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vow. It would he perfectly consistent with the whole
of thisaftr rif sevete measures should now be adopted
. . DRAULT, and that he *Wald be driven
!Tom woression and have his hopes of prosperity
hli4hted, because he had the virtue and the firenness
w despn the threatenings of pow.r, and to discone
orrt the t.rrangements of the Judges and the Altai
nry-Gereval.

roue or the Paris Papers of Saturday last, the
t aerie. F►owcais, the Joiermal de Commerce, the
at
owiteif ionise!, and the Pilote, were visited on that
eat by Officers of the Police, and the Papers seized
on the claige of their having wilfully misrepresented
it.,. raceedings of Thursday in the Arose Court of
v.v.,. The Editors have been cited before the
Ft...indent of that Court—the virtuous and impartial
Judge woo tried the Rochelle case, to answer for
this offence. The summons was their condemns-
Lon. Some of our Ministerial Papers, noticing the
►rstemeut contained in these Papers respecting the
affecting manner in which the accused who were
convicted in the Rochelle affair expresved their gra-
titude to the advocates who defended them, ridicule
tile tears which were said to trove been shed on that
occasion by all parties. The same writers were not
►o very jocose a short time since, when on the trial
of a gaoler, convicted daring the last Assizes for
cruelty to the unfortunate beings subjected to his
power, an advoCate was so overpowered by his sym-
pathy for the gaoler that he was obliged to retire
from Court. We heard nothing then from these
persons about blubbering barristers or weeping ad-
vocates, although to our minds the case of persons
crushed even to death by the weight of ministerial
influence, and the criminal partiality of the pre-
siding Judge, offered a far more legitimate subject
tor manly sympathy than the prosecution for a mis-
demeanor of a discharged gaoler, convicted before
no impartial Judge mud no hostile Jury of no.
doubted acts of cruelty.

Bayonne Papers to the 4th instant have arrived.
They state that all accounts from the neighbour-
ing provinces of Spain announce that the Consti-
tutionalists display great activity, and are mak-
ing such preparations as may ensure the defeat
of QUEIADA, and are determined to pursue his
force into France, should it seek refuge in that
country. This movement, which must bring
them into collision with the French sanitary
cordon, would be a desperate measure. Great
military preparations have been recently made
at Bayonne, but they are considered rather as
means of prevention than originating in a hos-
tile motive. The Army of the Faith, the title
assumed by the enemies of the Constitution, com.
wit great excesses in the interior of Spain, where
they rob travellers, sod intercept all cot respondence.
The merchants of Yrun had received no letters
from Bilboa, Saragossa, and Pamplona. for several
days. On the 26th last they took the patriot Mats.
DIZABLL, a volunteer of Villa Franca, but to pre-
vent their sacrificing him, some of their relatives
are detained by the authorities as hostages, at the
instaoce of the patriots.
General MIwA arrived at Saragossa on the 22d,
with 100 horse.
BENNIERIN (the Frenchmin), who commanded
the troops of the Trappist in the affair of Ayerbe,
is deod of his wounds.
A pamphlet has just made its appearance at
Madrid, full of calumny and •bialie against the
Bourbon family. It is widely circulated in that
city.

Extracts from Madrid Papers to the 31st last a►e
given in our preceding columns. They represent
the new Ministry in the enjoyment of the public
es►eem. The Kum's, guard is confided entirely to
the troops of the line and national militia. General
Eno has been condemned to death, but the cease
I. to be revised by the Supreme Military and Naval
Tribunal.

Jamaica letters and paper to the 44th July con.
tam no later Dews from the Sponish Main than that
already obtained from the Untied States. Accord-
ing to the Jamaica papers, the expectations that
Puerto Cabello would soon submit were not so
'linguine as they have been reprevented. The corn-
muniention between the Wend and South America

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lad been much interrupted by the royalist cruisers,
alse endeavoured to prevent all intercourse with the
rrbele.

