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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21 ROYAL ASSENT. At about half-past three o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR, The Duke of MONTROSE, and the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, ap peared as his Majesty's Commissioners, and brought the Royal assent to the Aliens and Denizens, the Annual Indemnity, the Land Tax Commissioners' Names, the Army Mutiny, and the I.l.(trine Mutiny Bills. .COunsel were heard and witnesses examined on the Divorce Case of Doyle v. Doyle, and on the motion of the LORD CHAN CELLOR the evidence was ordered to he printed. MA LT DUTY. )Ir. BROODEM and others brought up from the Commons the Malt Duty Repeal Bill, which was read a first time. KENYON moved that a Committee be appointed to consider of the present mode of collecting Church Briefs.— AiFeed to. .i:he Norfolk Gaol,Bill was read a second time. Lotd AUCKLAND presented the Report of the Committee on the Durham Paving and Lighting Bill with an amendment, and moved that it be recommitted, which was agreed to after a few words from Lord Redesdale. MR. BUTT. Earl GREY presented a Petition from Richard Gaythorne Eutt, stating that he had brought two actions for false impri sornent against Magistrates, had been unsuccessful in both, and had now been confined 22 months in gaol for the expenses, in Onsequence of which he prayed for relief.—Read, and laid vri the , table.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. At half-past three o'clock the Usher of the Black Rod sum. monad the House to the House of Peers. On their return, The SPEAKER informed the House that the Royal Aisent had been given by Commission to a number of public and pri vate Bills, for which, see our Report of the proceedings in the licrase of Lords. MARRIAGE CEREMONY. Sir W. LEMON presented a Petition from certain Unita -rian Dissenters, resident in Falmouth, praying that their case might be taken into serious consideration, and that their reli gious feelings might not be hurt in that most important of all social contracts, the Marriage Ceremony.—Ordered to lie on . - the table. RECEIVERS GENERAL. On the motion of AIL LUSHINGTON, the Committee on the Receivers General Bill was postponed to to-morrow. BREAD. • Mr. CAI:VERT gave notice, that on Friday the 29th inst. he - would move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the Sale of Bread in the Metropolis, and within the Bills of Mortality. Lord W. BENT NCR presented a Petition from certain Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Nottingham, complaining of Agricultural distress.—Referred to the Com mittee on the subject. The Irish Fever Hospital Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. IRISH FIVE PER CENTS. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Committee on the Irish Five per Cents. The Resolutions were agreed to, and a Bill was ordered accordingly. REPORT OF SUPPLY. I Mr. BROODEN brought up the Report of the Committee •of Supply of Monday. The Resolution, respecting the grant for the payment of the dissenters from the proposal for reducing the five per cents. was read and agreed to ; and a Bill was or dared accordingly. Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held for the dis patch of miscellaneous business. Mr. FAVELL rose upon a question of privilege, which at tached, in a very serious manner, to an Honourable Baronet of no small size or fame. In stating the case to the Court, he (Mr. Favell) should " nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice." The duty of the Court was to take care of the property and the character of the citizens, and they had, in the performance of that duty, beers often insulted by the tools of corruption. But it was reserved for the Hon. Baronet, on the Ist of March, to calumniate, according to the public jour nals, that Court and a Committee of it, in presenting a Peti tion to the Houk of Commons. The Hon. Baronet seemed to wish to meet the question openly. He had consulted The Morning Chronicle, The Times, and The Morning Post, as to Alderman Wood's presenting the Petition for inquiring into the affray at Knightsbridge, but that inquiry was stifled ; and on that occasion the lion. Baronet was made to say that the Sheriff had better been at home, and that the Court of Com mon Council was always interfering and meddling with ques tions into which they had no right to inquire, and which were far above their wisdom and energy.—(llear, hear !)