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London, England, 1832-03-22 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22. 1832.

At half-past one o'clock this day, his MAJESTY,
accompar.ied by Sir ANDREW BARNARD, ar-
rived in an open carriage and four, at St.
James's Palace. A party of the 9th Lancers
escorted his MAJESTY from Hounslow to town.
Shortly after his arrival, the KING held a Court and
Levee. There was no Privy Council held to day.
A

.t one o'clock this clay, upwards of two
hundred of the Members of the House of Com-
mons, friends of the Reform Bill, had a con-
ference with the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, at the Foreign-office, upon that im-
portant measure. The meeting broke up at
two o'clock. We were unable to learn what
transpired at the meeting.

We direct our readers' attention to the va-
rious comments made by the French Journalists
on the Duke of WELLINGTON'S

recen
The

strictures on \I. C. PERIER'S speech.
are very amusing if only from the contradictory
nature of their observations. Le Temps is the
most pithy and sneering.

,russels papers, which will be found in ano-
ther column, state—" It is affirmed that Lord
PA LMERSToN and Prince TALLEYRAND, tired
of the delays in concluding the affairs of Belgium,
have declared to the Ambassadors of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria, that if the ratification both
of the Treaty of Nov. 15, and that relative to
the fortresses have not arrived by March 31,
France and England will retire from
the Confer-
ence, which would this day be dissolved."

errnati Papers contain some miscellaneous in-
telligence of no great moment. They draw a la.
mentable picture of the present state of Poland,
whose spirit, just now, seems dead, without hope
of resurrection. From the frontiers of Hungar
vvc learn, that General y
Assemblies of the States
are becoming more frequent than ever in that
principality, at which the chief topics of delibe-
ration are the matters to be laid before the en-
suing Diet, which will shortly be held at Pres-

burg, and at which the most liberal measure:
are to be proposed, as the Nobility have pro-
fessed themselves ready to make all due sacrifice:
for the amelioration of their country. Account
from Warsaw mention that a Dr. LEO has ascer-
tained, by irrefragable facts, that the cholera did
not break out last year in consequence of tbt
communication between the Russian and Polisl,
troops, but was produced by atmospheric and
telluric influences. This new assertion may per-
haps interest some of our cholera quidnuncs at
the present crisis.

The statement which the late banking firm of.
Sir GEORGE DUCKETT, and Co., intend to lay
before their auditors to-morrow, at the Thatched
House Tavern, is simply as follows :—That the
demands upon the house amount to 200,000/.,
and the assets amount to only 100,000/. ;
but that the partners have private property to the
extent of 200,0001., of which so much will be
available to the creditors, that, upon the settle-
ment of the affairs, it is hoped, after paying
twenty shillings in the pound, there will be a sur-
plus of 60,0001. in favour of the bankruptcy.

A witty foreigner, whose sarcastic vein gave
frequent offence in our higher circles, and par-
ticularly to our ministerial and diplomatic
coteries, was once heard to say, " whenever an
Englishman talks to me of the Constitution, I
infer, either that he is a rogue or fool, or that
he calculates upon my being both." We are
more inclined to concur with an eminent writer
of our own country, who boldly declared, what
would be self-evident, if our people were not
educated, upon calculation, in prejudices—that
the English have no Constitution whatever. If,

