The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-26 00:00:00

THE STA T 1

of mei Wed Sealy, and that too lab lealltitey bloused be -
landed former axperiesoe by arts, by iodedry, by wealth.
and by abundance. According to the creed they inealeste.
Ma, ward, and misery are only a pert of the nature of
things. and can by no (hence be attributable to artificial or
political eatt.es: " Tfme And patience," or rather t‘ suffer
and be still." it ever their remedy—lt wee so when the sr-
tittles of klanchester sad Glasgow were all but perishing
by the severest want, and they hold the seine doctrine now
that the distress has shifted, now the farmer is sinking into
the geiph of reedlike, and the labourer wandering about
in hopeirs idleness—rescued from starvatkon by alms, by
parish allowances. os by petty plunder. Under these af-
flictions. they work upon the fears of the minority who pos•
sees property, by alleging that *I desire of amendment Is
but to disturb the Uovernmentt—to gratify the private am-
bition of one party, whi..linime lobe at the head of affairs—
or of another, which hopes to pall down Ilse whole social
edifice.
4. On the other head, the band of, demsmesiewe who decry
every thing above theesselar, futon spit acknowledged
imperfectious, and attribute every evil to one cause. With
the lowest cunning, the most inveterate and the :post de-
testable and black-hearted malignity, they adopt language
exactly suited to tire earteity, the passities:4ll4lnrlpathies,
jealoasies, and the ;miletl)ttles of the labouring climes, or of
that order just above thall, whom they endeivoer to irri-
ate into hatred waled their superiors, and hilly into in-
eerrection—lf Indeed they have any object beyoad their
•wo paltry pairs float selling the mental poison they thus
torculate. But is there a men frith the steeliest portion of
ammo. sense. who can imagine that any thing is to be
geleetiti, the eouatry by such ezfrennt Tnese two lac-
thous only do each other's work. Tne one by rejecting all
improvement, may drive the people to desperation—the
other by the terrors of plunder and confusion, do frighten
them le' ,a 1 submission as the least of the two

