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certain, every occurrence there would be viewed
dispassionately, and cool inferences thence de-
duced ; but at present independence is looked
for while it is desired, and whatever seems to re-
tard it thwarts our passions rather than challenges
our reason. If this be so, we think there is the
slighter cause to be disheartened at the vicissitudes
of the Patriots. When Colombia was contending
single-handed with Spain but a year or two ago,
she had as great perils to pass through as Peru
is now working off, and success crowned her
bravery and perseverance. The Peruvians ar•
much more fortunate ; they have not only the
natural inspiration of heroism and liberty to excite
them, but the interested alliance of neighbouring
provinces, who feel their own security partially
dependant upon the fate of Peru. In such a state
of affairs nothing need ultimately be apprehended.
—The intrigues and secret succours of the Holy
Alliance may for a short period oppose obsta-
cles to the entire liberation of that part of the
former possessions of Spain—but against this
should be placed the staring advantages of inde-
pendence and free trade, together with the
avowed friendship of the United States and
Great Britain. We may likewise mention in
conclusion, that the political and military cha-
racter of Bolivar is in itself a tower of strength.
lie has already conquered the freedom of his
own country, and established a fame as pure as
it is exalted. his operations in Peru are in reality
only directed to the protection and maintenance
of peace in Colombia ; nor can the most jealous
patriot of the former imagine that a hero who
has hitherto won and worn his laurels so glo-
iiously, would carry them into a strange country
merely to immortalize his own disgrace.

[BRITISH NIESS.II
The prompt attention given by the Irish Go-
vernment to the state of the distressed districts
in Galway, has been attended with the happiest
effects. The Commissary General, Mr. Lus-
con►be, has reported that the stock of provisions
on hand will be sufficient until the harvest; and
the last Irish Papers all agree in saying, that
within the memory of man there never was a
prospect of a more abundant harverst. Seven
or eight weeks of dry weather will satisfy the
most sanguine hopes of the corn growers, and
the potato crop promises an equal plenty. In
order to furnish immediate relief to the po-
pulation, instructions have been given to pro-
ceed with the execution of the public works in
the neighbourhood of Galway and in Cunnemara.
13y these means employment will be given to the
labouring poor in those districts. The peasantry
are represented as being filled with gratitude for
these marks of the benevolent consideration of
the Marquis Wellesley. Certainly they are
deeply indebted to his vigilance; for it appears
from the Commissary-General's inspection, that
the combined want of employment, and dearness
of provisions, would have produced dreadful ca-
lamities, if the attention of the Irish Government
had not been directed to the subject at the first
moment when the cries of distress were raised.

[MORNING glittoincr.t.)
Vessels were taken up yesterday on. account of
Government for six months certain ; and the
supposition is, that they are destined to carry the
Hanoverian troops, which Government intend
sending to Portugal. As the determination to
send these troops must have been taken in an
English Cabinet, and as they must in reality be
maintained by this country, because Portugal is'
without the means of paying them, we must
regard this as altogether an English measure.
Now we protest against this commencement of a
system of interference with the affairs of foreign
countries. We gave the Ministers credit for
principle when they declared against such inter.
ference when the Peninsula was invaded, and we
regret to find that these professions were in-
sincere, by their seizing the very first opportunity
of flying in the face of their declarations. What
have we to do with the internal affairs of Portugal
any more than with those of Spain, or with those of
South America ? What is it to us that Don Miguel
and the Queen have the ascendancy, or the King ?
If the Portuguese cannot a
ment, agree about a Govern-
s', by should we side with either party ?
Are we about to recommence the old policy of
conquering kingdoms, in order to trade with
them ?—to add another hundred millions to our
National Debt, for the sake of selling a hundred
thousand Pounds worth of Broad Cloths or Cot-
tons in the Tagus, in order to be forced to drink
bad wines at a high price, while we might have
good wines at a low price ?—it would actually
seem as if Ministers envied the mad triumph of
• the French in France, and wished by an act of
equal madness to keep them in countenance.

