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al r `i II ?!~ their prejudices incerh I: I thought with my tio nous able Fiend (Mr. Wiiberforce): that by passing that sentence, we should leave the Colonies to imagine toat Government had given up the wish to afford leligions instruction to the i•:egroes- - - - -that they subscribed to the monstrous doctrine of the Colony, which would shut out the light of reason and revelation, I would rather commit an act of injustice to the Court Martial than Lazard the consequence, or incur the disgrace of such AU interpretation—(Loud cries of Hear, hear). But that is impossible—we know by the surest of all tests, by the angry animadversions of the colonists on the attempt to withdraw Mr. Smith [rem their jurisdic. tion, and on the remission of his sentence we !Mow that our refusal to degrade the Court-mai tial can never be supposed by them as a proof that we recant our cols Mons with respect to the treatment that ought to be ex tended to the slave population. My Honourable Friend has aliuded to the destruction of a Chapel, and the ex . pulsion of the Missionary from Barbadoes, but he did 1 ! not state the whole fact; he should added, that the same Missionary who was expelled from Barbadocs, was're eeived and svefcomed at St.Vincenes—(llear,hear). My ' conviction is, that the notice which this case has at tracted, and the mode in which it has been treated by the Ilou:e, will spew to the Colony of Demerara, that whatever imprudence or guilt they may suppose an in dividual to have committed, a number of such vic tories as this must pta an end to all their attempts to. shut out instruction from the slaves—(hear, hear).— I I sha'l propose to the House to meet this Motion by the previous questi'on, which will neither countenance the colony in their views, nor make this House a party to the censure of honourable men,who, in the discharge of :hair duty, had rescued the prisoner from a tribunal, where he must have been heard with prejudice and , judged with severity, and from which it was desirable! to save him. With the knowledge of the communica thin that was made to him on the 17th August, I cannot • hold him guiltless of concealing the conspiracy. I feel! as strongly as any man can du the impropriety of pro ducing his journal as evidence against him—(Hear, hear)—and 1 will now no otherwise take it into account than thus far, that I cannot put out of my mind what I thus learn of the sentiments of Mr. Smith, while I Inn now ti ying the conduct of his judges. It is clear, that he did entertain some general annehensions of a convulsion in the Colony; an apprehension, not definite, I am ready to admit, as to the mode or the time. Why do I state this? Why, that, on a mind so prepared, it ap pears most improbable that the information which was conveyed to him, should have made, as he pretends, no impression. If he had been previously in a state alto gether Unprepared for such information, it was very possible that he might have rejected the intimation as altogether insignificant ; but where, from his own con fession, we know that he lived in habitual expectation ef some such event, when he was in a frame of mind in which 'trifles light as air' mast have seemed proofs —when suspicions must have been awakened even without cause, I cannot conscientiously believe that the communication he received could have failed to make an impression °a him. Ile tells us indeed that the next day the information he had previously received came to his mind. What did ht do with' the letter he re ceived? He tore it. This appeals to me, under the circumstances, to be recf of a guilty knowledge. . I know that strictly it is only on the facts subsequent to the Proclamation o! artial Law that Mr. Smith must be judged. But, 1 must :old, that in my own mind I am convinced that the corpus &heti existed in Mr. Smith, I will not condemn his Judges, because, with substantial justice, though with defective proofs, they passed sentence against him—(/pear, hear, hear). 