The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-07 00:00:00

_ y ip. ~! ~ &to.. that the deceased, Who was a labourer, residing wear Brandon Creek.hriitge, in the parish of Hilgay, ahirit two miles from the Lain, bid been for some time, The associate of one Johu Rolfe, a notorious poacher in that neighbourhood, end that onMednewday last, Rolfe iris it the linuse of the deceased, where he staid till near etiflni6t. when he called the deceased up to go to iswiantatinnt on Mr. Paget farm in search of game. The wife of olhellecessed, who was afrairkithat Rolfe would hqsizind into mischief, endeavdered to dissuade bins from Oing ; hut he quieted her apprehension, by eft wing beMie would be hack before she was up. Rolfe tick large binder:loo4lcl' he said. be mint' Ilihryfor if be M e i With anv ewe 'pen the road to inter; rigt him,•lie would knock him down dead ow the spot. 'VP , * reused bad aboqt him when be left home three pounds in nichtey, asittssilyer iritek.: The poor woman head no moricof 'her husband until the morels I df this. thilluseing Fridey, on which day the nephew- of life. Page, With's young genlisinan biseotapanion;happeded to be hporting, and two of the servants isent' into the planta tion to Neat for game, and one of the "IsSter, oboe Irving that the ground had been recently turned 'beer, and inspecting that some poachers bad beep bringing gable there, they opened the place, when to their istonish bictit they 'disoovered the murdered body Of the'ele-' ; ilecelltse(l,lsurfitd Shout a fobt deep; and huddled loge ther. The money, the watch, stud' the shone the de ceased were missing.. His skull was fractured, and the immense who - were examined, lilted it to be their de. cided opinion that he had been knocked on the bead by si bludgeon, or some weapon of that Menne. The Jury fonnd a verdict of—Wilful Murder Igainst John Rolfe, Mho has 'dace been committed to Rly flail Isiah* his •rial for the crime. Upon the prisoner being appie. be tiled at hie 10.0thoe, house, where ha wet concealed, the shoes of tioe deceased were chattered. tigby the pri soner's brother to the constable who m helniti be bad open the prisoner poll them o ff ;lib night before: . Rolfe has since confessed his guilt. At first be accused two other persons of the names' of Pik.n and Nicholls, as his aceomplicei in the murder. They were in conse queue: apprehended, and underwent examinations be fore H. B. Dudley, Hart. but after having been con fronted' with Rolfe, although he for a long time persist ed in his story, he at length confessed that the accuse tion was entirely a fabrication, and that he alone com mitted the murder. Pikett and Nicholls wete of course discharged. r • TO THE EDITOR OP THE STATESMAN. Rm—Aa I noderstend that my name and that of my Go vernment of Colombia have been used improperly when the TARO of Mr'. Zea was spoken • of, I consider myself bound on merersi accent:lS to make public the following narrative. which I beg you (as I expect it from the candour and im partiality which you have always ahewn) to insert in your vAttable t 1 hen the want of powers of Mr. Zea to contract for the Lean was spoken of publicly. it was said that I knew of it. end that it was strange that I did not make it public at tb time that the contract was treating. I acknowledge that I knew of it. and proof of it will be found, amongst other thinre, in the docurneets which I am now gal to nit-anon, the originals of which are In my possession ; but as the con trail was between Mr. Zea and Messrs. Herring, Grah um, and P Ales, and as - thine sante documents and the known occurrences in Colombia Preyed to me that those Gentle men knew of this Stair as much es myself. It would have been without rtmlit a st-p entirely usele‘i on my 'part to apprise them of what they ware already tnformed. In the beginning of ISil, in consequence of a contract which had made in the neigh of the Gosernment of Colom bia, I intended to issue, in its name, Certifirees or Deben tures for the antount of the same: Mr. Zea•opposed this measure, and, to his orders, Messrs. Herring, 011111. m, and Powlea, calling thetriselves Representatives of the Realist: creditors of •Celombia, wrotewsmunder date ot-Int May. ISM from Freeman's Cuurt, 'saying; Wi nrW,Wntler the etre:7.lll'y of ri , fdlegsliii