The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-28 00:00:00

MP:RC:ANTI LE SHIPPING.

Po 't T S :11.017 TIT, .41.; NE Tr.—Wind. IV.S.W.—Arrivcd
11ajestv7s ship Seatiower, from a cruize ;. Martin Luther, Bass,
from Madeira. . Pa..sed by:the Mariner, rendirrick, fram the
coast .-of- Africa. , Put back"the Superb; George, for Philadel-
phia,. and Ceasar, for India. , . •

•
CowEs,-..111N4: W.S.W.-,-An-ived. the Dutch
ship Pedang, Rodjers, front Batavia, in'l29• days ;
Lee, from4Tharleston, in:3R days. and Cleopatra;' &die, froth
Bahia, in GO days,• • - •
DEAF, Je.NE 27.—Wind IV.—_,Passed through for.
the River the George the Third, Poiiplcwell, Wellesley, Ferry.
man, -and-Cambridge,. Mason, Jamaica; Sons-.of Commerce,
from St, Domingo ; Prince. of Waterloo-,:- Nary,- from• Sierra
Leone-;•.Ant., Waton; from St. Jago tie Cuba :An.r ,Ware,
froM itico; and Brazillian•PackeL; Scariettifrom dittb. Came
down .from the River and remain the-. "Georgitaut, •Watt,: fair
'Granada„. AlarY.-liardy, for Quebec; Henry Wellesley,Wade,
for Sierra. Leone-.;. Diana, Leghorn ; .and
.Cole, for-India.- • -- - •

,• - , • • .
V.r.motr•Tly, -JFNE 211.—Wintl W.—Arrived the 'King.
fisher packet, from the Brazils, Sailed from Ria.l4;th
and Pernambuco 11th May-; Sphynx packet, from the Medi.
terranean., sailed from Corfu,l3th'. Malta 21st, anel•Gibral,
tar ith lest. ; 211aty,. David,. from :he South Seas.
LtvEttroo L. tt. r.211.--It'intlN.W.—Arrived the George,
FlugheS, from Illaranharn ; sailed•fith ult. Fottr BrotlieeS, Cor-
nish, from Newfoundland ; and Joseph etts, froln,Pars.

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The American hrig Albert, Dixon, from Virginia to London
was abandoned the Bth inst. in lat. 32. 38.—long. being
in a veil leaky state.

. .
The 1 Thlk.l Conipany's nawartl-bound ship Windsor ar.'
rived at the Cape the 15th 'March. The Windsor and Van
sittart 'sailed from Table Bay., for Bombay, on the 24th March.

_
The New York Papers. hring dates from Ja
maica to the 7th May : there is au article without
a date, stating • that time Chilian squadron► had
sailed for chiloe, for, the puipose of intercepting
Spanish ve3sek lying there.

Yesterday, at one o'cl(*k, NIAJECTY left
Carlton Palace in l-iistraV;elling-carriage, preced
ed by two outriders, bat without any military
escort, for the Royal Lodge at ‘Vindsor.
A letter from Cadiz of the 7th instant was re-
ceiyed yesterday, which- mentions, that the
French squadron \vas cruising off that port, for
the purpose of preventing the entry of Spanish
vessels from Havannah, there being reason to
fear that. fever prevailed at the latter place. The
consequence was, that many of the merchantmen
being unable to take refuge in Cadiz, were taken
by the Colombian privateers. The _French ships
could not afford them protection without com-
- •
nutting a breach of neutrality.
Lieutenant-General Sir TIEOMAS BRADFORD,
K.C. 13., has, we- noderstand, accepted of the
Counnand at Bombay, and will take his depar-
ture for that Presidency, accompanied by Lady
BilAnroan, in January next.
Lieut.-General GouttcAun,formerly Aide-de-
Camp to N:APOLLON, is about to deliver a work,
entitled, " Napoleon and the. Grand Army in
Russia, or a critical
.Exathination of the Work
•
published by General Sroun."

