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London, England, 1823-03-11 00:00:00

and, Judge, perfectly unexaMpled. They must' I
be grossly ignorant of the history of the English
House of Commons, which has for 'centuries ex-
ercised this power in numberless instances ; and
as to the confusion of functions, it exists no where
but in their own confused intellects. It is abso-
Jutely essential to Liberty that the Legislative
Body should have its own_ police within itself ;
and the great constitutional rule is laid down
by that 'patriotic Lawyer, Sir Edward Coke,
" that whatever matter arises concerning either
House of Parliament, ought to be examined,
discussed, and adjudged in that House to which
it relates, and not elsewhere." The Police of
the. House would not perfect without the
power of expulsion. Men most unfit and most
unworthy might find their way itito the Legis-
lature. Members' might commit the grossest
crimes after their admission ; and if there were
no power in the House itself to expel them, they
must remain there a perpetual blot and disgrace
to one of the Highest Bodies in the kingdom.
Our ancestors understood these matters somewhat
better than Messrs. Lafayette, Lamed], Foy,
and Ca. and they were certainly quite as steady
1 supporters of Political liberty.

[Baurtsit eacss.l
We have received the Paris Papers of Satur-
day by express : they are utterly barren of any
intelligence of interest whatever. A courier had
arrived fromlladrid, bringing the account of the
opening of the Cortes. The hlicateur, a Boar-
deaux. Paper, dated the 4th of this month, con-
tains intelligence from the frontiers of Spain to
the 28th of February, and from Madrid to the
231. At that period, these accounts state, the
most perfect. tranquillity prevailed in that capital.
The Chamber of Peers in France was occupied with
the-atrocious proceeding against the patriotic Ma-
nuel. The Duke de Broglio.was,it is said, to make a
proposition on that eventful measure. The whole
of the left side of the Chamber of Deputies have,
it appears, seceded since the outrage offered to
their body : they did not vote on Thursday on
the projet of the law for calling out the vete-
rans, and the law was carried in consequence by
a majority of 231 to 15. It has been our
opinion from the commencement—that the
proposed war was undertaken by Angouleme,
Montmorency, apd the Ultras, solely with a view
to accomplish, if possible, a counter-revolution
in the heart of France, and undo all that the re-
volution had accomplished. Villele and the
French Monarch were opposed to the nefarious
and impolitic plan at first ; but ambition pre.
veiled over the mind of one, and ancient pre-
judices over the feelings of the other. War is
about to commence, and we will see how the
Cabinet and the Ultras will come out .of the
conflict.

(,MORNING 11 ERA LEil
The state o the weather prevented our having
.n the course of yesterday any 'arrivals from
France. This Was the more unseasonable, as at
the moment accounts from both France and
Spain were looked for with much anxiety. It is
not alone the movements towards invasion that are
matter or interest, but the manmuvres of parties,
and the internal politics of France. No immediate
or violent commotion is, as far us we can judge,
likely to result from the expulsion of M. Manuel.
It, however, places the ultra Ministry in a
state of some difficulty and peril. There are
two points upon which- it is understood they
feel nearly and sharply touched. The first is,
what proceding to take against the serjeant's
,guard of the National Guard of Paris,. which
committed what will be looked back to as a
memorable act of military disobedience in the
Chamber ? The legal character of the offence,
whatever may be its moral or political virtue, is
so glaring that a Gevernment which wanted the
power or the courage to proceed against it, would
pronounce a sentence of contemptible incompe-
tency upon itself. Let it not be supposed, that
I,,the National Guard is exempt from military punish-
ment. Military offences in this description of force
are tried andputtishedi by what is,we belie,ve,calfed
a council of discipline, equivalent to a council of
war in the regular service, or it court martial.
But if the Government resolves to punish, the
peril is perhaps still greater. The National
Guard is not only formidable for its numbers and
extension all over France, but comprises that
class of population, which, from its place in the
scale of society, its industry, and, the nature of
its wealth, is peculiarly identified with the poli-
tical institutions and opinions which France has
inherited from the 14:volution. Independently
of this sympathy of common interests and feel.
ings, there is moreover that sympathy which is
called cyrit de corps, much stronger than in the
regular troops, so that if the Ultras lay a finger
upon the mutinous serjeant and his guard in the
capital, it will vibrate to every extremity of the
country.

[MonyiNG POST.)
The merits or defects of the Spanish Constitu
tion, its tendency to advance or to obstruct Oil
prosperity and happiness of the nation, are con,
siderations quite foreign to the subject of inter
fereuce by tiny other State. The people of Spait
have a right to work out their political regenera
tion, undisturbed by the Regression or even by the
menaces of any Foreign Power—ft right limited
by the single condition, that they shall not
directly or indirectly meddle with the affairs
or endanger the tranquillity of their neighbours.
tf in the progress of their regeneration they have
arrived at a state in which the authority of the
Monarch is too much restrained or reduced, and
the democratic, principle is invested with a danger-
-0119 and ungoverned freedom of action, theirs
be the care and the duty to amend the defect,
since theirs only will be the dangers or We-
mities to result from its continuance. They
have for themselves thrown off an odious
tyranny, let them also for themselves guard
against the excess of theoretic freedom.—The
imperfections of the Spanish Constitution, let
them be ever so numerous or important, can
afford no apology for the proud, insolent, and
domineering conduct of France. Spain has
treated her haughty and arrogant neighbour with
the contempt which that conduct so well deserves.
To the armed and threatening critics of her insti-
tutions, her only reply ought to be, as it is, the