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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Wz have received the communicadon concerning the SECRET
TREATY between Don Munn and Faaammta, and wiU give
the details of it to-morrow.

The recent appointments in France have been treated
by one of our influential prints—we speak of the
Morning Herald—with much indifference : the rest of
our contemporaries have admitted their general import-
ance, but think, on the whole, that the changes are
rather to be hailed, than deprecated. Perhaps, however,
it would be more correct to say they thought so, since at
least three among the popular papers have materially
qualified, or revised, their opinions. We apprehend that
the Morning Herald, on reflection, will add to their
number. In his judgment, there is always more fuss
made about the removal of a Minister, than so common
a circumstance justifies ; and with a deduction drawn
from this postulatory premise, he sweeps to the conclu-
sion that the French removals are of no consequence be-
yond the pale of the political party in that country
which is immediately affected by them. This, however,
is not a case of individual removal, but the expulsion of
an entire Cabinet ; involving, not a change of men
merely, but the substitution of illiberal, for constitutional
doctrinei—of extreme prerogative for the principle of re-
presentation—of arbitrary forms and exclusive interests,
for forms prescribed by the Charter, and government for
the general good. Now, an Administration which is un-
healthy at home, must also of necessity be equally pesti-
lential abroad ; since it will cultivate no alliances which
are uncongenial with itself, nor cement any amities
which will not reciprocate principles and practices corres-
pondent with its own. This cannot be controverted. It
is only to inquire, then, whether the-new French Admi-
nistration exhibit those marks and assurances of political
health, which would warrant us in forming a connexion
with it ? and if it be found to exhibit these in a deficient--
or even in a dubious—degree, the clear course for us will
be a policy of circumspection, rather than co-operation.
But it is manifest that the Cabinet of M. DE POLIGNAC
is constituted upon principles hostile to popular institu-
tions, and made up of elements which are antipodal to
our's. We must not be told that all this is nothing to
us—that France has aright to cheese her Ministers as
she pleases—and that it does not signify a button to
England, whether the complexion. of her neighbour's
councils be constitutional or Jmti-liberal.
The Times—who is still at his work of palliation,
though he picks his path with singular caution to-day—
advances, 14 one ground why we should place confidence
in Pouf:MAC, that he signed " all those protocols on
which die tripie allipice acted during the sway of his pre-
deceeafor." But. we must tell the Times that it is one
thing to sign as Ambassador, who is onlY t,lie. mouth-
piece and ratificator of Ministerial power, and another
to direct the Councils, by which such Ambassador
must be implicitly ruled. In subscribing the pro-
tocols just referred to, the Prince only acted ex
necessitate rei—not as expressing his own sen-
timents—but ratifying the• commands of supreme
authority. It is idle to seek, in such inconsequent
officialities, for any safeguard against his natural
propensities, when armed with power. He admits at
the same time—does this Defender of the indefensible—
that "the Court of France; without any immediate neces-
sity, efferent to the world, in the state of its foreign
rektioas, hes thought proper to substitute a purely
Royalist Administration, popularly obnoxious, for a
Royalist Cabinet with liberal tendencies—:discarded, as
it would poem, on account of Mae very tendencies r,
After such an admission, would inlet be preposterous to
attempt to argue with the Times ? Lbe not beneath con-
futation, whip he bolsters• with quibble entemision a came
so insuppoctible as ShAt? giriorY)lodY*l?".ca that from the
union and action of those T 1

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England reciprocate over each other, both Governments
must materially take their tone : and the combined in-
fluence of the two Cabinets—preponderating, as it must,
in continental diplomacy—can at all times exalt or de-
grade the condition of Europe. The consideration is
equally important and afflicting at this conjuncture, when
the doom of more than one struggling people awaits the
fiat of their joint dictation. We do not see--except in
the mercy, or conversion of the Duke of WELLINGTON
—what hope remains for unhappy Portugal, deluged
with the blood of her most generous children, and deso-
late in chains and horrors. And Greece—which ought
to be erected free and independent—

