The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

The Whig candidates could not shew themselves Oxford or Cambridge_; and at Trinity Collev, they w defeated by a majority of three to one. Strong in t Tower Hamlets, Marylehone, and St. Giles's,—irrcsi ble among the weavers of Manchester, and the bla smiths of Birmingham, they could not venture a strn with the educated gentlemen of England even at Whig University of Cambridge. This is a decisive as to the future fate of the empire. Brute strength, sical numbers, cannot, in the end, contendetvith inte tual superiority; the diamond edge of genius will s bonds which the strength of millions .could not br The arms, and legs, in a moment of intemperance, cease to obey the head ; but the eternal subjection matter to mind will not the less, in the end, be assert It was not thus at the outset of the French Revoluti all the educated classes there urged on the movem and their heads began to fall before they were convin of their error ; but the superior intelligence and'habi thought of England have saved it from this ruinous i tuation. The coming storm has been seen by the edn tion of the country, and they have set themselves 111 fully to resist it. They were too late in doing so to p vent the onset of the storm, but they may still influe its direction and moderate its fury. The sway of the volutionary party is rapidly subsiding in the educa classes ; it is altogether extinct in their higher grad and dying out in the lower. It is still paramount in ' middling and lower orders, because they are always sv ed by the principle which ten years before influenced ' higher. In the present inundation of Movement me bers into the House of Commons, may be discerned ' natural consequence of the absurd pseudo-liberality w hi six or eight years ago, distinguished so many of t young men of rank and fortune at the universities. the opinions entertained by their successors at this ti , is to be found the harbinger of a brighter day to fat times, and the mirror of public opinion, after a long terval of disaster and suffering, in future years. These anticipations must be still farther strengthen' if it is recollected, in the fourth place, that the middli orders, in whom the strength of the Revolutionary p now lies, must soon be exposed to individual sufferi and misery in consequence of the infatuated course will they have pursued, and the wicked leaders whom t have chosen to follow. All the great interests of country, and with them all the small interests of country, are at stake: The. Church is the first victi and it has spread its roots too far through the middli classes, not to excite a general and heartfelt feeling of Bret and indignation when it is despoiled of its and inheritance. The Corn Laws, and the Funds, w they are assailed, will each affect the livelihood and s sistence of millions. It will no longer be the politi power of the higher orders which will be tied to the st to be worried by the dogs of revolution, but the fort and subsistence of large masses of the .people; and triumph of the Revolutionists will be dimmed by tears of the orphan, the cries of the destitute, the 1,0 1 ings of the dying. When those disastrous events °cc as occur they will, it is impossible that a large portion A the middling and lower orders should not break off frol the leaders who have ruined and betrayed them S' i lament the misery which will then be created, we sh do our utmost to alleviate it, so far as we can, but know that it is unavoidable. Misery and suffering ni tame the fierceness of passion in nations as well as in viduals; the laws of nature are not to be broken NO, impunity; and those, who, disregarding the voice of No doin, will yield to the tempter, must in sackcloth ashes repent of their sins, not ess in the political the moral world. Lastly, the talent and courage which has burst fell among the young and brilliant leaders of the Consercl hive band, encourage the warmest hopes of the fate ;he empire, when they arrive at such a station as to ro' .ts councils. Difficulties and dangers create men • 0, he ability which in ordinary times might be buried I )bscurity, or perhaps lost in frivolity, is, in these-stirri tad trying times, called to a nobler sphere, and traifg o the exercise of more animating duties. It is with fee ngs of no ordinary pride that we notice the brilliant & Ttions which Scotland has made at this eventful crisi, Manchester has rejected Mr. Hope; Roxburghshire 0 .1 mobably do the same to Lord John Scott. These ever~ lily prove the total unfitness of the class to whom ti teform Bill has given power, to exercise it to their ,r their country's advantage, and sets off in brighter ¶ ours, by the force of contrast, the splendid talents whi 4 hey were unable to appreciate. The brilliant eloquen 6 ound constitutional principles, and enlarged views hese eminent young men, prove how fit they were arm the brightest ornaments of the Senate ; their re e' ion, the miserable prospect of salvation which the -1 11 n•m Bill affords to the country. But let them not 11 iscouraged ; the time will come, when they will spe! as willing as they have hitherto found adverse auo nces among the lower orders, and when the admiratiO hick they have universally awakened among the ecY ited gentlemen who could understand, will be shared le ignorant multitude, who will then have learnt by St' 'ring to appreciate them. The duty of the Conservative band, who, in the mid' r the general democratic madness, find a place in tb egislature, is sufficiently plain. Let them adhere ge l , .ly to their principles ; recollect that on them, as to Lcred band of Thebans, the sole hopes of, their countow rest; and that,- victorious or vanquished; the ado,' lion. of posterity and•the gratitude of their country i*," tend them if they never swerve from the path of dffl et them join in no coalitions to throw out the Ministil sgrace themselves by no unions for a momentary t°' nph with the Radicals; but steadily and uniformly col l o ler Revolution as the demon which they are sent the il combat, and, by the blessing of God, will ultimate'', nquer. By uniformly adhering to this principle, the' ill remain perfectly clear of the march of innovatiol Ld all its ruinous excesses and consequences : they Lye nothing to reproach themselves with in their pauP: reer ; and when suffering has taught the people th e il rors,_ and anguish has - tamed their passions, it is to the at the nation will turn with tears of repentance, eir patriotism which it will celebrate in strains of 01 tat i on.