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LONDON:
xo[fo•T 'VINING, JO Nlf 4, 1822.

STOCK EXCHAIJVOE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
This day. Consols are shut fur the payment of the
dividends, is eossegnenee of which there is very little
' business doing. The Russian declaration of war, io
the papers this morning, has not had the least effect on
the market. It is supposed to be a trick played off at
Paris, to depress the Russian Loan. Had the above
document been authentic, the City Chancellor would
have been in possession of it, long before it could have
been publicly known. The reverse, however, was the

fact; for yesterday afternoon, the above gentleman on
learning at his office, that the Brokers were baying
the Russian Bonds, instantly repaired to 'Change,
and bid 81 for a hundred thousand of them. This
manceuvre had some effect, and raised them to about 82,
bat there not being many purchasers then, any more
than this morning, they lowered again.—Coosols for
the Account are 80 to i ; for money 794 to I.
FOREIGN MARKET.
The S:ock most in demand is still the Chili. There
Is somewhat more doing this morning in Spanish Old
and'Neet Bonds, but in all other foreign securities
the Market is rather slack. It is not decided as yet
who are to have the Portugal Loan.
Spanish, Old - - - - 6041
New
New Russia - - - ETA to 89
Prussia, -
Dauish - - : Rh
Nespolliaa - - - - 7ti to 79
m Co:ubla - inn
New

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.
Nothing in the LORDS worthy of particular atten-
tion; hot in tether place a good many topics of a■
interesting ware, which topics we shall notice la
the order in which they followed each other during
the sight.
LIMO:SING Srssex.--A petition was presented
from .a man I. Norfolk, who had been rained by
having his license refused to be renewed, in conse-
quence of the interference of the parson of the pariah.
When will something be done to prevent this descrip-
tion of men from zneclling.witls every Mime
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—ME. COILS presested a
petition and remonstrance from the Hundred of North
r Greenboe in the county of Norfolk,compleioing of tax-
ation and praying for Reform. This appears to have
been a stinger. The complainants give a strong pie-
tire of the harrassiogs and cruelty of taxation; and
complained that a the produce of that taxation was
" lavished to obtain corrupt majorities in that House;
" majorities, which, at all times, were willing to sup-
•' port the me:sores of any Minister. however corrupt
" anti tyrannical ; and to oppose every motion that
" hail for its object to lessen the burtbens of the peo-
" ple." They further stated that " the produce of
" the taxes was also employed to keep up • military
" force in time of peace, solely for the purpose of
" sobtluing the constitutional spirit of a justly indig-
a Rant people ; and that the petitioners looked with
" abhorrence on the nominees of the Peers and other
Borough proprietors sitting ■nd voting in that
" House, against the liberties of the country, against
4A eta real interests of the Crows and of the people."
r-omark above all others to make here is, that
this temonstramee comes, not from radicals ; not from
jacobins ; not from manufacturers in the north, who
• are ace Ned of being misguided by demagogues; but
from the "menet& and occupiers of load" in that
county of England which. above all others. is famed
for its skill io agriculture and for the great masses of
property collected its the hands of the occupiers of land.
It canes from a county that feeds itself and
other amities into the bargain; it comes, In short,
from men whe have immense quantities of property
at stake, and it speaks now precisely the same language
that was spoken by a million and a half of reformers
la 1817, who. on account of this very language. were
&teased. by both Houses of a design to destroy all
property—Mr. Faseman/La opposed the receiving of
this petitios. Mr. Cuaw•ss defended the petition,
and said that it could not be denied that seats in that
Hone were bouglst sod sold. If the House wished to
preserve its dignity, he said, the way was to remove
the costs of imputations. the truth of which could
not be denied.—Mr. limas very sensibly observed
that the petition was in error where it stated that
Moog was squandered to support the iefistenes of the
Mime. It was net to support that indeence, be said,

THE

NESNIAN:

