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Tbs Barrism ?mass commeneeelpublishing yesterday morning LONDON, THURSDAY, DSCEMBER 9, 1624. In the Madrid Gazettes received yesterday, we have an official report of the crimes said to have been committed by V:co, the Constitutional Governor in Corunna, in July, 1823. ♦Were judicial proceedings are conducted arbi trarily and in secret, little reliance can be Lad on their cor rectness. The character of the Judges, too, is material. It is unhappily notorious, that in all these respects the adminis tration of justice in Spain is disentitled to public confidence. The overthrow of established political institutions is gene rally accompanied with enormities shocking to humanity. No revolution was ever more calm or bloodless than the Spanish. The Constitutionalists were reproached rather with pusillanimity than ferocity. They seemed mere afraid to punish the adherents of the absolute monarchy than to put them to death causelessly. If, however, the charges Against the men condemned at Corunna be true, it would seem that the coop. ration of party feeling was producing there-enactment cf the atrocities of the French revolution: What, then, may we expect should another Tmpular move ment take place in that wretched and ruined country? Even now assassinations are daily perpetrated. sometimes by the Constitutionalists in revenge for previous outrages on them, but most frequently by the Royalist Volunteers, who are composed of the basest rabble, and allowed to rob and murder, without form or colour of Law, whomsoever they suspect of liberalism. The Spanish Tribunals are now filled with furious, ignorant, and sanguinary bigots, raised from the lowest stations of aeciety, without possee sing any qualification for their office, to which they have been preferred solely because they arc untainted with any participation in the administration of the Constitutions' system. The persons of rank who are nominally at tl:c head of the public departments, have really no share in guiding public arairs. The KING gives his C011iill: nee only to such men as the Trappist, the Curate Ninnt No, and the ruffian Be ass e ass. They actually constitute the Spanish ministry, though they have not the honours and emoluments of ogre. We therefore disbelieve the story of the nnyachs of Curunua. There appears to be no sufficient reason for the crime. It is, we think, most likely that the Royalist sufferers perished in an at tempt to capturc the vessel in which they were confined. At the time the Frer.ch army was investing the place, such a mo ment would hardly have been seleettal for the perpetration of so unprovoked and horrible a massacre. The Consti tutionalists heard their condemnation with indifference, and died with fortitude. We fear that the days of blood are only b...ginning; the invasion of the French will yet cause torrents to be abed. Spain is rapidly relapsing into the wildest barbarism and inextricable confusion ; the elements of order and security hare been scattered to the wind+, and the work of pretended " pacification" has ended in the uprooting of the foundations of human society. CJIMIII opened yest , ..rday at t h e closing price of Tees dor, and during the early part of t h e day a.emcd stcadde Sized at 94 g, but about mid-day an alarm was produced, try a report that en C,CriCt44 11411 arTiVt el from Paris, bring ing unfavourable repqrts of the tti et.% ; the convey:ooze IVAa an immediate fail in thf,m securities of a!mitt t. A similar fall took place i dm `.lexicati Bonds, which ep'•ce,f at El. but in the course of the day declintrl to Gq!. 7. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, the whole of the Cabinet Ministers in tnwii assembled at the Seutrary of Stato'n Office for Foreign A!liiirs, and sat in deliberation fur three hcurF. _ _ " Lorl Sidahnith Las, we untirstan:L reti(rnt.d Lid se it in the C'ahinet." The Li me r... ()lac). r sar —" 'fhe Dkoke of Wr:- /ingtxt •••nt!y relu: - .ed to act vs 1).-nety ;ratil Nta.tt.r of the tirtril Lo:h:o ahhouttit streh e l'.y soliethil a...e.pt that L.,,,urgt:e situation.' Grist arc hensi,,ats are ent,rtait,t(t for t'..e saf, tv of the kworth cl Stmohay Alerthant, free-tra.lerF. 'the for ne.r :rota St. Helena on the Ist of S leemhtr ; the et ea t!tc 9taol . di.! rno , •:1. Both ships hay:. horn i:.v.lre.t at Lloyd's at So per cent. prim:Tito. v,:sse:a 3rt . .veit from tit. I!,•iena sn , :r thoso ships. The two missing ships tnay. Inmeter, proce , hled to sonic of the West lnilia Is he Lords of Vac Admiralty have dircctisl coasts of Kent mad Surges to Le immediately provided with complete seta of Capt. Mosby's spparatus fur saving the lives of per- Isms shipwrei S •%t r. PAW lON.IBLE 1 NM:7.IOE WCZ. The Marquis and Marchioness of Char.dos have arrived at their seat. Wotan, Bucks, from Scotland. The Dowager Marchioness of Salishory arrived yesterday at her house in Arlington.atreet, front Hat Held. The Earl and Counters of Sefton, and the ladies Mcineux and family, arrived yesterday at their Howie in Arlington-street, froth their seat. Crortetit Hall, near Liverpool. The Earl of Sherburne arrived in town yesterday, from Ebel tenham. The Earl sod Countess of Falmouth have left their