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riot stopped. Ido not wish to excite airy unpleasant fealing ; , say it is high time these things were stopped; and I do call upon you, assisting as far as yOu can, not lending yourselves to any thing, to put a stop to them. If these things are to go on, for aught I know, we may come to this, that the Lord of the Manor may say I have the right of selecting the Jury—these • things may be locked up for 20 years, there may be a plesenta ment and no Bailiff; unless there is a Jury. Only conceive the case, it is exactly what is mentioned in this book, unless a per son has' the courage or the property a contest these points, it goes on for 20 years, and then at once, unless you can call wit s nesies to shew it was not so, the Jury is to be asked to say that that is evidence of immemorial usage ; 'so that at last it may very likely come to this, that the Lord may appoint himself the Mayor, and you may gat on so, that the Lord shall ap point himself to be the Member of Parliament. That was done till it was stopped early in the history of our country. There was a case in Buckinghamshire, where a lady, under her hand and seal, appointed the Members to serve for that Borough ; we shall come to that sooh,' if 'We'so, on, as my Learned Friends wish you, so that perhaps we shall have all the old ladies in the kingdom sending Members to Parliament: I know not where we may not wander to, if such doctrines are to prevail ; I therefore ask you, whether you are satisfied upon this evidence that there has been an im memorial ; practice ; that is the point you will have to decide upon. The question will be upon what facts you found that conclusion, and that will be a fit subject matter to put upon the Record ; but there will be no necessity of putting it upon the Record if you say you are not satisfied that the evidence in the cause amounts to proof,—that this which is'bad as far as it goes has prevailed since the year 1193. Now, in conclusion, good God, upon what evidence is this to stand ? • where are their Court Rolls.? . where are all their documents ? where are their presentments as far back as the last century, and the cen tury before ? where is that evidence which cannot be seen be cause it has been written by those who have long since passed to their graves ? I admit if you can shew that the stream has run for a considerable time, and you may trace it to a very re mote period, that is good cause to go upon ; but that must be by very different proof to what you have had on the other side to-day., The evidence is too light, and will afford no such conclusion. Is it to be said, as I have sometimes heard it said, why do not people come forward and say it was not so. I kasow it is very easy to say it might have been done twenty years ago, but I dare say you will agree . with me that . a man requires a little courage to attack a fortress of this de scription ; but it does happen that in 1818 there is a man found bold enough " to unship the old interest ;" and I think he has done it,—it is one sustained by no very strong' means : and then I say, where are the papers of 1801 and 1800-1790 and 1600 ' Where are the rolls of the manor ? You know, the first thing a Steward does is to preserve all these documents ; and all you have from them are these presentments of the Jury, —not a single document is produced—nothing but this pale faced paper offered as evidence in support of ancient rights- They ought to have- had parchments and papers yellow with age, and musty, and almost illegible. We have generally seen, an these kinds of cases, old men with magnifying-glasses endea vouring to make out ancient documents; but here is nothing, but a presentment in as fair a hand-writing of the clerk as ever , he wrote out his master's bill in. The second point I shall trouble you upon very shortly : that is, Whether the Steward can be permitted to.remain with the Jury while electing the Mayor and returning the officers.— Only conceive the power this gives the Steward. He is first to nominate the Jury, and having selected them, he is to be pre sent to see that they do not get out of their course. Not only that, but although it stands upon the evidence that the oath of the Jury is, that they are to keep secret the King's counsel and their own, yet, in defiance of their duty, the Steward is to be there, and t claims of pre Steward is to hiss there also. Not only, Mr. Hector to besent, but lerk. Ido not know whether he claims to be there—hut there he is : he must have his nose in the business.. We are come to a pretty pass,—if they are to have just whom they please, and what .they . please, when they are to fix upon the person to be the-returning of-, taer for the proprietor of the borough. But what becomes of the oath that they are to keep secret their own counsel ?T— -hese are my observations ; how far they may have struck his Lordship's mind or-yours I cannot say, but give me leave to tell you, and Ido it most sincerely, no one does d e p reca t e more than I do any violent eruption into that which is by law established in this country ; but nothing will tend to prevent that so much as bringiug back things to the state where they tormerly were, and where they ought to be. I know of no better mode of doing that than through that tribunal I have now the honour of addressing—there it will be done quietly, properly, and safely. Ido say to you most distinctly, and I should be a coward in my own opinion if I did not boldly avow