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regulations, including every class pf Public Offices,
should be continued in the proposition.--Approved.

Senor FERNANDES THOMAS desired that it should
be extended to the Ecclesiastical Authorities, which,
he observed, committed the same abuses; and that
all the Ecclesiastical Authorities should be made-re-
sponsible for the ill dmie by their class.—Seconded.
The Committee of Legislation presented the pro-
position in the following Sitting, and again in that
of the 13th, but it was referred back to the Commit-
tee to be amended.
LISBON, APRIL 16.
Although we have not the satisfaction to publish
in full and officially the events which caused the con-
stitutional system to be pro Claimed at Bahia, yet we
were unwilling to withhold from the Public the pleas-
ing news this day brought by a courier of Oporto,
and contained in the following letter:

46 OPORTO. APRIL 14, 1821.
"THE CONSTITUTION SWORN TO AT BAIIIA
AND PERNA M BUCO.

gg This moment has arrived the galley Feliz
.Ven-
tura, after a voyage of 38 days. She sailed from
Pernambuco on the 7th of March, and brings word
that on the 2d news was brought to Pernambuco, by
way of Alagoas, that the Constitution of Portugal
had been sworn to at Bahia, which induced Luis do
Rego to issue a Proclamation to tranquillize the Peo-
ple.—On the 6th of March there arrived at Pernam-
buco three vessels from Bahia, equipped for war, to
ascertain what part this province had taken: and
learning that it had acted like Bahia, they gave a
royal salute. On the same day a formal proceeding
of the Magistracy of Pernambuco was held, and the'
oaths were taken in the same manner as they bad
been at Bahia.

" At Bahia seven persons were killed : at Pernam-
buco there was no disturbance at all.

" Two vessels have sailed from Pernambuco for
Lisbon, the Mina and another, and three for Oporto.
" We are here quite overjoyed in consequence of
this news, and an express has been dispatched with it
to Lisbon, &c. " ANTONIO DA CUNHA BARBOSA."

The Directors of the Bank of Ireland merit the
warmest praise of their countrymen for the arrange-
ment which they have concluded with Lord ',ma-
POOL. By abandoning the monopolizing clause in
their Charter, which prevented the formation of any
Private Banking Companies consisting of more than
six partners, they have evinced their desire to extend
the general good. They have ensured the stability of
all Private Banks, who may adopt the Scotch system,
and extend their capitals, by shares, to any necessary
amount. The National Bank may at 'the same time,
like the Bank of Scotland, plant profitable branches in
all the considerable towns in Ireland. Those who have
witnessed the vast results of the Scotch Banking
system on the improvement of a less favourable soil
and climate, can easily foresee the speedy means
which a similar system in Ireland will furnish for
reclaiming its Bogs and Wastes, improving its Arable
Lands, extending its Manufactures and Commerce,
and ameliorating, in a high degree, the moral and
physical condition of the People, through the source
of boundless employment.

Prince LEOPOLD and the Duchess of KENT spent
Sunday evening with the Duke and Duchess of
CLARENCE.

Yesterday the Duchess of CLARENCE visited the
Duchess of KENT and the Princess SOPHIA.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Mumma this morning attended a Sermon preached
by the Bishop of LONDON, at St. George's in the East,
for the benefit of the Eastern Bible Society. Previous
to the Morning Service a young couple were married,
pursuant to the will of the late Mr. RAINES, who be-
queathed £lOO as a portion, to be drawn for annually
by six young women who have received their edu-
cation in a school endowed by him.

It is reported that his MAJESTY, notwithstanding
several of the Papers announce his Royal intention
of going to Ireland and Hanover this summer, will
resume his sailing amusements at the Isle of Wight
early in July, making Cowes, where his MAJESTY
has lately purchased a Marine Pavilion, his head-quar-
ters, as last year.
DEATH OF TIIE MARQUIS OF DROGHEDA.-ThiS
venerable and highly respected Nobleman died yes-
terday morning, at the advanced age of ninety-one.
From his noble father, who died in 1758, he inherited
the tides of Earl of DROGHEDA, Viscount Mooaa,
Baron MELLEFONT, in Ireland ; and was himself
created a Marquis of Ireland in 1791, and a Baron
of Great Britain in 1801. He was also a Knight of
the Order of St. Patrick. His Lordship married, in
1766, Lady ANN, daughter of the first Marquis of
HERTFORD, by whom he had several children. He is
succeeded in his titles by his son CHARLES Viscount
IMootta, now Marquis of DROGHEDA. The deceased
was the oldest General in the service, and Colonel of
the 18th Dragoons.
PRECAUTION.—The Novel just published under this
tide, is of the Ccelebs School. It will please both
the young and the old : the former will like it be-
cause it is full of marriages, and the latter because it
inculcates in every page the value of precaution on
entering the matrimonial state. The author is ex-
tremely happy in his delineation of charader. The
portrait of Mr. Benfield, a worthy old bachelor,
whom a disappointment of the heart has early driven
into retirement, after sitting one Session in Parlia-
ment, and acting the courtier and the beau for one
season at the commencement of the last reign, is
particularly amusing; and the readiness with which
he connects his monotonous present with his gayer
past, by finding likenesses in every one whom he
esteems, however uolikerto Lord Gosford, the com-
panion f his former days, or Lady Juliana, the mis-
tress of his youth, has something in it not less enter-
taining to the imaginagion, than touching to the
affections.