seat, Trego. than, Cornwall, for the scat of ilenry Ilaukcs, Lag., Kings. toe Hall, Duesetshire. Major Gardiner and (may arrived yesterday at Goald's Hotel, JenrynArreet, from Tunbridge )Fell,. Henry Itariog, Em. 31. P.. an ived yre.eteny at Thomas's lintel, flerkeley.rgoare, from his seat, .Somerly House, llama; also Cul. Dore Langton, froin Beath. Arrival, r.t Kirkha • 'a Hotel, Lower Bronk.ittrect:—George Worksop, E.g. from Oxford; S. Mason, E.g., trout Cambridge; Mr. and Mrs. 1k Cr,,pigny, Irma a tour; J.e. and Ales. Cliam lierly's from the Ctioin.nt ; J. Hunt, El., Isom Cheltenham; Mr. and Mrs. linos, from their seat, Charley wood; J. Freetuan, Esq., from the Continent; Charier Esq ; front Oxford; and Wm. Posanguct. Esq., front Iti, seat. Trait I'ark, liens. Arrival, at 31ivart's 110t:1, Lower Brook.street :--The llor- Captain and Mr.. and faintly, tniiu Brus.as Mrs. William Money and fmtily, froin Paris; and Kalkbrenner, Esq, f.am a tour. I).li:inure :—J. S. Lumley Saville, Esq., fur ltanclitre's seat, I>erhysldre. Arrivals at /lad:ma's Hotel, Oxford-street :—Major rind Mrs. Gordon, of Cainiess, and JaIIICS Robertson, E.g., from Scotland ; and the lion. and iter. A. Cathcart, nom Yorkshire. De parture-at—James Whreble, E.g., fur Ronde;; ; Major Rev. Mr. Payne, I:.r. Mr. 31i:suntan, - Littlehales, Esq., Lalor, Etg., and Martin, Kari., o o a tour, GRAND FE F'E'TE AT B US HY PARK. On Tuesday night the Duke and Duchess of Clarence gave a grand entertainment, at their mansion in Bushy Park, said to be in honour of the birth-day of the Princess Feodore, the eldest daughter of the Duchess of Kent. The party amounted to about three hundred, consisting of some of the principal nobility and gentry for ten miles round the country, besides numbers from die metropolis. Among the company wi re—The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Feodore, several foreigners of distinction, the Earl of Caesillis and family, the Honourable Mrs. Hope, the Marchioness of \Vests:teeth, Earl and Countess of Errol, Sir Andrew and Lady Hillidav, Lord G. Seymour, Mr. Seymour, Mires Fitzefarence, Mists Sey mour, the Honourable B. Paget, several of the Officers of the 7th regimens of dragoons, who are quartered at Hampton Court, &c. Preparationshtel been making for several days, and con siderable temporary alterations and additions were made for the occasion. The awning in front of the mansion was brilliantly illuminated ; over it was a splendid star. The bakony was illuminate d ; over it was "G. R. the Fourth," in variegated lamps. Inside of the awning was also a dig , play of vari-gated lamps. A frame was placed in the centre window of the grand saloon, in which was an as semblag./ of lamps, which reflected a most brilliant light into the grand s loon. The 11‘11 suit the Whole of the mans/on was most splendidly illuminated with lamps of a variety of descriptions, wax fights, &c. The company began to arrive about ten o'clock ; they were received by the Royal Duke and Duchess in the most affable and condescending 1711t1111t tieconipatded by the Duchess of Kent and the l'rincess l'eadore. A band of seven musicians were stationed in a vinpnrary orchestra, in the grand saloon , which bad berm preparci for the ball, the fl oor of which had been chalked by Mr. Rornmy, with the Royal Arms, and over which were G. IL, a star, and various appropriate devices. In moot of the splendid suite 'of the State apartments were placed choice plants and clot es. At eleven o'clock the bard struck up a most delightful quadrille. which UIV aornmenceil by the Princess Feodore and the Earl of Errol. The merry dance continued till one o'clock, when the grand dining-room was opened, and a sumptuous and princely banquet was displayed in the setting out of a west splendid assortment of plate on the tables and sideboards. The principrl table was in the form of a horse-shoe, at which dui( Royal Ilighntases ric,cidhd , and entertained their numerous and distinpuzlird guests with every delicacy that could be procured. Tlwre was a great profusion of pines, crapcs, the most delicious ices, which were provided and served up by Mr. Bikini, of Richmond, their Royal confeeth nor. The whole of this exten sive entertainment was arranged and conducted by Mr. Law, the Royal Duke's steward. Everything was managed with the greatest order regularity ; not the least con fusion occurred, although such a numerous assemblage was eon& cull on the occasion. Alter supper 11:1,).!ing n•ss resumed, tchich was kept up with great spirit till near four o'clock. We understand that his Makal did not leave London yesterday. iVe are sorry to say that his Majesty is suf feting under an attack of the gout. 'lle Duke of York returned:te to town ye , rday afternoon. Yesterday the !) c!ui of Gloncester'took an .. airin%, and received visits in the course of the day front the Duke of 1 . 4) , k, the Princess Serbia, the Prin...ess Vittoria, and the Primes' Fees:ore. THE KING •ED THE FINE ARTS.