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spoke of in high terms of reprobation, as also of the constitution of
the Board which had the disposal of it. A Select Committee of that
House was, he thought, the best means of getting at the bottom of the
abuse. He concluded by moving Resolutions to the effect, that the
property of the Established Church in Ireland was public property
and under the controul of Parliament, a"d applicable to such put..,
poses for the promotion of religion or otherwise as the wisdom of
Parliament might see fit, due regard being had to the rights of in.
dividuals-4d, Thu that House would early in the next Session of
Parliament institute atzinquiry into the state of Chuch property,
with a view to ascertain whether it did not exceed the amount at
which it ought to be fixed.
Sir F. BURDETT seconded these Resolutions.
Mr. Secretary CANNlNG—whatever fault might be found with
the Hon. Gentleman on any other ground, nu imputation could be
cast upon him for the manner in which he brought fainted his
motion—for having gone about his design in any covert way, or for
having kept back any exposition which ought in truth and justice
to have been given, for he had proceeded plainly and fairly ; lie
had candidly and aboveboard acknowledged that, as his immediate
object which had formerly been in-muted to others as the necessary
result of their arguments. What others had concealed and spoken
of ambiguously, he had put forward fairly in the front of his argu-
ment. Before he would make the few observations that he thought
necessary on the occaaion, he would request the clerk of the House
to read that clause of the Act of Union which related to the Es-
tablished Church in Ireland. The fifth article was then read by
the Clerk, and was to the effect, " that a complete union
should be established between the churches of England and Ireland
in doctrine and discipline which by that compact was to remain 1
in full force for ever." In the examination of the question then
before the House they had this great advantage, that they were not
to search for arguments in far distant and forgotten times—that
they had not to refer to proceedings and enactments which might be
imperfectly remembered or iudistinctly understood—but that
they had before them clear and distinct authority of rot more dis-
tant date than five-and-twenty years ; and he would call upon the
Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume) to compare that with his resolution
and judge for himself, if such a resolution could be passed
consistently wiih the solemn compact then referred to. If he would
but candidly and impartially institute a comparison between there- '
solutimi which he then submitted to the House, and the explicit
clause just read. He was unable to conceive how it could be pro
posed to the House so to break faith, far it could not, without an
absolute violation of the Act of Union, consent to there-solution of
the Honourable Gentleman ; it could not say that Parliament had
the right of dealing with the property of the church, so as to make
it available for public purpases. He did not lose sight of the sir.
eurnstance, that in the beginning of the Honourable Gentleman's
resolution it was stated. that the purposes of religion were those to
which that property might be applied; but at the same time it was
to be distinctly kept in view, that the latter part of that resolution
fairly acknowledged, that according to the discretion of Parliament
the property of the Church might be applied to any purposes sup-
posed to be expedient as well as to the purposes of religion. It' he
were to search for any standard to which he might refer an argu-
ment against the disturbance of any species of settled property, it
would be that of Ecclesiastical Corporations. If there was one ,
species of Interest more than another that should be held sacred, it
was that with which the Resolution of the Hon. Gentleman pro-
posed to tamper. The whole of his arguments proceeded as if no
such principle of sacredness had ever been established. He had
seemed to give a preference and superiority to the interests of indi-
viduals, taking a distinction between their title to property and that
of the Church, as if the latter were held by a tenure less valid and
secure. He heard with no little site rise the cheers of an lion.
Member opposite, connected with the Corporation of London at a
tune when the Hon. alember for Aberdeen had been using the
arguments to which he (51r. Canning) then adverted. Surely
one rule was not to apply to the Corporation of London and a dif-
ferent one to the Ecclesiastical Corporations. (Hear, hear.) If
Parliament se .e to a. ume the right of tampering with the property
of the Corporation of London—if Parliament were to come to the
resolution, that in a stilocauent Session the revenues of the City of
London should be applied to such public purposes as the exigencies
of the State might seem to require. he could assure the Hon. 31em-
b ir who had so cordially cheered the lien. Gent. opposite (Mr.
Hume) that he would long in vain to him (Mr. Canning) for tiny
assistance in protecting the rights of the Corporation.
[The Hon. Member to whom Mr. Canning alluded interrupted
him with an observation which was understood to be a disclaimer
of the sentiments imputed to him.l
He was glad to see him retract, anti thus early lay in his claim
to have the property of the Corporation preserved. The Hon.
Gentleman while proceeding with his confiscation would permit no
dangerous consequences to individuals—their rights were to re-
main untouched and sacred, while it became a matter of no im.
portance how ecclesiastical persons might be dealt with. He
trusted the House would not tolerate the argument, which assumed
that no respect was to be paid to the titles to property while it re-
mained in ecclesiastical hands ; as if the moment it fell to a lay
propriotary, it was to acquire a character of inviolability and sa-
crednexa---a character which was not to belong to it while it re-
mained connected with the parent stock from which it had been
violently torn. The Hon. Gentleman had contended that the re-
venues of the Church were in two points of view to be considered as
too large. They were, he said, too great in reference to the indivi.
duals by whom they were enjoyed, as well as to the population, for
whose religious instruction those revenues were appointed to pro-
