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, er , s ell repaired the fort there, ivhich bad been by aa earthquake, with the help of the *ter vessel the Swallow ; the assailants lost in three ::tacks 90 killed, and between 30 and 40 wonnded. b ' Teoe account: are extracted from a long letter ,: ; , c o on the "2LI of June, by one of the crew 01 the : „ sse , who, with 55 others - belonging to the same easel, was present at the expedition against the land of Saporea, and was on board one of the ut i when Lieutenant Scheidius was wounded.— tey are anterior by three weeks or a month to those itbLsbed in the English papers. The .Iffuterilam Courant makes the following ob sadtion; : --46 Respecting the late events in the East i di a possessions of the Netherlands, some English pl),: have indulged in observations, which, with the iiaifEcient knowledge we possess of what has passed, - 11 , : st not be rashly attended to, and seem in some reasure- to have their origin in jealousy at the resto• rxion of those Colonies. 0 It is possible that persons in the service of the Nrtherlands, may have been in some instances guilty of improper conduct; but there is very great appear ance that foreign influence, at least of particular per- Itas excited the natives I" The Vienna Papers speak of a new journey of the being contemplated. Their Majesties mean to ti:t Prague, but the time of their intended departure is sot mentioned. _ It is believes' among the political circles at Vienna tlia; the Court will remain at Prague till neat summer, when the Emperor of Russia, the King of Pays fa, aid other Sovereigns will meet, to confer upon sotral subjects to be laid before the otw Congress, to ouch talked of." The Paris Papas of Thorsday arrived in the course of yesterday, and in a preceding column we have given some extracts from them. Those of Fri day have also arrived this morning. They are almost wholrly occupied with the Debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Project of Law respecting the Liberty of the Press, which commenced on Thorsday. The following is an abstract of the proceedings CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, DECEMBER 11. PRuSID6\7-" The order of the day calls for the discussion of• the project of law upon the abuse of the Press and upon the Journals. M. M4rtin de Gray, to speak cli you are first on the list of against the project." N. MARTIN na GRAY—is' The right of publishing opinions is a natural right, for servitude of thought supposes or leads to all other servitudes; it is gua ranteed by the-Charter; it is inherent in the repre sentative Government, which is a government of 'Moo. Before the great epoch of 1739, all the cestorships sad surveillances made use of, were un aik to arrest the eternal course of opinion, and only se►ved to precipitate that course. The Parliament of Paris reclaimed the Liberty of the Press in 1788 the States-Gtneral also reclaimed it. All the Go- which have since succeeded in France have • consecrated this right—all of them have vio hted it—and all of them have perished. The Kiss by his declaration of the 2d of May, 181+, as prescribed, as one of the bases of the liberal Con stitution which be wished to give us, the Liberty of the Press. The eighth article of the Charter has guaranteed it but it was not leng till the law of the 21st October, 181+, that law of censorship . and orrestrictions, which an imprudent Ministry offered io compliment to the Charterdestroyed that gua rantee. Hence has sprung a general inquietude as to the stability of the Charter, and of new Institutions. Hence all the aberrations of a Ministry deprived of the illumination and support of public opinion—hence l many deplorable catastrophes. Again, however, is this system of restriction proposed to be continued amongst us, by the project now under discussion--a proicct, the heterogeneous elements of which are first of all particularly deserving of attention.— It is composed of the law of the 21st October, 1814, of the 14w upon seditious writings and cries, 'of the dispositions of the Penal Code, and of the Decrees of Bonaparte, of February 1811; on the Polite of the Press. It is in some measure in fact an act atkatinali to the most unconstitotional laws and decrees of Bo- IrlPerte i and surprising indeed would it be were li berty to issue from the abuse of despotism." Proceeding to examine the law in its details, M: de GRAY endeavoured to chew that the disguised but teal responsibility which its dispositions imposed on, printers,. booksellers, and all other distributors, was wholly destructive of every species of liberty—that 80. NAPARTE. in the height of Ms despotism, never enacted, any thing equal to it in his decrees upon the press. ....Arriving a; the . 