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London, England, 1820-11-13 00:00:00

TH R CORTES.

The following are the paiticulars of the proposals
made by the Committees of Finaoce anti of Com-
merce, relative to the prohibition of foreign pro-
done and mantifactut re, in ronsegtor nee of the bases
,251 h and 29:11 of the general tariff :

, Article 1. The prohibition to import provisions of any
kind, whether liquids or dry, which is estahlisherl by the
societal tariffs, and by drciees of tine Curies, shall be re-
tained in the general tariff, sod shall be extended and ap-
ply to all such as our own dominions produce, in sufficient
quantity for consumption, without soy txeeptio■ to that
which is itientiontd is the 4th Article.
Artiek 2, la the same manner skill be retsioed sad ci•

IA)N DON,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1810.

The rejection of the Bill of Pains and Penalties
has occasioned au universal feeling of satisfaction
throughout every class of society, and even the few
who were influenced by the arguments, and still
inure by the personal authority of the Ministers,
to consider the QuEsti godly, do 110 t conceal the
pleasure they experience at the destruction of so
alarming a measure ; for they are aware that the
sense of the country was strongly opposed to it,
and that perseverance in elideavouring to carry it
into effect must have been attended with dan-
gerous consiapiencutt. Well hail it been for
the honour of the Crown and the character of the
Government had such a proceeding never been
instituted. • The disclaimers of the Ministers of the
Crown, asserting that the Bill was not contem-
plated as a measure of personal relief to the KING,
weir not fortunate enough to receive general cre-
dence, and throughout the whole trial the public
found it impossible to abstract the notion of the
KING in his individual character, appearing and
acting as a prosecutor for personal considerations,
leom his regal soil constitutional capacity, proceed-
ing against the QUEEN solely for the purposes of
public justice. The trial bore the semblance of a
p-rsonal dispute between their MAJESTIES-1:o-
-body could believe that any purpose of public
policy or expediency was contemplated, and the
opinion necessarily arose tirst the QUEEN was to be
degraded and divorced to gratify private enmity,
nr some other feeling not less discreditable. The
manner in which the Ministers of the Crown con-
ducted the prosecution undoubtedly seemed to
fivour this supposition. mud the public were alarmed
at seeing the whole power of the Government, the
influence of the Crown, and the authority of Par.
liniment, employed under the name of public justice
mud the pretended sanction of the country, to effect
so monstrous • purpose. The brutal itivecti yes
continually poured out by the Treasury writers

