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London, England, 1829-10-03 00:00:00

LONDON:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3.
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Eariy this morning Mr. HoLmEs, one of the King's
Messengers, arrived at the 'Foreign (Mice, in Downing-
stteet, with dispatches from Constantinople.

The Times of this morning contains another laboured
article in defence of tho POLIGNAc Administration.
Conscious, however, of the impolicy which ho at first
manifested, by casting before it the shield of his undis-
4iiised advocacy, ho goes to work on this occasion
vecunthlni artem jesuiticam, and endeavours to ac-
complish for it inferentially, that which he begins
to feel ashamed of doing by directer method. This
is no sign of better principle in the Times: it only proves
that he has been taught a lesson of circumspection, by
the public disgust which his opener championship elicited,
rtEd that he is manoeuvring to repair his error. He still
fancies that he possesses the strong holds of the national
mind : confiding in his large circulation—to which he
rose by a line of political assertion, since utterly aban-
doned for its extreme opposite—he trusts to corrupt
over to his new views and advocacies that mass of
inflexible popular integrity and pure opinion, which
once found its echo in his no longer congenial
culuums. But we can tell him that he miscalculates
egreiously : his influence is extinguished with his vir-
tue ; his prevalence has passed with -his sincerity. He
is an apostate from the cause of the people, to become
the servile pander of tyrannic lower: he loves the
wages of baseness, better than the reward of indopend-
cace to wriggle—rather than to go straight in his
political career.

The justice of these prefatory remarks will be
too obvious to require any insistence from us, cer-
tainly at least with those, who have been at the
pains to follow our contemporary, step by stop,
through the succession of essays which he has elabo-
rated in support of the French changes. He knows, as
well as we do, that M. de POLIGNAC for a long time
refused to take any oath to maintain the Charter—that
he only suffers the Charter now, because he is not strong
enough to destroy it—and that the men whom he has
called to take office with hirir are the ferocious and fana-
tical apostles of religious intolerance and absolute rule.
The Times knows all this as well as we do, mid yet ho has
defended these men through thick and thin, and persists in
defending them still. Why not—exclaims the corrupted
journal—why not support the Prince DE POLIGNAC,
and his colleagues in the new cabinet ? Are they not ap-
pointed as constitutionally as those were whom they have
displaced ? So far from perceiving any cause for outcry,
we regard with sincere pleasure—as promising most be-
neficial results for England—the accession of this new
Ministry in France. Besides, what right have we to
make a splutter about the Ministerial regulations of our
neighbour—surely the French may make their own Mi-
nisters without our interference—what is it to us who

the men are that France calls to her Government?
Such—we do not mean to say in these precise words—
but such; in their nature, were many of the breathless
exclamations and apologies of our contemporary, when it
became first known here that extensive anti-liberal ar-
rangements had been completed under the auspices of
M. DE POLIGNAC. We replied to his profligate plead-
ings in 'two or three articles, which we know
produced their effect—as well upon the tergiversa-
ting Paper, as upon n.any of its alarmed and dis-
gusted readers. We showed beyond contradiction, that it

was something to us—aye, and muck too--what kind of
Ministers were appointed to govern France : we de-
monstrated the political understanding always more or
less existing between their Government and our own,
and the influence—be it good or bad—thence inevitably
reciprocated over both countries. In short, we proved
the Times to be insincere in the opinions which
he promulgated concerning the French changes,
and convicted him of an endeavour to establish—by a
series of disingenuous insinuations and sophistries—the
ascendency of principles the most repugnant from con-
stitutional purity.
. .

