The Sun. — London, England, 1822-06-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, JUNE B.—Thursday, after the Sitting of the Chamber of ,Deputies, M. Benjamin Con- stunt demanded satisfaction of Mr. Forbin des Issarts, for a letter inserted by the latter in the Quotidienne of the sth, in answer to one of M. Benjamin Constant, inserted in the Constitution net. and the Courier of the 4th. Without any other explanation, the Hon. Deputies proceeded Yesterday morning to the ground. M. Be nj amin - Constant was accompanied by General Sebas tiani and 71. Girardin, 'Members of the Cham ber of Deputies; and M. Forbin des Issarts by •General the' Count de Bethisy, Member of the Chamber, and Colonel Chamoin, Lieut enant in -the King's Gardes du 'Corps, Company of Luxemburg. M. Benjamin Constant being lame, he and his adversary were placed at ten paces distance on-chairs. They fired together by sig . nal, neither was hurt,. and M. Benjamin Constant appearing satisfied, the seconds decided that the • combat ought to terminate. It i impossible to spew more sang froid. than was manifested by t-t he Honourable Deputies.—(Quotidienne.) In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, on the scrutiny for the election of 'five Candidates for the Presidency, the number of Deputies present being 287, and the absolute majority 144, the numbers were, fox M. de la Bourdonnaye 220, M. Ravez 204, 31. de Bonald 193, 31. de Vaublanc 189, M. Chabrol de Crussol 178; 31. - R. Collard 73, M. Ternaux 42, M. de Bou ville 31, M. Teyssere 22, M. Lacrois Frainville 6, M. Mar cellus -I, M. Martignac I.—MM. de .1a Bourdonnaye, 'Ravez, de..Bonald, de Vaublanc and ^Chabrol , de Cr ussol, having an, absolute majority, were ,proclaimed Candidates -for the Pre • sidency. The rest of the sitting was occupied in discussing Election Returns. • The accounts from Germany received Tester. day' contain nothing new respecting the great question of war or peace.—(Constitutionnel.) The accounts from Spain are to the 7th May, the insurgents have been defeated at all points, and the capital was never more tranquil.—(Con- stitationnel.) The Budget for 1823 will, it is said, be imme diately presented to the Chamber of Deputies. It is stated that the Spanish, Ambassador has received a Note from the Spanish Ministry in answer to that of M. Zea, Envoy of the Republic of Columbia, and that by this Note the Spanish Government invites the powers of Europe not to recognize the'new States of South America. • FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JUNE 8. Five per. Cents. Opened at Closed at 9l f.,15 e. Bank 'Stock Exchange on London—One Month... 25 f. 35 c. Three Months 25 f. 13 C. SWITZERLAND, MAY 30.—Among the subjects to be discussed by the next Diet is a proposal for a commercial intercourse, which Mr. Zea, the Envoy of the new Republic of Columbia, has made to the Confederation, as he has to other European States. Mr. Zea goes from Paris to London, having resided in the former city a con siderable time, in pnrsuance of his object. The French merchants treated him With much regard. Ife intends to pass the month of August in Swit zerland. The Swiss merchants likewise take great 'interest In the object of his mission, and .the Swiss Charge d'Affaires at Paris has already given an answer to his overtures. • The sect of the 'Methodists had found pretty numerous adherents in the canton of the Yallais, hut they have greatly diminished since the go vernment has deprived of his office the vicar of Aubonne, because he endeavoured to propagate the doctrine of his sect, and has ordered a zeal -,ous English woman to quit the canton, who had taken upon herself to deliver books to young clergymen, &c. NUREMBERG, MAY 31.—1 t is affirmed that, ac ,•cording to accounts which have been received, the English have taken an active part in the ex pedition of the• Capitan Pacha, and chiefly contri buted to the reduction of the island of Scio by the Turks. The occupation of that island by the , -English seems to be part of the ,plan which that nation means to follow for the maintenance of its Levant trade. We have no news of the great Turkish fleet, and it is 'feared that the Turks will take ven sgeance on the island of Samos also, which would be a great satisfaction to those who consider the deliierance .of the long oppressed unhappy Greeks as a political crime.—(Nuremberg COr resl,ondent.) .•NUitEMBERG, JUNE 1..=--Commercial letters from the Turkish frontiers, received this day, do not accord with the pacific news incessantly pub-. `fished at Vienna. As was before said, only the _Asiatic troops have quitted the two Principalities eta repass the Danube, and proceed toSilistria. The other corps have not. yet moved a ste p, and it remains to be seen whether the Russian Cabinet 'will be satisfied with such an arrangement, which is far from conforinable to its Ultimatum. IThecountry called Lesser Wallachia is still in the ~ occupation of a considerable body of Otto -man troops, a part of the army commanded by the Pacha of Widdin. At the departure of the • last Courier these military forces had not yet re ceived orders to march on the right 'bank of the Danube. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, JUNE 3.—(Extract from a ..Private Letter.)