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• EfROM £4 CROlci pi freght.3 PALERMO, OCTOBER 14. • • We have some reason to flatter ourselves that when , Parliament meet, the House of Commons will not insist again that their COntMitteeli should be perma nent, as formed previdus to the prorogation ; since it is well-kiloton, that from this mistaken principle se veral unconstitutional motions have -originated.— Every honest man must Teel also, that rules of de .rency ought to be strictly observed, and sileice kept among persons admitted in the Galleries, in both ~,,Houses. It isnececsarY, that in the House of Com mane Members should set the example of con stantly behaving with decorum and propriety, there by inspiring the:Sitilian nation with those feelings of confidence and respect to which an assembly ot their Representatives is entitled: To every body (except , to those men who love and promote disorder) it must have provekelifgueting to hear the incessant talking of the spectators in the Galleries—to hear their hiss ings and ipplaitces—to hear, sometimes, their vocife ration, echoing those of Members in the House.— The President [SPeakerl will, no doubt, make use of his conetitutronal authority wheneeer such a scan dal occurs again, and convince the Public, by his fu ture exertions, that, far from abetting a system of diserder and turbulency, he has made up his mind not to suffer the House to be out of order any more. °crown 28. Lord and Lady Montgomerie embarked on Sature .day, the 2.13 d, on board the Bristol, for Lisbon. We ardently wish ma hear soon his Lordship is better, this worthy Nobleman being so much respected tor his many distinguished qualities. Gn the lath October, Prince della Cattolica, who ten days before had .given a splendid public enter tainment to his Excellency Lord William Bentinck, proceeded in state to the House of Peers, to pro nounce the dissolution of the Parliament, by virtue or the Royal cdreimissioe, of which he was the bearer, made the following Speech : eaMy ,Lords and Gentlemen, 44 His l(oyal Highness the Prince Vicar-General, with the appr, !ration of his Council, having made choice of the to manifest his sentiments to you, com mands me to tell you, that he had called you toge. ther it 3 this general Parliament, under the full per euasiere that you would complete the, ivork begun in the list year. He t h ought you would speedily or-- valise the new Tribunals, thereby securing to his dear and beloved 67cilians their properties and their risenl safety, under the administration of laws from which the old abuses were retrenched. - e 44 Preparations h;id been made in 1810 for the in-. troduetion of a system of finances, simplest's' salu tary, hut of which the late Parliament cottldnot take a suf fi cient cognizance, because it had die still more ponderous care to eiect Our Constit:tion by the stan dard of the Constitution of Great ilritain. The Par liament, however, decreed eonie provisionary giants • and fieascial measure.:, leaving the conclusion of this weighty business with their euccessors ; aad iris Royal Highness has been expecting with some impatience, that, in your wisdom, you mould make the system "complete.. 1--le reflected with j , ,y and with self-applause on theevelentary sacrifice e filch (with the consent of the Kipg his father and our Lord) he had made of part of the old hereditary revenues and prerogatives of the Crown, believing that he had thus secured the welfare of the Sicilian kingdom. " But, alas ! illusory have been the hopes he had reposed upon you. You have applied yourselves but to frivolous debating and follies. Yon have heard unmoved the messages he continually addressed to you, and Amongst you towers the malignant spirit of hostility and discord. In vain has his Royal Highness - attempted, through several prorogations, to bring you to the wished for unanimity ! Time flies away, and the State is perishing. You have been warned, you have refused to stop and consider. " You have reduced his Royal Highness to the ne cessity of adopting a hard and decisive measure whiCh the Constitution authorises ; that