The Sun. — London, England, 1822-05-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. lIIITAACT3 FROM. THY. DAILY MOTINING P VPERS, May 18, 1822. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] ;l the Debate of last night on the West India and American Trade Bill, several particulars stated by Mr, Ellice furnish a very apposite somment on the notions entertained in certain quarters, embodied last night in a stricture on Sir James Mackintosh, for daring to allude to the practices of the republic of the United States, - when condemning the Swiss Job. " Among the ridiculous arguments used for a contrary policy i. e. an economical policy) the most ridiculous - was that 'which Sir James Mackintosh derived troth the practice of his favourite Republic, Ms ' land. of public felicity,' the United States. it would be just as rational to bid one of our wealthiest merchants, with untold thousands at his daily disposal, regulate his scale of expen diture by that of a young and prudent trades man who has just commenced business, as it is to retpire that England should tower her proud sta tion to the humble level of an infant Common wealth." Without stopping to admire the apt ness of this comparison, and the gratification which it must afford us to know, -that the power from which we suffered the most on our own pe culiar element is yet an infant, we would say, caking by the comparison, that tradesmen with narrow means are frequently seen to make rich by prudence, while merchants with untold thou sands as frequently become beggars from the want of it. Cosmo de Medici had ships on every sea, and factors and clerks in every country ; but his expenditure exceeded his profits, and he dissipated his estate and stopt payment, while his ancestors had acquired wealth because their pro fits exceeded their expenditure , There are in like manner rules by the observing o► which in fant nations will become great nations, as others have been occasionally given, and seem to be familiar to our rulers, for converting a great na tion into a little one. [NEW TIMES.] We observe With pleasure the rapid progress that is making in the subscriptions in different parts of England to relieve the starving poor of Ireland. These are the bonds which must at tach our wish brethren to us, and make us truly an United Kingdom. The declining prices of Irish produce, we fear, will for some time render the state of the peasantry of that country most pitiable. Good Irish butter, we understand, lias fallen to 40s. a cwt. and even lower. It has been suggested, and the measure appears to us worth consideration at least, that a proportion of the warehoused corn in this country might without any injurY to cur home market be suffered to be taken out of bend, for the express and sole purpose of being transmitted to the Corn rr4ttees- in, Ireland, for relief of the ,dis tre•ied poor. The effect, it is contended, would be at once to assist the aicted suf ferers in Ireland, and to relieve a class of merchants in this country, who experience great itconvenience and toss from having their funds 5.. , long locked up and rendered unavailable, Bonded Wheat it is said might be purchased for a quarter or less, and it would produce a :nore nutritious food than Oats or Potatoes, and equally cheap. Of course such a plan, if adopted, crest be under due restrictions ; but it would be e:ziy, we apprehend, to grant permits so guarded :::at the grain could never go to any other desti nation than that intended to be permitted by the proper authorities. - If so, itcould not injuriously ..c . ,.:erfe,re with the demand of the British Farmer: Gut, on the contrary, would relieve him, so far es it might go, from the dread of a competition it - , ways hanging over his head, and always casting as ac!ditional dullness over his market, [THE I:7MES.:I :-:ame feeling that prompted to such ac tive exertions, and called forth such liberal bscriptions in favour of the distressed por :ion of our Irish fellow-subjects in the metro polis, we observe with pleasure, is fast spread ing over all parts of the country, and swelling from innumerable channels the means of relief. We might refer for evidence of this fact to the accounts -of proceedings which reach us by every pest from almost every considerable town in the kingdom, Edinburgh has hod its meet ing, and formed its subscription : Liverpool, ,: . ',Portsrhouth,.and other towns, follow the example . ? ,,9f:the metropolis.. Subscriptions have been en tered into at Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Shrews bury, Monmouth, Brecon, and other places. Where, indeed, is the place that has been in active in this great Irlicur of charity • an extremely wicked thing, every body 'nows