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The Gazette d'Augsburg of the 13th contains the pro-
tos.el of London, of January the 4th, of which the follow-
ing are the principal articles :

" The Russian Ambassador having declared that the 10th article
tt the treaty of Adrianople did not binder the Powers taking, with
rtgard to Glace, the measures, that they judged convenient, a de-
, .rat;:oi front the Porte, stating that she adhered to the resolutions
s.!. lh ,onfetence of London, was communicated."

fillowing points were, in consequence agreed upon :
" i. That an armistice shall be established.
That Greece shall be independent.

•• a. Chat the limit, according to the wish of the Porte, shall be
ft/ma the mouth of the Aspropotamus to the Gulf of Zeitoun ; Ne-
groyent, the islands of the Devil, and the Cyclades, being included.

L The Government of Greece shall be monarchical and here.

h. A ►eciprocal amnesty shall be proclaimed by the Ottoman
Grecian Governments.

" G. Each of the three Courts shall have the faculty of guaran.
Itt this arrangeruen!.

7. The effects of the acts of the guarantee shall be decided

" & Tic se:deafen of the frontiers trill be made by the Commis-
siioners of the three Powers."

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SATUR DA Y, MARCH 20.

• PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
B.ok Stock shut Do. Do. Jul.& Jan. 19 6
4 per Cent. Red. shut India Bonds
7. per Ct. Cons. 921 f ! 1 3 per Cent. 1751,
31 per Ct. IRIS, shut ! aelooo Exch.Bills 77 8
31 per Ct. lied. shut ! X5OO Ditto 77 8
4 per Cent. 102/ 1 i ! XlOO and ,5200 Do. 77 8
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4 per Ct. 1826, shut t Advertised.
Long Ann. shut ^ India for Acct. 249
Do. 50 Years, 24 11.16 I Cons. for Ace. 926 6 1
FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.
Brazil Bds, spr Ct. 711 l 1 Do. Acc. 38
Do. Acc. 716 a 1 Peruv. lids. 6pr Ct. 21 206
Colom. Bds. 6 per Ct. Do. Ace. 21
Do. Bds. 1824, Port. Bds. S pr Ct. 59
Do. Aec. 20i I Ditto Acct. 591 81 19
Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Russ, Bds. 1822, spr Ct. 1091
Do.B. 1825, 38/ 1 8 Sp.Bds. 5 per Ct. 146 6
BRITISH AND FOREIGN 511 A HES, TWO O'Cl.oels .
ItiA ii II PAID. PIA SHAKE.
Brazilian Company 20 5 91
Brazilia. , Imp. (iss. €5 pm.) 35 20 85 841
Do. National 25 10
United 111 ex, (iss. at sBl pm.) 40 291 191 20

For a third time has the debate, in the House of Com-
mons, on the State of the Nation, been adjourned—on
Thursday, at the suggestion of Mr. PEEL, in order that
Members who were anxious to express their sentiments
on so momentous a subject, might have an opportunity of
doing so ; and on Friday, in opposition to the wishes of
the Right Honourable Secretary, who,—after " de-
voting," as Sir CH ARLES WETIIERELL remarked, "five
minutes to the practical part of the question—namely,
whether the House should go into a Committee,—con-
sumed the whole of the remainder in justifying the prin-
ciple of his own Bill of 1819,"—met Mr. O'CoNN ELL'S I
motion for adjournment by coolly declaring that " this
discussion might very easily be brought to a conclusion
Hlw"—and that " he did not think they would be con-
sulting the public interest by devoting their time for a
fourth night to a measure which caused all other busi-
ness to be neglected."—This language coming from a
Minister of the Crown, and addressed to the Representa-
tives of a distressed and afflicted people, who, amidst all
their privations, have not been betrayed into violence or
excess—but have patiently endured every grievance till
complaint was wrung from them by famine and by
wretchedness—may be in perfect consonance with the
policy of a Government whose Military Chief can " nei-
ther see, nor hear, nor understand" the manifestations
of that universal state of suffering, which is obvious to
all but those who will not see :—but it says little indeed
for the sound discretion of the Statesman, or the feelings
of the man.—The discussion stands adjourned for Tues
day next.

