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r , o- f t • 4 4, " 7 ,iY.• • c - d yi -1 / 1 1,R , A4VV #O. , 4ANI . sf2i " 89/ 4 r 4, ~• -441: e; , ` . ; , - N UMBER 89 ..... • ] TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1821. PRICE SEVENPERgB. TROYAL ACADEMY, SOIIEitsET PLACE. " EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA. Ag , I) EMY IS NOW OPEN. 4ln ussion . (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling. • Catalogue, One Shilling. H. I-lOWARD, R.A. Sec. DOG MEDICINES.—BLAINE'S -MEDI CINES for the DISTEMPER, and those for most of the DISEASES of DOGS, continue to be Prepared and Sold by the Proprietor, W. you Arr (late Blaine and Youatt), Veterinary Surgeon, No. 3, NASSAU STREET, MIDDLE SEX HOSPITAL. They are likewise Sold by Boosey and Sons, 4, Old Broad Street; Barclay and Sons (the Wholesale Agents), 95, Fleet Market, and all Medicine Venders • also Blaine's Genuine Horse Medicines. An Hospital for Dogs, and advice as usual on the Diseases of Animals. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ink: LONDON JOURNALS. Gold is becoriating dearer and scarcer, however. Suuh are the early fruits of that Revolution which was immediately'to have restored to us confidenco. and plenty; and will, we hope, operate as a sa lutary lesson with the advocates for change in our own blessed country. At least we trust it SOIL open the eyes of those who, meaning well, have become the dupes of toi disant patriots and Radi cal Reformers:ft. BREWER'S A€T. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM: THE , MORNING PAPERS, May 29. CONTRACT FOR FLOITR. Iq)YAL HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN, AT GREENWICH' May 24, 1821. SUCH Persons as may-be willing to Contract for supplying this Hospital with Five Hundred Sacks °f niQUR, may deliver in their 'Proposals to the Directors of the said Hospital, at this. Place, on SATURDAY, the 24 of Jane ensuing; at Eleven . o'Clock in the Forenoon ; and t he utt'att time be furtlishedWith Forms of PropOsals, and acquainted with further partiCulars, by inquiring at the Steward's Office here. N . 8.. No Proposal will be received after the hour aforesaid, nor will any be iiitended to that are not agreeable to the . said - " 8 s; nor Unless the Parties personally appear. PUBLICATIONS. Tliis Day was published, .ASecon'd Edition, iu 3 Vols. gro„ price 365. 1 .4 1 FE of Iho RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITY. - B Y GEORGE TOMLINE, D. D., Bishop of Winchester. Prioted for JOHN MURRkY, Albemarle Street. NEW POEMS, BY A SAILnIt. 14 This flay . ‘6.re published, in foolscap Sen. price 7s. AYS ON LAND:-By ISMAEL 10 — FITZADAM, - 'tufnierly nn Able Seaman on board the Frigate. Also by the same Author s ss. fid. _A _ T he HARP of the DESERT, containing the BATTLE o &c. Pritited for John Warren, Old Bond-street. N OVELS and TALES of the-AUTFIOR of WAVERLEY. On the Ist of June will be published, Part I. of SERIES of PORTRAITS, illustrative of "u the ab o ve N ove ls. NVi t h Bi ograp hi ca l N ot i ces. T o b e fmpleted in Six Parts,y, each containing Four Portraits, en irared by Mr. 12.• COOPER, in the most highly finished man ill'', from Drawings made expressly for the Work by Mr. e 40 , 4 ",.t0rt . from fire most'authentie OriginatS. Price of Tv ,- ran, 12nto. Bs. Svc!. 10s. Proofs on India Paper, 14s. ' en tY fire Sets of Proof's before the Letters will be taken off ,„ r ,uPer royal Ito. paper, tirice SOS. bY C. and Badwyn, Newgate-street ; and R. ' 10)0 0k ; wbere Specimens' of the Work may be seen. To T. TAYLOR, 86/. No. 9, New llridge-street, London. IB EG leave to inform you, th a t ever s i nce th e *h. )'ear 1790, I h a d be e n afflicted with the Lues Venereal, 144", from it s o b st i nate l y res i st i ng every course of medicine iter:eriht.<l iss . the most eminent 4)f - the faculty here, and un %ring' severalsevere courses of salivation, and twic e b e 4 e cl ' froni the Hospital with little relief, would appear to thy d the most inveterate nature. In tl.e. spring of last year to 'isomer hail got to .soch a head, as nearly to put a period titl.tY existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, t, tQ nit each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful byt tl er ; toy right was dreadfully painful., and had been in a () f . ulceration for the last seven years; my left Isad also 4.:arge nodes on it, was ver y muc h discoloated.„ and gave btk!; 110 ) excruciating paiu, particul ar ly w h en warm i n b e d, j r a e rly to d e p r i ve me o f res t ; it; this lamentable state, I grea t , "'untended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so i t) a Cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills, I °*l L I began to do oil the 2fitli o. May ; iu- the course of a otatl 't I be... ' an to receive heneilt—in little more than a uleers on head and arms were soundly healed— rer, , - „"r, the sores t, my legs healed also ; leaving, :eagerhow -9014 7 ns iderablediseolourati - ou in the skin, and and a t the ' the left, which, by the blisf.ing of God, and a little Petseverance in yi,or invaluable Medicine, sulisided the n :'`'es dispersitig, the skin regaining its natural hue, and You etarnalpains gradually going oil'.