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London, England, 1824-05-31 00:00:00

REMARKABLE CASE.

Mrssits. LIONIIaI and Sox, York, 2d January, 1823.
GEN 1101 EN—Four years ago I began to be mast
severely afflicted with a violent Scorbutic Complaint in my
hands and face. ' I was at that time extremely ill. My bands were
in a most dreadful state: it first appeared in small pimples, attended
with much itching and pain • it then broke out sad ran white
matter. My parents procured me the best medical advice without
any amendment being Iffected. I still grew worse and worse; my
face, and particularly my nose and upper lip were frightful. Under
these distressing circumstances, I was taken to the County Hos-
pital, where I underwent salivation, &c. but was discharged three
separate times as incurable, after being in at one time thirteen
weeks, at another eleven weeks, and a shatter period at another. I
was quite incapable of attending to the business I was an _appren-
tice to (a painter), and therefore left it entirely. Hearing of the
many cures performed by your A NTISCORBUTIC DROPS, I
was induced to try them, and procured a small bottle from Mr.
DEIGHTON, Bookseller, at the corner of the Shambles and Pave-
ment, the beginning of October last, and after persevering in the use
of them, according to the directions, I ant happy to inform you,
that I am quite recovered. My hands and face are completely
healed, and 1 feel hearty and well. With the most grateful feelings
I now thank you as the means (under Gon) of my recovery, and
sincerely hope you will make this public as another testimony of the
efficacy of your invaluable medicine, and likewise for the advantage
of my fellow-creatures suffering under the same affliction. Any in-
quiries I shall most cheerfully answer, if by letter, post paid. I am,
Gentlemen, your much obliged Servant,
GEORGE BENSON, Withotit Micklegate Bar, York.
(Attested by Mary Benson, Mother of the above.
These Drops are sold in moulded square bottles, at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d.
Lind lie. each, by John Lignuni and Son, Surgeons, Scc. 63, Bridge.
street. Manchester; and by J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; J. and
C. Evans, 42, Long-lane, West Smithfield; Barclay and Sons, 95,
Fleet-market ; T. and C. Butler, N 0.4, Cheapside- and 214, Re
gent-street ; Sutton and Co. 10, 'ow Church-yard rEvan Edwards
66, St. Paul's Church-yard; F. Newbery and Sans, 45, St. Paul's
Church-yard ; henry Mackrill, 33, Whitechapel, London ; F
Newbury and Sons, es, Dame-street; Butlers 34, Saukville street,
Dublin ; Scott and Orr, 100, South-bridge, Edinburgh ; It. Nelson,
Surgeon, Glasgow ; and all respectable Medicine Venders.
Of whom also may be had, Mr. Lignum's IMPROVED VE-
GETABLE LOTION, for all Scorbutic Eruptions, price 2s. 9d.
duty included.

Dontus et placers axon Hoa.
Thy house, and (in the cup of life,
That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife.
SOCRATES, by his discourse on Marriage, soenrap-
tured his auditors with the subject, that the married men flew
to their wives, and the bachelors basteneSto be wedded ; and " The
Speetator" has affirmed, that the word" wife" is the most agreeable
and delightful name in nature.
The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the deside-
ratum of our enjoyment; teeming not only with happiness on
earth, but disposing the sou itself to harmonize with bliss hereafter.
Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, it
becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, hut
to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the free-
dom of Unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the
neglect of such attention are attributable many of those hapless in-
stances, which, while they excite the commiseration of the be-
holder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence in the tro-
pics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the pre-
mature infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the natural
dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the amnized sof-
,
ferer more than doubts the chance of relief. To air such, then,
we address ourselves, offering hope—energy—muscular strength—
felicity ; nor will our advances appear questionable, sanctioned as
they are by the multiplied proofs of 20 years successful experience.
The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the sus-
pension of those blessings which concentrate tli,! nuptial wreath
-for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be
stresigthenedond deficient energy ihiproved into functional power.
In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every relaxa-
tion of the generative economy, we pledge our ability to cure spee-
dily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling
empyric from the position so presumptuously taken up, we de-
viate front general principles with less hesitation; and confident in
our own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Sur-
geons, we refer the suffering community of either sex (especially
those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where
daily attendance is given for personal conniltation ; and letters
from the country are immediately answered ; these must contain
a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to
any part of the world, however distant.
GOSS and Co. M. It. C. Surgeons, No. 11,
Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London.

