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this house in the exercise of OUT icgisktive discretion anti authority,
and confine our power of regulatiug and reforming abuses in the
representation to such eases only as are susceptible of strict legal
3. Because, if the House of Lords were to establish the:practice
tuoettding as usual in private bills, or in bills of pains and Pe-
i.aitier. 10 indispensable in bills of regulation and reform in mat-
tens or election, great delays would ensue and various impediments
be thrown in the way of such wholesome reforms as the lapse of
time and the exigencies of the country are likely to require, and
ruch impediments originating in scruples of this house, warranted
t v neither reason, analogy, nor example, would be highly injurious
to the character of this house, as well as to the progress of sound
: utt,%ement and wholesome legislation in the country.
(Signed) VASSALL HOLLAND.
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LONDON.

SATURDAY, APRIL 10.

Mr. O'CONNELL may be a very honest and efficien

to apprehend—as long as we have a preponderating fleet,
to intercept at pleasure her communications and her com-
merce : we have nothing to apprehend—as long as we
compel her to remain a mere military force, by confining
her maritime faculties to the waters of our Channel, over
which we hold undisputed dominion—or to a patch of the i
Mediterranean, where Gibraltar yet commands egress,
and regress:—but we have EVERY TIIING to appre-
hend—when, by extending her sea coast, she becomes
essentially maritime ; and compelled, of necessity, to
dispute with us the empire of the ocean. Although the
Powers of Barbary have sunk to insignificance and con-
tempt, under ignorance, despotism, and vice ; and the coun-
tries they scourged have become desolate, unproductive
wastes :—yet it never can be forgotten that these very
regions were once the seat of the most maritime people
upon earth ;—that the favourable situation of the ports was
the chief cause of their greatness ;—that this Barbary was
long denominated the garden of the world ;—that under
a horde of pirates she—from her very position—has been
enabled for centuries to outrage and insult the proudest
Powers of Europe ;—and that the choicest productions of
vegetable nature still spring there in profusion wherever
industry is tempted to strike the spade ;—that the soil is en-
riched with prodigious mineral wealth—and the climate be-
yond all others favourable to animal life—(if we except the
eecasional visitations of epidemic,which might be averted
by the prudent precautions resorted to in Europe) —that
the inhabitants are not only numerous, but are also far
advanced in the march of civilization,—that their cities are
powerful and affluent, and, from their vicinity, easily made
to participate in all the advantages, interests, and consi-
deration of those of Europe. To a knowledge and convic-
tion of all this, amongst Christian nations, are these ban-
ditti people of Barbary indebted for the impunity they have
'so long enjoyed, in despite of a thousand acts of insolence
and aggression: for, between two evils, we have hitherto
been fain to choose the least, and preferred suffering at the
hand of these Moorish marauders, contemptible in force,
and despicable in intellectual power, rather than be crushed
by Dome powerful neighbour, enabled, by the conquest of
their territories, to bring a resource and force into com-
bined operation; against which, no one nation could
singly contend. But it was reserved for those enlightened
Ministers who allowed the Russians to pass the Pruth,
to despise so antiquated a prejudice ; and to prove, at the
same time, their impartiality, by permitting the French
in turn —" arracs et baggage "—to slip across the Medi-