Constitution which he has given you which he has promised, and which he.again promises to maintain. ". His Royal 'Highness feels himself called upon to instantly dissolve the present Parliament, in order to assemble, as soon as it will be possible, a new one, who, made wise through this experience, will direct its labOnrs towards perfecting the Constitutional Code ,-that anchor, on which rests our peblic safety. " His Royal Highness was pleased to tell me also that he had resolvcetupen this measure with reluct *nee, and With •an infinite pain—that it was hid's pensible, and that blame could not be attached to it by the nation, since in the temerity and in the ran cour of your &hates.. motions have been made and supported clearft indicating that a Constitutica is wished for, quite differing from ours and the Consti tution of England. From printed papers, circulating in this metropolis and the provinces, from the at tempts that have been repeatedly made. to encroach upon the Executive Posner, to destroy the Royal Pre rogative, and to perpetuate the duration of Parlia ment by granting subsidies but for one month ; from other attempts's() encroach, at the same: time, on the judiciary pewer, whose independence is one of the lundathental pillars of cur Constitution—from all that, this ',lei lorable truth is evidently collected. Role I-ligimess commands me to tell you, my Leicts t that by means of this dissolutioto of Tar liannent, yip will be at leisure for a short time, though sufficient, to consider of your real interests ; and to you,'Gentlemen of ebe House of Commons, that, on reternipg back to your respective countries, he trusts you wil!not * be elided by any one of the fa s notions that may be, e r even are suggested to you ; and _ that, on theeontrary, our fellow-citizens will receive from ytiP assurance that his Royal Highness's yroniises ate sawed - that lie has sanctioned, that he lancti(42 again our liberties, as established in the Parliament of the last year,shat, to prevent the dis soluian'ef . Guvernment, and of the State, he will centilitre to reptile the' financial department, ac cut-die-10e thee: 'proeisionary plan decreed in. the Parliament of ItiNtinfil thus highly interesting con cern is fietally settiedz-en,eveet which, it is believed, will hatay 1 e Je:ayedbewiti inle year; that, in the iuterikt; his Royal . Higireess Lill name to those Ma.. b reistrateles and places, which iCwas proposed to him ritSt year, and agreed by him, should be instituted : . • • • . • • • fellow-citizens to that they are to tibia aii _ _ meat, ao men . but abate who are a true love of the country ; those, not to be led astray 'froin-their duty.by the suggestions of in minded per. sons, emmies to the felicity and to the true liberties of the Sicilian people; those, trusting in his Royal Highness's loyalty; in the loyalty of him *who *gaye them liberty. and has no wish but to immortalize his name by rendering happy his faithful abd.beii loved Sicilians." ~w~re, ~1 ~- -: . FRENCH 1 1 :4P.BRS. PARIS, DB►CBMBER as. Yesterday, the 22d, at one (*lock in-the after noon, the Senate assembled under the Presidency of his Serene Highness the Prince Arch Chancellor, to receive a comminication of a decree of his Majesty,' relative to the formation of an Extraordinary Com 'fission. The Members of this Commission were! named in the same Sitting :—they are Count Fon-! tanes, his Serene Highness the Prince Grand Ziectorl Count de St, Maison, Count Barbe Martinis, Coent! de Bottrnonville. VIENNA, DECEMBER 4. We have received information of the arrival of the Queen of Sicily at Odissa. The health of the Queen has not suffered from the voyage by sea in this dis agreeable season. DECEMBER 7.—According to accounts from the frontiers of Smyrna, the Porte has re-established the ancient division of Servia, in order to govern it in the same manner as previous to the insurrection. The Turks have still an army of 80,000 men in that province. . . VICH, DECEMBER s. The paper published in this town announces the loss of a great number of ships with their crews, in a dreadful storm which took place in the latter end of Novemkr: The same paper contains a letter from Tudela, the he td-quarters of the 3d Spanish Corps d'Armee, dated 20th Nov. which says, " the Prince of Anglona is here, with some thousands of men, without doirg any thing, without provisions, and without money.