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London, England, 1820-07-28 00:00:00

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1820.
THE FUNDS. •
PRICY OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK :
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Commer. 10s. 11 s. pr.—Omnium pre.
Cons. for Acct. 69% 34

The following is a dispatch from Lord COCHRA Nr,
dated from the port of Valdivia, about the middle
of February:
Snt—After a more minute examination of the
geneial state of affairs, it appears that the enemy's
force is completely destroyed, and that the spirit of
the people is good : the harbour is excellent, the for-
tifications formidable, and the country deserves, un-
der every aspect, more favour than it has received
from.those who are accustomed to a more ardent
sun and fewer clouds.

" It was first my intention to destroy the fortifica-
tions and embark the artillery and stores, but I have'
not been able to determine upon leaving defenceless
the safest and most beautiful port of all I have seen
in the Pacific, the fortifications of which must doubt-
less have cost a million of dollars.
" I enclose a list of the stores found in six of the,
twelve forts or batteries that defend the Larbour,l
and the details relative to Aguada.
" I must here do justice to the zeal and efforts of
Captain CARTER, of the brig Intrepid, who has con-
ducted himself in a distinguished manner.

"Be pleased present to his Excellency the Su-
preme Director the colours of the regiment of Can-
tabria, and those of Valdivia, upon whose walls now
waves the Flag of Liberty and Independence.

(Signed)

" COCHRANE."

. The Milan Commission, and the procedure con-
nected with it, is still a-subject of great interest among
the Gentlemen of the Bar. A Commission so ap-
pointed and conducted was without precedent in this
country; and it is considered to be somewhat singu-
lar, this great step in the proceedings against the
QUEEN having been carried on in Italy, that the
judicial modes of procedure in that country should
not have been adhered to, as respecting the furnish-
ing the accused with a list of the witnesses. It is a
fact, that persons accused before an Italian Court of
Justice, no matter what the crime may be, are en-
titled by law to the following means of protection :

As soon as the Attorney-General has received the proofs
and framed the indictment, he dull send a copy to the Registrars
of the Court, signed by him, and serve a legal notice of it on the
party accused, with an authentic copy, together with the list of
the Dames of the witnesses and their legal description, as well as
of every document:or written proof, or evidence; and he shall
not be allowed to examine any witness whose name is not in-
serted in the said list without the special permission of the
Court, and under such conditions as it shall think proper to im-
pose; or to produce at the trial any document or written evi-
dence, of which notice has not been duly served on the party ac-
cused, as abovementioned."

Thus we see, that where the Milan Commission sat,
not merely a list of witnesses, or a list of charges, are
the direct tight of each accused party, but that both
must be furnished as a thing of course. Both of those
indulgences.are granted by a foreign code,, which is
held, perhaps, in contempt by our parliamentary
Lawyers—while they were both, in succession, refused
to the QUEEN of ENGLAND, humbly petitioning for
them as the necessary instruments of her defence.—
We shall only observe farther, that as his Majesty's Mi-
nisters contrived means to conduct the Milan Com-
mission, without appointing a Committee to search
for precedents—indeed the search would have been
vain—it could have been no way discreditable to
them, when a precedent could not be found of a list
of witnesses having been ever furnished to the ac-
cused, placed in circumstances like those of the
QUEEN, to have made a precedent to meet an unpre-
cedented case—a case in which such unprecedented
proceedings had been pursued by the accusers.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this Forenoon.
They are quite barren of news. They republish the
accounts in our own Papers from Naples, but furnish
nothing new from that quarter.
French Five per Cents,Monday, 78fr. 95c.

The Lausanne Gazette states—" During the stay
of the Duke Decazes in Paris, the King made the
Duchess a present of a magnificent diamond neck-
lace, on account of the Coronation of George IV.
and his Majesty also ordered, that his Minister to the
Court of London should be furnished with the most
costly equipages, in order that he might appear at the
English fetes with all the splendour becoming the
rank France holds amongst the European States."