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would be an encouragement, for the purpose of that exports-
deo, of some other production to which our situation might be
better suited; thus affording at least an equal, and probably a
greater, and certainly a most beneficial employment to our owii
capital and labour.
" That of the numerous protective and prohibitory duties of
our Commercial Code, it may be pro►ed, that while all operate
as a very heivy tax on the community at large, very few are of
any ultimate benefit to the classes in whose favour they were
originally instituted, and .none to the extent of the lose occa-
sioned by them to other classes.
" That, among the other evils of the restrictive or protective
system, not the least is, that. the artificial protection of one
branch of industry, or source of production, against foreign
competition, is set up as a ground of claim by other branches
for similar protection ; so that if the reasoning upon which
these restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were fol-
lowed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us
from all foreign commerce whatsoever. And the same train of
argument, which, with corresponding prohibitions and protec-
tivk duties, should exclude as from foreign trade, might be
brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrfctions upon
the interchange of productions (unconnected with public reve-
nue) among the kingdoms composing the union, or among the
counties of the same kingdom.
" That an investigation of the effects of the restrictive system,
at this time, is peculiarly cailed for, as it may, in the opinion
of your Petitioners, lead to a strong presumption that the dis-
tress which now so generally prevails is considerably aggravated
by that system, and that some relief may be obtained by the
earliest practicable removal of such of the restraints as may be
shewii to be most injurious to the capital and industry of the
community, mad to be attended with no compensating benefit
to the public revenue.
" That a declaration against the anti-commercial principles of
our restrictive system is of the more importance at the present
juncture, inasmuch as, in several instances of recent occurrence,

the merchants and manufacturers in foreign States have assailed
their respective Governments with applications for further pro-
tective or prohibitory duties and regulations, urging the example
and authority of this country, against which they are almost ex-
elusively directed, as a sanction for the policy of such measures.
And certainly, if the reasoning' upon which our restrictions
have been defended is wotth anything, it will apply in behalf of
the regulations of foreign States against us. They insist upon
our superiority in capital and -machinery. as we do upon their
comparative exemption from taxation, and with equal foundation.
Tbat nothing would more tend to counteract the commer-
cial hostility of foreign States than the adoption of a more en-
lightened and more conciliatory policy on the part of this country.
" That although, as a matter of mere diplomacy, it may some-
times answer to hold out ih: removal of particular prohibitions,
or high duties, as depending upon corresponding concessions by
other States in our favour, it does not follow that we should
maintain our restrictions, in cases where the desired concessions
on theit part cannot be obtained. Our restrictions would not
be the less prejudicial to our own capital and industry, becawe
other Governments persisted in preserving impolitic regulation&
1, That, upon the whole, the most liberal would prove to be
the most politic course on such occasions.

" That, independent of the direct benefit to he derived by
this country on every occasion of such concession or relaxation,
a great "n idental object would be gained by the recognition of
a sound principle or standard, to which all subsequent arrange-
ments might be referred, and by the salutary influence which
a promulgation of such just views by the Legislature, and by the
Nation at large, could not fail to have on the policy of other States.
" That in thus declaring, as your Petitioners do, their convic-
tion of the impolicy and injustice of the restrictive system, and
in desiring every practicable relaxation of it, they have in view
only such parts of it as ate not connected, or are only subor-
dinately so, with the Public Revenue. As long as the necessity
for the.prescnt amount of Revenue subsists, your Petitioners
cannot expect so important a beanch of it as the Customs to be
given up, nor to be materially diminished, unless some substi-
tute, less objectionable, be suggested. But it is against every
restrictive regulation of tradf, not essential to the Revenue—
against ali Duties merely protective from foreign competition—
and against the excess of such Duti:s as are partly for the pur-
pose of Revenue, and partly for that of protection—that the
prayer of the present Petition is respectfully submitted to the
wisdom of Parliament.

" Your Petitioners,thmfore, humbly pray that your Honour-
able House wiU be pleased to take the subject into consideration,
and to adopt such measures as may be calculated to give greater
freedom to Foreign. Commerce, and thereby to increase the re-
sources of the State"

'Limburg]: Papers to the MI instant, Stutgard
to the 16th, and other German Journals, arrived last
night; The following are extracts:

STOCKHOLM, APRIL 7.

