The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-19 00:00:00

MID I itti . —Lirrnai 111.

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Thou de'et Witt lies the Oleos, lersik.
By pradle. hardeeed Is the alsoderiag trade.
Divers.

ioartiz IinITOR OF TITS ST tTESMAN.
Nta—la whatever light the rote of the Hotta of

Coumsoas of Tallioday night may beef:moldered, no one
conversant with the system could have reasonably com
temple/tit a Merest result. Indeed the numbers, as
well ab the persons, who are to vote on each side of
any 'pettier' of this nature, is which liberty and
justice ere eoneensed, are pretty accurately known by
anticipation. Therese% however, of such divisions,
although they fogy not be calcuhaterl to obtain their
lateirSliate objects, are highly beneficial to the com-
munity, • They serve praetically to demonstrate the
. real cartes of the calamities of the country, in the
nature of the prevailing system of oligarchic misrule,
unJ the extretsse peelligasy of the persons, who are its
principal tools and agents. In this view, I regret
that the friends of liberty anti justice should not have
thought it necessary, onehe qtrestion of the Liturgy,
to have a call of the Bosse. If the enemies of freedom
had net been assured that mach a Inteaaure would have
en injurioes to their cense, ran any one doubt that
therrgould have adopted it ? For then themeasuremnst
Lave beset unnecessary, Moire their mercenaries would
feel therasetves romprtltd to attead without a call of
the House, whilst to the nese of justice it might
hare been nseful, even in respect to the number of
votes, since it is reasonable to presume that many of
those who stayed atsay, if they had been compelled
I,y a call of the House to attend, would, as they are
but strictly mercenaries, have felt it necessary to com
stilt their reputations, by voting on the side ognstice.
~t any rate, it could not have made any difference
1.; featly unfavourable to the Queen: for, if we even
• .prov her, by a call of the Homo., to have lost a
t..c votes, this lu-st would have been more than cons•
pvtisated for by the full exposition. which it would
1. ice occasioned, of the character of every individual
_ _

