The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-17 00:00:00

NEW ADMINISThATION. The Clubs at the West end of the town, as .nay be supp o sed, have exhibited unusual bustle and ar,-,ci e ty during these last few days. Brookes's an 'White's have been more crowded than they, have been for many years hitherto, on any event of public interest ; Members who have not fre quented the Clubs for nearly thirteen years, have ',leen seen in attendance, and more than one Bishop (Canterbury and York) has busily en tered into the eonversaziones and discussions of the political coteries. A good deal of uncer tainty still rests upon the persons on whom the vacant situations in the Cabinet will devolve.— The prospect of a coalition between Mr. Can ning and the Marquis of Lansdown is positively at an end. The friends of the Marquis of Lans down were very industrious in contradicting the rumour, that the proposition was even entertain ed by him—they stated that he immediately de clined the offer, as it came unaccompanied with a proposal to include those who are supposed to h.l connected with the Noble Marquis in public life. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, considers himself (or is induced by his host of friends, some of them not the wisest, to consider him self) a very aggrieved person in the late negocia tions, if indeed the term negoti:ition can with propriety be applied to the brief and laconic communications which are said to have taken place between his Grace and Mr. Canning. This correspondence it is said to be the intention of his Grace soon to publish, as a vindication of the propriety of his resignation. It consists of two letters f'rom Mr. Canning, and one from the Duke of Wellington. The first letter of Mr. Canning intimates that he has been appointed to form an Administration, and requests to know ;f the Duke of Wellington will be a Member of it. The letter, with the exception of the signa ture, is said not to be in Mr. Canning's hand-writ ing; but that surely is too trifling a point to at tract notice on so grave a business. To this letter the Duke of Wellington returned an an - vier requiring an explanation of the terms, principles, Sec. upon which the Administration to be formed. The only explanation which it was deemed expedient to make to his Grace, we are informed, is, that Mr. Canning was to be the Chief of the Administration. The Duke of 'Wellington's resignation was immediately conse- • quent upon this communication. His Majesty, on receiving the resignation of the Duke of'Wel lington, is said to have written a short reply to • thz following effect :—" His Majesty receives with the same regret that the Duke of Welling ton conveys it, his resignation of Commander in Chief." The resignation of the Ex-Ministers at the same time is believed to be more a matter of concert than accident ; as, with the exception of Mr. Peel, they are said to hare been frequent visitants at Apsley House. _ _ `With respect to new appointments, the fol lowing is what we have collected from the best informed sources. The Duke of Cambridge has been written to on the subject of the appoint ment of Commander in Chief, and nothing will be determined upon until the arrival of adyices from him, unless, perhaps, the Marquis of An• glesea may be placed in the temporary command of the army. Lord William Bantinck to be Master of the Ordnance. Earl of Carlisle to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with Lord F. L. Gower as his Secretary. The .Attorney-General to be Master of the Rolls. The followi promotions to Dukedoms are shortly expected to take place :—The Earl of Darlington to be Duke of Cleveland. The Marquis of Stafford, the Marquis of Hertford, and the Marquis of Conynghara to be Dukes; the titles not yet announced. Earl Powis is to obtain a Blue Ribbon. Mr. Canning shares the fullest and most un bounded confidence of the King, to whom the late secession of the Ministers, so far from dis piriting, has imparted new energy and activity. H . e enjoys excellent health an d s pi r it s , an d i s fully equal to the difficult and manly part which he is called upon to act at the present trying crisis. —Morning Chronicle. COUNTY TIPPERARY CATHOLIC PETITION. (From the Tipperary Free Prate of Saturday.) The following admirable Petition is from the pen of Mr. Sheil, and we are certain it will na turally attract from the Country and Parliament that attention to which it is most justly entitled, not only on account of its truth and reasoning, but also from the talented manner in which both are displayed. If the enemies of the Catholics were not steeled against all argument by the ty rannical power and unjust monopoly which they are anxious to retain, this Petition should bring conviction home to them : TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS, BURGESSES, AND CITIZENS IN PARLIAMENT. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE ROMAN CATHO- LICS OF THE COUNTY OF TIPPERARY. We, the undersigned Roman Catholics of the County of Tipperary, undeterred by the inconsiderable majority of the Members of your Honourable House, by whom the consi deration of our claims has been rejected, again presume to press upon the attention of your Honourable House the urgent necessity of adopting measures for the removal of those evils whose existence is not disputed however their origin may be matter of doubt. Your Petitioners are the more solicitous to draw the consideration of your Honourable House, to the effects of the Penal Coda, because the County in which your Peti tioners reside, presents in a strong light what your Peti tioners regard as a baneful system of disqualification and division of which your Petitioners humbly complain. The late Assizes held in this County exhibited a deplorable spectacle of mise ry , fierceness, insubordination, turbulence, and guilt. The able and humane Judge who