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- ziev. IMIBURAN MAIL. , • . MINT& NOVEMBER D. Our Castite to-day Contains the following article : (This re fe r s to theAd ver tiseinent published just be -6y b the Civil Cri oronments :tams ! that it had bet fouild imp ofossible to relieve the citizens flout the ols bi) , burden quartering the soldiers, which they lbevtlir-ltretberwe34-.... • - so We beg all the tiaitOis of "PUblic Journals in' detrain'', to whom the fate of an unhappy German City is not indifferent, to insert the Advertisement of the Grand Ducal Commission of Government, prin ted in our last Number that our fellow-citizens may ' at least have the consolation that the ;dimity knows what they must do, and what they have long done, for the general interest of the German Confederation. Perhaps this may lead to the question, whether it be conformable to the dignity and the interest of the nation that its chief bulwark should be peopled with beggars? Why shall not the Sun of Peace not shine upon Mentz shine ? Wh e nce does it arise that all the exertioni.of ,oui Government, that even the ha mane intersessifins, of the chief military authorities, are of no avail for a city whose inconsiderable trade has been lessened by the loss of a staple right. When it denied to be the residence of a Prince and a much.. frequented. University, had no means of existence but what were derived from its garrison, and which now, exhausted by contributions, which only a state of open• war can excuse, but not justify, .has no resource left to repair the loss of its prosperity. ' We are unable to answer these questions ourselves, and our tesigaled submission to an unreasonable necessity gists us * ist . least a right to relief, after three years suatifigs.* AMsTERDAM, NOVEMBER IL A letter from Leghorn. of the 22d October, says, " Captain de Man, who commanded the frigate, on board of Which was Admiral de Capellin, was per *ming quarantine there, and would then proceed overland to Holland, with dispatches. The Vie,- Admiral bad concluded a Definitive Treaty of Peace with Tunis, and Tripoli also, and after putting into Gibraltar, would return hdme." STU rroARD, NOVEMBER to. The late King has bequeathed to the Queen Dow. besides the 'Chateaus of Goeppengin and Mon nepos, a fine house in Ludwigsburg, where her Ma. jest) , .will fix her residence. Prince Paul and Princess Catherine (wife of Jerome Bonaparte) are entirely passed over in the will and the codicil. VIENNA, NOVEMBER 9. His Majesty our Emperor arrived here from St. Polten this morning. Between eleven and twelve he , welt beyond St. Polten to meet the Empress ; she got into his Majesty's carriage on the road, and they entered St. Polten together. At two in the afternoon her Majesty arrived at the Palace of Schoenbrunn, whither, the weather being remarkably fine, numerous crowds of persons in carriages, and on lout, repaired to see*their Majesties, who, to gra b: their wishes, appeared in the balcony. To-mor row, at three o'cltsck, the Empress makes her solemn entry into the Capital, and the marriage ceremony ii to be performed in the evening, at the church of St. Augustine, after 'which there will be a grand enter tainment, of Court, for which tickets are distributed. His Majesty the Emperor has ordered 200,000 florins to be distributed among the poor on his wedding day.. HANOVER, NOVEMBER Is. The Duke of Cambridge is expected at the end of the month. It is said that Count Munster will arrive here about the same time. • HAunonnu, Nov. 19.—Excange on London:3s. 11. DISCONTENT OP THE PRUSSIAN RHINE PROVINCES. (From a German Paper.) N In the New Rhenish Mercury, published at Offen bach, there is an article from the Lower Rhine, which has be n Copied into several Journals. Among other things it is saidin it- 0 the inhabitants of the Prue 'Lint Provinces of the Rhine ate still far from Prussia in their sentiments. Many believe that the principal cause of this, is the difference of religion. It is very tette, that may partly be the case, but the divatisfac tion is much more to be ascribed to the provisional condition in 'Which these Lands: are still kept. A curse is certainly attached to the Provisional condition ! We still have the very expensive French Procedure, and our high taxes are still undiminished. Since the first of April, no doubt.the Government have entered on their duties, and with many individuals of them, especially with the Presidents and Directors, people are very well