—Blackwood's Magazine. THE PORTUGUESE WAR. The state of our relagons with Portugal has bec o anxious, so much perplexed by contending factio o id likely to invoke this nation in such embarrOsi i : nsequences, that we believe we shall gratify pin- real s by a general and fair outline of the question. is matter we take no side The competitors for !c, mtuguese throne are equally indifferent to us, ,v t" rors or crimes of the parties are not within our ite. Don Miguel and Don Pedro are to us the sa il s et we very deeply regret the, circumstances, whelm t ising from chance, caprice, or necessity, which Ili iced England in all but a direct position of war 1 :4 old, so faithful, and so important an ally as Porto If Don Miguel were personally guilty of every er l ,o it could degrade the human character, we might su'it d hate the individual,—we might pronounce - him 9 0 0 sit upon a throne, if we. will, but the arbitration t rest with us. The Portuguese nation, full' , " / ainted with , the man and the character, have 'clIV n for their monarch. And which amongst our rer i tiers of nations, will venture to say, that they 1 0 it for the apprpbatio'n ,of England on - the mat s they have chosen ill, the -ill be on them. Bat Dice can be no mare an affair of ours than the calag to Portuguese have.shown that their choice was f i rt ieous : they have Since shown that they adhe,, 4 ( !ir choice, they are at this hour holding out dev he tNyo most powerful nations of Europe, 7 —England it ranee,--in assertion of their choice ; and, in the he of justice, freedom and common sense, what right , l 'e we to say, that they shall not have the king *lioth Phave chosen ? theie remartS, we have no idea. Of charginf the .. . glishConxicils with any factious and interme dling ribition.. They may have been involved in the dispute 'the original weakness of Mr. Canning's intervention. ''icy, and by the new systeM of flattering the French jerninent. We speak of .the WhOe transaction, not 'the spiri_k- of party,. but in the common sense of every ' life. With the Portuguese choice of the sitter. on e throne; England has, unquestionably, no right what er to interfere. But in one point, we must beWare it we Ste, however unconsciously, draWing a .degree guilt upon ourselves; and that point is, the present eetice•of raising soldiers- for the Portuguese contest. 6 man has a rikhrto shed the brood of man Mit in self LWnee, or for the protection of the weak, and this lat only in extreme Cases. • The soldier fighting for hiS ry fights virtually in Self•deferice. .But who can the recruits that are going off daily to fight in Por •1, in the liSt of self-defenders ? We are not at war To Portugal as a nation, vet do we not sanction, by winking at the act; the crime of men going,to shoOt uguese for .their pay ? The Saine rule which now 's tie British recruit to fight in Portugal would sane murder on the high road. The highwayman shootS ' for what he can get- by it. What perstmal feeling the British half-pay oiflcer; ,or the cothinori soldier, e in a quarrel between two Portuguese princes ? His ag is, notoriously and simply, a desire to be em ,ed, to get pay and promotion, and for that purpoSe beds the blood of Portuguese officers and soldiers ;- .tigers, whom he would never meet but for thus seeking r blood; and with whom he haS no more national or 'anal quarrel than with the_ man in the moon. Be ' all doubt, this act of utterly unprovoked and unneces aggression in the individual, ismurder--murder in the of God and man. In this statement, we advocate cause no more of Don Miguel than of Don Pedro. arking in the service of either, the British officer iild be equally criminal. , Our government may not tthle to prevent the entering of private and military •ons into the quarrels of foreign countries. But over half-pay list it has a hold; and if it shall suffer a sin individual to raise men in this country for either y, it, beyond all controversy, puts itself into a posi tof belligerency. On this head we shall rejoice to - our policy retracted. If the Portuguese princes will 'thine to present to Europe a spectacle unpretedented. ang all the frightful, disgusting, and guilty spectacles later times,_ two brothers seeking each other's blood ; the British take the only part suitable to a wise and 'cal people, let the British nation distinctly refuse to 'an accomplice in this hideous exhibition ;, or, if We t exert our power, let us exert it to conciliate and Tease, and put forth our intervention to stop a contest, deli outrages every public interest, every principle of ' anity, and every command of religion. The exact state of the question this.. Befere 'the 'tli of the late King John the Sixth, Don Pedro had; an act of direct revolt, declared Brazil independent of . hugal, and himself Emperor. On the death of the King, in 1826, the Portuguese nation; notwithstand the revolt, offered their croWn to Don Pedro,' on ition of his returning to Portugal, which, by the lent laWs, was essential to his possession of the throne. a throne then, by those laws, came to the second son the late King, but that son was a prisoner in Austria regency was appointed in this emergency, by the in ace of Don Pedro, at the head of which was his sister, Infanta, which regency was suffered only in copse !nee of ie annexed condition; that on the second son's ' ring at the age of twentyfive, that son should assume regency; a - provision which notoriously pointed out ri Miguel, lie being twenty-three at the time, but in 'able of the throne by reason of his being in captivity. t even with this proviso the national discontent grew violent, that it produced the insurrection and invasion, 'jell were put down only by the British troops sent out Mr: Canning, on the pretext that, as coming from in, they constituted a Spanish invasion. It was thus rid necessary to release Don Miguel, and appoint him gent in order to quiet the public tumultsi . and preserve L y show of dependence on l3on Pedro. But with this rlainal Sovereign the Portuguese nation were not con it. They considered a regency to bean acknowledg 'at of dependence on a power which had constituted lf altogether a: separate . and foreign state. With a rfectly justifiable national feeling, they refused' to sat the colony to become the dispbser of the parent state; d they, in . 182, proclaimed Don. Miguel king, for the re object of national independence, and in undoubted tisistency with the spirit of their *hole code of laws erring to the throne. Don Pedro now; for the•purpose shaking Don Miguel's succession ' transferred to his 'ltgliter, t Donna Maria, a right which existed no longer, having alienated it from himself, and set her up as a 'al to the prince of the national choice. The Portu ese 'nation, still considering that the government of a Ai must be but a contrivance for keeping . the country 'der the jurisdiction of the father, and being justified th e laws of the Cortes, rejecting theforeign king and descendants, refused to receive her 'as their Queen ; Zd have armed in defence of the sovereign whom they '',c'se, certainly without' any intervention of foreign aid, .!r Whom 'they are now fighting, and whom they. have therto shown no tendency whatever, under all their I ktptations, to abjure. 41t i s evident that Don Pedro; without his, foreign brig- -s, and his foreign money, could not stay an hour in °rtugal; it is equally clear that Don Miguel is fighting 'th no other strength than the force of the country. It equally rt t clear that a continuance of the struggle Ca alienate Portugal from England, distutb Spain with s of revolution abetted by England, and, as the result, - e them both listen to the first overtures from Austria Russia, as conservatives of the•old European system, ease of that war which now 'seems to - menace Europe. 'e character of the • indiVidohlii§'cOmpa,ratively unim I ttant to the question. The only point for England to Sider is, whether she canha'Ve any right to dictate the °ice of 'a sovereign to an independent nation.—Black "d'.v Magazine. JtE flEcrcinEs.—The details of that ravel tragedy (the trial sentence of King Charles) Bare no rjlatiou to a naval bio 7 Yiy, further than to record; that not one seaman Was a party in tieath, who was a contempttrazy_lwitness of its enaction, has .us in his chronicle, .which,embraces all those details, a minute. '''ltgue of the name, qUality; and deY6riptidii orevery'iudivi al acted as a member of tbetriblintil 16 Which royal life aba.ndoned:" That catalogue consists, of one ecclesiastic, 14 qiers, eight lawyers, three eitizenalme'but!.her, two brewers, luerchant ; ono chandler,' two goiilsinith one shOpkeeper, tWo.linen4lrapers, oue woollen s, draper, one shoe- 'Wenone salter's apprentice,. tout civilians without' pro 'loll or trade in' all 7.B,•pettens4'or 150 that had been i o lailtated for - that- revoltingtfunetion - but -not one seaman: , 54 e1 Deane(one Of the four teen Soldiers enumerated), whom f) , l / I well afterwards _sent -.to Command and control the fleet, ;' i at that time a stranger to the fleet, and the fleet to him. ;p 4 , r eildon, indeed, writing-largely, calls him ' a mere seaman, , ' l vrtt from a common mariner to the reputation of a bold - and 'klt,-ellent officer;' but Heath who wrote with more minuteness h"! more knowledge of the truth,- states, ',be was formerly a j /, 41411 's servant at Ipswich-; and when the war began was a " r °, ss in the train of artillery, and ruso to a Captain's com -1,(1 therein, and was : famous at the siege of Exeter; and ' l ng a cro ss f e llow, was thought fit - to b e one of Cromwell's N - n Mm riplice s t o exec ut e hi s plOts aga i ns t his sotereign's life:— 'fle oriat,s of Sir William Penn. ! THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. rOItEiGN , . • • . EliAtik)E. ..„ The Paiit..paPers.-of Wedueschiv.have. been =edited. The Xen ite u r gives the addregs9f.the diplomatic body to.the:King. Count d'Appony, (in the .abaence of. Ptitive..Pozzo di Borgo,) was the speaker. Th e address is a security for peace. It was as follows • • • ~ .• . . • , `.! StuE,HTlie diploMatic bodv, of which I have ta-ilay the hopinir.of being. the organ, aliVays embraces with eagerness all pceasions.to Offer to your ,Maiesty .the homag e. of its respects, and to address to you the wishes of the august - Savereighs whom it has•the.h9tmw to.represent.. " These wishes, Sire, are, yours; ,for, their oltje,ct is the main tenance of peace, and a, certainty, .ef future tranquillity, order, 'and internal prosperity for..Francß., ".re . rinit Sire on the iiiferestiAg occasion of the return of a new year, our. homage. to be blended with the, happy presenti ment that these import a nt results will he obtained.. \Are are happy to be cert4gt that they wilt liq so; the union which exists between all the courtS,and the,p,ersonal sentiments of your Ma jesty ofler in this respect all, de*Mble Securities. "impressed with this confidence, the diPloruatic body begs your l`thijegty to be Pli.4sed to accept the expression of it, and accompanies it with the homage of its sincere and respectful Wi'shes," - The King replied— . " Gentlemen, I receiv e With.indeti satisfaction this new tes timony of