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The 'nitrite/ ri s Ilrtuts, nnw that the p►esonation of
_pelmet, lt Its opinion certain, addresses a long exhortation se
/Spain tidally:Ay to the conduct it ought to pursue to lautu'e
her her repolte, and the tranquillity of her neighbours.

:'lotting can be better ; we prefer advice to mentces, and this

mutual exchange of warnings amongst free Mints vista turn
oat to their advantage. Such are the happyfadts of the liberty
of-the press, fer which " there are no longer any Pyrenees."
We were curious enough to know the species of modltleatioo
the Jeer/eta des Debuts could propose to Spain, as it de-
' dared bet the other day, that neither aristocracy nor theo-
cracy:nor the Charter of France, nor the Constitution of Eng-
lend, net the salient Cortes, could harmonic e with that country.
We 'have been disappbinted ; it only puts forth some vague
recontreendations ; it confines itself to exhorting Spain to
moderation, to wisdom, and its attention is much more engaged
with the present state of Spain than with what may be her
future condition. For instance, after reproaching her with
the spirit of persecution and political intolerance, which is
increasing at every point, it adds : A downright rage for
inquisiticea, condemnation, and proscription, seems to have
taken possession of the Cortes since their re-establishment
in NAO. Whoever does not agree in opinion with them
upon every• subject, Is an enemy, a traitor. They scrutinize
the past, and in every quarter they see only guilty persons
to be brought to light and be punished. Out of ten or
twelve little ministerial coteries who attempted to obtain
power in the course of the six years, from 1514 to 1820,
none appears in their eyes less culpable than another.—
They proscribe these who had sent them to the galleys, and
those who have enabled them to come out. The most wise,
nay, even the most liberal opinions, if they diverge ever so
little from the iitfallible system, immediately became political
offences. The positions dictated by necessity are imputed as
crimes- The Josephixos arc condemned, although friends to
constitutional monarchy. The Pence are condemned as the
partisans of despotism, *hough they only call for the old
Cortes. No public man can obtain a reputation for patriotism.
The Jovellanos, the Torreuos, the Martinez de la Rosa, are
decried in succession, and their prudent advice rejected with
horror ; the heroic Quiroga, and the dirtme Arguelles fall into
disgrace. What do I say ? The very Ministers of the 7th of
June, those pure Deseamisadoes, are now attacked by the
party of the Fouet (the Zurriago) in the famous journal which
bears that name.

A Spaniard, a man of sense and merit, equally distinguished'
by his character as by his position in society, who read that
article, and who was questioned as to the effect It might pro-
duce in Spain, replied, that his compatriots certainly did not
refuse advice, but that they would be very capable of giving it,
in their turn, to those who were so liberal of it to them, and
that they might well say, in theirt'nfeersal, " We are not, like
yea, arrived at the end of our revolution ; and two years have
scarcely elapsed since events, which all prudent men in Europe
were able to foresee, have changed our political situation.
We are enlightened by your experience and your faults; and
if measures of exception have momentarily suspended whatever
is liberal in our institutions, it is a civil war, it Is culpable re-
sistance which has reduced us to that deplorable necessity.
" Yon are not menaced with foreign invasion or with 'eternal
dissentions, and yet have you not, by your own avowal, a fa-
natical party which is every where exciting the spirit of per-
secution and iotoleraeoe? Has not a downright rage for de-
nunciation sod inquisition taken possession of It? Whoever
does not agree le opinion with its leaders is an enemy, a sedi-
tious person, a conspirator; they scrutinize the past, and in
every quarter they see only guilty persons to be brought to
light and be punished. Out of ten or twelve small ministerial
coteries who attempted to obtain power from 1814 to 1921,
none appears less culpable in their eyes than another; they
accuse both those who have proscribed and those who have
exerted themselves the most against proscription. The
sound. st opinions, even those which partake of a decidedly
royalist character, If they diverge ever so little from their sys-
tem of unity or universal conscience, isumrdintely hemmr,
in the eyes of their writers, political offences. The positions
dictated by necessity are imputed as crimes. The men em-
kiloyed under the, Imperial Government are denounced, how-
lever friendly they may be to the representative government ;
ih• Liberals are denounced as the partisans of Jacobinism,
although they only vindicate institutions conformable to the
'Charter. No public teas cam preserve his repetition as a
Royalist ; the Royer Collard, the Dessolies, the Jaseourt, the
St. Cyr, are decried In succession ; the Honourable General
!Malian 1i suspected, and the virtuous Camille Jordan has
died te'disgraee. What do I say? even the Ministers of 1991,
those pare Monarchists, are now attacked by the fanatical party,
in a terrific journal written under its dictation."

