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they require a point of Oepartu're from which to OM. nwa:e the execution of Projects they have so often a • so indi,:ereetly announced. These Projects are rh u. d and impossible. They are irresistibly repulsed the king, and by the interests of his dynasty, by t Charter, his work s and by the state of society. Tl-.2se Journals, doubtless, arc not the exact expres ef the opinions of their party. In the present 2:tx•chy of opinion, what party would choose to be ~,,y-Tscated' by its Journals ? We may affirm, that rnen who would commit this fault would render tl:emselves equally incapable of laying hold of power, or lenJing it assistance. On every supposition, the KH , 's Government can only triumph by the rut , siirpov: of the National interests, add by the unien of all the men who desire the King and the Charter ; the legitimate dynasty, and New France. Ucre it will find strength against the factions. At rate it will be able to check the parties, without France.—llionitcur. IRIS, rEBRIJARY ig. ifs Majesty hura Mass in his apartments. M. , nsieur has received to-day visits of condolence. Tho Duke :ind Duchess of Angouleme, with the Da!: Duche , s of Orleans, have been at St. Cloud. are a,sured, that the state of the Duchess de; lle;Ti ;1; beconiing mote and more satisfactory. She arrears tranquil. The abundant tears which flow .An her cycs relieve instead of oppressing her; and solle submits with admirable gentleness and simplicity to the affectionate c6unsels of friendship, to the con• ruling rrecepts of reli,;ion. The apartment in which this tdr.fo:tunate Princess reposes is also her chapel. she has prepared an altar—there, every morn• a: - :!idst all the usual appendages of worship and • f mourning, a Priest comes and celebrates the holy M: c. The Duchess of Berry mingles her prayers tho-.e of the Minister of Religion, implores for the soul of her husband that happiness which the earth coald not give. The l':incess has from her sight all or narts suited to her rank, even. those which she owed to the tenderness of 11.!r husband. The walls of Ler eh imber, her bed, her garments, are all im rressed with the signs of mourning. She shuts her scii. up in this sort of living tomb, a mourcful and conformity which she wishes to preselve ith the I'. ince, who is the ot.ject of her eternal regret. • Invisible to all others, she holds communi . zation cr,ly with the members of her family.' Madame the Duche , s of Angculeme, passes in company with her sister :dl that part of the day which her duties leave at her L:isposal. Ycserciav, at two o'clock, the Duke of Orleans, representing the King, went is one of his 'Majesty's voitures, iu grand procesion, to the Louvre, to s;»inkle holy water, in his name, upon the coffin of the Duke of Berry. The same ceremony was after wards performed by the :klarshals, the Staffs of the troops in garrison, and the Officers of the Royal Guards. It is remarked, that the body of the Duke is laid in the same chamber in which that a Henry IV. was laid. It is said, that a Priest of Notre Dame having gone to offer to Louvel the consolations of religion, and having endeavoured to inspire him with repentance of his crime, the wretch repulsed him with invectives. The Ex-Conventionalist Cambon, so well known by his Iteport on the Law which established the CI-eat Book of the Public Debt, has departed this life, at a village near Brussels. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING OF SATURDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY. The PRESIDINT stated. that the special object of the present Meeting of the Chambers would be found indicated in the following letters : " PARIS, FEE. 17, 1820. " MR. PittsmuNT—The King, to whom I have submitted the desire of the Chamber of Deputies (to attend tke funeral of tholate Duke de Berri), which you communicated tome in your letter of this day, received it with sensibility. Ills Majesty charged me to make known to you that the Members of tliv Chamber who do not make part of the Grand Deputation, and who wish to join it, are at liberty to do so. The Grand Master o: the Ceremonies, to whorh it will be proper fur you to ad irsis yourself, will inform you of the hour which may be fixed, acrd will furnish you with such instructions as may be necessary LI your guidance.—Accept, &c. (Signed) " Count DECAZES." The next Letter read was from the Grand Master cf . the Ceremonies, in answer to one from the Pre si communicating the information required. Alter the reading of these two Letters, the Pre,ri dent drew, by ballot, the names of the Members rho are to compose the Grand Deputation. The Chamber then rose, without any fixed ad rment. I'Lcr.ch 3 per cents. Saturday, 71 fr. 30 c. EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. " PARIS, Fi:Eltl".% RV 19. 