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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

If 0 CSE OF COMMONS.
Mercurii, 179 die Jrclii, 1822.
RETAIL OF BEER BlLL—Numerous Petitions against, and
several in favour of ; to lie on the table.
ROADS—Southwark and Surrey—Petition of Inhabitants of
Stockwell and Brixton, stating that the Standing Orders had
not been complied with ; referred to a Select Committee, to
examine whether the Standing Orders referred to therein
have been complied with ; and to report their opinion there-
upon to the House.
HIGHGATE CHAPEL BlLL—Petition* of Vestrymen and In-
habitant Householders of St. Pancras ; of IV. M. Thiselton,
Parish Clerk of SLlPancras ; and of Inhabitants of Holloway
and Kentish Town, against; referred to the Committee on
the Bill ; Counsel ordered.
BIRLEs AND PRAYER BOOKS—Petition of Henry Constan-
tine Jennings, respecting the Monopoly of Printing the
same ; to be printed.
STAMP DUTIES BlLL—Petitions of Ship-owners of London,
against; to lie on the table
EXCISE LICENCES REPEAL BlLL—Lords amendments
agreed to.
VIC'FUALLINO DEPARTMENT—Petition of Robert Douglas,
setting forth his having detected Abuses therein, and pray-
ing for relief ; to be printed.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS—That they have agreed to,
Small Notes Bill, and Fees of Courts Bill, without amend-
ment ; and Alehouse Licences Bill, with Amendments.
GREENLAND FISHERY ACTS—The following Resolutions
reported and agreed to, and Bill ordered to be brought in :-
1. " That an Act made in the 26th year of his late Ma-
jesty, for the further support and encouragement of the
Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's
Streights; and .also so much of an Act made in the 29th
year of his said late Majesty as relates to the Fisheries car-
ried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights ; which
were by several subsequent Acts amended, and further cell-
tinned until the 31st day of December, 1823, are fit to be
further continued.

2. " That an Act made in the 46th year of his late Ma-
jesty, for allowing, until the signature of preliminary arti-
cles of Peace, vessels employed in the Greenland Whale
Fishery to complete their full number of men at certain
ports, which was revived, and further continued until the
:;Ist day of December, 1823, is fit to be further continued."
BANKRUTCY LAWS AMENDMENT BILL)
DUCHY OF CORNWALL BILL Read a third time,
LEATHER DUTIES REDUCTION BILL and passed.
ENDOWED SCHOOLS (IRELAND) BILL
COURT OF EXCHEQUER SITTINGS BlLL—reported; to be
read a third time to-morrow (this day).
GENERAL TURNPIKE BlLL—reported ; to he read a third
time on Friday next.
CUSTOMS DUTIES AcT—The following Resolutions reported
and agreed to, and instruction to Committee on New South
Wales Duties Bill that they have power to make provision
accordingly :-
1. " That no higher Duty of Customs-than Id. per pound
weight shall, for a time to be limited, be charged upon the
importation of Sheep or Lambs Wool, the produce of New
South Wales, into Great Britain.
" That a Duty of Customs of 3s. the cwt. now payable
upon the importation of solid vegetable extract from Bark,
or other vegetable substances, to be used for the purpose of
tanning Leather; and also, the Duty, of Customs of £1 10s.
upon Teake Wood, or other Wood fit. for Ship-building, 8
inches square or upwards, the load containing .50 cubic teet ;
shall be suspended for a time to be limited, on extract of
Bark, and such Wood, the produce of New South Wales."
MURIATIC ACID ACT—The following Resolution reported
'and agreed to, and Bill ordered to be brought in :
" That it is expedient that an increased Drawback of one-
tenth part of the Duties of Customs payable on the importa-
tion of Brimstone be allowed on all Brimstone which shall
be used or consumed in the making and preparing Oil of
Vitriol."

MALT DUTIES COLLECTION BILL—" to provide for the
collection and payment of the Countervailing Duties and
Drawbacks, granted by an Act of this present Session, on
Malt, and other articles, imported and exported between
Great Britain and Ireland," presented, and read a first time.;
to be read a second time to-morrow (this day.)