—Our Correspondent at Berlin t informs us that Lieutenant-General Count Zie then, Commander of the 6th corps of the Prus sian army, had arrived in that capital from ,Breslau. The Courier of the Spanish Cabinet, Juan de Buergo, arrived at Berlin on the 28th lay from Madrid, with dispatches for the Chancellor of State, Prince Hardenburgh. His Prussian Majesty has bestowed on General Schmidt, Inspector of Artillery, the Order of , , the Red Eagle of the first class. It is reported that on this occasion there will immediately be a .grand promotion in the army, and principally in -the regiments of artillery. Letters from-Orsowa and Widdin have been . (received at Warsaw, from which it is suspected -that a great catastrophe was dreaded at Constan tinople. This seems in perfect accordance with certain reports which have been circulating here for the last few days. It would seem as if the partisans of war had „raised the spirit of revolt among the Janissaries, in order to make the Divan break off the nego , ,ciations with the . Count de Lutzow and Lord Strangford. We think the next courier will put' an end to all uncertainty on this point. All that is known for certain is that some disturbances have broken out among the numerous.troops on the shores of the Bosphorus, who vehemently demand to be led against the Muscovites. Fur ther details are impatiently expected. VIENN 1, MAY (27.—The Messagiere Moden ense, of the 18th of May, gives an account of the assassination of the Provincial Director of the Police, Giulio I3esini, on the 15th, in the even ing, by two persons, one of whom ran a dagger, or rather short sword, through his body. lie survived a couple of hours, during which he re ceived the sacrament, and pardoned his assassins, declaring that he died in peace, because he fell a victim to the performance of his duty. —His Royal Highness, our Sovereign, deeply affected at the loss of a faithful servant, who has fallen a victim to his zeal in the per formance of his duty, has directed every ex ertion to be made for the discovery and exem plary punishment of the perpetrators, and has written a letter of condolence to the widow, in which he says, that, having intended to raise Be. sini to the rank of Counsellor of the Govern ment, he has been pleased to grant to her a,pen sion equal in amount to the salary of a Counsel lor of Government. A new victim to the fury of the wicked sect of tract the to :n may . extend to the four points which have been mentioned, since,without this circumstance, propositions found ed on any loan operations cannot be admitted e however advan tageous ; public - opinion being prejudiced by the idea, that the Government acted only on a limited and insufficient authority. I communicate this to your Excellencies, by the royal order, that it may be communicated to the Cortes with all the expe. dition which the subject requires." The resolution of the Cortes, in reply to this communication, was couched in the following terms : " Most excellent Sir—The Cortes, taking into consideration the proposition which your Excellency has submitted to them in the Message of the 27th instant, and especially that the rea lization of the loan will render necessary the establishment of a Great Book, the creation of a sinking fund, the application of several branches of the revenue to these establishments, and the reduction of the whole or part of the foreign debt to a new loan, to be included in the Great Book, have resolved, that the Minister of Finance be authorized, by the permission of the same Cortes, to take the necessary measures that the loan agreed upon be realized in the mode the most convenient and advantageous to the nation.". In this manner the Cortes, in their second order, sanctioned the prOposition which the Government submitted to them, to have a Great Book, a sinking fund, and to reduce a part of the foreign debt, &c. In virtue of this, therefore , the Government deemed itself authorized to make the contract. He could wish that the Minister of Finance should rectify an opinion which did not arise from the subject itself, but from extra-judicial in formation. He had heard that the resolution of the Cortes did not appear in their Journals at the time, but that it was after wards delivered to the Minister Vallejo. The present Minister of Finance replied, that he knew no thing of .this. Senor Ferrer begged that the Speaker would read the act in which the permission of the Cortes was stated. Senor Canga continued.—The lion. Member desires to say that this permission does not appear from the act : it does not, but it appears from the report which proceeded from the Com mittee of the Cortes; and he held that resolution to he good, because it was signed by the Secretaries of the Cortes, and be cause it was not of a nature to be contained in a decree of that body. Out of regard to this declaration, the Government thought that it was authorized to execute ,'loan in the terms which it had proposed. lie could not believe that the Cortes, in their second declaration,meant to restrict the powers which they hed granted in the first ; and by these powers the Minister was authorized to contract for a loan in the most advantageous manner. The result has proved to some, that what they had done was not the most advantageous; but different persons formed different calculations on this subject. At all events, the Government was authorized to act as it had done by the manner in which the Cortes drew up their decree ; but the coin mission has not said that the contract should be declared null. In this respect Senor A;ellano had not been explicit. The com mission only said that it could not recognize, and