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-;* ri-4- rem. . • . ; I K • . X 1: , „ porc. • 467 far. P 9 4.4&_"'"'•"` ( 17( •,,, C 41,. AZ/lA/Oda . THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1827. [NNE Szvoiiimoicki NuMBEIt 12,675.] PirTVALLING °Mar, lirlealeer /4 .182 7. * I I HE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING 11 li,MArrarrs NAPPY, te. dater* gam notice, That on number, the 4th at October next, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat far the under mentioned Articles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Store, at Deptford, one half thereof by the 15th, sad the re mainder by the Slat of October next, viz. West India RUM . . Fifty Thousand Gaon& COCOA (Burma PLearramoiej Thirty Tons. ,liTucovado SUGAR . . One Hundred Tom Virpiala LEAF TOBACCO . Fifty Tons. BUTTER • • • Tea Tons. ( CHEESE • • Twenty Tons. PEAS (On-dried) . Two Thousand Quarters. MALT (Pale) • • Four Hundred Quarters. Princess Regent to the Ambassador of Austria, in the. presence of the whole diplomatic body. According to the Portuguese journalist, the Ambas sador asked if the Princess would not acknowledge the right of her brother Don Miguel, now in his 25th year, to assume the Regency? and the Princess answered the Ambassador, that he must apply to Don Pedro. It required but a slight examination, added the Aus trian Observer, to be convinced that this whole diplo• matic scene was a pure invention, and a new proof of the boundless audacity with which the pretended organs of public opinion continually endeavour to mislead and poison it. or a passport to join her husband; wh he might be. Fresh placards have been fixed op at the palace, and in the streets. FROM THR JOURNAL DRS DRBATI. MADRID, Sgrr.l3. 'PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Two regiments of light cavalry, detached from the army of observation, slept the night before last in thr environs of Madrid; and three regiments of infantry likewise from the same army, will sleep there to-night These five regiments are marching on Arragun, when they are to form a carps of observation. like that or Catalonia, -and, like that, also under the orders of si General, independent of the Captain General of tht Province. It is General Valdei, however, by his con. duct in Peru, who has been appointed General of th forces of operation in Arragon. General Esparta. wilt replaces M. de Campo Sagrado in the Captaincy Ge neral of Catalonia, is to set out from here the day after to•morrow. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. APPRENTICED NEGROES IN ANTIGUA. In consequence of an Address presented to his Ma. It-sty by the Noose of Commons, in the Session of 1821, Commission was appointed" to proceed to the British Colonies in the West Indies and South America, to in onire into and ascertain the numbers, names, situations, Ind circumstances of all Africans liberated from slavery inder the provisions of airy of the Acts of Parliament or Abolishing the Slave Trade, and which bad at any time been apprenticed, or entered or enlisted into his Majesty's land or sea service and afterwards discharged in the West Indies or on the said coptinent . of Sloth America, or which had been liberated there without laving been so arprenticed, entered, or enlisted, and to -report to his Majesty the information they should col lect, together with their opinion thereupon,"—Mr. Gannon was named one of the Commissioner,, and Ilk "Report bas just been printett by order of the House of Commons. We extract the important and interesting passages: • " The following Report relates to the state and con -Utica of the liberated Negroes condemned under the A►,solition Acts in the Vice Admiralty Court of Antigua. The number of African and Creole Negroes con demned to his Majesty in, the Vice Admiralty Court in Antigua, froni the Ist of May, 1807 (when the Aboli tion Act, 47th Geo. 111. came into operation), to the month of September, 1824, amounted, according to the documents, ttc. laid before the Commission, to 1.535. Of this number there were captured at sea by-Com manders and Officers of his Majesty's ships of war, I,3BB—Seized on board different vessels in the port of Antigua, by Officers of his Majesty's Customs, as for feited under the Abolition Acts, 137. Seized on shore, by Officers of the Customs, as for feited under the Abolition Acts, 10, They were dis posed of in the following moaner : Mates. Females. Twat Taken into the army..•. 