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London, England, 1822-04-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, Arnie. 19.
At four o'clock, there being but 37 Members
present, the SPEAKER adjourned the House until
to-morrow (this day).

FLINT COUNTY MEETING.—On Wednesday, a
meeting was held in Mold, called by the High Sheriff, T. H AR-
RISOY, Esq. in consequence of a requisition, signed by several
highly respectable gentlemen of the county, a copy of which ap-
peared in ourlast. About three quarters past twelve, the doors of
the Town Hall were thrown open, and the hall was immediate-
ly filled. Amongst the gentlemen present, were Thomas Har-
rison, Esq. the High Sheriff of the county, Sir E. P. Lloyd,
Bart. J. Wynne Eyton, Esq. F. 11. Price, Esq. of Bryne y
Pys, Cynrick Lloyd, Esq. T. Mostyn Edwards, Esquire,
Colonel 'l'. Lloyd k letcher, Major Fletcher, S. Boydell, Esq.
Manor, Doctor Wynne, lenry Thomas, Esq. the Reverend
Charles Butler Clough, Thomas Trevor Mather, Esq.
James Knight, Esq. Trevor Owen Jones, Esq. the Reverend
T. Hugh Clintgli, 11. L. Rigby, Esq. R. Butler Clough,
Esq. James Kenrick, Esq. William Hancock, Esq. J. Parry
Tilsby, Esq. Edward Jones Hughes, Esq. Plas Oun, Captain
R. Brown, Rev. J. Conway Potter, Thomas Wynne Eyton,
Esq. Peter Parry, Coroner, Reverend Mr. Jones, of Ha-
warden, &c. Sir E. P. Lloyd moved, that the High Sheriff
do take the Chair, which being done, a letter was read
from the Very Reverend the Dean of St. Asaph, who, we
regret to say, was prevented by illness from attending
personally, expressive of the approbation of the meeting, of
the terms of the Requisition, and stating his sentiments gene-
rally upon the occasion for which the meeting was called. F.
R. Price, Esq. in an able speech, moved the petition, of which
we give a copy, and was seconded by Mostyn Edwards, Esq.
Sir E. P. Lloyd followed in an eloquent and energetic speech,
and moved that the petition which had been read be adopted
as the petition of the meeting :—his motion was seconded and
carried unanimously. Dr. Wyn ne moved the thanks of the meeting
to the High Sheriff, and Sir E. P. Lloyd moved thanks to Mr.
Price for the manly manner in which he had brought forward
the petition. The petition received numerous signatures in the
Hall, and is to be submitted for signature in different parts of
the county, and presented on Monday, by the Members for the
County and Borough of Flint. Sir E. P. Lloyd said, he should
do his utmost to forward the prayer of it.—( Chester Chronicle,
April 19.)

THE S N .

SOLEM QUIS DIOERE FALSU.II .AIUDE.I7'

LONDON,
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1822.

We have received an article of intelligence, by

the way of Amsterdam, of the utmost import-

ante, inasmuch as.it gives a clear explanation of

the real state of affairs between RussiA and the

PORTED upon which we think we may place the

firmest. reliance, and which at once removes all

the obscurity that has so long hung over the ne-

gociations of those Powers, and accounts for the

extraordinary reserve that appears to govern the

conduct of the Austrian Cabinet. We are as-

suted that it was the intention of the PoItTE

to address a most confidential statement of the

difficulties in which the Turkish Government is

involved to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and, to the
British 'Ministers. That statement, we have reason

to believe, avows the absolute necessity on the

part of the Sultan to reject the Ultimatum offered

by Russia, as the Turkish army and their leaders

are positively determined on war, and that con-

sequently an acceptance of the terms offered by

Russia would provoke an insurrection and occa-

sion the total overthrow of the Turkish Govern-

meat.

