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Columbine, Miss Barnett. Tomorrow, Dec Freisebutz, and the Pantomime. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. This Eyes:dog, MONDAY. Jan. 24. will IN performed HAMLET. Hamlet. Mr. C. Zemble: Claudine, Mr. Chapman: Horatio, Mr. Bennett First Grave-eager, Mr. Fawcett. Opheba, *se M. FM: Gsrtrade, Mrs. Fanelt. After which. HARLEQUIN AND THE DRAGON OF WANYLEY ; Or, MORE OF MORE HALL. Ha:lequin, Mr. EllAr ; Pan talmn. Mr. Darn's: Clown, Mr. J. S. Gri maldi. Columbine, Mt. Romer. To-morrow. As You Like It, and the Pantenuinw. T. Simian PllCis commenced publishing en Saturday roam ing at live o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, JANU•kt 94, MS. The Paris Papers of Friday anived last night. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged the day before in hear ing the reports of petitions, which, as it may naturally be supposed, were not a little various in their objects, and for the most part quite uninteresting to the English reader. Several of them prayed for indemnities on account of revo lutionary losses. It requires no depth of foresight to pre dict safely, that the French Government will have appeals enough of this sort, now that they have raised the ques tion. Some discussion took place on the subject of the decorations of St. Louis and the Legion of Honour. After the Chamber had herald the several arguments on the pro . piety of the proposed distinet:ons, the important subject was referred to the further consideration of the Ministers • f War and the Interior. A more interesting debate arose on a petition, requiring that certificates of marriage should be granted by the clergy. It was proposed to refer this petition to the Mi nisters of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice, but M. Ma- CHIN moved its rejection, in a Breech in which he strongly justified the existing legislation respecting marriage in France. Nobody replied to him, but his motion was lost by a considerable majority. The following are the most striking passages of his address to the Chamber:— Admission into society and admission into a religious com munion are two things perfectly distinct, and which cannot be con founded without great danger. It is not in the power of any one whatever to act in any manner that he should not be born citizen or siatject, and that he should not derive from the single fact of his bittb, the effects, the advantages, or the charges of civil society. Before being a Christian one must be born. It is impowible to be born without twine a subject of the State ; but it is possible to be a subject of the State without being a Christian. To cause admission faro civil society to depend upon :onion into a religious communion, is violence, is tyranny, is absurdity. " The inconvenience of the areisnt state of things is still more felt with regent to nierriagee. The Catholic religion admits of diepensations where the civil law refuses them. Since the alialitton of divorce, the civil law proclaims marriage to bra india. soluble, unless in the roe of the civil death of one of the parties. Time is another case upon v hick our new laws have kept silent, uhieh operates before the Church the dissolution of the marriage, ant which the modesty and humanity of the public have with wisdom omitted, in oor codes. • %Veil, gentlemen, suppose In a similar circumstance the Leclmiastical authority has pronounced Ile diesel:Mon of the marriage, and admitted the panics, or one of the parties, disjoined for ever, to contract by law another union, what will be their positien and that of their children, looking to Me civil effects ? (Emotion manifested in the Assembly.) •' Think an instant ow the necessity which will be immediately fait when you shall hare granttd the prayer of the petitioner, of Übe re-establishment of the special mclesiastical jurisdictions, and set all the inconveniences which wuuld result front their conflicts with the secular authority. Cast your eves upon other countries, *ed then tell me if you ought to repudiate laws, which, with re wet to the marriage contract, so advantageously distinguish you. Will you oppose to us the usages of I:nglaad, where for all proof is sometimes reedited the inscription of the marriage acts on the Kirk sheet of the family Bible—where sH these who do not sub. um to the ceremonies of the Anglican Church are excluded from the loans!) ree,.kters. IViii you prefer the Gretna-green marriages ? —Will von bz content with the four witnesses required in Russia ? In ell Levey', even wet* noveneet,-nreenevrir songht to avetini- Lite with a legislation which you show yourselves so desposed to re pediote." _ _ lie official part of the .lionacti- contains a Royal • Orclinaree, authorising a Company to erect a new bridge overthe Rhone, at Lyons, opposite the Place du Concert; Ai:an be called the Bridge of Charles X. The Company are to be indemnified by the privilege of levying, for ninety nine years, a toll, as flied by a tariff annexed to the ordi nar On Friday the annual service for his Majesty Locis XVI. was to be performed at 10 o'clock in the morning, in the Metropolitan Church. The Archbishop of Paula would officiate. The