terranean. The first Las secured our future banishment
from the Levant ; to the second, we shall soon be indebt-
ed for our expulsion from the Straits.
Should the force now collecting for Algerine conquest
succeed in securing, however slight, a hold of the enemy's
coast, they will become but the advanced guard of a
more powerful army, accompanied by a multitudinous
emigration of citizens, distinguished for science, indus-
try, and arts—courage, enterprise, and capital ; and
these, by the hammer, plough, and loom, will—with the
rapidity of magic—transform the present ungainly face
of Barbary, into a smiling picture of high civilization, and
promising prosperity. All its capabilities of cultivation
and manufacture will instantly be submitted to the test of
experiment; and the dock yard, high road, and canal,
rise every where to promote the transport of produce, and
facilitate the operations of its internal police. To her
present exportatione,—improved in quantity and quality,
—she will almost immediately, add innumerable commo-
dities, of which we hardly suppose her capable ;—and
around her on every side, she will find allies to back her
power, and markets eager to receive her merchandise.
The kingdom of Fez, and Morocco, must soon yield to
the ascendancy of such a neighbour, and—by force, or
complaisance—open to the new settlers protecting porta
upon the Atlantic, by which our cruisers will be baffled,
and Gibraltar become amongst fortresses, what the Pope's
Guard is now amongst the armies of temporal Potentates
—a monument of weakness, and an object of ridicule.
The small-craft privateers that used to harass and insult
our shores, during the brightest days of our naval glory,
will supersede the old Barbary corsairs ; and, exerting a
wider scope of navigation, protected by a double line of
coast, stretching from the Sister Kingdom of France far
north, south, and east, retaliate upon England for the
destruction of French commerce.
Is all this the mere newspaper croaking of disaster? We
answer, No I—Let the British Cabinet still remain blind to
the ruinous consequences of this expedition; wink at the
enterprise, and allow this French armament to reach its des-
tination ; and every day, and every hour, will bring with it
a fatal corroboration of our assertions. As we prophecied
the Conquest of Ey ROYEAN Ty ax EY, SO do we now pre-
dict the Fall of ALGIERS. The French, to prove they
mean no mere naval parade, now talk, to our surprise, of
marching upon the enemy by way of Tunis; a project
which not only includes that State in her hostility and in-
tended conquest, but 'sill render the works thrown up
and improved before Algiers since the EXMOUTH bom-
bardment, of no avail ; while it cuts off the retreat of the
enemy to the mountains behind him, to which, in case of
defeat, it is apprehended he will endeavour to convey his
treasures. To a regular infantry and artillery, com-
manded by the best officers in the world, the devoted Day
has nothing to oppose but an army of wild cavalry, prin-
cipally composed of negro slaves and ragged Arabs, un-
accustomed to warfare, and ignorant of the first elements
of tactic. The result then of the expedition depends upon
England—for Spain is too prostrate, too low in the dust,
to vindicate her interests so fearfully at stake in this
quarter; and England is left, in the alarming eaergsacy,•
to decide for both.
Is it not curious ?—is it not lamentable ?—to bobohl
British senators and journalists, clamouring, as tonal,
on the petty detail at bome-:.questions of divorce,
ban', leather "and prunella,"—while the blow is aiming
from without, at our dearest, sad most important into-
nate t They are like merchants trading with the few
raft= of the world, by -L swinges

