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zuervofthe 'Roman Cuti,oliC Church, beCr,us: in .erference could only arise out of paying for the :q4pport of the church. In one case direct inter tvrence would be abstained from, and the danger likely to arise to the Protestant Church, from such iaterference and indirect influence,- might be avoided. In the other case, effectual power would be obtained : and he was convinced that of two al-. teruatives their Lordships ought not to choose that obnoxious and extremely prejudicial power of the Veto,• that continual source of heart-turnings and discontent. Their Lordships were told that this was a Bill of grace and-favour ; but how had it been looked to by the Roman Catholic isleggy ? What'feeling-was there among those on :.fte other side of the Channel ? Their Lordsli:ps were reduced to /his extremity, they were at tempting impracticabilities It giving unlimited - power to the Roman Catholics, and demanding new securities for the Established Church. The moment new securities were asked for, this Bill -was looked upon as obnoxious to the Roman Ca tholics, and not as a Bill of grace and favour. Lte Would again- repeat, that he was convinced. if the firstpart of these . Bills should pass, the''effect be the sapping of the foundations of Church and. ;sate. It might be 'said that the dangers which he had stated were remote' and'ideal. - lie would admit that the dangers might be rernote . ; -t gat 1::!;(4 were dangers which, if not provided algalost before they occurred, could never he remedied. Even if he were satisfied ,that 'the • effect of this measure would be • lc. satisfy the Roman Catholics, which would :$e a practical good, yet he'did• think that their T o ordshipsought to reflect uponk the risk ruR , for tae attainment of that object: With respect to the mass of the population of Ireland, they could receive no benefit whatever from the passing of this Bill, the effect of which' would be,.that a few respectable men might enjoy seats in Par ;lament, but the mass of the population would re ' CeiVe. no benefit. Though the people would :re ceive no benefit from this measure, he .was .sure that they must from some subsequent measures; end he therefore thought that it was better for their Lordships to take their stand where they 11 , ":7 were with the King Protestant, the Parlia ment Protestant, the Privy Council Protestant, end the Church Protestant, which was the true Constitution of the Country, than to declare by this Act that there needed no connection between I.eligious belief and political power. If the Par liament, the Council, and the. Sovereign were Protestant, the Constitution itself could-not be Protestant. Their Lordships had a duty to vrform to the Catholics of Ireland, and in dis -charge of that duty ought to confer upon them any benefits which could be conferred, without danger to the Established Church ;. but their 'Lordships had also a duty to perform to the Protestants of Ireland and of the Empire at l'nrge ; and as he did not think the good con lerred upon the Catholics overweighed the evil which would be done. to the Protestants, -he should recommend to their Lordships to keep -every body of men in their proper places, to give them the advantages of the laws under which . they were born, and not to take away those securities which had for so tong a period preserved the Constitution. These were •his feelings upon this measure, and he should there fore vote against the second reading of this Bill. The Marquess of LANsoOwN declared that he did by no means advocate this measure so much for the advantage of the Catholics as for the ad vantage of the State; for in the. success of sucJ a measure the State was deeply interested. He • was glad to hear from the Noble Earl who had just sat down, that the tiine was - gone by for-the exter mination-of heretics, and that it was now become necessary to admit them into the bosom of our Coristitution. The Noble Earl had seen the Presby terians of Scotland admitted into public offices with out any alarm for the security of the Protestant Church, and yet he expressed the greatest appre -I,ensions at the idea of rendering Catholics eligible 1 . 6 r such offices. But the Noble Earl had main t .ined that the Catholics of Ireland were not dispo.ed to receive this Bill as,a boon. Whence the Noble Earl obtained his information he could nit' pretend to say, but from what he (Lard Lanidown) had heard, the main body of the Catholics of Ireland were disposed to receive this measure with gratitude.