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ree.t. feeling. Her particular forgiveness a
visa Demont wes tralyk Christian, and this and
other circumstances of lass-last illness which have
beets published, cue have been reed.by few (I pity
shoot few) without tears of admiration and regret.
Of what her religions notions were I know nothing,
nor whether her celebrated journey to Palestine was
connected with them, or merely prompted by au
houosrable curiosity ; but her conduct impresses
with a conviction of her piety, and in her ruperi-
snity to the fear of death, weedily for some days us
she contemplated his approach, in her submission
to the will ciGud, and her charity to all,' even the
most injurious, we trace the fruits of piety—such
fruits es ore hews. than a thousand profemions.
" It was her first misfortune to be born of royal
parentage, end the sufferings which flowed front
that source may well recouche us to the bumbler,
hut more sheltered station in which Providence has
kindly irlaced. us. That unsfortoue, as it were, in-
chided all the rest, or, at any rate, was closely
connected with MOM ; for had not such been her
lineage, she Wield: not have become a wife without,
/icing the olipttof affection ; she would not have.
been almost immediately cart off without the
_ _
been
and
have

deserted by. Pro* had• paid court to It
should ha% :RIO tier insociater ; she avoulA
'been stilijecterN,greUntfWieeriaritious by shelter-
ed accusers, nor. bows fosnidAcquittal ineffective as
le nosily of the results that should have followed;
she would not have beets interdicted the society of
her only child; she would not have been cajoled
out of the 'country, where it, was safest fir her
to moms ; she would not have been a slighted
metes rev, 1)7.• every petty government that
titeeght to pay its court to a greater power by
• :mutt; she would not have heard' at a distance of
the sod death sof the child wl.o bore a motherless
inscriptio-n on her co& ; she would not bore hod
her assumption of the rank which had fallen
to her menaced with the scaffold ; she would not
Ipive had her house haunted by spies and her (K-
-laus* elirouicled by calumniatory; she would not
bast returued to her kingdom to be sheltered by
the iseapitslity of a private individual ; she would
wet hire-been a mask for unehecked malice ; she
veould not. have sustained the severest trial that
ever guilt or innocence stood, and to which nothing
but con.cioris innocenc,e or downright insanity
resist have mode her expose herself, only to find
acquittal succeeded by nearly all the degrada-
tion that could have followed conviction ; she
would nut have been turned hack front eve° the
sight of the ceremony to which, according to cus-
tom, she should have beets a principal figure ; she
would not have expired trilliont one relstive near
Tier djiog led ; she would not (though of this hap-
pi/y uncousciouv) have been ---, but of this
latt disgusting scene I dare uut trust myself to
speak." •

AWITI S H PR :S S.

LONDON,
TUESEUY, AUGUST YS, test.
We last Right received the Paris Papers of the
Inds tostottt. The following are extracts;—
raats,
sawn 24.
Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, his Grace the Doke
of Wellington, accompanied by Sir Charley Stewart, the
Rritieb Ambassador, had the honour of beteg admitted to a
private audience of his Majesty. His Grate bad likewise
the honour of wailing upon their Royal Highseasee Moss.
Meer, Madame, and the Duke of Angoulense. At this au-
dience Sir Climbs Stewart bad the honour to present to the
Ring the offi. at notilicatiou of the death of her Majesty
the Queen of England.
The Court will go is mourning en Sunday next for
twentrone days on account of the death of the Queen of
Sealand. The mourning is to be black for the first eleven
illfea as* w►ite fur the ten lard days.
4140kint Gentleman of the Chamber in Waiting,
• • (Signed) " The Duke D'A MONT.
ss The Tuileries, August 24, 1821."
The Doke of ITellington arrived only on the tad. at noon.
Ralf an hour aft.rwards lie was visited by the Nuke of
Richelieu and by Banns Pasquicr, the Minister for Foretell
Affairs.

