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we might . have - toinething• to , fear from ter . too ready and obse quious acquieecence in the views of- Russia, there was nothing to dread from her desire to renew . a contest in which she had already suffered'so severely. Russia seemed to have adapted this, opinion, and to have made it her policy to push herself by imperceptible advances into the exercise of an habitual influence over the councils of the Prince Royal, trusting that her aid might be necessary to establish him on the throne ; and that in this event she would be left in the uncontrolled exercise of an absolute authority in his Government. But the treaty of Goolistan had not defined the line of frontier so distinctly as to leave no room for cavil -and dispute, and the ap pointment of. Commissioners to effect the final demarcation was delayed on various pretexts, till the fresh impressions of what was really meant by the less definite terms of the Treaty, had become faint and imperfect. When Commissioners, ther e for e , were a t length appointed, numberless disputes arose, and the Government of Georgia pressed their claims to insignificant patches of land, as urgently at: if the existence of their national power had depended on their possession. These disputes gave rise to angry discussions, conducted on the one side with the bitterness of wounded pride; and on the other, with the insolence of conscious power. Various lines of frontier were successively proposed by one party, and rejected by the other. Conunissloners met and parted, without having advanced one step towards the adjustment of the points in dispute ; and agents were sent by the Prince Royal to Teflis, and instructions transmitted to the Russian Charge d'Affaires at Tabreez, without any progress being made towards the accomplishment of this object. At length all appeared to be arranged, and a proposal made by the Russian Charge d'Affaires was accepted by the Prince Royal, who was charged with the affairs of the frontier. But the Rus sian agent had exceeded his instructions, and General Yermoloff refused to ratify the engagements which M. Mozarovitch bad contracted. Again all cause of difference was supposed to have been re moved,and a formal engagement was entered into by an agent of the Prince Royal at Teflis; but this the Shah refused to sanction. In the summer of 1825, M. Mozarovitch came to the Shah's camp, for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain his Majesty's ratification of the terms agreed upon between Futteh Allee Khan and General Yermoloff, at Teflis ; but his Majesty distinctly re fused his consent to the arrangement. In the autumn of the same year, M. Mozarovitch left Persia ; and the Government of Georgia, acting on what they called the Treaty of Futteh Allee Khan, which they had previously endeavoured in vain to induce the Shah to ratify, occupied with a military force the lands which would have become theirs; had this treaty taken effect. One of these portions of land was an uninhabited stripe called Gokcheh, which borders on the like of Gokcheh sr Seven, and which had been in the undisputed possession of Persia, ever since the ccmchttrion of the peace. Russian piquets bad been placed there some years bthre, to prevent the desertion of their wander ing tribes who pastured their flocks in summer in its vicinity, and in winter had been regularly withdrawn. To the remonstrance of the Prince Royal against the military occupation of this part of the Persian territory, General Yermoloff had replied, by admitti:, the justice of the Prince's remarks, but excused himself on the plea, that the measure he had adopted was mutually advantageous, and concluded by offering to withdraw the detachment, if his Royal Highness should continue to think it necessary. Yet, after all 1114, Russia, on the strength of an unratified en gagement, concluded by the agent of a deputed authority, takes permanent possession of this very piece of ground, and retains it in the face of every remonstrance which reason and justice could suggest. As soon as the occupation of Gokcheh was known to the Court of Tehran, a respectable envoy was sent to Teflis, to remonstrate against the measure, and to propose that the Russian detachment should be withdrawn, at least until time should be given for an appeal to the justice of the Emperor. But this, toe, was refused— and in answer to the letters which the Shah had written to the Governor-General of Georgia, he was informed that Gokcheh would be given up by Russia, if the lands of Kapan were im mediately evacuated by Persia. These.lands of Kapan had been, from the conclusion of the peace, in possession of Persia; but within a few years a claim, supported by some weighty arguments, had been set up by Russia, - and it remained one of these points which it would have been the - duty of - commissioners to decide upon. The claim, of Persiavere r - at least, as well supported as those of Russia; and some of th• Russian official maps had marked Kapan as belonging to Persia. .1t- wasp therefore, an obvious injustice to seize an un disputed possession of Persia, and demand, as the price of its evacuation, the abandonment of claims, which were probably just, to another portion of territory. At this- time the death of. the Emperor Alexander was an nounced, and the confusion which was caused by the annuncia tion of Constantine as his successor, and the subsequent abdica tion of the throne in favour of Nicholas, suspended the discussions. As soon as the power of Nicholas was known to be established, Persia prepared to send an embassy to St. Petersburgh, to con gratulate the new