—The Noble Earl had argued, that this Bill was not to be re garded as any advantage to the great mass of the Irish people, because the benefits it would confer could immediately be felt only by a few ; but the Noble Earl appeared to forget that the privileges of the few were enjoyed for the protection of the n;lany ; and . that iu no country on earth was that more likely to be felt than in Ireland. The p,!ople of Ireland were, indeed, peculiarly alive to this feeling. An Illustrious Duke had, as as the Learned Lord on the Woolsack, and one of the Learned Prelates, expressed an opi nion, that the adoption of this Bill would strike at come of the fundamental principles of the Re, volution ; but this opinion was totally erroneous —ff;r `P nal laws to w hi c h th e Bill re f erre d • nc,l;ii.),4 whatever to do with the principles of the Revolution. Mow, he would ask, could the Bill of Rights or the Act of Settlement, which -eere really fundamental, be in any degree af fected by the repeal of those penal laws ? But these laws formed, in fact, no part of the Re volution, nor were they ever so declared by any of the authors or great actors in that impor- tant - proceeding. He should therefore have been - surprised at any contrary statement, if he had not heard it that night for the iirit time, from so high an authority as the speaker of that House.—(Hear,hear!)—But this Learned Lord had also inculcated, that it would be an outrage upon the memory of King William, as well as a vital attack upon the security of the Constitution, to accede to the proposed repeal of the penal laws. Many of the professed admirers of the -Revolution, of whom King William was the idol, were but too apt, as most persons devoted to an idol were, to attribute to that idol all their own prejudices and partialities. Hence. some such persons ascribed to that great and glo rious Monarch, opinions, or rather prejudices, which he never entertained. But that Kin°. William never entertained such prejudice or intoleranse as serf& -of his sudden admirers ascribed, was obvious, from a ,paper addressed Oil the part of his Majesty to the Congress at Ryswick, which paper was drawn up by Lord Somers. in this paper King William stated, that he saw no groutd why Catholics should not en joy complete toleration, or why they should not haadmitted -to ()Laces .of State, under a Pro testant Sovereign. But for the purpose of re pelling the idea that the laws to which the Bill referred were radical propositions; connect ed with the principles of the Revolution, as .the Learned Lord on . the Woolsack and others had maintained, he quoted the Journals of that House to shew that those laws were not deemed . essential•to the security of either the Crown or the, Chu'rch. When, indeed, upon •the discus sion of the Union with Scotland, it was propos by some Ecclesiastics to declare unalterable the laws, against, the Catholics in Charles the Second's reign, with respect to Popish Recusants., and the exclusion of Popish Lords from Parliament, the proposition was resisted by Lord Somers and other distinguiShed • leaders of the revolution, and : finally repealed. This then 'was surely sufficient proof that those laws ,were not .deemed fundamental parts of the revolution.— It was to •.he recollected too, that this deci sion was pronounced at• a ,time when there was a Popish pretender to the Throne, .and when the country was by no means free from commo tion. The Noble Marquess animadverted upon the .emphatic language of the Noble Lord on the Woolsack, with respect to his ..quotation from-Lord Bard wicke, who said merely that the constitution vas essentially but' not exclusively Protestant. How then could the Learned Lord infer from this dictum,.all that he had asserted as to his own views of the Protestant Establish ment. The Noble Lord remarked upon the vote of 516 Protestant Bishops against the Bill ,of exclu sion, which ; was meant to guard against the intro duction of a Catholic to the throne of England, in order to shew that Protestants were not generally so alarmed about the grant of power to Catholics. As to the alarm which some Noble Lords had expressed with respect to the insecurity of the forfeited - estates in Ireland, if the Catholics, should obtain power, he could in form the House, as a large landed proprietor in .freland, that . such alarm and apprehension by no means existed in Ireland, where there was not one year's, nay, one day's difference of value between forfeited land and any other description of land in ,tae country. But the fact was, that the greater part of the property purchased and possessed by the Catholics themselves consisted of what was called forfeited; and was 'founded upon .no other title. The Noble Marquess pm.- nounced an eloquent eulogium upon the Catholic soldiers and sailors.antong whom, throughout tits war, no instance of treason, cowardice, or infi delity had been found. He illustrated the faci lity with which Catholics and Protestants could be bound to act together in legislation from the ex amples of Holland, Bavaria, and other Conti nental nations., and after ridiculing the idea that there was among the Catholics any invincible leaning towards arbitrary power, as some men asserted, he in a very humorous strain comment ed upon the assertion made by the same • man, that there was in Presbyterianism an invincible leaning towards Republicanism, this assertion being sufficiently contradicted by the Presbyte rian Peers and. Commoners from Scotland, who had surely never evinced any disposition to pro mote Republican innovation.