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merits. He should, however, wish to - make a few observations upon some general principles which pervaded the Honourable Member's statement; and in doing so, he should class the sub ject tinder three distinct heads. The first would embrace the :declaration of the Hon. Member, that a great saving would - • have been effected, if, during the war, the expences of the coun try had been raised by war taxes from year to year. This propo sition was not new to •Paeliament. By a resolution entered on their Journals in the year JBl2, it appeared that the principle was r rcognised. But-snch a system must have its limits ; and it ' Was doubtful whether it would have been applicable to the ex - irnied expenditure which was afterwards mated by the pro , • tracted war. It aas adopoxl after the peace of Amiens ; and he recurred to that with the more pleasure, on account of the Minister of that day—those.exertions were made by Mr. Ad ' -ditigton. To thiS part of the Hon. Member's propositions, lie ?Multi not in principle object. With regard to his opinions as -to tete use of-the 'Sinking Fund in time of war, which formed . e i'i'';'eecond head of the dbservations he intended to submit, the Member had adopted the conclusions of Dr. Hamilton. — But the general opinion of those most conversant with. the sub. ject by practice was, that upon the whole very material advan ' • twee was derived from the system which had been adopted. - With respect to the third part of the subject, that which related to the general conduct of the finances, he thought they should Jae better able to enter upon .that discussion when the Honour , • able Member was prepared to state the plan upon which he considered they ought to he conducted. In the meantime, there were a few observations which he was desirous of making upon this- head. The Honourable Gentle Man, in comparing the •charge of the debt since the end of the war, appeared to have lost sight of the saving which had been effected upon..the in terest of the unfunded debt. The interest at that time was three millions, whereas it now only amounted to one. (Mr. Hume intimated to the Right Hon. - Gentleman, that this re duction was accounted for in his 28th Resolution.)—The dimi , • mitibn in the unfunded debt was acknowledged, but not the diminution of the charge to the amount of two millions. The charge upon the funded debt was not materially diminished, but As he-had before stated, there was a reduction upon the charge of the unfunded, amounting to two millions. It must be ob vibus that this was the effect of the operation of the Sinking Fund for it was that which had raised the f unds to a state at which great financial measures had been accomplished with so much advantage. Dr. Hamilton, from. whom the lion. Cen tlereanhadtaftert some of his opinionsa'and who said that the operation of the Sinking Fund in time of war-was disadvantaa geous, said also that a surplus beyond expenditure could not be so beneficially 'applied - as to the reduction of debt. To the acquirement of such a surplus, all their efforts had been three , ted; and the five millions which had'. been So acquired, was • that which theflon. Gentleman now wished to take from them. The lion. Gentleman seemed to imply, that he had some means . of reducing debt withouta Sinking Fund. - But it appeared to him to be one of those inventions which were more easily airmnised than realized. The present system was sanctioned and supported by • tire best. practical authorities, and by the .common sense of the country. The Right lion. Gent. con eluded by moving ". That the further consideration of the Re • solutiOrt be adjourned to this day three months." • Mr. Glt ENFELIa complimented his Hon. Friend upon the able manner in which be had brought forward the subject ; but he differed with him as to the-propriety of taking away the inking Fund. With every respect for his opinion, he h..- .lieved the present system for the - reduction of debt was the .lest that could he adopted. But there was no part of his !lon. •• • Friend's statement in which lie - more entirely agreed, than that .- which related to the injurious operation of. the Sinking Fund in time of war. He held in his . hand a set of Resolutions, which ,he had the luinour to•submit to the House in 1819, shewingthe lass which had been sustained-upon the loans of the last four years. As he considered that this subject would be fully dis cussed at a fiiture opportunity, and as he considered that his Hon. Friend had brought it - forward merely to attract the no . lice of Parliament towards it, he should say nothing further upon the present occasion, •excepting.to repeat his thanks for the able manner in which it had heen brought forward. , Mr. HUME replied, and. the postponement to that day three months was carried without a division. , . `:IJA VERY. AT THE CAPE OF .000 D HOPE. Mr. WILBERFORCE rose to submit his motion for pre veeting the extension of the -Slave Trade in our Colonies in . Southern Africa. His last motion was on a similar subject a it was for an Address to his Majesty, to use his influence to ieta duce foreigners,. to prevent the continuance of this traffic: The . present mutton might be regarded as supplementary to that ; for while we 'called • upon other Powers tosuppress the trade in slaves, at was especially necessary that we should take mea sures for the prevention of it in our owniColonies. The_weight .of taxation, And other causes, would no doubt occasion a good .deal of emigration to - the wide territory which we had at the Cape of Good Hope ; and from all the information that he was in possession of, there was reason to - fear, that if Parliament (lid not interfere, there• would be a great slave colony in that searter. Now; ;whatever - might be the difference of opinion with regard to slavery already established, no man would 'wish to see it established anew in thoSe extensive dominions. Ori . ginally there were a.few settlers who had slaves ; and his oh ,Je,ct was.