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London, England, 1826-01-31 00:00:00

MAJESTY, will his wool benevolence, in addition to the
above munificent donation,-has been pleased to direct.
that *a imsr extensive and splendid set of silk hanging•,
for a suite of apOitments in the ltoyal Palace, shall be
immediately maoufacuned by the wearers of Spital-
fields ; thus setting a noble example that will, no doubt,
bi followed by most of the Nobility and Gentry. -

munificent donation of his MAJarrto the Spi-
tal-weavers, was communicated to them last. night by.
*the_Cumanittee appointed to manage iheindi raised for
their relief, and excited the most lively joy #nd satisfic.
Lion. This morning atonssiderable sum was disbursed
among the poor distressed weavers, who have a mots
claim on public sympathy and assistance.

Believing that much of the distress now prevailing
Among the inferior and 'middling classes is occasioned
by their being called upon universally to make good
their various engagements by payments in money, to the
total rejection of bills and other securities; falling gra-
dually due at longer or shutter intervals--and-believing,
also, that the town and country Bankers, who,formerly
supplied to the sniallet dealers a medium of satisfying
their creditors which answered practically' the pur-
poses of money (while at the same time it allowed suffi-
cient opportunity for the gradual liquidatlon of
at ,successive intervnls), are detailed from
affording the customary accommodation, not more
by the severe shock which their own credit individually
has recently sustained, than by the rumours-which are
afloat of Parliamentary interference in their Banking
affairs—of the nature and extent of which interference
they are ignorant, and in this uncertainty are rendered,
doubly cautious; we have taken some pains to investi-
gate the origin of those rumours, as well as the necessity
for any Legislative measures of the nature alluded to.

Those rumours, we apprehend, may be traced to • a
prevailing opinion, that the late panic which has pro.
duced such overwhelming distress, was mainly attri-
butable to the excessive issues of Country Bank Notes
But this opinion, as far's: we have yet seen, is founded
on no reasoning at all. It is the mere effect of popilar
clamour, which, in seasons of public calamity, is ever
ready to fasten on some victim as the scapegoat: just.'
a: in times of famine, the corn merchants are supposed,
by the foolish multitude, to have created the dearth
and it isktherefore, above all things iruportant that Par.
liament,onw subject of such intricacy,nsagnitude,sind de.
licacy,shonldlint legislate under-the influence of a cia.
mour, which, perhaps, hereafter may, on calm enquiry,
turn out, to be a populaterror. Considerable effect, how-
ever, 'has been givtit to this rumour, by a Paisphletl
in the shape of a letter to Si. PUL, which it, written
rather in a tone of officlil aathcirity, itnd includes -a'
few facts which can. -may have been within the ranch.
of official Orson% - But those.facts• few as they art,
may, perhaps, enable us; mit only to refute.-the
',.sumption on which the•whole doctrine of thotansphlet-
islOguded, but, also to pronounce, -with tolitraili yer..
tainty as to the quarter to which we are indebted for

the publication itself.
In order that our country Readers, who may be in-
rested in the Banking systein, may feel no immediate
alarm lest the measures recommended in this pam-
phlet, should be the proposals of Ministers themselves,
and therefore a programme of certain principles, which
Government is pledged to support in the present •Ses-
sion of Parliament, we beg to inform them frankly, that
any such fears are unnecessary ; and this. w e doubt not
we shall clearly prove, in resumiag our observations on
the subject to-morrow.

We have received the Bremen Gazette to the 25th
inst. An article from Hanover states, that the new
Assembly of the States of that Kingdom was opened on
the 23d inst. with the ceremonies prescribed in a pro-
gramme published on the occasion. The precautions
that had been adopted prevented any accident from
taking place, notwiths,tanding the concourse of a great
multitude of spectators His Royal Highness, the Duke
of CAMBRIDGI gave a grand entertainment to the prin-
cipal Civil and Military Authorities, the Deputies, &c.

