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iL, • thousand pounds, in order to preset him from racking the estate. The fact is, I can state on the nethotity of an acting petty, that a suitable sum as a consideration for surrendering the rewai•det of tile lease, was paid by the landlord to ►is tenant, the amount of Ike said sus having been determined by ih. Iverson who is agent for the landlord. This is • mode of p►oceeding, as it is well known, *seal and pettedly equitable. It is important to add, that Wanboroogh estate was selmeqaently let at en increased rent, which proses at ewes that t►e landlord (w►o ►as treated his vetussitie • moss Nadal wanner) was not injured by ihe transaction, and that M. Birlibeck's resolution to quit his fats did not arise from his peculiar situation. Ilia reel souse es a conviction, in which a great majority of mar most intelligent farmers participate, that the bemires straitly felt by the eiticulteral part of the community west render agriculture an unpro. decays employseet la titer,, and that these her. dens, arising its a great measure out of t►e political a itrusestauces of the country, ■te likely to be per. marmot. If those wbe think saw/earthly of M. Birkbeck will enquire in his late neighbourhood what was his character, they will final reason for altering their opinion. They mill bear that he was remarkable far a high muse of honour and for liberal and geneeraes cendect ; that es a kind neighbour and 11111/11.f he area tint surpassed; that he Leh his native land beloved; and that his departure free it wugeeetalty regretted. Tina motives of those who abase end calemuiate him are too obvious to moire comment. BAHL PRICHARD. 8r84.1, 908 h of 101► =with, ISIP. [yawl. Triebard, a bled, rrixertable Agricshonill Mole woe. Is, $ pried, Sauey, a limber of she &mail of Froark.—Estroft.l FRENGII PAPERS. PARTS. APRIL lb.—Yesterday, at goon. the Cum. mine, .f the Chamber of Peers, introduced by the Chancellor, had the honour to priest to his Majesty tbs Project of Law upon the establisheiest of lie ry Books in aid of the Public Debt, throughout the Departments as adopted by the Chamber of Depts. tie. no Tuesday. We are informed, by letters from Vicuna, that Prince Leopold of Sale-Coburg, widower of the Princess Charlotte of England, is shoot to reside in the capital of Austria. Yesterday, at one o'clock, the King presided at a Council of Ministers. _ French Fend,. April 14.—Fite per Cents. 671r.2.k. Dank Steck, 1510 f. CHAUBLR or DEPUTIES. Aran. 14. The Sitting began at .rte iehrek, whoa the NM!. verbal of lb. Day before was approved of. Matelots Dna°lles arid hi. de Some entered at the middle of the Sittig; het M. M. Cowin arid Guises, Commissioners of the Kiag, sae bads poems at its The Order of the Day called for the dim:stades of the Project of Law respectieg the Suppression of the Delitapeecies of the Press, sod the Provocation to Seditious, wins M. LAID& DI VILLBLDVIMOS spoke sitiest the proposed law. After this speaker had descended from the Whiter, the Patentees observed, that lii. Flitted, who had inscribed himself to support the law l was absent from indisposition, and therefore the pr ecedency was doe to M. Ripe.. there " He is 'lnset" was uttered by several of the Deputies. The PR 'Oldie the third of the speakere, who stand inscribed to advocate the Project of Law, to ascend the tribune. M. CIIAIMOSI Da SALTIMAC then stepped forth, end regretted that no penishmeirt was provided for of fence's against the Religion of the Stan. The re posed law, he observed, ran in the name of Levis, by the grace r f God, the oldest son of the Church; and yet no s i mpletons of attachment lethal establish inset were discove• able In it. BIDJAMIIII CoiutAwr spoke likewise Ia op position to the proposed law, bet on different groends. Jle approved the principle of the law, yet contended that it was susceptible of numerous amendments; end he reminded the Chamber that they would here after be responsible to the notion for the results of the present law. " If any man," said he, "be im. prisoned and reined in consequence of this law, it is ourselves who become the authors of his fate." He was followed by M. JACQUIDQT DI PAIIPC- Lwis; after which, the Paestuast felt it incumbent on himself to remind the Chamber, shut the inscribed list of speakers was neatly 'abseiled, sad, seeing that the Amendments were not reedy, he proposed that an adjournment should immediately take place. After some remarks from MM. lialltiNOT and Coustroissza, the discussion was adijoereed. BARIUM!, APRIL 7.