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. . • INDIES. CALcUtTA, JANUARY in. • On Sunday accounts teethed town, stating the toes Of the Duchets of Wellington, which was totally de stroyed by fire on Saturday evening in Sauger-roads. The origin of this sad accident is only a matter of suspicion. The fire burst forth about ten o'clock at night, and burst with such rapidity that the saltpetre cargo exploded in about ten minutes, and the ship being shattered and divided, sunk immediately. It is painflll to relate, that the pilot, two officers, two p issengers, and many of the crew, perished in conse quence of the rapid conflagration, which deprived them of the ordinary chances of escape. The pilot, ,Mr. 'lamer, and the first and third mates, were en gaged in taking off the hatches, in the hope of extin guishing the fire, when the flames burst forth with such dreadful violence, they were compelled to desist, and instantly fled. Mr. Heron, the second mate, ran towards the head of the ship, and the pilot with the others towards the poop, an which the pilot was seen standing when the saltpetre in the after part of the Vessel exploded, and destroyed all within the vor tex of its fiery gulph. The fate of Mr. William An. derson, and the distress of his brother, Mr. David Anderson, both passengers, proceeding to Java, it is afflicting to contemplate. Mr. David Anderson saw his brother after the fire had burst forth, and shook hands with him while he was standing in the shrouds, whence in a few moments he was precipitated into the deep, never to rise again! The following is a List of the Officers and Passen gers, which we have reason to believe is quite COrreat I)avid.Kydd, Commander, not oar board. co Nimrod, Pint °lacer, hist. Sold Heron, Setond Mier. sated. Vtitstudt, Third (Meer, lost. NNW Anderson, Pajaenger i saved. William Anaemia', ditto, lost. J. B. Al4cdonald, ditto, not on board. John KydJ, a child, the nephew of the Captain, lost. T. Hodges, Surgeon. saved. Some of the crew belonging to the Duchess of Wellington have been apprehended. mid are detained suspicion of having set the vessel on fire. In most cases whete ships ate burnt in this river, thete has been reason to believe that the Lascars (who teceive impress money in advance for several months) have been in strumental in their destruction. We have lately seen an excellent Ow, which is now under consideration, whereby the Lascars may be protected from the ins quaous system of extortion so long practised in Cal cutte, and the owners of vessels ensured against the frequent chance of loss by fire; as it provides, that in all cases when ships are burnt, the native seamen be. bowing to them shall he detained to complete their stipulated term of sir vie.• in some other manner. • BOMBAY, NOVEMBER 18. Accouils have reached the Presidency from Ceylon of a mutiny on board the brig Sally and Mary, Cap tain Duncan, from Calcutta, hound to the 'Mauritius. The mutineers, it seems, made a desperate attack upon the officers and passengers, during which lau:11 the Captain and Lieutenant Robinson, of the 4th Ceylon Regiment, were dangerously wounded : they were. however, repulsed; when the ringleader, a Ma lay, jumpe 1 overboaid, and the others wet e secured. The villain is supposed to have reached the shore sear Bottscalaa, wire vre tryst he will be apprehen ded. and with hie companions in iniquity suffer the , just punishment of the law for so heiiious a clinic. In consequence of die mutiny, the Captain was obliged to put into Trincomalee. Drcauseu 2. Accounts reached the Presidency, in the caurse of the week, that an unpleasant distur bance had taken place in the battalion of the etch regiment stationed at Ring:dote : some discontent had been excited, as we are informed, amongst the sol diers, in consequence of a regulation relative to the eas ; ply of spirits to them, which they did not like. The di,contents were, however, speedily quelled, and two or three of the principal persons concerned in fomenting them have, we sear, been tried by Courts Martial, and sentenced to death ; and the battalion has been promptly restored to its foimer state of trail qnillity and geed discipline. FEBRUARY 21.