vide. Whatever may have been the amount of the population for-
merly considered relatively to the revenues, it was not to be doubted
that at the time of the l,nion it approximated to the proportion
which that population and those revenues now bear to each other.
Would then the House, from such arguments as those, agree to a
resolution which would go to announce that in the next Session
they would proceed so a spoliation of the Protestant Church.
There was a property, the title to which had for ages been
considered inviolable, but the honourable Gentleman con-
sidered that he could derive a precedent for interfering with
it from the circumstance of its having been transferred from
the Roman Catholic to the Protestant Church. But was that
to be received as a case where the intention of the Legislature was
to v ork an improvement in the Church with whose prosperity it
had in that way interfered? Was there not on the contrary a dis-
tinct intention in the Legislature of that day to operate not im-
provement but subversion, and did the lion. Gentleman with ail
his plain speaking go the length of avowing his intention to de-
stroy the Protestant Church of Ireland Were these peaceable
and happy times to derive a precedent from that unhinged and tur.
bulent period in which that transfer was effected. And was the
rare emergency which had been referred to be recognised as a pre-
cedent fur every day legislation? He denied the alleged sacredness
of private property in opposition to Ecclesiastical, and saw no rea-
son why it should not be as freely interfered with for the purposes
of every Road or Canal Bill ; private property was dealt with as
the public interest might require. He would not travel after the
Hon. Gentleman duough the multifarious topics to which he had
thought proper to call the attention of the House ; but there was
one word which appeared to his mind singularly misapplied, viz.,
that Parliament should " resume" the property of the Church.
'Where had the Hon. Gentleman shown that the State had ever
at any time possession of it? In the whole course of his expe-
rience he had never heard of so monstrous a proposition, but he
was glad that the intention of it had been thus declared openly,
and he trusted that the lion. Gentleman would find that he had few
supporters in the House, and none in the country, and that the de.
vision of that night would teach him to abstain from tampering
with a subject calculated to excite uncertainty and alarm.
Sir F. BURDETT, being very generally called os by the
House, rose; he said the two grounds of opposition which the
Right Honourable Gentleman had taken had completely failed
him. He had set out with stating that the Resolution submitted
to the House was inconsistent with the Act of Union. He (Sir F.
Burdett) had attended as closely as he could to the article read,
and he conceived that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning)
was by no means borne out by it in his argument. His Hon.
Friend behind him had not proposed to interfere with any that
had been secured by the Act of mon—for it -.sari the religion, the
doctrines, and the discipline of the Church which was so to be se-
cured, and not its wealth. He could not be guilty of the indecency
of such a supposition. But, even supposing it were inconsistent
with the Act of Union, was it to be maintained that that statute
was incapable of repeal? If it worked for the mischief instead of
the welfare of the community, was it to be permitted to defeat its
own object ? As to the ides that the Catholics had any design
upon the revenues of the Church he rejected it altogether, aod con-
tended that their objects were of a different nature ; they claimed
but their rights. lie conceived that the property, both of indivi.
duals and of the Church, were under the controul of Parliament,
and were only to be regarded as Keened so long as any existing
tage.
disposition of them could be found conducive to the public advan-
I -Me. TRANT opposed the motion. Although the Hon. Mem-
ber for Abe/deco said there would be no peace in Ireland until the
Church property was diminished, be (11Ir. Teruo) entertained a far
different opinion; Indeed he thought the Hon. Member for Aber-
deen was too fond of touching every subject, °nine genus
(A Laugh.)
Mr, Alderman WOOD thanked the Right Hon. Gentleman
opposite (Mr. Canning) for having noticed him, lie assured him,
however, that he had mistaken the expreision of the Hon. Member
for Montrose which he (Mr. Ald. Vi'ood) cheered. It was the Hon.
Member's declaration of his sincerity that elicited the cheer.
(Hear, hear.) The worthy Alderman commented strongly on the
enormous revenues possessed by the Church of Ireland, and con-
cluded by giving the motion his supmv..
Mr. Secretary PEEL said that as he rested his opposition to the
motion on principle, he thought it right to say a few words. lie
contended that the Hon. Baronet had not in the slightest degree
shaken the arguments of his Right Hon. Friend, f alr..Canning—
(Hear, hear.) It had been objected to his Right Hon. Friend, that
he did not advance any thing against the second resolution that
night proposed ; the reason was, that having most satisfactorily
shown the impolicy of the first, bethought it unnecessary to go into
any details as to the second. The Hon. Baronet says there Is
nothing in that article of the Union just read to show that the
Church property of Ireland was protected by it. If that sr-
tide be not against any spoliation of the Church property, let
him read others, and he will find that they are expressly against it,
for the Act of the Union which regulates the Representative Peer.
age of Ireland provides that four Irish Bishops shall sit in each
Parliament, and the Act names all the Bishopricks. He therefore
claimed for the Act of the Union that it recognised the Clergy of
Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Besides, lie could not but remark on the
utter inconsistency of the lion. Baronet, who only a short time
since introduced a Bill into the House, the very preamble of which
sets forth the inviolability of the Church of Ireland, and provided
that that inviolability be established. , (Hear, hear.) After some
observations as to the Injustice of the proposed attack on the Church
property, the Right Honourable Gentleman went on to say that he
entirely concaved in the views taken by his Right Hon. Friend
(Mr. Canning.) If it were satisfactorily proved that any abuses at