Would not this reply. &Mod the Spaniard, seem a little em-
thatrassing to the Journal des Debuts: and has it not acted
like Le Sage, who wished to describe the manners of his coun-
try, and who placed amongst us the action of his Gil Bias.
rants, neer rasa 14.

French Funds.—Fire per Cents. opened at 99 f. 73c. ;
closed at 90f. 90 c. ; Bank Stock, 1,637 f. 110 e.—Neopolitan
Five per Cents. 78 f.—Exchange on London, one month, 23 f.
46e. ; throe months, 93 f. 30 c.—(Conrs Asthettlique, De-
ember 14.)

We are, both from literary taste and religious
principle, most anxious never to speak evil of
DIGNITIES; it may be easily conceived that, from
both considerations, we are doubly anxious not to
speaVevil of " the Constitutional Associatiou"—for of
that DIGNIFIED body purpose we now to speak.
Their claims to our respect are great and manifold.
The object of their disinterested labours would be
sufficient to elevate into importance, and consecrate
to eternal gratitude the obscurest individuals; for'
their object is no other thaw ►he preservation of the
glorious CONSTITUTION of these realms from insult
and injury. Their patriotic motto is, " Commit no
nuisance here." But look again at the persons who
have undertaken this DIGNIFIED task. There is Mr.
Cu A RUES blVßlcwx, equally perfect in mind
and body, and eulogized in Parliament by
WILLIAM Wmasarciags, Esq. author of the Cop.
porosity View of Christianity; there is Mr. Sti Nrt,
careless to excess of his own affairs, but zealously
devoted to the public purse—prodisitts sua, avarits
publica peconice ; there is Mr. Alderman ArxlNs, the
darling of the city, the most amiable of men, the
paragon of patriots, the admiration of his country ;
and there is, besides, every ancient matron and every
resigned maiden whose proud seclusion from the of-
fairs of this wicked world qualifies them supremely
for the protection, of our ideal Constitution. It is dif-
ficult to say whether the Association is more indebt-
ed to the object, or the object to the Association, for
that dazzling DIGNITY which envelopes all their
proceedings in glory indescribable.

The Association lad a prosecution called on for
trial oft Saturday last, the KING v. Kure, but the
Special Jury not having appeared, they wisely declined
to pray a tales. A similar act of intrepid wisdom