it, that by the office, which ought to be exercised fairly, wh en exercised partially and unjustly, people are deprived o f t h e i r rights in order to support that which is called the old interest. Now I am contending for the old interest ; the old i n t erest i s that the Jury shall be properly selected. Th as at is 'reasonable; but there is evidence that that which is unreonable has taken Place for twenty years past in this borough with these observations I leave the case in your hands, and You will say that in future this Jury is to be appointed da m , 1 71 in which Juries are appointed througho u t th e king select t 4 te officer hamed by the general law of the land t o the ou r ez a• That officer is the bailiff,—he has been deprived of ' one t hcata. of that ,discretion vested in him; and if there be with ti l , n g beyond another which is to be deprecated and viewed "e great alarm, and guarded against by every possible —em s an a ? end brought to light, if ever it takes place, it is where i f l a !na:if is done to invade or impede the course of justice; for aa a"a be one palladium of our rights more valuable than a lrater, it is that right of Trial by Jury, and the protection it ids to me and every human Being in this country. ,s.nr, ; A dis of the Jury—Whether Ateheson. does right or not in invading this Borough, a'', f 'a e leh has been at peace for many y ear s, i s no t f or us to d ec id e . _ have to try the queqtions upon tills r e co r d—h ere t h ey are brought, and you are to dispose of them. Some thi ngs h ave a e e ell a raid which I think it necessary to lay out of your consi dorauort—it is said they ought to have called the Steward. I teixia choice. My that they were compelled to call him ; it Iva , matter My Learned Friend might h a ve called hi m , and if de alt with had refused to open hi s mout h, y ou would have i tz saut with it in the manner you pleased. A case has been al 'Led to which took place at Gosport a few years ago. I hap eited to be the Mover of that motion in the Kines Bench.— thh t hat ease there was an express affidavit that the Bailiff of );_ B o rough had the return of the Jury. Another matter has „aMentioned ; it is said these be-laws look to the interests aa ,`"e Lord. Ido not see any objecton to that, but if there n al any ifswould only amount to this, that 'the particular pre- Zoutnent would be void ; but, in my judgment, it is not void. ,;,?stare trying a case of a Borough by prescription, and stou th.understand that there is no Charter whatever by which au lB orough i s constituted—all its Members are Members by of• - t e-- the Borough is a Borough by usage—all the Officers e Borough are Officers by usage—every thing they do is 401!!a.ge—and custom is the life of the whole—the law of the and whatever is the custom, that is ,to govern the to boengh, unless the particular custom stated here shall turn out lo Your judgment so absurd, so bad, as to be wholly il iiayat.n that ground ; that is, supposing I was to tell you so. ilu ty °ll t fi the custom existed immemorially, it will be my nethtell you whether it is bad or . not ; it is for you to say er° these customs are or are not immemorial. My Leaan osmtee_riend the Serjeant has stated that, upon some occasion or gone_the late Chief Justice has said that the Judges have ar e ca r far in favour of presumption. I can only say that we the uge.4 to resort to presumptive conclusions every day in eatiuneoea,m the ordinary administration of justice. All our iee t r i t taw is usage; there is no statute law upon the sub that a ' ere is an immene qntit of rights in this country Ja, t e Pend upon usage, s and n ua othin y g else ; but what the Chief thiZe meant wh en h e use d t h ese wor d s I d o not k now, b ut I th e Must have been applic a bl e to the then transaction before tha e 4ort. L or d C o k e, w h ose name you have heard mentioned, tat 4 ,Y° ll may not have looked int o hi s b oo k, (th ere i s not a ed book existing) tells you that" slight evidence unanswer taia thing . as co ,,2l l Proved to you, p Why Ire you t 9 infer that the usage l etea ? I say, if you find a thing proved to have ex- Oth e , 3 . certain period, I will say 60 years, and nothing on the 1 %11104 1 e to shew the contrary, it is a presumption of fact that aa 'a e Jury ought to make, that the thing did exist from ell ara t tod, and from all time. You see here the evidence is his it il „, br i t te aide, and not one t i tt l e o f fact offered in opposition ian e he other, and will you say when you come to look at to evlloo_eace that th ere i s no ev id ence of usage ; if there is eval eo _ lace, and no answer given to it, the principle of slight Passibi a mounting to cogent proof applies as strongly as prov ed But I s h ou ld l ook at th i s case, and see whether it is !N eil " 0 ): the e v id ence or not • but whatever it is, it is all the which by to the cause, an d i t is' not answered. This is a case 4 Pot 10 ea back only 20 years • but upon that ground, and t h ole h tli ee a a t /dud of evidence it is, that rights over and over again ,etart aa_established. It has been said in this case, that the probVlembers of Parliament depends upon it ; it is high t'ettrte ie 2, and I dare say it is so. I believe, in many cases, so e o aa a vaaatave existed long before the right of sending Mem- Z°Me aerhament has been annexed to them, and we know nowynae, savwere earlier, and others later —many' of 'them were l s ra at i o. h eit within memory. Then there is another ob a-arii, have the early history of Parliament, the service in to Ment was deemed a burthen, and the people were bound eY the M e R tl e es yo ambers expences. Things have varied in modern , for am have now men who go there willingly—there is a Z 4 a es make such speeches as my friend the Serjeant eteiaut't Honourable Members'of Parliament do not now 4 14 " Di n London, as Serjeant Wronghead did, being six st 1 00 k a g and rightin. He was paid for it. But we t the in question in another point of view.