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I . - THE EV r LO N DON. PARIS, MARCH ii. STAR. • FRIDAY, !ARCH 15, 1816. PRICE OF STQCII"; 'Mk; DAY AT 1 O'CLOCK edueed (shut) —Com s ilo. 6a If --for ace. 414 II 4 per Cent: (diet)-11 pier Ceet. 11011.-4166de per, Is. pr. Owen. WU per—Ds. pl..— —Each. Balk 4& dis. per. • . Last night (he important and interesting Message, announcing the -Intended nuptials of the Princess CDARLOTTIE of WALEi with his Serene Highness Prince LEIPOLD of S4XE-C.OE6tIIIO, was delivered to both Houses of Parliament; and Addresses of thanks for the cornmenication were of coarse returned. -Of the prince)y bridegroom report speaks highly. propriety of . his conduct *lid the goodness of hii character hare on him “ golden opinions from all sorts of men." May he live long to merit and to pos sess them, and find a-still sweeter enjoyment in the affections of an amiable and virtuous consprtl Hence forward- we must look upon Prince LEOPOLD as an Esgtethman, and it is a circumstance of no rnean.im penance that be is of an ancient Protestant house. The illustrious young pair will soon be fixed in a suitable establishment : and . we are glad, to find that they resolve to set out on the principle of confining their expenses strictly within their income. They, doubt. less, .possess sense enough to know that this will be the surest way to maintain true dignity, and their feelings will tell them, that at the present crisis, eco nomy ranks high in the class of public virtues. Report states, that all idea of fitting up H ircourt House has been abandoned ; but we have not heard that any other place of residence for the illustrious pair has yet been selected. We have to-day received the Paris Papers of Mon day and Tuesday. They contain the conclusion of the Trials of Lixoss and BOYER, the worthy Gover nor and his Deputy of Guadeloupe, Bovett is sen tenced to be shot; and LINOI3 has been acquitted ! The latter made out something like a case of com pulsion as his instinct, like that of FALTAFF, always led him to avoid the presence of an antagonist in battle, so on the occasion of his treachtry at Gui. daloupe, he pleads ccmpulsion in the self same strain of SnaxesPaatta's Merry Knight. General BOYL:a t it seems, and the ruffians under him in the garb of soldiers, were in reality the masters of poor Litton, who betrayed, as usual, a most woeful lack of un derstanding and courage. We cannot, however, dismiss the cue of this Hero without expressly contradicting an assertion of his Advocate, which was a stretch even beyond the licence of poetry. In plea - ding for his client he thus most falsely describes the naval action in the East Indies, which a few years since reflected so much glory on the homeward-bound East-India fleet, com manded by Sir NATHANIEL DANCE, and which was magnified into a regular fleet of men of war by Mon sieur Limns, in his dispatches to his cowardly master, BONAPARTE. M. GAIRAL, his Advocate, keeps up a similar delu sion : alluding to the above disgraceful business, he observes, 44 When cemmandiog five ships of the line and a frigate, he was attacked by six ships of the lire, three frigates, and a brig. He succeeded is separating 'hefted, forded two vessels to aril( their colour:, and tool the ifehnirai's ship." If M. Lisoli instructed his Cain sel to repeat this abominable falsehood, he must be regarded as one of those persons of habitual bad faith, who are said to tell a lie so frequently, that they at last believe it themselves. With respect to BOYER, his fate k sealed, and be has probably ere this been shot. Few criminals ever deserved an ignominious death more richly: in Egypt he superintended and directed the indiscriminate massacre of the defenceless inhabitants, men, women , and children of Alexandria ! We refer our Readers for evidence of this fact, to a letter from himself to a brother cut-throat at Paris, dated Cairo, July 28. h, 1798, but which was intercepted by our crnizers, and primed in this country with many other similar do. i cuments. Afterwards BOTER was sent to St. Do mingo with General I.Ect.tae, where both acted with such