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London, England, 1821-09-15 00:00:00

SECTION 68.

The opening of the Storiiiingsh;ll generally take place on
the fir6t work-day in the month of June,• every three years, in
the capital, or some other town in the kirgdom.
5'r'.CTIoN 71.
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Thy Members of the Storthing shall continue their functions
as such, during three consecutive years, as well in the extraor-
diiiary as in the ordinary Storthint;s which may be held during
that period, unless the King, previously to the expiration of the
said term, should think proper to dissolve the Storthing, in or-
der that new elections may be made. Such a dissolution, how-
ever, not to take place in the course of the three first months of
the meeting of an ordinary Storthing.
As seen as the Storthing shall be organised, the King, or a
person whom his Majesty may'authorise for the purpose, shall
open it by a speech, informing the Assembly of the state of the
kingdom, and pointing . out the objects to which his Majesty
may be particularly desirous of calling the attention of the
Storthinf.i. No deliberation shall take place during die. pre-
sence of the King. The Storthing shall select from amongst its
Members, a fourth to form the Larthing ; the other three-fourths

will compose the Odelsthing.' aeh of these Votes Chambers 1
shall have its particular meetings. The King will nominate
for the time of the duration ot the Storthing, the Presidents ,
of the Storthing, the Earthing, and the .odelstliing, from
amongst the members of each of these Assemblies. These
Presidents will lose their right of votinain the Asseniblies dur-
ing the Sessions ; their substitutes will therefore be calLtl.to
sit in the Storthing. The Ring 'will also appoint the Vice-
Presidents, who will also lose their right of voting so long as
they continue Presidents. Each Chamber shall nominate for
its Secretary an invididual, nut a Member of the Storthing.
SECT. 75 LITR. A.
Instead of the Ist of July, the 31st-of December.
(Section 79 wholly repealed.)
SECTION 81.
These words " except those men-do:led in the 79th Section,'
shall be omitted.

SECTION 82.
The final letter" E" shall be rescinded.
SECTION 92.
(Letter " E"), or who shall have been naturalized.
NEW SECTION BETWEEN THE ARTICLES 84 AND 35.
The Storthing shall in preference, ocupy itself with the fol-
lowing affairs :
" Those which the King may cause to be transmitted to the
Assembly ;
" Those which have been constitutionally transmitted to the
Assembly by the preceding ordinary Storthing; to be decided
upon ;
" Those which the Storthing, in virtue of the terms of the
75th Section of the Constitution, is bound to discuss ; and
" Those, 'finally, which may be essentially connected with
the affairs above enumerated."

In the extraordinary Storthing, only affairs which are trans-
mitted by the King shall be discussed.

BERMUDA.

