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the newspapers which affirmed that he possessed a fortune of 50
millions. The Prince auswered—' Slander will never cease to
-rain my actions; yet I dare challenge my bitterest enemies to
lay any thing to my charge in this respect. Nothing further
tould be found by me than the 6uini necessary to discharge the
daily expeuces of a house like mine. I possess no funds in Eng-
land, France, Italy, or Genoa ; and I can appeal to the Aler•
chants of those countries. I have employed the benefactions
which I have received from my Sovereign, in purchasing estates
in Spain, which every one knows, and winch have now beet;
taken from me by injustice and arbitrary power. having nuts
witnessed the horrid deeds which I foretold, 1 wish now tor no,
thing but peace and repose. The approbation and friendship of
Charles I V. are enough fur my conscience."
The following important document has been published here :
" By authority, travellers and the public are informed, that
all passports, and other instruments, issued by the Spanish Go.
verument in the name of Ferdinand the Seventh, since the i9th
ult. will not be acknowledged by French civil and military ()di-
cers."

SWEDEN.
GOTTENEURCH, MAY Me-The English expedition is ar-
rived, and all the ships. nearly MU sell, safe at anchor ; it is
said they w ill wait the dispositious of the King of Ssteche:. •
The remainder of the guu-boats and other vessels given up to
the Russians by the convention of Ssveaburg, is *aid to anionnt
to bet weep 2 and 300, which will furnish the means of tra
ing a great number of troops, mid place the capital (Stockholte)
in inioriqeut danger. It is reported, that some Euglish stiff of
war are going thither ; but it will be almost imposiible to pee-•
vent the Russians from ;owing over within the innumerable
rocks lying across the coast of liplaed.
--eameeee.
TURKEY!
BELGRADE, APRIL 11.—The hopes which had been termed
of seeing peace re-established between Russia and Turkey w th-
out a fresh effusion of human blued, are from day to day (Belie
nishiog, and all the disposition which we see, indicate the re-;
sumptioe of hostilities are very pear. Oti the l6th of el:kreli,
the 'Russian Counsellor of State Redotinikin, residing le thief;
city, received a courier front Bucharest, by sehein he learnt,
that since the the Porte refused to tweet! to Nu of the proposalsti
made by Russia, and to make the renunciatiou of Servia and the
other prov:nces reqaired of her, and the truce agreed quire
at Sloletja being about to tennipete ;it the end of ,parch,
hostilities should immediately recommence. IL. Rodotinkin
imparted this intelligence immediately te the Sereian Se-
nate, requiring that all thee necessary preparetiuns should
be made ie Servia, for the prompt opening of the cam-
;mien. The demand of the represemative of the Emperor
A ex:older was iestantly complied w ith, end the greatest
activity reigns at this instant- in all Service. Every- where
he troops are iu metion ; transports of artillery and am-
munition are met on all the roads, and great activity prevails
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the arseuals. The General in Chief, Czerni Georges, is IC-
turned to this city, from the journey he made to his eseite at To.
pela, where he resided but a short time after the review of his
troops. In order to facilitate the provisioning the fortresses of
Service, and that of the armies r ho ate :shout to enter the field,
the Senate bus passed a resoiution, prohibiting every kind of
exportation of cattle. We have since learnt from Wallachie,
that the head-quarters have been tsansferred again from fussy to
I Bucharest; that Prince Prowl.° wski has issued an order, indi-
cating sprach corps its destination, and the lieocrel under wheel
it is to be placed in the next campain.
[Here follow some ininete statemeiee concerning the pteitions
of the regiments.)
Intelligence from Bucharest informs us, that General Millo-
' radowitz has been appointed Commauder in Chief of the
Itus-
army iu Moldavia and Wallactia,• in toe place of Prince
Prosorow ki, who is obliged to return to Russia, in conseque.ce
f ill health.
BUCHAREST, APR IL 9.—The number of Russian temps in
Wallachia is increasing daily. AU the measures taken by the
Russians there resemble the act of taking posJession t ite Rus-
sian General Milloradowitz has just untitled to Inc Divan of
NVullacltia, that Prince Ypsilanti iv ill nave no further autho-
rity in those provinces ; and he has nontioated provisionally to
apply the place of this eutectic itospodar, a Committee of frier
principal Boyards.
ltappears that Prince Ypsilanti had been but an iostru- ent
ref which the It ue.ians e-ated themselves to establish Aleut

