The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-05 00:00:00

THE Si AT F.SM AN.

Se"tlund, praying fur Municioal Reformation, lie
should ab.•ain t..,.:it taering any observations in sup-
port of his tnu•iun, taking it fur granted that the
Mouse concurred in the propriety of the course be was
adopting. he Report of the last Parliament was be-
fore the House, and be had only to refer to the in.
,rinlYtisti it contained, in order to prove the insportnnee
of the measure. If it happened that any lion. tient.,
either front reading the Report, or from any other
cause, should otter any opposition to the motion, he
loon trusted he should lie beard in reply, with the
views as far as he was able, to reutove the objections.
Be could assure the House, te..t the question hail ex-
cited, and continued to excite, the greatest anxiety
throughout that part of the country.—Though the
list of the Committee which he had to propose was
nut exactly what he wished, as one name hail been
objected to by his Naj••sty's Ministers, yet hr a•as de-
termined to make no opposition to the alteration. The
Noble Lord concluded with moving, that the Petitions
presented from tba Royal Burghs of Scotland, in the
years IE4In-19.20, praying for Borough Reformation,
be referred to the consideration of a Select Connu:ttee,
to examine the same, and report thereon.
Lord BINNING begged to hear his testimony to the
very liberal spirit in which the Noble Lord opt the
suggestion• of his Majesty's Government, a• to the
constitution of the Committee.

The motion Ira% then carried, and the Select Com-
mittee appointed.
It was ordered, that the Reports of 1793 and 1819
be referred to the said Committee.

The Sheriffs of the City of London presented a Pe-
tition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of the Chy of Loudon, in Common Council assembled,
prAying for a continuation of the powers granted by
the 31st of the late King, fur the purpose of improving
the western part of the City, by the erection of a
Post-office, Lc.

On the motion for referring the Petition to a Com-
mittee, Mr. Srrj. ONSLOW ros.•, not to oppose the nip-
fiats, but to enter his solemn protest against any ex-
tension .of the tax on coals.—(llear, hear!)—lt was
contrary to every principle of taxation, that a general
impost shotild hr laid for a local purl ose ; and that
such a duty as that in question should he levied on a
necessary• of life, affecting the whole of the metropolis,
ss well as the counties of Surrey, Kent, Hertford,
Iturkinghainshire,
Mr. N. CALVERT also took the earliest opportu-
nity of protesting against any such pr ceeding.
Mr. R. 601IIK/N reminded the House, that he had
u•tiforntly endeavoured to call the attention of the
House to this subject. The fart was, that 230,000/.
hdi been expended at the new Post-uffice, without a
;angle brick having been laid ! When the Ileums
for which he had yesterday .ed should he laid on
the table, this would be wade apparent. The original
estimate for the building was Ylitt,lloll/.
Mr. H. SUMNEIt wished that seine explanation
should be made of the object in view, as well as of the
mode in which the money alread vraised bad been app!ied.
he SPEAKER ohs. rved, that as the Petiti was
a private Petition, no step could be taken without an
inquiry• Isy a Committee.

Alderman WOOD said, it would he useless for
I•im to take np the time of the House at that nesneent
by any observations on the subject. Hr most deny,
however, that the erection of a new Post-office was a
local benefit to the Cite of London. It was a public
l•enrfit. So far from the Tax on Coals being advatt-
tageotis.to the City of London, as long as it continued
the City world have to i ay 12,000/. a year.

'fhe Petition wan then referred to a ('ottanittee.
•IRON o The EXCHIQI SR 174 PCOTLAND.