it ought not to recognize, the contract in the terms in which it was couched. Thus the commission confined .itself to the proposing that the effect of the contract might be suspended, and believed that the Government might have been persuaded of the authority under which it acted, making it by virtue of the declara tion of the - Cortes and the sanction of the King. In these circumstances, he repeated, that as the Government found themselves situated %in making the loan, and believed them. sITTI:V.G OF 'run CO RTES OF THE 31ST OF MAY. selves authorized to conclude it upon the terms in which it had been concluded, the majority of the Commissi on must have be- The report of a majority of the Finance COM lieved that there was ground for not adhering to the opinions of mission on the Loan contracted on the '2 9 cl De- the minority evlidaCted along with them. The Cemmission cember last, by the ex-Minister of Finance, Don could not forget the operations of a Minister of Finance who , was read and contained the fol- has left among Its greater renown for his e rrors than for his Angel Vallejo 7 wise conduct. They could nof resolve to suppose, that an obli lowing articles:— - gation contracted by the Government should be held as waste Ist. That the Cortes neither can nor should recognize as the paper • they therefore only declared, that they would suspend result of their authority conferred upon the Government by the the effects of the treaty, and would re-enter upon the transac decree of the 27th of June, 1821, and the resolution of the 28th tion, to prevent the losses which in another case might have of the same month, the connect for the loan formed on the 22d been experienced. A liberal Government cannot do otherwise oC November with the houses of Ardouin and Hubbard by the than proceed in this affair with much circumspection ; the ma ex-Minister of Finance, Don Angel Vallejo, on account of his it:city of the Commission has abstained from saying that there having exceeded the limits of the saicrauthorization. is any infraction of the constitution by the Minister : it only 2dly. That the Government, suspending the execution of says that his conduct should be submitted to the commission of the contract, should arrange with the house of Ardouin and responsibility to examine into the point. He concluded by be- Hubbard the means of avoiding the prejudice to third parties,' seeching the Cortes to recollect that the honour of the Nation and repairing the immense losses already occasioned to the na- was at stake. tion, affording thus a new proof of the desire of the Congress Senor Falco said, that he would not enter into the particulars to leave untouched good faith and national honour. , of the loan, nor into the disadvantages or advantages it might 3dly. if the Government cannot reverse this transaction, it produce. His opinionevould always be against loans, especially will communicate to the Cortes for their final disposition, as as this kind of negotiation had become a species of art so coin - likewise for their approbation, the contract which it may be plicated and so difficult, that it was confined to a few mercan enabled, to form. tile houses of Europe who engaged in it. He feared much that 4thly. To leave the Government an absolute independence the Nation had become victims of the superiority which was oh for this operation, and to enable it to wait for peremptory con- tained over them in thiskind of knowledge. He concurred in aditions, it will be authorized to negociate with national or f n - the opinion of the commission on to w point, but not with re reign houses, the sum which will be requisite to co:nplete the gard to the defect of powers in the Government to conclude the 200,000,000 of reels. contract, nor the breaches of the Constitution which are said lithly. In both cases the Government will submit .to the to have beenin which the Treasury incurred. It was necessary laced at tto know he time, the cir • Cortes, for their approbation, the pla n or p ro j ect of the loan. cumstances 6thly. The Government will proceed in the whole matter the absolute scarcity of money under which it labour. with the greatest expedition, because the public expence of the ed, when the Government was autlorized to make the present economical year must be settled, and the Cortes must loan. Under these circumstances, the Cortes passed the two soon close their sittings. decrees which had been referred to by Senor Canga ; and, he 7thly. That the peesent measure be submitted to the Corn- asked, didnot the authority given to the Ministry to realize a mission for cases of responsibility, that it may propose what is loan, contain an absolute and general power, which embraced proper to be required of public functionaries who have, directly four points, referred to in the last of the said decrees ? With or indirectly, taken part inthose infractions of the Constitution regard to the alleged infraction of the Constitution, he would and of the laws which may have been committed in the articles only say, that capitalists, both foreign and national, are autho of the contract entered into by Don Angel Vallejo. rized to exact those conditions and securities which their inte- Several Deputies begged to speak both for and against the rest requires, to protect atehemselves against all human vicissi whole of the report, and tudes ; and this formed ason to justify the exclusive privi. Senor Ramirez de Arellano read a discourse, of which the