27th Article on the *Journals; hi insisted that the wort of censorship proposed waisub; versive of the representative government, contrary to the rights of property ; that all fears in respect of in ternal or external tranquillity, from the liberty of the Journals, were wholly chimerical ; and that it was as much for the interest of the governing as of the go verned, that the periodical Press should be left to the completes freedom. " The Censorship," continued M. de Gray, in conclusion, will cast a thick veil over out frontiers , and conce al from us the position of Europe, which it is of the first importance to the Chamber to know. Was ever position more false or more humiliating, than that of a nation which cannot be permitted to know what passes either within or without ? Was ever there greater degradation than that thought and opinion should be the sole pattimony of the Police ?" JOLLIVIIIT folio, Op -.sod is; a speech of ;cosi. clerahle length. supported Me Project', And oppOtleti the amendments of the Commission, with the excep don of certain modifications in article 10. M. Giumn spoke against the Project. The liberty of the press, said he, is like the lance of Achilles; it cures the wounds it makes. A great outcry has been raised against the evils which the journals are capable of producing. But it is to be remembered, that this is not a question about suppressing the jour nals. The Ministers wish only that they shall have the monopoly of them, and such a monopoly will have the same result as all monopolies. It will be both ruinous to the country it pretends to protect, and to the government which it is supposed to favour. Baron PAfQVIER, Keeper of the Seals.—After a detailed discussion of several articles of the Project , (of which the Journals profess themselves unable to give an analysis), his Excellency came to the article concerning the Journals, on which he thus expressed himself : " It is necessary (said he) to distinguish the Journals from other writings. It is a great mistake to suppose that one Journal can always re pair the evil which another Journal does. The con straint imposed on the Journals is commanded both by our interior situation and by peitieal circum . stances. I need not say more—you will give to these circumstances all the consideration which they de serve. You know all, France knows all.-you will judge accordingly." The hour being far advanced, the Sitting was ad journed till next day. The following are other extracts from these papert : PARIS, DECEMBER 11. The Budget will probably be presented to the lumber in the course of the ensuing week. ' Extract of a letter from Moscow, inserted in the Gazette de France of Thursday last The flattering reception that our Persian Embassy has experienced, holds out to us the brightest prospects. It appears that our Ambassador, Yermaloff, has gained the af fections of Feth Aly Sash. We learn that the Per sian Monarch has allowed the establishment of Rus sian Consulships in the principal cities of his empire ; and permitted the Russians, on paying a slight duty, to trade in his dominions, and to have a passage ' through them to India. We have every reason to hope that the manufactures of our southern provinces will be admitted under favourable conditions. The report that Peth Aly Schah is said to have requested an interview with the Emperor of Russia, and the meeting of an Asiatic Congress at Astracan, in the spring, to which the Grand Sultan of Constantinople is to be invited, for the purpose of regulating the po litical and commercial regulations between the Chris tian and Mahometan Powers, requires confirmation." French 5 per Cents. Iltb December, 63 fr. 60c. BATH, DECEMBER 15. In consequence of the very crowded state of the Pump Room, during the presence of the Qum; yes terday, the admissions, this morning, were restricted to a few; and as an additional precaution, four of the Aldermen, 'Jowl( PHILLorr, HENRY PARRY, EDMUND ANDERSON, and CHARLES PHILLOTT, Esqrs. attended in their robes, and stationed themselves at the ends of the seats to prevent the intrusion of the company. Mr. MARSHALL, the Master of the Cere monies, has, obtained leave of the Corporation to have the necessary apparatus put down for the pur pose of having that part of the room, which is appro priated to her Majesty and her suite, parted off with crimson ropes, in the manner of a ball.ronm. The Quar.n and their Royal Highnesses entered the room precisely in the usual order, and at the time as heretofore. Her Mmitery having drank the usual quantity of the water, retired. The day was again so wet, that the Qualm did not take her accustomed airing, but the Princess ELlZA iirra - went in her carriage, attended by Lady Mu.