NOTICES OF MOTIONS for THIS DAY.
1. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer,—Address, to request his
Majesty to give directions for publishing the Ancient His-
tories of this Kingdom.
2. Sir George Hill,—Bill to vest in Board of Ordnance, Pro-
perty occupied for Barrack Service.
ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY.
I, Supply—Reports.
2. Canada Government and Trade Bill;—Further Consider-
ation of Report,

We received this morning the Paris Papers ol
Monday, which contain a few additional parti-
culars respecting the late events at Madrid, but
not of a more recent date than our last commu-

cations. The following are extracts.:—

PARIS, JULY 15.—A private letter from Spain announce
that, besides the Duke del Infantado, one hundred and twenty
eight persons, who were the chiefs of the conspiracy, have been
arrested, and that all their plans for carrying off the King and
bringing about a revolution will be immediately made public.
Letters from Bayonne, which were received yesterday, state
that the bands of Gen. Quesada no longer exist. They have been
dispersed by the Constitutionalists, and their remains nave taken
refuge in the mountains. We are ignorantof the fate of Quesada;
it is thought that he has taken, with some of his people, the
direction of tluipuscoa, with the intention of embarking to re-
turn to France. The last accounts from Madrid have re-
alised,' adds our Bayonne correspondent, the apprehensions
which we have long*ntertained, of seeing the national exaspera-
tion carried to the highest pitch, by the continual insults given
to one of the proudest people in Europe, and by the strata-
gems continually empillyed to bring them again under the yoke
of the Camarilla and the Inquisition, the remembrance of
which is so odious to every true Spaniard. There ought at
length to be a conviction that it is not thus the effervescence of
a warlike people can be cooled. The French Revolution was a
great example, of which the enemies df the Spanish Revolution
ought to profit, and which should suggest to them more reserve.'
The same letters state, that the troops in Biscay and Navarre,
as soon as they were apprised of the counter-revolutionary at-
tempts at Madrid, burst forth into the strongest indignation,
and drew up Addresses to the Government full of devotion and
energy. -

Ten P.3l.—We have satisfied ourselves that no accounts
have arrived from Madrid subsequent to the Spanish Journals
of the Bth. Private letters of the same date say nothing, but
that Morino co-operated in the events of the sth in the evening.
The attempt made to carry off the King from his palace, was
not made by the whole of the two battalions from the Pardo,
more than half remained in reserve at that post, and it is con-
firmed that a part marched towards Segovia to seize the arsenal.
The troop which attempted to carry off the King had not a very
experienced Chief, for the Royal Guards distrust their officers;
it was repulsed by the forces of Ballasteros and Riego, but it
retired in good order and rejoined its comrades at the Pardo.--
There is a report current that the King had given a false coun-
tersign, by the aid of which, it was hoped to justify the arrest
of about 200 persons suspected of being revolutionists.
A Royal Ordonnance, dated the 3d instant, places in active
service, first, all the young soldiers of the class of 1821, of 5
feet 3 inches and upwards ; second, a part of those from 4 feet
10 inches to 5 feet 1 inch inclusive. The same Ordonnance
fixes the first departures for the 25th instant, and the last for the
30th Sept.
Our Nuremberg Correspondent has received a letter from
Vienna, dated 3d July, in which the following passages are
worthy of notice :—" The negociations with the Russian Sena-
tor, '1 atischef. appear at this moment suspended. Prince Met-
ternich, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, only waits the arrival
of the first courier whom Count Lutzow is to send from Con-
stantinople, to quit Vienna, and retire to his chateau of Joan-
nisberg. The metallics and the Bank actions have not yet
risen from the last fall they experienced."
Our Correspondent afterwards tells us, that another letter
from Vienna, of the 4th July, says, that the expected courier
had arrived from Constantinople with dispatches from the Im-
perial Internuncio for Prince Metternich. Their contents have
given occasion to an extraordinary meeting of Ministers.
Nothing has yet transpired publicly, but the general opinion at
Vienna was, that these dispatches were of such a nature as
would still further retard the journey of the Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs.

FRENCH FUNDS.—JULY 15.
Five per Cent. Consols Opened at
Highest
Closed at 9O f. 65 C.
Exchange on London—One Month 25 f. 45 c.
Three Months 25 f. 25 c.

ODESSA, JUNE 21.—News from Constantinople, of the 15th
of this month, announce that the Porte has rejected, once for
all, the propositions of the Mediating Ministers, and will no
longer allow them to be mentioned to him. Though this in-
tellio•ence wants confirmation, it is not, however, very nnpro-
babre.

MADRID, JULY s.—(Private Correspondence.)—The last
sittings of the Cortes have been remarkable for resolutions of
deep political interest which have been adopted, among which

stand foremost the regulation respecting the Volunteer Militia,
which will become the palladium of liberty, and that relative to
the organization of the Royal Guard.

Among the other measures of importance passed by the
Cortes, is one relative to the distribution of commons and
waste lands, which will be- made gratuitously to the inhabi-
tants of the country by lot. Each lot is to represent a value
sufficient for the subsistence of a family of five persons. A ge-
neral plan has been also determined for the endowment of the
Clergy. of all classes, from the Archbishop of Toledo down to
the curates of small villages.
All these measures, when carried into execution in the pro-
vinces, must contribute very powerfully to attach the bulk of
the nation to the new political system which governs Spain, and
to eradicate the prejudices which give strength to the disaffected.

