The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The King's Speech, with which the present ses-
sion was opened, may be characterized as plair,
unpretending, and appropriate,fair in its state-
ments, and le•!s discouraging than others before it
have been, in so ftr as it is more entitled to credit
for the promises (being definite and moderate)
which it hold; out. The only two distinct pledges
contained in this communication of the intended
policy of Ministers, are of the most important
na-
tore. One relates to an extensive reform in the

administration of justice : the other recognizes the
obligation of practising the stric!est economy in
every department of the state, and :Inures the coun-
try that the King's Government has been enabled
to make considerable reductions in the public expcn-
diture, without impairing the efficiency of our mili-
tary cr naval establishments. If the position of the

empire be dwelt upon ever so assiduously, or er(:;r
so profoundly meditated, we do not apprehend that
it would be possible to imagine two arils, the gra-
vamina of which are felt with more severity, or the

remedies_for them more loudly called for, than the
burdens and delays of law, and the needless extra-
vagance of some of our public departments. There
is nothing unreal in such grievance•,• nor any thing
in the redress of them by the legitimate resources of
science end of parsimony, which will not command
the cordial approbation of all sober-minded men.
It is otherwise with your currency-projectors. Dis-
mal was their overthrow in the I louse of Lords oa

Thursday night, when the Duke of Wellington gave
them a glimmering of the utter contradiction brvw.era
his sentiments and those of Lord Stanhoije: The
amendment proposed by the latter Noble Earl went
only to recommend a Parliamentary inquiry irro the
state of the nation ; but the comment of his Lolei-

sYp on his own text disclosed pretty clearly what
that inquiry was destined to result an al-
teration in the currency. " We must have more
money" (i. e. paper), quoth:Lord Stanhope. "We
*hall:then be able to borrow ad libitum fmm the

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much
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euid
you have ? When the Bank restriction was in its ut-
most force, and paper in its highest glory, the Bank
of England, the country barks, and some small
amount of gold and silver, made up collectively the
sum of 64,000,0001. (paper) sterling; wheteas the
present circulation of die country (Jan. 1, 1830)
is, Bank of England, round :numbers, 20,000,000/.;
country bankers, 10,000,0001.; gold, in sovereigns
and half-sovereigns, 28,000,0001. or 29,000,000/. ;
silver, 7,000,0001.;—total, 65,000,000/." But the
paper circulation was seldom at a less discount
than ss. in the pound, or 25 per cent. The 64
millions, therefore, not convertible into gob!, would
not be worth more than 48 millions of the resent

eh ciliation, s'hich is not depreciated,—or, taking. it
the other way, the present 65 millions of 'net
(or convertible) currency would be equivelcnt to
86 millions of the paper medium of the halcr•on days
of Lord Stanhope! What, then, would the Noble
Earl have ? lie would have, in the words of the
Duke of Wellington, not an " extended but en un-
limited circulation, when any man might coin at no
expense, and lend on no security, anti borrow with-
out thinking about payment." There never• Ives
such a quiet knock-down blow administered to any
system of boisterous quackery, as this declaration of
the Noble Duke, against tampering with the coin of
the realm. We presume the currency•doctors wail
now take up some new and more promisime vocation.
It appears to us, from the proceedings of Thursday
night, that the opposition to Ministers is composed
of such inharmonious elements as to preclude tiny
reasonable chance of their combining to a common
ctr i. The Whig or Liberal speakers among the
Lords, who seemed suspicious of the Adinitewra,
don, rather than directly hostile, refused, with the
exception of the Earl of Caernarvon, to support
Lord Stanhope's address. Where such divisions
reign in the camp, no warlike operations on a great
or decisive scale are likely to be undertaken,
snitch less to prove successful. The effect of
Lord Stanhope's eloquence in the Lords s 5
to elicit a minority of nine, headed by an illus-
trious person, whose patronerce is doubtless u com-
pensation for paucity of numbers. The &bete in
the House of Common•, though it turned upon a
veiled distinction between a paragraph in the Ad-
eh•: se and the amendment of Sir E. Knatchbull, was
extremely interesting, (torn the opportunity which
it LaTorded to Alen:hers of expressing their opinions
on the state of the country, and to Ministers an oc-
casion of declaring their resolutions with respect to
the Insintsnance of the currency. We call the c11.,-
tinction a verbal one, because both the Addie,e
the amendment admitted the public distress, thong)!
:he letter stated the fact more broadly than the for-
mer. The supporters of the Address seemed us
much disposed as the supporters of the amendment
to admit, in their speeches, the general nature of the
pressure which they all deplored. Their opposition
to each other, therefore, lead no political object, and
the votes of the minority (had it been even larger
than it was) could have had no practical result. .tee
the amendment came from what is called the Toy
opposition, the liberal members who joined it ill the
vote, felt themselves obliged to disclaim ilia genteel
principles of their present associates, end to express
their reluctance to do any thing which might affect
the sability of the existing Administration ; while
several of those who voted for the Address would
have preferred the amendment, had they not been
afraid that they would have given a victory to its
supporters on questions of far greater importance
than the wording of an address. We recommend
to public attention the declaration made by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretary for
the Home Department, expressive of the dete,e
mistation of Government to admit no farther tame
peeing with the currency. The most important die-
closures of political feeling, made in the course of
the debate, were those of Mr. Huskiteon, who
seems at variance with his former colleagues aye
more questions then one; and of Lord Darlingtoo,
who, finding now, as he expressed it, " a Tory Ad-
ministration acting on Whig principles," has de-
serted the opposition► benches, and carried his
" Whig principles" to the other side of the House,
—Tones.

