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JUSTICE OF PEACE SMALL-DEBT COURT. INVERGORDON, Dec 9, 1829. • A claim came under consideration, on the complaint of a blind and infirm woman of the italic of Janet Alorrison, who had been struck off the list of reeipienti, under the will of the late Dr. White, of Bombay, of which the fol lowing is an extract:— " ROSSKEEN IN ROSS-SHIRE. "I direct that two thousand pounds !telling be funded or mortified in that parish for the decayed and modest poor—that the interest of the above sum be annually dis tributed among the most indigent, in sums from dace to five pounds yearly, cecteris paribus, the name of Bethune to be preferred. The Minister fir the time being and Elders to be managers, with two of the chief Ilerieors in rotation of twenty years." At a meeting held, under the above will, by the Minis ter, Elders, and Heritors of the Parish, the following rules were agreed to :- 1. The name of Bethune, ceteris paribus, to be prefer red; but it is to be observed and understood, that this rule is not to he appled to persons coming into the ptrisii of that name until a residence of twenty years. 2. The blind, maimed, insine, au.l imbecile, ccleris rtribus, to be next in rotation. 3. The aged, pilsied, rot bed-ridden, cat.7ris paribus, to be next in rotatiA. 4. Persons ietteiving aid from the poor's funds to be t )(chided fora the charity, until they relinquish any aid from poor's funds. Clerk having read '73 petitions, including letters of lect:Amt.;tendation from several individuals, the Meeting, W . '.,er minute examination into the character and circunt sta:ices of the petitioners, found the t 24 following modest and decayed poor persons entitled to Dr. White's Charity. At a Meeting of the Trustees, held the 2d April, 182'7, the Minister represented, that Helen Bain, Milneraig, Ann Mackenzie, Bridgend, and_Janet_3lorriso.o, Balnaguisich, who were then receiving Dr. White's Ugliest, habitually absented themselves from all the means of grace and or- d minces of religion in the parish, whether ministered by himself, the Catechist, or other Clergymen, se ho occasion oily assisted him. Upon this representation of the Minis ter, otre of the Heritors spoke to the poor blind roman Jatret Morrison, and advised her to conform to the rules 14 she Church ; and in order to strengthen the hands of the Minister, it was allowed to be put on record, that it was on the Minister's suggestion that the year's allowance should be given to her ; though in point of fact it was upon the suggestion of the Het iter referred to, after he had recalled to the Minister's recollection the unanimous de termination of the Trustees to continue the charity during life to the objects plsettsl on the roll, as the period of their continuance etarthl net be of long duration, all of them being very t a reople, and nearly one-half of them having reached thts age of from 80 to 100 years, and with a view to avoid (discord ; and, besides, that the ground of objec tintt 'could not be gootl, if the parties complained of were tlc"":aycd, indigent, and m-dest poor; that it might so happen that the Rev. Gentleman himself might become so unpo pular as to have scarcely any hearers at all, as is actually the case in an adjoining Presbytery, and that the intention of the donor could not by any possibility be construed into a boon for hearing the Clergyman of the parish, without any regard to his doctrine, or to any objections his parish ioners might entertain against him. In IS2B the Kirk Session of Rosskeen usurped the powers vested in the Trustees by Dr. White, by entering upon record that they found upon enquiry, that the par sons referred to in minute of 211 April, 1827, viz. Helen Bain, Ann Mackenzie, and Janet Morrison do still persist in their divisive and contentious courses, after due warn• ing and admonition ; and for that reason ordered their names to be erased from the roll of recipients of Dr. White's bounty, and after mature consideration ordered three ethers to be enrolled in their room. At the Justice of Peace Court, held on the 9th inst, one of the Justices on the Bench who is an Heritor in the parish of Rosskeen, explained to his brother Justices the mature of the will, and the proceedings that took place under it, and among other things observed that hefure entering upon the consideration of the case one of the Elders attempted to impede.the course of justice by inter posing personal resistance, in order to prevent the Cie] k under Dr. White's will from producing the minute book, by which in a great measure the Bench could see whether or not it was a fit sus ject for them to entertain. It appeared from the states:lent made by the Justice, that the blind woman, the pursuer, had been represented to him by Mr. Cat-merit, as one of the most pious and most praiseworthy individuals he had ever known, who, before she had lost her eye-sight, distinguished herself by keeping a school, and thereby supporting herself, her de crepit sister, and aged helpless parents, and who, since she became blind, had assisted her decrepit sister in the management of the school—that so much interested was he, the Rev. Gentleman, for these sisters, that he had actually got aid for them from sonic society in Glasgow, by