An Import Duty of 40 schillings Ilamburgh banco per pound
on Spanish, Portuguese, and fine Saxon Wool, is imposed by a
Decree of the Royal Board of Trade, dated 13th April.

STUTGARD, APRIL 15.

The marriage of his Majesty the Ring with her Serene High-
ness the Princess Paulina of Wurtemberg, daughter of his High-
ness the late Duke Louis of Wurtemberg, was solemnized to-
day in the Royal Palace.

not outraged ; the person of the King is sacred and
inviolable:* The tenour of this Pkoclamation spews
that there had been some ferilientation among the
troops.
A letter from the GoveVnor of Andalusia, Don
JUAN O'Dowoju, inserted in the Gazette of Madrid,
gives a detailed account of his-entry ihto the Isla of
Leon and Cadiz, on the 4th instant. The joy of the
people was expressed with an enthusiasm difficult to
be described. He was accompanied by Generals
QUIEOGA. and RIEGO. The new Major-General
O'DALIT has been nominated by General O'Do-
NOR/ to command the district of St. Hoch. This last
Officer is one of the principal companions of Gene-
rals QUIROOA and RIEGO.

The ceremony was performed at twelve o'clock, in the Great
Gallery, by the Chief Court Chaplain, in presence of the Mem-
bers of the Royal Family who are now here, of the whole
Court, as well as of the Officers of the Household of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, and of those of the Members of the
Royal family present, the Diplomatic Body, the Staff Officers
of th's and the neighbouring garrisons, the Royal Ministers, a
Deputation from both the Chambers of the States, and of the
University of Tubingen, and the Magistrates of this City.
After the ceremony, their Majesties repaired to the Presence

Some Spanish Officers, who were formerly of the
party of JOSEPH BONAPARTE, and had taken refugel
in foreign countries, having required passports from
the Captain-General of Navarre (MINA), in order to
return home, the latter consulted the Governor, to
know whether they were comprehended in the De-
cree authorising the return of Spaniards-absent from
the kingdom through their political opinions.
In conformity to the report made to his MAJESTY
by the Secretary of State, Don ANTONIO Portort,
answer was given, that, it was not the intention of
the KING to interfere with the Decrees of the Cortes
relating to those who had served the Usurper's Go-
vernment ; it was, therefore, necessary to wait the
determination of the Cortes on this subject. Orders
w ere consequently sent to the frontiers, to prevent
the entry into Spain of such as are thus implicated.

The BISITOP of MALAGA has taken the Oath of
Fidelity to the Constitution, with the following reser-
vation :—" So far as religion will allow me." This
circumstance is much discussed in Madrid.

Chamber, to receive the congratulations of the Court, and of the
Diplomatic Body. After which there was a grapd entertain-
ment, and in the evening a ball.

French .5 per cents. 746.10 c.

OLD BAILEY.

THIRD TRIAL.—JOHN THOMAS BRUNT.
CONTINUATION OF YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS.
at some length, by,

The witmss Adams was
Mr. CUAWOOD.

The other witnesses examined were Eleanor Walker, Mary
Rogers, Joseph Hale, Thomas Sharp, Charles Bisset, Henry
Gillett, Edward Simpson, J. H. Morrison, James Aldpus, John
Monument. After him, Thomas Monument was the next wit-
ness examined. His evidence corroborated that of his brother,
John Monument, who was afterwards recalled, and examined
as to certain fa ts.

The next whiles was Thomas Hyden, who repeated the evi-
dence which he had given on former trials. Ile was closely

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this forenoon.
They are quite barren of French -hews.
ACCOUNTS FROM SPAIN.
Some uneasiness is saidlo be entertained at Ma-
drid respecting General CRUZ DE MUROZON. On the
Slst of March he entered Xeres with the half of the

cross-examined by Mr. Cestwoon. After his examination had
closed, he evinced a disposition to stay in Court, on which the
prisoner Brunt observed, a My Lord, the witness stays in
Court." Wilson, another of the prisoners, then rose, and said,
with great indignation, " My Lord, let that perjured villain be
turned out of Court." Hyden immediately withdrew.
The Earl of Harrowby was then called, and repeated his
former evidence.

