Star.
London, England, 1816-06-10 00:00:00

FRENCH ?APSES.

PARIS. JUNE E.
Accounts from Grenuble, of the Ist instant, men-
tion, that by a general order the state of siege in
which the department had been placed was raised.
'the greatest tranquillity continued, and the disarm-
ing was successfully pursued.
'frVe learn from Brussels, that Generals Excelmans
and Fressinet hid at last left that city, after a long
residence. Some other French refugees bad Aso re-
ceived orders to quit Brussels.

GRENOBLE, JUNE 1.
Three days ago another chief, named Tabs*
whom the gendarmes bad been in pursuit of, having
been at last discovered in a house where he had con-
cealed himself, and from which be endeavoured
to escape by the roof, was shot with a musket•balL
He was a person of importance, from his influence
over the peasantry of the communes, whom the diaf•
tined are incessantly misleading by their worn•out
phrases about tithes, the return of feudality, and a
hundred other vulgar tales.

ROMB, MAY se.
(EXTRACT OF A LITTRIL)
44 There were serious disturbances in the vicinity
of Bologna on the Bth, 9th, and 10th instant. The
peasantry having assembled to the number ef some
thousands on the ringing of the tocsin, laid waste all.
the fields of rice, under the pretence that they iafec.
ted the air. It is only about fifteen years since the
cultivation of rice was intridaced into this part of
Italy. It is a culture attended with great inconve-
niences; but such acts of violence are extremely re.
prehensible, at •ir pctiod when so great a dearth pre-
vails in Italy.." . *
COURT wacrut OF THE FIRST MILITARY
•-• •• DIVISION.
Yesterday apse on the trial of General Bonnaire,'
Ex•comatiiidhift'* C,ondei and his Aid-de-camp,
Mie teemer Awed with having ordered or
authorized the death of Colonel Robert. Gordon, in
violatioird the law of nations, and disregarding the
sacred character of the flag of truce with which be
was iovestoia •end-the latter with having taken an
active past Indio murder.
Thc Couit was composed of Major. Generals thei
Duke do Willi, Count de la Feronnaye, Count -de'
Macbeth% Colonel the Marquis de Maleyssie,
Vis-
connt.PoOs; Count de Vergennes, and Cap-
tain Degretyv -Mr. Chaveau Lagarde, who acted as
defender of the late Queen of France, was the pri-
soners' emus&
The whole of the first day was occupied by the.
reading •of documents and written evidence. The
papers first re4d were two memorials addressed to the'
Minister at War, by two brothers of the deceased,'
' Lieutenant James Gordon of the Artillery, and Lieu-
tenant Gordou of the Dutch Naval Service, charging
, the prisoners with -the murder .of their brother. On
the 4th of August, General Bonaire, the prisoner,
of whom the Minister of War had.in consequence
demanded an account of his conducts tonsmitted a
Report, in which •hensserted, that Coked Gordon
bad observed none of the forms requisite is lags of
truce. He was taken forfors seducer,•wishing to intro-
duce himself by stealth into Conde. 4, The troops."
be added, 14 wasindigsantond itetatutifiedno vrcter
for his being shot. k Immune ascseswo-cplat die

