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-IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TOMMY, MAUR IS.

Their Lordships met at a few minutes before
Nor o'clock.
Mr. Mason, from the Directory of the East India
Company, presented the Resolutions of the Court
oFlNreiturs. "grazitiniresinAii. iinnutries, pensions,
rod gratuities to theta; Offieers.—Laid ou the bible.
Mr,.l.ollifler and other hiamben of the House of
Centittnni,-Ifiottight ui i pneisie Bill, whichoreiq,
read *brit time.
The'Ltinatie Stoelt,Trasafer Bill, the New Bondi
Wales Duties Bill, and the Porta Scotia Trade
Bill, severally wept through a Committee of the
yehple House • 00 .I.l* ilohle•Chairesau reported,
064 they had boa agreed to without any amend=
meet; c•D.- 0. 11' '1 "
The GeOrtal Boelmasie Bill went through a Com-
mittee; eioo the' clauses agreed to with some verbal
Amellgyttr, and the Report .ordered to be
hies& up ts.morrow.
•Our ilkassotion of the Marquis of Lam:town,
Lora listschamp was appointed to be added as a
. Menthol's( ills Select Committee on Foreign
Trlideldjourned.
••• NOUSE OF COMMONS, Tenser, MARat 13.

'The &MAIM" entered the House a quarter before
four'
Mr. Ernie presented a Petition from the Dean
and Chapter of Westminster. spinet the removal
ottlie disabilities of the Roman Catholic!.—Or-
dered to be printed.
NEW CHURCHES.
Sir JAMS! (341111A1l presented a Petition from
the Migistrates and other inhabitants of the City
of Carlisle, lamenting the great increase of im-
piety, immor,ility, and irreligion, and the iade-
qnsey of the late Bill for the erection of additional
churches to supply the deficiency of places of
worship, and praying that some further provision
M aY be made try the Legislature, investing the
parronuge of, and preseutation to, such churches as
May be built by subscription, in those persons who
may contribute to the same.
Mr: JAMBS supported the prayer of the Petition,
although he could not concur in Its preamble.
Mr. CURWIEN said, he concurred in the general
prayer of the Petition, but he deprecated the
manner in which Petitioners came to the House,
and stated, that blasphemy and irreligion prevailed
is a part of the enoiney where it was known not
to exist. The clergy in particular ought to know
the state of the country better, and ought not to
hazard such unfounded statements. He would
• appeal to the Hun. Member himself who presented
this Petition. toss), whether the inhabitants of Car-
lisle were not a steady, moral, mid religious people ;
and a Nether there had been a single prosecution
for blasphemy in the county of Cumberlimil. He
was eurr, from his knowledge of some of the !ter-
sons-whom names he saw affixed to the Petition,
that they must have signed it without reading or
knowing its purport.
Meet]. G. USN N err, we understood, complain-
ed of the system on which the new churches were
built, by which little or no accommodation was
oft...rhea to the poorer people.
Sir J. GRAHAM said, all the most respectable
inhabitants of Carlisle had signed this Petition, but
he was sorry to say not a single clergyman.
Ordered to be printed.
AGRICULTURAL PETITIONS.
Mr. E. WODSHOUSB presented a Petition from
Owners and Occupiers of Land in the neighbour-
hood of the City of Norwich, complainit°r of losses
nod distress sustained by them. which they attri-
buted in • great measure to the low price of pro-
duce, particularly of bailee ; they complained of
the injurious operation of the Isle additional duty
on barley, and prayed that the House would take
the subject into consideration.
Mr. Weresei presented similar Petitions from
S.ff.ou Walden, and Colchester, in Essex, and
Pool the Cciunty of Linlithgow, in Scotlaud.
These Petitions were severally ordered to be

