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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1824. The Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday reached our office yesterday, and bring the final decision of the Chamber of Deputies on the proposed measure for the reduction of the French Funds. On Tuesday, during the sitting, all the amendments proposed on that day, which went to except the property in the funds of the Chamber of Peers, of the Members of the Legion of Honour, of the Invalids of the Navy, of " the Conseil du Sceau des Titres," of Public and Religious Foundations, of the " Communes," the " Tontines," the " Fonds de Re traite," of Minors. Marriage Settlements, Absentees, Hol dets in those Funds who would suffer by the measure, a reduction of two-thirds of their income, with such holders as do not possess property in the " Renter" to the amount of a thousand francs per annum, and several minor amend ments beside, were successively proposed and rejected. On IVednesday this important debate was resumed, aod a host of other amendments were in their turn negatived. The I %amber at length became a scene of stormy and troubled discussion, and Members proposing successive amendments without end. It was filially resolved, that the long-pro tracted debate should be closed; and M. Raves, the Presi dent, amid exclamations and violent protests from a throng of Deputies environing him, put the previous question on eight of these amendments successively, and by &majority negatived them all. Tim Ultras and the few Liberals within the Chamber were equally loud in their opposition to the measure. M. Girardin, who has born foremost among the " Lilwraux " this session, mounted the tribune, and having failed in obtaining a hearing amid the clamour , that agitates! the Assembly and drowned his voice, the violent ultra General, Donnadieu, suceetsksi him, but with as little effect. The vote was ultimately put on the original law, by the tippet sunrise/, and carried by a majority of ninety-three, the result of the anxious scrutiny appearing to be, out of SSS Deputies assembled, White balls for the Law of Reduction . . 238. Vick balls opposed to it . . 143. Thus the rade( of the Finance Minister has at length triumphed, after one of the severest debates, though in a Royalist Chamber, that any measure ever met with in France. The ( 'hamber on IVednesday adjourned at half-past fire in the afternoon. Meanwhile the (lumber of Peers was *scup:el with the discussion of septennial elections, another most important alteration. The measure was opposral on Tuesday by the Count ale St. Roman, and supported by the Baron ale Montaleinhert. This prnjef of course will Pm. and with infinitely less opposition than the financial arrangement; in fait it will meet little or no hostility whatever. In France the same wealth does not prevail u in this country, v. here a measure of the same description was carried through with scarce any dissent. The pro peed law affect:4 in France the limited properties of nutnhers possessing no other resource, anal the Opposition ha' been in consequene: commensurate. In fact, the majority on this question spews the influence of Villeles Ministry to b: anything but decisive in the Chamber; and if that Ministry are not able to control the delibe rations of such an Assembly for the period they will now sit, the attempt will probably he made to undo everything that the Revolution gave to F.anco. Yet that country, under the continuant; of peace and its present Govern ment, is every day rising in commerce, general prosperity, and wealth, and enjoying infinitely more happiness and freedom titan the French people ever knew before, from the reign of the Convention down to the present thy. Such a state of things is now unquestioned throughout France ; her manufacture*, her trade, and her foreign commerce, are all in unprecedented activity. This can be a subject of no regret or envy to this country: on the contrary, if the commercial relations of both countries be put on that footing in which we hope soon to see them placed, the increasing prosperity of both Crest itritain and France will he productive of the interchange of most valuable benefits to the two great countries, between whom so long and jealous a commercial separation has un fortunately existed. The House, on the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means last night, and the Right Hon. Gmtleman made his closing statement of the finances of the country. lie conceived it his duty (Mr. Robinson said) to make a state ment to the House, and to cuter into an explanation, or, 'more properly speaking, a recapitulation to the country of the revenue which had been voted by Parliament in the Committee of Supply, and to explain for what purposes these various sums were necessary, how they were emptied,' and the reasons for which his Majesty's Ministers felt them& Ives obliged to call upon Parliament. The extents of the sum voted in the C 'tar of Supply in the cone- 1 toeneement of the Session, the Chancellor of the Exchequer' stated, vest 111,284,711 f., including