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II EAST INDIA MOUSE, January 26, Is6l HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITE!) T COMPAAY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND trading to the EAST INDIES do hereby give Notice, That the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut oil Tuesday, the Bth March next, at Three o'Clock, and opened again on Thursday, the 14th April following. That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Com pany will be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday the 11.3 d March nest, at Eleven o'Cloeit in the Forenoon. That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday, the 13th April next, from Nine o'Cloek in the Morning until Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the said Company, for Four Years. And that the LIST or the MEMBERS of the said Company will be ready to be delivered, at this House, on Tuesday, the 29th March nest. PETER .TUBER, &oeretary. SOUTHAMPTON. LONDON. AND BRANCH RAILWAY AND DOCK COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a GENERAL MEETING of the FRIENDS of the above undertaking will be HELD at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate.street, on FRIDAY neat, tke itsth of MARCH Instant, at Twelve o'Clock, when the Public are invited to attend. E. L. STEPHENS, Secretary. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, Regent street, London. ESTABLISHED MK ♦ND THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, THE MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD KING, &e. &C. DIRICTORS. J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. I Lord Northwick, Francis Coast, Esq. Hon. Thomas Parker Sir George Duckett, Bart. William Praed, Esq. Earl Ferrer*, Walter Strickland, . Sir John Harington, Bart. Colonel Sibthorp, M. . Hen. Frederick Hotham Sir William Welby, Bart. Sir Richard King, Bart. Carivat.s ' A MILLION STERLING AND UPWARDS. The PRO FITS are divided monger those who now Insure, as well as the original Members, In just proportion to their respective pay ments. In the FIRX Orrlcs, RETURNS, during the last Thirteen Years, to the Amount of £79,000 have bean paid to all Persons who have continued insured Seven Years, upon ANNUAL as well as upon Septennial Policies,:and whether they have been SWF or otherwise. In the LIFE Orrice, BONUSES, of £l3 Bs. £26 12s. and £3O 10s. per Cent. have been divided during the last Twenty-one Years.—These are (at the option of the persons insured) either added to the Policies or applied to the reduction of their future payments. MILITARY ilex are not charged additional, unless called into ACTUAL. Service. Persons are at liberty to pass and repass no the Continent, under, limitations, WITHOUT LICENCE AND EXTRA Pentium. Persons removing to Unhealthy Climates, or subject to Bodily Infirmities, may insure. If any Person die by Suicide, Duelling, or the Hands of Justice, the full value which his Policy bore on the day previous to the time of his Death will be paid. No Admission Fees are required, nor is any Charge made for Po licies, except the Stamp Duty. irr Persons who have been insured in the Fire Offices lately dis solved, may remove into the Cousin Fiat Orrice without any addi clonal expense.—Agents are appointed in all the principal Towns. FIFE - HOUSE, WHITEHALL. . TO BE SOLD, this splendid MANSION, the Re sidence of the late Earl of LIVERPOOL, with very superior for a large Family. Held under the Crown for a Term of Years. Particulars and Cards to view at Mr. Asnaa's Ofßre, 17, Grafton street, Bond-street. All Letters to be post paid. This day is published, price 7d. or 28s. per hundred, T HE ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER, No. 78. for MARCH 21, 1831, containing—; I. Authentic Notices respecting the Agriculture of St. Domingo or Hayti, and its Laws relative to Cultivation since 1793.-1. Code Rural of 1794; 2. Code Rural of 1798 ; 5. Constitution of 1801 ; 4. State of Agriculture. 1794-1802, and the effects of Buonaparte's attempt to restore Slavery in 1802 ; 5. Code Rural of 1826 ; 6. Recent Com munications from Hayti on the state of Agriculture in 1830 ; 7. Con cluding Remarks. IL Resolutions of the Committee of the Leeds Anti-Slavery Society. To be bad of Messrs. Hatchard, 187, Piccadilly ; Messrs. Arch, 61, Cornbill; and at the Office of the Anti-Slavery Society, No.lB, Akiermanbury. T. 4 I IVE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.