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London, England, 1823-03-05 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

SITRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS

March 5, IS`23.

[MORNING CHRONICLE. j
.A private letter from Madrid, of the highest
pclitical character, mentions that Sir W. A'Court
Was extremely instrumental and active in endea-
vouring to persuade Ferdinand VII. to dismiss
Ms Ministers, as persons on the spot allege, from
a wish to create a commotion that might involve
the Spanish capital in confusion and anarchy, by
setting the several parties at variance against
each other—a circumstance that would neces-
sarily_ lay Spain at
,the feet of a mediating power,
Abe character that, under present circumstances,
could only befit England,. or facilitate the entry
of the French army. The plan, it is added, was
intended to serve -a double purpose. In case it did
• not succeed, and Ferdinand was compelled to
retain his present Ministers, the , conclusion to
be drawn and vociferated throughout Europe,
was, that he was. under restraint and divested
of his Royal prerogative ! It is indeed whis-
pered that the Council convened by Mr. Peel, in
coacert with the Duke of York, was to treat on
this very subject, and to take measures to demand
KiogFerdinand's freedom, and that he should he
alloWed` to act with full liberty. If this is the
,case, we have the profound designs of the Mi-
nisters at once revealed, who, not being able to
keep down the feelings displayed throughout the
whole British Empire on the present- occasion,
avails themselves of this incident, managed by
'themselves, as a plea to extort concessions from
the Spaniards, by openly declaring the King has
riot liberty to act under the present Constitution.

[MORNING eosT.]
The recent intelligence from Madrid has
_afforded a momentary triumph to each of the
parties, in ,this country. The enemies of Spanish
independence affect to infer the absolute captivity
of the King, from the temporary abdication, and
the rapid reinstatement of the Ministers ; as if
the individual volition of the Sovereign, with
respect even to the appointment of his Ministers,
was not
.in every country, and under every form
of Government, frequently controuled by the
infity.,?nce of popular feeling, by the force of insti-
tutions, o-r by the dominion of circumstances. It
cannot surely be pretended that the personal
character, or the past conduct of Ferdinand,
gives' him any extraordinary claim upon the.
confidence or respect of his subjects ; and
it is quite of course that the interventions to
which the individual will of the Monarch's
in every country is more or less exposed, should
be prompt and vehement, in proportion as
confidence and respect are wanting. It implies
au inconceivable warmth of admiration of the
King of Spain to give the name of crime to a
certain degree of controul over him in the exer-
cise of a function, which in the hands neither of
George the Third of ,England, nor of Louis "the
keghteenth.of.France, has been in every instance
sp•Ontaneoils and nnfettered. This we think a
very sufficient and conclusive answer to the par-
tizans of oppression and tyranny who derive an
argument in favour of French invasion from the
inability, assuming such to have been the fact,
of Ferdinand to effect a • total and instantaneous
difirte in the Spanish Administration.

[MORNISG BEnAt.D.I
The following is the only leading article in
tEe Herald this day :---" We have much satis-
faction in reporting that a remittance has reached
the Committee of the London Tavern from Cal-
cutta of 4,0001. in part of subscriptions in Bengal,
for some assistance in the distress and penury
of the peasantry of the south and western
counties of Ireland,- through the failure of pota-
tees last spring. We cannot fail to attribute this
manifestation of sympathy to the influence and
exAmple of the Governor-General of India."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
No intelligence of any importance relative to
the I.tiTat question of peace or war with Spain has
ahi'vOd since yesterday. Private accounts repre-
sent the public discontent in Paris and the great
manufacturing towns through France as very
great. This, with the numerous addresses against
this insane war, which have been presented to the
King and Chamber, has induced a general feeling
that the French Cabinet will still hesitate
and weigh the fearful consequences before it
passes an army across the Pyrenees, and enters
on a long and bloody contest with a brave and
deioted people. Our own hopes would incline
that way, but our fears are, that the Ultras will
not recede,
" Quos Delta vuit perdere,
" Prius dementat,"
and this faction appears to be distinct by their
insanity to ruin. Their ferocious violence in the
Chamber against M. Manuel resembled more the
contest of contending factions in the hippodrame
of Byzantium than the calm deliberative wisdom
of. Representatives assembled for the government
°Mance. They have been unceasingly employed
to' inutralize and destroy any semblance existing
of liberty in France, and their whole hostility is
directed against its confirmation in Spain. Arbi-
trAry power is the object of attainment. Such in
Fiance, In Naples, and in Spain, has been the
slstem of government of the fanatic Bourbons
and their band of followers.

[THE TIMES.}

The attention of the public having been at last
powerfully- excited by the abuses existing in the
11,'Rst India College, flowing from the unlimited
powers intrusted to the Masters, and exemplified
by the' unprincipled exercise of those powers in
the expulsion of several young men, at different
times, for trivial and boyish offences, a pamphlet
hiis been published by, a Civilian, with the con-
cealed object of bespeaking favour for an esta-
blishment, the defects in the formation of
-which he acknowledges ; and, in drawing a
cOntrast between what the establishment might
aril ought to be, and what it actually is,
he has been obliged to acknowledge that
the conduct, of the masters towards the stu-