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STAT.& OF PARTIES.

DE Loess e, in his Essay upon the English
Constitution, attributes its stability to its composi-
tion of King, Lords, and Common., and clue equili-
brium resulting from the rrleive proportions of
tlsese several parts. lie even endeavours to reduce
this position to mathematical certainty, and illus-
trates it by reference to the demonstrative proposi-
tion, which says, that when three powers pulling in
opposite direnions, arc to each other, as the sides of
a particular species of triangle, they remain at rest.
Were this principle, which is applicable to the Con-
stitution, applicable to a Ministry, Mr. Pirr teed
not be afraid of losing his place, and his power
would be filed upon grounds as steady as the foun-
dations of the Constitution itself. Hitherto the Mi-
nister had only to contend against one force. The
Opposition and he, pulling is contrary direnions,
Were the only powers in anion, and, as either pre-
•ailed, die Opposition came in, or the Minister went
out. Rithettopotas long as Mr. PITT bad a

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tjOjit? Of one (Met Mr.loeliAlN.l.l as
free anl unAmtrouleJ, though ular, a,
if he hat it majority of tOO. Ijkik the cast of
Vkcnuist NlELett.s.E has etfetez! a t cmire chasg,
in his situation. Although it may n.tt !twee gene-
rated, it has certainly brought iato 43ion a
power, which controuls the other t,.\.n. "nlis is t!Pt
ADDINGTON Party. which occasion:illy ads µ.i .!t

either side. hut coalesces with none. Viic..u.it
Stamm:cu. the head of the party, stands ind:.

pendent and alone. He says.
Nut acklietus imsee in vertu magistri,
Q.l" U. eunqua rapit tempest" rleferlr
The ADDINZ•TUN party, by throwing i!sJf into
the Opposition scale, carried the vote of Cie Sth of
April and of the 13th of Juae against th.! Nlin;ster.
They muster, we believe, oLly about 40, and nn.

sequently are not formidable its a separate I- ,rze;

but then, upon .t division between the Minister .:1,1
the OppJsition, they shew tha the oue can
early against their will, unless he can cons.

mand more than a majority of 40, and that the Op,
position need not dzspair of success, whenever they

can muster within 40 of the Minister. Of course nol
thing but a thumping majority can render the Min 4.
ter safe and at ease in his situation. laevery hard
fought battle, in every doulstful and delicate question,
the ADDINGTON patty are the m tsterspf Mr. Pan r,
and decide the fate of the cottz.try. This cous.
deratior, probably, gave rise to the report which
we mentioned on Saturday, of an intention, on the
part of the Minister, to dissolve the Pm,liamrt,

with a ♦iew to extricate himself from a state of so
much embarrassment. Whether t.':e continuance

of such :a system would be advantageous or injmieus
to the interests of the county, is a question which
we are not prepared to discuss. We cannot con.
ceive, however, that the 2rlinister will long submit
to hold his piece by such a tenure, and to live is
daily fear, vassalage, and subjeel+on ; but how eel
in what manner he will extricate himself from the
situation, perhaps he dots not yet certainly kilns.
Mr. Aooreoente claimed the merit of leaving the
people to themselves, in the choice of their repre
sentetives on the late General Lletiae. It me
have been the case in Engleni; but there is reeve
to believe, that a friend of Mr. Purr wes not tota::y
inaftive in Scodand, upon that occas:on. Whether
the exertions of the Minister could, upon a rev
F.leftion, procure a I loase more favourable to len
than the present, it is impossible to say; but, el-
mitting that It could, it would he a very unpin' a .t
remedy. Could the Gars; vi I. toe Party be conciliate l,
no doubt a coelitioa of snore of CU/S.:elements, out
of which the ccuntry expeeled the present Minister
would have been composed, wmid be the ralee
most grateful to Mr. Pi rr. A Paper of yesterday,
devoted to the Minister, has mentioned a third way
of rescuiree him from 11',.; present d'dieulry. I: a
astonished that not one of L 11! ADDING ram Part!
in the Hense of Caarnons ave'le I himself of the re.
suit of Mr. WHIT3REMI'S Motion, se honourable
to Mr. P. r r, to express his joy, and congratidet
him upon the complete justiticetion of his elle.
reeler and condul ; and it concludes with hinting,
that Viscount Sin sloe ris will retire from the Cl*
binet, and that with him his friends will ce,ve ei
take an aa:ve part in the Haase in Commons. We
own that we see no ground for this presumption.
The situation or which the A norsorwe party ho
placed itself is of its own seeking. Its view: it
doing so have not been yet ascertained ; and me
til the trial has been male, and the AA
found unattainable, we cannot suppose Visceent
Sinmour el will voluntarily quit the field. With
still less reason is the print to which we allele
angry with the ADDINGTJSS for not betreyiae SI
enthusiasm of joy upon Mr. Par's most he lee.
able acqaittal. They mu,t indeed be of a: ..rly
and forgiving spirit if they feel no resenueet
against Mr. PITT. The panegyric with w:.ich he
introduced Mr. Aoorse.roe.'s administration, is is
the recolle lion of every public man. Lord HAWKIS.
allay "inherited his talents as his birth fee."
" The name of the Earl of Sr. VINCL:tir wall
tower of strengh, a shield, and a bulwark ;'—ad
as fur Mr. AD o IN ()roe, "his nterits were beyond all
praise;" yet, in that very House of Commons, vie:ek
witnessed this praise, and face to face, has M. Piet
branded these very men, as a weak, irnbe& le eel
inefficient alniaistretion. Muit not the Avoise
TONS, it' they be m 'yr, feel proud of an opportune!
to reverse this sentence of imbecility and ire:apace
pronounced upon them by Mr. Pere ? They lie:
reversed it. The elitiisterial Prints now confeeet;":
the weak :red imbecile Viscount Siossoiern "cO2"
mend, and controuis the whole Cabinet, and 1011
only the Cabinet, but the parties which are in OOP
sition to it ; that the A uniSGTOres are the diets!'
of the country, commanding the partisans el 111
Purr, and the supporters of the Crralition.
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dealing out triumph at pleasure to either." Thh
the language of the adversaries of Viscount .
MOUTH ! Could his friend; pronounce a higher
ncgyric upon Lis streegth, his political address,
tales t+!

