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LUDICROUS REPARTEE:Lady BATH, with an
infernal temper, had a great deal of wit. Lcrd Bath saying
to her in one of her passions, " Pray, my dear, keep your tem-
per," she replied, " Keep my temper ! I don't like It 69 well,
I wonder you should."

SUICIDE.—On Wednesday afternoon an inquest.
was held at the Marquis of Gran by,Knightsbridge,
before Mr. GEr.r., Coroner; on the body of Mary
Coffer, who put an end to her existence by hang-
ing herself. It appeared from the evidence pro-
duced before the Coroner, that the deceased had
been seen about the town of Kensington on Tues-
day till the afternoon, when she came up to
Knightsbridge and went into a linen draper's
shop to purchase a piece of muslin, when she con-
trived to conceal a table cloth under her shawl,
but she was observed ; and on ber quitting the
shop she was stopped with it and taken to the
watch-house, where she hung herself.—Verdict)
" Insanity."

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. '

RXTRAGTS FROM THI DIIY MORNING PAPERS,

July 19, 1822.

[BRITISH PRESS.
Some difficulty arose in the Rouse of Lords on
Wednesday evening, as to the propriety of their.
LordshipS sitting on• this day, it being the anni-
versary of the Coronation of his Majesty. The'
Lord Chancellor observed that Parliament had
Stever been sitting when the anniversary of the
Coronation of the late King occurred, which
made it necessary that precedents should be.
sought 'for in preceding reigns. We understand,
on examination of the Journals, that three pre-
cedents have been found for sitting on that day,
and not one against it. .Their Lordships will
therefore-sit this day for the purpose of passing
the Bill for renewing the Insurrection Act (Ire-
land)-through a stage (the second reading).

The recommittal of the Canada Government
and Trade' Bill was moved by Mr. Wilmot last
night in the House of Commons, who stated its
objects to be, to apply to Canada the principle
of the Bill brought in by the Board of Trade re-
lating to, colonial trade; to secure a fair appro-
priation of the duties between the two provinces
of Upper and. Lower Canada ; and to alter to a
certain degree the Constitution granted to those
provinces by the Act of. the 3tst Geo. In.
by incorporating into one the Government. and
Legislatures of both provinces. The motion was.
opposed by Sir James Mackintosh, as far as re-
garded the alteration of the Constitution of the
Canadas, on the ground of the want of due notice
to the inhabitants of those provinces, and the
-want of information on the part of the House
touching their sentiments and pinions concern-
ing the proposed alteration.--21 he Bill was re-
committed,- and the Report ordered to be re-
ceived on Tuesday next.—.(lbid.)

LMORNINO POST.]
In the House of Como-ions htst night Mr. Wil-
root moved. the •Order of the bay for going into
a Committee of the whole House upon the Ca-
nada Trade Bill. The Hon. Sezretary prefaced
-his motion by, as all allowed, a lucid and 4atis-
factory statement of the objects proposed by this
measure, and of the manner in which he sought
to-attain them. Those objects are threefold, viz.:
-2—First, to make such alterations in the laws for
regulating the•trade of Canada, as have become
necessary in consequence of the West Indian Co-
lonial Trade Bills which have lately received the
Royal Assent—secondly, to authorise the collec-
tion of the Custom Revenues of both Upper and
Lower Canada in the latter, i❑ ()icier to their fair
and equal distribution. over the two Provinces
for defraying their public expences—and
With the view of effecting this second object, to
unite the two distinct Legislatures of Upper and.
Lower. Canada into one Legislature, for the uni-
form government of the whole Colony. 'We may
here observe, that the impossibility which has
been hitherto experienced of collecting and dis-
tributing, in any other mode that! that proposed,
the Revenues of the 'two Canatlas, has, left no
alternative but the second plan just noticed ;
*bile, unless by a united Legislature, this plan
cannot be put in operation. It is also perceived,
that from pursuing the present course biany other
advantages will accrue of great importance to
the Colony as well as to this Country, and
hence an additional motive for its adoption.—
'When the separate Legislatures were establish-
ed, it is remarkable that the very evils which
have arisen from that measure, were antici-
pated,•and that it was then said, if they should
occur, Parliament ought to dO what his Ma-
jesty's Ministers now actually propose. The ,
,Bill, however, was opposed, but only in that
clause for uniting the Legislatures. The other
parts were all agreed to, but that which alone
could render them available was objected to.
Nor was the union of the two Canadas opposed as
in itself either really or apparently an object not
to be desired, but solely because the people of
those provinces have not been polled to ascertain
their approbation of the Act in the first instance.
These observations against ,the measure having
been replied to, the motion was carried by a ma-
jority of 48 to 14, and the Bill, having gone
through the Committee, was ordered. to be re-
coMmitted on Tuesday next.

