himself to the salary of 8000l. for the first quarter, drawing only 2000. The last quarter's salary was returned to the treasury (hear!) because he did not consider himself entitled to receive it; and this returu was made without any wish, without even the least hope, that it could ever possibly come to the knowledge of any person-(hear!)-except the individual to whom it was returned. Upon finding that the motives for his Mission no longer existed, he tendered the surrender of it. It was not immediately accepted. He could not say what it was that rendered his Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh) reluctant to receive that tender. He was required to continue in Lisbon during the war which then unfortunately broke out; but, immediately after the battle of Waterloo, his noble friend did write to him, saying that circumstances then would admit of his being relieved from the burthen of his situa tion. On the 11th of August he resigned; and finding himself then without a substitute, he wrote to Lord Bathurst, pointing out a person whom he looked upon as fit to be appointed Chargé des Affaires, and that person was in consequence nominated. He was not able to find the letter to Lord Bathurst. It was the only document connected with the subject that was not before the House. Was he then pertinacious in his adherence to his situation? Did he discover in any part of this transaction the motives that were attributed to him? Did it bear the appearance of a gross and dis. graceful robbery? (Hear, hear!) He had answered the charges against him so far as they regarded his Mission; but he would not leave unnoticed any part of the attack. It was said that his Noble Friend (Castlereagh) and himself had exhibited instances of reconciliation that were unprecedented in the annals of dispute (Hear, hear! from the Opposition.) He may with truth assert, that whatever may be the opinions which were circulated ei

ther from malice or from party, however they may have clashed in almost a solitary instance, no two neighbours had ever lived so long convenient to each other, without differing more essentially than they had done. But was that House the place in which private difference or reconciliation was to be forced into notice?(Hear, hear, hear!)· The Right Hon. Gentleman closed, amidst loud and repeated cheers, one of the most eloquent and convincing speeches ever delivered in Parliament, of which our limits permit us only to give a very faint idea.

Mr. Brougham characterized the business, as the Hon. Baronet had done before him, as a profitable pecuniary party job; and he hoped the motion of his Hon. Friend would meet with the support which it deserved, and which he expected.

Lord Milton had listened with the greatest attention to the arguments of the Hon. Gentleman who had commenced the debate, to those of the Hon. Baronet, and to those of his Hon. and Learned Friend: but he candidly confessed, that from the facts which had been laid down, he had drawn his own conclusions. He could not conscientiously concur in the censure which had been passed upon the Right Hon. Gentleman by many on his side of the House. But it should not at the same time be imagined, that he was to be classed amongst those gentlemen who considered the Right Hon. Gentleman free from all blame. After the most mature deliberation which he had had time to give it, he thought that the question which had been moved, was not one which the House ought

to entertain.

Mr. Tierney said, he should vote for the motion of his Hou. Friend, because he conceived the measure to be an unnecessary expenditure of the public money.

The House then divided: for the previ ous question, 270; against it, 96; majority, 174.

FRANCE.

By letters from Paris we learn, that that city has concluded a loan with Messrs. Rothschild and Co. for 32.000,000 francs, or 1,330,000l. sterling. The circumstance which led to such a transaction was the

daily expense incurred by keeping down the price of bread to 18 sous for 4lb., the cost of which has not been less than 75,000 francs, or 3,150l. per diem.

The distress in the French provinces is tremendous. Bread is no where less than seven sols (3 d.); in many places nine (41⁄2d.); and in some ten and eleven sols a pound. The peasants live on herbs and roots; and France will be fortunate if seGENT. MAG. May, 1817.

rious epidemic distempers are not the consequence of the present misery.

These accounts make mention of a lately detected conspiracy; the alledged object of which was, to assassinate Monsieur and both his sons, at a review of the Royal Guard. The plot seems to have been confined to a very few conspirators, all of whom were members of the Royal Guard, and who are now handed over to a competent tribunal, to ascertain their guilt, and award the necessary punish

ment.

