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Z ' NATAL ATSLLIdENCR, FALMOUIH, MARCH to. The vessels in the /toads are preparing to sail uold the weeber continue ined:rAte. PORTSMOU 114. MAP CFI 17. Arrived his Majesty's ship BittromAnT from a cr uise; and the EUNRIA from the Downs, for New ;mind:and ; also the following ships from the Downs: G e nerid Kyd. Atlas, and M.trshal Wellington, for jedia ; Mary Ann. and Oswin, for Bengal ; 501 , ,n, to N e w York ; Brothers, for St. Helena ; Lloyd's, N I New South Wales ; ‘Villiam Prince, tor It and Heed. fur the Westward,—Wind S.W. DEAL, MARCH I I "-'re down from the River the Itmt... for Madras Bengal; W.iterloo, for China; and Min:, for litt'•• Pnt back the Regalia, for the Cite and c el lon ; Britannia, for Grenada; and Neptune, for New Orieans.—Wind 3. W. DOVER, FEBRUARY 12. Arrived off here the Elizabeth, Bownzw, from Ba utia and Amsterdam. Sailed the Eliza, Brisk, Van 1, Fox, and John and Eleanor transports, for Calais, with troops. HARWICH, FEBRUARY it. Ski the Caltlereagh packet, for Holland and JAW icket, for Cnzhaven, both with Mails. GRAVESEND, MARCH it Arrivtl the Oct.3n, Pike, and Alert, Copping, from Oporto; 01 ; Hippoo Campie, 'loader ; and Priscilla, wa c ; o ,, hour I.i•bon ; Nimble, Thompson, front Dentarara; s e wn, ant i.ute, Patterson, front sr. Michael's; Nolo. vow, Strait:mit ; Prim ss of Wales, For ; And Nlar,hal Blucher, Adams, for I.lotDd• Sailed the his, Zimmerman, for Pillau; Mark, Behrtatl, and Irrow Lubbegina, kenjir, for Dantzic; Mary, Kinou; Akhas, and Dorothy, Edmond., tor Has:borsht Bekgica, Haasnoot, for Antwerp; Martha, jilackbars. for Rotterdam; Mayfl.iwer, Moore, for Gibraltar; Vardermey, fur Ants:trdam. cITS rOM-HOUSE. MARCH leo • PI. ENTERED INWAItDS.—The Two Brothers, Brightman, Binxia; Osborne, from Lisbon ; Briton, Pounds, Purtsmoath; Swallow, Ford, Irons Opurto; and Better 1...4 Still (Creek hay )—Ou•rwa he Mary, Mai for Hamburg's ; the Speedwell, Salmon, for Limerick ; bratrde's :nerease, Manning, fur Sr. Christopher; and Mahler, f.ranan, for Elsincur and I'ctersburgh. The Mary, front St. John's, Newfoundland, to Srciand, was abandoned by the crew on .sth January, spirg weer-logged, and was soon after seen to go to pieces—crew arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland. EmßAssr 70 CHINA. Nothing but private accounts have as yet been re ceived rerrecting our Embassy; to China. The con teats of some letters from Canton, which have trans pirrd since tite first accounts were published, concur .ttating (what by the bye was merely the rumour of the day at Canton) that the Embassy had failed tntolgh no other cause than a misunderstanding upon Court I:6(10rue. It seems, that when the Mandarins f•st announced the arrival of our Ambassador at (..v.on, the Emperor is said to have been gratified y :h.: news, and to hate immediately appointed a ezy of festival on which to receive his Lordship, who mired, as k is asserted, that he would make no obilt, m to conform to the ceremonies of the Chinese Court. .As the time approached, however, the Mandarins. Living had farther communications with Lord Au- LEUIT, were compelled to assure their Sovereign that he had fallen sick. The Emperor, upon this, desired that the English man next in rank should be introduced to him. Un 'fortunately for the Chinese Ministers, they answered (as we are informed) that the next Officer of the mission tear rick also. His Imperial Majesty con teiving that some deception had been practised upon him, very naturally for an absolute Monarch, appears to have lost his temper. One letter, indeed, goes i 0 far as to say, that be ordered some of the equivo cating Mandarins to apologise for their insincerity, by having their heads chopped off. Other statements Make the Emperor profess, that if he had been can didly warned of the Ambassador's objection to corn ply with the usages of the Court, he would have so arranged the interview, as to get tid of the ceremonies exacted Ir.= other foreigners, and would have follow ed, in the present instance, the example of his grand lather, who had favoured, in the same manner, Lord Macaarerr, to manifest his special regard and esteem for the Representative of the British Nation. A letter from Canton, two days later in date than any which we have yet szen quoted, says " We have a report of the failure of the Embassy, but we do not ,believe it." With respect to the affait between the Alceste and 'the China forts, the details were authentic and precise. A letter detailing the particulars already before the rablic reached the India House on Friday last, from ione of the Company's Supercargoes at Canton; in co - tsequence of which letter the Chairman and 'jo llity Chairman of the Court of Directors waited upon toe Board of Controul, to communicate all that had ; ., aspired on the subject. The quarrel is said to have 6itiAted