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London, England, 1827-02-16 00:00:00

1,11.11 DA EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1827.

On Tuesday next will be published, with plates, 4to, price 2/. 2s.
VOYAGE of H. M. S. BLONDE, to the
SANDWICH ISLANDS, in 1824-5, for the purpose of
conveying the Bodies of their late KING and QUEEN to their
native Country. Comprising also many interesting Anecdotes ol
their Majesties and Suite.

Captain the RIGHT HON. LORD BYRON, Commander.
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FOR COUGHS.
PECTORAL ESSENCE OF COLTSFOOT.

THE Herb COLTSFOOT has long been distin-
guished for its excellent properties in the cure of Coughs,
and other Pulmonary Complaints; and this Essence has, in the
course of a long practice, been found the most safe and effectual
remedy for Coughs, and all Disorders of the Lungs. It gently
opens the Breast, and immediately gives liberty of breathing,
without any danger of taking cold, and thus it affords great relief
in Asthmatic Complaints. It allays the tickling which provokes
frequent. coughing, cleanses the small glands, relaxes the fibres, and
thereby enlarges the cavities of the vessels.—Thus it will prevent
Consumptions, if taken before the Lungs are ulcerated. It softens
husky and dry Coughs, and heals rawness and soreness of the Chest.

This PectOral Essence is prepared by James Ryan, Surgeon in
Bristol ; and sold in Bottles at 2s. 9d. and 3s. 6d. each, by F.
Newbery and Sons, 45, St. Paul's Church Yard ; J. Sanger,
150, Oxford-street ; W. Pegg, 20, Dame-street, Dublin ; and in
most Country Towns.

Observe the name F. Newbery, 45, St. Paul's, e.igraved on the
Stamp.

FRENCH MARSHALS.

PARIS, Fee. 10.—The ball of Appony is still the subject of
all conversations. Poets, authors of pamphlets, and the editors
of political and literary journals, have all taken up the subject of
the Marshals and the Austrian Government. The Marshals
themselves, who have been the cause of this excitement, interest
nobody on their own account. The men even who appear the
most indignant at the insults which they have suffered, have been
very happy that they have been mortified, for they entertain a
profound contempt both fin• their character and their titles. The
Court is, however, very much embarrassed. If it takes part with
Austria it declares hostility to the French army, and directs
against itself the whole of the popular feeling; and if, on the
contrary, it follows the current of public opinion, it embroil.
itself with Austria, dissolves the Holy Alliance, and can only rely
on its own resources, which are extremely insignificant.
The unpopularity of a certain great Personage has reached a
point difficult to be credited. The following fact may enable you
to form an idea of it :—On Monday last the celebrated play of
7'artuffe was performed at the Odeon. At the end of the piece,
when the person who is charged with the arrest of the hypocrite,
recited the verse Nous vivoas sous un Prince ennend de /a
fraude, (we live uuder a prince who is the enemy of fraud), a
man took it into his head to applaud, wishing the praise to be
appliedoto Charles X. The young men who filled the pit ordered
him immediately to be silent, but believing that be would be
allowed to continue his plaudits.under the protection of the police,
he went on. The spectators, on this, seized him and turned him
out of the house with such violence that he went heels over head.
The police, in the mean time, did not dare to interfere, and the
play proceeded.

HAT VERSUS WIG.

" His Lordship stood upon his hat during the oiremony.'
—metus omnes et inexorabile fatum
Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherentis avari.

'Twixt El—'s Hat and El—'s Wig
There lately rose an altercation,—
Each with its own importance big,
Disputing which most serves, the nation.
Quoth Wig, with consequential air,
Pooh ! pooh ! you surely can't design,
My worthy beaver, to compare
Your station in the State with mine.
Who meets the learned legal crew?
Who fronts the lordly Senate's pride ?
The Wig, the Wig, my friend--while you
Hang daugline: on some peg outside.
Oh, 'tis the Wig, that rules, like Love,
Senate and Court, with like eclat—
And wards below, and Lords above,
Fur Law is Wig and Wig is Law-
Who tried the long, long W— suit,
Which tried one's patience, in return?
Not thou, oh Hat !—though, conld'st thou do't,
Of other brims t than thine thou'dst learn.
'Twas mine our master's toil to share ;
When, like Truepenny,' in the play, # -
He, every minute, cried out ' Swear,'
And merrily to swear went they ;
When, loth poor W-- to condemn, he
With nice discrimination weigh'd,
Whether 'twas only, Hell and Jemmy,'
Or' Hell
worthy
il
andemir, no—
Though The playa.N o 9 no, myhough cheapen'd at the cheapest hatter's,
And smart enough, as beavers go,
Thou ne'er wert made for public matters."
Here, Wig concluded his oration,
Looking as wigs do, wondrous wise
While thus full cock'd for declamation,
The veteran, Hat, enrag'd replies
,s Ha ! dost thou then so soon forget •
What thou, what Englana owes to me ?
Ungrateful Wig !—when will a debt,
So deep, so vast be owed to thee ?
Think of that night, that fearful night,
When, through the steaming vault below,
Our master dared, in gout's despite,
To venture his podagric toe !
Who was it then, thou boaster, say,
When thou hadst to thy box sneak'd off,
Beneath his feet protecting lay,
And sav'd. him from a mortal cough ?
Think, if Catarrh lied queneli'd that sun,,
How blank this world had been to thee !
Without that head to shine upon,
Oh Wig, where would thy glory be ?
You, too, ye Britons,—had this hope
Of Church and State been ravish'd front ye,
Oh, think, how Canning and the Pope
Would then have played up Hell and Tommy !'
At sea, there's but a plank, they say,
'Twixt seamen and annihilation ;
A Hat, that awful moment, lay
'Twixt- England and Emancipation ! •