horrible barbarity, that their names have been l'eld in execration ever since. BUYER, in particular, ordered a female slave to be devoured by blood hounds, in his own presence, for a petty theft! On his return from this theatre of his tragical exploits he was captured by a British cruizer, and conducted himself with such insolence on his passage to England, as to be more strictly secured than other prisoners of his rank. This produall the arrest of Lord ELGIN (then tra veliinghs France with regular passports) as a reprisal on the part of Bomar/km for the loss of his favourite • General. Boren is 45 years of age, and has the morose and s ay.4 . e l o ok of an Italian bravo. He is described as 11.4%in e ; heard his sentence with great sang froid. Count Montchenu set out to-day with his Aide. dT-camp for England, where he will join the other Commissaries of the Allied Powers charged to watch ever the execution of orie of the articles of the Treaty of "the 20th of November. Several legitimate children, aged from three to ten rears, and born of falters and mothers well known and domiciliated, havirg been exposed in the streets oti.er public places of Nancy, from which the p i . o ce °dicers have been obliged to take them and ir.tore% the,it to their yarent4, the Preiect ba& beat 0 I • 11111111111 ~ aiii~ii~r. 'obliged to republish hi the Journal of that city the . penal arrangeosents pronounced by the code ageism those who expose their children. COURIaII 111TRAORPINART Or MONDAY ►to *MIND. • Yesterday a sliglit fit of the gout prevented his Majesty from hearing Muss at the Chapel Royal : nevertheless he received in the Council Chamber the numerous persons of rank who came to present their homage. We remarked the Prince Royal of War• tomburg, the Spanish Ambassador, the Grand Dig nitaries, Prince Talleyraed, the Chaniellor, Marshals Macdonald, Victor, Marmont, Oudinot, Mortirr, Kellerman, all the Ministers, a great concourse of the Members of both. Chambers. Generals and superior Officers of aft the services. On i the 23d of February last, two Prussian Artil lerists in the Department of the Meuse, having •io lated the chastity of a female, and the King's Attor net having represented the affair to General Ziethen, a Military Council immediately took cognizance of• them, and the culprits were punished by six years imprisonment in a fortress. COURIER EXTRAORDINARY OF TUESDAY MORNING The Decree which condemns Boyer, the traitor, to death, was read to him at midnight. He heard it with much firmness. Admiral Linois has been set at liberty. _ _ _ Yesterilay morning General Beliard, detained at the Abbaye, wit+ set at liberty. • We are assured that in the General Committee of the Chamber of Deputies M. de Blossville, Member of the Committee of Finances, made a motion tend ing to prosecute those who during the interregnum abstracted three million 500,000 francs of funds from the Caisse d'Amortissement, and which were private property. A mulatto military Officer, whose father, it is said, is very roch, was condemned yesterday by the Cour Prevotal to ,ten years hard labour. He was convicted of having robbed at nig!,t a passenger on the Place Vendome, of his pure and great coat. Twelve hundred of the Natirmal Guards occupy the Castle of Vincennes is a garrison. French Funds 61 to 62. 'Private letters from Paris, received to-day, tion, that the French Police had not only stopped the circulation of English Papers, but had refused to de liver American Paptr swli ch arrive at the Out-ports. This morning r►e received a supply of Brussels Papers to the 12th instant, from which we make the 101:owing extracts : BRUSSELS. MARCH Letters from Aix-la-Chapelle state, that the Co►m mittee i6r the regulation of the frontiers is dissolved, and that the Prussian troops are retiring towards the Rhine, to pass over, it is added, to the right bank of that river. This news has perhaps given credit to a report which has been pretty generally circulated for some days, that his Majesty the Emperor of Russia had obtained (tom his Majesty the King of Prussia the country between the Meuse and the Rhine, in order to make of it