—He was compelled to complain of such expressions upon the part of the Hon. Baronet as applied to the Court. Foreigners might think them nothing better than swindlers. The Hon. Baronet had also charged the Committee of that Court with having no right to enter into an inquiry, as to an attempt on the life of the late Sheriff: It behoved the Hon. Baronet, as senior Alderman, to explain this conduct to the Court. Mr. JAMES said, he felt at a loss to know what the motion before the Coutt was. Mr. FAVELL had a motion to make, but not if the Hon. Baronet could show that the reporters were wrong, or disavowed the words imputed to him. Alderman C. SMITH thought the matter irregular. Mr. OLDHAM said, that it' the Hon. Baronet chose to give any explanation then, it would not he irregular. Alderman WAITILMAN said, the only irregularity was in debating a thing before it was moved. Sir WILLIAM CURT Ls avowed the greatest part of what the Worthy Member had stated, but he could not go to the full length of the statement. He did not attempt to show the folly of bringing such questions betbre the House of Commons. Let any man examine that evidence, and then say if it was not a disgrace to the Court ? Was it a breach of privilege, or had he not the freedom of speech as well as the Hon. Member ? No man should shut his mouth or fetter his tongue. Let any man look at the acts and language of that Court for the last ten years, and say whether they did not libel the City of Lon don ? Read their Address to the Crown, and it ought to make them tremble and ashamed of themselves. The Court had dis graced itself by being led by demagogues.—(Cries of Order, order !)--He would not be called to order for speaking his sen timents. The sentiments attributed to him in the newspapers were his sentiments, though his words were altered. His wish was, to uphold. the honour of the Court, but many Members disgraced themselves by not speaking or thinking for them selves. Let the matter be worded as strongly against him as it could be—he cared not. Mr. FAvett.r. said, the Hon. Bart. had, in the House of Com nions, denied the right of that Court to inquire into the subject, Mr. HUME wished to know whether it was intended to and he now came boldly to revile and censure their proceed keep up the Office of Commissioner at Malta ? ings. There was a time when the Court supported every Mi- Sir B. MARTIN assured the House that the salaries of that nisterial measure, but now the Ministers were obliged to aban . Department were too small for its duties. don the system which it was the distinguished honour of Sir I. COFFIN thought that the appointment of Commis- the Court to have condemned for the last four years; but the sioners abroad was a means of saving thousands upon thousands Hon. Bart. thinks the honour of the Court its disgrace.—(Hear, ..•to the country, as they prevented fraud and abuses. hear !)—lt never was the intention of the Court to treat the Sir G. COCKS RN concurred fully in the force and just- King with disrespect, but to remind him that his Ministers neas of this observation. were actin,* in a manner inconsistent with the spirit of the Con- The Resolution was agreed . to ; as were several others, with- stitution. He complained that when the Hon. Bart. seconded out any opposition. the motion for inquiry in the House of Commons, lie should Upon the Resolution for granting 600,0001. for the Preven- take that opportunity to impugn their proceedings. This, no tive Service, doubt, might be the best road to Ministerial favour at present ; Mr. HUME said, that of this sum there was altogether a but if a change of Administration should take place, the Hon. . charge of 80,0001. for the coast blockade. He complained that Bart. might then see things in a very different light.—(Hear ! these accounts should be merged altogether in the Navy Esti- and a laugh.)—The Hon. Member then moved a Vote of Cen mates. They ought to form distinct heads of expenditure.