piloted.
Mr. Witsmte postponed the motion of which
he had given notice, and which stood for this day,
for the repeal of the sdditional duty on Malt, im-
posed in the last Session of l'ailiament. He did
so at the request of the Noble Lord, the Secretary
fur the Foreign Hepartmi.nt, who, he was sorry to
say, was unable to attend in his place, he believed,
in consequence of indispo.ition. The earliest day
for which it could contentently be fixed was Wed-
mighty, the 46th March, on which day, therefore,
he now gave notice that tie should make his motion.
Mr. i.:RICaVaY said he thought his Hon. Friend
bad acted incautiously in co, renting to peatpone
his motion. He had before repeatedly observed,
and he would now repeat it, that whenever any
money was to be voted there was always a full at-
t-sidance of Miniateis and other Members of the
!louse, but when etas was proposed to be repealed,
they were sure to be absent or its bed. lie thought
big lion. Friend should not have pat of his motion
on account of the absence of the Noble Lord, even
if be were ill, us it was brought on by the useless
battle .be had fought the Isreceding night for the
Army E•timates. in which he had been defeated.
Laughlera—Thu.e estimates would be voted be-
fore the period now fixed for the mo,iose of Iris Hon.
Friend, and as they involved the giant of 81,000
men, and several millions of money, it would then
be argued that the removal of this tax would render
it impossible to MISe the supplies.
Mr. CvxwxN postponed, to the 2611 s March, his
motion for the repeal of the Husbandry Horse Tax.
IRISII TRADE.
Sir ii. PAIIMILL m,,ved fur all Account of the
quantity of Pig Irene, Foreign Sheep's Wool, Cotton
IVool, and Cotton and Woollen Twist, imported
into Ireland for the lust fire years. Also, for Re-
turns of Goods, of certain descripliorts. exported
(ruin Ireland during the san e treriod.—Ordered.
Sir H. then postpuord motion for
.
Commi

Bill
New
Mr.
a Bill

Assize,.
The Bill was afterwards bameght in, and reedit
Irk time, and ordered to ha al-e a saaaatakisa-•
this day three Weeks. . .•.
•GRAMPOUND DISFRANCRISMOT 'WILL.
The Order of the Day. having bete read, for chi,
further consideration' or. the Report on the Graftie
pound Disfranchisement Bill—
Mr, STUMM Wollll.lllf moved that the Bill be
're-committed. which was agreed to, and the Hotter
having resolved itself into a Committee, severolr,
'verbal amendments were proposed and agreed teal
The House then resumed, sod the Report was 4.4.
dered to be brought up to-morrow (this day).
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for an account of
•all sums of money paid for salary or per ventage to
the distributors of stamps in leelsod daring the
last seven year..
The other Orders of the were'then severally
disposed of. and the House at half-past
'five o'clock.

MINORITY
lie favour of Mr. How's Resolution, "That it is expedient
to make a large Redaction in the Nambers'and Experise
of are Military Eatahholiment," March It.
_........_
Abercromby, Ho. J. Ellice, E. Palmer, C. F
*slborp, Timpani Ferguson' Sir R. C. Phillips, G.
Allen, J. H. Farraad, R. Pyre. F.
Barham, J. F. Gram, J. P. Ricardo' D.
'Boughey, Sir F. Gordon, R. Ridley, Sir M. W.
Blake, Sir F. Donde' I, P. Robinson, Sir G.
Bright. H. Deiffilli, J. W. Robarts, A.
Bernet, R. . Gleitireby, Lord Hobart., G.
Barrett, S. M. Harbin* Hun. E. Robotism§' A.
Bakke, John Rubberise, J. C. Boron, Hord W.
Hewett. John Hutchison's, He. C. Smith, John
Ca leraft, John Hornby, E. Smith, R.
Coffin, Sir I. James, Wm. Satins, Earl of
Curers, .1. C. Lawley, F. Talbot, R. W.
Creevey, T. Lemnos, Sir W. Talk, C.
Clifton, Viscount Lairibton, J. G. Taylor, M. A.
Calvert, C. Lloyd, J. M. %Yenisei.. W.
Colborne, N. R. Hubert!, J. Wisaingtoe, Sir T.
Coke, T. W. Moberly, W. L. Whitmore, W.
Crompton, J. Macdonald, J. Wilron, Sir R.
C.onesooon, L. Marlin, J. Wyvill, M.
Corbel, P. Hugest, Lord 11'bitbrearl,
De Crespigny, SirW.Newport, Kt. Hon.
Dowd..' Hon. T. Sir J. S.
Davies, T. H. (led, W. Smartt, Hon. 1H.(:.
Doncannon, Vile. Ossulstoo, Lord Home, J.
Devisor), W. J. Fusel', Sir H.

