Star. — London, England, 1830-10-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FRANCE. From the Monitertr. PARIS, OM 9. The King has received the grand deputation charged to present him the Address adopted yesterday by the Chamber of Deputies, on the abolition of the punishment of death. A great number of Members ac companied the deputation. All the Ministers were present to the right and left of the King, who was seated upon the Throne. The President ' having read the Address, his Majesty replied, GENTLIXEN—I receive with great satisfaction the Address you have presented to me. The sentiments to which you give expression have been a long time in my heart. Witness, from my earliest years, of the frightful abuse of the punishment of death in political matters, and of all the evils which have resulted from it to France and to huma nity, I have constantly and warmly advocated its abolition. The re membrance of these times of disaster, and the melancholy feelings which oppress me when I turn my thoughts to them, will afford you a sure pledge of the eagerness with which I hasten to lay before you a project of law conformably to your views. With respect to mine, they will never be completely fulfilled until we have entirely effaced from out Code all those rigours and penalties at which humanity, and the present state of society, revolt." As the constitution and character of the National Guard have been made the subject of much discussion both in this country and in Ftance. we republish from the Tissee, the project of law for its establishment and organisation:— SECTION 1. " Art. I. The moveable National Guard is the auxiliary of the army for the defence of the territory,—the guard of the frontiers, to repel in. vasion and maintain public order in the interior. " 2. The moveable National Guard is composed of citizens taken from the stationary National Guard. and distributed into organised bo• dies conformably with the present law. "3. The putting into activity of the moveable National Guard can not take place but by virtue of a law; or, during the non-sitting of the Chambers, by royal ordinance, which shall be converted Into law at the next session. "4. AU Frenchmen, from 20 to 30 years (included) of age, inscribed and matriculated on the register of the stationary National Guard, what. ever may be their rank in the said Guard, will be subject to be called upon to form part of the moveable National Guard. "5. The Nadosal Guards will be arranged in the following order : —The youngest, the bachelors, the widowers without children, the mar. Tied without children, the married with children, the widowers with children. " The number of children, the necessity for the National Guards to remain at the head of any great agricultural or mechanical work will be appreciated, as hereafter explained. "6. The arrangement of the National Guards called into service will be made by the Council of Verification ; and in case of complaint, shall be decided by the Jury of Equity. ~ 7. The fitness for service shall be judged of by a council of revision, to meet in the place where the battalion is to be formed. " This Council will be formed of seven members, President, the Prefect, or in default of him, the Counsellor of Prefecture, se lected by him. " Three members of the Council of Verification, selected by the Prefect. "aim chief of battalion, and two captains of the said battalion, nominated by the General commanding the military subdivison, or the department. " SICTION 2—Exczyrtons AND SUBSTITUTIONS. " The following are exempt from the terries of the National Guard :-- " I. All those who are not of the height of 1 metre and 67 esn. timeuis. " 11. Those whom manifest infirmities reader unfit foe service. " The recruldng council, and in ease of dispute, the Jury of trinity, will pronounce upon these exemptions, and upon all those which may be &minded for any MUNI whate►er. " 9. The National Guard who have obtained subedtutes in the army will not be excused from the wilco of the Moveable national guard. " 10. Subedtudons la the moveable mama ptard will not be allow. ed, except for swoons submitted to the Judgment of the council of veri fication ; and, in case of dispute, to that of the Jury of Equity. " The substitute must be approved of by the council of verification, and by the council of revision. " The party procuring • substitute will be bound to clothe, to arm, and equip the substitute at his own expense. "11. The substitutes to be taken from among men of 00 to 30 yews of ask andtven from those of 35 to 40, if they have been soldiers. " If. If the substitute, of less than 30 yens °rage, shall he called upon to serve on his own account in the moveable National Guard, the person having obtained the substitute will be bound to furnish another or to serve himself. " 13. The substitute can only be taken from the arrondissement in which the party who obtained the substitute is domiciled. " 14. The party obtaining a substitute will be responsible for him IA cue of desertion. SECTION S....FOILEIATIOX ON TEM BATTALION. " 13. The moveable National Guard will be arranged by battalions : the Government may unite them into a legion. " 16. The corporals, subalterns, and sub.lieutenants, win be elected by the Natimud Guards : the other officers will be in the nomination of the King. " 17: All the *Seen in the nomination of the Sing may be taken, without distinction, from the National Guard, the army, and retired withers. " 18. Companies of Grenadiers and Voltigeurs may be formed when the King shall think proper. " le. There shall be a flag to every battalion of 800 men. " The flag shall bear the name of the department which has fur nished the battalion. SECTION 4.