Since the publication of these exposures, he has re-
turned—whenever occasion offered—to his vindications,
but they have borne the stamp of a more artful elabora-
tion. He mingles affected censure and disapproval—
spices of doubt and inquiring candour—with large masses
of apologetic and defensive argument: but his summing
up is sure to be in favour of the individual, whom, at the
outset, he made a show of suspecting. Every body re-
collects—though, to say the truth, it was clumsily
done—with what pertinacity he bolstered the nomination
of the odious Boy tem o NT. Take a sample this morning,
of his vindication of M. DE LA BOURDONNAYE: in
their odiousness, it is well known " they are not di-
vided ;" they are—indeed—arcadcs ambo.
" When any individual, or body of men," says our
disert oontemporary, " have once become an object of

suspicion or distrust, whether justly or not, every rumour
tending to lower their characters, or to increase their un-
popularity, receives an easy credence." This is the ex-
ordium defensionis, or—what the ArroRNEY-GENERAL
would call—" opening of the case :" its drift is per-
ceptible enough, but at any rate it cannot be mis-
taken in the next sentence. "ft must be upon the
force of this principle that some of the French opposi-
tion writers speculate on their attempts to throw addi-
tional discredit on the Ministry, by the propaga-
tion of tales which they themselves cannot be-
lieve." Here, then, is a direct assertion that the
new Ministry, which—consensu bonorum onepium—
is composed of men as hostile to the principlthi of tha
charter and good government, as they are hateful for tha
remembrance of past political enormities, is brought into
undeserved "discredit,"by the propagation of lying tales.
If this be not thick-and-thin support of the Austro-Po-
lignac branch of the great triple Cabinet confederacy, we
should be glad to know what is : but let us trace the ex-
culpatory argument to its climax.
"M. DE LA DOURDONNAYE, from the violence of
his almost Jacobin royalism"---this is a spice of that
afected condemnatory admission, to which we have just
alluded—" has been, ever since his accession to power,
au object of their unceasing hostility ; and hence they
can ascribe to him, with nearly a certain assuranco
of obtaining belief, the intention of commit-
ting almost any impossible political offence.—
That he is a man actuated by strong prejudices"—
another of these pseudo-candid admissions—" nobody
who has read his harangues iu the Chamber can doubt;
but that he would commit an useless crime against
public liberty, from mere caprice or wantonness,
no person acquainted with the extent of his capacity can
suspect !" _ . _

Certainly not ; we no more suspect him of that than
the Times does : but what does our contemporary think
of a useful crime—that is, a crime useful to the attain-
ment of the end proposed—and that end the destruction
of public "liberty ?" Does he presume to say that DE LA
BOURDONNATE is incapable of such? Nay, does he
not know him to be animated with as fierce and liberti-
cidal a spirit, as ever repressed a people in its constitu-
tional aspirations—aye, as ever panted to slake itself in the
blood of freemen ? It is not the question —nobody asked
that—whether M. DE LA BOURDONNAYE would be
guilty of useless crime, in " wantonness and caprice :"
this is the artful hypothesis of the " unpaid defender"
of domestic and foreign oppression. But it is notorious
that the worst principles of arbitrary power do not pos-
sess a more violent assertor than the Minister whom the

Times has just made another impudent attempt to white-
wash. We recommend hi:n to keep a guard upon his
language, for " out of his own mouth will he be con-
deinned"--the false apostate.
Frankfort Papers to the 26th September are received
this day. Their contents are unimportant. The follow-
ing are extracts :
MUNSTER, Sm. 17.

A lawsuit which has been pending for several years, and which
from its importance has excited universal attention, is at length
decided. On the 74th September, 1821, Prince Emilio. of Ben.

theim Pecklenburg.lpresented a memorial to the Tribunal of the
Province, in which he required that " Prince Alexis of
Bentheim should be sentenced to deliver up to him, the
plaintiff, the county of Steinfurt, with aU its dependencies; and
the other ancient possessions of the family of Bentheim,
situated in the Prussian dominions; and also in the juris-
diction of the Tribunal, &c." The plaintiff grounded. his
claim on a derogatory marriage, alleged to have been contracted
in 1661, and on a supposed compact. By a sentence passed
on 2.5 d August, 1825, by the tribunal at Munster, the plaintiff'.
claim was declared to be unfounded, and be was adjudged to ply
the costs. Prince Binning having appealed, obtained a decision in
his favour, 28th August, 1897. Against this the Prince of Ben.
theim appealed to the Supreme Tribunal at Betlin, which decreed,
" That the first sentence, of 234 August, 1825, should be re-esta-
blished. This sentence was published here on the 11th, and arrived
the same day at Steinfurt, the residence of the Prince of Benthebn,
where the inhabitants expressed their joy in the most unequivocal
manner at the agreeable news.—Fsenifies Papers, Sep. ILL
SMYRNA, Aua. 16.

