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ledge for his own benefit is the object of our echo-
caging universal freedom
It is not ueres.• ry even to show that the poor, on
that worm, are required to make any nice discrimi-
nation bet• pen two candidates, both of them men of
knowledge; wisdom, and good character ; for in that
case bow could they choose amiss ? But it is to in.O
solt•otir irowirrelpiditigs, to tell us they are utterly
incapable of distinguishing between gond and bad.
But who, Sir, more than yourself bath jotniffed
the capability of the " lower ils-..es" of our day to
elect with judgment, disruption, and beneficial er.
fart ? • Have you not, Sir (p. 113). told us that
ihe general diffusion of knowledge has made a
great change in the political state of man ? The
lower classes base now more intelligence than the
highest had a century ago. But in proportion as the
People are enlightetied, they must become mote ca-
pable of itherte. They need less restraint."
• And (p. 146) yon add. " Every change. -must be
safe, and a here it is called for by the public reason,
most be desirable, where the physical and moral
force of the Mats &reconcentrated in the same persons
flora whom the change Is to proceed."
• ‘,Now, Sir, you pest knew that for a Constitu-
tional Reform Is the National Representation, on
-the basis of Universal Suffrage, there bath come forth
far more "public reason," and from a far louder
public voice, than for any other State Reform, at any
other period was ever experienced.
if this, Sir, be indeed an operation of reason,
arising net of the nature of man, you teach us to be-
lieve it accords with " the appointment of God ;"
(p. 100) for you say that when the People " have
reason on their side," then " the voice of the. Peo-
ple is the voice of God." (P. 142.)
And (p. 147) you very properly remark, that
4.4 where Government undertakes a Reform in cir-
Comstaoces similar to those which you here men.
tioned, or where it has previously molded the pub.
tic opinion to its views, that Reform must be in the
bigbest degree safe.
" As it would be conducted by the general force,
it could not be ceuoteracted by partial turbulence;
and as it would be seconded by the public sentiment,
the most important changes, which would take place
in such an auspicious concurrence of circumstances,
could bare no obstacles to encounter."
What then, Sir, remains, but for Parliament now
to take into its consideration the thousand Petitions
of last year, sod the tens of thousands now again be-
ginning to poor in ; to say whether those Petitions
do, or do not, truly state " an inherent unalienable
right" of the People; and to legislate according to
that right, be it what it may.'
As cordially thanking you for your testimony in
favour of Aunual Parliaments, and your admirable
vindication of a free Press, as I have freely condemn.
ed what I esteem your errors touching the constitu-
tional @swot of suffrage, I subscribe myself,
March 9, 18.8. JOHN CARTWRIGHT.

LONDON: •

FRENCH PAPERS.
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PART% MAaCti 22.—The following are further de-
tails relative to the fire at l'Odeost :
.The Doke de Berri transmitted WOO francs to the
Grand Referendary of the Chamber of Peers to be
distributed amongst the firemen, soldiers, and ethers,
who had most exerted themselves.
• The 1-gion do Nord were employed at the fire till
ten o'clock at night, and manifested the greatest zeal.
Several soldiers were slightly wounded.
Several of the military prevented the steeling of
valuable articles,_ and others esposed themselves to
danger to sate individuals. Two women were saved
with great difficulty by the courageous exertions of a
',Deng man. •
. A Grenadier of the 2d Regiment of Royal Guards
was killed by the fall of a part of a well.
M. Valville, the Prompter of the Theatre, escaped
with great difficulty through a window, by the prompt
aid of persons without.
• The Actors of l'Odeon will, it is expected, obtain
glieinission to play at the Saloon de Llovois and st
the Theatre revert, concurrently with Madame Cs-
talani, whose tease expires the Ist of May.
The loss of scenery, dresses, and other property
at I'Odeon is estimated at 500,000 francs.
• The accounts of the origin of the fire are at present
involved in great contradiction.
The Duke de Richelieu, the Spanish Ambassador,
and the Swiss &troy, had yeterday a conference with
the Doke of Wellington. •
Ae embargo is said to have been• laid in the Ports
et Spain, on all the vessels of the United States of
America.
On the Bth instant the lightning struck the Church
of Camden (Manche) daring High Mass ; it entered
the Church, and some of these present were slightly
bort, but none seriously.
A Physician has been exiled from Prague, and
from all the Austrian States, on a charge of assisting
at Masonic Lodges, which are prohibited is that
Empire with the greatest severity.
~'Peso per Cents.—Satorday, Es. Div. 65 f. 95 e.
MADRID, M•RCII, 10.—The expedition • from
Cadiz will, it is generally thought, proceed to the
Rio de la Plata.
Mr. Meade, the American Consul, is still detain-
ed is custody. •
Nunewaxao, Marren 14.—Important dispatches
from the Emperor of Russia have arrived at Vienna.
It is believed they relate to the journey of his Im-
perial Majesty into Germany, and indicate the pre.
dee period of his arrival in Austria.
The King of Prank will not return from his, jeer.
wary to Hossia till the middle of July. and come!
quently the Gmagrees of Sovereigns will not take
place before the end 4.4het month. •

