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THE MERtHANTS OP LOND N ON AND LONDON DOCK COMPAY. --.4..... TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Stß—The Mercantile Interest of the Metropolis must f e el much obliged to you for the important documents fablished in the STAR of yesterday, and as you solicit t ether communications, I forward to you the following ones, which I saw attached to the Declaration yester ay ; a circumstance which I think of considerable im portance, as it chews the opinion of the great body of the Merchants of London: scat, Garnett, and Palmer. J. Bishop. Edward Lee and Son. Hodgkinson and CO. R. A. Goldschmidt and Co. Beckwith and Barrow. Hannan and Co. Waugh and Sons. Brandram and Co. Fawkes, Horner, and Co. Sir Charles Price and Co. Herrings and Burbidge. t 7. R. and C. Price and Co. Fynmore and Co. Haldliniad and Sons. Heath, Son, and Furze. Itnagemont and Behrends. . G. Dorrien and Co. Vimlir and Co. Gen. Brooks. The following notice was sent to the London Docks yesterday: " January 24, 1R24. " Sm—l am ordered to send you the following instructions, not to issue transfer certificates for any goods whatever, until offer oil that u required kr the order to 6c done shalt be completed. 4 . G. ROBINSON, Secretary." Therefore the holders or proprietors of goods have not the power of transferring their property, upon the usual mercantile orders, without delay, and the expense of weighing, transferring, and re-housing. Such a delay will at times be attended with seirous consequences, where goods are sold for immediate payment, or money is wanted to be advanced upon them. The usual order has been—" Weigh and deliver, trans fer (Sr rehouse . " Upon receiving this order it has' been usual to transfer only, for which was paid one; penny per package. Orders for goods presented this day have been returned, as no transfer is to be granted till the goods ate weighed, delivered, and rehoused, therefore transfer is then of course nugatory. It is said a great division has existed among the Di rectors relating to these extraordinary proceedings. It is to be regretted that the names of those who have sup ported, and those Directors who have opposed measures , so injurious in their consequences, are not known. It is well known that the ready transfer of property has re lieved many respectable houses from presort and tem porary difficulties. A GENERAL MERCHANT. THE 4101 Y. Yesterday the Officers of the Royal Horse Guards gave a grand dinner to the Officers of the 34th Regiment, at their Cavalry Bar racks. The Band of the Royal Horse Guards attended, and played during tile evening. Major-Genera Sir Howann Dorctas, Bart. having succeeded the hte Major-General Satine in the Government of New Brunswick, will proceed, in the Spring, to take upon himself the Government of that province. Wednesday twenty-two recruits landed at Leith from London,, enlisted fur the 94th regiment, which is already considerably Atwel l u, :mended strength. Sunday the depot of the 95th Regiment, formed at Kilkenny,' sa.:r the command of Major FALCONER, 78th Highlanders, arrived a Lfriciol from Waterford, after a tedious passage of seven days, sal disembarked, nearly 400 strong, on Monday ; they have since marched in three divisions f:r AN'inchester. The parties which have proceeded from Dublin and Cork were expedited front those re cruiting stations, in consequence of the sudden removal of the depot from Kilkenny. The 59. d has relieved the 74th Regiment, in the garrison of St. Jobn's, New Brunswick. On the arrival of his MAJErrr's warrant in town for authorising thr raising the 96th Regiment of Foot, the recruiting for that Corps will immediately commence. Detachments belonging to the 54th and 89th Regiments of In fantry will march from the Isle of Wight on Thursday, for Chatham.' Detachments belonging to the 30th, 46th, and the 41st Regi revs of Foot, will march from Portsmouth, on Friday next, for Chatiam, to embark for India. A division of recruits belonging to the 95th Regiment of Infan try .vill arrive to-day, and another to-morrow, at Winchester, from Leland. HALF-PAY OFFICERS. COPY OE ♦ LETTER SENT TO SEVERAL OFFICERS ON HALF-?AY. Horse Guards, Jan. 21, 1824. Six—l am directed by the Commander-in-Chief to acquaint you, that in consequence of the impossibility of finding Officer► on the Retired List, who are equal to the duties required in the three Royal Veteran Battalions in Ireland, it has been determined to fill up the existing