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London, England, 1829-09-18 00:00:00

an issue which—to our minds—was not even

doubtful from the beginning, we do so in the con-
viction that he is animated by too perspicacious, as well
as too noble a spirit, to foster animosity against the
gallant Admiral, who was forced forward to support
the charges of the prosecution. Let us not he un-
derstood, by this expression, as in the remotest man-
ner sanctioning, or apologising for the conduct of Sir
EDWARD CODRINOTOW, which has been in the
highest degree blameworthy throughout this extra-
ordinary transaction : we must be clear on this point.
But we deprecate the entertainment of
implacable feelings against the Gallant Admiral,
because we think it sufficiently established by
his own manner of giving testimony that he was ac-
tuated by no malignity in the disclosures and commu-
nications which from time to time he made to the Lords
of the. Admiralty ; and that he was rather drawn—
by his own precipitation and inadvertence into
a snare, out of which, after he had once com-
mitted himself by imprudent statements and ad-
missions, it became difficult to disentangle himself with
honour ;or indeed, to disentangle himself at all. We
think Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON—Ott the issue of
this trial—worthy certainly of professional reprimand,
but by no means unentitled to public sympathy.
The Times of yesterday says :—" Sir En wA RD
CODRINOTON'S repugnance to a Court-martial, after
having done Captain DICKENSON all the mischief
that an unfavourable sentence by a Court-martial
could well have inflicted on him, is one among the
circumstances least easy of explanation to be found
throughout this proceeding." Without violently con-
travening this position, we think that the repugnance so
unaccountable in the judgment of our contemporary will
not appear to have been left unexplained by us. Sir
EDWARD CODRINGTON—by his too hasty confidences
—found himself in a double scrape : he had prejudiced
Captain DICKENSON without intending it, and he could
not draw back without prejudicing himself. It was,
therefore, natural in him to resist the extreme, and—by
him—unpremeditated measure, to which the Admiralty
all at once proposed to drive him ; and endeavour to con-
ciliate for Captain DICKENSON—by private explanatory
representationit—that good opinion of the LORDS COM-
MISSIONERS, which it did not enter into his contempla-
tion to alienate from the gallant Captain, by his too ex-
plicit and imprudent candour.
But another passage, which occurs in the long com-
ments of the Times yesterday upon this trial, is too re-
markable to pass unobserved. "It has turned"—he says
—" an unfortunate coolness between the Admiralty and
Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON, to evil account, by

sending forth shameless and iniquitous rumours
of a design on the part of the Board to gratify
their resentment against the gallant Admiral by
forcing him into a position from which he could not be
honourably extricated. If Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON
has any thing to be sorry for in this Court-martial,
we are bound to say—and we do so with great
respect for him, but with a still greater for the
cause of truth and justice—that he has his own
want of calm foresight and consideration to thank for it."
We agree certainly with the Times, that the gallant
Admiral has to thank himself for this " untoward"
affair ; and we recollect also, that he was stig-
matized by Ministers for another a brilliant
victory—which was characterised by that memorable
epithet. But we cannot jump to the conclusion
insinuated by the artful writer, that the passions of
the LORDS COMMISSION Ens have been unengaged in the

late proceeding. The judgment of a discerning public

—we feel confident—will be otherwise pronounced, not-
withstanding this crafty double by the apologist of offi-
cial oppression.
If ever an Admiral deserved splendidly of his country,
Vice-Admiral CODRINGTON surely did so at Navarino :
but a subservient and crouching spirit of submission to
the military government, which replaced the popular
Cabinet under which the victory was achieved, has made
it fashionable to defame its glories. Let us do
justice, however, to the individual, who—at the com-
mand of his country—led forth her fleet to victory,
and has added one more star to beam through
the page of history in the galaxy of her naval
heroes. Far from us this detracting spirit ! Some
of the servile prints—advocates of the Noble Viscount
who now jobs the Marine of England, and personal
enemies to the late High Admiral—are already in-
sinuating intentions equally vindictive and detestable :
but let their masters have a care.

We have this day been favoured by the intelligent
Master of the North and South American Coffee House
with several numbers of the New York Papers to
the 19th ultimo, conveyed by the London line of
Packet ship Helen, Captain COBB. In the cursory
glance we have been able to give at these Papers, we

have not been able to discover any important political
news. By to-morrow evening, we may, perchance, be
able to discover, and reprint something of interest from
them. In the New York Commercial Advertiser of the
17th of August, we have the following passage :
" The London correspondent of the New York Csisimaciai
onetime writes of an American city containing twenty or thirty
thousand quaker.? We should like to know the name of the city.
The same correspondent styles Great Britain the fostering parent
of civil liberty.' At hose, she may be ; but she has never fostered
it obrood."—National Gazette.