lege or the monopoly . for which the compact had been censured. following is an abridgment :—A subject of this importance, he ln an economical . point of view, _looking upon it as a wid e required required the most detailed examination. The point don by which Spain had received a great part of the stipulated under consideration was,whether they were to reverse an opera- instalments by which the Treasury had been able to meet the tion ruinous in itself, according to all the calculations present- most urgent and peremptory demands, he would ask, if, in a ed, by the Finance Commission, disgraceful to Spaniards by negotiation of this nature, it would be more advantageous to the conditions on which it was contracted, and, lastly, invalid, continue receiving the instalments contracted for, or suddenly both on account of the want of power in the Minister of Finance to enter upon a new loan without having the means of meeting who concluded it, and the terms on which it was formed. Con- existing obligations ? He asked if it would be more economi sidering the enormous mischiefs which this contract was cal- cal to hold than to restore the instalments already received, re culated to create, it appeared impossible that any Spaniar t d sorting to a new loan, in which they would not find speculators .could be found who could sanction it by ids signature ; but, o enter with much confidence, considering the results of which leaving out of view the losses which it would occasion to the they were now speaking ; or, if it would not ra:her suit their State if it were carried into effect, and likewise the disgracefur own interests to sustain the existing contract ? Weighing these terms on which it was concluded, the first question winch pre- considerations maturely, he was compelled to say, that he would sented itself was, whether the Minister of Finance, Vallejo; adhere to the loan of November 22d, but with the understand. had powers to make the contract; and, secondly, even if he ing that it be referred to the Government t m o ameliorate the con had, whether the Cortes ought to a pp rove of it, some of the ditions, if possible, giving an account of the result to the articles of it being breaches of a fundatnental law. The au- Congress. thority which the Cortes conferred upon Vallejo was, in sub- Senor Adan observed, . that those who opposed the report of stance, that he should enter into a contract which Should be the Commission, had, in his opinion, availed themselves of most advantageous to the nation. It was a well known maxim reasons that went to support rather than destroy it. The Coni that no officer empowered to execute a particular commission, mission has been desirous that in the result of the operation ought to transgress the limits within which his commission is now under discussion, the national credit should not be com restrained ; and if this is a good general rule, how much more promised, and could not do otherwise than recognize the par ought it to be regarded when a matter of so great importance as Mule circumstances in which the ex-Minister was placed the happiness or ruin of a nation is concerned. To sa y that when he enteted into the contract. Notwithstanding this, the Senor Vallejo exceeded the authority of the Cortes, and the Cortes ought not to sanction this loan,because authority to enter powers conferred upon him by the King, to contract a loan, is into it at all, and to enter into it in authorizedarticular way, are diffe. to say that those terms ought only to be fulfilled which they rent things. The Minister Vallejo wa for the former, proposed, and nothing more ; but in place of doing this, the but not for the latter, as it did not result from the sanction of Minister of Finance, straining the interpretation of the p ower the Cortes that he should form it in the mode that he thoug ht of the Commission f the Cortes, carried the matter much fur- necessary; besides there is an evident exceeding of power on ther than the Congress either wished or was able to authorize. the part of the same Minister in amalgamating the debt of Hol- He would not examine the different parts of the contract ; it land with the new debt contracted, varying, consequently, its was sufficient to state one article to give an idea of the whole. nature and disposition, which had been previously fixed by a The 6th article, for instance, could not be examined without decree of. the Cortes. If he might be permitted to speak his horror. In this article it was stipulated that if the present mind to the Cortes coneerning the 'ex-Minister Vallejo, he system of Government should cease to exist by any unexpected would say, that he deserved compassion rather than censure event, the contractors would not he bound to contain e their in- for, being responsible for the debts of a great nation, and pre stalments. Such a condition as this is offensive to the Mo- siding over an exhausted treasury, he was bound to adopt some narch, offensive to the nation, and in every view disgraceful. plan to meet the poblic exigencies, although it imposed upon In another article it appeared ' that a Sinking Fund was este- him onerous conditions. The contractors couldnot but be aware Niched—an establishment that could only he formed by the of those circumstances, and would take advantage of them at National Congress. The Honourable Member stated several the time of making the contract. oter objections to the existing contract , for which we have not The