the, sentiments of The. diplomatic body on the occa , sion of - the, ifew,year. I rejoice to see how much the,wishes. of the sovereigns whom you represent agree with mine, to preserve peaee and to secure to Europe, as well as to France, a long..cou tinuance of that.repose and tranquillity. which is so necessary to the, good orderor all the,states, and. to .the increase of their prospelity.., hope .that the Dew year which is now opening berme us will addsnew. security to those that. we have already obtained, to causolidate the good understanding which.so hap pily subsi4s between all the powers., You know that all my efforts tend to preserve it. and I thank. .yop for the confidence you testify; to me, personally, in This ,respeet.' ; . Baron Pasquier. presented the address of the peeri. The King iii reply said- - 7 . . "The success„which. onr,.nrins Bake . ju s t anained under the walls of Antwerp- isa.neAir pledge .forthepaintenancA of peace. was to Obtaiinfhe, eecntion, .of . treaties, to he. faithful to our engagements abroad, as well as to our oath at home, that.the expedition Antwerp,wasqndertalsen. Its object was to pre• vent a general collision..., The valour of our army has insured its success. I am happy in the p:irts my sons took hi its la bours, its dangers, hopc,, its glory s. , M. Dupin, sehior„defiyered the ,address pf the. Deputies. The fOiloviing,wap the remarkable,patt of the King's,answer— "The object pf the expedition to Antwerp was twofold—to ensure the execution..pf. ; treaties, and .to. guarantee France against the danger tp which . a,bostile policy.bad.cxposed it, by a concentration of, forces, too near i to pukgrnntkrs,.iyhich might threaten it. I a ni happy,in the share which giy.sons, h ave had in the labbiirs and. the perils of our young soldiers, and I ven ture to say also .in the glory which our bra . 4.6 army has just added, Udder the walls of Antwerp; to all that which has al ready distinguished.the French name." HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. AN TwER P, Monday.l.v..ening, Dec. 31.-The last scene of the siege of the citadel of Antywip .tivo o'cloe . k: the. French soldiers quilted - it, and this day, the last of h , 34, been the, first , on . Fhi,ch thia,celebratedfortress beca,nre.the pos sessiOn Of the ,4plgians s as ;aitree.ialld i44.1361i1ic,nt people., . The apPearance,6f, the citriact",itself a heap of rurns; all the buildings aredestroye - d4ry „the . Shells.and.,by the results of the gairlson's . departure., 'l'o,manyrt was., during laSt wep/i,P oWee.t of interest, vet (.9,,,me it was moAt so when the Belgians entered . wasp_resqnt,and saw them i gpter into possession. The gromi4.n4"the rimpartswern plongh.cd'np,; broken cannon -balls, and,wrecks of iiiitises were scattergd 4evastate'd by, Yet 4.49 . provisiou store, thuipgh winch pa - isecT to Chasse's ijiditment, liad received ,} uge There several hundre .13rcqd in abund ance , Ana the puilips the easements, were, gntouchea; „The eh4'el is' a striking ,ruini notfirpg there,is : one remirk ablenbject was the, brAen„hpadles . %statnie .of Don .Fernanda de Solis, erected over his grave in Spanish times. The inserip tioti vet remains in that language.. The apartment in whi,chGeppral Chasse lately lived was at . . . one end of, a, casemate- f r pnti o n g the south,. and ,not . much to the, fire 'of the French. It is . situate,at the end of . the provision-store,,„apd near, a pninp,. conside;ably i lower than .the . other parts of the citadel. It is in the l,irectio9,pf, the hkii..(iog_ .Duque,. and near the Scheldt. , There was.nothing sonic re maining, yet persons, in their t eggeygess, squkhf.. eye u a slight memorial of the spot. in which the, old General heard so Many' thousand shells bursting around him, I, saw at the gale by the river, rose to the f ort du Kiel,..thc : l4t divisio . n of the Dutch talce then; departure yesterday porning at eight, o'clock, from the simile of their exploit. They lopked in general strong healthful young men, of about 22 ana..25, intermixed with some old soldiers. The sailors taken in the'fete de, Flandres, after the burning:of their gin - boats , followed singing ship ditties.. After an interval of an hetur, the few. .trunks of .Gen. Chasse and, of hissfair were brought out, arid . placed in three carriages; then cane the old , General himself, .with his officers: Ihe French Guards stationed where the coaches were waiting' near the gate inStantly, presented arms. Another party drove away abbut EX) spectators. The carriages passed on through the vil lage of St. Laurent. In the first, an old-fashioned postchaise, sat General Chasse and Colonel de Boer • it passedclose to where I stood. I saw the old General calm and serene; his age, his intrepidity,_ and. his fidelity created for him respect in my eves. I took off my hat; an E r nglishinan in my company did the Same; the old man saw us, and returned the salutation, the. only one I saw him receive from the spectators. The pri soners and he passed to. Burcht, and from thence to sleep a league .on this side of Ghent. Captain Koopman,.who is now treated as the other prisoners, accompanied him in another cars iage. , „ The - French are all to quit this neighbourhood to-morrow. General Sebastiani's division is to be replaced in Doel, by six battalions of Belgians. . The Dutch troops in Liefkenshock, and the sailors on board the ships there, are expected to make an immediate attempt to cut the dykes therein order to inun date that district. This most produce a collision. A Belgian division under General Daine, the General who ran away last year from Haielt, is to take the position on the right bank of the Scheldt, now occupied by the french General Achard. As yet nothing indicates peace : on the contrary, a move ment seems apprehended by the Prince of Orange. TUESDAY, January L 1833.