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robs eilient a goitinign tatt, tiwy nil Aerial
obi is-their &vestige according to law. 0
wrhey supported, as well as circumstances would
rime, the ant monarchy, in the midst of foreign
ivasion and demotic' treason—of revolution and of
ovation. From the midst of this chaos arose a.
Coartit.pile. We do not-prbfess to admire it in
it abstract —we do not contend that it was peen-
grlY adapted to the Spanish character, or habitudes,
r circumstances i but, such as it was,- it recognised
po hereditary right of Ferdinand to-the throne, and
p eight, no less sacred, of the People' to a represen-
On which had existed in Spain centuries before the
of Bourbon was connected with that country.
• Cunstkution too, be it good or bad, was rear
by Foreign rowers; and, what is still more
'al, it was a::cepted and is to by the whole
Spain. It is notegsy to say that this oath has no
ding efficacy whatever. It is not Casy to say that
who wish to :Where to it are mere rebels. tYO.
' wady, it must be admitted that the natiolbis
•j. Perhaps those who are inclined to support
Xing against the constitution of the Cortes are
-majority: but upon what principles they rest
;reuse, it is somewhat difficult to discover. It
not cough to say, that they are in favour of " the
hereditary right."
.6 Vitiate :hewn that .the Cortes were so too t—
eimi that right be defined by some legitimate
ihriektbs State must beeome-a pure despotism,

Fi
.ch Dever has been the lawful character of the
lsb Government. Let it be granted that'the
watutioo of the Cones was too wide a departure
mm the ancient fundamental laws of the State-.
a 3 was too abstract in its conception, or too de-
persticin us lifilapteS: it
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surely better than
Wilke to the will of the Usurper. At the time
its formation, then, it was surely a benefit confer-
et Spain ; and the Patriots who thus benefited
' country are at least entitled to indulgence for
errors they may have committed. 'On the other
what is the system of their opponents ? We
not. It icwrgped up in mystery.. King Fer-
n, on taking the power into his own hands, so.
ly pronlised to convoke the Cortes. That pro-
is aithenn unfulfilled, and no satisfactory reason

*in tor its long deo?. It is said, what is all this
We have no right to scrutinize severely the
ne•.oc conduct of our Allies.'—Granted ; but
re is uo severity in a fair and candid discussion of
groundi of open contest between two parties, with
bof whom we have at different periods been in
ance. It a civil war should actually break out

niece these parties, we might bare to interfere by
ice ; if a civil war should appear probable, we
light hate to interfere by negotiation. Certainly
se bat.hotheaded .sealots or malignant incep-
t* wield interfere at all without urgent necessity;
I J,60,_ eustaity..may possibly be pretested by a
r and explicit statement of ,our sentiments in the
insane.

4 it is won these grounds that we maintain, not
it we hart a right to libel King Ferdinand—not-that
ought to load him with those opprobrious epithets
icb properly belong, to a Robespierre or a Bona-
ite.but that the fair judgment of Englishmen
ibt to be fairly given on the points at issue between
pad the lase Cortes ; that, if given without pre-
qie se passion, it must tarry its weight—that it
7teed to moderate the pretensions of both par-
t, and that it may ultimately preserve Spain frog,
horrors of civil warfare. The men who have
td the part of Patriots in Spain, have done it tar-
dy and sincerely, under the impulse of sentiments
most dignified, and in the midst of perils the
st imminent. Very different indeed are they from
wretches' who borrow this honourable appellation
France, who were by turns blood-thirsty dema-
pm and shameless plunderers, and creeping pan-
sof tyranny. The same principle., therefore, that
Os as respect even the errors of the one, renders
ileti to all the hypocritical and lying pretences of
littler. The same sentiment which makes' us con-
Otte with pain the exile of an Arguelles, leads
',rejoice in that of a Foucbe or a Carnot."

his morning the Paris Papers of Friday arrived 1
t Readers will perceive that the report of the ,
Ph Journals being prohibited in France is sub-:
I ill, true 1 All the Coffee-Houses and Reading- 1
filg in Paris are shut by an order of the Police.
three Englishmen detained for the affair of
Aura have been refused liberation on bai1......
have, through the British Ambassador, insisted
admitted to a participation in the privileges
admen. similarly circumstanced.
rioavis OMIZTTIL at !VINCE or TBURSIDAY.
Coffee-houses and Shops Rewires et iStiOpUs
persons were accustomeZ to read the Journals,

RI and will not be opened again until after a
order (esterisation) of the Police.

Ina iXTRAORDIN ART OP THURSDAY MDRNiNGI.
last intelligence from Warsaw announces that
has arrived in that city, from which place be'
et cut for St. Petersburgb.
ay several hundred Russian soldiers from
it Grace, set out on their retuin to their country.
day morning a detachment of 400 volunteers
Royal Guards, entered Paris by the South
all these young mess belong for the most
the best families of our Southern Provinces.

t letters frost Lyons concur in stating, that
perfect ikangt.illity reigns in that city. The
of Gsvois, Cvadrieusf and Revedtaier.

