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Tli i.ONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS Fr..oNi THE MORNING PAPERS

July 4.

[THE TIMES.]

The Privy Council will meet to consider her
Majesty's claim, at ten o'clock to-morrow morn-
ing. The Attorney and Solicitor-General are
summoned to attend. We should beg leave to
ask the friends of the ancient order of things, if
they do not think the cause of legitimacy will
receive a very deep wound from the assertion
that it is entirely optional—we will not say with
whom—whether the legitimate Queen of this
country shall be crowned or no. We should
have thought, that a decision to crown the King-
was a decision to crown his Royal Spouse
also, as a matter of course, her Majesty being
as legitimately Queen• as her husband is King,
though their powers and functions are different ;
and both being alike liable to be crowned. Now,
if the Duke of York, the heir apparent to the
crown, were to wish to offer himself to the august
ceremony of coronation as a particeps imperil, in
the manner in which tht, sons and brothers of
the Roman Ernperors were associated with the
ruling prince, the King might object, and state that
such a course was novel in our history—tbat he
neither wishes for nor accepted such a participa-
tor in his regal honours ; but the Queen's posi-
tion in the Constitution being well known, and
her powers accurately defined, what possible
danger can result from her coronation ? whilst,
on the contrary, the depriving her of that seal
and sanctions of her dignity, at the time when a
great expellee is incurred, in order to affix them
on her husband's royal prerogatives, is, under all
the circumstances of the cask., no disgrace to her
Majesty personally, for it does not go one step
towards either proving or disproving the crime
imputed to her ; but inflicts a general degrada-
tion-on all legitimate princes, by sheaving them
that their highest honours may be annihilated.—
If the King (which " Heaven forfend !") were the
person mho objected to the • coronation of her
Majesty, by what power, we ask, does he dis-
pense with a custom which springs from the
same source as our common law, has descended
to us together with our common law, and is in-
deed part of it % And if any other persons ob-
ject to the coronation of her Majesty, then is the
degradation of legitimate royalty but the more
apparent. We shall to-morrow consider the
assertion that the Queen's coronation is matter of
grace and favour.

[MORNING POST.]
The House of Commons, last ►►ight, having
finished all its business-for the Session, adjourned
to Tuesday next., by which time the House of
Lords will have passed the Bills now in progress ;
and on that day, or Wednesday,Parliament will
be prorogued. Mr. Whitbread's motion against
the Constitutional AssociaticA, it will he seen
with pleasure by our readers, was negatived with-
out a division. This we cannot otherwise con-
sider than as a proud triumph of genuinp patriot-
ism and loyalty, over blasphemy, immorality,
and -sedition ; and most cordially therefore do
we congratulate the public on the event. It was
`clearly shown by the Attorney and Solicitor
General, and other Members, that the laudable
Association which has in so unprecedented
a degree excited the ire of the faction on
this occasion, employ no means unknown to the
Laws and Constitution, or repugnant to moral
feeling, in the virtuous task which the dangers
that threaten social order have alone induced
them to undertake.' Their obvious aim is to
abate a great public nuisance, to check,, and if
possible, destroy a most polluted current—to pu-
rify the land from abominations which would
otherwise disgrace our national character. In
prosecuting this great and good work, they have
armed themselves with no other weapons than
the Laws; and it is because they have used these
with success, because they have applied the laws
to their most useful purpose, and rendered them
effective in their operation, that they are now as-
sailed by every species of vindictive hostility
which folly, malice, or knavery, can devise.

[BRITISH PRESS .1
It will be recollected that we some short time
since noticed the case of a commercial Gentleman
of the name of Peet, who had been a long time
established in business at Leghorn, and who was
during the recent disturbancesin Italy commanded
to leave Leghorn at a few hours' notice. This cir-
cumstance ;vas noticed last night in the House of
Commons by Mr. Peel, who is a relative of the
Gentleman alluded to, and whonow inquired whe-
ther his Majesty's Ministers had ascertained from
the Tuscan Government the cause of Mr. Peel's
expulsion from Leghorn ? To this the Marquis of
Londonderry replied, that no cause for such a
proceeding had been as yet assigned by the Go-
vernment of Tuscany, but that upon the represen-
tations of Lord Bnrghersh the order for Mr.
Peel's expulsion had been rescinded. Tile Noble
Marquess further intimated his belief that the
Tuscan Government had b.en influenced by the
malevolence of some clerk who had been dis-
charged from Mr. Peel's office, and who sought
the mode of private accusation as a means of gra-
tifying; his vindictive feelings. He also admitted
that Mr. Peel's character stood too high to be af-
fected by any charges which could be preferred
against him from such a quarter.

