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foul :mil calumniou ) s manner all that Ministers have &tin( d tl their satellites by the late proceedings? The Paris Papers of Saturday arrive this forenoon. The Chrtnbers are summoned to meet on the 19th of Deernbei. Count ToRRENO, the President of the Spanish C or m:, has al rived at Paris, lle is commissioned to deliver tiic Cross of the Order of Charles 111. to MM. LAEITTE, HARDMAN, and DELMARE, who have contracted for the loan of fifty million of francs opened for Spain. The Co:lit Tuscany is said to have refused to recognize the new Neapolitan Consul. Five pc: Cents. 76 fr. 50 c. Another Lisbon Mail arrived to-day, with letters to t'..e ISth inst. Ever) thing remained tranquil.— Generals SILVIIIRA and (3,9IRIEIRA had made a suit able apology tor the injudicious exhibition which had been made of the troops; and the Members of the Regency were actively occupied in putting the new Constitution into operation. BUENOS AYRES, AUGUST 9. PRIVATE LETTER. et I am sorry to say, that on my arrival here, on the 2d in•tant, I found this place in a moredisturbed and unsettled state than ever—houses and public of fices shut. every person armed, and nothing to be seen btu hostile menace, occasioned by the different parties desirous of governing. 4 . Notwithstanding all this, trade, if allowed, would be be:ter than for some time back, the market being very bare of a proper assortment of goods —particularly cotton manufactures. Accounts have been received, .vithin these few days, of considerable atbrantages obtained by Government, which may, by reuniting the Provinces, give us a settled Government, in which event some good business may be done here. Lord COCURAN4 with an Expedition against Lima, was to sail last month from Chili, and great hopes are entertained of his success. Should that he the case. South America will take some time to supply itselt with merchandise of all descriptions, and trade will he all alive." Yesterday morning, at half-past eleven o'clock. the KING arrived, in his travelling chariot and four, -...ith out-riders, at his Palace in Pall-mall, escorted by A party of the 10th Regiment of Light Horse, from Windsor. The Committee appointed to superintend the ar rangements f,r this tribute of respect to her MA JESTY assembled yesterday morning at the Free matons' Tavern. Sir GERARD NOEL, the Hon. M r . LI.I.SON, Dr. POPE, the Rev. Mr. MARCUS, Mr. CLARYF, Mr. BAILEY, and other respectable indivi- duals, vele present. The follow ing letter, received from Sir ROBERT NViIS read: " GINTI.ENEN- 1 have expressed to your Deputation my opi- Lion on , i.e ,übject of the proposition you did me the honour to make.. If you final:y determine that it is .xpedient to form e processionary cavalcade to attend her Majesty on the .a.9:11 inst. 1 mall be ready to jo,n my fellow-citizens and constituents in the •ribute of respect to her Nlajesty, and in those arrange men s which may tend to preserve order and regularity, at all time, m ,st des.rahle, but which peculiarly become the solemnity of the 0-ZCASIOLI.--1 am," &c. Br I LEY, who had an interview with the Ham- Mei mill Committee. reported the result, which led to the adoption of a Resolution to have nine Trum peters on horseback to accompany the cavalcade. It was finally agreed that the Eastern division of the cavalcade should assemble, under the direction of Sir ROBERT WILSON, at nine o'clock to-morrow morning, instead of ten. Tickets were issued to the Members of this division, of which the following is a copy : • a Her Majesty's Escort to St. Paul's Cathedral, on Wednes day, the 23:h of November, 1820.—The Eastern Division to assemble in Hyde Park, at sine of the clock, A. M. precisely, -under the superintendence of Sir Robert Wilson, M. P. " T. BENSON, Secretary." st of is nit the] kill Upwards of 200 of these tickets have already been issued. The subject of a pedestrian procession was again agitated, when it was observed that this Com mittee did not contemplate any such procession ; but if those Societies who had gone up with Ad dresses to her MAJESTY were desirous of being pre sent, it was repeated that the best course for them to adopt be to line the streets oa each side, from Hyde }'ark to Temple-bar, with their banners and bands, taking up the ground as they arrived, and forming two or three deep as their numbers might require ; due care being taken to be on the