way of salary, and also from otle r benevolent persons— that, in short, she was a person on whose eye-balls Heaven had poured celestial light. The question was nut gone into, why this helpless creature did not attend Mr. Car ment, although she did attend (notwithstanding what the Rev. Gentleman bad minuted to the contrary) other Mi nisters who occasionally assisted him. The woman, Helen Brig, descended from the Bahia of Tulloch, was, when struck off the list, between 88 and 100 years of age—a most pious and excellent person, but so incapable of divisive and contentious courses, al al leged by the worthy Minister, that she was in the last state of bodily and mental imbecility. The other woman, Ann Mackenzie, or widow Cameron, was in her '7oth year, and so frail that she could seldom go to any church whatever, anti when she did, even then sat herself down on the outside, as from the particular nature of the complaint she was incapable of entering a crowd ; she was moreover a pious, harmless, and inoffen sive woman. The only crime for which she was deprived of the benefit of Dr. White's bequest was her occasional attendance at the Church of Alness, two miles and a-half nearer to her home than that of Rosskeen. Both of these victims are gone before a tribunal, wheve there is no dis tinction between the eppressor and the oppressed, except that distinction which must ever obtain in the case of those whom the insolence of prosperity has inspired with contempt for the privileges, and rights, and just complaints of those who have fallen below them. The case was postponed in consequence of an informa lity in the summonses, on whirls the Kirk Session raised preliminary objections ; and at the same time the parties intimated that having taken the opinion of Counsel, they had been advised, that under the 25th sec. of the last Act, the Small Debt Court could not take cognizance of the question. Note.--It is hoped that the case of the poor blind Janet Morrison will meet with attention from the humane and benevolent. Query.—Was it intended by Dr. White that his be quest should supply a deficiency in the doctrine of the Mi nister of Rosskeen for the time being, by inducing the re cipients and expeetants to attend his ministrations, how ever disagreeable these might be to their sentiments and fecliags ? ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH GENTLEMAN. —No modern country has more distinguished itself in lite rature than Ireland. The intellectual activity of her sons is unremitting, and we understand that the great success of " Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman," has in duced an Irish Baronet to emulate that work by the pub lication of his own Adventures, or Confessions. The two works will, no doubt, become inseparable companions in that department of the library which is dedicated to wit, and to the elucidation of the interesting portions of human life. On Saturday the despatches were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the I'ursers of the following ships, viz. : —Dunira, Captain Jolts P. Wm soN, and William Fairlie, Captain TIIO3IAS BLAIR, con signed to Bengal and China; and Duchess of Atholl, Captain EDWARD M. DA NIELL, consigned to Bombay and China. The demand for cloth in the Huddersf3eld market on Tuesday was quite as large as last week, am' it is mentioned, as a matter of rare occurrence, that th,a two last markets in December, when trade is generally ex tremely stagnant, have been amongst the best markets of the year. There is, however, no improvement in the fancy trade, and the severity of the weather during the last ten days has aggravated the distress of the unemployed poor deplorably, and we are sorry to add, that no efficient relief hag hitherto been afforded them. At Heckmond wike and Dewsbury the carpet trade is much depressed, hut we have authority for saying that the town od neigh bourhood of Dewsbury have sot been so well sit sted with respect to employment to the poor at this season for many )ears past as at the present time. This observation is not confined to the town of Dewsbury only, but extends to Batley Carr, Hanging Heaton, Earl's Heaton, and Dews bury Moor. The manufacturers complain, with reason, of small profits, and this is a matter of wonder and regret, seeing that the demand for blankets and other manufac tures in that neighbourhood through the whole of the autumn, and up to the present time, has been unusually large Very little totsiness was done either at Halifax or at Bradford on the last market daays.--Leeds Mercury. eatcrs or sTocca THIS DAT AT ON It O'CLOCK. 3 ink Yti,ck 217 111 , ,j1Soulh Sea Stock shut 1 v er CC7t. tied. 941.i 1,4 'Old Annuities t per Cent. Cons. • shut New Ditto shut 0.; per Cent )itto Rea. lOOl-il4 Ditto tjd. 77 pm. t per Cent. Ann. Ditto, Is'2o nut°Scrip -Ditto small Yd. 79 78 pm. 1 otk 1.. Ann. 19 11-16 DUN, Lid. 77 pm. Pitt° 30 yens Irdi a stock shut India for Account t)itto Bonds 72 73 pm. Cons. for January ...95%% IA N PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. kustrian Bonds ltrazilian Bonds 10 C4l Ti 2 le Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds Chißan Bonds ... — 'Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 - Tiussian — Danish Greek Bonds — -- .182.3 — Ditto, 1525 Guattniala — Exch.inge Mexican Bonds — -- 3 per cent. Ditto, 1925 --- hxchaiwe PRICES OF STIAnTs THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Apelo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.).