The LORD ADVOCATE, adverting to the conver-
adion which had taken place a few evenings ago, in
the House, on the subject of the appointment of a
Court!' Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, observed,
that when the vacancy in question occurred, he had
been required, in the discharge of his official duty, to
make a report, on the recommendation of the Co 11111 l is-
stoners, on the Courts of Justice in Scotland, to abstain
trout filling up any surf' vacancy that might occur after
that recommendation. In order the better to enable
himself to execute this task, lie hail submitted the sitb-
ject to the consideration of the highest law authorities
in Scotland, namely, tb. Lord President of the Court
of Session, the Intl Justice Clerk, the Lord Chief Com-
missiouer of the Jury Court, and the Lord Chief Baron
of the Exchequer. Those high authorities were una-
nimous in their titanic:on of the expellienj of tilling
e p the vacancy. He was solicitous that the House
tAtould be put in possession of this Report, not because
it stated the opinion of the humble individuall who ad-
dressed th •us, but bCrilllir it comprehended the opinion
of the highest legal authorities in Scotland on the sub-
ject. He would therefore move that an humble Ad-
dress be presented to his Majesty, praying that he
would be graciously pleased to order that there be
laid before the House a Copy of the R-port made by
the Lord Advocate of Scotland on the reesinusiendas-
lion contained in the Sixth Report of the Commis-
Metiers of the t ourts of Justice in Scotland, regard-
lig the discontinuance of one of the Barons of the
Court of Exchequer in Scut and.
Mr. ABERCROMBIE rose, not to oppose the mo-
t:on, but to express his extreme regret that, when a
ateport had been made by Commi-sioneas appointed
by that House, expressing the opinion of those Com-
suissioners, that the other in question should, in the
event of a vacancy, not be filled up, his Majesty should
nevertheless have been avivised to fill it up. He was
very happy that the Learned Lord had moved for the
production of this pap r, as it was an admission on the
part of the Learned Lord (which he trested the public
would bear in mind), that what related to that Court
was a fit matter fur Parliamentary investigation. •He
was unequivocally of opinion, that into the nature of
the Court of Exchequer in Scotland it behoved that
House to institute a diligent inquiry—an inquiry
founded un the large and extended principle of sepa-
rating trim olhrial duties branches of business that
were not properly compatible with those ditties. It
was most essential to public justice that the ditties of
a Judge should never assume a political character,
(Hear, hear!)—On these grounds, and mainly on the
admission which the motion implied, of its heinx the
duty of Parliament to investigate the subject, hr gave
his cord!al must to it.

Lord HINNINU said, that t'se Honourable and
Laara•d Gentleman spoke as if his Learned Frieud had

himself originated the inquiry. It was not in. His
Learned Friend Will only Ministerial. The Secretary
of State haying required a Report from his Learned
Friend ou the rerunimenilation of the Commissioners,

he had done his duty lay appealing on thesubject to the
highest Law Authorities of Scotland.
Mr. AHKHI'KII3IHIR. in explanation, observed,
that it was substantially the same thing. !Prom what-
ever source the inquiry l.rurreded, it was evident that
the act of Um-eminent was in hostility to the opinion
of the Commissioners. He begged, however, to be
dastisially un lerstood, that nothing could be more fo-
reign to his intention than to intimate any Hunt that
WAS nut entirely respectful to the Learned Lord.
Sir .1. NEWPORT supported the necessity of an in-
quire into the constitution of the Court of It:chequer
in Seutlatol. It was evident that the information
which was to be afforded on the finlike, was absolutely
tarred fr.am I eovernment, by the observations made lay
his Noble Friend.

After a few words from Mr. HUSKISSON, the mo-
tion was agr.-ed to.
Msatotxue Act.-11r. PHILLIMORE, after a ',-
statement of the grounds on which he had in the last
Session of Parliament introduced a similar measure,
obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Mar-
riage Art.
Glue* LTA,. Drxtes.—Mr. lIUMR, before he pri
eeeded to the motion of which he had given notice,
wished to correct a mistake that had occurred with re-
ference to one ofhis statements yesterday evening. He
had said that in the seventh class of the Civil List in
1,315 there was to he found an expenditure whi. h he
hail characterised us useless, namely, the sum of 1,372/.
payable to the Master of th • HawLs, not the Master of
the Horse, as hail been err -ously stated. He now
came to the question of the revenue derived from
Gibraltar. lie had on a former occasion submitted to
the House a in lion o t the subject, which motion he
hail withdrawn, because it had been declared by the
Right Honourable Gentleman opposite, that the House '
had no right to interfere will the revenue &rived
from Gibraltar, and that it never had so interfered.
At that time he was not so well prepared to meet the
Right Honourable Gentleman. Ilut hr was now able
to inform him and the llonse, that the reveuue de-
rived from Gibraltar hail been detailed and laid be-
fore the House in the years 1791, 1795, 1796, and ,
1797. In a note :attached to the returns made of
the items of the surplus of the Gibraltar revenue,
it was stated that an account of its appropri.ition would
be laid before Parliament. That account, however,
had never made its appearance. It was not only ma-
terial to obtain this, but it was t material seriously
to consider the principle on which the revenue In
question had been raised. Fur his part he had always
been led t.i believe that his Majesty hail no right to
levy taxes upon any part of his subjects without the
sanction of Parliament. Let the House also consider-1

