The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-16 00:00:00

DAY AT ONE O'CLoCIL.

PRICE OF STOCKS Tuis
tock

:i per Cent. Red. 94,
1 per Cent." Cons.
3A per Cent.,
Ditto Red.
I Dissd.
4 per Lent. t New ... 105 i _
Bank Long Ann. 231 5-113ths
Elul). 3 per Cents.
India Stock 285
Ditto Bonds
SoutitiSea Stock

Old Annuities
New *Ditto
E. Bills 10001. 2d. — 63
Ditto 10. 64 65
Ditto 5001.
Ditto 14d. — 63
Ditto Small 2d. 63
Ditto lhd. 64 65
Ditto Commercial
Bank for Act.
India for Acct.
Cons. for Feb. 25. * 93i

PRICF.S OF FOREIGN
Austrian Bds, 5 per ct. ••• 97A
Brazilian Bds
Scrip
1825 ... 4A pm.
Buenos Ayresßds ..• 91A 2
Bds,C Kilian, 6 per ct. 89k
!olornbian ds.6 per ct. ...
Do. do. 182-1
Danish, 5 per cent.
Greek lids
Po. Scrip, 1825 IiAA pm.
Mexican Bds
Do. Scrip 1325 3 fl t pm.

NOS, AT ONF. O'CLOCK.
Neapolitan, 5 per cent.
Neapolitan Scrip
Peruvian Bonds
Portuguese Bonds
Prussian, 5 per et.
Ditto New.
Russian, New, 5 per et. 9i
Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. 25 4
1823, ditto IBi 18.1
French Itentes -
----- Exchange ... —f
Scrip

PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Company , — 18
Ditto, Marine Department
Protector Fire Assurance Company
Anglo-Mexican Mining Company ...... 195 120 135 125 12
An;lo-Chilian Minium.; Company
Brazilian 31ining Company
Chilian Mining Company l9 184 •
Colombian Mining Company ..................... 40 37 38 3
General Mining Association ........................ 14 131 141
Pasco Peruvian Mining Company ......... 34 A 33 1 39). 33
J
Rio de la Plata Mining Company
Tlalpuxahua Alining Company ........... .• ..... 105 115 pm.
United Mexican -Mining Company ............. l3O 135 130
Wclcli.lron and Coal Mining Company , 51
Continental Gas Company
London and Northern Railway Company
British Iron. Company
General Steam Navigation Company
Gold Coast Association 81 i i 9 81
New Corn Exchange
Pearl Fishery Company, Yellow Receipt
Provincial Bank of Ireland

HIG I WATER AT LOS DON BRIDGE TO—MOR ROW.
Welling, 54 minutes after It I Evening, ),5 minutes after 2,

FOULIGN 111 AILS.

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Varnburgh -
France

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THE SUN.

DUE.

SALEM QUIS DICEILE FALSUM AUDEAIT

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FE8.16, 1825.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived last
night. The Monileur contains a report to the
KING from the Commission appointed in June,
1824, to inquire into. the cause, and urgency of
the Supplementary Credit granted in 1823, the
year of the impolitic and unjust invasion of Spain.
The Report confirms the charges made in the
Chamber of Deputies at the time, for it states,

that " the serious facts which had been deve-
loped inculpated several of the principal Func-
tionaries of the Military Administration, and
seemed to authorise suspicions of corruption
in some individuals of the Civil Class." It is

then recommended that justice should be done,
and the KING had so far attended to the recom-
mendation, that he had referred the whole case
to the Keeper of the Seals, " to cause the laws
of the kingdom to be 'executed." The Mode
extracts from the Austrian Observer an article
dated Constantinople, January 10, in which it
is stated that ImtAitim PACIIA, after discharging
•his transports, had taken a part of the Egyptian
army on board his men-of-war, and landed 3,000
troops on the 20th of December at Modon in the
Morea, together. with the necessary artillery.
This is said to have been preceded by his recviv•

ing two millions of gold piastres, which had been
brought on board a French frigate, lie is then
said to have sailed back to Suda iu Candia, to

fetch another division of troops. The Oriental
Spectator, says the Etoile, confesses that the sol-
diers of COLOCOTRONI had abandoned hint to

join the standards of the Executive Power, and
the Austrian Observer admits, in a note, that the
Greek Government had subdued the insurgents.
These admissions on the part of the Turkish Ad-
vocates leave no doubt of the accuracy of the last
accounts from Zante, which stated that the Greek
Government hud triumphed over its internal ene-
mies as gloriously as over its external foes.

We extract the following article from the
German Papers, received this morning :

SCHWERIN, JAN. 22.—Some French Journals have an-
nounced that our Court had appointed an agent at Rio Jnneiro,
and had consequently recognized the actual Government of that
country. This assertion originates in the nomination of a Con-
sul to that country, in the same manner as has been done by
several other States, to maintain the relations of commerce, and
this nomination is doubtless the only ground of mistake.

After the decision Of the House of Commons,
last night, on the Catholic Association, and
which may reasonably be co►isidered as the pre-
cursor of the eventual result, it would be pre-
sumptuous indeed in us to offer our opinions upon
the subject. The subject has already beet: so
amply debated, that " inspiration could hardly
be expected to throw a new light upon it ;" but,
as the matter is still to be discussed over, and
over again, if it. be possible to suggest new and
cogent arguments on one side or the other, such
arguments will most probably be advanced.
Whatever, therefore, time final event may be, both
England and Ireland must be satified that the in-
vestigation has been proportioned to the import-
ance of the question, and will ultimately he de-
termined upon substantial grounds of wisdom,
justice, and sound policy.

