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London, England, 1822-08-14 00:00:00

'IIIE I,O•NDON JOUItNAL'i.

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August 14, 18'22.

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[THE Ti IttES4l,
We last night receiveethe Paris Papers of
Sunday. The King .o.f. France. has returned to
'the Tuileries from his summer residence at St.'
Cloud. The,' Journal of Thoulouse announces,.
that according' to official intelligence, the ru-
.1,2-ithat the yellow fever had broken out at
' ....Uarseelona was unfounded. The Constitutionnel'
.56.tes that news had arrived from Vienna,. which
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• the, supposition that Austria was as
•• ..little inclined as England to second the views of
the counter-revolutionary faction, and appeared
determined to insist on their being left to their
own resources. An Ultra-Royal Paper publishes
iincon3ciously the greatest calumny on King Fer-
dinand, by mentioning that he left those officers
• - to their fate who rebelled against the Constitu-
tional Authorities in obedience to the instruc-
tions in his autograph letters. The following is
the paragraph containing this statement
is said that Colonel St. Michel, accompanied by two
other judges in the cause of the officers of the Guard, obtained
a private audience of his Majesty, and signified to him the un-
certainty,in which he was, both as regarded his Majesty and
• ' the officers on whose trial he was nominated, as they produced
autograph letters from his Majesty authorizing their conduct.
14 such circumstances, he added, he came to take the coin-
.. mands of his Majesty, and-to endeavour to lighten the terrible
accusation which hung over them. His Majesty replied, in a
tone of displeasure, 'lt is true the letters are mine ; hut what
signifies that.? So much the worse for them ; they knew that
my orders were null and void without the signature of my Mi-
nisters. Why, then, did they execute them ?" But,' replied
• -St. Michel, your• Majesty cannot abandon these unfortunate
men.' You, concluded site King, • you are employed to con-
duCt this trial ; do your duty v ith activity, for I can hear
nothing of this.' rwo projects are said to have divided those
who set on foot the plot which was defeated at Madrid on the
7th of July. One party, at the instigation of an ecclesiastic of
high rank, was for re-establishing the- state of things which
existed in Spain before the revolution, which began in the Isle
of Leon ; and another for erecting the shadow of a free Consti-
tution.with two Legislative-Chambers, and an extent of Sove-
reign authority which would soon have annihilated the other
powers."
The examinations of the witnesses for the pro-.
secution in •the affair of Colmar are terminated,
and the Procureur-General on the sth began to
comment on the evidence. -

[MORNING POST.]

Of the new Tvlinisterial Arraigements, conse-
quent upon the lamented death of Lord London-
derry, nothing certain is yet known. Besides the
report which we yesterday mentioned relative to
Mr. Peel and Mr. Grant, it is now stated that the
Marquis 'Wellesley 'trill succeed to the Foreign
Department, aad that Mr. Canning, instead of
going to India, will also have a high Ministerial
Appointment at home. Among the rumours of
the day, Sir Charles Stuart has likewise been
mentioned, as the probable successor of Lord
Londonderry.
[MORN LNG CHRONICLE.]
We received last night the Paris Papers of
Sunday, by express. An account from Trieste,
iu the Allgemeine Zeitung, gives a dreadful pic-
ture of the atrocities which the Turks have re-
cently perpetrated on the remaining inhabitants
of Scio. An atrocious outrage has recently
been perpetrated by a Clergyman, in France,
who has fled to Savoy, and whom it seems
the Sardinian Government will
,not give up.—
It would be unjust to notice a case' of this kind
without observing at the same time, that though
licentiousness seems to,have led to the crime, the
Clergy of France at the present day, whatever
other faults they may have, are not generally
considered vicious in their morals. Before the
Revolution the Bishops of the Gallican Church
used to keep their Opera girls and actresses,
and the other Clergy to imitate their example as
far as they could. This sort of licentiousness is
placed altogether out of the reach of their suc-
cessors, whose morals being exposed to fewer
temptations, are proportionably more correct.

