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SPAIN.

(Extraordinary Gazette of Madrid, Aug. 6.)
(OFFICIAL.)
" Late Despatches received by the Minister of War from the
General in Chief of the Army of the North.
" Excellency—At six o'clock this morning I undertook a
chase (hgtic/a) throughout the high Amezcuas, forming to
that effect three columns ; that on the right, commanded by
General Espartero, explored as far as Gollano,_ where they
passed the night ; that on the centre, under my orders,marched
through the valley of Arana to Zudaire ; and the third, com-
manded by General Lorenzo, through Eulase to Baquedano.
" This operation caused three battalions which were in
ambush to retire to Arraza towards Lezaun ; and I learnt
afterwards that there were nine more of these battalions on the
rear of the last place to endeavour to surprise me in my march,
should I undertake it in that direction. All the Generals,
Chiefs, officers, and troops, which accompany me, acquit them-
selves to my satisfaction.
" Head-quarters of Zudaire, July 30, 1834, at twelve o'clock
in the night.
( Signed) " JOSE RAMON RODIL.
" To his Excellency the Minister of War."

IL
" I yesterday informed your Excellency that nine battalions
of the rebels laid in ambush at Artaza,-and in the neighbour-
ing mountains (Puertos) of Urra, Gallona, Baquedano, and
Zolaire. The news being confirmed I determined to leave them
unmolested in their positions, giving orders to the Generals
Lorenzo and Espartero that they might establish observations,
the former at Baquedano, and the latter at Artaza. This move-
ment had the effect of bringing. out of the ambushes double
forces at about eleven o'clock in the morning, in order to sur-
round those that formed the said observations ; and, from that
moment, more of the troops engaging from both sides, we Were
enabled to bring out the whole of the rebels, amounting to
5,000 men, commanded by Zumalacarreguy, which by only
2,500 under the orders of Espartero, were vanquished, cut to
pieces, and dispersed; this General being efficaciously pro-
tected in reserve by the first brigade, the first division directed
immediately by General Lorenzo, to whom I had given the
necessary orders, and which he fulfilled with his accustomed
punctuality. My dispositions had the object of preparing the
necessary measures,. not to lose sight of the enemy in their
flight through the woods, underwood, and precipices, under
cover of Which they effected their flight. I expect to follow
them to-morrow, in spite of the heavy rain which has fallen
ever since sunset, so that the troops engaged have not had
time to take their usual meals. I will forward to your Ex-
cellency the details of this brilliant action as soon as I have
gathered the necessary particulars ; and, in the meanwhile, I
must acquaint your Excellency that it reflects the highest
honour upon Gen. Espartero, acid the officers and troops under
him, who have fought with as much loyalty as bravery.
" General head-quarters at Artaza, 31st July, 1834, at 12
o'clock at night.

" JOSE RAMON RODIL.
To his Excellency the Minister of War."

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty left town about half-past seven o'clock on
Wednesday evening, for Windsor Castle, attended by Sir
Herbert Taylor.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the re-
sidence of Viscount Althorp. It was attended by the Lord
Chancellor, Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Earl of Mulgrave, Viscounts Althorp, Duncannon, and Pal-
merston ; Mr. Secretary Rice, Lord Auckland, the Right
Hon. Charles Grant, Lord Holland, Lord John Russell, and
the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, J. Abercromby, and Sir John
Hobhouse. The 'Ministers remained about an hour in delibe-
ration.
A Committee Meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council was held yesterday in the Council
Chamber. The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, and the
Secretary of State for the Home Department were present.
Prince Talleyrand visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at
the Foreign-office.
Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, transacted business yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
The Commander of the Forces visited Viscount Melbourne
yesterday.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN,

