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lad a fine banditti; for the distribution of justice f" He was answered, that the sittings were held in the Palace of the Caneellaria, on which he proceeded. saying. sg that at Rome, the centre of the fine arts. :I palace must be built on purpose, and called the Temple of Justice. For example. let some chum% in a bad sty.e, in the middle of the city, be pulled down to make room, and another to burnish the ma. t.zrials. I find, said he, the church of St. Paul very pulp ? for the purpose on account of the pillars; the other stones may be taken from the Isola di S. Pietro, which an Imperial Decree has ordered to be pulled down. Certainly, Gentlemen, the pillars of St. Paul's Church, and the stones from St. Peter would make an excellent Temple of Justice. You must build aoclt a Temple of Justice 1" With this exhortation }te dismissed the astonished judges, to the extreme t•ontusion of his friend Legonides, who 'saw how difficult it was for them to refrain from laughing. PR; VATE LETT.ERS. •• PARD, DECEMBER 20. " The Due de Raguse has been long the friend to Lavalette. I inf firmed you in a previous communi. cation, of his efforts in his behalf. He save yester day another, perhaps indiscreet proof of his attach ment, but which generous minds will readily find an s•xcuse for. An order was given to the gardes du corps, since the affirmative judgment pronoUnced by •h: Cour de Cassation, not to suffer Madame Lava. .ette to penetrate into the interior of the Thateries. The Due de Raguse presented himself yesterday at the grand stair-case, with the unfortunate Lady. The sentinels informed him of their confirm. He en.l treated—they were inexorable. • Well; said the Due, • I take all the consequences on myself; I may he wrong, but my brave camaradrs d'armer can never be inhuman.' Madame Lavaletre was fainting on his arm. The Duc was their Captain, their hearts were melted, and they suffered them to pass. It was thus they reached the private cabinet of his Ma jesty, and both threw themselves at his feet. .• The Doc declared that this favour, this act of Royal clemency, would he the noblest and should be the sole compensation he would ever require for all his past services, and the mute grief tit Madame de Lavalette was more heart-rending and eloquent than even the animated supplications of friendship. Judge of the distressing position the King was placed in, to be thus taken un.iwares ; judge how deeply he must have been afflicted at his ministerial engagements preventing him giving way to the !mural impulsions of his benevolent feelings—engagements which placed him in the impossibility of complying with the re quest of a faithful warrior and a despairing wile." •' PAR% DECEMBER 21. " A strong cry of disapprobation is heard among *he Purr Royalism against the Doc de Raguse, for having presumed, to force the sentinels when be con ducted in his Majesty's presence the wretched Ma dame de Lavalette. It is asserted he spoke with a soldier's (rankness, reminded the Monarch of his past services, services which had test hisn far more than his life to perform, and claimed for all recompet.ce the pardon of his friend. His disgrace is prognosticated and clamorously called for-a-a military arrest, the most favourable chance he has to expect. a Madame Lavalette is in the.most deplorable state. She was delivered of a dead child about the early period of her husband's detention. This. added to a feverish anxiety of mind, to an unabating per severance in those affectionate clans which no ob stacles could discourage, has so preyed on her intel lectnal faculties, that should the dire event which is now universally apprehended take place, it is pro. bible exhausted nature will be capable of enduring no greater measure of suffering. 44 It was observed that his Majesty did not utter a word for a full quarter of an hour after the departure of Madame Lavalette. His first exclamation was —' Mon DiL u I J'ai passe par de bien rudes epreuves, anis de ma vie, je n'ai cu le mar plus cruellement froisse My God ! I have been exposed to many severe trials in my life, but never was my heart so, cruelly assailed.'" PARIS, DECEMBER 22. The Ministry have completely fail, d in the no mination of the Reporter of the Central Commi-sion on the Amnesty Bill. This is already of ominous pre sage.— He represents the Central Commission of nine, chosen by the nine Bureaux, which cempre. bend the whole body of Deputies. The individual in question is a M Corbiere, a wordy, if not an elo quent lawyer, bold and subtle, an important person in the groupe dee exaserls. On Tuesday the Duc de Richelieu attended the Committee, and when he found, that in defiance of all his exertions, a majo rity of five against four, bad agreed to modify and extend the law, he withdrew in using these very words :—Since, Gentlemen, your resolution is un alterable, it is useless for me to remain longer among, you; but while I express my disappointment and regret, I will frankly declare to you my determina tion of never consenting to the amendments proposed. —Moreover. I am authorised to acquaint