-not-so itittolf:to: put an .end to these, - as to ward the .settler:4 that they Were not to 'entertain any idea of using slaves.: ,It was, in short to pre-Vent The slave tradc -- frool extending ,1 e ft was trueathatad all the recent grants of land it had been a specific - , partition- that , they sboild. not be worked by slaves ; ,but such conditiona were apt to be lost sight of;. and this was. ;"'t , i)cciaily apt toba 'thtelise in a Colonyso remote, - so peopled, an 4 in which civilization was,so little advanced.-- 1. 1 nere_waslidSoa•difficalty in applying- the - Bill of Registry,. which had been: found so efficient in the West Indies. Ile. wished it to, be understood in thit'Coloof that liberty was tot:re the lean loci, and that slavery was to. be prevented 4, every possible Means. With regard to the original settlers he'thOug . ht it would be worth while for Government to.treat ithAlieni tor . the freed:nth bf" their -slaves. .With• 'regard-to t the -settlers, it would be objerved that the .clause of settlement affected only. '.slaves engaged. in the•cultivation of the soil, and. did not apply todomestic slairciy, which, both. with regard to the' slave and the ronster, waif . the most degrading and. demoralizing. It might liappea that the, proprietor of an estate, worked by slaves, was a:humane and liberal man, but this ..coulde not so well lie the case where the master and slave lived under the same roof.. The House ought to take measures, not only to prevent the spreading of slavery at the Cape, but gradually to approxi mate its total abolition. The circumstances of • that country, both with reapect to the countries on the land frontier, and the proxirnify of Madagascar, gave facilities for the introduc tion of slave •, both by land and sea ; and though humane and enlightened:Governors might do much to prevent the evil, yet it was necessary that some legislative measures- should take place. The lion. Member praised this coutitry as diffusing over the world light and Christianity ; and called the attention of the Moose to. the failing off that would be the result, if we were to allow our Colonists to establish anew the 'traffic in human ' flesh, - and he eulogised the efforts which had been made by the Governors of the 'Wands on the Indian Ocean, by those at the Cape, and by Sir 11. Lowe, at St. Helena, for -promoting the • liberty of mankind. He was happy to be enabled to state, that he had been given to understand by the Hon. • .Gentleman op ., locs4i.!, the Linder Secretary of the •Colonics, that it was in :coded to appoint Commissioners to go out to the Cape of Good . Hone, and to inquire into the state of civilization there, as well as into thestibiect of the importation of slaves anti the condi tion of the Colonies, and certainly never was inquiry more fle ecaaery. After a few observations more, relative to the situa tion of the Hottentots, and the propriety of relieving them from their present state, by the advantages of freedom .and the ope rati:in of moral and ,religious instruction, the Hun. Member concluded by moving the following Resolutions : " That this 'House has leas ned with great satisfaction that his Majesty's Government, with a just abhorrence of slavery and a ,poowideut dread of the evils which world result from its eaten eion, has made it a condition in the grants of land which it has restontly allotted within the new Settlements of the-Colony of tile Cape of Good Hope, that no slave labour should be em itloyed in their cultivation. " Alao,,,:tbat his Majesty has established a Registry of the awe Popalation. " That,: nevertheless, from the great extent of the.. Colony, f.pm its contiguity to countries whence slaves may, at no dis tact periOd'abe easily procured ; from the remoteness of many of the farOs that are scattered over its surface, and • from the .ttainness oflhe population, the due execution of all laws enacted for the goVernment of those countries, particularly those for preventingahe illicit extension of Slavery, must rendered arazeniely illfiicatit, more especially when self-interest shall (aotpt powerfully to the violation of them. '• That . the regulation, so justly introduced into the Colonial aerants, aPplies only to•predial slavery, whereas -domestic sla very, while it is in itself at lealtatiegreat an evil ; -wotild prove a strong wmptation to the needy and indolent to procure dmiges ftor their own use, and would operate with .a atillmore pernicitioi influence on the feelings and habits dfatlib new settler 4 !,t" That, as to the expediency of a Registry, the Troitsexan not but - fear that a Slave Registration fors° extensive a Colony, compplaing thousands of square miles, where the plantatiops as very thinly scattered, anti divided from each other by wiA . e tracts of a desert and unpeopled country, cannot be so conati tilted and regulated, as -materially to check, much less effe6: -wally to prevent, the fraudulent introduction of slaves, where facilities 'exist for such introduction. • " That it .cannot be necessary:for a British House .of Coin. mons, in addressing a Briti.shetiovereign4 . 