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customary when the question of peace or war is
to be determined, the Mufti, the Great Officers
of State, the Viziers of the Porte then at Con-
stantinople, the heads of the Ulemas, and the
Chiefs of the: Janissaries, attended ; and is it at
all probable, after so solemn a decision, that a
repetition of the same arguments as were previ-
ously used by the Ambassadors of the Medi-
ating Powers, can induce the Turkish Govern-
ment to retract their decision and accede to
the very terms which they have publicly declared
to be inconsistent with the interests lof their re-
ligion and the dignity of the throne ? We have
already stated that the Sultan, at the earnest
intercession of the Mediating Powers, had con-
sented to reconsider his answer ; yet, however
favourable that concession may appear to the

preservation of peace in the opinions of sonie
, Persons, we repeat our firm belief that no
alteration in the Turkish decision will be
made for the reasons above stated, joined

with the determined hostile attitude the Porte
has since assumed, and the vigorous mi-
litary preparations she is prosecuting. The
other articles of intelligence from Vieuna are
highly warlike, and rumour states, that the
house of Rothschild is negociating a fresh loan
for the Austrian Government.— The Consti-

tutionnel contains a long article dated Hamburgh,
April 6th, respecting the negociations said to
be on foot between England and Denmark, for
the Exchange of all the Islands of Denmark,
being Sealand Funen, &c. and the Penin-
sub. of Jutland, as far as the river Eider,
against the kingdom of Hanover, England tak-
ing upon itself all the Danish debts. The de.
sire of commanding the entrance of the Baltic,
and thus having an effectual check on the com-
merce of Russia ; and secondly, the possibility of
the separation of the crown of Hanover from that,
England, in case the latter should devolve to
a female, are stated as the motives of England
for seeking this exchange.

irxtract from the Agent to Lloyd's at Lisbon, dated March 29.]
" The Portuguese frigate Perola has brought
in the. Heroine corvette, of Buenos Ayres, War.
AlAssoN commander, mounting 26 guns and
134 men ; she was captured on the 20th instant,
after several hours chace, and made no resist-
ance whatever."

While contemplating the truly " radical" pro-
ject now before Parliament, for the regulation of
'est India commerce, it is impossible to look
back without feelings of regret and mortification
to the language of that celebrated report delivered
by the Committee of Privy Council for trade and
Plantations in 1791, where, speaking of a com-
mercial treaty with America, the Lords of Coun-
cil observe to GEORGE the Third,—" It will be
right, in an early stage of this negociation, ex
illicitly to declare that Great Britain never can

submit even to treat on what appears to be the
favourite object of the people of these States, that
is, the admission of the ships of the United States
into the ports of your MAJESTY'S Colonies and
islands." Such and so decided was at that time
the opinion of considerate and enlightened British
Statesmen, with respect, at least, to any perma-
tent arrangement ; and if we are now to abandon
at once a policy, of late so strenuously insisted
°ll, to give up, unreservedly, and for ever, a point
ou which, at that time, we would not even hear
Proposals, the public may reasonably demand to
he informed, before such a resolution is taken,
what America has deserved of us in these lattei
Tears ; what has occurred in that period to render
the proposed compliance more consistent with the
'tional honour and welfare ; what irresistible
concurrence of exigencies has forced it upon us
41111 what expedients have been tried for averting,
if possible, the necessity of so absolute a sub-
tuission.—Great Britain having on the one hand
laid down, and in the main tenor of her policy
(notwithstanding many temporary relaxations)
exhibited a resolution to abide by the principle to
Which we have adverted, America, on her part,
refused any longer to continue her dealings with
the British Colonies, unless her vessels should be
admitted without reserve into the Colonial ports.
Both nations standing thus committed, the point
of honour is of course given up by that which
first abandons the exclusive system. It may be
said that when great interests are at stake, a
Mere punctilio of national honour must not be
too obstinately maintained. We deny that such
Points can ever be given up, and especially be-
tween nations that are naturally rivals, without
substantial injury. But waiving this considera-
tion, we think that interest as well as honour de-
mands a trial, at least, of other expedients within
our reach before we fly to the extreme point of
concession. .Various modes of relief, various re-
laxations of our mercantile system, have been
Pointed out; falling short of that general dissolution

