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Red ' • 92% 4 I,per Cent Cons. ...• 92}x}( 3 1 4 thper Cent....... ... ...... 100 ut, tto Red.... ........ ... ..99 % 14 .• Per Cent. Ann. tAnk L. Ann. Ditt o 30 y ear , , I3 itto 50 years tlldi a Stock — l Atto 'Bonds — Pm. ---_______= .. ' • South Sea Stock Old Annuities 92 New Ditto Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 2d. 79 79 pm. Ditto lid. 79 79 pm. Ditto ..... .......500 2d. 79 78 pm. Ditto lid. 79 78 pm. Ditto Small Ditto lid. 179 IS pm. (Bank for Account India for Account (Cons. forNlay 25 P RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. AUstrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds" '7414 i Peruvian Bonds 2.57 himonsiaridess Bonds : co u i.einiaob Portuguese Bonds _ _ W.:, Prussian, Old _ an Bonds .. . —'Ditto, New .. ...... .. t i tto, 1824 ........... .2554 614 6 Russian I' ) V4 Greek anill }3 l- 0 7d' s ' ................................ ......... Spanish, 1621 Ditto, 1825. Guatimala ................. t- — Frencic R i x e B i n t 3 e a s n , ge s p. c. -- f f —2 „ .. ...................... Mexican Bonds /93,1 3 per cent. -f. —c. Ditto, 1825 1:::::L. ......... 3.) , 3' Exchange —t — c• '" --- -----':.l. 4 "Icßs or SHAkES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. BraZinn Imp Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) Paid. Ditto NationAl Per Share. Ditto .125 29 _ St. John Del Rey 5 Si( I,l lninr C , . 0 —ornpany of Ireland rr al 5 8 3 / 4 ovineial Bank f Ireland —____________ ° 25 29% VOAXIGN XXCHANGILS OW LONDON. nAMII7IO, MAY 11.-13. 13 1 , 1 ,—Tw0 months, 13. 12. ST,.. • P IITERSIBURGH, Amt. 30.—Three months, 10 13-32. .RItLIN, MAY 11.—Three months. 6. 2J . STociknour, MAY 4.—Seventy-Ave days, 12 IS. likamix, May 7.—Two months, 617. o ligniaDAll. MAY 14.-12. 30. to 12. 27 5-10. Two months=l2. 20 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO—MORROW. Morning ..34.minutes after li. I Evening... 0 minutes after 0 . BEST FAMILY NEWSPAPER. PROM SATURDAY next, May 22, the SPECTATOR will be ENLARGED by one Lalf ; viz. from 16 pages to 21. It will contain a greater variety of readable matter than any other Weekly News paper; with a NEW PLAN of ADVERTISING, by which each advertisement will be conspicuously displayed, without encroaching on the portion of the Paper which is due to the general reader. An early Edition for the Country, will, as usual, be published in time for the post of Saturday. Price One Shilling. Orders received by all Newsvenders and Postmasters ; and at the Publishing Office, 4, Wellington-street, Strand. _ *wet. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY IS, 1830. . HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH. We are happy to observe, by the following bulletin, that his MAJESTY'S health is improv ing. We have been informed from private sources that the KING has rallied within the last few days considerably beyond the most sanguine hopes and expectations of his medical advisers. The following is the Bulletin issued this day " Windsor Castle, May IS. " The KING has passed a tranquil night. His MA. JltsTY's symptoms are all alleviated. (Signed) " HENRY HALFORD. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY." The expedition against Algiers would, ac cording to the French Papers, sail on Sunday last, and the curiosity of Europe will daily be come more intense till the news of its first opera tions be received. The following are extracts : (From the Messager des Chainbres.) TOULON, MAY 9.—The Magicienne frigate, Captain Beguet, arrived yesterday from Brest ; the corvette Trieste, f rom Cherbourg, has just cast anchor. The Cicogne brig arrived this morning from Navarin, which it left en the stli of April. On the 11th, at five o'clock in the morning, the com panies of artillery and of engineers, and the 200 horses assigned to the 10 vessels which will form part of the first division of the convoy which escorts the army, will begin to embark. The Captains ef companies are especially en joineel to take all the requisite measures that this embark ation may be affected in the best order possible. The Spll,ateam boat has brought the intelligence that t h e Adi tf•Vorretta-Chica, which seems well suited for the landing of troops, is now defended by several bat teries. sinoe the Algerines have suspected that the land lag might be made at that point, they have shown great diligence in strengthening the means of defence. This circumstance is, perhaps, favourable to the plans of the Government, which, it is said, intends to have a false at tack made at Torretta-Chica, while the troops land at some other point that is without defence. Torretta-Chica has been too much talked of to allow a belief that it can he the place chosen for the landing, fur the plans of mili tary operations are arranged with more secrecy. 1 learn by the Diligente corvette, the arrival of which from Alexandria I have announced to you, and which was sent in pur su i t of a corvette, supposed to be an Algerine, but which afterwards appeared to be Egyptian, that there are some Al gerine corvettes and brigs at Alexandria, which they d are not leave fur fear of being captured by the French vessels cruising in the Mediterranean. The orders for embarkation are given. The first divi sion embarks on the 1 1 th, the artillery on the 12th, the second division on the 13th, the third on the 14th and loth. The delay of the two ships of the line from Brest renders it necessary to leave on shore a battalion of the 34th. The cavalry, which is to arrive on the 13th, will Wait for orders at Beaus:el. The fleet will probably sail en the 16th. PARIS, MAY 14.