THE NORTHERN COAL TRADE.----We are in-
formed that this branch of the Nursery of Sea-
men is likely to be greatly injured by the various
Railways which are attempted to be established,
and especially by the projected Railway from
London to Derbyshire, as it will enable the pro-
prietors to supply all the towns of Nottingham-
shire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Ely, Hun-
tingdonshire, and parts of Essex, with inland
coals, to the entire exclusion of the Sea-borne
coal, hitherto imported at Gainsborough, Boston,
Lynn, and various other outports! In order,
therefore, to avoid such mischievous effects on
the Maritime interests of the country, it is to be
presumed that His Majesty's Government will
recommend the repeal of the Coast and Over-
, sea Duty on Coals !

The 12th inst. was a holiday at Paris, on ac-
count of the anniversary of -the death of the
Duke de BERRI. The theatres and all the places
of public entertainment were closed on the
occasion.
An article from St. Petersburgh of the 22d
January states, that the Emperor of RussrA has
reduced the duties on various articles, the pro-
duce of that country, and imposed a duty on the
exportation of them, in order, as it is stated hi
the Imperial Ukase, that Russian manufactured
goods may be _able to bear a competition with

foreign manufactures.
A Frankfort Journal states, that the promo-
tions in the Russian Army continue, and that the
Emperor of AUSTRIA has again made a numerous
promotion in his Army.
The Duke of YORK transacted military busi-
CecEird7 Member of the
busi-
ness with the KING yesterday.
Yesterday the Princess SOPIIIA visited the
Duke of Yong.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at
the East India House, when Lieutenant-General
was appointed
oGf. Cth.ej3Company's Forces
Commander-in-Chief :10oImrdnaidaiCan,doeamnra.ccort;
Council in

ys.—We have reason to believe, that
Bengal.
it AI LWA
there is not any truth whatever in the report,
that His Majesty's Ministers have expressed any
general or unqualified approbation of the various
Railways which are now attempted to be esta-
blished throughout the country ; or, that they
have promised to give tkem their sanction and
support in Parliament. It would be altogether
contrary to the rule which has hitherto influenced
the Government in respect to C 4 Private Bills"—
and, a departure from those principles which
ought invariably to be adhered to by them in
cases of this nature,

PUBLIC REASONS

AQAINST
RAIL ROADS WITH LOCOAIOTIVE ENGINES.

The projects are founded altogether on vague and capricious
statements and estimates, unsupported by any real surveys of
the country and calculations of expence, as proved by the va.
riance between the parliamentary estimates and sections, and

the statements in prospectuses. •
The line of road must necessarily be so straight and direct in
its course, as to render it impossible to avoid a passage through
the properties of land owners, without any regard to the resi,
dences of gentlemen, or the injury to be done to their estates,
(as proved by parliamentary sections), while the noise and
smoke are nuisances sufficient to drive land-holders from their
habitations.

The passage of the Locomotive Engine across turnpike roads
and public highways is attended with much danger to all per-
sons travelling in carriages or on horseback, from the appear.
ance of the machine, and the noise attending its use, audible
for the distance of a quarter of a mile, but the projectors do
not hesitate to propose the postage of the engine, &c, through
public streets.

The use of the high pressure engines, pronounced by all
scientific men to be dangerous in steam-boats, is not likely to
be less dangerous on land, particularly when, in order to attain
a speed of more than 3i miles per'hour it is necessary not only
to load, but actually to screw down the safety valve, as proved
by recent experiment.

The capital to be expended in providing iron for the rail
roads, &c. would be extignded more beneficially for the coun.
try, by converting such iron into manufactured pods '

for home use and exportation, rather than by compelling
British and Foreign merchants to encourage, as is the ac-
tual fact, the iron trades and manufactories of France, Flan-
ders, &c. owing to the high price of iron in England, which
must necessarily increase according to the demand. •
The high price of iron during the formation of these roads,
must affect injuriously, not only the manufacturers of hardware
goods, but the agriculturist, the builder, and every other class

of society.
Eight horses of small value will draw eight boats on a canal,
containing 144 tons of goods, at a speed of four miles an hour,
and 200 tons of goods at a speed of three miles per hour ; but
a Locomotive Engine of eight-horse power, on a rail road nearly
horizontal, with every advantage of circumstance, and with
the safety-valve screwed down, was only able to move 33 tons
of goods eleven miles and five-eighths in 2 hours 21 minutes
and 10 seconds, five-eighths of a mile being passed without
any weight, an the whole distance being made up by a passage
to and fro along the same space of ground, only 905ths part of
a mile iniength.
The immense quantity of coals necessary to be used if! mak-
ing the iron for these roads, and afterwards in working the Lo:
comotive Engines, must increase to a great extent the con.
sumption and price of that article, so essential to the cOmfort
of private families, and so materially useful iu bringing manu.
factured goods to perfection.
The construction of rail roads, (now canals have removed
from the highways the carriage of heavy goods), can only ope-
rate to burthen the oecupkrs of land by increase of highway le.
vies and statute duty, in order to keep the turnpike roads and
public highways in repair, while, in order to pay the interest on
turnpike securities, heavy additional tolls must be laid on car.
riages.