Oh ! ! !"

At this " Oh ! !!" the Times' Reporter
Was taken poorly, and retied;
Which made him cut Hat's rhetoric shorter,
Than justice to the case requir'd.
On his return, he found these shocks
Of eloquence all ended quite;
And Wig lay snoring in his box,
And Hat was—hung up for the night.
" Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below and gods above,
For Love is Heav'n and Heav'n is Love !"—Scott.
1' Brim—a naughty woman.—Grose.
Ghost [beneath.—Swear.
HandeL—Fra, ha! say'st thou so? Art thou there, True-
penny ? Come 0/1....-[ Times.]

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-FEB. 15.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells, and Lords Lynedoch, Gambier,
and Dundas, took the oaths and their seats. -

CORN LAWS.

The Marquis of CAMDEN presented two petitions
from certain Traders in the county- of Kent, and seven petitions
from as many parishes in the same county, praying that no altera-
tions might be made in the Corn Laws.

EariFITZ WILLIAM presented five petition's from
different parishes in Yorkshire to the same effect.

Lora MAYNARD presented several petitions
from different Hundreds, and one from atehnstbrd, to the same
effect.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a peti-
tion from the Proprietors of Land in the vicinity of Feversham,
praying that no alterations might be made in the Co►n Laws,
till they had been examined before a Committee of their Lordships.
The Noble Earl also presented similar petitions from several
parishes in Kent, and from the town of Sittingbourne. His Lord-
ship then said, seeing the Noble Earl opposite in his - place
(the Earl of Liverpool), he begged leave to remind him of the
Address which their Lordships had sent up to his Maje Sty
some time ago, humbly requesting his Majesty to order the
Ambassadors and Consuls in different countries to transmit to
this country the price of corn in the foreign markets, reducing
the 'measures and monies to the English standard. He was
anxious to know if any Returns had yet been received ; and if
any were come, he would ask if it would not be advantageous,
with a view to the apprOaching discussion, to have them laid on
the Table ?

The Earl of LIVERPOOL could assure the
Noble Earl, that no time had been lost in sending circulars to the
different Ambassadors and Consuls, and some returns had already
been received. There could not be, he conceived, any objection
whatever to laying them on their Lordships' table.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE wished the Noble
Earl would also ascertain whether or not there would be any ob-:
jection to laying all the Returns on their Lordships' table as they
might reach this country?
The Earl of LIVERPOOL thought there would
be no objection to this course.

Lord KING said he had received a great number
of petitions to present to their Lordships, praying for a revision of
the Corn Laws ; but having had them only a short time in his
possession, lie would then present only a few of them. The
question to which they related was a most important one, the
settling of which had been too long delayed ; but lie was glad to
see that it 'was likely now to be soon decided. He was of opi 11
-
nion that there was "no good reason for the opposition of the'
landed interest, for the repeal of the laws would ultimately benefit
them. He said this as a land owner, for the greater part of his
property consisted in land ; but, if he thought the repeal of the
laws would injure the landed interest, he should hope that he
would be &Ind not so wanting to his duty as to oppose a measure
that was for the good of the great mass of the people. His Lord-
ship then presented petitions from Dysart, from the Royal Burgh
of Elgin, and from the six incorporated trades of the Royal Burgh
of Band, praying for a revision of the Corn Laws.

CATHOLICS.
The Bishop of EXETER presented a Petition
from a parish in Devonshire, praying that no further concepsions
might,be granted to the Catholics.

