The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-07 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK, MAY s.—We. have not much trade at pre.
sent for Hops, nor are there many on sale; on the contrary,
both Kent and Sus.sex Pockets are scarce, and we are obtain-
ing rather better prices for them than we were a few days back.
Bags are dull sale.

The remains of Sir C. WARWICK BA xtr YtnE, Bart. arriv-
ed at Hardington Park, on 31ontlay last (28th ult.) and on the
following day were consigned to Ow family vault in Hardington
Church, attended by his own two sons, and a few of his intimate
neighbours; also by a vast body of his tenantry,' eager to partite
last tribute of respect to the memory of one, who always proved
himself a most kind and liberal landlord. The service was per-
formed, in a very impressive manner, by the Rev. J. R. Joldre,
of Ammcrdown. Thus finished the career of a man who was a
generous and indulgent parent, the life and soul of every social
circle, and whose loss will be most deeply deplored.--( Bath
Journal.)

AN Tam TENANT.---An English Gentleman,
who was lately on a visitin Ireland, in the course of his rambling
went into a miserable cottage, or rather hovel, in which he
found a poor woman in a state of severe illness, with no Wm.
panion but a pig. He condoled with her on her suffering, and
thinking that the unmusical noises of liar grunting friend must
be extremely annoying to her in such a situation, offered to re.
move him. " Faith you'd better let the pig alone," said the
woman, “he has more right to be here than I have, for he pays
the rent."

vi; .
FALL Op WESTON LsOLVILLE TOWRR.—OII
Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, the tower of the Church
of Weston Colville, in this county, tumbled down; pan falling
upon the roof of the Church, broke through and estroyed the
seats and pews; the other part tell to the \Volt. The tower
contained five bells, four of which were broken by the fall. It is
fortunate that no person was near; if it had happened during
Divine Service many of the congregation would inevitably have
lost their lives. Abort All years ago, the tower of 4111.Staints'
Church, Fulbourn, fell in s tiinnlar manner.—(Caotti, idge
Gazette.)

LAW PROCEEDINGS.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Amu. 28, 1823.

TILE ZING V. THE VICE-CHAN'CELLOR OF THE UNIVER
SITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
( Continued from our Paper of yesterday. )

Mr. LITTLEDALE—i am on the same side, my Lords, w

Mr. Serjeant Lens ; and, as I understand the case, the question
before your Lordships is this—Whether the election that has
taken place ought to be " more burgensium," or one by a pre.
vious nomination of the Heads of Houses ; it lies upon the per.
son who applies to the Court for a mandamus to make out his
own right : and ft will be a matter for dismission hereafter to
say who ought to make the election which they have done.--
But, I submit, unless the person asking for this mandamus
shews a title, he is not entitled to have the writ. Now he can
only make out his right to have his election affirmed, either by
the general law of the University—the common law, if I may
say so—or by some Statutes of the University—or by some
usage—or, perhaps, in a fowl!) way, namely, by a special
'direction, which will be insisted upon by the other side, by the
special direction of the Senate, regularly assembled, directing
the special mode of election. The first question which will
arise upon that, will be—Whether they have power to make
that special direction ? and, secondly, Whether that will apply
to the ease of Mr. Jephson, with regard to the common law of
the University, that existed beftire the Statutes of the Univer-
sity ? By the affidavits on both sides it appears, that, according
to the usual practice, every thing must be done by the Caput,
the House of the Non-Regents, and the House of the Regents.
Lord Chief Justice A iinpTT—l understand you to say, that
all affairs are to be conducted by the Caput, the Non-Regents,
and the Regents ?
Mr. LITT LEDALE —Yes, my Lord.
Lord Chief Justice AnnoTT—The Caput does not contain
all the Heads of Houses ?