'to be apprehended from. the present scheme, but
which still afford considerable benefit-to our com-
plaining Colonists, and would serve to shew 'our
commercial adversaries that we, have some means
of counteracting their hostility, without resorting
to an absolute surrender. These intermediate
measures would, it may be presumed, enable us
to maintain our own. system inviolate in all its
essential points, till our opponents,- pressed by
their own needs, or induced by their senge of ex-
pediency, should themselves be anxious for a
compromise. But by thus yielding every de-'
mend at once, we tempt our rivals to take ad-
vantage of our acknowledged necessities, to ren-

der the terms of accommodation less equitable,
and perhaps to insist upon conditions unthought
of before. Nor have we in such a case any al-
ternative but to comply with such demands as
may be urged, or to disappoint our Colonists of
the hoped for relief, and return, dissatisfied and
disgraced, to some of, those other expedients
which, if resorted to in the first instance, would
perhaps prove hardly less,efficacious, and at all
events would itwolve -no sacrifice of national
.credit and independence.--ThO subject appears
in a still more discouraging, and even an alarm-
ing point of view, if we consider the disadvantage
to which these measures would expciO. Great
Britain, in the event of a quarrel sii.th America.
By confessing ourselves incapable of a further
struggle on the present occasion, we shew her
and all the world how the torture may suc-
cessfully be applied hereafter, and that machi-
nery which is now 60 powerful, in her hands,
will, after our submission,- become every day
more available to the 'purposes of intimidation
and coercion. This is evident from the rea-
sonings of those who plead most strongly
for the unrestricted intercourse. If the com-
merce of America be now so necessary to
the West India planter, how will he be able
to dispense with it when a long series of years
shall have confirmed, his dependence on the Re-
publican market for supply and consumption ?
Accustomed to lean on the American trade, as the
sure prop of his prosperithwill he endure, at a fu-
ture period, to hear of that stay being withdrawn ?
However intolerable the conduct, however dan-
gerous the pretensions of Arnerica may become,
this Country, if provoked to-offer resistance, will
be threatened with a suppression of the West
India Intercourse, and-those threats will then be
seconded by lamentations and 'forebodings of the
planters, a thousand times 'more melancholy, and
perhaps better founded in reason, than those
which now assail us. To resist aggressions thus
enforced will require extraordinary firmness in
the Government and great union in the Country,
and the ruin or loss of our West India Islands
may, in that state of things, become really inevi-
table. A sure consequence of submission in this
matter, and one which it would be folly to sup-
pose unheeded by our adversaries, is. the final
decay of our North American Colonies. Our
-Government may hope, or profess to hope, that
the intercourse between these Settlements and the
West Indies can be kept alive under the proposed
'system, by the help of protecting duties. Ame-
rica knows that ,this will'noti- and is, we are sure,'
determined that it shill not, happen. With the
command which we are about to give her, of our
commercial policy, she would be guilty of a most
unwonted dulness if she suffered these Colonies
to flourish for her detriment, or omitted the fa-
fourable opportunity of blighting and bringing
them low. She has two great objects to accom-
plish by the depression of the British American
Provinces : their weakness favours her designs
of continental aggrandizement, and the disuse
and consequent decay of their markets will tend
in a great measure to cut O'ff those sources of
supply which at present help- to render us inde-
pendent of the Republican trade in times of dis-
agreement.—To sum up this argument in a word,
by adopting the intended measures, we shall be,
as far as colonial policy is concerned, admitting
a bridle into our mouths, in the fond hope. that
America will want inclination or dexterity to
seize and manage the rein. When we revolve

