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I E I PAM PAPERS. , which at once convince) you that it proceeds from un insigiiitirant person—a decided, nervous tone, which cons deep into the ear. His pronunciation is wretched— a mixture of provincial English, with undignified Scotch, altogether snappish and of fensive ; and which would be quite sufficient to reciter the elocution of a more ordinary man utterly disgusting; but the flow of Isis eloquence is so overpowerfully rapid, so unweariedly energetic, so entirely unlike every other man's mode of speaking, that tire pronunciation of the particular words is quite hot to one's view in the midst of that conti nual effort which is required, in order to make the understanding, even the ear of the listener, keep pace with the glowing velocity of the declamation. His words came more profusely than words ever came before, and yet it seems as if they were quite warble to follow, pestibas aquas, the *till snore ionising speed of his thought. You sit, while initiote folloancrninote uocounted and unheeded, lit a state ref painful ',mitotic''', as if you were in a room oveilighted with gas, or close wider the crash of a whole 'waling orchestra. •• This astonishing fluency and vivacity, if pos. w owa by a person of very inferior talents, might for a little be sufficient to creme an illusion in his favour ; and I have heard that such things have been. But the move you Call overcome the effect of Jeffrey's datzling rapidity, and concentrate your intention on tlse ideas embodied wills such sillier pastoral the greater will he you: admiration. It is impossible to conceive the r xistence of a more fertile, teeming iutellrct. The flood of las illustra tion seems to be at all times rioting up to the seiv brim—yet he commands and restrains it with eq al strength and skill ; or, if it does escape him fur a moment, it spreads such a richness all around, iloit it is impossible to find fault with its 'stigma -wince: Surely never was such a luxuriant • sepia iamb.' united with an much terseness of thought and brilliancy of imagination, and managed with so much uncouscions, almost instinctive ease. 11 lie be not the moot delightful, he is certainly Ire far the most wonderful or speakers. Like Cranston's, this splesidid rhetorician was many 3 ears at the bar, before his success was at all propor tioned to his talents). The reputation enjoyed by lois Review was boils a friendly and a hostile thing to him as a barrister; for it excited universal utteotion to him whenever he made soy appearance et the bar, and yet it prevented many people from soliciting him to ondertrke the conduct of their cases, by inspiring* sort of fear, that his other. mid snore delightful, and better-rewarded pursuits, might perhaps prevent him from doing full justice to matters or every-day character--the pillory di*. putts or traders. ass) the mean tricks of attornies. All this, however, has bins long Mime got over, and Jeffery is now higher thin almost any of his bre thren in his gener.l character of an advocate, rind decidedly above them all in more than one or drpaitintait of practice. The same powers which have enabled him to seize with so firm a grasp the missies) of the public, in regard to mat ters of taste and !devastate, give him, above all, sway nto leaned over the miii:ls of a Jury. There cannot lie • finer display of ingenuity than his inside of addressing • set of plain conscientious men, whom it is his busirseis to bamboozle. He does hot indeed call up, as some have dared to do, the majesty of sleeping passions, to overawe the tremb ling indecision of judgment. The magic lie wields it not of that htgli cast which makes the sub ject of its working the conscious yet willing slave of the sorcerer. lIIS is a more coming, but quite as effectii d a species of tempting. Ile flatters the slushy of men, by snaking them believe, that the best proof of their own superiority will be their corning to the conclusion which he has proposed ; and they submit wills servile stop dity at tint very moment that they are themselves on dis phi) ing the bolduess and independence of adveu tursins intellect. In co noinal trials, sod in the siewly-estaltliolted Jury Court for civil cases, Mr. J• Ifni is now completely lord of the ascendout."— Ibid. pp. fi36-110. I'VREHTIi - 1 - IV7'E LLBJENC E. Valli, APRIL 6. His Escellency the Minister fur Foreign Atfiirs transacted business wills his Ililajesty. l Siniday lest Mr 1 sal Jourdan, who is Cora pe I l v r ecovered from the e ff ects of his late acci - dela, hail the honour of pia) ing his court to the 1.nr.1 ‘Vliitwortli arrived in l'arie on Sunday last. A laser from Vienna states, that the Duke de ;Nloni hat (J rfOtllt• Bonaparte) has obtained per mission to have a house in that cily for the pu t poses of uccasimial residence. Acciinhis from Offeobach mention, that the Count de Las Cases his taken, near that town, a house with a garden, for one year ; and that lie lives there iii great retirement with his family.