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SOUTII• AMERICA. Yesterday tv,: received -Buenos Ayres Papers to the 4 . . h of December. Thoy contain a great deal of authentic and intereating news from Peru. The course of Boli var's success appears to have been rapid and uninterrupted. Cantarac was retreating upon Cusco, with a force much diminished by casualties and desertion. It was supposed he had crossed the Apurimac, with a view to effect a junction with Valdez, who was marching through La Paz, to meet him. Fourteen Provinces have been delivered from the Spanish power. The following is the official account o f the progress of the Colombian army since the battle of Junin:- - The 911 it occupied Tarma, the 11th Jatija, and the 14th Ilietnceyo. The enemy retired by the read of limb:mime, break. ine down the bridge (there) and eluting away the font others on the . u ne river. Ones pummel their movement by Pempos, having re-rstab:ished the bridge at Maine, by which we pasted. The 72,t we entered Htiontia, and the 24th occupied that capital. De nrral Cantarac, who then-remained at three leagues thence, imme -4:lstely hastened his retreat. without reconnoitering those who ma ned him. No doubt he fears to meet a hew Junin. and to terminate his csrntrtigi'bY making a second reconnoissance. In his morell o:I, were * great number of tlese-teis. arms, ammunition, and c ede. The r3tll, his Excellency entered Htiamangft, anti on the 30 the Mamma, Moyftno, with the remains of his battalion, the R oy., p,aerived at Qtticimaehay. Col. Otero had orders to tie stnir R...„,agftliet:!,,tl he could not aceomplieli it, he dispersed it with • out ditlivolty, taking twenty men, three officers. arms, and homes, Crenertil Cant:wee sent two spies—to a priest anti to the wife of a tOrmer intendant of a province—who acre all sent bark to the an y whit a note. The enemy precipitated hie retreat on the tkh inst. teen Pampas to Chincheros, and passing through Andagitay las. his directed his march towards the river Apurimac. On the 11.40 Sept. pan of the enemy's cavalry abandoned St. Geronimo, two leagues beyond Anclagnavifts. On the 13th Col. Career Itith 3 detachment of huesure of Colombia, entered that town. Colonel Otero, with the Ist regiment of Peru, has pursued an enemy's w him in the direction of ('nngsyo (marked in our snaps. Cangallo), and has i itcrnreted himself between them and the head-qoarters of the enemy. t rhis bold operation fn&ntened them, and they con tinued their retreat precipitately. Fourteen P;oviDees, which the enemy before necupied, are free, and will be so for ever. The Commandant, Mahn. brat, on the iTth of last month, at Canete, as enemy'. party. which was cempleely destroyed. " The Ilth, 15th, anti 1011, different eorpsOf the army marched. The last proceeds to-day in pursuit of the enemy. The army con tinues to march in ternore brilliant condition than when it merched Vam Tnizillo and Cajamarca. At this moment the enemy must hare eased the bridge of the Apurimac. This operation will decide his &shay .for ever. The total loas of the enemy in his disastrous march cannot be less than 3 000 men, and his effective force will scarcely teach that number. " ANDRES SANTA CRUZ. Chief of the Shill: " Head-quarters, Iluamanga, Sept. 18, 1824." A letter had been received at Buenos Ayres, from the Colombian Commissioner in Chili, inelosing the copy of a commurication from General Olaeena, declaring his inten tion to co-operate with Bolivar in the liberation of Peru. The Colombian officer, Colonel Urdaneta, by the last &c -ounts film Lims, was within four leagues of that city. We subjoin a translation of the letter addressed by Gene ral Olaneta to M. D. F. O'Leary, Aid-dc-Camp to the " Liberator" of Colombia, and his C( ler in Citiii : •• My newt SIA-1 have hail the honour of receiving your esteemed cominuntrations. as also those enclosed from his Excel lency the • Liberator.' You may assure his Excellency, that it has bog been my intention to co-operate with his Excellency in com pletive the liberation of this beautiful portion of South America. I entn.su you will have the goodness to forward to the head-quarters of iii Excellency the etas:used answers. Accept the assurances of my highest cram. " Your obedient Servant. ••PEDRO ANTONIO OLANETA. " Oruro, Oct. 10. 110`2.4." The Buenos A )res Papers announce tlizt on tl:e 12th of December, the National Assembly of the United Province' of La Plata was installed at Buenos Ayres with great so.. lemuity. On the 13th, General Don Juan Grer,orio de Las Floras presented an Address from the Government to the Assembly, in which the prospects of the New State arc described most favourably. The most important passages of this Address are these (heat Britain. released from compromises with the Allies, hey adopted towards the States of America a noble comluct, worthy or the most civilizett--most free—and, on the whole, most powerful' nation of Europa. The solemn recognition of the Independence of the new Republic, will he a consequence of the principles she his proclaimed. And you may believe, Senora, that this import. ant .vent, as far as relates to the provinces of the Plata, depends chiefly on their showing themselves as a substantive nation f rare po dr neiov) and with the capacity of maintaining the good institu. vons they already possess. The Catholic King has annulled the preliminary conventi,in which his Commissioners concluded with the Government of this province, an/ through its intervention with most of the Union, the the 4th of July last year. He has declared that the language in it, that he is King of a free people, is not, and cannot be his own. Bat his absolute authority is a curse to Spain. and his name only passe to this part of the world to serve the interests of some chiefs, who make war on their own account in the interior provinces of Peru. like the adventurers who first conquered it. " But for the unfortunate dissensions which have crippled the provinces of La Plata, this war would have b-en ended. It has com promised too long the honour of the Allied Republics of the Con. taunt, but every thing announces that it approaches the hour of es termination. Already the illustrious Liberator of Colombia hastens victorious towards the very centre of the power of the op. prawn of Peru. The republic of Chili has moved its naval forces to close them from the Pacifle. And the Government of this Pro vince, uniting its efthrta to those of Salta, prepares the elements which may serve u a basis to the national power of a more ex. tended plan of operations." The following are extracts from the Buenos Ayres' Argos:— According to the official notice in the Truxillo Gazette, the Government of Peru had received official communications, en. enlacing that there were at Panama 11,00',/ Colombians, under Gal. Pan; that in Guayaquil 2.1100 men were ready to embark, per well armed a.td disciplined, with the assurance, that in De cember Peru may depend on the aid of 10,000 or 12,000 brave nen. accustomed to humble the Spanish pride. We have seen a statement of the naval force of Peru, and of the Sprinnl4. at Callao, which we thing worth publishing : Prarrtast SQI•ADROX. srANtsit SQUADRON. Wessels Guns. Men. Vessels Guns. Men. Praha . 