HOUSE OF LORDS, June 30. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Twelve Million Loan Bill, the Funded Debt Charges' Bill, the Irish Clerk of the Peace Bill, the Irish Coasting Trade Bill, the Irish Coroners' Bill, the Dublin Foundling Hospital Bill, the Watch and Ward Bill, the Sail Cloth Bill, the Ayr and Calder Navigation Bill, &c.

In the Commons, the same day, a Royal Message was brought down by Lord Castlereagh, recommending the House "to take measures that annuities may be secured to his Majesty's Royal Brothers aud Sis. ters, for their respective lives, to such amount that their incomes may be rendered equal to those which they enjoyed at the demise of his late Majesty."

On the motion of Sir John Newport, and after a long discussion, it was ordered, that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Irish Court of Chancery Bill to receive a clause, providing against any Master in the Chancery of Ireland being elected into, or sitting, or voting in the House of Commons, so long as he shall hold such office." In the debate on this clause, the case of Mr. Ellis, one of the candidates for the city of Dublin, was canvassed at length, and an effort made to have him excepted from its operation in the event of being returned, but the incompatibility of a seat in Parliament, with the duties of his office, was not to be surmounted, and the motion was accordingly agreed to.`

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 3.

The Marquis of Lansdown presented the first Report of the Select Committee on Foreign Trade: it is confined to an inquiry into the state of the Timber Trade, and the means of its improvement.

In the Commous, the same day, the House went into a Committee on the Royal Message respecting the provision to be made for the junior branches of the Royal Family. Lord Castlereagh then entered into explanations as to the situation of the different members of the Royal Family, and said it was proposed to make an addition, not exceeding 24,000. a year, for placing the Duke of Clarence on a level, as to income, with his other brothers, and for paying certain legacies and pensions to the late Queen's servants. He stated, that Prince Leopold had, for the present, taken upon himself the support and education of the infant princess of the Duchess of Kent.

Mr. Vansittart having moved that the House should go into a Committee of Supply, Mr. Creevey said it was understood that a grant was to be proposed to defray the expences of the Coronation.

Under existing circumstances, he thought it very improper to hasten that ceremony. With what disgust would the nation view its King mixing in all the revelry of a grand gala and jubilee (given, too, not at his, but at the public expence), at the very time that its Queen was made the subject of a grave and heinous accusation? (Hear).

Lord Castlereagh said, his Majesty's rights were not to be impaired by the absence or presence of the Queen. The Coronation was something more than a mere gala; it was a ceremony whereby the King ratified the compact which existed. between himself and his people; and therefore was a ceremony which ought not to be delayed. The day had been fixed; and if it gave pain to her Majesty, Ministers could not help it, for her presence had not been occasioned by them. The expence of the Coronation had been greatly exaggerated; it would not exceed 105,000.

Dr. Lushington, Colonel Davies, Mr. Tierney, and others, recommended delay. They were replied to by Mr. Vansittart and Mr. F. Robinson.

The House then went into the Committee, and the sum of 100.000l. was voted for the expence of the Coronation, and several grants for services in Ire

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HOUSE OF LORDS, July 4.

The Earl of Harrowby presented a Report from the Secret Committee relative to the Queen (see it in p. 79.)

Lord Liverpool said he should, to-morrow, introduce a Bill on the subject of the Report; with regard to the course of proceeding on which he should be disposed to consult the convenience of the illustrious person who was the object of the charges.

Lord Grey renewed his protest against a course of proceeding which violated every principle of justice.

Lord Harrowby justified the conduct of Ministers in endeavouring to avoid this inquiry; but they must now proceed with it, and the course they had pursued was sanctioned by the House. The Report of the Committee could only be viewed as the finding of a grand jury.

Lord Carnarvon said, the parallel did not hold; as a grand jury examined witnesses on oath before they found a bill. He urged Ministers to delay the Coronation until the inquiry was brought to a termination.

Lord Darnley augured nothing but mischief from the course adopted by Ministers.