- vtu.s, to bathe at the Haling Court Bath, Prince LEOPOLD continua to Malt at Claremont. His Serene Highness has no idea of leaving the country. Saturday evening his Excellency the Marquis D'Osmona landed at Dover, out of a French packet . from Calais, under a salute from the Heights Battery. LIVZOPOOL, Dec. 15.—Yesterday evening, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. R. Leton, a tal low-chandler, in Gradwell-street, which had a most alarming,tendency : it blazed with increasing fury for i considerable time, in consequence of the flames having commiinicited with a large quantity of tal low, and threatened the surrounding houses with immediate destruction.' Fortunately, by the exer tions that were made use of by a very large propor tion of the populace that were speedily assembled on the occasion, it was got under in a very.short space of time; but not till the whole of the premises were ,completely destroyed, without, however, much in juring the surrounding buildings. It was at first supposed that the Excite-Office, which is is its im mediate neighbourhood, together with those of seve ral Merchants' stokes, Must have been consumed.:-. We understand Mr. Luau was insured nearly to the amount of the loss sustained by him, Fias AT. ROTHIMHITEIS.—Yesterday morning a dreadful fire broke ont at the King's Mills, Rother hithe, belonging to Mr. Sorry, a contractor for the Government troops. It broke out about a quarter past five o'clock in the morning, at which time one of the watchmen, then on the premises, first discovered the smoke issuing from the steam engine, when be gave the alarm. By the prompt arrival of a number , of engines, and a plentiful supply of ewer, the fire was confined to the mills, and Mr. SUrry's dwelling= house, which, with its contents, were burnt to the ground. It is not known how the fire originated, but we are happy to add that no lives were lost.— The premises were fully insured. Owing to the timber, bricks, &c: faliing into the dock, it is feared that the water willsbe stopped in its course. • batAlifth. ti4E WEST INDIES.. Philadelphia Papers to the 21it, and Nov York Papers to the 22J alt. reached us this day. The ac counts which they present from the West Indies are the most distressing that we recollect within our memory. By the brig Louisa, Captain Williams, which ar rived at Norfolk on the 17th ult. in fourteen days from Antigua, intelligence had been received, that a most dreadful hurricane on the 21st of October, had nearly desolated several of the islands, the violence of which was particularly felt at St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Dominique, Martinique, and St. Vincent's. At St. Lucia, the gale was more particularly severe. All the vessels in that port were entirely lost ; the Government House was blown down, and all within its walls, comprising the Governor, his Lady and child, his Staff, Secretaries, servants, &c. amounting in all to about 50 persons, were buried in its ruins. Not one survived the dreadfpl catastrophe. And, still more horrible to relate, the Officers' and soldiers' barracks were, by the saute pitiless blast, demolished, and all within them at the time, about 200 persons, were precipitated into eternity—and all the estates of the bland rendered a heap of ruins. Some particulars of the damages at Barbadoes Ire in the file before us, mentioned to have been stated in their preceding Number, but the Paper referred to is wanting in our file, and of these we can, therefore, • say nothing this day. At Dominique nearly the whole town was inun dated, and the destruction of property immense.— Some few lives were lost. The Island nearly desolated. Captain Williams did not learn that any vessels were lost. At Martinique, about 50 sail of vessels were driven out to sea from St. Pierre:, principally Americans, and having no ballast, provisions, or other necessa ries for a voyage, have probably been lost. Only one of the above vessels has been heard of (a French ship which got into St. Eustatia). T►he estates here also were greatly damaged. At St. Vincent's, ten sail of vessels went on shore, and were pearly all lost. Captain Williams could not with certainty recapi tulate all the horrors which marked this awful visi tation. At Dominique and St. Vincent's, as well as at St. Lucia, the devastation was so complete as to amount almost to annihilation. It will be many years at least before those islands can be restored to their former condition. A schooner from Philidelphia, bound