This confidential statement we have fur-

tiler reason to believe has been positively

submitted to the respective Governments in

alliance with Turkey, and to Russia itself ;

that, in consequence, Russia has been induced

to for her terms, and that the expectation of

war has considerably abated. We are further

informed that the apprehension that a general

insurrection throughout Italy, France, and Ger-

many, would probably take place the moment

Russia had absolutely involved herself in a

Turkish war, has led to these arrangements.—

From the source and mannner of the communi-

cation which we have received, we are induced

to repeat our conviction that it is founded on

facts upon which we may implicitly rely.

The Foreign Intelligence received since our
last from France, Germany, and the North of
Europe, though not decisive of the great ques-
tion at issue between Russia and Turkey, is of
a much more warlike character than our accounts
of yesterday and the preceding day.—Letters
from Hambnrgh continue to speak of the nego-
ciations between England and Denmark, for the
cession of Copenhagen and the Danish Isles to
England, in exchange for the Kingdom of Hanover.
Letters from Frankfort, confirming this report,
mention the alarming sensation produced by it at
Berlin, apd pretend that, under the auspices of a
Great Power, another arrangement is en lapis,
guaranteeing the possession of Hanover to Prus-
sia, and ceding the ancient French departments
on the banks of the Rhine to the Kingdom of
the Netherlands.

- FRENCH FUNDS.
April 16, Five per Cents.
Bank Stock 1585 f. c.

The American Papers which were brought by
the last packet that arrived at Liverpool have
not yet been received in town ; but another file
of Papers, not later than those we have seen be-
fore, have arrived, from which we extract the
following :

The SECRETARY Of STATE to GOVerriOrANDREW JACKSON.
Department of State, January 8.

4' SIR-I have had the honour of receiving
your letter of the 22d November, with its inclo-
sures. Translations are now transmitted to you,
by the directio❑ of the President of the United
States, of two letters received from the Minister
of Spain, the definitive answer to which will be

deferred until I shall have the opportunity of
receiving your reply to this letter, with any re-
marks you may think proper to make on the let-
ters of the Minister. You will observe that, in
that relating to the seizure of the papers at St.
Augustine, he dwells with much earnestness on the
agreement which had been made between Col.BuT-
r.rrt and the late Governor COPPINGER concerning
these papers. If that agreement was known to
you at the time when you issued the order for de-
manding and securing the papers, you will have
the goodness to state the particular grounds on
which you judged it necessary to resort to com-
pulsory measures for obtaining possession of them.
I have the honour to be,

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.

The amount of Bills discounted on personal-security is
20,013,226 dollars 10 cents. • on the Funded Debt 124,682,039
dollars 49 cents. ; on Bank Stock, &c. 5,503,248 dols. 86. cents.;
making the total amount of their discount twenty-six millions
six-hundred and forty-one thousand one-hundred and fifty-
eight dollars, forty-five cents.
The amount of Specie in the Bank and its branches are given
at eleven-millions two-hundred and fifty-eight thousand twenty-
five dollars, ninety-six cents.
The amount of Public Money deposited is 8,833,6,39 dollars
22 cents. ; on account of Individuals 4,362,803 dols. 29 cents. ;
Total amount of Money deposited in the Bank and its branches,
seven-million six-hundred and ninety-six thousand one hun-
dred and ninety-two dols. and fifty-one cents.,-This statement
is that of June, 1821.