AMERICAN PAPERS.

WASHINGTON FEB. 11.—A Bill has been reported
in the House Of Representatives by Mr. Forsyth,
from the Committee to whom wig referred so mach
of the President's Message as related to the com-
mercial intercourse between. the Unitid States and
the British West India Islands. It is entitled " A
Bill supplementary to the Act regulating Duties on
Imports and Tonnage," &c. and is an *tacit:spy of
the Bill which was_ brimaht into the Boum by the-
same Constipate* in the last Session, and which •n.
der watt so mach discussion; bat was laid over as

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And Trappit bad passed into a law,
bp Aka:rums departyieOts of the
164 inst..
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Accounts from Bombay state that the foreek
/an; to Which*" the, Painter-A oPpoied-an irmy
40,000; was part of tbe.aimy ander the comisand

Colonel Sums, of the 714 Native Infantry.
SMITE' bad pierioasly marched farther into
(trier towards Candeith, leaning ibis force as

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of Observation upon the PEISHWA'S movement
Poouah. The Officers woonded are, Lieut.
CONER, lst battalion td Bombay Native infantry,
Captain PRESTON, Bombay European' Regimerry,
both severely. Hopes are entertained that the report
of the two Officers taken prisoners_ having been shot
by order of the "'EMMA will prove nnfotinded.
The official details of the events that preceded the
battles in the Punnws's territories have not yetbeen
received, having been sent by an. All that was
known at Bombay of the events after the boffin was
Use surrender of Poonah, and the-flight of the Persaws
to one of his strong forts to the southward, whither
be had removed his wives and children. It was knows
that TRSISISUCKJII DAINILLIA was with the PICISIVIVA.

THURIDAT, MAUCH 26, 'lBlB.
No Paris Papers were to be published on Monday
IRO, on account of the solemnity of Easter. The
Journals published on Senday morning, which have
come to hand, present us with the report and details,
though in an imperfect form,grif the Budget, which
had been delivered on the preceding day. This
im-
portant document fills three-fourths of the Mani.
tear. We can only briefly notice, that the gene.
tel espenditure of 1818 is estimated by the Mt.
nister at 993,244,022 francs, or about 41,380,0001
sterling ; but blanks are left for the amount of the
three important items of—let, the Debt ; 2d, the
Ordinary ; and 3d, the Extraordinary Etpendlture.
—A Loan is proposed, equivalent in its -amount
to 16,000,000 of rode:. The alterations made
by the Committee in the Ministerial Budget, are
stated in a separate column, and, in some cases,
bear the stamp of much jealous Vigilance on the part
of the Members who composed it. The reports,
I reabatim of Messrs. Rot and BeucNoT, are pro-'I
mired in a supplementary Monileur. They are de-
scribed as being able and voluminous in an eatraordi.
nary degree. The report of M. Rot occupied no
leis than two hours and a half its the reading, and
that of M. BEIIGNOT four hours. In the Report
reads by M. Rot, it was proposed to make redac-
tions in the departments of Police, the Interior, of
War, of Marine, and other savings, in all to the
amount of 22,250,000 francs. The Committee on the
Project for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, had
gone through the preparatory examination of it, and
appointed the Baron DVIPOLIGEIATI their Reporter.—
It is conjectured tl►at, after the discussion of the
Budget, the Members will begin to leave Paris, so as
to reduce the attending numbers below the proportion,
necessary to entertain a public question, or to pass
a Legislative Act ; and, in that case, it follows of
coarse that the Concordat mast be postponed to
another Session. France will therefore remain with.
out a Concordat for another year, and in this state
of things she will have different kinds of Clergy, the
Clergy of 1788, the Constitutional Clergy of 1791,
the Clergy of BONAPARTE'S Coacordat in 1801, and
the Ccergy of 'the new Concordat. The recruiting
of the Swiss regiments in the pay of France having
been for some time suspended, it is-now. alleged by
the partisans of the Ministry, that the said anspen.
iion has arisen from financial eaust►s alone. But the

Minister of War has assigned another reason, namely,
the wish of Government to assimilate the Swiss troops
to the national forces of France herself, by adopt.
ing the same mode of organization.