' bet to sipped the Masse. of the Borough faction.
LAITLII/tItAOH said that the petition was not oily in
the tone of remonstrance hut of insult. Mr. Ca V
COS'S' and Sir R. WILSON supported the petition.—
Mr. WYNN (another of the (tttanvi•Las) opposed the
petition,aud said that its allegations amounted to justifi-
cation of a rebellion; and that if the facts alleged were
true, &tat business had the !base to sit there? Now,
Mr. eellll EN had positively asserted that the facts were
troy, and so had Mr. CONE. So that we may leave this
question of Mr. WYNN to be answered by those who,
with Six Acts. Wore their eyes, dare venture upon
giving the proper answer. Sir Joon Ns",-.eoet went a
great way in logically establishing the allegations. Mr.
Peet. said that if they were to he told that that Hasse was
filled with a parcel of placetnen and pensioners, who met
there for the purpose of supporting a system of tax.
ation end corruption, there was an cad of the priri
leges of the House.—Mr. Jo II N SMITH (Carrington)
" Now to this, now to that side, leaning."
said the petition was right an that it was wrong;
but that, he wished the petition to be received. It
was finally rejected upon a division, there being 89
against it and 55 for it.—But then Mr. Cosa came
on again, with a petition from the county of Norfolk
itself for Parliamentary Reform. He said that, after
the rejection of the former petition, be could hardly
suppose that that which be was now presenting would
be received by the same persons. This petition, after
givinx a desoription of the House of Commons, still
stronger than that given by the former petition, had
this passage, which the Reporter says was received
with loud cheers :—" Any Minister who is base eooegb
" to assist io harrying on such a system of thivern•
" merit deserves the execration of every'honest man,
" as a traitor to his Sovereign, and an enemy to his
" country; the safety and the glary of the Crown of
" England resting not upon a rotten system of For.
" ruptioo, but upon the uninfluenced support of a free,
" enlightened, and loyal people."—Yet. this petition
was ordered to lie on the table and be printed, with-
out a single voice being raised against it.—Thee,
then, the ronnties ; the occupiers aid owners of land,
are at last brought to see that their only chance of
preserving any part of their property is, in adopting
measures agreeably to the prayers of those worthy
objects of the famous imprisonment Bill of 1817.
The fact is this ; the landlords and farmers
sow see that the masa of the people will never
mood to a reduction of the interest of the debt.
Boles, that mass be previously restored to their
rights; they now see, that they most lose, the one
their capital and the other their estates, unless the
people have their right of voting at elections. This
is what pats them in motion. And a very justifiable
motive it is. The people on their side; and inflict,
larly the Reformers in the north. bad resolved some-
time age, to petition this sew House so most bid
eireessetesees most alter opinion I end we are of opinion., ,
that the reformers of the north will find it wise to Join
the owners and occupiers of laid in petitioning for
reform when the Parliament shall meet again. If we
should have the pleasure of seeing another meeting for
Reform upouPertsdo wn-hillove shall not see,we imagine,
yeomanry cavalry corps drawn up io the' valley,
prancing about and brandishing their swords. If the
petition agreed to upon that Hill In 1817 had bees
listened to, the great number of farmers that hare
been totally ruined would not have been reined ; and
the great number of landlords that have already lost
their estates would not have lost those estates. As an
argument for passing the terrible imprisonment-till
of 1817, Sinseocan told the Lords that be bad sub-
mitted all the cheap publications of a certain descrip-
tion to the law-officers of the Crown : and that be was
sorry to say that he could find nothing in them to
prosecute with a chance of success ! There is not a
just man in England who does not bear this In mind,
and make the cause of the writer aimed at his own. I
Well ! Those cheap publications ; those publications
that SIDMOUSU was sorry were not criminal in I
the eye of the law ; those publications, the
legal innocence of which was made an argument
for the passing of that terrible Bill, inculcated
the same truths that are now thrusted into the teeth
of the Parliament by the owners and opulent occu-
piers of the land ; only the inculcation was in lanl
guage infinitely mere measured and less offensive to
the pride of the Parliament. Let no one is futile
have tie folly and the baseness to talk of Loma,.
Orders. In all times and in all countries where groit
and salutary changes bare taken plater, the labouring
ela Aare led the way. The historical truth of this
assertioe, as well as the causes of this being the case,
were /aid fully before Lord Him in those three let-
ters addressed to him is the Political Register in the
fall of 1820. His Lordship was thee told, that no
change of a good tendency had ever had a begianing
except with the labouring classes; and it was pre-
dicted there, that if the farmers saved a remnant of
their capital, and the ancient families their titles 'and
a remnant of their estates, they would owe that Beira-
tiondo the exertions of the labouring cl .
Ilis-
Lordship must now, we think, be satisfied with the
truth of all this. He mast see. and we are sure that
he does see, that unless the labouring classes obtain
their rights, and that to their full extent, too, there
will speedily come on such ruin, inch trouble, such
turmoil, such confusion sod uproar, that all must go
to pieces like a ship upon the rocks, agreeably to the
memorable prediction of the Register in 1817. We.
for our own part, biota, and know well, what is felt and
what is thought, and what is wished for, throughout


the whole of the kingdom of Egghead and Scotland ;
sod we are perfectly satisfied, that if the Boron/ h int n
do not give way, and that, goalie a very short spate
of time, they, above aU others, will Lave to lain • nt their
blind and long condoned obstinacy. If any of them
imagine that they can deceive the people by Tavern
dinners and big ta!k, they ere very much deceived
themselves. ft is not the babble of despicable rump
committees that intrigue for hire to get the sons tf
tat-eaters thrusted into the Howe, and call it purity of
election. It is not any humbugs of this sort, or any
empty vapour about LAVAIATTIES and the °reeks and
the devil knows what. It is not this that will satisfy
the people, who want to see as their representatives a
set of men chosen by themselves, men of sense, of is•
dastry, of pal, and animated by a feeling which would
constantly make them set every- thing at nought,
u hen compared with the happiness, the safety and
the greatness of their country. This and this only
trill satisfy the people, and with this and nothing
short of it they ought to be satisfied, for without it
the country meet be a miserable heap of ruin earl be•
come an object of insult aid of scorn with all the rest
of mankind.

