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1 ~~ r - - tension to ScWond of the principle which the Legisla ture has deter toed to apply to this country. • The other circumotanolti to which your Committee matt tit refer, as bear'ng materially upon their present decision, will rise ihibe event of aconsiderable increase in the crime of fiager'y. . • Your Committee called for Retails of the number of prosecutions and convictions for for get y, and the offence of passinsz forged notes during The last 2(1 years in Scot laod. which Returns will be found in the Appendix. There appear to have been, doting that period, no prosecutions for the ctinte of forgery; to have been 86 prosecutions for the offence of issuing forged promis sory notes, fifty-two.convictions ; and eight instances in which the capital sentence of the Jaw has been carried into effect. It ought not to escape observation, that out of the total number of prosecutions for issuing forged notes in the last twelty years, thirty-eight have been instituted, in the years 1823, 1824, and 1825 ; a fact which seems to warrant the apprehension that the crime of forgery is upon the increase in Scotland. It ought, however, to be observed/that the Return does not specify whe• ther the forged notes, for the issue of which prosecutions have taken place, were in all instances notes of the Bank of Scotland. It is possible, therefore, that some of the prosecutions may have been eirtcted against for get its committed on the Bank of England, or on Banks other than the Banks of Scotland. Your Committee will here close their observations with respect to the circulation of Scotland. They are . well aware of the great advantage that would result from being enabled, in a matter of this nature, to ex press a clear and decisive opinion, unembarrassed by any qualification or reserve; but they consider it to be their duty, in a complicated question that involves many important considerations, and upon which the decision must be subject to future contingencies, to pre sent the whole of those considerations fairly to the House, and to qualify their I resent conclusions by a reference to possible circumstances, by the occurrence of which they might be materially affected. IRELAND. With respect to the circulation of Ireland, the inquiries of your Committee have been less extensive than those which they have instituted with respect to Scotland. The first law in Ireland which restrained the negotiation of Pro missory Notes, was an Act passed in the Irish Parliament in the year 1799. The preamble recites, that various Notes, Bills of Exchange, and Drafts for Money, have been for some time past circulated in lieu of cash, to the great preju dice of trade and public credit; and that many of such notes are made payable under certain terms with which the poorer classes of manufacturers and others cannot comply, unless by submitting to great extortion and abuse. It adds, that the issue of such notes has very much tended to increase the pernicious crime of forgery: and the Act proceeds to apply to notes between the value of five pounds and twenty shillings similar re strictions to those which had been applied to such notes issued in England, by the Act which passed in the year 1777. It permits, however, during the suspension of Cash Payments by the Bank of Ireland, the issue of Bank Post Bills, Bills of Exchange, ind Drafts, under certain regulations, for any sums not less than three guineas. This Act did not extend tothe Bank of Ireland. In 1305 this, and some other Acts,which had passed in the interim, relating to the issue f 6111211 notes, were re-ealed, and notes under 1 2 which ha i l beam pre. 0 - 11' • 1 it t iOnsiy pertinitesi tinder certain regulations by the Act oi 1799, were declared void. There is at present no law In force imposing any limitation 'to period for which notes for a sum not less than twenty shillings ybe issued in Ireland. A tolerably correct estimate of the amount of pro missoi y notes above and below five pout;ds, circulating in Ireland, may be formed from the subjoined Returns, made by the Bank of Ireland, and by other Banks, at pit:atilt established in that country. BANK OF IRELAND NOTES. 1. An account of the average amount of the Batik of Ireland Notes of five pounds, and upwards. (Including Bank Post Bills), for the years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1825. Irish Currency. Notes an Post Bills of XS and upwards . £3,646,660 I'. 6 2. • An account of the average amount of the Bank of Ireland .Jotes, under the value of five poutids, (Including Bank Post Bilis), for the years IE2O, 1821, 1822,1823, 1824, and 162 Trish Currency. ' Notes and Post Bills under the value of £5 £1,643,828 0 5 An Accousrr of the Amount of Brokers Notes circulating in Ire land, exclusive of those of the Bank of Ireland, strewing the Highest and Lowest Amount in the Years 1815, 1821, 18°3, 1824, and 1825; and also of the Amount in Circulation at the latest period in 1626 to which the Account can be made up ; distirguishing the Amount of Notes under £5 front those of £5 and upwards. • 1815.