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t tvn wattmtr* cuss ion, so far from relieving the country from I ing magnitude. It is there sir, the people so anti.republican a system, absolutely in-1 demand reform, and there they must have it. creases, at least fifty per cent, the inequality. I They sir, will act exceedingly unwise, if they And notwithstanding, we find (he gentleman [.ratify any amendment that does not reduce from Wniton, himself representing a county I and equalise the Senate. Equalization of of dense population, and increasing wealth, I representation in the Senate, is with me a its persevering advocate. That gentleman I “sine qua non.” I will not treat unless this tells us, we must yield something to the East, I be granted, and I now notify gentlemen, that and calls his plan a compromise scheme.— I unless this is granted, I shall vote against all Will that gentleman tell us wherein the low- [the counties having one member in the lower cr counties have yielded a particle of their house ; and there are, no doubt, many here power. Is ft not the same in the Senate that [who have determined to do likewise. The it is under the existing Constitution, and have people are not ignorant of the fact that a mi you not largely increased it in the lower 1 nority rules the majority in the Senate, and house ? Your plan sir, proposes a Senator that the majority pays the expense of that to two counties, without regard to any thing, I domination. They have sent us here to cor- save territory—does not this leave the power I rect these flagrant abuses, yet sir, can it be then, where we find it ? 1 believed that this Convention is about to en- According to the Constitution, which we I hance them ? I fear; I believe it. And the arc now called upon to amend, the county of only safety lies in the rejecting power of the Morgan with a representative population of people ; they sir, it is to be hoped, will not 9,002, and paying to the State a tax of $2,357,1 ratify such amendments as you are likely to is entitled to one Senator; and sir, the coun- offer them, ty of Wayne, V ith a representative population I understood the gentleman from Walton, of 818, and paying a tax of $215,has also one I the other day, to contend with zeal, that the Senator—now 818 representative population | act of the last legislature contained the in- in Wayne, paying for the support of the gov structions of the people to their delegates, ernment $215, exerts as much power in the I That we were bound to pursue that letter of I belong to us as citizens, are rights of proper. Senate of Georgia as 9,002 of representative instructions, neither to transceud, nor to fail ty. If therefore a community, is about to slave representation. This sir, is the great | terfere with this subject at all. It is a sub. barrier which protects the South from Nor- ject, as remarked by the distinguished dele- ( them aggression; break it down with our own gate front Oglethorpe, not debateable. We hands, and we let in upon us a flood of moral should not touch it, in the domestic circle, in and political evil, more devastating than the I the. halls of Congress, in the State Legislature, waters of the deluge. The admission that I nor in this body, if we value our ultimate safe- I made, that.population is abstractly the true I ty. And are you not preparing to make it and only basis of representation, has been I debateable, and if you destroy the Federal ba- used in argument in favor of the white basis. I sis, do not you, a convention of the people of It therefore becomes necessary that I should 1 Georgia, declare that the slave question is exhibit my views more fully uf&n this point. I now open ? Do you not invite the agitations I do not believe that property should be rep-1 of domestic traitors, honest zealots, politicu resented in a government where it is uniform I knaves, and reckless fanatics ? You do, and in character, and pretty equally diffused. I in a voice that will be heard and heeded. Because all being interested in property, I The least possible agitation in Georgia ot the if not to the same degree of interest, at least I slave question, may be attended with conse- with the same kind, legislation might be very I quences the most disastrous. No man can fairly presumed to be equal and just; for I calculate the results which might ^ fairly the law which protected one man’s rights iu spring from one movement, whether from a his property, would protect all holding such foreign fanatic or domestic traitor. No one property. If men are represented, their rights I from abroad will interfere with this property are represented, because you cannot separ-1 unless encouraged by domestic auxiliaries, I ate between rights of property and the person, I sincerely trust you will give no such aid by setting up those rights. If the rights of the 1 abolishing that sanatory principle in our cvt. voter creating a law-making power, are rep-1 stitution, which places the control of this iq- resented by his agent, his property is protec-1 terest in the hands of those most directly ami ted; for the larger class of those rights which J naturally