Estract from • letter dried Liverpool, Septem.
Mr y The Christopher. Dor LE, master, has
arrived here this evening from Bahia, from whence
she sailed on the 15th July. Captain DOYLE re.
poi's that Bahia was in a stale of blockade, and he
does not think that any vessel would succeed in
rifing to tea after him."

lir. CANNING, we understand, was expected in
kw,/ yesterday, in consequence of an invitation to
yin Mr

THE Funnit.—The markets are looking up.
flunk Mork Account, 247 248; Colloid* for Money
/fill; ditto- for Ills Account, 8I ; New 4 per
4!riits. 10312; India Bonds 48 49 ; Lx. Bills, 3 4 ;
ditto, 5 8; Foreign Stocks: Neapolitan,
;178 ; Spanish New. 66 681 64i 65 ; Old ditto,
1,71 68; Danish, thlf 89.
h has been reported an 'Change, that the
hook af Portugal has advanced their Government
100.000 k, which will enable thew to go on for the
Present Without conttecting a loan. It was also
114entd that Meson. Itornscumn have contracted
if Paris for a new Neapolitan Loan of utt millions
ducats, which is about two tailbone sterling.
Another sew Spastiolt Loan wit talked of es 'Change
canting forward soon.

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FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.

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the OnWager Dnehess of Richmond and the Ladies Un-
isex pi ;rave Richmond this day on • visit to Sir George
)p
and Lee Berk. ley, as thslr seat in Surrey.
The niquis of Salisbury has arrived •t his house in Sr-
lingtnn-litreet from Worthing.
The Earl and Countess of Coventry and family left town
yesterday moms' fur their seat, Cronus, Worcestershire.
Viscount •od Viseownteas Granville arrived on Tuesday
*treeing at their house in Bruton street, Berkeley square,
from the Marquis of Bath's neat, Longleaf, Wills.
Lord Wilqam Rlassell left lowa us Tuesday evening for
the Coatinen,.

Lord John Rouen has left town fur Wooborn Abbey, Bed-
fordslsire.
Lord George Bentiark arrived yesterday evening at bis
fallwee (the Duke of Portland) house, in Si. Jmnees•square,
from LitelsArld, Staffordshire.
Lord William Sentinel' hes arrived at the Doke of Port-
larriN,.Welberk, Nntt., from Ireland.
Sir Walk'. at Lady Harriet Williams Wynn have arrived
at Berne, Seitzerbad, ou a visit to their brother, bis Excel-
lency Henry Wpm from German
Sir Henry and Ledy Grargtna Wellesley, sad Mr. and Miss
Wellesley, warted yesterday evenhig at their house in Bul-
ten-Moges, trews WRthirrg.'
The How lMtu Tborluvasaa arrived at Hodgaon's Hotel,
Dowewistrest.

Liestesaut.Geseral Sir Philip Kestisge Roche has arrived
at the Clarendon Hotel, Bonds's...et, frost Worthing.
Arrivals at Jordau'a Hotel, St. irmees.sireet :—Colosrl
Austin from his seat, K•ppinston, Kent;' and Miss Poseie
from Kest. Departures—Lady Farearby for Wickham
Rectory, Best.
C. B. Bathurst, Earl left town yesterday for his seat, Lyd.
Bey Park, Glorcestirshire.
Arrival at Thomas's Hotel. Berkeley-arissrei—Mrs. Ken.
sentry sod hasty from a roue Departures:—Curd Tem.
pletows and kostly fur their house in Hill-street; Mr. Hey.
dock and family fur the Costliest; the Marquis of Eimer
for Parts; Charles Loess, Esq. fur his seat sear Newbury;
■od Mrs. Murray and fatally for their seat is Bucks.
Departum from Warren's Hose!, Retest street:—The
Hot.. Geom., Walpole for the Earl of Oxford's seas, Wul.
Series, Norfolk ; Mr. sod Mrs. Ainsworth for the Cond-
oms; and Mr. Hawkins for Little Hampton.
James Maa.e, Em arrived yesterday at Ilse Pulteoey Ho-
tel, Piccadilly, from S.Hathomptoo.
Mrs. Gooch kft tows yesterday for bee seat, Guildford
Hesse, Surrey.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

These s•..ions comnsaiipd mesterday morning be-
fore the Lord Mayor; the Recorder, Mr. Baron
Utah/Im, Mr. Justice Best, sod Mr. Justice-Rich.