— :. ;0 ;tr ac6 o , rsoll' t p -0 it sder What is there in it as a matter of right ? Here, is a Court Leet L from time immemorial, and the Mayor has been elected there ; then the-next question is, in what manner has that election taken place, and the Jury been constituted? My Friend has put the 'case in a very proper point of view. The first question • is, by what mode the Jury is constituted? and the next ques . tfon is, as to the manner in which they discharge their duty ? It appears from the testimony of the witness called first, you find Mr. Cannon is called, who was formerly Clerk to Mr. Andrews, whom we all know to have been a very worthy man, there is a presentment produced in his hand-writing, and lie knows the hand-writing of the jurymen who have signed it. It is dated the 18th of January, 1802, that is above 20 years ago, but he was Clerk from 1798, and he says the Jury were generally selected by Mr. Andrews, the Steward. Ile ' did so first, and it was always so while he was with Mr. Andrews. So that in 1802 the Jury were selected by Mr. Andrews—that was by the Steward ; and when the Jury retired to make their pre sentments after they were sworn, Mr. Andrews retired • with .thein ; so that all this goes to two material parts of ,thiS propo sition; first, that the Jury were actually selected from 1793 by Mr. Andrews, and that when they retired to make their presentment, he says, from 1798, that Mr. Andrews retired with them. 'Why are you to presume, that a set of men who are sworn to make true presentments, and do their duty, shall violate their oaths, and do a gross and abominable thing; and I will add to that, that the Steward of the Borough is so base in his conduct as to do a very improper thing. lou are asked to presume that ; I say you cannot presume it. As to the number of people that Petersfield consists of, or the num ber of houses, that has nothing to do with this question.— Then Mr. Seward is called : the first part of his. examination was to shew, that the paper produced came from the legitimate quarter. It is established, that it did to my satisfaction • that the custody of Mr. Hector, the St ewar d o f t h e Barough, was the proper custody for it to come from. Then he says " Mr. • William Jolliffe has a house in Petersfield, and keeps a ser vant there ; when he comes to be elected, he sleeps at the Inn. I have seen him at the house half a dozen times ; 1 have seen him writing there."—Then Thos. Shoell is called, who is aged sixty-eight, and has known Petersfield all his life ; he says, " I was never Mayor, but my father served the office. I was on the Leet Jury 215 years ago ; the Steward used then to re main with the Jury ;" now here you see, as far as facts go, you have evidence that the usage has been uniform from 1798. Now, Gentlemen, under these circum s t a nc es , y ou are t o say, whether there is or is not within this Borough an immemorial usage as to the manner of selecting the Jury, and the manner of holding the Court, and presenting the Mayor ? If you are of opinion, from the evidence laid before you, and the observations I have made, that there is evidence sufficient to satisfy you, you will so find your verdict. 'What will be the result is for' the Court above. As to the residence of Mr. Jolliffe, 3 am clearly .of opinion, that there is no evidence ixt this case which re quires the residence of the Mayor ; I tell you so in plain terms, that there is no evidence to shew that the Mayor mt to be a resident when elected. The fact is, as f ar as we know, that there are two instances of Mayors not residing ; but if that was a point to be made now, we o ug ht t o h ave had some evidence of the affirmative that the custom of the Borough rendered it ne- . cessary. The Mayors are not Magistrates ; and we knew that the Mayor, in a Borough of this sort, has very little to do. He has no power of granting warrants to apprehend felons, as in Charter Boroughs; and as in many cases where there are very essential duties belonging to the Office. In other .cases, there may be a reason, why he should be resident. There is none here. Now, with respect to the special verdict, I hardly know how to leave it to you ; you will consider first whether you are of opinion that this is proved to be an ancient usage. If you are of that opinion, I will put the case in any shape they like, for the purpose of raising the question, for the opinion of the Court of King's Bench. But, in the first place, be so good as to tell me, whether that which has been given in evidence, on the part of the defendant, has proved to your satisfaction the .usage of the Borough. 