February 14, 1825.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, FEB. 15.—Wi1111 S. by E., light breeze.—This after-
noon the Hon. Company's ship Inglis, Serie, turned away, with
severatof the outward-bound, and are now (4 e.ar.) round the
South Foreland. The Scaleby Castle and Kent, with the Oil.,
more, Columbine, Ocean, and two brigs, remain.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wind S.E.—Sailed the whole of
the outward-bound, except the Coromandel, for India; Elila-
beth, for St. Domingo; and the Alder, for Pernambuco. The
Prince of Orange transport has come into harbour.
PLYMOUTH, Fr.s. 14.—Wind E.—Arrived the Rover,
Cook, from Rio .Janeiro, sailed 9th.Derember ; Enchantress,
Killock, and Antelope, Munro, from Messina in 21 days ; and
the Lynx, Hiernan, from the Downs for Lauayra. Off the
port the Acuta, Wilson, from Rio Janeiro in 71 days; and
the Marshall, White, from Lisbon.'
FALMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed the Lord Sid.
mouth packet, for Halifax.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 14.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Emily,
Webb, from Savannah, sailed the 17th January ; Waterloo,
Munro,. from Messina; Isabella, —, from the Mediterra-
nean ; Levant, —, from Alexandria ; and the Oporto, .Mar..
tin, from Oporto.
COWES, FEB. 15.—The Hon. Company's ship Royal George,
Timmins, for Bombay and China, sailed last evening.

Off Dover the Christiana, Whyte, from Jamaica, sailed the
.6th December.

CORN EXCHANGE, Ft:B. 16.

The arrivals of most sorts of Grain are tolerably good. There
is very little doing in the Wheat trade this morning, and the
prices even of the best are hardly so good as Monday. Barley
finds very few buyers at the late decline in prices. Beans that
are soft in hand are rather cheaper ; but dry samples maintain
the late quotations. Pease are dull in sale, except very fine
boilers. Oats meet a very heavy trade, and the prices of Mon-
clay are with difficulty maintained. The Flour trade is very
dull.

ARRIVALS—EngIish Wheat, 2,500; Barley, 2,100; Oafs,
8,300 ; Irish Wheat, 130 ; Oats, 2,320 qrs.; Flour, 4,200 sacks.

Yesterday, at half-past four o'clock, the Duke
of Yoax, as Commander-in-Chief, held a Levee at his Office
in the Horse Guards, which occupied the attention of his Royal
Highness till about six o'clock, there being between forty and
fifty present. Among those present were :—Generals Sir B.
Tarleton, Cockell, and Gascoyne, Lieut.-GeneralsCockell,
Goldie, Sir John Hamilton, Hodgson, and the Knight of
Kerry.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.—M F.' SELDEN, ID the
case of Sir ItonEtur HowAtto, declared, that it ,
was 4C clear, that a Breach of Privilege in one
• " Parliament may be punished in auotlor sue-
" ceeding."—(llalle's Case, Coin. Journal, 1 vol.;
p. 2SO.)—So an impeachment originating in one
Parliament is not abated by its dissolution, but
revives in the succeeding Parliament.—(Mr.
Hastings's Case.)
THEATRI CALS.—We noticed last week the open-
ing of the Theatre in Catherine-street, under the
direction of Mr. NATHAN, for the purpose of,
cultivating and exhibiting the talents of juvenile:
Pupils in music, dancing, and theatrical per-,
fortnances. It appears that this new Institution.,
is likely to be supported by a very numerous'
body of Subscribers, particularly of fwmales, in
the fashionable world. It is reported that Mr.
supportDowTON t
hies toopeemnil:lagrk Institution,
ni
Woodcock.
ti:ert.:t Ja ft: sdlictoe

BIRTHS. -
On the 7th inst., in Portland-place, the lady of Mr. Hurtado,
the Colombian Minister, of a son.
Rev.ont
Rleoibe6rtthoinrasty., llfeactsooryn., Sunderland, the wife of the

DIED.
yesterday morning, at No 4, Barley-street,rßisotobit:NGaisomeyth,
infant son of James Irving, Esq.
On the 10that Berkeley-square,
wife of John Loudon WAdarn, Esq. • 3
, .

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Fxlractsfr•out the Morning. Papers,Feb.l6,lB2s.

[THE PUBLIC LEDG Ea. 3
We are credibly informed that there is a ge-
neral belief at this time in Paris, that France
will be driven into a war with this country by
the preponderating influence of Russia over her
Councils. If the French Ministry have hitherto
discouraged this opinion, it is said that they are
anxious to carry first the Indemnity Bill, and the
project for the conversion of the Rentes, before
they venture to declare themselves unequivocally
with respect to our recognition. of South Ame-
rica. In support of this, it is stated that they
were urged against their will to invade Spain ;
and that they would make a base concession
again, should the demand come from the same
quartet. At the same time, it is usually observed,
with some shew of justice, that their professions
are held inviolate, only as long as they see no
strong inducement to break them ; and that their
conduct towards Spain is an instance in proof.—
It is true their professions and proceedings on
that occasion clashed in au outrageous manner ;
but it is not on their morality that we ground
our hopes of their pacific deportment, but on
their fears of the power of this country ; and
woe to the latter, when she has no other
prospect of tranquillity, but such as she
finds in the justice of that or any other Go-1
vernment. Though French capitalists hold the
political morality of their Government as cheaply
as we do, still they continue to speculate, to'
judge from the state of the Rentes, in favour of
peace ; and here is a presumption, at least, that
their chief confidence is derived from the vast re-
sources which our Government would have at its
disposal, in the event of hostilities waged upon
so popular a principle. Still, we believe, that
what we have stated, with respect to public opi-
nion on this subject,_ in the French Capital, is
perfectly correct ; and we understand that the
idea of a rupture between the two countries is
no where so prevalent as in the Ultra Coteries.
Whilst the idea has excited generally uneasy
presentiments, it has been hailed, we are told,
with boisterous delight by the Ultras, who see in
it a means of humbling England, and of realizing
at the same time their beau ideal of Government.
It is. supposed, too, that they will strain all their
influence to bring about an event, upon which
they build such fond hopes ; and, if Russia were
not more clear-sighted than this mole-eyed
faction, they would probably carry their object.
In the mean time, our own Government do not
appear to be wholly satisfied with the feelings
of Foreign Powers, respecting our recognition
of South America. If they thought they could
rely upon the settled state of the political at-
mosphere, they would have no good plea for the
large augmentation of the Army which they pro-
pose. It has been admitted by time Chancellor
of the Exchequer that it wilt amount to thirteen
thousand men in the first instance ; whilst there
is a report that a further augmentation is to
follow. Admitting that there is no design of
proceeding beyond the former estimate, yet we
eantrorsere,--in the internal state of the Empire,
the slightest justification for even this _amount ;
and it would be a wanton measure altogether if
there were not some other plea. It can only arise
then from the clouded state of our foreign rela-
tions; and, if this surmise be correct, where is
the wisdom of irritating the public mind of Ire-
land at suth a moment ?

