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OR MR. IItME'S ADDITION TO 1111 ADDRESS, 21.F.DGINO THE HOUTZ TO
A REDVETION OF TAXATION, WITH A VIEW TO THE RELIEF OF THE
DISTRESSES iir TIIF COVNTRY.-FERREARY 5, 18242.
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Astell, W. Ikildimand, W. Palmer, Colonel
Baring. 11. Hamilton Lord A. Palmer, C. Fysche
Barrett, S. M. Ileathcote, Sir G. Phillips, G. It.
Benyou, Benj. Ileathcots, G. J. Price, R.
Birch, Joseph lkron Sir R. Roberts, A.
Brougham, 11. Hill, laird A. Bohan*, George
Bright, 11. llobhonse' J. C. Robinson, Sir G.
Burdett, Sir Francis Honywoocl, W. I'. Rowley, Sir William
Bury, Viscount Hughes, W. L. Ilumbold, Charles
Benett, John Hutchinson, Hon. Rice, T. S.
Bentinck, Lord W. C. H. Bickford, W.
Blaka, Sir F. James, William Smith, William
Calcraft, John Johnson, Colonel Smith, R.
Calvert, C. Lambron. .1. G. Smith, Hon. R.
Carter, John Leonard, T. B. Smith, S.
Clifton, Lord Lushington, S. Scarlett, J.
Curwen, J. C. Lethbridge, Sir T. Sefton, Earl of
Crrcvey, T. Maberley, John Stuart, Lord J.
Curteis, E. J. 3lalicrley, W. L. Sebright, Sir J.
Claughron, 'rhos. Macdonald, James Tierney, Rt. Hon.G.
Denison, W. J. :haddocks, W. A. Tennyson, C.
II:moan, Thomas Martin, John Whitbread, W. 11.
Duncannon.Viscount Monck, .1. B. Whitbread, S. C.
Vbrington, Lord Moore, Peter Williams, William
hilice, Edward Marjoribanks, S. Wilson, Sir Robert
Ferguson, Sir It. C. Narrvatt, Jos. Wood, Alderman
i'olkestone,Viscount Neville, Hon. 11. Wyvill, h.
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.31r. Bernal and Colonel Davies were shut out:

OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE,
LAID BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY BEFORE BOTH

HOVERS Of PARLIAMENT.

This Corresptndence consists of five Dispatches
from the Marquis WELLIMLEY, three of which are
addressed to Viscount SIDMOUTH, and the two last
to Mr. PEEL. They are dated the 3d, 11th, 19th,
27th, and 29th et January. The four first contain
details nearly similar to those which have reached
us thmugh the medium of the Irish Papers, but
are free hoar all exaggerated colouring. The last
is at once more new and important ; we therefore
give it entire.

LXTAACT OF A DISPATCH FROM MARQUIS WELLESLEY

TO THE RIt.IIT 110 S. ROBERT PEEL.

" Dublin Castle, January 29, 1822.