Just published (Sixteenth Edition), 1. The ..Egis tf Life, a fami-
liar commentary on the above Diseases.-4nd, Hammes, addressed
exclusively to the Female Sex. May be bad at 9.0, Paternoster-row ;
59, Pall-mall ; 16, Princes-street, Soho ; 174, Fleet-street, London ;
Porter, 79, Grafton-street, Dublin; Jones, 117, Trougate,Glasgow ;
Stewart, 61, South Bridge-street, Edinburgh; and of all Booksel-
lers. Price ss.

LEAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly fatuous for
curing, in all its stages, the YENEREA I. DISEASE.—
One small Pill is a dose, and the taking of one Box, in a recent
case, will soon convince the patient of the certainty of his speedy
recovery. Nothing Call be better contrived, more safe, or more
convenient than this Remedy, for such as are obliged to go journies
or to sea, as it needs no confinement nor restraint of Diet; and
sixty years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved that it
will effect a Cure when repeated Salivation and all other methods
avail nothing. For the Scurvy and other Chronica IDisorders,
this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 persons
of both sexes have been radically cured of the above cruel disor-
ders, within the last eight years; Prepared and sold by the sole
Proprietors, T. TAYLOR and SON, Members of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, at their House, No. 9, New Bridge-street, in
Boxes of only 9s. 9d. each, duty included.—N.B. Two back
doors, and Lights in the Passages at night.—They are also sold,
by their appointment, with copious directions, at the Toy-shop,
103, Oxford-street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill,
nearly opposite the Monument ; and by one Person in every con,
siderable Town in Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to
Persons taking the above, or other of the Proprietor's Medicines.

[This Gazette contains a Proclamation, directing the Scotch
Peers to assemble at Holyrood !louse, on the Bth of July, to elect
one of their body to sit in the House of Peers, in the room of the
late Marqtlis of Lothian. It likewise notifies that Sir W. D. Best,
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, has been sworn a Member ot
the Privy Council].
BA NKR UPTCIES ENLARGED.
John Anthony Gilbert, George-lane, Botolph-lane, merchant, from
June S to July 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of
Bankrupts, Basinghall-street.
Major l'arkes, Holly Hell, near Dudley, Worcestershire, flint.
glass-manufacturer, from June 1 to July 21, at twelve, at the
Jerningham Arms Inn, Shiffnal, Salop.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Sutton, late of Sunbury, brewer.

BANKRUPTS.
James Everitt, St. Martin's, Northamptonshire, dealer in horses,
to surrender June 7, at five, tt, and July to, at eleven, at the
Ottorge and Angel Inn, Stamford. Attornies, Mr. Worth,
taunt, Lincolnshire; or Messrs. Hamilton an. Ullithorne, Ta-

vistock-row, Covent.ga rden.
Peggy Booth, Gee Cross, within Wernetb, Cheshire, cotton-spin-
ner, June 14, 15, and July 10, at ten, at the Star Inn, Manches-
ter. Attomies, Mr. Potter, Princes-street, Manchester; or
Mani. Milne and Parry, Temple.
Robert Spofforth, jun. Howdens Yorkshire, scrivener, June 10,
at five, 11, at ten, at the Hall Moos Inn, Howden,and July
10, at eleven, at the house of Mr. W. Wells, loothferry,
Yorkshire. Attornies, Mr. Lowndes, Red Lion-square; or Mr.
I)insley, Ilowden.
George Donald Uulmer, Liverpool, money-scrivener, June 21,22,
and July 10, at one, at the George lon, Dale-street, Liverpool.
Attornies, Mr. Chester, Staple Inn; or Mr. Diode, Marshall-

street, Liverpool.
Robert Wilson, Tooley-street, •ictualler, June 5, 12, and July 10,
at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basing-
hall-street. Attorney; Mr. Whitton, Great Jaines.street, Bel-

ford-row.

