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XX-PARTE 110TFARD AND GIBBS.

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Owing to the late hour at which the trial p.
Steed v. Shaw, which arose out of {he baokrupte.
these parties, concluded, welted not time in ont Pap,
-of yesterday to offer any observations epon the case ;
but we cannot help regretting that there should be no
-means of visitingthe offenders, in whose 'failure the
unfortunite plaintiff vms involved—for offenders they
are, though not exactly within the sphere of criminal
ipoiress—mith the exemplary punishment which their
conduct merits. Acts not pregnant with half the de-
plorable consequences to individuals or to the corn-
Inanity, bring their perpetrators, Sessions after Ses-
sions, to an untimely end. The instances are many
in which persons who have confided in these two
Mon v.e Jore'efts have been brought to utter and irre-
trievable ruin. Mr. Grimstead, previously to his
connexion with 'these parties, lived in the bosom of
'his family, in a state, not of comfort merely, but of
affluence. His whole fortune is gone t There are
others—persons in the humblest classes of life, many
of them respectable servants, who having saved up
the hard earnings of a life of industry—some three
hundred, some four, and some five hundred pounds—
deposited the whole in their hands, having no doubt
'but it would be turned to the best account, and
trusting with entire reliance on the regular receipt
of the interest. These poor creatures have been
consigned by this bankruptcy to the workhouse of
their respective parishes, and in these asylums of
poverty and wretchedness they will end their days.
Living in the midst of a great commercial mettophis,
we would wish ever to speak with tenderness of than
whom the unforeseen failure of foreign houses, or the
unexpected turn of events in mercantile speculation,
may have reduced to insolvency, the distressing
effect of which may spread over others to an extent
to be deplored. But in the case before us there is
no such demand upon public indulgence, nor any
well-grounded appeal to individual sympathy. And
we uaost sincerely lament that against deliberate and
flagrant violations of good faith, which introduce
such a mass of misery into private life, and involve
a deprivation of property to the amount of hundreds
of thousands, there is not another apd a different
sentence than that which was pronouncal upon it.

" Cillind AS Darr.—Holiday et MI the Pablic•Ofees.

:THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, Decimaza 26, 1822.

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The -Foreign Papers of last night contain no news
-of importance. The co-operation of Portugal with
Spain, though mot 'unexpected, is an interesting fact.
The grand topic of declamation with the enemies of
the peninsular revolutions is the treatment of the
Queen of Powettost., who has refused to accede to
the Constitution. She is said to be seriously ill, and
this, we are disposed to Chink, must be the reason of
her refusal, fbr the supposition of her refusing to ac-
cede to the act of the nation and of her Lord, in a
sane state.of mind is not itself, very reasonable. Poor
crazy Pori passe falls into his old raving fits, on this
occasion, against the late Queen of GREAT Bati'etp
end the opponents of the Bill'of Pains and Penalties.
TYa parallels of passe are infinite and peculiar.
We subjoin some extracts from the French Papers
PARIS, DECEMBER 22.
Yesterday the King transacted basiness with the Count de
President of the Council:
A droner who arr:ved yesterday from Madrid brought
weed and letters of the 14th, and also dispatches from the
'Frauds Ambassador to Use OSce for Foreign Affairs. At his
departure all was tranquil in that capital. General Velem.)
has sent a bulletin of the 7th from Saragossa, in which he
announces that srsoo insurgents hasp been defeated
.near

,iilequinenna, in the environs. pf keikla. The death of
Za'diver iiconfirmed by a dispiich fi-oin Don Froylon
Commandant of the column which dispersed the troop ol the
Royalist Chief. • . • -
The Universal of tho ittb contains letter from Lisbon of
a recent date, in which it isafiirmed that a treaty of alliance,
defensive and offendive, had been Cdneluded between tho
elovernasents 01 Spain. ,and Portugal, and eight- thou-
sand Portuguese were immediately to he placed at the.
disposal ol Spain. The question relative to Olisenza has been
Aeferred. The thiversal of the- tglh .osiers, that this
intelligence may ho regarded as 01104. Notwithstanding
so favourable an assertion, we must be allowed to eaterbiks
.some doubts with regard to a statement so frequent& firing-
kited sod so often contradicted.--.lonraaides liebots.
A courier extraordinary was dispatched on the auth Vibe
English Embassy to Madrid.
The cause of M. B. Constant, which was on the' list for.
trill on Thursday next, is put off till next month,.on account..
of the indisposition of the Seensed'.
. 'The Gatette of Naresesiery gives some details coeoernies
the death of Madame Letitia Bonaparte, which may be con-
sidered apocryphal. Our letters from Rome mention-the ill.
.%epith sat that lady, but they Au not state that she had soak
;nadir it.—Clootidiense. • • • • . •
.• Ocusral O'Donnell, who was at Lumhies on tlio eth of Pe-

,s,otobor, fell back upon the position of Navaseuas, and Gene-
ral Torrkjos not Darin; dared to at,:ack.. • , bilt) ho has returned
to remise his position at Lumbies.

A letter from Emboli', of December 4, announces fresh sue.
,ceoses on the part of the Royal Army, audtheCute. MO's°,
la Castille.—( Ibid.)
• --, NEWS FROM THE FRONTIERS OF SPAIN. '
• Baron dErules, who passed Et. Gaudens on Wedues-
four o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by
':renoles, a retired Frcpcb oeoertl,:end a
a division of the Regency pl Urge', arrived
Friday the toth. He alighted at the-Hotel do
-.cored in public the dog before yesterday with
decorations. Previous to leaving Spain, the
' all the troops remaining under his eons;
. parties.
emigration continues. Illustrious fugitives
nilouse.
!hat Romaniello. who had been accused of
iut up in the fort of Urgel;is also in our

Romagosa, who bad come from •Uritel to
o tho Marquis of Mattilorids, set out igata
rgel.

,op of the sewed regiment of horse artillery,'
garrisen at Bayonne for some months pest,
,saloube. The depot of the 4th regimeet of
crony FM: on Saturday. The regiment nom
attreme frontier, and occupies Biter,
, and flospitalet:
are covered wills snow.—Jeur nal de Toeleitee

ENVIRONS OP PVYCERDA, DEC. 11, ,
been informed that on the 9th Min■ cur)
nice, who penetrated as far as the gates at
Isom ordered a sortie ; that a heavy arc of
place, mad that aster being engaged for an.
irties separated with inconsiderable lows. • •
N mere considerable *tabor of Mina's troops,

ceases no the part I
Is Castille.—(lbill.
NEWS FRO;
11 The Baron d'Eri
stay the 11th at foul
the Count de Crc
Commandant of a I
at Toulouse on JFri
France. and appear
his insignia and deo
r t i flame distributed
mind lute guerilla
/ The Spanish en
arrive daily in Toe
It is affirmed th
if • , troischary, and she
CO v.
A Secretary to 1
bnagdispatOirs to
jesterday for Urge
r' The second tr soi
• which has burs in I
. •
is returning hr Tut
the line arrived fro
Unnes upon the
TrlaJame. Merens,
The Pyrenees ar
he Irak,
iiii
FROM THE 1
If We have just bet
40u men to actions
Seo ; that Romugc
• inosketry took ph
hear. the two part
• Tlis nest day Al I
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