£loo 42% Ditto Subscription - lO 17 Prazilian Mining Company 5 Si 9 8 ii Si ItrazitiaP. linty. min. l O. ; . iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 83 82 S 3 SI 81 Ditto National lO 25% 25 columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £37lr 12 1 ,4 Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Co. Real del Monte Mining Co PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 1. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, 3)4 per cent. 1,9% ' l National Ditto 2(1 7 ,4 Ditto, New —l Patriotic Ditto — 4 per Cent 101)i !Hibernian Bank — Gov. Deb. 3i percent.... Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stocr Grand Canzl Stock —.lmperial Mine — City - Deb. 4 per cent -- Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast ()Bice Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings — FOREIGN EXCHAN AMSTERDAM, JAN. 1.-12. 20 WES ON LONDON. J. to 12. 22 1 / 4 . ni-12. 12 5-10. to 12. 15. —Three months, 10 11-10. 1 4.—Two months, 13. 10 aonths, 6 51,9. Two month: ST. PETERSTIIIRGII, DEC. H.-- II mittutG, Dvc. 121 ISC!LLIN, DEC. 2 I.—Thrz,e rn MA Armed. Due. O America 0 1 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres. . 0 O Carthagena 1 1 Dublin 0 I Flan(ler, 0 1 Frame 0 O Guernsey&Jer6ey 0 :LS. Arrived. Due. O Hamburg 1 Holland O Jamaica 1 0 Leeward Islands O Lisbon O Mexico O Sweden 1 Waterford ollrrie , k- f.:7111v LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1830. A mail has arrived from Brazil, by which we learn that the Empress of BRAZIL and the young Queen of PORTUGAL arrived safely at Rio Janeiro on the 17th of October, in the Isabella fr;gate. They were most joyfully re ceived by the EMPEROR, as will be seen by the (From the Diario Fluminense.) RIO DE JANEIRO, OCT. 17. The arrival of the Isabella frigate, on the 14th, delighted the Brazilians, who were anxiously ex pecting our august Empress. The circumstances of the weather being favourable, the ft igate did not long delay, and on the 16th, in the morning, the fortresses saluted the Imperial standard, which was flying at the mast head of the vessel. His Majesty the Emperor, seeing his most flatter ing hopes realised, proceeded immediately in a steam-boat to the frigate, accompanied by the Mi nisters of State and the Officers of his Household. At the distance of a few miles from the Bar he met the frigate, when the first objects that met his eyes were the august Empress and Queen Donna Maria j 11., her Most Faithful Majesty, his beloved daughter. The Imperial ftigate, towed by the steam-boar, passed the Bar, amidst repeated salutes of artillery, and was followed by the Imperial frigate Isabella, the English frigate Scringapatam, and the French frigate La Magicienne, which had been to meet her Majesty the Empress. OCT. 19.—0 n the 17th the marriage of their Imperial Majesties was celebrated with great splen dour in the Imperial Chapel. The inhabitants of the capital gave the most unequivocal proof of their satisfaction at this happy event by splendid illumi- nations. The Emperor, in commemoration of this suspi cions day, has instituted a new Order of the Rose, to be given both to natives and foreigners who have rendered service to the Emperor. The Emperor is Grand Master of the Order, and the Princes of the Imperial Family are Grand Crosses. By a Dutch mail we have this morning re ceived St. Petersburgh Journals of the 19th December, the Hamburg Reporter and other Hamburg Papers of the 29th, and Dutch Pa pers of the 2d January. The St. Petersburgh Papers make no mention of the health of the Emperor NICUOLAS ; so that we may consider the report of his relapse as mere fiction, got up for stock-jobbing purposes. The following are extracts:— AMSTERDAM, JAN. The cellectiou made for the relief of the poor has produced the very considerable sum of 52,747 flo rins, besides a sum of 2,290 florins received from another quarter; also contributions of fresh prey' sions, &c. THE HAGUE, DEC. 3 His Majesty has resolved, that from the Ist of January the affa►rs of the Colonies shall be united with the department of Public Works and National Industry. M. Van Gobbelschroy is appointed to this department; and is succeeded in the post of Minister of the Interior by M. de la Coste, now Governor of the province of Antwerp, which post is to be filled by M. J. Van Crombrugghe, Minister of the Second Chamber of the States General, and Burgomaster of Ghent. His Maje , ty has been pleased to assign the sum of 7,000 florins, for furn►shing the Episcopal Pa lace at Namur. Our rivers are frozen over in many places. ST. PETERSBURGEI, DEC. 18, To-day is the saint's day of his Majesty the Em perofNicholas Paulowitsch. The most recent accounts from Turkey inform us, that Adrianople is evacuated, and that Count Diebitsch had fixed his head-quarters at Bottrgas. Count Matuscewitsch and Marquis Paulucci, Governor of Riga, arrived here on the 15th. His Majesty has been pleased to confirm the sta tutes of an institution for the education of females, under the protection of her Majesty the Empress. The sum assigned for its support is 40,093 rubles. Lake Onega was frozen over on the 28th ult., so that it has been open for navigation this year 198 days. HAMBURG, DEC. 29. BORSES HALLE, FOUR O'CLOCK.