Star.
London, England, 1820-07-13 00:00:00

BARRACK EXPENDITURE.

Mr. CALCRAFT said he rose, pursuant to the
notice he had given the day.before, to move—" That
the Comptroller of the Barrack Department be or-
dered to attend at the Bar of that House to-morrow,
in order that he might be called upon to state by
what authority he had commenced the building of
Barracks- for the Horse Guards."—lt was necessary
that this point should be ascertained, because he con-
ceived that a sum of £70,000 ought MX to be taken
out of the public purse for such a purpose without
the authority of Parliament. If, upon the examina•
tion of this person, it should appear that he bad en-
tered on the work by order of the Board of Treasury,
then it would be necessary to inquire what authority
the Treasury had for giving that order? He then
concluded with aulking his Motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did
net think that there was any ground for mating a
charge against the individual in question, who was a'
most meritorious .servant of the Public, and who re-
ceived his authority for what he had done from the
Treasury Board, which was afterwards to lay the ex-
penses.before Parliament.
Mr. ABERCROMBY said, the only object of his
Hon. Friend was to have a correct understanding on
the question, by whose order the building was under-
taken. It now appeared, that the order had been
given by the Treasury, and which they could not be
justified in issuing, without firm obtaining the consent'
of Parliament. It Was, indeed, much to be lamented,
that after the immense sums expended in building of
Barracks, the Public should now be called on to de-
fray-an expense of L:70,0110.
Mr. IILJSKISSOI4 observed) that they had only

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dto the lease se >i .m. which existed in the Port-
"na.street Barracks within these ten years; when cif-
tnasstances put Oeur to the inconveniency of becom-
ing yearly tenants. The annual Estimates must be'
before-the House, and as the expense was the same as
before with the ultimate advantage pointed -out by
his Right Hon. Friend, he could see no ground for
complaint of any kind.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT insisted, that the expense,
before it was incurred, should first be submitted to
Parliament. • -t

Mr. WILSON (Member for London) felt himself
bound to declare it as his opinion, that the Treasury
could not be justified in ordering an expenditure of
£70,000 for such an object as that of building a Bar-
rack, without the consent of Parliament ; and he must
say that on this occasion the Right Hon. Gentleman
(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) did not act with
his usual discretion and judgment.
Lord BINNING thought_the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had been treated harshly by the Honour-
able Gentleman who spoke last, as well as the Gen-
tlemen opposite, and contended that no blame at-
tached to his Right Hon. Friend.
Mr. MONCK said his Majesty's Ministers had by
no means consulted economy in the contract.
Mr. CALCRAFT did not mean to make a penal
motion against the Gentleman at the head of the
Barrack Department. His only object was to know
by what authority this extravagant expenditure had
'taken place. He justified his own conduct in this bu-
iness..But after what had been said, he Should with-
draw his motion.
HARBOUR OF PETERHeAD AND BANFF.
Mr. W. SMITH called.the attention of the House
to the great damage done to the works at Peterhead
by the storm which took place in the month of Octo-
ber last, after the large sums Of money that had been
expended in the erection of those works. He then
dwelt on•the necessity of affording aid for the repair
of the same, and moved an humble Address to his
Majesty, requesting, 4, that he would grant to the
Commissioners of Highland Roads . and Bridges in
Scotland, the sum of £3OOO towards repairing the
damage done to the unfinished Harbour and Piers at
Peterhead and at Banff, by a storm in October last."
Mr. FERGUSON seconded the motion.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
he was under the necessity of refusing his assent to
this application, as it was not, fit thit the Public
should defray the expenses of local improvements.
Lord FIFE spoke in favour of the grant in question,
on the ground of affording public relief, of en-
couraging a great nursery for seamen, and giving
employment to numbers of poor persons who were
now destitute of the means of support.
The CHANCELLOR -of the EXCHEQUER
moved the previous question, and the Address was
negatived without a division.

