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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1816.
PRICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT WELVE O'CLOCK:
Reduced 600—Cone. mo. 621—for acc. SO •
4 per Crut.74.--5 per Ce►+t. 22ii —Bonds 24. pr.
Ossm. OH —FAO!. Ate (AO 44. 10. (3;d.) se. Si.

Mr. BROUGHAM brought forward a Bill last night
for the better securing the 'Liberty of the Press. by
allowing, in trials for alleged libels, the truth to he
given in evidence. It is difficult to conceive that any
thing like a plausible argument can be urged against
a proposition founded in the true spirit of Mr. Fok's
Act, declaring that by the law of the land Juries in
all cases or libel were Judge: both of the law and the
fact. On what rational ground then can it be main-
tained that any. of the facts connected with the case
40 be decided, should be withheld from the Jury ?It
is impossible that the Liberty of the Press, to which
this country is indebted for the preservation of all the
other invhluable privileges which has made us the
envy of the world, can be over-rated; nor can it be
fettered without a danger of reducing us to that im-'
becile state which • elted down the Ppwers of the
Continent before the scorching Sun of revolutionary
mania. The Press alone can preserve you from sub-
version when turbulent men threaten the peace of
society with anarchical principles; not by its ephemera!
productions at the moment of danger, but by the effect
of previous culture of the public mind, by which and
by which only it can be maintained in that healthy state
which will ever put it beyond the react of empyricism.
Look at the most dangerous period of the French
Revolution, and say what warded the danger from
your shores ?' It was the Free Press of Britain that
armed ram whole population from one end of the
Island to the other, during Lord SIDMOUTreS Admi.
nistration. Was there any diversity of sentiment—
any opposition to the patriotic sentiment which armed
every father and brother fur the protection and defence
of our own fire-sides I No. The Press of England,
while it is preserved free, will ever be found virtuous.
But only once fetter and restrain it, by exposing its
conductors to unnecessary fears of personal inconve-
nience, and you that moment give the direction of the
engine to those fearless individe Ils and mad zealots
who will make their calculations as to the possibility
of escaping detection, and who may be willing even
to wear the decoration of the wooden collar, for the
sake of the fame which they may consider as attached
to it. Nor h this your only danger, if you do not protect
the Liberty of the Prfss-7men without property, who
have nothing to We, bat some chance to gain, by
commotions, will, in the nature of things, obtain a
predoMinance in the conduct of the periodical Press;
and in the same proportion will the friends of quiet

and good order lose the countenance, the support,
the efficacy of this powerful engine, in informing,
gua(chng, and directing the popular mind, as at the
period to which we have alluded, when all were in-
duced to join the Volunteer Corps.
Mr. AHOIJOHASeS Bill also comprehends some im-
portant regulations' respecting ex tfficio informations,
and the forming of Special Juries.
Sir SAMORL Itossu.t.v gave notice- of a motion for
Tuesday nest, regarding the Protestants in France.

We* have received the Paris Papers of Sunday and
Monday. Their contents do not enable us to augur
any thing of the internal or political state of France;
but the private letters continue to be filled with ru-
:noun of approaching political convulsions. It is
stated that General CA/AMON es triumphaiit acquittal
ihas infused spirits into the disaffected, or Antr-Bour-
bonists, who have split into two factions—one pro-
posing the transfer of the Crown to the Duke of OR.
LEANS, and the other boldly declaring for the RC-
' public, one and indivisible. We know not precisely
what foundation there is for these rumours, nor do
we suppose that the spirit of disaffection has assumed
any thing like an organized form : we know, how.
ever, far. certain, that arrests daily mutiply, not only
is Patilsi•bist is various parts of France.

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Brussels Papers to the Bth instant reached us this
morning. They inform us that the Duke of W EL-.
mallow is occupied in his Tour of inspection of the
Allied Contingents. The Heads of the Catholic
Church at Rome have been lately busily •ccupied
in new modelling the Itiquisition. By the new re-
gulations, witnesses may be examined in exculpation
of all religious persuasioni—tbe trial is to be public,
and no hearsay evidence is to be admitted. The ser-
vants and relations of the accused aye excluded from
being witnesses either for or against him.

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', Inn amiable manners and frank dispooition of the
IMINce Coaousts, we may say* are well known ; for
maw approach him, who do not go away zealous to
emststiaaicata.the esteem wish which he inspires them.
His attaianssats in science and the Arts, are also well-
, known.—Young as he is. he was jn the B.ttle of
Austerlita, 410 shat of Eyble, an *great victory at
LeipsicA sal as inseral of the saisequent actions.
which brow Itassiaa Army so raise its 1814
After this it, 410 e read sitb plemwsne,that this unli
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request his basoaade, stimuli's isannesiou
with England, was,sbat he pies( two mak in ow
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About soO of *le Ist (King's) Dragoon Guitik
with their horses, arrived at Dover, on Tuesday e,t
ing, from Calais, on hoard one of the Dlver palm.
vessels ; they were landed in excellent conditi,x4
soot as the• vessel canna in, and were quartt red cis
inns ; and yesterday morning they matched 4
their route to. Rochester. The remainder of this 114
giment were expected today.
Train, alas landed at Dover, yesterci,
A few of the 15'h Light lilragoons, and some g
MshOerWninagg,gf"rnona Calais.

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