— I le rev , Ives no visitors hut his immediate friends and some of the inhabitants of Frankfort. A report was circulated, that smile persons who are considered as atcirt friends of Bonaparte, hed conic a great die sauce to see M. de Las Cases, but it was void of foundation. It is said that certain of his friends have been endeavouring to induce him to take up his residence in France, but that lie perseveringly rejects that proposition. The woman Bancol was exposed the 31st March at nine o'clock in the morning, at the Place de Toulouse, with three men condemned to he brand ed. A detachment of infantry and a guard of ca valry formed in a circle around the scaffold, kept out wills difficulty the curious. who had col lected in crowds to the place of punishment. The 'dice Royale, and the avenues of the adjacent streets could not contain them. While beholding this woman every individual recalled the details of the frightful crime in wnich she had beets an ac complice, and the still snore horrible one she had meditated. We are assured that she shed tears on hearing the cries of malediction of which she was the object. At tea o'clock she was branded, and teconducted to prison. Some dogs of a peculiar race are coming from the coast of Terra Nova. These animals art train er], it is said, to save persons drowning : they leap with rapidity to a great distance in the water, awl dive to the depth of several tonics to bring to land persons also have had the misfortune to fail into the water. _ In the sitting of the Sth April, Cie OhmAber i.f Deputies wai principally engaged' in receiving , Reports on Petitions. The only one which pos sesses any interest is that oil a Petition by the Stela Thomil, the grenadier who sewed Bonaparte's life at St. Cloud. A pens' of 6no francs had been granted to him, winch the Consular Governm ent decided might accumulate with the pay attached to the rank of Captain, which he received II short hone after. This declaims is repugnant to n late law, and the object of the Petition was to obtain the accumulation of the two pensions, to the amount of 1,200 francs. • The Commitit e to whom it was referred, admitted the justice of the claim, and made an caerl'twn from the general law in favour of the Petitioner. Kotzebue's body was opener!, slid all Ilia organs were found to be in a very sound state. His age was fifty-seven; lie was a member of the. Lutheran The Five per Cent. Consols are 67 Is Intik f. --tank Actions, 1,530. FRANKFORT, APRIL I. The public mind, at this moment, is exclusively (occupied relative to the lamination obtained from the assassin of M. de Kotzebue before his death, and the private motives which could actuate loon to comma the crime. All that is positively known is, that the assassin, according to Isis own st quitted Jena early on Ilse morning of lite !I II Much; that from thence lie proceeded to EtLios gen, wileta! lir Mitirstral a Is.. Isort for the bunters of lite Alain. Ile set soli Iron Erlangen on the and arii veil post on the r.rning of the 421 tit Lurch, lire 6-awns From Misnheins, on the oilier side of the Kline. At birch he hireol a l oresaat's cart, and arrived psi Ille 03(1, al tell WelOCk iu the monolog. Tose wretch 010-plooyrd lotich COM posurr, elell after committing the. deed ; he wit lift svouptsims of repentance whatever. His which lie Ws been permitted to tmake in writing, as far ns was consisteut with his enfeebled stier, IN. de liotzebow deserved death ; that lw had son private revenge against him, hut that fora long time lie hail resolved upon his death on tics cnuntof thecnnies of which lie had been guilty against Germ.my ; that he was tranquil because he had succeeded; that he had no ucromplice, and that his crime could only be imputed to I self. This fanatic appeared 10 feel no tither regret than for the relative, of his victim. Yesterday his at tendonits were compelled to tie his hands, to prevent him from tearing off the bandages and opening his his wooled". His exterior is agreeable, and all the information which Itaa hero collected with respect to his conduct before the assassination is very fa vourable. c.nAvrrA PAPERS. CALCUTTA, NOVESIISEX 10. Our intelligence from the interior of ludia speaks favourably of the general trunquillity of the country, and the satisfaction of the people at liv ing under a Government whose ain► us well as whose interest it fortunately ir to preserve to them the ble►sings of abundance, security, and peace. There