—Desertion is very considerable." ANCONA, DECEMB.cIt 13. Or the 6th, 7th and Bth arrived in this town the laitikapolitan troops, forming the division intended to paitthrough Ancona ; it is followed by a consi... derable park Of artillery; Yesterday the King of Naples's equipages arrived here. MILAN, 1J5.CE,.413.11.R IR. Yesterday evening her Selene Highness the Vice. Queen, with her children, returned to this capital, trom Verona. AURICH, DECEMBER 11. The bead-quarters of the Army of Neutrality is for the present here, and we are assured that in a kw days they will be transferred to Aran. STRAMIRG, DECEMBER Is. • The General of Division, Duhesme, has just ar. rived in this town, to take the command of the nape. rior fort of Kehl. VEROSA, DECEMBER IS. For some days the armies have been in presence of each other without any deed of arms haying pass. ed worthy of remark. It seems that on both sides they are waking for those reinforcements which have been announced to re-commence operations. FLORENCE, DECEMBER 14. ' On the 10th advice was received here that an English squadron, consisting of four ships of the line, five bigates, ands corvette, had disembarked troops near Viareggio. Those troops were a collection oil from 800 to 1000 men of different nations. com-, mantled by a Sicilian, having the title of Colonel, find a Major named Dilleste. Their expedition had for object to create troubles in the country ; it has entirely failed, the inhabitants of the country have every where evinced the best spirit. A part of those troops, who were Italians, deserted, and gave up their arms and ammunition to the Authorities of the countries. The remainder did not hazard remaining any length of time in the country, only advanced to Lucqaes and returned upon Viareggio. The enemy was, on the 12th, attacked there by GeneralPauchen commanding a detachment of troops of the depart ment of the Arno, and re-embarked, after having lost several hundred men. The defeated General Witutasox was a favourite I of Misnames, who express ly engaged him to come from New Orleans to try again what had been before tried. The present invasion of Canada was to be on a great scale. The Generals issued their proclama tions before them, in a less vaunting style indeed, than their predecessors, Hour. and SMYTH, but still confi dently anticipating victory : and not limiting their expectatiods to the acquisition of Montreal, they every where gave out that they were to keep their Christmas at Quebec. Whilst we rejoice over the total defeat of these proud hopes, we cannot but repeat, that the fact of defeating them with so great a dispioportion of numbers, attaches the greatest credit to the officers on that station ; but to none so much as to that ex cellent Commander, who is the soul of all the compre hensive operations necessary for protecting a frontier of a thousand miles. Although the scene of Sir PRORGE PREVOST'S service is distant, their value ought not to be ovc.looked. He may be said to have preserved Canada to the English Croun, under cir cumstances, when its lobs would have been far from reflecting jest disgrace upon the military of its defenders. We.cannot help thiuking, that it would be no less accordant with policy than with justice, to mark the national sense of these important, services by some distinguished honour ; and it would doubtless .afford the American President no small vexation to hear, that Quebec or Montreal, instead of swelling the list of his own triamphs q had given a title of distinction to the brave man by whom all his schemn were defeated. - joined by the Dui* oflroass at Coteetadlea, at day, the areaogemene Navin heat somewhat IMS % , trated by 'the Ramorr's leaving ;e.day later than he intended. His Grass the Doe of ittrrusan left Belvoir Castltgo-meee-the Roya tat A Hall, Northamptonslik, by,SPaseinantant= i t sfould consevendy awn thise, the day befem the PRINCL The top/ PerampieS 'end .mite sill Alb rive at Belvoir Ciatle.to dine on Sunday, where they will be received b. at visuetposiagensobtee4 at the top. _The - Rola' Pasty will spend Sistuniustig , Lord Witscnecsgee.,ll)orleigh,j4wee, a short stage from the Duke of Rists.amrs. ; _TO werkmen kw. at length Atli - Shed' their lahoms. wad Belvoir Oink Is iea4 for the reception of the . illeoseious wititges.