these considerations; when we ask, with the Quar-
terly Reviewer, what is to become of 220,000
tons of shipping and 16,000 seamen, now secure
in the West India trade, and of 300,000 tons and
22,000 seamen in the trade with the North Ame-
rican Colonies, after the proposed system.shall
have had what we consider to be its unavoidable
effect ; when we view the injury that will result
from it to British trade and manufactures by,
clandestine as well as open competition ; when-
we think of the deep discouragement it will cast
upon all maritime professions in our country, and
the wound it will thereby 'inflict upon the very
roots of that naval strength with which the na-
tional greatness and independence ,are destined
to flourish or decline; and when we contemplate,
on the other hand, the limited and precarious
benefits expected from this policy even by its
warmest advocates, we cannot think it possible
that Parliament will consent to the bold, un-
compromising decrees now offered 'for its sanc-
tion. We anxiously cherish the hope, at least,
that our legislators, duly estimating the import-
ance of this question, and weighing the sugges-
tions and remonstrances of all who may justly
claim a hearing on the subject, will allow them-
selves time to mature such a sound and tempe-
rate project as may afford relief to our Colonists
without surrendering the honour of the Mother
Country, impairing her strength, or endangering
her independence.

There is an infamous attack in the Old Times
of this day upon Mr. HESSE, the Secretary to the
State Lottery Office, in Somerset-place, which
requires some notice, though the notorious ma-
lignity of that Paper is too well, understood for
its aspersions to have any prejudicial effect upon
those against whom its venom may be directed.
But what is the fault of Mr. HESSE which has thus
drawn upon him all the scurrility that can issue from

' that sink of polltitionthe Old Times? Why that, in
conformity to Acts of 'Parliament, and in obe-
dience to the orders of 'Government, he has by
two hundred public notices warned the Provin-
cial Journalists of this country against the inser-
tion of advertisements in favour of' Foreign Lot-
teries, and that likewise according to the; orders
of Government he has mitigated the penalties
incurred by those whO have been. guilty Of the
offence to a small part of the penalties to which
they were consequently subject ! Such is the
alleged " head and front" of the conduct which
has ekcited the libellous malevolence 'of the
014,71iines against this Gentleman. But that
despicable Paper is not contented with having as-
sailed his public conduct ; it has also attacked his
private character, and even directed its leeli)le
malice and pointless ridicule against his very
clam 6,, as if it seemed to court the contempt, in-
dignation, and abhorrence of mankind. But the
cloven foot appears, in its surmise that. MI%
Ilcsst ha's sent the Advertisements' (rem his
Office; to The New Times, a Paper that is
conducted by a Gentleman whose literary sup-
port of the Old Times raised'that Paper into an
extent of 'circulation which 'it never previously
attained, and • hhs brought tl Niqii Times into.
stich..high estimation, that the Old Times, stung
wit47-its success to the extreme of 'Malice, treni-
bles at its prosperity. But it remains to say a
few words of Mr. llLssr He is, 'from all We
have, heard, a Gentleman
,well educated, who
has' improved his knowledge by travelling
through the classic regions, of the Continent,
is a' Barrister by profession, but has relin-
quished-the uncertain- pursuits of that profession
for a permanent and by no means inactive esta-
blishment under Government. Mr. likssE has, we
understand, a family, and sons who possess such
abilities, and who have had the advantage of
such an education, as qualify them to become
useful and valuable members, of society. Such,
we are assured, is the character and condition of
Mr. HESSE, and such are the objects that no
Journal but the Old Times would select for
private revenge and, shameless scurrility.