—Or Discirsiwz. " 20. When the corps of the moveable National Guard are mortised, they will be subject to military discipline. " 21. Nevertheless, whenever the National Guards refuse to obey command, or leave their corps without authority, they shall not be pu. niched but by imprisonment, which iniprikonment shall not exceed fire years. SIICTION 5.-Or Tag ADMINISTRATION. " 2t The moveable National Guard is assimilated, in point of pay and rations, to the troops of the line. " A Royal ordinance will determine the gross amount and the weer wales of the pay. " The officers, subalterns, and soldiers, enjoying a retiring pension, will be enabled temporarily to increase it by their pay for active service, which they will receive on account of the rank they have obtained In the moveable Natimud Guard. " 23.Tbe uniform and distinguishing marks of the moveable Nations Guard are the same as those of the stationary National Guard. " The Government will furnish rims and equipments to such of the National Guards as shall not be provided with them, or have net the mean: to equip and arm themselves at their own expense. " 24. The moveable National Guards will have the same right ss the troops of the line, to the military immure and rewards. " 25. Royal indium:es will determine the organisation of the bat. t&lions and companies, the number and rank of the officers, and the cumpoaition and installation of the council of administration. " Paris, Oct• O. (signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE. Prom CaTemp. " THE CITIZEN KING. " We gave yesterday some information respecting the new predet de tur regulating the National Huard, and particularly respecting the ~ t angenients which relate to punishment and discipline. We are ere- A!t)ly informed to-day that the presentation of that proja de lob was , ztittd..4l for some days by a scruple on the part of his Majesty, which " be considered as the outward expression of a deep solicitude for ''.• nation who was the object of it. At the moment when the 111- '",try wee designing to submit the law to the Chambera and when a' , of its m e mb ers even h e ld i n hi s hand an copse of the masons in which It originated, the King desired to be made fully acquainted *lll , all the articles of that code, which had been already discussed in council. He meditated upon it for some hours, and thus the severity of the punishments to enforce discipline stated in our yesterday's journal attracted his attention. He was particularly dissatisfied with the proviso 1 which deprived of his civic rights the citizen, who, after repeated acts of disobedience, persisted in refusing to go upon service. He expressed his fears with great vivacity to the Minister of the Interior—he entered into various statements, all full of the kindest consideration for the Na. tional Guard, which was engaged, he said, in a service proving at once its generosity and its devotion; he enlarged upon the danger of , spreading discontent by a disproportionate severity of punishment s i among citizens naturally unaccustomed to the heavy yoke of severe discipline. Assuredly there is no solicitude more noble, more pope lar, more fitted to excite the gratitude of the nation ; but in this con juncture we can only applaud the opinions of the venerable Lafayette,l who, invited to this conference, insisted, as we stated yesterday, on the I necessity of punishing severely. for the general interest, every person who failed in the civic duties which were individually and legally in. posed upon him. It is added, that in spite of the conviction of M. La fayette, the King wished to have this important question submitted to more mature consideration, and such was the .sole cause of the delay which we noticed in the presentation of a law which has been expected with such lively impatience." (From the Messages des Chawsbres, dated Monday, Oet. 11.) " SPAIN. " MADIIID, OCT. 1. [EXTRACT!! FROM • ['RIVAS! LITTZILi " The Society of the Anilleros, which is the organ of the moderate part of the nation, has just completed its labours on the Council of State. It appears that the system of the illustrious Chancellor de PHopital has prevailed. and that the council will be composed of lb members. The following are the candidates who have been selected to be presented to the Monarch for this choice :- 4 4 Lieut.