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LONDON.
THURSDAY EVENING, JUL‘' 17, 1828.

Lord HOLLAND last night brought forward
his promised motion upon the present state of
our foreign relations, and was met just in the
manner which he might have expected from
the decided answer which the Duke of
WELLINGTON gave to his previous ques-
tions upon the same subject. The Govern-
ment wants no vote of credit, and is, there-
fore, under all the delicate circumstances of the
case, justified, we .candidly think, in not making
any premature disclosures, which would only
have the effect of embarrassing existing ne-
gociations, without satisfying the curiosity of
those who would pry into the arcana of State
secrets. If one side of a story be questionable
till the other is told, we think that an ex-parte
statement of pending negociatious must be
equally so, and can be of no earthly utility, save
that of forming the foundation of other speeches
and subsequent motions. Besides, the season
has now gone by for these disclosures, as Parlia-
ment is about to rise, and Ministers are left to
pursue the vanity of their own hearts, uncon-
trolled by any responsibility. but "that of public
opinion, which is of little value to a military Go-
vernment. So far as Portugal is concerned,
the public have now no interest in the
case ; Don MIGUEL may lash the people into
obedience till they have courage to rebel from
mere excess of suffering. If they really want a
free Cons.titution, they must assuredly have it
sooner or later; and if they do not, it were
worse than folly to make people happy against
their own will. Let them be slaves to the
heart's core ;-we have roused them to a prospect
of the " coming glory"—and if they will tamely
lie down, and relapse into their former servitude,
why let them even do so, and chew the cud of
reflection to aggravate their endurance. .

With respect to Turkey, the Earl of A BElt-
DEEN distinctly stated that the Treaty of
London would be strictly adhered to by our
Government, who did not apprehend any diffi-
culty to arise from any views of aggrandizement
entertained by Russia.—We shall see.

In an►otlier column will be found some ex-
tracts from the Gazette dc France of Tuesday's
date, and from the. Moniteur of Monday.
There is one particular sentence to which we
beg attention It is said that the Russian
squadron will separate from the others, and
that a squadron will perhaps be sent to the Dar-
danelles, to protect the French and Eng-
lish subjects, or to Alexandria, to execute the
Treaty of 6th July." Perhaps it was from
an expectation of this necessity that the
brave and much calumniated Admiral CODRING-
TON was recalled from a command to which his
energetic and manly conduct proved him so
gloriously competent. A coldness must take
place between the English and Russian Ad-
mirals, and as this would not be pleasant
to brethren in arms who had so nobly shared the
dangers and the glory of Navarin, it was consi-
dered more delicate to replace Admiral Co-
DRINGTON by an official stranger to Count
lIEYDEN. This may be good policy ; but
the thing is done in a manner the most ungra-
cious to the feelings of a spirited officer, and it
may eventually turn out to the naval interests
of the country in that quarter. In saying
this, we by no means wish to disparage the
eminent services of Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM,
who is allowed to be an officer of great prudence,
bravery, and decision.

The Milan Gazette of the 2d inst. contains
an article from Corfi► of the 3d June, in which
it is stated that IBItAHIM PACHA bad sent his
first General as a Deputy to the Lord High
Commissioner, with proposals for tl►e evacuation
of the Morea, which are supposed to have been
agreeably received, as cc,rn coming from Alex-
andria has been allowed to enter Modon.

Brussels Papers of the 16th inst. say that a
Dutch ship had taken 3,000 seals at the
Greenland fishery, but that no whales were
caught by any vessels up to the 16th June, on
which day there was a violent storm, but no
damage was done.

The Austrian Observer contains an article
from Corfu, dated the 14th of June, which
makes no mention of IBRAHIM'S proposal.--
On the.l3th, _Admiral de RIGNY arrived there
in the niqucrant, which we already knew.
The Greeks have had some skirmishes before
Anatolie° and other places, with varied success.
Captain HASTINGS died of his wounds.
N JULY —Metalliques, 92 9-16; Bank Shares,

• A Montreal Paper of the 14th ult. mentions
the arrival of Sir JAMES KEMPT, with Captain
HAMILTON, A.D.C., and suite, on the 13th,
from Quebec. Detachments of the Goth, 71st,
and 79th Regiments, had also arrived in the
steamer from Quebec. These troops Caine by
the Nastor transport from Cork to the former
city. The number of persons who hare emi-
grated from the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain, since 1815, to the British provinces in
South America, is computed at 350,000. In
consequence of the recent intelligence of his
MAJESTY having appointed his Excellency

Lord DALHOU.SIE to the high dignity of Com-
mander-in-Chief in India, thus depriving the
citizens of Montreal of agai❑ being honoured
with his presence, it was proposed to invite him
to a public dinner on the 19th, in order to mark
the high sense they entertain of his public con-
duct and private virtues.