--I thus became, by r orn ler ral advice and medicine, perfectly free front . all my itten Co mplaints —have recovered my former spirits and cont.gth, and am become jolly and fat, in which state . having tt e _ ', ti tled many months, to the astonishment of all who knew arn at a loss in what terms to express my gratitude, but %V, Y° l l, for the good of other suffering . mortals, to make Lio n 41 . 7 ease as public as possible, as I shall on every occa ' tm so doing you will greatly oblige, S ir, Your grateful, obedient, very humble servant, S Waq , AL s Close, Hi g h- s t ree t, Edi n b urg h . EX. . J oh n 'o Witnesses to the above Cure:— • ftepson No. 3, New Poultry Mark e t, Edi n b urg h , "brt Wlntosh, Old Assembly Clos e , Edi n b urg h . Oared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY hot's: Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his %fist' No• 9; New Bridge-street, London • where, , after a 1114,1 t residence of morO tban 40 years, in ' a practice parti• IkCr 4141 directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints and those tlq ntal to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable t t Y which men of his profession should always observe in tttt li ,,sesi he flatters himself the advice and assistance be s te m . 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LAW ,INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, ➢IAY 28. LIBEL ON THE QUEEN. THE KING V. FLINDELL. This was an information against the proprietor of a Paper called " The Western Luminary," for a libel upon her Majesty the Queen. Tlie matter, which was of the most atrocious de scription, appeared in the Paper of the 11th July, 1820, and stood in the following terms :—Speaking of the Queen, the writer said—" Shall a woman who is as notoriously devoted to Bacchus as to Venus--shall such a woman as would, if found on our pavement, be whipped and sent to Bridewell,—be held up in the light of suffering innocence ?" The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Burrough, at Exeter: the Jury found the defendant guilty ; but recommended him " to the utmost extension of mercy." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL prayed sentence. The defendant put in an affidavit, stating that he was 54 years of age, and that he had 12 children. No affidavits were produced by the prosecution. The defendant, in mitigation, spoke from a written paper at tedious length. He was repeatedly interrupted by the Court for irrelevancy, and (but that great part of his matter was inau dible) would probably have been checked more frequently._ As we could understand the defendant, which was but very hardly, har , eonveneneed• by alleging the motive with which the libel had been written: it proceeded entirely from his anxiety for public morality. He justified the expressions which had been applied to her Majesty by comparing them with the ternis of the report of the Lords' Committee, and asserted that the prosecution against him was procured by a faction. He (the de fendant) had himself been cruelly libelled. " The Times," the " Morning Chronicle," and other London Papers, had cal led him a lime atrocious coward. He wished it to be remem bered that he was a base atrocious coward, and that Dr. Lushington and Mr. Wetherell had called the " West ern Luminary" a paltry, obscure, country paper. The defendant then alluded to a speech of Dr. Lushington's in the House of Commons, and made some comment, in which the word " un worthy" was all that reached us. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that the defendant was taking a course which the Court could not permit. Mr. Justice BEST thought that the defendant had forgotten that he was pleading in mitigation. The defendant proceeded—He had been libelled by those who now set up a prosecution against him ; and the effect of those libels had been terrible : he had received threatening letters, his windows had been broken, and he had himself been mobbed in the street. As a public Journalist, it was his duty to discuss questions of public importance; and such had been the question of the Queen. He trembled for the safety of the Throne and of the Altar ; and his two sons had put themselves into military training. Here the defendant read at great length from—" The Western Luminary,"—the object of the refer ence we were not so fortunate as to catch, and concluded by an appeal to the justice and humanity of the Court. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in aggravation; would not offend the ears of their Lordships by repeating alibel as foul and infa mous as ever had issued from the press of any country. The de fendant had referred to the report of the Lords' Committee: he (the Solicitor-General) was not sure that the publication even of that Report would have been legal ; but the defendant stood charged, not with the publication of that Report, but with the publication of charges almost as gross and scanda lous as language could convey. The time, too, at which the libel in question had been put forth, was an aggravation of its wickedness ; the time chosen had been the time of trial—a time at which every . indhidual who had either decent feel ing or regard for justice would be most careful to refrain from calumny. The existence of other libels had been dwelt upon, almost as matter of justification, by the defendant. The At torney-General was not bound to prosecute every libeller that appeared : he selected, for examples, such as appeared most malignant; and so far at least public opinion had confirmed the conception of that officer, that, in every prosecution which he had instituted, conviction had been the consequence. The Learned Gentleman concluded by stating, that the defendant had been tried at Exeter, where probably from long residence his general character was well known ; and the Jury in find ing him guilty had recommended him to the utmost extension or mercy. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, after a few minutes' consultation with his brothers, proceeded to pass sentence. The Learned Judge began by adverting to the gross and infamous character of the libel. Asperities so violent were calculated to provoke corre sponding asperities ; and the effect of the libel might have been (and according to the defendant's account, to a certain point had been) to produce a breach of the peace. The defendant had attempted to justify his conduct by referring to the Re port of the Committee of the House of Lords ; but he must now learn, if he did not before know it, that that inquiry by no means presupposed guilt. The libel in question, not content with directly charging the existence of that vice which, by the report, was made the subject of inquiry, went on to charge a vice of another description —a vice not even mentioned in that report. The expressions—" such a woman, as, if found on our pavement, would be whipped and sent to Bridewell"—those expressions had been applied to a lady of the highest rank, whose sex and situation demanded at least a favourable consideration; who was closely allied to the King (whose advocate the defendant appeared to consider him self), and who was nearly related- to the reigning family of the country. The defendant had spoken of his bounden duty to discuss matters of this description. He (the learned Judge) saw no such bounden duty; he conceived that the defendant 'was in error upon that point. The Learned Judge then refer red to the recommendation of the Jury, and sentenced the de fendant to eight months' imprisonment in the Gaol of Exeter : at the expiration of that period to find securities for his :rood behaviour, himself in 5001., and two other persons in 2501. each. A number of persons were brou , vilt up to receive judgment for offences against the Revenue Laws, and were s e ntenced to various terms of imprisonment. Ist and 2d Geo. IV. Cap. 22.—aAn Act for altering and amending the Laws of Excise for securing the Payment of the Duties on Beer and Ale brewed in Great Britain. [l9th April 1821.] - Whereas the Laws made for securing the Duties of Excise upon and in respect of Beer have been found insufficient for the purposes thereby intended; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and r Common s , in thi s pre sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the sth day of July 1821, every Brewer of Beer for sale shall and is hereby required to enter, or cause to be entered, in a book or paper to be delivered to him by the officer of Excise for that purpose, and at all times kePt by such Brewer in some public and open part of his entered premises ready for the inspection of the Officers of Excise, the quantity of Malt which he or she shall intend to use in his or her next brewing, together with the day when Stich brewing is intended to be made, and that such entry sh a ll be so made before any part of such Malt shall be mashed, or any water or other liquor put thereto, or mixed therewith ; a nd th a t every suc h B rew er shall at the time of making such entry write, or cause to be written, in such book or paper, opposite such entry as aforesaid, the date when such entry was so made as aforesaid ; and that if any such Brewer shall refuse or ne g l ec t to make such' e n t r y as aforesaid, or shall cancel, obliterate, or alter, or cause, or suffer, or permit to be cancelled, otglua a *ed, or altered, any • such entry, or shall make any is rue miff therein, or shall not at all times keep such book or paper in some public and open part of his entered premises, ready for the inspection of the Officers of Excise, or shall mash, or put to or mix any Malt with water or other liquor before such entry shall be made as aforesaid, he or she shall, for every such offence, forfeit and lose the sum of 1:200. 