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I the on ly means that tan ultimately extricate us from our difficulties), for the purpose of increasing their o n income. Having gained its object, the same f n c Press should not fail to exert itself, to impress sport the minds of those to whom the machination b e ',3 eta nothing but a prospect of starvation, the con fidence which they ought to repose in the en rghtened views of Parliament, in every thing that re pirds the national prosperity. . 1 We augur much satisfaction throughout the coon rl f ro m this wise determination of Ministers, and the most beneficial effects on the labouring classes. %roisters, we hope, will follow up this step by others wa lly salutary. We know that every thing that is l e sirable cannot be instantly accomplished ; but there o ae most important point that may and ought to be effected during the present session. In different count ies, as is well known, it is customary to pay the laborer less than the fair price of his labour, and to read him to the poor's-rate for the difference. This rac tiee is followed, in some places, With a view to rApel the Agriculturists to pay the wages of the M a nufacturers workmen—and in others, to compel t he Manufacturer to pay the wages of the Country !bowers. In both cases, it is a direct robbery, ac tempanied with indescribable mischief in its results. Compel both to pay their workimen and labourers, by making it illegal for any part of the rates to be a pplied in aid of wages.—" The labourer is worthy of his hire." Another very important topic also came cursorily Vac Parliament last night—Abe Resumption of Cash raments by the Bank, The CHANCELLOR of the E v ietuuxa stated his intention to propose continuing tilz..reitriction until the Ist of March, Ib2o. ‘vere happy to learn from the CHANCELLOR of t!: EXCHEQUER, that he foresees no necessity for any rt.. 7 Loan for the service of the current year. Three days Paris Papers, to Wednesday inclusive, I arrived this morning. The Chamber of Peers had a public meeting on 1 T:, , sliy, when the Order of the Day called for the 11,,•;,:t of the Special Commission appointed at the Let Sitting to examine the proposition for the entire tbolitian of the Droll d' Assbaine. Thc Report, which was made to the Chamber by the Marquis de CLER 31'.'iT TONNEBRE, concluded with recommetufing the a2option of the Project. The Chamber ordered it tc be printed and distributed. . A letter was read at this meeting, from the Duke of It:cneurzu, expressing his regret,' that in come i :mcc of the state of his health obliging him to' pass tl.e rect of the winter in the south of France, it told rot be in his power, during the present Ses• si-n, to participate in the labours of the assembly. The Chamber of Deputies continue privately oc• cupid in their Bureaus with the several projects of law tclirb have been remitted to them. • . • The Tri'Junal of Correctional Police has at•letsgth Inenounced judgment in themutual processes OF ca. hinny between General CA NUEL, M. SA TNEVILIE, and raavira, relative to the affairs of Lyons. It is very i,erg and Very elaborate; finds that all the parties were guilty of defamation ; that as between General ANUEL and SA INEVILLS. there is a perfect compels :r:io injurisnue; that Colonel VARVILE not having 'o good an apology as M. SAINEUILLE foi abusing General CANUEL, he ought to pay the expenses. the Cre..ond has incurred in the prosecution ; and that all the parties, however excusable to one another, b:ve given offence by their calumnies to public de corum, on i.ettich account CANUEL and SAINZVILLE re condemned to pay each a fine of 50 francs, and Fatvien to pay a fine of 100 francs. M. SAINNEVILLE and Colonel FABVIER Were the ally parties present at the pronouncing of this deci !tan. The Colonel had on the preceding evening beta engaged in a somewhat more serious affair, but arntrg, we believe, out of the same proceedings—a duel with aM. DucLos. The combatants, each at tended by two seconds, met in the Bois de Boulogne, ri fought after the English fashion, with pistols. M. DucLos fired first, and his ball grazed very Jelly the shoulder of Colonel FABVILPIR. The Co k:el fired his pistol in the air, which of course put az tad to the affair. Kneo has granted a free pardon to General Titsvor, who has been for two years in a state of inmion in a house of recovery at Chaillot. It is npt7ted in several of the Journals, that liberty has len also given to Marshal GROUCHY to retufn to Fr , nte ; but the Journal de Paris observes, that the teas is at least premature. 