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of • is PeWeird, be Thee‘Parts, *User pa rt to be lied ready, pewee. milk Bali6amMy half boatel, IE HOOK of TRA DES ; or, Lit wary of the Useful Arts ; in which every trade is illustrated with A to Engravings, rmil Its History, Utility, preen* State,' I eagle, sad Disadriutages, are folly sad accurately de l. steel for Tahart and Co. at the Junmeli one School Li- No in, New Bon‘sttect, 4041 to-be had of all Book , in wire and coeutr. day ill published, in Out V014111.1C, 00. t ts. 6d. wards, the Stood Edition, with ooaaidarabk additions I cderections, by the Rey. JAMES HEADRICK, ISTORY of the. ORKNEY ISLANDS, ll inelisding a View of the Manner; aid Customs of Ancient sad Modern Inhabitants.—Their !Monuments itiquity, their Natural History, or Mineral, Botanical, Whoa Predections.—The Prevent State of their Afri.4 ea, blanntactecies, Fisheries, and Commerce, and the is of their Improrrasest. With a Map of the Islands,. Views of remarkable Scenery. By the late Rev. Dr. BARRY, Minister of Shmpeniliay,- in Orkney. fisted for Lougutan, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Pater- THE PRINCE (IF ASTCRIAS. xninination of the Prince of Asturias, which : place before the Commission appointed to in s into the conspiracy. Four qr. estions were to him, which, with their answers, were to the• raving effect : Is it true that your Royal Highness has eunapired at the life of your Royal Father and king—A. I a* a dean; I fear God, and csunot but shudder at the men ohm accusation so humble. Such a thought never en- I ipy mind. %V hat use Aid you mean to make of the cyphers of ere , indence found in the Ituing of your east , —A. The ey e you speak of were found the find day I wore that Aksis. le who male the cost rashest answer your imastioa: For what purpose did your Royal a s tke,Faaperar Napoleon sal whit was the apeakaire ?•---A.l have hesitation in kept op correspondence . wide that mead I amtwased nothing prepfilintgl to the intern* of my try, aad aothirm that amid ke the dispassion of my J Rather the Kleg. Why did your Iluyal II order, and keep ready, beam % seder - tire • an inma te 16-41. It is tree the heemswere ordered to be ilk teadlu s wr bill tie ins urn dose with the intention of aes Ste* tat far Ore purpose of ;aiming the French y siterighbell intended to ma) karma to my. Royal Wei alnippy.sidiation to whihfi the tamely It re idAtellit *rely lad adoinlatratina sad &spode saes liatinstif %sea Ott is the account of the ezentisi..' Dismal in s privates letter fro" Spain. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE FRENCH Ragas. viewea, ntc. 3. Little attention seems now to be paid to politics this capital. The peaty of the Continent ap es to be settled for a long time, and the policy our Court is hailed with bleosings, fur baring de commeon awe with de' Cuetiment against tat We are sawed, that our Ambassador , Pridee ST eseosszec , is recalled. There has lately bean established a. number of w batteries for the protection of the Port of Test : a numerous train of artillery has been sent , us arsenals of the interior of Austria, and even ea this capital, for that destination. All the ists will likewise be furnished with canon, in ler to frustrate all attempts that may be made the Earish against ear maritime places; for is easy to foresee, that the British Cabinet must much incensed, at seeing out Court adopt the assures so imperiously prescribed by the interest the whole rouitnent, for at length putting an dto British despotism. We learn, besides, that e Archduke Charles has lately issued orders for inforcing the troops already stationed on the este. It his also been lately determined, that the Ain. an frontiers on the side of Turkey, shall be fur tired with a cordon of troops; and with that slew meal regiments are already proceeding to Hun iqt. and thence to Fonnia and Croatia. The marriage of the Emperor is now settled for' e oth of January, 1908, when the following re icings are ordered :—On the 6th, the day of the arriage, there will be a grand dinner at the Court, ml a gratuitous admiss;on to the Theatres—on the grand bell at Court, from seven till ten clock, and the Play-houses attain open gratis— % the eth, a hall at the Great Theatre, which is to e illuminated ; and tickets to be distributed for lmission—on the 9th, His Majesty will go incognito the Vienna Theatre — on the 10th, Sunday, a dilate. with tickets d admissiog—and on the 11th, ball will be given by Duke Albert, of SaireTesehen. • • DAMBaritait, DEC. 11. We team from Norway, that the Norwegian gars here taken and carried on the wrritern coast i English packet-boat, having on board a person r distinction. The Connell of War has ripened its sitting at Zetgen, for th! trial of Generals Peeinann, d, and Cicdtle. Mr. Gramm, the Danish snook who was put under arrest, and Hope, ie Merchant, and several of the Clerks of Corn emit! Houses