are found here and there, however, refractory brigand-, wl►o draw around themselves a set of des perate adventurers, and seek, in resistance to esta blished authorities, and in plunder of the peace able and industrious part of the population, that gain which neither their virtues nor their talents would procure fur them in a regular and well-or dered community. _ . The Beitool Valley and the whole of the Nag pore country have been principally the scene of these late revolts, and we have given the details of the operations against the revolters there, as they have occurred front tune to time. Tie most stub. burn and courageous of the enemies with whom our troops have had to contend, were Arabs and Gounds, and among the slain the first hart , been always the most numerous, as being constantly found in the hottest of the light. Lieutenant Cruikshank particularly distin guished himself in these contests, and Lieutenant Lane, of the 7iii cavalry, has been mu closely en gaged as to have had two horses shut under hint within the last two months, besides being wounded himself. By their small detachment, a march of forty miles was made, and two battles fought with in the space of ‘26 hour., and the troops bore all with firmness and cheerfulness, though the roads over whirl► they marched were unusually bad, and they tasted no food till the close of their gallant labours. These roads in the territory. of Nagpore are vu bad, that it is said only six camelv survived out of 36 that were employed for a veil limited periorl near the bank of Nurbudila. Major Bowen, of the Madras army, has also distinguished Himself in several gallant actions with these Guam's and Arabs, and particulaily io an affair against Boordace, where the rising of the strewn in some nullalis having cut A. Ilk expected reinforcements, he bravely dashed on with only 100 infantry, and drove live times that number out of the town before him, 300 of whom were afterwards cut up by the cavalry. Major Wilson has also earned his portion of mi litary reputation, by the taking of Pawnee, another 'troop; post, seated oil the banks of a liver, about twelity4ive mules to the S.E. of Nagporr. The details of this gallant storm are such as reflect the highest credit on the courage and skill of those en gaged. The Mogul Loose, who are attached to Major Wilson's party, believed also with great bravery, and evinced what the conduct of Indian troops has always so conspicnously slrewil, that good leaders and brave chieftains are almost all that are Welding to make di•ciphued soldiets awl coinageous men. The last letters w e hare from Ilossiog dim! are of the date of the 10th of October, aad limy in form us that Sheikh 1)ulloo, a celebrated l'italaree Chi f, has wade his apprar.itice w tit 11 000 THE BRITT S H PRES S . LONDON, SATURDAY. APRIL 10, 1819. Calcutta Papers have arrived from winch we in sert some extracts. In them it will be seen. that several parts of the interior of India are still dis turbed by the active hostility of parties of free booters, sufficiently large to give employment to some of our regiments. But after the miracles of valour emulously displayed during the late cunt paigits by the British and native troops, in dis persing armies of tried courage and surprising mag nitude, it would be impossible to look upon these annoy reninan's of the enemy's forces ea caloilitted eithei by their 'Ambers or the character of their commanders to excite any serious apprehensions of immediate danger. Indeed, these partial manifes tations of inquietude and hostility must be expect ed at the close of an intestine war, and particularly of one like that just terminated, unparalleled for extent and activity. But the sound of arms in ally part of India ought to be at all times an object of alarm in tide country. We are fond of flattering ourselves that the establishment of British law, and the extension of British authority its Hindustan, are synoi l imous siith the triumph of justice and pros perity. But without here entering into a ditquisi- Lion on national prejodices, and ascertaining bow fir the abrogation of a system of laws familiar to a people's minds, soil suited to their religion, leibits, and manners, especially if effected by the looser of the sword, may be regarded by the conquered na. lion as an act of t 3 runny, and induce them to ab. her uny other code prescribed iii the place of it, we may at least conclude that the li itish laws have nut as yet b.en sufficietitly long e,tablisliid in India to create a profound veneraliou fur them in the minds of the iodises. in NO, the change caused by the introduction of them has the frame of society ; the people ;IP y et fvel no obligation to oards their riders, they are stink in poverty, and