the amount of those taxes appropriated to the Civil
List. That am 'tint, from 1760 t • 1 e2il, wa5.124,216L
bring 2,070/. per annum. "The whole amount of the
taxes levied on Gibraltar during the last 60 years was„,
however (as we understood the Hon. Gentleman),
1540.000/. The Howie ought surely to consider I ow,
fur his Majesty had a right to levy, fur his own pur-
poses, any tax on a colony. He was prepared to contend
that no such right existed, and that all taxation on the
subject, nut sanctioned by that House, was a breach of
its privileges. Ile logged the House to attend to one cir-
cumstance. 1 he Mt. lion. Gent. opposite refused to as-
sign any reasons for the appropriation of the sums IS
question to the Civil List, hut said that it was the Im-
memorial usage. The fact did not bear out the Right
lion. Gentleman in that assertion. Let the House re-
fer to the original charter granted in the reign of
Queen Anne, soon after the capture of Gibraltar itt
1704. In 1705, the Queen in Council declared, for
the encouragement of settlers and traffic .ers in the gar-
rison, that no duties should be laid on ships, goods;
warehouses, ike. 'I his declaration had the elfesf of
attracting a considerable number of settlors to thegar.
Hum. The returns which lie wished to obtain would
show what the amount of the duties levied was, not-
withstanding that declaration, in 1760. In 1794 the
amount assessed was 4,11001. The House would he
sitrprise,l to learn that it had since increased to
50,00111. o the revenue derived front certain small,
portions of land, dec. that had devolved to the Crown,
the Crown was fairly entitled ; but the imposition of
local taxes to so heavy an )) uot was disgraceful
and unwarrantable. Ile proceeded to another most
serious part of the subject. When Gibraltar came
into our possession the inhabitants were chirtly,
if not entirely, Catholics ; and our Government
being anxious to remove them by degrees, and
to substitute Protestants, gave to the latter su-
perior advantages in order to induce them to settle.
The Catholics were subjected to a variety of restric-
tions, which continued until his Royal Highness the
Duke of Kent became Goveinor. With that liberality
which-always distiuguished his Ro al Highness, wh .
Celt tha the Catholics ought not to remain under a*
bar of that nature, he represented to Government its
impropriety and its incompatibility with the peace and
quiet of the garrison. In consequence, Mr. Windham,
in 1907, wrote a letter to his Royal Highness, autho-
rizing (:is we understood the Right Hun. tient) the
abolition of these restrictions. Ltat what would the
House say, when he informed them that Ministers, by
a late Order in Council, had laid a tax on every Ca-
tholie and Jewish inhabitant of the garrison. The
will of such individual was declared to he invalid with-
out the sanction of the licvernor ; and a capitation
tax of ten dollars a-year was imposed upon him--•-a
I tax existing no where but in Turkey, and worthy of
!Turkey! Rut what he thought would surprise die'
House, was, that exclusively of all that he had men-
tioned, duties to the amount of many thousand pounds
on almost every other article imported into Gibraltar.
On ships touching there, a duty was levied. On a ship
of three masts, 12 dollars ; on one of two masts, Y clUl-
tars; on smaller vessels, 4i dollars. This was in di.
rect contradiction to the original l•harter. During the
(year that he (Mr. Hume) wag at Gibraltar, 5,000 yes:
'acts touched at that port. If they merely anchored
they were subject to the duty. There were other tattoo
levied by the Governor, Gen. Don, in the most arbitrary
manner, and without even the authority of Ministers.
Ite a list in his possession, it appeared that there was one
(lie would not say improper in its object) imposed in IBls,
of 911.3-year on every re'ail wine and spirit shop. He