—Oar gracious Sovereign's putromye of the Fine Arts, and his munificent liberality to various professors of them, are generally known and appreciated. The purchase of a picture left by the late Mr. Muss, for no lass a sum than 1.500/. was a splendid instanced the Royal benevolence, ant! we venture ta relate a inure Tee lit one. While Earl Whitworth was Lent Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duchess of Dorset requested his Majesty (then Prince Regent) would graciously favour her with his portrait, which :he King aretded to, and Mr. Owen (the artist) was summoned to Carltoa House; but it being inconvenient for the King at that time to sit fur h.. picture., a capital one, by Sir William Becchey we ne.ieve, was given to Mr. Owen, with directions to copy it carefully. Mr. Owen immediately set another artist shoot the prrrintory part of it, and had already paid him 401. or on account, when the Duchess of Dorset arrived in town from Ireland, and called ta see what progress was made it the portrait. On !earning that it W 54 to be g.,:i!y a c , py, 11 , 1. Grace declined it altogether, arid the picture rem:Mod upoil Mr. Owen's hands. For some time past ( ' , wen has been incapable of following his profession from sever,. illness : his finances have in wie.... (pence been imich le.luced. Speaking one day lately to a friend un the sulject, he mentioned his less by the pic ture above alladed to. '• Is the King aware of it ?" asked his friend. " No," said Owen ; "it WEI never finished." " Nu matter ; contrive to inform his Majesty of the circum stance, and rely upon it you wad be rennin. rated." Owen followed his fr:..oti's advice, and respectfully acquainted the King by letter of the particulars we have just detailed. 01 the text day but cnc he received a r ply from Sir Win. Knighton, by command of his Majesty, expressive of the having forgotten the matter, and at the distress of Mr. I desiring that the pieture might be se;it in its present state to Carlton Ikus•:, and inclusing a chz . anc fee %;90 11)e E:t.l of Ito:alley has given fifty pounds in aid of the Cic.rity S;Zioals in AlitWent% Joseph Hardgett, M.A. one of the Chaplains of Christ Church, has ha•n presented t' the Vicarage of Itroughton, Yur!Atire, by the Dean avA Chapter of the ab'»•e Society. A smart contest is exp:etett to take place for the erpre- Aentat:on i f Ci:nterbury at tie next diction. Sir lt , .:bert Fa:lnbar, we uedcrstaad, ores.% Lord Clifton. No new randi•l.:te :or either the Burou l ;l1 ur the cAtutry of Mid dlosex 11a4 li2ett yet atmottiteetl. 0:t Satitrilvy last, Sir Miki Nightirgale gave hia an nual entert aina..ent at his mansiun, at ltrettle, to the l'rin cipitl god Ilarg,,s..s o f the it l:ye. l'o!ottel Pratt has arrivkll iu Dtibl;n fn nt the Continent, a. ,, 1 ham 03:meowed au active canvass for the County Cavan. IttivrYttr, ritANGEB.—Mr. Tisda❑, late one of the De b-111min. ( cers of the fort of C,trk, las he'll appoin ted one of the Land-waiters of lt , h4tol. In th.t new Bill, Kt par ing to be brought into Rirlizunt.nt, for the rogulation of Iteretiue flusintss, it is intended that hi future .ship -I,w:era and Agents shall be licensed persona.—Suathera r. . . . • The rut in o;eep is tc , ry ;re:unit in the Western cart of the county of hielit. The oldest graziers state, tlnit tL y do not remember it to hare beep so bad fur ncarly furl )ear; fast. THE BRITISH PRESS. FRENCH PIPERS. [From the Doi lTtlated Woodsy.' Peen Pec. S. ..._ The Jaw rust des Dekds, the Constikdiosnel, and the Qsoa lienate, announce to-ttay to their reroiers, that the evacuation of Spain by the French troops will not take place. The Jourterl de* Dellis and the t'onstitidioiniel give a letter from Madrid, dated November Std. reteivid by an extraonlinary channel, which brihes this news. The Qustidienne ssys, that a wittier was to set off the day before yestertisy, or yesiereisy, to carry an order for suspending the movement of the troops. Notwithstanding all these assertions, we persist in saying that the evacuation was to to:nub:Lee un the lst December. IF.om the Juarnrrl de Paris of Stte,4lay.l FRAM►FORT, Nov. 49, We have received tniiidav a letter front larlia , written by a per. sllll Ot . llllllC COnsidcnation, in which it is stand, !list the iwerposi- Con of the French Ilini.ter for Foreign A.ntits with the Prussian Cabinet, in turour of M. Cousin, appeared to have prothicell a very good !Weft, billed it was anohuneztt that it would nut be loog before that le.aned person would be set at liberty, . . ()pinions at Stockholm arc much divided oa the subject of the secret motives which have induced the Ring, (diaries John, to withdraw from his son, Prince Oscar, tlw i:eroyalty of Norway. They know, however, what his Majesty has published on this subject —" That he wishes to give to the Prince Hotta!, his sun, an opportunity of acquiring, by his residence at Stockhoito, a inure profound kallMledge of the anirs of the kingdoms of Sc eJen and Norway." 1R1.7:4. Nov. There is a septet here that his Majesty, Charles X., agrees to the request male to I • by our I ineertiment, to lean_ ten thousand additional men in the Army of Occupation. It is also sail, that Sarago.sa and Santona Rill not be evacuated. Our Minister of Finance labours incessantly to endeavour to improve our credit. The monopoly of cottons has jam been abolished, so that we shall see on our use oxr i our atianutictures by the side of these of Eng land. They estimate at iron' eighteen to twenty millions the duties aide!' this W[411111112 sill proloce zo our Govertiniet,t. The King has issued a decree, by which it is ordered that this prtaluee shall be carried to the Sinking Fond, em. jointly with that of the mines of Almaden, to effect the rrimburiettient of the first twentieth of the royal loan, die drawing of which is to take place on the Ittth of next month. There are constantly tenons of new loans, but with out stating any thing precisely in this respect. 