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London, England, 1822-07-23 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZXTRACTS FROM TIIE D %MY MORNING PAPERS,
July 23, 1822.

[THE TINIES.3
It will be seen by our Parliamentary report,
that an abuse which has prevailed ter a sharrieful
extent in- Ireland, and which, like some other
peculiarities of Irish administration, "has been
lately imported into this country, was last night
noticed and exposed in the House of Commons.
The abuse to which we allude is that of sending
Government advertisements for insertion in,papers
of very limited circulation, and excluding them
from others, which,• being more generally read,
are capable of spreading More widely the infor-
mation required to be communicated ; thus con-
verting the public money into a source of corrupt
patronage, instead of employing it to promote
the public interest. "If Ministers, however, are
thus prodigal of the national purse, they have at
least this plea, that they disinterestedly lavish it
upon those who are least-capable of promoting
their views, of defending. their measures, or ex-
tending their popularity. To prove' this, we
need do 110 mote than refer to some of the papers
mentioned in the report as the chief objects of
their bounty.
The folloWing scene occurred last night in the
gallery of the House of Commons, towards the
conclusion of the debate :—Mr.R.lVlartin came,
and having inquired for our reporter, 'addressed
him, as nearly as he can recollect, in the follow-
ing words :—" I come, Sir, to request that you
will never in future, upon any occasion, attribute
a single syllable to me in your paper. I know
that, when you choose, you are able to do full
justice to any Member that may speak ; but
some how or other it happens that whenever I
rise to address the House, you take the opportu-
nity of putting something foolish or ridiculous
into my mouth. Now I promise you, upon my
word, that if I ever find myself in Print again in
your paper, I will complain of it to the House,
and bring to the bar all the parties concerned.
I will therefore thank you not to report me in
future, and to tell the others to do the same."—
The reporter, after stating his belief that Mr.
Martin had never been intentionally misrepre-
sented by any gentleman connected with the Times,
assured him that as far as he (the reporter ad-
dressed) was concerned, Mr. R. Martin should
never again appear in print. Mr. Martin smiled,
and said—" I am glad to hear you say so.—
If you say any more of me than that Mr. R.
Martin spoke, or Mr. R. Martin voted, on such
or such a side--for you may-say that, as I. am
not ashamed of my party—l will brine,' you be-
fore the House, depend upon it ; and I also
put a stop to reporting altogether." The re-
porter for the Chronicle, who was seated near
our reporter, interfered at' this moment, acid said,
" I t is not in your power, Mr. Martin, nor in that
of any other Member, to put a stop to report-
ing." Mr. It. Martin.—" I forbid you, also,
Sir, reporting me." Reporter of the Chronicle.—
". As to that, Sir, I shall use my opn discretion,
and shall not submit to any dictation froth you
as to the manner in which 1 am to perform my
duty." Mr. 11.. Martin seemed' surprised, tind
asked the reporter of the Chronicle for his name.
After he had got it, the Hon. Member waiked
away without saying another word, and thus the
conference ended.—(4id.)

ENEW TIMES.]
It was 'yesterday rumoured, but we believe
without foundation, that an express had reached
town with news from Madrid to the 14th instant.
The Journal de Paris, of Saturday, which we
have received, brings the Spanish news down to
the 12th, and, though our political sentiments
differ widely from those of that Paper, we have
thought fit to make some extracts from the intel-
ligence which it contains. Added to which our
private letters of Friday lasi, from Paris, deserve
particular attention. Upon the whole, it
ap-
pears that, up to the 12th instant, things re-
mained nearly in the same state at Madrid
as for four days previously. The Journal de
Paris, indeed, mentions some new appointments
to the Ministry ; but of these (although by no
means improbable) it may be prudent to sus-
pend our positive belief. The persons specified
are. Gazely, Minister of Foreign Affairs ad
ittterinr : Lopez Banos, Minister of War ; Cala-
trava, Minister of the Interior; and Santa Cruz,
-Minister of the Royal Household. The Journal
de- Paris disposes very biiefly of the Carbineers
who were at Cordova, and whom it states to have
been cut to pieces by a Militia Regiment near
Montoro. It is seldom. that a raw levy of
militia cuts to pieces a veteran regiment of
regulars; and •we shall probably be excused
for sayinz that we do not helieve a syllable
of this story. It is very remarkable, that the
movements of the Royal Guards subsequently to
the 7th instant remain enveloped in entire obscu-
rity_i whence we may reasonably conclude that
the Revolutionists have nothing to boast respect-
ing them. The opinion of our Paris Correspon-
dent is highly probable, that- the Chiefs of the
Revolutionary Faction-begin to--be alarmed, and
hesitate. Spain is not prepared fOr a Republic
in the' manner that France was prior to the 10th
of August, 1792; and we would fain hope that
Riego and-his assassins ,possess somewhat less in-
fluence in Madrid than Marat and the Septem-
briseurs did in Paris.

[MORNING POST.]
Dispatches were yesterday received at the
Office of the Marquis of Londonderry from Mr.
Hervey, our Minister at the Court of Madrid,
which were brought by Mr.Ward,who is attached
to the Embassy in Spain. We understand they
are of the utmost importance—a fact which must
be sufficiently obvious, from the character and
situation of the Gentleman entrusted with them.
Mr. Ward was only seven days performing the
journey, and immediately on his arrival had a
long audience of Lord Londonderry,on the state
of affairs in the Peninsula. The intelligence is to
the 15th inst. at which time the Spanish capital
was tranquil, though every thing still remained
in the most awful suspense. Some partial