The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF, THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It would be seen in our paper of yesterday, that the Deputies of France were zealously occupied on Saturday 'with a petition from some absurd person, urging them to claim the bones of Napoleon, and to .transport them from St. Helena to France. The Chamber came to no decision on so weighty a proposition, but so interesting was the topic con sidered, that the debate is to be renewed on Thurs day. It would certainly puzzle people of some in genuity to find out why the free-minded Frenchmen atm present day, living under a liberal charter and a citizen King, should desire again to see among them either the lifeless remains or the living pre sence of their former tyrant. In repealing lately the law which banished from France certain classes of French citizens, it was not thought advisable to abandon one of its previsions, which excludes the family of Napoleon from the French soil. Is the Chamber seriously to continue an unjust sentence of exile , against whole families and generations because they happen to bear the name of Buonuparte, and to make a parade of reversing a sentence of banish ment against his ashes? So much for their consistency ! But, leaving out of view his transcendent victories and everlasting military renown, which have cost France enough already, without the additional ex pense of a funereal mission to St. Helena and a gor geous monument in Paris, what claims. has he on the grateful remembrance of France or of Europe? What reason can be given for invading his repose under the willow of his choice; and parading his re mains before the eyes of a nation which suffered so much from his ambition ? He was twice banished from France in @lf life-time ; be was twice deserted by those who pretended to be his friends; and hav ing exposed his country to the horrors of two mighty invasions, was obliged to quit it amid the execra tions of those whom the armies of the invader re mained to oppress for his sake. What merit did he acquire in exile to balance so heavy an account of calamity, and to allow a surplus to pay for his posthumous transportation to Europe ? The French now justly boast that they enjoy a charter, — that they cherish a constitution which gives them free deliberative assemblies,—that they have re nounced the dazzling splendour of military glory for the more substantial blessings of civil tranquillity,— and that they prize a free press as the source of 'their civilization and the guarantee of their rights.— Is it because Napoleon bestowed or respected these ennobling blessings, that such posthumous honours are to be conferred on him by an enlightened and a free people? What was the charter which he gave to France but the laws of the conscription, or the acts additionel, intended, by an army so raised, to preserve hereditary. despotism in his family ? What were his Chamber of Representatives and Senate but halls where the tribune was silent, or resounded only with the slavish echoes of flattery or falsehood? And when did he show his love of free conversation and a regard for a free press? Was it in banishing Madame de Stael for her bons mole, or ordering Palm, the German bookseller, to be shot for an alleged libel ? We only remember one similar instance of folly said to have been recently perpe trated in the transport of buried remains from one hemisphere to another, and that was in the case of Mr. Thomas Payne, whose bones Cobbett alleges that be brought to Europe, and persists in keeping from their mother earth. If the French Chamber really intend to do any thing in this dirty work, we would recommend them to our old bone-grubber, who must be already inured to the resurrection trade, who will find Napoleon's hair more profitable for rings than that of the American infidel, and who, in fact, will lied any honest occupation more profitable than collecting poor labourers to hear seditious lectures, and filching from their pockets their odd copper, on pretext of sending it to the wounded patriots of Paris. If the French Legislature entertain projects like these, we must conclude that the revolution is not yet ended;' that it is about to extend to the tomb, as well as to the scenes of living existence; and that every political culprit, who was either exiled for his offences or executed for his crimes, is to be restored to his country, or commemorated in an expiatory funeral cerernotty.—Tintes. A sensible pamphlet has been submitted to us, published, indeed, so long . ago as the year 1813, by a Lieutenant in the Navy, an experienced and pains taking man, with apparently a strong desire to pro mote the weltitre of his profession. The title of the work is, An Essay on Naval Discipline, showing part of its evil cll'ects on the minds of the Offi cers—on the minds of The Men—and on the Com munity ; with an amended system, by which Press ing may be immediately abolished. Tide is a com prehensive index to the contents of the worthy Lieutenant's pamphlet t but we think that he• has really touched upon every topic which the has advertised.' The general scope of the author ' s book is a complaint of the harshness and cruelty practised systematically by superiors towards inferiors in the navy, and, allowing fur the soreness of a men who had himself suffered what he con ceived to be oppression from a commanding officer, there are many propositions and remarks interspersed through his essay which seem to be. worthy of at tention. At the head of all a sailor's grievances, impressment stands first and most conspicuous; nor have we ever seen a human being bold enough to justify that heart-rending outrage against the rights and comforts of existence, upon any plea but one,—viz. its necessity, - -implying that the Go vernment was no mote a free agent than the unfortunate man upon whom its political dis tress re-acted in a manner so revolting. It certainly does appear an the face of it • a little strange, that in a nation 'so proverbially brave, enter prising, and maritime, as the British, it should be requisite to force die seafaring class of it to defend their country, and on their own accustomed ale merit, But, to come at once to the point, we have never yet conversed with any one who could prove to us that it was possible- o remedy this evil by a simple abolition of impressment. They say, " Take none but volunteers, actuated by love of ' country—by a noble ambition, and so forth,—men who will do their duty from love of it, not from fear of