ground at an early hour, so as to avoid confusioM Sir GERARD NOEL was requested to assist Sir ROBERT WILSON in arranging the cavalcade in Hyde Park, and other Gentlemen will be selected to co. operate in the same object. It is expected that Mr. WHITBREAD and Mr. Hostrousc will be entreated to take the direction of the Flarnmersmith Division. The horsemen from the Borough, as well as from iome of the larger Parishes, will appoint a place far rendezvous in their respective districts, and march from thence in a body to Hyde Park, so as to be on the ground precisely at nine. The place of meeting is the road leading from the Park Gate to the Horse Guard Barracks, at Knip,htsbridge. The proces s ion will move on frem Hyde Park tomer in the following order : Three Trumpeters. Sir Robert Wilson. Cavalcade, Six abreast. Three Bugles. Iler Majesty's Carriage, drawn by Six Horses. The Carriages of her Majestys Suite. The Ilarnmersmith Division, Six abreast. Three Trumpeters. Every precaution will be taken to preserve the ut most decorum. On the arrival of the first division of the horsemen they will file off on the south side ef St. Paul's Cathedral. The Hammersmith Divi sion will halt and face to the tight about, so as to take the lead in the return of her Majesty to Bran denburgh House. The Eastern Division will fall in the rear, and ac cnyipany her Majesty back to - Hide . Paft-coraer, where t'..ey will take their leave. It iaespetted, how ever, that a great number of them will pioceed with her :dajesty to kLunmersonith. THE ARMY. . . • ..,:—.. The Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Pri-1 vita, of the 75th Regiment, have very handsomely . subscribed and remitted a day's pay, towards the ! erection of the National Monument of Scotland. The 31st Regiment is now doing duty in Cork, and the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion at Buttevant. The 13th Regiment has arrived from Scotland, and is now quartered in Land. nderry. The gpllowing changes have lately taken place : The 7th Royal Fusileers and 41st Regiment. to Scot land; and the 12th and 77th Regiments to England, from Ireland; and the 13th and 33d Regiments, and Ist Rifle Brigade, from Scotland; and the 55th, frum England, have succeeded the above Regiments in, ' Ireland. Part of the 41st have marched from Naas to Trim. The 40th Regiment arrived in Dublin on Monday se'nnight, from Liverpool. A company of the gallant Buffs marched into Newry, on Saturday se'nnight, from Belfast, and on Monday morning pi oceeded on the route to Mullingar. Wednesday, the 29th Regiment embarked at Dub lin, for Liverpool, in the transports which brought •he 40. h Regiment on the preceding Sunday. Friday, the second division of the 51st Regiment matched into Winchester. JERSitY. Nov. 18.--.Ms , nday, Major-General Gott. Dos inspected the five companies of the 7th Royal Ve erau Battalion, st,ttioned in this island, under the command of Lieutenant-C.l(lnel Ross. After the !view, his Excellency expressed his entire approba inn of the clean and uniform appearance of the men under arms, an' the tegularity and precision with which they performed their movements. The M3i. T• General also minutely examined into every branch of the lute iot e. onomy of the corps, with which he was highly pleased. His Excellency was so muci. gratified with the attention paid to the Regimental School, and the progress the numerous children had made, that he pre..ented a handsome donation towards its support. which was followed by the Of ficers of the Regiment. NAVAL IN I ELLIGENCE. The Text, 46 guns, at Portsmouth, is ordered to be prepared for commissioning. The PLUMPER gun-brig, Lieutenant %Fiume Hutcomson. from Chatham, h::3 gon-• into Portsmouth harbour, to get some defects tapaired. :she is intended for the Cork station. The SURINAM. 18-gun sloop, has been commissioned at Chat ham, and ordered to he fitted out for the Jamaica station. His Majesty's ship Taman, Captain Sir Geo. Cora-ma. Bart. K.C.13. bring refitted, and ready for se , went out of Portsincuth harbour on Thursday. She is intended to return to the coast of Africa, and expected to sail in the course of next week. The Sydney, surveying vessel, commanded by Mr. Hot.- !ROOK. who has been employed in surveys on the Newfound land station during the last four years, arrived at Portsmouth from St. John's, and is ordered to prorred to Woolwich to be paid off and recommissioned. FALMOUTH, Novemaza 25.