[MORNING MERALDd
Sunday's Paris Papers arrived last night. M.
de Villele seems to be engaged in a campaign
with the public Journals, more menacing to his
power than that of Spain. There appears really
some probability of his being written down,
though he has already pending some half dozen
prosecutions for offences of the Press. He is also
the object of some reprisals. One of the latter is
curious. This Minister's expedient of buying up
the property of the Journals, in order to destroy
their freedom, has been already mentioned. Au
Ultra Journal, called la Foudre, was among the
number so purchased. The Minister's first act,
as purchaser, was to suppress it altogether.
Now the vendor has taken proceedings on
the ground' that the purchase was not made
to destroy the Journal, but to maintain it in ex-
istence, and he claims ]oo,ooor. damages. There
is a second trial for the publication of Memoirs
respecting the Prisoner of St. Helena. A third
is for a blasphemous and seditious libel. A
fourth prosecution is (I,.:ainst an Advocate, for the
publication of a work intitied de adrigue duns
les Tisibitnaux (of intrigue at the Bar), which
is ChOrgea outraging • public morals, and
'Malting the, Judges. The fifth prosecu-
tion it against the Journal callell the
Courier Francais, for, its k 'fi a 0 4:4 d en
Which, if pronounced culpable, would,
sect it to suppression. The process there is
rather curious. 'tie Oublia Aeduier7lakei the
file of the Sournal, and .collectli aUcieoppares, all

suits his purpose, garbled extracts from it. There
are few Journals or other publications that could
not be subjected to condemation, according to
this mode. It is- a peculiarity iw these trials in
France that they are adjourned for a week,
sometimes for a fortnight, and may remain unde-
cided for several weeks. Among the allegations
of mischievous tendency urged by the public
prosecutor, have been praises of Carnot and
David (the painter), both of whom voted the
death of Louis XVI., and M. Manuel, late a
Deputy, together with some liberties taken with
the Spanish Curate, or bandit Merino. The trial
remained undecided. f t is clear that where such
a law exists there is no security for the freedom
or even the property of a public Journal.

[NEW TIMES.I
Yesterday a communication was made from
the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England to the
Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, that the
parties who had dissented from the reduction of
their Four per Cent. Stock might receive the
amount thereof immediately, on giving four days
notice, instead of being paid off in October next,
upon allowing a discount of four per cent. It is
expected that few persons will avail themselves
of this offer, at a time when money is so abun-
dant. Consols, after being at 940 closed at 94-4-1.
There were no expresses received from Paris,
and the business transacted was limited. The
expectod Loan to Buenos Ayres was brought
into the Market yesterday. Its amount is One
Million Sterling, bearing an Interest of Six per
Cent. per annum ; the price to the Public is 85,
and it is said to bear already a premium of Si: per
Cent. The amount at present in circulation is
small, and not sought after with that avidity
which lately prevailed, when the mania for spe-
culating in this description of Securities was at
the height. Messrs. Baring are stated to be only
Agents for the Contract. The other descriptions
of South American Securities continue dull upon
the Market. Colombian and Mexican Scrip
both at a discount ; the former of 3, the latter
of 1j per Cent.

ROYAL NAVY.

APPOINTMENTS.