Among otherarguments for repealing the Statute
which excludes Catholic Members from Parlia-
ment, it has been urged that this Bill having been
passed at a time when all England was transported
with rage and fear, on account of the supposed
Popish Plot, must be considered as the offspring
of passion and bigotry, and therefore unfit to
exist among a people animated by better feel-
ings. Nothing, however, is more common in
the history of nations, and particularly of our
own, than alterations in the law and system of
Government, originating in temporary policy or
transient zeal, but proving in their results as so-
lidly and permanently useful as any regulations
that could have been devised by the soundest
wisdom and most ardent patriotism. If the act
in question had been merely a product of the
frenzy created by the Popish Plot, we may rea-
sonably presume that when the machinery of
that plot was finally broken to pieces, in the be-
ginning of JAMES the Second's reign, at which
time Parliament shewed an eager desire to retrace
many of the steps that had been taken in the mo-
ment of popular excitation, the Catholic Peer and
Commoner would have been re-admitted to their
privilege of sitting in the National Council. But
their restoration never took place, and it still re-
mains to be effected after the lapse of a hundred
and thirty-seven years from the conviction and
punishment of OATES. Parliament, however,
was actuated by another fear in passing the Act
of the 30th CHARLES 11. ; the dread universally
entertained of a Popish heir presumptive ; and
no man, we believe, will contend that this dread
was not fully justified in the sequel, or that the
conduct of the Popish heir did not afford ample
ground for rejoicing at any securities which had
been provided against Catholic aggression.
It will, however, be answered ; allowing the
exclusion to have been politic and justifiable
during the reign of a Catholic Prince, or even so
long as the Protestant Succession was rendered
in any degree insecure by the existence of a
Popish Family pretending to the Crown, all
cause of alarm from that quarter has now vanished,
and why, therefore, should the same odious dis-
abilities continue to be imposed ? We ask, in
reply, is a Catholic King the only just object of
jealousy to a Protestant nation ? Not only our
Monarchs, but the Peers, the Commons, parties
and individual leaders in each House, have at
various periods enjoyed influence and advanced
pretensions inconsistent with the general freedom;
and if a bigotted Popish Sovereign has been found
so dangerous a foe to British liberty and inde-
pendence, why may not a majority of the Upper
or Lower House, an ambitious Minister, an art-
ful demagogue, impelled by fanaticism, and de-
voted to Romish interests, engage with the same
fatal determination in schemes destructive of the
public tranquillity and hazardous- to the Consti-
tution

We do not only fear the ill effects that would
result from turbulence or subtlety in those Ca-
tholics who might themselves obtain a place in
Parliament, but we also think a formidable mis-
chief would arise from the increased and more
concentrated violence of Catholics out of doors,
when they saw persons of that religion seated in
the two Houses, whom they would naturally
look to as their patrons, and as bound in duty
to be their faithful agents and interpreters.—
Such Members, even if they were themselves dis-
posed to moderation, and willing to respect those
defences which might still remain to the Pro-
testant establishment, would be subjected to a
perpetual and vehement pressure from their im-
patient fellow-subjects of the Romish persuasion;
pressure which the utmost steadiness of character
would perhaps be unable wholly to resist; and

which, in many instances, would be yielded to
from a love of popularity and a deference to the
supposed public feeling. And if it is difficult
for a Legislator to brave the reproach of being
no patriot, how difficult would his part become,
when to that reproach was added the imputa-
tion of being au unfaithful son of the Church !
When the Romish Peers are once admitted
into the Upper House, no man living, we sup-
pose, can doubt that the introduction of Com-
moners into the Lower will be claimed as a mat-
ter of course. It would be the height of simpli-
city to suppose that Mr. CANNING is not awake
to this consequence of his proceeding ; nor can
we precisely understand why he should have
offered his present motion to Parliament, unac-
companied by that further demand, which all
persons, thinking as he does, must consider as its
proper and necessary concomitant. In our view
of the subject; this forbearance gives the whole
measure a sinister and insidious character. We
distinctly see that something is in contemplation,
ulterior to the step now proposed, and it is na-
tural to conclude that the projects which remain
behind are either too indefinite for present dis-
closure, or too startling to be revealed at once.
The claims of the Catholics are at all times to
be viewed with jealousy, but more especially
when attempts are made to forward their designs
by artifice and manoeuvre.