—Wind S.—Arrived 1' Augusta Gu.u*a, from Nantz ; and Duke of Kent packet, with a Mail from Lisbon. in six days: she spoke yesterday, between Scilly and the Main, the Nestor. for London from St. John's, N. B. with all ber bulwarks stove in, and apparently leaky. Arrived off the Port yesterday, the galliot Union, DAVID, of Dieppe; she spoke on the 17th ult. in lat. 49. 5. long. 23. the Elizabeth, of London, from New Brunswick, dismasted. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind S. E.—Arrived the Tantivy, Nattier, from Genoa. Sailed the Merlin, WEEKS ; Abeona, ; and Louisa, Baxxa, for Jamaica; and Christiana trans port, for Cork. Dux, Noveatima 27.—Wind E.S.E.—Cinie down from the River, the HCIOILcFAILLANT, for Calais; Cumberland, Orcr, or Savannah; Marquis Wellesley, Narita, and Nautilus, Aswan, for Grenada; Sir Joseph Banks. ‘l"ixttasts, for Portsmouth; Mary, WALESA, for Lisbon; Ann, Denim, fur Pernambi.co ; Admiral Cockburn, [luaus, for Van Dieman's Land ; Taaines, Larson; Tulloch Castle, Grai.tx; Duckenfield, PENNING; Lady Holland, Powatt ; Mountaineer, Jeers:um., (from Shields); Cambridge, Foilsman; and Burlington, WIL..ON, for Jamaica; Genie. ISEASANT, for Rio Janeiro; Gr..nite, Staracir, for Cha rente; and Harvey, lam, for Trinidad : they have all sailed, with the rest of the outward-bound. Sailed the Mary, Jaen,- sox, for London. Passed by from Ramsgate, the Sarah, VAN Harramszw, for Sierra Leone. Livaarooz, Nov. 26.—The Bourdeaux packet, M`Fie, from hence for Londonderry, is lust off the Copelaroliight. PRNIANCR, Nov. 25.—The Aid, llamas . , from Honduras for London, out sixty-five dais, and lea/ay, was spoken with by a pilot-boat yesterday. Jamey, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Palma, POINGDESTRII, from Lisbon, with loss of both top-masts, and two of the crew. She reports the ship Leicester, Larce, of and from Jet setts Buenos Ayres, to have been lost on the 17th ult. off Aveira—crew saved. Wichmann, Nov. 29.—The James, BARN'', from Sligo for London, has been brougnt Lao Feathard, leaky, and with loss • of cordage, &c. Costme-House, Nov. 27.—Ships Entered Inwards :—Thor Daedalus, from St. Petersburgh ; Mars, from Buenos Ayres; Perseverance, from Memel ; Paquette dc Bilboa, from Bilbao; Columbus, from St. Petersburgh Isabella, from ditto ; Marga ret, from Antwerp ; Melpomene, from Batavia; Pomona, from Guernsey; Tranby, from St. Petersburgh ; Star, from ditto; Mary, from Harlingen ; Lively, from Amsterdam; Rose, from Faro • Hull,from St. Petersburgb ; Sus annah, from ditto; Speed well, from Stangate Creek; Abellie, from Caen; Jeune Emilie, from Bourdeaux. Entered Outwards :—Tbe Decade, for Caen; Ida, for Jamaica; Neptune, for Ostend ; Elizabeth, for Con stantinople; Providence, for Bahia; Sirene, for Calais; Sarah, for Antwerp. Cleared Outwards :—The John, for Genoa ; Bee, for ilamburgh ; Anne, for Malta; Aguilar, for Jamaica; Asepb, for Bahia; and Gainsborough, for Hansburgh. A few days ago, an oyster-boat, belonging to Wet- ford, while proceeding to Dublin with oysters, went down opposite the Coast of Arklow, during a very violent storm. Two men, brothers, of the name of Slater, and a man of the name of Blanch, unfortu nately perished, and their bodies were shortly after wards washed a shore. A boat belonging to the Importer transport, was upset at Spithead, on Tuesday, and three out of the five men, of which her crew consisted, were unfor tunately drowned. The other two were picked up by Lieutenant WILLia s, Agent of Transports, belong ing to the Importer, who, observing the accident from the platform, took a boat, and proceeded imme diately to their assistance. A Petition has been sent to her MAJESTY from the Caulkers, Ship-builders, and Seamen, of the Port of London, requesting permission to waft upon her with a Joint Address of Congratulation, accompanied by a body of 20,000 men. A Requisition for a County Meeting, on the sub ject of the late proceedings against the Q!JEEN is uow in ,circulation in the County of Durham. It has already received the respectable signatures of Messrs. LAMBTONp BEAUMONT, M. A. TAYLOR, Mr. BENNETT, Lord OSSULSTON, and Sir M. W. RIDLEY. In consequence of a Requisition signed by several Freebokiers of the County of Middlesex, for the pur pose of considering of an Address of Congratulation to the QUEEN, and also to Petition the KING for the dismissal of Ministers, the Sheriff has appointed is Meeting to be held on Friday, the Ist of December, at twelve o'clock, at the Mermaid, Hacknefe tJZEr,,4Nv. Has GraCe.thaftOap IfaisiATc of all istat.istO his left Armagh, on 'lns way to Scotland. ~ • Earl Dosourmaiwtp , is on his way to Knockforty, where he is to reiruen for a few days, and then return to London, to join 1/..:4-d ! Hure,ulNsox. Thursday, Lord LortovoaD A and suite arrived in Dublin from Holyhead. (From Carrick's Morning Past). 