Experience has been said " to make even fools wise ;"
but there are some men on whom its most bitter lessons
have left no intpreaaion ; or whom the unexpected return
of prosperity has unfitted for the application of its most
wholdome admonitions. Neither the loss of power—of
station --of home—or country ;--no : not even the ter-
rible example of popular vengeance, excited by the injudi-
cious measures of a benevolent, though ill-advised, and ill-
fated Prince—and that Prince their own immediate rela-
tion—seems to have impressed the existing members of
the Bourbon Family with the necessity of tempering the
exercise of regal authority with moderation, and of meet-
ing the firm—and as far as it has yet gone—the Consti-
tutional declaration of the Chamber of Deputies, with a
spirit of conciliation to which their avowed and unques-
tionably sincere attachment to the Throne, and to the per-
son of the Sovereign, gives them an undisputable claim.
The language of the King's reply to the Address of the
Chamber, contains indeed the "fortiter in re "—un-
qualified by one particle of the " suaviter in modo."—
It is firm, even to obstinacy; and peremptory, even to
petulance. What the result may be, is at this moment
beyond human calculation. We know what we desire it
to be, for the sake of France—for the sake of Europe—
and for the sake of Charles X.—but we cannot look, with-
out strong apprehensions, to the too probable result of
such measures as we must expect from the intemperance
of a Monarch, who, at such a crisis, could give vent to
his feelings by explaining —" J'aime micas monter d che-
vat, que monter en charette,"—which the Times has
takes the trouble to explain thus —" I will rather try the
chance of a civil war, than expose myself to the fate of
Louts XVI."

The Courier—whose very name is synonimous with
servility and falsehood--entered last night upon the con-
genial duty of extenuating, or endeavouring to extenuate,
tie ungenerous, if not dishonourable project by which
the Government proposes to !educe the taxation, at the
expence alike of the nation credit or of the national

character, by the reduction of the Four per Cents.—As
iwe have neither space nor leisure to-day, to enter into
lan exposure of the contemptible sophistry, by which this
I worthy advocate of a worthy Ministry attempts to justify
a measure which Mr. BARING. has very properly de-
, flounced as both " impolitic and unjust," we shall
content ourselves by pointing out the monstrous per-
version of tact, to which the satellite has had re-
course. Ile says " Mr. BA RING'S proposal"—for
exchanging with the public creditor 70/. Stock at
five per cent. for every 1001. he holds at four per cent.—
" is clogged with another, which is incompatible with
the very nature of a public debt—namely, that these con-
verted Four per Cents. shell not be liable to redemption
for three to %four generations to come."—low, at what
length of time does the Courier average each genera-
tion ?—Or did he suppose the simple and precise terms
of Mr. BA RING'S proposal, which was limited to fifty
years, had been so soon forgotten by the public ?
There is one part of Mr. lie stusso x's speech, on
Thursday evening, which we think may with strict
propriety be applied to the contemplated reduction of
the public creditor's interest, when, in referring to the
trials of fortitude which the people of England had
endured throughout the unparalleled and gigantic efforts
of the late momentous war, he said, that " during
that period he vainly endeavoured to trace in his memory
the remembrance of any disposition on their part to
commit any breach of faith, which should bear the
slightest character of spoliation or baseness. Amidst all
the calamities under which the country had laboured, and
during the whole of that awful and protracted war, he did
i not recollect a single act on the part of our Government,
on which a man the most jealous of his country's honour
could lay his finger and say it was a spot in our annals."
That the contemplated reduction of the Four per Cents.
would be a stigma upon the national character—under
existing circumstances—we at least shall never cease to
think. It must be, at any time, an ungracious act,
and therefore it should be one of the last acts re-
sorted to by a government:—but when it is proposed
to infringe the terms upon which the people advance
their money in a season of public exigency—and sup-
plied the very sinews by which that " awful and
protracted war" was carried on—to a glorious termina-
tion, we turn at once to the Pension List—and we say
if public faith must be violated, let the reduction ofi
taxation be first effected by curtailing those incomes
which are neither the reward of pecuniary sacrifices in
the time of general necessity, nor of personal services at
any time whatever. Talk of upholding national faith
and public credit, by depriving the public creditor of all
his fair contract, whilst rewards lavished upon the tools
and creatures of boroughmongers, upon venal patriots,
and worthless place-hunters—upon pensioners and sine-
curists, must be paid to the uttermost farthing !—This
would, indeed, be a " breach of faith," and a " stain in
our annals." We shall return to the subject ore long.