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'THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY. Jurn 18.

We have received Paris Papers to the 9th, Dutch
pacers to the 19. th, and some Swedish Papers, but
sone of a 'seri recent date, by the two Gottenburgh
which arrived yesterd ty. The former init.
u„,te plot agit ainst the life of the FIRST CONSUL
M n, which is attributed, of course, to the Eng-
lish G )vernment.
The Ilfonitour of the sth has no le-s than eight
supplementary sheets filled with an interce ted dis-
patch front I r.iia, to which the French attach great
oportaacc. It is introduced with the following re-

to oks r—
e, The dispatch of the Marquis WELLESLEY,
Jared April ISt, IAO4, which is here subjoined,
ached Giverament -uhsequent to the letters of the
Governor General of the 9th of June, 15th and 15th
at Jule, :bough of an earlier date, ;sad though in
seine meaiiiiie the First part.
It is iinpossible to present to the reader a more
fa thralpinure than that traced out by the Marquis
WELLESLEY himself of the intrigue; which, since
ti .e end of 153 J, have preceded, prepared, and pro-
moted the last usurpations of Great Britain in the
peninsula, on this side the Gangt s ; and the secret
disposition or mistrust, resentment, and hatred en-
ter:ained against it by the principal native powers,
compelled to enter into alliance with it, or to yield
ui its arms."
The great length of this dispatch renders it im-
possible to be given in our paper.
The mission of M. Novortszow occupies much
of the attention of the Path Journalists ; and an ar-
tkle horn lianaburgh, in one of them, says, that a
Congress for a General Peace is to be held at Brus-
sels: that Novoziazost and the Prussian Minister
are to mediate for Great Britain, and that the port
of Ostend is to be opened to carry on the Diploma-
tic Correspondence with England.
The Paris Papers of the Bth state, th it the Arica
TOMAS( sett set off for Milan the day before, pre-
ceded by the FItIANCE Mtntssra. " The departure
of these two grand fun3ionaries affords us room
to believe, that Paris will be much longer deprived
of the presence of its Sovereign, than was suppo-el.
It is believed that the affairs of Genoa will keep His
MAJESTY 113tIll longer in Italy; it is proved, be-
sides, that he is expeaed at the Camp of Castiglione,
where he will remain a fortuight, and that he is
afterwards to reside for some time at Bologna."

Dispatches from the West Indies, brou:bt tr
Plymouth, by the .I:.in B dl cutter, were yesterday
received :tt the Admiralty. The John Bull kit
Admiral Coca 3 ANL C,ll the I 4th ult. with six sail
of the line. crui-ing off Cape Nicola Mole, St. Do-
mingo.

The Jamaica fl et, blond to EnglanJ, sailed
from Kingston on the 2`..1J of Arril, unler coy
of
a f.igate and a sloop I.f war. It cons'oackl of
about 100 sail, and was seen off Cuba on the 9th
of May.