effer‘seattee tithe altsiterated saklorp •He, wan It.l
elan theAjoi4.oinitlirfd a: a seeker. &A, were the
Tuscans for Which this man, who had,placed himself
.withoueilre law, was shot.'
The depositions of three witnesses, examined by
order bf the Prefect, were next read. They stated,
that when the unfortunate Gordon made his appear-
ance at Condi, he was in uniform, wearing a bine
great coat. He was arrested, and brought before
General Bonnaise, who, after hutting read his pa-
pers, and torn a part of them, said—" It was you
who played the traitor in such and such an affair."—
He then tore of his epaulettes, his cross of St. Louis,
his fleur delis, and gave orders for his being ,shot.-1
One of the witnesses, on being asked Whether the de-
ceased was regularly tried by a military commission,
replied, that General Bonnaire, after conversing a
moment with Gordon, caused him to be shot by a
battalion which had come from Paris. It was fur-
ther stated in these depositions, that when Gordon
was arrested, liounaire at first thought of releasing
him, and firing upon him a gun loaded with chain
shot when he got a little distance. However, on se-
cond thoughts, he said, " could he not he placed in
a safe prison ?" Upon which Mielton replied, 46 the
safest way is to shoot him instantly."
This horrible advice was taken, and Gordon recei.
ved one shot in the belly, and two in the breast. His
executioners divided among them 1,200 fr. which "he
bad upon his person.
The public Order issued on the occasion by Gene-
ral Bonnaire was as follows :
" One of the traitors who deserted the French ar-
my on the 16th and 17th of June made his appear-
ance before the fortress as a seducer and a spy—the
bearer of incendiary Proclamations (viz. copies of
that'of Cambray) : he has undergone, the fate which
he deserved."
Kest was read the Report of a Court of Inquiry,
summoned at Lille on the prisoner. They gave it
albeit. opinion, that even supposing Colonel Gordon
was a traitor and a spy, General Bonnaire had ex-
ceeded his powers, which did not extend to life and
death. They recommended, therefore, that Doonaire,
Mielton, and those of the soldiers who had treated
Colonel. Gordon inhumanly before shOoting, him,
should be brought to trial before a Court Martial.
The next document read was a letter from the I
Prince of Oringe to the Duke of Feltre: it contained
the following passage:
44 Colonel Gordon did not set about making the
summons with proper caution. A detachment and a
trumpeter were given him at my advanct.d posts,
near —; but instead of taking them with him, and
approaching the fortress with the trumpeter, I.e left
them at Fresnes. From thence he proceeded quite
alone. On his arrival at the first posts of the enemy,
he announced himself, and was introduced within the
works by the orders of General Bonnaire, who spoke
to him. He was very ill received in the first instance,
then he was struck with fists, and, in fine, was shot,
without sentence of a Court Martial, or the least ap-
pearance of trial."
From an examination taken at Conde, it appeared
that when the unfortunate Gordon was aware of the
fate preparing for him, he-invoked French humanity
and honour. General Bonnaire wished merely that
a cannon-shot should be fired upon him in the air.
He did not order his assassination, but did nothing
to prevent it.
After reading these documents the Court adjourned.
The trial, it is supposed, will last four days.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1816.
POLICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK*
Seduced U} SS—Cons. shut—for opening 64
pa Cerra 7811—S per era. Navy shut—Boods par Is. pr.
Omelets NH —Do. pay. 231—Eubequer BUI, Is. dis. as. pr.

••=IM.MI.•

We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday.
They contain the first day's Report oldie Trial of Ge.
neral BONNAIRE, and one Murvrotr, an Aide-de-Camp,
for the assassination in perfect cold blood of Colonel
GORDON, an Englishman by birth, although in the
service of the Kum of FRANCE.. This horrible crime
was accompanied with circumstances of barbarity
scarcely ever paralleled in any.other country than
that of modern France. BONNAIRR, in March 1815,
after BONAPARTE'S landing at Cannes, was one of the
first to offer his services to the KING, who, entrusted'
him with the command of the important fortress of
Conde.. BONNAIRE, as a matter of course, declared
for the Usurper afterwaeds ; and when the glorious
battle of Waterloo had confounded the hopes of all
traitors but those of Monsieur BONNAIRE, the unfor-
tunate Colonel GORDON was sent in to summons the
place to :mender, in the name of Louts XVIII. the
lawful Sovereign. He delivered his message, and it
is not alleged by the cowardly Jacobin ruffians who
murdered him, that he conducted himself in any
way unbecoming a 'Soldier and a Gentleman.—
BONNAIRI and MIELTON, with their own hands, tore
his epaulets, his Cross of St. Louis, and other deco.
rations, from his person, and one or other ordered a
soldier who was near, to kill him, by striking him in
the loins with the butt end of a musket, a mode of
assassination quite familiar to the brigands who corn-
posed BONAPARTeS armies: this 'did not succeed,
however, for poor GORDON was still able to rise and
supplicate for French humanity and justice I As if
such scoundrels as BONNAIRE and MELTON knew' any
thing of justice and humanity 1 He was then din.
patched by a discharge of musketry. BONNAIRR and
Mu:row then rifled the pockets of their victim of
1,200 francs, and like is true thieves, who rob upon
instinct," :hared the money. This trial will occupy
three slays longer, and we shall not be surprized to
learn, that the Council of War has acquitted thew

desperadoes.
The brothers of the deceased, who seem to have
acted with becoming spirit,in damning the trial of the
assassitd by the sonspetest Authorities. will, in case of
acqr.igala wt OM, tic the sake- of European justice

and humanitir, tiring theta tolrial before another 11
bunal. We lament to see that the generous and
lightened CuaVaao Laoartne, who &Tended the lett
Queen of France, is one of the Counsel Tor these Qui
creants.—We s.ty we lament to see this proithrio4
bf talent, because, with all due respect for rho lee,
tude justly allowed to legal advisers, in assutignithe
defence of a cause, there are, occasionally, caseitit
such atrocity, and crimes committed se reVoninit4
huritan nature, that the Advocates for the crliniall
insensibly become polluted in all pure and canatt
minds, by the association of their nathei with %tat et
the guilty.