require but little stimulus to make then) Woo- Jena's, soldiers, or rebels. Recent occurrences prove that a military spirit has groWli up amour; the people. Courage, or that ncr,inial confidence which enables troops to encounter au ellenly, is capable of being created, and is found, from the excellence of their discipline, to exist in u high degree ill the native troops employed in the Coin puity's service; but this quality 110 where shone with snore !minima lustre than in several corps of Ho Lk A a's army. This, by the habit of encounter ing danger, niuy be spread to any talent among the great body of the people, and, united with the desperation of poverty, and the ideas of national injury, must, if not speedily checked, become highly dangerous to our Indian empi.e. The vigorous policy hitherto displayed by the Marquis of ASTI \ GS, and particularly in the prom pi itede wit h which be deprived the hostile Princes of the ordi nary means of future hostilities, induces a ready coiltitiri:ce in his future measures. Tire predattny bands still in the field are pursued with unretnit tit% energy, but it will require some time to com pensate the inhabitants for the miseries they have endured, and poverty is au excellesit I'er:suiting offi cer. Its no other coutitry in the world are inisery and immorality so widely, so univrtailly extended. It it impossible to enforce laws with any hope IS athantage among a people who feel iso iiitetest ill upholding society. and who look upon the laws only us institititents of oppression. feel ing must muse principally from the general de. gradation and poverty of the natives; their Go %eminent, t h e rt fore, most be answerable for the consequence,. Tie iklarildis of Trammel loss already obtained the atmort honours of the field of battle; hut it is from the labours of the Cabinet, ill ameliorating the condition of the people com mitted to tie care, in unreeling the anomalies of their judicial system, and in thereby giving to the etrearii of justice a more impartial and beneficial thieciloo than it 11/1191 at present, that he can hope to io-clire that ennobling triumph which finds its hest reward in the happiness of mankind. The Paris Papers or the Gth have arrived, from which we have made some extract*, hut they pos. sass very little intereat. A Dotelt 11uil has arrived, with Papers of rveetit date. The following account of the silly Uorussi Is plot comoins some Hovel eircisinstaiicer DRUM' ELS, APRIL 3. All the Jowl's!' have spoken of the conspiracy which was to break out at Brussels in the month of November, lust yes,: foreign Journals even gave details on the subject, whirl► were generally un known here. A 111. Lewis Bovh..E, a Frenchman, now ■ vinegar distiller at Brussels, has addresse.l a memorial to the Members of the flight Court of Justice of South Bralmist, to prove that lie had no share 'in the plot. This memorial, of seven pages 4►o. throw. some li ► ;ht iiitots what hos hitherto been obscure iii this plot ; but, however, it reveals only some imperfect detail.. It is to be hoped that the public tbscustion of this bcfore the Court of A-sizes %till fully clear up a plot which was as dating as it was ill conceit/ed. Awaiting the moment, which appeirs not to he distant, we quote some paysages of the Alettiorial of ..l. After a ',loot exordium, expressing his astonish ment at king implicated in a plot which he dis covered to the Nlagistrates the moment lie was in formed of its existence, he proceeds:—" Oil the 3 , 1 of N:ivember, about right to the morning, one Adolphe Poutllot übas Lateroise, formerly a French officer, came to my house, and told me that a plot was in agitation to seize 'the Emperor of Russia in his journey, to force his 111rjesty to sign an Address to the French, to :Teal Na poleon, to proclaim the son of Napoleon Empe ror, and the Archduchess Maria Louisa Regent, awl to kill his Majesty the Emperor A lexalider if he refused to accede to this demand. Asto nished, terrified," this recital adds, "he urged M. Pouillot to disclose these circumstances to the Police." :11. Buchoz then gives an account of his deposirion., day by day, till the lOtii November. ‘Ve see that on the 4th M. Poutllot gave to u Magistrate u detailed account of all that lie had discovered, and produced the original (in the hand writing of a M. Piget) of a proclamation, which his Majesty the Emperor of Russia was to ha com pelled to sign. On the 7th the conspirators were to purchase at Brussels arms, for the sum of 1,500 francs; that on the 8:1,, at 11 o'clock at night, Pouillut informed hint " that Piget had set out at nine o'clitc k for Bossut, there to receive the oath of 200 smu l Nlers, who 'etpected him there, and whom he was to bring hack to the