—A Dutch corvette arrived at Toulon en the 9th, having sailed a few days before to Algiers to fetch the Consul of the Netherlands and take him to M ahon- The Dey replied to the Captain of the corvette that he would rot permit any body to leave Algiers ; he also sent him orders to sail again. The Journal du Commerce gives the following par ticulars relative to the African expedition :—The news from Alexandria have been expected with impatience, in order that people might form an idea as to whether the Viceroy would co-operate in an expedition to Africa. We have received from that city letters of a recent date (9th A pril), but we are sorry to say that they do not contain a Word Upon the subject. Our preceding letters were dated in the commencement of March, and the fleet was then about to sail. Our correspondent mentions the expected departure of the corvette La Diliyente, which is to bring back M. Pariset to Toulon ; and, as his letter reaches us through that port, we presume that the _Dili gente has arrived there, though our correspondence from that place does not make arty mention of it. A telegraphic despatch, which arrived yesterday, and which was immediately expedited to the King at St. Cloud, announces that the first division of the expedi tionary army had embarked, and that the embarkation of the second had begun. The illustrious M. Potter, who has been banished from Brussels, will not find an asylum in our generous France. We hear from Paris that the Prefect of the department du Pas de Calais has received orders to send beyond the lirni4 of his department the defender of the Catholic li berties of the Netherlands, if lie should seek refuge in Artois, It is added, that a similar order has been sent to the other northern depa r tments of France.—Propagateur du Pas d e C a l ais. The American packet-boat France has just sailed from Havre, for New York, having on board the French Am bassador, and 110 farmers from Wirtemberg to A'sace. The last accounts from St. Petersburgh, received at Heflin, mention that the Emperor Nicholas would set out in the early part of May for Warsaw, where he is ex pected t o arr i ve a b out the 20th. A courier h as b een d espatched to General Paskewitsch d'Erivan, Command ant of the army in chief of Georgia, with, it is said, the order that all the necessary preparations ahould be made for the definitive incorporation of the Pachaliks of Bay azid and Erzeroum to the Rossian empire, by virtue of a new convention conc l u d e d between the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh and that of Constantinople. (From the Gazette de France of Saturday.) Panrs MAY 14.—There is no truth in what is said by the Journals of has morning that the English Admiral h a . s sailed for Al g i ers w i th five ships of the line and two Ttt,ers. The rendezvous of the English fleet is Palma Bay. aura l mo b r e a .' f f•tte of the Russians," says a liberal Journal uags " will succeed in making the Greeks refuse t t h h e i: new King Every kody pied to forced upon them." Londoe, Russia proposed now knews that in 'the Conferences . of . Prince Leopold as Sovere i gn o f Greece. The Courricr says Who Las not seen that little piece Ar-• • in which somebody says to a lover, " you are now then resolved to marry the young person ? In that case every body is agreed about your marriage; you may consider the matter as settled ; nothing is now wanting but the consent of the lady." This is the exact situation of Prince Leopold with respect to his new Sovereignty. The English journals have just informed us, that the three Allied Powers have at length agreed together, and that the Prince himself has put an end to his tedious indeci sion;—thus every body being agreed, we may consider the affair as settled ; nothing is wanting but the assent of Greece. This is a very pleasant scene of a comedy : for we are to-day informed that the Senate has recognized the proto cols of London, and Prince Leopold as Sovereign. The National was equally unfortunate in announcing lately that M. de Varennes was gone to Constantinople to hinder the Sultan from accepting the Protocols. On the very day that this news was published, it was known at Paris that the Sultan had ratified all the arrangements relative to Greece. (From the Moniteur.) CARACCAS, MARCH 2.—M. Ravenga has been ba nished from Venezuela. He embarked at La Guayra for Curactm. M. Ravenga has much contributed to re store the credit of the Republic abroad, and would have done more had not the present revolution destroyed his plans. Fstaxcis Fume..—PARII, MAT 15.—Fire per Cents.,ll 105 f. 40c. 45e. 50c. 45c. 50c. 45c. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 82f. 60c. 55c. ; Bank Stock, 1,915 f.; Rentes de Naples, 93f. 25c. 40c. 45c. 50c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, lb% 14 %%; Royal Spanish Loan, 88 % ; Rentes Perpetuelles d'Espagne, SO SO 80 1 ,i, 1,4:2; ; i ; Haytian Loan, 515 f. 512 f. boc. 510f.—Exchange on London—One month, (paper), 25f. 50c.; (Money) 25f. 50c.; Three months (paper), 25f. 35c. ; (Money) 25f. 351. German Papers received this morning, con tain no news of importance. The following is from the Hamburg Reporter HAMBURG, MAY 11. —BORSEN -HALLE, HALF. PA ST FOUR O'CLOCK.—In Funds but little doing.—The George IV. steamer, from Lubeck to St. Petershurgh, is said to have run into Memel, having been prevented from reach ing her destination by the masses of ice still floating in the Baltic. _ _ End of May. Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent 1"3% Anglo-Russian Loan lO9 Hamburg_ Russian Loan 104% Polish Bonds l3l New Prussian 4 per Cents. (1S30) 98% Austrian Bank Shares 1'369 Austrian Metalliques 101%; New Austrian 4 per Cents 97 Anglo Neapolitan Falconets Portuguese Greek, 19'25 4616 1824 46?4 Spanish (Rentes Perpetuelles) Aguado 77U Willinek Cortes 2O VIENNA, MAY 7.—Metalliques 101 1 1; Four per Cents, 971 : Bank Stock, 1,353. The Halifax Mail has brought us Papers from Hamilton (Bermuda) to the end of March. The Session of the Colonial Legislature had been commenced, on which occasion the Go vernor delivered the following Speech : MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISI.A.. TIME COUNCIL; MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. I have great satisfaction in again meeting you in your official capacities, and I look forward to your cordial assistance in whatever may tend to the prosperity of the colony. MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, The account of the receipt and disbursements of the Public Revenue will be laid before you, and I rely upon your good feeling and judgment in making such further provision, for the public service, as may he deemed advise able in the present circumstances of the Colony. I have still sanguine hopes that in the arrangement of commercial concerns, between Great Britain and the United States, the Bermudas will derive benefit ; and I am certai❑ that the exemplary good conduct so manifest in all classes of the community, under several privations, will be favourably considered by the mother country. bIR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLA TIVE COUNCIL; DIR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSEMBLY, I am fully persuaded your zeal and diligence will give full and immediate attention to such necessary acts as require