We are at'a loss to conceive what defence Ns
NAIRE can make—he admits that he summoned to
COOtt. Martial on Colonel Gonons ; that he to eo
advice bUt that of MIELTON, his Aide-de-Camp, wiy,
by the bye, seems to have been the more humane et
the two ; for BONNAIRE says, that it was his intentiol
to dismiss poor Gounou, and when he was (kitty
paces off to fire upon him unawares, with two 1)4,1
of cannon, loaded with grape-shot l Nftetvow, box.
ever, carried h; point, which was to murder thri:
victim on the.spot. In this case, as in all Jacobi
Councils, whether of state or of war, the :errant wet
occasionally master, and MIELTON seems to have had
BONNAIRE under his command.

COURIER EXTRAORDIXARY 07 THURSDAY MORNING.

Letters from St. Petenburgh announce, that CoR
Noailles, the new French Ambassador,has preset.%
his Credentials to the Emperor Alexander.
This is the day appointed for the trial of the maim
Didier, at Grenoble.

Count Boanay, the French Ambassador to Berlin,
has presented his letters of credence to the King of
Prussia.

The new English Ambassador to Naples has at.
rived at Paris, on his way to the place of his desti.
nation.

The Duke of Wellington gave, on the 4th of June,
at Cambray, a grand entertainment, in honour of jai;
-Sovereign's Birth.day. His Grace was to set out
for Paris immediately afterwards, where he was es.
pected :his evening. Arrangements are made to se.
ceive him at the Hotel de la Regniere.

By the Charleston Papers of the llth May, which
we received to-day, we regret to learn, that the con.
dhion of the British prisoners at Carthagena, in New
Spain, continues from bad to worse. About the !►ha
of March eleven British and American subjects,
(chiefly Misters of vessels) bloke out of prison, nine
got on board of the boats of the British brig Fortes.
ter, which waited to receive them; but the other two
were killed. The Americans steak highly of the h.a.
mane conduct of Capt. HENRY, of the Forrester.

Saturday his Royal Highness the PitiNce REGINT
held a Court at Carlton House, which was attended
by the Archbishop of CANTERSERY, the Loan Cass-
mum, and the Ministers.
EDWARD 'THORNTON, Esq. Envoy Extraordinirt
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sweden,
had an audience of the Puns Reossx, and took
leave of his Royal Highness previous to his leaving
England for Sweden.
Monsieur de NEFF= was introduced to the hum'
REGENT by Lord Viscount CASTLEREAGH, upon his
arrival in England as Minister from the Court of
Wirtemberg. His Excellency had a private audi.
ease to deliver his credentials, and was most gra.
ciously received.
Count BettomunceN, the late,Wirtemherg
ter, had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT to take
.leave previous to his leaving England.
The Duke.of Yoax visited the NIKE Liza:

1..