Emperor on his succession, and to conclude with him the definitive settlement of the frontier. But before arrange ments could be made to this effect, it was - announced that Prince Menchikoff was on- his way to the Court of Persia, to intimate the succession of Nicholas to the throne, and to remove the causes of difference which had arisen between the governments of Persia and Georgia. • The Court of Tehran bad begun to believe that Russia was firm in her purpose to act with a total disregard to justice, and to consider only her own convenience and advantage in the settlement of the frontier. All its recent representations had been treated with neglect, or replied to in an arrogant and insulting tone by , the government of Georgia. Opprobrious terms had been ap plied, it was said, to the Prince Royal, in letters to his servants, and everything seemed to indicate a determination on the part of General Yermoloff, if not of the Emperor, to drive Persia to ex tremity. At the same time it was whispered that the tranquillity of the Russian Empire had been disturbed, that a civil war was carried on in St. Petersburgh, and that the tribes of the Caucasus were already in arms to assert their independence. It was known that the misrule of the Russian Authorities in Georgia, and their wanton interference with the religious preju dices of their Mahomedan subjects, had produced a feeling of se rious discontent. Proposals had even been made to Persia by the heads of the tribes and chiefs of districts, to co-operate with her in a war against Russia. Letters had been written by the Mello ne.dan population of all the Russian provinces bordering on Persia, to the head of their religion, imploring his interference in their behalf, and he bad come from the sanctuary of Kerbelace, expiess • ly to urge the Shah to take up arms in defence of his insulted religion. The whole ecclesiastics of Persia joined their leader, and the mosques were filled with persons of all classes, lending a wil ling ear to the inflammatory orations of their Moollahs, while the Shah was threatened with the curses of the faithful, and even with everlasting perditiou, if he failed to take up arms in the holy cause. In the midst of this ferment, Prince Menchikoff arrived in the royal camp... He was treated with honour, and even with distinc • tion, and a calm and temperate negotiation was opened, with a siucere desire on the part of the Shah to see it terminate in an amicable adjustment of all the matters in dispute. Sanguine hopes were entertained that every thing would be satisfactorily ar ranged ; and if there were some, who, for private ends, wished to hurry Persia into a war, there were many of the moat influential of her councillors who anxiously desired to avoid it. The King himself was of this number; and though he had been. induced to _ _ _ give a solemn pledge to the Moollahs that if Gokcheh was not re stored, he would agree .to make war upon RuSsia, because he would then be justified in doing so, still this pledge,—which had been exacted from him by the influence of the McioNaha on his inability to withstand . their demands,—was given under a moral conviction that the envoy of the Emperor would rather relinquish a worthless spot, to which his government had no just claim, than allow the dispute to be decided by the sword. But, in answer to all demands for the evacuation of Cokelieb, the Russian Envoy replied, that he had no instructions regarding it, and was not empowered to agree to its evacuation, It was pro posed that it should remain unoccupied by ether party, until a re ference could be made to the Emperor. This he was equally un able to coot* with, and he put an end to the discussion by re peating that hia instructions extended to nothing beyond some trifling modifications of the unfortunate unratified treaty of Futteh Alio Khan. - , Those who had been clamorous for war, now called upon the Shah to redeem his pledge, or forfeit his hopes of Heaven. The Ma. nomedans of ,some of the. R ae . j and even the Christians of at a: u p t r o ovinces were already in arms, had been of -these bad made over tures to Persia. The troops excited to enthusiasm by the Moollahs, and the wax was com ma Even after the forces m4rehed to the frontier, had Prince M e nchikoff been empowered to evacuate ok olleh, they would still have been countermanded, and the war would not have taken place. I do not mean to accuse the Court of St. Petersh urgh of a de termination to force a war upon Persia, nor do I tine its envoy for what has occurred ; but there can be no doubt that the harsh, intemperate, and unjust conduct of the government of Georgia has been the cause of the war , and that Russia owes it toe her cha racter for justice and moderation , (if she desires to establish such a character,) to investigate , calmly and impartially, the occurrenc es ou her southern frontier,. and, if she finds them unworthy of h er own greatness, to discountenance and disavow tli'em. There is nothing extraordinary in all this. It will be found that the distant representatives of a government are almost always more jealous and more iatetsperate than the Government itself ; and: that, entering into discussions with all the warmth and vim lenee of personal feelings, and all the pride of power, they are con tinually goading and harassing their weaker neighbours, wit whom they may have occasion to communicate. After the conclusion of peace between Persia and Russia. 