inn to intimate hien, try. sionfnut ad . *of Mr. Zee, at he cobsiders the contai ted Isinft.Of De bentures by :no on hehalf cf the Reputd or Cdilogsbia to be an act entirely unauthorised on your part., that it any have been so-ismted by yon (excepting those which were granted previerisly to Mr. Zea's arrival 'ln England, anti which have been exchanged), he reqttires you immediately to call in and cancel the same. Afterwards . Mr. Zea wrote me as official letter, dated Paris, the ?oth October, MI. saying, '• I will approve the Debeotures stipulated by you. It is understood that I shall express my approbation in each of them, and that they shall he headed iu the form agreed to by us; viz. Don Luis Lopes Mendez, Agent, specially authorifed by the Republic of Colombia." • _ • _ . _ . Subsequently Mr. Zea wrOte to me officially from Paris. the I Ith of October, Ifiel; saying. " it is very painful to me to improve, as I had promised, your Debentures in fa vour of ,Ir. in consequence of fresh powers •whiclil have received from our Government; the full;powers which 1 Lad, and to which I could refer with eonfidencemie ground of my approval thereto, have h-en revoked: My actual powers are special oses, brini.only for purposes which are pointed out. . • " It is clear, that f have only authority for those objects ; my signsture for any other affair has no more value than that of any private in& viduill:" • :With the preceding letter Mr. Zee sent me annexed a copy of that at ink he wrote under the same date to the mer chant with whom I had entered into the above said contract, So which I.e sa:.s--"When I took upon myself to approve the ,Debentures of Air. Mendez In your favour, I did so because I could give to the general terms of my powers an interpre tation. which. if not quite stifficient,to authoriie me defy, at least they were sufficient to justify my conduct with my Go vete writ ; in the mean svh.le the full general • powers, to which I couid refer in confidence, have been revoked, only empowering me to net for the specific objects which they re late ; 1 therefore find myself wnheut any authority to give the approval, which I offered when 1 could do so. My sig nature in the actual circumstances would be of no value or effect, merely like that of any private individual, and those who put faith in it Would he Imposed upon. .1 eaonot t here fare give it without committing a clime:" I persisted however reminding Mr. Zee of his former pro mise. sod etating the evils at would be the result from its revocation. lie then wrote me an official letter from Paris, the 15th Nov. IS2I. In which lie says, ‘l,llav:nr al ready apprised yon that the Government had revoked the tuft 'sowers by virtue of which I promised to apprOVe the de bentures stipulated in your contract with Mr; j, there is no more to say on the sobjeet. • Can any onewhititas ceased • to be invested swim a public function have any - Zenon to continue to exercise it ? Is there any doubt that every pea terior act is not only evidently null hat also criminal? This is oar of those truths which common sense is sufficient to appreciate at its proper value, notwithstanding your re roach me with the official promise which I medal° give my approval; but was thif a personal promise,•or was it a pro tn,me estimating from one who was then the Representative of the Government, anti who is .now no longer go. The public man erases to exist, and dies, politically, the moment when the supreme authority deprives him of the functions with which it has invested him : consequently you must act is your own affair with Mr. just as if I did not exist, or as you would do it if I had died of the illness I had just suffered. " Destined by oar Government to other functions, I only exist in a pollittel point of .s it* for the functions for which alone I am authorised." My correspondence with Mr. Zea.on this business termi nated with another official letter, which he wrote me, dated Perla. lath November MG, sayinga—lty the moil of this nay 1 send the following to the Gentlemen Of the Oommittee of the Creditors of Colombia inLondon : " Gentlemen—Whpu I was• invested with ful general powers from Colombia. 