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-„ emu ON SATIJ RDA Y. India Sleek, India Bonds, 73 7672 pr• India for Account, South Sea Stock, South Sea Old Annuities South Sea New Annuities IN. Bills. 1.8441.32 34 24 24 27 Ditto, MAL 27 25 Ditto, Small, 32 26 pr. Lottery Tickets, 191. l9s. Dublin, under the name of a Catholic Association, and of whom Mr. O'Connell is the Leader, are greater enemies to the successful progress of the cause they profess to serve. than all the opponents, in Parliament and without its walls, it has had for years. They call up antipathies and oppo sition where they would not otherwise exist. They do nothing to unite or animate the Catholic body ; for beyond their beard-roan they have no followers: their vitupe ranee and folly alienates their friends and exasperates their enemies ; then, when their petitions conic before Parlia ment, they end opposition loud, and their own intem perance is cited as the pretext, while their best advocates have no defence lint the great justice of the cause itself, but are obliged to acknowledge the unmeasured folly of the; few who have injured it most deeply. The Catholics would be right in having an association of respeemble and sensible; individuals of their own body, such as exists in England, to I watch over their Orsini ; but why should they have de clamatory tnectings once a week, and inflammatory speeches I from Mr. O'C •11, Mr. Shed, and Sherwin, and the other young men who go there merely to exhibit their ora torical talents: these speeches can neither add to their friends nor conciliate their enemies, and arc little cared for by the Catholics generally. It is because we are unalter ably attached to the welfare of Ireland, and the happiness and freedom of its people, that we write thus. We know that Catholic emancipation ip necessary to conciliate and tranquillize that country ; but that great measure will owe nothing to Mr. O'Connell or his circle of partisans. It is not by calumniating the memory of such men u Mr. Ricardo, or talking such inconsiderate folly as he did about the press of this country the other day, that this great cause can be advanced. An honest and sensible pub lic man would disdain such unworthy quackery : it might do for a political mountebank or showman, who, to create delusion, would fling his dark shadows around him; but all that is respectable must reprobate such virulence; and i the wise and good, who wish to see political and religious freedom . at length firmly established, must sigh over the wounds it thus receives, and the unmeasured folly of those who call themselves its advocates. laws fur a nation such as England, and for such a people as the English. The Member for Stafford has no one qualification that should fit him to be a candidate for fame as a trainer of Acts of Parliament. He either has no re spect for the natural rights of his fellow-subjects, or he knows nothing of the principles on which those rights are established. ITo he Continua.] a N THE ANTIQUITY OF USAGES. Who have been the greatest fools, and who the most ancient fools ? Ourselves ? or the Egyptians ? or the Syriatis ? or some other people ? What was aignitied by our tnisletoe ? Who first consecrated a cat ?—lt must have been he who was the most troubled with mice. In what nation did they first dance under boughs of trees is honour of the gods ? Who first made processions, sad placed fools, with caps and hells, at the head 4f them ? Who first carried a Priapus through the streets, and fixed one like a knocker at the door? What Arab first took it into his head to hang his wite's drawers out at the window, the day after his marriage ? All nations have formerly danced at the time of the new moon. Did they then give one another the word ? No : no more than they did to rejoice at the birth of a son, or to mourn, or stem to mourn, at the death of a father. Every one is very glad to see the nicon again, after hav ing lost her for iv:veral nights. There are a hundred usages so natural to all men, that it cannot be said the Eis cayans taught than to the Phrygians, or the Phrygian, to the Iliseayans. . Fire and water have been used in temples. This custom needed no introduction. A priest did not choose always to have his hands dirty. Fire was necessary to cook the immolatid carcases, and to burn slips of resinou4 wood and Tice', in order to combat the odour of the racer: dotal shamblis. Hut the mysterious ceremonies which it is so &Ricoh to understand, the usages which nature does not teach---in what place, when, where, how, why, were they invented? Who communicated them to other nations? It is net likely that it should, at the same time, have entered the head of an Arab and of an Egyptian, to cut of one end of his son's prepuce; nor that a Chinese and a Penlan should, both at once, have resolved to castrate little bor... It can never have been that two fathers, I,n different countries, have, at the same moment, formed the idea of cutting their son's throats to please God. Sotne nations must have communicated to others their follies, serious, ridiculous, or barbarous, In this antiquity men love to search, to discover, if pos. sible, the first madman and the first scoundrel who p a . verttd human nature. But, how are we to know whether Julio, in Phoenicia, by immolating his son, was the inventor of sacrifices of human blood ? How can we be assured that Lycaon was the first who ate human flesh, when we do not know who fir* began to eat fowls? We seek to know the origin of ancient feasts. The most ancient and the finest is that of the Emperors of China tilling and sowing the ground, together with their first Mandarins. The second is that of the Thesinophotia at Athens. To celebrate at once agriculture and justice, to show men how necessary they both are, to unite the curb of law with the art which is the source of all wealth, — nothing is more wise, more pious, or more useful. There are old allegorical tea.,ts to be found everywhere, as those of the return of the seasons. It was not neeenitry that one nation should come from afar otr, to teach another that marks of joy and friendship for one's neighbours tray be given on the first day of the year. This custom his been that of every people. The Saturnalia of the Romans are better known than those of Allobroges and the Picts; because there are many Roman writings and monuments remaining, but there are none of the other nations of western Europe. Tae feast of Saturn was the feast of Time. He bad four wings; Time flies quickly. His two faces evidently signified the concluded and the commencing year. T6s Greeks said that he had devoured his father, and 64 be devoured his children. No allegory is more renonable: Time devours the past and the preseut, and will devour the future. iivicEsor BRITISH lank _ per Cent Ramis& fn 3 pee Cent. C 4014114 Si pee Cont. 4 pee Cent. lin /few 4 per C4is.l I Annaddik 3al 11f linlterial pa Ceone, lank fix ACOIIIIK 237 Cons. foe Ace. flll 11 4 'OCRS ON SATURDAY. Bond., 924 j 3 Ditto for Ate!. 921 j 31 Anglo Mex. Ilona 94 Untied do. pm. Spaniah 3 per Ct. Cons. 244 4 I J Ditto for Acct. 24/ Ditto 170 h Yb 6 Banda, 24j 5 Ditto b per Cents. 0823) In PRICES OF FOREIGN S' Austnan Scrip, 7j Ij Ni 8 7i N Ditto Inc Acct. 7 84 87i N pr . Chilton Rands, j Ditto So Account He 4 Colornb. Bondi, 72 j 14 2 lj Do. for Account, 74 I j 2 Danish Bonds, Ditto Marks Rine% In 4 Mea. Sena, tad lit Cu 7 pr. Ditto fee Aerzunt NI 61j d pr. Neapolitan Honda, 84 4 - Ditto ticaip 1 j 4 pr. Fruition Roods, 934 4 j Ditto fur the Account 93. 4 Ditto Bonds (awn), 911 2 Ditto for Account 1124 Portuguese Ronda RN Ditto Scrip lj 2j 21 rite ierittoit rtoo• - . Ditto foe the Account Dutch Bonds Exchange FL Hemet', 97t. 73c. M DO. K. 23f. We. Do. Scrip. In Is 4 pm. Ditto for the Account The Berrien PPIVIS tommenccil publishing on Saturday morning at fire o'clock. I,ONIX/N. MONDAY, FiIitUARY 16, 1624. The ('aria Journals of Friday, with the Floile of Satyr; day's date, reached our office last night. The Manikin% in its official part, contains no intelligence of interest ; and the other papers are almost as barren. What little news they give ua from the Peninsula, only tends to 'thew that the Government of Ferdinand will not relax in its rigo bus measures, until it is absolutely eonipelled to do so. Ilse Spanish War Minister has rc-organized the corps of royal Carabincers, which, it will be remembered, was disbauded by the Cartes : great care, it seems, has been 'oaken to exclude from this hotly all those soldiers who have served under the Comaitutional flag. It has been re peatedly stated, that the Allied Powers have formally protested against niany of the acts of the Spanish Ministers. The band of associated despots (declared enemies, as they are, to all liberal government), were wise enough to perceive that the only chance of main tabling an absolute King in the Peninsula was by pursoltig measures of apparent moderation. For some time their nernonstrancea were unheeded, but the first effect of their throats has at length !thew!' ittelf in the suppression of the Rettarrudar, the violent