, Mr. Wile. BERFORCE spoke at, considerable length in favour of the motion. Mr. Secretary CANNING, how ever, so clearly demonstrated the impropriety of taking any Parliamentary steps on the subject, that the House went with him, and adopted the previous question, which he moved,by a majority of 193 to 146.—The business in the House of Lords, though protracted, presented nothing in teresting or important: TIIE DIAMOND SNUFF BOXES !—A. few days ago we exposed, from the very best authority, the glittering tale respecting the alleged presenta tion of these precious articles, and respecting the imputed conduct of the British Agents, ata certain dinner in South America. The EditOr of the Courier, who had been completely gulled by the story, on Thursday night treated his Readers with a curtailed version of the original account, by stripping the diamonds froip the boxes, and leaving on them nothing more than a plain" medallion like ness of his MAJESTY !" The Courier, which has Jong beenjestingly said to be endowed with second sight, has, however, on this occasion, taken the wise course of thinking twice, and has thus avoid ed the jocular blunder of "sending coals to New castle !"—We can only repeat, in the most dis tinct terms, that Government gave no cr irte ti ems for the transmission of sn uff-boxes or other pre sents with the British Agents to South Ame rica. At the same time, however, we are aware that snuff-boxes of various kinds were sent out to those countries as a mercantile specu lation ; and we heartily wish that the very re spectable party who made the adventure may meet w ith a profitable market. If the Courier lifts the lid of his snuff-box again, we promise to take a friendly pi nc h w i t h hi m; on condition that he retains the graceful ornament of his Ma jesty's likeness ! .t.A-'0,4,,, ....4 , —,,„., Arc ~ 0: - . ...i f .3 ,,; t g - •: . ..vp: ::, 4:: :, ...,• ;,:r,r1 , i ri - etti,r_i•ici , 0...;:‘ , ~..r', . - k -0 - b,:rki ), . art'"` re:''''7eo4llf6 4 ~. v .,. ..> 6 " 26 .1 %v.,- A. ,• - „ x : , , A r:t,) , E , ''l 44' .P 44.,. .. - , , ta ~,,.! s' ,.- '• - • -•, e'; , . - 4 ,, 7 . 4, 4 ~, i i ~, .. 4 FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Marquis and-Marchioness of Salisbury, from their seat, Hatfield ; Earl and Countess of Falmouth, from their brother's (the Rev. J. E. BoscaWen) seat, Wotton, Surrey; J. Tre vanion, Esq. at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat in Cornwall; Captain and Mrs. Rossi, Mrs. Smith and family, and F. 1). Ward, Esq. at Holmes's Hotel, Parliament • street, from the Isle of France; Mrs. Lomond and family, at. Scaife's Hotel, Lower Brook-street; Rev. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Bastard, at ditto ; Major and Mrs. Mansel, at ditto ;- Bolton King, Esq. at ditto. DEPAIt T U itEs.—Earl and • Countess Spencer, for the Isle of Wight ; Joseph Hayne, Esq., from tipper Grosvenor-street, for his seat, Burderop Park, Wiltshire ; Major and Mrs. Dodd, for Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs. Orr, from Scaife's Ho tel ; Miss Austin, from ditto • R. Elwes, Esq., front ditto ; John King, Esq. ' from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Parry, from ditto ; Mr. and Miss Rice, from ditto. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. Married at St. George's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Col:, the Hon. W. LENNOX LASCELLES FITZGERALD DE ROO6, to the Right Hon. Lady GEORGIANA LENNox, third daughter of the Dowager Duchess of Rrcummin. There were nres , _ , nt— Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Dowager Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Louisa and Sophia Georgina Lennox, Lord Frederic Lennox, Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Handy, Earl Bathurst, Ladies Georgina and Emily Bathurst, Hon. Wm. Seymour and Charles Bathurst, Mr. and Lady Jane Law rence Peel, Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Lady De Roos, the Misses de Roos, Hon. Messrs. de Roos.—The Bride was given away by her brother the Duke of Richmond, and immediately after the ceremony left town for Earl Bathurst's, at Cirencester.. NORTHUM BE, It L AND HOUSE. • The Assembly of last night was as splendidly attended any of the preceding parties. The company continued to arrive till nearly one o'clock, and the delighted party did not break up till a late hour. MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAi., JUNE 11.—Wind N.N.E.— Arrived the King Henry, Maxtori, St. Domingo; Alexander, Richardson, Cape; and Sir H. Stanhope, from London. and sailed for St. Alichazl's. FALatou'rrf, JuNE 10.—Wind variable.-Arrived oil* the port the Highlander, Host, from Antwerp. Sailed for London the Rapid, Archibald, Liberty, and Arvonia. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind E.—. Sailed the William• Pitt, Richardson, for London; Mars, Williamson, Cape of Good Hope; Loyalty and Heart of Oak, for London. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 11.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed his Ma jesty's ship Samarang, for Ilalifax. LivEnroor., JUNE 9.—Wind E.—Arrived the Fran cis; Adams, from Charleston ; Sarah and Caroline, Prince ; Charleston. .1 ux E 10.—Wind E.—Arrived the Integrity, Johnson, from Trinidad; William Pen, Hamilton, Philadelphia, sailed 12th May ; and Dandy, from Smyrna. Off the port the Jason, from Buenos Ayres. Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal, by the chartered ship Claudine, were closed at the East India House and delivered to the master of that ship. EXPLOSION AT SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE'S ROCKET MANUFACTORY. On Thursday afternoon a great explosion and discharging of rockets, shells, &c. took place from the factory of Sir Wm. Congreve, at West Ham, Essex. The shock only lasted three minutes, and it was first imagined the powder magazine had blown up. The rocket factory is situated in the marmites between Blackwell and West 11am, and is composed of a clus ter of detached wooden buildings, the store for the combustible materials being about three hundred yards from the work shops. Neill, one of the workmen, had deposited somerockets in the finishing room, where two men were finishing the rockets, and one of them, in nailing up a case, struck a blow which caused a spark of fire, which ignited a rocket, and corn municating to a nubmer of others, blew up, and forced the roof off the house. The two men who were at work were horribly scorched, and the ruins of the building fell upon them. The roofs of the adjoining buildings were shook oft'. Neill, who was outside the buildings, was struck on the arms and body by a rocket, anti was very severely injured. On the two men being taken from the ruins, they were found to be in a state of insensibility : their heads were scorched and swollen in a shocking manner. They were carried. to Stratford, and from thence removed to the London llottpital, where they were yesterday afternoon in such a state that their recovery was judged impossible. The Duke of Yottx visited the KING yester day.—On Thursday the Duchess of CLARENCE dined with the Duchess Of KENT, at her apart ments, at the King's Palace, Kensington. In the evening the Royal Duchesses, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen aril Princess Feodore, honoured Covent-Garden Theatre with their presence.—Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, the Duchess of Clarence left her residence in the Stable-yard, St. James's, and proceeded to Kensington, where her Royal Highness was joined by the Duchess of Kent, and from thence proceeded to Claremont, on a visit to Prince Leopold. _ _ Married on Wednesday last, by the Rev. Dr.. MOORE, WILLIAM GLOVER, Esq., of Aldermanbury, to Miss SOPHIA BOOTH, of Bloomsbury, sister of Idiss 5. BOOTH, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. This morning, in the Court of King's Bench, a Criminal Information was filed by his Majesty's Attorney- General against Captain Christopherson, belonging to the 'Tra falgar, for having left four of his seamen on the Island of Mistagooch, in North America.—The defendant was found Guilty. PRUSSIAN LOAN Of 1822, NEGOCIATED by Mr. N. M. RoTuscumn, IN LONDON.--The' half yearly Dividend on the above Loan, which bei comes due on Thursday, the Ist of July next, will be paid by Mr. N M. Roniscnun, on that and every succeediiig day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of len and Two. The Divi dend Warrants, with a list thereof, in numerical order, must be left one day orevious, for exarni. nation. ACCIDENT TO CoLoNer STRUTT IN THE PARK. . —We regret to state, that while Colonel nTRuTT was on his way yesterday through the Park to the )louse of Commons, he experienced .a severe fall from his horse having taken fright. The alarm excited on the occasion wa s very great, every beholder naturally taking a lively interest in the safety of so amiable and much respected a Gentleman. Among who witnessed th e accident was her Royal Highness th e P r in cess those ATI.GUSTA, who with that gracious kindness which so eminently distinguishes the Royal Fa mily, immediately got out of her carriage, and in sisted on the worthy Colonel being carefully A • •c and slowly conveyed to his h o placed I 11, house in G reen -street. her Royal Highness - - then pr o _ ceeded herself on foot (a considerable distance) to her residence in St. James's Palace,' amidst the admiring gaze of an elegant throng, to whom her humane and laudable conduct had so highly and justly endeared her.—The accident, we are rejoiced to find, is not of so serious a nature as was at first apprehended. Surgical aid was of course immediately provided and on examination it was . ascertained, that th-614-the esteemed Co lonel is much bruised ; happily . no fracture has taken place. bly ein !nd irAl the En the 'he.