—A Treaty of Alliance, we hear, has been concluded wick the State of Cinch. the el teeth of nhicli cannot fail of proving beneficial to that country, and equilly so to its neighbours. A division of Colonel East's has been detached, tinder the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Barclay, to Wagur, fur the purpose of reducing that uncivilized province to the authority of the Rao of Cutch, its legitimate So. vereign. and of destroying all the fastnesses tallith aff,ad protection to the Banditti, whose depredations have sroved so destructive to the territories of the Guycawar and the Paisbwa. We hear that the fort ress of Kunkakote has already unconditionally sur rendered to the Governs ent of Cocch i and that its fortifications have been razed to their foundation. FAOM VIA BOMBAY GAZETTE, ' FEBRUARY 17. By letters from the Northward, we learn that a force, under the command of Colonel East, had en tered the province of Cinch, for the purpose statect in the proclamation which lately appeared in the Courier, and had taken Anjar. situate about two marches from , Bhooj, the capital of Cinch. to which place we under stand the force was to advance. It was intended to have moved directly to the capital, but the enemy having had recourse to the diabolical expedient of poisoning the wells and tanks situate in the route, Colonel East deemed it prudent to secure Anjar, which surrendered after a breach had been effected by the batteries, which played on the fort from ten in th e morning till two in the eveni: Every measure had been adopted to warn the chieftains of Cutch aga i n st the consespences of adopting a system of de struction not justified by the law of nations. The villagers, much to their honour, communicated the circumstance to our officers, and the tanks having been searched, bags of arseeic were found, which bad been thrown into them to poison the water. Cornet De Litricey, of his Majesty's 17th Dragoons, we are concerned to hear, has lost his tight arm by a shot froM the fort: we have not beard of any other casualty. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FllOl4 ILElTAU—ocrosza 25. 4 , We have just received orders to hold ourselves in readiness to march on the Ist proximo—destination untnown. The force ordered is the sth and 6th re. &tents of native infantry, some irregular horse, a 'battalion oldie '23d and ittith 'leave infantry, 2d and 3d grenadiers, and four howitzers, four mortars, and four 18-pounders. Major-General Sir D. °cilia bony, K.C.B. is on his way from Loodbianaa, to as- MIS the command of the troops at Diaspora." velt I' eh: 4(tvices ivached town froth Cape doist Catile to the 22d of April last. For some time previous to if* date, comiderable alarm had been excited in the ' Fintee countninhabiting the sea-coast, and amongst the. British resilient at the several settlements, at the hostile appearakes of the Ashantee army, which had encamped at the back of Accra, and being deter mined oa coming into the Fantee country, for tie purpose, as the leader stated, of possessing himself of the persons of glow, Saffaroutchie, Cudjoe Coomah, and Coffee, Ashlntee men, whose conduct had given much offence to :he King of Ashantee. The Ashantee forces, amounting to upwards of 20,000 men, were met by the people of Adjumou coo:Lb and •Agocush, who, after fighting bravely, were entirely routed, with the loss of many killed, and sevetal made prisoners. The Ashantees eke had many killed. The Fantees, on learning the ap proach of the Ashantees, assembled in great numbersl to give them battle ; but their resolution failed them, and they were happy to save themselves by flight.— Men, women, and children, fled in crowds to Cape Coast Castle for slielter ; and about the 14th, the Ashantees still confirming to proceed towards the coast, messengers were sent by the Governor in Chief of the British settlements to the Captain, to inquire the cause of his approach,. The answer returned was to the purport, that he was determined to pnrshe "Quow, Safi truutclaie, Cudjoe Coomah, and Coffee, Ashantee men, to whatever place they might retreat; in fact, that should they throw themselves into the sea, bury themselves in the eatth, or secrete them. selves in a rock, thither be would follow them. On a conference being obtained, the Captain of the Ashantee army was assured that the men he was in quest of were not in Cain Town. Being satisfied on this point, the Captain had nothing further to re-', quire than that certain person, he should name, ac quainted wits► the reingres and the manner of their escape, might attend him' in his search for the runa ways. After some preliminaries were agreed to, the persons accompanied the Captain. Up to the 2lst of April, the