Representative of the People in Parliament ; a very use
ful member of that House, in which,—the effervescence
of his heated imagination, and the ebullitions of his excited
temperament being repressed, not only by the established
forms which regulate that grave deliberative assembly,
but by the conscious inferiority of his powers, and the in-
aptitude of his oratorical habits to the sober purposes
of Legislation,—he may be content :with the merit of
utility, where he can never hope to be influential or
dictatorical :—but, as the Head of a Political Associa-
tion, we have long regarded him as the most unsafe
nay, the most dangerous man in society. Not
that we ever ascribed to him, individually, even the con-

temptation of any act, boldly outraging the safety of the
country in itself, or calculated to involve him, personally,
in any dangerous consequences ; but we have felt that his
eagerness for popularity—mob popularity, too !—has led
him, in the pursuit of that" darling passion of his soul," into
excesses which it has been impossible to witness without

trembling for the result. It is true, that, in the moment of
his most apparent enthusiasm, he retains all that self-pos-
• session which enables him to restrain the expression of his

own feelings within the pale, though on the extreme verge,
of legal privilege ; but it is in the effect of his agitation
upon the less prudent, or leas calculating, minds of his
countrymen, that the danger is to be apprehended.—
It is in the effect which his harangues are but too well
qualified to produce amongst men whose feelings, whose
passions, whose prejudices, nay, whose very thoughts, are
kept in a perpetual state of excitement,—and whose most
ardent sensibilities may be easily roused to the very mad-'l,
ness of desperation by the mere recurrence to the wrongs,
the sorrows, the oppression, and the persecutions, of which
they have long considered themselves to be the vic-
tims,—that the mischievous tendency of such inflam-
matory addresses must ever be deprecated. We had
hoped that the calm and moderated tone which Mr.
O'CONNELL assumed in the part which he took in the
debates of the " Collective," was the result of a more ma-

tared reflection upon the achievement of that measure
which opened to him the doors of the Senate House ; and
that the system of agitation, to which he deemed it neces-
sary to resort for the attainment of that object, would give
place to a laudable endeavour to allay every particle of
political ferment, and to realise those promises of conci-
liation and good feeling without which the tranquillity of
Ireland never can be secured.
We find, however, that we had given him credit for
principles which he did not possess, and for motives by
which
,he never has been actuated. His Addreeees to
" the Society of the Friends of Ireland"—a revival of
bis old Association—breathe—•not the spirit of the Patriot
—but the turbulence of the factious partizan ; not the
wisdom orthe senator, but the rancor of the disappointed
detnagegee. We shall return to the .object on Monday.

The murder then is coming to light I and the lasting
Peekifieu of the* Barbary territories is a thing really,
site all, seriously, and, it would seem, unntokstedly,
projected by France.--Fasuce MISTUU or BAR-
BARY 1.-411 there an Englishman interested in the we'-
fate of die country, whom such a suggestion has not
power to oar& ?--Fsa sic& MIBTRESS or BARBARY !
France mitre& of Europe t for such she would more ef-
footuallY-beisme by such a possession than by any means
formerly 4404 curler heriunbitiousEniiror.—FßANCll
AISYSIIIIIit BAR.BARY Sacrifice India to her ag-
e us dry ceding the precious Canadas
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their capital—nay, their existence, as a nation. But
presently, when the blow has fallen, the cry will follow :
—then shall we have inquiries into the past, and accu-
sations and recriminations ;—and the Times—the Minis-
terial Times—no longer considering it " absurd that a
British Ambassador should remonstrate with the Govern-
ment of France on the consequences of so formidable
an expedition"—turn round upon his patrons, and, join-
ing the world, as be is wont, arraign them the loudest
of all, for having permitted themselves to be so disgrace-
fully outwitted to our national discomfiture and eternal
regret ;—reproaching them as presumptuous soldiers un-
fit to govern nations—who surrendered more to our
rivals in peace, than they ever could wrest from us in
the longest and the bloodiest wars.

By the death of the Grand Duke of Bs DEN, the arch-
diplomatist at Vienna is furnished with a delightful op-
portunity for indulging in additional intrigue ;—and the
gothic EMPEROR, for gratifying the pride of his heart,
by clipping, and portioning out, in Aulic Council, a new
fate for the people of the Grand Duchy.—What a glori-
ous occasion for once more arresting the progress of li-
beral sentiment, and of clapping an extinguisher on the
constitutional light which was so rapidly pervading that
district of the confederation, to the great annoyance of his
Imperial Majesty ! The decision of the Frankfort diet
may be easily foreseen, when we recollect that the Aus-
trian stands pledged for Bavaria, and will be rejoiced to
give a cold bath to Wirtemberg, by this closer approxi-
mation of her Bavarian neighbour. The possession of
Baden has long been a public favourite topic at Munich,
where this much desired annexation is not at all doubted.
We confidently predict that before many weeks have
elapsed the Bavarian flag will float over the Baden ter-
ritory.