1101 ru or ANOTHER QUEEN.—lntelligence has been nteived at Paris of the Death of the Queen MARIE Itsesters, spouse of CHARLES IV. and mother of Fin!NAND VII. King of Spain. She died at Rome ea to 4th instant, of a pulmonary complaint. Her Ili'esty was a Princess of Parma, and born the 9th December, 1751. She was married to CHARLES IV. to the 4th of September, 1765. 'l remains of the universally-lamented Qualm of rtRTENHIRRO, were interred in the Royal Burying Kice at Stutgard, on the 12th. The Kn.ra has been 1 1•:' , e,1 to travel for a time into foreign countries, in c. 'er to dissipate the extreme grief into which the lAss cf his Queen has plunged him ; but it is not yet certain whether his MAJESTY will yield to the coun sel which the affection of his servants has dictated. A Convention has been published, which has Veen fencluded between the Court of the Two Ricilies and Wirtemberg, by which every species of Droil d'.lubaine—the same which is proposed to be abo lished in France, is reciprocally suppressed between the two States. French five per cents.—Monday, 68 1. 15 c.-- Tuesday, 68 f; 90 c. A Flanders Mail has brought us this morning Brussels Papers to the 21st instant. The contents of them are interesting, particularly that part of them relating to the Datch Possessions in the East Indies, on which we shall afterwards have probably occasion to offer some remarks. The following are extracts : BRUSSELS, JANUARY Is. • Tomorrow the Court goes into mourning for four weeks, for their Majesties the Queens of Spain and Wurtemburg. The King arrived here yesterday evening. The preliminary proceedings in the charge brought against several persons accused of a plot tending to place on the throne of France the son of Napoleon, and to give the Regency to her Majesty the Empress Maria-Louisa, are terminated : two of them are to be set at liberty, the others are to be tried. A tar on sugar is spoken of, against which the re finers of Amsterdam have petitioned. It would surely be easy to reconcile the interests of the peti tioners and those of the Treasury, by prohibiting the importation of foreign refined sugar, and laying, a duty on raw sugar. Our own refiners would derive great benefit from so wise a measure, and the Trea sury would lose nothing. J.oruArtv 16.—The King wishing to eternize the battle of Waterloo, which confirmed the independence of our country, cementing it with the blood of the Prince of Orange, has ordered M. Vefquin, the Chief Engineer, to present to him the plan of a Monu ment, to be erected on the spot where the victory was decided. JANUARY 17.—The Vollaaire, from Batavia, has arrived in the Texel, after a passage of 100 days. It arrives very seasonably to contradict the news of an insurrection at Samarang, which has been circulated on the authority of the English papers. All the let ters from Java, up to the Ist October, 1818, agree in stating that the Colony enjoyed the most perfect tranquillity. Produce was at a very high price, and there were more than seven:y vessels in the Roads of Batavia, a number which proves the increasing acti: vity of commerce. The news received from the Mo-' inceas was so favour:Re, and good older and tran quillity so well eqablislied in the islands, that the ICommissaries General have ; esrilved to recal General de Kock, that he may resume his military functions, and to nominate for Government oldie Moluccas M. Tilenius Krucbthoff, now Governor of Macassar, whtre he is succeeded by M. Servateris, resident at Cheribon. A most friendly alliance has lately been concluded by M. A. Boukfelt, Commissioner of the Netherlands, with the Sultan