Member of that House. Upon questions of inch vital
iots.crtatice, it is not feir treatment of the public, not
Ili have a call of theJlonse, since they are, by the omis-
o'on, prevent's! from forming a judgment of the charec-
t..r of the se isidividuals who stay away, anti since the
r',;:r te:er of every individual Member, ought for ever
to be stanipe.l, in the minds of the people, aceotditig to
Lis sloe upon sorts ao occasion. But other opportu-
nities o ill °noir, as at the discussion respecting the
iippieintusPnt of the Milan Commission, anti the other
Is anclirs of the conspiracy against the Queen, and
0 at which it invoices against the constitution of these
r.-.,t!ots, which it is to he hopeti will not be neglected,
to. preforming this duty to the public.
I ant farther sorry, Sir, not to be able to approve of
retain measures recently adopted by the legal advisers
es her illajesty, to which, on the contr:srv„ I see very
s'-tong objections. I mean the proseention of those
t:t.vaded wretches, the tools of her Slejesty'i pees,-
rotor+, -- parson Illacow, Cornier, The
'itorPin:'. Post. 111,1 a certain Sunday Paper, which
serum to he the legitiessote sitreessor of " Pere
P.-rke....," of the Preach Hevolutiort. Such prose-
folio*, are unnecessary, beton''e the public do not be-
I eve a word of :he scandal which is disseminated
tSrutigh those notoriously polluted vehicles; and be-
c.::tse the independent Press is fully able, and forms
l.y far the most aprropriate channel through which to
g:ve a good account of these Ministerial scavengers.
Iley are, indeed, as I before. repeatedly observed, un-
worthy of any species of serious notice; and ought to
be left exclusively to the infliction of that ridi-
c,.le and contempt, with which they are sure
to be overvolieltusd. In the pious work of detaining
Lc:- Majesty, anti those lathes who visit her, as well
as tbose writers rho advocate her cause, some of the
oride-dnensop of the oligarchy, as rumour
affirms, consist of outlaws, who have been defaulters
of public money to an emir 666666 is amount, and, after
f.aring been sent home in irons, by governors of die-
ta.st provinces, to be tried for stealing the public
siores, expect frosts the system not only to be par-
doned, hot rewarded, for committing the new, anti
more horrible crime of moral assassination. If rumour
I.e nut here correct in respect to the identity of the
twroots, it does nut at any rate exaggerate in respect i
to their baseness: fur, no public defaulter, can be so
I :le as a hired sbooderer. Many of your readers will 1.
donbtles• recollect a libeller by profession of a similar
description, the. editor of an infamous publication
whose avocation consisted in
I 'Pitying every pnblic spirited !serum, who opposed
qt. prevailing system of misrule, and who was some
sears ago rewarded, by Lord Castlereagh, with a
to the United States of America. In the
present stage of corruption, I hold it to be much wiser
it tlie friends of freedom to &norther sites reptile.,
to the unbiassed tribnnal of the ;Intone, than to risk
tl a danger, by a forms: prowess, of enrountering a
pselted jury, or even the grejodiers on the Item+, in
'tor Courts, of Law. I have besides this great objec-
tion to attacking those hireliwgs, be any regular torus
4.1 process, criminal as they are ; that it is their ens-
pavers; who ought in honor to be attacked in their
Isttiesses. and dragged before the public, however
fie+ Ate.' their stations, or apparently great their
pit% er. I *Ay 4' apparently," because as all power
al• pelvis on public opinion, where it is in active ope-
ration. and as public opinion is at this moment in
active iyeration in this Conntry,- that power, which
is exercised in direct defiance of public opinion,
;oust he only apparent, not reel ; whereas the
eitievery of the law otiglit, as we have seen in
heveral cares; not of very ancient date, 'cloddy elude-
the salutary Willow, of public opinion. We have, in
our own t!ays, seen Judges give charge+, anti Juries
retern verdicts, which would be a disgrace to any to
or nation,. whilst the opinion of a great niajority of the
;wino has been .loudly pmnottneed against their pro-
ceedings. Fur all these reasons, but still more bes:anse
nu pretence ought to be afforded by the friends of the
Queen, of jostler, and of freedom, to the enemies of
uiankind, for attempting to eirentnocribe the liberty of
the Press, (which it is impossible, excepting in the
opines:Po of'Sir W. Curtis and tilt Pitt Clubs, that we
shoo hi possess, wiriest Wier sobjret to its lierstioos-
new) I cannot, isfiesomi as i am at present, subscribe
the propriety, espalioasy, or wisdom, oa the part

THE STA'

of the legal mitlatip o j tb* chive, o(•fft4ertil!6*
of 4444 motaailit offoimiti ripotatiott.4 41.
I must here tee*, althaugh ammewisat to
of the characteristic maneetteres of them, sinetssirf
tniscresol%. with a view to delude the public mind, mid
.t 0 blunt its indignation on the subject of that most
atrocious tribunal, the Milan Commission. I ailed*
to the story of the attempted aseassinatiou of Colonel
Browne, got up Acme time agn by The rewrite. If it
be true, nho are the probable perpetrators' Who
are the most interested in the death of Colonel Browne?
Certainly not the Queen and her friends. Living,
he cannot hurt them. His death might beinjnelons.
He might be prevented from betraying his employers.
Colonel Browne may have, in his own justifiration, to !
produce dnetotents and evidence, which might deeply
intplicate higher criminals. The prevent/eh of thii,
by au untimely death, would he injnrious to the Queen.
Who, then, I repeat, are interested in the death of
Colonel Browne, or the destruction of his papers--
the Queen, or her enemies? None hut an idiot coo
fail to see this in its true point of view. For my
part, I should he sorry to suspect any other thaacom-
moo robbers of an attempt against this person's life.
lint, since The Cow rirr nyikes thelirst attack, his hue
insinuations shall be more than repelled; These are,
like all the rest of their hypocrisy, the treasonable
placards--the blasphemy and sedition--the %mho
Idered to his Majesty—the incitement of the ignorant
and discontented by cis and informers—all their
own contrivances. attempted to be fixed upon a loyal
and generous and most patient people. If this state-
ment be true, then, if jibe nut altogether a fabrication,
The courier will know where to look for the perpe-
trators, with a lunch better chance of disemering
them than among the friemls of the Quern. lint, it
i 4 probably altozether ae invention; and hrmtght out,
at the present pinch, as a forlorn hope, by the mi-
serable barks of corruption, in their pliretizy and
despair. ARIATIDIES.