784 533 1,017 Died previously to the mire tine for the army, or the dig posal by apprentidng Sent toTrinida, afteramdeim nation in the Vice Admiralty Court ... It was less easy, for want of authentic news, to shake the belief which was daily spread by the Portuguese, English, and French Journals, in the approaching re turn of the Emperor of Brasil. It was, however, to be inatked^that no authentic letter from Rio Janeiro spoke of his Majesty's voyage. But at length the arrival of the Countess of Chiches-. ter packet, which sailed from Riocatthe sth of My: and arrived on the 26 t h of A ugust at Falmouth, demo lished in a moment all this e.lifice of imposture. his now certain that the Emieror Don Pedro never had the intention of coming to Europe, and immediately after the conclusion of the peace with Buenos Ayres, and the news of theserious illness of the Infanta Isabella, the Emperor thought only of the means of restoring tranquillity in Portugal. It was at the latter end of June that he resolved to appoint bis brother, Don Mi guel, Regent of that kingdom. This resolution, and the decree relative to it, were immediately transmitted with an autograph letter of Don Pedro, by alt Envoy Extraordinary, to their Ma jesties the Emperor of Aus:tia and the King of England. Ditto (Amber) • . tern Hundred Quarters. Kentish 311 HOPS, of the growth Silty go's. 01 1 • • OATMEAL . • . We Tons. /FLOUR (Klin-dried) • Ms Hundred Sacks. BISCUIT MXAL . Thine Thousand Sacks: SOAP (Mottled) • • 'Petenty Tons. Samples of the Cocoa, Peas, Malt, Hops, and Oatmeal, most be prodsced by the Parties tendering ; but those of the Sugar, To bacco, and Soap required, will be exhibited at this Olive. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Letters from the province of Mancha aanornce, .that several • handa of insurgents have show themselves in twat prOvince. Oilier ktters from 'Grenada announce, that M. Val. boa, 21-inteidnot of the Police of Madrid, has found means to escape from Grenada, where he was under sue. veillance, and has joined Recacho in Portugal. The latter has sent a letter from Oporto, where he is at pre sent, to his Majesty, in which he prays to be main tained in the Pre.identy of the Royal Court of Oviedo, his fight from the kingdom hiving been occasioned by the most imminent peril, which could not have escaped his Majesty's penetration. As for the intrigues in the Palace, they are now more active than ever, and M. Calomarde, who has resisted all the efforts of the moderate party, does not seem able to hold out against the Apostolicals, who now wish to have nothing more to do with him, and who succeeded on the 10th in getting him dismissed for se veral hours; he resumed his ministry, it is said, only on promising to induce the King to enter into nego tiation with the tebel chiefs, and make them the con cessions they require. LISBON, Sart. as. The Count de Ponte, hearing of Santarem's disgrace, waited on the Prioress Regent, and- remonstrated with her on the nnfaiMess of dismissing a servant without as signing a cause. The Princess asked him if she was nut at liberty to disnzis,s a servant on proof of his criminality ? to which he answered in die affirmative. She then said it was not without advice or want of proof that she and dismissed Santarem. Count de Ponte then asked 61'64 own dismission ; to which she answered, that had he had not asked it, she had previously determined to' dispense with his services; on which explanation he im. mediately threw up the command of a regiment. Last, Wednesday she gave a grand fete at her Palace at Queluz—in anticipation; and the mob even cried— " Long life Prince Miguel, absolute King I" Each Tender must specify the price is words at length, and be detieered•before One o'Clack oa the day appointed; and the Pawn who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. AG WALLER CLIFTON. to November will be published, by R. Acvntausx, 06, Strand, FORGET ME NOT FOR 1828. Thi s V o l ume , beim( the Sisth, will possess peculiar clainis to public favour. /t realm of mere than Eighty Compositions in Verse and Prow, by the most popular writers of the day of both sexes • and the embelliMmecos comprise Thirteen highly fi nished ingravlngs, from Pictures by H. Howard, R.A. H. Thomson, R.A. R. Westall, R.A. T. Stotbard, E.A. R. Smirke, R.A. H. Corbould, J. Marna ' J. StepbanufF, S. Prost, M. W. Sharpe, H. Richter S. Owee,and T. Mesas, with a beautiful embossed presentatio n Plate. From the extraordinary rapidity with which the large intpres. 1111008 at the preceding Volumes of this Miscellany have been ex hausted, an early application is recommended to the Pub lieber, or lay resreuble Bookseller. PERPIGNAN, Sart. IL The post from Catalonia arrived here yesterday,aftet a delay of 24 hours. h was stopped s everal times by patties of the , Agraviados. Its contents have beed ex amined. The letters for France had not been touched. SS ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. THE FIRST COURSE of LECTURES will com mence on Moamar, the tat of October. • Theory and Practice of Medicine—lost Coarse. Dr. Watl&MS ..4d Course, Dr. Huarnox. Hateria Medka—Dr. Room. Chemistry—Dr. Balsam Anatomy—Mr. Gam and Mr. Joni P. Boots. ihrgery—Mr. Gann. hidwifery—Dr. Loco= and Dr. Fsanasins. Comparative Anatomy-41r. Joan F. Sums. Botany —Mr. Facer. CLIMCAL LECTO2IIIII orru. se GSM. Pupils entering to the Surgical Practice of this Hospital, are allowed to attend that of Guy's. Ye Particulars apply to Mr. Wargrat.s, Apothecary to St. Thomas's Hospital. Indentured as Apprentices, or placed se without Indentures ...... ............ ... sss Never apprenticed, but remained In charge of the Collector sham modern isation in the Vice Admiralty Court s or worked for their own support SS ;la Accounts from the upper frontier say, that small parties of Agraviados had appeared in the Spanish Cer dagne, on the evening of the 12th, and withdrew to the mountains on seeing some soldiers sent from Poycerda to reconnoitre it. IROM THE CONSTITUTIONNILL, 81EPTIMIZR 24. PARIS, Su. 24, EVER ANXIOUS TO PREVENT IMPOSITION, DAY and MARTIN respectfully inform the Public they have, after muck labour and at a very considerable ex pense, brought to perfection a Label of such singular construction and extreme dilLulty of execution, that they trust will effectually merest the many Frauds that are daily practised on the Public.— An attentieu to the following description of the Label will ensure the geawee Blacking prepared by them. A pattern like Lace of a pink colour covers the principal part of the Label, the names of Day and Martin are printed in white letter edged with pink and black, and placed on a white ground, the address, 97, HIGH-HOLBORN, as alto white letters edged with pink and black, but placed on the lace pattern, the .ignature and price at foot are black on a white ground, the preamble and directions for use are printed as before black letters on white ground.-97, High-Holborn, Sept. 1823. FRENCH PAPERS. /ROM THZ MONITZUZ Or MONDAY. PARIS, Bm. 23. They write (en &rig) from Madrid under the date of the 20th of September: " The King of Spain is to set out the day after to mono. for Tarragona, by way of Valencia, accompa nied by M. Caton:ride, the Captain of the Guards, and some subalterns. ".His Majesty intends, according to a decree ad dressed to the Council of Castile, to examine in person the causes of the state of agitation in which Catalonia now is. " The Army of Observation is marching towards Amason and Guadalajara. General &infield has fixed Lis head-quat less at Daroca. " The Captain General of the kingdom of Valencia has dispersed a band of insurgents who had penetrated into it from Catalonia." Letters from Bayonne say that the departure of the King of Spain for Catalonia was officially announced at Madrid on the 20th. His Majesty was to set out post on the 22d, accompanied by only one Minister and a very small suite. Twenty-five thousand troops of all descriptions are ordered to that province. The Queen is appointed Regent during the King's absence. The Infant Don Carlos had already left Madrid, preceding the King in this journey, to contradict is person, on the spot, the false reports respecting him which have been propagated by the insurgents. FROM THE GAZETTE Di •RANGE OF stair. 25. VIENNA, Su:. rs. The Infant ILn Miguel is to set out for Lisbon im mediately after the return of the Emperor to Vienna, l where h:s Majesty is expected in a few days. He will be followed by Prince Metternich. The equipages of the new Regent of Portugal are preparing with all speed. The Austrian Observer of to-day gives an article from the Lisbon Journal e Portuguez, whikh, not con. tented with announcing in an official form the return of the Emperor Don Pedro to Europe, bad dared to give the details of a solemn audience granted by the Our Correspondent at Madrid, under date of the 'l9th, gives ns the following explanations The des ' miseal•of M. Calonurde lasted only two hours, and if a courier bad not left Granja in one hour after the dis missal had been signed, to carry to Madrid the order "for the Minister of War to send two regiments imme diately to Lerida and Arragon, which set out in fact on the morning of the 10th for their destination, it is probable that we should never have heard one word of the dismissal, nor of the provisional and illusory ap pointment of M. Salazar to be Minister of Grace and Jostice. The fact is, that M. Calomarde, who was actually dismissed, and exiled by a Decree under the King's own hand, caused such powerful lever s to b e set immediately in motion, that his Majesty revoked his Decree iu two hours after having signed it, and M. Calomarde is more firmly fixed in his place than ever. It seems that the present Ministry will remain yet a little longer in power." MADRID, Bsrr. Is. zsTRAct OF A PRIVATE LETTER. It is said that our Government has given orders to break up the Army of Observation on the Tagus, but that it