—There is a cannonade going on towards Doel, where the Belgians are taking their positions. Two Belgian regirnents have arrived in Antwerp. They are better looking than the French or Dutch, clean and comfort ably clad, and well equipped. They have made a long march fiom Louvain and Wavrc to-day. MORE PROTOCOLLING - NEW CONVENTION. We are enabled; we bclieVe, exclusiVely, to coinniuniaate the following important news. The new projeet"of a conventionproPbSedlO Holland b . 7 Lord Palmerston and Prince Tall6v.raucc . is dated.December'oo, and contains nine articles, of which the folloWing are brief abstracts : "1. The forts of - Lill° and Liefkciisheek - tO be surrendered to the Belgian'troops within tend4s . after.ratifiCatioii: "2.° The navigation of the MOS& tUbe subjected to the same regulations as those recently established for the "3. Thenavioatiori of the . Schaal° . be entirely free till - the conclusion of tniallreaty between Belgloth and Holland. "4. The' transit' of Bergiail . to Germany to be free, with the exception of moderate tolls for supfairt of 'road's, &e. "5. Irhplinigrfot all political offences in Venloo'and Luxein: burr. . . . . • "6. Evacuation of Venloo and the Dutch portion . of Luxein burg_lly the Belgian troops. . . "7. IleduCtion of Dutch army to peace establishment. "8. Reduction of Belgian army to peace establishment. `.`9. Restitution to legal owners of Dutch property confiscated by English'and French governments."—Albion, London Even ing paper. Ststat-5 .Cotwants.ontains a list of promotions in the army. It also gives a list of the officers and privates of the garrisons,of Lillo and Lielkenshoek. killed, wounded, and missing on, the 21st and 23rd December. , They are, stated at 5 miss ing,;and 16. wounded.. On board the 'Eurydice there were 13 sligk tly and two severely. wounded.. , SPAIN. The Morning Herald's private letters,frOM mention the cohtinueddliness of king 'Ferdinand, and that a Spanish 7 army of 15,000 men had been ordered to be assembled. on the Portuguese frontier. Sir Stratford canuing.,passed through Bayonne, on his-way to Madrid', on the 27th ult: • POLAND. r, • By the.. advice& from Warsaw, it - appears that many - regi ments stationed in that, province had been ordered to Bessa rabia. The linssian army in Poland •continued to receive reinforcements, which arrived_ Jinni all quarters,, and were in corporated with the other regiments. The effective force in Poland .61 the present. tithe is said --to be 11),000 men; and it would be raised.to 200,000, of ..which 150,0(X) was to be a dis posable force, and 50,000 in garrison. GREECE: . ZANTE, Nugent and fa.mily.are at Corfu. The Bavarian Regency are to embark froM Brandisi (to shorten the sea voyage,) and, the troops froth Triegte. at the end of .the month. I -mideritand about 900 of their Troops have .already deserted. - The great - ei part of their force will be new.levies—a pretty set. out ; and much good they will do whenever, Ahey reach their destination,—Johnnv Newcomes to encounter some of the most lawless banditti in the world ! In the mean time Russian intrigues are throwing the Morea, &c.,.into a still deeper state of anarchy and confusion; several of the Senate have left . . Na poli di Romana clandestinely; it is said in nßiiiSian launch, and have gone to Astrea to create an opposition shop on their own account.—Agostinho Capo d'lstrio to be President of the new GOvernMent. Colocotroni has already. joined them, and some other chiefs of the Russian faction are preparing to dO so. SesSini, one of Zavella's captains, who, I told. you in a former letter, tad--separated from his master, maintains Isis ground, and ZaveM.a, who went to attack them, has beep forced to return to POsts like a beaters. cur.. _ There is . a general. Jeport.here. that ,the Exiitieron of Russia has been poisoned, but I cannot vouch for it; on any other AuStrian news... TURKEY AND EGYPT. Tn diii:Alication Tx esday . last we inserted a paper, extracted from the Ottoman MOniteur, relating to the affairs of Egypt. A correspondent; who describes, it as "a partystatenient; utterly incorrect, and thorpuglily unjust," has sent us rernarkS on the same, subject, to which,lo - Ving no .object in view but to disseminate ,the best information within our reach, we readily give inser tion : - . Mr. Editor,—l have-lately seen, in some of the newspapers, an extract from The Ottoman ,Moniteur, in which the condition of Egypt and her relations with the Ottoman Porte are greatly misrepresented. The Ottoman Moniteur was established, and is maintained, at expense of the Sultan ; implicit confidence cannot, therefOre, .be placed in its -assertions respecting the affairs of Egypt. It is written in the French language, in order that it may be circulated through the different states of Ern:pp, The first remark is, however, perfectly true, " that the ques tion now at issue•in Egypt is one of policy; humauity, - .and commerce ;"..for .the question is,—Shall the. mighty. efforts which,: the Paella -of Egypt has for years been exerting to introdUce civilization into his country be overcome? or shall : despotism, in its worst form, with its attendant barbarism, again be introduced nnder, the iron sway of the Sultan ? • The Moniteur terns Mehemet Ad Pacha a "rebel," and adds,. that whed he was. `..t. appointed by the sovereign power to the, govermuentof that fine provinee, (Egypt,) he looked upon it as U. conquest"- ..