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OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Ann. 27.
David Gregory was indicted for the murder ofJere-
miah Boswell.
Mr. Josnce stated the case for the prosecution, and
called the lapwing witnesses
William Saltham examined--I am carter to Mr. Her-
bert, a farmer et Church Down, in this county ; I knew
Jeremiah Boswell, he was in Mr. Herbert's service, as was
also the prisoner; I was at work with them on the 29th
March, when they "dropped" (fell) out; I saw them hit
each other with sticks until they fell down ; Mr. Herbert at
that time came up and parted them. I was in the rick-
yard between six and seven o'clock the next day when the
deceased came in and challenged to fight the prisoner, who
was milking ; he said "you come on lad, and I will fight
thee here ;" shortly afterwards the servant girl called out
to me and said that Gregory had stuck a knife into Bos-
well ; I then went up and saw the blood run from the side
of the deceased ; his father was present ; I assisted in
taking the deceased to Gloucester Infirmary.
Mr. Edward Herbert, jun. examined—l was near the
ox-stalls on the 30th of March about six o'clock, the
prisoner was milking at that time. The deceased was in
the rick-yard. I heard him say to the prisoner, at the
same time pulling off his hat and throwing it up into the
air, " Come along, and I will] fight you for a sovereign."
He then put himself into a fighting attitude. The prisoner
said " I have no money, and I will not fight you." He
(prisoner) also told Boswell to go home. The deceased
said, " If you have no money, I will fight you for a belly
full." The prisoner at the time had a pail of milk stand-
ing by him which he put upon his head and went towards
the house; whilst going along the deceased followed in a
fighting attitude, and kept calling to him to come and fight.
When the prisoner had proceeded about 20 yards he stopped
and put the pail down, and said, " I will go to you, if
you will hit me." The deceased said, " I should like to
hit you," and ran towards the prisoner. A few blows
then took plaee. I saw Gregory strike the deceased on
the ribs ; he then stretched out his hands and said, " Here,
my boy, what do you think of this ?" holding an open
knife in his hand. The deceased put his hand to his side;
it was covered with blood. The prisoner then carried his
milk into the house, anti afterwards proceeded with his
work. I afterwards saw the deceased's father and Eliza-
beth Smart.
Cross•examined by Mr. l'imearrs—What the pri-
soner said about the knife happened during the time they
were striking blows. There was no time intervened
during the time they were scuffling. Both of them ap-
peared in a violent passion. The prisoner has lived with
my father four years. I heard him say to the deceased's
father, "You see what your son is doing !" The father
did not at all interfere. The rrisoner did not appear to
think he had inflicted any serious injury. I did not see
that he had any knife in his hand at the time he went up
to the deceased.

Mr. Josvex here said, there were other witnesses for
the prosecution, but he thought it unnecessary to call
them, as their testimony would be precisely the Caine as
Mr. Herbert's.

Mr. PHlLrorrs, for the prisoner, admitted that their
evidence could not vary the character of the offence, be
did net therefore wish them to be called.

Mr. Plane examined—l fun surgeon to the Gloucester

Infirmary. I recollect Jeremiah Boswell being brought
to the Infirmary on. the 30th of March, there was a wound
on his left side. From examination after death I have
every reason to believe, that the instrument with which
the wound was inflicted had penetrated the lunge. Ho
died on the 19th of April. The first fortnight after he
was in the house he got better, and hopes were entertained
of his recovery. He however gradually became worse,
until the time of his death. I have no doubt the wound
was inflicted with a knife such as has been described by
Mr. Herbert, and was the cause of death.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, who had betrayed the greatest agitation,
and who wept bitterly from the commencement of the trial,
did not say anything in his defence.
Mr. Herbert, men., examined by Mr. Fulcrums--
The deceased and the prisoner both lived in my service in
March last. The prisoner married a female servant of
mine; he is a very quiet and good-tempered man, and
always appeared happy and in the best humour possible.--
I called upon the deceased whilst he was in the Infirmary ;
at that time he was in great danger, which he was per-
fectly aware of. On any approaching him he put his hand
out of bed, and said--" Master, I hope you forgive tee,
as I forgive every body." I told him that I did, and
was very happy to hear that he forgave every one. He
added, " I do forgive."
Mr. Justice BOSANQURT summed up the evidence very
minutely. His Lordship said that if a person inflicted
blow or a wound dining the heat of pass►on, but without
any premeditation, and should death ensue from such blow
or wound, yet the offence would not amount to the crime
of murder ; but if it could be proved to the satisfaction of
the Jury, that the person inflicting a deadly wound had
sought a quarrel for the purpose of enabling him to give
mortal blow, then let the quarrel be ever so violent t►e was
eggitUy guilty of murder as if no quarrel had taken place.
It was for the Jury to say in.the present case whether,
under the circumstance of this ease, they thought the
prisoner had acted with such deliberation as would con-
stitute the crime of murder.

The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of 'Man-
slaughter.
Mr. Jostles liosammT—Prisoner you bare been very
properly acquitted of lout crime of murder. You
have, however, been as properly convicted of man-
slaughter, and it is my duty now to ea), of causing the
death of a fellow creature, under circumstances of great
aggravation. It is true you received considerable provo-
cation from the deceased, and had you afterwards in au
equal and manly fight inflicted a blow which caused death
the punishment that I should hare awarded you would
have been slight. But when it appeate that after two or
three rounds had been fought, you produced by some
means or other a murderous weapon, one so well calcu-
lated to destroy life, I should be forgetting my duty did I
not pass upon you a sentence to deter others from giving
loose to such violence of passion. The sentence of the
Court is, that you be imprisoned for twelve months, and
kept to hard labour.
The prisoner is a remarkably mild-looking young man.
He was tried at the Spring Assizes for cutting and maim-
ing, with intent to kill (the deceased, Boswell being then
living). He was, however, on that occasion acquitted,
and the death of Boswell taking place shortly afterwards,
he was again apprehended on a charge of murder.
Thomas Cooper, aged 19,- was indicted for writing,
sending, and utteting 4 certain letter, threatening to burn
and destroy the property of William Stephens and others.
Mr. Stephens stated that he was overseer of the parish 1
of Campden, in this county. On the ad of April last he
received a letter, of which the following is a verbatim
copy Mister William Stephens, you is an overseer,
and as it was not your Wish to do any good to the poor of
Campden, and as ,it now lie* in your pour (power) to
make a great alteration in this parish, And it you dolts
(does) not, you may pray God to take you, for your pro-
perty shall all be destroyed before three months is past.
Hear you lives of the best, and all the poor people are
starving for want; hear there is a great Clod above in
limey, and you know we have all got 4 soul, st wood to

