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London, England, 1825-01-21 00:00:00

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DA I Ll'

Extracts from the Morning rvers,Jan.2l, 1525.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The'opponents of M. de \Titlele are, we per-
teire, not very scrupulous with respect to the
means they employ to injure him. Among our
extracts from the Paris Papers of Tuesday, will
be found an article of the Journal des Mbals, the
the organ of De Chateaubriand, the object of
which seems to be to excite a hostile feeling in
France against this country, on account of the
diplomatic manoeuvring at Lisbon, and the re-
cognition of the independence of South America.
We trust the French have too much good sense
to renounce the advantages they now enjoy, and
to pick a quarrel with us, on account of any sup-
posed ascendancy we may possess at the Court
of Lisbon. Surely, they have enough of ascen-
dancy in the Peninsula ; and it might be well to
extricate themselves from the embarrassment in
which their conquest of Spain has involved them,
before embarking in other magnificent projects.—
If Messieurs the Ultras have any sense, they will
avoid troubling the peace of Europe ; for though
they are quite secure at present, if war, and the
'calamities Khich follow in its train, were to agi-
tate once more the people of the Continent, cer-
tain opinions might find partizans once more,
much sooner than they dream of. The prosperity
of the. people is the best guarantee for their
obedience.

An apprehension, we learn, is entertained hi
the best informed quarters, that the Dutch have
been before-hand with us in occupying the part
of New Holland nearest to the Indian Islands,
which we had it in our view to colonize for com-
mercial purposes.—(Mid.)

It is again confidently asserted, that Lord Am-
herst is to be recalled, and to he succeeded by
Lord William Bentinck.—(Thid.).

`MORNING POST.]

We received last night, by I;:xpress, French
Papers to the 19th instant, and the :toile of
Wednesday. The proceedings of the Chambers
have been unimportant, and will continue to be
sc!until after the Commissions appointed to ex-
amine the Projects of law for indemnifying the
Emigrants and reducing the Rents, shall have
made their reports. It is stated in the illoniteur,'
but of, course not officially, that the Duke of Nor-,
thumberland is to be the Ambassador Extraordi-
nary sent to represent his Britannic Majesty at
the Coronation of the King of France, andthat his •
Grace will display great magnificence on the oc-
casion. This is the first time that the rumour
has reached us, but no part of it is difficult of be-
lief, considering the liberal spirit in which many
appointments have been made by his Majesty's
Government, and the splendid disposition of the
Noble Duke. The Journal des Dards contains
an article from Constantinople, dated the 17th of
December, which throws some light on the dis-
sections which broke out some time since in the
Korea, and which have been terminated by the
death of the younger Colocotroni, who fell in an
engagement against the troops of the Senate. It
is said in this article, and with no small appear-
ance of probability, that the contemplated expe-
dition of Ibrahim Paella against the i\iorea
was not so rash as it had been imagined. Colo-
cotroni, still powerful, and seduced by foreign
agents, is represented as having agreed to rise as
soon as Ibrahim should have effected a land-
ing, in order to co-operate with him in at-
tacking and overthrowing the Greek Government
established at Napoli di Romania. lie is stated,
however, to have betrayed his designs too early,
and to have lost his son in consequence, hostili-
ties having been commenced on his part with ina-
dequate means, About the same period, too,
Ibrahim Paella experienced a defeat in the waters
of Candia : his fleet. was dispersed by a storm,
but afterwards rallied in the Gulf of Macri. lie
set sail a second time on the 25th of November,
but only to sustain a fresh defeat, after which it
is said that he retired, with the loss of seventeen
vessels and 2,000 prisoners, back to Alexandria.
The article adds, that the title of Ilospodar was
to be given to Colocotroni, had his enterprise
been crowned with success., but that it would only
have been a snare that he would soon have fallen
victim to the jealousy and perfidiousness of the
Divan. The Captain Pacha, who has preserved
in a most wonderful =neer both his head and
the favour of the Sultan, had received orders
to. collect his squadron, or rather to form a new
one, and to sail to the Archipelago to protect
the Ottoman Flag, which since the retreat of
Ibrahim Pacha to Egypt remained without sup-
port in the Seas of Greece and Asia. The Journal
dee Debuts remarks on the contents of this article,
that the assertions respecting the elder Coloco-
troni are unfounded, and that he took no part in
a plot so disgraceful to a Christian and a Greek.
It also contends that the short hostilities between
Patio Colocotroni (the son) and the Central
Government,' which ended with the death of the
for Mer, bad no connection whatever with the
Egyptian expedition,and were merely a revival of
those which had occurred the year before. The
Capitanis, or hereditary military Chiefs, it main-
tains, have never proved traitors, " though they
may be ambitious and turbulent, vices which
hut too often accompany courage." The Greek
official accounts of the various encounters with
the Egyptian fleet have. been published. Their
details correspond with those which we have al-
ready given, we, therefore do not repeat them.—
It appears, however, that the frigate of 45 guns,
which was said
!c, have escaped after having had
.
its sails burnt, only escaped total destruction, and
fell into the hands of the Greeks, to whose navy
it cannot fail to prove an important addition.

