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i. astern,.2nd a few minutes afterwards a shot crossed-the stern of the American; a number of voices now assailed that unfo►tunate ship to surrender. Captain Petty, with great presence of mind and intrepidity, came forward, and from the quarter deck, with his trumpet, offered the pirates whatever supplies they wasted ; but this was not heeded by the marauders, and _duce boats,from die pirate, full of men, boarded the American, sword in hand. On reaching the decks, Captain Petty and hi, Officers were called to shew themselves, which they no sooner di i, than they were seized, and in the most in• Yuman manner bound with cords. During the confu sion attendant on this dreadful scene, several of the crew of the brig threw themselves overboard, and pe rished chisel- in the ocean Or by the shots of the pirates, who had now 'wise possession of the hapless American brig. The few which remained on board with the Cap tain and his mates were lashed to the windlass, capstan, and other pasts of the ship. Some of the Americans. however, se lie) resisted this barbarous usage were inhu manly murdered by those bloodthirsty monsters, who afterwards threw their bodies overboard. In the mean time, the CAptain and remainder of the crew, after en during every cruelty from the pirates, were forced, with barely their clothes on their backs, into a boat, manne.l with same of the crew of the pirate, who were well armed, and sent on shore, through several heavy surfs, where they left them. It is impossible to describe the wretched situation of the Captain arid the other poor fellows, left during tire' night on a foreign shore without any sustenance, and far distant from the abode of man. The climate being warm, they rested till morning, when they perceived that both the pirate and their vessel had disappeared. THE I!',VENING ,TAR, LONDON. __,........_ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1825. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Everything has taken a change in the City this morning for the best, and there is a far more favourable appearance than there has been for some time past. Consol, opened at 81i I for the Account, and soon after went up to 81i 82 ; and are HOW 81j, with a firm market, and every appearance of a further advance, with more confidence. The French Three per Cents. after 'Change hours, 63f. In the Foreign Market not muck doing. Current Prices: Old Spanish 12i 13, Russian 77. Mexican 614 VS, New Colombian 58k, Greek Bonds t 7 13, Guatemala 14 12, Tacchequer Bills 20 discount. Pt: ICK OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. S per Cent. Bed. BO'% t % 3 per Cent. t'ons. Shut. per Cent. 88 1 ,4 SI per Cent. Bed. 88 1 ,4 1 / 4 4 per Cent. New Shut. Long Anti. 19 1 / 4 % India Bonds 15 18 7 £l,OOO Exd.eq. Bills 21 8 disc. £5OO ditto 10 2 disc. C 10() and L2OO ditto S disc. Overdue 6 disc. Cons. Mr . Account 81 1 ,4 82 81% % 81% FRENCH FL/NDS. FAUN. Decearsix Five per Cents. • . 94f. 80e, Three per Cents. 62f. 10e. Ilentes de Naples . . 711. 7k. Royal Spanish Loan, 1823 . . 46f. FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Azstilso Bell S p Ct 90 Scrip. Brazilian Bonds. Neapolitan Bondi, Do. Scrip, 5 p C. 1825, Peru.. lids, 6 p C. l)itto Acct. Ditto Scrip, 1825,6 p C. Buono Ayres Bonds Portuguese Bonds Chllian Bonds, 6 p Ct. "'fuss. lids. 4 p C. 66 9 Colombian lids, 6 p C. Ditto Acct. 69 Do. lids 1824, 551 Do. Bonds, 1822, 90 1)o. Acc. 561 9 61 1 1 Russ. 8dv.1622. Sp Ct. 72 7/ Danis!) Bonds, Ditto Acct. 771 Du. Marks Span. Sp Ct. C. 121 Dittoßonds, 3 p Ct. 1625, 58 Ditto for Ace. Ditto Acct. Ditto $lO, Greek Bonds Span. S p. tt. C. 1823, Do. Bds, 1625, 16/ French Routes, 5 p C. Ditto Acct. lit Exchange. Mex. Bonds 5 p. Ct. French Bente% 3 p C. Ditto Acct. 5 p C. Exchange. Do. 1k15,1825, 6 pC. 69; 3/ Guatemala Bonds, l)u. Acct. 626 1 1 1 31 3 Ditto Acct. dis. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. NIA Kr. rani. Chilian 100 5 X Colombian 100 . S Havtirn 100 5 United Mexican 40 Yo Ditto New 40 10 IS 16 151 Droitwich Patent Salt 25 15 IS Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 19 71 - 11 2i At elate meeting of the Nevi Roman Catholic Asso ciation. O'Courirtoo seized the occasion to allude to the distress now prevailing in England. For many years past this person has thrust himself into such notoriety among his countrymen, that it is supesfluous for us to r mind the Reader that he is universally admitted to be the leader and authorized organ of that body in Ireland who have so long agitated the nation, for the ostensible purpose of obtaining from the Brit sh Parlia ment a law conferring political power on Papists. In Assuming, therefore, that he speaks the sentiments of his party, we are authorised by every known rule by which parties are held together.—He is a man of can slcierable private fortune and of good education, and so ar• many of those who co-operate with him. We have a right, therefore, to infer that the recent downfal of so n - aly pr incely establishments in England, involving in tl eir ruin the happiness of thousands and tens of thou sands of respectable families, would have affected the n-,lnds of our generous fellow-subjects of the sister king doms% ith emotions of the deepest sympathyand commise ration. Besides, those men have at all times, in soliciting equality of privileges, so earnestly placed in the fore ound their undivided loyalty, their unshaken attach rt...nt to England, their ardent desires, their most fer vent prayers for the advancement of the prosperity of our common country, that fee , ainotig us cook) n,uster up such callous sceptici m as to suspect the sincerity of professions so long, so solemnly, se vehe mently, • and so constantly reiterates. The no ,n tide prosperity of this part of the Empire is, for the moment, overshadowed by a disastrous eclipse—a blighting mil dew bad passed over the land, sod threatened for a time every inch of the surface wi•lt desolation.— Cart we doubt that, in such circumstances, the sever- I AUGSBURG, Dsc. 16. • . ~~ .tussavag hilities of our professed friends. and brethren of the Roman Catholic persuasion •will be powerfully awaken ed, and that they will mourn over our sufferings? Besides, a little while ago, Ireland - 0 sorely afflicted with famine, felt the generous and unmeasured bounty . of the English people flow into every cabin and cottage inhabited by her vast population, in which there W4i misery to be succoured, sickness to be alleviated, or nakedness and hunger to be replaced by comfort. They are said to be proverbially grateful. Their orators and leading' men, who undertake to interpret their feelings, have no doubt, then, in gratitude for recent favours heaped on •them with a prodigal hand, hastened to expiess their sorrow for the afnicted poor of England, who are likely to encounter want and misery in consequence of the late unprecedented convulsion in commercial and manufacturing pursuits. Such are the natural and just expectations of the English people. They are answered by O'ConrsaLL as follows : Ihe present calamities of the people of E►tgland are a consdation to him." We do hope that these words will be remembered when next the Catholic Petition is laid befae the Re presentatives of the people of England. We say they are the words of the Catholic body, because they are not indignantly disavowed, nor the _utterer of them hurled with abhorrence from his unworthy pre-emi nence in their councils. We say, moreover, that they are identically the sentiments of that “ fine animal" on this side the water, with whom O'CONNELL has fraternized; sentiments too well known to contain the thrice diftilled essence of hatred, rancour, and malignity, against the welfare and glory of this nation. Furtunately, the mask is at last thrown off, and if, hereafter, the British Parlia ment should confer power on those who avow them selves the implacable foes of the British people, it can not be said that they will have erred in ignorance. Lisbon Gazettes to the llth instant, reached us this forenoon. They contain no intelligence from B.axil, and, indeed, possess little interest. The KINO had issued a decree, assembling a Committee, to propose a plan to his MAJZSTY a for the definitive organization of the military system for garrisoning the islands of the Azores. Another Royal decree, dated 21st November, states, that the representations of some Masters, Doctors, and Students, of the University