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5. 1826

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RUSSIA AND SPAIN.

NEW LAW COURTS.

ANSWER OF COUNT NESSELROIH3 TO THE UNITED
STATES' MINISTER.

1,1
:At Mr: Soane0 requestreadily-insert the follow.:
mg' letters, in explanationof. the circumstances under
which these buildings have been erected
Court of King's Bench, Jan. 24.
My dear Sir,—The Chief Justicci.has :informed me, that he
has requested you 'to appropriate the room, over the room of ,tho
Judges, and the room with the Venetian window and two fire-
places, to the Bar ; and he wished that the Attorney-General, on
the part of the Bar, would direct how they should be used. I apt
desired by the Attorney-General to ay, that tile room over the.
Judges' room may be applied to the purposes of a robing-room for.
the Bar, and the other for the counsel to. sit in.

The undersigned Secretary dl State, directing the IMperial ad-
ministration of-Foreign Affairs, hastened to subinit to the Emperor
the note with which Mr. Middleton, Egyoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of, the United States of America, . did
him the honour to address hint, on the 2d of July last, accompany-
ing a copy of the dispatch from Mr. Clay, in which that Minister,
in the name of the Cabinet at. Washington, Urges the necessity of
.confirming the general peace, by terminating the contest of the
Spanish Colonies against the Government of his Catholic Ma-
jesty.; of seen/it:lg ta Spain the peaceful possession of the islands
of Cuba and Porto Rito ; and of effecting these objects by the
impartial intervention of Russia.
The principles of the Emperor were sufficiently known to the
Government of the United States to justify the perfect confidence.
that, in expressing a wish for the continuance and confirmation of
the peace enjoyed by the world; it slid but represent the most sin-
cere desire of his Imperial Majesty, that in profeseinge generous:
solicitude for the rights of Spain over her Nandi in the West In-
dies, it avowed principhs that had long since been adopted by.,
Minix, as the basis of her political system ; and that, in antici-
pating perfect impartiality and true disinteeeetedziese from her in-
tervention, it was not deceived us to the sentiments of the Em-'
peror, in relation to all arrangements in which Foreign Pinvers
might be pleased to claim or admit his good offices.
His Imperial Majesty felicitates himself with having inspired
this confidence in the. United States of America, ea the Under-
signed is charged to invite Mr. Middleton to convey to his Go-
vernment the assurance of the high value at which the Emperor
estimates those sentiments, of which new evidence is furnished by
its present propositions.
The opinions of his Imperial Majoity 46 to the question dis-
cussed by Mr. Clay, in his dispatch, cannot be concealed from the
Cabinet of Washington. Ills Imperial Majesty has ever thought
that justice, the law of nations, and the general interest in having
the indisputable titles of sovereignty respected, could not allow
the determinations of the Mother Country, in this important case,
to be prejudged, or anticipated. On the other side, Whenever
Spain has wished to discuss the future condition of South Ame-
rica, she has addressed overtures to all the Allied Powers of Eu-
rope. It will not be possible, theretbre, for his Imperial Ma=
jesty to change principles in this nvgociation, nor to institute it
separately (isoknient) i and until positive information has been
received of the ulterior views of Spain, in regard to her Ameri-
can possessions, of her decision upon the proposition of the United
States, and of the opinions of her Allies in relation to the same:
subject, Russia cannot give a definite answer.
She is, however, in the meanwhile, pleased to hope, that the
United States, becoming every day more convineiof the evils
and dangers that would result to Cuba and. Portoed
tico front a
change of Government, being satisfied, as Mr. Clay has said in
Ids dispatch, with the present commercial legislation of these two
islands and deriving an additional motive of security front the.
honourable resolution of Spain, not to grant to them any longer.
letters of marque, will use their influence in defeating, as far as
may be in their power, every enterprise against these islands, in
securing to the rights of his Catholic Majesty constant and proper
respect, in maintaining the only state of things that can preserve
a just balance of power in the tea of the Antilles, prevent shock-
ing examples, and, as the Cabinet of Washington has remarked,
secure to the general peace salutary guarantees.
The Undersigned seizes with pleasure this occasion to repeat to
Mr. Middleton the assurances of his very distinguished cone
deration.
St. Petersleugh, Aug. 20, 1825.

