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with the armed population of Ireland. Let us make the
concessions which are now asked of us as acts of grace--
as kindly given boons ; and if we do not, let ;snot collect
that they may be one day extorted from us, an be re-
ceived as somewhat similar concessions were received by
the Irish volunteers. Let us think that they way not ac-
cept as a favour that which they may considl yielded to
them almost as a capitulation. . ' Question."
Mr. BRO H A..ti•roseeatnidat -loud cries of "
He veered. the'Honse be would only detain them fore a few
minutes, end that they could not receive this declaration
with more satisfaction than he made it. He would not
have obtruded-himself on their attention at such a moment,
especially after the many able speeches that had been made
on the same side that lie meant to support ; and particu-
larly after the address of the Right Hon. Gentleman who
had just sat dawn, but for the peculiar situation in which
he stood, being one of two individuals into whose hands one
of two important petitions had been entrusted. He re-
seeded that he felt it necessary to trouble the House at
each an hour. The effect of the great talent which had
;been brought to hear on it had produced its effect within
doors and without of door., by leading gradually and surely
and therefore wholesomely and safely, to the final consum-
mation, to which he confidently asserted it had now
arrived. From those who had lived in former days
down to the very hour in which he. now spoke, all great
Statesmen, of various habits and of different opinions_ upon
etatry other subject, with very few exceptions, had taken the
same view'of it which he took. lie spoke in the pre-
sence
of one of the most eminent of those few exceptions.
He rested the cause, however, not upon authority, but upon
reason and coon evidence. It was not his intention to drag
the Herne Leek with him to the Treaty of Limerick,
which was now at; no premium in the House, although he
was far froM agreeing in the opinion of an Hen. Gentle-
Manwho thought that Me Hon. Friend was wrong in
,etring so, much stress on ;t ; for he thought that where
aMiekgueities existed, those ambignitles should be construed
in foreur of the weaker party. Bot he deemed the argu-
ment superfluotia, and had better he kelt as if that treaty
had been never made ; had
nor would ha say a WWI lipqn that
more resent and more 411.0:n1315t orelereteading which
taken place at the period a tiro Cnion ; 4p4 though he
felt that a pledge of good faith had beeri givern.and that by
that pledge Mr. Pitt obtained the consent of the Catholir
to a measure which they would otherwise have etren!tWit.
opposed, *e had always reaped the benefit of such mistake,
if mistake it were, in which the Catholics had indulged;
sad, therefore, we ought not to deny the existence of that
piedgo when we gained all that could be obtained by it,
grapes we could show that circumstances had changed since
he Melon, and thaybe Emancipation that the Govern-
mem- pi that day deemed necessary, and propounded in re-
turn for the had now become )innecessary, because
circnmstancs lead changed. The- authority of that (,lo-
vernment tra" aa important weight thrown ,into the scale
were circumstances etutoo, he would ask? Yee, icy
but changed in au opposite direction; If emanci-
pation was necessary then, it was still more necessary
now. There were nosy a thousand more veesons for
granting it than existed 2f years sinee. • The• upppßnts
ef the motion naturally enough said, " Why do you trouble
the craters? Why do you yanreelves fish in troubled
waters? 'Why administer medicine ,whenn the patient is
well ? But, when he should spew the House that the case
was one of complicated danger—when he should shew
that there was no tranquillity, no peace—and then when
be ehould come and sleew that the dangers which existed
were greater than those apiprehended—he thought he should I
have done enough to induce . the House to concur in the
motion then before it. Everyrene,o,f the arguments of his
Hon. and Learned Friend (the Attorneveceeneral) and of
the Gallant Admiral. the Member for ifilexfinal, were ob-
vious to refutation, Ofeheen here was a eampline..frisgen.
and Learned Friend said, Al Look at the dangers that may '
arise from Popery"—and iA haying so, he could not hut
remark that his lion. and Learned Friend borrowed his
tone rather fj ow the Hon. and Gallant gember for Wex-
ford, than from the Right Hon. Member for Oxford.
" 1,c0k," said his Bigilr Pen. and Learned Friend, fi at
the dangers te be apprefientlad from concession"—and in
so saying, nude a particular, .apnlication to him (Mr.
Brougham), ail if Le bad preceded, 10E04 of being about
to follow, his Hon—and Learned Friend; And in so ap
plying to him his lion. and Learned Friend said be sup-
posed be (11r. Brougham) had in hie-hand at that moment
,o,ne of those formidable Bolls.from the PopP, of .which
he
had so mach apprehension. (A laugh.) •
.The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.-1, GENERAL 1 said the TreetV of
,laugh.)
B4op,ginAm .resumed. lie had observed observed the.
great :Fee of attention which • his Hon. 'awl Learned
fir end meant eo attract to the queitioa of a treaty with
the Pope, asking " how are. you to keep out bad doctrines
