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LONDON.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29.

We regret to direct our Readers' attention to the melan-
choly triumph of tyranny at Lisbon and Cadiz—the grievous
details of which it is our unpleasant duty to give place to
below. The friends of freedom must not, however, despair :
a day of retribution will come.

It will be observed by our private letter from Falmouth,
that His MAJESTY'S Packet, Hope, has safely arrived at
that port from Mexico, with bullion. A notice posted at
the North and South American Coffee House, this morning,
states that the freight of the Hope consists of 686 thousand
dollars, on Merchants' account.

" At length"—says a letter from Holland, with what
truth, we leave our readers to conjecture—" we may an-
nounce, with some certainty, that a KING is expected soon
to be appointed, to fill the throne of Belgium, in the person
of l'rince LEOPOLD of Saxe Coburg; and the five allied
powers are finally to settle the boundaries of Belgium. It
may, therefore, be expected, that all disputes in regard to
the unsettled state of Belgium, will speedily be adjusted ;
well as other disputes amongst the Continental Powers ;
—the present French Government being very anxious to
preserve the general peace."

No intelligence of much interest is to be found in the
French papers, which we have received by the Estafette of
this morning. It is stated in the Constitutionnel, that the
Austrians are in military occupation of Bologna; but the
Courier Francais, seems to doubt the authenticity of the ac-
counts. The French Ministerial paper, Le Temps, is rather
ambiguous in its tone, on the great non-interventional con-
tract, which Austria has, if the intelligence be true, so
flagrantly infringed ;—and would lead its readers to suspend
their judgment, as to what will, in consequence, be the
policy of the French Government.
While in Italy we can glean from the Papers before us
little of cheering intelligence, for the success of pa-
triotism in that quarter, we have from Poland only fresh',
evidence of the valour, and singleness of soul, with
which that brave people are struggling for their inde-
pendence. It will be seen in our extracts from the
German mails, that the Russians are suffering dreadfully,
from the natural evils of the season. It is likewise to be
observed, with satisfaction, that Berlin news is written in a
different tone from what it once was. This is remarked in
one or two of the French journals, which appears to credit
a feeling in Prussia, not so unfavourable to Polish success,
as might be expected. As the reasoning in one of the
papers, now under our perusal, reminds us of our own, very
recently, we shall lay it before our readers.

SUCCESS Or THE POLES WITH RESPECT TO DIPLOMACY.—
According as consoling news arrives from Poland, diplomacy becomes
less imperious. The heroes of Warsaw have well understood their
position— that of Europe and France in particular—when they announced
with the solemn accent of men who were devoted to death, that they
scut ed as the advanced guard, in the great struggle of liberty
against despotism : already they no longer speak at Berlin and
Vienna the same language, when reporting of Poland and
the insurrections. The Berlin Slate Gazette even says, in
speaking of the cause of Poland, "No expression of
ours can convey the admiration with which we are inspired, at the glo-
rious resistance of the Poles. Was it thus that it spoke fifteen days
ago ? The Poles were then ungrateful wretches and rebels ! Were not
the manifestos of Nicholas and Diebitsch published with commentaries
of admiration? They exhausted eulogium for these barbarous invoca-
tions, where the uame of God is mixed witkideas of massacre ! But
now, that some success has given the lie to the predictions of the
Cabinets, they would modify their language ; they admire Poland ; they
threaten a little less the South ; the old policy of the Holy Alliance
does not feel Itself conveniently, even supported by a numerous Mus-
covite army, and may not object to efforts broken by the handful of
heroes, animated by the civic virtues. If the Polish cause should
triumph, diplomacy will sbew itself more accommodating for France
and for free people ; so true is it, that it was not only their indepen-
dence that the Poles defended upon the Vistula, but the cause
of liberty,the cause of France : and we abandon them to their destiny, and
our Cabinet has not even had for the Poles one of those protocols which
M. Talleyrand has distributed with so much profusion for liberated
Belgium I"

We have this morning a file of the Lisbon Gazettes,l
from the 7th to the 20th instant. A supplement to that
Miguelite organ, of the 13th, contains an account of the fai-
lure of the Spanish constitutionalists, in the isle of Leon,
and above twenty were taken in their retreat—one of whom
was the celebrated chief MANZANA R Es—who were to be shot.
" Such" says the Gazette, " is the fate that such obsti-
nate and scandalous enemies of their country, and disturbers
of nations, have to experience, whenever they make such
attempts at any point whatever, of the two kingdoms of the
Peninsula."
On the 16th we find that " seven of the criminals, con-
cerned in the horrible attempt in the capital, on the morning
of the Bth of Feb. last, were executed, according to the sen-
tence, in the Caes de Sodre. There was an extraordinary
concourse of spectators," adds the Gazette; " and though on
such occasions compassion is naturally expected, yet here
the voice of offended justice was loud in every heart, and
nobody was insensible of the absolute necessity of punishing
persons guilty of such an enormous crime. May this ex-

ample avail, and may liberal philanthrophy cease to sacrifice
more victims to the inexorable rigour of the laws."