General Salm was to mote in puma on the morn-
ing of the 20th November.
It is distressing to think, that the British Asiatic
possessions have noother solidity than what they can
obtain from the constant exercise of military power,
and that the continuance of our empire,. is to be
marked by an endless train of conspiracies *old bat-
Iles, followed by proscriptions, confiscations,' and
stormiogs of cities. From such a• empire, what can
we hope to reap besides the barren laurels of bloody
and expensive victories. It is an unpkasing fact,
sufficiently' indicative of the conquering policy that
his been pursued in India, that when British mer-
chants resorted to India solely in their mercantile
character, without possessing one foot of territory,
the trade was iu the highest degree profitable to
themselves, and useful to their country; while now,
that they have acquired the rights of sovereignty over
an enormous empire, and have perverted the interests
of that empire to purposes of patronage and the pro-
motion of individual wealth, the profits of the trade
and the revenues of the country are hardly sufficient
to defray the expences of the Company's service.
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The private advice. from Paris state that lion,
the Mistier, who is Braised of having attempted to
murder the Duke of WILLINGTON, was betrayed to
the Police by a woman of the town with whom be
had cohabited. It appears from the accounts thus
furnished, that the plan of assassination, fortunately
defeated, was not the fruit of Prench politics or
paties ; the immediate perpetrator was, it is said,
an °bac. ere miscreant, not allied to, nor coon-
*ensured by, nor co-operating whh any acknow-
ledged body of Frenchmen ; and there is reason to
blieve that his abettor. and employers, so. far as has
yet transpired, were 'desperate and forlorn as himself.
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Letters by the last Mail from Holland announce,
thut the proposed alteration is the Duties upon In-

It is stated in the National Inlelligencer, the O.
cial Paper of America, that the Goeernmeot is prer-
ceedinK to prohibit the intercourse between the British
West India Colonies and the United States. Ibis
measure for countervailing the British poky has of
course excited much attention. Some extracts from
American Papers, to the 22d of February, are in.
serted in 400tber column.

The arguments advanced for Reform inParliamrnt,
that is for Reform to the dictates and spirit of the
Constitution, are unanswerable, and unanswered by
any other logical attempts than she miserable so.
phistry of a reference to form, and the usual abuse of
the characters of the Reformers and their Petitions.
Proofs and refutations are nothing to these wholesale
calumniators. Like Mr. CANNING, they think that
to sport with the agonies of the victims of suspicion,
is to assign sufficient reason for denying a whole
People their just and constitutional demands.—
These revilers of the People are fond of im-
peaching the popular body with want of wis-
dom ; but it has been clearly demonstrated, that
if the great body of the People had not been wiser
and more temperate than the Administration, we
should have soon realised that very catastrophe
which Ministers are continually deprecating. In re.
gard to the coodoct of Parliament itself towards the
Petitions of the People, it is a fact too clearly evi-
dent, and cannot be disputed, that the most trivial
formalities have recently.:peen so mffh ag. so fre-
quently required itilParliament as a sae qua non, or
itidirpensible observance to the redress of any grief-
once, that people of weak minds are apt to think that
they have NO RIGHTS but what are subject to the heavy
penalties of form. This is truly obstacle—it would sop-
pose that the British Constitution was made op of man-
ner not of matter, of shadow not of substance. It would
indicate that no matt could have access to what belong.
ed to himself, if in the possession of another, bat Re-
seeding to the way iil which he sought it. Is it thus'
that an injured man reqeires satisfaction horn the
laws, on the head of his oppressor ? Ilas he to
area or win by obsequy what he is entitled to dr.
mood. " Such ceremonies are highly necerrry,"
says the Minister, who feels it his interest to dispose
of a disagreeable question as readily as may tor, 1
'“ they are required by the Constitution." It is truly
astanisbiog that every Sessiou of Parliament succeeds
the last bet to show the insignificance of the People.
They inform es with all gravity that such a Petition
fur Reform is not coached in proper terms—it is not
of the proper dimensions. - As if a person should
say to his neighbour—" Yow owe me a bill, Sir, I
will thank you to pay it." 66 No, Sir, the law re-
quires that you should address me In different lan-
page on such an occasion, rims should use a lower
wee of voice and take yoar hat off—l cannot pay you,
Sir." Such at present is our glorious situation ! And
that Constitution, which lass stood the test.of time,
about which so much blood has been spilt—that Cots-
stitation which has been the admiration of all Carve
and the boast of every Eoglishesee, lie NOM poppet,
thing of form, which no body can •ezplain bet a Mi-
nister, when it suits his purpose, to do so I But be.
side. those ridicules' formalities,_ there ass others of
'goal consevenCe.' Acts of Parliament ere very
dear ! A petsoo heeling board that an Act of Portia.
mast for some public pa rposi, which it is net necessary
to
_mention st resent; cost 7001. very naturally asked;