—OurStock-mar. ket continues to wear a favourable appearance, and funds' are generally in demand to-day for the end of January. Some purchases rendered necessary by the approaaiing liquidation, and the peaceful aspect of affairs, are supposed to occasion the demand.—Dis count 3 pee cent. Anglo-Danish Loan, S per cent Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg-Russian Loan lo o ,i Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares 1268 Austrian Metalliques 103.11 New Austrian 4 per Cents. Anglo Neapolitan Falconets BUCHAREST, DEC. 7. Letters from Crajowa say that the plague s rages there, as well as in Little Wallachia, especially on the frontier of Servia, and carries off many vic- End of Decembev, tins. Prince Milosch has ordered for this reason a triple quarantine on the frontiers of Wullaeliia. FROM THE DANUBE, DEC. 21. It is reported that the heir of one of the greatest Sovereign houses of Germany will marry a sister of Prince Gustavus Vasa. It is also said that Don Miguel has asked the hand of the Princess of Kaunity, but that she has refused. BERLIN, DEC. 26. The Rev. Monsieur Von Manlicki, Archbishop of Gresen and Posen, died on the 21st at the age of 62 years. _ On the 23d, between six and seven in the morn ing, we had 23 degrees of cold. FROM THE WESER, DEC. 16. A circular Rescript has been issued at Brunswick, and laid before all the Officers of State, for their signature, to the following effect : " By Supreme command, every person in the service of the State of Brunswick is strictly for bidden to have any communication, by conversation, writing, or otherwise, with the former Chamberlain, Von Kramen, who has :been dismissed, unless be would have it supposed that he prefers such for bidden intercourse to the service of the State. (Sigard) " VON BULOW. " Brunswick, Nov. 14, 1629." It is said that the Duke will go to Paris towards the end of the year. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 15. A Message from his Majesty, respecting some financial measures, was presented to the Diet on the lth. One of these measures is for the relief 'of the landholders, who are in need of support, and can give sufficient security. The Message represents the finances of the kingdom as flourishing. The Paris Papers of Saturday have been re ceived this morning by Express. We are in debted to the politeness of the Editor of the Morning Herald for the following extracts from his stop-press : (From the Gazette de France.) SMYRNA, DEC. 9. An attempt has been made to poison the Arch bishop Monseigneur Cardelli; a dose of corrosive sublimate was mixed not only with the wine in the cup used in celebrating mass, but even in that con tained in the bottle. The Archbishop perceived that the wine had an extraordinary taste, however, he swallowed it. A few moments afterwards he was seized with a violent cholic and vomiting, to which his escape is doubtless to be attributed. The physician who was called in made him drink a large quantity of milk, which removed the pain in the bowels. The Archbishop is now recovering. The officers of justice are in search of the gulty persons. M. Dupre, the French Consul, under whose protec tion the Archbishop is especially placed, has caused the persons of his household to be several times exa mined. The crime is still enveloped in the greatest mystery. (From the Afessager des Chantbres.) PARIS, JAN. 2. The Monitcur had announced to us with a kind of 'reserve the new favour conferred on M. Syricys Meyrinhac. The Bulletin of the Laws has not al lowed itself the same reserve—it announces directly that M. Syricys, besides the direction of the persons employed in the Administration, has also that of the General Police of the kingdom, and that M. Franchet has found a worthy successor. PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 2.—Five per Cents. 109 f. 50. ; Three per Cents. 841. 50e.; Rentes de Naplts, 92f. 10e. ; Rentes de Perp. d'Esp:igne, 8I . Exchange on London—One month, 251. 50e. Three months, 251. 35c. (From the .Allgemeine Zeitung of Dec. 28.) VIENNA, Drc, 23.—Metalliques, 102 i ; Four per Cents. 94k; Bunk Shares, 1,260. The following communication from our Paris Correspondent will be read with interest : 46 PARIS, JAN. 2. " Public curiosity was yesterday a good deal • excited to learn the reception which the Baron Seguier and the other officers of the Royal Court of France would meet with from the King, on the occasion of their being admitted with a number of the public bodies of Paris, according to annual custom, to pay their respects to his Majesty on the first day of the year. The judgments lately pronounced by this Court, in the cases of the Courrier Francais, and the Journal des Debuts, are known to have been extremely unwelcome to the advisers ofthc Crown ; and as often happens on such occasions, the most extraordinary rumours had got into circula tion, as to the nature of the answer which had been given to the distinguished individuals of which this Court is composed. The Moniteur, however, has now set these rumours at rest by publishing the royal