1 maim:nised von to oppose in my name the issuing of certain Bonds telth which Mr. Mendez was about to satisfy the contract with Mr. But the Government having, commissioned me for especial negocia lions of the greatest importance, with full special powers. instead of the general ones. I cannot interfere is the affairs of said Mr. Mendez ; I give you, therefore, notice to make any opposition in my name." In fulfilment of the before-mentioned coaract, I then gave the Debentures; and Messrs. 11* . frieg. Graham, and ARR. TH Peeples, in conformity with.. the foregoing letMv felon Mir. Zest to them, made no opposition. This letter, together with many other things, mold not 'be forgotten tit Hat Ilitee . et( treat;ng for the lean with MrAea. . The treat event/ Which have taken penes In Colombia Ake Mr. Zea led theleosititry—events, which have bad en essential indecnei on the ttoreerneistat, and which teem time to time have beeomide fines& tollie English ;retitle, ought to have mate those gentlethen roars that powere dated In Angustura the 94th of December Itilff, emanating from • Goieranient pro tempore, which entirely ceased to axial when In 1891 the permanent Government was ;established in Cucuta, with' anew Constitution, a new electiO of superior Chiefs and Authorities of the Republic, could not be valid in 4 11karch, 1629, All which was anterior to this new Govern ment, wmuirovisional, andsterminate& in 1891, rhea this became e4tabindietl k The fundementilleW Qf the Republic of Colombia was re ceived mid sanctioned et Cucuta the 12th July Ithet and its ratification published in the " Columbian Gazette," N 0.1., tfieZth September of that year. The Cot 'Mutton of the Republic of ColombliFirifianel Honed in Cucuta the 80th August 1821; this sanction was publishedie the " Colombian Gazette," No. 2, the 9th September One of the Atribuciones, which, by the 53th Article of it were given to the Congress, is that of con. trading debts upon the credit of the Republic of Colombia, and of establishlntimposts, duties and contributions. In the Said "Gazette," N 0.2; notice was given. that on the 7th September a new election of. President and Vice-President lied brew made; and on the 34 October following the new President aid VieesPrtesident toOk oath beforelhe Congress to obey the Constitution, and cause it tube obeyed in all , the Cotcunblan territory ; notice of this was given in the " Gazette" of Colombia, ND. 9, publiehed iA Casale the 4th of the said month of October. The list of all the laws which were sanctioeid•by this new General Congress was published the 14th of Oct. 1521, in the "Gazette" of Colombia, No. 19. Among all these laws there is not one which ratifies, or even mentions, those which were previously made by the Governments ad interim, which had preceded in the different parts of the country, which afterwards compoged the aetaal Republic of Colombia, excepting only the fundamental law of the Republica—that which assigns extraordinary recompense to the military, and ,that which relates to the emancipation of slaves ; upon which the provisional Congress of Augostera had legislated, and on which the general Congress of Colombia legislated afterwards in Cucuta, altering anti modifying these laws. In all the Colombian " Gazettes" the publication of all these occurrences was repeated, and the English and French newspapers mentioned at the time the most important events of that country front May till October Nil. The English public could not be ignorant of them, and much less the in dividuals who coctracted with Mr. Zea for the loan, and who in the bonds are called agents of the Government of Colombia. This is as evident, as It is, that in those hands the duties of Cuswm-house, both of importation and exportation. este- ' Wished in the new Tariff, approved by the new General Congress at Cucuta. the 93th Sept. 1821, and publiihed the I Stith of the same month :n the cadet "Colombmn Gazette" No. 8, that is to say, a month after the sanction of the afore mid Constitution, are mortgaged as a security for the pay ment of the Loan; it is, therefore, incontestible, from the last mentioned circumstance alone, that when the Loan was ' in treaty, it was known by the Contractors that e new Gene ral Congress was formed, and that there existed a new or der of things, fixed and permanent, instead of the provi sional ones established in Angostura, which only lasted un til the forMation of