ARRIVALS.
Colonel Vernon Graham, t
a the lbio Hotel, Cocks pur-street,
from Edinburgh ; Edward Littledale,A Esq.,n at ditto, from Brighton
Rev. H. Daniel, at ditto, from Ramsgate.
DEPARTURES.
Drs. Harrison, Campbell, and Stoker, from the Albion Hotel,
Cockspur-street, for Dublin ; Rev. Mr. Carlisle, from ditto, for
Cheltenham ; Thomas Page, Esq., from ditto, for Ely, Cambridge-
shire ; Sir John and Lady Caroline Wrottesley, from George-street,
from Staffordshire ' • Earl and Countess of Grosvenor, from Gros-
venor-square, for Motcombe House, Dorset; Colonel Hamilton,
for the Continent ; Lady Macdonald, ditto ; Sir Charles and Lady
Blois, on a tour; Sir Lowry and Lady Frances Cole, from the
Royal hotel, Jermyn-street, on a tour ; Lord and Lady Suffield,
from Vernon House, for Gunton House, on a tour : Lord Grantley,
from Worsersh Park, for the grouse shooting season in Scotland ;
Mr. Stuart Wortley, for ditto; Viscount and Lady Lucy Clive,
from Upper Brook-street, for Yowls Castle, Shropshire ; Admiral
T ollemache, for
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d.
tatnod; Mrs. Whitbread,
ciNsVßhai trbirnega,dE,
sfqo.r,
ditto ; Sir Hugh and Lak Campbell, from Upper Grosvenor-
sfotrredetit„tofo.r ditto ;

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSAP S.

So many members have taken wing for the Moors, that there
were scarcely enough present yesterday to constitute a house, so
that after a trifling bet of 12 to 1 agst Bran, and another of 9 to 1
agst Shillelah, it was counted out, and adjourned till Monday next.
Mr. W. Edwards has sold his 3 yr. old -colt, Intrigue, to Sir
Thomas Stanley, for 600 guineas.

HUNTINGDON RACES, AUGUST 14.
The Huntingdon Stakes. Once round for a heat, the best of three
heats.
- Pollock named Sevillian

1 1

Mr. -
Mr. Caldicott's The Dwarf
Colonel Peel's Brother to Zone
The Members' Plate of 501 Once round for a heat, the best o)
three heats.
G. Edwards's Dirce
.

3 2

2 dr

1 1

Alr.
Air. Yates's Sensitive 2 2

PLYN/OUTH andDEVONPORT RACES, AUG. 13.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 50 added. Heats, once round.
Mr. Taunton's Coronet
Mr. W. Moore's. Spondee 2 2
A Gold Cup, value 100 guineas given by the King, heats, twice
round, was won in two heats by Mr. W. Ley's Lansdowne, beating
Mr. Wreford's Pounce, Mr. Hobson's,Cyclops, and Mr. Hayward's
Terror. No second placed in the second heat.
The Duke of Sussex's Plate of 501. Mile heats.
Mr. Taunton's Frederica
Mr. W. Lee's Partiality
Produce Stakes of 25 sous. each. 5 subs.
Mr. J. Taunton's b. c. by Sir Hildebrand received

LETVES RACES, AUGUST 14.
The Sussex Plate of 504 Heats, the New Course.
Mr. Dockeray's Trickery
Lord Exeter's Datura 2 2
The Ladies' Plate of 601., heats, one mile, was won easy in two
heats by Mr. Grant's Famine, beating Mr. Balchin's Levity, Mr.
Ricardo's Vestris, and two others.

818 URY CLUB, 1837.
StcoND DAY.—Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for 3-yrs.-
old. Nide and quarter.
Mr. W. Ley's br. c. by Camel—Pasta ; Mr. Shard's ch. f. by
Reveller—Morisca ' • Mr. Rawlinson's b. c. by Fungus—Ruby ;
'Mr. A. Berkeley's Grapeskin, by Chateau Margaux.

