The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-13 00:00:00

[ABLE COLLECTION Oir PAINTIN I . III . TO B y SOLO WILL ST AUCTION, B Mr. lAMS, tiop Matt, Bartholomew-I.mm, To-Moa awe, ka 14th of March, at tea.ve o'clock, ;F: t4)lL'it; s l lON of PIC 1011 ES, of the Flendih, Dutch, a , d Ketlialc Schoolis. the Gentleman, sold to liquidate a debt. sad pal t ..ention co.nprising several fine Bpi-rim-us of ing M ix. :—Poussin, 1 2 : V retest, - Polest b rg, Rehires. de, Xeniers, Her- Berkheyde, Vandyke, Wouvermen.; Van.loyelde, Back/my ft, INtotck, De Heim. Wilson, Town, Ibtols in. dm, levied the day proredine, and morning of sate, nu had of Mr. Williams, Thropuorton-streel, oppo.e teflon t.lart. 11 AILS. fu o r. W 0 t ... by c. Min ..Holl a nd 0 nterfort!.....o I....Hembr o 0 & Jersey ....0 1 1.... France ...... 0 bon 0 0.... inen4ern . . • ....0 Atenburg. • —0 0.. • . hl am • F STOCKS THIS ,took Oted - ‘.741t1 741 - 74... An 93191, 931 17.7. Per et.,.. • **** per ce nts... * I -- _ DAY AT ONE O'CUICA. Indi• Stork . Ditto Bonds ..9. 21s 22s.par.. South Sea Stock tiouth Sea Old Ann. ti.z.llill.2d. ( s 101 11s pm. 1000/. -----51112.1 s 10s 1 Wpm. --I----Sruitli 10, Its pin Doo.for %net lii ...41 LottecyTieketa ....VA. BP. Zugs; *tatCOntalt. RSDAY EVENING, 31AltEl1 13, 1E023. PARLIAMENTARY 3MIII...NTABY. to House or Losoi there was some litt!e matter the Marriage Act; bat in the other place theist !ping at all done, there not being roily members .—Tbis is, we believe, what never happens, and )as happened, in any otherlegislAtive assembly in twit': in no assembly do these things Is; pen, es , that which borrowed so many hundreds in pa mney, and which passed . Peel's Bill to compel the `ed people to pay the Debt in gold. FRENCH NATIONAL GUARD. another part of oar paper will be found the letter ms. de Is Fayette, giving a sleuription of the cha , of the National Guard, which dtseription is truly insirable, The letter is a symptom of the state of , gs in France. That people is nut enslaved, amongst such a letter can be circulated through the pu blic e.rs. Find us a " gentleman opposite" in England to .blish such aietter as thls.The gentleman opposite, tow!. on will say, beable to write it first; and we, for ocr pavt4, should not know where to clap our finger directly upon a gentleman opposite.—'f he people of France a. e ;laves, as long as they have one single legislator the spirit of Manuel, er La Fayette. We think the Gauche do wrong in seceding. They must go again; and, perhaps. they have no more right secede than the others have to turn them out. twever, all that has taken place as to this Matter, sh. w the French have a• legislative assembly worthy of name ; it shows that the men composing this legis ;te are in earnest ; it shows that the best talk.tra on the tpporitlun side.cannot be bribed into silence; it shows t the thing is not a sham ; it shows that theenesob• rs not a set of scoundrels, sent together by bribed sil ts to aid a select set of villains in robbing and pinn ;log the nation at large.—lt would seem that the go vernment dare mot venture to punish the National (luard ! 'his alone is 'proof of the freedom of France. France is t when the Nation..! Guard can dare to act as it did, particularly wben the Government dare not punish it so acting. The officers of the National Guard ; that to say; the superior officer', seem very anxious to slur !matt. r over ; to snake the Nation believe that the re't the corps of National tiuurd , disapproves of the con set of those who refused to arre , t M. Mannel. This is poor trick. It is tioe trick of baffled tyranny, or what , oultt be tyranny if it could. This is a very glorious ircuntstance for France this conduct. we wean, of the ;ational Guard. Very different, inolt...d, would have heel) our opinion with regard to the state of France. if 'le National Guard were found ready to (obey the man fates of the ...linisters, ready to shed the la ,u 1 of wowea And children and unartsod men, and proud of rereiving se thanks of the Ministers ! We trust that this war, Ist ;hat else will be the consequence vi itosill not tend to en slave the people of France! There is the t rue hone of liber ty, alter all. There are the right notions respecting it, and there are the power and the courage to maiutain it. The thanks of the whole world are due to the French nat'on fur bringing the European despots upon their l:nees, duriug the glorious revolution, which Legs° in the year We hare to thank th em ; we, at,v," all men, h a te to ',hank them; fur, it was their bravery; their mottclolcs skill an! perseverance, that brought upon our pretty !Teti