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LONDON JOURNALS. UM 11, }' EA: 7 "R.2IC TS .] FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. [The Times.] • • We know not .that we can " make assurance deitbiy sure." The proceA against the QUEEN recolometices at the beginning of next week—at lezot will recommence, if it is thought necessary to'ldd refutation to self-refuted calumnies. The eLscure JOurnals which have laboured to be !(v.:4tt'r her have laboured, It seems, to very little -, 7, ,frPloSe, when, even in the House Of Commons, those who wish to depreciate her Majesty com i.h.in of the want of talents evinced by their co4ttjntors out of doors. We wonder the knaves ;,re not sickened at, these left-handed compli 7 ts frocti those whom they wish to please : and ve't they write, and write, and write each of them much as we do ;—but yet it appears vither that nobody reads them, or that those who ,to read, only express their dissatisfaction and So mav the cause of oppression, we pray, at , ;iays be defended. ! 'rite procession front Free r;ntsson's Tavern takes place on Monday : we a~lould think it advisable that public carriages, '4U'd•others, travelling during the time when this - F cltd cavalcade takes place, should turn of into Acton road. ur Journal of to-day contains a Pnoct.AmA %lON addressed to the JUNTA of OPORTO by the ;,,)i IHNORS of the KINGDOM. Most ardently do wish for the tranquillity and happiness of the European dominions of our faithful ii ;' and, having said this, we have said all e can say : we wish the business may be r. ttled amicably. Unfortunately, old Govern -1:1e:Its are averse to making proposals—are dis i.lc.litied in any degree to lowering their preten- T:oti—till the first stroke of revolution is struck ; c.c44 then too many interests are involved to admit a - compromise. The adage says—" Those vino draw their sword against their Sovereign must throw away the scabbard." Distrust on the one •:;:e, and offended pride on the other, render ac ommodation impossible. With respect to the :.ivient Government of Portugal, we believe it La , : failed of rendering the people happy and re ,pected, rather from a want of energy, than from bad dispositions or malignant passion. But, what ever may have been the cause, we ask whether it wa, likely to have been removed, by those who had allowed it to gain such sway, but for this movement of the people ? Would not that cause, hr those causes, have continued to operate inter m;nably ? We speak of Portugal with tenderness, from attachment to an Ally which has long loved Vngland ; and with freedom, from a wish that the Government of a Country, which we love yet - hytier than Portugal, would learn to distil - lavish Vetween the mere clamour of 'the thouitless Multitude, and the deep dissatisfaction of there-tecting many—of those, in truth, who constitute the body of a nation.—(fbid.) [Morning Chronicle.] Our EXTRACTS from FRANKFORT PAPER: COll tain the Statutes of the Association for the In cOuragethent of the National Manufactures in G.rinany. The German Manufacturers, like the INl , iiiufacturers of every other country, would fain he relieved from the troublesome coMpetition of th , Ss'e who - Can atfOrd to sell cheaper thanthein sAvos, and force the community to indemnify then for the hiss they may Su Stain in carrying on ail unprofitable concern.—Every separate order would persuade you, that the interest of the na tion is involved in the continuance of its opera ti4ris, Germans, English, and French, all are Equally unreasonable and equally ridiculous in their pretensions. The German cotton manu 15,c;turer tells the farmer that it is his interest to pay twice as much to him for a piece of goods as Ise'can-get it for from England, for the profit goes - to, enrich a'countryman. Mr. Marryat, or scia)e'other commercial sage, equally 'wise, again .preaches up that it is the interest of the English .people to pay. thrice as much for carrying bad w.;40 `from Canada, as we need to pay for carry'. ini!tood wood from the Baltic, for the benefit gc 'to' our own' countrymen or colonists. For. ttuAtely for Germany, the divisions of the coml. try‘ p loinjutious . to the people in many respects, reneer'it neatly iniPOssible for the Governments, evt..i.f disposed, to second the wishes of the ma. .iiuftcturers; and though we think the Germa n s at writing patriotic songs and ad mirable philosophical dreamers, and believe th . 4i.