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London, England, 1832-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1632.

The KING'S birthday has turned out to be a
eery Royal birthday indeed. It was in every
respect a GEORGE the Fourth birthday,—that
is to say, a mere matter of business and cold
official etiquette. The Alinisters, of course,
gave large dinner parties, and the Court trades-
men, equally as a matter of course, got up
something like an illumination ; the mail-coach
proprietors, too, gave their servants new liveries;
a few ships sported a few gay colours, a few
bells rung out a few merry peals, and a few
thick-and-thin Kingsmcn lavished some five or
six shillings on a small crown, with a W. un-
derneath it ; —but beyond these matter. of-course
testimonies of affection, we saw nothing that
could convey to a foreigner the notion that the
metropolis was busy celebrating the natal day
of the best of KINGS. We could have wished
that it had been otherwise ; but it is idle to con-
ceal or pervert the painful truth, when every one
who has eyes and ears, who is not totally deaf
and purblind, knows well that the rejoicings of
Yesterday were a dead failure, and could flatly
contradict us were we to assert for an instant that
they were not. Still though the confidence of
the people has received a shock ; and though
the name of" WILLIAM" is no longer what it was
hut three short weeks since, a spell to draw forth
all their %,armest affections, they must not forget
that their SOVEREIGN has made every possible
reparation in his power, and by promptly rein-
stating Earl GREY in office, proved that he is as
stanch a Reformer, and as anxious for his sub-
jects' welfare, as ever. These are facts that
should, and will, be remembered to his honour
When the apparent remissness of the moment is
forgotten. Had it not been for his MAJESTY'S
avowed predilections on the subject, the question
of Reform would never have attained its present
ascendancy over the thoughts and feelings o
three kingdoms. It would have been nipped in
the bud, blighted by the breath of the very first
fierce Tory wind that blew over it. Surely then,
the people (notwithstanding past untoward
events) owe a deep debt of gratitude to his NIA-
jEsTY, which they cannot too promptly or too
fully acknowledge.

The Duke of RICHMOND, so says the Ga-
zette, has been appointed to the list of militia
Aides-de-Camp to the KING. Really this is a
very odd appointment, and after the known sen-
timents of his Grace, as regards the creation of
Peers—the rock on which his colleagues in the
Cabinet split, and which was the sole occasion
of the late unprecedented excitement throughout
the country—is, to say the least of it, wholly
inexplicable.

We take it for granted that Sergeants TADDY
and MEREWETHER, the newly appointed At-
torney and Solicitor-General to her MAJESTY,
will have the good sense, the common decency,
to resign their offices, now that Earl GREY'S
Administration is again in office. Both these
Learned Gentlemen were appointed at a period
when it was highly probable that the coun-
try would be cursed with a military
Government, headed by the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON. Now that such a c3lamity is no
longer possible, they should instantly follow the
honorable example set them by their immediate
predecessors. Messrs. PEPYS and WILLIAMS
resigned because Earl GREY'S Administration
no longer held the reins of power ; Messrs.
TADDY and WILLIAMS should resign on
the same principle, because the Welling-
ton Administration, with which they were to
have been mixed up, is disposed of. This mat-
ter should not be let drop ; it is one that suggests
very serious reflections, and may hereafter be
quoted as a precedent.

German Papers contain a long article (which
has been extracted from the Allgemine Zeitung)
in justification of the recent conduct of Russia
towards Poland, as if such conduct were strictly
in accordance with the spirit of the declaration
made at the Congress of Vienna. This article
is throughout a mere piece of special pleading,
and though drawn up with much tact and inge-
nuity, will deceive no one. It smacks too
strongly of Russian imperial humbug.
VIENNA, MAY 18.--11j9
Royal Highness the Duke of
Reichstadt is appointed second Colonel in Prince Gustavus
infantry, and a considerable
promo-
Wasa's regiment of
tiou has i taken place n the army, by putting several Ge-
°erals and Staff Officers on half-pay. The news that the
Reglish Ministry bad been left in the minority in a debate

in the Reform Bill, and has in consiquenee resigned, Lae
,;lused a decline in our fonds.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.

VIENNA, MAY 15. MAY 16. MAI' 18.
Five per Cents... 88 3-5
Four per Cents... 77k
Bank Shares
The Emperor and Empress have thought fit to prolong
their stay at Graz ; it is not likely that there is any par-
ticular reason for this alteration, at least we are able to
affirm that the report of the appearance of the cholera at
Trieste, which some have assigned as a reason, is wholly
unfounded.