knew he should be telt; by the Right Hon. Gent. that this
was confirmed two years Orme rd • by An order in Council
The establishment (tithe place Lad also been most uune-
cessarily increased. He really believed it was increased
just in proportion as Ministers found it convenient to
extend their patronage. He would give the House some
idea of the amount of the inc rrrrr , in order to show the
kiiiii of economy observed. During the war there was
one Town-Major in Gibraltar; since the peace there bad'
been two. During the war there were two Barrack-
masters ; since the peace there ha I been three. [hiring
the war there was one Pratigite•Metier ; since the peace
there had been two. Instead of paving and keeping the
,garrison in repair, out of the ditties levied in it, large
sums (which the Honourable Gentleman specified) had
been at various times voted in the different estimates fur
those purposes, while the money was all remitted to the
Privy Purse. Now really this appeared to him to be a
question demanding serious consideration. If any part
if the hereditary revenue was given up by the Act of
the first of his late Majesty, that at Gibraltar must have
hens fief II up too. it was not, hot , simply the
1124,1:410/. that had been applied to the Privy Parse, het
the extravagant establishment—contrary to every prin-
ciple of economy—which had been kept up. to %bids
the attention of Parliament ought to be directed. To
him the system appeared to be most illegal snit uncon-
stitutional, and one which ought to be abolished. Not
any part of the duties raised were applied to pur-
poses advantageous to the establishment.—There were
in Gibraltar two Synagngees, two Roman Catholic Cha-
pels. and one Methodist Chapel ; but there was not one
Churns of the Established Religion of this country, nor
was there one school conducted upon the principles of
that persuasion. Ile would go farther—there was not
on the Rock any erahlislinient Irma which any Protest-
ant could receive that religions consolation which he
required. lie would not further detain the House at'
present. lie had three motions to make—
'nie first was, " for a lletnrn of all the taxes and duties'
levied in Uibraltar in the ) ear% ISENtand ISIS." Them: two
periods would be sufficient to show to the Mouse the nature
and increase of the revenue of that country.
Ills next motion was - for the production of an account of
die number and Wore of the various offices end eatiddlalt-
meats at Gibraltar, a ith the amount of the salaries end mew
laments received by the difterent functionaries in 1911 and i
I. ISIS." This would show to the House low far the wino
of economy, which was now considered the order of the day,
mos attended to.
Ills third motion was, •• for is return of the amount of the
reiretioes of Gibraltar from 170 U to IWO. distinguishing each
puke; sod also au account of the garrison sod other ex-
, together with the revenues transmitted to this
=4."
" On the first question being pnt, the CHANCELLOR
Of the EXCHEQUER said, that he did not rise to op-
port the motion: indeed, he had not, with the exception
of a slight alteration, any objection to produce the
whole of the accoutits moved fur. Ile could not, how-
ever, help complaining of the uncanilid manner in which
the lion. Member had charged both the Governor ofd
Gibraltar and his Majesty's Council, in the coarse of ,
his speech, with extrav rr and extortion. He did 1,
tot mean to object to the first or woad resolutions 1'
let to the third, be would, if it were not altered, pro-
pose an amendment, which was, that the whole account
for the tissue mentioned should be produced, without
4iecifyiag ,the items from year to year. He wished at
the rune time to observe, that there was not any foreign
pe i la whit h similar duties to those complained of were
shit at .cted. The Right Hon. Member wade some ob-
servations relative to certain sums remitted from Gibral-
tar. sad received by his late Majesty, hut we were un-
"We to catch the precise import of what he said.
' Sir JAS. MACKINTOSH said, it was not his inten-
tion to delay the Mouse by entering uursecessarily into
I as inquiry as to the mode in which these taxes had been
bid on. lie felt, however, that di- mode of their impo-
sition did not show a due regard to the rights of the in-
habitants. Notwithstanding this opinion, be was ready
to give credit to his Majesty's Ministers for the laudable
anxiety manifested by them, when a representation was
made of certain severe Orders in Council to relieve the
iohabitants from the pressure of those orders. Nut he
*told nut agree with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of
the Exchequer as to the doetrines laid down by him on
&elan- of nations, and which, coming from suck high
authority, were ealcislated to make a strong impression.
He could nut see how the law of nations vested in the
Sovereign of this country, conquering a colony, the
powers previously iseil in such colony by an abso-
hsse Monarch. lie felt it necessary to say, that the
*me anti the country were highly indebted to leis Hon.
Mend (Mr. Hume) for his persevering exertions in in-
flaking into matters which lay beyond the ordinary ob-
servation of Members generally. He would, however.
recommend to that Him. Member to accept of the offer
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his third resolu-
tion, reserving to himself the right of moving for any
more detailed accounts when be should deem it necessary
so to do. He admitted that the offer of the Chancellor
Of the Exchequer would bring the accounts incomplete.
ly before the I loose, but they would he sufficient fur the
question just shout to he inquired into—the amount iii.
the Crown Revenues. With this view lie thought the
suggestion of the Right Hoc. Member ought to be
acceded to, but without prejudice to any future inquiry.
Mr. HOULGURN said he did not then wish to enter
at length in answer to the lion. Member (Mr. Home),
as another opportunity of doing so would present itself.
There was one point, however, to which he wished to
'peak. The lion. Member had stated that he had re-
sided at Gibraltar. He also had resided there, and he
could assure the House, whether it was from Isis greater
desire to attend divine service, Or from what other motive,
he would not say, hut he hail every Sunday attended
she Established Church, and he had seen the troops regu-
-latipaisead-italas. .Aad he could call to the rewoUeo•
tine of the lion. Mensher, the existence of such an esta-
blishment, by reminding him of the many monnmeuts
erected in and about it, to several of our naval and mili-
tary heroes. There were other statements of the Hon.
Member which he was equally ready to show were in-
correct, when the proper period arrived—at presest, be
taut feel it necessary to go further.