COMITMITINOIPLI, JULY 25.
ITIVACT 711031 ♦ PRIVATT LITTER.
" For some days we had reckoned on the preservation of
trauquillity ; to-day the former apprehensions revive; •
crowd of Frauka and other Christians reek rcfage i■ the
pallier of France, and to those of the other &Miseries. The
fear at fresh excesses agitates all those unhappy persons, to
whom we Calelkul refuse an asylum and the food necessary
fur their supp.m. One rennet foresee what would happen
if the rupture with Russia should take place."—(Joeveaf dee
Debats, Alcoa! 25.)

!AIM, •caus2 24.
The Owlish at Dijon, who are pretty numerous, bays
all pal ate suorning fur Quern Caroline.
Leiters from Madrid received today inform us tilt the
Xing bus axed the SSW September for the opening of the
Extraordinary Cutlet. A letter from Toulon of the 14th
/inset mentions the arrival of the Gala from Smyrue, which
she left on the 19th July, when the place was more quiet.—
The Franks had returned to their habitations; but the
Grreka remained on board the ships of war and merchant-
men: eons, however, were mill in the city. Not a day
passed althea, scone assassioations. The embargo was lakes
utf the merchantmen, sad most of them
.were preparing to
quit the roads : fuur sailed under couvoy of the GaM fur
Tuolou, where they will shortly arrive. It was said at
Smyrna that • Turkish Beet of sixty pail was to sail from
Cunsiontinuple for the island.—(Joirtmal de Paris, Au-
gust 25.)
Fends, August 24.—Fire per Cents Consols, 43f. 414.

We are happy to find, on the fullmt inquiry,
that no very serious accidents happened at Knights-
bridge on Sundry evening in the scuffle between
the populace and the soldiery. It is impossible,
lirmever, that the affair should be permitted to !lass
by without the most ►erious ilivestigati )))) on the
part of the Government. There can be no doubt
%list the Sheriff of the county vas very grossly in-
►ultrd by the troops on that °cession, and that a
degree of perique! violence vres used towards Inot

which thrateuell it most fatal consequences. He
seemed to have been particulaity marked out by the

soldiers man object of their vengeance ; his exertions
at the iuquest upon the body of the unfortunate
Winn` have nodoubt excited their high displeasure,
and the dignity of his rank afforded hint no protec-
tion agaiam the characteristic insolence of military
aggression. One fellow levelled a carbine at Mr.
Sheriff WSITIIIIAN, while two others mixed upon
him as he was exerting himself in his magisterial
capacity to prevent the effusion of blood, and were
proceeding to throw him off his horse, when the
worthy Magistrate was rescued by the constables
end the people. It is a very alarming symptom of
the presumed principles of the Ministers of the
Crown, and of the system of government which
they seem willing gradually to introchice into this
country, that every act of violence emanating from
the military, no matter whether it be the consel
ceence of orders received from persons high in
gethority, or arise merely from the occasional in-
seMpensiice of individuals, is sure to be defended
and justified by the writers in the Treasury Jour-
nals. These persons determine, as by a species of
intuitive knowledge, upon every occurrence in
which the troops are concerned, and require
only to know that a mob in uniform acted
upon the one side against a mob of various colones
upon the other, to conclude that the former are
not only guiltless of any offence, but that they are
the most persecuted and virtuous set of men in the
world. We fear seriously that these writers are but
too well apprised of the sentiments entertained by
their employers upon this subject, and that those
*iter duty at well as interest it is to hold the ha-
llows suspended between the contending parties,
!arm an equal facility in forming a decided opinion
Aspen the relative merits of the soldierk and the
F tulle
We learn with surprise bordering on incredu-
lity, that some persons, in the excess of their loyal
zeal, have resolved to reward by a pecuniary sub-
scriptiosi those soldiers who were employed at Cern-
berlarid-gate on the day of the Queeellitteral,
and whom, be it remembered, a Jury of fourteen
Englishmen have pronounced guilty of the delibe-
rate MURDER of one of their fellow-subjects. Such
an act, so degrading to the character of freemen,
so insulting to one of the most yak* institutions
of our country, so hostile to the spiat and to the
safety of our civil constitution, cannot be true.
We at least cannot readily submit our understood-
logs to the level which the belief of so great n humi-
liation would render necessary. What ! reward
men for attacking en unarmed body of people—for
staining their swords, which have won them honour
iu foreign fields, with the life's blood of their fellow-
subjects ! Where has been their merit, where
their peculiar claim to so high a distinction ? It
might have been supposed that these soldiers and
their friends would, especially since the verdict de-
livered by the Coroner's Inquest, have felt perfectly
satisfied if no legal proceeding% followed the ver-
dict, and the fatal events at Cumberland-gate had
been suffered to pass with impunity. But to mili-
tary men the notion of a mere escape implies defeat,
and no matter how unrighteous the cause for which
they contend, it is consistent with the principles of
their profession to desire victory. The contest that
is now waged, and which for some time has occu-
pied no small portion of the thoughts of all the in-
telligent
friends of the constitution, lies between
the power of the law and the power of the sword.
The point to be decided is, whether military force
is to become the ordinary weapon of the executive
power, without adiniteieg the possibility of control.
This power is every doy becoming more and more
familiarized to our view—we encounter it on every
public occJsion—we see it superseding the well-
known and ordinary forceof the civil Magistrate, and