The wife of Regnault D'Angely has been apprehended at Paris, and a man named Olville, said to be a cousin of Buonaparte

--some

-some plot among the adherents of the Ex-Emperor, is implied by these arrests.

The French Government has repaid the sum of 20,000l. advanced to it by Great Britain last year, for granting relief to such of the suffering Clergy and Laity of France as had claims upon his Most Christian Majesty.

The Moniteur announces, that Louis XVIII. has ordered the standards of the ancient company of horse-grenadiers of his guard, to be deposited in the hands of the family of La Roche Jacquelin. His Majesty has given permission to that family to make these ensigns the supporters of their arms, and to unite them by the following device-" Vendée, Bourdeaux, Vendée;" as a perpetual memorial of the faithful and devoted services which the house of La Roche Jacquelin has rendered to the Crown.

Some hopes are held out, of greater facilities being about to be afforded to the commercial intercourse between this country and France.

The Moniteur lately contained, under the head of Calais, a long and interesting account of the shipwreck of a French vessel, L'Orient, of 72 tons, and seven men, at that place, during a violent storm on the 16th; on which occasion, the English officers and crew of the Royal Sovereign yacht, commanded by Commodore Owen, distinguished themselves by a degree of generous and daring enterprise which has excited the admiration of our French neighbours. The storm raged with such fury, that none of the seamen of the place would venture out to the rescue of the unfortunate crew :-abandoned by their own countrymen, it was to the noble courage of British tars, that any of them owed their preservation. A boat wellmanned pushed off from the Royal Sovereign, under the command of Lieut. Chas. Moore, and, by the most extraordinary exertions, succeeded in saving two of the crew. The gallant commander of the boat narrowly escaped losing his own life in the attempt, having been thrown by an overwhelming wave into the sea, but most fortunately was picked up again by his men.

An affray lately took place at the Lisle Theatre, when Talma was performing there. The audience wished to crown him with laurel; but some Vendean officers of the garrison, considering it meant more to honour Talma for his well-known Buonapartean principles, than his abilities as an actor, violently opposed the design, and cleared the Theatre. The officers have been since reprimanded by theGovernment.

The celebrated Baron Geramb, wellknown in London in 1812, after a noviciate of fifteen months, made his solemn vows as a Monk of La Trappe, on April 13.

NETHERLANDS.

The Philanthropist, an English Journal

printed at Brussels, states, that the Government had just discovered a correspondence between Napoleon and some of his partisans in Europe. The plan was ingenious and new. Madame Bertrand had received a preseut of a beautiful muslin dress, magnificently embroidered, which came from a city in the South of France. The flowers and various figures which composed the embroidery were so many hieroglyphics, each having its particular signification. The indiscretion of a young man who had been the bearer of it, and who lately returned to England, caused the key of this species of cypher to fall into the hands of the English Minister.

In Holland and the Netherlands, the French designations of weights and mea\sures have been abolished, and the names in use before the Revolution have been again introduced.

SPAIN and PORTUGAL. A plot has been detected among the Spanish military for gaining possession of the important fortress of Barcelona. The conspirators, relying on their supposed success in seducing some officers of the regiment of Tarragona in garrison at the abovementioned fortress, sent an emissary to one of the gates, and attempted to gain over the Commandant of the post. By his orders, however, the messenger was seized; and on him were found proclamations, in the name of General Lacy, exciting the people to insurrection. General and 17 officers, his accomplices, were consequently put in arrest, and he has received sentence of death. A petition signed by a great number of respectable characters has been presented at Court, with a view to save the life of Gen. Lacy.

The

An article from Madrid states, that Spain has been inundated with caricatures and other prints, tending to bring the King and Royal Family into contempt: a censorship has therefore been established over the art of engraving, on the same terms with that which watches over the press.

An article in the Dutch papers, dated Madrid, states that a new plan of finance has been delivered by the Minister of that department, Senor Garagi, to the King, which had already been discussed in the Council of State, and was expected to make a deep sensation; having for its basis, the principle, that, in future, not only the nobility of every rank, but the whole body of ecclesiastics themselves, are to be subject to all sorts of taxes and imposts.