--The whole assertion is, however, incorrect; - for the present Pacha owes not originally his appointment to the. Atari; but was acknOwledged as -Pacha by the soliders of that army which the Porte had sent into Egypt to overthrow the Manielukes ;. the. army rebelled, removed the former Pacha, (who .is now , the principal adviser of the Sultan,), and ac inowledged the present, Mehemet Ali, in his place; whose eleetiou the Porte.found -it expedient to confirm. The l'orte, therefore, is rather late in discovering, after the lapse of twenty five,ye.ars, that the ..Pacha looked .upon his- appointment in the light-Of a conquest. The Sultan has hitherto acknowledged Alehemet Ali_.as ,Pacha, and has required only that he should annually drain from his. country a large sum of_money, to in crease the sploncloin - • of The Ottoman .Porte. This sum has been regularly ,paid,-which. was -never the case in the time of the Mainelukes,.. (with .what injury- to Egypt- it is needless to say.). The Porte was, indeed,. too well aware both of his own interests and ; .of -.his oviu weakness to look upon- Mehemet Ali in any other than a most friendly light, during the period when he was subduing the .dangerous, power of the Mametukes in Upper Egypt, . and fighting the battles of. the Sultan against the "W ahabees in Arabia, and the patriots of Greece. The Sultan is, indeed, a . clever person ; he dissembled his jealously, and turned his pretended friendship to account, by leading the pa cha to fight, at his own cost, the battles of the Porte, and thus diminish his own resources. But circumstances have now changed ; and the sultan, finding the pacha of Egypt becom ing daily more powerful, determines that no time must be lost in effecting his overthrow. This resolution is doubtless strength ened; by ,the agency of the emissaries of Russia; numbers- of whoin are dwelling in the Turkish capital; their. object is to weaken the power of their hereditary enemies, the Turks, and thus remove the strongest barrier which exists against their in roads into. the Eastern world. ..With joy, therefore, it is that Russia observes the war with Egypt, and spares no pains in se cretly exciting the proud and irritable Turks --for well she kin>ws that whatever be the resultof the war, die resources .of the sultan, already nearly - exhausted, will be still more dimi nished. . . . The origin of the. war is this :—A few years since the pacha of Egypt twice interceded with the sultan to save the pacha of Acre. trum punishment, and not only received him in Egypt, and there protected him, but likewise lent to him large sums of money, in order to purchase the smiles-of the sultan. But al this kindness is now forgotten; and the paella of Acre has both refused to..repay the money which,was advanced for him, -and witinint which he would never again have been governor of Acre; and as a grateful return to his. benefactor, has secretly • made to the Porte false statements relative to the views of the pacha of Egypt; thus adding to the charges of injustice .and robbery, that of the most foul treachery. The incorrectness, however, of, these statements was soon discovered, and the Porte Inith consented that Mehemet Ali should punish his treacherous friend - of St... Jean d'Acre, and promised the co-operation of its . fleet in effecting the punishment. This was the cause of the Egyptian expedition into Syria ;, but the Porte, calling to mind the uangerous - power of Mehemet Ali, and having, in the inter val, received weighty. proofs of. contrition from the pacha of Aere, instead of opposing, unites with him against the pacha of Egypt, and takes this opportunity of reducing a power already .much too great in the estimation of the Divan. After stating that the question now "at issue, is one of policy, ' humanity, and commerce," ,the writer adds, "that country (Egypt) has witnessed the formation of her regular army, navy, and manufactories,—objects of culture before unknown on the banks of the Nile, have augmented the mass of her wealth." And what greater sign of prosperity can there be than this— the 'admiss„ion of an enemy? is this the way to introduce " star •vation" into a country, or • to render " millions (V . individuals -naked, starving, and des t itute q V clothing?" does this give us the idea of a country in a state of. ".runt ?" But the writer asks, what advantage has she gained from all these (changes) ? during the last ten years she has been deprived of half her population ;" and this, 'lliOneigfeatv euggerated, is unhap pity in part true ; for independent of the ravages of disease, which has in some instances.destroyed twenty thousand in a week, she has been drained of considerable numbers in lighting the battles of the Porte, in. overthrowing the rebels who in Arabia preyed upon the i pilgrims on their journey to Mecca; and likewise in fighting n Greece. And besides having carried on these long and expensive wars, for the benefit sf the sultan, but at her own cost, Egypt has punctually paid into the treasury of the sultan a large annual tribute; which, although demanded in the time of the blamelukes, was never actually paid by them. These are the true causes of misfortune in Egypt, of the hunger and poverty of her inhabitants; but still that famine now per vades Egypt" is hardly credible, when we remember that during her war with the Porte she does not send to Constantinople, as she otherwise must, a large portion of the corn which her laud produces. While, then, the pacha is accused of inhumanity, of "grinding to powder" the inhabitants of Egypt, of fitting his vessels with merchandise to increase his own revenue, should it not be told for whose use that revenue is raised, for whose en richment the inhabitants are said to be thus oppressed? and instead of proclaiming the humanity of the sultan, whose fine feelings, as the writer describes, are wounded by the oppression of his subjects, should we not rather look with joy to the pros pect, that Egypt will again become a great and civilised coun try? But we aro told that the pacha is raising moue) by ex ciuding others from trade, in order to enrich himself ;—that he gains large sums by the cultivation of cotton is undoubtedly true ;—but since funds must be raised by some means, for the payment of his tribute, and likewise fer the carrying ou of those vastimprovements which•he is effecting in various parts of country,7, r .,-7it surelysis better that the funds• should be raised by this means, than. by levying a tax upon the inhabitants. Lpt ro ce I(4 i t .u as toi f v e l i aw i n xiit c , l hot e :Qe d niii ; eh p tso,ihu e sle t: tnils , a t l eit l hanuo i t u r t t i : e r ,a l y n i t hetgseie aggregate, any one examine the. policy of the,Pacha, and he will find, that e i r i dt i av teieti writer i .du l 01 i e diruitsi o t: t c iri n r its e n: a gupt s . rio i lro n i )p i.t i 0e ;: t riit atno e pnod i tu . acontarr to the causes". of what we find. to exist,and when this plan is adopted, no impartial. Person will deny that the pacha gives avery.