satisfied. Among the subalterns also, there are many young men of acquirements, of whom great expectations are entertained : but in the several Departments, we yet see very little activity on the past of the Governments; and the complicated and formal system in which the substance is often sacti ' ficed to etiquette, is particularly dreaded. ag We were here, under the French Constitution, ac customed to a very 'Ample, rapid, nay, often too ra?id progress in business, so that we are doubly struck with the present formilities, and the tedious procedure to which it gives rise. In like manner, We are accustomed to be diunitsed with reasons, and at present a petition is often summarily refused' with. a coo pli of words. Moreover, no permanent Provin cial Councils are named, but merely Provisory Pont miuionets of Circles, who are not certain of their places, a circumstance which gives rise to many un pleasant consequelkes. We are especially uneasy'at the report, that only Nobles would be appointed an, Provincial Counsellors. Few of the Nobles ariri trainekto business, and we ate afraid that they would' have their own interest in view gore than that of the citizens or peasaetty. It is said here that in Prussia, the Nobles are every where getting the upper, hand again, and wish that their old ascendancy should every where be.admitted. Even supposing this not to be the case, It is at all events unfortunate that this should be the pitiblic opinion. It is certain that in all the distinguished and important offices, nothing but Nobles are tribe seen.—Among us the Citizen and yeoman hart learned to know and to prize their rights. and ibis is therefote a very ticklish unwell for the Citizen, and Yeoman. While we ateing to brook and unfair ascendancy, we are still willing to' honour reel merit in the Nobility. Finally, the publication Of a Regulation of Censure by the Co- Wentz Goveritksent, according to which every thing printed had first to be sent t o the Censors, excited no small degree of disconten t. • to another article from the Rhine, in which the dis conceals allowed to exist, the writer combats the 'pinion that it is principally owing to the entjaeredue- PARIS, NOVEMBER 20. The King is perfectly recovered from his indispo sition. Yesterday bis Majesty received the visits of 'the Ambassadors and Ministers of Foreign Powers. Bonaire, formerly Marechal.de.camp, who died the day before yesterday at St. Pelagic), was con demned to transportation for the murder of Colonel Gordon on the glacis of Conde. He died in conse.i -quence of the extraction of a ball which bad been lodged for many years in. his knee.. Five per cent. Consols, 55 francs, 95 cents. Bank i Actions 1105. i Ntlyassass 21. —There was yesterday neither a p(rblic L sitting nor even a private Committee at the' ; Chamber of Deputies. The Members, met in theft Bureaus; to maim* the preliminary discussions on the budget. Two )ournernan printer*, of the names of Gelion . 'and Gaillard, and a master printer of the name of, Chassaignon, were lately brought before the tribunal of Correctional Police, on a charge of having falsified ' the King's speech pronounced by him on .the 16th of March, 1815, at a sitting of the Chamber of Repo des; of having printed that speech, on which they'' And made such additions and alterations as they, thought proper, as if it had been delivered by his Majesty on the 31st of July, 1816; of having made this speech a preamble to the administration of the oaths to the Marshals ott the 31st of July lasts and of having thus spread alarming news, by endeavour ing to induce the belief that the situation of the king dom was the same on the 31st of July, 1816, as on the 16th of March, 1815, during the invasion of the Usurper. The charge was proved, and Gelion was sentenced to two years imprisonment, Chassaignon to six months, and Gaillard to three months. All three together were fined 5000 francs. Extract of a letter from Niort, dated Nov. 16 " After a day rather moist than cold there fell here, in the night of the 10 th instant , a great quantity of snow; a phenomenon the more surprising, as many years sometimes pass here without our seeing any snow; and when it does fall it falls in small quanti ties in the months of December and January. The night following it thundered and rained a great deal. A circumstance not less singular is, that we see at present in several gardens of this.city a great many spring flowers in full blow." • Barrfsu OF Biu.s.