[MORNING POST.]
After four long nights' elaborate debate on Mr.
Goulburn's motion for leave to bring in a Bill to
suppress the Irish Catholic Association, the ques-
tion has at. length been brought to a conclusion.
Seldom have greater numbers ever delivered their
opinions in Parliament upon one question ; and
whatever the Catholics, or rather the body by
which they have lately been misled and injured,
may think of the result, they must own that the
case has received the most full, free, and patient
investigation. After several Members had deli-
vered their sentiments last night, Mr. Sec. Can-
ning broke from the silence which he had hitherto
maintained, and poured forth a flood of argument
and eloquence, which nothing hnt the determined
resolution of the Opposition to adhere to party con-
sistency could resist. If any one imagined that his
mind had for a moment doubted the necessity of
preventing the establishment of a Catholic Parlia-
ment in Ireland, let him read what fell from the
Itight Honourable Secretary, and they will see
what was from the first, and what continues to be
his-conviction, with respect to the existence and
the conduct of the Catholic Association. In vain
did Mr. Brougham, who followed him, attempt
to weaken the effect produced by the strength of
his reasonings and his genius; a resistless impulse
had been given to the House, and on a division
being called for, the motion was carried by a
triumphant majority of 155; the numbers being'
178 to 123. The Bill was then immediately
brought its by Mr. Goulburn, and read a first
time. The Right Hon. Gentloman was about
proposing to fix the second reading for next
Friday, when Mr. Brougham stated that he
should have a Petition to present from the Ca-
tholic Association,. who prayed to be heard by
Counsel at the Bar of that House. He therefore
wished for a longer delay ; and, after some deli-
beration, it was ultimately settled that the call
of the House should be postponed- till Monday,
for Which day the second reading was also fixed.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It is one of the important consequences arising
nut of practical experience and the progress of
knowledge, that an almost complete revolution
has been effected in matters relating to the
science of finance—the knowledge of politico
economy—and the true principles of trade and
commerce. England had the great merit of ori-
ginating those enlightened doctrines on these sub.
illets,which are slowly making their way through.
out Ai the States of Europe. The whole com-
monwealth of Christendom partakes, in this
W 97, of the incalculable benefits arising from
that freedom' of discussion and inquiry in, this

country which, through the medium of the public
press,circulates the result of its researches through
the whole realms of civilization. The Emperor
Alexander, though his Ministers do not deserve
to take rank among great Statesmen, would ne-
vertheless not think of laying personal taxes on
Jews, heretics, batchelors, and beards, as was
done under his ancestor, Peter the First. Many
projects which were gravely brought forward by
the different Governments of Europe fifty years
ago, would receive no legislative countenance
were they now to be proposed for the first time.
The progress of science is imperceptibly laying
anew, as it were, the foundation of political soci-
ety. Greatly to the credit of Ministers, England
is taking the lead in this-respest, Theories that
experience has proved to be built on an unsound
basis, no lon►;er, as formerly, find a host of advo-
cates in Parliament. Merchants begin themselves
to understand in what national wealth actually
consists. This was well shown the other day,
by the manner in which the enlightened sen-
timents of Mr. Canning were received at the
Ship-owners' dinner. He boldly broached the
doctrine that nations ought not to fear each
other's prosperity—that all branches of industry
may every where flourish together—that it is
only the increasing wealth of any nation that can
enable it to purchase the agricultural and manu-
factured produce of other nations—and that the
superior skill and capital of Great Britain is best
' kept in activity when her neighbours have, like
herself, a fair field for the one, and full employ-
ment for the other. The ready acquiescence of
our commercial men in these broad views of the
subject, shews that all the- little prejudices of
the old school are fast fading away. It is on
the above account that we deprecate the in-
terference of the Lord Chancellor and his
projected Bill regarding Joint-Stock Com-
panies. No man living is better acquainted
than is Lordship with the machinery of law, as
applied to real property, but with the laws that
put in motion the machinery of monied capital,
we believe him to be " innocent of the know-
ledge ;" and he will inevitably do much harm if
he attempts to exercise any effectual controul
over its agency. The element of all monied ca-
pital is the open air—its " service is perfect
freedom." No Equity Lawyer—though warm
from the Woolsack—should attempt to meddle
with it: the springs which regulate it are too fine
for the fingers of the law to feel. Political eco-
nomy and the economy of Lord Eldon may agree
in name, but in their theory no two things can
be more unlike : they are as different as the pole
of the heavens from the pole of a coach. This
will be seen when his Lordship's Bill comes to
•. be canvassed in the House of Commons. If we
truly prophesy its fate, its appearance need excite
no alarm in the money market.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The protracted discussion of Catholic politics,
on Mr. Coulburn's motion, exhibits certainly
considerable play of talent in debate. But whe-
ther it be that the question is now hackneyed and
exhausted—threshed and turned as it has been