1 [From the Qadotidknor of Sundlr.) 4. It is stated that the Dauphin is abaut to visit mime basely al the prisons in Paris, ahti that orders have been given *or his se cepuoss. SPANISII PAPERS. [From the Madrid Gazette of Noy. 23.] NADUID, N0v."24. . . . . All honourable men, and those who have any feelings of huma nity. Icheld with the greatest honor and just intli”,cation, the atrocious and scandalous conduct of the Constitutionalists of l'o runns, the cowardly assassins of 51 of their brethren, of whom 43, at least, were guiliy of no other crim h aving than of :vitig remained faithful to their King and the laws of their country, and of having enamor& like true Spanierds, to defend these valuable object', aad the religion of their fathers, which they saw del4l/i11(11 and pr r. secuted by those who, in their destructive constitution, had sworn to preserve and protect it. Now that the proceedings t.re terminated which were commenced In consequence of that lementzttle event, which Wiled all Lurope with indignation, we insert an extract from them, which cannot fail to excite interest, and to renew the grief for the fate of the vaxime, and ir.dignetion towards the aseaesins:— The tiorernot of the place, Don Pedro Mendez Vigo, rice 07 - den to his agents on the 15th, Illth, and 2thh of July, 111.23, to convey from the rso al prison to the fort of St. Antrmy, a consi derable number of pnacnrra; this was dune, and by his farther orders, they were rentovtd from the fon, and put on board a vessel ol Seville, called Santo Cristo de log Aftigidos, between eleven and twelve o'clock in the nigh: of the g 2.1 July. [Here follows the names of the inslividucls; 43 are stated to be fur political oOniiiits, and attachment to the Itoyal Government; among them are 'several officers and some priests. The other eight fur radio try crintes.l All these prisontrs were escorted by some of the national militia, some - of the sacred battalion, who were alto accompanied by Coin ' ittissioners of the Government, who were informed of the tragical fate prepared for the unhappy prisoners, who were immediately stripped of their garments, effects, and money, bound, and nut latler the hatches. The visaed set sail in the night, but in the riming anchored again, and quitted the bay shout one in the af ternoon of the 23.1, at which time there came on board a reinliwee nient of national troops from the city and from Ferret', who had been fetched by one of the Co:nmissionors. When at 3 least-ties distance from this port, the ptineipal Commissioner gave orders for the pri soners to tome oil deck as be called over their names from a fiat which he read. This !wing dome, he desired them to sit down on the sides el the vessel' erecter., them bread and wine, which envy laxly decline d ; he informed them that he Wa% going to remove then. iota a vessel that was in sight. lle ordered them to be bound again, and to go utdltr the hatches. Soon aft. rhe ordered twenty of them on deck, end one of them seeing that every thing was ready to throw theta irto the sea, made a motion to rush on the principal Commissioner ; then lath those of the escort, and other the subal tern agents, drew the daggers, which they had ready, began by stahhing them, and iu this state threw them into the sea. The rc mai: der were taken out one by one. 'roe said Commissioner, who was close to the hatches, seize r them by the neck, ordered them to go forward, and as they rassed along the side of the vessel knocked them overboard. One of the priests begim in a loud yoke to sing the ss :Bitterer'," and th.. , other victims struggled wi.h this waves rod with death while the escort sung patri.wic songs. Such was the cruelty of the assassins, that dating one of them who kept above water would save hawk', they put two sailors 041 board a boat, who beat him tot the head with their oars, and killed hint. Not cont.:3 with this, they gave the last anti wort horrible proof of inhumanity. They coolly divided the garments, money, tits which they had taken, at.d having ontostimmated this unheard-et CAM!, retunied to the city on the 244 i of July in die morning. The Regency of the kingdom gave orders on the _4th S: p;. 