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It' i of ~. Committees en agaiestilime and .commerce. If he had to attend Ou the former he would endows emu to point set bow InatCh injury &encashes* sustained from these restrictions which were so indiscreetly sought by agriculturists. The cisme* of owners and occupiers of land had interests quite distinct from- each other. The latter 110 contrived to limeade the former that their interests were the same. and had gained much assistance from owners of land in that House accordingly ; which assistance he took it for granted they would net have if the UM Gentlemen who furnished it thoroughly understood their own Interco. Alderman HIY.ATI inejeted that the distress was not confined to agriculture. The principle of the Huu, Member for Purtarlington had been car ried to a high pinch in America. and the distress was commensurate. The real cause of our die tresses ought to he scorched hrtn. He ridiculed the vacillations of opinion and the ponderous hours ef the Ilullion Com • tee, which had preceded Mr. l'eel's Bill. He considered the Report of the Committee to be a fuses of patch work mid technical jargon, which nirir-tenths of the people could never understand. The Bill was the result of the Report, and the effect of the whole s depreciation in the prices of I ommoditim, which would have made it more res. 'tumble to have entitled the Bill " Au Act to M erriam the National Debt, and all fixed salines red Maximo owe-third." Rod the House known the effects produced subsequently by that Bill, it would have paused before it gave the country over to stuck-jobbers, contractors, and money-brokers, whom Providence, not in its mercy, had seemed to -have prepared for our destruction. Fixed incomes had augmented in value, and inge nuity and labour had depreciated corretpoudingly. The o n ly resource for remedy was in retrenchment. Bat the few taxes which might be so taken off would mead little. One mode of relief would be to attack the public creditor. But what then ? During a protracted debate, which the mesaure would de mand, the public creditors would escape with their property from the plunder, deposit their money in foreign trade or funds, and leave the country with out capital. All mortgages and private debts must be equally reduced; there would be no money left to conduct manufacturer, and commerce and iiirius try fur • lung period of time must aloud still. An tither remedy was to repeal the Act of 1818; but that would look so unwise, after the pains taken to bilog about the miming of the Act, that it was not to be thought of. The only remedy was patience —our sufferings would pass over—the bellows of trade tirould send back the precious snebils; in the mean lime it might be advise. bee to make a fair sad full revision of the dif forester caused in the value of office salaries, and fixed incomes paid by G o vern meu t ; no t "that the high offices of State were too well µmid, he was astonished when he considered how cheaply they were served. They had raised the value of prices mud depressed that of commodities 23 per cent.' by adopting the theory which had been recommesided.. The same thing adopted in the United States of America had produced a geriend depression in cam moolitiesof 40 per oast. They had gone beyond their purpose. Instead of raising the value of the • per" Omer to-terty of silver, they had pentad Um paper beyond it, and the pressure of distress was so much the greater on the more numerous classes. These opinions he ventured to offer to the House, after having bestowed deep attention and observation on the subject, and having read almost .all the books which had been written thereon. On the motion for printing the Petition , — Mr. Beale° contended, io reply to his Hoc. Friend (Mr. Ricardo). as to the depreciation.or commodities, the *fall was not front 4/. Is. O f 3/. 17s. 10d. only. The difference was so great ee l to make 60s. the present price of corn, equal to . the 80s. the price at the time of . posting the Corn Bill. The Hon. Member contended ilett the precistiois was from 25 to 33 per cent. on nearly! . all commodities—that the difference iu the value •f; IL now and during the war, was between 01/4.' fourth and our-third. He attached no value to the mere variation of the price of hut. lion, which depended on the supply of that particular commodity. The precious metals were the common medium of circulation through out Europe. The prices of them depended on the importations from South America. Any great addition or diminution of paper money produced a similar