Minister o Financ the Govrnment felt, tak sphace. ing part in this dis f cussion, e that it was the e work of none of the Senor Canga expressed his opinion t hat the subject before individuals who at present composed it. This circumstance Congress was one of the greatest interest, and begged leave, in animated him in undertaking the defence of the negociation to the name of the majority of the Commission, to explain the a certain extent. The subject, he remarked, naturally divided meaning of the report which they had presented t d To do so, he itself into two parts—time legality of the contract, and the ad said, required greater knowledge than he possessed: b ut, avail- vanta g eousness of the conditions. The contract was legal, if , ing himself of the indulgence of the assembly, he could not in entering upon it, the Minister did not exceed the power con omit to state, that on the 28th of May an explanation had been ferred upon him by the mould and in case any part of it was sent to the Commission by the ex-Minister Vallejo, which to be annulled, that only be so in which the excess had could not have been in their contemplation when they drew up taken place. On the 27th of June the Cortes authorized a loan their report. It Was necessary, therefore, to take into view that of 200,000,000 reals to be contracted for on the best terms pos explanation, in order to be able to form their judgment in a sible. Who was to decide on the advantage of those terms ? matter so delicate. All the inconveniences which the loan pre- —the contracting party for the nation ; and that uld only be sented arose, in his view, not necessarily from the Government, done by taking into view the circumstances of then ation. He but from the Cortes themselves : they arose from the mode in then proceeded to show that a contract which would he very which the law authorizing the Government to make the loan onerous now, might have been very advantageous then, and was drawn up. In the decree of the 27th of June, 1821, it was called upon those who opposed it to tell what terms could have said that they authorized the Government to contract for a loan been procured. Unless they could do so, he must conclude of 200,000,000 of reels ; but the Minister submitted on the that the Government had fulfilled most completely the oblige same day to the Congress the following exposition tions under which they came to act for the public interest. " Most excellent Senors—The desire of Government in an —After this, he proceeded to show that the establishment operation so grave and so delicate as the loan of 200,000,000 of, time Great Book and of the sinking fund, if they con which the. Cortes have authorized it to make, cannot be any duced to the public advantage,' could be no infringement other than to attract by means of public opinion the confidence of the decree of the Cortes. The Governmerit was even so of speculators, so that no doubt of the execution of the compact cautious and provident as to foresee that such a mea• must influence in the smallest or greatest degree the conditions sure might afterwards be called in question ; and therefore, which may he proposed. Attending to these reasons and con- by a second applicatioa, to the National Congress, had obe sidering that perhaps the realization of the loan will' render it tamed its express consent. Nay, in their second decree, that necessary to establish a Great Book, to create a sinking fund, body, instead of throwing obstacles in the way of the Mi to apply several branches of the public revenue to this establish- nistry, had given them broad instructions to act in the man ment, and to reduce the whole or include art of the foreign debt to a ner which they . thought would best promote the public new loan for the purpose of being in the Great Book, terest. It being in his opinion, therefore, den.unstrated the King commands me to petition the Cortes with the greatest that the former government was authorized to make the loan in urgency that the authority granted to the Government to con- the most advantageous manner, he could not conceive a possible the Carbonari has fallen at Cesena. A hopeful young man, of the name of Crudeli, had voluntarily quitted the sect, in consequence of the last Bull of the Head of the Church. His father was greatly pleased at this act of his son,' but a few days after, the corpse, of the latter, shockingly mangled, was found in the city-ditch. A couple of daggers, bearing the secret marks of the Carbonari, were still sticking in thebody. Several notices were posted up at Cesena, threatening all the members who withdrew from the Society, with the fate of Crudeli. The local authorities are using every exertion to discover the perpetrators. SPANISH LOAN. ground for annulling the contract. Even the Commission con curred in this ; for the report was limited to a declaration that the Cortes could not sanction, and ought not to sanction, the contract, not that it was null and void. But he ellowed, how ever, that the two propositions came nearly to the same thing, because, without the sanction of the Cortes, the stipulations of the contract had ro validity, and no obligation to observe it existed either on the part of the contractors or the public. If the Cortes had'.conformed to it by giving it their sanction, then it would have been conclusive on both parties. He had heard with much satisfaction the speeches of those who had pre viously declared that there was no desire of