The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-28 00:00:00

COURT Oii—C-11.61-6-;;WV, AlAncti 27.

THE PORTSMOUTH CASE.
TIT ATTORNEY-GENERAL prated t..at hit I.or,Wis
siool.l he plea.e.l to confirm the Aiister's It Tort ski v..,
case, for the app..int tieht of a Cousa.luee.
Mr. TREsLOVE, who iippeu•ed fur the other side, t
opposing,
l'he LORD CHANCELLOR arviesce I.
Mr. Henry Fellowes (of S,titersetshire), no ittrite(i:4:.t
relation to the lustily, ha., we believe, been appoin
to the office.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MARCH 27.

COLOMBIAN BONDB.—•DOLLERET V. HERRING AND Co.
Mr. HART applied to the Court, on the part of the
plaintiff, who is a holder of Colombian Bonds to a con-
siderable amount, for an order to compel the defendants,
who were Contractors for the Colombian Loan, to dealar;t
by affidavit the amount of the Funds at present in the; e
hands, on account of the Loan, and the amount of ilia
dividends they had paid to the holders of Bonds.
Mr. lieu., on behalf of the defendants; opposed Cot
application, which he argued was unnecessary fur. she
security of the plaintiff, aed by the alarm, winch gra•e-
ing it would probably excite, would operate to depve-
(fiats the price of the Bonds, and by consequence injnye,
not merely the plaintiff, but all the other holders. ne
Court had already made an order to govern the contlect
of the defendants in the disposal of the fonds in t!me r
hands, and the payment of the dividends, and that sliouid
be consieered a sufficient security for the plaiuti.l, as
the Court would enforce its own order.
The Vice-Cmaticehhoa sail, lie WAS not aware wbat
effect granting the order might have on the pie, of too
bonds, or the money market, but it was material that it
would probably hare at least some effeer. An order h.t.l
already hewn made in the cause which gave the pialtithr
all the security he could require from the Coact, for
iad
payment of his dividends,; un thls ground, therefore,
and also oil the grolad, that in a subs...pent sratt of
the proceedings, an inquiry might talce place that would
ascertain more conveniently time state of the facts on
which information was now sought witilout prejudic)to
the interests of third parties who were not before the
Court, he mast refuse tie present application.

SUICIDE IN THE COMPTEK. —A man of the :tante of
JVm. Cooper, wins had been taken to the till:sem-street
Coinpter, on Wednesday night, charged with several un-
equivocal acts of indecency towards the person of 4 emu
who lodged in the same room with him, and w. • front
the nature of the charge had been looked up far the night
in a separate room by himself, was found yesterday
morning, when the keeper went to unlock the tell, quite
dead, baying suspended 'liftmen by his silk haisdk-ratiief
from the top tit the inner-door. A Cortme.'s I r .uest wit
be held upon the body on Saturday.
Yesterday morning a young man, named Payne. son
to a cow-keeper in Kentish town, was found haticTog in
his father's cow-house. He was cut does
iunur,Jiatriy
on being discovered, and a neighbouring surgeon .sent
for, who opened a vein, and used the necessary means for
restoring suspended animations his success, as he was
restored to liie. it is said that •he cause of his comm.*,
ling the act was his father's disapproving of his marry-
ing a young woman in that town to whom he nas vto-
'early attached.
Sultana or w YouTH —Lint evening an inquest was
hell at tile house of Air. Hill, llervick-stre.u, ou the ho I y
of %V. Hill, his son, who put at► end to his existence by
hanging Itimielf. Verdict The deceased hanged
himself in a state of inertial derangement."
Wednesday morning part ofns small new hum., •rect-
ing with others in one of the ti-Ids near the Coburg
Pheatre, gyve way, and three men, who were employed
underneath, we c dreadfully bruised by the tiinners,
,ricks, and other building sulterills falling upoulliens.
One of the men was so seriously injured, that it was
fuunl neces,ary to carry him for surgical assistaace.

• MAILS.
ADD. bill ARR. DUE.
L.... Dublin 0 I ....Bollend ........ 0
o....Waterford.• • —2 0.... H a mbro ........ 0
0.... G & Jersey I. 0.... France ......... 0
0.... Lisbon 0 0.... Fla nders ..... —0
o....Gottenburg . 2 0. .. . M alto 0

GOOD PalaAv.—Holiday at Ike Bask.

vv, ibtatelsntan.