-1, as the WOrld goes, to be a very honest 'gotid sort of people •; we do not think their patriotism of such stern stuff as to induce vi ~gals to Prefer 'a bad article, at a high.price, to a'opod article . at . a 'tor. , price. As some contradiction has .prevailed in the FrEATEMENTS received from Po aro AL,. regarding Coiitit we 'think it proper to state, that a private -letter, dated Oporto, 13th inst. *mentions 'that 'the 'troops and province he Corn , trieu:de4 had enthusiaStically joined the 'patriotic cause, hilt he himself had fled away. On the 66,.seeihg.itlinpossible to withstand the force . ut public opinion, the Count ordered a meeting of the Inhabitants for the following daYiin order to take the new Oaths ; but in the night he fled . away with one servant, .passed through Morin, awl, it is - ,added, he had -already - . arrived at Curtin na.--( [Morning Post.] W,_! received . 'FRANKFORT PAPERS to the 22d Kist; last night. They throw no light on the INTEN* 741:43 of the ALLIED POWERS, or the movements of their troops ; but they contain a document of considerable iinpOrtii.nce to the Commercial world. It is a - copy of the Statutes adopted by the Asso ciation for ille . Eneouragernent of 'National Ma ionfactures established . in the. Kingdom of Wir temberg, but extending through seven other German States. It will he seen that - One of the ehief provisions binds the :Members of this- Asso elation, from the Ist of October, to.parchase, scarcely any article but thOs4 that are of home'' manufacture. A list of those articles is given, and it is of So comprehensive a nature, that should the regulation be generally attended to, and duly enforced, there would' be an end of all trade • with those countries. It is singular that such measures should be proposed and adopted in Germany at the very time when we are preparing to renounce our ancient policy, and have instituted a solemn Parliamentary Inquiry to ascertain the practicability of abandoning the system of e xclusion or high protecting duties, and throwing our trade open to all nations. The FRIENDS of ALDERMAN WOOD put .him in nomination yesterday, anxious to see hit com plete the glorious career of Whittington, by be ing raised to the dignity of Lord Mayor of Lon don for the third time. Unfortunately, however, the Court of Aldermen gave Mr. Alderman Thorp the preference, and that gentleman accordingly taken upon himself the otlice for the year ensuing. As usual in Common Halls the proceedings were accompanied with tumult. Mr. Pearson attended to propose the re-election of her Majesty's Prime Minister. We suppose the respectable squad at Guildhall had put him down on their list, though the Freemasons' Ta vern gentry (not knowing perhaps that he was at liberty to attend) forgot to pay him that mark of respect. A Mr. Galloway thought proper to propose a vote of censure - against the present Chief Magistrate, who very properly dissolved the Meeting, to put an end to the tumult which this produced, and to prevent the time of the Livery from being wasted en matters that had nothing to do with the real business of the day. The Galloway upon this became quite unmanage able, but after prancing and snorting about for the amusement of the mob, lie was obliged to cease for the present, and save his speech (what a loss for posterity if he should die before he can utter it) for another opportunity.—(lbid.) [New Timies.] The COMMON HALL yesterday fully justified our worst predictions. The Radical party, with out ceremony-, set aside the Aldermen next in sue ! . cession to the Chair, and returned Messrs. Wood and Thorp ; and no poll being so much as de manded for any other person, the Court of Alder- Men had only to choose between these two. Of course they took Alderman Thorp. If there be any one single inhabitant in the City of London who thinks that the degradation of the Magistracy i§ to himself a matter of indifference, that man is as blind to his own interest as he is regardless of the public good. But the Magistracy must be degraded if its chief honours are made to depend in no degree on the merit, the services, or the respectability of the Candidate, but solely on the clamour of a,. mob. Nothing would have been easier than to have secured an attend ance of respectable Liverymen Yesterday, in sup port of the nomination of Alderman Heygate ; and it can hardly be believed, however incon venient it might have been to that Gentleman to serve the office, that he would have declined the discharge of a public duty imposed on him by the spontaneous voice of the Livery, in due course of rotation. The Newspapers in the pay of the Queen have regularly every week informed the public, that " Divine Service Was performed on Sunday be fore her Majesty by the Rev. Robert Fellowes." Who, or what Mr. Fellowes is, we knoW not, but a writer in a ccitemporary Paper pittS a very pertinent question to him, viz.