•r 1 son, -

After the Jury wer4sworn s•v.rsl prisoners were
arraigned, and pleaded Not Guilty.
1 hones Leathwiek Robansens, a decent lorAing
Mali. IPS. Capitally indicted for furging and counlerd
felting the Goldsmiths' Hall nark to four silver
bottle 'Ads,

Mr. BOLt.AND slated to the Joey the offence
with which the Prisoner stood Charged. There was
another in.lictinent fora minor offence, to which the
Prisoner had pleaded guilty, and which would %ob-
ject him to transportation for 14 years. In roue-
qtience of the Prisoner having given some informs-
non to the Stamp•ofce, he should therefore, with
the permission of the Court, not call any evidence
to this charge; hut he wished it to be understood
by the dealer. in these sort of goods, that the Stomp,
office had information of fraud• to a very gr►at ex-
tent, and it would be but exercising a proper degree
of caution, if, before they made purchase*, they
were to ascertain at the Goldsmiths' Hall if the
marks were genuine.
No evidence being colledlithe Prisoner was ye.
quitted ; but his plea of Guilty to the minor offence
was recorded, and under that he was detained.
Mary Waits was indicted for robbing R. Fenton.
From the evidence of the Prosecutor it appeared,
that he was hustled by some girls of the town, in
Bow-street, who got him down, and took his money
out of his pocket; but u he admitted that he had
been drinking very freely at the time, and his evi-
dence against the Prisoner not being very clear, the
Jury, under the recommendation of Mr. Justice
BUT, acquitted her.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. CLERICENWEL4
WIRDNESDAY, SIPTEMBER 11.

CHARGE OF RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.

James Rogers sons indicted for receiving stolen
goods, knowing them to be stolen.
Mr. A r.t.tar stifled, that the Prisoner was indict-
ed under a new Act of Parliament, for having re-
ceived three copper boilers from a person unknown,
the principal offender,.(the thief) not having been
brought to trial, as ,Jie was not knoWidi. The
Prisoner had been tried at the Old 8.,i,1ey for the
theft, but proved an alibi, and of course was ac-
quitted.
Joseph Powis, an officer belonging to the Thames
Police, deposed, that the Prisoner was a deller in
marine stores, residing at Blackwell ; he searched
his premises on the 22d of April, and in a cellar
found three copper boilers. The Prisoner pro-
duced • book, and said he purchmed the coppers
from • person of the name of Litchfield, who lived
at Stepney Causeway. on the 11th of April; he
inquired, and there was no such person to be fouud
there.

Mr. Henry Houghton, a ship-owser, residing at
Limehouse, stated, that he saw the copper. in a
warehouse of his on the 19th of April. On the
night of the same day the warehouse was broken
open, and the coppers steleo. The coppers now
produced were his property.
John Elliott stated that he was in the employ of
the last witness, and on the morning of the 10th of
April he saw the warehouse had been broken °nen ;
it was secured the night before by bolts, which were
forced.

Mr. ANIMISM, Counsel for the Prisoner, ad.
d r d the Jury, and contended that his client
might have come most honestly by the coppers,
which appeared from his conduct ; when the officer
went to search his premises he made no opposition,
there was no concealment,_ the coppers stood an.
covered in the cellar ; if he had come improperly
by them, and was • dishonest man, he might have
cut them up in pieces. He also produced his book,
and said he purchased them from Litchfield on the
11th of April. Thei:** certainly was en incon-
sistency in that statement, when they were not
stolen until the 19th of the same month ; but it was
nothing more than one of those mistakes that every
tradesman was liable to in the harry of business,
to put • wrong date by mistake. He left I►is client
in the hands of the Jury, for them to deal with him
as they would expect to he dealt with if they were
placed in his disagreeable situation.
Two witnesses gave the Prisoner an excellent
character for honesty.
The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and
the Jury returned • verdict of Not Guilty.