says this acute writer, in America, or in any
States of the Union, a dispute arise whether a
point be Constitutional, the Constitution of the
United Government, or of the particular state is
produced and read, and the dispute is at once
settled and drops for ever. Where is there an
Englishman that can produce his Constitution—
that ever saw the document, or could settle any
point, however important or trivial, by a refer-
ence to a single passage of it ? Mr. PITT and
Mr. FOX—equally referred to the Constitution.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and Mr. CANNING
always appealed to the Constitution ; Mr. HUNT
and Lord LONDONDERRY, Lord ABERDEEN
and Mr. COBBETT, Lord HARROWBY and
Parson TAYLOR, CARLISLE and Lords
WHARNCLIFE and EL L ENBOROUGII equally
support their doctrines by their veneration of
the Constitution. The exalted and magnificent
views of Fox, the official dexterities and chica-
neries of PlTT—the bureau trickeries of old
GEORGE RosE, and his whole tribe now in
Parliament—the Divan-plausibilities of PEEL,
and the Radical doctrines of HUME, are all re-
ferred to the Constitution. The principles of
these people and their practices are not more
opposite than the writings of PAINE are to
Holy Writ, and yet they all proceed from the
same source, and are urged from motives of
veneration for the same origin. If such a
kaleidoscope Constitution did exist—a charter
which the Boroughinonger and the Revolu-
tionist could always plead as their warrant for
their insane doctrines and equally criminal
practices—it would behove every Englishman to
consign it to the flames. An author wittily ob-
serves, " we have all heard the cry of glorious Con-
stitution, of the Immortal Memory, of the Beloved

Sovereign, of the Father of his People, of. the Wis-
dom of our Ancestors, but no man ever yet heard
the cry of stinking-fish." A few generalized ele-
ments, and principles perpetually disputed and
never settled, have been wrought by hirelings
into a theory called a Constitution. 'Were
these elements and general principles acceded to,
they would not be sufficient to form the tithe of
a Constitution ; but from the chaos or rather
the putrefaction of such elements have evaporated
a theory or Constitution more absurd than ever
emanated from the inflamed brain of a raving
lunatic. These are the principles, however,
in the love of which our countrymen are
reared, and which so many of them, from the
effect of education, hold to be sacred. Pro-
bably the most absurd of all these is the doc-
trine that men can be born legislators, statesmen,
councillors, and practical laliyers, even in those
extreme cases of difficulty which have puzzled the
most wily, professional men. By our Constitu-

tion, Lord ELDON is a supreme general, and
the Duke of WELLINGTON a cunning lawyer ;
Lord BEXLEY is a lay and clerical legislator ;
Lords LONDONDERRY, HARROWBY, WHA RN.
CLIFFE, WINCIIELSEA, and the Duke Of NEW-
CASTLE, are generals, admirals, legislators,

judges, politicians, and privy councillors,—and
all of them arc honest men. There is no great
harm in all this, but the joke is, that the sons
of these men, the nati natorum et qui nascen-
tur ab illis—their descendants to the end of

time, according to our Constitution, are to in-
herit all of these qualifications, and by them are
to control the minds, persons, and purses of the
English people. We ridicule the poor Hindoos
and Chinese for making all trades, professions,
ranks, and callings, hereditary, and we trace our
supremacy in India to this radical vice in their
notions. How justly may the Hindoos retort
upon us our turpitude in establishing the Con-
stitutional prescription of hereditary virtue and
wisdom in one particular caste,—the caste which
is to swallow all the rest ! The theory of the
Constitution never has been, and never could

be, acted upon for one year. We intend to
pursue the subject, in order to show that the
people of England have a right to expect from
Lord GREY a creation of Peers, or to hold him
responsible for the blood that may be shed, and
the destruction of property which will ensue,
from his Bill being thrown out of the Lords,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, MARCH 20 AND N.W., moderate.
—Arrived and remain the Lady Melville, Clifford, from
China; Seppings, Freeman, from Ceylon ; Atlas, Hunt,
from /1111166ns ; and Vesper, Brown, from Bombay.
Arrived from the river and remains the Red Rover, Chrys-
tie, for New South Wales. Sailed his Majesty's ship
Talavera.
PORTSMOUTH, 3IARCH 20 AND 2l.—Wind N.W.—
Arrived the Recovery transport, from Barbadoes, St. Lucia,
St. Kitt's, and Tortola. Passed the Dunregan Castle,
Duff, from Mauritius. Sailed the Abercrombie Robinson,
Innes, from Bombay and China.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 19AND20.—.Wind W. to W.N.W.
fresh gales and squally.—Arrived the Rocket, Slotten,
from Bordeaux. . .