presided in the Criminal Court, pronounced the catalogue of crime to be unexampled. Your petitioners do not deny that this alarming state of things ma y be connected, t o a certain extent, with local caus es ; but at the same time eshmit to your Honourable House that the se calamities, in a great d egree, resu l t f rom the moral and political condition of the people, and may be traced to the operation of laws which cannot have failed to produce an influence which could scarcely be of a salutary the characte r , and disposition of nature upon the fceliug i, the community. Your petitioners conceive that the Penal Code affords an adequate cause for all the mischief that prevails. The dis trust and alienation created between the higher and lower classes by laws which foster religious acrimony, om hick to your petitioners to be the main source public evils flow. In Great differe nt ßrita inthe idcilepatrhte menu of the community are not divided b y any immediate and palpable line of separation. The boundary between the several degrees of society is scarcely perceptible. The Wealthier and more powerful classes are connected by ' ue tessive gradations with their inferiors, and the whole body of th e peop l e h ave a common interest in maintaining the. law by which they are equally protected. But, in Ireland the Population is divided into two distinct parts by a strong barrier which keep them at a distance from each other—the Catholic is separated from the Protestant, not by his religion (because Catholics and Protestants live in other countries in perfect harmony) but by the law which renders religion the standard of superiority.. An interruption of sympa thy is produced by this artificial separation, and the two classes having no participation of feeling, have become ac cluitonled to consider their essential interests as distinct. The Gentry who are P rofessor. of tlis u!..a great measure compose d o f t h e 'veer the m a .. of t i'lleeed have no influence e Population from which they are kept &launder by the law. Thus a sentiment amounting to 1 hostility, (which is rendered more or less active by local circumstances) is generated between the proprietors of the soil and their dependants, and the great body of the pelt finding themselves degraded by the law, instead of resorti7 to it for protection, are throvrn into confederacies and as sociations, founded on a mistaken principle of self-defence. The people look upon the proprietors as inimical to them. and the latter regard the people as in league against them, Thus an universal tendency to organization is produced. and as the lower orders are uncontrouled by the influence of education, when once combined together, their violent passions lead thorn to perpel ration of crimes of which they are themselves the victims. If a better understanding existed between the peop', and their superiors, and if they were not thus injuriously kept apart, your petitioners humbly conceive, that a useful moral intercourse would he estal;liiihed—that the legitimite influence which the gentry ought to posses, would be re stored—that the confederacies of guilt, which justice has not been able to break up, would he insensibly declared, and habits of peace kind of suboi dilution would gra.duail:,. ;row up. In submitting these considerations to your Honourable House, your petitioners speak with the greater confidence in the justice of these views, because experience has proved the inefficacy of the measures to which Government has successively resorted. Special Commissions, Insurrection Acts, and the other expedients of severity, by which Mi nisters conceived the population could be subdued into ci vilization, have failed Such measures may have had the ef. feet of checking, or rather, of throwing hack the symptoms of moral disorder for a time ; but the result has proved that the causes of the disease were so deeply seated as to he b •vend the permanent operation of merely temporary ex. padients. Your Petitioners are convinced, that in order to apply an effectual cure to evils which are daily augmenting, the whole system by which this country has been governed must undergo an essential change, and they humbly submit, that after the failure of every other experiment, for the pa cification of Ireland, it is at least worth while to try the only means to which the Legislature has not yet resorted, and which many wise and good men have pronounced to he the only means by which the progress of disaster can be checked, and peace and good will can be established. Your Petitioners believe, that if Catholic Emancipation were substituted for the harsh and inefficacious measures which its opponents recommend, a general reconciliation between all classes would be produced, mutual confidence would be created, an interchange of cordial feeling would take place, education would be diffused, the habits of the higher orders would be insensibly communicated to their inferiors, a reliance in the law would be spread through the whole mass of the population, and the people would he taught to love and respect their superiors, who would gra dually grow anxious to cherish and protect them. Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly implore your Ho nourable Hou:.e to abolish disqualifications which affect the body to which your Petitioners belong, and contribute to the production of the bad results to which your Petitioners have referred. And your Petitioners will for ever pray. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. (From the Dublin Morning Post.) Last night, about eleven o'clock, the premises, 38, Lower Ormond Quay, occupied by Hill and Kelly, cabinet-makers, were discovered to be on fire. On the alarm being given, those persons who first arrived on the spot immediately applied themselves to force in the windows and doo'rs of the burning premises, which being effected, the interior presented a most awful spectacle, the entire from top to bot tom, appearing enveloped in one volume of flame, bursting through every aperture; while almost at the same instant three houses in Liffey-street, Nos. .56, 55, and 34, the first occupied by a cork-cutter, the second by a paillasse-maker in the employ of Hill and Kelly, and the third used as the office of the Clerk of Weights and Measures, were discover ed, by means of a communication in the rear with the house No. 38, to have also caught the flames. The destructive element continued to rage for a con siderable time, upwards of half an hour elapsing be fore any of the engines arrived. On their coming up, the supply of water was, as usual, lacking, the turn keys of the water-cocks being in the pockets of those vigilant corporation officers, whom no one knew where to find. This deficiency was fortunately remedied to a certain extent, by the supply afforded from the river . by the prompt arrival of the water-carts belonging to the Paving Board. The dames had, however, at this period attained an uncontrollable height, and every effort to check their future progress proved vain. The floors of the house, No. 38, in which the fire had commenced, now fell in, with an appalling crash, and the entire, with the mere exception of the walls, was quickly reduced to a perfect ruin. The houses above alluded to in Liffey-street shared the same fate, as also the house of Robins and Co., situate between No. 38 and the corner house, oc cupied by Mr. Delaney, bookseller. The latter, as far as regards the building, though surrounded by the burning premises, escaped with comparatively little injury. 'With respect to the furniture, how ever, and valuable stock of printing materials, we re gret to state, considerable loss has been sustained by throwing them out of the windows into the streets, in the efforts used to saye them during the confusion excited by the first alarm of danger. Very little pro perty, we fear, has been rescued from the general wreck by the owners of the other premises. The flames were not completely got under before half past two o'clock. We have, not heard that any ac cident occurred. FURTHER rARTICA:LARS. (From the Dublin Patriot.) The origin of this awful occurrence, it appears, commenced in a workshop belonging to Hill and Kelly, situate in the rear of their concern on Lower Ormond-quay, and being connected with the houses in Liffey-street, quickly communicated the flames to those premises, as well as to the houses adjoining, belonging to Messrs. Robins. They altogether pre sented a ruinous spectacle, the whole, five in num ber, being reduced to mere shells ; a sixth, No. 36, occupied isy Mr. Delaney, a printer and bookseller, who had, by dint of the most persevering industry, realised some competency, though at first supposed to have been but partially injured, is little better off than the others. We understand that none of the premises have been insured, and the loss is consider able—considerable, as it affects, we are informed, almost the entire property of persons little more than beginning the world. The loss incurred by the Messrs. Robins, we have heard estimated at nearly 9001.; that of Mr. Delaney at upwards of SM., nearly the entire of his elegant printing materials, together with his stock of books, a large quantity of paper, and the principal part of his furniture, having been destroyed. The amount of Messrs. Hill and Kelly's loss must be serious, as it appears very little has been preserved. The unfortunate inmates, (who had some time previously retired to rest), from the almost instan taneous burst of the flames into their apartments, narrowly escaped with their lives, by forcing their way out on the leads through the roof of their burn-' ing habitation, whence, destitute of every covering save their night clothes, they were taken into an ad joining house, occupied as an eye infirmary. Three of them, much scorched, and otherwise seriously in jured, were shortly afterwards conveyed to Jervis street hospital. We are sorry to be informed that, in the midst of this calamitous scene, depredations to a considerable extent thata tin b were committedcontaining bby some 2si. ‘ i n B heartless ailk n o w t r e e s t , c a h n e d s on the property of the sufferers, particularly on that of M r . D e l ane y, a nd on th e Messrs. Robins' con cerns. From the latter, we have been informed, bills to a considerable amount, was plundered in this way. A little girl was detected on the following 1 morning at a bookseller's, offering some books for 1 sale, identified to be part of the goods plundered on . I this occasion. ha. D bl NA R FISHING EXTR AOR y.__The follow ingcommunicated to us by singular circumstanc e rely :—A gentleman water.wee k baited a trimmer a friend, on whose authority ,„„ e "' of Islip, in this neighbourhood, I X going to the whole t. length with a roach, and left it in deep place the next morning he observed tat On of the line was run out, not in the river, but t surprise, on the land ; and at the end of thelinfoi hi s infinite eli c,a ll)lted ught a fine heron ! The bird was ta ken alive, and wu In our market on Saturday last.-- Oxford Journal. SORTES VIRGIMN.E. E—N. * * * * Vos, o, quibus integer tali " Sanguis, alt, solideque suo stant robore viree ; Cos agitate fugam. " Me si coelicr . z voluissent ducere vitam, " Has mihi sezvassent sedes ; satin una superque ‘• Vidimus excidia, et captie superavimus urbi."—ii. &U. To quit distinction, patronage, and pelf, May suit your ipirits and your years, friend Peel ; But 'tis a sign Heaven calls me to itself, When, at my age, it calls me from the seal. Why wish to live ? My empire crushed at once ! No bankrupt fees! ! turtle at the Mayor's ! A King no dupe! A Minister no dunce ! Cheap law! cheap bread ! free markets ! and free prayers Why to live? I unctu was out before, And once, I think, is quite enough and more. 11.