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by his sentiments, his manners, and his conversation, gives a
more finished idea of the Monarch and the Gentleman. The
French Ministers have been severely criticised. I know the
Ministers who now govern England : those eminent personages
are worthy of the esteem and consideration which they enjoy.
I have been the particular object of insults. \l'hatMatters it,
if you, Gentlemen, consider that I have only incurred them by
having well served my country ? Do not fear that my wounded
vanity can make me forget what I owe to my native land ; and
whenever it is a question to maintain good harmony between
two powerful nations, I shall never recollect that I have been
.offended."
He concluded thuseriment
Well, gentlemen ! the exp
has been tried, and, as I never doubted, it has perfectly suc-
ceeded. The cannon fired on the Bidassoa has dispelled many
illusions, dispersed many phantoms, and overthrown many
hopes. Eight years of peace have done less to consolidate the
foundation of the legitimate throne, than twenty days of war.
' A King, who after having restored us liberty, restores
us glory ; a Prince, who in the midst of the camp has be-
come the idol of 100,000 French soldiers; have nothing more
to fear from the future. Spain delivered front the Revolution
—France resuming her rank in Europe, and again sending an
. army—legitimacy acquiring the only force which is still wanted :
these, gentlemen, will be the fruits of a short war, which we
did not court, but which we did not decline. These great con-
siderations ought to put an end to all political divisions : we
should imitate those old companions of Conegliano, those
veterans of the army of Conde, who now repose under the same
tent, and have the same flag."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 5.

ARTICLES OF THE PEACE.

Mr. GURNEY moved, that Lord Clifton, the son of the Earl
of Darnley, might exhibit articles of the peace agrinst Robert
Bligh, Esq., and that they might be filed.
The articles were then read. They set forth, that articles
had been exhibited some years ago by Lord Darnley against
the defendant, who had been bound over to keep the peace
towards him and his family in the sum of 6,0001., and had •
been compelled to find two sureties in 500/. each ; which secu-
rities were now in force, and would run for 12 months longer.
Notwithstanding
.these obligations, the defendant, who was a
prisoner for debt in the King's Bench prison, and obtained op-
portunity of absence by means of day rules, continued to annoy
Lord Darnley and his family, by parading before his house in
Berkeley-square,_ insulting him and his son, following his car-
riage, assailing him with terms of virulent abuse, and even as-
saulting him with a horsewhip, without the slightest provoca-
tion. On the Ist of this month, as Lord Clifton was driving
his sister in a gig through Pimlico, the defendant came up on
horseback, pursued him towards the park, struck him violently
with a horsewhip, and then rode furiously away. The exhibi.
tant, in conclusion, deposed that he did not exhibit the articles
from any motives of hatred or revenge,but from fear of his life,
or some grievous bodily injury.
Lord Clifton having been sworn to the truth of the articles,
Mr. GUP.XEY expressed his hope that, under the peculiar '
circumstances of this case, the Court, perceiving that the re.
straint already imposed on the defendant was ineffectual, would
take such measures as might afford sufficient protection to the
Noble Lord and the family of which he was a Member, from
the continual annoyances to which they were subjected.
The LORD HIEF JUSTICE said he would defer making
any order in the case, till Mr. Justice Bayley (who was then
in the Bail Court) should be present.
After Mr. Justice BAYLEY had entered the Court,
• The LORD Curia, JUSTICE ordered that no day rule
should be granted to the defendant, without a special applic
tion to the Court for permission to issue them.
Lord Darnley sat on the bench during the proceedings.

THE KING V. ST. MARY, NEWINGTON.
In this case, in which a rule was obtained for a mandamus,
requiring the parochial officers of St. Mary Newington, to pro-
ceed to the election of everseers and guardians of the poor,
which they had omitted on the day mentioned in the local
statutes, the Con UT directed the writ to issue.

