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THE LONDON JOURNALS. 1..j11.A CV; FROM THE D 11I.Y MORNING PAPERS, Februais 27, 1822. [THE Timr.s.l The principal object of the discussion last night hl the House of Lords seems to have been to afford that assembly the means of expressing an opinion on the present state of the country, with out waiting (perhaps a week or two) for the measures now in progress in the lower llouse. The Earl of Liverpool made a long and elaborate statement, similar,, of course, in its views and re sults, with that of Lord Londonderry, delivered last Friday week ; but much more clear and dis tinct as a narrative and a piece of reasoning, though quite as unsatisfactory in its explimation of the causes of the existing distress, and in its proposal of relief. Ills Lordship concluded by merely presenting the same accounts which have been already laid on the table of the House of Commons. The Marquis of Lansdowne took occasion to develope also his views of the cause and remedy of the acknowledged distress, and insisted upon nearly the same topics which have been already enforced by Messrs. Tierney and Brougham in the House of Commons. Several other Peers delivered their sentiments ; but no result followed which can be considered as a cri terion of the relative strength of the two parties. [7,3 011NING POST.] The Irish Papers, which arrived yesterday, we are happy to observe, do not contain any fresh accounts of outrages ; and, as the Government is now in a state of great activity, and the law rigo rously administered, hopes may reasonably be entertained that the insurrection of the deluded peasantry will not be of much longer duration. —On the sth day of the Special Commission at Cork, sentence of death was passed on no less than thirty-five miserable wretches, three of whom had been found guilty of murder, and the rest of having violated certain clauses of the White Boy Act. From these awful effects of the ordinary operation of the law (which pro mise to be productive of the most salutary re sults), hopes had been entertained that no severer measures would have been deemed ne cessary to deter the most determined from the continuance of their offences; but this does not appear to be the opinion of those in whose hands is placed the fate of those unhappy people. The Magistrates of The County of Cork have agreed to apply to Government for the ex tension of the Insurrection Act to the whole of that county, notwithstanding the Marquis of Thomond and Colonel Fitzgerald sought to except some part of it from the operation of that t:irrible measure. A similar application has been made by the Magistrates of the City of Cork, though there does not appear to have been any acts of outrage committed there ; and these ex amples seem likely to be followed in- the coun ties of Tipperary and Limerick. No mention is made of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act hav ing been yet carried into execution in. any quar ter ; but an attempt appears to have been made by some informer to try an experiment upon the Editor of -a Kilkenny Paper, which however has completely failed, the Magistrates having had no tlitliculty in discovering that the grounds upon which the unprincipled application was made were entirely false. [MORNING tir.n.u.n.l Mr. Vansittart has at length brought forward his plan for 'doing away the 5 per Cent. Navy Annuities. It was said that he was going to .pay them off—but it is not paying them off to get rid of one species of Annuities to the amount cf-155 millions principal, paying an interest of 7,750,0001. a-year, in order to substitute another .paying 4 per Cent. to the amount of 162,750,000/. subject to an interest of 6,510,000 L thus increas ing the principal of the National Debt in the sum of seven millions and three-quarters, and de creasing the annual interest in the sum of one million and a quarter. So far, however, the scheme is all very well, and, as it regards the getting rid of so much as a million and a quarter annual charge, we congratulate the country that its Chancellor of the Exchequer can, in these distressed times, not only devise such a scheme, but propose its being put into execution. The feature we principally dislike in it is the adding so - much as 7-4 million to the 800 millions principal of the Debt. We would much rather, at any time, hear of a reduction of the principal of the debt than of an addition to it : fur we have hitherto remarked that an addition made to the debt has never afterwards been got rid of. The manner in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer pro poses to get rid of the 5 per Cent. Navy Annui t:;nts, and instead thereof to make them 4 per Cent. Annuitants, we by no means like. It is upon a principle much too hurried : too little time is given for reflection; and, upon the first