'When you have done that, I then will give you my opinion upon the course to be pursued. After a few minutes consultation-=FoßEmarr of the' Jury—. We find the usage proved. Mr. Serjeant PELL—I understand the Jury find the usage proved as to the summoning the Jury. • FOREMAN of the Jury—The custom. Mr. Justice )3URROUGII—You had better move the Court, and then have your choice if you like it. Mr. Serjeant PELL—We think it is better at once to have a special verdict—it will save expence. The Jury find it is the custom ; bin whether it is fit to be so they leave for the opinion of the Court. Mr. Justice BURROUGH—They must find in the terms of the issues as it is stated there. Mr. GASELEE—Upon the issues they will find this, that from time immemorial the Mayor has been, and ought to have been, and still ought to be so elected. Now, if the Jury find the facts that it has been so, and then state certain points—. Mr. Justice BtraitouGH—You may draw it up afterwards. Mr. ADAM—The verdict of the Jury must be recorded, as finding the facts stated in the two special surrejoinders. Mr. Justice BuRROUGH—They find for the defendant. Mr. Serjeant PELL—The rest we will take from your Lord= ship's notes. Mr. Justice BURROUGIi —All the issues, except what I have stated, are consequential, like nine-pins. If you knock down one, they all go. You will find a verdict for the defendant, and they will mould it as they please. Mr. ADAM—I will let it be so., A verdict for the defendant, with liberty to turn the case into a special verdict. Mr. Justice BURROUGH—Yes, that is the only way. Verdict for the Defendant. THE BRAZILS. Papers received from Rio de Janeiro, to the 26th of May, contain an important representation by the Senate of the capital, to the Prince, under his new title, 46 Constitutional Prince Regent, and Perpetual Defender of the Kingdom of Brazil." The following is an extract : " Therefore ,in our name, and that of the collected pro vinces, whose cause and sentiments we express, we conjointly call on your Royal Highness, with the best founded hope, to accept the title of Constitutional and Perpetual Defender of Brazil, and to convoke in this Court a General Assembly of the provinces of Brazil, represented by a competent number of De puties, who can never be fewer than a hundred, named by nine parochial electors, elected by' the people with special powers for that purpose ; whose functions shall be to deliberate in public Session, respecting the first conditions under which Brazil should remain united to Portugal—to examine if the Constitution which the General Cortes of Lisbon are now mak ing: is altogether adapted for Brazil ; and on the bases there decreed and here sworn to—rto establish the emendations, re forms, and alterations with which the same Constitution ought to be received in the Brazil, and because this never can be secure or prosper without a. Brazilian Legislative Body, the same General Assembly, immediately after its installation, will enter on the exercise of the Legislative power, which is essential to it, and inseparable from the sovereignty of Brazil. The Ge neral Assembly shall be installed as soon as there shall be as sembled, in this Court, two-thirds of the Deputies of the collected provinces. The same Assembly will endeavour to communi cate by writing, with the Cortes of Lisbon, in order to maintain the union with Portugal, which Brazil is desirous of preserving. The Assembly will name, after being fully assembled, the place which shall be the seat of Brazilian Sovereignty. " Independence ? Sir, according to the opinion of the most esti mable politician, is as natural to colonies, as separation is in the case of Families ; and Independence so modified will bring honour to Brazil, as it will utility to Portugal, and be an eter nal bond of union for the Monarchy in general. Nature never formed Satellites greater than their Planets. America ought to belong to America, Europe to Europe ; because the Great Architect of the Universe did not in vain interpose the im mense space which separates them. This is the moment for establishing a durable system, and to connect together all the parts of one grand whole; not to appreciate this is to insult the Divinity. Brazil in the midst of independent nations, enjoying the felicity to which they were destined by nature, never could preserve itself colonially subject to a distant and remote nation, without strength to defend it, and still less to conquer it. " Art thou or art thou not willing ?—Resolve Senhor --." The following was the Prince's answer : " I am informed of the wish of the people of Rio, and as soon as I shall become acquainted with that of the other pro vinces, either through their Cameras or their Procurators Ge nerals, I shall immediately conform t&the will of the people of this great, fertile, and rich kingdom." On the 23d of May Francisco Xavier Ferreira, Deputy from th e province of the Rio Grande, in a speech addressed to the Prince Regent, expressed his approbation of the representation of the Senate, and declared that he had also subscribed it. The public opinion, it may be presumed, is strongly in favour of the mea sure. A paper against the representation has, however, been published, under the title of Reclamaeao do Brazil. This is an honourable proof of the free state of the press, in the midst of such events. Madrid Papers 'to the 16th inst. have arrived. At that time all was quiet at Madrid, and advices were daily arriving from the Provinces of the good spirit of the troops, and the resolutions of the people in favour of the present COnsti tution. The rebellious Guardi, who were dispersed on the morn ing of the 7th, have been nearly all made prisoners, or voluntarily laid down their arms; and the Royal Carabineers, on whose co-operation with the Guards so much reliance was placed in the French ultra papers, are reduced to a handful of fugitives by the Constitutional troops and the Militia, and have taken re- fuge in the mountains of Toledo, from which measures are taken to dislodge them.