FORGED BANK NOTES ABROAD.-FOr Some
time past the French authorities have instituted the most
rigid inquiries, and adopted every means in their power to
check the circulation of forged Bank of England notes, which
has lately been carried on to a very serious extent in different
parts of the French territory. • Serious injury has in many cases
resulted to individuals who have been so unfortunate as to
take any of these notes. It is supposed that a portion of the
gang of villains known in London by the name of the " swell
mob," finding that, through the vigilance of the new police,
their ordinary plans of plunder were completely frustrated in
this country, have resorted to the expedient above alluded to—
viz., the passing of forged notes on the Continent ; and, as
they are all connected with fabricators of base coin and notes
of every description, they found no difficulty in obtaining good
impressions of forged notes, and which they succeeded, without
any trouble, in getting rid of at Calais, Boulogne, Havre,
Ostend, and other towns, and from thence they were soon
rapidly circulated into the interior of the French territory.
These notes have likewise been circulated in Holland and Bel-
glum ; and English travellers on the Continent should be
very careful in observing, if they take notes, whether they are
genuine or not.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, WFDNESDAY,
AUG.
continue to have a moderate demand for cot-
ton.bats To-day's sales are 2,000 bas Boweds, at Bd. to 91d. ;
Orleans, at Bd. to 10d. ; Mobiles, Bd. to ad. ; Ptrnams,
13d. ; Swats, 6-Id., and Egyptians at 16d. per lb.

LITERATURE.-

SIMPSON'S ANATOMY, Trolv. I. and 11.
LONDON, 1834.

We have read this woakarall..cow4derable attention,
and have seldom met with any pi:ofessedly:scientific
one, which displayed more patient, laborious investi-
gation, or imparted its results in a clearer, simpler, or
more unembarrassed manner. Mr. Simpson, the
author, has treated of the human figure with all the
taste and spirit of the artist, combined with the
" learned lore" of the anatomist. He seems to have a
laudable horror of dealing with eloquent generalities,
indulging us, instead, with the minutest, and most
copious details. From his researches, and the happy
faculty he possesses, of bringing out all his subject-
matter into broad daylight, his work will be an exceed-
ingly acceptable one to young artists, whose opportu-
nities of studying the anatomy or the male and female
figure may be limited, and who desire to meet with
the greatest amount of knowledge, packed up in the
smallest possible compass. Justly observes Mr. Simp-
son—" The author, to make this work the most useful
of its kind, has consulted the best anatomists, eminent
for their accuracy and skill. He has endeavOured,

throughout the whole, to avoid a too frequent use of
technical descriptions, which often give an idea of more
erudition than is really possessed by many writers ; at
the same time he has consulted every part of his
subject, which may impress the value and necessity
of the study. Great care has therefore been
taken, in selecting the drawings requisite, to eluci-
date the letter-press ; and the witole has been studi-
ously simplified, without being, it is hoped, thereby
rendered the less instructive and interesting." Simpli-
city is, indeed, the main characteristic of this book—
simplicity, not less of arrangement than of style, which

is one of the surest tests of a full, harmonious, well-
balanced intellect. In addition to his skilful analytical
details of the sites and uses of the various nerves,
bones, muscles, sinews, &c., which go to make up
that " wonder of the creation" the human form, Mr.
Simpson has given a variety of lithographic illustra-
tions, each of which is finished with a care and skill

at must be obvious even to an unpractised eye. In

his second volume, he confines himself exciusivelyto the
consideration of the " Human Muscles," and intro..
duces this branch of his subject with some pertinent
prefatory speculations on the amount of knowledge
that the ancient sculptors possessed of anatomy.
" Whether their figures," says Mr. Simpson, " be
colossal or reduced, the same admirable proportions
exist, in all the varieties of form and position. The
powers of imitation, however great, could not have
accomplished this." Assuredly not. It is only neces-
sary to inspect the Apollo Belvidere and the Farnese
Hercules, to perceive at a glance, that those who
achieved these triumphs of art, were at least as emi-
nent for their anatomical knowledge, as they were for
consummate taste, and powers of conception.