and allows, to have given Mr. Stratford Canning the sum of 4000'. a year, or thereabouts, for the Embassy to the Swiss Cantons; and it is yet incre wicked, in the presert state of the country, to give nearly GOO/. for the first year to a man engaged on the same service. We con dole with the nation on the waste of its resources at this period of agricultural distress, if in truth there be any agricultural distress : and with the Swiss re condole on the mischievous example of extravagance which must he exhibited among them, by a man Who can spend so great an in come with, what they all must see, Eothing to do,. This is a very wicked job s ,--disgraceful to ail concerned in it--disgraceful to those who have not opposed it to the. utmost degree of constitu tional opposition.—(lbid.) fIifORNHICI uaiu.LD] . . 1 - Private accounts, countenanced by some arti- ' ties in the . French and, Spanish Papers, intimate that there exists •Considerable irriation at pre ent between the French and Spanish Govern wents, and that a remonstrance, absolutely de mandingjhe retirement of the French army on the Spanish frontier, Las been presented by the Spanish Ambassador to the French Cabinet. Th , l preservation of the public health was the first pretence for this armament on the frontier. But that has Low disappearet ; and in Spain the opinion prevails that the design of the French Government is to encourage, if not support, the Spanish Insurgents. Some of the more violent Spanish Journals go the length of charging upon the French the fresh troubles in some of the provinces. It is very unlikely that the French Government has any design of ag gression upon Spain. The truth is, that the latter country is in a better condition to wage an offensive war. Even the present Administra tion in France would hardly venture to array the French armies, in their temper of mind, against such a cause as that of Spain would be. Some foreign accounts say that in England and Russia, as well as in France, the Spanish Government is in bad odour—that the Spanish Ambassador is slighted here, and that the Spanish Ambassa dor at the Court of St. Petersburgh demanded his passports and departed. Under present circum stances, he must he very credulous indeed who I should suspect Ministers of engaging this country in a war for the purpose of effecting the restora tion of the old Spanish Government—and as to the departure of the Spanish Ambassador from Russia, it is in execution of a Decree of the Cortes, which, for the purposes of economy, has reduced the number of Diplomatic Envoys, and substi tuted Consuls in the places of those who have been recalled. [MORNING POST.] We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter, received yesterday from Havre de Grace, which contains some interesting infor mation :—" All the merchants here are in the greatest state of alarm, in consequence of a letter received from St. Domingo, which states that President Boyer has laid a general embargo on all the French merchantmen. It is imagined that this has been done as an act of reprisal for an offence which is said to have been com mitted by Captain Jacob, the Commander of the French squadron. It is supposed that he wished to favour a French inhabitant of the small island of Samanah, by conveying away his negroes, who were become free by a law lately proclaimed by Boyer. This letter has spread great consterna tion on 'Change ; but if the news should be con firmed, we still hope that our Government will interfere and obtain in a short time the release of our men, our ship, and our merchandize." The missing American Papers came to hand yesterday, and they contain the important Reso lutions of the American Congress upon the sub ject of the very formal motion of the Inde pendence yr the South American cities, viz. Ist, " That the House of Representatives con cur in the opinion expressed by the Pre sident in his 'Message of the Bth of March, 1822, that the American provinces of Spain which have declared their Independence, and are in the en joyment of it, ought to be recognized by the United States as Independent States."-2dly, " That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to report a Bill appropriating a sum not exceeding 100,000 dollars, to enable the 1 President of the United States to give due effect to such recognition."—(lbid.) [BRITISTI PRES 3.3 The Roman Catholic Peers' Bill was read a third time last night, and passed in the House of Commons without a debate. The West India and American Trade Bill produced a long discussion last night. All par ties agreed in its principle. The Bill was read a second time.—Mr. Goulburn brought in his Irish Poor Relief Bill. A sum of 50,0001. was voted for the purpose in a Comtnitte . e of Supply.