Buonaparte, that the moment approached when his liberty might pos sibly be restored to him; and that his Britannic Majesty would not be the last to accelerate the term of his captivity." This declaration was followed by orders for the funeral, which, with infinite consistency after such a declaration, was attended with much of the same Lillipu tian littleness which has accompanied the St. Helena routine from first to last. As this could not be fear, the readers may attribute it to any other respectable passion they think proper; but, for heaven sake, we pray our ultras to spare us a portion of their brilliant allusion to the age of chivalry! otherwise, they are altogether out of place in the present publication. | to social intercourse, the deportment of officers and gentlemen can be In a word, one half of these volumes form a heavy tax upon the at once very effectively, if only negatively contemptuous. remainder, and fairly overlay the facts which form the interesting According to Doctor ANTOMMARCHI, the man Lowe informed portion of the work. the suite of Napoleon," that Government was beginning to be more Doctor ANTOMMARCHI commences his narrative with the circum-favourably disposed, and had ordered him to announce to General stance of his engagement by Madame Mère and Cardinal Fesch, to proceed to St. Helena to attend to the declining health of Napoleon. A detail of the petty obstacles and difficulties opposed by the contemptible fears of the Holy Alliance, and of Austria in particular, is given with genuine Italian vivacity. We regret to say, that the conduct in London was scarcely more dignified, if this writer is to be depended upon, whose style of reporting official conversation, we must confess, occasionally inspires us with doubt. According to his account, endeavours were made here to disgust him with his undertaking, while his departure was unnecessarily delayed even for months. Why all this should have been, we declare as Englishmen we are utterly at a loss to tell, even admitting the claimed necessity of this unique species of captivity. The Doctor, however, and the two priests, his companions, finally reach St. Helena, and the former, after some curious demur on the part of Napoleon, enters on his office. The following preparatory form shows the nature of the feelings existing between the fallen Emperor and his British goalers : "Longwood, 22d Sept. 1819. "M. ANTOMMARCHI,-The Emperor accepts you as his surgeon, and allows you a salary of nine thousand francs a-year. Your functions will commence as soon as you shall have taken the oath; for which purpose I request you will call upon me at a quarter past two. "I have the honour to be, Sir, I was not to communicate or I accordingly repaired to the Grand Marshal's at the appointed hour, and made the engagement required of me. say any thing to the English, and I was to take especial care not to give them the least information respecting the progress of Napoleon's disorder. All I had myself heard and experienced, had taught me what people we had to deal with, and had not disposed me to be very coufiding with them: I therefore swore that I would not repeat or communicate any thing; and I had the honour of being introduced to his Majesty.' At this time, Napoleon was in a very wretched state of health, but had uniformly refused the attendance of Lowe's medical man, without however affecting to doubt his skill; on the contrary, he recommends ANTOMMARCHI to Consult with him on the effects of the climate. This was in September 1821, and the Doctor keeps a kind of diary until his patient's decease in May 1823. In a medical point of view, it is a melancholy detail of suffering, and of the gradual mastery of disease; enlivened, during intervals of ease and of better spirits, with the usual vivid reminiscences of the sufferer; of some of which we shall avail ourselves elsewhere. We believe it is one of the most invariable tendencies of the failing mind of man to advert to the period of youth with tender recollection. Such appears to have been the case with Napoleon, possibly in obedience to the law which ordains the first impressions to be the strongest, but partly also, we suspect, owing to ANTOMMARCHI's incapability of comprehending the warlike allusions of his soldierly patient; a fact indeed which he honestly acknowledges. We know not that much is lost by this tendency of conversation, nor for the greater portion of the family anecdote is extremely amusing, and, in addition to the simple narrative of daily event, will form the chief claim to notice on the part of this closing journalist. The English public was already acquainted with the general character of the controversy in relation to the nature of the disease of Napoleon, and his physician here supplies sufficient material to set conjecture at rest. The former doubtless seems to have inherited a 1. constitutional tendency to the disease of which he died; and to say nothing of mental suffering, St. Helena was precisely the place, in reference to that tendency, to decently hasten a desired catastrophe. For ourselves, we hesitate not to say, that we are nationally ashamed of the whole transaction; but, as already observed, giving in to the asserted necessity of a distant captivity, we are utterly at a loss to account for the excess of cruel and ungenerous privation, the mean and paltry restrictions in regard to communication with relations, including wife and child, which evidently shortened the life of Buonaparte. The wretched and paltry withholding of books and journals that might be supposed to personally interest him, and the absurd restrictions which virtually made him a prisoner in his miserable abode, all appear to us to be as contemptible as unnecessary; and we are satisfied that posterity will say the same. With the bulk of mankind, political expediency will do much, but it must possess a manly character: the expediency of crawling and abject fear, or of mere national enmity, exalts the victim precisely as much as it debases the politician. The minor instruments of the unnecessary portion of the endurance, have found the out, without waiting for the verdict of posterity. The meanest tools must be ostensively countenanced; but when it comes To conclude: as containing what cannot be