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London, England, 1829-06-20 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1829.

It seems that the prosecution of Mr. LAW-
LESS has been determined upon, and with what

soundness of policy is a question which every
well-wisher to the peace of Ireland is hourly put-

ting to himself. The great object of the Catholic
Relief Bill was the suppression of all those bad
and unsocial feelings which characterized the
community of Ireland for a long and dismal in-
terval—the tranquillity of Ireland was the object

of that great legislative measure ; but how can
this object, so desirable, be obtained, if the men
who were the most forward in the promoting of

Emancipation, are doomed to be the victims of a
Crown prosecution ? The charge against Mr. LA w-
LESS is, that in the months of August and Sep-
te►nber last, he proceeded at the head of an im-

meme multitude of the Irish population through
certain counties iii the north of Ireland, organizing
the Catholic rent, and rousing the public mind to
petition for Catholic Emancipation. It is true
the multitudes which followed Mr. LAWLESS
in his northern mission were unexampled. He
there developed a feeling in favour of Irish free-

dom which the common enemy were astonished
at—but it is equally true that, with the exception
of one instance, we believe at Ballibay, (where
the imprudence of the injured party was the
principal cause of the calamity) there was
not a single finger hurt during Mr. LAW-
LESS'S progress through the North ; but we
have heard that in the counties of Meath,
and Lowth, and Monaghan, he was most suc-
cessful in the suppression of .gibbon Associa-
tions,—those secret and pernicious confedera-
cies, which caused such terror in every place in
which they existed. These associations Mr.
LAWLESS in many instances put down by his
animated and eloquent appeals to the people,
from' the altars of the respective chapels he vi-
sied. We understand these facts will be clearly
established in evidence. It will be also proved,

that in every town and parish he visited, he was
accompanied by the Magistracy,--many of
whom, Mr. JOHN M'CLINTocK, of the 1
county Louth, in particular, complimented Mr.
LAWLESS on the conciliatory and kind spirit
in which he executed the duties of his mission.
Much better there were no necessity for such
inquiries and such details—much better that the
past should be forgotten, and that a new book,
with Ireland . and her agitators, was Opened, in
which the events of the future should alone be
recorded. AB men, of all denominations, could
then start fair in the race of patriotism—tile Pro-
testant, and Catholic, and the Dissenter, could then
run together, and the race be won, not by the
favourite or the parasite of power, but by the
man of talent, of industry, and public integrity.
We therefore have no hesitation in . lamenting
such a prosecution as that against Mr. LAWLESS,
not so much for the sake of that gentleman, who
will, perhaps, not be much lowered in the con-
fidence of his countrymen by such a proceeding,
but for the sake of that nationai harmony and
good humour which it is the interest of the em-
pire and ttie•Qpvernment to preserve uninter-
rupted. 'Such prosecutions as those we now de,
scribe, are beneath the character of a magnani
mous and enlightened Cabinet.

French Papers are only remarkable for
one fact, the great depression of the Rentes
Perpetuelles, which fell on the 17th from 49 to
451; they were for an instant even at 44i,
FRIENCII FUNDL—PARis, JUNE 17.—Five per Cents.
108 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 79f. 15c. ; ntples "Stock,
85f. 25c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 68ff. ; Spanish Rente
Perpetuelle, 45if. ; Haytian Loan, 470 f. ; Exchange on
London, one month, 25f. 44c.; three months, 25f. 30c.—
Cour: Authentique.

The Allgetneine Zeitung to the 14th inst.'
contains the following extracts :
ANCONA, MAY2B•--All the letters from the lonian
Islands agree that the difficulties which lately arose be-
tween the Commanders of the gaglith and Russian squa-
drons were adjusted, and that Sir P. Malcclrn and Count
Heyden perfectly agreed, since the Russians confine thztri,
selves to the blockade of the Dardanelles. On the other
band, the Greeks complain bitterly of the new English pro-
clatnatioz, which declares all the blockades instituted by
the Greeks invalid with respect to the coasts and porty•not
included in the Morea and the Cyclades, because they are
deprived by this measure of the fruit pf al', the advantages
on the continent of Greece which they have so deatly
earned, and their future destiny is exposed to great risk in
the negociations to be opened at Constantinople. It is
said
that they are resolved to exert themselves to the utmost,
both by negotiation and arms, to preserve the positions
they have taken in Livadis, Albania, and Thesssly. !t

