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:item of fact in the Court of Chancery in the qatich of bankruptcy affairs. FELONS COUNSEL PILL. t rig . .R. 111 aartst brought in his Bill for enabling rts• of Justice to a ppoi n t not more than two onunsel to plead for Felons.: the same in trials for 6 4VIr Ugh Treason.—Rend a first, to be read a second time on Moudatisennight. whish had their right of electing' 1 since - . *raw. • .44.4.4 Arabi - in whierthry . were restorer ' 7 .4— '• • iltittrLATlo24 ACE Thelfouseleiolved itself into CoMilittlio upon • k disenation ensued between Mr. hi Cull's, MK.' Mattoon, rind Mr. LOCIBI RT. The Bill .passed ihrough the Committee. The IlLiport was Ors4brilid to be -brought up on a futnre day. .1 , The+ Lunittc Stoek Transfer Bill wso geld a Gerund lune. Adjourned at seven o'clock. BRITISII CA? HOLIC PETITION , • • Presienterl by Lard Non enT, Seconded by Viacom's Gutivotteity, February 2S. To the Honnurabte the Knights, Citleena, arid Ilnegesies of . the toiled Kingdom of Great Britain •nd Ireland, in tar kismet,' enieemb : The bumble Petition of the undersigned Persons pro. ~resOn thi Roman Catholic Religion in Great Britain, Itorterro-11ist yOlll , PelilinnerS entertain the 'nest gret•fNertiesie of the Acts passed fur their relief during the konerotrut reiii of their late lamented Sovereign. That there . site, however, several penal and disahlleg taws still iu force twinge them, which are alike injurious to their particular intereats, and prejudicial to the g I welfare 4 the Slate; they impose upon your Petitioners the vas*. ineapscities with which the Law visits convicted pia; they entourage popular prejudices; they perpe. tulle religious dissentious ; and they prevent that general roneord in the Empire, au essenti•l to its happiness, pro s)" ity, cud itidepetitlenee. That though your Petitioners are marked out as persons uftwortliy of public trust, yet they confidently appeal to them who are acquainted with the real doctrines mu, prac tice of their religion. They apneal to those •ho observe their conduct in the various walks of life; they appeal to the justice and candour of your Ilooduralde House, whether their principle, or their octiona clash in the slightest degiee with any mural or puff Twat Away. Valor Petitioners feel that they do nut. 'flu, amid to uo clam of their fellowsuhjects in affectionate loyalty to their Sovereign, in dutiful submission to the law., in attachment to the liberties, and zeal fur the Itussuur of 'their country. They hare been been SCCUSIr.I of giving to a foreign Potentate part of that allegiance whirl, is due to their rightful Itovereiguy but they bare repeatedly denied the charge, awl they again deny it. They have lately join. d in proclaiming, with heart and voice, lips meet Gracious Majesty, odium God lung preserve, their liege Lord and s.trereign. To him they swear full and undivided allegiance: Ittin alone they recognise the power of the civil sword within this resign of linglond. They acknowledge in no Foreign Prince, Prstate,auste, or Potentati,any poweroraw tburiiy to use the sense, within Ilia said realm, it, any matter 4.r cause whitever, whether civil, spiritual, or ecclesiastical. With these sentiments your Petitioner, throw themselves open the wisdom, liberality, and justice, of your Honourable House, and humbly pray to Le relieved from the otwration of those enactments, by which your Petitioners arc debarred from rujo, in.: in common with their felluw.subjects the civil ro fits 01 the Conitilutiust. Norfolk; E. M. V o t u r : t n Surrey e Shrewsbury Kinnaird Clifford. William Gibson, Vie. Apost. in the Northern District. Prier tulliogridge, Vie. Alma. in the Western District. William Poynter, Vie. Apost. in the Loudon District. Thomas Smith, Coadjutor in the Northern District Alexander Cameron, Vic. •post. iu the Lowland District of Scotland. LIMON./ 31.4 c Donald, Vic. Apost. in the Highland District. Al. x ruder Paterson, Coadjutor in the Lowland District. William Gerard, Bart. I Caruaby Haggerstou, Bart. 1:-!s aril Hales, Cart Thorns, Webbe, But. 114 nee F.oglefiefri, Bait. Riehard Bedingfield, Bart. Drury Ticliburne, Bart. Edward Smythe, Bert. George Jeruiagliam, Bart. I Thomas Stanley, Brrt. ,riaimiug to be Lord Thomas Gage, Bari. Suairord ) Janice Gurtlau, Bart. Geo. Tlnuckmmton, Bart. I Thomas Clause!, Bart. Edward Mount, Bart . 