obtained elsewhere, an accurate account of the closing scenes of the life of Napoleon, and as forming much explicit document for the future historian, this publi cation has its value, even independent of the reported conversation of Buonaparte; but we must again protest against the extraneous matter, as a species of expansive book-making, which, to parody the old parliamentary resolution, "has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." THEATRICAL EXAMINER. Q. DRURY-LANE. On Monday evening, with some relaxation of force on the part of the opponents of KEAN, the play of A New Way to pay Old Debts was got through very nearly in dumb show. Several contests took place in the various parts of the house, and copper coins were brutally hurled in many instances at conspicuous partisans. An orange also nearly reached Miss SMITHSON on the stage; but this was seemingly unintended. We will not dwell on details which possess no sort of variety, and indeed no other interest than what arises from misplaced, or at least unreasoning indignation on the one side; and objection to an oppressive display of resentment, and, as it is too evident, of still meaner passions on the other. After the play, and during the first act of the afterpiece, Mr. KEAN came forward, and addressed the audience as follows: "Ladies and Gentlemen-1 have made as fair concession tola British audience as a British actor ought.-(Applauses and disapprobation.)—I hope, for the honour of my country, that I shall be permitted to perform during the remainder of twenty nights; after which I shall take my leave for ever.-(Loud cries of No, no, Kean; you shall not leave us ! "Never, never!)—I hope also, for the honour of my country, that this persecution will never reach foreign annals." He then bowed and retired.-Applause and disapprobation were kept up for some time, which finally sank into silence, and the farce proceeded. FRIDAY EVENING. The opposition this evening was exceedingly slackened, and the audience, by no means a numerous one, produced a very disproportionate number of malcontents. At the half price, a renewal of tumult took place, but in no respects with any thing like the primitive vigour. It is reported that Mr. KEAN will withdraw for a fortnight; but we know not on what authority. At all events, the future opposition appears likely to merge into that which militates against no principle absence on the part of the dissentients. Mr. KEAN made no address this evening, but spoke some allusive passages of Macbeth which implied energy and fortitude, with singular significance. Q. law, or foreign policy: he was a most consummate intriguer, and the greatest champion of existing abuses: he kept the Sultan's conscience as well as his own, but it was never remarked that the Head Mufti's conscience thwarted his own interests. (Laughter.) Having seen (said his Lordship) the Turkish empire torn by an intolerant and divided Divan, he prayed that this nation might not be delivered up to such a distracted Council!-(Laughter.) classes of the British people.-It is no small addition to the gratification of his Majesty, that Ireland is participating in the general prosperity. The outrages, for the suppression of which extraordinary powers were confided to his Majesty, have so far ceased, as to warrant the suspension of the exercise of those powers in most of the districts heretofore disurbed.-Industry and Commercial enterprise are extending themselves that part of the United Kingdom. It is, therefore, the more to be regretted, that associations should exist in Ireland, which have adopted Lord LANSDOWN heartily approved of the recognition of the South proceedings irreconcilable with the spirit of the Constitution, and cal- American States, but thought it might have taken place niue months culated by exciting alarm, and by exasperating animosities, to endan- ago. Alluding to Ireland, he conjured their Lordships not to believe, ger the peace of Society, and to retard the course of National Improve-that by checking the present measures of the Catholic Association, —if ment.-His Majesty relies upon your wisdom to consider, without delay, they called for check, they would cure the disease which affected the the means of applying a remedy to this evil.-His Majesty further re- Irish people; for though the existing symptoms might be quashed, new commends the renewal of the inquiries instituted last Session into the troubles would arise which would avert the prosperity of Ireland, and state of Ireland.-His Majesty has seen, with regret, the interruption of unnerve the arm of England, in a time of danger. His Lordship called tranquillity in India, by the unprovoked aggression and extravagant upon the House not to increase the evil by checking its outward display pretensions of the Burmese Government, which rendered hostile opera- rather than striking at the root of it; not to be too hasty in putting down tions against that state unavoidable.-It is, however, satisfactory to find the public manifestation of discontent in a country where discontent, so that none of the other Native Powers have manifested any unfriendly long as the present system lasted, must always manifest itself in some disposition, and that the bravery and conduct displayed by the forces shape or other. already employed against the enemy, afford the most favourable prospect of a successful termination of the contest. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, His Majesty has directed us to inform you, that the estimates of the year will be forthwith laid before you.-The state of India, and circumstances connected with other parts of his Majesty's foreign possessions, will render some augmentation in his military establishments indispensable. His Majesty has, however, the sincere gratification of believing, that notwithstanding the increase of expense arising out of this augmentation, such is the flourishing condition and progressive improvement of the revenue, that it will still be in your power, without affecting public credit, to give additional facilities to the national industry, and to make a further reduction in the burdens of his people. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "His Majesty commands us to inform you, that his Majesty continues to receive from his Allies, and generally from all Princes and States, assurances of their unabated desire to maintain and cultivate the relations of peace with his Majesty and with each other; and that it is his Majesty's constant endeavour to preserve the general tranquillity. The negotiations which have been so long carried on through his Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, between the Emperor of Russia and the Ottoman Porte, have been brought to an amicable issue.-His Majesty has directed to be laid before you, copies of arrangements which have been entered into with the kingdoms of Denmark and Hanover, for improving the commercial intercourse between those States and the United kingdom.-A treaty, having for its object the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade, has been concluded between his Majesty and the King of Sweden, a copy of which treaty (as soon as the ratifications thereof shall have been exchanged) his Majesty has directed to be laid before you. Some difficulties have arisen with respect to the ratification of the treaty for the same object which was negotiated last year between his Majesty and the United States of America.-These difficulties, howeter, his Majesty trusts, will not finally impede the conclusion of so beneficial an arrangement.-In conformity with the declarations which have been repeatedly made by his Majesty, his Majesty has taken measures for confirming by treaties the commercial relations already subsisting between this kingdom and those countries of America which appear to have established their separation from Spain.-So soon as these treaties shall be completed, his Majesty will direct copies to be laid before you.-His Majesty commands us not to conclude without congratulating you upon the continued improvement in the state of the agricultural interest, the olid foundation of our national prosperity; nor without informing you, that evident advantage has been derived from the relief which you have recently given to commerce by the removal of inconvenient restrictions. -His Majesty recommends to you to persevere (as circumstances may allow) in the removal of similar restrictions; and his Majesty directs us to assure you, that you may rely upon his Majesty's cordial co-operatton in fostering and extending that commerce, which, whilst it is, under the blessing of Providence, a main source of strength and power to this country, contributes in no less a degree to the happiness and civilization of mankind." Their Lordships having adjourned, re-assembled at five o'clock, when Lord DUDLEY and WARD moved an humble Address to the Throne, in answer to the "gracious Speech," which was in the usual echo and every-thing-approving style; which Address was seconded by Lord GORT in the same satisfied and courtly strain. Lord LIVERPOOL observed, that owing to the firmness of Parliament, they had accomplished an Herculean task, and were now enjoying their reward-they had founded a state of prosperity for England greater than any other country had enjoyed, nay, greater than she herself had pos sessed at any antecedent period! With regard to our foreign policy, we had acted with a proper caution in the South American question, as no nation had a right to set itself up in judgment between a mother-country and its colonies-we had no right to dispute the independence, neither were we entitled to assert or maintain it-and our recognition of the Independent States could not with propriety have taken place sooner.Referring to Ireland, his Lordship said, that the question respecting the Catholic Association had nothing to do with the Catholic claims; that its proceedings were in decided hostility to the intent of the Con vention Act; that it was actually levying an unauthorized duty upon the Catholic population of Ireland; and that the existence of such a body was inconsistent with the Constitution of the Country, and incompatible with its peace. If the Catholic Claims were granted at all, they should be granted on their own merits, and not on the demand of such a body as the Catholic Association. He did not deny the right of the Catholics to assemble and to petition Parliament-that was not the question; it was, whether conduct should be tolerated which was in decided hostility to the spirit of the laws. The improved condition of Ireland was chiefly owing to the increasing prosperity of the Empire generally; for the disturbances in that country were always mainly attributable to distress, and not, as some contended, to political and religious animosities. But if such animosities tended to produce disturbance, what could be more mischievous than the measures of the Catholic Association? His Lordship concluded by saying, that both the safety and the prosperity of the country demanded that measures should be taken against the Association, and by giving notice, that ou this day week he should move for a renewal of the Committee for in quiring into the State of Ireland. Lord DONOUGHMORE deprecated the threatened coercion in regard to Ireland, and denied that the proceedings of the Catholics were at all illegal. It was in vain, he said, to attempt to put down by Act of Par liament six millions of people who had real grievances to complain of Why not let the Catholics of Ireland talk: they proposed to do no more. In his opinion the Roman Catholic Association had done nothing which they ought not to have done. Lord RODEN, on the contrary, was gratified to hear that Government meant to put down the Association, which had produced the most bane ful effects on the minds of the Irish peasantry. Decided measures alone would make the Agitators crouch, and it was not for Parliament to be dictated to by the Catholic Association. Lord CLIFDEN contended that the proceedings of the Association were perfectly legal, and that the Rent was collected and used for proper objects. As the Speech alluded to Associations, he concluded that the Orange Societies were also to be suppressed. It was extraordinary, that Government should at this moment exhibit much greater intolerance towards Ireland than to Hanover, in which kingdom it had just been declared that the Professors of all Christian denominations should be placed on an equal footing with respect to Civil Privileges! When it was recollected that Burke, Fox, Pitt, and 20 other great men, were all advocates for Catholic Emancipation, he could not but wonder at the obstinate folly of a portion of the British Cabinet! The Address was then agreed to unanimously. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES. Lord KING gave his cordial approbation to those measures by which the resources of the country had been relieved and industry stimulated,- The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that he should shortly move for leave to measures which had been repeatedly pressed on the attention of Govern-regulate a system now going on to a most mischievous extent he meant ment by himself and his friends, and, though opposed and neglected at first, Joint Stock Companies not yet formed, and which never might be were finally adopted by Ministers. But though the condition of England formed, and where, before their formation takes place, the shares of the was prosperous, such was not the case with six millions of Catholics on persons adventuring therein were made the subjects of sale, to the enorthe other side of the Channel, who were suffering under a system which mous profit of those who set such Companies afloat. It was his intenwas disgraceful to our age and country. Turkey and Ireland were the tion to ask their Lordships to consent to a Bill to check that sort of proonly two countries in Europe, where races were opposed on account of ceeding. He thought it right to mention the subject on the first day of their religious creeds. Here Lord King very pleasantly alluded to the the Session, because he intended that the operation of the Bill should chief Members of the British Cabinet, as if composing a Turkish Divan. affect all sales of interest on shares in those Companies which might be The Reis Effendi, or Minister for Foreign Affairs, he said, was the only proposed, but not yet formed, from and after the first day of the present man of genius in the whole Divan; but the Head Mufti, or Chief of the Session. With respect to the past, he would either leave it to be dealt with according to the common law, or he would introduce into the Bill whether in trade. THE EXAMINER. a declaration as to what he conceived to be the intent of the common law on the subject. HOUSE OF COMMONS. SPEECH FROM THE THRONE, AND ADDRESS IN ANSWER. The Speaker attended in the House of Peers to hear the Speech, in the usual form, and on his return read a copy of it to the House. Lord FRANCIS LEVESON GOWER, in moving an Address, which as usual merely echoed the Speech, expatiated at length upon the prosperity of every national interest, and the general happiness and content which extended throughout the kingdom, not even excepting, he was happy to say, Ireland. In reference to the proposed augmentation of the army, his Lordship said, that he believed he might state confidently, that it was not the intention of Ministers to increase the military force of Ireland by a single man. The additional troops were wanted for India, and for the colonies in America and the Mediterranean.-The Address was seconded by Mr. Alderman THOMSON. Seal? Prince Hohenloe is nothing to the man who could effect such miracle. (Laughter.) Many things surprise me; but nothing so much surprise me as that the Noble and Learned individual to whe I allude, should quit his hold of office, while life remains. (Her The Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite greatly underrate the steadines burdens of his high station. In these qualities he has never per mind of the Learned Individual, the firmness with which he bears which he has borne the thwarts he lately received on the questions been paralleled. (A laugh.) Nothing can equal the constancy free trade. His patience under such painful circumstances can be rivall only by the fortitude with which he bears the distress of the suitors his own Court. (Hear, hear!) Let him be tried. (4 laugh.) h generous mind, expanded as it has been by his long official charac (Loud laughter.) He is no doubt convinced that the higher an off there is no propensity so strong as a love of the service to his count the more unjustifiable it is to abandon it. Let Right Hon. Gentlem opposite make the experiment, and if they succeed in wrenching pow miracle-mongers. (Loud laughter.) His present station, it is from his gripe, I shall thenceforward estimate them as nothing short known, the Noble and Learned Lord holds as an estate for life. only question is, whether he is to appoint his successor. By some is supposed that he has actually appointed him, and that some of results of that appointment are to be applied to the uses of his will. the Right Hon. Gent. say, he will resign, if the Catholic Question carried in the Cabinet; let the Noble and Learned Lord say, he will resign if it is carried. The Catholic Question would be carrie but the Noble and Learned Lord would retain his place. He wou behave with the fortitude which has distinguished him in the oth instances in which he has been defeated; and the country would not deprived of the inestimable blessing of his services. (A laugh.) T Speech talks of Associations;-in the plural. That little letters, is o calculated to of the slyest introductions that Belial ever resorted to, in any spee make the worse appear 66 The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts are low." Mr. BROUGHAM gave his most cordial approbation to many points in the Address, more particularly to what was said respecting commercial restrictions, In saying this, however, he could not forget that those very principles of free trade, the good effects of which were now so much admired, were unavailingly recommended to the House for successive long years by the Hon. Friends around him, and were treated with derision and contempt by the men in office, who now at length made them the basis of our commercial code. Ministers had taken a leaf out of that black book of Opposition, which had for so long been treated as horrifying. What a triumph to those who had advocated the once-vituperated system of free trade, to see it not only reduced to practice, but actually made a topic of congratulation in the King's Speech! (Hear!) And indeed not only the principle, but certain detailed modifications of the restrictive system, which he himself had some