environs of Brussels; that all these men were armed and mounted, and that part of them had belonged to the red lancers of the ttlil Guard. I immediately hastened," says M. litichoz. " to commuoicate these details to the magistrates." The 51inisterial Prints do not relish our com ments upon their loyal exertions to mislead the public by delusive and coloured accounts of our financial prosperity. They are all " ;;lumps," who will not view it through their false medium, and whose cold hearts are not warmed by the bright sunshine of their br:lliant fancy. We yesterday mated, in the figures of the financial tables laid before the [louse of Continuos, that, notwithstanding a deficiency in the produce of the Consolidated Fund tot the hist quarter, there is au excess in the total produce of the public revenue for the whole year, abuse that of the receding. This, how. ever, a i!l not satisfy our friends of the Treasury. It is u " glu miry" siew of our situation that con fines itself to fact,. Where these are deficient, a truly htyal mail will always supply the defect from fancy. Ile should say in the spirit and lan guage of The (*wirier, if we 11.111 now " that pro. ductive tax," the income Itlll, how much greater would be the produce of the Jerome fur the last year; and again, lithe charge on the produce of the Con solidated Fund last year was nut greater than that of the preceding year, only think how snuck richer we shoul.l be ! This is solid and substantial reasoning with a vengeance.—" Oh !" says little Skirmish, in the farce, " if I could hold the pen as I hold the bottle, wh a t a rattling, roaring, mood hand I should write." The preliminary ►teps to an early discussion of the Catholic Question have already been taken in both Houses of Parliament, under circumstances, too, which give to that subject a more than ordi nary interest. It is impossible to imagine • more delightful object of contemplation in the moral world, than to witness the extinction of those ua !Hippy feuds who li uteri opted the social harmony of a people bound by every principle of nature to support and cherish each other, to watch the dia. pennon of prejudices which for a long course of time had been mistaken for policy and wisdom, unit to see a sense of patriotism at length coon tenet the motives of a mein and selfish mono. Tardy. Such was the prospect recently prrarritect to our view by the Protestant Meetings held in Did,. liii, and other cities and towns of Ireland, to Pet,. tion Parliament in behalf of the Roman Catholic• , and although we are by no means so sanguine as t,. imagine that the Petitions then prepared expressed the unanimous opinion of the Protestants of Ireboat (a supposition opposed to the very principles of hci. man nature), yet it is impossible not to iwrceite such an occurrence a satisfactory proof that spirit of monopoly in that country has lost no iti. considerable portion of its pernicious influence. Petitions, in the mean time, have also been pre sented to both Houses from the Roman Catholic Nobility and Gentry of Ireland, and also from the same class of persons in England, from the flow. •RDS 91111 the TALBOT', and many others, slice.- names, like these, might almost be taken as lush!, remembrancers of our national glory, and are e once the reproach of their sufferings and the ranee of their loyalty. The debate nit this sik-rt will probably take place in the House of Com mons oa the 30th of this month, and in the !Lou. of Lords on or soon after the 4th of May. In the consideration of this question, it is irr• possible hut that the Petitions of the Protestant, of Ireland, such at least as are there most eminent iu riiik, talents, and property, must have a cow. 'standing influence. The question is one 00 7 , 7 . they rf evidence, iii which one party produces the testimony of times long since gone by, when tl,c minds of individuals were heated by mutual ng4ies. 111011 F, and the violence of religious prejudices on blurred by extraneous and temporal circunistai,ce,, and when consequently every representation inu,t be tainted by self-interest. The other party pro. duets the testimony of persons now living, who have daily and hourly experience of the condoct and sentiments of their Roman Catholic country men, and who in the monopoly prepared fir them I,Y the law, would find an interest in testifying to the disadvantage or those who seek a participation in offices and dikiiities. This testimony, too, acquires the highest importance from the characters 'and principles of those who give it. They are Noble men and Statesmen—men who have differed on other subjects of policy, but whose equal etk rience leads them in the honest sesschilfter truth to a sithilur result on this important question. They