answer, which is conceived in the following terms, and. is not materially different either in spirit or in language from the answers given to the other public bodies ad mitted on the occasion : " The wishes addressed to me by the Royal " Court always affect my heart. They are shared, " I doubt not, by all Frenchmen who know the " affection I bear them. " Magistrates of the Royal Court, never forget " the important duties you have to fulfil. Prove " that you endeavour, for the true happiness of my " subjects, to make yourselves worthy of the marks " of confidence you have received from your King." " It was certainly a great mistake to suppose, that even the present Ministry would have ven tured to advise the King to evince any mark or the Royal displeasure, at the mode in which the juicial functions had been exercised in one of the highest Courts of the kingdom. It would have been nothing less than an attempt to con taminate the sources of justice, and would have subjected the advisers of such a measure to the well-deserved censure of the Chambers, if not to impeachment itself. It is highly honourable to France that the Judges, al though not placed by their emoluments in the highest scale of society, have always maintained the purity and independence of the judicial character. The late judgments of the Royal Court continue to excite a lively sensation among all classes of the inhabitants, and in this country, as in England, comparisons continue to be made between these judgments and the verdicts of English Juries in the late trials at the instance of Sir James Scarlett; but, in making the comparison, it is not forgotten that in France it is the Liberal Press that has been the object of Ministerial attack, while in Eng land the vengeance of the Attorney-General has been chiefly directed against the adherents of that party who are known in both countries as the sworn enemies of improvement and reform. The respectable conductors of the London Press have manfully done their duty in exposing the ruinous nature of all but the first pro secution against the Morning Journal ; al though it is very certain, that if the case had been reversed, and if the Liberal Press had be- come the objects of prosecution under an ultra 'l'ory Mihistry, such writers as those of the Morning Journal would have pursued a very different course ; and instead of making com mon cause with their persecuted contemporaries, would, as on former occasions, which will readily occur to you, have joined in the cry of the mi nisterial blood-hounds, and pursued their rivals to the death. lam delighted to perceive, how ever, that such has not been the policy of The Sun, and the other luminaries of the British Press, who, when treating of such important questions of public right, will, I trust, continue to adopt the spirit, if not the words, of the motto, Fiat justitia, runt ccelum.' " Whatever it may be in England, the pro ceedings in this country against the Press arc, it appears, not yet at an end. Having failed in his attack on the daily journals, ,the Mini• ster, it seems, is now content to fly at smaller game. The Almanack of Mathieu Laensberg has obtained the same sort of popu larity in France which that of Moore has in England ; and hitherto has met with no such formidable competitor as the useful and excel lent work of the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge. The predictions of Mr. Mathieu Laensberg for the year 1830, although carefully couched in such convenient generalities, or such Delphic ambiguities, as to defy the chance of contradiction by future events, yet it cannot be denied that the tone of the oracle is decidedly lugubrious in its tendency : winds and tempests, pestilence and famine, wars and revolutions, enormous taxes, and other awful announce ments, are the favourite topics with this inter preter of the stars. For January there is to be a change in the laws ; a religious dispute in February ; an atrocious conspiracy in March a deadly atmosphere in April ; murders and assassinations in May ; an earthquake and an invasion in June ; a winged monster and a fiery meteor in July ; famine, the disco very of a great secret, and the death of a dis tinguished actress in August ; the failure of a great banker in September, &c. &c. It does not appear what particular denunciation has alarmed the French Ministry ; but from the following letter, it is obvious that the predictions of the worthy soothsayer are not regarded, even in the highest quarters, with indifference : " Vouziers, December, 1829. "M. LE MAutE,—A publication, entitled an " Almanack, calculated for the meridian of Liege, " by. Master Matheu Laensberg, mathematician, " for the year 1830, appears to his Excellency " the Minister of the Interior to contain in several " passages provocations to revolt, and excitements to " contempt against the Government. " I beg you will have the goodness to seize, or " cause to be seized, all the copies of this work " which shall be exi4osed for sale in your commune. " You would also do well to communicate th e " names of the venders, that they may be laid be " fore the Procureur du Roi, and prosecuted for the " contents of this publication, without prejudice to " the proceedings to which the fact of its fraudu " lent introduction