—" There A: is a newly-invented Patent Recumbent Chair, by Mr. DAWS, of 17, Margaret.street, Cavendish-square, London, which it is but justice to a most ingenious man, to introduce to the particular notice of our readers. The King, we hear, has them, and certainly the in. firm, the sedentary, and Ladies whose temporary burthen may dis pose them to a little additional repose, have never before lounged on a cheerer piece of workmanship ; it is handsome and compact, and the contrivance is so simple, that the required position is attained by the slightest movements possible."—Examiner. " Possessing these advantages, It is not comparatively dearer than a common easy chair."—Times. The chair alluded to will fords near 20 positions. The principle and, ”:-.me were the invention of R. Dawn, the patentee, and such is the high applobation and patronage he has gratefully to acknowledge, and so well is the perfection of it attested and apptoved, that where an easy ehair or couch is desirable or necessary, it will take precedence as a much more comfortable and elegant supply for both. There are many imitations which are called improved recumbent chairs, but R. Daws eat have no teed to say they are deceptions of dangerous. since he has tor three years past, and still continues to offer £5OO for the production of the kind which a majority of competent judges will pronounce more peifeet, and for which his signature may be had on application. Some are admirably portable. One shall be sent for inspection by favour of a reference, and payment of expencea or at the rate of 10s. per 100 miles; he warrants his principle seven years. THE following letter is a further testimony of the happy effects produced by the use of DE VELNOS' VEGETABLE SYRUP, in a case of violent eruption, which for more than three years and baffled the efforts of the most eminent physical stilt " Dublin, February 6,1831. " 31adam—Many thanks to you for your kind and useful letter of the t2th ult. received with the last supply of De Whoa. Would to Gen all the afflicted knew as I do, the healing influence of that best of allmedicines!—l was taking it only two months on the 27th ult. and I am now wonderfully restored ; all heat, sores ' scurf, and scales, are gone from my legs, and my health which was far gone indeed, is also recovered beyond any hopes I had of ever enjoying the good state I DOW do. I heartily thank GOD for his blessing on this wonder-working medicine, and I feel truly grateful to you fur your most excellent direc tions to me, for the use of it. The young lady, mentioned in my last is using it too, with good effect, and she is in high spirits at the hopes she has reason to form, of a happy recovery ; it agrees with her quite well ; she is determined to persevere in the use of it, and will attend to the good advice for her, in your last to me. You have my full ap probation to use my letters as you please, that the good of the medicine may more and more become known, for the relief of the sore afflicted persons, now IJbouring under painful disease, but only do not publish my name. In any advertisement of my case, describe it, as that of a gentleman, of well known respectability, residing in Dublin, and I will gladly ansv er any application to me ou the subject. " I am, and ever shall be, dear Madam, " Your thankful and obliged friend and humble servant," ,•=••• . Mrs. CANHAM, sole proprietor of the genuine Vegetable Syrup of De Vdnos, will be happy to give an inspectioo of this, and the preceding Idlers, which enter into minute details of the aMicted sufferer's case, to any patient es ho will take the trouble of calling upon her at 52, Her. ners.street, Ox f ord•street, where the medicine is prepared and sold at 13s. a bottle. By her appointment it may be had at Me . Butler's, Cheapside; at most of the respectable Medicine Venders in London; and at her agents, in any considerable town in the United Kingdom.— The concentrated for warm climates, may be procured from her deputed agents, in the East Indies, vie. Messrs. Mackintosh and Co. Calcutta ; Messrs. Forbes and Co. Bombay; and Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co. Mambas. bt intirc •) N°. 13,739. TITESPAV EVENING, MARCH 22, 1831. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. POLICY OF THE NEW MINISTERS. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—Sirrixo or THE 18TH The galleries were filled, and the expected communication from the ministers was the universal topic of conversation. The PRESIDENT of the Confect!. said—When the King did me the honour of calling me to form End preside orer his Council, I conceived that the principles upon which it was to be constituted should be understood and agreed upon by its several members. The present ministry is formed upon con stitutional principles, and receives its strength from its own responsibility. All its propositions—all its measures will be the result of general deliberation, and of one common aclord. l The principles we profess are those of our revolution—we wish them to be established without exaggeration, and with out being weakened. In the interior our duty is plain and simple ; we have no great experiments to try ; the nature of our institutions has been fixed by the Charter of 1830. Se veral great legislative questions have been decided by you in the present session. The Chamber that will succeed you will have to determine others. Order is the chief of all our wants. We intreat all well-disposed citizens not to abandon the Government, for the Government will not abandon them. The maintenance of tranquility is the maintenance of liberty. Every species of sedition is a crime ; every act or vio lence is a step towards anarchy. We shall propose to you laws calculated to repress violence and sedition— (much cheering from the centres; silence on the gauche.) Our foreign policy is closely allied with that of the interior ; in both, the evils and remedies are the same. It has been at tempted to excite in France a mistrust of the rest of Europe, and Europe has been taught to mistrust our revolution. Armed to defend her own rights, France has respected those of other nations. Her policy has been guided by other mo tives than those arising from the passions. We are desirous of that peace which is so necessary for the welfare of society —but we will go to war if the honour and independence of France are placed in danger, and shall then appeal with the fullest confidence to the patriotism and courage of the na tion. The people would rise at the first signal; and the King has not forgotten that it was in the camp lie, for the first time, learnt to save his country. Gentlemen, the princi ple of non-intervention has been laid down by the Ministers who have preceded us, and we have adopted it ; we main tain that no foreign power has the right to interfere by force of arms in the internal affairs of other nations ; but is this, at the same time, to declare that we will interpose with our arms wherever this principle is not respected ? This would be an interference, though of a different nature ; it would be falling into the system of the Holy Alliance ; it would be to compel all Europe to follow the same idea. This interpreta tion of the principle of non-intervention would serve as a cloak to the spirit of conquest. We will sustain the princi ple by negotiations, but no nation has a right ‘o force its to take up arms in her cause. The blood of Frenchmen helotTe to France. Preceding Cabinets have prevented interference in the affairs of Belgium; this also will be our rek of pro ceeding. Europe anxiously wishes for peace; it is her mani fest interest. Why should she desire war? In this situa tion of affairs we venture to hope that Europe will shortly come to an understanding which may lead to a general diminu tion of forces, the support of which weighs heavily on the se veral States. Let us, by our policy, hasten this disarmament. The ministry requires all the confidence of France and the Chamber. For this it is necessary that all should be fully enlightened as to the actual state of affairs; we therefore require that the discussion upon the bill grauting, proti sionally, the 4-12ths be postponed ; we require the appoint ment of u special committee, to make strict inquiry into the state of the treasury, its wants, and its resources ; every re quisite information shall be laid before its members, who will examine into all the demands of the Minister of the Finances, and body appreciate the exact situation of the country ; whereby all present alarm will be dissipated, and the wants of the future provided for. Here the President of the Council concluded by saying, " We hope that no Member of the Chamber will absent himself before he has lent us the sup Fort we so indispensably need." (Hear, hear, from the centres. Silence on he gauche.) The Minister of War said, the president of the council has given you the assurance of the unanimity of the views of the administration, and the conviction of the views imposed upon it. These assurances, gentlemen, I have pleasure in con firming in my turn. Animated with the same sentiments, our determination is as complete as it can be to secure the execution of the laws—maintain the security of all—repress disorders, if, contrary to expectation, any should be committed—restore confidence—cause the principles of our glorious revolution of July to fructify—persevere, with the dignity that becomes France, in