11. And be it further enacted, That no such Brewer as afore said shall remove or cause, to be removed his or her Malt which has been mashed, or any part thereof, from the tun or vessel in which the same has been mashed, until the proper Officer shall have gauged and taken an account of the quantity of such malt, or use, cause, permit, or suffer to be used, any means whatever to prevent or hinder such Officer or Officers of Excise from taking an accurate gauge and account thereof; and that if any person or persons shall remove, or cause, suffer, or permit Maltto be removed, any part of such as aforesaid before such officer shall have gauged and taken an account of the same, or shall use any means as aforesaid, or obstruct, hinder, molest, or prevent any such officer or officers in or from so doing, or in execution of any o' the powers and authorities given or granted to him or them by this Act, every such person or persons shall severally forfeit and lase for every such offence the sum of two hundred pounds : pravided always, that no such' brewer or other person shall,in:,.ur the penalty aforesaid, for removing any such Malt as aforesaid after all the Worts have been drawn off from such Malt without any officer having gauged and taken an account thereof as aforesaid, if such brewer shall at the time of making such entry as aforesaid have specified in such book or paper and entry as aforesaid the time for such officer to attend to'take such gauge and account as aforesaid, and such officer or officers shall not attend for that purpose within an hour after the time so specified. 111. And be it further enacted, That it shall and, may be lawful for any Officer or Officers of Excise to take a sample or samples, not exceeding one pint at each time, of any wort or worts at or on theentered premises of any such brewer as aforesaid, at any time or times after the same shall have been drawn from the mash tun, as may be necessary for the purpose of ascer taining the specific gravity thereof; returning such sample and samples to such brewer after the specific gravity thereof has been ascertained, or paying him or her for the same at and after the rate of the current price of Beer madb fi:com such wort or worts; and that no such brewer shall ferment or mix, or cause, permit, or suffer to be fermented or mixed, any wort or worts with any yeast or other matter or thing for or occasioning fermentation, until the proper officer or officers has or have taken such sample and samples as aforesaid ; and that if any such brewer as aforesaid shall ferment or mix, or cause, permit, or suffer to be fermented or mixed, any of his or her wort or woris with any yeast or other matter or thing for or occasioning fermentation, until such officer or of ficers has or have taken such sample and sal/Ties' as afore said, he, she, or they, shall forfeit and lase for every such offence the sum of two hundred pounds: provided always, that no such brewer as aforesaid shall incur the penalty last afore said, for fermenting or mixing any of his or her wort or worts with yeast, or any other matter or thing occasioning fermenta tion, after the expiration of one hour after such wort or worts has or have been run or drawn off from the copper in which the same has or have been boiled with hops, without any sample being thereof taken as aforesaid, if such brewer shall at the time of making such• entry as aforesaid have' specified in such book and paper and entry as aforesaid the time for such officer or officers to attend to take and diaw such sample and samples as aforesaid, and such officer and officers shall not attend for that purpose within an hour after th e ti me so s p ec ifi e d. IV. And be it further enacted, That there shall be delivered by . the proper Officer of Excise to every such brewer as afore said, and to every dealer in beer or ale, a book or books to be prepared with proper printed forms and titles for the purpose herein-after mentitmed, and. kept by every such brewer and dealer in some public and open part of -his or her entered pre mises ; and that from • and after the said fiftliday of July, no beer or ale shall be sold, sent out, or delivered by the brewer thereof, or by any dealer therein, to any brewer, victualler, dealer in or retailer of beer or ale, or other person or persons, without a certificate filled up• and cut out progressively from the printed forms for such certificates contained in such' book as aforesaid, to be left therewith, signed by such Brewer or Dealer selling; sending out a or delivering the same, or some person on his behalf, certifying the date, quantity, and quality of such beer or ale; to whom sold, and that the duty has been duly charged thereon, and at what place, at what rate, and upon what person such charge was made ; and that the brewer or dealer selling, sending out, or deliver ing any such beer or ale as aforesaid, shall at the same time make a correspondent entry thereof, containing the same par ticulars, in such book as aforesaid; and that such book, with such entries so made therein as aforesaid, shall at all times be open and exposed in the entered premises of such brewer or dealer as aforesaid, to the perusal of any officer or officers of Excise surveying the said premises, and shall be delivered , by such brewer or dealer to any officer or officers of excise upon demand ; and if any such brewer or dealer as aforesaid, shall at any time sell, send out, or deliver any beer or ale to any brewer, victualler, dealer in or retailer of beer, or other person or persons as aforesaid, without delivering such certificate as aforesaid, or making such entry in such