punishment." This is all very good. If setoocn are not to be bunted and impressed, why then they must be invited into the navy. But how if they will not accept the invitation? Must the fleets of be left without bandit to eavigate them 0 There are three obstaties to the entrance of volin= tees! into the navy, so long Oa England gliarll have a commercial marine requiring sailors from the same market its his Majesty's vessels. In the first place, the wages paid to the crews of men of war have hardly ever in war time equalled those of the mer chant service; one obstacle, therefore, is inadeqweie psy. Seeondy, the - crews of men of war have hitherto been evaipelled to serve for the whole period of humeri life,--a dreadful prospect this for tiny man who feels, as we all must, the appetite for poirgOaal liberty, The excessive and indefinite restraint of the navy, therefore, is a second obetecle to the, oli 7 taming of volunteers in eufficient numbers to tiVi. gate and fight our ships. .Thirdly, a rooted mid irreconcileable hatred to the discipline exercised over the seamen after they have entered, is an obstacle the force Of which, we acknowledge, lut ,, been much impaired since the pamphlet was originally published, thOugh of its existence and previdetiee to certain degree it is impossible to entertain a doubt. ha true remedies for the wrong of impressment, therefore, ere pointed out by the nature of the evilil which hese tendered necessary a practice so foreign to all the institutions and ad the characteriities of this free country. Th. seamen .on board 'men of war ought to he assured oterputl wages, or nearly equal, to those which are. paid by the steerage of rlVata merchants, They ought. to be assured of an opportunity of returning to d o s e families • sonalde time after leaving home awl tt b in rea sieves during the whole of life, or ' only made condition of decrepitude which reriders - m re 71 in a of bodily lehour. The lititich seaman, " like ilier British subjects, ought to besiecured ngeirrirt c a . tpricions and unprovoked severity, frorri the Captel;i am) his aulialtern hathaws,-$lll4l either recompensed or punished on principles which bespeak.an acknow ledgment of every man's right to justice: • We may from time to time revert to the various questions treated of in the pamphlet under consideration, not pursuing them consecutively, or with much regard to system, but feeling that, one and all, they well de serve to be placed before an intelligent public,•;-- Tim% The reports of atrocities committed on English residents in Brussla are, we regret to say, more than confirmed. In the Belgium Journals these atroci ties are attributed to the Dutch ; the Dutch again throw them on the people of Brussels. The fol lowing► letter from the same English source with one which lately appeared in the chronicle on the same subject, attributes the outrages exclusively to the Dutch : TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. " Bruxelles, Oct. 1, 1830. Slll,—ln my last communication I undertook to send yo'u a detailed and an authentic account of the numerous atrocities committed on English residents hers by the Dutch troops in their recent attack of this city. In this letter you will find that promise fulfilled. Now that the Belgians have nobly delivered their country from the tyranny of the Dutch, we rest assured that the letters of the English will no longer be opened and stopped, as they have hitherto been, to afford information to a feeble and suspicious Government. " The Belgian Papers will have informed you that an army, composed of nearly 80,000 men, the ' elite' of the Dutch troops, with an extensive train of artillery, most completely appointed, quitted Holland only a few days since, for the conquest of the Belgic territory; that this army appeared suddenly nn the boulevards of Brussels; and without the usual form of summoning a besieged town, at once employed every horrid implement of war against this open' 'and almost defenceless city, many of whose inhabitants were asleep at the commencement of the assault; that during four days of continued bombard ment with heavy artillery, mortars, Congrevo rockets, and other projectiles, the Dutch officers set an example to their men of all that has ever been related in history, or can be conceived by the imagination, as most barbarous and atrocious—pillage, assassinations, incendiarism, viola tion—an example of crimes of which no horde of savages has ever been known to be guilty, even against its deadliest foes—crimes, not only sanctioned, but positively justi fied' (to an Englishman) by the Prince Frederick, whose first campaign has opened with the massacre of his father's subjects !! ! There has been an insanity in these bloody excesses of the Dutch, " Providence, however, has,willed that citizens, hastily assembled—irregularly armed—without military chiefs— without any combined plan of operation—deprived of almost all means of defence by the treachery of several of the upper classes of the Bourgeois—confounded by alarm ing reports, industriously circulated by traitors, who had been bought by the King with Belgic gold—that these citizens, thus unprepared and defenceless, should, after four days of heroic resistance, have driven their cruel enemies into an ignominous flight, diminished in numbers, dis graced in reputation, and thoroughly demoralized, too fortu nate if they ever reach the turpid waters of Holland in their retreat. They carried back to his Majesty of Hol land the bloody fruits of fifteen years' misrule over this noble people. They will be the heralds of his just de thronement, as they have been the sanguinary instruments of his vindictive obstinacy. " Thus, however, has it pleased Almighty God, by whom the people rule,' to prosper the righteous cause, and to avenge the injuries so lung, so loudly, and so vainly complained of by an enlightened and generous nation ! While the Monarch of Holland shall be recorded on the page of history, as the barbarous butcher of the Belgians, it will be said, in after ages, that the br.ive Belgic race displayed not less of mercy and generosity towards their wounded enemies and prisoners, than they bad evinced re solution and heroism in driving the invaders from their soil. " EXCESSES COMMITTED BY THE DUTCH TROOPS IN THE HOUSES OF THE ENGLISH AT BRUSSELS. " The Lord Blantyre mortally wounded, whilst sur rounded by his wife and family. " The wife of the Maitre (Motel of the English Em bassy most brutally treated on the boulevards, and her children during some hours