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notwithstanding its unparalleled situation. 
In the City, also, has been held an im- 
portant meeting, convened for the pur- 
_poses of inquiring into the conduct of the 
Greek committee and those appointed to 
manage the loan in England, as also to 
ascertain how far they were or were not 
guilty of sins of omission or commission, 
It seems that the Joan raised in England 
for the purpose of assisting the Greek 
cause, has been tampered with by in- 
terested parties, and converted into a mere 
job (as in the instance of Mr. Ricardo), or 
put into the hands of a special committee, 
formed of men who, however honourable in 
rank and character, were altogether in- 
competent to the task. And sv between 
both—between knavery on the one side, 
and ignorance on the other, the Greeks 
have been brought to the brink of ruin; 
- whereas it was clearly demonstrated at the 
meeting that, had common management 
been used, the Morea would now have 
been unpolluted by the presence of a 
Turkish despot. With regard to Ireland, 
parties there are becoming daily, even 
hourly, more inflamed. Mr. Shiell, the 
uncompromising advocate of the Catholics, 
has been hard at work fanning into a flame 
the expiring embers of disaffection, and 
striving, by every means in his power, to 
loosen the bands of intimacy that yet hold 
the two nations together. One speech of 
his, delivered, if we remember rightly, at 
Ballinasloe, positively smelt of blood, as 
Mr. Scarlett observed, a few years back, 
of the Queen’s addresses. We know not 
the effect such stimulants, applied at the 
present juncture, may have on the assem- 
blies to which they are rehearsed, but in 
England we know the popular opinion is 
decidedly opposed to any such unwhole- 
some rancour. A British parliament has 
not yet sunk so low in the seale of inde- 
pendence as to be bullied into submission 
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by a brawling Irish demagogue. Quitting 
the subject of Mr. Shiell and catholicism, 
we haye to report the frightful increase of 
those accomplished relations, feyer and 
famine, throughout the sister island. It 
is really dreadful ; the peasantry are perish- 
ing wholesale, and not an arm is uplifted 
to save them, We understand, however, 
that the state of Ireland will be one of the 
prominent subjects of consideration. at 
the approaching sessions. Mr. Canning’s 
visit to France has been a fruitful topie of 
debate among our diplomatists. Some say 
that a commercial treaty with France is to 
be immediately set on foot; while others 
as roundly assert that the visit is merely 
one of ceremony. For ourselves, as we 
know nothing, we preserve a profound 
silence on the subject. With respect to 
Turkey, affairs go on in a most agitated 
state; executions hourly increase: ladies 
are tied up in sacks, and gentlemen in 
their own breeches, and thus quaintly ac- 
coutred, thrown without further ceremony 
into the sea. The sultan, by all aceounts, 
is a man of fearful energy ; and if shedding 
blood will secure his triumphs, there need 
be no cause for apprehension. In Russia, 
or rather on its confines, a disturbance has 
broken out with Persia, which, after a 
week’s confusion, has settled down into a 
declaration of war. This, to a speculative 
mind, will afford ample materials for con- 
sideration; and coming so soon after the 
coronation at Moscow, looks ominous on 
the part of Nicholas, and silently, but 
emphatically, proves that he considers a 
state of peace a state of hazard to his 
pretensions. With regard to Portugal, a 
counter-revolution seems to be on the eve 
of breaking out, which we could only wish 
was also the case with Spain; but that 
country, until the areh-fiend Ferdinand is 
beheaded, can have neither hope nor wish _ 
for regeneration. 
PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 
New Patents sealed, 1826. 
To J. Rish, Chard, “Somerset, for ma- 
chinery for making bobbin or twist net— 
Sealed 4th October ; 2 months. 
To F. Halliday, Esq., Ham, Surrey, 
for apparatus used in drawing boots on and 
off—4th October ; 6 months. 
To T. Jones, Coleman Street, account- 
ant, for improvements on carriage wheels— 
11th October ; 6 months. 
To Mr. W. Mills, Hazelhouse, Glouces- 
ter, for improvements in fire-arms—18th 
October; 6 months. K 
‘To. W. Church, Esq, Birmingham, for 
improvements in printing —18th October ; 
6 months. 
| To S. Pratt, New Bond Street, camp- 
equipage manufacturer, assisted by a com- 
munication from a foreigner abroad, for im- 
provements on beds, bedsteads, couches, 
&c.—18th October ; 6 months. 
To W. Busk, Esq., Broad Street, for 
improvements in propelling boats, ships, 
and other floating bodies—18th October ; 
6 months. 
To J. Viney, Shanklen, Isle of Wight, 
colonel Royal Artill., and Mr. G. Pocock, 
Bristol, for improvements in cars and other 
carriages, and the application of a power 
hitherto unused for that purpose to draw 
the same ; also applicable to the drawing 
of ships, &c., and for raising weights, and 
for other useful purposes—18th October ; 
6 months. 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in November 1812, expire in the present 
month of November 1826. 
7. Edward Jukes, of Walworth, i- 