CANONIZATION (IF THE NINV.TEENTII CEN-
trultY.,—The Roman Calernlar-lhas recently been auzmented
by the ;,dilition of a new saint; a father Of the society of Jesuits
having been canonized by Pope LEO XII. The following
miracle gave rise to the celestial exaltation:--The reverend
father went one Friday to the house Of a Roman Prince, whom
he found at table ready to eat six larks Which stoad betbre him.
Being shocked at witnessing such a violation of the laws of the
church, the holy man rebuked the Prince severely ; and the
latter paying no heed to his cithOrtatitin; he'stretched out his
hand over the birds and they revived; A picture, representing
the miraculons event, has been plaCett at the gate of St. Peter's
church at Rome. In this Picture the father is represented
standing, and his hand stretched` out. - Ills eyes are, lifted Alp
to Heaven,. which he seems to iii7.6ke,'hrld the lirifice appears
thunderstruck. Of the six:bitibtiVO have 'already returned to
life, two others flap their wini(,) and the two lak are piously
awaiting the moment of their resurrection. •
r. SPlllNG,tlite)eßoi
sx;)B.
lila
'Book-keeper
civilperof as
Drt,tvreyi...l
lane Theatre, has er
as impartial in the letting.of seats, that he has
ways secured himself a goOd annual benefit. But
he seems not to depend on the merits of his own
proper conduct this year, as he has the jealous
Wife, one of the -best modern CoMedies, a Mu.
sical Melange, in which the best vocal and comic
Performers participate, Henri Quatrc, and a
Ballet. With such attractions, he may. seasonably
expect- to-morrow to quaff a Bumper.
It has been truly said, " great and small!' are.
comparative terms. A mall used to deal in
Twenty Thonsands, like Rim", thinks but little
of One Thousands ; and this maY account for his
making Four Grand Capitals of 'Twenty-one
Thousand Pounds each, in the present Lottery,
being determined that his Friends shall not have
less than Twenty Thousantls, ysual, besides a
cool. Thousand to give away 'to some humble
favourite. In addition to all the Capitals and
PrizeseXCeeding
7'
w°
liundredllll°Vl7en, dgPraotuisndtso,
flfistsgives Sixty-four Pipes of
the Fotir Prizes of 1,000 Guineas ; all to be de-
cided on Saint Swithin's Day, 15th next Month.

THE DECCAN PRIZE-MONEY.

LETTER L

Tt is only as it' were yestefday, that the atten.
ticn of our English politicians began to be direCted to the af-
fairs:of India. Th he worthy persons, who like the good man
,in the Upholsterer, used to sit up whole nights thinking of the
British Constitution, seem recently to have found out that We
haVe great posSessions in the East Indies. Yet while there is at
present no need to 'prove to them, that we have a territory in
that part of the Globe, vast in military strength and commer-
cial greatness, and which having been gained by our arms, is
still to be preserved by our policY,---their credulity will be
tasked to the utmost, when they are told of our. recent acquisi-
tions in that country, and are required to measure upon the
Map an extensive area, coroprizing more than forty-two square
geographical degrees, and stretching to the sandy desarts of the
Indies, the Ocean, tbe Jlamuchul,' and the unexplored forests
and mountains on the East, upon which,' as if it Were a chess-
board, we have alternately pulled down and given away king-
doms,: disposing of this dynasty and extinguishing this, and t
knitting the Whole. into a powerful confederation; directly sub-
ject tO our authority, or our influence !
Nor has this-been the Mere ganie 'of that mischievous ambi-
tion, which has so frequently desolated the.world for its amuse-
:ment. It is-the-proud distinction of our "Indian conquests, that
they have uniformly ameliorated the condition of the conquered.
The face of vietorY in that country has seldom been harsh or
Austere. Aft for those,
,Wito,misled by the gorgeous declama-
tions' of
_P.I! n YE, De the pathetic fictions of. SignIDAN-, sigh
Over the tia 1 narratives,of British oppression, and melancholy
stories of deposed Rajahs and ruined Rannies, and feel dig..
posce. to pick out moral flaws and defects. in our title-deeds,
calling on its to chew cause, why we invade and plunder the once
hapry and smiling, nations of Hindostan ; a little:inquiry into
lAiiae history will chew them that their .lr'irtuotts sympathies
are wholly wasted-and misdirected. The farther that research,
aided by record and tradition, can penetrate into the backward
ages of Indio, the more wretched will the lot of its inhabitants
be - found. No golden age ever existed there ; but an age of
iron, or of some. new metal still more obdurate.
- Nomen et a nullo posuit natura metallo.
Beneath their own or the Mussulman dynasties, the whole cowl-
try was an -unvaried scene of desolation,—incessant
unsparing depredation. In the languages of the Deccan and the
SOuth of India, which have sustained perhaps the heaviest share
of the general calamity,—_.a Chain of evils which in other
languages . would require a corresponding series of wordi,
is expresed by one. The word :Tulsa describes at
once the hostile invasion, the massacre, the captivity,.
the flight. No stronger proof can he found of the
former sufferings of India, than in the • melancholy em-
Plinsis of this single word. It is a high distinction,
says Colonel li'lr.xs," that the rentta ever departs at the ap.
proach of
,a British Army, when unaccompanied by' Indian
Altirs.