—On the restoration of aanquillity at Madrid, steps were immediately taken to inquire into the cause of the late revolt, and to inflict punishment on its chief instigators.— The Ki xo accordingly appointed, on the 14th, a special military commission, composed of officers. of the garrison and of the militia, to try the authors and accomplices of the late revolt. This commission was actively employed, and hoped to finish their labours in three days ; and, with just discrimination, had divided the accused into four classes : 1. The officers ; 2. The soldiers who had been found firing ; 3. The soldiers taken with arms in their hands ; and, 4. Those apprehended with out arms. Besides the Duke DEL Ixrawravio, banished to Badajos, and 'the Marquis DE LAS AMIARLLAS, to Gre nada, Lieutenant-General the Marquis of Cas,Ttra.an, has been exiled to Carthagena, the Count de Casannra, to Valencia, Lieutmant-General FRANCISCO LONGA, to Badajoz, Brigadier D. JUAN SANCHEZ Cm:Enos, to Avila; and other military and civil officers of high rank to Grenada. His Majesty acts with unusual vigour against his late friends and adherents ; and though all the changes and re forms in the KING's household are not yet announced, it is said they will take place without delay. The Marquis of SANTA CRUZ, the new Director of this branch of the Royal establishment, entered on his office on the 14th ; the famous PULAFAX has been appointed Captain of the Halberdiers, and the Count ONATE, Gram! Equerry. Thete are at present the only new nominations in the King's Household. The Mi nistry is not yet complete, but, in addition to theappointments of General LOPEZ Bar:os, as War Minister, and Senor CALA TRAVA, as Minister of the Interior, Senor CA LV 0 DE Monas has been nominated Minister of Finance, and Senor Painio, Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of Senor MARTINEZ DE LA Rosa, who has positively declined to con. tinue,in office.—We rejoice to add that the subscription opened to assist the wounded soldiers of the garrison, and the families of.the guards killed in the action, had proved completely sue cessfull; and that, the liberality of our Minister at Madrid shone forth conspicuously on the occasion. On this subject the Uni versal says— . " As soon as the Ambassador of England transmitted his 3,000 reals, as a subscription to the wounded of the clay of the 7th, the Municipal Ilody of Madrid expressed to the Secre tary of Embassy, who was charged with the commission, their lively gratitude at so decided a step in favour of Spanish liberty on the part of the Representative of the English nation, who , in his quality of citizen of a f r ee c ountry, could not fail to unite in all things with the enemies of slavery, who, without Nassau Papers to the 4th of June gives numerous details of the cptinued depredations of the pirates upon the British as well as American vessels in the West Indies. The Spanish ship Velos Mariana arrived at Havannah on the 16th June in 17 days from Vera Cruz, and sailed again the same day for Cadiz, having on board General Cauz, 6 officers, 50 soldiers, and 50 citizens, passengers. PARLIAMENTARY . PROCEEDINGS NOTICE of MOTION, and ORDERS of the DAY which now stand in the ORDER-BOOK of the HOUSE COMMONS for the Present Week.' . . :Monday, July 29. _ ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Exchequer Bills Bill—Committee. 2. Militia Pay Bill—Report. 3. 'Militia Pay (Ireland) Bill—Report. 4. East India Sugar Bill—Third Reading. 5. Brimstone Drawback Bill—Third Reading. 6. Spirits Exportation (Scotland) Bill—Third Reading. 7. Appropriation Bill—Report. 8. Superannuation Act Amendment Bill—Third Reading. 9. Barilla Duties Bill—Committee. 10. Stamp Duties Reduction (Ireland) Bill-Xommittee. 11- Smuggling Prevention Bill—Third Reading. 12. Tithes Leasing (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading. 13. Deeds Registry (Ireland) Bill—Committee. . Tuesday, July 30. NOT,ICE OF MOTION. Colonel Wood,—Resolutions regarding the Laws of Settle went of the Poor. ERRATUm.—After the sentence at the end of the fourth para graph, in the Chancery Report, " Major-General KNIGHT r. KNIZIIIT, an infant," ' in our Paper of Friday last, viz. " The woman who acted as nursery-maid to the child has sworn, that whilst she wasin such service, an elderly Gen tleman, who was represented. to her as the child's uncle, came frequently to visit him, and that he was in the house where thechild resided during the christening, which took place onthe 21st of May, 1814," the following words were accidentally omitted And she afterwaids discovered that the elderly Gentleman was Henry Lord Middleton." PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock'.. 3 per Cent. Red. 814 3 per Cent. Cons. 801 3i per Cent Indii Stock 9 501 India Bonds 645. South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ex. - Bills 2 7 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Cons. Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Account BOM pareent. "ki ( New 991 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann.... 20 15-16ths Imp. 3 per Cents. PRICE of FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, JULY 29 AT ONE O'CLOCK. French Five per Cents. 92 25, Prussian f Five' per Cent. 