annulling the loan; and, in fact, how could the Cortes desire it, unless to become judges in their own cause ? How could a Government contract be pronounced void which was founded on the competent sanc tion of the Cones, and concluded with a foreign house ? This contract created objections in the same manner as others be tween individuals, and no authority could pronounce its nullity but the judicial power. Who can assure the Cortes, he would ask, that this foreign house would not appeal to the Tribunals of Spain in support of their rights—or who could assure them of the award of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice ? That award must ,be conformable to the laws of the nation, and the laws of the nation, in such cases, are the decrees which he had above quoted. If judicial powers should declare the con tract legal, in spite of the disapprobation of the Cortes, of what avail would be their declaration against it? The Spanish nation, which had been so prodigal in acknowledging the debts of for mer Government's—debts contracted for,objects much less pure and worthy, should not now declare void a credit contracted for the consolidation of the constitutional systeni, and the defence of public liberty. The Minister then spewed that the consoli dation of the debt of Holland with the new loan was no disad vantage to the public; and that the contract, in some of th e con ditions complained of,was no infringement on the Constitution. The treaty with the house of Ardouin and Co. had been mo delled after, former treaties. He concluded by saying that the Government concurred in the opinion of the Commission in every respect,'except in the clause of the first article, by which it in effect pronounced the contract null. The time of ending debate was then drawing near. Seve. ral Members wished to speak ; the sitting was therefore ad journed. SITTING OF JUNE 1. Previous to the resumption of the discussion on the loan, Senor Adan apprised the Cortes that the Commission did not present the first article for deliberation, and that its opinion was that it should be referred to the Government to act in the 'oest possible manner for the public interest in this business, as the contract could not be annulled. The debate afterwards was continued with much warmth, but was not concluded. M. Ferrer and the Minister of Fi nance, the former against the contract, and the latter in support of it, spode at great length, and the debate was adjourned to the following day. IRELAND. RELIEF OF THE POOR. Conx, JUNE s.—On Monday last, a Meeting of the exporters and dealers of butter, hides, a,nd skins, took place at the Council. Chamber, fur the purpose of ascertaining what course should be adopted in consequence of the Commit tee of Merchants refuSing to pay over to the relief of the poor in Cork, Limerick, and Kerry, 5001. which was in their hands, and which the former body had agreed should ire applied to this object. The Meeting was not very numerous; it did not assemble until half-past three o'clock, nor terminate the dis cussion that occurred until five o'clock. On this occasion Mr. FITZGIBBON was called to the Chair. He briefly adverted to the object for which they assembled, and what lie had done as Chairman, in compliance with their Resolutions since they last assembled. He stated that he had written to the President of the Committee of Merchants the day after the former Meeting took place, apprising him of the Resolutions they had entered into, but he received no answer, and it was not until the 30th, when lie had again occasion to address them, that he received the communication, which dis closed the grounds of their refusal to comply with the sugges tions of the Meeting. Mr. Fitzgibbon then read the following Resolution of that Body :- 44 That the Committee of Merchants does not feel itself war ranted by any precedent to apply its funds to any other object than the purposes of trade." Mr. FIT z Ginnox then said, this reply of the Committee contained a most unfortunate allegation, as from a document he held in his hand, which was an extract from their own books, it appeared, a sum of 1,8541. had been applied to other pur poses besides those they alluded to, such as'dinners to Admirals, expenses of the Waterford coach, &c. In fact, they wanted sonic excuse, and this was the most unfortunate one they could adopt, and quite unexpected by him. The Meeting was now called upon to declare, what steps it would take in consequence, of the refusal of the Committee to comply with its request, and he had no doubt it would assert its own dignity on this occa sion. Mr. SITGRITE, one of the Committee, submitted the follow ing Resolutions : That the fees paid by us on the inspection of butter, hides, and skins, being voluntary, we regret that thereby we are pre cluded from legally enforcing a compliance with our grant to the poor ; but the present, among others, affording an instance of the danger and impropriety of allowing voluntary contribu tions to accumulate, we pledge ourselves to take steps for more equally apportioning the Inspection Fees to the probable future expenditure incident to that object. That, not having anticipated any refusal or reluctance on the part of the Committee of Merchants to comply with our vote of appropriation of our own funds, and our Chairman hav ing, at our desire, communicated said vote to the Charitable Committees of Limerick, Kerry, and Cork, and in the city of Cork, we lament exceedingly