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through the ennio.:•tent Minister; and when the pro-
posals for promotion are made out of the kingdom where
I have fixed my seindeticr, be will have the power to
grant the exercise of their COTOIIIIOOIII to Ensign.,
Lieutenants, sad Captains, till I issue my Royal sanction
for that purpose. Finally, I ordain that, in whatever part
of my United Kiugdons the said Marshal.Gcneral attached
to my Royal Person shall be, beyond the district of my im.
mediate jurisdiction, the Governors and fienerals most
afford whatever be may require for the knowledge of the
state, discipline, and ecouoray of the corps, or of the state
of the fortifications raisins', or siecessarr to he corrected or
increased. And I command all tits onthorit ire, both civil
or military, and all sr subjects of all dosses, as far as
it lies in their power, to obey and to assist the aforesaid
blarshal•General attached to my Royal Person, in the dis-
charge of the obligations mid authorities. which, by these
letters patent, I impose spun him, or with which I invest
him. (Signed and countersigned as usual).
Given July 29, Riu Jaseiro.

SAFE RETURN OF
THE NORTH POLAR EXPEDITION.

We congratulate our readers most cordially on
this anxiously-expected event having taken place at
last, and even when hope began to Wane. We are
informed that the ship Elizabeth, of Aberdeen,
which has just arrived. fell in with Lieutenants
Pa►ry and Seddon, in lat. 68. N. steering home-
ward, and they may be daily expected. The 'ex-
pedition had penetrated through Lancaster Sound
ab far us 115 degrees W.. nearly. we think. to the
mouth of the Coppermine River; further progress i n
that direction was impracticable,' but the nature of
the obstacle we have not learned. This much,
however, is settled, that the report of Captain Ross,
NB to the non-existence of a passage in Lancaster

Sound, is proved to be unfounded.
The last accounts of Lieut. FILIIIIIIMAND, who
conducted the Polar expedition of discovery by
land, stated, that he expected to reach the Copper-
mine river in September last.
The following account of the Discovery ships was
received yesterday morning at LLOYD'S

"ABERDEEN. OCTOBER e 9.

" A letter received this morning from the Efiza-
befh, of this port, from Daris's Straits, dated Strom-
oleos. 2611 i instant, advises her arrival there with the
Ellison, the former with 14 and the latter witl► 16
fish. The Ellison spoke the Heela and Griper
Discovery ships on their return, in lat. 68. long. 69.
nil well. an 4 was informed that they had wintered
iu lat. 75. long. 115."

THE lißlTiSii PRESS.

LON DON,
FRIDAY, Novelises 3, MO.

The debate was commenced yesterday in the
Hott-e of Lords upon the second reading of the
Bill of Poi.), and Penalties, by the LORD CHAN-
cELLoa, whose opinion was decidedly hostile to
the interests of the QUEEN. The speech of the
Noble arid Learned Lord deserves every conside-
ration, no less for his elevated rank in the State,
than for the estimation in which he is held for his
integrity and Lis high sense of justice. We are
quite assured that the Noble Lord, in giving ex-
pression to his sentiments respecting the Qvgett's
criminality, was fully convinced of the truth and
justice of his assertions; but as he has given to the
world the grounds of his opinion, he has submitted
his judgmea to the revissl of the public, who,
from the nature of his own arguments, will approve
or condemn the sentence lie has pronounced. In
considering the LORD CHANCELLOR.' judgment,
we contort discharge lions our minds that he did
not first obtain a knowledge of this case from the
charges as they were developed at the bar of the
House of Lords, and subsequently supported by
'evidence. 'He is one of the Ministers who had
previously dwelt upon the depositions of per-
sons hostile to the Qucest, taken ex perle. with-
out having been ever ernst-extunined, or even exa.
mined vice voce at the Council table, and who from
these depositions hail at length so thoroughly
imbued their minds witli an assurance of her
Ma.tisTt's criminality, that they felt themselves
entitled to punish her befcre any trial, and to de-
titmice her in the face of the world as un aban-
doned and licentious woman. Fully impressed, then,
as the LORD CHANCELLOR mast have been with a
seine of the QUZIN's guilt, could he he expected

to receive on the trial with doubt or jealousy any
evident, tending to establish her criminality. or
teel disposed to place confidence upon any testi-
twiny which went to refute his private imprrsisirris ?
We have already given the Lone CHAsictr.i.ott
eredi, for integrity of mind, but we should he pine-
.irg Imo fir superior to the common lot of mortality
.ere we to imagine that he entered upon the trial
ith a mind wholly devoid of all his previous know-

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e.,:nt ht hail by some 66 sweet obliviinis 'interline
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tuirt which be had suffered to find entrance
q,ere by other means than were afforded by
'lie widen received at the bra. Unconsciously
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Lord himself might this' pre-
tioos knowledge derived from sources which
'll4 ur " know Dot the purest, influence his
01411.1010• *ha , .ly .it becomes the more
necessary csistierlgf, • Me the grounds upon
whit+ he peoromes alaw founded his opiaiou.
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defleirm in ' ' 'led strelle selsh the I
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