ttoik was not pnblishe.l on Saturday, the office being closed on Friday, on account of the solemnization of the aaniversaty of the death of L. NV I. Two Dutch Mails arrived yesterday, by which we have received Hamburgh Papers to IVcilticEday, and the Ifagtie Coarant of Fr day. If v:e may believe the latter, the French Government actually traditates !mother invasion of S. Domingo; but tie think the story is quite incre dible. The memory of LLet.i.r.c's expedition cannot so ttotnpletely Lave passed away : Svocantasm, JAW. 7. ilia Majesty has addressed a trieuago to tile Storages of Norway, is sdsich he provoke*. to alter the article* of the Constitution that vitiate to the Vicurop litoet is explained the thoughts tong enter tained by his Majesty, to call back his son to be near him. The fallowing are the proposed changes is the Constitution Sect. '1,4. The Prince, ur his eldcat son, can be Viceroy when they have utteined the age fixed for the majority of the King, The ace of Governor tau be given sea Norwegian as to a Swede. IN SATURDAY. Prke per Shave. 13 1171 B 2 95 83 87 18 14 16 29 28 29 21 SS 36 38 37 1120 39 40 37 18 110 113 105 11 91 9 1 1 1 15 7 2 2 II 31 3 3 D 18 19 2 1 1' f 23 21 Fel. Receipt 121 i White Receipt 2/ 2 f THE BRITISH PRESS. while the Viceroy, with the King's consent, is out of the kingdom. and consequently the senior Councillor presides in the Council of State. The sums allotted to the Viceroy shall be reduced. When the Kirg is present the functions of the Viceroy cease of course. If there is no Viceroy, but only a Governor, the same happens, as he is only first Member of the Council of State when the "King icon the st ot. (We must defer the Message till to-morrow, for want of I room.) ST. PETERSBURG/I, JAN. 5. The Emperor has given an extraordinary present of 50,000 rubles in silver to Count 51iloradowitsch, 51ilitary Governor of the capital. In order to encourage the private copper works, the projectors are relieved from the duty of three rubles for every pool of copper, which they have hitherto had to pay. HAMBURG'S. JAN. 15. The Berets MU List of this date gives the names of 1.19 ships which had sailed front Hamburgh since the 12th October, and arc still detained in the Elbe by contrary winds. haring suffered (with very few exceptions) more or less damage in the repeated storms. JANUARY 17. Six English parka boa's sailed yeterday, with eleven mails. from 7th Deamber to the 11th instant. Of the ships hitherto de tained in the Elbe. sixty-three sailed (chiefly for England) on the 15th and 16th.—IlomburgA Papers, Juts. IP, BRI:SSEI.S. J Alf . 17. A private letter from Paris. speaks of an intended expedition to St. Domingo. which is to sail in the month of May, under the command of General Desfournemix. This General was formerly Governor of the island of Guadaloupe, and has a command in St. Domingo.—Hapte Courant, Jan. 21. • EXCHANGES. HAMM:1011, JAW. 18.—On London, 3634. Two Months, 36 ST. P 222222 DROH, JAN. 4.—London, 927-32. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 2L—London, 39 8. Two Months, 19 8. •In another column we have given a long extract from the Austrian Observer, in which, as usual, all the suc cesses of the Greeks are reduced to nothing, and their this. sencioos magnified fifty-fold in importance. They must, indeed, be a wonderful people, to have sustained their inde pendence during the last four years, if all that this Aus trian Paper bath said of them were true; but we ought not to forget that the Editor of the Austrian Observer must publish not what he actually knows or feels, but what the censor of Prince MzrziaNteit will allow him to make known to the world. According to the statements in this paper, however, it dots not appear that the malcontents had been successful. The occupation of Tripolitza by Cozo coy acoxi rests on the authority of an unnamed naval officer, who gained the information we know not how. The rumour that the revokers were in league with the Turks is satis factorily confirmed. As to the strange story of the Hydriots and Spczziota threatening the Moreots with the landing of' the Turks, if the Government was not obeyed, there can be no doubt that the whole is a mere fabrication. The Austrian Observer says, with affected simplicity, "We have not seen the proclamation." No, nor any body else ; the paper saves its veracity by not. even affirming that it believes any proclamation of the kind was ever in existence. But if the Greeks suffer from disunion, the condition of the Turks is not much better in that respect. It is mani fest that OMER VAIONI is suspected, and not unjustly. The .4&o:riats Observer says of him, " If the Poarx can get him out of Albania it will be a great advantage to it." An article in the Constilutionnel of Friday, dated Corfu, 17th December, after some remarks on the arrival of Ifaumoun Paola, the grandson of the renowned At; I PACIIA, at Vasilica, concludes with the following para graph "Omer Vrione knows well that the Porte only wishes to draw him into the interior of the empire to destroy him with the greater ease ; tut so far from surrendering himself, he will defend himself in Albania, where he reckons numerous partisans. Mah mood