denten, who are su fond of i.?orou ill:, a debt of 71.19 wit lions, in addition to the two hordrell millions that their concern was saddled pith cetare. We shall always ..e.l giateful to the people of France. We er prfssed our ad sairation of their conduct, at a time when all others acre afraid to do it. We bole them be of goad cl.eer in 1.515 . while the pictures and statues were removing from 'brie galleries; and while such heaving was going on about having Conquered France; we bade them then be of good cheer, fur that many years would not pass over their heads before the occasion would offer for their taking ample revenge. Those )ears have already passed, it seems; bur, at any rate, our eternal thanks are due to the people of France for the 90P millions of debt which ti.is system has to pay. Reflections like there always crowd into our minds when we hear of any thing that seems to affect the liberty and happiness of the French people.-- The occurrences of which we have just spok en, convince us that France is by far the freest country that we know any thing at al l about ; and we arc very happy to pet ceive this proof of the fact. Act* the Frees in France. it is iulinitely better than oars. it ions some truth s toat j it. Ours is a base , b ribed, l y ing, cher:int!, stock-ob:lig thing ; an instrument in the bands who nee it for the purpose of d eludin g nrol c heat: rig f o ols; a disgrace Let to literature, and a curse to ti.e coo rtry at large. o ur press produce us a letter freolta‘grvalemaa opp 'site. espial to the letter of Mons. de Is Fayett a and then we the e s ay that the English press iv not. ltogether, most infamous thing that the w4;l' e r s,v. VALLTABLF TO At tire Auction 14.114 ACHOICE It dies, Fl property of a Go taken in . 'reel the rclinwing M recd. Alhvito, F ghoul, Cupp, Ito P. Laurie, lint Braughei, De II To ho viewed catalogues had site the Auction situ. , 1....D0b1in. I ....Wstert & Jet 1....1.15b0n 0....00tten 1 PRICE OF S Wank Stock .. S per Ct. Red. S p.Ct.Cons... 31 per Ct. ..• 4 per Cents New Fours... / ors Ct. 17. ' Long Ann. t Imp. 3 per et . Irish b per C. t n e t. MKS ti; PAP In the 11< about the 1 • was nothing s, no present.-1 a never has h ht the world : it, cfpt in tha me ose per money, ed. wretched es. ' teb In snot and of of Mons. or• racier of t by si c. admirable ere things in the whom sue mit Papers. from publish st • M t ' yon wills with h re- should ne 50 , such a go cold- to y not slave The with the tired c ot e G o trous thing back ag .tered to sece catty Moweve It up, . He that the erest the nan union lure are melt all •erit as opporil ' l °° lo e teat thi though ountry are not take it hint to W est del-ing .ut the hether vernme er, but This at light, free wi eetlng, saner; end P ll .in the fo r so . Its the ;1 .. 0 le to from • the ma end nli " of the that it duct o ag se- a poor would decor Natio at, con. been ( Iligeece the elates 1823. 6th of a nd . who re- toe t' to the what e town, s k ive leaving was not 1 al / he had there Primicos thanl , having brinf, 'll aban- the it , ant du• a s "'" e ppm,. than a maps shill ✓es. bad t h. ni , through .Felaria: ho ne bead of cone , t-i. The grat lated on m i n camp of and in atra entity of whi the &nag- gall nd. AI l ea , tristians, Olt encliec. e" e at ginner bra position, t om ..nteutarily set pet laid before SYS use. The tnt portion of aft stings nor Th reflation of us nt, we now an regmunts 47th Reed- cei ; the 656, i t 17th Light it. • e Money is th far surpass- io o years ago to 01 ties sound. ax deg—in the t 4 BOURBON WAR. it seems that the French are just about to enter Spain. The news from the latter country is not at all to be re lied on ; nor is there any thing of a definite character about it. That we shall remain at peace, steins evi. dent enough. The COURICR of last night blackguards the Spaniards: fairly blackguards them; does not talk of neutrality, even, but insists upon the necessity of putting an end to the revolution outright; and, really, we think it has some notion that the Government will take part in the war agai4st the Spaniards. It is im possible that the fellow who writes this paper should write it of big own hrud. However, we shall soon have ; or we ought soon to have, copies of the papers relating to the negociltions at Verona and at Paris. These pa pers will he worth reading. When we get them we shill see what our pretty gentlemen have been at. We shall ve,above all things, what sort of a shield they have been endeavouring to throw over the Peninsula. LORD MILTON. This Lord, this great reformer of Peterborough, has been figuring away at Huntingdon, and in moth about as foolish a manner as we have had an opportunity of observing in any one for a long time past. Burke called him the "Corinthian Pillar of Polished Society." This privilege, joined to his other privileges, emboldens him to talk nonsense at a great rate, and, as we shall hereafter are to show, for the amusement offlie peo , pie of the county of Huntingdon, this Ctirinthiiia Pillar, with Don Carlos by his side, did really utter more nonsense in one day, than, perhaps, any two other indi viduals ever uttered in their lives. A Lisbon Mail to th 27th arrived at a late hour this forenoon, and contain the following interesting intelli gence:— " LISBON, Fen. 27.