'they displayed in Lancaster) whets they declined to
go to trial against Rinow.se's witnesses.. No skil-
ful General will ever hazard a battle where success
is desperate. The Association is not to be degraded
to the level of litigants. They represent the " Con-
stitntion," and go into Court, not to contest, and
submit to the result of a patient consideration of
merits, but to receive a verdict and a sentence. In
this view they are infinitely better guardians of the
Constitution, and better chastisers of its revilers than
the law officers of the Crown, fur they cannot be
asked impertinent questions by Members of Parlia-
ment, and they feel no influence or fear to interrupt
the even tenor of their conscientious course. Why
ring not our streets with songs of triumph for the
marvellous deliverance of our " Constitution" from
devouring death by the mighty arm of the As-
sociation? The pululations of the Csautt-hydra
it extinguished ; RIDGWAY, the Gorgon, immured ;
and KING, that chimera dire, it has exposed to
shame. Now is there, we put it to the consci-
ences of the slanderers of this unprecedented Insti-
tution—is there a living man who believes that the
Constitution could have lived to this day, if the name-
less (ineffable, unutterable, indescribable) ruffians
who served CARLILE, the artful, able, and renowned
RIDGWAY, and the majestic KING, bad been allowed
to wage war unopposed ? It is impossible. That we
are not as France, and made like unto Spain, we owe
to the Constitutional Association.
But " the friends of sedition and the admirers of
blasphemy," as the Courier beautifully states it, " are
very angry with the Constitutional Association for
having preferred an indictment against the publisher
of that infamous poem in the Liberal, whose disgust-
ing impieties and coarse brutalities we," says the cou-
rageous Courier, " held up to public scorn and de-
rision." The same virtuously indignant Journal calls
this poem " filthy trash," and " confidently asserts
there is not an individual, whose literary taste and
moral principles are not equally corrupted, who speaks
of this poem without abhorrence." It moreover styles
it " the loathsome thing." If the Constitutional As-
sociation had done nothing more than having called
forth this sublime and DIGNIFIED paragraph from the
Courier, its existence would be the pride—its labours
the glory, of the nineteenth century. But they have
done much more even in this case ; they have ob-
tained the passport of a GRAND J ay into a Court
of Justice with Lord BYRON'S Vision. This is a va-
luable advantage. A GRAND JURY, necessarily in-
telligent and circumspect, have said that the Vision
is fit to be prosecuted by the Association for Sedition.
The Lancashire Grand Jury rejected at once the bills
presented by Mr. HARMER for private individuals
against the gallant yeomanry of Manchester. They
refused admission to a fanciful charge, by obscure in-
dividuals, within the solemn precincts of justice. But
the Grand Jury, in this case, saw at once the high re-
spectability and glorious title of the prosecutors, and
ushered theta into the Court. If any irreverent coun-
sel should hereafter question their title, the impartial
Judge will at once tell the Special Jury, that the
Grand Jury have recognized their title, and left no
room for such cavils.
But the subject prosecuted will admit of no doubt
as to the result, although the Courier, scrupulous
good Christian! hesitates to say so,lest haply he might
bias the future Special Jury. The subject is, the dis-
respectful terms in which GEORGE 111. is mentioned.
We shall not stay to prove that Geoacie 111. is an
everlasting part of our glorious " Constitution ;" and
that therefore every disrespectful mention of him to
the end of time must be sedition. It is enough to say
that Dr. Sot/ritzy, the duly-constituted Laureate for
such special services, has sung his late MAJESTY ►ato
beatitude ; and that to treat lightly a King so beati-
fied, blind, too, and insane as he was, is raging sedi-
tion, if not flagrant treason. We are much mistaken
if the mere parody, or even the idea of parody upon
Dr.SOUTHEY'S hallowed hexameters, will not be found'
sedition and blasphemy serpentinely entwined, by
every Jury but those who acquitted Mr. HONE. Why
slumbers the Vice-Society, for the prosecution of
blasphemy belongs to them ? The Constitutional
Association care only for sedition. Can the Vice-
Society supinely suffer St. George—the St. George
of SOUTILRY too—to be blasphemed with impunity
It is matter of much joy to think that Mr. CA NNitis
withholds not his countenance from the DIGNIFIED
zeal of the Association, and the dignified censure of
the Courier. Thus it becomes a parodist, when con-
verted, to strengthen the hands of the righteous, and
to punish parodists. Every one must be sensible that
this is the most unequivocal evidence of genuine
conversion and true contrition. Happy revolution,
which has allied Mr. CANNING with Mr. MURRAY
aganist the parody of Lou! BYRON ! Yes, it must be
so; for if be approved not, his spirit could never look
quietly on while parody of this sort is prosecuted.
The zeal of the official Courier for Christianity sur-
passes praise. "The vulgar audacity of that poor igno-
rant creature Carlile, and his bold-faced knavery." o,'
what a champion of religion is here ! That CA nLILE is
" poor" we ourselves knew, from his inability to pay I
his fine; that he was " creature" we presumed ; but
" audacity" or " knavery" we could sot impute, be-
cause we could not look into his heart or divine his
motives. His "besotted expectation," and his " pro-
fligate enterprise," though we potently believe, upon
the authority of the Courier, we could never bare
discovered. Here is the advantage of being a scholar
as well as a Christian. A poor fool had found a piece
of iron on the public road, at which helooked with
much curiosity. " What is that you have got, Toss ?"