—(ibid.) COMMON COUNCIL, Yesterday the Loan MAYOR held a Court of Common Council, in consequence of two Requisitions, and for the dispatch of other public business, which was fully attended. A fler the proceedings of the last Court had been read, Mr. Baron MASERES attended, and tendered his resignation of the office of one of the Judges of the Sheriffs' Court, which si tuation he had held upwards of 42 years. The Court were. pleased to accept his resignation, and referred it to the Com mittee of City Lands to consider the nature, duties, &c. of the said office. A Petition was presented from the Philanthropic Society, for purchasing the fee-simple of their premises in St. George's fields, and referred to the Bridge House Committee. SUFFERING IRISH PEASANTRY. The Loan MAYOR. then laid before the Court the Requisi tion for a Subscription towards the Fund collected for the Re lief of the Suffering Irish, which being read, Mr. 01.6F1A.K addressed the Court on the subject, and con cluded with moving that the Chamberlain subscribe the sum of f 251. as the gift of this Court towards the said fund. Mr. Sheriff VENABLE s seconded the motion; and after some observations from Mr. Favell, .Mr, Alderman Waithman, Mr. 'Taylor, Mr. Alderman Brown, Mr. Dixon , and seve ral other Members, it was agreed to, and the Chamberlain directed to pay the same. LONDON BRIDGE, &C. • The. Bridge House Committee presented a Report of their proceedings in Parliament, in endeavouring to carry into effect the wishes of the Court for obtaining an Act for removing the Water-Works, and enlarging the present water-way of London Bridge ; in which they were unable to go further, the Commit tee of - the House of Commons, with one exception, being of opinion that a new bridge was requisite. They therefore re commended a Petition to the House, to be heard against the 'Measure prayed for by sundry inhabitants of the Borough, 'and the provisions to be introduced into the Bill, so far as they lnii,7ht he prejudicial to the City's interests,—which, after con siderable debate, was agreed to, and the Petition recommended by Lae Committee adopted. • ELECTION OF mit. DENMAN. The requisition to consider the circumstances of the Memo rial presented to the Court of Aldermen by several Members of the Court, upon an old Bye-law against the late Ele-rtion of Mr. Denman as Common Sergeant, was read. Mr. Ountraikr. addressed the Court at some length, and con cluded with moving for a Committee to be•appointed to inves tigate the same, and whether there were any other Bye-laws affecting the rights of the Court on the Election of their Officers, and to report. . • • Mt. SLADE seconded the motion. • - 'After• 'a. conversation between Mr. Deputy Saunders, Mr, DixOn, - Mr: - ravel?, Mr. Crocker, Mr. Alderman Waitian, and ether. Members, the motion was agreed to, and a Cern. mittee of the Aldermen present, and a Commoner from each Ward, appointed. The Lo RD Mt on laid before the Court the resignation of Mr. WOnuier of the ofice of Upper Marshal, which was ac cept..-d- Mr. Nevin Brown was appointed to the above situation, and the next Court Ex..:d. for tiling up the vacancy of Under Marshal. A Court Martial has been holden in Dublin, on a Captain• of the Ist Dragoon Guards, on a most extraordinary prosecution. rt seems that a restive horse had been prohibited from being sent out on a detachment, that this Captain had sent it out, and that the man who rode it was, lin consequence, drowned. (Limerick Chronicle.) FOR THE SUN. NAVIGATION LAWS. Mr. EDlTOR.—Before the old Navigation Laws and Colonial Policy are expunged from the Statute Book, as that time, from appearances, is near at hand, and we are to commence a new era in which those two great principles are to be given up for an untried, unexplained, system under the guidance of philosophers, sophists, and po litical economists, permit me to address a few words to the country.—When BUONAPARTE made HAUTERITE rave, it was for liberty, equality, and the freedom of the seas. Our Political Econo mists commence their operation under liberal ideas and freedom of trade—therefore I hope you will indulge me again through the medium of your valuable journal to give my opinion on the intended measures, in which I will attempt to prove that the new theories are fraught with the rnoF,t mischievous and ruinous consequences, and that the measures proposed are those which the enemies of this country have long been promulgating, and endeavouring to en force, by every stratagem in their power, whe ther in war or in peace, as the sure means of de stroying the Commercial ; and thereby the Naval Marine, on which the security of our indepen dence rests.