present existed as to particular jurisdictions, such a. the Civil Bill
Court, he certainly had no wish to screen them. He thought the
speech of the Hon. Member for Montrose was intended rather as
an answer to the pamphlet of the Bishop of Limerick than for any
other purpose. rite Honourable Member fell into a great mis-
take when he supposed the Bishop of Linieriek meant to say
that he (Mr. Hume) aas a fit associate for Hone soil Clrlile.
What the pamphlet said was, •• that Members of that House de-
rived their information a. to the Church of Ireland from anony-
mous publications, which were more adapted to Om meridian
of Fleet-street and Ludgate-hill than to the benches of St.
Stephen's. or the pure air of Westminster." (A laugh.) I don't
know, said the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether, if lie had spent
this evening here, he would talk of the pure air of Westminster.
(A laugh.) One thing, however, is now certain, that he alluded
to the anonymous publications, and not to any particular gentlue
man. (Hear, hear.)
.Mr. BROUGHAM would confine himself tot few remarks, as
he was quite sure the subject was likely to tire the House, from the
length to which the discussion had already gone* he rose merely to
observe on the speech of the Right lion. (lentleman opposite (Mr. '
Canning) and to show that he did not differ from the principle of
his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume.) Where lie differed was with
respect to the first Resolution, and as to the inviolability of the
Church, and God forbid that he should say that the Church had
not rights, and that having rights wrong might not be done her by
an improper interference with them ; but he thought the manner of
dealing with church property. differed both in principle and practice
from an interference with private property, thear, hear), and there i
existed a wide difference between that peculiar kind of property '
and the property of an individual proprietor : the former species
was public, without any violation of the word, as it belonged
to a body of men not lass than than two thousand in num.
ber. Another and a practical difference between that and
private property was, that let a private individual do what he
might with his property. he eid not forfeit it—it attached to him— I
it travelled as it were about with him—it was inseparably united
with him—he might hell or make away with, parcel out, or dispose
of it in any mantic that pleased him (hear, hear), except he was pre.
vented by a settlement, which, Indeed, was no exception. for that
would be the act of an owner, and so far as it went proved his con-
trol over it. He might brqocath it cos, or it might ga to his
eldest son, or some connexion of his ; but who was connected with
the Parson of to4lay ? why. lie of to-morrow, and one who might
be his mortal enemy, and that was what the Right Honourable
(lentleman called the same thing as in private property. (Cheers.)
Was there any man who would not call it gross violation of property
and injustice, that a proprietor should lose his property, and give
it to John O'Nokes, and yet they said to the Parson that be artist
yield up his property to another who might be his most mortal
enemy, or to one who might, perhaps, not then be in rare, nor even
the marriage contracted from which he was to spring. (Hear, hear,
and a laugh.) The great difference between private and public
property was this, that the former was held without any conditions,
and that there was no obligation imposed on the possessor to per-
form any particular duty. Now, the Church property was held by
two thousand office-bearers, men who certainly were of great use to
the country. That he by no means intended to deny—what he in-
sisted on was, that their property was merely a consideration far
certain services to be by them performed. Those who called the
property of the Church private, might as well say that the pay of
the army was peeve property. The army was also a corporation
—aye, and a powerful one too—(hear, hear, and a laugh.!—far