yesterday.
The LORD CHANCELLOR and Count MUNSTER had
audiences of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday.
Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the
Queen's Palace, by the Chaplain in Waitiag. lithe
evening her MAJESTY, Princesses ELIZABETH and
MARY, aftei partaking of an early dinner, left the
Palace for Windsor.
PRINCESS CHARLOTTR-aer Royal Highness con-
tinues to be attended by Dr. BAILLIR, Surgeon Kee,
and Mr. WALKER. PRINCE LEOPOLD is constant in
his affectionate attendance upon his Royal Consort;
' he has only left Camelford-House twice since he dined
with the Duke of GLoucesten on Thursday evening.
Saturday afternoon he went to Carlton-House, and
saw the ARGENT, previous to his holding a Coen,
when he reported fully to his Royal Highness the
state of his Royal Daughter's health. Yesterday his
Serene Highness rode out on horseback for about sa
hour, attended by Sir ROBERT GARDINER. The
PRINCR RS.GENT called on Friday 'afternoon, on horse-
back, at C.imelford-House. The Royal Family do
not call, as no visitors 'are admitted to her Itiyal
Highness's Chamber; the Royal Family, ho wever, are
lenstantly sending with the most anxious and affec-
tionate enquiries. It is the Medical eventlealee'
orders, that her Royal Highness should be kept heel
quiet. The following Bulletin respecting the PriP
ceis CHARLOTTE'S health was issued yesterday:
" CAIKELFORD-HOUSE, SUNDAT No*
44 The PRINCES/ has bad a good night's rest. The Petit il
somewhat abated. Her Royal Highness appears rdreskati ill
sleep; but she bas still a very irritable Cough." •
THE PARKS.—Yesterday the weather was wet sad
unfavourable to promenade, consequently the Park du
nut afford the usual display of Sunday suit,. • 7
The Editor of the Manchester Herald is justly ,iv
dignant at the false reports contained in the Lonclo2
Prints, of riots hving taken place in that neighbour'
hoed. He says,a there bas been no such thiog—all is
quiet. • iron'
J..-
1 The Lady Holland, DEANHAMI sailed
maica the 13th April. Captain Plural ssc tome!!
that being in want of stock, he sent his be { I°lll
rposeso' of procuring some at the Havanno
but
on as it was sufficiently near the Fort, tb• '
he . a
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waved their hands for the boats to return 4.0
at mum time pointing their nitiskidr.
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, ,I,IVERPOOL, JOlO 11,-(10 P. M.)
.1‘.54 :011c10Se you a copy. of Mr. CaMitatn's
Speech at the close of the first day's poll. It was
vga published until lat.: this. afternoon ;, and some
~prps'on: the Right 'Honourable Gentleman has
/ado use of, have given offence to the opposite party,
Ago seem to be gaining strength, and speak with
',o4dente of ultimate success. Party spirit is run
sing very high. Several serious riots have just
&ilea place,. in which some lives have been nearly
toot. The windows of Mr. BOLTON'S house (whence
gr. CANNING -speaks) have been broken, as well as
tiose of other individuals interested on the same side,
acne who have made themselves obnoxious to the inde-
pendent party. Mr, LEYLAND, is a man quiteindepen.
.dept in fortune and in principle; although his politics
ire, in many points, with those of the present Ad-
, pisistration, he is a detarruined enemy to corruption
lo every shape, and has of late proved himself an
141 e corrector of public abuses. If he had declared
Licaself acandidate at first, there is not a doubt but
iss would have been returned by a great majority,
though he still declines the contest personally,
ph friends persevere with increased ardour, and with
irate confident hopes of success:"
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 7.
morning,- at nine o'clock, ,the Election com-
:4, Mr. Ciattaao was proposed by Mr. Dot-
. Toga seconded by Mr. Hottansuxau. The Town
Clerk then read a letter addressed to the Mayor by
)Ir. LEYLAND, inclosing the band-bill which he had
published, declining to offer himself as a Candidate,
sue confirming its contents in the most strong and
forcible manner. ,
The Rev. W. SIJEPHERD, in a speech of considerable
length, undertook to oppose Mr. Canning's return
for this Borough ; in the course of which he put se-
veral questions to Mr: Canning telating to his public
conduct, and concluded by putting Mr. Leyland in
aamination.
Colonel WiLLIANS rose, and with mach warmth
of expression, declaimed against Mr. Canning's po-
litical* conduct, and found much fault with the prin.
ciple upon which elections are now conducted rhe
toneloded by seconding Mr. Shepherd's motiop.
bir CANNING then addressed the Mayor nearly as
follows:
.1 Mr. MAYOR, another Candidate having been nominated,
mix poll demanded, it is not my intention to impede your pro-
ftredings more than a few moments.
* lithe catechism of the Reverend Gentleman who addressed
'les first, and the vehemence of the Honourable Colonel who
secooded him, had taken the shape of an inquiry on what
pods 1 s:and here as a candidate ; and why I have done err-
WI things which the) impute to me; and if they had dedared
that upon my sir isiactorily answering their interrogatories they
would cument to nay re-election—l should have felt myself bound
to give them at voce distinct and categorical answers. But a
menifeco of a,cusation, followed by an act of hostility, has nn
dies to sock attention; and none shall it receive from me in this
path. and a this hour. •
* But let nut the smile which I see gathering on the face of
fty Reverend ACcurcr, and communicating itself by sympathy
team of in. gallant friend.—let it not mature into a amik of
triumph. Ido assure the Reverend Gentleman that lam obliged
to bins fur the part which be has taken; and certainly have no-
thine to find fat& with is him as to the courtesy with ftlikla he
has had the goodness to clothe his observatioos.
" I have noted every word chat has been said against me; I
tarry in my nnnet the whole indictment ; and char itidictment
will answer pita by point, wheal address myself, after the poll,
maims who have a right to hear my jostification. I invite my
two accusers to be present; and I assure them, on the faith of
my iesponsibilay and honour, that they shall be received among
m 1 Mends with every personal respect and civility.
*To one point, and one point only, 1 will answer here. The
Amend Gentleman refers to what he Is good enough to describe
laudable declaration on my part, at the close of the last elec.
siseoelres 'I declared' myself to he the Representative of the
whethpeopie of Liverpool. Now, I would appeal to every man
who bears me—to all Who are now en thew hustings—to all
who, from without, ate looking hostilely at 'me—whether, in
any application which they bad occasion to make to me, or in
any which they have known to be made to me, as Member foe
Liverpool, any one man has ever found reason to think, from
my manner of receiving sock appiicatit,n, that I recollected to
what party the applicant belonged. I would put the whole of
my pretensions to support on that single issue; and if that were
deddedagaiest me, I could acquiesce in your preference of this
shadow of a name which the Mover and Seconder have opposed
to me.
" With the Reverend Gentleman I have bad no Intercourse •
but with respect to the Honorable Colonel who has secondej
-him, he may, I am sure, rententher a correspondence which
passed between us; and I appeal to him, whether, in the course
of that correspoutuce be had to cemploio of any wain of cour-
tesy on my part —(Tres Golesei kwed.)—And yet I can assure hint.
that whatever other jobs the worthy Colonel believes me to have
had to do for others, I have not had any severer task imposed
less ma than that of reading his Letters on ParliameMary Re-
lotra."..-Vassilartiter).
About two bouts after the commencement of the
poll, the Rev. Mr. Sneensnn came forward, and
stated, that being disappointed in the support which
he had been led to count upon, and not wishing to
prolong a struggle which he now felt could only ter-
. agnate in the return of Mr. Canning, he, for his
part, intended to withdraw, and, though he could
Lot answer for any one but himself, sincerely hoped,
that nothing further would be done to protract the'
poll. He felt the legs difficulty in expressing this
lope, as, although he felt himself still averre to Mr.
Closing's election, he had at least the consolation of
knowing, that whatever business might be confided
to that Right Hcnourable Gentleman, as the Repre.
lentative of Liverpool, would be transacted with a
degree cf ability which could not but reflect honour
011 the town.
Mr. CANNING, upon this, addressed the Mayor.in
a few words, declaring his readiness to do justice to,
the frank and honourable manner in which the Rev.
Gentleman bad intimated his intention of withdraw.'
log his interference from the contest ; and, with an
expression of the most affecting cordiality, advanced
to Mr. SNEPHEED and shook hands with him.
Notwithstanding this declaration of Mr. Shepherd
(Rho immediately quitted the Hustings), and after a
rotof half an hour, in the course ut which the
Proclamation was once read, the poll has Lren re•
gamed, and is still continued.
flare OT TYR rot.t., AT IT3 CLOSZ ON FRIDAY, JUNK 7.
• For Mr. Canning 250
for Mr. Leyland • 159
Majority in favour of Mr. Canning 91
ea the close of the first day's Poll Mr. CANNING
• ;Massed the Meeting as follows:
" GiNTLLISIN—Of all the Contested ekedons In which you
14PIv beta called to bear a part, and certainly of all those of which.
!,bays evet heard, the circumstances of the present are the most
eatiaoreangy. A battle without an antagonist; and a SUrrearke
Mahlon g ceotian of hostilltiesoo<Applause.)-
Gmagradi to most itrueetes, It boa been sufficient or him