menaced with death before her eyes. " Numerous Englishmen dragged out of their houses, and compelled, at the point of the bayonet, to surrender their money and other valuables. " Numerous houses belonging to the English fired upon, broken into, furniture destroyed, pillaged and burnt. " The daughter of an English Field Officer cruelly mal treated, his own life threatened, his plate carried off, his cellars emptied of their contents, and all his money stolen. " An English servant, living in the h',►ubourg of Scheer breek, crucified at the door, burnt by a slow fire, and his body pierced with balls and bayonets. " The house of an English gentleman, in the Rue Royale, completely sacked, and plundered of plate and money, and other valuables to on enormous extent—himself dragged out into the street to be shot, and only saved by a mi racle. " Two families, entirely composed of English females, and together in one house near the Pare, robbed of every thing, after having been threatened during many hours with instant death ; compelled to taste the liquors demanded, as a proof of their not having been poisoned. " The d aughter of an Englishman violated before her father's eyes, and then shot. This roan will complain to our Government at home. " A hoard ing-school for young ladies broken into, and seventeen violated—the report of the surgeon attending th e m- 0 1 these not known how many are really English ! " But, Sir, here 1 must stop—the heart sickens at the relation of such horrors, and I am lost in tears and indig nation. Throughout the whole of the recent proceedings here, the Dutch have evidently, and' no doubt by autho• rity,' selected the English residents at Brussels, as the esiecial, but not, alas ! the exclusive' objects of their furious atrocities. The Belgians have their tale too of h orrors to record. As far as the English are concerned, I do hope that these details will have a direct and positive influence on our Government in their view of the Belgic question, as in their dealings with the Ex-King' of the :Pays Bas—and that the people of England will never allow our Ministers to enact a Crusade for the worst of causes, ' Royal tyranny,' over a nation, whose will it is to be free, and to have a national existence.' This is certainly an appalling list of outrages ; but we ate at a loss to understand how it can be ascertained they are Dutch, except in the sense that the Government instigating the attack is Dutch; for we presume the regiments Ni ere us muc h B e l g ian as Dutch in composition. The army has always been in Holland, a still more degrading occupation than in England, and it is possible that the compeisition of sonic of the regiments is not over and above good. However this' inay be, the fact is but too certain that humanity has been sadly outraged on this Occasion. One melancholy case has been communicated to us on the best authority. An English Officer, whom we forbear to name, had lire daughters violated ; three of them are binee dead, anal it is not expected that the remaining two will survive. Some of the English, we know, at tribute their sufferings to the populace of Brussels, Father then to the Belgian or Dutch troops. One reason assigned fur the outrages not being Dutch is, that the Dutch were themselves ism such constant fear of the people of Brussels, from the hatred borne them, that they thirst not straggle. Another reason assigned is, that our countrymen and the people of Brussels have very long borne no good will to each other. We have heard that one great rause of the misunderstanding was the foolish aris tocratical pretensions which, we are sorry to say, inake Englishmen the object of very general dislike in every cotory, Every one at all acquainted with society in England is aware that exclusiveness is the great object aimed at; that every town, and even village, is divided and-subdivided according to the supposed wealth eh(' style of living of the inhabi tants. This morgue was carried so tar, we learn, in Brussels, that it was understood, if any Eng li sh family visited in a Belgian family, they were ex cluded from English society. 'When people take so much pains to make thetwelves disagreeable, it is impossible they should not sometimes succeed. This i 3 no excuse . for the barbarous and most in human treatment which our countrymen have ex perienced; and we pity most sincerely the sufferings of the unfortunate parents. But we cannot, et the same time, help regretting that the natives of this country, when their poverty or the state of their health, or the wish for a more rational education than they can obtain at home, drives them to seek hospitality 'Aimed, should be so ill-advised as to en deavour t 9 make themselves disagreeable to those whose guests they► are. We ought to eonfina our national absurdities to our own island.—Morning Chronicle. The persons who have been principally instru mental in creating the popular delusion relative to the office of Coroner are not pleased with our re marks on the subject, nor did we expect that they Would. Mr. Wakley says that we ought to have stated our opinion at the time of the electiott s but that, instead of doing so, we let the mischief be done, and spoke of it afterwards. We do not know that any mischief happened through our silence, in asmuch as from the beginning to the end of the pop the medical man was in a minority, and it was evi dent from the first day that he could not succeed,-- But, had it been otherwise, it would not have caused us to act differently from what we did, as, when party spirit ran so high, calm reason had little chance of being listened to, and any thing we could have said, to show the absurdity of electing a medical man to an office strictly legal, might be supposed to be uttered in a feeling of partizanship, and to serve the purpose of the then present election. In the success of neither of the candidates personally did we feel the least interest. We know nothing of the professional acquirements of Mr. Baker, who may make a very good or a very inefficient Coroner for what we can tell; he is, we understand, a pluralist in legal offices; and, if so, though we support ,the principle of choosing a legal man, yet he is not exactly the sort of candidate whom we would hay . e recomaiended. We do not approve of pluralists i n civil offices any more than in the Church; but, thougk a legal man, who has to attend to several offices cannot be supposed to execute the office of Coroner very well, we are clearly of opinion that a medical man, unacquainted with