of Pontian, on the East Coast of Borneo, who has long desired it. This alliance seems to have been pr3moted by the assistance afforded by Major Muntinge against some powerful neighbours, his tributaries, after a short combat, in which only the Surgeon, Mr. Vertruggen, was wounded, he de cided the affair in his favour. The Sultan expiessed his entire satisfaction to the Major, and desired to testify his sincere gratitude to the Government of the Netherlands. This Prince is a polished and well-in formed man, who governs with mildness. The shipwreck of his Majesty's ship Amsterdam, is a great loss to the lovers of natural history, as it had on board a vast number of objects of natural history, collected with the greatest care, as well at Java as at St. Jago and the Cape, many of which it will be dif f icult to replace. Accounts from Batavia, of 26th September, say— " In the course of the year 1818, the troops of the Netherlands were going to resume possession of the Settlement of the Netherlands at Padang, on the west coast of Sumatra ; but difficulties were made by the British Government at Bencoolen, which obliged the troops to return to Java. The authority of the Netherlands has been recognized for these two ' years past on the East Coast of the Empire of Pa lembang, opposite Banco." Yesterday at twelve o'clock, the Lord.; of the Council met at the Council Office, Whitehall; there were present the Loan PRESIDENT, the Earl BA. rifunsr, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir WIL LIAM GRANT, &c . . Their Lordships continued their Sitting till three o'clock. The new Earl of HurrriNGDou is at present Ord nance Storeke e per at Enniscorthy. The Right Hon. T. H. SKEFPiNGTON is presented with the Governorship of the County of Louth, and Colonelcy of the County Regiment. Earl MOUNTNORRIS IS appointed Governor of the County Wexford. WILLIAU BROWNE, Esq. is appointed Custos Ro tulorum of the County Carlow. THOMAS FENTON, Esq. is chosen Chief Examiner in the Irish Chancery; and BERTRAND MITIPORD, Esq. Purse Bearer to said Court, vice MINIT. GEORGE MAYNE, Esq. is appointed Assistant-Bar rister of the County Cavan, vice BETTY. RICHARD ROCHTORT, Esq. is appointed Custom Surveyor in the Port of Dublin. The late Lord Viscount LORTOW was Governor and Cdstos Rotulorum of the County Roscommon, and the late Viscount NORTIRLAND of the County Tyrone. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain J. Mi 1.14 was sw.Ftt into the command of the ship Minerva,. conitoNl to 1115.: dras and Bengal. . . Huseema—The East Essex Fox Roue& riser ett Wary, se Basely 1141; aad Ott Thursday, at amplest' HA. • NATAL 11.1TELLIGENCA. PENZANCE, JANUARY ao, Wind W.—Arrived the Mary Ann, DASIILII I froth St. Michael's, with damage. • PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY sts: Wind W. S. W. blows ♦ery hard, with continual gnst.s. DEAL, JANUARY ss. Wind S. W. and thick weather,--Arrived and sailed for the. Ryer, the Hawkesbury, HUNTYR, from St. John's, New Brunswick Union, CARDEN, from Waterford : remain the whole of the outward-bound, all well. RAMSGATE, JANUARY ss. Wind S.—Came in the James transport, with her hall damaged ; Richard, FINDLA?ER, also with hull damaged ; and several others for shelter. MARGATE, JANUARY IZZ Arrived yesterday, the Unity, WENvatofta, from Batavia, and sailed this morning for London. The Fame, of Dartmouth, was got off from Foreness rock yesterday evening, and proceeded for London. • LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 21. The Sarah, SMITH, from hence and New York, was stranded at Rio Janeiro the ➢Bth of November, with part of her outward-bound cargo on board. The Meridian, BUDD, from New Orleans, for this pit, arrived the 18th instant, in Studwall-roads, with loss of sails. ST. IVE'S, JANUARY eo. Came in the Speedwell, HANNINGTON, of and for Chichester, from Waterford, with oats, leaky. NORTH SHIRLDS. JANUARY so. Last night the Scipio, HENDERSON, of London, ht coming into this harbour, got upon the Herd Sand, but was got off this morning, and makes no water. WATERFORD, JANUARY 16. The smack Betsey, of