royalist journal, which was prin cipally supported by the bigott-1 clergy : we also learn that the Apostolic Junta is to be dissolved. This body was composed of two deputies from each of the chapters of the kingdoms, and its despicable and tyrannical interfer- MCe in public affairs is well known. Private letters state, that it had taken refuge in Valladolid, after its retreat from Madrid. These measures prove must satisfactorily that Ferdinand and his Ministers are in a dangerous situation. Weed, the intelligence from the provinces speak of armed bodies of Constitutionalists being in the field, and that the Majority of the population in the towns through which they passed had taken part with them. In the latter end of las month a considerable band of these troops, which was between Andalusia and Extremadura moved upon C'iudatl heal (In La Mancha), where, after forcing the royalist tromps to retire, they re/Asa-it the stone of the Constitu tion. Gathering strength as it proectsled, the column pur sued their opponents an far as Manaanares, where it also replaced the constitutional stone. The news of these proceedings was conveyed to Madrid by express, where it crested a deep and anxious sensation in the departments of Government. The decree of amnesty, so long talked of, is still promised. [From the Etat of Satunlay:l PAnis, F►a. 13. W/NDSOII, F►D. R. I 1 .1) An extraordine-y Russian courier, coming front St. Petersburgh, basarrived at Paris, and after hiving taken the despatches of Count Ponce de Ilorgo, set out yesterday for Madrid. A courier, addressed to Baron de Vincent, the Austrian Ambas. *odor, set out yesterday for London. M. Von Fleischmann is certainly to reside at St. Petersburgh as 4AI rg d'Affaires from the King of 'Wirtemberg ; it is said, how ever, that he will not present his credentials till a kw days befire the depollute of the Count Beroldingen, whose stay at St. Peters_ burgh will be protracted for wine time longer. It is stfirmed that tkeMinister (who has lately been appointed Al Mister for Foreign A f. fairs by the King of Wirtembergi has succeeded in the private ae helicon which was confided to him by his Sovereign. Ilia osten sible mission is to be present as Antbssarolor from his (*ours at the 41ebration of the marriage of the Princess Charlotte of Wirtern bars with the °rood Duke Michael. Mr. O'Connell, the Irish barrister, whose political de clamation we find so often recorded in the Dublin prints, returning from a temporary sojourn in this country, made was very silly blunders rtspecting the late much respected Mr. Ricardo, a man of as enlarged and enlightened mind and principles, as perhaps ever Rat within the House of 11,batman. To these errors we Ind the Irish " agitator" now pleads guilty, in a paper of hi., or one he patronise'', . out of the swarm existing in Dublin, called the Evening Express. Had Mr. O'Connell made the smallest inquiries while he was here and ',militating his tirade against Mr. Ricardo, he would not have committed the egregious mis takes which are calculated to make a public man appear so truly ridiculous. It is this utter want of judgment in politics, which has taken sway all weight from anything Mr. °Tonne'l can say or do. He has considerable talent and great powers for popular oratory, but no ballast or political prescience whatever. With him, to talk is every thing ; the shout of a few hundred hearer,' is his great ambition. The results of his harangues, or ill-conceived propositions, he never waits to contemplate; his conduct • bas, iu COOMWlelice, continually been productive of injury to the cause he achoea:elt, and little or no good. There , was no man a more sincere or disinterested ft iota to civil and religious liberty than Mr. Ricardo. Whenever the minute of Catholic emancipation was brought forward, It received, generally, his support, and always his vote. He had again and again recorded, in the strongest lan gnage, his opposif to, all political persecution fur reli gious opinions. Mild, tolerant, and coliOutened, his name and memory was the vet y Lost that %Wahl !inv.:, been visited anywhere with coarse and unworthy calumny of this description, the attempted defence of which truly ex aggerates its grossness. There is nothing so much calcu lated to alienate the friends of the Catholic cause, as ill- Judging conduct of this tic aetiption: it produces the most embittered feelings. Those who foetal with Mr. Ricardo fa years, who knew his worth and respect his memory, must experience great pain, when they read suth foul distortions as Mr. O'Connell gives birth to: it is but too much the habit of men in general, to mix up the cause and the individual together. Thus Catholic emancipation and Mr. O'Connell, 3011 i as reform and Mr. Hunt, are by toe many motional, without considering that all that is respectable or enlight ened among either the Catholics or Reformers, in ither sup port Mr. O'Connell nor Mr. Hunt. We have often given it as our conscientious opinion, that the loot of obscure individuals who assemble in ■ room in Cspel-street, in Tut: K NG.—Thursday was s day of rejoicing and satis faction to the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, at the joyful event of his Majesty's return to the Castle. It was not known till Tuesday or IVednesday to a certainty that the King would gratify us with his prcacace on leav ing his olivine palace at Brighton, but would, it was thought, proceed to his palace in Pall-mall; and on it being known that his Majesty would arrive here on Thursday, great exultation was felt, and preparations made for receiving the King with every mark of dutiful rtapect and kttention. It being known diat his Majesty would arrive at the Castle to dinner, groups of persona began to assem ble at the close of the afternoon, to hail and congratulate him on his return. Soon after sit o'clock his Majesty's up proach being announced by the arrival of' outriders, the bells by signal struck up a merry peal. As Ida Majesty mused through the streets of the town he was loudly cheered by the crowds of persons assembled. The traaespeople and others proceeded with all possible speed to illuminate their boost's. The Royal standard was hoisted on the round tower, to announce the King's arrival. Yesterday his Majesty rode out in the Parka, and in 'permit the works which have been proceeding during his absence, particularly the rides and road to the Royal Lodge. Ilia !loyal Highness the Duke of York, who is the Patron of the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity, liar graciously signified his intention to preside at the annual meeting, on the 4th, and at the anniversary dinner, on the nth of March next. _ The Marquis of litehfield, we are concerned to hear, has had a relapse, having caught cold. We are assured that it is the intention of Mr. John Fane to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of this county, in the room of his late father, as soon as decorum will permit I to make his intentions publicly known. Mr. Dashwood, of Kirtlington Park, has announced him self a candidate.--ailbet/ Parer. Lniiu IN E.'S STAI e E.—We are happy to know, that the subscription to commemorate the name of this great constitutional lawyer, every day reccivi a new acme sions from individuals who knew his invaluable services while living, and wish his memory to be perpetuated, when he is no longer amongst us. The remembrance of such a man never can pass away, until all tradition of the days in which he lived and acted is extinct. The histo rian of the last century will yet record him eloquence and indimult nee, and the triumphs of public liberty acaleved unlit r his great elihrts. Rut it would be unworthy of this country to possess no other memorial of a man, who was l une of Its greatest ornaments for half a century. The sub scription for his statue has received a grateful accession from Scotland, the land of his birth, so long marked by the residence of his distinguished brother, who died bethre him. We should be glad to see Ireland take her part in this honourable re'niuiscence. The name of such a man is common property • it sheds a lustre on th e en ti re country. We hope to see t hei subscription extend to the Sister Island : there are many excellent individuals there, we know, who would he happy to mark their respect to the memory of the great Erskine, the friend of liberty in evi ry clime and country. IV EST INnila.—AesuiNTMANT OP Tien BINHOPS.— We are enabled this week to give some Information on this inter, sting subject, which has not yet appeared. It is finally arranged that two 11:shopts are to be appointed to superintend the *Kira of the Church in that quarter of the world, one to the Leeward, the other to the Windward Islands. A residence Is to he appropriated fur them, and each is to he allowed 4,0001. per annum, with a retiring pension of 1,0001. fer annum, after twelve years' residence. Jamaica is to be die head of one See, and Barhadoes and St. Vincent's the moveable scat of the other. Two most excellent tnen are already nominated—the Rev. Mr. Sum ner, Prebendary of Win et stet, and the Rev. Mr. Coleridge, a gentleman of superior abilities and high character, joint Secretary to the Society fur the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and a near relation to the Poet Coleridge.