proceeding giarinally from neglect of the civil power
to contempt, and finally to acgrestion. Ou this
last serious occusiun the Chief Magistrate of the
coon,y of Middlesex was maliciously and know-
ingly attacked, even to the danger of his life, and
this too at a time when he was acting in the dis-
charge of Ins most important duty—shut of endea-
'curing to keep the peace. Let not those who may
condemn the project of giving to [lowa and
Fits nets the honours of a public funeral, confound
Mr. WAITHMAM in their censure of the proceed-
ing. Mr. WAITNNAN condemned the project
long before it was carried into execution as warmly
as any one, and bad endeavoured, as much as in
him lay, to prevent it. Finding his exhortations
upon this subject unavailing, he attended the pro-
cession for the laudable purpose of employing the
civil power of the coouty for the preservation of
the public tranquillity, and his exertions would
have been crowned with success had sufficient
mean. been adopted at the barracks to pre-
vent the troops from insulting
.the people from
the upper windows of the barracks, and aub-
aequeutly Irvin attacking the multitude. It is
distressing to learn, that upon the Sheriff's
application at the barracks thut the gates should
be closed, one of the o.fficers sent lent an in►ult-
iug answer. This ulcer was not aware that the
High Sheriff of the County is superior in rank to
every military nun within his bailiwick, and that
lie might command the services of the whole force
of the county, whether ordinal), or civil. We
hope sincerely that the whole transaction will be
sifted to the bottom, and in the wean time we have

no hesitation iti claiming for Mr. W.' AtTiiIKAX the
unqualified gratitside of the estuary.
I Flanders Mail hos armed with Papers to
the 46111 instant. It is stated under tile head
of Frankfort, the l9th, on the authority of ad
account from Odessa, of the 27th July, 1, that
the Turks have iktiu detained in the Bosphorus
a packet-beat which had on board dispatches for
Baron Sraoconoir. These and preceding ac-
counts, which are by nn means favourable to the
continuance of peace, have had the effect of de-
pressing the prices of the funds."

An account of the Ktwa's movements in Dahlia
up to Saturday is given in another part of our
Paper. On Thursday his MaJasTY dined with the
,Corporation of that City lie retired at Ira
o'clock. The LOaD MAiroa then took the Chair,
which he filled until twelve, when lie was suc-
ceeded by Aldertuau JoHN CLAUDIUS BgaiSFORD.
During the presidency of this last Gentleman
Alderman D•RLDY gave the obnoxious party toast,
" The Glorious and Immortal Aleatory qf
Wil-
liam III." This, however, was not the first viola-
tion of the eternal compact for the oblivion of all
party spirit and diatioctions. it will he sees in our

repot that the London Alderman, Sir WILLIAM
CURTIS, had displayed something of a kindred
spirit at a much earlier period of the night, when
the offence was much less excusable.