blush of the thing, there appears to be not a little of contrivance in it. A Chancellor of the Ex chequer of the most extraordinary country in the world, as it respects money matters, should stu eiously avoid even the imputation of contrivance, ‘,hich is another word for trick. Great injustice, in our opinion., is attempted to be practised to wards the Five per Cent. Navy Annuitants. {1711!TISLI PRESS.] The Earl of Liverpool, in' pursuance of his vrevious notice, drew the attention of the House t:f •Lords last night to the general state of the ountry. The 'Noble Lord exerted himself upon this occasion to draw a picture of the internal euritlition of the empire as flattering as his inge 'vqity could devise, and::viitli the immense excel). i:.)n of the agricultural interests, it must be ad 'inited that the.:NOhre Lord did not taX-his-inge -I:uity in. vain. The exposition was in its grin ; :pal features, the same as that which the Marquis c,fLondonderry had submitted to the House of Commons: Upon the subject of the agricultural tl:stresi",.. 'Lord Liverpool still adheres to his ori !inal opinion, that this distreis has arisen - solely. 1 - 4'Orri a. -superabund-auce of production ; and in: :upport of the -iitivezlient principle which the 'Lliiiisteis'incessautly urge, - .that . :the 'ainoutit of taxation has no reference to this point, the Noble Lord shewed that a like distress prevails in other countries where taxation does not press so heavily as it does in England. The price of an article must certainly be affected by the amount of the supply, but if the affairs of the country were not strained violently from their natural state, the abundance of quantity would compensate for such diminution of price as might flow from this casual excess of production. Lord Liverpool's argument, founded upon such a pre sumption, must be incorrect. The bounties of Providence cannot prove the source of natural evils, the farmer cannot be ruined by the fertility of his fields and the very success of his exertions. The doctrine rests upon a paradox which is abhorrent to every principle of reason and reli gion. A more pleasing part of the Noble Lord's exposition is that which shews an in crease in the revenue, the foreign trade, both of export and of import, and in the population of the Empire. We are not afraid to enu merate the increasing population of the empire among those points which offer the best hopes of future improvement. Our people have increased with a wonderful rapidity during the last 20 years, and yet, notwithstanding the ingenious fancies of those who can estimate the happiness or misery of empires by the comparative results of progressions, arithmetical and geometrical, it does appear that the productive powers of the earth have increased more rapidly even than the necessities of the human species, and that our present distresses flow rather from an abundance of produce than an excess of population. Lord Liverpool was followed by the Marquis of Lans down and several other Lords, who submitted to Parliament their views of the state of public affaiis. The proceedings were altogether highly interesting, and well deserve the attention of the public. [NEW TIMES.] We apprehend that the course pursued by the House of Commons with Mr. James's motion on Monday evening, will give very general satis faction. The privileges of the House of Com mons, like the prerogatives of the Crown, exist for the good of the people ; and the good of the people, while it requires a strict attention to the liberty of the subject, demands a no less vigilant care for the due administration of justice. We are therefore strongly and even jealously at tached to privilege and prerogative where they are clear and well defined, because we are sure that since 1688 the existence either of any privilege or prerogative, clearly incompatible with liberty or justice, would never have been tolerated. On the other hand, where a claim of privilege or prerogative, not clearly recognised, not dis tinctly supported by precedent, or not easily re concileable with the known law of the land, is for the first time made, at so late a period of our constitutional history as the present, we do think that there is a strong presumption against the validity of such claim, and it lies upon those who set it up to make out a strong case in its support. Upon the claimant's failure, however, so to do, the wisest and most prudent course for the privi leged body itself to adopt, is to pass to the pre ' vious question ; for it may in many instances he productive of eventual inconvenience to record, as it were, a judgment against themselves. Now the complaint of Mr. .James, if we collect it right, was to this effect, that having entered into correspondence with a Gentleman, who hap pened to have incurred a sentence of two years' imprisonment (for