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Two citizens of Amsterdam, Richard Rodolphe, Commissary, aged 25, and Jean Jacques Hartsinck, aged 40, clerk of the Tribunal of the Justice of Peace, having been conkicted, on a legal examination, of Staving deceived and seduced emigrants, have been lately condemned, by the Tribunal of this city, to five years imprisonment, and to a fine of 1406 florins each, and payment of the costs. They are declared to have forfeited the civil and family rights, men tioned in the 42d article of the Penal Code. Rodolphe without having the necesssary means for conveying the emigrants to America, had printed and distri buted cards, in which he falsely gave out that he was authorised by the police to make this under taking. He agreed with those who presented them selves for the expenses of the passage, and it was set tled that the money should be deposited with J. J. Hartsinck, not to be paid out of his hands till they should have arrived in America. Hartsinck, who had first gone to Cologne to give the emigrants con fidence, took the money, for which he gave a receipt, and abused for this purpose his quality of clerk. Notwithstanding the assurance which he had given the emigrants that their funds should not be disposed of till after the voyage should be completed, he had delivered considerable sums to Rodolphe for the pur chase of the vessel, provisions, and other expenses of the voyage, and kept 2000 florins for himself as a recompence agreed upon with Rodolphe. Besides the vessel being neither equipped nor provisioned, the emigrants hive been obliged to exchange their receipts for contracts which the two rogues had adroitly concerted to make it impossible for the ere • dulous voyagers to recover their money. LEIPSIC, JANUARY 3. The Government has replied to the Address of the States, and conformabl% to the wish expressed by the latter, it has confirmed the existence of the ancient Constitution. The King, in creating the Privy Coun cil, had shewn his desire to make ameliorations ; but the States have expressed their wish that every thing may remain en the same footing. As for the reduction of the Army, the suppression of the Reserve, and the diminution of the expenses of the Military, the Go vernment has declared that this is at present impos sible. It is said that it has also refused to produce the icconnts of receipts and expenditure, alledging, that this demand is unconstitutional, and exceeds the power of the States. Our New-Year's Fair promises favourably, and our bankers are charged to make considerable payments. BRUSSELS, JANUARY 16. Nezt spring measures will be taken to carry on the works upon our fortifications with the greatest acti vity; on the other hand, the improvements in our roads, as well as the embellishment of this City, and the Palaces of Lacken and Terveuren, will.requirr a large number of workmen. BRUSSELS, JANUARY 19. It seems that the States General will remain alter nately five years at the Hague and at Brussels, to di minish the expenses of removal. The organization of the Royal Guard is put off indefinitely, till the King shall be able to diminish the taxes and expenses incident to the establishment of a new kingdom. The States General agreed with the King on several plans of economy, and are bu sily employed on this subject. • . shelf, as it was i❑ Germany horn the year476l to nve. We will not deny that some particArthings .were not what they ought to have betas bUt. choose, ' whatever government you will, it will alwayste im perfect in the details as long as it is directed by men," It has. been remarked, that a great many French have been to Frankfort, to see Mrs Las Casas. He passed two evenings at the house of the Countess de Burr!Biers, the wife of Joseph Bonaparte. VIENNA, JANUARY 6. There has fallen such a great quantity of men ; within these few days in the neighbourhood of this capital, that the carriers have been obliged to leave their waggons on the road and load their goods upon' sledges. GHENT, JANUARY ts.