It was said of the late Mr. Pitt, by some person
who meant to pay the highest tribute of admiration
to his ready and graceful elocution, that he was
" the only man who could speak a King's Speech
off-hands" This would be rather equivocal praise
at the present day, when a King's Speech is about
one of the most bald, inelegant, and unmeaning
pieces of composition that is to be found in the
English langeage. The Speech of Thursday is,
especially, meagre is matter and'poor in composi-
tion; and, if it were not too well known that his
Majesty had as little. to do with preparing as with
delivering it, the impression which it is calculated
to make on public opinion would be extremely tin,
favourable to the taste, purity, arid correctness .of the
Royal style of elocution. But we do not. intend to
indidge in verbal criticism on this spemmen of the
literary accomplishments of the Cabinet—particu-
larly as the Attorney-General, who has shown him.
self so sensitive and exact a grammarian, might feel
it hi, duty to undertake an cflieial defence of the
composition against any depreciating remark, which,
no doubt, he would show to be clearly libellous, as
" tending to
bring the literary talents of his M.-
jesty's Ministers into contempt?' Let u', there-
fore, confine ourselves to what the Speech states cf
our domestic and foreign relations, and see how
far the words put in the mouth of a King are the
words of ti uth and soberness, and ho v far they ant
in unison with common reason and experieoce.—
The Speech states " his Majesty has seen wi!li
wtisfaction that the war between Russia and the,
Ottoman Porte has been brought to a rcor.elusion."
Does his Majesty then really see with satisfaction
the utter overthrow and pr, at a lon of his ancient
and Lithful ally by her ancien a rd invete ate eon me.
is the proud Sult;o1 suing for peace upon his knees . t
the gates of his deenceless capit.d, to the likoilhty
and niun phant Czar, a li:owe pleasing to the
Royal eye ? Suck was the conclusion of the ly,r

between Russia and the Ottoman Porte. Does it
make his Majesty's heart rejoice ?—We do not be-
lieve it. Had Turkey beaten back the invaders, or
had the conflict ended in a peace made upon some-
thing like equal terms, it might be a subject
.of con-
gratulation from the British King to the Parhameut.
llad Napoleon dictated his own terms of peace to
us at the gates of London, would not we consider
that any of " our allies," who alluded to such a con-
clusion of the war with France, indulged at our ex-
pence in a most bitter and sarcastic sneer The
tranquillity that follows conquest is not the sort of
peace that restores sovereignty to vanquished Kings,
or brings security and independence to their people.
Turkey is now humbled to the dust ; the Sultan
holds his sceptre at the sufferance of the conqueror.
The Czar has already boasted of his clemency, in
allowing him to reign as a tributary Prince. Similar
forbearance did Russ:a show to the Khan of Crimea ;
but her ambition proved, in the end, too strong for
the Councils of her moderation Vue viclis may now
be inscribed on the standard of the Prophet. It
floats over a disheartened people and a fallen empire.
Such is the result of the straggle of our ally which
the King of England is made to view with satisfac-
tion. It would have been, at least, more decent to
have alluded to the catastrophe of the Turkish war
as an " untoward event," which the Government of
England had not the means to avert, but which her
Monarch could not fail to deplore. Again, as to
Portugal, we are told " his Majesty has not yet
deemed it expedient to re-establish his Majesty's
.:inlomatic relations with the Kingdom of
Poitugal ;, but the embarrassments arising from
the continued interruption of those relations
increase his Majesty's desire to effect the
termination of so serious an evil." Why the
word expedient was used in this paragraph
instead of the word right, we cannot say, unless
from a confusion of ideas, for the whole passage
goes to show the expediency of renewing the diplo-
matic relations with Portugal, although his Majesty
has not thought it right or proper to do so. Ile
has subjected the country to embarrassments rather
than violate principle, and in this instance has
shown himself " too fund of the right to pursue the
expedient." But the purport of Lord Aberdeen's
speech last night went to prepare the country for a
new course of policy touching this matter, although
't his Majesty laments that he is unable to announce
the prospect of a reconciliation between the Princes
of the House of Braganza." The country will hear
with astonishment that the new course of policy
contemplates the recognition of Don Miguel by our
Government. This shows that right is at last to
be sacrificed to expediency, and the orthodox prin-
ciple of legitimacy, in defence of which so much
blood and treasure was wasted in the French war,
is to give way to the heresy of usurpation. Of little
moment, however, are the affairs of Portugal
compared with those of our own country, now la-
bouring under the pressure of the severest distress
that ever afflicted, in a time of profound peace, this
great empire. How does the Speech allude to this ?
In the following cold and apathetic terms :—" His
nijesty laments, that notwithstanding this indi-
Cation of active commerce, distress should prevail
among the Agricultural and Manufacturing classes
iu some parts of the United Kingdom." Now, we
are certain, from the well-known candour and gene-
rosity of his Majesty's disposition, that, if he were
pkaaonally in public to allude to the present dread-
ful arid alarming state of the country, he would
deliver himself in language more expressive of his
humane and kindly sympathies for the unhappy con-
dition of his affectionate and suffering people.—
r ning Herald.