more powerful than he wished, or thought consistent with the
i liberties of the country. (Hear, hear.) The State paid them,
and most certainly the State had a right to deal with that property
for its own purposes. (Hear, hear.) And new what had the State
done to that same Church property ? On former occasions,—he did
not allude to the time of Henry VIII. when the property was
transferred from one Church to another, but to, what had been done
in Scotland.--the tithes were crushed in the time of Charles 1.,
and vet lie never had heard that al onarch, who was the very head
of the Church. blamed for interfering with the tithes. Was tithe
never touched in Ireland ? What I WAS there not an Act passed in the
Irish Parliament against the tithe of agistment--an Act which was
intended to serve the large proprietor, and was a most unjust law
against the cottier ? Thellact was, that had not that law named,
the Union would never have been agreed to; but the Act of the
Union said not one word as to the property of die Church ; it was
merely to regulate its faith, government, and discipline. (Hear.)
There was no fear of the property • that they will hold fast enough.
(Hear, and a laugh.) If he knocked off a few Bishops, he would
do nothing but what there was a precedent for in Scotland, for by
the Act of the Union all heritable jurisdictions were reserved,
and yet these wereftubsequently done away with by an Act of
Parliament. The feudal constitutions were done away with, and
the Barons reduced to the level of common subjects. With such a
precedent he saw no reason why they might not meddle with the
property of the Irish Church. He was not disposed to rush blindly
into it, and attack it right and left (hear, hear); but that was no
reason why they should not inquire: inquiry was all he wanted.
The clergy were the stipendiaries of the State and, when the pro-
vision for them became too heavy a burthen, it must be lowered.
When he talked of lessening the income of the Church, he
was met by an argument as to the inviolability of property.
Now suppose the House were about to make an alteration
as to tithes, and that they could not get all the clergymen
to consent to it. Suppose that 1,909 agreed, and that one
held out against the alteration, then, most unquestionably, that
one was apoliated of his property ; and yet the very opposers of
those Resolutions would have no hesitation to legislate in the teeth
of that opposition, though, if their argument, derived from the non.
consent of the clergy, at present were gond for anything, it was as
strong in the ease of onetdissentient as of 2,009 It appeared, from
the statement of a writer, who styled himself by sonic such
name as Philo Justifier, that the church lands were worth 160,0001.
annually. He (Mr. Brougham) therefore thought it right that an
inquiry should take place. when such an inquiry was likely to
conciliate the Catholics, and not calculated to shake the stability of
the Protestant Church. All his lion. Friend wanted was to get in-
formation ; and how do the Bishops act ? They (said the Hon.
Gentleman) tell us that we are wrong as to the amount of church
prdperty, and yet they wont tell us what the amount is—they pre.
serves most persevering silence on that head : like the man in the
play, they keep always nodding, but never utter a syllable. (A
augh.) After some further obaervations, the Honourable Member
appealed tothe Soliciteelleneral, whether at present a rectory could
be unappropriated, unless provision were find made for the poor?
for formerly, the profits of the rectory were decided into four parts,
one of which meat ad
suslentationem paaprrurn ; but in Ireland
there no laws to provide for the poor, and therefore it was the more
necessary to inquire into the enormous revenues of the Church
Establishment. lie Honourable and Learned Gentleman pro-
ceeded to urge the necessity for such an inquiry, and concluded
with an earnest entreaty to the House to support the resolutions of
his Honourable Friend.