the new GeneralCougress at Cudata,aud of the new Constitufion sanctioned by the same. What, ver may have been the 'causes which may have indu-ed Mr. Zee and !hie Contractors of the Loan to eater into an operation with Powers which were nonisionsly invalid in Mach 1822, it Is not ray present object to inves tigate. nor judge of them : neither is It my purpose to exa mine and judge of the nature and terms of the Loan ; nor, lastly, to decide on the motives which caused the slam bonds to be certified in London by Messrs. Herring, Graham, and Poe les, under the same date of 13th of March, on which day they were signed in Paris by Mr. Zee. My object in the present Expose is only to record facts whirls are uotorions, and which are undeniable—facts which,. must base Necessarily been thought of when the - Lose-oer Intended, end which ought to have been very jest motives I r e.et making an improper use of my name, and muck more 'of the Government of Colombia, *tech I had thehitrioevef representing in London, even some time after the arrival of Mr. Zee, having previously ha I that of representing that of the former Government since CA year HOU, when the glo rious Revolution was effected in Venezuela. . I have the honour to be. Sir. Your most obedient humble Permit, LUIS I.OPEZ lIIENDEZ. No. B, Percy Street, Rathbone Place. HOUSE OP COMMONS, THURSDAY, FEB. 6. The SPEAKER came to the house at a quarter before four, and at four o'clock counted the members, when there not bring 40 present, he declared the house ad journed till to•morrow. (There were only 23 Members in sttendnnee.) MAILS. ...... DUE. •RR. I Dahlia - - 0 0 Holland - I 'Weterford 0 0 Hambro' O 0. & Jersey - 0 0 Franca O Lisbon 0 I Flanders - O Gettenburc - 0 0 Rr■z:l - PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank stock 9574 H India Stock . 23s 3 per Ct. Red .76: 4 i Ditto Bonds .. 3-5 s 38s . pm. 3 per Ct. Cons 75: f i : So.ith Sea Stock ... ...... 31 per Ct. B4ll ^ South Sea Old Ann. . . 4 per Cents New Fours 9. 4151 ; 10001. 4 6 per Ct. 1797... i NMI. 154 17s. pm. LongAnn....l9 11-16 13.16 1 Sinall 154 17s pm. Imp. 3 per Ct.... .. .. 751 I Con.for acct.. .. 75i 1 1 ,', 1 i Irish '6 per Cents. i LotteryTicketa .... 21/. 19s gite Sotateontan. LONDON: FRIDAY STIMINC"IreIIitUARY 7, 1823. nOrRBl e lN WAR. The News from Paris. The true news, not the lying Loudon news, is this ; that every thing is go• ing on as one would naturally expect after the de claration of the King of France ; that is to say, that every war-like measure, suited to the occasion, is in full and vigorous course. The Morning Chronicle of to-day tells its readers, that, doubtless, the Parlia mentary speeches of Tuesday had yet not reached France; and, of course, could not have made their impression. We can assure our readers that if those speeches and if the clamor of our press do produce any impresSion at all in France, it will be that of making the French government and people more decided in favour of war. —lf England were about to attack another power ; and if we were tohear that the French assemblies and the French press were most outrageous , ly abusing our government forfremeditating such an attack, ue ask•any inan of common sense whether we, Englishmen, and our government too, would not think such abuse, a strong presumptive proof that our going to war was a wise and proper thing. That which is good for England, is bad for trance. Let dreamers and Scotch " philosophers" say what they will, the conntries are natural rivals ; and rival is only another name for enemy. in another part of our paper will be found, in the French news, an ex ression made use of by M. de Vitlele in the Chamber of Peers, lle says, that not to sultlr the farnily of th ~,.~,.1 . ~~ 'ATESI thou tube shaken at Madrid esa ieslandporitlt nehiutereat. to think so too. Sllfirave alwito 'saicrio from the beginning. Wa save said that if were ministers of Prance, •we would utidertalso *4 iltiShnd a lotig war, too, to keep Spain as much in subjection to France as she formerly was.