Pucka, who, on his side, has in the country a considerable party, that of his grandfather, will not fail to meet him. Behold. then, the war of Ali Paella renewed: it is the most advantageous circumstance that could happen for the Greeks. The moat pro bahle supposition in this case is, that Omer Vrione should join with the Greeks, in surrendering to them the places of Arta, Preens, and Souli, on the conditions upon which that alliance had begun to be negociated some time ago." We have received Sierra Leone Gazettes to the 25th of September inclusive. The last number is occupied with refuting what it terms the " infamous falsehood," of the Times, respecting the origin and causes of the late Ashantee war. The following paragraph is all these Gazettes contain of news:— " That the Fiances hare suffered tire/Wildly, is true. Such a deliverance from such a yoke could not be obtained without much suffering; but we have every reason to believe they hay: accom plished their object. The Ashantees have retired for a season, and, from what we learn, there is no disposition on their part to renew the contest. We believe, if left undisturbed in Ashantee proper, they will be content to leave Fantee undisturbed. They have stir fered dreadfully, and have not been able to bring back a single Pantee state to subjection. if, are happy to say, the tens of thou sands who are to die of starvation, exist only in the visionary minds of men who bring themselves into notice by tales of wonder anti of woe. The supplies so promptly sent from this by the Colonial Government and Commissariat, afforded full subsistence to those who were driven under the protection of the Fort. The Ashantces were beat, ar.d retreated in time to allow corn to be planted; and the country to the eastward, towards Annarnaboe and Accra, was never invaded by the Ashantees. The independence of lantee, if secured, as we believe it to be, has been cheaply pur chased by all their sufferings." The last Irish Pspers have brought us news deeply to be regretted. The London Hibernian Free School at Bilbao, in the county of Limerick, has been wantonly destroyed by incendiaries. This is the manifestation of an evil spirit, which can only produce great mischief to Ireland, and will, we fear, seriously retard the progress of improvement in that unfortunate country. Among a people ignorant and superstitious, like the bulk of the Irish peasantry, it was hardly to be expected that all the excitement they have lately received from their boisterous and miserably short sighted leaders, could fail to produce some pernicious ex cesses. No man who has attended to the mode in which they have been addressed, and the sort of instruction that has been disseminated amongst them, could view without apprehension the effects of the tuition they have lately ex perienced; but the sincere friends of Ireland hoped, though the aspect of public feeling was angry and threatening, that at least the knowledge of the certain injury that would Mutt to the erase of the Catholics froarany outrage otrthe persons or property of the Protestants, would have res trained even the most mischievously-disposed from provok ing the hostility of the people of Great Britain. We have not been unmindful of the sedulous manner in which the Irish Catholics have from time to time been told of the physical power and local advantages they possess, nor of what has been insidiously said of the probability of their revolt in case of a war between this country and those who arc united with them " by a community of religion ;" but we confess we did think that the fervent declarations of their orators as to the utter hopelessness of any attempt to separate the islands would, however feebly and imper fectly stated, have kept the population in a state of present tranquillity. We now begin lobe afraid that the circulation of the infamous libels on the Reformation, and the inflam matory speeches delivered in the Catholic Association, have raised a sensation, which, if it be not timely suppressed, will be e•etinguishable only in blood. Let us consider the act to which we refer, in all its characteristics. What is it but the outbursting of a bigoted hatred of l'rotestantism, and an end2avour, by the bands of obscure incendiaries, to accom plish by stealth, what, under other circumstances, the same feelings would have attempted by an open array of force ? Ireland has yet to enjoy the substantial blessings of ci vilization. All the efforts to give education, and spread' knowledge amongst her people, havebeen rendered abortive by the Catholic Priesthood, who have, perhaps justly, considered them as tending directly to the subversion of their influence. Since the general peace has enabled the Government to turn its views more particularly to internal objects, it■ attention lurs been, in a peculiar degree, fixed upon the condition of Ireland, and the world knows that many measures of amelioration had been introduced, and that more are in contemplation. Greater benefits than any in the power of Government may, however, be derived to Ireland from the diffusion of English wealth over her surface, and the consequent employment of the poor. But before this direction can be given