7-e. alarm spread through Paris was almoit in gAntaneous. Although his Royal Highness did not E;;•iv: until between six and seven o'clock on Monday there was not a pare of the City or Paa •r ;sin which it was not known before eight. The concternation was at its height at twelve. In everi gaarter, at the corner and iu the middle of st:ect, hundreds might be seen huddled with dejected countenances, and communicating !t:ill-,tiRed sounds and low whispers. The French 6.4ract,lr had lost all its vivacity. Before the Louvre, i;her tae bleeding remains had been conveyed, the T.: - oup Iva* immense, and reached quite close, in a c • , npact body, to the Pont des Arts. •`Tic alarm spread ainorg ea* visiting foreigners, and more particularly the English, was taisei to an extraordinary degree before the afternoon. Hundreds left Paris, principally for the nearest line of the northern frontiers, before five o'clock, and hundreds more were, in consequence of the want of horscs, de tained until the following day. " The negligence of the Police on this affecting occasion is the subject of universal reprobation. To avert the blow of the determined and lurking assassin must at all times require singular vigilance and pre caution, but it is remarked with the commingled feelrogs of astonishment, sorrow, and -indignation, (tat not a single Officer belonging to the Police was i n attendance on the Prince. The only person at I hand to give assistance was in fact the sentinel posted. on the opposite side of the street, and between him and the assassin was the carriage of his Royal High ness. The activity of the Police, or rather of the, Home Department, for they are now united, has been revived with extraordinary vigour. Half of the Imi. gales on service for thirty miles round the capital, were immediately ordered to Paris, the - numbers of the customary' stations were increased, new posts were formed, and the patroles both of horse and foot have been kept in constant movement, particularly during the evenings and nights. The measures of, Government have been all of the same nature. The Royal Guards were all kept in quarters to be in readiness at an instant's notice. The Prefects, Go. vernors of Places, and Colonels of Legions or Regi ments, have been all ordered to leave Paris, and the passports of 1816 have been revived, and are hence forth to be rigorously enforced. " Lourel's Proves is continued with increasing ac ' tivity, and it is now understood that his trial before • the Chamber of Peers will commence on Monday.' His third, and probably last examination by the Pre sident of the Court of Cassationohe President of the Royal Court of Lyons, and the Attorney-General, I3ellart, took place yesterday. All the witnesses will be finally heard in the Cabinet de Justice of -the Luxembourg, and the documents are expected to he' completed in the course of this day. The assassin preserves the same determined and gloomy counte nance, and professes the same sentiments which have lailen from him during all his former examinations. Although the strictest search has been made in his lodging. Rue St. Thomas, at his sister's, Rue IsTeuve Sainte Croix, and his aunt's, at Versailles, not the slightest discovery has been made that might indi cate his horrible intention, or expose the state of his mind." It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report, that the provisional measures required to fill'up the in terval between the demise of the late KING and the meeting of the new Parliament are rapidly advancing. The business before the House of Commons will, it is understood, be completed this evening, when the House will, it is said, be adjourned until Friday. In the meantime the House of Lords will have com pleted their part of the public duty, and on Friday the Royal Assent will be given by Commission to the Provisional Bills. Both Houses will then adjourn, and in Saturday night's Gazette will prrobably be in serted the KING'S Proclamation, dissolving the pre sent, and at the same time calling another Parliament. Yesterday, at three o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Court, at his Palace in Pall-Mall, which was at tended by— The Archbithop of Canterbury, the Lord President of the Counzil, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of Swe for the Home and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master General of the Oednance, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Coatratd, the Master of the Mint, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Earl of Mulgrave, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, the Earl of Win chil,ea, Mr. Long, the Marquis of Headfort. the Honourable Colonel Stanhope, Sir Arthur Paget, Mr. Sullivan, ace. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, when he per formed the ceremony of pricking for several Sheriffs, in the room of tho s e pricked for at the last Council, who were not able to serve the office. The LORD LIEUTENANT Of IRELAND, the Earl of WINCHILSEA, the Lord Chief Baron of SCOTLAND, Sir ARTHUR PAGET, Mr. C. LONG, and Mr. SuLtt vaN, were introduced to the Council, and sworn. The LORD LIEUTENANT Of IRELAND was intro dnced, and had the honour of an audience of his , MAJESTY, upon his arrival in England. The Earl of WINCRILSEA had an audience of the, K 1 NG, and delivered his Key of Office, as Comptroller j of the Household on the Windsor Establishment to his lase Majesty, when his MAJESTY was graciously pleased to continne the privilege of the entree to the .