'to enlarge on the evils ofalayery. It is.universaay acknowledged to be an insti tution essentiallyodioni in its nature, baneful in ; its moral and • -political effects, and more especially repugnant to the spirit -awl principles of our happy Constitution.. •• •" That the continuance of -the state where it already existi is s reconcilable.with those principles only-on the ground of cessity, and therefore to continue it in any country where its I present extent should be extremely small, and where the local circumstances should he such as to admit of its safe and con venient abrogation.. would scarcely be less reproachful than the original establishment of that state in a place where it had been previously imknoWn. " That, in firming neWnktlements on the African Continent, such conduct would bepre-eminently indefensible and mischiev ous, because the distinctions between.the European and colour-, ed nice:: of men must tend .o extinguish'. sympathy, while the existence of the abject and ignominious' state of e slavery would powerfully generate or maintain in the minds, both of the white Colonists and the colciared natives of neighbouring districts, feelings towards eachother- the reverse of those which we are bound, no less by sound policy than by every religious and mo ral consideration, to promote. Thus the growth of mutual good will and civilizetiOn must be materially obstructed, to the pre, vention of that secure and harmonious intertourse Isynchir nn ah a. portant commercial benefits might be obtained on theexare - side, and the inestimable advantages of civil, moral, and religious, improvements, on the other. Instead of such happy 'effects!of African colonization, dangerous animosities, mutual inintiese and inveterate border wars, might be expected as, the natural conseqeenceS of an instiuttion, which would degrade the native race and render them despicable e in the eyes of the new settlers, while it would afford to the needy and worthless means and temptations to inflict upon them the most cruel wrongs. " That the House also sees much reason to apprehend, that the time may come when the acts for abolishing the Slave-Trade may be widely and fatally contravened in the new settlements now forming in Africa, if slavery shall be permitted there as a state recognised by law. ' " That under such circumstances, no et:banal means can be devised for preventing abuses injurious to the best Interests of the settlers themselves, pernicious to the natives of Africa, and derogatory . to the honour of this country, but the extending, as far as possible, by a fundamental law, to the new African settle ments, the same just and liberal principles of colonization, with such exceptions only as the slaves actually in the colony may render necessary, which have been so honourably and :be neficially established at Sierra Leone. " That we cannot but feel that meny of the above considera tions derive peculiar force from the eflorts which this country has for some time been using to intiuo other nations to join with us in enforcing the abolition of tile', Slave Trade. That we should expese ourselves to iust and merited reproach, if. it could be truly alleged, that while we had been using those endeavours, we had been . violating one own principles by per. mitting the state of slavery to establish itself in regions where it lied - previously little or no existence: and more especially where a Slave Trade would almost inevitably.follow. " That we cannot but contemplate with pleasure the honour able and successful efforts which, under the paternal influence of his Majesty';l Government, aided by the liberal spirit of the • Masters, have been made in vations Brandt settlements for me liorating the condition of the slaves, and for ultimately putting an end to the state of: slavery. And that we cannot but hope that his Majesty's Government will seudiomsly avail itself of any . opportunittes it may possess of acting 'ht the spirit of these benignant precedents. • That we a'so beg leave humbly, but 'earnestly, to recorn mend the state of "the Ifottentots to his Majesty's benevolent care,—a race of men long misrepreeented and vilified, who, •. however, have since abundantly proved that any aloes used for their moral improvement would nat be employed in vain. " That we consider that the communication of Christian ine struction to the Slaves and Hottentots is a paramount act of duty, and the' more necessary, because efforts have been made, not without success, to . propagate among them the tenets anj • practices of nlahometamem. That no doubt can be entertain ed of-the happy result of those Christian endeavourS. Nor can we forbear to indulge the gratifying hopee that by the gradual diffusion of the blessings of civilization, end of moral and reli gious !cnowledge, throughout the coloured population, those . • degraded classes of our fellow-creatures may by degrees be raised from their present depressed condition, and be rendered not only useful members of the colonial community, but valun able subjects of the British Empire."' Mr. WIL3IOT stated, that the Address received his tine qualified assent. He did not think it necessary to occupy the attention of the House for any long time. He felt it his duty, however, to assure the Hon. Member, that any danger which he anticipated of the Cape becoming a great slave colony, was, altogether without foundation. It might be requisite to show how small the number, of slaves - was at present, there being no more than 564' males and 461 females. The House ought also to recollect that the districts in the viehiity.of the Cape were hot to he considered in the light of new colonies, but were attached to the old colony, and it was not easy to depart of once from all the tisanes and laws of that colony. He was ready at the same time to encourage the manumission of slaves, by allow inn an