to St. Bart's. with wine and brandy, was lost on Barbuda reef, the crew and part of the cargo saved. It was reported at Antigua that his Majesty's ship Antelope, of 50 gunk, Rear-Admiral Harvey, was Jon in the gale. She sailed from Pigeon Island for Batbadoes the night previous to the gale. KINGSTON (JAMAICA). OCTOBER 22. Monday was generally remarked close beynnd pre. cedeat, with light air from N. W. ; heat oppressive, though probably the thermometer might not have ex ceeded N. These insidious precursors created symp toms of no distant change, especially as the full moon was on the approach. Tuesday was ushered in with a violent swell from the N.W. which increased to a gale from that quarter, attended with a deluge of rain and an obscured sky. At one o'clock, P. at. a moment of dire distress presented the following yes. sets on the beach, viz.—Schooner Anne and Eliza, the property of Thomas Arrindell ; sloop Retrieve, Mr. James Grant ; schooner Good Intent, from De merara ; schooners Relief, W. Durham, and Alecia. —The Relief had lately arrived from Bermuda, with a valuable cargo Or flour, &e. the greater part of which will be saved. The proprietor of the Flying Fish, with judgment and presence of mind, ordered the masts to be cut ; this prudent. order induced the owners of the Vigilant and Hunter to follow so timely an example, h by which means these sloops weathered the storm. The following vessels rode out the gale. viz. ship Westmorel And , brig Lord Exmouth. schooner Liver pool, ketch John, schooner Mountserata, sloop Tri angle, and schooner Mouche. The wind obstinately blew until dark from S.S.W. impelling surge on surge with violent impetuosity towards the beach. attended with torrents of ruin; we experienced neither the shock of earthquake; nor did we hear the roar of thunder. Tue schooners Triumph and Fox came on shore at Caillinque, and sloop Concord broke her cable early in the morning, and stood to sea. Of interior casualties, little can now be Added, as few reports have reached town. Of canes lodged. plantain walks uprooted, and ground provisions destroyed, we fear may form the bulletin of another Paper. Sir HOME POPHAM arrived on Thursday at Ports mouth, and re-hoisted his flag on board the Syntax, Captain CHARLLI MALCOLM. Had the wind proved fair, Sir HOMII would haie sailed on Saturday morn ing. Lady POPHAM and family intend•going out, to reside at the Commander-in-Ciiiet's residence at Port Royal, during the pet iod of Sir HoMa's service. The ANDROMACHE frigate, Capt. SHIRREFF, sailed on Friday for Rio Janeiro and the River Plate, where' the squadron, under Coinmodore Bowtts, will con sist of the following ships; AMPHION, (Commodore), ANDROMACHE, Captain SHISRCII ; HYACINTH, Capt. SHARPS; .131.05.50M 2 Capt. HICKEY; and the TYNC, Capt. FALCON. YffrkLikkKra. ne following Notice has been iesilidiuniCitia us from LLoYD's; ." LOSS OF THE INDIAN TRANSPORT. " The Captain of the Waiving, from Norimy 14 14 Trieste, which .vessel has arrived at PlyraoudY, " reports, that the bursas transport, of London; with 44 troops on board, was lost about 30 miles this side 46 of Ushant, and all on board perished." We have also private intelligence from Ply; mouth, which states that the information of the above disastrous event . had beeti given by a French pilot en board the Malvina, but instead of a transport, the Ins dian is sai4 by our Cotrespcndent to be an East India ship. We suspect that neither account is cor rect —and that the Indian which is lost is the ship which lately sailed from Portsmouth with a number of volun. teers for the Patriot cause, and of which there was the following notice in our Paper of the Bth instant:— " In consequence of the Proclamation forbidding British Officers to serve either of the contending par ties in South America, the INDIAN put to sea from Portsmouth in such haste that 30 of tht Officers, who had taken a passage in her, and who had their bag. gage on board, were left behind." If it be this yes. sel which has been lost, the latter circumstasce will be no inconsiderable alleviation of the calamity. FAL.MOVTH, DECEMBER it. Wind S.