if you enter into a treaty with the Pope?" His Hon, And
Learned Frian4 dwelt much upon the antipathy of the
Pape '4) Bible Societies, contending that be would oppose
the diresemioltitut of the Holy Scriptures. But two things
Lad occurred—tkQ One, :la the Pape had not advanced
erith the times ; in the parch of intellect be had been left
behind ; he bad not kept ;Lace with the infermetion of the
age ;he issued those Bulls. ntey were of an evil tend-
Racy, to he sure; but he did not issue them at present? HO
Ire not frequently done so even of late yea7s? A
tho Bullli" woas
aasued in 1822, by Pope Leo the 12th, to the Caf
Breland, against the Bible Societies. Would there fii'lll9re
dioger if it were issued and received after conceding to the
catholic" their Claims than at the present time wheu no
means of allaying the ferment of the public mind had been
put in preeetice. It was a remarkable fact that Pope
Leo XII. tut, years afterwards, in 1824, issued a Bull to
one of the deeinan States—one in which he had con-
sented that something ;Ike a Veto should prevail—the in-
troductory paragraph to Which ran thus Whereas it
is necessary that we should keep pace with the improve-
ments of the age, and modify ant measures to meet the
spirit and the exigencies Of the time." The State to
which that document applied isle the kingdom of Hano-
ver, and in which it was fortified by thl/4P.Erticiaziation ofour
own benign Monarele—(cheers)—who thus admitted his
rianoverians without distinction of creed, to ali the rig '`t
privileges, wad liberties of the State. The Hon. end
Gallant Admiral asked were there no Protestants in Ireland ?
He (Mr. Bratieharn) would also ask were there no Pro•
tettants in Ireland who should thus set themselves up in
opposition to the great body of their countrymen; who pro.
leased a religion which they needlessly created, an oppo-
sition religion, which might otherwise be as quiet and as
:neighbourly a reiieeion as could be met with. (Hear.)
After all that had bee? said on the subject, the question
mouth this—could things remain as they were? (Hear,
I.;ear.) We were told there would be danger in a change ;
.n what did it consist? • On Leaking over the list of ap-
prehended dangers, from beginning Fn end, he could not
perceive one point on which alarm ought to be felt, or on
which the Hon. Baronet, the Member for upon, could
• comfort himself with the ides that things could remain as
they were. (Heir, and a laugh. j That question had faega
pot by his Learned Friend theSolicitor-General for
Ireland, in a speech not likely steed to he forgotten,
perhaps, ' though. net eclipsed,
which had been rivalled
ny. „Erie of the many extraordinary efforts of talent made
that night. (Hear, bear, hear.) And-his•HOntxtrable and
iLearned Friend called upon the Mese to refrain from refer.
enee to ancient treaties ; but come at enie to the practical
queston on vi.t)en Hon. Members ought to make up their
minds, and give to the public an answer to tae e,
Can things reptlin they ale?" Sure he Was, that if
any twelve of the Tim' Gentlemen whoalseu beard him
majority
were impannelled as a Jury to ,trY the question,
aOf them would declare upon their Ropiciences that things
gst key knew it could
could mat so remain.—(l-fear, hear')
coi—they. felt it &via question resting, ipo.
'They saw the progreata it bad made Iv, inn etoonte—tta
growth eeithout--but above 44,
it had made they' Y the prOvess.
in Ireland,—(Cheereo ft was a jest to call it
a Catholic Question—it was a Pri Seitant Q
What then was to be done? They Question.---
coiled, p of think of
going back and repealing the Acts of IT7S'a4
What then was to he doae ? To pass the EN for ,-.,tuan-
riPating the Catholics would
)e one and a trite mode Gt
pacifying Ireland,
But he was very, far from saying, that
if securities were deenied necessary by those who differed
from into, that lie ,mould pot
go into a eeesideration of
then with all possible. readiness. and every 4iesire to
quiet their scruples and aPPiehensioon,—(Clieers.) -Fite
House might add a declaration,' and lenient whatever
eeher security might be required when it shoat) zo into
Con; mitten. What was the sum and Substance of eebat
was o.'lleded ? " Don't be intimidated." Who were
seeking te
estion, were
He could not •conceive. TheY,l
veiy
the supporteTs
Of xbe qi4 Merely trustees,
Fen.
and felt a degree of tiwi4i featq
itY ,orsrsonal conse
the subject
different
from that base prinesplef
He did most heartily
1.60;e0 to °Liege, Out the House
would come to the decision of that important ereation with
more of calmness, more of Aen)Per) terised
than had 'cl,R--ze
the close of any former similar dieeussion. And he erteg,ee,
as the progress of it had been acceanp.anied by' moderatiOnci
eo would the end not be signalized, 13.011:e'q it might turn
out, by any expression of triumph. lie .felt .I:!.eeply Pain-
fully the weight of those great intereets, the .balance of
which was now trembling. It was nor nosy merely a
general question of sound policy that the IJouse bad to de-
cide—it was not merely the peace ofone-half of the empire,
and it might he at no distant period the safety of the other.
.I.lle fixed attention, the anxious hare of millions of their
irrave felloweeibjecte, their nearest neighbours, their bre-
thren, were ;tll directed towards the decision to which the