FRIDAY. EVENING, MARCH 28, 1823.
PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
The House o• CoMWONI met last night, contrary to
• our expectation; for we thought it bad adjourned the
night before; when the Leaps did. It adjourned. how-
ever,last night, fer a fortnight; but this adjournment
became matter of debate. Lord Archibald Hamilton pro-
posed to shorten the period of the adjournment, on ac-
count of the state of our foreign affairs. He took this op-
portunity of going a good deal into the subject of these af-
fairs, and spoke particularly of those guarantees of
oar's for the security of the Throne of the Bourbons. Lord
Archibald was followed by Mr. Macdonald, who indulged
himself in a very eloquent philippic against the Bourbons.
This gentleman talked about it and about it; " about it,
•8 goddess, and about it ;" be hated the conduct of the Bone.
bons ; he would defend the Spaniards against the Bone,
bons ; in short, he made a most famous speech against
the Bourbons and for the Spaniards; but he took spe-
cial care not to say that we ought to go to war against
the Bourbons and for the Spaniards!—What meanetb,
then, all this talk? " Why walketh man in
.a vain sha-
dow and disquieteth himself in vain ?" Dear Mr.
Macdonald, if you bad read me instead of the Moriing
Chronicle, you would have found, long ago, that the French
are a people that pay no attention to those who fight with
p ,per pallets ; and that, unless you be ready to say, that our
Ministers ought to bavegone to war to prevent the inva-
sion of Spain, those Ministers have an answer for you at
any moment when they choose to take the trouble to
give it ; and that, if they choose, they may save them-
selves that trouble; for the nation will have answered
yeti for them. Yon put a good many questions to Mr.
Canning; and he, bothered a little, perhaps, by the gout,
seems a little pettish and impatient. Let him take my
advice: let him turn questioner, in place of answerer;
and let him put the following questions to the Grand
Bench of Whigs.
1. Did its: you approve of all the treaties that were
made in 1914 and 1815?
2. Were you not as noisy as the rest in receiving the
maker of those treaties ?
3. Did you not approve of all the sums voted to tiff
great hero of Waterloo, and did you not in some measure
compel the Ministry to vote him My thousand pounds
more than the Ministry themselves proposed to vote
him?
4. Did you not approve of the seizure of the statues
and pictures ?
5. Did you ever offer one word in opposition to any of
Ouse guarantees which were given to the House of
Bourbon ?
6. To go no further at present,,answer me this one
creation, and answer it not in a whig-like manner; but
answer it directly : ought we to go to war to prevent
the invasion of Spain? Now, do not shuffle; pray do
not shuffle; let me have your answer direct ; and if you
will not answer me that qnestion in a direct manner,
you may question me to all eternity, for I will never give
you an answer again.
Mr. MACDONALD does not appear to have been at all
ready to answer this question. He, on the contrary,
says, that " it may be wise for us to" look on and allow
" the French fanatics to waste the resources of France."
" Oh ! ho it might be wise, he said, also, '5 to avoid
" rousieg the angry feelings of two great and jealous
• " nations." Oh !oh ! It might be prudent, he said,
" for us to abstain from war." Well, then, abet blame
is there done to the Ministers? If we find, as lam
sure we shall find, that they have been, begging, pray-
ing, coaxing, wheedling, flattering, cajoling, and doing
every thing that men could do, without powder end ball,
to prevent the French from marching into Spain ; if we
find this, what blame hs any thing calling itself a whig,
to cast upon the Ministers ? Let the whigs man.
fully say, you ought to go to war ; and
then the Ministers will have to defend them-
selves; but they need no defence against men,
who dare not tell them that they ought to go to
war; and there is not a whig that dares tell them this.
Te whole of the stock•jobbing press is against war;
because it knows that there cannot be war without a to-
tal breaking up of the great gambol. Mr. MACDONALD
seems to think that there is great efficacy in our prayers.
He said, " that the hearts and the prayers of the people
•, of England were with Spain ; and that we might earn-
" ratty say, Goo prosper the righteous cause." This,
then, is what tie Spaniards have to expect from the
Whigs; and very comforting it must be to them, of
course. Mr. MACDONALD threw out some sarcasms
on the nature of the Bourbon Government ; but it is
the Morning Chronicle that is the great dealer in this
article: It means, we understand, to accept of our
challenge, and to endeavour to show, that the present
French Government is less free than the present English
Government. We wait with great impatience for this
endeavour ; and if it be made out to our satisfaction
that the French people be less free thee we are, we shall
then begin to believe it possible, that extensive discon-
tents exist in France. A belief which, at present, we
confess we do not entertain.

CONSPIRACY IN THE FRENCH ARMY.
With as much confidence as the statements were made
relative to the Cato-street Conspiracy, have the state-
ments been wale, relative to this conspiracy in the
French army. The Morning Chronicle of to-day, with
that amiable simplicity for which it is so remarkable,
gives us in its private correspondence from Paris, the
following passage, " You will think it scarcely credible
" that it is from you, and from your neighbours in the
" heart of London, that the great majority of the
" people of Pails hear their own news."-1 be-
lieve it with all my goal ! News which they
*ever would hear, if it were not first fabricated and