--- . lligliest Amount-E5 and upwards, 44,652 ; under £5, 298,530; total, 343,182. Lowest Amount-E5 and up wards, 53,182 ; under £5, 196,433; total, 231,615. 1821.-Highest Amount-E5 and upwards, 58,749; under £5, 874,763; total, 955,512. Lowest Amount--E5 and up wards, 45,494; under £5, 582,196; total, 627,690. 1823 -Highest Amount-CS and upwards, 56,396 ; under £5, 1,023,201 ; total, 1,079,597. Lowest Amount-.C.5 and up wards, 44,910; under £5, 688,410; total, 735.3`20. 1824.--.llighest Amount-ES and upwards, 75,274 ; under £5, 1,110.170; total, 1,185,417. Lowest Amount-45 and up wards, 57,035 ; under .C 5,711,084; total, 775,119. 1825.-Highest Amount-E5 and upwards, 106,605; under BES, 1,359.054; total, 1,465,659. Lowest Amount-E5 and up wards, 65,987; under £5, 854,126; total, 920,113. MC-Amount at present in circulation-ES and upwards, 74,658 ; under £5, 663,960 ; total, 758,6111. The amounts stated in this Account are made up from all the Returns that have been yet received from Bankers in Ireland, nine in number, of whirl. six only issue Notes. The amount of each description of Notes in circulation, by four of th , :ce Banks, iS calculated according to the proportions which are stated by each Bask to be usually in circulation; two Banks only giving the exact amount of each description of Notes. it will appear front the evidence, that a practice prevails in Ire land of is‘uing notes for the payment of sums between one and two tuts for three guineas, and other fractional sums. • no , r Committee see no public advantage a risin g out of this prie cr , and they are of opinion that it ought to be discontinued, as it tends to to:ispense with the nece.sity of silver coin, and practically } o culotte it from circulation. Your Committee hesitate, in the present imperfect state of their . 4 ; information, to pronounce a decisive opinion upon the general measures which it may be fitting to adopt with respect to the Paper Currency of Ireland. Although they are inclined t. think 'that it would not be advis able. to take any immediate step for the purpose of presenting the issuing of small notes in Ireland, their impression undoubtedly is, that a Metallic Currency ought, ultimately, be the basis of the cir culation in that country. It will, probably, be deemed advisable to fix a definitive, though not an early period, at which the circulation in Ireland of all notes. below five pounds shall cease; and it is deserving of consideration, whether measures night not be adopted in the interim for the pur pose of insuring such a final result by gradual, though cautiousi advances towards it. , . The inhabitants of Barbadoes appear very sensitive as to insurrections. A sentinel oo duty was approached by two blacks during the night, and offered money for his gunpowder, which he refused, and was wounded. 1 his has excited great alarm in the island. A reward of 1001. is offered for the daring wretches. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY DLECTION.—Tfie ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S COMMITTEE Meet daily at the Spring Garden Hotel, Spring gardens. .PUBLIC MEETING TO-MOIIROW. • Lord JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. in the Chair. THE object of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into, and Report on the Case of Mr. BUCKINGHAM, having been entirely .siefeated by the Prorogation of Parliament, before their labours could be brought to a clove, a PUBLIC 11EETING will be held TO-MORROW, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, at Two o'Clock, fur the purpose of considering whether any further measures can be taken to avert the impending calamities which threaten to over whelm Mr. Bacatirrmost, by the severe and disproportionate. pu nishment to which he has been subjected, without trial, and with out necessity, by the Government of India. 'On this occasion, the attendance of all Englishmen who feel an interest in preventing a fellow-conntryman from being crushed and ruined by an arbitrary destruction of property, altogether unpre cedented in English History, is earnestly solicited. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 2,1826. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWF.LVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 815, and soon after the /tart began to purchase, when the Market went up to 801 for the Ac count, with a good deal of business doing ; but within this half hour, a re-action has taken place, owing to the Jobbers realizing, having turned on the Market several small lots of Consols, which caused them to decline to 805 I for the Account, at which price they remain up to the present time. In the Foreign Market little is doing up to the present hour. Current Prices: Old Spanish 75 8, Mexican 62 Colombian new 401 415, Peruvian 29 30, Russian 81 5, Brazilian Bonds 56 87, Greek Bonds 1415, New Scrip 1 prem. Exchequer Bills 8 10. ONE O'CLOCK. Consols are, to the present time, wq In the earlier part of the morning several heavy sales Were made. PRICE OP-STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 201% 202► S per Cent. Red. 79% 78% 79 1 / 8 S per Cent. Cons. Shut. 3.4 per Cent. 86% 3} per Cent. Red: 85 3 / 8 4 per Cent. Shut. 4 per Cent. Scrip n 1 1 / 2 1 4 per Cent. 1826. 