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ie- had ever met wiilt, her natural propriety of
comliiet, a propuety nmiiitainea under cir-
riimst.iiices the most dangerous and hostile
to domestic harmony ana domestic virtue,
tistlod the mind of her nijesty, an open in
vestigation could ulone answei the dt mauds
of justice. Would those who heard him,
possessing, as lie knew they did, the feelings
of men and of gentlemen, with u living spark
of honour animating their t(Masts, severely
Manic an error, if an error it was, which.
house of COMMONS.
^KDftKinAVi June 7.
ivah commanded
Mr. Brougham Mid, he
hv hor Mni^tv to d**livpr ammpeto m
House which, with permit, he would "'"Jl
1 [Here followed the message from he
Queen which wo have already l'." l,l, ^ ed i
% )e Order of the Day for taking her Ma-
jesty’s Message now into conenlcratwn, was
^honlCiutlereagh was con' incci tiiaHhe
House would feel with Imn the viiHiculty J.t
l e situation in which he was placed. He
£ asked, last night, what the course of pro
dding was which his Maiestys ministers
■ » ■- - uncial; and here Ire must
intended to reronui
protest, in limint, against the <
.Majesty’s Government being re
the Crown or his
(■presented as
persecutors or prosecutors. In the message
!.f his Majestv, it appeared that the kn g
threw himself:as by tl.e Constitution he was
justified in doing, on the great council ofthe
nation, and to ask advice of them in the dif
ficult crisis in which the country now stood,
as to the course lie was to pursue. At pre
sent he could not say what course the House
voi^ht recommend ; it must be after a select
[ H ,dy of the House had enquired into, and
investigated the nature of the facts aubmit-
ed to them, that thev would be enabled to
recommend the course to he pursued, and
die ulterior proceediugs to he adopted. The
Committee of Secrecy tn which he had now
to propose the referring these papers, would
have nothing to do with the guilt wr inno
cence ofthe person charged except as in the
nature of a grand jury, on whose report
would depend whether any future step
should ho adopted or not—(Hear.) And he
■would put it to the House, whether, in case
of ulterior proceedings, they would not be
more free and unfettered in their defence of
their illustrious Mistress, than they could be
if they were now appointed Members of that
Committee, of Inquiry. He assured the
House he claimed not from the House, ei
ther for himself or his colleagues, any favor
in the inquiry which they would make into
. the conduct adopted by government, in the
advice they had given his Majesty, in this
most painful and arduous transaction ; hut,
at the same time, he must protest against
•he course adopted by the Honorable mem
ber last night, of condemning them unheard,
-and ignorant as he was of the circumstance
■and situation under which they had advised
his Majesty. An honorable and learned gen
tleman, (Mr. Brougham) on that occasion,
however, strongly urged the necessity of a-
roiding that investigation which must prove
so painful to the illustrious parties concern
ed; so injurious to the public ; and which
must risk the character of a high and illus
trious individual. And the honorable and
•learned gentleman strongly urged ministers
to avoid such investigation unless forced up
on them. It had now been forced upor. them;
negotiation was at an end ; for the transac
tions-of the last 18 hours had proved how
'little was to he gained by negotiation; and
how little the illustrious individual was in
clined to he guided by the wise advice which
the honorable and learned gentleman may
he presumed to have given her. She had
rather chosen to adopt the lamentable, and
lie would add, criminal, advice of some per
sons about her ; and had, as the honorable
and learned gentleman last night declared,
permitted garbled and untrue statements of
what had passed to go forth ; statements
•calculated only to inflame the passions of
♦lie lower orders. (Hear, hear.) The Mem
bers of Governraejit had also been accused
of offering her Majesty money and had been
charged with acting unconstitutionally in
doing so. It should he recollected, that no
provision could be made for any of the Roy
al Family, whether Queen or otherwise, un
less recommended by the Crown. Ib all
■contracts made with foreign powers on the
subjoct of a subsidy, the sum was first nam
ed by the Crown, in the understanding that
an a|>p!ication was to be made to Parliament
JIe had thought it was the intention of her
Majesty to reside abroad, and, in that event,
it was becoming in Parliament to make the
same provision as when she left the country.
Vs it had been understood that the Royal'
.Parties were to continue separated, the pro-
vi-iou was proper, and was regarded as final,
• specially, as by the settlement of marriage,
•the Queen was entitled to £50,090-a year. No
proposition had been made to the Queen to
surrender her riglils, as Ministers must have
open aware that no such renunciation could
be made and no act of the Queen to that
effect could he valid. The object of the
arrangement had been, to put a stop to all
conflict, both at home and abroad, betwixt
the parties. As the Queen was not to live in
.‘his country, it was proposed that she should
.not bear a title that could raise a perpetual
question as to her public situation with the
representatives of the Crown, in foreign
countries. The honorable gentleman had a
document in his possession that proved no
jdea had been entertained that the Queen
should surrender her legal rights. No at
tempt had over been made by the govern
ment, that foreign powers should hurt the
feelings of the Queen. No wish existed to
. deprive her of any of her comforts. Oil the
first day of the session the House had been
informed that measures had been adopted
to prevent any pecuniary embarrassment.