• The King has by a late decree ordered the levy o f two regiments of marines. The strength of each re giment will be 2000 men, and two battalions ; eac h battalion will be commanded by, a Major, and thel regiment by a Navy Captain, who will have the rank of Colonel. The organization of these new corps is on the model of the artillery. There are one huts dred men in a company, tight Serjeants, and si x te en Corporals. These new troops will be placed in gar rison in the sea-ports of the first class. On shore they will act as infantry, and at sea as cannoneers. • FRENCH PAPERS. The Path Papers of Sunday arrived this morning. The Report which was made on Thursday to the Chamber of Peers, in the name of the Special Com mission, charged with the examination of the project of law relative to the Liberty of the Press, has been published. The general scope of it is to recommend the adop tion of the Project, with only one amendment, on the article which proposes to hold the fact of publi cation, as established by the distribution of the whole, or part of a work, air by the deposit which is required to be made of copies of it, in the hands of the Police. The Commission are of opinion, that a deposit which is made in obedience to the law in the hands of a Magistrate, who is invested with the ne cessary power of preventing the distribution, since he can, by ♦irtue of same law, sequestrate the work, cannot, with any propriety, be regarded as a publi cation ; and they concur with the Chamber of Depu ties in the principle maintained by them, that until publication is made, the author is not liable to pro wooden. Of the proposition for introducing trial by jury. in the case of delicts of the press, which occupied so much of the attention of the Deputies, and which our Readers may recollect was only got rid of by a very small majority on the previous question, the Commission have not been pleased to take any notice whatever ; but, on the contrary, indirectly condemn it, by justifying, in the fullest terms, the order of procedure which proposes to consign the press to the absolute controul of the police. The Report concludes in the following terms : We have terminated, Gentlemen, the examina tion of the Articles of the Project of Law. It offers numerous ameliorations. The responsibility of Prin ters is limited ; indirect cease to be confounded with direct provocations ; the prosecution of offences is made more prompt—the liberty of the accused is better secured—the 'form of judgment is rendered more favourable—the mere errors of a work will not henceforth entail upon • its author the imputation of crime, and the pains of a rigorous condemnation. A greater amelioration is still, however, necessary : and we cordially concur in the wish so well expressed by the Noble Peer who was Reporter on the Law re• specting the Journals, that France may, ere long, enjoy a complete and durable law upon the exercise of the freedom of the Press, and the repression of its abuse. It is without doubt a difficult work ; and the more the heart of man and the science of legislation are studied, the more the difficulty is felt. Many salu tary provisions on this subject are scattered through out the laws of different people—but a complete Code remains still to be devised. Notwithstanding all the excellent thingrthat have been written on the subject, social order is still in want of this great be nefaction. May it owe it to France 1" The discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the Recruitment of the Army still continues. In the Sitting of Saturday, the Members who spoke in fa vour of the proposed law were MM. BIGNON and CMIILLE JOURDAN, but both of them under the qualification that the army, like the taxes, should be voted annually. The only opponent of the Project on this day was M. de CARDONNEL, who declaimed with .Sesne vehemence against the fatality which places, as he affirms, the most tried friends of the . King under the cruel necessity of repairing, day after day, to the Tribeee, to oppose measures brought forward by the Wroaisters of the Kin g ._ The grounds of his opposition were the same as cos tended for by the preceding speakers on the same side —namely, the identity of the plan proposed with the system of Conscription, which had been solemnly abolished by the Charter, and the interference of the details of the plan with the prerogatives of the Crown. Among the Members who still remain to be heard arc MM. BEUGNOT, DUPONT, SIMEON and SmtraLost.' in favour of the project ; and MM. RONALD DE VW. LELE, DE CORSIERES, BENOIST, and CORNET DIEF COURT, against it. From this formidable array of talent, it is not txpe r fte4 that,,.the matter can be brought to a condission sooner than the end of this week.