• . • • ••• • •• +:

,wise came Into the field, tint be /11611Obosly•to oppose ULU'
this has Sot Meek my fortube on AS prone* *Winn. •
44 Our first 'ivory, has been from Want of a einntlehla i out
next has been oilier the Unacknowledged representative cif the
combatant whom our adversaries could hot bring forward. And,
having detested he representative. who would nut fight, we have
new to fight th.- self-constituted sitbstitutes, Who hanti..thcust
themselves in the place which he becomingly_ abandoned.—
(Applause.)
•• Gentlemen, in this fruitless and unnecessary contest, we
have, however, obtained a victory that might put to tight the
most substantial antsgonist. I am assured, that the majority
which we possess on this day hinnexamtiled for a first dayp:lcli,
in any contest for Liverpool —(Applause.)—We have
Gentlemen, 2so ;—there have 'polled for my antagonist—l beg
pardon—l should rather say, In spite of my tunagottist.-el elt i'••••
the rend, is a majority of 9t in our favour.—(Applause.)
• Of the Gentleman whose name is thus unwarrantably pot
forward against his own desire, I beg not to be understood as
meaning to speak with the slightest disrespect. Of the Offlatienian
who constituted himself the representative of the nonjuring Can-
didate, I mean Mr. Shepherd; I have to say, that his conduct
appears to me have teen, in all that I have seen of it, not only
exempt from blame. but entitled is the praiseti!'ldirness, honour,
and liberality. But who they are' that, after the abjuration of
the principal, and after the abdication of the substitute, have put
themselves in array% against the declared sense of all parties, to
vex and harass the population of this great :own, and who hatted
thus, for no object and to :to end, all the resuli.s which may arise
from the fermentation which they have excited, it behoves me
not to conjecture; nor will I Characterise their proceedings with
the epithet that I think titer deserve—f,Applause.)
" Gentlemen, told you on our fine meeting, that I should no
doubt be catechised sufficlectly when I met my antagonists face to
face. That meeting has taken place this day : and I inform the 1
Gentlertien, who, in moving and treconding this fruitiest
asmina-
tion, thought proper to arraign my public conduct, that if they
would do me the honour to accompany me home this evening,
they .bould have whatever advantage they might fancy they
could tieriste hum hearing my answers to all that they 44 allcged
against nie—(Appliuse.)
" I do tint (genie them Gentlemen, if they have net availed
themselves of any offer; :bey must consider the contest at an
end: and I am perfectly satisfied that their attacks were net di-
rected against me, with any personal hostility; but, were poly
tended to itiguence your suffrages—(Applause)
" Gentlemen, if there were any truth (truth, I mean, hi era
gument), its the grounds which were stated, for inducing you to
. reject me on the present occa-ion, I will venture to .ay, that the
• admission of them would tend to a complete chat:ge fu the Coat.

