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London, England, 1821-11-10 00:00:00

stance, extendea the right 'to a point which Mayl
admit of disputation. An hundred miles of open
ocean is a too liberal breadth of Admiralty juris-
diction, and interferes with that " right to navi-
" gate and fish in the open sea which is common
" to all men ;" the " exclusion from which
" is a national injury to every people against
" whom it may be enforced." We hear of
Venice having claimed the sovereignty of the
Adriatic, and England, to certain intents and
purposes, that of the close seas which surround
her ; but not so as to exclude the right of navi-
gating within 100 miles of her coast. Here,
moreover, is a claim, not to mere dominion, but
to absolute property in the particularized space
lof ocean—a claim which is of a much higher
nature than the former one. Russia may un-
doubtedly acquire such a right by treaty with an
individual power, as against its ships and subjects;
but in the meantime it would be satisfactory if she
were to state the principles on which she assumes it,
antecedently to any formal compact—before she
proceeds to confiscate the property of friendly
nations who-have not prohibited Russian subjects
from navigating within a tenth part of the dis-
Itance of any of their possessions. It is curious
that the promulgation of an act of such mag-
nificent sovereignty shOuld be to half the world
almost their first acqaintance with the nature
of the views entertained by Russia, and with
the value she attaches to her commercial inte-
rests in a quarter of the globe of which she
derives her most accurate (though not her
earliest) knowledge, from the, spirit and ability
of British seamen. While Russia is thus advanc-
ing- her maritime pretensions in a remote corner
of the world, she discovers no want of diligent
observation in what regards the commerce of a
more interesting portion of its inhabitants. The
Petersburgh Gazette contains an article on the
carrying trade of the Mediterranean, and the
successful and growing activity of the Greek
navigators, which does not appear to have slipped
by accident into that official paper. "In spite,"
it is said, " of all the restrictions established at
" Malta, and in the lonian Isles, to the preju-
" dice of their flag, the Greeks are almost ex-
" elusively the carriers to the ports of Turkey,
" Barbary, and the Black Sea." When the
" Gazette writer proceeds to assert, that it is in
the ports of " the Christian States" that the
Greek nation " has learned to appreciate li-
" berty," some difficulty may arise in fixing
on those ports which have been her best schools
of exhortation and instruction. There is a tone
of patronage about the article, which will not
escape the attention of observant politicians.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 9.

IX THE MATTER OF HOWARD AND GIBBS, BANKRUPTS.

Mr. HART called the attention of his Lordship to the petition
in this case, for the removal of the Assignees. His Lordship
might recollect that he had directed the petition to be heard be-
fore his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, who had appointed this
day for that purpose. Since the case was last mentioned in
Court, the petitioners had filed several new affidavits, which his
clients, the creditors who had succeeded in choosing the assig-
nees, had not bad time to answer. Under these circumstances,
therefore, it was his Intention to ask his Honour the Vice-
Chancellor to allow the hearing of the petition to be postponed
to some future day. But his chief object in addressing his
Lord Ship on the present occasion, was to obtain his permission
to make an application to the Vice-Chancellor that his Honour
would permit the commission to be worked until the question
on the petition should be decided. If this were not allowed, the
effect upon the estate of the bankrupts would he highly. inju-
rious ; and if, on the other hand,, it were allowed, no mischief
could arise froin it, as the Assignees would make over their ac-
counts to their successors.
The Loan CHANCELLOR said that Mr. Hart was at li-
berty to make What application lie pleased to the Vice-Chan-
cellor.