-... lie lOW of the County Militia4llf Litter - 004 will I:tend the festivities. 'Wednesday the Patella Re,,, e t wr will receive the ccmgratulary Addresses of Ilse Corporation of Lineoln and other' towns. th the, evening festivities will be renewed. and the Royal Party will leave on Thursday. As Mr. ARECTIINOT. Secretary to the Treasory. was riding on horseback, on Friday last, in Pattie-. meat-street, a carriage drove furiously by, and coming in contact with his lig, occasioned sr severe contusion, which confines him to his house. The Earl of CEA/MARTY had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT, a short time previous to his depar ture on his embassy to Holland, and laid before his Royal Highness specimens for the new coinage, as Master of the Mint. CORONER'S Inouesr.---Irriday an Inquest was held at the Duke's-bead, Monmouth -court, Sevin-dials, 1 before George Hodgson, Esq. Coroner for the county of Middlesex, on the b6dy of. Mr. Thomas Leonard, publican, landlord of the above-mentioned house, who was killed by a blow of it quart pot, given him by some person out of a number who had a drunken row In hislonse, about two o'clock in the morning of the 34 of this month, of which blow he lingered until the 23d, when he died. The Jury sat to elate hour, and exaTined several witnesses. The Coroner adjourned the Inquest until Tuesday, when they met again, and examined several other witnesses. It areared that a party of Irish labourers, from St. Giles sand Saffron • bill, were drinking in thehouse ( t he company tunsisted of Munster and Connaught met), when a row com menced, and the laqdlord, Mr. Leonard, actively en deavoured to restore order ; but he being a Munster man, was personally attacked by theConnaught partY• and received a blow from one of them . from a quart pot, which laid open his skull, and df which he died. The pot was produced ; the bottom, from the violence of the blow, was Beat in ; it was marked with blood, and there was still some of the hair sticking to it.— The party dispersed. after _this blow was given, but they are all Well known. Mr. .lohn Vaunt, the surgeon who examined the wound, deposed, that the deceased came by his death through the effects of the blow h* received,—The Jury, afier two days' investigation, retamed a verdict of If' Murder against 7 persons. Harrom-Gaaosit.—Yesterdiy Testes Croaaa was brought up iii the custody of John' Hutt, who appre hended rite prisoner on-the preceding night, at the , house of one Cain, in Chuich-ta 'St. Giles's, charged with the murder of Mr. Thomasnel Leona loolbett of the Duke's Head public-hone!, in . . court, Seven Dials. - The servant maid of 'deo ceased saw the prisoner in the watch-house, sisS was . I ready to swear w him ; but none of &twining's:RV* present. The prisoner slated, that he was tahen in mistake fora man of the name of John Brave i that he never was in Leonaid's house; that be works Rs A navigator, and hau many witnesses to prove that he was in his lodging on that sight and in bed, newer being out since he came to London later than eight o'clock in the evening, and that he was only sixteen weeks (torn the county of Mayo, in Ireland.