are possessed of the largest landed pro perties in Ireland, and their residence in that country, while it offers an assurance of their ac curate s . durces of information upon this subjec:, furnishes the most certain proof of their own sin cerity in the opinions they profess. They stale their lives and property upon the result ; and when such men come before Parliainent, add in the face of the empire offer their free, disinterested, and unsuspected testimony on behulf of their Roma', Catholic countrymen, (*fiends and relatives, thii.. domestic associates, the companions of their con vivial hours—when such men as the Duke of ILI N• STER and Lord CHARLEMONT come forward sod tell us, that the Earl of FINGAL, Lord FrgENCII, and such Catholics are worthy of our conlidclice, shall we reject such testimony, and turning ov r the leaves of musty volumes, prose over the opi nions of Councils and the sayings of Popes, ingeniously extract from the essence of ignorinice and bigotry reasons to justify our own intokraiit:e i I Are the Roman Catholic Nobility and Crory, mt no have equal facilities of education with the Pro testants, and who certainly are not inferior in the i r intellectual powers—are they alone, by some mega: apt'', exempt from the pervadilig influence mi f . learning end of science, and while the rest of the nation exult in the expansion of mind which chs tinguislies the present age, can it be supposed that they alone look back with feelings of respect .iiitt veneration to the exploded absurdities of dis.atit centuries ? IVhatever remarks we have made on this subj t, with regard to Ireland, apply a fortiori to the question as it relates to this country. In Efig!awl the Catholics bear but a small proportion to the great body of the people ; they are utinoticed as 4 body in the mass of our society--but what VOll/1111 does not this very circumstance Ppeuk iu thy,' favour ? Their existence would be wit:outs it hot for the dignified complaint they occationall) to the humanity and policy of their oppressors. There can be no political contest where there is not at least an approach to an equality of What then can the Protestants fear Ii ton the Roman Catholics in political power ? And to sup pose that the former could, in the present en lightened age, be actuated by a spirit of reli,4i persecution, would be a libel upon our charaet. our Government, and our Church. Iti behalf the Protestants of England we protest against tn.• idea of a religious persecution ; the exclusion the Roman Catholics is grounded upon ptilitir , t motives merely; but we fear unless the advocate+ of tine exclusion 'thew some better reasons for bor. porting it thati the argument of their own spin hensions, they will gain but little by this change nt their position ; for religious bigotry proves only a weakness of judgment, which only excites pity or contempt, while a spirit of political monopoly ar gues a grovelling selfishness of mind, with a con siderable share of dishonesty. But why should the Roman Catholics be suh, jetted to disabilities from which the Pisseuter•, and the Presbyterians, owl other sects, V ~'elley, with a train of followers, and [list A l ip lit Sahib himself was about to male a movetneat to the eastward. The Madras troops, adds our correpondent, are taking fort after fort in the neighbourhood of Nag pore ; and the Ex-Rajah's resources, be adds, are so completely exhausted, that he may soon be ex pected to effect an escape from his own troops, mid thrn► himself on the mercy of the enemy whom he has •o fruitlessly braved. CALCUTTA, OCTOBER 20. Flusstmoaaap.—We have been favoured with n private letter from tins quarter, which states, that though the country is in a state of quiet at present, the revolting disposition of the people is likely to furnish sufficirot occupation for the troops, in the neighbourhood. Appall Sahib is said to be collect ing his forces in all directions, and several parties of his adherents have secured themselves in forts and strong holds at hut a short distance from N-g -pore. A detachment of troops had gone out against these, lint accounts of the success of their opera. tions had not reached. Major Bowen, of the Ma dras E.tablisliment, had killed about three liiiiis!red of the Goai:ds and Arabs who were in the fieitool Valley, and still further skirmishes were likely to take place before permanent tranquillity would be restored. PoosiAit.—By recent letters from this place, we learn flout his Majesty's 6711 s regiment of foot were on their march trots Bombay towards Seroor, whirls adds confirmation to what we before stated, regard tog the state of the late Peishwe's territory, and the necessity that existed fur additional force being sent into that quarter.