Upon all occasions that Army has distinguished itself, not
Only by the military. .virtues of unshrinking courage, Wand
shaken perseverance, but by the gentler attributes of forhear-
ance and mildness in victory. Upon no occasion, were these
great qualities more conspicuouSly put forth, than in the catif-f
paignS. of 1817 and 1818, which ended in the dispersion of tho
Pindarees, the destruction of the-dangerous strength of the
Native Powers, by whoni that host of robbers had been cite-
,
risked in the heart of India-the subjugation of Thilkar, and
-the annelation of his fertile possessions tetri-
tories7.--the deposition of the perfidious Rajah of Nagpoor---.
and the,capture of his capital, with that 'of
.t 11.;; Peishwah, the_,
Chef of the AI ahratta Empire-and the transfer of their re-
:speetive territories to the British Government; Such were the
fruits of the conquest, -efrected by the Army of the Deccan,
under Sit Tit b3r.o Iltsr.op. Those who are inclined to think
that great victories are not the worse for being accompanied
.with great: gains, will be pleased to find, that in TEit IqTO Rim%

nt:vLyt;t, the East India Company obtained an income of t
5i 1 lacks•of rupees from the Peishwah alone. But our richest
:gains, must be valued by a moral computation ;--by the useful

purposes_ to which our victories have been apnlied.;---by the
dignified abatinenee of our conquest from all harsh or insolent
exercise of its rights. Thus a new bulwark has been added to
our atithority--,--a new tie.to"the gratitude and dependence of
our Indian subjects.
Mere booty never was, and, lam persuaded, never will be,
an incentive to the militaty valour of Great . Britain. his in-
fluenced by higher feelings, and aspires-to better recompenses.
Vet,if immense booty in the course of an arduous and toil.
some service. he .found 'and actually realized, can there be a
question in point of common.equity, ef common sense, amongst
whent.it is to be distributed ? The distribution of booty recog-
nized, according to the fixed and understood law of nations,
amongst those by- whom it has "been acquired, has been the
estublished.polieT of all States, great or:emelt.. By our own
-pplicy, it vests immediately and primarily in. the Crown ;
a salutary fiction, by which, in this as in other instances, the
Crown becomes the channel of beneficence. Now, it is per-
fectly notorious, that considerable booty, far beyond the ut.
Most estimate which the reader of European history, with his
attention confined td European" warfare, could be 'induced
to hazard, but by no means of incredible amount to those
whom study or experience has made acquainted with
Intlia;—it is quite notorious, I repeat,' that dering the
war, terminating in the great results which have
been mentioned ; a 'considerable booty was taken. The
merest :tyro in Indian affairs must_ know that the Capitals of
the Native Princes are repositories of immense treasnre;—the
fruits of former conquests;' or hereditary possessions, aug.
mented by. the gradual accumulations of different possessors.
Par the Sovereigns of -India are not accustomed- to measure
their wealth by the purpoies to which it might be subservient,
but by itself. It is the play-thing of these spoiled anti over.
grown children, and their minds, kept in an Artificial and.
protracted infancy, _are necessarily delighted with their Play:.
things. Hence it' is, that heaps of ••barbarie gold and
pearl,"' which more enlightened Statesmen would employ
multiplying, the:common stock of industry and enjoyment, are
eherished in- those Asiatic Governments, as if a mere dead
and unemployed wealth was their strongest security. Three
, of, these rich Principalities were, in a few months, overthrown
by the Deccan ;Army. Not a man in that Army,. not an
Enropean, not a Sepoy, but knew that gold and, jewels of
almost incalentable value were preserved there. The event eon.
firmed. their eipeetations. Immense property was found at the
taking of those places.
The Army, therefore, naturally enough, inferred that what
was thus earned by their common toil and peril, would at no
distant period,.be meted out to them ;—and although such con-
siderations did not turn them aside from their course, nor over:.
power the higher sensations which animated their bosoms,
they might reasonably have looked forward to a just recom.
pense in the fair distribution of prize, according to the re-
gular usage of the Service. Could they have imagined that
those who reaped the fUll fruits of their exertions in increased•
revenue, and additional securities -to their authority, would be
the first to interpose captious objections, or vexatious de-
lays, in order to retard the dispensation of rewards, which no
man endued with honourable or British feelings can grudge
them ?