" Gentlemen, it was contended, that any man holdinfoffice
—especially high-and responsible ofike—was tusk, for that Ter,
reason, to become the kepreseatative of the People—(Cries of
No, No).—l state the argument. Gentlemen, only for the pur-
pose ut answering it ; of expressing, though, in much feebler
language, the just and emphaik refutation which it has received
ia your anaunnoin denial—(Applaine).
" Gnitkmen if there be truth in this doctrine of our adver-
saries, I have read the Constitution wrong. For I have always
thought, that it was ene great practical security for the continu-
ance of that freedom which we happily enjoy, and of which we
should enjoy the name only, if it *ere not embodied in the Con-
stitution of the country—l have considered it always. I say, as
one great security, that, though there he nu written law which
circumscribes the choice ot the Crown in the selection of its
Ministers, yet that, since England has been what It is, the So-
vbreign has always lookiai for his Ministers among the Members
of the two Honse, of Parliament—(applause).
" is it possible, Gentlemen, that persons of so acute under•
standings as those who were arrayed against me today, should
not see, that If a Minister ought not to be a representative—a
representative, I mean, of a great community—the convene
would be equally true, that the Crown ought not to choose a
Mentber of Parliament for its Minister ? And witat,Gentlemen,
would be the consequence? I hat the House ot Lords, the he-
reditary Counsellors of the Crown, and the hereditary repre-
sentatives of the great mass of the priTert y o! the kingdom;—
that the House of Commons, contattatig a selection, through va-
rious chanuels, and for various qualifications, of all that is most
distinguished in talents, in property. and consideration, among the
Commons of the country;—that these two bodies of men,—ne-
cessarily, from their constitution, the flower of the kingdom,—
should be absolutely excluded from the management of the af-
fairs of the state, and that the Crown should be driven to look
for its servants, from among those who could not obtain, or
among those who had declined,
,the reptesentntiou ot the people.
-•-(l.augtner, and shouts of applause.)
" I rake for granted,
,Genziemeti; that do no injustice to the
itgumentOf my adversaries,' when likunte that it is meant to
exciwle Members of the House of Peers,. equally with those of
the other House of Parliament, &Com office, If, indeed, thqy in-
tend a distinction between the two Boons, and would confine
the great Offices of State to Peers, pleasant candidates, to be
!cure, they are for popular favour, and nice adjusters of the be..
lance of the Constitution !—(Applause.)
" But there is another view which these Gentlemen take of
office; as if it*ere something in itself dishonourable, something
which did not imply or convey distinction. but absolute degrada-
tion and coutaminadou. When they have said that a man bolds
oilice—or, still more, when straining their faculties for ridicule
and invective to the utmost pitch, they insinuate that be seeks It
—they think that • they have said all. The blow is struck—the
work itedone.—Be it so. But let us see how far these Chad's'
men arc consistent in their revilemeut of office. Is there no
occasion on which they speak of it in another strain, and
sent it in ;mother light? Cao they be the um* persons whew
you may have heard on former occasions declaiming against 1
those laws by which a proportion of our fellotiatubiects are
excluded from deice? They think, and, though I difef from
many of you, Gentlemen, in this opinion, 1 think with taunt;
that these disqualifications should be removed—l have done my
best to procure the removal of them. In this lam consistent.—
I think ineligibility•to office a grievance,: benmse I think office an
honourable occupation. But what is the creed of Our adversaries?
They ought, in consistency, to consider such ineligibilisr as a
privilege, rather than a privation. bit tyranny to save from the,
danger of being degraded ? is It any thing but a wise and
salutary restraint, to fence him round against the chance of eon.
tatninadou ?—(applause.)
' " But, Gentlemen, I rest my appeal to you both upon the
theory and practice of the Constitution. I do not come before
you an apologist for having accepted once. When tendered to
me on the part of my Sovereign, it was my duty to accept it;
unless I could assign sufficient public reasons for declitthsg it, or
felt, in my own mind, insuperable difficulties in acceptance, 'fbe
country has, I conceive, a claim on the services of every man, ac-
cording to the measure of his abilities. Of that measure he is
not himself the proper judge; and the call of the Sovereign its
paramount wbere there is no justifiable motive for a reit:B'h...
(Applause.)—Gentlemen, whatever difficulties I may have felt on
former occasions—when, for lustancecat our first meeting. ;told
you that I bad twice declined office in the course of that year—
public reasons I have none for declining office now, and modem "
of personal feeling (if then I bad any) have long been whoUy at
au cud.—(Loud and continued shouts of apylause.)s-Gentlemen,
the next material charge against me, and it behoves me to meet
it fairly, is on the score of toy absence from you for the last
eighteen months, and the situation which I held daring apart of
that interval at Lisbon.
" With respect to the cause of my departure, and of my solid-
talons to my friends here io accept my resiguatiou and supply
my place, if they could not consistently with the interests of the
town indulge me in a temporary absence, you are all apprized of
the facts, and I baie to thank you all for your indulgence. I
know, Gentlemen, that you believe me when I say, upon my
honour, that my departure from England originated not in the
slightest degree in any view to the appointment which, indeed,
was incidentally cast upon me after my private arrangesuents had
been made. The moment that I learnt the Prince Regent of
Portugal's determination not to return last year to his Eitropean
dominions, I resigned. it is fake, Gentlemen, as I ant told is
assured, that I continued in a public capacity, to the period of.
only leavtng Lisbon.
" Of the seventeewtnontbs, or thereaboute, which I passed in'
Portugal, the last six months twee as privatssaa individual as any
among you, and it was ne fault of mine that I was nut much
sooner superseded: it was in the month of April, last.year, that
1 sent in my resignation.—(Applause.)—l remained there, aecon
ding to my original intention. connected with no public 'chira-
-1 ter, discharging no public duty—and receiving, lu conequence,
no pubficpay.—(unid Applause.)—Nor can I intaglios how the
mistake (if mistake be the true name) could have arisen as to
my coutimiing i 6 a pubic character, unless it were, that, being
settled in Lisbon, I g,(t contiaue, long afterry
the egitailon 9f my
publio character to receive such of my countnie'll as happined
to come recciren:indea time, widl such.cnrilir, mitinforions o‘it
private individuel couhlellonieo- (Load ) _ 1
"' Gentlenleia, l ant not arm dait tat% bhett.aay Guar