Waterford, BEvas, which sailed from this for Br;stol on the 7th, with provisions, and five or six passengers, was lost on the morning of the 11th, in a violent storm on the coast of North %Vales, South cf Carnarvon bay. The mate, named DAVIM, and a passenger named GAIIAN, were saved ; for Captain BavAN and the rest of the crew and pas sengers the most serious apprehensions are entertained. LIMERICK, JANUARY is. Sunday evening the ship Camperdown, Mastct, from Pictou, bound to Hull, with timber, was met, in sight of Scattery, in this river, by a gale, which, with the sea running very high, swept away her main and mizen-masts, bulwarks, stancheons, &c. and the Mate and two of the crew were also carried overboard; nothing was left standing 'above the deck but the foremast. The Captain and re mainder of the crew got into the foretop, from whence they were not able to stir until she drifted' into the mouth of the river on Wednesday. Whilst in this perilous situation, one of the crew, from cold and hunger, died on the foretop. Not six inches of the ship appeared over water when they were forced to run ashore at the creek's mouth. JANUARY 18.—The Minerva, JEFFREYS, from New foundland, was driven on shore on Thnrsday last in Mull Bay. She has since gone to pieces. Part of the cargo saved. CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, JANUARY 42. Erazazn Iswaans—Tbe Industry,' MtDonald; Friends, Brows; and Dispatch, Ross, from St. Michael's; Lavinia, Hazel', and Argo, Sorbe, from Lisbon ; Argo, Wilkinson, from Malta; Nautilus, Walker, from St. John's, New Bruns wick; Todds, M'Pherson, from Marseilles; Levant. Lyon. Rom Naples. ENTERED OUTWARD3.—New Frederick, Rundle, for Bremen; Kingston, Horneastle, for the Bay of Honduras: Star, Bar rett, for Hamburgh ; Active, Nazer, for Jamaica ; Sprightly, Baker, for Lisbon; Ville de Cadiz, Paquet, for Marseilles. Czzaarn °imam:oz.—John Dougan, Leggett, for Trieste; Ceres, Mackie, for Rio Janeiro; Anna Maria, Ommen, for Hamburgh ; Vrow Maria, Tackvert, for Brussels; Classlna Margarctta, Schippers, for Antwerp; Stockton, Langley, for Calcutta; and Thames, Lewis. for Madeira. The Meridian, Bum, from New Orleans, bound to Liverpool, arrived at Studwell Roads, on the 18th instant, with the loss of her sails. The Jenie, Rooerts, from Charleston, is arrived in the Clyde. The Jason, Cox, from New York bound to Bel fast, was off the Ormshead on Thursday. A rumour has reached Barbadoes, via Dominica, of an attack having been made on ;he Island of St. Helena, for the purpose of liberating BONAPARTE.--.I This 'would not be surprising : but what follows Would be very marvellous, that the force thus em ployed had succeeded in its attempt !" The account does not state by whom this notable enterprise was undertaken ; and it prudently abstains moreover from specifying the pal ticular place to which the liberated captive had been conveyed. A private letter from Paris says:--- ,, Pamphlets re double their violence in proportion as the attempts of 'faction become more hopeless. Two numbers of a work entitled the Ami de la Royauti have been published, in which an appeal is made to the most ungovernable passions. The Prospectus of the Drapeau Blanc has also been distributed." 'Letters from Jamaica announce the arrival there of the CONFIANCE sloop of war, Captain MONTOO - and of the ONTARIO 'of 18 guns, Captain Gosrs.trio, from England. 'the fears which had been entertained by the merchants, for want of a suf ficient number of ships of war on that station, had :been greatly removed by these arrivals. Extract of a letter frpm St. Thomas's, dated the 21st December, 1818. " Arrived here a few days ago, Capt. Balmy, of the schooner Rim, of New York. This schooner was bound from Lima to Rio de is Hacks or St. Martha. Near the coast she was over hauled by a Royal Spanish privateer, commissioned by the Go vernor of Rio de is Hacks, who wantonly fired into her, after having taken in all sail. While the Captain was in his b oat, go ing from his schooner to the privateer, they were pouring vollies 'of musketry at Wm; sad ow boarding the Elias, one