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MAILS. Aassysa-1 Preach. Dvs-3 (iambs)*li and I liamburgh. !the Writiolt Woo. WIN BAITISII PaTlll commenced publishing yestaday mom. ing at Ave o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, J&Ku&ly 1, 11324. The latest amounts from Madrid, to the 90th, state shat the long-expected amnesty was still under protracted 'abandon, by Ferdinend's Council of State. There had been several sittings, at which the tyrant and his brothrus peeiig The antiquated archives of lipain, enemies steer, wean searched so discover precedents, from the asnany of Charles V., and the conduct of Philip of Bourbon aka,. day, on which to raise exceptions in the forth opining asuasty. The capitulations grAsted to the foI %NO 11( the Carty by the French Generals, had also em -111191111011 tease sage and liberal Councillors. The decree, b said at length to base been a r veed upon, and was b make its long-promised appearance on the 30th. Ferdinand is said to feel lonely without the company and support of the Andalusian. Monk, his late minister, and the return of the confessor Saes to the Ministry is anticipated in Madrid. All this beady what we expected. Ferdinand is incurable; he is a bigot from habit and conviction, and a ty rant ban feeling : a liberal or enlightened act would be fo reign to his character and that of the crew by whom be is surrounded. It is better his tyranny should be undisguised and unbearable, than that any half measures should pars lyre that resistance which is now sure to spring up again in Spain. The last letters from Bayonne give theaccounts of a snutiny at Estella, among the Faith banditti, who became indignant at the corporal punishment of one of their Officers. The troops broke into open revolt, and in endeavouring to suppress it eight of their Officers were killed, and the battalion of Royalists then marched out of Estella with drams beating, and divided into three columns. The prisons of Paaripehma, filled with Constitutionalists, Went begliming to be slowly cleared of their victims ; but flails Al from two to six thousand francs were individually leeks* Amu them. This is one way of recruiting the Itoyilist Exchequer. No loan was yet arranged, or in any progress likely to be so. Spanish Stock on Monday, in Paris, was dull at Vt. What capitalist would lend to snob a Government as now oppresses Spain ? There can ke no contldence or stability in such a tyranny. - - - A series of letters on the mote of Ireland, addressed to tbs Idarquis of Lansdown, has lately appeared in the Dahlia Eveaiag Post. In these letters, considerable teen is mixed up with a great deal that is sten amnion: facts, of which the people of this country are se find, an sparingly dealt out; but speculative opinions , We as proftwely pot forward. The mannfacturer of these epistles, if we could take his own words, is the veritable Amphitryon of Irish politics, and deals out his sage wicks with all the affected wisdom of a veteran lawgiver. Ireland, of late years, has been prolific in political mounte basks, who, when the great actors have for ever quitted that stage, strut and fret their little hour of mock heroics on minor boards, and think the public around them ought to be deluded by the brascn hollowness of their paltry stage thunder. (Inc declaimer starts up and passes away__ another still succeeds—" and the last fool is welcome • as the former." To the age of heroic Greece, and the orators and writers, tragic and otherwise, of that glorious era, succeeded a race of miserable sophists; and to thedays, in Ireland, of Grattan, Klood,Ducquery, and Cur ran, have followed the weekly sessions of the Catholic Board, and its eternal frothy spouters. Thus, Mr. O'Connell and the tragic Mr. Wild declaim ; while the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees writes nonsense on one side, and the Correspondent of the Evening. Post on another. In this way the people of Inland live, amid a cloud of delusion ; and every mea sure of the present government of that country, framed to conciliate and benefit its inhabitants, is grossly misrepre sented, or received with dislike and distrust. In the last number of the Forming Post, we find the persevering cor respondent of the Marquis of Lansdown (the political men tor of the Noble Lord) proclaiming, with all the importance of • vender of quack medicines, his anticipations, in that pa per. This letter says—" We (that is, the unsolicited cor " reeponsSent) have some reason—strong reason, indeed, " to expect that a great measure is in progress, with a vi :w to " trenquilliro that country, and control those factions which " refuse to be tranquillised. Your Lordship (Lord Lana " dines) should of course he better acquainted with the plan " than we can pretend to be : yet, if we be not much mis " taken,—and our authority is by no means despicable, —a " serious alteration is likely to take place in the sentiments' " of the Cabinet, or in the members thereof, touching the " claims of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. We have " hoard---sod we ate not dispoeed to doubt the source from whisk our information is derived—that a relief Bill is • in agitation ; that its principles are liberal ; amid that " the only return likely to be demanded, is one, which, " beyond a doubt, will be serviceable in the long run, to " the country, namely, the abolition of the forty.sbilling •• Reeholders, and limiting the frauchise to electors having " out of their freehold a clear yearly income of 101. " We do not know, and, indeed, we do not expect (this •••‘ letter goes on to say) that any opposition will be made " to this measure on the part of the Catholics; but it is " time enough to moot this point, when the Bill, in its de " tails, shall come before us." Aye, when indeed. It is amusing with what easy confidence Lord Lanselown's Irish correspondent trumpets his mock nostrums as genu ine medicines. Ile is