-Oeneral O'Farril, formerly Minister of War, who has long been a resident at Paris. Auguel Muriel, formerly canon of Seville, distinguished by his political and literary talents, who has also resided at Paris since the las peace. " Evaristo Perez de Castro, formerly Deputy and Minister of Fo. reign Affkira. Calatrava, formerly Deputy, and Minister at the time of the se paration of the Cortes, in 1823. " The Count de Torreno, Deputy to the Corte in IBl2:and 1820, when he was remarked for his brilliant eloquence. " Vadillo. formerly Deputy and Minister. " Count d'Ofalia, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, and at pre sent Ambassador at Paris. Baßesume, Minister of Finance since the restoration. " General Alava, formerly Deputy. " The Marquis de Santa Crus, a Grandee of Spain, Director of the Spanish Academy, formerly Ambassador. " Aranjo, a rich landowner at the Havannah, formerly Councillor of State, and possessing great influence in his own country. " Eno, formerly Minister of Finance, afterwards in the Council, where he enjoyed immense influence. " Arguelles, formerly Deputy and Minister of Finance, at the time of administration called las risk perks, (the seven pearls.) " Roman Felin, formerly Minister of the Interior, in which he gave proofs of a firm and decided character. Lastly, " M. Crambonero, a very eminent lawyer, formerly Counsellor of State, and at present employed to draw up the civil code. It is affirmed that the latter has also been charged to draw up the charter which it is intended to grant. " The Marquis de Casa frugo, Director of the Bank of St. Ferdi nand, would perform the functions of Secretary-General to the Council of State. All the Secretaries of State to be in right sod in fact mem. bees of the Council of State, so long as they re tain ed their portfeuille. In a word, it is intended to support the Government by the most remark. able talents of all parties. The first act of the new Ministry, it is affirmed, is to be a general amnesty for all those who are silks hom their country on accounts of their opinions, whatever they may be.' " Several other changes are going to be proposed toing Ferdinand foe his approbation. Thus the general direction of the naval depart. mint would be confided to IJeutenant.General Cayetano Valdes, for merly Deputy and Regent ; that of the Ordnance to Count {,b;equi, formerly Viceroy of America. Lieutenant-General Abisbal would be Inspector. General of the Infantry, and Lieutenant-General &Hastens, an emigrant, Inspector-General of the Militia. The Calms &Amor dasement will, it Is asserted, be confided to Messrs Encimo Piedra, who is actually in place ; Isturbes, (formerly deputy) an emigrant ; and Zuletta, likewise formerly a deputy, and an emigrant. They will be invited to present, without delay, a mere' plan to unite all debits of the state, and to consolidate the nataedit. " Every body agrees in saying that M. Andre Coballero, banker at Madrid, formerly Director of the Bank of St. Ferdinand, will be In vested with the direction of the Treasury. It is added, that the King intends to choose four Aides-du camp from among the most esteemed and most able General Officers, who will be attached to his person, and charged with the important and delicate missions which his Majesty may please to confide to them." Prom do " ALOIIIII4 SIM 18. " PRIVATX COSSUPONDENCI. " The state at uncertainty Is protracted. The country is without a chief of the civil administration, and Its internal and Middy, organi. tuition is suspended. We are still expecting M. Volhuid. What can keep him away ? If we were less acquainted with the capacity of Oen. Chisel, we might also be uneasy at the stupidest of military affairs. How, indeed, can we help being astonished at seeing 20,000 disposable troops resolve to remain confined in a circuit extending only a league from the place, beyond which line we cannot pass without running the risk of being struck by an enemy's ball ? " In order to form a comet opinion, we must recollect the situation in which General Clause' found affairs on his arrival. The army was weakened by diseases—the mind of the soldiersdepressed by melancholy reflections. He saw the fruits of victory escape him by the egotism of his chiefs, and the unfavourable light In which they wire received by the new Government. " By suffering the magic influence of victory to be dispelled without profiting by it, the inhabitants of the country had acquited a fatal con. fidence in their strength which seemed to be respected. Those in the capital no longer thought themselves safe, though protected by a vim rious army, which might abandon them at a short notice. Ludy, the Jews triumphed, thanks to the seduction sowed bytheir chiefs ; and the shameful superiority which they were suffered to affect, equally Incensed all the subjects of the old regency of every class. " It was in the midst of these numerous causes of weakness and dis. conragsmsnt, that General Clause) appeared and revived the hopes of all. He first attended to what was most urgent, and It was evident at once that be was equal to the task, as soon as he was seen to mist the importunities with which he was surrounded, and weaken the Jew iah influence, which offended every body. " The first measures are generally approved. The army is