46 400 Asia . . 64 600 31 ""ionia - 11 100 Aria - - 28 120 itapido ... - J 2 100 Aquilee - 20 120 Pinebincha . - 16 100 Pezuela - - 18 100 teraborato - . IS 129 Cobstante - 9 75 liwaralu::era . . 16 106 Total - 119 937 Total - - 3 1311 1013 We are happy to Lear that Miss M. Tree is likely to re sume her professional duties next week, after a most severe indivposition. The Lessee of the Dublin Theatre, it is said, has offered Miss Foote one thousand guineas to perform fourteen Lights in Dublin. The ifereiez Poet says—" The Managers of all the Pleat provincial Theatres are on the alert to secure Miss Foote—in, many cases the terms proposed exceed fifty gui neas a night." Sir William Purees Rime Campbell, Bart., of March no:witlistanding the improved state of agriculture, liaa continued a reduction of ten per cent. to his tenants, ma' all his estates in the county of Berwick. Ericuaism.—" To read while eating (says Rousseau) sccs always my fancy, in default of a tete-a-tete. 'Tis the LlPPlement to society I want. I alternately devour i page ael a p:ece: ' tic as if me book dined with me." A No Too Lcrw.—Ft:equent and bloody were the quar rels of our Saxon ancestors over their wassail bowls. To soften these, Dutstan advised that none should drink ex cept fram cups pegged so regularly within, that from peg t o Peg should be reckoned a legal bumper. Such pegged vessels are still to be seen in the cabinets of antiquaries ; and to this regulation we owe the expression of a man be !NI a Peg too low. Priests are directed, by a council held 'n 11 0% not to drink to pegs—Nec ad pima:: bibant. A G entleman , who lately lost a puree containing fifty sovereigns, setting more value upon the purse than the old it contained, offtrA a reward of nineteen shillings for 7i:ch sover e i gn b roug h t b ac k , provided the purse was also turned. The purse and the whole of the money were in cnsequenee brought back on Saturday, and the finder teemed the proffered reward. no Saturday a serious affray occurred at Croon : a farm 4 4 out of lease on the death of Mr. Cooper, and the lands 'ere let a few days ago by the Earl of Dunraven. Uu Poceeding to till the ground, a number of men, amount- Z . to nearly three hundred, assembled on the lauds, broke ,the Ploughs, and beat the workmen in a moat unmerciful kr , --Limtrick CAroniele. FRENCH P.4PERS. .: I From the ILforaitcisr of Iloitday.l—(Non.Official Part.) Feuls, Fs.a. 20. For along time plat- hawkers of books end booksellers' clerk, iniid.tte tti.r uncris., and still more the country, with books, which Yre almost always ni.wc hurtful Iliac useful, and often even con trary to morals and selittion ; bnt measures hav e h a ppily b een taken by authority.. tn repress en great an abuse, the least incon venience of which is, to do great miiiry to the licensed booksellers who have fixed abodes.. A recent of his Excellency the Minister of the Interior, prohibits the hawking of books without any exception, whatever be the subject, and however small they nay be. In consequence, the Mayors in the departments are invited to inform the Attorney- General of every individual, ev:n though he should be a licensed booksel/er, who may transgress this regulation; because booksellers' license.; are given only for a certain place, a nd d o not g iv e jh e liberty of selling out of the residence which they designate, not even in the fairs or another plate. We have thought it our duty to give pnblicity to these regula tions, for the sake of those who carry on this trade in good faith, in consequence of the indulgence which has been introduced in this respea ; it is, however. to be observed, that they are rot new, since they rest not only on Article 11 of the law of 21st October, 11114, but also on Article 4 of the Decree of Council, 28th Feb. 1723, which pronounced the absolute prohihition of the trade of hawker of honks. A principle which has been confirmed by a decision of the Court of Cassation, reported in the Mod/car of 4th June, Ink I Front the Rtalk dated Tuesday.l 31/infirm FEB. 10. The Madrid Gaulle publishes a Proclamation of general Rodil to the inhabits to of Lima. It is dated August 18, 1821. It con tains the following passage:— " Our Araiy of the North has undertaken a reconnoissance. On the tlh of this month there was a partial engagement of cavalry, without any wher resulr than that the end proposed was attained. " The Gereral-in-Chief, Cantarae, resumed the positions which he °monied the day before : he there waits for th e Viceroy and Ge neral Valdez. ifaodeed their junctien has not been already eL'ectcd, siaee they marched on the Zell front Cuzco." PARIS, FEB. 21. Amounts from Vienna say, that the Emperor and Empress in tend to set out ram Italy in the middle of next month. It is thought the Empress will go by way of Munich, to pay a visit to her august parents. 31r. Stratford Canning arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 29th January. The King of Sweden has conferred the Order of the Seraphim on Count Nesseirode. (From the Constitunmenel of Monday.] Martato. FEB. In. ' The 31arquis of Santa Cruz, who was Master of the King's fiousehohl in 18•23, and who, in that quality, accompanied his Majesty to Cadiz. is among those few who have been admitted near the King during his last illness, and it is said that, as the office he formerly held is again vr.eant, it will be restored to him. General Qiiesasla has received orders to come to Madrid, in order to give nn account of his conduct at Granada during the transactions which took place from the 20:h to the 22d of January. Not only did the people cry out " The Chambers for Ever," but also Quesada's regiment. which had been raised by that General, ran about the town uttering the same cries. This regiment has just been broke, and several of the discharged officers have already arrived at Madrid. The President of the Supreme Court of Jus tice at Granada has been displaced, and it is said that all the su perior authorities of that province will be changed in like manner. The King's health is rather better, but he secs nobody, and busi ness is completely at a stand-still. The day before yesterday the whole of the Ministry were about to be changed, but the Foreign Ministers having pointed out to his Majesty the necessity of keep ing 31. Zen a little longer as Minister for Foreign Affairs, on cc. count of the importance of the negotiations at present in agitation with the continental powers, his 3laj2sty was pleased to hearken to these observations, and the 311nisterial change is once more ad journed. In the meantime the public treasury is in such a wretched state, that 