It is certain, however, that for more than seven years, the
Deccan Prize-Money has remained, and to this day remains,
unadministered. To say the least of it, the delay alone has a
most extraordinary aspect. Property so acquired belongs to
the class of fixed rights. The habitual bounty of the Crown,
and the whole series of precedents, entitle me so to consider
it. Upon this property a thousand calculations are naturally
framed : a thousand visions of future ease and comfort in-
dulged. The European Officer may laudably make it the
means of his honourable retirement to his own country. The
Native Soldier may cherish -upon such an expectancy, the- in-
nocent desire of enjoying his humble earnings with his family,
beneath the shade of his _banyan-tree ;—for men are not
estranged by toil and danger front the love of repose, and from

•
History of the Southern Provinces of Hindostan.
Prinsep's Narrative.

images 'if horse and franquillitY-. A delay 'of' eight years
(a pOrtion of . time .exceeding that *Web ordinary • chances
assign .to human ' life itself) .is - '.a long and vex-
atious . delay..t-e-and for this perjod, the Army -of the
Peccen have not only felt: the bitterness of disappointment,
or what is equally severe, the torture of protracted hope ;
-but are at this 'hour ignorant of tire probable period of
the distribution, and kept in a state of nncertaihty as to the re-
covery and disposithin of the immense.. treasures, *high were
captured by their, exertions. No man,ehdwever remote India
omits affairs may be from his own, interests or feelings, but
must feel, in the general cause Of the liritish Army; a painful
sense' of such prolonged and itiinecesse.ty injtistice". ' .
The case of the Deccan Army stands alone. Nothing in the
whole history of prize-distributions keeps it in countenance.—
Other hooties_haye been promptly administered. But a dispo-
sition to dispute their claims manifested itself at a very early
period, and placed them in the awkward situation of litigants
with ie East India Company, 'or their Government in India,
who are in fact their employers. A surreof money, amounting
to 200,0001., was paid in their behalf into the treasuries` of the
CoMpany, besides the amount of other captured:property.; the
exact proceeds of which the Agent. of the Army could not
ascertain, but which were recognized as prize. The sic non
.obis is the rightful complaint of the Deccan Army. -For whilst
they were pushing along the tide of cenqnest, intent upon 110
other object, but that of securing its results to,the British Go-
vernment, by removing or destroying every thing that - was' ad-
verse to their authority, the Civil Seryants. of the Conipany were
quietly helping themselves to their spoile,—the genuine fruits of
their victories. Ater the fall of PooNap, a large treasure be-
longing to the Pehthwalt, entirely obtained by military opera-
tions, fell into the hands of the Company'e Servants, and; in
Spite of every protest, was applied to the general purposes of
the Indian Government. A aunt : comptited at 34 lacks of
rupees, destined for the payment of the Peishwah's troops, and
forming a partetherefore, of the military -chest of the enemy,
was seized-, in contravention of -thee rights of the captors, and