Accounts from'Stockholm state, that the Meinbers of
the Great Committee for the affairs relative to Public
Instruction, are now chosen, and that the Journal
Stockhalms Dagligt Alkhanda, which has subsisted 58
years without any impediment, has been lately sup-
pressed by the Chancellor.

Hamburgh Papers to the 25th inst. reached. us this
forenoon, but they contain no political intelligence.

. _
The late successes in the Banda Oriental appear to"
have had a favourable influent* on the Court of Brazil-.
Intelligence of the defeat of the Imperial troops reached
Rio di Janeiro on the 12th of October, and it is sta:ed,
in letters which have arrived to the 15th of November,
that a disposition was immediately manifested by the
EMPEROR'S Ministers to abandon the contest in that
quarter, provided means could be found of doing so
without discredit. We have already stated that Sir'
CHARLES. STUART was to sail on the 22d, on his mission
to Buenos Ayres, sod it was understood that his instruc-
lions enabled him to make proposals which rendered an
adjustment of the dispute between the two States an
extremely probable event. The Brazilian Government
were willing to make any concession short of an actual
surrender of theterritory to Buenos Ayres ; and as it was
presumed that the Republic would make no objection to
the alternative of allowing the Banda Oriental to erect
itself into an independent State, under the protection of
England, or of some other foreign Power, admitting that
any foreign protection was necessary, that measure, it
was believed, Sir CHARLES STUART WAS authorized In
propose. Another expedient which has been named was
the placing the fprtress of Monte-Video in the hands of,
[the English, as a security that the Republic of the lb,•
lsle la Plata would attempt no cxtensiouot territor you

that side a the river. Let the details, however, of
.Sltetsaapaa STUART'S instructions be-what they may,
it appears, from the present accounts, that a disposition
to accommodation exists on the • part of Draiil ; and
there islittle doubt but that in the hands of a negotia-
tor of Sir CHARLES STUART'S skill and influence,
a speedy settlement of all disputes will be arranged
hearten the Brazilian and Buenos Ayres Governments.

'MA:fort-Papers to the 25th inst. reached us this
forenoon. The following is the only article they con-
tainworth quoting :

BERLIN, .Tamumtv 19. •

The Minister for the Department of Ecclesiastical
Affairs, &c. has published the following The 'Vial
Consistury herewith reserves a copy of a rescript, of this
day's date, addressed to the Ccmsistory of Konigsberg,
respecting the supposed existence of associations for the
purpose of spreading a pretended better Christianity, to
which directors of seminaries, and teachers, are basid to,
belong; with the injunction to report, in conformity to
its contents, whether apprehensions of this description
have become p.iblic in that province, ■nd have reached
the Royal Consistory ? or, whether it has been induced
in any other manner to entertain doubts of any kind re-
specting the suitableness of the religious instruction
given in the Protestant seminaries, and with respect to
the religious notions of the teachers?"

Piedmenteseltes to the 20th have reached us.—
They contain no political news, but insert some infor-
mation which must be gratifying to the lovers of Italian
literature. This will be found in another column, under
the head Literatuter

BANK OF ENGLAND, JANUARY 31, 1826.
--....,-.

The Court of Directors of the Governor and Company of the
Bank of England give notice, that a General Court will he held
at the Bank, on Friday next, the 3d of February, at Eleven
*Clock in the foreman, on special affairs.
_ _

(Signed)

R. BEST, secretary.

. TttiLORD Cif A wczttoa.—Vcry considerable anxiety
, was evinced this morning in Lincoln's Inn, to know the real state.
of the Loan cape:nines health. The answers given by the
door-keeper was, that, his Lordship was last night a little better.
Up to twelve o'clock the daily messenger, who goes to his Lord.'
ship's reddens, had not returned, but shortly after he made his
appearance, and the answers then given were, his Lordship re-
.anaiiis much th" nips this morning. $o serious has the last attack
been, that his Lordship, some days, is scarcely able to sit up more
than an hour, and very rarely more than two or three hours each ,
day. There are not the slightest reasons for expecting his -Lordship
will be able to resume his dudes in the ensuing week.
Mr. Secretary CANWINQ lek Downing-street yester-
•day, as a shit to his MAJUM at Windsor, ant returned to town
this tempo's. _ _