Mr. Sergeant ONSIAW opposed the resolutions.
Mr. HUME rose to reply, amidst cries of " Question." He
thought the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Canning) rather
ridiculed than answered his arguments.
The first Resolution was then put and negatived without •
division.

Mr. HUME then moved that this House will, early in the next
Session of Parliament, appoint a Committee to inquire into the
nature of Church Property in Ireland.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when
the numbers appeared—
For the motion - 37
Against it - 126
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Majority against the motion - —B9
Mr. BIONCE withdrew the Labourers• Wages Rill.
CUSTOJIS CONSOLIDATION BILL.
The Customs Consolidation Bill passed through a Committee,
and the Report was ordered to be received this day.
BUBBLE ACT.
The second reading of the Bubble Act was postponed till Thurs-
day next.
GLASS DUTIES BILL.

The Glass Duties Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Thunday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at One o'clock.

tiTAMPS ON NEWSPAPERS.
An Account of the Amotti777Z,ps for Newspapers, in the
Years 1814. 1815, 1816. 1817, 1818. 1819, 1829, 1821, 1822,
1823, and 1824, distinguishing the different years.

GREAT BRITAIN.

IRELAIfD.

a. d.
363,658 7 7
363,695 16 3i
367.505 18 0
363,204 9 4
367,738 16 4
384.140 16 4
440.228 2 4
414,369 15 4
398,673 7 8
411,171 1 8
426,231 16 4

4,330,898 7

£ s. d.

1.
19,080 0 2
20,417 0 4
21,406 18 11
22,1178 2 5
22,546 8 101
23,757 9 6.1
25.688 8 0
25,884 12 2

' 1

X 01,659 0 5

TOTAL.

X s. d.
383.838 7 7
183,695 16 31
367.304 18 0
362 364 9 6
388,154 16 8
403 347 14 3
463.106 4 9
436.916 4 21
422,630 17 2
436,859 9 8
432,116 8 6

7 7e

• In these Years there was no separate Account kept of tl
Amount of Newspaper Stamps issued is Ireland.
J. C. BERRIES.
Treasury Chambers, 31st May, 1825.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
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City of IVorcsater--Saturdry, July 16, at Worcester.
Staffordshire—Thursday, July 21, at Stafford.
Shropshire--Wednesday, July 27, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire—Monday, August 1, at Hereford.
Monmouthshire—Saturday. August 6, at 31onasoutb.
Gloucestershire—Wednesday, August 10, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester—Wednesday, August 10, at the City of
Gloucester.
IRISH CIRCUITS.
Iseinster—The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Johnson.
Home Circuit—Lord Norbury and the Chief Baron.
Connaught—Baron Smith and Justice Vendalntr.
North-Last—Baron ll`Clel/end and Mr, Justice Jebb.
North-West—Mr. Justice Moors and Jrdo, Sure*.
Munster—Baron Penner/idle; sod 3p. Aida worms,

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FOR TIC: BE.NEFIT OF MR. HORN.
This Evening. WEDNESDAY. June IS. will be performed
TIIR CASTLE OF ,11VDALUSIA.
Don Aiphonso, Mr. 'Woburn; Don Fernando, Mr. Horn; Don Cesar,
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conclude with MY UNCLE GAHM! L.
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.4 RE.T
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Billy Leekadoy, Mr. Liston; Laura, Madame Vestals.
After which,
A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING.
Colanal Freeloye, Mr. Vining; Lady F. Freelove, Madame Yestris.
To conclude with
YOUTH, LOVE, AND FOLLY.
Baron de Briancourt, Mr.Willlau;s; Floriniond, Mr.Vlnhillt Antoine,
Mr. M Okinson. Arinette, Mrs. Humby.