DINNER so M. MIMS iM ACIENDAkN.

On Thursday a toady of more than one hundred
sr the townsmen end country gentlemen enter-
tained Mr. flume at dinner, in Anderson's New
low ;
ALEXAPIDIR BANNERNIAN, Em. iw Ow t sir.
The dinner wu• swmpluuw.. •.n that at..ri the
other arrangements did great credit in Mr.
An-
ders.n, and gate general satisfaction. The Nisei
and remarks were taken up with great spirit, and
the utmost glee prevailed the whsle eve ;;;;; g. Tlie
following, among many other toasts, were given :--

" The Rine"—"TheCeostilatiou"—" The Royal Falaile,
may they wear forget the principles which placed thus oa
the throve."

The CHAIIIIIIAN, in Rising Mr. Hume, said, that
he saw with great setwricii 111 l the company then es-
sembled.and all rinks combining to pey respect to a
gentlemen who had dirtioguis,ied himself au much.
and whose merits were as well knnwn as his name.
If there be any difference of political opinion
among us, yet we join uneniinotwly in our admire.
lion of the men who is the prime supporter of the
rights of the subj-ct, and the watchful guardian of
the public expenditure. But, besides Mr. Hume's
well.known merits, he could say that every indi-
Indusl who had hts cause in the hands of Mr.
Hume might he sure of kindness, dispatch, and sa-
►isfaction. He would make no unnecessary compli-
ments. and therefore he gave—
" Yr. Hume" (three times three)—straok with rapturous
appisese.

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Twer—...4 ?Serie Iwo ha 14011 VIZ licliillt MUM ow
gado sealt's awn.' "

When the plaudits ceased—
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- • Mr. emus said Wien interrupted by applause)
nearly as fullows:—He was at • loos for language
to express his feelings at that moment. The wry
in which the Chairman had brought his name to the
notice of the Meeting, and the kind manner in
which they had been pleased to receive the toast,
had made a deep impression on his mind that could
never be effaced. If he foiled to express, in ade-
quate terms, what he felt on the occasion, it would
arise from an over anxiety to do justice to his
feelings. The credit they had been pleased to
give him for his public conduct, was very much
above his desert, and it was difficult for him to ex-
press his thanks. to them •a he wished. On no
occasion had he had the honour to address a nu-
merous Meeting better able to judge of the con-
duct of public men than the present; and after
this mark of attention in meeting him here, he
would endeavour to explain to them very shortly
the course he hid pursued, without attending to
his own humble exertions, more than, under all the
circumstances, he found himself obliged to do.
It was peculiar to this country to witness such
meetings as the present, where so many respectable
and independent Gentlemen met to welcome one, a
stranger to them personally, and only known by his
public conduct. He was fully sensible of the
honour conferred upon him by such meetings, and
the assistance he derived from them in his public
capacity. It was one of the many important ad-
vantages which Englishmen enjoyed under the
British Constitution, to be thus enabled at public
meetings to mark their opinion of the conduct of
public men. Whilst he was well aware of, and
highly valued the advantage which the glorious
Revolution of 1688 had secured to this country,
he could not shut his eyes to the many abuses also
which, in tepee of time, had crept into that Con-
stitution. It was the duty, therefore, in a peculiar
manner, of every person placed in the House of
Commons, to use his best exertions to remedy the
existing abuses; to improve, protect, and secure
those advantages which we ought to enjoy. if he
had read that Constitution aright, the liberty of
the people, the independence of Parliament, and
the dignity of the Crown, were equally to be
guarded and valued ; and it behoved every member
of the community equally to protect them all. In
the mutable state of human institutions, it was •
proof of wisdom to suit the establishments in the
country to the intelligence and circumstances of the
times, thus to obtain the greatest portion of happi-
ness to those who lived under them. That know-
ledge of every kind, and political knowledge in
particular, had been diffused most widely in this
country within the last thirty years, might be
learned by the immense increased circulation of the
daily and periodical literary and political publica-
tions which had taken place ; and it was the duty
of our rulers to have had this circumstance always
before them. Under • wise and just Government,
it was to be expected that, with the increasing
means of wealth, knowledge, and power, which
this country pia:sewed, the happiness and prosperity
of all classes of the people would have increased.
But was this the case? Did not complaints of
great distress, and even want, reach us from most
of the branches of the community, and this too
while Providence poured upon us abundance of
every produce, almost to overflowing 1 Such a
state of things could only, he thought, arise from
misgovernment, and it was incumbent on every
man, placed in the situation lie was in, to ewer.
tain the cause, and to attempt relief and reform.
—(Hear. hear.)—He was well aware that attempts
were made by a hireling press to put down every
man who endeavoured to correct abases, and an
alarm was sounded against him, that he intended to
overturn and destroy. instead of amending and
establishing the Constitution. Such had been the
system long pursued by the adherents of hit.. Pitt's
system. It had been one of their most powerful
engines for the last 90 years, and he regretted to
think it had been but too successful, in keep-
ing op and increasing those abuses, which had gone
on until they threatened, at last, to sweep all that
was valuable into inextricable ruin. It was not an
easy task, under these circumstances, for any body
of men, and much less for an isolated individual
like him, to succeed in any efforts to remedy abuses
of such long continuance in the Government. But,
with the perfect knowledge of these difficulties, he
had proceeded, and it was highly satisfactory to
him to know, by the approbation of many of his
countrymen, as well as of the present company,
that his humble exertions had in some degree suc-
ceeded. It was right to state that he had, on en-
tering the House of Commons, joined the Oppo-
sition undoubtedly, and he thought there was not
one disinterested person, here or elsewhere, who,
after reviewing the ruinous system of the Ministers
of the Croup for so many years past, would not have
made the same election, if he had witty content-