We have this morning but a few words to be-
stow opon the proceedings of yesterday in the
Court of King's Bench. The proprietors of this
Journal were brought under the notice of the
Learned Judges, and all that could be urged in ag-
gravation, with much that was said in mitigation,
was heard with patience on the one hand and at-
tention on the other. It will be our duty to re-
vert to the subject at greater length than space or
iodination will, at the present moment, permit.
Thus much, however, we must now say—that if
ow Puke of Wellington had, as we have heard he
Jiad, any wish to listen to and conciliate public
opinion—if he desired to extricate himself from a
bad cause, and to act in a manner that would cor-
respond with Ins former fame—with justice, at least,
if not with moderation—there u as a Mephistopheles
at his elbow who pushed him on to evil, who
goaded him to his own—we will not say destruction
—and who will laugh to behold a better and an
abler man in a labyrinth from which there is hut one
pas-age--a plain :and a simple one certainly, but,
peihops, one not easily to be discovered. Sir
alatnes Scarlett, the Attorney-General, has proved
air insurissountable obstacle to the good intentions
end the good wishes of his master. He has gone
too far to recede, It is the curse of Ministers, we
presume, as well as of Kings, to be attended
" By slaves
" W ho take their humour for their bidding."
The I:,earned and Hon. Gentleman may scowl upon
;Ind scat at the free press of a free country—may
threaten what he is pleased to call its " licentious-
tress" with reform, according with his own
liberal judgment, and after his own enlightened
views—but a power that has grown with the growth
and strengthened with the strength of freedom, that
is at once the bulwark and the glory of Britain, shall
laugh him to scorn. Verily he will have his reward !
From him nothing is to be expected but the most
merciless rigour. He has established the character
he has been for years acquiring—that of being the
t. ”Icompromising enemy of the press ; and from the
depto of oar soul we avow that we bold ourselves to
hint indoth',ad for the attempts that have been made
—alas! almost successfully made—to aim a death-
blow at liberty tht,ou4ll the individual over whom
pitiful triumph of a
he had yesterday the ;7`)°r
speech that he knew must go forth without an an-
swer. From the tone and tenour of his reply—
assumed only, be it remembered, when he saw a
shad-Wad versary before him—from his ill-restrained
soreness, from the vindictive bitterness that curled
his lip, from his round assertions that a gaol in a
distant county was a more appropriate meed than
id gaol in town—and his gentle hints that all efforts
to convert " a hardened sinner" would be as foolish
as they must be useless—from him, and from the
advice he will give his superiors, we can look but
for the most relentless persecution—bur, God be
thanked ! we are out of his hands. The judges
who will determine our sentence are wise and just,
and, thetefore, merciful. For Sir James Scarlett a
day of reckoning will come ! —Morning, Journal.
The King's speech, and speeches of much greater
importance, will be found in those columns usually
devoted to such matters. We call attention in the,
first insta,ace to the address delivered in the name of
his Majesty to the Houses of Parliament, and we
simply usk the reader to favour it with a Balm pe-
rusal, and then say whether he thinks it such a
speech as the situation of affairs should have ex-
torted from the Ministers of the Crown. A great
portion of it consists of explanations relative to
foreign affairs, which, when closely viewed, mean
stothing, and even render more abstruse what they
pretend to explain. The contest between Russia
and Turkey, we are told, has been brought to a
conclusion, which may be true in one sense, without
at all assuring us that the terms of settlement are
adjusted, or that all fears of a speedy renewal of hos-
tilities are removed. The liberation of Greece, we are
informed, is completed; but not a word is said respect-
ing the contemplated sovereignty of Prince Leopold.
The differences between Don Pedro, Emperor of
Brazil, and his royal brother of Portugal, we are
informed, still exist, and that his Majesty, or rather
the I)uke of Wellington, is unable to announce the
pros/rec./ of a reconciliation between the Princcs of
the House of Braganza. The last piece of import-
ant information is worthy of notice by itself. It
amounts to this, that Don Miguel is not for the
present to be recognised. But what has Eng!and
ro do with these fraternal and domestic differences ?
Don Miguel i 3 King of Portugal. He is the Sove-
reign de facto, and as much the Monarch of Poi--

fugal as Nicholas is of Russia, or George the
Fourth is of Great Britain. There he is—King--
the Sovereign elected by the people—the chief
niagistrate by law—the ruler by force and by suf-
frage. It is, therefore. plain he ought to be recog-
nised. We of ►his country have no right to inquire
whether his right to the Crown of Portugal be or
he not admitted by the Emperor ofßrazil. His Impe-
rial Majesty has no right to interfere in the affairs
of Portugal. lie is an alien—a sovereign excluded
by his own constitutional laws from laying claim to
the crown of a foreign sate. He cannot be King
of Portugal and of Brazil at the same time. lle
has no right to assume the functions of an imperial
dictator. Hi, own subjects would restrain him from
aspiring to the crown of Portugal—and Portugal
would resist the claim even thou,h sanctioned by
Brazil. Why, therefore, this fastidiousness towards
our " ancient ally ?" What is to prevent England
from recognising Don Miguel ? The interests of
this country are materially involved by this procras-
tination of an imperious duty. We must eventually
recognise this de facto King; therefore, why defrr
it to our own injury ? But this portion of the royal
address sinks into insignificance when compared
with that which concerns the trade and manufac-
tures of our own country. The following will speak
for itself :

