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London, England, 1830-05-01 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, MAY 1.
ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMICS.-HOLIDAY AT THE BANK.

THE KING.

"WINDSOR CASTLE, MAT 1, MO.

"The KING felt himself better all yesterday; but his
M aJEST r has passed au indifferent night."

(Signed)

"HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

The foreign policy of GREAT BRITAIN is admirably
managed. States and Empires are overthrown ; new
treaties are concluded, and old treaties violated ; Crowns
are bestowed, and Sovereignties established ; natural and
lawful rights are subverted and disowned, and the great

principle of Monarchy outraged, that treason and usurpa-
tion may triumph: perfidy and perjury are admitted to
be the strongest claims to a Throne; and the Qv Lex,
whose legitimate Royalty was recognized by the KING

of ENGLAND, is driven to the uttermost part of the
earth, that her Crown may be worn, and her sceptre
wielded, and her dominions laid waste, by the Tyrant
who has dared—and with impunity, and without reproach
to insult our SOVEREIGN, and to laugh the power of,

tlas country to scorn. And all these thligs are done, per-
mitted, an.l suffered, as if the fee-simple of this Realm
were vested in the nominal servants of the Crown ; and

the people had no interest in transactions which affect
the well-being, and compromise the honor and the lute-
tufty, of the State.—ls the Ottoman Empire to be dis-
taembered, and Russia to possess herself of Constanti-
nople, to the ultimate destruction of our influence and
our cornmerc,... in, if not to our absolute expulsion from,
the Metliterrm.an:—What right have the people of Eng-
land, or their Representatives, to inquire into the matter ?
Is it not enough for them that they are allowed to sup-
port the stupendous machinery of Government at home,
sod to endure all the ruinous consequences of Ministerial
complacency abroad ? When the British flag no longer
Jests in the iEg,ean, and when every port in the South
(If Europe is shut against the British Navy, it will be time
enough to apprize " the people" of the blessed results of
our foreign policy in that quarter.—ls Greece to be rendered
independent, and exalted into a Sovereign State, and the
Royal pensioner of Great Britain to be raised to the high'
h:,n•ir and dignity of a SovcreignPrince; and is England, in
addition to the already exorbitant income drained from her
'wit p overi sh cd re-sources by this unprofitable personage,
t, puma( e the i yatent of millions upon millions of
nt.iitcy to such a dependant Potentate :—What right have
" the people" to busy zhomselves with any such arrange-
:add, or their rem ..ie•ltatives to ask questions about the
,outinuanee cf the princely foreigner's pension—even
itteutch it be wore than double the amount of the annual
rev, noes enjoyed by Princes of the Blood Royal of
En:rland ? Is it not enough for them that they are al-
lowed, out of their own nearly exhausted finances, to
pay The Illustrious Stranger" sixty-three thousand
pounds per annum—to enable him to maintain the dig-
of his new station, to which the millions upon mil-
nor's just guaranteed, are totally inadequate?
Is the I?:iarner of the Portuguese Crown to be recog-
tUsetl, —is " tou EL to be raised up by the singular
:orei!:ti policy of the Noble Secretary,"—as the Marquis
a Lox Du DE Kit v observed last night in the House of
Lards—" Avlillst others n ished to knock him down;"--

and the QUEI:N of that kingdom which stands in the
r•}es of Europe the " most ancient and faithful ally of
Great Britain," to be df2privel of her lawful possessions
And of her rightful succession to the throne of her an-
••estnrs ; and her Ministers, and the Regency acting in
her behalf, to be diselai.ned ant: repudiated : —On what
pomiible pretence can `• the paople" presume to interfere
in the discussion cf, or the decision upon, such a ques
non ?—ls it net enotuiii for them that the taxes drawn
from every article of their consumption are expended in
the maintenance of placemen, pensioners, and sinecurists,
alai that when the character of the country shall be utterly
:Intl irretrievably destroyed, they may be permitted to
,bre in the national disgrace ?
What right have we, at hone, to expect information
pen such suljects. until they are well known, and pub-
licly discussed, all over the Continent ? Enough for us
when all Europe is acquainted with the determina-
tion of our Cabinet on every question of foreign policy,
~1• may be permitted to glean such information of the
measures already decided upon, as the " casual conver-
.ation" of the world may furnish. Such, at least, seems
to Le the wise, prudent, and considerate opinion of our
Rulers ; such the motive of action, and such the guiding
principle, of their policy, foreign and domestic.
The affairs of Gri.ece and Portugal were incidentally
brought before the House of Lords last night, when
the Marquis of LONDONDERRY said "he had just
rsturned from France, where he had learned that a Prince

connected with this country cs as nominated Sovereign of
Greece by the Allied Powers." Now we would ask, if
the capital of a continental nation be the place in which
a British Nobleman, a Member of the Senate, 61,0::i? !'r
expected to learn for the first time that a ineastn,.ui
which his one country Vaa so intimately concerned—if
not so deeply invoked as she may hereafter prove to be—
had been finally decided upon ? Is there nothing due f:oin
the Ministry to the three Estates of the Realm—nothing
to the Aristocracy nothing to the People, that c!:ch hit-
portant fact. should be withheld from their knowledge, or
not officially promulgated for such a length of time as the
negociations respecting the sovereignty of Greece have
been pending ' "It was some time since the Noble Se-
cretary for Foreign Affairs had promised to lay papers on
their table relating to the nogociation with Greece,"--
said Lord Lox DON DERRY,- -and well might his Lordship
add that " no time ought to be lost clearing up the f,,,reign
policy of Gic c: B a lora IN ." Parliament has now been as-
sembled nearly two months ; and all that the Foreign Secre-
tary deigns to tell the country is, that " he does not think
it incumbent upon him to answer whatever questions a
Noble Lord may think proper to put ; but that His Royal
Highness Prince Leoent D was the personage to whom
the Allied Sovereigns had offered the Sovereignty of I
Greece, but some points of the negociation were not
concluded." This is explicit, and cannot fail to be as
satisfactory as it is explicit. The Royal Pensioner, how-
ever, his nut been called upon to " forego his position
of nattn•alization in this country," nor to relinquish his
paltry sinecure of sixty-three thousand pounds per
annum !