plated the relief of the people, sod the prolectiem
of their rights. He lii.p.d. however, that attention
to Ins p..' creidurt would shew that he hati•orily
tacherl himself to the Opposition known by the
1141,11" of Wings. when their memiures were such pa
he could conscrention•ly supper!. By the Whir
he meant those who, whilst they upheld the dignity
of the Savereigin a. Chief Nlagietrste, were jealous
of the encreachni-tit of power upon the rights and
privilege% of the people. Ile could aware the
Meeting that he was lino eomesow of ewer having
given is vote in the Hauge of Convinces that tendril
t« limit the privileges. nr reterfere with the just
rights of the people, but that his invariable object
had hero to limit tile undue ialwer and intl., of
the Crown, to increase Ilse jell ii.flitence or the
people. And au. h, lie submitted, ought to be the
c-siduct of all these who co antlered the object and' •
end of geed govertionent, as contemplated and se-
cored under the Curistitution of Ifltfl, to be the
welfare of the community at large, and not the age
grendoiement sit tee few. Ile did not now inquire
wiwilier the Outio-iti hid always acted on those
priectples to the extent they ought to have done
hilt, in decoding between the professed friends of
liberal print-liars sad the supportere of the Pitt or
intolerant Tory system, there could not be for one
moment, be thought,. doubt. A. the fruits oldie
Pitt system, unfortutiately new so evident to us all,
he had only to enumerate those evils which now
weigh down +.ll classes of the community, a system
of profusion and extravagance, an undue ineueure
minnisined by the public money, which was, at one
mid the same time, the cause and effect of large end
unnecessary establishineuts. Our military establish-
ments, for instance, in a country where the Govern.
ment by the Constitution is purely civil, were huge
and unnecessary to extravagance; the expense of
the army alone being eight millions, which, in 1791,
was little more than t«o millions; both periods
years of peace, and no circumstances to warrant
such an excess. The public debt had been in-
creased from 240 millions, at a charge for interest
of nine millions—to 935 millions at an manual
charge of thirty-one millions. The persons in•
terested in keeping up the expenditure of the
country had an undue influence in the House of
Commoos, and thus these evils were produced, end
those changes and reductions prevented, which the
situation of the country required. They Lad dr.
dared themselves ready to forfeit life sad fortune
to summit the King and Constitution, and well
they might, enjoying as they did so largely of the
taxes of the people ; the system worked well with
those: but he must always consider those as irate.
rested persons, and their opinions of little value—
they were in the situation or men to be removed
from the jury-box on a challenge of being persort-
ally interested in the issue of the cause. But where
were the suffering community ? Did the system
work well fur the people ? Why were not their
calls attended to ? Because the party in power for
30 years had had, and still have, possession of that
influence which prevents redress in the House of
Commons, where alone it can begin with any pre.
pea of success. With these opinions of the evils
of the Pitt system and of their cause, he was confi-
dent that every man who heard him would, if in hie
power, use his best exertions to effect a Reform,
and would in fact, he hoped, approve of the mei-