,Illkilletiolinliretdagatiott h a WV& are at coMpring tinder one
at at not thole t*o heeds. i the queititin of elite; as It know
field Me ;—antl the 'queitibtr of the office.whitb I held a
• 1:1
" The question which you have tit Alegi& 'P....44**e* you
*l now countenance edectrisse Ithertes unknown to the Con
Witution:of this i..orntry do: Clisrtfine, that ismin cannot serve
at once the people and Ott. i;rowd. • We heYealeveys had (mewl-
tog by sue thou who hold the principles which first brought you
and Me together) see have always. 11,13; that the Crown, firmly
upheld and in. the exercise of its legitimate, but restricted power,
la the best safeguard for the Ehertie4 of the people • and that the 1
lawful rights and just freedom of the people, are the but founds •
dons of the stability of the throne—(Bursts of Applause.)
" Whenever the opinions whLb have been brought forward
today shall be adopted as the rule of your coeductt undoubtedly
you and I must part. I nerd not say how web It Is my WWI to
perpetuate our connexion : I trust it may co-exist with the devo-
don of my services, whenever they are thought useful, to my
country--(Applause.)
'4 Gentlemen, I have detained you longer that it *as Attirg to
do—(Cries of !No 1)—I have now only to solicit the con-
tinuance of your zeal in our unexampled struggle—a strugg7e with
an invisible phantom. Let us see whether, before the Sabbath,
this phantom will not be laid
.r-(kapturtius Applause.)
STATE OF THE POLL,
•
AT ITS CLOSt ON SATURDAY, JUNES.
For Mn CANNING 550..--.Flir Mr. I.QULANO 370.
Majority in favour of Mr. CANNING ltiN.

LINES
IN COMMEMORATION OF ROBERT BURNS.

BY J•►HN UAYN B.

' qmsmo.

Of all her Bardsmbo sham by turn,
Scotland is proudest 6: '
Ordain'd s Poet from his *as
But, too respkndent for this earth*
He met, also! an early doom,
Arid slumbers is the silent tomb

Yet, though tb' Attu.urr, good sal wises
Hath eall'd his spirit to the skies,
His works, sweet Bard ! till ending time,
Shall live in very age and clime,
Vnfading, beautiful, sublime !

COVENI:GARDEN THEATRE.