trot satisfied with the puff collateral, but ventures at once the puff direct. First, he has " some retina I" and in the next sentence he declares " strong rea son to expect" that the measure be has alone devised is in program. Then " he has beanl." and is " not disposed to , " doubt the source from which his information is derived," that is, to doubt his own ingenuity, which is the only source, that " a relief hill," such as he has holstered up, as in agitation ; and be modestly concludes his expose, by stpting " that he does not know, and indeed sloes not ex pect, that any opposition will be made to the measure " on the part of the Catholics." Now we know, from something higher and better authority than the Evening, Post speculator tan draw upon, that no such "Bill as this, on the part of Goverqnsenf; at either aide of the wa- l ter, has been even thought of, and that its preamble and details only exist in this agitator's brain. We are most anxious, and so, we are sure, are both Lord Wellesley and Mr. Plunket, that the Catholics of Ireland should be re lieved from all civil disabilities. Such a relief is essential to the tranquillity of Ireland, and to the union and strength of both countries; but we regret to know, that as yet there is no likelihood of the present Cabinet agreeing an any such measure; and we are sure that the proposi tion to disfranchise, by a sweeping declaration, a large, body of the peasantry of Ireland, would experience strong opposition from many of the Government Members from that country, who owe their seats to the votes of those wretched retainers; though in principle and experience we are convinced ourselves, that the measure, if effected, would be a most beneficial one. The franchises of the Irish peasantry are not their own ; they are created by their landlonls, and extorted from them u a part of their I , property. Their certificates of registry are paid for, and hell by the land-owner or his agent. By them the miser able " cotters" are collected to the (Afferent sessions, where a few interested Magistrates are utembled, to swear to the i linnekery of a franchise, created until of late by an noes laorpled demise of an acre of moving bog, or barren heath. At these sessions, and the subsequent election courts, l among the different booths, the peasantry are driven in by the agent, or driver, like herds of oxen, and platoons of perjury stare the observer in the face, among whom ap peals to Heaven are multiplied, rapid and heedless as dicers oaths. This is not political franchise or political power; it is at once political and primal slavery. Ireland oottlfl lose nothing by the extinction of such a system. The Ministerial Members from the Irish counties are all returned by' a forty-shilling constituency. In the great county of Cork, in • the south of Ireland, there are upwards of twenty thousand registered freeholders el this description, whose votes are the property of a few associated landlords. In the county of Down, at the 1 other extremity of the kingdom, there are nearly as many. The subdivision of land which follows on this system is a greet evil. Early and unprovided marriages, over-populit tion, and wide-spread misery, have all followed in iti train. In fact, Ireland derives no benefit whatever from its present representation in Parliament. With very few exceptions, the hundre.l and odd members who are elected, and come over here, are neither capable nor independent. The English Members are infinitely more attentive ere Irish affairs, and much better informed, than the Irish representatives, who wing their flight here for two or three months of the year. We do sincerely hope, however, that the next Session of Parliament will not pass away, without that concession being made to the Catholics, which to them (a most deserving body of his Majesty's subjects) will be an act of solemn justice , and which will strengthen and assist the Government of Lord Well , in Ireland--es Government already attended with so m good to that country—but which can new e ff ect . thorough amalgamation of parties without such e Dataisup i , which justice and policy both imperiously rtytte,,_ .t ;al.. iiiir In another part of our Paper we have laid berciiii: . readers the rules and regulations adopted he doe. wpm. 'of putting down the freedom of the Press in India. Tjur, are, indeed, most extraordinary documents. Thi to a state of degradation must that renal Journal bi O 2l rived, in which such a spirit of intolerance an 110,p 0 ,1104 fender ! The Cusrier, in its usual obatquinapilawailnyi • • tells us that the Caleatta Anima, after the d*trtWd - bf its Editor (Mr. Buckingham) "for a fa e weiZc, isiinwl - with every thing calculated to tring public mail and public• measures Into Arrived with the natives, radi tho.oo. •error-General in Council peeped the rulersefefictlitencee • <, for all Presses he Calcutta!" " They are sow," adds this Intsfid 11110 .F 4.414 country—" they are now completely at *a t:sa, Al Ali ought to be." Well done! thou good and faitttfat,swovai 4ti of corruption ; well done ! ! What sinecure can be ample for such an advocate? What reward can o ve . oi mercenary like this? When all publicity of diaeresis is prohibited—all general inquiry into the measures of Go. ' verrament denounced; when the freedom of the press is so completely annihilated, that the people must submit in silence to see their voice neglected, and their opinions de spised ; when the liberties of freeborn men are thus buried before them—then, "grimly sedate," comes the Courier, and peeping over the brink of their grave, after giving three cheers, cries out, with an air of triumph, 0 They are now completely at an end, as they ought to be!!!" He anticipates, no doubt, by the strength of his political second-sight, that this precedent in India does but furnish a foretaste of the doom which may some day overtake us in England. Our Government, tutored by so good an example, may, in