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Islands, but also in our whole policy, tvb halie Jecidedly leaned in favour of the Turks. so much for the conduct of the lqinisters in regard to Europe; if we look across the Atlantic. we shall ind that the interests of this country have been shamefully neglected. We•have seen Province after Province in South America shaking off a yoke under srbich it can never return, until nearly the whole of that vast Continent is independent ; we have seen these regenerated Provinces anxiously seeking a com mercial intercourse with England; and yet our Mi nisters have not, in one single instance, availetithem selves of the incalculable advantages thus offered ; even whet they have found that other Powers have been anticipating them in this respect. The King of PRUSSIA in establishing the Rhenish Wine Company, i 215 virtually recognized the independence of South Xinerich. Portugal has done the same in regard to iler own transatlantic possessions:. and as to Spanish America, the most sanguine politician will not pre tend that its entire independence of the mother coun try can now be obstructed. These are some of the subjects which we trust vt ill ot.cupy the attention of the British Legislattne.— There are others, however, which being nearer home, affect us more closely. Ireland, though yielding so t n i all a portion of revenue towards the exigency of ti:e Stare, is, notwithstanding, in a state of the ut inost.misery s several of the counties are in actual ' labellion, no matter whether provoked by politScal c e di ng , or the unparalleled distress. in which the pea:liatry are plunged ; their hostility to Government requires its utmost vigilance, as it entirely disor inizes society *here it rages. . _ _ _ At home, the pressure of taxation has nearly be came insupportable. The Agriculturists, from one e.11.0f the kingdom to the other, are assembling, and I.4ving - traced the distress to the true cause, demand, Ici‘pectfully but firmly, a reduction in the public ex- F .:oJiture, as the only means of alleviating that dis t.c.s which pervades all ranks in society—those who fawn on the public money excepted. The cry for IL:renchment bas long been such as a prudent or a si.:nous Administration would not hate disregarded; t 1.., public voice is now, however, too unequivocally expressed either to be mistaken or despised.H T.:e Nation has seen with disgust the paltry efforts n.aje to satisfy it by the dismissal of a few clerks in some of the Public Offices, and the plans for reducing the salaries of others, while not one of the large sala ried Officers has been curtailed of a single farthing; mot one of the useless sinecures has been abolished; to reductions have been made in any of the expensive establishments, save what were wrested from the Ministers in the last Session. Until these are done, Committees of Inquiry, which cost more than the little petty retrenchments they effect, will be useless, and sill neither satisfy the public feeling nor alleviate ti:e public distress. At a late hour this forenoon we received Dutch Papers to the 30th ult. The following is the only ar ticle worth extracting from these : LEGHORN, JANUARY to. We hear little from Egypt. By the last accounts, t:.;. , Turks had penetrated far into Abyssinia, and had s , :nt many thousand slaves, or rather prisoners, to Egypt. The Wechabites remained quiet. Though the fidelity of the Pacha to the Sublime Porte is net to 1,.-! doubted, he continues to give a good reception to the Greek. fugitives. The chief care of this wise Governor is to increase the insufficient population of his dominions. Great doubts are entertained respect ing the sudden death of the Persian Prince. Hamburgh Papers to the 26th ult. hare been re eived. One cf them contains an Order from the ;RAND SEIGNIOR, dated the middle of ll:cember, rected to Saito' PACHA, who commands the ad :anced guard in Moldavia. It enjoins the military .) abstain from all excesses, and to protect such of 'le Rajahs as have not taken part in the insurrection. It need not be mentioned," says this Order, " that he object of the commands which you have, to re main where you are with my Imperial troops, is solely to defend the Rajahs, as it is fitting, against rcbbers, and to protect the inhabitants and Rajahs :gainst all oppression and violence ; for this is my supreme will."