law, could not ext- cute it at all. We have given our reasons for this opinion, and Mr. Wakley, instead of answering them, has chosen to attack a statement winch we did not make, and which, if we did, would have been at variance with the whole tenour of our argu ment. He says—" The writer in the Morning Herald compared the Coroner to a Judge." We did no such thing. So far from it, we distinctly stated that the Coroner's " inquisition" was only in the nature of a bill of indictment, to put a person upon trial without the intervention of a Grand Jury —and, consequently, the whole of the proceedings which led to that inquisition were only initiative and inquisitorial. This distinction between the judicial and inquisitorial office we had previously drawn, in alluding to the case of Mr. St. John Long, when some of our contemporaries treated the verdict of the Jury as the result of a judicial proceeding, and commented upon it accordingly. We stated then that they had no more right to make that verdict or inquisition a sub ject of comment before the trial than they had to discusa the contents of an untried bill of indict ment. Having now stated what we did not say respecting the office of Coroner, it may be neces sary for ua briefly to repeat the arguments we really did use, 113 some pains have been taken to misrepre sent them. We stated that it was necessary to have a legal man for a Coroner, because, although a Co roner is not a Judge, he is, even in the capacity of inquisitor, just as a Magistrate would be, who con ducts the initiative process of the law, bound to re• ceive no evidence but whet is admissible according to the established rules of evidence—and, there fore, he must know those rules of evidence well to know what testimony to admit and what to ex- I elude ; and there is no part of the law of England more nice and complicated i n i ts nature t h an the law of evidence, or that forms a more important branch of legal education. We said that a medical matt, summing up evidence to the Jury, would find himself as much astray as a legal man giving a lee ture.on morbid anatomy. We said that the " which is the Coroner's record of the pro ceedings and the " finding" of the Jury, requires to be drawn up with ell the technical accuracy of a bill of indictment—and if it should be drawn up in an informal or unlawyerlike manner, it would be in evitably quashed, on being produced in Court, and all the proceedings on the Coroner's inquest would go for nothing. And we presume a medical man, if lie be good for any thing in his own profession, ought to know more about writing a prescription than drawing a bill of indictment, or accurately pro pounding to a Jury the refined legal distinctions which exist between some cases of murder and some cases of manslaughter. We also said that, " if the argument for having a medical Coroner be valid, the twelve Judges, the Recorder of London, and all the Recorders and Criminal Judges throughout the kingdom, ought to be either surgeone or physicians." We used this a s an argumen t a f or tiori; for, if it be necessary that the Coroner, who conducts but the initiative process of the law, should be a medical man, to prevent mistakes in criminal jurisprudence, how much more necessary is it that those who finally try the cases should be medical men, as the mistakes of the Coroner may be repaired, but those of the Judges are irreparable ? It is the duty of Coroners and Judges to be acquainted with medical jurisprudence—but, to apply that knowledge rightly, they must be lawyers, and not medical men.- 11101ning Herald. Whatever may have been the original character of the Belgian insurrection—however inexcusable may have been the first acts of the populace at Brussels---or whatever may be the fate of those who have fought to achieve the independence of their country, we think there is no one conversant with the intelligence received since our last publication, who will not now admit, first, that the insurrection is national, and not a merely popular, movement; secondly, that the Belgians have now great cause of irritation ; and, thirdly, that however patriotic may be the disposition of the King, his counsellors have wholly failed on the present occasion in mani festing the judgment which ought to predominate in the councils of such a Sovereign. We deem it ne cessary to state these matters pointedly, because much misconception, and consequent miarepresen tutioe, is elliroad on the subject---because it is still studiously attempted to be inculcated to the people of England that the Belgian insurrection is only a popular ferment, which ought to be put down, not by the strong arm of the law, but by the stronger arms of fire and sword—rind further, because it is still asserted, in an evening print on which we have already animadverted, that die insurrection is no more to be justified now than in the first instance. Against such misconceptions and misrepresentations we here enter our protest. The first movement in the Belgian Revolution NUS undoubtedly a mere popular commotion, as first movements in such mighty affairs genera ll y a re , and the acts of the people, as is also not unusual in such cases, directed against persons and things which they ought to have preserved and protected ; and such acts we are its Gtr from think ing of justifying us even the King of the Nether lands himself; but every thing, g oo d or evil, must haveaelt'it t e r a i l t i , abte l should g:rpeople' vge at o nc e tnd r: its iti t w dirgnourbt:iignorant, and express i too much to m patient, s desire for u redress of grievances, in the sam e quiet, harmless, and ceremonious mod e as an assembly of Senators and Legislators. Be this, however, as it may, a population of arm e d c i t i zens put down by force the violating of property, anti having removed from Brussels the armed mass es o f soldiery whose presence irritated the populace, Set t h emselves to work iii earnest, but with respect and loyalty to procure the redress of those gri evances, the continued existence of which, coupled with the national anti pathy, or rather hatred, felt by every Belgian to wards the Dutch, had given rise to the first effer- , ves e e nc e . Deputations wer e a p po i nted and sent to the King, with petitions and lists of grievances, to which lie replied, first, by assembling an extraor sbld. ditiary Session of the St a t es -G eneral, where the Belgian people could not expect to be beard, sing their Deputies, both person and utidly, thought, y were certain to be under constraint; and, secondly, sending