V communication had been made by the
First Lord of the Treasury, to the Queen’s
hankers, since her arrival in the country, that
there would be no interruption to her income
pending the discussion in Parliament; and,
that she. was at perfectfliberty to choose any
residence she might think proper. The
Members of (lie Royal Family were not
entitled to reside in the royal palaces, and
most of them had houses for which they
paid themselves. He concluded by muviug,
.thatthe papers delivered to the House be
referred to a Select Committee to examine
and to report upon them to the House.
Mr. Brougham, (amidst a general sill)
then rose. He assured the House that the
noble lord had not risen upon this question
with more pain than he now uid; with re
luctance he rould not add, for who could feel
any otherwise than satisfaction, that the
hour was at length arrived when he might
freely, fully, and openly, defend those in
terests to the best of his abilities ; although
he must do so, unfortunately, under the
consciousness of his inadequacy to so great
a task. It was to Parliament that the illus
trious lady, who was the subject of the de
bate, addressed herself; but it was to the
-high court of Parliament and not to any sc-
Vefed hand of mutes, that she made her
jnpofl. Her sagacity, not inferior to that of
ary person in public or private life whonj he
sary to recommend r Others must he trust - J entitled to before her inaninge ; and Moth-
ed—their royal climt must rely upon the I er times he called her by a different nuinc—
■ • ■ * ... a name of which the house had never heard,
“Caroline of England.” Every Englishman
finder the guidance of perhaps not absolute
w isilwm, her majesty hod been induced to
commit t [Hear,’ hear, and a laugh.] He
uld appriil hi the house, «1 her majesty
had done, whether it wu s fair or just to make
outward appearances a ground of accusation.
Why then was her case to hr made drp* nd-
ent upon the sentence efa tribunal ol which
■ lie had never before heard, and before which
die rould offer no defence r She well knew,
ndeed, that from the mode of proceeding
suggested by the noble lord [Castlereagh. j
she could expect neither reheftror consola
tion. It was a public trial thnt she desired, tr
it was to the high court of parliament thnt
she made her appeal. He. of course, knew
nnt whether a hill of attainder, or a bill ol
pains and penalties, ups in contemplation,
or might be the result of the proposed in
quiry. The nolde lord, he apprehended,
would hardlv take for his model the pro
ceedings in Lord Stafford's case, fc still lr<«
would lie dare to derive a precedent from the
reign of Henry VIII. [Hear, hear.] No for
mer administration—not that ol Mr. Pitt
him*elf—would have ventured tipona i)"fs-
ure that indicated so entire a departure from
the common principles of our jurisprudence.
He knew nothiiigof the materials which w ere
to constitute the subject of inquiry ; his
knowledge was confined to the exterior ot a
green hag. [Hear, hear.] In that hag was
contained not only all the documentary evi
dence, hut all the evidence of any kind which
rould be adduced before a committee. lie
had reason to believe that no living witness
would he brought forward for any further
purpose than that of verifying certain signa
tures. It was indeed a lamentable circum
stance that a lawyer of do common rank
might probably’be found among this latter
description of witnesses. Previous to that
ill-fated hour which led the learned gentle
man to whom he alluded—a gentleman dis
tinguished by the rank ol king’s counsel, and
universally esteemed for his character and
abilities—to take up ins residence at Milan,
no man would have imagined that such a
task would have beer, undertaken by such
a person. It was extraordinary that an ex
pectant master in chancery would stoop to
this employment. For w hat had lie ex
changed his practice at tile Ear ? To min
gle w ith idle gos-ips, to hear the stories of
bargemen, to register the tales of cast-off
mistiesscs aud discarded servants—truly an
undignified employment. To l»e engaged
for mortth after month in noting down the
minutes of a sort ofeiiilence, with’which
courts of justice tt# their misfortune were too
familiar, but which to their honour they al
ways reprobated, was a singular instance of
departure from the ordinary course of pro
fessional avocations. In this wav, however,
and from sources thus impure,had lieen accu
mulated and brought together all the contents
of that green hag. This was the mass of evi
dence on which her majesty’s accusers alone
relied; and when he made these personal
allusions, he did it with the feeling .. * one
professional man filled with regret at the hu
miliation of another, blushing at once for the
profession, and foT human nature.—[Hear]
near, hear.] It was lamentable that the base
work should not have been left to other
hands, to hands accustomed to the same de
grading employment, to hands which not
even this low and dirty office could further
sully—But the noble lord thought proper to
contend that all proceedings before a com
mittee would be indifferent as to the result
of an ulterior inquiry. He railed on every
man who heard him to lay his hand on his
heart and declare vvhethei ir. hU own case he
would put his trust or rest his final hope on
a committee. Admitting that something in
the nature of a preliminary investigation
ought to take place, it was not to the keep
ing of a committee that he would entrust so
sacred a charge—the charge of a queen’s
honour and fair fame. The noble lord
seemed to have supposed that it had been
charged against government as unjustifiable
on tlieir part to have made the proposition
to the queen when Parliament alone could
uieke the grant He (Mr. Broygham) was
aware that the offer was to be considered in
the. same way as if it had been made to any
foreign power, when it was usual for min
isters in the first instance, to enter into the
engagement and afterwards come to Par
liament to carry it into effect. But he (Mr.
