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No. 5,23.---VoL. XI

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1818.

POLITICAL. DISQUISI'IION.

culty, and subject them to the vindictive machinations
of those who conceive themselves persecuted by the acts
of the Government Although disapproving of the man-
ner in which the Committee has been formed, yet have
we too high an opinion of some of the gentlemen com-
posing it, to doubt for a momentof their inclination and
ability to investigate the whole conduct of Ministers;
and we will give them credit for possessing spirit suf-
ficient to prompt them to an avowal of their discoveries
even should they sink in a minority.

It is mentioned as a grievous fault, that the evidence
before the Committee is furnished by those who are to be
tried; be it so, the industry of the opposite party is such,
that, although the Ministry may gain their Indemnity,
they will not go without an exposure. How far the ex-
posure mar lower them in the estimation of the Public,
it is not for us to r v; but after the narrafives with which
Messrs. Plitt and Co. amused their auditory at the
Crown and Anchor, we think they may safely trust
their cause to the good sense of their countrymen.
Mr. Bennet has announced the evidence in his mus-
session with great confidence as containing overwhelm-
ing fitcts against the Executive, but we repeat that it
is not a man like Mitchel, who was ciwa-,feep i.: all the
schemes of the disaffected that con furnish matter of
charge against those who imprisoned him. The Com-
mittee will well comider this, and the House will
consider, whether it is prudent to tes:cr the spirit of
disati-:ction by attempts to criminate the Niinistry, or
whether they will n-A render a greater service to the
community by-confirming those acts by wllivh the tran-
quillity of the Country was restored, even in less time
than the most sanguine had anticipated.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
Pmars, Fri. 9.—The Royal Clemency has been extended
to the 74 persons condemned by the Pre vote! Court of Lyons.
for participating in the seditious movements of the month of
June last. The 39 cendernned to a short imprisonnieLt have
received a tree pardon, and tile reishment elfin. remaining
35, who were condemned either to deportation or five years'
imprisonment and forced labour, bias hero mitigated Into an
imprisonment of a shorter duration, which carries along with
R nn mirk of infamy. ate
M. Rocca, whose marriage with Madame de Steel was net'
publishes till after the death of that celebrated woman, di-'l
lately at Hieres of a huge' in.. 4 disease with which he was
attacked several years ago. He was a member of the Legion
of Honour, and had served with distinction in several iraon•
paigns. He published two well-known works, one on the
wars of the French in Spain, and another, eutitied " The Cam-
paign of Antwerp and Waleberen."
TURKEY.
CONSTANT/110Pu,, 3C,4 3. —The Enstlish Ambassador to the
Porte, is -till at v.iiiance with the Divan, on lecontit 01' th.t
indernsiitier for the two forts of Picocsa and Uuitrintn. The
Porte always lays the blame on the Paella of Janina, and these
negncia im.x lead to new references,
The Russian Minister ha, at length had the conference'
with the lick Efrondi, which was fiv.d for the 11th of Deceit,.
her; one of the priuctptil points in debate is the reistilatiim of
the ind-ieniiies to :no risen by Turkey to Russia, according
to the tre:l:-.• of Eveharest, tlie final exeetttion of which is
still delayed. Strom.. represertatiens were also made re,.
pecting the comilaints whirl, the Si•rviens camtiiine ti• mak--
of the ill ti eat which the, suffer from the Tail Leib airt nt..
The Turkish Gorr ennient allydgrd i•i ramose the dial rutty of
wet ifyin3 the st.ttemetits of the I':.i. has, And of me fier iiot
Walwodes who accuse them. It wile or remembered that tro!
Governor of a Russian pert in tne Enxine stopped a Tn. ki•it
ealley, Dad forced the feeemaiiikr to t virago,: on boasd V/1,0
were tint MNltellterlllll. This act of vitnelice did nut call:tea*
initch sensation at Constaittlimple as tC44 ; the ills-
',me did not crow warns till some female Cireas.illos Wry's,
spoken of, who were also in the hands of the Tot Led' Cum.
inatelet, and the lawful poereesion of whims was rooteatts4
with him. At the end of this memorable coisti,rence. tau
brothers (Italians) were introduced in the metal form as lira,
goniads recently attached to the Russian Legation to this
Parle.