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pose of enabling him to send ►ips and troops to
reconquer his Colonies in South America. In
such a case it would come to this—that one set
of John Bulls would he lending their money to
the South American Patriots for the purpose of
destroying the Royal troops as fast as they
might hind from Old Spain, while another
set of John Bulls were lending their money to
Ferdinand, to enable him to reduce his sub-
jects, whom he calls Rebels, but who call
themselves Patriots. But it is well known
that John Bull will lend his money to any
Government that will regularly pay him
good interest, and in which he believes there is
any stability. We believe that the modern Eng-
lish money-lenders would as soon lend to a Turk
as a Greek, or to Ferdinand as to Bolivar, who
modestly styles himself the Liberator, provided,
the security were supposed to be the same ; or
half per cent. more interest given by Ferdinand
or the Sultan would turn the scale, and they
I ►could be the successful borrowers for the time

being. As for Grecian or South American pa-
triotism, it might evaporate for want of British
money, so long as a. better price from even tl►e
most despotic power could be obtained with
equal security.

Cuitvrtatt Pitessl
We believe it is the author of Waverly who
remarks, that husbands and other belligerent
powers arc in the habit of singing 7'e Deum to
cover a defeat, at least as often as to celebrate a
victory. Such seems to have been the case with
the. Court of Madrid with regard to the South
American colonies of Spain. But the vapouring
and boasting of these worthies is more complete-
ly answered by the intelligence we give in nno-
ther port of our Paper, than it could have been
by all the arguments that the ingenuity or wis-
dom of man could have invented. From this we
learn, that instead of the Royalists driving 80.
livnr before them, he hns.heen driving them from
their last strong holds, and, by a masterly ma-
nestivre, has almost entirely annihilated them.
We shall scarcely be deemed so rash as an emi-

nent statesman was,during the campaigns in the
Peninsular, were we to prophecy, that by this
time there would not be found a Royalist sol-
dier, not a prisoner, in all Peru.

[MOUNINGI CIittONICLE:3
A rare ant shining instance of Roman virtue
was lately displayed in Cornwall. A wealthy
Baronet and Magistrate of that county dining
with a friend on whose manor he was permitted
to sport, entertained strong suspicions tint cer-
tain partridges which appeared on the table had
not come fairly by their end, and he accordingly.
held in his breast a post mortem inquest on' their
bodies, traced their deaths to the unqualified
hand of his host's, cousin, brought an action
against him for the recovery of divers
ties, and obtained a verdict of five pounds ,1 This,
rigid assertion of the laws, without regard, to
those feelings which sway ordinary minds, is
truly wonderful, and the more worthy of ad-
miration when we consider the humiliating pro.;
eess by which this inflexible Magistrate procured
the Iterefeitivy evidence of the defenCe, by means
of titmpt•ritlit With his celphit's, tonsist in a wiy
that. must. Stave needs been inexpressibly painful
to a Gentleman of bottom'. But murder had
been .committed, partridges had been unlawfully
deprivetW their lives, and though the Baronet
ate their bodies as became a hungry guest, he
avenged theirslaughterus became an intlexibleiVla-
glstrate ; nay, it is reported, that as he picked his
teeth of the shreds of. the murdered innocents, he
ruminated on retribution on the guilty provider of
the treat, and that he) digested at the same mo-
ment the corpus delicti and the means of avenging
it. This is grew, this is Roman, this is uniting
the duties of public and of private life---it is
saying,. with a slight alteratiou of the original
text, 441 will eat your mutton and drink your
wine," as your friend, but I will most assuredly
4f poke your eye out us a Magistrate." -.Surely
the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was
right 'when he argued that our Serial' Fabric,
rested on a steel trap, and 'if. 'any thing of
Roman virtue be revived in this age, it will
the administration of .the Game
originate in
. We have all heard of .the gotirmand,
who declared a sauce so excellent that he
could eat his venerable grandfather with it ; and
of flaji Baba, who• affirmed that when his hand
was in the practice of spitting people, he verily
believed he could have impaled his own father;
and their seems in the Game Laws to be some-
thing so irresistibly strife-stirring, that when
once a matt is warmly engaged in their ad...
ministration he will flue and imprison his whole
generation, and glorify himself for the deed as
another Brutus—no blood is respected by such
persons but• the blood of a partridge. The par-
ticular display of virtue to which we have above

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alluded is set forth in a pamphlet published
by Maxwell, of Bell-yard, entitled "Report
of a Trial at the Into: Assizes at Launceston be.
tween Sir Rose Price, Bart. Plaintiff, and Mr.
Edward Poynter, Defendant : being a Prawn-
Han under the Game Laws to recover penalties
from the defendant for having killed game on the
estate,,and at the request of a near relation of his
own, for a dinner party, at which the plaintiff
was an invited guest." For this pamphlet we
have paid one shilling, and we would cheerfully
lay out another to look at the prosecutor who
figures in it.

The new bridge from Hammersmith to the op-
posite Nhore at Barnes, is proceeding with un-
paralleled alacrity, it k expected to shorten the
distance from Hyde Park Corner to Richmond
nearly a mile: besides which, the Parochial Di-
rectors of Richmond have very liberally made a
good road from East Sheen over the common to
the summit or the hill, which reduces the distance
from the metropolis to that delightful spot, at
least half a mile.

By the arrival of The packet from America, we
ire sorry to learn, that FolOgn.,CouAr4,
68111_1100unit; of the
winduti of
his house at Quebec, on the 9th June,. was
struck by lightning, and killed on the
(Edinburgh Evening Courant.)