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London, England, 1830-03-04 00:00:00

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MARCH 4.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Rank Stock shut Do. Do. Jul.& Jan. 19i
4 per Cent. Red. shut India Stock, 242 40
3 per Ct. Cons. 921•* 1 S per Cent. 1751, 921
31 per Ct. 1818, 1001 £lOOO Excli.Bills 76 7
51 per Ct. Rad. 1001 1 1 d5OO Ditto 76 7
3 per Cent. 10211 1 £lOO and £2OO Do. 76 7
4 per Ct. 1826, shut Bank for Ace. 220 19
Long Ann. shut India for Acct. 240
Do. 30 Years, 191 . Cons. for Ace. 921 1
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Brazil Bds, S pr Ct. 691 Ditto 100, 481
Ditto Acct. 691 70 691 Mex. Bds. S per Ct.
Colom. Bds.6 per Ct. Do B. 1825,6 p Ct.
Do. ads. 1824, 23 21 Do. Ace. 261
Do. Ace. 231 Port. Bds. S pr Ct. 591 60*
Danish Bonds, 3p. Ct. 741 si Do. Ace, 591 601 60 1
Do. Acc. 75 Ruse. Bds. 1822, 5 pret. 10111 1
Greek Bonds, S p Ct. I Fr. Rts, S per Ct. 1091.
Do. 8.1625, 5 pCt. 46 411 &change, 151.65 e.
Ditto Ace. 46* 211181
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO trel.tleti .
SHAWL PAID. 11.1 smog.
Anglo Blezicon (les. at siff.fus) 100 100 40
Brazilian Company go 5 101
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Do. National 25 10 21 *
United hies, (las. at £1 pm.) 40 591 21 e 221
Ditto Subscrip. 2 5
Phenix 50 57 401

The most important session of the French Chambers
since the restoration, was opened by CHARLES X. in
person on Tuesday. The Speech delivered on this occa-
sion will stand a most advantageous comparison with our
own : indeed, it is infinitely more explicit and satisfac-
tory. There is one passage, which deserves to be most
emphatically repeated : I HAVE SYMPATHISED
IN THE SUFFERINGS which a long and rigo-
rous winter has inflicted upon my people : but cha-
rity has multiplied its succours, and it is with a
lively satisfaction that I have seen the generous cares
lavished upon indigence in ALL PARTS OF THE KING-
nom, and particularly in my good city of Paris."
Why did not the composers of the Address of
GEORGE IV. put words something like these into the
mouth of their gracious Muter, instead of mocking the
feelings of the people, and setting truth at defiance, by
talking of partial distress? The answer is so obvious,
that we shall not offend the good sense of our readers, by
anticipating it in these columns.
In the attempt made by the KING to assuage that irri-
tation which prevails among his subjects, there is one sen-
tence which is apparently pregnant with ominous allusion.
4 THE CHARTER has placed the public liberties under
the safeguard of the rights of ma' CROWN. These rights
are SACRED." It is by no means unlikely that the
reply of the People will be—" Your rights are sacred,
so long as they are exercised for the good of
your subjects. But what is to become of us,
if your MAJESTY chooses your advisers from
the leaders of a faction, known to be the sworn and in-
veterate enemies of that Charter, on whose inviolability
all our hopes of happiness and prosperity—as a free
people—are exclusively founded ?"
We shall look with intense anxiety to the proceedings
of the Lower Chamber. In the meantime, it is
worthy of remark that the Gazette de France—which
gives the speech—also contains a virulent attack
an the leaders of the Liberal Party. We are delighted
to perceive that the great patriarch of human liberty—
LATAYETTI—.4Vai at his post, and surrounded by the
elite of the party. We need only name BENJAMIN
CONSTANT, BIGNON, ETIENNE, SEBASTIAN', MIR-
TIN DE V AUX, and ROYER COLLARD. The CRUM" of
freedom could not be in better hands, nor more elo-
quently pleaded than it is sure to be, by these
irnaments
of their country and their generation.