save when he dy (died), and if we dotent do what we
howght we shall all go to hell. I'm worth thousands of
pounds every day in the week. I stood by the fire with
Thomas Cooper, William Wilson, W. Morgin, and B.
Wilke, and high (I) shall see ow (how) you behave to
them, and if you behave bad judgment shall fall on your
pternisse9, Stephens. But let the consequence romes, has it
will, there will be another or two fires, and hi (I) shall have
some companions before it be If Neddy Miles
don't spend a title of his money, hi (I) will burn him in
his bed, and all his nue (new) houses up street, hi (I) can
put spirts (spirits) and it will go for three days and nights
before it shall flash, but the next shall fall at the midnight,
and pylon (poison) the first man who touches it. So hi
(I) would beg you to do good to the poor in this world,
and then God will do you good in the new world to come
hi (I) hope so I Meg you be kerful (careful).

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" WM. STEPHENS."
" March 30, 1830, for you see your danger before your
bites (eyes).
" hi (1) ave (have) drunk with you many a time but never
will no more.
"Lord open Ther Hyses (eyes)

Mr. Stephens stated that there had been a rick of wheat
set on fire shortly before he received the above letter;
during the time it was burning the prisoner and the other
persons named in the letter were present, and took an
active pert.

A person was called to prove the hand-writing being
the prisoner's, but it turned out that he had only seen him

write once.

Mr. Justice BOSANQUIT, after being informed there was
no further evidence to prove the hand-writing, said it
would be impossible to convict the prisoner of so serious
a charge on such slight testimony. Verdict—Not Guilty.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LANCASTER, Atm 26
THE KING V. MURPHY AND OTHERS.

This was an indictment charging the defendants Thomas
Murphy, Terence Kean, Charles Conatty, and David
Lynch, with having, on the 23d day of January last, at
Liverpool, unlawfully rescued from John Brearley, an
Excise-officer, a private still which had been seized as for-
feited, and with assaulting him and other officers, whilst
in the execution of their duty. The defendant Lynch
pleaded Guilty, and the otherdefendants pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Serjeant Caoss (Attorney-General), Mr.liaounliAat,
Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS, and Mr. IVJOHTMAN, conducted
the case for the prosecution. Mr. Serjeant JONIS appeared
for the defendants.
Mr. Sergeant Caoss having stated the case for the pro-
secution called witnesses, front whose evidence it appeared
that Brearley the Excise-officer having had information
that there was a private still at work in Lynch's house, in
Fagan's•court, Oxford-street, Liverpool, obtained a war-
rant authorizing him to search Lynch's house, and to " en-
ter into every place in awl about the house of the said
Patrick Lynch ;" he searched Lynch's house, and the houses
of two or three other persons in Fagan's-court, on the
morning of the day named in the indictment, and having
found in one of the houses a private still and a quantity
of wash (low wines) nod whiskey, seized them arid
sent for a cart and puncheons to convey away the
still and wash, which they got into the cart about
twelve o'clock at noon, at which hour a large mob assem-
bled, armed with an axe, bludgeons, &c., and having cut
the horse's truces and upset the cart, rescued the still, &c.
and beat the officers most unmercifully. It was distinctly
sworn that the defendants, Murphy and Kean, were armed
with bludgeons, and tssaulted the officers, and that they
assisted in upsetting the cart containing the still, the
whiskey, and the wash.
Mr. Serjeant Josts, in his address to the Jury for the
defendants, implored them to dismiss from their minds all
consideration of the topics introduced by the Learned See-
jeant for the prosecution about theme men being of the
lower order of Irish, who were addicted to smuggling and to
scenes of violence, and to decide, upon the oaths they had
taken before God and their country, upon the only question
which they had to try, namely, whether the defendants were
the parties engaged in this outrage. His (Mr. Seijeant
Janette! defence was that the witnesses who swore to the
identity of the parties were wholly mistaken. The Learned
Serjeant having complained of the odds against which the
prisoners had to contend in having only his (Mr. Serjeant
Jones's) assistance, opposed to the formidable array of
Counsel for the prosecution, expressed a confident hope
that they would not suffer from the disadvantage, as he
was satisfied that the Jury would look to nothing but the
evidence, and that the Learned Judge who presided would
not fail to point out to the Jury any circumstances in
favour of the defendants which he (Mr. Serjeant
Jones) might omit to urge, unaided as he was
by the assistance of a junior Counsel, who might
direct hie attention, in the course of his whirrs,:
to the Jury, to the circumstances favourable to
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the defendants, which bad been disclosed during his (Mr.
Serjeant Jones's) cross-examination, and of which he had
not been able to take any notes. The Learned Setjeant,
in conclusion, contended (the observations which he
should make upon this point were rather for the conside-
ration of the Learned Judge than of the Jury) that, inas-

much as the warrant authorised the officers to enter the
house "of Patrick Lynch, and every place in and about
the house of Patrick Lynch," and as they had entered
other houses, in which they had seized the still, &c., and
as they had sworn that they acted solely under the autho-
rity of the warrant, they could not he considered as acting
in the " execution of their duty," and therefore the de-

fendanta were entitled to an acquittal.
Two witnesses, for the defendants Murphy and Kean,
swore that during the riot and rescue they were present
merely es spectators, and did not take any active part in it.
Mr. Serjeant Caoss having replied,
His Loansitie, in summing up, said that he was clearly
of opinion that however a plaintiff (not Patrick Lynch)
in an action of trespass might maintain that the words
of the warrant did iiot justify the officers in en-
tering his house, the defendants could not avail them-
selvea of any informality in that warrant, as any third
party were dearly wrong-doers in rescuing the still which
the officers had in their actual custody. The only question for
the consideration of the Jury was whether or not the two
defendants, Murphy and Kean, were the persons engaged in
the rescue. With respect to the other defendant Cunatty, his
Lordship was of opinion, that there was no evidence to go to
the Jury that he took any active part, and
,under an in-
dictment of this kind there must be some evidence that
the party accused took an active part, for it was not nal,.
dent in order to convict that he was merely a looker on,
and probably a well-wisher of the rescuers. The Jury
immediately found the defendants Murphy and Kean
Guilty, and Conatty Not Guilty.
His Lnunantp took time to consider hit judgment.