— sure on Sir Wm. Curtis. The Hon. Member proceeded to complain of the employment Mr. PATTEN declared that, as a Member of the Coln of admirals at the principal ports, instead of rear-admirals. If mittee, whose proceedings had been so unwarrantably censured ' 1 the latter were employed instead of the former, . there would be by the Honourable Baronet, he must say, nothing could be a saving to the country of hear two-thirds of their salaries and more impartial than their whole conduct; and although the allowances. He hoped, that in the next Session there would Members were of very different political opinions, yet they all be presented an account of the number of persons so paid by this agreed in the Report. vote, separating the expences of the marines. He repeated his Alderman WAIT Haw; said, he had abstained from giving former objections to the keeping up of 7 generals of marines ; evidence before the Committee, although the whole matter but, if they must be kept up, they ought to be provided for had passed before his eyes; yet he was willing that the Re in a different manner, and not left as. the holders of sinecure port should stand on the evidence of others. When a sub offices. The Hon. Member went on to complain that the ma- ject was referred to a Committee, and they made a Re rines were most dreadfully neglected. They had not the same port on it, it was a serious matter to question that Report, chance of promotion which was given to naval and military especially the motives of the Committee. How should officers; besides, they were obliged to undergo a longer pe- any Member of that Committee, after neglecting his duty riod of service before they ascended in rank. It appear- by not attending its meetings, and after allowing the Re ed, that - from the 4th of .June, 1814, to 1820, the promo- port to receive the approbation of the Court, without mak . tions in the marines were as follows :—Nine second lieu- ing a single observation, dare to assert respecting it, in tenants to .be first lieutenants ; nine first lieutenants to he another place, what was not substantially true ?—(Hear, • captains.; eight captains to he majors ; seven majors to be hear !)--The worthy Alderman has been a Member of the Lieutenant-Colonels; four Lieutenant-Colonels to he Colonels. Court for 36 years, and now says they are factious—he almost All of these had served in the American war, and had been said treasonable; that they are Jesuits, and demagogues.—(Sir forty years•in the service. Even at the Coronation the Officers William Curtis here said he only spoke figuratively.)—.Of eof Marines had not received their fair share of promotion. But some, he says, he has a better opinion ; but even them he treats the injustice exercised towards Marine Officers did not stop as fools, who resign the exercise of their understanding to their here ; it descended to their widows and children. The child factious brethren. The Hon. Bart. assumes to himself the pos of a Field Officer is the army was, after his death, allowed 301. session of transcendent talents and wisdom. How happens it . a-year, while in the Marines it was no ,more than 101. There that the can only exert those great qualities in the house of had not been mere than 43 promotions in the Marines within Commons ; and when he comes before the Court, they appear the last six years. After the battle of Trafalgar, one Marine to utterly forsake him. Ile (Mr. W.) did not mean to attribute -Officer had been promoted, and only two after the battle of bad motives to any individual ; but if the Hon. Baronet had so e Algiers. The Hon. Member then made the following state- much wisdom and honour, they should have been discovered in snent of the number of Officers promoted in the,Nay.y from the thirty-six years.—(Bear.)—lle was sorry to be obliged to men eyear,lBl6 t 0.1821, both years inclusive, and the amount of tion another matter in the absence of the Gentleman to whom 13,462 13 10 796 10 0 667 0 7 1,177 9 6 1,179 11 10 1,771 0 6 Total I X 25,3521203,157210,7451202,671 13 9118,387 5 3 --The expence in 1822 was 177,3191. 13s. 9d. more than in 1792, and was only 4851. 6s. 3d. less in 1822 than in 1813, when we had thousands of pendants flying.--(Hear, hear !) Why, he asked, should Commissioners and Clerks receive salaries new as high as any enjoyed by them when they had the income tax to pay ? lie must once again enter his protest .against our keeping up such large and expensive establish ments. He found he had been censured by many for the course which he had adopted with respect to this branch of our expendi ture ;-at least so he judged from several communications which had reached him, complaining that he proposed too great a reduction of that great national force, our Navy. To this he -hould answer, that it had never been his intention to reduce the power of OUT Navy. What he aimed at was, the reduc tion of a dead and unnecessary expenditure which oppressed • the country. The Resolution was then put and agreed to. Upon the' Resolution for granting a certain sum for Foreign Yards, CUSTOMS BENEVOLENT FUND. colonel iIAYIE§ - i - nWeii for an Account of Money received 'by the