Mr. LITTLEDALE-1;10, my Lord.
Mr. Justice BAYLUY—The Caput consists of the Vice-
Chancellor, and five persons elected every year.
Lord Chief Justice AnnoTT —They constitute one House ?
Mr. LITTL;DALE—Yes, my Lord, that is what I under-
stand. There- is a' Re gent and a Non-regent in the Caput ;
there is necessarily a Master of Arts in the Caput; there
is a representative of Law, Physic, and Divinity, who
together are called the Caput.
Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT—Not professors of law, phy-
sic, and divinity ?
Mr. LITTLEDALE—NO, my Lord, any person who is
elected to represent them. Then the next mode of proceeding
is pointed out by the 12th of Elizabeth, cap. 40. which has!
provided for the election of all the lecturers, beadles, and other
officers, whose election is not specially provided for either by
that statute or by the University; it is there provided, that
they shall be elected in the same mode as the Vice. Chancellor
which is by a previous nomination, and then afterwards, are
to be elected by the body at large ; this gentleman has not
adopted this mode.
Then ,my Lord, he says he has usage in his favour. Now,
as far as usage goes, the records state no instance beyond 1723,
of an election " more burgensium ;" but then the affidavits
go to say this, that with regard to the five professorships,
namely, music, chemistry, anatomy, botany, and mineralogy,
they say since the time these persons were elected, there is no
mention made of their having been previously nominated, and
there being no such nomination to be found upon the records.--
bard Chief Justice Annwrr —Does that apply to the whole
of them ?
Mr. LITTLEDAT.E—No, my Lord, to chemistry, anatomy,
and botany. As the records are silent as to there being a pre-
vious examination, they believe that they were elections more
burgensium." -
Lord Chief .Tustice ABBOTT—What do your affidavits say
in answer to that, as it respects the elections prior to that time?

Mr. Lys. T LEDALE—We do not know, my Lord, which way
it was. We do not deny it, but with regard to their end savour
to raise a question upon these instances, your Lordships will
find that they do not state there is any such custom where there
is no special provision for the election that it should be " more
burgensium ; ' all they swear is, where the records are silent,
that they believe the mode of election has been " inure burgen-
sium," but they do not swear that the custom of the University
has been, in case of a new Professorship being appointed, for the
election to be 44 more burgensium ;" how therefore they can en-
title themselves to argument front usage I cannot conceive, for
the professorship to this case was only made in 1816, and no
person was nominated but one person, who was specially ap-
pointed by grace ; they do not attempt to swear to the exist-
ence of such a usage in the University at large, and so far front
there being such usage with regard to modern Professors, their
own affidavits negative it, for they admit, that one of the pro-
fessorships named was always by grace ; that is, by the corn-
mon law of the University ; therefore, as they say, usage can
only apply to the Professorships of chemistry, anatomy, and
botany, and which they wish to extend to mineralogy.
Then, my Lord, they say this—they do not swear to usage,
or prove that there was any particular direction in the graze
which directs the appointment of a new Professor, that they
are entitled to have this mode of " more burgensium" election,
but the words of the grace being " a vobis eligatur," they eon.!
tend that they mean A • more burgensium" election. Now, my
Lord, they are contradicted by the very proceedings that have
taken place with respect to the professorship of mine-
ralogy itself, without taking any notice of the other
officers of the University ; "placeat vobis ut idem, E. D.
Clarke, professoris mineralogiai titulo sulfragiis vestris co.
honestetur ;" that is, the grace appointing Dr. Clarke professor
of mineralogy. It might as well said, that there ought to have
been n new election, more burgensium," after that grace
passed, for the language is " placeat vobis ut idem E. 0.
Clarke, professoris mineralogise titulo suffragiis vestris co-
honestetur ;" they might have said he ought to be appointed
by " auffragiis vestris," and that this grace was merely recom-
mending Dr. Clarke to the Professorship. Now the words
are in the. following grace, "a vobis eligatur," and they might
as well say, that the words " suffragiis vestris" were meant
merely to recommend hint to the University, as that " a vobis
eligatur" means the University at large.
Itlr. Justice BAYLEY—Then, after the grace, would you
have the nomination of him, and somebody else by the Heads
of the Houses ?