THE LAW MAGAZINE FOR AUGUST, 1834.
SAUNDERS AND BENNING.
A Law Magazine holds out few attractions to the
public, upon the same principle that, however willing
people may be to avail themselves of the surgeon's aid
when needed, they seldom show much inclination to
pry into the unsavoury mysteries of the dissecting
room. The legal editor seems by some means to have
arrived at a consciousness of this fact, and has accord-
ingly flung out two tempting baits for the general
reader in the shape of an article on the " Life of Lord
Keeper Coventry," drawn from a Sloane manuscript in
the British Museum, and in a yet more interesting
notice of the " Forensic Eloquence of America."
The life of Lord Coventry presents a notable in-
stance of a prudent, selfish man, who upon all occa-
sions makes his interest his sole rule of conduct, never
by any accident is betrayed into a good action to his
own disadvantage, and creeps at last into the grave
with the reputation of a better man. Even his mar-
riages, for he was twice married, show more of the
speculator than the lover. First he contrived to ally
himself with a wealthy Worcestershire family, marry-
ing Sarah, the sister of Sir Edward Sebright, of Bes-
ford in that county, and, upon her death he wooed
and won the widow of a rich citizen. It may be pre-
sumed the wealth, thus acquired, assisted him in his
promotion through the several offices of Recorder,
Solicitor-General, and Lord Keeper, all of which he
obtained with more than usual rapidity.
As a matter of course Clarendon has eulogized so
staunch a friend to royalty, and his opinion has been
reechoed in the present day without inquiry, though
it is perfectly notorious that the Koran would be almost
as good evidence for any fact as -the history of the
turncoat Chancellor. We have only to keep our eyes
steadily fixed on certain undenied and undeniable
points in Lord Coventry's life to enable us to determine
safely on the character of the man ; he concurred in
the brutal sentence pronounced by his brethren of the
Star-Chamber against Prynne, Bastwick, and Burton,
for libels on the hierarchy, in 1637 ; he was a party to
the iniquitous decision against Colonel Lilburne in the
same court ; be was one of those who imposed a fine
of 10,0001. upon his predecessor, Bishop Williams,
with scarcely the shadow of a pretext, and then drivelled
out a maudlin song of sorrow, which only serves to
prove that he abetted injustice with a full conscious-
, ness of the wrong, and that he wanted firmness to be
honest, with peril to his own narrow selfish interests.
He too it was that delivered those memorable speeches
of the absurd tyrant, Charles, wherein he tells the
Commons,—

" If we consider aright, and think of that incomparable dis
tance between the supreme height and mljcsty of a mighty
Monarch, and the submissive awe and lowliness of loyal sub
jects, we cannot but receive exceeding comfort and content-
ment in the frame and constitution of this highest court,
wherein not only the prelates, nobles, and grandees, but the
commoners of all degrees, have their part ; and wherein that
high majesty doth descend to admit, or rather to invite, the
humblest of his subjects to conference and counsel with him of
the great, weighty, and difficult affairs of the king and king-
dom." And again, " This way" (of a parliamentary supply),
said he, " as his Majesty hath told you, he hath chosen, not
as the only way, but as most agreeable to the goodness of his
own most gracious disposition, and to the desire and weal of
his people. If this be deferred, necessity and the sword of
the enemy will make way for the others. Remember his Ma-
jesty's admonition ; I say, remember it I And so
resolve of your supplies that they maybe timely and suffi-
cient, sorting the occasion ; your counsel, your aid, all are but
lost, if your aid be too little or too late ; and his Majesty is
resolved that his affairs cannot permit him to expect it over
long."—P. 41.
The essay on " The Forensic Eloquence of Ame
rica," is not quite so comprehensive as its title wou
seem to imply, being confined solely to Mr. Webster,
who, however, is reputed the most eloquent and the
most talented of the American pleaders. It is written
in a spirit of liberal and even kindly feeling, which, we
regret to say, is exceedingly rare in the authors of either
country when writing of the other. With us it sel-
dom happens that those who are eminent at the bar
can maintain their reputation in the senate, a plain
proof that there must be some material difference in the
requisites for political and forensic oratory, as prac-
tised in Westminster and St. Stephens. However
this may be with the Americans, Mr. Webster is as
celebrated in Congress as in the courts ; and, from the
specimens cited by the reviewer, it must be allowed
that. his eulogists have not gone beyond his merits.
Extracts, and those of necessity brief, will hardly do
justice to his powers, but even in these the attentive
and discriminating reader will easily perceive the pre-
sence of no ordinary talent. We shall begin with
gleaning from a speech made by him in a case of mur-