----
Last night, Mr. Maura, a King's Messenger, ar-
tared it town with dispatches from Lord easarrats, our Abs.
Antsaiii..! in Paris. • • ,
'A Siothanics' Institutions bare been formed at DorOr
m 4 • hail:
tiAddress in the House of Commons will be moved
•
b Mr
&VAST WOATlArtjuo• aadliftwildd by Mr. Galls. Win-
bse; for-Lanaster; The Address Jo the House of Lords will be
oilseed by lard Vitafteat and weeded by Lord liatrmets.
Within the last few days-wrhave been informed that
Ale Excellency the Lean lALUTINANT his ref:viva/ a letter, by ender
et the Nine, frpm. limistary Paget., stating his blissem's
entire Ind high apoireltatios of the judicious, conciliatory, and
&sideman:like nianp— @On *hi& the o•VtillMellt of Ireland has
beentadministers&—Ditilift Zweig

Mr. ROTHSCHILD bas, with his wonted beneficence
Beet one hundredineineas Mike Subscription for the relief of the
Spitalfields. Weavers.
We Imrn that a misunderstanding of a serious nature
took place heti-rem Mr. J— H— and Dr. o—, both of Fermanagh.
In consequence, a hostile message was delivered to Dr. G—
by Mr. 11—n. Immediately after Dr. 0— lodged information
before WILUAX Gaunt Eel. who had Mr. H—n arrested
by the police, and obliged him to give in security to keep the
Pcace.-T-Drrieis arroPontirni•
The departure of the Duke of WELLINGTON for St.
Petersburgh, is, as we stated, finally Axed for Saturday nest.
The immediate suite of the Duke are his Aide-de•Camp Captain
the Heseurable Gamma Carneaar Lords FITSBOY Sormaser,
Forams Goys*, andDemsas. Their route is by Berlin.

;t is understood that the establishment for the instruc-
tion of Engineer Others and Sappers. in the construction of Field
Works, under that meritorious (nicer, Lieutenant-Colonel Paost.rT
at Chatham, is to be removed to Wosiwich, so that in future the
practical part, as well as the theory of engineering, will form part
of the educadon of the Cadets at the Academy.
R •Lt.'s Coustr.—The following is the List of Causes
set down for this evening, via.—Homby e. Hunter. and Law e.
Hunter, for judgment ; Hallett v. Middleton, Green. and Beecher,
three dstinet causes, for farther directions ; Sewell ro. Hele, Mau.
rite sr. Heath, Barite so. Bradbury, Shindy e. Alexander, Smith e.
Wilcox Wynne so. Callender, Smith fr. Attersoll, Thompson v.
ColquhOun, Hockley sr. Bantock, Parsons o. Lawrence, and Bernal,
✓.
1)a. Costa.—The Court sits at six o'clock.

Thursday a deputation from the Parish of Mr ken-
well, presented an Address of Thanks and Congratula-
tion to his Royal Highness she Duke of YORK, for the
manly and constitutional support, which in Parliament,
and as a Peer of Parliament, he had given to the Pi o.
testant Throne, and the Protestant Altar. His Royal
Highness returned thanks in an appropriate speech.
fire Roman Catholic Bishops have been assembled in
Dublin since the 18th. They are occupied with the
consideration of various subjects connected with they
Church. We published some days ago, an outline of
their Resolutions on the subject of Education. They
have also, it is said, agreed un a Resolution with respect
to what is called the " Clerical Wing"—declaring that
they would not accept orany aid from Government,
' so long as their flocks are escladed from their political
rights—nor would they, at any time, consent to receive
any provision from the. State, unleis it should appear to
them that such provision was granted in a manner per-
fectly free from every objection on the score of affecting
the independence of the Church, and that it was at the
same time agreeable to their flocks. It is understood'
that they Will publish a solemn Synodal Declaration of
their principles respecting those subjects.
DENERAKA, N rv. 30.—During the passage of the
bark Henry to this colony, when in latitude 41 deg. 18
mitt. north, and longitude 19 deg. 41 min. west, she
fell in with a piece of wreck, which, from its rough
formation and usher circumstances, Captain Westmor-
land conjectured must have been formerly part of the
great timber siiip Columbus. It was a log of red pine,
about 45 feet long, and 20 inches by 22 inches square.
There were several bolts in it, and mortices cut out in
various parts; tree in the middle had a large bolt re.
maining. An attempt was made to hoist it on board,
but on account of its great weight, and there being a
heavy swell at the time, it was abandoned. From the
.description of the timber, and our own knowledge of
the' enlist' uctinn of the Columbus, we eutertato no
doubt but the Captain was right in his conjutare..