Mr. LITTLEDALE—If they proceed in that way, they must
either cleat him, or some other. I only mean to say, that the
words " suffmglis vestris," which are here used, do not mean
" more burgensium." I understand, my Lord, that the mode
of
_proceeding is this : the grace is first taken to the Caput-
-32 r. Justice BAYLEY—Does it not proceed from the Caput?
LITTI.XUALIE—No, my Lord ; it proceeds from the
person who hands it in. • The form of the grace which is pre.
sented to the Caput is, " Placeat vobis," on which they write
"Placet," and then it is taken to the House of the Non-re-
gents and to the House of the Regents, and they also write
upon, it " Placet ;" so that there are three distinct approbations
of the grace, at each of which they write " Placet ; and the
form is the rune in all.

Mr. Justice Ilairi.vv—ln the ordinary elections, do the
members of the Caput vote at all, I,n the same manner as the
Repnts and Non-regents ?
Mr. IsITTLEDALE—VCS, my Lord; so that if I wanted a
grace, for instance, for the appointment of a new professor in
the room of Dr. Clarke, I write, as it is written here, " Pia-
cent vobis ut alius ad idem iuunus exequendum a vobis eliga-
tur," and which I address to the six persons who constitute the
Caput, after they have signed it ; it is then presented to each
of the other Houses, who also sign it ; so that it is in feet
merely a determination or approbation which the three Houses
give to that which I request. They write " Placet" upon it;
I write "n vobis eligatur ;" it is I who write that, the Caput
and the Regents and the Non-Regents do not say " a vobis
eligatur," but merely " Placet," that is, the grace being I
addressed to them, they say another person shall be appointed
to the vacancy which then exists.
Mr. SoLtetToe-GENratat.—The form of the grace alp-
pears upon the affidavit; I only wish to state, that whet my
Learned Friend is now saying I understand is not correct ; it
does not appear upon the affidavits, and therefore no argument
can he raised upon it; I am told it is not correct.
Mr. LIT TLEDALE—It comes to the same thing; the Ciiptit
must be unanimous.

Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I am told that the effect of
the thing is, that the whole " Flaceat vobis" is the Act of the
Senate.

Mr. Justice DAYLEY--it does not appear by the affidavits.
Mr. SOLICITOR.OENERAL—No, my Lord, the interpre-
tation which Mr. Litdedale has given to it, I say, is not war.
ranted by what appears upon the affidavits. 'My Learned
Friend is laying so much stress on this point, anti arguing it
with so much earnestness, that believing the fact to be in-
correct, I feel it my duty to interrupt him.
Mr. LITTLEDALE...-I say it is carried to the different
Houses, and they write upon it " Placet ;" this form existed
before the election "more burgensium" was ever thought of; it
appears that the time when that mode of election was intro.
(laced, was when James the First directed Burgesses to be
elected, and they were elected by the Senate at large, without
previous nomination ; but the form to which I have been at.
hidiall.ng took place longbefore this other mode had any existence
at

Then they say " a vobin eligatur" means the same thing as
" more burgenemm." lr, Serjeant liens has pointed out a great
many instances, where the words are " a voids electus,' and
by you chosen, which shew that these cases apply to officers
who are not elected " more burgensium," but by the Heads of
Colleges, and afterwards confirmed by the body at large k and
therefore, this mode of Klection does not apply to the laxly at
large, but only-aceottling to the pudettlat nuttier which is)