—Sundt, the murderer of Kotzebue, was born is the town of Wonsiedel, and after receiving part of his education at Hatishou, went to t►e University of Tubingen. Ile served in a corps of velenteer chewers in the army of Mar shal Wrede, seiost Bonaparte. When peace was concluded, he went to Erlangen, to continue his studies. Ills conduct there was esemplary, bet his ideas were somewhat eztraysgent, with a tendency to mysticism. His dearest friend was drowned while bathing, end from that time ha became aureately melattcholy. Ile went to Jena in 11417, and assisted at the fete of Wartbourg ; a del:muslin which lends to ',plain his opinion'. Ile then retuned to Weasiedel, to be present at the marriage of his bro. the,. The death of one d his relations, by whom ha was brought op, added considerably to his melee. chip Shortly after this he went to Manheim. PARIS, Arair. 14.—Yesterday, after Mass, his Majesty received the Persian Ambamador. His Ezcellaary came to take leave of the King, and will set eat ea Saturday or Sunday for London. A house hes been taken for him in Charies.street, Berkeley. mew, mod the necessary preparations made for his reception. The Court of Assizes will give judgment on the 23d instant, in the case of General Serrazin, accused of bigamy. M. Berry'', jos. is to defend the ac cused, sad if Miss Hutchinson appears as a psrty, M. Caffinieres is to be her advocate. Cantill/n and lfarinet ) accused of an attempt to THE grAisEsmAr essassinate the Duke of WeMasten, were Intern,- pied ye.terilay by the Court of Assizes. His Escellency Coons Decries has bees seriously huliaposoil for some dots, *Melt prevailed Isis from trumactinglslets with the Kies. FR twaroeT. A ref L we may believe on* of the German Journals, several writers of that coun try, and even other penises who aro regarded as 'P erot settees et Resits, have received anonymous lel. tern, in 'thick they aro culled upon to cheers their system end conduct, and est to render themselves guilty of ..hat the writers of the letters all tresses towards Germany ; otherwise (say the writers) they most atitibete to themselves the melancholy revels of which they may become the victims. These la test, it is said, are all hies by this waifs of mystic trill Pt. Ce•-•• •" Gnd it our support. Viotti Tenfoinke." radon, the I of clear notions on ceitain lead ing pinta of polity and economy among the disposed of all tasks, is the most useful and most certain. Setting aside sophistication on. the one hand, 111111 heeled and ignorant misrepresentation osi the other, we think me perceive, that tech know. ledge is rapidly.pining groond ; and if Mere be one thing mote than anot►er, of which we are ambitioos, It Is that our very humble endeavours may be re- garded as Mein at its promotion." PRICE 1W STOCKS THIS DAY AT M.P. O'CLOCK. Hook Sock 3 prr Cwt. NR.! Mg pee Cm*. SM. 711 ledis Km& 96 Si l• - - - - S per Cent. 1;oner.lo nba I. per Cowl. 81 t mush for Arr. pee Cont. gni I.on Ana. 19 IS-1 • 19 : Erris,litter Bab 1 5 p. 01111.11.111 T At; STATICSMA N. LONDON • MONDAY. APRIL 19, 1819. It has glues vs pleasure to witness the pahletiem sod talent displayed in many of the Provincial Pipets of the kiegdev. It is manifest thet eloquence is spreading, and this is one of the most solid grounds 'eta which hope obey rest for a reformation in mere then one respect. Truth, sod the lore of liberty ars the sutural food of eloqeence, •hicb may be applied as well to writing es to spiking. It is a f We omen of the change we wish to see operated in the Gov/rosiest, to find that many of the wealthy in• habitants of the counties prodering Jeernsls finger. able to the stews of illehosest Reformer, tilting them into their reading while in tow■ ter the winter Moths. Among the Papers which have attracted our peel liar esteem, it would be an enpardonshle omission not to mention the Chester Guardian, from ego of the columns of which we extract, with equal free dour end satisfactiess, the following leg.— Although the *object matter is of a nature bat little qualified for declamation, o► an► embellish ment rhetoric can give it, yet is the logic and plain reason and letelligence it ys to its readers a subject of deserved praise, and an admirable literary libel epos the flimsy, flippant sophisms dealt out to suck readers of the generality of the London Prints. Whatever affects so reason, and has sot verisimili tude for its basis, can beat best bet 'taborets ver biage. The Editor of the Journal we have last al. laded to, bath', pleasantly spoken of the many pro. wises and equal number of failures of the BANK 10 peg their stoles in cash, metaphorically bolds up to view a bit of dirty rag. end then emphatically, with Ilawiet, exctaiats—'• Let Minister'', Committee-men, end Bank Directors point an inch thick, to this cam. plosion must they come at list.'" Ile then proceeds : " But tern we to another and • kindred subject, that of Tuition sod Revenue; we say kindred, for we are much mistaken, if, with • taxation op proachieg to three seme millions, the Bank can ever sufficiently compress its issues, to pay either in coin or in bullion.