charged with it. These people kayo a power of multiplication unknowu to other races of men, and a southern sun but quick- LATEST FROM EUROPEL By the arrival of the Packet ship Poland, Richardson, from Havre, whence she sailed on the 18th of April, the editors of ih e Com- mercial Advertiser have received Paris pa . pers to the 17th. In reference to the insurrectionary move, ment at Frankfort, heretofore mentioned in population in Morgan, paying for the sup-1 short of its directions—that its provisions are I make for itself a government, having no rights I :;ns their propagation. Look forward, sir, to port of the government $2,357. This, you I imperiously obligatory upon this body. Now, I of property, or whose property is of uniform I the time when they shall outaumber us ten to will say is enormous—no man can deny that I sir, has that gentleman abided by his power I character and of equal diffusion over every I one, and tell me if it is not wise to guard well here is a most intolerable inequality. Now, of Attorney ? Has lie done all that the law part of it, the people of that community alone by times, for those alarms and those ills sir, let us see how this evil is remedied by requires c*f him? Is he consistent with him- should be represented. You will perceive, which will attend our situation. The spirit of the favorite scheme of the majority. Let us 1 self, or rather, is he not most obviously and 1 Sir, that I assume what in our State is not 1 liberty is in them, as it is in all men; it sec how the gentleman from Walton equal- most outrageously inconsistent ? That act, the case ; that is identity of character, and I indomitable as fate, and recurperutive as the izes power in. the Senate. Why sir, thus, which the gentleman earnestly contended equal, or nearly equal diffusion of property. I Gheber’s fire. Once in a community sue. the counties of Morgan and Putnam, with a was and should be his rule of conduct, re- But, Sir, if a community has within it a species as ours will be, enkindle the flame of revolt, representative population of 18,896, and pay- [quires that the General Assembly should be of property, of peculiar character, and owned on I and you might as well expect with your puay ing into the Treasury annually the sum of reduced and equalized. Yet that gentleman ly by apart of it I hold it an undeniable truth, I arm, to hold back the coming thunderbolt $4,614, constitute a Senatorial District, rep- is the mover of a project which I have shown, that in the constitution of that community, I to stay its wasting fury. You may not heed resented by one Senator; and the counties and will shew .largely i.icreases its inequality, this property directly or indirectly, should be its beginnings, hut you will surely feel its re. of Ware and Lowndes, with a representative It would seem that the gentleman does not protected from the aggressions of those who suits. It may look harmless upon its first population of 3,492, and paying into the Trcas- here preserve that beautiful consistency of do not own it. A right of protection neces- appearance, and it would seem, a word migh ury about $500, constitute one other District, conduct which has heretofore marked and sarily and naturally belongs to those persons rebuke it; yet its power of increase is tre represented by onq Sehator, also. The lat- distinguished his public life. Let him an- who own the property, from the unjust legis- mendou-a We must suppress the spirit ter district exerting, with its handful of peo- swer to the people for thus violating their in- lation of those who may have no interest in revolt by preventives, else there is no safety pie, and its diminutive taxation, a power equal structions, and to his conscience for being to- it. And this right cannot be exerted, but by I for our posterity. Who will count tiie cos: to that belonging to the numerous population, day, the antithesis of what he was on Monday, increasing the representative power of those 1 of a single proposition to emancipate, which and heavy taxes of the former. Will the So much, Mr. President, for the plan, so far who own this property, ia the law making in an evil hour, may be made in your legisl jporeisn stuns. tue of what right you demand of me such a sacrifice ? 1 have the whole nation in my interest; it is perfectly in my power to arouse Roumelia and Anatolia to rebellion. With the aid of my nation, I can even do. it with advantage. Victorious at every point, and when public sentiment already promised me the whole of Syria, I delayed the march of my troops solely to prevent the unnecessary effusion of “ 1 blood, as well as to utford me opportunity to this paper; an article from that city of the 9th April, states that it is impossible precise. i cn „ Hlll ,,, .. . „ „ ■ r — Iv to estimate the number of individuals ar-1 aIK i aa ie l8 P^t*°a».of European policy ; rested as participating in the affair of the 3d, numTnl ^fi " ,od ^ ral,on ‘ and the but that it was very considerable; for that not whose genero,? B CCS by ™ y • natl0n ’ only the ordinary prisons were flUed with\aZSZSS2SHZ''£55 Y« the accused, but that many were condned on. required