1,500 persons who had been convened to receive something on account of their pay, at the latter end of August last, have been turned back without haying received a maravedi, because the coffers haul been emptied to supply the Palace expenses. A great number of these unfortunate persons withdrew with tears in their eyes, not having a morsel of bread to give their families. These evils, however, are only the prelude of those which threaten our unfortunate country, if the present drought continues for some days longer. For ten months past a drop of rain has not fallen, and our fields offer a perfect picture of the sandy deserts of Africa. The price of grain, however, will advance very little, for want of a circulation to pay for it. Recourse will be had to the ordinary re sources of the Spaniards, that of letting themselves die of hunger. PARIS, Fri. 20. The Meniteur says that none of Generals who were at first laid on the shelf, but since re-established in their rights, have been the objects of special favour. It is because they hare proved that they did not fulfil the conditions of their retreat, that they are regimes' in active service. So the Ministry persist in their rigorous measures against the warriors who have defended France, at the same time that they impose 1,0110 millions on them in favour of those who have fought against them. Oise would say that by this new manifestation they wished to improve the discourse of M. Agier himself, who haul blamed that nice:sure. According to a journal, it was the merest chance in the world that the amendment proposed by 31. de Bastard, to the first cap. of the law on sacrilege, was not adopted. It is positively asserted that five Opposition Peers, 3111. Lanjuinais de Croi, Milberg, Jourdan, and de Lally, entered the Chamber the very moment the scrutiny was closed; they were not admitted to participate in the voting, and they were obliged to be quiescent witnesses ; the con sequence has been the rejection of the amendment, by a majority of four voices. lFrom the Coorrier Francois.) PARIS, Fri. :O. Some journals have endeavoured to accredit here the report, that 31. Pinheiro Ferreira had infused the portefeuille for Foreign Affs;rc, which bad Leen confided to him, par interim, by the King of Portugal. This statesman, who occupied the mine post under the constitutional regime of the Cortes, is, it is said, too much a friend of the independence of his country, to accept such im portant functions at a moment when England exercises the great est influence in the Cabinet of Lisbon. Those that reason in this manner do not perceive that the position of Portugal is quite different from what it was before the occupation of Spain. conclude, Lisbon letters of the date of 31st of January, from the most authentic sources, give us mom to think that M. Pinheiro has very well understood the change which has taken place in the balance of European policy. Ile knows that his country, not being able to maintain its own tranquillity, and pressed between the system of Continental Diplomacy, and that of the Cabinet of St. James's, had no other alternative than to take one of the two to depend upon ; now, this politician is too loyal and too enlightened not to have freely allied himself to a party who dogs not run counter to his opinions in a greater degree than this, and who is favourable to the commercial interests of his country. Also, the friends of M. Pinheiro have no doubt that he will not neglect nny opportunity to strengthen more and more the ancient bonds of commerce and friendship which used to unite Portugal and England. The letters which we hare before us even allow us to conjecture that the seal of this new alliance will be the acknow ledgment of Brazilian independence, an alliance which will be concluded immediately after the wriest of Sir Charles Stuart, who is expected at Ltsbol about the end of February. Another conse quence. without doubt, of thearresence of Sir Charles, will be, the loss of all remaining credit and favour to men who have brought the Lisbon Cabinet to the brink of ruin. Pamplona has in vain (for since his fall, he resumed his functions, near the King, of Chem berlain), profited by the access which that place gives him to re enter into favour : his part seems finished, and it is thought that that Ex-3linister, as well as his colleague, Palmella, will not set out on the missions to which they have been named, so that Paris will not have the pleasure of seeing an Ambassador devoted to the English, nor London an Ambassador attached to the French in terest. which was what some long heads had looked upon as the most sublime of diplomatic conceptions. The Memorial Bordelois contains, in its Spanish correspondence, two articles of news, announcing dispositions very little favourable towards Portugal. The first is, that there is an idea of placing a strong Spanish garrison in Iladajoit ; the secong relates to a move ment of &strong division of theFrencli army, which it is said is to re-pass the Ilidessoe, to take the place of that which occupies the Upper Ebro, and which is to proceed to Galicia and Estremadura. The Report of the Committee to which the petition for the Manchester Equitable Loan Bank Bill was referral, was brought up yesterday, and leave was given to bring in the Bill. LAND AT Baloarox.—The increase of the value of land at Brighton will hardly be credited. The father of Mr. Kemp originally purchased the whole of his estate in Brighton and the neighbourhood for a little more than 20,0001., and from this very estate upwards of two millions sterling have already been realized. The ground on which Rock Gardens now stands, was purchased within a few years for SOO/. and the ground rents alone of the houses built upon this spot produce 6,0001. annually. As a more striking proof of the surprising increase in the va lue of land at this place, it is mentioned that a piece of ground upon which two houses, near the market, are now built, produces 451. a-year ground rent, although it was offered about forty years ago by the proprietor, to a barber, upon condition of his being shaved gratuitously for the remainder of his existence, which could not have been long, as he was then more than fifty. This offsr was at the time refused by the knight of the razor. The ground at the extremity of the West Cliff, and even beyond Wick and the Chalybeate, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Scutt, has recently been purchased by Mr. Kemp and Mr. Baring, as a joint speculation, for sixty thousand pounds ; and these wealthy individuals intend to dispote of it in lots, either as freehold or on building leases, by which they calculate upon doubling their purchase money. In the midst of this, rents of good houses still continue utdiminiehed, and even at this moment iu demand. THE BRITISH PRESS. INUNDATION'S IN a4:vorEl . From authenticated reports which have been read from Hanover, we are sorry to find