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very worst of
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re entertained

lotives of syrn-
uite in the op-
-11, we are now
pally as malt
rs of the latter

discovery with
hat the French
either country
good header,
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d England
is inspired the
,ailing mania ;
ilerst example
Night Prince
men, are go-
!own again.--
se are playing
e them we are
ion themselves
strongest ally
ion of war,. is'
if the Cry the
s doing in the
of that Paper,-
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ly unfolded
;al by a French
amain of the
r that Gnvern.
ty tiith ihefree-
ntinually urge
• measures •for
if them would
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in& pimp would
rilistp MA tiro

trylo adopt the monarchical principle, or of seeing their"
subjects excited to resistance b 3 the example of her,
idly& ;"
" Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us !"
The Public will see that we have not misrepresented
the view which these war-patriots of our's take of the
piitrlt crisis, and that it 'is, in truth, (if the world
caulk-believe them) for the sake of Old England, and
all that is dear to us as men and as Britons, that we
ought now to go to war against France!!!
After suchspecimens of home patriotism, the Public
cannot be surprised at another piece Of momentous
information with which the Chronicle Layouts its
readers. a YaT—up to the present hour—we have
not heard of Government making any protest or re-
oroxgrance against pretensions of so dangerous and
torpid a nature, which may afterwards be quoted as
precedents," Etc. WAS there ever anything like this ?
The Constitution, the freedom, the independence of
England in danger ; and its Ministers not to take
one step to avert the calamity—not to make even
a proteit or remonstrance against it !--a We (at;
least) have not heard" of their doing so. Where
can the writer for the Chronicle's eats bare been
for this month past ? Has he been shut up as in a
banciCox all the while, and secluded from all inter-
course with others who could tell him what is going

on in the world ? 'Does he never read the matters of
fact in his own paper? Is he—can he be ignorant
of the declarations which Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr.
CA141411410 have made in both_Houses of Parliament,
and which have given a degree of satisfaction,
to men of all parties, beyond example in the.history
dour Country ? True -- the remonstrances made

have not been against the French invading England.
to put down its Constitution.—Here, we admit, is a
door by which the Chronicle:may back out of its
shameless assertion; and if it chases to take this way
of reconciling itself to truth, we can have no objection.
We cannot leave thethronidq without adverting
to one more reason which it gives for going to war.
The Public have heard much of the number of
rich and titled British subjects who have chosen of
late years to spend their incomes on the Continent,
and to liave the burdens of the country to be borne
by the poorer and more industrious classes, who find
it necessary, and are happy to find it not against their
tastes, t live at home, and do all the good they
can to the land of their birth. Now, if we keep at
peace, it seems it will be attended with the melan-

.' choly consequence of bringing all these wandering
gentry home again, and dooming them to live in the
midst of their own tenantry, and, asoccasion eleman ds
to do honour to the Cow t of their own Sovereign.—
We niust again quote the Chronicle's own words—
,. We Ernst the French Government will be thwarted;
but should it be otherwise, and the monarchical grin-
• cit;le gain the day, adieu (how pensive the strain !) to
the consequence which the higher ranks of England
have hitherto assumed on the Continent. They will,
in fact, be insulted wherever they shew their face,••—,
but this, perhaps, they may not regard ; and it is
,sore their efair than that of the People of England in
gateral."—tls 4, Indeed !
Whilcthe tliroeide is thus clumsily: attempting to
enlist in favotir of. the war these " higher ranks of
1 England" who. love " consequence" upon the Con-

tinent, its Eastern ally is •trying whether it cannot
operate another diversion, through the medium of
the religious world. " The cause of the Spaniards,"
it asserts, "forms so exact a parallel with that of the
Dutch (in the time of CHARLES V.) that we defy
any one to discover the minutest difference. It is that
of civil and religious liberty in the broadest misc."—
We beg the religious world not to be alarmed. The
cause of the Spaniards—of religious liberty in the
broadest sense—is the cause of a Constitution which
declares that " the religion of the Spanish nation is,
and shall always be, the Catholic, Apostolic, and Ro-
man, Me only true religion."

We do not like to inquire'into motives, when we

can have fair fact and argument to contend with ;
bit we think that it must be manifest to the world,
that such deliberate mistatements and falsities as we
have now exposed, must spring from something very
different from a sincere and honest desire to instruct
the Public as to their true interests at the present
eventful crisis.

In the debates last night, in the House of Commons,
on the Sinking Fund, Sir HENRY PARNELL threw
out a suggestion as to the reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, which, as far as we know, has the merit
of novelty, and seemed to attract considerable atten-
till, in the House. At present the country is burdened
With the payment of a large amount of interminable
annuities, which can only be redeemed by paying off
theprincipal for the loan of which they were granted.
It is well known in the money market that intermi-
nable annuities, at one rate of interest, are of equal
value with terminable annuities at a higher rate of
interest—the longer the period for Which the annuity
is granted causing a proportionate less annual sum to
be paid. Sir HENRY PARNELL'S suggestion went to re-
commend the conversion of the interminable annuities,
paid as interest for the National Debt, into terminable
annuities. The Hon. Member stated, that by giving
the holders of these annuities one per cent. more in.
serest than they have now a right to, for a period of
4:: years, this would make the annuities then to ter-
minate equal in value to interminable annuities ; and
that, consequently, by this measure the whole debt
might be redeemed in 45 years. Mr. RicAnno highly

approved of theseneral principle, but said he thought
theHOnauiableMember had underrated its advantages.
—A* the present high price of Stocks, or when a
largesnfn mast be given to acquire a share of the in-
terminable annuities, it would not require so long a
period as 45 years, with an additional one per cent. to
convert them into terminable annuities. The whole
sum necessary to pay this additional one per cent. on
the whole debt, Sir HENRY PARNELL calculated at
0,000,000 per year, but if Mr. RICA RDO'S estimate
be correct, it will be less than this. We have thought
it right to bring this plan distinctly before our Readers,
but r<e shall postpone to a future time giving any
opinion as to its practicability.