Brougham) must assert that he still viewed
it as he had always done, ns nothing more or
less-than calling on the queen to say, “ Give
me 150,000 a year and I will admit that'I am
guilty, or atfeasf not quite innocent.” (Hear.)
She was not only to abandon her own title,
hut she was not to be allowed to take any o-
ther belonging to any other branch ofthe roy
al family. What was that but to say, “ I admit
myself to lie unworthy of that family, and
ought not to be permitted to bear its name”
(rjHCheers). That thequecn might not only
abandon all her rights, but the very name of
the family to which she belonged.
If other propositions had been made to
her majesty, which did not wear even the
appearance of an acknowledgment of guilt
—which as n woman of honour and of un
impeached character and conduct, she might
safely accept—which would not have hern
discreditable to the government to offer, and
to which in justice the queen might have
yielded—he would have been the first tn
have given his humble advice that her ma
jesty should rather go a step too .far than
not go,far enough to lend herself to an hon
orable but a private and amicable adjust
ment, (continued cheers) His reason was
this—in this question the interest of the roy
al family was most deeply concerned) and
the interests of the constitution in .propor
tion. Not merely was the queen’s character
at stake—not merely must the treatment
she had received in this or that instance, he
investigated—not merely must the inquiry
extend to this or tluit illustrious house w ith
which she was connected—but all the pri
vate history of all those exalted individuals
to whom she was retail d, might (he did not
say must) lie forerd into the conflict. Then
the house nius-t g ve him. leave to say it
would have another such session as had hceii
known It years ago, when all public busi
ness was suspended, w hen all feelings of or
dinary political interest were annihilated,
when the common state gossip of the day
was stilled, when parties erased to engage,
and political rancor had been overwhelmed
i|i the great engrossing topic of the private
life, habits and failings of one of the noblest
personages in the realui. Who should assert
what course men bound by professional ties
to regard nothing hut the safety of his client
(he referred not to members of this house,
and therefore had no allusion to himself or
his learned colleague) might think it neces-
skill, the knowledge, ami the prudeiice of o-
th< is—and who should deride that absolute
necessity might not compel them to adiise
a proceeding, of w hich some idea might be
formed by those who hadmaiked what had
pa-sed in this country M years ago? Hi
tlieu iim-t he n sagacious man w ho muld
assort w hat course necessity might compel
and In must he a hold man who Would ray
that if liere ip the situation of professional
adviser to tire queen, he would hesitate lor
one moment iii securing Iris client even at
such a dcspciotc expense .
An advocate, be it reuietnUcfefl. had hut
one point to look to ; he w as mired,disgrac
ed, degraded; he might even belong to a
Milan tribunal, if he looked to any other in
terest than that to which his character was
I dodged. (Hear, hear!) But lie must be a
much bolder man still, who with all these
prospects before his eyes, would plunge the
country into such fatal i.iquhicv, if there
were rv« n a- bare possibility of avoiding
them. (Continued cliei rs from the opposi
tion benches.) Let it not he forgotten that
there were three parties who took a deep in
terest m tiiis discussion: First, the King,
who was most desirous that the inquiry
should proreed—who felt that he had noth
ing to dread from disclosures, and wljo was
unfortunately impressed with the idea that
i:i his high office, it was necessary for his
vindication, thnt something should be un
dertaken. Next, tire Queen, who actvd
nearly, it not entirely in the saniespiut—
who thought it requisite for her own securi
ty, for the ilrartKg of iier own honor, that
tlie enquiry should lie persisted in to the
end. She shrunk not from it, hot courted
it : she was prepared to meet it ; she had
ernie from safety into—he would not say
jeopardy, because the innocent could know
no jeopardy, hut—trouble, vexation, and
anxiety, in going through the whole of this
painful, qiid, in his view, afflictive and fright
ful investigation. Both of these high par
ties would instantly reject the advice lie was
now tendering. But there was a third party,
whose wishes he hoped tile bouse would
not consult ; he ak'.ided to those out of
doors, who were possessed of a greedy and
diseased appetite for slander, and who only
gave up their chace of vulgar, private scan
dal on ■•'ime such ( mengrncy as the present,
w Itnvc the allurement w as increased by its
affecting the most exalted individuals in the
land. Those who labored under the afilic-.
