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London, England, 1821-06-01 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,
• June 1.
[MORNING POST.]
From Spain the accounts continue to be of the
most distressing description. Violence and in-
justice continue to characterise the proceedings
of the Patriots. Respectable persons are almost
daily arrested at the will and pleasure of the so-
vereign mob, and arbitrarily transported from a
country: now deeply. plunged into the abyss'of
revolutionary crimes and calamities.--A private
letter from Madrid, dated May 17, says :-
46 The Deputies lately arrived from Mexico, pro-
pose to submit to the Cortes.a plan by which the
whole of New Spain will constitute a separate
State, liming a Constitution different from that
of the Mother Country, -continuing nevertheless
in a degree of dependence, which would be par-
ticularly evinced by the annual payment of a
certain number of millions of piastres. One of
the principal articles of this plan will be to put
at the head of the new Government an Infant of.
Spain, brother of the King. It is expected that
the Cortes will be very divided on this important
question."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The attempt made in the House of Commons
on Wednesday night by the Marquis of London-
derry and the Solicitor-General, to defend the
existence and principles of the self-styled Con-
stitutional Association, was in effect a humiliating
acknowledgment of the inefficiency or inattention
of the Ministers of the Crown and of the King's
Attorney-General. We bad imagined that his
Majesty!s Ministers and responsible Law Officers
would have expressed themselves with warm in-
dignation against this Society, for having pre-
sumptuously arrogated to itself the power and
discretion of the responsible advisers of the
Crown ; but we find that we had mistaken the tone
of their minds, and that they are either afraid to
displease the associators by vindicating their own
rights, powers, and dignities, or that they are not
displeased to see a Society containing many re-
spectable names undertaking what is generally
considered as the most harsh and unpopular part
of their duties.

LTIIE TIMES.]
It will be perceived by the Parliamentary Re-
port, that Mr. Stuart Wortley first spoke to Lord
Londonderry on the subject of the declaration
issued by the modern triumvirate at Laybach,
upon the dissolution of the assembly ; and after-
wards gave notice that he should on Tuesday
next move for a copy of that " extraordinary do-
cument." The following seems to us as objec-
tionable a passage as any, where all is liable to

remark :—" In future, as during the past, the
Allied Sovereigns will ever prescribe to them-
selves the preservation of the independence and
of the rights of each state, such as they are re-
cognised and defined by existing treaties."—
Does this nation, the,n, for. i:istance, hold its
' rights from treaties signed at Vienna ? If so, the
Sovereigns ought to interfere, in order to recover
for us the right of public meeting, and that of
free discussion, such as they existed before
the late odious acts were passed, restraining
the liberty of British subjects both to meet and to
discuss ; and the people of this nation ought to
petition—not its native Parliament, but—the
Allied Sovereigns to repeal those acts!

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

When we hear from the Honorary Assistant
Secretary of the Constitutitinal Association, that
that body have been going about threatening with
prosecution a number of- Venders of what they.
consider Linel4..consenting: t(4'.4anclon prosecu-
tion, on the parties insking a surrender of their
Stocks, and entering into an engageMent, on oath,
never again to' drive the same trade—we cannot
hesitate to declare, that a more shameless inva-
sion of the rights of individuals was never before
practised in this country. Who can wonder that
there was no Member on either side of the House
who durst justify the object of this Association ?
That the Solicitor-General was at pains to state,
no fewer than three. times, that he declined
giving any opinion as to its policy ?—And that
Lord. Londonderry wished to avoid speaking of
its legality or constitutionality ? The fact, is,
that there is something so monstrous in the
exercise of power assumed by this self-consti-
tuted Inquisitorial Tribunal, that Ministers have
sense enough to see that it will never be borne
with in a country like this. Who, as Mr.
Brougham observed, however convinced of his

innocence, would have the hardihood to enter
the lists with this powerful body ? It surely can be
no reproach to a poor shopkeeper, who knows
that a set of crafty attorneys have had the ad-
dress to extract large sums from a number of
Peers, Parsons, and Dowagers, which they would,
be very glad to have an opportunity to expend in
a prosecution against him, to pause before he en-
gages in the unequal contest.' He knows that
Messrs. Murray, Sharp, and Co. will be
gainers, whether they gain or lose the prosecu-
tion, and that he will be a loser, whether he
gain or lose it. We really know not what con-
spiracy is, if a combination of this kind, which,
acting on a system of 'intimidation, avails itself
of the terror which the threat of a prosecution
inspires, to drive a man from his employment
and strip him of his property, be not one.