to iuS ,le3ld^ .to wun^ der arrest in houses temporanly appropriated which I now «4 my« tor that purpose, and others sent to Afferent Ly to a small province which you calUpt departme nts. , I ciiu.lic. Is not this pronouncing against me It is slated from Rouen that the number of a sentence of politic 1 death 1 ^ German Emigrants who have lately passed i a the mea n time, I have confidence that through that city for the purpose of embark- France and England will do me justice, and mpr at Havre for the U 10 rr ' l,n ^ 1 1 • - J April, that serious troubles had broken out in the electorate of Hesse Cassel, and that the French minister had determined to quit that capital. It was further said, but with less confidence, that an insurrection had like-1 fords more than one example of similar■ devo". wise broken out in the grand Duchy of Baden, tion. and that a portion of the troops employed | Whatever may happen, I hope that vour ring a glorious dentil to infamy, I will cheerful, iy sacrifioe mvseli for the good of my nation, on! it.ous ot serving it even to my latest breath. Such is my fixed resolution; and history af. against the insurgents had deserted. Portugal.—It is mentioned that the cause of Don Pedro looks, rather more favorable- he had succeded iu procuring a large loan. The papers are much occupied with spec ulations on Turkish affairs ; but there is no- government will recognize the justice of my rights, and urge the acceptance of the last propositions made by me to Halil Pacha, through the mediation of your excellency. It is with this hope, Monsieur Ambassador, that I write you this friendly communication, thing so late as we have received direct from j and transmit it through the hands of your aid! gentleman from Walton tell me, if it is here, I as it relates to the Senate. I think I have j department of the government, that a compromise was made; is it in the I shewn that it proposes to make theorgani- Thus, sir, in the formation of the Feder-1 Senate, that the territory has yielded aught zation of that branch worse than it now is. Constitution, the Southern States and some of its powers ? Arid yet, sir, that gentleman I Let us now consider the proposed reforms I others, went into convention, with a large and insists before this body, that his project is in the lower house; and here I apprehend controlling interest in slaves; the Northern founded upon mutual concession. Sir, the I that the power of the minority of the people, States had no such interest, nor had they any concession is all on one side, and the conccss. so long and so justly complained of, will be I kindly feeling for that interest. This slave ion too,is of the interests of the middle coun. I found to be augmented. Each county in the I property was unlike all other property, pecu try, and of the most sacred rights of the State is to be represented at least by one liarly partaking of the character both of per- whole country. There is no mutuality member. Now, sir, the county of Randolph sous and things, and was found only in a in it. [with a white population of 691, and pay- j part of that community for which the govern- That gentleman, if he is successful in the ing into the Treasury $128, (not more than ment was to be made. Hence it was that J There is danger to the Union in unsettling plan ho has suggested, will to a great extent one fourth the expense of her representation) | the slave States avowed at once, that they here, this principle of slave representation disfranchise, so far as relate to their rights] will exert, upon this plan, just the same | would not confederate, unless their slaves J for the Union cannot long exist, after our slave ture ? No man. The breeze of the tropics in its inception is sweet and gentle us tue breath of infancy, and the face of the slumber ing deep is scarcely ruffled by its placid breath; yet in its progress it gathers strength, as it moves it assumes the aspect of terror; it wields at length the tremendous energy of 8 the tempest, and Heaven, air and main, are whelmed in one common ruin. Just so, sir, with this moral storm ; give it way, and the voice of God alone can stay its devastations. of representation, some of the most wealthy amount of power, as the county ofTaliaferro, and intelligent counties of Georgia. It would with a white population of 3,105, and which ] 6cem sir, that the power is to be divided be- pays into the Treasury $1,070. That is, tween the pine barren and the extreme west; | one :nan who lives in Randolph is clothed that between them they may lord it over the with fivo times as much representative power were protected by representation, from ag-1 property, or our slave representation is dis gressions upon them in Congress, on the part turbed. Take away from the South their of the free States. And hence sir, the rep- slave representation, and they will fly oil from resentation of three-fifths of the slaves iu | the confederacy. You might as well hope to Congress; and experience has fully shown j retain these spheres in their orbits, after you peoples’heritage. It were a pity that such views and privilege, as another citizen whose lot the wisdom of our fathers in exacting such a had stricken the sun from the Heavens, as should operate in the formation of organic has been cast in the county of Taliaferro.