renewal, and with a view to improvement in several points that have lately been made the object of Local Legislative enactments, I shall, by his Majesty's command, cause to be laid before you sundry reports from the Lords of his Ma jesty's Privy Council, and observations from the Secretary of State for the Colonies on several Acts of the late Ses sion of the Colonial Legislature, and en other matters to which it is my duty to direct your attention. The arguments put forth against the claims of the Jews were, mutatis tnutandis, exactly the same as have been used for a series of years against those of the Catholics anti Dissenters. We used to be told that justice could not be done, because the Constitution was essentially Protestant ; but the phrase is now changed, and made applicable to the Jews by saying, the Constitution is essentially Christian. Be the Constitution essentially what it may—be it a thing actually existing, or (as Lord ELDON contends) a thing that has passed away ; whether it was framed at some definite pe riod, such as 1688, or consists of no thing more or less than; the laws which may happen to be in force at a given time—it is, un fortunately for its- reputation, constantly referred to as a justification for oppression and wrong. It is the same with our religion as with our Con stitution ; for we are told that to treat the Jews as we should wish, under similar circumstances, to be treated ourselves, is making an inroad .upon Christianity ; the more so, since according to General GASCOYNE, it is a part of Christian duty never to forget injuries, but to revenge our selves when an opportunity offers, upon the descendants of those by whom our ancestors have, in times past, been ill used. Sir ROBERT PEEL must surely have felt himself humiliated in uttering such frivolities as that about the Jews being a distinct race, and not fit for amalgamation with the rest of the na tion. As well might it be contended that the Welsh or Cornishmen are a distinct race, and therefore not entitled to participate in the Go ernment which the more numerous race of Anglo-Saxons have set up in this island. It concerns us nothing from what stock the Jews sprung, from what country they came, or to what country they expect to return. We make them pay their share of the public burthens, we excuse them from some of the public duties incumbent on other citizens—we allow them not to legislate for their own body, or in any manner to govern themselves—and yet we refuse them admission to offices and to Parliament. A man born in England, of French parents, enjoys every right which the Jews ask for, though it may be said, with as much reason, that such a man contemplates a return to the land of his fathers, as that the Jews contemplate the revisitation of Palestine. Besides, if they, as Jews, look for this re-establishment as a nation, we as Christian's, may, with equal consistency, look to their conversion to Christianity. The argu ments drawn from the disabilities of the Quakers is equally ridiculous,—as if, because we declare that an oath shall be taken by those whose con science forbids them to take it, it is any justifi cation for imposing upon a Jew a declaration upon a faith which lie does not entertain. We have racked our brains, and hunted about diligently, for any substantial reasons which might have influenced the Government in the 7 /0. • • course adopted by them with regard to Mr. GRANT'S Bill. Being wholly unable to fall upon any; we applied, in our dilemma, to an Ultra-Tory friend, who suggested three con siderations, which he thought of such im portance, that if they had been forcibly urged on Tuesday:night, they must, he was convinced, have greatly swollen the majority. They are, first, that the Jews are fond of money ; secondly, that they deal in old clothes ; and thirdly, that they wear long beards. These facts our Tory Friend, viewed as decisive of the ques tion ; and we readily admit there is more weight in them than iu any of the arguments advanced in the House of Commons. We, nevertheless, hope that Mr. GRANT will persevere in this Bill year after year, until the Government shall be shamed out of its oppo sition. Perseverance has carried measures of greater importance, as well as greater difficulty, than the relief of the Jews, and whose success appeared at a far greater distance from the time of the first attempt being made. Let the Jews continue to petition, as well as those numerous Christians in all parts of the country who are friendly to the great cause of civil and religious liberty, and we predict that the Cabinet, even if its composition remain the same, will view the question with very dif ferent eyes. It will in due time see the folly of attempting to prop up the Church, by persecut ing a small band who are as indisposed as they are impotent to subvert it,—and the injustice of depriving men of their civil rights on account of their religious opinions. The numbers on the division were, 165 for the second reading, and 228 against it—leaving a majority of only 63—a number so small, that we shall not be surprised to see the tables turned next Session. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, MAY 17.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived, and sailed for the River, the Duke of Bedford, Bowen, for Bengal. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Off port, the Hope, Dalrymple, from Madeira. PLYMOUTH, MAY IG.—Wind W.—Arrived off port, the Norden, Bird, from China, sailed the 2d of January, from the Cape the 11th of March, and from St. Helena the 25th, bound to Hamburg. FALMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind W. to N. W. light breezes.—Arrived the Camden packet, from Bermuda, sailed the 3d ult., and from Halifax the 25th ; and Sham lock, from Philadelphia. COWES, MAY 17.—Arrived the Vittoria, Andrews, from Manilla, sailed from the Cape the 1 ith of March, and St. Helena the 25th. FOWEY, MAY 16.—Off port, the Royal Saxon, Petrie, from Bengal, sailed the 2d of January, and from the Cape of Good Hope the 20th of March. HULL, MAY 16. —Arrived the Hoghton, Ranson, from Riga ; and Venus, Hardy, from Memel. CORK, MAY 15.—Arrived the Veador, from Mosquito; and Begintio, Sherera, from St. Übes. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK Accounts have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house from Mexico to the 18th March. In the night of the 7th, a conspicuous Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Don Jose Maria Alpuche, was seized in his house by order of the Supreme Government, and papers were found on him, which he endeavoured to destroy, that betrayed a serious conspiracy. On the 10th the Senate went into a Grand Jury to inquire into the case, and agreed to present him for trial as a conspirator. The country appears still agitated. The Chamber of De puties passed a Bill of nineteen clauses, by the first of which the entry of cotton goods into the Mexican ports, which were prohibited by the law of the 22d November, is renewed to the Ist January, and the duties which may be collected on such goods are to be set apart as a fund to meet the emergency of another Spanish invasion, and to assist the Mexican Miramir cotton manufactories. .amichi Papers to the 10th March, and Prince Edward Island Papers to the 21st April, have been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house. PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY, FEB. 23.—MESSAGE TO THE Housx.—" The President recommends to the considera tion of the House the propriety of making some provision to enable him to arrange for the more speedy and regular despatch of business in the Court of Chancery in the Province. " It having been represented to the President that it is in contemplation to establish a steam boat to ran between Quebec and Halifax, he submits for the consideration of the House the propriety of a grant for the encouragement of that desirable object. gt W. BLACK." A ship, laden with human bones, has arrived at Lossie mouth. The master of the vessel states that the bones were collected from the plains and marshes of Leipsic, and are part of thousands of the brave men who fell in the sanguinary battles between France and the Allies in October, 1813. (From the Prince Edward's Island Papers.) COLONIAL TRADE.-We have authority to state that John Bainbridge, Esq., of London, aided by his Excel lency Sir Howard Douglas, has been indefatigable in his exertions to arrest the progress of the negotiations com menced by the American Minister in London for opening the ports of our West India Islands to the United States of America, until information shall be received from the British provinces in North America. Accounts from Berlin state that M. de Ellen, who was at Constantinople with General Muffling, will accompany the French expedition to Algiers, on an important mission from the King of Prussia. Letters from Odessa state that Jussuf Paella has em barked for Constantinople. THE FUNDS. Consols, which left off yesterday at 93 -I for the ac count, opened at the same 'price, and for money 034, but there is little business doing as yet. They may be quoted for next a:Tount at 93} I. In the Foreign Market the prices are much the same as yesterday. ENGEM' FUNDS. Bank Steck, 1154 216 li SW, per Cent. 00 1 ,4 % India Stock, NOW, 41 4 per Cent. 1017, 2 3 per Cent. Cans. 93 li 4 per Cent. 18126, 104% ?:, Do. for Account, 23',4 India Bends, 22 83 Ditto Reduced, 921( ,;',;, Exchequer Bills, 78 79 Brazilian, 74 % Burnout Ayres, 38 40 Chilian, Colombian, 26 4 Danish, 74% 5 34 French a per Cent. 16a 6 Ditto 3 per Cent. st 83 FUNDS, Greek, 444 6 Mexican, 1)4 N Peruvian, 254 a s Portuguese, 66% 61 Prussian, Russian 110!4 11 Spanish, 194 TWO O'CLOCK. This is quite an idle day in the Funds. No specula tions of any consequence have taken place to the present hour ; but the Market is not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, when Consuls were 934, sines which they have been done at 93, Dud may now be quoted 93 to and 93} for the next A.ccount. The Hebrews, contrary to their expectation, have been disappointed in regard to the second reading of the Jews' Relief Bill ; at least they were in great hopes that an en lightened Legislature like ours would have condescended to alleviate their condition, by giving a proof to all other nations of English liberality. In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds have been the chief speculation, which have fallen since yesterday from 3to 4 per cent. In other Stocks nothing doing. Consols, 93i. 2 HREE 0' CL 0 CK. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY) HAY M A RKETS.—(At per . 1 -.‘' “ ,. of 36 Trusses.) ST. JA MES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 0 to £2 10 Nlew Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and nye-grass Hay 3 15 4 la Clover Hay Oat Straw --E2 6to £2 10 I Wheat Straw... 2 10 2 14 A good supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay,,,,,,..... £2 sto£2 15 New Meadow Hay.:.. ..................................... 0 0 "(1 0 Useful Old Ditto... .......................................... 3 8 , ..... 42 4t042 10 I Wheat Straw 210 3 . ;5 Fine Upland Meadow and 11ye-grass Hay..,...,,. 5 15 4 Li Clover Hay (extra fine)...ls 1 1 . 4 .. Generally , 3 - 6 415 O A at m S o t 2 14 i d 3 c w rati supply, and a slueSish trade; prices as last quoted. FOR.EIG - LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. TYLER V. PRAYTON. In consequence of the consent of all parties, and the per mission of the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Serjeant WILDE addressed the Court this morning on hi, own behalf. He said that he should have been unfeignedly proud to have attended at his Honour's bar upon any occasion but the present ; but for any man to appear in his own cause—for an individual standing as he did at the bar, it was most peculiarly painful, and he trusted that it would be considered that nothing but a strong sense of duty would have compelled him to quit the interests of those clients committed to his care in the Court where he usually practised. He must in the outset beg to assure the Court, that nothing was more distant from his mind in thus appearing than the supposition that the Learned Counsel appearing on the part of the de fendants had not done every. thing that talent, ingenuity, zeal, and learning could have done—he was fully sen•ible of this ; but, although he was so, he could not but think that those 'who were generally engaged in defending others could not, in the multiplicity of their avocationq, be so well acquainted with all the circumstances as others might be, and that the man whose honour had been unjustly attacked should not be backward in defend ing himself. For that "purpose it was (he was going to say) that he presented himself face to face with his op ponent. Unfortunately, however, his opponent was not bees. He (Mr. Sedeant Wilde) was not brought before the Court upon the record. He was not here to