Thomas William Wise, Jettnymstreet, tavern.keeper, June 5, at
two, 12, and July 10, at one, at the Court of Commissioners of
Bankrupts, Risisighall.street. Attornies, Messrs. Fisher and
Lake, Bury-street, St. James's.
Francis Warneford late of Wakefield, tea-dealer, June 5, at eleven,
12, and July 10, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank.
rupts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Noy and Hard-
stone, Great Tower-street.
Charles Waterhouse, late of Bridgnorth, druggist, June 5, 19, and
July 10, at eleven, at she Castle Inn, Bridgnorth. Anomie*,
.Messrs. Philpot and Stone, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury ;
or Mr. Vickers, Brldgnorth.
Edmund Stolworthy, late of Chkwell-street, cheesemonger, June
1, 19, and July 10, at tea, at the Court of Commissioners of
Bankrupts, Basinghall-st. Attorney, Mr. Richardson, Cheapside.
Francis Kain, Pore-street, Limehouse, coal-merchant, June 5, 12,
and July I'o, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank-
rupts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Harman, Wine-
oftice-court, Fleet-street.
Thomas Pine and F.dward Davis, Maidstone, millers, Jane 5, at
eleven, 12, and July to, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners
of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Fisher and
Sudlow, Thavies bin, Ruthann.
John Baptist Austin, Cheapside, druggist, June 5, at two, 12, and
July 10, at one, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts,
Basinghall-street. Attornies, :,lessrs. Russell and Son, Lant-

street; Southwark.
Robert Clark and James Jobling, jun. Trinity-square, Tower-hill,
coal-factors, June 5, 35, and July 10, at twelve, at the Court of
Commissioners of Bankrupts,l3asinshall-street. Attoruies,Messrs.
Grace and Steadman, Archnt-lane.

DIVED ENDS to be made in UA SI N G lIA LL-STREET.

June 19, J. Sparkes and A. Coles, Portland-street, coach-makers,
at one. July 10, T. Jones, St. John-street, stationer, at eleven.—
June 19, J. Baker, late of Bath, tailor, at twelve. June 22, E.
Howard and J. Gibbs, late of Cork-street, Burlington-gardens,
money-scriveners, at twelve. June 9, G. Parker, late of Blrchin-
lane, rope-maker, at twelve. July 10, W. Stewart, Mitre-court,
Cheapside, merchant, at eleven. June '26, J. Ilibbert, Hylord's-
court, Crutched-friars, wipe-merchant, at eleven. June 26, J.
Richardson, Holborn, linen-draper, at eleven. June 19, P. At-
kinson, Rarlbone-place, haberdasher, at one. Juue 26, D. Fowler,
Lime-street, merchant, at eleven. Junk 19, M. B. Schlesinger,
Chisrch-court, Clement's-lane, indigo-merchant, at one. June 19,
T. Berry, Bond-court, Walbrook, wine-merchant, at twelve,
June 19, J. l'inck, Chichester, linen draper, at twelve. June 22,
G. Blair and W. Plimpton, Lower Thames-street, seedsmen, at
twelve. June 19, J. Fildea, Lanih'sConchit-street, upholsterer,atlO.

DIVE OR N DS to he made in the COUNTRY.