Jamaica Papers to the 30th May have been
received at the North and South American
Coffee-house. The following is the principal
intelligence received by them :
His Majesty's packet-ship Myrtle was appointed to sail
on the 10th June for Falmouth, with a mail. Vice-Ad-
miral the Hon. C. E. Fleming and lady sailed from Port
Royal in his Majesty's ship Barham, on the 24th, for Crooked
Island, at which place they will embark on board the
Druid for Nassau (New Providence). On the same day
his Majesty's ship Valorous, Captain Gossett, sailed for
Vera Cruz; on the 28th his Most Christian Majesty's
brig Gazelle, Captain Roaaya, arrived from Fort Royal
(Martinique), in six days, with despatches ; in coming to
anchor she saluted the Magnificent, as well as Fort Charles,
from both of which her salutes were returned ; when the
Gazelle sailed, a frigate and two corvettes were lying there.
These papers, in allusion to emigration to the Island
state, we understand it is not the intention of his Majesty's
Government to provide for the expence of conveying emi-
grants to this Island. A mighty boon, however, is
to be granted. The local Legislature will be empowered
to dispose of such unappropriated land as belongs to, the
Crown, or that which has been forfeited for the non-pay-
ment of quit-rent ; and a measure which was intended to
turn the tide of emigration from the United States towards
Jamaica, will, we are afraid, fall to the ground for want of
that support which we had a right to expect from the
Mother Country.

The extraordinary and alarming state of Ire-
land, growing daily more alarming the longer
that justice is delayed, must press itself on the
consideration of Ministers, and also of Parlia-
ment. We can no longer palter with the
disease which rages in that country. We are on
the brinkof a dangerous quarrel with the majority
of the Irish people—we have rejected their most
just and reasonable petitions, and we affect to
wonder that they are discontented, and with their
characteristic ardour of temperament betray all
the symptoms of violent exasperation.
We are no partizans of OCONNELL, nor are
we anxious to defend the discretion or expe-
diency of that bold and daring measure which lie
has taken, in the true spirit of an agitator, to
harass his opponents. The character of this in-
dividual, and the course into which he has fear-
lessly embarked, we hold to be nothing more
than the natural symptoms of a deeply looted
malady. It is not his conduct, nor the conduct
of the Catholic leaders, intemperate though it be,
that we consider to be the interesting feature in
the political aspect of Ireland—it is the sway
which they have obtained over the Catholics, the
great majority of the Irish people. We see
them raising money, issuing their mandates,
organising the whole body of the Catholics into
a firm confederacy for their common objects—
ruling, controlling, and moulding them to their
purposes ; and forming them, under the very eye
of the Government, into a separate community.
We consider this to be a most alarming, state
of things, because it augurs among the people a
settled and deep alienation from the legitimate
rule of the Government. We here behold the
seeds of more matured mischief, if due pre-
cautions are not in time adopted. The outcry
of the intolerant party is for violent measures—
they are for keeping down the well grounded dis-
content of the Irish by a military force ; and we
admit that matters are fast verging to this issue,
and that we must either do justice to Ireland, or
be prepared for the other extremity. But with
two such alternatives before us, can we hesitate
which to choose ? Shall we quarrel with Ire-
land in the spirit of pride and injustice? When
we may have peace at once by doing justice to
the Catholics, shall we rather choose animosity
of the worst sort?

We act most inconsistently to the Irish people.
The reign of George 111. was, for a long period,
one continued series of concessions to them.
If we distrusted them as enemies we should have
granted nothing ; we ought to have kept the
captive giant chained down to the floor by the
well rivetted fetters of tyranny. rlut we have
loosened these chains—we have given freedom
to his powerful arm ; and, with singular incon-
sistency, we take care that it shall be directed
against ourselves. We have taken away all re-
straints, but we insist that he shall still wear the
badge of his disgrace, as if we wished that as he
has got the power, so he should not want the
inclination to hurt us. We ought to have had
no friendly connection whatever with a venomous
animal which would take the first opportunity to
sting us to death. But to arm this animal with
its sting, and then to provoke its deadly wrath,
what fatuity does this argue !
The privileges which we have given the Ca-
tholics are quite sufficient for mischief; those
that we retain could not render them one whit
more formidable to the State, even if they were
so disposed. Our system is a wretched com-
pound of cruelty and weakness, made up, as was
well said, of " fair sketches of liberality and
fragments of decayed oppression." It has now
no object—it is merely calculated to gall, to irri-
tate, to provoke, and to make the Irish peoples
whom we could so easily conciliate into enthu-
siastic friends, our decided enemies!