Made over to the Government... In.,oneiastance, at Nessucx,
immediately after the capture of the city,- treasure' and other
booty, to the amount of a million and: •a half stetling,* was
seized by the Civil AgentS of the Company, and the ent,re
loss of the' property risqued, ne etrevent the Prize Ageras
trout taking possession of it. • Tile, public property found in
Pooxan underwent the same summary anode of aransfer, „nor
has any return been yet Made of hs value to those who were
authorized to act in behalf -of the Army! By the capture of
NAGPOOR, the whole of the,emblic treasure found there be-
came immediately vested in the Crown:'- -Yet these enlightened
jurists, in proud contempt of all fttdicial precedent, principle,
or analogy, equally unmindtbi of the 'vv:se'rn RIGHTS OF
THE KING, and the equitable title of. the Captors, restored
the whole of the treasure so. captured; firit• to the Rajah, and
afterwards to their nominee-hie- SucceNka! The jewels,
money, and other booty- taken- in that city, were estimated at
more than two crorcs of rupees !'
• Pursuing the same singular plan olpolicy, the Supreme Go-
vennent permitted the spoils taken WI the,decisive day of MA.
lIMPoon, and which were estimated at 25 hies of pagodas, to
i remain with the Mysore Horse, sqloi•ingttad of following up
the enemy, had laid by to seize his Tretisury, although in
every respect a joint capture, in which all the troops equally
co-operated. I say, nothing of the 'sixteen Years' arrear of sti-
.end due to the Peishwah,- a sum, front which the Company
were absolved by his overthrow, an event which at once extin-
guished both the debt and the ereditOe. In other instance.,
tewelsaind plate were actually taken from the troops into whose
hands they had fallen by the chances of War, and replaced by
credits for sums, which were arbitrarily deemed equivalent ;
a policy which has almost the complexion of something worse,
for to take any thing front the possession of another 'at your
own valuation df the thing so' taken; is by no means a fair:or
regular contract. It seems to be among the acts defined •by
Ancient Pistol—." The wise it call—couvey." It may be fen-
sily supposed, that these transactions became the subjects of
remonstrance on the part 'of those whom the Army had ;p_
pointed to watch over their rights. Aceordingly, the Priie
Agents remonstrated, and in many instances the Civil Ser-
vants made reports favourable to their claims. But. it hap-
pened by a singular fatality that everyfavoniable report was over-
ruled, and those which went to their prejudice, confirmed.
And they, by the mere stroke of tin official pen, rights hitherto
held sacred, rights confirmed by invariable usage, and deduced
from justice, have been, if not virtually annihilated, forced
into a long and uncertain abeyance; the Army thrown into an
adverse relation to the British Government in•lndia, who, upon
these occasions, ought to have been their natural pations and
protectors ;—and at least five million's. sterling (such is the
lowest amount computed) withheld from-that Army, or made
a matter of long and protracted - dispute with a corporation,
from whom it cannot be recovered, . but by a tedious and operose
procedure. . ' , •• • '