—At an Extraordinary sitting of the Cortes, the President stated, that a Member of Jus tice was at the doer, who had a coratnlnication to make to the Cortes, in the name of his Majsety, at whose °thee a despatch had just been received, which did not contain agreeable news, and which his Majesty has ordered to be communicated to the Congress, that the Government may be authorised to act in such away as they shall think most proper. " The Conde de Aramante having traversed a great part of the province of Minho, and gone to Bruja and other places, at length went to Villa R •och on the 21st, and at the head of some militia and countrymen. Ile mounted his horse and cried out —4 Death to the Co,•stitutionalists; and then proposed to overthrow the Constituional System. In Oporto, where the utmost harmony prevailed, speedy precautions were taken, as soon as this was known, as well as in the Province of Miulto ; and the arrival of General Regothier was very fortunate. This is what his Majesty wishes to be made known." The Minister of State assured the Assembly that all was safe at Oporto, and the province of Minho was also protected by the arrival of General de Rego. The fort, s, in the same sitting, passed a decree, which Lis Majesty was expected to sign in a few hours, fur the removal out of the country of any person whose conduct was deemed dangerous to the public peace. Hamburg papers to the 4th inst. have arrived this warning, from which we extract the following : CJIRMIANA, FEB Majesty has ordered that all Swedish and Nor.vegian Veseels detected in the Slave Trade ehall forfeit the proteetion of the Swedish and Norwegian Government. By these papers we learn that the Police of St. Petersburg, and perhaps of the whole Empire, will shortly be arranged in a different manner bithevto carried on. These papersalso state . that her Royal iligliness the Hereditary Brand Duchess Alexandrine, was iafely delivered of a Prince, on the 23th tilt., and that expresses were that day sent off to the King of Prus. sia. and the Emperor of Biwa, to announce the happy event. Paris papers to the llth instant, have been received, but they are unusually barren. The adjournment of the Chamber of Deputies has closed, for a while, one of the thief sources of intelligence sod interest. The attention of the Parisians, however, is still alive to the conduct of Al. Manuel, anti Scrjeant Mercier. The (miner, has, be sides, been lately visited by a great number of young v, , ,deane, who " covered him," as it is said, " with smiths of interest and attachment," and thus displayed the sense which his constituents entertained of his beha ur. As to the latter, he had not yet been visited nith any punishment ; but the Colonel of the Legion to which he belongs had given provisional orders that he should not again be called upon active service. Al. La fayette, as wilisbe seen in another part of our paper, Las published a letter in one of the Journals, vin dicating the character of the National Guards from the charge of slavish devotedness to the Government, with which they had been complimented by one of their Colo nels, ard congratulating them on the spirit they have receetly displayed. The Duke Decazee has lately if-appeared in political circles, and at Court, and this titcumstance has excited much speculation in Paris. While the speculations in the capital preponderate is favour of peace, the preparations on the frontiers are as warlike as ever. At Havre de Grace, orders had been received torte:n(la twos and the cone:; I:nd ore Ftradron was on its way to Rochefort and an other was going to Cherbourg. These armaments create . a trar among the merchants that a rupture is apprehended st ith a natal power much more formidable than Spain, At Marseilles, the merchant ships that had been equipped tar distent toyagrs Lave been dismantled and had their cargoes disernharked. The long expected account of the opening of the Spanish Cortes had not reached the Paris paper:. As it