Jams Brannigan alias James Flannagan, wes in-
dieted foraesaulting and obstructing two revenue officers in
the execution of their duty at Manchester, on the 26th
day of December last, and with attempting to rescue him-
self out of their custody.
Mr. Serjeant Ceoss, Mr. BROUGHAM, Mr. don
Wit• Lasts, and Mr. WIGHTUAN conducted the case for
the prosecution. The defendant bad no Counsel.
From the evidence for the prosecution, it appeared that
on the day named in the indictment the officers seized a
private still which was at work in Clockface-yard, Liver-
pool, and having found the defendant in the room under-
neath that in which the still was at work, took him into
custody. He called for assistance, and a mob of persons
haring collected, they aided him in his attempt to rescue
himself.

The defendant cross-examined the witnesses, and endea-
voured to make it appear that the officers had used great
violence towards him, and had apprehended him instead of
the proprietor of the house in which the still was at work.
Ilis LORIKRIP summed up, and the Jury having imme-
diately found the defendant Guilty, an 4 as there was
another indictment against him for It similar offence, the
Court postponed sentence until after the trial of the second
indictment.

etrivertott.....cootmax V. Trtarts•
Mr. lintruanaat stated the case for the plaintiff. The
Plaintiff Came into Court, or more properly speaking, was
compelled tu' come into Court, to ask at the hands of a
jury reparation• so far as a pecuniary compensation could
be a reparation, for the most serious Injury and • the
deepest affliction which a parent could sustain—
' namely, the ruin and degradation of a female child.
Undoubtedly the death, or the unwelcome absence
of a favourable child, were events that frequently inflicted
a pug which It . was difficult far any other person than
parent to feel, and which no one but a parent could duly
sympathize with. but the distress arising from any such
source was infinitely inferior to the anguish which a father
must feel, who, In addition to the loss of his daughter's
society, had the excruciating reflection that he owed that
loss to her crime and to Its own dishonour, In many
cases, and in this among them, even that anguish, poignant
as it was, was augmented by the injury inevitably result.
ing to the peace and the interests of several daughters,
and the diabonour which the whole family suffered
from the evil example set by the elder to the younger
sisters. The plaintiff was a farmer and logwouti.mil,
ler, residing near Manchester, in comfortable circum-
stances, at.d a man of respectability, and tI defendant was
the sou of a person in the same lime a business, and be
(Mr. B.) must admit equally respectable, who resided at
Blacidey, a few miles front the plaintiff's residence. About
three years ago the farnitiea of the parties to this suit being,
on terms of intimacy with each others the defendant total

introduced to Miss Gmlyer, who was then about eighteen
or nineteen years of age ; and in a short time the defendant
having communicated to the plaintiff his wish to be con-
sidered the admirer of Miss Goodyer, was admitted to
visit the family as her suitor, and any opportunities which
might have been afforded him for effecting the object, which
subsequenteircuntstancee proved that he had in view, flowed
naturally front the situation in which he stood—the
avowed and accepted lover of this young woman. At
all events, it would appear that no blame either for
negligence or connivance could rest upon the 'plaintiff
or his wife ; and if in the course of this investigation it
should appear that the young people, not content with the
opportunities which the plaintiff's family afforded them,
were determined to have other, and less innocent, oppor-
tunities, it would be shewn that such clandestine inter-
views were wholly unknown to the plaintiff's family, for
on those occasions, when the defendant visited the plaintiff's
family, he always left the house about eight or nine o'clock,
and bade good night to the plaintiff and his wife, apparently
for the evening; but it would probably appear that lie
sometimes returned, after the family had retired to rest, and
was admitted into the house by the young woman whose
mind he bad already, in some degree, tainted. At length
in one of those clandestine visits the defendant accotnplished
that criminal purpose which he (Mr. B.) hada right to say
was the defendant's object from the first, and then, as the
Jury might suppose all purpose of marriage was given to
the wind. Indeed from the first marriage was a mere
pretext which had been commenced with—had been sub-
sequently pursued, and when it hall answered its object—
the gratification of the defendant's sensual passion—all
idea of fulfilling his repeated promises was at once abandoned.
Ache (Mr. 11. )should be able most clearly to prove the min.
conduct of the defendant the verdict must be for the
plaintiff, and the only question for the consideration of the
Jury was the amount of damages which they ought to
award for the cruel injury sustained by the plaintiff.
In estimating the amount of damages, the Jury would
not leave out of sight the most material and painful
circumstances connected with this case, and which was
common in all cues of this kind, namely, that the plaintiff
was under the necessity of dragging his own unfortunate
child into the witness-box, to be the historian of her own
dishonour and of her shame ; this course, however pain-
ful, was still necessary, for without adopting it the neces-
sary proof in a case of this kind could not be obtained, and
in his (Mr. opinion a circumstance of that kind was
calculated to add considerably to the exacerbation of feeling
which he now called upon the Jury by their verdict to allay.
Elizabeth Goodyer, who was a good-looking young wo-
man, and who conducted herself with great modesty and
propriety, was called into the box—l am the daughter of
the plaintiff, .who lives at New Burns, near Salford ; Int
father is a miller and. a farmer ; in September, 1828,
I became acquainted with the defendant, who was
introduced at my father's house by Mr. Ogden, the
defendant's cousin, and who had been previously
known to our family. After the defendant was intro-
duceti, he requested my father's permission to visit our
house, for the purpose of keeping company with me.
He wrote a letter to that effect to my father, and he
showed it to me in December, 1828 ; and about two month.
afterwards he mked me if I had got that letter ? I said, I
had ; soul be asked me to burn it, but I declined doing so ;
and said I did not like to burn my father's letter. He
used to visit me frequently on Saturdays and Sundays, and
proposed marriage to me, and I accepted his proposals.
Ile used to go away about half-past eight or nine o'clock
in the evening ; but after the 26th of April, 1829,1 e used
to return after my father and mother went to bed, and
generally stepped until about three o'clock in the morn-
ing. On several of these occasions he mentioned to
the that he would ask his father to let hitu have the
mill, and he wished to ask my brother if lie would be a
partner with him. He proposed to be married at Whit-
suntide, and 1 assented ; but when Whitsuntide came he
said I had no occasion to be frightened, and that he would
get a horse before he married, and he fixed the 25th of
September for our marriage ; and he edict], as a reason
fur postponing the marriage, that if we were married be-
fore we must live in separate houses, and we should not
be so comfortable as in our own house. On the 26th of
April a nearer intimacy first took place between us, and
he continued to visit me every week until the middle of
July, after which time he never came but once, on a
shooting-party, which took place upon the let of Septem-
ber. Henry Eckerly came with the defendant, who then
said lie would marry me on the 25th of September ; that
he had asked his mother on the previous Sunday
night to ask bis father to let him have the mill;
that his father had not then given him any answer ;
anti that he should again ask his father; but whether he
got the mill or not he should marry me on the 25th of
September. I was then in a situation likely to become a
mother. He was' the father of my chile—(The witness
here burst into tears, and cried bitterly fur soma tima.)—l
afterwards paid a visit to Mr. Eckerly's, and saw the de-
fendant there. He then said be would not marry me until
he knew whet fortnue I was to have. He never came
again.