4 1001 uplards of eight thousand Gentlemen, Clergy, and others, { S 1 THE CIVIL LIST. THE 8.E.111511 I)ItESS. It, . LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1821. We sincerely congratulate Parliament and the conntry at large upon the decision of the House of Commons on Mr. PLUNKETT'S motion for the House eelblving itself into a Committee to con sider the state of the laws affecting his MAJuser's Roman Catholic subjects. To those who esteem the sincere and affectionate union of Great Britain and Ireland as one of the best securities for the general prosperity of the empire, the decision of the House of Comtrons must afford the highest gratification. To the Roman Catholics of both parts of the empire it must prove a source no less of honest pride than of high exultation, as it has established the great principle of Mr. PLUNKETT'S speech—the basis of his splendid and conclusive argument, namely, that every British subject in. herits from his birth the right of eligibility to every office within the State z but in Ireland will the ed vantages, the blessings we might say, of that de cisiou chiefly be klt. It will prove to the people of that interesting portion of our empire that after centuries of it itiey and Moult, of misgovernment and oppression, there has spr wig up within the bosom or the Imperial Parliament a feeling of gracious sympathy for their conditioie which pro mises that the future will he more merciful than the past, and which in kindness, not to Catholics islowie but to the Protestants also, presents the hope that the greet cause of their disunion an d mutual hostility, rued consequently of their tun versul distress, is abeut to be extinguished for ever. The disabilities and grievances under which the Catholics still labour are happily the sole remains of that narrow, short-sighted, and debasing policy, too long pursued by the British Goverinnent towards Ireland, of ruling the country hy dividing it into fac tions, and committing one part of the nation, not to the protection, but to the vengeance and hatred of another, upon the condition of preserving the con. melon of Ireland with the • Crown of England. Opposition upon the one side necessarily gave birth to hatred and hostility upon the other, unit oue an gry and vindictive law uniformly created the neces sity of another still harsher mud more oppressive. When laws cease to be protective they lose their authority, and the people, degraded and oppressed, disclaim submission, and recur to the o.iginsl rights of nature for defence and vengetance. Scaa his been the state of hostility betimes 'he LegieWore Dad the people of Ireland for a long coarse of years, and who can wonder that Ireland has not advanced as rapidly as this country in the march of civilisa tion ? A more enlightened and prudent system of government has been of late Introduced into that country, and the result is such as might have been anticipated in the mere orderly and peaceable ha. bits of the people. The p►csperity of Ireland is, however, still 'very much retarded by the extreme severity of the Excise Laws, which have given birth to more revolting acts of cruelty and oppreas sion than can well be conceived, and also by a sense of inferiority and of a want of protection which pre vails very generally among the greater part of the Catholic population of Ireland, in consequence of the existence of those statutes that degrade Cs. thOIICS, by holding them up av a nworthy of powtr and confidence. When the State draws destine. Ilona between different classes of the community, in vain will the kindnesses and charities of social life endeavour to unite them. Mutual confidence can not subsist in any country between higher and lower castes, between castes honoured and castes de graded, between the favonied and the degraded, and the absence of mutual confidence among different classes, where the partiality of the Legislature creates so wide • elistinction, is but little removed from mutual hostility. The removal of this dis tinction will not very probably remove immediately all the evils, the heart-burnings, the personal jea lousies, the distrust