between the General Hewitt and the war beats. When that ship had larded the Embassy, she' proceeded up the river; but, from some irregularity, vas stopped by the war. boats. After being tor some : . :ne detained, the General Hewitt began to weigh :•11cht.r, in order to remove (without permission) to p.,.other birth. The Chinese Admiral begged of Cap zi.n CAMPBELL to wait, it it were only 24 how:, as it a ught be the means of saving the Admiral's head, '"`twit he did not seem to feel was a bit faster on his '"Liefa than that of another Mandarin. The aptain, it is said, complied with 'this request; if not to oblige the Chinese Admiral, at least to avoid :hr risk of raising any extra obstacles to impede the sr:cess of the mission. Tht Memorial of BONAPARTE, addressed in the form of a Letter to Sir Hunaoo Lowa, and given in tur columns this day, will be read as a very singular Rod curious production. The copy was brought from St. Helena by M. SANTINI, Usher of the Ca.• b i"et of NAPOLION, one of the tour persons btely arrived in Ls' %land. Litt last night dispatches sere sent from Earl BATItUItsT'S Office to Portsmouth, to be forwarded from thence by the Coneugaon, Admiggi Pests` I.IV I to Sir kiUOSON Lows', at St. Helena. • COOD 13RtAD FROM 6 7 SOUND PFARAT. TO THE nrrot. SIR—A constant Reader of youe Paper, hopes you will, in some form, communicate the following subject for the Public benefit. A short time since you ob lige,' the Public with the information, that to improve the Bread mad.! from unsound Wheat, that a small quaatity of magnesia would render it Trilie wholesome. have in consequence tried it with 'cry indifferent an.l found that a quarter of an ounce to two quartcrn 1.141 , 0, sprinkled in the flour before kneading, I effected such an improvement in lightness and quality, compared with other bread of the same flour and baking, as greatly surprised me, that you would do a great public service, to repeat only yonr former instructions, with this assurance of success: the mag nesia gives the bread a fine biscuit flavour, and excel lence and whiteness to it. It is well known, that with children and infirm persons in particular, bread of un sound wheat becomes acid in the stomach, and is in d.gestible mare or less with every person, that yon cannot at this season of scarcity of sound wheat, do a greater service for the public health, and especially for Ireland and the Western Counties, than to excite tlieir attention to so important a subject to them. What you have already obliged the p'iulic with has, I hope, done much good : it has served my family, and induced rue to think it my duty to trouble you with this letter.—l am, Sir, your most humble servant, Celebester, March 11, 1817. A CONSTANT READER. P.S. I am informed that in wheat that is sound there is a portion of tisagmesia ; the fine biscuit taste it gives, would alone unite that opinion. As won as we can possibly make room for it, we will in sert in our columns a tux detail of the experiments of Mr. Davy, who first tried and recommended the use of Magnesia in bread. At present we have only to caution our Readers against using calcined Magnesia tor this purpose. The common Magnesia is greatly preterable,un sprout ut the Carbonic sail orlx,ol air which forms one 01 hi C4llllltitUctltS. MEETING IN. PALACE-YARD. In pursuance of an Advertisement by the liton BAILIFF, proceeding on a Requisition duly signed, a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Westminster as sembled this day, at one o'clock, for the purpose of considering of an Address to the PRINCS RSGZNT for the Dismissal of Ministers. The High Bailiff came on the Hustings, attended by Sir FRANCIS BUR DIM', Lord COCHRAN V., and M4ior CARTWRIGHT..... The proceedings we shall give to-morrow. HAMPSHIRE MEETING. On Tuesday a Meeting of the County of Hants took place at Winchester, pursuant to a Requisiti.m to the High Sheriff, signed by forty-five Freeholders of the highest rank and respectability ; among whom were the Marquisses of Winchester and Buckingham; Lords Portsmouth, MalmsSury, Rodney, Northesk, Fitaharris, and Palmerston ; Sir T. Baring, Sir C. Ogle, Sir J. W. S. Gardiner, the-Right Hon. G. Rose, Right Hon. W. Sturges Bourne ; W. Chute, T. F. Heathcote, Esqrs.the Members for the County, Bcc. Ste. to agree to an Address to the Prince Regeqt ou the late atrocious and traitorous outrage upon the persim of his Royal Highness, on his return from opening the Session of Parliament. The Address was moved by Sir C. Ogle, Bart. and seconded by A. Smythe, Esq.