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cock ;he other two, 'but becauie they avowedly
for( s!lw the tendency of each to pursue a separate
intt rest of it= own ? •

'f ere. is likewise another source: of power, of
nhich' the nobility have now very. largely availed
tluAnselves. 1 mean the monopolST of various
-estntes to which the elective franchise is annexed.
it is true that the 'share which the nobility
.have
thus acquired in the 'return of members-to the
House of Commons, is a poWer, founded...at the
expensr .01:' the people rather' than "of the Sove-
reign ;' lint then, being once completely reared, it
is as capable/of being' employed to the detriment
of the SoertZgrr as of the people.- Besides, to the.
Crown, modern flutes have givenxio :countervail-
, ing advabtage, except that very accession of .in-
fhience, .which so many 'demagogues are now
1&z.i.2,-uing to retrench ; whereas, the people have
act!nired, as 're have seen, additions of strength
so various; so important, and so unalienable, that
neither the elective encroachments, nor the nu-
nierical increase of the peers, can, by possibility,
afford: any -serious oc;asion of alarm to the bolos-
sal greatness ()Abe Commonalty. But, in the pre-
sent apology fOr the influence of, the Crown, I
forbear to enlarge upon. the 'weight of the aristo-
cracy in the elections of representatives; because
.my opponents will tell me, that thefe can be no
necessity for resorting to royal inflUence, in order
.to controul what might at once be repressed by a
• "Parliamentary Reform." Now, though I cer-
tainly do nc,t think that the measure, which they
call reform, would,- in the smallest degree, dimi-
nish the elective importance of the titled and
:lauded interests ; yet, as it forms no part of my
plan, on. 'this occasion; to enter into a question
so complicated and extensive, I must be content.,
forthe present, with having thus indicated my ar-
gument, and pass on without pres Sing this advan-•
tape to its furthest extent:
After a due examination, then, it seems hard-
'ly possible to deny, that since the epoch of our
great revOlution, the poWer,loth of the nobility
and. of the people, has increased, and is increas-
ing, with a rapid progress; the power of the no-
bility, by the vast accession of peers in the pre-
sent reign, as well as by the' acquisition of an ex-
tensive influence in the House of Commons; and
the power' of the people, by the continual in-
crease of their numbers, by their lordly accumu-
lations of wealth, by the confirmations which
their civil liberty -has obtained from the King,
the 'Parliaments, and the Courts of JUstice ; and,
of all, ,hy the universal diffusion of know-
ledge, 'and' the, gigantic -importance of public

In the mean time, what has been the pro-
gress of that Prerogative,. which the strict letter
of oin. Constitution assigns to the' Crown,' as a'
check upon the-. Lori's and Commons So far
from advancing proportionally with their ad-
vances, it has faded -into a.shadow. still lives;
but, it lives neglected and forgotten. low nu-
merous and how formidable were the .powers left
in the hands. of the Crown by our Whig ances-
tors, who will hardly be accused of any very un-
warrantable leaning towards the Court, the reader
will be able more accurately to factermine, bya re-
ference to the last section of .this little work, in
which he Some' comparisons- between the
prerogative which the. Constitution settled, and
the influence.by which ,that prerogative has been
insensibly superseded. Meanwhile it is sufficient
to• have reminded him, that whatever is danger-
ous or violent in the poeruf the Crown, has
now beTome, not-indeed absolutely extinct, but
almost irrecoveably obsolete.

To be continued.

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SOLESI QUIS DICEITE FALSCIM AUDEAT

L O'N D 0 N,

S ITURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, ISI2.

WC have' received -,French'4Papers, containing
the 26th and 27th Bulletins. We regret very
flinch that we have not room to offer 'any. com-
ments upon these most singular productions. Ic
appears by the 27th Bulletin, that the Cossacks
have treated BtroNAPAa'rE-With no more ceremony
than they did MURAT and SEBASTIAN!. 'A body
of six,thousand of them made an attack upon the
rear of his position, ,and took six pieces of can
non. The Bulletin then informs us, that " the
Marshal lkioßmit set off "a gallop, with all the
Horse-Guards, and the horde of Cossacks was
sabred. " We should have thought, that cutting
the poor Cossacks to picce would have been pu-
nishinent enough for their presumption, but the
Bulletin adds,' " they were brought back, and
thrown into the river." While we were lament-
ing the dreadful fate of these brave fellows, we
were delighted to find, from the same authority,.
that only " 600 of these Cossacks had been killed,
wounded,-and taken;"—that is*to say, the whole
bddy of 6000 -Cossacks were cut to pieces and
thrown into the river, and 600 of theta were
killed, wounded, and taken prisoners ! ! !--The
rest of these Bulletins'are in the same style.

The Duke of Montrose Packed has arrived from
Corunna. She brings a report that an action has
taken, place between Generals HILL and SOULT,
n which the former was completely victorious.—
We fear that there is not any foundation for this
report, it is not mentioned in the Corunna Papers,

nor have Covernment received any intelligence

upon Ihe subject.

It has been reported, within -the last' three or
four days, that the Marquisses
.of BUCKINGHAN
andzCuuDEN have offered, to relinquish a thifd
of their respective salaries, as Tellers of the Ex-
Chequer, during the present war. The report,
we -are assured, is well" founded ; • and the Noble,
Lords, we understand, tendered their offer in a'
joint letter to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-: .

QUEIt.