Private letters from Constantinople of the 25th April
say that the Divan seemed to be in great consternation,
in consequence of the latest news from the theatre of
war, and that after a grand meeting of the Divan
on the occasion, a division of the fleet, consisting of
forty sail, had been ordered to the coast of Syria.
This squadron has already sailed to the Darda-
nelles. The letters do not say in what this bad news
consisted; some think it is the fall of St. Jean d'Acre, as
is stated in a letter from Constantinople of April 26,
which we have before and which came by way of
Odessa: others suppose the unfavourable issue of battle.

The cholera seems to be nearly extinct at Prague ; on
the 10th of May there were only fifteen patients remaining.
The Gazette of Brunn states that the epidemic had en-
tirely ceased in Moravia and Silesia from May 5.
PRUSSIAN FRONTIERS, MAY 2.—(Sent for insertion.)
Under this head the extra supplement to the Allgerneine
Zeitung of May 22, contains a very long article to refute
various imputations on the conduct of Russia towards Po-
land, especially the assertion that Russia was and still is
bound, by the act of the Congress of Vienna, to give a
Constitution to Poland, whereas it in fact owed its Consti-
tution entirely to the magnanimity of the Emperor Alex-
ander, which was faithfully observed by his successor
till the revolution of 1830 changed all the existing rela-
tions. The first article of the act of Congress is of the
following tenor:—

" The Duchy of Warsaw, with the exception of the
provinces and districts otherwise disposed of in the follow-
ing articles, is united to the empire of Russia. It shall
be irrevocably attached to it by its Constitution ; to be
possessed by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,
his heirs and successors, in perpetuity. The Poles, the
respective subjects of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, shall
obtain a national representation and institutions regulated
according to the mode of political existence which each of
the Governments to which they belong shall think it ad-
vantageous and proper to grant them."
Where do we find any thing here of the granting of a
Constitution, and what can be inferred from these expres-
sions, but that it seemed advisable to give a greater con-
sistency to the political relations between Poland and
Russia, to blend them more together ? The Poles were
indebted to the Emperor Alexander, who, after many repre-
sentations and earnest entreaties of the Poles themselves,
made their interest his own, for the Constitution which
was received from his hand, with asseverations of boundless
and eternal gratitude. Neither France nor England con-
tributed to the grant of a Constitution to Poland, and it is
a perversion of the truth to ascribe to these Powers the
part of mediators on that occasion. Those persons may, in-
deed, deceive themselves who, in their blind zeal for Polish
independence, fancy they see such stipulations in the act
of the Congress of Vienna, and talk of the guarantee given
by the Powers to a Constitution which, at the time of the
Congress, was not dreamed of, and of course not mentioned,
and was not granted till eight months after the Congress
broke up. Had the Poles succeeded in their insurrection,
they would, doubtless, have laid no stress on a document
which is now appealed to with so much affectation. The
article then proceeds to show that though Russia might
justly have treated Poland as a conquered country,,it has
been so far from doing this, that in the new organic
statute the political relations of the kingdom
are placed precisely on the footing required by
the act of Congress for the Poles subject to Au-
stria and Prussia, namely, the political convenience
of their Government, as the last words of the article quoted
above expressly declare, and which cannot be charged
to the prejudice of Russia, because the Emperor Alexander
chose to give them a more liberal application than the
stipulations agreed upon required. The organic statute
fulfils, on every point, what this act of congress lays down,
which the Russian Cabinet makes no difficulty in observ-
ing, thou4h the Emperor was fully authorized to treat
Poland as a conquered country. Instead, therefore, of
pouring forth abuse on the views and sentiments of the
Emperor Nicholas, he ought to receive grateful acknow-
ledgrnents for not deviating from the path of moderation
which characterizes the whole system of his Government;
and in spite of the shameful ingratitude which he has ex-
perienced, proceeds calmly, according to the spirit of the
treaty, and conscientiously endeavours to fulfil the stipu-
pulations. Let their empty declamations cease, and parties
submit, who in their blind rage snatch at everything that
can flatter their hopes, and write at random, without know-
ledge of facts, to console themselves for their defeat,
and palliate their criminal enterprises.

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