— Cheater Chrtoride. 7 THE Aassv.:—Tisteohmeley of-rheitoth(Nerdt Lincoln) regiment of foot, which became vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable S.r T. Mait land, is not yet filled up. The successor to the late (h. neral Sir A. Farrington, as l'olowel-Commatidant of the Ist 1 attalion of the Ro yal Artillery, has not yet been ap pointed. . - • Captain W. 11. Smyth, of the Adventure surveying sloop, is promoted to the rank of Post-Captain. LieutH nants—J. S. Rue, Tamar ; T. Coleman ansl F. Boyce, Redwing ; J. Giant (h). Jasper • Mr. J. rsis ill, to be sur geon of the Albion ; Mr. Geo. Seelt, to be assistant-surgeon of the Jupit.r. The Rochefort, 80, Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Moore,' • 11 lying its Naples Bay on the '24th ult. taking on baud mesents and Cilium's statues, &c. for the King.—Tbe , Rochefort !my be daily expected home. Royal. it ARMOUR, RA MSG ATr Fr N. 13.—Yriterilly, et six p.m., tts: Harsher, Dover Mail Packet, Captain Rut ter, frosts Calais, came into Ramsgate Ilarbour at low wa ter; after having landed her passengers and the mail at Hover, hut boo which harbour she could nut get herself. This is one of the many instanesu of the utility of Rams gate Harbour over the neighbouring ports, and as the packs is here of late so frequently put in here, a good birth has been appointed for this description of vessels, viz. un der the West Pier its sotstle.w st whit's, and the East Pier in easterly winds; where, ss they always lie afloat, they can therefore leave the harbour at all ' Tut Sretsts; Asstzt.s.—York Assizes will not com mence till Saturday, the 'huh, or Welltwalay, the 2.lth of March, it being the intention of the Judges previously to hold the Assizes at Lancaster, and to begin there on 11 ed nessday, the loth of March.—Lireeprol Me sere. We understand that, at the late Quarter Sessions fur this borough, about fifty prisoners were discharged, whtwe periods of imprisonment had then expired : many of theta were hardened oft'entlera. This will account for the nu merous burglaries which have taken place in this town.- 1 Livervil A most learned ant' celebrated Orientalist of lieruiany, Doctor Spokm, has just died in this city. We are assured that from the rrearches he punned during his life, he has at length discovered tho true method of dorypbermg the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Vi'e accord to him, at least to Germany, a more extended knowledge upon this matter than that possessed either, by 1)r. Young of &.g- Lod, ur 31. champ/41ton Eigeac of Inttice. Luntion W. JAW. 28. According to ttftt latest news from the Archipelago, the English Fleet had nut yet had any enterprise against Toots. The cannon mextiooa between Constantinople an 4 Algiers, Tunis, and Tri. pub, are very frequent. An English frigate 1/11$ been sent to Malta, In carry some despatches to Tunis. It is reported, that the existing differences will be amicably ter ' initiated. The El gltsh Admiral has made several demands on the Regency of Algieis ; but we du not know in what they consist. The last number of the Specrolor Ur eolot of Smyrna, dated 241 of January, annnueeed, that ter some time past there really len a stupid report of a projected expedition by the insurgents against Seto. But God presort us, says the Journalist, from being again witnesses of a similar event ! Natoli§ would shake to its very Nun dations, for the same causes would produce the same effects. According to the same Journal, discord had just relighted its torches in the NUM, and they foresaw much misery for the Greeks. '3lsnain. Frs. b. By a decree of the Jan. 30, his Majesty has decided that there shall not henceforth be publishes', at Madrid, any other journals than the Gaze He, the Diet io, and the papers of (noinincree, of Lite rature, and of the Arts. Nobody regrets the nest aaradoe ; the perfidy with which that paper was written, had, by its principles, excited the indignation of two Spaniards. The Commission, composed of the l)ukc de Flnfantado, Count trEspagne, &c., are arduously labouring in the re-organisation of the tinny ; they have begun by limning the royal guard; but, as yet, the molts are not in proportion to the electrons used. The foreign corps will be attervrards organised as they were of okl, that is to say, that, from the chief officer to the lowest subaltern, all will be foreigners. Viscount 'Admit Mareellns, who arrived here, is said to be charged with an important and secret commission from our Go vernment. Some persons assert, that the Marquis of Talent to re called to Paris, and that Viscount tllarcellus will be appointed Am bassador provisionally to France: others say, that this diplomatic agent will return on the pith or 9th of this month. The brother of COULt O fslier baa just set out for London. Why seek for vain and gloomy explanations of a fete so universal, so gay, and so well known ? When I Ink well into antiquity, I &snot find a aingk manual fest/valor a melancholy character ; or, at least, if they begin walk lamentations, they end in dancing and revelry. If WI are shed for Adoni or Adonai, whom we call Adonis, be is 1 1 80011 resuscitated, and rejoicing takes place. It is the sem ' with the feasts of Isis, Osiris, an l Modus. The Grab, too, did as much fur Ceres as for Proserpine. The ileiek of the serpent Python was celebrated with gaiety. A feast day, and a day of jov, were one and the owe thing. At the feasts of Bacchus this joy was only carried too far. We do not find one general commemoration of an unfor tunate event. The institutors of the feasts would have shown thAngelv..:s to be devoid of common sense, if they had established at Athens a celebration of the battle loot at Cheronea, and at Rome, another of the battle d Cantle. _ . They perpetuated the remembrance of what 'nigh: es courage men, and not of that which mieht fill them with cowardice or despair. This is so true, that fables were it• vented for the inirpose of instituting feasts. Castor sod Pollux did not fight for the Romans near Lake Regillui; but, at the end of three or four hundred years, too priests said so, and all the people danced. Hercules did not deliver Greve: from a hydra with twven heads; bat Hercules and his hydra were sung. LIBERATION OF MIL HARVEY.—Although we Imre avoided troubling the public either with app.als for sym pathy, or puffs for praise, his numerous friends wil, be glad to hear of the enlargement of this gent'eman from the King's Bench prison. We need scarcely remind on readers that he has been vegetating in that kindly climate for the last three months, fur having said what was at the ' • said by all the town, though untruly. Why our ye ragraph was selected for prosecution, out of many that teemed with unqualified malignity, (with which it rot sr- A nowledgell that ours was not disgraced,) might prebst l 7 be surmised front the position in which the Attortel - General stood in regard to Parlismeatary proceedings ie• stituted by Mr. Harvey, including, in a peculiar manna. his pi 3feniutial emoluments. Tile unusually long delre beration of the Jury —the inquiry made by them of de Judge—the singular reply—the ywilyied eridiet, and affidavit of some of the Jurors, altogether negativing tat charge of malice, might, if we chose to be egotistical, a fair field for observation. However, it is peat, and Or paying his fine of 2001., sufering his imprisonment, s finding heavy securities for his goad behaviour, he is C more .:;!owed " the common air, and common use of hi own limbs." How long he may be able lo congruities himself on such a pnss.stion, will depend muck meant the pleasure of the Attorm y-General than Ira own; fol no mast can tell what is a libel until be finds himself es the floor of the Court of King's Bench.—Auredeye Times. Mt. sue Ha r.t..—'l'he concorts * the Music-hall on No. day and ‘Vednesclay evenings last, are highly cr, , dit..ble lc Mr. Wi",...es's public spirit. The performances, even wilb• out the te•d of Cat alaui, would have been interest:as scsi attractive : what the n mutt they have proved with the co operation of this unrivalled singe r ! Catalani, ou itesis7 evening especially, laboured evidently under the elf ete 01 the indisposition which had prevented her appearance en the previous week, as announced. In consequence of tbil eircumstseee, she was unehr the necessity of manearielf beg voice, and adapting her style to her temporary convenience. Her songs were accordingly given in somewhat of a ow Wee j which, however, in our estimation, did not ditainr• the interest she never fails to inspire. We have, imdett i . been occasionally mere astonished or electrified, but 1 were never more tick:Mill. All her songs were givol . ,, a style of excellence, and we need not expatiate urn r individual merits of enc with whose greet talents all un . musical world is already acquointed. We cannot. he' ever, refrain from noticing the delight and entbefor with ' which her singing Rule Britannia i tbe so, erne. It was. really sublime; combining il aet r L i ebin lit voice with the grace and dignity of attitude and In't and the effect was altogether indescribably grind. wete very highly pleased with Mrs. Bedford, of mho!, can ay nothing snore complimentary than bat her M l ' in quality res..mbles that of Miss Stephens and Uri- .....