In the mean.while, this"strong indisposition to distribute the
ipwards of the Amty.watcoupled with the completest recogni-
tions in every dispatch and public cbcoment of the value and
efficiency of their services. -Yet to this very hour, they have
only obtained what their hig;) -reputation stood but little in
need of, the verbose. and -voluminous panegyrics of those, whts
were interposing studied delays, !Mid ;starting- vexatious objec-
tions to their rightful-and legitiMaie compensations.
• All this was in a spirit decidedly adverse to the solieitude
evinced by FORMER Administrations to distribute the Prize.
Money acquired by their Armies: It excited considerable as-
tonishment ;—buttlie problem received soniething like ,a solu-
tion, when claims to the booty thus seized and withheld 'wera,
set up by the Marquis of IlasTIN•Gs, and by the East India
Company,' to share in the distribution of the captured proper..
ty. The question was brought before the'Lords of the Trea.-
sury, and after a full hearing, which lasted nearly two
was at length decided by the entire reeogniuon
.of the
claims of the actual to tors---the Army of the Deccan.—
By their minute, dated the • sth •of February, 1823," the
Lords of •the Treasury declare. their -.Opinion, " that the
" most just and equitable principle of-distribution will be. to
" adhere to that of actual capture ; ' that with a particular ex-
ception, the booty taken at Poonah, Mihidpoor, and Nagpoor,
should belong.to the divisions of•the Dec Cati Army engaged in
the respective operations in Which the same was captured • that
no part of the booty Mould be granted to the East India 9Ccin-
pony ; and that a grant of the whole should be made to 'Trustees
for the purpose of ascertaining and collecting the-bc,pty, anti
for preparmg a schekie for the distribution thereof, cotifortnably.
ta,the principles above stated," but subject to. the final appro-
bation and sanction of His Majesty:
This equitable adjudication was in exact unison withfthe
justice of the case ;—the right of actual captilre, and .the ex-.
elusion of the East India Company from a participation in!
funds, with which their Supreme Government had intermeddled.•
It gave great satisfaction to the claimants, anti diffused the
hope amongst that gallant body,- -that their services were.
:shortly to be remunerated. Accordingly on the 22d March
1823, His Majesty issued His warrant, • appointing the Duke
of WELLINGTON and Mr. ARBUTHNOT Trustees for ascer-.
taining, collecting, and receiving the booty; and to sue, ti'ith tife
permission of the Treasury, for the booty or its proceedsfronz
East India Company or their Servants; or other persons; —with
a proviso, ; that if differences should arise between the Trustees.
.and the East India Company, with regard to any part of the
prize-property in their possession; or which had in any manner
been appropriated, and might. have been contlidered'nut to be
prize by the East India Company,—that if .disputes should
arise upon these points, they should be referred to the Commis-
sioners of .the Treasury for the King's Royal pleasure, of for
their final settlement according "to law and justice." t
.” • Every one who felt an interest for the Deccan Army augured
Well from this adjustment. It met all the 'exigencies of the
ease, and seemed to have been dictated in some • measure by
strong anxiety to relieve the. claim from the difficulties, with
which the interference of the Company had embarrassed it.
This indeed constituted the chief-duty of the 'Trustees ; —and
the powers with which they were invested were evidently fram-
ed for this important purpose. It required indeed a minute
and anxious investigation ; but fortunately for the Ainiy,
they had upon the spot the authorized Agent, to whom they
had confided, their interests, whO was inconstant comtnunica, •
tion with the Prize Agent in India, and who was moreover
fully acquainted with the facts necessary to be established for
the satisfaction of the Trustees. The Counsel and the Law • Agent, who in the' course of that long and arduous litiliation,
had becoMe familiar with all the intricacies of the case,
'if a case of pure and simple justice can be intricate, were'
also at hand, to communicate fully with the Trustees, who can-
not be supposed endued with any inward lights to guide their
decision; and who would therefore cheerfully consent to receive
every aid that was proffered them; Some delay indeed might be
inevitable, but when it was considered, that the final adjustment
of the claims could not be far distant, and that every elucida-
tion of it would be furnished by those persons to whom the Army
had confided their cause,—no doubt could be entertained !
of a speedy and satisfactory issue. Added to this, there was a
magic in the name of" %Wellington" calculated to dispel every
gloomy foreboding as to the result of a procedore, in which
the interests of soldiers were involved. The duties cast upon •
the gallant Duke and his less eminent Associate, were arduous,
but simple. Their consciences and understandings could not
possibly.be diverted from the "stern" justice of the case, nor Mis-
led by any foreign or extrinsic consideration. Such were the
hopes of the Army of the Deccan! Jar WHAT MEANS
THOSE HOPES HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED,---713Y.WHAT
DISASTROUS INFLUENCES THEIR EXPECTATIONS OF A
PROMPT AND EFFECTUAL DETERMINATION.nAvz BEEN
BLIGHTED,--.—Shall be unfolded in another letter.

VINDEX.

• Papers in the Financial Department, p. 150, &c. printed
by order of the 3d March, 1824 ;-Captain ROBERTSON'S
Letters ;-and the other Official Correspondence on this subject.