DUNI, AT CIIALK FARM. •

An sitecention tint had male .Dyne noise in the
ti-
terary tturhl, between 31r. John Sentt, the avowed Edi•
tor of naleltria's illnrazine, and Mr. John
Wilson loekliart, the sit pposed conductor of B/ocktenorta
Ettiobwrgh .114r;q:ioe, le.l to a C(lflfliet hrlWrea the
former gentleman, and 31r. Uhristie, a friend of the lat-
ter, whirls has been prodnetive of very melancholy con-
sequences. The rouse of this new quarrel is stated to
leave been nn otfensiie letter add d 11)• Mr. Christi!
personally to 3!r. Scott ~u Friday afternmbn. A retest--
Mimi was demanded by 11r. Scott, which was refuted.
In consequence of this, it would appear, an appointment
of a hostile nature was arr.togerl by moonlight that
evening ; for about Itslf-past nine, that night. tun post-
chaises were seen waiting hear the spot in the Damp-
stead-road, and, shortly after, the ostler at the Chalk
Farm Tavern saw two gentlemen pus the house and go
towards the fields at the foot of Primrose-hill. About

the same flume tan other ;Lentlettorn carte into the TA-
rent and desired a tire might he lighted in a particular
room which they pointed out. This being immediately
done. they ordered a isottle of port wine, which they
drank off, anal then desiring the lire might be kept up
as they repented to retorn speedily ; they left the house,
taking the same directinn as the two fornwr gentlemen.
The ostler. atiapertior •ornetliinr wrung, entintwilitelitert
his suspicious to the proprietor of mime Tavern, cad then
followed the 7entiesnett to the fields; lout heforeiteeame
tip to them he heard shots fired, and alien he reached the
spot, one gentleman (Mr. Soot) was 4.iiik on the ground
apparently in a dying Mato, and covere.l over wills a
large roqweloire. 'The whole party now assisted in
conveying the wounded person into the Tavern. In
the mean time Mr. Watson, jilt. son of the tavern-keeper
had been despatched for au officer of the. Police, anti
Mr. Christie teaming this circoonstanee immediately
drove off, IrovinE• his set fond, stiffs the wounded man.
In about half arm ho tr Mr. Walloon, jun. returned, ac-
companied by Mr. Pornder, a surgeon of Camden town,
and J. Davis, one of the patrol. sir. P. intrimeriiately esa•
mined the ttonnd, and found that time ball 11311 entered
on the right %isle of the abrionn n, a little ;those the hip
bone, passim nearly through to time oilier hip, amid
causing a grrat effusion of blood. lie immediately merle
known his fr !rs that the wound might prove gym-tat,
and desired that other assistance might be immemltatrly
procured. Accort;ingly, Mr. Brooks, of Blenheim•
street, was sent for, and at the same time a nate was
sent to Mrs. Scott, st ho arrived very shortly, as did Mr.
Brooks, hot no attempt was made to extract the hull
that evening. tin Saturday morning early Mr. Brooks
again visited his patient. accompanied by Dr. Bree, and
in the conrse of the day these ...elide-men made seeeral
reports, in person, to the Magistrates at How-street. It is
understood that throngisont the day Mr. N. was labouring
tinder such an accession of fever, that they did not deem
it prudent to attempt any surgical operation. •in the
evening, however, they hail another consultation, con-
jointly with Dr. linthrie. when the fever was found to
Rare subsided eonsideratolv, amid it was determined, if
these favourable appearatores milli:uteri, to attempt the
extraction of time hall early on time following morning.
Accordingly at nine o'elotek yesterday morning the hail
was sefely extracted by Mr. Brooks, in the presence of
Drs. liree and Guthrie : and tie have the sstisfactittes of
stating, that the patient is now cus.idetretl Iv be in a fair
way of recovery.