1 take his own evidence as to the state of his own mind, and I am convinced of the improbabiii:y of his alleged apathy. It is said, I think, in a speed: of Mirabeau's, OA' the Colonists of St. Domingo, They sleep on the verge of a volcano, and yet the fi:•st sparks that burst from it create in them no alarm.' S. with Mr. Smith, according to his own defence. Ile was, according to his own confession, on the re ge of a volcano, and yet it aeas not till the explosion kid pas-e,l, that he felt the first alarm—(clear.) Do 1, therelme, impute to him the folly or the wickedness of participating; in the de sign of the Insurrection, or of founding hopes of personal aggrandizement on the result? No, Sir; it was, I be lieve, that weakness to which men are lirb!e, and good natures, perhaps, more than any others—the fear of be traying even the guilty, the hatred of the vet) , name of infornier(llear I) Bat, while I morally excuse, I cannot legally absolve him ; nor can we, when we have to administer law—when the safety of the Common wealth is at stake, allow ourselves to be twine away by the consideration of those feelings, which may make the hero, but whirl should also make bins content to be sacrificed to the community he has injui ed—(Near,heur). 'Who is there, in reading one of the best tragedies in the English language, and in contemplating the con duct of the celebrated Pierre and Affier, who does not contemn the remorse of Apr, which saved Isis country from ruin? who does not honour the obstinacy of Pierre, which would have laid Venice in blood?! But though this feeling be poetical, though it may be geneious, it cannot be sanctioned by the practice Of Law, it must nut be encouraged by the decisions of a Senate—(Hear, hear).—We must not call misprision delicacy,-and concealment an honourable confidence— . (1-lear,hear)—we must teach the people their duties, though they be harsh—we must say to them, " You must betray your friends if it is necessary to save ybur country, or if you save your friend at the expense of your country, your country will demand your, life as the pike of Ler peace, which you have sacrificed"— ( Hear, hcar).—l give full credit to Mr. Smith for his motives—l give him credit, in the first place, for not wishing to betray those who had hroken his bread, who had crowded round his tabernacle—l give him credit fur perhaps the less excusable desire to spare especially the members ofhis own particular flock and confession— I but cannot forget that Mr. Smith was the member of a Sate to which he owed his allegiance, and that it was his imperative duty to have given the ir.furniation he withheld—(Hear, hear). Was it necessary too, I ask, for him to have given information in a manner which should draw down vengeance on his flock i• Could lie not have entrusted the same confidence to the Autho. rides, that he had committed to his own Journal? Could be nut have given a general intimation of what was to happen ? Might he not have revealed under a solemn promise of safety fur the individuals? Again, when after the proclamation of Martial Law, when he declined the military service, partly from a mistaken view of the duties of his holy profession, and partly, I Own. from the more legitimate excuse of his personal iifuniities, might he rim have said," I cannot take up With you the arm; of that link bet I ha ve am " of a brighter temper and keener force; rill go forth clad * • in them, add be they who they may %TAO remain bOlion, I will answer for the . Bethel congregation, that they shall remain in their allegiance?"—(Bear.) Such was not the conduct of Mr. Smith. He passed the Gover nor's house; going to town on the Monday ; he passed it in returning. Was it not worth a moment's pause to enter, to give some general warning. some intimation of what lie confesses - he felt? He did' no such thing, and I can not hold him guiltless. Sir, I will not enter into the minutia of the evidence against Mr Smith: r lament the mode of the trial; I deeply deplore his fate; but, Sir, in these proceedings I see neither that which should entitle the victim to the hmour of a martyr, nor that mitts aniniits in his Judges which should call down on them unqualified disapprobation ; and in pro , piing to the House to pass the previous question, I think we shall not be liable to the imputation that we are lukewarm in the cause of the improvement of our fellow-creatures, or that we cease to regard religion as the fittest instrument by. which that improvement can be effected. _ _ . _ _ Mr. DENMAN rose ami•dst loud elks of it Ques tion!" which continued for a long time. The Honour able and Learned Member spoke in support of the mo- I tion, contending that the House of Conithons of ;ht not to hesitate in