der, wherein he was retained by the Governinent
against the prisoners
" The assassin enters through the window, already prepared,
into an unoccupied apartment ; with no:seless foot he paces the
lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent
of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber ; cf this he
moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on
its hinges, and he enters and beholds his victim before him.
The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light.
The face of the innocent steeper was turned from the mur-
derer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks
of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The
fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle
or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death
It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work, and he yet plies
the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed
by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm,
that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it
again over the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture,
he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains
that it beats no longer I It is accomplished. The deed is
done. He retreats, retraces his stops to the window, passes
out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the
murder—no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The
secret is his own, and it is safe !
Ah gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a
secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has
neither nook nor corner, where the guilty can bestow it, and
say it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which glances through
all disguises, and beholds every thing as in the splendour of
noon,—such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection,
even by men—the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It
is false to itself ; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of
conscience to be true to itself. It labours under its guilty
possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human
heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It
finds itself preyed on by a torment, which it does not acknow-
ledge to God nor man. A vulture is devouring it, and it can
ask no sympathy or assistance, either from heaven or earth.
The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to pos-
sess him ; and, like the evil spirit of which we read, it over-
comes him, and leads him, whithersoever it will. He feels it
beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding dis-
closure. * * * * It must be confessed, it will be con-
fessed, there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and sui-
cide is confession."—P. 113.

Surely this striking picture of crime and of its
consequences, is the work of a consummate artist.
Not less beautiful, though as different in its style as
in its subject, is the following fragment, that displays
the tremendous powers of machinery, till we almost
fancy we hear and see the motion of a thousand wheels
and levers, revolving, rolling, whizzing—more akin
to the mighty and mysterious agency of the volcano,
than the action of a living thing :

" Machinery is made to perform what has formerly been the
toil of human hands, to an extent that astonishes the most san-
guine, with a degree of power to which no number of human
arms is equal, and with such precision and exactness as almost
to suggest the notion of reason and intelligence in the ma-
chines themselves. Every natural agent is put unrelentingly
to the task. The winds work, the waters work, the elasticity
of metals works ; gravity is solicited into a thousand new forms
of action ; levers are multiplied upon levers ; wheels revolve
on the peripheries of other wheels ; the saw and the plane
are tortured into an accommodation to new uses, and last of
all, with inimitable power, and with whirlwind sound,' comes
the potent agency of steam. In comparison with the past,
what centuries of improvement has this single agent comprised
in the short compass of fifty years ! Everywhere practicable,
everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger
than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capa-
ble of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to
Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the sem,
and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant
ship