a wedding gift to his august Sister, who is now Princess Royal of the Netherlands. It will perhaps be asked, what conne:tion this news may have with the great event which the Hague Gazette announced yesterday ? WARSAW, FEBRUARY 20. A strict prohibition has been issued in Gallicia and Poland against a writing upon the Acts of the Con gress of Vienna, which claims, in terms ton violent, the execution of that article in those acts by which Austria is bound, under the guarantee of Russia and Prussia, to give a national and representative Go vern:ilea to its Polish :objects. BERLIN, FEBRUARY 27. The celebrated spy, Schulmeister, is still in prison at V'esel : it is positively affirmed, that he will be rigorously conhned tor the rest of his life in a Prus sian fortress. It has been discovered that this man vras charged by the French Police with the most in famous commissions in Germany, and one of the most horrible nature to Louis XVIII. VIENNA, FEBRUARY U. For some weeks it has been observed, that there was a very active correspondence between the Em press Maria Louisa and the Imperial Court of Milan. Count Magawly Cerati, Governor of the Duchies of Parma and Placentia, who arrived here from Milan in the night of the 23d, was the bearer of a letter from the Emperor to his august daughter, by which he invites her to yield to the wishes of her subjects and visit Parma. All the French in the service of the Empress Maria Louisa were immediately dis missed, and Count Magawly Cerati has succeeded M. the Marquis deAusset as Prefect of the Pa lace, The latter has received passports for France, and all the French in the service of she Empress are I to I leave Vienna without delay. The departure of the , Princess is fixed for the Bth of March ; she will be accompanied by the Countess of Sci.irampi. by Count Neipperg, who is mentioned as Governor of the Du. cities ; and by Count Magawly Cerati. She will have an interview with the Emperor at Vienna, where the persons who compose her Court wait for her, in order to accompany her to her dominions. The admini stration of the three Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, will remain_provision.dly in the kinds of Austria. It is believed that the Empress will ,trom time to time cotne to Vienna to visit her son, who will remain under the care of our Goon. According to the Ga&tte of Transylvania, the Pape having spread in Wallachia, and extended as Lat. as EAgschan, the Government has ordered strict .attelltioll to be paid to all travellers in every place 7 J5c , - situated whisk sle miles (probably Gel'lOU miles ite ;) of the frontiers, and the - measures of health shed in 1813, to be read iri the churches. In outeequence, from the Ist of ihii month, nobody could leave the. place of his abode without being fur nished with a passport. ~T limit; Jost as our Paper was going to Press a Flanders Mail arrived, from which we have.only time so nuke the following selection : CONSTANTINOPLE, FEBRUARY 9. On the 12th of January a fire broke out at Adria nople, whichtonsumed a part of that great city, and among other buildings, the residence of the Bosian ger Pacha, which had been lately built at an immense expence. Three days after the city expetienced a misfortune of another kind : on the 15th, a storm destroyed in the port 19 merchant' vessels of different sixes.—The loss which Adrianople has sustained by these two accidents is very considerable. VIENNA, FEBRUARY 2S The Austrian 06:tryer makes the rcmark, which is notunim portant, that the plan of the Constitution prin ted by order rf the Senate of Frankfort contains pre cisely the political principles disapproved by the 4th ar ticle of the act of Congress :'among other points the prokct infringes on the eqii.ility granted to the three religious persuasions established in Gamany. The Observer seems to believe, that the Senate and citi zens. of Francfort will not . agree together, and that the Powers will interpose. FRANKFORT, MARCH 7. Two English Couriers arrived a few di ago with dispatches, which are said to be of great importance. Limons Euccriox, MARCH 13.