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cuter, were anciently granted by the King, to be holden of him,
"in barony," and have been accordingly so holden. 2d. That
Thomas, Lord Berkeley, was summoned to Parliament in 23
Edward I. ; that it he was so summoned, in respect of a " per-
sonal dignity," it was created either by writ or by letters patent ;
that the dignity of a Baron was nut created by letters patent before
11 Richard II.; and consequently if Thomas and his successors,
prior to 11 Richard 11. sat in respect of a personal dignity, it must
have been a personal dignity conferred by writ, and as such it would
have descended to the heirs of the body of the person possessed
of such dignity. 3d. That the dignity in respect of which
Thomas was summoned to Parliament, 23 Edward L as Baron de
Berkeley, did not, in the sth Henry V. descend to the heir general
of the said Thomas, nor did such heir assume the title. 4th. That
the person" seized the baronial estates" sat in Parliament as Baron
de. Berkeley, in exclusion of the person who would have been enti-
tled to the baronial dignity, hi case such dignity had been "per-
sonal ;" except during a period of 62 years, when the baronial
estates were vested in the Crown, and the way seignory conse-
quently suspended. Sth. That such of the Barons Berkeley as
were not in possession of the baronial estates, and who were sum-
moned to Parliament by writ, in and subsequently to 14 Henry
VIII. were not considered u entitled to sit in the seat' of the
preceding Barons de Berkeley; but when they became seized of
the baronial estates, they then resumed the ancient seat of their
predecessors. 6th and last. 'that the petitioner is seized of the
castle, lands, and tenements constituting the barony.
In support of these allegations reference is made to a stream
of documents from the reign of Richard I. when all Berkeley
Hernesse was granted to Maurice de Berkeley and his heirs,
to be holden of the King "in barony" down to 1810, when
the lat« Earl of Berkeley, under whose will the petitioner be-
came seized of the barony, died. It is submitted that the
question upon the above state of facts is not whether a person
holding a portion (not being the copra) of a barony is entitled
to a seat in the Lords' House of Parliament—nor is it whether
a person seized of an entire barony, or of the await baronial,
in respect of which no individual has ever been summoned to
Parliament, could now maintain a claim to be so summoned;
—nor is it whether a territorial dignity, which has long been dis-
continued, should now be revived? but the question is, whether
the claimant is not entitled to the continuance of the pri-
vilege of being summoned to Parliament in respect of the
barony of Berkeley. in like manner as the holders of that
barony were summoned to Parliament during the reigns of
Edward I. 11. II I. Richard 11. Henry IV. V. VL
Edward IV. V. Richard 111. and a part of Henry VII.
Philip and Mary ; Elizabeth ; James I. Charles I. and
part of Charles 11. The claim, so founded, it is argued,
is very much the UM* as that of John Fitz Alan to
the title of Earl of Arundel, and that of Sir Edmond
Neville to the title of Lord Abergavenny. It is contended
that no change is proposed by it in the constitution of
the Lords' House of Parliament, but merely the reinstatement of
one of its most ancient members,—the Baron de Berkeley, as
a baron by tenure. It may be observed, that the principles upon
:which the decisions in the cases of the Earl of Arundel and of the
Baron of Abergavenny are supposed to have proceeded have been
qoestiontri by the subsequent decision in the case of the Lord Fox
Walter. But with respect to the allowance of the claim of the
Earl of Arundel, it is contended that the distinct recognition, by
the Act of 3 Charles 1. cap. 4. of the doctrine upon which that
decision proceeded, has given to it an authority which nothing
short of legislative declaration can weaken ; and as to the allow-
lance of the claim of Sir E. Neville to the barony of Abergavenny,
though it has not the sanction of equal authority as that of the earl-
dom of Arundel, yet, as a decision in the reign of James I. who
I was very advers« to such claims, it is, front that circumstance,
entitled to more than ordinary weight. It has been observed that
• this decision was founded on a compromise or amicable arrange-
ment; but in answer to that, it is only necessary to state, that the
barony was claimed by Sir E. Nevibe as as a barony by tenure,'
and as such he must have obtained it, or be could not have been
' entitled to that precedence which was allowed him by the House ;
for as a " personal dignity" it was neither in him nor in his
' competitor, Mary Pane, but in the heir at law of John Earl
of Pembroke. With respect to the claim of the Barony of
Fi•zwalter, in 1669, the counsel of Robert Cheeke, who opposed
the claim of Benjamin Mildmay (afterwards Lord Fitzwalter)
affirtned, that the barony was a barony by tenure, and ought to go
along with the land, which the petitioner, Benjamin Mildmay, de
flied, and offered to argue the point ; upon which, both parties
bring ordered to withdraw, the nature of a barony by tenure was
discus-ed. It was !flood to have been discontinued for many ages.