the principles of our fo reign policy—and, lastly, render ourselves so respectable as to our forces, that peace may be the necessary conse quence of it; and if, nottvitlistanding our effoi ts, and I say, even notwithstanding our hopes, war should be indispensable to us, we have the certainty of waging it with success. I now come to that part of our task which is more particularly entrusted to myself. I have the honour to lay upon your table, to be communicated to your Committee, a copy of a report upon my administration, which I presented to the King un February the 20th. It comprises the period of three months. Since that time a mouth has elapsed, and 1 hare continued to conduct my administration upon the same principles. Except, perhaps, some trifling augmenta tions, which it was difficult to estimate at the first moment, you have granted nothing for the case of war. Yom , must, therefore, have it put in your rower to appreciate the ne cessities which the Minister of the Finances will lay before you. _ _ The MIN IST ER of the FIN ANC ES —Upon entering the Ad ministration we considered it our duty to examine the situa tion of the Treasury. Tho of this examination pre sents nothing that is alarming, as it regards the public for tune ; but we find ourselves under the necessity of covering the Treasury for the excess of expenditure for which it has made advances. The Bill, therefore, that we are about to present to you has for its object to levy .55 centimes upon the principal of the land tax, and 50 centimes upon the licence tax—(murmurs.) The tax will produce fifteen mil lions. This is a new sacrifice that we ask of the country ; but, in entering into the ministry, it wad our duty to acer thin and make known the wants of the Treasury, convinccd that your patriotism would not hesitate to afford to the Go vernment the means of fulfilling its engagements. • M. BAATIIE, Minister of Justice-- Internal peace is the principal want of France. Crowds and commotions are the sources of troubles that Government ought to repress, and Pnicr, 7it. against'Hsieh the present laws are insufficient. For the pur pose, therefore, of remedying this defect, we now present to the Chamber the following Bill: " All persons forming part of an assemblage in public place. shall be bound to disperse on the first summons made to them to that effect by .the Prefect, hlayor, or other authorised . agent. if the assembly shall not disper se a f ter three summonses , it dual be lawful to employ force for that purpose." M. Et:SEBE SALV EItTE rose to complete and rectify the sketch which Ministers bad presented. The hon. member, in en able speech, contended that Ministers did not under stand the real interests of the country. He censured them patitcularly for not taking stronger measures against the Carlists. The Honourable Deputy then came to the question of war. " There are none of us," said he, " who are not . . _ _ desirous of the maintenance of peace, or who are ignorant of the evils of war. Do not accuse us of paying court to the lower classes ; it is on them that the burden of Kar falls. Undoubtedly, it is not the completions that ought to force us to go to war ; but let us see if the condition of France and of Europe does not compel us to it. The principles of absolute Governments are wounded. Do you imagine they have abjured their maxims ? Absolute Government 4 p a i n t us in the blackest colours, and the Government of Frauce replies by the principle of non-intervention. Ido not believe it will be observed ; we have every where observed it, but it has been so no where else. England has interests in com mon with our's. Were England and France united by a treaty, they might say to Europe, peace is assured. But instead of that, what have we ? A cold neutrality, and nothing more. Our agent in London is the agent of the' Vienna Congress, and it was to destroy the acts and the consequences of the Congress of Vienna that he was sent to conference." The Hon. Deputy then entered into an exami nation of the conduct of Austria, and maintained that she had violated the principle of non-intervention in Italy. " What will happen should the Prussians take a part in the' affairs of Belgium ? Will you again abandon your non-in tervention ? Will you purchase peace at the expense of our honour ? It will be purchasing peace at the expense of our honour if we do not protect Italy. (It is true— it is true.) Italy was impressed with the idea that she might, under the protection of our declarations, work out her liberty, (loud exclamations and murmurs.) Let France not confide too much in treaties until she is sufficiently