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London, England, 1830-02-16 00:00:00

a Lieutenant-General. Such is the reception of a
French Officer ; while our gallant countryman, General
Clio RC it, who received his appointment of Generalis-
simo from the National Congress of Tramene, has been
dismissed in a manner the most abrupt and ungracious ?

It would appear that a species of controversy in which
reciprocal blarney is not wanting, has arisen between the
two Journals most strongly in the interest of the Noble
DUKE. We allude to the dismissal of General Kiwo.
As it seems there is some doubt on the subject, we should
like to see it cleared up without delay. We are really
astonished at the apathy and indifference shown on this
occasion by those among our contemporaries, whose
views so generally accord with our own. Having already
given our unbiassed opinion on the matter, we may
fairly ask, what becomes of the independence of Parlia-
ment, if a conscientious vote is to expose a man to cen-
sure and punishment ? We repeat our conviction, that
if the dismissal alluded to has actually taken place, it
must have arisen from that external influence which we
indicated yesterday.

Since writing the above, we are glad to perceive the
subject has been taken up by the Morning Herald, and
treated in the usual straight-forward way of that Journal.
A ministerial paper of last night quotes from a morn-
ing journal, that " Mr. Jour► WILLIAMS, the King's
Counsel, is to succeed Mr. BROUG HA M as Member for
Winchelsea." So much for the rotten borough system.
Would it not be a great improvement wero Ministers at
once to adopt the plan, in concert with their borough-
mongering friends, of gazetting new members, as officers
in the army, without recurring to the farce of a mock
election ?

CT T 1"' T WELV I.: O'CLOCK.
MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING.

D.
Dublin.— ..... 0
Waterford ..... 0
Guern. dc Jersey 0
Leeward Islands 0

•. I).
1 France 0
O Flanders
O Holland. 1
O liamburgh

•. D.
O I.llbon ..... 0
O Jamaica
O Sweden 4
O Malta .. 0

The Como' Market which left off firm yesterday at 9218 for the
account opened at the same price this morning, since which they
have been dune at 928 for account, and for money 921 sellers, for
next time 93 to;.

The general idea in the city is, that the Duke of Wellington is
going to make great retrenchments in the various departments of
government.

The arrivals this morning are but few, and not of consequence.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing.

We have received information from Vienna of the Bth of Feb.
The 4 per Cents there were 941; 5 per Cents ION; Bank Shares
1,282; Loan of 1820,1851 ; Loan of 1821, 137 ; Discount 2i
per cent.; Gold 104.

Letters have been received by the above conveyance from Genoa,
of the Mad Feb. stating that the King of Sardinia going to declare
Genoa a free port.
Accounts from Russia state, of the 17th. Jan. that the last cou.
rier from Constantinople brings information that Count Batanieff
had succeeded in arranging :the affair of passports for the Black
Sea, and he has obtained &certain number of blank firmans.

Prince Edward's Island papers have been received at the North
and South American Coffee-house, to the 16th. Dec. they state that
the report of the loss of the schooner Jane of this island, with all
her crew, near Halifax, is unfounded, the vessel having reached this
island.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The Consol Market has continued the whole of the morning with-
out a feature worth the least observation. Consols have been done
in the early part of the morning at 92§ for the Account, since *hich
they have remained at 92§ I;and for next Account 93, buyers. In
regard to political news or reports, we have none to the present hour.
The: large majority of Ministers in the Commons last night is a
proof of their stability. The general topic of conversation in the
City is the dreadful fire which took place last night at the English
Opera House.

The Foreign Market is in the same state of stagnation as the lid.
tish, and the prices of most of the foreign securities are much the
same as yesterday.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PIRACY.

The following is posted at Lloyd's :
" Extract from the Curacoa Courant of the 28th November,
1829 :

" On the 15th of November, of last year, we stated that on
the 10th of that month Captain John Ure, and the late Captain
Beazle, of the armed brig Bolivar, late President, under the
Buenos Ayrean flag, with three other officers of the same vessel,
had been committed to prison by the police, and that criminal pro-
ceedings were to be instituted against them. These proceedings
have taken place, and sentence of banishment was decreed on the
3d inst. and pronounced on the 13th, against the said Capt. John
Ure, for unlawful acts and practices amounting to piracy ; against
the said late Robert .Wm. Beasley, for aiding, abetting, and fur-
-1 thering unlawful acts and practices amounting to piracy; and
against Wm. Bathurst, for aiding and furthering unlawful acts and
practices amounting to piracy. The two first mentioned for life,
and the last for ten years."

