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lenguishing condition. The Petitiojterr, therefore,
lecuitimenil, filet protecting duties should he *un-
posed 011 the iiitrodisction of all articles of foirigii
primitive, by which means alone the amount of
foreign ieep.irtat ions een he reduced, aura be In ought
v) so equality with their limited exportations. We
are not apprised of the remit or eleettiaer of the
pr-rmnio by *both thi• Petition ha/ peen
It it therefore itivposible to determine the degree
tf atieniinii to is entitled, or Ima far It
should lie consiteiod a lust picture of the interest
contlitem.,f time II Ulan. Our own experience must
have tattiest us the Anger of reeling with 'perfect
confident, Upon a statetneut respecting the geneisrl
00,110...0 any country, made by any man or any
" vet of omen. AU individual baskitig iu the sunshine
of furl one call have hut few opportunities of know-
;rani eels 4rI•1 be brought even to compree
bend the deep distress which may prevail through-
out n circuitry ; and how frequently, will the gloom
of individual calamity cast an imaginary shade over
os
the !denims of national prosperity t We have a
bighel opinion of Lord CAS rt.t REAcab discretion
thaillitter Umber., I ilat the glowing picture of
revivink triode and improved FtSottrers. which hit
lordship offered to the view of Parliament iii an
'ally pant of the present Sessiuti, he hail any notion
t!,it he was rrierrentitsz the Stole of public affairs
e:sciitially different fruits what it was in reality, yet
we utiforttinately remember, that but a few days
lifter the delivery of his Lordship's speech.
when authentic accounts poured in from every
(platter of the detailing scenes of wretched-
ness and misery involving large classes of our fellow-
crew; s, which rudely put to flight the pleasing
it,ions the Noble Lord had FO recently created.
A Cerli-le weaver, who, with the onretnitlitig
labour cf fourteen hours in the four-and-twenty,
was yet nonlife to earn as ouch as would keep
Lis wile and children from starving. would hove, in
the hitter sincerity of his heart, drawn such a pic-
ture of lit; guishing trade, oppressive taxation,
emi-
gratiug or starving artisans. that no one could have
supposed it meant as a representation of the same
Ebgland which, in Lord CASTLEREAGH'S view,
was exhibited ensiling in the lap of joy, and pant-
ing to a rich succession of " thick-coming' bless-
jar with seemed to court her grasp. If individual
citeuinsuatices thus exercise an influence on the

indgmeirt, we cannot form an opinion upon this
Petit itm, unless we are npprised of the source from
which it 'its origitistekl.

Nu tluttlit can be entertained that the great and
sodden 'Aux of einigructs to ilie United States
from all ports t f Europe, many thousand* of them
in a prat.. .f abject poveriy, awl untie in affluence,
aail all thiuwo at once upon the commercial and
inaituf,c!ofing towns of ilie Union, must have
caused in them very considerable embarrassment.

The sure scurce of future greatness was the (Wed-
-41011 of some present, hut temporary distress, awl as
'the cause I;t14 teat yet ceased to operate, some incon-
•veruente most still hr rot, until society shall have
`sufficiently expairifed to suffer the new comers to
sink into the generd mass, and find their proper
level.. Where cats he no better proof that the pre.
sent embarrassments, if indeed they be generally
Celt, are artificial, and therefore temporary, than the
nature of the complaint contained in the Petition,
and the very absurd suggestion of the Petitions by
way of a remedy fur the evil. A poor countrj
will never have cause to complain of the influx of
'foreign merchandise, for nothing can be more eve-
dent than that by whatever. process the trade be
curried on, every article of convenience or lu ..nry
imported from abroad most be paid fur by the pro-
duce of the country that consumes it. The wealth
of the trolled States consists in their labouring
populalbo, and the almost unlimited extent of
'their fertile bind. is an inexhaustible mine of en-
joyment. Ily this their utmost passion fur foreign
laminae* can be iniltilged, and they who would
thick of reducing the objects of this indulgence,
would iii the same proportion diminish the merits
isfmgpsyment, or, in other words, limit the
rodusenve powers of the country. A duty on
imoorlation of foreign produce operates in-
diallady as a tax upon home production', and
Legi•lature of the United Stairs has hither-
11i sseilided equal wisdom and forbearance in not
p,eititufg to the thoughtless clamour of those who
are tuitions, prematurely to establish manufacturer
et the expense of the mil and permanent Interests
of the Uuino.