14ouse was about to moue. Ere our_ hour more should be
measured by tltat clock, he trusted that all their .hopes
would be pat ified, and. that their Irutification would.: be
received with equal moderation and graktitude.
'the House then proceeded: to divide. . The gallery was
cleared of stcangers.. • After. half an. hour's absence, the
nmnbers were declared to be—
For the -Resolution
Against it -ie.--; 266

Majority in favour of tb e Resolution..." 6
On re-entering the gallery, we fowl the House in
ComMittee. Mr. Spring Rice in the Chair, and a crowd
of Members standing round the table.
Mr. PEEL objected • to, a resolution that appeared to
have been just put into the Chairman's hands by the
Hon. Baronet opposite. Hf !considered that it was stronger.
than the original resolutie.n moved by the Lion. Baronet,
and just carried. The House did not proceed with this
precipitancy on going into a Committee at the time Mr.
Grattan's motion was carried. . _

—.—
After a few inaudible words in explanation by Sir F.
BURDETT, - . .

The CHAIRMAN read the resolution, namely, " That
it is the opinion of this Committee, that it is expedient
to take into consideration the laws affecting his Majesty's
Roman Catholic subjects, with a view to a final and con-
ciliatory adjustment, for the peace and strength of the
United Kingdom, the stability of the Established Church,
and the concord and satisfaction of all classes of his Ma-
ysty's subjects."
Mr. BROUGHAM explained, that the difference be-
tween his Hon. Friend's .original resolution, which was
just carried, and the present, was this—the first resolu-
tion went one step, the present went two steps. The
first moved for a Committee to inquire into the state of the
laws affecting the Catholics. That Committee having
been granted by the majority, it now became their duty to
inquire and state their opinion, which opinion his Hon.
Friend proposed should be the resolution just read from the
Chair, namely, that it is the opinion of this Committee;
that it is expedient to take into consideration the laws
affecting the Catholics. The course adopted by his 11,n.
Friend was quite regular.
Mr. RICE then put the Resolution to the vote by ac-
clamation, and declared that the majority were in favour
of the Resolution.
The opponents of the Resolution demanded a division.
The gaile7v Was cleared for a division, and after some mi-
nutes' absence we understood no division took place. •
The Resolutions proposed by Sir F. Burdett were car-
ried, and the Report of the Committee ordered to be brought
up to-morrow (this day.)
The House then resumed, and, after a ;e7; minutes' tinsi-,
nes.; of form, Animist! at Half-past Three o'Clock.

RUSSIAN DECLARATION OF WAR

AGAINST TITIINF:YI

Arabi, MAY (ctilowing are the documents
which we yesterday promised to give, ip addition to those
,eopiped in our Extraordinary Supplement :

" EXPLANATORY RIMARIZS
" The Russian Cabinet, in its declaration to-day, has
enumerated as its grounds of complaint against the Ottoman
Porte, the detention of ships under the Roasiao flag; the
inipediments thrown in the way of their passage through
the Bo
,thorns • the sequestration of their cargoes; the
obligatiops inaiosed upon the captains to part with their
cargoes at prices fixed arbitrarily; the violent expulsion of
all Russian subjects arid merchimts from all the comatries
subjectto the Ottoman dominion.
" These actions are so many open violations of the express
atikalations of the treaties, and overturn the most impoiant
articles of,4he existing conventions between Russia and the
Porte, It avi,i,l a4ce to quote the text of the treaties to
'show how. they have;begl Y1.9,14P4'"
[Here are quoted the atipnlacona cf the commercial
treaty of 1783—0 f
.the treaty of garma7die, 09,
_vopinn of Akeflnan, which, in the most express terns,
stipulate stipulate the free and unimpeded navigation in the Turkish
seas in the Dannine, afid elsewhere, for Russian ships; ,en-
gagp not to detain them, t i eequestrate their cargoes, or.
oblige
.tLe captains to Sea again kt ge;F and allow
Russian naerchallts to travel, to aojwarn, am; tja .r,ecide
its
the Ottoman empire, under the protection of their po.yey;l7
ment, as Toni: as they shall see fit.]
"After the Portz has annihilated all the privileges of
the subjects, commerce, and of Russia, it promised to
Pay '4•wn the,thira part of its: price which it itself fixed
on the, issapaeatratea eirgoesoim 1314 remmainder iaa t s,e-
quit hunt inamaatataiy: issued a -new coinage, So per cent.
less in value than the praegiapg currency.-
"'ln addition to these facts, the Rnsaian Cabinet will
state some others which have a reference to tile ;ate nego-
ciationo with the Porte.
In 182;, when the Emperor Alexander had every
reason to complain of the Porte, and a breach seemed to
he at hand, Persia declared w9r against Turkey, but the
Emperor, far from taking advantage oi this opportunity,—
far from encouraging Persia, Russia declared it had not
caused the war, and wished to see it ended. In 1828,
.vliert peace was on the point of being concluded between
Russia and Persia, Turkey assured the latter, through the
Paella of Van, that war between Russia and Turkey was
at hand, and invited Persia not to make peace with -us,
I:;7ornisitig the assistance of the Ottoman troopa.
74 Pachas I f Kais and Akbalailik have been lately
removed, bta7kUse they maintained a good understanding
With the Russian Geeeral-in-Chief, long before the publi-
cation of the hatti-scheriit •We may remark, that while
the Porte accuses Ruesia of being the declared enemy of
Islamism, millions of Posulrnen live in the midst of the
EMperor's dominions, in the free and undisturbed exercise
of the 'religion of their ancestors.
" We subjoin the Grand Vizier's letter to rol/tfi Nessel-
rade, and the answer written by the latter by th,e
Empe-
ror's order, The first of these document' show bow the
Porte gave out The assurance of its pacific intentions at the
moment when it published the hatti-scheriff of the 20th of
December ; and the second how Russia, though forced to
Accicre war against the Porte, !lOW opt to it the means
a akaeafping its duration, by a speedy restoration of
peace.
LFTTER FRO Vi nil E GRAND VIZIER TO COUNT NESSE'',
RODE, 23D or PnwZIN CEVAL, 1243, NOV. 30,
(nEc. 12, 1827.)
" Our very illustrious and car,/ 1::kul friend, while we
expreas our wishes for the preservation of your health
and the continuance of your friendly sentiments, aye re-
mark, that in consequence of the Convention of Aker-.
man, Nippily ,concluded between the Sublime Porte
and the Bussiso Court, by which the relations of re-
ciprocal friendship ..ire OW greater confirmed, the
very illustrious Ribeaupierre, who bad cwn,e to Constan-
tinople as Extraordinary Ambassador and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the Imperial Court, has in the
4tlivered the letters of his Majesty the Emperor tosi
the gultan, and his credentials to the Grand Vizier, and
was received nia ,t?. -a. occasion with all the distinctions and
honours due to the 0f.4441y and pacific intentions of bath
parties. Together with t.lle .fujvfilfnent of these formalities,
care was taken to direct id a care(4l riranner all affairs re-,
.laitiye to the discussion of the treater c4Olkkfi,and to re-
gulate 4-;rious, other matters. Meantime certain ;rajni,i.ous
proposals contrary to the treaties, were pressed upmip kteuhljme '
,Porte, with respect to which the Russian Govern,
Kent lsas made-known, is repeated communications and
conferences, ;Is frank and sincere answers, founded on
truth and iHStirp. ‘,39.41y, it has repeatedly Feauested and
urged the *aid Miniater tp announce to the Imperial
..Court, the motives of urgent neceisity, andthe real canna
of excuse which guided it, and to wait for the equitable
I trer. that would be returned ; but that lii,nigert
y reautoli!eanatta. entia
y all expectation, without regard,to the rights cf:
Sublime Porte, Gover,
And the duty of a representative has refused
to a time motives alleged by the
Stoe,pretraFe44 to leave Constanti-
nople, asked permission- tin 'Without a fp.qiive. Yet
it is certain thato,tr\hee:daicii;oming_ and thee-re4idenee Awl
Jepresentatives
niaintePacce and executijo poof%%;ie," th". o Aeci tthe,
contrary to the law
4 aatione esxitsotidnegsitrr:tolrfe2aViet
of residence, ,etering
place is
, ,
acting
into such discussions nneon.•
netted with the treaties.
" On this consideration the 44
mister was at length
'
infil,„--led„ that if he were authorye a
„4-14.1 Court to leave
Conatanitncipt, in this manner, he - had' 'io'deiivei to the
Sublime Porte
orfpiy note, containing the rnotive.asisi -
hint, and serving as tizaf that by this' forrnalitvicre''
rights oi both parties might be acagrded ; but he refused
sllis also, so ,tbat the nature prop,-,4 was
not
free
from doubt. The iro42 then, seeing itself 'oldigk. o lake
a middle contaetbetween giving ,
permission and iefitiitt
it, the Amblastaalor tits in this mafti:i,er ',eft Gonstantiiipple
of himself; the present frifiittly letter has 1,)(7P ("Grappled
and sent to acquaint your Ezkeiieigtr .n"th this eitcs,Fir7
st.ance. When you shall learn, on revelpt,ot it, khat
Porte has at all times no other desire or wish thaia
to preseive ours and good understanding, and that the
event in question has Peen brought about entirely by the
• act of the said Minii;tkr; we hone ~'rat you will endeavour,
.O 0 every occasion, to fulfil the ineies of friendship,"
" r w
,F110:,1 THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, COUNi'

