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FRENCH PAPERS.

FROM THC OAZICITI DR 'TRANCE, MARCH B.
MADRID, Fa. st.—Pangs COMPISPDXIIIIIOI.
The Madrid Gazette of this day, February 21, eon-
tains the-following article :
ss The enemies of the tranquillity and happiness of
Spain, fruitful in resources, which bear the stamp of
malice against its Government, spare no pains to com-
bat it, and to obstruct its progress, which they might
effect by depreciating its credit. It is with these views
that some infamous pamphlets have been published out
of the Peninsula, which we will leave in the oblivion
to which the public indignation condemns them ; and
that articles have been inserted in some foreign journals
intended to censure the acts of the principal func-
tionaries of the Administration. They are all written
by Spaniards. though they endeavour to disguise them-
selves; they have been drawn up out of the kingdom,
though they are inserted in the Journals under the head
of Spain, and in the form of Private Correspondence;
their object is the same, viz. die ruin of the Govern-
ment. They are all dictated by the same desire of
revenge.

"Some Spaniards, offended at not_ having obtained
what they desired, or at having lost what they unjustly
enjoyed, forge all those shameful diatribes, in which
they attack sometimes the principal depositories of
pomer,sonsetinses only a part of them, to give the ap-
pearance of a kind of impartiality in their satires, or be-
cause their hatred is exclusively directed against cer-
tain persons. The aggressors in this perfidious combat
make use of all kinds of prohibited arms—disfigured
facts, malicious suppressions, and calumnies, are the
means which they employ. If these pamphleteers bad
any modesty, their situation would hinder them from
writing against the persons by whom they think them-
selves offended. The invectives of a man who is
offended are ineffectual to obtain the credit which he
desiresondure an authentic testimony of the ignoble
-condition of his mind. Let the defamers learn that
-condition
are known, and they trust expect to be one day
unmasked to obtain the complete reward of their
ignominy."
'This language, which k unusual in our official Jour-
nal, and so unusual to real statesmen, has made a cer.
ban sensation among persons who are in a situation to
be acquainted with the motives of such an article, and
;the critical position of the authors. At present I ceefine
`myself to this reflection, which I shall be able to dere-
iope in the sequel.
No news from Turkey.
PROM TUE coma= TRANcAIS.
The present posture of affairs is without etample in
the history of the world. England appears at war with
Turkey, and yet it is for Turkey that she fears. She
tilts herself the Ally .of Russia, and yet it is against
Russia that all her efforts are directed. She proposes
to send troops into the Mediterranean, and she invites
us, it is said, to unite our battalions with hers. Let
this be looked at with caution. It is Con-tantirople
that she uishes to defend, rather than save the bleedirg
and mutilated Greeks from the ferocity of Ibrahim
Pacha. The first step taken in that direction may lead
us further than we have arty wish to go.
Nothing can prevent the Russians ftom crossing the
Prod), from seizing on that part of Moldavia which was
not ceded to them by the last Treaty of Bucharest, and
from arriving on the banks of the Danube, the mouths
of which they already occupy. They will halt there.
They consent to it; but some Diplomatists say that
Europe ought to rise en 'nesse on that day when a Rus-
sian corps, leaving the river which defends it, shall-
menace Constantinople. And silty is Europe thus to
bestir herself ?
She should rather have run to arms on that day when
the Ikussians passed the Niemen—on the day when
they established themselves on the shores of the Vistula
—on the day when they placed, twelve leagues from the
Oder, their God Terminus, who never recedes. It is
there that the positive, the imminent danger lies, which
ought to make every Statesman shudder. At Berlin,
at Vienna, at Paris, they ought to see uith more plea-
sure an advance towards the Arazis, than towards the
Elbe—towards the East, than towards Western Europe.
It is not so at London. England has here a separate
interest. She sees in the future, the possessors of Con-
stantinople pass the Bosphorus to invade the slimes of
Asia Minor, to carry in the first instance their frontiers
beyond the Sakaria, and afterwards to open a road to-
wards India. This prospect fills her with alarm, she
fears that it leads to the termination of her gigantic
power, and there is no sacrifice to which she would not
submit, to delay the arrival rf that period. It is
Calcutta that England will defend, while protecting
Constantinople.
Will the test of Europe be associated with her efforts?
Ido not believe it. But Austria, say military men, her
wire-drawn politics will be changed, when the Russians
shall arrive on the banks of the Bosphorus. Of what
importance can that be? Dots she not carry already
the lance in her bosom? Cannot the Russians mask
Olmutz, and arrive in twelve or fifteen marches under
the walls of Vienna? Instead of running the risk of an
unequal struggle, in which Prussia. always rancorous,
will not fail to join her enemies. Austria will consent to
accept her share of the it. Bosnia and part of
Servia will please her der. 'hat a fine line of frontier
may she trace from the mouths of the Catarro or the
Guiph of the Drin, to the embouchure of the Morava.—
Then nothing will separate Transylvania from her pos-
sessions on the Adriatic, and she will offer in the centre
of Europe one compact and solid mass.
Prussia may find her compensation in the cession of
a part of Poland. perhaps also in the conquest of Ha-
nover, which was formerly to her an object of great
temptation.
France may resume a part of her line of the Rhine,
and find on the shores of Africa a compensation for the
loss of her Colonies. Then will those places of refuge
whence pirates have dared to brave us, and to insult
with impunity the civilization of the age, be abolished.
Will the Russian Empire be stronger after having
passed the Danube and the Balkams? In discussing this
question we shall take a view of the military means at
its command, and those that may be oprosed to it.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OP LORDS. litsucn 4.
The LORD CMANCILLOR took his seat on the Woolsack of S o'clokk.
Lord DUNDAS presented Petitions for the repeal of the Test
and Corporation Acts from the Protestant Dissenters of a et a.
gregatlon in the City of London ; of Whitchurch, and Laitgol-
len, in the County of Salop; of Chelntsford ; and of one Or two
other places.
Lord KING had a Petition to present from certain Roman
Catholics of Ireland, praying for the repeal of the Sub.-Letting
Act. The Noble Lord would not promise his support to the prayer
of this Petition. He did not profess to know any thing about Ire-
land of his own knowledge; but front the information be bad oh-
tallied from those whom he deemed the most competent authotities
upon such a subject, he must fairly state that his general impression
was in favour of the Act complained of by the Petitioners. At
the same time he thought it probable that the Ad might admit of
amendments. That a strong feeling existed against it, as it now
stool, was evident from the Petition he held in his hand, which
was most numerously signed.
Lord CU POEN thought the Sub-Letting Actopon the whole.
a very salutary measure, but capable notwithstanding of being
considerably amended.—The Petition was then read:
Lord KING bad another Petition from Ireland to present upon
a very different subject. He had for some time refrained from
presenting it, in the hope that be might have an opportunity of
do rag so in the presence of some Prelate of the Irish Chinch. He
was still unwilling to offer it to the notice of the House In thesis..
Bence of all those Right Rev. Prelates, as it contained some vett
strong statements affecting the Church of Ireland. He woad*
therefore content himself upon the present occasion, with &vim;
notice of his intention to present that Petition on Monday next+
Lord CLIFDEN presented a Petition from the Catholics of the
county of Mayo, praying to be relieved from an civil disabilities.
The above Petitions were severally ordered to lie upon the table.
MirmAGßi PRom Tilt tO3IIIIOEIL
Sir A. Gluier, and other Members, announced that have had
been given to H. H. DRUMMOND to attend their Lordships Com- .
mittee upon the Game Laws, if he should so think fit.
Sir A. °RANT, and other Members, brought up a Bill for the
enclosure of certain waste lands in Staffordshire.