may give rise. " Accept, &c. " The Under Preirt, IIE MECQUENESSE." " The offence of Mr. IVlatbieu Laensberg ap pears from this letter to be regarded as of a very serious nature, being nothing less than a provo cation to revolt, and an excitement to contempt aaainst time Government. Whether Prince Metternich and the Duke of Vlrcllington are eqhally alarmed with Prince Polignac at such awful forebodings, I leave you to judge ; but who can blame the watchful solicitude which has thus been evinced by the Minister of the In terior. For the sake of justifying his alarm, I must give you a few more specimens of the prophecies of this organ of the stars : " The sky, he says, is overcast ; the dark clouds " are heaped on each other, and every thing an " nounces that a thousand thunders are to issue from " either sides I 1 The powers of the earth consist of mere mortals like ourselves, who after attracting the momentary attention of their contemporaries " suddenly disappear, leaving only the remembrance " of actions on which posterity will award the meed "of praise or of blame. The stars announce to us " that there will this year be several disappearances " of this nature, but they will only produce a trifling " sensation." " Is this, then, the passage which contains the sting ? And has Mr. Mathieu Laensberg been foretelling, with all his might, the overthrow of the Polignac Administration, adding irony to insult, by saying that it will only produce a trifling sensation ? Perhaps it is in such a passage as the following that the seer of Liege has evinced the spirit of contempt and rebellion so offensive to the constituted authorities : " In this age of falsehood it will not be uncommon .‘ to see preachers of morals and good policy, with e` virtue on their lips and vice in their hearts." " May not this be a covert attack on such apo stolical and ultra royalist writers as those who are loudest in their support of the present Admi nistration ? But here is a passage equally inso lent and insidious : " The right of the strongest will exist no longer " except among savages; justice will banish it for " ever from all civilized codes." " Is it decent, it will be said, to print such lan guage as this when the Minister is preparing to use the right of the strongest ? And is it not an outrage on his Majesty's servants to compare them to savages. Again it is said:— " Men most disposed to be indulgent will be taught the sad, certainty that no advancement can be made in a system where words and men are " at variance." "Such, for instance, according to the gloss of a liberal commentator, as the word charter with the man Polignac; the word education with the man Guernon; the word fidelity with the man Bourmont ; the word capacity with the man Montbel; or the word politeness with the man Mangin ! But here, says another critic, is a clear provocation to revolt. In the month of November is the anniversary of time death and interment of an illustrious warrior, who expired far from his country on a foreign soil.' Can any thing be more obvious than that the foreign soil is St. Helena, and the illustrious warrior Napoleon ? " But what respect does Mr. Mathieu pay to religion ? Only read:— " The false zeal of the new Tartuffes will seduce " only a small number of persons. The friends of " toleration will come out victorious from the strug “ g le . " " Here, however, comes the unkindest but other manufactures, for which she was not natu rally in any wise fitted, France has almost ruined her wine trade, in which three millions of her people are engaged. The wine growers are justly complaining that they cannot sell their produce, because the French Government has prohibited the admission of all manufactured goods by which the wine could be paid for. And, at the same time, the very branches of manufacture that have received so special pro tection, as it is most improperly termed, are in s state of unexampled depression. This is a memorable instance of the evils of all : " A famous personage, he says, who under the " appearance of moderation, conceals the great " est a►nbition, being destitute of the talents neces " sary to the executions of his projects will com " pletely miscarry." " Such is the language Mall now excites the alarm of the French Ministry, and induce; them to exercise a vigilance and a severity beyond the law, in their efforts to oppress it. It is really a pity they should be so ill advised." In another column we have given at length of monopoly, and of the mischief of the inter• an account of what appears to us to be rather ference of a Government to raise one kind of oppressive conduct on the part of those who'i industry at the expence of another. If corn from their avocations, ought to know better• coerce is fairly left to itself it will be sure to tako The case referred to occurred in the North of care of itself ; that is to say, provided no par- Scotland, and we find the following brief account titular branch of it is encouraged above the rest, of it in the Scotsman : and that all burthens be equally distributed with• " A race of rather a singular nature was brought before the Justice of Peace Small Debt Court , held out favour or affection. on the 9th instant, at Invergordon, of which the fo l- The persons to whom the