—Should those measures receive the sanction of the Legislature, it may be fairly as sumed that Great Britain has run her career of glory, and arrived at or "passed her meridian height, and will fast descend lo the rank of a subordinate State : not by conquest, nor for want of energy in her people, nor financial means to ex ecute all her wants, but by improvident measures in Legislation. The Abbe DE PRADT says, that " war is no longer the method by which she " can be subdued ; it is peace alone that can oblige " her to make restitution ; when negociation, more " efficacious than force,may obtain that which force " could never extort l" And there seems a question now whether in peace negociation, more efficacious than force, has not obtained that which force could never extort !—But first let us glance over the rise and progress of what has so long been considered as the great leading interest of the State; that Britain depends on her Marine for defence is confirmed by every page of her history, from the first descent under ULIUr C/ESAR to the late threa tened descent under NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ; the want of a naval defence was the cause of those descents practised successively by the Romans, Gauls, Saxons, Danes, Norwegians, and finally by the rapacious Normans, who divided the spoils and the country amongst them, and held the nation in comparative slavery ; for centuries after this the Marine was recruited, and as often fell into decay, and was again resuscitated; the dread of the Spanish Armada gave a fresh impulse to naval affairs, during the reign of ELIZABETH; but after her death the signal vic tories gained by VAN TRUMP fixed the trident of Neptune in the hands of the Dutch, which they long preserved by industry in commerce and fisheries, until that usurper of power, CROMWELL, was so rapacious and so invidious, as the Hol landers termed him, as- to have recourse to the services of the brave BLAKE, and the British sea men, to endeavour through their means to secure the benefit of naval commerce and fisheries to Britain; and furthermore to secure those benefits, he had recourse to the enactment of that famous edict, which with some slight alterations is now known as the Navigation Statute of the /2th of CHARLES 11., by means of which, as a nursery for seamen, and for the maintenance of a naval preponderance, were fought those furious and bloody contests which destroyed the naval power of Holland, and with it produced the ra pid decay of her commerce, and as firmly fixed the trident in the grasp of BRITANNIA ! which in the late contest most certainly saved the British nation from the desolation of that revolutionary mania, which, like a volcanic eruption, laid waste the fairest kingdoms of Europe, and armed all the navies in the world to destroy the naval power of Britain (under pretence of restoring the liberty of the seas), and thereby to destroy her commerce and wealth,—these are pretty strong proofs of the wisdom of the enactments; there fore, venerating, as I have been taught to do, the Navigation Laws of the country, and fearing that a general relaxation of opinion on the policy of maintaining that system is manifested in cer tain quarters, and mixed with a disposition, at the expence of that fundamental law and the sa crifice of the British Marine, unwisely to court and conciliate other Governments, by pursuing measures totally abrogative of their spirit and principle, and venerating, as I have been taught, the names of the great men who had enacted and assisted in maintaining them as the greatest be nefit they could bestow on their country, and knowing, or having read, the opinions given on this great national policy by the leading Mem bers of the present Administration, and many others of our own day, then let us inquire by what strange destiny or fatality has this wonder ful change in the political mind of man taken place—that if they had been drenched in the waters of Lethe could not have effected a more complete oblivion. The political writers of all nations have given credit to those who framed' , those laws for the wisdom of the measure ; the Abbe Donors states them to be the palladium or Tutelary Deity of England, and the Abbe de PRADT maintains that on their preservation rests the double base of our power, viz. the Maritime and Colonial Policy, " as in them you behold " that profoundly combined system that has raised " that unrivalled island to that high pitch that cc war is no longer the method by which she can "be subdued !" It was before asserted that the sublime theory which is now engaging the Legislature is not a new theory, as those old and tried frienc; of Old England, Sieyes, Talleyrand, De Pradt, Buonaparte, Hauterive, Schlegel, and