pronouncing what was admitted by all the world; namely, that the trial was illegal. Not one of the legal Gentlemen who had followed each other in the discussion, bad ventured to assert that the Court Martial was a legal tribunal for trying the case at the period when they sat upon it. The Honotn . able and Learned Gentleman then argued that Mr Smith would have had a fairer trial before the civil tribunal than the military one, after reading the evidence at a time when the case was not expected to attract public disca,sion, and he was then completely convinced of Mr. Smith's innocence. Ile contended that Mr. Smith had com municated his fears as far as his knowledge went. There could be no suspicion of treason, for no treason had been committed. He entered into parts of the evidence to thew that Mr. Smith had endeavoured to prevent the revolt, and maintained that if the House refused to en tertain this. Motion, it would be hol'di'ng out an actual inducement to the repetition' of such abuses in all our foreign possessions. Sir JOSEPH YORKE . was not so stupid as to detain the House two minutes. As a petty Juryman he should acquit Mr. Smith. In the case of Horne Tooke, the present Lord Chancellor, when Attorney• General, oc cupied nine hours to attack them, and the witty obser vation of a bye-stander was, that they would therefore be acquitted. He did not admit the brilliant apology of the Foreign Secretary of State, and lie thought the bloody record of Mr. Smith's conviction should be erased from the records of any Court of honour or of justice-- (Laid cries of " Question.") Mr. BROUGHAM replied at considerable length. He insisted that nothing had been advanced to shake the argoments with which he feebly endeavoured to support the motion upon its introduction, and that the case remained altogether untouched upon the met its. An attempt had been made to unite the English and Dutch law, for the purpose of supporting the legality of the trial. But it must rest upon either one or the other, and let them choose which they would, the other rose up against them. The Court martial was summoned upon the English law, but that did not authorise the verdict ; and if they resorted to the Dutch law for the purpose of making misprision a capital offence, that did not allow of bringing him before a military tribunal. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then called upon the House to speak its feel ings upon the question, and alluded to the cases of Lord Russell and Sydney to skew that Parliament had formerly been accustomed to speak out in plain language upon such occasions. Upon reversing the attainder and sentence, they declared the subjects of them to have facto murdered. lie also alluded to some corresponding cir cumstances hi the cases of Sydney and Smith, relative to the use of their private papers for the purpose of evidence. lle imploted the House to strew these men at Demerara, that they should not do what they lead threatened, namely, to prohibit Missions and Mission aries. The question was not whether education should be given to the negroes by Missionaries, but whether they should be educated at all? By their vote that night, he trusted the House would give effect to the Resolutions of the last Session, by declaring that those persons should be protected who undertook to instruct and enlighten the minds of that unfortunate class of their fellow-subjects. The Ilun. and Learned Gentleman concluded amidst loud cheering. The House then divided— For the motion . . . . . . 146 For the previous question . . . . 193 Majority against the motion . . . . The other Orders Were disposed of, and the adjournment to this day took place at Half-past Three o'Cksek. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SAtUkDAY, JUNE 12, 1824. THE FUNDS STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. It is quite a blank day in the City, and up to this hour we have no news, or even reports, on 'Change. Consols opened at PS to 9.5 e ler the Account, with little doing ; and up to the pre4etit time they are 93, sometimes sellers, and at others buyers. FOREIGN FUNDS. Scantly anything doing, except in Colombian and Mexican Scrip. —Current Prices: New Spanish 15 to 1, Old 201 to 21, Russian 94* to 95, ChilLut 701 *, Mexican Scrip 11 Austrian 94* to 95, French 141, Colombian Scrip al to 1, Colombian 86 to;, New Prussian 991, Old 98{, Greek 9* to 8:i Alliance Shares 15 to 1, Portuguese 911 j. NEAPOLITAN LOAN. The Half:yearly Dividend on the above Loan, falling due on Thursday, the lst of July next, will be paid by Mr. N. M. limns cotta, on such Bonds as have been negotiated by hint. The Divi dend Warrants, with a List thereof, in numerical order, must be left one day previous, for examination. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 238% 237% 3 per Ct. Reduced 94 93 7 / 8 -3i per Cts. 1011005 4 per Cents. Old 10078—Bank Long Ann:. 22 y 8 India Bonds 76 78 Exchequer Hills (EI,000) 33 30 38 29 Consols for Acct. 95% 95 Vs, Mr. BE(SUGHAM'S Motion, in the case of Mr. Smart, the Missionary, which had been adjourned from the Is t instant, was resumed last night in the House of Com mons, and gave rise to a full and animated discussion. It will be recollected that the Honourable Member moved an Address to his MAJESTY, declaring, that in consequence of the trial and condemnation of Mr. SMITH, the House contemplated " with serious and deep sorrow the •iolation of law and justice" in these proceedings, and praying his MAJESTY to adopt such measures as may seem meet, " for such a just and humane administration of law in that Colony, as may protect the voluntary instruction of the Negroes, as weli as the rest of his MAJESTY'S subjects from oppression." The motion, on the former evening, was opposed, in an able, luminous, and temperate speech ) by Mr. Wit. terr-Iforrox, as well as by Mr. SCA kLETT, on' groutitrs by no means so cogent. The discussion was last night commenced by Dr. LUSHINGTON, who analyzed the evi dence on the trial with much legal ability, contending, with much earnestness, that neither treason, nor mis r ison of treason, had been proved against Mr. Sartre. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman was followed by Mr. Tirana LL, v.lia contended for the legality of the Court by which Mr. SMITH wa's tried, and' the im propriety of the House condemning the Magisrrates of Demerara, at a distance and unheard. The Learned' Member al,o• observed,- that the punishment which had been awarder,' by the Court-martial, was the punish ment which legally attached to the crime that was charged against Mt. SMITH', as the law of Holland, which was the law that was adopted in Demat ara,atffired the punishment of death, atlopting the principle of the Roman law„ to the crime of concealment of treason. —Mr. J. WiLLIAM'S' suppoired . the motion, and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed it, when Mr. Wmann ',mica rose, and in a speech which reminded the Muse of his former eloquent orations-connected with the Ab ject of slavery, reprobated in sting terms an act which be deemed an outrage against ieliition and humanity. But the most important speech was that of Mr. Secre taryCasr NlNG,bill:e it contained avowals which ninst con vince the Colonists, that although his Majesty's Govern ment has refused to give its.sat'ction to a motion which had for its object a direct censure on a Court-martial, yet that the system formed for ameliorating the condi tion of negro slaves will not be relinquished. Alluding to an observation of Mr. WILRERrORCE, that the non condemnation of the Court-martial would indicate that Government would stop religious ir.struction, the Right Honourable SECRETARY said," If I thought with my Honourable Friend, that by so doing, we should leave the Colonists to imagine that Go: vernment had given up the wish to afford religious in struttion tb the Negroes—that they subscribed to the monstrous doctrine of the Colonists, which would shut out the light of reason and revelation, I would rather commit an act of injustice to the Court-martial, than hazard the conscqueace, or incur the disgrace of such an interpretation." This declaration, which was received with loud cheers by the House, must be highly gratifying even to the most ardent enthusiast of the Missionary cause, and appeared to have so much weight with the House, that on proceeding to a division on the Motion of Mr. BROUGHASI, it was lost by a majority of 193 to If& By the German Mail, which arrived this morning, we have received Frankfurt and other Papers to the 6th instant. The Swabian Mercury contains a letter from a Saxon merchant' in London, who, burning with patriotism for the commercial interests of his country, states, that they are threatened by