at Copenhagen, are also lirought !fore the same tribunal. A correspondence has ken pare betweeit the King of Sweden and the seven Prince, sespectiug the arrest of the Swedish Owsul. VEYLCE, DEC. 10. During the stay of thlt" Emperor and King in Ili city, a Decree was issued, dated the 7th Do !miler, for the improvement of that city, more es wildly of its port, An Engineer in ehief is ap sinted to snperintend the works for repairing the )rt, and deranging the canals. The great arsenal to be enlarged and unproved, and a canal dug 46 et in depth, to communicate with the arsenal at [stammer), so HS to inake its passage accessible c ships of 74. Near Oils passage a tuition is to be side, capable of ,ontaiiiiiit; ships of 74. Ity.Tru‘tivoGH, ♦or. 11. Though the Eng'i•h have releused the Lubeck ma they had detained, our Government have just dered the vessels of that flag not to leave Cmoll. nit, for the Declaration of onr Conrt against manna may indure that power to take other steps Must the trade of the !fans Town.. MOM THE DUTCH PAPERS. COPIIN HAGEN. DEC. IS. Among the pr . z-s which our crnuet• are deify Nisi in, there envied one yesterday e% ening in arbour, o hieh has penis; oaed ant Crown Prince to perillinin a . gratftfill sal ens of the two prises kotelt, in by 'Sur ctuiser; the IStig. Padilla, had on board the English Arr honsodee birliekti k ow his return from Memel, where the King of Prussia this just tefused to re ceive him. As soon as the Crown Primer woo in- formed of this, he instantly ordered that a vessel should be prepared to convey JIM' Centleumn (whore holland** -;eentiuet during 'his' embassy justly gained him the esteem of the (:overnment and the public), with his sertunts, and of Irvin the prizeeship to the Swedish harbour of nelaiug borg. This was curried into etkit immediate!), and the Minister is already arrived there. The patriotic gifts and offerings for the laud service continue ; and a second Report of the.. Commission respecting Naval Affairs announces ; considershle contributions toward:: a new fleet.--1 Further, the magazines of corn and other pmvisioni handed in Zealand are sufficient to maintain that islaad more than two years. VIENW&, DEC. 16. On the 11th inst. the French gatru.sin of Bran nan marelasl out of the fortress, and possession was tinkers of it on the part of the Austrians. Yesterday, the Diet of I langary was to be dosed, yet it is thought that the sittings will Luntinue, some time longer ; but the Emperor is to return Si the ttlet inst. The Diet has deemed, iii support of the royal, finances, a grant of are per cent. on all income, and one per cent, on all immoveable property. There are Magnates in liunga.-y, who, in consequence of this new tax i will have to. pay :200,000 fl orins. Prince Esterlusgy wilt hare to pay upwards of double that sum. FRANKFORT, DF,I. 21. The Russian prisoners or war, who, through tilt generosity of the Emperor Napoleon, are 110 W re turning from France to their native country, have in part pivseil through our city. It has been oh served, that their'iendence in France has bad a beneficial effect upon the conduct of the 011icers towards those who are placed under their authority, which is much lees severe than it formerly was.— ' The well-known Russian joviality has been thus -increased, while military discipline does not seem to have suffered from One more Immune treatment. NVe hear the soldiers incessantly sin'ing their tuitional songs to the tambour. 'Me inhabitants,' in whose hoases they have been quarteved, speak favourably of their conduct. They are to march to the Russian frontier, not in the usual military route through Thuringen, but, more to the south, I through Franconia. DEC. ,2 3. Yesterday. M. Schwinine, Russian Serrctuire Interprete in the Foreign D, F atiment, passed through this city in his way to St. Petersburgh.— The Russian Admiral Siniavin had dispatched him from Lisbon on the 2tith of November, after that the fleet under his command, consisting of 13 ships of the line and 5 frigates, had entered the Tagus. Since, on the aoth of November, General JUIIOt entered Lisbon at the head of Juno troops, no means are wanting of effectually &feuding the town and harbour from all hostile Knacks, by oc cupying the batteries at the mouth of the Tagus. DORSTEX, DEC. 94. Yesterday *detachment of French custom-house officers (dowauiers) pursued their march from this place. They come from the left Bank of the Rhine, and are going to the Bank-. of the Elbe. For several weeks maull detachments are daily ' passing through this place on their return to Frauce. TRIIISTR. DEC. 3. Dining the last week a ship laden for Messina was set on fire, through the carelessness of a sailor. It had hemp, linen, and cloth on board, and also three barrel, of powder, which were increased by the public apprehension to thirty. In consequence of this, the greater number of people, fearing a ca lamity like that at Leyden, ran