vacancies in these battalions from the Line, under the following restrictions : That the Officers so selected shall, in the event of reduction of the battalions to which they may be appointed. not be entitled to re tirement on Full Pay as heretofore, but shall be placed upon Half- Pay, unless they shall have been previously to such reduction trans ferred pr exchanged to Regiments of the Line. That the Offices. shall produce certificates of Army Medical Of ficers, that they are fit for any duty. That they shall be allowed to exchange with Officers of the Line, hut that no exchange will be sanctioned unless the Officer thus brought into a Veteran Battalion shall be certified to be fit foe tiny duty, that Officer to be equally liable to reduction to Half-Pay. Nu (neer appointed on this occasion to the Veteran Battalions, will be allowed to sell his Commission, or to receive the difference upon retiring on llalf-P•zy. His Royal Highness intends to recommend you for Full Pay, in the Royal Veteran Battalion, and desires that you will Immo. dietely transmit to me the required certificates of fitness for any duty, arid state your readiness to join that battalion in Ireland, within one month of the date of your appointment. In failure of winch it will be cancelled, and another Officer appointed.—l am, Sir, your must obedient humble servant, (Signed) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. H. TAYLOR. Friday, the PRINCE or WALlSRevenue cutter arrived in Leith Roads, from Plymouth. The Success, PRWHAM, bound to Dartmouth, was wrecked on Figatras Bar, on the Sth inst.—crew saved. C. 4 l , t 4 httoecn, who superintends the raising of volunteers for the Navy, is promoted to the rank of Post Captain. 12 ""uTlit JANUARY 85. Wind &W.— Arrived the Regent packet, COLLINS ; from London ; and Mary, FORD ; from Lisbon. PoeTsmourn, JANUARY 46. •••• Wind S.W. Arrived the New JuNgs, from Malaga, with loss of main boom and topmast; American ship Hud s on, fron t London for New York ; also arrive th- Loyal Briton transport, from ----; Ipd Indian trader, Tiloas.. so from Gibraltar. lh 3 LI JANUARY 26.—Wind S.W.—The Bolina, in fifty-three days from Demerara, passed through this morning ; and the Caro- Euwoen, from Faro. Came down front the River end re l'am, the &dada, for Jamaica ; and Montrose, —, for Tri ni4ll Arrived front Leith, the Lune, FRA:III4 for Jamaica. The Ronourable Company's ship Thomas Coutts put back yesterday aad remains, with the outward-bound. Lraoraix., J•NCART as. -- Arrived the Atlas, CLARE, fromßuenos Ayres--sailed Ist November; Harriet, IVlnt.su, from Ja rlaira—sailed Ist December, without convoy ; Triton, Dixote, from Savannah —sailed let January; Unicorn, M'Koww, from New Or lin:is—bade:lBth December; Caledonia, BISNAW ; Wilson ; SIXPSON, :rum Dr. merara ; and Mediterranean packet, front the Mediterranean. CUSTOM-HOUSE,. JANUARY 26. Sults ENTk:RED howAnns—The Prince of Saxe Coburg, from Rotterdam; Jean, front Seville; lielleuncle, from Stangate Creek; Fruit Preserver, from Harlingen ; Swift, Britannia, and Hibernia, t ram Waterford; Grebe, front Ross; Fortune, from Wexford ; and Christian, front Belfast. CLEARING . OurwAnsw—The Bonne Ifenriette, for Havre; and :Matilda, for Scam. AkitlVEh—At Port Ja‘son, the Sisters, Duke; Ann, Franklin ; Woodlark, Brown ; Alton, Summers ; Berwick, Jeffery ; Elizabeth, Ihele; and Admiral Cockburn, Briggs, from Landon; Urania, 'Newton; and Andromeda, Muddle, from Leith. At Pernambuco,' leaie, Beveridge, front Liverpool ; !full Dog, Graham ; Lazford, Bock; and Ann, APKenzie, —, front Newfoundland; Laurel, bnulop, front Scilly; Cleopatra, hitt epic!, and Adipe, front Havre; Frazer', .from Lisbon; Mary, !Rivera, from Litn altar ; Two Ca therine', from Amterdant ; Canada, ; and Vetere!, tross, irony .1,49.11d011 A 511B.IECT SURPRISED AND CAPTURED. On the conclusion of the Marlborough-street Office bositiess, at eight o'clock last night, a gaunt spectral figure of a man, upwards of six feet high, presented himself to the notice of Mr. CONANT, and, after a few hems, commenced in a sonorous tone—" Sir, my name is Gough. May it please your Worship, I am"— Wales, the officer, here interrupted him—" Yes, you are the line sufdect—you remember?" Gough—" task your pardon, I am not a niedect ; and, to tell you the truth, I don't want to be one." Wales (to the Magistrate)—This, Sir, is the man who a short time since entered 11r. Brooks's. the anatomist, as a living subject. Very late in the evening a knock