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BRIGHTON CAFENDISH DINNER.

lt was to be expected that Brighton, which
stands among the foremost of the towns of Sussex,
for independence of spirit, would at the present crisis
hail with joy the opportunity of displaying its at•
-techinret to those political principle* that • are at
once allied to loyalty and patriotism—priiietples
which eon alone resider the kingly office one of
love and veneration, end bestow substantial soil
itopartisl benefits on the country. Mr. Challes
Compton Cavendish has, under the auspices of has
Noble Hither, dined by invitation with Isrge hodurs
of freeholders in the most populous towns of the
roomy. Brighton took its turn on Thursday last.
when 200 persons, chiefly inhabitants, sot down to
an rseellent dinner. provided for the ta•cssion. at
the Old Ship Teveru, in cosijusiction with the Royal
York lintel.

K. 11. HURRT, Esq. presided. On the removal
of the cloth, and alter Non Noble Domino had
been given by tome professional Gentlemen pre-
sent, the Chairman rose, •nd prefaced the first
toast be was shoat to propose by allusions to the
private acts of munificence which distinguished wir
beloved Sovereign, mud its which the inhabitants of
Brighton bad so largely participated ; he was, there-
fore, coirvinced that it would be received with emu-
tims of heartfelt gratitude. Mr. Hurst then gave,
" King, and may Le never forget those principles
eh;, h placed hM family on the throne." it was rapturously
drunk with War times four."

Ti.e nest mast was—" The Queen and Royal
Family," will f..ur times four.
. .

heti followed —" The Navy and Army," with
three times three.

The CILIUM/1N role to propose the health or
Car

Mr. HURST observed, that lie could not sole-
(lovely describe the merits of the illustrious family
to which the object of his toast had the honour and
havpiriess to belong. The annals of our country
k...re attestation of those merits; and, in referring
to them, it was impossible that lie could be charged
leith flattery. History informed him that the House
cf. Cavendish had ever stood forward in the vindi-
cation of the rights of the people. At the period
if
_the Revolution the Earl of Devonshire was one
of the moss active in bringing about the glorious
cliange of system which had then become neces-
sary. At an earlier epoch, when the patriot, Rus-
.4% saffered, the House of Cavendish signalized
itself by it. exertions in favour of liberty. Never
clod it cease to oppose itself to despotism and op-
pression. Arid, up to the present moment, it has
- observed the same honourable and consistent course.
When, recently, the independence of this county
was onward, it generously came forward in its
Oefeirce. Aud though we had not the good
.. fortune Its Oat. 'lr. Cavendish in the situation
ai. our Representative in Parliament, yet we
' may most satisfactorily account for it on the
r,.,t is that the promises of many freeholders had
beeri obtained in favour of our opponents, before
Mr. Cavendish put forward his claims to their sup-
port. The worthy Chairman expressed his regret
that the present crisis should be pregnant with ire
stoners of political apostacy, several of which dis-
graced this county. The versatile might not, per-
. hip-, be pleased with the m tonous character of
them poliiical dinners; but be thought that this war
thew most honourable trait. Uniformity of semi-
merit respecting the Constitution almost necessarily
presi•rilped one set form of language—and *sato-
logy, therefore, in such a case, ought to be a sub-
j.,. of exultation. The worthy Chairman con-
• elud..ll by proposing—
.. The health of Mr. Csvendiab, the Candidate at the late
El, cowls for this county," and which was drunk with three
tom,. three.

.Jr. CAVENDISH begged to return his sincere
thanks for au honour, which he could not help i
thinking was beyond what lie deserved. lie would,
bui.uver, endeavour to ►ender himself worthy of
the high opinion which his friends at Brighton so
kindly entertained of his late conduct ; and would
feel proud iii availing himself, the first opportunity
that offe►ed, of their generous exertions to obtain
O. object of his ambition.
The CHAIRMAN robe to perform another most
plea-ing duty. After adverting to the distressed
tits" e of our agriculture, manufactures, and corn-
m.-rue, Mr. Hurst asked, whether those who had
all along strenuously and unceasingly opposed the
measures which produced this distressed state, were
out pre-emineartly entitled to the thanks of the
rummy ? Among the most prominent of this
noble and enlightened baud of patriots (observed
tie worthy Gentleman) is Lord George Cavendish.
It was to their efforts, and to the example which
thy inspired, that we way attribute the preserve-
thin of the liberties which► yet remain to us.—
Their aim bad been pure and consi►tent—the sup-
port of the just prerogatives of the Crown, and
tar maintenance of the rights of the people.—Al►.
flirt here condemned the measures pursued by
itie English Government at the eve of the French
Revolution, measures to which, in a great degree,
lie thought might be traced our present difticultie►.
ii (Idr. H.) was not so wedded to prejudice as to
he satisfied with nothing but a Vl'hig Admiuistra-
two. lie would sirprove of any Administrat►on that
should adopt a line of policy calculated to restore
the public prosperity, and to maintain the rank of
Britain in the scale of uatious, tie concluded by
proposing
" The health of ass of the staunchest patriots in the
country--tmrd George Ceveudieh,"
which was drunk u, the sti"st ruthusiustie manner,
with three times titter.
Lord GEORGE immediately rose, and thanked the
company fur su marked a oestiosony in favour of the
Trim-toles he deemed it his duty to espouse. He
assured them that he would steadily follow the
couri.e he had begun. While lie acknowledged the
spirit, the zeal, the energy, which they had display.
rd during the late strustgle, he could spot help ad-
;erns% to the cause which had produced that strug-
gle. The coslitiou formed by Mr. ITurrell and
Mt. Comers seas hostile tee the free exercise of their
elective franchise, and had the wound effect of
rousing every mind that valued freedom and bode.
penitence. the lesson taught those Gentlemen
would, he hoped, protect the county agaiu.t the re-
currence of such au evil. Should it. however, be
ottempted. be felt touvinced that the spirit they all
14!ssee.ed would peevesit its success. The free-
holders. should ever find him ready. The sisclepeo-
- dencivsl the county would. probably, it uo very
astiat 'veiled, be put to the test. lie die cot

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doubt lost that they wnuld persevere in the honour-
able path whirl, they had clumen. If they did per-
severe, he promised than siscress. " AU that I can
sap (i•linerved his Lordship) is, that you shelf ever
find use at my Imo, and that you may rely on tiny
most awl most active co-operation." llis
Lord.hip's address, which was tittered in the most
deliberate and emphatic turtmer, Was succeeded by
peals'''. applause.
The Chairman, after an eutogium to the
tratirreinlent talents of that immortal statesman,
and holding forth his public tirtues as a guide to
all modern aspires to senatorial fame and useful-
ness. iirn polled
" To she Memory or Charles James Fox."
'horn forliowril

" The Cause of Civil and Religious Liberty throughout
the Wurld"

Sir GoDFIEY WEBST/ta begged to !propose a
toast. The Hon. Baronet said, that he was one of
thrive who did themselves the honour, rod Mr.
Cavendish the justice, of supporting his interests at
the I,ste election contest, in a manner which they
conceived to be the most effectual tie emoting
success—it was by giving him plumliers. He
would therefore propose
" The 1,579 Plumper.," which wa■ drunk with the
greatest applause.
Major ALLEN, in proposing the health of Sir
God Irry \Vebste►, spoke in just terms of coniters-
dation of the worthy Baronet's conduct while in
Parliament. He described Sir Godfrey as having
done Isis utmost in stemming the torrent of curruiN.
lion, and upholding the liberties of the people.
The remembrance of those exertions was deeply ma►-
pressed upon the hearts of the freeholders of Sussex.
Thegallaist Major then gave—