The Gazette farther gives, an article from Madrid, of
12th, mentioning official accounts from Cadiz, of the exe-
cution of forty-five of the Constitutionalists, of the band of
MANZAN A RES, who were made prisoners in Sierra Ver-
melba and shot !

The supplement of the 17th, also gives the official account
of the entire discomfiture of the Constitutionalists; " who

being surrounded on all sides by the Royal troops, had
delivered up their arms, and thrown themselves on the King's
clemency. They were 400 in number." This despatch is
dated Seville, 9th March, and signed kw:, NALATS.—
Another despatch of the l lth, states the capture of a small
number of the Constitutionalists; so that it would appear,
the band is wholly destroyed and broken up.
At the same time, we have to add, that by the arrival of
the Marlbro' Packet at Falmouth, Captain BULL, in seven
days from Lisbon, we have private advices, stating many of
the Constitutionalists, who were accused of an attempt to
overturn the Government of MIGUEL, and sentenced to
death, are now likely—from some unacknowledged cause—
to escape with their lives—orders having been unexpectedly
issued by the authorities, rescinding the judgment of the
Special Commission. There can be no truth ,whatever in
the rumour, circulated in Paris, of the marriage of the
Duchess de BERRI with MIGUEL.

The Angetncine Zeitung of the 23d March is received
this morning, from which we make the following jesuitical
extract :—" The accounts received at St. Petersburgh from
the army do not indeed wholly answer the expectations of
the public, who thought that the Polish insurrection would
be put down at one blow ; but they give ground to hope,
with confidence, the speedy termination of the war, and the
restoration of legal order in the kingdom of Poland. Re-
lying on this, the Emperor has judged it necessary to ap-
point a previsional government, which is to have its seat at
St. Petersburgh, and will devote itself, exclusively, to the
affairs of Poland ; while Field Marshal Count DIEBITSCII
is invested with the executive power, under the title of
Governor-General. The measure is universally approved,

as it must contradict the reports of a future incorporation of
the kingdom of Poland with Russia ; and convinco the
Poles themselves that, notwithstanding their most deplo-
rable refractoriness, which made the employment of a mili-
tary force indispensable, the clemency of the Emperor is

inexhaustible. At the moment when the Russian troops
are ordered to maintain, by the sword, the rights of
the Emperor as Sovereign, the independence of the Polish
nation is to remain untouched, though the Russian army
wish the incorporation of the kingdom. It is said, that the
Duke de MORTEMA RT, the French Ambassador, is a warm
advocate of the Polish cause. His efforts, it is true, have
not yet had any visible effect; but he has had opportunities
to convince himself, that there is no implacability in the
Emperor ; and that the meaus best calculated to tranquillize
the minds of the Poles, with respect to their political situa-
tion, and the internal administration, is that the authority of
the Emperor be again generally recognised."
Advices received by way of Paris this day, give a very

different version from that of the German Papers, with re-
spect to the miserable plight of the invading forces. One
letter says, that for fifeeen days, the Russians had been up
to their knees in mud—thousands of them had their feet
frozen, and have suffered amputation ; and three-fourths of
their horses are dead.—ln addition to this, we are gratified
in being able to state, that the revolution has extended to
Padolia. We are informed, that two nobles of that circle,
presented themselves in the capital, accompanied by
two hundred cavalry. On their approach, the nobility are
stated to have risen es masse, and speedily assem-
bled a troop of fifteen thousand ; with which they immedi-
ately proceeded to work, and disarmed a regiment of Rus-
sian infantry, stationed in the city. It is probably the news
of this exploit, that has constrained General KazuTz to re-
treat—fearing, no doubt, that he should be cut off from every
aid. The friends of the Polish patriots look forward, for
the confirmation of this intelligence, with great solicitude.

In the House of Lords, last night, it appeared, on the
statement of Earl GREY, that 479 Petitions in favour of
Reform had been presented before the Rill, and 448 in the

short term since.