ALIEN BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
Mr. HOSHOUSE rose to state a few objections
which he entertained to the passing of the Bill. Up,
to the present time, the Noble Lord who introduced
the measure had not stated any grounds for its enact.
ment. The Noble Lord refused to give his reasons;
he, like an ancient character, would not give reasons
on compulsion, even though " they were as plentiful
as blackberries." Although be (Mr. Hobhouse) knew
the folly of contending against the influence of the
Noble Lord, yet he would beg leave to state a few
of his objections to the Bill. Three excuses had,
been stated for the Bill. The Noble Lord had- said
that it was made necessary in order to counteract
.the secret machinations of Aliens. The Solicitor;
General said that the Bill was aimed against a con-
spiracy of blacksmiths, and quoted Putfendorff and
Grotius in support of his case. And the Chancellor
for the Duchy of Lancaster .had said, that it was
necessary in order to counteract the effects of the
Fiench Revolution, whiCh had not yet been eradi•
cated— (Hear).—lt was monstrous to think that a
free country should be reduced to the necessity of
being governed by its fears. The Noble Lord had'
said, that the Bill ought to be enacted first to secure'
ourselves, and next as a security to 'foreign Powers.
He (Mr. Hobhouse) was convinced that the list was
the prevailing reason, if not the only one... In 1793,
'the first great change took place. Up to that time,
front the period of the passing of Magna Charta, this
country had been governed upon a system totally dif-
ferent from that which had been acted upon since
thatiseriod. The Noble Lord had at that time said,
that it was necessary to legislate against those who,
from the secure station which they 'would find in
Eneland, would have an opportunity of pursuing
their revolutionary sthemes. Therefore the Alien
Bill was enacted. In 1802 it was renewed, because
it was declared to be necessary to legislate against
the unstable government of Napoleon Bonaparte. In
1614 it was likewise alleged to be necessary to sup-
port the unstable government of Louis XVIIL In
1816 a similar argument was urged, and never did it
happen on any of those occasions that our domestic
policy required such a measure; Indeed, Mr. For
had sufficiently shewn the folly of making any such
allusion. Against this measure a virtuous, though
ineffectual opposition had been made, and he trusted
that the honest men who fought against it, and
who were now no more, had gone to receive
the teward of- their creditable labours, in "another
and a better world l"—(Cries of Near, hear, hear).—
In 1816 the Bill was necessary, according to the state-
ment of the Noble Lad, as long as the allied army
remained in Frame. When the army withdrew, the
Bill was necessary for a time, until we taw what
would be the effect of the departure of the troops.
This was the language of the Noble Lord at the time;
for he (Mr. Hobhouse) had taken it down. It was.
due to the Noble Lord's courage and experience, t
say, that he (Lord Castlereagh) did not fear foreigrt
Powers; but the Noble Lord wished the Bill to be
enacted, in order that hemkt* be enabled to go
Congress with a nation of stied in his pocket rath
than a nation of freemen. 111. ',recollected the time,
when the Noble Lord went to the Continent, in 1813,
and with what transports he had been everywhere
hailed, as the harbinger of perpetual freedom; and
in a few, a very few years, he (Mr. Hobhouse) :had
heard those favourable sentiments on the Continent
sadly reversed. When he (Mr. Hobhouse) had seen
the Noble Lord at the grand re-anion of Sovereigns
and Statesmen at Paris, and witnessed the urbanity,
.the simplicity, and manliness'of character which dis-
tinguished the Noble Lord's telsolib''‘deporttotnt,lte
owned he felt a-pride, as an Engliehtasi to see Ms