Mr. Holmes, from the Commissioners fur Arundel Harbour,
presented their Annual Accounts and Reports.

Mr. Levine, from the office of Inspector of Corn Returns, pre-
sented an Account of. the Quantity of Corn of British growth,
which had been sold in Mark-lane, during the last twenty years.

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF-CLARENCE;

The Earl of LIVERPOOL brought down to the
Muse a Message from his Majesty, which was immediately read.
His Majesty inforMed their Lordships, that being desirous of mak-
ing a provision for their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Clarence, suitable to their present situation, he relied on their
Lordships to enable him to make such a provision as the circum-
stances of the case required.- The Noble Earl, -on the Message
having been read, gave notice that he should, to-morrow, bring
the subject of the Message under the consideration of their Lord-
ships; and moved that their Lordships be summoned.—Ordered.
--Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEU. 15.
ILCHESTER ELECTION.

The House met at four o'clock, and having by that time got
the requisite number of Members, proceeded to ballot for a Com-
mittee, to try the merits of the case. Strangers were admitted to
the Gallery at a quarter before five o'clock.

Parish of St. Alary, Drogheda, praying the Irish Turnpike Laws
might be assimilated to those of England.—Laid on the Table.

IRISH JUDICIAL INQUIRY.

Sir JOHN NEWPOAT rose to ask, whether any
steps had been taken by Government, founded on the Report of
the Commissioners of Irish Judicial Inquiry, relative to the Of-
fice of Sheriff, and also upon the Report relative to the Office
of Registrar of Deeds, which had been before, the Reuse fm
seven years ?

Mr. GOUL BURN replied, that the subject had
met with the most serious consideration of Government.

EMIGRATION.

