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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1827.

His MAJESTY'S gracious choice of Lord
GODERIcx as his First Minister has given great

and general satisfaction.

His Lordship is at present employed in
making the arrangements consequent upon his
elevation to the Premiership, but nothing is as
yet definitively settled.
If his Lordship's talents are not of that exalt-
ed order which commands the universal suffrage
of mankind, they are nevertheless of a high class,
and superior to those of most other men in public
life. But Lord GODERICII possesses various
other qualifications, which peculiarly and emi-
nently fit him for the elevated station to which
he has been called by his SOVEREIGN ; of illus-
trious descent, distinguished for his high and
honourable principles, his spotless integrity, and
gentlemanlike manners, he enjoys the respect
and the regard of all ; and by a peculiar frank-
ness and manliness of character, has excited in the
mind of every one entire confidence iit his judg-
ment, and reliance in the rectitude of his inten=
tions, well calculated to produce a favourable

impression of each act of his life. It is impos-
sible, therefore, that any public man could under-
take the difficult task which has been assigned to
Lord GODERICH under more favourable cir-
cumstances, as far as individual qualifications
extend, than his Lordship. And influenced as
he is by the principles of a liberal and enlightened
policy under which the country has recently made
such rapid advances, we are confident that his
Lordship will entitle himself, in the important
and high post in which he is to be placed, to
the full confidence of his Royal Master, and of
the intelligent public of this great and powerful
Empire.

In the extremity of the excruciating sufferings
with which it pleased the Most High to
try the dying bed of Mr. CANNING, and
which the sufferer bore with such heroic forti-
tude, pain wrung from him an impassioned
prayer for relief. One of his medical attendants,
hearing the ejaculation, promptly and feelingly
said, " I hope, indeed, Sir, that you do call on
GOD through JESUS CHRIST :" to which the
illustrious patient distinctly and earnestly an-
swered, " I do !"

Let this anecdote, which stands on undoubted
authority, be accepted as a refutation of the
unutterably dark calumny of an Evening Paper,
which, not content with heaping its envenomed
slanders on the last mortal hours of worth and
genius, has attempted with impious and shocking
malignity, to pass the impassable barrier, and to
pursue the disembodied spirit into that " dread
abode," -where the best of us can hope nothing
but from INFINITE MERCY.

The following are extracts from the Allgemeine
Zeitung, and Frankfort Papers of the 4th inst,4-
received this morning :--

viiNNA, JULY 25.
The Austrian National Commercial Association has
been strengthened, by the accession of several eminent
manufacturers. This society, which by means of suBi-4
cient and well-managed funds, is intended to promote the
sale of the productions and manufactures of the empire,
differs from all other undertakings of the kind in this par-
ticular that though organized entirely on a mercantile foot:
ing, and calculated to procure the highest possible advan-
tages to the proprietors, it will, however,.employ a part of
its profits in affording direct support to the most important
branches of the national industry ; so that the company
will promote the interest of the manufactories, not only by
opening more extensive markets for the sale of their goods,
but by assisting them in time of need.

BERLIN, JULY 80.
One of the subjects which the Estates of the Duchy of
Saxony had to discuss in their first Session, related to the
improvement of the eivil condition of the Jews. The
Estates were of opinion that some restrictions were neces-
sary, to secure the interest of the other branches of the
community, but that they should go no farther than neces-
sarily required. They .therefore judged that the law of
11th March, 1812, might be taken as the basis of a gene-
ral legislative measure oa the subject, but with many mo-
difications, which relate to the exclusion of, the Jews from
all offices of the. State and:municipal offices, to the limita-
tion of their establishments, the prohibition of trading in
the country in general, and a total prohibition of hawking

and pedling, and also to their acquiring landed property.
The minority of the Estates-thought. this last point of little
importance, provided tbe Jews were not -allowed to exer-
cise the patrimonial jurisdiction, the police, the church
patronage, and similar rights. The Estates unanimously
expressed a wish that means might be found of effecting a
moral improvement in the majority of that people, by
which-alone it can be gradually qualified for the enjoy-
ment'of enlarged civil rights, and to this end they should
be obliged to let their children attend the Christian schools,
except the religious instruction.

SWITZERLAND, AUG. I.
The Prince Bishop of Basle, whose health is in a very
precarious state, has at length sent hie resignation to Rome.
M. Martin Usterl, Senator of. Zurich, Member of the
Council of Education, &c. died on the night 9f the 29th
July, at Rapperscroyl. His poems and prose compositions,
in which he showed profound historical knowledge, his
skill as an engineer, and his general sanctity of character,
entitle him to the name of the second Solomon Gartner.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10.
Tranquillity prevails in the capital, while the military
reforms and warlike preparations proceed rapidly. It is
affirmed that the Ambassadors of Russia, England, and
France, are waiting for decisive instructions relative to the
answer received from the Porte. According to accounts
from Alexandria, Lord Cochrane bad appeared towards the
middle of June off that port with 19 ships, fitted out at
Poros ; but the Egyptian fleet, commanded by the Pacha,
having gone out to meet him, he had gone away without
doing any thing, -which the Turks are so unpolite as to
call a flight.

We have given in another column, the article
in the Gazette de France of Thursday, on the
Portuguese Question, to which we briefly alluded
in our paper of yesterday. The article first ap-
peared in the Moniteur of Wednesday, from
whence it was copied into the Gazette de France,
and may, therefore, we conclude, be considered
as the production of some member of the French
Ministry. We recommend its perusal to those
who take an interest in the affairs of Portugal,
for we are much mistaken if this document is
not intended to prepare the public mind for the
immediate return of Dox MIGUEL to that king-
dom, and the invasion of her territory by Spain,
if DON PEDRO should venture to laud in his
ancient dominions. This can be the only mean-
ing of the predictions it utters, that the Emperor,
will, by his return, " revive the civil war and en-
danger his Crown." But we must beg our
readers to form their own opinion of this article,
which is put forth at this particular time with so
much zeal by two of the French Ministerial
Papers.

We subjoin a few extracts from the other
French Papers of Wednesday, which reached us
last night. The details of the mode in which
the Colombian privateer, the capture of which
has been so much boasted of, was taken, is far
from being creditable to the French character,.

The Royal Sovereign yacht, bearing the flag
of his Royal Highness the LORD Max AD-
MIRAL, arrived this morning, at Deptford. His.
Royal Highness immediately proceeded to town,
and arrived at the Admiralty at half-past 10 '
o'clock.

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