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'Many, such unheard-of designing villany. I will stand I firm, and admit the naked truth. It will subject me to an action for damages, it is true; but I will not screen a wretch capable of such blasphemous perjury. Alas i alas ! proofs, though against mysed, would crush you for ever. Mind, Belinda, lam not making threats: there is no occasion fir either of us to have another uneasy hour on the score of danger, fer none impends over us but what your own wickedness may create. You have n othin g to fear from me or my unkindness.- No': I still love you, and fondly love you, and always shall. But do you suppose that I will submit to be compelled to give you up. and to let you take our dear child all to yourself? Do you suppose my affection for him is less than your own ? Alas ! I fear mine is far stronger than youre. A mother's fondness fir her offspring is proverbial ; a nd when it does not occupy the mother's sole and only thought, the heart is indeed proved to be had. Pray do not be an example of such a character yourself, nor c ompel me to write in this language, by your dials° ical and monstrous threats to me. I wish to see you as soon as possible, so write and say when I shall meet you, and we will talk matters over out walking. L e t one solid and sincere attachment and friendship instantly take place. Receive me with affection, with t en d erness, and kindness. L et me see and enjoy the society of our dear child as often as possible, and I will be content to give up my rights and privilege.. I am going abroad directly ; the end of the week, I believe; hut you must write to me, and receive my letters. Good God ! why should we cease to correspond as friends. In one of your letters yon ask me to do this, and to find a place where I can direct yours. I . give up the point now, Belinda ; therefore, let us become again happy, and each support the other on any and every occasion that is requisite. I must insist upon being at the christening. This time last year your words were ' You will he at the head of it, and shall sit on my right hand, will you not, dearest ?' Oh, Belinda ! every word of affection from your lips is engraven on my memory as is my affection for you never to be era dicated. We ought not to be less friends with each other because our intercourse is discontinued ; but it proves what I before and all along have said, that when that ceases at the desire of the woman, she nu longer entertains even a regard. Why you should hate and feel disgust when hut a few months since you so fondly loved, is most unac countahle, particularly as you have never experienced the slightest neglect or unkindness from me. You pro- miser!, if I would g;ve up further desiring sexual inter com se. that you would esteem me as a brother; that I should be always welcome to your house; that I should know every secret. and he treated in that confidential manner, that should prove to me that your affection re ma ned unchanged. Now, alas ! you desire me to dis continue writing even to our private place ; thus by de grees you would drop off and break with me entirely. This, my dear Belinda, can never, never, never he. To prove to you that I 'orgive your late cruel conduct, I pro mise that if any evil should henceforward arise, that I will protect, support, comfort, and love you, as though you had not acted as you have done, and threatened to do. lam all impatience and anxiety to see dear George, as I antici - pate him much grown, and both of you greatly benefitted by country air. lam going a delightful tour to Ostend, Bruges. Brussels, Antwerp, Spa, Aix-la-Chapelle, Co logne, Liege, and perhaps Berlin. Home probably by Paris. This time last year you were my Belinda, and I your own dear L—. Oh, had I but eone and followed you to Paris, this change would never have happened : this misery never have rendered me the unhappy man I new a m, and ever shall remain. If Igo to Paris, I will get the other M.P. letter lying there." The next letter put in, was one of the 18th of July, addressed to Captain Pocock. It was in these terms : " Saturday, July 18. ~ My dear Sir,—Knowing tile anxiety of all around you, 1 write (though to very little purpose) to quiet doubts and surmises ; Mr. Landseer has neither called nor written to Mr. Hodson. I wrote early in the day that I would shin a document which they might exhibit to the world, but that I could not give that without my letters being destroyed at the same time, and an indemnity given to me. Alas, alas ! I know not what will become of me, and knowing that poor Belinda is in tears, really I can scarcely support myself—my heart is indeed broken ! I ant wretched, miserable--wretched for ever I I care not for myself ; another only and alone occupies my mind—one who this time last year rendered me the happiest man on earth, and that one now is first to turn against me, when our mutual kindnesses could relieve our mutual dis quietude and sufferings. I ant no libertine; lam not the despicable wretch to turn my back upon her, and leave her to struggle through alone. No ; but to the last hour of my miserable existence will I ever extend every pro. teetion in my power. You, my dear good Sir, in the or dinary course of nature, will, ere many years perhaps pass away—leave her and all of us; but rest assured that, even should I never see her again, a silent friend will watch over her daily destiny. A cruet covered with mould, anti water to moisten it, shall be my fare sooner than she shall want. Such feelings, such sentiments I am sure, you will allow are not those of a heartless libertine;—they merit a different return to that which it seems I am likely to experience. If matters are taken up vin dictively, I will submit to a prison for life. I will let judgment go against me by default, rather than, in defending, myself, expose that dear angel to the world. Enclosed are a few lines I send for her pe rusal. I cannot see what I write, for torrents—floods of tears. I can prevent a divorce; nay, I think I could overthrow the action ; but I will adopt no course but under sanction and advice. Belinda's inte,ests and mine are united. If I can upset the action, I gain a victory for her ; but it ends not there. A fire surrounds me : a second divorce will be instantly brought by my wife's family against me. Well, then, be it so. What should an honourable man instantly do, thus circumstanced ? and eto situated 1 most assuredly shall be, fer the Hubbard, will instantly do it. What ought I then to do? Oh, Heavens! who knows the inmost recesses of my heart, will I hesitate? No, my good Sir, I will not; 41elinda shall have that legal claim upon me my disposition would this very hour bestow under any circumstances. She should not,—her family should not have it in their power to point at me and say, I was the cause of injury, and wanted honour, honesty, anti principle, to make her that reparation which honour imposes upon every man thus cir cumstanced. But Belinda must not take against me; if she does, the next letter from another hand shall announce to