ES GLISHISMS.

-maw-
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STATERM AN.

gli—Aswonorst the mane• EnglisAisms 1 larosr so con-
stantly in London, and fr tlo,• most consequential per-
sons too, is float migh►y diienifitd expression " a gloss.
coaels.- As my ambition, like all my countrymen, is
not only to get :hat .of noy Grelpf• , but to adopt all the
Cockneyisms I possibly ran. prcvloonsly to my return to
Dublin, I n ill lake it as a great fAvor indeed if you will,
through your classical Paper. let me know, may I not
by the imam rear that my friends in floe Ponitry sad
Mincing-lane say " a glass rowel,." say " a ►lass
Anise." to an house that Lai g1.A016 windows! such
an exprevoion, red loot from " LwAra." would 1w a
splendid importation to the land of Shamrocks, were
niae•tenths of floe winolons :►re glazed with HOICK sod
rtAisTra, to avoid dor veligvanCr of " the Ilectrelo4nre
Ministers.'" hatred to the LIGHT, commonly called the
WINDOW f: PATRICK IMISOIiRIIR.
I Oa°.

Ire under.tanil that )Jr. Wyse. a Yuan Castleman
ofconablerable talent, the head of the Waterford fa-
mily uf that Dame, and pusaraaing considerable es-
tates in that county, a ill *hardy receive in,paarriaare
the hand uf Letitia, the fiJnghter ut Lucian itnnoa-
parte, a "lonic lady of cutibidorable beatify atul for-
tune. Mr. Wye is a &man Catholic, and
gnished himself oath In our late Historical Society.
—(Ftiessea's J•sernal.)

I pORZATILIt AT LONDON 111100111 Tialowanew.
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LONDON:
!MONDAY Evrxtmr., Prllltl'AßT 19, li?1.

In the house of Commons en Fri Oar, a discossioa
of considerable interest took place in consetluence of
the Bill brought in by Mr. KaNtssor, fur altering tba
mode of proceeding in Criminal Trials in Scotland.—
In the course of the discussion the Lone Anvocata
took occasion 'to state the advantages which the accused
is Scotland possessed above parties similarly situated
in England ; and instanced particularly that whisk
had been refused to the application of the Qualm, a
list of the names of the witnesses that were to support
the prosecution. This accommodation, for which there
were peculiar reasons in the proceedings against her
MAJESTY. was, as we stated, when that !Mild is her
MAJIIVIT'S case was argnrd, admitted in the case of
every criminal trial in Scotland. Favourable, how-
ever, as tl.e law and practice of criminal justice may,
in that and one or two other instances, be to the at-
ruled in that part of the United Kingdom, it is mini.
fest that the prerogative exercised by the Judge of
selecting Jurors from a limited list made out by an.olll-
- of the Crown, and the denial of the right of !treetop-
ehallrege on the part of the accused, mnstoperate
most se;iously to the injury of a prisoner in eery case
where personal, party, or political prejudice runs
against the charges which are brought against hint.—
At the present time, and indeed, at all times when any
strong exertions made in favour of Reform. are liable
to be construed into arts of sedition, and any jest and
indignant expression in print against unworthy and
mischievous rulers may be indicted as a libel, it is
truly awful that such proceedings should prevail,
especially in a country so much under the power of
tiovernment as Scotland. It bectmes therefore efery
friend of humanity, as well of political liberty, to
unite is striving for their abolition, unless they would
allow the rising spirit of independence In that part
of the island to be supptcssed, and its advocates be
made the sictims of arbitrary power. The Judges,
there, besides the other powers they asinine, have taken
the liberty as Mr. M. A. TAYLOR asserts, of eneeediag
the authority invested in them by law. They are in-
vested with a discretionary power in many cases,
and in awarditig what is termed an arbitrary punish.
ment. But that power which was meant as arbitrary, or
diarritiontnry in its original sense, is sometimes exer-
cised to that extent which Mr. WI xnusit recommended,/
eigerr '.eyomd the lair. The rue of Ttfosiss Win
was that in whit h it was employed originally, at the
tune of those political Societies being formed in Seat.
land, whirls were called " the Friends of the Peopli."
Mr. Mein, an Advocate at the Feottish Bar, had been
an wtive Member of •oisne of those Societies; and he