you, mat the 'King would view with pain any mention of Re giciiles, because his conscience will not suffer his sanctioning severer measures, which are alike sub versive of his brother's will, and his own royal and solemn promises. " One amendment proposed and carried in the Commission is, that instead of the exile of the 58, the King may, if he choose, use such a power. I will not waste a word on this jeer de mks which appears to have no other object, in its hostility to the proposition of Government, than that of transferring the odium from the Chamber to the Crown. The incoherences and contradictions were never more revoking. The coosciences and patriotic feelings, forsooth, of these gentry, are too pure to condemn 38 traitors to banish ment without trial; but they make no scruple in in vesting the King with this selfsame power in all its plenitude. a They wash their own hands of the guilt and se verity of the measure—they take special care that not a murmur shall be heard at their expense—while his Majesty, with their free concurrence and advice, is to become the most unpopular man in the realm. Why 1 were they the open enemies of the King I - . To this Iv ;mous EVENING-STAR. . LONDON: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1815. Sr. Jostt'• Dot.—Holiday at the Bank. Three days French Papers are now due: in the mean time we have inserted in our columns some ex- tracts from private letters, which are not void of in terest. The latest letters are dated Thursday night, eleven o'clock, at which time nothing had been heard of LAVALETTZ. It appears that the different parties are not idle—there has already been a good deal of manoeuvring respecting the proposed act of amnesty. It would be so ungracious directly to oppose it (though many are its enemies) that any party which would do so would incur universal hatred. It is therefore at. tempted so to modity•the law that the odium of any exclusions may fall upon the KING. That is, the Court has been outvoted in the preliminary steps. A little time will throw more light on the views of the dif. terent parties, and their relative strength. A Mail from Hani • ourgh arrived this morning. The Papers brought by it contain the following in. telligeuce: COPENHAGEN, DECEMBER ii. His Highness Prince Christian Frederick of Den mark and his Consort took leave of the Court this evening. On the 13th they set out for Augusten burg, where they will remain till the beginning of January, and then go to their residence at Odense. In the island of Sprogoe, in the Great Belt, an im mense quantity of rats, of a new species, being varie gated in colour, have lately appeared, and do very great damage. particular attention. A priest of Italy dares to tell priests, the natural-born subjects of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that the power claimed by their Sovereign, ei of revising and sanctioning, or rejecting, Rewires from Rome, addressed to the Catholic Hierarchy within these realms," is 44 inadmissible, even as a matter of dis. cussion ! !"—and that even though it is a power claimed and exercised by certain Catholic Sovereigns! If this be a power claimed and exercised by Catho lic Sovereigns, an Protestant Sovereign should allow it to be made 44 even a matter of discussion :" on the contrary, they should simply declare their will on this point t arid as to the sanction of his HOLINESS, let that be settled as all State questions come ulti. mately Co be settled, Let the Porno be told, that if he do not give up this and every point that may be required of him, he shall be driven from his throne ! Is this a period in which Governments should truckle to Priests, or allow a Foreign Potentate, on any pretext whatever, to niggle about the terms of intercourse between himself and their subjects ? Away with such nonsense.—Let Catholics and Pro testants, Churchmen and Dissenters, be all put upon one footing. There will then be an end put to all the questions about oaths—excepting, perhaps, a com mon oath of allegiance administrable to all. An end would then at once be put to all the Catholic quibbles. Subjected to the same laws, and enjoying every privilege enjoyed by every other subject, they could have no claim to other, or greater, or dif ferent rights. As to the Pore we say, once more, that he should be told his duty in that firm way in which other Sovereigns are taught to respect the rights of every independent Sovereign. espied plass front e d Wish de la et Misth. S. Al the Prefects who ßatt to Ware the sid Marsh. " 4. AU the Marshals, Osiersis or Diehl 's, Lltt wholeilsed Napoieoft's standard before the lath of March.-- . lllas yes eh •serve, the Commission, by skins three day.' grace to the sol• diary, have avoided excluding from their Amnesty the totality of the army, which otherwift would infallibly have taken place, as between the uuth of March, (de day of itonapanes arrival at Paris) and the 2sd, not a soldier bet had entered into his service. " S. AU those who opposed in arms the Royal Army of the South. _ _ " 6. All the Regicides who accepted places under Bonaparte. or signed the Additional Act, 66 I'he whole of the above designated individuals are to be prosecuted in the respective Tribunals in the course of two months. and those who are not pro secuted within that period, ifuo facto become partakers of all the adv..otaqes of the Amnesty Bill." BERLIN, DECEMBER 12. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange is gone to St. Petersburg:). The Privy Counsellor Baron Gruner has arrived here from Paris. It is said that his Majesty the King has ordered, that for this time, on the reduction of the war esta- blishment, the supernumerary horses belonging to the train, the baggage. &c. shall not lac sold by auction. as formerly, but given to the country people as a present. in, proportion to the loss which it shall ap pear, from the report of the Magistrates, that they have sustained in horses, &c. EAST FRIESLAND, DECEMBER 9. The moment of the actual cession of our province to Hanover is now at hand. M. Von Bernuth, lately President, is now entrusted with the organization of a Departmental Government in the Rhine Provinces, and the country feels the loss of this worthy servant of the State, the more as it is so highly indebted to his faithful and judicious administration in the most difficult circumstances. The following were the Members of the Deputation sent at an earlier period to his Majesty the King of Prussia : Is . , Count Von Wedal, one of the first Noblemen and Land owners in the'Proeince, and Chamberlain to the King of Pruslie. ud. The Dumb Consul Mr. Ph. I. Abegg, one of the chief Merchants in East Friesland, Director and chief Proprietor of the great Embden Fishery, whd employs his large fortune in giving employ and bread to thousands of hands and many families. 14 The Burgomaster Mende, from lienpm, who has studied the law, and - new lives on Ids estate, employed on practica l agriculture. lif our cots le ceded, the wise Hanoverian Government will certainly always appreciate the men, who in the name , of their fellow-citizens testified to the victorious Monarch and on whom, and his aacestory, the province continued to in crease in prosperity, the gratkvde, attachment, and love, which a generous people consecrates to the revered sovereign front whom they must have the misfortune to separate. Indifferent, false subjects, eager far change, can never be to wekome to a wise Government, as those wbo, in parting, glee to their lawful Sava. reign; in the sight of GOD and Man, affecting proofs of their sincere attachment, which Is at thegame time the pledge of -their loyal scud:news towards their future government. HANOVER, DECEMBER 10. The part of the province of Lingen (which we hope will include the town of Lingen itself) which falls to Hanover, will soon be given up by Prussia. The Letter of Cardinal LITTA is just such as might be expected, at such a crisis, from a Cardinal. The three oaths, either of which " cannot but prove sa tistActory to the British Government," are all of them defective in that point which ought not to have been omitted—the power of the POPZ to free the de ponent from the obligation of the oath. But on the subject of the oath we confess that our opinion is dif ferent from that of many. We would look more at the legal penalties attached to perjury (whether by a Catholic or a Protestant) than at the kind of salvor which a man may administer to his conscience when defines the - and Why were they the open enemies ot we A.ing 1 10 All GlniMitgin•W W AMU P al "' ua " A " .. "‘" i• n iie3 v y is 1r.:4-am. dfieZ• I" tivan 3MA CS 5.1.C.•1 which a man may administer ot. wnicn are scartereo would defy them to act otherwise. To this luminous taking the oath. The law defines the sense and inhabitants consist of Natives, the descendants of the de ra bie cpiantly remains undisposed F. liaving a s u bstitution they annex an article which ezcepts from tne benefit of their amnesty the six following cate- meaning of every oath enjoined by law ; and every English settlers, Indian blacks with lank hair, Indian large supply ot Barley, which gleat;y exceeded :he slaves, Lascars, and Chinese. The town is toletably demand, caused .11 further dectihe of Is per tom ter, well organized Government will apply the penalty to good, and the houses neat and clean: its first appear- and at that reduction sales were cull even lot line " 1. AU those who have held any cnnyeedence with the th e b reac h • f I k e l aw . ihrlmperor dories his naidenee in the Me of Elba. ance reminds you strongly of the decoration of an sampl e s . B:alla are per quarter cheaper. Oats ‘• B. Jut Staistan said Coutaelices of Sew who ears se. But the concluding paragraph of his letter deserves Opera seeue.. , • and Peas ate ls. per quarter lower. THE AR Mr. RAMSGATE, Dac. W.