eff e ct iu th e country w h ereit was operated., ,as _the increase or diminution in the amount ..f those importations did mu Europe. The banking -"stem lied done this all over Europe. But when the Legislature made paper a legal tender in Great the principle was pushed to such an ("teat as to give an extraordinary depreciation to money. iteteroing from this state of things to a fitted urea , tante circulation, we had not only to fall from the prices of paper to gold, but from gold to cutuniodi tiea, which, gradually tunst fnllow the augmentation or diminution of the circulating medium. The effect of this on manufactures and commerce he (mould not exactly determine, but it. was equal to a defalcation in the value of commoditino of from une-fourth to one-third. After Goose further remarks by the lion. Gentle luau, Mr. lttesaao, Mr. ATWOOD, sod Mr. Herz, the l'etition was ordered to be:jointed. Severst of the other Orders of the bey were .• . . pot 'putted. The Lt.ttgitufle Bill west through a Committee. Report to be received to-morrow. Alljostrattl ■t ast.P-PAIIT ELEVEN O'CLOCK. • The Marquis ut Loa DuRDRRRY is recovering fest fleas his lute Glues.. —(Cork lutelligencer.) HAZARD And Co. respectfully inform the Public, diet, by a new arrangenient,.oti VOLNNO 7INICS Day (next Wetteesday),the nuclease, of a whole • Ticket CIO only lose eighterit shallop, • Sixteenth two 1 . 1,1 625,_ siker Shares properties, asd yet have a Cheese for all the Cannel Phu, that easy be draws on that day ; uid the Public will please to recialitti, that Thine Pew s of 2,000 i. Console esart Hors he dravls • If Ike Zikets sad Nharts ars reieriord with the above small loos, aqua Ay N I o r i f f. r . 204 qf hemmer —The Wheel is redo,. nod cialisiiss, besides &she, Prises in Cietwola sad Shetwii a,, ♦ii4Aliases awn •riaWuß by Ibiza ft Dana CO. at astir OA seal } oeintial• Ores, ttsiyal Elchsvge Galt 26, Curtail!!; and 324, dahseaLatraiet ; and their Avant le the Country, who saki. the last o Mo. 1,443, a Priae.r toosot, .eie is ',neat hellsetea Fear Prises .r akeihn. , •041 &Wes • ?Ages a 20,0001. 1 410, MTALL4NRANr. =Hy OP CHANCERY, istlEttlJelliiiiih, tinnisowr, hsau.Aav S. - • Ttie LARD CIIIANCSLLOIL Case isle Court at halerst deism o'clock. IR VMS MATT= OF Till. ILECTIOE OF TIME FRIP. SIDERT MASTER OP QUltttles BSI Do It. The Lo) CILIONCELLOR observed, that he would lit mt Tuesday seat, the day after Term, for the tutrpore of by* hut the Atioroey.Gessoral, on the pars or 'he Crowe, 11 thie ease If Counsel would attend bim. The Court was occupied the remainder of the day until two o'clock, in bearialy motions of sto tittered except to the parties cemented, at !Slating', him Lordship roes. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, %Vannmasa. B , IBIWASY 8. Mr. Justice BAYLCY sat at Nisi Prins fora short lime in the morning, ■ud dispored of • few uode fended causes. LIBEL ON THE QUEEN. At the sitting of the Court, Mr. PARK moved to enlarge till twit Term the rule which his Learned Friend. Mr. Brougham. had obtained a few days ago, for a criminal information against the Rev. Mr. Blecow. He incised this for the purpose of tiling alfidavi.s, for which there would trot be time in the present Term. Mr. Justice BAYLEY—" Does the party live at LiveiPool Mr. PARK" Yes, my Lord. and the alleged libel was published there."— Rule enlarged. THE KING is. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT. TIIIIIUDAT, SENTENCE OF THE COURT. The Court from au early hour in the morning was crowded with people, among the numbet were lievroil persons of ilootinchoo, 10 the ezpectaliols that Sir Francis Burdett would be called up fee judgment. At eleven o'clock the Hun. Wironat entered the Court accompanied by Lord Nugent, S►r Robert Heron, Mr. Hohhoure, Mr. F. Pal mer, Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Larnbtoo, and seve ral other Members of the House of Commons. On the LORD Catch JUSTICR taking his seat on the Bench— The ATTOlLlisir-GmaAL moved fur judgment on Sir Fragile'. Burdett. The affidavit of Sir Francis Burdett was then put in and read by the Officer of the Court. it stated that he had been fur 24 years • Member of the House of Commons, during 14 of which he had re presented the City of Westminster, and that he hod always advocated the cause of Parliamentary Reform; and that reading in the newspapers an account that the yeomanry at Manchester had cut down me armed and unresisting people, peaceably assens .bkd. he hod no doubt at the time that it was true ; and thinking it illegal to employ soldiers on such a service, sod being