—Mr. Cobbett and Mr. Hunt attempted to carry an amendment, embodying subjects totally irrelevant to the object for which the Meeting was convened, but in ibis they tailed, as there were at least three to one in Eatonr of the Address, which was ascertained, not in the usual manner of a show of hands, but by the two parties separating. Lord. Cochrane was present, and also addressed the Meet. log. There were about SOW persons present. The Meeting commenced at twelve, and terminated at five, by an unanimous vote of thanks to the Sheriff for his upright and impartial conduct on the occasion. It seems that five King's Messengers have been dispatched to 'cations places, with warrants from thd Secretary of State for the apprehension of individuals. They are accompanied by police ofiLers for the safety of their prisoners. Their several destinations are kept a profound secret. Yesterday mottling the Grand Duke NICHOLAS lcfi town at nine o'clock, for Claremont, to take leave of their Royal and Serene Highnesses the Princess Citant.orra and Prince LEOPOLD ; thence his High. ness proceeded to Windsor to meet the PRINCE Re. 1 , tient., and dine with the Queen. A great concourse of spectators assembled to see his Imperial Highness: the church bells continued ringing the whole of the day. TO-morrow morning his Highness and suite will leave town fur Dover, where they will embark fur the Continent. A German Journal gives the following statement of the actual force of the Austrian army, and pledges itself for its ac:uracy : Infantry - • 349,2(0 Light lulantry - - 85,800 Cavalry - 75,000 Artillery - - - 110,003 The stormy weather which has made the tirst week of March the mast wintry of the season, has obstruc ted the progress of the coaches ; and the Landon mail arrived on Saturday, at Glasgow, five hours later than usual. Friday, when within two miles of Winchester, the Southampton day-coach from London was upset, by the tore-wheel coming off. There were only one in side and two outside passengers. Lieutenant AMA., Ist West-India Regiment, who was on the box with the coachman, was much hurt and cut in the knee : the other outside passenger was only slightly injured, and th.: lady inside escaped without the least damage. The following fatal accident happened on the night of the 25th ult.—litcon TCRNSR, Esq. of Park Hall, near Kidderminster, was returning in his carriage from Dr. Blakiston's, of Belbroughtoo, about eleven o'clock, and in going down broom Lane, one of the horses took fright, toned the other upon the bank, and upset the carriage, when William Ashcroft, the butler, who was riding by the side of the coachman, tell from the dickey upon his /wad with the body of the carriage upon him, and wts - killed on the spot. I The coachman, (who it appears, was perfectly sober) was thrown further towards the horses and escapers unhurt. We are happy also to bear that Mr. Turner and his family did not receive any material injury. goAtipARTZ. LETTER, IT ORDER OF ?HI EMPEROR NAPOLEON, AD DRESSED BE OINENAL COUNT MONTHOLON, TO bin .HUDSON LOWE, BRITISH OOVP.IINOR OF THE ISLAND _ _ Or ST. HELENA. " GENERAL—I have received the Treaty of the 3d of August ; 1815, concluded between his Britannic Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia, which accompanied your letter of the 23i of icily. • " The Emperor Napoleon protests against the Contents of that Treaty i he is not the prisoner of England: After having placed his abdication in the hands of the Representatives of the MI6 'n, fir the advantage of the Constitution adopted by till French People, and in favour of h;.: Son, he repaired volun tarily and freely to England, with the view of living there, its a private individual, under the protection of the British laws. The violation of every law cannot constitute a right. The person of the Emperor Na poleon is actually in the power of England, but he neither has been, not is, in the power of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, either in fact or of right, even according to the laws and customs of England, which never included, in the exchange of prisoners, Russians, Prussians, Austrians, Spaniards, or Portu guese, though united to these Powers by treaties of alliance and making war conjointly with them. " The Convention of the 2d of Angnst, concluded fifteen days after the Emperor was in England, can. not have of right any effect. It exhibits only a spec tacle of the coalition of the four greatest Powers of Europe for the oppression of a single man I—a coali tion which the opinion of every nation and all the principles of sound morality equally disavow. " The Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prussia, having neither in fact nor in right any claim over the person of the Emperor Napoleon, could decide nothing respecting him. Had the Emperor Napoleon been in the power of the Emperor of Austria, that Prince would have recollected the relations which religion and nature have formed between a father and a sen—relations ' which are never violated with impunity. " He would have recollected that Napoleon had four times restored to him his throne; viz. at Leo_ ben in 11'97—at Luneville is 1804, whet his armies were under the walls of Vienna—at