CAPTAINC—WiIIiam Sandoin,tO the !Etna bomb; Lord
Byron, to the Blonde; Thomas Faye]] (Lieutenant command-
ing), to the Bramble cutter ; Philip Pipon, to the Britannia ;
Octavio, V. Vernon, to the Britomarte; John F. Studdert, to
the Champion ; lion. J. A. Maude, to the Dispatch; Lord
Napier, to the Diamond ; John M. Laws (Lieutenant com-
manding), to the Falmouth mortar vessel ; John 11PCausland
(Lieutenant commanding), to the Hamoaze mortar vessel;
Henry J. Lecke, to the Herald ; Robert 11. Barclay, to the In-
fernal bomb ; C. 11. Fremantle, to the Jasper sloop ; James
Scott, to the Meteor bomb ; Provo W. P. Wallis, to the Nie-
men ; Henry Litchfield, to the Orestes ; Thomas Pennington,
to the Pike ; Francis Feed, to the Pylades sloop ; William
Ilotham, to the Sappho sloop ; Charles Sotheby, to the Serin.
gapatarn ; (Jr. E. Hammond, C.B. to the Wellesley ; Charles
Church (Lieutenant commanding), to the Zephyr.
LIEUTENANTS.—Joseph Cammilleri, to the /Etna bomb;
John Fletcher, Albion ; Dur. de Sausmarez, Argos ; John
!Talkie, Astrea ; William Pedder, Bann ; Mich. W. Wroot
(Flag), Blanche ; Thomas Ball, Honourable W. Keith,
Robert F. Gambier, Hon: H. J. C. Talbot, Blonde ; James
W. Cairncs, Edw. Kelly, Oeo. Sayer, John M‘Causland, C.
Andros, Edm. Yonge, Phil. Gostling, W. C. Gerrard, Bri-
tannia; Henry E. A tkinson, F. Thackeray, Britomart ; H.
Layton, Bulwark ; E. It. Marley (act.), Bustard ; Robert
Campbell, Carnation ; Chas. Inglis, and Ed. H. Pace, Cham-
pion ; Joe. Fra. Forster, °Ca, G. Stewart, Wm. Molyneux,
.Dartmouth; Wm. Robertson (b.), 3. T. Warren, S. B. Pea-
cock, Ito. Beaumont, Diamond; Chas. Thurtell, Dispatch ;
Jos. B. Driflield, Doterel ; Samuel Holland, Joe. M. Wood,
Dover ; Thomas E. Hodder, Eden ; John Hathorn, Fly ;
Hon. T. Austin, Fury; Fred. Wood, Genoa ; Francis Hard-
ing, Griper; Sam. IL Whitcombe, Harrier; John Christie,
C. J. F. Newton, Infernal ; Thos. Stephenson, Isis; George
Read (b), Lively ; Geo. Windham, Maidstone; Edward C.
Ear/, Andrew Smith (h), !Meteor; Jas. li. IVliitelocke, W.
Dickey, Orestes ; And. Kennedy, Win. IL Molvneux, and
Thos. Cole (b), Niemen; C. H. Binstead, C. G. Lloyd, Owen
Glendower; Geo. Kennedy, Prince Regent; Joseph West,
Clots. George Butler, Pylades; Henry 0. Love, Pyramus ;
Charles Brand, W. 11. Routlege, John Conjuit, Joseph Roche,
Janie* Ing. Sulivan, Aaron Games, Thos. Phelps, Samuel IL
Daston, Peter White, Win. 11. Fabian, Joseph Reay, Arthur
T. Morley, Joseph F. Thompson, Wm. Flinn, John Hills,
Charles M. Chapman, John Coleman (a), Abraham White.-
head,. Fred. Phillips, Richard Jones (b.), Wm. Henry Brand,
Nath. Newenhani, Chits. Henry Seale, Henry Stroud, Red:
mond Moriarty, W. Syfrett, Wm. H. Brady, and Thos. 111.
Williams, Ramillies ; Hobert 11. Stanhope, Rose ; J. J. F.
Newell, and Cornw. Ricketts, Sappho ;
Wm. Johnstone, Sate.
litte; Lewis Davies, Wm. HHenderson,
. Wm. Worsfold, W.
Worsfold, Wm. Dickson (b), Seringapatrim ; Chr. Begot (act.)
Superb; Wm. 11. Kitchen, Terror; Wm. Cotesworth, and
Geo. Ilenslow, Thetis; Thos E. Hove (Flag), Victory; Wm.
11. Pierson, David Welch, Geo. Delme, John M. Laws, Chas.
H. Akerley, John D. Robinson, Wellesley; Henry Knolles,
Windsor Castle,