A most crowded audience was attracted to this
Theatre on Saturday night, by the advertisement of
the Tragedy of Macbeth, in which Mrs. Sinuous was
to perform Lady Mackth at " the express command
of the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES and the Prince
of SALE Cosouno." In the evening, how:ver, bills
were placarded and circulated, stating that her Royal
Highness still remained so indispost.d as to be unable
to come to the Theatre ; of which notice had been
received in the morning from Camelford I-louse.—
Tbe Manage; s considering the number of places
taken, and the want of sufficient time to give infor-
mation to the public of the disaFpointment, vpre-
tented the matter to Mrs. SIODONs, who, therelore,
agreed to play Lady Macbeth, though her Royal
Patrons could not he present. It is almost super-
fluous to say, after the very recent exhibition of her
powers in Quern Katherine, that she sustained the
character with all her toimer excellence. Lady
Macbeth is a character in which no acmes, has yet
so illustrated the pia as Mrs. StDDONS has. Every
proof of admiration—every mode of panegyric,
has been so long exhausted upon ..the merits of this
matchless performance, that it would be foolish in us
to attempt a detail of the beauties now presented by
it. We saw no failure of skill—no relaxation of spirit
diminution of the most entire success, that had
attended Mrs. SIDDONS in the days of her earliest tri-
umph. The audience received her, with the liveliest
acclamation, and peals of grateful applause continued
long after she retired at the close of the sleeping scene.
We have only one word to say, and that extrepiely
gratifying,. with regard to Mr. Kirame—that we
never saw him play with greater excellence, nor
heard him to more advantage. His bodily strength,
to a close observer, is impaired ; hitt the divinity still
reigns within its ruined temple.
The audience of the preceding evening having been
disappointed at Mr. JONES'S benefit, by the omission
of the Venetian Carnival and the shower of bon bent,
which had been promised them, and Mr. FAwCETT
having engaged that the cause of the disappoint.
ment should be explained, Mr. JONES made his ap-
pearance at the conclusion for the purpose, and ad-
dietsed them as follows :
" LADICS AND GLNTLIMILK-1 appear before you, for the
first dine in my We, to make an apology. I had prepared an
Ethiertainment for my benefit, which 1 flattered myself would
he of tionsiderable amusement to my friends and the public at
lam ac which Perlummas from all the London Themres had
promised me astir assistance. 1 told them that they would hot
waited until eleven o'clock. The Play of the Lord of the
Mange, and the Burktta of Tem Thumb, never having been
overbefoie that bour • but last night, from some extraordinary
circumstance, they bad finished br ten o'clock.
. " After titat the• audience. becameimpatient for my new per.
formlnce to commence, and the Manager also urged me to begin,
although t explained to bite that t was totally unprepared, my
friends not laming arrived from the other Theatres ;and at Lugth
I was obliged to agree to begin in an Imperfect state. The au-
dience expressed their dissyprobation, and the curtain dropped
amidst a scene of confusion. I nuked aid of the Theatre, and did
not knew till this morning that i bad been called piton last night to
appear before the Public. I bad arrange' she entertainment at a
considerable 'erase, which the emeipts of the Theatre are nut
actual to meet,. Under these circnnwtaars, 1 trust, .Lathes and
gentlemen, the explanation for the dhappoinTsens experienced
by issy lriemlivellibe deemed a silliciess speligy"
Mr. Joon then bowed and mired-amidst ver y
general plaudits.

The English subjects releaseaby lisolipanish Au-
thorities is' South America, are the Wallop's only of
vessels which were seized for having
_cosveyed sup-
plies to the Independent Forces. ••The Merchants
who were engagedin this trade, sad were.- upon the
capture of Carthago's, treated by die Spaniards as
hostile partisans, are' still kept in close oonfinement.
The Drake, Captain GitAtrr, which artitred recently
at Portsmouth, conveyed 100 of thew/cameo from
Santa Martha to Jamaica ; and the Fosester has, we
since hear, arrived there with 'others.
BLACKHEiaII PEDIESTMANo•••EATOII, this morning,
was going on well, • and a few. minutes after nine 'I
o'clock he tompletrd his 185th mile; He was yester-
day afternoon 'visited by several sporting gentlemen.
• .Li•tst night there was a total Eclipse of the Moon,
which Was. wholly visible on our part of the glebe
and Which, for. one home after its commencement,
afforded a moat gratifying sight tb many thousaqds
of persons, who, through an unclouded atmosphere,
witnessed its progressivetthwuratio.e. About halt.
past eleven the shadowof.the earth entered the east-
'Era side of her *bright surface, and continued, to
ledvince until half-past twelve. • when she whole was'
.enveltiptdPin.' darkness: 'The:moan passed seaely.
'threirkitAlti mut of theikatow. • •: -