\oble Earl. The Duchess of K'ENT received the Address of Condolence from Viscount MORPETII and the Depu tation of the House of Commons, with her infant Plincess ALEXANDRINA in her arms, at half-past twelve o'clock on Monday. Iler Royal highness received the Address from the Marquis CORNWALLIS and the Deputation of the House of Lords, at one o'clock of the same day. The Royal Duchess was attended by the Attendants .of her late much-lamented Duke, Captain CONROY, General '[Toone, Gen. WETHERELL, Colonel DRINK WATER, and Dr. WILSON. The Duchess received the Addresses in her drawing-room in the King's Palace, at Keasing ton. The following is an exact copy of the interesting retarned by this Illustrious Mourner, to the Address of Condolence which was presented to her from the l-fouse of Commons, by Lord Monrern : " I am v;ry sensible of the Lehags which have induced the House of Commons to condole with me on the calamitous and untimely cleat:: of his Lite Royal Highness the Duke of KENT; and I request that ;hey will accept rny grateful acknowledg 7 meats far thLir Messay, as it sliewe me that my helovcd hus band's memory %via be p:eserved in this country, now, I am proud to say, become cane; by affection and inclination, as well as from my connexion with it by marriage to a most amiable and ei.ceittnt Prir.ce, whose loss is to me irrevari,:-le.- 'HE ARMY, iesterday, at four o'clock, the puke of Yoitt held a Levee, as Commander in Chief, at his Office in the Horse Guards, t - MILITARY PROMOTIONSi • •Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Noffo To be Deputy-Lieutenants --The [Lou. Philip Wodehouse, Sir Jtcob Astley, Bart. Thomas Back, P.sq. James Gay, Esq. Edward Dawes Payne, Esq. John Orris, Esq. Benjamin Nor ton, Esq. and John Carter, E.sq. Commissions signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of Glamorganshire. To be Deputy-Lieutenants—Jahn Place, F-sq. Robert Nelson Thomas, }.:sq. •John Edwards, Esq. William Grove, Esq. Thomas Edward Thontas, Esq. Henry Williams, Esq. Ed ward Hughes, Esq. Griffith Llewelyn, Esq. John Henry Vi vian, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. Thomas Charles, Esq. and Vice-Adniiral Sir Charles Tyler, K.C.B. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire. Thomas Legh, Esq. to be Deputy-Lieutenant. Commission in the Corps of Coquotdalc Rangers Volunteer Ca valry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland. George Henry Grey, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Satin, promoted. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Port of Sunderland, 13aorcn, from Miramichi and Maryport to Kirkcudbright, was totally wrecked on the Isle of Wllithorn, about the 17th instant—part of the cargo expected to he saved. Ptvaioune, FIXRUARY 21.—Wind E.—Arrived the Thomas and Ann, CUITANCE, from Charente for London.—Sailed the Tom Cod, BARNS; Prudent, QUINTON ; and Bideford, APNA .3II., for London.—Pass.:4l up Channel, the Eunite, STERLING; And Bulk, HUNTINGRON, from Charleston for Havre. Postvoscouvki, Fs:Runway 22.—Wind N.B.—Sailed the Thetis, Nlinnt.svos, for Jamaica; and the C RZTHOUND cutter;on a cruise. Dam., FRRRUARY 22. Wind E.S.E.—Passed by the back of the Goodwin Sand the Oryza, DavAzarropi, from Rotterdam for Say.iiin.th. 11A1W/CH, FEBRUARY 22.—W:nd P.S.E.—Sailed the Earl of Leicester packet, for Holland; and the Beaufoy packet, for Cuxhaven, both with Mails. The Gottenburgh Mail still re mains its port. CHATHAM, Fes. 20.—The Siva& revenue cutter hat been launched, after having a large repair, and has since been taken into the wet dock, and coppered ; and yesterday was put out again to be rigged and fitted immediately.—We are repeatedly receiving fresh supplies of convicts, so that the number will shortly amount to 150. Livxmoot, Foy. 30.—The Thomas, which arrived from Val paraiso a few d a y s ago , l e f t t h ere, on the 25th of October, the following British vessels Good Hope, ANDREWS, for India; Anna Robertson Boown and Louisa, Woarov, for Rio Ja neiro ; Anna, /34;wxos, for the coast of Peru ; Anna, PHILLIPS, for London ; Tiber, WARD, fot the coast of Chili; Thais, Ransom, from London ; Mars, ICEercia., from Buenos Ayre3: also his Majesty's ship ANDROMACHE. The SLANEr sloop of war sailed for Callao a few days after the squadron which left Valpirarsa the 12th September. The Duke of RUTLAND, we are happy to state, from the last accounts received from Belvoir Castle, is much better. The Marquis and Marchioness of ELY and family arrived yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond street, from Tonbridge Wells. , The Earl and Countess of CAssiLls and family arrived yesterday at their house in Privy-gardens, from their seat in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of