1814, the British Government seems to have felt that the jute• grity of the Persian dominions would be best and most effectually I secured by the preservation of amicable relations with Russia ; and, since that period, every thing which could be viewed in the light of a competition for ascendency in the councils of the Shah appears to have been avoided. We seem to have come to some tacit understanding with Russia on this subject, to have made it our study to avoid coming in collision with her in Asia, and to prevent, if possible, any subjects of discussion between the Go vernments from being permitted to arise oat of the proceedings at the Court of Tehran ; in short, to have considered Persia as neu tral ground, which neither party was to appropriate. The general policy of Russia, from the days of Peter I. has uni formly pointed to the extension of her frontier on the side of Persia, and more particularly to the acquisition of the coast of the Caspian Sea. It is difficult to imagine a stronger or better marked boundary than that which formed the frontier between Russia and Persia.—The Black Sea on the one hand, and the Caspian on the other, connected by the stupendous chain of the Caucasus, seem to have been designed by nature for the limits of some powerful nation—for a barrier against some great power. The views which induced Peter to pass this barrier, and establish him self beyond it, must have had some ultimate object of more im portance than the trifling and ill-protected districts which he acquired. When Catherine took Georgia under her protection, and in structed Potemkin to receive the submission of any nation which might be inclined to offer it—when General Goodovich was in structed to admit as vassals the Khan's two Persian towns—when Zuboff was sent into Persia to seize the provinces adjacent to Georgia, as'a retaliation for the attack on Teflis—and when Rus sia became bound to protect, not only the present possessions of the Wallee, but also any lie might hereafter acquire, it was but pur suing the same policy, and following the same views. When General Yermoloff proposed to supply Russian officers to discipline the Persian troops at the cost of his government, when missions were subsequently sent to Khiva and to Bokhara, and when Persia was bound to maintain no navy on the Caspian, which amounted to a total abandonment of that sea to the power of Russia, it was but a steady pursuit of the same purpose. When, at a more recent period, Russia pressed with warmth and intemperance the establishment of a commercial agent at Resht in Gilan; a province notoriously ill-affected to Persia—and when Gen. Yermoloff pushed the Russian troops beyond the line of frontier defined by the treaty, we can see nothing more in these proceedings, than an injudicious and over anxious desire to press forward to the accomplishment of the same objects. If it be true, that the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has sent to its governor in Georgia, repeated and positive, instructions to con ciliate Persia, and to make no exertion to obtain a paramount in fluence in her councils, or to press her to a rupture with Russia; it is plain that its orders have been ill attended to, and that we lose the security which we would otherwise have derived from a confidence-in the moderation of the views of the Russian govern ment. There is a tendency in all subordinate governments of a power ful and more particularly of a rising empire, to press upon the weaker nations with which they come in contact, and when this tendency falls in with the previous policy of the superior state, no general instructions will prevent its being yielded to. Let the progress of our own power in India serve as an unanswerable evidence of the truth of this statement. On the other ,hand, England conies in no way in collision with Persia. Her trade with that country is established on well-defined grounds of reciprocal advantage. Her political connexion with Persia is confined to watching over her interests, and aiding her difficulties. She has no frontier to cause dissensions, and no ob jects opposed to the interests of Persia to pursue. But there is a strong and urgent demand on her to maintain the integrity of Persia, as the best security she can have for the tranquillity of her Indian Empire—and every attempt which Russia may make to trench upon the power of Persia, must be considered a step to wards bringing her in collision with England in Asia, and towards loosening our hold on our Eastern possessions. Supposing that an invasion of India over land were proved to be a chimerical and impracticable scheme, - which it probably is, can it be said that if Russia were possessed of a paramount influ ence at the Court of the Shah, we should be able to sit as se curely in India as we do now, or that the vicinity of so powerful a nation would not warm the hopes of the discontented, and shake the fidelity of many , who have clung to our protection and sub mitted to our authority, because they believed our power to be immovable and unopposed ? These are important considerations, and well-•deserving the serious attention of every one who thinks that the possession of India is an object which Britain ought to contend for and secure. It is said that Persia has hitherto been eminently successful in the war with Russia, and that all the Georgian provinces hare risen to support her. But we know, and she herself knows, that a war with Russia is for her a hopeless undertaking in her present state of preparation ; and that though she has been driven to undertake it by the injuries and insults to which she has been sub jected, and the clamour of religious enthusiasts, she has still more to hope from a speedy termination of the war, and a recurrence to her former relations with her powerful and reckless neighbour, than by protracting a contest, in