•
DEAL, Fin. lb.—Wind N.E.—Arrived from London, the New-
ton, Rising, for Singapore, and Jessie, Davison, for Toulon.
Poammouvu, Fes. ts.—Wind N.E —Arrived the Henrietta
and Henri, Guge, from Batavia.

Lvezaroot, ras. 14.—Arrived the Europa, Ellis, from Marin-
ham ; Syreo, from Macao; Sappho. Graham, from New
Orleans; Curio'anus, Simpson, and Gardiner, Nicholson, from
Charleston ; Lagnds, Bradford, and Ilull, Crowell, front Savan-
nah; and Swift, —, from Figueira.

There is a difference in the statements as to whether
General King resigned his office in tho Household, in
consequence of having voted for the amendment, on the
first day of the Session, or was dismissed. We incline
to the latter opinion, thinking it more probable that
had the loss of office been a voluntary act, it would
have preceded, and not have followed the vote. We
believe it has always been held undeniable law by all
" Tellers" for the Treasury, that a person holding office
in the Royal Household should not have a will, or a
soul that he could call his own on any political question.
The rule, by the bye, does not seem to extend to law
officers, as on the East Retford Division, the Attorney
and Solicitor General voted different ways. But if a
place in the Household so completely compromises a
man's free will, is it not a convincing reason why per-
sons holding such offices should not be allowed to sit
in Parliament at all ? or if such an abuse of the plain
principles of the Constitution are connived at, as that
persons holding office removable at the nod of the
Ministers, are allowed to sit in Parliament at all, it
would be prudent, we should think, to overlook an oc-
casional act of insubordination, rather than, by re-
senting it, draw people's attention too closely to an ex-
amination of the materials of which Ministerial ma-
jorities are sometimes composed. The Whigs and their
" liberal" organs of the Press, raised a great outcry
against the late Lord Londonderry for cashiering Lord
Fife from his situation in the Royal Household as a
punishment for a similar act of Parliamentary inde-
pendence. But geopora martantscr et nos stattansur sum
Wes. What was odious and intolerable when practised
by Lord Londonderry, becomes a subject of =and
admiration when imitated by the Duke of We •

Herald.

PRIVATE CORESPONDENCE..

LISBON, FEB. I.

Since I wrote you last, the greatest agitation has pre-
vailed. heie among the leading Apostolicals—not alto-
gether on account of the threatened visit from our friends
at Rio—but in canvassing for a fit successor and repre-
sentative of the old arid lost Fury just deceased. In the
meanwhile, the wretched MIG um. tries to amuse him-
self in his wonted exploits of bunting the brute and
feathered creation, and cooking sausages from their
flesh, in which he is said to possess a true German ex-
pertness. But let me only speak of the contrivances of
the Apostolicale at present. Through Spanish influ-
ence, it would seem that the Princess MARIA THERESA
is at the top of the favoured list. In the last meeting of
Ministers, Conde de BASTOS, (Leta) proposed that the
succession to the Portuguese Crown ought to be secured
in the family of D. SrinetsTuts of Spain ; as that would
afford greater security to themselves, more stability to
their plans, and involve the mutual reliance of two an-
cient and powerful nations in supporting one another.
At the same time, they desire to give the preference to
the marriage of Donna MARIA with Micur 1., and
vainly flatter themselves that things can yet be
arranged with Don PEDRO. As no time must
be spared in deciding one way or the other, the
Foreign Office people are in the greatest activity all this
week. Besides many Couriers that have been dispatched
to Spain and France, the Brig de Maio is preparing to
take to the Brazils, the Count BELMOIiTE, on his dia-
bolical mission to the Emperor ; bt.t the popular and
universal prayer is that GOD will preserve Don PEDRO
from listening to a proposal, that would infallibly lead to
the destruction of his beloved child.

The Marquis de Cil vES and Padre BRAGA, whom I
informed you in my 1 at to have gone to the provinces to
be in readiness, were stopped at Comibra by the CORRE-
GIDOR, and ordered to return to Lisbon by orders of the
government.

The battalion of the 13th infantry have arrived from
Madeira by the charruas Princeza Real and Magna-
mimo, and have been doing duty this week. Their
spirit is good ; and the ragamuffin volunteers disappear
when they are on duty.
Not the slightest alteration for the better is observable
since the old Queen's death. The same barbarities pre-
vail. the same severities observed towards the unfortunate
prisoners. Another charrua sailed on the 25th ultimo
with more victims to Angola; taking likewise, the new
Governor, the Baron of SANTA ComannAo—a more
arbitrary and merciless individual than the former.
Among " the extraordinaries" in the Gazette which
have just appeared, is the announcement of the flight of the
defaulter, JOHN BRAILSTORD, book-keeper in the house
of GOULD, BROTHERS, and Co. who, up to the last
moment, availed himself of every means to continue his
abstractions of the property of the house, and of every
body else whom he could inveigle—even down to a bro-
ther clerk. He had the hardihood to purchase 1200
gold pieces from the money-changers the very evening
of his departure, although any thing like a large tran-
saction now creates a sensation.