1823, to a magistrate of the royal tribroal of “AlliCiA in proceed against the authoia and accomplices of sat creel a crime. All the p oeettl. logs having been carristi on in the rogt.lar forms of law, sentence was pmnour.ced on the •.lath cf July lot. By this sentence sic of the &cooked were ordered to bv lumged„ and the remainder to vari ous terms of imprisonment in different presidios, to payment of and to tines ; the property of the criminals to be mooned to the benefit of the families of the victims. The sentence being re ferred by his 3iajesty to the Supreme Council for examination, was approved by his Majesty ; whet it was announced to the crinsinale, moat of them heard it with indifference, and Joseph Lixteo, a shoemaker of Ferrol, sung the Tr.sgsala. The endeavours of the secular and regular ecclesiastics to induce them to receive the con solations of religion were in vain. The people are stated to have be haved wish the utmost decorum at witnessing the ex.. eution of this just though awful valence. The shoemaker kilted himself by opening some veins with a small Two othe:s policed themselves by taking opium._ 'Abe three dead bodies w_re sospeatled from die gallows, and six others of the condemned were bungee. The Ametican Agent has of a peace between the Republic of Illemieound the Missouri Indians, and thereby restored the lucrative interior trade between the Unind States and Mexico. The Comanches, a powerful tribe, threatened the I /sages with war, but the spread el the white pepulatien will soon prevent the Indian contest. The Paella of Ezypt has prohibited the exportation of all sorts of grain, owing to toe Nile not having overflowed its banks as usual ; and consequently, it is feared, the crop will he had. This circumstance may have some efli,et un the article. especially as the demand is gnat in the Archi lr,•lago and the Nlorea. Ilanzli..—The population of the 19 provinces of Brazil amounts to upwrads of 4,009,000. In th•.s counts it is to ha lamented that there are mat: than 2,000,000 of slaves. The regular army of Brazil amounts to between '.?3,001) and ;10,t;00 men ; its militia force to 30,000 men. The re venue of the empire is estimated at nearly 3,000,000 ster ling. In the year 1811 it is estimate:l at 9.1,0u0,000 of francs, or in arty t 000,000 i. sterling. The vast extent of lands belonging to the nation permits Br sil, by their sale, to rtdecm its debt. without ittipcsing hor•.hns on the pet plc. The felluwing is the progressive state of the re venue of Brazil, from the King's arrival in ISOS, to his departure in ltl2o, computed in French money:— lei an. fr. e. 1 Years. fr. e. 11981 - t.:titt,oo9 111 I titlb - . 30.i33,2e7 4 1:149 . llNlti . . . 33.11111,,N3 21 I Itll7 - 41,922,1r.11 211 : 111;* 251, .9 4, - . 49,7111.44:1; 21 11111 - 21..111.832 I. 1319 - - 51.477.877 21 1::13 :14..711.2111 1:1 1020 - - 61,069,1121 21 1311 - - 27,423,3311 U 7 AN 71 qui TIM—In the course of last week, as some la bourers, in the employ of F. H. Alorrice, Esq. were trench ing land for planting in the neighbourhood of Iletshatiger, thy 'lug up a large urn filed with ash, 4, and the rem:line of burnt bones ; and on another spat, above a quarter a mile distant, two smaller urns of the same description plated side by side, and nut above eighteen below the surface of the ground. One of the smaller ones only was preserved entire ; the larger, which was tir,t discovered, having been unfortunately much broken by the num. Tit • fra g ments, and a ,t•,reat part of its contente, were, however, afterwatth collected. A very large quantity of ashes, and the remains of bones, had previously been dug tip nearly half a mile off in another direction.—Kent (;',l%t tie. The quantity of oil and whalebone to Iftill this Eshing qe33011 is—frotn Greenland, rill tune of oil and 3ql t , ot , of whalebone, the proauce of bit fish; from Davis' 2,314 tons of oil and toof tow of whsiebone. PAR!.'. TZOII OVR CORRESPONDENT. PARIS, Dec. r. The fanjet which I mentioned to you in my last, of placing the officers above fifty years of age on the retired pension list, occupies their tneditatior.s in a manlier no way favourable to the popularity of M. DE VILLILE, or to the tranquillity of the Government. They repeat em phatically, with reference to the Minister, the energetic questions of SALY•NfIY. " toms fail pone. rarnWe ? Cale arnde qui, ne pourant duo-cher so gloire duns le namtre des balailler gagni e s, a sts s'en crier time pins belle darts les it iamphes de la discipline; ceile arniz e yui d•rns la guerre s'est par la MOllirtaiOn, COMM!' /MIT la raillanrr, el pour qui L• PAIZ Est. ries Al Ell aTRIE RE, rt.es FA tIGA EYE QUE L♦ GI:EACE DEM ? (27 . a re; mus . 1;:ii pour elle ? Cr teat wine pas dans ses rang:: pm cons arc:: clout le 31.- nistre qui dais desormais Sir iger: par vn rare banhenr, it roue a fella Cemprunter d L . ET A T MAJU It lie Rot Josnrit, el a eboix pnurra sari rendre les soldats de It *overlie d'unaeage les :rutin:en!: uts yt EL LES VA sots." Assuredly this new disagreement will not make these veteran soldiers less impatient apace, or tend to seconcile them to this loan from the ETAT MAIO 3. it was certainly the true interest of M. DE Vu.r.er E to arcid any measure which might give offence to this body of military, as his resources for the formaticn of a royalist army are not such as ar: likely to furnish him with much better materials. Three years ago the army favoured duo J.daerals, but since that time, buying ben allured by ribbons, and crosses, and ensigns of honour, and being, moreover, drafted with the Royalists, its nature is changed : but the army is a body by no means to be depended on in the present condition of the French nation, for they greatly mistake who fancy that all republican feelings arc extinct. The military are at all times strongly influenced by their personal situation, and