to reiteration, or from whatever cause, there is
in the present discussion a vast excess of idle
common-place. In fact, with all deference be it
spoken, you wade through whole mounds of chaff
to reach a grain of argument or information. Btit
further, there is an unusual proportion of ano-
maly and contradiction. One of the most
glaring relates, to the Catholic Priests. It
was admitted on all hands, that the Catholic
Clergy exercise a powerful and unlimited influ-
ence over the Catholic people of Ireland. Now—
passing over for a moment the extent of this in-
fluence—let us see how it is viewed and esti-
mated by the supporters of the motion of Mr.
Goulburtt—" Extinguish the Catholic Associa-
tion," says one, " in order to leave the Irish
peasantry under the natural and salutary gui-
dance of their Priests, who (and not the Asso-
ciation) are the great conservators of order, loy-
alty, and tranquillity." " What" says another,
" extinguish the Catholic Association, in order
to take the peasantry of Ireland out of the hands
of two or three thousand Priests, who rule
them soul and body, and who are, in point
of fact, and from the necessity of their
Creed and character, mortal enemies of a
Protestant Church and Constitution t" What an
anomaly is this violent dissonance of both argu-
ment and fact,between persons professing to be in
unison as to the object under consideration. But
is it quite certain that the premise from which ,
these conflicting inferences are deduced is itself
correct ? Have the Catholic Clergy really this
absolute controul over their flocks, as the phrase
is ? There is a good reason to doubt this, from
the opinion of persons conversant locally with the
matter, as well as from some facts which are quite
notorious. The dominion of the Catholic Clergy
over the peasantry, there is reason to suppose,
is something of this sort :—while they allow
the people to have their own way, and walk
with them in the path which they are disposed
to take, then they are treated with all manner
of deference ; but the moment they put their
authority to the trial, by curbing the dispositions,
or counteracting the designs, or opposing them-
selves to the views of the people, their influence
is null. They, in fact, may ride the peasantry,
and be borne quietly enough so long as they al-
low them to stop when they please, go on when
they please, and take what road they please ; but
the moment they presume to exercise any unpa-
lateable guidance or controul, they are unhorsed
and left behind without ceremony, as hirelings
or apostates.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
A letter from our Paris correspondent an-
nounces a dismemberment of Spain by way of
reprisals for the English recognition of South
American Independence. Our correspondent
assures us solemnly, that he has this news from
the highest and most respectable source, and we
have had experience of his access to such a source
on more than one occasion. Ile furnished us
with the secret instructions given by the French
Government respecting the fomenting disturb-
ances in South America. Our readers will re-
member the language of Plunkett, on Friday
night, "
What I fear, Sir, is, that the

uncertainty of our relations with Ireland, or
rather the idea other nations may form of these
relations, may lead us into war. Their doubts of
our strength, their hopes of our weakness, may
invite them to make war." Our Correspondent
alludes to the Correspondence which the Jesuits
carry on at this time with Ireland, for the purposes
of the Holy Alliance. The following curious para-
graph in The Dublin Evening Postof Saturday last,
would seem to have reference to the plans alluded
to in our Correspondent's letter :—" In what a
condition then does this long denial of justice

" place the popular Cabinet of Mr. Canning, or
" at least that part of the Cabinet, of which he
" is supposed to be the head ? This is a second-
" ary question to us. He knows at this moment
" the delicate and difficult state of his relations
" with Foreign Powers. He sees that these dif-
" ficulties must increase with the increasing con-
" solid ation of the FrenchGovertnent. He knows
" that the Holy League have hinted, in no obscure
" language, at a Triple Alliance. It is possible,
" he thinks, that a war may not be at a very
" great distance, and this is the juncture which is
" seized to declare a legal war against the Ca-
" tholics of Ireland."—The Courier Francais.
has a paragraph commencing, " They write to us
from London as follows, which states that Prince
Metternich repeated several times to our Ambas-
sador, at Vienna, that he had received the com-
munication respecting the New States of America,
with the most lively indignation, but that he
afterwards tliSpatched a special rt,Assenger of his
own, to Prince Esterlutzy, who arrived several
hours'in London before the EngliSit courier, with
dispatches, in which the expression was softened
down, with the most lively pain."-