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joked that he could siy7...e There is ;fie true *lli •
sentative of gnglishmeo4--Bot in a short tame;
he (Mr: Hobhouse) had brit too renal reason tO
alter these feelings towards the Noble Lord, when hi
(Lord Castlereagh) who had been before hailed as the
saviour of liberty, was then only regarded as one Of
the conspirators against the liberties of mankind--
Wear, hear):7-The people of the Continent saw in
him the betrayer of the liberties of Genea—they saw
in him, whose name was foremost when England was
mentioned, the individual who was lett eggOont for all .-
that had been done against the libertlet
for all that had been done against the libehies of the
Norwegians—and for all that had been done to endO
the benefits which England had ConferresLoe ! e -
before. Such was the man-whom Europitt ••
looked upon with so much respect and • ,
and to whom the Address of Dryden to the Odin
Monmouth, might have been suitably applied
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" Thee, saviour, thee, a nation's vows confess,
And, never satisfied with seeing, bless :
Swift unbespoken pomps thy pow'r proclaim,
And stanmfring babes are taught to lisp thy name r' ,
All the reasons formerly given for the Bill, exist no
longer, and it was passed only for the purpose of en-
abling the Noble Lord to meet the Hardenbergs and
Metternichs, as the representative of a nation bf
slaves, instead of a nation of freemen. There was no
necessity, he would repeat, for acts like the presents
and they originated merely in a wish to carry on'the
Idesigne of foreign Governments against unive
freedom. In 1817, he (Mr. Hobhouse) had heard
the Noble Lord state on the Continent, that England; -
after the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and
the passing of the Alien Act, had conformed to that
standard to which it was necessary she should be
brought, before she could be admitted to a share in
the political union of the European Powers. Ire
(Mr. Hobhouse) had heard the Noble Lord make this
statement.' He should not now he more particulars
because the Congress might meet again, and there •
was no knowing to what this tittle-tattle, if it got -
abroad, might bring him. The Hon. Member then
proceeded to state, that the Bill before the Houses
by preventing the admission of foteignets, would
preclude the possibility of any complaints being
heard against abuses that might exist in the Colonies.
H'e instanced the case of Beuf, the printer, as an
abuse of a serious nature, and one which, it waslikelys
might be repeated. He said, that the conduct of
Ministers with regard to the Queen, as connected
with this Bill, almost justified the apprehension, that
they did not mean to act justly towards her—(Order,
order). He was not out of order. The Noble Losd
who was most implicated in the observation, did not
cry " Order !" and the interruption coming from the
quarter it did, justified the remark that it was a
,great proof of the servitude of a country, when per-
sons werefound more ready to run into it, than others
to impose it—(Hear, hear). But he perfectly agreed
with the Westminster Petitioners, when they sup•
posed the possibility of the case, that the present Bill
would have the effect of interfering with her Majes-
ty's means of defence. The Honourable Member
proceeded to animadvert against the Bill, as con•
mars, to that spirit of clemency and hospitality, for
which the people of England stood pre-eminent. The
Duke of Marlborough protected strangers; Francis
the Frst likewise protected Aliens; and even'Pope
'Alexander the Sixth, himself the worst of men, re-
fused to surrender up the foreigner—and even he a
Turk—to whom he had afforded an asylum—(Hear).
Persuaded; therefore, as he firmly was, that this mea.
sure, if it passed into law, would procure for this
country, instead of the character of the assertor and
advocate of liberty in every part of the world, as well
as at home, that of an accomplice in the subjugation
of the rest of Europe; that instead of the charai•
teristic of hospitality to strangers for wh;ch England
had been eminent throughout the world, it would re.
cal for us, to the minds of all Europe, the character
which Horace gave of our barbarous forefathers in re-
mote ages—
" Britannos bospitibus ferns !"
and convinced that it would escite towards this Ina.
tion,instead of admiration and confidence, hostility
and distrust, he should move, as an Amendment-.
" That instead of the word no*, this Bill be read the
third time this day six months.'
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH said, he was alwayi
ready to support his Majesty's Ministers when, be
thought them right. He was satisfied they were ea
in this measure, under the comparative circumstances
of this country and of Europe.
Mr. MONCK strongly condemned the Bill. He
considered it to grow out of a mysterious and un-
defined attempt to hunt down the liberal-minded
jnen—the Whigs of the Continent—who were de-
serving of an asylum is this country. He was sorry
to see a conspiracy formed against liberty—against-
all free- and popular institutions ; it was not for
Great Britain, herself so long the seat of freedoms
to check the spirit of the age, and oppose the ptss-
gress of public opinion. He looked on the Bill
before the House as inhospitable to strangers, and as
disgraceful to the name and character of England ;
and he should therefore oppose this detestable and
odious measure.
Sir R. WILSON had heard no arguments to make '
him view this,Bill in a more favourable light than
he formerly did. He was glad that the clauses
which had been proposed were rejected, as he thought
it better the Bill should pass with all its obnoxious-
ness about it. Of one thing- he was certain, that
whilst it continued •to be the law of the land, the
millions of the Continent would consider this country
as at war with their liberties. .
• Mr. HUME said a few words against the. Bill.
A division then took place, when the numbers
were—For the Bill, 69—Against it, 28—Majority, 46.
The Bill was then read-the third timjelmil passed.
The Howe resolved itself into a Committee on the Salt of
Spirits' Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER laid on the
table a Clause, of which he bad given notice yesterday, which
would have the effect of preventing the sale of Spirits imported
from Ireland of higher strength than tvrenty-tiro per cent. tinder
proof, by Sykes's hydrometer.
Mr. M. FITZGERALD considered tl‘e Clines inconsistent
with the Aet of Union--inconsistent with the DIU *44 nd
contradictory to the express•pledges given by the Chancellor et
the Exchequer himself—(liter, !tear).
• The CHANCELLOR of the EX.CHEQUE soid.l Amt. k
was-not his intention to. press the Resolution at that moment,
but he meant to introduce it into another Bill—aber)..
Mr. W. SMITH. objected to iIIsIVIA Sbe, Claws- withdrawn,
because he thought that it would be p• vest s, would
be weer proposed to be introduced htlhay
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thing justice to inland.
'l*.!.: CHANCELLOR of the RXCHEQUER said, that he
acted from motives the most isapartial; in his situation he was
; bound to feel any prejudice in favour of any particular CPUS
1 • society ; his duty and his wishes were to promote, as far as
could, the interests of all. The Regulations of the Act of 1817,
if not against the spirit of the Act of Union, were certainly a
li.tr4h and illiberal interpretatidn of that Act. His object was
t Jo away those Regulations, and to give Ireland an opportunity
c.f importing her manufactured spirit at a certain standard pro•L
Sir J. NNWPORT maintained &at the law, as it etisted in
1.817, ought to be yreserved; and as Ireland must submit to'
tl.e disadvantages arising out of the Act of Union, she was enti-
t to its benefits also.