which she can have nothing to gain. The time cannot be distant when Persia must make peace with Russia, almost on any terms; and if we have rightly estimated the views of Russia, this peace will add something more to her territories, and perhaps to her right of interference in Persian affairs. While Russia is reaping the advantage of a system of aggression and injustice, are we to sit quietly down, and content ourselves with our own purity and good faith, and when we have permitted the time to pass by when we might have counteracted the schemes of the Autocrat or his subordinate authorities, to find consolation in asking, " Who would have thought it?" or in venting our re proaches on the injustice which it is too late to remedy? Persia is naturally a country strong for defence, and few nations can boast a more warlike or efficient population. If Russia may weaken Persia, and thereby injure us, surely we have more justifiable reasons to urge why we should support and defend her by the means which she can herself so amply provide. If aggression can ever be permitted or justified, preparations for defence must always be allowable. Of one thing we may rest fully assured, that Russia, whether from design or from the force of circumstances scarcely within her control, is encroaching, and will continue to encroach, upon the weaker countries which lie on her frontier in Asia, unless some equal power is opposed to her progress ; and that, whether it be effected by slow and insidious approaches, like the advances of the ocean, or by an irruption like the bursting of a mountain torrent, the result will be the same, and the injury to Britain will be permanent and irreparable. COURT OF ALDERMEN. The Lord Mayor held a Court of Aldermen yesterday at Guild hall, at which he made his report of the election of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., to be Alderman of the Ward of Vintry. A petition from Mr. Sheriff Winchester was presented against the above return, as also another petition from Feveral of the in habitants of the ward to the same effect. The Court adjourned the swearing in of au Alderman of Vintry Ward, and also the consideration of the above petitions, copies of which were ordered to be sent to Mr. Wilde, and lie and the other parties were called in and lammed accordingly. The Court were occupied at considerable length in hearing a petition, complaining against the conduct of one of the brokers. PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION.-Thirteen more persous renounced the errors of the Church of Rome at Cavan on Sunday se'nnight. THE TRUE SECRET OF HE A LTH.—Patients come to me, and really think I can cure them by a few cabalistic words, written in the form of a prescription on a sheet of paper; but I say to them---" I cannot put your organs right, unless you will give me your aid and assistance by attending to your diet." I know I affront them, but I cannot help it. I say if a person had the courage to do what C ornaro did, on l y to put as muc h i n t o hi s stomach as he could fairly digest, the community would be very thin of doctors, for there would be little want of them. But all irritation of the bowels is to be most particularly avoided ; for patients feel horribly languid from irritation of the bowels. Per sons go to Cheltenham, to Harrowgate, to Buxton, and they come home and Say how much benefit they have derived from drinking the waters, as if drenching peopl e w i t h water could cure disease. Well, these water-gulping invalids walk about, and take a good share of exercise, and secretions of the bowels of course follow; and the water, &c. are thereby carried off slap dash ; and so they attribute solely to a dose of water, what they should attribute to a dose of exercise. A man came to me and said, " Sir, I hear you are famous, or infamous, for these stomach cases. " Wow, I said, " What is the matter with you?" " Why, Si r, I have too quick a digestion. 1 hare taken your blue pill, Sir." As if this medicine could do good in every case of disordered di gest i ve organs. It i s ce rtainly good where the liver is primarily affected, in doses of three grains every alternate night. But it is in vain you can expect patients to get well all at once, and I generally tell them so.—Abernetliy's Lectures. PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red B2 !.4 per Cent. C0nc....81?y 8O I :N per Cent. Ditto Red. 98 3/y 4 per Cent. New 97 6% ,/.; Ditto, 1826 977s Nt e Bank Long Ann. l9 7.16 India Stock Dittoßonds 54 52 pm. • PRICES QF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. ... Brazilian Bonds 6•43 3 Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 36% 6 14 Danish, 3 per cent. ...... 60U 60 M Greek Bonds Ditto, 1826 l6 Guatimala Mexican Bonds 55 Do. 1825 65% 6 PRICES OF SHARES Pasco Peruvian Mining Company Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Asso Tlalpuxahua Mining Company .... COURSE OF EXCHi Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Antwerp ;2 6 Hamburgh 23y U. 37 3 Altona 234 U. 37 4 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto Bordeaux 25 85 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 154 Petersburg!), role 3 Us. p 0 Vienna, etrective fi . 2 M. 10 - 15 Trieste do. Madrid 3 3% Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville Gibraltar.. 3:31.4 MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. D ue. 0 America 1 0 Guernsey & J erse y. I 0 Brazil 1 0 Hamburgh 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 Donaghadee 0 0 Jamaica 0 1 Dublin (1 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 1 0 France 2 C 3 ottenburgh 0 I Waterford 0 lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. :horning. 