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London, England, 1810-06-23 00:00:00

then the Belt, to the Southward. Some of the
Litter afterwards reuirned 44-d occupied their fol.-

mer•station.

7.—On-the 29th the pasi:;ge of the 'Sound
was So far shut, that travellers were permitted to
come on shore, but none of them to return. Our
fey rymen. from. Elsineur were not permitted to land,
but an Adjutant, sent from crcgtenburg, was per-
mitted to pass and. repass,-,The Chamberlain
EYER, who Caine on the morning of the g9th troni
Sweden to Elsineur, went immediately to Cc)pen
hagen, and returned in, the evening when he re-
passed the Sound.

In the night of the 30th; a French and Swedish
Courier passed the SOund at Elsineur. 'On the:3:t4t
of May the Sound was quite tree again.

We this morning received American Papers, but
they are not of so late a date as those which reached
us last week. We have alk, received Canada' and
Nova Scotia Papers, but they contain no news.

In addition to our interesting communication of
yesterday respe6ting the Gnat:oS, we understand
that a vast body of people had;on the- tgt h of April,:
seized all the Officers appointed, by tile .former
vern mene of Spain, forced them on boarda ship, and
ordered them to be as it•was.suppused,'to
Cuba. The RevoltitiOn .was ifteaed withotit
hostile conflia, and seems to be the entire efteCt of
the popular. will,

The Committee of 'air rHANCIS -BURDETT liave*-7
thought it necessary to publish 'an apOlogy -, for his
conduct on Thursday, but it' is one which is not, very..
likely to prove,satisfaetory either to hisadmirers or,
to his opponents, It would give as ,great pleasure it.
Sir FRANCIS'S camtud upon that'occaitin had.been
•
such as would enable us to speak of it id terms of.
apprnbation,;.,but we.befieve that his greatest friends
will find it difficult to state any one ground upon •
which it'can be justified. Messrs. NICHOLSON and
PowELL, who have published this apology fot Sir
FRANCIS, state, that he told them that his enemies
had charged him with the blood which had been
shed on a .former occasion, and that if, by gratifying.
his personal vanity, he.hatt been the cause of a sin-
gle accident, or caused the death of any person, he
should have refloated upon it with pain for the re.;
mainder of his life. If this had been the real mo-
tive which induced Sir. FLIANCIS to decline a public
procession, we should have been the first to applaud
his conduel ; but that he was aduated by no such
motive must be obvious upon a moment's reflection,.
If he was really so ansious.to prevent any accidents,
or the shedding of any blood, why did he not de-
clare his intention not to go in procession ?
Why did he
.suffer his Committee to take every
means in their power to • coiled- the whole po-
pulation of the metropolis ) Why was that
immense crowd kept.- assembled for hours, on
Tower Hill, and in the vicinity.? The circum-
stance 01 his not joining the procession' was not cal-
culated to prevent any accident from occurring, and
..•
it any unfortunate event - had happened, he WoUld,.
in a 'moral point of. view, haVe been just as yespon:
sible as if Imhad been-present. Sir FRANCIS knew
'very Well that such an immense concourse of pro-
'plc could -not be assembled. on such an occasiOn,
without the danger of accidents,.or 'of blood being
shed, and yet he permits his Committee, for a
fortnight before the prorogation, to advertise
for a MOla on the day of his liberation ; and
then satisfies his •Conscience by running himself
. .•
• out of. the • way of danger, Jesting his friends,
and admirers to take their chance. Messrs. Nix not:-
SON and Powtt.i. very naturally. expressed their Sur;
1 • prise at this inconsistency of the Baronet ; they

told him, they thought there was no.Nssibillty of
mischief happening, and added, that he ought . to
have made his determinatiOn known, beeause:rt per .;
cuffed to them, as it 'must have occurred to any
,man of common sense, that if he really wished to
have
.prevented mischief. he would' naturally have
announced his intention of not going in . proces-
sion, and then' .no -crowd would have assembled.
This plain. and sensible observation of Messrs.
POWELL and NICHOLSON produced the real truth from
Sir FRANCIS, for he told them that he thought
it " absolutely necessary, that there:should be' an
expression of public sentiment ; 'that was how
complete, and his being in the' procession could not
have added thereto."--So, then, it appeari that Sir
Fnaticts, who would have been," miserable for the
rest of his life, if a Mingle accident had happened, or
any life hid' been lost," did a&ually wish that a
crowd should be 'assembled, and that a procession
should take place ; that he suffered his- Committee
and his friends' to make Ithemselves ridiculous, in
order that "Ills vanity might. be gratifi.sd, and that he
conceived he should get rid-of all moral responsibility,
if any Mischief happened, by the miserable trick of
not joining the procession. There were but two'
plain and.matily.courcs wich Sir Francis could have
pursued, viz. either to have joined the procissiOn,