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power, and which they break as soon as they need no hiller.
Thi-i is the reward is hich the liospodar w ho invited the Russian'
Into the principality, receives for his attachment.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

The Cork Duty Bill, the Child Stealing Bill, and several pri-
♦ate Bills, were brought up from the Commons, and read a first
time.

TN EARL OF SUFFOLK observed, that on a former night he
had expressed a wish to know the amount of the Droits of the
Admiralty, which being now ascertained, he was satisfied on
that point ; but seeing a Cabinet Minister (Lord Camden) in the
House, he was anxious to be informed, whether Ministers in-
tended to comply with hi: second wish, namely, to communi-
cate the purposes to which so large a sum of money had been
applied. He conceived it of the utmost importance that the
public should he acquainted with the use to which those very
large sums had been converted ; if appropriated in a way bene-
ficial to the public, Ministers surely could not hesitate to ausw•ea
his question ; he hoped, therefore, to hear a satisfactory expla-
nation on this important subject.
No answer was given.—Adjourned.

TUESDAY, MAY 24.
THE INDICTMENT BILL.
A debate took place upon the Order of the Day for commit-
tit% the Indictment Bill.
LORD ERIIKINL objected to that part of the Bill which ova-
Wes the Attorney General, in ex-officio informations, to proceed
without personal notice to the party, and said it was calculated
to invade the rights and liberties of the subject ; and should
bad man fill the office of Attorney General,.might be converted
into a dreadful engine of oppression.
LORD Sr 4 vetorE said nu one could support the Bill ; in short
it was a " blasted" Bill, at it not only invaded the liberties of
the subject, but was peculiarly oppressive to that class of peo-
ple who most needed protection, namely, the destitute and
friendless.

Lchtn HOLLAND said, it was so infamous in its principle that
he should divide the House upon it.
A division then took. place, for going into a Committee, 15—
Against it, S.
Thu Bill was then committed, and the House adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, KAY 25.
The House met at two o'clock, and it was agreed that Coun-
sel Should be heard in the Banbury Peerage Cause on Tuesday
next.
Qn tbe motion of Lord Stanhope, the 3d reading of the Indict-
ment Bill was axed fur Monday next, and the House ordered
to be summoned.

Twelve private Bills were brought from the Commons; after
which Mr. Harrison was heard at the Bar on Major Bland's Di-
vorce Bil', and tli House adjourned.

TODRIMA it, rIAY 26.
The Rouse did not meet this day, it being Holy Thursday, or
Atcensioa Day.
FRIDAY, MAY 27.
THE CATHOLIC PETITION.
Loan GarrvriLLE ruse. iM pursuance of his notice, to move
that tare Petition from the Itotnan Catholics, recently presented
to the House, praying that the disabilities tinder which they
labour may be rentosed, May be fulls considered of in a Com-
mittee of the whole liou,e, and to that end he should first move,
that the l'etition itself be read. This was accordingly dune by
the proper Officer, and the boon prayed by the Catholics was,
t has they may be permitted, in common with the rest of his Majes-
ty's subjects, to fill the highest stations of the State, should they be
found deserving, limb with regard to the Military, Judicial, and
Political Departments of the Empire. His Lordship then pros
ceedcd ' -tiff •-e the (-lain. of the.)etitioners. Ile dwelt with
upon the propriety of Or present
tX the tli4er:tion. He said there wri:
patriotism of the Petitioner!, rind
hey required wdtald be the novaw of
the hearts and hands of ail his
tntdecti io one bond of uninq and

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, MAY 29.