Lord Grey again expressed his surprise that Ministers should have been willing to grant fifty thousand pounds from the

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pockets of the people, to enable the Queen to live in comfort abroad, with a person with whom they now charged her to have maintained an adulterous connexion.

Lord Liverpool justified Ministers. Lord Holland said, the course of these proceedings was from the beginning wrong - highly inconsistent-highly dangerous -derogatory from the honour of the Crown, and injurious to the best interests of the country.

In the Commons, the same day, Mr. Hume proposed a series of resolutions as to the rates per cent. of the expence of collecting the various branches of the revenue.

Mr. Lushington contended that Mr. H.'s calculations were in several respects erroneous, and proposed substitutes for several of them, by way of amendment.

After some observations from Sir H. Parnell, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Tierney, and Mr. Vansittart, Mr. H.'s resolutions were negatived, and the counter resolutions adopted by 124 to 95.

Mr. Hume made his motion relative to the property of the late King.

Mr. Vansittart said, there had been found, among his late Majesty's papers, some of a testamentary nature; but the question of their validity and construction had been submitted to the opinion of legal authorities, from whom no report on the subject had been yet received. This being the case, it was clear that the Lords of the Treasury, or his Majesty's Ministers, were not empowered to take possession of the property under an authority of this kind which, under other circumstances, might have been available. When the doubts upon the question should be thoroughly removed, it would be for them to take the necessary steps; in the mean time it would be satisfactory to the House to learn that the property in money and stock was of the value of 90,000l. exclusive of freehold property, and the houses at Weymouth, &c. This sum of 90,000l. would be subject to a very considerable claim; and as to the Weymouth property and the advertisement for its disposal, which had appeared in the public prints, it was only necessary for him to say, that, in whatever way the decision of the law authorities might go, they could belong to no other person than his Majesty. That being a necessary case in any possible event, it had been thought advisable that this property should be disposed of.

Mr. Hume consented to withdraw his motion, the explanation of the Right Hon. Gentleman being satisfactory.

Lord Castlereagh observed, that even reckoning the additional article of private property at Weymouth, &c. the

whole would not amount to more than between 102,000l. and 103,000%.

Mr. Vansittart obtained leave to bring in a Bill to extend to the new Bank of England Notes the same protection from forgery as had been extended under the the former law.

Mr. C. Grant obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the issue of Treasury Bills; the principal object of the measure being the raising of 250,000/ for public works.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 5.

[The proceedings in the House on this day have been already slightly noticed in p. 79.]

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In the Commons, the same day, the Report of the Committee on the consumption of smoke by steam-engines brought up. Mr. M. A. Taylor, in moving that the Report be printed, gave notice that it was his intention, early in the next Session, to introduce a Bill on this subject.

Lord A. Hamilton repeated the observations delivered at various former periods, as to the injury done to the agricultural interest of Scotland by subjecting malt made from Scotch barley and bigg, to the same duties as that from English barley, and concluded with moving some resolutions on the subject.

Mr. Vansiitart could not depart from the general principle of an equalization of the duties, but was willing to make an abatement of 6d. per bushel for malt made from bigg. He concluded with moving the previous question, which, was carried, on a division, by 53 to 43.

The House having gone into ⚫ Committee of Supply, Lord Castlereagh again explained the circumstances which rendered it necessary to propose an additional grant of 24,000l. for more effectually providing for the junior branches of the Royal Family, and defraying the pensions of certain servants of their late Majesties. He then proposed resolutions to that effect.

Mr. Bankes and Mr. Hume objected to the arrangements respecting the pensions, as several of the servants who had been only a year or two employed, and who were in, the prime of life, were to be allowed their full salaries. They wished the resolutions to be postponed for reconsideration by Ministers.

Mr. W. Smith approved of this suggestion. He wished to know whether the report was correct, that the pension of the late Mr. West had been stopped on the death of his late Majesty.