-THE EARL OF \V " Atque hic auratis volitans argenteus anser " Porticibus, Gallon in liming adessc cariebat."—viii. 665. A certain wealth• gander in a fright, Waddled all round the capitol by night, Cackling and hieing out that all was over, That Canning's jokes would bring the French to Dover, I 11. 7 EA RL B-T. Alcundrunviur ; Haliqnique Nocmcnaque Prytanimque." ix. 767. There lives not in this ample town A Smith, a Jackson, or a Brown, Who, in my judgment, would not do At least as well, My Lord, as you. IV.—THE DUKE OF :K E. " Primo arulso non deficit alter " Aureus ; et simili frondescit virga 10. Statesmen and orators do not abound, But a new Chamberlain is quickly found. Soon as one Gold Stick drops into disgrace, Up springs another to supply its place. V.—LORD L R. adjungit, Hytan nauta, quo fonte relictum Clamassent : ut litus, Hyla, Hyla, omne sonaret."--Eil. vi. 43. The iockies roared for Hylas, But Hylas was away. The jockies sought for Hylas, They sought him night and day. But go ye to his stable, Dig deep beneath the ground, And there, with all his teeth drawn out, Poor Hylas will be :our.d. .6 Vestra, inquit, munera robin " Certa manent, pucri, et palmam movet ordine noun". " Me liceat casus miscreri insontis amici."—v. tis. Heaven prosper Cauning's noble views For England's weal and George's glory, But , janning's self may well excuse The little twinge we feel to lose One courteous, knowing, honest Tory. " lfei mihi, qualiseratiquantum mutates ab illo " liectore, qui redit exurias indutul Achillis."—li. V 74. Ungrateful, sullen, savage, cold, The people's scorn, the army's hate, Can this be he, the wise, the bold, The loved, the feared, the good, the great ; Whom Majesty rejoiced to see A constant guest at the Pavilion, Whom Parliament was proud to fee With a small present of a million ? VIII.—M E. " 0 fortunatse };enter, Saturnia regna, " Antiqui Auxonii ; glue yes fortuna quietos " suadetque ignota lacessere bells 2JI. What fiend, my Lord, in Eldon's shape, Enticed you into such a serape ? What has a shrewd old Scot like you With such an idle brawl to do? How would your cunning father stare To see such madness in his heir! For shame ! Renounce this strange grimace, Think on the real delights of place. To rule each trade and each profession, Each Dean of Guild and Lord of Session; To fill the maws and clothe the backs Of fifteen hundred fawning Macs; To pension all the lads and lasses Of Hags and Drummonds and Dundasses, And deal commissions round by dozens Through high-checked rows of twentieth cousins. IX.—LORD B—Y. " Fortunate senex! ergo tua rura manebunt : Et tibi magna 'tabs ; gum:olds lapis omnia nuclus, Limosoque palus obducat p.ascua junco : " Non insucta graves tentabunt pabula Was, " Nec mala vicini pecoris contagia Imdent."—Ecl. 1. 47. Thrice fortunate old roan, to thee :den) The griefs which rack thy brethren are unknown, While Melville's heart becomes a heavier load Ptt en•ery stage alons the Northern t oad ; While Eldon, tortured by paternal fears, Count.e the small savings of labor loos years, Plans a secure escape from duns and gaols To some cheap cot in Devon or in Wales, And hopes, by frugal care, in that retreat, With small assistance, to make both ends meet, Thou with unchanged effulgence still wilt shine, Thine is the council, and the levee thine ; Still shall thy heart beat higher at the ray Which gilds the auspicious morn of quarter-day. With that meek voice that would not scare a mouse Still shalt thou lull the murmurs of the House, In mannn gentle as in matter bold, Shalt prove old rags equivalent to gold, Or for fresh measures of dead weight shalt call. Thyself, Heaven knows, the deadest weight of all. Times. Died, on the 16th ult. at Torr, in the parish of Berwick, aged 84 sears, Mrs. Nicol or Sarah Cairns, relict of the late Mr. William Nicol, some time one of the teachers in the High School of Edinburgh, cue of the friends and correspondents of Borne, and the subject of the gong beginning " Willie brewed a peck o' matit."— Glas gow Paper. A SOLDIER'S HO SOR.--:There was last Tuesday a show of a very different character, though suffi ciently attractive to fill St. Matthew's church-yard with a dense crowd of spectators, it was a Soldier's Funeral, but under very extraordinary circumstances : indeed the story connected with that funeral is as melancholy a one as ever was told. The deceased was Serjeant-Major in the 10th Hussars, a detachment of which regiment ie now in Ipswich barracks. Twenty-five years ago he enlisted into the regiment, he was than quite a youth, and had been living in the service of a Nobleman, who unfortunately had a quan tity of plate stolen from him. This lad was accused of the robbery, and taken up on suspicion ; he protested his in nocence, but appearances were so strongly against him, that every one believed him guilty, and so did his master; but as the crime would have affected his life, and the nobleman felt a regard for the youth, and great feeling towards his pa rents who were worthy and respectable in their humble life, he would not prosecute, but told the lad he could not of course retain him in his service or recommend him to any other, hut that he must either go to sea, or enlist for a soldier in some regiment going abroa4 ; that he (the nobleman) would not lose sight of him, so that if he con ducted himself with steadiness and integrity, he would still be a friend to him. About a year or two after he had become a soldier, a female servant in the Nobleman's family died, and on her death-bed confessed that she had stolen the plate, and that the lad who had been accused of the theft was not only perfectly innocent of it, but unconscious of any circumstances relating to the transac tion. The Nobleman then immediately wrote to the Colo nel of the regiment stating all these facts, and particularly intreating