TIIE ICING V. J. W. TRUST.
As thcJudges were leaving the bench, the defendant, who is
prosecuted by ex-officio information, for selling a blasphemous
libel, and who is the brother of the young man who received
sentence on Thursday on a similar charge, presented him-
self on the floor of the Court. He moved for a rule
to show cause why the appointment of the special jury,
struck to try his case, should not be set aside. In support
of this application, he read an affidavit which, set forth
that the Master of the Crown-office, in order to nominate the
Jury, turned over the leaves of the Freeholders' book, taking
one name from each page ; that he requested the Master to take
the names from any place in succession, on the ground that, in
this mode, no unfair selection could take place, whereas there
was rootn for it in the other ; but that the Master persisted in
the course which he had first adopted.
The LORD CluEr Juirriet.—There is no ground what-
ever for the application. The practice of which you complain
has been the constantractice of the office.
The defendant.—Will not your Lordship hear me make a
few observations ?
The LORD CHIEF TUSTICE.—No: you have- no ground
whatever to complain ; the practice has existed for years.
The Judges then left the Bench, and the defendant retired.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

.--STATE OF THE ODDS.
Hy'.
7 to 4 agst Emilius 10 to 1 agst Pantina
4 to 1 agst bro. to Paella 20 to 1 al.lst any other.
5 to 1 agst Nicolo

BETTING-1100M, MAY L.
DER

0 .tKS.

i to 2 apt Zinc
9 to 2 asst sist. to Wanderer
5 to 1 agat Tint

12 to 1 agst Sister to Sultan
14 to 1 agst Olivera
14 to 1 agst Reserve.
ST. LEO ER.
20 to 1 agst bro. to Paella
25 to 1 agst Columbus.

DONCASTER
ll to 2 agst Sherwood
9 to 1 agst Tinker
II to I agst Miss Fanny
Match between !Medoff and
ing—even betting.

'Augusta, Second Spring Mee'

Letters from St. Petersburgh, dated the 11th
ult., state,-that on the preceding day a Govern-
ment official notice was affixed on the Exchange.,
warning the Merchants not to carry on any com-
mercial transactions with Spain and Portugal,
and particularly not to send any vessel thither.
The same letters mention a curious instance of
disaffection to the Russian Autocrat among the
peasantry of the Government of Witepsk,
who, though recently releated from bondage;
and actually vested with a right to the pro-
duce of their own labour, have had the
ingratitude to answer this benefit by a refusal
to pay their taxes. They have even gone so far
as to insult an Imperial Agent sent thither to
remonstrate with them, and have bad the auda-
city to address a letter to the Empress Dowager,
in which they accuse the Emperor himself of in-
justice! It has been found necessary to dispatch
troops to the Province to put down the rising
disaffection. We may notice, by the way, that
this appears to be the only authentic account yet
received of any movements of Russian troops.--
( Times.)

•
Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, a very full and
highly respectable Meeting of Ladies and Gentlemen, interegt-
ed in the pro Motion of the Gospel in every part of the known
world, by the laudable and zealous exertions of the Ministers
in connexion with the late Rev. J. WESLEY, was held at the
City road Chapel; J. IitITTEEWORTII, Esq. M. P. in the
Chair. A very able and satisfactory statement of the progress
of the labours of the Missionaries was read to the Meeting, and
the gratifying intelligence that the receipts of the Society ex.
coded those of the_yrecedin_g year by upwards of 6,000/. W.
WILBERFOUCE, Esq. M. V., W. WILLIAMS, Esq: AL P.,
and several other Gentlemen, made animated appeals in behalf
of their fellow-creatures, in furtherance of the objects of the
Society, and we have no do doubt but that the funds of the Scono-
ciety, by the united sympathy of all sects in its cause, will -
tinue to prosper and increase.
In the night of the 23e1 ult., a female antelope was stolen from
the Duke of BEnronti' Menagerie, at Woburn Abbey; fifty
guineas reward is offered.
On Wednesday evening last a sudden and
alarming fire broke out in the malt-house of Mr. LovEtocx,
in the parish of Speen, which entirely consuinvd the same, to-
gether with upwards of 60 quarters of malt and 26 pockets
ci
hops.