[NEW TIN ES.J
It iS stated, that a capital of three millions ster.
ling is about to be raiiied for the establishment of
cotton manufactories in Ireland. Several other un.
dertakings of,a similar nature are likely to be soon
set on foot : and ,we may therefore hope to See
British capital eltteusively, directed to the im-
provement of the state of the sister kingdom.

Steam-boats and railways may perhaps effect
a revolution more beneficial to that country
than any political laws which could be enacted.
There is at present a greater demand for
cottton goods, than all the English and
Scotch manufactories together, with all their
advantages of machinery, experience, and
capital, can supply : and it is not without reason
conjectured, that the recognition of the South
American Republics will lead to a still farther ex-
tension of this trade. We perceive that in Ireland,
as well as in England, Joint Stock Companies are
spreading in every direction. There are the Hi-
bernian Banking Company, the Hibernian Gas
Company, and various others. The Bank of Ire-
land have reduced their discounts from five to
four per Cent. on English bills, and will give bills
on London payable at the Bank of England at
21 days instead of 30. All these measures are
indisputably favourable to the developement of
industry; and we may reasonably hope that with
industry will come its natural concomitants, or-
der and tranquillity—unless they are impeded
by the efforts of factious men, who are in effect
th►e worst enemies of their country.

rTIIE TIMES.]

We have received a regular life of the Mexican
Paper called the Su/, from September 21 to No-
vember 4. They contain no intelligence beyond
that which we have already communicated to our
readers. 'Before the publication of the Constitu-
tion, it would appear that some warm, if not
angry discussions, had arisen in the Constituent
Congress of the province or state of Mexico, re-
specting the article of the general Constitution,
which converted the capital of Mexico into the
seat of the Supreme Legislature and Executive of
the Union. As it would be absurd to see two
manufactories of laws at work in the same city,
and at the same time, and two Presidents with
their quota of civil and military officers appointed
to execute these general and provincial enact-
ments, it seemed necessary to suppress the local or
provincial authorities, both legislative and execu-
tive•, of the city selected as the residence of the su-
preme Government. To this decision the inha-
bitants of Mexico would appear to have been
very averse. In this, as in nearly every case,
the disputants referred to the laws of the North
American Union. The North Americans had
felt the difficulty ; and in order to remove it,
had converted Washington into a federal city,
common to all, hot dependent on none of the dif-
ferent States. This policy was recommended for
Mexico, but no decision was' finally adopted.

Our Paris letter contains some curious and
amusing gossip. The Duke of Orleans, we
should think, would make a had exchange,
should he throw away whatever of popularity or
public esteem he may possess, for the sake of
increasing his fortu►►e out of the funds granted to
emigrants. If this be his aim, we sincerely wish
he may fail of attaining it, and on the very
account intimated in our own letter—namely,
because he is the son of M. Egalite. We are
inclined to insert from some one or other of
the cotemporaneous writers, the account which
is given of that person's voting for the death
of Louis XVI, and of the effect which the fra-
tricidal act had even upon the horrid assembly
who witnessed it. We recur with horror to the
French project of law for making it death with
torture, the hand being to be first cut off, to offer
an insult to the consecrated wafer, upon the infal-
lible verity, no doubt, that the piece of meal and
water is God. The Protestants, we hear, are in
considerable alarm at the ►neasure. To the Ca-
tholics, we should think, it must appear strange
that the consecrated wafer cannot protect it-
self. They must know, if they have any
faith, that many a consecrated wafer has pro-
tected itself, and proved its divinity—that is,
if infallible Popes and semi-infallible Cardinals
are (as no doubt they are) to be credited.—
The Cathedral Church of St. Gudule, at Brus-
sels, is hung round with tablets of a miracle of
this nature. A Jew stole the host, but having
got it, he found it a more troublesome guest than
the Spartan boy found the fox. When he at-
tempted to boil •it, it jumped out of the pot ; if
he cut it, it bled ; till at last the poor Jew was
detected in his impious practices, and either suf-
fered death, or was obliged to turn Christian.
But, perhaps, the experience which the Catholics
have had of late years, that the host was rather
too much disposed to put up with ill treatment,
or at least was unable to defend itself against tl►e
French Jacobins, may have rendered some mea-
sures necessary for its defetice.—(/bid.)