was indicted at F.diuhurill in the Autumn of 1;93
for sedition, as haying been present at some of
their :flutings, and supported some of their resolutions,
The proof of sedition, on these occasions, we !where
completely failed, but there were coupled with th
accusation two other charges, that beload proforma
the perusal and actually lent a copy of ?Ames ifirles's
.110, and gore direction to an itinerant organitti
in a street of Glasgow, to play the celehtated air of
i)n! ! (in leis trial Mr. MLIIt, who pleaded
his nun moose nub great energy and eloquence,,,
oljrctrol str. ogle to the Jutors, all of whom hei
affirmed, and was ready to prove, had signed an
ultra-loyal deelsratioon in Edinburgh, and had
actually prejtolgori Isis rause. None of his objer.
lion) or arguments, I,rnerer, were of any argil.
Ile n as• treatsd in the speech of the LOUD ADVOCATE
Of that period, with a spirit which rivalled the viru-
lence of Jus!ge Js metro, and on being found
nas sentencs ti to a pnni-hnteoot, as ap-
palling as nolooLed for, the rwristrmewt of MM.
sportatit n for fourteen years to New beetle Wei.*
Never Lad such a sentrnce, on account of such
a charge, hes to thought of before, as was then pro.
flounced by one of those nr‘itrary efforts of the
Courts, which had the diseretiou to construe into
treriemparratioi beyond seas, the meaning of an old
Scotch Act of Parliament, which authorised the pu-
nishment of weedy banishment, at a period whets Scot-
land (sail not a colony to which a convict could he
transported! Long as it is since that judgment was
pooped, we rejoice that Mr. M. A. TATLAIR has under.
taken to expose its illegality. A like one was
passed soon bittern-anis i• the case of Palmer, wise
was tried fur publishing a libel. and in those of
111ARGAROT. SIIIIIVIXO and GERALD. who had beets
delegates to a Political Society at Edinburgh; and a
similar one has within these few years keen passe:l
again ; aod will doubt'. ss he repostod, a 4 often as al--
elision offers, unless this arbitrary power he effectuativ.
restrained,

lo the Hut of the oiajority on Vslriaty night against
Ilmoo's motion fur sew nod estimates
for the departments of the Ordnance, are found tier
statues of tid. &emelt. Take these way and there
remain. against the woke only 3 t sad there would
he is krettr of it a usiJowity of 14.

11

TO IItELANO.

An intimation has been already siren, that it
Majesty's intrados to enthark en his sunsomer
excursion the latter end of Jane.
It is understood to be his 3lajesty's istelit6i
embark at Cork—to proceed theory to Kra/amit
seat of Karl Donotteliniore--onwords to lug
Coate, and to the Metropolis. The first ridt e
paid to the Martinis of Thoinoad. at his siegai
seat in time harbour of Cork.