Cross•.exatnined by Mr. Per.LoCK—ln September neither
my father or mother knew my situation, but they knew it
in October. I have nine :brothers and sisters by my fa-
ther's first and second marriages, and lAM the eldest
(laughter. I have four brothers older than myself, and the
eldest is thirty years of age. I am 22. We have three
farm servants and ft house-maid in our house, and I
slept with my sister who is about sixteen years of
age. I know that my father meets the defendant's
father at the cern-market, but I never was at the de-
' fondant's father's house, nor never spoke to either his,
father or mother ; but my brothers were acquainted with
the defendant and his brothers. The defendant is about
24, years of age. My father kept a public-house about
two years, and I sometimes acted as bar-maid and did the
household work. The defendant told me about six weeks
after we began to keep company, that he had mentioned
to his parents that he was paying hi. addresses to me, but
I did not think it necessary to ask hire to introduce me to
his parents.

At the request of Mr. Por.t.ocK the following letter,
written by the defendant to the plaintiff, was here read s«..
" Dear Sir,—l take this opportunity to ask you, not
having an opportunity of asking you the day I was at
your house, concerning your daughter keeping my com-
pany. I have mentioned it to my friends, and they are
agreeable ; but if you are not willing, I will not intrude
any further on your time, but must beg to hear front you
as soon as you can make it convenient.—Frorn your's,
respectfully, " J. J. TRAVIS.

Blackley, Dee. 5, 1828."
Cross-examinatien resumed—l saw that letter before it
was sent, and pressed the defendant to write it, in order
that he might be received at our house ; but I do not
know that in consequence of that letter lay father had any
interview with him, or that, in consequence of it, he did
any thing more than allow the defendant to come to our
house. The letter was read to 'my mother, but I don't
know that she ever spoke to the defendant about it. I don't
know that my father or mother ever asked what were the
defendant's prospects in life. I knew that he had no pro-
perty, but be told me that ha expected A good deal. Before
the 2tith of April, 1820, the defendant never returned to
our house after my father and mother went to bed. I be..
came a mother on the 23d of March, 1830. On those
occasions, when the defendant returned after he bade

"good night," the house was locked up, but I waited up
for him, and let him in. On the Bth of September, 18g9,
I saw the defendant at the house of my step-brother,
Henry Eekerly, on which occasion the family went to bed,
and we sat up together until four o'clock in the morning.
Re-examined—l did not meet the defendant at Henry
Eckerly's by appointment, but he having been told that
was there, cau►e to ace me. The publia•honse that has
been mentioned was purchased by my father, who only
kept it until he could get a tenant Aw It.

Henry Eckedy, the plaintiff's stepson, swore thet by
the direction; of the defendant he mentioned to his mother
that Miss Cloodyer was in the family way, and that the
defendant wished her consent to marry, the mother said
she had no objection. The defendant was ft taut told that
upon hie marriage. With Miss (lowlyer, he might have
7001,, and that nfihr was afterwards increased to 2,0001.
The defendant's father has a mill of his own, and had
latterly purchased land, for which be paid 4,0001.
Mr. Nunes: addressed theJitry at considerable length,
and observed be did not stand up to palliate the defendant's
misconduct, which was undoubtedly very great, and had
been productive of moat unfortunate conirequeeces, but he
bagged the Jury to take into consideration the negligence
of the plaintiff, and the fact that after they had awarded
damages to him, the defendant would be still liable in on
action by the daughter fur breach of promise of marriagr,

Mr. Justice tarocr, in stumniq up, ssitl, ith
respect to one of the topics urged by the tlefinidant's
Counsel, woody, that the defendant might be here-
after celled upon to pay dainegts in an action for breach
of promise of marriage. lie (Mr. Justice Doyley) did not
think that any woman who had surrendered her Itonour iii
a amn who had promised her marriage could maintain an
action „phut him for the breach of Ms promise. It was
for the Jury to say what niutlerato damages the plaintiff
was entitled to, anti its m 4001461% those damages they *Duo
take into their consi.leratinu time tlistrosa and 4itaionour
h:vihole:T:ll;)iii:4riet;luteiirrifyinne.cnitucin'yldlgestirl;4iteliotliifil):oo9;rlaettehddet4fii:dainiliblllo:uhtaDda l'rairfintiret.teir of an
'"'" *Wages, 3001.

DEATH OP MR.llARatil, THE MEMBER

FOR SOUTEIWARIL

Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter is thrva o'clock,
Mr. John Raw Union Harris, the recently elected Member
for Southwark, departed this life, at his residence, Win -
cliester-house, Southwark-bridge-road, after a short bat
severe illness, accompanied with a slight fever, and within
the last few days which terminated in the typhus fever.—
' The Honourable Gentleman was about 60 years of age, anti
had realised a considerable fondue, as a tustriufsetui jog and
retailing hatter, in the Borough.
It is a singular circumstance that Mr. Lett, the Ma-
gistrate, whose daughter is the wife of Mr. Warner, the
partner and nephew of Mr. Harris, died on the preceding
day of a fever and cold, caught during the chairing of his
Honourable relative at the termination of the election.
The death of Mr. Harris leaves the representstiun of
the Borough of Southwark open to Mr. Calvert. If that
gentleman should preens himself to the Electors theresan
be little doubt of his MOMS; bet be has unfortenately
precluded himself front taking advantage of this opportu-
nity, by his declaration in a moment of disappointment at
the close of the last election. In alluding to the probabi-
lity of Sir Robert Wilson being employed In his country'.
service abroad, Mr. Calvert then said, that they might,
ere long, have to look out for another representative, 'be-
cause he was quite sure his Hon. Friend would never act
towards them as Mr. Luehingson had acted towards Can-
terbury. A person in the crowd at that time exclaimed,
" We will have you ;" bat Mr. Calvert is reported to
have thus expressed himself on that point t•--" Gentle-
men, yoti shall nut—l beg leave to decline that honour I
am entitled to it now—and feeling that I have not been
dealt with u I ought, I hers take my leave of you for ever.
In doing so, I feel that the electors of Southwark have
acted wrong, and that I hare acted right. I here always
acted in the same manner—they have not ; it is slot I that
am changed, but you. Bat I part from you in friendship
and good will; and if ever It lies in my power to servo thu
borough of Southwark, I shall do so with pleasure and
eatiefaction."--It remains, to be seen whether the worthy
gentleman will now adhere to a declaration made in a
moment of disappointment, and, perhaps, justly wounded
feelings. If his passionate disavowal of all desire to tore-
sent Southwark should prove unaffected by nine, it is de.
termined to invite Lord John Russell to become a catoli-
elate. The Noble Lord ha. jest loot ilia elution for Iltal
ford. We think, therefore, he will sat Wage the ii,ylu.
lion ; and if he comes forward, his *Jetties is almost a
matter of certainty. Mr. Pot*, the viaegar-merehai,t,
however, also mentioned as a esadidate for the honour if
representing hie native Borough.