. .
" Ste—Since the date of my last dispatch I have received in-
telligence, stating that the disturbances in the County of Cork
had assumed a still more decided appearance of insurrection,
and that the populace had proceeded to assemble in more nume-
rous bodies in the day-time, to resist, and even to attack the
Civil Power and his Majesty's troops.
His Majesty's Government is already apprised of the affair
which took place on the 21st, between a detachment of the 39th
Regiment and the inhabitants of the mountainous district be-
tween Bantry and Macroom. That affair has been succeeded
by others of a similar description : they are detailed in the com-
munications from the Commander of the Forces; and I think
it may be convenient to furnish you with an abstract of these
transactions according to the plan observed in this series of my
dispatches.
"4 On the 24th inst. a large body of persons attacked the mail
coach passii:g from Tralee to Cork ; and after having killed
some of the horses, and wounded the guard, coachman, and a
passenger, overturned the coach and obtained possession of the
mail. On the receipt of this intelligence, Colonel Mitchell, who
commanded at Macroom, proceeded from thence with a detach-
ment of troops in the direction of MiUstreet, near which place
the coach had been attacked. Ile found there a large body of
men, partly armed; they made a shew of resistance, but upon
being attacked by the troops, they fled with precipitation, and
twenty-three prisoners were r. cured.
" On the same day, two Dragoons, dispatched with orders to
the Officer at Millstreet, were attacked and wounded on their
road. The Officer, under the direction of a Magistrate, pro-
ceeded with some troops in the direction of Macroom, and met
a large lot cc of the insurgents, probably the same which had
been enemmtered by Colonel Mitchell.
" lie repct is the number opposed to hint to have been nearly
50r43, armed with weapons of various descriptions, of which
muskets formed hut an inconsiderable proportion.
" 0:: the same day, in the neighbourhood of Charleville, a
body of 7..00 persons, of whom the leader and several others
were armed with muskets, effected the rescue of a man (who
had been apprehended, and was in charge of a party of Police),
and compelled the Police to retire
" On the 25th, intelligence was conveyed to Sir J. Lambert,
that the whole male population, to the north of Bandon, was
proceeding to the mountains, and It was ascertained, that the
previous night had been employed in assembling the people; and
that large bodies had been observed in the morning, on their
march in that direction. Colonel Mitchell again marched from
Macroom in the direction of Millstreet, where the man con-
veying the mail had been that morning attacked and murdered.
lie found there a body, stated to amount to 2000 men, posted
on the heights near the road ; of these, about 1000 descended
to attack his detachment, and fired three shots, but on the ad-
vance of the troops they immediately took to flight, leaving 30
visoners in the hands of the military.
" At the same time a very large body of people assembled in
tile neighbourhood of Newmarket and Kanturk, imagining, as
is supposed, front the departure of some Dragoons who had
been stationed there, that the force of infantry remaining would
be unequal to resistance.
" The rioters approached the town of Newmarket, and occu-
pied the road. A detachment of the 22d Regiment rapidly dis-
lodged them, and secured three prisoners.
" On the evening of the same day, a detachment of the 11th
Regiment was attacked, on its march from Macroom to Ban-
don, by a party of sixty men, who followed it for three miles,
and took advantage of the inclosures to fire, and to retard the
march of the King's troops.
" It further appears, from various communications, that the
greater part of the population of the northern part of the county
of Cork had assembled in the mountains, and that they have in
borne places made demonstiations of attack, and in others have
committed outrages by day, with increased forces and bold-
&c. (Signed) " WELLESLEY.
" Right lion. Robert Peel, &c."

ELEGANT GLASSES, Fuatirruae, &c.—The No-
bility and Gentry ate invited to inspect the Ware-1
moms of COOPER and SON, 93, Bishopsgate-street
Within, where is exhibited an assortment of new and
second-hand Plate Glasses, admirably suited to every
de,cription of drawing or dining-rooms. In the fur-
niture department is comprised every new and ele-
gant article of upholstery, cabinet, and chair-work,
the prices of which are :educed to such a scale of
economy as to attract and ensure the patronage of
rank and fashion.

TifE ETENIN. R.
• • LON1)0*-,ii---..
THURSDAY, FEBRVARY 1822.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TEN O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 77i 11, and a groat deal of bu-
siness was transacting. It is the general opinion on 'Change,
that there will be an improvement in the Funds, as money is
very plentiful at this moment.
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

Consols are now 77i, both buyer. and sellers—there is a great
deal doing in the 5 per Cents. with vatiout fluctuations. They
have been done 1064 to 1061, and are now 1064. A number of
person+ are selling out their 5 per Cent. and buying Consols.

PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Redu.7B 773—`1 per Ct. Cons. 77%
31/2 per Cent. 88% 1/4-4 per Cent. 98 %
5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 106% % 3/4 %
Bank Long Annuities 19% 13.16
India Stock 2401,6 %—lndia Bonds 78s. 795. pre.
li%chequer Bills of £l,OOO, 7s. 6s. 7s. pre.
Ditto small 6s. 95. pr.—Cons. for Acct. 77'h 5/2

CITY, HALF-PAST ONE.

Letters from Madrid, of the 28th January, re-
ceived in Paris by an extraordinary courier, 'announce
that the Cortes have acknowledged the independence
of the Spanish Colonies; and, setting aside all other
matters, have been occupied entirely in consulting on
the best means of making, with America, treaties of
-commerce advantageous to each other.—Columbia
Bonds were done early this morning at 67-10, and,
at one o'clock, 72.