—The remainder of this Order en- Erces the observance of these commands, and en ..pins the prompt and exemplary punishment of such as may act contrary to them. Similar orders have been sent to the Pacha of Si 14tria, and tO MAHON= ALI PACHA, Seraskier on the Banks of the Danube, which relates to Bucha rest; and to Dervise MUSTAPLIA PACHA, Governor ~ f Widdin, relative to Little Wallachia. ST. PETERSRURGH, JANUARY D. On Chi istmas Day the deliverance of the Empire float the invasion of the French and of 20 nations in 71!iance with them, was celebrated in th4Capital and throughout the Empire. This city was illuminated a the evening. The ship Wellington, bound from Petersburgh to Liverpool, with a cargo of hemp, iron, and tallow, }as been wrecked on the Island of Oesel. Several v- , hing vessels have also been lost in these parts '::ring a violent storm, in which 22 persons perished. Winter has at length set in, with little snow. The ll'errni,ineter is from seven to ten degrees (Iteaumur) telow zero. It is said here that the Porte has made Icace ith the Persians. Some persons add, that 2 atording to a recatt article, the Persian Mtge, who, commenced hbuilities is to.receive £20,000 sterling for withdrawing. Bat all thii i.s . mere report. The Paris Paps ofVednesday bring us another day's discussion In the Chamber of beputies OR the • Law for regulating the Press. The debite in'Tues day Was more storthy and tumultuous 'the any of the preceding ones. The debate commenced on •the fifth article, some Amendments on which, proposed by General For, were rejected ; and it was finally carried with tlie Amendment of the Committee, which makes the pe nalties for defamation or insult of Courts, Tribunals, Constituted Bodies, Authorities, or Administrations, an imprisonment of not less than 15 days, or mote than two years, and a fine of from 150 to 5000 francs. The 6th article, which relates to insults to persons on account of their official functions or stations, and to priests, &c. was put paragraph by paragraph, and gave rise to a long and warm debate. General Fox proposed as an Amendment that in stead of the words " a Minister of Religion," should be substituted, " a Functionary of the Religion of the State ;" he also proposed that the fine and imprison ment should be reduced. The General, in the course of his speech, which met with many uncourteous in terruptions, vindicated the party to which he is at tached, as having been always faithful to their oaths, because the first of all oaths, that which is more sa cred than any other, " fidelity to the country," had never been broken by them. The country was neither at Coblentz nor at Ghent. He was asked who had produced the 20th of March ? (the return of Bona parte). To which he answered, that that event was the consequence of perfidious counsels given to the King, and that his Majesty had himself acknow ledged the faults committed by his Government, in his Proclamation dated from Cambray. The King's Government, be observed, ceased when be crossed the frontiers. The oaths taken to his Government then ceased to be binding. The General's Amendment was negatived, and the article as proposed adopted. The remaining intelligence in the French Papers possesses very little interest. They contain the re sult of the votes in the Electoral College of the Seine, to which General Fox alluded in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday. The Government candidate, M. LAPAtiODZE, the President of the College, is opposed by General GIRARD, who is supported by the Liberal party. The state of the voting on Monday was, for General GIRARD, 551 ; for M. LAPA Noun, 48+. The whole number of voters in the College is 1,102; but as the law requires that the successful candidate should have' a majority greater than half the votes, and as General GIRARD wanted one of that number, the proceedings in the scrutiny were postponed until the following day. A private letter from Augsburg, of the 23d inst. contains the following passage :—" We can state, without the fear of contradiction, that the Divan has not as yet come to any decision