was heard at the door, and on its being opened, Gough and a friend asked if the Doctor was within? they were informed he was not, but Gough, stepping within the threshold, exclaimed to Mrs. Stooks," My dearest angel, lam a subject at your husband's service." Mrs. Brooks, rather sur prised, asked an explanation. Gough continued, " Most excel lent rib of the pritnest cutter-Isp, I am anxious to undergo the co-operation of your Doctor's skill; therefore here I am, a sub ject for six sovereigns; tip up the blunt to my friend, and I a m the Doctor's live subject, Wail I quit the world's wide stage, and after that I am his stiff one." Mrs. gooks opened the door and ordered them to depart, but Gough swore most vehemently that he would not go ; he was a subject to all intents and purposes, and, very sea liautly, he and his friend proceeded to kick up a row, and finally, Wales, in endeavouring to quell the riot caused by them, received a tremendous body blow from Gough, for which assault a true bill was found at the Sessions, and Muter Gough ever since has con trived to be out of the way. But by sonic unlucky chance he last evening got rather top Army, and consequently becoming pat-valiant, presented himself most unthinkingly into the hands of justice. The following dialogue took place : Gough, with great surprise—" lack-a-daisy, what's the row? I am alive, indeed I am, whatsoever appearances may say to the contrary." 'Wales.—" A true bill for that assault on me has been found, and ever since you have been invisible." Mr. CONANT.—" Well, Sir, what say you ? Bail for your appear ance must be rendered, this flight of f..ncy is rather serious." Gough, as to the fancy part of it, the officer seems to speak feelingly orithat subject—but d—me if it is not a mistake ; I nei er was a subject. Mr. C,ONANT.—The officer seems to have been subject to your blows ; you must be detained. On this sentence being delivered, the jaws of Gough extended prodigiously, and he groaned abroa— d, You don't say so ; I never will offer myself as a added again as long as I live. I thought the thing was settled; I heard so,' aid casting a lingering glance at Wales, said, " It looks queer, don't it." The officer replied, " Yes, it does." Plank—" If you have riot bail, my good man, you must be de tained; and in that case you are a fit subject for Mr. Nodder, of Tothill-ilelds." ..... Gough extended his jaws further, and certainly had wonderfully the appt.arauce of an inmate of the grave : he again groaned out— " l'llr. Dodder, what line is he in ?—a Doctor—eh? I hope I am not going to a Doctor. Egad, a word in jest is often one iu reality, and I may be made a subject after all." It was ultimately determined that this would-be subject should hare the advantages of his own joke, and he was transbnitted to the jaikr, exclaiming—" Verily, young men, all fond of being jovial, don't in your cups visit natindsts or floor Itustfrrs, as it is dangerous, and this comes of my wanting to be a live subject." The fellow excited a great deal of laughter in the Office. BRIGHTON, JAN. 26.—1 n my last, I informed you of the KING having had a sudden attack of the gout. The answer to the numerous enquiries at the Palace, during the afternoon, was, " The KING has had a severe attack of the pint, but his AllaJxsTy is better to-day than he was yesterday." WINDSOR, JAN. 25.—This morning the Princess Au- cuss, accompanied by the Dowager Countess of HAacouitT, at. tended Divine Service at the Parish Church, where an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. GOSSETT. Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess of G LOU' MITES, attended by a Lady in Waiting, took an airing in her car riage from Bagshot Park, and paid a visit to the Princess Au- GUST t, at Frogmore, whew the ttuyal Visitor staid some time, and - . - - afterwards returned to Baphut to dinner. His Royal Highness the Duke of YnRK arrived in t wn on Sunday morning early from Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl of VERULAM. His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX gave a grand dinner on Sunday, at Kensington Palace. Sir GEORGE WARRIENDER, Bart. gave a grand dinner l on Sunday last, in WhiteWl-place. The Earl and Countess CRAVEN and family are ex ._ petted in town on Tuesday next, from their seat, Combe Abbey. The Marquis of TicavrELD has nearly recovered front his late severe indisposition. The Honourable STRATFORD CANNING entertained Mr. Secretary CANNING and a distinguished party to dinner yester day, at his house in Berkeley-square. The Duke of ST. ALBAN'S and the Ladies BEAUCXERK arrived yesterday at their house in St. James's-square, from their seat, Girton, Surrey. The Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY left town yesterday afternoon, fur their seat, Hatfield. Lord and Lady CARRINGTON and family arrived yes terday at their house, Whitehall-yard, from their seat, Wycomb Abbey, Bucks. Earl VISRULAM arrived yesterday at his house in Grosvenor-square, from his seat, Gorhambury, Herts. Lord ELLaNaosouott has left his seat at Ruehamp toe, for Brighton. Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY has arrived in town, from the Earl of AIinatIRIMASI ' S seat, in Sussex. Lieutenant-General Baron de HOCHEPIRD and family have left the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, for their seat in Sussex. i MM. M. ORLANDO and J. LURIOTTIS, the Deputies) from the Greek Government, arrived in London yesterday. Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, a Cabinet Coun cil was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, being the first since the general return of Ministers to London. The Council was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers. They continued in delibera tion till about a quarter before five o'clock. Friday evening Mr. HILL, the King's Messenger, left town with dispatches fur the Right lion. Hsnxv Wm.axsr.xv, our Ambassador at Vienna. Yesterday morning Lieutenant WHITE arrived at the Colonial Office, with dispatches from New South W ales. The Right Hon. Lord GWYDYR abatted from SO to 40 per cent. upon the rents due by his tenants in Perthshire, at Martinmas last. It at length seems to be acknowledged, even by the sons of that Land of Song, Italy, that England is a musical nation, if we may judge from the influx of foreigners professing that branch of the Fine Arts. Among the latest arrivals in London is that of M. Ascot, a young musical composer and performer of great abi lity, well known in France and to the profession as the pupil of M. Malmo, one of the most esteemed composers in Europe ; he has brought with him a large quantity of manuscript Operas and Pieces, which have obtained great applause in Paris, a nd cannot fail to in- 1 trodnce bins to the notice and support of those in this country who delight in fostering early genius. He displays great execution eel the piano-forte ; and we anticipate that Signor BINELI.I, who has ser actively exerted himself to support the reputation of the Italian Opera, will not lose the opportunity of associating M. ANCOT with Rossi:a l and SPAGNOLIIII, in the musical derpartment cf that establishment. The Lady of LINDERTIS, with her usual liberality, hap clothed all the poor in Airly parish. DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS FERRARD.—Died, in her, 87th year, at C.ollon, in the county of Louth, the seat of the vene- I able l i ord Oanu., on Tuesday night, the 20th instant, the Right Hum. Maar:arum Viscountess Fsanuan Baroness Oriel, the Lady lot that distinguished Nobleman. Iler adyship was a Peeress in her Inn' right, and is succeeded in her titles by her only son, the Right Hon . THOMAS H. Sserrisorox ' one of the Representatives fur the l eounty of Loutb, but now Lord I The remains of Mr. GASCOYNE were removed on ' Saturday morning, fur interment at Barking, in ESSeI; the Mar quis of Samovar and Colonel GASCOYOZ, brother to the deceased, were the chief mourners. Mr. Gascovut, it is said, died worth £150,000, exclusive of estated property. The quantity of gold re moved from his house in Great Stanhope-street, since his death. its said to be immense. The late Mr. MA RRYAT r, M.P. report says, has left' his widow £4,000 per annum ; £51,000 to each of seven sons, sad £12,000 to each of three daughters. MATHEWS is ag.rin at Manchester, exhibiting his bud• get of eccentricity and fun in all its variety. LISTON retires frrßn Drury-larte Theatre after the pre scut week, for a short period, to perform at Bath, Bristol, turd Exeter. LAW INTELLIGENCE. . COURT OF CHANCERY, JANUARY 26 . JUDGMENT.ZLGOI/RLAY V. Tfl DUKE of SOMERSET. His LottostitP, in making some preliminary obser vations respecting this case, before he proceeded in what he considered his judgment, again complained of. not having been properly furnished with affidavits, re-' specting the identity of the plans that wet e produced at the trials. He also wished that much of the language which had been used when the case was last argued, had not been used; he alluded particularly to some thing Mr. Gourlay had said about a steward of the Duke's.