This forenoon we received Bayonne Papers to the
sth, which contradict the* statements in the French
Ultra Journals as to the operations of General BES-
sivms. The accounts from Madrid, in these papers,
are only to the 24th ult. and are of no importance.
The fullowirig are extracts:—
BAYONNE, MARC!! 4.

The troops whose arrival wa; announced, continue
to come in regular succession, and almost all go into
cantonments in the villages on the frontiers of Spain.
The 23J of the line, and 7th of light infiintry, ate
the first which go into the camp forniing between
Urragne and the Bidassoa, and which consist, it is
said, of 10 or 12,000 men. A great- number of ves-
sels have arrived in our port, from Bretagne, laden
with grain, which has given occasion to great specu-
lations and purchises. The contractors for bread and
forage to the army have bought 12 cargoes.
General Quesada has returned to our city, after
having embarked a great quantity of muskets and
ammunition, and a large sum of money, on board
of three barks, belonging to the Defenders of the
Faith, which were at Socoa, and were to sail yester-
day. The General having learnt that three or four
vessels of the Constitutional party, sent from Bilboa,
were cruizing in the neighbourhood, probably did
not think proper to embark. The Trappist remains
at St. Jean de Luz. where be has become an object.
of the ridicule and contempt of the inhabitants and:
the French soldiers. The following is sent us from
that town : •

" The Catalonians must be very fanatic and; ig-
norant to have: suffered themselves to be led away
by so stupid and fanatic a man as this Trappist:.
who, by means,of hii pretended inspirations, would.
make us believe that at his entrance into Spain. thbse
whom he calls the enemies o► religion would vauislt.
at the sight of the Crucifix, which he always carries'
about with him ; yet he has not ventured to pass the
Bidassoa with 20 of his followers, though there was 1
only a weak post of Constitutionalists on the other side;
neither has he succeeded, as he boasted, in allaying
the tempest to facilitate the departure of the vessels;
and lastly, though he pretends to be invulnerable to
powder and cannon, he has declined acceding to the
proposal of a serjeant of the 23d, to stand (with the
Cross in his hand) the fire of hii musket at the dis-
tance of 50 paces. These people (the Defenders of
the Faith) cannot inspire our soldiers with much con-
fidence, for we all despise them."
In our opinion, however, the Trappist with his
Cross would obtain the same success in Castille as in
Catalonia, especially among the country people.
The regular Mail from Madrid of the 23d has not
yet arrived at Bayonne. We do not know whether
it has been stopped by the band of Merino, at Sarno-
sierra: however, we have news from Old Castille by
way, of Valladolid, the Mail from Vittoria and the
three Biscayan Provinces. The news spread by the
Committee of the Faith, that Bessieres was marching
to the Ebro with 10 or 12,000 men, is false.

A letter from Madrid of the 23d ult. via Bayonne,
states a very prevalent report in that capital, that
there would be immediately formed in Andalusia,
Valencia, Catalonia, and Gallicia, separate Govern-
ments, which shall provide for the defence of their
respective territories, detaching themselves from the
capital.

In a subsequent column we have given the only
articles of intelligence worth quoting from the French
Papers of Sunday. The Duke d'ANGOULEME is ex-
pected to set out for the Army on the 15th inst. No.
thing of importance occurred in the Chamber of De-
puties on Saturday. The expulsion of M. MANUEL
has increased the acrimony of party considerably,
and while the Colonels are issuing Orders of the Day
condemning the conduct of MIRCIEIt, the serjeant of
the National Guard who refused to seize on M. MA-
/MEI/and conduct him out of the Chamber, another
party have presented him with a sword of honour.

Private letters from Paris state, that since the affair
of M. MANver.., and the knowledge of the Portu-
guese Governments resolution to adopt the cause of
Spain, the monied interest at Paris have become more
confident that hostilities will not commence. It it
sufficiently ascertained that at Bourdeaux, Lyons.,
Marseilles, and all the commercial towns in Franc4l
the opinions of the people are opealfttpiessed against
the war. A Gentleman who arrived itr•Paiis a tew
days ago from the South of Prance states v tint on.
the whole of., his journey he found the same lenti-
ments to prevail very generally, so much, ki indeed
that 99 out of one hundred appeared not otriy averse
but hostile to a war with the Peninsula. '
Accounts from Bayonne, oldie 4th instant, stilt*
that the valet-de-chambre of Lord Frigaele9ollleit4l
SET had been in that city sig wait!ggfer :hit I
master, whence it was insimineder
' olise inVenaleileit
circumstance had detained his thhigiiiiilhaltiel
.• • .i,rof •.•

BRIGHTON, MARCH 10.

It gives Us heartfelt satisfaction to state, that the
return of gout, which affected his Nla3vaires hand,
is likely to be but of very short duration. The inflam-
matory symptoms and the pain have much abated
since yesterday; and confident hopes are: entertained
that the whole will entirely have subsided, at farthest,
in a day or two. In all other respects, his MAJUTT'S
health and spirits are remarkably good.

THE ARMY.

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MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
OFFIECE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 7, 1823•
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Josiah Grant,
from half-pay, to be Second Captain, ♦ice Marlow, retired
on half-pay; Second Captain John Gordon, from half-pay, to
be Second Captain, vice Walsh, retired on half-pay.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieutenant John Radcliff,
from half-pay, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Bruyeres, re-
tired on half-pay.