3O minutes after 11. 1 Evening 0 minutes after 0. "P' llllll . , LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 7, 1827. At a late hour this morning, an express arrived from Paris, bringing the French Papers of Sunday, and the Etoile of 111onday. The papers are almost wholly filled with the continuation of the debates on the Jury, and on the regulations of the Postage, and contain no other news than the following article de scriptive of the flight of the rebel army under the Mar quis de CHAVES, after the defeat they sustained by the troops under Count de VILLA FLOR, which ap pears to have been obtained ip a great degree by the dismay into which the rebel ranks were thrown, on the report reaching them of the landing of the British - • troops, with the addition of their being on the march for Beira. It'is said that the Marquis de CHAVES has been deprived of the chief command of the rebel forces, and that Viscount MONTEALEGRE has suc ceeded him, but that the Army had dwindled down to 1,000 men, with whom he had re-entered the pro vince of Tras-os-Montes : (From the Etoile.) " PARIS, FEB. 4.—Letters from Madrid of the 25th of Ja nuary say—' From the details respecting the affair of Coruches, it seems that the insurgents engaged amounted to 11,000 men, and that of Villa Flor to 7,000 at most. The victory was warmly disputed during the whole of the day, but the report of the land ing of the English troops, with the addition that they had imme diately marched for Beira, caused a panic terror in the camp of the Marquis de Chaves. The officers and Commanders themselves, except Count Canellas, were the first to take to flight. The sol diers followed, and a great number of them went over to the enemy. When they reached Almeida, the fugitives were beginning to rally, when almost the whole of the corps of Magessi, hearing of the amnesty published by the Regent, went in a body to give them selves up to Count Villa Flor. The remainder were terrified, and fled to the Spanish territory, where in a tumultuous assembly the Marquis de Chaves was d e pri ve d o f th e c hi e f comman d, w hi c h was*given to Viscount Monteleagre, who was able to collect but little more than 1,000 men, with whom he is said to have re-entered Portugal by Trati-os-Montes. The others have dispersed in small detachments, some of whom have doubtless also repassed the fron tiers as Chaves and the other chiefs seem to have done. The Marchioness de Chaves has not come to Madrid, but is with her husband.' " We learn by the last advices from Jamaica, that the House of Assembly had passed a most complimentary vote of thanks. to Vice-Admiral Sir LAWRENCE W. HALSTED, for his conduct during the time he has commanded his Majesty's ships on that station. The following is a copy of the Gallant Admiral's letter to the SPEAKER, in acknowledgment of the Vote of Thanks : • " Admiral's Pen, 9th Dec. 1826. " Sir—lt is with the greatest pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, accompanied by the most flat tering Vote of Thanks from the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica, the value of which cannot but be enhanced by its .coming from so very respectable a body of his Majesty's subjects ; and, in however favourable a light they have been pleased to view toy conduct during the time I have had the honour to command his Majesty's ships employed in the West Indies, I beg in return to assure them, that I shall ever remember. the said period with the most lively feelings of pleasure, as being one that I have passed with great satisfaction, and with less inconvenience than I can remember in the performance of my duty during the course of many years service. , 4 I have now, Sir, the pleasure to request you will convey to the Honourable Members of the Assembly my sincere thanks for the honour they have done me, and you will be pleased to accept the same for the handsome manner in which you have transmitted the said vote with your individual sentiments on the occasion. I must now, Sir, beg to be allowed, in addition, to express my feelings with regard to the West India Colonies, which I do in sincerity and truth, by a hope that they may soon arrive at that pitch of prosperity which all true and honest patriots must ever be anxious to see realized, and which, from their great importance to the British Empire, b ecomes a b so l u t e ly n ecessary, and more particuiarly the I s l an d o f J ama i ca, f rom i ts s it ua ti on , an d t h e many advantages it possesses. - . "I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " L. W. HALSTED. " To the Hon. David Finlayson, Speaker of the Hen. House of Assembly, Jamaica." It would seem that the pacific and highly honour able situation of Ambassador is not necessarily free from peril, if we may judge by the case of Count APPONY, the present representative of the Austrian Empire at the Court of France. His EXCELLENCY seems to have got himself into an awkward situation with the French Marshals. Many of their titles being derived from portions of the Austrian territory, and having been in fact bestowed by Napoleon, in comme moration of victories obtained by him over that .Em pire—the reigning SOVEREIGN is naturally averse to the recollections of defeat and degradation which these territorial appellations are apt to convey ; and has (perhaps rashly) directed his Ambassador, at Paris, to refuse to employ them in his intercourse with the Marshals of France. The result has been, as might be expected, high indignation on their part, evinced in the case of SouLT, Duke of DALMATIA, by a letter, threatening, if not conveying, a challenge to