the formation of two companies in London for encouraging the breeding of sheep in New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land ; that agents are already in Germany and Spain to pur chase 40,000 or 60,000 sheep ; that ships are hired to transport them to the Colonies ; and that it is intended to keep all this a secret in Germany ! Woe to this tell tale Saxon, for betraying so important a secret. The French Papers of Wednesday have reached 115. The dismissal of M. de CUATEAUERIAND is still the , chief subject on which they dwell, but not one of them ventures on naming his successor, though there are four persons talked of. The Journal des Debats, the organ of the Ex-Minister, is quite indignant at this step, and threatens those who had the" inconceivable pride" and " piofound ignorance" to advise the Royal ordonnance, with the power of its patron. The Journal de Paris, on the contrary, lauds " the august wisdom that governs Fiance with so glorious and fi:m a hand," and congratulates its readers on " an ascendancy so consistent with the interests of France and the constitutional monaichy," as the triumph of M: de VILLEr.c. The Quotidientre has suspended its lamentations. The Constitutionne/ diverts itself at the expense of both patties; nut " seeing very clearly what Liberty can lose by the disgrace of CIIATEAUBRIAND, or what she can gain by the continuance of his rival in office." The B:1I for extending the duration of the Chamber of Deputies to seven years instead of five, and renew ing it integrally instead of by fifths, has passed that Chamber by a majority of 292 to 87 votes. As the Peers have already given it their assent, it only now awaits the Royal sanction to become a law. We learn, by private letters from Paris, that the French rentes still continue to fail, in consequence of the incertitude as to the successor of M. de Citattatt- BRI ND. Wo also learn, that in consequence of the re jection of the financial measure for reducing the interest of the Yrench reHte.t. Messrs. BARING, Itomscititti, and Itsvrstit, who had contracted for carrying the plan into effect, will incur some loss, to the extent of 20,000/. it is said. They had neatly four Millions stealing in Paris ready for the operation Of the measure had it been carried, which they had drawn from several con. tinental Banks, at come disadvantage ; and this money will now have to be remitted. The Duke of YORK visited the KING yesterday. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE ll.—The ROYAL SOVEItLIGN yacht, with his Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE 411 board, left Plymouth last Friday, in cornr any with the REDWING and BA. : the squadron anchored in Chiswell Cove, Portland, on Sa turday evening, sailed again on Sunday morning, and anchored at Spitbead on Tbesday. The. Port Admiral (5k G. NlawitN) had the honour of dining with his Royal Highness on Tuesday : on the following day the Duke visited the Fm.mourn mortar vessel ar Spit head, about to proceed off Algiers, and in the evening gave a din ner to the Officers of distinction at the port, and to most of tilt Captains. His Royal Highness did not land during his stay at Spit head, and the yacht sailed on Thursday morning, to the eastward. The Archduchess MARIA Loutsit of Parma, arrived at Naples from Leghorn, on the 17th of May, and was conducted by the Kuna tO the PalaCe assigned for her residence. It is said among the haul ton that the Honourable colonel HENRY very shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the amiable Lady Sesati Emir, secopd daughter of the Earl and Countess Sr. Gmotams. ARMY: 7 Th! 2d . Regiment of Life Guards, now en•dhty. at the Tien. Guards, i 3 ordered to march on the 23d inst . . to Wind.or. The Royal Regiment of Hors! Guardi, now on duty at Win,;. sor. is (mitred to march from thence to London, on the .+3e in order to'do the duty at the Nose Guards. The depot of the lit Battalion of the 60th R gin •at of arrlvvd at ClE:thant ye,wrlsy, from Portsmouth. NAVAL lATELLIGENCE. The ilstrostser, 10, is ordered to be commi,lienetl at K r ,. mouth. Captain 0. V. Vsasott ; Lieutenants H. I. rsisso s .1. SKENE ; anti Mr. W. T. islirs, Purser, are si>pott.tl l 4 11b-. W. CLARKE (b) to be Surgeon. Lieutenant C. Cutnertv, of the ARTRIRA, has been appointee. 