SHREWSBURY and fa mily are arrived at their house in Stanhope-street, May-fair, from their seat Herthorpe, Oxfordshire. The Countess STANHOPE is arrived at her house in Clarges-street, from her seat Chevening House,.Kent. The Countess of CLARE has issued cards of iavi tation for a fashionable party to-morrow evening, at her house, in Saville-row. The. Dowager Countess of ESSEX had a select card party yesterday evening, at her house, in Curzon street, May-fair. _ _ The Earl of DERBY gives a grand entertainment to a large party of distinguished personages, on Fri day next, at his house, in Grosvenor-square. Viscount HARBIRTON and family are expected to arrive on Saturday at their house in Albemarle street, for the season. Lord and Lady GRANVILLE entertained a select party of distinction yesterday, at their house in Bru ton-street, Berkeley-square. There is an old man in St. John's Hospital, at Canterbury, an ancient - Brother of that Charity, who has outlived the three last Kings. He is now in the 98th year of his age, and enjoys good bodily health ; when GEORGE 1. died, he was five years old. Workmen are actively employed in preparing the ground for laying the foundation stone of the Column which his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD is about to erect in the centre of Covent Garden. It is to be twenty feet in height from the base to the capital, upon which the large glass lamp is to be fixed. Extract of a Letter from Buenos Ayres, dated the 14th of November :—" I have just received advice from Monte-Video, that ARTIGAS, assisted by CDR.- RERA, late Director of Chili, is, at the head of 3000 men, on his march against Buenos-Ayres, and has cut off all communication between that City, Peru, and Chili. The markets are dreadfully bad, and hides scarce ; a carp of flour could be put off promptly just now at fli to 9." It appears that the Theatres in Paris have been requited to furnish an account of the losses sustained during the time they have been closed, for the pur pose of having the proprietors indemnified. COVENT-GARDEN.—A very lively Farce, entitled " Too late fir Dinner," was performed for, the first time last night, and received with great applause.— The plot is chiefly intended to exhibit the adventures of a thoughtless young rake, named Frank Poppleton (Mr. JoNEs), who falls violently in love with Emma &Merton (Miss Boon) at first sight, and after beat ing the watch, escaping from the watch-house, taking refuge in the house where Emma resides, alarming the fainily, escaping again, and nearly ruining the , prospects of his brother, Frederick Poppletan (Mr. l CONNOR), with another young lady, into whose house he also introduces himself in another whim, he is eventually married to Emma, and reclaimed all at once by the moral influence of matrimony. The ad ventures of the young rake are considerably heighten ed, as to their ludicrous effect, by the sober and timid - character of the brother, for whom he is per petually mistaken. But his ablest coadjutor in the ridiculous is to be found in the person of Mr. Twill (Mr. LtstoN), a wholesale linen. draper, and a Dandy, who was his fellow traveller, but whose gig he up sets, whose money he wins, whose head he 'thumps about, and salioe mistress he carries off, to crown the disasters of the poor citizen. Mr. EMERY has also a part to which he communicates a good deal of humour; it is that of a servant, but inferior to either of the former in points of more dramatic importance than that of rank.. The chief merit of this little Piece consists in the situations ; these are so well connected, and so rapidly carried on, that they keep the mind I in continual expectation. fiLvtaAL 1140PIOM tit' WILLIAM CuaTts has net less than Se ieh &AA tieitteesk This augurs well ! • General Sir CHAREES OREVILLE, and' Mr. Cs MlLLs,.uomtnenced their canvass for the Borough lot Warwick on Thursday last. No opposition to theit return seems to be anticipated. .BislloVs Castle is expected to be again contested. Mr. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD visited his friends in *that Borough last week. The friends of Lord JOHN HAY, and Sir JAMES SUTTIR, are sanguine in their hopes of success in Haddingtonshire. Mr. FARQUHAR, of Johnstdne, opposes Sir ALEX; ANDER RAMSAY, of Balmain, and the Hon. Lieut.- Colonel ARBUTHNOt, of Hatton, the only Candidate for the Representation of Kintardineshire. JOHN ASHLEY Wfotßc, Esq. another new Candi date, has canvassed the Borough of Taunton, in or; position to HiNttv SEYMOUR, Esq. Mr. GROSETT, of Lacock Abbey, is again one of the Candidates for Chippenham. Major Asmet again sum for Wiltshire: Mr. Lox WELLESLEY stands again for Wilt.. The Rev, ROWLAND HILL is one of Mr. BENErr's warmest supporters: Mr. HENRY BARiNS, maccount of the state of his health, declines, trying lafortune again at Ipswich ; but TIZOIAAS BARREI9C LE HARD, oire; s in his stead. Mr. ATOMS ATRIGtur has declared he shall riot stand again for Oxford ; Mr. WETHERALL is in con sequence sanguine of stßiCesS. r • It is understood, that them will be but few soh , tests in Wales, upon a dissolution of Parliament.