her that the bell is tolled,—that I sleep to rise no more !! My heart is broken !! ! lam deserted and turned against by that one who, but this time last wear, before Heaven, assured me, that if danger and difficulty ever should assail us that I should not be destitute of her consolation. I cannot say mere, my feelings are too agitated and distressed. If any thing occurs on Monday, I will infirm you of it, and we must now let them alone, and see what they are disposed to do, We have both made overtures, anti it rests with them now to reply. I should wish my letters from you to be under cover to me at Mr. Hodson's, 18, Dover-street, Pic cadilly; and when you come to town send for me else where, as I wish to keep all silent as long as possible, for if Mrs. R. Leafs, she will be open-mouthed directly'. Ir is to the interest of us all to meet friendly before the w‘olil, a.nd I am sure the sentiments of my heart will not lessen me in your estimation, however deeply you may lament existing circumstances. Thus they are, and it is vain repinieg. Our joint efforts rosy do much for the happiness of all of us. I care not how I am sacrificed, but I should like to know who gave the suspicion. I should like to see the anonymous letter, or a copy of it, though, perhaps, in judging I aught wrongfully accuse.— I am sure your kind heart will influence you to tin all in your power to cheer up the spirits of poor Belinda, and your judgment wilt direct you to soften her anger against me, for most undeserving am I of such return from her,— The interesting smiles and playful actions of her dear little George will, I trust, dispel every gloom from her mind, and cause jIT to reign unmolested by anxiety or care. As l a m to-day she will ever find me. Her sisters shall bear witness that I am not the heartless villain which too many, I am aorry to say, prove under similar circurnstanees.— Ged bless you, my dear Sir, and all,--all—all of you Your unhappy. wretched, " ROBINSON." The other letters were dated respectively, the 27th of Viostts.mber and the Jst of December, 1829, and addressed to Mr. Hugh Evans, the plaintiff's attor ney. They were as follows: °t Thursday, Nov. 27. 1829. Sir,—lly stay at Boulogne bavina been protracted II ton ac three day s , f ear just - weeks, I base but returned to town. A gentbstnan has this day informed' ire, that Mr. Thomas Landseer acs twice called upon him relative to the connexion betwe en his wife andmyself, and that . Landeeer pulled true () thi s „ ow. Pr a whip, with which he threatens to asasult comm i tt i ng hi mself, as he may prevent Mr. Landseer i t . assured he will not escape without a good sound jtrarasehsfrietair he attempts to nattiest me. As to his engaging I care not what he w r ite s, se that he leav es rnwvrile '. bookout of the question; but if he has the ' li ghtest rega r d for his w i fe ', happiness, or his own respectability, he will let the past die away in si lence. To be com p elle d to prove her and myself guilty by the production of all her letters, w ill j " - 411 0 ,.r grieve me more than any language can express, and ill as she has conducted herself towards me, I will not retaliate upon her : so far will I act in opposition to such a course, ' ' that if any one s hall ever dare to utter an unkind expres sion d Mrs, T. Landseer be fore me, it shall be at their Ck.l ' I will resent it as an :neat offered to myself, for 4 ,7 g? P rl, an IA I will never hear the matter of my child spoken of with disrespect. My solicitors con convince both yourself and Mr. Landseer, at any time, and in one minute, that all Bel;nda's protestations have been gross impositions upon Mr. landseer's credulity, but it is not for me to criminate her, as doing so crirrinates myself equally. Mr. Land sea's physical strength opposed to mine, will avail him little ; and as to his writing books, and reviving a sub ject dying away, is folly in the extreme. I expect to go to Paris in a few days, and if the Director-General of the post office has my letter (which is probably filed), authorizing him to destroy the letter I wrote to Belinda by her desire when in Paris, I will bring it o er with me. It was addressed M.P., and signed Herbert, but did not arrive till after she had left. The first one she received, and was sent for by one of the servants of the hotel as she told me. If the letter itself is not destroyed, I will bring it over with me. Mr. Landseer shall experience no annoyance from me; if I meet her, as I must often do, I will take her by the hand and passion, fur ill as she has used me, I cannot bring myself to dislike the mother of my little George. I will call in a day, or two in the hope to have an amicable arrangement entered into as to my seeing the dear child ; and that settled, all animosity and anxiety, I trust, will cease between all parties. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "L. 11. ROBINSON. " 48, Duke-street, St. James's-square. " December I, 1829. Sir,—By your letter received this morning it appears that you are rather under an erroneous impression as to my fearing any thing f orn Mr. Landseer's meditated at tee': upon me. From the very gentlemanly manner in which you have conducted the suit against me, I suggested you preventing your client from committing an assault, the result of which would be to make me plaintiff against him, to his serious injury and inconvenience. I have no personal ill will against Mr. Landseer, and as the mode be threatens is not the course usually adopted by a gen tleman, consequently I am quite indifferent as to any such ridiculous blustering. I am not at all alarmed, I assure you, either on the score of a dan gerous or a fatal result from our casually meeting in the street, as your letter insinuates ; hut any violent measure will entail upon him and his wife an exposure—a lasting anal imperishable stigma that no time can efface; and to he compelled to prove Mrs. T. Landseer's and my own guilt will grieve me more than words can express. Mr. Landseer h..lieves his wife's assertions as to her innocence ; let him offer my solicitors a guarantee against any conse quences, and they will prove it to his face in two minutes. I was in hopes the affair was at an end, and as he has taken bark his wife, why should he goad me to prove her guilty of adultery with myself? Nothing but the gross est provocation shall induce me to do it, and I have se lected gentlemen (Messrs. Ullithorne and Crampton) to defend any proceedings against me, whose amiable man ners and dispositions render them competent to meet you on the same gentlemanly footing as you have all along acted on behalf of your client. I will he content to see the child only once in three months, and that under an ar rangement that no our shall ever know any thing of the circumstance; but to have my child torn from me alto gether I never can, never will submit to. All the fighting in the world between Mr. Landseer and myself will not mak , • matters better, but cause an exposure discreditable to all parties. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " L. H. ROBINSON." " 45, Duke-str, et, St. Jam,les." With the reading of these letters the plaintiff's case was closed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom was Mr. MANNING) then addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant. Althoegh the defendant had thought it right to place a ju , tification on the record, he (the Learned Counsel) would disclaim in the out set any intention of entering into the truth of that plea, of offering any evidence in support of it. There were many things which occurred in matters of this kind, of which no legal proof could be given. After some remarks upon the evidence of Mr. Noble and Miss Pocock, the Learned Counsel sub mitted to the Jury that they would be fully war-, ranted in coming to the conclusion that the anony mous letter was not written by the defendant. The letter, speaking of the defendant and Mrs. Land seer, described them as " a pair of profligate hypo- ' crites." That was not a mode in which a man, whatever his conduct might have been, would be likely to speak of himself. The Learned Counsel proceeded to comment on the other parts of the case, and observed, whir reference to the letters ad , dressed to Captain Pocock and Mr. Evans the attorney, that he could not deny that they had been written by the defendant, and that they made some allusion to a connexion as having taken place be tween him and Mrs. Landseer; but the Jury, in considering those' letters, would bear in mind the fret, that an investigation into the circum qances alluded to, had, in the first instance, taken place, and the result had been that the lady was sent back to her father's house. The investigation had been set on foot for the purpose of establishing her innocence and vindicating her honour. The old gen tleman, her husband's father, was at the head of it, and his brother also attended; and yet, after the fullest inquiries, Mrs. Landseer had been " die missed"—to use the language of one of the wit nesses (Mr. Edam Landseer)—from her husband's house. And what had been the conduct of her own father, Captain Pocock ? Did he treat with indig nation and scorn the person whose supposed love making to his daughter had led to her being sent away from her husband's roof ? Did he say to the defendant, " You affected to be a lover when you were only a seducer ?" and did he repulse hitn with contempt ? No such thing. On the contrary, it ap peared that he had emery(' into some negotiation with him; for the defendant, in his letter to Captain Pocock, said, " They wished mre to sign a docu ment, which I could not consent to do without hay ing my letters delivered up, and without an indem nity." The letter clearly showed that some negoti ation had been going on. Now was it likely that Captain Pocock, a military man, would, if he had been satisfied of the falsehood of the facts stated, have adopted such a course of proceeding, instead of taking some means to contradict the calumny ? The jury were left in the dark upon that subject. His learned friend, Sir James Scarlet, had said that the letters bore on the face of them strong proof that the defendant had had no connexions with the lady ; but he (the Attorney-General) would put it to the Jury whether the particular phrases to which his Learned Friend had adverted, did not lead them to a directly opposite conclusion. He did not wish to per s'st in the truth of the justifica tion ; but he had a right to call upon the Jury to put that construction upon the letters which he thought all the facts warranted. After Lord TENTERDEN had summed up the Jury conferred together for about five minutes, and then returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 3001. Lord TENTERDEN directed a verdict Co be et;- tered for the defendant on such of the counts as Fet out several letters addressed to the plaintiffs, which his Lordship had decided could not be given to evidence for the reason before stated. Lord CUANDOS is not returned by the voice and opinion of this county ; but by interest, influence, and disgraceful in , imidation. The twenty Members for ten Anti-reforming boroughs, almost the whole of the Clergy, most of the aristocratic families, numerous paid agents ind lawyers, and all the weight of the Buckingham family and its I.ranches, in addition to what no one will grudge,—the kind popular personal feeling which has always been much in his favour,—have been at work for him. So great has been this influence, that men of opulence (in business in boroughs) "have been obliged to go with the stream.'' The Provost anti authorities of Rum have gone the I , ngth of using language which had the effect of intimidating many. Lord iIIWE wrote in a way not to be misunder stood by his tenantry, as did also Mr. DUPREE of Bea consfield, who last year persecuted a man for having a dinner at his house (Saracen's Head) for Lord Cua.Nnos, and this year called on the same man to vote aga inst his will for him. A Magistrate and Commissioner of the Roads connected with Eton, has disgusted many, by the shameful influence he adopted, using language to persons employed on the roads, which led them to go contrary to their wishes rather than risk those interests in which they knew be had a powerful voice; and, to crown all, the Rev. Iplarr. parish Bill possible o isafsorraDTt the Li ite,V the, l , :c :lt a la,e r : ta o t uinfoid:N.Vt there n n ee d r eiN s iv o Au r i 5: , edo a dso f o t as e rl, r ,l_c e kr u (oi eulogizing the Re form the Times.) cn s classed sr d r eos o fp v o e I d t e o n t his influenceo f CARNARVON', MA le 12. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) At three o'clock on Thursday the poll closed. The nutnbers were— Sir Charles Paget Mr. Ormsby Gore - - - - 264 .aOY (3,1, Majority for Sir Charles _ Mr. Gore demands a scrutiny, but it is a forlorn case. The enthusiasm in every part of the town is beyond all precedent. Never was there a decision that proclaimed itself more decidedly to be a triumph of principle. NORTHAMPTON, MAY 13. (FROM A CO RREsYONDENT.) The election for this county is still going on, and is being contested with e xtraordinary severity. The Tory candidates declare their intention of polling the county to the last man. Lords Althorp and Milton still continue to head the poll, but the result of to-day's poll has been far from favourable to the latter nobleman, Mr. Cartwright having gained on him very considerably. This is said to have arisen from the admi-sion of a class of voters who are supported in a hospital, and whose right to vote has been admitted by the assessor, on the ground that they held in the institution a freehold for life. No less than ninety votes were admitted by this decision, all of which. with one exception, were polled for Mr. Cartwright and Sir Charles Knightley. Lord Milton is not here, but is at a friend's about four miles distant. lie states that his spirits and health are not equal to the excitement of a con tested election. lie is, however, ably represented by his son, the Hon. Mr. Wentworth, a youth only seventeen years old, but whose modesty of manners, affectionate zeal in