--W.e, as Englishmen, „wish to separate Spain from Prance, to be sure. We wish the Bourbons at the Devil, 'and wish to me France feeble and nahle.to annoy us; but we cannot be so bfflsotted to blame and abuse the Bourbons because they du not wish themselves at the Devil ; nor will we /Aube and abuse the French, .because they do not wish to be a poor feeble nation, and because they not appear to for get the rifling of. the Museums, the shooting of :liar liarNey, and the " hereditary cancer" of Napoleon. Infinite pains is taking by the trading press of London to make this deluded nation believe that the French people are hostile to this war. They never give us any proof of it.; and we believe the fact to be wholly false. In short, we know it to be false ; and, if they were disposed to be hostile to the war, the speeches of last Tuesday night, and the clamor that has since been made by this trading presss ; that is to say, if they could reach their cars, would have a strong ten dency to do away their hostility.—Those speeches and this clamour are subjects of ridicule in Paris at this moment. The railings of the stupid Old Times will be drawn out into epigrams be foie to-morrow night ; and, in short, a more complete triumph it is impossible for a nation to have than the French will now have over these speech-makers and clamorers.—The following words from the Morning Chr,niele of this morning, savours more of insanity than any thing that we have seen even in that paper since the commencement of the discussion relative to this war. The words are these: "if the French government and the French nation felt in the same mannar (that is, the same manner as the English do) " their pride might take the alarm at the severe moral " lessen read to them on Tuesday evening" ! Shock ing folly! We tell the Chronicle that the French will turn the whole thing into epigrams and Loa mot:. They will retort the severe moral lesson read to them upon Mr. BROUGHAM. There is no part of his moral lesson that they will not read back to him ; and, in short, we have been given to understand that the King of France himself me ins to write a letter to -Ur. Brougham next week in thesame manner that the imp Bohemia wrote a letter to Mr. Canning.---The Morning . Chto nick brings a heavy charge against niinisteril papers fur their conduct during this discussion about war or peace. It says, we have no hesitation to say, that, if Europe should be involved in war, the minis terial press of this country will have been, in a great measure, the cause of the calamity.—Calemity.' why, do not you tell ns that the war will over-set the Bour bons ; and do you not also tell us that you want to see the Bourbons over-set ; and, still , do you call it a calamity ? Now, we tell you that we wtsh Vie war' to ,take place; because we think that the war must, in one way or another, give a blow to Garton and Old Sarum; and that we do not care in what way the blow . .is given, so that it be given. We think that it will have a tendency to blow up the nefarious system that has taken the beer-barrel out of the house of the labour ing man, and that the County of Middlesex so justly reprobate in its excellent petition. But, as to the Mi nisterial news-papers. their conduct, as to this question has, as far as it has gone, been deserving of unqualified praise. If those papers had been listened to instead of you, those numerous families would not have been ruined by Spanish Bonds who have been ruined. Those papers are, doubtless, the mere tools of the others ; and it is impossible to say that the Ministers did not do every thing that they could do to caution the specula tors against this ruin which has now fallen upon them. They could not tell the people in so many words, " There will be War ;" but the constant tone of their papers was, (when thaw papers spoke at all upon the subject) that war would be the en-I. Then, as to saying that these papers encouraged the French Government to proceed. Is it nut next to impossible that they should have any influence at all upon the French Government? It may be very well for a Paris gossip: for a chuckling, chattering, dog-at a-fair fellow, constantly jigging himself back ward and forward between Paris and London in the summer, and as constantly plying between Brookes's and the House in the winter ; it may be very well for a man like this, who traces the great measures of great em pires to the Parilliun Marsen, and who thinks him self a Statesman because he knows the secrets of two or. three insignificant cabals may be very well for such a