-as into encondiUonii
evils. Hach are the aims anti such the erects wrought by
these violent and opposite factions. We shall of course be
understood as speaking still of the fow—for such baseness
and such bitterness are too repugnant to human nature to be
the attributes of many.
6. It has been our constant endeavour to expose the In-
juries whieh both are beeping upon the British nation, and
to Wes far as in us lies, a just, an impartial, and a useful
view of public affairs, yet neither to preach indi ffereucy nor
rebolgoo. his, we ere persuaded. within the competency
of thienteanest individual to aid the cause of his country by
a prudential but err exercise of those powers with which
he is emlotreci, according to his-degree. Thus in relation
to the County meeting, the subject of our present specula-
tion..-.we eay it is within the competency of every fuser to
make hie voices to be heard—te twist upon the admitted
grimes** of a taxation which, pressiog peculiarly twos
bte commodity, sod upon his pares, in the first Instance oar-
Toms conaniaptioe, and In the last lays epos his shosidsep
the burden Of maintaining the clergy area the poor, a bunked
he can rainier alleviate nor throw upon the caasumoo,
cause there is ever opposed to him. (as. for the sake of that
nation, there ought to be) the foralgo conlopetition lie Itho
therefore a right to pecielier ,eitaseptiona, and vivito-9d
eating his own cause in ;nese parameters. *al &man
the reduction of those lima wlddil rose most hardly
Mtn, he it fact stiviseates the guest WOW.. It Ist b
ever the more incumbent upon hlui to avoid woo lb.
Mewl of motives which may weaken his claiss--aad we owe.
teed •It is not only pptitic.• bat min In perry ache.. to 4p
claim every topic which can justly be eborged to seesaw
lag of party. or of prejudice. Weagalothereforq asp
the comity the oreeaslty of avoiding art .
meastioa of reform at dim aseeMg, el
remotely connected with !Wt. benefit, It forme port aL
the immediate objects to be souk.% ea Ms oceasivs. We
recommend that so 'limbo to it should be iedulged or em-
duretL' We would hese the lauded totercat allow that they
are above the rose:Acton, impudently 'end imolently laid
linos thoor—that they disdeie to solicit the mactioa of the
County to one thing while they pion another, and inaat ttota
hope is to effect a cedilla poidtive good by means theameng4
prudential aid direct. We have aoma personal kaomiertms
of moat (alio ttestimmen composing the Committee, and,
we heel no other authority than the etoofidenne Olio sequel*
Rocs with character supplies, we should not hesitate to re-
peat, Oust such are tilq ends and such are the means to
which that very respectable body has addressed its exer-
tions..
6. Net Shot they (as a majority) or we are a whit less
friendly to reform thou heretofore. On the contrary, some
Of the most determined advocates for the necessity of using
every effort to procure that most desirable measure are to
be found anioe.gst its members. These gentle:SW however
are convinced of the 'minim of endeavouring to procure an
swains.= expresslou of tic. general feeling velqi regard
to reduction of taxation, and other pasitive melanins of re-
lief foe the agriculturist. For ourselves, we hope very soon
to see the example of Yorkshire substantially followed up
by Norfolk, sad milk a spirit that shall adroit on quest*
as to the opinions of the great bulk of Its Inhabitants. We
hope to see a requisition signed by a prodigious and over-,
w,heltnine multitude of 'mines addressed to the High filietilf
f6r 'meeting. to petition expressly for Reform. nut let
the Reformers be guided to thei, object by that temper and
jedgmeut which can Shane ensure success. To suppose that
vulgarity aid ruffian violence can have any such efficacy, is 11
to believe that the intellect of the country is to be scared
from its propriety, and the natural power which accompa-
ides rank, wealth and sound sense, together with the strong
combinntion and mutually protecting Intiesee they afford,
are to be overturned by coarse language and vulgar vio-
lence—nlike despicable and despised by all sober minds, by
all who hare any well grounded hope or any real title to
lead opinion. Englishinea are not to be bullied luto the
support of any cause. Of all the Injuries that Reform has
endured, it has been exposed to none so bitter as the feroci-
ous revolutiouary vehemence of the seditious press In its be-
half ; and it is not without some chew of reason that the Ad-
ministration has bees suspected of keeping lit pay some of
its most popular writers, since nothing has so much aided
their continuance in atm These writers and these sloes
have afforded Ministers the pretexts they luterpase for post-
poning reform, and have intimidated moderate end good
men from all endeavours to correct the abuses that bare
crept into s Constitution, admitted to afford the finest mo-
del of freedom, with time and circumstances. Rot for
them the hody of reformers would have numbered in its roll
every Englishman who is not bribed by the plunder of the
country to betray her vital interests. For ourselves we are
completely convinced of the necessity of reform—a necessity
we Indeed believe to be so losvitable—that unless it be (as
It will be) granted to the petitions of the people, it will be
extorted from a reluctant Government in tim last resort—
by force. We shall therefore continue to sdvneate this
grand object steadily and sincerely—through goo:I report
and through evil report—and as truth always prevails et
last, we lance no fears as to the reception our principles and
opinions will meet amongst that class of persons whose es-
teem alone we seek--those good and wise supporters of
their country's peace and their country's benefit, who de,
tote their wbought services, undauntedly and firmly, to
these their sole, these their noble sobjects. We have s per-
feet reliance on the practical sense of the iohabitants of our
district, end we are quite at ease es to the judgment they
will form concerning our intentions and our abtlities. We
were the first. the very first.to foresee sad to forewarn them
of the coming storm, and they have not we know forgotten
it. They have slued had plenty of materials for 44%1
termlning whether we have imam to delude the Fartsenl
into any other beiiet than that which bat scoceirds with his
interests—namely. the belief that his condition can only be
bettered by a constant end • to bring down his rent,
taxes. and other ont-go ups, to a fair level with the
price of his commodity. and if he cannot obtain these emit
'all other ends by constitutional and temperate remedies, the
necessity of recurrence to those of the last resort will be
declared to be inimitable by circumstances, which we trust
in Ood are at a distance yet too vast to be Perceptible to
human intelligence. We preach neither abject submission
nor insurrection. We reject both remedies as alike insp.
plicable to the national disorder, and are free to avow that
we should carry the first to the furthest Ratite of endurable
extremity, before we should consent to the adoption of a
scheme of redress Involving such certainty of universal evil
as the last ; and In these sentiments we are quite sure every
wise sod good mau will concur.