The death of Admiral HARVEY having caused a
vacancy in the representation for Essex, three candidates
have already advertised their pretensions—Colonel Con-
Tana, Mr. BILANISTON, and Mr. LONG WELLESLEY.
Of these, if we are to judge of their fitness by their
addresses—which, we apprehend, are put forth by
the respective parties to guide the county in the
formation of its opinion—the popular preference, that
is, the preference on pure principle, must be given
without hesitation to Mr. WELLESLEY. We know
nothing—except by name—of any one of the Candi-,
dates : and him, of whom we judge the best, report her
made known to us by the most inauspicious of intro-
ductions—we mean, his private Chancery case, with all
its concomitant calumnies and contradictions. ant
the yell of slander, or the exaggerations of personal
hate, never weigh with us in our impartial estimate• el
public men—or of men standing forward to WINN'
public. The principles avowed by Mr. Wziaast.mt it
his address, are popular principles: be advocates Par-
liamentary Reform, on a tolerably extensive scale—
large reductions of taxation—and the abolition a
political jobbing. We do not, for all that, think that he'
goes far enough: nevertheless, if he be sincere hi
his advocacies eatenUs, we do not fear that the rest will
come. The very condition of the country will drive a
sincere man—if he be not utterly destitute of judgment
—the whole length that sincerity ought to go.
As to Mr. BRAMSTON, he positively says nothing,
that he solicits the votes of the freeholders—for the
all conceivable reasons, that Mr. BRA MITOWARE
g to say. He is.the ministerial canvasser, and he
the value of the hacknied adage, the least mid it
soonest mended. What, indeed, can a man my to
t community whose suffrages he solicits in thine
these, whop it is known' to that wirsitaky
upholds the mischief which commas k
1, and glories in his connexion with those,
incapable and averse from 'skewing the pablis
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occasion—will not suffer itself to be jobbed like a borough,
even though the whole influence of Government shall be
employed to degrade it. Let us hope that it will unite
in firm phalanx to assert its elective independence, and
to repudiate by acclamation the man who comes to
insult it by insinuating his Ministerial attachments, and
the sources which he thence commands of rewarding
the votes of freemen. There is no reward for the vote
of a true freeman, except that which is inherent in the
vote itself, from the consciousness that it is given with
purity.

Colonel Cow YEAS, though we have reason to believe
that he starts upon independent principles, and even
popular interest—we mean that of the yeomanry and
farmers of the county—says hardly more than his
nisterial rival. This is a serious bevue in the
gallant aspirant for &sex, if—as we have been pri-
vately assured—his feelings are with the people. It will
not do—in times of national trial and emergency, such'
as these—to leave to the conjecture of a whole consti-
tuency points of such vital importance, as the poli-
tical bias and determination of the candidate who
claims its voices. Colonel Cots TERS—•-it is affirmed—
goes even much farther in the race of amelioration
and reform than his popular opponent, Mr.WiLLEsi.aY,
preemies to go : but the freemen of Essex will do well
to require from the gallant CoLowet a similar Mani-
festo of his opinions and intentions, to that which
has been volunteered by his Rival, and—in default of
compliance—to give their suffrages where, alone, the
purest principle is avowed. We do not make these re-
marks, in any spirit of unfair preference for Mr. Wit-
' LIZSLIY, nor in any disparagement of the pre-
tensions of Colonel Cow Tans: all that we shall ob-
serve now is, that Mr. WILLEILZT'S declaration in
favour of extensive Parliamentary Reforms, and animate
diets and great reduction of the public burdens, gives
him a superiority of claim over his competitor, which
nothing but equal explicitness—and a higher standard
of public purity—on the part of Colonel CON YEAS,
can, or ought to, supersede.

Intelligence has this day transpired respecting the
stoppage of the Trade with China. It is stated that a
dispute bad arisen between the Company's Agents and
the China authorities ; and that all communication
between the ships and the shore had been suspended. It
was even said that all the vessels had dropped down to
Urmston Bay. The American vessel, by which this intel-
ligence was given, passed the Celia, however, so rapidly,
that more could not be understood : until the next ac-
counts, therefore, we must remain in the dark, as to the
particulars of this matter.

CITY, TWILLTK O'CLOCK.
MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING.

1 Deb1ia......... 0
1 Waterford ..... 0
I Guero.&Jersey 0
0 Lrevrard Islands 0

1 France ..... 0
1 Flanders 0
0 Holland. 0
1 Hamburgls

O Lisboa 0
o Jennies 0
O Swedes 0
O Skates ...... 0

Consols which left off yesterday at 921 1, opened at the earns
peke, after which they were done at 92i, 92j I. and at present may
is quoted 04 Buyers.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing at present.
The King of France's speech, which has been anxiously looked
for by the speculators, has at length arrived; and, with the ex.
caption of the latter part, in his address to the peers of France,
in which he says you will repel the perfidious insinuations
which malevolence seeks to propagate, and if culpable ma.
nceuvres should raise up against my Govanment—this latter

part of his address is rather looked upon as a foreboding of some
great opposition to his Government, and which may cause gran
agitations in the capital. It is evident that the French funds have
lowered sines the above speech ; therefore it is conclusive that the
lance part has not given satisfaction to the Parisians.
Madras Papers to the 18th Oct. Cape of Good Hope to the 10th
Dec. and Mauritius to the 29th Nov. have been received at the
North and South American Coffee-house. The Cape Papers con-
tain an account of the French force having burnt Taniatavie, in the
Island of Madagascar; the consequence of which is,*tlie total ces-
sation of intercourse between that country and the Mauritius. The
cause of this strange conduct on the part of the French is not ex.
planed.