Government ought lowing is an outline:—Dr. White, of Bombay , left to look are the consumers, who arc identical 2,0001., to be funded or mortified in the parish of Rossi:cell, in Ross shire, the interest of which was with the nation at large. Most men have two to be annually distributed among the most indigent interests, the one general, the other particular; poor, in sums of from three to five pounds. The minister for the time being, and elders, to be ma- the one in common with all other consumers, !lagers, and two of the chief heritors in rotation of ttte other hostile to them ; and this forms the asun two years. Out of 73 applicants, 24 , were selected. At the meeting of trustees, held on the 2 d of April, „ju greattit it inexcusable tothe i la Government advance ofsoun d to principles. piaee the minister represented that four of the poor women i) who were receiving from Dr. White's bequest ha bitually absented themselves from all means of grace p a ri r ‘ c r i at f e re i e n te t r r e a s d t e: the o r fi a r n st y in other their me care; measure, orco to re' il and ordinances of religion ministered in the par i sh g church. One of the heritors waited on Janet Mor rison, a poor blind woman of 80 years of age, but i meted with its effect upon the welfare of the was unsuccessful in his endeavour to prevail on her mass o f t h e popu l at i on . to attend the parish church, and she and other three A century hence, perhaps, our posterity will frail and aged women were, in consequence, struck off from all benefit arising from Dr. White's bequest. remark with surprise the faint support the It was considered that the trustees, by this act, had IBritish Government has received from the exceeded their powers, as it was expressly declared in Dr. White's will that the persons selected should people in its endeavours to extinguish the system of prohibition and monopoly, of which so large $ be " decayed, modest, and indigent poor." It wa s by no means declared that the persons selected should be regular attendants in the parish church, part yet remains in existence. in utter disregard of all consideration of convenience, It will excite astonishment that so much a? and all scruples of conscience. The trustees were cited before the justices of the peace at Invergordon tention should have been paid to " Co-operatitti Societies," and " Clubs for Cheapening Prov' on the above day ; but the kirk session having rtised objections to the formality of the summons the action was dismissed. It has since been aster- sions," when all efforts ought to be united to twined that a small debt court is not competent to crush the monopolies which prevent our obtai:' decide this question." We refrain for the present from remarking fur - ing corn, sugar, tea, beer, and a hundred ot!ie r things, for any thing near what we ought to have tier upon this ungenerous exercise of authority , them. Societies of this sort tend only to divert men's attention from the real sources of evil, ad to divide them among each other, rather than promote that great national union by which alone any good can be effected. If the pooref classes believe that it is from Free Trade tha t their sufferings arise, they are miserably de ceived—it is not by Free Trade, but bf monopoly, that they are oppressed ; an d those who try to persuade them to the contrary, are like some Gentlemen in a certain lionourabi c House, who arc in the habit of talking agaill time, as it is called. By their sophistry 0 (1 iteration, men of this kind may bewilder ad confuse their hearers for some time, but the trut h will be found out at last, and the people wi ll know whether the advocates of free trade, ° f die monopolists, have been their real friends. Of course, we must not be understood to ad' mit that the glove trade, the silk trade, or osl other, has really been injured by the removal °1 the prohibitions. We argue simply, that if th e national industry does languish, it is n o t frail' this cause. Our space contracts our remark but we cannot omit referring to the followili official return, which proves how considerab i l the exports of British silk manufactures have 1 111 creased since the alteration of the system :-•••••• ACCOUNT OF BRITISH MANUFACTURED SILK GOOD EXPORTED. 1826. 1827. 182 6 1 Manufactures of Silk only 73,046 91.,490 97,0 Silks mixed with other 95,55 1 137,299 158, 4/5 materials than to hope that those who preach charity will do what is still better—practice it also. " Charity covers a multitude of sins—it blesseth him who gives and them that receive." When the Grand Jury of Kent addressed their officious letter to the Duke of WELLING TON, for the purpose of communicating their opinion upon the state of the country, of which they supposed his Grace to be without the means of informing himself, they prudently abstained from offering their advice on the line of policy fit to be adopted in consequence of the alleged general distress. This is a far more sensible plan than to attribute whatever distress does exist to one single isolated cause ; as is so commonly done, after the manner of Mr. SADLER, Mr. COBBETT, and the Rev. EDw. IRVING, to whom the sources of all national evil arc respectively attributed—the Flee Trade System—the loss of the One-pound Notes— and the