Tim KING.

WII4DSOR, JaxcAkt O.

It being announced, early in the day, that both 4
Council and a Chapter of the Knights of the Garter
would be held this afternoon at Windsor Castle, to
which the KING, as Sovereign of the Order, would
come in Statei—public expectation was
.greatly.excited.
As the time for the arrival. Of hisMAJESTY approached,
the streets of the-town through which it was expected
the cavalcade would pass, became lined; while the
Long Walk, notwithstanding the dampness of die
weather, was graced by the. attendance of a great nun-
ber of Ladies. Shortly after two o'cloik, the KING left
the Royal Lodge, in a carriage and four, attended by
the Master of the Horse and the 'Lord Steward. A
second carriage followed, in which were Lord GRAVFS,
as Lord in Wahine, Sir WIC ICIPPEL, and Colonel
THORNTON. The Royal cartiages were attended by a
number of outriders in full state liveries, and escorted
by a troop of the Ist Life Guards. The cavalcade pro.
ceeded down the Long Walk, and through Park-street
and High•stteet, amid the cheers of the populace and
the ringing of bells, to the Castle, at the entrance of
which a detachment of the Coldstream Guards received
the KIN* with military honours. His MAJESTY ap.
peered t• be in the enjoyment of excellent health, and
most condescendingly acknowledged the repe.ted greet.
inns of the spectators. Their .Royal Highnesses the
Dukes of Yogic and CLARENCE arrived at the Castle
shortly before the KING. Arliciag the other distinguiblied
persons present were--
The Dukes of Moaravae, DORSET, and WaLusc.
TON, Marquis CoNINONAM, Earls BATHURST and
WESTUORLAND, Bi.hop of WINCHESTER. Chan Cell, r
of the Garter, Lord Forums; and the Secrca.ies of
State for the Home and Foreign Departments.
His Excellency the Russian Ambassador bad as audience of his
Illeszstr.

At the Council which was held, the Speech with which Parlia.
tont is to be opened by Commission oo Thursday next, received
the sanction of hii bloasorv.

Sunday, about one o'clock, Count bletnrrsa arrived at the
Royal Lodge, and had an audience of the Kum, and after partaking
.of soma refretiunent returned to London.

THE KING'S COURT.

Yesterday his MAJESTY commanded a Court for Va.
tious public procedures to be holden at his Royal CAstle
at Windsor.