June 25, H. UpNall, Lte of Wood-P.nderby, Lincolnshire, tat-
tle-jobber, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Horneastle. July
6, J. Robson, Sunderland, grocer, at eleven, at the Golden Lion
Inn, Sunderland. Jun.: 2.3, 11. Coates, Bradfield, Essex, farmer,
at eleven, at the Thorn Inn, blistley. June 26, J. Chetham, late
of Stockport, scrivener, at ten, at the Bu:keley Arms, Stockport.

MM.
TREATY BETWEEN GREAW BRITAIN AND
THE NET RERW N'D
-.".41111W-r • •
The following is the Note 9,Lthe Plenipotentiaries of
Majest Kau t Naterlands, in reply
to
that of.nt gotentigriesetis Britannic Majesty,
con ceirVn near), of London, concluded on the
17th of March :
" The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands have found in the Note
which has jest been presented to them by their Excel-
lencies the British Plen potentiaries, a faithful recapitu-
lation of the communications which had taken place at
the time when circumstances, independent of the will of
the negotiators, lel to a suspension of their conferences.
" Being called upon to resume their labours, the com-
pletion of r hich has always been desired by both parties
with equal sincerity, the undersigned speedily recog-
nized in their fellow-negotiators, that spirit of equity
and conciliation which (a‘ilitates the adjustment of the
most complicated questions, and to do justice to which
they caa find no fitter occasion than the moment which
is going to sanction, by the signature of a formal treaty,
the arrangements adopted after mature examinatiun, as
eminently calculated to maintain a good understanding
even between the inferior agents of the contracting par ties.
" This essential object, this principal tendency of the
treaty, are palpable tor all persons who read with at-
tention the several articles.