4 MYSTERIOUS Awn ALARMING ANNOUNCEMENT. " The Hibernian Journal, a paper known as the organ of the Orange faction in this City, has the fol lowing most extraordinary paragraph : 4 WE KNoW WHAT WOULD BE DONE; AND WHAT COULD BE DONE, DID WE BUT LIFT UP OUR FINGER TO THE MYRI4DS OF 0114NOSMEY NOW IN DUBLIN!!!' " Is, then, the reign of terror revived? Is the city to be fired ?, Are we to be all massacred ?. Or is there a rebellion in actual forwardness, ready to explode upon the signal of this ma.i's HOLDING UP HIS SINGER ? Are we in the camp of the Janizaries, ! or wider the dominion of the Prztorian Cohorts, that we should be thus assailed? Good GOD! what- a state of things do we live in, when the Government of the Country thus suffers itself to be bearded by its own stipendiaries, with such monstrous, such match less audacity ! We cannot write upon such a subject—we throw the pen from us with indignation —" MULLINGSR, Nov. 16.—At the Fair of this town on Monday last, an abundant supply of cattle was exposed for sale ; but we are sorry to record a most lamentable occurrence that took place in the even ing, wherein an unfortunate man lost his life. It ap pears that between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, a party of those infatuated wretches styled Ribbonmen (with whom this country abounds), col lected on the road leading to the Canal Harbour, and commenced their usual custom of flagellation, indiscriminately on all those who could not answer their questions and signs ; after Committing various depredations they quitted the town, but being shortly pursued by those whom they maltreated, accom panied by numbers who came to their assi-tance, they soon overtook the unfortunate man to whom we al lude, James Loran, who fell a victim to their mis guided fury—he received a blow from a blunt wea pon on the back part of the head, that caused a frac ture of the skull, of which he died the following morning. An Inquest was held by Tnobtas SHEA, Esq. Coroner.—Alter a most particular investigation, and the examination of a great number of witnesses, that occupied nearly two days, the Jury returned the Collo ing verdict :—" We find that the deceased, James Loran, came by his death in consequence of a blow from a pitchfork, given him by Hugh Camp- . bell, in the presence of George Sherlock and Michael Pidgeon." List of visitors at Brandenburgb House, on Satur day and Sunday : Mr. Creevey, M.P. Rev. Edward French, Rev, Mr. Closs hold, Lady Wm. Russell, Lord Duneannon, Countess of Tat kerville, Lady Mary Barnet, Mr. and Mrs. Denman, M. Wood, Esq. M.P. Mr. Brougham, M.P. Mr. and Mrs. Wylde, and Lieutcnant-Colonel Jones. The name of the Duke of HAMILTON appears among the presentations to the King of FRANC/ on Friday last. Lord and La:ly PORTSMOUTH and family are now on a visit to Mrs. SPURLINO, her Ladyship's sister, at Portsmouth. A number of passengers are at Portsmouth, wait• i•rs: to go out in the Westmoreland, for the Cape and Van Dieman's Land. Saturday, Jon x Hamm LET, Esq. took the oaths of office and allegiance before the LORD CHANCEI. LOR, in his private room at Lincoln's Inn Hall, as Clerk of the House of Commons. A singular custom prevails in some parts of Car. diganshile, and was observed last week at Penegos, in that county. It is, that previous to a marri:te taking place, the bride is mounted on horseback hind her father or nearest relation, who instantly sets off at full speed, and are pursued by the bridegroom and his friends, the former suffering himself to be overtaken. The bride is carried away apparently by force, and conveyed to the Church, where the Clergy man is in readiness to perform the ceremony. The following mysterious affair to :,k place on Wed nesday night, in Paris :—The Duke Decres returned about half-past eleven o'clock, with his wife and daughter, from the Theatre, and found his valet, as usual, waiting for him in an antichamber. The Duke went to bed immediately, and the valet retired to his room, which was directly over that of his master. About half-past one the Duke was awakened by a strong smell of burning linen, which soon changed to a smell of gunpowder. He sat up, half asleep, in his bed, when he heard what appeared to him to be the crackling noise of a match. He was half out of bed, when an explosion like the report of a three pounder cannon went off between his mattresses. It threw him to the opposite side of the chamber, when another detonation, nearly equal to the first, exploded a few minutes after. The bed was in flames, a mir ror broker., and the furniture all upset.