in the Government, the im patience of legal restraint, which have 'riven from so fruitful a source ; se Mr. PLUNKETT eloquently observed, " us well might we expect that when the storm had ceased to rage, the waves should in stantly subside :^ hut ceitain it is, that, from the moment of repealing the disabling statutes, the cause of this multitude of calamities will cease to operate, and we may tiu-t to the proverbial warmth of feeling, generosity, and gratitude that distin guish their country, that the rich intelligence of so great c boon having been granted by Parliament will induce the Catholics of Ireland to contemplate the present good, with its assurance of future ad vantage, rather than indulge in an angry and use less retrospect of the evils which in past times they might have suffered. This evening the House of Commons will resolve itself into the Committee to hear and discuss Mr. PLUNKETT'S specific proposition tOr removing the disabilities from the Catholics, and offering at the same time sufficient assurance that the Protestaut Establishment shall receive no injury. We freely admit that the majority on AVedisesday night was I not such as is calculated to excite very warm hopes of the eventual success of Mr. PLUNKETT'S trea sure; but still it was of great advantage that Par liament should have evinced a willingness, at least, to consider the question. Mr. PtunKerr, however, seems himself to entertain sanguine hopes of satis fying every scruple and removing every diffi culty, for after the division on Wednesday night be informed the House, that " he had the fullest confidence that be should be able, in the Committee, to propose a practical measure which would prejudice no party and conciliate all." This measure we presume will he, the repeal of the de claration against transubstantiation, and each an alteration iii the oath of supremacy as will enable the Catholics to take it ; to which will be connect ed a plan for securing to the Government a means of supervising Had inspecting the i litercoui se of the Catholic Clergy with the See of Rome. Such a plan, we do think, must conciliate all parties, and so far as the safety of the Government is concern ed, it will, in poiut of fact, give to it • greater security alpinist the possibility of any interference on the part of a foreign Power than is now pi s toned. Against domestic danger on the part of the Catholics what is there stow to protect us? Have they not numbers, phpical strength, wealth, talents, and arms ? Have they not commando, or the right of eligibility to commands, both in the army and navy; and where is our security from their violeve or treachery ? What is our security from the violence or treachery of Prutsattatits? The laws that provide against treason, or murder, or sedition, or open violence of any kind—these are our securities, and these will at all times pro tect us front tteaaon or violence, no matter from what quarter they can proceed. Will these laws be silent, will their power be nugatory, will the energy of the State be paralyzed by the eligibility of a few Catholics to the House of Commons, or to such pl-ces of trust as the KING in his royal discretion may think fit ? Does any mall in the empire ap prehend danger from seeing a HOWARD or a CLIF FORD, or a TALBOT in the House of Lords or Commons, at the head of an army, or the com mand of u fleet, or in his Sovereign's Councils ? 'flue vigour of argument and the splendid de sistence of Mr. PLUNKETT in bringing this mighty subject before the (louse of Commons, seemed to have paralyzed all the energy of the former opponents of the measure. The only argument, if indeed it deserve the natne of isigunient, which Mr. PEEL could muster for the occasion, was, that as these disabling statutes had protected the country in tinnier dangers, we should not repeal them, lest in some future danger their services might be wanted. The Right Hon. Gentleman here begged oce mighty question, namely, that these laws had protected the country; but admitting that they had been serviceable, which certainly is very doubtful, is it wise to continuo a system of irritation, injustice, and oppression. which arose out of momentary circumstances, when 'whops auger, not wisdom, counselled their enact