Star.
London, England, 1817-10-23 00:00:00

MADRID, OCTOBER 7.

The Archbishoo of St. James, Don Raphael Mur-
quiz, who ter a long dine enjoyed the particular
Favour of the King, has received orderp to quit
Madrid in St hours. The cause assigned for his
disgrace is, his being the chief of the party of the
Clergy who oppose the execution of the financial'
plan of L)on Martin Garay. It is said, that the ill.
shops of Santander and Jaen, who were proceeding
to Madrid, have, on learning this intelligence, return-
ed back to their respective dioceses.
It appears that the movements of our troops to.
wards the frontiers of Portugal do not slacken. In
all the ruptures with that Power, there have been'
two corps of army on foot, of which the one menaced
the province of Beira, and the other, in Estremadura,
was destined to penetrate into the Algarves.. This,
double assemblage is now forming. Do we intend
to really make war upon our neighbours ? The
public are not initiated in the secret of Government ;
appearances indicate probable hostilities. This is the
whole. It is very remarkable that the Portuguese
General, Marshal Beresford, is an Englishman by
birth, as it also the Count d'Abisbal, Henri O'Don-
lel, who is to command the Spatial' army. A Cie-

cular of the Minister at War prescr,.),.:. !!••• most
severe measures to prevent Officers from coming to
Court, to surprise the favours ot his Majesty Every
Officer, of whatever rank he may be, who shall ab-
sent himself fr. in his corps, and present himself in
this capital, shall be initnedtately erased from hit
command and deprived of his employment. The
Commanders of Provinces shall not grant to:lough*
to reside beyond the hounds of their provinces, and
only for the term fixed by the Ordinances. The
leave to visit Madrid is exclusively reserved to his
Majesty. 'The Milit .ry Commandants are personally
responsible for the exegt.oMn of this (mkt.. Important
political discussions occupy; it is siit4i the Council of
State. and suspend the examin ition of the Junta of
Public Credit upon the debt :n arrear. It is certatik.
that A war of any description would derange all this
financial estimates made this year. The first injury •
Whicit the Fossibility of a war has done to us, is the
adjatirnment of th • departure of the expedition de-
stined to the support of the brave General Morillos
of whom we daily expect news. Hit Excellency the
Bald. de Tatischere enjoys here the bignest conside,
rat lin. tic frequently sends dispatches to Paris and
to his own Court. One within these kw dap arrived
from Russia. Tae Asnb issador of his pawn*
Majesty m ontains a not less active correspondence.
His Escetlency emoloys Spanish couriers, whom be
has taken into his service with the consent of one
Government. A veil of mystery still covets these
diplomatic operations, which, it is supposed, relate to
the state of our Colonies. It is thougt t that M. de
Bardosi, our Ambassador at Turin. will be charged
to proceed and take possession of the State of Lucea,
in the name of the Queen of Etruria, the sister of b 1
Majesty.

I.rip3lc, OCTOBER 7.
Oar Michaelmas Fair was attended by maily Fo.
reiin rs, particularly Jews ant' Greeks. Much basin
nest has been Jane the kg eight days, and if it con-
anise, this v. 11 be one of the best fairs. Tt.e English
sold all their metchienelise, and Stith great rapidity.
The partiality of tl.e Public fur English manufacture
still tobsiets. The Swiss and Saxon cottons were
pretty tscii colt, and it is hoped that the call for them
will increas-. Silk anklet are very high. Fine
cloths had a great sale —common clAihs scarce. ly any.
This is a circuinstance very hilarious to those places
where the mama acture of the latter is the principal
branch of inJustry, arid it partly Ai ises from the
cl itl.s being for the twist part blue, a colour less
sougil (or at present than bottle gre*n air brown...:
Woollem stockings lasd also a great sale.' Leather
bore a good price, as well as the Colonial prosiustimiss
Rice has. beet for come tim.: on the hi. k up.
Arrangem nts are already making here for thit
celebration of the secular festival at the reformation,
and there it reas in to think that it will be Attended
with tin-Common solemnity -in tt.is the birth place cd
that great event. The only thing which depresses
ti.e Public..l little, as the estinenon ut the Wurtens!
berg University.