Presburgh in 1808—and at Vienna in 1809, when his armies had possession of the capital and three.frirths of the mo- I patchy! That Prince would' bait recollected the 'protestations he made to Napoleon at the Nowt in Moravia in 1806, and at the interview in Dresden in 1812. " Had the person of the Emperor Napoleon been in the power of the Emperor Alexander, he would have recollected the ties of friendship contracted at at Etfurth, and during twelve years of daily correspondence. " He would have recollected the conduct of the Emperor Napoleon the day after the battle of Au sterlitz, when, though he could have made hint, with the wreck of his army, prisoner, he contented himself with taking his parole, and allowed him to operate his retreat. He would have recollected the dangers to which the Emperor Napoleon personally exposed hims. If in order to extinguish the fire at Moscow, and to preserve that capital for him—assuredly, that Prince would never have violated the duties of friendship and gratitude towards a friend in mis fortune. " Had the person of the Emperor Napoleon been in the power of the King of Prussia, that Sovereign could not have forgotten that it depended on the Emperor, after the battle of Friedland. t• place an other Prince on the throne of Berlin. He would not have forgotten, in the presence of a disarmed enemy, the protestations of attachment and the sentiments of gratitude which he testified to him in 1812 at the in terviews in Dresden. ,‘ It accordingly appears front articles 2 and .5, of the Treaty of the 2d of August, that these Princes, being incapable of exercising any influence over the disposal of the Emperor, who was not in their power, accede to what may be done thereon by his Britannic Majesty, who takes upon himself the charge of ful filling every obligation. These Princes have re. proached the Emperor Napoleon with having prefer. red the protection of the English laws to theirs. The false ideas which the Emperor Napoleon had formed of the liberality of the laws of England, and of the influence of the opinion of a great, generous, and free people over their Government, decided him to prefer the protection of these laws to that of a father.in.law or an old friend. a The Emperor Napoleon had it in his power to secure, by a diplomatic treaty, whatever was personal to himself, by putting himself either at the head of the army of the Loire, or at the head of the army of the Gironde, commanded by General Clause! ; but wising, henceforth, for nothing but retirement and the protection of the laws of a free State, either English or American ; all stipulations appeared to him unnecessary. He conceived that the English people were more bound by a conduct which was, on his part; frank, noble, and full of confidence, than they would have been by the most solemn treaties.— He has been deceived, but this error will for ever cause true Britons to blush, and will, in the present as well as the future generations, be a proof of the bad faith of the English Administration. Anstnanand Prussian Commissioners are arrived at St. Helena. If the object of their minion be the fulfilment of a part of the duties which the Empe rors of Austria and Russia have contracted by the Treaty 'of the Val of August, and to uke care tha. the English agents, in -a. small colony, in the raids of the ocean, do not. fail in the gespe‘t due to • Prince connected with these Sovereigns by the bonds I of relationship and so many other ties, proofs of the character which belong to these two Monarchs will Ise recognitc :I in this proceeding ; but you, Sir, have declared that these Commissioners have neither the ti: ht nor the power of giving any opinion on what may be paccintt on this rack ! •r The Eorhsll Ministers have caused the Empe ror Nap,,lcnn to he transported to Sr. Helena, at the distance of 2,0c0 leagues from Europe! This rock, situated within t tropics, and .s(lole.yues from ar.y Continent, is cubjeet to th? devouring Leafs of these latitudes. It is cu:•ered clouds and fogs during three-fourths of the year, ahrl is at once tL•e m st arid and the most hum:d county in the wuril a climate is most inim cal to the health the Ern , peror, and hatred must have dictated the choice of this resl,..nce. as well as the instructions given by the English Ministry to the Oflieers commanding in the Island. lc They have even been ordered to call the Empe ror Napoleon Gentral, as if it were wished , o oblige him to consider himself as never hiving reigned in France. The reason which determined him not to assume an incognito name, as he might hare resolved to do on leaving Frznce, were these : First M igistrate fia life of the Republic under the title of First Consll, he concluded the Preliminaries of London and tae Treaty of Arnions with the King of Great Britain ; and received, as Ambassadors, Lord Cornwallis, Mr. Merry, and Lord Whitworth, who