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appears arisen
prospects we have no informs/40h 4ss
&fence would undertake a hasty changtaiin
(icy, even were the authority of the Liteessehe
sapeteat to such decision.
" Yon desire that, its this defect of power, Coa.
IS may be specially couveuel. It is unnecessary
ewansiste the evidence, or the character of the
tr. which aft eepposcd to dictate such a
)1)41 he sensible, on Loa uttention
dates. hoot the legal period of their Aleetints is
early to, in this astewsire country, they could be
ly convened low a special cull.
'•I should, with etreat willingness, have ex►
t wishes or the inhabitants of Hoiden, hat! twice,
a repeal, of the tsbniexiewts edicts or other Omni:es,
sdueeil the care in which Elam the laws Lave
rest m t tt euthority ; and .q. ihnny motives of
iticc a 41ti ti,t lead to such changes, that er
et to expect this. hut while that
t; remain, the Legislators, aloud cast prescribe
coarse to mimed.
Apo 20. « To. -Juscasow."
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FRIDAY, Oarosiac

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6416411001,i1Uft0f the iiiiportaut proceeding of
e Aloft of the I..ity of Westanuster, beid yrs.
dayellM ettmesadee of an Acklreis to Ili. I.lJaieTYl
etint the Consentioo in Portugal. Is given in
r oscoeut adenine. The original resolutions.
hill by it& WIIIIMART, prayed an recirut i
itY, generally; bat the amendment. moved by
r. Sucalertsw. states. that it is highly expleillent
enliven, Perliaustut. for the potpose of
r

mutest Siam titer'l.
ice foe reitresi. Never roklialie• was a 'mike
etiiig of such magnitude condueted with more
iptr nowt unaitimity. The only circumstance
relent(' to endanger it, was the It-solution for a
rhauaentary Reform; a Resolutiou highly 'sn-
iper, aa being totally unconnected with the
red object. The good 11U1ISe of the A:eating,
!ever, 110011 prevailed against it; and it was loudly.
odeinesed by the most samirine. friends to the
,TI
the Windsor Coeds packet is arrived et, Lath.
ads, with Malta trem Nati Y4rl lad Habliatt
smiled from the focuser pace ou the tOre
a the latter on the ire) sit. We hare reelat'ed
hir nedi°9 PaCeN. 10 the fithllfirin which we
* extnieted the PmartmApPm. Answer to die
dress from Reatou, pra)ing a rernov.il of the
'barge. Its our Paper of NVerhiraday lads
stated, apes the authority of recent
intelli-
ice from .ttnerica, that Mr. di:renames was de-
▪ to peremere in that moat dentritetive mew-
e, and we now find our stsstemeut candrered by
Ansa er to t'..:.eritisens of Boston. la that An-
se lie declares that the embargo is to he erm-
ine/rate in davaboa with the war between Eng-
and France, and the present measures adopted
those pins ere affecting neutral (Nen meter. As,
Is the recent political changes in Naito and
astral, and their colonies, all faveisralile to
rland, and ilerensing her strength, it is sat
ly that England will rewind those commercial
ma to which she hurl recourse iii a moment of
iimrative weakness, there upperirs little fissile of
spesisiou of the embargo, so far as it depedds
ri Mr. Jervaastiv. The length of our report
the proceedings at the Westminster Meet-
yesterday, does not,.lnns us to dwell
upon tin. important dui:lament ; but there
"rip or three points, so strong and prominent,
we art cosupelleil to notice them :—One of
! is the pll.9xtge where it says—,' In Spans,
tal, a contest for the Coveniment appeurs to
urisen."—Now, this answer is dated the *nth
sigma, and the insurrection in Madrid. ageinst
'retch, took place so tar back as the of
the rah of Julie, Visconut Men E 4,34.
mother Sp wish Deputy, arrived in Loistlon,
ieit succour, and represented the whoa., eotin-
▪ breathing only one spirit ,of indignation
st the French, and rising every s here in anus,
the middle of May, to rcpcl these invaders.
ligcnce of these events must have rtechtd
'heron before the .6th of August, the dote of
3.14V15T PO the Boston Address ; and Otytliis is
ate of things which Mr. Jr:rete.Bl4,l,niith a
• hypocrisy aistFistinhed coutiS4sist of
wou:rl represent ,as a mare •no,3test for
Is this the synspaithpuf the A tneriian
seta fur a brave and gallant Dation coutendises

,Eitioilifi li
Iraitaties',oo $l6,
1,400 046(4" IRllstitel swivel! us moral chaos and
rratifsmissis i Waliklialistieirm to notice any more
Cr
isiirteisetlketiblieel* issitler or Mr. Jr.FFLIISON'd
o' V.I' iiiisiiikieli Stliiels see have pointed out.
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I, hoire.rer, sufficieiAly dicer his gross and shame-
#l,lll4
kittl partildity for France. .