her turn, dress up some frightful figure of Radical ism, and thus create artificial terrors to furnish a pretext. for putting down the daily press, and giving the Cormier the blessed occasion to exclaim, as to all the Nompapirs, daily and weekly, that were not under Treasury isellence, " They are new completely it an end, 'lts they oight to be !!!" For ourselves, we are not quite so captivaledi., W,o incline rather to take the hint of MN* old 40 1 ,1111s,rke) " Tua tea vitas pales ems proximo* larde," y I), ro) and to say w'..!) Burke, who has embalmed the" wthlimene; " When our neighbour's Minot is en fire, it is not arnica that the engines should play a little upon our own." These restrictions, so utterly destructive of the freedom ef.the picas, are but an Indian editioa of our I` NeWifflaper Li bel Bill," with additions. It is wove prognatus eodem." Its provisions are copied in the spirit, and most of them transcribed to the very letter. The prohibition to print or , publish without a licence first had and obtained, which li cence may be re:noted or recalled at any time by a notice in Me Government Gazelle—the power of the Magistrates to seize all unlicensed printing-presses, to attack all the types, and confiscate all the books and writings found UR the pre : mires ;—these to be sure are improvements only to be found in the Calcutta variorum edition ; but when stereotyped there, they may be imported in due time, and may be in. oorporated into our free Government at some future revival and amendment of the Six Acts. As to the term Radical, though it has been in finitely serviceable in the way of alarm, it has not yet frightened us so entirely out of our senses, as to prepare us to part tamely with our Constitution. In India this epithet of terror is somewhat new: on this side the Ganges it is grown stale, and will hardly do its office; it has become like the worn-out virus of the cow-pox ; so touch as been done with it in the way of inoculation, that it will sot work upon our fears as it used to do. How unfortunate! that even corruption will in time exhaust its energy, and force us back again upon the first stock. As Englishmen, we cannot survey this deadly attack upon the press without. alarm. We will advocate, u strongly u can be wished, the cause of moral subordina tion—we will unite with the most forward in inculcating the duty of allegiance to the Crown, and of obedience to the Government; but so long as our power of discrimi lion remains,—and we trust in God it will not soon be impaired,—we will never confound subserviency with sub mission, nor abandon our love of liberty,— " That gem worth mere than crowns or worhis can ransom," • I either to the treachery of influence, or to the terra of authority. ?RIM Or BRITISH ink Sock lON pa Gat Illsdesid,llllMll 3 pa Com Comb. 31 per Ciet. 1 Ont.. a Oll 4 per Om& AmuNas, 11 13.11 j Illipariel eft4u. 4sj link far atecoiun Genie for Acet.eij 71 di 71 PRICES OF FOREIGN ri s = s pt. Is Ammo M 1 Ow Deeds SU V Up. U Death Boni Dens Nob Swam Aeneas 11, Nageßion Bowls el Dinshr pAal as s, AM@ °Mat e 91 fag tit. STOabCKS Y.SSTSRDA Y. ls Stock Italia Boo* 11l pr. India for Ammo 274 South Sea Stott' South Sea Old homilies South Sea Pew Aosolties Nat. 8i11e.1.00111. 10 32 61 pt. Dim, 560/ 50 52 61 pr. Small, SO 62 Al pr. Loamy Telma 191 125. STOCKS YESTERDAY. tigissish per Cc Cans. 261 g Ditto far oct. 1 Ditto IS Banda, Spanish per Cents. 1323 181 1.113 Ditto ler the Account 131 Ditto MM. 8a Beads Mexlcsa Mines Fristsh Reties 26(. tIe..MY. Do. Exchange TM Do. Scrip pr. Portuguese Light Bonds PA.fIIIONASLE INTELLICZATE. • The dlsrq . eds Gmham left town yesterday, far Melted Mow. bray, leicestembire. Sir Davidire Gould, IliWt.Sess left town for his rest in Herts. Lord Colchester has left town fauna seat, Kidbeooke, Sussex. Earl Cranley has left town for his seat in Kent. James Mame, Esq. has left town for Melton Mowbray, Leices tershire. - . —.—... Earl Rivers has left town for his seat, Hare Park, Newmarket. J. DuprS, Esq. has attired at bis bona* in Portland-place, from his seat, Wilton Park, Bucks. Colonel and Mrs. Harvey have left town for Chelter.ham. Colonel Hamilton has left town feat Brighton. Colonel and Mrs. Parker left Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, yesterday, for Winchester. The Hon. Colonel Bagwell, M.P., left the Royal Hotel, St. James's -street, yesterday, foe Cheltenham. The Earl of Pile has arrived in town from a tour. The Ilon. Mr. Moods has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Keane Elmer'ld arrived yesterday at their house in Dover-sweet, from Brighton. Departures Wont Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Lient. Deorge Cauldseld, Esq., for Paris; Major and Mrs. Clinton, for Bath; and Captain Brant, for Brighton. BRIGHTON FESTIVITIES. Faswgm PAPSAS. Yesterday we received the papers of Sunday, with the Moik of ➢Monday and Tuesday s date. The following are extracts:— [From the 17:cite of Monday-1 Panes, Drc. . . The Duke de San Carlos had yesterday a priv. aaudience with the King, when he delivered to his Majesty the demeanor's which the King of Spain has conferred upon the General 011icars of the Piench army. The health of hie Serene Highness the Prince de Conde sensibly improves. The Bulletins ivitwil by M. M. Doctor Bally are very favourable. The Prince lied an apoplectic attack. Advice. from Milan, dated December 20, state, that the Em ,' perm of Austria is expected there in the month of March. Baran Strogouoff has arrived in Paris. M. Pariah, Cumul of the United States of America, arrived at tetrasibuigh on the 23d instant, on his rouse from Paris toVientes. The Viscount de Marcellue has &aired u Paris. Rowe. Dec. IL The state of health of his !Johnnie Pope lee XII. centiliters alarming. Amidst his sufferings, his Holiness displays the meet angelic patience. Don Emmanuel Peres de la Vega, the learned and latrepid Spanish traveller, has just arrived