ment, after the occasion has passed which seemed to render the system necessary We will not 'indeeir deny tlvit dauger may ogain arise, but of this we are convinced, that from nu source will it pssonsit.: with inure fatal certainty than from the manna. Al/Ce of this vet,' system itself. A Flanders mail arrived last night with papers from ITrussels to the Y7th last. The following Are extract,:— VIENNA, FEBRUARY 13. The new Coustitution which the King of Naplev will give to his kingdoms will insure to the nation equal liberty and a representative Government. but preserving the piinciples of monarchy. The bases of this Constitution, and the conrequences which flow front them, will be guaranteed by all the great Power , . The plan of giving coustitts. tions to all the Italian States is Hill spoken of, and it is affirmed that these constitutions will be drawn up at Laybach by the Ministers of the Courts con cerned. The Prussian Genesis!, Baron Natztuer, arrived here. on the 11111. It is asserttd that deputie s from Sicily will repair to Loyle.ch to represent to the liing that the great majority of the Sicilian,, being eeptally attached to the legitimate dynasty and to the Colistitution of 1812, established by the common consent of the King and the Parks. mew, only wait► for a proclamation of his Majesty, re-establnliing that Comtitution in its full extent, to declare with energy against the party prevailing at Naples, which Ines sought to impose on the Monarch and the station a foreign and anarchical Constitution. BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 25. A Proclamation is in eirculation in Germany, dated Lisybach, and stated to be addressed by King Ferdinand to his people, announcing that be means to give them a Constitution on the model of the French Charter. As there is nothing to guarantee the authenticity of this important document, we re frain fioni publishing it. A flamburgli mail arrived last night with papers from that city to the 24th Febroary.—An article under the head of Stockholm notices a case btfore the Chancery of Justice, in which a person of the °sane of BRYGGER hat confessed that he has car ried on a steret correspondence with the Ex-King, GUsTAVUS ADOLPHUA, mid his Queen. for several year. past, aid charges Count itObEN We having been privy to the same. We have received Paris Papers of Monday last. It was staled in the Courier Francais of the preceding that letters from Rome, of the 10th of this month, announced the entry of a Neapolitan corps into that city, and that they were well received by the inhabitants. The Papers now be fore us make so mention of such an occurrence, which indeed was of itself too improbable to he easily credited. An article from Angebusg, of the 2011 i of February, tali. mates the encomia of the Austria• aimy advancing against Naples, under Geneial FItI3IONT, at only 50,000 men, and the At my of Rtsetve at an rqoal number. A Corp. of Ob servation still remains in Upper Italy. The three Legations of Fermis, Bologna, and Ravenna were, at the dale of the haul advice., uccupied by the invaders. The partisans of the Court of Vienna, trusting implicitly to the overwhelming weight of their arms, calculate upon the Austrians being in Po ion of Naples on the 12th of March. "This upinitiu,'• we are tuld by the Augsburg Papers, " is not generally en tertained throughout Germany or Italy, because they can appreciate the effects of desperate valour and the lure of conicity." It is resolved, says the Coiteilitionel, that the seat of the Neapolitan Government shall, on the commencement of lies tilities, he transferred to Coosa, a small town at the en. trance of Calabria CiterMre. A part of the National Guard of Naples will accompany the Parliament. Ihe intelligence frurn Madrid announces the perftet re sto ra t ion of the King of SPAIN . , health. A Lisbon !Unit has arrived, with Papers to the 18th last. The following is an extract : LISBON, 8888 IVART 17. The Auderanfa arrived oa the 15tb from Madeira with an account of a revulation having taken place is that Diana on the 29th ult. They have sent three Deputies to the Cortes. The Castle of St. Grorxe, and the ships of war in the Taut., fired a royal salule on the receipt of this iutelrigenee. The Corks have