VIENNA, OCTOBER 8.
Tl:eir Majesties telt Cronsradt on the 15th of Sep.
temlArr. S.:CT et LI lUnlpflA asches were raised foe
towns on the road; they Al !Wed on the 16th at Syent
Gyztgy. S vt tal person iges have repaired to Styria,
in order to receive them in that Province. 'Choy are
to be back right days sooner than s‘ a. first expectede
t.l ILiytia have been newsy organized,
and toe criaiies which ase to take pla..e ILI Au:Arista
Italy will be 5.,.0n m ide kcowo.
(kronen B.—According to the last accounts from
Constantinople the result of the conference between
the Russian Minister, the Baron de S!toAcrturf and
the Keis effendi, was, that the left arm of the Da-
oube is no longer to len ni 'he !primer between Tur.
.nd Russia, which is henceforth to be indicated
by the scond arm of the river, called Sulina, 10 its
joacti ,n with the &Cilia, below the aver Ismael. ('he
inter mediate• land; ishaisist 'continitaily devastatediby
inundations,•.will.,vemain dram for the breadth of
‘ront sae to. five Gelman leagues. I.IIC 114b1LAtiln$
at the small town of Killasti a are to be rebuilt on the
rigkt bank of the Danube in two years, and the fl'On.
tier line on the soil marked by columns 18 beet in
height. Respecting navigation there is nothing fur.
ther determined upti. This Convention is coitus
acted a good initiative for the demarcation of Irma-
tiers, and it affords reason to hope that the other ne•
.rociatioist will be happily term,n tied. It is untrue
that the bonding of the new Hotel for the Russian
Embassy at Constantinople has been corineeernAnded,
death of Czeroy Georges will cause no mite
' understanding.

Jk:AN ETIENNE HAIIOOUIN, the translator of Tomes
11 igst 1 &ruglot into French verse, died at Paris on the
25m ot Jour last, at 14e advanced Age of 82. He
also paiaplirased PrINICON'S I drosachirs ; translated
the fragment ot the Vlst bouts ot Levy, discovered by
PAUL JACQUEs BURNS, in tile MS.S. Library of the
IVatican; and published a collective ot Anacreon",
Poems in the original Ore, k t. xt, with a Globe-try,
and translations,. into Latin prose and verse, and
' French prose and verse.
The late Sultana.VALroe, mother of the GRAND
SElGNingi who recently died at Constantioople, ray
it is stated in a French paps r, a Crtiile, born at Mar•
tinique, the daughter ot respect, ile parents. On her
voyage to France, tor the yuipii,es ut tducatt„e, the
merchant vessel, on ho :rd ot which the was a pas-
senger, was captured by ass Algerine Corsair. and
she became at slave at Algiers. French Cumuli
offered to ran:vaster, but she relus:d her consent it;
' consequence .ot an old Negress 114111ils pred.ctt:4l to
her that she would become .we of use greatest Prin-
cesses in the world, and licit withstanding all the in-
treaties ot her relations she p:.rsisted in abandoning
herself to her fate. The prediction ot the Negress
ItAID singularly fulfilled. Ihe Sultana is said to have
been a brautiltd woman, et fascinating insane's.

THE EVENING STALt.

LONDON.

• - TPWRSD.IY, OCTOBER 23, 1817.
THE FUNDS.
• Prlee of Stocks this day at Twelve i'Clotk t
Reduced 2.0.13 Cons. 400--Cona. for No 4. 110 i et .
4 per Cent. 61 1 Jivy, legit —Wu Boa& fe IYO pr:
Etohequer bills, 20s to St,. pr.

The Russian Fleet of seven sail of the line and
several frigates, is daily expected at Spithead. A
Gentleman has arrived in town from Portsmouth to
contract [or bullocks to supply them with a fresh
store of provisions. To this it is added, that the flees
has ten thousand land troops on board ; but we know
not on what authority, and we are inclined to doubt
the fact, as there Wils no intimation of this kind in
any of the letters from Revel, which could hardly
have been the case, were troops embarked, as such
an arrangement generally occupies some time and
creates a great deal more bustle than the mere sailing
of a squadron.
Whatever the object of this armament may be, it
is naturally enough inferred that it cannot beadverse
to British interests ; or, at all events, that Russia has
succeeded in persuading our Government that its in.
'cations are perfectly amicable ; bat it is certainly
possible that neither the one nor the other of these
ideas may be correct. The hostile movements of
States are never without some pretext, and are always