defending his father, and good sense, have made a ge neral favourite. At the clrse of the poll on Thursday the numbers were— AithorP 1,939 Milton - - - 1 , 6 37 Cartwright - - - 1,432 Knightley - 1,031 Last night they were— mthorp - - 2,n48 Milton - - - - 1,743 Cartwright - - 1,588 Knightiey - 1,142 Lord A LTHORP commenced his address by observing, that from the issue of the poll ng of that day he was not en titled to address them first, but Mr. Cartwright had been so courteous as to express a wish that he should do so. On the five previous days they had been gaining on their opponents, but on that day their opponents had gained on them. He thought this ought neither to surprise nor dis courage them, for he had before told them that there was a great power opposed against them. They must not con shier the battle won till the poll was finally closed. He had no doubt hut that the number gained upon then that day could be pulled down, but then it would require their utmost exertions. He thanked them for the noble and independent support they had rendered him, and he hoped and trusted they would continue the same. Mr. Caatawalcurr begged to thank them for their ex ertions that day on his behalf, and the result of which was that he had gained 70 upon Lord Milton. He was s itis fied that he should gain further the next day. The Noble Lord had told theta that this was the first day that he (Mr. Cartwright) had gained on the day's poll, but the reason of this was easily accounted for. He had not ex pected a contest, and had not made a previous canvass; his friends had only just commenced arriving. There were still sonic hundreds of freeholders unpolled, and there were besides SOO disputed votes before the assessor.— Nobody, therefore, could say he was keeping open the poll vexatiously. He would not only do so, but he kept it open because lie was convinced that the people were be ginning to reflect, and were beginning to understand the real nature of the measure. Many taupe's and respect able persons had come to him and told him that they should have come come forward earlier to vote far him had they not been deceived as to the effects of the Bill. He hoped the next day to gain considerably on Lord Milton, if not get before him. Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEIr said he was quite content at the place he occupied on the poll. He did not expect to get in himself, but he had great pride and pleasure in think ing that his Noble Friend would. The lion. Mr. WENTWORTH said that notwithstanding the advantage gained by their opponents that day, he felt confident hopes of final success. They heard that their opponents intended keeping open the poll, and he there fore trusted they would not relax in their efforts. He saw no reason to fear that his father would continue to have a majority. He thanked them for the exertions they had made, and for the honourable situation in which they had placed his father on the poll. The poll was then adjourned. DOWNPATRICK, MAY 11. (FROM A CORRESTONPENT. ) The election for the county of Down commenced yester day. Colonel Farel, who last year contested the county on the independent interest, having declined coming for. ward, William Sharman Crawford, E•q., a talented and influential country gentleman of well known patriotic principles, his offered himself, in opposition to Lord Cas tlereagh, at Ow so;icitation of a large body of liberal elec tors. The exciting circumstances of the present times, and the late conduct of Lord Castlereagh respecting Re form, have awakened the most lively interest in the issue of the contest. Nothing was done yesterday except putting the candidates in nomination. Lord Arthur Hill, one of the late candidates, is considered sure of his return, on ac- ' count of his votes in favour of the Ministerial measure of Reform. The battle will, therefore, he between Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Crawford. For many . ),ears, the county has been kept in a state of vassalage, owing to a Junction between the families of Downshire and London donderry. In consequence of the avowed sentiments of the Marquis of Downshire, and Lord Arthur Hill, i n opposition to th ose of Lord Castlereagh and the Marquis of Londonderry, the Marquis of Downshire Las expressly declared that his tenants are perfectly at liberty to dispos e of th,ir second votes as they please. There is no question if they support the independent candidate, but that Lord Castlereagh will he thrown out. Every exertion is mak ing, by underlings, to induce them to act otherwise; but the friends of Crawford and Reform are sanguine as to the result. The circumstances iu which Lord Castlereagh finds him sel', seem to have operated with wonderful power, in con vincing him of the necessity of some Reform. In his ad dress yesterday he laboured to persuade the electors that he was anxious to amend the representation. He could not, however, conceal the cloven foot. Whilst he affected to condemn the nomination system (and this he actu ally did), he declared himself the uncompromising supporter of the vested rights of corporation 1, roughs ; and, a s Coleraine, Belfast, and Armagh, are t h us in a con dition, relative to their representati on , that seems so deserving of admiration and support, his Lord ship's hollow professions were capable of deceiving not even the humblest freeholder. Goulburn and Armagh are too well known here ; and the Noble Lord's professions were, therefore, marked down in the catalogue of his other political sins. He had even the presumption to vindicate his vote respectinz the East Reboil affair, and his opposition to Lord John Itus.ell's motion for giving Members to Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham. What was his apology? Why, he said there was not then a public call for such measures ; that is, he did not deny their justice, but he would withhold all, even the slightest concession, until forad by the people. Men too fre quently commit errors, but it is sedout that they publish their shame to the world. And if his Lordship spoke what was his true motive, and if he admitted his willing ness to defer to the public voice, why does he not now yiel I when there is a loud and universal demand for the Bill? In fact, his whole defence is hollow ; and his hypocrisy has not even the merit of being skilful. He has also been base enough to enlist religious party feeling on his side. He also agreed to pass the Catholic Relief Bill, and now rinsed the " No Popery" cry—that is, he voted for conferring privileges on Catholics, but he has the audacity to say now that Catholics are not tobe trusted. Eeither now or formerly be must be considered as chargeable with ti e most direct want of principle, and he may choose the alternative. Then comes the cry that the Union will he repealed if we get a Reformed Parliament. These are despicable expedients ; but they shew the d, operate situa tion in which he is placed, and how far he is capable of adopting any means that appear likely to promote his own ends. So badly, indeed, is he pressed, that the Marchio