RORE, TO THE GRAND VIZIER.
" Very Illtistriom; ,Grand Vizier —I have received the
letter which your Excellency did me the honour to write
to like op ,the 12th of December, 1527, and 441 it before

the Emperor. Had not my august Master thought fit to
delay the answer to it, and to leave the Sublime Porte
time to change its deplorable resolutions, I should
have received orders to reply .to your Excellency on
the very day that I received your letter, that the
Ottoman Ministry was greatly mistaken if it believed
that the conduct of the Russian Ambassador at Con_
stantinople was not entirely approved by his Imperial
Majesty. The sublime Porte could not be ignorant that
M. de Ribeaupies re had not ceased to act in the affairs of
Greece according to the express commands of his Sove-
reign, as.. it had before it the obligations which must guide
in .this-respect all the measures of the three Courts ; and
the Russian Ambassador had officially declared that he was
the organ of all the views and wishes of the Emperor. As
little could the Porte deceive itself with regard to the real
motives of the proposals made to it for the pacification of
Greece, as it was proved to it that according to their ten-
dency the peace which was indispensable for the security ,
of commerce and the repose of Europe, would be esta-
blished in those countries upon foundations which, far
from affecting the integrity of the Ottoman empire, and
merely altering the form of its old rights, would have
afforded. .it great political advantages, means for pro-
moting its internal prosperity, and pecuniary indemnities
for the by no means bardensoine concessions which it would
make.. After the Russian Ambassador had fully developed
those important considerations in all his conferences with
the Turkish Minister, and in all his official and confiden-
tial notes, be was not bound to allege them again in ano-
ther official note, which was required of him without cause
and without object. He was besides acquainted with the
resolutions and sentiments of the Emperor, and the con-
stant refusals of the Porte. •He could not, therefore, agree
to wait in the present case for instructions which he
must consider as wholly superfluous. In the situation
in which the Porte itself had placed him, he had no
alternative left but to maintain the dignity of his
Court by, leaving Constantinople : at the smile time
givjng the Sublime Porte a salutary hint, and leaving it
time, by the removal of pernicious and passionate councils,
to reflect on the dangers'that surrounded it. The Emperor
sees with grief that the Porte, instead of duly appreciating
this, truly. friendly policy, replies to it by actions which
snakes its treaties with Russia null and void ; that it has
violated their principal conditions, impeded the trade of
the Black Sea, and at the same time attacked his Majesty's
subjects ; and lastly has announced to all Mussulmen its
resolution to return evil for good, war for peace, and never
to fulfil solemn conventions. After so many hostile mea-
sures, continued, notwithstanding the representations and
the endeavours of the Courts allied and in amity with
Russia, your Excellency will not be surprised to learn that
I am ordered to reply to your letter of the 12th of
December, by the annexed declaration, which will be im-
mediately followed by the march of the Russian troops,
which the Emperor orders to enter the dominions of the
,slittAn to obtain satisfaction for his just complaints.
" The more sincere the sorrow of my august master at
the necessity of being obliged to have recourse to force, the
more agrdable would it be to him to shorten its duration ;
and if pleuipotentiaries from the Sultan present themselves
c,t the head-quarters of the Commander-in-Chief of •the
'Russian army, they will meet with the belt i-gceptim
that is to say, if the Porte sends them with the sincere in-
tention of renewing and restoring the conventions that sub-
sisted between the two empires, to accede to the terms of
the Treaty agreo opon on the qth of .114, 1827, bet Ween
Russia, England, and France, to provide for ever against
the recurrence of such acts as those which have given the
Einperor just grounds for war, and to make good the losses
caused by the measures of the Ottoman Governinent,
well as the expences of the war, which will be increased in
proportion to the duration of the hosilities. The hmperpT
tyill not, indeed, be able to stop the progress of the military
pperatioos dosing the negociations to be opened for this
purpose, but he 'feels convinced that with' his moderate
' views they will speedily lead' to the concluSion of a durable
peace, which is the object of his most ardent wishes.
" I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
(SignEiP " NTSSP.LRODE."