. .
44 The express stipulations which it contains appear
sufficient to remove, by common consent, any uncer-
tainty which may occur in the sequel. However, as
the British Plenipotentiaries have thought it proper to
enter into some farther details, the undersigned, whoop
their side feel the importance of leaving nothing to
chance in so intetesting, an affair, make no difficulty of
following them in these details, and of completing, by a
succinct developemcnt of their way of thinking, the answer
which they owe to the Note of their Ercellencits.
" The 7th Article contains an exception to the gei-
netal principle of the liberty of tomtnerce. The ne-
cessity of this exception, which was already admitted
by England in the conferences in 1820, is founded on
the existence of the rystent relative to the exclusive trade
in spices : if the delihei ations of the Government of the
Netherlands leatl to the abandonment of this system, the
freedom of commerce resumes its lights, and the whole
of this Archipelago, which is very justly described as
comprehended between Celebes, Timor, and New
Guinea, is open to all lawful speculations, on the foot-
ing to be established by local otdonnances; and with
respect to the subjects of his Britannic Majesty in par-
ticular, confoimably to the bases laid d 01.% n by the
treaty for all the Asiatic possessions of the two contract-
ing Pow ers. On the other hand, so long as the ex-
ception in que-tion remains in force, the vessels which
traverse the Moluccas are to abstain from putting
into any other ports than those the list of which was
officially communicated to the Maritime Powers some
years ago, excepting in cases of distress, in which it is
supetfluous to add that they will find at all places
where the standard of the Netherlands is displayed,
the services and assistance due to suffering humanity.
If the Government of Great Britain, in disengaging it-
self, according to the principles established by the pre-
sent treaty, horn the connexions which its agents formed
four or five )ears ago in the kingdom of Acheen, think
any real advantage will accrue to it from securing by
some new stipulation the hospitable reception of the
vessels and subjects of Great fliitain in die ports of that
kingdom, the undersigned do not hesitate to believe,
that on their side they see no inconvenience in it. And
they believe that they can, at the same time, give the
assurance, that their Government will proceed without
delay, to regulate its relations with Acheen, in such
a manner, that that State, without losing anything
of its independence, may offer to the navigator
and to the merchant that constant security which it
seems cannot be established there but by the moderate
exercise of the influence of some European Power. In
addition to the information contained in the last Note of
the British Plenipotentiaries on the subject of Bencoolen,
their Excellencies have communicated to the undersigned
the two Conventions, signed respectively, the 23d of
May and the 4th of July, 1813, on the one pats by the
Governor of that Settlement, and un the other by the
Chiefs of some neiglibottrilf,.; tribes; they have also had
communication of a dirpatch of the Governor-Gene-
ral in Council, dated trom Fort Wihiam, the 9th of May,
I ts 23, by which the British Administration has abolished
at Fort Ma.lborough the monopoly of pepper, encou-
raged the cultivation of rice, and placed on a stable and
unlit)t m foundation the relations of the different classes of
the natives, as well with each other as with their Chiefs.
Now, unless the undersigned are deceived-in supposing
that the object of this arrangement was to ensure the
pi oseerity of agi ;culture, and to prevent the misunder-
standings which often result from the immediate con-
tact cf the native population with the subaltern antho-
iilies of a foreign Covet nment, they feel great satisfac-
din in saying, that, far From having to tear any retro-
active treasures, the individuals interested in the
present ruder of things may, on the contrary, entertain
the hope that the new Goverronent will have regard to
then acquired rights, and to their welfare, which the
undersigned especially take pleasure in win ranting it
will canoe the :wicks of the conventions already men-
tioned to be strictly observed ; on the faith of which,
the inhabitants of Pasummah, Uia, Manna, and other
tribes, have tecogri,ed the authority, or accepted the
protection el the British East India Company ; reserv-
ing, how ever, the faculty to substitute for them, with
the full consent of die parties interested, other analogous
conditions, if circumstances should render an altera-
tion necessai y.
With itsFect to the equitable and benevolent dis-
positions of the Bi i:irti Goveininerit towards the
loins-
bitauts of Molucca, and :he other Dutch settlements'
ceded by tl:is Tteaty, the Plenipotentiaries of his Ma-1
jesty the KO-1g of the Netherlands accept the assurance
of theni with unlimited confidence; and the same send-
nicht induces theirs not to insist that the instructions
and the orders which shall be sent to the English audio-
Cities in India, relative to the delivering up of Fon
Marlborough and its dependencies, shall be conceived
in tot ms so clear, precise, and positive, that no ground
for uncertainty, no pretext tor delay may be found in
them ; for they ate persuaded that the liiit,sll Pleiiipo-
tcadialies, after having she la n so much moderation and
fait dealing in the fulfilment of their tiok, will take eat e
that the result of their joint labours shall not he endan-
gered by a regard to aubm dinette inteic.ti: and secondary
considei adults. This result is painted by the British
Plenipmentiaties themselves in their last Note, and it re-
mains for
the
undersigned only to congiatulate them-
selves on hat ing concurred in it, and to unite their
wishes n itli those of their Excellencies, that tire agents
of the revective patties in the Asiatic possessions may

Tways spew themselves deeply impressed by a sense of,
the duties which two friendly Rations, animated by truly
liberal views, have to fulfil, as well towards each ether,
as towards the natives whom the course of events or
treaties have placed under their influence.
4, The undersigned gladly embrace this opportunity to
renew to their Excellencies the British Plenipotentiaries
the assurance of their most distinguished consideration.
(Signed) " F. FAGF:L.
" London, March 17, 1824. " A. R. FA Lek."

SPANMH ACT OF AMNESTY.