that the most dreadful dis tress is experienced in that kingdom. The following ex tracts from official documents received by Government, will forcibly show how strong a claitn our Hanoverian brethren have on ate liberality of the British nation. We under :Laud that a public meeting will shortly be called for the purpose of promoting the subscription on behalf of the sufftrers EXTRACTS FROM OFFICIAL. REPORTS. DATED HANOVER, BTU •ND 11TH FEBRUARY, 1323. While the distress, caused by the dreadful inundations in November and December last, was still very severely felt by thou sands of the inhabitants of the northern provinces of this kingdom, they have been visited by a repetition of the same alantity, by far more extensive and deplorable. On the evening of the 3d instant the violent gale, which had blown fur tweuty-four hours from the west, suddenly turned to the north-west, and became a complete hurricane, which raged till the next day with unremitting fury. accompanied with a duck tall of snow and flashes of hghtiliog. Fite sea being driven by this hurri cane up tile rivers Elbe and IFesier, they quickly rose to the tre memlous height of from 2I to 22 feet, which has never been the case since :he year 1717. The smaller rivtra connected with then', especially the Schwinge and Oste.aoon rose in the same . proportion. All tile dikes and banks on our side of the Elbe and 14 ewer, from tit'insen and Harburg down to ltitzebuttel and tip to Kremerlehe, a distance of 130 English miles. and all the inland dikes, were over. flowed to the height of 4 and a feet ; they soon after gave way in more than one hundred and twenty places at once, and thus in less than one hour the whole country between ‘Vinsen and Itremerlehe Was overwhelmed by the raging floods. The greatest and finest part of East Friesland has shared the same fate during that dreadful night • tile floods having risen 10 feet above the usual high tide, and the waters in the Ems having been swelled to the uninecialented height of t 2 feet, all the inland dikes sere overflowed; the sea rolled with the utmost violence items% the sea-dikes, till the strongest Ottftrln were broken in more than tin places round the coast, from the Dullard to the mouth of the Jan de. On the morning of the 4:h the scene was most appalling. The inundated country, comprising altogether from 1,000 to 1.200 Eng lish square miles, appeared as forming a part of the ocean. Of the extensive lines of the dikes only isoia!td ruins were perceived rising front the waters, many Of them crowded with the untnrtunate peo ple, who were exposed to the violence of the still raging hurricane. Of most of the villages only the steeples and the tops of the roofs could be seen. Skeleton,' and wrecks of houses and barns, hay stacks, furniture of all kinds, trees turn up by the roots, dead human bodies intermixed wall drowned cattle, were observed every where drifting towards the sea ; while piercing cries of distress frdm the poor sufferers clinging to the floating ruins or to the trees surrounding their habitations, or crowded on the roofs and in the lofts of tottering buildings, were heard in every direction. No language can describe the horrors and dangers which the C 9,000 inhabitants, involved in this calamity, have endured, and the state of misery and distress to which they have been reduced. A great many have perished, numbers in the noble attempt of saving others. In the village of Neuenfelde twenty-four dwelling houses have been swept away, and seventy persons have thund a watery grave. In Francop. another elllage, eight houses, with all their Inmates, have been tarried otf. A number of single houses in different places in the duchy of Bremen and East Friesland have entirely disappeared, with their inhabitants, Thousands, living at a great distance front the dikes, and thinking themselves secure front all danger, were surprised by the waters reaching their beds in the darkness of night, and could only escape without clothes by hastening up to the roofs or lofts of their houses. There, like many other families, who were roused front their sleep by the thun dering noise of the waters rolling over the dikes, a great number of them are yet waiting, suffering from hunger and cold, to be released front their perilous situation, because barges, boats, and rafts could not be procured in sufficient number to come to their assistance. Several other sufferers have remained clinging to trees be a whole day before any help could be given them. The loss of public and private property is immense, especially in the districts of Harbin.; and Stade, in the province called the " Alte Land," so well known by the excellent fruit it produces, in the vicinity of Buxtehude, in the bailiwicks of Himmelpforien, Neuhaus, Blumonthal, in the country of Rehdingen, and in the ex tennive districts of Emden, Norden, Papenburg, F.sens. in East Friesland. and in all the districts situate on the coast of that coun try ; 30,000 of the inhabitants have lost all their moveable property, and Itto,ooo acres of the finest land and gardens have been laid waste and rendered useless for several years to come, if they can ever be recovered from the sea. Most of the houses, which have escaped total destruction, are. of will be, rendered uninhabitable, as they remain exposed to the violence of the floods. At least two•thirds of all the cattle have been drowned, and immense quan tities of corn, which had been hoarded up, the farmers not having been able to sell it at any price, and of hay, have been swept off or spoiled. Even in the towns, many houses Lave been destroyed, the fury of the waters being such as to tear up the pavements in the streets, and to wash away the guns from the ramparts. In the city .of Emden vast stores cf rnerchandize have been lost, being swept away with the warehouses. The dykes sad *lslas hilts been se generally vainell, the. Sid, whole population of the inundated districts tannin fumisit sufficient hands to repair or restore them before next autumn. They must, in many places, remain open to new ravages of the flood, though every possible exertion is making, with the assistance of the mili tary, to fill up, at least in a temporary manner, the most dangerous breaches. Several of these breaches are from 300 to 400 feet wide. Four large trading vessels have been sunk in one of them, to check the floods on the :oast of East Friesland. As most of the inundated districts are still from 7 to 15 feet deep under water, and as all kinds of provisions have been destroyed in them, thousands of the sufferers arc in a state of starvation, and destitute of everything. With several of them no communication has as yet been practicable, owing to the violence of the tides and the floating Ice. To increase the general distress, there is a total want of drinkable water, the sea having filled all the wells and cisterns ; and, to complete the misery of the sufferers, alarming symptoms of disease have already appeared amongst them. Every hour brings fresh and more deplorable accounts from the seat of this dreadful calamity. It has spread gloom and mourning all over the kingdom, which, during this winter, has been visited by so many disastrous events. The theatres have been shut, and all winter amusements have ceased. Our Government has taken prompt and laudable measures to render assistance to the inundated provinces, and to save them from further devastation. Committees are forming everywhere ;u collect the donations of private charity. The officers of the army have given up three days' pay, and the soldiers ono day's pay ; and all other ranks and classes vie with each other in assisting to alleviate the misery of so many thousands of their fellow-subjects. 