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London, England, 1825-02-04 00:00:00

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'' affecting the public credit, to give additional
" facilities to the national industry, and to make
" a further reduction in the burdens of the peo-
" plc." No attempt will be made, therefore, we
presume, to reduce the interest of the debt.
' Some difficulties have arisen in the arrangement
of measures for the suppression of the Slave
Trade between this country and America. The
President of the United States is much more dif-
fuse upon the same subject in his late speech on
the opening of Congress. Ile alludes also to
the line of demarcation between the territories
of the two Powers in North America, in con-
formity with the treaty of Ghent, which he
says is not yet drawn ; and to the unsettled
state of the commerce between the United
States and the British West India islands ;
on both of which subjects the King's Speech
is silent. The treaties with the new States
of America are described in very guarded,
terms:,- " His Majesty has taken measures
" for confirming, by treaties, the commer-
" vial relations already subsisting between this
" kingdom and those countries of America which
appear to have established their separation
" from Spain." Nothing is acknowledged, there-
fore, beyond the legislative protection of a com-
merce already existing. We are, however, con-
tent : in this way it generally is, that the energy
of British subjects precedes the tardy measures
of their Government. With this topic we couple
the notice of the state of Ireland, occurring in
an earlier part of the Speech, on account of the
manner in which Mr. Brougham mingled them in
the debate throughout an happy banter of the
Lord Chancellor and Mr. Canning. Had the
Right Hon. Secretary of State been as energetic
and pertinacious in maintaining the rights of the
Irish, as in asserting the independence of the
South American States, there is no doubt that
the Lord Chancellor's love for his country, and
his unabated desire to serve her, would have
still induced him to make part of- an Adminis-
tration, two important measures of which were
contrary to his principles and advice. It is cu-
rious to see the Lord Chancellor the subject of
debate between Mr. Canning and Mr. Brougham,
each loving and esteeming hint alike : the one,
probably, thinking that he has been happy
enough to have wrung out of his Lordship's nar-
row policy the scanty recognition of legal trade
with South America ; the other upbraiding the
timidity with which the soft torture has been ap-
plied to his Lordship's mind, and asserting, that
by the more liberal use of the same instrument,—
his Lordship's love for serving his country,—
more important concessions in favour of the Irish
might have been extorted from him. Not a
word is said of Spain or its protracted occupa-
tion by a foreign force. We are no parties to
this transaction ; and therefore, probably, it
should make no part of an address from the So-
vereign to his people ; or, the value of Spain is
so trilling, that its acquisition by the rival of this
country will be but as the dust in the balance ;
or, it may be thought useful to familiarize our
minds to the oppression of a people's liberties.

[MORNING POST.]
Parliament was yesterday opened by Royal
Commission, the King not being sufficiently re-
covered to render -it safe for him to attend in
person. His Majesty was thus deprived of the
gratification he must have felt in personally con-
gratulating Parliament and the country on the
success of those measures which have secured
to the nation peace at home, respect abroad, an
increasing commerce, a productive revenue, and
a consequent decreased taxation. Well and
truly is it said, in the Royal communication, that
" there never was a period hi the history of this
country when all the great interests of the na-
tion were at the same time in so thriving a con-
dition, or when a feeling of content and satisfac-
tion was more widely diffused throughout all
classes of the Britiih people." And not less gra-
tifying is the Royal assurance, that notwithstand-
ing the expence arising out of the necessary aug-
mentation of our military establishment," such is
the flourishing condition and progressive im-
provement of the Revenue, that it will still be in
the power of Parliament, without affecting upub-
lic credit, to give additional faculties to the na-
tional industry, and• to make a further reduction
in the burdens of his people." Our readers will
see that the Speech affords a full confirmation of
all we have from time to time stated relative to
the formal recognition of such of the South Ame-
rican States as have established their separation
from Spain—a measure of the soundest policy
and wisdom on the part of Ministers, and one
from which the most important commercial advan-
tages cannot fail to be derived by the country. It
is with no slight degree of satisfaction also that
we find ourselves completely borne out by the
Royal communication in every thing we have
said and urged relative to the mischievous pro-
ceedings of the Roman Catholic Association, and
the absolute necessity of putting down so dan-
gerous a body by a speedy Legislative enactment.
Almost in our own words does the Speech, in re-
commending without delay the application of a
remedy to this alarming evil, pronounce the pro-
ceedings of the Popish Demagogues to be " irre-
concileable with the spirit of the Constitution,
and calculated, by exciting alarm and by exas-
perating animosities, to endanger the peace of so-
ciety, and retard the course of National Im-
provement."—An effectual remedy will of course
be immediately applied. The Debate in both
Houses, although confined to a very few Mem-
bers, was highly interesting, and displayed con-
siderable eloquence on each side. We have at
present no space for a recapitulation of the argu-
ments; but our readers will be delighted with the

FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1825.