accompanied. by pacific assurances to whoever they
may think likely to take alarm but it does not fol-
low that they are satisfactory to those to Whom they
ire addressed, merely because they give to them an
apparent credence; for to exhibit any thing like dis-
trust might serve to make the other more cautious,
and thus keep the suspecting party longer in the dark
as to the real object of the warlike in,-vement.
From the reported land force on board, some con.
crude that the Mediterranean is the destination, and
One or other of the Barbary Powers the object of this
armament. Others will have it that the reported
'Treaty with Spain for a possession in the Mediter-
ranean, has been brought to a conclusion, and that
we may soon expect to hear of Russia being put in
actual possession of Minorca.
Which of these opinions may deserve most at-
tention, or whether both be not equally delusive,
sae take not upon as to determine—but, juslg-
tin from history, we are not without our fears,
however prudent it may be for Ministers not to
manifest any thing like apprehensions on the subject,
that this Russian movement may ultimately place us
in a situation which_ would render the propriety of
forbearance on the part of Britain, highly question-
able. Should the object be an aequisitidn of territory,
even by cession for a price, we have a right to say
No, you shall not alter your relative situation ; for
that is virtually Sc alter curs, to which we cannot con-
, lent till convinced that our interests shall not be
injured.
It has not for many years been at all doubted by

chose who attend to the polities of the Great Powers,

that Russia has not ceased to cherish the hope that
the plans of CATHERINt will one day be realised in
the conquest of Constantinople ; and perhaps the
entire expulsion of the Turks from Europe: indeed,
the latter could not but -soon follow the former. Now
any movement on the part of Russia indicating such
an object would certainly call for the interference of
Great Britain, and in a way more decisive than that
of mere remonstrance.
In one word, none of the Great PoAvers4 especially
the Maritime, call make any hostile:movement what-
ever without furnishing some cause for alarm so one
or more of the others. The present movement may
have only Algiers in view t but it is possible that it
may have some other object, and if this should prove
to be either Turkey or Spanish America—or even
Minorca, we would not give six months purchase for
she general peace of Europe.
We cannot take upon us to decide any thing on the

topics which form the present subjects of speculation
barony polticians and monied men ; but in the City,
thie wonting, the Stock barometer indicates a strong
slog. eof alarm. The market opened under a heavy
klowl pf apprehession, a sudden and heavy demo.
*ion followedi and the Consols which began st 82, fell
to 811, 81, sq.:, 80 For the account. and 79i for
sooner. The depression was occasioned not merely by
ieports of tht movements of other Powers. Several ppo.
;lidos merchants, it was affirmed, had been applied to

by the Agents of Government to furnish contracts of
bread and meat ; and it was, added that 10.600 tons
pEtransporu for troops and stores are wanted, and a
Rest of men of war and frigates ordered to be provi-
sioned for four months, and to put to sea with all
possible dispatch.
In ate City the alum we find rests more upon the
present posture of affairs between Spain and Portugal
abet on the Russian movements, The late frequent
meetings of the Cabinet Council
,were.occasioned, it
Is said, by the pertinacity of 'Spain in« refusing to
deliver up to Portugal one oe mole of the funnier
fortresses ceded to the latter ; and the late march of
the Bpanisb troops is ascribed to tlik fact.
Whatever credit may be due to these statements,
they have had the effect to depress the Funds con►i-
derably. They are .thres per cent. lower than they'
were two days ago, and they still look down: The

Commissioners fir porchising Stock gave 79i for
Reduced Consols. _ _ _ _

We have this day setn several letters from Madrid
of the 7th inst. received by Spanish houses. They
all concur in stating, that the utmost exertions are
making by the Spanish Government for the equip-
ment of a fleet, and that, in addition to the militia
being called out, the regular troops had all been put
in motion to march to the frontiers.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night,
and this morning we have also received those of
Monday.
It will be seen from the extracts which we have
given in our preceding columns, that the march of
the Spanish troops to the Portuguese frontier, is
talked of at Madrid, where the real state of the fact
ought to be best known, in a way which affords
strong countenance to the tumour of approaching
hostilities between the two countries.

The Madrid Gasetieer, the organ of course of the
Government, is careful to acquaint the public, that
in all former rupture: with the Portuguese, two bodies
of troops have been kept up —the one to keep the
Province of Bira in awe, and the other to penetrate
by Earemadura into the Algarve:, and that at the
p►eeent moment, the very same double assemblage of
troops is taking place.
The Austrian Observer contains a long article on
the subject of the decapitation of CrEitsic Guineas,
according to which it would app;ar, that the fats of
that Chieftain had no, a: reported, been the cause
of any breach of harmony whatever between Russia
and Turkey. It is said that CZERNT GZOIWES had
given his word trot to quit the Russian territory, or
cross the Danube; and that, when the Emperor
Mx:Asyut heard of his flight, he pronounced judg.
ment of condemnation against him, and disclaimeJ
sill further obligation to protect him.

A letter from Petersburgh, dated September 15,
says,“ Prince Gortchakoff, a General of infantry, has
just been impeached for permitting ablisesto take place
during his aiministration of the war department.—
He is to be brought before the Council of State.
This is the first instance of a Minister being impeach-
ed : this also will be the first judicial sitting of the
Council, which was organized In 1811."
French 5 per Cents. 18th October, Gar. 30e.