of Coimbra, had been laid before his MAJiaTY ; they were implicated in the pro ceedings instituted there on the restoration of his MA• sesvt's inalienable rights, and were, in consequence, removed to a distance from their usual place of abode, and from the literary career to which they had dedicated themselves, with a view to their future establishment in life:—though the Royal pardon has been extended to them, so far as to exempt them from the punishments to which some of them were sentenced, they are still cut off from their future prospects, and their innocent fa milies in great distress. His IsfAxasilr, therefore, wish ing to extend his Royal clemency, to as great a number of individuals as possible, and considering that party animosity had a great part in the imputations under which they . suffered, 2nd also, that- the cued,' committed proceeded in a great measure from the giddiness, inexperience, and ardour of misguided youth, has been pleased to extend his Royal pardon, published in the decrees of June 5, 1824, and of June, 24, 1825, to all those Members of the University who have not been banished from the kingdom, that they may all return and resume their literary occupations and studies : but those Professors, whose chairs have been given to others, are not to be restored to them, but they are to be retained by the new Professors, till there is a vacancy of some other chairs for which they may be qualified. The Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 17th December, con tains the following article on the situation of Greece, which we shall be happy to ledrn is unfounded : The Ossereetere Trials*, of the 6th, says, " By a ship which has arrived here to-day, in six days from Prevesa, we learn that the Captain Pacha's Beet appeared before 111isselonghi, on the 2Sth November, and that the surrender of that fortress was, in conse quence, thought to be near at hand. It was said, that the Govern. ment of klissolonghi had left the place on the approach of the Beet, and had lied to Zante. It was likewise said, that Ibrahim Pacha had sent to Egypt, onboard of 40 transports, many Greek families whom he had taken prisoners in his expedition to klistra." The French Papers of Thursday, and the Etoile of , yesterday have reached us. The latter contains several ordonnances of the K NO of France. The most important is that which convokes the Chamber of Peers, and the Chamber of Deputies, which ate summoned to meet on the 31st of January not. Another decree, raises to the Peerage, Sieur de BrAussrr ROQUirORT, Archbishop of Ai:. A third transmits the title of Due de Cossaustro, on the Baron of that name ; and by another ordonnance, H. de floos,the Advocate- General (who distinguished himself in the late prosecutions of the Consiihaionnei and the Courier Francais), is named Maitre des Re guce:s, in the room of Sieur MAILLA&D, who is named Counsellor of State. M. BILLART, the Procureur-Getteral of the Cour Royale, has contradicted the statement in the Cour Wr Francais, that the Keeper of the Seals was in the Court during the deliberations on the affairs of Spain. The Elide contains no further particulars relative to the death of the Emperor ALEXANDIIII. It has, however. one important para graph connected with the subject. It is an article from Berlin, of the 15th inst. (erroneously said November'), which states, that as soon as the Court of Berlin receives the official news of the death of the Emperor ALIMANDER, Prince Wn.wat, of Prussia, son of the Kiwi, will repair to St. Petersburib, to compliment the Em_ peror CONSTANYIKZ: We think it is pretty clear from this, that the Rapt Almanack maker of &alit is no conjuror, or he would not have made the blunder of calling the Grand Duke Nu:not/A heir to the Throne of Russia ; fur had the King of Puussia had any idea of a disputed succession, he would not be so ready in his felicitations on the' accession rif CONSTANTINE, particularly as the Grand Duke NICIIOLAS is his son in law. The Dale, after giving an account of Taganrok,and that part at the country generally, says it can excite an surprise that the Ex raloll perished in a climate so very unhealthy. The Govetiinient of Azoi, in which the town of nsanfok ' " 4, +voted, eo,npri•es