—Put back the Fort William East !Mix. man, and a ship, name unknown, supposed to be a West Indianian, lions Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, .DECEMBER 131 Arrived the Ceres, trom London for Africa, with loss Of bowsprit and otherwise much damaged, - and must unload ; Flower, PITY, trona St. Michael's; and Malvina, BROOK. from Norway fur Triebte, she sailed from Falmouth on the 7th instant, and the fol lowing day was driven on the Corigeon Rocks, about 26 miles N. of Ushant—she is leaky, and will proba bly have to discharge her cargo of fish. A Ham.. burgh ship, laden with linen, is lost near Ushant, and all hands perished. The French fishermen state, that two brigs were seen to go on shore on Sunday night, and all hands perished. ,A schooner was likewise seen dismasted, steering for Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 14. Wind Southerly—Arrived yesterday the Ceres and the Regard, from the Downs. Sailed the Britannia, for Grenada ; Crescent, for Leghorn; Ocean,• for Ja. maica ; and the John, for Malta. Arrived to.day the Benevolent, (2 , test. and Venus, from Dover. GUERNSEY, DECEMBER 11. Put in here to-day the Ant, LLOYD, of Liverpool, in distress, having lost "her boats and sails; also the Hype, M'LUt•tttx, of Berwick, from Newcastle for Demarara, with loss of part of her sails. The Eli zabeth Johann, EHP.UiT WRAASIAN, from Narva for Bourfeaux ; and the brig Rosana, WILLIAM, from New Orleans, have put in with loss of sails and other ' damage. Yesterday came in the Patience, Basse, with loss of sails, boats, and other damage. Put in tn•day, the Phoenix► RENSTROM, from liasnflurgh, with wheat, which is much damaged, and must'un load—she has also lost her boats and sails. DEAL, DECEMBER 14. Wind S.—Ariiired yesterday and sailed for the River the Tout;ne, CURLY, from New York, in 52 days. Sailed a nd put back again to-day, the Lord Lyncllck, for Fort William. Arrived de Vrow Core nelia, HUNWELD, from Amsterdam for Surinam. DOVER, DECEMBER I s. Arrived this morning the Lord Duncan packet, Captain PASCOE, with a Mail and passengers from . Ostend ; and this afternoon the Chichester packet, Captain Roma, from Calais, with passengers. Sailed last night the Dover, Captain DAVISON, with passengers for Calais ; also this morning the King George, Captain KING, with the Calais Mail ; and the Princess Charlotte packet, Captain ...MALLARDS. for Ostend, with a Mail and passengers.—Wind B. and blows strong with rain. _ CORN EXCIIANGZ, MARK LANK, 15.—This supply of Wheat being rather large from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, and the Millers not being anxious to purchase, caused heavy sale for all but prime sam ples, which obtained last Monday's ;slices, and all other descriptions were 2s. per quarter lower than on Friday. Fine maid -4 Barley is 2s. per quarter, and the inferior qualities about Ss. per quarter cheaper, Peas and Beass`stre lower. In Oats and other as.. tides no alteration. Ilattintratui MARKET, DECEMBER 15. `Beet ss 4.! to 5s I Veal 44 64 to 6s OS Mutton 91 6d to Ss 0 .1 Peek 40 Oil ro• de 44 Beaus 3960—Sheep and Lambs 14,00—Calves SO•••Plgir 260. HUNTING. The Flambledon Hounds met Ws day, at Old Winchester hill; Wednesday they meet at Milberry House; Friday, at Twy - turd Park ; at ten o'clock each day. Sir Bellingham Graham's Hound* met this day, at Merevale; Wedne.day they meet at Shu t tingdon•bridge • Friday at Biddies. Geld ; Saturday at Twycross ; and on Monday neat at Clifton Hall; each morning at tea o'clock. 'llse Cheshire Fos Hounds met this day at Lower itoasb g Wednesday they meet at Tabley ; Thursday at Oak= Lodge; Saturday at Sutton Monday neat at Sbipbrook Bridge; Wednesday 2t, at Lock at Wintry ; Friday 26, at Statenford badge ; Saturday 27,at Asir. Sir Henry Crewe's Fns Hounds met this day at Grearley Church ; and will meet on Thursday at llggington, at tan o'clock. The Fortuuate Youth possesses, at present, a pretty large share of the public attention. Some persons eon. tend that his wealth has beeen dissolved, and, like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a trace behind." Not so the golden benefits which flow from Fortune's Treasury—they are substantial realities ;—and G. Caattoia has the pleasure of stating, that any .4 For.. tunate Youth" who may possess a Share 014,349. Sold by him, and drawn a Prise on Friday last of ‘20,000, may turn it into hard cash, at N 0.7, Ccru hill, or 26, Oxford-street. The following Capitals have been all sold by Bun, in Shares, in the present Lottery : 4,549 £20,000 I 4,790 ...... 4908. ..... £l,OOO 5,092........ £2OO And registered to the following places a Barna*, ,I.Dover, I MlNwitbi Bath, • • Dublm, Oundle, Bristol, . Edinburgh, Peocanee, Bruton, Fin chley. Reading, Camberwell, Hatton Garden, Strand, Canterbury, Limerick, whttechapel, aseapside, Liverpool, Wlneanton,. • Cork, I Margate, I York. * Several Shares were not registered, and supposed to belong to persons residing in London. Next Satur day, the 20th, the Lottery finishes, when all the Four Prizesa 5e20.000, and other Capitals must be drawn. Citdrawn Tickets and Shares ere selling at Wales Offices, t, Cvrnhill, and 9, Charing-cross. •