against the authors of the Petitions bands of soldiery, whom, after four days' fighting, the Bel g i ians succeeded n again d r i v i ng from Brussels Here was the grand fault com m i tte d by the advisers of time King; and they are now reaping the cookie. „owes, They insisted OR treating that as a local disease, which . wiL in trfith.:tortatitutional—thdy: would persist in seeing only a popular ferment, or causeless tumult, in What was a national rising; and the consequence has been, not only the loss of pro perty and lives to a great extent, -and without any ground for the shedding of blood, but the Widen ing of the breach which previously existed be tween the Belgians and the Dutch, and we fear the ultimate separation of Belgium and Holland. The King ought , to have conciliated his Belgian subjects by redressing their grievances, and not to have irritated them by a useless display of force. He ought to have cast a veil of oblivion over the first acts of the insurrectionists, and continued as decirous of removing every just cause of complaint, as they were strenuous in insisting upon it ; and had he done so, every reflecting person must agree that the revolutionary movement would have been speedily at an end, and Belgium as free from dis turbance and bloodshed as England now is. But could it be expected, that a people who conceived that-they had been treated more as a conquered na tion, than as loyal subjects—who, during fifteen years, imagined that they had enjoyed only a semblance of freedom—who were joined by foreign force to Hol land, and not by their , own will—would lay down the arms which they had taken up, without endeavouring to obtain by force, what was refused to their prayers? The calculation olt 'they would do so was ridiculous under any circumstances, but more especially under the peculiar circumstances of a people who had to complain, first, that the Ministers of the Crown were not responsible—secondly, that the Judges of the Courts were removable at pleasure—thirdly, that the press, and the whole expression of public opinion, was at the mercy of Courts thus constituted, and of Judges in whom no faith could be reposed, because, from their tenure of office they must, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, be under the influence of the Court. Thus, as is well stated in the last Number of the Westminster Review, (the ablest Number by the bye, which we have ever seen of this very able work) " the three great practical secu rities of constitutional liberty were wanting in the Netherlands—the responsibility of Ministers—the independence of the Judges—and the freedom of the Press." Nor is this all. The Belgians, by their union with Holland, not only became liable to the payment of a debt, with the contracting of which they had nothing to do, but considered themselves aggrieved by a forcible union with a people whom they universally disliked. " The loi ondOntentale, or constitution," as is truly stated in the Westminster Review, " was never accepted by the Belgians they refused it, and it was imposed upon them t it is doubly hard, therefore, that its promises, such as the securities we have here mentioned, which, or at least two of them, are there directly stipulated for, have not been kept. We have said that the Belgians, in point of fact, refused the loi Jbndamentale, which they are now at least content to live under with some amelioration.. The States-General of Holland accepted it unanimously the Assembly of Notables in Belgium rejected it. The circumstances were these : " In the nine departments of Belgium 1603 notables were convoked : 280 never attended to the summons. Of the 1323 that appeared '796 voted in the negative, and 5 27 in the affirmative. Of the 796 negative votes 126 were given on grounds of religious nat ure , the Catholics refusing to accept a Protestant King, and these votes were put aside as contrary to the dynasty, and going beyond the question. This reduced the negative votes, to 670, and gave a majority of 143 voices for the rejection of the con stitution. In this difficult position, the Government re solved to consider the absent 280 notables as consenting by their silence. By this extraordinary measure a pre tended majority of 11 voices was vamped up, and on the 24th August, 1815, the adoption of the constitution, or loi forulamentale, was proclaimed." Such is a hurried sketch of the questions at issue between the King of the Netherlands and his Bel gian subjects. The mode in which they have been discussed by both has been highly reprehensible and injudicious ; but we still hope that the door is open for reconciliation, and that the total separation of Belgium from Holland, which is now threatened, may still be averted, and the peace of Europe re main uncompromised by the numerous dangers to which either such a step, or further hostilities, would so greatly expose it.—Morning Advertiser. We are glad to perceive that the majority of our brethren unite with us in deprecating any inter ference in the affairs of the Continent, and that the Government shows no inclination to take part either with the Dutch or the Belgians. This is as it should be. There is no casus fecderis—no treaty which binds us to support the former order of things against the declared wish of either of the contracting parties that it is incompatible with their prosperity. All the treaties entered into by the Government of this country, which have reference to the peace of Europe, arose, as we showed yesterday, under a wholly different aspect of affairs than that which now exists, and had respect, not to internal com motions for the redress of grievances, but to external invasion. But no one has invaded the kingdom of the Netherlands ; and there is therefore no ground for, as we are confident there can be no truth in, the reported application of the King for aid to put down his rebellious subjects. Crusades in favour of royalism are now, in fact, out of date ; and if they were not, the British Minister who, with the recol lections of the last continental war, and the debt which now presses so heavily upon us in conse quence of it, would run a risk of exciting a general war throughout Europe, would be more fit for St. Luke's than for an office in Downing-street. But as we have already said, we have no apprehensions on the subject.---Morning Adverliser. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.