•
There is still a terrible list of defaulters sus-
pended over the ehionney-piece at Fishmouger's Hall.
It is related of the celebrated scholar, Dr.
BINTLIT, that, on seeing his WM WU day reading a novel,
he said to him, "Why read a book which putt vitnuot quote?
Mr. STIUTER is married to Miss Pigeon.
Probably this is the most.plessing mods of exercising the
diverting amusement of pigeon shooting.
An advertisement in a Kentish Paper begins
thus—Five Pounds reward for a runaway apprentice--
more than he is worth by half.
Hope has such efficacy that it can lead us to
the end of life through an agreeable path, and even beyond
life itself.
Tale-bearers are enemies to civil society.
Whoever entertains thee with the hells of others, will
entertain others with thine.
CHARLIte the Tenth must be, after all, a bud
whist player, for, thoegb holding ill the honours, Lc low
contrived to lose both the odd trick awl the same.
Morning Paper.
A fellow being brought before a Justice on a
charge of steeling lead, the Magistrate shook hie head,
looked at the culprit, and ontalsimed—" This is a &toy
charged—indeed
Looking at a very fine picture, an Irishman
said, to express his *dalmatian, that's an insomparable,
an inimitable picture; it is absolutely more like than the
original.

In a conversation ae to the hest mode of
killing rata, an Irish servant asserted that Lie master, I.Otd
had the best way row hard of, wild It vita simply
by starving them.

ROYAL BARTUIto.--WhilO JANI Its; 11. had
abdicated the throne, on reaeltiog Press* he was puinted
at by the Archbishop of Deviate, with this skreartic otter-
easiest There ill a foul, who LI loot three kiogdooist4
a mass."
At the capture of Rhodos, the celehreteti
fallen Culama, which ones bestrode she hnrirour of ;ham:
city, one of the wonders of the world, was sold to 40W of
Euless, who is reported to have loaded sins butuireditaviels
with the metal.—Afilatan's ilistory of !kr Jews.

A wag passing through a country town A short
time lines, observed a fallow plasosi is the
friend," wild he, " I sdviee you by all mesas to sell out."
" I should hive no objeenou, your Honour," he replied
drily, " but at present they item week too law."

An old woman that sold ale, and who had a
very careless bar-rnaid, being at church, fell asleep, during
the sermon, and unluckily let her old-fashioned despoil
Bible fall, which making a great noise, sky exclaimed, half
awake, " There now you jade, there', another jug broke

In the summer of 1802, an advertisement in
the following terms, was stuck upon the wall ettiti English
Coffee-house. " This Coffee-house romourd sop stain."
A Roman Emperor used to draw his stabs sip after nine
every night into his bed-ebatuber t but drawing u whole
house up into itself Is certainly sonsethiag novel.

The following notice has lately been /minted
is very large lettere on a barn door at Farnborough, in
Kam, opposite to the George tad Dragon lan : --Tab*
notice, as five horses and three hop hive been stole front
here, whosoever trespasses us these here presnisak, 'her
(lush, will be abut without fail.

A LACK OF Wire—Mr. CORRY, being one
evening in the boxes of Drury-leoe, a tenttraulu
bins wee very tronblesame iq his noisy übseivations, and
fake attempts at wit. 14 Why you measure out your wit
wholesale," said a perm at hand. " True, Sir," said
Mr. Comm, " the gentleman tossers his wit, as in the
East they do rupana—by she. Wk."

A WITTY ScirooL-11 sitOpkvepec
haring an empty cask, which he wished to disports tit;•
placed it before his door, and with dulls wrote upon it
" For snit" A waggisl, schtxsl.bey, possittg that way
shortly afterwards, and peroolvios this tuist44lte of thu
vender of warns, immediately wrote unaorsteath, 4, For
freight Or passage apply at that imai-kult."

A French gentleman who dined in London
le company with h. celebrated author of the Rambler,
wishing to allow 'him a mark el peculiar respect, drank
Dr. 401114i1ON'll health in these Your health,
Mr. Vagabond." Those who know nothiag of French
are informed, that va,yaboutl in that lass tags mower, to
ramble in ours.

NATIONALITY.-At the &nutlet* attsek of,
Tarim il% ie which LOrd NtLtanN lees kii,arat, 'the
:dud* took some En I. I it 11, at** ria
g , sae WM. II
OlRlblild WWI. 014.11 ezultatiou kt kintitihnniAtiln
eitited Ot thew trupLies," said tlis ttiututitutitt
Spaniards, "we shall take great Curs." " TLitt wail be
ver proper," replied an IA gsithimsis prtoo4to toe
perhaps ;mote himself may sue dateall ler them.'
A celebrated pleader, whilst etaisiiiiing tome
witnesses at the bar, heard an ..41-44 jilayint in 'IL* stryvt.
"I never bear an organ piayeJ well," .seld %Le Nut,te
Lord, "but it quite nods out to Heaven." "
please your Ifouour," said en Liebman whit stood twat
hint, "1 tlsink it would be well it your Honour was to t:et
his strersai hest organ-player to pley you a tuts on your
,igatil,,buj, fur I think your amour will moor get to
Heaven any otkor way.