- Imon. We never l ie aril this lady befete, but we are c' vinccd that she is dr.stined to shine in the first rank d paoftess!on.— L;el rpm: Mercury. t al di! his the that marks of joy and friendship for one 'is neighboursma i that it had taken refuge in eanationd, otter Its retreat irom 1 ------ --- ---- - --•-• - - - by the crowds of persons assembled. The traelespeeple A mat I .._ • earned ant' celebrated Orientalist of Germany, Doctor offence but the simple keeping T 1 bear-" all bear-wards!" those of Saturnalia of o a f rid th t e lle ßorsans piets . and why any man should be condemned to a I rian and be given on the first day of the year. This custom ha. I. . Madrid. These int-satires prove must satisfactorily that anti others proceeded with all possible speed to illuminate Spolti, has just died in this city. We are assured that from th e n be tl t i te at r of every pediment' and his Ministers are in a dangerous situation. their houses. The Royal standard was hoisted on the round researches he ',untied during his life, he has at length discovered . i i e t a i rd ju kate ., ,,er or tu a r ny ke o n t p h i er ng a a ni be in s a r l: a w i e ty a zore utte th r a i n y for at ak kepis I t ' g o are b the true method of deciphering the Egyptian hieroglu pities. H e ',Weed, the intelligence from the provinces speak of armed tower, to announce the King's arrival. than people . th Yesterday his Majeet rode out inthe ' y . . Setolll 10 him, at lain In Germany, • more extended knowled g e Kadin of Constitutionalists being in the field, and that theupon this matter than that possessed onion by lie . % ;ming of I: g- discern. With this precedent before us, malefactors inay because there are many Roman ' • • ' writings and monuments speeted the works which have been proceeding during his km or AI Champolhon Nese of Inoue. be multiple (I without end, and the tread-mill go round remaining, but there are none of the other nations ef t • nielotity of the population in the towns throug% which a b ai lice, part ic u la r l y th e r id es roe( . o the Lodge. La:otiose. Jew. I. with the celerity of a rolling-cage. western Europe. • they passed had taken part with theirs . In the latter end of ills . According to Ore latest news from the Archipelago, the English Aa to t h e stage-players, who may entertain the rustics TOe feast of Saturn was the feast of Time. He h a l Royal Highness the Duke of York, who is the Fleet had nut t hind • • ' Touts . , ye , any enterprise s :faird . The commit- lard month a considerable band of these troops, which was Patron of the Society for the Suppression of Mendici • ty, mestious between ettnst outflows Algiers, 'I unis, and Tri- tell/rout a licence, we would commend the sage advice of f our • wings; Time flies quickly. His two faces evidently R ' 1 . between Andalusia and Eutrennulura moved upon Ciudad liar graciously signified his intention to preside at the annual Pedi, are very frequent. An English frigate Ilus been sent to Malta, fissile:l to the ear of the Visiting Magistrate, whether of signified the concluded and the • commencing year. The I 1 1 Real (in La Mancha), where, after forcing the royalist the rith'of March ne t troops to retire, they replaced the stone of the Conatitu- . ,". • meeting, on the tell, and at the anniversary dinner, on to eery some draestehes to Tunis. . !Baffin! gaol or of any other- It la reported, that the extreme differences will be amicably ter. "Do you ar, let them be well used ; for they are the abstract, devoured his children , ' minated. The Euglish Admiral has made several demands on the and brief ehrettiebx of the time • after your death Greeks said . that he had devoured his father, anti thss he No allegory is more removable: The Marquis of I ttelifield, we are concerned to hear, Regency of Algiers ; bet we donut know in what they consist. have I epitaph ' ' a bat than their ill report while you lire. . lire." better Time devours the past and the mann, and will devour the 1 i tion. Gathering strength no it proceeded, the column pur- has n ail a rely ha • h ew, wing caug ht cold. timid their opponents as far as Mansanaree, where it Mao We are assured that it is the intention of Mr. John Fine The last number of tee Ntrateier ()siesta of Smyrna. dated 2d of January, annoueerd, that for some titne past there nearly ran Indeed min might almost suppose that the player in future. ii•hy seek for vain and 1 1 • ee e g oomy exp.anations - a feat • replaced the constitutional stone. The news of these to offer himaelf as a ciuulielate for the representation of this a, am Hamlet was slip akin •in stit-al allusion to some such pid report of a projeettd expedition by the Insurgents agsinse I.- 11. i'l . . so universal, an gay, and so well known ? Wben I look i , • county, in the room of his late father , as soon as decorum • Sem. But God presort us, Par the Jourealist, from being again instrument as the tread-mill in the following invocation:- well into •• • I &not find a • 4; ant:gutty, single menus' &mend • I proceedings was conveyed to Madre' by express, where it . . witnesses of a similar event ! Natalie would shake to its very rutin- " All you gods ! will permit him to make his inti-ntiona publicly known. lotions , for the a melancholy character ; or, at least, if they begin wide same causes would produce the same effects. In general synod. take away its power ; created a sleep and anxious eensation in the departments of Mr. Dashwood, of le* I' Park, I • him- ire itigton bas announced According to the astute Journal, discord had just relighted its Break all tile spokes and tellies' of its wheel, lamentations, they end in dancing and revelry. If tests ' I tlovernment. The decree of a 1111 l esty, so long talked of, eelf a candidate.- erifere Parer. totem* in the Mores, and they foresaw much misery for the And howl the round naive down the hills of heaven are shed for Adoni or Adonai, whotu we call Adonis, be is ," Is Mill promised. I.IIISD IiLaKIN F.'s Si- --We are happy to know, Gree k s. As los as to the fiends !" soon resuscitated, and rejoicing takes place. It is the wise " e'en,' in, Fra. b. We trust, in spite of the Magistrates who may come with the fiesta of Isis, Osiris, as l lions. The Greeks, [From the Etuile of Saturday.] that the su b scr i pt i on to commemorate the Halite of this By a den-reef the Jan. lte, his Majesty has decided that there forward • • Penis, Fen. 13. great constitutional lawyer, every day receivt s new acres- shall not hencelonh be published, at Madrid, any other jounials in its praise, that the " spokes and leselies of too, did as much for (Cent as for Proserpine. The death snins front individuals who knew his invaluable services than the Gaze lie, the Mario, and the papers of Commerce, tat Lite- its wheels" will be broken, or, if it should remain, that all of the serpent Python was celebrated with gaiety. A I ii An lextrameina-y Russian courier, coming from St. Petersburgh, while living, and wish his memory to be perpetuated, rature, and Mew Arts. such Magistrates as are well satisfied of the healthfulness feast day, and a clay of joy, were one and the same bas arrived at Paris, and after hsvlng taken the despatches of Count when he is no longer amongst us. ' fie remembrance ot' Nabud, regrets the Restaarodoe .; the perfidy with which that of its rotatory motion, should enjoy exclusively the benefit thing. At the feasts of BaceGus this joy was only carried Pena de !largo, set out yesterday for Madrid . paper was written, had, by its principles, excited the tedignation of such a man never can pass away, until all tradition of the of improving their constitution, by exercising their lungs too far. 0 , A courier, addressed to Baron de Vincent, the Austrian Ambas- days in which lie live-el and acted is extinct. The ' iwo SPanard4- • • anti their lees daily, till they shall be pronounced eon- We do not find one general coinmemoration of an pear- " histo- The Commission, composed of the Duke de l'lnfantado, Count sailor, set out yesterday for London. rian of the last century will yet record his elexpieine and Wl:mimetic, Ac., are arduously labouring in the rc-organisation of valeaeent- tunate event. The institutors of the feasts would bare i I m. von Flei.chnninn is certainly to reside at St. Petersburgh as indt•pendt nee, and the triumphs of public laxity acaieved the unity ; they have begun by funning the ro y al g uard ; but, as It is of the utmest importance that we should be able, shown themselves to he devoid of common sense, if th ey Chilli d'A ff aires from the King of ‘Virtemberg ;it is said, how- under Isis great efforts. But it wou ld rte unworthy of this yet, the results are not in proportion to the exertions used. at all times, to distinguish the boundary line bet wet ti had established at Athens a celebration of the tattle nell even, that he will not present his credentials till a few days before country to potions no other memorial of a man, who he foreign corps will be afterwards organised as they were of /ej f itimate and orbits (cry power. The two simple and in- lost at Cheronea, and at Rome, another of the battled .