" His Majesty commands us to inform you that the
export in the last year, of British produce and manufac-
tures, has exceeded that of any former year.
" His Majesty laments that, notwithstanding this in-
dication of active commerce, distress should prevail among
the agricultural and manufacturing classes in some parts
of the United Kingdom.
" It would he most gratifying to the paternal feelings
of his Majesty to be enabled to propose, for your considera-
tion, measures calculated to remove the difficulties of any
portion of his subj,cts, and, at the same time, compatible
with the general and permanent interests cf his people.
" It is from a deep solicitude for those interests that his
Majesty is impressed with the necessity of acting with ex-
treme caution, in reference to this important subject. His
Majesty feels assured that you will concur with him in as-
sgning its due weight to the effect of unfavourable seasons,
and to the operation of other causes, which are beyond the
reach of legislative controul or remedy."

It is really distressing to see such nauseous trash
—such contemptible nonsense—such unpardonable
misrepresentations—put in the mouth of our revered
Sovereign. The exports of the last year have ex-
ceeded we are told, those of any former year, and
this fact is considered an "indication of active com-
merce !" What a :mph must the man he who
writes this ? What signifies the amount of our ex-
ports if they do not raise profits or benefit the ma-
nufacturing classes? What is it to us but a proof
of decay, if we send twenty hales of cotton twist for
ten tons of corn, instead of ten bales of twist for
ten tons of corn, as we did formerly ? What is it
to us if we are compelled, as is the fact, to send a
thousand yards of calico for one barrel of tallow, in-
stead of a hundred yards for the same quantity of
grease ? Is it not clear that these increased exports,
although they may indicate "active commerce,"
also indicate cheapness and increasing pauperism ?
The secret of the evil lies in the exchange of these
exports, and every practical man knows that our
returns for these exports, for the last unhappy
twelvemonths, have not averaged Gs. Bd. per pound
of the prime cost of the exports. And yet these
lasses are made a boast of by ignorant Ministers,
who thus attempt to impose upon the country, and
represent the intellect of the mercantile classes to
be as low as their own ! It is, however, modestly
admitted that distress prevails in some parts of the
United Kingdom, and that this partial distress has
been created by unfavourable seasons, and by causes
beyond the reach of legislative controul. It is, we
say again, truly lamentable to see such revolting
nonsense, and such palpable fallacies, published in
the name of the most generous and intelligent gen-
tleman in England. Were we not told by all the
hirelings of the Treasury that the harvest of last
year was a most abundant one—that the corn crop
was above an average one—that hay and straw
grew to excess—that apples were plentiful to
satiety—that potatoes were so prolific and numerous
that they could scarcely be dog by the labourers—
and that Providence was kind beyond example ?
Aye, all this we were told to suit a purpose; but
now it turns out that the " slaves " deceived us, that
their boasted plenty was a delusion, and that all our
misfortunes have originated in a deficient harvest. Is
not this enough to make any ran squeamish ? Ibid.

The discussions in the two Houses on Thursday
night and last night, on the Report of the Address,
threw considerable light on the views and feelings
of parties. The exhibition has been precisely such
as will generally be witnessed in an assembly of men
who are not in regular harness for and against an
Administration. The Duke of Wellington's policy
is to break down all parties, and to trust for support
to Parliament generally. The period is singularly
favourable for this policy, for long before the death
of Lord Liverpool the two great parties existed
rather from recollections than from substantive dif-
ferences of opinion ; and the late grumblings of old
Ministerialists and old Oppositionists in the Cabi-
net put an end in a great measure to any remain-
ing distinction from habit. The Duke, too, has,
by emancipating the Catholics, destroyed the
grand redoubt, behind which the fanaticism and bi-
gotry of the country could always rally in masses, and
from which no Administration could consider itself
safe. Another important circumstance favourable
to his plan is, the state of the country. So long as
he goes steadily forward, disregarding the intarests
of separate classes, the possessors of Parliamentary
interest will not dare, at such a juncture as the
present, to take upon themselves the responsibility
of combining to impede the Government. The
danger to which he may he occasionally exposed, of
unions of different classes of individuals on particu-
lar points, we consider no detriment to him in the
main. Were he in possession of a regular Parlia-
mentary majority, commanded by the never-failing
means, he would be under the necessity of carrying
through all measures proposed by him. Now a
Minister may sometimes he under the necessity
of proposing measures to gratify particular in-
dividuals, or in compliance with some peculiar
influence, which it would not be for his interest
to early, though, by having the command of
a servile majority, be might be obliged to
make tile attempt; but with an independent Par-
liament, an occasional defeat of this kind is of bene-
fit rather than otherwise, as it strengthens the
hands of the Minister in a particular quarter, and
supplies him with a valid argument for being fir
whera ha ought. With every evil there is generally
some good mixed up; and this good we have from
the extent of our embarrass:petits, that a Minister
who dares to set his face against profligate expendi-
ture, whether at Court or elsewhere, has less to
fear the being supplanted than would be the case
under more vaisperous circumstances. Such is the
power of doing evil which. our Constitution allows,
that so long as there is the possibility of wringing
from the people the means of supporting praifli-
Racy, that no Minister, if ever so virtuously in-
clined, could hold out against the force which
would be brought to bear against him. But
times are changed; and we ace strongly disposed
to believe that the policy of the Duke is the one
which is beat suited to them. It is not the fashion
in this country to make the King's Speeches the
vehicle of any positive information, and it has even
been maintained by first-rate men (the late Mr.
Canning far
instance), that they are bad in the
ratio in which they approximate to meaning, as
unanimity in the Address can only be secured by
the Speeches containing nothing that can by possi-
bility lead to a debate. A King's Speech is sup•
posed to be something like a grace before dinner, a
piece of traditional formality, and nothing more.
The present Speech has been a good deal carped
at, chiefly, we suspect, because it contained more
meaning than usual, for it conveyed a tolerably
decided intimation that Ministers are determined
not to alleviate the distress of A at the ex-
' pence of B, nor to sacrifice the general interest
by measures calculated to advance that of par-
. Ocular classes. Thus, tile positive part of the
• I Speech called forth an opposition on Thursday