[THE TI Es.]
It is a rare occurrence that the very first in-
troduction of a Bill into Parliament should give
rise to debates so animated and protracted as
this motion of Mr. Goulburn. Whether the
cause be the extreme importance of the question,
or the imagined scantiness of other topics for
discussion, certain it is that, with two or three
brilliant exceptions, almost every speaker
who ever before got up in the present House
of Commons had already delivered his senti-
ments on the principle of the proposed measure
before the adjournment of Monday evening.—
That night some curious matter was brought
forward, and old materials were presented to the
public under instructive as well as amusing forms.
It may be recollected, that on Friday last, the
Attorney-General for Ireland, in the course of
an able speech, pronounced a panegyric on the
character of the Catholic priesthood,affirming that
they had been frequently instrumental in the
prevention of conspiracy, in the suppression
of outrage, and in the maintenance of tran-
quillity among the lower orders of the Irish.
The Right Honourable Gentleman wound up
his praises by declaring the Itomish Clergy
to be a " calumniated body of men." We were
pleased to hear from au authority of such
weight, so frank and decisive a testimonial in
behalf of men accused in their absence. On Mon-

day, how:ver, a different picture was drawn of
the same body. Mr. Dawson asserted—and we
are sure that every one who listened to him was
satisfied that *,,ls?—no%,.oentietlinn believed his
Own statement toile tfile—Mr. Dawson alleged,
that all the evils of Ireland were imputable to
the Popish Clergy—that from the very highest to
the very lowest among them they were ac-
tuated by the bitterest enmity so the Church
Establishment—that their Archbishop Curtis
termed our Archbishop Magee " a usurper,
" who had no more right to his Arch-
" bishoprick than to the Dukedom of Leeds,
" and was only there by sufferance." Mr. Daw-
son gave further proofs of censurable conduct in
the the Roman Catholic Priests : as that, in their
eagerness to promote the " rent "—of which,
indeed, they are admitted to be the most active
collectors—one had told his parishioners to re-
serve the whole produce of their coming crops
for that purpose, to the exclusion of landlords
and of all other creditors ; another had said that
money was the sinews of war, and that the
" rent " might soon be required for such an ob-
ject ; a third had seen a murder committed, and
refused to give evidence, because it might diminish
his popularity among the mob. M r.Da wson's mind,
indeed, appears to have been quite ulcerated from
the wounds which these satellites of Her of Baby-
lon had inflicted on it ; and if these be his impres-
sions (we say nothing about their correctness)
respecting Papists and their politics, no wonder
that he is a sworn enemy of emancipation. But
who may Mr. Dawson be ? He is brother-in-law
of Mr. Peel, Under Secretary of State in Mr.
Peel's office—of the anti-Catholic Mr. Peel, a
Minister in the same Cabinet with those patrons
of the Catholics Messrs. Robinson and Canning—

the Secretary who instructs and directs Mr.Goul-
burn,—who is himself the anti-Catholic col-
league of Mr. Plunkett—of Mr. Plunkett, who
declares emphatically, and, as we have often
said, most truly, that emancipation is that mea-
sure without which no other measure can be ef-
fectual for the peace and happiness of Ireland !
What a pretty chain is here ! What a fosary of
checquered heads, alternately black and white !
Well might Mr. Tierney in his sagacious and
searching speech exclaim at such a composition,
coupled with such pretensions. Well might he
apostrophize the energy of the evil principle
among them, contrasted with the paralysis of
every virtue when assailed by the temptation of
office, or by the risk of losing it. Mr. Robin-
son assures us that the original compact which
bound this Ministry together was " a blun-
der"—and a blunder it was in the sense in which
most acts of selfish immorality are blunders ; or,
as the philosophers of the extinct Godwin school
used to denominate all crimes, " erroneous calcu-
lations." Rut, to speak more gravely upon this
point, does Mr. Robinson mean to say, that cer-
tain ancient members of the Cabinet would not
rather have seen the Pope made Primate of Ire-
land, than Mr. Canning Foreign Secretary of
State? Does he not know, of hisown positive know-
ledge, that there is no sacrifice but that of
place,
which one venerable fixture in the Cabinet was
not at any time for these five years ready to offer.
:if by it he could have excluded Mr. Canning, or

expelled him ? Lord Liverpool tendered his re-
signation in case Mr. Canning should not be
received into the Cabinet. Why ? Because his
Lordship was perfectly conscious, that without
the aid of that Right Honourable Gentleman his
Ministry could not go on. Well, then, ci for-
'tiori, a Ministry incompetent without Mr. Can-
ning, would be still more so without either Mr.
Canning or Lord Liverpool ; so that, had Mr.
Canning at that moment possessed fortitude
to hold out, there was a breaking up of the
divided Administration, ready cut and dry for
him. A purely Orange Ministry could not have
remained six months in office, and he might,

long ere this, have formed a Cabinet undisgraced
by any compromise of great principles, and on
his own terms. With respect to Mr. Goulburn's
grand measure of suppression, we shall offer but
two observations. It is Ist, in its principle,
an encroachment on popular privileges, and
therefore one which, in itself, no friend of
liberty can wish to make its way through
Parliament, unless a case be made out of
that extreme necessity which, as Mr. Plunkett
states with truth, becomes the supreme law ; or,
as Sir James Mackintosh amends the expression,

the only law to be consulted. 2d, Even suppos-
ing that extreme case to have arisen,—and we do
not mean to retract our acknowledgment, that
both by its constitution, and its capacities of evil,
the Association has grown into a monstrous ex-
crescence upon the State,—the proposed bill is
no remedy whatever ; it does not meet the exi-
gency.