Secretary of the Customs Annuity and Benevolent Fund, for Poundage on Officers' Salaries, for Assurance of Officers' Lives, for Copies of Bills of Entry, for Copies of the Reports -of Ships cleared inwards and outwards, and from all other sources applicable to the same fund. After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the EX • CHEQUER, the motion was agreed to. NAVY ESTIMATES. - - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the - Order of the Day for bringing up the Report of the Committee of Supply of the Ifit of March, on the Navy. Estimates. The Report was brought up, and after a few words from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Croker, and Mr. Hume, •-several of the Resolutions were agreed to. Upon the Resolution for granting a sum not exceding 212. C/11. 13s. 9d. fur the expence of the Dock-yards and salaries of vhcers, Mr. H EiME said he had on a former evening called the atten tion of the House to this head of expenditure, and had shewn the increased expenditure which had taken place compared with the years 1792 and 1813. Upon that occasion he found that he had fallen into a mistake of 138,0001., the expence of the Naval Academy. having been included in the accounts of one year and not in the other. The expences of the different dock-yards ►ere as follow : 1792. 1813. 1821. 1622. Difference between 1821 &1822. Deptford Woolwich (latham Sheerness Portxmouth Plymouth £3,588 4,058 , 4,200 2,434 6,126 4,946, 26,710 30,411 33,241 23,870 45,265 43,660 28,732 22,802 35,438 24,078 45,183 43,512 25,269 6 2 29,005 10 0 34,760 19 5 22,890 10 6 48,003 8 2 42,741 19 6 Half-pay paid to those Officers, and to be paid up to Decem ber, _ , Officers Amount of Half-pay Amount of Half-pay to promoted. in one year. December, 1822. :n 11116 142 £16,169 10 0 for 6'.- years £105,101 15 0 1817 72 8,818 10 0 5 -- 54,001 15 0 1818 103 12,473 17 6 41 -- 56,132 8 9 1819 167 49,986 15 0 3; -- 174,954 2 6 1820 77 8,413 5 0 2; -- 21,033 2 6 1821 236 46,537 10 0 -1 : 6),806 5 0 2 Total... 7 7 ) , 1 making,sincei ,- P4Bl 029 8 9 in 1 year.-14. j- £143,399 7 " I the Peace. ) ' ' Here was an expence of near half a million incurred to the country. Ile thought that when the Marines looked to the pa tronage extended to the Army, they had good reason to coin plain. Be said, without meaning to give offence in any quar ter, that if the appoinrmmts of the seven Generals of Marines must be continued, it would be better to leave them open to the Officers of Marines. Sir G. COCKBURN thought, that after all the protection which the navy afforded to the commerce of the country, it would be too much to say that the persons who performed that service should be totally thrown aside in time of peace. Of more than 200 Admirals and Vice-admirals, &c. now on the list, not more were employed. than when we had only 30 or 40, and they had no less than 190 vessels of different descriptions. The Gal lant Officer proceeded to defend several of the other points which had been attacked by the Honourable Member for Aberdeen. It had pleased his Majesty to appoint him Major-General of the Marines, a situation in which lie felt proud ; he had served for 20 years with those brave men ; he had fought with them—he saw them, in:moments of difficulty and of danger, act in a way to draw down the applause of the regular army. Ile felt pleasure now, after their toils were over, to mix amongst them, to recog nise his old comrades, and to be hailed by them as their Gene ral. The feelings which existed among them were those which he highly prized, and which* were very different from those which the Honourable Gentleman would. inspire. Ile thought it would be most unwise to do any thing that might tend to weaken that cordiality which existed between the Navy and Marines. It was right to observe, that Marine Officers came in without purchaSe, but when any officer .does any act to dis tinguish him in a particular manner, an application is always made to the King to get him a brevet promotion, which entitles him to something about half-a-crown a-day. He could assure the Honourable Gentlentan that though he was not constantly with the Marines, he still attended to his duty, and he trusted he performed it with effect ; his duty was at least as arduous as that of Colonel of the Army, with the exception that he did not purchase clothing for the men ; but though he did not pur chase clothing, he had spent no small portion of time in select ing it, and in seeing that it was of a superior kind. Sir ISAAC CO} FIN said, that