—(Hear ; hear! and a laugh.) Lord SIDMOUTH said, that it was with the most painful feelings he felt himself called upon to oppose the measure before the House. Nothing was more revolting to his mind than to declare it necessary to. withhold from so large a portion of his fellow-subjects, as the body of Roman Catholics, the privileges enjoyed by the other classes of the community. The measure came before their Lordships now under different cir cumstances than on former occasions; for it had already. obtained the sanction of one branch of the Legislature. Could he believe that all the-benefi cial consequences would result from the measure which the Noble Marquis who spoke last and other Noble Lords anticipated, he should consider it the greatest blessing ever conferred on the Country by the -wisdom of Parliament. L had been said that the Bill would put an end to all religious differences and cement the union o all classes of his Majesty's subjects : but he was sorry to say that he thought no such effects would result from the passing of the Bill. He objected to the first part of the Bill on grounds which would be offensive to many of the most ardent supporters of the measure : he objected to it, not on the ground of individual distrust of the Roman Catholics, but because of the nature of the tenets and principles inherent to their religion. lie ob jected to it for the reasons assigned by a Noble Earl—namely, that the Catholic religion was hos tile to civil and religious liberty. lie was ready to ad.mit that many of the obnoxious tenets of the Catholic religion had been aban doned by its professors; but many also still remained, and particularly the doctrines of 2xclusive salvation and infallibility. The Catho lic Archbishop of Dublin, in a letter which he had addressed to the individuals under his im mediate influence, had stated that the Church•of Rome was infallible in its decisions, not only in points of faith, but also of morality. These doc trines were also embodied in the resolutions of the Roman Catholic Clergy of Droghedr-, and the Professors of the College of Maynooth. It had been represented that a very inconsider able number of Catholic Members would be re- turned to the House of Commons ; but he %cgs at a loss-to conceive upon what grounds this argu ment was founded. The Constitution had de clared that no foreign influence should exist in this country,. hut the effect of the Bill would be to give spiritual authority to the head of the Roman Catholic Church. In referring to the second part of the Bill, the Noble Viscount was 'of opi nion that the securities therein proposed were V'ith respect to the oath intended to be substituted for that which now legally existed, which if the Bill passed would be taken by all Members of Parliament and persons hold ing offices wider the Go%ernment, being Catho- onang. lies; Le maintained that it could not be 'sub scribed consistently with • the principles of the Catholic Religion. lie knew that this opinion was entertained by many most respectable individuals of, that persuasion. There had been numerous meetings of the Roman Ca tholic ecclesiastics of Ireland at all of which there: had. been but ono unanimous feeling of hostility towards the claus e s contained in the_secowl part of the Bill. Besides the meet ings to which he alluded in different districts of - Ireland, there had been a general meeting of\the Roman Catholic Clergy in the City of Dublin, at which resolutions were unanimously passed against the ..clauses 'in .the second part of the Bill. He understood that a petition, founded on these . re solutions, had been sent to the metropolis in order to be presented to that House, and he did • not understand why thaC• presentation had. not taken, place. No measure had ever been brought under the consideration of. Par liament which was calculated to produce more disunion among different classes of the commu nity than the present Bill. It had not only ef fected ,a division between the Catholics and the Protstalits, but h a d i n t ro d uce d di sun i on among the Catholics themselves His Lordship con tended that the great body of the Protestants in this country, as well.as in Ireland, were decided ly averse to the ineasure, and concluded by call ing upontheir Lordships to reject it if they wish ed to preserve the:existing Constitution. • Lord MELVILLE, under the very partieidar circumstances in which he was;placed, felt it to be his duty to state to their Lordships - the reaaons which induced him to give his vote for the second re•ttitrg . of .this Bill. That vote he intended to give from a strong conviction of the utility and necessity of the mea sure. In giving ,his decided Opinion that the Bill should she read a second time; he had to regret that it was his misfortune to differ from many Noble Friends with whom he was usually in the habit of agreeing. Notwithstanding the ability with which the debate had been conducted, and the number of Lords who had delivered their sentiments, he had notbeeo so fortu nate as to hear one main point sufficiently touched upon to which, above all others, ,he thotight their Lordships' a tte n ti on ought to be directed..