the proposed measure will put aside many officers of skill and talents, who may make the Minister repent, at some future day, that their interests were not better consulted. The priesthood are daily increasing their influence at court, and losing their credit with the people. The fol lowing affair has caused no slight sensation in the !own of Nevers, in one of our southern departments. Mr. Fee l/:LT, the Chief Surgeon of the Hospital of NOTTS. lately • departed this life, and on finding that his end was sil -1 proaching, he began to search out for spiritual consola tion. His afflicted family behtld with pleasure the choice he had made of M. l'Abbe CRETIN, Curate of one of the parishes of Never!, as his confes.or, and the consoler of his last moments, not suspecting that this ghostly comforting priest could busy himself with earthly concerns, or could have any other care than for the soul of thar expiring parent ; and particularly as he well knew that Mr. Farnaeur bad a daughter in Paris, the issue of a first marriage, and who was far front being in easy circumstances, and that he also knew that he had several children by his second marriage. The wife of the sick man being disquieted on finding this priestly visit of an unusual length, ander lily entered the room, and be held, with grist surprise, M. l'Abbe, with much precipi tation, shut the drawer of a secret !ire, from which be had taken pen, ink, and paper, and, at the same moment, thrust into his pocket a written paper which he strove to hide, and which turned out to be nothing less than the lust will and testament of the dying man. Ile avoided re plying to the questions put to him by the mother of a fa mily he was preparing to plunder of their property, and retired with unparalleled. sof gfrcil. Madame Fara sul.r at length discovered from her husband, that, acceding to the pressing and reiterat, d mild:a Cons of M. CaErtN, he had slispesed of a very considerall: portion of his for tune in favour of the church of which M. l'Abbe Cur - TIN was the pastor. As soon as lhie REAL was spread abroad in the town, it excited very general indignation, which manirested itself to so high a degree against M. I'Abbc, that he returned to Mr. Fneastar.r, who still breathed, and advised hint instantly to place the will in the hands of a notary, and accordingly a Mr. Rou.a xi) received this deposit. In the meanwhile M. FUE:AULT dial. 'Clio will being presented to the President of the Tribunal de Premiere Instance, was opened and read by him, when the Clerk of the Registry observed, that :here was a great omission in this instrument—tlict of the signs tura of the testator. The hurry with which M. ['Abbe had made the disposal of the property of the defunct, and the unexpected entry of the widow, was the sole cause of the omission of this essential formality. You may easily con ceive the joy of time public, and the confusion or the Curate, on the occasion. This is by no means a solitary instance in France, of the widow and the fatherless being despoiled of their property by the Ministers of religion, when sent for to disarm death of its terrors. Put we shall be en lightened by degrees, and real Christianity will in the end triumph ov,:r fanatieiam. GAMING HOUSES IX PARIS. A work has been lately published at Paris, entitled r e p n ia g .. nl Frereati, or the Memoirs ,f the Lee (Itchier deSt. I•'ui.hrand. from which the following facts are (a ir:toted, and considering the thousands of our countryn.en who are annually plundered at the gamilig-houscs in Paris, we thick it our ditty to give this warning to thaw who arc not abtolutely infatuated. Many, now uttatly 'Mind in for tune add character by the nufarioua arts of those vliccking places, car. athl the cotillrntation of their melancholy ex perience to the stattments we are about to submit : In the P.nal t7ode cc..piled under Louis XIII. the 137th Article declar.i. all these persons infamous who stiffer gami n }; in their boasts, and those who follow so pern'xiom; an evil. Irmis XIII. was seconded in Ida supprnsion of gaming tables by the Cardinal de Richelieu: the mind of this Minister was occupied with views of great politics ; hr could not descend to m-att e.ticulations. Richelieu wished to raise the Majesty of the Royal tleverntuent to the utmost in his power. Cardinal Mazarin followed a directly opposite plan ; en eupt himself, he introduced games of Ovum, at the Court of the. young King and the Queen ; this pernicious taste e.tott passed front the Court to the City, and was not long iu finding its way into the provinces. In Iliac hie parliaments of Paris denounced the penalty of tine for the tirst &fence and Hogging and pillory for the second offence of ping a gambling table ; however, the w. Amu of Louis XIV. for Madame llontespan, canna' gaining tables to he introduced at Court; but one lii,;ht this fa vourite having lost four millions, the gamblers were never suff.