The arrivistpf Sir Him Ott.av urt.s. in this en-
pital will ussquestiouably form the prelude to au
itiquiry into those transactions, which even His MA..
sesev's reluetantly admit, ee have (limp-
pointed the 'toper and expectations of the eosin..
try." We shall not venture to anticipate the "en-
mities of thaw Court which is about to be convents],
two still less to apportion the respective degrees of
responsibility and ealpability incurred byl4;.-
eirseern. Buiesan, oral Watiastry. Indeed,
that Miuislers impute no• degree of blame what-
ever to the second of those Officers. we must as-
sume or infer, since it appears that he is left in
command of the army its Portugal. The move
clusely we investigate and ascertain the results of
the late Convention, in all its bearings and come-
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tiesieVll, the more does it appear to us to have syri-
nged the interests and honour of the British Crown
pc,iple. It is not, however, so notch the humps-
vity of the Genend that excite. reprobation, esthe cri-
minulity of Admiuistratioth iu sollertisig fur tlsnewt
arduous/014240ns of inalitary exertioo, men %loom it
was inspesisibht that they could conceive to iimsess
either reebignieed alailitiei or experience. If DAL-
RV MPLII had rettuseled .sit Gibraltar, or WHITE-
LOCUS in the Isle of IVight,, both might hare es-
caped notice, mid bare iseeWleet emoting the head of
Clieuerala of pentde and chew. That Mioiste e, con-
scious of their owl. participation in the niiefortnuee
ettestdant ou Sir (laws nonainreion, menu to ex-
tend protection to him as fee *Owl dire, we may
safely assert, wheo we see the exertions made by
their einissafies to 116flen, so palliate, and even
loudly to justify the Convention of Clara. The
Cabinet is, indeed, pressed between two levers.
which threaten them with annihilation. On the ono
hind, Lord MELVTI.LI4 onexpeetedly arrived in
town from Dunira, is uoderstood to insist on being
immediately placed at the head of the Admiraloy,
the conduct of which department lie severely ar-
raigns; or, it' his demand is uot complied with.
lie weans, it is believed, to join the Opposition.—
On the other, Lord WettesttY, supporting and
:sepported by his numerous relatives, as weal as by
his Asiatic friend* and dependants, storms at the
door of the Twomey, and demands odmiasion.—
Undarthar cirsgenshimees, we cannot wonder at an
inefacieut Nlinisq.., divided into two parties, and
apprchossiirs of censure or iadiguittioa, em-
bracing the amsomoilitatioaal sotpesrosat of advising
M pistiirase the istreting of Par-
tatq~eulb:r '!My ittaOklci‘to:ahCw. that
'we eiruifdiktOnsided. or kayo aces seed, the
asiokbt446l Costrainaran.
' Nan llidWit.6lllolll;lliisids and retainers.
c.;
edge lilintillgifetwgeb • ferecinits enemy, by
'dila Mono sitenikiill? It not this the peat object
for which vte ilittod out the Expedition? Could
not-Juaor have held tilt tho forts ardent us, for
some weeks? Might he norearen if premed by fa-
mine, or Invested en the north of the Tagus, have
crowed over that Averts Alden-Gsßep,on the other
side? Ariel 'night he not from thanes have pene-
trated, by Elves, across Spain, to the Ebro ? Must
we not late pursued him ? Would not many weeks
have been lost in the military operations? M'hereas
we have now effected the primary iuteetion, and
can send our forces, by Sea, either into Biscay, or,
am we mean, into Catalonia, where they may decide
the fate b, the war. If some trilling or tnigor de-
feet, ratty be found in the two coove if
they have not corresponded with the sanguine ideas
recited by the action at Ninieira, we must never-
' dieters excuse these errors and inadvertencies,
in consideration of the greater benefits derived
from Jt: got's evacuation of Lisbon and Portugal."
That this is the language of Ministers. oo mau
who has access to know the fact, cuss attempt to
deny. Without stopping to Elk pest the fallacy, the
falsity, or the extuigeratioti, of each of the par-
a'.cultiat here Ell 1111 l erated, it suffices to ask, Is
Portaged evacuated by the enemas 4isd ir our
army embarked. ur *Arcked to the aid of oar clu ea,
tie Spaniards.! —So far is Portugal from being
freed frog the kneuch, that a new campaign is
comluenced.rgairsse therm Jr nor, it is true, with
Ilia: forme, aruip,-ainninsiition, and, as will appear,
.a gnat part of the plunder, is already, we may pre.
sumo. at' ; and, probably, on his march to
join NLY ua Alava. or its Navarre. But he has
left occupation enough for Elves aid
Al-
us,e'da, the two keys of Portugal, towards L-tris-
mailunt and St' demesne, refuse f a admit oar
forces. General ;lore, with la .i a ..ios. of taw
army, is Lone to reduce the la =t sal those for-