14i,:tn.DiartiOvial:(4128.0pWoptifuliTotuFiranestS.ontliediptr:aiyalustettoifilati,ntaatri6:1011:40etite:vniatuusl:r
Ito4Xtur WALtlitt, who WU hitilitif is tilt dvellar of his
power. The Dean, on being addressed by dm Miniater,
add " Sir ma
window; I Ain like that ivy," lioiuting to the
window ; " I want support." 41 If thit'e the nee," rue
plied the Prosnier, " how came you to attach yourself tt4
tottering wall ?" Tim Dean took the Lint and departud.
Tut 'FAMOUS MItS. MAPP, Tut iloNfe.-
sarron....-This celebrated holy limning to sown about the
time of the aooestion of tilottou I. to the flritish throne.
tho mob, who hail unaccountably' ta,kon 4 44044 that isle
was the KING'S mistress, got rooted her wrier in nett-
greet, and cried oat repeatedly No Haturtur
This she !rare tolerably well for some time, 'till Ler witiv two
being entirely exhausted. 40 0 lAA put Let ikeed out .41
Dover Nl-_•0;
atulisapluut "aoYormso 144XL1,41.?-6 "

SPIRIT Or TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Though the Paris, journals of Wednesday, which
we receive() last night, bring: no intelligence of
great importanee, they contain a number of articles
which will be read with interest. The principal
proceeding in the Chamber of Deputies, on Tues-
day, was the introduction of a bill to iepeal that
violent proscription which was the work of the
furious Ultras after their triumph in 1815. It was
known from what passed in the previous sittings
that this measure of reparation, which will recall to
France a number of men who distinguished them•
selves in the first revolution, was to be brought
forward. With whatever disgust the conduct of
some or these individuals may be regarded, the re-
peal of a law, the mere proposition of which was a
gross violation of the Charter, is not the less an act
of justice and wise policy. In consequence of the
resignation of M. Casimir Perier, on account of
ill-health, M. Latitte luts been chosen almost itani-
triously President or the Chamber. of Deputies.
M. Labbey tie Pompieres succeeds M. Witte as
first Vice-President. Some amusement was excited
by a motion to discharge the two State Messengers
of the Chamber. There is at present in France a
strong disposition to dispense with much of the
etiquette attached to political institutions; but the
fashionable dislike of ceremony, though aided by
the recommendation of some economy, did not
succeed on this occasion, and the old messengers
keep their places, which it seems they have occu-
pied since the commencement of the revolution,
carrying messages with equal impartiality for every
party which has happened to be in power, in spite
of all the changes of so 'extraordinary a period.
Several of the Paris papeas state, that Charles X.
does not intend to fix himself' 'England, and that
he expects, in answer to a letter he has written to
the Emperor Francis, n invitation to reside in
Austria.—Thu

We alluded yesterday to an argument advanced
is certain ultrit.loyal 'quarters, that the treaty of
Paris guaranteed-the Throne of France to the elder
branch of the Bourbons. The public treaty con-
tains no such stipulation, and on further inquiry we
have reason to believe that there is no such secret
ankle as that referred to by the Right•liners in
question. One fact we can announce with equal
confidence and satisfaction. The ready and cordial
recognition of the King of the French by the Eng.
bah Government ii thoroeghly acquiesced in by all
the great Powers of Europe : and no time will be
lost by Russia, Austria, and Prussia, in signifying
their complete and' amicable acknowledgment of the
slaw Government of France.—Timer.

.PerliaMent,'it seems, 'itt prorogued till the 26th
of October, 'then to Meet "for the &smelt of busi-
ness." These ". words of course," as applied to the,
•
last meeting Of. Parliament, were merely such; fur
it „
would not be a very easy matter to point out what
business it really despatched.. Some persons seem
to be of opinion that there Is more delay than there
ought to be in assembling Parliament, and that 'its
meeting is postponed to the very hist hour to which
the vote of credit will extend. r We do not, however,
feel inclined to quarrel with the period fixed; for,
though we dare say Ministers arc anxious to post-
pone the evil day as late as possible,. yet, if they
employed the interval to preparing.and maturing the
pleasures which it will be their duty to propose to
Parliament, this, with the relaxation which men in
all public departments are entitled to expect, will
not make the interval longer than could be rea-
amiably looked for. The period fixed is the week',
atter the Quarter Sessions, and this week before the
Term, when both the country gentlemen and the
lawyers
,(Who form two such large portions of the
Legislature) will be able to assemble with
most convenience. But what is to be. done by wai
rif foreparstion in the interim ? " There's the rub '
The Duke of Welliegteti, we imagine, cannot wil-
lingly attempt tip inarelt tbreugh Westminster with
such a regiment as he headed in the last campaign,
The battle which was then to be fought was mere
child's plat to that' Which *ma: be now ex-
pected. Of the nauxiliaries. which the whipper-in.
was sangume enough to promise his Grace, it is
now doubted whether one will be found; while no•
foreseen events "have ciacurred, requiring talents
"'Nesbit is quite' clear, 'from past experience, the
present Ministerial phalanx do not possess. 'Various
reports are afloat of overtures being made to this
and that party to join The Administration, We
have heard various names mentioned, but none of
sufficient weight to make any serious impression
with the country. We should not at all wonder if,
doe all, these minor negociations were to end in
nothing, and that the Duke were forced to meet the
new Parliament armed, or rather unarmed, as he
did the last. If such should be the case, it will be
easy enough to foresee what must be one or other
of the issues. Either the Administration must
sustain its weakness by such a liberality of conces-
sion es must disarm all oppesition, or it will be left
its such a state, as to numbers, as will insure its
overthrow. The Duke al Wellington, it is quite
clear, is not only riot is statesman of inflexible mos
lotion, but he is one who knows how to make a
virtue of necessity. This he has proved of himself
both on the subject of the Catholic question, and
on his recognition of the new Government in France„
His Grace's position in the country is very differem
to what it was only six months tsgo. Both at bottle
and abroad the state of public affairs is strangely
altered. As a man of expediency the Duke will
probably accommodate himself 'to the! altered cir-
cumstances in which' he is placed• At all events,
hie Grace has not much thne'new left for reflection
preparation eitherbe.olUst ' be prepared tore.
darn the errors of .his last campaign, or hand over
the command to those who will. Thejournalist
who calls the opponents of the Duke of Wellington
a stupid and malignant (wine is blessed with a
very convenient shortness of memory, as not many
revolutions of the sun have taken place wince he de.
signaled the same 'Dukens.one of the'" bully and
brute Administrationr and afterwards expressed
his satisfaction at the prospect of his being con-
Aced to the Horse Guards for life, on the ground
that his Grace was utterly unqualified for a political
situation. We did not agree with this ineonsistent
Journalist, when he made the Duke the objeet of
his scurrilous attacks,. any more than now, when he
offers to himolay after. day, the incense of his ser-
vile idolatry. The Hero of Waterloo deserved well
of his country, but the , Military Premier has tar.
Plotted, by his political errors, the lainels which lie
acquired in weir. During the' whole of last Seasioo
of ParliaMent the promises which had been held
out in the King's Spertkof effective reforms in the
administration of justice, were evaded, and the dile,
tresses of the people,were treated with cold Wit-
(nonce or official levity. The Doke must now teach
his obedient phalank a 'different tone of dellberatiot,
from what they adopted in the lust Perliatnent.—
The taunts, the 'meet* the
,insults, heaped upon the
people, who were, et,least,,entitled to
orneethy and commiseration in their sufferings,. by
the minions of power and a parasite Pies*, :must be
changed to more Soothing and Concihatory language ;
and even the most gmeibila language will not avail
without walostes of Stiletto-alai relief. We have
heard a great &01, of lot's, of Military protiptitinle
and &Anon...but the emu& C
a camp, and prefers that Y not -
ts
oatstltigoishing 7,4Vveigi 1,141 sanitary stirs, tiZtileiftlilCOUoldf
With winch our, ArOftwi wation, TIE!' imbecility
t:iroirlaliztrit,rairtirsfo4, :la .10014nbt:Alitt:inii7itt,te,.::.
litene pr 11th miteoposres and ftegoreirtitiOP"4*-;
lie resorted to for ther jouptitaa of ,Leapiogtho tis I"'
Ministry in power, :we say that they ..wig:,livormL4
cad, Wes* they'AMtme more talents for steteseuti;
ship than they have yet -emelescended to exercise
in the seritite of the State. *rim hooker', in par-