—On Friday last, the principal bells of the church of Notre Dame. at Versailles, was baptised according to ancient usage ; it received the names of the Duke and Ducliesi - of Angonlente. who were represented by the Prince de Poix, Governor of the Palace of Versaillea, and the Duchess de Dames. BERLIN, NOVEMBER 9. Professor Schleiermacher, who is equally esteemed as a man of learuing avid a preacher, and who served as Captain in the Landwehr in the campaigns of 1818 and 1814, lately, in one of his sermons, recalled TO the recollection of his heaven the promise made by the Goverment •to give Prussia a representative Constitution. " I ask,' said he, " for what other cause should we have shed our blood and that of our sons it Leipsic; and on the Katzbach MADRID, NOVEMBER S. Our Gazette of this day contains a correspondence which, besides what we already know of the defeat of Bolivar, expresses the acknowledgments of the Captain-General of the caraccas tOCountVangiraud,, French Governor of Martinique, who had enabled, the Spanish Royalists to purchase stores and sti.ppliei of every kind at Martinique. These stores, it ap., pears, arrived most opportunely at Guayra. being just at the moment when the Royal squadron ap peared in the roads .in want of every thing, and re duced to a small allowance. • VIENNA, NOVEMBER 5. This morning the discharge of artillery announced to us the departure of our Empress from St. Paten. Her Majesty had loged at the Episcopal Palace, and after Divine Service, set oat on her tourney at half past nine. The Emperor had gone to the Castle of - Schoenbrunn, there to give her a public reception,:— this reception took place precisely at half past one, in. the presence of all the Imperial Family. A great multitude of people of all ranks hid assembled round the castle : a quarter of as hour afterwards fitetr Majesties shewed themselves froni a balcony, and were saluted by lively acclamations. The Empress. will make her entrance into Vienna to morrow. PARIS, NOVEMBER 18. :•c Krucluvr LiTTZIO The following is an extract of a recent letter from Fouche :—" I bare just perused M.. de Chateau. briand's pamphlet. I shall hereafter reply to that.. part of its contents which relates to myself. I shall rectify such facts as he has misrepresented, and bring to his recollection such as he appears to have forgotten. He suggested to me, for instance, the propriety of my placing myself at thh head of the Ministry a by uniting the Foreign with the Police Department. It is true that the possession of the Home Department, or at least that of a Ministry ofi Arts for himself, formed an essential part of his Mi nisterial plan. . . . It is not sur.l prising that M. de Chateaubriand should be unable to form a right opinion of events, since he confesses himself, that he only viewed them from the anti chamber of the King. • " • • .• You will no doubthave read in his work, that he predicted my fall within three months after my acceptance of office under the King. It would seem that he was litdesolicitounfot the ful filment of this prophecy, since be invented me to remain In adniinistraila after dwell:new* of that period, and it was truly uncbristianlike in liim*to W AisWesligett ass Ostirisiseißift . R. . •.- .‘ ilaikwe'" !A c ta old .Pruessan Province's,. 1 ... si t • a Conatitistibu ii'getlitia oisolit *hrs. lit is nai ler*, stated by fliittii tO be the atesression of illbo wlihes of the peoPle ; lad Oa Royal proiniseli incessantly claimed:.Ve may easily accotingor this—but in the newly acquired Rhine .Provincest Is this is by no means the ex p ression of the Want mos fe by the people. with respect to Constitutions, the inhabitants of the Rhine Provinces, from an aperient, of twenty years ,* ha ve become somewhat distrustfu onstitul ; 'they have gone th rou g h so, many forms of C tions, and have played such an unconscientious game with their Constitutions and with themselves, that they entertain but very little faith in their influence on na tional happiness." --.—..