" Sir Godfrey Webster,"
which was drunk with three times three, the hurras
bring most tremendous.
The Honourable Baronet returned thanks for
the very frietully, warm, and affectionate manner in
which his health had been drunk. In withdrawing
from the late contest, Sir Godrey declared himself
to have been actuated by motives rather of a public
than a private nature. It gave him pain to relinquish
an object of noble and laudable ambition; but he
only relinquished it from a conviction that the prin-
ciples which he represented would, in the contest
which threatened him, find a more able defender in
the person of Mr. Cavendish. That prudence had
Rome share in producing his determimeion to re.
sign, he readily acknowledged ; for lie held it to be
next to an impossibility fur a man who was not in-
dependent in his circumstances, while is. Parliaineot,
long to maintain hi. political integrity. It was,
therefore, a duty which he owed to the freeholders,
as well as a duty which he owed to himself, to take
the step he did. The worthy Baronet here, with a
sensibility honourable to Isis nature, described the
feelings of attachment be entertained for Brighton, it
was connected with the earliest recollections of his
infancy, and of that " happy period" (as Sir Graffiti
expressed it) which passes between, and combines
youth and manhood. At the last election the free-
holders of Brighton, by the most spontaneous amid
disinterested exertions in his behalf, gave the lie to
the declaration of Mr. Curties, that he no longer
held the same place iii their esteem. The worthy
Baronet informed the company of certain slander-
ous expressions which we understood him to im-
pute to one of the M.P.'s most conurcted with this
comity—some of those exprervions were we follow—
" that had Mr. Cavendish been elected it would
have been by the fag-ends of certain towns, sorb as
Brighton, IVorthing, Arundel, Horsham, Lewes,
Rye, &c. and " that nobody in future would look
on a purple and pink ribbon without thinking of the
mob of Brighton." Sir Godfrey strongly animad-
verted on the conduct of the two county Mem-
bers in the affair of the Civil List. ," If," said the
worthy Baronet " it were its my power to make Ali-
;listen; conform to any three demands I choose to make
of them, my first demand should be for economy,
my second should be economy, and my third should
be economy." The worthy Baronet saw no such'
spirit in the present Administration. Its late
conduct in opposing Lord Hamilton's motion
on the subject of the fifth Baron of Exchequer
in Scotland uniiihilated every hope of relief iii
that way. He saw nu end to taxation—no haven
into which the vessel of the State could be conduct-
ed by those now in possession of the helm. The
merchant,' were rilpidly falling into bankruptcy, the
farmers, sod manufacturers, were equally loud in
their complaints, and the whole country was filled
with discontent. It was no remedy to past flesh
penal !awe ; to cramp Englishmen's limbs, or to
stop their months. Lenient, conciliatory measures
were such only as were suited to their condition, and
which alone offered the slightest chance of effecting
an amendment of their affairs. It was too much to
designate theiit complainiugs, as the effectof "igno-
rant impatience," when every thing was taxed
that entered the mouth, covered the back, or that
the foot trod upon—light and mutton—the waters
on the earth, sod the waters tinder the earth—the
Val man's slice, and the ixior mast's salt—the
erlititie on the Judge's rube, and the rope that
hung the criminal—the brass oasts ou the coffins
of the dead, and the ribbatide which adorned the
bride—when almost every thing was taxed, which
we could hear, see, taste, swell, or feel. This
state of thisigs could not very long exist. It was
necessary that the Crown should change its ad-
visers if it would preserve the love mid respect
of the people. Anothkr subject the worthy
Baronet wished 'to allude to—that of Reform—
he had devoted considerable attention to it,
and, in consequence of that attention, lie had
disused his mind ; for before lie had consider-
ed it, he was a mortal enemy to it; whereas,
since he had done so, he was a complete stickler in
it. cause. There were many persons who availed
themselves of the argument, that rictus! represen-
tation is as good as actual representiou. Now he
would bring this argument to the test. He would
suppose u party of gcutlemeu, that had been en-
gaged in the pleaburesof the chase, to meet at a cer-
ium place fixed on to dine. Oat entering the room,
they unsold find a party of Radicals seated at the,
table rating the victuals prepared for thesis, and
their remosistisinces nanist suds an uourpatiou and
rubbery should • be 'Metered its this linistragi;,
Why, Gentlemen. tbis is a virtue/ disaster, we use
dining our you." Tlae •utild. IN a great measure,
apply to the present state rewards-
taboo. He was, however, for moderate Reform ;
lie would nut be and away by popular clamour, our
imposed upon by the seducing theories of political

visionaries. Universal suffrage, of society was con.
stituted in tt►u country, covld not be carried into
effect without dislocating its whole frame, and pro.
ducing insarelly and bloodshed. Nor was he friend-
ly to Amish,' Parliaments; though lie certainly
wished them shorter than they were et preterit, fur
frequent Parliaments offer an effectual check to
profligacy or cirtrroption on the past of the Minis-
ters.—(Lord appluerse.l
The Ctl&t•atstr introduced, with • just eels.
" The Doke of Norfolk• and the Illastrious House of
Howard."