here. He has trammed As, America, and Africa, and made Many very curious observations. He has been ten years absent from his country, and only knees from report the recent evils of that kingdom, which he is about to enrich with the tribute of his talents and the bilk of his toils: BRIGHTON, DEC. 31. The oldest inhabitant scarcely recollects to have seen so 'large a portion of the fashionable world sojourning, at this favourite retreat of Royalty as are now collected here, on the occasion of the Christmas festivities ; although, in deed, the term " Brighton festivities" wou ld rather seem 'taken from the present season of the year, than frees any entertainments on an extensive scale wh ich have hitherto taken place. The party at the ,Pavilion has not as yet ex ceeded six-and-twenty, and has amounted to that number only on cne or two days during the last week. To-morrow evening, however, a very splendid entertainment will be given, and numerous titled personages have docked hither within the last two days, in sly expectancy of a provoke on I the approaching festive night. You must know that a 1 royal invitation for New Year's Day, is a special favour, and deemed a compliment faibryond an invitation on or dinary days. There is very litOm dillirence in the habits of his Majesty here and duringidi residence at Windsor. The same love of quiet and reLlremunt, the same disposal of time, the same routine of occupations and amusements, characterise his Majesty's domestic arrangements as I hitherto. Indeed, his Majesty's love of retirement is so' great, that it is apprehended ft ms be pernicious to his 1 health, for here be a'together confines himself to his Palace. 1 At Windsor he daily drove his phaeton in the Great Park,. and this cessation from exercise constitutes almost the only change between his habits at Brighton and at Windsor. As usual, the King indulges in a game of whist l in the evening. The Duke of York, who dined at the Pa -1 vilion on Monday, intended to have departed for Loudon 1 after dinner, but be continued at cards with his Royal Brother till after twelve, and then set off for the metro polis, in order to be in attendance to hold his military levee the following day. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence arc still here. They walked together on the Steine yesterday: altlub the day p lased over with in termittent showers of e, - there was a very full and gay attendance on thin hahimmllit oor tomenade. Amongst others, I noticed thrl3lollo . 0(• t, Lord St. Helens, Lord F. Conynglinli o lArd 'Maryborough, he. Sir A. Barnard, and Sir EdiminCNagie, the Grooms in Waiting,• were also on the Steam: thesteenter has jest returned from the Continent, aftionti ablerttee of a few months; and the latter (who enjoys' lik 411'.utuIintinished degree the high favour of the K. w) Shin' Portsmouth, where be had a~ortlee to take leave 4 ,Lis , near relative, the Consul-. Creuttral for Chili. By! tlinebykl bane been given to un that the trt Cambeidge r _ of 10 *sine, in which the nevlean Conant, rail ; . fs In • Ad - state of diare- Pair:l-And ftirefer,*thrt there' are not forty sailors amongst *TFah • lit need eillae• she :has em board. Is this the papaw. 4 , -the Adsaimdtp•wmald fain give tbeNew World iwMira thenemiyaffed 'attained , * The British Navy ?, %manyoCaptains or the; Nay.rwho are at present , i Cipmili Sykes, *be is lig:mond to attend at on Tuesday %est, a. he umnisanded the Ada .. miggetth when Thereon was a marine Aker on board vessel. ' Ilia teetiinon) , us so !kneader as that time, I , ,` is *toxin** eolly• unfortunate man. •. Wsoirtn.kr, Tont.* 0 . 43.4tit,--Last evening there Mia:4,ttifisplendid asimulllageif tbe fashionsbk aojournes• het it ate Pavilion. The limper of thopy throng mast llama:Gelded one hundred Itliaet. There was a concert in the evening, at •whieh ilitatini was introdUced. He • yed,and sung severa O l tie own emapcsitions, much to 'e satisfietlon Olds Ifelesty and delight of the company. Thii Le a delightful day lee. 11e Stelne is new crowded with in elegant concourse of pedestrians ; two hands are la attendance, and the scene ir altogether most animated and pfeturesqne. Several private parties take place in tine iiteg.' • Madame Recantier arrived here to-day from Florence. Tunis, Dec. 22. King Victor Emmanuel recovers daily. The state of his health no longer excites uneasiness. [Fran the Etoik of Tueidalt• MADRID, Dec. SO. Yesterday there was a Council of State at which his Majesty pre sided. To-day it assembles under the Presidency of his Royal High ness the Infant Don Carlos. To-morrow it will meet under the, Presidency of the Infant Don Francis Paulo. The object of the:cae reFested meetings is the amnesty, which is on the point of being I settled. It will appear, it is said, on the 30th. Nothing has been neglected to obtain precedents which may enlighten the Council In this important affair. The archives have been consulted to, ascertain exactly what took place in the reign of the Emperor Charles V. with regard to the Cotnintinerott, and under that ofl 'Philip V. with regard to the hminrds who were implicated in the nert' , of the Arebduke of ifu; . some pitiable documents re. lating to both thane periods have Dant obtained front the archives of Surma& Whet ernbartsounfthe Council in deciding upon the cases of certain persona, compromised in the count of the Irmo tion. are the capitulations granted by the thief or the French army to the soldiets of 'the Cates. However, all cultic., are t ' mounted, and we shill 'hardy know what has been deinitively .!,..