51illions will be required to repair this calamity, to preserve the lives of so many thousands of sufferers, who will remain for a long time without all mea::s of subsistence, to enable them hereafter to renew their occupations, and to provide for themseltes again by their own industry, and to protect them and their property against new ravages from the formidable element which has taken entire possession of their houses and fields. Similar distressing accounts have been received from the Duchies of Holstein and Oldenburg. EAST LONDON CATHOLIC INSTITUTION TO D. O'CONNELL. Esq. • Stx,—The Committee and Stewards of the East London Cacho lie Institution, feeling truly gratefUl to you for the very handsome manner in which you have consented to take the Chair at their Anr.ual Dinner, request me to return you, in their name, their most heartfelt thanks, and, from your communication, have ar ranged to have their dinner on the 3I of 31arelt. Allow me, my dear Sir, as an individual, to return ►ou my most sincere thanks for the very polite attention I have experienced in all my communications with you, the,remembranee of which, I can assure you, will only cease with my existence. I have the honour to remain, Dear Sir, Your very obliged. obedient, humble Serrano, 11103IAS ROLI'H. Chairman to the Dinner Committee. Committee-room, 11, Red Lion.atreet, Wapping ; Tuesday Evening. Dinner will take place at the freemason's Tavern, Great Qnecn street. APPEAL IN THE ROUSE OF LORDS. WEDIIESDAY, FEL 23. SIABErLY r. HANK Ol SCOTLAND. This was an appeal front the decision of the Court of Session in Scotland. The amount claimed by the appellant is 2501. being the amount of notes of the Batik of Scotland, of which the halm had been stolen on their transmission by coach c het, as under these circumottnees, Messrs. Moberly were aware that the Bank of Stmtland might hereafter be called upon by the holders of the mutilated notes fur the repayment of their amount, they abstained from a direct claim, and pursued the respondents, therefore, only for a conditional payment, they (the appellants) giving sulliciimt guarantee fur the indemnification of the respoordents in the sup. posed event of the institution of a similar claim by a third party. These were shortly the facts upon which the Lords of Session had decided in favour of the respondents, upon the ground that the notes in question having been voluntarily mutilated by Alessi'. Allalierly, they were therefore disc:aided to sue the respondents foe relief from the consequences of their own act; and that as the Bank of Scotland had, besides the head branch, various other branches where their notes were payable, no indemnity could be glee, against payment of the other half of the mates, which could not be identified. • The SOLICITOR-UENERAL and Mr. lIROCGRAII WM heard for the appellants; Mr. Cam Pao ot. and Mr. WALLra fur the respondents. The Lord Deputy Speaker (GIFFOnD) proceeded to address their Lordships in judgment. After reviewing the case as proved at law, his Lordship observed, that it came betbre them as an ap peal for equitable reli..l from the decision of the Court of Session. He did nut think the alleged mutilation of tho notes by the ap pillow should be "onside:ed, as it had been cotisitler,xl by the Court of Session, as depnying Messrs. Alaberly of an equitable claim for relief. He was sure such claim was anal; inable, and he therefore had no difficulty in saying, that the decision of the Lords of Session should be reversed, and the only difficulty coralatest in the form of such reversal. At all events, the case must be re turned to the Court of Session. and he therefore moved their Lord ships for judgment to that erect. the Claws of Messrs. flab• being sustaitable. ISUPPLIIMENr -7V 77LE LONDON OiI2ETI IE OT ?VLSI'S', FES. 22. India niwrd, 22, 1825. Despatches have been received at the Lest India Boma, from the Governor-General in Council, at Fort 11 . 11liani, Ft Bengal, with hielosures. of which the following are extracts and e,‘: iis : Extract from a Letter from theGovemorfieneral in Council to the Secret Committee of the Court I , l'. Directors ct the East India Company, dated Fort William, artily 14, 1:1-21. • Subsequefit to the fall of Rangoon the force 'rider the command of Btigeslier-Ileneral Sir Archibald CaMpbell lint hem engaged in repeated affairs with the enemy, who, Iv:oared by the nature of the country, and their own particular mode of warfare, hoeet around our outposts, and maintains desultory, barbarous, and in, decisive struggle, without af:artling any opportunhy of corning ter a general action. Invariable succuo, however. h attended gut numerous attacks of their stockades and fortified as, 'fashions, and several brilliant and tanking leasons have been exf limed of British science. valour, and intrepidity, during the course of these harass ing operations, as your lion. Committee will observe on reference to the deepatches• front Sir Archibald Caatph..4l. The enemy have already lost several of their best troops, whilst the casualties, on our par: have been compatatively trifling, though we hare to regret the loss of two brave young officers (Lieutenant Kerr, of his Majesty's:lBth, and Lieutenant A. Howard, of the I,th), and the severe wounds sustained by the officers mentioned in the margin-1' From the last accounts we learn that the enemy, after 'melee been repeatedly dislodge(' from their stockades, and compelled to retire, had again collected in great force at a stockade post near the village of Retnandyne, three miles north of Rangoon. Sir Archi bald Campbell proceeded to attack this position with a force of three thousand men, henry battering guts and mortnii, on the 10th and 11th ultimo. The result of these operations seem at last to have produced some decisive effect, and to have struck a terror in the enemy, who had retired to a distance from the front of the Bri tish position. Four Honourable Committee will bear in mind, that when Sir Archibald Campbell sailed front Port Cornwallis, the place of gene ral rer.dezvotts, he detached two etpeditions from the main body of Ilia force, the ohe against the Island of Chedela on