------• • tl FRENCH PAPERS• lege Me to betray U. de Tal*gaud, *kb a view to Zget him in his o f f i ce. I hold ir , h ow e ver, as a • that nothing justi fi es treachery." • .'The following occurreice. on which I will forbear 'leaking any comment, lately took place at hfulhau sen, in Alsace, Where a part of the Austrian Army a Occupation is stationed : The gentlemen of this place gave, as usual at this •eeesen, a ball to the ladies, at an Assembly Room 'commonly engaged for that purpose. Every thing passed off extremely well till about midnight, when a couple of Austrian officers entered the ball-room uninvited, and offered great offence to the company, both by their language and manners, addressing the Wks in very indl.corous terms, and stationing them selves in the most couspicuous part of the room, with their pipes in their mouths and their bats on their heads. Upon its being represented to them that such manners were uncustomary in France, they raised their tone still higher, and laid .their hands on the hilts of their swords. This fresh provocative mPt with due re tort on the part of the F r enchmen. ho 'hewed themselies equally disposed to proceed to ex tremities, *hen the Austrian officers foreseeing an unfavourable issue to this altercation for themselves' deemed it prudent to withdraw. Presently, however, these same officers returned, attended by a platoon of their men, with their bayo nets fixed, - and entering lorcibly the ballroom, marched straight up to the defenceless Frenchmen, before whom they had just withdrawn. Immediately an affray ensued, in which several of the French, not excepting the ladies, were severely wounded # not (hist the Austrians themselves escaped entirely unhurt, 'for a Frenchman having wrested a sword from one of the officers, inflicted many a wound upon his an. tagonists • and a lady having wrung a musket from the hands of one of those soldiers, felled her adver wiry 'so the ground. The contest, however, must ;ham: ended fatally for the unarmed Frenchmen, had not an Austrian officer of rank, who occupied an apartment just above the Assembly Room, and who was awakened by the noise beneath him, hastened down, and commanded his soldiers to d esist from the combat. —At length tranquillity being a little restored by the fortu n ate interference of this officer, the prin cipal Frenchmen proposed to terminate the affair the next morning, in an hi.nourable manner, with the two original aggressors, but this proposal the latter. declined, saying. u we are officers, and cannot fight with Bourgeon. The objection was instantly re moved by the Frenchmen observing, that they were' also officers, and of higher rank than themselves. — Gs Then," replied the Austrians, u we are Nobles and cannot fight with Bourgeois." Finally, there was no compelling these Nobles to fight, no remonstrances' , that could bring them to a sense of honour, and all efforts for that purpose proving vain, the parties se parated and withdrew to their respective homes. On the following day, however, an official com plaint of this transaction was preferred by the Mayor Of the town.to the Colonel commanding therein the Austrian poops; but, all the satisfaction that could be obtained from the latter, was, that in order to pievent further disputes, he would endeavour to re move the two officers ip question from the place. It was in agitation to make representations on this subject to General Frimont, whis has the supreMe command of the Austrian Army of Occupation, but, • upon its being . suggested that such representation Might tend to irritate the troops in general against the inhabitants of the town. and be after all of very uncertain avail, it was resolved toleave the injury nn redressed, and to confide in the hope of better times. FRACAS BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS AT MESSINA: The following particulars have been published on the authority of a Gentleman who has just arrived from Messina :—On the 16th •of September" the schooner Ann, Captain Bell, of Malta, was lying iii the port of Messina, waiting for a cargit. The Cap tain being on shore, the mate observed on board, un der suspicious circumstances, a man of colour, be. longing to the Java American frigate: On endea vouring to search him, the fellow knocked the mate down. The crew of the Ann came instantly to his aid, and having overhauled the intruder,.found con cealed about his person site leather and other articles which he had.stolen on board the Ann. Ac cording to. a practice not unfrequent with British tars, they summarily tried him without any reference to the civil poster, and punished him with a smart flogging. The Mulatto on being released, repaired immediately to the iMerican Commodore, who, choosing to consider the affair as a national insult, made a formal complaint upon the subject to the American Consul. The latter, in his turn, repre sented the occurrence in the most glowing colours in a Dote to Mr. Baker, the British Consul. An