every favour for the soldier ; who was imme diately promoted, and as quickly as possible run up to the rank of serjeent-major, which is as high as a non-commis sioned officer can be ; and when his old master died, he left him an annuity of 501. a year. The man was respected by his officers, and generally liked ; but who in this world is free from scandal ? who is there that the cruel shafts of envy, hatred, and malice, will not sometimes pierce ? About a fortnight ago; this man was accused of unfair dealing with the corn for the horses, which came under his charge, and he was threatened with a court-martial. He would have been acquitted upon investigation, for he was innocent ; but the consciousness of this was not sufficient to support him; his conduct has been irreproachable, and with the sensitive feelings of honour of a soldier he shuddered at the thought of being publicly tried on a charge of dishonesty : it re vived in his mind all that he had suffered in hie youth ; he felt as if doomed to he the victim of false accusation.— This preyed upon his spirits so as to drive him at last to distraction; and in that state the poor fellow o n Sunday morning went into the barrack store where the corn is kept, arid L. w Lis brains out ! On Tuesday he was buried in St. Matthew's church-yard, where the soldiers always are buried, and the officers of the regiment being determined that the last sad act should not cancel the good conduct of a whole life, and deprive him of a soldier's last honours, (though unconscious of them,) ordered his funeral to be as pompous as possible, consistent with his humble rank. The whole corps and full band attended ; his horse was led tothe side gray! ; the poor animal bore his accou trements allof the e red with bl ac k crape , an d was itself i com pletely draperied with sable decorations ; after the service was read, and the body lowered into the grave, and the ceremony of firing over concluded, the pistol with which he destroyed himself was thrown in and buried with him. --he has left a widow and two claildren.....-Bath Pape. VOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile, dated Sunday, April 13.) PARIS, APRIL 11.—The Florence Gazette an nounces, without answering for the authenticity of the news, that Lord Cochrane has arrived on the coast of the Morea, and that Athena is free. Three slight shocks of an earthquake were felt at Venice on the Ist of April. Among the passengers who hare embarked on board the frigate La Guerrieri, which has sailed from Marseilles for Alexandria, is M. Bosanquet Deschamps, who, it is said, intends to undertake an expedition into the interior of Africa. (From the Pilote of Saturday, April 11.) LETTER FROM BERLIN. (FRIVATE CORRESFONDENCr.%) We impatiently expect the c onfirmation of the peace between Russia and Persia, whieli has been announced by several Journals. It is, undoubtedly, the interest of a great European Power that the peace should not be too unfavourable to the Court of Teheran. This Power, whose interest might be endangered, if the war in that part of Asia were to be protracted, will not fail to set its agents to work, in order that Russia may not reap all the advantages which are insured to it by the great superiority of a numerous and well-disciplined ,army over undis ciplined bands, which are more calculated to plun der than to fight. Whatever he the consequences of this war, we have learnt from a superior officer, in the service of the Emperor Nicholas, that that Sovereign has manifested his firm resolution not to listen to any proposals till he has obtained, as the basis of the negotiation, Erivan, and the line of the Araxa, as the boundary of the Russian Empire.— Alexander gave up this position by the Treaty of Gulistan in 1803, only because more important in terests drew his attention to the affairs of Europe. Thus, this war, which began with an unexpected provocation, and under auspices at first not very favourable to Russia, cannot fail to procure great advantages to that empire, by extending the com mercial intercourse already subsisting between Tiflis, Persia, and India, and by the acquisition of a country adapted to the cultivation of all the produc tions of hot climates. PARIS, APRIL I3,—A letter from Odessa of a recent date, says, that the Russian army of Bessa rabia, which, since the ratification of the treaty of Akerman, had withdrawn its advanced posts from the Prlth, has just placed them there again. The reason of this measure may be easily guessed, when it is known that partial insurrections have broken out in several parts of the Principalities. This letter adds, that it is not believed at Odessa that the Russians will permit the Ottoman troops, with drawn to the other side of the Danube,to repass that river, if they should attempt it even to restore order. It is said that Austria will have on foot two ar mies of Observation, of 60,000 men each, one of which will be placed in Italy, the other in Transyl vania. Several regiments have already set out from Bohemia for Italy, where the army will be com manded by Generals Rousseau, Trap, and Leopart, who have just been promoted to the rank of Lieu tenants-General. It is thought that the army in Transylvania is to support Russia, in case the Porte refuses the pacification of Greece. It is said that the Empress of Austria is to be crowned next month, at Prague, as Queen of Bo hemia. In case of the death of her Imperial Con sort, she will enjoy the revenues attached to the rank of Queen Dowager of Austria. The King of Sardinia has issued an ordinance, by virtue of which his Catholic Piedmontese subjects, who die without having received the sacrament, shall not be buried except in the night, and in un consecrated ground. By the same ordinance, the burial of every Piedmontese Protestant shall take place without any public ceremony, and no more than twelve individuals of the same religion shall at tend it. (From the Quotidiennc.) PARIS, APRIL 13.