—The Courier has been (a vowing the political world this last week, with the yearly stale of income and charge up to the Sib inst. which we give a little transposed, for the sake of clearness, in this Paper. It will be teen, that, as compared with that of a similar statement of last year, it exhibits an improvement of needy two millions in fact, and three in point of hicreased Revenue. By re. guiding another comparison of excisable receipt for the two years, It will be found that a great part of this improvement is attributable to the increased duty on Malt ■nd Hops, which is simply accounted for by a year of great plenty, following ono of greet scarcity. This, however, according to the Courier, is a proof of forthcoming national felicity, in the face of the fact, that while the Reuses has increased, the charge has increased else ; that the receipt is still unequal to the expenditure; and that the Consolidated Fend is op. wards of tie millions is arrear. The folly sad Isis. lion of this Journal are, in truth, almost essesimil 'patio' of Imports and Exports, it exalts that they emoent 10 several 0111110011 MOM they daring the lost veer, while both the agricultural end mercantile classes ore sinking under the embarrassment created by that very fact. Need we allude to the operation of the salt cern importation on agriculture, at this very moment ; or the stagnation new •rising from glutted and overcharged markets to commerce and wsnefecture. In truth, the qeerterly chuckles of this „Teems' at the increase of the Revenge, with. oat ►eference either to charge or deficiency, ere be. coming almost too coutemptible and tidiceleus for remark : and we think, must seen begin to diagest the most servile of partisans. IVhat is to be said of three or fuer columns of Parliamentary debate on ono side of a skeet, in regard to ackuowledged o cergrown pauperism, t• Irish distress, and to egri cultural depression, followed by all serfs of con gratelation on national prosperity on the other.— This kind of froth sod gilding, which is despica ble at all time', *my admit of some defence with an enemy at the gates ; hot, in • season like the ;Resell!, it is esident that nothing can more tend to urea the country, than a sorted and accurate dilly. lion of facts among the active and enquiring por. tines of the community. Knowledge is parser says Lord BACON, we may add, that it ii also rec. It/gallon; and of all the steps to political acetic- TAH FUND!. It will bet sem tinitheStockscoollnon to fall. We ere pomaded that the perspicooos aye of the mdoeyed politician, draws some omens front • distance, as well es from affairs at home, which together ac count for the present gloominess of his complesioa. Whet lever and folchrum will ever aria raise this mighty weight of England's fate we know not ; tiara Mr. PITT'S oratory is nn more, and English credo. AV, is nearly osbaested. We extract the following from the Canada sad Nova Sepsis Paper•, received on saterday : `• You (U. C.), Fso.4s.—Mr. GOURLAT hie. ing been committed to jail, mutant to lb. provi sions of an Art of the 44th of the King. applied shortly after his committal for a Writ of Habeas Corpus; hoping, perhaps, that it would be refused his; bet it was granted, and by virtue of it he was broeght from Niagara to York, to lay his caebefo►e the Chief Jostler, wbo had lamed the Writ. That Magistrate basing decided that she order to Mr. GOURLAT to welt the province, and his imprison. l ama on refusal to do an, were strictly conformable to the Statute, he was remanded to prison et Nia gara. While Mr. Comma was at York he resided at Mr. POULIOT'S inn. " HALIFAX, MAIM 13.—A very neaserees and re opectable Meeting of the Inhabitants of ibis town was held at the Etching. Cole*Amuse on Saturday last, GtORGL: Gamic, F.q. is the Chair. It was re solved eaanimoasly, that the Legisistere be petition ed to authorise the establishment of a Reek In Hali fax : that 50,0001. be the capital, to be invested in the British Fends: that notes to the esnoeut of 150,0001. be isreed by the Bank : that the shares be 1001. each, and every Ere shares, according to a elanification, entitled to a vote: that the Beak be sethorised to pay notes presented, either in specie, provincial paper, or bills of rid:sage 0/1 London, at the curtest rate. A Committee was tehn eppoloted to prepare the Petition, and mks it to be presented to the Leeislatere. The Gentlemen present imme diately afterwards unanimously agreed to give to the doubloon the value of 41. end to the eeetreign the value of 11. 