MADRID, MAY ee._

The following is a translation, at length, of the Act'
of Amnesty promulgated by the King of Spain :
Myr. I. I grant a general pardon, with the exception
of corporeal and pecuniary penalties, to all and each of
the persons who, since the commencement of 1820 to
the Ist of October, 1823, when I was restored to the full
exercise of the 'rights of my sovereignty, took part in the
excesses and disorders which have occurred in these
kingdoass, with the intention of supporting and pre.
serving the pretended 'political Constitution of the Mo-
narchy, provided that the said persons are not found
implicated in the Article following.
ART. 11. Those persons ire excepted from this Am-
nesty, and must consequently he examined and judged
in conformity with the laws, who are comprised in
either of the following classes :
1. The principal authors of the military rebellions of Las Cabezas,
the He of Leon, Corunna, Saragossa, Obiedo, and Barcelona, where
the Constitution of Cadiz was proclaimed before the Royal Decree
of the 7th of March, 1820, had been received ; and also the Civil and
Military Chiefs who continued to command the Insurgents, or of
whom they assumed the command, in the design of overturning
the fundamental laws of the kingdom.
es The principal authors of the conspiracy which originated at
Madrid in tire beginning of March, 1820, to compel me, by violence,
to countenance the aforesaid Decree, and also to extort front me an
oath making the same Constitutional
3. Also the Military Commanders who took part in the rebellion
of Ocagna,and mote particularly Lieut.-General Henry O'Donnell,
Couift. d'Abishal.
4. In like manner are excepted the authors of the outrages which
were resorted to for the purpose of compelling me to establish the
pretended Provisional Junta, which is referred to in the Decree of
March 2, 1820, where those individuals are described.
5. Also those who, dialing the Constitutional Regime, signed or
authorised addresses tending td sdlicit my abdication, or foe the sus-
pension of the" august functions which I exercised, or for the nomi-
nation of some Regencrethich should replace me, or compelling my
Royal Person, or the Princes of my family, to appear judicially
before them, whether in the presence of the self•styled Cortes, or any
other tribunal, and also those Judges who issued writs for that object.
6. Those also are excepted who, in the Secret Societies, during
the Constitutional Government, made proposals tending to the same
objects ; and also those who, be it under what pretext it :hay. shall
hereafter assemble In such Secret Associations since the abolition of
that Regime.

7. Also writers or editors of books or papers hostile to the dog-
mas of our Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Ringian Religion.
8. In like manner are excepted the principal authors of the dis-
turbances which occurred at Madrid on the 16th of November,
1820, and during the night of the 19th of February, 1823, when the
Royal Palace itself was violated, to prevent me from the free exer-
t cise of my prerogative in appointing and dismissing my Ministers.
9. Also the Judges and Reporters of the proceedings against
Ge-
neral Elio, and of the First Lieutenant of the Spanish Guards, Don
Theodore Goffieu, the victim of his signal loyalty, and the love he
bore to the Sovereign and his country.
10. Those also are excepted who planned and executed the as-
sassination of the Archdeacon Don Mathew Vinucsa, and of the
Reverend Bishop of Vich, and also the authors of the murders
which were committed at Grenada, and at Corunna, on the persons
of those who were arrested in the Chateau of St. Antoine, and
others of the same description. Such assassins are in all cases to be
considered as exempted from all general pardons, as having tried
on all occasions to propel revolutionary movements.
11. Also the Commandants of Guerillas, which were embodied
after the entrance of the Allied Army into the Peninsula, and
Iwho demanded and obtained commissions to wage hostilities with
the Royalist Army and that of my Allies.
12. Also those Deputies of the aforesaid sell styled Cortes who,
in their sitting of the 11th of June 1823, voted for my abdication
and the establishment of a pretended Regency, and who, persisting
in their depraved views, pursued the same steps at Cadiz; and ex-
cepting those Individuals, in like manner, who, being nominated
IRegents in the same city, accepted and exercised the trust, and also
the General who commanded the troops that conducted me to the
aforesaid place. Those, however, are exempted from this class who
after this disgraceful event effectually contri!nited, not only to my
liberation, but also to that of my family, in pursuance of the so-
lemn Decree which was issued by the Regency on the 3d June in
the same year.
13. Also are excepted those European Spaniards who took a di-
rect part and efficaciously contributed in forming the Convention or
Treaty of Cordova, which Don Juan O'Donsjo of hateful memory,
signed with Don Augustin Iturbide, who beaded the insurgents in
New Spain.
14. Those also who took an active part in the Constitutional Go-
vernment, and in the Revolution of the Peninsula; who thus sup-
ported that Government in America, with the design of continuing
and supporting the insurrectionary cause in those our possession.,
and those individuals who remained there after they had received
due notice front the Authorities to leave the country; but excepting
from this exclusion to amnesty, those natives and inhabitants of
New Spain who returned to their duty.
ART. 111. All those not comprised in the exceptions
just specified, or in any one of them, will enjoy the bene-
fits of grace, civil liberty, and personal security.
ART. IV. Consequently those taken into custody for
outrages not mentioned in the afore-stated exceptions,
or merely for political opinion, shall be set at liberty,
and the sequestration on their effects taken off, though
they may heretofore have exercised judicial, political, or
military authority, whether administrative or municipal,
or were employed by the Constitutional Government.
ART. V. The respective Authotities shall, notwith-
standing, proceed to the examination of the conduct of
such individuals as may have given evident proofs of
their adherence to the Constitutional Regime ; and if
their present conduct shall be found to be that of faith-
ful subjects, they shall not be disquieted in any sort.
But, on the other hand, if by actions, writings, or speeches
in public, they are likely to trouble the public peace, they
must be judged and visited with all the severity es hick)
is announced for the guilty in the preceding exceptions.
ART. VI. The proceeding with regard to persons not
included in the Act of Amnesty must he laid before
the superior Tribunals of those places where the offences
were perpetrated.