PORRIGN INTLLEIGENCE.

prog.priiej

PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS, MARCH 10.
The King yesterday before mass, gave a private
audience to Lieutenant-General Dabreton, com-
mander of the girth military division (Strasbourg.)
The Duke de Cases is expected to-morrow in
Paris. The Commissioners have pe►fected the
agreement for the purchase of Chambord, to be pre-
sented to the Duke of Bourdeaux. The price is
1,542,000 francs. This sum, now raising by sub-
scription, is to be paid in two years in four equal
instalments.

The news from Italy confirms the last advice, re-
ceived relatively to the march of the Austrian
troops, and the means of defence resolved upon at
Naples. The multiplicity of these measures proves
the imminence of the danger, and the approach of
the Austrians to the capital.—Nuotidieone.)
The Five per Cent. Consols are, 85 f. 45 c.—
Bank Actions 1,534.

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part, Spain

will inviolably respect in regard to all oilier coun-
tries.

" I have the satisfaction to announce to the
Cortes, that the Allied Sovereigns, according to all

the communications which I have hitherto received,
are agreed to acknowledge those principles wi►h re-
spect to Spain."
The Speech concludes in the following remark-
able manner :

" I have intentionally deferred till the end to
speak to you of myself, that you may not suppose
1 think more of my own person than of the welfare
sod happiness of the people whom Divine Provi-
dence has committed to my care.
" However, it is necessary I should inform you,
though with much regret, that the ideas of some
disaffected persons who seek to delude the credu-
lous into a notion that I am hostile to the constitu-
tional system, are not unknown to me. Their
object is to inspire distrust of my pore intentions
and upright conduct. 1 have sworn to the Consti-
tution, and I have always observed my oath, as far
as depended upon myself. I wish to God every one
else had done the same. The outrages and indig-
nities of every kind which have been committed
towards me, to the utter disregard and contempt of
' what is due to order, and to my person, us a Con-
stitutional Monarch, are public. I have no fears as
to my life, or my tatty. God, who reads my
heed, watches over one and the other, and will take
care of them, as also of the greater and better part
of the nation.

" But I cannot this day conceal from the Cortes,
as principally intrusted with the cure of that invio-
lability which belongs to a Constitutional King,
that these insults could not have beets repeated if
the executive power had displayed all that energy
which the Constitution prescribes, and the Cortes
desire. Want of firmness, and the indifference of
many of the authorities, have occasioned the re•
newal of such excesses. Should they continue, it
will not be surprising if the Spanish nation finds
itself ingolfed in innumerable evik and mis-
fortunes.

" I have confidence, however, that it will not
be so, if the Cones, as I hope they will, unite
themselves closely with their constitutional King,
and employ themselves unceasingly to destroy
abuses, to testae's public opinion, and to repress the
machinations of the seditious who wish to produce
disorder and anarchy."

•pastabiell imskaftess which his subjects, sad
.espe-
rially the inbabitants of Madrid, hod manifested on
a thousand occasions, repvired to the Legislative
Hall, ocrompanieil by a detachment of the regi-
ment Almanza and of the Modeid militia; a con-
siderable aias* of the inhahitunka su!erplited on
the ocession, end on the countenancts of each were
depicted secret thought or fears.