toms he had adopted to obtain that desirable ob.
ject. It was by a Reform in Parliament alone that
our present difficulties could be overcome...not sod-
denly, but by degrees ; and he hid therefore voted
for every motion for Reform that had been proposed
in Parliament, whether great or limited. In the
difference of opinion which existed on thesubject of
Reform, it behoved all Reformers to act in uutson.
and to agree on some one or more points on which
unanimity might prevail ; to obtain these, if possi-
ble, as steps towards the more general and extended
Reform, which so many considered necessary for the
security of the country. It was too Mouton for the
supporters of corruption, and those who fattened by
the public spoils, to hold up to ridicule the friends
of Reform, and turn to derision the anticipated
conseqoences from it. He should ever contend
that, although Parliamentary Reform could not
immediately raise the price of corn, or remove fa.
mine, that it would, by giving the people a proper
check over the expenditure of the public money, pre-.
vent so large a proportion of the earnings of industry
as is now wasted from being taken from them, and
lavished on the idle and the aides'. Reform would
give the people the electinn of men who make laws
for the protection of their lives, property, and
all that is dear iu life. Reform would put an
end to sinecure offices, and unnecessary eats.
blishmetits, and leave in the pockets of the people
the means of purchasing more corn and necessaries,
and of providing against such a famine as we had
witnessed in Ireland—a famine from the want of
motley to purchase, in the midst of abundance of
every kind. Whilst he so strongly advocated eco-
nomy and retrenchment of useless expenditure, he
never had, nor did he believe that any person pre.
sent would refuse, the necessary means jo pay, in
the most liberal manner, every useful servant of tle
public. These were the distinctions he wished to •
draw ; the results he expected from Parliamentary
and Burgh Reform; and he was confident his con-
clusions would bear the test of sober inquiry, bet-
ter than the witty observations of the oppose.* of
Reform. In the belief that the influence arising
from the large and unnecessary expenditure was a
great bar to a reform of abuses, be IM.. Flume)
had taken the course he did, of reposing to public
view the profligacy of that expenditure ; the lavtih
waste of the public money; and. io spite of every
attempt to crust his progress, and deny the correct.
nese of his statements, he had succeeded in awaken-
ing the public to discern otiegreat cause of their
distress. To the utmost extent, indeed, lie might
claim the merit of patient and Laborious insinuy and
perseverance; bait he might have gone on long
without success, if the difficulties of the landed iii-
terest had not seconded his exertions. That nu.
merous and powerful class of men, who had for so
many years, whilst their pockets were full, hallooed
on the extravagant expenditure of the Pitt system,
which had spent, in tweuty-four years, upwards of.
1,500 nullities sterling, regardless of the warnings
received, now were loud in their clamours, and
pretended to tie iguoraut of the causes of their
distress. They do not see, or will not under-
stand, that by their blind support of the Munster
of the day, in all his measures, the present enor-
mous debt wee contracted—that the interest of
that debt wits year after year paid by loans;

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