of the Spa. niards deliberately took alas at, and shot a Mr. WUJJaagg• Pert owner of the Eliza, through the heart. They then pluadered the vessel, and ca rried her into Rio de Is Dacha, where Cap. tale Berme made a Protest, and got a part of the things stolen Item him returned. His' chooner was so torn to pieces, that he had to sell her. Cinimunications have been sent to the Pre sident or tail 'United Suitt, giving details of this foul murder, ' it is hoped bere t not go unnoticed. " A fleet of small vessels sailed from here about a fortnight 'ago, under the convoy of a Dutch brig of war; amongst them the Dutch Schooner Harmony: The day after they fell in with two Independdisliprivateers, which cut off and captured two vessels; blew up a !parish armed brig, task pommies tad vent het up to Margarita. We are INS .ignorant of , the fate Of the remainder of the convoy. Thal Dutch frigate ' liorydice has sailed in quest of those robliers,l and ódr LlB,Jrosneit will adept all peasibk measures so claim " : `.."lneniafd to receive am& satisfacties for this violation *TON ilat" 7 • r • Monday, the Albino timttott, with troops, for St. Helena. The reduction of the /loyal Artillery *ill consist .01: 18 companies of Foot, one Troop of Hot se, and one Troop of Artillery Drivers. Yesterday afternoon Bt. Margaret's Church-yard, Westininster, was thronged with spectators to see t he funeral Of Serjeant COOPER, a master tailor belong ing to the Ist RSiment of Foot Guards. The HECL A bomb has been taken into Dock at Deptford, for the purpose of being doubled and tho roughly fitted for the intended Expedition to llaffin's Bay in the summer. Lieutenant PARRY, who com manded the ALEXANDER, in the rccent attempt to find a passage to the Pacific, is appointed to the command ; and the Officers who were under his direc tions accompany him in this new enterprize. The Princess SJPHIA now enjoys much better health than she did some time since. Her Royal Highness occasionally rides out in her carriage, ac companied by a female attendant. Wednesday, the Princess AUGUSTA accompanied her Royal &ger, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, in her carriage to Bagshot, to inspect the alterations. improvements, and repairs, which have been pro ceeding in for some time past. Their Royal High.. nesses returned to .the Palace in the evening. The accouchentent of the Lady of Lord COMBER= MERE took place at Barbadoes on the 24th of No. vember ; and, at. the departure of the last accounts, her Ladyship and infant (a sou) were both well. A grand Ball was gives on Tuesday evening ;.t Cobham Hall, by the Earl of DARNLEY, to the neigh • bouring Nobility and Gentry ; the Duke of Sosz , ris was of the.party. TA L E-B MA at NO.—The names of five ladies of Bath make their appearance at the end of an adverti e ment in the Bath Chronicle, they having " incau tiously mentioned to tome of their friends" a repot reflecting on the moral character of an apothecary ia their neighbourhood. Sr. PA THlCK.—Wehavebeen informed that a Grand Installation of the Most Illustrious Order of theK nig: - s of St. Patrick, will take place this present year. His Masestv is Sovereign of the Order, and the Lonu LIEUTENANT, for the time being, Grand Master. The Order was instituted 17th March, 1783. There are at present four Knights to be installed, viz.--.AV IL LIAM, Marquis of f homond ; How PETER, Matquis ; JOHN, Earl of Enni,killen ; and THOMAS, Eatl of Longford. Exclusive of the Sovereign and Grand Master, there ate fifteen Knights Companionr.—No installation has taken place since the Lord Lieute.• naney of the Duke of Rienatono. Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, an alai rn ing fire broke out in the house of Mr. Peters, chandler, in Hammersmith, which raged for a con siderable time before the arrival of the engines from town. The house and premises were totally cer,u med, and considerable damage done to a house ad. joining ; the engines being well supplied with water, prevented further mischief; no lives were lost. Monday evening about six o'clock, a fire broke oil in the workshop of Mr. Wm. Moulding, cooper, Ss:. of Baritingforcl, in Hertfordshire, which, but for ti.e strenuous and laborious exertions of the inhabit:llas and the timely arrival of the fire engines front Ro)- ston, must have been of very serious consequences ts one half of the town; and notwithstanding all tl.e assistootre that could be rendered, the flames were not snbdued until the following buildings were burnt to the ground, vii. two barns, the property of M:. Richard &fridge; and one in the occupation of Mr. Pigram, of the Post-office, in which was a large quantity of wheat; the Dissenting Meeting-house, if this building not a vestige was left ;) also part of the Quakers' Meeting-house, and three cottages in the vicinity of Baldock-lane. Yesterday a carpenter, handing out some boards from a loft over a carpenter's shop, in Little Saffro a Hill, fell out, and pitching on his head, fractured his skull in a most shocking manner ; he was carried, apparently lifeless, to the Hospital. Tuesday night, or early on Wednesday mOrking, a trimming shop, within three doors of Fleet -street, in Fetter-lane, was broken open and robbed to the value of £lOO. SACRILEGE.—At an early hour on Thursday mor ning some sactilegious villains broke into the ,pa ish church of St. Mat garet, Barking, Essex, and st, le two surplices, one gown, two scarfs, and two towels ; fortunately the communion plate had been previotply removed, in order to be cleaned. CHILD-STICALING.—Thursday afternton the children of a maa named Colville, who is in the employ of Mr. Pollard, butcher, Id Tyler -street, Caniaby-market, the eldest a boy about ten years old, and the othtr between two and three, went out to stake a walk in the neighbourhood ; but before they had got many yards from home, two feruaLs came up to the eldest, :Ind after asking him some questions, endeavoured to seed him on an errand ; but he refused to leave the child with them upon any consideration; upon which one of the women beat him m u st dreadfully, an d took the child from him, and they both ran away. The boy ran home, crying, to inform his patents; his mo ther was at bowie, and to her he related all that happened. She appeared like one distracted, and instantly pursued the women, but on the way she fainted and was borne back lifeless. The same e vening the poor child was found in a court in NASCIik. kreet, near the'Foundling Hospital, stripped of its clothes, and nearly perished with the cold. DA111 . 140 ROBBERY.--Saturday morning, between the hours. of eight and nine o'clock, a most daring robbery was committed at No. 22, Usher's Island, Dublin.. The . servant of Lieutenant KING, Royal Fu sileersLhaving cleaned out the parlour as usual, quit ted it scion after eight ; returning about 20 minutes after, he found the window wide open, and the marks of footsteps on it, and the chairs adjoining ; a maho gany writing-desk was carried off, containing £2O in notes, sir English shillings, and various receipts and papers. Every step was taken by the Police to dis cover the perpetrators of this audacious theft, but hitherto without effect. On Monday morning the following letter arrived by the penny-post, indosing a miniature painted on card paper. It was written on the blank side of an unfinished letter, which, wfih the miniature,' was amongst the papers iu the desk. We give it verbatim lita—A person who having very fortunately bee* passing by your door this morning, observed the trust parlour window open, went over the rails, and brought away your veriting.4 (s h, and its contents, which is safe in his own mistody, and having angsdned what was in it, only found six. English shilling, and gime papers, of no use to any person, eels yndrself. closed la a usinature which perhaps might e.uulde you &asthma all the rest of its contents. The person who took ltdearrlurimegru er . to Hither your family or house only hav4n found, N am Dever , which Lad me to know your name and ResWence ? -I` nun y,!w y. ' "Aftjr Met west uses $ Willikieitur me teritie% AA" 1 I. , 1 . li 11 lii , ft t 1. * • c • :,1 t 1 I t / I / r Ii ' Sl* A e . • • ... I 1 ) . , • • • • r