Lord WII RN CLIFFE, in a lengthy speech, moved for
returns of the population of the Boroughs, and availed him •
self of the opportunity to discuss the whole measure of Re-
form. He modestly ascribed his peerage not to his talents,
his estates, &c. but to his original return for a family
rotten Borough ; inferring, that he would not have
obtained a seat in any open place, on the plan of the new
Bill ; for open places exclude talents, and rotten boroughs
are the only resource of talents. He was for a bit-by-bit
reform ; and he thought all the excitement had been pre-
vented, if the franchise for impeached boroughs had been
transferred, as convicted, to the large towns. He thought
the new Bill had a republican tendency, and he invoked the
House to place itself between the popular voice and the
House of Commons.

After this two-hours-speech was concluded, the Lords
SIDMOUTII and ELDON spoke to order; and contended that
a discussion on a Bill not before the House was irregular.
But the Cu A NCELLOR contended, that as the speech had
not been interrupted, it ought to be answered.

This task was undertaken by Lord DURHAM with great
ability. He gave a luminous summary of all the arguments
in favour of the measure. In speaking of boroughs, he de-
scribed them as either insurable or curable. The former
were therefore to be disfranchised, and the latter to be thrown
open to .£lO householders. He said that Ministers
wished that the fullest information should be laid before the
House ; for the more the subject was canvassed the more the
necessity for the bill would he demonstrated. Ministers had
been actuated by no desire for change ; they were only de-
sirous to revive and restore. They were anxious that the
Crown should possess all its just prerogatives—the House
of Lords all its undoubted privileges ; but they were anxious
too, that the rights of the people should be understood and
established. Far from wishing to diminish the splendour of

the Crown, they were endeavouring to give it fresh lustre,'
and to add to it another jewel, eclipsed in brilliancy by none
it already possessed—the love and confidence of a fairly re-
presented and well satisfied people.
The Duke of RICHMOND followed to the same effect,
and said he supported the disfranchisement of rotten bo-
roughs, because their guilt was undeniable, and their cor-
ruption admitted.
The Marquis of CLAN RICA RDE congratulated the House
on the probable success of the bill, and was sure their lord-
ships would not place themselves in opposition to that re-
form, which all agreed oms necessary.
Lord PLUNKETT, with his usual ability, spoke of the
importance of the question, and deprecated the love of the
rust of the Constitution, which the opponents of the bill
displayed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then, in a speech which must
be read, spoke in detail of fact and argument in favour of the
measure. He concluded by the following description of the
petitioners and their pretensions :
" The spread of knowledge amongst the middle classes—the im-
provement in their circumstances which recent events had brought about
—the great weight which of late years they bad attained in all public
concerns, and the interest which they had in the sum of affairs, ren-
dered is neither safe, expedient, nor just to deprive them any longer
of their fair share in the representative branch of the Legislature.
They paid millions upon millions of taxes—they filled our armies—
they shed their blood in defence of our institutions—and yet they
were denied the exercise of the elective franchise. The House would
bear in mind, that it was nothing but the union of the several parts of
the Kingdom, which prevented the Crown from issuing Writs to the
unrepresented places ; and all that his Majesty's Government now called
upon Parliament was, to do safely that which, under other circum-
stances, would have been done with hazard, and irregularly. Having
thus shortly laid before the house the grounds on which the measure
had his concurrence, he should not hesitate to say that as he had no
doubt of the expediency and justice of the measure, so he had as little
of its ultimate success."

The Duke of WELLINGTON, persevering in his former

opinion, said—
" I have not in any degree changed my opinion since I addressed your
Lordships early in the Session upon the subject of Reform. In prin-
ciple, the representative system of the country is so rzarzcr, THAT IT
OUGHT NOT TO BE CHANGED ; in principle, you can no MOM de- II
prive a Borough of its franchise without proof of delinquency,
than you can deprive me of my seat here, or my Noble Friend of
his estate in Yorkshire. Until now, this House has always required'
proof of guilt, before it proceeded to disfranchisement. I admit that

there might be circumstances of necessity, which would govern this strict
rule; but what I contend for now, and what I have contended for all
along is, that this is not a case of necessity. lam sorry that on this
question I have to differ from some of my friends ; but feeling no other
desire than that my services might be of use to the country, I consider
that there is no necessity for me to conceal my opinion ; and I wish to
GOD that I could convince the Noble Earl, and his colleagues, of the
error into which they have fallen."