to out capi tal, it is essential not only that property should he actu ally safe at the present moment, but that all the imme diate causes of irritation for the future should be removed, and the public peace securely and permanently established. It will not be enough that the law should remove the " matter of sedition," unless the leaders of party also re solve to allay the violence of feeling they have produced. If they will net do so, or if, from experience; it be judged unwise to leave in their hands any longer a power they have so much abused, it must be taken from them. At all events, the peace of the country must be preserved: its real welfare must be promoted, at whatever cod. The appearance of Mr. KICAN, this evening, in the character of Richard, was announced to the audience, at ' the conclusion of the opera on Saturday, atnidat a conflict of approving and dissentient voices. That the house will be crowded to the very corners there is no doubt, because a contest sf any Lind, Whetaer In the arena of Tuthill-fields !or the theatre, has always ample attractions for a certain class of spectator!. For them an O.P. exhibition, what ever bs the cause that gives birth to it, has a charm irre sistible. As far as persons of this description ars con cerned, it is a matter of taste; the rational part of tit. public are interested in it only as an affair of justice. The Times has attacked this Intended re-appearance of Mr. lic•N in a straits of declamation, as ludicrous as it is outrageous. It is pleased to pronounce, in its de votional zeal for delicacy, that " his immediate appear ance is as great an outrage to decency as if he were to walk naked the streets at mid-day." Now this, as an allusion, is very impure, and as a comparison it is very preposterous. What analogy can any man of common sense discover between the two cases? The English public have sense enough to distinguish right from wrong, without the aid of illustration, and the Times may safely leave Mr. Ka•N in their hands ; but this neutrality would sot answer its purpose. The mock-heroic zeal for the fate of our morals which, in the present instance, this journal so vehemently displays, is at bottom neither more nor less than rank party-spirit. The Times has always lent itself strongly to the interests of Nlscassny, and endeavoured to elevate' him above KEAN, and the late trial hissing excited, and very properly, a strong feeling of moral disapprobation against the latter, this journal, under the pretext of sup porting the cause of morals and religion, are endeavouring to drive him from the stage, that their hero may be left without a rival. It is as well that the rause of its in flammatory attack on Mr. KE•N, for resuming his thea trical engagements, should be traced to its true cause, as numbers might be drawn in to become the agents of a factious party spirit, by being made to fancy that, in adopting its enmity, they ars " doing the state much We have already remarked, in our Paper of Saturday, that Mr. Key's profession as an actor does not neces sarily make him amenable for any act of moral misconduct in private life, to that piddle punishment which the Times, and some other Journals which have followed in its wake, would insist that he ought to stiffer, viz. the being driven from the stage. Nothing but the secret purpose to be for warded by it, could account for the attempt to spread abroad a principle so pregnant in its consequences with every sort of injustice. Our abhorrence of the crime is one thing; the measure of punishment to be dealt ont to the offender is another. If Alderman Cox had taken proper care of his wife, or his wife had taken proper care of Aerial, he might have kept his front without antlers, and she her reputation without stain. The Alderman, perhaps, demurred, and with reesan, to the maxim of law that, QCOD TACIT per edison, TACIT per se, and it ought certainly to be taken with exceptions ; he accordingly sought for damages in the Court of King's Bench for the injury which he con sidered himself to have sustained, and the Jury—consider ing, probably, that a man who sufft rs himself to be cheated before his face, is half an accessary—awarded him eight hundred pounds; this, with eight hundred pounds, if not more, of costs, is, under the circumstances, no light punish ment. But with the more or the less we have nothing to do ; the question is, has the theatrical public a right to call him again into judgment, and to conspire against his return to the stage? We contend that it has no such right. Let the audience on his appearatice receive him tit sue N es, instead of the resounding acclamations of' his ac customed welcome; in so doing, they would convey a se vere, but, at the same time, a most manly and deserved token of their displeasure. _lifer this, no applause that might in the course of the evening be given to King Richard, could be mistaken as intended for Mr. Kz•x. It is this misconception which the reflective part of the public must deem it most desirable to guard against ; and this marked discrimination would avoid it. Vice, certainly, ought to be justified nowhere. Any sen timent which countenances it ought less to be tolerated oa the stage