—Yesterday, in the evening, the President of the Council of Ministers, and the Baron de Dainas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, trans acted business; with the King. While M. D'Ofalia is negotiating, in the name of King Ferdinand, the evacuation of Portugal by the English troops, Spain is every day assuming a more warlike attitude. A numerous army supports, on the frontiers of Portugal, the notes which the Spanish diplomatist draws up at Paris. It is not easy to predict the issue of this negotiation ; but hitherto every thing leads us to suppose that Spain, thanks to the energy she displays, will obtain the sa tisfaction which she has the courage to demand with arms in her hand. (From the Constitxtionnel.) (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) MADRID, APRIL 2.—The city of Malaga has all but been the theatre of a popular commotion which might have had troublesome results. The facts are as follow : The Presidio: (places for confuting galley slaves) of Malaga contain at this moment more than four thousand galley slaves. As they have had no rai ment given them for the last four years, the greater number of them were in a most indecent state of nudity; they were lodged in stables, heaped one upon another, and frequently in want even of the coarse food which Government allows them. A con tagious fever, which is called in Spain carcelera (gaol-fever—typhus), which had attacked some of them, began to spread, and caused the death of a great many of these miserable beings. The autho rities and people of Malaga began to dread its be coming epidemic; they sent an express to Madrid to demand from the Ministry succour for these slaves. The Ministry, with their usual slowness, put off to another time the consideration of this business ; but the people of Malaga meanwhile began to assemble in the streets, and their intention was to set the galley slaves at liberty. The In tendant of Grenada, informed of this, came post im mediately to Malaga, assembled the principal mer chants of the cit-, and prevailed on them to assess themselves, for the purpose of advancing to Govern ment the funds necessary for clothing and nourish ing the slaves. This assessment was made, and each galley slave received a shirt end a pair of trousers of linen. While this was going on, Go vernment sent orders to the Military Intendant of Malaga to reimburse, by partial payments, the mer chants of the city. Two thousand slaves were taken from the Presidio:, and sent to the public works, and by this means the people of Malaga have been restored to order. (EXTRACT PROM A PRIVATE LETTER.) PERPIGNAs, APRIL 7.—The bands which hays been formed on the Segre menace Seu d'Urgel; the post which that garrison had established at -Marti net, has been obliged to withdraw, and two hundred men from the garrison of Mont-Louis, have set out to reinforce those of Seu. A proclamation has b een ma d e i n t h e corregi miento of Fignerea, stating, that all individuals of *hat state soever they may be, who shall be taken with arms in their hands, shall be shot immediately. The proclamation has produced a great sensation,, and the number of those who give up their arms, daily augments. The Governor of Gerona has de mended of the Capt a i n -G enera l e n augmentation t o h which c ou ld not b e g ranted to him, th ere e We are inf orme d that ris the o Governor was told, that if he saw fit to ask for French troops, no opposition would be offered to their entry into th e place. Tortosa has s u ff ere d a violent crisis. Th e h o uses of the Constitu tionalists have b een p l un d e red —the G overnor h as are so troops few s , troop s i n C ata l on i a . been obliged to retire into the fort with the handful of troops at his disposal, and the Constitutionalists, whom he received to save them from the general which had been projected. He informed the massacre Captain-G enera l of his condition, and requested succour, and two battalions of Spanish infantry of the line, about 1,200 m en s t rong , th a t were in guar ' ters at San Andero, near Barcelona, have been sent in detachments to the most important points; one of these has marched to Tortosa. FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. FETERSBUEGFI, MARCH 3J.—Three months, 10. LEIPSIC, APRIL 9.—Three months, 6. 17N. BERLIN, APRIL 1 0.—Three months, 6. 491 i. VIENNA, APRIL 4.—Three Months, 10. Ott, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1627. The Ministerial Arrangements are in rapid progress ; but the several Patents of Appoint ment will not be out for some days, and there fore it has bees► arranged, that the change shall take place at each office on the tot May. The Marquis of ANGLESEA has accepted the Master Generalship of the Ordnance, and des patches have been sent to the Duke of CAM BRIDGE, renewing the offer to his Royal High ness of the Office of Commander in Chief. The Law appointments are not yet arranged, but the Solicitor-General, Sir N. C. TINDAL, has given in his adhesion to Mr. CANNING'S Administration. Mr. 