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tientlemen, yon will have found here &treat deal of
matter not at all belonging to the subject; a great des;
oPpersortal allasiott: an astonishing abundance of eri.
initial imputation, without the smallest attempt at proof
to support it; a surprising overprodoettou of virulence
end a not less uncommon lack of charity. One would
have thottglit, that, en an occasion ito serioos,aud, when
persons like you waists be addressed, the appeal might
hove been to sober reason and in plain language; end
eat to vulgarpasston, in a strain of unmeaning bombast.
However, we will pus over all the vehemence and situ.
peratinn of this production ; we will leave the author to
keep for his proper use and enjoyment all his charges,
against (ion knows whom, of polling down the social
edifice ; of detestable and black-hearted malignity; o
exciting to hatred of superiors, and the like; we *ill
leave Mm to rojoy the honour of accusing onaamed per.
sons of :editions intentions; of accusiog them of the
most nicked and detestable designs against the peace of
the community, while be accuses the goeernntent of
leering them to do what they are doing; while he accusal
the government of keeping in their pay these popolar
writers. who are labouring, to destroy ail order and Mr.
fate; and who wish for nothing bet an typortunitt of
' plundering their:richer neigleboare : we will leave the
polite end consistent gentleman to keep theserare tiifngs
r for his own private emoymeot, and will proceed to en-
. (pit...into the deep of this long and incoherent arias of
sentences.
This drift, Dentlesites, may be expreesedin the (oblates
ing propositions ; namely,
I. That effectual relief can be obtained without a Re-
;form of the House of Commons.
2. That, to pray fur a Reform, at this time, would
haveatendency to prevent the obtaining of relief throngb
other means.
3. That, therefore, you ought not, upon this occasion,
to pray for a Reform.
*Now,Gentlenien, I am of a contrary opinion- 1 sty
NO to every one of these propositions ; and I ant now,
with doe submission to roar greater experience and
better judgment, Rimini to oker to you, in as Meer a manner
es my abilities will enable me to do it the rearms* on
which I found this negation.
I. So far im I from agreeing in the proposition that re-
lief can be obtained without a Reform, that I am of opi
Mon that any measure that can be devised by man, abort
of Reform, would, if possible, add to the distress. To
attempt to show this is not nee sssss y at present, all that
is required of me being to show, that, without Reform,
you can obtain no effectual relief.
What are the things that you wept done? This gen.
tleman,whom I am aasweridg, talks, in his fifth para.
graph, something about ta.vation: " the grievances of
taxation." He talks also about a something that " nar-
rows consumption." He afterwards talks about a " re-
duction of taste." What hs says is very indistinct. In-
deed ills perfectly unintelligible. Every line shows that
be rather worse than understands nothiog of the matter;
becaose, to be in error with regard to a thing, is worse
' thao ever so have heard of that thing. However, it
does-come out, in a sort of incidental way, that tins
gentleman means that the meeting should pray to be re-
lieved from a part, at least, of the pretreat teestion.Now,
then, this reduction of taxation, to be of any effect; to
Word any thing like relief, Mut &claw. It cannot be
large without a large reduction of the interest of the
without s large reduction Iseult is the army rx-
ti a large redaction is all the poleffis
as es, pensions, sinecures, pay and expenditere of
every description. Every man can no* see, that it is the
sixty millions a year in taxes, which are taking away the
rents of the landlords, after having taken away a very
large part of the cap.tal of the farmers. Every man now
sees that weare got to the prices of 1790; that we are
feat getting to the currency of 1790; bet that we have
forty millions more of taxes to bear than we bad in 1791 l ;