titan anywhere ; and it is against such sentiments, whenever they occur, that au audience ought to point their •-repeuf t anti, 4o she swedit-of NS-English awelienee, (her rarely, if ever, fail to do so. But be known little of the world, who does not foresee the mass of mischief that would arise were this censorial power extended from the scenic language of Me actor to the private life of the man. An inquisition would grow out of it, which, in a free country, could not be borne with ; we should usurp an authority fraught with the worst evils of oppression. The managei of a theatre, for instance, has at all times an immense capital embarked in any en gagement made with a celebrated performer. Ate we justi fied in visiting the moral offence of the one upon the other, and involving both in ruin ? •Is an opera to be lost through the delinquency of a first-rate singer ; or a panto mime to be laid aside by the dissipation of the Harlequin ? The common affairs of life could not go on upon such a principle. It is mere extensively pernicious in its application than many of us at first sight conceive. Let us carry its operation into great manufacturing concerns ; what would become of them did a power csist anywhere of weeding them from all workmen of immoral character ? We all know that the best of them arc often the most profligate, but no one ever thinks for a moment of turning the Society pr the Suppression of rice in among them, and compelling the manufacturers to refuge all employment to those whose private life was reproachable. There is too much good sense in the English public to allow them to set an ex ample, either in the theatre or elsewhere, of a proceeding so unauthorised and sa uncalled-for. The principles of public liberty are interwoven inseparably with those of moral justice, and we can ill afford, in this age, to sacrifice either to the intrictues of an Alderinan's wife. FRANCE. trilow oru coattEsroximur.l PAR IP, JAV:IO. Some Journals have stated, that the two projects of law s recently laid before the Chamber of Deputies, are about to be withdrawn: others, on the contrary, say that the Minis try have /Treed to the amendments which have been made by the Committee in the project respecting the indemnity, which wiil replier it infinitely more favourable to the emi grants. These rumours, however, have as yet no founda tion. The Ministry having succeeded in obtaining the appointment of ■ Minihterial Committee, the Report, of course, will be according to their wishes, and the principal amendments will be moved in the course of the public debates of the Chamber. The Report of the Committee of Inquiry concerning the proceedings of OUVIRARD will shortly be published. When M. DAM!, who was appointed Reporter of the Committee, laid his Report before his colleagues, they were quite alarmed at the disgracefulness of the facts contained in this scandalous exposure. They suggested that it would perhaps be dangerous that such transactions should be made public. M. D.sau insisted, that, in appointing a Committee of Inquiry, the object of the Government was to arrive at a knowledge of the truth, and therefore that, in diniztlising it, the Members of the Committee would betray the trust reposed in them, and violate the duty they owed to their own consciences. No reply could be offered to this language; but still it was thought Convenient, before the Report was sent to press, to show it to the Daunt's, in order that he might be made acquainted with its contents. In consequence of this resolution M. DAse waited on the PUINL and informed him that the Report contained facts so disgraceful, yet supported by proofs so overwhelm ing, that, before it was sent to press, the Committee deemed it their duty to acquaint his Rorst. HIGHNESS, in cyder that his sentiments might be made known on the subject. The Parses replied, that the Government had resolved to know the truth, and therefore that the Committee were Found to state it. Ac to himself, he wished it to be pub lished without the suppression of a single fact. M. Dasu insinuated, in a low tone, and with much address, that the whole truth, as developed in the Report, would place in a very unfavourable light some individuals attached to his person, and specially honoured with his confidence; he even went so far as to name the Duke de Gutene. "If my confidence has been betrayed," said the Daerittit, " I am sorry for those who have abused it; but I cannot prevent the truth from being made known, nor hinder you from discharging the duty confided to you." After this interview the Report was sort to the press, but it is still doubtful whether private influence may not cause it to undergo some mcdifications. The late Ordinance, fixing sixty years as the age, and thirty years as the period of active service, to en title the persons under Government to the pensions of their respective stations, has produced the greatest discon tent, as it leaves every public servant entirely at the mercy of the Minister, who may dismiss him at any moment at his pleasure, and without explanation, although he may have served nine-and-twenty years with fidelity, and suf fered a yearly deduction of five per cent. from his salary. In