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London, England, 1826-02-22 00:00:00

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Dino New 40 14 14e ISI
Welch iron lc Coal IS 20 10 11
Alliance BAIA & For. 106 10 11 101
(4neral Steam Navigation 100 S 21
..exican Convoy 100 10 21

The intelligence from India which we briefly corn.
mnnicated yesterday, and the particulars of which will
be found in another column, will have been read with
very great satisfaction. Hostilities have .ceased for a
given time, and negociations are in progress. We trust
they will lead to a permanent peace, founded on that
which can alone give permanency to any amicable
intercourse with the ultraiarrgetie nations—a well-
f ,untied apprehension of British power. Of.this power
the Burmese have now had some experience, and if it
should be found expedient, that the East India Com-
pany retain a commanding position ou their frontier,
we doubt not that all the purposes of the war have
already been accomplished, in providing indemnity for
the No, and security for the future. A further bens-
fiCal cousequence has already resulted from the' way,
the alliance which British interims h is formed with
t,l King of SiAM, whose just fears of his powetfut
'4'lbanr, will naturally lead him to cultivate a gook'
with the Go7ernmeat of India, and this

pirthit an intercourse which must prove of the highest
value to our commerce in the East:

•
taft tight the 1114viEstiabates *ere Again op #ed in.
the Roust of COmm,m's tiflttr. Helm at cofilickiable
length, and with some asperity. tVe do not very cleArly
comprehend the grounds of the Howsurable Metriber's

dissatisfaction—whether they telate to the extent of the
Naval- force in general, or to particular points of detail.
As to the former, we believe that the testimony of type.
rienced and di3tinguished Officers, who declared, in the
House, their surprise that the service of the country
could be carried on by such a slender peace esta-
blishnktit, will outweigh the opinion of an irrdi-
vidual who can have had no peculiar means of
practical knowledge on the subject. It appears
to us that Mr. Home has overlooked some of
the causes which render the Naval force now em-
ploye.l not only indispensably necessary, but indi-
cates that it is rather on too low a scale than the con-
trary. Waving the consideration that the hest economy
of any nation must be to continue at peace with its
neighboors—and that -no means are so effectual for
this impose as an unquestionable ability to wage a
necessary war—which in England must ever depend
on well supplied anenals,and a strong fleet in ordinary,
it may not have occurred to many, that the prevent ex-
tent of our colonies and commerce are on the whole
quadruple -the amount at which they stood in any
form-er peace ; and that the means of affording them pro.
tection must therefore be somewhat enlarged. Now
it is far better to prevent insult and injustice to our
merchantmen from foreigners by the presence of a
Naval force on their coasts, than to obtain afterwards
redress by negotiation and hostilities. Besides which,
at former periods ships of war and garrisons were con-
demned-to remain sometimes ten years together without
allowing our brave sailors and troops a hope of revisiting
their native shores. It was little ear than a state of
banishment. They are now, however, relieved every i
three years by the better practice of seeding our,
fresh ships, from which it results that many va-
luable lives are saved to the country. But this
practice cannot be pursued without a disposable force
at home. The Settlements abroad cannot be left
without protection ; neither can our
_coasts be left
altogether defenceless, while the relieving ships are on
their voyage, one or other of which must happen unless
there are more seamen allowed by Parliament than is
absolutely necessary on active service at. one and the
same moment. On these grounds, we think the addition
of a thousand men very inconsiderable, under all car-

The intelligence front Greece varies accenting to the
channel through- which it is derived. • The Austrian
Observer of the-10th inst. received-this morals', treats
the capture of Tripolizta by the Greeks as premature,
though it is.con44eptly itaiirtod igethe'lli-Onefi Journals.
The Warty! aCknowlellpz, thallettaintio PCKA and,
the Simmons eitpierisacit Pak kgiredialents the
siege of Krosolonghiv whlcir is however attributed to
-the vreatbtit,:'eroirgtf. we ::eispect • the greatist
impeditnent,is tht liniveryOt thilfreeks.. Ten Greek
vessek worcCruis;ng gear ?Alt on the *di ult. - The
account:deem Wallaibia add Moldavia are favourable,
as there was no tew case of the plague at Jassy. The,
Etoile of Monday not only corroborates the former
accounts of the capture 9f Tripolizza by CoLocornour,
bat states that the same Greek Commander had marched
towards Modon, to endeavour to reduce that place, and
that laiauiss PACUA, after his defeat before bliss°.
longhi, had quitted Patras, and returned to Navarino,
having found it impossible to penetrate in the direction
of Corinth.