-eneouragement both to-the cultivation of the land, and to trade.with..other countries, which the nature of and the difficulties, with which_lie has to contend will admit: He has not, only, given.. evervi eticonragetnetit to the cultivation' of what Was before Yery slightly/attended to, b u t h as a g a i n in traduced..4o4,lais vanutry - . the cultivation u uPTiartiescripttouOcwhich had beau neglected since the time-of thc,lionians. But this is not all ;—the encourage , s ment.mliieli--he -has- given to trade,- by giving facility to - the transportation of. ghods; is•astonishingiy great; canacs;•Whielf • were made in the time-of-the Pharaohs, an which had-been for centuries t choked up,..arealow cleared out,-and rendered not only navigable for the•:trcuisPortation at -merchandiN, but lik e wi se have bees made-thameans ofwateringt he land, and thus remov. ing the probability of those. dreadful famines, with which. Egypt had sometimes.been sisited; large resorvoirs hayebso.macie jvs the same purpose, old roads have been repaired and new _ones made; bridges have been built, and the : parched deserts of Arabia, where the traveller feared..to wander, and which funned a gi•ca t b r to the introductiOn of Eastern commoctitics,.are riow delnived of many ef. their, terrors, and .may - be passscd with tolerable. sacet:. - The•Europeran traveller now enjoys perfebt security; in. Nisi: , ing the interesting monuments with which Egypt abounds : jus. tice is administered without regard to difference, of religion or of country ; a -public assembly, or council is 'fotmed, in which freedom of discussion is encouraged by the yachai .a, newk- , paper ia.publisheil, in. the-language of .tlic country, and free:ry circulated among the people ; .the„spifituf enquiry is excitee, and egotism quickly' falling to - the ground; a iicw.systein,_of government and of manners, is begoming gradteal4/ schools for learning, in almost all its.branches, are established; and Egypt bids fair to become, under the, rule of 111eliginet.40 and his sucgessors,.the. seat, of -civilization and of liberty,. 4,8 much as she formerlywas.theabode of.-despotilm,and of WAD, rity. addition .to those, {theuumber of which exceeds.:)(),), who are selected from among the higher-elasses and are choseli for their 4,lbility,.who . have been . sent int9 .. .varjojap.arts ()Ulu, rope at - the expence - of tbe,pachac.a.iid7on their return to j:gyps are to fi4soomor,.thethighest, offices, a§,.tiiiitis,ters of the state, military and naval officers &.c. ;—besides these, there Are great numbers of the -lower or4ers . ,.. same manner; who are acquiring, in various parts of Europe, a knowledge of the different art§;..atutliy,liteir...ineans, the vari.- OuS tradeS of joiners, blacksmiths,. opticians, &c. will be.; intro duced into Egypt;jor,there brought, to :perfection. What Ma hometan pp.cka„ prince, or sultan, (it may be asked,) -,for turies back, has performed so much towards the improvement of his country ? • Let qa_klimsircaunatinces.,be_.considerad,.-lettlie 4rue state of itie case be known,and,who.will then be found to accuse the pacha of Egypt of selfishness and rapacity? The writer of the article liaS treated at some length, tipon the blessings of a " wise acid wild Ontinistration,"...and would wit lingly. snake ; us suppose, that freedom and security can only be e.nja. yed_unde:r . .the- government of the Ottomon - Porte. tut, unfortunately,. in their ignorance, not only the Egyptians, but all civilized nations likewise, are ready to declare, - that " he, (the pcirrhq of Esapt,) has on his side the wishes of the people of Arabia, as well as .those of every commercial . nation ; that the indepond.enc,e," (and not the fall,) " of Mehemet Ali, will be the regeneration of Egypt.". ••. I thiuk„it, right to add, that I am in no way connected with Egypt; and take : only that interest in her welfare . ; which I think ever.y.petson who knows the ti ue condition of that inte resting country, must necessarily feel. .- CANTAB. HOLLAND. Dec. 30.—The 'first -Chamber has agreed to the budget ofJ N 33. llis Excelle,ncy the TAlinister of Finance continues to receive various donations from the country for the wounded, widows, and :orphans of the,brave 'defenders of the citadel of Antwerp. The committee formed at Anoterdam for assisting and reward ing, our,.brave soldiers, or the relations they may leaye behind them, have already. coliected 14,000 florins. JaNun 1.-.-The First Chamber of. the States-General has assented to the law for regulating the laud-tax for 1833, and that 'relative to the national militia. A lILESI, Pce. 4.--N fps, that there are no Dutch gun-boats "before Antwerp, the Belgian navy shows itself. The two gnu, boats of that naVy, with the two lirigaUtines, arrived before the ,city on the.26tband 27th. Jt seems that they are to drop down :the ,Scheldt to Fort St. Philip. A detachment of Belgian miners was ethploved on the 28th in completing the defences of that fort. On tie 28th a company of French sailors Was engaged at 'the Tete de Flanders in collecting the remains of the Dutch gun-boats that were sunk. A MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY. _As ma antidote to.the.prejudice existing againSt precocity of intellect, which so. often blazes for a moment and then expires, or sinks into obscurity, we may justly adduce .the splendid re -collections which attach to the names of a Crichton, a. Mimi. , dole, a Newton, .a Mozart,. and many another, whose premattuu "beauty of mind" has expanded into .the happiest maturity..