2s. sd. currency. The Mottles then ad journed. " A 13111 hes pined the Nen Seeds Rouse of Assembly to regulate marriage licences. According to Its provisions, any Clergyman of any religious persuasion is authorised to solemnise matrimony, if he has been chosen by his eengrepstioe sod regclarly ordained. Some of the Members objected to it on the ground that sects were multiplying se rapidly, and ordination obtained in so easy a manner, that they apprehended great mischief 'veld inerisably result. In the same Assembly there base been some debates en the increace of tasation—additional duties on goods imported by non-resident persons—on sales by auction—on brandy and gin, tobacco, wines, se perfine Boer, and piaster of Paris are proposed. " NLW Viva, Fre 13.—1 n 'looking the moralise of General A. T. Mason, by Mr. John MiGarty, the Georgetown Messenger states, that they fought with muskets at the distance of only twelve fed, and add lba aggravating circumsteoce, that they were not only related to each other, bet doubly related, they were catmint and brother s•imlato —the widow of General Meson the sitter of his murderer! The Editor severely censuses the persons acting is se conds, and closes his article with these remarks:— ' In short, there is bat one opinion, bet one senti--, must on Ow subject. The public marks with its in. Amities the conduct of all the perpetrators in thee act, which bas so outraged humanity, and which has ' Geed tech i stigma on the national character. This feeling is jolt, and it is necessary, if we do not wish to sink not oily ie the opinion .1 the world, bet, he fact, from a liberal and high-minded People, to brutal and ferocious barbarians.' "—(., uelocc Ga. :Me.) " One of the drollest acts of a leri.latire hotly recorded in the annals of Government is the fallow., ing Resolotion, passed by the House of aepresents- ' lives of Rhode !stood Wh , on the Gib of May, 1817, a gross limit was offered to the Chief Magistrate of this State by music LPICHIONI to the United States troops stationed in the buboes of Newport: Resolved, therefore, that a Committee' be appointed to investigate and report the Refs con vected with such Insult, in eider that such steps may be taken by this Gowan' Assembly as will elaineebe the honour and dignity of the State. "—(11e111faa Free Press, March 16.) "M Asoe.G r a tkAL Jecason.—This distlegeithed hero was honoured at Baltimore, on Monday last, with a greed military parade and peblk dleoef.- Asnoag the toasts we select the following, as baths a distinct bearing so the object of the Meetings— ." Geweral JAeason. who. like she Certkeeeeisa warder; posed the prohibited broads et Ho away se et.ne with hies sit Insist. and like HaaaraAL, eletaelaea M the field, demised to be resulted In theists's.. " After this toast win pronounced, Getters! JACILioN rose sod said, • What 1 hare dose, Sh, was for my wont ry. (:onsclosis that tun first object of my heart bar ever been to advance nor prosperity and happiness; to receive the approbation of Toy rel. low.ciiitens is to me a source of the higheßt golf. icstio•—it is the proudest reward of a sotdier. Not only my public act', but my private chancier, boy, Woo assailed. I tom been charged with personal mercenary views In occupying Florida. I stern to answer so degrading an micossiion. It is as base as It is absurd, and could only originate in bosoms ae sthete of every manly rinse. I have no fear bet ray notary will do se justice. I pow, Sir, beg leave to give yes— The Itib and 13sher Repiegther. IRI4, the any , e g, *meth Freese, detested she Compere.. or Fwar..te, ro.ll nadler the hrserd unease ef She as., •pangled banner, east baltmere m Iseendrar) Vit a 'DEAL. - .1 1 41ft147'E .1 • o NO., April 11 Oh, Mr. ST MINAS! WM think of travelling to this carted coontry t Wyse still wish to see Petit, listen only to my misfortunes. I went lint to the French Ambassador's for a passport, when I was told to " cull again to-morrow" between one sn,l three 4-1 did se, by calling at half.past one; theme', who signs 111p:inputs I roved was not there, and counted 33 persons, who were all waiting the snivel of this great man's great maw, or what we roll tal. gaily, the understrapper. his some is 11.