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praiseworthy or objectionable, but we insist that
while this establishment continues to be the school
in which the writers are to be instructed and prepared
for their future destinations, it is absolutely impossi-
ble for the heads of the College to do justice to the
Directors, unless they are invested with sufficient
authority to reduce to perfect submission the idle, the
riotous, and the dissipated. But we are told that
it is an act of extreme injustice to deprive the
" max of a civil appointment upon which his b?eid
depends," because be has erred as a soy. Suppose
a lad to be sent to Winchester or Eton, on the
foundation ; if he remains there a sufficient time,
he is certain of being elected to New College, Ox-
ford, or to King's College, Cambridge, and inevi
tably secures a fellowship. Many persons are
induced to send their children to these collegi-
ate schools at the early age of eight years, be-
cause they are sure of ultimately obtaining a com-
fortable competence. But every boy is liable at these;
establishments to be expelled for misconduct, which
of course deprives him of all future expectation.
Instances of this kind have occurred, and surely it is
unreasonable to require for the boys at Hertford an
indulgence which is withheld from the students of
Winchester and Eton. So much for the seve.
rity and injustice of these proceedings. Deeply
impressed as we are with the vital importance
of India, and anxious as we feel to promote the in-
terests of the Company, we strongly urge on the Di-
rectors the necessity of sacrificing all private consi-
derations to the advancement of the general welfare ;
to be firm and resolute in their conduct ; and to evince,
on the present occasion, a determination to listen no
longer to the remonstrances of their friends, but to
support the dignity of the Professors and the honour
of the establishment.

In the preceding observations we have been actuated
solely by the desire of contributing our humble ser-
vices to the interests of the East India Compnny..
From motives of private attachment, as well as frost'
a firm conviction of the immense advantages of the
Indian trade, we shall regard with the most watchrlul.
attention every measure which may affect this vast
source of national importance : and we hope, by
accuracy of information, and candid and impartial'
investigation, to merit the confidence of all who
are interested in the prosperity of our Eastern Do-
minions.

The Protestant outrage in Ireland must inevitably
do much good, for it illustrates coarsely, but strongly,
the spirit of Protestant intolermee. It is a caricature,
but a caricature that presents a striking likeness of
the odious original. We cannot help feeling some
astonishmer,t, that a mind so enlightened Md so con-
versant with human life as the Earl of ELDON'S, should
continue so blindly
,attached to general reasoning and
antiquated arguments, as to overlook the baneful ef-
fects of exclusion and persecution upon the mass of
low and vulgar exclusionist• and persecutors. The
Marquis Wr ttesLEY deserves the highest praise: III&
we are disposed to be sanguine in our hopes that he.
twill
yet entile himself to the unrivalled and eSerlalt-
log praise of breaking down the wall of partition be-
treat Protestants sad Catholic's -is Ireland, and of
rendering all the inhabitants of his natiiii huddle
!wtopk, with equal rights and equal privilepci.
1..
iiiINDSON DECEALE•ER 18. --Oar m fig.
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gtottesaliarriv€4
at -Progrnore front Bagshot, where hei Royal High-
peas remained a considerable time, partook of some
refreshment, and afterwards returned to Bagsbot.
Yesterday morning early the Duke and Ditchess of
CLARENCE left Bushy Paik foe Kensington Palace,
where the Duke remained but a short tin*, reeving
the Duchess to spend the day with the Duchess of
KBEIT. His Royal Highness, proceeded to town, and
in the afternoon returned to Bushy Park, calling at
Kensington Palace for his Duchess.
It is boasted by the founders of the " Association"
for killing the slain, that " not one individiaal whom
they have yet brought to trial has been•foond NOT
GUILTY." There cannot be a more decisive proof
of their inutility and misconduct. Is it 'ffitkune arils
it public good they court? If it be fortune, they ere,
right to hazard nothing, and never to go ioto Cant
before they have secured a verdict. If it be the pabi.
lic good, they will prosecute every person who off"eods.
against the principles of their AssceiaLori, and bike*
an iddifferent jury ; but they will often fail, and leas'
verdict of EDT GUILTY recorded. Cunning 4.1* it
virtue in the beat of causes, in their cause it is tim-
eliest of vices. A verdict of NOT OttILTY would brit
been an honour to this Association Ciiiiiiiiiiid 'Wilts
certiorari in the case of RIDGWAY. The Deter
proves the design of prosecuting only for the credit or
a verdict, in order to procure money from their silly
subscribers. There never was an honest public pry .
secutor who had not often failed, because an honest
prosecution is not the noose of the executioner.
We understand that the Hon. W. HILL, lifluister
Plenipotentiary at Turin, is to be nominated tb the
vacant office of Under Secretary of State for Poreiigs
Affairs, and is now on his road to this country tor dare
purpose.
We have received a Flanders Mail, bringing Pipers
to the 17th December. The following isan mugs :-...
oasowa, woe. 25.
An extraordinary courier, bringing dispatches from Con-
inople, has passed throegb thus place, on hie way to
n.. A report has since been spread that the Jannisaries
made themselves masters of the seraglio, and seized on
the treasures which it contained, and that the Sultan has fthA
to Scutari. All this, of course, needs cundrmation."—Asgs.
6mrs Gazette.
VIENNA, DEC. 6.
AUSTRIAN Fnaps, Deer-anon G.—N[o;lll4.oes, std; Bask
Shires, 953 1-10.
Ducsuntut 7.—Metalliques, $4; Bank Shares, mi.
New York Papers have been received to the 26. h
ult.; the following are extracts :
" Four thousand troops dispatched by Genera! Boxtilita from
Govasl at the solieitation of General Ss% M tarts, had kriiivtd
at C'slUit, to aid in the expedt ion which was about to kW sell*
the Royalist Spaniards u Upper Peru."
[IRON THR OASSITTI 415 THI 211 a met.]
"Facia PANSACOLA.—The brig Franklin has arrived- at Cluin
kstoa from Pensacola, Mime* she sailed about the Ist instant.—
She bra the sielinseha'y arainst 011ie ravages of their.. it was
au was from ISO to IMO utmost S Aiaerlcans had died
at rancho; oat of Ave cam .of the Caked Btu& rear,
thole had been 70 deaths."
We understand Societies are in course of forsottion
at North Shield. Cambridge, Birmingham, at. Arc.
for opposing frat,dulent Insolvent Debtors, Sib ft' ,to
the perm.ie Pur-
pose.
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