Mr. Vansittart justified the scale on which the pensions had been made. With regard to Mr. West, he had no peusion

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from the Crown, but was a repairer of his Majesty's pictures, under the Lord Chamberlain, and received his salary from the Lord Chamberlain's office.

Mr. Huskisson said, Mr. West's salary was paid up to the day of his death; and he should not be doing justice to his late Majesty if he did not state that the King had granted to West, out of his own purse, 1000l. a year, and that, in the course of his life, he had paid him not less than 40,000l. for the encouragement of the fine arts. The resolutions were then agreed to; and several other grants were voted for the public service, on the motion of Mr. Vansiltart and Lord Palmerston.

On the motion of Lord Castlereagh, it was ordered that a Committee be appointed to search the Journals of the other

House; and if it should appear that the Lords had adopted proceedings with respect to her Majesty, he should then postpone his motion, which stood for to-morrow; and should also propose a further postponement of the adjourned debate on the King's Message.

The House having gone into a Committee on the Postage Acts, Mr. Vansittart proposed a resolution, "That his Majesty's Postmasters General be authorized to charge an addition, not exceeding the rate of postage now payable by law, on letters dispatched by a particular conveyance." This express post was, he said, to be established between London and Manchester, and if it answered, the system would be extended to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Agreed to.

FOREIGN

FRANCE.

On the 22d ult. the Session of the two French Chambers of Peers and Deputies was closed by a Royal Proclamation, read in both Houses, according to the forms prescribed by the Charter. It was received in both Chambers with shouts of "Vive le Roi!" after which the Members immediately dispersed.

A Paris paper states, that on the morning of the 20th ult. the police visited the dealers in sticks in the Palais-Royal and' the Boulevards, and seized all the sticks mounted with little hatchets, hammers, and iron hooks. More than 300 were taken from one dealer.

The fixed population of Paris has increased to 657,172 persons. In Paris, the number of women is greater than that of the men by nearly one fifth.

SPAIN.

MEETING OF THE SPANISH CORTES.

A Madrid Gazette Extraordinary was received on the 21st ult. containing an account of the proceedings which took place at the opening of the Cortes, on Sunday, the 9th, by his Catholic Majesty, in the presence of the Queen, and the Infantas of Spain. On the King's entering the Hall of the Cortes, the whole assembly rose, the spectators in the galleries bursting into the loudest acclamations. After a short pause, the King took the oath, as prescribed by the Constitution. Don Joseph Espiga, Archbishop of Seville, President elect, then addressed his Majesty. Having adverted to past events, and congratulated the Monarch on the restoration of Constitutional Government, he concluded as follows:

"Let the fears, jealousies, and distrusts, which criminal souls have excited in the GENT. MAG. August, 1820.

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heart of the best of Kings, for ever disappear, and all unite in surrounding the throne with that fraternal alliance which secures order, produces plenty, maintains justice, and preserves peace. And permit me, Sire, the faithful organ of this Congress, and of the Nation it represents, to present to you the due homage of its fidelity, and of the honourable sentiments by which it is animated.

"As our illustrious ancestors always were the firmest support of the throne and the monarch; so the same Spain, always ready to give brilliant testimonies of loyalty and love to her Kings, solemnly promises you that her sons, who have displayed in war more sanguinary examples of fidelity than were known to past generations, will make sacrifices worthy of Spanish heroes, and the admiration of future ages."

His Majesty replied in the following

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"I accept the expressions and sentiments of love and loyalty which the Cortes manifest towards me through the organ of its President; and I hope, through the assistance, to see the nation I have the glory to govern free and happy."

The King then read a sensible, manly, and temperate speech to the Cortes, on the state of public affairs; calling their attention to the situation of the Monarchy, both internal and external. With regard to the ultra-marine provinces, he expressed a hope that the re-establishment of the Constitutional system would "smooth the path to the pacification of those which are in a state of agitation or disturbance, and render unnecessary the employment of any other means."

