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London, England, 1821-01-19 00:00:00

LONDON,

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, Mi.

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A Flaoders Mail arrived list night with Papers
from Brussels to the 16th instant. The following
are extracts:—
ISA ** JANUARY 10.
We have the folloniog comwuuicuuuu frusu Balm, dated
Ist of this mina, For some time past extraordinary
activity has been observed to prevail in the War Depart-
ment ; purchases of horses continue to be made so remount ,
the cavalry. The regiments of infantry and unitary can.
timed is the provinces ass miticessively reviewed ; every
thing anatinnees that our Goverasneat is taking samilium of

proesolloe."
savesati, JANUARY 15.
• The wawa, from listlkat to the 6th of this swath do
net yet speak of the 41Wf die King for Layboch.
is -H Excellency the • Galen' of the Affairs of the

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Catboat Chartll his jest remitted it die kises smite to
Mr. Plaskett, Bishop of F.lphis, in Ireland, a gold snail=
box., met in diamonds, and ranched with his Majesty's
cipher. The object of this prisms is to testify to Mr.
Plaskett his Majesty's satisfaction at the seal with which
be has lately administered the sacrament of confirmation
to 110,000 persons in the province of Liege, and ordained
several *Win of the Diocesan Seminary.

Paris Papers of Monday last have arrived at our
Office. The Aloniteur contains an official copy of
the law as adopted by the two Chamber., and sp.
proved by the KING, authorising the provisional
receipt of the first six-twelfths of the taxes fur the
current year upon the estimates of the last. The
asme Paper also presented a Report from the
Finance Minister to the KING, dated the ioth of
December, giving a detailed account of the state
of the revenue, and of the measures necessary for
the definitive regulation of the budget for the
year 1819.
We find in the Constitutionel and Quotidienne
copies of letters from Madrid, stating, that the
Allied Sovereigns have desired the personal attend-
ance of the King of SPAIN at the Congress of
Laybach, and that the Cortes are to be immediately
assembled to consider the propriety of permitting
the KING to accede to this request. .The letters
state, that this intelligence hail excited the liveliest
sensation in Madrid. Were the Allied Sovereigns
influenced in their conduct by a strict regard to
consistency, the information contained in these letters
must necessarily be true : their Majesties must
have transmitted the same requisition to the King
of SPAIN arid also to the King of PORTUGAL as
that which has dragged the poor old King of
NAPLES from his Palace, to encounte r at their
high pleasures the danger and inconvenience of
a sea voyage in winter, and also a long and
troublesome journey by land, that lie might appear
before their august tribunal to answer such charges
as they nay think proper to prefer against hint and
his people. If Naples be guilty, Spain and Portu-
gal cannot be innocent. Still we feel some diffi-
culty in believing Ilost the Allies have ventured to
insult a nation so powerful and so high-minded na
is Spain, by requiriog its King so far to degrade
himself. We are further disposed to dotebt the
truth of the statement from the cousidcration that
so grows an insult offered to Spain would be very
likely to incite the Curter, from a mere feeling of
indignation at their individual injury, to stretch
forth their arms to shield and protect the Neapoli-
tans, and that the combined despots, apprehensive
of this result, would be cautious in abstaining from
au act so well calculated to rouse the angry feelings
of the Spanish people. A story is told of a fellow,
more remarkable for his wit than his courage, who
once underwent the infliction of a severe chastise-
ment by a Nobleman for the inconsiderate indul-
gence of the fo►mer quality. This he bore with
exemplary patience. The same Nobleman soon
afterwards saw the fellow in a tremendous rage, ex-
ercising his physical powers upon one far inferior to
himself in personal strength, and congratulated
hint upon his new acquisit;ou of courage. ‘‘ No
complimeos, my Lord," said our wag, s, your Lord.
ship anti I know wisest we may venture to bent." A
similar discretion. we doubt not, belongs to the
ILO Allies, they know where they may venture to
play the tyrants and the bellies. They know that
' Naples is one of the weakest states in Europe, no
matter now from what cause arising—they know
that the Neapolitans are not ■ warlike people—that
the whole system of their government has long
been, and still is, morally and politically disorga-
nised, and is cousequently devoid of that vigour
which in extraordinary conjunctures might bring
into immediate and condensated operation the whole
power of the state—they know that there is nu mi-
litary force in the country that merits the timer of
a disciplined army, and that weak and inefficient
us the resources of the state a►e in general, they are
at the present moment particularly distracted and
divided by the unfortunate perversity of the Sici.l
Bans in refusing to accept the liberty that is offer-
ed to them. They know from all these circum-
stances that Naples could not for a moment resist
with any hopeof eventual success, the overwhelming
advance of au army consisting of 100,000 disciplined
troops of Germany, veterans in experience, and com-
maoiled by some of the best officers irt Europe. Na-
plea, therefore, offers an easy, almost an unresisting
victim to be sacrificed upon the altar of their self.
interest and jealousy. Best bow dtffereut is the
situation of Spain! Spain may despise their
threat...or resent their injuries, and in no way could
she punish theta more effectually than by taking a
generous interest in the fate of Naples, fur although
the weight and influence of the Cabinet of Madrid
in the system of European politics are as yet far
inferior to what they were some century ■go. they
even now are entitled to such consideration as,
united with the strength of public opinion. and
exerted in the cause of universal justice and the
rights of au independent people, should. we doubt
not, prove effective in checking the course of pro-
fligate ambition.
But supposing that the Allied Sovereigns, with a
•iew to the observance of consistency, did venture
to sumtnon the King of SPAIN to appear before
their tribunal, it is not to be expected that the
Cortes of Spain will yield so reedy an acquiescence
in the degradation of their Sovereign as the Cortes
of Naples were compelled to grant. lodeed there
could be no useful pu►pose obtained by the personal