he had always considered the Marine as the salvation of the Navy. The Resolution was then agreed to. On the grant of 100,0051. to make good the fund for the Relief of Widows and Orphans, Mr. HUME took occasion to say that it struck him - as re markable, that Doctor Clarke should have retired on full-pay, whilst other persons, who had served a much greater period, received but half-pay; however, after the explanation that had been made, he would make no further observations on that subject, more than to hope that the case of Dr. Clarke would not be considered a precedent. After a few words from Mr. CROKER, the several other Resolutions were read and agreed to. On the motion of Mr. 11U31E, an Account of the different Ships which cleared out for North America and New South Wales, with the number of Passengers and convicts from the United Kingdom, for the last year, and distinguishing the number from each country, was ordered to be laid on the table of the House.—The house then adjourned. COURT OF COMMON COUNCEL. it referred. He (Alderman Waithman) sent a private note to sheriff Williams, the - evening before her Majesty's funeral, stating his intention to attend. That note was given to Mr. Butterworth, and made a ground for attacking him (Alderman Waithman) in the House of Commons, when he could not de fend himself.—(Hear.)-4le would read the note he sent to Mr. Williams. 31r. OLDHAM rose to:order. lie said, if the Worthy Alder mad.had not given Mr. Williams notice, it was unfair to at tack him in his absence. Ald. WafTHYLAx said, he had written to Mr. Williams several letters on the subject, but received no answer ; and had given him notice that he would take the first opportunity of bringing the matter before the Court. But he did not wish to press the matter ; his public conduct was open to the world, and if it were now necessary to defend his motives, he should feel himself unfit to appear before any virtuous assembly.— (Ilear !)—The Worthy Alderman having noticed an opinion given by Sir Wm. Curtis, that one Sheriff could not act with out the other, which showed great want of information on the subject, Sir W. CuRTIS said, one Sheriff might act in London, but not in Middlesex ; and it was happy for him (Aid. Waithman) that he was but half a Sheriff, or he might be in Newgate.— (Cries of Order !) Mr. OLDHAM said, the Hon. Baronet was bound to attend the Court, and give good counsel, when the Report of the Committee was under consideration ; instead of which, he made no objection to the Report in the Court, but went to the House of Commons to impeach it. The lion. Baronet said, the Committee had no right to inquire ; but suppose the Sheriff; instead of quellipg a riot, had abetted it—would not the Hon. Baronet be the first to call for inquiry?—(Hear, hear !) Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER observed, that it was unfortunate that Sir William Curtis should, in the heat of argument, have said quite so much as lie had done. Sir Claudius recommended the previous question as the proper question to pursue. Mr. WELCH said, if the Court did not support the original Resolutions they did not deserve the name of Englishmen. Alderman ATKINS said, it was impossible what Sir W. Curtis had said of the Corporation could injure that great body ; but the Resolutions, if carried, might injure him. lie sup ported the previous question, as more dignified. Mr. TAY I.Olt said, it was not the first insult the lion. Alder man had offered to the Court. _ . Sir IV. Cunvis said, it might not be the last.---(Loud cries of Order !) Mr. GALLOWAY said, he felt it his duty to support the mo tion of censure on Sir Wm. Curtis. He hattallowed the Reso lution of the Committee to pass the Court without observation ; but in the House of Commons there was no end to his libels and slanders.—(Hear !) 3lr. FAVELL shortly replied ; after which the previous ques tion was put, but very few hands were held up for it. The question on the original motions was then carried by large majorities. Mr. FAVELL then moved, that the Resolutions should be signed by the Town Clerk, and published in the newspapers; iihich, after some observations from Sir C. If U NT ER, and Al dermen ATKINS and lIEvGATE, was agreed to. Some unimportant business was then transacted; after which the Court adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Avis, 21° die Maria, 1822. Roans—Stockport, and Wigan and Preston—Bills read a third time, and passed. Royston—read second time, and committed. Cirencester and Cricklade—Bill ordered to be brought in on or before Tuesday next. BRISTOL PORT BlLL—Petition of the Rev. Wm. Milton, against, referred to. the Committee on the Bill ; Counsel or dered. BRISTOL POOR BlLL—presented, and read a first time. SOMMERS To'wN - PAVING, &c. BlLL—Petition of Nathaniel Stallwood, against, to lie on the table till second reading. AGHICULTURALDISTRESS—Petition from Retford and NI ork- sop, to lie on the table, and to be printed. FEVER HOSPITAL (Dublin)—read a second time, and com mitted for to-morrow (this day). ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY. 1. Royal Burghs Accounts Bill--. Second Reading. 2. Turnpike Laws Amendment Bill—Committee. 3. Ways and Means—Committee. 4. Superannuation Act Amendment Bill—Second Reading. 5. Supply—Committee. 6. Receivers of Stolen Securities Bill—Committee. 7. Receivers General Bill—Committee. 8. Fever Hospital (Dublin) Bill—Committee. —NOTICES OF MOTIONS for THIS DAY. 1. Sir John Osborn,—Navy Estimates. (In Committee of Supply.) 2. Lord Viscount Palmerston,—Army Estimates. (In Com- mittee of Supply.) PRIVATE BlLLS—Second Readings for This Day. 1. Dinton Inclosure I 8. Evesham Road 2. Taunton Deane, or Pitmin.. 9. Honiton Road ster Inclosure RI. Glasgow & Inchbelly Road 3. Deeping Fen Drainage 11. Chelmsford Paving 4. Tetbury Road 12. Sommers Town Paving 5. Dudbridge and Nailsworth 13. Warrington Gas Light Road 14. Leith Gas Light 6 . Burford and Preston Road 15. Carnatic Commissioners 7. Shaftesbury and Sherborne 16. Forfar Court House RiSad 17. ay Ferries. ERRATA in Yesterday's SUN—Page 3, Col. 2, Line 12 from the bottom, for " recommended by Parliament," read " to recommend to Parliantent." Page 3, Cul. 3, Line 12, for " Provincial Agents," read ,Provincial Agent." In the Ar ticle on Agricultural Distress, instead of " tending to denw ralize," read " democratize." PRICE OF STOCKS Tins DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK. Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Red shut 3 per Cent. Cons. 801. 80 80g 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. ... 103 Z 10-11. 104 Imp. 3 per Cents. BOl India Bonds s4s. 555. 535. Exchey. Bills 2 4 pr. Bank for Opening °SI A Cons. for Account llqia 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDO Morning, 36 minutes after 1. N BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I Evening, U minutes after 2 THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDE.4T ? LONDON, FRIDAY, MAR CH 22, 1822. An Express is said, by the French Papers of Tuesday, to have been received by a great Bank ing House at Paris, with the intelligence that Russia bad declared war against Turkey. A letter from Frankfort on the Maine communi cates similar intelligence, and states that the official notification was made by the Russian Ambassador at Vienna to the Austrian Govern ment, on the 10th of this month.—The following are extracts : " PARIS, Ithaca l 9.—lt was announced yester day afternoon on 'Change, that a great banking. house had received an express, announcing the declaration of war between 'Russia and the Ottoman Porte. " A letter from Frankfort on the Maine, dated the 14th of March, says, that an express was re ceived on that morning by one of the first mer cantile houses, with intelligence that the Russian Ambassador at Vienna had officially communi cated to the Austrian Chancellery the declaration of war against the Ottoman Porte. " The Moniteur publishes the law relative to the Police of the Journals and Periodical Writings, which began to have effect on Monday last. " Four persons were arrested yesterday in the Chausse d'Antin, as they were getting into a carriage to leave the kingdom. They were taken to the Prefecture of the Police, and their papers examined. It is said that they have been set at liberty, at the intercession of the Minister of a neighbouring Power, to which they belong. It is said that there being reasons to suppose that Gen. Berton and his accomplices have taken refuge in the forest of Parthenay, numerous di visions of troops and Gendarmerie have been ordered to penetrate into it in various directions. Every Commander has received orders to employ every means in his power to take the Chief of this revolt alive. " A momentary alarm has been excited at Chauay (Aisne), by the sound of the Tocsin.— The people went to the Church, where they arrested a person who said he was a dancing. master just arrived from Paris, and that he had sounded the Tocsin to assemble his comrades.