His Majesty does not return to town till TWIN
The Queen has appuiiired this Jay fur the regoi,ii
of Addresses: among which the following ego
tormented to her Majesty:—The Parish 14 st (hot
IlasseverAgnare Koss, United Friendly $
Harrington, North Leach, Sudbury, Hinekl-c,1,16
ter, Bath, Cambridge, Apledure, ►iittu females, gm
Melton.
♦fter much contetitiun sad discussion, Immow
hate entirely (and not fur the present nunasatosi
given up the plan of supplying the Colosie, vri
door and corn, the produce of the United Kiwi
America. Kilns are to 4 er.•etrd ismasJialrh
Deptford, for the drying of such corn as ways,
in need of the operation of being Kiln dried.

Petitions front Saddletrorth, Ilohearth, Haiku
kid, Kirilberton, Ellundrunt-tirretlaml, Kaisoid,
and Brighouse, for holtliag .tssises for the
Riding of Yorkshire, at Wakefield, are already, k
usaratood, sent off, in order to their briar pssM
to the Loral eirastrellor ; and similar petition are la
course of proves% in the most populous pars of die
it Wing.
Fiume, Pan. B.—A very numerous meeting die
paymasters of this parish took place this day, (e,
giant to public notice,) in the Vestry, to comae,
propriety of petitioning Parliament against a Billie,
trod need I nto the I louse of Commons by Mr. thengiso,
imitated ".1 Bill /hr /miler proeidirs, Mr mow ei
cdstestium fiir His Alejr,ty's evlajeete whet kto
unanimously resolved to present a Petition to hefi.
went, setting forth " that in the town of Prow doe.
are two endowed or charity-srhools, for the edeszeift
of poor hoydens! girls, and several tlay-sehools t sal
that there are at present Moe Statolay-schuols,belesp
lag te anti supported by the Established ('hared ad
by the dificicet deonittinations of Dissenters is Gs
parish; which Sunday-schools, together, at premo
edurete upwards of 1,21110 boys and girls, and dog
the means of education to ell the poor elsildnu is the i
parish—that in this and every other popnlice district
(having already Sunday and other schools saltiest k
the 'demotion of the Poor,) the proposed Bill is net
oaly nnneressary, but will be injurious, as it will Ind
to snppress these valuable instientions--Aut, if tbr
818 should pass into a law, it will all greatly nth,
parochial rates, and thereby increase the distress seder
whirl' the .Irricultural and llattuficturing ietereto
at present labour, and that it will also prodoce vi-
olent parochial litigations and aninire.ities. The Pe
titioners therefore humbly pray that the proposed lilt,
way not pass into a Law."
• bill I. intruded to be bronrht into Puvlbseamo,
fair repairieg St. (filer's choreic, Elinbursrls, mei las
repavirer port of the High-street. The expenses le
e creating these objects are calculated at £30,000, is
rider which It is proposed to levy an assessment ftt
tam veal., in the city sad royalty, on beritors, at the
rate of one and a half per cent., and on occnpien d
three-fourths per rent. per annum.
Extract of a lettrr from Banned Hodges, Jan.
American Consul at Cape tie Vends, to the gliters(
the New-lteeiforel Mercury, elated Villa dos Prays, St.
Jago, Nov. 6, 1s020:—" The slave sloop, Anita, alias
Oreenork, from St.ittsru de Cuba, for the Coast of Afti•
ca, has been seised and sold at &mat...eta, fur sadist
under two lags. information having been rives le
the Governor by the Spanish captain, that she had
used two lags, search was immediately ordered, aid
British Iterister, issued at Jautaic a, f mud un board.—
The perste!' representing the ENglislt captaio, r. s sa
Atnerivan, from Baltimore, and most of the uses wen.
Americuns, who claimed their disrarge immediately vs
the arrival of the vessel." • •

.1.