the Arracan coast. cornmewled by Brigadier 31'Crea and Captain Mitchell, of his Majesty's ship Slaney ; the other against Negrais Isle, at the mouth of the least tidily. and eventually Bassein, or Persaim, under Major Wallah. of the Madras native infantry, and the Hun. Com pany's cruiser Mercury.: The attack upon Cheduba § was skilfully managed by Brigadier /ll•Creagh, and succeeded in all its parts, with milling loss on our part. The Rajah, or Governor, was made prisoner. and the island, which is described as very fertile and productive, is now garrisoned by seven companies of the 10th Native Infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Hampton, supported by • vessel of war ; reinforcements are likewise on their way to Cheduba from Chittagong. The operations against Negraisc were likewise contlocted in a creditable and satisfactory style, and affoneed to a detachment of the 17th 3lsdras Light Infantry, under Lieutenant Stedman - , an opportunity of distinguishing itself, by the gallant and successful assault of a strong stockade. garrisoned by a large force of the enemy, but the island Itself proved to be not worth holding ; and n'failure of provisions. combined with other considerations, induced Major B'ahab to relinquish the design of proceeding up the rivet to attack Bassein. 1 We shall now return to the state of alTairs, and the progress of events on our lia•tern frontier. The only proceedings of any conseettence taken by the Burman Generals since the action of Ramno, have been the capture of the stockade of Tek Nuf, garrisoned by about one hundred and fifty provincials!' under a subedit?, with a gun, and an attempt to cut off . the Hononrable Company's cruiser Festal, with her gun boats in the Nast. The former object they accomplished with out any loss, and owing to the tremendous and mutinous conduct of the provincials. who refused to fight, and went over to the enemy in a body, delivering up the whole of the ammunition in the hope of making greed terms for themselves. In the other they were completely toiled, and received a severe and memorable chastisement from the Vestal and her gun ' boats, whose fire destroyed several of their war boats in the lasaf, and committed terrible havoc among the crews and the troops who lined either shore, expecting to find the vessels an easy prey. The cruiser and gun boats immediately after made sail for Chittagong, where they arrived in safety on the 7th ultimo. In Assam the progress of our troops has secured the important objects of depriving the enemy of - nearly two-thires of that territory, of destroying a considerable portion of their force there, ard, as we hope, of placing serious obstacles in the way of any rutempt which the Burmese might be disposed to make to invade Bengal, by the route of the Burfiampooter. After two or three successful affair; with the enemy, in which a detachment of the 46+, under Captain Horsbtrgli, and the two Brunie))s of irregular horse, particularly distinguished themselves, operations had necessarily come to a stand, by the last accounts, owing to the state of the weather. Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Shapland, C B. com manding at Chittagong, to the Adjutant-General or the Army, dated 7th June, 1824. I have the honour to forward to von. for the information of his Excellency the Commander in Chief, the report of Lieutenant Guy, cotomandir.g the Vestal cruieer, relative to his proceedings in the Nattf, and the cause of his quitting the station. Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Guy, commanding the East India Company's cruiser Vestal, to Lieutenant-Colonel Shap land, C. 8., dated Chittagong River, June 6. 18'24. St Mi —1 hare the honour to report the arrival of the Hon. Com pany's cruiser Vestal in Chittagong river, having on board the under-mentioned passengers. viz. the aubadar of the Chittagong provincial detachment, the darogn, the wag jemardar, and thirty. one of his sepoys, with a number of alussultnen, who placed themselves under my protection. On Thursday, the 3d June, at seven e.m., the subedit in charge of the stockade at l'ek Nut', came on board, accompanied by one sepoy, and informed me, that the troops under his command had mutinied the preceding evening, by refusing to fire on the Burmese, who had surrounded the stockade with a force, amount ing to about one hundred and fifty horse, with a numerous body of foot ; that he had spiked the great gun, and thrown its :.:mu nition into the well, and would also have destroyed the magazine, containing t wenty-one boxes of musket cartridges, had not the sepoys threatened to kill him should he attempt it ; he then fled the fort, and escaped to the ship. On hearing this, I weighed anchor, and stood down the river ; I shortly after saw about one hundred war boats drawn out in a line off Mundoo creek ; on our nearer ap proach, a canoe was deepatched, with five hands in her, ordering me to surrender the vessel or they should take her by force, and kill every man on board ; this message I answered with a Croad side from my great guns ; they kept up a smart fire fur about ten minutes. then retreated into 311indoo creek ' • the two gun-boats, under Messrs. Laughton and Boyce, chased them noon this, and poured in several well-directed showers of grape and cannister, which did great execution ; they then returned, after having taken four prisoners from the above-mentioned canoe. I then tacked, end stood towards Shahpooree island, under which seven! boats lay ; they endeavoured to escape, but finding themselves cut off by the gun. boats, they ran their boats on shore and fled into die jungle, bat not before numbers were destroyed by the volleys of grape poured into them front the gun-boats ; the rest of the boats having escaped, I stood for the new stockade, fired a broadside into it whilst passing, then ran down and anchored off the south-eastern point of Shahpooree island for the night. I should imagine about twelve or fourteen boats were destroyed, as I ob served them floating out of Mundoo creek tiler the attack, coin. pletely shattered by the great guns. I also beg leave to report the I great zeal and activity evinced by the officers on board the vessel, ' as also the high-spirited conduct of Messrs. Laughton and Boyce, each commanding a gun-boat. Finding the means of obtaining water and provisions thus cut off, and deeming my stay in the Nut to be of no further utility, I weighed anchor the next morn ing at day-light for this place, where I now have the honour to report myself, and am, Sir, yours, &c. J. W. GUIr . , Lieutenant, Commanding Hon. Company's cruiser Vestal. Copy of a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Itlaemorine, command. ing the Ca!item Frontier, to Lieutenant-Colonel Nicol, Adju. tant.Oeneral of the Army, dated Camp, tiowahatty, 22d May, 1824. _ _ ou have been already apprised, that I.ieutenant-Col. Richards had been detached to the eastward