ness of Londonderry was in Downpatrick yesterday, sitting in his Lordship's Committee-room ; not, as may he easily imagined, an idle spectator of what was going forward. I may mention another fact to shew the fears of his party. Mr. Cross, a Belfast gentleman of high literary character, and a freeholder of the county, was prevented from re plying to the speech of his Lordship by the uproar and interruption of a trained mob of ruffians, because his well-known eloquence and integrity were deemed exceed ingly dangerous t o th e sta bili ty of t h e pretens i ons wh i c h his Lordship hal so unblushingly put forward. To-day the voting is going on briskly, and Mr. Crawford is con fident of success. I cannot now mention the state of the poll ; and as it is post hour, I must close my letter by saying, that I do not think the contest can be over before Saturday, at the earliest. You shall hear from me again. PAGANINI, the celebrated violinist, arrived in London at six o'clock this morning, and is staying at the Sabloniere Hutel, Leicester-square, DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICKS OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock :3 per Cent. fled Bl ?q 3 per Cent. Cone. B2 % 334 per Cent. Ditto Red B9W4 New 334 per Cent ...... 91 80A 3 per Cent Ann. 17'26 - 4 per Cent. 1td%26 9B%'i Bank Long Ann to expire Jan 5, 186-!...16 13-16 13-16 Oct. 10, 1559......... 'l2-16 Jan. 5, 1860 l73i 1-16 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1980 Jan. 5, 1870 New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock 101 d Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex Bills, 7 8 !Ditto . Ditto Small Ditto Commercial i f Ditto Advertised — Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for May 56 ...82 1 4 %%!;, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian llond , Buenos Ayres 80nd5......... Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds .... .......... .... Prussian. Old Colombian Bonds — Ditto New Ditto, 1824 Danish 6l IA 72i Spanish, 1ie , 21 — Greek Bondi — 11+23 — Ditto, 1 .825 — French Rentes, sp. c. Kit. --; . Guatimala — Exchange 9.5f 30, .._ Hex ican Bonds — 3 per 63!. Ditt , .. Ifs — Exchange 251. 30c. CORNWALL ELECTION. THE Friends of Lord VALLETORT and Sir RICHARD RAWLINSON VYVYAN, Bart. resident in London, are requested to make any communi cations on the subject of their Election, commencing on the 10th instant, at Mr. Sandy's, Great Queen -street, Westminster ; or at Nu. 5, Crane -court, Fleet-street. May 9, 1831. *u „. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1831. In Worcestershire, as in almost every other county, the cause of Reform has triumphed. Colonel Lv- GON is defeated. In Cornwall too, Sir R. VYVYAN, like the Irishman's race-horse, is driving all before him, in other words is last on the poll; and in Dor setshire, the grave, the solemn BANKES, has every prospect of failing in his attempt en the virgin heart of that enlightened county. She his repulsed the old man's embraces with disdain, and prefers rather to listen to the addresses of Mr. CALCRAFT, as the more vigorous and attractive suitor of the two. But not only in our English counties, towns, and boroughs is the great cause triumphant ; even in Dublin, the head quarters of Anti-Reform, the vassal of the most bigoted corporation in exist. ence—even in this city, despite the influence of an immense Bank Monopoly, and of the old Ultra- Placemen and Pensioners, who swarm in every street, square, and alley, " thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks of Vallombrosa," the Reformers ere sure to win the day. And these triumphs, be it re membered, whether in England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales, have been gained over a faction, which from the very commencement of the struggle, has had unlimited wealth at its command ! Yes, the spirit of the people has proved mightier than the gold of the boroughmongers, and the exclamation of the poet, " 0, cives, cives, p4cerenda petunia primum, virtu: post 71111M1102, " no longer applies to them. They have rejected the bribes of their enemies with disdain, and, strong in nothing but their own incorruptible integrity, have entered the lists, fought and conquered. Victories like these, where wealth and all the influence which it commands, have been on one side, and nothing but a just cause and a determined moral energy to support it on the other, speak in a language not to be misapprehended, to the people as well as to their oppressors. The fin met will be taught by such triumphs—and we trust they will never forget the lesson—that whenever they have right on their side, they cannot chuse but conquer; that they are irresistible in an honest cause, feeble only in a bad one ; and that if henceforth they be come enslaved by bold, reckless, mercenary factions, whether civil or military, the fault is their's, and their's alone. The Boroughmongers will be taught an equally emphatic lesson by the present victories of Reform. They will be taught that no combinations of men however wealthy, however titled, or however influential, can make head for an instant against the prevailing sense of the community ; that the itnmu 'able laws of justice are superior to all the contri vances and chicaneries of faction. Mark the state in which the Boroughmongers now find themselves! Why, they are more helpless than idiotcy or HORACE Twiss. They are actually hound hand and foot, and dragged in chains at the chariot wheels of the triumphant Reformers. Yet, who pities them in this condition ? Not a soul. They have brought the degradation on themselves. They have even volun teered it; and not content with blindly running their heads against another man's wall, have actually built one of their own, for the express purpose of trying the thickness of their skulls against it. Can such imbeciles, we again ask, be pitied ? Impossible. Pity to them is injustice to the people, and amounts almost, if not quite, to a sin. By the Gazette of last night it will be seen that Colonel FITZCLARENCE has been raised to the Peerage, by the title of Earl of MUNSTER : he is also Baron TEWKESBURY, and Viscount FITZ CLARENCE. The Allgenteine Zeitung gives the following cheer ing intelligence respecting the state of affairs in Poland :—" The insurrection in Lithuania is spread ing. VC'hat Grrman Papers say of its insignificance or suppression is not entitled to entire credit. It may be confidently asserted that above 30,000 per sons have answered to the summons to rise and fight with great animo,ity. They are indeed badly armed, but this defect is remedied by their knowledge of the country and ticir enthusiasm, and the scythes arc found there also to be of great service. It is said that the Russian army in Bessarabia is ordered against the Poles, but before it art ives the fate of Poland will perhaps be decided by a great battle, or by a general insurrection in Volliyaia and Lithuania." The following are extracts from the Lisbon Papers received this morning : ROYAL BOARD OF COMMERCE. LISBON, Aram 28.