Self-manumitted in the Moslem's gates.
Bulwark and sister of the Christian states!
What is to become of Greece ? Alas ! these questions
are unavailing, if METTERNICH and POLIGNAC are to
arbitrate. And will they not arbitrate now, when all the
demonstrations of England are so consentaneous with
their views and wishes ? While a liberal Cabinet existed
in France, the prevalence of Austrian and Spanish
councils was neutralised in Downing-street, and the skulk-
ing interviews which were granted by certain parties to
ASSECA, cost them alternately blushes and apprehensions.
But their shame and their fears are now about to be
merged in open recognition; that is, if the Courts of
Spain, France, and Austria—with the Noble Earl to
aid and 'abet them—shall be able to persuade the only
Minister whom they cannot drive, to damn himself to
irredeemable infuny. It is said, indeed, that the Noble
Duke pauses; that there are compunctions and misgivings
in his gallant bosom, which he cannot stifle—sympathies,
long dormant, which are getting the mastery over him---"
and that he cannot screw his courage to the acknow-
ledging point. For the pride which we take in the
name of WELLINGTON, we dq,sire that this may be the
case ; we pray that the scptcheon of his glory may not
go down with so foul a stain : but we confess that our
hopes are faint. And yet, nothing-would surprise us—
however sudden and brilliant in moral execution—which

might emanate from that illustrious soldier. He has
reached the pinnacle of earthly preferment and honours ;
he is not a King, but he bears a name to which that of
Kings is obscurity : and if he sully in his closing life
that aggregated grandeur, to which nothing in human
prosperity can be added, it must be by the visitation of
GOD—for it is incompatible with unalienated intellect !

We speak strongly, because we feel sincerely: we
know the jeopardy in which England stands, and that
nothing but a pure Government can redeem her. We
know, too, that the Government is not pure, but we are
not so certain—after all—of the impurity of its Chief.
From the first moment of his nomination to power, we
have not ceased to decry the nomination, as opposed to
the spirit of the Constitution : and for more than ten
years we have denounced, and not relaxed in denouncing,
his natural bias to despotic power. At this moment,
there are four swords in the Cabinet of the KIN°, and
several more in the Ministry ! Surely, this is not con-
sonant with our constitutional usages : surely, it is not
required in the national deliberations. Who, then, shall
except against us, either as factious or unreasonable, if
we say that the Noble Duke's is a military Administra-
tion? Constituted as it now is, it is an instrument
available in his hands, either to preserve or destroy the
State : but there is a portion of the State, far beyond
his power of preservation, which is now fast hurrying to
decay—we mean, its moral
_greatness.

Our continental mails this day have brought ns very
interesting news. For the first time we have a fair ac-
count of the losses sustained in the Eastern contest. It
is, indeed, a fearful sacrifice of life. The SULTAN is
still obstinate, and has declined the interposition of Prus-
sia in his affairs: Nobody now doubts the speedy anal-
hilition of the Turkish Empire.

ST. PETERSBURG H, hum 29.
Count Flque!mon% Antbassader from the Emperor of Austria,
had his Arse audience of the Emperor and liminess at the Palace
of Telesis this morning. Countess Flquelmont, Lady Heytesbury
and her daughter, had afterwards the honour to be presented to the
Empress.
The detailed bulletin of the victory obtained on the 11th June
over the army of the Grand Vizier near Pravadi, concludes with
the following statement of the loss of the two armies :

es These splendid advantages over the Grand:Vizier wad not
be obtained without considerable lou. Our loss was—

Killed-42 Staff and superior Oaken, and 1,239 privates.
Wounded—Major Generals Otroschtochenko and Glasenop,
Star and superior Officers. and 1,009 privates. The loss of the
enemy is far greater. Besides the prisoners he lost in the battle
and flight. 5,000 killed. and as we have already said, the whole
baggage of the Grand Vizier's army, his own equipages, six ►ran-
duds and 43 carmen fell into the hands of the conquerors."--bT
Potmen* Journals to 9d Aug.