those,. New cotharraastnenta, of a vary delicate
tutor', have, however, which may had to
most serious consequences. The Spanish garrison
in the Fort of Bsdajoz, only a few leagues distant
from Elves, indignant at a Convention which still
left a frontier town of such importance in the heads
of the enemy, had actually formed the siege of the
place, and had begun to throw shells into IL Doubts
are entertained whether the Spaniards caa be in-
duced to desist, or even to allow General HOPE to
take possession of, and to occupy, Elves. So much
for the evacuation of Portugal. But is any part of
our army embarked for Spain ? Not a man had
been put on board, so lute Its the stli of the ',remelt
mouth ; though, us we before observed, Jutawr's
troops may be at this hour pushing through the
Pyrenees, before they are closed by snows, and
ready to begin hostilities; against BLAKE, or against
PALAFOX. Lord HAWK ESIIIIRY may assert, as we
know he loudly does, that we have tonnage in the
Tagus sufficient for transporting fourteen thousand
men. But we much question the authenticity of
the declaration. A short time will shew. Meau-
while we invoke the vigilant attention of the coun-
try• to the conduct of a Cabinet, which, after hat-
ing, by their miserable intrigues, given the com-
mand to a General obviously unfit for such a ser-
vice, one now attempting to justify their own
errors, by concealing or varnishing over his uiii-

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A letter halt beets received at the East-India
'ouse, from Rio Janeiro, dated the 1 tat of July
last, stating, that the shi 44,1.c:them, Capt. Doi.h.
Int.l completed the realties Zither forensasr, and war
then ender way, proceeding 'for Madras.
Our woollen manitfactnre is likely to be greatly
imp,roved by the great importation of sheep from
Spain. Two thousand were landed ou 11-ednes-
(hi) , at l'ortsinotith, front Gijon.
The ban/It Get:, tte, of the itd, contains th Edict,
ordering all persons who had obtained possession of
tie. tioniteof the Spaniehtrootothat were disarmed by
JUNO?. to deliver them in to the head-quarters of the
British eavidry at Belem. We understand that in
consequence of this edict, most of the horses hate
been recovered, and the Spanish cavalry remounted
and equipped ; hat as these horses hud been sold by
the French, it was neer-awry to indemnify the per-
sons into whose hands they bad Nitta by purchase.
All the letters from Portugal, from the Officers,
and we hare seen not a few of them. speak in terms
of every thing but respect of some of ourhigher of-
ficers there. It is a pity that-a brave army should
be doomed to fight under men in whom they have
no continence, and of whoee former serve.* the
country knows nothing.
The (Imam, DAV 'DION, from Belfast for Work-
ington, we. lost near Bangor, on the eth inst
The Fusee transport, belonging to Shields,
STIIOII/, Master, is lost ou the coast of France.
One of the Members of tkeVictualling-Office has
recently been at Ilyinouth ; and two of the Hein-
bent of the Burnsek Board, and two of the Medical
Board. are pin roond the country, and tooling
into their respective departments, tit different sta-
tions.