NEW ENGLAND COFFEE-HOUSE, JULY 18.
Via Anwrica.—Calcutta, Feb. 26.]

(By ship Palmer.)
Mei going into the mouth of the River a ship
under French colours, supposed to be the Physician, -from
Havre de Grace. Cotton piece goods were scarce and high,
the manufactories having nearly ceased making them for ex-
portation. British woollens are increasing rapidly in India
and the neighbouring countries, and give additional facility
to trade. The Governor-General' has dispatched Mr. CRAW_
roan on a mission to Slam and Cochin China, to establish
more intimate and friendly relations with those countries. The
crop of opium had fallen short of the usual quantity, about 550
chests. The import into Calcutta of gold, silver, and bullion,
for 1821, was about ten million of Spanish dollars ; and the
Company had shipped from Bengal for England, in silver and
bullion, nearly five millions of Spanish dollars, and upwards of
two millions from the other Presidencies. The difficulty in
finding remittable articles for England had induced several
large ships to go to Sumatra and Penang to load with pepper
for England. Large orders have been sent down to Java to
purchase coffee of tie coming crop by the merchants of Cal-
cutta; and a ship has been dispatched by the Bengal Govern-
ment in search of a supposed rock in the Bay of Bengal, called
the Ball Cotton Rock, the existence of which has been doubted
by many.

There is a new Portugal Loan of two millions
talked of on 'Change, but the Contractors and
the Government of Portugal cannot as yet agree
about the price.

The House of 'Commons was chiefly occupied
last night with the question of privilege arising
out of the affair between Mr. ADERCRONIZY 011
the one hand, and Mr. MOPE and Mr. MENZIES
on the other. The decisions of the House, as to
the conduct of both the Scottish Counsel, must
be considered as completely triumphant for those
calumniated Gentlemen, as far as respects their
motives and character. The one, Mr. Hopc,
after having been loudly cheered by the House,
was dismissed with an intimation from the
SPEAKER, that under the circumstances of the
case, and in consideration of the explanation
given by him at the Bar, and his expression of
regret, the house did not feel itself called upon
to take proceedings ful'ther on the case.—The
other, Mr. MENZIES, after having acknowledged
' that the letter charged to be a breach of privi-
lege was his writing, was not even re-called to
the Bar to hear the judgment of the House ; but,
on the motion of Mr. COURTENAY that " no fur-
ther attendance on the part of Mr. MENZIES was
necessary," was forthwith ordered to be dis-
charged from further proceedings. It is there-
fore evident that the House, in availing itself of
its privilege on this occasion, has been influenced,
not by any disposition to inflict its displeasure on
the parties who were called before it, but solely
by a desire to prevent the effusion of blood, on
the occurrence of an unpleasant misunderstand-
ing, in which, fortunately, the House possessed
the power of interference. This being manifestly
the case, the remarks, which, with the utmost
deference, we presumed to offer yesterday, on
the seeming cruelty of dragging respectable par-
ties from so great a distance, in an interval of

time so limited as not to allow them one day for
preparation, or one hour for rest during the
journey, become entitled to the serious con-
sideration of all who have the power of averting
proceedings in future, that shall even appear to
partake of an arbitrary or oppressive character.
%Vitt), regard to " the expression of regret,"
used by Mr. HOPE, and which expression formed
one of the considerations on which " the House
did not feel called on to take proceedings fur-
ther on the case," it is remarkable that Mr.
HOPE did not express any regret for having vio-
lated the privileges of the House. On the con-
trary, he appealed to the House whether it was
possible for any man of honour and gentle-
manly feelings to act otherwise than he had
done ; and, while he regretted that his con-
duct " should have given the "louse any offence,"
he frankly avowed that " he did not see, in any
other course but that which he had followed,
whereby he could vindicate his honour and pro-
fessional character, even though he were sensible
that it should lead to a breach of privilege." The
truth is, that, with the exception of a few of our
leading and very liberal Whigs, who, in their
warm admiration of liberty, thought that the
breaches of privilege complained of were danger-
ous
to the power and subversive of the dignity
of Parliament, the House seems to have consi-
dered the conduct of Messrs. HOPE and MENziEs
as amounting to nothing more than " tech-
nical and apparent" offences against its au-
thority,—as the natural and unavoidable course
to be pursued under the painful circum-
stances in which the outraged individuals were
placed ;—and to have resolved accordingly, that
as all good p vposes for which those " technical"
offences had been noticed, were already accom-
plished by the return of Mr. ABERCROMBY to his
place, and by the restraint imposed upon that
Hon. Member, any further notice of the affair had
become altogether unnecessary. The offence was
not against the House in its collective and public
capacity, but against an individual Member,—
was not of an offensive but a defensive nature,—
was not the initiative of hostile feelings be-
tween persons out of doors and that one Member,
but the consequence of language used by the
Member under misinformation,—and a conse-
quence which the House itself seemed to consider
as inevitable. In the termination of the affair,
the House has certainly done ample justice to Mr.
HOPE and Mr. MENZIES. It is worthy of inquiry
whether it has, in every respect, done all that is
most essential to its own dignity, and to the main-
tenance of that high respect in which a Legislative
Body ought always to be held by its constituents.
As the subject, in all its bearings, is of great
importance, not only to the dignity of Parliament,
but to the rights and security of the people,—
not only in a constitutional but a moral and poli-
tical point of view, we shall most probably re-
sume its consideration.

FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady Georgina
Lennox have arrived in town from Goodwood, Sussex.
The Duke of Norfolk left his seat, Arundel Castle, on
Sunday, with a party of friends on board his yacht for the Isle
of 'Wight.
Lora Sydney and the Hon. Misses Townshend have left town
for their seat Frognall, Kent, for the season.
The Earl of Gosford arrived yesterday at Blake's Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from Suffolk.
The Earl and Countess of Surrey have left their seat, Work-
sop Manor, Notts, for Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire, on a
visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Staford.
Earl Spencer left town yesterday for his seat, Althorp,
Northamptonshire.
General Meyrick has arrived in town from. Paris.
Lord Robert Spencer left town yesterday for his seat, Wool-
beding, Sussex.
E. Woodcock, Esq. left Greillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street,
yesterday, for his seat in Scotland.
Departures from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street :—Colo-
nel Bawell, M.P. for his seat in Ireland; and James Ray-
mond,-Esq. for his seat, Kingston-upon-Thames.
Arrivals at Hodgson's Hotel, Dover-street :—Capt. Oliver,
R.N., from Hants ; and the Misses Levius, from their scat in
Bedfordshire.

Colonel Pepper has arrived at the Claremont Hotel, Band-
street, from a tour.

Departures from the Pulteney Hotel, Piccadilly : Mr.
and Mrs. Bryant, for Paris ; P. Burnet, Esq. for Ireland ; and
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, for their seat in Ilants.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—Love in a Village,
a very pleasant Comedy in itself, independently
of its musical beauties, introduced a new Per-
former last night at this Theatre in the character
of Rosetta. This young lady, whose name is
LANGHI RE, is, we understand, the daughter of a
respectable member of the medical profession,
and a pupil of Mr. WELSH, the elder brother
of Mr. T. WELSH, and they both are distinguished
for musical talents of no ordinary description.
Miss LANGIIIRE iS low in stature. Her face, if
not handsome, is agreeable, and her manners, if
not graceful, are natural and easy. Her voice is
powerful,extensive, and well-toned. In our opinion
she is too much inclined to follow the prevailing
fashion of embellishing her songs too much, and
does not seem sensible of the superior charms of
simplicity and expression. We are persuaded
that, In this respect, she has not sufficiently at-
tended to the good taste of her tutor, who never
could have tolerated her interpolations on the
original airs, which were of a singular kind, and
by no means pleasing. If she had given the
songs as originally composed, she would have ex-
cited more valuable applause than attended her
on this occasion. Much of that applause is doubt-
less to be attributed to the zeal of friendship,
and much to the liberality of the public, which
is always shewn to a noviciate ; but if she re-
strains her disposition to decorate her songs she
will appear to much greater advantage in the
estimation of the judicious. As it is, she has
much to unlearn, and then, we doubt not, that
she will prove an acquisition to the Stage. She
appeared to conceive the character very well,
and she supported it with ease and spirit. The
Lucinda was rendered more important than has
been usual, by the good sense of Miss POVEY,
and by the taste and skill with which she gave
the songs. PEARMAN is a respectable singer, but
he too is much inclined to the decorative fashion
of the day, and it appeared too strongly in that
beautiful simple air, " Oh! had I been by fate
decreed ;" but his performance altogether enti.
tied him to the applause which he received.—
Justice Woodcock could not have been al-
lotted to a better representative than BARTLEY,
who fully sustained its humour and its oddity.—
No praise can be too high for the admirable man-
ner in which Miss KELLY supported the part ,of
Madge. It was not possible to avoid sympa-
thizing with her in resenting the neglect and
insolence of Hodge, which character the author
has indeed rendered too brutal. Mrs. GROVE
was a good Aunt Deborah, and BROADHURST a
respectable Eustace. The Opera altogether was
brought forward in a manner creditable to the
Theatre. We agree with a Morning Paper in
reprehending the manner in which PEARMAN
dressed the part of Young Meadows, as he ap-
peared more like a Modern Dandy than Thomas
the Gardener.

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