BRANDENBURGH,
His Majesty the King of Prussia was on the 3d at Schandaw, in
Saxon Switzerland, where be spent bit birtb.day in the bosom of
his family. The neat day his Majesty dined with the King of
Saxony at Pilnitz. His Majesty will return to Potsdam on the
tsth, set out the nest day for Brussels, and arrive at Paris on the
6th of September.

We bear from Constantinople, that the Sultan has declined any
intervention of Prussia without the concurrence of England.

COPENHAGEN, Aua. 8.
A Russian frigate which has arrived here, belongs to the Beet
band from Cronstadt to the Mediterranean, and which may be
therefore shortly ezpected.—Hamlussik Papers,dsag.ll.
HAMBURGH, Aea. 11.
Boasts Hafts, Foga o'CLocs.
Little bas been done in funds to-day. A slight decline manifested
hail( yesterday, in consequence of a similar movement having taken
place at Berlin. To-day, however, the market has maintained
itself pretty steadily at the prices quoted below.

Discount 4 per cent. Bills no London in demand. On AMlter.
dam offered.

Tod of August.

. Lew Friday. To-dap
•
Anglo Danish Loan, S per rent. 6lli
Anglo Russian ... . en
Hamburgh Russian
Polish Bonds ...,.............. ...—......... .. 101* ..... 100 i
Marian Honk 5hare5......... ......«.»..... 1145 .... 1145
Austrian "Httalliqese • •:. . 991 ...... ' 1114
—Honsiorgkiloperter, Aor. 11. • :
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THE HA OVE,.Aes. If.
. ,
• llte conewletionen appointed by his Majesty to draw up affo.
'Jett of law on public inetrordon, ones boost ovary day at /kw
la, It is Okla that Ityill bays camplitad its' ash by flit and

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of September. Nothing transpires respecting tbe prindpke it has
adopted.
The labours of Commission appointed to draw up a new
code of judicial proceedings are hastening to a dam, and it is
affirmed they will be concluded by the end of this weel.--Ilegne
Courant, Jog. 14. _

Buenos Ayres Papers to the 10th of June are this day
received, from which we make the following extracts.
Other news from that quarter of the world will be found
elsewhere in this sheet,—and all these together convey
a sad idea of the misrule and insubordination which per-
vade the country :

BUENOS AYRES. 14AT 16.

Military preparations are stUl going on In this city with increased
activity. Troops have embarked, and, we believe, artillery to form
(it is said) an expedition spinal Santa Fe. The Moataneros hover
in the neighbourhood, and daily skirmishes take place. It is ru-
moured that soother action between the armies of Gen. Lavelle
and Governue,Lopes may be soon expected : the head-quarters of
the latter were at Lulu. In the midst of all these warlike same
there are some who bold out the idea that an accommodation may
take place, and we extract the following from the Gawks ].rant
of yesterday s—
" The Government Minister, Senbor Canal, and General
Pueyrredoo left this city yesterday in a carriage, accompanied by
a WI/WOW escort. Their going bas given rise to a thousand con-
jectures, but we know nothing positive u to the object of this
journey." •
Mery 23.—The Papers of this date contain an account of the
attack made by the French squadron on the Sett of the Republic,
on the 21st. The Government published a bulletin la the after-
noon, and several flags of truce passed backwards and forwards.—
We have been surprised (says the British Pocket) at reading in
the Government bulletin the deposition of some individuals that
the French sailors plundered the captured vessels : such conduct
we should scarcely have expected, from the strict discipline which
exists in the French Navy.
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Wednesday morning, the 110th, about eleven, another Montanan
alarm occurred in this city, but it did not produce the bustle
which, under similar circumstances, took place on the I lth ult.
An expedition has sailed agaisist Santa Fe, under the command
of Col. Isaac Thompson. It is stated to consist of 600 men, and
it is thought may induce Governor Lopez to retreat.
A supplement to the British Packet contains the correspondence
between the Government and Viscount Venancourt, commanding
the French squadron in the River Plate.
In the conferences which took place between General Cruz on
the pan of the republic and the French commander, it was
sgreed—
That Viscount Venancourt shall deliver up the captured ves-
sels, and place them at the disposal of the Government of Buenos
Ayres, with all their appurtenances, arms, and crews.
9. That the Government shall not oblige by force any French-
man, resident in the city, to do military duty, leaving those who
are now enrolled in the companies of militia at full liberty to con-
tinue in or leave the service.