years ago submitted to the House, were now adopted by Ministers-(Mr. Brougham alluded particularly to the Navigation Laws and Silk Trade)-although he had been then blamed for his presumption, and warned never again to preach such damnable heresies-(hear, hear!) He hoped at length experience would induce Ministers to go on in this salutary course, and extend the same principle to the wine and coffee duties, which it was clearly proved writing. I know the reflection which passed through the mind of I am perfectly aware, Sir, by whom that s was added. I know the har yielded more to the revenue when they bore lighter on the people. He writer-I must put the word in the plural. It will then be considered gladly assented, also, to the recent acknowledgment of the South Ame- applicable to Orange as to Catholic Associations, and the adversaries rican States--that tardy approach on the part of Government to more liberal principles. He would not dwell upon the effect which the feel- single person. both will be conciliated. Let not that little letter s, however, deceiv ings of the country, and above all the powerful and enlightened efforts between the Catholic and the Orange Associations, depend upon it tha of his Learned Friend Sir James Mackintosh, had in producing the dila- will be only a nominal equity. It will be like one of those "sub However it may be pretended to hold the balance ev tory resolution of Government;-he would not minutely criticise their equities" so well known in the Court over which the Noble and Lear just share of praise: he only regretted that the principle had not been extended to St. Domingo, where our interests more powerfully demanded be carried, and the Catholic Association will be strongly put down w it, that oppressed country having established its independence long beLord to whom I have been alluding presides. Let the proposed meas fore Colombia or Buenos Ayres, and enjoyed it since in a more assured one hand, while the Orange Association will receive only a gentle manner, becoming not only thriving but powerful. While, however, had attentively watched the proceedings of the Catholic Association, liberal feelings were extended to distant countries, why were they denied he could discover nothing that they had either done or said, which co with the other." The Learned Gentleman proceeded to observe, that where interest, bonour, duty, gratitude, most demanded them—namely, justify the charge against them in the Speech. That Association, to Ireland? (Cheers.) Was liberal policy to be excluded only from that believed, had the hearty support of the Catholic Body in Ireland, of portion of the kingdom-were we never to render justice to the Irish millions of people, whose feelings and wishes it actually represented. people? The evasion of a divided Cabinet upon the Catholic Question attack it by act of Parliament, therefore, would be to attack the peop could no longer be allowed-such divisions did not prevent other ques- Ireland themselves. And how could that body be put down, with tions being carried, upon which there were differences in the Adminis- putting down hundreds of other associations, which held meetings tration. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Secretary Canning), raised subscriptions for all sorts of objects. How could those attack backed as he was by public opinion-backed by the Hon. Friends round Catholic Association who supported an Association to which the Du him (Mr. B.) would have triumphed on the Catholic Question, even had Wellington was a subscriber-the Bridge-street Association? He w he been obliged to leave office. (Cheers.) It used to be said, that scru- give every possible opposition to the projected attack on the Cat ples existed in a high quarter, which deprived the Catholics of all hope. Association-a measure which appeared to him to be an enormous Such language he (Mr. B.) always considered most unconstitutional and chief, bottomed in the grossest injustice, pregnant with the most actious: it was language which in the better times before Charles II. consequences, and in his opinion leading, sooner or later, to the sever would have brought the Ministers uttering it to the block. (Hear!) of the two kingdoms! (Hear, hear, hear!) “There is not in this ho But thank God! such language could no longer be held. His Majesty's said Mr. Brougham," any man who more laments the fact than 1 'opinion respecting religious liberty was proved by his conduct in a country where he acted, not through his Ministers, but directly as Sove- tion, and the Catholic Association alone. (Hear, hear!) Ireland reign. He alluded to the Proclamation issued in December at Hanover, this moment tranquil; never were the laws of the land more regu but so it is, that the peace of Ireland is secured by the Catholic Ass by its King, George the Fourth, a Proclamation which merited the enforced, more cheerfully obeyed than at present. It is true that highest praise, and which gave him no small delight. That wise and enlightened Proclamation declared a "perfect equality of civil and poli-proach to an equal distribution of justice amongst these poor people tical rights," and abolished" the notion of a predominant and a merely they already feel comparatively happy. But is this feeling produce abuses are still complained of; yet such is the luxury of even an tolerated church." It declared that" All Christian religious communities" (ALL;-the expression was not confined to Hanover; it was equally truth to make such an assertion-it is produced by the exertions the Government of the country? I deny it; it would be but to cloa applicable to Ireland)" have a right to the unobstructed and free exercise of their religious worship." Further than this no man would wish to Catholic Association. (Hear, hear!) The Association might no But why not apply to Ireland the principle thus wisely shew the bad principle upon which Ministers acted, and their inatte applied to Hanover? Why would Ministers, in spite of this noble be put down by statute in 24 hours; but that measure would example, persevere in their present offensive and unjust policy? ciation for ever, let them, instead of waging a war against six milli The Catholic Association was the offspring of ministerial misgovernment: Catholics, announce