mortal strife. The resentment of OUDINOT, Duke of REG GIO, has been appeased by the acknowledgement of his title, it having been proved to the satisfaction of the Austrian AMBASSADOR, that it was derived from Reggio, in Calabria, not from Reggio, in Modena, as had been erroneously supposed by his EXCELLENCY. When BUONAPARTE had crushed the power of Austria, and by the distribution of Principalities and titles, was endeavouring to perpetuate to all succeeding ages, the recollection of those great events in which he had been the principal, actor, how difficult would he have found it, in the confidence of his might, to realise for a moment the possibility of that great re verse which so soon overtook him ; and to believe that he, the master of half the civilized world—the dispenser of wealth, and honour, and power, should end his days in captivity, and, shut out from intercourse with man on a barren rock in the midst of the ocean—should thus expiate to a certain degree the crimes which he had committed, and the incal culable misery which his wild ambition had brought upon the human race. How absurd would he have considered any prediction of the humiliation which France has since suffered, and that the power which then lay humbled beneath his feet should at no very distant period dare to refuse the acknowledgment of those proud titles which, in the plenitude of his arro gance, he heaped on his followers and friends. The fate of the Lydian Monarch, " By Solon cautioned to regard his eud," and all the "scenes of pompous woes" which the his tory of the world affords, seemed to him, as to the rest of mankind, suited only " To point a moral, or adorn a tale." Even the exactly parallel catastrophe of the Swedish CHARLES displayed to him no warning beacon. But to return to our subject, whatever may be thought of the EA'IPEROR'S objections to some of these titles, there is one, the assumption of which, by a stranger, must be particularly disagreeable : we mean that of the Duke of RAGUSA, Wilkh is nothing more or less than one of his own appellations. Were MARMONT to appear at Vienna, there would then be in that city two Dukes of RAGUSA ; so that the course for Austria to take in this anomalous state of things, is not quite so clear as the French Marshals may. sup . pose. Crowned Heads, •however, in such cases, should always act with the greatest temper and caution, recollecting the vast importance of steps which in private life would be considered of trifling moment.— At all events, it seems rather hard that Count APPONY should be held personally accountable for acting on the instructions of his Imperial Master. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Clock. The British Funds have evinced rather a heavy appearance this morning, and in the absence of any arrivals a number of reports have been in circulation of a change in the Ministry, by the re tirement of Lord Liverpool ; and the re-entry of the refugees into Portugal; the real fact is, we believe, that the Bulls having got rid of a considerable portion of their stock yesterday at a good price, have not the strong inducement they had formerly in sup porting Consols, which opened at the same rate they closed at yes terday, being 811 for account, but have subsequently fallen nearly a per Cent., having been done at 801 ; they are now 81 i t . India Bonds, 52 4 ; and Exchequer Bills, 30 1 pm. I n the Foreign Funds little is doing and every thing is rather lower, Mexican 6 per Cent. Bonds are 66 ; Colombian 361 ; and Portuguese '7si 6 ; Greek, 151 161 ; Danish mai n t a i n t h e i r price being 60 1; and Spanish, in which som e b us i ness was done in theing afternoon rn Shares,for account, of im portance prtancelvort o y worth notice, no e t s i t c e e r , day are nora l 2 any business doing. Three per Cent. Console, 81 1; Ditto India Bonds, 5! 4 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 30 1 pm. FOREIGN FuNns.—Brazilian, 61/ 2/ • Buenos Ayres, 52 4 ; Chain', 37 9 ; Colo m bi an, 1824, 34 ; Danish, 60 / ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 54 5 ; Ditto 6 per Cent., 66 ; Peruvian, 32 4; Portuguese, 75/ 6 ; Greek, 151 161; Russian, 88 ; ' Spanish, 12/ MlNrs.—Anglo Mexican, 30 25 die. ; United Mexican, 10 8 die. ; Brazilian, 1 2 pm. ; Real del Monte, 90 100 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua, 65 70 pm. ; Bolivar, 1 2 pm. ; Colombian, 17 18 per Share ; Potosi, 34 6 per Share. SUARES.-Canada, 2 die. par; Alliance Fire and Life, 101. paid, 8 / per Share ; Ditto Marine, 51. paid, j die. par. Two o' Clock. Consols hare been alternataly buyers and sellers at and are now sellers, with little business doing ; there is no alteration in ' India Bonds or Exchequer Bills ; Mexican and Colombian Bonds remain at the morning's price ; Greek are rather lower, being 15. THREE O'CLOCK Consols, 80-1 81. FOUR O'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICE. Consols 81 Danish Bonds 60+ Do. for Ac, 81 4- Greek Do. 1825 15-a Brazilian Bonds 63 Mexican Do. 1825, 66 Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 88+ Columbian, 1824, 37 Spanish Do. 12+ :S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK South Sea Stock 933. Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d lO 31 pm. Ditt0.......:. 500 2d 30 31 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial —pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Acct. 81% 80% I' 1 INDS AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bondi — Portuguese Bonds 76 Prussian, 5 par cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. `3 B% 8 Spaniili, 1821 12lOG .