The last letters from Lisbon state, that the King of Portugal had lately drawn on the Regency, from the Brazils, for the sum of sixty thousand pounds; which they refused to pay. As a proof of the turn of public feeling in Portugal, we are assured

that,

that, when the King was proclaimed at Lisbon, the Staff Officers alone cried "Long live the King." The populace and the army were alike unmoved; but some individuals were observed to say, "If the King will have our voices, let him come amongst us and hear them." A general alarm still prevails throughout Portugal, that the Old Kingdom is to be left defenceless at the mercy of a neighbouring Government.

In an article from Madrid, notice is at length take of the warlike preparations which have been recently making by the Regency of Portugal. "We have troops," says the Spanish Gazetteer, "in Andalusia, in Estremadura, and in the kingdom of Leon.-The first of these would rather fight against the Portuguese than embark for the Colonies,"-And he adds, "if it be true that the Court of Brazils has made a treaty with Buenos Ayres, it is impossible for their Government to pass over such an insult."

An article from Lausanne, of the 11th of April, draws a heart-rending picture of the miseries endured by the unfortunate inhabitants of Switzerland, through the pressure of absolute famine. The sufferings appear to be most intense among the North-eastern Cantons, where numbers have already perished; and where, to the great portion of the surviving multitude, death would be considered a release, A little pamphlet has been published by the Minister Heer, entitled, A Project for bringing Succour to the unexampled Distresses of the Poor in the Canton of Glaris." The benevolent author there traces the evil to an excessive population; for which sustenance cannot be found within its scanty territory. The most industrious labourer cannot, by incessant toil, earn the means of supporting nature; and if the whole soil of some districts were divided amongst the people, each family would not be possessed of sufficient to yield them potatoes for more than two months in the year. The consequences of this deplorable visitation are described with dreadful force: skeletons of men devour the most disgusting victuals, for which they contend with the unclean brutes themselves. They have no defence from beat or cold. The old, the infauts, the parents, and their offspring, of various families, a prey to thirst, disease, and desperation, occupy in crowds the same chamber, and taste no fluid within their parched lips but a fetid and contagious atmosphere. Nor are these represented to be the only sources of affliction. There is a point in buman wretchedness beyond which man too often ceases to feel himself an accountable being. Extraordinary distresses are often in the individual the

origin of great transgressions; and, when they spread themselves widely through the mass of a people, they never fail to tinge it deeply with depraved and irreligious habits. This decay of the moral principles, in sympathy with the failure of the physical powers, has added another horror to those which surround the once upright and happy Swiss. The Reverend Author of the little Work above-mentioned declares, that misery has brought in her train a total and boundless immorality, extinguishing every sentiment of virtue; that the children, for want of necessary clothing, are debarred of all religious instruction; and that Christianity, which we are so desirous to plant in distant regions, is on the point of perishing at home. The sole remedy-visionary, we are afraid-which seems to present itself to this afflicted people, is that of emigration to America. Five hundred and eighty-seven of the peasants of Argovia have taken their passage in a single ship; finding no escape from famine but in the loss of country, health, and liberty. ITALY.

A contagious malady, analogous to typhus fever, at present afflicts a great part of Italy; it has taken its source in crowded meetings of beggars and wretched persons, whose numbers are very great, and is attributed to famine and the bad aliment. GERMANY.

A strange detail is given, in an article from Vienna, of a new sect which has arisen in Upper Austria; to whom, from their founder, the name of Petzelians has been given. They are assimilated, in the Vienna account, to the Spenceans in England, but with this horrible addition, that they make human sacrifices; and we are told that seven men, and a girl thirteen years of age, have been put to death by them. Eighty-seven of them, including Petzel, a priest, their founder, have been arrested.