has been due some days, it is supposed that the courier charged with it 'bas been intercepted by some of the Insurgents bands. INtrort of a Letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Mar srillr March 4.: " The Junon, French frigate of 44 guns, arrived here yerertlay from Toulon, for the purpo4e of convoying the French trade through the Straits, and sailed this morning with the following vessels, viz.:—Trois Cousins Jean Bipti*te, and Vietoire for Martinique; Minerve f or Ba yonne; Euzene for Brest; Aimable Adelaide for St. t'alery ; Achille fur Dunkirk ; and Neptune for Grande vine. THE stAtEENAN By an Express arrived this forenoon, at the East India House, intelligence has been received of the destruction of the city of Canton, by lire. More than 17,00 houses are computed to have been consumed ! STOCK EXCUANOEi i 1 o'CLocx.—Consols opened this morning at 74}1, with little business doing. Had it not been fora certain paragraph in a morning' paper, they would have been much lower ; as it is evident the appear ance of hostilities against Spain is more certain, than for some time past. We understand that twelve sail of the line, have been ordered iu COUMASSiOU immediately; four at Portsmouth, four at Plymouth, three at Chatham, and one at Sheerness. We are also informed that there is a treaty on foot between Spain and our Government to acknowledge the Inde pendence of South America. Should the Spanish Govern• ment give their consent, the South American Govern ment will make a stipulated treaty with England. An express has arrived from Paris early this morning, but the correct price of the foreign funds is not as yet ascertained. We understand that three hundred thousand Consols are to be delivered to-day, which is the cause of their maintain ing their price.—A private letter from Paris, received this morning, states that the cause of the French Funds rising, was the French Government Laving sent for their Exchange Agents, telling them if they did not keep up the Funds they would not employ them any longer. HAL, PAST TVIELTE O'CLOCK.—This 1!. tr k t appears heavy—Consols 744, selling. It is said that the French. Funds were 79. There was but one Express this morn ing from Paris. FOREIGN FUNDS.—Spanish Bonds opened this morn. ing at 300, 301 t, 291 i, which has been a fluctuation of one per Cent. this morning. Chili, 714 to 72—Now Spanish, 291-01 d. 39—New Prussian, 74-01(1 814—itussia, 73 to 4—CulthubiAuk, SU New Spanish Scrip, sq. Yesterday, the Spanish Minister transacted bum, at the Foreign Office. Tuesday night Mr. Jackson left the Foreign Office for Madrid. Mr. Secretary Canning it appears is still confined, not only to his room, but his bed. It is understood, how ever, that the Right lion. Gantleman was yesterday con sidered in an improving state, and that his Physicians have confident hopes of an early restoration of his health. It was yesterday afternoon confidently stated in the House of Lords, that a Government express had arrived, brineingintellieence from Paris of a very extensive com motion. It appears, however, not only that no such ex press was received, bother no intelligence whatever from France reached Government in the course of yesterday. A private letter from Paris, dated the 10th inst. con tains the following intelligence:— " The departure of the Duke d'Angonleme appears to be fixed for Saturday next. The last part of his baggage was sent off some days ago. Marshal Oudinot (Duke of Reggio) set off yesterday. " The Cote Gauche still hold out, and if they persist In their policy, the session is likely to be much shorter than it would have been. " The Fonds left off to-day at 79.3, exclusive of divi deed, for money—a fall of one and a half per cent. since ' Saturday." A private letter from Paris says :—" The English have taken the alarm—hundreds of post horses are daily or dered for the Calais road ; houses are given up, lodg ings abandoned, furniture sold for little or nothing, equipage after equipage driving in from the Smith." Menem, Feu. 19.--(Extract of a private tent-O.