-... French k Rent es, 5 p. c —t —c. Exchange —f. —c. ---, 3 per cent —f. —c. Exchange —t. —c. AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, £2O 6 54¢ 6 XI 15 • 200 150 .NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47 Genoa 43 'Venice 46 Malta Naples 3B Palermo per oz. 114 Lisbon - 51!4 Oporto 5l Rio Janeiro 4O Bahia 42 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork l% BULLION, PER OZ. X. S. d. Portugal Gold, in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons 3 13 3 New Dollars - 0 4 91 Silver, in ban, standard... 0 4 Ilk TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A very erroneous statement, purporting to be an ex tract from the New Monthly Magazine, was given in your Paper last week, with respect to the introduction of the late Mr. Sheridan into the Club at Brookes's, mul giving (among other misrepresentations) a most circumstantial detail of the part taken by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on that occa sion. There seems to be no ill intention in this idle publication; and perhaps it is not worth while to contradict it; but the fact that Mr. Sheridan had become a Member of Brookes's some time previous to his coming into Parliament for Stafford at the General Election in 1780, which was more than a year previous to the Prince's first appearance in public, and two or three years before his Royal Highness was pleased to do the Club at Brookes's the honour of becoming a Member of their Society. By inserting the above, you will oblige a constant reader of your respectable Paper. AN OLD MEMBER OF BROOK ES'S. " Feb. 6, 1827. INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.) This morning a Special General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock, was held at the East India House, to take into consideration the following propositions, sub mitted by the undersigned proprietors : " TO THE HONOURABLE TEE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. " We, the undersigned Proprietors of India Stock, duly quali fied, request that a Court of Proprietors may soon be called, to which it is our intention to submit the following Propositions : " Ist. To deliberate on the present State of Oriental Educa tion, connected with the absolute necessity for the whole of the Company's Servants in Hindoostan to acquire at least some collo quial knowledge of its popular tongue. " 2d. To determine whether the elementary acquisition of Hindoostenee in this country be not indispensable to Candidates for official appointments previous to their nomination by the Court of Directors, in order so far to secure the future good Government of British India, and the durable prosperity of that vast Empire. " 3d. To decide also on the propriety of the proposed preli minary qualification for Free Merchants, Mariners, and others, be fore granting them a licenoe to reside among a hundred millions of Native Subjects, in daily contact with those European Inha bitants, who, in general, know nothing of the Hindoostanee, and oonsequently may injuriously impede through the multifarious transactions of public or private life, not only the local Autho rities, but the common weal of the People and State. " 4th. For a Copy of the Regulations issued by the Court of Directors, relative to the public examinations at home and abroad of persons intended for the Company's service in India, on their respective acquirements as Oriental Scholars, with the view Of securing efficient servants for the effectual management of uumerous important affairs in our extensive and extending Do mains in the East. " sth. To compare the real expense of the two systems of Oriental tuition existing here since 1818, with the notorious dis proportionate results of each ; the total charge of one mode of Oriental Instruction alone having amounted to 64,000/. for 560 Students, while that of the other was only 4,0001. for communi cating similar information to 1600 Pupils at the Hindoestanecand Persian Lecture Rooms in London, many of whom are now not only very useful Interpreters, &c., but are able and ready to exe. cute other responsible function s in the East Indian Service. "6th. To recommend the adoption of some plan here for the immediate encouragement of appropriate military education and Ori ental literature,with colloquial proficiency amongtheKing'sofficers, the Company's Cavalry and Infantry Cadets, &c. to the serious atten tion of the executive Court, which has done nothing yet to en able youths to proceed hence as Officers, or Linguists, to India, well qualified to command numerous bodies of brave men, by speaking the most current local dialect, and being, at the same time, as well instructed as the Engineer and Artillery Students have long been, at Addiscombe, in those arts of war and tactical exercises inseparable from the due performance of their respective duties in the Indian Army," "JOHN BORTHWICK GILCHRIST, " JAMES PATERSON, " W. MAXFIELD, " W. MASON, " LEICESTER STANHOPE, " JOHN CAPRON, FinsburyLiquare, " JOHN NEILL, " JOHN LEDGER, " JOSEPH 111/ME, " R. SLADE, " J. KIERNAN." " JOSEPH_ DART, Secretary. London, January, 23, 1827. enter on business, C S i o r l () G il e x l ° s e: A % A n s o p c : c r s o o s z l e al i nt r dh ei ß ber o fa e ot i rt n ee s nt o thi sr eo nc 0 1 in ou t h ar . t e s us C hb h jo. eu a c i l r td . begged leave to ea connected with Persia. The CIiAIRMAN here interrupted the gallant Colonel, and said that it was quite irregular to introduce any subject before that Court, unconnected with the special object of their meeting. He had been on many occasions charged with not preserving regu larity at former meetings, mad he was, therefore, now determined to insist that Members should confine themselves to, the object for which they were called together. If any gentleman had any mo tion to make, it was perfectly competent for him to do so after the business of the Court was'over. 