— representation. Now, sir, in Georgia we law, to last, it may be for centuries. Again Yet this large advantage I am willing to give, have slaves, unlike all other property, known sir, let me illustrate the unequal distribution of | provided other matters, which we look upon to past or present times, and they are held [ power in the Senate, in one other way; ta-1 as of high moment, are conceded to us; to mainly by a part of the State. In other king the basis which the gentleman contends ] wit, equality in the Senate, and the basis of words, they are parts of the State, and this | for, to wit, the white population, as the ground | the federal numbers in the house. But it is project gives the power to such parts essen- work of the illustration. The eastern Judi-1 said that each county had one member before, tially anti-slave holding. It is therefore right | these states in the Union, after you begin in Congress to debate this question. I love this Union. I love its banner, the emblem of liberty and strength, but sir, we may drive our own people to choose between this broad and splendid streamer and the Palmetto flag ; the banner of the lonely star, and the solitary that part of the world, Belgium.—M. Lehon had an audience on the 18th of April, with his Majesty Louis Phil ippe. He was the bearer of a letter from Leopold to the King, and also from the Bel- gian Ministry concerning the condition of the country M. Lehon represented that the interven tion of Fra ice was necessary, and that the maintenance of peace was very uncertain tnat King William under the influence of Rus sia, had refused all propositions for the adjust meat of Bolgic affairs—that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg would not recognise farther the separation of Belgium than it had already auctioned, and was determined to tender his assistance to the King of Holland. Great confidence, it is added, was reposed in this intelligence. Paris, April 16.—There circulates an ex traordinary rumour in Paris at this moment, and it is generally believed. It is, that a courier extraordinary arrived this morning announcing to the government that all the Po lish refugees who had fled from their depots at Bcsancon, Dijon, &c. had arrived in the Grand Duchy of Baden; and that two regi ments of the line and one of cavalry had join ed them to effect a revolutionary movement. It is said that they are abundantly provided with money. The ministry has sent ortTers to the frontiers to prevent the desertion of oth er refugees of the foreign legion. Vienna, 6th April. 6ir may make it “multum a uno.” The Nor. them Slates it is said, have no disposition to interfere with southern slavery. They have not now, because they dare not. But give them a pretext as you are likely to do, and they will deprive us of our Federal basis. There are causes at work, and although slow in their progress, they are sure and deadly in their results, which will endanger that basis If Congress may admit a State into the Union without such slave rights as belong to other States, a convention of the States may; (and Would now hjive the power,) to fix down up on the South, the white representation alone. The price of liberty it is said is eternal vigt cial circuit upon the plan proposed, consisting j and wherein is the power of the minority upon the principles 1 have laid down, that stripe. Our motto is, “ E pluribus unum,” we of nine counties, with a white population of counties increased ? I will tell you,sir. The this slave interest should be protected, and * ' * “ 14,670, will be entitled to four Senators from | whole of the reduction in the lower house is | it can only be protected by preserving that only eight of those counties—and the. Oak- taken off of the largo counties, and by wea- necessary provision of our constitution, the mulgee circuit, consisting of eight counties kening them, the small counties are strength- federal representation. Gentlemen talk and with a white population of 38,892 is to be rep- ened—as the Philistines were made strong act as though this was a matter of small mo resented by only four Senators. Now 6ir, by the shaving of Sampson’s head. The re- ment; to my mind it is a subject of cxceed- the Oakmulgee Circuit having nearly three duction proposed takes away that majority ingly grave import and extreme delicacy.