Sisteen gun.vessels escaped from Havre on Wed-
nesday last, an I got into Fecamp.They came out in
open day. and fought the Chitrone, Fa 'canard Creeier,
which stood so close inshore after them. that the
Falcon had four men wounded by their rocactsy.
Four of them were driven on shore. but could not
be destroyed. Nothing but a peremptory order for
them to sail could have led them to such temnity:
they never attempted to come out in day-time be-
fore, wlura their force was so very superior.

No are still without any certain information re-
Litire to the prugreu or destination if the enemy's
fleets.

Colonel CR AWFURD, Lot night, deferred his
Motion upon the State rf the Army until Moaday.

Yesterday, at two o'clock. a Cabinet C•inncil was
held at Lord WICK AVL'S Office. The Its -slam
AMR ASIADOR attended. .

The Queen Charlotte packet. --, f-orn liati•
fax, for Falmouth, is captured by a :•':paiiiith priva-
teer in the Soundings, and carried into Passage, in
Spin.
The Illegiticnne frignte, with the fleet under her
tanycy, from Portsmouth, are arrived at Jameica.
Tt.e Hercule, Admiral DACR L., the S'. G,orge,
Caxton,. Altar, Eatile, and Veteran men of war,
were off Cuba, on the 9th of May ; Admiral CocH.
it Ole bad left them for Barbadoes. The fleet
from Jamaica for Europe, consisting of about •100
sail, under convoy of a frigate and a sloop of war,
were off Cuba on the 9th May.
Mr. Justice Jonsson attended yesterday in
Westminster Hall, for the purpos.s of tiling a ple
to the indiemcnt against him in the Court of King's
B.mcli. It is, vie understand, a special plea, and
states, that previous to the Union Ireland was a se-
parate kingdom from Great Britain, governed by
ter own laws ; that he is a subjed of Ireland ; that
the fads with which he stands charged were com-
mitted in that kingdom, where a competent j•iris-
didiun subsists to try such offences ; and this, t
fore, the Court of King's Bench in klogLact has no
jurisdialon.

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THE DUCHESS OF
_ROXIIURGIPS GRAND

CONCE N7'.

Her Grace gave last night one of the grandest
musical parties of the season, at her house in Hill-
street, Berkeley-square. The most exipsisite taste
was displayed in all the arrangements. The stair-
case was decorated with the most beautiful flowers ;
each landing was a bower of the most odoriferous
shrubs, interspersed with different coloured lamps.
The doors of the spacious apartments were all thrown
open, and each door encircled with flowers and
lamps, appearing as a continuation of bowers. The
Concert was held in the ball room. The ceiling is
most curiously inlaid with gold, in the centet a most
magnificent diamond-cut drop chandelier, of great
value.—The finest convex lustrcs—the most aro-
matic shrubs also exhaled their sweets, every thing
that could delight the senses was here. It was the
Temple of Flora, inhabited by Orpheus. Miss
PARK c was in fine voice, as were the Messrs. Kmv-
verTs, who executed some beautiful duets; Mr.
Hsakisos's charming glee of 0 Nanny! was de-
lightfully sung, as was, Pence to the Souls of the He-
ron. The music was under the dire Lion of Mr.
PADDON, to whom both the seleition and execution
did the highest credit. Ar.'ongst the•other per-
formers were Mr. BARTt.t.ntAs and Mr. MEYER.
Above 300 Nobility aztended ; amongst whom
Were :•.• _

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Hu Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
TUT Duchess of Leeds.
Duke De Castries.
Marchioness of Wincheter.
Marquiszl-.Winchester and Douglas.
The F.A.I of Raoymnre.
Co:intiesses—Hartington, Barrynaore, and FariconS:rg.
Baroness Crofton.
Ll(l.o4—Lamb!rt, Minto, Perth, C. Ilertte.t. srlwnlow,
M. Stanhope, Tapley Hamilt.ol, Dud'ey and Ware,
Kniglitley, Fttsgeralds, and Say and Selo.
Viscount Prterclicm.
Huteltinvpi, and Brownlow.
Mistrecrec—.Lvgon, Thompso-o, Biarriot, Stanhope, Vere,
Sneucer, Rutherford, Hussey, R. Wallaule, Bailey, Lindsey,
and Hurrowes.
MilitioSialliOpe, Ligon, Baker, Custs, II trley, Duuv'as,
Blonrague Percy, Chechire, Two Cramer.,
tis, ESiot,'Ancuches, Nelson, and the Hun. MHO Diaollo.ll.
Calonek-3revtile, Stuart, Headley, and Doßor Walcot.