—Arrived from Calais the New Shoreham, Union, William, and James trans ports, with detachments of the 12th alio 38th Regi ments of Foot, together above s(a) men. The Win slay Dale, Latk, Lord Sidmouth, Queen Charlotte, and Catharine, Doverpassage ve..els, hired on freight to bring tro(.ps home, have also arrived from Calais, (trot being able to fetch Diver) with detachments of the 32d and 33d Regiments of Foot, and 2341 Light Dragoons: they lost several horses on the passage from a gale, being too thickly stowed. All the above came in here late in the evening of the 24th instant, but we were unable before to get correct particulars : they have been marched on to Canterbury. Nearly all the regular transports have returned to Calais for more troops, where they were arriving in quick suc cession, brigade after brigade, to embark for Eng land. The Diver freight vessels a ill sail for the same destination and purpose this next tide.—Arrived the Samuel transport, with 21 horses and Men of the 16th Light Dragoons. from Calais—she had been driven to the back of the Goodwin Sand, and went into Yarmouth with the loss of bowsprit. Also arrived this mottling from Ostend and the Dawns, the Fanny I and is, itaiinia, troop ships, with detachments of the Ist and 3d Guards, and 2d Garrison Battalion—the Litter remain on Isiiiard to proceed to Ireland the first favourable opportunity—the cother detachments have been disembarked, and are gone on to Canterbury. Horses in very bad condition, and some few have died on the passage. INSPECTION or THE FIRST REGIMENT OF GUARDS. —Monday, being Christmas Day, was appointed for the first Inspection of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, since it•has been appointed by special and royal command a Grenadier Regiment, to be called the First Regiment of Grenadier Guards. The first Battalion appeased on the Parade in St. James's Park early in the morning, in their new clothing and caps. They were accompanied by the bands of the Cold stream and Third Regiment of Foot Guards, their own band being in France. headed by the two chief Drum Majors in their State uniforms. A little be fore ten o'clock the Archduke Joust wprived, conduc ted by Colonel Cooke, one of the COMMANDER-M -aine& Auk-de-Camps. His Imperial Highness yeas received by Sir HENRY Tomtass, the Otficera about to mount guard, and other distinguished officers. l The Duke of YORK being Colonel of the Regiment, arrived at York House a few minutes before ten o'clock from Oatlands, for the purpose of inspecting them, when, after his Royal Highness had dressed in the regimentals of the Regiment, with the new shaped grenadier's cap, he walked to the Parade, accompa nied by Lord Fazosatcs BINTINCC, the Lieutenant. Colonel of the Regimeat. His Royal Hiness was received with all due military honours. His Royal Highness then proceeded to inspect the Guards, the colours were afterwards trooped, and the new colours brought out from the Orderly Room, and presented to them. which have Waterloo inscribed on them, in addition to Corunna and Lincelles. After the Guards had marched off, the Duke of Yogi, the Archduke Jong, and a number of °dicers, went to the Military Chapel in Whitehall. BONAPARTE. —Extract of a letter from St. Helena, dated October '2O We arrived here on the 15th, and Napoleon landed on the 17th. The next morn ing he rode out to see Longwood, the Lieutenant Governor's comitry house, which, when repaired, is to be his fdture residence. He stopped to take some refreshment at Mr. lialcome's counti y house, a mer chant here, and expressed such a dislike to the town, that he has been permitted to remain in the country, and he is to be Mr. Balconse's guest for a week or ten days, till his own residence is ready. lam told he has written in the strongest terms of expostulation to Ministry on the hardship of contining him here : and indeed your imagination cannot form an idea of any thing more dreary than the first aspect of this island, and I have yet seen little, on a closer inspec tion, to dispel the gloom. It consists entirely of a brown volcamic rock, split, as it were, into two parts, and through this valley flows a rivulet, on the banks of. which are scattered patches of cultivation. The inhabit ist of Natives, the descendants of the NATAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The freighted .hip htsaracts or WatuNcrroze ar rived at Portsmouth yesterday from China, whioh she left on the 19th July, and St. Helena on the 11th. of November. The CUFFNKLL3 arrived at Canton the 17th ofJuly ; and the direct China ships are sAid to have been in Augur Roads the latter end of August. FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 24. Arrived the Louisa Packet, Captain TILLY, sith a mail from Corunna, in five days; has experienced a very bad passage.—Wind N W. PORTSMOU TH, DECEMBER 26. ft has blown very bard all day from the S.W. but the ships in the Roads appear to ride safe. The 84. rossa transport has slipped her cable and come int• Harbour. Arrived the ihnfrable transport, from Gibraltar; and the Royalist, Pantos, from St. Po. torsburgh.—Wind S.W. DEAL, DECEMBER 26. Arrived and sailed for the River the Twins, THREAT/GOLD, from Oporto —Sailed the Bombay and Moira Indiamen for the River, the latter with loss of anchor and cable.—Put hick soretid outward b. nod, particulars unknown —C ttoe d-it.n from the River the Cadmus, DINT. for the of Fra::ce.