At a quarter past two o'clock the Kum arrived at the
Castle in state, from the Royal Lodge, with his attend-
ants in waiting, and two carriages, the servants wearing
their state liveries, escorted by a numerous de•uchment
of the Life Guards, the Officers riding at the dooi s of the
KING'. carrier.. The trumpeter attending the escort
notifying the Kinds arrival at the Castle by the sound-
ing of his trumpet, as is usual on the approach of the
KING, which being a very novel occurrence at Windsor,
attracted a number of spectators, the procession being
similar to when his Madam goes to the Theatres, or
pr any other public occasion, except to the Houses of
Parliament. • • • •
Arrangements.having•been made for holding a Chap-
ter of the Order of the Garter, a procession was formed
in a private room taconfer the Riband vacant by de4
cease of the Earl of CARLIIILL Knight Companion of stet
Order. The Knights Companions present on this new
aim were their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Yin
and CLARENCt, the Earl of WESTMORLAND, the Duke
of MONTROSE, the Duke of War.z.toorroar. the Eafl
Livitroor., and Earl BATHURST. The Officers of the
Order were, the Prelate of the Order(the Bishop of WIN-
Cuanza), the D. an of Ws PIDSOn (Reg_istrar of the° der;,
Garter Principal King of Arms (Sir (Teo. NIITLEIt
After the Knights Companions and Officers load
proceeded from the private apartment into the chap er
room with the usual ceremonies, and had taken their
respective places, according to their ranks, at a table
prepared fur that purpose, the Officer of the Order
signified his Maazirry's command for filling the vacant
Stall. His Grace the Duke of DORSET, the King's
Master of the Horse, was then introduced into the pre-
sence of the Chapter, and re eivei the ho ;our of
Knighthood from the KING ; his Grace then retired.
The suffrages were then collected from the different
Knights forming the Chapter, when his Grace the Duke
of DORSET was declared duly elected. His Grace was
then received at the door of the Chapter room by the
two junior Knights present, attended by Gaiter Prin-
cipal King of Arms bearing the Ensign of the order;
his Grace was then introduced to the Krim, who was
graciously pleased to invest the Duke therewith. The
Officer of the Order pronounced the usual admonition
to the newly elected Member of this Order, who re-
ceived the congratulations of all th • Members ptetent.
The Chapter being ended, Garter King of Arms called over the
Knights Companions, and the procession returned in the order its
which it had been made in the Chapter room.
The Kum was dressed ha the Windsor uniform under hi; robes.
Mr. Secretary CANNING had a long audience of hit
MAJESTY, which occupied nearly an hour; after which
the Right Honourable Gentleman introduced the
Brazilian Minister, Lord PONSKMBY, and Mr. ALEX-
ANDER COCKBURN, the P..ttuguese Ambassador, to an
audience, and Count LIEVLN the Russian Ambassador.
who, it was understood, delivered to the KING the not'.
fication of the decease of the fate. Emperor ALsrANom
and his credentials of appointment by the newEw.,er,r.•
The King held a Privy Council. which was attended by the
Liud Pram, Lord Privy Seal, First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretor, of
State for Foreign Affairs the Secretary of State for the Colonial
Department, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the &Easter
of the Home,. ice. Mr. Buller attended as Clerk d the Council.
His MAJESTY'S Speech, as arranged by the Cabinet
Council on Friday, tor the opening of the Session of
Parliament on Thursday, was submitted to the KING
and approved •of.
The Kase proceeded to prick the list of Sheriffs fur
the present year, as nominated by the Judges and others
on the morrow of St. Martin, in the Court of Exche-
quer, before the Lords of the Council. A proclamation
was agreed upon to be issued respecting the copper
coinage.
The KUIQ gave audiences to the Earl of HAMM'S and the F..ttl
of lavempoot..
Lord Gains and Sir Wu.t.tate KIIPPIL were the Lord and
Groom In waiting.
The Court broke up a little before five o'clock, when his MA-
anti' and suite returned te the Royal Lodge to dinner.
Refreshments were provided for the whole of the persons who at•
tended his hiaasny's Court from the Royal Lodge. The Karl of
Lawmen, the Earl of WHITKOKLAND, Karl BATHURST, and Mr.
C.onouro, went to dine with the Knee at the Royal Lodge, and at.
rangesnents were made for the whole of the distinguished party to
sleep there, except the Karl of Liviaeoet.
Sunday, about one o'clock, Count Menials arrived at the Iloy3l
Ledge, and bad an audience of the Kinc, and after partaking or
some refreshments returned to London.

Lord PALMERSTON is arrived at his seat, Broadi.indc
Hanu, for a few days, before the meeting of Parfitment. 114
Lordship's preserves are abundantly stocked with game, but M'•4
soon be thinutd, as a party is expected to Join him at I.4.ustUati4 L 4
ojoy the spout of the