- termined upon. the Jaren.: eke Debate.] RUSSIA. PETERSBURG/I, Dic. 9. The Emperor bas conferred the order of St. Andrew upon the King of Portugal and on the Infant Don Miguel. The Baron Stmonoff Gentleman of the Chamber, attached to the department of Foreign Affairs, has been instructed to Carry these decorations to Lisbon, and to bestow them on his Maim) , and his august son. His Imperial Majesty has also conferred the order of St. George, of the firscclass, on the Duke of Angouleme. M. Divoff, attached to the Imperial Embassy at Paris, is the bearer of this decoration. He set off the day before yesterday, in company with the Baron De Stroganoff The Emperor has conferred upon the Count tie la Ferronaye, the French Ambassador to our Court, the insignia of the Order of St. Alezander, set with diamonds. His Majesty has named as Knights of the order of St. Andrew, H. de Chateaubriand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, and M. Due de Monunarency, Peer of France. Lieutenant-General Poem di Borg°, Russian Amhasee. dor to Paris, has been named Knight of the Order of Sc. Wladi mir, of the first class; and the Count de Bulgaria, his Majeaty's Charge d'Affaires to Madrid, has received the Order of St. Anne, of the seeu,d class, in diamonds. 0111111111 do DsuModiw, Aid.deXamp to the Emperor, who was lent so the Deb d'Antrouleme at the opening of the campaign in Spain, is returned to this capital. Aaron D'Ungern Sternberg, placed near Colonel de Boutourlin during the war, has, at hi. reowomeadadost, been promoted to the rank of discolor of the Collage. Brat Ix. Dcc 20. The Duke of Montrose, we are happy to learn, is quite „recovered from his late severe attack of the gout. Lady Sophia Ileathoote, we are sorry to state, is much indisposed, at her house in Grosvenor-square. The Duke of St. Alban's, who has been confined with a severe fit of the gout, since his arrival in town, is getting better. It is now certain that the Austrian Loan comes out at 82, which, with the premium which it is said to bear, becomes 83. This stock, however, is likely to rise quite as high as Russian or Prussian ; for, although it is true that the resources of Russia are superior, and that the debt of Prussia is not enormous, there is much less danger of war with Austria than with either of the other Powers. which inspires confidence in the stability of the Loan.—Evenin, Paper. An attempt made last week to introduce the John Bull newspaper into the gentlemen's Subscription Rooms at Ipswich was indignan.ly repelled, not from any political feeling, but from the gross scurrility and immoral tendency of that print.—Bury Post. COBURG THEATRE.—We recollect the time when every body who had a peculiar fancy for seeing water exhibited within the walls of a theatre was obligtsl.t6 make a country excursion to Sadler's Wells, and that between the months elf March and October; but many changes have taken _pliteesinee that time: and now we can see real water roll 'Rik down a staircase at Drury-lane, in November, and have a complete shower-bath at the Coburg at Christmas. This 'le must allow to be a mast striking improvement upon all exhibitions of the same nature that have preceded it. The scene represtins a marine grotto; and the water, descending in a lucid sheet, forming, is it were, a complete transpa rent curtain before+ s splendiil'groupe of figures, forms a most novel and delightful spectacle. This ending:a for some minutes, an 4 the changing of the light thrown on it, from one colour to another.vonsidersbly heightens the effect. • On the whole it is a piece of machinery which does infinite credit to the ingenuity and liberality of the ma nager, and seems in a fair way to reward him very specsiily. I'he house is generally well attended, and the performances are highly worthy of the crowded audiences. CRIPPLLGATE WARD.—A, meeting of the inhabitant householders of the Ward of Cripplegate was held on Tues day, fin the purpose of petitioning the Common Council to increase the number of Common Councilmen for the Ward. Mr. Alderman Wood took the (lair. The business was opened by Mr. Newell, who proposed the following reso lutions :-1. That Cripplegate, within and without, is but one Ward.-2. That the holding one 11"ardinote for the election of the Alderman, has been, from time immemorial, and is, one of the many proofs of the unity of the Ward.- 3. That the holding two meetings in Cripplegate Ward for the election of the other Wurd officers, is contrary to the original custom, contrary to the custom in every other Ward, and in direct opposition to the spirit of the Statute of the 11th of Geo. I. passed for the regulation of ward mote and other elections.—The resolutions were agreed to. Before the meeting dispersed, Mr. Alderman Wood stated, that a draught of a petition to be prt sentzri to Parliament in the ensuing Session, complaining of the high duty on coals, had been prepared by the Inquest of that Viand, and he hoped that it would be numerously signed by the inhabitants. CII lIISTM AS FARE.—Some idea of the capacity of the human stomach may be formed by the following account of provisions actually consumed by 39 members of a club, which assembled at a pbblic-house in this town on Satur day, for their annual feast: --Wolbs. of beef, a leg and shoulder of mutton, weighing ttulbs., 3 legs of pork, of 141bs. each, 11 large plumb and plain puddings, and 3 skeps of vegetables, besides potatoes. It isnot to be won dered that nothing , was left Tor their breakfast the next morning. By way of a whet, upwards of 50 quarts of beer, were drunk before dinner !.