—The Diario de Governo of yesterday contains the following Proclamation : • " Brigadier-General John Carlos de Saldanba de Oli veira Daun having been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the forces both military and naval, now in, or here after to be stationed at Bahia, and not having complied with the orders issued to accompany the expeditionary tetra's that have just sailed for that destination, the King commands that the Military Governer of the Province of Estremsdura shall cause the immediate arrest of the said Brigadier-General Siblanha, and that he he tried by a Court-martial, for disobeying the said orders, the result of which has been the sailing of the expedition without their Comniander-in-Chief. " The requisite documents, in proof, with the names of the President and Members of the Court, shall be transmitted forthwith. " MANUEL GONCALVES DE 'MIRANDA, Secretary for the War Department. I, " Palace of Bemposts, Feb. 15, 1823." Yesterday the Duke of York received a visit from the Duchess of Gloucester. His Royal Highness walked out yesterday for the first time since his indisposition, at tended by Cul. Cooke. Tnesdav the Duke of York held his first Military Le vee since his long, and severe indisposition, at the Corn mander-in-Chiets Office, which was attended by the fol lowing Military Officers :—General Sir George Nugent, General N. Balfour, Marquess of Bondy, Lieut.-General Sir Wm, Clinton, Lieut .- General Sir John Vandeleur, Major-General Si r Byng, Major General Sir George Airey, Major-General Pigot, Major-General Turner, Major-General Blunt, and near thirty others. PLYMOUTH, MARCH B.—Lord Amherst and family, after enjoying the hospitalities of Saltram House, the seat of Earl Morley. since Sunday last, waiting a fair wind, proceeded on 'Thursday evening on board the Ja piter. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 11.—This morning orders were received here for the immediate equipment of the Queen Charlotte, 120 guns; Ramillies, 74 guns; and the Albion, 74 guns, the three guards ships. For a considerable time past these ships have had masts of inferior rates on board without any sails ; they are now to receive their proper masts, with bent sails, lee., and a complement of 300 men each; their present number of men is little better than 100. TERMINATION Or THE PER:MA KARS ELECTION.—Ex- NISKILLEN, Matto' B.—The Election has terminate.! . The majority for Lord Corry increased last night to about ISO. and Sir H. Brooke resigned this morning before the polling commenced, after a very severe contest. A dread ful affray occurred yesterday, when shine shots were fired out of a house, and several persons were seriously wounded; one of them, it is feared, cannot recover. Two men have also been found dead iu the snow from the effects of in tdaication, and lying exposed to the inclemency of the Weather ; with these exceptions, the election was con ducted throughout with good temper andpropriety " We are happy to nars,erstand that the duty on distilla tion is to be reduced to three shillings, and that the mode a f working is to be less restricted. This is un doubtedly the most effectual mode of attacking illegal distillation. It will at the same time cave us an honest market for our Barley, and increase the revenue off Go vertunent.-4/neernese Journal.) On Tuesday, 25th oft. Sir William C. Fairlie gave notice, drat on Tuesday, 4th inst., lie was to introduce bi t , Bill (before the House May last), regarding the relief to Scotch Entails. The heads ut this Bill are un derstood to allow perpetual feuing, and an extension of and other advantages to the incumbents , st eg t u t a itta lly ets. judicious as much called for. The Chancellor has, since 1819, called for this measure, which will, it is understood, have Ilioiaterial .upport.—(lGid.) EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Paris papers of Tuesday have at.* late hour arrived by Eapress, from which we extract the following : PARIS, MArwii I I.—" The Funds have experienced to day a fall of about '2 francs. This decline is attribieed to the certainty of now seeing the cotnmeneeweut of hos tilities. Marshal Oudinot basset Off to join the army. Many General Officers proceeded last night on the same route. " News from Madrid bas arrived, dated the 3d instant. At that time the new Ministers had been appointed by the King, hut bad not b co able to enter into office.—There was much agitation in the public mind, and private letters hint at facts which are too important to state till the arrival of the Journals confirms them." After the arrival of the French papers to-day, we un derstand Consols fell to 73k. The French Funds are stated to be 75. M. LAFAYETTE AND THE NATIONAL GUARD OF PARIS. TO TiiE EDITOR Of Tile COURIER FRANVIS. Paris, March 9. An order of the day, inserted in the Ahmitenr, and signed by the Colonel of the 4th Legion, Polisard Qu'atremere, affirms that the institution of the National Huard possesses a virtictilar character of unbounded de vo'ednees to the Government. I t:l),longs to a National Huard of 1789 to correct this assertion. The National Guard was instituted for the acquisition lino the maintenance of liberty, equality, and legal or der. After