out of the town, and butt few persons ventured to attempt extin guishing the Hamm; happily some courageous sailors succeeded in throwing the powder over board, and sinking the vessel. FSOII TEE. FRONTIERS OF TIVIKEY. DEC. 3. If we may credit the reports from Servia, which, however, as experience has taught us, ;,re neither certain nor accurate, that country . will moil receive a fixed Constitution. It is announced from Bel grade, that the Counsellor of State Itodotinikin re ceived on the pith and 20111 of the last Month, two Couriers, with 'important-dispatches from the head quarters at Bucharest. It is even asserted, that one of these Couriers has brought the new consti tution of Setvia. In pursuance of this Constitu tion, the Assembly, hitherto known by the name of the " Synod of Sercians," is ni assume the title of Senate, and be transferred front Memendrin to Belgrade. On occasion of the turn which affairs are t Acing in Semi*, and the consequence which the Merriam General Czerni Georges will probably retain, the public papers mention the cause which first in dneed this brave man to put biinself at the head of his discontented countrymen. At the time when the mutinous Janissaries of Behrnide, by their acts of violence and murder, filled the whole district with despair, one of their troops entered the vil lage Renienika, in order to assassinate one of its richest inhabitants. This was George Petrowita, surnamed Csemi, or the Black. This since .so celebrated Servian, seeing his house etivimhed, rushed out, armed with a tirelock, a sabre. and two pistols. With the Brat shot he Levelled two of the Janissaries to the ground, with his sabre he dis patched several others. and succeeded in fighting her way to a neighbouring forest. lirre he was met by another fugitive,Stanoch Slavin+, famous for his extraordinary valour. Two or three hundred of the Christian inhabitants, who were roving the woods and forests, without any dwelling, collected around these two chieftains. A corps of on men, sent to disperse them, aims defeated and driven away by Crenii Georges, with only, on men, This first good fortune was the signal of an itiliverro: insurrection. The Servians made themselves masters of some pa/mikes, or intrenched places. The Turkish Generals who remained faithial to the Porte, se cretly aided the Merriam% furnishing them with ar tillery against the enrnmnit enemy, Paswan Oglou. Mcli was the origin of the Servian insurrection, ich has arisen to so nlariiiiiig an height in so short *time. 'zersii Georges is represented to be a very honest and brine man, yet void of military THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAL 7. The Anstrisn Messenger, the Count DE MIER: who arrived on Tuesday se'llitight in a Flag of Truce, with dispatches from the Austrian Minister at Paris, we understand, expected to receive his final instructions last night, and to set off this morning on his reran to that city The. Count DE MIER is Secretary to the Aus-1 trian Embassy at Paris, which is the point fro& which he s.arted, and to which he now returns. A Cabinet Council sat for a c'Onsidenible time on , Tuesday morning, at which those who think a ne gotiation is carrying on by England and France, through the medium of the Austrian Minister at Paris, will conclude the answer which the Count Da Mixt brings back was taken into consideration, and forms part of the dispatches with which he is charged. No newspaper is, we believe, competent to speak with confidence respecting the matter of the correspondence which has so long subsisted between the two countries by flags of truce ; but for our own part we are free to confess, that the more we con sider the subject, the more we are inclined to be lieve that the French Government would.uot have tolerated this correspondence, if it were not di rectly or indirectly interested in it. The eager ness and positiveness with which the Ministerial Prints oppose every such inference and suggestion, ought not in the lewd to influence public opinion on the question. They !wive repeatedly asserted, that the correspondence related to a request of leave for the Princess Svaltaamatao to come to Enttland, through France, an assertion stowed to be quite absurd and ridiculous. • TAe Bombay Courier of July t 5, 1807, say*— " A number of passengers from Tranquebar, lately prisoners of war at the Iri of France, have. Arrived at Bengal. When they left the Mauritius the island was suffering severely from the want of pro visions. The number of armed men upon the island did not exceed 12u0 ; of these three-fourths were disorderly undisciplined rabble ; the only re .gular troops being the Governor-General's body guard, represented as a very fine corps of men. but nut exceeding three sir 400. Front this at tuel state of the island, suffering under the calamities of famine, and destitute of the mews of defence, no period could be inure tivoumble than the pre sent