---Bei7 I'ust. POTAIS SETTLEMENT. [P/001 the Jamaica Courant] The following official document will set the qnestlon the Poyais Settlement at rest : BELIZE MIS t litell AlOrru, BAY or HONOtt/Lts - - MAY 13. Sin—We, the undereigned, having had the honour to leer e your commands to carry into effit 't the wishes of his Alajestre . verentent in conveying preteens to the King of the Mope& , Lion, and also having been hotioured with your iustructiene reditt . to certain infnernation you had received from five persons rif a ps. . of six who hot recendy arrived in this settlement from the se 2: liniment of Sir Gregor 111• Gregor, on the lards adjairmt tend ,th e i whom lied died of famine and fatigue on the passage), .n •cd e , enable you to &flied his Majesty'. AI ininers the fullest infoonaii of the nature of this settlement, its situation, strength, anal i„sobei result : , We proceeded from Belize on the loth of April, in the schwa .1 Mexican Eagle, and not being exactly aware, fiats our Worn a rtisp, where the seat of the Priests Government was shamed, e t dame/ it most prudent to enacted to Block River on the MusD& a =hat being the most direct mode of conimunicating with b-, Indians, and amingpt whom we of couture concluded to it ' the heads of Sir Gregor MYiregoe's Government, and teas boo g she a ready way of cummonicating with the Mosquito Kiosk o peaderonee to emupying much time in beating up to Cap. Crat r'i a Wm, and where we arrived en the Roth of the same month. 1., ( jodee, Sir, of our surmise, when, on ascending that river a the t distance, we fount a tamp and huts commenced erecting, Miel cat . itin: ball and other stores landed, not on Portia Indian gittoci., but on the spot feemerly occupied by the Beitioli sealers of tale in vill acua 6reflu t iwasi ed to , gimrt wi in th il t 3ll: Floest!b(Pani%erYieftcrexilinpetrethrto:hitlofiec"lino"ffortert' h atl me?".l.staitieb;'estar.‘.l: tenets of that place, in coaformity to the Convention Treat, a 1736 with Spain, and we cannot possibly conceive his .vmnity's Government can be aware of this circumst a n ce . Scarcely had we effected a landing, when we were sun mein, by 'objects the most distressing; a number of unfortunate sit _ - dill arou. d us, pale, wan, deplorable, sear ir c i e g l in a t tl a e ntte r teeiin s h mei tigir l ;ndn eh arn Sl l ng t,t, ttiinderghe and wane, weight whebeee with el d n is es ea t se d , y most of those that were capable of movement flocked shim' us. greeting us with emetic pleasure, and imploring fur the sallegf the Father of mall, to bare mercy and charity upon than v illetalt • them from the certain death that awaited them. Seeing such oxumult let distressaround us, we were Induced to inquire into the origin col so much human misery. We wan in_ famed by almost may tonged, that they had left their native *e. try with the • and must flowery views before them, mid had bow ' belief; that they had been led to even to find a settlement, and a very considerable tion, Indignity egialget around it, and means ready to then comparative ern and settees in cultivating the soil ; that had Amon all of them setae out under engagements to the of which Sir Gregor Ailiregoe was the head, under the ape u s title of his. Nighttime the Carique of Popes. and who contracted with them that their wawa should be paid montage i ' ,, re how great had been their disappointment ! They had been lii .. ' in a wilderness, where they found three miserable huts, intiabt .i by three or four Americana, with scarcely a sign of culthat around them 1 That instead of the tine settlement declared to i.. in existence, and a representation of which had been peemiett to them in a boot published by Sir Gregor APteregor's two: IStrangeways, they found no sign of such a place ! All this Ore forest !• and they were absolutely under the necessity, WO se e he hand, to clear away spots sufficient for themselves fluglesp we the hire ground!! That every priopeet that had been held cot Its them was false: there was no appearance of land in cathode. —no rich or fertile valleys—a/1 was woodland ; and that lssde a finding, as they had Seen taught to believe, that the couLt *bet cleared for lees an were, no imam Wog could be hued teat ,would afford their assistance, and that they were einkingamder tier fatigue and disappointment they bad already endured. Thee, go. withstanding having fossil them fires thus deceived, they L. I erected some huts and lauded the meat s under the AM • 1 111616 1 641 9 that they would have remind their mew and by den woe hen been enabled to obtain erode previehme fir their irmiame hid the. to their surprise, at the expiration of the 'math, the dupe as. qusinted them he had nothing but a san e ernes* to hunt lha netts of Sir Gregor'M‘Gregor, aid wtlek were of DO WOO dire That while they were in this situatim reduced at aeon to Op lowest state of poverty, a communication had rime time peensite tooter arrival been made to them by Wesel Hall. the (been. that the Mosquito King had taken pug, offir.ce at Mei; pine .t establishment, and had issued a proclamation hied wink t... read), declaring the grant to Sir Gregor null and void s he i having perforated his agreement with him ; and requiring en... take the oath c" allegiance, or quit his territory! That delta r had them tehedthein : and which, added to the Melody corner ley disease, had brought the greatest part of them on the bed of sit 't. nen, and the state we then saw them ! This, Sir, is but a allant sketch of their declarations and complaints, and we seen roved .:-..! 'they had too much foundation in truth. Having been thus made acquainted that such preelematioas r... Wed, we took measures to obtain copies for your intormati, e, a. ! were fortunate enough to succeed, not only in obtaining cot tee te - . one original. This naturally Induced us to inquire how far the Mistrials* M ellen* themselves were Minted towards this establishment, age we they We" strongly averse from it ; that they se• pot re= to believe the settlers mu British subjecn, me ware most explicit in their declaratiest that tbey 'made/had Mumma assistance, as neither tbrough their Meg, nor by besasay,leidtt .: learnt that his Britannic Aletest? bad emit them there, melee they were established under his unman. We found that they viewed with extreme jealousy awe ateno .. the cannon and bell tbat lay scattered about the pentangle , 14 t'r. the ammunition buried, and of which we were informed by one a their chiefs, who was expressly, stationed to watch the mitten a the settlers with the most vigilant eye, and perfectly .I..knowe to them. On our arrival at the Black River we did not fled t .e idea. tenant-Governor