The Austrian Observer, the official paper of the Court of Vienna, has nearly filled its columns during three successive publications, with the insertion of the pamphlet some time ago published in this country by Mr. Santini, respecting the treatment of Buonaparte, and the debates on Lord Holland's motion. What is not less singular, Buonaparte is uniformly called Emperor and Ex-Emperor by the Editor of the Austrian Observer, when speaking in his own person.-Santini has passed through the Netherlands. He visited all the chief friends of Buonaparte at Brussels, and purposed to visit Munich, and afterwards Italy.

The Emperor of Austria has presented his grandson (young Buonaparte) with the Colonelcy of a regiment of infantry, recently become vacant.

Extract

Extract of a letter from Vienna, April 12. "The unexpected arrival of the Princess of Wales, on the 9th of the month, produced a general sensation, and embarrassed great numbers. She put up at the hotel called the Empress of Austria; having found nobody at home a' the hotel of Lord Stewart, where she wished to alight. Lord Stewart, the moment that be heard of the intended arrival of the Princess, set off with all his family for the country; a conduct which the Princess, as well as the Austrian publick, took in very ill part. The Minister of the kingdom of Hanover (Alexander Count Hardenberg) followed his example. The Court sent to her a Chamberlain to wait upon her; and, although she observed the strictest incognito, the Princess nevertheless paid a visit to the Empress. The Princess complained openly, at her table, in very strong terms, of Lord Stewart; and declared "that she would inform her daughter of it, and would herself never forgive him for this behaviour."

Austria still keeps possession of Alexandria, in spite of all the remonstrances of the Sardinian Government. No less than 6,000 Austrian troops were about to be added to the garrison.

The Princess Amelia, niece of the King of Saxony, is to marry one of the Austrian Archdukes. It is also said, that the Heir Apparent to the Saxon Throne, Prince Frederick, the son of the King's brother, Maximilian, is destined for Caroline, the fourth daughter of the Emperor Francis.

In a Sitting of the Prussian Council of State on the 25th ult. on the question of freedom of trade being agitated, the prohibitory system, of which we have recently seen so many unpleasant demonstrations, was proscribed, by a majority of 20 voices against two.

A Committee is to be formed in Prussia, consisting half of Members of the Council of State, and half of Deputies from the Provinces, to consider of and prepare the new Constitution.

Holland, Germany, and other parts of the Continent, are at this time so glutted with British manufactures, that they may be purchased in any quantity, at less than the prime cost in this kingdom.

The dispute between the King of Wirtemburg and his States has terminated. A majority of the Diet have acceded to the declaration required by his Majesty, recognizing the consolidation of the old and new States, and abjuring all distinction between New and Old Wirtemburgers. SWEDEN.

According to accounts from Stockholm in the French Papers, the pretended conspiracy has resolved itself into a mere trick on the part of the person who made

the original accusation; whose falsehoods having been discovered, he is himself to be tried before the High Tribunal.

The King of Sweden has issued a Proclamation, prohibiting the importation of porter, wines, arrack, and white and plain cotton goods and muslins, except cotton goods imported directly from India in Swedish vessels. The cause assigned for this measure, which affects British commerce and manufactures almost exclusively, is the unfavourable course of exchange between Sweden and other countries. It is difficult to enumerate the various ways in which the King of Sweden injures his revenue and his subjects by this prohibition: the most marked are, that he loses the duty upon the imported article; he loses also that upon the article which would be exported in return; and he shuts the foreign markets generally to the native productions of his own country; for if the Swedes keep our goods away from their markets, they keep theirs also away from ours.

By recent accounts from India we learn, that a considerable movement pervades the Native Powers throughout the Northeast and centre of the Peninsula. The tributaries and officers of the Rajah of Jypour, terrified by the advances of Ameer Khan, and still more by the imbecility of their own Rajah, resolved at one time to call in the assistance of the Company's troops

at another to choose a more capable and efficient Sovereign. The British resident at Delhi had received intelligence that the numbers of Pindarrees in the field amounted to no less than 80,000, mostly well equipped, and all well mounted. Their mode of making war is most de

structive,