enabling the nation to farm a Government by its own choice, the Nutional Guard guaranteed the independence of France, as it would since have done, had the successive possessors of power in 1814 and Itils been willing to put their trust in an armed nation, and as it will, even now, 1 hope spontaneously, if the powers of l'ilnitz and Laybach again invade our territories. The natural enemy of despotism, aristocracy, and anarchy, the National Guard has defended the authori ties instituted by the nation, and has protected peruns, property, and opinions. Its nisi) was that the enemies isf the revolution should be twice vanquished by the en ergy and by the generosity of the French peoi I It would have had ..he honour of saving Louis XTI. had the faction of the privileged rosters, both externally and internally, permitted him to be once more saved by .• - - the p ttnots. One of the greatest pleasures I have experienced in the courseof my life, was the again finding, in the memora ble sitting of the 4th of March, the same sentiments which, in 1799, created a National Guard, which, in i 1790, confederated four millions of armed citizens, wiich have been manifest•d in different posterior cir cumstances, particularly in the two invasions of the ca pital, and to which the National Guard of 19'23 has, by the excellent conduct of M. Mercier and his worthy com rades, just given so honourable and patriotic a tes timony. Accept, Sir, the assurance of my most distinguished consideration. LAFAIP.T rE. The paragraph of "a certain morning paper" referred to by our Stock Exchange Reporter, is one that appeared in the Old Times. and is as follows :—A French Ultra of high rank, and in the service of the Royal Family, wrote to a British Nobleman to the following effect:— "Be assured we cannot go to war; it is impossible; " public opinion is every where against us. That unhap " py affair in the Chamber, out of which no one has " come with credit except MANCEL, has paralyzed us "all."—ln corroboration of this remark, wa ran stye, that a despatch has hems received from Sir CHARLES STUART, from which Mr. CANNING has drawn the in " ference, " that the counsels of the French Government " are of a mapensice nature." EMIT AND Wear INDIA SeGAIVI.—The following are stated to he the grounds of the opposition to ehe eqnsiliz ation of the duty on sugars from the East and West °dies. " All anger from the West Indies row pays a duty of 275. per cwt., a duty which, at the present prices, is much more than sugar can bear which sells at 551. to tale., and consequently the planters in all the West India Co lonies are reduced to a degree of distress bordering on ruin. But the finances of the Government cannot admit of the duty being lowered. " What do the Agents, Merchants, and Speculators to India, in their proposition of equalizing the duty, say, but this ? Takeoff the Protecting Duty, of Ills. per cwt. on all the sugar that we can purchase front the *wires of India, and import into this city, we shall be by so moth the gainers, and the Government only will be the loser. " Would this boon of Government (if they were in a si tuation to give up Ills. per cwt. on all the sugar import ed from India) he of the least relief to the natives of that country—the MO millions' Nut one shilling! The ad venturers would not give the natives one birthing per cwt. more than they now give; but they would pocket Ills. per cwt. more titan they now do, and the Govern ment would be »duns to that amount. " Let them continue to pay the 10s. Protecting Duty, if they bring their sugar heir; or, let them try another market. " The East India Company have little to do with the question; it rests with a few speculators, who wish to enrich themselves at the espence of the Doverament and the West Indies." --- Bute Nsws.—The ship F.rin, of New York, which was drove from her anchors out of our Bay, on the 31 instant, returned yesterday, after experieuring dreadful weather in the Channel for seven days ; her Captain having nufirtunately been on, shore when she was drove out, bur crew are quite exhausted, and are much indebt d to some of the Water Guard, and the. Captain and crew of his Illajesty's brig Hornet, Captain Higley, fur their kind assistance.