Hall, who we understand bed, iromedisiely after the peomulgation of the Mosquito King's prodernatites, p.ei:owled to Cape Oracles a Dios, to expostulate with him cm the sersrity 4 his measures. On the morning of the 29th of April, a memoriel was ..resentill by Mr. Smith, one of the surgeons of the establiehnin '. is bt name of a large majority ,. of the settlers, setting forth the , .lepte rable state, andpraying tor relief. The receipt of th is pra petition, declaimer, dee much wret. hrOt-:" excited in us the greatest sympathy, and the more so, not . ... , ....was how far we could be justified in granting tile prayer themt • ch therefore determined to wait the retarn of Governor Hall le-her-any reply was given ; and having in the meantime underst Kw nest the Alortquito Chieftain in the neighbourhood of this eatabiOlteet t that front his knowledge of the sentiments of the King, r.; • - mid not visit Black River, but stop at a river at man sheet dieser!, called Plantain River, and being anxious to have ma inu.twe with him on the subject of the present,' and other subjects 'mewed with the welfare of his country, we proceeded Morose the 2d of May. It was in this sequestered spot that we had tardier erne- . tunity of discovering the unfavourable scalene ti et a manioc et the Momnito Chiefs relative to the new establiehment. Haring remained there until the morning of the sth, and weavet nit in formation whatever of the King, medeeided en returning u Blare River, where we arrived on the evening of that day. On the afternoon of the following day the Mosquito Kit e . ...c -companied by Governor Hall, arrived at Black River; and 'a. nor Brat Interview with him he acquainted us he had stopped at Plan tain River, and having there learnt we had returned, and benne very desirous to see us, he proceeded on to the new aimbeahmert and app and highly retired at our arrival, OblaVillor that it enabled him fully to convey his sentiments to hi Mabestv'e Su perintendent at Honduras on the subject. Hie Memento Majesty then expressed to us his v.:ev marked disapprobation of the iltil blisbmest, and also informed us of the decided measure , he bad adapted, and that be was determined, under no consider.tion, dr allow the separate Government of StrOregor 31`Gregor 0.- - lade. pendent of himself: not that he felt the smallest dispeneaa to Injure the unfortunate people who he saw haul been detailed them„ but that it was his firm determination that whoever raid 4 in lie territories should be subject to hie ordininm; neither weeld he ever have contemplated the establishment of a separate °mein. anent, in his country, without the sanction and &dame ed• ffie King of England. That he bed been greatly deceived by Sir Gregor DlNGtegor i , the nature and t used by of tie transfer (ri m, .1 moreover, he nowhe no w progn h u e lmated aelet..., l ti t : world, ,- this individual had claimed a much larger extent of merit - ilatt ever was intended by him should be occupied by New settle - t PM that it never was his intention e ith er to mg at Si r o mps . • . ,tho s . gar. or permit him to sell land in his unitary j but his end. ettese mg was, that did Sir Gregor being Nadas out, be an ia ill s lands to be parcelled out to them, still subject to him, and . ...' certaie parts far that purports, and expensed considerable to hear of his country being publicly advenhed for sale in and his subjects declared to be trans:creed to Sir Grep from what he had heard and then saw of military prepare appeared evident to hint, that if this establishment surreal self and people might soon be annihilated. Anxious as we are to follow the dictates of humanity is i affording relief to the unfortunate people, and satisffal es we t this settlement could wit exist, not only from the hostile fe the Mosquito Indians, but from the accumulation of die would overwhelm them when the rains commenced, a • • the want of system in the commencement of the ands . • : • and due regard to counteract the difficulties that i '•'' settling new colonies, particularly in tropical climates: ' " deemed it a duty to the head of the Gavernment at Black 1 ' take away none without permission. We had stated cow . !:,. ' the acting Lieutenant-tiovernor, Westeott, the purport oft' .• lion for relief, and he declared he could make no objection '• ' people leaving. although he could Arent tre assistance. 'I most fully confirmed by the sanction of °overeat Hai 0 . rival, with whom we had an interview, and who lusted to - • from a review of all the circumstances, he had come to a don to break up the establishment, and bad therefore old. ' letter to Brigade Major lialds - in, to be submitted to his 31 Suiterintendent at Honduras, requesting that he would. fre ' tires of humanity towards so many British subjects. afford I means to carry hie remintion into efect, and convey the u ' nate people to Ilel.ze., and which letter we had the honour sent—and we, therefore, in consequence of such semen great difficulty embarked 116 individuals, part of this list. n of whom, with one solitary exception, were in a low, and .. We are requested to state, that the cieepinsforrtia/ ac- them in a seriously diseased nate: the greatest exertiot count given in most of the newspapers of the donation of one thousand pounds, by Sir illiatn Curtis, to t h e : we arrived on the 11th of May, instant, without a cleat%• ei, Spanish Constitutionalis"m at Gibraltar, is devoid of truth i Thus, having gives rou a brief outline of the matter .: made to support life in several of them, and we are ha p py and only exists in the fertile imagination of the fool who ; : eTi n t:a e r u kl ;def ihat " w r e °bserf are eon i t i • m ineed • wethtsils'eeslteaabvleishwinitehntgrceoatldele de fer practised the witless impOsition. have esisted—lst. From the persuasion, gruuntlid en Jr GERMANY. The Minister of Commerce has published the follo;ping . :— "Yet IMO time past English manufacturers imitate in cotton the WWI deal of Silesia, and to complete the deception these pro. ducts of en English manufactory are packet! up and branded with the mostiossuks as distinguish the linen cloths of Silet.ia. The --pubis IS Moisture informed of this proceeding, so injurious to the Mmeetitof the linens of Silesia, principally of those known by the ammo of " Potillas Reales," and is advertised of the fraud: An Aidd names halm given, that the linens are not falsely embed is illionlo.