this case his widow and orphans would be left without any provision. While the French and Spanish Government affect so much surprise and discontent at the policy of the British Cabinet in acknowledging the independence of the new States in South America, one would suppose they had both forgotten the active part they took in encou raging the revolt of North America—the former at a less of many thousands of her bravest troops, and a debt of fifteen hundred millions ; nor ought we to forget with what ea gerness the latter Power hastened to acknowledge the independence of the British Colonies. Bo• it is evident to all Europe that England has acted quite a different part in respect to South America ; she made every exertion in her power to induce Spain to set the example of recognizing the independence of her Colonies, and candidly declared that her own decision would depend on circumstances con nected with her general policy and the prosperity of the British nation. Experience has proved, that the inde pendence of the English Colonies on the Continent of America has not been productive of any prejudice either to the commerce or shipping of Great Britain. The English nre still connected with the Americans by the strongest ties—the same tongue and the same habits are summon to both nations, and the same blood flows in their veins. This example should have served as a lesson to Spain, and shown the policy of granting what it was folly to refuse. Another letter we bare received from Paris, dated the Stith instant, gives the following account of what has passed in the Committee on the prejtet of indemnity to the emigrants:— " It is evident that the greatest diversity of opinion pre vails in the Chamber. The principle of ineleinnity, the right of the emigrant to ask it, meet with little objection among the Deputies; but as soon as the question is, what means shall be employed to apply the principle? all the opi nions differ ; it would be impossible to find ten Members of the Chamber who entirely agree. This divergence of opinion has been sensibly manifested in the Committee which is to examine the project arid make its report to the Chamber. Nevertheless, amendments have been proposed and discussed, and clic majority has provisionally adopted some which entirely change the Ministerial project. The Committee, being composed of determined Ministerialists, has thought proper to inform M. Da Vit.tats of the mo difications which it intended to propose. Three of its members have waited on the President of the Council, via. Messrs. PARDasyra, CARDOWNEL, and a third whose name isnot mentioned. They were received with a coolness - that 'petrified [Lein, and wadi limy snake them alter their opinions. The Minister told them that he was not to trouble himself with w:sat passed in the Committee, that it was perfectly free to make the proposals which it thought fit. He refused to enter into a discussion of any of the amend ments mentioned to him as being to be presented to the Chamber ; in a word, he seemed determined to abide by the project as it is drawn up, without any alteration." Ilia Majesty received a visit on Saturday. at Carlton Palace, from his royal sister, the Princess Sophia. The Duke of l'oric returned to his residence in the Stable yard, St. James's, at an early hour yesterday morning. The Duke and Durhess of Cambridge and family are expected in England the ensuing spring. The l)uchecs of Kent and PrilIC:111 Pealore attended di vine service at the Royal German Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. The Lord Chancellor had an audience of his Majesty yesterday. Mr. Secretary Canning left town on Saturday for Comte Wood, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Liverpool. Mr. Secretary Peel came to town on Saturday morning, from the seat of the Countess of Bridgwater. at Asiiridge, Hertfords.hire, and transacted business on Saturday at the Home Office. Mr. Dawson, Under Secretary of Stare for the Home Department, arrived in town on &Our-113y morning, from Drayton Ptak, Staff,rdshire, the residence of his father in-law, Sir Robert Peel, and also uausacted business at the Home Office. _ _ _ _ Mr. Stratford Canning, Ambassador from England to the Court of Russia, set out from Vienna, on the 7th of this month, to repair to his post at St. Pctersburgh. Sir Charles liagot, Ambassador from his Britannic Ma jesty to the Court of the Netherlands, has delivered his credentials to the King in a private audience. FRENCH PAPERS. [From the Journal des Debris of Friday.] Aaeosta, JAW. IL The'Fourth Report, relative to the eniony of the poor. estsblila e g at Fredcrick's.gabe. in our neighbourhood. has &preen(' ; it is die first of the sort established in Germany. This report cobAram the principle already acknowledged in the Low Countries relativ e k , a similar establishment. that when a country any waste !ands k is the best means of providing for the existence of the poor. Th e wool which the sheep of the colony have furnished in the ccuno of the last mi., and from which they have wrought and produri-d several hundred ells of cloth, have been distributed to them c eo clothes and littl-linen. The produce of the gardens has been N