the Estimates for the Army, the Navy, the Onlnance, and Miscellaneous St . ''- , vices, with 1,4r20,000/. for the payment of inter, st on Ex- I chequer Bills. A sum of 30,000,000 f. in Exchequer Bills (the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated) was ' also thrown upon the public by the vote of the Com- *tee of Supply ; hut he was ready to admit the total am of the Exchequer Bills issued undo. this' vote amounted to :11,461,0001. thus exceeding the sum cal culated upon by 4,161,0001. The Right lion. Gentle- 1 man stated, that he proposed to meet this surplus in the following manner :—By the duties on sugar he hoped to raise 3,000,0001.; by that on foreign spirits 1,000,0001. ; both would amount to 4,000,0001.; leaving the remaining deficiency of 461,0001. to satisfy. To make up this sum, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, the East India Company contributed, according to a vote in the early part of last Session, as an allowance fur the half-pay of the King's foroes in India, the sum of 60,0001. The sale of buildings, estimated by the Conitnixsioncrs of Public Works, amounted to 50,0001. ; the transfer of 10 per cont. from the salaries of the Officers of State and others, in pursuance of his lklajesty's example, and an Order in Council of 1522, would add to the revenue 30,0001. To these sums might he add, d various small Bons, amounting to about 50,0001., and which, though not regularly in eluded in tie Ways and Means, might be considered as belonging to them. When these sums were added to 1,778,1311., the Right lion. Gentleman stated the surplus of revenue over expenditure would be 10,600,0001. The revenue of the whole year amounted, he said, to 51,‘465,000/.; to this was to be added, the part 'Payment of th:: debt from Austria, amounting to 40,000/. There was also to be added, ueopou/. derived from sources in Ireland, and de cided to be due to the Crown. These sums, when added to the year's revenue, would make a total of 59,31,7,0001. From this was to be deducted 3,000,000 f. to be applied to the Consolidates' Fund ; also a deduction of 1,200,000 f. arising from losses in the revenue from the different reductions which Parliament thought proper to make in various taxes. The Right Honourable Gentleman cal culated the sum of 1,100,000 f. as the probable dimi nution of revenue arising from the reduction of duties on silk and °tinr articles of commerce. This latter sum, added to the sum to be applied to the Consolidated Fund, made together 4,900,000 k, making the nett revenue amount to forty-six or forty-seven millions. The charge for the Consolidated Fund amounted to 38,580,00 UL, and there remained a surplus of 10,650,000 f. We cannot, this morning, follow the Chancellor of the Exchequer further, through his long and able exposition of the finances of the country, which was most satisfactory and cheering. The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded by moving the Resolutions, which will be found in our columns, and which were ultimately carried without a division. The second reading of the West India Company's Bill was, on the suggestion of Mr. Iluskisson, postponed by Mr. Manning to Monday next. The Right Honourable Gentleman suggested the delay, as it involved, lie said, the very question of incorporation which the Government had then under their consideration. Mr. Iluskisson, on Thursday night, when Sir John Newport moved the second reading of the Bill for incorporating the " Irish Mining Company," objected to it, on the same grounds as the Right honourable Gentleman said he would object to all the Bills that were then in progress for the incorpora tion of the various speculating companies. Mr. Iluskis son, on Thursday night, stated, that he had no objection that these bodies should be incorporated to a certain ex tent, such as enabling them to sue or be sued in the person of any officer appointed for the purpose; but beyond that be did not think it right to give them all the exemptions, that were generally conferred on corporations: and Mr. Husk's/ion further expressed his opinion, that if in dividuals chose to embark in any trading speculation, they ought to be individually liable for the results of any failure of such speculation, in the same manner as if they were merely partners. The views taken by Mr. Iluskisson on this important subject arc un questionably most correct. A number of Bills have this Session been introduced, for the incorporation of companies of every sort, both here and in Ireland, and all with the most useful and beneficial views. But if these incorporations are founded on commercial speculation as great trailing companies, it is a question how far the Line -60111 of Parliament should be extended to protect them from all the consequences of such speculations, however ruinous they may turn out to be. The West India Com pany, appears, however, to be formed nil the fairest prin ciples, and on a plan likely to be most kaieficial to the sugar islands, and to all engaging in this great speculation. The East India Company have had their Charter renewed with the most extensive