If assisted by particular winds, there will this
year be two monarahle high tides ; toe inn ss •
the 211th of March, and tile second un the rich if
April.
The disturbances in the Collieries of Shropshire.
appear to have erased. Tile Shrove/story Careairi.
received un Satarday, contains the follooing
genre on the subject:—" The colliers iu the viciottr
of IVellington have quietly ref tinted to their dot :114
the military (except tier company of the Shropshire
llilitia moiler l'aptais Niortimer) have taken their de.
partner. Warrants leave been issued aeainst doe
men who were mast anise during the lute to oths.
and three have be committed to our gaol, pit. J.
Aniis, J. Wilcox, and 'l'. !Jelin, fur tinsisiltuously
setubliog and doing damage at the Old Park Weak
kr. not cutilial thanks ut the Alaifistratrs sad Isla.
:Manta were conauntuicated to the Wellington. Mire"'
Wary. Holm, 04.444 Ike. troops of cavalry, Ity
their
promptitude, temper, and attunes.. We are reloeitell
to correct the statement that the late rioters Pouettetk
ally cannon ; they hail fowling pieces only."
Sin" the diAeorery of the body of the man mu- •
&red near Lorlawintwels, the folloot hog rirrueensere
•h" that otherwise sai,oht have ev...sped
public: resister. (In the 217th of Novemiler the (emit
of Ilelentsonusains, iu the parish of Spidoton. botntini
hi, fans the busty of a horse, apparently 'esti kaki
and 11:tyeld. it is recollected thut early Coot touring
a persua was area riling, by a private road, part Ilse
house towards the spot where Ow bushy of t:.e hum
WWI found. Froset the whole eir.anue...nz-es citentiol
' this *Weir a s:rong presumption arises that this horse
belonged to the wan inhoomasoir noun:ern, at 1. eh•
winnoch, and that the animal Iva: thus disposed of 11
"toe person canteens's' iu the bloody de: d, in order is
avoid those means of detection which the possession of
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on Saturday anal .s.nonlav last, by vorcal of the
bitanta of Cuoit•hill, near Carlisle, being about t!,ree
months Isoforr the usual time of these bird-.
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to London, which nos abandoned hr the erre 114.0 the
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Paris, Feb. 14.
Although so Intake accounts hays reached this
pilule hots Italy witting the last two days, it is -still
very generally believed that the members of the Holy
Alliance will persevere in their sacrilegious attempt
to stills the voice of freedom la Naples. With this
eggra►ating conviction Gs their minds, no wonder