that Catholic Emancipation would be grant to the interests of Ireland. If they really desired to put down the if there was anything vehement in its spirit, or violent in its proceedings, and there would be an end of the Association. He should not tal blame not the Association, but those who gave rise to the Association. Why did not the friends of Catholic Emancipation in the Cabinet carry absent; but he had thought it his duty to declare his sentiments sense of the House upon the Address, because many of his friends that measure, as they had carried other measures opposed by the same liberating his mind from the guilty responsibility of an acquiesce persons who opposed the Catholics? Mr. Brougham-that any of their colleagues would resign? Do they "Are they afraid "-continued the measures alluded to in his Majesty's Speech. (Loud cheers.) think that one of their coadjutors, some man of splendid talents, of profound learning, of unwearied industry, would give up his place? Do they think he would resign his office; that he would quit the Great go. proved certain parts of the Speech with no gracious approbation Mr. CANNING observed, that the Learned Gentleman, while h demned other parts with no sparing condemnation. He (Mr. Can now declared, that he entert the same opinion which he ha. distance in the advantages she would have thereby derived. "By this Friday, February 4. ADDRESS ON THE SPEECH. When Lord Gower appeared with the Report respecting the address to the King, an animated conversation arose. Mr. HOBHOUSE made many judicious observations on the proposed address, protesting strongly against some of its statements and doctrines. Alluding to the Catholic Association, the Hon. Gentleman asked, if it did not represent the sentiments of the Catholic people, who did represent them ?—and if it did not, why, in God's name, legislate against it? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the proposed increase of the army, but denied that it was required for Ireland. Col. PALMER made various spirited remarks on the measures of government-and gave it as his confirmed opinion, that never did it stand so degraded and despised in the eyes of Europe, as at this moment, for it was composed of parties openly professing opposite principles, whose mutual jealousy and hatred were notorious to the whole country, and who literally agreed in nothing but to keep in place at the expence of their own honour and consistency.-Col. Palmer also avowed his supreme contempt for the Bible Societies, whether composed of knaves; or dupes, which, he said, were absurd and dangerous to the last degree; and he called upon Ministers to "graciously permit" their own Sovereignto do that for the people of the United Kingdom which he had done for the people of Hanover ! Sir JOHN NEWPORT earnestly intreated Ministers not to enter upon a system of restriction towards Ireland, which would bring ultimate ruin upon the empire. (Cheers!) merly professed in regard to Catholic Emancipation, and should always | be ready to support it, when properly brought before Parliament; but upon such a question he must surely be allowed to judge for himself; he mast not be directed in his judgment by the Catholic Association; for he most firmly believed, that if the dæmon of discord were to go abroad, he could not stir up a body of persons more injurious to the Catholic cause than this self-called Catholic Association. (Hear, hear!)-The Learned Gentleman ascribed all the tranquillity of Ireland to this Association. He forgot the efforts made by that great and able statesman the Marquis Wellesley; he forgot the even hand with which justice had been administered under the present Lord Lieutenant. "And how," continued Mr. Canning, "how has the Association produced this tranquillily? They said to the Catholics-We command you to be peaceful, by the hatred which you bear to your Orange brethren. Is this Christian charity or Christian feeling? Good God! is it not enough to stamp for ever the character of the Association! To be in peace with your Protestant brethren by the hate you bear them! Is this the religious principle on which Catholics act? If it be, I have been in a fatal error in advocating their cause. (Cheers.) In the name of the Catholic Body, then, I protest against the statement of the Learned Gentleman." By putting down the Association, he felt he should rid the Catholics of an incubus by which they had been long oppressed, which rendered them unsightly to the view, and was likely to turn against them the face of every man who did not wish to be bullied and brow-beaten into any set of opinious. The Learned Gentleman had asked, why a portion of the Ministry, which had carried other questions, did not carry Catholic Emancipation. He (Mr. Canning) denied the inference; he did not believe an administration could be formed, in unison with the feeling of the country, which should be agreed in favour of that measure, though he believed one could be so formed, which would be agreed against it. "If," continued the Right Hon. Secretary, "if I followed my Learned Friend's advice, and retired from the Cabinet, to give an opportunity for the formation of such an administration, he would have the satisfaction of ousting me; but he would not have the satisfaction of carrying the Catholic question." (Hear, hear!) He begged the House to reflect, that the Address only pledged them to consider the means of putting down Associations, which the King described as irreconcilable with the spirit of the Constitution. There was nothing alarming in this pledge, unless the House was prepared to say, that the Catholic Association, according to the character given of it by the Learned Gentleman, possessing an authority in Ireland, which supersedes all Government, engrosses all allegiance, and exercises all power, ought to exist-ought to sit beside the constituted authorities-nay, to tower above them, and dictate imperiously what measures ought or ought not to be pursued. With respect to the other topics of the Speech, he certainly felt more gratitude for aid received at various times from Members opposite, than might be thought warranted by the Learned Gentleman's niggardly praise. The Learned Gentleman was no unfrequent speaker in this House; when he spoke, too, he