tion uf such a morbid desire, and those who
basely made a profit, by pandering for its
gratification, had a direct interest in urging
forw ard the inquiry, and most bitterly w juld
they be disappointed if it did not proceed.—
hr tlie humble perfumiance of his duty, he
felt called upon here even to thwart herma
jesty’s inclination, and he would tell her,
“ Madam,if ne.gociation yet be possible, ra
ther go too far, and'throw yourself upon
your country and upon parliament, for your
vindication, than not go far enough. If yet
it be possible to avert the ruin which this
course, if persisted in, will bring upon the
nation, do your utmost to postpone the v-
lamity.” (Cheers.) If lie might advise those
who stood in a similar situation with regard
to the King, he would say to them, “Act
like lionist men, and disregard all conse
quences : tender that counsel to your sove
reign which the case demands, and do not.
fear that parliament will abandon you, or
the country desert you : even party will not
disgrace itself to the lowest level, to which
corrupt and unprincipled faction!*Ucsan des
cend, by taking advantage of your faithful
und fearless discharge of a noble and disin
terested duty. (Hear, hear!) Do not appre
hend tlvat even a political calamity will at
tend you ; but, if successors must he appoint
ed to your places, he assured that they will
not be found within these walls.” (Loud
cheers.)
The late Mr. Wldtcbread andhimselfw ere
the only persons who'had seen the w hole of
the documents it contained, an 1. they had
been increased. The Milan hoard sat for
ten months to fill the green bag for the ac
cusation, but lie did not say that ten mouths,
or ten weeks, would lie required to blow the
report of that hoard in the air. He would
assert that it would be necessary to examine
evidence as to the character »fthe accusato
ry witnesses. One of them, Be knew, had
committed a felony, and had been diseharg
ed by the Queen from her service : and the
evidence to prove this was a peasant who
iKUtit he followed and found. Ollier cases
of connexion between the witnesses could
he, and must be established ; and though
the advisers ofthe Queen might lie disposed
to bring only those that were actually ne
cessary, this preliminary operation of itself,
must occupy weeks if not months. lie
therefore, who thought that even six or eight
months would complete the great subject,
was egregionsly deceived ; but, if it were
only four months, iiis prayer and entreaty
to the house was, that it would spare the
country from the suffering which such anin-
quiry w ould inflict. He would now go to
the, proceedings of the Hanoverian minister;
the minister of a court most likely to be
swnved by the government of England.
The Hanoverian minister Baron Ompte-
da, who had been most graciously and hos
pitably received by the Queen, who had in
sinuated himself into her confidence, who
had partaken largely of her liberality, w ho
had passed several months at a time under
herroaf—this man (not indeed the envoy to
this country, hut to the holy see) was disco
vered, not merely spying into her actions,
bribing strangers to watch her, anil even
bribing her ow n servants, but it w as found
that he employed a; tnilh to [tick the locks
ofdier w riting desk, (shouts of hear.) in or
der to examine any papers that might lie in
her possession. (Hear, hear.) Unluckily for
him, that which lie found, demonstrated the
innocence, instead of the guilt, of the illus
trious personage. (Hear, hear.) A young
naval officer to whomthe transaction became
known, demanded personal satisfaction; and
at length, the Baron was expelled from the
Austrian territories, not indeed for picking
locks, but for refusing to fight a duel. Baron
Omptcda must necessarily have been influ
enced by a base spirit, when lie engaged in
so abominable a transaction in order to con
ciliate the favor of his employers ; he entire
ly acquitted those who sent Baron Gmpteds
on his mission to the holy see.