[BRITISH PRESS.,
Although our warnings may have considerably
abated the absurd rage for mining speculations,
it is still strong enough to make us blush for the
simple credulity of our countrymen ; and to
induce us to persevere in exposing the ruinous
infatuation that is now abroad, and saving, as
far as we are able to save, those who have not
yet become the dupes of it. We really seem, on
a sudden, to be whirled hack a century or two,
and to live at a period when wisdom was in
its infancy, instead of living, as we do, in
an age when fraad has well nigh exhausted
its stratagems, and experience, in the way of de-
ception, has left us nothing to learn. But the world
MIS a blockhead from the beginning, and we fear
it will so continue to tl►e end of the chapter. In
the mean time we shall go on to address ourselves
to the " thinking public," and to see whether
there is any thing in these mining projects which
can at all justify the avidity with ►which they are
sought after. FroM a variety of circumstances,
which we have not leisure to detail at length,
there arises a very strong presumption, that the
projectors of these various Mining Companies
have actually no mines in their possession ! !
that they have, as yet, to send out agents to
South America, to commence their geological
survey, for not an acre of earth, or an ounce of
ore, have they at present in occupation ! ! !
What, then, we would ask, have the sub-
scribersi, in the shape of value received, for the
immense sums which have found their way
into the pockets of those who first broached
these attractive saremes ? •I'he shareholders must
him at leaSt presumed, on paying down their

deposits, that they were part proprietors of a
mine somewhere; they never could suspect that
they had parted with their solid cash to become
joint-holders of a bag of moonshine ! On the con-
trary, they conceived themselves about to realize
the pastime of their infancy, and that they should
speedily say in good truth— _