in the discretion of the Senate. The term "a vobis eligatur,"
may; be either. the approbation of the ,Caput, and the Oyu
Houses, the Regents and Non-Regents, or "IHouses, qtlis
eligatur" may. apply to the nomination'of the Unliereilf at
large, or it may be " more burgenteure," but he may in-
stances they apply. where there has been it previous-nomination.
With respect to the case of Mr. Jephsten, 1 apprehend that
he has not made out a title on his own side, and die, le' may
be expected, though it lies upon him to make out hie Men 'case,
that we should shown ,some mode of proceeding inetmeistent
with what he considers .fo be the duty 'of etre.
namely, to be appointed to this profeseuitthio.• We say the
mode in which.he ought to proceed is poiiit.e:)" out in the 40th
chapter. of the 12th of Elizabeth, which peciittee'ibt 'the' fu-
ture election of Lecturers and all other offieers whoses-eleCtion
had not been specially provided for by,the statutes ,or by the
fbundation of the person who founds the prefeseor'ship..- If it
is not provided for by the statutes or by the private foundet?Ort,
the election shall be in the manner that the Vice Cinutiellor
is elected.
First, they say that that Stattste does not apply to new offices ;
I apprehend, my Lords, that it is the genera! law' *herb-there
is an exemption it need not be shown that thee:thee ••eitisted
immemorially. I should refer your Lordships upon this point
to the case of Wilkes v. Williams, Bth Term Reporee page
631, where the question arose upon a plea in abatement to the
jurisdiction of the Court, by a person who claimed theptivi-
lege of being an officer of the Court of Chancery, and was
therefore exempt ; the Court held it was good. The ease of
Rex v. Warner was there referred to, which was a case pf a
customhouse officer, and he was held to be exempt from the
office of overseer of the poor, though'it was an office created
by Statute within the time of legal memory ; so again with re-
gent to prescription and custom about highways, where there
is a prescription, that a particular township shall repair certain
highways • so again in Doctor Keton's Eton 1 allowship,
which is 'idly reported in Sir William Blackstone's Reports,
page 71; it was there held, that the Statutes of the College
were to apply to the new Fellowships ; in all those instances it
appears that if any new office is created it is to be bound by the
old rule. Another reason they give why this Statute does not
extend to this case is, that it only uses the word " Lectorea ;"
now we have strewn many instances where that went applies to
Professors.
Lord Chief Justice A uno•rr—Does that appear to be so
when the statute was made ?
Mr. LITT I...Eimer—Yes, my Lord, those were the five
Regius Professorships then existing, theology, civil law, medi-
cine Greek and Hebrew ; those were founded by King Henry
VIII. and there is a Statute called 1)e Tribute
Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT—Where is that ?
Mr. leiermt naLE—lt is the statute of Trinity College,
Mr. Justice DAT' LEY—It is chapter 4, "Dc temporibue
lee-
tionum et libris prat legendis." Ido not see the Divinity Pro-
fessor mentioned.
Lord Chief Justice ABBOT T—Theologicue pteelector.
Mr. LITTLEDALE—And he, my Loral, is a Professor of
Divinity ; and in the Statute of Elizabeth they are used indii-
criminately, you will find, in the 4th Statute—
Mr. Sergeant LENS—The 4di Statute was one which! meant
to refer your Lordships to, but I forgot it.
Mr. LITT etenat.e--.ln chapter 4, page 227, you will find,
that those are called " Lectures," who are professors—the pro.
heeler of philosophy is called " Philosoplucus Lector ;" when
we come to the profeseor of mathematics, there it is " Mathe-
maticus Professor," which is the same as Lector.
Lord Chief Justice A uncoer —The philosophical, lecturer is
a professor of physic, is he a regius professor
Mr. A enrusofe—ln some cases, any Lord, be is a regius
professor.
Lord Chief Justice A n DOT 'r
—The professor of mathematics,
what is he ?
Mr. LITTLEDALE—IIC is one of the Earnaby lecturers.
Lord Chief Justice ABBOTT—The pra'lector of thetoriceis
he one of the liarnaby lecturers?
Mr. LITTLEDA LE— Ves, my Lord.
Lord Chief Justice AunoTT—The professor of logic, is he a
Barnaby lecturer ?
Mr. LITTLE DA LE—Yef. my Lord, so that the terms appear
to be indffibrently used; with regard to the anatomical professor,
he is called a lecturer.