—French 5 per Cents, Saturday, Mfr. Wc. PRIT4TE LETTER. " PAius, J*YVAIY IS. " The slisgrace of the Duke of Fitzjames still 'cond . - slues to create a great sensation in Paris. It is gene rally said that the discourse of , this Peer, which has given occasion to his banishment from Court, is from the On of M. de Chateaubriand. It is stated that, Monsieur has been extremely affected with the blow which has fallen upon his First Gentleman, and has obstinately refused to deprive him oftils rank as Co lonel of the National Guards a cheral of Paris. His Royal Highness was even so much affected on Sun day, that it was necessary, according to' report, for the King to send for him twice to attend him to mass. Other disgraces of an inferior order have pceurredat Court. One of them affects an Usher of the Cham ber of the King, called Barthelon de Bellefoncle, who' was one of the most active hawkers of the ultra- Royalist pamphlets. In general, the King has not belied his character for firmness in these circumstances, which cannot fail of producing the happiest results. " The Duke of Fitzjames is the great grandson of the Duke of Berwick, who was the natural son of the ' Duke of York (afterwards James IL) and Arabella, Churchill. He emigrated at the commencement of tho revolution, and joined the army of the French Princes in Germany. After that army was disban ded he went to England, where he married Miss de la Fouche, the maternal sister of Madame Bertrand, who was a Miss Dillon. He returned to France under Bonaparte, who, on ascending the throne, offered him the place of Chamberlain, which the Duke of Fitzjames refused, under the pretext of hav-1 ing too small a fortune. After the restoration he was created a Peer of France by the King, on the 14th of June, 1814. In 1815 he followed the King to Ghent. Since then he has been intimately connected with M. de Chateaubriand, with whom Irlaas always voted in the House of Peers." We learn from the American Papers, the receipt of which we announced yesterday, that the District At torney having presented to the Grand Jury, bills against the British Officers imprisoned in Philadel- phis, on the warrant of Judge WASHINGTON, as stated in our columns some time ago, the Grand Jury, on the following day pronounced, that there appeased to be no cause for their detention and trial :—a deci sion which fully justifies the remarks we made on the illegal conduct of the Judge, in arresting and detain ing British subjects, who were peaceably passing through the territories of the United States, on their way to the West Indies. From the same Papers we learn, that a Represen tative Government of nine Members has just been formed at Amelia Island. The election of the Re presentatives has been announced in the following PROCLAMATIGN. " Locts MIRY, Conunander-in-Chief of the Florida'. " Whereas an election was held in the City antic 19th and 40th November of the present year, 1817, the result of which has been the choice of representatives of the people, for the pur pose of constituting the provisional Government of the Republic. The following persons were elected --Pietro Gaul Murdin, J. Irvin, J. Forbes, Chapelle, Vicente Pazos, Comte, Livignac, and M.ibrity. " I hereby convoke by these presents the said Represemathes to hold the Sessions on the lit day of December neat ensuing, to take the necessary oaths, and to fulfil the duties with fidelity and impartiality-, which are committed to their charge by the people of the free State of Florida. " Given in the city of Fernandina, In the island of Amelia, Nov. 27, 11117-112 year of Independence. (Signed) " Loins AUllr." With this document before us we ask, what right can the United States, or any Power whatever, have to take possession of a country whicl► has declared itself independent ? They have no right to seize it as a Spanish possession, not being at war With Spain. They have no right to buy it from Spain, the latter not being defacto in possession. To seize it-from the Independents would be to enter into a war with them. Even were the territory still under the Spa nish Monarchy, the right of the KING to sell his 'peo ple is not, nor cannot be admitted—they are not, nor ever were his property. The following are extracts fronfeharleston Papers to the 16th ultimo: SAVANNAH, DECEMBER 10. Report says that Saturday next, thg 19th instant, is the day pitched upon fot the purpose of taking possession of Amelia by the American forces, which are numerously assembling for the purpose. A Guir.eaman, with 124 , negroes on board, prize to the Patriot brig Morgiana, arrived at St. Mary's on the night of the 30th November. She is detained by the United States gun-boat No. 168, Lieutenant M'Call. A large amount of property imported for Amelia was seized by the United States at St. Mary's, on the 4th instant. CHARLESTON, DECEMBER Is. Fifty-four sail of vessels . are now employed in the India Trade, from the town of Salem, amounting to 14,030 tons. CONSTANTINOPLE, DECEMBER 10. Accounts received from 'Persia inform us, that the late Russian Embassy to the Sovereign oTtsat Coun try, has not been attended with the advantages which had been expected from it, and that the Persians, unable to forget the cessions made at the last peace, try every imaginable mauls to recover the ceded Provinces, in order by this to recover from the pre carious situation ist which they are placed by the proximity of