—Wind S.W. blows hart'. MARGATE., DECEMBER 2C. Araired the Eleatioi tiaitsrat nt Co.chester, from Calais, and landed the d..taeltrn..nt of the sB'..h Foot. The Blinbay. E tSt In li *man, is at stisChne an our Roads; the Eati of Moira, Ent Indianian, has just come round flonl the Downs, with tine loss of anchor and cable ; sl.e has trea ith another from hence. An anchor of 14. cwt. u VO fathoms el 14 incl. pAteat b2est picl; , 'o up on the Pan Sand Hole, stipposod to have be.:n kft there by a South Sea ; an .t. er Atlchnr. of nine litin.ired weight and a halt, marked " gambler, of Stmckriand," will 7., fathoms of 12 inch caul% has also been brought to this harbour. ' BELFA'.T, DECEMBER ie. A letter from Mr. HUGHIM mate of the St. Patrick, dated at sea, the 2..1 th:cemba, states, that the St. Patrick sailed on the 27th ultimo; that be and Live of the crew were picked up by the ship Triton. C.tp:•tin Bilinito( l K, and t h at Captain CAMPBELL and three of his people sunk with the ship. EATON, THE PEDESTRIAN. Yesterday morning, at a quarter past eigla iiitle ck, this individual completed his task of walking I lot) miles in 1100 hours, upon Blackheath. The early pe riod of the day, however, at which the perlormacce was concluded, induced the pedes:rian to continue his labours throughout the day, and this he was retries. ted to do, by a large party ot respectable persons, who proposed visiting the scene of his operations, at four . o'clock. At this hour be final y retired from the course, in the most pettect health and stiength, greeted by the cheers ot an immense multitude of people. Within the last lew days, EATON was velted by several persons of fashion as well as sporting cat , brig?. Ekrow, it apnears, is a native of Woudiord, near Thrapston, in Northamptonshire, and since his youth has b2en equally distingui-Iced fsir health and A power of pedestrianism. The facility with which he has executed his unexampled task, and the trains paired vigour he has still preset ved, have inJuced him to propose some further undertakings ; with a view, no _doubt, towards deriving some advantage from his extra.irdinay powers, the task ve.rich he has just completed having consider ibly embarrassed him, instead of rewarding his labours. For this purpose he has published th 4 following challenges : I. Josiah Eaton will Undertake, at the etinciosion of his pro. pent task, to perform another thirwend, Of even Hirers humirel miles in as many hour., as the caw nu) , b , wh soot main: fr:int the fatigues of his present undtrialvt.g Or !le will start Imme itately against any other man, to waist a mile an hour until either decline the contest, tor a proportionate sub,cription, to belong entirely to the *toner. All C 141111% to t!.e subset iption, however, to be abandoned by either parties in the two ~.rformance'of the task. 2. Eaton will also, for a subscription of one Mtwara tome. undertake to walk eve mile every boar for three 11111111;1% pu,eea. sively, and should he tail, even towards the concius:un, he will forteit all claim to reward. a. Eaton, for an adequate subwririsn, will undertake towel' sixty miles pelday for teu days %uccette:vely, and ur eoutse to for. felt all clatin to reward if he failed even uu the last day. We have contintr.d our estr4cts from the Germs* Papers received )esterd.ry. The ariicle dated ?Ans. Stith November, gives some detAols respecting the lite negotiations w hi c h de s erv e to be known. The letter from Rome will serve to preserve some traits respect ing " our old friend" M. Fuucitz, which ought not to be list. • We have already alluded to the circumstance of the Earl of Ntrintim.es escape from the 'Power of London in woman's apparel, alter the rebellion of 1715. the Countess of NfrusnALE threw her. sell at the King's feet, as he passed through the apart. merits of the King's Palace, and implored his mercy, but the King refused. Even to a petition from the House of Lords, praying him to grant a reprieve to several of the condensued Lords, he replied in the negative—alleging that on this as well as on all other oecassions he would do what thought most consistent for the dignity cf the Crown and the safety of the people. Orders were immediately di:- patched for the execution of the Lars of NITHS• DALI D DkaWENTWATER. and Viscount KENMUIR, immediately, but the former made his escape horn the Tower. Mr. roma, another ot the rebels, made his escape also trt m Newgate. The poorer 'class of society, whose situation, at this severe vasun of the year, renders them so well deserving toe attention of the affluent, on Monday last, exper . enced in the neighbourhood ot Highgate, that muiiiiicence fur which Mr. and Mrs. tours stand so pie eminent. Atter Divine Service, upwar.4 of :rum arna'red ttri.nr V: ere assembled at their hos ri:able Wart", and regaied with t prolusion of roast Leer, plum-pudding, and strong beer; alter which, each perseh had a present, either in suitable wearing appaiel for the winter, or in money. Ceara EXCHANGE, DEC. 27.—Our Market was very plentifully supplied with Wheat this hiorning, but we ltrd sc.actly any dem Ind, and sale oicie exceedingly lie.ley at a reduction of :Ss. per quarter, and a Collsi• di bie quantly remains 'lndisposed of. Having a