already decreed the liberty of the press ; ■ mea sure pregnant with very serious consequences to the foul c interests of this country. iVe have received Spanish Papers to the 1516 last. They contain marousits of the state of the Spanish lowa at Limo, Pisco, and Callan, anti of the orders given in anticipation of the expected approach of the enemy, hut these accounts are not of later date than the 11th Scpietulit t last. Avt met which aerived at Cadiz ou the 4th instant. iit 55 days froth Rio Janeiro, tastes, that an English brigan tine, in 35 slays from Lima, had brought a report that the division of Lord COCHRAN V. when ready to land, withdrew. on receiving notiee that the Constitution had been sworn in Spain and at Lima. Extract of a letter from the agent to Lt.ovn's at Genoa, dated February 33, says--ii War being determined on with Napks, if that power dots not accede to the I t ems dictated by Austria, an Austrian vessel, which was loading here fur Sinaloa and Naplco, has received orders to discharge." Extract of another letter front the agent to LLOYD'S at Grum, dated the 17th February, says—" By • Comae arrived this day, we bear that a division of the Austrian army has arrived at Siena, on its way towards Rome. This event has put our underwriters on the Merl, who hsve risen the Premium of lusurance, and feel more Matta's(' to risks under the Austrian, Russian, and Neapolima flags We learn that a premium of 8 per cent. was paiJ yesterday upon au Austria.. ship whirl, bas arrived from Constar'. tinuple, with a cargo of wheat for this post. They auk 3 par cent. to insure for England with a British flag." aistisarge of their bill for saatieses, as present the the Anobssaadors of his Most Christian ',sly% eiell of I Persia, the of Bad., sod Alt 1 4 To pay *otos; &a Ditto, to discharge of Inert bilt4for a hernial's rosette, as a peaseat is the Seksh; sod brill!ast !imp aa presents Iss Toi jibe fees,:&e Whitebait, Treiroury Ckauebers, C. •RIQTSNOT.. , 16111 February, 1821. - - - . I Extract from au Account of the Application of :0,0001. granted in the last Session to defray the Extraordinary Charges of the Ctvil Lust. PRESENTS TO MINISTERS OF FOREIGN COURTS, &c. ate. S.r Robert Chester, Knight, Master of the Crieinonirsi iis a present from his Ma jesty to his Exerllriiey Mims Abdul Has san, Ambassador Entraordiairy from his Majesty lbe King of Persia, about to take leave .. Tu pay the fees, &c 64 5 0 t o to the Duke of San Carlos, his Catho lic lid +rep Ambassador, baviug beets re critest front his embassy To pay the fees, Az Ulm to Monsieur de Schwa:, about to leave this country, having accomplished Lis special mission from the King of %Tie temberg, to deliver letters from his Suve. reign to condole on the death of his late Majesty slid of his late Royal Highness Dn. Duke of Kent, and to congramlate his prearnt Majesty on his happy ac cr‘sion To pay the fees, Ste DLit „ as a present from his Majesty' te 1 de Taitentaten, from the Liege, Proms, on the like occasion Ditto to Carat Moltke, froskthe Kim of Driinirk, out the like occasion Ditto to General the Basun de Diermilkind, from the 'King of /geodes, ea the like emotes 1. . ...... Ditto to the Patrice Caetelcieala, Alabama. ilor Eqragoditmiry flew -Ow of the Two Sicillds, eathel•4"ereasion To pay ilieTera, 4e 53 5 Illitto Is dtnefal fileolier, Sete Envoy Extra. ordinary - and 11111eistre Plenipotentiary fries the. King of Wirtenaberg, shout to take leave boll 0 r T. pat the firs, 'Sec .. Ditto, - to.C.iinst Palinetla, Envoy nurser dins), and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Portugal, about to take leave 600 0 0 To pay the fees, fac 33 13 0 biers:len Rolleston, Essi. as a present to the P, us.tsu Chancery ua the eat:Mine orthe ilittihration of a Treaty signal at Frank furt on the 20th July, ISIS , To puy the fees, arr: • • 3):tio to the Ruessair Chancettoe the like occasion ii•••t•• ... Dlto to the AusAisrlt,Chancery on the like . Meows. Handel!, !Midge, and Rendell, in 1,000 0 0 58 5 0 533 15 0 533 13 0 •33 15 0 Loon 0 0 blti 5 0 ;.: o , g64Ditod 4. COLONIES. • RETURN to en Address from lb. Bowourable House of Commons to his Majesty, doled the 16th February. 