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The French papers furnish some account of an attempt that has been made by some ecclesiastics of Galicia, assisted by deserters from the regiment of the Guides, to collect an armed force for the purpose of effecting a counter-revolution. The Clergy formed themselves into a Junfa, which they modestly called Apostolic; but being unable to maintain themselves in Spain, they retired within the frontiers of Portugal. It was believed that their proceedings were countenanced by the Archbishop of San Jago, and the Bishop of Orense. The insurgents, having collected a small body of men, ventured to recross the Minho, for the purpose of seizing upon the heights of Pennizas; but they dispersed at the approach of some troops dispatched against them by the Junta of Galicia; and the latest dispatches received by Arguelles, Minister of the Interior, notified the total dissolution of the Apostolic Junta. Arguelles has recommended the Cortes to take off all duty ou Spanish wool exported.

The Spanish Cortes have resolved by a great majority to consider, whether or not the ecclesiastical revenues should be appropriated to the service of the state. They also intend prohibiting the ordination of more priests, until the monks thus thrown out of bread shall be provided for; and, in the next place, they 'mean to prune the calendar of many saints' days, which are now only devoted to idleness and debauchery.

ITALY.

The Neapolitan Revolution begins to be rationally accounted for. It appears from private accounts, that the King having a great partiality for his second son, his Minister advised him to separate Naples from Sicily, and to give the latter only to the Heir Apparent, the second son having Naples, which is the fairer portion of his dominions :-the Heir Apparent is now named Viceroy of the Mouarchy.

Letters from Naples, dated the 14th July, state that the oath to the Constitution was taken by the King and the Hereditary Prince on the day preceding, with the attendant ceremonies, and amidst universal demonstrations of joy from the

population of Naples. In the evening of the same day, about 300 of the Farnese regiment, who had previously manifested symptoms of discontent with the excess of duty, suddenly broke out into mutiny, and commenced their march out of the city; with the view, as was supposed, of occupying some of the strong posts in the vicinity. Prompt orders were, however, immediately issued, and the disaffected troops were pursued by a regiment of cavalry. Ou their coming in contact, a desperate conflict took place between them; and the streets of Naples, in a few minutes, presented the appearance of a field of battle, and were covered with the killed and wounded. cording to some accounts, there were 100 killed on the side of the rebellious troops, but others state them only at 36. The insurgents were completely overcome; and the survivors were brought back to their quarters, and placed in confine

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Sicily has been in a state of commotion, in consequence of the determination of the inhabitants to become independent of Naples; and we lament to state there has been much bloodslied. appears by the accounts in the Naples Journal, that the first impulse of the peo ple of Sicily, on hearing, on the 14th of July, the news of the revolution at Naples, was, to wear the tri-coloured badge of the Constitution. But this lasted only a single day. On the 15th, the yellow or Sicilian riband was displayed in conjunc tion with the other, when an accident, or an indi-cretion, exasperated the people against the Neapolitan authorities and troops: Gen. Church, an English officer in the pay of Naples, is said to have torn the badge of Sicilian independence from the breast of an unarmed citizen. raged at this act, the forts in the possession of the Neapolitan soldiery were attacked and carried by the islanders. the morning of the 17th, 700 prisoners were released from confinement by the populace; and then the Neapolitans were furiously attacked, and indiscriminately butchered. The accounts estimate the loss of life at 2000 killed, and about 3000 wounded. The Prince Vicar General had sent a small squadron to bring off from Palermo such Neapolitans as could be saved, and as many Sicilians as were inclined to transfer themselves to Naples.

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After the departure from Sicily of the King's Lieutenant-General, the Archbishop of Palermo provisionally assumed the Government, and succeeded in restoring tranquillity, which was on the 20th completely re- established. The Duke of Calabria, as Prince Vicar General, had issued a Proclamation, offering a general pardon to all persons con

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cerned in the insurrection in Sicily, provided they laid down their arms and submitted to the laws. The theatres at Naples were all closed on the 22d and 23d July on account of the melancholy events ip Sicily. Several of the principal Nobles of Sicily were killed in the unhappy contests that took place at Palermo on the 16th and 17th: among them was the Prince de Cattolica.