something that he had done at a meeting ; unfortunately regarded by the law as se .ditious), and who was accordingly passing his time in Lancaster Gaol, the gaoler had taken the liberty to open and inspect the letters of both parties, which proceeding the Hon. Member contended was a breach of the privilege of Parliament. Common sense teaches us that a free, unimpeded, and unexamined correspondence, between all prisoners and all persons out of gaol, can never be allowed to exist in any country, and certainly never did exist in England ; a right, therefore, in Members of Parliament, as such, to correspond with convicts in prison secretly, (that is, under the inviolable cover of the Member's address or frank) must stand upon the ground of special privilege alone. Now, so far as we have been able to discover from the debate or otherwise, there never has been any clear and express declaration or recognition of such a specific privilege. Nay, we believe it has never been distinctly established that Members of Parliament have a right to correspond with all per sons under commitment before trial, or even to see and converse with prisoners generally, unless subject to the rules and regulations of the prison., Now the privilege of communication by letter is of far wider extent than that of visitation and conversation ; it is also much more liable to abuse; for if a letter is to pass the prison gates unopened, merely because it is addressed to or franked by a Member of the House of Commons, a channel of communication is opened between the prisoner and any third party. The most amiable feelings of humanity may induce a Mem- 1 ber to pass a letter, under his frank, from a convict to his wife, or to any other man's wife who goes by the convict's name ; and in such letter, plots for breaking prison, for promoting new seditious and treasons, or for committing new robberies and murders, may be arranged and matured totally unknown to the Member. How ever if the privilege had been already and une quivocally proved to exist, we should have been inclined to believe, that its original establish ment was sanctioned by some profound views of policy, although we are not skilful enough to discover them. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Another Ministerial Speech on the State of the Country was delivered last night in the House of Lords by Lord Liverpool. His Lordship began by adverting to the increase of population as esta blished by the recent Census. We cannot, how ever, compliment his Lordship on the enlarged nature of the vies, s which be has taken on this subject. 44 The increase," said his Lord ship, 44 was the more remarkable, as it 'had taken place notwithstanding the effects of a long and exhausting war•; and however paradoxi cal it might appear, it was all the circumstances :connected with that war which appeared to have produced the result of an increased population. It app6ared by the Census that the population of England, Wales, and Scotland, which in 1801 was 10,942,646, had increased in 1811 to 12,596,803, or at the rate of 15 per cent., and in 1821 to 14,379,677, or at the rate of 17 per cent. This increase, it should be observed, was not in any particular district, or in any particular dis trict more than another (though there were some differences), but was general throughout the island. The population of the manufacturing districts did not appear to have increased in a greater proportion than that of the agri cultural districts, though the former might be supposed to have a greater natural tendency to increase, nor was there any remarkable indi cation of differences in the different parts of the island." As there is a power and a tendency in mankind to increase at a much more rapid rate than any of which we have an example in this island, and as population (where not forced by bad laws) regulates itself by the funds for its maintenance, the increase during the war may be brought forward as a proof that our capital and revenue continued also to increase ; but as the capital and revenue of the country would, if there had been no war, have been still greater, and con sequently afforded means for the existence of a greater population, we are at a loss to see how his Lordship can place the increase of popu lation to the account of the war. But his Lord ship does not draw those conclusions from the last Returns, which naturally suggest themselves to an enlightened mind. lie seems to rejoice that the increase of .population is every where the same—that is, is as great in places where there is a demand for additional labour, as in places where there is little or no additional demand. This is precisely the circumstance which we lament; and it is attributable alone to the various laws, which in England call forth and confine a population in places where it is not wanted, instead of allowing the population to adjust itself to the demand for it. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEB. 26. WHITEHALL, FEB. 23, 1822. The King has been pleased to present John Honywood Ran dolph Clerk, Master of Arts, to the Rectory of Fobbing, in the County of Essex and Diocese of London, void by the resigna tion of the Rev. George Burrard. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton. The Hon. Philip Sydney Pierrepont to be Deputy Lieu tenant ; John Beauclerk, Esq. to be ditto ; George Morgan, Esq. to be ditto. Yeomanry Cavalry.—Thomas Philip Maunsell, Gent. to be Lieutenant • the Hon. Thomas Atherton Po w y s to b e ditt o; Charles Wykhami Martin, Gent. to be ditto. BANKRUP TS. tt'. Stevens, Northumberland -street, Strand, baker, to sur. render March 2,9, and April 9, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Tatham, Craven street, strand. Dose, Berkeley-square, auctioneer, March 2,9, and April 9, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Richardson and Ni Hier, New Inn. J. Larbalestier, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, wine merchant, March 5, 16, at ten, and April 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Taylor, Jewin street, Alder:gate-street. J. and J. 'Tomlinson, High Hesket, Cumberland, inn keepers, March 5,6, and April 9, at 11, at the Bush Inn, Carlisle. Attornies, Mr. Leadbitter, Bucklersbury, London ; and Mr. rairbairn, Carlisle. P. Sowerby, sen., and P. Sowerby, Jun., Liverpool, provi sion merchants, March 19, 20, and April 9, at one, at the Star and Garter, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Avison, Liverpool ; and Mr. Wheeler, Castle-street, Holborn. G. Burton, Knottingley, Yorkshire, vessel builder, March 6, at six, 7, and April 9, at ten, at the Green Dragon Inn, Pon tefract. Attorni es , M r . W oo d, Pontefract; and Messrs. Fisher and Sudlow, Thavies Inn. J. Wood, Rugeley, Staffordshire, miller, March 18, at five, 19, and April 9, at twelve, at the Talbot Arms Inn, Rugeley. Attornies, Messrs. Lowes and Cowburn, Tanfield-court, Temple ; and Mr. Smith, Rugeley, Staffordshire. T. Salter, Geist, Norfolk, farmer, March 11, at four, 12, at ten, and April 9, at three, at . the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Lt tomies, Mr. harbor, Fetter-lane, London ; and Messrs. •.;ooper, East Dereham, Norfolk. 'l'. Saintney, Cottenlam, Cambridgeshire, dealer, March 4, 6, and April 9, at ten, at the Hoop lnn, Cambridge. , Attornies, Mr. Peacocke, Cambridge; and Mr. Robinson,' Half-Moon street, Piccadilly, London. J. Hedley and I'. F. Wills, Sutherland, ship-owners, March 7,8, at ten, and April 9, at eleven, at Browne's Hotel, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. Attornies, Mr. Fisher, Lyme Regis ; and Mr. Beverley, G ar d en - cour t, T em pl e , London. J. Hargraves, Liverpool, miller, March 13, 14, and April 9, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. T. Low ten, Lansdown-place, Brunswick-square; and Mr. Leicester, Liverpool. T. Congdon, Torquay, county of Devon, merchant, March 14, 26, and April 9, at eleven, at the Public Rooms, East Teignmouth. Attornies, Mr. J. Williams, Red-lion square ; and Mr. J. C. Tozer, Teignmouth. L. Squire, Earith, Huntingdon, tanner, March 13, at six, 14, and April 9, at ten, at the C r o wn I nn , St. Ives. Attornies, Mr. G. 0. Day,_ St. Ives; and Messrs. Long a nd Austen, Holborn-court, Gray's-Inn, London. T. Hoyle and J. Lord, Irwell-Springs, Lancashire, calico printers, March 21, at five, 22, at ten, at the Bull Inn, Burn ley, and April 9, at ten, at the - ,Star nn, Manchester. Attor nies, Mr. Norris, John-street, Bedford-row, London ; and Messrs. W. and R. Shaw, Burnley. S. Field, Richmond, Surrey, wine and spirit merchant, March 2,9, and April 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. T. Gates, Cateaton-street. W. I;eilden, Liverpool, merchant,' March 21, 22, and April 9, at one, at the George Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool. Attor nies, Messrs. Statham and Foster, Liverpool; and Messrs. Slade and Jones, John-street, Bedford-row. W. Rawe, Padstow, Cornwall, mercer, March 11, 12, and April 9, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, Padstow. Attor nies, Mr. W. M. Brown, Padstow ; and M e s sr s. Tho m p s o n and Jay, 5, Gray's inn-place ' Gray's Inn, London. J. Ansel], Filkins, Oxfordshire, farmer, March 25, at five, 26, and April 9, at eleven, at the King's Head, Northleach.