IRELAND.—On Thursday a farmer, in, the
neighbourhood of Nine Mile House, County
Tipperary, was shot for having disregarded the
notices which had been'served upon him by order
of General Rock. On Friday, the Rev. JoHN
CROKER, of Croom Glebe, a Magistrate of the
County of Limerick, was also nearly assassinated
by two ruffians, who snapped their blunder-
busses at him while he was travelling with his
servant. Both the pieces providentially missed
fire. The villains were shortly afterwards
pursued ; but they effected their escape.—
At Cork Assizes, Heffernan, the shopkeeper
convicted before the Special Commission of sell-
ing gunpowder to the insurgents, has• received
sentence of death. No day, however, was fixed
for his execution.=-We 'observe that the inde-
fatigable Sir HARCOURT Ltts, Bart. continues
earnestly and eloquehtly-atir impress "upon Go-
vernment and the Pubik his conviction, that
the present disorders in lijelain) are connected
with an extensive plan 'of insurrection, both
in England and on the COntinent. Some of the
circumstances of the outrages in the neighbour-
hood of Ipswich certainly seem to strengthen
Sir IlAncounT's'opinion. He has long and ear-
nestly maintained that the' Irish is only a branch
of a general confederacy against the State,—that
the Jesuits are at the bottom of it,—that they
are actively employed as emissaries in Loth Eng-
land and Ireland,—and that they have communi-
cations with the Continent.

From an Official Return, printed by order of
the House of Commons, it appears that the total quantity of
foreign Butter imported into the United Kingdom In the year
ending sth January, 1821, was 68,291 cwts., of which 65,914
cwts. was from Holland alone. In the year ending sth Jan.
1822, the total importation of foreign Butter was 115,649 cwts.,
of which 98,968 cwts. was from Holland. The total quantity
of foreign Cheese imported was in the former year 83,172 cwts.;
and in the latter year 84,068 cwts.—The total quantity of But-
ter imported into Great Britain from Ireland, and the Isles of
Guernsey, Jersey, and •Man, was in the former year 457,996
cwts. ; in the latter year 413,267 cwts.—These vast importa-
tions must be deeply injurious to the English agri-
culturists, at the same time that they prove, particularly
•
in the case of Ireland, the extreme wretchedness of the
exporting countries. We observe that the total quantity
of Butter imported from Ireland has rapidly increased since
1811. At, present it is equal to about three oriarters of
a pound weekly from each family in Ireland, and is an in-
stance of the cruel extent to which the foodiproduced by her
unfortunate peasantry is withdrawn from their own consump-
tion., The country which raises its profits, rents, and revenue.,
in a great measure, by, the exportation of the food'of its people
must be in a most wretched condition indeed ! Nor is the evil
confined to itself. Ireland, by 'pouring her agricultural produce
into England, not only starves her own population till they are
driven to rebellion, but deprives The English labourer of em-
ployment, the English farmer of a market, the English land-
lord of his rent, and the English/manufacturer and tradesman
of their best customers I. ,The pulley, whicb, regulates 'these
mattersl or rather which leaves them wholly unregulated, is
:ra4inPliy wrong, and ought withotit loss of time to be cor.:
.meted. But the fashionable Economists will tell us, that when
nations are blessed with a free trade, they themselves are best
judges of the manner in which thleir superfluities can be most
advantageously exchanged. Letthem look at poor Ireland for
a practical illustration of their theories.

The Morning Chronicle of this day contains
extracts from a letter, said to have been written
by a person named MACIRONE. This person's
name was sometime since familiar to the public,
and we think he did not appear to advan-
tage in the Strictures of The Quarterly Review.
In the letter in question he styles the King of
NAPLES a " perjured Despot." We know not
whether this same MACIRONE is now in this
country, but if he is, we think, he should not pass
unnoticed for this. indecent attack upon a Sove-
reign in alliance with the British Throne.

Last night, at twenty-five minutes past eight
o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived at his Palace in
Pall-mall from Brighton. His Majesty travelled
with his own horses from the Cock Inn at Sutton.
—All the personages who attend the ensuing
Levee and Drawing Room and future Courts,
must be presented to the King-on his Coronation,
except they were present at the Levee and
Drawing Room a few days after the Coronation)
or the last Levee..