CHAPLAINS —Thomas Ferris, to the Blonde; Wm. Smith,
Dartmouth; Evan D3ViCS, Gloucester; John Murray, Wel.
leslcy. _ _

Pi/aims—Wm. Turner, to the "Etna: John Brown (a)
Blonde ; James Henderson, Britannia; Nicholas Drew, Ca-
meleon ; Wm. Thorn Champion ; Wm. Blair, Dartmouth ;
Andrew Inderwick, 'Diamond ; John Dennis (act.) Doris ;
John Shea, Herald; James Griffiths, Infernal; Wm. Gre-
gory, Meteor Alexander Penprase, Niemen ; James Tod
Lathy, Nimrod; Thomas Nisbett, Orestes; Robert L. Hor-
niman, Plytules; Wm. It. Chester, Sappho; Robert Scott, Se-
ringapatam Frau. Francillon, Wellesley.
Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, Inspecting Commander of
this Coast Guard, at Lymington, having been appointed to corn.
mond his Majesty's sloop jasper, Captain Watling, R.N. has
succeeded Captain Freemantle in that disfrict ; and the follow.
ing officers have also appointed Inspecting Commanders, from
the oth inst. :—Captains—Peake, R.N. to Gosport ; Boxer,
to Weymouth ; Pilkinghorne, to Fowey ; Wilson, to Grims.
by ; S. Sparshot, to Yarmouth ; Head, to Padstow ; Brig.
stocke, to Calbourne, Isle of Night; Pengelly, to Plymouth ;
Hillyar, to Marazion ; Oreville, to Burnham; Du Cane, to
Harwich ; Baugh, to Barnstaple ; and Babiugton, between
Yarmouth and Curnham.

SEATISIENTAL SUICIDE.—A young man, 21
in love with a young lady,
years of age, of a respectable`and opulent family,
was violently aged 17,
who was equally attached to him. Three even-
ings ago she left her home, and did not again re-
turn, and the morning before
yesterday there
were found on the Side of the floating bath, op-
posite the quay de la Megisserie, some jewels, a
shawl, a gown, a great coat, a pair of pantaloons,
and two umbrella.. A letter addressed to the
parents of these two unhappy young people was
lying aside of these various articles. They bade
a last adieu to their parents, who had opposed
their legitimate onion on account of their ex-
treme youth, and begged their forgiveness for the
sorrow their death' would indict on them. In
this letter they described the manner they meant
to destroy themselves. They were to tie them-
selves together with a cord, to which was fag-
tened a great stone, and throw themselves into
the Seine. They begged their parents, when
their bodies were found, to put them in the same
tomb, that they might he united in the other
world as they could not be in this. Search has
been made since the morning before yesterday
under the vessel, but es yet the bodies have not
been found. The parents of this unfortunate
couple went yesterday to the spot to obtain cor.
rect infOT mation.—Vournal des Debate, July 4.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 6.

HAMMERSMITH WORKHOUSE.
The Grand Jury for the County of Middlesex came into
Court and delivered a presentment, stating that they, in the dis
charge of their duty, had discovered that Thomas Finch, the
master of the Hammersmith Workhouse, used false weights
and measures in distributing the provisions to the poor in the
workhouse, and they therefore prayed that their Lordships
would take such measures in this respect as to them might
seem fit.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY—What measures do you wish the
Court to take ?

Foreman—My Lord, our object in making this presentment
is the protection of the poor generally against such practices.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY—NI, e can do nothing more than this—
if no person in the parish will come forward as prosecutor, we
will direct your presentment to be laid before the Attorney-
General, and he will institute a prosecution.