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A letter from Genoa states, that the truce between Tuscany and Algiers had expired on 5th July; and that advices from Leghorn had been received at Genoa, conveying information that the Algerine squadron had captured two Tuscan vessels, and that apprehensions were entertained for the safety of their boats engaged in the coral fishery on the coast of Barbary.

THE CARBONARI.-This sect of Reformers, who now cover Italy, and excite the attention of its Government, was founded in 1812, by some emissaries of the late Queen of Naples, with the secret intention of destroying Murat's Government. Their name is taken from the coal (or charcoal) trade. The society is called La Carbonaria; and Barrache (market) is the name given to their meetings.-The Society is at once political and religious: their principles are founded on the purest maxims of the Gospel; the members promise obedience to the law, and respect to those who worthily administer justice; they vow eternal hatred to tyranny; and this hatred is the greater because they consider our Saviour as the most deplorable and the most illustrious victim of despotism.-The Carbonari are distinguished by their degrees. The object of the lostitution is, to purge the Appenines of the rapacious wolves which infest them; the wolves signify the oppressors of the people; and all the agents of the government who are guilty of arbitrary acts.The spirit of liberty and of evangelical equality is observed in the sittings of the Barrache; the purest morality is incul cated in them; and it would be easy to name Judges, Intendants, Commissaries, or Syndics, who, only since their initiation, have given examples of justice, courage, and beneficence; Abruzzo and Calabra have been witnesses of the most astonishing conversions; the banditti who infested the mountains have quitted the musket for the spade, so greatly had they been edified by the Sacred Word!-The Carbonari have been alternately courted by the French, by Murat, and by Ferdinand, as their purpose served; many enlightened men have joined them, and there are now above 300,000 in the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily. They have rapidly spread over all Italy; and some are to be found in France, Spain, and Germany.

SWITZERLAND.

Apprehensions as to the darkness which may be occasioned by the Eclipse of the Sun on the 7th of next month, have determined several of the Ecclesiastical Counsellors of Switzerland to move that the annual solemnity of prayers may be transferred from that day to the 8th. The Deputies of the Protestant Religion at the Diet have agreed to this proposal, and the Sth is fixed for the day of prayers.

DENMARK.

The Danish house of Meyer and Freyer has failed for 200,000l. sterling, and drawn down with it many firms at Hamburgh. The house of Defric and Co. of Madras, failed in March last. Such was the confidence reposed in the house by the native population, that it had become the general medium of depositing property, in a manner something resembling that of a Saving Bank. The popular indignation, on hearing of the failure, was so great, that the resident partners were compelled to fly for their lives.

RUSSIA.

The Russian Government has addressed an Official Note to the Spanish Ministers resident at St. Petersburgh, in which the Emperor of Russia strongly condemns every Constitution imposed on a Sovereign by force. Another State Paper from the same quarter has since made its appearance in the shape of a Memorial, addressed from St. Petersburgh to all the Ministers of Russia at foreign Courts, declaratory of corresponding sentiments on the same subject; and displaying an anxious solicitude on the part of Alexander to induce the other great Powers of Europe to participate in his feelings, and to stimulate them to an interference in the domestic concerns of the Spanish people. The Emperor, in dwelling on the mischiefs produced by the French Revolution, remarks, that," as if the alarms which were excited by the state of France in 1818, and which it still excites, were not sufficient as if Governments and nations entertained but slight doubts with respect to its future condition-it was necessary. that the genius of evil should select a new theatre; and that Spain, in her turn, should be offered up as a fearful sacrifice. Revolution, therefore, has changed its ground; but the duties of Monarchs cannot have changed their nature, and the power of the insurrection is neither less formidable, nor less dangerous, than it would have been in France."-The Russian State Paper seems to require from the Cortes of Spain, as a test of their principles, that they should either strongly reprobate or disband the army, for the part which it bore in the re-establishment of the Constitution. What effect this dictatorial