1826.

The short space of three or four weeks has mate. rially altered the complexion of rural affairs. Up to the middle of June, there was every reason to anticipate a productive harvest, although, perhaps, not quite equal to that of last year; the drought had even then been severe and of long continuance, but the crops of grain had suffered less than we have generally been accustomed to witness under similar circumstances. But how different is the aspect in the middle of July-an early harvest, superinduced by premature ripeness, promises nothing satisfactory to the husbandman-the corn, parched for the want of moisture, is short in straw and deficient of grain. The crop of wheat is generally estimated at two coombs, or one quarter per acre, less than that of last year, which was computed at something more than an average crop; consequently the present must be taken at something less, although it cannot be denied that, in the more favoured districts, there are even now very many acres of remarkably fine eared grain. The barley crop is even worse than that of the wheat, and has

Bank Stock was on the 24th ult. 198. 199Three per Cent. Reduced, 77 five-eighths, threequarters - Three per Cent. Consols, 16 seveneighths 77-Three and a half per Cent. 84 half, seven-eighths-Three and a half per Cent. Reduced

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June 24. T. WORRALL, of the Hoop Tavern, Parkstreet, Hanover square, tavern and hotel-keeper. CORRIE, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, dealer in lace. E. B. SKELTON, M. M. SKELTON, and E. SKELTON, Southampton, stationers. H.RODWELL, Austinfriars-passage, Broad-street, London, silk-broker. G. WELLS and S. WELLS, Norwich, hatters. J. MARSDEN and G. MARSDEN, Cartworth, Kirk Burton, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturers. J. HEALE, Plymouth, sail-maker. J. CHARLTON and L. CHARLΤΟΝ, Manchester, sawyers. W. TATTERSALL, Upper Thames-street, London, printer. J. BROW. NELL, Steward-street, Spitalfields, silk-manufacturer, B. SHEPHEARD, Gloucester-terrace, Hoxton, leather

don, Blackwell-hall, factor. S. HOLBROOK and J. ADAMSON, Northwich, Cheshire, brewers. J. CLIFFE, Nantwich Willaston, Cheshire, cheese-factor. J. J. HOLE, Highbury-terrace, and Upper-street, Islington, surgeon. J. BARON, Blackburn, Lancashire, cottonmanufacturer. W. TURNER, Coleman street, London, plasterer. S. S. FURNISS and W. S. FURNISS, New Bond-street, hatters. T. BECKETT, otherwise THOMAS A'BECKET, Worcester, coach-proprietor. T. J. CARROLL, Drury-lane, baker. W. R. GRIFFITH, of the Wharf, No. 13, Regent's Canal Basin, City-road, iron-merchant. H. CLARK, Bishopsgate-street, teadealer. G. SUTTON, Southwark-bridge-road, Southwark, builder. J. LOVETT, Leeds, Yorkshire, strawhat manufacturer.

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June 27. R. LOWE, Sutton-place, Homerton, Middlesex, merchant. P. JOHNSON, Runcorn, Cheshire, innkeeper. T. JONES, Leicester, hosier. CHARLESWORTH, Copley Gate, Halifax, Yorkshire, merchant. W.J. WARD, Askrigg, Yorkshire, woollenyarn spinner. R. LAGAR, Banknewton, Gargrave, Yorkshire, cattle-jobber. J. KING, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, flax-spinner. J. CLARKE, Norwich, shoemaker. E. LAX, Manchester, publican. W. SMITH, Bath, carver and gilder. W. HODGKINSON, Doncaster, Yorkshire, grocer. S. JACKSON, Congleton, Cheshire, silkman.