•
" St. Peterg/Fgh, j 4th (26th) April."—Front the
Supp/pnfitt to the piussiun State Gazette of April 6.
"ST. •PriERSHITRGH, 2tiTH !,7071p1a/ Af
Odessa contains an official article Mating, that a, the
Turkish Government had used the battle of Navarin as a
pretext to injure the Russian commerce, by 'which the
merch;tai3-m4 hate sustained severe losses, the Emperor
has appointed ii commission at !Odessa wc!i pe the
claims of those who may have suffered injury in consequence
of late measures of the Porte. The ice on the Neva broke
uss tlie,23d.

ITocLAMATION

TO THE INHABITANTS OF 1202.1319r1A AND 11.W.AqHJA

" His. Majesty the Emperor, my august Suvereign, has
commanded roe to take possession of your country with
the arioy, the ;11i:4 rommand of which 4e has confided to,
me.

" The legions of the monarch, the protector of your
destiny, in passing the boundaries of your country, bring
with them every pledge for the maintenance of order and
perfect seeprity,
" 111oldavia4s and Walachian!' of all (daises, receive the
brave men whpm I have the honour to command, as brethren;
—as your natural protectors I ip mil' thing that may be
required of you, endeavour to co-operate in the measures of
his Majesty, and give renewed proofs of your. ancient at-
tachment•to the power which has continued to watch over
your rights. The war which Russia has just declared
against the Ottoman Porte aims only at satisfaction for the
moat justly founded complaints, and the fulfilment of the
.most solemn treaties. Conduct yourselves as peace-
able spectators of hostilities, which need not affect
you ; lie.,easy with respect to the welfare of your country,
and perform your duties as you have hitherto done. The
laws and customs of your ancestors.--ryour property—the
Fights of the holy religion which we profess in common—
shali he respected and protected. For the more certain
attainment of this object the Emperor has commanded me
immediately to appoint in the principalities a provisional
central: Administration, at the Head of which the Privy
Councillor Von Pahlin is placed. Honoured by the con-
fidence of his Majesty, he will henceforth exercise
amongst you the functions and authority of President
of Moldavia and Walachia. My most zealous care
shall be e;terted to second him in his labours;
the strictest diacipline shall be observed in all the
divisions of the arin7, and the smallest excesses be imme-
diately punished. Depend on this, 4314hitants of Mol-
davia and Walachia, my august Monarch flatters himself
with the hope that the war in which he is compelled to en.
ter, 011.4prive you but for a short time of the advan-
tages of peke. •cFbi.i. war itself guarantees to you the
speedy return to peace, and viii ere to you the advan-
tages of a legal and durable existence, which shall be
founded on stipulations that will fully ettace the traces of
the evils that you have endured, and give you the eft-
taintrof happiness in future. Obedience to the authori-
' ties,' oblivion 4f the inimical feelings that have arisen from
anarchy, the sacrifice of private interests to the good of a
cause in which ihey are all blended ;—these are the duties
the voluntary and ;unanimous performance of which I re-
commend in the name 01' the -Emperor.- Beftaye a
Manner answerable to the magnanimous sentiments
which I am happy to be the organ, and you will acquire
• mw'elaints to his Majesty% favour.
siren at the head-quarters, April, 1828.
" 1 "'The Commander-in-Chief,
• " sfarilial-,Connt WITTGENSTEIN."
" MAY 2.—The President of Greece, Or .+1
decree, dated Poros, March 18, considering" that" the
,‘,77;,`;;ian men .of-war and transports, arrived from Egypt
at Suds in Farr.da, are designed to supply the fortresses in
'Candia, and thence.!end assistance of all kinds to Ibrahim
Pacha in the• Moroi, Ls ordered eight and schooners.
Wit 7:Umber of gun-lxati; to bloCkacte Modon, C?Foni
and %stain., i,pd to strengthen the bfOc'kade'Of'Pat;ai
an
Lepanto, under kiAlira). SaCht.ltris ; a
*second decree or-
ders a part of them to ga en DragnTeitre, to be,plaeed at
the disposal of General Church, for the th,:cl;Oe

Firz.yep.
Ueir 6.--Our paper currency has fallen
DiAly-o0 fr (46. t. consequence of the warlike news."
Fxcuk!qc.;.v4' oN x.mipox.
HAIIBURGIT, .MA* 6,6; :413: I©#.; t
CHIOSTIANIA, APRIL 30.—Twci maths? 6. 28,
LEIPSIC, MAY s.—Three months, 6. lt;.
MAY ?._Three month:, 6. 9,
-.J.
g!!.—Two months, 9. 50.
ST. PETFRSinillaff; 105-
flumburgh Paper:' •-

Lori ELoomFIELD transacted business yes'
terday'at the Fo`reign Office, Downing-street.
Prince LIEN'EN the li.ussian
. Ar„b3s,ador,
4:4 4 \'''nikng conference with the rottlie of W.Etr.us Grow
•
Yg3te"V; 14. X-ne penury. Ms Excellency afterwardsafterwardsproceeded to the foreign /24f4e, .4114 was engaged for up-
wards of an hour, trausaeting Official b,i
i;ipo With Earl

The Duke of BUCKINGHAM has, at his seat
at Aviiigto;i, a team of Spanish asses, resembling the
zebra in appearance, which are extremely tractable, and
take more freely to the collar than any of cur native
species.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON sMplitz TOZIAOREOW.
Morning...2s minutes after 2.1 Evenit% ....40 minutes after 2.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENINQ, MAY 13, 1828.