being re-organised, the vacancies are filled with numerous promotions ; con fidence revives, and the observer may easily judge that in a short time decisive operations wi ll justify the delay that has hitherto taken place. " Another cause induces us to presage the speedy submission of the tribes nearest to Algiers. Fortune has undertaken to do what ptudent policy could not effect. The Jew who causes himself to be panegyrised in some obscure French journals, which do sot fear to represent him as the Providence of the army, is going to be deprived, by an act of legal justice, of the means of corruption which he has at successfully em ployed up to this day. With his money he will lose his friends and rotators, and will no longer hinder the inhabitants from sincerely joining the French cause. " All the Consular offices are eagerly opened to furnish proofs of his misdeals ; ones furnished yesterday two overwhelming documents, on which the new tribunal will immediately decide. " The Magistrates will be installed, and have their first sitting on Monday next." PURLOINING OF TILE NEWSPAPERS AT THE POR. MCCABE POST-OFFICE IN LISBON. LISBON, SEPT. 25. The London mail of the Bth arrived on the 19th ultimo ; and, as news of some importance was expected from the Netherlands and France, a greater number of persons attended at the Portuguese post nice fur they papers than usual; but, much to their inordinate°, they found a far greater number of papers were purloined than usuaL-(there are al ways some missing)—and there is not the smallest doubt but it is done in the Portuguese office, as the London and British Packet-office here are strictly comet. Sir Francis Freeling has been written to, com plaining of the same; and it is to be hoped that, in future, all newspapers by the packets for Lisbon will be delivered as formerly, at the packet-office here, so that no such incon venience will be experienced for the future; besides which, this old method of delivery will, in a short time, more than double the stamp duty to Lisbon, as a great number of the Portuguese are afraid to have newpapers sent them, as they would be marked as meddling in politics, which is heft strictly peobibited, and numbers have been imprisoned for the same, and bad severe sentences passed against them. The French papers by the packets are oftener detained than any others, and some merchants have applied to the Administrator of the Poets to know it Government don not intend to allow such to be re ceived here; and, if so, they will not order them out. We well know what the answer will be; but the purloining will go on as usual With respect to the newspapers and letters from Francs, per poet, nothing is more common than to have the whole stopped, some- times for a post or two, and if they contain news not congenial to the wishes of this Government., they are withheld altogether, and only such as they think proper (of the letters) are delivered. Sometimes they are so unceremonious as not to reseal them after their having been opened •—•all.which happens to British subjects as well as Portuguese;and it is by this means, and by their spies, that they have been able is and•out and insprisua so many thousands of the Constitutional Parties.... Lord Porchester's " lust Days of the Constitution " hes hem trans. laced into Portuguese, and copies of it have been sent to all Don Iliguers 311niststs, and a number of them have got into circulation. Now every individual who is known to have had, or even read one, is I immediately imnisoncd. When these unfortunates are brought by the police to the gaol, they ask what they are put in for? The reply is. Hold your tongu: ; you'll know it in time enough ;" or sneeringly tell them , You know you are a Naiad° ; that is quite sufficient." On the 23J ult. about 50 prisoners were marched from the Limoeiro (chained two and two, with iron collars round their necks) through the city to the prison called Coca dot Mount, previous to their being trans. ported to Africa; amongst them were seven or eight will-dressed men ; these were Constitutionalists. The ship Male e Cardoso, which took the last cargo, returned the other day, and is now preparing for another, trip. I here annex an account of the Malted°, or Constitutional, pri soners confined at Porto ; the exact number existing there on the lit of September you'll find to be 760. CONSTITUTIONALISTS INIPRISODIED BETWEEN THE IST SETT. 1828, AND THE IST SEPT. 1830. The Prison of Relagao. Discharged from prison ..... 113 In the room and passages of 1 „ 4 . 1 Transported to Africa, &c.... 37 the upper floor.. "" Condemned in costs.. .. IV Room called N. Sa. do Car- Banished in the kingdom... 20 132 Died in the Infirmary 2B Room called St. J05e....... 150 Hanged (say murder-) Room called N. S. dig ed) their heads stuck Dores 139 on the gallows, their). 12 Private Room (Madame bodies burnt, and the Visun) . 1 ashes thrown into the ' The Lower Pa55age......... 1 Dungeon of Alatuainhos... 172 Dungeon of St. Anna..... 74 Dungeon of St. Antonio... 76 Dungeon of the Women.... 