4 , the commatri of the ZErurs, Post-offieeyacket._ Lieutemmt S. E. Coos . , first of the 'IVINDAOR. CACILF, ha- i,„,, promoted tcythe rsok of Commander; and Jr. KNOWI.I:4, %1 4 ik ii : 1 man of thst ship, to that of Li:utenaot, and appointed to the :11: . vice Com& Lieutenant NEIVENZIAICIS appointed to the llamitiics; ar i d j... W. Booms, Surgeon, to the Osirsrv..s:. Blr. C. 1). ilessit:r.rou, ,sistant.Surgeon, ie 31c0 appointed to the OttEsviii. Lieutenant A. appointed First lieutenant of rite 31F.N, Captain WM Major-General Sir Ilmv.s tin Licut-nant.Governor the Province of New 13..wisivick, with his tamiiy and suite, barked from Ryde, on Thursday, on hoard the Sact.illaN(:, Sir W. Wiszavax, Bart. and that ship has since saiied fur and New Brunswick. FA 10.—Wind variable.--Arrived off the pm-, 1 . , Highlander, STOW E, from Antwerp. Sailed for London, the Archibald, Liberty, and Arounia. Pi.rmoriris, JUNI. 10.—Wind E.—Sailed the William rift, f 7•. nosoN, for London ; Mar,, Wiu.s.ssisnx, for the Cape of Cooj Hope ; Loyalty, and Heart of (kik, for London. l'oterssiouni, .Jut : ii.— E.N.E.—Sailed his Alaj:bty . .. ship SAMARAN 7 G, for Halifax. Ships at Shithead SEARROVIMAIVIC, Auseatms, ,intrni, and CA I.Llor In 1 ialnitir-..VICTORY, LUI.WAKIi, W. ROVAL GEORGE, SERINGAYATAM, HERALD, LINNET, SCOROWN, ARROW, and Dermstaitr. DEAL, Jusz Wind Arrived the llarrox, from Sr. Domingo; Alexander, RICHARDSON ; 1:0:11 Cape; Sir 11. Stanhope, from London, and sailed fur St. 31.el.itf: Livritroot., JUNE 9.—The Joint Bull, Captain Coati-iv; arrite , i last night from New South %Vales, last from Rio tie Janetre - , whence she sailed on the 24th March, and left there the Mary ,Bradc and the Rob Roy. Captain Ctritt.irtx state-,:, that there were three* Prench ships of *at at Rio, two frigates aid a corvette, whti. 'he sailed The Bahia Piicket, Capt. Merolla., sailed fur Liver pool on the Cape. Moons and the crew of the sill? Prarni. ton, with-the Rev. Chaphritt of the co. bony of New South U . :ties, had arrived in .1 brig at Sidat 1 . . • New Zealand. The Brain:Atli had been chart.ned by ?Jr. Mar,. den, fur the purpose of taking nut Missionaries, and had beetr wrecked in returning from New Zealand. Arrived the Fraud., Al:A)13; and &malt and Caroline, PR:SCE, from Chute-tem. JUNE 10.—Arrived the Integrity, JOHNSON, front Tiit,i(lad ; Wil. Ham Penn, IlatituroN, from Philadelphia—sailed 12th May; aed Dandy, front Smyrna. Off the port, the Jason, from Buenos .Virts MA R LBOROUG MST BEET. Freckrick IriWang Hawkins, a man of fashionable app..-arance, Ins j been examined on a charge of having obtained various sums of mo ney from charitably disposed individuals, under pretence of raising subscriptions for distressed families. lie represented himself as a Gentlemen of fortune, and generally put down his own n tote ter a large sum ; while he was in the habit of writing begging letters for himself. Mr. Phillips having been one of the Gentlemen irapole t i upon in this way, on making the discovery, communicated the cir cumstance to the Mendicity Society, and Mr. Bodkin, atter mane difficulty, caused Dir. Kiwi:ins to be apprehended. Oil ttte first examination, it was agrerd that time shot.td be allowed Air. Haw kins to answer the charges made against him, and yesterday nae the day appointed for that purpose. The cireurnstanc: cf his ap- prehension having however in the meantime been made public. many of the tradespeople of whom, for a considerable time, he bail obtained credit, had taken out writs against him, with the view of apprehending him on his appearance at the Office yesterday; and brain°. ascertained this fact, he did not appear at the Office W:10 called Upon. Among the persons who on this occashin preferred charges against him, were Mr. llootright, from whims he had taken a house at Paddington ; Mrs. Hughes, a groct rat Fulh.im, whesO family he had promised to patronise, while he got £5O in her debt; Mr. Charman, Jeweller; a poor milkwomati, and an endless list 01 tradespeople of every description. ilawkins latterly lived in great style at Ivy Cottage, Fulham. A person of the name of Jeplason, a half-pay Militia Officer, is charged with having been connected wish Hawkins in the abcsa transactions. Mr. Brook, one of the l‘fann,gers of the Men,licit? Society, said, they had already its their possession proofs of these men recciviaz upwards of X 000; and there is scarcely . a Naleman or Gamic man of fortune that