The majority of last night in favour of Sir F.
BURDETT'S motion must be regarded with feel-
ings of exultation by the Catholic population
(would that we could say our Catholic fellow-
citizens) throughout the British Empire. Their
opponents will naturally under-rate the import-
ance of the circumstance ; but let them reflect
that a majority of six on their side was predicted,
and contemplated with marked exultation. Let
the Catholics also recollect, that in the life-time
of Mr. CANNINGi their great and eloquent
champion, only one year ago, the majority
was actually against them—whilst now, with a
Premier, and Ministerial Leader of the House of
Commons, both professing hostility to their
claims—they have triumphed, after a long and
protracted debate. •
Much also has been said of objection te.their
claims, having lately been 'strengthened in the
Royal mind. But this is a stale trick of the ex-
piring Ultras, and comes rather too soon after the
Repeal of the Test anti Corporation Acts—which
the worthy and veracious organs of the faction
assured us would never receive the Royal Sanc-
tion. For our own parts, we will not commit
such a breach of duty as even to suspect the ex-
istence of hostility to millions of his subjects, in
the breast of our Gracious SOVEREIGN—but
to save unnecessary trouble to the Ultra faction,
we would beg them to reflect on the absurdity
of their views. They lately wanted his MA-
JESTY, in the case of the Test and Corporation
Acts, to exercise that efficient, not nominal
Veto, with which he is unquestionably invested
by the Constitution. But did the consequences
of this course ever suggest themselves ? In one
word, do they*suppose that Lord ELDoN and his
set, when opposed by the present Administration
as well as by the Whigs, could ever obtain those
supplies which are somewhat necessary in carry-
ing on the GOvernment of the country ?

I iMuch of a piece with this conduct is their mad
attempt to oppose the. manifest progress of the
Catholic Question. Does, not the state of the
Universities, alluded to in last night's Debate—
does nOt that very. Debate and Division—does
not the palpable (almost ludicrous) preponder-
ance of talent on the opposite side—does not the
daily and hourly encroachment ofpublie opinion on
their exploded notions and fanciful fears, convince
them that, unless they yield to the tide, it will
sweep them►away ? Like the sycophants in the
days Of CANUkE, they may tell their SOVEREIGN
that his Royal will can arrest that tide,: and bid
those waters recede brut Pigland's Monarch
May /KM, 'as formerly, ,resent and .expose their.
servility, and hold them forth to Om avoim aria
hatred .of his isvid.-4na ileMoted subjects.

As war proceeds in the East of Europe,
events of painful intere4t thicken in the West
that hope of bigotry and absolutism—Don
iVlicpl..—has at length assumed the fide of
King of PORTUGM., 4s will be seen by the
following express received. from Paris :
(From tlw Afonieur of Sunday.)

PARIS, MAY 10.—A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne,
dated May 10, anwatinces—,
" That Don Miguel has been proclaimed King without
any opposition at Coimbra, Aveiro, Setubal, Villafranca,
Viana, and many other towns.
" Lisbon is tranquil, ant Oporto was very calm on the
28th of April. •
F" The present intentions are immediately to convoke the
three Orders." • •
We believe—we are 'certain—that, in case the Infant
should really cause himself to be proclaimed Absolute King,
his Majesty's Minister, who is accredited only to the Prince
Regent, was immediately•to cease his functions.

What course our Ambassador may pursue in
this dilemma we cannot pretend to say, but judg-
ing from the spirited conduct of Sir FREDERICK
LAMA, we have no doubt that he will act with
a decision and. promptitude worthy of the
MONARCH he `has the.-honour to represent.
It appears rather singular that, at the very moment
when Don MIGUEL,is proclaiming himself King,
that the Etriperor Don PEDRO should have
transmitted a decree, abdicating the Throne of
Portugal in favour of his daughter DONNA
MARIA 11., the future wife of Don .MIGUEL.

This act, corning at such a period, renders the
4f air still more perplexing, for if MIGUEL finds
that the Courts of Europe are decidedly hostile
to his sole assumption of.a,power which he could
only hold in trust Tor his wife, he can satisfy their
scruples by appearing •to 'act in her name while
b? Fealty orders things in his own way. What a
prospect for Portugal!. •
The folloWilgig'Pqrf:Pßo's Decree ;
DECREE.
" RIO DE JANEIRO,. MARCH 8.

pletion of rpy abdication, of thecrown of Portugal, accord-
" The-period having arrived which I fixed for the corn-
pletian
itlg tomy Decriit'of the'. Od of day, 11320, and it being
necessary to give to the POrtuguite natiOn;'abtaysleiloiis
of its independence, an ilidubitahle proof of My deifire of
its being perpetually separated . from Brazil, (of which I
have the distinct glory and pride of being Sovereign,) so
,01', as by this
a M 10ak... even the idea of , their being reunited imprac-
ticahle;— . .
"1 am pleased, of my own free and spontaneous Tryiii,
after:having pondered on this' Most important btisinesS, to
order,my ' Royal decree I d'o' order; that the
kingdom of POitugal 'he
.henceforwrd governed ' in the
name of My'dearly beloved (14tigIitr pOnni Maria 11., al-
ready
' by me authorized and' given,'. ordered to be aviote, and
esyerned brother, g"' •'
kingonis'°f
its Queen, according. to `the QinAitUtiohal Charter
sworn ; declaring, moreover; most expressly, that I have no
Algarve - portnal and
14rther claim or right whatever; to the Portuguese crown.
Fifiinflin; pon P,lliuel, my much-beloved and
• 1, ed with the mar.
lion and publication of the present uecree.
a 1 ftv_LWuteDante is char . .
"Palace of Boa Vista, on-the 3d day of March, 1828,
.v 0 The
signature of his Majesty the King."
The iiilToWing Are- fl-iP. vices of the French
Funds on Saturday :•"-'
FRENCH Fuwns, MAY 10.—Five per Cents. 1030 sc.
103 f. ; Three ditto, 70f. sc. '7of. 69f. 95c. ; Bank Ac-
tions, 1,900 ; Rentes de Naples, 76f. 20c. 25c. ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 71fi-fi 72 ; Rente Perpe. d'Espag. 491 ;
Haytian Loan, 6571. 50c.—Exchange on London—One
month, money, 26E 25e. ; Three do., money, 25f. 15c.