13 936 The Aljube, or Prison for 69 the Clergy ; Priests The Dungeons of the Castle 9 of the kor sea . J Banished (to Engbacl). es. I 1 Englishmen Banished to Fez a-Moor .. 1 Banished to England -3 Spaniards . . . Banished to France l 4 ditto 238 Remaining in Gaol . . . 766 1,004 1,004 Among the 766 there are two British subjects, 16 women, one Mad. Mendes, and old lady upwards of 78 years of age. Her crime is, that she gave the Porto rebels a Loge sum of money when they came into her house and demanded it. She has been in prison upwards of two Vears. The number of prisoners in the fortresses of Almeida and gaol of illa Real is not exactly known, but supposed to be about 500 or up- 1 wards. Besides this enormous number of 1.604, it is supposed there are in the district of Porto, not less than 1,000 persons out on bail, who must surrender themselves when called on. This indulgence of being at large, is on account of their not having prison room sufficient to cram them into. The Administrator of the Post.offiee (says Post- Master-Generall has been addressed several times, to know if this go vernment intends not to allow French newspapers to be admitted into Portugal, but no answer can be obtained from him. They will not have the honesty to say they shall not be allowed, nor will they acknow ledge that they are detained by their direction. SPIRIT . OF THE JOURNALS. Cnioxtet. c. —The gentlemen — and farmers of Kent are in the greatest consternation on account of the organised system of conflagra tion, from which so many of them have suffered. Every man who has ever employed an Irishman is in constant dread of a visit. The insur gents go about in hands of one hundred and fifty, and coolly demand the keys of the barns to destroy tbe thrashing machines, and all ides of resistance is out of the question. Indeed, when gentlemen have applied to their servants to assist them in repelling the attack, they have met with a flat refusal. The signals are given by sky-rockets, and as many se fourteen stack.yards have been in flames at the same time. There has long been a sullen discontent among the peasantry of England. We have often raised our voice in their behalf, but in vain. The genuy hive not dons their duty towards them. The labourers feel that the higher ranks are looking on with their arms folded, while they are sink ing to the level of wretchedness. It is deeply to be lamented that they should have recourse to lawless outrage, but when did ever persons in their situation reason correctly, with respect either to the cause of their sufferings or the proper remedy The disturbances in Kent are a warn ing that ought not to be disregarded. What adds to the alarm of the farmers, is the refusal of the Insurance Offices to ensure them, except on the most ruinous terms. Cm zoirretz.--A great dinner was given by the Birmingham rolideal Union, in celebration of the French Kevoludon, on Meoday last. Our t, says the Chroosiote, informs as that nearly 4,000 per sons dined this occasion, and that 6,000 must have been within the walls after dinner. About one-third of the company wars master-men of considerable respectability and intelligence; and the remaining two thirds, the superior description of mechanics, artisans, and workmen. " Thank Goy (said lUr. Attwood) we have no occasion now to take up murderous and destructive weapons. The progress of education and knowledge has changed this state of things. Our weapons are union,truth, justice, and reason. Our sword is • the sword of the spirit,' which is the will of the people.' (Cheers.) Look round again upon this as sembly, and I will say, show me twenty such dinners as this, and I will show you the governors of England—not the governors by violence, anarchy, or brute furze, but by the moral agency of public opinion, peacefully and legally influencing the opinions and the con duct of the Government." (Great cheers.) The greatest order pre vailed at this diaper. There is something it an exhibition like this which leads to serious reflection —six thousand respectable and or derly citizens in one town, assembled under one roof. Verily, if the Aristocracy do nut open their eyes now, they never will. A. for the people, their eyes are open—never more to be closed. Tuats.-Bome of our contemporaries have Dublin correspondents who seem to be haunted by serious fears for the tranquillity of Ireland on the approach of the November term, not from nightly outrages by Ribandmen or Rockites, but from discussions by " men of all c cds and parties, who have set their hearts" upon the repeal of the union, and who are likely "to agitate that subject with much tangy and de. termination not u a sectarian, but as a national and all-important question." We can scarcely bring ourselves to believe all this. Mr. O'Connell is indeed to arrive in Dublin, and is about to organize • new confederacy for " the redress of legislative grievances;" meaning, thereby, the redress or abolition of the union. Nothing is more likely than the formation of such a project ; nor, judging from rout circumstances, few things less likely than the sue. ass of it, through any co-operatioo which can be looked for between " men of all