with the flotilla and 2d battalion 23d native infantry (not having at the time tonnage for the conveyance of more troops), to take up a position at Kul luabar, for the purpose of giving protection to the country, cont. dence to the inhabitants, anti prevent (if possible) the Burmese returning to that quarter. when he found, on his arrival, that a party or the enemy had very unexpectedly made their appearance in the vicinity of that place. I have now the honour to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the Comniander.in. Chief, that, by intelligence received this morning from Lieutenant ' Colonel Richards, dated Kulluabar, the 18th instant, it appears the enemy had evacuated the stockade at Haulbar, and had retired to a plate called Rtingby Ohm, about eight hours' march from the further post. Lieutenant-Colonel Richards accordingly counter manded the order that had been issued for the moveaten: to Haul bar, and proceeded himself to Captain Horsburgh's camp, to make another arrangement for the advance to Rungb) Ghur. On Lieutenant• Colonel Richards advancing with a bavildais guard and a few tt livers, to examine and give coders for deitiolish• mg the stockade which the enemy had evacuated, he was informed, on his arrival there, by a villager, that about sixty of them had re turned to it ; on this he immediately directed a party from Captain Horsburgh'a detachment of one ressalla of cavalry and a company of infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Richardson, of the 2d bat talion 22d native infantry, up to the place, and endeavour to sun rise them and as the Lieutenant-Colonel had pr e vi ous ly ma d e hia observations of the ground, he was enabled to direct Lieteenant Richardson, on his approach to the stock.tde, to lead the cavalry in a gallop, round the edge of a jungle to the that open spot in tb t rear and across the road, and to sand the infantry direct no the enemy's position (an unfinished stockade) with the flew of fracirg them upon the cavalry. This measure, I min happy to soy. had • See Lou lira Gazette of 27th November, 1624, p. 1,939. et sequ. t Lieutenant Mitchell anti O'Halloran, of his 51. k icsty's 313th regiment. * Fur particulars see London Gaulle of 25th November. 182 4, p. 1064. See Lando* Gaunt of 25th November, 1824. p. 194.:g • See Lesion Gir ult. , of 25th Noeetobe , , 1624, p. 1062. II An irregular tops. net olbeeeel by ad, WWI. the desired effect ; the enemy Arra a rei shot 'on the advancing Party without doing any injury, and then retired in grew contusion. in the direction .here the cavalry were posted. who instantly charged and killed twenty of them and a Pheltenn lull real &Ur. me , e) without out sustaining any loss ; but time horses art re. ported to hire been wounded. Lientenart•Colonel Rithartlt gpenks in high terns tf Lieutecant Itiehartlgon In t(di affair, and try !batiks are juutiy diae w both or them, e. , 4 well as to the °liken and privates euF,aged ea On occasion. I:iehlinant.Colonel Richards repoes, that he reicroitcd Capt. florldmrgh's detachment, and in•tructed that Officer so ad vance slowly upon Ilungby nitur (where there is a stor,bask., whilst he himself, with the Iloti!la and the remainder of ad forc , , intended to make a correspon , 'ing Moremelt by watt? and get tki the rear of it, and endeavour tc ppine t!ia enemy between two Sm% and prevent tpeir centre. I have. &e. 0. 31AC310111NE, Lieutenant-Coigne). Extract. from a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Rithisilb, cnir. . mant'ing the advanced Force hi Assam to Captain tweldisti. Major of Brigade at falowahatty, dated on the lit:Rung tither. near Ilungby 01iiir, 26th 31ay„ 1824. I have the plemure to report. tar the informstion of Pr:oldie/ Mieutorine, that tin enemy got a (wood drubbing from Capt. Hoe,. burgh's detachment en the evening of the 23d instabt. The EV gadier is awareehat I posted Captain Homborgh, with !bur Cbtr. patties and the Itissalahe, in the atorhaule at flaulbar, frith whici. the enemy were driven by Lieuterent Riebrodson on the I7th ta' • This position the enemy had tlietemerlty to advance upon, Ws the view, it is supposed, of 'atticking it. tbr :My were within thre.: htimired yards before they wereellicovered by vim* of the amp fullowen who were driven in. The i ne hsted is Ciptald Hon burgh's report to me; by his account it afpears the eitt tty ferod a good deal, and about tw o h u nd re d men were deprifell their arms. This defeat induced them to evecuata their 'amen!, seßungby (Mut yesterday nturning. which Coiptaiat fiteraLorc . ` has destroyed. C3py of a Letter from CeP:altt Iforshorgh, extuninaing dst• tachment of the Native Infantry, to Lieutenanter.aione4 ' Richards, commanding the advance in Assam, dated lelfttaba , 24th May, 1824. • Sta.—The enemy ;tare had the hartlihno? to come cut of 'Leif sfickasie and attaclo'our party, for which I can happy to say that some of them have paid dearly. About three o'clock this afternoon there teat an alarm pi venthrt the enemy were rotting up our pass cutters. , The picket marched ' out, In 4 I got the rest of the men quickly ut!er ear s , cavalry ai well as infantry. When tame out to the pipkit I found them carrying on a brisk tire '(Lieutenant Jones at as bbd) with the enemy, who were Pn the y uesee to the right of th e roa d % where flitv had planted a number of jingals. I v:at Lieut enan t ,Tanes to*th: right with theirery, with dr:melons to tule.r.hr, if txiss bye, to get into their , end intercept their retreat to their .cockade at Rongby Ohur. I °Weird the picket to proceed song the bankg . of the lire, and went myself with two companies into the jttngie Cn the right of the road, advancing down in as good :t line as the thick jubele walk adini7. The enemy only find their jingals once, end fletf through the ;uncle, leaving their jingals behind. In die mew:tithe tenant Jones, by dashing across with the horibmen to the ricer sJecetsled in cutting off the tetra! of about ttro hundred ; some escaped by swarming, about forty were killed by the Sewer si number were drownte, and several sabred cr shot in the *Pet. The picket which had marched alo the banks er the river. get up in time to kill seiertil in the w as'r ; several of the 'enemy" o 4 horstbAck attempted to escape by skimming their horses, but wets thump from their saddles in the midle of the ricer : their horses or tEttorts swimnnlnk back, fell into en! hands ; a e captured hlspae seven tattoos, about eighteen jlngils, two very good brass drubte,, and g number df old muskets. &c, and sever-1 cf the jingals Wert loaded. and contained seven balls. _ in hkppy . to say ter hate suffete3 nb 'oss among the sepdys. either killed nr wounded. . I am. however, sorry to %Mt that a duff.dar of Gilbert's Nero was shot through the body, ands since dead : throe horses only re ere wminded. Lieutenant Jm•.ee on this deession acted with a treat ?.eal credit to himself, and, but for hie exertions the enemy would bare got back to their stockade with a trifling loss ineeed. I fear, hos.. ever, about three hundred of the enemy regained their stockade. I have, b.c. A. lIORSI3UIIOII. rapt. Coming. Detach. 