Mr. C. 11U NEON concurred svith his night Honour-
able Frit:nil in thinking that justice would be done to Inland,
but was of opinion tLat the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not
understand the questi.m.
Lord ICAS'ILEILEAGH trusted that his Right Hon. Friend
would be satisfied to take the Bill, unaccompanizd by the clause
objected to on the part of Ireland, and to let the law operate
until Parliament met again, when the subject might be put in a
proper course of inquiry. •
Mr.' W. SMITH thought that the letter of the Act of Union
nii2,,ht operate against its spirit in this instance, and quoted the
authority of Mr. Pitt in support of the cor.struction given by
thy Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Aftyr a few words from Mr. Ilusets.sotr, Lord A. tnicnesves!
Sir Joust NZIVIVILT, Mr. M. FLI2G2IUI.I.D, Mr. W. SMITH, and
No-. V 6 FITZCZRALT,

The CII A NCEL.LOR of the EXCHEQUER said he should
agree to pass the Bill as a simple repeal, to allow the intercourse
o; spirits without the clause he had inserted—(Hear, hear).
111 r. J. P. GRANT remarked on the absurdity of three dif-
ferent sets of fairs regulating the manufacture of the same article
in three inns of the kingdom.
The clause was negatived, the House resumed, and the Re-
port was ordered to be received to-morrow.
The CH A NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in a
Bill to enable his 3lnjesty to defray the charge of building a
certain Barrack azt of the Consolidated Fund. Read a first
tine, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.

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fhe'Turnpikes Account Bill went through a Committee, and
the Report was ordered to be brought up to=morrow.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, add the house
adjourned at One o'Clock.