—His Majesty's brig Musqito, 10, Commander Charles Bentham, arrived this morning from the Mediterranean ; having left Malta as far back as the .sth of August, we have more recent accounts than she brings of our squadron in that sea. She has been to Tripoli, where she was detained till the 16th ult. by the British Con sul, in consequence of the presence of a French squadron, the Commandant of which had demanded -a tribute of 33,000/. sterling, for various aggressions committed by that State against the French inte rests; with this the Dey at first hesitated to com ply, but ultimately agreed to the exaction, and was compelled also to make an apology for an insult offered to the French Consul, Baron Rosseau, in some matter relative to the papers of the lute I Major Laing, which papers,. by the way, it was strongly suspected were in the possession of Roe.. seau, though be denies the fact. It is presumed that from these papers Cnillie has lately published his work on Africa. The Musquito called at Tunis, Algiers, and Oran. At Tunis no tribute had been exacted by the French, as supplies had been unin terruptedly given to the French army from that p l ace . At Algiers, the French army was found to be reduced to 9,000 men, who were concentrated in the city and dared not venture a musket shot's length from the walls, excepting in a strong body. It was stated that not less than 150,000 Arabs and other enemies were in the vicinity, vowing hatred to the French. The English were much respected, an instance of which, was r ecent l y exemp lifi ed by an Arab Chieftain, into whose power the crew of a vessel that Was Wrecked about two miles from Al. giers fell, and who apprehending consequences fatal to them if they declared their nation, stated they were British. The Arab Chieftain doubting the truth of their assertion, communicate d with th e British Consul, desiring to know if they were sub jects of England ; if so their lives should be pro tected, but if French, their heads should be cut °IT in five minutes. To save this massacre, the Consul is represented to have persuad e d hi m their relation was true. Great numbers of the French troops to that had sickened had b een sent to Minorca re cover, and the garrison of O ran bad been with drawn. The Musquito left Gibirioall c Gibraltar on the I6th oft., with th e R evenge , 74 , Copt. . o.Bridg eman, from whi c h s hi p she parted two days aft er , o ff Cape Trafalg ar . She may be, t herefore, ho ur l y ex peered.. The Meteor steam-vessel, Lieut. Symonds, arrived to-day from the eastward. She was tqatelY Feplehished with coals from this dock-yard, and proceeded this afternoon to Lisbon with dis patches for the British Cons u l, th e na t ur e of which, it ie conjectured, has 'reference to the refusal of Don Miguel to give up the papers of those merchant vessels captured a short time since by the Portu guese squadron off Terceira, which vessels were restored tipon the arrival at Lisbon of the Galatea. It will be in the recollection of our readers that some difficulty was thrown in the way of delivering up the papers, when the Galatea left Lisbon, but .which the Consul, thought he should overcome without the interposition of the British frigate. It appears, however, that he has over-calculated his personal weight with Miguel's Ministers, for the refusal of the papers is still persisted in. Lander, the enterprising traveller, landed at Ba dagry on the 23d of March, by the Clinker, Lieut. Matson, and it is ascertained that he had gone safely through the Badagry dominions--a journey into the interior of about seven days. Lander was' the bearer of a present to the King of Yourou, who was known to be in possession of Mungo Park's papers ; after obtaining which, Lander intended to proceed to the Luke Tchad, and narrowly survey the Whole of its coast. In Hamoaze--Caledonia, Kent, Racehorse, Bram ble, Royalist, Pickle, Marchioness of Queensberry, Duke of York packets , Hermes and Columbia steam vessels.—HampshireTelegraph. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday.) It is confidently reported in the best informed military circles, that the object in calling for a statement of the services, and record of other particulars, from every officer in his Majesty's service, by the late experienced Secretary at War, Major• General Sir H. Hardinge, is to extend the advantages of the warrant for regulating the pay, half-pay, and retirement of staff and garrison officers, dated the 29th and 30th of July, 1830, to the army at large; and that the rates of full and half-pay will be regulated by a sche dule proportioned to the length of service in a similar ratio, as there is scarcely a corps in the service affording instances of the promotion of officers without purchase, equal to the gracious provision prothulgated in the war rant. It is also expected that the lieutenants who were actually serving on full pay in 1811, and the captains holding their regimental rank, with superior brevet rank in the army of the year 1808, who did not accept the boon of promotion offered to them, will have their va cancies filled up by an equal number from the seniors of their respective ranks, which would give unattached pro motion to almost all the newly created brevet majors (as thus', of the Artillery, Engineers, and Marines, might not accept it), the averageof whose age and service, who have obtained their several promotions without purchase, is, age 50 years, and service 32 years, supposing them to have entered the army at 18, to hare served two years as ensign, eight as lieutenant, and 22 as captain; and the lieutenants of 1812, by the same calculation, would average 39 years of age, and 21 years of service. Captain Holyoake's company of the 56th Regiment, at Ennistimon, and the detachment under Lieutenant Aylmer, at Corofin, have joined head-quarters in this gar rison. No more military parties will occupy the above stations. The detachments of the 74th at Tipperary and Cashel are shortly 'to join head-quarters in this garrison. In future the military at Tipperary and Cashel are to be sup plied by the regiment stationed at Templemore. Lord Hill, the General Commanding-in-Chief of his Majesty's forcer, arrived at the Albion Hotel, Chester,. with his private secretary, Colonel Egerton, on Friday last, and reviewed the depot of the 53d Regiment stationed there, of which be is Colonel. The let Royals enjoyed excellent health at Bangalore on the 20th of April. The 30th Regiment have left Weedon barracks for Hancheater. Major Ryan has joined the bOth Regiment in Waterford. A soldier of the Nth Regiment deserted from hospital this week, and carried off three watches, the property of his comrades. On Friday night three fellows, with reaping hooks, pursued a soldier belonging to the detachment of the '74th Regiment stationed in Tipperary, and having overtaken him, lacerated him terribly. After cutting his ham strings, the brutes leaped upon his body, and left him for dead. The perpetrators of this outrage are in custody. A considerable reduction will take place in the excise department. As Colonel-in-chief of the Rifle Brigade the sum drawn by the Duke of Wellington from the Treasury is only 2481. annually, but as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards he receives every year 2,6951. The total income his Grace derives annually from dices under the State is 19,1791. 