941 / 4 Long Ann. 19 18% India Bonds. 5 7 £l,OOO Excheq. Bills 8 9 prem. I:500 ditto 8 9 prem. £lOO and £2OO ditto 8 9 rem. Cons. for Acct. 80 3 4 Vf Vs 16 DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. Parliament is dissolved, and we subjoin copies of the. Proclamations which were signed by his MAJUTT yesterday, and will be issued this evening for that purpose. The first is for the election of Members of the House of Commons, and the second for the elec tion of Sixteen Representative Peers for Scotland, which is to take place at the Palace of Holyrood, on the 13th of next month: Both the W.rito arc returnable. on -art 25th of July. ) BY THE KING. A PROCLAMATION, TOR DISSOLVING THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT, AND D* CLARING THE CALLING OF ANOTHER. GEORGE R. Whereas we•have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to Wednesday the fourteenth day of June instant : we do, for that end, publish this our Royal Proclamation; and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs, of the Hou-e of Commons, are discharged from their Meeting and Attendance on the said Wednesday the fourteenth day of June instant. And we being desirous and re solved, as soon as may be, to meet our People, and to have their advice in Parliament, do hereby mate known to all our loving Subjects our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a new Parliament : and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of our Privy Council, we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain and our Chancellor of Ireland, that they do respectively, upon notice thereof, forthwith issue out Writs, in due form and according to Law, for calling a new Parliament. And we do hereby also, by this our Royal Proclamation under our Great Seal of our United Kingdom, require Writs forthwith to be issued accordingly by our said Chancellors re spectively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral, and Commons, who are to serve in the said Par liament, to be duly returned to, and give their attend ance in, our said Parliament; which Writs are to be returnable on Tuesday the twenty-fifth day of July next. Given at our Court at Carlton House, this second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-4z, and in the se venth year of our Reign. GOD acIVE THE KING. BY THE KING. A PROCLAMATION, IN ORDER TO THE ELECTING AND SUMMONING THE SIR , TEEN PEERS OF SCOTLAND. GEORGE R. Whereas v e have in our Council thought fit to declare our pleasure for summoning and holding a Parliament of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on Tuesday the twenty-filth day of July next ensuing the date hereof: in order therefore to the electing and sum moning the Sixte!n Peers of Scotland, who are to sit in the House of Peers in the said Parliament, we do, by the advice el* our Pi ivy Council, issue forth this our Royal Proclamation, sti icily charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrdod House, in Edinburgh, nu Thursday the thirteenth day of July next ensuing, b,tween the hours of twelve and-two in the afternoon, to nominate and chco,e the Sixteen Peers to sit and vote in the House of Peers in the said [enuring ridiament, by open elvtion and plurality s.f I voices of tliefeers that shall be Then present, and ot the Proxies of inch as shall he *bent (such Proxies being Peers, and producihg a mandate in writing duly signed • before witnesses, and both the Constituent and proxy being qualified according to law) : and the-Lord Clerk Register, or such two of the principal Clerks of the Ses sion as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his name, are hereby respectively required to attend such Meeting, and to administer the Oaths required by Law to be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their Votes; and, immediately after such Election made and duly examined, to certify the names of the Sixteen Peers so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the pre sence of the said Peers the Electors, and return such certificate into our High Court of Chancery of Great Britain! and we do, by this our Royal Proclamation, strictly command and require the Provost of Edinburgh, and all other the Magistrates of the said City, to take especial care to preserve the peace thereof during the time of the said Election, and to prevent all manner of riots, tumults, disorders, and violence whatsoever. And we strictly charge and command that this our Royal Proclamation be duly published at the