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June 30. W. CARNE the younger, Penzance, Corawall, merchant. W. GAUNTLETT, Portsea, Hants, plasterer. T. WHITE, Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, London, wine and spirit-broker. ARCHER, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, builder. BINNS, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, cotton-spinner. J. OTTON, Moretonhampstead, Devonshire, yeoman and drover. R. SAGAR, Banknewton, Gargrave, Yorkshire, cattle-jobber. F. W. WILLIAMS, Norfolk-street, Strand, tavern-keeper. S. HILL, Great Russell-street, Middlesex, upholder. E. OLIVER, Bryn, Llanwddelan, Montgomeryshire, cattle-salesman. J. CROSSLEY, Duckenfield, Stockport, Cheshire, provision-dealer. HARRISON, Ancoats, in Manchester, cotton-spinner. W. C. WRYGHTE, Lawrence Pountney-lane, London, wine-merchant. J. R. BUTLER, Bruton-street, Middlesex, turner. J. BARRADELL, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, miller. W. STRONG, Brixton, Surrey, and of the Jamaica Coffee-house, London, merchant. TONER, Friday-street, London, calico-printer and warehouseman.

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July 4. W. JACKSON, White's-alley, Coleman-street, and Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street, London, smith, S. SIMS, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, sawyer. POWER and S. JACKSON, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and Congleton, Cheshire, silkmen. G. NEWTON, Birmingham, upholsterer. W. NEWEY, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, miller. J. STEIN, Butcher-row, East Smithfield, yoast merchant. T. BUCKTHORP, Goswell-road, Middlesex, grocer. J. H. FORSTER, Bread-street, Cheapside, warehouseman. E. BROOMFIELD, widow, Walworth, Sorrey, bricklayer and builder. J. DOWLEY, Howland-street, Tottenham Court-road, and R. TUCK, Pembroke-square, Kennington, builders. J. EDIS, Sussex-place, ace, Kent-road. Surrey, brewer. THOMAS, Noble-street, Cheapside, tea-dealer. BROOMFIELD, Walworth, Surrey, builder. FLETCHER, Lime-street-square, merchant. H. FAIRCLOUGH, Hindley,

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near Wigan,

July 7. T. EDWARDS, Halstead, Essex, Lancashire, joiner. victualler. T. MILLS, Cuckfield, Suffolk, innkeeper. W. PICKERING, Worcester, ironfounder. H. THORRINGTON and L. ROBERTS, City-road Wharf, and Battle-bridge Wharf, Middlesex, coal and lime-merchants. R. BOLTON, Liverpool, merchant. J. COUPLAND, Liverpool, factor. J. ATKINSON, Liverpool, hackneyR. DARVILL, Cock-hill, Ratcliff, coach proprietor. cheesemonger. C. CARNES, Liverpool, glass-merSir W. C. FAIRLIE, bart. Liverpool, dischaut. tiller. S. WHALE, Lyncombe and Widcombe, Somersetshire, stationer. J. BAKER and J. ABRAHALL, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, London, wine-merchants. T. SHEPHERD, St. James-street, Brighton, jeweller. T. WILSON, Brunswick Parade, White Conduit Fields, Middlesex, oil and colourman J. H. STUBBS, ManE. GANDAR, Bedford place, Comchester, merchant. mercial-road, Middlesex, brazier. S. BUCKINGHAM, St. Martin's-le-Grand, London, boot and shoe-maker. 1. E. SPARROW, Bishopsgate-street Without, ironmonger. July 11. G. E. COOKE, Jewin-street, London, jeweller. TOLSON, High Holborn, Middlesex, linen-draper.

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J. ADAMS, Union-street, Southwark, oilman. ROWLEY, Houndsditch, London, baker. J. NOAKES, Watling-street, London, dealer in cloth. S. WRIGHT, Knutsford, Cheshire, money-scrivener. B. COWPER, Moorside, Oldham, Lancashire, cotton-spinner. TOMLINSON, Chester, innkeeper. D. S. BIRD, Manchester, veterinary surgeon. H. FIFE, King's Lynn,