inter ; view•took place the same day between the 'Consuls, and it was mutually agreed that the , dispute should be left to the decision of the Sicilian Government. Next day, to prevent any breach of the peace whilst the matter was under investigation, an order was transmitted to the mate of the Ann not to come on .shore. Captain Bell, however, conscious of having given no Offence • to the Americans, • went on shore; tad proceeded to the billiard-room. There he was !Only accosted by three American Officers, who asked his name. He had no sooner replied, than one of them called him a Idacipard, the second a as, and the third a toward : the latter at the same time gas. him a blow, and challenged blm to a set- e. Nothtng could be more acceptable to* Bell : he happened be of Bristol mytal, and bad obtained as degree of . M. in the Pearce and 'Belcher school. They retired to a vicious room, and the conflict speedily termi nated, not much to the satisfaction of the American combatant. Another Of the party insisted upon try; his luck : Captain Bell was not reluctant to accom modate him, and. soon put him hor: de combat. The third Officer then engaged him, but their companions, whii had by this time numerously assembled, antici pating another defeat, broke in the ring, and beat Captain Bell most cruelly, and treated him is a WV which delicacy forbids us to describe. He owed preservation of his life entirely. to the artiial of Sicilian guard at the criticil moment. Captain Bell, of course, made a representation on the subject:of i. cruel and umnanly treatment to the British Consul. He went on shore on the 18th, bat iniMedietely turned on board, apprehending fresh insults. Sim 'after, two bolts' crews from the. Java. armed with pistols and cutlasses, rowed towardtheAnn, Capt. bonded his gene, and threatened . to - Bri if they did nbt kept them coil 1414 kaiolo .1004 +tip • *4. • beep of. He thus kept them at bay until the . ~.•.• sival of the British C instil, by whose advice t ''' . it i American O ffi cers were permitted to come oubo 1 3 . ' • Ara ' • - with, a view to the adjustment cf the quarrel. D 4 • 1 ,," v '''''' the conversation, Captain Bell happening to coals ° f ' diet the statement of one of the Officers, the I th ; I snapped a loaded pistol at him, which f 4 ." - ortith atel , tit missed fire. The interview terminated in again ,Ll oa „,g i ni• - • ferriug the :natter to the decision of the Sledl l c, - 41-- vernment. On the 19th and 20th there were pe - st disturbances between the American 011icet- NI s . . English Captains. • The merchants at Messina ts aosttnn tending to make a considerable remittance in sy e d, • that 'to Malta by the Ann, applied to the British Cre s i a n' cm to procure a safe conduct trom the American Cos ta l, ll . ' 7 ,* This the latter refuted to give, observing, th at he illiC l supposed the British Captain was desirous r obe e e ar le i ., ' soon as possible, being conscious of his mise se d sce. j tl About .the gist two American frigates sailed s e i s li th 'u ow n u i al s ds , and fe a red shep t r w o o ceb r e i r t d he os t ,n) s tai p lee t: r t ov t r o oyia s i e lgt a ee ,. rc w e i ri th yin th ogth e t i erh ni taitikuo t zias, .7 . aga I alleged that the American frigates had been sem i Illet4 in consequence of an intimation from the Govern i 1 . of Messina to the Commodore, that it lie did u s in g 1 proper order on board bis squadron the tuns would be directed to fire on them. The W a h, • ngical . 4, 0 ▪ (the Commodore), and a sloop of war, re • maietiat , Messine. The Ann sailed, at length. on th e e d, • widiOut waiting for the decision of the Sci.iss Co. :ib r vernment. She was no soot ei clear of II e.putt as k t she was, boarded by two armed boats from um Wash. .I t ington. The American Officers mustered thews , . ji 4 . and 'took airily one of the men, under the Lila ye " 1 . 1 - e tenet of his being an American. This prattle; ' i. whether it resulted from a wish to mortify the . t- is Captain, or was intended as a retaliation for own* r . e 'earth, is not very consistent with the general cte, •, it racter of Commodore Decatur. It is but jot to m% I. '• al that neither the Commodore nor the Ames man seas% twin n took part in any of the affrays on shore: the wen tom' t o was confined to the American Officers, Lid: Maa ss i f , i k i , t d whom was a Lieutenant - Armstrong. he ed et . THE; EV.iNNiNG S'IA , R. •li n . 5i0n..,... ...a 4 ,==.