In reply to the query of our friend of the National Casette,
we will avail ourselves of our privilege, and guns that our
Correspondent, who has figured in the literary circles of Phi-
ladelphia, intended to designate that self-same identical city.—
" But England has never fostered civil liberty abroad." In-
deed? Where did the people of the United States imbibe
their notions of civil liberty ? What has England done for
the lonian Islands? How quickly did CANNING By to the relief of
Portugal, when •he requested aid in sustaining the new constitu-
tion? And where is there a freer country on earth than the
British North American Colonies at the present day 7—C.onse,c►-
eial Advertiser.

CITY. TvisLys o'CLocE.

Up to the present hour scarce a bargain has been done in the
Consol Market, which opened at the same price as they left off
yesterday, 89 to b for the Account, and 881 for money.
The Foreign Market is alto in a stagnant state, and the prices
are nominal, as per yesterday.
CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 89, alter-
nately buyers and sellers, with little or nothing doing; and 881 1
for money.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing. Very favourable accounts
have been received from the Bolooa Mines. The produce in the
month of April was 126,893 dollars; neat profit, 5,400. In May,
221,778; profit, 99,500. In June, 192,488 dollars; profit, 98,801.

It is again reported this day in the City, that the Rus-
sians are in possession of Constantinople ; but up to
three o'clock we have no official information on the subject.
Accounts by the private letters from Havannah state
that another expedition was preparing there for Mexico.
An embargo has taken place at Vera Cruz, and great
agitation prevails amongst the public, who are ready to
seize on all suspicious persons in favour of the Spaniards.
SANTAN.t is stated to be true to the Republic.
A mail has arrived this day from Rio Janeiro, by his
Majesty's brig Royalist ; sailed 12th July. We have
already given news of this date ; and this mail adds little
or nothing to our previous intelligence.
A Halifax mail, by the Nocton, sailed 23d August,
one day later than the last arrival.
There is another mail, by the Chichester, from Vera
Cruz, sailed 30th July. We have given the news from
this quarter in another section of our Paper.
A report prevailed at the Havannah that the Spanish
fleet had taken Vera Cruz without firing a shot; but this
report is contradicted by private letters received this
morning from the Havannah of the 19th August, at
which period they had not received any account of their
having made good a landing, or of the dispersion of the
fleet, except the Bingham.
Extract of a letter from New Orleans, dated 28th of
July : " The yellow fever, which has prevailed for some
time on board the shipping, has now completely entered
the city, and is making many victims."
It is beyond doubt that on the 22d August the Russians
left Adrianople on their march to Constantinople.
Letters from Frankfort of 9th Sept. state that the
Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, on his return from the
Waters of Ems, will reside in the above town.
Accounts from Key West, dated the 30th July, say—
" We have not heard any thing of the Spanish expedi-
tion since it sailed; but it appears by late advices that
additional troops are arriving at Havannah from Spain."
Sir ROBERT GARDINER, who is now at Ems with
Prince LEOPOLD, has given an unqualified contradiction
to the statement which has appeared, of the Prince having
discontinued a pension of 241. bestowed by the late Prin-
cess CHARLOTTE. _ _ _

The exterior of Wellesley-house, lately called Apoley-
house, is now finished, with its three fronts of Portland
stone, and its splendid Corinthian decorations. To give
uniformity, false windows have been introduced at the
south-western angle, but the illusion is made perfect by
the use of plate-glass. In the interior, the attentions of
the superior artists now employed are directed to the
principal apartment, which is ninety feet long by thirty-
five : this will be the ball-room. Sculptors, Olden, and

ornamental painters, have commenced their-operations.
This apartment will contain, during the day, invisible
mirrors, and at night they will fill up the space which is
occupied by the windows. The other principal rooms
will be a suite of eight drawing-rooms, with numerous
boudoirs, and an extensive corridor. The only room re-
maining of the old house is the banquetting-hall, which
was built by the DUKL for his Waterloo dinners. The
calculation is, that the whole will be finished about the
close of the winter, and that his Grace will give his first
entertainment therein on St. George's Day.