- -(lwas OW that is to say, that, from the chief officer to thelowcet subaltern, • • i , the &Torture of the Count Beroldingro, whose stay at St. Peters. me of its greatest onuments for half a century. The sub- all 'will be fineignes. burgh will be protracted for some time limger. It is Aimed that teription It/T his statue has each a grateful accession Viscount Lode.% 31areellus who arrived here, is said to b e remarks, a telligible maxims which we laid down at the outset of our Came. Word a sure criterion by which this distinction They perpetuated the remembrance of what meth: a- , ! li inellinister w h o has lately lama ppointed Alinister for Foreign AI- from Scotland, the land of his, birth, so long marked charged with an impel-tent ai'ul secret commission from our Do- may he drawn. First, that punishment can only Le in- courage men, and nut of that which Mein fill th em wits I fairs by the King of Wirtemberio ha, succeeded in the private rte- by the residence of his distinguished brother, who (Ind velliiiient. f•oilie persons assert, that the 3larquis of Tahoe' Is re- elieted where some offence is committed ; and, secondly, cowardice or despair. This is so true, that fables went it- hel'ore him. We should b oo g lad to see Ireland take h er called to Paris , at el that Vete-mint 3lareellus will be appointed Am- that to constitute an effewee, the act committed must be in- vented for the purpos._ , of instituting feasts. Castor ad guciation which was confided to him by his s,v..reigri. His omen- basaador provisionally to France: others say, that this this honourable rem wenn. ti n Thediplontati hart. name of suchc jurious, directly Or indireetli, either to the canimunity at Pollux del not tight for the Romans near Lake Regillet, 1 / sale mission is to be present as Ambassador from his Court at theagent will return mu the Huh or 9th of this month. a matt it common pto its' ;it sheds a 'mere on the entire The brother of Cow.' Orfalier has justice out for London , lane., or to some irodieidea member of it. Let us now but, at the end of three or four hundred years, ease cadelwation o f t h e ntarr Charlotte iage of the Princess Charloe tat Menem- P t • country. We hope to sett the subscription extend to the --mase--- ask, what injury does the community, or any individual priests said so, and all the people danced. ilercieles did berg w i t h Ursa) the rsod Duke Michael. Sister island : there are many excellent intlivieluals there, DUTCH PAPERS. member of it, sustain by the performance of any interlude not deliver Crete: from a hydra with seven haul"; bat __-..semee--.. we know, w ho would be happy to mark their ro motet to . or entertainment of (be stage '? Clearly none; and for Hercules and his hydra were sting. Mr. O'Connell, tile' Irish barrister, whose political de- r the memory of the great Erskine, the friend of liberty in A Ilamburgh Mail has brought us papers to the 7th in- the clearest of all reasons,-that it is only when the persons -- --- ------- dannation we find so often recorded in the Dublin prints, ever y c h ine ant i country . slant. The following are extracts:- perform for '` hire, gain, or reward," that they are made L _I2ERATION or Ma. lIARTLY.-Although we kW 0 SettleHillg front 2 temporary sojourn in this country, made 'VEIT I 141111 V /1.-A r rot NTM ANT or TWO HINHOPII.- ST. !ETZ2IIIII/110M. J AN . EL the object of punishment. But cent the public require avoided troubling the public either with app.als for ilea- The da f or • y the mamage of the Grand Duke Nicholas, who is solbe very ell!), blunders respecting the late much respected We are enabled this week to give seine information on this slightly indisposed, is not fixed. to be j aratected by the penalties of the law, against lathy, or puffs for praise, his numerous friends wil, be intereetin subject , which has not yet appeared) . An - Ukase meters divisible, rouble to b etaken this year in all the being erl'''llined bY Persons whose shill and labour g . . . Mr. Ricardo, a man of as enlarged and enlightt•ned !Mud g ' finally arranged that two Ilishops are to be appointed to emeonnhoune iu the empire, at the rate of three roubles sissy they reward? Such a principle of public punishment King's Bench prison. M e need scarcely rem ind our and principles, as perhaps ever sat within the House of superintend the affairs of the Church in that quarter of the ee'res in PM."' is absurd, and is manifestly an exercise of arbitrary reader,' that h" has been vegetating in that kindly cline/ • I Oommons. To these errors we end the Irish " agitator" ' world, one to the Leeward, the other to the Windwanl • flue rodeo( Odessa has suffered very severely by the differences paver. As applied to the individuals it is an act fur the last three months, fur having said what was at the with the Porte. I now pleads guilty, ill a paper of Al.. er one he patronise'', Islands. A resilience la to be appropriated fur them, and STOCKHOLM, JAN . n. of oppression : and that man must 'be ill studio • I time said by all the town, though untruly. Why our p- each is to he allowed 4 Mal per an n um, with ret i r i ng L ast k , a wee a Norwegian officer set con for Christiana, with the 111 the fir act des of the British Constitution, who can ragraph was selected for prosecution , out of many Oat out td the swarm existing in Dublin, called the Erening • ' '1 pension of 1,001. eer annum, after twelve years' residence. Roeal propositions to be laid before the Diet, at iis opening on the introduce such etlactments into its criminal code. Ina teemed with unqualified malignity, (with which it ros E- IS-press. Hail Mr. O'Connell made the: amallest inquiries Jamaica is to he the head of one See, and Barbed and 2 ' l febr""Y• great and opulent kingdom like our own, the qualities and emote/regret that ours was not disgraced,) might prebabla I while lie was here and meditating his tirade against Mr. tit. Vincent's the moveable seat of the other. Two most Yesterday being the /tint': birth day, the Crown Prince cave occupations by which men procure a subsistence i s infi n ite. be surmised front the position in which the Attorney- I a grand entertainment to 1 Royal Family and the Chief Officers l ... ' Rimini°, he would not hare committed the I . gTt gilttiS 111112.. excellent mets are already nominated-the Rev. Mr. Sum- of State. It has please d Providence, in its bounty, to distribute ta- General stood in regard to Parlismeatary proceedings is. I 1 • near, Prebendary of %Vote:ester, and the Rev. Mr. Colteidge, Our winter has hitherto been s m i xture of s p r i ng and autumn . lents of endless variety among mankind. Each individeul, stituteel by Mr. Harvey, including, in a peculiar n laws takes which are calculated to make a public man appear so ' 1 a gentleman of superior abilities and high character, joust I l l'e have enroll, no snow, and fresh vegetables are cried about seconding to his capacity, whether for instruction or amuse- his pi rfeesional emoluments. TM unusually long del- i e truly ridiculous . It is this utter want of judgment in Secretary to the Society for the Promotion of Christian the street& It a pp ear s, i ns . the ac „,,,, n „, kept i n m e annuli, ment, seeks his subsistence in the faculties he has culti- [aeration of the Jury -the inquiry made by them of the J hat numerous wolves issued from the forests at theclose of the politics, which has taken sway all weight from anything Knowledge, and a near relation to the Poet Coleridge,- l . . v e t e & Th e exerc i se of their attainments is, in the far Judge-the singular reply-the vial!' fied rentietc . ltod is autumn, sod with extraordinary fury and boldness extended theirit OP I Mr. O'Connell can say or do. He has coneiderable talon. cheater edeorriefei depredations to within lust than two leagues of Stockholm ;so 'bat , greater pert, imposed upon them by their nec essities and affidavit of sonic of the Jurors, altogether negattei g P. and great powers for popular oratory, lima no ballast or Tits An eiva-Thereoloneley ottiatettio(Nesels Limos'.) if diewinter had beat t wee arg should have beta exposed co OtTasjolts. For Me late to interfere and to prohibit such charge of malice, might, if we choice to be egotistical, . I . regiment of foot, which became va m cant by the death of Ereat danger fans thee males- : • . persons, under severe penalties, to resort to die only moans a fair field for obsei vatiun. However , it is past, and OW . political prescience whatever. With hi, to talk is "ell I Lieumiant-General the Right Honourable S:r T. Maio- EXCHANGES. they poesess of supporting their families, or getting bread paying hie fine of entol., suffering his inowisonment, a • thing; the shout of a few hundred hearer,' is his great I handl, is not yet filled up. The 'decree°, to the late GC. S.T. P"Eassel" l3l . Jar' 21-I "elwrille " handeme 9 l. for thrustlves, is the rankest injustice: Every man has a 'indite; heavy •ecierities for his good behaviour, he is coo C ambition. The results of his harangues, or ill-conceived I neura l Sir A. Farringtoo as Colonel-Comniatulant of the "'clic R 6ll, It.' ti,-Exchange on London , is l'i : two ri g ht to e mploy his tal e nts, whatever they may be, for his more e•-loweel " the common air, and cretemon use of bid months, Itti 111. P limbs" flow long he may he able - to congas's. I Ise eattalion of the Ro ' al Arlene h own suort, and it is the duly of the Government under own r . . , propsitions, he never waits to contemplate ; his conduct • y _-ly, has not yet been ap- A max Ear , AA , Fes. 10.