The Hall way not specioss enough to hold the
immense multitude which thronged the avenues of
the Palace ; and they awaited without the result of
the sitting with the most restless anxiety. It was
soon known sod circulated in different versions ; the
following is most generally agreed on as correct :
The King took his seat with great dignity of man-
ner, and after the accustomed formalities were •
over commenced his +peel:h.—l Another omission
is here indicated in the some manner as above
mentioned.]—But the King soon laid down
the paper which be held, and with an accent
which was at once firm and penetrating, observ-
ed to the assembly, that lie could not reflect with-
out a just feeling of sorrow upon the tumultuous
scenes in which the respect due to Royel•Mojesty
had been so unworthily forgotten--scenes in which
the generous devotion of some servants had alone '
prevented, perhaps, the cainmissioo of a great crime.
His Majesty added, it is said, that the first canoes
of this disorder had their origin iu a spirit of disturb.
ance and revolt, which had been fostered and strength-
ened by an anarchical faction, the enemies alike of
all social and legitimate order, and propagated
amongst a class the most easily misled, by all pos-
sible seductions; that this faction exerted all their
efforts to alienate the affection of the nation from
its King, which was the deepest wound they could
inflict upon his paternal heart; finally, his Majesty
expressed a hope, that under such serious circum-.
stances the constituted authorities would do all in
their power that the Royal Majesty should thence-
forward be shielded from all the attacks of auda-
city, and the instigators of disorder, well convinced
the vengeance of the laws awaited them, should no
longer be encouraged to infringe them, by the weak-
ness of the civic functionaries and by impunity."
It is said that this discourse, which was pro-
nounced with an accent at once firm and noble,
produced • greet effect on the assembly, and that
• the King left the 11.11 with sin air of dignity which
struck all present with admiration.

It appears certain that immediately slier this
sitting the Ministers sent in their resignations ; but
they were not dismissed by the King, as sonic
Paris Journals yesterday announced. The Revolu.
tionists of Madrid reported in like wormer amongst
the people, that Ferdinand had dismissed his Mi-
nisters, and that the constitutional system mid the
country were in danger." Mobv assemble 4 in various
quarters of the capital ; shouts, biasing, and the
most brutal exclamations were re-echoed round the
Royal Palace; but whilst certain characters endea-
voured to foment the commotion, and to exasperate
and urge the populace to the commission of crime,
it is consoling to think that all that Madrid con•
tains of generous citizens, penetrated with attach-
ment to their Sovereign and their country, have
formed a vigilant and faithful troop, whose numbers
have so multiplied, that they are found in all quar-
ters where agitation assumes the most daring cha.
meter; and that Madrid will, perhaps, owe to the
energy of these worthy citizens the salvation of its
King, and Spain the preservation of the honour
which she has in other times acquired by her heroic
fidelity.

At the departure or the courier on the night of
the Yd instant, the capital still continued in • very
agitated state.

ROME, FEBRUARY 25.

The Austrian army coming from Tuscany, the van
of which defiles under our walls, amounts to upwards
of 50,000 men, and is followed by a considerable
park of artillery. The second army, which ad-
vances along the Adriatic Sea, and traverses in like
manner the states of his Holiness, is of an equal
force. These two armies will be in communication
off Foligno, through the Passes of the Appenines.
It is presumed that the advanced posts of Gene-
ral Pepe behind the Trout*, have been islready
described very near by the Hungarian hussars.—
The Generals, and even the inferior Officers, are
prnvided with excellent geographical charts, drawn
by their engineers in the campaign of 1814.

MADRID, MARCH 3.

In the Sitting of the opening of the Cortes on
the tat instant, at which the King presided in per-
son, his Majesty announced that his relations with
the Foreign Cabinets have not ceased to be friendly
and pacific, and that he thought it due to his own
dignity and the honour of his throne, to declare to
the Powers of Europe, that he would acknowledge
nothing that would be contrary to the positive law
of nations, in whatever concerns the liberty, the
independence, and the prosperity of Spain.
The President answered, according to custom.
in vague and general terms. After the departure
the King, the Count de Toren° proposed, cm-
formably with the practice in Englund and France,
that a Committee should be appointed to propose

ficient to satisfy Europe and the nation upon the
points noticed in his Majesty's speech. It was ne-
cessary, he said, that all the world should know
what the national Congress thinks of the events of
Naples, and the Congress of Laybrch.

The motion of M. Tureno was carried, and a
Committee of five members was appointed, viz.
Messrs. the Count Tore no, Munos Torrero, Mar-
tinet de Is Ross, Clemettein, and Gavely.