LIBEL-REAL JOHN BULL.
THE XING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE BISHOP OF

EXETER, V. PAVE.'" AND ROWLAND.
This was a criminal information, obtained on behalf of the
Bishop of Exeter, against the printer and proprietor of the
newspaper called the Real John Bull, for a libel reflecting on
his character. The article substantially imputed to the Bishop,
that he had prosecuted a clergyman In his diocese with great
severity, and had interfered to increase his sentence in the Ec-
clesiastical Court, for an immorality which was comparatively
venial in him as a bachelor, while the Bishop himself openly
paraded with a courtesan, by whom he had been instigated to
these measures. This calumny was also associated with ge-
neral insinuations against the clergy. The defendants suffered
judgment to go by default, and now appeared to receive sen-
tence.

On the part of the prosecution, no affidavit was now put in,
but the affidavit of the Bishop on which the rule was obtained
was read. After setting forth the libel, it entered at great
length, and with great minuteness, into the circumstances to
which it probably alluded. It stated that applications were
made to the Bishop by the parishioners of the Rev. Peter Per-
ring, rector of North 'Nish, in Devonshire, requesting his in-
terposition to procure the residence of the clergyman on his
benefice ; and that after making proper inquiries, he took steps
to enforce it. After this, he received a letter from a person
signing her name Isabella Blackburn, complaining of some
misconduct of this clergyman, but of which he took no notice.
After this, the woman called at his palace, but as soon as she
began to tell her business, which related to Mr. Perring, he re-
fused to listen to her, anti ordered her immediately to leave his
house. At a subsequent period he received a long letter front
this person, giving an account of a connection with Mr. Per.
ring, and complaining that he had left her in a state of extreme
distress. Upon this, he thought it right to inquire ; and hav-
ing reason to believe that the charge was in a great measure
true, directed proceedings to be instituted in the Ecclesiastical
Court of the diocese. Before this, he received a letter from Mr.
Perring, alleging that he had been inveigled and defrauded of
large sums of money by this woman, to which he returned a
dignified answer. The case was fairly heard, the Bishop
taking no part in the deliberations, and Air. Perring was sen-
tenced to be suspended for three years. To this transaction his
Lordship imputed the attack made upon him, which was wholly
false and groundless.
On the part of the defendants, two affidavits were read.—
Pavey, the printer, deposed, that he never saw the libel, which
was composed by others, and that he received a stipend of only
Ifis. weekly for his services. Rowland, the proprietor, deposed
that he never saw the libel till long after its appearance; that it
was inserted b 7 the editor, who had left his situation, and
whom he had since sought for in vain ; that lie had made every
possible exertion to discover the author, and had deposited the
original with the solicitor of the Bishop; that after the rule was
granted, he inserted in the paper a full acknowledgment of the
fidsehood of the scandal, and an expression of great regret for
having published it; and that he had, before the motion, parted
with all interest in the journal.
Mr. F. Pommel( anti Mr. M01;011443,1 addressed the Court
for the prosecution. If the calumny had been directed against
the Bishop merely, he would probably have passed over it in
silence ; but as the proceedings of a Court, and the character of
the clergy, had been attacked through him, he felt himself
hound to vindicate them from suspicion. This object he had
fully obtained, and was anxious that the defendants should
have the benefit of every topic which could be urged in mitiga-
tion, especially as he was satisfied that the contrition they had
vde r wasthe
teox expressed saiunteheorre, and t
were
stlat thestrenuous.s. exiciretioinias tdlpieeyrfohrmad med ade
duty with reluctance, and he trusted the Court would discharge
theirs with mercy.
The COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. A RRAHAM, for the
defendants, admitted that there was no foundation for the libel,
but urged the situation of the defendants, the regret they had
expressed, the course they had taken in suffering judgment by
default, the pecuniary loss they had sustained, and the humane
recommendation of the prosecutor, as grounds for reducing the
punishment which they were yet to suffer.
The J upo ES consulted for a few minutes, after which
Mr. Justice BAYLEY passed sentence. As the defendants
were not the authors of the libel, the Court did not visit them
with punishment for the malignity of its slander, but for the
gross negligence of which they had been guilty in allowing it
to appear under their sanction. The proprietor of a newspaper
was bound to take care, before lie sent it forth to the world,
that it contained nothing calculated to destroy the character
and wound the peace of others. In dila case there was reason
to suppose, that the party who had held himself forth to the
world as printer was not the real superintending printer, but
one who merely lent his name to give a colourable satisfaction
to the requisitions of the statute. The Court, adverting to the
circumstances of mitigation which their subsequent conduct
presented, did adjudge that Pavey should pay a fine of 101.,
and give security for good behaviour for three years, himself in
1001., and two sureties in &01. each, and that Rowland should
pay a fine of 100/., give security for his good behaviour, him.
self in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 8.
Mr. Justice GASTLEE took his seat this morning on the
Bench, as one of the Judges of this Court.