211 N. I. • ON THE ABOLITION Or THE COHN LAW:. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH Nags. Sta.—ln a former letter which I addressed to rot, tin kl.it subject, I called the attention of the public to the abolition of itie Corn Laws, on such general grounds as then occurred to me; I would now take leave to clamor very briefly the object tit these laws, and to demonstrate their objectionable nature. and the ne cessity for substituting a system, founded, I will not say oh better principles, but on a more practicable and steady plan. The existiog Corn Laws have for their object the protectluh of the interests of one of two parties, or perhaps of both—tr,r grower and consumer. In protecting the interests of the &rower, the proprietors of the soil are concerned, and the interests of tt•r latter are more immeelta:ely upheld by the manufacturers and intim* not interested in agriculture. This. I believe. is the state of feeling of the two parties where an important and vital object is rendered a question of pars, the fair merit and just right of both parties too frequently fall bit sacrifice. _ A question of the paramount consequence which legislatite interference in the pace of food must be admitted to Le, surely requires the greatest candour end best feelings that can he called into action. It ought not to he made a tile stion of interee: in opposition to right, but considered as one in which the weltare of every human being within these renlcis is deeply cancerned. It is to be hoped that when this question is brooght before Pist liament (as brought it will be). that it wall be discussed, anti ultimately decided, with the candour and liberality which it. reeuires. I propose now to aseettain whether the present Corn Laws eel be considered as necessary and beneficial. First to the gemwe•— Their necessity is admitted in reference to the very great oideree.eir which exists between the price of grain in the Foreign and Home 3larkets. If the trade were to be tree, it is supposed that foreign grain could be procured at a price that would totally preclude the sale of our own produce. Now this, Sir. I greatly doubt 1 and I cannot conceive it to be probable, or even possible, th a t f ote ig ii corn could, in qrantity ant. , quality, be obtained, to materially, ti . at all, lessen the present required growth of corn in this country. To suppose the contrary to be the case, is to suppose that the farmers of continental Lurope have for the lut twenty years Du., growing corn in considerable, I might ray, in reference to this question, in immense quantities, beyond the demand of their own country. I would ask, Sir, Is it likely, is it probable, that such has been the case? Can an answer in the alSrmative be pre. sum d? If it cannot (and I deny that it can), then I need rho: follow this point any farther than by concludine, in the words of a most eminent writer on political economy—" Lem the free in. portstion of foreigh corn could very little affect the interest tr the farmers of Great Britain." Since lila time II allude to, U:. Adam Smith), a very large natior.al debt has tee - i eontructed, bit the poptilation of the country and its wealth hove increased in an equal if not a greater ratio; but I apprehend it would no: be eery feasible to bring the landed interest into the (pinion of th a grek: man—and perhaps it would not be prudent to desire it. But are the preset' Corn Laws caktileted us secure the landed interest from great difficulties in the sale rf agricultural pro. duce I think they are not. For if the appreheasion la to be entertained of the evil that would result from a free iniportacion of corn, arising teem the affirmed fact. dirt the utintriel of Northern Europe produce a great excess becen I theif conetrosp non, which year t y year is warehoused, and kept in East.; then, incase of a paintl scarcity. or the withholding of suppllei by speculators, the home musket might Milted be &Ingest wit: foreign corn, and the agticalturiste of this coontry would be very great stiftuen. I am not disposed to artildpath su 711 a cast, but I am entitled to use it against those who assert it to otaitio their own purposes. The effect of the ports opening for Oars 1101 in some rriiatturb etre. , this phantom. The agricultural interest requissa se be placed on the footing of other trades, exempted teeth trice, chicanery. or, I might aid. intimidation; for what system can Oft worse than that wherein the fan trader, when he otrets his earn modity for sale, is told, that it is not saleable, because it is not known whether the ports will open . • and it he is conpethad to sell, must consent to take what the merchant.ant thinks well to oiler? The farmer, through the blessing of Providence, is pertained. td reap what be sows, but in selling his surplus produce, he is let entirely at the mercy of ltlark.lane, and its retnhicationo through. out the country. It is on these grounds principally that--as protecting price will be deemed neecautr be the landed serest—l would propose it should be etru-ctrd by a fixed tai of duty, to be paid on every bushel of foreign eaten that enallle impanel into this country for ceresueiption. The rate of ouTy would depend on what shall be corsidered a reneinvratleg Wig for our home produce, in reference to the price at which earn of good quality can be purchased in the toriign market. ` gut I would here suggest, that the freight and expenses of pufiidg en board should not be considered, as these expensesaftend our own produce in a greater or lesser degree. The speculatiow to which the present sys t em y es rise natinallet leads me to the St?Crla party a hoin HUY, described as interested Ilk this question--the consumer. And it is eettainly niuch to be 1'41,161s of speculatieg to so itrioJs an extent. mented that a settee% should be ccntinued. Irhl.ch Wives the op. pot:unity to inch - as I have understood his been the case, in articles requited for sustaining the populaeon of this couutiy. To tarnish this great eommoricy with cheap anal wholuOuit t provi.ion must be a mat ter of the first importance—to lutc*it - those violent fluctuations tit the price of such provisions Vt equally Depassi, ; foe, se attain a firm and healthy state qt isitionl i fitperity, we must be content to eat the bread of itAsst.j..fur at a cheap but Lite 'intone:sting ire.Sastst ea. lice. if thu CottLaws require revision, ?rbkl? an) to suppose ey LW, ler the reawaes which hip; in this apd my lain Jetta seated, the regent moment 'of - arriversal prcopeiny *tame to be the ben utue tor etiecticg it. I sat, Sir, your faithful huable Sanaa t. A LINCOLNSHIRE FARMER. Spalding, Fob. 1."2 182 S. I ; 1 ~t ! { <t • 1 . 1. . j L fl Pilf '~l • . 1 1, 4 ~, F, t ': • 1 ' l 4k .