—His Lordship then proceeded to enter at great length into the matters before him. It appeared to his Lordship absolutely necessary, in deciding this case, to go through the whole of the record, an d' accot dingly lie stated, with great minuteness, the original and amended bills, the answers, the agreements, the deposi tions on both sides, the evidence givea at the trials, and the different repot is tha: had been made by the Mas ters. At half-past one his Lordship completed his statements of the record, and declared that, to the best of his ability, equal justice should be done to the parties in this cause, as well as in all other causes, let their dif ference of situation be what it may ; but his Loidship was too fatigued to conclude his observations, and therefore he postponed what he had further to say, till Wednesday morning; by that tittle the Court wished to know it any person could swear the plans now be• fore the Court were not the plans that had been ex• hibited at the trials, and therefore to contradict Mr. G affidavits. Mr. HART said he knew now that nobody could make an affidavit that they were not the affidavits. His Loapsifity,then thought. it must be taken for granted that these were the plan's. Gourlay then begged to make an observation or two, the amount of which was, that he had ever since! Christmas been living on the charity of some Ladies, which he only accepted on certain conditions, and which he would not have accepted from men, for " Pity melts the soul to love ;" and as he had now only one shilling in the world, and, knew not where to raise another, he wished to know what he was to do, particularly with respect to his being able to sue as a pauper' His LORDsIIIP, in leaving the Court, said, it was not his duty to instruct any suitor how to proceed, but he felt satisfied that any Gentleman at the Bar would give Mr. Gott:lay any advice he stood in need of. Mr. Gourlay.—But I'll present a regular petition re specting that to-morrow. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JANUARY 26. TAYLOR AND WATERS. An application was made by Mr. HEALD in this case to his Honour to subject the Master's Report to a revi sion. The Master had reported that a sum of £956 was due by the former Proprietors of the Opera House to the estate of the late Signor Naldi. The Report had been confirmed, and his present motion was, that on the ground that the account was irregularly taken, the Re port should be subjected to a revision. Mr. SUGDEN opposed the motion, and urged the de lay that had intervened between the Report and the present tardy application. The VICE-CHANCELLOR.—In this case there has been great, and appatently unauthorised delay. I cannot,' however, at present determine upon the reasons that in duced it. For rue purpose of hearing, therefore, Mr. Taylor's explanation as to its cause, I shall permit it to stand over. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 26. PERUVIAN LOAN. KINDERT AND CO. V. EVERITT AND CO. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are Contractors for the Peruvian Loan, to recover from the' defendants, who at•e bankers, certain instalments paid by the subscribers to the defendants on account of this Loan. The plaintiffs obtained a verdict for £75,000. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL this day moved for a rule calling upon the plaintiffs to shew cause why the vet. diet should not be set aside, and a new trial had. The ground relied upon in support of the motion was, that the powers of the persons who acted in this country as Envoys of the Peruvian Government, had been revoked before they gave authority to the plaintiffs to receive the instalments from the defendants. The Learned Counsel obs'rved that many imputations had been cast upon the defendants ;, but they were ready to pay over the instalments to whatever persons the Court should declare entitled to receive them; and in order to shew that they had no object except their own security in withholding the payment of this money, they would allow Exchequer Bill interest upon it up to the day of the decision of the Court, stating to whom the money should be paid over. Mr. Bitouonaat, for the plaintiffs, said they would be satisfied if the Court would direct that the money should be laid out in Exchequer Bills, to be lodged in the Bank of England. The COURT refused to make such an order, lest some difficulty might arise in getting the money out of the hands of a third party ; besides, such an order would cast upon the character of the defendants an imputation which the circumstances of the case did not warraor. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—I must say that many imputations which were not supported by the evidence were cast upon the defendants.--Rule granted. THE KING V. SHERWoOD AND oFHERS. • In the last Term Mr. Chitty obtained a Rule calling upon the defendants to strew cause why a criminal in formation should not be filed against them for having published a pamphlet purporting to be a Narrative of the facts and circumstances connected with the Murder of the late Mr. Weare. Mr. ScARLETT this day proposed to the Counsel for the prosecution, that the Rule should be discharged upon payment of coats, as his clients acknowledged that they could not justify the publication. Mr. Cif iTty, for the prosecution, assented to this pro posal.—Rule discharged. ARCHES COURT, JANUARY 26. • JOHN V. JOHN. Dr. SWABEY said this was a suit for the. admission of libel for divorce, instituted by Samuel John, Esq. of Cornwall, against his wife, by reason of adultery. Dr. JENNER, on behalf' of Mrs. John, stated the na ture of the libel, as pleaded by Mr. John, and took va. rious objections to the several articles contained therein. The 22d of January, 1810, the parties were married, and on the 24th of March following, Mr. John left his wife, for the purpose of attending his duties as Under Sheriff, in a distant part of the county. While he was absent, lie learnt that Mrs. John had been delivered of a female child, at the house of her father, a Gentleman of property and respectability, on the first of April ; and she admitted that her husband was not the lather of the child. the parties cOntra - eted the marriage 4 . better for worse, and it must have been quite con tent for Mr. John to have ascertained her pregnancy pre vious to marriage, so that no deception was practised upon him, and therefore the present libel could not be sustained ; the Court in similar cases have already put that question to rest, particularly in the case of Perrin v. Perrin, (Dr. Adam's Rep. Vol. I.) where Mrs Phrin previous to the marriage had been delivered of - two children, and she was actually receiving for their main tenance from her paramours the sum of 40V1. and 201 s but the Court held that the libel was inadmissible, be= cause the fact of the marriage was a waver of the hug band's claim, and any act committed previously would not jpstify him in suing frr a divorce. In 411 artielus of separation were agreed to between Mr. Gill (on loci halt of Mrs. John) and Mi. John, by which the Lillis fdrtune was restored to her, and her father was to MM• fain her. The deed of separation was intended by Mr. John's Counsel to be produced in evidence against her; but 1.i.2 (Dr. Jenne') conceived ;hat it ()ugly,: not to be received, because Mt John had not signed it, or been present at its execution. The father's will bequeaths 1.501. per annum to s. John, and 501. to the daughter born in April, 1813. Mr. Gill subsequentiy, sent his daughter to reside with the Rev. Mr. Palmer, where it is pleaded dirt she became acquainted with George lto. belt Foster, and frequently spoke of him in terms of great affection, sometimes feigning herself ill for the purpose of seeing him. They used to meet at the house of one John Smith, whose wile was Mrs. John's ser vant, and letters used to be left there for each other.--. On one occasion, when Mr. Palmer refused to send fof Mr. Foster, she flew into a violent passion and broke the glasses on the table; this was stated oh conjecture from their refusal to send for Mr. Foster, but Dr. Jen ner contended that was not sufficient to establish acts of adultery. The libel lastly pleaded that Mrs. John - got acquainted with Mr. Weyland, a Curate, who was discovered with the Lady in her bed-room in such a si tuation as left no doubt of the adulterous intercourse; now this important circumstance, if it were true ) ought to have been specified by a certain date, but in what year it is not even stated, and was therefore too vague to sustain the present libel. Dr. SWABEY, for Mr. John, contended that the %rd• des charging the adulterous inter course were as specific as was necessary to support the libel. It was urged as an objection that this sort of conduct in the Lady was stated to have continued for some years: why was not the present