Baron Reding w as now the Hanoverian
minister at Rome, and Ids conduct towards
her Mujcsly was also worthy of remark.—
The moment it was notified by the Bishops
to the Chief of the Consistory of Rome, that
her Majesty’s name was not inserted in the
Liturgy, the body guard, which had prtvi-
■ously been allowed her, was immediately
withdrawn—they pretended that she. came
concealed us the Countess of Oldi. But Ba
ron Reding, the Hanoverian Minister, went
a great deal further. Ils would not call her
by the title of “ Queen,” he would not call
her by the title of “ Princess of Wales," but
he sometimes railed her “Caroline of Bruns
wick,” ill so many words, without the epi
tiiet of “ Princess,” which she certainly was
who entered his excellency's society must
have heard him talk in this manner ofthe
consort of his sovereign, who, lie was per
suaded, had too much the feelings of a gen
tleman, ot a prince, of a man of honor, toal-
low any individual to insinuate himself into
his favor by treating a female rudely and dis
respectfully. (Hear.) Her Majesty had com
manded him to tall for a full, fair, and open
investigation. The speedier the beginning of
it was, the more eouqfietelv would she he
gratified—the more ample it was, the more
derided would lie her satisfaction. But,
that it wutild be a short investigation, he,
who knew the course of such proceedings,
felt to be impossible, lie implored the
house to consider how far more virtuous an
act they would do, by avoiding such an in
vestigation, rather than by showing their
constancy and perseverance in steering,how
ever successfully, through these aceuraiila-
ted difficulties. (Hear.)
Mr. Canning said, that in all the discussi
ons which hau taken place before this crisis,
he had looked to the situation of the Queen,
as to that of the nearest and dearest friend
To his sovereign he ow ed the duty of a privy
counsellor ; to her Majesty he owed every
esteem and respect. The wish nearest his
heart was, that this extremity could have
been avoided ; his next wish was, that her
Majesty might come out of this enquiry with
honor to her«elf,& satisfaction to her friends.
Art honorable member, (Mr. Tierney) Lad
said,that no compromise could take place
without injuring the King's honor, or else in
suiting the Queen. Another lion, member
blamed government, because they did not
themselves bring in a hill of pains aud penal
ties. But this was not the duty of ministers ;
they had not undertaken the task of bring
ing forward those charges; they were, not
the collectors of the evidence to lie lagl be
fore the committee. (Hear, hear, hear, from
the opposition benches.) They felt it their
bonnden duty tn lay them before the house.
What was the first step taken by ministers t
They recommended a compromise, which
the hon. and learned gentleman now advis
ed. That hon. gentleman, (Mr. Brougham)
knew this had been offered, and his assist
ance to bring it about had been since request
ed. If that had been accepted, it would
have spared the house the painful -duty
which now devolved upon them. The pro
posal was said to he revolting, and a inodifi
cation was recommended. Why was not
the modification proposed before ? It was
now, he feared, too late to propose any. An
lion, and learned gentleman had expressed
his regret at the failure, of all amicable ar-
rangemerits ; and it was but just to the hon.
and learned gentleman to declare, that he
(Mr. Canning) believed that he hud underta
ken the management of the business with a
very sincere and ardent desire to bring about
a favorable result. But it was a pity that the
hon. and learned gentleman, before lie had
set out from London, did not so much as
tell them that those, terms could not be
heard without indignation ; or surely that
which it was right to speak at St. Ollier’s
could not be unfit to he spoken in London.
He.deprecalidthe idea of a hill of pains and
penalties against her Majesty. Parliament
were not ended upon to become the accu
sers ofher majesty ; and, said he, “ I, as one
individual, so help me God, never will place
myself in thnt situation.” lie regretted that
all hopes of conciliation hud failed. Inqui
ry was challenged, ‘inhere should appear
matter of crimination, there must he an open
inquiry ; the illustrious person should have
the full opportunity of defence. His first
wish was, to avert inquiry ; his next, that her
Majesty might pass through the ordeal cfoar
and triumphant. Never had he been involv
ed in difficulties so distressing as those which
he had felt during the w hole of this discus
sion.
Mr. Tierney said, it was impossible that
any man of good feelings could come to this
question without the deepest anxiety. His
only satisfaction was, that he had nothing to
do with the negotiations, which seemed to
have brought all the parties concerned in
them into a piteous plight. [A laugh.]
Mr. H'ilberforcc said, there was nothing,
he would say, but the absolute despair of any
reconciliation or adjustment in this case,
Which would compel him to abandon the
course he now felt it his duty to adopt;-with
a view of preventing the dreadful discussi
ons with which they were threatened. (Hear,
hear.) He bclieved'there w as not a man in
the house who did not participate in his feel
ings of w ishing, if possible, to prevent the
matter from going on. [Hear, hear.] He
proposed that they yet pause fora day or
two, before proceeding farther in -this busi
ness. [loud cheers] in order that the parties
might have time to cool, [hear, hear ] The
hon. gentleman concluded w ith moving that
the farther debate on this question he adjour
ned till Friday next, [loud cheers.]
Lord CaxHcrec/rh expressed his 'willing
ness to accede to the wishes of the house.