9s. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR SEPT. The same variable weather characteristic of the whole past season continues : perpetual and quick alterations of wet and dry, heat and cold. The quality of the corn will necessarily partake of this variety in the season. Thus far, the accounts of superabundance, particularly in the wheat crop, are fully maintained, and that part which has been saved in good condition will prove a heavy and fine sample. The present year has run counter to an old saw— we always said, after our grandfathers, "A dry summer for the wheat crop." Now, our farming sages attribute the weight and goodness of the wheat to the fertilizing quality of the rains, an effect which they have indubitably had upon poor, sandy, and arid lands; and the uncommon large produce of such inferior soils has helped, in a material degree, to augment the national stock. It would seem, however, that few of them need any persuasion to such effect. The Continent, ac cording to recent accounts, has not shared our good fortune. In Russia, and the northern parts of Ger many, the crops have failed. The Government of France has forbidden exportation; and, as the crops have also failed to the southward, there will be a considerable de:nand for exportation to the Medi terranean. This will cheer our farmers by its ne cessary effect of preventing prices from suffering that great reduction which has so long been expected in our markets. They have not, indeed, hitherto been overstocked with new wheat, little of which has been offered in a fit condition for grinding. It will be in the interest of the landlords to be as forbear ing as possible in the collection of their Christmas tents, that their tenantry may be enabled to hold their corn for an improvement of its condition and for a market. Harvest will be protracted to a late period. Ac coral% to letters from :the northern extremities of the country, there is corn, particularly oats, which has not yet assumed the harvest yellow—such will not be cut until nearly the middle of the month ; Wheat sowing will be necessarily late this year, during the whole of which harvest operations, instead of following in usual and regular succession, have run one into the other. The low clay lands, foul as they are, will work badly, and bring so sodden with wet, it will be almost impracticable to draw any ma nure upon them. Both oats and barley, though ailing upon many parts of the poor soils, it is sup posed will be generally large crops; but of the latter, fine malting samples, which begin already to be inquired for, will not be abundant. Where oats have succeeded, they are said to be the largest crop within memory, both in corn and straw. Lat.. tamath turnips, on some favoured soils, are spoken well of, and are said on others to have made a poor progress. The turnips, though they escaped the fly, are very backward in the bulb. The seeds have not greatly improved from want of a genial summer warmth, and the young clovers have been pinched, and even mildewed, and the potatoe haulm blacked by the se- 1 verity of the night air. Quantity, not quality, will be the characteristic of the meadow clover and sain foin hays of the present year. A decisive opinion of the bean crop is not yet given, but there seems little apprehension of a failure; as to pease, they are estimated at half a crop. Of potatoes the sup ply will be satisfactory, both in quantity and quality. Of hops no hope exists of any thing like a crop. As to fruit, instead of the predicted scarcity, we hear of so great an abundance in some parts of the country, Suffolk particularly, that the growers scarcely know what to do with it. The supply of all culinary vegetables is most ample. Ott the whole our accounts from the country are by no means of that despairing tone which so generally prevailed a few months past. LONDON MARKETS'. '* 4 e• PRICN OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is :Oil : o fislili 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from )4d. 4.41 1 ,46011 011 that price. PItICE OF SEEDS.-Oct. 4. : - c. New Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -o. r 4 l. J( I' 4 Old Ditto Ditto « -a. -4. , Mte . 4 New Foreign Ditto - 525. 70c , fltit ISLION. Old Ditto . -4, .-4. tine ...LA New White Clover 6os /Os. line -0.. 4 Okl Ditto Ditto . --s. --a. lit* .1. - 4 New Trefoil . . _ 20.101., ine rOt a Old Ditto , Rib Grass - los. 00s. llnets_ ,:.. English Carraway 5c et1.............••••......... 0.4. wog: 504 SPAT Foreign Ditto Coriander _ St. F0in_..........----(per Quarter).............. -s. 421, f1h0gw44..., Rye GUM ................w..0.r.................v.0 201. WC 1 Pell o /" . Pacey Ditto 4 4 0 4. 4 54 . Jn e f .7 1 Linseed, for feeding _ , -.4 • 00s, Po ...i. Ditto, for crushing •• 445. 4f4. . 010101 , Canary Seed, New... - _ ..-o. ,46 6 tine tp: Ditto Old ....4 .1. .. 4 . .1. „ White Mustard Seed.-4.(per 8u5he1)..... -s. lbs. IRS.' ". Brown Ditto -4.105. S. 14sip:04. Turnip Seeds, Rounds. . --. -4. ..74.41 .. _, Green and Red Ditto ' ..4. 4.4, sae. 30. ithe 4l * Tama, Okt ••••••••••1M0M............100/..• OW* 0 ;Anil Ditto New ..............-.....-....................................., ....4.. I- 4 ._.17 v Ra?e Seed, English, tine (per Last) 321. V..... 2 PrF,P_lr ------ PltlCk;S OF 410 PS..—Oct. 4 . '.. 2. Kent Pockets di Os. 91.1 51 .414 1 , ~.." Sussex Ditto Nati Ditto B4 04. 91.41, tO 104.101. Faiths= Ditto. Fine.,,.,..,,,.,...... 01. 01. 104,t gilt ----- Seconds ...—........ 01. 0.. 4, ..... to - jg,„ ......................—..... 61. Osi 4 4 . ~ 51. I , If , A. lvt. 0 v co. gt„ , It, lm. til °"" Old Duty laid at , L................ - --' ...- Kent Bap—. Essex Ditto., Sussex Ditto PRICE OF OIL ',06 Rape Oil, 1"79M1 10 Linseed Oil 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the per thoissand . ....er'ere 6 0 Rape Cake, per ton . WITITECHAPEL HAY MA 41. 