The other topics of the night (for night it always is)
we must teams ■ntll tomorrow.
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Paris papers to the 2J instant have arrived. From
the protracted state of the negociatiens between Rus-
sia and the Porte, and the want of official information
respecting their bearings, a wide Gehl is opened for
spoliation and the fabrication of intelligence. Pri-
vate letters from Paris, as we stated yesterday, an-
nouneed. it was said, that the present opinion in that
capital was that hostilities between the disputing par-
ties were inevitable; and the Coastitritionocf contains,
under date Frankfort-snr-le-Mein, May 2S, a docu-
ment, which was probably the foundation of the ru-
mour. This document purports to be a mote addreseed
by the Emperor Alexander to the Allied Powers, but
does not present itself in an authentic shape. _The
Editor thus prefaces the article:—
" Yesterday, at noon, a packet, containing the an-
nexed doom:sent, was put icto the box of the Coasfilu-
tioaar•l. It is written in French, and is not the manu-
script of our general Frankfort Correspondent ; it bears
no signature, no evident sign of authenticity ; we give
it eltactly as it came into our bands, and shall merely
observe, that we have no more reason to think that this
document is genuine, than we have to suppose that it is
apocryphal."
From the douhtfal eh trader under which the docu-
ment appears, and the contradictory intelligence which
we have occasion to , we deem it unnecessary to
give the article at length It is dated St. Petersbarg,
2J (11th) of May, 1922, and after stating the princi-
ples by which the Emperor has been influenced in the
aegociation with the Ottoman Porte, and the m
is which the latter has declined or eluded the just de-
;wands of the Emperor and his allies, this document
tl us concludes :—" The Emperor will not re
his objeet--•the eremite of treaties. This execatiow,
leefesed to 'enecillateer rebel% be will obtain, with
the sit of Divine Providerice, by means consistent wit►
the dignity of his Crown, the magnanimity of his allies,
the courage sad ardour of his subjects."—The question-
able shape in which this article is presented is, how-
ever. rendered more than dubious by the intelli-
gence which has subsequently arrived. At a late
boar last light as express from Paris brought the
.letetriano6serrer oftbe 22d alt. which announces that
advice. of the 10th front Jassy direct, bad arrived
at Vienna, stating that the order of the Ports for
the tins of Moldavia had been publicly made
known there os the bth, and that on the following
day, in consequence of this order, 2,900 of the Asiatic
troops commenced their retreat. There remained in
July one thbosaad five hundred men ender the com-
mand of Chursebid Ahmed Aga,whiela were to form the
rear of the retiring arusy.---The news from Sain is satis-
factory. In the capital complete tranquillity prevails, ,
and in the provinces the factious are compelled
to disperse before the troops. Letters of the 20th ult.
state, that the Spanish tiovernmeht had concluded a
treaty with that of Portugal, by o hich the latter tm!
gaged to supply Spain with troops in case she should
stand in need of them—ln France preparations were;
making for the meeting of the Legislature and the
opening of the Session, which was to take place
this day. It is supposed that it will be of short du-
ration, and the intention of the Ministers inclining the
Chambers together so early after the close of the
last Session, is said to be the wish of patting an end
to the practice of applying for an advarce of half
the amount of the taxes at the beginning of the
year, by making arrangements of a snore general
nature. The number of conflagrations once more
increases. Twenty limo were burnt dawn on the
23d alt. at the village of Reason, in the Department
of the Meuse, and in other places considerable daa.age
has also been occasioned.

Faaxcu Fusns, Jun it I.—Vice per Cent. Consols
opened at S9f. 80c.; lowest, 89f. 65c.; closed at Md.
70c.—Exchange on London, one numb. 25f. 35c. ;
three months, 25f. 15c.

The King left town yesterday for his Cottage on
Windsor Forest. His Majesty, we hear, will return
to Carlton House on Monday next, fur the Levee and
Drawing Room. On Friday the King will proceed
to Brighton. It is not the intention of the King to
remain there longer than the time nee ee aa y to show
the interior of the Pavilion, and give a dinner to the
Prince and Princess of Denmark.

The Doke of York left town yesterday for Hatiands,
where his Royal Highness will remain during the As-
cot Heath Races. His Royal Highness will have nu-
merous dinner parties daily during the time. A wag-
gon load of ice has been sent from London there fur
the occasion.

The diamond cross, lost by the Counte.s of Jersey,
it is understood, bas been found. is was picked up.
it is said, at the top of Lansdowne-passage, in Iteri,e,
lay-square. An inspection, the principal stoue was
subsing ; bat, fortunately, a ser►ant being sent with a
broom, the identical gem was also disco►ered. 'f he
(crass is valued at a thousand pintas. The finder re-
eel ved fifty.

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