and every man sees, that these forty millions are taken
from the landlords, from the farmers, from the labourers.
and from all the trades and employments depesdeat in
any way upon the land.
Therefore, the object to be obtained is; or rather, the
principal object, for I bare others to speak of by-and-
bye : the principal object to he obtained as, the striking
off of these forty million' of taxes. To call npun the
goverment to takeoff forty millions of taxes, without, at
the same time, pledging yourselves to support the go
veroment in the necessary reduetions.• would be to art
the part of PNARIIOII and his taskmasters. To call
upon them to cease making their demands upon you,
ithout giving them an assurance that you would sup-
port them io refusing the demands of others, would be
to expose yourselves, not only to the reproache of the
Ministers themselves, but to the reproach of every just
god reasonable man in the world.
The Debt never can be reduced in any considerable
degree without some new arrangement as to what is
called the property of the thatch. In short, all parties
tuna make some sacrifices; and do you think that this
party, the Clergy, are to be exempted ? If you book at
the Church and look at the Army ; if you look se:the
pensions, sineccres, grants and public-pay, can you
imagine that the House of Commons, as at present con-
stituted, will ever make the necessary reductions and
arrangements/ It is impossible that you can so think.
You must think with Mr. /Inman, who, in signing,
lately, a requisition for a County Meeting, relative
to the Tithes, in Ireland, pat after his name these words:
" hut I am satisfied that, until we have a Reform of the
" House of Commons, the tythetowner and tythe-proc,
" tor, will continue to he the scourge and the torment
"of the country." Such most be yunr opinion in this
case, if you only take a look at the parties ; if you only
see who they are. You must be convinced, that with the
Parliament, as it now stands, nutting effectual can be
done in the way of reduction; and, of Course, nothing
effectual in the way ot relief.
I may be asked, why, then, I would petition this
same body to reform themselves? If I see that their
close connection with a part of the met-fivers of the forty
millions; if I see that they have interests that ',bold
prevent them from making the redactions, what recital
hare I to support, Mat they vita consent to pat Cato
ether hands the power of snaking those very red-swims*!
But, you will please to observe, that there are two sets
of interests at work here. Interests that belong to the
landlord; and interests that belong to the placewan; tier
pensioner, the sinecnrist, the grantee, the army, and the
church. Now, I am of opinion, that the Interests which i
belong to the landlord, will very soon be found to bel
beyond all measure mere powerful than the other set of
interests, and the ins is of the landlord call decidedly
for a large redaction of the interest of the Debt. New,
observe how the landlords are situated with regard to
this debt. They, in the manner that we know very well,
have all along returned a majority of members to the
House. They. therefore, Gave been the borrowers Veit
money; time contractors of the debt. I du not say with
any evil design. I do not impute any bad motive. But
south is the fact. And do. you not see, that it is utterly
impossibly, that they, of themselves, and without being
joined or countenanced by the people at large, should
propose and carry through a t which should
largely reduce the int f that debt? Do you set
see how they are tied to it like'a boll to the stake; bow
they are tied to their own rain and to ours along with
thesis; and yet how impossible it is, that they should, of
themselves, extricate either themselves or ? When
Pitt found himself wound op in inextricable dtfticalties
by the war, lie stepped out ofodice, and let another wake
' the peace. Mr.Canoixo has told as about two red
hum : we could tell him about on. lion, though not •
red one ; and that is the lion, which the fable that we