many other philosophers and economists,have long considered that Great Britain was quite a monopolizing power in colonies and in commercial navigation, and her navy of such preponderance that it had become quite an evil to other nations. That good and worthy citizen Hauterive, the then French Under Secretary of State to Talley. : rand, endeavoured to develope the sublime sys tem of the Government of Buonaparte, that all caticus might concur for restoring that liberty and equality on the seas and for this very justi fiable purpose the United States of America joined in the memorable scheme. The Reader will keep in view that Hauterive, De Pradt, and Schlegel wrote to serve the revolutionary views of BuonapaTte ; therefore England has no claim on them, and Hauterive proposes that the maritime preponderance of England ought to be terminated by two regulations which would form the maritime law of na tions for the nineteenth century. The first proposition is " the abolition of maritime capture, in respect to property going under the protection of neutral flags." This modest proposal at once would have nullified the whole British navy from making captures : and the second is, " to repeal all prohibitory laws in time of peace," with the exception of coasting from one port to another, belonging to the same nation, and the navigation between the Colonies and the Mother Country. In this it must be observed that the English Economists have gone much further than Haute rive, as the exclusive trade to the-British Colo nies is about to be given up, and all our prohibi tory laws, which are much more extensive than Hauterive's maritime laws for the nineteenth century. The Ex-Bishop de Pradt, in his pub lication on the Colonies, 1516, more particularly dwells on the Naval and Commercial power of Britain, and leaves nothing unsaid to induce Eu rope to join in a federal association of Commer cial states, to throw down the pale of prohibito ry laws, and proclaim a perfect freedom of trade, and by this means compel Great Britain to ac cede to the maritime code of the nineteenth cen tury, in order to share with her part of her gains, as England, swelled with the spoils of the world, now rules over every sea, and over every colony, the maritime equilibrium is entirely de stroyed by the naval power of Britain." And the Abbei further informs us, that since the balance of power has, to all appearances, been restored to some reality by the articles of the Congress at Vienna, that certainly all the efforts of another Congress should be directed towards the restoration of some equality at sea, towards securing safety on the road which leads to the Colonies. That there would be still more ample scope for this Congress (for adjusting the mari time equilibrium) than there was for the Con gress of Vienna. The Jesuitical Abbe and Ex- Bishop stops without informing us more of the Congress for restoring the maritime equilibrium. But we have lately been informed, in an expla nation on a Russian tariff, that at the Congress at Vienna in 1815, " it seemed generally felt that freedom of commerce was " necessary to repair the injuries caused by the yoke under " which Europe had groaned for ten years. Almost all Go " vernments resolved to introduce free commerce. But cape " rience and more accurate calculation soon made them deter , " mine not to renounce the prohibitory system !!" England, " Austria, and France, thought right to continue protection to " their manufactures and trade ; and Prussia has found it ne " cessary to follow the example of the rest of Europe, and this " makes it the duty of Russia to return to laws, the necessity " of which appears to be acknowledged by all nations." —Was England a party to this Congress that , had consented to this freedom of commerce ? England, insulated from the rest of Europe, de pending on her marine for the protection of her self and colonies, and freed from the expence of maintaining her seamen, who in time of peace are employed in her mercantile shipping—could England, whose rise and progress to greatness is built on restriction, become a party in a sort of military Congress at Vienna, and consent to a freedom of commerce with those that had nei ther ships, colonies, nor commerce ? Was Eng land's wealth, glory, and security to be bartered away, to conciliate any foreign power, to con sent to a system much more extensive than Hauterive's maritime code, and to the full extent of the Abbe de Pradt's ? However this may be, there certainly is an intention in the political economists to effect a radical change in our system, whether we date its rise from the treaty of Ghent, in which that sort of reciprocity in trade was conceded, that has given the United