It was impossible for him, however, after the
experience which he had had, to hold out
any sanguine, expectations of an adjustment,
or to make himself responsible for it.
The motion for adjourning the debate to
Friday next was then agreed to.
Adjourned at one o’clock.
HOUSE or LORD?,—June 12
The Queen.—The varl of Liverpool re
minded their lordships of the order which
had been made on Thursday last, that the
secret committee should not meet until to
morrow. lie had made the motion for
that order, not on any specific ground which
could induce him to think it necessary, but
upon hopes which appeared to he entertain
ed by their lordships. Since that period,
communications and explanations lino taken
place on the subject. He was not prepared
to say what might be the result of these
communications and explanations, but the
state of tlie business was certainly such as to
make a further adjournment of the meeting
ofthe committee desirable, He, therefore,
intended to propose that the day of meeting
should be fixed for Saturday next. Before
he sat down he thought it necessary to ob
serve, that a fabricated account of the cor
respondence on tiiis subject had appeared,
in which the documents were most scan
dalously falsified, and converted into libels.
It was an aggravation of this conduct, that
it must have been done by some persons
who had seen tlie originals,and who, there
fore, could not be ignorant of the fabrica
tion : It was, however, but justice to say
that no blame could be imputed to her ma
jesty’s legal advisers. They had very hon
orably ami voluntarily communicated to his
majesty’s ministers that they were no par
ties to the publication, and that nobody
could regret it more than they did. He con
cluded by moving that the meeting of the
secret committee he postponed to Saturday
next. Ordered.
London, May 2tl.
IVr have received Hamburgh papers to the
I7th inst* The only article which they con
tain of ai.y interest is the following account
of the preparations against All I'acha, the
Turkish Governor or Vice Roy of Albania,
who lias become well known in this country
through the recent recounts uf our travellers,
and by his occupation of territory ofthe un
fortunate Purgiotes. The States of Hano
ver have voted sonce increase to the Pension*
of retired Officers who have families, under
certain cirumstaucds.
Constantinople, .Ipril 10.
A formidable storm seems to be gather
ing in Ionia by Ali Pacha; .the porte, is
making great armaments to put an end to the
plans aud intrigues of this powerful Govern
or. His son, Vili Pacha, has been deprived
ofthe Government of Naupnrte, which has
been given to PechHvan, vvfio was living in
exile at Brussa, and who was generally es
teemed for his military talents. Mahommcd
Bey, son of the Captain Parha, w ho was
quartered by the orders of Ali, is appointed
Governor of Durazzi, in Albania. Taluman
Paella has received the Government of Tri-
cola, mid the chief command uf the seven
defiles belonging to it. Mustapha Pacha
Scertari has been confirmed in his dignity by
a special letter from the Sultan, necompunied
with presents. As it is not very likely that
Ali Paeha will quietly submit to these Or
dinances, which lessen his authority over Al
bania mul Thessaly, it is to he expected Hint
tlie former w ill soon be the theatre of an ob
stinate aud bloody contest.
STATISTICS OF EUROPE.
Europe contains in the superfices, 15ft,539
square geographic miles, of 15 to a degree,
or only 1-16 of the continental superflees of
the whole earth. Ils population is estimated
at 180 millions and a half-—which gives one
with another, 1177 inhabitants to each square
geographical mile. It should always be re
membered that this population is very une
qually divided ; for If in the lower countries,
mr example, we reckon 4550 inhabitants tn
a square mile—Russia contains but 417—
Sweden ftG,—and Norway only 118.
Europe contains 17 nations ; 1st Nations
speaking the dialects derived from the Latin
language, 01 millions—2d. Teutonic nati
ons, 51 millions—8d. Sclavonians, 40 mil
lions ; 4th. Celts, 0,270,000 ; 5th. Tartars,
ft.500,000 ; 6th. Magyans, 3,25o,GOO ; 7th.
Greeks, 8,100,000; bill. Fins, 1,800,600; 9th.
Cimmerians, 1,610,000 ; 10th. Basques, 630,-
000: 11th. Arnauts, 800,000 ; 12th. Maltes,
80,000; l.-ltlt. Circassians, 8,000 ; l llh. Sa-
moides, 2.100; 15th. Jews, 2,000,000 ; 15th.
Gipsies, 110,500 ; and 17th. Armenians,
150,000.
The Roman Catholics are in number 100
millions ; the Protestants of different Com
munions, about 42 millions ; the Schisma
tic Greeks, fi2 millions ; tile Menouist, 240,-
000 ; the Metjiodists, 180,000 ; tlie Unitari
an'', 50,000 ; the Quakers, 40,000 ; the Ma
hometans, 2,6.30,000 ; the Jews, 2,060,000
and the Hefnhntters, 40,000.