those provinces which the floc:fans acioired from the Turks, by the treaty of 1774. A description of Taganrok hai . alreedy been given in the Stet of Wednesday. The Mode contains some accounts from Spain, by which it ap pears that M. Zan Baumann set out for Dresden on the 11th inst. The high price 't bread in Madrid had excited much discontent among the lower orders, which had manifested itself in such a way as to call forth the attention of the police. An article from Zante, dated the 12th of November, repeats the account of the defeat of the enemy by the Greek Chiefs, KAZAIS ICAZI and SMUT* ; and the capture, by the former, of a convoy be longing to RILINCHID NOM, consisting of a lumdred camels, and two hundred horses and•mules, escorted by three hundred and fifty men, the whole of whom, excepc fifty, were killed. An article from Trieste, of the 9th of December, states, on the authority of letters from Corfu, of the 2.3 d ult. that the arrival of the Turkish fleet before Missolooghi, is confirmed ; but they are silent at to the report of the Commission of Government established in the city having fled to Zante. The same letters add, that three European transports, having on board some Greek families, which 1111ANIX PACIIA was sending to Alex andria, had been taken by the Greeks and sent to Hydra. DINNER TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. A Dinner was yesterday given at the George Tnn, Huntingdon, by the Freeholders of the County of Huntingdon, to Lord John Russell, for the purpose of expressing their approbation of his con duct in PArlisment, and for his general services. Upwards of 140 persons sat down to an excellent dinner. J. Bonfoy Roper, Esq. Chairman. After the bniths of the King and the Royal Family had been drank with the usual honours, the CHAIRMAN proposed the health of their Noble and Worthy Representative, Lord John RusselL The toast was drank with much applause, and his Lordship re turned thanks in a speech of considerable length ; In the course of which, he avowed those political principles whi ch his Lordship Is know% to profess. The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the health of the Chairman, who returned thanks. Some other toasts were drank, and the harmony and good humour were kept up to a late hour. PLYMOUTH, DECemBER 22. The BRAMBLE Cutter, Lieutenant Favatt., which arrived her* on Senday from Rio de Janeiro, left that place on the 26th October, at which time there were lying there his Majesty's ship Wril.t.zster (Sir Gannet Eva; K.C.8.) Commander-in-Chief, Captain FALCON ; Dtamoun, 46, Captain LAO NAPIER; BLANCHE, 46, Captain Mums (which latter was to "sail the same day with the BRAMELE, to go round Cape Horn); Jessup'. 16, Captain Maanx; Francis Freeling packet, with the mails for England, via Lisbon, to which place Colonel Faerstawrze was going in her, charged with dispatches for the Portuguese Government. The Baasszcz has come in with both her mainmast and bowsprit badly sprung. She is only seven days from St. Mary's, the easternmost island of the Azores (twenty-four hours of which she lay-to in a gale), close by which place she spoke his Majesty's ship Teas, from India, bound to England. On the arrival of the Waastrrz In the East Indies, Captain Cassocc, will take the command of the BOADICEA frigate, in which Sir Jamas Dumas will hoist his flag as Cqnamander-in Chief on the South American station, until the arrival out of the Java,which is to be the permanent flag-ship. Joust hetes, Esq. is appointed Secretary to Rear-Admiral Gana, and Messrs. ARTHUR Danz and Ham BRENTON, clerks. WINDSOR, Dec 2$ —At two in the afternoon his MaJzser ' accompanied by the Loaa Sratwaan, took his departure from th e Royal Ledge, in the puny phaeton, for his customary drive and airing in the Gteat Park. His Muter/ first drove to Virginia Water, and inspected the improvements making there.