3. That the insults which the Viscount supposes to have been
offered to the French flag, and the indemnities which he thinks to
be due to the Frenchmen by the measures of the Government,
shall be points to be settled between the two Governments.
After some farther negociations. it was agreed that the bulletin
published by the Government of Buenos Ayres should be for-
gotten, and considered as having never been circulated, and as
published at a moment when war deface* canted between the
forces of hies Most Catholic Majesty and those of the Republic.
The vessels to be given up by Viscount Votaneourt forty.eight
hours after he shall have received ale ratification of the additional
stipulations.
Juno 9.—The Jostrissll2 21euspe states that some negotiation
appear to be going so between the Government and Don Juan
Manuel Rosas. D. Gregorio Tagle had been sent to the camp of
Reiss, and returned; but Et Tempo says—" We donut know whe-
ther we ought to give credit to the reports which have been gem-
gaily spread this night. At any rate, we frankly confect that these
comings and goings of some persons to the camp of Rosa. do not
seem to us the best mode of treating."
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, Ave. 15.—(Feast of the Assampdon—Eschange k shot).
I understand that the Russian Ambassador has net been un-
well as was stated, in consequence of the change of Ministry; but
it is generally asserted. amongst those who are well informed, that
he is furious at what bat taken place ; and it is even said that he
has uttered some threats in his interview with Pollnow. It is
possible that the menacing part of the article of the &We—
" They wig thwart them (our interest), shall be our enemies,
whether they be English or Russian. fee." may be an answer, and
a public !answer, to the private menace of Posen.
Admiral de Rigny has refused the Ministry of the Marine.
This I can state with certainty. independently of any thing that
is said by the Courier or the Cassette. The Royalists say this act ad
De Rigny's is a proof of great weakness—lasomuch, as it is noto-
rious that the present Ministers are men of his opinions and
sentiments. When De Rigny came back from the Levaat,
he was particularly loud in condemning, in the salons of Paris.
the conduct of the late Ministry in several respects. H;
did not in any way approve of their policy in support-
ing the pretensions of Russia; and be disapproved of the exten-
sion of the limits of the Greek State to Arta and Vole. He has
yielded in this case to the threats of his uncle, the Baron Lou*
who declares that be shall not have one centime of his im-
mense fortune, estimated by some at 4000,000 francs per annum
(40,0001. sterling), if be accept oSce under the new administration.
Previously to his appointment he had declared that be was ready to
accept the poet, subsequently conferred on him, and refused. These
facts are notorious to all Paris. The Liberals praise him to the skies
for his refusal ; and say that it would have rendered Aim immortal
if the battle of Navarino had not already conferred immortality on
his name. The Royalists say that it will never be forgotten that
be has preferred honour to money—the caprices of his uncle to the
wish and service of his Sovereign.

EXTRACT OF ♦ LETTER FROM PORTUGAL.