In classing out each state according to its
superfices, its population, its ordinary reve
nues, aud the contributive |woportion of each
individual towards the public burdens, we
find they should occupy the follow iug or
der :—
Superfices—1st, Russia ; 2d. Sweden ; 3d,
Austria; 41 h, France; 5th, Turkey-; Clh,
Spain; 7th, Great Britain; Util, Prussia;
9tli Germany; loth, Denmark; 11th, -the
two Sicilies; 12th, Portugal; 16th, Sardi
nia ; 14th,the Netherlands; 15th, Switzer
land ; 16th, the Ecclesiastical States; and
17th, Tuscany, &.c.
Pu 1 nital>on--\i\, Russia ; 2d, France ; iid,
Austria ; 4tli, G-eat Britain ; 5th, Germany ;
6tli, Spain ; 7th, Prussia ; 8th, Turkey ; 9th,
the two Sicilies; loth, Netherlands ; 11th,
Sardinia; 12th, Portugal; 1.3th, Svvedin;
14th, tlie Ecclesiastical Suites, 15tl), Swit
zerland; 16th, Denmark; 17th, Tuscany,
be.
Revenue—1st, Great Britain ; 2d, France;
ftd, Russia ; 4th, Austria ; 5th, Germany ;
fifh, the. Netherlands; 7lh, Prussia; 8th,
Spain; 9tb, Turkey; 10th, Portugal; 11th,
the Two Sicilies; 12th Sardinia; t3tli,
Sweden; 14th, Denmark ; 15th. the Eccle
siastical States; 16th, Tuscany ; 17th, Swit
zerland, &c.
Contributive poi'.itri of each individual -to
wards the PMic Charges.
This last calculation is the most curious.
It demonstrates what each individual pays
annually, one with another, namely, in En
gland, 52 franrs, 17 cents; in the Nether
lands, £5f.5c ; in I’ranee, 18f 71c; in Ger
many, 46f 6c ; in Russia, 15f 88c ; in Den
mark, 14f COc ; in Portugal, 13f 58c ; in
Prussia, 16f 14c ; in Spain, 12f 60c ; in Sar
dinia, I2f 5c ; in Austria, 12f 68c : in the
Ecclesiastical States, Cf 40c ; in Sweden, Of
die ; in Tuscany, 9f 12c ; in Turkey, If 4c ;
ill the two Sicilies, 7f 9c; and in Switzer
land, 5f 45c. This last is the weakest of all
the European States.—Peris paper.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Nevv-York, July 2D.
The ship Julius Cesar arrived last e-
vening from Liverpool, having sailed
from the Rock on the 23d lilt. Capt.
Marshall has favored the editors of the
Mercantile Advertiser with London pa
pers to the lGth June. The letters are
of a later date—there was no material
alteration in the market.
London, June 13.
At the King’s levee yesterday, Mr
Rush, the American Minister, was intro
duced to his Majesty, and delivered his
new credentials, which were graciously
received.
THE QUEEN.
We find it more decidedly certain,
that the affair of the Queen will not be
discussed this night in the House of
Commons.—If the preparatory move
ments, if the interval of negotiation, oc
cupy so mi eh time, how long a space
will bn consumed in the investigation of
the charges, in rebutting, in recrimina
ting, in explaining ? During the nego-
nation we must be content, to gather
from report what occurs, and we sup
pose the public will give us credit for as
accurate means of information as any of
our cotemporaries. It is impossible to
meet all the rumors of the day ; but we
believe it may be confidently trusted,
that those which we fail of noticing are
for that reason entitled to a very limited
degree of credit. The negociation, so
long as it continues, will, we hear, be
personal, and not epistolary. Those w ho
have the honor of the Queen intrusted
to them have a very difficult office to
perform. Every attention to the per-
sonalfcelings of the other party will, no
doubt be paid, (similar delicacy to her
majesty having been evinced ;) but we
do not see how the fullest assertion of
.Piousness of innocence, can be given
up. It was yesterday said that a com
mission of which Lord Fitzwilliam was
to be president, would be appointed for
the investigation of the business ; but
this report is totally unfounded. It may
have originated in the fact, that Lord
Castlereagh tintl the Duke of Wellington
had, at two o’clock waited upon the no
ble Earl in their Court dress.—Times.
London,June1G.