The conduct of the Court of Special Commiss;on,
at Derby, on the subject of the contempt which has
been &hewn for its authority, in prohibiting the pre.
sent publication of the proceedings on the pending
trials for High Treason, has brought into general
discussion a question which it appears to us of very
great importance to the freedom of the press, as well
AS to the purity of public justice, to have, in one way
or other, distinctly determined.
The facts which have led to it, our Renders are
aware. are these t--The Court, at the outset of the
trials, prohibited, in a manner most emphatic and
comprehensive, the publication of any part of the
proceedings in any of the trials, until the whole should
be concluded ;—the Counsel for the prisoners after-
wards complained that in defiance of this injunction
a most garbled and partial report of part of the pro.
ceedings had been published in certain newspapers;
the Court, on being told of this contempt, enquired
1 whether the Counsel had any motion to make upon
it I—the Counsel replied, that be did not conceive it
belonged to his, to make any motion, but to the Cow'
to vindicate its own authority ; on which the Court
declared it could do nothing in the matter, and paced
on to the other business of the day.
Such is the case in point of fact, and from it we
think one of two things necessarily results :—Either
the Court, in the first instance, Issued a prohibition
which it had no right to issue, or the contempt was
not brought before it in a shape in which it could take
legal cognisance of it. If the contempt eras brought
before it in a proper shape, and the Court mid do
nothing upon it, then is it most clear that the Court
did issue a prohibition which it had no right to do,
since if it had the right to issue, that right must ne-
cessarily have included the power to enforce, without
which the right is nothing.
What then is the fact as to the manner in which
this charge of contempt was brought ? The charge
was brought on the part of the unfortunate indivi-
duals whose interests were injured by the spurious
publication; not so much, however, in the manner of
a complaint against certain:persone for infringing any'
obligatory rule of practice, as in the shape of a simple
appeal to the justice of the Court, against a.great
abuse which had been brought upon them by the new
regulatiob which the Court had, of its own authority,
thought proper to enjoin in the present instance.
The fact of this abuse, too, was proved to the Or-
fect satisfaction of the Court,-4, it is a very unfor,
tunate, a very mischievous thing." said the Loao
-Crow BARG/1...W mischievous in every point of view,
and mischievous to all sides." Otte radical defect,
however, it was pretended, existed in the course of
proceeding on the complaint ; ancldthis was, that the
parties complaining produced no ail clavit,ot the names
atsd designations of the individuals who had commit-
ted the contempt, and chose to make no motion for
their punishment,
Now to form a proper judgment on the merit of.
this imputed defect, let it only for a moment be con-
sidered what the nature of the prohibition was. It
y was a prohibition against publishing, pointed io o
most particular manner ag.tirnt the ordinary vehicles.
. of such publication-Like Newspapers ;—a Prohibition