The Madras Papers state, that the monsoons may be considered
as fairly set in, and a large quantity of rain has fallen at intervals.

Ftom Calcutta they state that the Half Bans has ceased to agi•
tate, and the new Union Bank Is just about commenting active
operations.

The Mauritius Papers contain a Government notice for repeal-
ing the ordinance of the 12th September, 1827, establishing a
Chamber of Commerce in the Wand, and for permitting the forma.
don of a new Chamber of COMM* upon other regulations.
According to the French papers received this morning, it appears
that the expedition to Algiers meets with some difficulty in regard
to procuring seamen The letter from Mar.eiles of the 23d of July,
states the principle Broker there has freighted 120 of the largest
vessels In that port, and three or four thousand cavalry are to em.
bark. Six steens.vessels are expected at Toulon to keep up the

communication between the Barbary coast and France, when the
expedition sails.

We have a report, said to be brought by the Mac Naghten from
Madras, that an insurrection has broke out in China.

HALF-FAST ONE.
The extreme fluctuation in Consols during the morning has been
about per cent.—from 91 to 92j for the accouht. At present they
are ailf I, and 92i for money, with Hide businessdoing. The King
of France's Speech hu not had much effect on the Funds. •

The approaching Budget of our Ministers is anxiously looked for.
In the Foreign Market Greek Bonds has been the favourite spe-
culation this day : they have got up from 46 to 49. In other secu-
rities little doing. •

Cow xs, 31aacn 3.—The Celia, arrived at St. Helena, from the
Mauritius, spoke cif the Cape of Good Hope an American ship, ap—
parently light, and the Master seemed anxious to communicate that
an Insurrection had taken place among the Chinese, and that the
shipping had left for Urmanstin Bay, owing to it *log blown hard.
No further particulars were obtained.

The Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester,
and the Princess Sophia, took an airing together yester-
day in the Parks. The Duke of Gloucester joined the
royal party on their return to the residence of the Prin-
cess Augusta, in the King's Palace, St. James's. Great
numbers of the nobility and gentry called yesterday and
on Tuesday at the residence of the Princess Augusta, to
make their inquiries after her Royal Highness on her re-
turn to town.

The Aastrian Ambassador and the Princess Esterhuy
honoured the performance of Mademoiselle Blasis as Ni-
nette, in La Gazza Ladra, at the Italian Opera House,
on Tuesday evening.
The Prussian and Neapolitan Ministers transacted bu-
siness yesterday at the oific.e pf the Secretary of State
I for Foreign A&irs.

• -

THE GREEK QUESTION.

TO LORD HOLLAND

ME Loan—The object of my previous letters has been
to prove, that the contracted boundary of Greece would
be cruel, impolitic, and unjust. I shall now only add,
that unless the Christians of Candia, Westein Greece,
and Attica be comprised—that is to say, the boundary line
of Volo and Arta be adopted—neither the happiness of
the Greek people, nor the peace of Europe, can be
permanently established.
With respect to the removal of CAPO DISTRIAS,
it is undoubtedly a politic measure, since there
was no possibility of separating this individual
from Russian interests. The nomination of Prince
LEOPOLD can only be regarded as an experi-
ment. Should the Prince unite great firmness of cha-
racter to high talents for governing, he will succeed in
Greece : if deficient in either of these qualities, his
failure is inevitable. I beg your Lordship to bear this
prediction in mind. I would stake my existence on its
perfect accuracy. Those who know any thing of the
Greek character, and the conflict of parties and
opinions throughout the confederacy, will coincide
in the foregoing assertion. It is true that the Prince
goes to Greece under the most favourable auspices ;
the eyes of the nation were directed to him as
far back as 1824, and as your Lordship probably knows,
the deputies then in London applied to Mr. CANNING
on the subject. If the reply of that lamented minister
was somewhat unsatisfactory and evasive, it arose from
the impossibility of acceding to the wishes of the Greeks,
at a time when he was himself the only statesman pos-
sessing power in Europe, who felt any real sympathy for
Greece.