• [NEW TIMES.]
Some doubt having been expressed in one of
ttie Papers last week, of the fact of the Portu-
guese Government having notified that it had
adopted the determination of recognizing the
Government of Columbia, which we announced
in The New Times of the 2d instant, we are en-
abled to confirm in the fullest manner our former
intimation.of this event. A Correspondent has.
addressed us on the subject of the recognition of
the Columbian Government by this country. It
give's us pleasure at all times to afford our Com-
mercial friends an opportunity of expressing. their
sentiments on public questions affecting their
interests ; but we must at the same time ex-
press our unqualified conviction that Government
will be found nothing wanting in an anxious and
diligent attention to this important and delicate
question. In the recent debate in the House of
Commons on ti:s subject, the Marquis of Lon-
donderry, in answer to a question put to him,
stated, that thy: question of acknowledging these
GoVernments was wholly a British question,
—to be determined on British principles and
-;British policy alone. This manly and unequi-
vocal declaration on the part of the Noble
Marquis must be satisfactory t.o ail reflect-
ing persons. There can be, however, no ob-
jection: to the -Mercantile Interests urging
any considerations that may appear to influence
the question, and stating any grievances, they
may conceive themselves to labour under. Dis-
cussions on these points, if temperately conducted,
can never be otherw;se than useful both to the
Goyernment and the trading body ; and of such
discussion we shall always be ready to make our
column.; the medium of publication ; though cer-
tainly without pledging ourselves in all cases to
the political views of our correspondents.

[MORNING lIERALD.I
We stated yesterday the melancholy and
distressing manner of Lord Londonderry's de-
cease. The mournful impression on the public
mind was greatly deepened when the fact be-
'came known through the medium of our Paper.
-frhis is not only in itself a subject of sad reflec-
tion, but recals some melancholy remembrances.
-Within a short period, three of the most promi-
pent figures in the historic gallery of their coun-
try have, in the yet unimpaired maturity of
their talents, been called away by the same

melancholy visitation—the most fearful conse-
quence of temporary alienation of mind. It is not
alone the weakness of our nature, which subjects
alike the proudest and the humblest intellect to the
despotism of a passing access of brain fever, or
perhaps even some slighter change in the phy-
sical economy, that offers sad and solemn sug-
gestions to the mind ; but also the probable
cause, which mediately led •to the lamentable
catastrophe in each of the instances to which
we allude. There can be little doubt that an
over-stretched application of the faculties in that
career of honourable ambition, which is open
through the service of the State, and the wider
range of public life in a free country, with all the
intense anxieties attendant upon even honourable
success, has been the remote, but substantial
cause which has cut off, so unexpectedly and so
mournfully, the Marquis of Londonderry, and the
two other eminent British Senators, whom we
need not mention by name. Neither high place,
reputation, or popularity, afford to their posses-
sors a bed of roses ; and this truth so frequently
obtrudes• itself (Men on the common eye, .that it
should inspire the more humble and undistin-
guished with human charity, and even gratitude,
in judging public men, who are, so often and un-
justly, objects of slander, envy, and discontent.

[BRITISH 'PRESS.]
The report of the Coroner's Inquest will be
read with deep and anxious interest. No doubt
can be entertained that the fatal deed occurred
during the total aberration of his Lordship's
mind. An exceeding degree of nervous irritabi-
lity had' been noticed by his family and domes-
tics some time previous to the event, and it was
thought necessary, within the last day or two, to
remove from the presence of the Noble Patient
his pistols, and every other obvious instrument
which might have afforded to him the means of
destruction. The knife which eventually ac-
complished the purpose was contained within
a pocket-book, and had unfortunately escaped
the observation of his attendants. He contrived to
send his servant from the chamber, by affecting to
require the attendance of Dr. Bankhead, his phy-
sician, and took occasion of that moment touse the
knife for his own destruction. The servant instant-
ly returned to the chamber, accompanied by Dr.
l3ankhead, who received the Marquis in his arms,
but the wound was too severe to own the power of
science, and he expired almost immediately. The
Marchioness—this is the most melancholy part of
the sad tale—the Marchioness was apprised of the
event, and instantly hurried• to the scene of the
calamity. She flung herself upon the lifeless body
of her Lord, and called in vain upon him who had
been the fondest and kindest of husbands. But
such grief is too sacred for observation. Their
union was marked by'a peculiar felicity ; and
who can sufficiently imagine the hopeless waste,
the sickliness of heart that must follow this cruel
and harsh separation ? Her Ladyship is said to
have been ever since in a state almost of delirium.
She is attended with anxious care by her sister,
Lady Suffield, who had been on a visit at North
Cray since the prorogation of Parliament. Se-
veral other ladies have sat up all night in attend-
ance upon her. During the. Inquest, her Lady-
ship remained in a room called the China Room,
contiguous to the dining-room, in which the In-
quest was held.