that any delay should be inter posed, by an unjustifiable opposition to the attainment of an object, which all are called upon by every feeling of humanity to promote." The Meeting shortly after dispersed. MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF LIMERICK. ' On Wedneday, a large and highly respectable Meeting of the Citizens was convened, at a short notice, by Lord Viscount Gort and Ralph Westropp, Esq., President of the Chamber of Commerce, at the Commercial Buildings, in order to consider the most prompt and efficient means for applying to the Go vernment for funds, to aid in erecting a bridge across the Shan non, and the most beneficial site to be adopted for public con venience and general utility. At two o'clock, many persons entered the room. At half-past two, Lord Viscount Gort and the Mayor came in, and shortly after the room was crowded by all ranks. , When the Right Worshipful the Mayor took the Chair, Lord Viscount GOILT addressed his Worship in an eloquent and convincing strain. Mr. MoRGAN then moved a Resolution, seconded by John Vereker, Esq., that a deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen—the Mayor, Lord Viscount Gort, Ralph Westropp, John IWNemara, and Daniel Leahy, Esqrs.—be appointed from this city, and that they be requested to proceed to London forthwith, in order to make the necessary application to • Go vernment, for carrying into effect the intentions of this Meet- T in The motion for appointing the deputation was then put and carried unanimously—it being understood that the deputation possessed full powers to adopt every measure necessary for carrying into effect the object of this Meeting. At the fair of Tullinadaly, held yesterday, within two miles of this town, the different descriptions of stock offered for sale appeared forward and in tolerable condition. Milch cows brought from four to six guineas ; several lots of three years years old heifers sold from 51. 10s., to 61. 10s. ; dry cows from 21.105. to three guineas; good yearling . caves and sheep were very much sought after at an advance, since our last quotations, of 4s. a head. 'There was a good deal of business done; and we are happy to state, it was one of the best fairs we had in this part of the country within the last month. It is a novel fact, that two dry cows dropped dead at the fair-green from the ' excessive heat of the sun. Their blood was immediately drawn, and their carcases passed through this town on a cart in the afternoon, to the residence of the owners.--( Tuam Gazette of Thursday.) A short time ago ) Mr. George Pricket, jun. of Moss Side in Heversham, was ploughing in a field lately in closed, being part of their allotment of Heversham Common, when he turned up a bottle by the plough ; on breaking off the neck to examine the contents, he tasted it and found it contained good ale. Being thirsty, and as the taste was plea sant, he, drank of it several times. The bottle contained two quarts, and he became intoxicated, before he was aware of its strength, as it drank as mild as new milk. On relating the circumstance in the neighbourhood, it proved to be the bottle which Mr. John Benson, schoolmaster at Leasgill, had lost on the Moss thirty-five years before, in the same place, and in the following manner :—lt being moss ground, he was graving peats, and having laid his bottle near him, in the dike, the breast gave way, and a quantity of earth fell, which buried his bottle and robbed him of his drink. — The ground had been:pared and burned two or three times before this discovery, which, together with the soddening of the moss , _ made it more firm, and brought the plough down to the depth where' the bottle lay. This is an instance of the preservation of ale which but seldom occurs ; and it appears no bad method of keeping it. PARLIAMENTARY 'PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Luna', 10 0 (lie Junii, 1822. EARL SOMMERS' ESTATE BILL Read a secondST. Cu TIIHERT'S EDINBURGH ESTATE time; and cora- BILL mitted. CORK IMPROVEMENT BILL READING'S NAME BILL ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE ESTATE BILL Read 3d time: EARL HOWE'S ESTATE BILL an d passed. BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S ESTATE, BILL BACON'S ESTATE BILL RECOGNIZANCES BILL. RoAps--Honiton—read a third time, and passed. Bright-. helmstone Act Amendment—Bill 4 . 4 to rectify mistakes inlet Act of this Session of Parliament, for making the Road from Brighton to Shoreham Bridge," pressented, and read a first time. LEATHER. TAX—Petition of Curriers of Southwark, again st taking of the whole Tax ; to lie on the table. INcLostritE—Dinton (Wilts) —Lords amendments agreed to• Bit T TER TRADE—Petition from the Hundred of Ileminel (Devon), in favour of Duties on Importation of Foreign Butter ; to lie on the table. THAMES LASTAGE AND BALLASTAGE—Petition of th e Master, Wardens, and Assistants, of the Trinity House, fv r time to bring in a Bill upon their former Petition, and OF additional provision therein; referred to the Cornmiace the former Petition. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS—That they have agreed t° Southam, Northampton and Market Harborough, and CST leon Roads Bills ; and Camden Town Improvement Di" , without amendment. That they have passed,—a Bill, intituled, "An Act t 9 authorize the sale' of certain Copyhold Blessuages and Here- t he ditaments of Charles Firchild, his wife and children, i n manor of 3leer and Forton, in the County of Stafford, in 1 1 .e., r7 formance of a contract for the sale thereof, and for laylng out the purchase money on other Estates, to. be settled° the like uses, and for other purposes." Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act to dissolve the Marriag e , of Sir John Milley Doyle, Knight Commander of the 394' Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Lieutenan t ; Colonel in the Army, with Mary Doyle, his now wif e, an to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes, therein mentioned." FIRCHILD'S ESTATE BILL } Read a first time. 1 DOYLE'S DIVORCE BILL LINEN TRADE.(IRELAND) COMMITTEE—Mr. Vesey Fi tz- Gerald and Sir Nicholas Colthurst added to the Committee. LONDON BRlDGE—Petition of Owners of Coal Craft [P sensed sth June], referred to the Committee on the Lo on ' Bridge Waterworks Bill. ALEHOUSES LICENSING BlLL—reported ; further consider tion of Report tomorrow; Bill, as amended, SUGAR TRADE—Petition from Nottingham, for equalizatw of Duties ; to be printed. SALT TAX—Petition of Vessel Owners and others, of Gaitl s ' borough, for the repeal thereof; to be printed. -no dere CALCUTTA BANKERS—Petition of Michael George rren - ga st, Esq. Agent for Monohur Doss, and of Seetul Bah l , to be printe.:;„ widow and legal representative of lluarcah Doss, for ent i :; faction of their demands from the East India Compaq the be printed. Copies ordered, "of any Proceeding s or Court of Director? of the East India Company, Whi,llolBi have been adopted in consequence of two Letters addrPsftii to the said Court of Directors, under date the 13 th and lux of May ultimo, by M. G. Prendergast, Esq. stating hio's"-, Agent and Attorney to two Natives of India, named Mon hur Doss and Seetul Bahoo." CANADA TRADE ACTS—Considered in Committee ; Bel; tion for Bill reported and agreed to ; Bill ordered to brouht in. MARRIAGE OF DISSENTERS—BiII to amend Marri4 C Mt ordered to be brought in. veaf STAGE COACHES BILL—" to amend an Act of the 50th of his late Majesty relating to Stage Coaches, and the to select for prosecution the Proprietors of such Stage Coa_u' be in certain cases," presented, and read a first time; t° read a second time on Friday next. NOTICES OF MOTIONS for THIS DAY. ~.4 1 1 Mr. Western,—Motion concerning the Resumption of t .. Payments. 10' 2. Mr. Creevey,—To repeal Act [ 5 7 Geo. 3, c. 65 ] for re neration of persons who have held high official situatiorve 3. Mr. Davies Gilbert,—To propose Standing O rders relst' to Turnpike Roads. sctt 4 4. Mr. Wetherell, —Correspondence and other Papers ono' with the matter of the Petition of Calcutta Bankers. per 5. 31r. Martin (of Galway),—Bill to regulate office of Coro in Ireland. 6. Mr. Attorney-General,—Bill to authorize Courts of J usti ..- ce to make regulations respecting the Fees of such Cou to Also, Bill to repeal Act [ 1 and 2 Geo. 4 1 respecting.Loa of King's Bench, and to enact other provisions thereof. ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY. 1. Payment of Rent (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. );••• 2. Supply, (Barracks, Public Works, and Law Charge° Further consideration of Report. 3. New Churches Bill—Second Reading. 4. Warehousing Bill—Further consideration of ReP° rt ' 5. Consolidated Customs Acts—Report thereupon. g ot. 6. Alehouse Licensing Bill—Further conside ration of Repot 7. Weights and Measures Bill—Report. 8. Assessed Taxes Composition Bill—Report. 9. Insolvent Debtors Act Amendment Bill—Report. s9 l' 10. Welsh Coals Acts [59 Geo. 3, c. 52, 1 Geo. 4, c• Report thereupon. • PRIVATE BlLL—Second Reading for TIIIS DAY •25 Arneman's Estate. * s . For NAucLEttus, see the Last Page. ST. BARNABAS--Holiday a t Bank and Stock Doti P.-- no PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, Jr . 's': B. t . 45 Bank Stock' 246 Grand Canal Lo an, 4Pc --- Gov. Deb. 3. : ', per cent 9O Ditto 6 per cent' ".. ' Stock, 31 per ct. B9a t l DittoStock ........ ••*, ''' Gov. Deb. 4 per cent. Royal Canal Stock .... '; t : 15 per ." Guy. Deb. 5 per cent lVide.street Cert. _Stock, 5 per cent. 2i Do. Deb. with Gov- 6e ,„ c. ;.. ' Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. -- Pipe Water Deb. 5 P c , ; 11 t. City Debentures, 5 per Do. cent. Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. 5 per cent. ....... ••'''' Exchange on London, June 7, Bg. BRIDGE. TOZlOgi t°l3: E ven in g , 36 minute HIGH WATER AT LO N1)0? Morning, 12 minotci after 8.. THE SUN. SOLIDI (MIS DICERE FALSUbI AUDI — ' LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 152i ... >„/ r , s° f We received this morning the Paris p ap e' • Saturday, from which we give extracti <<t a g pr ceding column.—German Papers have °is° it rived, the principal articles of which are serted under the head of Foreign Intelligel'ce. 9.) [Extract of a Letter from Carthawena, AP I. " e (1 "Au extraordinary courier has just ari t t4 from Rio de la llache, bringing the itliP"..ted news of the acknowledgment, by the State, of the Independence of the Republie°f lumbia. Our Governor-General Montilla le to' to proclaim this intelligence to t he Pe°l3oo' morrow by the firing of cannon, tic. T be ; c og rican squadron in the Pacific Ocean, CO r h Ol e ; en d are the Franklin 74, a frigate, tiig, and 5 c .-° oi are going to call at Panama t he latter e ° May or beginning of June. Th e recogrlitiooo the United States of the Rep ublic of C°ldstato will have an important effect in the pregent the, of affairs in Mexico, more especially 115