'Colonel STANHOPE submitted to the Chairman's decision. Dr. GILCHRIST observed that he conceived it better to intro duce any motion, before the Court should enter on business, when there was a full attendance -of Directors, as if it would be de layed till the end, the one half of the Members wpuld be a way. The CHAIRMAN contended, that his decision teas right, as it was not necessary there should be a full attendance when a motion was submitted, and he therefore hoped the Court miuld support him.—(Hear, hear.) General THORNTON then rose to speak, but was interrupted by the Chairman, who insisted that they should proceed to business. Dr. GILCHRIST requested to be heard in explanation:--(Criee of No, no.) (M T r. h e ti C um HA e ZA b l e tT ide llit t it L th e lt rn h ed e wpaosestuorrewthoeulHd ocnoonuvrianbcl:llriennlthbealt• he was mistaken. Dr. GILCIIRIST acquiesced and said, that he had tomato speak in that House not as an individual, but as a Member of the Com pany. When he looked at the history of the world, he found that there were only two great nations who had preceded us in colo nisation. The Romans, who had the most numerous colonies, carried their language and the Gods of Rome wherever they went, thinking that the more Gods there were, the merrier; and, although he knew that these colonies had crumbled into dust ; yet they left noble monuments behind them, which he was afraid would not be left by ours. It seemed to be our object to feather our own nests, and to come back as rich as we could. He must, however, deprecate an idea which seemed to prevail in that house, via. that if any individual had pointed out any abuses in the system pursued by the Company, he was a libeller. For his (Dr. Gilchrist's) own part he was far from wishing to traduce or libel any man's character, but he would prove from documents which he should produce, the charge which he was about to make. He held in his hand a Gazette, published under the authority of Lord Amherst, from which he would quote some extracts. Here the Learned Doctor was interrupted by a Proprietor (whose name we could not learn), who objected to Lis reading the Gazette. Mr. Hume protested against the interruption received by hi s learned friend, and called upon the Chairman for order. The CHAIRMAN did not consider the learned Doctor out of order, and therefore requested him to proceed. Dr. GiecitaisT remembered that the gentleman who interrupted s r t. /k p l a ee u t l i ,s n , g a r n ea( d l h m e l a A n ial us s c e r if ip w t a s s w d h et i e c i h m u i r n o e u ( l i d to r etakac h e fi t h h .ii i i in '; e ti a ih r ada li t e a s hse t t oau o f p o p rtme opportunity of following his example. The Learned Gentleman then read an article in the Gazette, censuring the motion made by Mr. Hume, for having the Officers of the C ow . pang instructed in the Oriental languages at home, and exulting , at its failure. He observed, in the course of his reading, that hi* wished'every body had a knowledge of the Oriental language. So me people accused him of having a personal object in view, in promoting the measure, but lie thanked God that he was in * a situation in life above the necessity of cringing to any person for htdhaitedi this, d p o l r t d u i n d i ty t jobs or situations. He knew some of the present young officers were fiery and violent fellows ; in fact one of them, with a whip in his hand, threatened to lash Mr. Clark. He (Dr. G.) could not boast of being a strong man, but, if he was insulted in such a manner, lie would have no hesitation in shooting the offender through the head, was not a man to be insulted with impunity. He was ac cused of being an egotist, because he sometimes mentioned his services to the Company, but he conceived every one of the Di rectors could be accused of the same charge, as every one of them igf f , ro : m rl havinghat," t e o g k g e e d v e c r t o y h n e c u p c opportunity l ron e ty d rreai elniDtiiosei proprietors se ex ity f t oo i r•sausaclyodt established i s f n t indulgeh e ne t gii:enouipn Companie st pamphlet,:yof:: an ::ga. tl l observa tionsb on the directorial malversations which prevailwediththinrotuhgehloatiot d ftel u lwe ts d ' y , ieff s a o errse m .n u tH c C li :; mischief would not have arisen. The Proprietor* are the Board of Controul of this Company : they ought to do their duty in time, lest evil should result from its neglect. It is one of those establishments where a few individuals possess the-loaves and fishes, whereas the proprietors have no more than the offias ; after the bears have partaken of the principal share, we 04 jackals come in for our miserable pittance.,—(Much laughter.)-ss The Learned Doctor then read some extracts from a paper of yesterday, which purported to be the address of an American Judge in passing sentence on delinquents) co ncerned in bubbl e Companies." Ev en d ur i ng the trials which have taken place at the present term of this Court, we hare witnessed displays pf depravity on the part of the agents of moneyed. institutions Of the most appalling nature. As common as crimes are in all great cities, yet this community was not prepared to expect from the class of society to which these perpetrators belonged, such a burst of iniquity. These offences have been cha, racterized by the breaches of official and persoual confi dence; by a course o f d ece pti o n and syst ema ti ca ll y pursue d , an d b y ina;ednimouissre4pjlrdescernanftityio;vilocensg,