-he - meant the consequences of rejeethig the Bill. 'They had head a great deal of the danger, , w hi c h he thought magnified—he would not say entirely visionary—. of carrying this rid intoeeffeitt,' but little or nothing had been said of the danger - which Was to be expected it it should not be carried.. Under any Government, particularly under one like oar own, the exclusion 'of a considerable propor tion of the population from rights and privileges enjoyed by others must be attended with risk. Inen he spoke of popu lotion, he tuoint a population like the rest of which the country was composed. The population of the Colonies 'and India, though under the sense government, was placed in cir cumstances which rendered it necessary that a different rule should be applied. The 'population he referred to was one like that of whi. irtheir Lordships were a part, Lasing the same kind of education and the sane feelings as theinselwes,. and en. gaged, as far as they would allow them to he engaged, in the service and the. defence of the country. It had been said that the paSsing of this Biti would not make the population ,to which he had referred- e ith er b etter o f worse. B ut if any 'people were told that such as they were theYmust remain—that whatever ta -lents, whatever industry thev might exert, it was all in vain, for a boundary was put to their rank in society—surely it was not in huMan net us but' ahat such language must produce irrita tion in a high .degree. Surely their Lordships must see that such a state of things could not be: suffered much longer to exist without incurring considerable risk: They had been told that danger was to be apprehended from the inefficiency of the secu rities, should .the bill pass. Perhaps there might be some ground for this - obs rvittion ; but the whole question resolved itself into a balance of dangers.' Their Lordships ought to be satisfied that the. danger of passing the bill was paramount to every other before they refused to give it a second reading. He was convinced that the danger on the other side was infinitely more formidable ; 'that existed and would exist until some remedy of the kind now under consideration should be applied. There the real danger was to be ihund ; and he was of opinion that their Lordships os e at to remove the disabilities under which the Catho liC3 laboured as speedily as possible. It had been argued that the admission of a few Catholic Peers to that Ilduse,andsome Catholic members is the Housed Commons,would have the effect of mak ing Parliament act as if all the members were no longer Pro. teseints. It was also argued that the admission of one oe two Catholics to the Privy Council would have the effect of changing the whet' e institutions of the country. The whole of this rea soning he thought founded in fallacy, and was convinced that after the passing of this Bill the two Houses of Parliament and the executive Government would remain as before, essentially Protestant. With regard to the provisions of the Bill, he was not one of those who thought that they might not be advan tageously altered, if their Lordships agreed to go into a Com mittee. Ile approved of most of the alterations suggested by the Noble Earl who mooed the second reading. But there were other alterations h e s h ou ld propose , if the Bill were com mitted, for the purpose of rendering it more applicable to Scot land, where the laws respecting Roman Catholics were not the same as in England. The opinions of that part of the united kingdom he was certain would form no obstacle to the execution of the present measure. Of the spirit of liberality' which pre vailed on this subject, he could speak not only from - particular informat 03, but from facts which were public and equally acces sible to all their Lordships. About 7 years ago the general Assent bly of the Church of Scotland had addressed a Petition to that House on the subject of toleration, from which, though the Ca tholic disabilities were not expressly mentioned, it was evi dent that the assembly had no objection to their removal. On the contrary, the words of the Petition implied the desire of that object; for the Petitioners recommended to their Lord ships, in a by measure they might adopt, to proceed with caution, and to take care to secure