COUNTRY CATTLE AND MEAT MARKETS, &c. Norwich Castle Meadow, Dec. 2.-The supply of fat Cattle to this day's market was, like the preceding week's, very short-prices 8s. to 8s. 6d. per stone of 14 lbs. sinking offal; but store Stock was supplied even beyond the demand.-Scots sold at 4s. to 4s. 6d. per stone, when fat; Short Horns 38. to 48.; Cows and Calves, and home-breds of all sorts, quite a flat sale; of Sheep and Lambs the supply was rather short.-Shearlings, 24s. to 29s,; fat ones to 38s.; Lambs, not many good ones, 13s. to 17s. 6d. each; Pigs in great numbers, and cheap.-Meat: Beef, 7d. to 9d.; Veal, 7d. to 9d.; Mutton, 5d. to 74d.; and Pork, 5d. to 8d. per lb. Horncastle, Dec. 2.-Beef, 6s. to 7s, per stone of 14 lbs. Mutton, 5d to 6d.; Pork, 5d. to 6d.; and Veal, 6d. to 7d. per lb. Manchester, Nov. 29.-To-day the supply of Cattle was good, and of good quality, which sold upon much the same terms as this day se'nnight; the show of which was not large, yet more than could be turned into money at any price. Pigs much the same as last noted. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, sold in the Maritime Counties of England and Wales, for the Week ended November 24, 1826. Cheshire... Gloucestershire. Somersetshire Monmouthshire. Devonshire.. Cornwall.... Dorsetshire Hampshire North Wales South Wales. ... .60 4.... 0 .59 4....52 3....30 6 .58 0....44 9....25 2 .56 5....40 2....31 4 ..59 7....48 5.... 0 0 .57 9....37 11....28 0 ..58 9....36 9....32 3 .53 9....37 8....32 5 .53 10....38 1....28 1 ..65 3....47 2....32 4 ...58 1....41 8....26 3 • The London Average is always that of the Week preceding. "The best possible public instructor' tells us that Mr. Canning is "going to Paris, purely on a visit of personal friendship to our Ambas"sador there. I suppose, however, that he is going to try the force of his "oratory, in order to induce France and her Allies to let Portugal alone. I know nothing of the politics of the BOURBONS; but, "though I can easily conceive that they would not like to see an end of "the paper-system and a consequent Reform, in England; though I can 66 see very good reasons for believing this, I do not believe, that Mr. CAN"NING will induce them to sacrifice their own obvious and immediate "interests for the sake of preserving our funding system. He will not 4 get them out of Cadiz, and he will not induce them to desist from inter"fering in the affairs of Portugal, if they find it their interest to "interfere."- -RURAL RIDE, Register, Vol. 60. No. 1. page 22, 23.Sept. 30, 1826. SIR, WAR WITH SPAIN. TO MR. CANNING. Kensington, 13th Dec. 1826. "bability, if Mr. Pitt were to live THE hour (for we can no" to what was generally called the longer safely count by days) age of man (three score years seems now to be fast approaching," and ten), he would, with his own when the Pitt-System will receive" eyes, see the end of his dreadits doom. Thirty years ago Old "ful work." Mr. Pitt died in TOMMY PAINE said, that it was January, 1806; he was then fortyimpossible to say precisely when seven; if he had lived to the age this destructive system would be of man, there would now have utterly blown up; but, "in all pro- been two years and a month of Ꮓ Printed and Published by WILLIAM COBBETT, No. 183, Fleet-street. his life yet to come; and, do you been given by the Court of Madrid laugh, then, at this prophecy of of the determination of his Catholic PAINE? If we be really to have war, and of only a year's duration, do you think, that, without a blowing up of this system, it is possible for the Bank to continue to pay in gold of standard weight and fineness? And, if you do not think this, what do you think is to be the final consequence? But, I must postpone further questions of this, I must defer remarks on the effects which WAR will have upon the paper-money, and, through that false money, upon property of various kinds, until I have addressed you upon the war itself, after I have inserted the Message of the King, announcing to the Parliament the existence of that war. "GEORGE R. Majesty neither to commit, nor to allow to be committed from his Catholic Majesty's territory, any aggression against Portugal. "But His Majesty has learnt with deep concern, that, notwithstanding these assurances, hostile inroads into the territory of Portugal have been concerted in Spain, and have been executed under the eyes of Spanish authorities by Portuguese regiments which had deserted into Spain, and which the Spanish Government had repeatedly and solemnly engaged to disarm and to disperse. exhausted to awaken the Spanish Government to the dangerous con "His Majesty leaves no effort un sequences of this apparent connivance. "His Majesty makes this communication to the House of Commons, with the full and entire confidence that his faithful Commons will afford to His Majesty their cordial concurrence and support, in maintaining the faith of treaties, and insecur "His Majesty acquaints the House of Commons, that His Majesty has received an earnest application from the Princess Regent of Portugal, ing against foreign hostility the claiming, in virtue of the ancient safety