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Lying inflospital 4 per ct. 5 per cent. - Exchange on London, July 22, 8, 1 ,i. , , ' HIGH WATR AT LONI)0? Morning, 40 minutes after 11. BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 0 minutes after 0. THE SUN. -------- . SULEN QUIS DICERS FALSIIM AUDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1822. distinction of country, fawn one family sprer.Aover the earth.— The Englishinenipotentiary has proved to the Spaniards thai he is woithy of the nation to which he belongs." A plot had been detected and defeated at Cadiz, and the principal conspirators arrested, among whom are several well known seditious characters. Don ALPHONSO MORENO GUERRA and Brigadier-General ZALDIVAR are of the number. The Constitutionalists continurto gain advantages over the in surgents in the provinces ; anda.dvices had arrived of the occu pation of Siguenza by the Constitutional troops. This circum stance is of considerable importance, for :" Siguenza is consi dered as the Bayonne of Spain," the hot-bed of insurrection. We have received the French Papers of Thurs day and Friday. They contain accounts from Madrid to the 16th instant, of the same nature as those supplied us by the Spanish Journals, to which we have before adverted. The proceedings of the "French Chamber of Deputies are at present more than usually interesting. In that assembly on the 24th, frequent allusions were made to the present state of Europe, and more especially to the situation of Spain, on the Resolution for defraying the charges of the Fo reign Ministry. The conduct of the French Government to. wards Spain had been severely reprobated in the discussion of the preceding day, and on the opening of the debate on the 24th, M. de Ronald replied to those attacks, and denied that the French Government hall interfered in the int ternal affairs of that country. General For, in an eloquen speech, maintained the contrary, and called upon the Ministry , to beware lest their conduct towards that kingdom should produce the same effect as the manifesto of the Duke of Batniswlcs in France. He contended that the French Ministry had endeavour ed to create confusion on the other side of the Pyrenees, and adduced several Pacts which afforded strong presumptive proof that the disaffected in Spain relied upon the assistance of France. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to General For, rebutted the charges brought against the French Government, and contended that the troops on the Pyrenean frontiers were not assembled for any hostile purpose, and for no other than to prevent the introduction of the yellow fever. The conduct of the French Government towards the Greeks was also attacked by General For, in the course, of his speech, as well rs by some other members, who contended that it was the duty of every Christian Government to protect the Greeks, and assist them against the Turks, who threatened their gene ral extermination. M. LAINE defended the conduct of the French Government, whose exertions in favour of the Greeks appear certainly to be more efficacious and meritorious than those of other Countries. FRENCH FUNDi.--JULY 'M. Five per Cents. Opened at Lowest 9l f. 15 c. Closed at 9l f. 25 c. 1597 f. 50 c. Bank Stock Exchange on London—One Month... 35 f. 35 c Three Months 23 f. 15 c. German Papers to the 21st instant have ar rived, and contain an account of a bold, but unsuccessfhl, attempt made by the Greeks to burn the Turkish Fleet on the 31st of May, in which the valour of the Greeks is said to bare been as conspicuous as the cowardice of their opponents was disgraceful. It appears, however, by our extracts on Satur day, that the attempt was renewed with better success on the 22d.0f June, and proved fatal to the Capitan Pacha. Private letters from Paris this morning state s iat a courier had arrived from Spain ; but the dispatches were not suffered to transpire. [Extract of a Letter from Cirragoo, June 101 " By accounts from the Main, it is asserted that the Spanish General MoitAiEs, who made his escape with about 900 men after his defeat, and, by his own assertion, is cooped up in a langoom with his handful of troops, writes as follows :—ln four or five days I shall march for the capital, in order to punish these vagabonds, meaning the army of the Patriots, which has atchieved so complete a victory over hint." THE KING'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. Saturday morning the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, K.C.8., hoisted at Portsmouth the superior broad pendant of a Com modore, which confers on him the same honours and advan. tages as are enjoyed by a Rear-Admiral—Captain William James Mingay having been appointed to command the Royal George yacht under the broad pendant. The usual honorary salutes took place between the Commodore's and the Commander-in.Chiers ship. Capt. Mingay took the command of the Royal George on Thursday. Lieutenant George Rus sell (son of Lord John Russell) is appointed Signal Lieutenant to the Commodore. She sailed yesterday for Greenwich, ac companied by the Calliope and Cameleon tenders, to await his Majesty's embarkation for Scotland, which, it ix believed, will take place about the Bth of August. The Phaeton frigate, Captain W. A. Montagu, C.B. the Forte frigate, Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the Egeria, 28, Captain J. Toup Nicholas, C.B. sailed on Thursday for the Nore, where the Royal squadron has been ordered to assemble. The Lord Chamberlain and the Se cretary of State, with their respective suites, will, it is said, embark in the Forte