— His MAJESTT then visited the New Lodge and Cranbourne, and returned by Sandpit-gate. The Earl of LIVSRPOOL left his house in Whitehall, an Thursday evening, for his seat at Coombe Wood, near Kingston, Surrey. Yesterday morning, the CHANCELLOR of the Excite aria arrived in town from Charlton, &at ; and after transacting business at the Treasury, returned in the evening to Charlton. ' The Duke of YORE, on Wednesdat morning, experi enced an attack of lumbago; but we are happy to say his Royal Highness was able to ride out in his chariot yesterday. The Duchess of Gz.oucesTra arrived in town yester day at her house in Park-lane; and at half-past three o'clock, her Royal Highness left London. on her return to Bagsbot. A large and distinguished party of Fashionable: at tended the Fourth Lecture on Astronomy delivered before the Members of the Western Literary and Scientific Institution, last eveninglit their Rooms in Suffolk-etreet, ' Mr. Huoven, sen. the King's Messenger, arrived at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, late on Thursday night, with dispatches for Mr. Secretary Camino. from our Ambassador at Madrid. Mr. Mersa came by way of Paris. A Messenger arrived yesterday morning at the Fo reign Oct,ffi with dispatches from our Ambassador at Madrid, which are supposed to be of considerable importance. His Majesty the King of PORTUGAL has given orders for a Court mourning for one month, beginning the Mot Deceilber, for the late King of liavaara. Yesterday moriing, Captain CUNNINGHAM arrived at: Mr. Secretary CANNING 'S Once, with dispatches from Sir CRAWLS STUART, our Ambassador at Brazil, the purport of which is under. stood to relate to the Commercial Treaty with this country. It is' added that these dispatches contain the Emperor Don Proao's final answer respecting the total abolition of the Slave Tiade. The' Baawais was 54 days on her passage, and left our squadron on that station in perfect health. We observe that a Second Edition of Kelly's•Rerinis awes. in small octavo, is already publisbed.We ought not, however, to be surprised at this. During a large portion of the life of the hero, his house was the resort of the brilliant wits, dramatic writers, and most acute Statesmen of our time. Sesames, General BOVILOOTNE, General FIT:PATRIC% lard Guu.nioau, Sir CHARLES BAMIPTLII% J. IiteIIAILDSON, Dr. LAURILNe% (lemon COLMAN. FILZDIGICIL RSV NOLO% STEPHEN STORACI, Prince HOAX% the witty HAI% the ec centric Cov, imam v, and all the eminent musicians, leading vocalists, and popular actors who figured during that period at the liWig's Theatre and the two Theatres !loyal, were Kact.v's constant guests and associates. We regret to state that the tower of Fonthill Abbey fell, on Wednesday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, destroying the Halt, the whole of the Octagon, and great part of the Gene ties, North and South, together with the first crimson room, having quietly descended hue the fountain court, leaving the grand entrance standing with the organ in Matt gip, and the statue of the late Al derman BIICIFORD in its niche. Only one accident has occurred, although the servants were engaged in taking out some •f the win dows, and had fortunately just escaped in time to avoid being buried in the ruins. Mr. Kum:Tama bad taken the precaution to move to the East wing, together with Mrs. Moan's'!" and her children. The latter had been in the daily habit of playing in the ralleries.— EXECUTI N —John Smith, who was found guilty of horse-stealing at the Essex Assizes, was yesterday ezecuted, pur suant to his sentence. We ielrn that a private m-eting of the creditors of Messrs. Srats, SNAIni. aucl Co. took place yesterday, at which assets were produced equal to lug in the pound on the amount of the debts of that house. At the Bank, the pressure of business had much di minished yesterday. The stock of gold is much on the increase. Lancashite, as tega - ds the banking system, seem 'to have escaped the shock altogether. A Liverpool letter of Wed nesday, says—" We have been merely spectators of the agitation of ether districts, without feeling any ourselves." It appe •rs (turn a circular of Sir WALTER STIRLING, Srsailtsa, and Hansom., that on Monday, the 23d of January near, tisk) , will pay exc-third of the amount of the claims upon them ; and they propose that the remainder of the demaad shall hear an interest of four per cent. from the Ist of January next, and that they will, in a very moderate space of time, make a further payment, and shortly after discharge every claim against them. The ISank 01 England will remain op,n on Monday, For the discounting tit bilis. This resolution has been adopted, lest the Batikets and Mtrchants should be placed in any difficulties on account of the three usual Bank holiiays next week (Monday, Tuesday, and Wed. t.eiday), should a prebuilt arise from the country. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Tbe Glasguw, from Cork to Penzance ; Lq u i, 2 f run I Falmottb ; Union, from dit to to Southampton; ' Jane nf ford ; Ceres, of Cork ; R e p ute , of Ttalee ; Riptdition 'of von; and the Diligence, P ortuguese schooner, were dri've., at ornin Cove of Cork, dating a ga l e on Monday night and mg. The 'Fhornas Peile, F.r.t.ts, from Quebe c to Liverpool, on shore near the Saltees, on Tuesday morning, but .- aid took th e got off. PA LMOUTH, Dec. 22.—s Wind variable. lig , ht French Freeling packet, from Rio de Janeiro and - - the formet in 54, and the latter iu nine days, with went off immediately by Expre•s ; Spitfire, BARRA MI, In four days; and the Sandwich packet, from I Ith tilt.* Spoke, the same day, the Num transfer, g On the 19th, in lat. 45. long. 9. fell in with of the smack Hurrell, of Salcane, from Lisbon, ohh ish n " schooner Mayflower arrived at Lisbon on the 6th • taken out the crew of the Jane, from Liverp oo l f or in lat. 46. long. 41. Put back, the Perseverauce, Tampico. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 25.—Wi n d S. W.—Arri ve d the been a thick fog in the Azosacorr, from Antwerp for I n di a ; Friends, Haarßristol; and the Alert, Dutratinao., from St. P e s ee , hurzi. frombila D ct t L je s s a yis eb t e i acc. p.T2Thar—e,rfeworhiaCnsdbabeeths. W —Arrived th e a b out noon, when, on its clearing away, a ship and three discovered on the Goodwin Sands, the former idolfar hints Bunt Head. The boats are gone off, and as the weathe r is flue, and the water smooth, we have no doubt of their into safety. Tunis, p.m—Their names are, the Fleetwood, Sacs, o f don, from Newcastle for Jamaica; llumilir p, Donlon; A LOSRION ; and John, Dove,all of Sunderland. Petruoirrai, Dec. t.—The arrivals daring the past week fron t abroad have been limited, and vessels from the westward have beta kept out of the Channel by strong R. and S. li winds, from s.h.et, quarter it came en to blow violently on Monday morning, at Aloe one o'clock (it baying previously veered from W. to W.S. W.) so d continued a hurricane till about 10 a ts. Towards the cternikir, it gradually subsided into a moderate breeze at 13.5.$ which caute,l several mil of homeward-bound vessels to put into our harbour, and spare their canvass till a mote favourable breeze at W.:bosl2o. able them to proceed up ChanneL Amongst them was the tu g American ship Acasta, one of the line cf packets betweesi Xtrt York and London. The shipping in our different roulmesils ra 4 l e out the gale in safety. CORN AND THE CORN LAWS • TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE STAR. w nt ea , dnd H srin i z s cia . m. W ieniol . t:s a ho n en t i l pa ii i i eh d s i cereoc : a. , RAMIPATZ, DICIDIRCIL 9, MS. SlR—Your immediate insertion of my le rter ,i n Te o, opposition o t w h s a s,i t t o oe f nm y ta o on u dy r so c um o r r y ore t w h s o a n an k vd s oe ; ing, at the same time, that the dispassionate tone yia adopt in discussing this very momentous question, pie. tents a striking contrast to the rancorous hostility which the Landed Interest is assailed by of some you cotemporaries of the Daily Pies, That you take an erroneous view of this subject, yr* observations of Monday's d ite more than ever convince me, and I am induced to take up my pen again, not much from a wish to fill up your really valuable columns, as for the sake of reasoning tbe matter Milli fair and candid opponent. To a large proportion of owners and occupier, of thin (rather poor) land (averaging a rent .of from 20s. to 255. an acre), of which very many large painhe, wholly consist, a reduction of price to the extent of, raj from 60s. to 40s. per quarter for wheat, must be total ruin. The land of this description cannot be laid douse to permanent pasture at any expense, is not aday.ef for the growth of trees, and therefore can yield nothing whatever if thrown out of the cultivation of corn: all