The intelligence received from Ireland this morn-
ing is of a nature calculated to expedite the new
enactments, which will be proposed this evening in
the House of Commons : indeed, it is said that Mi-
nisters intend to pass the Insurrection Act, through
all its stages, at one sitting ; but, alarming as the
state of Ireland may be, and the accounts in our
Paper of this day represent it much worse than the
official reports of the Marquis WELLESLEY, yet we
do not think that so important a law, or rather a sus-
pension of law, as the Insurrection Act, should be
hurried through Parliament with that " breathless
haste" Ministers seem to wish. Although the dis-
patches of Marquis WELLESLEY trace the progress
of the insurrection, from assemblages of 200 to
5000, in the course of a month, who committed mis-
chiefs in proportion to their augmented force, yet he
does not call Ix any additional penal enactments.
That such may be necessary we will not deny, but
we trust that they will not be granted without Minis-
ters giving some pledge of instituting a full, fair, and
free inquiry into the real state of Ireland, with the
view of permanently tranquillizing that country, by
more lenient means than military law.

Just as our Paper was going to Press, we received
a Flanders Mail, bringing among other Papers, the
Allgenteine Zeitung of • the 29th ult. and Brussels
Papers of the sth instant. In an article from Vienna,
there are some idle conjectures respecting the Rus-
sian ultimatum, which are unworthy of notice. News
from Jassy states, that the Turks are preparing to
evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia. The following
paragraph appears in the Petersbure Conservateur
Impartial of the 14th January :
" The year 1821 is indeed rich in events like the pre-
ceding; it belongs like them to history. Thrones shaken
' and soon fortified again ; others still beaten by the
revolutionary tempests, pestilences, antisocial doc-
trines, and anarchy, masked under the names of Re-
forms and Constitutions, destroying institutions conse-
crated by age, and endeavouring to dissolve the bands
of civilisation—a spirit of vertigo and general infa-
tuation, the fruit of the exaltation Vihe age, exercis-
ing its fatal influence in the two hemispheres.
" On the other side, powerful Monarchs united by
the same princip!es and the same views, preserving a
firm attitude in the midst of storms, acting as me-
diators between People and Kings, and using their
aseendancy to restrain the former within the limits
of their duty, and to maintain the latter in their
legitimate rights."

At a late hour this forenoon we received a Spanish
Mail, bringing Madrid Papers to the 25th ult. The
following are extracts:

MADRID, JANUARY as.

SITTING OF TUE CORTES, JANUARY 21.

The discussion of the Penal Code continues to oc-
cupy the chief place in the labours of the Cortes.—
In the Sitting of this day Articles 386 to 152 were
read, and the greater part of them approved without
any debate.

A dispatch from the Minister of the Interior was
read, stating, " That the King, desiring to put an
end to the scandalous abuses of the Liberty of the
Press, of the right of Petition, and to the Meetings
known by the name of Patriotic Societies, and bear-
ing in mind the insinuation which the Cones had
made in one of their last Messages, he had com-
manded the Council of State to propose such mea-
sures as it should judge suitable on this occasion ;
and the Council haying presented a Project of Law
to repress those abuses, he sent it to the Cortes for
their examination."

The project of law was read, and Seignor Tapia
observed that the Secretary had that moment received
it, and had observed that at the end was written copy.
—Some of the Deputies thought that this must be an
oversight of the Secretary of the Ministry of the In-
terior, and that no resolution could be taken upon it
till the original was sent.

SITTING OF THE 242 D JANUARY.
The Articles 453 to .54.5 of the l'enal Code were
gone through.
The debate was suspended to hear the opinion of the