Lord Chief Justice A nnoTT—And in some cases he is called
professor.

Mr. LITTLEDALE—Ves, my Lord. Then, it appears
by the grace of 17115, in order to appoint a lecturer of ana,
tomy, they use these words: " slay it please that this con.
vocation be turned into a congregation in order to appoint a
lecturer in anatomy ;" and then, my Lord, Placeat vobis tit
in alectionem prwlectoris anatomi," so that he is here called
prrelector, and, in other instances, your Lordships will find he
is called " professor."

Mr. Justice BAYLEY—IS the professor of Hebrew a regius
professor ?

LITTLEDALE—Yes, my Lord, he is mentioned in
►tatute 3.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY—The Greek professor, is he a.regiut
professor ?
Mr. LITTLEnALE—Yeg, my Lord. In speaking of his
professorship in the Statute he is called a lecturer; ttierefbre,
my Lord, it appears that in all these Statutes the words lee.
tor" and " professor" are used indiflirently.
Lord chief Justice A suoY T—ln 1702, the grace appointing
the professor of chemistry is in , these words: " Placeat vobis
ut dictus 'famines Francisco* vigarii titulo professoris chynthe;"
then, in 1718, by the same words; in 1758, by the same words
then in 1794 Sir. }'errish is called pi-elector ; then, in 1111::,
Smithson Tennant is called professor, and, in 1815, JaSob
Cumming is called prtelector.
Mr. LITTLEDALE—SO that it appears they are sometimes
called the one and sometimes the other.
Lord Chief Justice AItBOTT—..SO in the professorship of
anatomy in 1703 he is called professor; then in 1753 lector;
1785 they are to appoint a lecturer; and, in 1817, he is styled
professor again.

Mr. LITTLEDALD—i am told that the only two possible
objections to the mode of proceeding under the Statute, . are,
that it does not extend to new offices, or that it is to be confitil
to the Burnaby professors, and does not extend to lecturers'..
Now, it appears that these words, ".professor" and " lector,"
are indiscriminately used ; as a consequence, therefore, the
word there used must include professors as well as readers. Then
they say again that this Statute is in fact interpreted' by
Lord Burleigh's letter, that he there speaks only of complaints
which had been made as to the election of annual officers—cer-
tainly the complaints were made only as to them—the *des:
sorships then existing being only with the exception'of the
Lady.3largaret's professorship of divinity, the Barnaby.PMfes-
sorships of philosophy, rhetoric, logic, and mathematics, and
the five regius professorships of theology, civil law, medicine,
Greek, and Hebrew, the four Barnaby professorships, and the
other five professorships, were specially provided tor hy the
foundation, and so was the Lady Margaret's professorship_
therefore these being all provided for, the complaint which
came before Queen .Elisabeth could only extern d to the annual
offices—but the letter does not import that the other professor-
ships were excluded—the letter states that coniplaints hatfbeen
made, and the argument attempted ,to be raised upon it im-
petus to be sufficiently answered by shewing, that those were the
only professorships to which Lord Burleigh's Letter could sp.
ply, or against which complaints could be urged.
I will not trouble your Lordships with any thing More upon
the subject, as to whether the Court has the power to grant a
mandamus or no ; we only wish to knol, whether your Lord-
ships think it is within your jurisdiction—we submit that by
the Statute where a matter is in &Ida, it shall be decided by
the University ; I apprehend that is the only questioa in this
case as to the argument on the words "a vohim eligatur," I
trust a satisfactory answer has been given.—With these obser-
vations I leave the ease in your Lordship's hands,

Mr. ALDERSON rose to address the Court. •
Lord Chief Justice AunoT•r—Are you on the lame•gide,
•
r. Alderson ?