respecting the ulti matum of the Cabinet of Petersburgh. The last Note of the Reis Effendi addressed to the English and Austrian Ministers, is not of a nature to satisfy the Russian Government. Notwithstanding the state ments published in the Ausirian Observer, we are cre dibly informed that tranquillity has not been restored at Constantinople, and that many excesses are com mitted there. Private letters from Paris, on Wednesday, state that a Courier arrived there on that day, to the Rus sian Embassy, from St. Petersburgh, with dispatches essentially pacific : but in what manner the Russians and Turks have terminated their disputes, or whether they are terminated at all, has not transpired. French Funds, Tuesday, 5 per Cents. 87fr. 30c.— Wednesday, Mfr. 93c. A Mail from Germany, bringing a variety of Con tinental Journals, arrived last night. The accounts from Constantinople are of the 29th ult. at which time great preparations were making, in the Arsenals of the Navy and the Artillery, to fit out ships for provision ing the garrisons in the Morea. Nothing had lately occurred to disturb the tran quillity of the capital ; everybody, whether Nfussul man or Christian, followed his business. There was a report of the Greeks being in possession of Athens. The Madrid Gazette has published the Articles of the Military Convention between Austria and Naples. By this Convention it appears that the unfortunate kingdom of the Two Sicilies is obliged to pay the damage occasioned by the Austrian army from its passing the Po ; it is obliged to bear all the burthen of immense contributions for the maintenance of its enemies; it is under the hard necessity of taking its 'law from the victor, to weep in silence over its suffer ings, and to lament in secret that the fruits of its labour should be taken to feed its oppressors. An example so calamitous for the inhabitants of the kingdom of Naples, ought to be a warning to the other nations of Europe to remain firm and unyield ing in the decisions they have taken or may take;, and not to suffer themselves to be betrayed, by the weakness of their Sovereigns, to the mercy of a foreign Power. ' • i':4l*;:' by !Ibis Rader tftif inparintentimis at the Secfetaiy of *Si, upon pimples of etpdty and justice; or td iwovide otherwise for the disposition fit so& claims, in such manlier as shall be just to the claimants, and late to the United Staff' and that have leave to report, by BM or otherwise." The Resolution was laid on the table. • CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 09. UNITE; STATES' CIRCUIT COURI'.-111e.eight sea men belonging to the smack Hiram, convicted of piracy on the 20th inst. were this miming brought bc4 l fore Judge Johnson, to teteive their sentence. They are to be executed on the first Wednesday in April. Recent letters from New York state, that the Bank of the United States have remitted two millions of dol lars, in the Stock of that institution, to England, for sale; upon the strength of which they are now draw ing bills of exchange at a premium of 12i per cent.' JANUARY 1:--FROM .HAVANNAU.--By the trading schooner Jane we yesterday received a the of the Noticioto Mercantik of Havannah, to the 19th ult. The Elections in Havannah . for Deputies to the National Cortes and for Members of the Colonial Government of Cuba, have terminated, it would ap pear, in favour of the party friendly to the Constitu tional system and in opposition to the wishes of the Creoles of that Island. The Havannah Paper abounds in extracts from the Mazican Gazettes of dates to the 11th October. The independence of that interest ing section of Spanish America, appears fixed upon a firm foundation. The Cities of Guatemala and Ciudad Real, in the Province of Cheapa, were among the last in which the declaration of inde pendence was promulgated, they also furnish a corn plete list of the Mexican Cortes. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Buenos Ayres, dated 7th November : " Advice' are received from Chili to the 15th ult. and from Lima to the 13th September. The fortress of Callao was still in possession of the Royalists when the last accounts, brought by his Majesty's ship Creole, left, and they are likely to maintain it some time." THE ARMY. The three Royal Veteran Battalions are now formed in Tre. land. • The first is commanded by Colonel Ross; the second by Colonel Twtoo, and the third by Colonel Hoorn.. A detachment of about eighty men of the Royal Dragoons marched from Radipole barracks to Warminster and Frome on the 24th ult. Tuesday morning the 78th Regiment marched from Dublin for the south. The detachment of the ?Bth, which took duty on Monday morning at the Castle, was relieved in the evening, and the regiment unexpectedly received a route for Cork, at a notice of twelve hours. The detachment of the 39th Regiment which were quartered at Curran,s amounting to 20 men, together with ten men of the detachment quartered at Castleisland, have marched for Bally vourney, in the County of Cork. The Curran, party marched a few days since to Milistrecat and have reinforced for a few days the 30 men of the 30th who were previously quartered in the latter town. (Clacusa a.) War Office, January 22, 1822. Referring to the Circular Letter from this department, dated 29th October, 1819, lam directed by the Secretary at sir to acquaint you, that a contract has been entered into with Mr. Joseph Adams, of the Leith and Glasgow Wharf, East Smith field, for the passage of soldiers and their families from the River Thames to certain ports in North Britain, for one year, ending 24th October, 1822 at the rates undermentioned, viz. goldiers and Children, from Children their wives, 1 to 14 years of in each. age, each. arms. Inverness s o. 40s. Dundee and Aberdeen 90s. Leith Berwick I am, &c. (Signed) W. MERRY. Addressed to Regimental Agents. 1 ~..~ NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Doves, Fan. I.—The Strawberry smack, of Deal, arrived in this harbour this morning ; and on the ()deers of the Customs boarding her, they discovered, concealed in a false bottom, 57 pieces of silks, and other contraband articles, of which, together with the vessel, they immediately made seizure. The vessel having hailed the watch-house as from Portsmouth, and stated chat she had delivered her cargo at that port, and had come into this harbour for ballast, excited suspicion, and led to the discovery. Arrived this morning, the Prince Leopold passage-vessel, from Calais, with Sir ROBERT WILSON, Mr. Laurrost, and friends; also the Dasher Post Office steam-packet.—Sailed the Arrow Post Office steam-packet, with a Mail for Calais. PLYMOUTH, Jaw. 31.--Arrived, the Nile, STOREY from St. Petersburg's. Sailed, the Sappho, Ilerrauszatz., for Malta, having been repaired. Poiersmoczu ' Fes. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived, the Humber, JOHNSON, from Hull; and his Majesty's ship MINOAN, from Ply mouth. Remains, the Harmony, K'oorumx, for Demerara. DEAL, Frs. I.—Wind W.S.W.—Came down from the River, the Providence, Shutt, for Jamaica; Macclesfield, Moose, for Van Dieman's Land ; Heart of Oak, Roaeserson, for St. Vin cent ; Wilton, Pore, for Genoa and Leghorn ; Nancy, Daawav, for St. Alichaers • and Aran, WALLMAN, for Alicant. Arrived and remain, I ' E m elienne, B ouvica, from Havre; the William, Perry, from St. Michael's; and several colliers. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 51.—Arrived, the Franklin, Kewweny, from Sumatra for Antwerp, out 114 days, and greatly in want of provisions. Itasausare, Pea. 1.--Artived, the Nancy, MARTIN, from Dun dee for Portsmouth, with main-boom and square.sail-yard broke. WIIITYARAYEN, JAN. 211.—The John Thomas, GORDON, and the Aurora, Gasmen. London traders, arrived here on the 21st inst. the former has be en out 86, and the lute" 57 days from London ! Cutross-House, Fes. I.—Entered Inwards:—New Union, from Calais; Dundee Packet, . from Lislion ; Adding, from Gijon ; NeUy, from Lisbon ' • Minerva, from the South Seas ; Sylvia, from Cadiz ; Emily, from Lisbon; Active, from Mes. shsa ; Lusitania, from Oporto ; Tom Cod, from St. Michael's ; Wallington, from Oporto • Traveller, from Grenada; Noord Star, from Amsterdam ; a nd Trial, from Jamaica.