creeds and parties." The single party from which, as we understand, much seal is to be anticipated in such a cause, is that of Mr. O'Connell himself, together with the knot of professional agitators, who themselves constitute a "grievance" requiring greatly " to be re dressed." The shopkeepers of Dublin may be considered the elective' body of which Mr. O'Connell and Co. are lit representatives on the Union question. Dublin, of course, has lost in one respect by the Union, which drew to other quarters the Irish aristocracy and their pro fuse expenditure ; but we do not know that the country at large has suf. tired from the same cause, at least in any thing like the same proportion. That the late disturbances in Belgium, with their unhappy results, would afford a rude material for the fancy of Irish demagogues to work upon, and be converted into a topic of incitement, leading, if possible, and in due season, to insurrection against the British Goversiment, few persons who have watched the nianceuvrinp of faction in Ireland could entertain a doubt. Before a separation of the Netherlands from Hol land was dreamed of—because long before the overthrow of the French Bourbon Government—Mr. O'Connell bad "organised" his measures for stirring up the people of Ireland is clamour for a repeal of the Union. This was indeed very shortly after the repeal of the Catholic disabilities had been accelerated (and he saying so we mean no reproach) by the same instrument of clamour. The case of Belgium, therefore, has not been the original moving power in this ill.omened enterprise. It hes been a subsequent " God.send"—that is all. Hearam.—A good deal of surprise has been expressed at Sir Gemge 11 urmy's removal from the Colonial Department,which, coupled with ffie previous transfer of Sir Henry Hardinge from the War Office, looks as if' the Prtmier had taken the hint, so often given him, that his Adnsinis• tration had partaken rather too much of the character of a military Go vernment. Though we should be among the last to find fault with his Grace for any deference, however tardy, lie may be inclined to pay to public opinion, there does seem, we must be permitted to say, a little impolicy, in parting with two of his best men at the moment when the scene of operations is just opening on i new and more ',duals contest. Besides, the Duke retails*, tor the present, his military Privy Seal, who, without any disparagement to him, be it spoken, Is of little value as compared with Sir George Murray. It is peculiarly unfortunate, too, that another should be added to the many changes which have so lately taken place in the Colonial Department, lin which the old adage of " New Lords, new laws," seems especially uncalled for. The situation of our colonies, both as regards them and the mother country, calls fur a consistent, firm, and uniform Adosiois. intim ; which cannot be, or, at least, is not the case, when the head of the department scarcely remains in office to receive the answer to his own despatch. Next to the slave question, which only in. volves a part of the m , th e must material questi on as regards the whole of our colonial establishments, is that they should be so go. veined as to be made to bear the burden df their own de. fence • which they would long since have done had they not been lade the source of an official patronage, which has bowed in this, as in too many other cases, to the all.pervading weight of hungry, ta. hiltless boron_ghisrn. As far as Sir George Murray's management of the Colonial Deportment has come within our observation, it has been freer hens this besotting sin of his predecessors than could well have been expected. There has been an open straOtforwardoess about it ton, coupled with a business-lite attention to affialm, not always the ac companiments of office; and on all account's, we may say, that though we shore ha the dislike which the country, naturally unnut ie t ri f te rnig in wards too much appe a r a n ce o f m ili tar y rule, it is due to Sir M sir. ray to declare that the country wiU be fortunate indeed if in his case there shall be change for the better. Posy...—We sincerely wilds that— lives of the usfortunakt Minis ters of Charles X. may be spared, at whatever bawd to the eharacer or stability of the Itevolutionary Government; and we entertain Chia wish from the conviction that they have done nothing legally or morally worthy of death. The members of the present French Choc; i.ment entertain tbe wave wish with staselv hut they are far from lint!. ing embraced the same conviction, 4.r at least, from the r.anlinesa which would lead them to avow it. They would wires men to escape punishment who are great criminals, if they them. selves are not usurpers. Under monkish and sentimental pr... tensions to liberality and philanthropy, they disguise the co sciouaness of their own wrong. Ti vie mercy is the mercy t f egotism. They wru!d defraud 11. e Levolution of its first clams of victims, because they apprehend t'at the Revolution bas not yet completed it career, and in its further niovcrrents they kuuw not what further victims may be