asked a gentleman wbo was riding along: " I can-
not tell, Sir," said silly Tom. " You fool I" ex-
claimed our rider, " it is a horse-shoe."—" 0, what
it is to be a scholar !" ejaculated Tom, " for I did not
know whether it was a horse's shoe or a mare's shoe !"
So must we say of the Courier, for we did not know
whether Carlile was honest or profligate, firm or
audacious, an enthusiast or a knave. " The exche-
quer of his whole gang would not cover a tithe of Car-
tile's lurch." This is mystery to us, but the Courier is
a scholar. "He will beg in vain." This again is
mystery, for our prayer is—" Forgive our debts as
we forgive our debtors."—But the Courier is a
scholar.

By private letters from Lima to the 12th of June
we learn that from the Ist to the 10th of the
ensuing month an expedition of from 3 to 4,000
picked men, der the command of Mora RADO, will
sail from for Puerto, (probably Arica).
Preparations tnaking with the greatest activity ;
its destination i not generally known. The trans-
ports are gettin ady under the pretence of going to
Choco, to convey the troops Bottva R has offered to
the Governor of Peru. We remain about 1,500 cavalry
,and about 3,000 veteran infantry. This force is
thought quite competent to defend the city, in case of
CA NTARAeII advance upon it, which is thought ex-
tremely improbable; and there is no doubt, if he
should obtain a knowledge of the destination of the
expedition, he will retreat to the southward to cover
Arequipa. The greatest harmony prevails between
the Peruvian Government and that of Colombia.

A letter from Hamburgh dated the 6th instant, and
received by way of Holland, states the arrival of the
very important information from Petersburgh, that au
Ambassador had actually left that city for Constan-
tinople.

On Wednesday Admiral Sir HENRY BLACKWOOD
arrived at Portsmouth in the Leander, of 50 guns,
having been relieved in the command iu the East In-
dies by Commodore GRANT.
The following is an extract of a letter from the Bri-
tish Vice-Counsel at Tarragona, dated Nov. 28 :—" I
have this day cleared out the English brig Phoenix,
STRONG, master, belonging to Dartmouth, bound to
Salon, to take a cargo of nuts to England. This ves-
sel has no Mediterranean pass, and as the public papers
of Spain announce that an Algerine squadron is cruis-
ing in the Mediterranean, I deem it a duty incumbent
on me to give this information for the government of
the parties concerned."
Sixteen counties have already determined to meet
for the purpose of petitioning for a Reform in Parlia-
ment ; and, we understand, that a number of the
opulent freeholders of the county of Durham, are
about to sign a Requisition to the High Sheriff for the
same purpose.

Sir T. B. LETHBRIDGE, Bart. has at this time no
less than 13 farms on his hands for want of tenants.—
Very liberal abatements from former rents have been
proposed, but, such is the state of agriculture at pre-
sent, that the amount to be abated isless a matter of
consideration, thus, whether it is prudent to engage
to pay any rent at all ! Several large farms in this
county, which, a very short time ago, made a respec-
table figure on the rent-roll, are now pronounced by
experienced farmers to be unavailable for profit at a
pepper corn rent ; and an agriculturist, upon whose
judgment and veracity we can rely, has assured us
that an estate, a few miles from this town, which cost
the present owner upwards of 25,0001. would be now
dearly rented at 2001. per annum.—Tauntoa Coerier.
Sir JAMBS GRAHAM, Bart. of Netherby, has re-
mitted all arrears of rent due throughout his estates,
up to the current year; and has also granted a re-
duction of rent varying from five to thirty per cent.
according to the circumstances of each cue, for two
years certain : at the expiration of which time the
rents are to be regulated according to the price of
the principal articles of farm produce.—(Newcastle
Chronicled