—Cleared Outwards :—George, for Dort ; General Palmer, for Madras ; Margaret, for Antwerp; and Aurora, for Tarragona. By recent advices from Malta, the Authorities of the Island were adopting measures, and had given orders, for the observance of the strictest neutrality between the Turks and the Greeks. One order had made its appearance in the beginning of January, prohibiting the exportation of gunpowder from the island. The stock there amounted to 3,000 barrels. After the breakin; up of the Cabinet Council on Thursday afternoon,.a messenger was sent off with the result to the KING, at Brighton. Yesterday, the Earl of HARROWBY, as Lord Presi- We received, this morning, the Nov York Evening dent of the Council, gave his annual dinner to the Post of the 31st December, and Charleston Papers Cabinet Ministers, the Great Officers of State, and to the 2d January. The following are extracts : the Clerks of the Council, when the roll of those Gen tlemen, three for each county, who Were nominated NEW YORK, DECEMBER 51. in the Court of Exchequer last November, was ar- Mr. STERLING submitted the following Resolution: tange d previous to their being pricked for by his " Resolved, That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire MAJESTY. into the expediency of referring the unsettl ed claims a g ainst the I The Earl of LIVERPOOL gives a grand Farliamen- United States. growing out of .the late war with Great &Aida, tory dinner on Monday, At Fife House. to the Third Auditor of the Treasury fiepatttnew, to be setting, • , 7.„1 • „ bISTIMI34I4CES IN iRELAKA • 631 tit: Information has just reached ot, froth most bti; questionable authority, and which must afford grad.; 6cation to every person who sets any value on the peace and character of the country, that the inhabi tants of the parishes of Clondrohid and Kilniichael, near Mactoom, where the late melancholy colifilzt took place between theth and tl:e military, have volurv. tarily tome forward to surrender their arms. and take the oath of allegiance. Th e on l y parish holding out is Iveleary.—Cork Chronicle,,innuary 28. The spirit of outrage, we lament to find, is apa proaching our doors, as will.be seen from the follow.; ing details Forty-nine prisoners were brought in yesterday evening from Macroom, by a detachment of horse and foot, and lodged iii the jail. Two mote were af terwards brought in bn the Kerry coach—one from Macroom, and another from Millstree4 both of whom were sent to the county jail; This mot fling a strong detachment of the Rifle Bri gade, marched from this city to Bandon: They came in yesterday evening from Fermpy, and are to be fol• lowed by other troop% to the amount of some thou sands, which will be speedily dispatched to the dis turbed districts in the. west of the county. MILL.StREET. It appears from a letter of Lieutenant Gazes, that, on the 25th ult. the insurgents, to the amount of 1,000, had approached that town, about four o'clock on Friday last, for the purpose, as was supposed, of making an attack upon it, when Captain KAPPROCK and Lieutenant GREEN, with about.thirty men of the 22d Regiment went out to meet them. On the first fire of the military they fled in all directions, but several were killed and wounded, and three prisoners were taken and brought into town. This same party, after• committing the murder of Mr. Brereton, and probably after receiving an acces sion of force, as we are informed by a Gentleman, who came in the Killarney - coach, made a desperate attack on Friday last upon Millstreet. They - assailed the Bridewell, probably for the purpose of rescuing some prisoners, and broke the windows, before the military could act—but we understand they were finally beat off by about 14 of the 89th Regiment, who were stationed there ? and who followed them, but were unable to make any piisoners front the smallness of their number.