The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-10 00:00:00

JUNE 10, 1R36.

"hick excellent work Gen. Scott, contrary to the remonstrances
or General Clinch, proposes to alio ish. Gov. Call will imme-
diately call out the militia for the defence of the country, on his
own responsibility, as it is the general belief at Tallah issee that
they have been pretnat urely disbanded. Gen. Clinch, it is ge-
nerally thought, should, as the most competent person, have had
the entire controul of all the military operations in Florida.
FRENCII INDEMNITY.—" From the Washington Giobe."—We
congratulate the whole country, and especially the steadfast
!Heads of the administration, upon the reception. of authentic
nformation that all the instalments due from France under the
treaty of 4th July, 1831, have been paid to our agent at Paris.
Its amount in all is over three and a half million of dol. This
18 a glorious cottsummation of the wise and judicious measures
adopted by the President.
We understand that the money received is iu the course of
transmission to this country in gOld, at the rate of about 200,000
dol. in each packet; and that the utmost diligence is employed
In the business of the treasury department, so far as is consistent
With the pressure of the current business and the calls of con-
ress, itt comparing the names of the debtors to the United
otales with those in whose favour awards have been made, for
the purpose of retaining such sums as may .appear to be due to
the government from such claimants. Scrip for the proper
amounts will then be issued to all such as are entitled to the in-
demnity under the awards.
ilf congress do not pass the bill before them, authorizing an
mmediate payment of all the instalments, the nett proceeds of
the whole amount received from France will be paid over as
Mott as it arrives, and the amount due to each claimant can be
ascertained.
It
The is expected that the scrip will be ready some time before
money arrives.

We wish some competent person would inform us of
what use is Lord PALMERSTON, and, if of any use at all,
What is the word► of his services as foreign secretary.
We have watched his lordship for many years through all
the tortuous paths of his subordinate and mercenary ca-
reer—as a red-tape clerk to
.the tories—as leading decoy
4114 in the gambling year 1825—as lamplighter to Mr.
RustussoN—as servant of Lord GREY—and now as
f°realati to Lord JOHN RUSSELL—and in each of these
Periods. 'Emile wore different liveries, he also entertained
lifferent:arid opposite opinions—we have watched Lord
PALUERsTON, we say, in various phases, and we know
!I° which tnost to despise—the meanness of his charac-
ter, the baseness of his principles, or the stolidity of his
intellect.

Re appears to us to be decidedly the most careless ob-
,rver and the most ignorant man in the King's doini-
Liio49. We could pardon him for not understanding the
7°(leril mystics of a mechanics' institute, but surely he
should be Conversant with the business of his own office.
.
cobbler in his stall may not know the rate of foreign
Izellanges, and may not trouble himself to learn what
`.„"e l'rench are doing at Algiers or the Russians in the
..uxine, but he remembers what BETTY said to him when
she delivered master's boot to be stitched. No more
ti eed the cobbler know. But Lord PALMERSTON, in re-
f
:nem to his own official dutifes, is ignorant of that
which every other, person knows. The Foreign-office
and the diplomatic body connected with it—its clerks and
riaaaries—cost this country no less than four hundred
in4and pounds per annum, and yet for any use these
persons
are, we might as well have no foreign secretary
r ambassadors at all. In fact, as far as this idle and
;nlPoteat functionary is concerned, it would be as well to
jave foreign affairs, national treaties, and the vindica-
-04 of British honour, to the newspapers ; for, to say ,_
truth, the conductors of the journals know much more
e:- What is passing at the continental courts than Lord
l
AlliEasToN, and have considerably more influence in
preventing hostile aggressions than the noble lord and all
the Corps of jabbering imbeciles who are in correspond-
ence with him.
It will be recollected that the noble lord was first made
acquainted with the treaty of Hoonkiar Skellessi by a
Zreapondent of a London journal, and lie did not know
It Russian and French engineers were employed in the
°rtiheations on the southern side of the Bosphorus until
informed of the fact by a member of the House of Corn-
ul:
°°na• But a more startling piece of ignorance trans-
red on Monday last. Mr. ROBINSON asked the noble
din his place in parliament whether lie was aware
thatr the goveimnent of Portugal--that colony of human
h4'"ns Upon whom we have expended so much blood
and treasure—had imposed, in violation of a solemn
pledge and contrary to the spirit of ancient treaties, ad-
ltienal duties/ on British manufactures—in fact had, at
(e Port of Viana, raised the ad valorem duty from 15 to
ta7 Per cent ? Lord PALMERSTON had no official infor-
41°11 on the subject !! He had learnt through the
11 ewsPaPers that such was the fact, and he believed it;
but lie knew nothing of the fraud officially ! ! !