9 ow OA Ray 45i. Od. to 90s. Od. I Clover P: . •7 0 1,,,„, • Straw....., 964 PItICE OF POTATOra" -0 " ; .2! .. r ton, toes 2l. 10t. to 81. New RAW HIVE& so ttacd Per Stone. cd.tos.d. Pa' s " ... ►lO 2 I Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 2 Ordinary h Middlings 0 6 2 8 SHEEP Polled 04.01 to Os. Od. 1 0 9 0' SKI NS. ex v 1.14 0 shown turf....• kit n „;. , .4 LVATUSIL A 1 od. Per Tana MOM Oka Si Spitnilh Ot te . fl fi rt list dem. it , 48 Colt blitiooos6 W a 0 ORO ...gaol PP a , V I: Ditto ........A , W ~,„,, 0 , . ii SrOalifitall.ololl. PRICES 9F Per lb. 8utt5.......50 to 561 b... 18 • - `23 Ditto...al° to 881 b... 25 %1 Dressing 14 19i Fine Coach Midas ..... 18 18 Crop Hides, 35 to Stilb. 131 15 to 41i1b. 15 17 Ditto l7l 19i - . 301 Ai. Walls End Nessralt $ Into *tabu% 9 Ditto nit Wo' 90' I Ditto walsat'a ea 9 Lranbtoni Pri me' , m 0 Walls End gt 4100,0 1" Si Walls 140•""*,r91' Willi End 010°/I**g, 0 Dittoir n gs 0 70 4 0 111r!f 3g rig* , Wadi* 30 w as, god E1.11."7", 21 3 CoA n " -- 93 a WalitEo4lll"''''''.4l 0 GosforthAlit ,- 10 0 FTebDurAta la Teesoods sisali 30 41 10. 0 Brown's sniliew,...W. 1$ Newrnarth sun@ d Walls End non ~ 0. 0 7 • • Ips sold, 5133{j • NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE biAIIKETIru, .2,170,00- We had a large supply of Wheat (rent 00 1 „"Tii i es.. day, the condition rather improved, thouglu'ow,Aalis rions, and having several buyers for seed,!ollfr m itore cleared off at a decline of Is. to 21. per q 0 V 0 1 W.Lka was also a good supply of New Oats, with 's' W 1 7,id at late prices. Some New Norfolk Barley hi tp rit this week at S B s. per q uarter, but in a fo maltsters will generally commence, New. 0 1 : 6•1 1.. 01 ;14 . come settled. Fine Malt fair sale, inferior qu100:10:171‘, The Rye trade almost entirely confined to foreterr Few Beans or Pease offering. Wheat, Northumberland - Norfolk And Sunbik ..... ••••4 Berwick and .......... !Pt "Si Rye, N- orfolk and ........ ..... ••••'. gils. -- F or eign ..... ... .. ri A Barley, Malting, iiorfolk and Sittlblit ' ...3 4 s. Grinding and Feeding ........ SO& •••••• w e* Malt, Norfolk and Beans, Small ........ Tick .... ••••••••"•:::". Pease, White. - Gray Oats, NorthumbeThin . d,"Polatoe. • ". 241;,* Feed *10 44 - Foreign . " ..• .a...." Flour. Fine (pers'aaj ......... .. ... ... .. ............... Pro' ' COAI, 51A It Bishop's Alain ~s.3d. Dean's Primr05e...,....,.. 30 0 Felling Main—.........-- 80 6 Hebkurn Main 33 6 Holywell 32 0 Killingworth Liddell's Mate.w ,30 0 Ours Redhugh 28 Percy 33 0 t'ontop 30 0 Shipcote 3O 0 l'andeld 32 0 Tandeld lr 22 0 Townley 31 6 Walls End Dew icke&Co. 35 Ditto Bell Robson &Co. 34 3 Walls End Boundary «30 ti Ditto Burraton 33 0 Ditto Calterton —....—.... 31 0 Walls End Carr and Co, 31 6 Ditto Clarke and Co. 32 0 Ditto Gosforth 35 9 Ditto Hilda 33 Ditto Hotspur—.--..... 33 Ships at market, 10114---Shi os.untrtsTpotitTiesole.ssuv:ror7Azu.agiiv:irtsa.rriteeirdDrn.......7l.,:hhiehiAwt :_ eatae( O ticaaltileav: l .2 t eue2rit N tzr:::: : lo es. to 74. Od. in , 2 ..0 1 , Llt/NuesoK—Wheat (av rag . 1 272. 04L*P'"' —Reef and and Muttan, Od. to to 112. 6d 10 2,41° ST. Ct.uus.—Wheat, 1102. to V5." 4344 .A e k. 011. 914 and Mutton, Od. to 421.--Veal and LaOthi n dy u n so ld . Only °viiits"nu. Kl:fF'(r_tiv4tir)l:l,°llll,tiii,:i::e:ll.ll,lllllelll,°4-,litiiit'rl totgltli the icut v O dtW h iov h L 4 l in ew il h es B. dv ei r et Barleyquarters o s ru m ilinag u s . same t e p + y e aisp, thr sp l ; ys da ° 41 30 , 0 ,i. ~. , 4 . . . ~ ..... i d l u— -3: :1: ), al° I d . 0 asisieN:tr; the Geiostti : ou2l . 4N - - - the r u. 0 d.ots - - :ape sold - 8 d.... tiNg 5740. 8 - 4__ u n e ___o Beans, pw S C 0 2d9 T a C l pricesi A r i s A tt ß e K r E b T: oor tio down lid. ea ; t t a li t t hi o s f d iel pir u P k i e l l , ' ; e g Li y5,0 :0 „, 11 f general average Id. The artier o p Of T ll.2 ti h i l r df . .......w . eitS l: 397qli.ot 3: W a t ° le l at 11:14ark:t,365:16:'° ' 044710:d neat.. W,A.hea„,,t. Barley. Oats. Yrsie• ya (ki Second:: e.,-,„..-- Otis Od o`2. 01 48,4 Ot There . nd 241 °d 2‘ (Id wt'esul DAALCerEage.lTHl"9..":7lt7t2776.2:AllGlift:ll:4...-B(.l2t•ht:t..*lioitad, Y se'nnight. pont First...... Wheat. ILI rle y. O ats. 'Vale. 0 , i.l Seconc „ 786 001 :144 (kt 9ft, nd .r2i ( ~ , , 1 4 0, to An inquest was yesterday evenitig v).4. , Cheese, Addle-street, before NV . - 114vell'f)09/ the o d -c e.s swe .. ty Ci ire Coroner, touching the death Of IlicfiAlty ~-Jr aged 46. I t appeared from the „moat of the 10011,, of th e house, that the deixased, who'll obe l i i,,,,' " ,: r u ,„d n io rd years, and who lea a sawyer, li v ing in i=i-- --- •,, be with them on Sunday, when , in an bone aftertelh' r ,j, beganraid , spitting blo o d, an d, blatantly. gresPiolf ,he r p , a ' u ti, . n "`_. e ` Oh! Mrs. Gtabes,esipssairefoing lOM Ila i l s g t ' s j $llO Hitithe e . o ul t io , u o tes t. a att uir. , 4117 joi : e , iC e led h b l:C t d baa tri to dy s i t. ° h bele is af i l t i r t : ::k u l u bee f::: ll l: l3 l :_iints : .s ,l cA u k i re etNrid;r : irgrngd tb elifte, , ale-LI:P°51 : 11 : ::1;:('i °Ono she ti 2d l inst. the wnifießTofilTSloole 0. j‘11:11,°;0'rf:„::1, : i f ie ( a ) i n a :t y Te let lost. at the Rectal' n rtb of the Rev. P. C. Law, of e" Ili Oii tePllth Backs,the 4th inst. atjUSALMIJaliteaU:l Ultild;artib'cishijr:tlo6lole°:°:f Pate Cooper, of Saekville-street, to oi— St. James's. . ' tan t,',lloood Ca On the 2d inst. at Leamington, Sir Coarl'-'y o f rrington, of Chalfont St. Giles's, i 6 tAe CapoP J. Esq. , M.P., of Russell-square. , Iv, Ilry On the 4th inst . - - at St.-James% Piersd il V, Ann E' der", Esq., of Zacatecas, Aburicos to L' s Stokes, of James-street, Buckingham-ga. ~ ee, Mr. Oa the 30th ult. at Christ Church, Morl°b° 01 Potter , George Drury, of the Strand, to _Mit* Maids-hill. Qin ot, • Ott the 30th ult. at Hatch Iletunhsollh " - r i l ' :i f tbd M.P.MP' to Mary Ano, only daughter - Lieut.-Cal. C. H. Raines, of the Bengal oralY , s '' visit' late Rev. T. Baines, of fialstitad, Essex, to A 1... ul both Rabin, of Bath, an d n i e ce o f Colooel ave- Beauelasunp-lodge- DIED. On the ist at Flutings, Baker. 1 104 ' On the 2d inst. Mrs. Gould of JertorPair eeh 47th year of her inst. On the 2d Sarah, the wifs of sr`. Was. J• of Eris ten. On On the Sd inst. Edward, fourth son son of W' Esq. of Cantberwe. the 4th inst. ll Mrs. Susanna Viebber, of Woo- Surrey, aged 77. PAINIIW AND PUBLISNILD -sY xi SP usu..° Tlillt SUN 011110 1 , STAA 1.014001"