My last acquainted you with the great struggle that had taken
place between what is here called the English and Spanish parties ;
that is, the parties who wish to propitiate these Powers by follow-
ing their respective counsels, and who conceive that the success of
their cause depends on adherence to the opposite systems of mo-
deratio• and persecution recommended by them.
lids great struggle took place, it is believed, in consequence of
the most decided instructions and assurances transmitted from
London by the Viscount Assn*, that unless a system of greater
moderation were adopted, it would be impossible for either
the Duke of Wmusesen or Lord Asians= to protect or
upheld looser the cause of Don Munn &genet the over-
whelming force of public opinion, and the power of the public
Press in England, and In consequence the moderate party, consist-
fag of the Prime Minister, the Duke of CADAVAL, Count LAMA,
and Viscount SANTAILIN. the Minister for Foreign Affairs, made a
grand effort, and obtained the dismissal of the sanguinary Minis-
ter of Justice, &awn ; but Mums., immediately after signing
the Decree, set off from Matra, u well to escape the violence of the
old Queen's adherents, u to avoid making farther concessions to
the Ministers, and notwithstanding all their farther endeavours
they bad not been able to obtain the signature of Munn tothe
dls-
missal of the blood-thirsty Count de Basra—foroterly Desessber-
pdor Lens, who seems firmly deed at his poet, in defiance of his
opponents while the rabble have been again appealed to, and
brought up to the Palace with fanatic leaden at their hoodoo
uniforms end demand the entoratios of Bone rte. the liesspitrnt
of tin prima day.

our mew Minister of Justice is here reckoned a very good sett
of a nun ; that is to my, $ man who will ism to the side of Im-
am, when good weighty reasons in hard masosimes me deeded
for his deb, so. Ainaly, indeed, many koadnd pines, ham
been restored to liberty wader Me systems, and the cense of bontaalty
has gabled.. heckle whiegh la delayimg, at hest for some time,
the.eareaden of the many *dna that Were lusty set from the
11 „Prisms at thls capitals* the smardereas Comeabsion of Open°. Al

this, you will my, looks well, and that we are in a fair way for a
better state of things, and the mestahlishment of permanent
good order : but, elm ! I ant sorry to say that matters are far
frets promising any such hippy result, and the re•actioc of the std
QuIXIII'S pity, that 1 foretold in my last, has already taken *et
They are infuriated, and seem to place no bounds, neither to this
-words nor sedan. They vociferate that bitooxc must be deposed,
and the Old Quasi named Regent ; and a serious affray, occasioned
by a dispute in regard telt, took place in the Palace of Quelue, be.
• tween the servants of the Old Qum and those of the amiable and
oppressed Infanta, Donna Inam : and the battle was dodged
against the latter, by the adherents of Dos Mum joining dose
of the Old Qum': since which this unhappy Princess has been
confined io her apartments under the strictest surveillance.
Several of the fanatics have set off for the provinces, aid the
execrable Friar—Padre Samba—has been charged with a special
mitsion to rouse the country; while the Sumetass, with the Mar.
quis of CLIVIIS at their head, are already drawing out the people
of Tr as es Musts Into open rebellion. How all this is to end, Soo
only knows, but the prospects are dreadful.

It seems horrible and detestable that your Ministry should per.
severe in eying to perpetuate at the bead of this distracted country,
a person, so wholly incapable of managing k, as Den Mom :
while policy, justice, bosom, expediency, kgitiansey—end * so-
knessfaisk q treaties and alliances—ail forbid it.

CITY. twin.vc °Twat.

Canals, which left of an Saturday at 87ii. opened this morn-
ing at S 7“ for the Account. The business doing is not extensive
as yet.

We uodentand that there is no doubt of souse daps going to
our fleet in the Mediterranean, but report says they are to replace
some coming bond.

In the Foidgn Market nothing doing u yet ; prices nominal.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols have been done in the course of the looming at is for
the Account, and at present they may be quoted s7j to is, and
for next Account MI to i. A good deal of business has been disc
in the early part of the day.
The Exchange by the packet from Rio Janeiro comes 231 to
14, but there are later account, by three days, by the way of
Bahia, which bring the Exchange 25 to The political affairs at
Rio are mere favourable than the last information:

in the Foreign Market, Danish and Russian Stocks have im-
proved. Brazil Shares have lowered 54 or 61. per Share.