The Irish cannot be contented until they re-
ceive full justice. They are encouraged to per-
sist in their demands by all the great and leading
men of the day, as well as by the "departed spirits
of the mighty dead ;" and in such circumstances,
and with such encouragement, how can we expect
them to be quiet under their oppression ? How
can we expect freemen to hug their chains ; how
can we expect men of genius, talents, and do-
quence, to be enamoured of bondage ? we call_
not reverse the course of nature, and the eternal
progress of things ;
.and we need not expect,
therefbre, that matters will grow better in Ire-
land, but that they will daily grow worse ; until
the people are satisfied, and the community
Placed on the only basis on which any enlightened
community can solidly rest ; namely, an equality
of civil privileges.

DOVER, JULY 16.—Arrived his Majesty's
packet Salamander, Captain KING, from Calais, with his
Excellency Lord GRANVILLE, his family, and suite. His
Excellency returns from his Embassy to France, and landed
under the usual salute.

HAY .SIA It KE l'S-(At
SI. J A

s.
owlrind Mead.ilay 3 oto 3 10
Upland Ditto 4• 0 5 0
Rye-grass Hay 4 0 5 0
New Meadow Hay 310 313
About an average Thursday's
day's prices.

SMITH

X. s. X. a.
Lowland Mead. Hay 3 sto 3 15
Upland Ditto 115 4 15
Rye-grinis Hay 115 415
New Meadow Hay 315 4 0
Supply good, trade dull,

per Load ot tt Trusser.)

x. s.
Clover Hay 4 oto 1; 8
Oat Straw
Wheat Dito llB 2 2

;apply, and a dull trade, at Tucs,

FIELD.

X. s. s.
Cloy. Hay generally 1 10 to 5 10
Do. extra fine 0 0 6 0
Oat Straw IIO )11
Wheat Ditto 1 14 1 IS
and prices as last quoted.

The Duchess of KENT gave a grand dinner
to the Duke of CAmmunGr. and a select party of nobility
and gentry yesterday, at her apartments in the King's
Palace at Kensington.
Prince GEORGE of Cumberland left the King's
Palace, St. James's, on a visit to the KING, at the Royal
Lodge, in Windsor Park, yesterday afternoon, attended by
Colonel THORNTON and the Rev. Mr. JELI.

It was the Duke of CUMBERLAND, and not
the Duke of GLOUCESTER, as we stated by mistake yes-
terday, who dined with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Tues-
day,
Lord STUART DE ItoTlisAY left town about
half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Paril, to
enter on hie official duties as Ambassador tu. the Court of
France.

- V. • ISCOUIIt BERESFORD, the Earl of _ABER-
DEEN, and Mr. AmswritNerr visited the Duke of WELLING.
TON yesterday, at the Treasury.
StateiruAL D ail
The Bavarian Minister transacted business
with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the office of
the
Affairs.tMr. CROKE R.
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office, Down-
ing-street.
3ir. Secretary
Vk :s o
Ef 1-
i;,G
Deputation forz Foreignl.;
from Liverpool, headed by
Mr. flustassoN, as one of the Members for that town,
had a conference with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
yesterday, at the Treasury.
We understand that Mr. WYATTVILLE is to
be knighted on the 12th of August.--Morning Herald. ,
HAYMARKET THEATRE.--SIIERIDAN S
excellent comedy of " The Rivals" was played at this
Theatre last night, and we have seldom seen it better acted.
The " Sir Anthony Absolute" of WILLIAM FARREN
is
a
masterly performance, the character is completely in his
style, and brings forth his best points. Mrs. GLovs:a
played " Mrs. Malaprop," and she is decidedly the best
on the stage. Ifer mai apropos phraseology kept the house
in continual laughter. JOHN REEVE was quite "at home"
in " Fighting Bob," though more " at ease" when he
had not to fight. POWER, as the cool gentlemanly
,t Sir Lucius O'Trigger," and COOPER, in the sensitive
" Falkland," sustained their respective characters in the
ablest manner. Iliss F. g. KELLY, as " Julia ;" Mrs.
Buster, as " Lydia Languish ;" and VINING, as " Cap-
tain Absolute," met with deserved and decided approbation.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
THE KING V. AMBROSE .MOORED &C.