H. Bermes, Esq. and other ilembers, brought up a Bill to enable
an individual to assign lands for the support of the Lunatics' Asy-
lum of the county of Dorset. _ _

These two Bills were severally read a first time.
On the motion of Lord TEYNTH A hi, a Message was ordered to
be sent to the House of Commons, requesting a dopy of the Re.
port of the Committee of that House, appointed last Session to
inquire into the causes of the encrease of crime in the agricuknral
districts.

The House then Adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The 51'2141111 took the Chair at four &dock.
A person from the Bankrupt Office presented Returns for the
years 1826,1827, and 1828.
Sir CHARLES MORGAN, presented a Petition fresh the
Maltsters of Abergavenay, praying for a Repeal of the Mak An
passed last Session.

Lord JAMES TOWNSH END presented a similar Petkies
from the Molesters of the Hundred of Holt, in Norfolk.
Mr. PEN DARVES presented a similar Petition from the Malt.
sters of the Borough of Truro, in Cornwall.
Mr. LUMLEY presented a similar Petition from the Land-
holders, Merchants, and Molesters of East Retford.
The Petitions were severally ordered to be printed.
Sir C. COLE presented a Petition front the Protestant Mien.
ters front a place in Giamorganshire, praying for a Repeal of the
Test and Corporation• Acts.
Mr. PRICE presented a similar Petition from the Protestant
Dissenters of a place in Hetefordshire. -
Mr. RAMSDEN presented a similar Petition ftorn a place in
Yorkshire.

Mr. JAMES BROWNE presented a Petition from the Roman
Catholic Inhabitants of a place in Ireland, praying for a Repeal of
the Subletting Act.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. M. FITZGERALD presented a Petition from the Roman
Catholic Inhabitants of Kerry. in layour of the Catholic Claims.
The Hon. Mr. DU NCOM BE presented a Petition from Whitby,
praying for the Repeal of the Stamp Duties on Receipts.
Mr. BATLEY presented a similar Petition from Beverley, In
Yorkshire.

Mr. DOUGLAS presented a similar Petition from Dumfries.

The Petitions were severally ordered to be printed.
The Hon. Mr. DUNCO3IBE presented a Petition front a Lady
styling herself Olive Guelph, Princess of Cuntberland, humbly and
respectfully praying to be heard at the Bar of the Huuse in eaplu
nation and defence of her case, which she and she was fully pre-
pared to substantiate.