wbici.. in fact. could have scarcely any other class
delinquents in views When it was proved, therefore,
that one or more of these Papers had contemned that
prohibition, and proved by the best of all evidence)
the production of the numbers of the papers contain.
ing the offensive matter—was not, we beg to ask, the
particular delinquency which the Court had in con•
templation, when it issued the prohibition, fully este
blished ? And were not the sufferers justified in calling
on the Court to visit the delinquency with that sort of
punishment which it must be supposed to have ako
had in contemplation, when it thought fit to threaten
►offenders with its resentment ? The Court, we are
told, wanted to know tuAs the offending parties were?
The Court has only to look to the imprints of the
Papers complained of, and they would have at once
übtaiped every satisfaction on this point. Something
'beside that however they still wanted it seems ; they
required ti; at theprivatecomplainersshould go through
the part of prosecuting the offender to judgment.
—But why should the ',rivals complainants do so ?
Wil should those persons tender themselves as the
advocates of the prohibition, who were the sufferers
from the abuse it had occasioned, and who would
have fared so much better had no such prohibition
ever been issued, and a full and impartial account of
the proceedings been, as in other cases, allowed to go
before the Public ? No—lt most assuredly was no
business of theirs to identify themselves with an in.
novation hurtful to themselves. It was the business of
the Court to vindicate its own consistency, and to chew
that it had not by its gratuitous prohibition renderedthe
course of justice to the accused less pure than it would
have been by leaving things to their ordinary course.-
-If it was not in its power to do► so—if with the con-
tempt proved to its perfect satisfaction, and with the
names of the panders before it, the forms of practice,
or any thing else, would not permit of its proceedings
ex tropics setae, to punish the contempt ; then we
may be very well satisfied that the Court has been
altogether in error in assuming the right it has done,
and that it cannot do any thing wiser or better than
immediately to recall a prohibitioo of which it is able
to make nothing. That it has not that power we
take for granted on its •wn admiuion ; nor do we
believe that any person in the least acquainted with
the principles of our jurisprudence, will be disposed
to dispute the soundness of its authority on Ibis point.
To go into all the reasons why it has not that power,
would lead us into a wider field of illustration than
we have either time or room at present to do justice
to; but, for the guidance of our Readers, in their own
reflections, we may brit fly suggest what appears to us
to be the most leading considerations on the subject. I
In the first place, then, the publicity of all proceed-
ings in our Courts of Law, is a quality so inseparably
interwoven with the principles of justice by which
they are regulated, that no Judge ca effectually pre-
vent it by any rightful exertion of his authority.
When a prisoner puts himself on Goo and his coun.
try, he makes use of no fiction: the Jury, it is true,
are held by a sort of fiction to be that country; but
it is .► fiction which extends not beyond the mere
necessity of representing the country; and does not
exclude the right of the country to know, by all prat-'
ticable means, whatever is made known to the repre-
sentatives, or Jury, whom it has chosen to judge for
it in the matter at issue'
Secondly-a-Although every Court has power to
regulate the purity of its own proceedings, no Court
has any power beyond these proceedings. The pro-
ceeelings, as soon as past, become the property of the
Public, which. that Public have a right to make ose
of in any manner it pleases.
Thirdly—Were the Judges possessed of a power to
prohibit the publication of proceedings before them,
it musk be a total and not a partial power—a power
which would enable them to punish the man who
promulgates the tale by word of mouth, as much as
him• who promulgates it by moans of the press, since
it is only in the measure df offence that they differ.—
But to such a power no Court has yet been vain
enough to pretend.-

And lastly—lt is a power which cannot pos.
'sally be exerted to any good purpose, but may, on
the contrary, be productive; as It has been in the
present instance,. of consequences the most mischie-
taus. The truth can never come too soon before the
public, and it is never miter to come qtockly than
when the various channels of information are leis
wholly free.. To postpone its disclosure, is to leave
prejudice and malignity to mt)ie havoc at Flzasure
of the cause of the unfortunate
l beings who are the
objects of public attention—so that impressiiins in.
finitely-worse than any ohich. the fullest disclosure
of the truth could have produced, are almost cer-
tain of being made against them. TO postpone
that disclosure too, is to remove from the minds
of the Joey, one of the most binding checks on
their integrity, or at least very much to leis.in its
efficacy inasmuch as die public are disabled from
Igo:ming any opinion of the soundness of the verdict
at the time it is pronounced, and a Jury may be
ntempted by the great chance there is, that what the
public cannot judge of at the time it particularly ar-
rests theitaattention, they will not eke:Wards trouble
themsilves about, to teturn a verdict, which if riah;ly
sifted, would in abide the scrutiny of opiaied.

The following statement chews a eonsiderable ex-
cess in the Excise Duties, last 'week, over those of the
corresponding week. last year s
Last Wqk - • _ 4464.p00
. The gottespoadiag Week. saiii . 374,1111 • '
......----.. ,
rat Cos tp ripVir el" Ws* .fraamoa•

CIPAL INTELLICANCL

MAILS &IR. out. Aft tt,
Dublin - -- 0 I Prance •- . 1
Waterford - . 1 1 uotteuburgh -. 0 '
1
Guernsey and /wry 0 0 Flanders a- - o .
Lisbon - - - 0 0 Malta - .. - 4 :
Holland • - - 0 a Hansbutth -. 0 ';

FAL/001111i, OCI CYDER 20.

Arrived the Endeavour flora Nl4laza to-
mouth. Sailed the 'ripe,. CAsn Pony. Lat.-. 1:,,
Providence, BOLT; C.,Ars, 41J
EVANS, for London. Wind N.N. E.
PLYhtatlrn, ocrobEit 21.

SAiled the SWittstire, TURMAYNE;
CHILLOR ; And Honor, Elulltst.ti, lot Leo
ger, ritms.tit, for I.3temett ; And Matuil,
Itotterdam.—Wind S.W.
PORTSMOUTH, OC I'OI3ER

Arrived the Hope, Muss, from Mal.tg.t.
off the Wight the H..pe xell, from B
Sailed his Majesty's ,hips PROM llTtiaes and !),r

to meet the homewat bound.—WinJ N. E.

DEAL, OCTOBER st,

Came down from the River and sailed the ,
Rallies, for Bencoolen ; Lydia, for the South S.:
and the Eliza, for Malta.—Wind N. E.