the , constitutional establishments of both countries, and at the same time extend the privileges of Vie Constitution to all the subjects of the United Kingdom. Ills Lordship also referred to the Petition lately presented from the synod of Ayr, which, though against the Bill, had been carried by a very small majority, 14 to 12; and in the minority were a Clergyman who had beeh Moderator of the General Assembly, and the eloquent Dr. Chalmers. The Noble Lors' o after explaining the nature of the laws respecting Roman Ca O:olies in Scotland, the reference to the subject in the Scotch clhim of rights, and the articles of the Union, again strongly urged the reading of the Bill. He observed, that rapid improvement in olutation in Ireland in crease d th e d anger of withholding this conciliatory muse -et. ; for the snore a people advanced in civili sation, the more strongly they must feel the injustice of deprivs ing them of their civil rights. Lord ASHBURTON also supported the Bill. The Catho lics asked for .nothing that was not already possessed by other dissenting sects, any description of which might sit in"Parlia meet, as there was no law to exclude their'. Yet the Catholic reli e eion came in m an y thin g s ilearCe ours than that of ninny cf the existing sects did. As to the dread of foreign influence, as well might it.be applied in the department of the Arts and Science, as in religion. If it were admitted in the one, it must be allowed in the other, and Sir Humphrey Davy must be con sidered.a din . gercres-reen, - because he belongs to several .learned . Foreign Societies, Whilst the Noble Duke opposite must be deemed tiebly's - o, on account of the Foreign Orders and dig. nities showered upon him for his distinguished services in the cause of European. freedom. Lord SOMERS • had no difficulty in voting for the second reading of the Bill. Had his ancestor; to whom allusion had been mat'e, been living in the present times, he would leave been friendly to this measure. The circumstances of the coup. try Were changed, and What the greatest patriot might in a for. mer age have thought necessary, was now no lonoeiso. He did not apprehend any d a n ger f rom t h e admission a a few Ca thclice into the House of Commons. The House was intended to represent all the interests of the country • but as things now stood, that intention w as n o t 'carried into effect. The admis sion ofnt few Catholics would repair the deficiency, and cause another interest, which had hitherto enjoyed no representation, to be duly represented. - The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH then rose • but the cries of " Question!" became so universal, that tile House pro ceeded to an immediate division : Contents :—Present - Proxies - Non-Contents :—Present 48-120 G9-,-159 Proxies - - Majority against the ----39 .:Vjourne.d at HALF - PAST' THREE O'CLOCK this M •nv: "[The e§sentie.l importance of the Debate in the House of Lard:: last night, on subject which involved the very eNist ence of our Establishment in Church and State, has induced us to give a very copious_ report of the Proceedings this day..—We :lavetiter:fore deemed it neer...tary to postpone our Report of tt passed - last night in the House of Commons on the great q.testion of PARLIAMENTARY. REFORM,: that, as it was an a journal Debate, we may give a comprehensive detail of thc whole Proceedings to-Morrow.] EiIItLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Maras; 17° die Aprila, 1521. BREAD COMMITTEE.—Report brought up, read, and to be printed. ROYAL Buncus - (ScoTLAND).—Various petitions respecting, presented. POOR EATts.—Returris net made, to be made"FonTirwiTH. POST OFFICE, Einsnuncn.—Papers presented, and to be • printed. STAVES. Ditto.• REFORM OF lyetition for,from theinhabitantsofNorthamp- PAILLIAMENT. ) ton. • Tavistock, Freeholders of Devon, the . inhabitants of Plymouth, the County of Huntingdon, Alford, Cambridge and Ely, Suffolk, Cumberland, Southwark, Not tingham, and Boston. TfmnElt DUTIES I Read t third time, and ordered to the BILL. PRICE OF THIS DAY AT Tw 3 per Cent. Red. 711 cx div. 3 per Cent. Cons 7fi?g IA per Cent B9ii ex div. 4 per Cent. 89411 ex div. STOf.;KS ELVE 0-CLOCK. per Cent—Navy Ann IO7U India Bonds Excheq. Bills 4 G pr. Cons. for May ~.,.7.4 MOH WATER AT LONDO. Morning, IO minutes after 8. • BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 25 minutes after 3. THE SUN. SOLRM QUIS DICERE F'ALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, 'APRIL 18, 1821. The following are the principal contents of the Harnburgh Papers of the 10th inst., which reached us this day " HANOVER, AP,LIL 7.—ln consequence of the positive in ' formation brought by the last English Mail, concerning the visit of his Majesty our King to his German dominions in the beginning of August, the Royal Authorities were yesterday furnished .with the necessary instructions. The city will be unzommonly brilliant and lively in consequence of his illajecy's pAsence.