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have read to our grandmothers, tells as was caught in
the toils of the ionnter, and was fortunately released by
the nibbling, of the mortar. Oar lion* are now as fairly
caught as ever that bon was. We indeed are cangtt
along with them. If they will not permit es to swift
Am, all of as mist suffer together; but it they won
permit us to do it, and is tine, there is still safety hr
thew Bud hoppineas for as all. What whims point,
out to thews, therefore, locker eectugh ; and 1 think that
. ,
we pay them a compliment rather than otherwise, in
pre/timing that they will Woe to the dictates tt
wisdom.
2. Yet owe Norwich Mereory contends, that, to pray
for reform, et this time, would here • 'minty .
secs too prevent the obtaining of relief Bonner Mime i
emsome. And sow, I pray you,. gentlemen, to see two o
tide Wares with the other pets of the writing Wove ,
as. In these other parts, this writer says, not only that •
reform is a measure of justice; sot only that it is peeper
regs•Toikelsire to petition for reform; not only that Nor.'
'folk olio, and all other counties, night to peti•tog for
reform ; not only that he is comp/ado consioced if we
necessity of reform; bet that Worm must he .ranted,
or "Ind id will doe snorted finest a relectant goveramtif. ,
as wafter' Well thee, who can Say more than Um
efeept this writer himself, who afterwaios I..ys, that 1,;
will advocate the cause of reform ..birottch good repots
and throogh evil report ;" and who adds to that, that it
he meet obtain a nnlress of grievances by misfile.
Ilona, and temperate remedi-e, be will join in dielarice
"the sects:fry termini's:to Meat si s Lit list resort.."
'' And, WI the very same paper in which be lisp tLii,lo,
hes the charming sonsistency to beg you ant to pt.?
for reform at this time, because he W persuaded, moo.
indeed, convinced, that each prayer would preoext pm
Awn receiving relief through other means: Ile wis
you. that the thing is jest. He tells you that the thi:sc
us ~ecempo4. He tells you that the Wag will be wait-
ed by force, If not granted to your prayers; he !pitapat,
almost in so many words, that you would b-fiumiffeef to
Ailing thiefuste, in ease of refusal ; and yet be tetia sex .
*a to proyfor it, lest those to whom you address the
prayer. should refuse you relief through other them. '
That is to say. be 'mold have you piped relief from
use whom be regards, or, at least, whom ha rep..
mots, as so unjust and so tyrannical as to Weser.. n-
lief through tither meths, merely because yen prayed f r
afro and neasseary reformat the tame time Hut fog
suggested those other means !
I. And, only think of, at this time! Why at this awe.
above ail others ? You wait Reform, bee owe you watt
relief through the Reform. if you could obtain efettgut
relief without !Worm, the business would he tient. It
is that what yes want the Reform for. Effecteal schist
and Protectioa ace the very 'eels of Reform. Bat the
wise man is for your getting all you wait first; getting
redress of ail your grievances; getting justice and hap-
pidess and peace and harmony; and then for wait of t
something else to do, getting • Reform of the lioaseet
Commons
3. This preposition is already by implication,
answered t because, out of this writer's own useeth it is'
proved, that you ought to pray for R form et fosse i
thing, it beige. monstrous to suppose apt any prayer
can obtain effectual relief from as amenably sapablegf;
acting spun motives so fistula and so Wedictive at thesis
which bo has them& likely to exist. 3ut gentlemen,
is there nothing else to induce you of the Comfy ot
Norfolk not falsest without praying for Reform? This
writer speaks of tbe County of rose*; sad what is the
County of York to think of you, if, amongst tie" lust
" mates" of restoring the country to hamairossa yea gi
nut include Reform ? I ask eta what toe County Ina
York is to }hide of yaw ; and I ask you boom you ars
supporting the County of York, 'if you declare (as yea
will do if you follow this writer's advice) that Reform is
sot amongst the best mesa of reiloring to you that
happiness which you hare host ? What 4110 is to be
thought of you by the Oottisty of Dame, who, dead as a
clod for so manv years, is now about to meet to petition
for Reform ? ilea are shout to take the lead; and I beg
you to bear that in mind. And shall it be said o!yor„
always heretofore the foremost in dehag your duty ;
always the foremost in expressing your abhor •
wince of iujostice and corruption ; shall it be said of y.,1
that you now shrink from the tweet, and strive to r•a
relief by licking the ground before the belly of t..e
Viper?
I ate by se means initiates epos the subject; for I sm
sure that you will do your Juty. Bat, as I iatimattot
before., there are other things brsides a Ketone of. the
Parliament, to be taken into view upon this occasion.—
If this gentleman had been distinct p if behest told yes
what he would permit you to pray for, as well he wbst
he would not permit you to pray for. we might hawed..•
cussed the whole business with him before head. I slosi
not attempt to enter into a detail of what ought to be the
subject matter of the petition. Bat this I can say. gssie-
rally, that in the brat place, the prayer ought to be
speetitc ; that is to say, thst it ought to specify, act
plainly specify, the things that yaw least dew Tear
landlord Is getting no reut ; the farmer is losing his
capital; thousands upon thousands have had tbr:r
estates and capital confiscated ; other thousand. upon
thousands are upon the brink of ruin; dis:raints are in
the houses of thousands upon thousands ; ethers are is
hourly expectation of distraint ; the mortgagee has al•
ready grasped estates innumerable ; he is rad, 10 grasp
a la age part of the remainder ; as a natural teasels/we
of all this, wretched beings innumerable are exposed to
all the sufferings of want, and all the terrible sequel to
the commissioa of crime; and, upon the whole, the
country presents a scene of ruin, devastation and misrry
of all sorts, wholly without a parallel.
This has all proceeded from acts of the Parliament
unadvisedly passed And sloall you doubt of the rarer
of the Parnatnent to give redress? Shall you doubt that
it has the power to pat ra Wu/4.W, and all ilittitai"
stop, too, to the daily ineremoing terrors aid !tortes
that now prevail? That it has such power you rasa he
certain ; sod shall you, in your petition, presume that .t
wants the will? No: it is for you to print out the wee-
mares necessary to give you ralef; it is for you to point
out, sgreesbly to tote lae,otage of your repiitios t:
the Sheriff, " the beet means of relieving the dews:
and I pray you to observe, that one of the goalioirs Of
1 those '• test mamas" must be, their being SpEELW in
1 producing their effect. It is objected to Retorted Po'
liament, that it most be SLOW in producing relief.
Why slow, Gentlemen? The Parliament ran pass rats
not very slowly; and it-torna, you will recollect, U.:
any other measure, is to be produced by an act of the
Parliament However, without waiting for the meta.
within which a Reform might be accomplished, your
ruin might, at any rate, Le put I: stop to by the Parlia-
ment in tLrce days. That is quick enough for these
hasty gentlemen ; or, they must. at last, after many
years of unaccountable patience, have become Impatient
in teed !