—Whether he is, or is not, a Clergyman of the Church of England ? This question 'Must either be answered in the affirmative, or in the negative. if Mr. Fellowes is a Clergyman of the Church of England, it is impossible that he can be the author of those most infathous and treasonable papers called the Queen's Answers to Addresses, which papers not only incite the people to hatred and contempt of the King and Constitution, but in an especial manner point their hostility against the sacred fabric of the National Church. If' Mr. Fellowes is not a Clergyman of the Church; of England, then her Majesty, it must be pre sumed, has apostatized from that Church, and einbraCed the faith (whatever it may be) of her new Chaplain. This is a point on which many of the persons who have addressed her Majesty on her conjugal purity must feel great anxiety to be well informed. They have a right, and so has the whole nation, to know the truth. It is in evidence that her Majesty, during her 'travels, at first-had a Chaplain Of the Church of England, and heard him read the Service every Sunday, and that she discontinued this practice, and went with' her footrnan to pray in. Roman Catholic Churches. -These facts may. possibly be dis proVed on her defence ; but if they be true, and if it be true that Mr. Fellowes is an Unitarian, her Majesty's religious conduct will-seem to sa. Tour not a lade of insanity.—(lbid.) [Morning Herald.] From MADRID we learn that serious DISTUR• BANCES had taken place at SEVILLE, similar to those of Madrid, and that the Captain-General O'Donojou had, among other measures for re 'storing tranquillity, caused all the political de,. bating clubs to be shut up. This exercise of power appears tolls perfectly justifiable. When a political systein is new,'and men's minds excit able, clubs of this kind can do nothing but mis chief. The odiously memorable Jacobin Club exercised a supremacy over the Convention, which was a main cause of the worst horrors committed by that assembly. An impost la's' , has passed the Cortes, viz. the . abolition Of Mu jorats, or of the descent of property by primo geniture. The ancient law was supported by the - Nobles, and in this respect placed the-Ml lusters in - em barrassment. The alienability- of property ma y be as 'beneficial to 'Spain as it -would be injurious -to other countries. There, the dtvision o f property . is monstrously dispro. portioned, - and had the effect of filling . the coun try:With'nionks and other lazy or mischievous 14 . 1015. hidtistry may be stimulated 'by the,:n . ew -system, anti -may also - generate among:4le people a sense of independence.: Buonaparte was•l a great enemy to the..right.of devising property as settled at the Revolution, and caused essays, to prove its injurious effect upon _ttgriculture, to be written by some swans of the Institute. his real objection, however, is known to have been his dread of the independent population, which the new syStem created in the Middle and lower classes. [British Press.] We are sorry to find by the Gentian Papers, that not only has the Austrian Cabinet refused to suffer the Duke de Gallo to pass the Austrian frdiitier to fulfil liis mission to Vienna, but that it has induced other Powers to decline receiving Ambassadors or Envoys flOm the Court of Naples under its present circumstances. We hope that this intelligence is not correct, as it would evince a disposition so hostile on the part of Austria, as would leave no doubt respecting the object of the military activity of her Cabinet. Sovereigns were bought up yesterday in the City to a considerable amount, at a premium of three-halfpence, for the purpose of being sent to /reload, to meet the exigencies of that country, and , supply a deficiency in the circulating me dium. The recent failure of several banks in the south of Ireland, the caution of others, the timi dity of the people in taking country bank notes, and the necessary reduction of its issues by the Bank of Ireland, for the purpose of making pre parations for the resumption of Cash payments, have all conspired to reduce the quantity of the circulation in Ireland, and its comparative Value has been thereby so much increased, that Bank of England notes are at a discount in Ireland. Tlie necessary consequence therefore is, that gold must flow into that country for the purposes even of ordinary traffic.