night from those in the two Houses who either
wish to rob Peter to pay Paul, or who wish to
enrich particular classes by the policy of restrictions
and monopoly. The fate of the Amendments
moved in the two Houses was very different. Lad
Stanhope, in the House of Lords, took such high
'round, that there divided with him only nine
;rgainst seventy-one, and the nine were strangely
assorted :—The Dukes of Cumberland, Richmond,
and Newcastle, Earls Stanhope, Winchelsea, Rad-
nor, and Carnarvon, and Barons Rivera and North-
wich. But the Amendment in the Commons
enabled all those whose consciences allowed them
to be nice, and those who, like Mr. Huskisson,
seemed, though at a loss for substantive grounds
of difference, to be lookiug out for a pretext fur
appearing to differ, to swell the minority. Mr. Hus-
kisson thought the distress was more correctly stated
in Sir E. Knutclibull's Amendment than in the
Address, and entertained this opinion, whatever
his wishes and feelings might be, however desirous
he might be in other respects to abstain from such
a course, he felt himself no longer at liberty to con-
sult those wishes and feelings, but was compelled
to prefer that description of the condition of the
country which appeared to him the most accurate.
l Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the other
hand, knew not to what object any individual could
be looking, who should give the Amendment his
support. But Mr. Huskisson knows the difference
between the South and South-west side, as well as
any one; ard we may be sure, if his conscience is
so scrupulous as to refuse to lend it to the less per-
feet of two descriptions, it will be equally vigilant cn
still more important occasions ; and we may infer
from this indication, that though Ministers have ex-
pressed themselves determined not to abandon free
trade, and not to alter the standard of value, he
will exhibit towards them that sort of love which
manifests itself in chastening the object of the love.
But how distress should be universal under the
system of the Right Hon. Gentleman himself, is
a point which it was more incumbent on him than
any other person to elucidate. The numbers who
supported the Amendment were 105, and amongst
them were many %N• hose opinions were much more in
unson with those of Ministers than with those of the
Mover. Twenty-eight of the old Opposition supported
• the Address. In fact the divisions were of no im-
port one way or another. The most formidable
opposition to Ministers will, we think, proceed from
Mr. Huskisson's party. Mr. Huskisson, Lord
Palmerston, and Mr. Charles Grant, are necessarily
better acquainted with the vulnerable points of
Ministers than any of the old Opposition. On
Thursday night Lord Holland pressed Lord Aber-
deen hard with respect to our goings on in the case
of Portugal, which we fear will turn out to have
been anythilsg but reputable; but the facts are not
sufficiently before the public. But last night Lord
Palmerston convicted Ministers on their own con-
fession of what we cannot help considering as most
dishonourable. " There was one subject," said his
Lordship, " which was not fit for discussion that
evening ; but as he would not advert to it on ano-
ther occasion, he would say a few word then—he
meant the recent invasion of the territory of
Mexico by the Spanish expedition from Cuba.
This expedition sailed lately, but it was several
years in a course of preparation. The Govern-
ment of Mexico wished to anticipate the at-
tack of Spain by a previous descent on Cuba.
But England told Mexico that she would not con-
sent to permit them to make the attack. He said,
if it was so—if Mexico, by the interference of Eng-
land between Spain and her Colonies, was prevented
from taking a step to keep off an evil that was
coming on her people, it was a most unfair pro-
ceeding. Government ought never to have begun
on the principle of non-interference, or they should
carry it fairly and impartially through. When they
said to Mexico you shall not attack Cuba, they
should also have said to Spain, you shall not attack
Mexico." Mr. Peel's answer was most unsatisfac-
tory. " Did the Noble Lord 19ot understand that
there might be some circumstances of so peculiar,
and some circumstances of such overwhelming im-
portance with regard to the connections and rela-
tions of England with the isle of Cuba, as to justify
a great departure from the rules which governed
other portions of her policy, and not to be defended
on general principles ?" What these circum-
stances were Sir Joseph Yorke let out—namely,
that had the invasion of Cuba not been prevented,
the island would at that hour have been in the pos-
session of the United States, and the President
Jackson. And this is neutrality. We fear there is
but too much truth for the reputation we have
abroad of bad faith. We must delay noticing the
change of opinion of Sir F. Burdett of the Duke of
Wellington, so lately the object of his profound ad-
miration, to another day.—Morning Clt rowde.