la short, not to take up too much of yoar time: not
to forestall the proeeelings of the meetirz ; Not to esti-
cipate the propositions that may h. made, Me ends IN
betore and 1 confidently rely, that some one will be
found in the county of Norfolk, able and winkle to pro-
pose, and that a majority of the Meeting will be bowl
ready to support, an effectual de Rpeat !WWI for
these evils. firm in this opinion, t podia;
tientletwen,
Your roost (+eclipse,
And most bumhb wow,
Wm. Castors.

vv, sbtatelintan.

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LONDON:
THURSDAY RYCNINO, I:MC[IMR 26, 1822.

STOCK Elution's, HAMP•PAIT Twetvz o'CLocn.--
Ibis day is of course a holiday at the Bank, but the
Stork Exchange is open. Consols opened this morning
m9O sellers, hut afterwards were done at 90 to 4. Four
Expresses arrived from Paris early in the morning, with
the French papers and private letters of Tuesday after-
loop 6 o'clock.—The French funds left off on that day
59.30. Spanish 55, bat were done at 56.
The private letters from Paris cnntinue pacific. The
'glide from Toulouse in the French papers corresponds
with the private information received this morning from
the above capita:.
'FOREIGN FT:NOS.—NM Spanish opened this morning
at 53%, hot got up again to 541, after it was known that
loathing of a decisive nature en war had arrived from
Paris.—The fall of the French funds is owing to Stock
jobbing speenlations at Paris.
Ctn. a—New Spanish, 541-014. 80—Wow Prussian, SS
1404—Itasaia, 041—Damish, 91—Nespolitao764 Scrip
—Cotosibtan, 013—Perav ism, 78—Spaalsh Strip. 101.

We hive this morning received, by Its?reee, the Jeer-
ed! de Paris of Tuestisyj last, from which the folios ing