Captain TOWltelr, one of tae Members of the
Transport-Board, and Major iNW.SISITT, of the
wutrter-Master-Generul's Department, ure at
Portsmouth. superintending and expediting the
embarkation of troops.
The transports, with the wounded men (min Poe-
taxa!, have arrived ut Spithead.
The bomb, with her convoy, front
Portsmouth. arrived at Rio on 44th Jii ly.
The *arta, —, from Falmouth fur Guern-
sey, foundered at sea the 13th inst. crew saved.
6lt is stated in bOlllll private letters. of the 4th in-
stant, from Lisboa, that our troops begin to get
sickly, owing to their lying about exposed to
'the weather, not having been allowed, instil
very lately, any covering whatever, except their
tenis; and, even at that date, a blanket was
all that was allowed to every tive men. The Oph-
thalmia is also said to have mole its appciinalice
among them. It hail been lingtight in by the 64d
and another regiment, which infected the rest of
the cony.
The very important cause respecting the Titles
and Estates of the late Earl ANNFALF.Y, is to come
into immediate cliscus.inti. The Mother and Guar-
dian of the claimant of those baboons and posses-
sions, has, it is said, aunotniceil her intention of
bringing the question to as early an investigation
as legal forms will allow.
On the 7th inst. sentence was passed by the
Chancellor in the Consistory Court of Durham, in
the long-rending suit against the !lector of Roth-
bury. The decree is, that he be suspended for
three years, and a sequestration of the rectory is
sirder;sl to he Matted to the Rev. Mr. IblAUUttatt. of
Burnburgh Castle.
11 hen it was known that BON•PACTI had used
some of Ills MAJLATT's crtam-coloured horses in
Ilanover, in order, as lie arid... To ride like the
lisug of ENGLAND," those of the Itoyal Stud here
were bud aside, except one, of exquisite symmetry,
broke for Ills M a.etsry's use us a ('larger. A Por-
trait of this beautiful Horse, from a painting by
( 'as tom, is given itt the last Number of The Sport-
ing Magazine ; and it will not be too much to
say. that the Engraving does simple justice to
osec/rights!: it appears likewise to have eat care-
fully worked by the copper-plate printer.
The gang of robbers who have so long infested
the wcsf end of the town, ore still upon the alert
to commit fresh depredations. A few nights ago
they went to the house of Lord Leeman Cows'',
iii Stanhope-street ; but, alter ringing the door
bells, retold that the servant in care of the Louse
was ion diligent for them.
A mournful instance of mortality occurred last
week in the family of Mr. CNRISTOPHER HEAPS,
jun. of I..eerlii. Tiwee of his children, a gill and
two boys, were successively attacked with a degree
cif arrompsinied with an ulcerated sore throat,
min lanit at present very prevalent amongst
club:rum) which was succeeded in all of them by
that alarming complaint the croup, and terminated
fitatly to the first od Friday, the second on Mon.
clay, and the third on Tuesday last.

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ne to the lielligers. n tVatesti *viers foOkbbrivey indareggience ? Why has net a
coutritry to dleti,t9tirestitakintile antr.
atthe aired Mo. that burned intim breast of
" in the event# Pew** litt
stilities bet%oelk the Botigeieut poSpomegbirm, 411111nerston,spswired,amd descended tewarnuand
se, or such change 'iss thei(inlitsures .atfectitig inolbiloltattle darks colds end oldeelinglsesom of his
o trail contwerc?o, sally
la ciaribistiiikthtUnital successor? In another passage be sa3s, "tor years
ate 11441444tY We*" or he Pi e- we have been looking as epectetries me our brethren
lent. he is,aetheejsed to .us pend the Embargo.-- in Europe, attliMed wills all thesesevils which at-
" no PeAloo-or onlYtnamoo-ef ,
measures, 4tfecting cemmerce, is :kaolin ccaMthY lon'"' So ab1ia4)441"56t the "'nrairules
lave t.ilten phice ; the Orden, of Esiglainl, sad ova mad ifttious together.” Mr. Jsr-
e Decrees of Frisbee and Spans. essiatmg at the. a estmers. hi Ili/ le but bere.lpe is a libeller
to of these laws, and 4ill unrepeelcd, sai tar as! tqyfl gi404.1 sentence.
site is classed with
t slow. In Spain ilidaesl, a muted- lot the (:wi;" „„' tc, ,„„„„,, moral ranseat appears to bare avian; iLe course • -
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l'arlisinentory . This resolution,
lids was earnest imausiinttoijry4ip,poettinst con-
ing of soot rosiirostiie eitiaeossati,V.r.tusinster.
mu* wore portaatdnwti fe-etual,th au
resolutions pl*d
b.
Da the nun! solieet. :It stet;.. the Vitiiiins
Westminster kali LWI MififitterVo
li°l do °et "Pwet j+tntiNiN their bttnti; bud
t it is to tirlisinent islmose they Wit with eon..