1811—for an Aeconat of the Colonies in the possession of the United Kingdom, in 1794, and of those in 1810; drathignishing each. 1791. Lower Caaski Bermudas Moatserrat Upper Canada Jamaica Nevis Nova Scotia Barbados., Bahamas New Brunswick St. Vincent Dominica Cape Byrum Grenada *Nondaran Priuee Edward Assigns Gibraltar l.lsad St Christopher New South Wales. Newfoundland Tortola • 1820. r Liter Canada Grenada Tobago 4.11 Upper Oneida Antigua St. Lucia • Nova Scotia St. Christopher Demerara New Brunswick Tortola Essequibo, since • Cape Elvir•tni Montserrat united to Demerara Prince Edward Nevis Serbian Island • Bahamas Malta Newfoundland Dominica Ceylon &mind's t Honduras M•iiritiva Jamaica Gibraltar Cape of Gond Hope Barliadoes Near Smith Wales Sierra Leone St. Vincent Trinidad Van Diemaa'a Laad • Since united to Nova Scotia. t Houdarsa is a territorial possession .of Spain, bat is at espied by British Settlers under the Treaty of 1783, slid Coaventiou of 1788. HENRY GOVLBURN. Colonial Department, February 21, 1821. NAPLES. Lepers front Naples, dated the lath of Febrnary, have been received, enclosing conies of the following decumbent, which ',adjust been published in that city:— LETTER TRANSMITTED PROM LAVRACH PT XIS MAJESTY THE KING, TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT. " Dearest Son—The sentiments which animate me to promote the happiness of my people, and the motives by hich I have been impelled, at an advanced age, and in a rigorous season, to undertake • long and painful journey, are well known to you. I perceived that our country was threatened with new misfortunes, nod was cu•vineed, there fore, that no consideration ought to pr an act imposed un me as the must sacred of duties. "After my first iatervi►w with the Stivereigos, and sub s►gneotly receiving the communicatinus whirl. were made to me relative to the del.'s( rations 'bet bad taken place un the part of the Congress assembled at Troppsu, I sou longer retained any doubt of the judgment formed by the Allied Powers of the events that have occurred at Naples, front the Ist of July to the present day. " I found them irrevocably determined not to recognise the situation of affairs that has resulted, or Ilhat elm by possibility result, from those racists; they reprd our pee end systim as incompatible, both with the tranquillity of my kingdom and the priority of the neighbouring States; and resolve to attack us by fbrce of arms, if Ilse force of persuasion Inca not produce an iminediute ion fauns that course of action. • " This is the declaration which the Sovereign*, as well as the respective Plenipotemiartes, have made to me, end from which nothing ran induce them to depart. '• It Is beyond my power, and, I belime, all Unman pos sibility, to obtain a different result. There remains, then, no uncertainty as to the alternative in which we are placed, nor of the only means which remain to save my kingdom from the scourge of war. " Should the conditions on which the Sovereigns insist be accepted, the measures to which they will give rise will be conducted solely through my intervention. I ought to in form you, however, that the Monarchs exact certain pavan. tees wh.eli they consider indispensably necessary to the secu rity of the neighbouring states. " In regard to the new system which is to succeed the present situation of Oruro, the Sovereigns have communi. cited the general point of view under which they regurd that quest ion. "They consider the measures that are to be adopted to give the stability to my government which is necessary, • subject oldie highest importance to the security and trail. quality of the stales bordering on my kingdom, and conse quently to the whole of Eui upe; but without assuming the power to restrain my free choice in the selection of those /11t11141/111, they desire that, surrounded by the wisest and must honourable men among my subjects, 1 may consult the true and pertnantut interests of my people, nithuist lositig sight of those involved in the msinienauce of the general peace; and that there may result front my cares and my exertions • system of guverument calculated to gurantee fur ever shy repose and prosperity of my king dom, and at the same lime to give security to the rest of Italy, taking into cuosideration all that• motives fur in quietude which the late events