----(Mid.) The ELECTION of Alderman to the Civic CHAIR. may be considered,in sonic degree, as unexpected. It certainly deviates consider ably from the order of rotation too customarily observed in the successive Elections of Aldermen to the Mayoralty ; but it serves very strongly to mark the energetic feeling of Opposition to the measures of Government which is entertained by the Livery of London in general. The City of London has, since the Revolution, been uniform ly regarded as the strong hold of those enlight ened principles of political freedom which ef fected that glorious achievement, and placed the illustrious House of Brunswick at the head of the British Government ; but circumstances which have given an unhappy distinction to the present year seem to have infused new life and animation into those principles, and have given them a proud and flattering triumph. It is a sin gular circumstance, from which, however, we venture to• draw a propitious augury, that the three Chief Magistrates of the City of London for the ensuing year should be Whigs. The Livery would not even admit of competition be tween the open defiance of the Whigs, and the covert opposition of the Tories. They elected the Sheriffs, Mr. Aldermen Waithman and Mr. 'Williams, by acclamation, and by uniting Alder men Wood and Thorp in their return of candi dates to the Court of Aldermen, as they did yes terday, they secured themselves against the pos sibility of not having a Lord Mayor on whose political principles they might rely with confi dence. Those who defend the principle of ro tation as the best mode of choosing a Lord Mayor, pletue themselves, and strive to deceive others with the idle remark, that in the short space of one year no evil of any considerable magnitude could arise to the City or to the State, even from a Lord Mayor of unsound 'constitutional prin ciples. But is it no evil to habituate the public mind, even for the space of twelve months, to entertain a distrust and a disrespect for the depositaries of power. ? Is it no evil to ac custom the populace to hiss and hoot at a Ma gistrate, even in the moment that he is engaged in the performance of his magisterial duties, and while his person is adorned with the synibols of authority, which, for the time, ought to bestow upon it a species of political sacredness ? We are not of those who repose a blind confidence in the discretion and consistency of the million ; we can appreciate the influence which forms and habits must ever exercise upon their understandings, and we should sincerely lament that the robe Of the. Magistrate should even for a day fail in enforcing that respect to the person who wears it, which,' in the eye of reason and policy, ought to belong to him in his official capacity----(Mid.) COURSE OF EiiCHA'NGE, SEPT. 29. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight l2 5 Rotterdam l2 9 Antwerp , 12 9 Hambitrgh Altona - Paris, 3 Day's sight ... . Ditto - 26 10 2 Us. 's6tirdeanie, ditto Frankfurt on the Maki ' .... 156- Ex. Money Madrid - - 344 Effective Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville - 114 Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa 44i -Venire, Ital. Lir 27 60 Mall a 46 --Naples 394 Palermo 1 tfoi. per Os. Lisbon Oporto Mo./ant:in, ',4i Onblin 6i Cork 74 per Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 per Os Foreign Gold, hi Bars -3 17 10i New Donliloons New 'Dollars 0 4 10-5 Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 11/ ACCIDENT.—A very extraordinary accident occurred on Wednesday morning, at Spital-fields market. As a large waggon, containing a dial dron of coals, and drawn by four beautiful fine horses, the property of Mr. Bent, coal-merchant, W estminster, was unloading at a coal-shed, the waggon, by some unforeseen means, overturned, and killed the shaft-horse, worth forty guineas, On the spot, and likewise crushed-a fine dog that was lying on the footway to death, and one of the men bad a very narrow escape. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. FOREIGN TRADE OF THE COUNTRY. de( The SELECT CommITTEE appointed to con . A • t e of fife means of maintaining and impftviag „ o rt FOREIGN TRADE of the Country and to their opinion and observations thereupo n to the House ; and to whom the several Petitions relat' ing to the Commercial Restrictions, and to tb e Duties on Timber, presented in the present. s e s .' sion, were referred ; and who were also .1' powered to report, from time to time, to t he House;—have, pursuant to the Order of l i House, considered the Matters to them ref erred; and have agreed upon the following REPORT , It has appeared to your Committee, that the means of tanning the object, to which their considerat i o n has bee"..ute rected by the order Of the House, consisted less in afforo!°,4 any additional legislative protection or encouragement to t rti commerce of the United Kingdom with Foreign States, P in relieving it from a variety of restrictions which the 110"..1, of a former period imposed upon it ; and which, whether e 4 s pedient or otherwise at the time when they Were eneet,i, having ceased to be necessary for the purposes which otW i natty recommended them, tend to embarrass its operatiet2e; and impede its extension and prosperity. Your Couttnit!st, are satisfied that the skill, enterprize, and capital of t on Merchants and Manufacturers require only an op en and 00 field for exertion ; and that the most valuable boon that .t, be conferred on them, is, as unlimited a freedom from ill Ite terference, as may be compatible with what is due to pri ra vested interests that have grown up under the existing % tern, and those more important consideration s with 41 if the safety and political power of the country are luting"' connected. , Your Committee hare therefore thought, best consult the intentions of the House, by directing tw t o immediate attention to those regulations which, Wide r 0 . that the/ sol t ir name either of Restrictions or Protections, operate in I t , trolling the commerce of the kingdom, in order to esti° o f their nature and effects; and to judge in what degree it 1 , 0 be prudent to retain them, :Led in what instances (sohj ect • o e the considerations referred to) their removal or woditica° may be recommen with safety and advantage. In contemplating ded the range of the duty assigned to t h --, ° ' and the variety and importance of the objects of inveot t ; lion embraced by it, your Committee were of opinion, I to the most convenient course they could adopt, would take the subjects up under distinct heads, and report tro. them in soecession ; by which the House migh t be errati'7o not only to form its judgment more easily on each subject t separately submitted to it, but also more readily to give e°c to to its judgment, when formed, by such legislative enacttoeu as in the respective cases might seem expedient. tbe Before, however, your Committee proceed t o advert t ll , points which have been the principal objects of their inethe they are anxious to call the observation of the House tam( excessive accumulation and complexity of the laws un , icll which the commerce of the country is regulated ; with of they were forcibly impressed, in the very earlie st stage o , their proceedings. These, laws, paned at different pr es, and many of them arising out of temporary eircutristall'or amount, as stated in a recent compilation of them, I° , ► to y wards of two thousand :of which nu ' less titan eleven oo dyed were in force in the year 1815, and many additions t been since made. After such a statement, it will not ape extraordinary that it should he matter of complaint the to British merchant, that so far Irma the course in which iroo to guide his transactions being plain and simple; s o f3r being able to undertake his operations, and to avail hit°ol of favourable openings, as they arise, with proniptito Je , r e c o nfidence ; he is frequently reduced to the necessitY °.toitt sorting to the services of professional advisers, to asee r fo re what he may venture to rlo, and what be must avoid, I", e , t he be is able to embark in his commercial adventures, wil l ' it' assurance of being secure from the consequen ces of ° n o; fringement of the law. if this be the case ( as is se.„erd inour Committee) with the most experienced amongst the ', cP .OO has, even in England ;,eater , in how touch eater a degr ee t e the same perplexity arid apprehension of danger opera jot' foreign countries and on foreign merchant s, whose acgaa o , once with our Statute-book must be supposed to be 0 0 1 o it' Lively limited, and who are destitute of th e p rofessions, thorities which the merchant at home may at all time s t ioC. suit for his direction ? When it is recollected, b e sides', l OS! a trivial unintentional deviation from the str ict letter ot Acts of Parliament, may expose a ship and carg o to the o e, convenience of seizure, which (whether sustained or ad (re dotted) is attended always with delay and expense, a° WS quetitly followed by litigation; it cannot be dou bted. oe such a state of the law must have the most prejudicial 'Poi once both upon commercial enterprize in tine countr/';,-,go upon our mercantile relations and intercourse wit* Nirit° nations. And perhaps no service more valuable 0 0 0 0 , rendered to the trade of the empire, nor any w easor e tt abl effectually contribute to promote the objects co ntempl