'l.'J-LE BR IT SII PRESS.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1821.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday last,
but with regard to the *Gars of Italy they add but
little of importance to the intelligence wbich we
have already published respecting that country. It
appears by • letter from Rome, of the 25th of last
mouth, that the vanguard of the Austrian army,
which bud marched through Florence, filed off un-
der the walls of Rome on that day, continuing its
progress toward.. the Neapolitan frontiers. This
army, which is attended by a numerous park of
artillery, amounts to 50,000 men. A second Aus-
trian army, to an equal amount, traverses the
eastern or Adriatic side of Italy, and had at the
date of the latest accounts reamed t lie frontiers of
Naples, at the point where General Guns-mime
Peri commands a large division of the Neapolitan
error. These two armies, ■mounting together to
100,000 men, would be in communication at Fo-
ligno, through the passes of the Appenines. A
party of Hungarian hussars had, it is said, recon-
noitred General Papa's division, preparatory, as it
would seem, to an attempt to cross the Tropic).
The accounts from Spain continued in the Paris
Papers represent Madrid as suffering • very alarm-
ing degree of agitation. The KING, as our readers
are aware, opened the Session of the Cortes on the
Ist of this month, and excited by his Speech from
the throne an unpleasant feeling in the minds of
the Deputies. His Maisere's Speech commenced
with a reference to the foreign relations of the king-
dom. The answer of the Government of the United
States to the notification mule by the Cabinet of
Spain, respecting the cessiou of the Florida, and
the fixing► of limits, had not arrived at Madrid.
The Kira, after noticing this circumstance, ad-
verts to the recent proceedings at Laylmelt, but in
a manner extremely indefinite and unsati.factory.
He avows the extreme interest with which he learn-
ed the intention of the Allied Sovereigns to inter-
fere in the domestic affairs of Naples, chiefly " be-
cause," as he admits, " it concerns the independence
of all States, that the sacred rights of nations and
of Princes should be respected." His MAJESTY,
therefore, thought it necessary for the honour of the
Spanish nation to cause it to be made known, that
he would " recognise nothing which was coatrary
to the positive laws of nations." And finding that
the Allies were resolved to acknowledge the right of
Spain to alter and modify her Constitution and form
of government as much as the people pleated,
his MAJESTY forgets the extraordinary and deep
interest which lie so lately felt for Naples, and suf-
fers those magnanimous despots, who dared not to
meddle with the Spaniards, to indulge the utmost
excess of their insolent tyranny upon the unhappy
Neapolitans, who were just so much more guilty
than the people of Spain in proportion as they
happen to be less able to repel aggression. Why
FERDINAND should have chosen to vapour about
the deep interest he felt for the people of Naples.
and at the same time satisfy himself with the naked
avowal of an indefinite principle, too general to be
clearly intelligible, or if intelligible, nugatory for
any purposes of protecting the people of Naples
from enduring the horrors of a hostile invasion.
we cannot easily comprehend ; but it is certain
that this part of the Kteo's Speech was very far
from proving satisfactory to the Deputies of the
Cortes, and it was for the purpose of apprising the
KING of the feelings of the Representatives of the
nation upon the arrogant pretensions of the Allied
Powers, and of protesting in the face of Europe
against so dangerous an infrinp,ge•meut of the most
sacred rights of nations, that a Committee was ap-
pointed by the Cortes to frame an Address in an-
swer to the Knio's Speech.
To these topics, however, his MAJESTY did not
think proper to confine himself. Having disposed
of the foreign relations of Spain, and forgotten vie!,
his extraordinary interest for the fate of Naples. lei•
MAJESTY complains, in an angry lone, of th.• ..1-
tempts made by certain disaffected persons in . Nei
a distrust and disloyalty in the minds of the people
towards him, by representing him as hostile to lie
constitutional system. This feeling hail led to the
insults and outrages that had been offered to
person, and which he insinuates might have termi-
nated fatally to his life, had not this great (lime
been averted by the devoted fidelity of some e;
iii-
servants. " These insults," he says. "could rot
have been repeated if the executive power had ilis-
lioll
that

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<Public lutodis sod,Exßestlittire in:llltd, so far it mirestary for Ike blasters( my TiMpse, and the
se relates to the Audits. dignity of the great nation over AA I have the
Mr.‘Vitorrustar. obtained hive to bring -in n
glary to reign, to calm it to be made known that
Bill for regulating the Aid arrangement. in the
New Bankruptcy C013e.. , 1 woad recognize nothing which was contrary to
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