privileges, with a mighty empire and a vast trade throughout the East ; and though the West India Company never can hope to rival " the Lords, of Asia" in wealth or resources, their establishment is likely to be the salvation of the most valuable of our west ern puma-lesions, and ultimately, perhaps, the means of their preservation to Great Britain. We !rest therefore that the Bill for the incorporation of the West India (inn pany may meet no effectual opposition, and that a measure so full of utility will receive the early sanction of the Le gislature. Although Mr. Ilona's motion on Thursday evening, respecting the Church Establishment in Ireland, was car rigid against him by a considerable majority, its goad effect will not be lost. Although a formal Parliamentary inquiry into the subject was rya conceded, vet the public discus sion of it will go far to obtain ultimately that concession which at the present moment may be refused as inexpe dient. We will waive, for the present, going into the question, whether that which is just can be at any time nt ; and content ourselves with asking, whether it would not he wise to make religion loved and its pre femora respected, in whatever part of the United King dom it may he, that we may wish to secure the moral and rational allegiance of the people? The Church Establish ment of Ireland is made to pass a sentence of comlemna dun on itself. It is so constituted as to be oppressive be y I all example, while it is wealthy beyond all necessity. But its wealth may be forgiven. Let the Protestant Esta blishment enjoy its opulence, hut let it grant to the Catho lic his rights. Let it act in the spirit of that religion, and of those doctrines, for which it claims the exclusive prefer ence, and it will leave to no British subject in Ireland or in England any just ground of complaint. If the blessings inherent in the //ienrechy are so truly great, let them be dispensed equally to the Catholic and to the Protestant, that the value of their cost to both may be fairly estimated. As affairs stand at present—and have stood for centuries— the million who suffer will raise their voice against it ; and that voice, in the end, will make itself heard. It would he unjust to blame either hfs'Aditjetty or his Majesty's Minis ters, for that resistance to all reformation of which Ireland has long been the victim. They have no interest in upholding this preposterous scheme of thinge ; far from it. But dine is an unseen power,—unseen except by those behind the cur tain,—that is paramount over both; and this power, exerted always effectively and with decision, because it is in few hands—this power must be subdued and broken before Ireland can be at peace. So long as it is permitted to exist, as now it does, with all its force and with all its fa culties about it, every blessing intended for our fellow-sub ljects in that part of the United Kingdom will be inter cepted. So long as this aristocratic faction can claim with effect to be the legitimate and exclusive channel of all pa tronage and of all preferment, so long will oppression in Ireland continue unabated, and its abuses unreformed., But let Ministers but persevere in the path which they have chosen, and they may become sufficiently popular with the nation to show to these aristocratic leaders, that the Executive Government is strong enough to subsist without the support of theirfaseffy inllrenee, or the aid of their Parliamentary ascendancy. By the persisting inte grity of Ministers both may be overthrown: their coure will then open before them, and their efforts to give tran quillity and contentment to Ireland will then be successful whenever they are sincere. We trust it is no very extra vagant stretch of hope, that we may one day address them in the ancient expression of congratulation after a victory, to triumgie ! The Duke and Duchess of Clgrence and the Princess Augusta dined with the Duke and Duels's. of Gloucester on Thursday, at their residence, Park-lane. After dinner the Duke and Duchess of Clarence proczeded to Northum berland llouse, to honour the fete, given by the Duke and Duchesa of Northumberland, with their presence. The Duke of Sussex and the Duchies of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta ye►terday. The Duke of Sussex, being completely recovered from his late accident, left his residence yesterday fur the first time. Yesterday the I)uchess of Kent, the Princesses Victoria and Ftodor, and the Prince of Leiningen. paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence. The Duchess of Clarence rode out with the DuchEss of Kent. Yesterday the Duchess of (Anteater and the Princess Auszusta paid visits to Countess Cathcart. Prince Leopold arrived in town yesterday evening from Clartinont. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet ('ouncil! assembled at the Fort ign Office. I )omning-stret t. which' was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers. The Cabinet broke up at a little before four o'clock. The French Ambassador transacted business with Mr. Canning yesterday at the Foreign Office. We have heart), from the most respectable authority, that the Drawing-room will sot be held on the 13th inst. The 20th is now named as the probable day fur hold ing it. It is whispered that a duel has recently taken place between a Noble Marquis of military celebrity, and a I gentleman who has retired from a regiment of Hussars.. A Lincoln pap(r says—" Sir IV. lngilby, we under stand, has commenced his progress through the county, for the purpose of paying his respects to the freeholders. We heard of the worthy Baronet last week at Market Dee ping, Spalding, The folowing gentlemen were yesterday called to the degree of liarriskr at Las., by the Honourable Sochi! of Lincoln's Inn :—Fitzroy Kelly, Esq. and Edward Bird, Esq. Doctor Buckner. the late Bishop of Chichester, was nearly the last of the Episcopal Bench. whose elevation -.vas the result of distinguished learning; he was once the frit nd of .John Horne Tooke.—t 'ourirr. It is stated in a letter from Port-au-Prince, dated March 8, that the King of France has offered to abandon all claim to the sovereignty of St. Domingo, on condition of receiving a stun of money, and some commercial pri vileges. Muses' NovA.—The 19th number of this elegant vol of outline engravings has just been published. We find amongst its subjects, " The Infant Bacchus eon signixl by Mercury to the Nymphs of Nysit," a highly classical and animated composition ; and the " Monument of tl ment XIII.," a most sublime ain't of the great sculptor. The kneeling statue of the venerable Pontiff', in an attitude expressive of deep devotion, is justly esteemed for its truth and beauty. There is also in the present number an engraving of the elegant " Monument of the rountess D'llaro," and a graceful bust of the Muse Erato. ('ArTAIN PARIIV.-..J..'aptain Parry is again on the eve of sailing on a new exploratory voyage; but Capta'n Franklin and Dr. Richatdson (who is appointed surgeon to the division of Marines at Chatham), do not set out on their land expedition until February next. Dr. Richardson will not proceed farther than Mackenzie River, where he will remain, making botanieal collections, while Captain Franklin will proceed to explore along the coast, &e. The mathematical instruments to be used on board the disco very ships were sent on Thursday to Deptford, and this morning the Hecht and Fury will sail from thence to Gal leon's Reach, at which place they will remain a day to re ceive their ordnance stores on hoard, and be visited by the Board of Admiralty, and then drop down to Northflen.— At the latter place wine experiments on the magnetic at traction will be made ; after which the ships proceed to the Nore, and the Officers and men will receive their wages in advance, and on the following morning the ships will sail on their voyage, calling at the Orkneys. Tits: ASII ANTE IL IV A s.—The Welt letters by the yes.. Rd which arrived last from Sierra Leone, one of which is of the Doh March, bring no inte.ligcnce of a positive nature relative to the affair between Sir Charles M‘Carthy and the Ashantees. We have indeed seen a letter from Mr. 11—, a respectable merchant of Plymouth, in which he says that he has received accounts from Sierra Leone of the 17th of March, at which time it was reported that Sir ('harks had had two severe actions with the Ashantees, in both of which he had defeated them, and that it was supposed he had continued his march to Coo massie. This letter would certainly give grou n d for hope, if it were not for the supposed ; as it can hardly be ima gined that, in them nt of success, the march of Sir ('harks would have been left doubtful. The question, we fear, is put at rest by the receipt of despatches by Earl Bathurst, from Major Chisholm, dated February 3. If any thing satisfactory, or even consolatory, had reached his Lord- Ain, he certainly wouhl have matte it public. According to the latest letters, the BM had sent in a Frize to Sierra Leen,. LITENATeIIE. MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN ROCK. THE CELEBRATED 11111111 CIIIII:FTAIN ; NITA SO in ACCOUNT OF 1188 ♦BCC/TOIL. WHITTEN BY HIMSELF. !Continued from the British Press of Saturday.] We have followed this eloquent and animated writer through the respective chapters of English and Irish his tory, tip to the dissolution of royalty on the death of Charles the First. It setatis natural to presume, that, under the cmplicity and innocence of republican manners, Ireland would come in fur her full share of that popular freedom which was to be the bases of the new Government. C ROM WELL, it might have been supposed, would mark it out as a land of Goshen, to which calamity should sot reach. No such thing. The engines of despotism played as heavily Upon her under the f'roteetorsite, as they had ever done in the sublitnest periods of the Monarchy. No- Ithing that force or fraud could effect was wanting to the new catalogue of aggressions. But let the gallant Captain Roca tell the talc in his own way : As if no possible change of circumstances could exempt this wretched peop!e from aufiering, after having been so vigorously persecuted and massacred under