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elected than the popular candidate. Such a law is a
disgrace to the very infancy of legislation, yet it will
pass, and the Ministry will talk of the constitutional
freedom enjoyed by the people, till forbearance
reaches its limits, and the Government stares with
astonishment to find the nation in arnt);—and who
then- will be the peace maker ? What power will
be able to check the spirit of indignant patriotism ?
We hope the debates that are going to take place
will enlighten the Ministry, and inc)uce them to
withdraw their project. M. Dscazes is to return,
it is said, to-day—we do not believe it : he will not
come at present ; for having been induced to retire
on account of the sinister counsels given at the mo-
ment of sorrow, by his enemies, he will not return
until they themselves are convinced of the gulph into
which they are plunging themselves and the nation.
To him Frauce owes all the liberty she has enjoyed
for four years, and to him she will perhaps again
owe her preservation."

Extract of a Letter from St. Thomas's, dated
April 1 :—" Nothing positive is known from the
contending Armies on the Main. It is, however, re-
ported, that Mortuto was at the head of 6000 mem
and determined to attack the Independents under
BOLIVAR, whose forces are said to be equal to the
Royalists. and two-thirds of them English. It is also
asserted, that both Armies ale determined to engage,
and the advanced guards were in sight of each other."
An article from Stutgard, of the 16th inst. men-
tions, that the little town of Gingon, in Wirtemburg,
on the frontiers of Bavaria, in whkh a dangerous
epidemic had broken out, was surrounded by a cor-
don of troops. Everything, it is said, coming from
that place, is fumigated. It affects, principally, the
workmen in the manufactories, who die in great
numbers. Public report asserts, that it is tile real
plague of the East, brought by means of bales of
cotton from Smyrna. The persons seized are said to
die within twenty-four hours.

The following account of certain proceedings, con-
nected with the unfortunate differences which subsist
between his MAJESTY and the QUEEN, has been
made public :

" It is known that shortly after the death of his late MAJEs-r.r,
it was designed to put the matter at rest for ever by an open
judicial proceeding, whiz') should release the parties from those
bonds which had so long connected them together, hut never
could unite them. This intention was Clanged, however, in
conseq•ueuce of ac interview which took place between an emi-
nent Barrister and a distinguished Nobleman ; on which occasion,
the copy of a letter to an Illustrious Personage, WAS' laid before
his Lordship, in which the Regal writer declares his inflexible re-
solution never again to hold communion or intercourse with her.

" The letter is supposed to have been written some years ago,
in the warmth of injured feelings, as the language and sentiments
h‘_tray cnnstderable agitation. Shortly afterwards, an extraor-
dinary* Cabinet Council was convened, to take into consideration
the important point, an long a subject cf anxiety in the mind cit.
the line. Only one of the Law Officers of the Crown concur-
red in the wishes of his Ma.scsry ; the whole Cabinet besides
were so oppressed with the technical difficulties of the case, that
they declined encountering them, and a roundrobio was addressed
to his MAarsTv on Monday, the 14th of February last, which
left for a time, all the great Offices of State vacant, and the
Country without a responsible Government."

st.tted at the time the fact last mentioned—we
believe exclusively—and the very Papers which now
cocti; rn the statement, were those which at the time
motet positively Conti adicted it.

Y,!iLerday his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace
is Pall-Mall, which was attended by their Royal
Highnesses the Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE, the
Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of
:LI Horse, Lord Am annsT in Waiting, Colonel
WHALLEY, Groom in Waiting, &c. At cne o'clock
arrangements we: e made for holding an Inves:itute
of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath.
By his MAJESTY'S command the following Gentle-
men were invested wi:h the insignia of Knights'
Grand Crosses :
General the Marquis of Hi.utley, the Earl of Harcourt, Sir
Henry Johnson, Bart. and Licutcrant-GenerA Charles Craw-
ford, as Military Knights Grand Crosses; and the Right Hor.
Charles Long, and the Right Hon. Charles Bagut, as Civil
hts Grand Crosses.
Rear-Admiral Sir Jour; TALBOT was then intro-
duced, and invested by the KING with the star and en-
signs of a Knight Commander of the Order. Colonel
Sir JAMES WiLsoti, K.C.B. was also introduced, and
' received the honour of Knighthood. His MAJESTY
afterwards held an Investiture of the Most Ancient
Order of the Thistle, when the KING wore that Or-
der. The Marquis of TWEEDALE was introduced,
and invested with the insignia of that Order. His
MAJESTY gave audiences to the Duke of WELLING-
TON and Lord JAMES MURRAY. Soon after the
breaking up of the Coutt the KING left town in his
travelling carriage for his cottage in Windsor Park,
escorted by a party of Light Ilorse (Lancers).
It is a fact, not generally known, that his present
MAJESTY, when PIIIN—CE REGENT, with his usual mu-
nificence, transmitted a donation of £1:700 sterling
to the Latin Convent of Jerusalem.

Yesterday morning the Princess AUGUSTA and the
Duchess of GLOUCESTER walked in the garden at the
hack of the late Queen's Palace. Afterwards their
Royal Highnesses went in a carriage on a visit to
the Princess Sorrita, at Cambridge House.
The Princess AUGUSTA received visits yesterday
from the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, and se-
veral of the Nobility, at her apartments in the late
Queen's Palace. In the evening the Princess dined
with the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE.

Friday night, at the Newcastle Theatre, while GOD
save Me King was playing, a soldier forcibly took off
the hat of a person, who had either forgotten to do
so, or wilfully remained covered while the rest of the
audience paid respect to the tune. The man resisted,'
and several other soldiers came to the assistance of
their comrade.

A library is advertised in a provincial paper, to
be sold wholesale, consisting of " several fed square
of handsomely bound books, which are as good as
new, never having been sued!"