Market Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the County Towns of Scotland, twenty-five days at least before the time hereby ap pointed for the Meeting of the said Peers to proceed to such Election. Witness ourself at Westminster, the second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and in the seventh year of cur Reign. GOD SAVE THE KING. In our last page we have given some extracts from the French Journals. These Papers contain a letter from Corfu, stating that the intrepid CANARIS perished in the naval action with the Turks on the 14th April; we trust this report is not true, for after the dreadful ca lamity at Missolonghi and the death of Noro BOZZAn is, Greece could ill afford to lose a hero and patriot like CANARIS. It appears from a discussion in the French Chamber of Deputies, that there is some fear of the revival of the Censorship. _ _ FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 404 ' Mex Bds 1825,6 p. Ct. 62k 2 Ditto Aect.: Do. Acct. 624 * 2 Colombirn Pools, Portuguese Bonds 5 p C. 714 , Do. Bonds, 1824,4041* 404 4 Prins. Bds. 5 p C. Lb. Acc. 414 40j 1 liel Do. Bonds, 1822, 924 Danish Pon is,3p Ct. 57 el Russ. 11d5,1822, 5 p C.Bl 104 Do. Acct. 57 Ditto Acct. 814 1804 Greek Bonds, 5 p C. 91 Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. $ Mex. Bonds, sp. Ct. 534 Span. sp. C. 1823, 5* BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK SRA RIR PAID. Anglo Mexican spm. 100 .50 35 571 Brazilian 100 15 131 14 British Iron Company 100 30 61 Colombian 100 10 6 Droitwich Patent Salt 25 • 17i 16 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 35 61 FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, NAY 30. Five per Cents. • • 971. —e. . i Three per Cents. . • . . 65f. 85c. : Bank Stock . . . 20251. . Rentes de Naples . . 741. 70c. Royal Spanish Loan . . 4641. Haytian Loan . . . 720 f. Exchange on London, Otte Month 25f. 50c. THE 'KING. • Tlie , Kisa certainly goes to Ascot. Arrangsments heire been already made for his attendance there, which lite:likely to render the Races a more brilliant and 'fashionable scene than they have been for some years. his the wish of the KING to hold a Levee; but, although he is free from an attack of gout at present, his MAJESTY suffers severely from a weakness in the legs, which would make the fatigue of walking and standing at a Levee almost insupportable to'him. Unless he recovers from this weakness, therefore, it is, most probable there will be no Levee. The KING will sojourn principally, during the summer, at the Royal Lodge, which, during his stay in town, has undergone considerable repairs and alterations, for the purpose of affording increa•ed accommodation to his MAJESTY'S visitors. The Boat house, at Virginia Water, has been also put in readiness ; and boats have been built, and a variety of new arrange. ments have been made, to render his summer residence comfortable and pleasant. His MAJESTY will be attended by the same party that sojourned at the Royal Lodge during the last summer.- THE ARMY. Detachments of Recruits arrived in town yesterday from Coven try, on route to join their respective Regiments and Depots. A Detachment belonging to the Fast India Company's Service, embarked ' yesterday at Billingsgate for Gravesend, on route to Chatham. A large Detachment of Irish Recruits arrived in town on Wednesday morning from Bristol, on route to join their respective Battalions and Corps. On Monday last the Depot of the 56th Regiment, in the Citadel at Hull, about 300 strong, under the command of Major Canines, were inspected by the Honourable Major-General HAMM. The General arrived soon after eleven o'clock. and the business of the review immediately proceeded in accelerated time, and according to the new system. The whole of the movements, some of which are very complex and beautiful, were executed with great precision, and in a manner that would have done credit to any veteran corps ; although the troops consist chitty of recruits, most of whom have been raised in the Hull and London districts since the depot was stationed in Hull savrison-4 period of about nine months. The appearance of the meis, who are mostly fine active.young fellows—was truly soldiet - like ; and their progress in military discipline excited the admira tion of the spectators, and confers great credit on Major C. and. the officers untie, his command. The firing, in particular, was not surpassed by anything even is old regiments. The reviewing General expressed in strong terms his approba tion of the appearance, military discipline, and interior economy of the Corps ; and state d : that be should not fail to report the same to the Commander-In-Chief. After the review, the Major-General inspected the depot-school, the sergeants mess, and the men's barracks, and declared himself much gratified by the crier and regularity in which he found them, as well as with the examination of the targets, and the results of the practice recorded in the regimental