The following is the Speech of his Excellency
the Governor, Sir WILLIAM LUMLLY, on pro-
roguing the Colonial Platiattnent :
Nlr. President, and Gette,`ernert of the Legislative Council.;
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen ot the House of _Assembly,
I have now called-upon yOu to meet me, fora purpose whin,,
for many and various reams intimately connected with the wel-
fare of the colony, I most deeply .deploac ; but which, owing to
as strange. and unaccountable proceedings as ever took place in
-a legislative body, will ginit of no alternative. •
To the Legislative Council my best thanks are due, for the
teadiness they have evinced to meet my proposed measures with
cordiality, and to promote the best interests of the community.
It has been asserted, in another place, that I have. attempted
to overawe his Majesty's Council—to poison the eprings of jus.
tice, and to drive from his Majesty's service men of talents and
upright principles : assertions which every Member of that
Council knowsa-and can declare to be, utterly false ;and the ob-
ject of which was evidently to injure my character, and to bring
into disrepute the subsequent proceedings of that body.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of .the Douse of Assembly,
I received a•Message from your House, of the 2d .of May,
relative to the Powder 'Laws • together with a report of a
Committee of the Hausa on the above, dated April the 13th,
of this year ; .and • you have gravely called my attention to a
voluminous mass of special pleading;- and have solicited my
communkating with Earl Bathurst, for the information of
,his Majesty thereon; and you have done this in a very few
days after having solemnly assured your Sovereign that his
Majesty's representative is wholly ignorant of civil Govern-
ment. I shall not, therefore, condescend to enter into any
detailed explanation.
I cannot, however, avoid remarking, that, in all the elaborate
researches and comments of your Roust: on the Powder Fund
Laws, through it period of nearly :seventy years, the most im-
portant time of the • whole should h,lve been 'omitted, between
1767 and 1781 ; fonsix or seven years of which a civil war was
raging in America, and some most extraordinary occurrences
I took place here, connected with that subject—occurrences which
I do not how deem it necessary to comment upon.
If the. Act of 1742 was in actual operation until 1809, (which
your House has, boldly but most erroneously asserted), it might
fairly be asked, how it was possible that all the old M embers of
the (louse, together with Chief Justice Leonard and Attorney-
General Esten-should at that very period know nothing of such
an Act—should not even have known awl such an Act was ever
in operation, when the two last-named specifically advised the
then Governor (Hodgson) to replace the Fund under the con-
trol of his Majesty's servants (the Governor and Council), in
conformity to the 'Act of 1690, where it had been previously for
many years; ;where it ever ()tight to have remained, and where
it has since continued undisputed until last year, and which
your House is now pleased to call " recently wresting it from
its purpose.!'
Your House does not yet seem to comprehend that the pro-
ceedings here, during the whole or any. part of the period to
which it refers, can have nu control over the records and pro-
ceedings of the mother county, or the decisions from the
Throne ; and from whicii • rarl Bathurst states what I must
again repeat--" that the Act of f 742 has not been confirmed,
nor that of 161)4) repealed; and that the •Act of 169(1 is still the I
law of the Island for the levy of powder duty."
In your last message to me, of the 3d of May, yon speak of '
extraordinary language. -To your House, indeed, this reverts,
and becomes -most applicable— when, in language. truly un-
couth, but' not to be misunderstood, you presume to tell one
gracious'SoVereign that he has selected a mall as his representa-
tive, whom you have been pleased to decide to be wholly unfit
for such a charge. YOur opinion was never asked, nor would
it in any case be called lot. Your House is both DE JURE and
DE FACTO totally unequal and incompetent to such a decision.
You have lavished on your Governor, the Representative
of your King, the grossest reproach--the basest contumely._
You have 'brought charges against him, as absurd as they are
false, mischievous and injurious (not to max.) hut to the
peace and well-being of the community at large ; and you
then affect astonishment that he should speak, even in general
terms, of faction and a factious spirit in the colony.
Blinded by error, or some snore dreadful infatuation, you
have finally, in direct terms, refused to do your duty. You are
proceeding at' your own peril, 'and are COLLECTIVELY and
INDIVIDUALLY responsible to your God, your King- and
your Country, for all the evils you may have entailed upon
your Conntry.
May 31, 1821. • W. L.
The Colonial Parliament was then declared to
be prorogued until:the sth of July next.

The Turkish fleet lately seen off Samos is raid
to have gone to Rhodes, to join the, squadron
fitted' out by MAISOMET ALI, I'acha of Egypt.
This squadron is stated to consist of 15 sail, and
to be manned chiefly with European sailors ; it
is commanded, by IS2rIAEL GIBRALTAR, the same.
who was formerly the Paella's agent hi Sweden
and Leghorn. He is said to be an able seaman,
and even to have formerly served on board En-
glish ships.
Letters from Batavia of the Bth of May were
received yesterday. The expedition for Palem-
bang had not sailed, but the preparations ton-
tinned ; and as a liberal price for freight was of-
fered by the Government, many vessels of dif-
ferent nations hadlaeu offered as transports to
convey the troops. The preference, however,
was given to Dutch vessels. A great number of
ships from different parts of the world were col-
lected in the harbour of Batavia, in search of
freight, but which the crops of the Island of
Java were not likely to supply in sufficient abun-
dance. The cholera morbus, which has been
heretofore unknown in Java, is said in one of the
letters to have appeared in Batavia, and to have
been fatal to a considerable extent, both to Euro-
-1 peans and to the natives.