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Norfolk, seed-merchant. H. HILLIAR, Agnes-place, Waterloo-road, Surrey, Surrey, horse-dealer. horse- L. TILL, Basinghall-street, London, woollen-draper. J. HOMER, Liverpool, merchant. E. EVANS, Islington, Middlesex, linen-draper. W. WHEELER, Upper Chenies Mews, Bedford-square, coach-broker. J. GETHING, Worcester, coal-merchant. H. ROBERTS, Bristol, coal-merchant. J. SCOTT, Liverpool, coach-proprie tor. J. PORTER, St. CLEARS. Carmarthenshire, dealer in cattle. P. L. MOREAU, Vassal-place North, Brixton, Surrey, merchant. W. HOPE, Woodhill, Bury, Lancashire, calico-printer. M. VINE, Bright helmston, Sussex, builder. J. J. DRANSFIELD, Birmingham, dealer. H. SUTTON, Brighton, Sussex, surgeon. J. STOCKS, Manchester, shopkeeper. NANCOLAS, Tothill-street, Westminster, cheesemonger. P. RICHARDSON, Liverpool, victualler July 14. R. WOODS, Cambridge, builder. T. BOWER and R. GUEST, Manchester, silk manufacturers. J. GARSIDE, Manchester, cotton-spinner. F. FRANCE, Wakefield, Yorkshire, corn-factor. J. SERRELL, Camberwell, carpenter. D. PARISH, Regent's Park, Saint Pancras, and Cirencester-place, Portland-road, Middlesex, oil and colourman. BARRETT, Martock, Somersetshire, shopkeeper. F. TYLER, Elizabeth-street, Westminster-road, Surrey,

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G. HARRIS, Battersea-fields,

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Surrey, booking-office and warehouse-keeper.
SMITH, Hastings, Sussex, mercer. W. JONES.
Yeovil, Somersetshire, grocer. J. CONWAY, Upper
Stamford-street, Blackfriars. R. LEIGH, Manchester,
warehouseman. H. WRIGHT and G. LEEDHAM,
Manchester, manufacturers.

July 18. J. RITSON, Caldewgate, near Carlisle, Camberland, spirit-merchant. W. H. COX, Cheltenham, silk-mercer. J. COOMBS, Ansford, Somersetshire, victualler. R. BURRELL the younger, Wakefield, Yorkshire, merchant. R. PRICE, Charles-street, Stepney, Middlesex, licensed victualler. H. CRUSOE the younger, Portsea, Hants, auctioneer. T. SHEPHERD, Claremont-row, Pentonville, merebant. SMITH and W. SMITH the younger, South Shields, rope-makers. J. PENLINGTON, Liverpool, watch manufacturer. W. WADLEY the elder, Nightingale Vale, Woolwich, market-gardener.

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July 21. J. S., J., and B. ALLEN, Birmingham, glasscutters. H. H. CRIDDLE, New Bond-street, hatter. A. BARKER, Somers' place West, New-road, apothecary E. PERKINS, Northampton, grocer. COLLINS and T. MAINGY, Bishopsgate-street-within, merchants. S. MATTHEWS, Clerkenwell, brewer. J. W. FRIEDMAN, Finsbury-square, boarding-house kerper. GREEN, Upt Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, linedraper. H. FLINT, Paddington, Lancashire, gluemanufacturer. T.COLLUMBELL, Derby, victualler.