—The Duke in vain called on his valet de chambre: the latter said he was going to leap out of the window. The Duke, though wounded, set about extinguishing the flames; and almost immediately he heard the valet, with a cry of despair, precipitated from a height of 40 feet upon the pavement. He uttered the most piercing cries, and to the questions which his master put to him, he only answered, that some men had seized him, and thrown him out of the window. The Duke received several burns on the thigh and right arm ;, and the firemen found between the mattresses thref packages, two of which were calculated to hold a pound each, and one half a pound of gunpowder.— These packets had produced the explosion, as a train, from the fire-place to a side door communicated with them. So many suspicions arose against the valet, who is not expected to live, that the Attorney-Gene ral caused him to be taken into cu Cody, and he was, conveyed to the hospital of La ChZrite. .0n looking, over the Duke Decres' papers, Bank bills to the amount of 3000 francs each, and three bonds for 600 Q francs each, which were safe the evening before, were not to be found.. The valet bad been upwards of six years in the Duke's service, was at the head of the household, and enjoyed the confidence of the , Duke and his family in a high degree. The vakt-de-chambre of the Duke Decres died yes- Istrday afteraoom—Jouraal do Dcbaf. ofsaturdall. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • --. COURT OF RING'S RENCK, NOVIEMARR 17 1 CRIMINAL I NINA: TION. • • Mr. Moog applied for a cri ninal information against Winter, Esq. a Captain in the Army, for sending a letter to Mr. Hoare, ~on of Sir K. Hoare, with intent to provoke him to fight a duel. • Mr. Moore proceeded to-state the fact, of the case, from which it appeared the whole arose out of a sporting trancactiun, Captain Winter having been warned off Sir Richard's manors, as a trespasser, . . upon which he wrote the letter in question to Mr. Hoare. The Learned Cuunsel was about to read the letter, when _ _ The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE asked if there was any affidavit proving that this letter was in the hand writing of Captain Winter? Mr. MOORE said he had no such affidavit. The CHIEF Justice observed, the application was. founded entirely on this letter ; there were no other grounds for it ; and unless the letter was identified, to be the hand-writing of the Ca; tain, the Court could not grant the rule.—Rule refused. THE KING V. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT. The Couar proceeded to give judgment, on the. application for a new trial, in this case. Mr. Justice BEST read the libel on which the de fendant had..been convicted, when tried before him at Leicester, and detailed the evidence called to stip, port the charge against Sir Francis, of being the publisher of this libel in the county f Leicester, he having avowed himself the author, and the only question now at issue being as to the place of publi cation. The Learned Judge said, when the case was tried before him, Mr. Denman and Mi. Phillips, who assisted Sir Francis in his defence, submitted, that there was no proof of publication in Leicester shire. In reply to that argument, he told the Learned Counsel that he considered there was evidenc., on this head to go to the Jury. He thought so then— he continued to think so still; add therefore, in charging the Jury, he told them they had two points to consider. First, did the publication take place in Leicestershire? and secondly, was it a libel? He stated the evidence of publication as it might be pre sumed, and, if not true, might have been contradicted; and also the evidence of libel, and in so doing, stated what he considered as the law, namely, that the in tent of a person in