Letters from Mayence state, that the censors of the
German Journals had received orders to restrict them
to the publication of those articles of news respecting
Russia, which were given in the Gazette of St. Peters-
burgh, or those official communications which might be
made by the Russian Ministers at the various European
Courts. The only exception was one which seemed to
announce a satisfactory change of opinion amongst the
Ruling Authorities of the Continent : for it allows the
insertion of all the intelligence from Greece given in
the French Papers, on condition that the articles of the
Austrian Observer should also be admitted.

. The Nurensberg Correspondent of the 15th inst. re-
ceived this morning; contains an article from Dresden,
stating that the Polish General VON litmenzawirrsen,
who was arrested- on the 6th, was conveyed to the
fortress of Konigstein to be examined. Count VON
EINSIIIDEL, Minister of State, M. Vox Weltrwen, the
Chancellor, end the Etonian Ambassador, M. Vox Cu
-
time, who are comntssioned to investigate the affair,
are said not to bare discovered any thing to the preju-
dice of the prisoner.

We have .received Frankfort Journals to. the 16th
inst. bat they contain iro political news of any interest.{'
An article from Cologne complains that persons evade
serving in the army under pretext of devoting them-
selves to the church.

The attempt to. revive the law of primogeniture
begins to excite considerable alarm in Frage*, where all
the domestic arrangements of life have been settled on,
the principle of equal inheritance, or what in England:
ii technically called gavelkind. The lit* of priersOghni-,
ture was aboli shed at an earlystage of chi; 'ter:4o9l4nd;
MIRAIZAU is said on ,his death-bed to have detlared
that liberty could ant exist-where it preiiiled, an as
section to which en Englishman certainly cminpt accede.
Tits; restoring of th;s ince MIRA 'have a greas;,airefs
in changing the-relative situation efindividuals io each
other, mid .of. society us general, may -it 1161;
, remedy a greater evilottbe.subd;ylo4 of 'Open,.

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'an extent that makes a lanslhohlet little better
mow 2
111 tehtended brtlielittaa; *lrerlb:ttntiti;eritality
644bia'1, tlist tOrt+ive thel**,lir P. *WO", I""is'
to1:41 outrage the beet t4lifigs"tifin4tOrOie'!iiitt ttfirtbs
'Nest sons in etentoito :FOneeteer theemeirm:‘,ltioend. In
h4nont to the ychiager members of their respective

:Wiles to reject the advantage thus offered to them.
'The Opposition French Papers make the most of this
fraternal feeling and magnanimity, and ca nseqtiently
we find in the Coastintiennei, an address from the Fa-
thers and first bot a of the town of Elbruf to the Chamber
of Deputies, complaining that the revival of the law of
primogeniture wid have theeffect of granting a bounty to
II gratitude, and of opening a door to hatred and jealousy.
Among the inJividuals who oppose the restoration
of a law which prevailed some ten centuries in'
I France, is the Baron Dorm, who has addressed
a somewhat mawkish pamphlet to his brother, in
which he says, 4, Out parents coul.l never per-
ceive which of us respected them the most,
and they never allowed us to perceive that they
made any difference among us. I only per.
ceived that I was then your elder, because I could
first love you; we grew up together with the
same love of labour and glory, and the same desire :o
be useful to our fe low-citizens and our country. A
pattimony,• not large certainly, shall never divide us.l
I abjure, by anticipation, and under the pledge of
honour, all inequality which the law may establish
between us."

But the most curious vinJication of the existing law
is by statistical calculations. The Journal des Desbats
contains a curious table, shearing that in fifteen depart-
ments, where. the division of property is so minute,
that about' half of the inhabitants are proprietors, and,
on an average each land owner possesses only four acres
of ground, only one in 46 dies annually, while in
thirteen departments, where the proprietors hold seven
acres, and are to the inhabitants as one to three, the
mortality is as one to 83, Hence it is inferred that the
smaller portions into which property is divided the,
greater is the health of the individuals, We confess
we do not see the necessary conclusion,