refugees had not been found; but though the people of Cape Coast Town and the Fantees had been so fortunate as to make their peace with the Ashantees, by paying to them 100 ounces of gold, and reciprocal oaths of friendship were the conse quence, the army which was then in camp would im mediately prOceed in quest of the proscribed meth FRENCH PdPE,RS. ORDINANCE OF THE KING. " Lotus, by the Grace of Coo, King of France, &c. " During the unhappy period that succeeded the %fat of March, 1815, the pupils of the College of Vannes formed into companies, armed and equipped at their own cepense, made part of the Royal army in the Morbilian, and fought with valour. Six of them tell gloriously, many received honourable w,tat,ds, all have given proofs of their fidelity and their attachment to legitimate Government. Walling to manifest the satisfaction we have felt at 'this courageous devotedness, and to secure i s re rnernbrance, on the report of our Minister Secretary of State for the Interior, we have decreed aad do' decree as follows t " filar. i. —Annual pensions are granted front the Royal Tr. awry to the relatives of the six pupils who perisbed in the different combats in which that company were engaged, viz.—A pe taut' of COO francs to the mother of the twin brothers Nicolas (Jean Marie, and Yves), the one a Captain, slain •u the 10th of Jutie, the other a Corptval, who fell on the 6th of July, 11116. ihis pension (tweets to her third son. A pension of 400 francs to the brothers of the Sub.lkatenant Quecel ; a pension of 400 francs to the father of I.ethiec, a Serjeant; a pension of 400 francs to the mother of Gregory, a fusilier ; and a pension of 400 francs to the mother of Rio-Colonsban, a Corporal, slain on the List of Jute. " Aar. 2.—Nomlnates some of the pupils Chevaliers of the Legion of Humour " ART. s.—Gres the tide of " Royal" to the College of Vannes. " Art. 4. The Council Getters' cf the Deparownt of the Mothiban is authorised to tipund, to the Ruyal Communal Ciillege of Vanes, sit fellowships, to which we will make the ntanitlations acco rding to the report of oar Minister, Secretary of State fur the Interior. " These fellowships *ball be granted In preference to the pupil. who formed part of the Company; awd after them to the children of those families which supplied comhatiuns doling the 10u days. " Our Ministers, Secretary of State, Ste. are charged with the executiou of Ibis Ordinance. " July 27th, 1616. . 64 LOUIS." PARIS, JULY 6. The accounts from the southern departments an. nounce, that new rye is already in the market; the vineyards are superb, the blossoms have experienced ne check, and the vintage will be most abundant.— The silk-worm harvest has been very good; the pods have been sold at 42 francs the pound, and the mulberry leaves at 26 francs the quintal. • It may be observed, that reports of war have hi. therto been always' renewed when the interior is tran. cal So constant an effect can only be produced by a single and uniform cause; that cause is not diffi cult to divine; and the more narrow the circle within which the means of malevolence are forcibly circum scribed, the less we are liable to become the dopes of artifice and perfidy. When efforts made for die. turbing public order by positive acts are disconcerted, and remain unsuccessful, it is endeavoured at least to`trouble the imagination by vague rumours, and by reports equally vain and sinister. Thus a sort of fer mentation is kept up in men's minds, which affords consolation for unsuccessful attempts, and nourishes hope. It must be confessed don the malevolent never had more need of this kind of consolation. All their projects have failed, all their plots are discovered as soon as formed. Nothing is undertaken which does not turn to their shame. Corivicted of impotence, covered with ridicule, and engaged in a contest with an active and vigilant administration, which is se conded by an excellent public spirit, and which allows no movements to escape observation, they can no longer sustain so unequal a struggle, and must retire from every combat with a still more marked confu sion. The source whence the false rumours to which we have alluded proceed, would suffice to render them suspected. We know that impure source.