—The Royal Board of the Trade, Agriculture, M.tuufactures, and Navigation of these king oms. publishes the following notice : m,,st Illustrious and Excellent Sir,—The Sccretary of State for Foreign Affair s of his Most Cath o lic Majesty communicated to th e Mi n i ster of the King our n at Madrid, th at to secure tranquillity and good o rder lS'vvng e' ier g in the city of Cad,z, no person can land at that p a ort) without u espectaide person, who is to answer f ur t h e person f or v en, and fur hi s po li t i ca l con d uct, the Km ii i , mli Securityt r Sovereign formality of presentin g a cer tificate from orders th e B oar d o f C ommerce to the is gi cau se the necessary vublicity to he given to this measure, w hi c h I communicat e to your Excellency to be signified to the Board. aid preserve your Excellency. " Viscount DE SANTARENI. palace of Queluz, April 23." The present edict is ordered to he posted up as usual. " JOSE ACCUSEO DAS NEVES. Lisbon, April 26." Our attention has been drawn to the first Number of n ew Weekly Journal, called the " Englishman's Register," which professes to be established for the diffusion of general information, and sound and liberal principles, rtligious and political, among the people. Its especial object appears to be the com mut-a-cation of insftiction in the woes palatable cj all forms, that of a Newspaper; and, as it is un tistiming in its pretensions, and not intended as a rival to any of the established Weekly Papers, it gives us pleasure to recommend it to all those who have at heart that greatest of all national objects, the imparting of sound and useful knowledge to the people. The articles on the National Debt, the Cotton Manufactut e, and Cottage Economy, are of an instructive kind, and there is a religious discourse, as well as a declaration of principles, which are attri buted to a very distinguished scholar, who appears for the first time in the character of a Journalist. We extract the following We see around us one vast and fearful struggle going en between the friends of things as they are and the advo cates of change. Not in England only, but all over Eu rope, this contest is raging, and no man who loves his country or mankind ought to remain neutral in it. But the misfortune is, that they whose voices are heard the loudest on both sides in this quiet rel are so foolish or so tin • principled as to make the triumph of either an object of just apprehension. Who can wish success to that blind ignorance which cannot see that all things are and must he for every changing ?—that it is worse than kicking againsi the pricks to oppose our vain efforts to an eternal and uni versal law of Gees providence; and that by striving against change we do not prevent it from coming, but only render it violent and injurious, when it might have been natural and beneficial. England cannot remain what it has been; and the endeavour to detain a state of things which is pass ing away is, at the best, a waste of those efforts which might be better employed in preparing for the approaching and inevitable change, and in making the passage from the old system to the new as easy and imperceptible as possible. " To the anti-reformers therefore, both in church and state, we are decidedly opposed; but with a large party of the reformers we have quite as little sympathy. They cry fur change as blindly as their adversaries oppose it ; they overrate existing evils, and hope to cure them by remedies which are either wholly inadequate, er have nothing at all to do with the mischief complained of. They think too highly of themselves and of their own times, while they despise that knowledge of former times which can alone make its wiser than our fathers by giving us the advantage of their experience. Above all, while professing to release men from unjust and absurd restraints, they have forgotten that there is yet a worse evil on the other side—an absence of any restraint whatever. Reformers are especially bound to enforce the authority of the laws of conscience and of God while they are exposing the weakeess and corruption of the laws of men ; for of all possible states of degradation and misery none can he so horrible as that religious and moral anarchy where men are the slaves of all their evil passions, hateful and hating one another. " We may be wrong, or our call may be too feeble to be heard with any effect ; but our hope is to rally those, and we believe they are many, who feel in these tremend ous times as we do—who are disgusted alike with the folly and iniquity that would keep all things as they are, and with the no less foolish and unprincipled violence that would destroy rather than reform, and which pollutes even reform itself try its unchristian spirit and sentiments. "Of the many evils which the anti-reformers have brought upon their country, non. is so great as this—that the holiest things have been blasphemed through their f —that Christianity itself has been represented as hostile to • truth and liberty, because so many of those who have pro fessed it most zealously, have used its authority in political matters rather for evil than for good. But, in spite of all this, infidelity is far from having deeply infected the people of England. Against this evil Englishmen possess the best preservative in the general circulation of the Scriptures throughout the country ; for where the Bible is well known and commonly studied, all honest minds are sufficiently fortified against the poison of our English infidels. The contrast between the principles and spirit of the gospel and those of our most famous unbelievers is quite enough to show which conies from God and which from the author of all evil. As fir the differences between Christians and Chris. tians, their complexion is quite of another nature. In times of perfect peace soldiers may often quarrel amongst themselves about the merest trifle ; hut when t; e common enemy is near it is worse than folly if even 'erir•us causes of disa 4 reernent are not forgotten from a sense of their com mon danger. Now most of the disputes between Chris tians in this country -.re either about matters of little im portance, or ought, at any rate, to sink into ',tithing when compared with the far greater points which we all hold alike, and the gi eat need which we have of union amongst ourselves For this reason, although we are ourselves memt of the Church of England, yet, in the religi.•u. articles of this Register, we intend to avoid all notice of the differences ht tween the Establishment and the great mass of Protestant Dissenters, except f.ras to show how greatly both sides arc apt to exaggerate their importance, anti th.‘t, if a wiser spit it prevailed, they are no insurmount able obstacles to union. " In brief, then, our principles are those of Christian Reform. 