required. These is a r.anifest want of sine , ri•y in the conduct of the Revolutionary Governnie•.t of France toward. in o people, which will probably have tee effect of irritating and provoking the latter more even than the Grit avowal of the most unpopular intentions. If the liovervirent be of opiri 'lt that humanity, justice, or expediency, t..tlrcis the a2plice.:t.ii of extreme severity in the case of Prince Polignac and hi% col. leagues, what but the consciousness that this opinion is not it, con. formity with that of the sovereign people deters 'l:em from its oper and distinct avowal ? And if the sense of the people be so abs•Phee in its authority that the government may not sat: !y 4ilfer from it, with re. serene to the merits and the fate or these anfortunate men, es••at coo. tinuance can be conceived more futile and in suiting than that which seeks to open a way for their escape under the poor subterfuge o: en cx post facto and inapplicable law ? THE QUEEN AND THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS. A deputation from the journeymen silk weavers of Spirit!fields pro ceeded ro Brighton ou Friday last, to prcser t a congratulatory address to her Majesty Queen Adelaide. upon her accousion. as Queen Comort, to the British throne. The add,• as tr.is written. in a very superior with pen and ink, upon white gros de Naples silk. surrounded by a border, on which the Royal arms, with motto, &c. complete, were richly woven in twenty-four compartments, in alternate colours of violet and scarlet. It was altogethrr a very elegant pi.ce of workmanship, and considered by the trade as a curiosity, be ing the first time. it was said, wh . ch they had succeeded, aster ' numerous failures. in preparing the silk to carry the ink without ' spreading. The deputies were disappoittnl in their exp.ictstion of being admitted to present their Address to the Queen in person, fur deputations with addresses are so numerous, that her Majesty has four d it impossible to give audiences to them all, and in order to avoid of. fence by the admission of some and exclusion of others, prefers recei ving the whole•of the addresses through het Chamberlain. An intimation io this effect was given to the weavers when they attended at the Palace to know Her Majesty's pleasure, but they met with every attention, short of admission to the Royal presence, mid an answer of a most gracious kind was given to their address by Her 3lajesty. NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. The Nimrod, of Liverpool, and the Alexander, Ricbardsor, for Quebec, were spoken with in long. 46 Drat, Ocr. 12.—Wind E.N E.— Arrived from the River, and sailed, the Britomart, for the westward. Forum/vv. Cie?. 11.--Wind E Sit —Arrived the San Juan Ig nacia, San Antonio F. Animus, and San Jose Juan Batista, fri m Re quljado. FaLITOCTII OCT. Il.—Wind S.F.. to E fresh breeze . — Sailed the Lyra pac ket, for Halifax and Bermuda; and the Hermes eclat packet, fur the Mediterranean. C• 11114 OCT. 10.—Wind E.S.E.—Salled the Nioffatt. Cromarty, for Gibraltar. Arrived the Arah tratt.port, Lowe; Greve , ' ditto, Ni clolsoo; and Amity ditto, Gray, from Deptford for Barbadoes. Moult, Ocr. 9 —Arrived the Salem, Wil!lants, from Cully ; Crosby, frost Laguna; and Traco de Malo, front St. 1.114'.. Assassin, Ocr.lo.—Arrived off the purr, the St. Andrew, {teed, ce and Princess Charlotte, from Davis S tra i t,. Psessuseo, OCT. 10. — Arrived off the port, the Gleaner. Shard, from Davie Steaks. 111 ANSION-HOUSE.-CHARGE OF FORGE K Y ON TII K EAST.INDIA COMPANY.—(Tius DAY.) A•young man of respectable appearance was brought before :he LORD MAYOI4 charged with having presented a forged wanant tee 6141. at the Bank,fee payment, in the name of the East India Comm y. Mr. Mortimer, treasurer of the Company, produced a check for 614% Was acquainted with the signatures of Mr. Astell and other directu s. He could decidedly my that the signatures to the warrant were nut thuve of Mr. Astell and others. The check could not have been passed ' out witness's signature. The prisoner was employed, but not p..-n a nantly,.in the Acoomptants' Generals Office. Witness's signature eat fogged. Mr. Evans stated the course adopted by the prisoner on pres,r ;•%,: the check at the bank. Witness believed the warrant to be incol, .e., and prisoner said It was a forgery, and hoped he would not expose in •t. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was committed fur It TILE QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS.—This morning the d'- vidends on the several portions of the Public Debt which became on the sth instant, commenced paying at the Bank of England. The London Bankers signed foe the dividends on Stock tit( y geld yesterday. The amount tithe dividends to be paid to the public, is between six and seven millions sterling. The dividends are payable on Reduced Aneu;- ties, the 31 per Cents. of 1818, the 31 per Cents. Reduced, the 4 :ler Cents. of 1828, Long Annuities for 30 years, and Bank Stock. Jud d ons from the full attendance of the holders of Stock at the Bank this awry. ing, it wouldSP money oney is rather in discount. DARINGrROLASY.