The following fetter has been addressed by Carlile
to Sir Charles Abbot, Knt., Chief Justice of England:
Dorchester Gaol, Dec. 6, lOW.
Sta,—lt la reported in the newspapers, that In the ease of Clu-
nk. r. Park us, you, as Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench,
and as the presiding Judge in dot came, did state that It was the
practice of the Judges of that Cowl serer to iliffct afire wa-
les, there was a prospect of the party fined being capable of
paying it. Now,l feel it my duty to state, on my own behalf, and
that of my sister, both prisoners in this gaol, under the sentence of
that Court, at this time for fines only, that we have not the least
prospect of being able to pay them, and that, unless they are re-
mitted, or paid by other persons, we see no prospect but imprison-
merit for life : it is therefore evident, if the report of the papers
he true, that the Court must hare been misinformed as to the
means of my sister, at the time of passing sentence. For myself,
I can say, that I have suffered more by the seizure and detention
of my stock in trade than I should have suffered if I had been
fined 5,0001., and bad been left to make the best of the property I
possessed to meet it with, at the expiration of my three years'
imprisonment. I trust, therefore, that the influence which the
Chief Justice of England must at all times possess, will be used
in the ease of myself and sifter, to plate tut in that situation in
which the Court would hare placed us, had it been better ac-
quainted with our means. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
kICHARD CARLILE.

EXTENSITSFORGERY OW THICANDRIDGEBANIC.-
F cal days In the last week of October, a man, calling himself
James Lloyd, and a woman, calling herself Jane Ilewson, were
most actively and too snecessfugy engaged in the circulation of
forged notes of the Cambr.dge and Cambridgeshire bank, in the
town itself where the parties (Messrs. Fnrresters) upon whom tie
forgery was committed carried on their business. On Tuesday,
the sth inst. the man and woman went to Saffron Walden, where
they passed four similar notes of one pound each, which being de-
tected on the morning of Friday, the woman was apprehended and
taken before Thos. Hall, Esq.. one of the resident Magistrates, who
was so disgusted with her evident perjury, that he eventuare.
fused to take any minutes of her declaraljon. andeoniniirted hr to
the town goal. On Sunday sc'nnight the male accomplice was also
taken into custody, and on 'marching him twolen-poond Bank of
England notes ta o one-pound Provincial notes, and twenty-four
pounds' worth of silver were found : he was committed for further
examination, and on Hondo,' morning both parties were again
brought up and itlentified as the persons who had played so
profitable a game; the were thereun fully cmitted for
trial at the Essexsex winter "MIMI. On poTuesday morning Lloyd
was found dead in his cell, having
inquisition was taken before
Thomas Hall, F.sq., on view of the body of the unfortunate man,
when, upon the deposition of the gaoler as to the behaviour of the
deceased the preceding evening, the Jury 'returned a verdict of
—lnsanity. It in supposed that these persons were the went" of
the manufacturers of the notes, who is is suspected reside in the
metropolis, and carry on their felonious trod& to a considerable
extent. A large bundle of forged notes upon the Cambridge
Bank (150 of 11 each) was fountfon Monday in Atidley-rnd-pa
near Saffron Walden, which have hero handed over to the prose-
cutors; the notes are well executed, hut the signature is engraved.
Lloyd was only IS years of age, the prisoner Hewesa at she
states that her father is a labourer in the employ of Mr. Nicholls.
• farmer, residing at Kilburn. When she was informed of the
death of her paramour, she asserted with mach prewvire of mind
that she was his wife, and that she could not be hurt, as she had
only acted under the influence of her husband.

CAUTION TO CORN-DRALEll2.—Lately the Ma-
gistrates acting for Leath Ward, in Cumberland, con-
victed Joior SEXTON, of Low Mill, near Eamont
Bridge, in the mitigated penalty of 40s. for not having
made the declaration required by the Act of the first
of his present Majesty, cap. 87 ; —and Witaassi
LANCASTER., of Morland, in the like penalty of 405.,
for not having on the sth of November delivered into
Mr. R. BoAx, the inspector of coca returns, t true
end enact account of the prices of all the oorn bought
by him, within seven days then preceding, as required
by the said 'Act.—Westniorckind Advertiser.