powerful not to fear when they are violated." The hon. Deputy concluded by declaring that the Chamber would never withhold its con sent from Government to all measures which might interest its honour and dignity. POLICY OF RUSSIA. :Gensral Lafayette said—One of my Hon. Friends has ' , stated that I am in possession of documents confrming► opinions I have before expressed with regard to the Polish insurrection, that the vanguard had turned in our favour against the main body of the army. I derive this informa tion from t xlrers found among many others which the Grand Duke Constantine left behind him on his precipitate fight— (laughter.) Is it the pleasure of the Chamber that I should read them ?—(Read, read.) Here the Hon. Deputy read two letters; one addressed by M. Turku!, Councillor of State at St. Pt tefsburgh, to Prince Lubecki, Minister of Finances of Poland, and the other the answer of the latter, as follows : Petersburg, August 18, 1830. " Prince—The Emperor and the King has charged me to inform your excellency, in the most private manner, that as, under existing circum stances. cases might arise In which the Polish army would have to be set in motion, it is his Majesty's wish that you should immediately occupy yourself in ascertaining the resources upon which the Imperial Treasury might reckon, if necessary, to meet the expense of setting the army in motion, as Hellas that of a campaign.—l have the honour, &c. " IGNATIUS TURKUL." The General continued ; " This, I conceive, Gentlemen, is sufficient to enlighten us as to the genuine intentions of Russia." (Tokens of dissent from the centres.) "It is the wish of the Chamber that I should continue." (Hear, hear.) The General then read the following extract of a letter ad- 1 dressed to Prince Lubecki, by Count Grabowski, Minister of the Emperor Nicholas : " The official correspondence which, by order of his;majesty,l have had the honour to communicate to you, and which directs that the Polish army should be put upon the war footing, has affected you, no doubt, more even then it has me. I really suffer severely in seeing all our plans thus stopped. We should have had a most superb budget if it had not been ruined by these extraordinary expenses, because, on this occasion our geographical position placed us in the first.—St. Peters burg, October 27, 1830." (Timm THE lAMB TO THE SAME.) " October 18. "Being just informed by the Aid.de-Camp General TschernichefF, that an order has been sent to the Grand Duke to put upon the war tooting all the troops under his orders, without excepting those of Poland, and that this is to be completed by Dee. 22. I have the ho nour, in obedience to the command of his Majesty, to require that the necessary funds be furnished without delay to the Minister of War. I shall confine myself, therefore, to requesting that you will place in the hands of his Imperial Highness the Czarowitsch all the sums necessary for placing the Polish army on the war establishment. (Signed) " GRABOWSKI." (THOS[ THE SAME TO THE SAME.) " St. Petersburg, Nov. 20. " The return of Marshal Diebitsh will decide upon the measures to be taken. He has orders to return from Berlin by Warsaw, in order to confer with the Grand Duke Constantine upon all that is necessary for the movements and subsistence of the army. The emperor desires that you will see the Marshal as soon as he arrives at Warsaw, and confer with him on all these subjects, and that you will proceed to carry into execution all that may be agreed upon, without waiting for further or ders from his Majesty. You will also conform to the wishes of the Grand Duke. The lanperor further directs me to desire that you will come to St. Petersburg as soon as the army is set in motion ands gene ral war shall he declared, in order to receive his further orders In per son.' '—( H esr, hear.) (In another part)—" We are now in the month of November ; the distances are great—the armies cannot be prepared to move before the spring—and events follow each other so rapidly that Goa knows wha may happen in the interval—(fses', sensation.) No courier can equal the rapidity of occurrences up to the present; and this has placed the af fairs of Belgium in a disastrous state--(The General smiled when he read chis paragraph.) But this is a useless reflection ; for the next courier may bring us different news, which succeed each other in a manner which surpasses all idea." Would you (continued the hon. Deputy) Ibe acquainted with the Lonversasion between Marshals Diebitech and Ben kendorf, after the short interview which Col. Wylezynacki, the envoy from the Dictator of Poland, had with the Empe