States in the proportion of six ships to one Bri tish in trading between England and America, or from the Congress at Vienna, in which a freedom of commerce seems to have been under discussion, or from whatever cause this mania for free trade has arisen, sure it is that no sooner did a Ger man writer inform us that "no person acquainted " with the real principles of national wealth and " industry can ever regard the Navigation Act as " the foundation of England's commercial great " ness ; it has been in spite of that Act, and not " by means of it, that her foreign commerce has " acquired such a wonderful extent," than this was afterwards echoed from the highest authority; and no sooner was the signal given than swarms of foreign merchants and brokers re-echoed the assertion that had ever been so congenial to foreigners' minds (they bear to England no allegiance) and the words liberal ideas and free dom of trade have been echoed and re-echoed as loud as the liberty and equality of the great nation was in the furious days of Sans Culottisrn— this free trade is now to be the Infallible nostrum for all the diseases of the state, and it is to be so universal and comprehensive that no one has as yet undertaken to define its meaning nor extent, and must for some time remain incomprehensible ; hints have been thrown out that the great South ern and Indian Oceans are to be again thoroughly searched for babbles, beads, and birds' nests.— Let us take the liberty to remark, that through out the late tremendous struggle for maritime ascendancy, in which Buonaparte was joined by all the maritime powers to conquer (on tile ocean), the liberty of the seas, or, in plain English, to destroy the power and wealth of Britain—in this struggle, the British seamen notonly defended our own shores and our own colonies from invasion, but by their valour destroyed the hostile navies, and added colonies to the power of Britain in every clime, it was then acknowledged that the enact - rneuts of our ancestors (which Lad reared those seamen) was the Palladium or Tutelary Deity of England by British and Foreign States men.—ls it then destiny or fatality that has brought about this most unaccountable and un called for change of opinion ? As for Britain voluntarily to surrender those hitherto highly valued principles without any even the shadow of equivalent ? indeed no equivalent could he found for sacrificing the Tutelary Deity of England— the very Report on the subject anticipates that the new untried theory, if adopted, may fail, 19 may be gathered from the, following words : " That notwithstanding your Committee are able to see no " serious objections to the adoption of the measure, yet feeling " it impossible to calculate with certainty all the bearings and " consequences of an alteration so:extensive in its operations, " they should offer it with more diffidence if they were not con " vinced that it is easily susceptible of modification, should " circumstances arise to render such modification essential to " the protection of any of the great tikjects which every cocoa " aeration of national safety and power imposes a duty of in " flexibly maintaining." If then there are so many doubts as to the ef ficacy of the measure, what has driven England to make this desperate experimental surrender of her national safety,that has hitherto imposed " a duty of inflexibly maintaining ?" Has negociation at Ghent or Vienna, or in any other part, CC obtained that which force could never extort ;" then what are the benefits that England is to receive for thi s dangerous innovation on her maritime system ? Has any thing been conceded in return from any one foreign power ? Has any one, either foreign merchant or broker, or any other person, made it manifest, by a clear substantial demonstration, w- what manner England is to benefit from the change of her policy ? Have the British Ship Owners and Seamen, and those depending ea them in the maritime districts, solicited by Fe' tition for the change ? No, on the contrary, they have petitioned strongly against it, as most irg politic and ruinous; but the foreign merchant and broker approve of it, and in consequence, the Legislature is requested to allow those conces sions to foreigners 64 to flow from the spontaneous " and liberal feelings of Britons," on this condi' tion, that should this measure be found inconsistent with the regard due to other objects, " it rrai " be subject to modification," or even,if necessary , " be absolutely revoked;" and on such approva l 7 and on such a recommendation, is Great Britain requested to abrogate the most vital laws in her Maritime Code—our ancestors, who lived under the dread of invasion and continental oppression? are