With respect to PORTUGAL, the Marquis of CLAN-

It re A !IDE merely asked "whether His Majesty's Go-
vernment had received official notification of the estab-
lishment of a Regency at Terceira by the lawful QUEEN
of PORTUG AL ; and, if they had, whether any steps
had been taken by them in consequence?" To w hich
Lord ABERDEEN roplied,—that " Government had heard
of such a Regency, but they had no official relations
with the persons composing it." This is certainly a
very cavalier way of speaking of a Regency ap-
pointed by, and acting on behalf of, a QUEEN who
has been formally recognised as QUEEN, de jure, of
PORTUGAL, by all the Courts of Europe, as well as
by the KING of GREAT BRITAIN. and received on the
British shores, and treated during her residence in Eng-
4and, with all the honours due to a Crowned Head ; with
all the attention and respect to which her exalted station
entitled her in the Court of an ancient Ally ; and with
all the sympathy and affectionate tenderness which the
benevolent heart of our beloved Monarch has ever de-
lighted in manifesting—to those worthy of his regard, or
claiming his generous protection.—Tho foreign policy
of GREAT BRITAIN is admirably managed !

Mexican Papers, received—so--
this
day, mention that tran-
quillity prevailed in that country. The Packet brought
to England five hundred thousand dollars. Exchange
on London is 47 to 48.

There are a great number of arrivals from the East
Indies to-day ; but the papers are not of a later date than
those received yesterday. By private advicea it appears
that the extraordinary failure of PA I.M ER and Co. is to be
ascribed solely to a determination on the part of a certain
leading London house to reduce its credit from four hun-
dred thousand, to two hundred thousand pounds. The pro-
fits of PA LmEa's House, for many years past, were es-
timated at sixty thousand pounds annually ; and many
families are utterly ruined by the failure.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Although it appears, by yesterday's Bulletin, that his Majesty's
health has rather improved, the Funds have not improved : Con.
soh, which left off yesterday at 921 for the Account, opened at
the same price this morning, with little or no business doing at pre.
sent. Consols may, at present, be quoted 1,24, for Money 921 6.-
The Falmouth letter states, that the Mexican Packet has brought
a freight of 13 tons of money on merchants' account, which is about
the same as previously stated.
In the Foreign Market, Greek is not so good as yesterday. In
other foreign Securities little doing.
A Mail has arrived from Vera Cruz by the Opossum_ exiled from
Vera Cruz 12th ?lurch; from Havannah 28th ditto.

Calcutta Papers to the 7th January, and Madras Gazettes to the
17th January, have been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house. It is said that the demand against the house of Pal-
mer and Co. of Calcutta, are 300 Lacs of rupees.
We have received Ceylon Gazdtes, but they contain no news.
Raykessoro Duct has been found guilty of uttering forged paper.
In consequence of the outrages committed on the Company's ter.
ritories by the Burman, three Companies of the 45th Regiment,
under Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw, have proceeded thither on board
the Diana steamer, with a flotilla of gun-boats. No oppoi.ition was
offered to their landing. The Burmans fled into the jungle.
From the Madras Papers—We never remember so many orpor.
tunities of vessels 'tailing for England about the same time as the
present season has offered, the Calcutta market, as well as that of
Madras, at present affords but little inducement to the embarkation
of capital in the exportation of British goods to this part of the
world, and the ship-owners, who have reckoned on realizing a hand-
some profit, will find themselves disappointed.
CALCUTTA PRICE CURRENT.—The market for Europe goods
continues to be very depressed, and the trade shy ; the piece goods
and Twiu market extremely flat ; quotations almost nominal. In
Indigo, the transactions this week have not been very extensive.—
Saltpetre in moderate demand. Silks without enquiry ; piece goods
dull. A few purchases have been made for the Eastward.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
The Consol Market has continued steady the whole of the morn-
ing at 921, alternately buyers and sellers, with no speculations of
consequence going forward.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing except in Greek bonds,
which have lowered since yesterday about 2 per cent.
Extract of • letter from Mexico to one of the first commercial
houses in the City :--.
Mexico, 31aacrt 6.—" The New Executive Government is
established, but has injured its credit by altering and suspending the
mode of payment of Custom-house debentures, issued for reimburse-
ment of instalments paid on the last law. There is scarcely any
doubt of an early repeal of part of the law of prohibition, and that
White Cotton goods, Brandy, and some other articles, will soon be
:.Vowed to be imported. British manufactures are very scarce, and
the prices have advanced. His Majesty's Ship Fairy, now arrived
at Vera Crur, is to take bullion and specie to the Havanaah and
England."

Priwe LROPOCDdiaeil with the Duchess of KENT
yesterday evening, at her residence in the King's Palace
at Kensington.