His Grace, and Sir WALTER SCOTT, seem to prove on
this subject, that in proportion as a man is great in one
line, he is often an ordinary or feeble man in other lines.
In planning a field of battle, or a romance, both are mas-
ters ; but on other subjects, they are sometimes, it appears,
of subordinate genius.
Lord GREY said he wished to GOD also, that he could
convince the Noble Duke of the error into which he had
fallen. Every other man in the country, and even in that
house, except his Grace, thought some reform necessary,
but in his opinion alone, the system was perfect ! The
Noble Duke had pressed the Catholic Bill, on the ground
of the danger to Ireland from its rejection; and the
same argument prevailed in regard to the rejection of
the proposition for Reform. Granted at the present mo-
ment, the people would consider it as an act of grace ; re-
fused, and who could predict the consequences of the re-
jection ? It was a rejection which might destroy the present
Administration ; but how would it operate on their succes-
sors? The people, disappointed of their just expectations,
would be inflamed with resentment; and would eventually
demand, with a voice of thunder, that which it would be
found impossible longer to deny ; but the granting of which
would not only be unattended with the advantages that
would now accompany its concession, but in the strong ex-
citement that would then exist, might be productive of evils
which no man could foresee—evils that might throw the
whole country into irremediable disorder.
Lord WIIARNCLIFFE replied, and his proposition for the
returns was agreed to at 3 o'clock this morning.
It was a call of the House, and the discussion was a feeler
of its opinions before the recess. The inference of all pre-
sent was, that the opponents of the Bill in that house are not
numerous ; and that when carried in the Commons, its suc-
cess is almost certain in the Lords.
In the HOUSE of COMMONS, too many subjects were dis-
cussed to admit of analysis. After prolonged conversations,
about the Scottish Reform, and the Yorkshire petition, Mr.
FRAN KLAN D LEWIS brought in his bill, for regulating the
trade of COALS in London. It proposes that the trade shall
be free and open—that coals in future shall be sold by the
Ton, and not by the Chaldron—the various duties and im-
posts are to be commuted for a general duty of only thir-
teen pence per ton ; vessels, according to their tonnage, are
to compound for the dues by the voyage or year—freedom
of labour to be also allowed in unloading, &c.—in deliver-
ing to consumers the carts are to be weighed first,
—and the wharfs provided with weighing ma-
chines. Alderman WAITII MAN, with referenee to the
fact, that Newcastle coals were but half the price in Dub-
lin that they are in London, stated that coals at Newcastle
were, by combination, sold at ss. for the Irish market, and
at 14s. for the London market. Alderman Thom's°x
agreed in the pernicious character of the combinations at
Newcastle. Mr. BELL denied the fact of combination, and
Sir M. W. RIDLEY vindicated the coal owners. The bill
was then read a first time, amidst the general satisfaction of
the House.

The Emigration Bill was postponed till after Easter. A
long conversation then ensued on the Civil List, and the
grant of 510,0001. also on the subject of pensions, in which
Colonel DAVIES, Sir G WA !MENDER, Lord DARLING..
TON, Mr. CURTEIB, Mr. WILKS, Mr. HUME, Mr. ROBIN•
SON, Mr. BANKS, and Mr. O'Cow NELL, took part ; but the
Resolutions passed without a division, and the Bill is to be
brought in; Mr. HUME, however, gave notice of farther
opposition. Various Navy Estimates were then voted, and
particular objects commented on, by Mr. HUMS, Mr. O'Cow.

NELL, Sir J. YORKE, Mr. WARBURTON, and Mr. Rob".
sox. On Mr. Rica proposing eighty thousand pounds fo,
Civil contingencies, Mr. Hum; at great length, objected t.)
various items, which Mr. Rica defended. Mr. LEN Na RII
and Mr. O'CoN ENLL also remarked on certain charges,
I The Evesham question was deferred.

CITY. ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 78f for the account,
opened at the same price : at present they are 78i buyers.
This being a grand holiday with the Hebrews (Passover),
few of them have made their appearance as yet on 'Change.
Nothing doing in the Foreign Market.

In the Foreign Market little or nothing doing at present ;
prices much the same as on yesterday. Consols are 78ii.
CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

There was but little doing in the Funds until 12 o'clock ;
and Consols remained steady at 78i for the Account, but
the report that Prince Saxe Coburg was going to be Kin; of
Belgium having become public, Consols improved to 78 t
for the Account; the speculators, as yet, do not attach
great credit to the above report; but we are of opinion,
that from the source it comes, that it is not a slight report.
but will eventually prove correct.