— times as many of the people of Georgia as the which the people now have in the House of View it in reference to our domestic peace, Eastern Circuit, ha3 no more power in the | Representatives. Any man, who will take | or to our relations with the general govern. Senate than the Eastern Circuit. In other 1 the pains to calculate, will find that a major- ment, and it assumes at once the character j These causes are deeply laid inhuman nature, words, the gentlemen, for what reason they j ity of the members of the House, represent of a topic of vital interest. It is very obvi- and they are to be found in a jealousy of have wholly failed to inform us, are about | a lean minority of the people. I would in- ous that in a few years the whole power of southern labor and a distrust of southern pow to give, in the most important branch of the quire of the gentleman from Walton, if it is legislation under the new constitution, if these C r in the national councils. They who are General Assembly, 14,670 of the people liv- in the lower house that he has asserted and amendments are ratified, will pass into the capable of taxing southern labor to enrich ing in the Eastern Circuit, nearly three-times protected the rights of the majority ? I ad- hands of the Pine barren and the weSt » and themselves, are capable when the opportuni as much power as the same number of the mit sir, that in a few years the people of the that these sections of our State, have not, ty offers, of sacrificing all southern rights, at people living in the Oakmulgee Circuit. 1 West will acquire in this house the majority, and will not have, with the slave holding the shrine of their unhallowed cupidity, would inquire of the delegate from Walton, but it will not be at the loss of one particle counties, a community either of interest or This Missouri question taught us a lesson if we arc to look for his mutual concession, of power on the part of the small counties; feeling. So far from it, their interest and which we should be slow to forget The ag. so much by him vauntod, in the view of his it will bo at the expense of that small modi- feelings will be antagonist interests and fee- itations of that question, threw the republic project, which my last illustration presents ? cum of power, which is reluctantly doled out lings. Who can tell what will be the char- into convulsions; one other such question may And if, sir, we take into the account the re- to the middle counties. acter of Georgia legislation, in reference to tear down the fabric of our Union and give lative representative population, and taxation J The time is rapidly approaching when the j slaves? Who will say that white and slave jts parts to the four winds of Heaven, of those two districts; the injustice and ty. scheme now under discussion will place the labor may not be brought into active and hos- rannyofthis scheme becomes palpable as | county of Morgan, and all others of the mid- tile rivalry ? And that the varied and exci- demonstration itself! Notwithstanding, we die country, upon the same footing with the ting interests which spring from such rivalry, are importuned by gentlemen from the East, county of Ware or Appling. will not warp, and may not direfct our Legis- to have compassion upon their dependant pos- J The inequality in the House of Rcpreseu- lation ? ilion in the government. Sir, we claim only | tatives and the Senate, is objection enough | It is not without the chapter of probabili an amended Constitution upon principles of to the scheme I have bjpn combatting, but to ties, that the whole tax of the Government, | fonce; the price of southern safety, is vigil equality. We do not wish to be, as we have make it yet more injurious, nay, sir, to make may be raised from slaves ? And Sir, l put it ance and prudence. Did not Mr. * Webster, been, dependant upon the tender mercies J it absolutely ruinous to the State, the white to gentlemen to inform us what condition they the greatest of the Eastern magi, in the Sen- of a minority of our brethren. Those mer-1 basis is assumed, and tho three-fifths of the will bo in, who pay the taxes and yet have ate a few months since, complain of slave cics arc not tender enough to be trusted.— slave representation is excluded. I find the no voice in the imposition of them ? No con- representation, and that the tax we pay, was If any portion of the people are to be depen-j large slave holding counties of the seaboard, dition of political slavery is so bitter and so I no equivalent for the power that had been dant upon the magnanimity of the balance, J many of them, supporting the white basis. | abject, as the condition of a, people, who pay conceded to us ? That man has but to say surely sir, that portion should not be the ma- For example, the county of McIntosh, with a the expenses and the extravagances of a Gov- the word, and one half of New England would jority. It is assumed that Territory alone, slave population three or four times greater ernment, in the administration of which, they go forth in a crusade for emancipation. One mere acres, it may be of sterile soil, shall than her white population, is quietly and gent- have no agency. Give me the portion of the 0 f the professors of a very respectable institu- be the basis of representation in the Senate, ly yielding up this principle of slave represen- soulless Turk, or the brutified Serf of Russia, tion, I mean Professor Wright, of the Western I have yet to learn that the soil is an clement I tation, to her so essentially conservative, in rather than such a condition of enlightened I Reserve College, Ohio, has of late, avowed of representation. From all that I have consideration of a little local, territorial vassalage. Who should legislate for the gov-1 himself the