There is a foreign minister for you, and worthy of
I,e manufacturers of England ! In the tory times such
4""rniaister as this, or a minister Who permitted a gun to
fired in Europe or a foreign ship to enter the Tagus,
iithout.his consent, would have been instantly kicked
p4rpm his office with disgrace. But now, reform and like=
, fit Y--free trade and foreign swindling—have given us
4
I:3eCretary who rejoices in the shelter of his ignorance,
4 4 whosq only answer, when an insult has been com-
14.is....tted upon our flag or an injury done to our commerce,
- Z KNOW NOTHING OF IT OFFICIALLY

GOD knows, the tories have much to answer for—
sWl for having reared in their ranks such a muslin
14tesnian as Lord PALMERSTON, who has the assurance
i° °oast that he has preserved the peace of Europe, while
has been totally ignorant of the treaties formed and
-‘le hostile conventions matured in order to degrade us as
4
nation in the eyes of the whole world. As well might
-..PanPer boast that he has preserved the peace of a pa-
Submittiner to every indignity under the pump.
h don't fight," says CREAMFACE ; " for although I have
jeen Cruelly pommelled, I submit patiently as a martyr
the cause of public tranquillity !"
tribie:Penthoisrs ofisLord PALMERSTON'S case. He has been Ignn-
-"ed at home and abroad—in his own person by the
Hampshire—and as minister of foreign affairs
.I'll all the Kings, courts, and diplomatists of Europe.
ese facts boil up to the surface and suggest painful re-
kireitiens• We have no wish to penetrate the thoughts of
bii;RS; far be it from us to place thorns under the royal
it ;in the slumbers of the good there is repose ; and
h .Would ill become us, who have lived in the best,
ki"llltest, and most glorious days of GEORGE 111., the
'O-f• ° °ld Ring, to intrude upon the fading reminiscences
I,"
"i 8 illustrious son our gracious Sovereign. But we
lead the apprehensions of a sincere affection—the re-
gard
Which justice must pay to truth—the tribute which,
grave tear of love, the patriot sheds over a nation's
.
I,4when we contend, with all proper deference and
41111tYi that the present tiMes savour of those which
p.
43'eceded the..cklatnitous era of the usurper CROMWELL.
I.IIVVLI/g to the popish predilections which characterised
e 4.louse of STUART, there was a veil, dark as night,
thrown over the moral grandeur of England. She was in
he ItgollieS of revolution at home ; she was insulted and
esilised abroad. Every petty despot lifted the heel against
fatally for their cause, the questionable sincerity
the 6TUARTS in the reformed faith made men political
41,1
d dangerous enthusiasts who would otherwise have been
ah ,r.inl es, bigots, and raised a power against the monarchy
w
0, Clad CHARLES been a man of resolute character,
Ins advisers men of ordinary sense, never could have
ade itself formidable.
B •
tio_ut there was the pernicious taint of popery. 'file na-
is,: had not forgotten the traditional horrors of the monk-
-BYstem. The abominations of the confessional could
hotte be obliterated. The rank stall and the convenient
te as remained as the monuments of earlier depravity,
the the nation was exasperated into a fever at the bare
en_ tight of any countenance or revival of such priestly
renv°rtnities. 'raking these peculiar circumstances into'
t,olew--,-seeing how the ministers of WILLIAM the
Fi_llltTli are imitating the conduct of CHARLES the
"1.---seeing that popery, in its death-struggle with
°f its
is fixing its claws upon the descendants
its Its earliest antagonists—making Lord JOHN RUSSELL
101_,D0Ppet—Lord SPENCER its newly desecrated slave—
ti:„.tbe priests of Ireland the masters of the dictator of
0.1.4-ing's servants—seeing all this, how can we shut
juv eyes to the natural consequences ? We do not fear the
ances of Romish idolatry; but we dread the liberal con-
thssions of those who-profess to be opposed to it. We fear
je.,,e°nsequences of the prevailing levity on religious sub-
racr-, which began during the late reign, and was encou-
atged by certain dissolute and heartless characters
"lit For the errors of that fatal favouritism England
to" Yet to suffer. The spawn of it are radically opposed
the established institutions of the country. The
their
race, who live upon their father's baseness, and
rr Mother's easy virtue, are radical reformers. What