—Yesterday morning the election was closed for this Borough. The num bers Were declared by the Returning Officer to be: For SIT JOHN SHRLLEY 219—For Mr. SCARLET 200. At the close of the election 1)r Coroner for Mid dlesex, yesterday, the numbers were as follow :—For Mr. TATI.pR 590—Mr. STIRLING 511— and Mr. Guns 421. At the election for the office of Secretary to the Scots Corporation, yesterday, the number were a s follow :—For Mr. ROBERT AULD, 460; Mr. ALEXAN DER GRANT, 102; Mr. ALEXANDER FRASER, 34.•• Mr. Auto was of course declared duly elected. In Dublin alone, Notices to discontinue 1050 Jaunting Cars and Gigs have been sent to the proper Office. This, of course. must proportionably dimin!sh the taxable objects, under the heads of-4 4 Horses" and “ Servants ;" and further must, and has thrown I out of employment, Saddlers, Coach-makers, Painters, Harness-makers, Smiths, and a crowd of other la. bourers and artisans, who derived support from th;s article, so necessary to the comforts of a c Ip:til city. The reductions of junior Clerks in all the Public Ogices, but particularly those connected with the Army and Navy, are proceeding rapidly ; a:thongh they are attended with considerable inconvenience at the present moment, from the number of accounts and estimates to be made up, in order to be laid be fore Parliament. An order arrived at Plymouth Yard a few days ago from the Admiralty Board; which diffused uni versal satisfaction. It had been fully expected that Some hundreds of men would have been discharged ; and as no work was to be obtained in any part of the country, many had contemplated reluct tnt emigra tion to America, the Brazils, &c. The order, how ever, alluded to, directed, that, with the exceptwn of 27, discharged for loss of time, no further - reduction was to take place. The hours of working were also abridged, the men being directed to enter ihe yard not earlier than eight o'clock in the summer, and half-past eight in the winter, and to quit at five o'clock in the afternoon in summer,' and at four in winter. Thus, while the workmen obtain more hours for rest and recreation, the desired reduction in wages will be obtained, by their not being able to earn the great war-wages, through want of time. It is sup posed that about X 30,000 per annum will be saved by this measure ; which, while it gives general satis faction, secures the artificers to the country. We understand that, in consequence of this regulation, a meeting of the artificers was about to be held, for 'the purpose of gratefully thanking Lord MELVILLE for his attention to their interests. Extract of a letter from Quebec, dated February 4, 1816 :—" On the night of the 26th of Janumy, very alarming and destructive fire took place, which totally consumed the arsenal and the whole range of buildings to the end towards Palace-gate guArd house ; the Artillery Barracks and the Office of Ord• nance were saved by much exertion, with the pri vate houses opposite the buildings destroyed." The subjoined is an extract pf a letter from an Officer in the Company's service, dated Camp Hy. drabad, October 11, 1815 We have just retur ned to .this place from Poonah, whither we were marched to demand au explanation and satisfaction, if required, for the death, under very suspicious cir. cumstances, of some of our Officers." The Inter does not give any farther particulars ; but refers to a letter of a prior date, which has not been received. Yesterday morning a miserable looking African, apparently in the last stage of poverty and wretched ness, was seen lurking about in one of the Transfer Offices in the Bank. His. sorrowful and woe-begone" appearance had an immediate effect upon the clrari table dispositions of some of the Clerks there, who made up a purse of 13s. and presented it to him. He accepted it very thankfully, but WAS shortly alter seen signing his name in a book at the other end of the office; and, on inquiry, it was discovered that the supposed mendicant was accepting a transfer of £l7O stock, which hr had just purchised. The Golden Number for the last Year was, ac cording to a Norwich Agriculturist, No. 18,616, a Prize of £50,000, which he