Mr. Atim itsow—Yes, my Lord.
'Lord Chief J ustice AnnoTT—ls there any other Gent Wino
with you ?

. . Ali..4.l..ornsow—NO, my Los& •
Mr. A -in LIMN commenced his address.
Lord ChielJitaticeAUUOTT—Will your argument go to any
length.

Sir. At.nrnsom-1 really do not know how long, my Lard.
Lord Chief Justice Annovr—As the Jury are in wailing,
we had better postpone this till to-morrow morning.

(To we continurd-.)

COIIONERS' INQutsTs.--An Inquisition was
taken yesterday afternoon before TIMMAM
at the Blue Last Tavern irset-street, Salisintry-tupture, on
the body of Mr. John tolfohl, u CAre4se butclult, tfed
53 years, and rtsitleat of Vrown-court, Dorset-street. rhe
Jury, after short deliberation, returned a verdict. that the de.
ceased 6' Died in a fit em Apoplexy, occasioned by sttceesairve
I)ritaking."—Atiother Inquest WWI held yest er tl a y tit the Xing's
41rrng. Tavern, St. Martin's-court, St. Alartin's.litne,
body of Alice Edgar, >fmtutd dead in het bed. The atlxatted
left her,lunne in St. Martin`s.court about ten o'clock on:,6itin.
day int,rtling lattt, and returned in about two hours after, in.
toxteated tm ascending the Stairs she fell, rrittr her liFitti
against an earthen ware pan; .sho however entoree her
apartment, and lay an the wit; when 4bobt.rour o'flirkte.
landlady went to lier with scant tea, and found her, de .
Joseph Ralph, surgeon, was of opinion She died .43'41'h-flat
apoplexy, through the fail. Vettlitt—'‘'flied tteirilentury
a fall, which- occasioned apoplux/, of which slie -

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THE LQNDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Batracts from the Morning Papers, May 7.

[MOItNING Posy.]
The notions of the party which, unfortunately
for France, maintains at the present moment an
ascendancy in that country, upon the division of
powers in a mixed Government, and upon the
rights, the principles, and the 'duties, which ought
to be kept constantly in view by the popular or
representative branch of it, appear indeed to be
strangely anomalous and inconsistent. France
ties engaged in a war, the cost of ,which must he
defrayed of course by the people. A long and
intricate negociation has preceded it ; yet
the French Minister declares his purpose to
withhold from the Representatives of the
People all information respeCting that Nego.
elation, in the very same speech in which
he confesses that We war, and every step on
the part of France which has led to it, has been
loudly and unanimously arraigned in the only
assemblies in Europe where free men can give
vent to their undaunted feelings. As if to give
the greatest possible prominence to the principle
of blind acquiescence, he offered the strongest
provocatives to investigation in the same breath
in which he refused the documents by which
alone investigation could be guided. M. de
Chateaubriand dill these things not only with
impunity, but with success. Never was Boone-,
parte's Senate, or his Representative Assembly,
More submissive—never was the submission of
either put to a severer test.

[Tuc
The Proclamation of those Spanish traitors
who style themselves a Regency acting on behalf
of Ferdinand, shows what the Spaniards have to
look to as the consequence of this invasion, should
it, unhappily be successful. Eguia and his Col-
leagues designate, for the objects of the war, the
restoration of the old despotism and of the Holy
Inquisition, besides the repeal or abolition of
every legislative act performed by the Constitu-
tional Authorities since 18'20, including those
laws by which the arbitrary power of the
Crown was restrained—the exorbitant wealth
of the Monks transferred to the nation—the
immediate wants of the State provided for,
and the public creditor secured. We shall not
stop at present to inquire what must he the
effect of such declarations upon the minds of all
Spaniards above the level of brutes: Their feel-
ing towards the invader• is apparent enough by
their deserting every town which he threatens to
occupy.. But the question which occurs to
most men is, how far the French Government
ought to be regarded as adopting the views of
those delegated tyrants, Eguia and the rest.—
The Regents have been installed and recognized
by the Mks, of Augoulemo : they are attended
by French Guards: they are to be no where
found but at the bead-quarters of the invading
army: they possess no funds but these which are•
remitted to them from Paris. This looks like an
Identity of politics—does it not ? But again,had
no such Proclamation been issued, we contend
that the French Bourbons could have meant no-
thing less—indeed, that they stated pledged to
nothing less—than a complete re-establishment
of the despotism in all its horrors. They avow
that Ferdinand must be free—must be out of
the hands of his oppressed subjects---must be at
liberty to grant or to refuse a Constitution to his
people—before they, the people, can have any
just claim to enjoy one. The Spaniards, by this
doctrine, must be for ever slaves, until Ferdi-
nand shall have become once more .a despot. It