DOVER, OCTOBER 22.
Passed by the schooner Johanna, SCIMENSON,
Trieste for Elsinore, having lnst an anchor and
_ _

off Seaford. Sailed 25 sail of collueis for the R.v-t.

GRAVESEND OCTOBER 22.

Arrived the Broderick, Peart. from Gottet.burgh.--a
New 1-hanix I.ewthwaite, for Trinidad ; Margaret, Nal „.,
Genoa; Friends, Graham; and Friends, C'ark, for L.
Jane and Mary, Coats, for Bremen ; Prince of Sate ;;;
Ladd, for Rotterdam; John, Greenwell, for Havre; LI,:
Blucher, Brinckmati, for Rostock.
CUSTOM HOUSE, OCTOBER 22.

SIMS ENTIMID IN./ARGIL—The lthune, Linitermat led
William and Anna, HalLtday, from Rotterdam; P.ovder
Althea, from Bremen; and Britannia, Straliack, !rem Ores&
OUTWAKIIII.--Mir Clew, fayloig for Forts St. Gait 144
William, and Madeira; Duke of Varit, Fryer, fez Runels;
Prtergrine, Prop-re, for Havre.; Loyalist, Flrritert, for
cent's; Fame, Mitcheson, for lianibergh ; Canning, l':ntrar.;
and Buckinghamshire, Adams, for ludia and China.

The Charlotte, SMITH, from I..ndort to F.
foundered at sea un the 24th ultimo, crew bacp,!.
The Swallow, from Bombay, touched at C:,
haten on the 15th instant, for provisions and rat
and sailed again for London.

The following vessels, homeward•bourt,
into Crookhaven : Duke of Richmond, Vcary
Henderson, STEELS, from Miratnichi ;
sox, from MAranham ; Woodpark, Anusvuun,
Archangel; Alexander, JACKSON, from Haell
and Neptunus, FOSTER, f rum Africa.

Thursday morning lair, about a quarter
four o'cleck, while the sinack l'tusty, from ,
was off Flamborough Head, Wict.tAst Ct.lt
mate, while taking in a reef in the mainsail, !ell
board, and was drowned.
A most appropriate Sermon was preached elk
nelly Church, on Sunday the 12th ins t. hy
T. 1). Evnas, against the cruel and disvacetw
tke of plundering wrecks. The Rev. _
took his text from St. Paul's description of
shipwreck ( Acts xxviii. 2.) " And the
people shelved us rub little kindness, fur they
a fire and received us every one, because of thi
rain, and because of the cold." Such a

the conduct of ignorant and uncivilised people,
barbariasw," to St. PAUL and his companions,
the too usual practice in that neighbourhood
other places, were dwelt on by the worthy
with forcible and impressive eloquence; and
and divine laws on the subject were pointed ow is,
clear and decisive manner.. The frequent period
ill-treatment of the unhappy sufferers, and theph*
der of their stranded property, imperiously c.di la
the most active exertions of tht civil power—libegli
rewards should be offered for the discoyeu,
viction of such cowardly and inhuman felons,_
sword of justice should fall on them with rigid ,
gout. The practice on the coast of Cambria (too
disgrace) is notoriously common, and the puoisbnxc
of plunderers scarcely ever beard of.—Candaa
New:Miser-

Tkie improvements in Sheerness Dock-yard 31
proceeding rapidly. As excavation, several te,dred
feet in length, breadth, and depth, has been niadelie
the formation of the new dock, and a new
considerable solidity, erected to prevent the encroa6
ment of the sea.

Bexley Heath, which was formerly a drivers
wildness, is now becAme a village. Several hulk
same houses and shops have also been very lay
erected, which have given an air of cheerfuiseate
the rreighbonrhor;el, and rendered the cornrow.
tion between Welling and Crayfurd, Darticakc"
mute easy and agreeable,
The improvements of the line and the Tont
from Dover to the Metropolis are proceeding wilts
much haste as the magnitude of the und,rtairig
admit. The greatest part of the cutting or the a:43.
side of Shooter's-hill is already done, and ti.e 6:3
from the excavation is well disposed in the tsliori
so that the rise is now very gentle, and del
considerable saving of time And fatigue Li tr..sl
—The labour at Boughton Hill, near Canterbary.
a *oil; of much greater estent. The Oka t
is to raise an entire new road at the side el trx .".,
one, from the village of Boughton to the East s.s
of. the hill, for which purpose the cutting lea bed,
carried to a great depth from the simmer, rate
earth deposited, with several la)crs f tagtuut'
the lower part cf the hill, so as to render theradi
level from the point where the rise on that sib i•
very severe. By this means the old mad will Ix 1:4
Boned, and travellcrs v:ill &nil the:r j,euuey
bly accelerated by passing this level, instead
great declivity of the western side of the 1:111.T::e:
which has been turned up is of a loamy sof: ...44
and requires much hard and stony material;
mind with it to sender it any wise practic..;;A:
solid road. The great uumber of men both the. e wj!
hthaevecoenaldpalc7o.tecd; affiards an additional aril::)'.
undertaking, and m o M
much praise is due t.: e.
on that, as well as other
Thursday,. an imgeense whale was found a
the bshermen of North Sunderland, which tkey
on shore at the Par of that place. Caused:. 0.
have been viewing this U1411,1;44 ojl th,.
olurn4geoc.d.