upon the OCEIC* pirulnaliy-ssetynduct at once so
dissgracrful to the individuals using it, so insulting
to the illustrious Princess and to her whole faintly,
and Po disreputable to the dnutter of the country
—alarmed whole they disgusted the nation, tor it
could not be believed that those penning, professedly
the minions of authority, would dare to utter ~unto
Ithela tsgaituft the QUEEN of the realsti.. bad they
not received Instructions, or at least perillismido fir
this purism, and it followed 110 a tie y coos?.
quence that where shill coarse ithaldry and inde-
cent Outrage, were directed rervonally aganot bpi
MA J some further object thaw one of a pa(iie
'nature waist contemplated. It is afive)s to he 14.:
110-111 ed that r Soweto-414086/0d 10 Ins petipto:7l
ratter appear before his *objects actuated by rev
weak UT ignoble possum, and those Miniotas are
iniworthy of his confidence, as they also forfat that
tof the cnutitty, who would stoop to preserve their
id tees iw tier Calomel Isy cause ming to fAutsase an
object which, rare if steamed, most lon some degree
euutprotruse his regal and persitmil 1.114410 t.
Nothing, we sie eetivtimet.i. bat S !inn euurictiot.
on the unutls of flo.unti.o.ny of the House of Loris,
that the autism astereil Io be laid before them be
Lhe Ministers of the Crown would hr fully proved,
ritual ever have iodated their Lordships to sanction
the investigation. They had reposed so triiveli con-
fitleroce in the discret um of the 2trinisteis of the
Clown, that they did not think it posse/111e that the
..... Ode N114.14..14 of the KING would brim;
1:11111140.0 /.0 serious against the Cans o-I of their
Snveirign, the Qin LEN of thes:• realms, unless sup-
pouted by tvideuce of unquestionable respectability.
What ii dnruce such a pre lotion of her 'AI A-
JESTY'd guilt, sailisequently confirmed I.y the Re-
pott of the Sictet Committee, WOll E1111'11181:,1 to
e‘tocise uI the judgment of Lordshipa,
we leave to the world to sletertunie. It is very pm-
halite that the Ministers of the Crown believed the
QUEEN to be guilty, but limy certainly cliopla3e.l
much credulity in reposing confidence nprm the
Aletensetil• of sod) I/Cfollllll as have been exhibited
during the late trial, without ailoloitig such mea-
sures us comitaim sense would Intro dictated to
ascertsin the credibility of such 1411 aloatidoti-d
mom as UEMONT, and such ruaissis ar MAJOCCIII,,
SACCIII, ItASTEI.t.t, aril the well-paid Captain
and Mate of the polacre. It is most extraorili-
Laity that they dui lid use the obvious precauo
tlOll of pinto.; *mite questions respecting ti
caniduct of the .11'tiocen., to the English Ladle.
and Gentlemen who had been 111 her house-
hold, and of whom it was so gratuitously
bunted that they had retired from her Royal Ifigh-
lics.'s service in couseireore of her glaring mid
etutorloo* alopriopriettes. The girt of the charge
crainit the QUEEN was, that her conduct was such
as hail injured the moral character of this countri.
Her alleged indecenewo. therefore, to hare thin el.
fart, LoUtwt bavr heed exhibited publicly, and to the
prratotce of persona capable of estimating Otte
popper character; yet it does not appear that
individuals of elevated rank were consulted con-
cerning this reproach to our country, nor were
any persons of respectability placed at the bar to
give el idetice of any levities or improprieties com-
mitted in the face of those distinguished circles in
which her Royal liligliness mimed, both in Ger-
many 51111 in !tidy, and of which we Junin not she
was, it. .lr. CANNING'S emphatic word., " the 1.1;,„
and grade. and ornament." A licentious chnitther.
maid, a discarded servant, and two Sicilian skippers
of douldful lionroay, me erected into 111, trihuual of
pawn. opinion. Their notions of propriety, no mat-
ter where funned or how instilled, form the critetion
whereby we are to measunt the conduct of a Prin-
ces., and in deference to tin er unbiassed judgment
the !bowie of Lord. was to decide that the Princess
of WALES had brought a reproach 11.1p011 the In:del
reputation of tier country !
The Nliiii•ters, however, noor have cause to la-
ment their credulity. Their conduct in this re-
spect cannot be justified ; for undoubtedly had
they made proper inquiries of persons whose rank
in life bad enaliled them to make observations upon
the conduct of the Princess of WA Ll 9, and who.,
integrity of character would give value to their
statements, the late proceedings Itsd never been in-
' stitoted. (lad tits Ministers imagined that after
a trial of more than two months they should be
reduced to rest their sole proof of guilt upon the
brlicf of Lieutenant I.lowNAst, that BERGAMI
had, as Chainherlatu to the QUERN. reposed fully
dressed on a sofa under the 114011i11g, 1111 the deck
of the pulacre, it is impassible to believe that
they would have ever subjtcted the QUEEN to
the indignity of a politic prosecution, or exposed
the country to the dasigerr of popular disaftectinli.
Their friends have indeed urged in extenuatimi th.t
the Nliiiisters were betrayed by th-ir agents. 7-;t.-
we believe to be true, but still thew appeai
a degree of credulity. not to be justified in a case
of such moment. The public, however, we at.
COll4'llll'4'll, will pardon them if they punish those
agents who led them into sn gremlin error.

Peri; Papers of Wednesday and Thursday last
have artived at our office. The Congress at Trop-
pau promises to be ex►remely brilliant. Alrestly
the Emperors of ItusstA and Aurrata, and the •
King of PRUSSIA, have arrived there with their re.
spective suites. l'hey have been joined by Am-
bansailori from the greeter Powers of Europe► and
by Ministers from most of the States of Gehnsuy,

and every day adds to the long list of distinguished
individuals who are drawn thither by business or
pleasure. The conferences will, it is thought, con-
tinue during the winter, but no intimation is given
in any of the continentol papers respecting their
nature or probable object. A hope is expressed
that they will contribute to the security of the peace
and tranquillity of Europe. Reports circulated in
Germany respecting certain secret negociations,
which were avid to have been carried on between
the Courts of Austria and Naples, are now declared
to he wholly without foundation.
The latest accounts from Naples are of the 24th
of October. TSey state that on the c2t241 Palermo
enjoyed perfect tranquillity. Precautions of the
most t tfcctual kind have been taken to preserve the
peace of tl:e city, for all the arms and ammuni-
tion that could he collected were sent from Paler-
mo to Napl.s. The proceedinga of the Committee
..tppointed at the request of General CHURCH to
investigate the charges preferred against that
officer, have been delayed in consequence of
the avowed incompetency of the Committee to
undertake the Investigation. The new expedition,
mtet. Gener.,l CuLterra, to Sicily, bad not sailed
so late the 14.11, in consequence of the severe
weather.
The elections of Deputies have taken place in

several departments of France. The results are of

1 such a nature as to gratify the ultra-royaliat jour-
nal+. We have ohverved that, for the greater part,
the Deiiiities who in their regular turn had vacated
their +eat+ have been re-elected.
1 The Frroch five per Ceuta. ure 77 1.5 c.—Bank
Stuck 1,356 f. 25 c.