is the King of France, in a solemn veva) to his
l'arliament, who makes this the condition on
which he will permit the Spanish people of 13
millions of souls, to emerge from a tyranny the
disgrace,of Europe ; and yet there are men in-
nocent enough to believe that Louis XVIII., so
professing, so engaging, has no object under
Heaven bot to facilitate the foundation of a" Con-
stitutional Government" in Spain! Is there any
set of men in the world so very simple as to be-
lieve there prettnicpa of the French Govern-
ment ? Yes ; the English Ministers, They—
the Duke of Wellington, who had seen nothing
in the conduct of Ferdinand, which could lead
" to suspect" that " he would hereafter
abuse hi 3 power l" and Mi. Canning, whose long
,correspondeite closets Kith that primitive piece
.of credulity; that he could 44 not suspect" the
King of France;---these an. the 'only persons
who believe that King Louis and Chateaubriand
'are going to give, at the point of 100,000 bayonets,
a free eonstitution to the Spanish people!

[MORNING CIIIIONICI.E.I
It has berm industriously circulated by a cer-
tain person in the City (on 'Change) that nego-
ciations were going on between the Duke d'An.
.gooleme and the Cortes at Seville. This wt can
only attribute to a desire to mislead for private
purposes, for we believe we may confidently add
air contradiction to that. of The Courier on this
subject, and say, that at present no negociation
-whatever is going on, nor do we conceive any
can take place, unless the French Army should
be withdrawn, as a preliminary step ; circum-
`stances, we think, are against such a-proceeding.
We ask, why hhould such an enormous a,rmy
ofilussians, as well as Ai:Arians, be kept in
readiness, if France had not contemplated their
aid I and when •we mentioned these facts some'
days ago, we were supposed to be fabri.
cuing them, New The Courier alludes to these
enormous armies, and it is not improbable from
the close communication, between the French
Government and that Paper that a communica,
-tion has been made of their having already
marched. We have also heard another report
circulated by the same parties in the City (no
-:_timrht for the same purposes), viz. that a change
of Government had taken place in Spain. This
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we also as positively deny as the forme). We
think we need not caution the public against
believing such statements, many of which will be
put forth during the ,next month. The t rench
,wait on the Ebro for Moncey's arrival; which
we tbink v.ery unceitaut,-and until he can drive

Mina info Basinlona, the mountains, or back on
Madrid, cannot be looked for.

[NEW TIMES.]
We cannot agree with acotemporary in re-
garding the report of n gikiations having been
eentered into by the D e-tPAngouleme as alto-
gether absurd. We ar not now asserting a fact,
but we are speaking of a probability ; and in this
view it appears to us that our cotemporary errs
by confounding the abstract idea of Spain with
the personal existence of the individuals at the
head of the Revolutionary Government. It
would certainly be absurd and inconsitent in
Spain to negociate now, if the same Spain had
refused to negociate before the French invasion.
But there is nothing absurd or inconsistent in
one party extricating its country from dangers
into which it had been plunged by another party.
It was not Spain that rejected the wise and salu-
tary counsels of the Duke of Wellington ; it was
the Jacobin Party at Madrid which acted thus
fatally to Spain. We know too little of what
has recently passed at Seville, to ascertain
whether the Jacobins retain the same influence

there as at Madrid. The probability is that they
do not. Now, if a more moderate Party has ob-
tained the ascendancy at Seville, where would
be the absurdity or inconsistency of that Party
negociating with the Duke d'Angouleme ?