SI MS tun sus many ycati a uccu at am allAillitell cay a most garbled and partial report of part of the pro. exclude the right of the country to know, by all prac with torcible and impressive eloquence; and
-,- iLose who attend to the politics of the Great Powers, ceedings had been published in certain newspapers; ticable means, whatever is made known to the repre- and divine lees on the subject were pointed
• clear and decisive manner.. The frequent
, - that Russia has not ceased to cherish the hope that the Court, on being told of this contempt, eaquired sen.atives, or Jury, whom it has chosen to judge for
ill-treatment of theunhappy :offerers, and
i
the plans of CATHERINi will one day be realised in
der of their stranded property, imperiously
whether the Counsel had any motion to make upon it in the matter at issue!'
Sec
the conquest of Constantinople; and perhaps the it I—the Counsel replied, that he did riot conceive it ondly-a-Although every Court has power to the most active exertions of tht civil power
entire expulsion of the Turks from Europe: indeed, belonged to hires to make any motion, but to theater' regulate the purity of its own proceedings, no Court rewards should be offered for the discover),
viction of such
. cowardly and inhuman felons
the latter could not but -soon follow the former. Now
any movement on the part of Russia indicating such declared it could do nothing in the matter and d
, a passe ceeciings, as soon as past, become the property of the 1.1 • • •
gout% se practice on the coast of Lamina
an object would certainly call for the interference of on to the other business of the dey. Public, which -that Public have a right to make use disgrace) is notoriouslj common, and the pus
Great Britain, and in a way more decisive than that Such is the case in point of fact, and from ii we of in any manner it pleases. of plunderers scarcely ever heard of.—,
of mere remonstrance. think one of two things necessarily results s—Either Thirdly—Were the Judges possessed of a power to New:Pa/ter*
In one word, none of the Great Foarers4 especially the Court, in the first instance, issued a prohibition prohibit the publication of proceedings before them, The improvements in Sheerness Docke
proding ra. Au several
the Maritime, call make any hostilminoeentent what- which it had no right to issue, or the contempt was it musk be a total and not a partial power—•a power • •
feet in length,pidl breaydth, andexcavation, depth, has been I
ever without furnishing some cause for alarm so one not brought before it in a shape in which it could take which would enable them to punish the man who the c .ormation of the new dock, and a new
or more of the others. The present movement may legal cognizance of it. If the contempt arm brought promulgates the tale by word of mouth, as much as considerable solidity, erected to prevent the e
• have only Algiers in view t but it is possible that it before it in a proper shape, and the Court meld do him-who promulgates it by means of the press, since
.went of the sea.
may have some other object, and if this should prises nothing upon it, then is it most clear that the Court it is only in the measure of offence that they differ.-. .Bexley Heath which was formerly a d
wildness, is now becine a village. Sever,
to be either Turkey or Spanish America—or even did issue a prohibition which it had no right to do, But to such a power no Court has yet been vain 501110 houses' and shops have also been ve
Num., we would not give six months purchase for singe if it had the right to issue, that right must ne- enough to pretend.' erected, which have given an air of cheer('
the general peace of Europe. cessarily have included the power to enforce, without And lastly—lt is a power which cannot pos. the oeighbourhoiA, and rendered the con
We cannot take upon us to decide toy thing on the which the right is nothing. sibly be exerted to any good purpose, but may, on tion between Welling and Craytord, Dart,
topics which form she present subjects of speculation What then is the fact as to the manner in which the contrary, be productive; as It has been iu the mote easy and agree:6le,
The improvements of the line and the r.
Mason pceiticians and monied men ; but io the City, this charge of contempt was brought ? The charge present instance,. of consequences the most mischie. from Dover to the Metro • polls are proceeding
We morning, the Stock barometer indicates a strong was bunion on the part of the tiofortunate indivi. vow. The truth can never come too soon before the much haste as the magnitude of the und.rto
deg.e of alarm. The market opened under a heavy duals whose interests were injured by the spurious public, and it is never sitter to come quickly than admit. The greatest part of the cuisine; of t
dogd pf apprehession, a trodden and heavy deletes. publication; not so much, however, in the manner of when the various channels of information are left side of Shooter's-hill is already done, and