ror, and at which, as being both initiated into the state affairs of the empire, they had assisted :—" Well, Gentlemen of Poland, your revolution has not even the merit of being apropos. Your insurrection took place at the very moment when all the forces of the empire were on their march towards your frontiers, in order to bring the Revolutionists of France and Belgium to reason. (General agitation.) And as the Colonel obaervt tl, Poland believed itself sufficiently powerful to stop the torrent for a time, so as to warn Europe, and to allow her to prepare herself for the contest. " But," replied Marshal Diebitsch, " what will you gain by this ? We reckoned upon a campaign on the Rhine—we will make it upon the Elbe or the Oder, after having crushed you. Re flect upon all this." I refrain from occupying the time of the Chamber with reading the statement made by the Mitti.u•r of Foreign Affairs to the Diet of Warsaw. It displays the tito,t noble sentiments of patriotism and courage, with the con fidence with which Poland relied upon F'anec, and her 41. - termination to expire in the cause of the liberties of Ettrepn. For some time the Chamber was very &nue. agitatsd hy opposite feelings, and some desiiitor) convelseifku passed between M. Corcelles and his neighbours, particularly tho Marquis Marmier and M. Adam de la Ponneeraye, which, however, we could not distinctly hear. Gen. LA FA TETTE continued—Now, Gentlemen, permit me to ask whether or not Russia had hostile intentions again*: France ? You are fully able to judge—(murtuhrs fvel centres). The minister declared, and I think he will ut:t contradict me, that if an Austrian soldier set his foot in Itsi France would not consent, and thought the minister was fully impressed with the force of what he said ; and then, when the French nation was made to say, " I will not . , so sent," it was as if it had declared, " I will not permit - (murmurs from the centres). The gallant veteran then en - tered into a review of the position of M. Casimir Fen ier, that the revolution of July was a defensive act, he canvassed and denied. It was an offensive att .ck of the principle of national sovereignty upon the ether prinri?le of " divine right."—He was loudly applauded The MINISTER for FOREIGN AFFAIRS.—The )1011. de puty makes it our crime not to have supported Poland, and, on the other hand, complains of our not having prevented the Austrians entering Italy. Let him tell us whether lie v for intervention or non-intervention —irot. 4 cal !aught r on the left). We have been charged with having laid d 0.% n a principle that we have scarcely respected once tin. this time, at least, its application was efficacious. If Bc!gilan has been seprrated from Holland, and forms an indepeudt ut nation, it is to France she is indebted for it. When fit:it these papers were mentioned, I had no knowledge wird ever of them. If all of the documents referred to by the honourable general had been communicated, it would have been proof that war against France never entered into the views of Russia. Documents, in fact, establish that the Emperor of Russia answered the King of Holland, who ap plied to him for succour against Belgium, that he v.00..1 afford him succour on condition that his allies consented to O. I come now to the question of peace and war. Gentlemen , in laying down a generous principle, France never pre-- tended that this principle was a cases Belli. (General laughter.) It never could Lave entered into the thought of rational men, that France would thereby deprive herself of the power of' considering, before she msde war, whether it was for her honour and dignity to declare it. The entrance of the Austrians into Modena is, we are told, a ca, e for war. Gentlemen, we know when nar commences, but we know not when it finishes. When we speak of the assurances of peace that are given to us, it is replied " The Powers .!c:..eive you ; vou will have war in ail its fury." No, gentlemen; if such was their calculation they would deceive themselves—(laugliter)—for they would be forced to assume the oflensive, and all the cualitiens would come but to expire, for the soil of the country would not be long polluted by their presence. The orgy war that you would have it in your power to make would be a war of invasion ; and have you calculated, gentlemen, what it would cost were it necessary to us to cross Piedmont or the Rhine ? As to the affairs of Italy, I will merely say that the Bolo4m-se themselves vio lated the principle of non-intervention, b) forcing Aluclo,a, which still defended itself, to capitulate. It it not a idiom regret that I bring this reproach