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London, England, 1822-09-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS,

EXTRNCTS PROM 'ME DAILY MORNING PAPERS

September 4, 182.

[MORNING HERALD.]
One of the Morning Papers recently criticised
the diplomatic fitness of the Duke of Welling.:
ton, with the solemnity of a lecturer ex cathedra.
Yet the Ministers had the rashness to persist in
sending the Duke to the approaching Congress,
against the opinion of so experienced a diplo-
matist. Yesterday his military capacity and
reputation were de=canted and decided on by
the same authority. Those, who had read the for-
mer article, were alarmed lest the Duke should be
found as deficient in military as in diplomatic ta-
lents. They found, how everovith no small satisfac-
tion; that the learned and consistent critic has not
only pronounced him a great and successful Com-
mander, but moreover discovered him to be a ju-
dicious and active Master-General of the Ord-
nance, and even qualified, if not revoked, the
former judgment of diplomatic incapacity. This
amende honorable will no doubt be a great con-
solation to the Duke. The Journalist's compe-
tency to dictate in military matters may be esti-
mated from the specimen, which he has, on this
'very occasion, afforded of his skill in those 'two
importa.nt branches of the art of war—attack and
retreat.

THE TIMES.]
The State of Tenessee has, through its Go-
vernor, Carroll, presented a sword .to General
Jackson ; and the speeches of the Governor and
the General, delivered on the 4th of July, the
anniversary of American independence, have been
ektracted from the Franklin Gazette. General
Jackson's oration, on receiving the gift from his
countrymen, is remarkable for the same inflated
and boastful style, but likewise for the same
decided and masculine spirit which have
equally distinguished his former 'harangues
and writings, his public acts, and his pri-
vate' history. lie justly calls New Orleans
the 'Emporium of the West (the west, in
relation to the other ports of the United States,)
and refers directly or indirectly in almost every
paragraph of his.speech to •the successful opera-
tion against the British army, of which the scene
was.laid in that important province. The " Hero
of Orleans," like the " Maid of Orleans," has
performed valiant deeds ; and in modesty, the
resemblance of these noted personages is not less
striking than in valour.

[NEW TIMES.]

It is astonishing to hear a certain' class of men
boast so much of the wisdom of the age, and at
the same time to witness the barefaced impositions
of which they attempt to make the age the dupe.
They call themselves the exclusive friends of the
Constitution ; and to prove the reality and in-
tensity of their friendship, they slander the
Sovereign, and cry down loyalty. On one day
they attack the Crown and the Aristocracy,
on the next they assail the Clergy and the
Magistracy ; now they revile the Legisla-
ture, and then they cover with invectives
Judges and Juries in the gross. Their hostility
is directed, not against the errors, but against,
the very existence of these institutions ; and
there is no constitutional maxim which they do
not COD travert, nor any • constitutional body
which they do not labour to destroy. If their
counsels were acted upon, the Constitution to-
morrow would be nothing but a heap of frag-
ments. We can only account for such persons
calling themselves the friends of the Constitu-
tion, by supposihg, that, in the new 'doctrines
of which •we hear so much, the terms friend-
ship and enmity had changed meanings, and that
the most valuable act Of friendship which a man
can render to his friend is—to cut his throat.—
Let his-• Majesty follow his present conduct—
let him-gmanifest the same di3regard for every
thing but meririn-the choice of his Ministers—
the same anxiety to- patronise and promote every
thing that is calculated to benefit or ornament the
State—the same alacrity to sacrifice his personal
feelings for the good of the nation, and the same
lofty impartiality bet Ween conflicting parties,
which he has hitherto manifested. Let him shew
himself to his People, and by his presence dis-
sipate the clouds of delusion which faction is
eternally raising between them and himself;
and let him still travel through his dominions,
the extinguisher of party feuds, the destroyer
of faction, the restorer of national unanimity,
the originator of public benefits, and the real
father of his country.—Let him do this, and he
need fear no " constitutional" slander. lie will
find that the hearts of his people—assailed as they
have been by every art that wickedness could
invent—have not yet been frozen into republican
ice, and that their virtues have not yet been de-
graded into republican vices. The enthusiastic
and chivalrous attachment, which he knows so
well how to appreciate, will ever greet his foot.
steps ; and the voice of the whole empire will
award him that which is the highest object of his
wishes and the most splendid reward he could
obtain.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We have received most positive, and, in our
opinion, indubitable assurances,-that the practice
at the Colonial Office, to which we alluded yes-
terday, has prevailed for a considerable tune,, to
the serious annoyance and detriment of a parti-
cular class of merchants concerned in the Co-
lonial
_Trade. The name of the favoured house
in the City has even been handed to us, together
with a request to use our influence i❑ whatever
way might be necessary for correcting the abuse.
With these facts, publicly brought before Lord
Bathurst's, or rather Mr. Wilmot's notice, we only
do our duty in not merely requiring him to investi-
gate the charge,but demanding that the nuisance, as
it may well be termed, shall be forthwith abated.
Trusting that this'appeal will have the desired ef-
fect, we shall for the present content ourselves with
remarking, that the discipline or a public depart-
ment must be extremely lax where abuses such as
we have stated could be suffered to exist. We should
like: to know if they constitute the grounds of
recommendation of Lord BathurSt as a fit and
proper successor to the late Marqviss of Lon-