and independence of the kingobligations of alliance and amity sub-dom of Portugal, the oldest ally of sisting between His Majesty and the Crown of Portugal, His Majesty's aid against an hostile aggression from Spain. Great Britain." "G. R." Now, Sir, first let me request you to look at the Motto. I was “His Majesty has exerted himself at HIGHWORTH, in Wiltshire, for some time past, in conjunction when I wrote the article, from with His Majesty's ally the King of which those sentences are taken. France, to prevent such an aggres-A packet of the "best possible sion; and repeated assurances have public instructor" met me there. I saw that they contained a sort and that something now appears vary, to have been what I, at the time, of circular paragraph, which discovered, in its author, great anxiety to cause it to be believed that you were not going to Paris on any public business. When these broad sheets publish, as to the same matter, accounts which there may be room to doubt respecting the fact; but, when they all agree in any one statement, it is sure to be a lie. It is, with If the King of Spain interfered, these sheets, touch pen touch and settled things to his liking, in penny; and we may always be the dominions of this "oldest ally certain, that, when they lie in con- of England;" if he, following the cert, they are all paid for the lie. example of France, garrisoned Knowing these things so well, and kept possession of Lisbon; concluded, of course, that some if he thus shut us, at his pleasure, one man, or body of men, and out of the last port that we can with a purse, or purses, too, had enter, south of Ostend, it was caused this lie to be published. easy to see, that even the most I also concluded, that there must selfish and base part of the nation have been a powerful motive to would cry shame upon you; and, produce the employment of such indeed, it was easy to see, that all means. Being sure, then, that men of any knowledge, in every your visit to Paris arose from a part of the world, would look upon public cause, I saw in this dis- us as a fallen people; a people guising lie great anxiety existing steeped in debt, 'degeneracy and somewhere to keep a knowledge, disgrace. Your mind has seemed and even a suspicion, of this to me to have undergone, of late cause, from the nation. And, as years, a very great change. It men are never very anxious on has surprised and shocked me to this score, unless they be in some hear your eulógiums on traffic fear as to the success of what they and on peace; to hear you, at one are about to undertake, I con-time, say, that England's chief cluded, that your business was to resource must, in future, consist coax the French into something, of the gains arising from supply ing other countries with manufac- must necessarily do, as far as it tures; and at another, to hear you reached, injury to the cause out extol peace in such terms as to of which it had arisen. In remarking upon the King's Message, the first thing that strikes us is, the wonderful assertion, that the King of France had concurred in the efforts to prevent the interference of Spain in the affairs of Portugal; and I was not a little make your hearers shudder at the very name of war; nay, even in your speech at the opening of the present session, we heard your somewhat bombastical praises of the "God-like office of peacepreserver," forgetting, I suppose, that, for once that Holy Writ as-surprised to find that the King of cribes this quality to the Almighty, France was an "Ally" of ours! it, a hundred times, calls him the That he was our "friend" I "GOD OF HOSTS." Not-knew; but never, until now, suswithstanding, however, these indi-pected that he was our "Ally." cations of declining spirit, I am More of these matters by-and-by; willing to believe, that you still but, let us see, in the first place, retain enough of regard for the what is the ground of this war, honour of your country to have if war it is to be. The King of made you blush at the thought of Spain has permitted persons in that disgrace, which a tame sur- authority under him to be guilty render of Portugal to the Bour-of an apparent connivance at the bons must fix for ever on that conduct of persons who have, in country. And, retaining this re- his dominions, concerted hostile gard for the honour of your coun- inroads into Portugal; that he try, while the accursed paper- has suffered these inroads to take system was taking from vou the place, the inroaders being certain means of upholding that honour, Portuguese regiments, which had you might well experience those deserted into Spain. "three anxious months,” of which you spoke on the opening of the Parliament, and respecting which you ought, it seems to me, to have been as silent as the grave; for, Now, Sir, suppose all this to be true, what has the King of Spain done, which was not done, towards France, by Austria and Prussia, with the decided approbation of England, in 1792? At that time whatever credit that anxiety may do to your feelings, a knowledge the French emigrants, soldiers as of its having existed in your mind well as others, but soldiers for the |