u siderable, and has fed the whole of the inhabitants, who arnoum 103, all in a ems: state of health. Their cattle amount to twe nty . i n n h f o n Tletts e schw an i d a r e. g on oa e ts. cows T . h nn in e y lr i d ch red ad an re t n l se rec ve ei n v ty e i s n b a r t e m p e , t erze [From the Courrkr Fr auntie of Friday.l ManniD, JAW. 10. For enteral days past a rertain agreement has been net t ,d between our Government and that of Unmet ; it is not so benf ou the Spouish.people and their allies. The French have at pers on against them all the servile and monastic population, which e,„ pose* the great majority of the people. It is a melancholy circum stance to have spent such immense sums, to have shown so lasi, generosity, and not to hare found more friends. Ail that we no r say is however the exact tru th . The celebrated surgeon, Castello, whose political opinions lure drawn upon him so much persecution. and who has recently eseama being exiled, now possesses all his Majesty's confidence. lan, first surgeon to the King, and personal enemy of M. Castello, held, a few days since, by the order and in the presence of de Moranb, a cor.sullarion with the latter, on the treatment p ro p er to be followed to relieve her Majesty of the gout under *hie!' de suffers. The twodocfors did not agree in their advice, but the Kicg approved of M. Castello, who was. from that moment, charger with the treatment of her Majesty ; it is thought that he will etas obtain the post of first surgeon to the Kirg. PARIS, JAR.* The presentation of the Preld de Lai on theindemnity has est only given birth toe crowd if new writings ; it kat also ttvived eV ones, which it was difficult to remember, and which, in the palie interest, might havebeen left in the dust where they were forgettrt ; but it belongs to the Law of Indemnity to rouse recollection' which the be, evolent action of time had almost effaced. Mt advocate named Falconnet published, in 11.114, a " Letter to the in which he pretended to demonstrate the nullity of the sales of the national domains, and the necessity of diapossenise the actual proprietors of those estates. The son-in.law of Out advocate, Al. Delarue, has found that the " Letter to the Kit.r has at present an interest arising from the circumstances of no times, and he has just reprinted it, with the addition of long commentaries. It appears that the police has judged in the some manner as Delarue on the opportunity of that publicatza, fur it has permitted its announcement to be placarded in all de streets. That we may ourselves appreciate the opportunity, so open the book at hazard, and there read the following passage : • The estates called national are then those of the clergy. I cold not forbear, in returning to what I have said on that subject,te. pealing to tr.yaelf—these estates, consecrated to the Divinity, Lid been put under the special protection of the Kings. Successor of Sr. Louis, when the all-powerful band of OM replan you, aa by miracle. on the throne of your fathers, will you withdraw yoits, and leave impious traffickers, without probity or religion, in pane ful enjoyment of those holy peeressions committed to the !mantic:. ship of your predecessors, to defend them against all invasion r" It is said that among the petitions which hare been reported a. day to the House of Peers, is that in favour of the exiles of Mart. rico. It is added, that this petition has given rise to a discusutx as animated as it is interesting. DUTCH PAPERS. Daussit.s. Jay. ?O. This morning sec tencc was proncunred on the loupper.dog cause of M. Triest, who was tried for usury and swindling t hers condemned to a fine of 25,000 florins to the public exchequer, acd 5,000 flotins damages to the son of AI. de Pellenburg, lately de ceased, and to two years' imprisonment. Don Francisco de Ferrari y Santo Cruz, Consul of his Ciao lir Majesty at .Marseilles, and coming torts Paris, arrived bus yesterday. He is said to be entrusted slth a mission to osu 08. veronica. The day before yesterday, the birth-day of her Imperial High ness the Princess of Orar.ge was celebrated with the usual sole*. nitics ; in the evening there was • grand fete at Court; wothieg Was wanting, on this festive occasion, but the happiness of mite the King. Ilia Majesty still keeps in his own apartments: boa ter, the inconvenience which he cuff - els is only local, and has* much diminished that he has been able to receive Sir Charles Begot. FRAYETORT, JAW. 16. Four Russian Cabinet Messengers for diferent Courts, and ■ English cabinet bletatenger going to St. Petersburgh, panel through Berlin on the 11th . Baron Vinitz Berberich, Director oi the principal Post-office, has given public notice that measures have been taken to accelerate the pests in such a manner that the mails Nom Germany, Switzerland, and all France, will gals a whole day. Nt RENBUIG, JAW. 11. Notwithstanding the termination of the dif!rrences between the Porte and Russia, and the evacuation of dfoldavia and Wallachia, announced at Constantinople, a letter from St. Petersborgh says, that there will not be, for the present, any change in the secoi.d Russian Army, a division of which is in Bessarabia. and that it