advocate any pecuniary interest be might have at stake in this case, nor was it his intention to discuss any point relating to pecuniary questions ; he had no doubt all such questions had been most ably and fully discussed by those much more acquainted with the technicalities of the Court on that subject than he was; but even if that had happened, which was not at all likely, namely, that there had been any omission, he should feel himself degraded, when lie had so much deeper an interest at stake, in embarking in pecuniary questions. He could not find anything upon the face of the record that would justify him in intruding upon the Court; and had it not been for the attack upon him be never would have done so; where that attack had come from be could not say— whether from instructions or otherwise he could no tell—but certain he was, they were not to be found upon the record. He never dreamt, until this instant, that he was more than a formal party ; he had not the remotest conception that he should have to stand before the Court to defend the part which he had taken in the transactions. The record concealing from him that there were any imputations against him, he had now to approach it, not for the purpose of answering any they alleged there, but to answer that which had been said at the bar, which was not upon the record, and which was not warranted by any thing in the case.— He had no doubt that the Learned Solicitor-General, in stating what he did, had acted under a strong impulse of duty ; he knew of no feeling more likely to lead an honourable man into warmth of expression than those which an advocate would feel in taking care not to sacri fice the interests of his clients. He did not expect for bearance where the client was to suffer, but he was sore the Solicitor-General would never have stated what he (lid if all the facts of the case had been in his memory. Thus deceived in the shape of the record, scarcely having looked at the evidence in the case, never having seen his Counsel, or paid one moment's attention to it, he was surprised on his Counsel informing him that facts had been so mis-stated and so distorted; he could safely say the information of this was the most painful moment of his life. Upon this he ordered as correct a transcript of the speech of the Solicitor- General to be procured as possible, and he there found that Learned Gentleman commenced as he (Serjeant Wilde) would have expected, by the known view he took of his case, by expressing his regret at the occur rences that had taken place in this case, and the parties connected with it, but making a covenant with himself, that nothing should fall from him but a dry statement of facts. He (Serjeant Wilde) lamented that that course had been deviated from, for in the very beginning of that Learned Gentleman's speech, sarcasm, invective, and declamation, he found every thing but a plain, clear statement of the facts of the case ; he did not mean to say that some of the circumstances that ex isted in the case had not been detailed, but the order of them had been so perverted, the facts so distorted, and the whole deriving such a colouring from the statements made, that it would have been impossible for any person really to have known what the case was. Under such cir cumstances he thought it necessary to appear before the Court. There was nothing here to chew the Court that the individual whose estate was the subject of consideration, was not as capable as any one to understand, and was perfectly aware of the nature of the transaction, nor was there any thing to show that undue advantage had been taken of him. He (Serjeant Wilde) had never profited one shilling by this transaction, and never could. The transaction which had been the subject of consi deration' before the Court was one which took place in Igo7, and which was again the subject of certain deeds and transactions in 1816, and the question was as to the capacity of Jenkins's mind to do what he had done, and as to whether he had been fairly treated in the course of these transactions. The Court would not fail to have observed that this was not the complaint of the individuil who was interested in the transactions, it was not Griffith Jenkins that was now before the Court, not the soldier of whom the Court had heard so much, it was not the unfortunate wretch whom the Solicitor-General had so much pitied and commented upon, it was not the unfortunate man who had suffered mili tary punishment sooner than agree to the proposi tions of his unfeeling grandfather, it was not the alleged maniac that was upon this record, but it was his aunt, that aunt who had suffered him to be in that distress—that aunt who had permitted him to pass his life without that kindness and protection on her part which she ought to have bestowed towards him—that aunt who only feels for his misfortunes when she is a suitor in this Court, claiming his property. Griffith Jenkins, who was a young man of good education, he had powerful friends, possessing property, influen2e, and information. The Solicitor-General had designated him as the most unprotected and profligate of men. But by whom was he unprotected? Why, by those very indi vidukls who ought to have afforded him protection. No complaint whatever came from Griffith Jenkins as to this transaction—not even a murmur comes from him. It he had felt dissatisfied with what had been done, all the Courts of England were open to hear the complaint, and the arm of justice would have wielded her sword in his favour, but his whole life passed without his feeling that injury had been done him by those who were brought before the Court upon the present oc casion. The Solicitor-General commenced by professing to give a history of the transaction ; he (Mr. Serjeant Wilde) had had mush more experience in the profession than, perhaps, lain appearance would bespeak, and he had never known a case, till the present, where the Counsel, having all the facts of the case be fore them, had kept the Court in the dark as to what the case really was; nay more, bad actually had the boldness to call upon his adversities to say if he had exaggerated or omitted any thing. (The Learned Serjeant here went into a long history of the case, the facts of which are before the public.)