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ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
MR. MATHEWS AT HOME
FOR THE LAST NIGHT. THURSDAY, JUNE 16.
WITH HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
UNDER THE E•tPECIAI.' PATRONAGE OF lIIS MAJESTY.
The W hole of the splendid Entertainments, which so much delighted
the elegant Assemblage of Rank and Fashion on Monday Night, will
be Repeated This Evening, WEDNEADAY, June IS, with additional
brilliancy. The Gardens will he t superbly Illuminated, and the
Amusements will be in c.oastant succession from Eight till Twelve
o'Clock, u-hen the unrivalled Artist. Mr. D'Ernet, will exhibit a won-
derful Display of Fire Works, amidst whleh the Young Ameviegn will
Ascend and Descend the Tight Rope, surroanded by a novel and mag-
nificent blaze of fiery splendor.
Doors open at Seven.—Admission, 3s. 6d.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We won't' readily have given insertion to the Correspondence be-
tween the Secretary of the London flibernian Society and Mr.
()Tex NELL if it had not already appeared in another journal.
It is an indispensable condition of publicity through our columns
that we have the article in the fir,4 instance.

The Blol'lllll Pails commenced publishing yesterday morning
sit Si: o'Clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Jcwz 13, 1821.

The Paris Papers of Sunday contain as little news as
those of the preceding day. IVe subjoin some further
details of the successes of the Greeks.
The Parisians arc still fully occupied with public dis-
plays and processions in honour of the Coronation. The
KING anal Royal Family have visited the Opera and the
Theatre Francais. They were received, as it appears from
the journals, with great enthusiasm, and every passage in
the performances that could be construed into a compli-
mentary allusion to the illustrious visitors, was eagerly seized
and applauded by the audience.
. _

The Duke of NO 10IUMBEIII.AND'S fete was to take
place this day. The DAPPH a N and DAurntsEss and the
Duchess of BERRY would honour it with their presence.

It seems from all accounts that the project of the French
Minister for the reduction of the Five per Cents. has com-
pletely failed. Very few conversions have been made into
the Three per Cents. '1 he majority of the reeler, seem
determined to stand out against M. de VILLELE, notwith-
standing his threat of paying them off. The Etoile, in
order to account for the depression of the new Stock,
ascribes it to the lirge sales made by Dutch speculators,
who had, it would appear, been induced to purchase on
the expectation that the undertaking would be successful.
This explanation, however, instead of inspiring confi-
dence, is rather calculated to destroy what may remain.
The opinion of the most intelligent foreigners is clearly
against the financial operations of the French Government.
The paragraph we extract from the Floik refers appa-
rently to some atrocious crime originating in what that
Journal calls " liberal and philosophical fanaticism." The
whole statement is so vague and obscure, that we can only
gather from it that something has happened which the
Etoile supposes the Jesuits can turn to their advantage.
We shall be curious to know what this fact is, respecting
which the Etoile manifests so much exultation.

[From the Etoik, dated Monday, 13th June.)
PARIS, JUNE 12.
While theComstitutionnet in exclaiming against ever) which
it calla religious fanaticism, we every day see eram of a &natl.
clew whith is ninth more real, and much re gerom, viz.
liberal and philosophical fanaticism. Among other instances that
might be mentioned there is a recent one which the school of medi-
cine has trimmed, and the circumstances of which make one
shudder. As the teibunala have before them the details of this hor-
rible affair, we shall wok for the proceeding", which they will
insti-
tute pith their usual impartiality. We will net imitate our advet.