champion of negro emancipation, beard or read of free government, territory | strength; which is just about as valuable ernment of the slave, au accountable moral These things prove to us, a that others are has about as much claim to become a basis comparatively, as Esau’s mess of pottage, agent as he is, but he who has an interest’ in prepared to interfere with this delioate sub- of representation as air or water. Itisr 1 —— ,mL -■ * - *' *' * -a-.., i.. * * • • • ■ ** • 1 cd to be represented, not because of its property, nor according to any quantity, but because certain counties, with- j elusion of the federal basis, is an act nccessa-J of the emancipator are rife among us‘, but | an right’’of control over them. The slave out much of population and with less of mon-J rily suicidal. I cannot see but that the inter- the slaveholder ? Who can know the dan- holder alone, should be entrusted with the ey, happen heretofore to have beeu marked est of the middle country and the coast is I gers of our domestic state, so well as he whose I custodvof slave holder’s rights in their slaves upon its surface. Sir, for my own part, I upon this subject identical; I had thought, property and life, and home and household I under this view of the subject no Georgian, shall claim that the representation in the Sen- that the East unanimously would act with us. quiet, is to be affected by that danger ? and wou ld seem to me, should be willing to take ate, be fixed upon the Federal numbers.— I am sadly disappointed. For myself, were who, sir, can so well, and so promptly legis- f rora the Constitution of the State, tee princi that it be reduced to 32. That the State J1 to touch, however remotely this great South- j late for the prevention of danger,'as he who] pfoof slave representation be divided into 32 Senatorial Districts, to be J em principle in a way to unsettle it; I should I is informed of its existence, its character and composed of contiguous counties, and having hold myself seized with redeemless madness, its location ? Notwithstanding, it is proposed i ©awthe present term of. the Superior Court as nearly as practicable an equal amount of j When I had tee honor tee other day to ad- to place tee actual strength of the General 0 f Bibb county, Edwin r. Harford, late Cashier representative population. This is tee only J dress the Convention, I stated «hr»t in the I Assembly, by tee exclusion of the slave basis [ of the Branch of the Darien Bank at Macon, was mode of equalizing power in the Senate. In I abstract, tee people constitute the only true I in tee hands ofthese who will be necessarily an- j convicted of the charge of .embezzlement, and sen- the lower house I am prepared to make large basis of representation; and at the same ti-slave holding. But Mr. President, we are told concessions to the small counties, and will do Ititee, declared that we of the South, with an that our fears of domestic sufferings are j HeifmY J! Esq*rs. ’ The prosecution Z con- this, by allowing one member to each county, j eye upon our domestic safety, and our Fed. [ weak and womanish. The only security we j ducted by tho solicitor General, Poe S. Rockwell, Ia the Senate sir, the evil exists iu aa alarm-jeral relations, dare not interfere with the I have for domestic safety, is in refusing to in- [ ant} Charles J. McDonald, Eetj’rs,—Recorder. de-camp. (Signed} Mehemet Ai.i, Pacha, of Egypt. Alexandria, 8th March, 1833. Paris, April Uth. Spain.—The news arrived yesterdav from Madrid by an extraordinary courier, is ot the highest importance. Two decrees of the Madrid Gazette, direct, that the provinces are to send deputations to Madrid to take oa the 20th June, the oath of allegiance to the young infanta, Maria Elizabeth Louisa, as heir to the throne in default of the birth of a prince. , ■ Paris, April 14.—The disclosures made to government on the subject of emigration of the Poles on the side of the Eastern frontier, couti ued yesterday. 1 can toll you that these emigratio is and the departure from Paris ofa certain number of stirring men, who are not precisely Poles, is very vexatious to the gov- ernment and the diplomatists. A grand ex. plosion is expected in Switzerland and in Ger- m uiy o.i the Rhine, for a number of iudivid. uals who are gone and whom I cannot name, a re not men who woul 1 undertake anything without a strong probability of success. LATER FROM EUROPE. The packet ship Napoleon, at New-York, brings Liverpool papers to the 24tli and Lon- don to the 23d April. They do not furnish any news of general political importance. The British Parliament is occupied with important measures ot’ legislation. On the 17th of April, Mr. Robert Graut brought for- ward the question of relieving the Jews from removed.” A motion for the commutation of tithes in England was made by Lord Althorp in the House of Commons on the 18th, of which the following abstract is given: For the first twelve months the measure is Turkey.