— Some malcontents noir abroad, prophets of misfor tunes of which they can no longer be the artisans, endeavour to menace us with a future similar mutat past which was their workmanship. One great advantage has resulted from the frightful and too lengthened evil, to which the most civilized part of the globe was a prey, during the first . ;ears of, this century. Never was the inestimable value of peace beater appreciated tbaa at this moment—nevdt 'hate the salutary sweets. of cojc . corel. More enjortitil all the niacin: of Europe are setback themselves their , obtained after so monk figitationi en • ciao v ti r aOt - Thal imagination Of every Soveriign ti struck with the misfortunes which the ambition af Princes sheds around them, and on their own subjects. Great and living lessons have only confirmed in them those pa. cific inclinations which existed already in their cha. fewer:, and are as it were their natural whites. In their eyes, enlightened by the instructive events of which they have been' witnesses, war, even the most fortunate, is without glory if it be without *plaice and they are well aware that the splendour of mili tary qualities, and the burst of a warlike spirit, pos sess no charm in the present day to mislead minds too well undeceived of those cruel illusions, and too much on their guard egainst these dreadful en chantments. Reunited under the ascendant of a great social principle, which appears rather moral than po litical, by what they have achieved for the trio mph of this principle, they have given a pledge of what they would still perform for its maintenance—and, such is the influence of those high maxims on which the order of society and the happiness of mankind are founded, that none of them can be more partitulaily proclaimed and honoured, without shedding its light and splendour on all the others. This /hour war, which placed the King of France on his throne, this holy league formed in favour of legitimacy, have drawn all European policy into its true paths, confirming ac once all the thrones on their natural foundation, which are united one to the other in a common link. This sacred principle of the le gitimacy of the Royal dynasties is become the rule and torch of all other kinds of le:Oink:tier, or, what is the same th.ing, of all other sorts of justice : thus, before resolving on a project, we will examine whe ther it be legitimate—before we yield to the attractions of a seductive enterprise, we will demand of it to be legitimate. A spirit of justice and of good faith per vades every State, Government, and Cabinet of Eu rope, and has succeeded to that spirit of ambition, selfishness, and injustice, which from every quarter breathed storm, agitation, and destruction. Is it not then absurd to credit the dissensions an nounced to us ? It would be melancholy to believe them ; fur where would the conflagration terminate ? What evils would we not still have to anticipate ? What a future would the terrified imagination pre sent ? What disorder, what thaes would follow the infraction of the treaties, so solemnly, so religiously, so recently sworn ? Away with such horrible and chimerical sepposi. Lions ! reproved by eery consideration, by the neces sities of the people, by the characters of the Monarck, by the purified doctrines of policy, by the testimony of foreign Journals, and by our own extended corre.i ponden'ce, which alone would enable us to contradict those rumours, which have no foundation but i. the desires of those who are enemies to the public tran quillity. But the source whence these falsities proceed would alone be sufficient to render them suspected. Some malevolents abroad, prophets of evils they can no longer achieve, threaten us with a storm similar to that which has passed. We despise these oracles of falsehood and despair. We will nut listen to the men whom the light of our 1 ;ovum happiness, and of the tranquillity enjoyed by ' Europe, renders so cruelly and so justly miserable. Leave them in their merited exile to dream away to ' anances of destruction, after having lost the reality ; but let us not suffer their impostures to poison the repose and happiness we now enjoy, and of which so : many pledges ensure us the continuance. COURT OF ASSIZE—SITTINGS OF JULY S. TRIAL OF VIE SOI-DISANT PATRIOTS' OF 1816. 