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J. MORRISON, patent-press manufacturer, Edinburgh. R. SMITH and SON, merchants and drysalters, Glasgow. G. ROBERTSON, fruit-dealer, Glasgow. T. and R. MUIRHEAD, bleachers, Springvale, near Glasgow. W. T. BAXTER and SONS, manufacturers, Dundee. M'FARLANE and CO. merchants, Glasgow. ΑΙΓΚΕΝ and DONOVAN, carpet manufacturers, Glasgow. LIL LIE and PENRICE, millers and corn-dealers, Mangallmill, near Falkirk. J. and R MONTEITH, merchants, Glasgow. J. M'WALTER, merchant, Paisler. PHILP, distiller at Inverkeithing. J. DAVIDSON, tanner in Dumbarton. D. WINTON, clothier in Glas kow. J. REID, merchant, Leith. J. GIBB. jan. merchant and commission-agent, Paisley. J. MIN TYRE, bricklayer, Glasgow. ROBERTSON, M'LEAN, and CO. manufacturers, Glasgow. T. REID, flour dealer, Hamilton. J. GALBRAITH, writer and builder, Kilmarnock. T.SCOULIN, jeweller, Edinburgh. J. MELVIN, dyer and builder, Glasgow. C. HOUSEHOLD, cooper, Glasgow. NEISH and SMART, merchants, Dundee. J. and A. MΜΟΝΤΕΙΤΗ, merchants, Glasgow. S. KERR, merchant, Glasgow. PATERSON, merchant and agent, Glasgow. ROSS, merchant, Dundee. tailors, Edinburgh. W. ALLEN, brush maker, Glas A. M. FORMAN, surgeon, Glasgow. PIHILP, brewer and distiller, Cupar. A. HENDERSON and CO. tanners, Linlithgow. BLACKBURN and LOUDON, drapers, Johnstone. J. CORSON, Peelton. H. A. GALBRAITH, surgeon, &c. Glasgow. RUSSELL, flour-miller, Tailabont T. HIBBERT, horse-dealer, Glasgow. J. ELDER, builder, Portobello. J. WATSON, merchant, Cupar, Fife. GRAY, wright and grocer, Glasgow.

1826.

On the 25th of July, being the day ap pointed by Royal Proclamation, for the return of the writs for calling the new Parliament, the Lord Chancellor and several other lords attended, and announced the prorogation of Parliament until the 24th ult. On that day the House of Lords again met, and the Lord Chancellor announced the further proroguement to the second of November next.

The state of the manufacturing districts is represented to be improving, though the advance is slow; so slow, indeed, as to cause as yet but little or no improvement in the situation of the unemployed workmen. In the silk districts, where so much panic was lately felt at the idea of the introduction of French silks, little or no fear is now entertained of the competition. In the gauzes, in the elegant variety of the patterns, and the rich tints of the dyes, the French evidently surpass us. To these, therefore, every attention should be directed. It is by manufacturing articles, in every department, better than those of our rivals, that we can alone attain permanent superiority. The manufacture of inferior goods, "Bromidgham stuff," as they are expressively denominated in other branches of our industry, has already done us infinite mischief abroad. The East India and China silks are those which are now considered most formidable by the trade.

The following statement of imported cotton, and of exported, shows the diminution of last year, and is at once convincing that so large a falling-off was produced by causes totally distinct from our being outdone by foreigners supplying themselves. In the latter case the fallingoff would be gradual-sure, but slow-and not nearly a fourth part at once, as in the first items below. No one can doubt that over-production was the great, though perhaps not the sole cause. In the quarter ending 5th April, 1825, the importation was 39,552,714 pounds in the quarter ending 5th April 1826, it was 35,550,335

It thus appears, that while there has been a great falling-off in wrought cottons, the quantity of twist and yarn exported was considerably greater than last year. The quantity of cotton wool exported is necessarily greater.

Sundry very disgraceful disclosures relative to the recent joint-stock companies have appeared in the city. Many of them, in which large sums of money have been advanced, have displayed such a system of fraud and knavery, as cannot, even in the present inexplicable, contradictory, and absurd state of our laws, escape wellmerited punishment. Every day some one or another of these bubbles is dissolved; and where the expenses of meetings, and the rapacity of attorneys, have left any thing to receive, the remnant of their property has been divided among the shareholders.

Gold continues to arrive in this country from all parts of Europe, making good the opinion, that when a demand for gold exists in England, the Continent will necessarily be drained to supply it. The result of the superabundance of capital has been to induce gradually a greater degree of confidence in each other, on the part of the merchants generally; because, when the employment of money with borrowers of first-rate credit begins to be circumscribed, it is natural to select some merchants of the second and third class, to whom similar facilities may with safety be extended. This principle, once in action, spreads itself rapidly. From the discount of bills, under such circumstances, it is an easy step to make advances on goods, and thus, by imperceptible degrees, the whole commercial machine, unless some new check occurs, is again set in motion.