Council of State read, on the proAsed prole& olio*
Which among other things, lire, on the 14ils inst,
'The Minister of the Intetior ,communicated to the.
'Council of State the following Royal Order"—(Here
the Royal Order was ifisertei, on which his Majesty
was pleased to order the Council of State to consider
as speedily as possible of the measures and restric-
tions which it would be proper to propose to the
Cones, to check the disorders produced by the abuses
of the Liberty of the Press, the Right of Petition, &c.
and said, that on the 15th another Royal order had
been communicated, relative to the mode of organis-
ing the registers that were to be made in the towns,
the indispensable formalities of passport, &c.)
The Council proceeds to propose its opinion in the
following words:—" The Constitution, Sire, in Ar-
ticle 371, recognized in all Spaniards the liberty of
writing, printing, and publishing their ideas, but
under the restrictions and responsibility established
by the laws; so that, without prejudice to this valu-
able right, the abuses might be prevented to which it
might give occasion—that serving entirely to pre-
serve the liberties of the Nation, it might not be con-
verted into an incendiary tofth, to destroy instead
of maintaining them. With this view► regulations
were made for the use of the Liberty of the Press:
and on the other hand, the institution of the Jury,
while it secured to the Spanish citizen this valuable
right, was to hinder him from passing the bounds
within which it ought to be restrained; but, unhap-
pily, it has been seen that this dam has not opposed
a sufficient check to the evil, and experience has shewn
that this has not fulfilled the hopes entertained of it.
From this it is inferred that there is, in the present
Law on the Liberty of the Press, some essential de-
fect, which calls for a speedy remedy. The Cortes
may, perhaps, think it advisable to revive the Juntas
of Censorship created in 1813, in the form which
the Council will point out, retaining the present re-
gulation on the Liberty of the Press for all the other
points which it comprehends with some variations
which !eern proper, there being wanting in Article
11, the disposition relative to seditious writings which
insult the person of the King. Some means of re-
pression are also wanted against the writers who,
without naming the persons who are the objects of
their invectives, point them out in such a manner that
they cannot be mistaken ; it should be declared that
this artifice shall not release the writer from respon-
sibility. The same should be said cf caricatures,
which ridicule and insult the most meritorious indi-
dividuals. The Council think it indispensable that
every writing or communicated article which speaks
of certain persons (personas determinadas) must be
published, signed by the author, with his real name;
if not signed, or if the signature should be false, the
responsibility should be attached to the printer;
those who proclaim such writings about the streets,
who use indecent or offensive expressions, and who
publish more than the paper contains: the Council
proposes various remedies and measures to the con-
sideration of the Cortes."

The French Papers of Sunday and Monday have
been received. Those of Sunday contain the further
proceedings on the Law for repressing offences of
the Press, in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday.

M. de FLOIRAC had proposed an additional Article
to the effect, that the reprinting of works which con-
tained any one of the offences declared as such by
the Law of the lith May, 1819, should be subject to
the application of the present law. On being called
lupon, he mounted the Tribune, but meeting with
little attention from the Chamber, he retired to his
seat, and his proposition was withdrawn. t
The twelfth Article of the new Law was then dis•
cussed which related to offences against the Chamber,
or any of the Members ; it authorizes the Chamber;
to take cognizance of such offences.
M. CIIALIVELIN proposed an Amendment, br
which the offender should not be condemned unless'
eight-twelfths of the Chamber concurred in the judg-
ment. M. SERASTIANI proposed that the judgment
should be sanctioned by a majority of five-eighths.—
Both these amendments were rejected, and the twelfth
at ticle adopted. Several Amendments were pro-
posed on the thirteenth article, but they were all rc•
jected, and the article was adopted, when the Cham-
ber adjourned to Monday.
The l'refect of the Department of the Maese has
written a circular relative to the plot detected at Ile',
fort, in which is the following passage:
Already some of the guilty have been arrested. The Adju-
tant-Subalteni Tirwart, of the 20th Regiment of the Line, is of
this number. lie endeavoured in vain to put an end to his
existence at the moment of his arrest. The instrument which
he employed refused to perform the service. lie then exclaimed,
' Doubtless, Peovimmee is not willing that I should as yet perish,
but has preserved me for important discoveries. lam resolved
to conceal twilling.' Ile kept his word; he told all, and soon
afterwnds, in a letter to his-Colonel, he confessed his crime,
and said that he deserved death."

The intelligence from Spain in the French Papers
is of the same date, and relates to the same topics as
the accounts received direct from Madrid.

French Funds, Feb. 2.—Five per cents. 881 r. 30c.
A private express from Paris states the Funds at
89fr. 25c. on IVlonday afternoon.

We have received this morning American Papers
one day later (from Boston).