resided is that quality at his Court. " He accredited to, the King of Eng] ind, Cunt Otto and General Andreossi, who resided as Ambas sadors at the Court of Windsor. When, after an exchange of letters between the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the two Monarchies, Lord Lauderdale came to Paris invested with full powers from the King of England ; he treated with the Plenipoten tiaries possessing full powers from the Emperor Na poleon, and remained for several months at the Court of the Thuilleries when Lord Castlereagh after wards signed, at Chatil!on, the ultimatum which the Allied Powers presented to the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperor N (polecat, he recognized by that the fourth dynasty, This ultimatum was mute advanta geous than .he Treaty of Paris, but in exacting that France should renounce Belgium and the left bank of die Rhine, it exacted what was ccr , trary to the propositions of Fraiiktort, and the Proel,m a tions o f the Allied Powers—what was contrary to the oath, by which, at his coronation, the Emperor ssvc rs to maintain the integrity of the Empire. The Empe ror, besides, tliou,:tlit that these n iturrl limits were necessary, both tur the security of France and to pre servtt the equilibrium of Europe; he thought that the French n- ! tion in the situation is which it was. ought rather rt run the Iriz..rd of all the charters of war than to depart from that policy : France had obtained this integrity, and would have preserved it with honour, it treason bad not arrayed itself in aid of the Allies. " The Treaty of the 2d of August, and the Act of die British Parliament, called the Emperor N.ipo. leon—Bonaparte, and gave him only the title of General. The title of General Bonaparte is doubt. less eminently glorious, the Emperor bore it at Lodi, at Castiglione, at Rivoli, at Arcule, at Leoben, at the Pyramids, at Aboukir; hut for seventeen years he has borne that of First Consul and Emperor, which proves that he lots been both First Magistrate of the Republic, and Sovereign of the fourth dy nasty. Those who think that nations are Rocks which belong of divine right to certain families, do not belong to the age, nor do they participate in the Spirit of the English Legislature, which has several times changed the older of its Dynasty, becatis- great changes had taken place in public (Talons, in which the reigning Princes not participating, they bee .me enemies to the welfare of the great ohs:forty of the nation; for Kings are ohly heieditary Magistrates, who exist for the welfare of nattoos, and inn nations for the satistaction of Kings. " It is in the SAM" hateful spirit that orders have been given that die Einperor Napoleon shall not be allowed to write cr receive any letters, unless they are opened and read by the English Ministers and the Offices at Helena. They have interdicted to him the possibility id receiving intelligence hums his wile, his moaner, hi:, ton, or has brothers ; and when, in order to avoid the inconvenience of having 'rig let ' tors mad by subaltern inticers, he wished to send let. I i c es sealed to the Prince Regent, he was odd that the order could not he departed from, and that the letters must pass open, such being the instructions of the Ministry. This conduct needs no observation ; it ( gives rise, however, to strange ideas as to the spirit of the Administration which could dictate W:l.i( be disavowed even at Algiers. Letters have :strived at St. Helena, for the Officers in the suite of the Em. peror ; they were broke open and trans.nined to you, but you have not communicated them, because they did not come through the channel of tiac English Ministry. Thus they had to go back woo le.sgues; and these Officers had the grief of iciluv:ias;, that there was intelligence on the Rock, Ilona theii wives, their mothers, their chilthen, and th it they could not know the nature of at for six months—the beam must solace itselt " They could not obtain either The elLrning Clirts nide. The lihrnivx Peel,ur any rrent.h Journals._ Now and then a few stray numbers of The Yieur reached Longwood. la consequence of a request made on board the Norzhumberldnd, some books were sent, but all those relative to the affairs of late yeari have been carefully kept back. He wished to correspond with a Bookseller in London, in rider to have direct the books which he wanted, and those relative to the events uf the day—this was prevented. An English author, having made a tour in and having published an account of it in Lon , took the trouble to transmit it to you, in or' it might be presented to tale Emperor; you proper not to transmit it, because it swab 1.01 you by the express desire of your Government. said also, that other books sent by their authors not been tz.inamitted, btcause some of them Trance. 1 ndon, hr der that thosigtit t sent to t. It is ors bava . MCC: