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timaled, the diminution is not such as to cause any
doubt as to the future prosperity of the Revenue.
" My Lo►ds and Gextlemeis,

" His M*JUTY cethumuds us I. acquaint you that his
anent/on has ham of late earnestly directed to various
important considerations connected with improvements
in the administration of the law.

„
-- His MAJESTY has directed that measures shall be
submitted for your deliberation, of which some are calcu-
lated in the opinion of his MAJESTY to facilitate and
expedite the course of Justice in different parts of the
United Kingdom, and others appear to be necessary pre-
liminaries to a revision of the practice and proceedings
of the superior Courts.
” Re are commanded to assure you that his MAJESTY
feels confident that you will give your best attention and
assistance to subjects of such deep and lasting concern to
the well-being of his people.
" His MAJESTY commands US to inform you that the
Export in the last year of British Produce and Manu-
factures has exceeded that of any former year.
" His MAJESTY laments that, notwithstanding this
indication of active commerce, distress should prevail
among the Agricultural and Manufacturing classes in
some parts of the United Kingdom.
" It would be most gratifying to the paternal feelings
of his MAJESTY SOU enabled to propose for your consi-
deration, measures calculated to remove the difficulties of
any portion of his Subjects, and at the same time corn-
patibld with the general and permanent interests of his,
people.

" It I. from a deep solicitude for those interests that his
MAJESTY is impressed with the necessity of acting with
extreme caution in reference to this important subject.
His MAJESTY feels assured, that you will COUCH
with him in assigning due weight to the effect of
unfavourable seasons, and to the operation of other
causes, which are beyond the reach of Legislative con-
trol or remedy.
" Above all, his MAJESTY is convinced that no pres-
sure of temporary difficulty will induce you to relax the
determination which you have uniformly manifested, to
maintain inviolate the Public Credit, and thus to uphold
the high Character, and the permanent Welfare of the
Country."

The Address in the House of Lords was moved by the
Duke of BuccLzuou, and seconded by Lord SALTOUW.
In the Commons, it was moved by the Earl of DA amio-
Tow, and seconded by Mr. WARD, one of the City Re-
presentatives.
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It Will be perceived by the foregoing Speech, that the
just hopes of the nation have been disappointed. We
reserve our comments.

Mr. O'CouvaLL this day took the oaths and his seat
in the House of Commons.

We inserted yesterday the Resolutions moved at the
Mechanics' Institute by the Parliamentary Reform Asso-
ciation, in favour and approbation of the objects of the
Birmingham POLITICAL UNION. We knew that the
sacred fire would spread. We felt—even at the first
glance which we were enabled to take of these animating
and extraordinary measures—that the principle of the
federation would communicate itself like electricity
to the distant limbs of the Empire. In that prin-
ciple alone—it is now evident—must be sought

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privilege—Will the one fourth be able to hold it out
against the three? for
To Ms comphalae are we moo at lit !
In less than six weeks, all England will ➢resent the
spectacle of one organised constitutional confederacy—
one grand Po L ITIC A L Uw loll—indivisible.unsubduable:
united for the just and sacred purpose of conquering
back, by their tremendous moral attitude alone, the civil
and political rights which their forefathers bequeathed to
them, and of which a corrupt and selfish aristocracy, and
venal Parliaments, have despoiled them piecemeal.

The amalgam* ail:mug, whose same cannot now
be mentioned without exciting enthusiastic associations,
having also written the Letters signed Primo-Arrive,
has induced some of our friends to attribute Pino-
SI DM ZT to the author of the Letters to the Irwo.
We think it right to undeceive there on the snidest.
Neither in style, nor in sentiment, nor even in constitu-
tional doctrines, does PBILo-SIDxIT oorrespead with
the glorious signature, of which his adopted new
manifestly records only his admiration. The com-
promising judgment which Pit no-Staxxx in some eases
passe* on the Duke of WILLINGTON —la well
as the pecoliar phraseology of our friend Putso's
compellatioa--separate his wide as the poise from
his indignant Original, who never once eonibnads, nor
qualifies, his eobstitutienel abhorrent,* of the dictatorial
Minister.

We are now going to press, without any intelligence
of the fate of Mr. Aiszannza, and his co-proprietors
of the Morten" Journal. At half-past tea, these defen-
dants against the action of Ow Prime Minister str Eng-
land, for a libel on his public character, took their station
on the foot of the Court at Weetnineter, to naive
the sentence of the Judges. This, we shell probably
record In a Second Edition : but oar feeling.. en the web-
jeet of the despotic invasion of the rights et free discus-
sion, which are interwoven with it, cannot be so readily
registered.

An extract from the South African Advertiser, re-
lative to the Settlement at Swan River, will be found in
our Gret page. We have only time to any that it merits
the particular attention of our readers.

cfusively the salvation of England. She perishes, if
her people waver now : the impulse has bees given, and
she must follow up the movement to the goal. ft is
visible and distinct before her.

Nevertheless, we are not unaware that many obstacles
will be thrown in the people's way—stumbling blocks in
their march to regeneration—interposed by the fears, and

We hays received the copy of a pamphlet iutitled
" Historical Illustrations of the Portuguese Question."
The Author—" a Portuguese Lawyer"—was a Member
of the Cortes ; and, from his thorough kw/lodge of the
subject, he could hardly fail to do it ample justice. That
this production is el high interest to the cause d her
MOM faithful MAJssTY; we shall give more substantial
proofs on an early day, by presenting our readers with
copious extract,.

We strongly recommend that the admirable Resolu-
tions passed at the Mechanic's Institute is Tuesday
night, and of which a copy appeared in our mamas
yesterday, should be transmitted to the branch Inetitutes
throughout the kingdom. Thai will eery*, at ones. to
prove that neither patriotism set public spirit are wanted,
in the capital, and operate as a powerful antidote to that
invidious poison which is so largely disseminating by a
portion of the 'metropolitan press.

passions, and interests, and prejudices of many. The
privileged orders do not like regeneration, because by it
they will be mulcted of their privileges. The Pro-
prietary confederation will lose their boroughs, and all
the sweets of corruption, consequently—such as places,
pensions, and nomination and preferment oranigenous--
which borough patronage entails.
This cannot he grateful. Matters, however, have now
reached a .crisis, when every man will be tried by the
severest test. The heartless and flimsy sophistries, by

which—heretofore—the Ministers and dbeir adherents
have been accustomed to stave off great (pastime, sad
defer, or altogether elude their discussion, will not
serve them now. The people of England are amusing an
attitude, which will compel them to entertain thee* ques-
tions ; and if they laugh—as they have hitherto done—
at the remonstrances and calamities which their own cot-

ruption and misgovernment have occasioned, let them
take heed that it be not on the wrong aide of the mouth.
Rira hien qui rira 1Q dernier, is a proverb worth
bearing in their remembrance. In the meantime,
we Solemnly warn the RIPAZSINTATIVZS Of the
PzorLs—who meet to-day in times of no common
anergenoe—that the eyes, and—yet for i brief *neon—
ate hopes, of a perishing and hunger-exasperated country
are fixed upon them. If the questions of reform are,
retrenchnunst—if even large reduction
iqf debt be not immediately and without shuility
:affected, on the heads of those who wants*
k. eel madly continue the burden on breaking,
becks, be the storm descend,: and descend it as infallibly
will, as the Dtree's Speech—according to Quit/drams
t reed this afternoon from the wel-
d the pee* jaw ?gm

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secret plans and neenciations." A considerable portion
of his life also has been spent abroad, amid the stormy
scenes of civil commotion. He had thus not only the
means of acquiring accurate information, but the expe-
rience necessary to assist the judgment in forming just
conclusions ; and how well he has availed himself of these
advantage', may be seen in the clearness of his statements,
and the spirit of truth and candour which they display.
If then this representation of the commencing career
of the charter be correct, it may be asked, how came this
brilliant prospect to be so soon lost in clouds and darkness'
—How has a perfidious perjured Prince been able to op-
pose the rising sense of his people, and establish a fero-
cious and sanguinary despotism in the place of a legiti-
mate government ?—To this question the treatise sup-
plies a prompt and decisive answer. The discontent ex-
cited by the developernent of the usurper's sinister views
had ripened into a principle of action. " The Constitu-
tionalists felt that their only prospect of preserving their
liberties, and their last hopes of individual safety, de-
pended upon their timely opposition to these encroach-
ments. The ferment was extreme, and the general
disaffection of the army gave birth to an orga-
nised scheme of resistance. A crisis was rapidly
approaching ; the patriots were anxious to defend
their invaded rights by the extraordinary means that
alone were suited to an extraordinary conjuncture.
They wished not to revive any democratic institutions,
bet simply to maintain that excellent Constitution which
had emanated from their Sovereign, had been approved
by Great Britain, and sanctioned by all the political wis-
dom of the country. They desired to preserve their free-
dom by their own unassisted exertions, and only required

an easuranee from the British Ambassador that the Bri-
tish troops should observe a strict neutrality during the
impending struggle. This pledge was unfortunately re-
fused : they were Warmed that British bayonets would
defend their royal oppressor, and were only prevented by
this intimation from upholding, sword in hand, their vio-
lated Charter. Not Leon. ,with the magic of his
name, nor the Quinn Monism, with all her pas-
'ions and talents, directed to a single object ;
nor yet the absolute party, with their various
re-
sources, but the mistaken measures of a friendly em-
bassy, destroyed the Constitution." On this subject, the
writer aye, be speaks with the more confidence, because
he was acquainted with the hidden transactions of that
time, living in habits of intimacy with some of the prin-
cipal actors on that eventful stage, and seeing the secret
springs of action. It is thus proved, that the Engllsh
Government, by an erroneous step, unconsciously as-
sisted the tyrant to overturn the Charter and establish
hie usurpation epos the liberties of hie country. The
ship was in a steno, but it would have worked safe into
port had it been left to the guidance, the skill, and in-
trepidity, of those on board. Had the Charter been
intrinsically bad, nobody would wish its restoration. Did
the Usurper possess one redeeming virtue, the loyal and
the bnive might in time be won to his sway ; but that
impossible. His is a headlong course, and he must perish
with the exhaustion of the crimes by which it is sus-
tained—for plunder and confiscation have their limits.
The Charter thus, although overthrown, is not extinct.
It is suspended—nut nippiest. Its spirit still liege,
and time will yet restore it in all its lustre. Snob
will be, in the course of things, the final result of a n-
eckties, lees sanguinary perhaps than the French, hut,
in popertioa M the relative population of the countries"
not exceeded in the amount of human misery which it
has inflicted. Credulity would scarcely believe, on lees
questionable authority, the extent to which the cruelty of
the tyrant has been carried—" not lese than twenty
thousand persons," says Lord PORCH ESTZR, " 470 supr
posed to have emigrated from that little kingdom, 07 to
be still concealed within its precincts; more than fifton
thousand confiscations are known to have taken plate;
and ten thousand individuals are believed to be still im-
mured in its dungeons, dungeons of whose wretchtrlosin
a British public can hardly form a conception."

We have been favoured with the copy of an able and
interesting pamphlet from the pen of Lord Posen &STIR,
entitled, " The Last Days ease Portiyueso Constitu-
tion." It is, as the title import., an account of the
usurpation of Mronsx, and the political 'vests bailie.
distely growing outof that usurpatim.—The Charter thee
overthrown,thoagh not free from imperfections—sad whet
human institution is fauldese—the Roble author worm,
was intrinsically pod. He regret., however, that the
Emperor, relying too much on its smite as a boon to his
subjects, which it undoubtedly was, had sot previously
obtained for it the sanction" of the three Estates, clothed
with which this emanation free his own sole authority
would kayo been pissed epos a more solid basis,
and rendered more swore against attack. A large
portion of the work is devoted to as analysis of the dif-
ferent muses which "mewed to reader some classes of CITY, Twzr.va o'CLocs.
itagNea disaffected this new order of things, and the MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNINQ.
adherence of Mime, doubtful and wavering. The dis- A.
ID IA. D. A.
abilities imposed on the regular clergy, and the ands- 1 Dublia.., ...3. 0 0 Frame* ..... 0 0 Lisbon ....w. 0
sided state of the questions connected with the crown ,!) Gann.Waterford
.I** •• • ta'aleaw 16::
grasts.and other territorial right., indisposed many of the 0 Leeward Island. 1 0 Hamburg!: .3.3 4 0 Bradt
nobles and monks ; and a vivid moollectios of acts passed All the speedaten and jobbers are on the alert this morale to
if the former Cartes, of the oppression which they abseils the eesteme of the Log's Speech, to be delivered dds oho-
ismodooed, and the right. which they invaded, excited seem We are credibly informed that the Speech will notice em .
the hen of all. Several other special causes of ad- "eats "Willre fn the iaPens
andadecur° afta;irt yreyar, and *ln malittf
reoemmeedverse teenage to the Charter are eamaeratsd, but it is with the present welfare of the country : it will also give sow
oiled " many of these feelings woe* diminishing. It maces of tbo dreamt friendship of all the great Powers towards die
is erne the notional institution, were taking root most matey : It also states the near settlement of the Greek goesdio
slowly ; the work of legislation scarcely proceeded, but but It is understood it doss not Blind= that Priam Leopold is es
still the influence of a constitutional government was
1:554/13.4ha a 1125 a
rapist dinGtaleg.
tWYlsrs sea going
to
prpose a
OatpseY-
The leading lam Were acquiriaff habit. °I we thsvellseees for Ms boveodpeiss of the state of the made&
b■sinsss;
public
1 at6.ll6°wee directing
Ala" tole is gala asserted wkb some coalesce that the redanhet of
pmblie is.;
; and a, ee and manly spirit of p - she Four par Cease. wiu positively take place.
Utica discussion, fir the Arse time. pervaded society The Cooed Market, which left GE yesterday afternoon very
A portion of the Nobles, and that by far the most heavy at ae for the Account, opened at the same price this mom-
enlightened ; a considerable number of the Priests lug does which they have reached file for the Aerosol, and for
and of the middling classes ; a majority of the Merchants, mart osi fl-
uid lastly, that most powerful auxiliary, the Regular In the Fordo Market, Greek Beads fell oat pet cent. dace
Amy, were favourable to the Charter." The history of welch they have recovered to 541 55' other &cud*. Sills
nations does not afford an instance of a new constitution or amid" d°ll4.
The only arrival we have this morning Is a Flanders llbillwattli
cosamenolag wider more favourable auspices.—lt was in- deer see wee say yeidea information.
' trinsioally good, and emanated from a legitimate authority. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
On the part of the different orders of the people, nothing may have bees dome to the es* pars of the emotes et eoh,
was oppose to it but pride and mistaken notions of their due which the market has hopoong to poi, and at mead mil
separate Womb ; all of which were giving way, as in be looted es; 11, sod IBM for wool. The mosey market se-
generally the fate of error and prejudices upon a fair pears better to-day then for some days past : they are teholo he of
isiaL .Of the cerrectasse of this statement no doubt can be Bonk at Si per amt. Choked thldtlat are made is 111.
City
eattetained. The noble writer is no loess authority, ferias Majesty's liPset"hiell "led' smelt fee.
raindog scenes acted at a distance, end finning his Tk Trench Meld AM rondos doe, therefore we have no re-
' views upon report. His Lordship passed the greatest dal
lahignadia
at
rsimi"
In the Forel. Market, the only buboes doing Is Omsk
vart of the year 1827, and a portion of 1828, in roe- boa. which net se said as yeitenky, swing. it le to
VI. sad daring that long residence Its says, "he be. Mato Leopold set being as yet appolotod to the Oro= ateohne•
ameard ll rdo aim", friendship with many Jodi- In Wise kedge sesastdes lees sr sedges doing.
VA, lei was dim segesiated with some of their I We have so arrival Ibis thy et alp Were.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
The Kiwi's dinner party, given after the holding of
the Court on Tuesday, at his Palace at Windsor, con-
sisted of the Cabinet Ministers, and some of the fficers
of the Household. The Duke of WELLINGTON and
Mr. Secretary PEEL left the Palace and returned to town
at a late hour on Tuesday night. Earl BATHURST, the
Earl of ROSSLYN, the Earl of ABERDEEN, and Sir
GEORGE MURRAY, Slept at the Palace, and came to
town yesterday morning.
Mr. W. SMITH, M.P. (the Chairman of the Com-
mittee of the Anti-Slavery Society,) Mr. By xvow, M.P.
Mr. SPRING Rica, M.P. and Mr. MACAULIY,
at-
tended yesterday at the Colonial Office, and held a con-
ference with Sir G. MURRAY.
The French Ambassador had an interview yesterday
with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office.
The Right Hon. Sir GEonon HILL (the Vice Trea-
surer of Ireland) arrived in town on Tuesday night from
Ireland. Sir GEORGE visited the Duke of WELLING-
'row and the CII•NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yester—
ay.
d
Mr. HERRIES entered en his official duties yesterday
morning at the office of the Board of Trade' and was en-
gaged there on official business daring the day.
The Earl of ABERDEEN, Viscount MiLv tux, Mr.
Secretary PEEL, and the Cuaweat.Los of the Ex-
CIISQUILit, had interviews yesterday with the Duke of
WELLINGTON, at the Treasury.
Viscount MELVILLE held a Levee, yesterday, at the
Admiralty, which was numerously attended by Naval
Officers. -