Ala.. VII. This pardon does not reinstate in their
employments those who officiated before the 7th of
March, 1820. The political conduct of such persons is
to be examined by the means already pointed out.
Awl.. VIII. The light of reparation, without prejudice,
is reserved to the Royal Treasury, and to call to account
those by whom its resources have been dilapidated.
Awr. IX. Those individuals who belong to classes
excepted from the present pardon, but who have been
included in any of the capitulations granted by the
Generals of the Army of his Most Catholic Majesty,
Ithey being duly authorised, may continue to reside in
the Spanish dominions, under the express condition of
submitting to such judgment, and its consequences, as
are applicable to the excepted cases.
Aar. X. The Civil and Military Authorities charged
with tike execution of this Decree ate responsinle 101
whatever shall be opposed to it, whether by excess or
by twuit.

Aim XI. The Most Reverend the Archbishops, and
the Right Itevereud the Bishops, in their respective
Dioceses, are requested to exert, upon the promulgation
of the present
pardon, all the influence of their Ministry

to re-establish union and a good understanding be-
tween Spaniards, in exhorting them to sacrifice on the
altars of religion, and in affection totheir Sovereign and
country, all personal resentments and party offences.
They are also now requested to watch over, with equal
solicitude, the conduct of Parish Curates and Ecclesias-
tical Teachers, and, on all occasions, to pursue such
measures as may be dictated by a holy zeal for the wel-
fare of the Church and State.
Aranjuez, May 1, 1824.

Tlll4_, EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, MAY 31, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWKLVF. O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 954, %, for the Account, with
little doing ; and for Money 941,
FOREIGN FUNDS.
This befog Settling-day in all Foreign Securities, the Market Is
rather heavy, and mn.t of the business is in settling accounts.
Current Pricei:—Old Spanish 20 to %, New 15, Chitian 771,
Russian 95, Mexican Scrip 1% to 4, French 164 4, Austrian 9i,
Colombian Scrip 25 to 2 disc. Alliance Shares 15, Trish Shares
* disc, to par, Paladium par to 4, Colombian SS4.
PRICE oPs.roci:s AT ON K O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2261/2 229.
3 per ( ent. Reduced 93% ys
ii per Cent. Cons. 945/i %-33 per Cts. 10078 N
4 per Cents. Assented 100:1/4 1/2
4 per Cents. New 1073/4 107 1/8
Bank Lg. Ans. T23/4 1-16 Vs—lndia Bonds 775. 795.
I:..%cl•equer I;ills (1:1,(X)0)'_!1. 8 18
Ditto (1:500) 28—Do. (12100 and :C200) 30.4211
Consols for Acct. 95% Vs IA •