will separate gradually. It is said, on the other ' hand, that orders have been given to reinforce the frontiers of Portugal and Galicia. The fortifications of Coruna have been repaired, and five field pieces have been sent thither from Santiago. The cuirassiers of the Guard have received orders to march immediately for Catalonia. A regiment at Salamanca has received the same orders. Six pieces of artillery of the Guard go with them, and very soon an army of 20,000 men, it is said, will be assembled there, but I doubt if the Go vernment is capable of collecting such a force. The King has-declared, it is said, that if the insurrection is not speedily suppressed, he will mount his horse and proceed against the Insurgents. The Count d'Espagne set out for Catalonia this morning. He will command all the regiments of the Guard, which are already gone to that Principality. The Junta established at Manses.% has taken the tide of Central Roman Junta of Government. In the name of the Captive King it sends all sorts of orders, not only to places in the Principality, but out of its limits. One of its first acts has been to declare null and void every thing which the King has done since October 1, 1823, up f 6 this time. It has continued all the public func tionaries, provisionally, in their places, till the whole can be definitively arranged; but it has at the mite time declared, that every one of them who served in any manner under the Constitutional Government is dismissed, and no purification shall be of any avail. Another declaration, which has excited some asto nishment, bears. 4i that all the Spaniards who have ser ved under the Constitutional Government may clear ' away this stain, and become good Spaniards, by aiding the insurgents to liberate the King from the captivity in which the present ministers, and several officers of his household, who are the secret agents of the Liberal • party, keep him. • I have told you that M. Recacho sent to the King, from Braganza, an account of his proceedings, and a declaration of his fidelity. At the same time, he asked his Majesty to prescribe where he should go, and to send him passports accordingly.—The King answered, that he could not send passports, till M. Recacho bad returned to the Spanish territory, and he ordered a safe conduct to be given to Madame Recacho, that she might remain in Sp Ail: l and even in Madrid if she chose, DUTCH PAPERS. BRUSSELS, Sim 23. Preparations are making in the several ministerial depat trnents to remove to the Hague. The ✓Ministers of Finance and the Interior have given notice that all documents relative to their departments are hencefor- ward to be sent to the Hague. GRONINGEN, Strr. 90. During the last week the number of deaths here has been 20; during the corresponding week in September last year, the number of deaths was 175 ; this is a suffi cient refutation of the reports of the epidemic having again manifested itself in Groningen; and it is to be observed also, the mortality has considerably abated, it having been in one week this autumn 39, which was the greatest nnmber in any week. ROTTERDAM, Sarr. 24. By the Russian ship Noepoe, Captain Popen, letters have been received from the Dutch settlements on the west coast of Sumatra, up to the 14th of April last._ Nothing particular had occurred since the preceding accounts, and perfect tranquillity prevailed. By a resolution of his Majesty of the 17th instant. the Committee of the Council of State, which by the reso lution of the 6th of September, 1815, was charged with the affairs of the Roman Catholic worship, is declared permanent. The decree adds, that the number of the members may be increased, and that they shall give their opinion respecting the mode of carrying into effect the convention concluded on the 18th of June, between his Majesty and the See of Rome, and respecting all the documents on this subject which shall be laid before them by his Excellency the Minister of the Home De partment. FRANKFORT, Sim 21. The Egyptian fleet, which left Alexandria on the - 31st of July, bound for Navarin, consists of ships from Con stantinople and Tunis as well as Egyptian vessels, which last are built and fitted out in the European fash'4ns,arid have on board the French General Letel lier, and the-French officers who went to Alexandria with the corvettes built at Marseilles. It is affirmed that the whole expedition is in such bad condition, that it will not be able to undertake any operations for two months to come. It seems certain, besides, that the fleets of the Allied Powers will take measures to secure Napoli di Romania and the other Greek fortresses against an attack of the Turks, which will render the Egyptian expedition wholly useless, because Ibrahim Paeha cannot venture, under such circumstances, to make aaattack on