Despatcbea were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial Office for Sir G. Dow. the lieutenant-Go►ernor'.

of Gibraltar.

The Russian Ambassador gave a grand dinner yes-
terday evening, ut Ashburnham House, to a numerous
party.
The Grand Parliamentary Dinners on the opening of
the Session of Parliament were given yesterday evening.
by the Duke of WELLINGTON, at Apaley House, as
First Lord of the Treasury, to a large party of Members
of the House of Peers; and by Mr. Secretary Past, as
Ministerial Leader of the Lower House, to a numerous
party of the House of Commons.
The company of both parties went in full Court dress.
After dinner, the Kix o's Speech, to be delivered ea the
veiling of the Session of Parliament this day, was read
by the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. Secretary Pisa
to their respective parties.
Among the company at the Duke of Wellington's
party were the Lord Chancellor, the Dukes of Bucclough,
Leeds, and Montrose; Marquesses of Hertford and Cleve-
land ; Earls of Chesterfield, Bathurst, Jersey, Roselyn;
Viscount Melville • Lords Tenterden, Salton°, Wham-
ektlfe Maryborough, Hill, dm.
The party at Mr. Secretary Psaes was composed of
the Marquess of Graham, Earls Mountcbarles and Dar-
lington (Mover of the Address,) Viscounts Lowther and
Castlereagh, Lords Eliot, G. Somerset, Strathaven
Downes, Ashley, E. Somerset, F. Gower, the Lad
Advocate of Scotland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Right Honourable' Sir G. F. Hill, Sir G. Murray,
Sir G. Cockburn, Sir J. Nicholls, Sir J. Becket, C. Ar-
buthnot, J. Calcmft, J. W. Croker, Sir H. Harding*,
and J. C. Herries, the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons, the Attorney and Solicitor-Generale, the Solici-
tor-General for Ireland, Sir G. Clark, Sir H. Faso, Sir
W. J. Hope, Sir B. Martin, Sir A. Grant, Hon. J. H.
Townshend, Gen. Phipps, Colonel Trench, Messieurs.
Planta, John Calvert, Ward (Seconder to the Address,)
H. Twiss, Dawson, W. Peel, Stuart Wortley, George
Bides, Spencer Percival, and T. P. Courtenay.