have cawed them. " It is my desire, d t Son, that you give to the pre sent letter all the publicity that it ought to have, to the cud that /10 one may be deceived concerning the perilous situation iu which we nit placed. if this letter produces the (heti which 1 fret permitted to hope, by the conscious rictiindle of my paternal nsteutions, sod my confidence buth hr your understanding and in the just jodgmeni and loyalty of my prolate, it will be your task to ustimisin lie order untii I can convey to you, iu a mine explicit manatee, any will route it the ',ordainment of the adult. filtration. lu the menu time 1 embrace you with all my 600 0 0 hest!. 33 15 0 " Laybach, January 26. " FERDINAND." lIAMBUIV.LI MAIL. DRILLIN. FEBRUARY 19. Prince Hardenberg iutended to leave Layhre on the 9th instant, to return to Berlin ; Count Bernattoff was to remain at Laybach. Private tic. counts rosy, that a residence was preparing et Iletz esidorff, near Vieutia, for the King of Naples. HANOVER, FEBRUARY 19. The States of the kingdom Woe mom bled , with out and• intermission, since the Ist of December, but the result of their deliberations is not yet pub lished, which probably is caused by the delay in printing of the Journals, in consequence of the ac cumulation of business in the bureaus. The im portance of the subjects before them gives reason to believe that the States will not soon break op; among those subjects SIC, the drawing up of • 01111 system of taxation, • general land-taz, &c. important motion has lately been made in the First Chambtr fur the abolition of tithes and servico, which deserves the more attention as the interest of . 411 parties concerned is said to be treated in a very judicious manner. CHRISTIANIA, ItttUART 13. In the night of the 2d a smart shock of an earth quake was felt at Bergen. A report on the stole of the kingdom since 1818 has been laid before the Diet. It states, that his Majesty reduced the Departments of the Admini ilffition from seven to five, that he has given many spr o lia of favour ■nd regard to the University, a poem' diffusion of knowledge being the su►est Millwork of freedom. The negociations with the Danish Government are now concluded. A Commercial Convention hes been concluded with the United States. The fisheries hiive, in ge neral, hero very productive, but navigation, which is so important to oue part of the kingdom, has been as in other parts of Europe in a decling state. pETERsuURGH, FEBRUARY 7. His Imperial Highneu the Grand Doke Nicholas arrived here on the sth frmn Berlin, to which piney, it is believed, he will 'eon return. The winter continues to' be mild, with slight frost ■ud much snow. We have not yet had any severe cold. STOCKHOLM, FEBRUARY 13. The Chancery of Justice has delivered to the Supreme Tribunal the Protocol which contain. the depositions of Nils Bryggrr, a native of Gothland, formerly a journeyman dyer. This B►ygger has denounced himself, and confessed that in 1811, when the English fleet was off the west coast of the kingdom, he was induced to convey letters concerning the late King Gus tavus Adolphus from the fleet to persons in the country ; and that afterwards, in 1815, 16, 17, ■nd 18, that is, since the prohibition of all commu nication with Gustavus Adolphus, the late Queen, and their children, he had had verbal communications with Gustavus Adolphus and the late Queen ; and lastly, that he bad Leen induced to carry letters from the Queen. Be sides these denunciations against himself, he has also denounced Count Rosen as having had, in 1811, a private conference with Gustavus Adolph's' in an island near Gottenburg ; he adds that the late Queen wrote marry letters to the Count, which he, Bryg ger, delivered. Count Rosen being informed of the accusation made against him, has begged his Majesty for a judicial inquiry to prove his inno cence. The confession of Brygger having been laid before his Majesty by the Chancellor of Justice, the inquiry has now been ordered, and the documents are put into the hands of the Attorney-General, Lousin, who will immediately bring the affair before the Supreme Court of Justice; but it is univer sally believed that the informer is an adventurer, and his denunciations false.—f Harr.burgh Papers, February 24.) 1