[MORNING CIIRONI,CLE.3
Mr. Brougham's Beer Retail Bill has been
-withdrawn, in deference to the objection to pass-
itrg so important a :Bill at so late a period of the
Session. Ife pledged himself, ho\vever, to bring
in a similar Bill next Session.—Beer may be con-
sidered a necessary of life b this country, and
there can surely ..be no'reason why a poor man
should be subject to any restraint with respect
to his beer, any more than with respect to his
bread or meat. The objections to the freedom.
of retail whiCh have been urged on this occasion .
are, first, that without restrictions good beer would
not be sold ; and secondly, that a free 'trade would
injure the Licensed 'Victuallers. With regard
to.' the :former, we have it from Mr. Alderman
Wood, " that the great quantity of beer which
a publican was enabled to draw, made the beve-
rage he could Supply very superior to that which
could be- afforded by a chandler, who would
keep perhaps a single barrel, which would, like
the small beer that was sold in the same way,
be sour in summer and vapid in winter.";---This
is an argument 'which we confess we did 'not an-
ticipate, but we see the wonderful force of it,
and: we should lie astonished if some sagacious
persons did not avail themselves of it far the
right regulation of other trades—For instance, a
butcher,withoutarapid sale, has not unfrequently,
especially in hot weather, very bad meat on his
hand's.—Now this might be prevented by limit-
ing the number of butchers, so as to ensure.to
each a rapid and extensive sale. The time may
come when the freedom of the. trade may pro-.
duce such a swarm of butchers, that none of them
will have it in their power to sell good meat,-
just as a free trade in beer would create swarms
of sellers of .bad beer ;• and, the public in either,
case would only. have a. choice of evils. A slight'

objection, however, Occurs, arising out -of the *
circumstance that hitherto, in all cases where
competition is open, the public' have been uni-
formly the best supplied. We do not see will
all the world should take to selling beer, -any
more than all the world should take to selling
any other commodity. If stale beer only were
presented for sale, it would cease to be bought;
and if such a calamity were to happen as that
the abundance of sellers had deprived the people
of their accustomed beverage, why the House
might be called to meet early to save, by a
new restrictive Bill, a remnant of the parched
population from destruction.—The other argu-1
merit, the injury to the Licensed Victuallers,
may, we think, be easily disposed of. The mo-
nopoly of the brewer and the publican is not a
matter of right. When a publican gives for a
house three or four times its value on account of
its licence, he does so with the knowledge, that
the Magistrates of the division May licence as
many houses beside it as they please, and thus
reduce the value of his property. The licence
is for the augmentation of the revenue and the
protection of the community from immorality,
and not for the protection of the property of the
publican or brewer. If, in fact, there has been
an understanding between Magistrates and
Brewers (frequently the same persons) on this
subject,'it is altogether foreign to theintendment
of the law.

THE TIMES.]
A known correspondent, on whose accuracy
and means of information we can rely, begs to
point our attention to the state of the coal-trade
in the Rivet, and to the conduct of the great
coal-owners who supply the metropolis. The
complaint is, that, contrary to all the known
rules of supply and demand, the price of coals
has lately risen, while the demand for fuel, in
consequence of the heat Of the weather, must
have diminished. A few weeks ago it was an-
nounced to the _public, that the prices of coals
at the pits had fallen several shillings per chal-
dron, and the approach of the dog-days ren-
dered the account extrem-ely probable. We
find, notwithstanding, that coals, which on the
Ist .of July bore only 355. 9d. per chaldron,
had, on the 10th, risen to 395. 3d ; and on the
12th, to 40s. 3d. ; that those which on the Ist
were at 395. 6d., were, on the 3d, 405.; on the
sth, 40s. 3d.; on the 10th, 425.; and on the
12th, 425. 6d.; and, in fact, that every species
of coal had, from the Ist to the 15th inst., risen
in proportion. _ In the mean time the arrivals in
the River had not diminished in the same degree.
We have not before us the exact quantities that
arrived during the last or present month, but the
following is an account of the quantities which
entered the River on the two previous months—
April, 82,133 chaldrons ; May,'128,441. The
arrivals_ of vessels in the River, from the Ist
inst. to the 15th inclusive, amounted to 361, and
the following is the rate of their arrival :—From
the Ist to the 4th, 78 ; from the sth to the
-7th, 56 ; on the Sth, 90 ; from the Bth to the
10th, 48 ; from the 10th to the 12th, 31 ; and
from the 12th to the 15th, 65. Such are the
facts. The demand for fuel leas diminished,, the
supply bas rather increased ; and when, conse-
quently, a double diminution of price might have
been expected, occasioned by the, double opera-
tion of an increased supply and a. diminished de-
mand, we find prices advancing in the course of
the last fortnight two or three shillings a chat-
Aron. Such an unnatural state of the market
necessarily inspires the suspicion that it is not left
to its natural course of free competition, but that
it has been influenced by a combination among
the great coal-owners. We should be sorry to
hear of any attempt being proposed to raise the
price of a necessary of life, against which, however,
we think we have a security in the high minded
and liberal principles of some of the gentlemen
in question ; but it is difficult to account for these
facts without supposing something wrong in
their Systern, or something dishonest in their'.
agents. When the nature of the article is Con-
sidered, the price of which is thus unnecessarily
raised—when it is considered that it. is already
burdened with enormous duties in addition to its
original cost, and the expenses of its distant
carriage—when it is considered to how many
dues it is liable before it reaches the hearths of
the poorest inhabitant Of the metropolis, our
reasons in making the above statement may easily
be justified, and our anxiety excused. We may
'perhaps shortly return to the subject.

