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we think to pass k over in studied silent would be
to treat it as something serious. Whether the effu-
sion of folly or of malice. it cannot possibly do anf
injury to His Maicsvv or to Lord Noma. Indeed
it will be found more an antidote against, than
an incentive to, ambition. Contempt is the .only
sentiment which such ribaldry can eszitein a laritials
mind.

Lnrd Met:, says one of the Minor Trea-
sury Journals, 4. is expeEled in town from Stor-
land, this day, or to-morrow. and a motion will be
made early in the &salons for rescinding the resole-
tinns him from the Journals of the Honse of
Commons, in conseluence of his acqbittal by his
Peers, and as a preliminary to his Lordship% NJ..
pointment to a high official situation in Els V,
laiTY's Councils." Tiiis is not a ri,.yr
Cuaw to alluded to it in his speech, at the late C.:
lisle ElcSion, in the following words :

44 You will naturally expel f should explain t'.'
apparent paradox, in the earths& of tiros., w;:o, :-.
months ago, acknowledged themselves in td •111.-
to c•mduft the helm, and are now ready din! .1* :'
OM to undertake it. Are the difficulties deer e.ts: : '
Certainly not. What has occurred to mike tie
change ? Has the acquittal of a NArle Lord, once
high in ( ffice, emtoldened them to the undertaking!
Mr. PITT declared it to be his opinion, that tie
Noble Lord could never again be adm'tted to ant
share in flis MAJESTY'S Councils, whilst the resos
lotion of the [louse of Commons stood unrescleded t
the prediftion unfortunately is not verified. Lod
MELVILLE is again a Member of His Masmrs's
Privy Council, and the transition to the head of the
Treasury is supposed not distant. Oug!it Perlis.
ment, can the country forget the declaration made
by that Noble Lord in the House of CemosonW
that be had expended tea thousand pounds of pubs
, lie money, an account of which no pbwer on earth
should wring from him f"

We copied, yesterday, from a minor Treat .ry
Print, an alleged Notice, from N'isc..ant H0%%.,ct. t 6
his Opposition Friends, apprising them of a divisor%
in the House of Commons, at the meeting of rite
new Parliament on Monday next. This notice‘ast
been represented, in the Treasury Papers, as fratioat,
premature, and unprecedented. We know nothir.
of the Notice; but, presuming it to be authentic, re
do think that it doss not merit this obloquy. It is
not necesary to wait for the KIN o's Speech, in ordet
to form an opinion of his present Ministers. Ths.
dissolution of a new Parliament. the cry of •
Popery," the Krac's last Speech, are all before the
Public, and have never been discussed in Pitil2.
ment. Besides, nothing constitutional can cure the
defsfts in the original formation of the present Mi.
alstry. Let His M AJISTY'S Speech, then, be what
it may, here are ample grounds for an amendment%
debate, and division.

The melancholy disaster of our armies it
Egypt has been eagerly seized upon, by the
Treasury Journals, to divert the public stun*
Lion from the result of the Yorkshire Medina,
and the imbecility of their Y.roployers. While
the particulars of that great calamity, though
known to Ministers for several days, were cntelif
withheld from us, their hireling prints were built
employed in attempting to prejudice the public
mind, and excite indignation against those who have
triumphed over their arts, and exposed their pert.
lations. It is not grief for our brave countrymen
who have fallen in Egypt that excites those laborious
effusions, in which their newspapers abound i bat
the vain hope, that, by dwelling on that great and
unexpe&ed disaster, they may efface from the
public mind the result of their appeal to the sense
of the people. Every day, until the meeting rf
Parliament, they will attempt to agitate the public
mind with this business. The following exrr.ia,
from one of their Prints of last night, shews hew
ingeniouly they can trifle with this actions disaster t
" From General FitAgglell second letter, dated
from on board the Canapes. there is no reason to
suppose that in the second at:empt made against
Rosette. our troops were able to reach that place-
But a letter has been received from Messina, wh'ek
states in suhssance that, upon the day
ing the junn ion of General Seuaar with Ge.
Manua, the former ordered a second assault u.
made on Rosetta, and that the streets ild
previ msly cleared by the field pieces. This w
accordingly executed, and seeing the streets ap(
ready cleared, General STUART advanced, le;
they were suddenly attacked tram behind, Is!
large force of Albanians. who approached s
der cover of a fog, and entered the temporal
entrenclanetos which had but then been abaa,
dotted by the English. In the same mome
the Tut ks sallied from behind Rosetta, and the E'
lish were attacked at once in front and rear.
Mss of the Engiish is estimated at 1500
whom upwards of 900 were left dead on the ti,
General Sru Aas remained one night and the
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