— Attornies, Messrs. Russell and Son, Lant.street , Southwark, London ; and Messrs: Willkins and Kendall, Mourton-on-the- Water, Gloucestershire. DIVIDENDS. March 19, J. Richardson, Manchester, dealer—March 20, J. Lathy, Honiton, Devonshire, mercer—March 25, W. Smedley, Burton-upon-Trent, grocer—April 0, A. W. Bellairs, sen. Stamford, and .1. Bellairs, jun. Derby, bankers—March 21, tv. Booth, G. Booth, and R. Booth, Bishopwearmouth, ship builders—March 25, J. Raven, Burton-upon-Trent, saddler— March 23, W. Thomas, Tichbourne-street, oilman—:March 9, R. Miller, Old Fish-street, bookseller—March 23, S. Cr a ne and H. S. rane, Stratford, merchants—March 20, M. New ton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cooper. CERTIFICATES, MARCH 19. W. Warren, Manchester, horse dealer—T. Bennett, Ded dington, Oxfordshire, dealer—J. Scarrow, Carlisle, spirit mer chant—S. Chapman, Greenwich, linen draper—S. Todd, Southampton, mercer—J. Howard, St. Martin's -court, Martin's-lane, cordwainer—W. Parr, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden, tailor—B. Brittain, Sawbridgeworth, Hertford shire, hay-dealer—H. Gird, Park-lane, saddler—W. White_ smith, Old Fish-street, grocer—J. Bennett, Greenfairfield, Derbyshire, cattle dealer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. , F. Jones, .I.. Hunt, and R. Hunt, Bagillt Colliery, Flint. shire—A. Macnab and P. Stuart, Malta—W. Heyward, sen. and J. Booth, Manchester, cheesemongers—J. Ivie and H. Trood, sen. Taunton, coal merchants—J. H. Malett and T. Bishop, Downham-market, Norfolk, plumbers--R. Baines, R. Baines, and J. Bewley, Liverpool—R. C. Cross and W. Elliot, Gutter-lane, lace dealers—l. Swaine and J. Swaine, J. Halifax, carpenters—E. Houlston and B. Smith y Wellington, Shrop shire, booksellers—T. W. Barker, J. T. Barker and J. Gough, Gracechurch-street, merchants (as 'far as regards J. rirough only)—J.. Barclay and W. Cuming, Cambridge, coac.loivkpt H. Trigg and J. Ratcliff, - Hertford, timber meich/inte. ' FOREIGN LITERATURE. (No. LVI.) LE RENEGAT, i. e. THE RENEGADE, by the Viscount d'ARLIgCOURT. 2 VoLs. Bvo. Paris , 1822. We noticed the Solitaire, the former produc tion of this author, in our paper of the 15th of February, 181, and then alluded to the con troversy at Paris between the supporters of the old French School of Literature, and the modern innovators who have introduced a new style, called the Romantic, formed on the model of the works of our immortal Shakspeare, Lord Byron, and the author of Waverly. We understand that the controversy continues to be carried on with undiminished ardour. Since our report, the Solitaire has passed through seven editions, and been translated into English under the title of the Recluse ; yet in spite of this extraordinary success, and notwith standing for months every pretty mouth at Paris could talk of nothing else, and so many secret tears were shed over it, this work could not escape the censure of some French _Aristarchi, by whom it has been severely handled. The fame of M. d'Arlincourt has been called in ques tion, his laurels disputed leaf by leaf, and the most unequivocal proofs of his brilliant triumph obstinately contested. These critics will not admit that the formidable man of Mont Sauvage possesses any merit, notwithstanding he has been melo-dramatized at Paris and London, and trans lated as an opera buffa at Rome ; they chuse to forget that the innocent and interesting Elodie has furnished Paris with the subject of we know not how many romances, designs, engravings, and cloaks, and they have wickedly treated the vir gin of Underlach, the flower of the valley, and the dove of the monastery, with more severity than did the wily Countess Imberg and the traitor Palzo. But this is not all. These lite rary critics have penetrated into the saloon of the author, guilty of having made so much noise in the world ; they have found fault with his mode of speech, his manners, habits, and amusements; they have watched his every step, and followed him whithersoever he went; in short, they have dis closed most of the practices in use among the vo taries of Apollo. M. d'Arfincourthowever was meditating, in the midst of these impotent clamours, and preparing, in the very presence of his enemies, a narrative ca pable of affecting even the classics themselves, and seemed to say to them : " To confound your criticisms, I am finishing a composition which shall surpass in the marvellous, in theatrical touches, and impetuosity of style, that which you now condemn ; and though the faults of the ro mantic school it displays may shock still more your jealous eyes, I will spare no effort to ex cite your sensibility, and force you to confess that inventive minds may diverge into new paths, and that pre-eminent success cannot be obtained by a too rigid adherence to the lessons of the school." Such is the character of the Re njgat ; and we doubt not this hero of the new style will be as well received by the world as his predecessor the Solitaire. We shall now proceed to relate the principal events in the new work of M. d'Arlincourt.