Dutch Papers -of the 10th May, and the
Austrian Observer of the 2d, have been re-
ceived. The Greeks are introducing order
and discipline into their army which must pro-

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dueetbenefieial elects. The operations of the
Russians will.. soon induce IBRAHIM to leave
the Morea:—

FRANKFORT, MAY 6.

The Greek Papers contain various decrees of the
President of Greece, relative to the finances, and the or-
ganization of the military force. All the Greek troops
are divided into Regiments, consisting of two battalions,
and 10 companies, amounting to 1,100 men. Every Of-
ficer and soldier has a certain quantity of bread, according
to his rank and monthly pay. The President intended
an expedition against Candia, but had desisted from it on
the representations of the agents of the' Allied Powers.—
The expeditions against Missolonghi and Attica, on the
contrary, were to be soon undertaken, and great hopes
were entertained of the success of the latter in particular,
as it is generally reported that the Turks in Athens are
ii,...want of provisions.

MAGUY, MAY 9.

His Royal Highness Prince Frederick of Prussia, Go-
vernor of Dusseldorff, arrived here the day before yester-
day, and alighted at the palace of his Royal Highness
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands.

AMSTERDAM, MAT 9.—Exchange on London, 12.021.
to 12. 03. ; two menthe, 11. 974. to 12.00.
FROM THE LOWER RHINE, APRIL 28.
_ _

The Rhenish West India Company seems to have a more
favourable prospect before it. It has hitherto been obliged
to send all its goods to Hamburgh and other northern ports,
which caused great expense on account of the land carriage.
The establishment of free ports in the Netherlands, offers a
much more easy mode of forwarding Germari goods to the
place of embarkation. The exemption from duty is indeed
only for goods imported by sea, but we learn from good
authority that the Prussian Government bas entered into
negociations with the Netherlands, for the special purpose
of obtaining this exemption for goods exported, by the
Company, which would engage to send its consignments
through the newly established Netherlands West India
Company.

FRONTICILS OF ITALY, AFRIL 26.

The President of Greece, ac we hear, in order to pre-
vent the anathema pronounced against him by the Patriarch
from having any influence on the common people, has
called a Synod of the superior Greek clergy at Napoli,
which has formally decided that according to the Canons
of the Orthodox Church that act is invalid, because the
Patriarch is to be considered as a prisoner in the hands of
the Infidels, and the anathema therefore to be presumed to
have been extorted from him by force.
VIENNA, MAY I.—Metalliques 89 7-10; Bank Shares
1012 2-5.

In another column we have given the supple-
mentary documents to the Russian Declaration
of War. Now that hostilities have actually com-
menced, though Russia disclaims all intention of
ambitious aggrandizement, we know too well
how the chances of war alter the most moderate
Councils to trust much to the forbearance of a
Russian EMPEROR at the head of such powerful
armies. We confess, however, that we shall not
be sorry to see Turkey punished for her absurd
as well as insolent and unjust behaviour.

Our City Correspondent says—" We under-
stand that, through the prompt measures of the
Duke of WELLINGTON, an armistice has
at length been concluded and signed in
London, between the Brazils and Buenos Ayres.
—This took place yesterday, and will be dis-
patched by the first packet to the Brazils."—
We think it rather singular that a matter of
such importance should be transacted so far from
the scefiTof action.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TWILL Fll 0' CLOCK.

The effect on the British Funds produced by the Russian
Declaration of War against Turkey seems to have been
autieipUted in its fullest extent, and, Consols, witkh_elosita,
yesterday at 85i, buyers, opened this morning with sellers
at the same price, were done at f, but have -subsequently
advanced to 85,1, buyers, and are now sellers ; the Com-
missioners gave 853; the want of Money Stock keeps
Consols arm. The premium on Exchequer Bills is a little
lower, being 63 4 ; India Bonds remain at 97 9.

In the Foreign Funds the complicated state of Portu-
guese and Brazilian affairs seem to be on the increase, but
notwithstanding the certainty which now exists that the
dividend on the former will not be paid, both these secu-
rities maintain their price better than could be expected
under present circumstances. In Brazilian there has been
some business, and they have varied from 60 to 61; and
are now 04. Portuguese are also a shade higher from
the first price, 531, and may be quoted at 534-1.—
Russian from 881 89, are 69. Buenos Ayres Stock
has risen, in consequence of a report which exists
that an armistice had been signed between the River
Plate Authorities and Brazil, and this after a severe
battle, in which the forces of the former had been
defeated. The truth of this is however doubted, and
comes through the same source as the news of Don
Pedro having abdicated the throne of Portugal in favour of
his daughter. This, in fact, is a conditional abdication,
and is made subject to the Government of Portugal being
under the Constitutional system. It remains to be seen
when advicee reach Brazil of the state of affairs in Portu-
gal what measures Don Pedro may take;—it will pro-
bably cause a cancelment of the abdication, as well as a visit
to his European dominions.
In Shares there is scarcely stay novelty ; this being pay-
day of the deposit required on the new Brazilian Mining
shares, they have been rather sickly, and have been done
4tk per share premium.
Three per Cent. Consols, 851 I; Ditto, for the Av.
eount, 851- 1 ; India Bonds, 97 9 pm.; Exchetpser Bills,
63 4 premium.
FORICIGN.-Brazilian, 601; Buenos Ayres, 38 40;
Chilian, 26 7 ; Colombian, 231 ; Danish, 591 60;
Greek, 161 171 ; Mexican, Five per Cent., 26 7 ; Ditto,
Six per Cent., 341.5 ; Peruvian, 291 4 ; Portuguese,
534 1; Russian, 881 9 ; Spanish, 114.
Miszs.—Anglo Mexican, 70 65 din. ; Brazilian, 65 7
pm. ; Colombian, 61 51 din. ; Real Del Monte, 50 80
die ; United Mexican, 231 21 dis. ; General Mining Asso-
ciation, 101 11 pm.