Lord BEILESFORD has purchased a freehold
estate in the county of Carlow,--in. Ireland, for
55,0001.; the p:es2nt annual rental amounts to
9.,50.01., paid by a solvent and respectable
tenantry, but not likely to rise in value. .
FlRE.—Between eleven ,and twelve on Thursday night -an
alarming tire broke out in the back premises of Mr. Turner.
-baker, 71, liattOn..gartlen. The engines being well supplied
with water, after three hours, succeeded in subduing the tiante-s.
• Considerable damage was done to the premises, and one of the
firemen had a narrow escipe.
Yesterday, one Thomas Tresler was commit-
ted. for trial, from Hatton-garden Office, charged
with defrauding several persons of different sums,
under the pretence of keeping a register-office
for hiring servagnts,

His ALIJESTY slept last night at Chapel-
House, in Oxfordshire, and dine to-day at
Carlton-Mouse.

The contents of 'the French Papers of Tuesday
and Wednesday are warlike, and it seems to be

the general opinion, not only in Germany but at
Constantinople, that the present negociations be-
tween the PORTE and • Russia will terminate in
war. The departure of Baron de STROGONOFF
from Constantinople, says a letter from that
capital of the 10th ultimo, far from reviving the
fury of the Mussultnans, seems to have inspired
them with a panic terror, and to have put an
end to the atrocities, a repetition of which
was dreaded. The probability ,of a war
has suddenly changed, as if by enchantment,
the situation of this capital, where tranquil-
lity appears restored. This communication is
taken from a Vienna article, and the intelli-
gence from the Austrian capital continues to say

hat before th'e arrival of the Baron DE STROGO-

NOFF at Odessa, every thing, was very quiet on
the Banks of the Pruth, where the Russian
troops did not exceed 8,000 men, most of whom
were Cossacks ; but since that :event, the
state of affairs has assumed another aspect.—
Orders were transmitted to the Russian army:
of the West to march immediately to the
frontiers, and it was expected the whole of this
force, under the command of Count D.E
.GENSTEIN, would take up a position on the'banks
of that river, towards the end of last month,
ready to advance against the enemy. On the'
other hand, the Ottoman troops are concentrat-
ing in great force in Romania ; to which
point all their troops have been ordered to
march. The idea of an approaching war obtains
credit at Odessa, and the arrival of the Baron de
STaoGoxor•r• seems to render it more probable
in the opinion of the inhabitants of that town ;
this impression would be further strengthened by
the unceasing departure of couriers from Odessa,
to various parts of the Russian Empire. It -is
again repeated, that the arrival of the Emperor
ALEXANDER at the head-quarters of Count de
WITTGENsTEIN, will be the signal of a ge-
neral attack against the Ottoman army. A
Iprivate letter from Vienna, of the 2d of Sep-

:ember, mentions that manuscript copies of
,he note of the Reis-Effendi, in answer to the

Russian ultimatum, are circulated in that capital.
In this note, the Turks declare their readiness
to grant to the friendly intercession of Russia
all demands which are not derogatory to the
sovereignty of the SULTAN, and contrary to the
independence of his Empire. They promise a
general amnesty to the Greeks for a fixed
time, the re-building of the Cl Iri4s if; an Churches,
and the restitution of the principalities of Wa-
lachia and Moldavia to the state fixed by exist-
ing treaties ;` but'in their turn they 'make
counter-demands, among which is the " delivery
of Prince Michael Suzzo, (formerly a Hospodar)
a rebellious Turkish subject, who- has taken re-
fuge at Odessa, and of all the Greek refugees on
the Russian territory." If this version be au-
thentic such a demand will raise fresh difficulties,

for, in spite of the declaration of Russia that

she , does not mean to oppose the punish-
ment of the rebels, we doubt much whether

a Christian Government will consent to deliver
up fugitives who have sought an asylum in its
territory, to a Government so cruel and so
totally regardless of all judicial forms, as that of
the Ottomans. This article being refused, war
will most probably follow., It is remarkable,
that in no copy of the note circulated _at Vien-
na is any mention made of Prince YPSILANTI,
who is still detained a prisoner at Pest by the
Austrian Government ; from which it is inferred
that the Porte takes great care to avoid all cause