will be maintained till further orders, on the war establishment. It is thought, indeed, that the troops composing this army will not return to the interior of the empire till the Porte shall have consented to indemnify the Cabinet of Sr. Peteraburgh for the great expenses to which it has been put during the last two years, in subsisting the armies stationed on the right bank of the Danube, and tan the Pruth. SACRILEGE. The project of law now before the French Chambers, respecting the punishment of sacrilege, has lately been di, cussed by the Paris Journalists. The Courrier Fraarun, on this subject, has the following article : Do people at present pretend to be ignorant, that, according to the laws of the Church, true sacrilege is the usurpation or action:- t ton of goods belonging to the Clergy ? Is it no longer remembered that the victorious Charles Martel, who delivered }ranee, and per haps Europe, from the invasion of the Saracens, is devoted to eta nal damnation because he sold the goods of the Church, which he seized to supply the necessities of the State ? This thundering sea tenee was not pronouoczd by a few ignorant or superstitious monks : it was the Clergy of France, solemnly assembled in national council, in 1158, who dared to announce it to a King of the race of Charlemagne — to Louis the Germanic. "It is , " said he, " because Prince Charles, father of Kirg Pepin, was the first of all the Kings and Princes of France to alienate and divide the riches of churches, and for that cans* only, is he eternally damned ? The body and soul of him, who sha I have taken or divided the effects of the Church shall be ea. posed, even before the end of the world, to everlasting torrec,o br the sentence of ibe saints who will judge with the Lord." 1 he sacrilege will accumulate even with the punishment of its ialit sirs—with the pins of all those who believed they redeems themselves by endowing, with their wealth, holy places fee tht love of God. Pepin assembled a synod at Septime, at which Saint Boniface presided. We have the acts of that synod, which en. deavoured to restore to the churches all that had been wrerattel from them ; and as Pepin was not able to repay till, on account of the wara, he mortgaged them at least to the bishops, being willin; that these estates should pay them the quit-rents and tithe.. Ln that each house should pay twelve deniers to the Church, that n might remain a beneficial arrangement until those estates shoo: return to it. Extract of a letter dated Naples, Jan. 9 :—" .4 new ship of the line was launched to-day. Thus our navy continua to increase, and will soon be able to oppose, with advan• tage, the audacious pirates' of Africa, who now insult and molest us. 'lbis new vessel, called the Vesuvius, will soon make them feel the superiority of its fire. 'The Ani trian army does not tct leave us entirely. It appears that it will not depart till the military capitulaticns between our Government and the Swiss Cantors shall have beta carried into effect. We are indebted to the stay of thee: troops in the kingdom for an excellent police, and for the completing of the magnificent road of l'ausilippo. Our famous Lazzaroni have been spectators of their labours, and have taken much interest in them." Litters froM Kingston, Jamaica, dated early in Decem ber, state, that it is in contemplation, on the part of the plantecs, to petition the British Parliament for a comps cation in money, on account of the losses sustained by the late insurrections of the negroes. We are assured, on good authority, that no dissolution cf Parliament will take place; but that it will be suffered to run out its full length. Various circumstances appear to U 8 to favour the opinion that there will be no dissolution. — Dublin Morning Post. The report mentioned in some of the papers, of Mr. Goulburn being about to retire from his high office, is dei t i Lute of the slightest foundatiou.—Saersikes s News Lear-. The Duchess of Ormonde has withdrawn her usual annual bounty from the neighbourhood of Castlecomir, on account of the collection of the Catholic Rent there. Tut: EARL OF (7LANIICARDE:This nobleman liss joined the Association. sending the contribution of le, The letter of Mr. T. Gisborne Burke, enclosing this mini on behalf of his Lordship, is said to be a very remarkable documeitt.—Dublim Paper. The Rev. C. C. Colton is now in Paris. When he left England he went to Ilamburgh, and front thence to tine United Statcs. Ile has only lately rimmed to Paris. This is the gentleman who was supposed to have been murdend by Tburte! and his accomplices. al sAcT tOW. altie : rain dr aortal ne Thu sts yawn. sad cares c cenvey I quested frr ssd the u t hey bounc tory neer pdts, in th of bei Soon aft, ouncell i:; 10 men cu MI any 01 Nov. 17 uatear !rllll. Chen ihil ircaclia at totemic ) neuce opt mite with neat at N S.) A mi which Pan up Napoli command, bands. 11 Colocotron nil to ei rited at C. Only int Corfu. It xen able `tared a la tt the Pe eat hail a trounta at The Fl I , ghi, of tad taken savant tge that trunst wine Arat vans. o Turkish ti enadron I have tome Romania s reSCC, to rhich had dectiona. 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