that the friends Of humanity jn France should, for
the present, forget their own wrongs, and devote'
themselves almost exclusively to the interests of the
European family, threatened as it Is, in the south.
The speech of M. de Chauvelin and other deputies,
noticed in my last, created a powerful sensation
throughout the capital, and M. Benjamin Constant
very judiciously renewed the important subject to
*itch it related, during the sitting of Monday, one
M the most interesting that has occurred since the
InuMblage of Inc Chambers. After M. B. Constant
imul noticed some striking inaccuracies In the preen-
' Iterlial of the preceding debate, repelling the taloa-
Woes charges which are contioually made against
the liberal party, and broadly asserting that all the
tats alarms at the Tuileries have bees got up by the
ultra-royalist faction ; that patriarch of liberty, La
Fayette rose, an,l in a speech, such as would have ho-
noured the first EAR Chatham himself, eloquently
attacked the monstrous proceedings at Laybach, to
which both England and France are parties, since
neither have taken any efficient steps to arrest the de-
solating projects of the northern desposts. The il-
lustrious defender of human rights in both worlds,
aptly called to the recollection of his auditors, the
partition of Pulaml, and with equal justice, compared
the declaration of Troppau to the conferences at Pil-
nits and lihertieide plot of Coblents. 31. Constant,
Manuel, Corcees, lindOeneral Sebastiami followed on
the same side, while .l. de Sem., the ministerial orator
and keeper of the seals, attempt'', in vain to bolster
aphis friends. The victory obtained on this occasion,
was complete, in public opinion at least, and though
it may not prevent the Austrian army from advancing,
it will serve to show the Neapolitans, that they may
calculate on the sympathy and support of the people
throtte:tont the civilised world.
Tim nuiversal opinion here is, that as the sove-
reigns have united to defend their privilege!, the
people of every country are also called upon to co-
alesce in defence of their rights. This feeling ae•
consiti. the manner in which the patriotic mem•
tiers of the Chamber in France take up every subjert
euttnecte.l w:th the interests t,f freedom broached in
the British Parliament. Thus it is, that the merito-
rious etiorts of Lord Holland and Earl Urey, of Sir
'When Wilson, and his friends in the Lower House,
have roinced tl:e most salutary retroactive effect in
France, where, the patriots desire nothing 'u much as
going hand in hand with their brethren of England,
in a.serting; the principles of liberty and justice.
The recent concessions of those who led the way
in 1;92, has had the hest possible discs lies peoesseeios
'the Jitase of freedom in the two countries, and now
that the Erskine's, Holland's, and Grey's, the Russell's,
Ctirwen's, and Sefton's once more meet at the point
from which they started twenty-five years ago, the
Continental rockers on, no longer despair of seeing
England, slourtiy justify the opinion, destroyed in a
great Ines-wore by the present ministry, that it is still
the classical r rtiottul of liberty.
!laving achieved one great victory, it is most ar-
dently to be hoped, that the people and their constitu-
tional leaders, n ill instantly send forth their voices in
favour of Naples, and if it be likely to operate as an
additional stinetlits, they may rest assured that, with-
out a prompt and powerful expression of public
opinion, the tvork of iniquity will he followed up.—
ho the prod le of England want another motive for
I....wising the cause of Naples ? I will furnish it.
Alexander has sent in great haste for his old precep-
tor, the celebrated Li *Pepe, to join him at Layhach;
an.l it is said, upon authority which there is no reason
to il..nbt, AA! the autocrat is determined to have
the honour of giving constitutional goverments, such
at least .ts are in unison with hie polity, to the differ-
ent states of Italy, anal that the object of his sending
for M. de la Iturpe, is to consult with the latter on
the means of carrving his designs into effect. Thus
then, nil! a sovereign, whose well known preject it is
to supplant the influence both of France and England,
ware a degree of popularity highly dangerous to
the interests of these two powers, without virtually
advancing the tense of freedom, while the Ministers
of George IV. stand convicted before Europe of
bat in contributed oh every occasion to the extinction
ui lilwrtv
• A% to the Austrian hordes and their harborons
rhirf", if limy hut touch the sacred ark, surely it is
not too flinch to invoke, that the lightning of heaven
way otettake their guilty heads!

A Meeting►, consisting principally of County Mem-
ber•, was holden on Thursday last, at the Parliament-
street Coffee-house, for the pnrpose of taking into con-
sideration the most proper mode of resisting the at
'rcpt. %%lie. will shortly be made, by the Distillers of
Ireland, to obtain an Act to enable aim to introdnee
their Whiskey at Duties similar to those now paid by
the British Distille,s for English Oin.—As the Irish
Spirits exceed the strength (permitted by Law of the
British by more than a third, they will obtain, in the
scent of success, a very undue adrantage.—ln fast,
the use of British Spirits wenld be almost superseded.
—The itti;ish Distillers paid a dnty lest year of
1,700,000/. on Liquors obtained wholly from
No that this Question is of the most vital importance
In the growers 4.f Barley.—A Meeting will be again
holden in the ensuing week on this subject, at Mender-
DOLL

A Requisition, signed by Nearly Into kindred respect-
able inlikbitavat, has been presented to the Bain of
Clappingham, requesting him to call a Mmtiost oI au'
Bargessep, Freemen, and Inhabitants of that Tows. to
take into conqitieration the propriety of as Address to
his Majesty, expressive of their kyalty to his Throve
and Per.oo, and regret that the attempts Amid ho mock
at this time to discompose his Royal ookul, b kid_ .Ims.
tions that the great undotrity of his aft Ilitoyor
to the King. because they diagMNwMoa a tin Wt. Pr 7
endings of his ministers %galas' his Wave um SIM
to take into roastieratino • propriety of a Petition to
Pariiamesis, fur the federalised car Majesty's Ds" to
tme rya.