—iiid. KILLARNEY. Great alarm prevailed in town on Friday last, in consequence of Mr. MiCAETHT, of Headfort, a Maa gistrate, entering the town, and informing the inha bitants that the Whiteboys were in great force on the hills between Inch and Kill Arney. This Gentleman accordingly took out a party of two detachments of the 39th and Carabineers, and. accompanied by a number of Gentlemen from the town,. among whom were MessrS. JAMES O'CoNNELL., M'SWEENY, D. MA. HONEY, GALWAY, &c. The Whiteboys fled ere the party could come up with them, lout it succeeded in making eight prisoners, who were all sent off to Tra lee Gaol. The Gentlemen of the town have associ ated themselves into a military body, under the com mand of Colonel MICARTHY, which will have the effect, in a great measure, of preserving the peace of that district. KANTURK. The following is an extract of a letter received by a Ger.tleman in this city from a friend near Kanturk : " We left at one o'clock on Saturday, half an hour before which, three fellows called at E. Riordan's Eq. and dc ' marketed the arms—they then.turned all the men from work,, as they wouid be roomuch tired for thebusiness of the night.' GOD only knows what designs they entertain— , one report says, an attack on Kanturk, another states a general rising, whilst -- another asserts, that an encampment is to be formed at once.— ' You cannot conceive an adequate notion of the desperate resolu tion of the peasantry—every one of them Is, it is said, sworn, and they express a determination of going to the very utmost extremes. 0 Their exertions to procure arms, you may perceive, from their having yesterday taken two guns from a Protestant Cler gyman of the name of Cotter, Rector of Castlemagner, and a Gentleman of the name of Bullet, who were fowling in a neigh bouring wood; immediately after the shots were heard, Atm* - one hundred of the peasantry aueniblvd, and deprived them of their fowling-pieces." We are assured, that the conversation said to have passed at the late Suffolk Meeting between the Under Sheriff and a Gentleman in the crowd, did not take place. ANNIVERSARY OF BURNS.--The Anniversary of this great lyrical Poet, was celebrated 'yesterday, se'nnight, in the Commercial Inn, Dumfries, with More than usual eclat. Very nearly fifty Gentlemen. sat down to dinner; Mr. JOHN M'DIA TIMID in the Chair, supported by General Dlitom, of MoUntzAnnatt, and' Major WILLIAM MILLER. JOHN SINE, Esq. Croupier, supported by the celebrated author of the Queen's Wake, and the key. WM. GILLZSPII4 au thor of the Progress of ROnement, &c. Amidst °the r insignia, the room was decorated with two excellent portraits of the Poet and his venerable relict, Mrs. BURNS, painted for the use of the Club, and presented to the lembers by Mr. JOAN Gmrict.AN. Thursday, the Osex brig was laur.ched from a slip in Sheer ness Dock-yard : a great concourse of spectators had assembled, although it rained very hard at the time. We are sorry to find that Sir Mamma Lava, K.C.B. Captain of doe Serrsece, 74, is dangerously ill at his house in the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse. Wednesday se'nnight the Countess of Oxman, now at Dorris, the seat of the Noble darl's brother-in-law, had the misforttmo to rupture an internal blood vessel, but all apprehension of dan ger is now happily removet'. Monday, when the Countess of Kitxranar had mounted her horse, with a view to take her usual exercise, the spirited animal reared, and unfortunately threw her Ladyship to the ground. We are happy to state, that she was only slightly bruised by the fall, and that she is now nearly quite recovered. liectstawcTot het NB. --Ireland containi 11,943,000111nm den acres, or nearly twenty millions of English acre.; the total number of inhabitants it abtut 6,200,000; the number of Magistrates on record is 4537, of whom 602 hors died, so that the whole now living amount to 3,928. Ot thii number 1,547 are non-resident; 183 are resident, but tot acting; 266 act, in Counties, although nut resident; and there are altogether 1,932 resident and acting. Yesterday morning,- a melancholy "sent took place at the Auction dart, which - put a stop tti- business foil some time Mr. Shuttleworth, the auctioneer, bad i sale of wine in the middle . room, and whilst the sale* mil' going om a Gentleman, named Blissett, residing in Park-street, Winston at the ;mo ment he was shaking 'hands with a friend, sutide;aly fell but and expired. Yesterday, Thomas "Woo, *a ha who was apprehended etts Tuesday last with a loaded pistol in his possession, by Ditch, the officer, was brought up to Bow.street, for re-esausiassiogu—s. He is suspected to be the person who Ired at the wattlinsan ip Burton Crescent, The pistol he bad stoke (rani tilt Arms public-house,The-ilehts, Chino. The prisoner ifsse RI 7 committed fur stealing the pistol. A I