Napoli di Romania. On the 14th of August, the English Admiral on board the Asiskof the line, and the Rose corvette, and the French Admiral on board the Syren frigate, accom panied 4 ) by the Ech and E s t a f ette b r i gs , sai l e d f rom t h e islands of Vourla t Napoli. Is is said that th e F renc h Admiral is to assn ble his whole force at N a p o li. The Turkish an Egyptian squa d ron that was for a long time at anc rat Napoli, has left that port, and has been seen off Cerigo. It is repprted that Ibrahim Pacha was on board, eagerly looking for the arrival of the fleet from Alexandria. The Ariadne, English fiigate, which was sent to take possession of Carabusa, has been obliged to desist from the intention, because that nest of robbers is so strengthened by the great number of pirates who have takes refuge there, that surprise is out of the question, and it would cause too many lives to take it by force. 1,05 The number of Captured Negroes examined before the Commissioners amounted to 253. This, with the exception of some liberated Africans attached to the army at Antigua as 'oldie's and military labourers, and two African apprentices who were in confinement, gives the entire number accounted for, to the Commission, as living in that Island in September, 1824. The condition of those who were takes into the slimy can be ascertained only in the different Colonies where they now reside. This blanch of the inquiry, however, so far as regards the mares. will stand least in need of anxious investigation. It is not to be apprehended that persons, who had lived fur s o me r i me as B r i t i s h so l d i ers. would fterwards lose sight of their privileges, or re lapse into a state of slavery. Of the 253 adult Negroes examined Wine the Com mission, 112 were males, and 141 females; 53 of these females had 87 children—viz. 41 boys and 46 girls. Esau:l:mum—lt appeared from the indentures produced to the Commission, and, in default of inden, tures, from the printed Parliamentary Return. that 50 of the males had been apprenticed as tradelmen ; 16 as sailors and fishermen; and 28 as domestic servants, cooks, grooms, iltc. From the examinations it was col. lected, that only 25 had been taught trades, that 28 bad been instructed in the business of sailors and fisher men ; the rest had been employed as domestics, and in services of various kinds. Hence it will be seen, that the engageMents entered into with respect to trades, were generally matters of form rather than contracts made with a bona fide inten tion to fulfil the terms thereof. This deviation, how- I ever from the strict line of duty-on the part of the master, did not in every case lead to the disadvantage of the apprentice: for there were some whose good for tune had destined them to care of the kind and generous employers, who had them instructed in trades, although they were originally apprenticed only as domestics while others there. were who appeared to have been taught trades of a more useful description, and which were more likely to ensure future employment and sup port than those which had been specified In the original indenture: such cases, indeed, were comparatively few; but they serve however to redeem, and in some degree to make amends, for the t oo gener al, omission or neglect of duty which had taken place in the instruction and treatment of these people. I have considered and compat el the evidence given before the Commissioners with much me and attention, with a vim to be enabled to lay before yes, as accu rately as I - could, the actual state and erudition of the Apprentices. 1 shall therefore venture to state here, generally, that 229 of the Africans, so far as personal Liberty is concerned, were fully capable of earning their own support, and that upwards of one• hundred of these were persons whose proficiency and whose cha racters were of such a description, that ro well grounded apprehensions need be entertained as to their being able to find employment in Antigua. in their respective capacities, and eventually to become a useful addition to the free community. The condition of some of the females, indeed, who are incumbered with children, but more especially those females who may have Is young offspring to support at the expiration of their fourteen years' servitude, is that, which mani festly presents the greatest difficulty, and, compare. lively speaking, the only real grounds of anxiety as.to their future condition and welfare. These persons and a few others, males and females,. who happen to be in capacitated by bodily infirmity from the more laborious kinds of service..or who should be deficient in such ac quirements as would render them profitable servants to their employers, such individuals would furnish grounds of solicitude for their future condition, unless the hem. ;