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LONDON.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.
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100 5 5

We have unquestionableuuthority for stating that two
emissaries from Don MIGUEL and the Peninsular apos-
tolicals, have arrived in town, charged with voluminous
dispatches for AssEcA and Marshal BzuEsToun !
We also pledge ourselves for the authenticity of the
following facts. The Secret Treaty, concluded some
time since by the Spanish Envoy MONTALEGRE, and
which puts an end to British influence 'in Portugal,
has been ratified by the Cabinet of Madrid. One of
the first conditions of this compact—to which the POPE
has acceded—is the recognition of the usurper. Unless
atij, circumstances arising out of the late discomfiture at
Terceira shall have prevented it, the recognition was to
take place on the 16th inst. Before the departure of
the two individuals who have just arrived, MIGUEL and
his friends had received assurances of unlimited support
from the administration of the Prince DE POLIGN AC :
these worthies, however, frankly avowed their inability to
decide on the recognition, unless England either ap-
proved, or led the example. With regard to the nature
of the support proffered, it extends to a pledge to
send into Portugal any number of troops that may be re-
quisite to consolidate the usurpation, and to put down—
as in the case of Spain—every vestige of freedom. To

these particulars, we are unfortunately enabled to add—
, and wolikrive the power to do so from a source on which
we place implicit reliance—that the ruling faction at
Lisbon calculates, with the firmest confidence, on the
active co-operation of the Nobie Duke and the Noble
Earl.

While we are on the subject of Portuguese affairs, we
canhot refrain from again alluding to the audacious out-
rage against the flag and subjects of this kingdom, in the
capture of the Vine and Briton by the frigates of the
ruffian Mtotret.. If the Noble Earl's " neutrality" ex-
tends even to the permission of piracy, and pillage of his
own Sovereign's lieges, in favour of that protected scourge,
it is time—as we said on Saturday—that he be preparing
his explanations. We are consoled, nevertheless, in the
reflection that this iniquitous policy is hastening to its
dose. There is too good an understanding, both in
France and in England, for these intelligent nations to
be rough ridden by the trigeminal cabinets, in league
against the liberties of the world. Non si mak nunc,
et °lint sic erit. • _

We cannot dedicate any space to-day to the exposure
of our false and profligate contemporary.: but the un-
blushing deliberacy with which he maintains-40r not to
reprobate is to maintain—the cause of violence and
usurpation against that of truth, and right, and
righteousness, in his remarks concerning the Vine and
Briton, is paralleled only by his fellow-slave, the Cou-
rier. He lets out, however, the following curious obser-
vation concerning his friend MAIIIICIUD, which is too
good to be prietermittted. "If the report in. the Ga-
zette de France be correct, that the SULTAN has left
the terms of peace to be proposed by his enemy, his
conduct shows either great confidence, or betrays
extreme weakness." Utrum horum, Dominer As if
the SULTA w could have any power to propose terms,
with his whole empire under occupation !

There is a ruggedness in the style of JERE:et BENT-
HAM, which renders him always inapt—and frequently
inaccessible--to the multitude. But tho perspicacity
and profoundness of his views, the vastness of his know-
ledge—whether in the accumulations of experience, or
in the fitness of their applicability to things—the patience
with which he pursues, and the intrepidity with which
he proclaims, TRUTH, cannot be rivalled among living
men. This pre. eminence over his contemporaries he
derives partly from the circumstances which surround
him in his seclusion, as contrasted with those that fetter
the capabilities of less independent Reformers, and im-
part even to their purest advocacies an egoistical and
worldly colouring—the spirit of compromise and corrupt
reservation : but he derives it far more from the complete
extirpation of the tielfish feelings, which his powerful and
philanthropic philosophy has enabled lihn to effect.—
While others are labouring for the gratification of some
sordid impulse, or—at the'best—pursuing in public life
what the world calls a not unlaudable ambition, for vain-
glorious, unbeneficial purposes, JEREMY BENTHAM—in
the silence of his isolation—sits maturing his "Greatest
Happiness principle," and preparing for unborn genera-
tions, blessings not comprehended by the oblique-minded-
ness of his own. •