—The Prince of Cambridge, son of his Royal High ness the Governor-General, is still indisposed,. in consequence of his late attac'i of the scarlet fever. " WArts.tw, .MAncir 2.6.—The. Austrian troops in Gaiiici have orders to lie in readiness to march. - Foreign troops of an allied power are expected. shortly to march through that country. " S•r. PETEIISBURGIf, MAiten 24.—The aged Field-Mar shall, Count GudoowistSch, who has long since retired from active service, and lived. on his estate, died on the 3d of Feb ruary, at the village of Tschetscheliuk, in the Government of Podrlsk." We congratulate the friends of civrt AND RELIGIQI:S LIBERTY on the result of the -Lords debate on the Popery Bzll.----It will afford them ample opportunity for reflection, be fore the next Sessions of Parliament, and enable them to express, honestly and unequivocally, their unqualified opinion on this great national and vital question, and to come to a fair understand ing with their PRESENT representatives in Parliament upon it. That TINS STRUGGLE FOR POWER in favour of a FEW wealthy Popisji FAMILIES will be renewed, is indisputable, from the declaration of one of the PRESENT Cabinet Ministers, who is reported to have said, " that it was not the question of a mo-- mot ; that if lost now, it would be again and again brought; forward, and again debated session after session."—After this public notification of interminable opposition to the feelings of the Prot es tant Community, no alternativeis left to them, but that which is obvious to the meanest understanding, namely, that every care must be taken in future to obtain an unqualified ex pression of their opinion in the Lower House of Parliament against the admission of Papists to the possession of POLITI CAL POWER. Throughout the whole of this debate the real point at issue, to use a modern phrase, has been " blinked by the advocates of Popery. The , world, have not known its real tendency and bearings, which are nothing more or less, as truly- observed by that honest and excellent . patriot Mr. JOHN itifctrom, than a juggle to increase the Close Borough influence of the Old Whigs, by bringing wiTufw THEIR CIRCLE a few immensely rich Papists, who can, without injury to their families, purchase all the MARKET ABLE SEATS within the United Kingdom. On this part of the subject, we shall reserve ourselves for another op portunity. «•e, however, feel great regret in expressing our belief, that there is reason to apprehend, that the Protestant part of the present Administration will at no distant period retire from it. The various indications which have been made, and the supineness which has been recently too apparent, where the greatest activity was always before seen on the eve of the dis cussion of this great question in the House of Commons, in duces us to credit all we have heard on :he change of sentiment which has taken place IN A CERTAIN QUARTER ! To be enabled to contradict this rumour will afford us the highest gra tification ; but from the present aspect of public affairs, and the changes spoken of, we see no prospect of security or relief ! The coalition which, it is said, will take place between certain individuals,will produce, throughout the country, an effect the:. they little expect. There is a rising, though hitherto silent, in dignation, which cannot long be smothered. The public opi nion will ultimately be heard, and we hope that the good old-fa shioned course of expressing it, by respectful petitions to the Legislature, will be no longer disregarded. The sentiments, which have been avowed on this point by certain individuals, are as devoid of good sense and patriotic feeling, as they are themselves destitute of constitutional knowledge and experience.- We shall only refer the Se. modern Representatives to the Bill of Rights, and request them to peruse it, before they again de clare their disregard of the public opinion, though legally shewn in the manner we have mentioned. We cannot but lament the change, which has taken place in His Majesty's Councils since the death of Mr. PITT and Mr. PERCIVAL. Our recent Continental associations have nei ther tended to the improvement of our morali or our prin ciples ; as far as we are capable of judging, they have had the contrary effect, both on our domestic and foreign po icy ; on the one hand, we are threatened with innovations on our domeitic system, more . alarming and dangerous than all the schemes of the Radicals ; on the other, our foreign policy appears to be entirely changed and subverted, notwithstanding the faint shew of objection, which has been made to the ambitious designs and conduct of the Members of The Holy Alliance.