Howard, the coffee-house-keeper, Will take charge of,them.
lam further desired by the Attorney-General to inquire who-:.
Cher you can give us - another room in the upper story, (for
stance,. over the venetian window) for the purpose of consultations.
If you can, Howard would take charge- of that also, for that
purpose. I am, my dear Sir, very faithfully, .t'our's,
To John Soane, Esq. (Signed). JOHN GURNEY.

" Lincoln's Tun-fields, Jan. 26.
My dear Sir,—l am favoured with your letter of the 24th inst.
on the subject of the roonis in the New Law Courts appropriated
to the use of the gentlemen of the bar, in which you say, " The
Chief Justiee informs me that he hal n.quested you to appropriate
the room over the room of the Judges and the Venetian window
and two tire-places to the Bar, and he Wished that the Attorney-
General, ou the part of the Bar, would direct how they should be
used.. I ant desired by the Attorney.4eneral la say, that the
room over the Judges' room may be applied to the purpose of a
robing-room for the Bar, and the other fur the Council to sit
in. Howard, the coffee-house-keeper, take charge of them."
These rooms only reqUire furnishing to he ready for occupa-a.
Lion,

" I am further desired by the Attorney-General to inquire.
whether you can give us another room in the. upper story, (for
instance, over the Venetian window) for the purpose of consulta.
tions."

With reference to thig part of your letter, you will have the,
goodness to inform the Attorney-General, that I ant appreheu-;
sive it will not be practicable to appropriate another room for the
use of the gentlemen of the bar as required ; the room suggestk
as eligible for a consultation room, has ulreatly, been appropriated
by the Lord Chief Justice.
regret Inuit sincerely, that the New . tow Courts have been
deprived of any material accommodations provided by the plan
as originally executed. Several of the rooms hive been mutilated,
others totally deprived of light, anti fifteen rooms of various di-
mensions in the different stories, have been sacrificed to the dis-
pixy of classical and tasteful improvements, over which I have kad '
no controul.

Thew rooms, which stood on the site formerly occupied by the
building er rated in the time of Queen Elizabeth, contained
amongst other accommodations, a private entrance for the JudOi
from New Palace-yard, and another for the barristers—robin--
room for the barristers-. 4 law librttry, with a tlireet comotunt-
cation with the roams that contain the Records of the Court cif
King's bench--a retiring room for jurors, together with rooms
for solicitors and their clients—cofftx-room, and other requisite
conveniences•

To render the Lain Courts suitable to the dignity or their des-
tination, and convenient for the purposes or those charged with
the important duties of condUcting the law proceedings, there
appears to be uo better method than to restore the rooms de-
signed iu the original plans made agreeably to the suggestions
of the principal officers of the several courts, and sanctioned by
the Judges, and by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's
Treasury. I am, my dear Sir, with every sentiment of regard,
most faithfully yours, (Signed) JOHN ANIL
To John Gurney, Esq. &c.

NESSELRODE.

LOSS OP THE ROYAL GEORGE EAST INDIAMAN.

By the ship Farquharson, which arrived yesterday
from China, accounts were received of the total de-
struction by fire of the Honourable East India Com-
pany's ship Royal George, at Whampoa, on the morn-
ing of the 24th of December last.
The fire commenced in the gun-room, and
the alarm was first given about four a. m.; but
from the extreme rapidity with which the confla-
gration extended, there is every probability that the
ship must have been burning for some time previously
to the bursting forth of the flames. Every exertion
was made to smother the fire, but the flames soon
communicated with the spirit-room, which burin with
the most irresistible violence, and in less than an hour
after the first alarm, all prospect of saving the ship
became hopeless. The greatest coolness and intrepi-
dity were manifested by the officers and crew, and we
are happy to learn that no life was lost on the occa-
sion.