But there is a point connected with the arrangement,
which surely merited more attention in Parliament that it
seems to have obtained. Is it not, my Lord, contrary to
all notions of equity and justice, to place a sovereign over
any people without some previous public expression of their
will ? Would it not have been advisable to take such steps
as would prevent any party in Greece or other places from
saying hereafter, that the Prince had been forced on
them by England ? That this will be the case, there is
little doubt, more especially among them who have been
excluded from independence. lam aware of the incon-
venience that might have attended any expression of the
national will while CAPO DISTRIAS remained in the
country : but how easy it was for him to have withdrawn
while a Congress decided a point of such vital import-
ance to the new state ?

Having thus shortly noticed a matter which seems to
involve a breach of justice and public law, it remains
for me to express an ardent hope that Prince
LZOPOLD may prove himself worthy of the exalted
mission with which he is said to be entrusted.—
Twoauxiliaries are indispensable to his success—money,
and a foreign corps to make his authority respected,
and to show an example of discipline to the wayward
Palicari. As to the foreign troops, they might be easily
recruited in Germany or Switzerland. It would neither
be politic nor prudent to introduce English or French sol-
diers into Greece. The tithe is not yet arrived for the
establishment of Colonies in the new State. Before this
source of wealth and civilisation can be made available,
it is absolutely necessary that a firm and permanent sys-
tem of government should be established. The union of
the lonian Islands with Greece has long been a favourite
topic among politicians. This measure, however desirable
on every account, must also be deferred. The
disparity of improvement and knowledge between
the two states is so great, that they could not
poisibly amalgamate just now. The period is not,
however, far 'distant. In the meantime, the field
which opens to Prince LZOPOLD, is one of the most vast
and interesting that could well enter into the contempla-
tion of civilized man. He is called upon to direct the
energies of a people, whose early history not less than
their recent struggle, entities:them to the warmest sympa-
thies of Europe. With regard to the capabilities of
Greece to become rich and powerful, my couvictions,even
long before the insurrection broke out, have been regu-
larly gaining strength, nor is it any trifling consolation
to reflect, that those who stigmatised the Greeks as the
worst of their species, and the anticipations of their
friends as wild and visionary, are now among the fore-
most to retract opinions which were purely the offspring
of ignorance and prejudice. I have the honor to be, your
Lordship's very faithful and devoted servant,
Mardi 2.
B.

Mr. C. Greville left town yesterday for the Continent.
Mr. Groville took dispatches from the Foreign Office, for
Lord Burghersh, our Minister at Florence ; and also for
the Right Hon. Noel Hill, our Minister at Naples.
The Earl of Roselyn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer;
and Lord Leveson Gower,visited the Duke of Wellington
yesterday, at the Treasury.
It looks very ill for the sincerity of the promises of
retrenchment and economy which ministers have made
that they object to the re-appointment of the Finance
Committee. The answer which the Duke of Wellington
gave to Lord Winchilsea on this subject, in the House of
Lords, on Monday night, was as abrupt and decisive as
the most devoted admirer of military dominion and
lavish expenditure could wish. It is not long since the
" Finance Committee" was pointed out as the hope and
future salvation of the country. Who were its warmest
admirers, and the most eloquent prophets of the bene-
ficial7l )-
results which the nation was to derive from the a
plication of its political arithmetic to the profuse '-
gality of our system of government ? Those very hig
politicians who now admire, applaud, and uphold the
Statesmen who rejoice over its untimely end, and pledge
themselves that the phcenix shall never again arise from
its ahem llf ever there was base inconsistency—if ever
there was sordid adoration of -power, at the expense of
every claim to public virtue—it is this ! The Chancellor
of the Exchequer has given us his plan of reduction.
As a relief to the suffering interests of the country, it is
ludicrous and contemptible. Is he afraid that the
pruning-knife, in the hands of the Finance Committee,
would' lop off more of the luxuriant branches of costly
and corrupt patronage than his circumspect and delicate
patriotism can afford to lose ? Is he apprehensive that
more than the salaries of petty clerks and official areal:
terns might be reduced ? and does he dread tbat bloated
sinecures might be cut away as foul and unwholesome
excressoces ? Whatever may be the reason, it is quite
clear that a Finance Committee is looked upon as an in-
convenient, if not a dangerous thing, by those immacu-
late Ministers who have ever economy on their lips, and a
love for eternal profusion in their hearts. We have no
doubt that the renegade liberals will find that ibis in-
terdiction of their applauded project of a Finance Com-
'mines is founded in the strictest virtue and the soundest
wisdom. They can no longer see the people suffering,
that their rulers may tent in the luxury of profligate
enjoyment. They look through a reversed political.tele-
scope, and see the many made for the few and not the
few for the many. They ar• already Tallied for power,
by ettlubintiug its vices.—Morning Herald.

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