[NEW 'NM ES.]
At length the long protracted Debate on the
Catholic Association is brought to a close. It
terminated, as might have been expected, with a
majority of 278 to 123, on the side of Order and
the Constitution; for we may confidently say,
that neither the Established Government nor the
Public Peace could long co-exist with an Asso-
ciation so formed and so conducted. One
benefit, at least, resulted from the discussion,
of yesterday evening. It produced from Mr.
Canning a speech as powerful in argument as it
was brilliant in oratory. The Right Hon Secre-
tary not only demonstrated the unconstitutional
character of the Catholic Association; he not only
shewed its prejudical effect on the community at
large, and on the Catholic Claims in particular ;
but he powerfully and triumphantly repelled the
charge of disingenuousness brought against the
Government for its conduct on the Catholic
Question. The principles laid down by the Right'
Hon. Secretary were those of plain, practical
good sense ; the objections urged against the Ca-
binet for acting together on other points, while
they differed in opinion as to this, were those of
shallow superficial theory. It seems to have been
forgotten that the Whig Administration of 1807
was divided on this very point. It seems to
have been forgotten, that they had actually
agreed to waive the question of Catholic Eman-
cipation for the time ; and that they would not
have resigned, had not his late Majesty required
of them a pledge not to bring it forward at any
future period. No such pledge has been demand-
ed of or given by the present Cabinet ; but those
Ministers who are favourable to the Catholic
claims abstain from agitating them at present,
becausg— the voice of the nation is clearly
against them. The Catholic Association has
done its utmost to add to the obstacles against
Emancipation. It has excited alarms for the
safety of the Established Church and the Esta-
blished Government. We are now told, that
the Association is ready at once to submit to
the law for its suppresson. We rejoice to hear
it. There cannot be a stronger proof of the
wisdom of Government in choosing the pre-
sent moment for enacting the law. Suppose
Rent had gone on increasing for a twelve-
month longer :—suppose the Association had
enlisted one part of the Press in its cause, and
had silenced the other by prosecutions :—suppose
its agents in communication with Foreign Powers
had received from those Powers open counte-
nance and promised support :—suppose its do-
mestic agents, the Priests, had enrolled ad-
herents—in every parish throughout Ireland :
suppose Government had all the while looked
on with hesitation and fear :—we wonder whe-
ther a Bill brought in, under such circumstances
as these, in February, .1826, would have found so
ready a submission as is now proffered. The fact is,
and we rejoice to learn it, that the moderate and
respectable part of the members have not yet
lost all influence in the Association. The case
would have been very different a year hence, by
which time the Association would have become a
mere engine in the hands of those who have al-
ready connected themselves with Cobbett, in-
voked the spirit of Bolivar, and lauded the as-
sassin of Archbishop Sharp.

Letters from Valparaiso, of the 6th of Novem-
ber state, that the conduct of the British Government to-
wards some of the new States of South America, had given
general satisfaction in Chili, where it was hoped that the set.
tied form of the Government would induce the English Cabinet
speedily to enter into a treaty of alliance and commerce with
the Republic.
The Copen that the Anni-
hagen Papers of the 25th ult. say,
versary of the birth-day of his Majesty would be celebrated
with all due honour at Court, on Friday the 28th ult. There
would be a grand Drawing-room for Ladies, and the three
grades of Cavaliers who have the Entree. The Knights of the
Order of the Elephant, and the Grand Crosses of Dannebrog
were to appear in the full costume of their Order.

CAN E SMUGGLERS.--An account from the
T N
frontiers of France says—." The triple line of French Cus-
tom-house Officers have been for some time on the alert ;
some of the posts have been removed to other places to watch
over the numerous packs of dogs which arrive from Belgium with
prohibited goods. These intelligent animals are perfectly well
trained, and carry into France, across fields and through bye
ways, the produce of foreign manufacture. Some of these
poor animals have already fallen victims : when they are per-
ceived within musket shot, a running fire is kept up against
them, which, with all their activity they cannot always escape.
On Saturday, about one o'clock in the after-
noon, as Mrs. Coatis was passing near Waterloo-bridge, to
attend her business at Drury-lane theatre, she was most grossly
insulted by two depraved females, who, after having
used
the most abominable insolence towards her, knocked her down
with such violence as to deprive her of sense. A waterman ran
to her assistance, and the two wretches fearing he was pursuing
them, ran off and escaped. It is conjectured that a watch and
chain which she wore were the objects they had in view.
Mr. G. PAPE:Not EcK, merchant, Bremen, has
been appointed Hanoverian Consul for the Free
Hans Town of Bremen,. and the Duchy of Old-
, enbu rgh

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 15.

Crown-Office, Feb. 15, 1825.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present Parliament.
Borough of Newton—Sir Robert Townsend Townsend Far-
quhar, of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, in the County of
Middlesex, Bart. in the room of Thomas Claughton, Esq. who
has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
•