The Courier de Sosyrne gives a letter from Argos of 3d inst. which
says—the Speech of the President. in opening the National
Assembly, may be reduced to the following phrase Gentlemen,
I may perhaps allow you to busy yourselves about certain affairs ;
but, for the present, you will let me do everything. Myself and
you will not forget, that the only use you are to make of your full
powers, is, to put them into my hands."
" The Assembly answered in the most complaisant manner, and
placed all the power in his bands, with a degree of liberality of
which the Danish histayaleste affords an example. Nobody ven-
tured to speak on the most ailing subject, and all opposition to
the will of the President hu vanished. _

" His Exeenency Hassan Padre. our Governor, set out yester-
day morning. A detachment of add artillery, with the gunner,
and a strong detachment of regular troops, in blue uniforms, had
set out at ten o'clock. At eleven the train quitted the Palace in
the following order : The remainder of the regiment in bine nai-
-1 form, to the number of one hundred men ; Ave !kindred regular

infantry in red uniforms, preceded by drummers, fifets, and a
band of music, in the European fashion ; 400 irregular infantry,
the Boehm standard of three tails, with a guard preceded by a stan-
dard of white satin; a squadron of regular cavalry, in purple uni-
form, and perfectly well equipped. His Excellency Hassan Pasha,
in military costume, preceded and followed by all the Turkish au-
thorities of the city. Among them we remarked Omer Effendi,
the receiver of the public revenue. The principal persons of the
Greek communion, several dragomans, and many persons belong-
ing to the European Consulates, joined the procession. Lastly
came Hadji Bey, who has for many years acted with indefatigable
seal as chief of the police. He was at the head of a strong de-
tachment of irregular cavalry.

On the 14th a column of 1,600 irregular infantry and 800
cavalry left the city. The remainder of the troops, that his Ex-
cellency is to assemble under his command, is stationed all along
the road as far as Magnesia. A considerable number of persons
of all nations filled the road, from the palace of the Pacha to the
baths of Diana, a distance of pearly three miles. The good wishes
of all accompanied the respectable Vizier, who will be so much
regretted here, and whose dignified air and affectionate salutation
called to mind the noble affability which he showed to all who
waited on him.

It was curious and affecting to see the numerous groups of
Turkish women, covered with long veils, whose modest costume
could not hide their tears, which they hardly •erstured to wipe
away.

" The departure of his Excellency was announced by the guns
of the fortress, and when be mounted his horse and displayed his
standard, the French brig of war saluted him with 13 pmts."—
Frankfors Papers.

CITY. Twn.vg oTt.ocz.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 891 j for the Account,
opened at 854 to , and for November Account 89!. sellers,
without the least business doing.
In tie Foreign Market they are as idle as in the British
Market : prices are nominal as per yesterday.
CITY, HALF-PAST ONE.

Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 891 sellers
for the Account, and 89k for the November Account, without any
signs of business.
Consols for Account, 891, sellers ; for November, 89k.
Three failures are announced this day—one in the
sugar line, a wholesale grocer, and a merchant.
When alarm was excited, many weeks ago, on account
cf the orders to prepare the Britannia and Gloucester for
the Mediterranean, we stated-that those ships were merely
to replace the Spartiate and Ocean, whose time of foreign
service had expired : in confirmation of our statement,
orders have just been received at Portsmouth and Ply-
mouth, to prepare to receive the Ocean and Spartiate in
November, and to place tlicia in ordinary on their arrival.
Accounts received from New York by the last arrivals,
state that a draft of 1000 seamen had been recently made
there, from which number the crew of the United States
ship Ohio, fitting out for the Mediterranean station, is to
b selected. Owing to the great demand for seamen in
the mercantile service, the American Government has
laboured under considerable embarrassment in procuring
suitable seamen for vessels of war. It appears that the
schemers employed in the African slave trade from the
Island of Cuba, enter the American ports, ostensibly in
distress, as vessels engaged in the gold and ivory com-
merce, and obtain such supplies as are had at a cheaper
rate in the United States than at Cuba.
It appears that there are nine banks in the city of New
York, which, according to their own reports of February
and March, 1828, have together issued notes to the
amount of 3,085,804 dollars, payable on demand in specie,
and that the amount of specie in the banks for the re-
demption thereof was only 945,829 dollars, being seven
dollars in paper for one of specie. The bank of the
United States and branches, 22 in number, have issued
notes to the amount of 24,139,175 dollars, and have
specie in the banks to the amount of 5,815,821 dollars.
Letters from Virginia, of the 28th August, state, that
the quantity of rain which has fallen there exceeds am
thing recollected by the oldest inhabitants ; that some of
the rivulets were so swollen as to carry away the houses
on the banks, and in the Toguier country the waters
are said to have risen 30 feet ! The stone bridge at
Buckland, with its heavy stone abutment, were carried
away.
The Augusta Courier, of the 13th September, says,
that on Tuesday night last an incendiary attempt was
made on the city, by setting fire to a lot of cotton,
' which was fortunately discovered in time, and the city
saved from destruction.

It is not only the bad weather which causes a gloom
in the Consol Market this morning, but we are also de-
prived, to the present hour, of any information from the
theatre of war. Private accounts yesterday, from Paris,
state that the French Government were in hourly expec-
tation of a telegraphic dispatch, with the result of the
signing of the Preliminaries in the East. Therefore it is
not supposed that we shall remain many hours without
some official information on the above subject. We have
no arrivals of the least consequence ; not even a ship
letter has come to hand.

The funds are damped this morning in consequence of
a considerable failure in the mercantile line ; and we are
sorry to say that more are expected. The house alluded
to is an old established one in the colonial trade.

The private letters from Liverpool received this morn-
ing say, that the state of credit generally is depressed
there to a lower degree than ever it has as yet been, and
that unless a very extraordinary change takes place,
great mischief must arise in the commercial concerns.
Large sales of cotton took place during the week, owing
to speculations being entered into on the short supplies
from America.
A Medical Officer writes from Jamaica, under date
of the 9th August, that the fever had entirely disap-
peared, both from amongst the troops and vessels of war.
February and March were the two worst months. The
ship Harlequin was entirely abandoned.
Accounts from Lisbon say, that Don MIGUEL has
deferred his vengeance against Terceira until next
spring; when he is determined to act as High Admiral
of the fleet in the operations against that island!
The winter assemblies commenced Wednesday se'nnight
at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, and was graced by all
the rank, beauty, and fashion, of these towns avid
neighbourhood. Among the distinguished company pre-
sent were—the Earl and Countess of Morley, the Earl
and Countess of Brownlow, the Earl of Northesk, Lords
Valletort and Borringdon, Sir Digory Forest, Sir John
Sinclair and Lady, Hon. Mrs. Pole Carew and family,
Lady Lopez, John Bulteel, Esq., Lady Elizabeth Bul-
ted, and Miss Bulteel, Sir William and Lady Louisa
Call and the Misses Call, Sir John and Lady Cameron,
Mrs. and the Misses Morehead, Hon. Mr. Carnegie,
Capt. Cameron, A. D.C., A. Harris, Feq, and family,
Commissioner Roes and family, Capt. Clifford, Major
and Mrs. Booth, Major Elliot, R. Freeman, Esq., the
Mayor of Plymouth and family, Captain Wise, the
Mayor elect and family, Captain Lockyer, R. N. and
family, Edmund Lockyer, Esq., Captain Pym, R. N.
and family, the Misses Gennys, Mr. and Mrs. Hope
and family, of Trenant Park, S. Trelawney, Feq. and
family, the heads of the principal Government depart•
manta at this port, Officers of the Army, Navy, and
Royal Maim, &c. &c.