SPANISH COSIMISNCIAL AND RELIGIOUS POLICY.
One of the expedients fallen ripen by the Spanish Go.
vernment to enable it to fit out the Itessiaostpsadroa,
is to 'allow the Mecham, peresiision to ship os hoard
two 'boomed boos of nierchandize, at low &tie', this
receipts of which, it was espected, would alforii
considerable aid. The curet 4eninatioe isnot told
to use merchants, but they are given to sedentaud,
that the force will be so overwhohniog, that to Mn;
ever point of the ultramarine dominions it is bonag,
resistance on the part of, the patriots mast be MR._
The scheme however does not meet with gresesoppars.
The fate of Moatuo's expedition, so .cs larger
than any Spain can now and out, is got fagots's.
The Spanish Clergy murmur a good deal, Theta
think that the henedictions of Heaven on Its ins.
pano-Russian 'enterprize cannot • he second, airless'
the Heretical character •is taken from the ships by a.
solemn baptism, which ceremony, it is thought, sill
take place previous to their putting to sea I
We. learn from Basle, that the death of the late
. King of SWEDEN strongly affected his nephew (the
Ex-ging GustAtut). The event was announced t..
Aim not only by the (Imager Queen, hut by letters
from the reiguing Monarch, CHARLES Joust, whim
measures seem impressed with the stamp of modera-
tion, wisdom, and d:gnity.
EXECUTION IN IRELAND On Saturday se'unight
Janie: Tobin, Patrick Morrissy, and Williner
Leary were executed in front of the Comity
Jail, pursuant- to their sentence at the late
Assizes, for burglary and robbery in the house of
,Captain Johnson, Of Springhill, and for tiring-
fat him with intent trt maim stud kill him. Since their
'conviction, and, partiCalarly, as we informed, at
their execution, they evinced the most becoming pe.
thence and resignation, fully avowing their guilt,
and acknowledging the justi• e of their sentence.
We omitted noticing on Tgesdoy, the great degree
of perfection which has been attained in the mode of
warming seed regulating the lean-scrotum of Goleta..
garden Theatre. In no part of this large building
does there esi-t oily variation sufficiently great to
cause an unpleasant feeling. This Plan, it should he
understood, consists in depressing as 'well as in rais-
ing the temperature, and also ensures 'a regular sup-
ply, of pure fresh sir. Its all buildings -wherein large
sucliefeces ate assembled, and remain for any length
of time, these ire points of the greatest importance.
THE Flit E IN SA [Mitt] It Y• Df.—The devastatimos
committed by the are which broke out in the obLetehliihrd.
?arena. called the Kerley-mum, in Suligherystiburt,
Ekes-
street. which we noticed yesterday. have hens more exteraivit
than was at' Arse imagined. It -titivate out abollt two sirt..t
yesterday morning. '1 ue house is owned by Mr. Komi, who,
'as before stated, was from home sin business. Mrs. Knott, hoer
,finale servants, and a female 'loiter. were rousetfrom their.
,deep by the tire reaching their apartuseins. They Ord as tory
!arose from their beds to the top of the house, as the chance of
desert-Wing was impossible, the whole of the lower pail tif the
premise being in names. Most talunately for them there was
a way oat of a garret-window to the top of the loose, antl.•
after passing over the adjoining building, they succeeded in get-
iling into the window of the wexedwelling, and an escaped.—
' The Are continued to rage with great fury, uotwislistanding
the prompt arrival of the mimes from the Hope, Not wire
,Union, and the Hand in-Hand, until the old tavern was pniitely
destroyed, and the roof of the house occupied by the Pinyon-
book mid Homily Society was burnt or, and Mr. Williattet's
*sum en the other sideal.m received consider We WO'. Great
anxiety was fora considerable time entertained for the valuable
and extensive premises of Mc. .11uppit Honsnr, as the ire Mid