.‘ Against the wind, against the tide,
S:i11 steadies, with an upright keel."
It is on the rivers, and the boatman may repose on his
oars ; it is in highways, and begins to exert itself along the
courses of land conveyance; it is at the bottom of mines, a
thousand feet below the earth's surface ; it is in the mill, and
in the workshops of the trades. It rows, it pumps, it excavates,
it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it
prints. It seems to say to men, at least to the class of artizans,
Leave off your manual labour, give over your bodily toil ;
bestow but your skill and reason to the directing of my power,
and I will bear the toil, with no muscle to grow weary, no
nerve to relax, no breast to feel faintness.' What further im-
provements may still be made in the use of this astonishing
power, it is impossible to know, and it were vain to conjecture.
What we do know is, that it has most essentially altered the
face of affairs, and that no visible limit yet appears beyond
which its progress is seen to be impossible. If its power were
now to be annihilated, if we were to miss it on the water, and
in the mills, it would seem as if we were going back to rude
ages."— P. 15 I .
Mr. Webster is, as every sensible manAnust be, a
warm advocate for general education ; he justly main-
tains that it is the bounden duty of every Government
to provide for the instruction of all its youth, and
declares that a tax for this purpose should be equally
levied on those who have, and those who have not
children. Unquestionably he is right, for as 'every
individual receives his portion of the benefit accruing
from the good order of society, so every one should
contribute his quota to the maintenance of whatever
most promotes it. All are equally concerned that the
public, of which they form a part, should be sober,
virtuous, honest, and industrious ; and does not know-
ledge tend, more than any other cause, to these desir-
able effects ? Is not education, what Webster so hap-
pily terms it, a wise and liberal system of police, by
which property, and life, and the peace of society are
secured ? There are some, indeed, so false to their
own better knowledge, or so besotted by their preju-
dices, as to maintain that education produces discon-
tent—but discontent with what ? Not with law, but
with oppression,—not with labour, but with famine,
or, what is worse than absolute starvation, with that
last degree of poverty, which only supplies the means
of suffering, and tantalizes with existence. Nothing
can be more essentially absurd, both in theory and
practice, than the doctrine that the peasant will be less
a peasant because the leisure hours of his boyhood
have been spent in a free school,—as if writing and
reading were a sort of black art magic, which must of
necessity raise up in the human breast the fiend of
revolution. Ignorance is only another name for bondage.
In Article 111., and it is the last we have space to
notice, is a clever piece of special pleading, the object
of which is to 'show that the Judges should decide-
upon the law, and the Jury upon the fact. The best, in-
deed the only, excuse the author can find for this is the
Jury's utter ignorance of law ; and yet the same plea
would by no means avail a man, who should offend
against the enormous mass of our statutes. Ignorance of
the law excuses no offence against the law, though, ac-
cording to this doctrine, it is a very sufficient cause for
stripping a Jury of one half of its power. Surely, if
the law chooses to suppose a man's knowledge in the
one case, it is equally bound to do so in the other ; it
cannot with any show of justice presume the same in-
dividual ignorant as a juryman, and enlightened the
moment he quits the jury-box. But law is the perfec-
tion of human reason ; and, with this undeniable
maxim, we leave the matter for the present, wishing
only that some kind hand would realize the fable of the
Sybil's books with our statutes ; to burn three-fourths
of our laws would considerably enhance the value of the
remainder, besides that it would leave an open space
for the ingenuity of the Lords and Commons, who
Ere so busily employed every session in heaping
Pelion upon Ossa, to the infinite dismay and prejudice
• of his Majesty's good and faithful subjects.
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Some of our readers will recollect the disturbances
which took place at Oldham in April last, at the instigation
of the Trades' Union. Mr. Thompson, the proprietor of
Bankside mill, which the rioters wantonly destroyed, very nar-
rowly escaped with his life on that occasion. The particulars
have never been narrated, but the present occurrences at Derby
render them of greater interest, as tending to show the feel-
ings by which the " Unions" are actuated. Mr. Thompson,
on the morning after his mill had been destroyed, was walking
from the back door of his house to another part of the pre-
mises, when he was alarmed by a sudden cry
en. from
He his wife,
who pointed at a hedge on one side of the gard looked
towards it, and there saw a man taking steady aim at him with
a pistol. He crouched down and escaped unhurt, but had it
not been for the alarm given by his wife he must have lost his
life. In the alarm and confusion consequent upon such an
occurrence the villain effected his escape. There appears no
doubt but that this wretch was hired for the purpose of assas-
sinating Mr. Thompson, as he was recognized by that gentle-
man to be one of the union men.—Morning Paper.
Accounts have been received from Persia, which
state that the son of the late Prince Royal, Abbas Mirza, is
adopted as the successor of his grandfather, the reigning
monarch. This settlement is deemed favourable to the best
interests of Persia as well as of England, especially as in-
trigues existed, to prefer another Prince of the: family, with
whom the case might have been otherwise.