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Vfibat mold have bete their motive for publishing a state.
meat so base, false, suit malicious, is best known to them.
evilvetr. I was is hopes that common justice world have
prompted them to coniradki the libel, and make the emend/ '
kreenthie. They have done au such thing; on the contrary,
the).bave availed thecuselvas of every oppurtamity to •mail
Ise with ill-nature and obloquy. A few days slime an
is/Wed mud ridiculous paragraph appeared in some of
the Morning Papers, profelsiog to give an account of
shdinoer party I load the honour of giviog to mime dhitia-
gitished individuals, called forth again the spleen of the
Joh* Thai Newspaper. Were I capable of Writing or
countemincing such au absurd account as that I allude
to, I should indeed conceive myself to be jdstly an ob.
ja ct of ridicule. 1 have not the faintest idea who could
Nave lest the paragraph in question. lam not smelt a vain
fool to thisk ♦y giving a party at Fiochley or elsewhere
ought to be pahlaiiied sod bruited forth. Whets I read the
account in the Papers I was extremely mortified, as my friends
ems testify. I is my life wrote orient a pelf to any news-
paper. If the Editors of the Jogai Ball can, by abusing me,
enhance the sale of their paper, they are welcome; I shall
bear it with patience. Batt they Must allow me, with ell
dee bomil,ty. to say, that they bate wronged me very muck,
that three strictures were too severe and unmerited; I owe
them no ill-will. It acquires great talent sad greeter ill no-
Tyre to enter the lists with such consummate writer*: 1 prie-
sts* neither the one nor the other. I have nbt the vanity
tbey area the to me ; the ooly vanity I acknowledge is to von-
those to d the approbation of the public to my prates-
"outset exertions. To the Press I owe much; 1 shall storeys
feel grateful. To the generosity and right feeling whieb
have ever distinguished a British public I leave the cause of
)our obliged and bumble "'meal,
JOHN BRAHAM.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
THE Ntibility, Gentry, end Public, are most
respectfully informed, is addition to the various
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that TO MORROW sod FRIDAY EVENINGS oral,
Madame Georgina, a Lady of Colour, • Native of Calcutta,
will SING in the Rotondo, slid accompaoysherself on the
Piaro-forte, and will oleo a play a f ite Concerto, being
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'THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.

TUESDAY. Ruiz 25, 1822.

Mr. BROUGHAM brought the subject of the in.
crnsed influence of the Crown before the House
of Commons last night, in a speech of nearly three
hours in length. Having established the plan of

bits motion in precedents drawn from the *woes
Air the exclusion of placemen and pensioners, and
the celebrated resolution of Mr. DUNNING in 1760,
be proceeded to shew, by very large and luminous
details, bow greatly the Crown had augmented
.the resources of its influence from the vast revenue
required for the public debt—from the expenses of
collecting it—from the oices of the Colonies added

to the empire since 1791, and the extension of the
dominions in the East and West Indies. He far-
ther traced the effect of this enlarged patronsge, so

infinitely ramified through almost every clouts of
isociety, upon the votes and condoct of Parliament.
He remarked on the sudden and sometimes diurnal
ZonversiOn of parliamentary favour and opinion to

-chiefs of opposite professions—from M►. PITT to
Mr. A ADINGTOK—from hint to the Coalition—then
to the Fox Administration—then to that of Mr.
}PERCIVAL—with the wonderfully fortuitous divi-
Mona in which all these parties were by turns placed,
according to the ♦otes on the division, on exactly
the same footing of popularity and political recti-
tude. He concluded with a resolution, proposing,
•' That the influence now immersed by the Crown
a unnecessary for maintaining its constitutional
dignity, destructive of the independence of Paella.
inent, and inconsistent with the welfare and well-
government of the country." The Marquis of
LORDONDIERY opposed this motion at consider-
able length, and moved that the House should pass
to the other orderers( the day. On this the House di.
vided, when there appeared—for Mr. Baoutatem's
Motion, 101 ; for the Amendment, 216—Majo-
rity in favour of Ministers, 115..

The Bill entitled the Spoiled Stomp Amend-
mot Bill, now reproduced in the House of Cum-
ming, requires to be watched with more than ordi-
nary vigilance. A letter to the Editor, given in
another part of our Paper, exposes its pressure upon
the industrious members of the lower classes, of
whom benefit societies ■re composed, a system en-
titled to every possible encouragement and light!.

Bence. This, however, is only a minor objection. Its
pressure upon the landed interest, already labour-
ing under such distress, is such us must make every
Country gentleman tremble for the consequences.
jt is well known that tensntcy at will is the commit)
tenure in England, and that the specification of
the terms, which is generally a printed form,
requires no stamp, but in the event of its bring
found necessary to produce it in legal process.
These instances rattly occur ; but by the pro-
posed Bill all such agreements are null and void
without a stamp, the consequence of which will
be a tag upon landed property so let to the amount
of upwards of 10 per cent. It would thus appear
that under cover of. Bill, the title of which imports
relief, new tales are to be imposed of the most op-
pressive and objectionable character. Tax Bills
'brought in at the close of the Session should
be closely watched. The interests of landholders
are affected in • very serious degree by the pro-
posed measure.

A Dutch Mail has arrived with Papers to the
ilea instant. The news from Russia corroborates
the previous accounts of the adjustment of the

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FRANKFORT, JUNE 16.