John Baker, the butler to the Earl of Harrowby, corrobo-
rated his Lordship's evidence.
Richard Afunday and George Kaylock proved the presence
of the prisoner in Cito-street, on the evening on which the plot
was discovered.

George Ruthven, James Ellis, Thomas Westcott, and others
belonging to the Police-office in Bow-street, were then exa-
mined as to the seizure of the gang in Cato-street.
Lieutenant Fitzclarence repeated the evidence which he had
given on the former Trials.
Mr. Ocala-1r then stated to the Court, that the case for the
prosecution was closed, except so far as related to the examina-
tion of the arms, ammunition, &c. which had been seized in
Cato-street, or on the premises of the conspirator& As it
would be most prudent to examine them by day-light, he hoped
that the. Court would adjourn their esar,!ination until to-morrow.
The Lotto Cuter BAILON acquiesced in the proposition, and.
adjourned the Court till to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.

During the whole of the day. Brunt was engaged in taking
notes of what occurred; so also were two of the other pri-
soners—Harrison and Wilson.

OLD BAILEY-THIS DAt

This being the seventh day's trial, and the second
of the prisoner Brunt, the Court sat at the usual hour
to which it is adjourned. At half-past eight o'clock,
the arms, ammunition, grenades, pikes, pike-handles,
&c. taken in Cato-street, and at the houses of two of
the prisoners, *were brought into Court, under the
superintendence of Taunton, the officer, and disposed
in formidable array on the table and in front of the
witnesses' box. Among the arms, there are two blun-
derbusses, several pistols and swords, one of the latter
of unusual length. The ball-cartridges are in an old
paper trunk, and the hand-grenades in a rush basket.
The pike-baidles are young saplings, about eight
feet in length, with a ferule at the end.
At nine o'clock precisely, the LORD CHIEF BARON,
Baron GARROW, and Mr. Justice Ricriannsoar, en-
tered the Court, and took their seats on the Bench.
Proclamation being made, and the names of the Ju-
rors (who had been brought from the London Coffee-
house, under the charge of the proper Officers), called,
over, Brunt and the other prisoners were brought into.
the dock. They still retain their general firmness
and composure.—The first witness called on the part
of the Crown, this morning, was
Ruthven, the Officer, who was examined by Mr.

division which he commands, that is to say, with GilitNET, and deposed to the arms, &c. found in
3000 men, who came by forced marches from Utrera Cato-street.
—for what reason is not known. On the 30th, Ge- John Hector Morrison, shopman to Mr. Under-
neral O'Dcamits ordered two battalions to remove wood the cutler, identified the sword which had been
from Cadiz, and take post between the Landgate and left to be sharpened by one of the prisoners.
the Cortadura. A Proclamation which this General, Taunton, the Bow-street Officer, deposed to such
has addressed to his troops, entreats them to believe parts of the ammunition as had been found at the
that " his Majesty has sworn to the Constitution with- houses of two of the prisoners.
out the least restraint." " Soldiers," it adds, do Serjeant Harrison, of the Royal Artillery, examined
not listen to any false reports; the Holy Religion is; the bags of powder, and dissected a hand-grenade, the

contents of which ►ere exhibited to the Jury. TLIs
closed the prosecution for the Crown.
Before the commencement of the defence for the
prisoner, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL made a private

communication to the CHIEF BARON and the other

Judges, which we understood to be presenting a sort
of memorial from some Students of Gray's Inn, com-
plaining of the Students' Box being occupied by
Gentlemen who were not entered-of any of the Inns
of Court.