Whenever it becomes the duty of the historian to trans-
mit to posterity a graphic sketch of the most prominent
actor in the most awful period of our modern annals—
the " never to-be-forgotten" CASTLEREAOI4 it miy
afford matter of curious speculation to contrast thu cha-
racter and the mental attributes of such a man with those
of CROMWELL.—In the style of their Parliamentary ha-1
rangues, at least, a strong—a marvellous- analogy ex-
isted between them. The incessant use of absurd, un-
meaning, and inappropriate metaphor—that foamed and
bubbled upon " the weak, washy, everlasting flood" of
their discourse ; —the intentional and perpetual involution
and circumvolution of their sentences ;—the inyene-
trable obscurity of their purposes;—the ambiguity of
their words—that fluttered about them, " lap-wing like—
tOngue far from heart ;"—the " confusion wo:se con-
founded" in which they delighted to mystify their own
thoughts, and to delude their hearers ;—these were points
of resemblance so palpably and so peculiarly strik-
ing, as to justify a belief, either, that " the Mal-a-
prop of politics" had chosen Caohtwau. as the mo-
del, of his political existence, or ha& derived from Na-
ture soma of those dangerous qualities which had only
once before been permitted to endanger the safety of the
British Constitution, and the perpetuity of the British
Monarchy.—The particularity of manner which we have
endeavoured to point out, has hitherto baffled every at-
tempt at imitation ; but we must admit that in an article
which the Times put forth yesterday, we recognized
the most successful effort that has yet been made to
restore the graces of that style which we had hoped
was lost to us for ever. We allude to the mention
of M. EYWARD'II letter, in defence of CAPo D'lll-•
TRIAB from the attacks of the Courier. That de-
fence was, it seems, the subject of a letter addressed by
M. EYWARD to the Editor of a Paris papor ; and has
since been transmitted to " ourselves" of the Times, with
a letter "requesting its publication in our columns." This
"puff direct" is all fair, and perfectly allowable ; nor should
WE " notice the matter" at all but for the very extraordi-
nary manner in which the subject has been treated by " the
Thunderer," who says: " We took no notice of the matter
at the time, in the first place, because we did not feel
called upon to correct the mistakes of our contemporary;
and in the second place because we did not feel ourselves
bound to be the champions of CAPo D'ISTRIAS." So far
we think the Times perfectly right. Nobody now a-days
even dreams of defending their own conduct, or the con-
duct of their friends, from the attacks of such a thing as the
Courier;—and M. EYxenD might have saved himself
the trouble of vindicating even CAPo D'ISTRIAS from di*
venal aspersions of that " Ministerial hack." But when
the Times, after declaring that " he did not feel bouni Is
be the champion of CAPO DISTRIAS," endeavours to
palliate the intrigues of that ambitious personage ; and
talks of him as " a sinners friend of Greece," and asserts
his willing belief that " His Excellency has done all the
good in his power during the two years of his provisional
Government;" we are bound to say, that he presents to
the world a most ingenious specimen of the CASTLE-
REAGH style of argument ;—whilst he indulges in a me-
taphor worthy only of that illustrious when he

orator,
" acquits his Excellency of the absurd charge of setting
np Anarchy for his successor." But we suppose this
" Anarchy" is somewhat akin to " that Deformed, who
has been a vile thief this seven year, and goes up and
down like a gentleman ;—wears a key in his ear and a
lock hanging by it; and borrows money in Gon'a name,
the which he bath used so long that now men grow hard-
hearted, and will lend nothing for GOD'S sake. Pray
pa examine him upon that point."

By an extraordinary conveyance, advice' are this morn-
ing received from Vienna to the 4th instant. From these
we are favoured with the following interesting commer-
cial intelligence:—" Never has there been such an abun-
dance of unemployed money in this capital ; discounts are
at two per cent. ; the funds are getting up—four per
cents. for money 991, for time 1001 ; two and a ka(f
per cents. for money 681; bank shares for money 1380,
for time 1405. Although the prices are high, most
he fends are purchased for foreign countries."
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