I.rwil GEORGE CAVENDISH proposed--
" The health or the ialsabitauta, and proeperily to the
town of Brighton."

Alter which Ivere given—
" The Ladies George awl Catherine Cavendish, sad all
the Ladies.of that Illustrious Horse; and—The 1,887 Voters
fur Mr. Cavendish at the late Election."

These, as well as the former toasts, were drunk with
three time. three.

Major DALBIAC rose to propose • toast. He slid
not think that what had been lately said respecting
keg parses, was exactly in good taste. He recollect-
ed an anecdote of the great Athenian Orator, who,
from being a mighty declaimer in favour of liberty,
'suddenly became iii consequence of having
taken • bribe from the enemies of his country
it was during en important debate that this orator
was called upon, sod 'species' to speak in Isis
wonted style; best he pointed to hi. neck (from
which was suspended a gold chain), anstsand he was
hoarse—upon which it was observed, by one in the
secret, that he had become hoarse by swallowing gold
and silver the night before.—The Major gave—
" Whig principles without 7'4,y practice."
Sir (ioDPREY WEBSTER begged to draw • de-
duction from the anecdote related 'somewhat dif-
ferent, or rather, to make a comparison between the
Athenian Orator and some of our orators wider
similar circumstances. So far from snaking them
dumb, it made them speak, and not only SPEAR,
but belie their consciences and betray their comm.
tuents.—(Applause.)
The toasts that ensued were—
Colonel Portia, sad our friends who dined together at
Chichester we the Ist of May"--and " Major Dalbiae, and
our friends who dined together at Lewes us the llth of
May."
Major DALBIAC returned thanks in a most mos-
terly speech. The Major strongly animadverted on
the attacks made by the late coalition on the poli-
tical, moral, and religious character of Sir G. Web-
ster, whom to denounce as the abetter of treason
nod blasphemy, for the opposition he offered to the
late restrictive and unconstitutional measures of
Ministers, was, in fact, to stigmatize in the same
foul manner the whole body of the Whigs, who
were equally obnoxious to the said measures. The
Major.paid some handsome compliments to the
iug Cavendishes, and, in the language of a free-
man, eulogised the virtues of their ancestors. He
also took a brief but an enlightened review of the
circumstances in which the country is at present
placed—observing that lie was warranted by the
quantum of misery which existed, in drawing the
conclusion, that, in the administration of public
affairs, there was a versful departure from the woad
principles of legislation.
The health. of Mr. Hurst (the Chairman) and
Sir H. Blackman, were drunk, and these Gentle-
men severally returned thanks.
Those of Lord Robert Spencer and Earl Fitz-
william were also given, and, as well as those which
preceded, drunk with enthusiasm.
The last-mentioned toast called up Major Allen,
who, ass freeholder of the county of York, felt
pride in doing justice to the character of Earl
Fitzwilliam, whom he described as a loyal, upright,
high-minded, and patriotic Nobleman. The gal-
lant Major concluded by giving as a toast—" the
Ladies of Sasser."
The health of Major Allen was drunk with three
times three ; as well as the healths of the Gentle-
men who formed the Dinner Committee.
The health. of " Lady Webster"—" The Ladies of Brigh-
ton"—" Mr. H. Blitekatao'‘ (whose uaavoidable absence
was greatly lamentedj—and of " Mr. Crewel Pelham," were
severally drunk with three times three.
The last and parting toast was

" The purity of Election, mud may it never be smiled by
democratic violence on one band, nor by an overbeariun
pristocracy on the other."
Lord GBDROK CAVENDUM, Mr. CAVENDISH,
and Mr. Hoare, left the loom about twelve.—
Major DALBIAC then took the Choir, and. support..
ed by Sir GODFREY Winrranand Sir H. BLACK-
MAN, kept the company in high constitutional
order up to nearly two in the morning.

SPAIN AND FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY
_22.