" Here we are, on TOM TICKLER'S ground,
Picking up gold and rilver !"
It never certainly could occur to them to sus-
pect for a moment that the ground was as
yet covered with high grass in which their
shares were buried ; and that the riches out
of which the profits of their capital was to be
returned, had no more of tangible existence in the
bed of the earths than in the bed of the ocean 1.
We are disposed to speak with all due respect of
many whose names are attached to these specu-
lations;—we have done so already ; but we shall
never be restrained from putting the public on
their guard against delusive and ruinous schemes
of wealth, from any undue courtesy towards the
individuals with whom they originated. If our
representation of facts is incorrect, let those whose
interest it is to support the credit and stability of
their schemes disprove them. We affirm that
these mines, the shares of which are selling at this
madly-advanced price, have no existence. If this
assertion exceeds the truth, if they do exist, and
if the quantity of the precious rvetals to be pro-
, duced from them has been at all ascertained by any
one person skilled in the art of mining, let the
fact be averred on authority, and we will most
willingly withdraw our statement. In the mean-
while let the adventurers pause till they are
better informed. If they have a favourable opi-
nion of the future prosperity of South America—
an opinion, by the way, in which we think they
are abundantly supported--surely their safest
and most prudent investment is South American
Stock, which puts them immediately into the re-
ceipt of an interest of five or six per cent. ; while
the mines, even when reduced into possession,
will yield no return for four or five years at least,
and the greater likelihood is, that not one in ten
of them will ever yield any return at all ; or they
may find investments in canals, rail-ways, and
other commercial and -highly productive im-
provements, going on in their own country, in
which their capital would he to the full as eligi-
bly embarked as in the Independent States of
Mexico or Colombia. A very great advantage,
no doubt, belongs to any speculation of the kind
we are speaking of, that is to be carried on in
the vicinity of coal and iron mines, and which ad-
vantage excepts the Chilian Mining Company from
the general scope of our remarks : we advert to
this cirumstance, because we know, from the au-
thority of one who left Colombia within the last 12.
months, that, previous to his departure,fron was sel-
ling in the principal towns in that State, at a price
exceeding one shilling per lb., and, consequently,
the Superior advantage which those mines must
possess, which are contiguous to iron and coal,
are manifest. We believe a Peruvian mine spe-
culation has either just started, or is about to
start ; and so long as the d-afts on public credu-
lity are duly honoured, so long, we may be sure,
will they continue to be drawn. We have much
more to say on this prolific subject, and shall
bring it again under the public attention in a day
or two.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The French, es a nation, have undoubtedly
their fair share of intelligence, courage, and the
more generous elements of human character. But
they are full of pretension, and of pretension
much too obtrusive. The tone in which they
claim superiority for themselves, and depreciate
their neighbours, is not merely idle, but imperti-
nent. It looks as if they writhed under the
consciousness that the world does not value them
as they value themselves—or even as if they
doubted their being really what they pretended
to be. It is in this spirit that, with reference
to the recognition of South America by l►is Ma•
jesty's Govermnent, they call the English a
trading, money-getting nation, actuated only by
selfish policy and sordid interest, whilst the
French sacrifice interest to public honour and
chivalrous good faith. Without stopping to vindi-
cate from the charge of selfishness what needs no
such vindication, let us see with how much frank-
ness and good faith the Fretich Government has
acted in even its more recent transactions—in the
very transaction ❑pon which the French can raise
the slightest reputation since the return of the
Bourbons. Every body remembers the first corps
d'armee placed on the Spanish frontier. It
was generally asserted that it was destined for
hostile-invasion. No, said the Freiv:ll Govern-
ment, it is a sanitary cordon, to keep out the
yellow fever. And through what organ was this
declaration made? Why, by the mouth of their
King, in a speech to the assembled Chambers.
And then what followed ? This innocent Sanitary
Cordon, after secretly stirring and aiding the
factious, at last, when clandestine aid would not
do, threw off the mask, and passed the frontier ;
and thus the King of France appeared in the eyes
of all Europe palpably convicted of having ut-
tered, at least having been made the vehicle of a
most gross piece of duplicity. NVeli—the
French entered Spain, and obtained successes—
such as they were—proclaiming protection and
security on all sides, and entering into formal
capitulations with the Spanish Generals, in the
name and by the immediate authority of the
then heir presumptive, and now heir apparent to
the throne. And what followed ? Not only
were protection and security never given, but the
very capitulations were broken in the most un-
blushing manner, the Duke of Angouleme having
the grace to make the best of his way to France,
and the men who relied upon his faith and honour
expressly pledged to treaties, were left exposed,
and victims to persecution, imprisonment, and
death. And these are they who talk of bad faith
and dissimulation.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have received New York Papers to the
25th ult. They contain, however, no news worth
noticing, but such as has reference to local mat-
ters. A Bill has been introduced into the Se-
nate, and read twice, without oppostion, granting
to General La Fayette, the sum of 200,000 dol-
lars, six per cent. stock, besides a complete

and entire township of land, out of the unsold
public lands. There are two things that strike
us in this grant : first, its splendour, and
next the contrast which it forms with the
severe economy that characterizes the pro-
ceedings of Congress in the disposal of the
money of their Constituents. We, therefore,
see that the thrifty habits of that Body are based
upon a noble principle ; for, otherwise, they
could not be generous when an occasion like the
present required it ; wl►ereas a spendthrift Go-
vernment, like an extravagant individual, is
obliged to he unjust and ungrateful in conse-
quence of its profusion. The latter too is lavish
towards the worthless, while it suffers merit to
pine in neglect, and even services to go often
unrequited. It is extraordinary too, that in
the case of the individual, in whose favour
the American Legislature have departed so
widely from their general rule, the pub-
lic voice has unanimously sanctioned it ; and who
will venture to say, after this, that the excess
of freedom generates selfishness ? To judge from
the tone of the Papers, the choice of President
is likely to fall on General Jackson, as the
House of Representatives, upon whom the selec-
tion has now fallen, will, it is presumed, be regu-
lated by public feeling, which has clearly decided
in his favour. We are astonished at the tone of de-
precation which some of our Contemporaries have
thought proper to use in the anticipation of this
appointment. The Americans are not so ignorant
of the merits of their public men, or so indifferent
to the public interests, as to deserve the imputa-
tion which is thus meant to be conveyed. They
have exercised for fifty years the important pri-
vilege which has again devolved on them, without
having, in a single instance, abused it. On the
contrary, they have, upon every occasion, selected
the worthiest of the worthy, as the names of their
past Presidents attest; and the choice of so con-
siderate a people having fallen upon Jackson,
is the best of all evidence that he is worthy of
the honour. As to the supposition that his ap-
pointment may give an unusual tone to the policy
of the United States, it is at best a gratuitous as-
sumption ; and it is absurd to imagine that a man
who stands so high in favour of his countrymen
would so ill requite their confidence as to try to
divert the course of their affairs from the quiet,
secure, and prosperous channel in which they
now move. But if he were to make the attempt,
would not the Congress disconcert it ?