of opinion that to petition was the undoubted right of the people, and con ceiving this to be a proper occasion for the exercise of the right, he had thought it hie duty to address his constituents for the purpose of their assembling to petition for redress of that grievous outrage. James Hartner's affidavit stated, that he had searched the files of all the public newspapers, and the 4rit aniteineut that be had found of soy appro bation expressed by bit+ Majesty's Goveroment of the proceedings at • Manchester, was published in the Star and Courier newspapers, on the 25th of August, Mg, in the shape of • letter from Vl*. count Sidmouth to the Easl of Derby. Mr. ScAamarr then row and said, he should have been well pleased had his duty perniitted him to have had nothing further to do in this case after the address which he had the honour to make to the Court a few days ago. In addres.ing the Court at any tine in mitigation of punishment, he was cos . scions of the difficult situation in which an advocate was placed, but how mach to him must that diffi culty be increased, feeling, as he did, the deepest ,personal interest for the honourable person now on . the floor of the Court. It was not because he had sometimes differed with him on political subjects, that his value and importance to his country was at all diminished in his eyes. No friend that .the Honourable Baronet ever possessed had he ever lost by his political opinions. He was pre-eminent i• all which could distinguish a man above his fellow. citigeus--in all the relations of life, both public and private...illustrious, belo►ed, and admired. When lie looked on his public character, which for 25 years had been held up to view, whatever opinion might be formed of the course he had sometimes pursued, his conduct was always candid, open, and avowed. He stood by his birth, by his education, by his large possessions and distinguished talents, the first Gentleman of England. In that character he had duties to perform, which he had performed iu sock a way as would make the history of his life, pelt of the history of his country. Upon no former occasion had their Lordships been called upon to pronounce • penal judgment upon an in dividuall more distinguielied by his talents and patriotism. or more dear to the British nation. He had an his oath declared (and all who knew him believed it, without that guarantee) isis reve ' ►ence for the laws and constitution of his issuntry. By devolving the dory of addressing their Lord. alups . to him (Mr. Scarlett), lest by any expression of wounded feeling. which assuredly their Lordships would have pardoned, he should appear to want a proper deference and respect for the Court, lie had cultivated by his example as well as precept the reverence due to the law. One of his moat ardent wishes had been that his country might ever have the benefit of • government of law and nit of the sword, and to ward off the evil and the fulfilment of the prophecy which the Philosopher in the shade of retirement had pre dieted. would be the euthanasy of the British Con @mono's, was the study of Isis life. lii his progress through the country he learnt with sentiments of horror, not unmixed with indignition, the fatal occurrence which had taken place at Manchester, and he wits called before their Lordships for having been betrayed into exprrastons which he (Ar. Scar lett) did not stand there to defend. Their Lord ships would not expect from his in mitigation any thing inconsistent with the high feeling and unsul lied honour of the Defendant ; but he thought him self jnatitird in appealing to their Lordships.,. as men and Gentlemen, whether with the motives which Sir Francis Burdett had stated on his oath were those which urinated him, he had done any thing unworthy of an Englishman and ' As hawk amp. Wimtmtv doubts be woe Alogertoill VC Olht rifilibefficer *okay 01 smisactuog ( he public feeling. swat io elltigets ..yist.'be oared it Aft,itii 1 1 44.0461 -Ireieletaniart AtitO.O.P•Genorot} to cl "Iore Olt* 415 11 .4. IOPOt he- behaved hinnell right in libel Alt MPl,44Drit. , TN* i.vmdaAtipo• orate .now reeted,Witb 4.TPU,41. t o discretion. Qa the oUg hind 'bet lis4 PI, c , thf CPPLONomtd oar jecta of tip . Da re, ... _OP, the cothct hettd 4 what public . justiceplinte4 . ire &A/periled to th e letter itself. and their ,i f orgships would, t thqc wes no ex pressiion of appreheiion of ike,cootAint of (hose individuals, by evlicips the useeijog !t Nl . N . a. cheater had been own:tided. Si r y ianct , p o i its was too honou r ably proud it;'etate neititios to