An lion. Member (Colonel DALRYMPLE, we be-
lieve), said he had resided two years in Gibraltar, and
had, during that time, regularly attended a church of
the established religion. He also bad witnessed the re-
gular attendance of the troops.
The first and second Resolutions were then pat and
carried.
Mr. HUME, in moving the third Resolution, observed
that he had made the alteration reemmendod to hint hy
(striking out the words " from year to year," althotigh
this defeated the great object which be had I. view in
making the motion—namely, that of 'hewing the pro-
=sive increase of revenue and expenditure which bad
made. He could assure the Hones that he was
ready to meet die lion. Members omoMte eu the subject
of the ammonia he had made; aiW be pledged himself
to prove that these statements were correct. He denied
at the same time the charge of want of candour imputed
to him. He had never used the words charged 'Oast
him by the other aide of the House. If any expreseioa
inadvertently used by him gave offence in nay qua ter,
he begged to wore the Howe that he had no seek
tention—bie only object was to lay before Pediments
the true staff of the revenue arising from Gibraltar.
The liesnlntioa was then put as amended, and carried.
It was ordired, ea the moths of Mr. H. CLIVE, that
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Parliament has sow been sitting a fortnight, bat it
is only this day that its important lahours mil be
eowidered as commencing. light skirmishes atone
have hitherto occupied its attention, without revealing
the respective strrnzth of Parties. The (moist now
Igrows more serious : a grand battle is to be Cuaght
this night, and its results will show the country what
she has to expect from the honesty and patriut.kes, or
the subserviency of those, to whom she has coat-
i'
miffed the care and protection of her dearest interests
sad liberties. The moment is one of awful suspense
sad anxiety. Not because the si clement of the Civil
List is a question which ran mate: Tally affect the ree-
-1 dition of the people er the welf-re of the State, bat
became the sentiments expressed, and the votes given
on this occasion, will determine the real character of
the new Parliament. Hitherto, a hater's- suspicito.s
may be entertained, that char. cter is unknown.
" Orme ignotrne," said an ancient Briesk late:
recording to TACIVITS, " pro twaveylle fee.- We
regret, that, in this instance, we cannot entirely
agree with the sentiment expressed by oar gallant
and patriotic forefather. The ignorance in whirl: we
are condemned to remain for one day longer of the
' nature of the choice made by the nation at the lets
elections, is not attended with any hope that it will
prove either very magnificent or beneliciaL Too many
breaches have been made In our constitutional institu-
tions, to milder it possible to prevent corruption trent
rushing in as a flood even into the sanctuary of our Legis-
lature. Bat though the temple may not be nnpoluted, it
may also contain more principle and virtue than anal.
These, indeed, may flvid but a limited field for utter.;
yet it will be a consoling reflection to have palpabie
proofs that they are in existence, andthat they watch
to curb, if they cannot totally arrest, the audacity at
those who try to level the fa'sric of our liberties with
the ground. All parties, we are aware, have boasted
of increased strength : but the generality of the bout
proves that it is unfounded. For where none can
gain save by taking away from the other, it is evident
that all cannot have acquired, and that some must
have lost. It is the exact proportioi between the gain
and the loss, which this night's die, ussion will reveal :
and it is that which forms its chief importance.
For even supposing 31r. LEOUGRAM'S efforts to suc-
ceed, and that a filo thousamtis may be cut off from
the Civil List (the Whigs will take good care that it
be not reduced below ape: mark), the effect will not
extend to the dimilution of a single tax, and will
therefore never be felt by the country. It is not by
such motions that the real evils of the times can be
cured. They only serve to d vert the nalional mid
from the true object which it ought to pursue. They
break " a butterfly upon the wheA, butt they *sin
the giant (grievance ti exist, and accumulate in all its
cru,hing magnitude, till remedies are sought, whittle
even tho sufferers must abhor. Bat they gratify peo•
social ambition and vanity. They procure at a cheap
rate, the name and tenon a of patriotism, and who, best
one or two, in our days, would toil Mo bard, Or 'stri-
ke too much, to display its reality ?