In this ease, in whichit will be recollected Mr. Agar same
few days ago obtained six writs of Habeas Corpus, for the
purpose of bringing up the body of a lady of the name of
Buxton,

Mr. SUGDEN this morning moved for their discharge,
upon the ground that the proceedings which had been
taken in the Court of King's Bench not being at an end,
it was not competent for the parties to apply to another
Court. The lady in this. case had been clandestinely mar-
ried to Mr. Buxton ; and her uncle, who was averse
to the match, pursued the fugitives and overtook them
at Manchester the day on which the marriage took
place, when he immediately forced the lady to return
with him, and had ever since kept her in close
confinement. The husband applied to the Court of King's
Bench for a writ of Habeas Corpus, ordering, the uncle to
deliver his wife over to him. Upon the merits of the writ
coming on to be discussed on the last day of Term, in the
Court of King's Bench, it was ordered to be argued' before
a Judge in Chambers ; it was heard before Mr. Justice
Littledale, and the rule was ultimately enlarged till the first
day of next Term. The young lady was only seventeen
years of age, and the only question was, whether the
marriage which had taken place was or was not valid.
—Mr. Sugden's client disputed its validity. The
Learned Counsel trusted the Court would quash all tire
writs, with costs.
Mr. AGAR opposed the application.

After some discussion it was agreed, at the suggestion
of his Lordship, that Mr. Buxton should place the parties,
with respect to costs, in the 'same situation as if he had
sued out the writ in this Court, and that the case, upon
the merits, should come on to be argued on Saturday
se'nnight.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
THE ARIGNA MINING COMPANY.

HITCHINS AND OTHERS V. CLARKE AND OTHERS.
The circumstances of this case are already fully before
the public.
An application was made today for an order to compel
Messrs. Power, Surtees, and Dunstan, to pay into Court,
each, the sum of 1,047/., being the proportion which they
received of 15,000/.

It will be remembered that the late Sir William Con-
greve and the two Messrs. Clarke, were charged with hav-
ing purchased the Arigna Mines from Mr. Flattery, for
10,0001., whilst they represented to the Company that
Mr. Flattery was to receive 25,000/. for them. The
15,000/. of which the Company was thus said to be de-
frauded, were subsequently divided among Sir William
Congreve, the Messrs. Clarke, Messrs. J3rogden, Power,
Surtees, Dunstan; and others, and the present application
referred to the portions given to the three last named
gentlemen.
Mr. HORNE appeared in support of the application.
Mr. PMI'S and Mr. Prinwroaz opposed the motion,
and read passages from the answers of the defendants, stating
that they received the money •as a remuneration for their
services in forming the Company, and attending to its con-
cerns. They denied that they knew of the arrangements
between Flattery, Sir W. Congreve and the Clarkes, or
that they were aware that the 1,017/. forged any part of the
15,000/. said to be fraudulently procured from the Com-
pany. Tbe defendant Surtem also stated, that half of the
1,0111 paid to him was intended for his brother, who was
since dead.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR ordered Messrs. Power and
Dunstan to pay into Court each 1,0471. and Mr.' Surtees
to pay half that amount, as it appeared that tile other half
was given to his brother.
Mr. Holum stated that he had a similar application
against General Maclean, but that upon hearing the former
decision of the Court, he had consented of his own accord
to pay the money into Court.
A Solicitor stated that Mr. Brogden had long since paid
his proportion into the bank.
The VICE-CHANcELLon said that it was highly credit-
able to that gentleman.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
311INDAY V. LANCEFIELD.

This was an action for slander. The plaintiff is a carcass
salesman in Smithfield market, and the defendant a butcher
at Camberwell. A quarrel took place between the parties
respecting the price of some meat which the' plaintiff sold
to the defendant. The defendant, daring the altercation,
took occasion to call . the plaintiff a thief; and he stated
broadly that the plaintiff was in the :habit of selling meat
sent him by country butchers, and giving his employers
credit f,►r lees than he received.

The defendant pleaded the general issue, and several
special pleas of justification. The 'slanderotis words were
distinctly proved, but as the defendant's case involved a
question of accounts, after it had 'been three parts gone
through Lord TENTMIDLN suggested that the matter
could be more advantageously settled out of Court, towhicli
the counsel on both sides agreed, and the case was accord-
ingly referred to a gentleman of the•Bar.'

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
LIBEL.—SoAMES V. KING.