equivalent , but he could nano readily assent to a coin-' pulsory manumission. However deeply he lamented the.evils of slavery,. he could not approve of a sudden and general manumission, as it would be productive of no benefit to the parties so manumitted. The habits of the slaves were such, that they had-no means, when suddenly made free, of applying their natural energies to their own advantage. The evil was not of our creation, nor were we responsible for it, but its .safest remedy must be progresSive. The apprehension of a con traband introduction of slaves from the interior, he could as-' Sure the Honourable Member, was totally without any real ground. Il e had not lintrli of a single instance of the kind ; and as to smuggling than in by sea, it was indeed possible, but then there were so many natural impediments in the way asamouni edno a rational security against the attempt. He concurred in the opinion as to the necessity of giving moral and religious inatruction to the Hottentots, and the suggestion of the Hon. Manlier would be attended to by his Majesty's Government.— And as to the contraband introduction of slaves, it would he an instruction to the Commissioners to make inquiries respecting it. Mr. W. SMITH gave his cordial concurrence to the Address, but he could not assent to a principle which had been advanced more than once, stating the right of property in slaves. die ac knowledged indeed a right property in the labour of a man, but notin his person ; and the selling. such right oughts to be no bar to manumissions. Mr. MONEY gave his most earnest support to the motion. From personal knowledge he knew, that unless the Legislature interfered the extension of slavery would be the effect through out those regions comprehended within our territorial limits at the Cape of Good Elope. He trusted also that a reformation of the Courts of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope would speedily be effected, and instanced a case of dreadful barbarity, where a Negress with a large family of children, threatened with being sold to the Dutch boors, drowned her infants, and attempted to destroy herself, through the fear of such a sale, but-being:pre •vented was immediately tried 'before the Dutch Court, and Strangled the next day !—(llear, hear !) Dr. PHILLIMOKE sudporied the Address. With every disposition to respect the rights of the Dutch colonies, as Actu red o them by the capitulation, he still was of opinion, that in every other part of these extensive districts, liberty should be the law of the soil, and slavery the exception.--411ear, hear !) • Mr. BUXTON contended, that tinleso. immediate steps were taken in the extensive regions within the COlony to draw the. line, and prevent the extension of slavery, by declaring liberty the law of soil, this country, which had made such high pre. tensions, and reprehended other nations on account of the Slave Trade, would forfeit her justly-acquired character. ilo was convinced that this country 'would make any pecuniary sacri- Ike tn compensate the proprietors by the abolition of the Slave Trade. WILBERFORCE shortly replied. IL animadverted strongly on the horrors of domestic slavery, and felt it a positive duty in Great Britain to provide in those new Colonies against the extension of the evil. He adverted to the conduct of the American Government, in the annexation of the Missouri ter ritory to the Union—a tract of 16,000 miles, in which the exist ence of slavery was prohibited.. England was , botind to respect her own character in governing those extensive Colonies she.had ataptirztl, or was about to settle. What, he could fancy, must be the feelings of the future inhablitants of those regions, when. from a spare population they shall have founded cities, and towns, and villages, when they shall beconie the scats of justice because the seat of liberty--Lthe seats of science because the seat of liberty—the seat of a true and pure religion because the seat of liberty—when those effects shall have been accomplished, with what feelings would posterity revert to the debates of that House when discussing' their earlier settlement.—(Hear, hear!) The Address was then carried unanimously.. COM MISSIONERS TO THE MAURITIUS, CAPE. OF GOOD HOPE 'AND CEYLON. Mr. WILMOT rose to'rtiovenn Address to the Crown, re.- ' commending the appointin s ent of Commissioners to the Mauri tins, .Cape of Good Hope, and Ceylon. These Commissioners wonld.be•men of capacity and experience, well qualified to dis . charge the duties of the appointment. The object of their mission would be .to - inquire generally into the state of the re spective Civil Governments, into the number of offices, the amount of salaries, and Whether any diminution could be ef fected,•the state of the slave population, and how the Abolition laws were executed. They.would also have to inquire into the administration of the Courts of Law, the state of the cur rency; and in fact, the .teneral state and improvable re sources of the Colonies. Ile would add'also, that they would 'have to inquire into the existing abuses, and take effec tual means to prepare for the introduction of .the English lan guage. in the law . ijroceedinga .and • Courts of Justice. With respectto the Cape of Good Hope, the Noble Earl (Bathurst) it the bead of the Colonial Department, had not been inatten tive to the relbrril of the Colonial Courts, and in consequence beneficial changes had been already effected. It was not the Intention of that Noble Earl to fdi up the present vacancy in the office of Deputy-Secretary in that colony. With respect to the Mauritius, the dissensions that had so long existed be tween the population