Perhaps at no period of -nor history -were wet
minced to that state of political degradation at whirb
we are now arrived. With a debt which, noterithstasd•
ing every escrtion, is annually increasing; with a re-
velidt, in despite of the utmost efforts of taxatism tt•
tally unequal to the demands upon it; with oar trales
both external anti domestic, in the most appalling slats
of depression, and a great portion of our usansioduten
in consequence inactire, while their workman ere al•
most starving under every privation which badman
suffering ran endure; with our agricaltnriats, able
lowly oinking under the oppressive weight of haft
tithes, and rent, and rot:Mere.% by thaw medium
exact on from his income, totally unable to compete
with the foreigner( even in tivir mkt narkes—where
is the man, whose breast Is saimited with one °Pm&
the genuine mew pettier; who can rantes irlmt
lartegti,ae dreadful but irevitable restOt this Oa"
s without a feeling approaching to &PO?
We ass arrived at that point when Inuatios ins Wl°
pushed to as extreme beyond which experiele kn.
proved It to be totally unproductive, sat whew its V•
most proalnee is unequal loth, expenditure sf gait**
and the interest of our National Debt, aisuildhating tbi
progression of the Sinking Fund, sad 111111011161( at'
misery an aanaal increase of that debt Is Oa smite
of several millions—at a point wlak4 NOM is "I
only incapable of making a demean/ado el one
ability to repel foreign &screwiest. bog 1•4444 age
Our protection from insult to the ulna hadvelly,

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se, adversaries. Is this a condition to which an
Englishman can bear to see his country reduced ?
this state things is suffered to remain,
"s it be wondered at that the inhabitants of those
districts op which the pressure of the times falls most I
',wily, should Phritik from their sufferings, and ex-;
eras, not in the mildest terms, (licit appreciation of
Ike causes which have thus undermined their pros-
p city! But where is the increased " oiler, the c..n-
s.roce, the reverence for the laws," which the recent
weasures of the last Parliament are said, by our
state-Jester, in his speech to his Liverpool constitu-
,n.s, to have restored: Are we to look for them in the
c.;ected conspiracies of the metropolis, or among the
~,t•otided infatuated violators of the laws in the
teeth ? Let not Ministers deceive themselves : the
spirit of a brave and generous people, accustomed to
beiree, is not to he suddenly repressed by a system of
unconstitutional though legal coercion ; nor will emu-
plaints of griev.►nces be considered as redressed when
answered by a prism' or the bayonet.