and therefore not fit to be revived, or to admit any pretence of
right ur succession thereupon; and the pretence of a barony by
tenure was declared, fur weighty reasons, not to be insisted on. In
reference to this decision, it is alleged, that whatever respect may
be due to the opinion thus given by the Privy Council, yet it
is not entitled to prevail, if at variance with the sound construction
of an Act of Parliament, then and still in force; and It appears
from the Act of 13 Charles 11. cap. '24. see. 11, that uothing is
that Act was " to infringe or hurt any title of honour, feudal or
other, by which any persrin bad or might have right to sit in the
Lords' House of Parliament, as to his or their title of honour, or
sitting in Parliament, or the privilege belonging to them as
Peers." The only feudal right to a *eat in the Lords' House of
Para anent must necessarily be founded in tenure; and the Lords
Spiritual were then sitting in the Lords' House of Parliament, in
respect of their temporal baronies by tenure, as was the Baron
of Abergavenny, in respect of his land barony ; and the Baron de
Berkeley was sitting, above many other Baton, in respect also of
such tenure ; and it is material to observe, that Mr. Cbeeke did not
show that he held any lands that could constitute such a barony,
or that ever formed a part of the territorial barony of Fitz- Walter.
With reterence, theretore, to the present claim, It is contended
that nu cases can be more distinguishable than Colonel Berkeley's
and that of Mr. Cheeke. The former claimed the privilege, as in
continuance of ancient and almost invariably-continued usage ; the
latter insisted on the privilege, without adducing, au far as can
be traced, evidence of even the possession of any lands that
could constitute a barony by tenure. In thus claiming the land or
territorial Barony of Berkeley, the petitioner distinctly declares,
that he doe's not meats to " wave ;" but on the contrary, " saves
and reserves to himself his claim to any other dignity to which, in
ail other right, he may be entitled," evidently alluding to the Karl
dons of &auk', of which he was deprived by the decision of the
Howe of Lords in 1 cal 1, . The petitioner's prayer is, that a writ
of summons," to attend in Parliament, might be iddreued to him,
by the style, title, and dignity of Baron Berkeley, of Berkeley.
• Witb reference to precedency.

Alexandria.
It is also said that the Chief Minister of the Puha is going to
be called before a Court Martial, to give an account of his admi-
nistration ; but, whatever faults he may have committed, it is be-
lieved that the Pacha will take into consideration the distinguished
merit. and the numerous services of that statesman. The com-
merce of Venice begins to revive.

From the Quotidienne qf Saturday.
SE MLIN. Sm. 9.
. . PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Several Tartars have ism arrived one after, angular from Bel-
jrvide. One of them has brought to the Pacha dispatches relative
to the suspension of hostilities. Orders were immediately vent to
.*the P.tehaa of Nina, Semendria, and ltadscbult.
A letter from Due!wrest, written by a hoyard who has an office
in the Russian Chancery, says that the conditions of peace proposed

From the Constitutionnel of Saturday.
MINISTERIAL ANTIPATHIES.