man as this to talk about the French unlit—. being put in motion by paragraphs in the Cou rier and the New T;mer ; but for any other hu man being to entertain such an idea was nut to be expected. One word to the holders of Spanish bonds. Let them be convinced that the " severe moral lesson of Tuesday," will not retard the march of one single French foot soldier's trail fur one single moment. She had all her duds packed up yes terday, and off she goes to-day, just the same us if Mr. Brougham had had the prudence to hold his tongue, and could have resisted the temptation of getting a full three flays of bellowing new-paper praise. Let the holders of Spanish bonds know and let them act accordingly. To lose what they have lust is quite suf ficient. It is contrary to common sense to believe that the French will not cross the Pyrenees; and, if they do that, the Spanish bond. are nut worth a single sixpence for a hundred pounds. STOCK E\ol Nag, HALF Pair T WEISZ O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 751 in consequence of the cap • from Paris, bringing the French funds considerably higher—S . 2 75. It is strongly reported that there will be soon a funding of Exchange hills in the new 4 per cents. This seems the more probable, as the new 4 per cents. are full one and a half per tent higher than they ought to be, as t•outpared wish the old 4 per cents.; and Exchequer bills are nearly twenty shillings per cent. premium. The cause of the rise of the French funds is r.ut as yes. ascertained. FORCION Fultag.--Spanish Bonds opened at Cfq though but little torsitiess is doing in the Foreign market. • Chili, 07—New Spanish, Prussia.7B —Old. 80 to Bl—Russia, is—Danish, fe—Colomblan, 42 Sittnlsh Scrip, 27. • . Paris papers fume been received to the sth itisc do i„.. la the Chamber of Peers on Monday hat, an address Was proposed, echoing the sentiments of the Royal .Speech, and breathing the sante spirit of hostility t o . 11te peace . of Europe and the independence of Spain,— ' Some Peers, however, had the courage and patriotism to expose the iniquity of the proposed war, and the perils with which it would be attended, and moved an amend ment corresponding to these views. Their opptivition had the effect of making Messrs. de Villele and Chi_ teruhriand throw off the moderation they had hitherto assumed, and to -declare "that France would act as France ought to . act; and that she would not lay down her arms till order was reatored in Spain." The tria jority, however, by which the amendment was rejoetrij did not exceed 37.; the number for •tlic Address hem/1 z 1 90, and for the amendment 53. 'The naval preparations in France, it appears, are keeping pace with the mili tary exertions. It is boastfully asserted that one ship cf 80 guns, two of 74, another of the line cut down, and three bigates with several corvettes are • lying at Brest ready far sea. This, from the levies of sailors meting, seems not the only armament conteinplated. The French Ambassador is stated to have left Madrid on the 29:h ult. and the Duke of San Lorene.) has received orders to quit Paris immediately. Up to the flue of these Papers the Ultra Journals were anticipating the, concurrence of the British Goverutuent thei r hostile views towards Spain. The Speech of the King to Parliament, and the sentiments of his Ministers expressed there, will occasion tlretu no agreeable surprise. FRBNCII FUNDS, Feb. 4.—Five per Cent. Consols opened at 80f. 90c. highest, Slf. closed at SOf. ;rte.-- Bank Stock, 1435 f. Neapolitan Five per Cents. GK; — Exchange on London, one month, 25f. Vic. three months 251. 10c. Accounts from Rayunne, received this morning, state that Bessieres has been defeated, and that great disorder prevails in the Army of the Faith. In all the principal towns the liveliest enthusiasm has been ex cited by the proceedings of the Cortes on the 9th and 10th ult. In case of war, 20 Spanish and English privateers are expected to sail from Cadiz and tar under the national flag. New York Papers arrived this morning (one day later) to the 3rd of Jan., from which we extract the following :•-• INTERESTING FROM Ilsvaxsa.