wiries, who lay hold without distinction of whatever may verve their
passions, and who do not fear to advarce the lathiest facts at the risk
of retracting them in the sequel.
IT en all the details. on which we shall at present be silent,
shall be known, it will h,: seen that the crime of &Odell we speak
has its Sou and incontestible cause in the effervescence exulted in
young heads by those perpetual thsciamatiq; of revolutionary your_
nals, which under the name of Jeauitsevery day attack religton and
its principles.
• AIADRID, AIAT 30.
The ofileial Gazette states that Ids .31a/ebty, out of friendship
for the King of France and the union betireen the two nations,
ordered Madrid to be illuminated yesterday crewing in honour
of the Colonntinn, and that the bells of Jall the Churches elmuld
be rung; happily the foie of St. Feridird and the King's birth-
-1 day are to-day ;we had, therefore% an uninterrupted werica•of re.
jottings.
1 . (From the Cemarir,e former of Sunday.]
!Carol.' DI ROMANIA. APRIL 28.
A few Arcadian shepherds. joined to the weak garrison of NaVn-
rii.o, alone held the Menem for fi!leen days, against more than four
thousand Egyptians. The enemy assaulted the place threetime.,
di
' &appalled by a good train of artillery, bu were repulsed with
considerable loss each time. During e fruitless attacks
Ibrahim Paella landed at Madan, with • forcemeat of three
1 thousand infantry and cikht hundred caved*. At his appear..
ante the besieged began to despair of holding out the place, when
a body of three thousand Peloponnesians, which the Government
had taken ore to send into the Saudi of the Mores, erne to
raise their courage. The enthusiasm became general, and victory:
was no longer doubted. On the 20th April the vanguard 6f the
Pacha was attacked by the Non of Mavromichalis, at three leagues
from Neocastron. and was immediately overthrown. The Tuto-
r news Greeks, without pursuing the flying enemy, contented them-
I selves with taking up their positions to expectation of the enemy.
On the 21st, the Egyptian army, its pavane blocked up by the
dead, the wounded, and the flying, encountered that of the Greeks,
I and • general engagement took place, about two o'clock in th a
' afternoon. The Paella's artillery, served by Christian officers,
suspended the victory for some time, but the Greeks gathering
courage, broke the African ranks, which had begun to give way,
proelnitned their victory, and pursued the enemy, now flying in the
greatest disorder, to 31odon. There Ibrahim Pacha, after having
lost half his troops and the whole of his artillery, is at preserit besi
sieged by sea and land, without a hope of being relieved.

The decisive victories of the Greeks by sea and land have
been confirmed by official despatches to the Deputies in
London, from the Provisional Government. The escape
of Irritants PACHA from the Mores, was absolutely cut
off by the destruction of the Egyptian fleet, and the supply
of provisions he expected from Candia for his subsistence.
had passed by an artifice of the garrison of Navarino Into
that fortress. Dowsers, with a Turkish force under his
command. had been defeated by Goy ItAS, to whom he had
subsequently surrendered, throwing himself on the mercy
of the Government he had so basely abandoned.
The Greeks have now only to walk strait onward in the
bright path before them. They have achieved the
glerious task of working out their independence. As to
any fears that some may entertain, lest the Emperor
ALFIANDEIt should confederate against her freeilorn, it
requires only to be well acquainted with the real Mate of
Russia to dismiss any apprehensions from that quailer_
Neither her commerce, her credit, or her finances, are its
a condition to prompt her to any efforts either of selfish-
ness or of chivalry to prostrate the recovered liberties of
Greece. Outwardly prominent and splendid as her des-
potism may be, the internal changes which are rapidly
going on in the heart of her own Empire, are sufficient to
give employment to all her resources, whether of substen.
tive oppression or of political prudence. Her immediate
interests are too urgent to permit her to follow the lead of
her ambition, were she even less destitute than she is of the
meaus of following it up. The whole Continent, quiet as
it is to all external appearance, is in a state of perilous ex-
citement-60 perilous indeed, as to mike any grand and
open attack upon the reviving principles of public free-
dom in any nation a matter of very dangerous experitnent.
The Cabinet of Peteraburgh is, of all the Cabinets of
Europe, perhaps, the least able to mould, by force, the
will of other nations to its purpose; those nho have a
near insight into the machinery of this colossal state, know
that it has quite enough to do to guard against the resulc
of its own self-destroying powers. It is justly remarked,.
by the Westminster Review, in an admirable article in its
first number, (January, 1824) on the Politics and Litera.•
cure of Russia, that