prejudice of any indivithiala; neither wou)d - heilia would nierely say that Sir Friticiallur&it's letter pointed neither praise nor censure at the meeting, hot the whole scope of it was the mode in Which the meeting was put down. Considering that tli'e letter was addressed by a Member of Parlianient to his constituents. their Lordships would taut weigh In nice scales . words and phrases, iii order to i mpute nu g,,, e ,, whi c h were improper for an Englishman to feel. The letter did undeniably point out to his constituents a fit object of 1 petitioning. There was joined to it some allusion to Parliamentary Reform, and when their Lordship, considered the illustrious names who bad taken part ill that cause, though their Lordships might totally dirappeove of it, they would still think it might bendetresited by men of honour who hired their country. There was else some allu sion to military force, and he pointed it out as a poor dependence, and considered that a Government so depending would be leaning Oil a frail said often on a broken reed. Under these impressions the Defendant had thought hioarelf called upon to phew to the people of England that they need not look to brute force, for a common feeling existed he tween them and persons of "fortune and charac ter in the country, It was a mistake, whiA he had set right by his of its, iir lapitgiue that he had called for acts of •tinnuft and outrage. He took it for granted that when a gen tleman of England wrote to his conotituents to come forward and petition for redress of a grievance, he was doing nothing but what he had a right to do. It was foolish, therefore, nay it was wore than foolish, it was malignant to impute sedition. since ' petitioning was recognised by the Bill of Rights. It had been Said by the wise Athenian Legislator. an answer to the question, What government in the world was best? " That in which every individoal is ready to resist an injury to another as though it were 'Wined to himself." No country in the world illustrates that maxim like England. Nn wrong could here be doe. .to an individual. however humble, that did uot call forth the exertion? of others to resent it. But such spectacles were ,fre queasily mistaken by those who had the admiui studio', of goveromeut, and considered is dan gerous: though he thought that whenever the time arrived when such events as occurred at Man chester should he passed unobiterved, the day of liberty would be closing, and after that the obedi ence of the people 'must be secured, not by their love of justice or attachment to the laws, bet by the sword. Sir Francis Burdett did uot know at the time b. rote the letter, that the Government approvetrof the "preeredinginai Manchester, but be thought, sod still thinks, that the approbation of the Government did not alai!, alter the nature of those proceedings, or slimild: modify the expressions its which his opinion was stated. He could not know that the Government. approvid, as the letter of Lord Sidmouth war pot then published ; end at the time he put his seuti- . . aunts on paper, he could not know but the pro. ceeding was the rash and unauthorised act of Wise military commander. Their Lordships would con. eider the motives which influenced. rod the per- Dolor to who'll he wrote the letter. He was otitis fled, and he was sure that his Learned Friend (the Attorney-General) was satisfied. that the unitive@ were those which Sir Francis Burdett had aimed on his oath, and would coufine his comments to the mode of expression, leaving untouched the sent'. meats themselves. Their Lordships would coliai. der that a man who wrote on the imprearion of the moment, sod addressing his letter to a gentleman of the law— . Mr. Justice BUT—" That does not appear oa the affidavits." Mr. ScAuutirr said the individual was wall known, and was a barrister. He had not ascent to say that the Defendant had asked an opinion. all he meant to urge was, thit he iisd allowed a person who was iuddlerent, to judge if the letter were tit fur a person of his high character to publish; and bail be (Mr. Scarlet!) received it a fortnight after 1 the moo, though he might have altered au Gaper non or two, yet bad he received it at the moment. . he should not have hesitated at publi.hiug it.. alt was matter of history, that at the Weennimilee Election the individual who principally figured st ' Manchester. had opposed Sir Francis Burden an a manner that could have been pardoned only by the uniguanimity of the Hoo. Baronet ; so that no motives or intentiotis of that individual could have any weight with their