the royal government, as rebels, they were in, still loon vigocously persecuted and massacred under the parliamentary government, as royalists; and what with the Lords Justices en one side, and Crnmwell and Ireton on the other, assisted by a pestilence, which was the least cruel enemy of the whale, they were at last reduced to a mita very nearly reahung that long-desired object of English policy—their estimation. Little more, indeed, was left of the Catholic population than was barely sufficient at give life to the devalue region of Connaught, into which they were now driven like herds of cattle by Cromwell, under the menace of a proelamatibn, that " all of them who, after that time, should be found in any other part of the kingdom, man, woman, or child, might be killed by anybody who saw or met them ;"—while their estates, which, at that tints. constituted at least nine-tenths of the landed property of the country, were divided among his officers and soldiers, and among those adven turers who had advanced money fur the war. The practical application of the principles of this newly inspired teacher of liberty and his military ministers, are exemplified in the following note:— A survey being made of all Ireland for this purpose, the bes land was rated only at 3s. an acre, and some only at a penny; and the soldiers drew lots in what Tart of the kingdom their portions should be assigned them. "ho man," says Carte, " had so great shares ;is they who had been Instruments to murder the King. What lands they were pleased to call umprtfriblc (which were thrown in gratis) they returned as such, let them be never so gond and profitable." Well may we, the people cf England, ask rdon of God and man for our treatment of the Sister Kingdom. And yet it is not the people of England that arc to blame : their feelings may be, and often are, sadly misguided, and their better judgment abused ; but at heart they have a hatred of oppression. Give their anger tur.c to cool, and they are generous; give their prejudices time to wear away, and they become humane and liberal. The cause of Ireland's sufferings are to be sought elsewhere: they are to be sought, and will be found, in the overwhelming in fluence of the Irish aristocracy, and the unsparing exac tions of the Irish Church Establishment. The general impression with us, among the multitude, has been, that the Protestants in Ireland have always had, and have still, a strong struggle to maintain themselves against the terrors of Popery, and to guard against the subversion of the Pro testant faith. We are no doubt becoming daily better ac quainted with the real state of the case ; and it is this gra dual enlightening of the public mind that has led to those mild and tolerant sentiments which at present prevail to wards the Catholic body. We have seen that, under every change of system in England, and under every succession of rulers, whether monarchical or republican, eh., misgovernment of Ireland was the same. %Viten Cromwell was gathered to his fa thers, and the royal line of Kings was restored in the per son of Cit A It I.IS the Second, yet was the reign of peace, and equity, and justice, as far from that ill-starrial nation as ever. In spite of the rooted loyalty of the Catholics, their claims were beat hack with as much fierceness as if they hail been the must obdurate regicides; no steadiness of allegiance on their part prevented their being goaded to rebellion. But we let our biographer relate how it fared with them : The Catholics were the last is the time kingdoms to lay down the royal banner, after suffering all but utter extennination in its defence. Yet, how was their devotedness rewarded at the Restora tion ? In one of the very first Acts that issued from the royal hand—in order to furnish a pretext for confirming all the robberies of Cromwell—it was coolly and unblushingly declared that they were rebels; and that, having been conquered by his Majesty's Protestant subjects (meaning ('romwell, Ireton, Lord 117nghill, Ac.), their estates and possessions became vested in the Crown. This point once established, the path of iniquity lay clear and open; and upon such monstrous 'TA insulting Glschorids was that Act of Settlement founded, "by which," says Lord Clare. •' seven millions eight hundred thousand urea of land were set out to a motley crew of English adventurers, civil and military, nearly to the total mansion of the old inhabitants of the island. ' If such things were read in Gulliver, ('andide, or any such satirical fiction, they would be reganted as caricatures, too extrava gant and distorted, of the perfidy and injustice of Kings and Go vernments. But when we not only know that such proceedings once took place, but see actual, existing men, who still cling to the principle of those proceedings, and dignify it with the name of " the wiatloni of our ancestors," we feel that no romance can do justice to such perverse absurdity ; and that Klemius, who repro. senta a man as ready to swear that the sun is triangular, in order to qualify for a place which reqUITCI that particular belief, would feel