bought of Ittctwinson, GOODLUCK, and Co. but one Golden Number in each ' , car does not seem to satisfy the purchasers at their tor tunate Offices, they intend establishing the custom of finding one for each month ; several have been eminently successful, No. 11,172, in July lays , re warded in dis Coverer with re 20,000-5,692, in No vember, with 520,000-18,616, in December, with ./.50,000--and 10,244, drawn on Wednesday, the 6th of March, and sold by RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. claims the largest Gildea Prize ever known, en. titled to 25,000 Guineas f . . NAVAL INTELLISTNCL iir., belong; --- The whole of last ni;,ht and this da ) i t h as IA a strong gale from the SJutil-we-3t, i.l the vAtc•i" streets of this Metropolis. m be o i r o n w ing the the ro m w n t ori n A. c i t o E t a h r e l y s h t i h p i s s r, gave war, a n ,ll^ whole tier was sent adrift ; co , •ider blt miseilict t ' uedas they run foul of egch other, ;Ind got e , tangled amongst the t rait ; butt w e h ate not het; that any lives were first. s The late strong South-west ‘vinis hoe 1. 1110. the outward-bound from getting clear of th e ch, mors. The CONGO sloop of war, an.! Dorollt7 Nairn/ bound 'to Africa, ha , :e put back ti F.,i mouth. The , Jaia, East-Indiaman, has put b ick to Torbay. To, Essex, and the Garland, for the West ladie s , 6 : also put back to Tot hay. The r7, •rnw:.llis, E ac *: diaman, has put back to Plyme:• , th. Twa ether Indiamen were bearing up fur P 1 y and w. , , sight of the harbour vdrii the gist came away, tL , names not known ; siveral sail of Wrehantmen had also put back to Plymouth. Tice Prhvijence, ; fo tht. Indiaman, for Bombay, and the N Bar, kcr Guada:oope, have put hack to Portsmouth. w e do not hear that any of the al). 711 , vessels has awaked the le sst damage. The CEIMS and CIMILRAL TIARA'S Eat arrived at Cant(.o the 7th Octocr. PLY:MUTH, MARCH It • Put back, by cpo.r.try win& the C Intw i th E ar Indianian. Two other CAA Indiamen za i 4 the 'Aug st tuding f-r this Tort, but we hat e (IA vtt learnt the:r names. Several sail of stseres4; o344l also off this Port. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 14. Pet back, the Providence. GI U N, for B om t ui; the Nile, BARKER, for Guadaloupe ; Prothte, F i3k4 for Hull ; and the Ocean, Gnvto7, for liet a i ta .„. Sailed his Majesty's ship LARNE, on a cruise. DEAL MARCH is. _ Arrived the Peace, WALZEit, from &rite For R 4,. terdam. Came down from the River, th e c, :a, Nuaros, for Antigua ; Spanish Patriot, Deana, for Cadiz ; and remain in tbs. Downs with his M a i m ty's ships and outward bound as before, saila the humeward.bound for the River.—Wind S. TORBAY, MAI:CH Is. Put a back by contrary winds, the Jav a East L. man, also the following vessrls and r ema i n — G m, Kenn, for Buenos Apes ; Essex, LtvaL; Goland, for the West Indies; Resolution, Luis, for L c , drnderry ; Renown, ECUs, and Venerable, for Dublin ; and several other ships.—Wind W. MILFORD HAVEN, MARCH IL _ Arrive) at the quarantine stai;on he re the Pro vi. dente, KENNEDY, from Barcelona and Tarraros, with nuts and corkwood, bound co Liverpool ; sai l e d thence 19th February. The brig Dlctor . as lett loading at &limy for Londrn ^hen she sailed; Ann. GILM:AM ; and Harmnry, GM , ON, from M. Eina for Liverpool. There was a repot cf tliephigue having lh-cke out at Naples svla.o they sailed, 2Cth November last. Cons EICIIAXGE, MAncH 15.—We have )ad re fresh firricAls since MoidAy ; our Market WAS very thinly supplied with Wkeat, which article ruly taint that dq's prices. —Oats are dull 5411 and other lawer.