— The reader is transported back to the eighth century, at the epoch when the Saracens crossed the Pyrenees and invaded the whole of Narbo nese Gaul and a part of Aquitaine; and it is in the mountains of the Cevennes, in those solitudes ravaged by torrents, covered with volcanic re mains, and resembling most frequently, accord ing to an expression of the author, infernal towns deserted by demons, that the action takes place. We have no longer the adventures of a warrior, who turns hermit to expiate his crimes, and whom the sight of a young girl suddenly converts into a lover, and a man of wealth : the Renegade, formed on the largest proportions, is on the con trary at the zenith of his power; he commands brave armies,and his name alone puts whole battalions of the enemy to flight; vengeance animates and burns within his bosom, and like another Coriolanus he covers his own country- (France) with dead bodies, reduces it to ashes and ruins, and ravages hat beautiful Kingdom, of which he would have been the Sovereign but for terrible misfortunes : now a victory, and the whole of Gaul is sub dued ; again a victory, and all Europe perhaps is Mussulman. Fortunately for all Europe, history tells us, there was a Charles Martel. M. d'Arlincourt says the same thing, but Charles Martel in the romance occupies only a secondary place : he ap pears only a short time before the denouement, and it is plain that with a little more audacity the author might have very well done without this hero. The principal character in the work,; who arrests the triumphant march of the children of IVlahomet, is a young woman, an inspired vir gin, the most lovely of human beings. Though she gains a regular battle, and takes a fort by storm, her fame does not rest on deeds of war : she has a weapon of a different nature, and equally powerful as the sword of Joan of Arc; she speaks, and her voice awakens expiring patriotism, and covers the mountains of Ce vennes with soldiers. The ememy's General himself, the ferocious Renegade, cannot re sist the enchantments of this Christian Armida. Here she saves his life ; there she appears when he awakes from his slumbers, as a protecting divinity ; elsewhere she pours the balm of conso lation into his heart, which the ingratitude of man has rendered barbarous ; and a single word from her, a single look, is enough to calm the fury of Agobar, and to stop the course of his blasphemies. But Ezilda, who yields with still stronger force to her feelings, as soon as she re cognizes in the Renegade the being for whom her hand was destined, Ezilda meditates a greater victory : she wishes to bring back the chief of the Infidels to the worship of the true God, and this triumph, which is only ac complished after most unexampled efforts, is the predominant object of the work. All the other figures are grouped around this astonishing woman, and she absorbs such pre-eminent inte rest that it would, in our opinion, have been more appropriate to give the romance the title of the Inspired than that of the Renegade. Besides, Agobar, divided betwixt vengeance and love, interests less than Ezilda: one is, perhaps, a more theatrical personage ; the other breathes, on the contrary, that spirit of charity, that Chris tian enthusiasm, that Angelic heroism, which charm every heart. The denouement of the Renegade is gloomy and terrible. As regards its moral effect, the work is irreproachable. Though the author has employed very brilliant colours, he seems at least to have bestowed them on subjects calcu lated to awaken generous sentiments and elevated ideas. He does not belong to that class of lite rary innovators, who delight in displaying the beautiful, the grand, and the heroic, in the maxims of a systematic villain, or the exploits of a misanthropic robber. We entertain little doubt of the triumph of the Renegade. The name alone of M. d'Arlin court will carry his new production to the con. fines of the romantic world. In a few days the present edition will be exhausted *; and we may venture to say, that among our Gallic neigh bours he who has not already perused the Rene gade will be disclaimed by that frivolous Divi nity who presides over the saloons of Paris. * After this article was written, a second edition of the RE NEGADE has been published at Paris, and Mr. COLBURN has advertised that a translation of it is in the press. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 26. HOWARD AND GIBBS' BANKRUPTCY. The LORD CHANCELLOR was this day again occupied ara hearing Counsel in the above Bankruptcy until three o'clock, at which time his Lordship rose. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fan. 26. THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. THE KING V. DOLBY. In consequence of this case being fixed for this. day, the Court was crowded to excess at an early hour, but only the two Special Jurymen were in attendance, viz. William Fisher, Esq. and William . Kimber, Esq.; the pannel being called over, several persons whose names did not appear on the pannel stood up, and stated they had been summoned. The CHIEF JUSTICE requested they would wait. Mr. Scam. Err said, he could very well see the contrivance, that a number of persons had been summoned to supply the places of those who did not appear; he should, however, con tend, that the Act which gave such power to an officer, viz. 95 Hen. VIII. cap. 6. only applied to criminal cases; that of Philip and Mary enforced the same law. Mr. EVANS supported the same line of argument. The CoaoNen was th e n p re p ar i ng to call over the names of the Jurors he had summoned, to supply any deficiency that should arise in the non-attendance of the Jurors, when Mr. SCARLETT objected ; the practice, he said, of selecting Jurors by de tales circumstanti6ns, was always done instanter, and not that they should be ordered to attend , as in that case. The forming of a Jury w as qu it e i n the power of an Officer, as he might take care to strike at the Crown-office such a Jut y as he knew would not attend, and order those to attend in Court whom he might contrive to select without controul. In support of his objection, Mr. Scarlett cited Hawkins's Pisa's, and various authorities, together with the two Acts before referred to. Mr. EVANS also cited cases from many of the books, all of which supported Mr. Scarlett's objection ; lie also referred to the 4th and sth of Philip and Mary, which supported the same principle. _ . . The CHtsF Justice said, it was true that there were vari. ous writers upon the subject, but that they had followed each other; but the first of them had not taken the cleat est view of the subject—at least that was his opinion. After a fea , words froM Mr. Gurney and Mr. Tyndal, on behalf of the prosecution, the Chief Justice considered the objection could not be sustained. He then read from an old manuscript on second, as follows : " Mr. Coroner, I desire you will call a sufficient number of able persons to attend, to supply any deficiency that may arise in the pannels." The Coroner (Mr. Stirling) was proceeding, when Mr. SCARLETT submitted, that there was only one Coroner in attendance—there ought to have been two. The Learned Gentleman produced several authorities to that effect. ` The Chief Justice holding it to be good, Mr. Murray went up to Mr. Gude. the Deputy Coroner, and having had some conversation with him, an application was made for the case to stand over a short time, until the arrival of Mr. Unwin, the other Coroner. The Court would not, however, agree to this, and the trial was postponed. The Chief Justice ordered the Special Jurors that were not in attendance to be fined. PITT, QUI TAM, V. STEWARD. This was an action to recover penalties for alleged bribery in the borough of Cainelford. The evidence did not apply, and the Jury found a verdict for.the defendant. Monday afternoon the body of a young man, apparently about twenty, was found in the Regent's Canal, at Limehouse, and was conveyed to the bone-house to be owned. lie was shab bily attired, and appeared to have been about a week in the water. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, February 26. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight l2 5 Rotterdam l2 9 Antwerp l2 5 Harnburgb 37 4 2i Us Altoria Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 40 . 0 Us. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frankfort on the pain Madrid Cadiz Bilboa 364 Effective Barcelona Seville Gibraltar Leghorn GeLoa 43i-Venice, Ital. Liv. 27 GO Malta 45 -Naples 391 Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin .... 9i Cork 9i pc! Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, i n Coin 1.0 9 0 perOt, Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 101 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 11 BIRTHS. Yesterday, the 26th inst., in Fleet-street, Mrs. Currey, of a son. On Monday, the 25th inst., in China-terrace, the wife of Philip Prince, Esq., of a daughter. On Monday evening, the 25th inst., at Clapham, Mrs. Mann, of a daughter, her 13th child. MARRIAGES. On Saturday last, at Strood, Francis Patten, Esq. of Roches ter, to Mrs. Earrett, of Strood; at the same time and place, Mr. John Patten, of Hollingbourne farmer, to Miss Elizabeth Earrett, of Strood. The latter couple were the son and daugh ter of the former couple. Monday week, at Manchester, Mr. Wilson Lister, of Arm ley, to Miss Broadbent, daughter of Mr. J. Broadbent, of Al woodley, near Leeds, farmer. DIED. Lately, at Laurel Cottage, Adelstone, near Chertsey, Edward Whitlock, Esq. formerly Proprietor and Manager of the Nowcastle and other Provincial Theatres. This Gentle man married Miss E. Kemble, sister of Mrs. Siddons, and was through life respected for good sense and integrity. 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