•rctl to r turn. Li Ow v , il;:i of Louis XV. ga:ning was confir.ell to the , 1 Court a:A Nubility. Public gaining-hooks w. re illegal. Louis XVI. had an aversion to Naming', but the Court pro:llea by his occat:ionul ab , ome, to give themselves up to their private amusement. Gaines of hazard were, Low ever, vitularly played at the lo:uses of Princ e s and Foreign Ambassadors, and at thus," of the Marshal do Luxembaurg, the Duke de is Tri.nouille, and at the ktels of Mesdames de !Aniballe and de l'olignac. These diarm ing women were forced to submit to the despetisin of fashion. lint the 1, ader of exce*Five gaining was the Duke of 0,.11•an. , .. At the PaLai; Royal, nod his beautiful villa at :40:lecnos, f„,7, i n rs of dLttit-tien, bankers, and ina chan!s,ll.),:k,:tl to his rattles. M. de Sartine tolzrutzd cer- tai which were open e d to the zenus, pr on paying for a hectic; at th e iva co te n ga dit iLii n n gofhot theirulc s, of ten Louis d'or. He was the first Lieutenant of to whom this toleration is indebted for its existence the publications in the interest of the gamine , t a m e , quently never failed to applaud his administrait lately read in a pamphlet called Lo l'olice de eurir del that an agent of M. de Sartine, wit. had die inspe r; the gaining-housts, became a .Ifiili,,a.tire, that is t a man worth a million of flares a-year ; this anent been his valet de chambre. The old Parliament re to tecognise these shameful transactions ; and its die in 1777 and 1781 ere sufficient Proof, of its ti.bisiL e the practice introdtmed by M. de sartine. An edict tinned by Louis XV I. clasi.ii.s the crime of cc pi t; , a bling-house with whir ry and stvinl:iit7. A c house was opened riming. the Revolteitni by the 3.1 de Saint Amaranthe :Nl:minis, :true hasir.4 pated a revenue of 80,isid francs a year, i: hackney-coachman. 11 is widow, linwevcr, fortune, continues! to give ji tes fur drawili; tr'. her house. Robespierre havimr dined will r and Lein; a little excited s th wine. forgot I.is eumspection, and let escape ranee 1111115 of Lis tl-: getting himself named D:ctator Kim:. The tan:, a plavr r, with whams, he lived in tr eat fatiiiharity, r to his mind the words he had suff, n d to cso:ine was neet . ssit y to get rid of all dangerous aim: !..sa ft:110 n day a Ci, MC of the Conv e nti on de St. Amaranthe, nit.l her family, as acc , . - toplie.% conspiracy of the 11. tom du Bate, and three dai s 1 ,4 decree, on the fifttli prairial, in the rar Y, litl a a zi Amaranthe, her dam.,-hrer, her son, a child l A l skul I t years of age, and her .en-in law, were led to th, fold. h is singular estoupL, but true, that the !at:, a son of the Minister 'artier; he had spent a !aro 4 with an IIC:TCSII 1:81111.11 Add i he woo, hcwt-ter, noble mind ; Le soLeited the dangerous honour, so many others, of del . ..tiding the unfortunat.• Lui s , Yet more strange is it that atmtlit r ran of this who introductd the system of tolerating gatnia..L / was killed in a fray with a set of gamblers. Tlw inithe year 5, named tiotin, the I )..putv, Illia:sttr of i in the place of Lanoir Laroche, who 'had held ea, ir lio only fifteen days; Sutin organist 41 a numerous and a decree was ',Assisi by the Dir. etory granting y francs for the exp: nses of this 3p-era scrriee,a nearly one-third Um than what in lot !7 was gran:el , same purpose. This Minister occupi. 4 l Li n . . iniaginin .means of increasing bia rercuu , btu li: were small. The speculation of a gaini:ig-licure presented him will a prose: et of imlepetulenc:•. prop ose d t o th e Min i ster the plan of a f; roe g general tirm) ; and Furpesril to tarm this establithar 30,000 francs a month. The clr,r was accred, r undertaking which the existing laws assimilated s::1 • bery, was atr: (wised by the Minister of Police, on Lion that he should participate in the ptofits. As a ing to this crime, it was urged by pretended phila nista, that the penal laws against the passion fe:r ;a had been always found insufficient, and that the means of weakening its effect:, was to tolerate it tin strict surveillance. 'flee first . /?rosier of a mole, blishineut purchased tite lease at one thousand ta day. lie had it however only three months; hit sun give fire thousand francs a day ; and the fanner ge of the gaming-Louses of the metropolis, pays st the sent day, for his exclusive privilege of plunderin; good R.ople of Paris, and tk, forekners who, on ii 1 that city, frequent these temples of fortune, a,: mot sum of Y.S,oooir. per day. On llmaparte's bccon.;,r; Consul. he pncsess d a great repetation for pa!,lic sir. to whieh, as much as to his victories, lee was it,elcbe.l for his elevation. The abolition of the pte.tiie gatr:e boasts was considered as eTtain ; but the general art..: tions were el..ceivrel. This txtraorlinary nun thou: himself low-minded and base in his interior policy. PI revenues arising from the farming of gaining-bonus t nished him the means of pa) ing the expcuses of h:s po! and providing for other a •er..t s..rviceft, and thmforcbc e not part with them. 1-1..• descended to tlr vV.est rd odious calculations. In the eves of s corq•vrer ! • to count Wowl of his sohi:rs existence of a few gantble:s ?—an element u," gain could turn to his pr.lit. Ile ilicrefere violated the tk. the ltd July, 1 7TI. which tbrhad• pnblic caminglen,, and granted them his sanction ; and at length tht gaining-tables wero allowed to follow the arm! Madrid, N'tenna, Berlin, Rome, Naples, and even to A .