-14 Batley, Peas, and Beans, there is little or no alteration. An LAtiest seas held upon the body rf W. Mite, :he King's !Lad, St. James.streer, Wr r, who met his death in consequence of bring pawed off A place called the retort, at the Gas Light menu. factory of Messrs. Cooper and Co. in Peter•street, Westminster, on Sunday morning last. it a;prarel that there bad been'a quarrel and scufil.: betweenthe deceased and a fellow workman, And that the former, alter striking several blows at the latter, was pushed off the scAlf ild by him. Ver.ict—Accidcintal IJrat4. DIED. Sunday, at Hobart Huuw, is the 7Sth year or her age, Abira Countess Vuorager of Duckinvharashire. It is with eats ente c oncern we have to announce the death el William %Vail.rr, of elect Manor Howe, at Hayes, in Mid diesel, whose emicent ab :ides as a practical As - re:outer, aid agreialele d- livery as an .crates, have instructed 31 , 1 siostid tee young, people of this cotiniry for marl y:ars. 1 Lis Gerdesta was the sot, of Adam Walker, Esq, torneirrly of Cititbit cteti• Hiintseer-square, who Cos ion been equally celehroed for be perspicuous and familiar Lectures on Natural Itilosephy; end bre.thei to Dean Walker, keg. who rill continues the mere which his lather origser.ly pursued with so much credit. By the simple awl agreeals:e moue .:,:cg, Mr. Wm. Walker cod rived.of rept est anirg the motif ns and appearances of the heavenly Win In the Eidottraniou. an interest was given to this divote science, whiels could scarcity be: excite I by ally other moans ; and the clearness Of his dr 'vet y, islned to a selection of the paits t•• trononty best cake... Jed io p:ease, and awaken the reverenced a scot rat audience, were such as must_ be long remembered via pkasurc by all who Lave ever bear! hirn. His knowledge d the properties of instruments, and the beet principle! el which they ought to be coustruc.ed, were almost unrivalled: and the colleczion which he has left behind him, per• haps, the fits-, at present in eli•••:tice, for eel. biting tie suceessiee changes and impmvanne :its that have taken phceia this highly important and ingenious department of art, (testify earliest period, down to the ptcsrut time—he has also eolleetel together a rare and valtu.he Litaary of 'Look-, reh.tirg viturite science, a' 1 teldoin omitted any opyor.uniiycf3aaig o whatever was dernee.l cerious or worthy the attendee of the learned. By the der h aft Captain hlrndoz, y Rios, and id WIT. Walter, which have both taker: place wi but a fortei b ht culls other,' thls count: y *:.s to dep!ore the loss of one art :tstiont. l4 llturetic:.l, and ore ..1 :is Lest prat icil Amateur Sworn:not ' Mr. Walker's taints were not *Stilly confined to et-traner!: he possresrd a rot knoteledge of modern latspaays was well vertL(l LiassiC Lore of Greece a;.d Ito.ae. Ns had, a: ar. c:rly lite, visited must of ilia piirci;altit 3 a on the COII; :new, with his taller and ai.o:her t:entletasa. and was as ell aceinaintsid with the nose tii.tedrodt.ctions ix In ;11.- nature wittelt they coma ne& lies cor.versatieo was extra:l 6 f agreeable—and very few persona possessed mars litlbjCZ:s general information, and amswicg anecdotes, especial ' lf great literacy and scieutiEc men '1 he Wr.ter eft this 5 ,11 lone rementber ti e Vitamins be atwass ft It in his esnrarl , and tke regret he exparierced when / Ina health began tit decker. Du: the quslities tur es Incit h. taunt ever have been mos:adultl were the ,late sky ett bat it ter.dehte . , hisunAreetttd I 17•1 a al and actity s a. tacked ta pruntoae especial! Litt ter. if the st an os d bappin A to slum he -v wa,ey psestele-t least taste f o r any departrn s i.t of srlecce ut the arts. lb had been in a very pet carious state during the last three yeath • t which prone ceded ortgluaby from a severe cold. He died ea i..tits day evening, the ICI u: March, in his cosh year ; and has lO C 3 widow a:,) an amiable laniily to deplore a kiss in which all Jul friends join with the mist sincere. regret. At 'I ontbam, Stew hepey, on the %Al January, at the advanced age of 103, Robert Cumin:mg, a sober, honest, and indastri,,we man. He retaived his moral fact Wes entire, and a conslJet a P l _ portion of holily rtteng.h, with food health, till withlu ay h weeks of Ids death. So hale was his constitution, that, until ea,:; siderably beyond the af,.. of 9Q years.lsr ramp' his i :rea. l by chi most laboreus cc:ploy:bents. - He suarfed a second time 1 / n b , and his declining years mere rendered cortu.artaWe by a rev' from Lord Scofield. erui:e.4 11 LEVEL KLNIr, &kilt DICE; rUbbakti :tote, ar.1.1. :be ..:a:-Ulce,l'eav a : gait rsi.._ ' , .A. _IV