- Exchange on London, 311 8; two n pointed. months, 39 H. which he' lives, to protect him in the honest and profitable I lenened much more 0 -111LSC.. on such a pass-seeon, will L -s - i r i has, 111 COII2I44IICIILY, e011:Oltlally 110'11 productive of injury )' spra i n It'. 11. S myt h , o f the Adventure surveying em pl o ym e nt o f t h e m. B u t it a ge lure on Ilea reverse the pleesure of the Attorm y-General than L's own; el so the cause he advocates, and little or no geed. llocre ! sloop, is promoted to the rank of Post-Captain. Lieute- We received, by a Dutch Mail, accounts from the Hague principle*, and punishes where it (win to / woke/ ! no man ean tell what is a libel until he finds himself . Ili 0 win, no man a more sincere or disinterested f's rein) to civil !limits-J. S. Roe, Tamar ;T. Coleman anti F. Boyce, ! of the eth February. Ilia Royal Highness the Prince . of We are fully prepared to hear 20111 c. one assert, and call the floor of the Court of King's Bench.-erfaidory Tin " ci and religious liberty them Mr. Ricardo. Ihhenever the ! iti ' llain g ; measure of Catholic etualicipation was brought forward, of t h e e„ • ' ' all on hi J. Giant (h ), Jasper ; Mr. J. /e( ill, to be sur- ' Orange- arrived there on that day from Si. Petersburgh. our attention to the fact, that the punishment awarded by Mu ate II A Lt.- I h eroines certs at the sin -h . pine. It received, generally, his support , and always his vote. e h It. 1 r Re" of the Albion • Mr . Ge o. Seeds, to be assistant - surgeon A Flanders mail arrived y e sterd a y ; but t h e papers the Aat applies only to "all persons wlio shall for lnre, gain, , clay and ‘lreelnevelay last, are highly creel' brought by it are wholly destitute of interest , or reward, ace&c.,such L persons net king; aulliorisrd by lair." Mr. M i.e.') s public spirit. The performances, even •• • •-e --ecetoort. tun, Yiee-Admiral Sir Graham Moore, There are private letters from M e ilen' of the 7th i n . Not being authorized toy law ! lail what just wounds out the ted of Caselani, would have been intevest He bad again and again nem-lied, in the strongest lan - o s lying in Naples Bay on the lids ult. taking on boatel slant , which communicate some particulars of jute-rest . can the Lae interfere, where soap, his opposit e to all political persecution for reli- its prrreolire and pettishly ateractiv: : what tin n mum they have proved with in; bie wit is 4 te id sot P the el' P Moab, iii ',resents and calumets litanies. &c. for the Kin g•-The The discussions in the (abject relative to the demands of power is not rally uncalled for, hut where it has manifestly operation of this unrivalled singer ! Catalani, tar . , _ leuebefurt 1.1::y be daily expected home. Fiance continued ; but as the French party was the no right whatever to enforce it ? Suppose a statute were evening especially, laboured evidently under the Ones i',_ . a h n i gloats opinions. Mild, tolerant, and t-tiliehteneel, his name Roy AL ;! A ItIIOC n, RA NU , ATI, Fr 11. I:I.-Yesterday, strongest, it was fully expected that they would be ' coin- to be passed restricting the permission to brew beer to the the indisposition which had prevented her anemia:lee, .A . the and memory was the vet) , List that shoehl have been e t s i x p en ., Ise D as her, Dover Mail Packet, Captain Rut- plied with. A 1101 e ball been despatched to the French proprietors of sir liceostNl breweries only, and that another the previous week, as announced. In consequence - ln Si visited anywhere with course and unwor th y calumny of ter, from Calaia, came iltin Ramsgate Harbour at low wa- thovermucitt, stating that the chief o lefi e ulty it t h e wa y was Act were then passed, declaring that " all 'orisons who for eircumstaece, she was under the necetsity of elarlaitaf wi • / thi s d es cription, the attempted defence of which may ex- ter • : after having 'outlet' her luneangers and the mail at the dread of violent opposition in the Ultra Roy a list iiarty, I hire, gain, en reward, shall brew, or cause to be. brewed, voice, and adapting h e r stile toiler . temporary conic • e ri i 1 • Dover, but into which harhour she could not get lien-self. and that all increased military fierce w as r e quisit e to p re _ , any beer, ale, Or porter, midi persons not being au- Her songs were accordingly given in somewhat of a. • o • aggerates its grossness. There is nothing AO much calm- • woe &taw • et fhis be one of • the many instances of the utility of R 41112. vent commotion. For this purpose it was resolved to cr ea t e ! shurizt4 hy late', shall be deemed rogues and mega- vote ; which, however, in our estimation , did ibdaii. . 44 ,II ) hated to alienate the friends of the Catholic cause, as ill- gate Harbour over the neighbouring ports, and as the as strong an ernpossible, I • of land,, amid •. •be 'teed to hard labour the interest she never fails to inspire. We have, army as ant to re-organize some on education comnit judging conduct of this eleacription: it produces the most packets here of late so frequently put in here, a good birth those who served under the Comaitutionaliets. I for any term 1104 exceeding two years, amid for the re- been oceesiottally rn:rc astonish, dor electrified, buts fit ginli 1 r embittered feelings. Those who acted with Mr. Kiellello lies been aPrOill.ted for this description of vessels, viz. un- ~ Mr. Elliott, the Missionary, arrived at Portsmouth on , coed to be deemed incorrigible (woes, within the true in- were never more delighted. All her songs Were u e in nt 1 : for years, who knew his worth and respect his 'Denary, must in •ld i i der the IVest Pier in south -w •st welds, and the. Kest Pier I hut/elan, in the Oscar, from Demerara ; hut we are re-; tent and meaning of the Act, and itansportedaccordingly ;" a style of excellence, and we need r.ot cerement Pea all de re easterly wil s ; ar teel*. at t bey always lie afloat, they . quested to state. that his return to England i s not c ompd. I would it be any defence of such an iniquitous act, that its individual merits of time with whore greet t alentsho. um. experience. great pain, when t i ny read s t ub foul distortions can therefore leave the harbour at all times. wry, but perfectly voluntary : his stay here is merely win- . prohibition and its punishment applied only to such per- musical world is alrcaily . sequeiuted. We cannot. i.. _ i 1 as Mr. o'Connell gives birth tea : it is but too much the habit 'fist Salome: Assizes . -York Assizes will not corn- purary ;he has left his family in the colony.l i e the delight and enthour •wi I 1101/1 as should brew ale or beer, not being. uelhurizz-d by ever , refrain fee it no img . ~_ we the wee race till Saturday , the genii , or M• of men in general. to mix up the cause and the individual ni - Dons not every man capable - of refieetion perceive with ' w id th her singing Kole Britamnia inspired ~ ; ' an March, it being the intention of the Judges previously to 1 Falmouth , iu thirty-four days from Jamaica . Mr. H ue • that , in this ease, it ja she lam that is nnuettwei-sed, and not ence. It was really sublime; combining all the c,°_,,,,„• together. Thus Catholic emancipation and Mr. O'Connell. hold the Assizes at Lan I beg l Mel '1 '• ' is - which it • is :* - voice with l and dignity of • usl int a"• - • - u • bal caner, an d to In t sere on e - rule, tto Colombian Minister, tea on board ; but Mr. the act e mi t Pat as reform and Mr. Hunt, are by too many aeaciated, „ e „i a . , I loth of t i 1 , y ; y I.le - and the efflot seas altogether indescribably grand. di e I: without considering that all that is respectable or ' , mi g h t - w e u nd e r s t at ed that, at the late Quarter Sessions for i England by this conveyance- The express by which this tolerant spirit in which it has of late been tetempted. It in were very highly pleased with Mrs. Bedford. of whc ei • g l e, toned among either the Catholic,. or Reformers, no prier sup- this borough, about they prisoners were discharged, whoa I intelligence has been received from Falmouth bring* no an atrocious usurpation on the common rights of the sub- ear say nothing more complimentary than that her No P et • • Mr O'Connell our Mr. liunt. Wc have often given periods of imprisonment had then expired : many of them ;Jamaica Papers. nor doss the latter mention the state of ice,- Such legislators as Mr. elieterynd, who come to ,in mutiny res .mbles that of Mies Stephens and o " . were hardened o ff ender& This will account for the nu- that island when the packet sailed from which it ybe their task with no other or betierreparations than a foolish I man. We never h • aril this lad be-f u me, but sue . Tr aln it as our conecientions opinion, that the. knot of obscure onerous burglaries which have taken place in this town.