wet, stiff, and hungry clays, require draining, and: more expensive culture; in short all lands throughout the kingdom, now paying a rent up to M. an me, must of necessity go out of cultivation altogeler. In short, dab proportion of soil so rich (exclusive of pas. tures, which afford no means of subsistence by labour to the agricultural poor) as to withstand the effects of a free importation of foreign corn, to the extent of greatly reducing the price (and without this you du nothing), is very small. I do not bring forward this statement of individual hardship as any argument against a measure of on• doubted advantage to the community at large, bet merely to prove the futility of your statement, that tbe Landed Interest themselves would be benefitted by the change; that they would, by the reduction both of prices arid taxation be enabled to live in greater co* fort, and even splendour (these were your words!) than now, Ste. As to mortgages or other debts, jointures, fortunes secured to younger children, &c. it is needless tO mention them—as I said before, all income must cow, We will suppose, however, that the landlord nd the farmer are to be sacrificed, together with (in a great degree at least), the tradesmen in country mess 3114 villages, who are supported by them—still the greater difficulty remains to be got over—what is to become of the large agricultural population, for whom there will be neither any employment tor (remember !) any resource from Poor Rates? A reduction in the price of bread, etc. would be of but little consequence to people so situated : we know too well the demorali zation which rapidly follows upon idleness and distress. No, Mr. Editor, depend upon it we never can re turn to very low prices in this country, and the sooner the mischievous phantom is chased from our brains the better, for whenever they were attained, it would not only be by the most cruel sacrifice and distress, but would be anything but an evidence of prosperity. I have, in fact, in no one instance seen a cmse wade oat prove the necessity of tampering with, or changing our present laws at all, at such a manifest risk. They have not yet even had a fair trial, though their effect has certainly hitherto been not only to keep price' steady, but moderate, and becoming still more so every day. This, lam satiffsed,would be the sure consequeolie of duly protecting and encouraging our own agricu.7 tare, and thus yearly increasing, by improvements aal competition, the produce of our own hippy coati* where every man would find that his capital was erit' barked in security, and his skill and industry rewarded; The direct reverse would follow the abandonment your own, and dependence upon the foreign gotta-. your gold sent out of the country, prevent low price., attended with widely spread ruin and distress at hale; and when fair England has become again a wide waste and morass ; or, according our political economists, one lation, total dependence ur hostile countries, for our sir of continual fluctuation in its famine I—l am, Sir, your's All the accounts received Arm oar statetrieln in the STAR of the Emperor Atexatiosa ; namely instant, after a *hurt illness. The . instant, received this morning, says, the Russian legation here, the nit/ Majesty, the Bantam", died on the after a short illness of only two day' ►r ri:l' r e t i nn rb e d iirur.;Bo:ihipj:iidNtn:effrei instant i nria tv uev' , :nie n i o f ve gi f, a l a r . n s li is ) h 4 .1 i 4 1 ,0 4111; 1 ti le ~.ti but expect e d t► • airs A '" ---..rr mt d and Lisbon ; ( h idivatris et , t Alamo, r e , n r . 1A5b ,,,, --1,,, 1 , 4 tran von, a I took the cre w ', with fi s h - wee, Tuolus, ri►ed the is, ifee o p iat rsbursi. s ailed 1114 twis Roo; 1 the D 0 ,,,,,, s u of three e at at r weathe r is s ee of their bein g g Is Baca, of L. 1 / 4 1 woN; Away, ; oceanic again , to the Utopian .chenie ne vast manuractuiing pep°. upon foreign, and k eilar istenance, with the certainty. its price, and perhaps even" faithfully, A MAN OF KENT. from the Continent cte of Thursday, as to the death ti •ly, that it took place on the Di he Frankfort Journal, of the 1 70 lays. " A Courier has brought melancholy intelligence tbil the 114 of this mouth, at figlar". Lays." - _