A short correspondence has taken place between the
Duke of Wellington and Mr. Sainsbury, a gentleman
deeply interested in the security of Church property, in
which his Grace, in answer to that gentleman's inquiries,
assures him that he has no intention whatever of meddling
with the Church Establishment, and that the reports to
that effect which had been published in the newspapers
see wholly groundless.
The Hon. and Rev. James Somers Cocks, son of Earl
Somers, will succeed to the Prebendal Stall of WorcesterCathed4l, vacant by the decease of Dr. Oakeley.
Bifrons, the seat of Edward Taylor, Esq. near Can-
ts:bury, was purchased a few days ago by the Marquis
of Conyngham.
The National Repository in the King's-mews is now
'lased to the public, and will not be re-opened to general
inspection till the ensuing month.
Mr. Philipps delivered his Fifth Lecture on Vocal
Music yesterday at the above Institution, and (notwith-
standing the extreme severity of the weather) to a an
morons auditory, the greater portion of which was Ladle,.
Mr. P.'s remarks on the prejudices among musical vir-
tuosi respecting Ancient Melodies were very amusing;
and his observations on the manner in which collectors
borrow from each other, and on Native Melodies gene-
rally, were much applauded.
A notice has issued from the Clerk to the Justices
Office, at Canterbury, announcing the prevalence of by-
drophebia in that city, and requiring that all dogs suffered
to run in the streets be forthwith muzzled.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when W. G. Adam, Esq. was appointed
Ma Company's standing counsel.
A paragraph has been taking the rounds of the English
and Irish newspapers stating that the Marquess of Watt-
meath had been arrested on an attachment issued out of
the Ecelesiaateal Court for contempt incurred by his
Lordship in not having paid certain costs which had been
decreed against him in a suit recently pending between
the Noble Marquess and his wife. The paragraph further
stated that Lord Westmeath had pleaded his privily!s
as a Peer to prevent the execution of the decree. We
are authorised by his Lordship to state, that so far from
any such plea having been set up, he distinctly waived
his privileges, and that the whole story is a fabrication, no
arrest, in fact, ever having taken place.—Evening
Hoax was announced for Macheath, in the Beggar's
Opera, in Dublin, on Friday night, but he did not ar-
rive ; and Dmitri a, who undertook the part at a short
notice, acquitted himself with good effect. DOWTON'S
Lockit was an admirable piece of acting; and Miss
By YIELD, as Polly, sang all the beautiful airs allotted to
her, exquisitely ; " Cease your funniv" was rap-
turously encored. The Duke and Duchess of NORTUUM-
usLAND visited the Theatre on Saturday evening; the
performances were The Heir at Law and Charles the
Twelfth.
IlesErrEzisat IN KRERY.—Kerry has not at this
moment a single Peer or Baronet resident within its
• limits. The rents drawn annually out of Kerry amount
to the enormous sum of 160,0001. which are lavished
either on the Continent, or in the capital of Great Bri-
tain.— Tralee Mercury.
REPRESINTATION OE CLOW HIL.—We understand
that ETRE COOTE, Esq. son of the late General Sir
EYRE CoOTE, and n to the Isis JOHN BAOH
wara, of Marlfield, C.dli°s to succeed to the summon-
*Miss of the borough of Cionmel, vacant by the resig-
nation of his father-in-law, J. IL MASSY DAwaox,
raq•