The Duke of Buckingham has undertaken to present the petition of the Roman Catholics of the county of Roscommon to the House of Peers, and hopes that the petition to the two Parliamentary branches of the Legislature may be pre

April 5, 1825. April 5, 1826.

White or plain cottonsyards

29,433,928

39,211,384

Printed, stained, or dyed cottons-yards

44,960,851

Fustians, velvets, &c

yards

1.758,315

Hosiery, and small wares 1.294,501 Cotton twist, and yarn

pounds

4,591,047

6,029,915

Cotton wool-pounds... 505,736

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the outfit of these vessels must be fearfully embarrassing to Lord Cochrane.

Orders have been sent out to all our Colonies in the West Indies, to put in force the Act of the 6th of the King, in respect to their trade with foreign countries. By that Act, the ports of those colonies are to be closed against the vessels of such States as do not place British shipping, trading between those Colonies and such States, upon the footing of the most favoured nation. The United States of America have declined to place our shipping upon that footing in their ports; and, in consequence, their ships will not be admitted to entry, in our West Indian Colonies, after the first of December

next.

Purchases, at length, are said to have been made of houses at Manchester, Birmingham, and Swansea, by the Bank of England, for the purpose of carrying on branch banks in those places. This looks as if the permanence of the system was settled by the Court of Directors, or a temporary hiring, rather than a purchase, would be resorted to. The branch bank at Gloucester, it is said, is now extending its business, which at first came in with a

slowness for which it was not easy to account, considering how such an establishment had been previously wanted. The proposed establishment of a branch bank by the Bank of England at Manchester, however, appears not to be approved of by the mercantile class. They urge, as objections to such a project, that the "overwhelming influence of the Bank has long been felt as an evil; and it is known that many of our most enlightened merchants witness with concern any plan for extending that influence still further over the mercantile interests of the community, and especially when the objects in question can be more speedily, beneficially, and effectually attained, by union among ourselves." They are, therefore, about to form a Local Bank on a suitable scale of magnitude. In the prospectus, which has been issued to the persons who are invited to become subscribers, the continuance of the publie distress is ascribed to "the great reduction lately made in the aggregate quantity of the circulating medium," and it is concluded, that an "expansion of our monetary system is imperiously called for in the present state of things."

The fortifications of Bhurtpore have been demolished; the principal bastions and parts of several curtains were blown up on the 6th of February, and it is left to the rains to complete the ruin. The Futty Bourge, or "bastion of victory," built, as the Bhurtporeans vaunted, with the bones and blood of Englishmen who fell in the assault under Lord Lake, is now laid low, and among the destroyers were some of those "white men permitted to fly from her eternal walls," who, after a period of twenty years, returned to the assault to witness her towers and battlements crumbling to dust.

The ship Valetta, with the mails from New South Wales, has been wrecked upon an unknown island, in lat. 21 S. long. 143 E. on the 10th of July, 1825; the crew and passengers saved, after being ninety-two days on shore. It is said that the mail thus lost is the only regular one which has ever shared the same fate since the colony was established.

The Lieut. Governor of Van Diemen's Land, we believe the same person who was cast in damages by Col. Bradley, for his conduct towards him at Honduras some time since, has been squabbling with the press at Hobart-town, and has displaced the attorney-general of the colony, who is succeeded by Joseph Hone, esq. The government of the colony was to be removed to New Norfolk. There are details of the outrages of the bush-rangers, and also a dreadful case of murder and attempted suicide by a Captain Wilson.

The following farcical subscription has been got up by the slave-drivers in Jamaica, and forwarded to England, to be pompously announced, we presume, in their northern periodical and in John Bull, -as a proof of the happy state of the slaves there! -" Kingston, June 13-Black slaves subscription for the relief of their famishing brethren, the White slaves in England!"

