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render them too conspicuous. We much dO'nht
whether, he will be inclined to entro,t to his friends
and creatures such an extent of command as n.ay
be likely to awaken In them ihe latent seeds of this,
bition, like is not so uxorious as the ParisiJns re-
present him to be,.nor much engrossed by ;wens.'
talTaffection as to divest himself of that craving am-
bition by which he, has' hitherto been*:aeuated, or
tn" subdue -that constitutional restlessness which
seems to have impos,cd union him a lite ofTornmasing
exertion ; it does at least appear that, from some
cause or other he is less anxious; than hi:.retolore for
personal opportunities of acquiring plunder or glory.
What is yet more important,. the :nations against
whom his future efforts at), be d;rected, most have
learned,- from experience, the safest and most cer-
tain means of resistance. We trust thm,they will
practise them : and that,' to whatever,quarter he
may hereafter turn his arms, he %:‘ ill be doomed to
wage an obscure and harassing warfare, in which his
weihdisciplined columns will be ,consumed, not so
much by the shock of opposing legions, as by a pro
tracted struggle with fatigue and fa otine and disease;
auxiliaries, to which Spain ii already inci,ebted fur a
partial liberation from his tyranny, and through
which we confidently believe that, even if all other
more active means of resistance should fail, she
would ultimately achieve her complete, indepen-
dence."

. The following Acport has been made by the
Lord Chancellor to the Prji)ce Itrgent, no the sub-
jeM of Dr. Highmore's Petition to his RUyill High-
!lCU

" The Lord Chancellor has taken into his consi-
deration, in obedience to the commands he has
ceived, the Petition of Dr. Highmore, which, after
reprsenting' that he had acquired the degree of a
Dodor of Civil Law in the Univo,3ity of Cambridge,
and thequalificationi which he 11141513 that that degree
confers,states,t hat Dr.Highinore has been refused per,
mission tO exercise the tunCtions of an Advocate in
the Courts of the Church of England by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, on the wound of his ,being
a Clergyman; that the Petttiouet had sued to the
Archbishop for a. public and legal heating. of his
case,
•whereby he,alleges that he might have shewn,
that the Canons of she Church, that R4al Char.
ters and Ads- of Parliament had san6tioned- and
confirmed the Clergy's right of pradtsing as.Ewle-siasiastical Advocates,* and that there was no .1112=
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horny for over ruling this tight; nod his.,Grace
bad been pleased tolay, that '4.1)t3 deemed it urt-
-adviiable to comply :" and further, -that:.ttlie peti-
tioner had besought 'his Ivir,jesty's Court 61 King's
Bench to interfere in support of his chartered aca,
demie lights, against the unauthorized ,exercise of
a dilient.itig power, thus assutnedby the Most Re-
vereod Primate, -but that that Court, although re-
gretting that the petitioner had (by studying.thiring
eleven .years the civil and canon law) " consumed
his time and substance in a fruitless pursuit," 'did
still declare itself unable to interfere for his re-
lief. And the Petitioner further states, that being
thus shut out from all appeal to the canons of the -
church and statutes of the realm, in behalf- of .his
violated rights and franchises, as -a “.Du6lor of
Laws lawfully create," be humbly and 'dutifully
approaches your Royal Highness, exercising.ttie
prerogatives of royal and. sphitual 'supremacy, at
this period of grief and calamity to his Marity's
faithful people, imploting your Royal Highness, for
maintaining his right (as a British subject) of access
and appeal to the existing law's, to grant him such
relief •in the premises, as. may obtain for him an
hearing of his case before the Archbishop of Can-
terbury,' in some one of •his Majesty's Spiritual
Courts, or that he may be relieved from the injus.-
lice which he now suffers, through a violation of the
laws, in such other matter as to your Royal High'.
ness's superintending regard for the rights of the
'Church and clergy of England, and for the spi,
ritual privileges of his-Majesty'risubjeds, shall seem
meet • -

" Upon this Petition I humbly take leave to ob.
serve to your Royal Highness, that if the law has
given to the Petitioner those rights, which, as
rights, he contends the law has conferred upon
him; and if the law has provided the means' of
enabling the Petitioner.to enforce these :tights by
.resort to any of his Majesty's Courts of Justice, the
interposition of your Royal Highne.ss,is unnecessary.
. If, on the other hand, the Petitioner, insisting that
he bath such legal rights, is to be understood to
represent that he is tinkle to 'eotorce, those legall
rights by any application to any of his Majestyto
Courts of Justice, and therefore to implthe of your ,
Royal Highness for maintaining (as he expresses it)
:the right of access and appeal to the exiting laws,
to grant him auch rt-lief in the • premises, as may
obtain for him lan hearing of his case before the
'Archbishop of ,Canterhury, or that he- may be re-
lieved:from the .injustice which he allegee
.he now
buffers, through a violation of the existing laws, in
such manner es-to your Royal Highness's superin-
tending regard for the Church and Clergrof Lug
land, and .19r the spiriteel privileges of *Majesty's
finbjetls shall seem meet ; in that case, as the
Pcti-
tioner has not pointed' out in what specific telVerba.
conceives your Royal Highness. can legally afford to
him, or in what specific manner Your Royal High-
ness can, as he apprehends, legally relieve him, I am
not able to inform your Royal Highness, whether
your Royal Highness can, legally or properly adopt
any such measures as the pet it ionermay mean to play
of your Royal Highness; and it must rest with the
'Petitioner to determine, whether he will state more
particularly in any further 'Petition (which he may
think proper to submit to your Royal Highness)
what at or eels, upon your Royal. Highness's part,
it . is, his purpose humbly to pray of .your Royal
Highness to d0,,0r adopt for his relief.; All which
I submit with humblee duty to your renal -High7
nesi'S gracious consideration.
(Signed) " ELDON, C."

The-following melancholy circumstance ii'men.
tioned in one of the last letters (tom the British
army in Portugal. A Lieutenant of the 13tli Din-
goons, .going with a flag of truce-:from Campo
Mayor to Badajos; -and escorting a French Officer,
fell in with a party of Guerillas, and was shot by
them before he could approach near enough to make
them understand he was a British Officer. - •