'the Court resumed its Sittings at half-past seven in the morning. M. BOULANGER was heard in defence of Lefranc. From the severity with which his client's character bad been treated by the public prosecutor, he thought it necessary to enter into some details of his former life: Lefrarte, who had been represented as implicated in the affair of the notorious Babeuf, was nor among ' the number of those brought to trial. He was merely included in the bits of the men enjoying the esteem of the labouring classes. After the explosion of the 3d Nivose, which Bona. parte's tyranny ascribed at once to the most opposite parties, Wheel's lists were re-opened : Lefranc was there designated as an anarchist, which sufficed to cause his deportation to the coast of Malabar. He was abandoned od the Sechelles Isles, and only saved by a miracle. On his return to France, he was placed under turwillance in the vicinity of Bourdeaux, and, owed his full liberty billy to the arrival of the Juke d'Angouleme in that part of Trance. Lefranc, in December last, wrote a book in favour of the Bola.' bons, and against the bylines rate of Bonatarte, (these were his very expressions). He sold his book to a publisher, reserving to himself profits on subsequent editions.' He must have reckoned, therefore, on the stability of that Government, which he is now accused V . of having wished to oserturn in the months of JA. nuary and February following. Proceeding to the facts of the case, the Counsel dal not deny his client's knowledge of the seditious Proclamation, and corr. tended that the whole of his guilt amounted to that of erne-rsotalmeni. M. Puidebat was heard in defence of Charlet the pointer. . M. Poultier solicited the interest of the Court and Jury in favour of the woman Picard, whom he re presented as having bad the misfortune to be seduced by the false and absurd reports which Pleienier com municated to her. M. Axon spoke in defence of Desbaunes, whom he represented as belonging to a most respectable family, whose principles and opinions for the legiti mate Sovereign had been tried both before and atter ti:e Revolution. It was not likely that a young man, educated in such principles, should have forgotten them at once, and become, without motive, without interest, a base and criminal conspirator. A garde du-corps of his Royal Highness Monsietr in 1814, and decorated in 1815 with the Cross of Honour, he was one of those who on the 20th of March display. ed the greatest ardour against the Usurper. His corps having been disbanded at Bethune— . Preaident.—lt seems to me that you had better avoid pleading from unascertained historical facts. No one here knows, in all their extent, and under all their aspecti, the circumstances that took place at 'Bethune. Leave them to history; and be pleased to . . . . . confine yo u rself to your brief. —M. Bexon. It is n ut . ter of public imottety.—President. You are briefing to recollectioi days of mourning. M. Brion—He is charged in the ad of access. don with ha'ing abandoned the cause of the Kin g . President,There is nothing sajd a l ) ", the re. tended disbanding at Bt.thune. He is reproached with havitip stbandoned the cause of the King. I t , caus e s tly)ut the end 'of June, basin:: been made pri. soner by sane g:trdes.du-corps, lii 10113:er eomrades, he shouted Vire l'Empereur f . M. Sexton proceeded to tie real facts or the cu e . His clients connexions with the woman Picard were the source of his misfortunes, and made bins p.,i n _ fully feel how much better fir him it would hav e b.ten haelie kept himself in his rank and station i n lite, winont firming ciincexions by which he might be mislel and betrayed. However, these relations %vele not washout exciase : he had known her from infancy He had been imprudent enough to chat with her about the absurd reports then in circulation, and he received cards, but merely from curiosity. Her: the Advocate, repeating the language of hii client, said it was M. Verneuil who engaged him to penetrate farther into the. secrets of the associates;—. and having applied some injurious expressions to th e character of this witness, the Presidcut interrupted him, saying--. , How dare you treat as a conirtimi informer a loyal subject of the King and a Chro a r et of St. Ltiu;s, who, faithful to the oath whithM mo t e oft rnceivit:g this orJer, and spedking before 4 Colat of Ix...flee, revealed all that he had learnt hos. tile to the safety of the King and Government?_ Make use, M. Bevan, of all the arms given you the laws for deleitding your client, but do not athici a soldier, who must preserve his honinor in all i.l purity. The Chevalier De Verneusl is not here to answer you : he is under the proter.tiini of the law ; and Itfuifil the functions of my ollice in obliging you to respect hint." A smart discussion then ensued between the Ad vocate and the Court. M. Beson declared he had witnesses who toad weaken the deposition of the ChevAlitr DeVetneuil. The President then asked what were the tact that the witnesses would prove ? M. Bezoin—lt is nut nil. p trt to tell; that belongs to the wituessc. President.