frigate, Sir:Thos. Cochrane. The only Equerries that will attend his Majesty to Scotland, are General Bayly and Sir H. Vivian. On Thursday, his Majesty's travelling carriage, and four teen horses, arrived at Mr. Belcher's, the Old Angel Inn, Don caster, on their way to Scotland. Yesterday the Town Council appointed a committee to make the necessary arrangements for the proper reception of his Ma jesty. It is now finally resolved on, that the banquet to be given to his Majesty, by the Magistrates and Council, will be in the Outer Parliament-house, which is fitting up for the pur pose by Mr. Trotter. The Inner Court-rooms, with the Libraries, will form a suit of rooms well adapted for such an entertainment. His Majesty's stay in this city will not, it is said, exceed a fortnight. He will hold a grand drawing-room and levee, as in Dublin, and receive and give one grand public dinner. The Royal suite will not be so numerous as in Ireland ; but it will principally consist of the same personages. His Majesty in tends to continue his aquatic excursion after his departure from Edinburgh ; but for what length of time is not yet determined. —( Edinburgh Courant, July 25.) Yesterday, at 'two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of WESTMORLAND, Mr. Secretary PEEL, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Viscount SIDMOUTH, and five other Members of the Cabinet, who continued in deli beration till past three o'clock. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Duchess of KENT returned to town on Friday evening, from Bagshot. On Saturday Earl BATIIURST had an audience of the KING. Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR fiad an au dience of his MAJESTY. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the KING yesterday. . _ _ Yesterday his MAJESTY, the Duke of YORK, and the Princess AUGUSTA, attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Dtichessof KENT, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the Princess Sorxia, honoured the Earl and Countess of HARRINGTON with a visit at their residence, in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duchess of KENT was accompanied by the Princess FEODOR and the Princess VITTORIA, at tended by the Baroness de SrAEDTII and. Mrs. LEWIS. The Royal Party were entertained with an elegant dejeunc. Soon after four o'clock they separated. _ Baron de ROTHSCHILO, of Paris, sailed from Yarmouth on Friday for Petersburgh, in the yacht of Sir Wm. CuivrTs. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Andrew Doran, Esq., at Osborn's Hotel, Adelphi, from Madeira ; Mr. and Mrs. Cheratham, at Hodgson's Hotel, Dd ver-street,- from a tour ; John Wright,. Esq., at Blake's Hotel, Jermyn-street; from Linton Hall ; Lady and Miss Newark, from a tour. DEPART URE s..—Colonel and Mrs. Aspenes, from the Cla rendon Hotel, Bond street ; the Earl of Pembroke, for Tun bridge Wells; the Earl and Countess of Cassilis and family, 'for Scotland ; Lord and Lady Carrington and family, for Wy combe Abbey, Bucks ; the Earl and Countess of Dartthouth, ftw Staffordshire; Lord and L a dy E as t nor , f or E astnor C ast l e, Herts. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. The Countess of Harrington gave a sumptuous dejeune yes terday to the Princesses, at her Ladyship's residence in the Stable-yard, St. James's. The Earl and 'Countess of Sefton entertained a distinguished party to dinner yesterday, at their house in Arlington -street. Lord Berwick had a large party to dinner on Saturday, and another party yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor-square. - • Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell entertained a select party of friends to dinner on Saturday, at their house in Charles-street, Berkeley square._ The Earl of Harrington entertained a select party to dinner yesterday, at his house in Stable-yard, St. James's. An elegant party of Fashionables took an aquati c excurs i on on Saturday above Richmond, and partook of an excellent cold collation, consisting of every delicacy, with wines, fruit, ices, &c. and Payne's B an d p er f orme d on b oar d . A f ter a delight ful day passed on this beautiful part of the Thames and sur rounding country, the party principally returned in their car riages, among whom were Lord Burford, and the Ladies Beau clerk, Lady and Miss Trollope, Miss Hodgson, Messrs. Foley, Russell, Lock, Angerstein, &c. FASHIONABLE INVALIDS. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex still continues con fined to the sofa. The tendon in his right foot was not broken, but the effect of the strain will remain, it is feared, for a long time. The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is slowly recovering from the effects of the broken limb. There was a mistake in the state ment as to the cause ; instead of the foot.being entangled in the carpet, his Lordship fell over the firescreen. The Lady of Sir John Harrington, who has been ill far six months, left town with amended health, on Saturday last, for Bognor Rocks. The Dowager Countess of Stamford, who has been long in disposed, we are happy to state, is better. Hopes are enter tained that her Ladyship may be enabled to visit her sister, the Marchioness of Bath, in the Autumn. THE PARK AND THE GARDENS.—Owing to the showery state of the weather, the show of pedestrian belles was limited yesterday. In the carriage costume we observed that simple white dresses and small bonnets were all the ton.