- ' • em' h ' concluded that no funattempts at insubordination had vanity and a feverish 7..a1, woul do weil to study the firm ; yawed that elle is ilestined to shine tire- se e I ndividuals who assemble in a room in Cspenstrett, in ! Liver ) :: •l Paper. !taken place muting the black pepulatiou. principles of moral and political justice, before they teak: peoftea!on.-!sirerioul Mercury. , . • • , •. , , -,.. ... r DUTCH PAPERS. A ilamburgh Mail has brought us papers to the 7th in stant. The following are extracts:- 21T. PET ERIMIU NMI. JAN. M. The day for the marriage of the Graad Duke Nicholas, who is slighdy indisposed. is not fixed. An Ukase orders the silver rouble to be taken this year in all the Custom-I 114:S in the empire, at the rate of three roubles sixty wpm in paper. The trade or Odessa has suffered very severely by the differences With the Porte. _ STOCKHOLM, JAW. 17. Lam week a Norwegian officer set out tee Christiana, with the Royal propoaitions to be laid before the Diet, at its opetang on the 2d February. Yesterday bring the King's birth 'lay, the Crown Prince rave a grand entertainment to the Royal Family and the Chief Officers of Suite. flur winter has hitherto been a mixture of spring and autumn. We have DO reid, no snow, and fresh vegetables are cried about the streets. It appears, from the accounts kcpt in the country, that numerous wulves issue, from the forests at the close of the autumn, and with extraordinary litry and boldre►s extended their depredations to within has than two leagues of Stockholm; so that if the winter had been yore we should have bum exposed to gnat dank', from their remits. XXCHANGES. ST. PrTENSIMROII, JAW. 23.—EKehange on London.9l. Ron, ILL 6—Exchange on Landon. 36 ; two months. 36 IN. A NAT t: n.ca, FE u. 10.— Exchange on London, Mt 0; two months, 39 6. REMARKS ON THE VAGRANT ACT. [Continued from our Paper of Thursday.] The passion for regulating the whole order of society by penal laws, has of late years been carried to a moat unwise and mischievous excew. We seem to be introducing, by degrees, the punctilious strictness of the German discipline into our " highways am! bye-ways ;" trained bands of re formers multiply everywhere, and arc beyond measure pro lific ; legion. of saints hover over us with pious anxiety; guardian angels watch us in our utmost privacy, " two at head and two at feet ;" the kingdom is pregnant with con stables, and it overspread with Justices of the Peace; ' every second man has a sceptre of authority in his baud.' And in addition to all this, we have a Bridge-street Asao elation hi rapport the Garernment, as if the civil Mower were, after all, inefficient to maintain the laws; and a So-: cid!, fur the Suppression of Mire, in itself a standing libel on the law of tithes and the utility of a church t stablish molt. Unhappily our public laws, like our private affections, weaken us they spread. It is enough, and more than enough, that statutory regulations should govern the whole of our commerce—that they should extend over the whole range of our manufactures —that they should twist themselves, more or less, with every branch of human in tercourse: but that Mr. Chetwynd should add his Vagrant' Art to the number—that whether the poor sit still or stir abroad, brings them equally within its reach—that if they are idle punishes them as rogues, and if they •• keep mov ing," as raga/teeth ;—truly, all this fostering care of the public peace, all this restless anxiety for the preservation of " morality and swat order," savours very much of ty ranny. We must be upon our guard, lest the Temple of our freedom be destroyed by all this strengthening of its foundations. " The Kings of the earth, and all the inha bitants of the world s would not have believed that the ad versary and the enemy would have entered into the gates of Jerusalem." And yet they did enter, and did not " leave .sen• stone upon another." Continuing our remarks upon the Vagrant Act, we come now to the third clause; and, to be wire, a uuwe hetero geneous jumble of offences and offenders were never before clamed together. As this clause runs to some length, to avoid confusion we will travel through it in parts; taking care, however, to omit nothing, that the lawgiver may not complain of misstatement or mutilation. I. And be it further enacted, that all persons going about as gatherers of alms, under lithe pretence of lons by fire or by other eastuelty, or as collectors under any false pretence, all bear-wards, all common stage.playeri, and all persons who shall, for hire, gain, or /sward, act, represent, or perform, rr cause to be performed, any interlude or entertainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein, such persons not being authorized by law"— All such persons, together with the long addition to the list, which wr shall presently proceed to enumerate, are to be "deemed rogues and raga/Node within the true intent and meaning of this Act." But what an unmatched group is here ! Why, in the name of absurdity, should lie thrust the " hear-ward - into the throng ! Where, we would fain learn, is the crime of keeping a hear 1 1 If the worthy n.arden, whoever he may be, keeps it to himsel/; what flax Mr. Chetwynd, or any lardy else, to do with it The keeper of the wild beasts at the Tower, the successor theretiownal Mr. Pidcock, of the Royal Menagerie, are both of them hear-wards, and consequently come within the express designation of metres and raga/weds, and are liable as such to be apprehended, and made to euttlr the punishment pre ecribal by this Act. For it is not the in troduring Me hear to the public, or the exhibiting his pro ficiency in dancing, that is made necessary to constitute the offence, but the wimple keeping is bear—" all bear-wards . 1 " —and why any man should be condemned to arisen and hard &buss, fur keeping a bear, any more than for keeping a buffalo, or any other animal, we are utterly at a loss to discern. With this precedent before us, malefactors 'nay be multiplit ii without end, and the tread-mill go round with the celerity of a rolling-cage. As to the stage-players, who may entertain the rustics withosit a licence, we would commend the sage advice of II AM LLT to the ear of the Visiting Magistrate, whether of Staff .rd gad or of any other— .- Do you hear, let theni be well used ; for they are the abstract, and brief chronichs of the time ; after your death you were better have& bad Epitaph than their ill report while you live." Indeed one might almost suppose that the player in Hamlet was speaking in mystical allusion to some such instrument as the tread-mill in the following invocation : " All you gods ! In general synod, take away its power ; Break all the spokes and tellies of its wheel. And WIWI the round naive down the hills of heaven As los as to the fiends !" ii r c trust, in spite of the Magistrates who tnay come forward in its praise, that the " spokes and readies of its wheels" will be broken, or, if it should remain, that all such Magistrates as are well satisfied of the healthfulness of its rotatory motion, should enjoy exclusively the benefit of improving their constitution, by exercising their lungs and their legs daily, till they shall be pronounced con valescent. It is of the unmet importance that we should be able, at all times, to distinguish the boundary line between legitimate and arhilinry power. The two simple and in telligible maxims which we laid down at the outset of our remarks, afford a sure criterion by which this distinction may be drawn. First, that punishment can only he in flicted white some .emcee is committed; and, secondly, that to constitute an ngence, the act committed must be in jurious, directly or indirectly, either to the cnnimunity at large, or to some indiridual member of it. Let us now ask, what injuty does the community, or any individual metnber of it, sustain by the performance of any interlude or entertainment of the stage? Clearly none; and for the clearest of alt reasons,—that it is only when the persons perform for hire, gain, or reward," that they are made the object of punishment. But an the public require to be i trotected by the penalties of the law, against being erkelqined by persons whose skill and labour they reward? Such a principle of public punishment is absurd, and is inanifeetly an exercise of arGitrary power. As applied to the individuals ' it is au act of oppression : and that man must be ill studied in the fir principles of the British Constitution, who can introduce such enactments into its criminal code. In a