asserted that Count Capo d'lstria will again apply to the
Great Powers, and endeavour to obtain the revocation of
an ordinance which endangers the dearest interests of
Greece. The Count is said to be resolved to lay down
the.office of President, if lie cannot succeed in prevailing
on the Cabinets to give their protection to Greece with-
out limitation : he does not think he can govern without
this extensive guarantee. The French agents in Greece
are reported to participate in the views of the President in
this respect, but to be of opinion that he must remain at the
head of the Government, and without regard to that procla-
mation prosecute the military operations, because the exten-
sion of the frontiers of Greece to the Gulfs of Arta and Vol°
is considered in France as necessary to the tranquillity of
the East, and no European_POwer will employ force to
deprive the Greeks of the -advantages* gained by them on
the continent, and oblige them to evacuate those countries.
It seems that the Greek Commanders act on this principle,
though the last protocol signed at London, with which
Count Capo d'lstria is already acquainted, expressly re-
quires the evacuation by the Greeks of the provinces of
the Greek continent. This stipulation seems to have for
its object to facilitate the negociations to be opened at Con-
stantinople, it being assumed at London as a principle that
a valid establishment of the Greek state cannot be
effected with the concurrence of the Porte, and that the
latter will not agree to it, so long as it sees the GI eeks un-
der arms.
JAssY, MAY 26.—1 t is reported here that the garrison
of Silistria made a sally on the 23d, and got possession of
some Russian redoubts, which were recovered by the Bus_
sinus, after an obstinate engagement. The Russian General
Parowski is said to be wounded, and a Turkish Aga to
have been made prisoner. It is also affirmed that the van-
guard of the Grand Vizier's army, coming from Shumla,
has approached Silistria. The Rusian flotilla on the Da-
nube• already- bombards Silistria, and it is thought
that the main attack will be made from that
side. We have nothing official, however, respecting these
reported events, and therefore they much need confirma-
tion.• Some houses here have letters from Odessa, which
mention a report of a naval action in which Admiral
Greigh had captured many ships.f. General Paskewitsch,
too, is said to have engaged and defeated the Turks in ad-
vance of Akhalzik. The water of the Danube is un-
commonly high, and it is apprehended that this circum-
stance may interrupt the communications with the right
bank of the Danube, and throw difficulties in the way of
the works for the siege of Silistria.
VIENNA, JUNE B.—Metalliques, no price quoted;
Bank Shares, 1,116.

The Russian bulletins from the camp before Silistria,
hitherto received, are of the 18th, 22d, and 29th May.
t The accounts from Odessa to the end of May, men-
tion the burning of a sixty-gun-ship in port, and the cap-
ture of some coasting vessels.

That flagrant and unjustifiable Bill for the
enclosure of Hampstead Heath—though Mr.
SPENCER PERCEVAL, with singular ingenuity,
discovered that it was a Bill for something
,else—
was last night thrown out in the Commons. Few
things of late have given us greater pleasure
than this. The heath, like the hill
.at Rich-
mond, is the pride of upwards of a million
of respectable Londoners ; they resort to it as a
place of agreeable relaxation, after the fatigues
of a day, a week, or a season of hard labour—
they consider it, in fact, as the Montpellier of
Middlesex, and no one who knows anything of
human nature, • or has the slightest sympathy
with the harmless amusements of his fellow
creatures, can do otherwise than condemn a
Bill whose main, though scarcely avowed
object, is to curtail, if not to annihilate them
altogether. Surely it is high time that this
rage fur building, this architectural influenza
should stop. Already it has suffocated the fresh
_air that used to circulate freely through the me-
trapolis from the South, the East, and the West,
and should it now succeed in tainting the
" Hygeian " breezes of the North, the most
opulent men in London will be the physician
and the undertaker,