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extractgfram tl!e Norning Papers,June 28, 1625

[TII E TIIKES.I
The Spanish Commissioners, it is said, had
reck,oned so completely " without the host,"
that a courier was in readiness to start for Ma-
drid with the intelligence of the conclusion of
the contract for a loan, when it was broken off
by the refusal of the merchants to give it their
ratification. Each party, as is usual in such
cases, circulate their own opinion of the transac-
lion ; the friends of the Commissioners assert-
ing that the contract Was a complete one in all
its parts, and that the merchants had granted
full powers of attorney for carrying it into exe-
eution at Madrid ; and those of the merchants
declaring that they have a full justification for
refusing to fulfil their engagements, in the length
of time which has elapsed, and the altered state
of public opinion respecting Spanish credit which
has taken place, since they entered into it. We
do not pretend, nor have we any wish; to be in.
the confidence of either, but give the current
explanation which is in circulation on 'Change-
Our chief motive for recurring to the subject
now, is. to mention the violent conduct of the
Spanish Commissioner at the interview with the
.supposed contractors, on finding that his object
was defeated. Ile declared that their condnct,
was insulting to his Government and disgraceful:
to the character of English merchants, and eyof..
threatened, as the report goes, that the account,
should 'be published in the Madrid papers, with
a copy of the powers they had executed for .the
fulfilment of the contract, and the names of the.
parties at full length. He is said to have told.
them, that his master had money enough to
carry on affairs at home, though not to pay fo-
reign debts; and that foreign claims must remain
suspended till the revenue of the country in-
creased. Ile is also reported to have uttered
some vague threats of procuring the interference
of Russia on behalf of Spain, should England
dare to seize any of the Spanish possessions, or
property as a set-off against the claims of British
subjects. That the merchants have been politic-
in refusing to bring forward a contract which.
contained no acknowledgment of the. bonds of
the Cortes, or indeed any contract for lending
English money to Spain, there can be little
doubt ; whether they have preserved perfect
good faith in their engagements with the Spanish
Government, can only be known by- the -publi-
cation of the documents connected with the
transaction.

[NEW TIMES.
In the House of Commons last night, various
matters of great interest came under dlieussion,
The question respecting the liability of Country.
Banks to pay their notes in gold, upon their be-;
ing required to do so by the holders ofthe notes-,
was again brought before the House by. Mr.
Hume, and a conversation of considerable jt:rtg,tic
followed. We quite agree ss.it t Mr, err ur,
ney that no apprehensions upon. the Subict
are entertained by the pnblic,. aiid believe
that -it is generally well understood that
,every banker is hound to pay his notes in
cash. Mr. J. Smith asserted, as a fact within
his own knowledge, that one half of the cirett-
lating medium of the country consisted of .0.
notes. 111 r. Baring, Mr. Canning, and olhef
Members, participated in the discussion, and
Mr. Huskisson again repeated his distinct and
positive interpretation of the law, that from the
Bank of Engiand down to the smallest:banker in
the country, they are all liable tcs'pay their
notes at sight, in the legal coin of the7realm.
The consideration of the Combination of Work-
men Bill then occupied the House,'.and formed
the main business of the evening. , -:.• ,

['ME PUBLIC LEDGER.?
From a source, liable to no objection,- a con-
firmation, we are sorry to say, has been received
of the capture of Navarin. Intelligence to this
effect was received yesterday from a Greek house
at Trieste ; and, to aggravate the calamity, :it
represents the Greeks as divided amongst them-
selves, when their situation plainly requires the
most perfect union and the utmost .energy.,--
These dissensions are the more to be t d
as the wilely Egyptian knows how to turn them'
to his advantage ; and though his ..military
means are any thing but contemptible; his in-
trigues, we fear, are more formidable. Before
he effected a landing, it had been confidently
stated that he counted on finding many par-
tisans in the Morea ; and this expectation,
revolting as it" is, is likely, it Would: seem,,
to be fulfilled. That there is a Turkish .party:
in that province has been proved by
rer
cent occurrences ; for it is notorious that—the
late revolt 4d its origin in this unworthy cant?.
Ibrahim Paella, who employs gold as well as
steel in the prosecution of the contest, and who
is accompanied by persons, trained by, his fattier.
in all the arts of seduction, will, no doubt, make
the most of the present divisions amongst the
Greeks. Ilis efforts will be the more successful
too:onaccount of the high reputation of the V ice-
roy, the' comparative mildness of his rule, and the
gentle- treatment the Greeks have experienced
from him, whenever they fell into his hands. As
it is probable that the latter will find some pre-
text for keeping the Morea for himself, in the
event of his conquering it, it is likely that he will
neglect nothing to obtain so important an acqui-
sition. The possession of Navarin is only an en-
couragement to- attempt further conquests ; and
we are obliged, however painfully, to admit, that
the. "situation of the Greeks is critical in the
extreme.:

[BRITISH PR ESS.I
On'the third reading of the Judges' Salaries
Bill last night, in the House of Lords, the Lord
Cltaficellor, in reply to some observations from
liattt trolivenor, made some interesting' state-
ments .with regard to the income he derives horn
his office. During the last three years it has not
exceeded 10,0001., and during the last twenty-,
three years it has not averaged 15,0001. annual-
ly:. • This is certainly, as the Lord Chancellor
sardi much below the common opinion of the va-

lee of his office. It is less than he received
while practising at the bar. The Noble and
Learned Lord was deeply affected in allud-
ing to the calumnies that have been circu-
lated against him on this subject. With respect
to the Commission respecting the Court of Chan-
cery, he expressed his anxiety that their inqui-
ries should be close and extensive into 'all
that related to that Court. In conclusion, his
Lordship adverted to the clamour that has been
falsely raised against him, and warned the House
how they suffered the characters of men in high
station to fall under the attacks of public libel-
lers. Lord Redesdale vindicated the Members
of the Commission from some disparaging remarks
of Earl Grosvenor, who afterwards thought fit to
explain them away.—ln the House of Commons,
a long conversation took place on the presentation
of a Petition by Mr. Hume, complaining that a
Banking Company at Bristol had refused to
give gold in payment of their notes. The law
is quite clear as to this point. Every Bank is
hound to pay in gold, on demand ; but Mr.
Hume and Mr. Abercromby wished to have a
summary process enacted, for tl►e seizure of a
Banker's goods, if,at the end of 3 days, he refused
to pay his notes in gold. The subject was treat-
ed as one of great importance, merely to give
some of the Members an opportunity of recurring
to their old practice of predicting the national
ruin from the excess of the paper currency. Cob-
Lett should have been amongst them, to. have
read a lecture on the gridiron. The Combina-
tion Bill passed through the Committee. The
evils of the present system were forcibly but not
too strongly stated by Mr. Wallace. The trade
of the country would have been undermined and
destroyed, if an effectual check had not been ap-
plied to the wild excesses of the workmen.
Their own interests were those most deeply con-
cerned in the suppression of their violent courses.
The charges against Mr. Kenrick were again be-
fore the House. Mr. Denman gave notice of his
intention to move some Resolutions this evening,
inculpating Mr. Kenrick with respect to the case
of Franks.

[monNING POST.]
French Papers to the 26th inst. with the Etoile
of Sunday, reached us last night by Express. On
Friday last the Duke of Northumberland had his
audience of leave of the French Monarch, toge-
ther with the Russian and Swedish Ambassadors
Extraordinary and their Suite. His Grace was
expected to leave Paris this day on his return
home. The Etoile contains intellige-nce from
Trieste to the llth inst., which mentions, without
affirming, the reported surrender or capture of Na-
varino. The same Paper gives accounts from Con-
stantinople to the 11 th May,which contradicts that
event. It states that the combined Turkish,
Egyptian, and Ablerine squadrons, with a consi-
derable number of transports, had entered the
port of Motion, and landed the third division of
droops, which had created a panic in the gar-
-01011 of Navarino, and induced it to propose a
'capitulation, when the Greek fleet appeared
-under Mianlis attached to the Ottomans, burn-
ed a large frigate, five ships of war, twenty
transports, a great portion of the town, and
blew up the powder magazine. These details
have arrived from too many quarters unconnect-
ed with each other, not to be founded in fact.—
IThey also seem satisfactorily to explain how
the report of the capitulation of Navarino got
into- circulation. The Etoile contradicts, but
very faintly, the statements made by some of the
other Journals of disturbances in the Spanish
capital. It announces at the same time, that the
two Members which remained of the old Mini-
stry, (the Ministers of War and Justice) had
been removed, and that the Royal Volunteers
had displayed much agitation and discontent on
account of that measure. Recent letters from
I.pahan, state that the King of Persia had abdi-
cated in favour of his son Abbas Mirza, who in-
tended to rebuild Shiraz and to restore its
splendour. -