Lordships. The question iv, " Was this act to be treated as a cowmen. every-day occurrence ?" Their Lordebips might think the employment of the military, if not sue jediee. might become so, and that employment might be justified ; but all he could soy was. that no pseuds of justitioation had yet been stated. The real object of the Defendant was to cause the pee. pie to meet and petition fur a redress of that griev ant*, to ask for inquiry, and to shew the friends' of the sufferer, and those who ourvived, that there was a feel* of sympathy fur theta, without which their calamity would have been still more bitter sod grievous to be borne. Thee, were his objects, and if ewer the day shouldnrrive when a person might be called upootoanswor in a Court of Justice for them, the glory of Eoglasid would be gone. fie knew that in that 'Court the objects would not be blamed, stud that the expressions only would be thought improper ; lee sko knew that their Lordships would uot think there expressions, coundering all the circuntstauces, were ouch as to call fora vin- . dictive punishment ; or to cast upon the Defendast. any iguoniney (which he would venture to say, ie., deed s was pot in their LordahMs' power). ; !es revs. rence for the law sod constitution pgimegto4 him from that. The sentiments lie had exeseast4 were: those in which he' had lived,' and it 'vris:pOw too . late for him to change them. The Le s itned Coes." sal concluded by staling, that his principal antes. tips hint liera Ao .hew whet bad been the real two. tire abich.lullueireed the honourable person now 'before' the . Celirt.` '' He would linw with deference 'hi' the senteike br theCoiirt, sod He (Mr. Smartt) was assured it Would besot+ as would be Vatisfsc tory not only to 'their Lordships, bat to all the world. )11 1 r,. Scarlett tben sat down. During the whole of - Via speech tire snort profound 'silence was ob served. He delivered it *lib a feeling and Impres siveness *Web Was calculated to produce, and did produce, the west powerful effect. Mr. DIPICIII followed on the same side, and justified' the indignation which the Defendant had cap d, by a reference to the narrative of a transaction, as publiihed in the newspapers at the time. He was satisfied, that as the persons con: error(' in that outrage had nut been expiated in a nisei before a prejudiced Jury, their Lordships would hot sieutence the individual to a severe pu nishment for expressing those feelings too warmly which it would he a libel on their Lordship, to sup pose they did not share in common with him. Mr. PIIILLIrs, blr. BLAceettesi. sod Mr. Evaiss, reels briefly addressed the Court on the same side. Th Arroatrair-Gensaat, rose and said, that if it were possible he could indulge any persuoal feeling toward* the Defendant on the floor, some temptation was afforded him by the speeches of the Learned Counsel who had addressed the Court. But ins Leariied Frirnd (Mr. Searlett) who had addressed the Court with eo much feeling and dis cretion, had done him no more than jostler in ac quitting him of any such sentiment.. The Learn ed Counsel proceeded to argue, that the innoc• icy or the Defendant's motives was no apology for the improper nature of the language. The longings., he contended, had an 'effect different from the mo tive now given to it by the Defendant . * affidavit.— That was an offence for which he now, in the weer. else of his duty, called for such judgment ar the Court thought it merited. The SoLICITOR-GBNIMAL said, the case had been so fully brought before their Lordships, that he would not occupy the time of the Court with any observations upon it. Their Lordships consulted together for about I 'treaty minutes, during which time Sir Francis Borden (having risen from the place which he had Occupied on the attorney's bench) stood on the 1 Boor of the Court. Mr. Justice BAYLIV then arldreesed the Dr.- fendarit. His Lordship said, it was his painful duty to pass ou him that sentence which, on a 1 calm consideration of the whole of the case, the I Court collectively felt themselves called upon to pass. His Lordship then noticed the difference of opinion which had prevailed in the Court on a technical point, and observed, that if • new trial had been grouted upon it, there appeared sufficient , evidence of • publication at Leicester. The De , .fendent had avowed himself to be the author and publisher of the libel, and of the letter to Lord Sid , 'fteufli. In'ordei to form a judgment of the chit- Meter of the offerer, it was proper . to refer to the shale of she pothlie.unisd, which was at the time in a