- - strnlam. It became a branch of his military sys!ein,:i fol!awing day arter the occapatiou of a town, to appi.s:l fanner of piths of chance. The article of the penal code. on gandag.lte•tri merely apt, lies to such sprulations as are not .'t monopoly of the Police. Fotiel.e, who held the tona , in 1812, is said to have made en itninens , r fichtn.-, public always curious, and often hid:serer', fancio' t!:! had discovered the sourca of his wealth, not in the vial largesses, but in his secret association with the dates for this lucrative far:n ; his enemies even Inalfs precise sum at two thousand fraces a day. It was theui...t that in ISI I the new Ailitinistratitm of Government ac .: , 1 have been animate." by a better spirit ; a 11: , ,trtrn hop y mounted the throne of France, but alas roots crE: abuse were of gold, and there tv,re a soffit:hut rennie .; sltxtereua hands to ward otf the• axe of power. Is it co• hie. that in a civiliz.d nation the Gavcroment established this source of corruption of ntamte's. of e r r , of suieide, as a rermanent branch of the puhlic r. vet:: and joyously regale on the spoils of the wretchei aheru entraps to dui: ruin ? Tho gamin houses No. 9, 113, and 15t, in :11 , Pato: Royal, and others in otht r parts of Paris, arc oprn to mechanic, who may there Ice,allv be cites:Al of his . earnings, and leave hir family to starve. assasainations that have lien p rpitratfd in these depravity, in spite of the ;RAT sn of ag,m , of pollce st , !• there to prevent them, nake the heart s'ek but impossible to believe that the flan of these evabli•!i . : cluld pay such an inatter.s2 impeht as seven or 6. 11 ' 1 " francs (nearly 8'2,),0001. sterling) a v,.ar 13 ti.:•ic" . and defray their immense eg:lenses I,y the front fair play. It is a vulgar adage, but :litre is among thieves, but it is mu 711 to be dou'olcii is any among ramblers by prof. S , ;4il!. It ...- Inlay be written over the door.; uf Palms Royal : li est tmis panes a cut antrc, L'espoir, r: li Yvon Cest par la pr,:iiierc Et par 104 deux au.re4 wet. The invasions of 1 11• and it is eact a profit of sit 11,1/F3llll to the farmers of tab!, a; their good fortune, however, Parisians Orin of their fint.,t. totent- neley tr. t Genets' ing lost 410.. t) rosc ear!), the followir;T, the iiri,lge of .ftra Ira.; a tro,'ly t;i4; -ft cr.• RI( rr.w. 3 4:: Biers, made preparations for h .. er..in it up; is 0 • by the restoration t•f his :Ind. wen v• There are ent.rtainim nts who fri quint the house umler tho At one of tlies. suppers Let-IV 1 et`!'!S ‘. amateur of roulette, ;oat 3.0 )j 1'13..1;4. It is still that the p—rs.r• in F.Tery St ! a Crequently possessed of from ;:fir to tw.i I :un.J , " francs ; there is one etco said It; Le Werth 11. , 11a The gambling-houses of Paris. and ek:" . i . fill the 7..VPItiS de pirt.. w ith the prer,miy of the, fortune frowns, and thus nirn;Sil another sc.ure' the Government, whit thin its rltY...s as' : ' 13 pt . r cent. The vast number of lattcry efficos in France .0 source of misery and ruin .to th.• poor. y,u'). &very town and yili.ttie iu th, I;:m..:,!ent. As SOUR, or ?O (*a - Minus (goorwlmr i ,; than LI• may be rislall in the lottery ; C....* is ,tiro}' a temptation to servants." of ' C. , 3 e k.l7;:cre I.o'a a • uv 1.1 k Y. A V L..: 1 Tare 0: one n:ilt• was nri (At: for Josopli 1!-.•.tn, of : 4 Prieiehl,of Sorayingham. At ,t.triimz, Bean to. - but Drifficlil soon pa,sed him, and won by shoa t Notwithstanding the courso wa , .c...,v0re1l with pAo:r the race was ntn si% mil,at,•s. After whi ,4 ,. s :; s ram of 109 WJS run, yaun g mail of(71-.i of Bartlett, ;:nil a hlt!:•7lcr o t!,e ti:.:fle of Sr:... wit; wen casy by t:te Co‘ra/i. Atnonp present at by the E: life. The I filly, and ion is Ili very Witt; own pror the nail Lave in wean (wi Edmund par with lrequent oomforta should c; and wort hroadly Lon! is titian of know no with thei rint, bene ;Jae ewe, he toegh coi perpeluit promptiti MICLAI for the la to a :mar with poi tion. avail the' was but I enjoy the when the mediate') appeared. sou Were lonian, able to wlta cl:a Were ma, broken fo rfr et, as if liar° :g tioue • of *btu th true km 11 . 1 11 e. of L , d~in~! 1110 M he Po!it. The A r; witncs Quat p i A , f the fir ibex til C:.ot t . ,ns of 1 to N, anguage nt 'hat trit ramstisi crit of 1.• h arc me nan • t length I re. ' roductic ac other 4 :!• or as 1: r . pliov vsriou r.rern, • cese). , •.71 the apa w-hour .haksives 1 : or the er ,art or id; all a ! tr k,i Ines 0f sr./ a very . 13 rd 'Tests I sc.:. riwn, :a illation trionic a • ~ art ies. 'ncidents sXl'f. •drit, liu really I re anal t ho " ti IVia any wo , ; tontentet ,onours, tlf and Finchley barlequti qt;inade ; • mei/nein . ing lealle • Justice is introit mistake ' 1 • counn'ts his comp: theatre ;a plorab!c tucks ant re too big,hl r ,l, r be, and testsipate • quentiv ccrect it is, la ;moll alistry.7e, upvii. '1 1.? „ it us et that trc v ram ther res. Pn tained t'i vita donl,t least the Ars-ri toltk ~lac Lett party of opham, t'llt so 1 gal.ezeer lion far a the orrectiot nrnes ef They Roo man of tl thre e ot h with gun levelled I tt l n to tir May o , s " : „ . Ithlulder, hilt turn, of the thi Prisoner ; Prevent to Wog, ttv'. far securii7 ternethas underwel the h. crroNva mintstitto Atsize c condition Pttcariott 'vitt) Prttty of aL.!:,dl 1.1 thel 1 ,` f