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 20.
GREY v. GREY.

In this case, his Lordship determined that the heirs represen-
tative of the deceased legatee should take a full interest in the
15,0110/., the subject of litigation : costs to be paid out of the

estate.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAY. 20.

'ANTON V. MARSHALL.

Mr. THESLOVE moved for an injunction to restrain the de-
fendant from sending to India twelve gunbarrels and locks,
which were now packed up for exportation, on which were in-
scribed certain marks and inscriptions, the right to use which
was solely vested in the plaintiff by his Majesty's letter.patent.
The guns were stated to be packed in two cases, on one of
which was inscribed " Joseph Manton, London :" and on the
other, " Joseph Manton." The bill prayed also that the de-
fendant should be restrained from using in future these marks
and inscriptions.—The injunction was granted of course.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 20.
ISANCE.-SALMON V. lIENSLEY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who resides in
Gough-square, to recover from the defendant, who is a printer
in Bolt-court, Fleet-street, compensation in damages fir an in-
jury sustained by him in consequence of the defendant's hav-
inv erected, for the purposes of printing, in his premises, which
are adjoining to the plaintiff's, a steam engine, the noise, smoke,
and heat issuing from which rendered the plaintiff's house un-
inhabitable.

Several witnesses residing in the neighbourhood, deposed that
previous to March last the smoke and heat issuing from the
defendant's steam engine were extremely unpleasant ; and that
in that month the defendant had made some alteration in the
engine, the noise produced by which was intolerable. The
plaintiff's house was dreadfully shook by the percussions of a
wheel which the defendant had latterly added to the engine.
TheA•rronNEYGEtiERAL (with whom were Mr. Brougham
and Mr. Scarlett) addressed the Jury for the defendant. He
begged to assure them that the defendant was unwilling to
do any thing which would annoy ; and that he, having
had occasion for the more effectually carrying on his busi-
ness to erect a steam engine, had at a great expense erect-
ed one on the principle of that very respectable and able
engineer, Mr. Watt—a principle which was approved of by
a Committee appointed by the House of Commons, to
inquire into such matters. Of the utility of such ma.
chines the Jury could not for a moment doubt ; and the si,
tuation in which this engine was placed aflhrded peculiar ad-
vantages, by the ready communication which it afforded between
publisers and printers. Unless it was to be contended that
the use of steam, which had conferred so many benefits on
society, must be discontinued, he could not see how a verdict
could be found for the plaintiff: But it had been said the
smoke and heat issuing from this engine were disagreeable.—
He would admit that the neighbourhood of a steam-engine was
not one which many people would choose for their residence ;
but that was no reason why the many steam engines which
abounded in this Metropolis should be disused. He need not
repeat that which was well known to every Gentlemen on the
Jury, that the smoke and heat issuing from a steam engine
constructed upon Mr. Watt's principle were considerably less
than the heat and smoke issuing from any other steam engine.
One of the Jury here intimated to the Learned Counsel that
the minds of the Jury were made up as to the heat and smoke,
and wished him to confine himself to the noise made by the new
additions to the engine.
The Learned Counsel resumed. The argument which he
had applied to the heat and smoke equally applied to the noise,
and any person who chose to fix his residence where commerce
could be most conveniently carried on, had no right to corn.
plain of those annoyances which in such places must for the
advancement of commerce unavoidably exist. That the situa-
tion of this engine was one the best fitted for the purposes of
commerce of any in the Metropolis, could not for a moment be
doubted ; and he therefore trusted that the Jury would be of
opinion with him, that the annoyance complained of was under
such circumstances unavoidable, and that their verdict ought
to pass for the defendant.
His Lounsrin. in summing up observed, that by law no
man was at liberty for his own benefit to erect in the neigh-
bourhood of any other man's premises any building which
would render those premiSes uninhabitable.
The Jury having consulted together for a few minutes, found
a verdict for the plainriff—Damages One Shilling; thereby
establishing the fact of this engine being a nuisance.