MAY SO.

eon. ord. It would unite the cottage and the cabin v% ith the
palace and the mansion, and by dispensing the required boon to
tae more elevated, it would remove all cause of distrust :aid
dissatisfaction from the bosoms of the low staid indigeot. Many
of the disabilities had been removed, tinder which the Roman
Catholics had at one time laboured, and the beneficial e:lf-ei;, of
such conduct had long since been manifest. That the ltom,ot
• .:atnolies were deserving of that boon was apparent, or tits
.;overument would not have granted it. lf, then, they had
done nothing to forfeit that good opinion, it was flute the Par-
liament of the United Kingdom realized the promises it had
long since held out to them, and removed the further disabilities
undr which they laboured. It ‘s:iN 'line they ehjo)ed the .ante
political freedmq that others of hi, Maks') suhjects did. told
they were disposed to spill their last blood in defence of rite
British Constitution, it was but just they should enjo3 its We,-
sings in common witn their fellow-subjects. It', however, tits
Majesty's Government should not grant the required boon to its
full extent, he trusted sinuetaisig would be conceded, alai the
t'etitioncrs convinced that the British Government wet e not
wholly indifferent to their claims. Lis Lordship, after stating
teat the worst condition the !Conan Catholics could possibly be
„laced in under the British Constitution, was ten times better
tdan the most elevated station the rout of France could give
them, moved that the Peiition be referred to a Committee or
the vt hole Howe.

THE EARL or hfora4 considered the Catholics to be in a state
of oppression galling to their feclinas; they were made objects
of suspicion, in consequence of ielitotii prejudices. He situ
attached to the Established (:hatch 43 firmly as any man, but
he never would dotter the Church ‘l, ittssi it expressed opinion
contrary to the true interest of the Ildl iuit. Ate gave his sups
port to the measure.
Lorca llawlizsact.nr regretted the agitation of the Catholic
question at the present period, and he felt it his dot) to opoteie
it. In doing that, be wished it to be di,tinctlj tmtlerstooti that he
did not mean to charge the Catholics w ith the illitteral opinions-
that were generally imputed to them. The progress ot licieLce
and civilization bad now eradicated these opiiiima which had
proved so disgraceful to the votaries of the Catholic religion at
early periods of our history. lie should al wa%s feel it h:s ditty
to oppose the extension of a relid;ioti, which dcuied the suiire.
limey of the Sovereign, and tnalutained doctrines cohtrary to
what was enjoined by the laws of the laud. It was essential to
the existence of the British Constitution that the suhjei
‘ltjure the authority of all foreign power, and those %t tio main-
tained a contrary opinion could not reasonably cionplain ot the
laws that required it.
The House divided on the question. Non-contents 161. Colt-
tents 74.—Majority 87. Adjourm,(l till Molitta).

A new Writ was ordered to be issued for a Burgess to serve
for Ryegate, in the room of Lord Royston, dccea-cd.
Petitions were presented from the Chamber of Commerce ie.
Glasgow, from the county of Norfolk, front Colchester, fc,tin
the county of Sorry, and from time neighbourhood of Ituti:i4.l,
against the Distillation of Spirits from Sugar.
Mr. Lethbridge brought in Mr. Palmer's Annuity Bill, which
was read a first time, and was ordered to be read a second time
on Thursday, and printed.
Mr. Rose moved for leave to brinz in a Bill to prevent British
ships captured by the enemy, and afterwards purchased by Bri-
tish subjects, from being entitled to the privilege's of Britith
ships.—Leave granted.
The Orders of Council Amendment Bill, with respect to Gond,
Warehoused, was react a first, and orctered to be read a second
time on Wednesday, and printed.

RoMAN CA Tfin Lies.
Mr. Grattan presented a Petition tignell by a great cumber of
Catholics, praying to enjoy the saint• rights as ostlers of his Mal
jest V's subje( ts, which was laid on the table.
Mr. Montague Mathew presentee. a • in; ilar Petition froze the
Citholic lteeholders of the (-entity of '1 ipperarv, which wif
41.0 ordered to he laid 0,1 thc !loth Petitions were of
an enormous bulk, ai.ci acre of upwards of 100%000
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