book as aforesaid, or shall convey away or conceal any such book or books, or cancel, obliterate, destroy, or tear out any leaf or leaves therefrom, or entry or entries therein, or shall make any false entry or entries therein, or shall oppose, molest, obstruct, or hinder any Officer or Officers of Excise in inspect ing any such book, or - any such entry or entries therein as aforesaid, or shall at any time neglect or refuse, when required, to give up to any officer or officers such book or books as afore said; every such brewer or dealer as aforesaid so offending shall for every such offence severally forfeit and lose the sum of 2001. V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said fifth day of July, if any Officer or Officers of Excise shall dis cover and find any increase in the stock of any brewer, victual ler, dealer, or retailer, over and above the quantity of beer or ale which the Officer found in such brewer, victualler, dealer, or re tailer's custody at the time of the last preceding survey upon such brewer, victualler, dealer, or retailer, and which increase such brewer, victualler, dealer, or retailer shall not thereupon satis factorily account for, as arising from beer duly received with such certificate as aforesaid, or brewed by himself or herself, and on which the duty has been duly charged, such increase, or a quantity of beer or ale equal thereto, shall be deemed and taken to be beer or ale brewed without payment of duty, and shall be forfeited and lost; and a quantity equal to the increas ed quantity shall and.may be seized and taken by the Officer or Officers of Excise who shall discover the same, from and out of such stock; and the person or persons, in whose stock such in crease shall be discovered and found, shall for each and every such offence forfeiaand lose the sum of two hundred pounds. VI. And be it further enacted, That all fines, penalties, anvil forfeitures imposed by this Act, shall be sued for, recovered, levied; or mitigated by such ways, means, or methods, as any fine, penalty, or forfeiture may be sued for, recovered, l ev i e d, or mitigated by any law or laws of Excise, or by action of d e bt, bill, plaint, orinformation in any of his Majesty's C ourts o f ,Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scot land respectively ; and that one moiety of every such fine, pe nalty, or forfeiture shall be to his Majesty, his heirs and suc cessors, and the other moiety to him, her, or them who shall iscover, inform, or sue for the same. VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be al !tered, amended, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed his Session of Parliament. [MORNING: POST.] • ,The Birth of the immortal WILLIAM PITT was yesterday commemorated with great splendour at the City of Lcindon Tavern. ,The attendance was ,highly respectable,, and the whole of the proceedings weae of the most loyal and gratify ing character. The Lord Chancellor made a very able speech.in support of the principles of Mr. Pitt, in the.fOurse of. which he.-explained the views of that great and illustrious Statesman with respect to the' Catholic; . Question :and Parlia mentary reform. The, latter at this moment will be fOund very intere s ting, as his Lordship quoted the lanivage held by Mr. Pitt the last time they conversed on that subject, when-the Right Hon. Gentleman expressed himself as follows:--"" We have a Constitution which has enabled me to save the Country, in the manner in which I have saved it, from enemies abroad, and from those who, aim ing- at a revolution, have made it their business to disseminate revolutionary principles at home ; and knowing this, I must say, that whatever my opinions were formerly, I now feel that such a Constitution ought not to be rashly sacrificed." [THE TIMES.] Some alarm is partly felt, and partly endea voured to be created, respecting the bill now be fore Parliament for mitigating the punishment of forgery. It is thought—the forgery of Bank of England notes still remaining a capital offence, while the punishment for forgeries on private bankers is to be reduced—that the forgeries on the latter will in consequence be multiplied. We ourselves viewed the measure under considera tion more as the part of a system for the general mitigation of our criminal law than as a detached act,and are not quite sure, in a country so jealous of commercial security as England, whether for gery should have been one of the earliest subjects for the experiment. It may, however, be ob served, that the only requisite for committing a forgery upon a private bank is not the cer tainty of a minor punishment. The practicabi lity of forgery depends upon many other cir cumstances, not one of which is either supplied or rendered more attainable by the proposed Act. The person who commits the forgery must know something of the party whose hand he imi tates, as well as of the house where his cash is kept ; and it does not appear to us that the new ' Act has any tendency to increase mutual ac quaintances of this kind. The Leg islature was a long time in weaving up the law of forgery' to its present state; and it might probably be un