of that colony, and t ill-will that was :borne towards the Chief-Justice, made a cDar43sion absolute- t." ly necessary to investigate ti trattsactions of that colony. As to Ceylon an equal necesicy" did, not exist. Dispatches had been recently received fiorrt•the Governor, giving a most satis factory view of its impiVement, and of its resources being ade quate to defray the e,xpence of its civil establishments. The 'Eon. Secretary concluded with moving an Address .to the Throne to the above effect. Mr. WILBERFORCE applauded the object of these Com missions, and recommended that the Commissioners should be instructed to extend their inquiries into the state and disposition of the Negroes captured under the Abolition Laws. Lord NUGENT gave notice, that early next Session he would move for leave to bring in a Bill for the consideration of the laws of the Islands, and the prevention of the Planters from holding judicial offices. Mr. 11 UMI apeoyed of the motion, as tending to economy in the adinitii4ntion of the affairs of the Colonies, which had been heretofbre profuke and lavish. He was also anxious to have the Commission extended to Trinidad, knowing that such a Commission was carnestly,desired by the inhabitants of that Island; and'he concluded by moving an Amendment to the Address-to That effect. • mi:m:kititvAl"r entirely concurred in the.opinion of the - Honourable Member for / Aberdeen, and asserted that his own local knowledge confirmed the necessity of the addition to the Address proposed by that, Honourable Gentleman. Mr. GM:LAW RN defended the conduct of Government in continuing the system of Spanish Laws in Trinidad, and also defended the administration of Sir Ralph Woodford. Mr. T. WILSON replied to the observations of Mr. Goul burn. After a few words from Mr. BUTTEILWOUTII and Mr. NV. Smirrn, Mr. WILMOT requested Mr. Hume to withdraw his Amendment. Mr. HUMS said, he felt it necessary to press his Amend ment, unless Gentlemen would agree to adjourn the discussion to this day. The discussion was then adjourned to this day. The other ()niers of the Day were disposed of, and the House Adjourned at a quarter past Two o'CLocK. LIST OF THE MINORITY WHO VOTED AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF I'HE LOT TERY BILL, ON THE 24TH JULY. Caleraft, John Morland, Sir S. B Smith, Win. Colborne, N. R. Palmer, C. F. Crompton, S. Rice, T. S. TELLERS. Evans, W. Rubinson, Sir G. Home, J. Lamb, Hon. G. Smith, J. Mona, J. IL CITY, TIIUR.D tY EN t LNG. A French :Mail arrived this morning, but bring* no later in telligence from Madrid than what has already been communi cated to the public by The lforning Chronicle. From Barce lona the letters are dated the 13th inst. These letters paint in the strongest-colours the injury done to the neighbourhood by the conduct of the extra Royal Ultra Legitimates. They. state that these worshippers of the present system of Europe commit the greatest enormities; that they interrupt entirely the commu nication with the neighbourhood, and that under the cloak of re ligion they commit the most abominable robberies: The inha bitants of Barcelona, who are generally the friends of liberal sentiments, however view them as banditti : and it is to be hoped that the late events at:Madrid may teach them the use ful lesson that liberty of action and freedom of opinion are too Well established in Europe, to admit the slightest chance of Priests and Tyrants circumventing them. Not the smallest doubt was entertained at Barcelona on the 13th instant of the triumph of the Spanish Constitution ;, but they complained that in the mean time they were deprived of their property, and, that their intercourse with the neighbourhood was interrupted by men who were prepared to commit every crime, and who, on this occasion, assumed the mask of legitimacy anti religion. The letters rom Odessa are dated' on the 28th of June. They communicate no public news. The army of the Sub lime Disposer of Empires and of Crowns maintained the Provinces, and the soldiers of the CZAR of Muscovy re mained inactive. There is a report that the: magnanimous, but pacific, ALEXANDER, has been graciously pleased to re commend a suspension of hostilities for three months betwixt the Greeks and then.. oppressors. The friends of real liberty, in England, have, however, too much reliance on the jus tice and glory of the. cause of the sons of, the illustrious Greeks, to hope that they will again submit their claims to the arbitration of the Russian Government, for they have been twice deceived already in their hopes of emancipation from the bitterest yoke that humanity .ever suffered. The history of the . ancient world records the .constancy and the magnanimity. of the Greeks under the most difficult circumstances, and there is no cause at *sent to doubt that those who inherit their illustri ous names will not emulate-their glory., If the Christian em pires and kingPilaus of Europe will not interfere, if they will permit-Greek to meet Turk and stake the reward on the issue, _then, in a few years, will a mighty empire of Christians and of. 