books. Wednesday the Cabinet blintsters dined with Vis cowMl& Matviaaa. onday, the venerable Bishop of IigaZFORD arrived at his Palace at Hereford. A sad accident has lately befallen Lord INGESTRIE, eldest son of the Earl of TALDOT. His Lordship was riding a spirited horse in the neighbourhood of Vienna, when the animal took fright, ran away, and threw his Lordship, who fell into a pit and was suffocated. His brother, the Honourable Arms UR TA LIOT, left town last night for the melancholy purpose of bringing the remains of his amiable brother to this country for interment. Monday; the Manche3ter Pia Club Anniversary Dinner, in honour of the birth-day of the Statesman whose name gives birth to the Club, was given in the Exchange Dining room, Manchester, LIQUIDILI Stamm, Esq. of Huntroyd, in the Chair. The celebra•ed peL former on the flute, M. DE Senzetweir, of Vienna, last night entertained a large party with a display of his talenu. The masterly and highly-finished manner in which M. ne SIDZILAC X executed the most difficult musical pieces • drew forth general achnira.iun. GRAND MASQUERADE-ARGYLL ito)ms. There was another of those fantastic exhibitions last night, last for the season; the frequency of their occurrence render; Dow almost impossible to see, or to say, anything alyest them ; t.. are marked all by the same features—hustle, noise, vh-ndn,., costume, reckless mirth, practical humour, and unrestrained e . joyment. The rooms having been thioWn open at ten o'clock, were es, filled with the masked assembly—female sailors, masculine fia s women, incurious Paul Prys, Mod,eit Jeremy Diddler*, Trtshm., that never crossed the Channel, Italians who never saw tile V., people of positive reputation in !milts, and people of neves: reputation, anti every sort of reputation without them. W e h i t the usual confusion of crowding and grouping--a jumialing all ranks; ages, sexes, characters, creeds, clini6. arid cohir s , Of the few dramatic characters worthy of notice were a nem Hibernian Irishwoman, two strapping Venders of • Mackarel, very well dressed Chinese, a capitally dressed group of New Ze.t. lenders, a band of plaided Highlandmen, a well-stipported Cs. quette, and some magnificent Mahomedatis of the softer 0:7. There was an imitation of &cisme'. Fu/sief ; hut the only par is which the Imitator appeared to he perfect was in the new rei.dieg, which the Actor recently introduced—the getting up and fallin g down. Towards the close of the Masquerade this latter passage r; the play was performed by. several of the company with ,miner. St.::TV!k. A tall, ill-looking personage, falsely calling himself L Coe/weal, wore a rich Grecian uniform. bluch amusement w ;s afforded by a gond-humoured masquerader of gigantic tlimensi,m,, weighing at least IA ,tone, with a label on his back, o The I, m r Skeleton." There were several candidates for contested electi making speeches to thole who would listen to them, and the ; ,..- parry was diversified by the attendance of Turks, Jews, and persons wearing the costume of different countries. Lady Lore: Suite, Mrs. Pauline Pry, and a very few others, were quite au ' t • . Several bands, judiciously stationed through the different r enlivened the brilliant scene with Of* most fashionable and faet , tunes, while select parties, having made dancing room in the tri,;,, of the crowd, amused themselves, and the circling spectators, every " mode • and figure" of saltation, from the Parisian quadr , s e to the Highland fling—from the graceful savings of the Germ: , waltz down to the angular mirror and movement of the Mon , • jig. The boxes in the concert room were filled with family pa: at of fashionable and beautiful women, who appeared to enjoy vcr heartily the fanciful pranks of the masquerading crowd below. The supper rooms were thrown open at one o'clock, and closed a most sumptuous supper, containing every possible delicacy, and served up in admirable style. This stage of the amusements appeared by far the most pleasurable. The unmasking of the Ladies —the free and unrestrained carriage of the regaling guests—th e growing effects of the festive board on the glowing sense and spirit— the potent effects of Charles Wright's exhilirating champagne, " sparkling and creaming," and all those imaginable but indescrib able feelings of pleasure which arise from the commingled preience of good cheer, melody, and beauty, all operated to mike the seiitet room as agreeable a scene of convivial enjoyment as we have ever witnessed. After supper the Company returned to the ball-mom, and kept up the dancing till a late hour. Among the fashionable parties we observed in the boxes Lord D —t, Col. B—y, Captain F—ce, the Hon. Mr. St —y, Lord J. T—nd, Mr. H —me, and Sir H. C—t. It is unnecessary to add, that the President of the Festivities, Charles Wright, was at his post at all times and places, and essen tially contributed, by his polite and anxious attentions, to the enjoyments of the company, and the complete regularity of the social scene. THE MURDER NEAR MANCHESTER. /ROM THE MANCHESTER HERALD, JUNE 1. The career of the murderers appears as if it would be short, for on Tuesday morning Mr. Lavender, Deputy Constable of Manchester, received a letter front Sir Philip Musgrove, Bart, M.P. of which the following is a copy : Appleby, May 29, 1226. " Mr. LAVENDII4.