THE ADDRESS.

LIST OF THE MINORITY
ON SIR EDWARD KNATOIIBULCS ANIENDMENT.—FED. 4.
Peachy, General
Protheroe, Ed.
Russell, Lord John
Rice, T. S.
Robarts, A. NV.
Riekford, W.
Robinson, George
Sefton, Earl of
Scott, Hon.
Smith, S.
Smith, Abel
*Smith, Hon. R.
Stanley, Hon. E. G.
*Sebright, Sir John
Sadler, 31. T.
Trant, W. IL
Thomson, C. P.
*Trevor, Hon. It.
Tynte, C. K.
Tennyson, C.
Uxbridge, Earl of
•r Vivian, Sir R. R.
*Wodehouse, E.
Warrender, Rt. Hu.
Sir G.
Wall, C. B.
Wyvill, M.
Wood, Alderman
Wood, C.
Wetherell, Sir C.
Wells, J.
*Westenra, Hon. R.
*Whitbread, W. H.
*Western, C. C.
Wilson, Sir R. T.
Waithman, Ald.

Althorp, Viscount
Attwood, M.
Plandford, Marquis
Beaumont, T. W.
Baring, Sir 'l'.
'Brownlow, C.
*Bastard, E. I'.
Burdett, Sir Francis'
a Bankes, H.
Banker, W.
Bernal,
Bright, H.
Bentinck, Lord G.
Brougham, Henry
Baring, I'.
Cripps, J.
',Calvert, N.
Calvert, C.
Cavendish, W.
Clinton, F.
Canning, ltt. Hon. S.
Carter, J. Bonham '
Dawkins, H.
'►Duncombe, Hn.W.
buncombe, 'P.
Davenport, E.
Dick, (juintin
Denison, J. E.
Encombe, Lord '
oFergusson, B. C.
Fazakerley, J. N.
Eyler, T. B.
.Fane, J.
.Grant, Ht. Hun. C.
Grant, It.
Gascoyne, Gen.

Of the 28 Oppo!
dress, we have the
Barclay, C.
Blake, Sir F.
Buxton, T. F.
Cradock, Col.
I)awson, A.
Easthope, J.
Fitzgerald,ltt.Hn.M.
llobhouse, J. C.
Hotham, Lord

Gordon, It.
Guest, J. J.
.Graham, Sir J. G.
Howard, Henry
Harvey, I). W.
.Heatheote, Sir W.
Huskisson, Rt. Hen.
Inglis, Sir R. H.
,Knatclibull, Sir E.
Kemp, T. R.
I.King, Hon. G.
Lam!), Hon. G.
Lushington, Dr.
Labouchere, H.
Lester, B.
Langston, J. H.
Nlarjoribanks, S. I
Mrrdonald, Sir J.
(Morpeth, Viscount
*.Mundy, F.
Macintosh, Rt. lion.

Sir J.
* Marshall, J.
Maberly, J.
Normanby, Viscount
Norton, G.
*Osborne' Lord F.
.O'Connell, D.
Ord, W.
*Palmer, It.
*Pallir.er, C. N.
Palmer, C. F.
Palmerston, Visc.
Phillimore, Dr.

* County Members.

sition Members whc
names of 25
Flowick, "Lord
Hume, J.
Lumley, J. S.
Marshall, W.
Mildmay, I'. St. John
Mond:, .1. 11,
Parnell, Sir H.
Pendary is, E. W.

supported the Ad-
Philips Y'i
Kumbold, S.
Smith, W.
Stewart, Sir M. S.
Stuart, Lora J.
r.tylor, M. A.
Warburton,
Whitmore, W. W.

COURT CIRCULAR.

A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday
ifternoon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by
the Duke of WELLINGTON., Earls BATHURST, 110.4,LYN,
and ABERDEEN, Viscount MELVILLE, Mr. Secretary PEEL,
Sir C4ORGE MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
cHEQuita, and \lr. HERntEs.

The LORD CHANCELLOR subsequently joined his col-
leagues. The Ministers remained in deliberation about an
hour and adialf.
A Baird of the Lords of the Treasury was held yester-
day at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of making the
annual declaration of the public accounts. The Duke of
WELLINGTON and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
attended the Meeting. The Board sat for upwards of an
hour.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Earl of ABBE-
nEEN, Earl BaowNtow, Vi•count CLIVE, Mr. Secretary
PEEL, an Lord LEVESON GOWER, had interviews yester-
day with the Duke of WELLINGTON at the Treasury.
Despatches were brought by a messenger to the Foreign
Office, yesterday afternoon, from Sir ROBERT Goanos,
our Ambassador at Constantinople, for the Earl of ABER-
DEEN. The messenger arrived at the Foreign Office about
two o'clock, in a post chaise and four.
The Russian Ambassador bad a conference yesterday
with the Duke of WELLINGTON, at the Treasury.
Despatches were seat off from tie Colonial-office on
Thursday evening, fur Sir JAMES KEMPT, the Governor
of the Canad is, also for the Earl of BELMORY, the Go-
vernor of Jamaica, and the different Governors of the
West India Islands.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1830.