'I hese two words comprehend every thing ; and especially they include a sine, re and hearty desire to promote the welfare of the poor ; for nothing has any claim to the title of Christian, if it be indifferent to this most important Christian duty. . We earnts'ly wish to see great improvements affected in the condition of the poor, both uglily and mentally—we wish to see them better fed and better taught—raiseo in comfort and inde pendence and knowing how to value these blessings and to improve them. We know that their actual state in many parts of the kingdom is most startling ; and we know the difficulties which beset every attempt to benefit it. Here too, as in every thing else, the opposite errors of those two most mischievwus parties, the Anti-Re formers and the Ultra-R-formers, have each, in nearly equal proportions, increased the evil. The Anti-Re formers have spoken as if all the sufferings of the poor were the result of inevitable necessity, and assert that the rich, far from being in any degree the cause of them, have done their best to relieve them. The Ultra-Re formers represent the rich as tyrants, and the poor as slaves, and they speak of them as the natural enemies of each other, and tell the poor in plain terms that all their sufferings come from the oppression of the rich, and that it is their own fault if they do not at once remedy and revenge them. Thus one party tries to lull the con. sciences of the rich, and encourages them in their errors and neglect ; while the other appeals to all the bad passions of the poor, and disposes them to regard with suspicion ies of e d a i n ffi every attempt of th e r i c h t o d o th em g o o d, as if i t were the mere cies enemy. . Amidst allstratagemtwe commence our under taking, confident in nothing so much as in the force of simple truth, and f ee li ng sure , w h atever may b e our ability to discover it, that our pursuit of truth will be to the utmost fearless and sincere. For those who may agree with as in our principle we either entreat their sup port to this attempt of ours, or if, while approving of the end, they judge the means to he too feeble to effect it, then we implore them, in the name of God and of their country, to use every endeavour to do that tho. roughly which, rather than leave it undone altogether, we now, with a full consciousness of our many deficien cies, have assayed to accomplish." • • • r a a " The amount of our funded debt is now about 780,000,000/ f , terling. and, for payment of the interest thereof to the fundholders, taxes are obliged to be levied to the e xtent of abut 28,300,000/. Now the whole amount of the taxes collected in the year 1830 was in round numbers 46,500.000/. Therefore, if we had no national debt there would be no occasion to levy more than 18,200,0001. a year from the public, being not nearly halt of what is paid at present. _ . didin t e to y i oe fur the tftee repaying h p i u m b 1 i t " National debts are th e c hild ren o f w ars , The debt . of England first began i n th e re ign o f Ki ng William the Third, who was th e fi rs t o f our Ki ngs w h o b o rrowed mo t e n n ic c s ta e rt r or v y i t e i o e ,eni a e v an i t c, l ive i i n s t ; a ,g a ra n i ( inss tK a g i t r i : e rg e „ an o n, r ; a o the result w as th at w h en peace wa s ma d e at R ysw ick iu Holland, i n 1697 , England had run in debt, in order to carry on wars on the continent, to the amount of 21,516,0001. The system having been once begun it very soon became an habitual practice of the Government, and the de ith of Queen Anne (in whose reign tie Duke of Marlborough was the great general, as the Doke of Wellington is now, and the battle of Blenheim was as much talked of as the battle of Waterloo has been in our times) the debt hail become 53,691,000/., having nearly trebled itself in seventeen years. Since the death of Queen Anne the intervals of peace have been few and far be tween, and accordingly the debt in 17 -18 had risen to 78293,000/. ; in 1763 it was 133,960,000/. ; an d i n 1792, just before we went to war against the French, on account of their revolution, it was 238,211,2.15/. We have therefore spent above fire hundred millions of money in putting down Bonaparte, as it used to be called ; and though we certiinly did sneered, at the end of three and-twenty years, in putting him down and keeping hire fast, in an island called St. fb-lrna, till he di-d, the glues lion now is whether it would nut have been inueli wiser fin us to have left the French alone in the beginning ? Ir which case there might never have arisen a Bonaparte to require to be thus put down, and our money would have been iu our pockets instead of basing be.n spe n t ;o.Sglis ing our neighbours. " M ny foolish people talk of a war as if it would be a good thing to come over again. But these people do nut consider that the public money that is paid away in stores. provisions, and the arms and means of war is as c t e in wasted and gene as if it had been thrown into the North Sea. On the other hand, if the capital had re mained in the country it would, of course, have been em ployed in some trade, manufacture, or undertaking or other which would have yielded petit to the c tpitalist and wages to the lab 'um., and in the course of time profit able employment of such capita! would have been the means of creating new capital, so that the country would have been richer not only by the amount of what has tieen wasted, but by what would otherwise have been added to it by skill and industry. It is quite true that the use of machinery and the natural energy of English men have, through the course of the last war, accumulat e d capital enough to replace in a great measure the loss arising from the debt, but, in so far as the country has thriven it has been wholly , in spite of, and by no means i❑ consequence of, the debt, either directly or indirectly. As it is, taxation, to pay the interest of the debt, has been carried to an extent which, to say the least, cannot in the nature of things be much increased, and in our opinion ought to he considerably diminished. " There are many people who say the debt,is a mere family concern—that it is only paying with erie hand and receiving with another—and that no good would come of t .king from the incomes of the fundholders to add to those of the rest of the community. But our impression is that great good would come of reducing the taxes on food, on manufactures, on industry of all kinds, and that the fund.. holders would largely participate in such good even if their dividends should be much reduced. For the debt's sake people are prevented from getting the living that would otherwise be earned by industry, and, by labour being checked and discouraged, the country is weakened and impoverished. This is the true point of view in which the debt is an enormous evil ; for we readily grant that the mere transfer of a portion of the dividends from the fundholders to the public is not, as a transfer only, capable of doing any good. But we hold the existence of a r?