The Paris Journals of Monday last 4
arrived this morning ; those of the pre
ceding day were received last night. On
the opening of the business in the Cham
ber of Deputies on Saturday, M. Lafitte
impatiently rose, and in an animated tone
expatiated on the wanton outrages com
mitted by the military in dispersing the
mob, and particularly on the preceding
evening, in support of which he read it
letter signed by several inhabitants of
the neighborhood of Port St. Denis, stat
ing that a number of persous hud been
wounded, and one killed, by the troops
in that quarter. During the reading of
this letter, considerable agitation was
produced in the Assembly by M. de Cor-
celles, exclaiming Le Poila, and produc
ing half a snbre, which had beer broken
in one of the contests in the streets, and
left behind. M. Lafitte proceeded at
considerable length, and obgerved that
he did not approve of riotous assembla
ges, but was it astonishing that citizens
w ho failed in having their wishes atten
ded to in the Chambers, should seek to
express them, ns far as possible, in the •
most legal way ? Several voices called
out “ Revolt is not legal.” M. Lafitte
contended, that under a representative
government it could not be called a re
volt, when the citizens assembled with
out using seditious expressions. His
house, he continued, was constantly fill
ed with the citizens, his constituents,
furnishing him with evidence ofthe hor
rors committed by the military upon the
people. (Crcat indignation.) What was
but partial tumult at first, had increased
into popular indignation. The soldiers
were infuriated against the people, whom
they vvflre taught to treat as factious in
cendiaries. This could not go on. Paris
must be entrusted to its proper protec
tors, the National Guard ; or if these
scenes of slaughter were to continue, all
Frenchmen would soon remember that
they once hail been soldiers. (Much tu
mult was now excited in the Chamber,
and some intemperate imputations were
exchanged.)
M. de Montcalm said it was false to as
sert there were no seditious shouts a-
mongst the mob, as he had heard them.
M. Lafitte and Corcelles insisted that the
seditious expressions were uttered b J
police spies : the former further declar
ed that tlie capital was not free—that the
very Deputies, in stepping out ofthe
Chamber were in' danger of being assas
sinated. The disturbances instead of
subsiding, increased every hour. “ Yes
terday was the most lamentable that had
yet arcived; to-morrow will be still more
disastrous.” M. Cassimir Perrier sup
ported M. Latitte’s assertions, and hij
demand upon Ministers to explain the
conduct ot those who acted under their
orders. The keeper ofthe Seals charg
ed the popular ferment in the capital up
on the systematic inflammatory speech
es of tlie Liberals in the Chamber. “Re
bellion,” he continued, “ has been pre
pared and organized ; and all the weight
of this Chamber ought to bear against its
progress : it has its chiefs—its signals—
its pass-words—its manoeuvres. Every
pacific means,” he added, “ had been
employed in vnin, before resorting to
force.” Here he read a passage from a
report addressed to him by Lt. Gen. the
Count de France, stating thnt stones had
been throw n nt the troops, and that a-
motigst the shouts, on the part of the
mob, were heard, ‘ Vivent nos Freres
de Manchester!* [Our Manchester bro
thers for ever!] 1 Down with the Cham
bers !’—‘Down with the Royalists!’—
‘ Down with the Emigrants !’—“ Now,’*
continued his Excellency, “ what do you
think of the efforts made in this tribune
to inflame the passions, and to justify se
ditious mobs ?” A leud noise to the left
—a voice, “ You habituate yourself to
calumny.” The Keeper of the Seals—
“ I attack no one.” M. M. Lafitte and
Cassimir Perrier—“ Yon seem to point
to us.” The Keeper of the Seals again
declared that he attacked no one per*on-
ally. M. B. Constant iasisted on speak
ing, and the greatest confusion ensued.
M. Hautefeuillesnid the discussion would
again agitate all France, and he therefore
called for a Secret Committee. This
was supported by five members. M. B.
Constant nt length obtained a hearing,
when his quoting a letter, stating that the
writer saw the Cuirassiers cutting down
men, women and children, and their offi
cers encouraging them to slaughter, re
newed tlie confusion.
Tlie keeper of the Seals again rose,
aud witli considerable animation contra
dicted this exaggerated statement, which
lie qualified as a “ base and false accu
sation.” After another interval of bois
terous contention, the Chamber pro
ceeded to the consideration of the 6th
article of the election law, the 2d, 3d,
4th, aud 3th, being suspended by the a-
mend/nerit carried in the previous sit
ting. The-Glh, amended sons to become
consistent witli the amendment, was pas -
sed ; us were also the 7th, with some*
amendments ; and the 8th amended by
the commission. The Chamber then
adjourned to Monday.
The Courier denies that any secret
investigation of tlje conduct of the queen,
is contemplated. The editor says her
Majesty knows this ; her Majesty’s le
gal advisers knew it: the Parliament
knows it : the whole country knows it.
he Courier of the 16th, is nearly
right, founded on the most absolute con-1 filled with the particular of the splen