ravelled in the same way. The forgery of Bank of England bills was rendered capital by 8 and 9 of William 111. Then came bills of credit issued from the Exchequer, South Sea bonds, lottery tickets, army or navy debentures, East India bonds, &c.; and the 4th George 11. made the forgery of a marriage register or license ca pital. All these and many others are the provi sions of so many separate Acts ; and the severity, in many cases, cannot be justified, or even pal liated, by the ordinary excuse that " we are a commercial people." [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Poor: - Relief Amendment - Bill of Mr. Scarlett went through a Committee last night, and this day sennight was fixed for taking the Report into consideration, when it is understood the principle of the Bill will be discussed; Mr. Scarlett assured the Committee, that he Was con vinced, froin the information which reached him from all quarters, the general opinion of the Country was favourable to the measure. From this, and what he said the other evening, we should presume he meant to endeavour to carry the measure this Session. The Country will be very much indebted to him, and no part of our population more than the labouring classes, who have suffered so severely from the operation of the Poor Laws. Into the question of right of the labouring classes to the provision afforded by the existing laws, we deem it unnecessary to enter; for a right which has the effect of depriving them of their liberty and placing them at the mercy of their employers, ought not surely to be contend ed for. If it could be sliewn that the alteration of the existing law will be attended with inju rious consequences to the classes in question, we should be among the first to set our faces against it. But conceiving, as we do, the existing law to be the great obstacle to the amelioration of their condition, we wish every success to Mr. Scarlett. To Sail on the 30th instant, For V.AN DIEMAN'S LAND, and NEW SOUTH WALES, THE Fine Fast-sailing coppered Ship LUSITANIA, ‘VILLIAM LANGDON, Commander, burthen 250 Toni; lying in th e .ti' London Dock. Has excellent accommoda tions for Cabin and Steerage Passengers. For Freight or Passage, apply to BUCKLES, BAGSTER, and BUCHANAN, 33, Mark-lane. To Sail positively in May, for MADRAS and CALCUTTA. THE New TEAK-BUILT SHIP PALMIRA, JOHN LAMB, Commander, (late Commander of the ship Baring) hut.- den (ion Tons, lying in the City Canal. Has a poop, wi b superior accommodations for Pas sengers, and e3rries a Surgeon. For Freight or Pa , sage, apply to Messrs. BARETT, FAR QUHAR, CRAWFORD, and Co. 7t, Old Broad-street; or .to BUCKLES, BAGSTER, and BUCHANAN. 33, Mark lane. [NEW TIMES.] Extract of a Private Letter froth an English Merchant. " RIO DE ANEIIIO, Mancll 28..—The object uppermost in our minds is the unsettled state of things in this city, and which is becoming daily more gloomy. A very general and vivid sensation of anger and dislike is betrayed by all classes, on the determination of the King to return to Eu rope, with all his family, except the Prince Royal, who is to remain at the head of the Bra zilian Government. We think it very probable that an attempt will be made to establish a Re publican Government, on the first breach between the Prince Royal and his Ministers, in which case the King's Colonies, the brightest jewel in his• Crown, will most assuredly be lost to him for. ever. Business is completely. - at a stand; we have not effected a single sale since our last, and even if profita ble sales were practicable, which • they are not, we think it would not be desirable to extend our running accounts. The public mind is in a most restless and feverish state, and every sober citizen is lookingwith terror to the future. [BRITISH PRESS.) The Society which, under the specious and imposing title of " a Constitutional Association," has undertaken to controul the public press of this country, has re-published in some of the Ministerial Eapers a copy of the original address on the first establishment of this system, and also a long list of the Noblemen and other persons who have subscribed their money for its support. The publication of this catalogue of names is no doubt intended at the present moment to 'operate as an answer to all the serious charges that have been addressed in and out of Parliament to the principle and, spirit of this association. The list, we readily admit, contains the names of many individualN eminent no less in rank than in pri vate merit, but the respectability even of their characters cannot divest the association of the ori ginal vice that is essential to the principle of its ex istence. The association consists of some hundreds of persons of various classes of society, whose opi nions and modes of action are no doubt as far removed from each other as are the several cir cles in which the individuals respectively move ; but in the catalogue their names are, by the levelling necessity of an alphabetical arrange ment, placed in strange juxtaposition. Here we find Bishops associated in unconscious familiarity with men nowise remarkable for their observance of moral discipline, the