The unqualified demands of the Irish Catholics
for the removal of all the safeguards,of, our happy
establishment in Church and State, seem at length
to have roused the Protestants, who, we trust,.
will atone for the supineness which they have hi-
therto shewn, by a Arm resolution not to concede
more than the security of the Constitution essen-•
tially requires. Indeed this supineness has been
attended with an eventual .advantage., for it has
prompted the Irish Catholics to throw off the
mask, and to convince mankind that nothing, will
satisfy them but political power, to as full an ex-
tent as it is possessed by the members of the 1:s- .'
tablished Church, who take the oaths of alle-
giance and supremacy to our legitimate Monarch.
Hence, then, if the demands of the Irish Catho-
lics were to be complied with, they would be
plaCed in a higher situation than even our Pro-.
testant fellow-countrymen, who constitute the
great mass, of the Empire, and be exempt from
the obligations to which the latter are subject,
and we should be exposed th the influence Of fo-
reign authority.

SECOND EDIV
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SUN-OFFICE,

TNTO-O'CLOCK.

In a Supplementary Paper. from Quebec, which
we received this day, there is the 'following article
which we deem worthy the attention of ou,

Readers

In addition to the above (the Official Dis-
patches), we learn, by verbal accounts, that the
Americans who crossed over in the night, consist-
ed of about 1,500 men, The whole of these /ere
killed, wounded, or prisoners, and about FIVE
HUNDRED More, 'who attempted to cross after-
wards, were drowned.

The total number engaged on our side did
Lot exceed SEVEN HUNDRED men. Our loss irnot
tore than FIFTY killed and ‘voundede

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the
Woolsack, at the usual hour; since the commence-
ment of the Session ; and the business of swearing
their Lordships forthwith commenced,.
In reply to a question from the Duke of CLA-
RENCE, it was stated that 95 Peers had already
taken their seats.---Adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE 'UV -COMMONS,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27.

The House met, and had prayers read at one,
o'clock, and at two proceeded with the routine
business of swearing in Memberp. After which,
on the motion of Mr. D. GIDDY, it adjourned till
Monday.

The 'Address is to be moved in the House of
Lords by, the .Mai ;pis. of, QUEENSBURY—in the
House of Commont it is to be moved by Lord
'CLIVE, and seconded by Arr. HARTE DAvis, jun.

The Royal procession to the House of Peers
is to be on the grandest and mosi,extensive scale,
and active preparationg are making for that pur-
pose. ' The. Ithperial Crown of these realms, it is
said, will be carried in precession, under the im-
mediate personal care of the. Lord High Steward.
If thelicook sellers want a new edition tieSnAKE-
SPFARE, and, indeed, we cannot haVe too many
editions of such an author, it is surprising that
they did not apply to Mr. GIFFORD, the Editor of
MASSINGER. and BEN JONSON, whose . critical
acumen, learning, and extensive knowledge of
English literature, render him peculiarly qualified
for the undertaking. We trust, howe..-er,, that-
when his other labours will permit, we shall havie
an edition of our great dramatic Bard from ttis
Gentleman; as we are persuaded that he will exe:.
cute the work con amore, and with the taste and
sagacity of a sound Critic, as well as the anima-.
tion of a true Poet.

, On Friday night last, about eleven o'clock, as
Edward Smallwood, jun. carrier, of Sniethwick,
was returning home from Birminghain 'he was at-
tacked by three footpads, between 'the canal re-
servoir on Birmingham Heath and Winson Green
bridge, and robbed of one pound twelve•shillingS
in silver. Smallwood being a 'remark'cibly.'Stout
resolute man, defended himself, and beat off the
first that attacked hm, when a second coming up,
gave him a-violent blow on the -head with a
bludgeon, and at the same time called out for as-
sistance, when another appeared ; they then
overpowered him, beat him most seNtrely, and
after robbing him, suffered him to go, they then
fired a pistol. at him before he had gut many
yards, *but. happily missed their Om.

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AL -;EIVS

FALMOUTH, Nov. thiS day 'the
Duke of Montrose packet with Mails from Co-
runna, in five days. It was reported there that
General HILL had defeated Marshal SOULT with
great lOis, but uncertain as, to date ; nor bad those
reports any good authority. No accounts from the

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army under Marq,IVELLINGTON had been received

`at Corunna since those brought by his Majesty's
- :schooner Mackarel, which .were dated llueda, 3d
inst. it was said that .the head-luarters of the
Marquis were at SalaManca and that General,
HILL, had approached so near the Marquis
as that a' junction could take place any tinie.—
The "enemy had not approached Corunna.—
The packet Was detained. three days for the arrival
of mails from the interior; which had not come to
hand when, she sailed. Left lying there his Ma-
jesty's schooner Bramble, 10 guns, and the Duke
of Kent packet. His Majesty's .ship Medusa sailed
from thence the 19th inst. to join the squadron
under. Sir H. POPHAM at St. Andero • two trans-
ports, .., •
, laden with stores, of the: convoy which
sailed from Portsmouth for Lisbori.,,i had put iuto
Corunna in distress. An American brig with a
cargo of rice for a market, under a license, bad
also arrived there from Portsmouth.
A letter from Corunna states that the army late
kinder BALLESTEROS, atul that under,CAs.TANO:
had 'joined the army under Geti. HILL ; that the •
allied armies were-120,000 in the neighbourhood
of Salamanca. „ '

Arrived this evening the ship St. Domingo, one
of the outward-boutid West Indiatnen under con-
voy of the Coquette, from London to St. Domingo.