CHIEF BARON,--" We shall take an opportunity
of mentioning this circumstance to the Sheriff: it is
a subject best settled in private with him."
This brought tip Sheriff PARKINS, whose hostility
to the Gentlemen connected with the Press is well
known. .He assured the Court, that the regulation,
had been made without his consent:
Mr. 91:eriff RoyttwELL net being. in Court, the'
Under Sheriff, illr. TURNER, explained to the Penh/
that the regulation had been made with a view of
rendering every facility to the Gentlemen connected
with the Press, and not from any wish to injure tilc
rights, or affect the conveniente of the Students.
The CHIEF BARON said, it was highly necessary
that Gentlemen studying the law should have eve: y
facility in a Court of Justice: the box alluded to
was appropriated exclusively to Students. His Lord-
ship referred to some law authority on the subject,
and pointed out the adjoining box as being empty,
and one where the Reporters might be accommodated.
Baron GARROW confirmed the remarks of the
Chief Baron as to the right of the Students, and said,
he recollected that, on a former occasion similar ::o
the present, the box adjoining that for the Stuciel:z,
had been erected to afford accommodation to
the Gentlemen connected with the Press,--We
un-
derstood the Learned Judge to allude to the
HIGH TREASON. • lin 1791.

All the Reporters, except such as4were Students,
were then ordered to quit the bor, on which four
Students only, robed in their gowns, entered the box,
all of wheM might and would have been most rea-
dily accommodated, without the exclusion of a sinLle
Reporter.

The Students occupying so small a part of the
box, several of the Gentlemen of the Press were per-
mitted to resume their seats; others were accommo-
dated in the adjoining box, to whicb the two Jud►ges
had alluded. The UnJer-Sheriff, Mr. Turner, and Mr.
Brown, the Keeper of Newgate, expressed their wishes
to afford every facility in their power to such Ge. -
tlemen as Were in attendance to give an account of
the proceedings; but several of them, disgusted with
the manner in which they had been publicly ex-
cluded from their seats, left the Court.
The excluded Reporters were no sooner seated in
the box which had been assigned them, than some
person rudely told them they must quit it, as it be-
longed exclusively to the Grand Jury; at the same
time several Ladies were introduced. On being infor-
med that the Reporters were there by the appoint-
ment of the Judges, the person hastily quitted the box.
It is remarkable that while these proceedings took
place, the Court was not half filled, and the Grand
Jury might have had ample accommodation in ano-
ther box.

Mr. CORWOOD rose at ten-o'clock, on the part of
the prisoner, and, in a speech which lasted an hour,
went over the same grounds of defence as on the
preceding trials : these principally referred to the
extension of the law of High Treason, the doctrine
of constructive treason, and the little credibility, due
to the evidence of an accomplice. He then called
John Bennet on behalf of the prisoner, but afterwards
•declined to examine him, and said he would not call
any witnesses. •

Mr. ADOLPUUS proceeded to address the Jury for
the prisoner at a few minutes after eleven o'clock.
He took a comprehensive view of the whole of the evi-
deuce, denied that the evidence of Adams the accom-
plice was entitled to the slightest credit, and con-
tended, that as it was not 'supported by more credi-
ble witnesses, the offence of which the prisoner had
been guilty, however great, did not amount to the
charge in the indictment of High Treason. He con..
cluded his address, in which he displayed much
zeal and ability, by appealing to the Jury on
the danger to society of receiving the unsupported
evidence of an avowed accomplice, in a crime of a
nature so serious as that with which the prisoner
stood charged. He entreated them not to convict
the prisoner because he was a bad man, but to exa-
mine how far the charge against him had been sub-
stantiated. •

CHIEF BARON.—John Thomas Brunt, your learned
Counsel have concluded their ♦ery able defence ;
but, if you wish to say anything on your own behalf,
this is the time.

Brunt then rose, and with a firm voice said, that
a written defence had just been put into his hands ;
but, as he had not had time to read it, he would
make a few observations on the evidence. He then
stated the origin of his acquaintance with the witness
Adams, and attempted to impeach the whole of the
witnesses who had appeared against him. He
alluded to A person in the list of witnesses on the
part of the Crown, whose name has often been men-
tioned in the course of these proceedings, but who has
not bees called upon. He declared that he had bcen
seduced by this man, and had often received reti-esh-
ment of meat and drink at his expense. cor.-