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London, England, 1822-06-05 00:00:00

TILE LONDON 'JOURNALS.

S7LTRAETS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

Jam 5, 18'2'2.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The foreign Papers present us with a pretended
declaration of war by the Emperor of Russia
against Turkey. Our Parliamentary Report this
cozy presents a more formidable document : it is
a declaration of war by Sir Thos. Lethbridge
against Ministers, grounded upon the inadequacy
of their promised relief to the agricultural in-
terest of the .country. The Honourable Mem-
brr contends, very fairly we think, that all the
meaciures proposed for that purpose, and we dare
say no more are intended in the present Session, I
fall short of the expectation and actual wants of
the agriciiltural interest. The Marquis of Lon-
donderry, in his answer, admits that butter and
cheese and flax, trifling articles we suppose
of no value, may not have attracted very
particular notice, but as evidence of a just
attention to economy, he refers to the reduction
of the taxes. A few words will suffice to settle
the matter between these disputants. Since the
peace Alinitters laid on three millions a year of
additional taxes ; they have since remitted in the
Malt Tax and the Agricultural Horse Tax about
two millions; and they now propose to remit
1,800,0001. by " a scheme," as the Marquis of
Londonderry very properly calls it, which, by
counteracting the Sinking Fund to the same
extent, is only an exchange of the burden from
the present to the next generation. This is all
that has been done, or is promised to be done,
for the relief of the agricultural interest. As for
the Bill now before the House, every man who
understands the agricultural interests .of the
country says, " we are better without it, and the
present law, however defective, is preferable to
the innovation."

[THE 'FEU ES.]
Letters from Rio de Janeiro, ,dated the 13th
March, state that great numbers of the Spanish
families from Buenos Ayres, who had abandoned
that provinCe during the troubles by which it
was lately agitated, and settled in Brazil, were
returning home, satisfied with the prospects of
secur►ty under the existing Government. This
province, it will be recollected, was the first to
shake off the yoke of colonial. subjection. It
has not in fact seen a single Spanish soldier, or
at any rate a Spanish force, with any pretensions
to its obedience, since the revolution in the Pen-
insula ; and during the last ten years it has not
only exhibited an example of .independence,
but has assisted distant provinces to attain the
same enviable blessing. That blessing, however,
has not been without alloy. Conflicts between
rival candidates for supreme power, and disputes
about the camparative.merits of a federal or con-
solidated Government for the whole of the pro-
vinces bordering on La Plata and its tributary
rivers, have more than once occasioned civil
disorders in the capital, and terminated in pro-
scription and bloodshed. At those periods volun-
tary exile was embraced by numbers of citizens
who preferred their commerce to their country,
and the secure possession of their wealth to the
patriotic assertion of their freedom. Since the
advancement of Mr. Ribadavia, well known both
tfi England and France for his wisdom, firmness,
and patriotism, to the office of President, all ap-
prehensions of disorder have been removed, and
consequently we hear of the, return of his coun-
trymen to share the benefits of his Government.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We yesterday observed that the cause of Re-
form, aided by circumstances, was advancing
with such rapid strides in this country-, that those
in whose hands power was now placed would
soon be compelled by the overwhelming force of
public opinion to relinquish it. The signs of
the times are, in fact, not to be mistaken by the
most superficial observer. Tories to whom the
very name of Reform was till lately an abomi-
nation, are now hastening to proclaim their_ con-
Version to its doctrines. Even Sir Thomas Leth.l
bridge declared last night in the House of Com-
mons, that he thought Reform absolutely ne-
cessary, while Lord 'Londonderry complains
bitterly of the inflammatory language of his old
friends. This is all in the natural order of things
—it is the necessary result of the mad career
which the.. Government of this country has so
long pursued—it is the final development of the
Pitt System. We are now reaping the reward
of our exertions to restore the Bourbons, the
Pope and the Inquisition—to infuse fresh blood
into the exhausted veins of superstition—to prop
up feudality, and, under the prostituted name of
religion, to send forth armies of Missionaries to
*debase and brutalize the minds of the people.
We are now reaping the rewards of our war in
behalf of religion and social order, that social
order of which the edifice was no sooner secured
by the crowning victory, than it began to threaten
its supporters.. There are now insidious attempts
Made to undermine it, said the Chancellor

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attic!. clay. Insidious! Why, good God! the in-
struments of destruction are brought forth in
open day, and daringly used. It is only the
-Pitt-clubists who now need to make insidious
attempts.

(-NEW TIMES.]
The Morning Chronicle attempts to justify the
;libel whiCh was laid on the table of the House of
.Commons on Monday evening, in the shape of a
Petition from some Persons in Norfolk: The
Courier, on the. other hand, offers a sort of
...humble apology for the rejection of this, libel, by
the majority of the House. We must say that,
upon strict constitutional principles, we differ
almost equally from both our cotemporaries. If
the, paper was really such as it is in substance
.represented by them both to have been, the law
:of the- land would pronounce. it to be in the
'highest degree scandalous and seditious ; ,and
common sense teaches us, that to address a scan.
Aalous and seditious libel to a branch of the Sove-
leign.POwer, must,. in any country, be a crime de-
;"erving.to be. visited with severe and exemplary
, nishrnent.,..Godforbid that the lawful rightof
iitionihould be in the slightest degree abridged!
,God forbid that the subject should not hare the