A spirited debate took place last night in the
House of Commons on the Address. It would
appear from what Mr. PEEL said, that the re-
cbg''ition of that bloody usurper Don MlGum,
is not far distant. We have uniformly enter-
tained but one opinion with respect to the con-
duct of the usurper, and if the Government of
this country recognize his right to the throne
of Portugal, they will do that which they
will repent when it is too late. If the will
of the people be the standard of sove-
reignty, why was not NAPOLEON recognised as
the chosen King of the French ? Were not
thVi3oußsoNs forced upon France at the point
of Briti,h bayonets ? Is this consistency ?
But we have no space to pursue the question.

The follow tub are extracts from Hamburg and
pl'irtch- Papers, received this morning :
THE HAGUE, JAN. 29.
The Second Chamber of the States was again obliged
to adjourn till Monday, there being only 47 members pre-
sent.
We hear that the absent members have been strongly
urged to return to their posts.
FEB. —There being 57 members present at two
o'clock the Chamber proceeded to bisiness. Several offi-
cial communications from the Government were made,
and notice given of the receipt of a great number of peti-
tions.
The cold continues to be very severe; this morning at
eight o'clock the mercury and Farenheit's thermometer
was at 3 deg. below zero ; at noon it was at 4 deg.
below zero. This degree of cold, however, is still not
equal to what we experienced on the 22d and 23d Jan.
1523, when the thermometer was 6i below zero.
At Amsterdam the mercury has not been lower than
S deg. above zero.
COPENHAGEN, FRB. 23.
The English Consulate at Elsinore has published an ad-
dress to his .Majesty signed by the Captains of 99 English
ship., trading to the Baltic, thanking his Majesty for
having ordered a floating light in the most dangerous part
of the Categat, called the Trindel, which was formerly
the terror of all mariners navigating those seas.
On the 18th, we learnt that the force of the current
hail destroyed the communication in a straight line across
the ice, from Elsinore to Helsingbourg. Before the cur-
rent broke the ice a sledge, drawn by two horses, passed
over it, and only the passengers, and one of the horses, were
saved.
For the last fortnight we have been without any news
from the continent except a few scanty notices by the tele-
graph. Six mails are now in arrear. The kingdom of
Norway has sustained a great loss by the death of M. C.
T. Falsa, Justiciary in the Supreme Tribunal, at the age
of only 48 years.
HAMBURG, JAN. 29.
BOASEN-HA UAL, HALF-PAST FOUR. OCLOCK.--The
stillness in our Corn market continues, and with the ex-
ception of barley, it is only at reduced prices that sales of
any species of grain can be effected. Of wheat, the arri-
vals by land carriage, have not been considerable ; still the
quality not being generally approved of, sales were not to
be effected without some difficulty. A lot of Silesian wheat
was obliged to be brought to the hammer within the last
a days, and was bought exclusively for the consumption
of the place.
Weight. Rix dollars.

Pantric Wheat —to —to
Ir'omeranian l2l to 128 103 to 106
Anhalt, white ll9 to 124 115 to 120
red 122 to 128 112 to 116
Danish 120 to 128 '74 to Ezo
Dantzie ltye
Upland 116 to 123 62 to 66
Magdeburgh Barley VS to 101 5O to 55
Anhalt 48 to 104 52 to 56
Mealenburigh Oats 66 to 57 4O to 45
Pomeranian Malt to
Pease, yellow, Upland
Holstein Rapeseed — to l5O to 160
The approaching liquidation for the end of January acted
unfavourably upon the funds in the beginning of the week,
but as the greater part of the jobbers have now balanced
their accounts the market is recovering itself. Much
business has been done to-day, and left off, buyers and
wellers, st the prices quoted below.

_
End of January.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent
Anglo-Russian Loan Illi•%
Hamburg-Russian Loan IO4N
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares 1291
Austrian sletalliques lOt%
New Austrian 4 per Cents.
Anglo Neapolitan
Fa'collets

TRIZSTY, JAN. 12.

. .
Letters from Zante say, that the Admirals of the three
Allied Powers had a conference at Poros with M. de Ri-
beaupierre, and that Count Capo &Istria was engaged for
several days in transacting business with the Itirquis,
while he was at Poros. Several couriers were dispatched
to London and Constantinople. A communication was
also made to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Wanda.

Petitions have been lately received from Greek inhabi-
tants of the Continent, begging that Greece may nut be
mutilated, awl expressing a wish that Count Capo &Istria
may continue at the head of affairs.
It is said that di content in the lonian Islands increases,
and that the Lora High Commissioner has again asked
for a reinforcement of troops ; meantime, several ships of
Admiral :%lalcolin's squadron have helm ordered to Malta.
M. d• Ribeaupierre sailed from Poros on the 25th Dec. on
board a Russian frigate for Constantinople, The troubles
i■ Candia continue, and terrible cruelties are committed
by all parties. It is reported that the Admirals of the

three Powers intend to intervene with energy to put
an end to this totally useless bloodshed.