Til EVENING STA lt

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1620.
THE FUN DS
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.:
Bank Stock 222',4 223
3 per Cent. Reduced 691/4 69
3 per. Cent. Cons. ex. div. 683/4 143
Si per Cent. Do. 773/4 1,4-4 2er Ceat. $6 %
5 per Cent. ex.. dir. 1023/4 3/4—Scrip. 17/8 pre.
Long Annuities IS—lndia Stock 216 215%
India Bends 225. 20s. pre.
South Sea Stock 753/4 14
Exchequer Bills, 4s. ss. prem.
Commercial 1 Is. 12s. pre.
Omnium par.— Cons. 701/8 6978

A sudden panic seized the market this morning
about twelve o'clock. In the early pact of the morn-
ing business was going on very briskly, and Consols
for the Account met ready purchasers at 7014; but,
all at once, an immense ntimber of rest-'ctable brokers
rushed into the market, and began to sell largely,
and Consols were done at 6978—f0r the August Ac-
count, 7014. We could not trace the cause of this
sudden depression. Various reports were circulated—
a great division in the Cabinet—the sudden scarcity
of money—unfavorable accounts from France, &c.
The Jews were observed to be very active in endea-
Touring to get out of Stock, particularly the Five
per Cent. Scrip, an immense quantity of which has
been thrown upon the Market.

A Requisition, we are informed, is in progress for
a Meeting of the City of London, to Petition against
the mode of proceeding against the QUEEN by a Bill
of Pains and Penalties, as an infringement of Con-
stitutional principles and practice. We are not sorry
to see the matter taken up in this light; and as
abundance of time has yet to elapse before the second

reading of the Bill, we hope that not only the City
of London, but every Constituted Body in the Em-
pire, will avail themselves of the opportunity to meet,
deliberate, and determine how far, in their judg-
ments respoctively, the pending course of proceeding
is, or is not, an innovation on our established system
of civil polity, and such as may plunge us into diffi-
culties from which there may be no possible extrica-
tion, except by that ultimate remedy, from which
every friend to his country must recoil.
In every case of judicial inquiry we have a right
to presuppose that it may as probably end in an en-
quittal as in a condemnation of the party accused ;'
and should the form of procedure adopted, not in
every step and torn thereof, suit equally well with
both views of the case, we may be'quite certain that
there is something in it essentially vicious and wrong.
Applying this principle to the course of proceeding
a3ainst the QUEEN,• we shall find that, there never
was any procedure more encumbered with contra-
dictions and difficulties—more nearly divested of the
very possibility of being brought to a fair and im-
parti4 conclusion. '
We have in the first place two Green Bags filled
with the same materials of accusation, sent dove') to
tw6 different bodies to be examined and reported on.
Suppose both these bags had been opened and ex-
amined, but that the Reports on them had been dif-
ferent—one from the Lords declaring that there were
grounds for a criminal prosecution, and the other
from the Commons declaring that there were none!
What would Ministers have done? Whose opinion
would they have followed7-that of the Peoples' Re-
presentatives, or that of the hereditary Counsellors
of the Crown ? Whichever opinion they followed,
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party scented could only hitire: bun 141 Ali
dealt with. .
Suppose again that the Bill of Pains and Pe►naltiss,
now brought into the House of Lords on the strength
of the Report of their Green-bag Committee, should
'pass the Lords, but be thrown out by the Commons.
In what a situation will the Quest', the Sovaastow,
and the •Country be placed in!—.The Qugaul with
one verdict for, and anotker against her I—the Sovs-
REIGN, with a Queen who, in the opinion of the Lords,
is an adultress!—in that of the Commons, ais inno-
cent and injured womanl—the Country, with a ques-
tion in which the honour and dignity of its Monarchy
is vitally concerned, left unsettled, and never to be
settled!

Take another view of the case—Suppose the Bill
were to pass both the Lords and-the Commons, and
that it only waited the assent of the KING, as the
head of the Legislative Body. Ought not the KING,
assisted by his Council, to come to the question of
giving this assent with a pure disinterested intent
?
Does not the fact of•having the option either of as-
seining or rcjecting, imply an examining, a weighing,
a judging of the merits of the case, on-the part of the
SOVEREIGN himself—a probability, in short, that his
MAJESTY may and ought to do otherwise than assent
to the Bill ?

