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Europe with the burning torrent of demoralising
and unsocial principler--which had in torn fascinnt.
ed and terrified every Stile with the glowing bril-
liancy of her career, is now tranquil and at rest,
while England and Germsny, which had princi-
pally struggled spinal her power, are pronounced
by their respective Governments to bear within
their bosoms the seeds of anarchy. France, which
our Statesmen a thousand times told us they were
on the point of ruining, exhausted by the senseless
ambition of her rulers, and devoid or credit, finds
her income far exceeding her expenditure, with a
moderate rate of taxation, leasing a sinking
fund of S per «a'. to clear off a debt of
very trifling magnitude--while England was
last year compelled to borrow more than the
amount of her expenditure, thus increasing the
amount of a debt, the interest alone of which can
with difficulty he paid, although in collecting her
enormous revenue ewers• nerve in the State is drawn
to a painful and intolerable tension. The slate of
Spain at the present moment is most pitial,fe, but
what renders the happy and tranquil conditi,,ii of
France more singular is, that the distresses und
mi-
sery under which the surrounding nations now la-
bour, have altogether, or in lent, proceeded f
the dreadful excesses of that country, which must
emphatically be considered as the cradle of Ja-
cobi ni sm.

With respect to the Law of Election, the casual
choice of a single regicide can certainly be no proof
of ally particular demerit in the system. The sin-
gularity of the occurrence, and the circumstance
that an individual sharing the general erittinwilts of
the Abbe GREGOIRE now sits in the Chamber of
Deputies, are a sufficient assurance that the elec-
tion of this man, whose principies are so (Amos, is
slot an occurreoce which is likely to happen fre-
quently. NVe think that far too much importance
is attached to his election ; we cannot conceive
any danger to the State from his speeches iu the
Chamber of Deputies, however violent. for his ta-
lents are not of that extraordinary kind which are
capable of disorganising the whole frame of society,
nor does his personal character possess that com-
manding influence which would communicate much
importance to his political opinions.
The King of SPAIN has by a Royal Decree
removed Don JUAN LOZANO DE TORRES. from
his office of Secretary of Grace and Justice, on
account of " ill health," and appointed the Mar-
quis DE MATA FLORIDA to be his successor.
The tender care which the King of SPAIN takes of
the health of his loyal subjects is mre't exemplary,
for if we remember aright, every change which has
taken place in the Spanish Ministry since his Ma.
jesty's restoration to the throne of his ancestors, his
been caused by his fears for the good health of his
servants. Tosittis is said to be a very niobium's
matt. On the removal of the late Prime 'Moister,
the Marquis 1)e CASA-IRUJO. TORRES hoped to
have succeeded him, and for the purpose of remov-
ing a competitor, endeavoured to have the Duke
DX SAX FIIINANDO seat to the United States of
America, under pretence of obtaining certain ex-
planations relative to the Treaty for the cry-siou of
the Floridas. Rot in this object be failed, and his
present elisgrace it probably the result of hi. unsuc-
cessful ambition. lie is styled the Spanish DE.•
CAZES.

The Fire per Cent. Congols were, on the 10th,
6g f. 60r.; on the 11th, 6g f. 95 c.—B.alik Actions,
lOtis, 1,480 f.; 11th, 1,475.

A German Paper of the sth instant, which we
received last night, contains a long account of the
delivery of Parga to the Turks. This measure has
made an impression very• unfavourable to the Bri-
tish nation, of which public writers, as well on the
Continent of Europe as in America, are very• anxious
to avail themselves. It is • measure that could not
have been expected from the Government of a
nation which Iris derived so much of its strength
and it.finence from its moral character, and boats
the sacrifices which it has made to maintain the
principles of honour and jtistice.

flamburgh and Dutch Mails have arrived, with
Papers from Brit:Weis to the 13th instant. A
German Journal, called 7he Butterfly, printed
there, says, thgt all English Officers in foreign
countries have beep citartml )61. their respective
corps and regiments without delay. The following
is an extract :

MADRID, OCTOIWIt 27.

A general subject of conversation is a note addressed by
Sir Henry Wellesley to our new Prime Minister. Speaking
of the pacificatios of the Provinces ut. Billeting Ayres, it is
said in this note. Haat the Ckirernment of his Britannic Ma.
jesty made Itoitto the principles upon which it would
take upon itself the mediation between the Mother Conn.
try and the insurgent Colonies; that it was indubitable
that the state .4if America required the moat energetic
measurer, but that at the same time. the Spanish Govern-
ment was touter the ottemity of adopting a system less
offensive to the new ideas and the enlightened spirit of
the age, ill order nut to render general the hasorrections *hick
have hitherto broken out independently of each other.
The same English Ambassador has repeated peraonally
to the Doke of St. Fainted° what he has frequently said
to the Duke of San Carlos, now our Ambassador its 14111
don, that it is of the greatest importance to form an Admi-
nistration the member. of which shall agree wpm the eases.-
tial points, such as the establishment of a Constitution
adapted to the increased knowledge of the nation—the abo-
lition of the lognisition—the release of the Depniin to the
Curies, who ate arrested or banished fur opinions manifest-
ed before the return of the King, Arc. lee.