LADY sAvrouw, 7. HOUSTON, XXICCUTOR.
Mr. Sergeant T ADD Y moved for a rule to chew cause why
the judgment in this case should not be entered up against the
estate of the testator alone, and not in the usual form de boyar
testatori: et, si non, de propriit bolas. The Learned Sergeant
contended, that as the defendant bad only defended this action
as an executor, and had not pleaded falsely, he ought not to be
made personally liable for the costs of it.
The COURT, having inquired and found that the plaintiff'
intended to enter up judgment in the usual form, granted the
rule which the Learned Sergeant moved for.

CARLTON V. PORTER.
Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN moved for a rule to chew cause why
an annuity granted by the defendant in this case should not be
set aside, and the deeds be delivered up to be cancelled, on the
ground that part of the consideration money had been retained
when the annuity was granted. The Learned Sergeant said
that he made this motion upon an affidavit, which stated that
the consideration money, Mt., was to be paid for an annuity of
1051. When the transaction was about to be completed, Messrs.
Howard and Gibbs, who had negociated the annuity, claimed
of the defendant two sums of 90/. and of 501., on an account,
and for procuration money. These sums the defendant con-
senteil that they should retain, as he was greatly distressed for
money, and was afraid that if he made any objections to their
proposal, they would contrive to put an end to the transaction.
Under these circumstances_ he applied to the Court for relief
under the provisions of the Act of theScl George 111., which
rendered all such retentions illegal.--Rule granted.
'['he COURT rose at a quarter past twelve o'clock, in conse-
quence of having no business before it.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JULY 6.
The CHIEr &taw( tat this day at Ni:i Priu:. After se.
Feral undefended causes had been disposed of, the Jury were
sworn to assess damages in the following cause, in which judg.
meet bad been given against the defendant.

GILLINGHAM V. MYERS.
Mr. TAUNTON said, that the plaintiff in this cause,
Mary
Gillingham, was a maiden lady, of the age of eighty-seven,
and the defendant was an attorney of considerable practice.—
In the year 1814, the defendant prevailed upon the plaintiff to
sell out 1481, 14s. 9d. Old South Sea Stock for his accommoda-
tion ; he giving a bond that he would replace the stock on de.
mand, and in the mean time pay the dividends on the stock, as
they accrued to the plaintiff: A demand had been made upon
the defendant to replace the stock in May, 1816, with which
he had failed to comply. An action had m consequence been
brought, judgment had been given against the defendant, and
the Jury were now called upon to assess the damages which the
plaintiff'had sustained by the defendant's breach of the agree.
ment into which he had entered. The defendant had entered
no plea on the record, and it would therefore only be necessary
to prove the value of South Sea Stock in the market at the pre-
sent time ; for, on the authority of more cases than one which
were to be found in the books, the plaintiff was entitled to take
the price of stock at the time when the demand to replace it
was made, or at the time of trial. He would call a respectable
stock. broker, who, he bclived, would prove that the present
value of the quantity of stock which the defendant had bor-
rowed of the plainliff was 1411..55. W., and that the dividends
which had accrued upon the stock since 1814 to the present
time would amount to 421. Os. Id,, making a total of 1831.