for an enterprise against the colony, which would probably surrender to a British force, without firing a gun." We understand that Governinent has no idettof evacuating Sicily, and tic:. the present naval and military force upon that station is considered per fectly competent to its defence. From this, how ever, it does not necessarily follow, that, previous to the departure of General Mooac, there was a sit perneineniry force on that Island. The troops which have returned with him were not all station ed there, and fresh supplies have been sent from Malta to replace such of them a. have been with drawn from Sicily. We staki in a former Paper, that the return of this force required explana tion, and that a report prevailed, that it originated in mistake. A Ministerial Paper accounts for it in the following manner :—k says, , se When Sir Joey Moottc left Sicily, in October, the events which have happened in Portugal could not have been foreseen. Ile had a moat unusually long voyage to the Streights, and finding that the great purpobe of getting the Portuguese fleet out of the Tagus, was effected amicably before he arrived, what had he to do , being so far on his way, but to bring his little army back to England, to be employed as oceit.ion might require ? Whatever may be the service for which General SPP.MCF.R was destined, it is obvious that much time might have been lost, if we had trusted to orders reaching Sir Jona Moore, to the same effect ; not to mention the inconvenience of giving nothing but arritica in structions." We have received some more French and Dutch papers, but none of a later date than tto+e from wilmh we made extracts on Monday and yesterday, The Dutch papers state, Mr. Gaaticat, our late Millister to the Court of Copenhag ‘,. , and ‘O,O was removed f,ota that situation immediately be. fore the rupture with this country, was lately taken on board the Pasting, on his rettira to England, and carried into Copenhagen.-- The Cuowri PRINCE, as a mark of his persriad esteem, in consequence• of his conduct during hi s residence at the Danish Court, immediately set him at liberty, and sent him to lielsingborg, i ts Sweden, to enable him to take his passage home. Thus his natural greatness of mind appears in this instance to have triumphed over the re,entrnent eak tertained by the Caowx PRINCE against this coun try. Brannan has been, at length, resto.ed to Austria, which power is proceeding regularly in its pacific system. Except some details respectingtb, state of Aims in Serria, the Dutch papers orutAin nothing else ofany interest. • Au article from Vienna, in the Paris papers, states, that Austria has made common cause with Franca against us ; that she has at length discovered the necessity of putting an end to British despotism; and that her Ambassador has been recalled Irma the British Court. This is not new. It was long since announced in the Mweiteur, and noticed in this Paper. The Austrian Minister, however, still remains at our Court, and we have not yet he:•:d that he has demanded his pe*ports. The late meetings in Yorkshire and Lanca shire, in favour of peace, and these of a similar description to come, appear to have given some uneasiness to Ministers. Some time his elapsed since the Treasury Journals announced a meeting in the City of London, ibr the purpose of coun teracting these pacific movements ; but the City of London has not yet taken the hint. The City of Glasgow, under the auspices of Lord Mt Lvt t.t.r„ appears to understand these things better, as we find by the following Notice, which we have copied from the Glasgow Paper:— " is consequence of an aitydication from a esenblerabk num ber of respectable Geatleinen, I vegan* a Meeting of the Merchants aad Manufactories of We City, in the Town-ion. on Thursday-next, at one o'clock, p.w. for the repose of we/Sayre% We propriety of enamel* to His kleoely, et this important miser, their firm determination ,to seppikm, by every means Work power, hie jest vies awl Ass h ien:it% of the BOMA Reasthre, and et Visreeme the Se sow gratelme His Waiest en the vigeroos awl milireline dela duct which has bees porseedia Ns gesompiles Otis War, and upon the brilliant Voceemes WSW which time energetic tseueasea have so happily barn critened s • 1119tritirairdind Lis anon coatederacim which have berm lermad ageing us. " MACKEINIZIE, Lied Pitivost." Glasgow, Jan. a, woe." • Colonel 1 1 01‘Caint, of the East India C 6 IIIPO3'S service, has, %Akin these few slays, irrrived in town from India. He intended ro come over-laad, and was eliiirged with a mission to the King of Pinata, but on his arrival at Bagdat, he was stopped, and us formed that he could not proceed further. lifion inquiring the cause, he learned that the Persian camp, which Was honoured with the presence of the Pana,ts Nftsaacit, was in the neighbourhood. He observed, that it was a fortunate eireuinstanee, as he had business with His MAJESTY. He was then told that no foreigners could be received there, un less they had previously visited the. Persian capital, and brought certificates from it to entitle them to admission. To the Persian capital. Colonel M‘C Aan accordingly' went, and having there ex. plained the nature and. object of his usiesion, he returned to the Cauip, provided with the ne cessary passport., and obtained admission.