......
acATE, MARCH 21.—Arrived off port the Palam-
ban, Wells, from New South Wales; and Nassau, Tre-
maine, from Lisbon.
HOLYHEAD, MARCH 20.—Arrived the Nandi,
from Bengal.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Athalia, from
Youghal.
DOVER, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Liverpool. Ross,
from Cette, with loss of rudder, anchor, and cable, and
very leaky, having been assisted off the Goodwin Sands.
Arrived off port the Grotius, from Matanzas.
COWES, MARCH 21.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Moore,
from Rio Janeiro; Ganges, Leach, and Seine, Gardnir,
from Charleston.

The Valente, Oliviera, from Lisbon to Liverpool, was
taken the 14th ult. by the Reinhade Portugal, Admiral
Sartorius, and carried into St. Michael's.
The lonia, Buck, from Mauritius to Sydney, was
wrecked in Bass Straits in August; crew and passengers
saved.

The Penelope, Bent, from Alexandria to Liverpool, was
totally lost on Hoyle Bank on Tuesday; crew saved.
The Belem Castle, Dennis, from Lisbon, was driven on
shore near Hoyle Lake, on Tuesday night, during a heauy
gale from N.W. ; crew saved, and cargo discharging in a
damaged state.
The Wemys, Wylie, from Limerick to Glasgow, was
totally wrecked near Ayr the 19th instant ; crew saved.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Montreal Papers to the 2-Ith Feb., Quebec to the .21st,
and Van Dieman's Land to the 29th September, have been
received at the North and South American Coffee4ouse.

(From the Montreal Papers.)
" We give the able speed► of Lord Goderich, which,
though transmitted some time ago to the Assembly by
Lord Aylmer, Las not been given by any of the English
Papers at Quebec. The views taken by Lord Goderich
on this question are clear and statesman-like, and, in our
opinion, he very ably proves the position with which he
sets out,—that a system of sale in the disposal of Crown
Lands is that best calculated to advance the real interest
of a new country like Canala.

" We hear that the Bill introduced in our Legislature
for the reduction of duty on tobacco by inland convey-
ance has been lost in the Council, and that the Bill regu-
lating the duty on tobacco brought in by sea will be re-
served."

(From the Quebec Papers.)
" His Excellency's message relating to the tax on
emigrants. In obedience to the instructions of his Majesty's
Government, received yesterday, the Governor-in Chief
recommends to the House of Assembly, the expediency of
imposing a tax, payable by masters of vessels bringing
emigrants from the United Kingdom, for the purpose of
creating a fund for the medic& care of those emigrants."
(From the Van Coleman's Land Papers )

" SYDNEY.-The Governor is recalled. Letters from
a first house in London, mention this as positive. We
shall not trouble our readers with congratulations on these
happy tidings, we shall only s iy, that on the night of the
Governor's departure, the Sydney Afoniteur office will be
illuminated."

Accounts from Calcutta to the end of October, via
America, received this morning, state that the Calcutta
money market has been greatly relieved by the payment
of the Five per Cent. Loan of 1823. The assignees of
Palmer and Co. will also on the 23d of October, have
paid 10 per cent. of the enormous claims upon that estate,
and the rate of interest is declining. Trade has been ex-
ceedingly dull throughout the year.
The following was posted at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee.house

Pot TsmouTtir, MARcit Wt., beg to inform you,
for the information of parties interested, that all vessels
calling at this port from London (without sickness on
board) can procure clean bills of health without the least
detention."

The fop owing was received by the French mail this
morning from Paris :—'• The greatest activity prevails in
the Corps Diplomatique here, and this vigour at present is
of the greatest importance, inasmuch as the Tory party ap-
pear disposed to attack violently the Ministry of Lord Grey,
as one may judge that such is the case from the little
which we learn to-day of the motion of the Duke of Wel-
lington in reference to the speech of M. Perier." Cer-
tainly there is a want of truth in the accusation of a spirit
of conquest in the Ministry of the 13th of March.
The British aristocracy wishes to cause a hatred against
us by the English people. It is assured, that after a Coun-
cil held by the Ministers, which lasted three hours, it was
decided to disband the National Guards of Grenoble, and
that the 35th regiment has orders to enter that town.