[NEW TIMES.]
As a question of prudence, or as the ground
of a calculation of probabilities relative to the'
permanence of any system, the numbers and de-
scription of persons attached or opposed to it are
very niaterial considerations; and in that point
of view, we adverted to the comparative numbers
of those who were and of those who were not
zealously attached to the Spanish Constitution.
Any comparison, however, between the state of
England in 1688 and the state of Spain in 1822
'must be so completely wild and inconclusive,
that we dismiss it at once from our consideration.
We wish to discover what course it would be
desirable that Spain should take, for her, own
good, as well as for the general good of Europe,
and what chance there is of her taking such
course, or any like it. The argument of the
Morning Chronicle is, that if we do not like the
Constitution of 1820, we must like the system of
Government which prevailed in Spain thirty
years ago ; if we are not worshippers of Itiego,
we must regret the profligate Administration of
Godoy ; if we do not commend the wholesale
plunder of the Church, and the abolition of No-
bility, we must necessarily venerate the Monks
and the Inquisition. Now the truth is, that we
admire none of all these things. We think Spain
has been for the last half century in a most
miserable situation ; but we deem the Constitu-
tion of 1820 to be the greatest curse that ever
befel her ; inasmuch as it has led, of inevitable
necessity, and we predicted at the time that it
would necessarily lead, to a state of total anarchy
and civil war. The Constitution of 1.829 has been
the pretext and the means of-advancing to power
a'set of sanguinary wretches in Madrid, exactly
as the. Constitution of 1791 was the pretext and.
the means of advancing,• to power a det of sangui-

nary wretches in Paris. Tn Paris they began by 1
a general sweeping plan of Church Robbery; they
proceeded to annihilate all the privileges of the No-
bility; they threw the Government into the hands
of a demociatical Assembly consisting of one single
Chamber, without counterpoise or controul ; they
broke open the prisons to murder the defenceless
yrisoners ; they slaughtered the King's Guards ;
they made ' the King himself a prisoner—they
committed Regicide ! In every step, but the
last, the Spanish Constitutionalists of 1820 have
already faithfully copied their great prototypes,
the friends of liberty, equality, fraternity, phi-
losophy, and philanthropy, in France.--The last
step remains yet to be taken.

[MORNING lIERAL9.II
The proposed new Stamp Act has caused a
strong sensation, not only in the House of Com.
'sons but also out of the House, on the part of
the public generally. It is, unfortunately, so
long, so wordy,. and so ambiguous, that a man of
common understanding can hardly make out what
it is. • A very able Counsellor, or a Judge, may,
after much cogitation, make out its gleaning, and
the sort of effect it will have, should it pass into a
law in its present shape. To us there appears one
thing certain, that its grand intent is to increase the
revenue, and so far we agree in its policy ; for if,
on the one hand, the Agricultural Interest knocked
off in a Sesion from one to three millions of taxa-
tion, the Ministers, on the other'hand, -ought to
contrive to lay'an equal amount of taxation on
some other of the " interests" of- the State.
And, certainly, we cannot see any fairer tax
than a tax on all assignments of land and
houses. At the same time there is no good reason
why an ideal property, comparatively, namely,
the National Debt (which, so far as the word ca-
pital is applied to it, is ideal, inasmuch as it is
peoples' names merely entered in books kept
at the Bank of England, to the amount of 800
millions, called capital) should not be taxed in
the transfer, on the same principle as the ,South
Sea and Bank Stocks are, as well as transfers of
land, &c. This species of property, of which
the buying and selling every day is enormous, is
as justly liable to a stamp, or. tax, as the deeds of
houses or land. And why Mr. Vansittart does.
not look at this thing, as the fairest of all
things to bring under the -operation of the
Stamp Tax, we are quite surprised The mys-
tery can only lie explained, by supposing that
he pays more attention than he need do to
the sophisms of Stockholders and Stockjobbers.
In process of time, we are of opinion that he
might' get a million a year from this new species
of property, which every body knows was begun
by King William the Third, the idol of the Irish
Orangists. • We think, too, that, in time, he
might get another million a year from raw cotton,.
a very fair article of taxation. If we should be
correct in our conjectures, there are two millions
to be placed against the taxes which the" landlord
interest," in order to keep up their rents as lona as
possible, frightened the Right Hon. Finance Mi-
nister out of, and for which, neither the " farm-
ing," " labouring," "manufacturing," or " buy-
ing and selling" interests, thank either the" land-
lord
interest" or the 44 Finance Minister." If
the " national faith" is to be preserved " invio-
late," and that appears to be the dkermation of
both Houses ; and if the expellees of the Govern-
ment are also to be met, nothing,as we have said
,efore, will do, but substituting a tax on one in-
.erest as fast as the other interest. succeeds in
'orcing the. Minister to abandon another tax.