—: For the County of Glamorgan there is likely to be a sharp struggle ; £20,000 have been subscribed to wards Sir C. Comes expenses. The Hon. EDWARD HAREoRD offers himself for Shaftesbury. Joi; WELLs, Esq; the late High Sheriff for the County of kent, will, it is said, start for Maidstotei Mr. A. W. ROBARTs has again offered himself as a candidate for that town. . Mr. C. C. WESTERN is stated to be on his return to England, and in good health. Mr. FELIX MANNERS, the candidate for Grantham j is an uncommonly handsome young man, and though about six feet, is likely to be the least of six brothers. The next brother, who is in the Life Guards, is six feet five inches, and equally robust and erect ; and when at Cambray with the allied army, was called by all foreigners, le Geant Anglais—the'English giant• lle is the tallest .person in the Life Guards, in which there is no private less than six feet. When pre sented at Court last year, he was particularly noticed, and complimented by his present MAJESTY, as Cula nel in Chief of this his favonrite Regiment in the Service. • Mr. lA/Slip/GTO:4 is ag.tin a candidate for the City of Canterbury.—A numerous meeting of the free men of that City, styling themselves indepenleat, was held on Monday everting at the Weavers Arms, in Broad -street, in order to consider of a proper person ;0 be put in siomination at the ensuing Gene ral Election, "it being understood las the notice calling the meeting states) that there is a secret sen derstanding with ahe Vise and red interest," when it was resolved, that Lieutenant-Colonel _WILIMAN, of the 9th Lancers, should be solicited to become candidate, and a requisition to that effect was signed by about sixty of those present. As the General Election is likely to follow so closely on the nomination of the Sheriffs, we think it may not be amiss to remind our Readers, who fill the offices of Sheriff, or Under Sheriff, that by an Act which passed in the year 1813, the Election Writs are to be delivered to the Shetlffs by the General Post-office; and for the purpose of enabling the Postmaster-Gene ral to execute. this duty, every Sheriff is requited, upon his appointment, to signify to the Getteral Post= office, the place where his official business is to bt transacted during his Shrievalty. Eves y Sheriff who neglects this part of his duty, is, of course, guilty of a misdemeanour; and if an election should be delayed in consequence of such neglect, he would also be liable to be punished by the House of Commons. FlRE.—Last night, at about a quarter before ten o'clock, afire broke out in the premises of Mr. Barnes, floor-cloth manufacturer, in Windmill-street, Fins. bury, which soon communicated to those of Mr. Pear son, bed-tick•manufacturer, and, in a few minutes, became one large body of fire ; the wind caused the flames to spread rapidly, in consequence of which a great extent of buildings soon became a prey, and, in about half an hour, communicated into the City. road, where tha...inhabitants were thrown into the greatest confusion, there being, at this time, little or no water to be proctuvd,.three or four houses in the front of the Citproad, having been completely gut ted, when, fortunately, a plentiful supply of water caused it to be got under ; and it was not until con siderably past twelve the inhabitants, for many houses distant, .conld feel themselves in safety. The cause of the accident is not yet exactly assigned. The loss 'is immense, very little property being saved. Mr. Busland, jun. jumped out of a one paii-of stairs win. claw, fortunately without receiving any injury. The Wife -of Mr. Marshall, printer, was so overcome with right, as to die soon after the fire commenced:• Ex-OFFICIO INFORMATIONS.—Shorter, one of the persons against whim prosecutions have beedinsti. tuted by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for vending cer tain political publications, has been served with a peremptory notice, from the Crown Office, inform ing him that two of the informations against him, for Nos. '2 and 5, of The Republican, will 'be tried in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster Hall, on Thursday and Friday hen, the 24th and 25th inst. Dolby, Watling, and others, have been served with similar notices. Each of the defendants, it is said, intends to conduct his own defence ; and the trials, which will con:mence at the sitting of the Court, on Thursday morning, ate expected to •occupy the re - - minder of the present Sittings. CORN EXCHANGE, M A 11K .1 NE, FEB. 23.--Itaving 'had no fresh arrivals of Wheat this morning, and but little of fine quality left over from Monday, the shore of samples was very small, )et the' e is no alteration in prices. Barley is Is. per quarter cheaper, having a large quantity at market, which 'met . heavy sale at 'that decline. Oats are Is. Fer quarter lower, the at ri vals -being very considerable. In Beans and Peas there is no alteration. .