titular, require that skilful and intelligent manage-
ment, to avert serious evils, in which the present
I Cabinet have proved themselvea deplorably deficient.
I* —Morning Herald.
To an article' in the Times of yesterday, to which
we have not occasion to allude, there is appended the
. following singular paragraph
" A reference has been made, in quartets which we shall
not at present name, to the Secret Treaty of Paris, in
' 1815. We shall now merely hint that the casus fwderis
in that impolitic instrument does not apply; that the sup-
, posed guarantee is totally vitiated by the peculiar circum-
stances Vila present crisis. Let those who dispute this
point publish that Secret Treaty, and we will demon-
strate that, as regards the existing condition of France, it
is waste paper."
This is a most important paragraph in many re-
spects. It is evidently derived from an official
channel ; and it leaves no doubt that there is a
Secret Treaty among the Allied Powers to gua-
retiree to the Bourbons the possession of the throne
-of France, and that Great Britain and some of the
other patties to this Treaty are now at issue with
respect to the interpretation which ought to be given
to it. We presume the point on which the defence
of the English Government turns is, that the gun-
, rantee of the Allies had reference to the Government
of France as then established, and that Charles the
Tenth having himself set aside the Charter, and at-
tempted by revolutionary means to alter the Go-
verment and Constitution of France, has thereby
deprived himself of all aid under the Secret Treaty.
Another question, however, immediately suggests it-
self. If Charles X. and his Ministers communicated,
from the commencement-of the Polignac Administra-
tion, the measures which they had it in contemplation
to adopt, and ut the same time the other parties made
no secret of their approbation of them in their diplo-
'Made intercourse with England, is not the silence of
England to be construed into a waiver, on her part,
of her right to escape from the guarantee? The
English Ministers ought, in fairness, to have inti-
mated to Austria (the Power, we suppose, which is
at issue with us), and Russia, and Prussia, that the
measures about to be taken by France would place
that kingdom in a condition essentially different from
that- to which the guarantee kid reference. This
would have been but fair to all parties.- 'lf, however,
the English Ministry, with the usual' Machiavelian
policy not unjustly ascribed to Eegland, anxious for
the success of the measures of Charles (and we
believe in our conscience that the upper classes of
this country were very generally desirous of that
success), remained silent,-with a view to be able to
shape their conduct according to circumstances, the
objection must now come from them , with a very
bud grace.. Is there a man in England 'possessed
of a. vestige of common sense, who believes that
the English Ministry were not. in full possession
of the designs of the French Government ? Nay,
that these designs were not the subject of fre-
quent communication betneen all the great Powers?
The article in the Quarterly Review for May has
been again and again- referred. to. The supposed
author of that article, Captain , Basil Hall, was evi-
dently in possession of the intentions of the French
Government; and as he is exceedingly anxious to
be on the best terms with men in office, it is almost
a certainty that he received his information from
some of them, and knew that in writing the article
he would give pleasure to them. The following
passage is particularly to the point :
" We, therefore, hope and trust, that the King of France
and his present Ministers may succeed, if such be their ob.
jest, in establishing a censorship on the press, and likewise
in acquiring so decided a preponderant* in the Chamber of
Deputies, that its existence as an independent hotly capable
of bearding the Monarchy, es it has recently dune, shall be
no longer recognised. This, we own, will be a virtual
abolition of the Charter, but the question is obviously re-
titled to this: Shall the Monarchy, which is suitable to the
country, be overthrown, or shall the Charter, which, in every
possible, view, is unsuitable to it, be abrogated? It will
be asked, why octal we care what France does? Why not
let her do what she please% ? What have we to do with
her institutions, as a nation, more than we have with the
thimestie arrangements of our next door neighbour in this
street? The answer to this, unfortunately, is but too
ready. If our neighbour merely beats his wife and chil-
dren, and regulaiee his personal concerns in the worst way
possible, we have no right to complain; but if lie gets
intoxicated, and flings about firebrands, so as not only to
set his own house on fire, but to threaten the destruction
of the whole parish, we are compelled, in spite of our love
of quiet, to take a lively interest in the proceedings. If
the French could be circumscribed by a great Chinese wall,
Within which they might cut one another's throats, an
experiment to their heart's content on religion anti demo-
cracy, it would signify less to the neighbouring countries.
But when the amplest experience prover, that no comm.
tion of any extent in Franco ever fails to embroil the rest
of the world, and when we know that there ate innumer-
able objects of ambition, of aggrandisement, and of
national revenge, sll at this hour conspiring to stimu-
late a large portion of the French population to
fresh wars, we cannot possibly view their present un-
settled state without the deepest anxiety. We trust we
have said enough to show that there is only one course
of tneathret by which good order can he preserved ; and
however repugnant it may be to our English tastes, the
necessity of the case requires that we should nut shrink
from the ;trial, but be prepared to witness, as the less
grievous of the two evils, the temporary reestablishment
of a tolerably absolute authority on the part of the Crown
of Prance. If this be impossible, or if the attempt lie
bungled in the execution, we may bid adieu to repose, end
buckle on cur armour for another quarter of a century of
wars, We think it is hardly possible to doubt that, un.
lon the existing Government adopts, anti succeeds in car-
tying into effect some very decisive measure in the course
of the present year, there will ensue another burst of con-
vultion ;' and Nepoleon has left no saying of more indis-
putable truth behind him, then that a revolution in France
is a revolutibn in Europe."
The construction which Mr. Cobbett, in his
Register Of this
.day, puts on the above passage, is
perfectly fair
" Here, then, we have it alll Plot, execution, and
motive; and here it is clear as daylight, that this hired
writer (eel homme d ()ayes) not only knew on the SOM of
May of the designs that Poligrum attempted to execute on
the 26th of July, but that that tyrant was instigated to
the attempt by persons it, tine country 1 And instigated,
too not merely by writers, not merely by deft pens
ti guyrs, but by others, who were in all the. secrete
of the affair. The object of this writer wee to
prepare beforehand a justification for the measures of
Polignac; to blind the people of England, and induce
them to keep Eileut when the net of tyranny should
have been committed in France. But how are we to be-
lieve that this hired writer (ret &Avian d gages) knew by
mere self-ipfermetion, that Volieeac intended a censorship
,if the press an abolition of the rights. of election ? How
are we to believe that in the month of May, this:nen knew
that Polignac would attempt to do precisely thole things in
the month of July ; unless we believe that this ecrivain
payes had his n11(4111404 from some person. in this
reentry ? Polignac would hardly communicate hie hor-
rible designs to this low hit elieg. Nobody, can believe
that' he dal this ; mid therefore we are constrained to be-
lieve that the hireling was, in the month of May, informed
by some one in. London of what was intended to be done in
Perlis, It WO attempted just as is here recommended ;
the ortlinaeces imposed the Censerohip, and abrogated the
Charter hut the scheme was 'bungled in .the execution
the courage and the virtue of the brave Parisiens made it
till ; and now count to be coniiitlertal the dangers which
will eri,e to this country froM the quattgling of the
111
eXtCtitiOO,