`Our extracts from the Jamaica Papers contain
the details of the capture of Porto Bello, by Gen.
Alllactott, whi.ll event we annono.cetl yeutertluy.
Pro.vute conientinocatiomi ineption that ibe specie
and other property in the town were einbarize.: un
tolard bey 11ajeati'l brig l'arthiux the night lire-
' viol'. 1.1 the entrance of the captors.
Oa the 12th, an officer of that Pa'Mums war sent
to Tartu Hallo, where he found all quiet, and the
toillationnota were returning in great ittonforr4, 110
instance of plunder having bten permitted. A
Mr. LOPLZ, a native of Cardiageoa, was appointed
Goitrooor of Porto 13e:10, and the inerchuuts ap-
peut el 0u.i,1i.41 with the change of goverosnavnt„
Sir Git.rnait 31.6totcou weal extremely civil to
Coe univels of the Pralkiwa, who went to Purlo
Brllo, am! offered to 1.111.1 k; the brig with refresh..
titews, or as. thing ehor they might require.
The tovor., wl.-.1 t were under the
carnation of Gen. !Ault. Sir Catuou

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ooa did nut initial, it is sdiJ, to proceed to Pa-
nama, until lie laid cominunicsted with Lord Cow-
KANE, frmii the South Sea, whose force c.uisisted at
neatly 4u urinal stsiorl* of it &rem tiescriptions.
The best disppsitions %%tie making at ransom t•
repel any attack which S:r tintwou 10116a.aoit
might attempt against taut place. General
witb rrinforcetueuts, INJII iiii ii y expected fium
Old Providence, when it +vas stippmed an attack
would be made on Cluigrel,”
Patio Bello is a sea-port of Terra Firma, on the
Korth coot of the Isthmus of Darien, nearly oppo-
site Panama on the south coast. Befute the abuli-
bon 0r the trade by the galleons, iis 1748, and the
introduction of rrgister ships, tins place was the
great mart fur the rich commerce of I'rru said

Chili, which was conveyed hither from Panama,
portly on mules, and partly down the river Chave.
The town stands close to the SCR, on the side of
a mountain that surrounds the harbour, which is safe
and commodious. It was takeis in 174 by Admiral
VERNON, who demolished the fortifications; but it
has since been strongly fortified. It is 50 miles
N. by E. Isaitessa. and 30(1 W. by S. Cortliiigena.
Long. 79. 50. W. 1at.,9. 33. N.
_

Private letters from Jamaica state. that the Go-
remittent there had forbidden strictly the export of
provisions to the Spanish Main, thereby seeking to
deprive the Patriots of all resources.
A meeting of the merchants and traders there
was to take place. to memorial the Governor. the
Duke of MaNctisseEtt, to rescind the order and
annul the proclamation which enforced it. It was
felt as strongly in the island as the Bill now in pro-
gress iu the House of Commons.

Paris Papers of Monday last have arrived ateur
Office. The Moniker contains a copy of the kw
recently enacted for the repression of cr i iii es com-
mitted by moans of publication, by which it is to
be micheratood, that tire Kiwo has given his assent
o Use taw. as amended and (lenity adopted by the
fag t *lnt iwe Chamber►.