'WALLACE and Sir C. ARBUTHNOT have resigned. We understand that it has now been arranged that Sir GEORGE CLERK is, as well as his present Colleagues, to remain at the Admiralty, as one of the Council of his Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral. The retirement of Viscount MELVILLE is, perhaps, the least comprehensible among the recent secessions ; and it is that which will pro duce the greatest changes in the machinery of Government. The re-modelling of the Constitu tion of the Admiralty has already been hailed with general applause. Let us fervently hope, as in deed we cordially anticipate, that the spirit which animated the official life of the Duke of YORK, will rest on his illustrious Brother ; and the result will be the accession, on the one hand, of new credit to Royalty, and, on the other, of added lustre to the mural crown of Great Britain. The meteor, flag will certainly lose nothing of its brilliancy by being surmount ed with— The sparkling crest ' Of Clarence's Plantagenet.' . There is, however, room, if not necessity, for another change, little less important ;—a change, not indeed respecting the system of the Admi ralty, but respecting one of the appendant arrange ments of the late Board. We allude to the dis tribution of the Patronage of Scotland. No part of the organization of the Government during recent years has occasioned more surprise, or yielded less satisfaction, than the annexation of the greater part of the most valuable appoint ments connected with the northern division of the Kingdom, appointments of all sorts and sizes, civil, fiscal, financial, ecclesiastical, military,—to the person of the First Lord of the Admiralty. For ourselves, we have been as greatly perplexed to discover the reasons of this arrangement, as we remember to have been perplexed, in the juvenile days of our introduction to the study of classical mythology, to understand why King Neptune, instead of being content with his innumerable stud of sea-horses, should also have been worshipped as the great patron of coursers of terrestrial race. There was no reason, no fitness, not even any meaning, in at taching an entire division of the national patron age, not to an office, but to an individual;—in bestowing it, as a pocket-privilege, a sort of pa tronage in gross, on the ministerial head of the naval department. It would be just as intelligible an arrangement, that the Archbishop ofCANTER BURY should have the power of appointing one of the corporals in every grenadier-corps of our army, while serving on the coast of Coromandel, or that his Majesty's principal Physician in ordinary should be complimented with the per quisite of nominating all the tide-waiters in the province of Connaught. There was, however, a cause, though not what can properly be called a reason, for the arrange ment in question.- The privilege came to Lord MELVILLE as an heir-loom from one, to whose memory he may well recur with reverence and with affection. The very circumstance however of Lord MELVILLE'S connexion with Scot land, constituted the chief objection. It is true is a small provided that calumny has ascribed to him a partiality in the disposal of his Scottish patronage, from which we believe him to have been in a great measure free. But it is not fitting that there should be any colour for such an t i countrys appointments. every Scot Scotland,ofsgentleew ha t besides, bloodl imputation ; and colour for it there e a v lw el - a:" will be, while a native of Scotland, merely of Scotland ; as such, has the exclusive disposal of all Scot with a number the but weed honest o of soils.—There fore, les°. substantive portion of the gentry ar s e circum ference if he has places to give, will find no want of applicants within the — tlai T id h , er a e- s of his domestic circle. of relatives, constituting Seventh-cousin iit is o n short, is f all poor fore, if the whole patronage of the country is to be thrown into the lap of any one Minister, mere ly as an individual, the very last person to be se l e cted for the benefit is a native of Scotland. On this subject, some new arrangement will now, we conceive, be adopted. Either let there be a Minister for Scotland, who shall regularly watch over heri t n crests and dispense her places; or, let the patronage, as well as the duty, flow, as it naturally would, into the hands of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. We were in no small doubt for some time, as to what step the Law Officers of the Crown might deem it their duty to take, under the Com bination Laws, in consequence of the late Strike by the Members of his MAJESTY'S Cabinet. But the participation of one of those Gentlemen in the crime, must make it a still more delicate and dif ficult task for the Solicitor-General to commence proceedings against those distinguished con spirators. Indeed, we have been informed, that conviction would be almost impossible—the i ro se m ve t r l e te r apparently never con templated the possibility framer s ai o i 3f. professionbt ü b t e 0 I p a t v roa hav in gtwivhe of such conduct on the i s e i a i n t d h es mechanics—the person s belonged par "'tie:itin:a-1r thereby exempted from the pains and penalties to which the humbler classes of s ociety pthaoinusghofth law,ei r ra n k rr e are liable when guilty of similar' conduct. But dmouaybt pwrhotesthcterthaemstil punishment does not await them in the contetti and indignation of their countrymen,---contemi at the pitiful spirit which such conduct display and indignation at the insult which they hal presumed to offer to their Sovereign and Bent 3 ' factor. This is the language of almost every indis dual whom one meets, it is the langs.lagei of tl whole respectable Press of the countrs-, -rad ch has in this in s t ance l a id as id e p ar ty s pi ri t sorting the cau se o f our i nsu lt e d M onarc h, and injured people. We are told not to put our faith :in Princes, but Princes also will now doubt the of putting their faith in subjects, at least ii i those who standin their pr esence , an d w h o b . ask their Royal favour, but when self-interest sews to point out the vi. (lull of seeking advanc( unen t by embarrassing and annoying them, fe, n°, scruple in deserting them though overwhe with public care and individual anxiety. We are glad to understand that the liopt 13 of the faction begin to diminish. They are not quite so certain of returning to office as they were. The masterly stroke of embarking Ro: yaltY On his side by the appointment of the Dulce Of CLARENCE, has shown the consummate dons of the new Premier, and the promotion of Sir J. CoPLEY has converted a formidable opponent into