against th• m—(sensation). We will make war, gentlemen, when honour otel dig nity of France shall require it ; but n hen we ar • a n d that we are called to defend all the nations tt bu shake all the yoke of oppression ; that we are condemned t d fur them the blood of our children, and to waste our treasures, it is seeking to involve us in an eternal war ; and I hope that this does not enter into the intentions either of the Chandler or of the country—(cheers from the centres.) General LAFAYETTE—I thought it was the cligni.y and interests of France to support the principles slie had laid down. I would ask the Minister for Foreign Affa'rs whether he has not written that France would never con,ent to see the Austrian forces enter into Italy. M. SEBASTIAN' made a sign in the affirmative—(strong sensation.) Gen. LAFAYETTE—I would then inquire what he under stands by the words " France will never consent." Gen. SEBASTIAN[—Not to consent, and to make war, re very different things. (Laughter on the left.) (General Lamarque shrugged up his shoulders; and another Metuber exclaimed, " 'Ti. pitiful.") M. DE SEHONEN—'Tie a word without meaning. Gen. LAFAYETTE—The words " I will not consent," signified, in the eyes of the French people, " I %%ill pre vent you doing it. For some time a strange abuse has woe', made of words. After having confounded the tririisuus of the popular throne with republicans, we are n.‘w diviced into the partisans of war and the partisans of p ace. This manner of thus accusing one another must Le renounced. 1 would again ask the Minister whether he endeavoured to throw any hindrance into the way of the Au trians eat, ring into Italy ? M. SEBASTIANI replied that negociatious being en foot, the secrets of them could not be revealed. M. Mauguin and General Lamarque rose to speak ; but, on the proposition of M. Dupin, the Chamber decided that the further debate should be postponed to the discussion of the Finance Bill presented to the Chamber. The Chamber then resolved Itself Into a secret Committee. SATURDAY, !Women le. In consequence of the determination taken by the Chamber yesterday, of deferring the continuation of the diplomatic discussions, provoked by the new bill for 4-12ths of the taxes, until the deliberations should come on relative to the new financial bill, the deputies were to-day in a very small num ber at the sitting, which did not commence till half after 2 o'clock. M. de Lessen (Vice-president) was in the chair, and the Chamber immediately adopted the order of the day, which was the report of the commission charged with the examination of petitions presented to this house. The few members present were completely callous to the reading of these reports, and presented somewhat the appearance of men exhausted by the excitement of a preceding day's ex traordinary exertions, and it may be easily conceived that none of the parties composing this house could have retired in composure, or enjoyed much indifferent repose, after the interesting, and indeed, important truths laid before them. relating equally to the interior and exterior policy of the country. None of the petitions that were read are of sufficient interest to be noticed by us, and we will confine our report to the above remarks upon the outward appearance of the house. =iminesonssw Prince Leopold gave a grand dinner on Friday evening, at Marlborough-house, to the Landgravine of Hesse Hou., erg and the Duchess of Kent. The Duke and Duchess of Gor don, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonde , ry, Cie Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Dowager Mar chioness of Salisbury, and a numerous party of the nobility, were present to meet their Royal Highnesses. The Peter tainmeet was on the most splendid scale. The pages of b.s Royal Highness appeared in new and handsome uniforms of blue and gold. The Prince entertained a select party at dinner yesterday. ilk ) \.* • , ,/,', ..--=•---... 11' ' 0 • ISlOnsAftzb %II 1788. . _ A NEW AND ELEGANT QUARTERLY PERIODICAL. Just published, by Su ERWOOD & Co. 2.3. Paternostor Row, price 28.6 d. THE First Number of the EMPORIUM of LITERA TURE. SCIENCE, and the BELLES LETTRRS. Contents: Address. The Orient Sky, on the rotundity of the year, on Education, on the Organization of Society, on Woman, Hymn to Jove from Callimachus, Philontathes the Cantabrigian, Oriental Literature, Genuine Patriotism, on the Localization of the Poor, the Fairy Bower, Tales of the But, Letters from a Bishop, Reviews, Denuott on the Materiality of the Mind and the Immateriality of the Soul, &c. Srr J. Walrh on Parliamentary Reform, &c. To be continued Quarterly.