'Freemen arise in the East who will be worthy of the friendship of England, and will, by,the cultivation of commerce and of the arts, become her most valuable Ally. From Trieste the letters are datfd on the 10th July. In 1820 the Austrian Government wished to supply their subjects di-. rect from Canton with the general articles of commerce betwixt China anti Europe. They envied the profits of the merchant, and resolved to apply them to the exigencies of the empire. They dispatched the frigate Caroline to Canton, which has just returned from her voyage. She had taken out %Ir. Waves as Austrian Consul General at Canton. lie returned however to Europe with the Caroline, finding that he could not promote the interest of his toaster in the dominions of the celestial empire. The home cargo of the Caroline consisted of 327,900 pieces of nankeens, part short and part long, about 400 boxes of sugar, and a quantity of silk and of other manufactures. The voyage sinks a very heavy . sum of money, and will teach the Austrian Government that it is easier to rule empires than markets. A vessel has arrived at Liverpool, which spoke, on the 7th Tune, a small squadron off the Havannah, consisting of two frigates and two brigs el' war. They were standing to the west ward, and inforMed the English vessel that they were half Ame rican and half French, bound to cruizeoff Cape Antonio against die Pirates. The merchants of London would have had more confidence had a British squadron been spoken with, for the commerce of the Empire requires 'Protection in those seas, either from British suns aud seams, or from civil offieers duly autho rized to reclaim property. which may have been improperly cap tured and carried into the new Statesof South America. A com mander of an English merchant ship is extremely intelligent at sea, but iu port he generally requires the assistance of an autho rized agent, should any difficulty occur to him ; and the com merce of the British Empire daily exhibits the great detriment which it suffers from the want of Ambassadors in the New States, who would claim, and would obtain, justice where im proper detentions had occurred. No deference. to the iloly Al liance should induce England to refuse the reco,gnition of the hSonth American - States immediately, for it must be done before many years or even months pass. • A gr: - :at deal has been said latterly in time house of Commons about the gross abuSe -of consulates. A merchant desires to know what has become of time money paid by British ships to the British fitetOry at Oporto, in the name of contributions ? The amount 'collected Mast be immense, fur every vessel which arrives there with British manufactured articles pays towards this factory Li per cent. on the. amount of the freight ; for all grain and coals she. pays 9d. a ton, and for salt provisions, spirits,. lead, iron, &c. is. rid. a ion. No account is ever ren dered of these impaiitions on British shipping, and it might be worth Mr. Home's while to examine the.accounts of the British factory at Oporto during the list 20'years,'and more particularly their balances when Jilt NOT expelled them froth that kingdom. This is a holiday at the Bank anti the Stock Exchange. Very little is doing in the British Funds ; Cousols fur money to-mor row: are 7.9 i, and for the account of August ItO. The Foreign Securities are again in most cases dearer. French Rentes arc noted at 92, and they have been done at 92.23. Prussian Old llords are 881 89, and the New 83j, being rather lower titan yes. to day. Colombian ;londs arc dearer, and daily gain credit; this day's price is 84,4.. Spanish Securities are also higher. The Old Bonds are 03, and the New file Liberty in a nation always adds value to its engagements. Danish Bonds continue at 87. Neapolitan have advanced to 72. Russian Metallic Fives are 78, and Mr. ROTHSCHILD'S 'New Russian Loan is evidently dearer, khaving been done at 82. Austrian Metallic Fives are 78, and Chili 79} t. There was a large sale of Coffee this day, amounting to front 8 to 900 lihds. ; pries for good, middling, and ordinary, are Is. a. 2 s. lower. St. Domingo sold at 106 s. a 1075., being also a shade cheaper.—(Morning Chronicle.) SUDDEN DE.4lll.—On Tuesday night Mr. Bitoosnoorr, Clerk of the Day Rules to the King's Bench Prison, retired to bed in full health, but in less than an hour awoke with a violent pain in his head, and jumping up in bed exclaimed, " Good Goo ! what's that i" Medical assistance was immediately obtained, when it was discovered that he was seized with apoplexy. The usual means were adopted, but he survived the attack only two hours. Mr. Baoosnoorr was highly esteemed by all who knew him ; he had been connected w i t h th e Bench for 32 years. His re mains, we understand, will be rotiveyed to the grave by six of the Rulers. COURT OF CHANCERY. Major-General KNIGHT KNIGHT, an 'lnfant.—A Bill to perpetaate Testimony in proof of . the illegitimacy of the . Defendant:' TO THE EDITOit OF THE SUN. Six—The proceedings in this Cause, which have been so dis tressing to me and my family, being now closed, and having put all the testimony, at present within my reach, in proof of the il legitimacy of the Defendant, upon record in this Court, I shall esteem it a favour if you will insert in your Journal the follow ing brief statement of facts. I am, Sir, your obedient humble Servant, It..KNIGHT.. Grosvenor-square, 25th July, 1822. Mr. Knight married ii 17W1 Frances Dormer, one of the sisters of the present Lord Dormer, and had issue one son, since deceased, and two daughters now living. In 1804 Mr. and Mrs. Knight, after having lived happily together for up wards of 12 years, separated in conseiittence_of her misconduc with ,General Fuller, and they have lived separate and apart ever since. A deed of separation,wai executed between them and her trustee, whereby Mr. Knight agreed ,to' her NM per annum; and to return to her the Whole of her fortune. This deed contained a stipulation, the effect of which was to reduce that COOL to 4001. in case_ she should after war4s keep up any intercourse with General Fuller. Mr.. Knight soon after acquired information which removed all doubt from his mind that a criminal; connexion had taken place between them, and