—(Dublin Morning Pest, Mardi 1.1 ) The prohibitive system is at this moment agitating in the island of Jersey, where, on a small scale, the same arguments, interests, and passions, arc called intd action, which so much divide opinion in a larger one of Great Britain. It seems that an Act fur prohibiting the impor tation of French cattle, provisions, Sae. has been submit ted to the States of.lersey, which tun has very naturally alarmed the great number of British residents, whose chief inducement to settle there is cheapness and econo my. A meeting of t . • latter, in consequence, took place on the :Id inst. at tshieb, after hearing a copious Address from the Rev. Mr. Ilernby, the Chairintim, an appeal was unanimously voted to the Goveruor and States. Forty-one vessels fer the 871meries the ensuing season are preparing at I full, viz :—Eighteen for Ilavis' Strait•, and twenty-three for Greenland. The t ieere, Lee, sailed on Saturday morning for Greenland, being the first ship. INVERNESP, MARCH 7.—The South mail did not ar rive here on Wednesday until 8 o'clock in the evening, having been detained fur 12 hours at Qtteensferry on Monday night by a violent hurricane. The North mail is still several hours behind the regular time of arrival, in consequence of which the letters from time North must lie here unlit the dispatch of the South mail the follow. ing day. The irregular arrival of the mails this season is unprecedented in the recollection of the oldest per son living. The weather continues to be very woos ; yesterday morning there was a slight fall of !MOW. • -•:sl:llPy . l.piU INT.EII4UNSCA, • . , 13..s—Arrimi last pi;Lt au.l today, sailed • fur the River, .Ple. Latona. Troia 1./ • . merara ; the Harourry, Roherispn;frurn 14..eriffe; the Aurora, Norfer. from Certkieitm Scratis, fiL f r om Tenerife. Came trowufrour tie lii eight, the Canadian parkit, Ilsrvie. for Jamaica.. ind Merv.. Atkinson, for ditto ; and Wiest this . afitirisOpat with the whole of the out ward-hutin4..eicirpt . flisf Maiy, Burtor, fur Jamaica, which slip still's rernaine---tuel W.! .W. MANCII 12.--7Artired Wil son, from London, for Naples; th!,Suieess, irerstort, from Berhadoes; l iaised by the fiersi:itlibire. —Wind W. . , N 1 • ni .! • . rhiMol.l':ll, MARC!! 11.-1115 ajedi 44 . 0p,,juptter i , still rellliitih at anchor in the Soand. wilynit t •Ujut .for is shift of winds, Lord Amherst mut Swite,bolig it &B ram, the seat of the Earl Morley, ryAtly i rebeth.— Arrived, the Nelson, Fox, from Linde...NU' , r essismhuco ; and the Atlas, from Ditto, for India, witlr ;tr00pa.7.41,e -pain wind-bound, the Rambler. fur the Sootb.Seati the Nile. for Si. Domingo; tLe Reynolds, fort, ; the William and Henry, fair Grenada ; Kitty, for :Ter vita; the Vcrcury, for Faro; the Harmony. riße ; and the Barque, Charles, for St. 'flaomas's.-ZWind .S.W. Fatmorrit, Maim' ll.—Arrived, tie Tnetis, from London, for Malta; the A gyhoria, from Ditto, the.elx rence ; the Brother., from Ditto, to Rio Jinciro ; tiod the Lady . Areliella Packet, from Lisbon, smiled the .24 inst.—Put bark, the Sandwich racket, fur Jamaica, — Wind W. ToanAr, Mown I i. —Arrived, the Socks., WPhersnv. from Cowes, to Ceylon; and the grads. Reynold/. frina D:tto,"to therCepe, both'with troops. . His Majesty's ships, Gloucester, Commodore Sir EA ward Owen, Torte, Plccton, Bellette, Edeu, and Valor ous, arrived at Barhadoes on the 2J, 31, and 4:11 from Plymouth; the Forte sailed on the 6th for Antigen; the Valorous the same day to the Northward; the Eden on the 7th for Martinique; and the rest remained at Rah:Woes on the 13th ult. ORATORIO. Dr. Caoyca's splendid Orstori of Palestine was repeated on Wednesday night, and. according to the prospective lir rongement of these performances, for the last time. To those who have not heard it, and who desire, tither from personal taste. or from a more general and generous feel ing of national pride, to see the music of this country sin dicated from the slight and °speedos which have been cast upon it, such au arrangement will be unfortunate. Those who have heard it will have experienced a gratification of the highest order. It is altogether a work that does honour to the country which produced a PTRCELL and to ALINE, and that, in many respects, need not shrink from competi tion with the subiimest effusions that genius ever inspired. The cborusses are distinguished by an Imposing grandeur that seems continually rising above itself, and increasing. by the majesty in which it moves. Yet there is no crashing and clashing,—no " sound and fury signifying nothing ;"-- all is the pure, simple, and sublime fulness of harmony rolling and swelling as if directed by the immediate tows of inspiration. This is the triumph of tree learniug asd sci ence. Without them. genial; will strike off the outline bold'y and beantiNly : but in the filling up,- in the me chestiest completion of the work, her assist ints must be at hand, or she is au untractable jade. Dr. CROTCH has most happily seized the beauties and the Improvements—not the fripperies, of the modern foreign schools, and engrafted them upon the profoundness, not the pedantry. of our old. elaborate, and etfectire masters. HENRY PUNCELL was performing the same task, when he was snatched to the choir from which his genius seemed to have been derived; In the freedom and brilliancy of some of the airs, Dr. Catma , has particularly evinced this taste, whilst in others helms, perhaps, rather too much confined the subjects with - a ,view' to the effect of his accompaniment. The accompaniments throughout the Oratorio are otthe very finest description. and stand out in remarkable contrast to the feebleness or other Composers of the present day in that respect.