— In fact, they perceived out of the town several men meanly dressed, who being pursued by the National Guard, fled into the woods. A detach ment of Curassieurs and Gendarmerie is in pur suit of them. " his Majesty got into his carriage at three o'clock, and drove to Choisy. llis Majesty was accompanied by the Duc de Duras, the Duc de Grammont, and the Duc d'Auoray. his Majesty was every where received with acclamations of joy. " In the Chamber of Deputies the discussion of the law on the finances was continued. FRENCH FUNDS. March 18, Five per Cents. Opened at ... 89 f. JJ C. Closed at BB f. 70 c. " °BESS( ' FEB. 25.—Expresses have arrived from Bessarabia with the news that the advanced guard of the Turkish grand army, marching from Constantinople, is arrived at Braila. This ad vanced guard consists of 8000 men. CC FRANKFORT, MARCH 13.-A letter from Constantinople, of Feb. 11, states that that city was surrounded with troops that continued to arrive from Asia. Large corps were assembling about Adrianople. The Porte has, for the third time, offered an amnesty to the insurgents of the Archipelago.—Many persons think that the Turkish Government, as soon as it has distri buted part of the Janissaries along the Danube, will endeavour to effect the reform which it has long projected in the Ortas at Constantinople, which are very ill disposed.—The Cabinet of Vienna has assigned to Prince Michael Suzzo the the town of Goriza for his residence." It appears by the following extract that consi derable apprehensions are felt in Spain respecting the ulterior views of the French Government in keeping up the large military force on the Pyren ean frontier of France, ,which was originally as sembled as a protection against the introduction of the contagious fever lately prevalent in Spain, which has many weeks ceased to exist. Expla nations on this subject have been demanded from he F rench Government by the Spanish Minister at Paris, but the result is not known ; and report says that the French force in that quarter is to he further augmented : " IRUN, FEB. 23.—We think it right to satisfy the un easy curiosity of the inhabitants of the capital, who think that we have a formidable French army in our neighbour hood, while others believe that the number of troops is very small. Some carry their fears, and others their confi dence, too far ; and it is equally important that both should know what to think. The fact is, that the French forces can toned in the territory which extends from the Landes to the Eastern Pyrenees, amounts at present to 30,000 men ; but it is known that they are shortly to be augmented, and that within a month they will amount to 50,000 men. Every body will be easily sensible how ridiculous it is to pretend to give these troops the name of a Cordon of Health. From sto 6,000 men would be sufficient for this service, even if the contagion should re-appear in the Peninsula, and in the meantime it is evident that those 5 or 6000 men would be as superfluoUs as the 30,000 men are—or as the 50,000 will be, which we know are to be assembled in a very short time along the line of the Pyrenees." The statement delivered on 'Wednesday nigh by Mr. MARRYAT, of the distress prevailing ii our West India Colonies, and of the causes to which it is ascribed, went much too far, we think, for the purpose it was chiefly designed to accom plish. With a view of impressing upon Parlia ment the necessity of re-opening (and that for an indefinite period) the commercial intercourse be tween our West Indian possessions and the United States, Mr. MALUtYAT drew a formidable picture of the embarrassment prevailing among our Planters, whom he represented as being, in various instances, on the verge of ruin, without means to pay the taxes, scarcely able to obtain credit even for clothing and provisions, sell ing lands at an enormous depreciation, and almost ready to leave off cultivation in mere despair. The sources of this dis tress were stated to be the suspension of inter course with the United States, and the low prices of West India produce. Among several remedies pointed out by Mr. MARRYAT, the principal and the most decisive in its character was, the abandonment of our navigation system in this part of the world, for the purpose of pre- vailing on America to permit a renewal of mer cantile communication. Now, before we con sent to a measure of this importance, which, adopted under present circumstances, will pro bably never be rescinded ; before we make the mortifying confession that the United States can better dispense with our trade than we with theirs, it is well worth