gone off the stage, and have carried with thew the experience of which we, their sons, stand 5 ° , much in need, to make us earnest to preserve the blessing. It was the dread of invasion which gave rise to the Navigation Laws, which sinc e their enactment have been the bulwark of our liberties! And those who still advocate them have the guide of history, and the experience a centuries, confirmed by the sentiments of the wisest Statesmen, who have assisted in these enactments, and in maintaining their spirit Oa principle ; while those advocates of the nevi school have nothing to offer but uncertain prie' ciples, pregnant with mischief ; the flimsy foundv tion is vague visionary speculation and conjee' tural opinions, characteristic of the school from whence they flow. Having endeavoured to shel f the high importance of the laws which are about to be abrogated, and the high value set on their' by our ancestors, and likewise, that foreign Statesmen acknowledge the enviable pitch tbai' Great Britain had attained by their means, 90°1 therefore they, as enemies to us, sought by eve. r ' means to have them revoked ; having likewis e c read of the high estimation, even our pretee 4 Statesmen professed to entertain for them, an contrasting those professions with the measttref now under the consideration of the Legislature, am obliged to consider their conduct incornpre: hensible,in going beyond the system promulgat ed by Buonaparte, Talleyrand, Ifauterive, and D' Pradt, as their utmost vengeance and utmost , 1 efforts to cramp the resources of this country, 315; bring her into subjection. It having la w tl Y been considered That the country that possmes the dominion of th e ~dl " commands the commerce of the world lie who cetritaa'lld " the commerce of the world commands the wealth of the 71° ' ) ,,, " —and he that commands the wealth of the world may " said to command the world itself." Hoping you will excuse the length of this Letter, which nothing but the subject could Alf i : logize for, I shall conclude with quoting an 0,1- nion given on it by the late Earl of LlvEn?° ° the present Minister's venerable father : ;t ic " They cannot doubt my being zealous in their cause, for ;tic " the cause in which I have interested myself from the ear ~d " period of my life. By the measures which have been not " are now taken, it is evident that there are persons l'ih ° ! .. jos " daring to attack the Laws of Navigation and . the Y lall iad " Rights of the Country openly, are endeavouring to s. e sap re " undermine them, deceiving the ignorant, under vario,l9 : " tences. I wish that my infirmities did not prevent me a " affording the little assistance my talent might enable s nat " give, but my principles are manifest in what has sw`f o st " been published, and in the protest I bilve entered eg s w ill " many attempts of this nature, which one time or othe r „ f tr " always be seen by the public."—(raltaCi from the 107 10th March, 1807.—1 n Ty uE Stns, 12th MarchNAUCL 4q, LOURSE, OF EXCritiMiE, May 17, f, Ametetdarn .. . ft e c• Ditto, at Sight l9 5 Rotterdam 149 An!werp . l9 3 Hamburgh. Alt on a 37 7 =20., Paris,S Day's sight 95 SO 0 Ditto Bourdeaur, ditto Frankfcrton the Main .. . Madrid Cadiz Baca.. 3(4 El e ' Barcelona iev:ile Olbraltar Leghorn 4B ital. Lir. 97 60 Cirt 4,,,t ... 444---Venice, Malta ..... 45 -Naples 4oi r 0 1 ' P/Oerrno Llsbon Oporto RieJantivJ iltibiln ..,. 91. „. ~.. Cork - 91, r e: CeLat BULLION, Portugal Gold, in Coin Ls) o 0 Pli 00' Foreign (-1,. , 1d, iii Bars ..... 2 17 1 0 i New Doubloons ... New Dol!ars Silver M Bars, Standard 0 0 ° COAL-31ARKET, -- M - Ar -1 1. Ships at Market. Ships sold . Price' 3•I 13 Nto 4'e ‘J,I Newcastle _ . g 203 6,1 to 4 v i 3 Sunderland - - 1 • : - ~...5 Od 4 On the 16th inst., in Ch li an i tf l st i r;et, Cavendish -square' tl'e Lady of Henry E. Roberts, Esq., of a daughter. On Saturday morning last, at//antenant,--County of Lure' rick, the Lady of T. H. Royse, Esq. , of a scn and heir. MARRIED. orie' On the 13th inst., at Ratlifainh am Churc , D on ouDh 9 .. Esq., brother to Sir Edward O'Prian, Bart., to 1-A P l ' Ann Semple, of Terenure, County' of Dublin. DIF:D Of a nervous fever, on the 4th inst., at his residence, rr'°'' plemore House, Sir Arthur Carden, Bart. cola= lle kLi n.., r 0 On Sunday last, at Coston, near Buck - niinster , in the 73d year of his age, the Rev. Wm. Hervey , 11 - e `,; a v , of that place. He was nephew to the Rev. James no s 's Weston Favell, author of the " Meditations , " 6 ."-c• .),- SO at •••• Printed and Published for the PIIQPRIETOES, Qt,s - Tl,;.a, No. 112, Stza.7d, by J. B e CARITZAg• \,l r 7", i ern '4" ; rJr ;1 4 ,, 4t Pri ti c ; r. I,, pj ',117 for fur l te r ., kAi off }~ Q Tu~ ~' P