[NEW TINIER.]
Among the distinguished Commoners whose ele-
"vation to the Peerage will grace the approaching

Coronation, it is now certain will be the very emi_
nent Judge of the Admiralty and Consistorial
Courts, Sir William Scott. Any thing that we call
say of the high reputation, and extraordinary
talents of this learned person will be regarded, we
fear, as only disparaging a subject suited to a far
abler -pen; but yet we should be justly held inex-
cusable, were we to pass over without marked no-
tice a choice Which does so much honour to the
Sovereign's discernment. 'lt is not only in England
but in all parts of Europe, and, indeed, through-
out the whole civilised world, that the ability
with which Sir W. Scott has administered the
Maritime Law of Nations is known and admired.
The Judgments, which he has pronounced, on-
some of the weightiest questions of this nature
ever submitted to individual decision, are flat
oily masterpieces of judicial eloquence and wis-
dom, Considered separately, but taken together_
they form a code of unexampled consistency- and
perfection. By a singular coincidence of good
fortune, at the period- when our maritiine
rights were most violently assailed with cla-
mour and sophistry, and When it became
essential to our existence as a nation, that
those rights should he placed on the
immoveable basis of reason:and truth, at that very
period was our Maritime Tribunal occupied by
a Judge, who, of all men that ever filled such a
station, was the best qualified to perform so
delicate and arduous a task. lie captivated the
taste by the clasSical beauties of his stile ; and
he subdued the judgment by the irresistible force
of his arguments.

FOR THE SUN.

NAVAL PROMOTION.

Ma. EDITOR.-Whence it happens, it is not
easy to cpnjecture, but the fact is, I think, in-
disputable, that the enemies of Royalty are much
more active in giving publicity to reports unfa-
vourable to Royalty than its friends are in con-
tradicting them, or circulating those of a contrary
tendency.—l am led to make this resnark by your
tardiness in noticing a report, which has obtained
very general Credit for some time in the first
circles, that the KING proposes, immediately
before the Coronation, to carry into effect the
intention of his lamented Daughter, and to raise
to the rank of Lieutenant all Midshipmen and
Masters'-Mates now in actual employ, and of
good character, who have completed their 12th
year of service. A more patriotic measure can-
not be contemplated. By these means a class of
men will be retained in the service, who, in the
event of war, are most eminently qualified to ad-
vance the glory and secure the safety of our be-
loved country.
London, July 3, 1821. G. C.

FOR THE. SUN.

FLOATING DOCK.

MR. Enrroa,----Having noticed in a Morning
Paper of the 23d ult. a letter signed 11. B. au
the subject of a highly useful invention lately
tried, on the river Thames, called a Floating
Dock, 1 have to request the insertion, in your
Journal, of a few remarks on that subject.
It had long been a desideratum in naval
architecture, to get rid, if possible, of that diffi-
cult and very tedious mode of repairing ships
abroad, by what is termed the heaving down
system ; a process which, in addition to great
loss of time and labour, is sometimes attended
by a partial straining of the vessel, and whatjs
still worse; by the loss of human life. Justly
therefore has it been said by the writer alluded
to, that among all the inventions of the age, it
was matter of wonder to naval men that nothing
had hitherto beet done to supersede so old and
objectionable a mode.
But it is easier, says the proverb, to discover a
fault than to apply a remedy. Happily, how-
ever, the time is arrived which promises to put
an end to so miserable a system. The Floating
Dock requires only to be known to make it be-
come generally adopted. The grandeur and
utility of the invention will be felt in all maritime
countries possessing smooth water harbours ;* it
will extend to our Colonies, particularly the East
and West Indies, also to Russia, Denmark, and
Sweden ; in short, to all places where natural or
other causes prevent the construction of dry docks.
Great, however, as is this improvement, it is not
the only one for which the, world is indebted to
the ingenious inventor of the Floating Dock.*
His plan of sliding or moveable keels, so con-
structed as to slide down to a certain depth be-
low the bottom, or to be drawn up within the.
ship as occasion might require,—his mode of con-
structing gnu-boats, by which they are rendered
so much more efficient for their purpose,---his
various suggestions in the art of ship-building,
some of which, although neglected for a time,
have since been adopted,--these and other in-
ventions, all given to the public without the de-
sire or expectation of reward, bespeak trim at
Once the patriot and the genius, an ornament to
his country, and an honour to his friends.

This letter is written from the desire to make
as generally known as it deserves to be, the ;a-
!Gable invention of the Floating Dock : if it
shall have the further effect of inducing its able
inventor to continue his gratuitous services in
the public cause, these observations will not
have beeU made in vain.
July 2, 1821.

NAIJTICUS.

* The person here-referred to, we have reason to ly.:-D;vp,
is AdmiralSchank, a gentleman who in every vlatTon cf
has been always distinguished for knowledge,
and integrity. • • •