—Let your client tell us. M. Berm.—lle dues not knew them. President.--Continue, M. 13eson. M. Bexon.—Shall I then renounce my defence? President.—You attAck an Aly.ent so:41.os; I must take him under my protection. M. 10.!xun, after a silence by.::ich excited curiosity, spoke again. President.—M. Bexon, you again attack M. de Verneuil ; confroe yourse:li.o your defence. Al. Beton.—l throw col scit up•:n the clemency of tl.e Gentlemen cat the )ary. M. Bexon he eat down, and a silence ensued.—. After some p4ii , :e he resumed tl!e defence. Deo bAunes, he said, did not ask !, - or the proclanntions And cards but I'm the Advce of M. Vernend. The Jury would judge of the interainn n! boil of them. M. Gouin ple..:ded for the ini.:.rner Dervin, on the ground that he, together I.:lth Scheltien, who had been his guest and his friend, had mutually concerted to penctiate into the secrets of this odious and extra. vagant enterprize. It was with this v!ew, and to gain the confidence of the chief agents, that they had drawn a rough sketch of the Thuilleries. But Dervia had been denounced and betrayed as one of the prin. opals by this same Scheltien, who was indebted to hint for subsistence. The brothers Osere were defended by M. Gautier Bianzat. In the course of his spec ch, the Owlet took occasion to ask, whether the testimony of such a man as Sourdon could be of any weight ? Sourdon.—l beg the President to ask ikt. Gautier Bianzat, whether it is me he speaks of ? M. Gautier.—lt is. Sourdon (with a sardonic glin)—h is very well; I shall answer you. The Counsel then proceeded to contend, that the whole charge to which his clients were liable was that sf non-revealment, which, though contrary to' the existing laws, was yet natural to the French cha racter. The uhl gation of revealing a plot is a prin ciple of legislation quite new, winch should net be too rigorously extended. President.—You place me in a very painful situa tiou ; I must remind you of Art. 103 of the Penal Code, which has eipresAy provided"tor this oflence.. Tht Counsel then remarked, that, t , upposiog a plot bad existed, it could hardly be expected thvt ore of the Oseres should denounce it v;t::n two of his brothers might be compromised. The pleading being ended, the President said—. Gautier-Biauzat, I Lave listened to you with all the indulgence that is due to your noble prefecsiou ; but you should have been more E.ua:de.i in your detente. The sitting was in this c aitri-r prolonged, v iin only two short intervals of repose, till halt.past tell at night, when all the pleadings of the different Ad vocates were term;tetted. To.merretv mauling, at halt-past eight, the President will bum up. It is probable that by mid du)* the Jury will ue able to retire to their chanther, and deliberate or. the nume rous qu.stions that will be proposed to them bj the Court. AP.AIJ, JUNE 9s. The following Or..liciance was published here on the 18th of June : " Wr. Vie Burgomaster and the Canton of Argovia, orlair Att. 1. 'l'lic cin- or• hip which Las hitherto estatcil upon d.* public ter: rs ;3 sui. s e d " E..tch i.uGiic crw.papi r shall b.zar, as wen is an Drill"ki works, the,' names of the Li. hor ur editor, and printers "V. three pert,ora 1 , 11411 rekponaible before a Court of Justice tor what each eir.eipaper may contain contrary to fOl • gion, goad murals, public circler, respect due to c.tnsiitudons or existing ip)vertuueutt, or the honour of privare persona or e 0710.4 rations.- LAUSANNE, JUNE 4 2. P. The devastatiors of which the Frickthal was the theatre on the 14th of this nrtnth h.tve lett dreadfc4 recollections. The waters detcended font the ilra with frightful impemosity, and in so great obundarc:, that the streams u”expectedly bursting from Ow channels, carried devastation through the voles ft Schupsart and Mumpt. The whole population t)t this latter village bad assembled in the church, but the tort ents of water boon penetrated this sanctuary, and left thew unfortunate cmattnes hardly time to • , ain the roof and tie este:Tie lu the melt; time great immixr of huu.es wcte dvstioyed, walls heJteo duwu, bAroa uvt:rtlaJwa o solid Wull;ra t;:witil 4.10 di 4 TI