--The principal singers, 11111111.111. M. NAPIO. Mrs. SALMON, Miss Tarn, &c. gave their fasest efforts to the piece. Previous to the Oratorio there was a kle:ectien from :leis and Galatea. in which Miss STEPHENS sang " Rush, ye pretty warbling Choir" with her usual excellence. Miss FOR or also gave " Let the briyht Seraphim," la a manner usost creditable to her talents and powers. Mr. PLAiT, a - new horn player, executed a Concerto with admirable skill. The house was very full. Mrs. Glossop (Miss Fraron) is engaged to sing at Naples at a salary of 30,000 francs a year. She made her first appearance on the Bth ult. at the Theatre of San Carlo, in Payese's Opera of Aruzinio, and was exceedingly welt received. In • recent French Paper it was mention , d that a Le vourite actor hod lately been killed at Berlin by a greed son of Prince BLUCHER. Private letters give a very con fused account of the affair. All that we can collect dia. tinctly is, that Count BLUCHER is, a young man about 21 years of age, ard that it was in the house of STIEII the actor that a scuffle took place, which ended in the Coent's stabbing him with a dirk, which he had under hiscloak. It is further said, that Sven returned hastily home from the Theatre, in consequence of receiving a letter advis ing him to do so, and that he fauns' the Count in the passage of his house, and immediately struck him seve ral blows. On the Count's being seized, it is added, a loaded pistol was found upon him besides the dirk. " lie was then taken," saysa letter of the 11th ult. "before the Commandant, who asked him why he had the dirk and pis.ol about him Ile answered very proudly, What would the world think, if they heard that, the grandson of Prince &mica could be maltreated, and suffer his insulter to eseipe With impunity?' He'was then asked fur whet purpose he was there ? He said he would answer that in the proper time and place. Mr. Sr. ED is not expected to live. ' BLUCHER has paid court nt Mrs. STI ru for this year past; she is a very handisone woman, 28 years of age." Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East Indialloose, when Capt. William Hay, of theship Charles Grant, took leave of the Court previous to departing fur China &vol. General Humbert, the French Officer who, at the rionz mencruient of the war landed iu Ireland, and who died, as we lately noticed, at New Orleans, emigrated to the United States in 101'4 and acted under 'General Jackson when New Orleans was atracked by a Britisti force. For the last five year*, his mind has been disur tiered, a deep melancholy preyed on his spirits, .and he died without leaving sufficient to defray the expences of his funeral. SPRING AND NEAT.—The long wisited,for and antiel. peted match between those heroes of the list for cAI enviable and honorary title of Champion of England Its as made last night; fifty sovereigns aside were deposited, to he ;heed in tar Isaiah of Mr. John Jackson. This -s a real made match betwren two Gentlemen amateurs, at instead of a tparley it must be a fighe e or a-forfeit. 'fee articles are,that the men agree, to fight .11' fair stand-en battle for two hundred sovereigns aline,, sln. the Tuesday in Whitsun-week, the Atli of May, ilea tweuty-four feet roped square. Umpires to be chms , n breach party, at..l .Mr. Jackson to name a referee in case of dispute, whine. voice will he final. Mr. Jack:son to name the place of fighting, which it is underseaod witl'be toaccommodate Londoners as well as Bristol miens. Betters were my, but an) thing like even is about the mark. On Tuesday se'unight the Caesarian operation sat performed on a woman teamed Ruse MtCoasill, in. see vicinity of Newry, by Surgeon lied, in the presence an 1 by tee advice of Hr. Morrison. The woman is doing as well as, from the nature of. the eirsitost.nces, coubi be expected. We undesitand that Dr. Morrison wean! to ; eve a detailed aecennt of this interesting case in one of the medics) publications.— (Telegraph ) i i i