a strenuous and efficient pas tisan. So that they judged rashly, v‘ 'ho suppoa ed that Mr. CANNING had undertaken s What he los unable to perform ; that he had . engaged in an enterprize of which he did not see the issue ; and that, like a frantic gam tester, he had risked the renown of years upon .the cast of a die, which they thought they had loaded fbr their own purposes. We can scarcely conceive it possible th at there can be any foundation for the rumours . which are in circulation, that the Duke of WE, GLING' TON intends to publish the correspondence which has taken place respecting the retirement of his Grace from the Cabinet. These rumour have even stated, that it was the DUKE'S intention to print the letters which he had received frc Hit MAJESTY on the subject. Such a brt !ach decorum towards his SOVEREIGN, can hardly have been contemplated for an instant by his GRACE. It would virtually be an attei ript to place the KING in the wrong in public o pinion? and consequently would be as unconstil artionel and unjustifiable, as it would prove unsucxessful in its object. Allowance may be made for the mortified feelings which the Duke of NNT:ELLiso - TON may suffer under if he actually met with the check in hi:3 career which report st ales ; air thereby found that bounds were successft illy place' against his ambition which heretofore h a.d known MAX. Unless we are greatly misinfol ntued, the , disappointment hi s G race exper i ence ad by 11 '' NIAJESTY'S refusal to allow him t o fill th e highest post in the Government, as w eLI as t he office of Commander-in-Chief, was the reill cause of the break-rep of the Administrati on. klre ambition, it is stated, had induced him to' pro' pose himself to be First Lord of the TreavurY and the nation owe their escape from ,such a catastrophe to the unadvised, but judi cious and manly determination of their So- VEREIGN, to decline acceding to the .arrange' ment on the constitutional ground that it: would be improper to allow a person at the head! of the Army to be also at the head of the Ci vil Go vernment of the Country ; and likewise on the ground that his Grace was unequal to ,:omb o the House of Lords. Such were, we have reason to believe, the' motives of the SOVEREIGN, and such hava been the effects of the disappointed ambition of hi Grace of WELLINGTON. We beg to insert, for the edification of out readers, the following letter, which appearei I 1 0 the Courier of yesterday : TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER. Sir—As there is evidently no better mode of brit) 4 4 grievances before the eyes of those in whose hand' i the remedy rests, than through the medium of the public !Pre' s: I beg in the name of my se lf an d military friends, to Du'," t out to your notice, a lette r a dd ressed to his Grace the Du'," of Wellington, which app eare d i n t h e Sun of the st" March. Why the writer addressed it to a paper so Teri unlikely to come under the eye of his Grace I don't kilof. but I am confident, you will, as an old friend of the arroi , conceive it worthy of a place in your journal, and if tof good results from it, be assured the credit will be jmetly st "" tributed to your Paper, which You are well aware is to be found in all our Mess-rooms at home and abroad, and daily placed before the Commander-in-Chief. of A it s i a i l ic i l u i d a i d v m id i u tt a e l d ' a l d ca ou n b v t ti o i n iel y ' o fo u r r ' statements in the letter to be facts, at the same time I 9 11 ° ° ` 1 be sorry to request or recommend the insertion of any partl am, Sir, your obedient servant, C. C., a very old Officer of the Lin e ' Garrison of Tynemouth, April 14. [Of the letter alluded to by our Correspondent, we kon` ° t m lie in ir:ost prt. of thie nothing ; and it is our uniform practice to decline the io' sertisn any communication of this kind, twins origi nally sent to us for publication.] Now we would ask for what purpose was this printed lfoply show r ab the letter the itself sp was of o a e snot given c t o f t : ln e l it , iorar w rithing n y a o t a at little til e c ingrinnotorious ea successttl chang of out Paper, )e of Administration, which has left their " No Popery" friends so sadly in the lurch. If we have not the honour of having our columns perused by his Grace of WELLINGTO , and by all the messes in the service, we re' gret the circumstance, but we really should r e quire stronger testimony to this being the fact than the apparently purchased remarks of this very old Officer of the Line, who seems to us to b e a very old fool. We received last night the Paris Papers Saturday, and the Etoile of Sunday morning. The latter contains the news of the appointment of Mr. CANNING to the office of First Lord of the Treasury, and of the resignation of the seveti Cabinet Ministers ; the next French Papers therefore will possess much interest, as they w ill inform us of the public feeling in France u pon these events. The Constitutionel contains an account of s popular commotion which . had taken place 3t Spain. It It of Malaga. The cause of i it was as creditable to the as disgraceful to the inhabitants Government appears that upwi rci9 of 4000 Galley Slaves in the Presidio:, having had no raiment .furnished to them for four year s : • were i n a most indecent state of nudity ; t he ' were lodged in stables heap e d and fre together, quently did not receive the usual scanty alloy!' ance of coarse food. ss A contaffious fever vi a engendered, and the inhabitants 0 naturally dread ed its spreading amongst them. Representations t'', Madrid w ere ofof.thsatp til' unattended to, and it Was n ot a sort of assessment • lisb ii was made on the in o tan . ts that these poor wretches had a shirt 3 °_, pair of linen trowsers supplied to each of thev; In other parts of Spain bands 'of Fanatics ravag e the .:;,! p . 0 the Country, and d a ily furnish proofs or