Compelled at last by the malignant character assumed
by the nation in the present advanced stage of malady,
the state physicians are roused to the necessity of insti-
tuting general and minute inquiries into the causes other
alarming disease, in order that they may prescribe the
most prompt and effective panacea for a fever at such
an access. With this humane intent, they are each
endeavouring to examine the patient in private, and
with care ; and the result of their scrutiny is, that
they daily discover, in the agonising wretch, so many
frightful infirmities and secret sores, that Petruccio's
Horse becomes by comparison beggared of malady
lively as Bucephelus—and sound all over.
In this emergency, Ministers, dissimulating their real
fears, endeavour to make light of danger, rashly main-
taining that to leave things to their course, will sooner re-
cover the nation, than all the partial remedies with which
political empirics in Lords and Commons can suggest in
this distress, to botch up the Constitution of the couutry—
an opinion in which, alas ! under circumstances we must
acquiesce. Entrusted to such care, the nation we fear can
only hope for redemption by some strong turn indeed in
the course of things. Of what essential use is all your
Senna—your topics in form—or remedies irregular—ap-
plicable only to trifling ails in the fearful list of sickly
complications, and these too remote from the fatally
affected vital. No, no ; before you can administer any
wholesome nostrum, you must first eradicate the moral
malady, and recover the abused patient to habits of
temperance and order. A succession of ministerial
profligates has depraved the British Constitution—once
so beautiful in its purity—so vigorous in its health; to
recover it to life, we must renovate its energies by re-
clamation from vice, and bring it back through every
footstep of its wandering. In the present widely fer-
menting anarchy, behold the inevitable fatal result of
those silent gradual inroads on the people, so imprudently
winked at in a succession of abandoned rulers, who,
sacrificing all to preserve themselves a little hour in place,
and carry into execution political experiments uncalled for
by occasion, and ruinous in consequences, have re-
spectively left to posterity a sacred charge, betrayed,
invaded, hampered, and vitiated, until there is nothing
more to dare—nothing more to surrender—leaguing all
their responsibility to whatever success, or has had nerve to
accept the dangerous inheritance, and incur a nation's
curse by following their footsteps, adding their own quota
of mischief to the long perpetuated evil.
Arbitrary encroachments in free government ever led
—by re-action—to the overthrow of power altogether ;
for, give a spirited people less than their rights and they
will demand more than their rights. The evil attending a
despot in power, is not only to propagate tyranny but
disseminate sedition—for every disciple converted to mis-
rule, he creates a hundred rebels who will admit of no
rule M all ; and thus, a country is never cursed with cor-
rupt ministers, but it is doomed at the same time to stiffer,
at the hand of exasperated malcontents, eagerly hallooed
on by leaders formed by disappointed ambition, or the
audacity of need.
For the relief of the country there is nothing but Reform

—not a Reform to be founded on new experimental insti-
tutions—but established on a recurrence to purity in those
we already possess. To believe that we can prosper in
the distortion and disorder of the Constitution, in which
alone lies the guarantee of our happiness and security,
would be as absurd as to calculate on the peace and
welfare of a family where vice and irregularity had
crept in under a callous, corrupt, and profligate director.--
Why beat the ground, and interrogate the stars, to dis-
cover the causes of our distress, while the sourso of our
suffering notoriously lies in the abuse of our Constitu-
tion—while our only chance of rescue depends on our
return to the fair rectitude of its original principles ?
Effect this—this only--and the distresses of the nation
will cure of themselves : all the rest is gold from sun-;
beams—ropes ofand.

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