Sate 4 high excitement. The libel treated pf facts Which the Defendant himself was personally ipso. reit)t of iccerifing to the statement irefhe -news pepers (iii one of them particularly) the relation 'was ealcolated to excite the public mind, bemuse it Mated that useless violence bad been used, sod •Ime,..eatild blame no man who had felt his mind r mimed on the subject. He could form no judg. anent of the truth of those facts but from the me. - tire of them (in a country like this, in which the poor as well as the rich ere entitled to equal pro -section from the laws, arid in which every outrage on the lowest individual raises a spirit of indigos tion in every one's mind) ; that statement was cal culated, end did raise a strong excitement in the public mind. In that state the Defendant's letter was written, and it appeared to him wrong, es being calculated to increase that excitement, and to raise a prejudice against persons liable to. be tried and punished, if the facts detailed were true ; and the letter also directed that excitement against the builds of the Government of tire country, as if the evil bad originated through their means. if it were 11,04 that the military had dashed fa among the multitude and cut right and left, and some had in consequence met their death, no recessity being sheen to exist, every person concerned would be liable to answer it as for an offence only short of the highest known to the laws of the country. It was to the praise of England that every man met his trial with the public mind unprejudiced. The libel appeared to him to have the tendency to take ' away from persons the benefit of that impartial trial; 'but of that he boron, other min could form • judgment till the matter was regularly brought forward in a court of law. But the libel also op , peered calculated to excite a Aron expression against the Government of the country, as if the ''aß were thitio'brthim. ' - The passage its the letter, " This then is the snorer of the boroughuthogers to the Petitions of the people," led the mind to consider to whom Petitions were addressed; that is, to the Ding, Lords, and Commons, and that as the answer of them to whom the Petitious were ad dressed. The Court had reed the affidavits put in, and it had its weight ; indeed it appeared from the in ointment itself that it was written in haste, whilst the Defendant was on a journey. and on she day fullowiug his arrival at his house in the country that unfortunate letter appeared.' The Defendant's own of explained his motive end feelings. If • man's motives were bad, that was an aggravation of , the offence; if good, a man's own feelings must be goatifying ; but whatever might be the motives, the Court were bound to look at the natural tendency of the letter, end if it were eakirlated to diminish that right which eves, man had to .a foir•trial for his life, sod if also it had a natural - tendency to excite a feeling against the Government of the country, as if the Government were blamable, the innocency of the motive. though it might mitigate pituisbineat, could mot take away the obligation under which the Court lay to put a stop to publi estates whew tendeacy was injurious. On cousi denim the whole of the Oise. the Court ordered and 'adjudged .for that offence, that the Defendant, do . pity a ilo t to the Kin .of 2,0001., and be jowl wirieo in the custody of the Marshal of the Mar s llea of the Court of' ling's Bench for three of fro tai ntop icatea ths, and ce i further p rtiie i r o tutollaithecedli Sir n thi vet s be l a raisci iii. • Burdett booed Ihe 'Court and withdrew / accom panied by the Gentletueu who attended him on bia entrance., • • 1,4i.r.,n PURER* .AVCIIII4LISIM CB. •-•+,«Laimmisham424., • MOVAl!!"ricrili4s r•mk FEBRUARY 5. M. Belled, tlae Procureur-Genetal, h..d a pa.. rale audience of the Kissar at two o'clock she tiny before yesterday. This Magistrate remained an hour and a luilf 'tido Ins Mitjeaty. A regulation of Police s relatiite to the Pale of powder and artificial fireavorka, liar been posted up to the streets of Paris. VIENNA, JANUARY 21. Letters from Laybach state that the Doke J., Gallo has at length received permission to renew from Gaoled to I.sylarch, trod that lie has etassalapai at severall coisferennes, disk he s wa y b. roi.iii,ead the noaalimity of the Northern 1)04 eta ' , jilt t , ••• sreot to Naples, and afterwards - carry at. tiltantatifrt to Naples. As to the period of the advance of the army, it as yet :appears uncertain. A great many movemealii. howev,r, have been' lately übaeived among that Austrh.it troops in Italy. BERLIN, JANUARY 27. It is said that in pursuance of the ',soutanes' of the Allied Monarchs. the Kill will not go to Laybacto, bat in the event of his presence being considered necessary to sign the final Act of the Conferences. It to impassible to foresee how long the conferences of Laybach say last. CADIZ. JANUARY 2&. The tribunal of the National COil I su.ate o.