JUNE 1 I (PER LIPRUI).
Metalliques, 79; Souk, 770.

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differences with the Porte, but the intelligence
from Ge►many raises a doubt upon the subject of
the evacuation of the Principalities. This is perhaps I
merely an echo of the •oice of the Paris press, which
would suit encourage hopes of war. The following
are eztioets

HAM BURGH, JUNE 18.
Accounts from St. Petersburgh, of the sth in-
stant, are to the following effect :•—•
The Privy Counsellor Tatischeff left this city on
the 30th of May, a full month after his arrival, to
retort) to Vienna. The exchange of couriers be-
tween St. Petersburg!) and Vienna is at this time
uncommonly active. We expect that the Imperial
guards will very soon return hither. It is said that
the ruder to that effect will be given by the Em-
peror himself, after he has reviewed them at Minsk;
a part of them will be employed to garrison the
capital, but the greater part will be contorted
the summer in the environs. The St. Peters-
burgh Journals contain now the first accounts rela-
tive to the evacuation of the Principalities by the
Turkish troops.

The Crown Prince of Sweden has arrived in
Sweden, and put up at the hirsterthof, where apart-
ments were already prepared for him. He will go
by way of Buckeburg to Aix-la-Chapelle. The
marked ait.ntion with which the Crown Prince has
been treated at Copenhagen has given great satis-
faction at Stockholm. The son of the Ex-Freuch
Minister, Penchi, Duke of Otranto, is in the last-
mentioned city.

The accounts from St. Petersblugh are still of •
pacific character.

The conjecture of those persons seen to become
more probable who thought that, notwithstanding
the assurances from Austria, there was not sufficient
ground for believing that the Porte would fulfil its
promise, made verbally to Lord Strangford (we do
not find that it has been made in writing) to with-
draw its troops from the Principalities.
It is positively affirmed in accounts from the
Austrian frontiers, that the Asiatics who had left
Little 'Wallachia, hare returned with reinforce-
ments, and that if some Asiatic Janissaries have
left Moldavia to go against the Persians, they have
been succeeded by more numerous bodies of Euro-
pean Janissaries; and, in short, that little expecta-
tion can be obtained of a speedy evacuation.
♦INNNA, JUNI 10.
Metalliques, 781; Bank Shares, 757•

We have received a series of New York Papers
from the Ist to the 13th of May. but they contsio
no news of any interest.

We hive received Dublin Papers of Saturday.
The Freeman's Animal of that date says—
" We are not amo•gst those who tam allow that any aggra-
vated picture of calamity is required to be held up to the
COMMIS of Dublin, in order to extort their compassion; but
it ii.were, unhappily, there could be but little difficulty is
preavoting it to them. If they will but advert to the publi-
cation which has proceeded from the Mansion-horse Cum.
mime, they ranee, fail to be struck with these deplorable
facts—" Thai famine and disease are every whets rapidly
inereasing ; and that the funds (Cr arresting their &lim-
ner slopes' ere nearly exhausted."
The report alluded to estimates "the total number
of unemployed and starving individual. lit the city
and suburbs of Cork at above 20,000, exclusive of
which the Libretti.. furnish a mime of distress and
misery unexampled for years, and calling loudly
for the intervention of the charitable sod humane,
to rescue theta horn the last of evils—disease and
starvation."

The Journal from which we have made this
extract announces a selection of sacred music to be
performed at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Wednes-
day, for the relief of the distressed peasantry--that
Miss WILSON and Mr. Home had offered their
gratuitous assistance, and the Lord Lieutenant
would honour it with his presence.
The General Congress of the Republic of Colom-
bia, consideling that " platina is ■ precious metal,
excluded from some Provinces of the Republic, and
that it offers great advantages for the augmentation
of the national funds." has decreed, that the trade
is, plating throughout the Colombian territory shall
belong exclusively to the State; and that a current
money in this metal shall he immediately coined.
Every ounce of purified platina to be of the value
of four Spanish milled dollars. This money is to
be notional.

A meeting of the principal Bankers took place on
Friday laid, at which the subject of the reduction of
discounts at the Bank was incidentally started :
The consideration was, whether it would not he ex-
pedient for the Bankers also, in the advances to
those who kept accounts with them, to reduce the
rate of interest. The majority, we understand,.
were opposed in this concession, particularly as it
was fnund, on inquiring for precedents, that in the
year 1773, when the Bank &cemented at four per
cent, private Bankers still continued to charge five
per cent. on their advances. The meeting, however,
as we are informed, separated without coining to any
decision, and without fixing any period for further
discussion.

JEREMIAH HARMAN and JOHN THORNTON,
Esqrs., to whom the claim of Mr. ButiO4.ss, for
compensation for the loss sustained by his Extra
Post experiment, under the sanction of • Commit-
tee of the House of Commons was referred, have
reported, that the alleged amount of his expenses,
viz. 10,054/. is just and fair; that the encourage-
ment given by Government ceased in July 1841, and
that the portion of said sum since occurred does not
exceed 4,100/ which, if dedui ted with his profit
from conveyance of passengers and resale of sundry
articles, •moauting to 1,200/. from the said 10,0541.
would leAve a balance of 4,7541. to the reimburse-
ment of which they are of opinion Mr. BURGESS
has a clear equitable claim. They also recommend,
in addition to the above sum. a gratuity of 2,5004.
should be given to Mr. Buitasn.