--Infortration was this moruin given at the various Police Offices, of the house of Wm. (heeler, of Upper Woburn-place Tashi:at-square , having been broken , about two o'clock • Tue sday morning, and plundered of various por.a , ble articles of value. The thieves effected an entrance from the back of the house into the basement, whence they proceeded to the floor shove. Among other articles taken by them were, a valuable watch s ith two seals appended, one engraved with Mr. rider's coat of arms, and the other bearing his initials; also, a silver cruet stand, several tea ar d other spoons, and a pair of miniature statues, one of Napoleon. and the other of Frederick the Great, executed in Berlin iron, and tidily bronzed. The plate-chest was fortunately placed in a part of the house to which they did not venture to proceed. They finally made their es. cape by the street-doer. NEW PoLICE.—No small share of laughter was created on Monday night, at the west end of the town, about 15 flash yowl men, with cloaks and cigars, parading up Whitehall, Pall-nail.. . James's -street, and other populous parts of that end of the merscipel:s. in police order—one by one. These self.constituted gua.ilians of the night cause no little surprise to the regular police, wow, howev.a, be haved perfectly quiet on the occasion, and took no notice whatever of the jocular imitation played upon them. Another expedition will shortly sail from Poi tBILCU.)). 'o complete the survey of the western coast of Africa, which the unfortunate termination of that under the late Captain Botcher left unfinished. Tree command is intrusted to Captain Belcher, a scientific officer who •ecc .1 with Captain Beechey in expl or in g the shores of the Pacific. Ills .tla jesty's sloop Etna has been appropriated thr this service, and n (re t. a -i ordinary attention and liberality have been bestowed upon all her equip.. mews. Her commander and offing% lave been selected ty the Lords of the Admiralty in cons, quence of their superior III:11111111.11/A aid every measure has been taken on the part of Discernment to render this arduous expedition effective. The Etna will prt cad in the first instance to Sierra Leone, and thence to survey various parte of the Dad Cost, sod to ascertain the meridiem distances of different points which are eessary for the completion of the charts of that neighbourhcoil.—L :e -ntry Gesell/. There was a great deal of animation evinced Ncoteri!ay evening at the isles of Spanish Australian and other wools. the sties of the manufacturers and whets from Yorkshire and the West of England was very numerous, and the wools sent off very briskly._ Within the last two days about 700 bales of Australian wools have bees purchased at prices flout lid. to 2d. per lb. advance. Yesterday even ing about Whales of Spanish wools were brough: forward aid sold a 1..1 great spirit. About 270 bales of inferior qualitl a realised front lett. to to Hid. per lb. The other wools were better quaiities, and realised r o 2W. to 231 per lb. Some fine wools fetched from 2*. 4d. to 2,2 e per lb. The stock of wools continues low, and the den.and tear n Leturing purposes is still very anise. Dls I' AHED SHEEP.—The qt entity of sheep Act teil the rot in the west of Roglar.d is tug eralkled. In t 4 rotiami, teo. disease has become very prevalent Formerly the nasum trout the Highlands was probably the best in the world; all that is fed 01. the cultivated lands now is diseased. In order to prove the coerce nem. of the opinion that the Book and poisonous be rbage was really the cause f the disorder, a gentleman who has an estate a short disticher nom Cl aw . gow, who sent the worst mutton that canat to 01.i.gow market se , en years ago, tit the butchers would nut buy his slurp, he set to AtOZIC, and underdra tied the fields, (allowed, pared, and burned, arceedirir as the soil would admit of it ; used various coati outs of lime aim salt, a: it sowed pure clover and grass seed. His sheep are now the best that t 0.% • to Glasgow market, which enhances the value of his pr,,peeiy at h a ,e two.thirds—a noble example for the kingdom at large.— COTTON WEA V ERs.—The situation of this unfortunate class of mechanics is at present most di.tressing. From returns s hid) we have seen, and statements made to us, it appears that there are, at this moment, upwards of 700 heads of families. whose earnings do rot, on an average, exceed 4e. per week, and nearly 3,000 fellow.beirgs (de. pendent on them for subsistence) art in a state closely bordering on star. radon. Disease, and all the enfeebling atteadams of poverty, are busy amongst them; winter and its min:ries are approaching, and without adequate food, raiment, ere covering, their eiteusemaneen present a pie. ture at which humanity shedders. We 'rust that this appeal may attract the eye of some ripen puesssed of influence sufficient to effect nowa remedy for ate Mimes an evil, and that public means will be exerted to avert the berries at present impending over this bumble and lave. vows.. d class.— Belfast Guardian. i T ~~. I I, ' a ' • .1 '1 I t I 1