Court nf Kings Bench, Feb. 4.

My dear Sir,--I am requested by some gentle:nen of the bar hi
submit to your consideration two alterations, by which they con-
ceive the light may be improved, One is, to whiten the walls by
which the lantern is in part surrounded. The other is, to take
the ald of reflectors.

If this centre south window were fitted up Ulth mirrors,
would throw some light upon the centre of the calm where the
light is so deficient. It might be ascertained by that experiment
whether it would be desirable to place mirrors in any of the other
windows.

You best know whether these alteration* would be improve-
tueuts.—l em, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
(Signed) JOHN GURNEY:
_ _

To John Sonne, Esq.

Litwolnia.inn-fieldt, Feb. 7:

My dear Sir,--I ant favoured with your letter, stating that the
gentlemen of the bar wish me to consider of some alterations by
which they conceive the light in the new Court of King's tench
may be improved.
I am not surprised that the gentlemen of the ber, as well as the
Judges, and the public in general, complain of the want of light
in that Court, the quantity of which is now so totally unlike
what it would have been, had the Original construction been com-
pleted..
Unfortunately the taste for innovation, which demolished as un-
necessary the accommeations now found to be so essentially re-
quisite (some of which were noticed in my letter of the 26th ult.),
caused the great lantern light over the centre of the Court to be
considerably lowered, it being appreheoded that it would be seen
from Weetmineter-bridge, and the Court was thereby deprived of
a large portion. of its light. The same spirit directed that
uo light should be admitted into the Court from New Pa-
lace-yard.

The following is a copy of a letter from Captait
Timmins, of the late ship Royal George, to the com
mittee at Lloyd's, dated Canton, Jan I. 1826

‘, Sir—ln extreme ill health, and under the pressure of great
misfortune, I exert myself to perform a duty I feel due to the
Committee or Lloyd's, and to condole with them upon the total
destruction by tire, on the morning of the 24th ultimo, of The
late. Honourable Company's ship Royal George, then lying at
Whampos, in readiness to proceed to the second bar, with the
whole of herstores on board, and perfectly equipped for sea, where
she ;night receive the remains of her cargo, having at this period
8,000 chests of Company's teas on board, and some private trade.
Shortly after the relief of the watch, at half-past 44 in the morning,
the officer of the deck smelt fire ; an alarm was ►nstantly g►ven,
and on lifting the tarpaulin from the gun-room scuttle-grating,
the flames appeared in a heavy volume, which it was not in
the power of human exertion to repel. A hardy band was
sent to the magazine to throw overboard the powder. Assist-
ance was quickly received from the Company's ships as
well as others: the chain bridles were wisely slipped, and the Ship
taken into tow clear of others. As she drifted down with the tide,
the flames now reached every mast-head in half an hour the
spirit-room burst, and the liquor running over the orlop, the tire
covered that deck like lightning ; all hopes were at an end ; the men
were antumoned to the boats, but the brave officers and men below
did not quit their post at the magazine until the flames were near
the door of it. At half-past fives the whole of the crew, as well
as strangers, went orderly into the boats; shortly after the ship
grounded, the powder exploded, stove out her bows; the hull
parted abreast the foremast ; she was destroyed to the water's edge,
and there lay the distressing remains of one of the finest merchant-
ships in the whole world. The conduct of all the officers and
crew in this trying time Was orderly in the extreme. The most
undeniable proofs exist, that every thing possible was done to save
the ship, and the committee will learn and feel with myself,, an
honest pride in the information, that this awful visitation of Pro-
vidence has afforded the most authentic examples of the steady and
brave manner in which the officers and crew, as well as strangers,
did their duty in this awful situation, And prove, beyond denial,
there still remains in the breast of a British seaman an heroic self-
devotion in time of peril, to defend and save his ship, which no-
thing can appal"; and it shall he my care to collect such indivi-
dual instance.. of it which it is my imperioua duty to make known.
—The mercy of Providence is greatly apparent, that no one man
has been lost or maimed in this dreadful calamity. At present, no
sort of clue can be /red by whirl it can be imagined bow this un-
fortunate calamity commenced, hut a most rigid inquiry is. in.
stituted, and every possible mean« taken to elucidate it. It may
he NMI to observe, that the whole of the officer.; and crew of the
ship boo' p.ssagew allotted them in the different Company's ships,
and all will most probably he in England by the month of June.
The greatest attention has been used in guarding the wreck, and
Messrs. Dent and Co. appointed as agents for the underwriters,
whose great exertions and prudent arrangements for the saving bf
the guns, Lee., merit my perfect approbation ; and to-morrow the
wl►ale remains will be offered for public sale, 9a that it may rea-
'tunably be expeeteil that every possible justice will be done to the
towers of this unfortunate ship:

I am fearful that the remedies suggested in your letter will not
produce the desired effect ; the only way, in my jiulgment, to
obtain the requisite quantity of light is, by making windows next
New Palace-yard; and to this proposition I think it is not pos-
sible to offer any rational objection.
I am, my dear Sir, your's very faithfully,
• (Signed) JOHN SOANI.
To John Gurney, Esq.

Riots at BLACKBURN, ACCRYN TQN, andover DARIVEN.

tion,A numberwii.ef
bourhood of Blackburn ; but, we are sorry to
,any, the statements
reference. to gtoThaele'illiZobratlnceh:vienbeeti::. itneanyetnivaendc.itylecuigiri-
were founded on facts, and therefore we are denied the pleasure of
being enabled wholly to contradict them. The following account
however, may he depended upon, as far as it goes. On Tuesday
evening last, about seven o'Cloek, an express was received at
Blackburn from Accrington, requesting military aid at the power-
loom factory of the Meant. Sykes, which was threatened by
a mob, and a party of the let Dragoon Guards were instantly
dispatched. On arriving at the required spot, they found that
the rioters had •dispersed, after breaking the windows of the
factory, and those of a private house. in its vicinity:, 'ln
the meantime, some hundreds were collecting in Derwen-
street, awl the Market-place, Blackburn, who greeted their
increasing numbers with loud and frequent shouts. On
the arrival of the market coaches from Manchester, the
.windows
were instantly demolished, and the passengers (manufacturers of
Manchester) severely pelted with stones. They then broke some
panes of glass in the house of Mr. KayF the con able, and com-
mitted a similar outrage on a pnblic-houhe in Daraito-s't'reet
'when it was deemed necessary to rind the Riot Act, and call
out the remainder of the Military ; after which the tumult
quickly subsided, and thaw who had engaged in thew peaceably
retired. •

1 have the honour to he, &c. CHAR. Thimnis
To John Bennett, Esq. Secretary to Lloyd's.

.(tit'isWia tei:!ttneabedatnYtenitchvet, nittg' iltattr'act*Ouinth,rnehorgOnmitt:i"tiowinai'ilhtherYll).l(":„AilirW! PetntlottZ':' the abov.;.,proceedirtgs, and vas
of Collection, A wan named .Fleetley, also, o triu*rd4k4'r)
held to hail fur the like offence. In addition to the all"' Part'
eelars; our Correspondent informs us that about 600 own had al
sealed near Over Darweo, with A . aa a ri4lYinF
point ; but as he has neglected to 'state 'the precise time at Willeti
this OCCIIIItd, we (lomat speak wore distinctly on the matter,
but sincerely hope that ha Les been tnisinfortned,—(Botto,
_E'rpreis.)