—He could not but designate the whole of the Solicitor-General's address, every iota of it, as being composed of sarcasm, satire, and in tentional misrepresentation ; it was libellous and slan derous from the beginning to the end. He (the Solicitor- General) should recollect that he was dealing out poison that would be circulated through every part of the empire. It was true, that when he (iUr. Serjeant Wilde) came into Court the other day, the Learned Solicitor-Ge neral had done him the honour of extending his hand to him, but if only h a lf of what that Le arne d Gen tleman had been represented to have said o f hi m was trite, smarting as he was under attacks a s unfound ed or cruel, how could he consistently acc e pt th a t hand? When, however, he found that h e h a d d one hi m injustice, when the atonement he could m a k e f or t h e in juriesinaait hand l i l adlre made,i l that he period, shod be be must most happy he o had which, t refuse. The Learned Serjeant was proceeding at great length into the details of the case when we left, and it appeared t take shut probable that the Learned Gentleman's addma would Oc copy the whole day. The Court was crowded to excess during the whole morning, -------- COURT OF LUNG'S BENCH. The CouhT was occupied the whole morning in !,I:.ar.. ing arguments of Counsel i n p l eas and dcanur k ers, none of which up to the time our 4ep?rte: left, possessed the least feature of public interest. On Monday last Mr. LONG WELLEsLii, arrived at St. Ives, and commenced a canyass of the Be. rough on Tuesday : hie friends say that be ha; every pros of gic(?%•o at the neAt elcz,tiou.—Fulrnouth pocheP The Prussian Minister gave a grand dinner, on Saturday, at his residence, in Great Cumberland-place, to a numerous party of th e nobility and gentry. SP ORTINC4 INTELLIGENCE. YORK SPRING MEETING. ~ ~- SUNDAY NIGHT. Our Spring .Meeting commences to-morrow, and although it must be admitted that tlo. stakes and entries are less numerous than might have been expected from a county so lung celehrat e d thr its devotion to the turf, we are induced to believe that the quality of the spot t will, in a great degree, compensate for the deficiency in quantity. We some time ago noticed the falling off in the York races, attributing it to a want of spirit in those who are bound to support them. Here the depreciation is laid upon the depressed state of the country, anti the superior attraction of the Doncaster fleeting; the former, however, can hardly be the case, for at many other less wealthy places they gave as much money in one meeting as they do at York in three or four. The real cause is want of energy, and we are glad to see that steps are about to be taken to restore the races to something like their original excel lence. The following notice is in circulaticn :—" A meeting of the friends of the turf, with a view to improve York races, will he held on Tuesday in the Spring Meet ing, at Etridge's Hotel, at twelve o'clock at noon." It is supposed by some that this is intended merely as a meet ing of the subscribers to-the great subscriptions ; but the object is to bring together those who are desirous of pro moting the prosperity of those races, which, for many years, were second only to Newmarket. It is stated that the venerable Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Harewood, Lord Scat borough, Lord Milton, and several other leading men of the county, will attend in support of the resolutions that are expected to be proposed. Several of the Great St. Leger horses are engaged in the Stakes to be run for, including Canter, Redstart, Lady Mowbray, The Cardinal, &c. As a guide to the betting, we subjoin a list of the horses that have arrived at Dringhouse's, and other train ing stables, by which it may be ascertained what will start for the stakes down in the list : Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Redstart, by Whisker ch. t. Lady Mowbray f. by Whisker b. f. by Wanton ch. c. by St. Patrick Lord Sligo's Drudge, sister to Sligo, '3 yrs. Mr. Metcalfe's Giglet, 3 yrs. --- b. c. Mimic, by Wanton Lord Fitzwilliam's hr. c. by Cervantes, 3 yrs. - b. f. Dora, by Cervantes, 4 yrs. Lord Milton's b. h. Medors, by Cervantes, 6 yrs. Mr. R. Shepherd's b. c. The Cardinal, 3 yrs. Lord Sligo's b. c. Canker, brother to Count, 3 yrs. b. c. Cube, brother to Cant, Y yrs. Lord Scarborough's br. f. Waverley, 3 yrs. br. f. by Catton, 4 yrs. b. f. by Octavius, 3 yrs. - bl. c. by Comus,2 yrs. b. c. brother to Tarrare, 3 yrs. b. c. Cistercian, 4 yrs. Mr. Foljambe's br. f. by Whisker, 3 yrs. Mr. Wilson's ch. c. brother to Reformer, 4 yrs. Lord Cleveland's br. c. Tamboff, 4 yrs, - b. c. Chorister, by Lottery, 2 yrs. Mr. Dowbiggen's ch. c by Figaro, 2 yrs. ch. f. by Figaro, 3 yrs. Mr. Gascoyne's ch. f. by \Vhisker, 3 yrs. -- ch, c. by Blacklock, 3 yrs. Mr. Watt's b. b. Apuntador, 3 yrs. -- b. c. by Tramp, 2 yrs. --- b. c. Doctor Oloroso, 3 yrs. Colonel Crawford's b. f. by Whisker, 2 yrs. Mr. Walker's ch. f. Victoire, 2 yrs. Mr. Wormald's ch. f. sister to Granby, 2 yrs. Mr. Kirby's br. f. by Alexander, 2 yrs. Mr. Singleton's Tremaine, 2 yrs. Mr. Jaques's ch. c. by Swiss, 3 yrs. Mr. Walker's Cadwal, 3 yrs. The races for to-morrow are as follow Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each ; for three-year-old colts, fist. 51b., and fillies, Sot. 21b. Last mile and three quarters. Mr. Metcalf's b. c. Mimic Lord Fitzwilliam's hr. c. by Cervantes Duke of Leeds's ch. c Redstart Mr. R. Shepherd's b. c. The Cardinal Lord Queensberry's br. c. Hassan Lord Sligo's b. c. Canker The Sapling Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft ; for three year-old fillies, Sst. 51b. Last mile and half. Lord Scarborough's b. f. by Waverley Mr. Foljambe's br. f. by Whisker Mr. Petre's b. f. by Figaro Mr. Dowbiggen's ch. f..by Figaro Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each ; for all ages; maiden horses at the time of naming allowed 41b. ; fillies, 31b. Two miles. Mr. Wilson's ch. c. brother to Reformer 4 yrs. (41b) Lord Cleveland's br. c. Tambod; 4 yrs. Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by St. Patrick, 4 yrs. (41b.) Lord Scarborough's br. f. by Catton, 4 yrs. (41b.) Lord Fitzwilliaufs b. f. Dora, 4 yrs. It is said that the lion. G. Petro, who is steward of the races, Lord Mayor of the City, and High Sheriff of the County, will take the chair at Tuesday's meeting. One person has offered to make the course a round one, to level it, to throw a bridge over the great drain, and do what, ever-else the course may require, for the small sum of 100/_ LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING, MAY 14. The Kirkdall Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 30 added, Mile and a distance. Sir W. Wynne's Convoy Mr. Clifton's Butterfly Mr. Steele's Wellington 3 Two others started. A Free Handicap of 20 sous. each, h. ft., with 20 added. Two miles. Mr. Nowell's b. b. by Walton Air. Houldswortles Terror The All-aged Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft., with 30 added, . . Mile and half. Sir T. Stanley's Dr. Faustus 1 Mr. Nowell's br. f. by Orville 2 The Great Liverpool Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., for horses not thorough bred. Two miles. Mr. Johnson's b. g. brother to Hexgrave walked over. The Ormskirk Plate, value 100 sovs., the second horse entitled to 20 sovs. out of the plate. Two miles. Sir T. Stanley's ch. h. May Fly 1 1 Mr. Houldsworth's Terror 0 2 Sir W. Wynne's Sir Walter Mr. Thompson's Orthodox, aged Mr. Walker's Cock Robin Three others started. TATTERSALL'S. Although the York Spring Meeting has attracted vast numbers of sporting characters, the attendance yesterday was numerous, and several changes took place, which, from the near approach of the Derby, are of great im portance. At a later hour than usual the betting closed as follows : DERBY. 3 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Priam 7 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur 7} to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Augustus 10 to I agst Mr. Forth's Orion 10 to 1 agst Mt. Potre's Brunswicker 11 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's The Mummer 11 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud 15 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Little Red Rover 16 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Wat Tyler 17 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Cetus 30 to 1 agst Lord Cavendish's Moui.o eon 40 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's, 13t . e.te 40 to 1 agst Mr. 114rusbottorn's Zucharelli 1000 to 23 agst Ihorugrove 100,0 to 20 agst Port 1000 to 15 agst Sheldrake 1000 to 15 agst Finnan OAKS. II to 2 agst Lord Sefton's Mouchs 11 to 2 agst Lord Jersoy's Charlotte West 6 to 1 agst Lord Queen.sberry's 12 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Brown Duetwss 1.1 13 to 1 apt Mr. Benson's Lady Blanche 16 to 1 agst Frederica 17 to 1 agst Leeway 17 to 1 agst Mr, itawlinson's Carmine 1000 to 10 agst Citron St. Leger as before. On Saturday last the Lour, MAYOR, and about 120 members of the corporation dined at the West- India Dock Tavern, which was most splendidly arranged as to it& rooms and gardens. It was the first great city white-bait dinner for the year ; but as the chief Magis trates have been in the habit of prohibiting th? fishermen from catching white-bait, that celebrated dainty has been stripped of its name, and numewns dishes of it appeared on the tables under the. wane of " gudgeons." I; is be lieved that the qnant,ity eaten has seldom been equalled by the same. number of guests. There will be a formidable competition, however, in the course of the week, as sevktaj dignitaries of the church are to dine upon " gudgeons" early in the week, at the West-India Dock Tavern ; and at the end of the week a large military company will enter into the struggle. The Sianlese bogs were exhibited at Reading laet weok. One of them had cut his finger, when a lady —of course a blue-stocking, ohsrrved to the other,-,-“ Do you feel any inconvenience from the hu,rt?'" The reply was naive and characteristic :---“Noo, it don't Lelong to me."—Berks Chronicle. OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED NEW TAX,A , i1,13.14 OF IRELAND. -One of the largost and most influential assemblages of the rank, respectability, and property of this great and inflependent county within our recollection, responded to, the call of the high Sheriff, TowNsEND, Esq.) at the County Court House, last, to give It constitutional and firm opposi tionzinto u , p and , 7. petitir,A, found e( ll'Tc t ift o i eA6 tFe Y obnoxious and unstatesmanlike system of tax ation, 110 w threaten Iby e et- the -_,IIANCELLOR of the ExctiE ,4uxit to he inflicted on this already overburdened and im poverishedth e Representatives cou iatry. Almostor the i e a d i all c g theinterests county, least were present. A variety of, re solutions respecting the sub alA,4 vre*nted to the [ L4iplatnre.—... Cork Constitution, • - j e • L d •ct en in t4 d . iszss o i r c. d , r‘se.:edretoe;blteerderdatvi SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Bill for the relief of the Jews was last night rejected by a majority of 63 : the numbers being 163 for the second reading, 22S against it. The result could not be different, unless, indeed, Parlia- ment were prepared to abolish religious tests alto gether. Nobody, however, deemed it expedient to take that ground.—Times. We learn from the French demi-official journal of Saturday, that the troops of the African expe dition had embarked at Toulon on the 14th inct., and that if the wind was favourable, it would sail on the following day. The rapidity with which this [a val and military armament has been collecred, and the perfect state of equipment in which (according to all accounts) it will leave the shores of France, do great credit to the Administration of the French Army and the Marine. No port of France ever beheld so grand a spectacle as the departure of this noble fleet, standing out to sea to decide the fate of Africa, or perhaps of the Bourbon dynasty. The number of ships of war of which it is composed amounts to 68, among which there are 12 ships of the line and 20 frigates. The number of transports amounts to 277, accompanied by seven steam-ves sels, makino in all a fleet of more than 350 sail. • The military force embarked on board the ships of \var and transports is not less than 30,852 infantry, 534 cavalry, 2,327 artillery, 1,330 engineers, besides officers, medical staff, commissariat, and other neces- sary appendages of an army. The whole of the farce will thus amount to 37,577 men, and 3,954 horse. This armament sails in three divisions, con sisting each of three brigades. It is evident, from the great proportion of artillery and engineers, that the Commander-in-Chief expects that the Dey will stand a siege. The general staff of the different divisions and services amounts to 830 officers. In the expedition we find the names of not fewer than 25 interpreters of the Moorish, Arabic, or Turkish languages. General Bourmont, the Minister of War, is Commander-in-Chief; Lieutenant-General Baron Berthesene commands the first