— Should there be a change in the Ministry by the retirement of Lords ELDON, BATHURIT, LIVERPOOL, SIDMOUTII, and the other supporters of The Protestant Ascendancy, we shall feel regret ; but as it may, ultimately, lead to a more wholesome constitutional course of conduct in the government, and enable the people, to judge more correctly of " men and measures ;" it is, probably, more to be desired then deprecated, wider the existing circumstances of the country. h is MAJE3TY will renew his royal entertain ments with a grand at the Pavilion, Brighton, on Monday evening next, to which a number of the nobility and gentry are invited. Sltn- NEWS: Arr.lll. 17.—Wind W. N. W..--Cstrt: dowti Frorr! the River and saiksi the!ander, fungz.:3, for Montreal ; Spring, Skelton ; and John, SNtt, far St. N. B. Mary . , De'iarque, for the I . >"est. ; Cave, for Mira.. micin ; and Holderness, Smiles, for Quebec. ' Come down from the Rifer the Cineinnatns, Griswold, for' Net.: York ; the William Niles, Beadle, ter Madras and 'Bengal ; Richard and. Compton, for Barbadoes ; and. ti=_Count.nts HareourZ, fOr New South Wales, are s.voritiirg through the Guils. Se.veral vessels that passed by for Ran-Nate Ile,rbottr are bear... ingtip agsin for the Downs. GRAVE:4I:ND, APRIL 17.—Arrived the Coldstream, Hip. 'penstall, from Bengal. • CowEs, Amu. 17.—Arrived the David Shays Jordan, fpitn, the ltde of.Frapee, is 111 days. , IlAtzw:cn, APRIL 17.--Arrived the 'Lord Duncanaeltct, with mails from C ux h aven . p P‘Da - rt , motlTH, APRIL 17.—Wind..W . ...N. W.—Passed by . It.l,rton, from St. Thetnas's... Saikd the Ana, Cirr the eli, for Nevis ; Parker and Sons, • Mason, for New Ode as ; and .han , s, Smitli, for Oporto. EL:AUXARI4, APRIL 16.—Thc 11e.3 ., w001..t.Parre11,. from Div:4o°ller Jamaica. - ran foul of the (dieerful Astreau2 ct-zttcz on Monthy oW.Holyhead, by which the latter has re ceived Some &triage in her riZfintr, ''A long beat has been • Wished ashore near Tronbach,'" Cork, Johnson,". on the st,rn tlie ship's name washed off. • LIVERPOOL. Arnti. Cuba, rkl`:;or''..r , , .f:ornt If ;onturgii, wi i ii waS on shore, has been got - OW Siena,: damage. • , FALNOIPTIL, P,Un. r171V411 the For tita42, Riehards, - 1,25b0r.-;•Den, Mason, ftord London for Enterpriz.2, Ppner ; and - liarnto - ,ty,' frOln Pooh for Newfoundland. L:S;;Iile.(1 the zntld, for Hainburgh.. • • • VeA. - ..rtiay the diTatches for - (hilts by t l ar-slliP Hythe. J. I'. Wit.sopi, were elo3ed at the 'East Intl aout;e livered to the Pu:ser of that ship; • . From ate la 0 N DON" GAZJ 1' T jpril i 7. AdmiralrY ^ «, 1S:21. , • Tie King has been p1t. , :..50d apeon.t Thomas Ha: --7. Esq. C. i Captain of th::! Royal Na7v, e 3 be Colonfq. of 1Zo;a1. Marines, in tine-room of. i li. Broukhton, de,:eased. Artir• 5, 1 . The htts•been pl&ised to appoint Si r (irote Cocklx;77n G.(1.13. Vice-Ad m i ra l of tite-Ique, to be Majot - ,General t) , Royal Maripe - Forecs,.in the roOrn,of' ziir R. O. •Keati. • •• • •• - • '- • _ • - BANKRUPTCY SUPER:iFDED. • G. Ho, g, - Pancras-lane, London, tavern;kepr. BANKRISI"PS. . • IV..Snare,.Litehfield, - Inercer ; t, tetrrender, 7•1,. 15. 29, at.eleven * at the 'TalhotArras inn, Rtrgthy, St tiforeshir .A t torneys , rs.Constable and 8 - it:not - ill's Inn eery-lane, London ; and :71r. T. O. Parr ; I.,ichifeld, , R. Hoyt:, Neweastle-upon.-Tyne, marehan.i, May 9, 10, and' 29, at the , George Inn, Newcistic-upon-Tyne. Attorneys, Messrs. Dortkin and Stable, - Nev.reaStle-ttpon-Tyi,e ; and .M2ssrs.Meggisons r.tnd. Poole, Werulara-builLiings, Gray's Inn, • London. • - • - T. P. Jones, Carmarthen, linen-draper, April 27, sutl May 29, at one, at the 11Thito Lion Inn, Zr 01. Attorney , s, Mr. W. L. Clarke, Bristol - ; ; and Messrs. Jtnkins 'Jin an 4 Abbott, New Inn, London. . . W. J. Trinder, Portsea, Southampton, f_ctuaßer,- May 11, 11, and 29, at - one, at the Goildhall, 'Newpert, ixie ef IVigitt. Attornies, Mr. Carr, John- - street, Bedford-rm, London and Messrs: Sewell and Ilearn, Newport, Isle of. Tight. .1. White, Lambeth-road., Surrey, merchsnt, April 21, 28, and May 29, at twelve, t Guile lrall. Attorne:, Mr. J. Thou,- sOn, George-stteet, Minorics. T. Bonner, Monkwearmonth, Durham, fitte,„ April 19, May 11, and 29, at eleven, at the Turk's Head ;on, Neweasth;- upon-TYnT. AttOrnies, - Messrs. Bell and Eraiirfek' , 110 w Church-yard ; an d M r . 117. Stok e r, Newcastle.' , J. Ford, Gloucester, Patcht.woollm-yarn mantfactuter, A - 14y :I_3ll.ie'tlatdornt a s n iix t e ; s ‘ ,4 l, ll ri f i a r li l ..: l l m it ' s j i 9 :; l3o ter a b l t i o v t e e h l r e a i v u rn .. e s i ,: t i r eet, e a ß t Gloucester_r'tti Wm. Cole, Sinnington, Yorkshire, fartncr, 1 1 4 lay 3,4, and 29, at ten, at kl.B.urton's, the Hotel, New 3lalton- AttOrnits, Messrs. Lyre and Cov er d a l e; Gray's Inn , s9uare ; . and 3lessrs. Grundell and 'Watson, Pickering, Yorkshiie.-, C. Cope, Berkeley-mews, Port-man squire, fob-:nester. April 21, 28,. and May 29, at elerm, at Guildhal, London. .Attorney, Mr.