But is there a single man in the country who will
seriously affirm, that were a Bill of Divorce from his
Qualm to be presented to his MA.►aarr, that there
is the slightest probability of its being rejected—
that his MAstrrir, or his Council, can come to
the question of giving that assent with a pure,
disinterested intent? •We forbear from stating the
many considerations, personal and ministerial, which
utterly exclude such a supposition. They are before
every eye—on every tongue. If then there is no
probability of such a rejection—no possibility of such
a pure and disinterested judgment—then we do say,
that let the merits of the case be what they may,'
the trial must, from the moment when it comes that

length, cease to be fair and impartial—the convic-
tion must be an incomplete one, and no complete pu-

ilislunent ought in justice or equity to follow upon it.
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The incongruities we have thus rapidly glanced at
form, however, only a small part of those with which
this unhappy case is beset. Is there nothing anoma-
lous in subjecting an individual to two, nay three
trials (for the King and Council are and ought to be
a distinct tribunal) for one and the same offence—
nothing derogatory in the lower House reviewing the
sentence of the upper, which would literally be the
effect of the second discussion of the Bill in the Com:

mons—nothing monstrous in putting an individual,
and that individual the first female in the country.
into,such a predicament, that, after being once ac-
quitted by the House of Lords of the offence im-
puted to ber, she may possibly be tried again, for the
same offence, on an Impeachment by the Commons?.
We are aware that Lord CASTLEREAGU has, on the'
part of Ministers, disclaimed any intention of renew.
in g the prosecution, against her MAJESTY in the way
of Impeachment should the proceeding by Bill fail in,
the House of Lords ; but though Ministers can speak
for themselves, they cannot (constitutionally-at least)
speak for the House of -Commons, or even for their
successors. We are here talking of the probabilities-
and possibilities of which the case admits; and it is
enough for oar argument that it is a possible event
that the Commons might impeach after the Lords
had acquitted.
Imperfect as the anticipatory survey is which we
have taken of the course the proceedings against her
MAJESTY may take, we think we have stated enough
to carry our Readers along with us to the conclu-
sion, that a course which by, possibility may lead to
so many conflicting issues—to so many distressing
dilemmas—to soemany partial, arbitrary, and cruel
dispositions—cannot be a course of proceeding con-
sistent with either the principles or the practice of the
British Constitution, whose boast it is, to afford an
equal redress for e.very wrong, and to carry the vessel
of the State as smoothly as triumphantly thrOugh
every difficulty and danger.
What the course of proceeding which ought to have
been adopted is, it is for those to find out who per-
sist in bringing this unhappy business forward against
the universally declared wishes of the country.—
That there is some fair and even way of going about
it, we can have as little doubt, as that we live in a
country of law and order. But when we have folly
and wkkedness to oppose, and when .(for it is in the
ways ciftaownEuct to confound the wicked) we find
them encompassed with difficulty, it is wise to leave
them to get out of it as they best can.

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!The Pan Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon.
They contain an account of the first preliminary Sit.
ting of the Spanish Cortes, on the 28th June. It was
wholly taken up with the verification of the different
71.mations. M. CesTANEDO was elected President,
a rim. The Sitting was adjourned till the Ist July.

Mails from Holland add Flanders have also ar..
rived this forenoon: The Kum and PRINCE ROYAL
of SWEDEN were to set out on a visit to Norway on
the Ist instant.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, his MAJESTY held a
Court at his Palace, in Pall-Mall, which was attended
by all the Cabinet Ministers.
Yesterday, his Royal Highness the Duke of CAR-
MAGE visited theillf.
The Duke and Dt ess of CLAnisece, the Duke
and Duchess of GLiiversTaa, and the Princess Au-
Gums, went yesterday to Blackheath, on a visit to the
Princess SOPIUA MATILDAMith whom they dined.
Yesterday, Prince LFOPOLD dined with the Duchess
of KENT.

It is now ascertained that the Coronation 'will not
take place before the month of June next. The post-
ponement is highly prudent ; but it will be hurtful,
we fear, to a numerous class of tradesmen who had
prepared gth Ibr the occasion, and which will be
uncallestoo ipor. ilthough their bills must he paid.

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TMZIFESZ4I
Ilex NO* goes segularit eitarr.lol*
:to her ri b+ at Barnes, to inspect the fvBpetlidoni
which are carrying on there foi beOreciption; glad
the coscoorse of people assembled in Portman-street.
to await her return, increases every evening. Os
Tuesday night, the crowd wis so it was with
much difficulty the carriage could up to
the door, and, even when it was there, several minutes
elapsed before her MnYeerr could alight. The crowd,
for the most part, consisted of respectably-dressed
persons, the majority females. Her MAJESTYr• was
received with loud cheers from every part-of the as-
sembly, accompanied by the most enthusiastic ges-
tnies from those persons more immediately about her
carriage: Mr. Alderman Woon arrived at the house
during herMsaascy's absence, and awaited her return,
which was not till between nine and ten o'clock.

The following is an extract from a letter in the
Times, from Colonel Masnaoar,late Aide-de-Camp
to MURAT King of Naples:
• In December, 1/11.5, her Majesty, then Princess of Wales,
resided at Naples. Her Court was entirely English, with the
exception of, I 1 Here, Captain Hesse, who, however, belonged
to the British Army. At that time, as I was one day walking
along the Strada di Chiaja, in company with the late General
Montagne Mathew and an English Nobleman, whose. name I
could mention should it be necessary, we met a person unknown
to me, but whom the General and the Nobleman in Teeth:elks-,
formed me wu Mr. Quentin, brother to the Colonel of the 101'
Hussars ' • and that he held some situation or other in the Mow
hold of the Prince Re‘ent. On General Mathew questioning '
him as to the object of his journey, he answered, with sense teed
barrassntent, that *eras sent to Naples by his Ftoyal•Master qs
purchase horses! Every person acquainted with Naples must ,
well know that it is the eery last place in Europe, except per-
haps Venice, to which the Prince Regent, er any one else, would
ever dream of sending (and fruit England too!) to purchase
horses I This rencontre instantly exerted certain suspicions in
the minds of several of the distinguished Englishmen then re-
siding at Naples, which they immediately communicated to her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, who, however, treated
the matter with perfect disregard.
" In the meanwhile I hastened to acquaint the King of Naples
ed this new arrival, together with the opinions entertained on the
subject, as already mentioned. His Majesty immediately com-
manded the Minister of Police to ascertain whether any horses
were bought or even looked at by Mr. Quentin ; and he more-
over commanded the Duke di Roccaromana, his Master of the
Horse, to send an Equerry to Mr. Quentin, who should take him
through the Royal stables. It resulted, from the researches of
die Police, that Mr. Quentin did not purchase, or appear to
dream of purchasing, anything like a horse ; and although the
equerry, who, if I remember rightly, was the Cavalier Quaffs,
*eared him a stud of beautiful horses, which be purposely in-
Seemed him would be either sold or given to him to facilitate
the execution of his commission, he could not be made to give
the least sign of a propensity for horse-flesh.
0 The King of Naples then commanded me to signify in his
mime to the Princess of Wales, that should the presence of Mr.
fin, or of any other supposed went of her persecutort; on-
easiest to her Royal Highness the least umbrage or displeasing,
be would immediately order their being escorted beyond the
Netpolian frontier.