division; Lieutenant-General Count de Loverdo, the second ; and Lieutenant-General the Duke d'Escars the third. Major-General Viscount de la Hite is Com mander-in-Chief of the Artillery, arid Baron Valaze of the Engineers. Both these officers distinguished themselves in the Spanish expedition. Such is the army placed under this modern Scipio Africanus, to enable him to avenge the blow of the Dey's fan, and to earn for himself a Marshal's baton. It would be absurd, with the very scanty information which we possess respecting the means of resistance which the Algerine Government has been preparing, to speck/- late en the result of the expedition. The French squadron, which has been blockading Algiers for nearly three years, must have collected pretty accu rate intelligence on the state of the defences towards the sea. Besides, we have heard of late, that scientific officers have been making minute surveys,and drawing accurate charts of the coast, at every point where a land ing could be either attempted or disputed. It is the fault of the War Administration, therefore, if either the armament is insufficient for its object, or if it is despatched on an enterprise in which, from the na ture of the obstacles to be encountered, a larger force would fail. If, on the one hand, the Alge tines have had ample warning of their danger, and seen the necessity of preparing for a vigorous de fence, by descrying a hostile flag for nearly tJ..,.„ years off their port, on the other, the strirm e ,„f the blockade may have prevented them irom availing themselves of those means of resin.ance which their trade or their piracies might, during the interval, have acquired. One eler:,ent of failure on the side of the assailants tn , : i y be looked for in tire comb).- gencies of the ' weat h er an d t h e e ff ect of the cl i mate; though, frf:/rn the season at which the expedition sails, the former may be considered as of less im portance. But supposing that General Bourmont succeeds to the full extent of his wishes, and erects ' the white flag over the ruins of the nest of outlaws and pirates against which he has by this time sailed, a most important question will then arise, " What is he to do next ? What use is he to make of his victory ?" Will the French Government be satis fied in exacting a reluctant submission from the Dey, leaving him afterwards to the vengeance of his own people, or to the repetition of his former barbarities both against them and strangers, or will it rate to the ground his fortifications, and sweep every ves tige of his reign from his polluted shores ? If the latter, how will it be possible to pre vent the establishment of other pirates in the same lair ? Will the French attempt to keep a garrison in that quarter, to prevent some future Barbarossa from building on the ruins and repairing the port of this piratical city ? and if they do so, what difference will there be between such an oc cupancy and colonization ? Different answers are given to these questions by different people; but the answer in which foreigners are chiefly interested is that of a considerable party in France, whiff,' urges upon the Government the duty and expe pediency of conquering Algiers, for the purpose of making it the centre of French colonization in the north of Africa. We have before us a pamphlet of 100 pages, entitled " Du Marti qu'on pourraii firer d'une Expedilion d' Alger ; ou de la possibilitc de fonder dans le Bassin de its Medderranee un Nouveau Syleine Colonial et Maritime, d l'epreuve de la puissance Anglaise," which strenuously main tains this ambitious pretension. The author tells us that colonies have become indispensable to France from her growing population ; that the coast of Africa is nearer and better adapted to that ob ject than any of the old French ultra-marine possessions; that the Mediterranean should be considered as " a French lake," (to use a phrase of Buonaparte) ; that the coast of Africa has always belonged to the last in vader; that the whole of it might be maintained in subjection by a few military positions ; that it might be made the Botany-bay of France; that it would open the way to the commerce of Egypt ; that it would be accessible at all times, both in peace and in war, to the mother country, independent of the English ; and that it would enable France to balance in the Mediterranean that power which England derives from the possession of Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian Islands. All these points ate zealously reasoned in the French pamphlet before us, and 710 doubt the reasoning appears perfectly conclusive to its author; but can he inspire other nations with as much love for his colonization scheme as his own countrymen ? To extend the power of Prance into Africa, and to give her com mand of the whole Mediterranean coast, from the mountains of Atlas to the coast of Egypt, may seem a slight affair to a disciple of the Buonaparte school; but would Eng/siad or the Mediterranean Powers quietly witness, the execution of sueh a pro ject ? No ; and we are happy to say that the French Government never proposed such a'result to their enterprise against Algiers. The Ministers of Charles have been throughout moderate and conciliatory in their conduct and professions respecting their Algerine expedition, inspiring his allio with no alarm, and securing their entire approbation.—Times A pamphlet has been published on the compo sition, administration, discipline, and prospects of the British Navy, to which we invite immediate at tention from those who have the management of that vital_ defence of England; and the more so, be cause we are satisfied that the pamphlet requires only to have its subject and merits pointed out, to command universal notice from the public generally. In the title-page, we find that this production is the work of a flag-officer ; and sorry are we, for the sake of his profession and his country, to add, that it is a posthumous work. The old Admiral, who states his, recollection of the commencement of the wars in 1778 and 1793, takes for a text to one por tion of his interesting essay the wretched principles on which the British men-of-war of the above two periods were constructed and armed, in comparison with those of neighbouring nations; and the un happy and mortifying consequences to his Majesty's service which sometimes arose from the dirregae.d evinced by [be Admiraki of . Prose days for what was passing around than in the nature of Ecientific and `.;" ,