was not exceedingly concise, but Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON warmly and manfully defended the Catholic. touched upon many topics besides the matter in debate. Whenever Association, and maintained that there was nothing valuable in our conMinisters made any change, therefore, it might appear that they bor-stitution, that had not been obtained by similar Associations. (Hear.).. rowed from him; he always laid claim to it; he was always ready to The system adopted, was adding insult to injury, and he cautioned" Miexclaim-That is my measure-mine is the merit ofinvention-your's only nistors not to proceed in it. the toil of execution. "He reminds me," proceeded Mr. Canning, "of a great critic, and a would-be great poet in the reign of Queen Anne, of the name of Dennis, who maintained that he wrote all the good plays brought out; and when he went to the theatre he regularly laid claim to Lord NUGENT very pertinently asked, if the Catholic Association were them. One night a tragedy was represented in which was a storm; now declared illegal, why, when the Constitutional Association was in Dennis had previously asserted that he was the author of the tragedy, being, was there no attempt to put it down by law? What pretence had bat his claim was very modestly denied by the real author, who chanced the ministers of the crown for countenancing the transactions of that illegal. to sit near him; and when the storm commenced, Dennis flew into a assembly? Why were not the secretary and the leading members at least passion almost as violent as the storm, and insisted that if it were not his subjected to a prosecution by the law officers of the crown? Alluding tragedy, it most assuredly was his thunder.-(Cheers and laughter.) to the Catholics generally, his lordship said, he believed that the CaNow, the pretensions of the Learned Gentleman seem to me exactly of tholics of Great Britain were disposed to concur in every respect with the the same kind; and hereafter it will be impossible for any administration feeling and spirit evinced by the Catholic Association of Ireland. Bowever liberally disposed, to confer any benefit on the country, or to do Mr. DENMAN followed in the same spirit, and he strongly opposed a any act that excites loud approbation and makes a great noise, without the Honourable and Learned Gentleman laying claim to it as his thun-system of coercion towards Ireland, which, as it would begin in injustice, der." (Hear, hear!) The Learned Gentleman gave only a qualified must end in ruin! approbation to the recognition of the South American States: he argued that it ought to have taken place sooner. Now if there was anything connected with this subject, upon which he (Mr. Canning) took pride to bimself, it was the time chosen for this acknowledgment. He hoped to persuade the House, that that measure could not have been adopted with propriety at an earlier period. The three states in question were Buenos Ayres, Colombia, and Mexico. It was true, that for many years there had been no Spanish soldier on the territory af Buenos Ayres; but yet it was only very lately that the 13 or 14 provinces of which that State consted, had been united by a federal government. In regard to Colombia, tat state had thought right, as soon as it had expelled the last Spanish rops, to risk its separate existence by engaging the larger part of its any in Peru; and until the late successes of that army (of which Ministere bad now full information) were known, to have acknowledged the complete independence of Colombia would have been contrary to the at. The case of Mexico was still clearer. Only nine months ago, the *aventurer Iturbide went from England, to attempt to regain his abdicated crown. Could this country have interfered until that attempt was Cecided? But the moment it was decided, Mexico was recognized. We had repeatedly offered to Spain the precedence in the recoinition of her former colonies, and would have been content to follow her at an humble Mr. PEEL contended, that to allow the Catholic Association to levy taxes on the people, was inconsistent either with sense or reason, and that no Government could endure the establishment of such a deliberative. body. (Hear.) Mr. Peel defended the Lord Chancellor, declaring that he would go down to posterity as the most consistent politician that ever. hald the great seal. (Hear, hear.) Sir T. LETHBRIDGE (though a Bridge-street Gang Member) expressed. his delight that the Ministers were going to extinguish the Catholic Association! the general feeling of Ireland. Sir. H. PARNELL and Mr. FITZGERALD were of the same opinion. Sir C. FORBES alluded to the war in India, which, unless speedily concluded, would, he said, shake our empire there to its foundation. Mr. WYNN promised some information on this topic at an early day. Mr. HEYGATE approved of the intended proceedings against the Catholic Association. The address was ordered to be presented on Monday; and Mr. GoLBURN gave noticé, that on Thursday he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law respecting Illegal Associations.-Mr. BROUGHAM FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. WHITEHALL, Jan. 30.-The King has been pleased to appoint Sir BANKRUPT. to our policy. This the King's Speech denies; but the commentary of Mr. CANNING fully accedes to the bitterness of despotic feeling produced by this reasonable and well-timed measure. The contest among the emigrant claimants in the forty millions sterling of remuneration for the losses by the revolution, which has roused up myriads of sufferers, and of sufferings, goes near to threaten the smothering of poor M. Villele. These demands will form a very curious subject of investigation. Letters and papers have been received from Bogota (Columbia) to the 29th Nov.; and from Carthagena to the 17th Dec.; all was tranquil, and the general expectation was, that the Peruvian conflict laws of Columbia has been transmitted by the British ConsulGeneral; a species of information which is at this moment of great importance. G. B. Clark, New Shoreham, Sussex, brewer. Solicitors, Messrs. Hil-would terminate in negociation. An extract of all the commercial lier and Lewis, Middle Temple-lane. Saturday, February 