We have been led into these remarks, by a hasty
perusal of more than one article in the number just pub-
lished of the Westminster Review—a publicatOss. which
during much absence abroad we had not the **stage
of reading regularly—though we knew that in it yen
developed with great power and persuasion the views,oll
doctrines of that illustrious Reformer, That a philo-
sophy, like BENTHAM'S—not less recommended by the

excelling purity of the teacher, than the convincing
simplicity of it. 4 rationale—should number among its
disciples men of intellect and taste like the Reviewer, is
the next happiest contingency after the appearance of
that philosophy among us. For, as we observed above,
it is garmented by its great founder frequently in such
uncouth phraseology, as to make it caviare to all those
who love to swallow books without the trouble of masti-
cation. Aided in its dissemination by such elegant and
impressive interpreters, there can be no doubt that its
pervasive influence will be proportionate: and as the
doctrines themselves only require to be untleFstood, to
charm and to be received—at least, by candid natures—
we may hope ere long to see them naturalised among the
people, and producing fruit to regeneration.
We have neither time nor space for the examination
of particular articles; but that entitled " BENTHAM,
BROUGHAM, and LAW REFORM," is a specimen of
masterly and cogent reasoning, which exposes at one
glance the rottenness of existing systems, and the
futility of partial interference. The article, also, on the
" Change of Ministry in France," is equally clever ant
luminous : it indagates with much minuteness and feli-
city the causes at work in that country, of which the
effects are beginning to discover themselves not.equiv.o-
cally in the resolute attitude of the people, and its threat-
ened resistance to. unconstitutional power—and it points
clearly to that consummation, the near approach of which
we have ourselves distinctly intimated,—the expulsion of
the BOUR Box dynasty.
Having paid—as we have been well pleased to do—
this hasty and imperfect tribute to the moral eminence
of JEREMY BENTIIAM, let it not be understood from it,
that we are his undiffering disciples on all points ofixdi-.
tical Reform. To the popularisation of suffrage—in his
sense and latitude of the phrase—we entertain an irre-
movable objection : in so far at least irremovable, that
we must consent first to remove the foundations of the
Constitution. •

The Dutch Mail this day brought to a variety of
brief notices ; but none of them of much importance.
The news from St. Petersburgh is to the 12th inst., and
from Odeon to the 4th. By an article in th►e Allge-
meine Zeitung, of the 22d, we find that the Duke DE
LAVAL MONTMORENCY was just about to set out for
Paris, on his way to supply tho place of Prince Pomo-
NAC in this country. We have no intelligence by this
mail from the seat of war. We make the following
selections :

ST. PETERSBURGH, Sin. 11.

This being the fete of the Order of St. Alexander Newsky, and
the anniversary of the name-day (fete) of the Imperial Prince
Alexander, as well of the birth-day of the Grand Duchess Olga,
and at the same time in commemoration of the occupation of
Adrianople and• Kirk-Kiliasa by the Russian troops, High Mass
and Te Deism were performed in the Church of the Monastery of
St. Alexander Newsky, In presence of the Emperor and Empress,
and the Grand Duke Alexander.
The St. Peteraburgh Journals announce numerous promotions
and nominations by the Emperor, but no news from the armies,
either in Europe or Asia. Up to the Bth there had arrived at.
Cronstadt 1,183 ships, and sailed 922.—5 t. Petersburg Journals,
Septembe► le.

ODESSA, Sam 4.
After some interval, the plague has again appeared In the Mol•,
davanka : the persons affected are two women, one a servant in
the house where the plague manifested, the other the wife of an

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artillery-man who was quartered in the Moidavanka,. but on the
appearance of the plague was placed in the bivouac within the
cordon. The plague has also attacked two families in the village
of Tartarka, near the Dalnik. This place havlistbeon isolated, as
soon as suspicion Was excited, by orders of the Magistrates, who.
also sent a SpedarCommissioner thither, It is hoped the disorder
will soon be checked.—/falsburgh Papers, Sept. 22.
• 'THE HAGUE, Stn. 25.
Among the various reports respecting the appointMent of the'
Minister -of Maine and Colonies, the oue moat.generally believed
is, that that office will be offered to his Excellency 111. de Falek,
his Majesty's Ambassador at Loudon, and that he will be sue
ceeded at LoUdon by. Baron Von de Capellen, !at? Governor
General of our Eau-India possession—Dutch livers, Sept. 26.

• ; VIENNA, Sam 16.
The Cottstantinophi mail (not of the 25th but 29th. August) ex-
cited this• mdfnirig. It brings, as was to be expected, but little.
new!. , Thece wu in Constantinople only one *ioink, one voice,
namely, for pesee ; and the news of the signing of the *preliminaries
we's daily .expected from Adrianople. Notwithstanding the
proximity of the enemy, profound tranquillity prevailed at Con-
stantinople: .
. The Duke de instal Montmorency will in a few days set out fee
Paris, on Mt way-to his new post at London; end will have the
honour to present his letters of reed to his Majesty the Emperor..
at Linz, to which :place Prince 'Metternich will go tn-morrow.—.
The Emperor is expected here by the end of the month.

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