We trust that Mr. PEEL, and those Gentlemen
who support him in his patriotic resistance to this
fatal scheme of relaxation, will maintain their
ground with that vigour and perseverance which
become men struggling for the highest interests
of their own and future generations. If any
man is weak enough to think that the conces-
sion now proposed may safely be allowed,
because it is so small, we would refer him to
tEsoe's homely fable of the woodcutter, who
entered into a forest and besought the trees to
furnish him with a small piece of wood to makez
handle for his axe. The trees thought it would
be illiberal to refuse so small a boon, and the
handle was cheerfully given. As soon, however,
as the clown had repaired his instrument, he be-
gan to mark out the fairest and straitest stems,
and to lop and hew without remorse. Merito
euedimur! we deserve the blow, said the groan-
ing ancients of the forest as the axe resounded
among them. Merit° ettedinthr ! may we too ex-
claim, if, in consequence of our present remissness,
the arm of implacable hostility should one day
be raised at fatal advantage against our noblest
and most sacred institutions.

IRELAND.—The accounts of outrages received
this morning are not numerous. His Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant has recovered from his in-
disposition. George Walker and Edmond Fitz-
gerald (the schoolmaster, employed by Captain
Rock to write many of his notices) have been
executed, the former at Newcastle, and the latter
at Shanagolden.

We shall insert on Monday a copy of a long
and able Memorial, addressed by the Committee
of the Ship-owners' Society, new Broad-street, to
the Lords' Committee of Privy Council for
Trade and Plantations, dated the 15th instant.
The Committee, in this valuable address, chew,
that though the form of the present Bills in
Parliament for altering the Navigation Laws is
a satisfactory improvement upon that of the Bill
introduced at the close of the last Session, their
substance remains the same, and is as objection-
able and as fatal to the interests of British Ship-
plug and Commerce, and to the Naval Power of
the State, as that of the measure previously pro-
posed. We shall not anticipate the irrefragable
drguments by Is hich the Committee support their
opinion.

- There is at present a vacancy in the office of
Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, but little
chance of much contest, as Dr. NtJTTALL, Senior
Physician of the General Westminster Dispen-
sary, is a Candidate, and his own high professional
pretensions are backed by such powerful support
as to preclude all danger of any strong compe-
tition.

The following extract of a letter, dated Paris,
April 15th, was handed about the City yester-
day. In respect to the person arrested, we hope
it will prove to be erroneous :-
44 Mr. BURDEIr, a relative of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT,
and who has not been in France before for four years, has just
been arrested on his arrival in Paris, by the Police, on suspi-
cion of his having trmsonable papers in his possession."—
( Morning Post.)

FUNERAL or SIR NATHANIEL CONANT.—Yes-
terday morning, at ten o'clock, the mortal remains of Sir NA-
THANIEL CONANT were removed from his late residence in
Portland-place, with ail due ceremony, and were most respect-
ably attended. The procession moved slowly on, along the
New-road, towards Finchley, where, on its arrival, the remains
of the deceased were deposited in the family vault.
TRIBUTE TO THE LATE C. DIBDIN, Esq.—
Thursday evening a party of Gentlemen met at the house
of OXBERRY, the Comedian, the Craven's Head, Drury-
lane, when it was proposed and seconded, that a Monument
should be greeted to the memory of CHARLES DIBDIN, Esq.
the celebrated Naval song writer. The subject was immedi-
ately embraced by the Meeting; and resolutions were framed
and unanimously agreed to.

At an early hour yesterday morning a meeting
took place in the fields at the back of the Mont-
pelier Tavern, Camberwell, between Lieutenant
K--, It. N., and Mr. 111'--, a medical stu-
dent attending the hospitals. On Tuesday the
two gentlemen, who were before strangers to
each other, met at a card party, given by a mu-
tual friend in Nelson-square, and the wine hay-
ing circulated freely, operated as a stimulus to deep
play. The Lieutenant was a considerable winner,
and at an unguarded moment, Mr. M'-- was
so violent as to ascribe his luck to unfair pro-
ceedings. Some blows were exchanged in the
room ; but the parties were separated without
much mischief. The challenge originated with
the Lieutenant, who was attended to the field by
a brother Officer, and Mr. M'-- by his bro-
ther, who is a respectable surgeon. At the first
fire the Lieutenant was struck in the right ann
by his adversary's ball, which tore his coat and
lacerated the flesh ; but the wound is by no
means dangerous. This terminated the matter.

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