a 0 s i the House, in the appointment of this Committee, 0 , 3 4 0 , accurate revision of this vast and confused mass of legisOfit and the establishment of some certain, simple , and rl tent principles, to Which all the tegulatiou s of col°,'llef: might be referred, and under which the transact ions chants, engaged in the trade of the United Kingdorory",,co be conducted with facility , with safety , and with confiatf , The commercial restrictions, to which the in tercours e' United Kingdom with Foreign States i 1 subjected, 021 classed under three heads; first, those intend ed for °oil' provement of itS navigation, and the support of i ts s itr; power ; secondly, those which arise out of the neces o o, drawing from commerce, in common with other ref.u ll e r $4V i proportion of the public revenue; arid, lastly,those ve o eS ti l to the prOtectiOn afforded to various branches of ourdetefet industry, for the purpose of securing to them the M onte! supply of the country, arid the export to its several 0'100; lhe head of restrictive protections , to which the e. t . .,or ee uleJ j and inquiry of your Committee has been in the brit ditected, is, that which comprehends the act s intent the support and extensions of British shipping. ottr 10° It would be superfluous "to pursue the hist or y 0-, ~ feu tt , for the promotion of British commerce and navigat'°;o4o the earliest period at which the subject appears W bl v cest i io piedahe attention of the Legislature, to the reign 0, stag tire Second, when they were brought nearly to that Oa' which, with some subsequent modifications, they 101 e, 0 co Whatever may hare been the principles which dittatise; tine political benefits that have accrued to tire coun tr i g iVj the Acts passed in the 1 2 th, 13 th , and 14th of C'h°reo Second, and known by the name of the Nar i g ation in , Statute of Fronds ; it can scarcely be denied , that t 4 to re a tendency to cramp the operations of commercet'a° fo ot pede the-growth of that opulence which may arise l ido reign trade. 10 r° 1 • The provisions cif' these laws apply, flint, to the fel l : 1, of the trade wills Asia, Africa, and "America ";a a ", oc ottat turies of the Grand Seignior and the D uke-Of Secondly to that of the trade with the oth er tins o Europe. The leading principle in reference to the former:l-WV goods the produce of Asia, Africa, or America,a n oset it s rittsties specified, shalt be imported into this liiag . „ o ist IL! directly from the place of their growth, and ex:noi T o t British ships, owned by British subjects, and tfavLg t a retr t sre certain proportion by British seamen. To the ', 1 ,7 4 ,0f _ o f goods enumerated, coming from different -cotintri!t;tat,:oit rope, shall be imported either in ships built in th'bit;ol which they are the produce, and owned arid navigatelptaijok subjects, or, in ships of Great Britain; except frog ] ee litv f o , and the ' Netherlands, which are by name partialif a rit ?of From these last-mentioned countries certain arti c !" hibited front being imported into . Great aritaitilhe. ship whatever, under the penalty of con fi scatiOn and cargo. • E T " e " ntirl t 2_e_t_------..--'''. J 1 mitTH. .ii t the At Actcn. on the 28 th inst. of a still-born chtt of Andrew Louglinati, Esq. of Bedford-square. • .• 0 ....... ' . e 10.11 MARRIED. t ll' i w O O , O l Tuesday, asto,, , t,r . , S r e i Sept . 2f, ,a Tiller,t t , V ea o ' f d I C 3 rhnuortcwho,odbif rosatlietly Ann, eldest daughter of Thos.Mitchell, Esq. of th e ' O f ' DIED. f 04d tle At Montego Bay, Jamaica. in the 32d yea r ° 0 Thomas Beare Junin, Surgeon. .mati °l !l/Ar lf Alo On ‘Veilnesday, the 28th inst. of an infia.t! -- effi t's - .4 0 ' 0 0 bowels. Da‘;id Lance, Esq. of South Villa, It'l!„ , A0 0 :$1) On• Saturday night, the 16th inst. raging Tr au . at tso r col, single woman, of Saleby. She had sustained th: ol ,. V ole t c p , eight days. In the early stage of the sYmr, tha t 0 111 0$ plaint was mistaken for typhus, hut it is knol 4 ,dof:iott happy sufferer was bitten about nine years ago 1% 60 0' was supposed to be mad, and a uselauebolY Cu that opinion is afforded: in her death. so. ,c , LONDON: Printed by.l. B. CARS-FAIRS, or. j O rmo nd-street , Queen-square; and publisoct SCRIPPS, of No. 7. South Molton-street, tit Otice, No. 112, Strand; where Adrettiserotn Letters, Ste, (post-paid) must be addressed. 4 , NtrA ^~~~ 1` It 1; t; " . *zit . -41.!vied Itteve '44 At,, V44 4,4a, A.. pt., 4te4ttreq uPPSA t te c h 7 4 "re, c: Ptly 4Pr i t ' shim, p 1 t h a te° 4 to fur Si _ ti 4 0 4,4 r. 1 14 4 A:4,4 Apti ti 40,f i 4 44, c: Nit • uk r t l Tt.t 414011 7d . 04y! ' t,,