—Berlin, Dec. 17." PARIS, Dec. 2& This ussonig, Woes mar, the King pee a private audience to M. Pomo rrMew. At ass k Maktoty received all the Minster., Prince Tallernsid, the Cbtomilm. io Manhah, the Nuncio, and the Am " et Spuds sat co is co longer felt for the health of the PrittoMe dd att li t illa apsoior of the Royal Convent of the Temple ; stored to perfect health The accustomed display of the produce of the Royal rtimaidoe. Urea, for the second time, has takes place in the halls of the Loa where net long since we saw, for the second time also, she display of the works of industry: so that die Louvre may well said to answer the end for which it was intended. Sevres has exposed, amongst many objects such as he knows how to ma nufacture, a beautiful vase, representing allegorirally . the genius of France placing in the hands of the Sovereign of Spain the reins of Onvemment, which the violence of the factious had torn from them. This work, made on the spur of the occasion, does honour not less to the skill than to the zeal of those who assisted at its fabrication. Another grand vase represents the triumphal march of Augustus, returning to his palace after shutting the gates of the temple of Janus. [From the C'onstitationwel.] SWITZERLAND. _ BA/LL. DEC. !2. It is announced that an Extraordinary Envoy will be sent from Spain to Switzerland, and be will arrive in a short time at Berne. The principal object of his mission is to engage the Cantons to adopt a proposition of the Spanish Goeernment to conclude with it a new military treaty, by which tour Swiss regiments, newly raised, ate to enter the Spanish service. Such of the Swiss troops who are still in Spain, and who have not served in the Constitutional armies (and their number is but small), and also the Swiss who have retired to their own country, after being disbanded by the Cortes, are to be the foundation of these new regiments. It is more than doubtful how this propositiem may be received by the Swiss Government. The Protestant Cantons will not enter into any nmtociations, even though direct proposals should be made to them on the subject, for Spain never had in its service any except Catholic Swiss. In the Catholic and mixed Cantons, opinion pronounces in aitive manner against any military Convention with Spain. lf pos , then, any one of the Govemma•is can be induced to assent to this measure, it will in all probability be impossible for it to assemble a number of soldiers to compose even a small corps. The system of Swit zerland has also been changed for some yaws back respecting fo reign service. The fruitless efforts that have been made last year, upon the subject of the military convention with Naples, furnish the best proof of the public feeling in this matter. In the small cantons the ti-deranrAuf-eler-3111IIT made many arrangements to enlist for the service of Spain as formerly for Naples ; but we know the bad success of these measures. All that the new Spanish Ambassador can ef f ect will be, to engage some Swiss to repair to Spain, to enter the strangers' corps, which will, in all probability, be called the Swiss corps. There is no question in Switzerland of granting regiments to France. FRENCII4 FITWDS.—PARIS, 29.—Five per Cents. 92f.; Bank Stock, 1,6161: Sc.;Neapolitan 5 per Cents. 771 i Rente d'Esp. opened at 27{.—Exchange on harden, one montb, 2SE Mk.; three months, 23f. inc.—Cu:ins A utheutitiut. BAYONNE NEWS. Yesterday we received the following letter:— BAYONNE, Dec. ?.S. We have no mail from Spain to-day, but a mercantile traveller has broug!it some letters. One of these says, that on Friday . , the 19th, an officer of of a battalion in garrison at Estella. desiring to go to Pampeluna on private business, and not having been able to obtain permission, cut oft* his mustachios, intending to go in dis guise. Being quextioned by his comrades, he told them the whole affair; but they informed against him, and caused him to be sr. rested : he was tried by a Court-martial, and sentenced to receive 300 lashes, which sentence was carried into execution. Several Pol. diets having exprouteel their horror at this punishment, were ar rested; but the whole battalion declared in their favour, and were proceeding to set them at liberty. The officers then interfered, but they were not attended to, and eight were killed. The whole bat talion then marched out of the town with drums beating, and after wards dividtd into three columns; it was not known what direction they had taken. Samos Ladrun having learned this melancholy news, left Panipeluna sad repaired to the spot; but it was not known what he had been able to effect. _ . . We learn from Pampalona that they are beginning to set some persons at liberty, but making them pay a line of from 2,000 to 6,0110 francs. An extraordinary courier, said to have been forwanled by the ; Dirceter.lieneral of the Post of the Army, is gone to urge his re. ques.t that the post may be left on the same footing as at present— that ix to say, that it may come three times a week, which does ant seem to be too much. This courier is reported to have said that there was considerable agitation at Dladrid, from an expectation that the .Ministry would coon be changed, and that Victor San would soon be restored to office, who►e wish is to re-ntablish the old system in all its purity. The 7th and oth regiments of Dragoon , ' arrived here yesterday and to-day : they are in very indifferent condition, and muds re duced in numbers.