5. BANKRUPTS. S. Grocock, Compton-street, Soho, tallow-chandler. court, Broad-street. Solicitor, Mr. E. Tooth, Hastings, Sussex, haberdasher. Solicitor, Mr. Cranch, Union- J. Levy, Southampton, grocer. square, Holborn." Colonially, we have to notice the arrival of Jamaica papers to the 28th Dec. inclusive. The island is tranquil, and the House of Assembly, while they decline to carry into effect the new regulations of Government, have however passed some Acts to ameliorate the condition of the Slaves; among which are-" An Act for removing Impediments to the Manumission of Slaves by Owners having only a limited interest;" and one to protect the Negroes on Saturday, and Solicitor, Mr. Luxmore, Red Lion-free them from all impediments as to worship and labour on Sunday. It is remarkable that these papers contain nothing that can be called news of the progress of affairs in Peru. R. Moseley, Goulston-square, Whitechapel, glass-merchant. Solicitor, T. Draper, White-street, Southwark. Solicitor, M. Rushbury, Carthu- J. Saunders, Holland-street, Southwark, bacon dryer. Solicitor, Mr. Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. M. Nathan, George-street, Adelphi, bill-broker. Solicitor, Mr. Lewis, T. Hughes, Speldhurst-street, Burton Crescent, draper. Solicitors, J. Grimwood, Hoxton, carpenter. Solicitors, Messrs. Jones and Bland, T. T. De Lasaux, Canterbury, porter-merchant. Solicitor, Mr. Howard, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn. The Speech delivered on Thursday is certainly more explicit than usual,—an improvement for which we doubtless have to thank the annual lesson read by the American President. Nor have we much to object against its general topics, as Mr. BROUGHAM has already so ably remarked on the extreme self-complacency with which Ministers take credit for the fruits of those more liberal commercial principles, the adoption of which has been forced upon them by their Parliamentary opponents, after years of fruitless importunity. All these matters, however, sink into insignificance, in comparison with the all-important question of Ireland, regarding which Ministers appear resolved rather to destroy the existing tranquillity than to be indebted for it to the Catholic leaders. We do not believe the proposed suppression of the Association has Mr. CANNING's concurrence, although the Right Hon. Placeman defended it in the House of Commons; we do not believe that Minister imbued with so vile a spirit, that he will not allow Ireland to be tranquil, because the Irish have shewn that they will rather follow the advice of their friends than the commands of their oppressors. What a monstrous stretch of wilful power is this! Experience has proved, that the Irish will not remain orderly and submissive at the stern voice of the faction that lords it over them: and now, when a body of Catholic Gentlemen are associated for the express object of securing the protection of the law, and obtaining the more extensive aid of the press, in behalf of their suffering countrymen ;-when this body, as the very basis of its exertions, succeeds in persuading the poor Irish to discontinue their hopeless outrages, and look only to constitutional means of relief,-then the Government calls upon Parliament to interfere and put down the Association, because it exercises (to good results!) a greater influence over the people than the lawful rulers possess! The spirit of this wicked design seems to be precisely this:-"We cannot keep the Irish people orderly and tranquil-therefore you (the Association) shall not have the credit of so doing." Mr. CANNING talks, in a style of absurd exaggeration, of the Association possessing power paramount to that of the Government, and "dictating what measures shall and what Colombian Bonds 1824, for Acc. 911 shall not be adopted." The Association possesses none of the powers THE FUNDS.-The King's Speech, taken simply according to the text, was not of a nature to depress Consols, but the commentary of Mr. Canning, implying the exceeding discontent of certain of the Continental Courts at our recognition of the American Republics, has slightly affected the home market. As to the various Companies, the double fire of the Chancellor's announcement in the House of Lords, and the dictum of Chief-Justice Abbott, in relation to the new speculation generally, is producing an amazing declension. Now. if such be the law, why allow so much bubble to proceed, to the immense loss of individuals, when a simple declaratory proclamation, under an order in Council, might at once prevent it? But in truth our law is so uncertain and anomalous, Ministers know as little as other people, until they formally consult the Law Officers, who not unfrequently differ from one another. The following quotations will spare further comment :Consols 93 Reduced, 94 34 per Cents. Reduced 101}} New 4 per Cents. 1057 6 PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS YESTERDAY. 212 Greek Bonds, 571 8 741 Ditto for Account, 571 8 THE EXAMINER. LONDON, FEB. 6, 1825. of government; it is a confusion of ideas to assert it; all it possesses is an influence with the people, exactly proportioned to its virtuous and wise conduct, an influence which, considering the character and interests of its members, and the publicity of its proceedings, is sure to produce (as has already been seen) important good, with no chance of intermixing serious evil. To strike down this Association by the wilful arm of power, is a reckless and cruel proceeding, which Mr. BROUGHAM most truly characterizes as " enormous in its mischief, bottomed in the grossest injustice, pregnant with the most fatal consequences, and leading, sooner or later, to the severanceof the two kingdoms!" We shall see shortly, whether the proposed attack on the Association is to be accompanied with any measure to conciliate the Catholics: if not, it will be indeed a fearful outrage upon the feelings and rights of six millions of ill-used people. Yet it seems difficult to see how the question of " Emancipation" can now be evaded, after the late capital proclamation of his HANOVERIAN MAJESTY, regarding which the reader will not fail to observe, although Mr. BROUGHAM made so eloquent a use of it, Ministers and their adherents did not THE foreign news of the past week has been exceedingly scanty |