that the intercourse was continued in violation of the deed. Mr. Knight reduced her allowance ac cordingly. Mrs. Knight's trustee then commenced an action ao:ainst Mr. Knight for the larger sum, when he proved, by his witnesses on the trial, the previous adultery, acrd subsequent in tercourse with. General Fuller, and obtained a verdict, that confirmed the reduction ailich he had made. The Chief Jus tice observed, in summing up the evidence, that Mr. Knight had proved his case in a very strong way indeed, and that if the witnesses had sworn falsely, there was no reason to prevent General Fuller (who was said to be in Court) from standing up to say that he never had committed adul terY with Mrs. Knight.' But notwithstanding this sugges ti4n from the Learned Judge, the General sat in Court during lhe whole trial, without saying one word in contradiction to the evidence which not only destroyed the character of Mrs. Knight, but deprived her at the same time of one half of her maintenance. And the conduct of the Gallant General appear ed the more extraordinary, inasmuch as he had, previous to the trial, in a printed declaration, in the form of an oath, signed with his name, called °op to witness that he never had had any criminal intercourse with this unfortunate woman. Mrs. Knight, in thebeginning of the year 1813, became acquaint ed with Henry Lord Middleton, and was constantly in' his com pany during the first months of that year, and although Mr. Knight failed, in an action against the Noble Lord, to p!ove'thelast act of criminality, yet the grossestJtets.of familiarity were given in evidence against his Lordship. And Mrs. Knight becoming pregnant, left her residence near Warwick, end withdrew to a lodging in London where; having assumed the name of Jordan, ithe was_delivered. of the child in question, on the 7th October, 1813, and was attended during her confinement by one Ann 'Walton, the wife of a stonemason, and tenant to Lord Middle ton, at Wolloton. The woman who acted as nursery-maid to the child has sworn that, whilst she was in such service, an elderly gentleman, who was represented to her as the child's uncle; came frequently to visit him—and that he was in the house where the child resided, during the christening, which took place on the 21st May, 1814. • Another witness alsO, who has been examined in this cause, has sworn that she was present at the christening, but went into the adjoining room before the child was named, where she found Lord Middleton, who told her it was a bad business, but that they must make the best of it, and that the child was to be named Henry. And when the ceremony was over, the child was brought in and introduced to his Lordship. The child was afterwards registered in Marylebone church, in the name of Knight, and the clerk of the parish has sworn that he recognized Lord Middleton at the church, in the act of taking an extract of the entry from the hook of births and baptisms. And possibly the Nobl6 Lord, who appears to have taken so active a part in these transactions, would kindly assist the plain tiffs in their endeavours to discover the author of a letter con taining the following words : " Do not be in a hurry about the Christening, but when it does take place, give hire the name of Henry—:at all events he must have the name of Knight. Iwould not put the object out of the way of any chance hereafter for his advantage,— Young T., son to the old rascal, in 4 be of use to prove his birth at some future period." And perhaps the Noble Lord might also be able to state the name of the Solicitor, who is understood to he the medium of remittances for the support of the child, as well as the name of the person from whom these remittances are derived ; also the name:of the person who performed the office of godfather. The plaintiffs are naturally anxious to have the benefit of the testi_ mow of these persons, in the further proceedings which they arc advised to institute against the author andcontriver of this atrocious plot - to defraud. :Mr. Knight's family of their law. ful inheritance,. by setting up the defendant as heir to his settled estates. • • PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. 110L'SE or COMMONS. Jovis, 25° die Jrrlii , 1 59.2. H icHGATECHAPEL B LL-4'etitions_of Inhabitants of High: gate and Finchley, against; referred to the, Committee on the Bill Counsel ordered. ORPHANS' FUND BILL Read a third time, (IRELAND) BILL 5 and passed. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS—That they have agreed UN Court of Exchequer Sittings Bill, Exchequer Bills Public Works Bill, Salt Duties Repeal 1311I, 4 Temporary Advance s (friend) Bill, and London Bridge aterworks Bill, with out amendment. ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY. 1. Stamp Duties Reduction (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 2. Smuggling Prevention Bill—Further consideration of Be' port. 3. Mlles Leasing (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading. 4. Superannuation Act Amendment Bill—Report. 5. Appropriation Bill—Committee. G. Barrilla Duties Bill—Second Reading. 7• Exchequer Bills Bill—Second Reading. 8. Brimstone Drawback Bill—Report. 9. Alilitia Pay Bill—Committee. It/. Militia Pay (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 11. Isle of-Mann Postage Bill—Third Reading. 12. Barrack Estates Bill-L-Third Reading. 13. Commercial Credit (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading. 14. Canada Trade Bill—Third Reading. 15. East India Sugar Bill—Report. it;. Colonial Commission • of Inquiry,—Address—Adjourat 4 Debate. 17. Greenland PisherieS Bill—Third Reading. 13. Spirits Exportation (Scotland) Bill,—Report. 