• There is every such promise as this about a Sicilian boy of Inc present day, whose powers and brief parentage are dwelt upon in the following extract of a letter from Rome " The bey, Joseph Puglisi, who has just arrived here. from Palermo, the place of his birth, is indeed blessed, as all who have heard and observed him must admit, with,the most extra ordinary natural endowments. You shall judge for yourself of their extent. He is the son of a glove-maker in Palermo.. The : first evidence which he gave of his intellectualpowers, occurred about eighteen mouths ago, when he had just completed his sixth year. The occasion was this :—an agent, having..pui, chased a quantity of gloves from several different individuals, , Puglisi's .father went to fetch his pen and ink with a view to ascertain the. sum total of, _the man's purchases;_ but his urchin of a son, who was at the time in the Slop, called after him that he need not give himself the trouble; as the whole amount was so many ounces and odd. Being asked who had told him so, he replied, My own head.' On summing up the several items, his calculation was found to be perfectly correct. From this . moment his arithmetical powers were put to repeated tests; and they were brought into still greater action-by increasing the difficulty of the questions set him, which he . solved Under the -gradual exhibition of a talent of far superior calibre. His, father then came with him to Catanea, brought him under the notice of the viceroy of Sicily, and afterwards set off.for Naples, where young Puglisi produced his parent a golden harvest, .be, sides acquiring an increase of fame to his own share. Thence he found his way to this place, - where he has been an object of astonishment and admiration in every circle, and has been ho noured with a handsome gold medal by the pope himself, • You can conceive nothing,- so astonishing as the boy's . capacity for all sorts of arithmetical calculations, whether they be of' the most trivial, or the abstrusest nature. His genius consists in . his being perfectly sensible of its pre-eminence,.wielding it with - masteiy clearness and precision, and at times bringing it to bear with surprising effect. Henn it is that he is enabled so state the process through„ which he arrives at once at his solu tions, and, at the same time, to explain ths_diffienties.shich. may have attended theni: All this is done without any . aid whatever from science; for, with the exception of a knowledge of figures, ,he can .neither read nor. rite. .li'or instance,- on his being , asked a particular question, it was necessary to explain I what a square root was to him, and after that he instantly gave his answer with minute accuracy. I heard him in public yes, terday : ten questions, of various degrees of difficulty, were set 7 him, and he solved them all without hesitation or blunder. it , was really a most interesting scene. The boy .sat.at first-look— nig- about hiin - with a laugh and a smile, obviously flattered at being the subject of attention to so numerous an auditory • but no sooner was the first question started, than his whole auditory; underwent a change as instantaneous as the sensitive plant, when the slightest touch affects it. Whilst brooding over it, he played with his hands, moved his body backwards and .forwards„ and was constantly shifting himself about on his seat. Meru was ,evidence irrefragable, in every-motion, of the internal working of the mens aivina. On a sudden, he spruug-fram his seat in a state of undescribable ecstacy, and with eves sparkling, with - fire, and exulting at - his triumph, enounced the result in a . strong and melodious tone of voice. I must leave you to imagine the electric effect which all this produced upon us. And the same scene was ,repeated at every fresh question : end- solution.. • Two of them were stated in so confused a manner that not a soul in the room could comprehend them. At the,second,' the boy rose from his seat, and, much to our diversion, exclainxo, with his broad, good-humoured Sicilian accent, " Lo saccio ben fare ' ma essi non sanno domandare,' ([ am perfectly able to solve the thing, but they do not know how to put the ques- - tion) He was asked if a certain quantity of waterhe contained in the Tiber, and eight men were employed to remove it, how many days would they consume id the operation? Upon this the lad inquired, almost before the words were out of the ques tioner's mouth, You haVe forgotten to state what quantiry they bale out every day or every hour.' As soon as the hiatus, was supplied, in less than three minutes our young arithme tician stood up with the result, which involved some millions of figures. In person, he is .of the middling size for his . age, nail between robust.and slender of make; his complexion is salloty, his hair light-coloured, and his eyes blue, though - withoot any particular expression of liveliness or animation; his look, host- - ever, is soft, wary, and tranquil."—Guardian, WATERLOO.—It was proposed in the 'Belgian chamber tl:4 the Lion of Waterloo should be taken down, because it is odi:f ens to France and Belgium. Odious we suppose to France as the Monument of the most complete rout and ruin that evir fell upon an army since the days of Azincour ; ,odious to Belgium; because the braves Beiges there, as every where else, ran away from the defeated French. What a compliment to England! but we deserve it when we have, as Secretary at war, Sir John liobhouse, who prayed for the success of Napoleon; After all it is little matter—the victory of Waterloo will live in history, and we all know who the animal is that kicks at a dead lion. It is only fair to say that the proposition was rejected for the present.