"The preponderance which Russia has obtained in European
poThics is derived, we have said. rather from the ignorance of other
Governments, than from the real strength of her own. Omnipotent
in her means of defence, she is feebleness itself beyond her own
borders. The war in the Marco demonstrate: her weakness ; for
if a mere handful of revolted GRESig, almost unarmed. and
wholly unassisted, have been enabled to establish their iudepen-
deuce against the Porte, the successful stand against Russia made
by the Mussulman Power, exhausted as it is, proves Itox smith per
and delusion have exaggerated slut Russian influence. Her power
neither results from the number of her inhabitants, jor from her
pecuniary resources, nor from the talents of her rultrs, nor from
the extent of her territory • but front her snowy and icy region,
which, though it is a wall of adamant against attack, she cannot
drag with her to the south for the purpose of attacking others. She
appears indeed a giant ; but it is only a giant of the mist, which
passes away before a penetrating vision or a rising sun. The closer
ker pretet.siona are examined, the valuer and the more presump-
Mous they will be found. Her finances are in a state of notorions
dilapidation. Abroad (i. e. in the distance) her security ranks on
the level with that of most of the continental nations ; and she ob.
tins on the English exchange from eighty to ninety pounds step.
ling of solid cash for one hundred ,-rounds worth of her paper pro.
miser, while in Russia (and where is the difference in the security P)
the great mass of her circulating medium, issued indeed without
controul, is at a discount of about seventy-five per cent. With this
disgraceful and depreciated paper currency her provinces are de-
luged ; it passes for about one. fourth of the value which it repro.
cents : yet so inefficient is the Government to carry its decrees into
genteel effect, that the introduction of this rag money has been sue-
reasfully resisted in many of the eastern governments, in which no-
thing but metals will be received. The whole character of the com-
merce of Russia affords the most striking exemplification of her po-
verty. All her foreign trade is carried on by the capital of strangers.
The shopkeeper purchases at a very long credit, while the (milks-
tor of produce is accustomed to be paid for it months before it is de-
livered to the exporting merchant ; on every side there is sacrifice
to be made by the Russian. Meanwhile exorbitant and ilt•ad-
justed duties have covered the country with adventurous smugglers
and defrauders of the revenue. What system can be conceived mole
ridiculous and more oppressive than that which is now established
in Russia, of making the weight of the taxed article the grade of
taxation ? so that the more coarse, or the less costly the nianufac.
ture, the higher is the duty enforced. The whole fiscal adminie.
tration presents such a mass of corruption and abuse as can euntely
be concerned ; it might be described in a few words as a system
which gives to every individual an interest in fraud, and destroys
every motive to honesty. Every custom-house officer, minted be-
yond measure in his salary, manages to spend twenty or thirty times
the amount of his wages ; a fee is the passport to every facility,
and there is no amount of dishonesty which way not be purchased
for a proportionate bribe.
In the eked and criminal tribunals—which are in fact little better
than the records of the decisions of individual, rresponsible, cor-
rupt, and military judges—injustice is dealt out in the most_pro-
!trite contempt of evidence, and perfect disregard to shame. Paul
--a-ho every now and then had a fit of benevolence upon him—
made an attempt to reform these abuses, by inviting the commu.
nication of any instance of wrong inflicted by the Courts. The im-
mensity of applications overwhelmed him with despair. He was
not the Hercules to clean the Aegean stable, and his successor still
less so; for it may safely be affirmed that there never was a period
in which justice was more openly, more habitually prostituted, than
during the reign of the magnanimous Alexander. And are not
these causes and proofs of weakness ? Heaven be thanked they
are. Rut let it not be forgotten--and this is the consideration
which we would press on our readers--that the influence and the
power which are only a vain usurpation and a delusion to-day,
may by criminal neglect and indifference become a reality and
fact to-morrow.
•

We think it is quite clear that a crusade against thy
Greeks is not very likely to be undertaken by the political
advisers of A L E I• ND E it, their forecast is much too rational,
and his own judgment too sound, to meditate any hostile
interference in that quarter. Let the Greeks but be
united—let them continue to manifest, as they have hither..
to done, their capacity for self-gorernment, and their
political advancement as a Christian Commonwealth will
be as conspicuous and cheering as the progressive degrada-
tion and decay of the Mahometan power over which they
have so gloriously triumphed.

Our silence yesterday as to the new Spanish Loan was, we
understand, misconstrued, or attempted to be misconstinetl
in some quarters on the Stock Exchange. We certainl♦
should not have asserted what we have published on tb 4