--u (Mortar), and we all wished hire well ponded with the pestle for making as wait. I was tired, sod the porter told use, if I would tend a servant with my card the ant rimy, be would be sore to get my pass. port without trouble. I thanked him in the old English way by slipping • hill. into his hand, by way of joggles his memory, and weal to Ike Golde n . erns to take my piste ell the way to Porn, sabers the clerk attempted to do me, by asking four guineas instead of 31. les. (the fare from the W Well, I takes my place, bring cork-sure of my miss pent, bids adieu le all my loving friends, makes my will, lakes a letter of credit no Paris from Herrin', and sleeps quietly. Nest day, the great sad import. - ant day, I sends my honest footless, Jost. 1 ROT, for my passport, and goes to give a farewell look at the new bridges and Waterlne.plere, then in the hunger-ford, to est perhaps for the lost lime is. my lit. a hoe romp steak and oyver.s.ere; in comes Jellx sheet half•past firer—Master, they knows nothing of your passport. Off I lies (shoslils my chops watered for the steak which was just come in), to the Ambassador's: all was that, no ono to be footed. My place was lost, my steak cold, and I in despair, for my luggage was already gone; happily the Frenchman at the White Beer was not at all like his name (M A vote), sod he told me I should go another day. Nest day I went for my passport myself, •ad saw the haughty grandee —a, who played the same trick to the disgust and Inactive/lima of many Lariks and Gentlemen. whose valet he is unworthy to he. Brief ; I sot off to Dover ; we were to sap at Rochester, at an inn kept by one where there was nothing but cold meat that bail been anew times served, and obendance of ease.; liking "Tither, I went to a house directly opposite. and had a air, topper, served with civility ; In the morning wear. I • .I tIV...m. at Dover, when, for the Ent time, I rise the ocean, I entered on the an of wigwam", as yea shall hoar by neat post.—Yost friend, BULL. Tnt DOZE or ronk.—The J•rke of Ynnc is re. coveting very foot frme hrr Is., af riden tt n "i If i rhoess enehled i o SM., it In husirr.; I.e riga. his same with his left hind. Th. 13nil.lies of furter. day arra yesterdsy were as Winer : Woo%or Clole. Aril 17. " HU Revd 111libitess the Duke of YORK e . in re.• peer f0000rals1). •• P. 111ACGR6OOR. • • " 1A m0t... , fa-..... A, ..1 16. " Ah Rityal Highee•r the Hokie .4 Y nit& b r nos. festal,' dusky' the oight, a.ml iwtone •• r. The PRIECE REGTMT% cynimen.l.ll by the► 11011. CUAIILES PAGET, w• oil! hr r..dr fat the reception of his Royal Mahon. shoat the middle of oast month. It is cou6d►etly •ippetad that the REGENT will honors Cowes obit v, • ' his smog, it hen% the head.qoatters atter Ifscht Cl.h, of which his Royal Highness is patron.—( Hampshire Telegreph.) By on arrival frosts Au% C.y►s, intolli eeeee aim Voted tabs rotwieod, that Sic G. M'Garuoit's 'foo l ., had deserted him, owing to the want of foods for their sobiiitence. Oncte, Arum I7.—The !whet nr•w in the Roads Is to RoglawillestAraiteee cisn, and Cook, just fruited how Rome. A h ••ut seven P. M. yesterday we harl • sod,:en squall of wind from the West, minded with thunder Burl lightning. COURT REWCH, Aram 19. HUNT ;;;;I;; Quite. STODDAIT: &t.—The Court was again crowded le mess this day, in ezpectatien of this tii.l coming on; bet at the time we pot is Press the Coact was oceopied in a ease of divvied bankruptcy, that will take op nearly the whole of tio: day. Mr. BUNT left the Cruet about 12 o'clock. ADMIRALTY SMIORS.—This morning the Ad joernod Sessions of the Hier Court of Admiralty ro amed its Sittings in the Old lisiley, fnr the par polo of trying Bow Ilenry. alias Pock, Wells. champ ed with the murder of 'leafy Mottle, on the High Sews. At les o'clock the ILIDGE ADTOCATi, Mr. Jot- Ike BRIT, cod Mr. Justice BATLEY, took their sests, whets IM I'tisern•r, a tall, resprrtable looking man, was pot to the Her. The Mts. was shin opened by Mr.AuAstr ; Sir WILLIAM RoslllllloN stated the cis. eurnstanan, the p.rtical•rr of which bed not trans. I A ired wilco we went to press. At Lloyd's C. • e.boa;., WIMP the underwriters could at this serum ' scarcely subscribe all the polkiee presested to them, doriog those poi inds when trade was mall ) prooper..as, it now not onfreqaeotly hap. L I pees, that only one policy appears in the coarse of a 'TM Lon( !loom of the Cuarrm•house, too, which was saucily crowded while trade was active, is now, with the eacrption of the Clsrka, nearly as drafted, during office hour', as after these hoots haw closet:. _ _ On Saturday the dispatches way closed at the Fast iistilathnote, and deliteted to the Pursers of the hol low* ships, vic.:—Thiscscs Grenville, Captain W. bisootne and Commie, Captain J. BLANsIIARD, for Matirts and Bengal. A Monk at Rose, in the muss of esplorior the traces of one of the twelve Monasteries of Saint liana diet, has discovered a lap edifice, •Melt is suppo►ed to base been built by Nero. Ile has opened a length of 4flti feet. and fated 12 chambers ►quare sod cir. calor, brAtirs so ageedact el ttlid paces. I