Our foreign arrivals are numerous this morning of mails
from various parts.
Extract of a private letter received at the North and
South American Coffee-house, by the mail from Buenos
Ayres, of the 9th June :—" The civil war continues, and
the authority of Lavalle extends no further than the
streets of the city. The Montaneros party increase dail y
and amount to 5,000 men ; they intercept the supplies to
the city, and skirmish with the troops and militia almost
every day, in the very streets of the town. Lavalle has
lost his popularity. Efforts are now making to end this
horrid war, and to open a negociation for peace with the
federal chieftain Don Juan Rosas. Business, in a man-
ner, is suspended here, and for weeks together the shops
are shut, and every person liable to serve, is placed under
arms. Exchange, 10d. per dollar."
By the French mail this mrrning, we hear from Lisbon
that the news received from their squadron before Terceira
is unfavourable. A tempest had taken place, which has
prevented the squadron for some time from making an at-
tempt against the island.
Accounts from Corfu, of the 16th July, state, that
letters have been received from Napoli, of the 7th, that
the Russ Charge d'Affaires, M. BULGARI, has re-
mitted to eAPO D'lrraut a million and half of roubles.

Accounts from the Vistula, of the 28th July, my,
that the Imperial Guard have received orders to march
to the army, and that if the Turks wiU not negociate,
the EMPEROR, will proceed to the army in the month of
August.

By the American Papers, received this morning, we
learn that a number of mercantile houses at New Or-
leans, of the first respectability, have stopped payment.
A letter received by a merchant at Baltimore, dated
Lima, in April, says, " The country is at present in a
most deplorable state. Money has lately disappeared ;
and the mines, the only resource, are not worked, or
likely to be."
A vessel has arrived at New York from Campeachy,
after a short passage, with the information that ten thou-
sand troops have been assembled to repel the Spanish
expedition from the Havannah.
Ilsv.txwsn, JUNE 28.—The Mexican expedition is
to sail on the 4th July for Vera Cruz. Ten thousand men
will proceed ; the troops are all well acclimated, hardy
and fine troops, and will be replaced by fresh ones from
Spain.
The private letters received from Manchester this day,
state that business there was in a complete state of stag-
nation, caused by the heavy failures, with reports of
others. The number of people out of employ continues
increasing daily, owing to the manufacturers stopping
their mills ; and unless business soon revives, great fear
is entertained of riots taking place.
It is now understood that the Gloucester is going to
the Mediterranean to relieve the Spartiate, which has
been out four years ; also the Melville, to relieve the
Asia, which has been out three years.
Letters from Amsterdam, received by the Mail this
morning, state that a Pigeon Company has been formed
there, and they receive expresses by them from Paris in
twenty hours.
Accounts have been received from Sierra Leone, stating
that a great number of persons have fallen victims to a
fever that rages there.
Private lettere have been received from Cadiz of the
3d August, stating that the packet from the Havannah
had arrived there, which left the Bth July, and brings in-
formation that the expedition for Mexico had sailed on
the previous day for the Gulf of Mexico, but the real
destination was not known. It was supposed they would
land at Tampico or Campeachy. The troops on board
amounted to 5,600 men. There were still remaining on
the island 13,670 men, without including the militia,
which were composed of 7,000 to 8,000 men.

We shall continue to-morrow our insertions concerning
the mow TRADE of Britain. No. IV. will contain the
official rate of valuation of each kind of Iron and Steel ;
and of hardwares and cutlery, on exportation from Great
Britain, as fixed in 1696. No. V. An account of the
total quantity, in tons weight, of all kinds of British
wrought and unwrougkt Iron and Steel, and of hardwares
and cutlery exported. from Great Britain to all parts of the
world, in each of the twenty years 1805-1828. And
No. VI: will contain an account of the quantity, in tow
weight, of British Bar Iron, exported from Great Bri..
tain to each of tea difisrent parts of the world, it each
of twisty jeara-1805-1828„ -

THE LONDON PRESS.