Mr. WILSTOT HORTON rose, in pursuance of
a notice which he had given last Session, to move for the renewal
of the Emigration Committee ; and was anxious to state, that
whatever details he might new think it proper to enter'into relative
to the proceedings of the late Committee, lie did so merely as
the Chairman of that Committee,- and not as pretending to say
any thing to the House of a definite nature. relative _to the
intentions of Government on the subject. In 1823, it had been
determined to try the effect of an experiment in emigration,
from the South of Ireland to Canada—not from any hope tc
relieve the superabundant population of that " quarter of the
country, but merely for the sake of having before them
the effect of an experiment tried upon a small -scale, before
they ventured upon a plan of emigration on a large scale.
--In the Committee on the state of the Irish poor, appoint-
ed in 1623, he had mentioned this project of trying the ex-
periment of emigration from the South of Ireland, on a
small scale, and the Committee, in their Report, laid on
the Table of the House in 1824, had approved of the sug-
gestion. In 1825, another vote had been proposed to Parlia-
ment, for again trying the effect of an experiment in emigre-
tion on a small scale, from the South of Ireland to Canada ;
and the - vote had then been opposed, as being contrary to all
sound principle. It was said that these trifling deSultory emi-
grations were of no use whatever, and that nothing could afford...
any relief to the superabundant population of Ireland, except a
plan of emigration on a very extended scale. To this it was ane
swered, that matters were not ripe for venturing upon such an
extended plan of emigration. That the proposition before the
House was one merely in the nature of an experiment to enable
them to form some accurate judgment how far a grant and ex-
' tended emigration might he beneficial or practicable. At length
the proposition was agreed to, upon the understanding that a
Committee should be appointed to examine the subject. That
Committee was appointed accordingly ; and sat in the last Par-
liament ; and examined Colonial and every kind of evidence
which they could find on the subject. He did not, by any
means, intend to say, that the Committee had fully examined
the subject. They had not been able to go completely through
it, so as to exhaust it; but he believed the public were fully
persuaded that they had produced a body of evidence of the
most valuable kind. He should not do justice to the evi-
dence which they had elicited from the South of Ireland.—
The evidence of the Bishop of Litherick, of Doctor Doyle, and
others, before the former Committee, was decisive as to the state
of the population of Ireland at that period ; the sufferings arose
out of a total want of employment, which prevented the lower
orders from obtaining .the merest necessaries of life ; they wan-
dered over the face of the country dependent for subsistence upon
either charity cr plunder. From this class of beings, unfortunate
in their condition, and useless to the State, the emigrants were
selected, who, under the superintendence of Mr. Robinson, were
planted in Upper Canada. Of 180 families sent- out in 1823,
120 had been located, and remained in the stations assigned to
them, while 40 families derived subsistence from employment as
labourers, and in the summer proceeded to the United States.
The 120 families were fixed, and, as it were, rooted to the soil,
and they were prosperous and happy. A statement of the
property they had acquired up to 1826 would be laid before
the Committee about to be appointed, by which it would ap-
pear that it amounted to 7,000/. ; and if it increased in the
same ratio in the course of five years, it would be 30,0001.
All these persons had been redeemed from a state of absolute
destitution, misery, and degradation, and had been placed in
a Colony, the soil of which was of incalculable fertility : they
had been established in a situation where human foot
had nevSr before trodden, anti they had only to scratch the
exuberant earth to secure as bountiful a harvest as was ob-
tained in this country by the most laborious and skilful cultiva-
tion. On the question, whether the emigrants were themselves
satisfied, he had only to refer to the evidence of Col. Talbot, than
whom no man could be a more competent witness. He had ac-
companied Sir Peregrine Maitland, the Lieutenant-Governor, on
his tour of inspection, and found them all successful and contented
Thus the possibility of locating thesepereons, and of enabling then!
to maintain themselses by their own industry, was demonstrated.
In the Appendix to the Report of the Emigration -Committee, was
an Address from them, which showed how well pleased they were
with the change of their condition ; and the last advices from them
shewed that their improvement was in every respect progressive.
Postponing, therefore, the question, whether it was fit to incur
the expence proposed for such an object, it was manifest that the
object had been completely attained. The next inquiry was,
whether the inhabitants of Upper Canada were pleased or dis-
pleased, by the encouragement to emigration thus afforded ; and,
upon this point, he called the attention of the House. to an Ad-
dress presented to Sir P. Maitland, from the County of Northum-
berland, and to six other Addresses from other divisions of Ca-
nada, all breathing the same spirit, and rejoicing in the adop-
tion of such a plan. The feeling of the Colonists most de-
cidedly was, that the elements of improvement in Canada were
comprised in the increase of population—that thus, and thus
only, their prosperity could be augmented, and their .import=
mice at length so much enlarged as to enable them to take that
station it was ' their object to reach, and their right to expect.
The Colonial witnesses -were uniform iu their testimony upon this
subject ; they were all interested in the advancement of Canada,
and they would not, of course, have given evidence in favour of a
system which they thought would be prejudicial ; although they
were of different political sentiments, they were unaninaaus on
the benefits of emigration, and could see no reason why the capital
advanced to the settlers should not he repaid, if not in money, in
money's worth, so that the whole sum would substantially be re-
turned. As the families of the emigrants spread, the market for
British manufactures was widened, and the pursuance of the plan
of colonization seemed to promise ae series of benefits, which it
would not be dangerous to anticipate. In our own empire it was
indieputably true that the proportion between capital and manual
labour had not been preserved, and the consequence was, that the
labouring classes did not receive that remuneration for their exer-
tions which was consistent with their prosperity, and hardly with
1
their existence. The conclusion, therefore, to which the Sornaiertr
Committee had come was most sound and just; onempu_i
of our dominions required population, which the othercould
thus
bestow with advantage, and the wants of one country c
be supplied by the superfluities of the other. ft was a greatto
Mistake entertained by many, that, if emigration were carried
oplving labourers to the Co_-couritge it, on the principle of su,
limited to the passage,, and
lonistr ; that the expense should he
Any !great extent, it was the policy
.of this country to en-
that the unhappy beings should be landed on the shores of Ca-
degrees into the bosom of the colony.
The
a ;
and
principle absorbed
n'odlo.bieid edbY in former instances had been of an oppo-
site character. The object had been to plant the persons sent
over—to enable them to take root in
t
the soil by furnishing them
with capital, not in money but in kind, and thus placing them in
a condition rather to need labourers themselves than to supply
labour to others. Admitting it to be true, that, where the price
of labour was high, it was prudent to introduce labourers, vet, if
they Were to be gradually absorbed, as he had mentioned, the
poii4 at which absorption would end must soon arrive ; while if
the emigrants were placed_in a situation of being able to repay the
advance, and the expense, if not in the whole in part, there was
He N dorappeal all
the
to
no intaginable limit to the reception of new colonists, but the oc-
cupationhey et
any
m untitledan fertilewbbnetther
the advantageslands of tl le Coafna
con-
tinning tinning the plan hitherto pursued we're not almost too ob•
vious Ito require argument. The settler would be firmly •
fixed in the soil, instead of taking his chance of obtaining
subsistence—instead of being, like a plant thrown down upon
the earth, either to take
Toot or to be withered by the sun,
he svduld he like a young and vigorous tree set by a careful
band with all advantages of soil and climate. There was
not one trait of resemblance between the happy state of the
emigrant now, and his miserable condition,- while he remained
in hie native country. ,At present he saw his little stock in- 1,