great and opulent kingdom like our own, the qualities and occupations by which men procure a subsistence is infinite. It has pleased Providence., in its bounty, to distribute ta lents of endless variety among mankind. Each individual, metalling to his capacity, whether for insbuction or amuse ment, seeks his subsistence in the faculties he has culti vated. The exercise of their attainments is, in the far ,greater part, imposed upon them by their neceseities and occasions. For Hu taw to interfere amid to prohibit such paeans, under severe ',eremitic*, to resort to the only MMUS they poetess of supporting their families, or getting bread for themselves, is the rankest injestice.. Every man has a right to employ his talents, whatever they may be, for his own support, and it is the dot t y of the Government under which he lives, to protect him in the honest and profitable employment of them. But it Ilex here on the reverse We received, by a Dutch Mail, accounts from the Hague principles, and punishes where it ouritt to protect ! of the Sth February. His Royal Highness the Prince of We are fully reeved to hear sonic one assert, and all Orange arrived there on that day from St. Petersburgh. our attention to the fact, that the punishment awarded . by A Flanders mail arrived yesterday ; but the papers the Aet applies only to "all persons who shall for hire, gain. brought by it are wholly destitute of interest. or reward, act, Rte., such persons net being authorised by lair: ' 'There are private filers from Madrid of the 7th in- Not being authorized by law ! what just grounds ,tent, which communicate some particulars of interest. can the late interfere, where its prerentire and penisAing The discussions in the Cablect relative to the demands of power is not only uncalled for, hut where it has manifestly Fiance continued ; but as the French party was the no right whatever to enforce it ? Suppose a statute were strongest, it was fully expected that they would be coin- to be passed restricting the perodasion to brew beer to the plied with. A note had been despatched to the French proprietors of sir licensed breweries only, and that another Government, stating that the chief difficulty in the way was Act were then passed, declaring that " all persons who for the dread of violent opposition in the Ultra Royalist party, hire, gain, ut reward, shall brew, or cause to be brewed, and that an increased military force was requisite to pre- any beer, ale, or porter, such persons Pl ,, i bring an vent COMIIIOI ion. For this purpose it was resolved to create ! therierd by law, shall be deemed rogues and vaga as strong an army as possible, and to re-organise sonic of bonds, aid on conviction be committed to hard labour those who served under the Constitutionalists. I for any term not exceeding two years, and for the se- Mr. Elliott. the Missionary, arrived at Portsmouth on , coed to be deemed incorrigible rogues, within the trite in- Thursday, in the Oscar, front Ihmerara ; hut we are re-: tent anti meaning of the Act, and it aiuparted accordingly ;" quested to state, that his return to England is not compel_ I would it be any defence of such an iniquitous act, that its story, but perfectly voluntary : his stay here is merely tem- prohibition and its punishment applied only to such per pinery ; lie boa left his family in the colony. Isola as should brew ale or beer, net beisg. uslhuriz:d Gy The Queensberry packet arrived on Friday morning at hem y- Vous not every titan capable.of reflection perceive Falmouth, iu thirty-four days from Jamaica. Mr. Ilur. that, in this case, it is the low that is rteuetherieed, and not tado, the Colombian Minister, is not on board ; but Mr. the act which it proscribes ? It is vexatious to attempt to Amble., one of the Colombian Commissioners, has reached regulate the whole of human life and manners in that in- England by this conveyance. The express by which this tolerant spirit in which it has of late been attempted. It is intelligenee has been received from Falmouth brings no an atrocities usurpation on the common rights of the sub- Jamaica Papers, nor does the latter mention the state of jest. Such legislators as Mr. Chetwynd, who come to that island when the packet sailed, from which it may be their task with no other or better preparations than a foolish concluded that no further attempts at insubordination had vanity and a feet:lists real, would do well to study the first taken place among the black pepulatiou. principles of moral and political justice, before they make l Front the C u rt i / if,. awned. I 0 artier:, JAW. 3. The siege of 31 issolonghi, and of the tale of Anattilicon, by :VI us taphs, Pacha of Scodra lasted foe fifty-nine days. It is against that island they have almost exclusively directed their operations. According to the most correct estimate that could be niatle, the army lof the besiegers amounted to more than itOo6 nien. Their anti ! levy was considerable, and they fired upwards of 34101.0 shots upon the island, and exhattsted their last resources without obtaining any advantage. (tor Garrison dill not amount to tinO men, most of whom were inhabitants of the island. They all distinguished them selves by the limiest resistance. By a very singular accident, the first bullet fired by the enemy I was in the direction nil the chinch # the Archangels, and in falling upon the ground plot belonging to the church, a great quantity of water spouted forth, which led to the discovery of an old well, 0)- 1 tirely . unknown to the inhabhashi. . Tots circumstance happened 'told opportunely, for we were be ginning to he in want of water, the Island having till lately sup plied itself from a fountain situated on the Want coast, which was already occupied by the Turks . The people did not fail to attri. bute this accident to the favour of thi Archangels, protectors of the isle, and to the justice of tour cause, and it less redoubled their contillence and courage. Seven thousand feet of olive timber, and a great number of houses on the island, have been destroyed by the enemy's artillery. I But the establislunent of our independence will amply indemnity' us, not only fur our past losses, but mall those which we have yet', i to sustain. _ .... ... The Pitch* of Smart effected his retreat very precipitately. lie left behind him a considerable part of his baggage and ammu nition. line of his corps, engaged in the dithcult ' , minor* of Valtos, almost entirely purishetl. The other troops which arrived at Epirus, were attacked by some Albanian corps who have de clared tor the Greeks, and occasioned* cutisid,rable loss to the enemy. Those who escaped tile sword of the Greeks, are direct- Mg themselves through Middle Albany, towards Seudra. [From the ludicaterr of Bordeaux.l MADRID, Fors. 3. We are still deprived of news from the provinces, froM which the correspondence iv very limited. It had been agreed between France mid the Spanish Government, that the French Royal Guards should remain at Madrid. They received orders to hold themselves in readiness to return to France, and were to set out on the Bth of this month t but we are assured that King Ferdinand has requested that this corps might remain at Madrid, and extraordinary courier,' have been forwarded to Paris, to obtain a prolongation of its stay in Spain. An answer, it is hoped, will be received ky the 7.11 or ilth, and the Guards will re. main till that time to know their destination. ..... It is currently reported bete that there hag been an insurreetion in fisetesuadura, at the head of which was General ; in many parts of Andalusia also, symptutis of agitation hare appeared, which leads us to fear similar results. I Froth the Cour, ier Fraxceie.l LEIMIIIe JAN. 29. FOItEiGN INTIfkaGENeE. FRENCH PAPERS. Last night we received by express the Paris Journals of Friday. The following are extracts .- 1 From lila/tarsal des Debate.] Stsoain, Fs,. 7• %9senunt Irodoir Marcellus sets nut to-morrow for Paris. Toe Minister of War has recalled the ruyallrarabansen, who had been disbanded by the Porte.' This 'Jody will he, as heretofore, the first of the Ilnyal Guard. All those men who have in any way served the revolutionary cause, are to be for ever excluded. as:st•z ea, Fr.'s 4. ' We some time since spoke of a new secret society which had been disaercred, and which wits denounced by the Central Com mission of Illayener. No clue conk! be obtained of this society fur acme time. But we are now assured that the seizure of a number ,zrf writings has given the most positive !woofs of the object of this , institution, and by this Means a trace has been obtained to the price eipal members. The greatest part of these had alresdy . quitted the Iniversitint; but they entered into relation.; afterward, with the chiefs of the ledges, which has caused the arrest of many of the latter, particularly in the provinces of Western Prussia. Several young own, who have not linishtd their education, see also implicated in this singular glair. MI the persons arrested hare been sent to Berlin, where an inquiry is going oo relative to secret associations. ~~