sacrilegious Catholic Relief Bill. If the people could be made to understand that the object of abolishing the prohibitory system was to enable them to buy the commo dities they may want wherever they can be got best and cheapest, instead of confining the sup ply to particular individuals, they would perceive that the clamour that has been raised against Free Trade is neither more nor less than a con spiracy of interested persons to take as ►ouch as they can out of the pockets of consumers for their own especial benefit. The glove-makers (the landlords and all the rest reason in the same manner) have contended that it was the duty of the Government, by prohibiting French gloves, to secure to them a price of three shillings a pair, though an equally good pair might be procured from France for two shillings ; and have urged that it was most cruel and unfair to allow foreigners to compete with them in the home market. Consequently, they have said we ought to be encouraged to make dear gloves for it is far more important that our monopoly should be preserved, than that people in general should be relieved from an expenditure of a shilling a pair extra, to the end that such shilling might not be absolutely lost in the same manner as if it had been thrown into the sea. For it is clear that Total declared value £168,601 231,789 255, 61 For this export trade the silk manufacture' are solely indebted to Mr. HusiussoN's surcs. We have little doubt it is susceptible (71 very great augmentation. We perceive that the Herald of this morni i( is printed on a new and beautiful type. S' would respectfully suggest to the Editor atloth e , improvement—the lengthening of his first al i c . last columns in the front page similar to those ° The Sun :—there is ample room. . i The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER 10 f ,, returned to their residence in Bagshot-park from a visit j r the Marquis and Marchioness of SALlseuaY, at MOO Herts. Mr. Secretary PRET, transacted business se e A . terday at the o ffi ce of the Secretary of State for Ford Affairs. THE SERPENTINE RIVER.--There many skaiters on the ice on Saturday, and not a few 91 ,' terday. There was some water on the surface in variS places in consequence of the thaw, hut the ice was materially diminished in thickness. A north-east prevailed, but had lost its keenness and violence.. TIP were a few carriages on the drive on the north bank. SUDDEN DEATII.—A small trading aloa l arrived at Crom lrty from Leith on Wednesday a boisterous and tedious presage of twelve days. The efr, and passengers suffered much, and one of thi latter, $ i elderly man, was so exhausted by rea-sickness, that ° I landing he was ena'ile to u elk. Two men, who were ° I the quay at the time, seeing his condition, made hip' tender of assistance which he thankfully .accepted. 1 1 1 : 1 they proceeded with him towards the town, s u ppo•r; him on either side, for about a hun d red yards , le t he fainted. Medical a ssistance was immediately Pd cured, and every m ethod tried towards producing suseitation, but without effect, life was extinct. SMITH, the doctor who attended, and whose well purp t i and judicious though unsuccessful efforts entitle hill) praise is of opinion that the death was solely owing to e ll , haustion and want of food ; and the seamen state that 1 1 unfortunate men was so oppressed by se a-sickness durill the whole voyage, as to have been unable to swallof m orsel. He was of the name of GORDON , and a resiote:d of Helmsdale in Sutherlandshire, from w hi c h p lace he lately gone to Glasgow with the intention of bidding fo l e l j,- well to his son, a soldier, who, as the old man had 'earl ) d was with the company to which he belonged, on the et, leaving the kingdom for the West Indies. On his arer d at Glasgow, he found that hit. son had been marched sij . four days before, and he had returned with a heavy bez, so far on his way to Helmsdale as Cromarty, whstv i melancholy jeurney terminated as has been described! Inverness Courier. . whatever money is spent in manufacturing at home a thing which can be bought cheaper abroad, is as utterly thrown away, as if a house holder were to think it incumbent upon him to have all his clothes and furniture made at home by persons belonging to his own establishment. English gloves happen to be really quite as cheap as French ones ; but whether they are so or not, the reason for nor prohibiting French ones is exactly the same. As to the notion that those who buy French silks, or other foreign fabrics, do what is injurious to their own coun try, it is a fallacy which the merest child would perceive, if he would reflect for one moment ; for it is certain that whatever is expended in foreign commodities must be paid for by some article of British produce or manufactures, or by the money which represents a part of such produce or manufactures. If the French would give us silk or jewellery for nothing the case would be dif ferent ; but, as there is no fear of that kind, it is perfect folly to talk about the importation of foreign goods being injurious to British industry. For the sake of encouraging her iron and SHIPPIN( • DEAL, J. George Car from Londoi Thames, A , (lon, the TI. 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