suit instituted before 1821 ? His answer was that Mr. John only received an intimation of the facts in that year : after having satisfied himself as to the grounds for the charge, he prosecuted it with as much dispatch as possible. Sir JOHN NICOL ordered the libel to be re-formed. A Leeward Islands Mail arrived yesterday, with let ters of the 15th of December, from St. Thomas's, the last port touched at, and con esponding dares from the other islands. Nothing had °centred on the Co' lombian Main subsequently to the fall of Puerto Ci vello ; but it is stated, that many commercial adven turers were repairing to that place, invited by the ap6 parently tranquil situation of the Itepublic, to con duct mercantile operations in that country. In Trinidad some symptoms of insurrection had been eiinced in tht plantations immediately adjoining Port Spain, but they had been promptly suppres s ed. In the rest of the island all was perfectly tranquil. The islands of Barbadocs, Tobago, and Antigua, also appear to be in a state of tranquillity. The New York Gazette of the Ist inst. after stating, on the authority of Captain ILYER, of the brig Cato, that tni the 2d December, firing was recoil menced from the Castle at Vera Cruz, on the town, adds, on the 4th Capt. Botta saw vessels of war lying at anchor 12 or 15 miles from the bar of Alvarado. On the 26th Nov.the account of the fleet off the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, was received at Mexico ; and which stated. that on the 21st a fleet had arrived from Havannah with pi ovs.ions, troops, Ste. and anchored off the Castle ; five saii of ves sels were counted, including a frigate. The Etoile of Saturday states, that' the -. wretched mother of Lecouffe, and her son, who were condemned some weeks ago for assassinating and lobbing an old woman who was their ittighhoni, in May. List, were exe cuted together on that day in the Place de Greve. The journalist remarks tha , this was the rust time for along period, that the scaffold of Paris ‘sitnessed the execution of mother and son as accoilip:kes. Letters by the Lisbon Mail of yesterday state, that 10,000 troops are immediately to he sent to the Brazils. A letter from Valparaiso of the 26th Sept states that the Government had issued a decree, ordering that all goods which had recently been pertnitted P.o he landed at the Custom-horse in transit*, should be taked out, and the duty paid on them immediately. GREEK Sus VERY.—Official Rev' t ns froth the Turkish Custom-house at Scio, report 11,000 women and chil dren to have been sold as slaves, and to have paid auc tion duties at that office, in May and June, 1822. Intelligence from Barbadoes of the 10th dz. states, that on the preceding Sunday arrived, after a passage of 40 days from England, his Maje.ty's frigate Isis, Admiral Sir L. W. HA LSTF.AD, K.C.B. having on board the Consuls for South America, timely, Mr. HENDER. SON, for Colombia ; Mr. TUPPER, for La Guayr.t; Mr. SUTHERLAND, for Maracaibo ; Mr. WATTS, for Cartha gelia ; and Mr. *GREGOR, for Panama. Letters from Odessa of the 20th ult. assert that the Captain Pacha had been beheaded at Constantinople in consequence of his want of succe.s in the late campaign, and that the Sultan's favourite HAILE EFFENDI had been raised to the post of Grand Vizier. It is stated in a private letter from Pails, written on Satur(lay evening, that M. TALARU, the French Am bassador at the Court of Madrid, had been recalled, and that further reinforcements wete ordered to pro ceed to Spain. We understand that Hunt received a geir:ral respite yesterday morning. It is expected that he wiil be im mediately sent on board a convict ship for transportation. JOHN SALTER, 35, Strai;cl, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Sword-cutler to his Royal highness die Duke of SustEst, respectfully returi.s his most grateful thanks to the Nobility, Gentry. his Friends, and the Public, who have so liberally supported him during twenty-four years. He takes this opportunity to inform them that he has rebuilt the house (lately destroyed by fire), at the c fa o s r i l l t i e o r n c a i b f l t e h eA Assortmentdelphi , w o h f er G e o h o e d s h , as su l c a l i s ci a i s n , t w ru n s n ts a d , will merit the continuance of their patronage, support, and approbation. Every attentionhai been paid to in crease the accommodation of his Friends, and he is de termined to meet the times, by selling the best At ticles on the very loss est terms. •i 1 __Ail