A very unnecessary alarm appears to us to be
excited against Joint Stock Companies, and Walpok's
Mergoirs and Anderson's Dictionary of Commerce are
ransacked to supply the well-known details respecting
the South Sea scheme and the bubbles cf the early part
of the last century. So far as this may have the effect
of repressing t he projects of needy adventurers, or giving
a due caution to the Public, we approve of it; but when
it is brought forward as a reason for preventing' any
new association being formed, for commercial purposes,
we object tothernodeof opposition as unfair and irrele-
vant. A Bill is now before Parliament for enabling Joint
Stock Companies to engage in Maritime Insurance,
that privilege being at present confined to two Char-
tered
Associations, and to individual underwriters at
Lloyd's Coffee-house, an establishment of the highest
respectability, which has done more, perhaps, to extend
our commerce, and to raise the credit of the British
merchant than any other Institution ; but we do not
conceive that the granting to public bodies the privi-
leges which men possess individually can be considered
as unjust, nor do we believe that it would, as some con-
tend, either ruin Lloyd's, or injure, to the extent
th it is conceived, the business of an underwriter.—
For ourselves, we candidly confess, that we would in
any transaction, rather do business with an individual
than with a public body, and that there are hundreds
of underwriters at Lloyd's, of whose responsibility for
all their engagements we should be as satisfied as of
that of the largest and wealthiest Companies that could
be established.

Among the difficulties thrown in the way of forming
new Commercial Associations, a proposition by the
Earl of LAUDERDALE, which comes on for discussion
this evening in the House of Lords, is not the least ex-
traordinary. His Lordship proposes, that before any
Company shall be incorporated, four-fifths of the in-
tended capital shall be paid into the Bank of England.
His Lordship excepts canals, bridges, and other works
requiring time: but how many commercial projects
may there not be, of which a large capital can
only gradually be used, and therefore it cannot be ne-
cessary to call for it ? If a Company is formed with a
capital of four or five millions, divided into shares of
£lOO each, and in the first year only half a million can
be employed, where can be the necessity of the Share-
holders paying £BO each, and locking up three million;
and a half in the Bank of England ? We would take,
for instance, the proposed Alliance Insurance. Ad-
mitting that the Bill passes, and that the laws confining
Maritime Insurance to the only two Bodies that possess
that privilege, are repealed, will any person contend
that four millions out of the five, which is the
nominal capital, will at once be required ? Certainly
not ; and therefore all that can be necessary is, to make
the parties responsible to that amount—a measure which
will be quite as effectually ensured by the proposed re-
gulations of Mr. Humes" which make every Share-
holder liable, not merely for the sum he subscribes, but
for the general obligations of the Company, if, as a
Company, it cannot meet its engagements. There is
another objection to the plan of the Earl of LAUDER-
DALE, which is, that besides shutting up the money, by
depositing it in the Bank of England, and thus de-
priving the subscribers of the means of employing it
actively ill other ways, the Bank has already more ca-
pital than it can employ, either in loans or discounts at a
low rate, and could not therefore pay the necessary inte-
rest to the sharehoLlers, if the law enacted that it should
do this, and gave it the privilege of indulging in specula-
tions with the money, over which the persons to whom
it actually belongs could have no controul. These a:e
a few of the objections to the plan of the Noble hart,
and although they are not the only ones that might be
adduced, yet we think them sufficient to prove that it is
impolitic and unnecessary.

This forenoon we ►eceived the llfonikur of Saturday,
ith a Supplement, and Galignani's Messenger, by Ex-
press. Both sheets of the lloniieur are almost filled with
the debates in the two Chambers, the Treaty between
this country and the Netherlands, with other extracts
from the l•'n3ii'.w Papers. Tlie Ltoik of IStiday had pie

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