can be named, that they have not got sums of money from ; and on the very day of the last examination of the case at this Office, Hawkins went, booted and spurred, with a whip in his hand, to Mr. Godson, of Piccadilly, after leaving this Office, and app►ied to hint fora subscription for .lepbson. Havannall Papers to the 28th of April have heap re ceived by way of Charleston. In consequence of many d+ sertions. among the soldiers of the garrison at Havannals, who Ind found their wit to the Peninsula on board of Spanish merchant vessel:, General Vives, the Governor, hid issued an order on the 17th, restraining the Captains of vessels front affording in future any con veyance to sueb deserters. Accounts from Naples of the IStli tilt. are silent as to the loan said to have been contracted fur by Mr. Rornscnreo; hut the Eichange was higher than it had ever been known, the conse quence of Which is the exportation of large quantities of current coir. Mrs. BELZONI, at the request of some of her friend-, is at present preparing a fine lithographic engraving of the late c.- Minted traveller, of very large dimensions, representing also emir of the ptincipal antiquities with which he has enriched our N-- tional Museum. The plate will be ready for' delivery in a few d..s e by her agents, No. 5, Downing-steeet, Westminster. The silk harvest in Naples is at hand, and promises to be very good. ACCIDENT To COLONEL STRUT?, IN TIIE PARK.—We regret to prate, that while Colonel STRUTT was on his way ycarr day through the Park to the Meese of Commons, he experienced a severe fall, in consequence of his Lot se having taken Among those who witnessed the accident, was her Itnyal fine ness the Princess AUGUSTA, who with that gracious kindtues which so eminently distinguishep the Roy el Family, inimediatele got out of her carriage, and insisted on the worthy Colcuel being carefully placed in it, and slowly conveyed to his house in Green-street. her Royal Highness then proceeded heraelf on . ' foot (a considerable distance) to her residence in St. James's Palace, amidst the admiring gaze of an elegant throng, to whom her humane and laudable conduct had so highly and justly encleered The accident, we are gin' te nod, is not of a serious nature. DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT SIR ‘VILLIAM ColeußETEs Feerear.—Thursday afternoon the vicinity el West 11=1, Fmtl, was throivn Into a state of great alarm and apprehension by a tre: mendous explosion and discharge of sockets from she !Indite Mae nufactory of Sir W. Congreve. which is situate in the efellhe:,. between Blackwell and West Ikon. The explo s ion Was caused le y one of the workmen in the tinish 7 ng room striking a spare with a blow of his hammer, which igniting a rocket, comune:4lrd to others, and ell exploding m together, blew the building ilceen, aaa nearly unroofed all the others, which fortunately were de.e.eet unattached to any dwellte. Two men, wile were in the t..!0: y which blew up, were so dreadcay scorched by the gonpins.,:e., and bruised by the Lillitsg :bather, that they were car to the London Ilevitel 'a, a hopelenl Abte. One tuan was teitel. Ite being struck with a rocket. Fortiiimely the exples:on Wa; em`. lined to the one building, or the damage would have been great. Seeitietee.—Toe Court wet more tb an nrefeaelv attractive a:ee the grand Sight, when Spring and Langan Were wsiionisciA to I"' present. Spring was welcomed wilt enthusiasm. Otte of hi: Jolts was in a sling, and both hands are next to useless. ey e alike are black; but he feels to) particular hum Langs.:: did tsar arrive. The call f'r Spring being voriferous, etc Csainpliiii, in his progress through the crowd, rensitided those pressing on hini t hat he was tender. Ihe mounted the stage, and addres:ed a few were , to the following purport:—lle observed, that he had acted wade throughout his COntkiet in the ring, or at beast he hoped hi, condect had been approved of. Ile entered it as a ssan of spirit, and is 's tiring be misted he had done ids •Incy. " Let others," "contend for the Championship ; I'll endeavour to uphold the „Joe of manhood; and, Gentienten, accept my hearty thanks." Ihmett.—The Lady of Joss IVA µII, F.sq. eflik`CtOr of CUSI"ir at Cowes, of a tatteeter, behas 1.. r h MAILS ARRICF.O:--1 France-1 I)ublin-1 waterfarl LONDON: i'r!nted and pe'h.he4 !.! 1 rwr. KIN l'lckbtl• ■ IP ~'