-I write to inform you that M. and W. Atkin son, Esqs. and myself, have this day committed to Appleby Gaol, for further examination, two men, brought before us on suspicion of being the persons described under the names of Michael and Alexander M'Keand, as being guilty of the murder of Elizabeth Bate, at Winton, near Eccles. The persons bf the two men corres pond generally te the description given in the advertisement. There bare been found on the person of them a letter directed to ' Keand, draper ad tea dealer, Foundry-lane, Oak-street, Manche.- ter; a bill addressed to 4 Mr. Alexander Kaind,' a loaded pistol, five bullets, and a little gunpowder. On the other prisoner, a pen knife, to appearance slightly marked with blood en the handle,two razors, Ste. YOu will therefore lose no time in sending the evi dence necessary to identify the prisoners to Appleby, in order to their being sent into Lancashire, and be so good as to inform me of the receipt of this by a line directed to Sir P. h i lstsgrove, Appleby.— I am, Sir, " Your obedient Servant, " P. MUSGROVE." " Mr. Lavender, Police Office, Manchester,". In consequence of receivieg the above, Mr. Lavender set out on his way to Appleby on Tuesday afternoon, and in the course of this morning he is expected to arrive with his prisoners here, in order to their exami nation and commitment for trial at the ensuing Summer Assize=,—for there is little doubt but that the men de scribed by Sir Philip Musgrove are the wretches who perpetrated the black and bloody deed at Winton. By the Leeward Island mail, which sailed from Ste 'Thomas's the 29;11 of April, papers have arrived front all the adjacent islands : Barbadoes to the 23d, Antigua and St. Vincent's to the 22d of April. The toil parti4 culars of the opening of Parliament, and the proceedings respecting negro slavery, had been received. These had, in conjunction with the commercial disties England, and the failure of B. A. Goldschmit and Cu. and several banking establishments about the same period,spread the greatest alarm among t''e pl .nter; and merchants All trade was suspended, and all produce about to be shipped was consigned to the order of tile exporter, the merchants having little faith left in the stability of the commercial establishments of England. The Caraccas Colombia ;so has been received w ti.e 13th of April; the dates from Bogota, however, are oi,1! to the middle of March. The Mexican and Colomb an squadrons were supposed to have arrived at Matattzt' 'in the month of March, and it was thought probah e that little resistance would be offered to . their unite,i force. At Buenos Ayres all was rejoicing, in coi,,e quence of news having been received that Monte Video bad fallen into the hands of the Patriots of Banda Oriental. Don Pedro was understood to have adopted a sort of conscription to strengthen his army. Ti,e rumour of a French and Spanish fleet been seen near Martinique, is repeated, and it is said that a private letter from St. Thomas's states, that the Governor of that island had received a letter .from the Governor of Martinique, announcing that Admiral Duperre w as 00 his way to Puerto Rico "which place, instead of Cuba." as was fcrmerly stated, this r eport adds, " was to be garrisoned by French tro ., ps." The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews have at length done justice to the extraordinary Diary of Saxon Ploys, in two articles of great talent, supposed to come respectively from the pelt' of Mr. Jeffrey and Sir Walter Scott. The Edinburgh Review Oar characterizes Pepys :—" He seems to have been possessed of the most extraordinary activity, and the most indiscriminating, i able, and miscellaneous curiosity that ever prompted the researzher, or supplied the pen, of a daily chronicler. He finds time to go to every play, execution, procession, fire, concert, riot, trial, review, city feast, public dissection, or picture gallery, that he can h,riat. Nay, there seems scarcely to have been a school-examinat,on, A wedding, christening, charity sermon, bull-baiting, philoso, , lirA meeting or private merry-making in his neighbourhood, at be was not sure to make his appearance, and mindful to reco J tne particulars. He is the first to hear all the court scandal and 'II the public news—to observe the changes of &labia's, and the do viiia: l of parties—to pick up family gossip, and to retail philo.oph telligtime—to criticise every new house or carriage that is wilt — every new book or new beauty that appear s —every mess I. :• 4 Jiang adopts, and every mistress he discards."