are entracte :-- ••
Pacts, Dec. 23.—Yeetetday reeving, the Mantels'
Clerinost de relearn, Minister of the Marine, halo
audience of his Majesty.
The Journal de Toulouse, of the 18th of Dee. con
talus the following information, which gives new hopes,
that peace will sot be disturbed:a...44lff announced, in
one of oor last numbers, that this 1•1010 was going to be
occupied as a Park fur Artillery.. ipiteltich were to be
placed, three trains of cannot. ail-s bridge of boats,
On the 15th islet accounts were 'Neolved•figem tiovern-
I
went, ordering the suepenaimp. OtAlO,OO Ina the bridge
of hosts. - --
The Baron d'ltroles was gill! aticiolotme. °lithe 18th,
mid it was not known when lie was goirig to take his de.
partnre.
A Letter from Santa Beal, of the 15th Dec., it-
umesces that 1200 Constitutioneliits bad destroyed the
insurgents is the Valley of Amentt-Mesitansedthous to
retreat Into France.
The courier from Mahon Wm 'es istalligenese of the
20th November, that an Americas and there with
information from Algiers, tbat,before be liti,ml'Algeriee
squadron was on theree of sallies to ant aguiiretkiho
Spanish fleet. 4 '4 '.;
The EK.Frenelt Genefal Sairaitts,had entliuked at
Antwerp, on his way to Liana. .
A letter from Treiste *tittle, that two of the towns of
Owes in peseession of 144 Tirke have offered to
• capitulate, provided the Oreille will subs the Ottoman
garrisons to return into Theeseiti, but the Chief of the
Ureeks would not comply with IMO request.
M 01110, Dec. 16.—The tae• lust Sittiogs of the Cortes
have not been of any toneiquince. TIM discussions
still captioned on the military ordonancee. Daily reports
are received of the different victories obtained by Mina
over the intorgeots of Catalonia.
The Paris men, which we previously received to the
24th instant, still maintain an unbroken silence on the
question of war with Spain, and salt contain details
of the struggles of the few detached parties of Inset-.
gents who still keep up their desponding cense io that
voentry. A private letter. in the French papers, from
Madrid, dated the 14th of December, says, a treaty of
commerce between Spain and England is mots
than ever tallted of; and the Consliturioassel war-,
rants, as official, the news, which had *been pro iousle,
• announced, that a treaty of alliance, areal,e and de-
fensive, between Spain and Portugal has been signed
and ratified. bl. Jabat, who bat been lately appointed
Minister of S;tain to the Bristish government, arrived in
Paris on Saturday evening, and was expected to stay
there a few
* Pi ad Jonenta, who have been exiled. the one
• to Ivies, and the letter to the Canaries, were, says the
Elate, the real authors of the Zurriago, or Scourge.
This sentence has been passed sport them in virtue of a
dictatorial authority, which the Cortes have given to the
6overnment in certain cases. The Zurriego, it is under.
stood, has designedly exaggerated the new principle., is,
order to excite regret for thr ancient order of things. The
publication of an order for the exile of Romero Alps-
ante. whom, it is determined, to remove from Madrid, is
every moment expected.—There is little new or interest-
ing in these Paris papers, relative to France. M. de
Lilly Tollendal is stated to be dangerously ill, at the
house of the Doke de Cases, at Bordeaux.
Tbe Freed) Funds left off on Monday. for. Money, at
88. They had Men lower than 88 is, the conrse of the.
day ; and at four o'clock they were 158, IU, for the
Account.

The account received from Dublin this morning, of the
proceedings against the agents la the late outrage against
The Lord Lieutenant, will be found to possess very serious
Interest. Tt.e Investigation into the circumstances connect-
ed with the attack. hes, it appears, been carried on under
the direction of the higbest lac• officers of the State. and
evidence. it is said, has been brought forth which gives the
deepest dye to the affair. Of the persons implicated in the
trattsactioes, three have been committed on a charge of
toaspiring to take away the life of the Lord Lieutenant;
end one, on a charge of conspiring to cause a riot and of
actually having, withlothers, caused a riot, oa the night In
qumtlon. Two others have been apprehended on a charge
similar to the last ; but these have berm admitted to bail.

The Emperor Alexander, wito was so zealous a pa;
Crux of missions a few years ago, has shit the towhee
the Moravian Missionaries at Sarepta. He has refused
them the liberty to bawler or convert the heathen Gil-
more, and has reduced them to he mere distributors of
Bibles—even one word in the way of commentary being
lirbidden. The prohibition extends to alt Protestant
minions in KUSBiel.
We regret to state that Mak); Kobineon, .a Gent. well
know, in this town, on Saturday last (Vet instint) Met
with a fatal accident at Kingston, in Surrey, by the
overturigng.if hie gig, The Major was so severely
injured, that he expired in a few Yount—(Brightea
Paper.)

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