T ervier of the Lonny Puss—the dirsits of the Loom
Vases—the superiority of the Lonny Pans, are words in current
circulation with numbers who pick up, and bandy them about,
without attaching to them any distinct idea. These backnied ex-
pressions are particularly common with the LOMDOII Pans itself,
front which they are borrowed by the vulgar, with many otbrr
things that but little improve their language, understanding, prin-
ciples and manners. In a multitude of public prints of all colours,
shapes, parties, divisions, and subdivision of parties, showering like
rain upon our devoted capital, we hourly read of the Lorton Pans
being the flambeau of society, the bulwark of liberty, the cham-
pion of virtue. and scourge of oboe ; in fine, the greatest benefit
an Englishman inherits.

Though dithering in conception, and contradictory in sentiment,
we are told its influence on the mass is so salutary, that any increase
of improvement is exclusively owing to its precepts and example ;
indeed, so clamorously !otitis insisted upon, that it becomes a duty
with the public to inquire into the truth, and ascertain precisely
:how far we are, or are not, indebted to its agency.
First,—knowledge, judgment, versatility, decorum, good taste,
polite forms, and, above .U, honesty, should be the attributes of
those who truly profess to instruct and lead the public mind.—
Now, are the persons conducting the almost innumerable News-
papers in this Metropolis possessed of such qualities? Are they
at least, what is no prodigy in these times, scholar, and gentlemen?
Would not the public feel somewhat surprised, were it to learn
that, with few exceptions, they are persons of the most ordinary
capacity, moving the great part in obscurity, and are to general as
ill bred as in private life they are little respected. Numbers of
them, with scarcely more than the acquirements of a common
education, untravelled abroad, and ahut out from high experience
at home, after having skirmished ingloriously- without a name la
the outskirts and ditches of literature, have at last been fain to
dabble in the public prints, and play the Mister Roma upon spe
culaUon—less anxious for character than for broad. The vanities,
presumptions, tricks, and subterfuge of this fraternity, termed by
Voltaire in his times the "filiwaslaires," would, if fully divulteds
provoke the strongest ridicule and compassion.
Armed with a political jargon, gleaned from the rubbish of
RIDGWAY, the two volumes of JUNIUS, and a style in which
words of pretension are geometrically arranged to astound under
the dictatorial Ws;—minutely master of that narrow knowledge
called " stem qf parties"—oarnely, the senatorial slang and futile
distinctions of my Grandmother's question, Whig and Tory,—tho
Candidate for Editorial honour confidently takes the field, am-

Woos immediately to become the dime Dostai of MUM patty. at

whose feet he crawls to offer up his conscience and his inkhorn, as
•if it were an honour to be a dirty mouthpiece. A servile advocate
of every opinion of his patron—even when promoting tyranny
and bloodshed—he defends without examination u with-

out scruple, and calls it consistency and public duty. Invete-
rate animosity and BiMngspte, felt and showered down on
all opponents, be styles seal and energy in the cause. Should be
be a liberal, be cautiously watches the public ; and, having felt its
pulse to ascertain its bias, be treats the multitude to their own
opinions, and calls it leading the people.—Confined by a narrow
mind and plodding ►abitudes to the squabble of local interests, he
distils mannered twaddle upon domestic questions ; and leaves the
great pose of foreign policy at the discretion of whatever Minis-
ter may govern. With these he sides or differs on this grand sub-
ject with a carelessness or levity demonstrative either of guilty
complaisance, ignorance, or indifference. Should he, however,
touch upon the matter in woos, be, free from all embarrassment,

at once borrows his information and opinion from some foreign
Journalist. Tenacious only of his part In the " osic-woc"of Catholic
emancipation, free trade, game laws, and select vestries, Greece
or Portugal may be rescued or exterminated—Rusda or Turkey
aided or opposed—France molested—America invaded—and Aus-
tria obeyed to England's infamy ; and, with scarce an effort to re-

enonstrate, be will suffer ►imtdf to be bullied into silence. In re-
venge, however, be is careful to satisfy all the idle curiosity of the
'gossipping frivolous. Here the hnpertinent detail of a sprained
auk or a broken pane appears, where we look for news of an-
pirea. There, some vagabond pins his dirty penny by detailing
the disgusting ribaldry of St. Giles's In the slang or thieves—by
insulting Magistrates—and betraying the names, addresses, and

private affairs of persons whom accident or some venial slip has
made amenable to a Court of Justice. until the tenadous of cha-
racter prefer to suffer every offence rather than seek a redress
which subjects them to the degradation of a malicious exposure,