-J. Coleman, St. Jamt,s.walk, Clerket well. R. Ritchie and .T. Bigsby, Deptford, Kent, breirerl, April 24, May 8, and 29, at ten, at Guildhall, London. A tto.rmes, Messes. Osbaldeston and Murray, London-stre.A, street, London. J. Greas es, jun. Liverpool, broker, y 9, 9, and at one , at en;,,Geor.ge Inn Liverpool. Atomics_ , s. Tay7or and Roscoe, hmg's iench.walk, Tril le, Lordon ; an.lllVs•lr s- LaCe, Miller, and Lace, Liverpool.. Blackband, Burslem, Staffordsbir2, grocer, April 24? at three, 25, at eleven, and Mar 29, at twelve, at the Red Lion. NewpOrt, Salop. Attornies, .M.r. Brooks, Newport ; and Yr' Hicks, Gray's Inn-square, London. W. Ilesled.en and W. S. Hesleden, Barton-upon-Uninber' Lincoln, serl , . , eners, May 7, at two, 8, at eleven, and May f-T , at three, at the White Swan, Barton-upon-Huralier. Astor 'nies, Messrs. B rown and • on, Barton-upon...Humber, i.ie coln ; and Mr. Hicks, Gray's Inn-seuare radon. T. White, Brinklow, arwick, innholcier, .:\pril 25, at six' 26, at ten, and May 29, at two, at the Hind; lititte.rwortlit Leicestershire. • .Attornies, Mr. Wratislavr, Rugby, shire ; and Messrs. FUller and Saltwell, Carlton-chambers, Re ,glit-strect, London. • T. Burbery, Woolston, Wanvick, grazier, .April 24, at 25, at nine, and Mav 29, at nine, at the George, RugJy. Sa l t ' tornies, Mr. Wratsslaw, R ug b y ; an d M essrs. Fuller a nd well, Carlton-chambers, Regent -street. J. Witchurch, 'Worship -street, Finsbury-square, coach-Tv''' . ter, April 21, May 1, and 29, at eleven, at Guildhall. Atwr ney, Mr. Dunes, Friday-street, Che a psid e . 1, ' .. J. Masters, tpper Berkeley-str ee t, P or t m a n - square . rare''' Maker, Ap r il I, 5, and 29. attwelve, at Guildhall. Attor ney, Dixon, St. Swithin's-lan c •Lornbard-street. so J. Sumpter, Charlotte-street, did-strect.:road, stonema n , April 1,8, and May 29, a t eleven, at Guildhall. Atw riac Y' Mr. Phillips, King-street, Covent-garden. p. Pullen, Birchin-lane broker, May . 1,5, and 29, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, ,Messrs. Courteen and Robinsco, Walbrook. • Tim AitTS.—We hare be en .much graf . Fi ‘c , to- with a sight of ILLITSTRATIONS OF THE TEMPEST,' w ing the first Number of Mr. Sminxt's " ImarststATlP-1, 1 ,, SHAESYEARE," and we unr eserve dl y ' recomnien d this si';; 11 , did work to the lovers of the Drama and of the Fine editions of our Poet's plays have for the most past bean lished without embellishments, or encumbered with _,, engra v i r, so indifferent as to make their possessors consider their) " unadorned, attorned th e mos t." It is chiefly to supply_ ,: ese editions that the spirited - proprietors of the present n °r •r ; s ot undertaken it. E ac h Pl a y will furnish Eobjects for five ri Engravings, in addition to a Vignette ; the aggregate pest r therefore, of the plates will be two hundred and twzntY,,, - ‘"-.v i is The name of the arti s t, f rom w h ose h an d- t h e paintings ,°'• work proceed, may fully justify the most sanguine expectl° its The genius of ISmitex - has often successfully displaY e l t ii,3 power, more especially in th e Illustrations to the Lte of Don Quixote and, the , varied scenesofpass:on and hsllny.e in 'the Plays of suAR - spi.4. 4 tit-E, will afford a `still 'more IwlP, e . scope for the extraordinary skill and,beauty cf his renal. " understand that a second number wilt appear in JAne. • i.• NIGER.—The Boston Pailadiurn sap, " length ascertained that this river empties its.M into the At''' T ' Ocean, a few degrees to the n.or•thward of the equator." , A great number of P o li ce Officers will be statiorw l : t itioo Kennington Common on Friday . next, to prevent a r e P c el 0 1 of outrages with which th a t neig hb our h oo d was di s gra" Good Friday last year. • • • ' f m il ' Orders have been issued by Government that beater s of ;he tary shall the stationed at Goresbridge, on thef o i the county of Carlow, adjoining the county of Kilker• ° Y' purpose of assisting the Magistracy. ,„„. The The Light Horse Volunteers-held a field-dap - on aoPti appearance of the regiment is much iinprov by the of the shakos in lieu of the helmet. do ' ll ° t Not a day passes that various falls and accidents va ts cur from the reprehensible practice of throwing v, , lwg e upon the font vesterw.i ill Edw. King, Esq., A RRIEII. On the 12th inst., at Brill, B tics by Vie Rev. 24r• BAror, Smith, Esq. of •idd . • inglove. stergeon, to Anne ,u. relct of the late Thoma 6 DIED. • Cronstadt, 10th 02_ 3) ult., I . lr. John Booker, junior, ag3l 25. On Tuesday znorninq Inst, at Grosvenor-row, Chel sea, aged 34, Mr. Jallled HUTWOA,••auctioneer and .appraiser. LONDON : Printed by J. 7-- r, CA RSTAIR S7of No. 2 9 , Gre e gt Ormond -street. ; Quepn-stp.r. ; .and published by AV y §CRIPPS, of N. 7, South Molten-street, at 'l`x- S .74 . OrricE, No. 112, Strand; where .AnvERTterHEI:TS' ORDERS ; 14TTgns, &c. (post-paid) must be aci4resse4.