The Spanish Government on the let of May
sent the following note to M. Laval Montmorency.
the French Ambassador at Aladrid:--

"The retest law, which rii.establisbes I. Frames moires
censorship over all periodical works, evidently places them
entirely at the disposal of Government; yet, fur all that,
several of them have not ceased to display • spirit no
hostile to Spain than inconsistent with the sentiments of the
age in which we live.
" The Spanish Government, equally strong in the glorious
adhesion of a people worthy of the liberty fur which they
are indebted to their King, and in its conscious recillaillef
the principles which direct it, despises, as they deserve %s he
despised those produetioas, at mos short-lived and vial,
of • faction which, affecting not to understand the admen.
tars of the political system established in their ow. mew
try, continues to feed itself with chimeras, sad, breathing ,
out impotent desires, incessantly prays for the resurrection
of superannuated inalitutioas, incompatiLle with the is.
telligence of the age. At the same time the Spanish .
Goverment cannot omit to call the attention of the
enlightened Cabinet of his Most Christian Majesty to the
wielaacholy results of seek culpable conduct, because it sees
clearly that the object is to spread every where disquietude,
fear, and distrust, by inventing stories of insurrection and dis-
oration, and by thus alsemiug Europe with the impious echo
of their mischievous predictions. No one is better able than
your Excellency, by the rank which you so worthily occupy,
to appreciate how much bad faith and imposture such writers
combine with the erroneous maxims of their polities. Tour
Excellency, who sees Spaiu present • great spectacle of pease
and concord, without any oilier alterations or difficulties
than such as mast necessarily be felt in • slight degree
in a numerous family which changes its plan of managing
its domestic affairs--your Excellency, who is • witness of the
sublime uniformity with which the Spanish people deelared
for the constitutional system, which promises them number-
less days of tranquillity and of happiness-7liter Excellency,
who doubtless observes with a penetrating eye the NOW,
tendency of our fundamental Saws, which, far from being the
product Of vain t heories,are derived fur the must part from our
ancient laws of Castile, consecrated by time snit esperiesoe,
and which are equally separated from despotism
and from the fury of a sad densocraer—your Excellency, iu
short, who doubtlearadenires the greatness of soul and the

KING CHARM U. Airman:l.—Hotslay at all the
Public OERem -

THE intrli Sit PRESS.

LON DON,
MONDAY, MAY eg, 1820.

Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday last
have arrived at our office. The High Court of
Peers has detennisied the preliminary questions
with regard to the trial of Looted, and of eighteen
'other persons, charged as being his accomplices.
Of these, seven are dismissed, as there existed with
respect to• them no trace of criminality ; six others
am dismissed for want of sufficient proof; and the
Whiter five are remitted to the discretion of the
ArrolxeyGENEalL. as sufficient cause might be
• found to proceed upshot them for other offences iu
'the inferior Courts, althoogh there was no ground
fur prosecuting them before the High Court .of
Peers. Louvet alone is put in a stale of atersatioa,
sod the commencement of his trial. is fixed for

Monday, the sth of June. This prisoner has since
this decree undergone u new examination.
The reading of essays on the law of elections
still continues iu the Chamber of Deputies, and
will probably be continued for some days larger.
M. Cuing', as King's Commissioner, defended the
project of law. In the course of his spied) be paid
a pretty compliment to the British constitution.
" Tire happy work," said he, " of time and for-
tune, the Euglish emanation is like Corinthian
brass; crested by chance amidst s mighty cantle-
grmiots, sad which no human artwuld imitate."
Sentence of death, by decapitation, was pro-

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nnuneed on Sandi, the morderrr or 'int/rive, on
the 18th inst. at Monbeim. He woe ordered fur
execution on the 20th.

The Gazette de France contains a paragraph
under the date of Corfu, April it 6, which maim
that ALE PACHA, of Albania. has finally remised
to resist the power or the PORTE, s.d itt% actually
assumed the title of Epirus. Is is added that be
is on good terms with the Greek., and has yawed
himself to be baptised.
The 5 per Cents. are 74r. 55 c. ; Bank
1,510 f.

Saturday morning the Carturtic, from Bengal, ani
the Marquis Wellesley, from Madru., fris-t-d up
Channel for the Downs. The por.ers, with (h.-
pitches, and three passengers, !antic(' at Port..
mouth.