An " en dit" in another place blasts female benoor, or stamps sin-
picioa co persons in trust. There, again, he panders to the filthy
imagination of the obscene, and liquorishly dwelt on the minutest
circumstances of an adultery, a rape, or nameless crime. Mae-

where he gives honourable renown to the Blackleg, and trumpets
his gambling transactions on the turf. Then we Snd the dinner
speeches hiccupped out by some drunken Alderman, vulgar radi-
cal, or bruin Squire, lowing maudlin down the page ; or lo the
revolting language of rulßan blackguardism, be triumphantly nar-
rates the brutal combat of self-devoted wretches, degrading hu-
man nature by surpassing the ferocity of wild beasts.
All this he calls useful intelligence, and it is with this be boasts
of polishing and instructing society. Amidst this impurity, the
daily excrement of his own brain, costive from hard use, in empty
magnitude, parades in leaded and double-leaded long primer, which,
in sounding poverty, contradicts himself one day to explain away
his errors on another. His own sordid profit, and not the pro-

mulgatlon of his caudentions sentiment, being hie object, be is
candid with no contemporary, even when professing similar opt-

Woos—for every contemporary Is an enemy, whose success be

•
curses, and whose fall fills biro with joy. He measures the im-
portance of himself and rivals, not by the force of genius and purity
of principle, but by the extent of circulation. If In this be is cir-
cumscribed, he fawns, barks, or bites ; but should he luckily vend
his ware, be is supercilious and Bruhn. Forced to acknowledge
the prosperous, be reeks himself in revenge on his contemporary
is decay; while, against any rising Journal, be leagues In a trick of
trade never to mention its name or acknowledge its articles.—
Should you direct an argument at him, he takes It up according to
your influence with the public—dare you to thrash and sift his
rhetoric, and detect by force of reason the penury of thought or
the utilized or corrupt principle, be at a bound deserts the mild
forms of manly discussion to defile you widt;torrents of personal
abuse—lying from the subject at issue, be attaeks one's red nose—
blind eye—palsied limb—or be insinuates against your wile, sister,
daughter or friend. Should you resent as becomes a gentleman, he
is seised with a sudden respect for the laws; and prates of the de-

coney incumbent on the literary character, and the expedirney of
discussing with the pen, and not with the sword. If, then, yen
would chastise u usage prescribes, the "follicular*" shakers the
dignity of his Editorial shoulders in the arms of Bow-street--no
enemy to litigation save when it rolls on libel. If this is true—

and who eau deny it?—where then is deposes, the dignity. the
Asperierity, of the Looms Pans? Oh ! Jupiter !—lt Is only to be
found loog past midnight, when the heads of Editors lie husoziou
in their night-ups.

♦•• • *

M. MARTINZAU' an eminent surgeon of Norwich,
lately deceased. was probably the most successful operator for
lithotomY in Europe.. Of 75 saccessive eases, 114 r. MIISTLIRMI
only loses three by death.
A letter from Rio de Janeiro of the 17th of June states,
oat the &Rains sleep of War the Maria Isabel had sailed from
that port on the aboyeasestioaed day for England, having on board
She Marquis of Rums. Lard High Chamberlain of the empire,
charged with a spacial sham to this country.
The Marquis of HEZTIPORD gave a grand ball and sup-
per on Friday *lit, at his villa, 'testae. Park. There were Dearly
100 fashionable. pressot. AU the rooms were thrown open ; and
thirdefieing staid eastern saloon) commenced early, and
coded's, three Velkick. M. Wevrraat's band attaaded...
The allowance made by parish amen to tho_pirr
for a ions and.hla wife, estimated at as. ed. week. the
am mad* to Maims the poor-rates.