doing an act must be judged of by the effect which such an act was calculated to produce. Since the verdict, a new trial had been applied for. He most sincerely rejoiced at that cir cumstance, as by it this important question had been fully sifted. On the application for a new trial, four objections had been taken. The first was, that there was no evidence of the publication in Leicestershii e. He considered this a question for the Jury. If the Judge thought there was any evidence, he was bound to submit it to the Jury, whether the beating of his mind was in favour of a prosecutor or a defendant, otherwise it would not be a trial by a Jury, but a trial by a Judge. In this case, he considered there waa.presumptive,. though not ptsitive evidence of such a publication; and as no attempt had been made to contradict the presumption he felt it his duty to submit it to the consideration of the Jury. It had been said, that no presumptive evidence could be received in criminal cases; but such w as not the law. The contrary was the established and received rul e of evidence, whether in civil or criminal cases. Pie- . suniptive evidence was received in cases of murder; of manslaughter, of burglary, and others the greatest ci imes known to our law; and, as human nature is constituted, unless presumption was allowed, the most atrocious crimes, which were generally com mitted in secret, must escape unpunished. Where there was nothing but presumption, it should be re ceived with the greatest caution; but if that pre sumption was not contradicted, in a case where con tradiction was easy, it must be taken as p4oof. The presumption in this case was strot.g. The paper was dated Kirby Park, which is in the county of Leicester, and this fact was strong presumption that the letter was written there. Next, the paper was dated the 23d, Sir Francis was at Kirby Pat k oa that day. On the 24th, or 25th, it was in London; the defendant not having been out of Leicestershire in the meantime. Mr. brooks said, at the trial, he received it from a Mr. Bickerstaff, inclosed in an en.. 'elope, but whether that envelope was directed or not, he could not say. Mr. Brooks, however, received it from Mr. Bickerstaff, and Mr. Bickerstaff might have been called to chew how and where he received it; and, looking to all the circumstances, the strong presumption was, that it was delivered by Sir Francis in Leicestershire to Mr. Bickerstaff. If presumption was wrong, it might have been contradicted by. Mr. Bickerstaff, had they chosen to have called him. This delivery was a publication ; but he would go further and say, that suppbsing this letter to have been sent by the post, still it was a publication. He denied that, in the language of the law, publication meant manifestation. We heard of a man publishing an award, of another publishing his will, but did the word here mean publishing the contents ? Did it mean any more than delivery of the will or the award? The delivery he held to be the publication ; the moment the writer delivered the letter out of his hand his controul over it ended, he had shot his arrow, and could no longer say the venom should not reach its mark. If this was not the law, how could libel ever be punished? Publication might always he got rid of. He would- put a case—suppose an individual to write a most aggravated libel on this nation, and send it to Petersburgh, to Madrid, or to Paris, to be published, as he called it, was the author to be sent to Petersburgh or to Madrid, to be pu nished by the Russian or Spanish law? According to the doctrine of publication now called for, it must be so, or the author of such libel, though most mis chievous and injurious to this country, would escape unpunished. - The Learned Judge then proceeded to cite the authority of Lord Mansfield and other Judges, and to state the maxims laid down in the Civil Law to support the opinion he had given as to what constituted publication. The third point was an objection taken to his (the Judge) having taken on himself to lay down what was the Law et Libel, which it was saith after the passing the Statute of George 111. he was not justified in doing. He was glad this subject had been argued ; it was entirely a mistaken notion to suppose the Statute of George 111. made the question of libel a mere question ni It was a question of law and fact mingled ; and all the difference made by the Statute of George W. ~" 1 ,