*ion followedi ant the Consols which began at 02, fell a complaint against certain:person, for infringing any 4 wholly free.. To postpone its disclosure, is to leave from the excavation is well disposed in thi
so that the rise is now gentle, and I
to 811, 81. wt.:, 80 for the account. and 7911 for obligatory rule of practice, as in the she shape of a simple prejudico aid malignity to maace havoc at Fleasure • • • very
considerable saving of time end fatigue ii Sr
money. The depression was occasioned not merely by appeal to the justice of the Court, against a.great of the cause of the unfortunate beings who are the —The labour at Boughton Hill, near Cane:
evens ad* movententsof other Powers. Several Po- abuse which had been brought upon them by the new objects of public attention—so that impressiains in. a work of much greater event. The ie‘j
%sloe merchants, it was affirmed, bad been applied to regulatioa which the Court had, of its own authority, finitely-worse than any uhicla the fullest disclosure is to raise an entire new road at the side d
by the Agents of Government to furnish contrasts of thought proper to enjoin in the 'resent instance. of the truth could have produced, are almost ter- one, from the village of Boughton to the C
,of the hill, for which purpose the cutting tread and meat ; and it was added that 10.600 tons The fact of this abuse, too, was proved to the Per- tatty of being made against them. To postpone carried to a peat depth from the sornmr,
pi:transports for troops and stores are wanted, and a sect satisfaction of the Court,—" Ir is a very unfor-, that disclosure too, is to remove from the minds earth deposited, oith several la)ers ( t fa;
fleet of men of war and frigates ordered to be provi- tunate, a very mischievous thiag." said the Loao of the Jere. one of the most binding checks on the lower part cf the hill, so as to render ti
sinned for four months, and to put to sea with all .Cease illenou-aes mischievous in every point of view, their integrity. or at least very meth to leis en its level from the point where the rise on that
possible dispatch. and mischievous to all sides." One radical defect, efficacy inasusuch as the public are disabled from very severe. By this means the old road veil!
lii the City the alarm we find rests more upon the however, it was pretended. existed in the course of forming any opinion of tine soundness of the verdict cloned, and travellers will find their jainuey i
bly accelerated by passing this level, inset,
present posture of affairs between Spain and Portugal proceeding on the complaint ; anddthis was, that the at the time it is pronounced, and a Jury may he A declivity of
great the western side of the Lilt
shoes en the Russian movements, The Ito frequent parties complaining produced no allfidavit,of the names -tempted by the great chance there is,
uses
what the which has been .
turned up is of a loamy sr l
patina of the Cabinet Council
.were.pecasioned, it end designations of the individuals who had commit- public cannot judge of at the time it parflcularly ar- i and requires much hard and stony materi,
rests tPemattention, they will not. afterwards trouble mixed with it to sender it any wise poetic..
Is said, ay the pertinacity of Spain Its refusing to ted the contempt, and choee to make no motion for themselves about, to return a verdict, which if &Italy solid road. The
great number of men both O.
'deliver up to Portugal one out Mote of the frontier their punithment, sifted, "would ill bite opiate abide the scrutiny of u • •
p . have employed, ft
eotatds an additional tail
fortresses ceded to the latter; and the late march of Now to form a proper judgment on the merit of
undertaking, and much praise is due to th.:
the bpanisb troops is ascribed to thla fact. this imputed defect, let it only for a moment be con- The following statement thews a considerable ex• the c d • t •
on (IL, 0* 3 on that as well as other a:
ems in the
*Excise Duties, last 'week, over those ot the. Ti d
Whatever credit may be due to these statements, sidered what the nature of the prohibition was. It tuts ay, an immense whale was found .
corresponding week, last years
they have had this effect to depress the Funds coml. was a prohibition againat publishing, pointed io a ' CM Wick . ' the fishermen of Noah Sunderland, which tic
e _ sea %ono
derably. They are Alma per cent. lower than they most particular manner against the °Wilier)? vehicles' , The corresponding week, Isla 374.115 . ,on shore et the Pier of that place. Crowd.,
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been
this .14 Oa the Oda:
Weft two days ago. and they till look down. The of such publicatione Newspapers ;—a prohibition raLCOi ta (Miff Of 4x wank 4412 A, • ,ave I villld.wiug strayto
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