The discussion on the State of the Nation, which
took place on Friday night in the House of Lard.,
was, we think, more eminently distinguished by the
tone of candour, moderation, rod practical wisdom it
displayed, that, any former debate on the same sub-
ject in either [louse of Parliament. It was not a
party contest, wherein the sentiments of the speakers
were distorted to attaio some particular port.nte, or
their ridings imbittered by political aiiimosnie•.
The speeches may be considered as the sincere re-
sult of a candid inquiry, in which it is bat justice
to the distinguished Noblemen engaged to believe
that the discovery of truth was their only object.
The character of those speeches was necessarily ili-
termined by the relative situation of the leadiiii4
speaker.. The Earl of LIVERPOOL having readc
and immediate recourse to official documents o.
direct his steps, proceeded upon grounds merele
practical ; while the Marquis of LANSDOWN, sith
a mind enriched by the splendid theories a 1.,
litical economy, considered it, the light of a
great moral science, developed the guiding poi,.
pies that ought to govern the conduct and pro-
mote the energies of a mighty countnetend
empire. His were the enlarged views of a
statesman moulding a system of government, of
which, in his own admirable word.. " Freedom Ma.t,
be the rule, and restriction the exception;" but the
Earl of LIVERPOOL, cautiously limitilig his rot.-
pect to the state of affairs as they now exist, cno-
sidered cosily how to preserve the milestone:au we
enjoy, without seeking to remove the difficiilties
and prejudices with which they are eticuinhered.
No man, however, better understands the to-
larged principles of national intercourse and of
foreign commerce, than does the Emil of heel:-
POOL; but with ■ singular perversity, big Natalia-
lion of the theory does not extend to reducing it
to practice. He trembles to touch an error, rivets
while he condemns it; and he argues as if the
error he condemns were eventually as profitable t••
a nation as the truth which he arms. toareneriee.
He was satisfied to shew the House of Lords, that
under the existing system so many advantages have
been enjoyed, that it is now quite imuecessary ru
alter it ; yet, in a few minutes after, he made
that remarkable confession, which must hove forci-
bly struck our readers, that 44 Great Britain had
risen to her present prosperity, not is conse9 (!i*
the iseseantile principles under which we have
hitherto lived, but is spite sf them." It is some-
what singular that when the Noble Lord, on hives-
tigating those principles of commerce in the-retire-
mein of his closet, arrived at this conclorion, and
when, as the terms of the admission imply, lie must
have felt that those principles, instead of formai; led
to good, essentially retarded the advancement of
our commercial prosperity, he did not iintneiltstelc
suspect that the prosperity we actually enjoy
to be attributed to certain circumstances hitherto
peculiar to this country, but on which, as in loner.%
of time they are likely to be exteruled to other
countries, it would in future he unwise to irril!.
From this would be derived, as a natural inference,
that in proportion as those circumstasici a erase to
operate to our exclusive adinintage, the errors of the
system ought to be corrected. It r. t hate
escaped the penetration of the Earl of. Lavaaeoot.
that England owes her advancemetit in arts arid
commerce beyond the other major,. of Europe in
the earlier establishaseut of political and civil
liberty. which encouraged individual industry
by affording security to loroperty, and also to
the protection afforded to, her people by lierhoppy
insular situation, which has secured her domestic
tranquillity from hostile violence. Unlike the
cystitis' of the Continent, and especially her once
great commercial rivals the States of the Nerfrei-
lauds, her iiidustly has not beet, iutersupted by
invasions, or by being often made the seat of 10111.
guinary and desolating oaf fare; but if civil liberty
and the rights or property Ise secured among the
nations of the Continent, and if peace contitiuts
to extend her protecting arms over the seats of coin-
. 'nerve and the scenes of industry. rival tuitions
then enjoy equal advantages with ourselses, and
the fate of our ostonmeree will depend snit ulna'
fortuitous circumstances, but upon the natural
operation of unforced commercial principles. It
is true that other nations hare adopted and put-
sue the erroneous notions of commercial into--
course which we have consecrated; but having
taught them to retaliate our errors upon ourselves,
we should uow begin to set them an example of
liberality and wisdom, which will eventfully be
resod war best policy. It aunt, buelesee. be elm"
sitlered a singular spectacle to see lit great country