-:- It is quite surprising how general the cabriolet is become ; and we never saw so great a muster of barouches as this season I has produced. • They seem all to be modelled after the one ' introduced by the Duke of Devonshire, namely, in straight lines, instead of a sweeping curve. The line yesterday was to Cumberland-gate. Few persons entered Kensington Gardens. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Mt!rried, by Special License, on Saturday evening, in Hanover-square, by the Rev. Arch deacon Markham, Lieutenant-Colonel Clements, M.P. for the county of Leitrim, to Catherine Frances Wentworth, second daughter of Godfrey W e ntwo r th W entwort h , E sq., of Woolley Park, Yorkshire.—The parties afterwards partook of a sump tuous dejeune, at Mr. Godfrey Wentworth's house, in Hanover square. The bride wore a superb dress of Valenciennes lace. The happy pair afterwards proceeded to a beautiful villa, at Long Ditton, near Kingston-upon-Thames. 'v6-A.Afl4 ; -.--..-k' s----.. ::::"r **1')144-9j '' .l-iPcs‘Cj :. `,. - ~, ~,,• f ts ); 11 k MERCANTILE SHIPPING. • DEAL, JULY 27.—Wind S - 71 . V.—Sailed this morning the , Thames, Haviside, for Bengal and China, and the . whole of the outward-bound for their different destinations. Came down from the River and remain the Jane, Bullock, for Oporto. JULY 28.—Arrived this morning and sailed for the River the Ruth, Himley, 57 days from Jamaica; Mary, APGregor, Alicant. Caine down and remain the Perseverance, Brown, for Sierra Leone. P u t b ac k th e C omet , M‘Pherson, for Ma.. deira and Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 27.—Wind S.E. 28th, wind S.W.— Sailed the Royal Squadron for the Downs. FALMOUTH, JULY 26.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Coun. tess of Chichester packet for the Islands ; Duke of Kent packet for Lisbon; Speedy, Andrews, Newfoundland ; Reward, Alex. ander, Bordeaux. PLYMOUTH, JULY 27.—Wind S.—Arrived the Doune Castle, Herbert, from Riga ; Dart, from Dartmouth ; and. Gambier, from Youghall. Sailed the Yo r k M erc h ant, for Cha rente, andi Triton, Carter, for ditto. LIVERPOOL, JULY Haliday, Steward, from Li.. verpool to the Havannah, was totally lost the 18th of May on AlaCrancis Shoal ; crew saved. According to the report of passengers who came up from Margate, yesterday and on Saturday, the Northern Sea'was never seen so rough at this period of the year, in the recollec tion of the oldest fisherman. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 29. • Our Wheat market this worming may be considered from one to two shillings per quarter dearer for prime samples, but very little doing at that advance, and should the present ap pearance of showery weather not continue, it is notlikely Wheats will maintain the above advance. Our Barley trade yery dull to-day not being much in demand, and Beans not much in re quest, and last week's prices very dull. No alteration in the price of Flour. AVERAGE ?RICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND }VALES. Wheat, 435. Bd. ; Barley, 19s. sd. ; Oats, IBs. 10d. ; Rye, 18s. 4d. ; Beans, 265. 4d. • Peas, 255. 9d. The Average Price of irown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the 24th day of July, 1822, is 30s. 4id. per cwt. SMITHFIELD MARKET, JULY 29. There was a good supply of all descriptions of Cattle at market this morning; amongst which were a number of infe rior Oxen, and for which they asked one pound a head higher than last market day ; Sheep and Lamb is also somewhat dearer this morning. Beef 2s 6d to 3s 4d Veal Mutton 2s Od to 25 fi I d Pork Os Od to Os Od Lamb 3s. Od. to 4s. Od. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning, as Mrs. Knight, an aged woman, residing in Garden-row, , Londen-road, wife of one of the Vergers of the Philanthropic Chapel, was endeavouring to turn off the water, the' iiricks on which the water-butt was placed suddenly gave way, and the 'full butt jammed her against the wall with such violence as to force the bones of the chest through her heart, which occasioned her instant death. A Coroner's inquest will be held on the body this day. On Saturday the remains of Mr. Munn, Mercer, of Great Russell -street, Covent : garden, whose case we have already stated, after the inspection of the Jury, (who returned a verdict' of Accidental Death), were removed to his ow ‘ h-house, and from thence to St. Paul's, Covent-garden, whiltehe was in terred. The deceased was a young tradesmair s d much re spected by his neighbours, many of whom follbwtd the corpse' to the grave. _ On Saturday morning, between two arid three o'clock; the house of Mr. R. H. LAU par, No. 53, Fleet-street, was entered by thieves, who contrived to break open his desk in his countinghouse, and his drawer in the iron safe, and stole therefrom 251. in bank-notes and about 401. in sovereigns, also, a snuff-box (of French make), with the portrait of the Duke of Wellington—the Wis formed of two VV's. They had alsu• packed up a basket of pocket maps and two coats, but the watch-, man giving the alarm these were not taken away. The bark notes are two for 101. each, Nos. 11,386 and 11,387, dated 15t1i. June, 1822. The 5/. note was taken of the Duchess of Wel lington on the 25th inst. and has her Grace's name written' across on the back, with J. L. and Mr. Laurie's signature ua_ der it. In a dreadful thunder storm at Waterford ou Saturday afternoon, Wm. Sullivan was struck instantaneously, dead; ayeaping hook which he held in his hand is suppossd(e have been the cause of the attraction.--( Limerick ChroAicec, June 24.) lc on ,o ,Joe'''