TWO O'CLOCK. •
Consols remain stationary at 85i with ware* any
business. The positive manner in which the armistice is
now said to have been signed
.between Brazil and Buenos
Ayres, has occasioned the Braalliau Bonds t get up to 01,
and the Buenos'Ayrean to $9.

rilt_ll4 Q' CZ OCK

Consols, 851, btAyers.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Danish 60
Greek, 1825
zi an 0 'le)iictFl; 1825 35
eruvian'
ls
Russian #39
11:13:191
joh8;f1 A4Sic
e8n_8415,313:0
Columbian, 1824 231 Spanish, 1821 111

Orders have been received at Rochfort, to get
ready f2r sea, the .Dryade of 64, guns, and two bomb vessels.
A Ilussian Minister at Stockholm, has re-
ceived d;;patche3, stating }ll finperaj Guari hay ;sit
F,letersborgli.

11:4LT4,
.pifdliai (honlb), • sailed on the 11th April, for §II,YrP
with the ' Ylatiby, Nymplt, and another;uUder Convoy.
'4 fAIL 24.--His
Alexandria, with the Patriot and
His Majesty's ship Pelona sailed en the 11th April fur
from Carabusa to
william under
convoy. The Comet sailed on the 234 for §myfna, with
the" Itch brig 'oriva'r wcipp,..: • tfi. mkjegye shitilievege
had arrived at Naito from Corfu with the '7th Regiment, and
• .. .....1........,..-.+--- 11.....,---.47...,4
sailed again for Corfu. his ~.ajcs-.? 'O-tr*,,--- ---".".---
Zebra sailed on the 24th April, to cruise between Camila
and the coast of Syria. The Greek Government has.an-
flounced to the English and Russian Admirals a 'blockade,
. , .
braganiestFe. ' '
by eight armed Povernment vessels/
.
In the debate on the . Catholic Question Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT'S Resolution for going into a Com-
mittee was carried by a majority of Six ; there being
2'72 for it, and 266 against it. It is curious that the
nUmber who last year voted in favour of the Catholic
Claims were 27e,- though on that occasion they were a
minority, there having been 276 votes on the other side.
iiryajesty,s ship

DIED—On the 10th inst., in the sixth year
of his age, JOHN EDWARD LAYNG, only child of EDWARD
LAYNG, Esq., of Broadstairs, Kent,

SHIPPING INTELLIdENCE—CIVISIO

FROM LLOYD'S. ; „dd•
DEAL, MAY 12. —Wind E.—The whole of the out
bound sailed early this morning. Arrived from LoFlio,
the Thomas Wallace, Clarendon, for Sierra Leone i*rig.
Stevenson, for Miramichi ; and Triton, Ritch, for 120°`
Arrived thE Martha, from Sierra Leone.
BRISTOL, MAY 12..--Arrived the ITackinatack, 11°
from Lisbon.
CIO CARDIFF, MAY 11.—Arrived the Triumph,
from Memel.
011'
GREENOCK, MAY 11.—Arrived the Waterloo,
from. Marseilles.
WHITILIIAVEN, MAY 10.—Arrived off Port, t4eg '49k
Holywell, from Sierra Leone.
•
MALTA, APRIL 24.—" The Greek GovernmelOvo
announced to the English and Russian Admirals a bloc
by eight armed Government vessels, from CarabU'
Dragomestre."
VassEr. syntax WITH.—The Carths, Lindsay, ,forc°
Bengal to Bombay, on the 25th January, off the lifol
Coast, by the Cambrian, arrived in the River.

EXECUTION AT THE OLD BAILEY'

(THIS :DAY.)

This morning Russel Brown, for highway 01'9;
John Roberts, for stealing in a dwelling-house> Ea'pt
Price, for coining, John Brown, for burglary, and rif
Baker, for horse-stealing, were executed in trait of VI
gate. Charles Smith, alias Eastwood, for forgofth
received a respite for a week. Russel Brown was
penitent, and so excessively weak that he was obliecto
supported. The other four were particularly' firm, nit
careless ; and, with the exception of Brown, load'? j
solemnly protested their innocence. He declared brof
a murdered man, and loudly exclaimed against tbid
ship of being left to suffer, when two couvictettwilli
of the same offence were allowed to escape. When 4.11_34,
scaffold, Roberts attempted to address the populace,
lag he was an innocent and murdered man, and bed "i
prosecuted unjustly by his matter. Brown also,
aloud—" My Is*, you see a sold and murdered wvitv
Murder ! murder !" in which he was joined by Bakerf,r
all through the ceremony of pinioning betrayed a stnsroi
ness of conduct bordering on frenzy; at one motors,' jo
quiring of Mr. Wontner if there was no hope left, 'Alt:,
the next, accusing the officer of having sworn hislife swot
Price also declared he had been betrayed, and bad ne,;sli
slightest knowledge of the circumstances connected 'dig
his his conviction. While the Rev. Ordinary was conellur
,
the burial service, he was frequently interrupted by
00 Purpt,l
who continued shouting "Murder." At twenty of
past eight the drop fell, and all, with the exceplios
Russel Brown, appeared to die without a struggle.