Bin a variety of 4rcurnstanees may be.urged to,
prove the feeling in certain quarter* in this country
with regerd to. the arbitrary measures pursued on
the Continent. Our readers are aware that the
hatred- of the Duke of Wellington-to Mr. flukisson
is no common hatred. Why is this ? Mr. Iluskisson
is not connected with any powerful party in the
State, who might be desirous of sharing power with
his Grace. lie belongs to a small band, in point of
numbers and property—powerful only from talents
and character—and the Duke's Administration te«
quires, above all things., talents and character. Men
of the world, like his Grace, put on and off loves
OW hatreds as suits their convenience; and no one
tobeves that his COCO tares for any One human
being, from any.other cuoideration than the use of
which he may. be to him. There being then so many
reasons far being on good terms with this small
baud, why the hatred t' Our readers cannot have
re nttbfottan the peculiar bitterness with which Sir
1l VII Ltd charged Mr. Mishima) last Session'
'4'l, furgetting, ha his dibe'loures to tie, Hettse di"

he had been a Cabinet Minister. They cannot either
have forgotten that Mr. liuskisson, on more than
one occasion, charged Ministers with a hostility to
free Governments all over the world. A. Cor7
respondent calls our attention to a passage in is
speech of Mr. Huskisson's, of some importance in
this respect. Referring to the paragraph in the Time:,
he says :
.4 By this bold face being put on the matter, we may
safely conclude that all is made snug at Paris—that the
Ministers of the four great Powers have succeeded in their
entreaties to the French Government to keep secret the
contents of the Iron Chest found in Polignac's bureau, as
mentioned in the Courier of August the
" But notwithstanding all this, the public, that obsti.
nate Oldie, will still entertain their opinions when they
turn to the columns of the Times for Juno, 1828, where
they will find a statement of one of the initiated, one of
the Duke's own Cabinet, who, on his dismissal, turned
King's evidence, and in the face of Parliament and of the
country, on the 2d of June, 1828, made a speech that
astonished every one, and from which the following is an
extract -

" He (Mr. Huskisson) could not believe that Mr. Peel
would think that the Minister should be more powerful
than the House and the country—that he could entertain
the notion, though lie knew some did entertain it, that it
was the duty of Government to arrest improvement and
controul advancement. Persons who looked with alarm
at the example of liberty and toleration in other countries—
who thought there was danger in the interchange of
sentiments between nations, and of the moral influence
which one nation might exercise over another,who dreaded
such a change as much as he knew they dreaded the inter-
change of articles of commerce on more equal terms.
" He should be ashamed if his Right Hon. Friend
could see England reduced_ to a fifth or sixth station among
the nations of the earth, and a Holy Alliance established
here—that could think a Holy Alliance in this country
ourchased at a cheap rate; lie should be ashamed could
his Hon. Friend contemplate the liberty of free discussion-7
of the freedom of the Press, and the placing again the
expansive mind of man under an influence which would
have an immenme standing army to entorce its operations 1'
" This speech, :coupled with the abominable foreign
policy acted on since the Duke has held the reins of Go-
vernment, will not admit of a doubt of his having joined
the firm of Metternich, Polignac, end Co., and in spite of
the aid of the Times, Courier, &e., he will be unseated,
and deservedly so, from the place that he acknowledged he
was incapable of filling in the year 1827."
In Mr. llnskisson s speech on Lord Palmerston's
motion, on March 10th, he had the following me-
morable passage, as reported in the Chronicle of the
1 Ith :

" Would his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Peel) toll
him within how many days Louis XVIII. bad prepared
the Charter of France ? Yet he hoped that that Charter
was not doomed to experience a premature destruction,
merely because it was prepared in the short space of three
days. After a farther observation to the above effect, the
Hight Hon. Gentleman proceeded to dilate upon what he
conceived to be the alterations which had taken place in
the laws of nations since the year 1815, complaining that
wherever free institutions were proposed by the people, or
improvements of any kind endeavoured to be effected by
the popular voice, they uniformly experienced the opposi-
tion of every Court in Europe, and that military execution
was inflicted on them by the nearest power possessing the
requisite strength. He denied altogether the assertion
made on the other side, that the people of Portugal were
favourable to the rejection of the Constitution. He com-
plained, that at regent even legitimate power and legiti-
mate Sovereigns were not supported by the other Sove-
reigns of Europe, if they had any free institutions ; while,
if they were tyrants, they received every support. This
country ought not to act with such criminals, nor follow
the practices of such persons."
This from an Ex-Cabinet Minister! But the
Secret Treaty must not be dropt : we shall return
to ir.—Alorning Chronicle.