—On his arrival, he learned that a French Embassy had been with the PiLSIAN MONARCH at the Camp, that he had concluded a peace with all his enemies, and entered into a strict and close alliance with France. Under these circumstances, lie was refused an audience in the moat positive terms, and returned to Bagdat without having accomplished the object of his mission; but there he was not suffered to stop, or to prosecute his journey from it by the usual way ; he was obliged to take a new route, and explore a new passage : He erinned the Caspian Sea, entered the territories of Rus sia, and came to England last from Sweden.— Having cleared Europe, a well-provided French army, this Gentleman thinks, might niarch to India, without encountering any extraordinary difficulty, except one desert, and this he conceives might be passed upon camels, in three or four days. This account has been communicated to us upon most respectable authority, but not having seen the Gentleman who has arrived from India, we cannot vouch for its correctness. If we attach much ina- portinice to it, it is because we feel st this moment a inure than ordinary anxiety for our possessions in India. A few years only have elapsed since ae were assured. that next to the conquest of England, Egypt said India were the primary objects of BONAPA RTlfl/ ambition ; that he thought l e nothing else by day, and dreamed only of them by night.. 'llstikstas the fruiting and the language of Lord ..%lELvist.l, when Mr. I):.:Nnat, a #.14t,.... man of great exp,r and whose opinion i weight with the pi French arms and these beloved obj increasing the fears We see BONAPART Austria, ititzsia, and tiuent of Europe at designs in India 31ilsn, a point frc to direct the operatic and hope grows 1 India is uow unacco yowl the reach of B moon ; and the T , attempt of the late 1 Egypt against him, levity as they wot cloud between Bow stars or the planets. We stated, yestc bad. returaed to Pal the alleied cause, I is, we fear, withou 'us Yesterday a Cm East-India House sett, Wilt WOW it Lord Keith, eens4 The Cuurt adjour► Admiral Clatinw he succeeded in th by Vice-Admiral the Ilan. Bear-Ad in command. General MTRAS understand that I practicability of s but whether such port of His MAJJ tend to know. It is wind that port, which forme the command of S damage, they will time. Th^ Au.tta,( t tto liataagate, w The Adelaide, c tptared oW Dovv. Last ai4ht, a non-re. tent Fr.* MFISOR 0:11111'S Heed i row-,t in~the best mean Nobleman. The in the city a Lii ve7 respectable resident Freemen sueoess. Private advices —" No arrival's fr for all veisek tna by fares, will, oi elowned, togetke rive in France wit the cargoes and structesit exami nal hoods are to IA French mannfaet The want of cf of sugar, utaterit every part of the 1 .yond doubt, whet fess it in the folio the 9th ntt.--“1 and no hope is 1 scene, and ill 1 *Anneal is set! in great requeet, A pver of yes received advice, _ PettNburgli, gland, and consegnence, off The following imported into L From thr 'reit trom Portuer From the Briti Thu amount w at ion of our real a tot:Hairy or ram for one of the u nufncture. The Right H morrow for pre Corporation of This ceremony ons o'clock, in occasion his Le eso present Sir Merchant Talks ship is a ntrmbe Last Wednew of the 7th infant mouth, from tl into Lewes Barr during the wine On Wednesd (entry marched i Portsmouth. The 51st and prefix' shortly 7 hill Barracks. . iS r u he ar m tiele fro fw has languished Elbe, arid the et hat rensaius for Slorist has shiN a:,I Ea , t. of La LA, a t irr. ,, pa 1 " 4,1 9 and her 4. Rtitie ports, eritcd tray el ~( w 00,14 in t li Crnit rise,'` , talents ;, it is said, 4hatic entinot even mite. inatlesii are rkihdhketed iirincitailly by Radii• littl a Ukitsisrin the Austrian service. k rrbt itte spited that fresh disturbances have: .tapiece iu Liirndtantinople. Nothing id yet known with certainti as to the nature or isdue of these rotnuits. - DEC. 4. The new Constitution of Servia seems in fact to be already estalAisl►ed, and is in part made known. The Semen Congress assembles daily, in order to consult upon the measures cud provisions which the execut►on of the new Constitution may . require.' Throughout all Servia, the ►nilitary conscription is to he introduced; every• one is to be a soldier, but they only who are in actual service, are to carry anus. The sale of houses and lands is to be made by fonnal instruments ; but foreigners cannot possess them. The territory of Servia is to he divided into td or 13 districts.