Never were the Ministerial Journals filled with more vulgar ca-
lumnies than since the men of the Court have been at the head of
affairs. It might be imagined that these representatives of the an-
cient regime could find nothing better with which to defend their
ideas than the science of their valets-de-chambre and the rhetoric
of their lacqueys. Even when they lay pretensions to reasoning,
they cannot construe an argumqo without seasoning it with ca-
lumny and abuse; and it seems as if they would be reduced to
silence if they were condemned to speak the truth.
It is particularly against the men who enjoy the esteem of their
fellow-citizens that the Ministerial writers vomit forth their abuse,
or distil the venom of calumny. The water the homage which
is paid to a man by the public, either because of the services he has
rendered hie country, or from the celebrity which he has acquired
by his talents, the more is he subjected to the seurtility of the
writers hired by the Ministry. Isl. de Lafayette is treated by
them as if the popularity which he so justly enjoys had been usurped
to the prejudice or M. de Bourmont ; and M. de Chateaubriand,
as if be had stolen the talents of M. de la Bourdonnaye.
If in these attack. there was only wickedness, they would not
deserve the least attention from us; for, in fact, what is abuse to
the man of categories and droops of blood, and wilt is calumny to
the man of Waterloo ? e
But there is not wickedness only in these attacks, for above air
there is a great want of address on the part of the individuals who
are the depositaties of power, and who wisi tb preserve it.
How is it that the Ministers do not seevhat, by in.ulting a man
because of the homage paid to him by the public, they really insult
those who partake his opinions, and who do honour to hint? It is
not upon Lafayette' that the insults of the Ministerial Journals
NI, it is upon the vopulitiwn of Grenoble, Lyon., and all the
places through which be fassell ; it is upon the immense numbers
of citizens who entertain his opinions. We may also say, that it
is not upon the Deputies of the left side only that the insults of the
Ministerial libelists fall, for they apply equally to all the citizens
who have honoured theni with their suffrages, and upon those who
have bestowed their esteem upon them.
Admire the candour and skill of the Bourdonnaye 'Ministry ;
it every day insults the inhabitants of our most industrious cities;
it treats them like a knot of revolutionists, whose movements ,
should be continually watched; it causes them to be daily insulted
by the men who represent it, and even in consequence of the homage
paid by the people. In short, it exhibits upon every
occasion the
contempt and hatreej which It has for manufacturing skill and in
order to prove that not possible to find such another good Mi-
nistry, it assumes a wheedling tone, and endeavours to show that
it is the natural protector of commerce and industry.
The Ministry manifests the most violent hatred against the re-
volution ; there is no abuse, no insult which they do not heap upon
the men who contributed to effect it; it attributes the most sinister
intentions to them, and declares them incapable of taking any part
in the Government ; and not these only, but all the men who share
their principles ; and then, after hurling calumny and menace.
Gallon the sycophant endeavours to imitate the voice of the shep-
herd. He alone, he says, is capable of caking care of the flock ;he
will protect acquired rights; as if the greater part of those rights
were not the conquests of the Revolution; and as if those laws
which recognise and guarantee them were not the work of that same
revolution which they hold in horror!
The Bourdoonaye Ministry Is at open war with letters, the arts,
and the sciences. Every man who has distinguished himself by his
talents becomes an object of suspicion to it, and is placed under a
special surveillance. He is treated as a public enemy, and is watched
by convicts who have escaped from transportation. No exception
is made in favour of any species of learning—the man who has dis-
tinguished himself at the bar is used in the same way as the pro-
fessor of history. The professor of literature is not suspected less
than the professor of philosophy ; and after they have been placed
under surveillance, or have been insulted by the Journals, the Mi-
nistry says it is the only one which can possibly exist, because it
encourages arts and letters, which would be proscribed by the Ja-
cobins as superfluous ornaments.