Extraet of a letter from Juan Crieago, February
20 :—" By the last accounts from the Main, things
appear to go on well with our army ; Bolivar is now
near Caraecas with an army of about 8,1100 men ; but
am sorry to inform von, that things have not gone t.n
so well in this island as respects the fleet, which was
t 4 have been off Laguira on the 9th ins;., to operate
with Bolivar, but it is still here doing nothing, the
failure of which is attributed to Brion. Out of 1,506
Irish troops that arrived here some time since, there
does not remain 500 effective men at this moment fit
for duty. We are in hopes that things fee the future
will be conducted ankh better, particularly in the
Navy department, as Commodore Strafford i• a manof
great ability, and the troops will be embarked in
a few days on board the Aeet, and we anticipate
seeing the Spanish fleet in one of the harbours of
Colombia."
Extract of a letter from Washington, dated the 4th
of April —" It is the opinion here that Congress will
sot sower in the report of the Committee of Foreign
Affairs on the expediency of occupying the EWAN!,
and Congress will not probably adjourn until May."
Nay TOba, Aram I.—A motion was made by Mr.
Randolph in the House of Representatives of the United
States, on Tuesday last, to each& Messrs. Gales and
Seaton, Editors of The National Intellegeneer from
the Ball of the House as Rep eters. It appears that a
report of the preeetdings cf the House relative to the
late Cammodore Decatur, in which Mr. Randolph took
a part, was not given correctly, at least so Mr. Randolph
states, and he accordingly wrote a note to the Editors
of ?Se Intelligeweer, requesting to be informed how
the report found its way into their paper. Messrs.
Gales and Seaton answer, that the report was ob-
tained from sources entitled to high credit. Mr.
Strotber, of Virginia, moved an amendment to Mr.
R.'s resolution, which, added to the original, will

make the resolution read thus :
" That Gales sad Seaton. Editors of lie National kith
Upeter. be eueladeil front the Ilan of this 'louse 44 Kr-
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Tut cagraN,Letters were yesterday received in
town, dated from her Majesty's Villa at Pesti/he 15th
April, awl announciag her departure for Hngbasti on
that day, and bet Majesty's intention of traveling
hither without stopping. From the espeditiusetuada
by the Queen in her route, it is believed that bet Me,
jesty will arrive at Calais by the end of this wevl.
where apartments are taken for her residence ; and
Lady Anne Hamilton, with other persons of her es-
tablishment, have received an intimation to proceed to

I:over to wait her further instructions.
An Augsburg article of the 22d ult. says---" Intelli-
gence worthy of credit, received to-day from Italy, an-
nounces the departure of the Queen of England from
Wane on the 9th inst., and her arrival at Pesaro, from
whence her Majesty was about to proceed direct to
London, through France."
Milieus Coot TT 3leartno.—The General Annual
Meeting of the County was held in the Fowl-house
here on Saturday last: Sir John Heron Maxwell,
But. in the chair, supported by the Lord Lieutenant
and Sheriff of the county. 'I he attendance of free-
holders, Itc. was numerous and highly respectable,
and the gentlemen present, after qttalifOng to Isis
Majesty king George IV., proceeded with the usual
business of the meeting. Aiming other things, it was
agreed to give 1000/. in aid of the fund fur erecting a
new bridge over the Annan, at Annan. The total sum
required for executing this object is estimated at 5,000/.
and as the town of Annan is expected to give 5041/. and
Parliament 1,500!. towards defraying the expense of
the erection, there is now a prospect that the old bridge
will he renewed, which has been for some years in ra-
ther a precarious state. Parliament gave similar
grants in the case of the bridges at New Galloway and
Newton-Smwart, and the additional 2,000/. can easily
be raised upon the credit of the tolls.—The meeting
also agreed topetiden Parliament on the 'thorn hard-
ship and inequality of the duty imposed upon malt,
nude from Scotch barley, bear or big; and General
Dimon, of Mount Annan, who appears to have paid
great attention to the subject, read a draft of a petition,
which, after a few observations from General Sharpe
was 'inanimately adopted.
We are informed from Kirkcudbright, that at a
meeting Of the Magistrates and Council of that Burgh,
un 31oaday, the 24th ult., the Provost stated that ac-
counts of the death of the Right Honourable Thomas,
Earl of Selkirk, had arrived sines they last met. He
therefore submitted to the meeting a tesolutien, which
was instantly and unanimously adopted, that they
should insert in their records a memorial of the high
sense which they entertained of the brilliant talents,
eminent virtues, and amiable manners, which adorned
the character of that highly gifted and distinguished
ambles:an: aad that while they sincerely sympathise
with his &flirted family, in the event which has
Pillaged them into the deepest distress, the Magis-
trates and Conseil will long lament, in the death of
kis Lordship, the lam of a friend and benefactor, who
had always evinced the greatest anxiety fur the wel-
ftwe sad prosper* of the Burgh, and whose condo.
liseetmatationa, and disinterested kindness
and mum_ lace it had so often and largely eXPeri-
bibill.--•(Blniffief Cowrier-)