This was an action brought to recover compensation in
damages for injury sustained by the plaintiff in his cha-
racter by libels published against him by the defendant.
Mr. Sergeant Witiaz and Mr. Sergeant JONES appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant TADDr, with Mr.
EVANS, for the defendant.
The circumstances were the•c :—The plaintiff and the
defendant had been engaged in business together but had
quarrelled. The plaintiff subsequently put up as a candi-
date for an Eldership in the Trinity Howe, and then the
following copy of doggrel verses was sent to each of the
electors:—
BRETHREN.IN TRINITY.
As it has pleased the Lord to take
A generous friend and member,
And this great fabric incomplete,
Whilst wanting in its number.
When you replace the loss sustained,
Let it be done with care,
And see this house is not profaned
By false insidious snare.
Tisseallgecrrnnttf, andy
your thinking,
tlohlndNeihnlkrtyuiihinnlEekgdr;eetou;id.ay:
By sweet persuasion made man slave,
With spurious
Iu saving life
nd sooth'd the
This
~\ hen she unto
choosing, pray isilit
And universally hiothisitacinorretceiw:earestedtidec.,dh
.Dose a
5**L.,,,.„
InHis acts are
every guilty path he roams,
This blossom it has bred in guilt,
And must to the ground be cast,
And like unto a wreck be test
Before the sweeping blast.
A villain lost to love and truth,
With deep ensnaring art,
Beguiles the unsuspecting youth.
And breaks a parent's heart.
Then do protect the uncorrupted school,
Are the wish and sentiments of Liverpool.
A BOROUGH.

This was one of the libels complained of, for others also
had born similarly sent without any signature, and con-
versations had alas taken pluee, in which the defendant
had called the plaintiff a perjured scoundrel, and other
epithet equally disreputable and opprobrious. Both parties
were merchants in the city, and the defendant used such
language as this in places where he knew the plaintiff was
known.
Several witnesses were then called, who deposed to these
conversations, and to the receipt of the letters, and three
of them swore that they were in the handwriting of the
defendant. .
For the defence it was denied that King was either
the author or the writer of the letters in question;
and that lie knew nothing of them until he received one
admit the authorship, and also the
NrvaltPactras contained in the letters ; but this
himself by the• post. Propositions were made to him to
abandon the action, if be would apologise to the plaintiff
of
feede to, and this matter therefore came
witnesses were called to negative the
was that of the defendant.
hi t
ei
refused
falsehoodi
ee f
number
writing was
when our paper went to press.
tble)fiTlrrgie,ee thetci
case
teCtlohvuaerstw.i

There seems to be little doubt that the Duke
of CAMBRIDGE'S present visit to this country is in some
measure connected with the extraordinary position in which
the Government of Hanover is placed by the affair of the
Duke of 13auNswIcK.—Morning Herald.
itIi:TORT.—A gentleman complaining to his
boot-maker, that a pair of boots recently sent to hint were
too short, and that he wanted a pair to cover the whole
calf, had the following jeu d'esprit sent to him
" Tbese hoots were never made for me,
They are too short by half;
I want them long enough, d'ye see,
To cover all the calf.
" Why, sir," said Last, with Stifled smile
7
" To alter them I'll try ;
But, if they cover ALL THE CALF,
They must be FIVE FEET HIGH."
—Liverpool Albion.

SEA WATER PURIFIED AND TASTELESS

BY THE ROYAL FILTER.

GEO. ROBINS, PATENTEE, No. 69, STRAND•

The great desideratum is at length accomplished, and
that which a few days since was deemed as impracticable,
as to find the longitude, and beyond the reach of human
art, is attained by the " Royal Filter." If the authority
could be questioned on this national and interesting sub-
ject, we should indeed hesitate before we assisted in giving
publicity to this " God-send," but the sanction of the
Professor at the head of the London Institution has set the
matter at rest. " The saline particles of salt water are
removed effectually by the Royal Filter." The experi-
ment has been voluntarily made, and the result will be
seen by a reference to Mr. Partington's Letter; we have
not time to enlarge or animadvert on this extraordinary ac-
quisition at the present moment, and are content to be the
means of drawing the attention of the scientific to those
salutary remedies. We shall merely quote the Professor's
words, and without commentary :—" I' commence by
tilling the upper part of the filter with a‘saturatedsolution
of common salt water; this, after passing through the or-
dinary way, was perfectly tasteless, and of the same specific
gravity as common water.' I then made the experiment on
salt water, and with the same success," It will be seen
the learned Professor then made an experiment on a
mixture of alcohol and water, and then with port wine,
and in both cases the filter produced a pure and tasteless
fluid, without smell, and 'of ,the same specific gravity am
water. Its effect upon water impregnated simply with
gas is illustrated by 'the highest authorities. We have
only to add, with the delight we feel, the extraordinary
effect its properties upon salt water must necessarily
produce on those who are engaged in the navy.

SELECT VESTRIES.