—According to letters from Alex andria of 13th March, received by the way of I their civil disabilities. The House of Coni. Trieste, it appears undoubted that Mehemet nious iu Committee adopted without a divis. Ali has rejected the conditions of peace offer- ion, the following resolution. “ Thit it is ed by admiral Roussin and guaranteed by the expedient to remove all civil dsabiiitics at 1 Uter at Constantinople. It is said, that the present existing respecting his inajestx’s sub- condition that he should deliver up his ves- jects of the Jewish persuasion, in like manner, sols to the Ottoman Porte has particularly ir- and with” the sttme exceptions, as the disa- ritated the Pacha; it is added, that he caused biiities affecting his majesty’s subjects pro- a second squadron to sail immediately from fessing the Roman Catholic religion had been Alexandria, and gave orders to Ibrahim' again to advance. On this news the Sultan had j again declared the Pacha and his sons rebels, and the Russian fleet has quitt ed the Bospho rus. Some persons have been too hasty in : flattering themselves with the hope that the Russian fleet would immediately effect a junc- to be permissive only: and, considered in tion with the French squadron, and sail for this respect,, it merely allows tithe pavers Alexandria to compel the Pacha to sign a and the tithe owners, whether clergymen or peace. lay proprietors, to agree upon the amount ot Paris, April 15.—The refusal of Mehe- perpetual corn rent which shall be paid by met Ali to comply with the injunctions of Ad- the one and received by tee other in lieu of miral Roussin, is already known. The Globe 1 tithes. The commutation is to be perpetual, publishes the reply of the Pacha. This doc- but the amount of commutation is to be va. ument, if authentic, as we have reason to be- ried at certain fixed periods of years, ac* lieve it is, is very curious. The Viceroy ex-1 cording to the fluctuations in ihe price of presses himself with a firmness which does I corn, honor to his character. He replies to the The measure becomes compulsory after humiliating conditions which it was sought to the lapse of twelve months ; that is to say, impose upon him, and declares that he had when during that period, voluntarily agree- rather perish with glory than reign with iufa. ments for commutations have not been enter- my. There is more than one sovereign in ed into as the act permits, any individual or Europe who could not honestly use such Ian- number of tithes payers or the tithe-receiver, guage. The Pacha docs not believe, however, any, parishioner or number of parishioners, or that France and Eugland can desire his the parson may demand a commutation, abasement. Reduction of the Duty on Cotton.— This suggestion is not without political point, j In the House of Commons, on the 19th* Another remarkable thing about this letter, is Lord Althorp expressed himself as follows on the passage where he states that nothing but I the subject of a proposed reduction in the du. his own forbearance prevents his rousing all ty on Cotton imported into England : Asia Minor and Roumelia to arms. This is | The next point to which I am about to ad- nota vain menace. He has only to utter that dress myself, is one on which I am in a cer* sentiment, which will find a response in the tain degree, pledged. When I laid the ad. heart of every Mussulman. The Sultan is a ditional duty on raw cottons, in 1831, I said Muscovite ! Since the arrival of a Russian that it was radically wrong in principle, and squadron in the Bosphorus, Mehemet has a I that, on the first oppormnity that arrived, it still better pretext for summoning the whole population to revolt. The following is an exact translation of tee letter contained in the Globe : Monsieur Ambassador : I have received your despatch dated 22d February, which has been sent me by your first Aid-de-camp. In that despatch, you represent that 1 have no right a demand any other territories than those ofSt. Jean d’Acre, Jerusalem Naplouse, and Tripoli in Syria, and consequently that I ought to withdraw my army immediately.— You declare teat in case of refusal so to do, 1 bring upon myself the most serious conse- quenees. Your Aid-de-camp, agreeably to the instructions you have giyen him, adds ver bally, teat if I persist in my pretensions, a combined French and English fleet will pre sent itself on the coast of Egypt. Let me ask, Monsieur Ambassador, by vir ought to be reduced. That opportunity has now arrived, and it is, therefore, incumbent on this House to take off the B d<hbonal duty which was imposed in 1831. The Commit tee are, no doubt, aware .of the circumstances under which it was laid on. It was thought, both by myself and the House, that it was more desirable that the tax on printed cali coes should be taken off entirely, asbeiug more contrary. to principle than the tax upon raw cotton. When I propose to remit this tax, it is not because I think it has had any bad effect; on the contrary, the manufacturers connected with cotton, have flourished under its operation; but we mu9t recollect how dan- gerousit is to lay taxes upon tee ratV raaten- al in cases in which we have to compete with forei m manufactures, though this danger does no t always show itself at tee moment, but re- plains dormant, because there is no immedi-