By letters from Trinidad to the 13th of May, we
learn, that the expedition under the command of
General CROENATA sailed from Margarine in the
beginning of that month. The whole force con-
united of 3.000 men, including the Spaniards under
UNDLNATA, Colonel ENGLISH'S regiment, and
Colonel GILMORE'S brigade of artillery : the two
latter were almost entirely composed of English-
men. Their destination was understood to be the
city of Caracciis, which, it was believed, was inca.
gable of making any effectual resistance.
Accoutre have been received at Lloyd's of se-
veral valuable captures having been made by the
Independent cruisers in the South Seas. It if
strongly suspected by petunia counected with the
trade of Chili, that Lord CoCIIRANS is gone with
his squadron to the Bay of Panama. This is an
old project of the Buenos Ayres and Chili Govern-
mews, hut it has no cosine:tau whatever with
M'GoEunit's movements.

A rtquisrtion has been signed and presented to the
LORD MAYOR. for calling a Common Hall to pe-
tition Parliament to adopt such measures of re.
trenchntent as will prevent the necessity of imposing
new taxes.
The loss of the Earl of Leicester packet. from
Milford to Waterford. was announced in our Naval
column yesterday. The Waterford Mirror states,
that the crew and passeUKern•were all landed bale at
Slide, a little to the eastward of Waterford. The
packet is likely to prove a total loss: •
The Earl of BucEINGHAStSIIIIII4 with his bride.
pas red through Boston on Monday. oa their way to
Guiry. Park, the Earl's seat. iu Lincolnshire.
The Rev. WILLIAM GURNIY. A.M. Rector of
At. elrOirlit DaMi. Strand, has been appointed
one of lie Dontestie Chaplain, to his Royal High.
ittss rite Elute of KENT.
We have had frequent occasion to notice the •
grand -,eries of National Medals, commemorative
of the glorious achievements of the British arms in
the late war. It will be wen in the advertisement

in. hoot of our l'aper that this series is now cont.
plete. It is a notional concern undertaken by an
individual, sod executed in a stile worthy of no.
tumid protection.
On Sunday last Sir SkblUgt. SHEPHIIID, the
late Attorney Geoeinl. left town to enter upon the
duties of his new appointment • (the Lord Chief
Baron of Scotland), with the"vkry sincere regret of
his private and extensive circle of friends. It is
much to be lamented that the infirmity under
which Ibis Gentleman has laboured fur so many
years should have prevented Isis acceptance of the
highest honours in the English profession; which
ate so well Linen to limns been offered to him; yet
the highly honourable and conscientious motives
which dictated his refusal of them cannot be too
generally known and admired—feeling the con-
scielitious discharge of the duties, on the criminal
side of those offices, to be incompatible with the
infirmity under which lie labours. he rejected the
tumour ; mod we are happy to learn, that in his
present office nn ditties of that objectionable nature
aeill occor. A defect in his hearing is the infirmity
In which we allude.
Luau CHE'sTERFIELD.—We have hitherto omit-
ted to notice the Letters of this distioguirlied No-
bleman. lately published for the first time, addressed to
A. C. STANHOPE, Esq. relative to the education of his
Lorilsliip's Godson, Plume, the late FAA. This interesting
currespooderice exhibits the method Nitro it, the education
of a favourite child (ruin the she of six years -Ls that of
twelve; null as Ilse letters alive the creek of practice, they
are iulitiile4 superior to the formality of systematic pre-
cept. The (petrification"' of Coed CIIEFITERInELO, for the
superintendence of a youth', studies, suit the f ineatioa of
his manures, cannot admit a any but it is sue-
prising that, at the age of overlay, thirreelchsateJ Noble-
LIAO si.ould have forgotten his infiriesturto eater into the
aiwowineuts of a child. By doing this hr acquired .4aow.
ledge of his temper said hull of toad, •hich enshred tip
imitative. instructor to gone his ad, chimp, sad to render the
lessons imparted more effectual thaw liars would probably
nave Len by a formal mid authoritative behaviour. Parents
Mad all tabu have the elisrge of youth, sill have reason to
rejoice at the publication of this .iiivtolniy series, in which
will be foissid lb* beat counsels out the Important .nliject of
n rearing Hie leader thorehr," nor is there a single passage
or insinuation that esti par citleure In the scarred MAW,
the molt struFolviiii c:etite.

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