We have received Journals and letters from Ire—
land, including Dublin Papers of the ilth instant.
Sevattl Crummy. lk!Wigs*. have been held, to take

into consideration the state of the respective districts.
We must repeat, that the disturbances which have
excited the present apprehension in Ireland, ore of
the kindred and spirit of the former feuds; that they
are not or a political character, ore► have nouy vim—
nexion with the proceedings of the Radical Re-
formers in this country, hut originate in the present
state of society among the lower classes. of t►e peo-
ple, and the severe pressure of the times.

It will be seen in an article in another port of our
Pieper, that the Lord Mayor has, in porsuaiire of
a Requisition for that purpose, consented to con-
tent. n Common Hail on Friday, to take into con-
sideration the mearivres adopted by the Court of
Aldermen respecting the proceedings of the late
Common Hall. The proceedings alluded to are
those directing the application to the Court of
Kieig's Belie!) for a criminal information against
Aldermon ‘VAITIRIAM, Mr. HUNT, &c. on ac-
count of their conduct upon the hitter occasion.

Fritl.ty, at three o'clock. a Cabinet Council
wa., held at the Secretary of States Office for tile
Finale Department, which sat till Rix o'clnek.—
Yesterday, at two o'clock, another Cabinet Council
was livid et the same plater, which was attended by
the LORD CHANCELLOR. the Earl of Lixtarool.,
the Eatl of WEsxstout.ssib, Viscosint SIDSIOUTIL,
VlsCois la CASTLEREAGH, Mr. ItontateeN, &c.---
The Council cominued in deliberation tilt a pouter
before live. The ATTORNEY and SoLtcrrout
GENER A 1., with ether Crown Lawyers, attended
the Council.

In another pert of our Paper will be found a
report of the proceedings which took place at the
Meeting of the Nobility and Gentry of the Comity
of Edinburgh, /nit' in Edinburgh on Wednesday
last. This Meeting Was distinguished by the pee.
orrice of the celebrated Mr. JEFFREY. the advocate,
but who is better known in this portion of the
island as the ingenious Editor or The Edinburgh
Beeicie. The object of the Meeting was to express
the opinion of those present upon the alarming state
of the country, and, in an Address to the Putnce
REGFNT. to assure him of their loyalty to his person
mid Government. This Address, so far as it went,
received the full sanction of Mr. JIFFREY's ap-
plause. as must necessarily be the case with every
man of 'mood head and constitutional prioniples;
but he thought that something might he added to
it expressive of the sympathy of the Meeting in the
distresses of their countrymen, mid of their contest
desire that measures of severity should be tempered
with conciliation. To his address we refer our
readers, with an assurance that his sentiments will
he read with attention. The Courier, situ nut
unfrequently *hews much more x-el than wis-
dom in the cause of the Ministers. charac-
terizes the Address as one " that deprecated
every thing which Ministers hud already dune or
were likely to do." By the word " deprecated,"
we presume that the writer means " censured" or
" comb-tuned ;" and if this be the case, we are to
understand, on the authority of the Courier, that
the Ministers have not " !melded the severe and
long-continaed distress to which the manufactur-
ing Ames, of the country have been exposed ;"
that they here not viewed with abhorrence the
attempts mode to excite them to acts of tu-
mult end insurrection ; mid that tiny have ties
•4 used vigilance in repressing all such ceiiiiinel
designs, by the able, firm, and impartial
of existing laws." 11'e ate Anther informed
by the same authority, that the Alinisters are
not " solicitous that the deluded and suffering part
of our population should be tenderly treated it,
this period of distress;" that no exertions will be
made to lighten their grievances " by every prac-
ticable tetretichment ;" and that every encourage-
ment will be given " to the precipitate and untie-
cessary employment of force." 'The Ministers
seem tolerably well able to dereitd themselves
from their enemies, but they may well exclaim,
a the Lord deliver us from such a friend as the
Courier !" If we were not very well assured that
the Courier is permitted by its )masted friends at
the Admiralty mid 'Treasury to walk without feed-
ing strings, we should really feel *derailed at this
dreadful denunciation of Gnome measures; brit the
fact is, that the Conrier has grievously libelled
the Ministers, and we notice it iii kindness to him,
lest a further indulgence in these childirli follies
may bring down upon him such another rebuke its
his very silly remarks about the rtirreney id' the
country extorted on a former occasion front the
mild spirit of Mr. VANSITTART.

Advice' from Malt■ th•lt (letters/ Sir T.
MAITLA NO *Wiled from Ilieitre on the I•tth tor Or•tn-
hrr to the Glasgow frigate. in rna..rlueuce of lie..
COIIIIIIIOI great discontent tend intuitions proceed.
tugs at Saida MAWS..

A meeting is proposed to be livid at the Court-
house, in Wakefield. on Thursday the IRth instrid,
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, in order to con.
rider the prowiety of publicly testifying the gnat.
Wile of the West Riding fur the services of the late
Lord Ibruirittioit during hi* cuslimmitler iu uffice,
rod of adopting such Resolutions NM Duty appear
most conducive fu that object. Among Ilse vigor-
titres to the Requisition for this purpose are, the
Duke of Noartis.te, Earl of THANET. WALTER.
FAWKES. Esq., and a long list of Geminaten of the
first fortune rud respectability in the County.

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