- eeptacle which tempts people to invest in it unproductively their capital, to be in itself mischievous in its tendency ; and when we consider the extent to which the loan-sys tem has been carried, both here and on the continent, and • that Europe is now, as it were, the gaming-table of stock_ jobbers, it must be confessed that their influence over go vernments has become perniciously powerful. Measures are considered with reference to their effect upon the price of stocks, as if that had anything to do with the happiness of the people, and jobbing Jews are consulted where the aid of political science ought to be sought for. But the consolation is, that the end of these things, if not at band, cannot be very far distant." "At the period of its early existence, in the yea; which terminated the American war, the whole quantity of cotton wool imported was from 9,000,000 to 10,000,000 lbs. In 1814, the last year of the French war, its consumptiou had increased to 60,000.000 lbs. In fourteen years of peace, so truly extraordinary has been the extensi.m of the cotton manufacture, that the impor tation of 1828 amounted to 227,760,642 lbs. It would be idle, if it were not impossible, for the most sagacious and penetrating politician or economist to attempt to fix any probable limits to the march of this all-pervading ar ticle of manufacture. Already its advance has exceeded, not the calculations alone, but the hopes even of those who were most sanguinary on the subject. The beauty and cheapness of our cotton productions have set at de fiance the fiscal restrictions forming the bases of the com mercial coif.-s of modern Europe.' Extensively introduced into the very heart of the Continent, by those open marts of commercial competition, the German fairs, the cotton goods of England force their way with more or lets suc cess upon all the neighbouring nations, and even succeed in pt nitrating the triple line of the French custom-houses: proving thereby, if the fact were not sufficiently attested by our own experience, th it no restrictive system can ever ensure an entire prohibition against the natural advan tages which the soil of particular districts may aff'ird to skill, capit 11, and machinery. Extraordinary as may hive been its advance in this country, and am mg other civi lized nations, the fact is yet more astonishing that such has been the force of our power loom, that it has tLr,twn hack this article up n the soil of its culture in a manu factured state, that the whole system of the cotton trale with India has been subverted, that he mu-lins of Viat country are n loneer articles of trz.ffic with us. and that the cotton good. of Et.gland are extensively sold in the m Acts of our eastern possessions. Than these s ate ments, there can be no stronger practical exemplifications of the power aria utility of machinery, nor can there h e afforded a more eomirlete answer to the unfounded pr ju ince that its inn - wit•tion can (Wet' be injurious to the working classes of the community. By its instruinente lity, Great Britain returns to India the oaten in a minu factut ed shape; that is to say, a country where labour is excessively high, fences upon India. where wages are as low probably as in any pat t of the habit Ode globe, a corn morlity, the produce of its own soil, but which tie capital, and m ichinery of England, as was 6-fore stated, defies the wet Id t o ',mance, equal in the excellency of its qua ity, and as reasonable in pt ice." It is much to be lamented that the present high rate of Stamp Duty, as well a, the Paper Duty, are so unfavourable to undertakings like the " English man's Register ;" but we are never theless bound to hope for its success, its principles being like our own, those of pod Reformers, and threatening no violence either to Church or King. TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. _ . Demerara Papers to the 26th February have bt en re ceived at the Nof th and South American Coffre-house. Our private advises inform us that in consequence of the distracted state of St. Lucia, the President of the Court of Justice of Demerara would prvceed down to the former place for the purpose of hearing and adjudging certain cases pending there. A meeting, of the proprietors and representatives of estates took place, and after a discussion it was agreed that deputies should go to Barbadoes for the general interest of the colony, to ende 'your to obtain a reduction of the present duty on sugar, and a declaration of the inviolability of the slave property. . _ A Lisbon mail has arrived, sailed the 2d of May, the news she brings has not yet transpired. LIVERPOOL, MAY 12. —Although our cotton market has been considerably depressed by the heavy arrivals last week, amounting to 57,880 bags of cotton, still the total amount of imports up to the present time falls far short of the imports to a similar period last year. Public opinion is certainly unfavourable to an advance in prices, under the impression that the imports of cotton at Liverpool will be heavy, and the continental market propia•tionably neglected. The present consumption of cotton wool is solely occasioned by a demand fur home trade, without any export of yarn. It is well known that the usual consumption of cotton-twist exported to the con tinent, is equal to one-third of the imports. TIIF: Last Thursday being a strict holiday at Paris, we do not expect an express from that capital; consequently, it is not thought. that any considerable fluctuation will take place in our market this day. Consols, which left off yesterday at 82 for the at:- count, opened at the same price, and may be quoted at present at IIAL F- PA S7' 7' WEL VE IMPORTANT NEWS FROM LISBON. By a private letter received this morning from Lisbon we learn that the British squadron has appeared off the Tagus in a hostile manner, and sent a message to the British Consul at Lisbon to demand of Don Miguel a categorical answer to the demands of the British Govern ment, without ent:ring into any usgociations on the subject in dispute ; and, in case that the British Consul should be obliged to embark, the Commandeis of the English squadron had orders to make reprisals. The above letter has a postscript, stating...." We learn from good authority that the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs told the Consul that he might he assured that all will be settled by Tutsday next." 1.1 A Lk= PAST ONE. We have received the .I , less(tver des Chumbres of yes terday by ex p ress , but it (Lies not conta i n any la ttr ac counts from the theatre of war, than already published. It is full of the detailed accounts of the late advance and retreat of the Ru.sians, and the Poles are still advancing. Sixteen new French and three German doctors have ar rived at Warsaw. Ad was p rfectly quiet at Paris when the express left. Tree news from Lisbon of importance. The British squadron is lying in the Tagus, and our Consul there li.do orders to demand au immediate answer of Don Miguel without entering into any negotiations on the demands of the Bti,ish Government. It is generally expected he will c Consols are at present 82e. For next time 82i. Nothing doing- in the Foreign liarket. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Causobs, 82i i. . SR Phib Pc Maje Cc from FA the S and L off tL Brito Burin; Fever, lIE a can saved au-P,• coflee Thi Oport saved. 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