--.4 be _LONDON. .. • he • • --- • ces ter MONDAY., NOVEMBER 26, 1816. i n n ;ht 'Rim OF STOCK, I'iSIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCIt ite re- Reduced Iliti—Cons. nos. 64—Cons. for arc 631 ere 4er Cent. 77 I 7 8 - 5 per Cost. Navy 050 IS g p Eschewer Bills, Ss. Bs. pr.—Lodi& Bonds I fes.l6l. pre. the ..- nd We are sorry to observe by our Corn Report fro s ti .7 I n ceso Mark.lane, that Wheat is fifteen shillings per qu e e r •‘‘t w el. • • all dearer to-day than it was last Monday.—So mink v •-• ' *st en• Lord SOMERVILLE% Letter! f a b tm- We believe it is now settled that Parliameet tbal .' . yor meet at the beginning of January. The followig .•,' the Confidential Circular has, we are assured, been tnii. A 44 old rto mitted by the direction of Ministers to their Per • re- mentary Friends: • tit (CONFIDEN I'IAL) • W this " Treasury Chambers, 9th November, 1114 '4 I eme 44 DeAt Sit —I lose not m moment to inform you du its ~, but, Majesty's Ministers have resolved that Parliament shams* ,un Rion tits aistassh fif Sodom on the ad of January next, and to urge the sinnt attendance of yourself and Mends It the opening of the Sada, .. very as matters of the highest importance will be immediately btweit r nn. forward, in which the pressing state of the Finammatui avow . II N. regulatlOos of Police to seem* the public tranquillity,wilims prominent feature. " I am, dear Sir, t is VD ' * Tour very faithful senate • Among the important matters to be early sib a A net mitted to the consideration of Parliament we behest t ..:. rived fi irecommended in the Sraa, iei • the that a measure, r t ; IR ii,l to • which we have fr equently adverted, will be per • .11 C a p. posed as one of those best adapted to theitrusii I, un- state of the Flamm : we mean the application of ill is I r, be. Sinking Fund to the relief of the present loads 1 ndea- taxes. This measure requires but to be mina • mate O h i s with attention to shew its propriety. To contiw • I con- press the operation of this fund, when there is ati other pable impossibility of efficient collection of thew Al Ac . nue—that is at a time when the deficiency prdt a • Sritish that neither the resources nor industr y of the peak :fence A can furnish the sum required, would savour di * 1 smart paired sanity. The Sinking Fund was instituted to me - Who, future exigencies, by lessening in the interin it insult, to the amount of the National Debt, and conseq uentl y r necessity of levying taxes for ever t o p a y the ie. . el epre. nint h ' It has lessened the debt, and a certain benefit L inter- have been gained if the public be relieved, for It snarls, at least, from the necessity of atill paying the should whilst Ministers . on the capital so bought up. Wh en, b y the fat amens. of co ll ect ion ,at some future day, (for ✓ was always this taxosaster of the ability of the pablie s ' • 'me on pact ; with money)—when, by this mode of min . having •they may be convinced of the propriety of . i shore . • be was ; Putaag the Sinking Fund in operation; it viitt . " 4 r h o quite time enough to have recourse once more to sit tan one measure. But, is our Mind, it will be matlYear s . - , Wr, and our national industry and commercial enterpriao r eh g ave sufficiently recover their tone and p roductive Pe en - ert g o --, 1 to warrant its restoration. In f act no measur , ~ ee l A . are confident, will so soon give relief to the retired distress of our agriculturalists , as the adoption 0 r terms- measure which Will at once give to indusuy ate merican n trying . ion which i s now regulirly drawn out of circolat ductive powers of one million sterling per .. " I ECcOlll- .. 1. Th e that rate, for the absurd purpose o f nayiesi---*" 1 potions, !debt alrea4 paid ! i f by the purchases of the ' I, antics- n i as k inera . n 4 beet - , ..-. 5 . . al of tl, 'the Household.., - . • : l a ..; e 2 w e lli n .,. , 7 ton . .• • Yekisrusedaybf t i n v_ e in i e te S v e . t D v i r c . e swacsLpAeltrifLor.imceidiapeit,.,_ 4 sin 4.1°. Atte et of the state of the Duchess of Cot. 11!ct.00111,1111A Ms . :7 •lll(b r ad ite ti a :o th lera ye b s i t e er g d on ay d iStely l'e . • ion she, wits "sin Saturday- daft ' am with,„ e after attending the Grand Duke's Levee, P • er ...4 , a ~ ..1 impel* : 11 11% 11ou respects to the PRINCE PlA:nn't a"`•• - rem , Is _ , •?, t .:.Panne Laorocn came to town on Sato to CIN r ‘lllll4 not the Duchess of CIiIDERL• NI. II feigne d . , '' • . was—that h er hser,asßa olitaiel lic it • -- - - wommnrifir f I •