" On a subject which entirely referred to her Royal High-
ness's personal and private feelings, I thought it most proper for
me to communicate, through the medium of one of her coo&
denial attendants; and accordingly I delivered my message
.to
Dr. Holland; her Royal Highness's Physician. It moreover ac-
cidentally happened, that a similar message from the King had
just previously been delivered to her Royal Highness by a BB.'
fish Peer, to whom, as well as to myself, she returned for answer, !
that she felt perfectly Indifferent as so the proceedings of the '
persons who, she was well aware, would be emplared to sermir,
nee her conduct, which, open to the oberetion of all, co*
never with impunity be misrepresented. She adds(' as waseeld
by a British King, in alluding to the reported presence et the
Pretender in London.—' When he has looked about him, in
eatisficd himself, he will take his departure.' Thir, * fact, sp-
pears to have been the case with 141 r. gaged; for a• Imam
so more in Naples 1
" I fear it wUI be held presumptuous in 'me to venture an
opinion on her Majesty's conduct at that period; bet as I was.
an Aids-454am" to the King of Naples, in the habit of daily
' approaching his person, and her Majesty having been graciously
pleased to honour me with frequent invitations to bet table and
to her evening parties, I certainly had a favourable opportunity
for aberration. Now I feel impelled to exclaim, that her Ma-
jesty's conduct was most exemplary 1 No Fences ever existed
who so wall combined affability and coodeeension with the
reserve and dignity appertaining to her station. The Qom* of
England Is, as she ought to be, a woman of Intellect and of
exalted mind ; and, .ven setting virtue and inclination .out of
the isesten, could never wantonly expose
.herself by inch puerile
unmeaning *Secretions as her persecutors impute to, her.
" I trust that the manner in which I have. trespassed ea the
Public with this trivial communication will meet with forgive
ness, in consideration of the intentions by which I have been
actuated. I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
July id (Signed) " F. MACIRONK*
A traveller through Italy in 1817, states, that when
he slept one night at Lecco, the next village to Como,
at the great Inu CoronaD'Ora, kept by M. Mnu-
ART, he was informed that Cowin BEA.AMI had once
been a Courier in his house, " that requiring some
person of a bold undaunted disposition, to be his
steward, to settle with his work-people, who were very
troublesome, having very large silk estates, he fixed
on that man, and when not employed in that way, he
was cook in the Hotel. Oa one occasion the Princess
of WALES sent a messenger to have the rooms pre-
pared for herself and suite, intending to pass a
few days there: she arrived in the evening.. The
next morning a proper felucca was prepared; they
went on the lake, intending -to land and amuse
themselves with the beauty of the country, and take
their dinner when and where most agreeable. Bea-
omit attended as the cook from the Hotel. These
rambles were daily repeated, during which she was
much pleased with she attendance and sooking, -and
had opportunity of seeing the said person, whom she'
wished to have in her household, and be was en-'
gaged. He was described to me as a very handsome
dark man, with a piercing black eye and command-
ing countenance, rendered more so by the manner of
wearing the whiskers."
• The Literary Gazette of Saturday last, in an article
on the personal characters of Sovereigns, at tertoaking
what we cannot help thinking an- ungenerons• com-
parison between the late Queen Cummorre and the
present Queen Caaot.res, has the following well writ-
ten paragraph on the point of recrimination, to the
justice of which there-are few who will not subscribe;
" Nor bad she suffered, or fended she suffered wrong, 'and
entertained the malignant wishfor revenge, were there grounds
for that vile recrimination, the threat pf which shakes and tree-
hies us now. The private life of the Man was the counterpart.
of the public life of the Monech. Vice was unknown to either;,
and calumny and faction tfor what is there in humanity that can
avoid the one, er in Royalty that can escape the other?)
peed but of little weaknesses and of unimpeded erne Tee
baseness of a Finder,- and the virulence of ahaill*sediffsl
no more. Would-it were se stall But it le aell; The. Theme
is net surrounded by such sum as formerly; here is not that
respect for popular opielite, which Is alike deduces tsar
power of the King and the tranquillity of the silliest ; glimpse
have been caught of a Court etninent for neither deontlityver
religion ; and, consistendy with the principles which we meth.
taut, we assert, that suclenumot be the Sae without infecting'
and injuring the conunseity. don fothld that we should em
ourselves up as the rigid censors of frailties orwhieh we are sIl
liable, or of offences of which we are all too guile, • bet in pie-
suing the relleetiens to which tide publicaties and ehe ewes of
this very day giestiee, k would be cowardice and *justice were'
we to refrain from expressing these nistiroesao
•

•
•771111 ARMY.
Reritir of shaiatitilforge Vdllllllllllllli
Duke of Yong, on Saturday the 29th imatant, is ti
be at Wormwood Scrubs, at eleven o'clock.
Yesterday morning,, when the Horse Guy& were
relieving, and the new and old Guard were.drawrt Lip
in two lines fronting each other at the Horse Guards,
one of the hones reared up, and the rider, a fine
young man, pulling the reins, the horse till back
upon, him, and killed him on the spot.
The first Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volun-
teers began their permanent duty yesterday, sad aie
to continue for nine days.

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by withdrawing the In'—elbast wistreombed• jralt
land, on. Thursday taeitytkidifort d those
id. He thought this a vacillating aid nnstates- SU
Lnd he conjured the Right Ilon. Gentleman to now
inciples of Thursday night, and persevere in
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