--By the packet schooner Comet, arrived in five days from Havauna. (EKTRACT OP A LETTER, DEC. 15.) About a week ago, the citizens of this place were quite in alarm, occasioned by the elections. You must know, that there is a great party spirit rag:rig here; the Natives on the one side and the Europeans on the other. Every thing is now quiet, many are afraid' that serious results will follow. Err this, may reach you, various accounts of the late occurrences in this city must have come to your knowledge. However, for your own satisfaction, I will give you a brief ab stract of what has happened. There being two poli tical parties in this city, the election for Doputies to the Cortes and to this Provincial Deputation, brough t them in comas %ids each other at the places of eke_ tion in the different parishes. The natives were every where victotions„ both on account of their numbers and the accession of many Europeans, wbo sided with them, particularly so because two regiments, mostly Europeans, voted for them.—The op posite party, piqued at their • defeat, spread. the rumour among Europeans that the natives were going to massacre them and proclaim their indcpend , enre. Both terror and indignation petraded th r minds of the ignorant class of the Europeans, and they being almost all of them enlisted in the Militia,crqwd ed to their military posts, and is less data i hours about 3000 men were fully equipped and nosier saner raving for vengeance. On the night of the 6th of this month, a list was presented to the Governor, containing forty-six names of the pertona,said to have caused the riot by seditious cries, and k insniting the Militia, and a prompt and severe punishment was de ' nsanded. Br this time the natives had begun to lo.As for themselves and to provide means of support fur the Government, who were abandoned by that-A:Mary forre. On the evening of the 6th, peace and orsicr ; were again re-..tablislied. DELAT OF TUE INLAND MAILS.—.The arrival of the northern mails is still impeded by the tate of the ruads,K•hich are rendered nearly impassable by the fall of snow on the 2dinst. The following notiee recpeetin these m a ils was this day exhibited at the general Post Office POKT-OFPICK, I O'CLOCK, PIM %, 1823. No Mails have arrived from the North of Newcas tle. Every exertion.; is making to obtain them. The Mail from tilasgow could nut reach Carlile in time on the 3rd and 4th instant, and the Mails from Carlisle 10.. t 24 hours on Stainmore. The following are due this day:—Edinburgh road to Newcastle. of sth, 6th, and Oh hitt. ; 4 1 1 4 0 grow ditto to Carlisle, Gth and 7th; Portpatrick road, 7th : South Shields road, 7th ; Penrith road to White haven, 7th ; Whitby bags of 4th, sth, GA and 7th. Letters from list gnash to the 25th of December hart been recall el. They dr not confirm the statements made in previous letters of the existence of • strong revolutiou ary spirit in the island. Home popular tumults had attelitt• ed the elections of deputies for the Spanish Cones ; bet the returns had been made in the regular manner, and the cret• vescence had completely subsided. A report prevailed yesterday evening that the King's health was considerably worse: we are happy to state that the report is untrue. A gentleman who left Brigh ton yesterday afternoon, and who bad weans of know nit, assures us that his Majesty's general health is good ; but that he is suffering severely from gout in the libees and ancles.—Morming paper. - - - On Wednesday nig,ht. Mr Alarm the King's Mer senger, left the Foreign Downing•street, tlith despatches for oar Ambassadcr at Vienna. AsoTugs BAIT FOR A maw. RAT !—Mr. Jrkyll, on the first day of the present Fenn, resigned leis ot[c' I f Master in t,hancery, as a re , crn to the duties of it was considered as prejudicial to Its permanence of Lis late recovery. On the 16th Dec. a violent conflagration took place at Port au Prince, which • nn•nmed a great part of the :sity. Th e loss is estimated at five millions of p:astres. The &tintl re .eive whu is few di KEN The L accoun that B Cannir wa3 he regret him th Mr. 14 at the 1 ki.•on expreg politic: yirs, 1 feelii 1 Ice a receive of so ohjecti who is .gge.l M 'jest de it al of Tra c (Id Liv( (tettlini it heh: if 1 kn your it armlet: 41ff y iff think i you to to sum whom Cori DER 11 co OAK tan-9 CLAI 9 to V Dos agst N c.-101 COR Irian ing ; a and Hi ituotat aft I owing with NI Sur nornii a leogi Erica I ~••• • • p - 9 ""e-".." DUI. - - I x~