A Fhindtri Mail arrived last night, with papers
from 8ra...1k to the II ih instant. The conferences
rat Ttoppate have commenced. The King of Paus-
S: A has !wen prevented f attending them by in-
tkpoNttion. Eli• AIAJESry is reprtztented the••• by
I~roson CROWN PRINtE. Letters of recent
rte from Trieste state, that the situation or ALI
l'AclIA tw not so tlt.sverate as it ha* been represent-
rd in the ItilioN palters.

lVe have received Papers to the 31st Oc-
tober, coeltittotissg the procet.thoz% in the Cones to
the ,2711) 1.1, extracts front WiliCh see given in
nnothrr pact of our Pieper.

A letter from the squadron under Vier-Arlmi►al
Sir GRAHAM MOORF: states, that the ships are to
continue in Naples Bay until the dtcision of the
Allied Sovereigns, to le declared in Congress at
'Fromm, as to the future political condition of
Naples, is made known.

We are :tssured that inure businesi has been done
in the Coo•: since Friday than for five months pre-
ceding. This apprehension excited in the public
iniild by she proceedings against the QUEEN, had
caused ni-orly a total sospemion of commercial ape-
(•ulutinn.

(ht Seiuub.y, nt two o'clock, a Cniiinet Council
was held ut the ForcitTii 01. vr, in Downing-atreet,
which sst till about half-past three.

YestPribie the Duke of YORK visited the KING,
:It Palace in Pall-mull. 011 Saturday his Itoval
Hialiness transacted military business with his MA-
JFSTY.

The LORD CtisticELLott Lad an audience of the
KING te•t•rdat'.
In the expectation of a change of Ministry elec.
lionrem lug Topics are agaio come in vogue through-
out this onunty.--(Susacx Paper.)
Letters of the 23d ult. from Naples, state that,
although whle's had arrived from Palermo tip to
the evenitig of the e I Nt, time citizens still remained
in ignorance or the rejection of General PEPE'S
Treaty by the Neapolitan Parliament on the 14th.

The tali!) Jementa, Caidmiu DANDY. arrived off
Plcuutttth en Wednesday. front Bomhi', the 1•Ie
4,! France, and Si. Ilelt am, bound to London. She
rmdrel frctti the isle of Fiance. 3d A egto.t. noel St.
Helen*. 2511, SPotember. BONAPAIITR was
The midasing, kosurio, mod Braze", were et
St. Ifeir.

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1t...t0r-Admiral Sr CUARLF.S ROWLEY. K.C.B.
hoii•ted 111 flag at Portsmouth au Saturday morn-
'mg on boerd the N.rolialle frigate, Caidain JOREPH
It. Row,,cy, sad expected to sad yesterday to lake
11:o colitnuilid at Jamaica.

The Conqueror wits peid off last week at Chat-
hap ; dies which the Ayers gave se dinner to
Cydr P14P.F214.• wan takers of their respect.
Deputy Cesorowery.General W tat vss goes pas.
merger to New Smith Wales in the liledway, which
is expected to rail from Port/mouth in a few days.
A Klima affray leek place at Folkstone on
'Wednesday sixht between a party of smugglers and
the men on the preventive service, during which re-
vers! of the latter were shot and eevarels wounded.
Yesterdor heior,
_tr the Griot' Sunday in Micluttlines
Term. the Loap MAYOR. accompanied by several
of OW Aldermen. Sheriffs, sod City Officer,. went
in prnersei.n to St. Paul's Catedrul, where they
Were met by the Judges, Sesjeouts, and many or
h is princtiAl Palliator. when an appropriate ter.
311018 was preached by his,Lordskip'sChaplain. At
the catielitsion of divine service they repaired to the
Mansion-House, where an entertainment. consist.
jog of »II the delicacies of the venoms, woo provided.
Oa Tuesday. Weald of October. Mr. Sexton
arrived at Wheeler. with aw Addrem from the lie.
foriorsa of Lancirsbire to Mr. HUNT. agreed to Nom
st. Peter's field, Manchester. on the !Gilt of Au.
;!"tit last, the anniversary of the day when, it is raid,
16 pei. 'elm were killed and 640 wounded. The
Address contained one hundred and seventeen than-
3akel seven hundred and seventy-six Raines ! The
niornitig the list trona Preston urriseil by the
mail, with fire thousand wore names ! the whale
being one hundred and twenty-two thousand seven
handfed and serentrsix signatures

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