19. Stamp Duties Bill—Committee. 20. Deeds Registry (Ireland) Bill—Committee. UNIVEroIfTY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JiJ t. v 25.—A Grace having passed the Senate to the following effect :—" That those to whom the Sunday afternoon turns, and the turns for Christmas D a y a nd G oo d Friday are assigned, shall, from the beginning of October 1822, to the end Of Allay 1823, provide no other substitute than such as should be appointed in conformity with that (pace :" The following persons have been elected, each for the month to which his name is affixed :- 11;22, October . The Hulsean Lecturer. November . Rev. J. Lonsdale, • December . Rev. 'l'. Chevalier, co'. 1823; January . Rev. T. Shelford, C. C. C. February , The Lord Bishop of Peterborough, . Lady Margaret's Professor. Mardi . . . \Rev.' 0. Skinner, Jes.' April • • The Hulsean Lecturer. Alai/ . . . On Friday last, John IL Hall, Esq. L.L.B. was admitted into the fetoWship at Trinity Hall, vacated by the marriage of 0. Bankei . Esq. M.P. The Lord Bishop of Norwich will hold his next general or dination, in ?he Cathedral, on Sunday the 22d of September. AERIAL ASUENT.—(MR. LI VINGSTON).-The public anxiety was never more raised than on yesterday, to witness the expected ascent of this gentleman. The feeling was not that of mere curiosity—it arose out of those recollections which ‘vere connected with the intrepid and generous efforts so recently made by Mr, Livingston, in behalf of the famishing poor of the South of Ire land. The ascent will take place at one o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday), when it is Mr. Living ston's determination to attempt the crossing of the Chatittei.--(Dublin Morning Post, July 23.) We have received the Pads Papers of Tues day. They are almost entirely filled with t he discussions in the Chamber of Deputies o n the various branches of the Budget, which conti nue to be marked by the usual degree of intenltie r ' ance arid angry feeling. According to intelligence from Nuremberg O d Aix-la-Chapelle, the most profound silence O n, tinues to be observed at Petersburgll and Viet° on the state of the negociations with the Por te ' but private letters from Constantinople refir e ' the sent the arrogance of the Divan a s carr i e d to utmost excess. In private interviews w itb t he Ministers of England and Austria, the Rel y ' Effendi always promises the evacuation of t he two Principalities, and expresses his desire t-f'st peace between the two Empires should be p re. served ; but in public the Turkish Miuister f affects to hold a different language., and talks o f o declaring war against the Muscovit e s, an d . completing the extermination of the Greu ) These threats please the people of Constantir s ple, the Janissaries, and the numerous tro t) ? collected around the capital. i ber The French Journals supply us with no far' intelligence from the Spanish capital, but Ma dri. Papers to the .14th instant have arrived, and re present that capital as perfectly quiet. Ati j !' dajos, at Salamanca, at Alicant, at Avila, an d I a#,l the great towns of Spain wherever the re %,oit of the guards had been heard, the municipa l -;ties 5 or authorities had assembled to take meatai re for supporting the Constitution, and had bee l , 1 nobly seconded by the zeal of the *opt(' the good spirit of the troops. Numerous sd , dresses from provinces, towns, and regiment'' haw been received by the Permanent Deputati°9 Asi a Of the Cortes, full of indignation at the con" — the rebellious guards and of resolutions W irl3ll" The tain the Constitution through all poll s ' Duke DEL INFANTADO has published a letter one of the Madrid Journals, denying the sato", , the tiOn alleged againSt him, that on the night 7th instant he had excited a group of pea ti ts t ° had ging - sedition by shouting " Lire the abso PRICE a Tills DAY AT F STOCKS ONI 0-CLOCK. Bank Stock 248 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. BOl 31 per Cent 911 per Cent. { °ld —9Ba 9 9 id New...9Bg 991 i 5 'per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann 2O/ Imp. 3 per Cents. 794 80 lndi.!l Stock . lndia Bonds.. South Sca Stock Ohl Annuities , Ex. Bills Ditto Small Bank for Cons. Act India forr on. Acct....... Cons. for Account 80iik 4 7 Pr' PRICE of FOREIGN STO :;KS IN LONDON, JULY 2 6 0 ii 7 c LUCK. French AT ONE Five per Ctnts. 1. Five per Cent. Bonds, 88i. Ditto New, 86. Old Bonds, 1024. Six per Cent. Bonds, 84i. ( DigdScrip, 00. 5 Five per Cent. Bonds, 63i t. New Ditto, 624. Five per Cent. Bonds, 864 7 Five per Cent. Bonds, 72i. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 73. {Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 78. Ditto New 00. (Bank Shares 00. Seven per Cent. 00.. -I Three per Cents. 00. I Five per Cent. Loan, 1820, 00. l.Five per Cent. Loan, 1821, 00. 79 i• 81k82. Prussian Colombian Spanish Danish Neapolitan Austrian Russian American Chili Russian • , PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, JULY 23. Bank Stock 2 1 Ditto 6 per cent. VI ° ' Stock 31 per et NJ DittoSt oc k ..........- Goy, Deb. 4 per cent. floy. Deb. 3, 1 , per cent.... 9 1 .:, Royal Canal Stock ......... , Coy. Deb. 5 per cent. —Stock, 5 per cent. 4 al Do. Deb. with Goy. Sec..- Treasury Bills, 5 per cent — Pipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. --"" City Debentures, 5 per Do. - cent. Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. Exchanga on Lon, 5 per cent. ton, July 21, 81a dratl WATER AT LOSDO: -11ornin4, 14; mintlte3 after 7. I BRIDGE TO-3IOBRMC' Evening, 20 thinutes after THE SUN. S01.1:11 I.IUIS DICERE FALSUM 4UD.C.41 LONDON, FRID.,II JULY ‘26, 18(212.