while to inquire whether the step proposed would really procure our colonists a relief at all proportioned to the sacrifice with which it must be purchased. Mr. MARRYAT complains that the British American provinces are so glutted with the rum which they receive in exchange for their lumber and provi sions, that no more can be imported, and they conse quently cease to make the corresponding exports : and besides, that their whole yearly consumption does not exceed the supply yielded by two small islands, one eighth of the whole Colanial produce, whereas the United States,while the intercoursewas open, consumed six times as much. We may observe, in passing, that the British Provinces would no doubt have been in a condition to afford the West India planter a much more profitable mar ket, if the fluctuating yolicy of Great Britain with regard to American Intercourse had not re tarded their improvement and perpetually blighted the growth of their resources : and fur ther, that that market, such as it has been, can no longer be relied upon, but must dwindle into utter insignificance, if the Provinces, are now to be thrown into the back-ground by a defini tive establishment of the proposed mercantile relations between the British West Indies and the United States. But this last connection, it is urged, will be six times as profitable, and moreover, the trade of our continental pro vinces may be protected by a duty upon such American commodities as come into competition with theirs. Whatever may have been the con sumption of West India produce by the United States when the trade was last open, we believe it is much too hastily taken for granted, on this occasion, that the Americans would resume their dealings to an equal extent, or to any such amount, and on any such terms, as would sensibly counterbalance that depression in the circum stances of our Planters which Mr. MARRYAT so strongly described. And if this distress be so urgent that 'we must perforce abandon our own commercial system, and receive the law from America with respect to the desired re newal of intercourse, how are we certain that that country would approve of the duties upon her commodities, by which it is pro posed to guard the interests of our own continen tal provinces, if those duties ware sufficiently heavy to answer the purpose of protection ? And if she should decline supplying our necessities upon such terms, what resource is left to us ? Must we totally sacrifice our own northern Colo nists, or must the West India Planter conti nue in his present difficulties ? According to Mr. MARRYAT'S representations, the exigen cy leaves us no choice. The Commercial plan, as at present unfolded, would be rendered still less tempting to America, and more ruinous to our own provinces, by the sup plemental scheme which Mr. MARRYAT suggest ed, of permitting our West India planters to send their produce by direct conveyance to all the coasts of Europe, bringing back in return, from the northern ports, supplies of the same commo dities (lumber and staves in particular), which it is proposed to import, subject to a protecting duty, from the United States. We doubt very much if, under these circumstances, America would skew the expected eagerness to trade with our planters upon such terms as they desire, buy ing rum at an ample price, and exchanging for it the articles required, those articles being charged with duties, and exposed to a competition pro fessedly encouraged in various quarters. It is also to be remembered, that when this step is taken, a great and principal source of dis tress in our Islands will remain in full activity, or at least will continue unchecked for a consi derable time ; we mean the commercial rivalry of foreign West India Colonies, in which the Slave trade is still unsuppressed. The abolition of this traffic is a measure which we fear will be very slowly carried into effect, and at any rate will not go hand in hand with the opening of our colonial ports. The activity of foreign► competition, favoured by this iniquitous resource, will render the proposed concession far less valuable in the eyes of America, less profitable to our owa planters, but at the same time little less preja' dicial to British interests, and certainly not less derogatory to our national honour. We have not controverted any of the statement offered by Mr. MARRYAT, but have taken al l the facts as lie offers them. Distressed comma' nities, and the West India planters in particula r, are apt to give the highest possible colour to their