CONIT XTI /I OP Lg, JULY 23.—A Russian (varier
has arrived from St. Perersburgh. Baron Stro-
gonoff has presented a note to the Porte on the
part of the Emperor, demanding a categorical
answer to three or four points iu the course of eight
days. The propositions are-
-10, A free passap through that Dardanelles fur vessels
laden with grain
4d, Antneely for those Greeks who have not riven any
offence ; the Turks shall put to death wily those taken is arms.
3d, The Turkish Government shall pay shut respect to the
Christian religion which it deserves, and shall not beam-
, forward immesh it, by putting its Mtuisters to death.
4ilt, The Churches desiruyed by the Turks shall be rein".
Fur our owls part, we do nut think there will be a
war.—(Augsburg Gazette.)
The King of Sardinia, Charles Felix, has con-
firmed the sentence of nineteen persons who have
been tried by the Junta, for having raised the
standard of revolt in the citadel of Alessandria.
They have been all condemned to death ; seven-
teen of them ore comuwitteM ellphllll Palma
hes obtained a commutation e capital punish-
ment into perpetual banishmitut. Captain Garelli
is the oaly one that has been executed.
An article in the German Papers, dated Algiers,
the 19th July, states, that the Dry bad began to
fit out his corsair., but that the armament ha.
bees tiespeeded, and the,plogs.but broken out in
that city. The deaths are frown to 16 daily.
Extract of a letter from thsKyisent to LLOYD'S
at Smyrna, dated July 171—.0 k French frigate,
corvette, end schooner, entered this harbour on the
Wt. with his Majesty's brig. Racehorse. The
Smyrna, FAamalL, from London, hos arrived out-
side our Castle, with the Odessa, PATTIIIO*. from
Malts. Advice. have just bleu received that the
Turkish fleet, consisting of, About 80 sail of all
sixes, has passed by Scio, on is way to attack the
Wood of Samos."
Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
Smyrna, dated 191 h July:—" The Racehorse brig
of war has sailed, sod we have now only the Medina
sloop remaining. There are four French vessel*
of war in port, two have just sailed, one wish the
Consul's Lady and family ov beard, aid another to
convoy four French vessels ..through the Archipe-
lago."
Extract of • letter from the Agents to LLOYD'S,
at Con.tantiuople, dated Jtily 4S :—" The Turkish
fleet has arrived at Samos; they found the towns
and villages deserted, the inhabitant. supposed to
have fled to the mountains. The affair* with Kasai%
are near bring brought to a crisis. It is now seven
data since the Russian sifiiincifans was sent iuto the
Porte; an answer may be hourly expected. Our
situation is one of • very anxious and critical na-
ture; it is said that his MAJESTY'S Ambassador
has been invited to attend at a conference with the
Porte to-day."

Mr. CottwEN has considerably reduced the rents
of his tenants according to their several circum-
steinces—aome 40, some 30, and some 20 per cent.
—Mr. DAVID C•IIIIICK. of Carli.le, banker, has
also reduced his rents upwards of 23 per cent. iu •
way too which adds greatly to the obligation.
The Earl of Lousests has given directions to
his Steward to ►educe the fonts of his farmers ac-
cording to circumstances. The plan adopted by
his Lordship and by Mr. Comex, is the only
mode of affording their tenants effectual relief.—
(Whi►ehaven Gaze►►e.)

AFFAIR or IFIONOIIII.—A meeting took place
on IVednesday morning in a field near Topsham.
between Mr. T--s, an officer on half-pay, and
Mr. T--e, late an officer in a volunteer corps, to
settle a dispute
.•ccording to the laws of honour,
which hail occurred in the Bowling-green the
evening before. An exchange of shots was about
to take place, when au active and laudable inter-
ference on the part of the seconds produced an
apology from Mr. who it seems had in the
divine of the evening before given provocation to
his antagonist.
Yesterday seinnight a Coroner's Inquest was held
on the body of • male infant, the son of Hannah
Bulky, wife of JOHN HALLeY the younger, of
Bridge-street, Derby. It appeared its evidence,
that the mother delivered herself secretly on Tues-
day the 14th instant, and immediately pat the
child into a large jar and poured but water upon it,
when the cries of the child led to its discovery. It
survived till the Saturday following. The Jury,
after an attentive consideration of the evidence, re-
turned a verdict of Write! Murder against the
mother, who, as soon us she can. be safely removed,
will be committed for trial at the next Assizes.