• [BRITISH PRESS.]
The Mord/Cur of Saturday contains, at grew
length, the,speech made by the French Minister
Chateaubriand, in the House of Peers. He rose
in reply to Count Mole and Baron Barente;
and to do the orator but justice, there is some.:
what less bombast and misrepresentation in
this Composition than in his former false and
inflated harangues. This speech is an expo-
sition of the motives and policy of the French
Cabinet in the great question of the war with
Spain, and a reply-to.the late speeches made in
both Houses of the British Parliament. Chateau-
briand is an upstart adventarer, u known, re-
corded tergiversator—formerly a worshipper of
the imperial fortunes of Napoleon, whose rising
successor he brought water from the Jordan to
baptize, and blasphemously compared to an im-
perial Redeemer! lie has since changed his
opinions, and is now the unceasing deifier
of the Bourbons. life has been a varied
scene of apostacy, and
,imposture. He travelled
in America, and published a false and inflated
histOry of his wanderings; whole pages are
full of his meditations amidst its forests, and
his aspirations far from the haunts and abodes
of men. lie journeyed through Palestine, and
stopped at the brink of the sacred river to supply
himself with its waters for the baptismal font,
where the son of the then mighty Emperor was
to receive, his spiritual regeneration. This twat),
daring writer at one time could do nothing but
hymn the glories of the Imperial Conqueror, to
praise whom expressions of homage were borrowed
applicable to the Deity alone. Now Chateaubriand
exhausts panegyric, in its most fulsome strain, in
honour of the wretched and imbecile Bourbons.
In France, according to this venal adulator,
" there is no Monarchy but in the Crown ; it is
the Crown 4lone shelters the ariatocracy. Louis,
after having restored France liberty, also re-
stores it glory. A Prince who in the midst
of the camp, has become the idol of 100,000
French soldiers, has nothing more. to fear for
he, future." Cheteaubriand, to-morrow, if pub-
ic indignation, drOve . these same Bourbons
'rom the throne of France, would unblushingly

turn round, and, if taken into pay, offer up the
same homage to their successors. There is no-
thing too vile, or any change too open, for such
an apostate. Yet amid his many falsities and
false assertions respecting the insitutions and
situation of England, there is also some truth
and just reasoning in parts of his speech.bn Eng-
land. But what must Chateaubriands ignorance
be when he talks of " the House of Peers in this
country" possessing 44 the greater part of the lands
of the kingdom, and that the Elective Chamber
or Lower House is but a sort of branch or offset !"
According to this arrogant declaimer, ", the
democrak spirit is nothing ; a few tumultu-
ous meetings, which assemble from time to
time, in virtue of certain rights of Counties,
constitute the whole of what is granted to demo-
cracy. The people, as in ancient'
clients of the high aristocracy, and the support
and not the rivals of the nobility." What Must the
Cabinet of France be when so senseless and•pervert.
ed a declaimer as this is placed at its head, when
language so gross and unfounded can be heard and
applauded in either Chamber ? •Yet it is such
renegadoes and base adulators as this who have
urged the present atrocious altack on Spain, and
sought with a hundred thousand bayonets to ex.
tinguish liberty in that country for ever. When
Chateaubriand's false and inflated harangues are ut-
terly forgotten, and his publications, already re-
membered only in name, have completely faded
from recollection, the present abominable outrage
on a brave and free people will be talked of and
remembered; and Chuteaubriand and his vile col-
leagues who planned it, will go down with exe-
cration attached to their names to all succeeding
ivies
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