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attenclihee of the iitNa at the Congress at Liy-
bach, because were the Kina to be wrought upon
by the arguments or the personal influence of the
Allies to admit the propriety of some alterations in
the constitution of Spain, for the purpose of grant-
ing more power to the Throne—alterations which,
fur our own parts, we should thiuluvery advisable—
yet with what effect would his assent be attended?
The Cortes would reject the alterations with cup-
tempt, and PO the condescension of the KING iu
leaving his own dominions to meet other Monarchs,
and to receive their instructions upon the domestic
affairs of his own kingdom, would be followed by
no other imaginable consequence than to expose
his MAJESTY to the pity or de►i►ion of the world,
and, still worse, to the conttmpt or displeasure of
his own subjects.

Spanish Pipers hove armed. from whic, we hare'
made estroete.

We have received a series of New York Papers►
from the t►t to the 11th of December, containing
the Aimed Report of the S. cretary of the Treasury.
trattimittid to both [looses of Congress on the
4'h December. The whole of this important do-
cument is newly given at length in our preceding
columna. The result is, there will be a balance
against the Treavroy on the Ist day of the present
month ofJanuary, of 4,638,169 dollar?, the receipts
from the Customs having •falleit gr►atly short of the
amount at which they were estimated in the last an-
nual Report.—" The Revenue for 1821 ia eitimuted
at 16,550,000 dollars, and the certain sud contiogent
expenditures at 41,363.417 dollars; which. added
to the balance spinet the Treasury on the lvt of
January instant, will make the sum of 24,001,586
dollars. and will consequently leave a balance
of 7,431,586 dollars beyond the estimated means
for which p►ovi►ion is to be made'." To meet
this sum a loan considered indispensable, at
!earl to the extent of the 2,638,169 dollars, the•
amount of the deficiency of the last year. In the
event of new timer, it proposes to prohibit the im-
portation of foreign opiiits, and to supply the defi-
ciency by a duty on home-made spirits.

The Opposition are expected to muster in great
force on Tuesday next, the first day of the Session,
they being determined to lose not a moment ro
express their disapprobation of the conduct of
Minister,.

We lately noticed that a meeting of the Bankers,
Merchants, &c. of the City of London was in cots-
templation, fur the purpose of giving that great
body of men a fair opportunity of expressing thrii
sentiments on the state of public affairs, and corm.
teracting the effect of the Declaration of the lirta
partial meeting. It will appear from the Advertise..
ment in front of our Paper, that Wednesday next
is fitted for this important discussion. under the
ranction of a large and influential portion of the
great mercantile interests of the City. including nut
less than sixteen Members of the House of Corte•
moos, and many of tha oldest anti most .it naive
firm,.

By advices from Coquerubn it was stated. that
the Atuvrican twig 'Patriot. had bergs detained by
Lord COCHRANE, but for what purpose. or under
what pretence. we are not informed; probably she
was conveying ammunition or other supplies to the
Royalist party. His Majesty's ship Hyperion hdd
sailed from Valparaiso on she 3d September. f,,s
Lima and Panama, to protect the Bullish trade in
that quarter.