completely reached La the bottom of one of hi. warehooses.and toil
'for *beetling of Mr. Dosser himself, ably assisted ts% a faitistal
:sad perrevetia,g servant. they would in all retattillity hose
bees destroyed. Mr. Honour, who was among the Geer/to-4 to
assist his neighbour, asserts that nothing co Id exceed the ries--
Hoe of the firemen, nod he tatiribules to their promptitude
energy, in w ell as to an immediate supply of water, the M 1 I% tam
of a considerable part of the aeighbuurhood. 'The cause of the
Ire has sot been ascertained.
The Marriage of the Princess ELIZABETH sad the
Prince of HEssz-llomoutta does not take place tar
the Sixth, but on the Seventh of April next.—Thu
Grand Masquerade and oplendid Filmy Bell to be
given on Monday, the Sixth of April, at the Kit.g's
Theatre, Ilaymarket, its honour of their approaching
marriage, perhaps gave rise to the report. The hose.,
we understand, have heels already its the greatest de-
limited, by persons of the highest rank and fashion,
to view this novel amusement. Private parties in.
numerable have been deferred, in consequence of she
test number of pre.engagements to this superb en.
tertainment. For particulars apply to Mr. SAS-,
62, Pall-mall.
CAUTION TO BREWERS.—A drayman, belonging
to Messrs. Coombe: and Co. brewers, was lin.ll by
Sir John Kamer, at the Town-hell, Southwark, its
the sum of 40s. for letting flown beer into the collie
of the Duke of Clarence poblic-house, afeettillakiemP
of eight in the morning. • —so%
Yesterday as Captain Jones, of irork.streif, was
driving a one-horse chaise slung Osford-stroet, the.
animal took fright, and rail with •considerable eery
towards Cs veudisle -square and along Moo timer.strert,
where he became quite unmanageable. Ott toreeing
round one of the corners, the vehicle came in coutavt
with a coach, and was upset. Mr. Jones was MCI* its-.
jured by the fall, and was carried bowmen a hackriey
chariot. The chaise was much damaged.
Lost night, about eight o'clock, as a Gentlemen,
and his groom were driving rather rapidly, is a yer
lofty gig, down New-streer, Covent.garden, they
came in contact with the wheel of a cart, lade* with
vegetables for the market, by which the gig and how
were opset, and they were thrown violently out upoo
the foot pavement. The Gentleman, who-was delv-
ing, fortunately escaped with some slight bruise.
Thu gig having fallen on the searairle, be broke Lis
fall materially by clinging to the off sidit of it, as it
Went over, but the groom lay senseless on the paw-
went, and was carried its that mate to Mr. Bayles,
in liing-street, where he was bled. The. violence of
dieted seemed germ to have disordered is iutelleel,
ac on opening his eYes,.ho bad no intellect's's of the
previous circumstances, and strenuously insisted ilia(
he had nut been in a gig the whole of the day.

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ast;;;s t• How much does the Government charge fce en An
of Parliament ?" A question certainly Customsgot very
easily answered. Bet 11 may with more Astir, be
• enquired, for what were Parliaments instituted?...
Not certainly to reject Petitions requiring right, bad
*of 4000 to rectify wrong--not to annihilate reason, to banish
onoy of plaits, unvarnished truth, by laboured, arbitrary, and
nina unmeaning formalities, that bewilder the ieolgtaati
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end seek to blot out from nur remembrance that srm.,
plteity in ewe laws whieb•precured them the esteen:
) the of the learned and the good. it is beneath the dlk.
a Corps- pity a great nation to require empty foes a.
trients in question of right or wrong. Our Constitution is
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stranger to formalities—it is 'dike silent in what woo.
Infantr
Petitions she.&ld be couched—whether signed lei
y; thousands or twenties..
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