The French Government, or rather the ultra party in it, has been distinguishing itself by its animosity to the Portuguese constitution. The heads of the charter have been published, with a curious omission, in the ultra Journals. In the article on the press stating that the Portuguese

shall print and publish freely "without the control of censorship," the latter passage they omitted. It is astonishing they should not have foreseen that their liberal brethren must soon get among them an original copy, supply the omission, and expose them to ridicule. The Count de

Montlosier has published a denunciation against the Jesuits and priestly encroachments, which excites the greatest interest in France, and has become a subject of attention throughout Europe. M. de Montlosier is one of the old nobility of France, who has taken a violent antipathy to the Jesuits, while he professes the strongest attachment to the family of the Bourbons, and generally to Royalist principles. He seems to consider the encroachments of the priests as inimical to the kingly power-in opposition to the common opinion that temporal and ecclesiastical despotisms may harmonize with and support one another. Upon occasion of the foregoing denunciation, the Cham bers of the Cour Royale met with closed doors: the following is said to have been the result. Of forty-five or forty-six Members of which the Assembly consisted, thirty voted against the competency of the Court, and but fifteen or sixteen supported the motion, made by several Members, for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the facts mentioned in the denunciation of M. Montlosier. This motion was negatived on the principle that such a measure belonged only to the High Police of the State. "In declaring its incompetency, the Court distinctly recognised the serious import of the facts presented by M. Montlosier, and energetically declared that, according to the ancient and modern laws of the kingdom, which in this respect are not abrogated, the Society of the Jesuits cannot exist in France, and that if that society have been declared incompatible with the ancient Monarchy, à fortiori, it is incompatible with the regime established by the Charter."

Charles the Tenth has lately given a public proof of his devotion to the priests, in one of the most absurd pieces of mummery that ever rendered a civilized country ridiculous. At the conclusion of the ceremonies of the jubilee, he, under the influence of the priesthood, renewed the vow of Louis XIII.; that is to say, he dedicated his kingdom to the Holy Virgin, and presented her statue in silver to the Cathedral of Notre Dame!! On the Assumption day the Archbishop of Paris was to bless this statue, which was to be brought after Vespers, by the King and the other Dignitaries of the State, in procession to the altar.

The Portuguese Charter has been promulgated in due form by the Infanta at the head of the Regency. The proclamation describes the Charter as one that "tends to terminate the contest between two extreme principles, which have agitated the universe. It summons all Portuguese to reconciliation, by the same

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means which have served to reconcile other people; by it are maintained, in all their vigour, the religion of our father, and the rights and dignity of the Monarchy; all the orders of the State are respected, and all are alike interested in uniting their efforts to surround and strengthen the throne, to contribute to the common good, and to secure the preservation and melioration of the country to which they owe their existence, and of the society of which they form part; the ancient institutions are adaptad and accommodated to our age, as far as the lapse of seven centuries will permit; and, finally, this Charter has prototypes among other nations who are esteemed among the most civilized and the most happy."By this Charter the Legislative Power is delegated to a General Cortes, with the sanction of the King, composed of two Chambers of Peers, and of Deputies. Each Legislature to last four years, and each annual session four months. The sittings of the two Chambers to be public, unless the good of the public should require them to be secret. The members of each Chamber not to be responsible for the opinions which they may profess in the exercise of their functions. The Chamber of Deputies to be elective and temporary. The right of suffrage is given to all persons above the age of twenty-five years, and possessing incomes, from any source, of 100 milreas (241.) There are two stages of election--the whole of the voters assembling in parochial assemblies choose the Electors, who choose the Deputies. In addition to the provisions for the distribution of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Powers, articles were introduced to guaranty personal security, and security of property, and to establish some principles of a civil and criminal code which is hereafter to be drawn up. The persons of Portuguese subjects are secured from arbitrary arrest, the press from censorship, religious opinions from persecution; all citizens are declared equal in the eye of the law, and equally admissible to all public functions; confiscation of property, corruption of blood, torture and cruel punishments, are abolished. Provision is promised for gratuitous primary instruction. Industry is to be freed from restrictions, and the benefit of inventions to be secured for a fixed time to the inventors. The secrecy of the Post is declared to be inviolable. The Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion is to continue to be the religion of the kingdom. All other religions are permitted to foreigners, as well as domestic worship, but without any external form of temple. -Accompanied by an amnesty, which