The information from Lima, received at Buenos
Ayres, reaches down to the 15th of September. It
was confirmed that Lord COCHRANE and SAN
MARTIN hid effected • landing at Pico, but
nothing further was known of their proceedings.
nor were any favourable anticipations indulged re-
girding their success in this long-projected enter-
prize, in consegnence of the nature of the advices
from Lima, and the territory under its control. It
appears that the Constitution accepted by FERDI-
NAND VII, in Old Spain, had been promulgated is
Lima and its dependencies. It had been declared
with all the formalities belonging to so important a
change ; and the various public authorities, with the
Viceroy at theirhead, had proceeded to act upon it.
This step. if we may believe the accounts in our
hands, had given the utmost satisfaction, not merely
to the Royalists, but to a large body of persona
who were anxious for a change of system. bat at
the same time were not disposed to assist is* cos-
plete revolution. These classes composed by far
the larger portion of the population ; and even the
Revolutionists themselves, tired of a state of dis-
tressing weir/are, had accepted the Constitution with
symptoms of satisfaction.
It is generally believed in the county of Wicklow,
that Mr. GRATTAN, wito resides there, is the
'1 popular Citinitlate" alluded to in Tin Gunn-.
of the 10th iust.—( limes.)
We cannot give credit to the above. Mr. GRAT-
TAN is now in London. and the prevailing *maim
in the county of ‘Vicklow is, that Mr. Ttnustoou
of the late WILLIAM TIGHE, Esq. who formerly
represented that county, will be the Dem Member.
NATURAL CURIOSITIT.—A tenant of the Rev..
J. Corms, of Warwicrt, has just presented to
him u pert of • solid butt. of au ash tree. containing
within it the skull of souse animal (unknown.) It
was in the part of the tree, nine feet above the
glound; and was perfectly enclosed in solid timber.
The tenant has resided upon the form above "way
years, and had never noticed any opening in the
tree; nor was there the least appearance in the but
or the wood, and the pint it now
,egilersly sad
solidly occupires was ever vacant. Sew idatlol
be tensed of the size of the skull, when IS
stated that II ie part which held the brain is eked
four inches diesnetes.

at 'lie Congress at Liy-
CM: to be wrought upon
personal influence of the '
iely of some alterations in
for the purpose of grant-
'hrone—alterations which,
old thiuluvery 'advisable—
d his assent be attended ?
the alterations with coo-
cension of the KING HI
s to meet other Monarchs,
fictions upon the domestic
NI, would be followed by
isequence than to expose
or derision of the world,
onttmpt or displeasure of
lived, from which we have'
cries of New York Paper,
of December, containing
cretary of the Treasury.
uses of Congress on the
hole of this important do-
t length in our preceding
Py there will be a balance
the Ist day of the present-
-18,169 dollar?, the receipts
•follen grtntly short of the
re estimated in the last an-
reline for 1821 is eitirmatetl
I the certain and contingent
117 dollars; which. added '
.he Treasury on the I.t of
ke the sum of 24,001.55 G
juently leave t a balance
!yond the estimated means
to be made'." To meet
risidered indispensable, at
the 2,638,169 dollars, the•
r of the last year. In the
ropcses to prohibit the im-
Is, and to supply the defi-
le-made spirits.
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specter' to muster in great
he first day of the Session,
to lose not a moment to
etion of the conduct of
t a meeting of the Bankers,
sty of London was in con-
pose of giving that great
inanity of expressing their
,f public affairs, and corn.
be Declaration of the late
appear from the Advertise..
mer, that Wednesday next
.ant diacualion, under the
influential portiou of the
s of the City, including tint
ers of the House of Coos-
oldest and most esti naive
aerubn it was stated, that
riot had been detained by
for what purpose, or under
ot informed ; probably she
ion or other supplies to the
rojesty's ship Hyperion had
)14 the 3d September. for
notect the British trade in
•
Lima. received at Buenos
the 15th of September. It
nrd COCHRANE and SAN
a landing at Piaco, but
loin, of their proceedings.
anticipations indulged re..
1 this long-projected enter-
if the nature of the advices
itory under its control. It
tution accepted by FUDI-
n, had been promulgated is
wt. It had been declared
it longing to so important a
'public authorities, with the
id proceeded to act upon it.
thieve the accounts iu our
most satisfaction, not merely
5 a large body of persons
change of system. but at
disposed to assist ilea cone-
ie classes composed by far
e population ; and even the r
es, tired of a state of dia.
epted the Constitution with
1.
in the county of Wicklow,
"vivo resides there, is the ' y
alluded to in Tux GLOBE.
tto the above. Mr. GLIM.,
and the prevailing °lnuits's
u"sv.jis, that Mr. TlGna,„sou
TIGHE, Esq. who formerly
will be the ate Member.
e.—A tenant of the Rev..
trt, has just presented to
tt. of au ash tree. containing
arse animal (unknown.) It
tree, nine feet above the
espy enclosed in solid timber.
upon the form above sixty
oticed any opening iu the
least appearstsce us the bark
part it now ipp Aral, asd
er vacant. Sow idea say
of the skull, when it a
itch held the brain i. 'teat