* _um merce in this place has convoked for to-day •w -irersl meeting of the Members of its own body, tit order to deliberate oir the evils under which com merce labours. and to discuss the means of remedy tog them ; to propose to the Cover sssss era such cm appear most calculated to remove the evils in ques tion ; and to prepare a representation to be ad dressed to the Cortes on many important iderta con ducive to the same salutary end. SAUCRLOttA, JANUARY IS. The Poliiical Chief, President_ of the National Board of Commerce, boa communicated a dispatch from the Captain-General of Carthagena, stating that the hilgantine Jason had sailed for the priO tection of the coasting trade, against the snacks of the insurgent privateers which were cruising 41 those seas. ♦ALNNCIA, JANE/AIM 40. Den Ar.t. Riguer, commanding the division of Gaardu vitas of this province, has retuned, briog itig in an in•twgent privateer, with 31 men, most of them wounded, which lie boarded off (andi * in the night of the 17th. The Captain sod all his officers. and about 10 men, perished in the action. Riguer had only two wounded, and none killed, he having taken the precaution to make his men put on while shirts over their clothes, to distinguish each other from the enemy in the confusion and obscurity of the night. Riguer liberated a brigantine, to which the pirate give chase the evening before the rapture. Be 't*ten the Straits and the neighbourhood it bad MADRID, JANUAItir 44. A representation to the King, in favour of the Mioister., has been signed to-day by a great nuts. her of persons. We have purposely refrained, for some days, from speaking of the partisan named Abaelo, who on oue hand excites contempt, and on the other ex. cites partly fear, partly culpable hopes. We did not mean to speak of it till we could announce that his miserable attempt had been suppressed at its very birth : but as this affair begins to assume more jai . portents, we think it our duty to say what we k►►ow of it. .The cavalry which was at Chinchon, and a battalion of Seville which was at Toledo, have re ceived orders to march in pursuit of the troop com manded by that ancient partisan; aad &boat 70 busmen of the national militia of the city .lave gooe out for the same purpose. It is impossible that this rash adventurer can resist for many days such a force. since, according to the accounts, his force at the highest is not supposed to be above 30 men. He is said to be its the environs uf Salem. his nati►e country: DUTCH PAPERS. Jidißaalr 25. Our Papers have hitherto said napping of the indisposition of the King, nor of say thing that can throw any light on his Majesty's resohitten to repair or oot to the Conferences at Laytrach. HAMBURGN, JANUARY 25. •Accerding to accounts from St.. Petersburg!). the Emperor has addressed au I;kase to the Senate, by which the transit trade between Odessa and the kingdom of Poland is to he permitted on the • same footing as between Odes**, Mot. Wallaritis, sad Austria. In tha year LBlB there were bora in the whole Ras sian empire, in the parishes of the Greek ►eligiou, 1,431,448 children-67,158 fewer than in the year 1817. The number of deaths war 873,007-.heisig 46.446 more than in the year 1817. Among. the deaths of the male sex, there wear . _679 parsons above 100 years of age, 219 above 105. 116 above 110. 66 above 126, and .6 above 130 ; one attained the age of 140. sod one t4es; twat ..r 145. The number of marriages we 3sks 9 g, brin g 3,070 fewer than in 1817. • rearauci, J• 141.14 V • For same time pest large quantities srl i)e !MVO arrived here front Germany, which is conve)cu Brand:all, and thence rent by water to the notili of Italy. '''*-"" • CASSEL, JAM/ UT 21. His Royal Highness the Duke ol• Cambridge ar rived here yesterday evening from Hanove.r, on a visit to the Laiulgrave Frederick. SOUTH AMERICA. PRILADELPHIA. J•111/AIIT 11. Extract of a letter from Lieut. Unties Gavial. to John L. Salver, Bag. at .PliihticiplOmb date) U. S. Frigate Ilsecntoirian, Day of Callao, Oetober"fl, ISt& " Vag to eestainly 111 a Imo lobar yam way receive of we from the Pacillie. opporteeily h sotrielkie sore so your base ha ate &la, lief 1 maid arboreal**. iaa. - - _ _ -~~--