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bine leen disarinea.—liiie .eke bi the %dotal
Guards, and the activity of the troops of the line,
assure us mere than: irverliir the publiC repot*.
Messrs. Vrilson, Brio, and Hutchinson have not
obtaihed their liberty. u a Journal had stated t—oo
the contrail, k has bees refused to them by an Or-
donnance of the Chamber of the Council, conform to
the conclusions of the prosecutor for the King. The
accused; it is said, wish to appeal frinn this Or-
donnanee. They have besides called for the influ.
ence of the British. Ambassador to obtain for theft' the

smile advantiges which they think the trench laws
grant to natives. '
"*One,St. Ursep, a physician in Bonaparte's armies,
who WAS at St. Petersburg% having spoken indis-
creetly on political subjects, has been sent to Siberia.
Baron Pommereul has obtained a passport for
Brussels, where he will only stay a few days, being
abnucto hide himself in Germany. -
Genital Vandiunme, who was a few days since at
Cassell. is preparing to proceed to America.
The Russian Guards are all clothed in English
wbollefis. This fact is remarkable, because the fa-
mous Ukase of the Slst December, 1810, expressly
prohibiting the introduction into Russia of foreign
woollens, silk or cotton, stands unrepealed.

The Paris Papers received to day exhibit anther
lamentable proof of the morale of the disbanded French
soldiery. One of these 'wretches, named'Magloird,
on receiving sentence of death on Wednesday last,
Ifor at least fifty robberies and attitnots to murder,
coolly and impudently addressed the Judges, expres-
sing his hopes that they would order him “ white
bread and wine" until he was hanged, as he was a
poor man and had no money.
The Chamber of Deputies on Thursday eraisoccu-
pied in a Secret Committee, with discussing a Projet
for bettering the condition of the French Clergy.
This proposed law embraces six points: 1. Religion
is the basis it all educatioa.-2. The Schools and
Colleges shall be under the controul of the Archbi-
shops and Bishops, in concurrence with the Local
Auttiorities.—S. '[he Clergy may increase the
number of seminaries for education according to
the population of any district, &c.-4. The Bi-
shops are to appoint the Principal, and the Prin-
cipal the Professors of the Colleges. 5. The pre.
sent Universities of France shall subsist under the
controul of the Minister of the Interior ; but the al.
liance between religion and morals shall be cultiva.
ted, instead of mere literary distinctions. 6. 'The
Central Commission of Public Instruction, instituted
by Bonaparte, shall be suppressed.
PARIS, JANUARY Si.-(PRIVATE
The following details are in a letter from Lyons,
'brought by the Courier yesterday :
66 At the moment when the disbnrbances took
place, General Grenier, formerly Member of the Pro-
visional Government, was at Lyons. Nothing indi-
cated.that he had taken any part in the movement
which had manifested itself; fie was, however, ar-
rested, tried}, and ihot, in the course of the day. Ge-
neral Grenier was Chief of the Staff to Prince Eugene,
-luring the late campaigns previous to 1814.
66 The Police went to the house of one of the
richest merchants in the city to arrest bin, bo missed%
and they pursued him into a back cabinet where he
took refuge, here he took a match which he had,
lighted a candle, and attempted to set fire to a barrel
of gunpowder which was near the place. At the
I moment, when he was about to carry his project into
execution his finger was cut off by a gendarme ; he
was arrested, and shot six hours afterwards. -

44 It is said, moreover, here, that the Police of
Lyons have distoiered that the inhabitants of the ad.
jacent country, with whom the movement was con-
certed, were to have advanced upon the city at the
sounding of the tocsin, in order to prevent which sig-
nal from being given, the bells have all been taken
down. Since the day before yesterday the Police of
Paris have delivered no passports for Lyons."

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the Ist Regiment of
Life Guards marched into St. James's Park, from.
France.

The pace establishment for Regiments of Infantry
which have not ken augmented by second battalions,
is to remain at 600 rank and file.

The inhabitants of the lonian Islandsr as might
have been expected, are highly pleased with the new
Constitution, which, under the protection of Great
Britain, has been formed for them. On this subject
the letter from Corfu, inserted in our fourth page,
will be read with satisfaction.

The MINDiN man of war and the Doris frigate are
arrived from the East Indies and St. Helena t the
former took a cargo of provisions and live bullocks
from the Cape to St. Helena, and left that island the
26th of December. BONAPARTI continued to reside
at the cottage; every thing. was perfectly quiet, and
provisions of every description were in plentiful
supply.
Madras papers, to the 7th October inclusive, an.
nounce the death of Rear-Admiral Buityrow, Cons-
mander.in•Chief in the East Indies, on the 22d ot
September. Captain 01Batm has, in' cottsequenceo
hoisted his flag as Commodore of his Majesty's
squadron.
One of the papers contains the followings
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mauarrias IDADCTTE /LIMA, AUGUST 14, 1815.
" His Excellency the Governor having karat that there are,
in this massy, more well-wishers at Bonaparte than he conceived,
Ova notice that he will with plants afford dun a passage to
Europe by tie very Arm opportunity.
sisurftlei. August 5.
" In communes el the death of many of the most respect,
able Preach and English inhabitants, and the condaned 'ndpe.
dtion of others, his Excellency the bovernor has been pkased to
postpone the Sall io human' of the MIAs-day of his Royal High.
nese the Prince Regent, sad Friday, the Ist of September nem.
Sy command of his Excellency the Governor,
" A. W. Fosses, Alde.de.Camp.
" Port-tads, Ed Amen, tats."
These Papers contain details of the late occurrences
at the Island of Bourbon. On the 12th of July, the
Governor published an Address to the Inhabitants in
favour of the cause of Lows XVIII. On the 25th of
August a grand ceremony took place on the presen-
tation of colours to the regiment of Angouleme.
The lifadrat Gazette, ot the SOW September. con-
tains an Address from the British residents at Futty-
ghur so Lord Mom*, on the successful termination
of the campaign in the Nepaul country, with bis
'Lordship's answer.