The defunct Queen lays in a chapel near her fa-
vourite haunt of Ramallitio, until a mausoleum can be
erected in its grounds ; for which, as well as to pay her
enormous debts in Spain, &c. she has left to her grand
Legatee, Don MIGUEL, plenty of dollars: but he has
other uses for them, of which Senhor SARAIvA can
tell something ; that something, perhaps, very comfort-
able to certain persons and parties in England.
Terceira is now free, with all its iniquities : there is
not a vessel to afford a single argument for a blockade
of any kind—the last vessels are now in the Tagus.

THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

(From the Leeds Patriot.)

At length, the " Collective Wisdom of the Nation" has as•

ambled; and we rejoice to find that there are some names—and
some exalted names, too—who have nobly done their duty on the
opening of the session. In this distinguished list, Mr. (Mort-
NELL, Mr. ATTWOOD, Mr. SADLER, and the Marquis of
SLANDFORD, stand conspicuous.
It is an impossibility, in a weekly publication, and particularly
when so many important events press together, to do justice to the
able speeches of these honourable gentlemen. We take, in our ob-
servations, the first in order, in courtesy (as it was a maiden speech),
that of the member for Clare ; and we are bound to observe, that
Mr. O'Cortrixm. has started well, to redeem his pledge to his
Constituents and to the Irish people. His speech was at once manly
and to the point• There was no special-pleading or subterfuge
about it. His lawyer's gown seemed left outside the House ; and
he appeared like the able representative of a free people.
Mr. ATTWOOD (by the way, there is a sterling metal in this gen-
tleman.) acquitted himself as he always does—well. His speech
is an ably drawn picture of the state of the country ; and although
this Honourable Gentleman may be aware, that in our humble ex-
ertions, we prefer another remedy to his--yet, either this " other
remedy" or Mr. ATTWOOD'S, the Ministers cannot much longer
avoid adopting.
We will now speak of Mr. SADLER ; and we can do so inde-
pendently, because we are strangers even to the person of the Ho-
nourable Member for Newark—because we have opposed hint in the

Pitt Club fooleries for (at the least) one fifteen years--and because,
now that he evidently sees the state of the country as he ought to ea
it, we are propelled by a recollection of our former opposition, to do
him full and impartial justice. We, therefore, have inserted what,
Mr. SADLER observed at as great a length as we find it repaid
any of the London journals.
But, much as we have been gratified by the patriotic exertions ofiii
the Honourable Gentlemen, whose speeches we have already alluded,
to, yet, to omit noticing the speech of the Marquis of OLANDR(94.6 I
would be high treason to the people of England. Our readers ms
aware that the debate we refer to, was on the opening of the Session,
and on `the subject matter of the King's Speech, which we was
enabled the last week to lay before our readers.
Tate speech, we then observed, was a disgrace to the Ministers,
for their attempt to shuffle over the grand question of NATIONAL
DISTRESS, which was stated to be only of a partial nature 1
So unsatisfactory was this speech to the Commons, that three
amendments were proposed t and, on the film division, Ministers
would absolutely have been in a minority, but fee the kindly aid
of some of the Whigs. It is to the third amendment, by the Mar-
quis of BLATIDFORD, which will be found in another plea, that
we wish to direct the attention of the public. • Thin •is no.“ besting
about the bush is it. It goes direct to the entrat Ms* 44 the
Ilsasersibk House; ,and laments, that his Majesty should be
made to declare, that he is the only pints in dm Idasiontnons.
quahog with the distresses of his pespb. Bat how iss- osp.
=6:Wh_y it was scarcely aspirated at all ! That sly Ali
Sir FBA,. BOILDETT bellmet the MASONS to withtisw
the amodsont kr theiwoot,ised mold support his be the
soma conalsined oratorio,* tho Mancini@ woad
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ones by Mr. Pint.--when Cosamitoss woe .oseed Ow both
.Rouses; to boo the- goods, pointy discussed. Is this even.
lag's &bats' owe mom spa slof that idea bonen Mr. P.
Thompson and Mr. Avrwoon, en the subjho at lot Pd.
day's dimmable; which called en the Scanzita tolnision
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