—Mr. LaACM, the sitting Magistrate, ordered him to send to those witnesses, that they might come forward and prove what he- said, and ordered the officer to bring forward the witnesses to establish the charge on the - a I,.until whet time he committed the prisoner. JusTice-Roost servant maid, named Phabe Wise, late in the employment of bin Rawbone, oilman, in Fleet-market, was charged with tre..ting in an inhuman manner a child, ONteen months old. Mr. RA wbone stated, that he had len suSlitated the prisoner of Maltreating his child, but he was'up. able to ascertain the fact with certainty until Sunday last, when he discovered violent bruises on its tem- . pies and checks. On inquiry, he learnt from a slap servant, that the prisoner had struck it with greal; violence during his absence on Christmas-day, which was confirmed by sundry other bruises on various parts of the child's body. The prisoner, in her defence, said, the child had been obstinate, and would not eat its victuals. She in consequence struck it on the cheek, when it fell on the dresser. Mr. Rawbone said, he was anxious to make an ex ample of the offender, because he believed servants were too much in the habit of treating children com mitted to their care with cruelty. lf, however, she would agree to pay a guinea to some public charity, he would not push the business further : if she did not do this, he would certainly prosecute her for the assault. Alderman HEYOATE asked whether the child bad I had not given some provocation to the prisoner ? and suggested the propriety of servants being armed with some authority for the correction of children placed under their care. Mr. Rawbone said, he knew of no provocation which an infant of sixteen mouths old could give to justify the treatment which his child had received; nor did he think menial servants ought to be suffered to punish the children of their micers The parent was the best judge of the punishment, when offences were commi.ted ; bat be believed few human beings .would,4dveeata the necessity of beat ing an infant only 16 months old black and blue.— Alderman sail, if the girl, did not pay the sum specified to a charity, he must Certainly commit her for trial, although he thought the indictment , voulci be one of an extranrcii;iary nature. The mothpr of the girl, whose tempt; did not seem the mildest in the World, told her daughter not to agree to the pro positiOn made ; but the girl afterwards thou ht it wise to pay the guinea , which was given 'fa St. Se pulchre's girl's school i after which 'the offendetaaa diieliarged. aka* Velskoo Stailifili vacillation of Cooca'a I excellence in this pitfalls*** ita fearful undertaking fcpaap PM, ORR 0001141101hdf farirsate powers in that particular toe to pretest himself as the areas& of such a performer. .411411512,a1t_ acquitted himself egsposmhilreateeceinardsrdmitpansppllirre. It would az e ll a nn e tiv to data e upon his melts from* glider - nth -anti an tance ik has no raweiank hxdissatiefeed.vidi kis reception s aqd if he improves upon thaimpression he has made. e e l Public ITO heire.ne h ies the de&ree et tberateecled hies. • • • • 1- 'lll4ratioe 41-#113•4.1mi Mare the fillt Nu which,istwappeer on Saturday nest, is already become the tat of the Town. Tog Proprie tors certainly deserroesmarendotlen for briagingfor - AanuilletrlUe; beTb!id word this - worigi whisibrworomago.....„ . alt doubt, whether a third Tbeatra fret :waiter, for tbawepresentation* of shoe Pietatvsiasy of which wig unquestionably pr oe soperior to the few that areet hibited by our .propent nage •usobspolists. Each Number, we understand, will amain three or four Piece% at the nwitleoloprice of 2s. 6d. ,At Mrs*, at Cyppiny Hill, Su Shelley, Dart. tif a sort. Wednesday. the ISth instant. at John Thomas Suniey. Mdetley, of • the LOT of Sir MARRIED: -- Tunday, the Ca& Deestobeg t at Balk I.loutOblOttealoPt 4 I. P. Hamilton. Lid Regiment, toMtel ebarlittataite, Niond dauy,Stee of J. Fine, Esq, Member foe Q 1001481 4 81 bs4 IMP So the E.arl of Macelesh ' • Al-- •" r • 'Slattudity se'palglit, at - a TralrOrd, OF dee let, of R4llO I)4 t., were tllmes,lielestit on by fattbes W bigiL A. l • ADVICE. . AJUlle am i ag ir - W i t i O s f lidtteation . and "1t4196411b. v AIM 4millirsior e : d r safe sod it Rain tilmeihrots lbw tbareuixem ful twit oft alliodindena • dieliet of soperiseitife Skim Qi)1111. eel Co.ihmipaas. hove beso Wend* Mho the one otediltletimiet the *jet of eh* pekes, eindy i4. l , a at n, limatruedy emottottedi la a edified Si eaten, adios :feaseadtings, esienuoss sod eta, woo, ratZ=Z e ttactsmok. l.l.ll.lll 4,2 l oTret &nee Ir wane albumen, ft II; Writ se= eftell , happily paused ht. the yoltah at beck •id est ea*, sterility or barrenness, sot% le de other a emosereite mop ft WO %VW diseases, which, if mad,* 111.11.016 glelll l ol l l ll ill lowa fence and crnsomptfon. to did 4 I 1 1 1 : =____ l " defieliory;whetber the' ar!:;ing from any other colon. by the,poires at dbi wpm. tattles become enfeebled. Ueeowdiefy edema Surgeons of lans. dnn, they offer ati b y, speedy re feition ea scold vtgorous health. Messes Coss sod Co: *elusively *boobs Itifiollh sigme parr.cuLsr complete, to seder tie they may bet tech VT mistaltat few. puked with the 'Mager le lastly _Melted' to, the ignorant empiric, think it but jaded to derliteve to eats; that they have been properly educated and Meted into elm branch dt the profession (certalcsisi of which, from &deed Hatpin:a, and testianulth trfro CM UMW they have to tionvinee Int byte) dot the veseer frPul theft endeavours int *deed OWto qutt the paedVt — P . the geueral Pracdtiond, and they prom that thititotea to sme tasentute a lair grated for the ' cou • width theybave, by the Palate: 6m * 12049,1 1 4 The result of a long nod elhaidletilidelide tai seabird chais e by a =POD' method, t 9 TIFIre IMMO 0111101dini. beltrfee tavetaraee4te catspikated,,MNlOlS majoitiof ail retest to (1 6 0 !hat remain b dhiree end Is new c a s!" 1 " 41 sI P slat apieleiedie leauelii tlr rsieeeay idea erection, dairy tte s........peefetio item to the ewe mace of two der. 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' " . • They eandrose milneetheir Men 4dm Itm,Somde apd cue et Venereal Caserfirinte. oil Ant deralleMsent of the sritelle which is the cciamsseelket . andffinglel din* of R habit hog seldom rinsed by rientbs et both mask in the ens it MI he tiler the alinice of home ma; the Mbar have its eiMilly chedroarnamitio =ll:' tressingsgate el iishillwiliWitliet hi harasses. Titer imeite Nara aid oadoedn Orem, ohllim sanirdops, loss et *Anderieriarevous areddre unsally characourieethe thk edleary vim% 01114*- I° %. mar* . , holding* eneltalmbh„tbek , treettneat h ems leir • • levied _ _eeseesintel. misreads legs •idlif"rvii""di vaws=" l° tbi ' fort airesitaiMl awes et se* * In area !pow senweernsees Ird hr. cure; . Ming ti Mehare t Allet eili whethermope off( legidorede rU erA hat him bid del *AI efothegTraonws ; am by the piment Illerievel 0111 treatment. efferinseßy adretletlptlidy med, tvidiant dr gaffe:twat ezettlOons rein *Atlas, ItlinallSelh *Wag chin fellows the alkisik;*Whisf tlistitedreasetli. In Shamans il 110 years extend., practice in this anampells,l****** Bo do Stricture* have been and dally under *dr care, the of eradication of which are by a safe, MAW% aikelliPelh are tioul mode of preadek p shy ohs rit i°P'"l• Tb t weakness, retarders, - aria prog., I plaint is speedily rensetee& alli St pain iestortil to and vigorous health. llot eelltsre tabu fog yen- . .v ent ted, a proper perseverance in di* remedies, Stricture has born destroyed. Is V Mull" t 4 rfi .- 4 the slumbering pasha of life r sad ea monism* Me cenarkttiia. Several Noblemen and Gentlemen, of the the respertgolklt Pave been under the care of MMus. Carrie and Co. for the ass , !nova) of complaints of the Urethra, Strictures, ate. altd._ .Llll received a radical apd permanent core, request that reiKen may he made to them as satisfactory evidences of the decide! as 1 porta:icy of Messrs. Curtis and Co.'s plan of treatment. M or then. Gentlemen had Strictures from tea to tarefirf r ur t and were tinier the ear* of Messrs. Home and Heseoassa ant otherpuram at equal ensinenco, effort attemrted dolt curl by the aprlteation of the hum caustic, without success. Patients in the Country ire requested to state the partkuins, of thelr ease, age, and manner et living, enclosing a Hank note be advice and medicines, and the sense will be rem •r forwenled to any weir the Singdans. Messrs. Currie and Co. may be cemented b 7 either See, se k titto. Hiamlat e 7 greete et r zl i logiow.,lo : lofrr. at their Rouse. fie 1 ~.: .,, . • ..., - lore Ships at Marier 39 Newcastle ' Sunderland oL‘. 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