FRONTIERS OF SERVIA, JAN. 18.
The Porte cannot yet accommodate itself to the
spirit of the conditions of the Treaty of Peace, and
does not seem to intend to fulfil theist punctually.
Count Diebitsch seems to have had some presentiment of
this, for letters from Adrianople say, that in the course of
the last week movements have been observed in the Rus-
sian army, which indicate great mistrust of the Porte;
the latter is taking measures which manifest an intention
to resist any attempt to compel it to fulfil its engagement.
All the troops that were on their march homewards have
received orders to halt, and to be ready at the first notice
to join the corps of Albanians, which is only a few days
march from Sophia. The infatuation of the Porte is the
same as ever, and much patience is necessary on the part of
Russia to listen to the absurd objections that are made to the
fulfilment of the treaty. The incorporation of the Servian
district is not to be thought of, arid if Gliiurgevo were not
evacuated, it would probably not now be done. Under
such circumstances it must be presumed that the Porte
again relies on foreign aid in case compulsory measures
should be employed against it, brit it would probably be
again deceived in its expectations,
_

VIENNA, JAN. 25.—Metalliques, 102 i; Four per
Cents. ditto, 95k; Bank Shares, 1279, 1281.

It would appear by the following, from our
Paris Correspondent, that there is another aspi-
rant to the throne of Greece started by Russia.
Prince LEOPOLD is expected next week in Paris:

" FA RIS, FEB. 3.

" Now that the Parliamentary debates and other matter
of immediate and domestic interest will constantly occupy
your columns, I am aware that the space you can devote
to your foreign correspondence must he greatly abridged,
and that I must either write more seldom or more briefly.
As, however, the settlement of the affairs of Greece seems
at this moment to excite a great deal of attention in
London and Paris, as well as in the other capitals
of Europe, I take the liberty of directing your atten-
tion to an elaborate article in the Augsburgh Gazette
of din 30th ultimo, which has reached me at so lota
an hour in the day as to prevent my extracting it;
hut which is remarkable for the vehemence with which
it supports the pretensions of Prince Peter of 01,1enburgh
to the sovereignty of the nascent State. This Prince is
the nephew of the Emperor of Russia, and the son-in-
law of the King of Wirtumberg ; and hiving been born
in 1812. is now in his eighteenth year. It is strenuously
contended that the Grecian sceptre ought to be conferred
on hint in preference to all other candidates.
" The Greeks are still said to entertain the most sanguine
hopes that Candia and Epirus will form part of the new
Sate. At Syra it is said that public prayers have been
offered up in the churches for the consummation of this
event ; and in Candia the premature assurance that such
an arrangement would be adopted, appears to have been
received with every demonstration of joy in the disturl ed
districts of the Island. The French troops are concentrat-
ing themselves near Navarin, and will probably remain there
during the winter.
" It is stated, in private letters from Trieste, of the 28th
ultimo, that a very active communication is kept up be-
tween the Cabinet of Vienna and the Courts of Italy, the
object of which is to maintain the tranquillity of the Pe-
n;nsula against the machinations of secret societies, which
keep the Cabinet of Vienna in such a constant state of
alarm. The method at present under consideration is said
to be by means of a confederation of the sovereign Princes
of Italy, formed in some degree on the model of that of
Germany, to be placed under the protection of the Emperor
of Austria, as King of the Lombardo-Venetian states. It is
u(t)iirlyeersot:ote
dhthKating theo Vicariate
sicaarraiainteiaof the Association will de-
y"
A corps of gendarmes has been formed for the terra-
firma of Venice, in consequence of its having become a
free port ; and another for the territory of Trieste. Their
duties commence on the same day, and their declared ob-
ject is the prevention of smuggling.
" A national subscription has been opened at Brussels,
to indemnify the Members of the Second Chamber of the
States General, for the loss of pay and pensions they hare
sustained by their conscientious resistance to the illegal
exercise of power. Although limited individually to a
very moderate amount, it is said to be proceeding rapidly.
" The Hope loan has at length been recognized by the
Government of Spain, and M. Aguado has contracted
a new loan of 500,000,000 of reals. As the Hope
loan amounted to 400,000,000, and the interest and rela-
tive sinking fund are stated to amount respectively to
24,000,000 and 30,000,000, the additional charge on the
Spanish finances will make the whole sum due an-
nually to foreigners amount to no less than 84,000,000
of reale. _ _ .

" The rumours of a change of Ministry continue every
hour to gain additional credit. Those who think it will
be but partial, say that General Bourmont has already se-
cured his retreat, by stipulating for the command of the
expedition against Algiers. Others say that this task will
be assigned to the Duke of Ragusa, and others, again, to
Marshal Maison. The command is certainly, at this mo-
ment, an object of keen competition among the great
military commanders of this country.
" Prince Leopold is said to be expected on a visit to
Paris in the course of eight or ten days ; and the report
of his marriage to one of the daughters of the Duke of
Orleans is again revived."

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

Charleston Papers to the 2d of January have been re-
ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house.—
They state that the river St. Lawrence, opposite Montreal,
was entirely free from ice on the 17th of December.
Accounts from New Orleans, of the 13th Dec., say,
that the stormy weather of last week, besides the injury
done to the sugar planters, has caused great damage to the
shipping.
During last week, 20,501 bales of Cotton arrived at Sa-
vannah tromp Augustin and coastwise, exclusive of what
was received in waggons.