We would ask, however, which class of society is it that the
Ministerial Journals hope to deceive by this whimsical mixture of
insult and conciliation, of promises and menaces? Engendered by
the hatred of revolution, and by foreign influence, the Miniateir
In vain attempt to conceal their origin : they are betrayed by their
words every day, and by every act of their life. If France exhibit
sentiments of admiration or esteem for a man, he immediately be-
comes an object of hatred and antipathy. If France wish for the
development of the arts, of industry, or of commerce, that suffices
to cause the men by whom the liberal and industrial arts are cul-
tivated to be insulted with the epithet of Revolutionists.
If the warriors who always remained faithful to France, and
who always fought for her independence, receive the homage of
the public, they are attacked by the Ministerial writers as if they
were highwaymen or revolutionists. In short, there Is a decided
contrast between the sentiments and the opinions of France, apd
the sentiments and opinions of the men of the Ministry. These
men may assert the contrary so lung as the question is one of ge-
neralities only; but the moment they come to apply it, they be-
tray themselves, and they are found to be remarkable for nothing
but for prejudices and animosities relative to emigration, insur-
gent., and foreigners. Are these the requisites for a Ministry
according to the Charter, and according to the laws framed by the
Revolution? The Gazele insists that it is, and even says, that it
is the " only posaibk .Ministry." If it were to say that it is the
only impossible Ministry, it would be much nearer the truth.
A few days ago the Prefect of Police caused a woman to be
apprehended, and even had her secretly conducted out of France
by thegend'armerie. An Advocate belonging to the Bar of Pa-
ris, whom she had retained as Counsel, but who was nix allowed
to communicate with her, has protested against this expulsion, on
the ground that the woman was not a foreigner, or, at least. that
she could not legally be sent out of the country until her condition
had been judicially proved.
A Ministerial Journal, the Quolidienne, to-day replies to this pro-
test : it says that this woman, three years ago, exercised a very sae-
piciom sort of industry in the department of Jura, where she had
the title of Countess of Bellafonda, widow of Aboul-Khan, Prince
of Nlaiesour ; that having no ether doctnnent than a false passport,
and not having any visible means of existence, she was taken briery
the Correctional Tribunal of Lons le Sauhder, which condemned her
to three months' imprisonment ass vagabbed. and placed her at the
disposal of the Government. She appealed, against the sentence, and
having proved that she lived by her industry, she was acquitted by
the tribunal of Besaecon ; and that the counsel for the crown ap-
pealed against this latter decision, but his appeal was rejected.—
Atter giving this statement, the Ministeriallournal adds :—" Since
that period no more was heard of the Princess of 31.issour ; but
the Prefect of Police, who had his reason. for watching the son-
duct and behaviour of her Royal Highness, has thought proper to
snake her have a change of air, and, exercising Isis riga* against coer,y
foreigner, has bad her conducted post to the truntiers."
We do not know what is the character of the woman upon
whom the Ministerial Journal jokes so agreeably, and so d propos ;
but what is evident is, according to tha m:per, that this woman
was accused of vagrancy, and finally was acquitted. Now the
article 272 of the Penal Code says—" The individuals declared
vagabonds by conviction may, it they are foreigners, lie con-
ducted by order of Government out of the territory of the
kingdom.'' Thus it was aeceaaary that the winn.n banished
by the Prefect of Police, even suppostug ter to he a foreigner,
should have been convicted of stagaroidage. She was acquitted
of the accusation which charged her with such an offence, by a
formal decision ; and yet the Prefect of Police has disposed of her
, as if .he had been convicted. Is not this a grave attempt' against
individual security ? If the Prefect of Police can, without the iti-
tervention of law, act according to hi. own good wiil and pleasure,
can it be said that there is any guarantee for individual liberty ?
(aniartutionssel.
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Stock., 18551. 1850 f.
Flimsies Fume..—Neapolitan Reines Cert. Fal. 87f. 3Gc. 40c.
35c.; Royal Spanish Loan, 73; Intermitiable Spanish Annuities.
50* 50.—Exchange on London, use mouth, gal.
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