the Russian frontiers to the Royal resi dence of Taheran, which is scarcely 50 German rnili dietax from them. BERLIN, JANUARY 5. the Periodical Paper of • Mr. Kotzebue, is the fc/Kairring passage :-- 0 Till4w French Revolution had poisoned Europe most of the countries in it, particularly in Germany, were very bewy. We were acquainted at that period w i t h Austria and Prussia, as well as many little prin cipalities, where an honest man could live agreeably, in every sense ; and would to GO D that it were pos sible to mestablish the wient stge of things, en- SPANISH NAIL Captain Bowers, of the brig Active, arrived at New York on the lst instant, in 30 days from Porto Cavan, informs, that the Royalists had sufftred a severe defeat at Cumana and Barcelona. Several transports with troops had arrived at Porto CaveUo. The company of United States' Artillery, under the command of Captain Wilson, statipned at Fort Jamas' (Stnitlreille), is ordered to' Point Petre (Georti4. LIBERATION OP ME Yesterday evening, at he .Lord SIDMOUTH arrived at Ho liberation of Mews. i Odt either of them entering in future appearance, or any oda We understand that an acti them agaiiat Sit NATHANIEL imprisonment. There have been three. C. these few days. Friday aCo Foreign Office, which was Saturday a Council was held which only a few Members day, at two o'clock, the third was attended by all the Mere Motokotvv.. The Council di/ I Lord CASILZRZACM gave a on Monday, at his residence i 'a large party of distinguish whom were— The Duke sad Duchess San Carl and his Lady, Monsieur and Made odor from the King of the Nethert General D'Ojarowsky, Monsieur di Monsieur de Bulow, Monsieur e Baron ScernboliL the Lord Chance Harrowby, Lord Sidinouth, Lord ti Munster, Mr. Plana, &c. In the evening her Ladysh hundred fiishionables, includi also were present — The Duke and Duchetti of Montrt and Ladd• Inenborsugh, fierd and 1 Yesterday his Lordship es party, among whom were— Prince Esterhazy, the French Count and Countess D'Onnond, C therine de Sousas, Baron Fleffel, Marchioness Gramaddie, Madame of Westmoreland, • Lord Nltilgrave berth, Sir William A'Court, Mr. Rush, Mr. Smith, Mr. Hamilton, Yesterday the Duke of ' Stewmtr transacted busine State's Office for the Foreig Ments. At five o'clock the had a long interview with his house in St. James's-squar at seven o'clock, dined with The answer to the inquiris Nike of Yong yesterday was has had a good night, and i The Countess of SURREY ' son, at one o'clock yestercla house, St. James's-square. I we are happy to state, are in We are desired to state tl of rum, in five minutes, for petted at Warminster, on Cl occasioned the man's death take place at the Lord's Arms but in a small public-house Yesterday the LORD MAI dermen, which was very nu] • Court came to a Resolution Vagrants in the streets, req dens and Overseers to cause and brought before the LOR dermen, that such persons n • rishes, or otherwise dealt wii KING'S TURATRE.--The MOZART'S celebrated Open cord appearance of signora numerous and brilliant ass last night. Signora CORRI got the better of the embarr which she laboured on her better opportunity of spew in , which is extremely mellow, her sccond scn and the du were unanimously encored ; completely conqueied all th first night. This Lady evid feet musician ; and will dot serVice to this establishme boned under a severe cold, draw that admiration to whi DRUEY-LANI.— The Bel last night, and a Miss Sun these boards, in the charact Lady is of a fine figure and ; Her voice is by no means powerfuL Her delineation licate, but rather weak. In took part In a minuet with I displayed much taste. She ral rounds of applause wh much satisfaction was exp flounced to repeat the char DOWTON played Hardy wit] was amusing in Flutter; Sy as we expected from him parts were well filled up, a part went of very - well COVENT GARDEN.--Guy of yesterday. In conseque STEPinta, who has left t Concerts, a Mrs. GAIMICI Bertram. This Lady has singer, and has appeared I at some of the Country Thea at Vauxhall. On this occa flattering reception. In th babe," she was honoured vc throughout the acquitted 1 faction of the audience. Dims Nits , the philoso} Wine he liked best, replied pays for." As the ple a sure in every age, this may accot already made, while there Shares, to select the Three enable the holders so ord please, 12 pipes of the choi Kingdom, ex clusive of the 97 other Capitals, or the se prizes that are in the Schei CORN EXCHANGE, MAI We had a very large arriv, ins, but the Wheat trade prices, a considerable qua the close of the market. ' very considerable, yet pill taken off at ls. per quarte but the inferior sorts were a decline of is. per quart Oats, there is no alteratice.