trifler of the west end of the town with the plodding calculator of the alleys, Lords, Commoners, Generals, Aldermen, Admirals, Treasury scribes, a French Lady of quality, a Minister of the Crown, sundry Lawyers, a large assortment of young Ladies, with a va riety of letters purporting to be the initials of names which the owners were ashamed of ack nowledging before the public. In an association composed of such motly materials, it is too much to expect of the public that it will rest satis fied .with the assumption of so formidable a power by an. unauthorised society of indi viduals, solely because in so large a list may be found the names of some persons of acknow ledged integrity. Who can guarantee the judi cious exercise of the discretion which they have assumed, or assure the public that the influence , and . power of the whole body will be exerted b-y the authority of the particular individuals who are put forward to sanction the principle and object of the association ? Are not the ample funds of the society, with the exercise of its nominal discretion, at this moment lodged in the hands of a single attorney; and such being the fact, is it not an absurdity to talk about the respectable names which are to be found in the association ? These distinguished persons do not direct or con trol the proceedings of this society ; they know nothing of the party who is marked out for per secution, nor of the particular publication which is to be presented to the Grand Jury as a libel ; they have not taken the trouble to inquire i:rtfl the man's general character—into the circumstances of his domestic affairs -7-whether he may have erred with evil design or through ignorance —nor have they in consequence of such anxious investigation finally resolved in a full meeting of the body to measure their united strength with his individual means ) and to devote the unfortunate man with his wretched family to irremediable ruin ; they _ have taken no precautions against the possibility of having vindictive prosecutions commenced in . their names, and conducted with their money; they have, in fact, confided all their power to the hands of one or two persons, with whom it now rests to select any publisher in the kingdom for destruction ; we say absolute destruction, for there are not many persons in the kingdom whose capital embarked in the trade of printing and publishing could endure the unequal conflict of defending prosecutions after prosecutions against a society so distinguished by rank and wealth as is this mis-named " Constitutional Association." Yesterday, fIAZ A 1113 and Co. sold No. 15,702 drawn yesterday a Prize of Twenty-one Thou sand Pounds Consols• It was divided into a Half and eight Sixteenths, and sold at IlizAno and Co's. old established and fortunate Offices, Royal Exchange Gate, 26, Cornhill ) and 324, Oxford street. EXECUTION, AT WARWICIi.-00 Friday morn ing, a few minutes before eleven, John Bingley, William Dutton, and .William Batkin, convicted before the Hon. Sir - J. RICHARDSON, Knight, at 'the last Assizes, of forging a 5/. Bank of England Note, suffered the awful sentence of. the law, on the Drop, over the door of the County Gaol. A MONSTER, dressed genteelly in black, has lately infested the fields about the Alpha Cottages, and Lord's Cricket- n o-round, Mary-le-bone, and attacked and maimed fe males about dusk in the evening. Two instances reached the Police on Friday and .Saturday evening. • The first was a yOung lady named Jones, who was accosted in a familiar way by the brute, but on her rejecting his impertinent entreaties, he wounded her in the arm with a sharp instrument, and made . off; Saturday night a nurserymaid, w ith two children, was accosted by the same person in the fields, who made a most wanton and indecent attack upon her, and afterwards cut her in the hip. The Commissioners under the New Street Act have allotted a piece of ground in the Regent's Park, opFesite the Crescent, Portland-place, to those unwise persons, who, without adequatt cause, engage in duels. - The place is indicated by a board, upon which is inscribed " Rubbish mad be shot here." NEw GgOGRAPHY OF THE ip Publishing, in Monthly Parts (Fourteen of which may fin e had), price is. each, handsomely printed in Quarto, on wove paper, and hot-pressed, NEW and COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM „ft'lof MODERN GEOGRAPHY, Mathematicl, Physical, ltical, and Commer c i a l ; being a perspicuous a Delineation 1 -e present state of the Globe, wirh its Inhabitants and ,roductions ; preceded by the Hist or y of the Science, inter tefted with St a tisti ca l an d Synoptical Tables, and accompa ;3l'led with a Series of correct coloured Maps, a great variety ( aPpropriate Views, and numerous other Erwravings, t 'tkti n g the Manners, CuYtorns, and Costumes of Nations. Sy TriOMAS MYERS, A.M. Of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. tt itere has never, perhaps, be e n a -period in Modern His in?,"r. 'when it could be less neessary than at p the resent of t 'nt to enforce reasons for c publishing a new System h4l., e s u raphy. 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