BANKRUPTS.
.T. Crooke, Burnley, Lancashire, iron-founder, to surrender
Feb. 23, 24, and March 29, at one, at the George Inn, Liver-
pool. Attornies, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner,
Bedford-row ; and Mr. Lacon, Water-street, Liverpool.
W. W. Smith, Holborn-hill, silk-mercer, Feb. 22, March
and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. A ttornies,-
Messrs. Hodgson and Ogden, St. Mildred's.court, Poultry.
S. Butt, Motcombe, Dorsctshire, cheese-dealer, Feb. 21, at
four, 22, and March 29, at eleven, at the Grosvenor Arms Inn,
Shaftesbury. Attornies, Mr. W. Lindsell, Holborn-court,
Gray's-inn ; and Messrs. Bowles, Chitty, and Chitty, Shaftes-
bury.
T. Osborne, Stroud, Gloucestershire, linen-draper, March 1,
2, and 29, at twelve, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Worcester.
Attornies, Mr. J. Parker, Sansom-street, Worcester ; and
Messrs. Swain and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
J. Cooper, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, shopkeeper,
March 4,5, and 29, at eleven, at tile Angel Inn, Stockport.--
Attornies, Mr. Warmsley, Marple, Stockport; and Messrs.
Milne and Parry, Temple.
0. Forsyth, Eden-court, Carlisle, draper, March 1,• 2, and
29, at eleven, at the Bush-inn, Carlisle. Attorneys, Mr. Ad-
dison, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, London ; and Mr. Wan-
flop, Carlisle.
R. Turney, Manchester, joiner, Feb. 28, March 1, anti 29",
at two, at the Bog Tavern, Manchester. Attorneys Mr. J:
Booth, Marsden-street, Manchester ; and Messrs. Hurd and
Johnson, Temple, London.
F. Beesley, Bedwardine, Worcestershire, glove manufacturer,
Feb. 23, March 1, and 29, at twelve, at the Unicorn Inn, Wor-
cester. Attorneys, Messrs. Cardale, Buxton, and Parlb
Holborn-court, Gray's-inn, London ; and Messrs. Parker andY
Smith, 'Worcester.
J. Lock, Baker-street North, Marylebone, chemist, Feb. V,
March 1, and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. At'
torney, Mr. J. Watson, Gerrard-street, Soho.
J. P. Knight, Counter-street, Southwark, hop-merchant,
Feb. 22, at one, 26, at two, and March 29, at one, at the Court
of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Lindsay, St. Thomas's-
street, Southwark.
H. Smyth, Piccadilly, hosier, Feb. 19, 26, and March 29,
at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorneys, Messrs.
Osbaldeston and Murray, London-street, Fenchurch-street.

DIVIDENDS.
March 9, J. Holmes, Carlisle, Cumberland, grocer—Marc?
8, W. Clark, Kingston-upon-Hull, seedsman—March 19, lir•
Signell, Colchester-street, Savage-gardens, wine-merchant--
April 12, T. Marris, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire,
banker—March 15, J. A. Levy, Bucklersbury, merchant--
March b, J. Moorhouse, Sloane.street, Chelsea, wine-merchant
—March 8, H. Gerhardi, Savage-gardens, merchant.
CERTIFICATES, slAncn 8.

W. D. Hopkins, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, ship-broker
—G. Birt, Picket-street, Strand, tea-dealer—W. Vaile, New-
Ington-Causeway, Surrey, draper—J. Thomas, Liverpool, mer-
chant—H. J. James, Cannon-street, stationer—G. Westin,
Muscovy-court, Tower-Hill, merchant—J. Brown, Muscovy`
court, Tower-hill, merchant.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. Basset and S. Smith, Bury, Lancashire, machine makers
—T. W. Stansfield and H. H. Stansfield, King-street,.
Cheapside—J. Rawling and Company, Leeds, Yorkshire,.
wood turners—R. Hill and J. Stevenson, Nottingham, comb'
manufacturers—J. D. Hookey and J. Taylor, Southampto"'
slate merchants—D. Gregg and J. Wilson, Dudley, AVorces'
tershire, linen-drapers—NV. Dickinson and W. D. Jourdain,
!ad.:lane, Wood-street--G. AV. W. 111 ason and J. Evan!,
Mark-lane, brewery agents—E. Alker and E. Martlew,
gan, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers—E. Freeman and It'
Spencely, Ely. Cambridgeshire, plumbers—T. Downward,
sen. and W. Mann, Liverpool—H. Guardner and J. Guard-
ner, Redditch, Worcestershire, needle.manufacturers—W'
W. Kettle and J. Timmins Birmingham, button-mano"
facturers—E. Stephens and j. Jackston, Manchester, C -
lico-printers —G. Webster and J. Hardwick, Liverpool'
merchants—E. Unwin and Co. Tavistock-street, Covent-gar-
den, drapers, as far as regards S. Unwin—E. Waller and V.
Waller, Luton, Bedfordshire, Leghorn hat merchants—°A'
Wells and J. Darkins, Nottingham, hatters—S. Dickinson and
B. Hodgkins, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, hoop mane
'
facturers.

SHOCKING DEATII.—An Inquest was yeaer°
day held at the Black Horse, Queen-street, St'
Giles's, on the body of the Chevalier Dorfeuille;
The deceased was by birth an Italian, and allieu
to some of the most noble families of Italy.
During his career in arms he became a Knight 0'
St. John of Jerusalem, and a Knight of the Or-
der of Malta, and received a pension of fire/
shillings a-day. He came to England about
fifteen months since ; he engaged a room at 4/
Queen-street, Seven Dials, but from the day
he
entered the apartment he allowed no person to visit
him, and desired his landlady to acquaint every
one who inquired for him that he could not be
seen. His provisions were procured for him by I'
child, and she was directed to leave them on the
landing place ; and although he was labouril
under the effects of an asthma, he partook
abundance of meat and spirits. His usual hours
' for walking were before five in the more'
ing and late at night. He kept the oc'
count of his expenditure on the wall, and
amused himself with writing on it Greek sell
tences, and also some Italian lines. His bed be
not been disturbed since he entered the room'
the top clothes were covered with dust, and her
daily made his bed on an immense quantity ea
ashes, which had accumulated in his room, ally
where he was found, lying in the most wretch°
state, covered with vermin. On the floor was
also found a 101. note, a loaf of bread, sote
eggs, and a small quantity of arrow-root. rf "-
medical gentlemen, who examined the botli;
were of opinion he died a natural death, and the
Jury returned a verdict accordingly.