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cited his MAJESTY, in whom the appointmen
now rests, to bestow it on his Non. The KING a
the time gave no answer to the application ; bu
his MAJEEFY has since written to his Lordship,
intimating, that probably the new Lord President
of the Council may be ininiical to the appoint.
ment, but if he should not, his Lordship's son
will be appointed to the office by the limo.

We understand that a requisition is in course
of signature among the Common Council for
the purpose of presenting an Address, inviting
his MAJESTY to dine with the City of London.

The appointment of Dr. PHILLPOTTS to the

Bishopric of Exeter appeared last night in the
Gazette, notwithstanding that public opinion,
from one end of the United kingdom to the
other, has already declared itself so unequivo-
cally on the subject. As the Anti-Catholic and
Pro-Catholic Doctor has now obtained a rich
and lofty reward for his very convenient change
of opinions, we hope—for indeed he can well
afford it—that he will condescend to pay some little

deference to the wishes of his parishioners at
Stanhope, and relinquish a living which has been
the means of rendering him the most unpopular
Clergyman in the North. The general opinion in
that part of the kingdom is, that the Doctor has
been remunerated considerably beyond the value

of his services. True, he abandoned the cause

which, for a series of years, he had advocated
in pamphlets and reviews, at the very moment
when it most needed his support ; true, he turned
suddenly round—but Heaven forbid that we
should say from interested motives, seeing that
his conversiin proceeded from evident, though
seasonable, inspiration—and threw himself,
with all the ardour of a lover, into the arms of
that party which he had abused with the utmost

virulence that the language allows—still, not-
withstanding these services in the cause of the
dominant powers, we cannot but think, and we
are convinced all England thinks with us, that the
Doctor has been immeasurably overpaid. Nay
more, we are convinced that he himself will be
of the same opinion, if he will only undertake
the laborious task of re-perusing all those innu-
merable pamphlets which he disseminated
throughout the country, for the express purpose
of showing that Catholic Emancipation was in-
consistent with Protestant security. We are by
no means desirous of ripping up old grievances,
but the reverence we bear for the Established
Church, compels us to state that its high
character is endangered, and its influence
over the public mind considerably lessened,
when men are elevated to the episcopal throne,
whose sole recommendation to that honour is

their notorious public inconsistency. Having
once recanted those opinions on the subject of
Emancipation, which first raised him to distinc-
tion, what security have we that Dr.
PfStLL-
roz'ns will not recant again, should ►he ruling
powers of the day ever attempt—winch
Heaven forbid—to follow up the fashion set
by their Continental neighbours, and dispense
with a State Religion ? The good Doctor's
pluralities to be sure would be put in jeopardy
by such an experiment, still there are always ways
and means at the disponal.:of a shrewd Govern-
ment by which it can never fail to reward those
who dextrously devote themselves to its inte-
rests. With regard to the inhabitants of Ex-
eter, who will doubtless be promptly honoured
by the Doctor's residence among them, we feel
the sincerest grief for their situation. We con-
dole
with them from the very bottom of our

hearts, on their unmerited misfortune—
a mi,fortu►►e by which a Bishop is forced of
them who has shown himself wholly deficien

in that clerical consistency which, from time
immemorial, the West of England has been the
first to insist on in its spiritual rulers. As,
however, their fate is now sealed, we would ad-
vise the inhabitants of the diocese to bear it

tranquilly and with patience ; we understand that
they intend to toll their church bells, shut their
shops, and exhibit the usual external signs of a
great calamity having befallen them ; but this,

though natural, is injudicious, and can be pro-
ductive only of agitation throughout the diocese
—a circumstance altogether to be deprecated.

The Lisbon Gazettes, to 6th Nov. inclusive,
contain no political news respecting Portugal,
being filled with extracts from English, French,
and other Journals, partici►larly long accounts
from the Madrid Gazette of the defeat of the
Spanish refugees.

We have received this morning Brussels
?apers to the 1411), and Frankfort Papers to the
.oth inst., extracts from which will be found

another column.

We have a file of the Newfoundland Royal
Gazette to the 26th October. The Governor had
returned froni his excursion round the island,

the account of which is interacting. The popu-
lation of St. George's Bay was found to be
three hundred and fifty. The country in the
interior exhibited no great depth of soil, but was
better wooded than at St. John's. After visit•

ing the Dead Islands his Excellency proceeded
to the Borgeo Islands. They bear a barren and
rocky appearance, being barely studded with a
slight scalp of verdure. Some days were spent
in intercourse with the simple inhabitants of

these islands, and in exploring their numerous
reaches and inlets. The population of this Bay
is estimated at 800. 11is Excellency then pro-
ceeded to the extreme head of Bay Despair,
where the woods for several miles in the interior
are of a bolder description, from which place his
Excellency returned to St. John's.

We have a file of Demerara Papers this morn-
ing, which are interesting. They announce a
circumstance highly honourable to the slave-
owners of that Colony, namely, that a return has
been made to the Governors to ha transmitted
to the Colonial Department, exhibiting a list of
OM manumissions between the lst of January,
1815, and the Ist of August, 1830, of which