ashamed of the tamenerA of his satire, if lie could but know how sonic of our statesmen transcend it. It was, indeed, among the authors and patrons of this memor able Act of Spoliation that the idea of e.reluding Catholics front' the Bann. of COMMONS (one of the boasted pmeti of the " wisdom of our ancestor.") first originated." An Catholics were to he the persons despoiled, their concurrence could hardly be expected and though the House was of Cromwell's own packing, and almost entirely composed of those soldiers and adventurers, who were to become, by this measure, the proprietors of near three-fourths of Ireland, yet, unwilling that Catholics should have a share even in their debates, they endeavoured to exclude them altogether from the Mouse, by rendering the Oath of Supremacy an indispensable qualification for a seat in it. The attempt, however, was resisted. at the time, as an invasion of the prerogative; and the few Catho lics who were members had the melancholy pnvilege of witnessing the formal transfer of so large a portion of their country to men " who," as Swift says, " gained by rebellion what they and their fellow-eountry:nen lost by loyalty." It seems natural enough to ask, why has not a healing and wholesome plan of policy been tried, that it tray be sen, whether Christians, under whatever denomination, whether l'rotestant or Catholic, may not live together in harmony, and in the common fellowship of that Gospel which has the happiness of all for its origin and its end ? The answer is, it has been tried more than once, and has failed ; because those who have been armed with local in fluence and power, have been too strong for those who have wished to govern in the spirit of justice. More than one Lord-Lieutenant has given, or rather has been pre pared to give, all the aid of that high and honourable station to the removal of those civil disabilities, and of that persecuting spirit, which have been the fruitful source of discord, and insurrection, and national weakness. Hut the instant hid government was marked by that spirit of con cession which the blameless conduct of the Catholics jus tified, and the interest of both kingdoms required—that in stant has been always the signal for encounter, and that I encounter a prelude to recall ; for a Lord-Lieutenant thtts disposed towards a peaceful redress of grievances, has al ways been accompanied with a SECNETAILV who had taken his lesson of office front 1'1(1st - ult.°, in the Ten/rest— " You shall be Viceroy—but I will be Viceroy over you." During the reicn of Charles 11., it seems, the Irish could nat be excited, by existing abuses, to a sufficiently active spirit of disloyalty ; the Rocs family could not be mused to a resistance so alert, as to warrant the customary exer cise of military despotism. There is one singularity in this reign, which well deserves to be recorded---the English Ministry tried to get up a rebellion in Ire land, and roust not ! When that chef-d'amyre of bigotry and ahounlity, the Popish Plot (whose nimble:es has left its slaver upon the policy of England ever since), was at the full height of its fraud and frenzy, it was thought, with justice, to lie a reflection on the authenticity of the conspiracy, that Ireland did not lend it the ready oonction of her experience; and, accordingly, in addition to the usual provocatioos of penal laws, menaces of eaten aa i tt anon, etc. /ye., einuoiaries were despatched throughout the country in search of informers and wit noise*, and the example of the pensioned Oates held out, to tempt villains of every creed and class' into the aanie path of prosperity. Hut all would not do. 'llse Irish like their plots to toe of home manufacture, and extend their hatred of imports even to that favourite article rebellion—so much so, that when discontent is most abundant in England (as on the recent occasion of the Queen's trial), scarce a asuiple of it is to be seen in the Irish market. The Duke of Ormond, ton, who was Lint Lientenam at this period, took a different method of keeping the tinier iron. those which have been generally adopted since. The lest Act, and the foe the expulsion of Popish Peers frosts Parliament, were among the scourges by which Shaftesbury and his pitrty metre to lash up the people into revolt. hut the Duke of Oniiiind, by sis influence, prevented these measures from passing—being against them, as he exprcssed it, " in conscience, as well as in prudence, becalm he kw, so reuse why epiNfise sleoekl take away a deesie birth-right." . i o what s here said of the Duke of Ormond, the writer subjoins the following note : lie was urged to imprison all the principal ROMP Ctlbiea e( Ireland at this juncture, but be rehised to do as." "it Ina well known," adds Leland, " how much the iinprisonmeats and other severities of hir W. Parsons had contributed to hum outubtaa fattl the last rebellion ; and neither the Duke nor the Priv, Cowbell deemed it prudent to make a simile experiment!' For this moileritt:on and wisdom Ormond was. of *nape, list and calumniated by the Protettant ascendancy of that tap, add the same honourable tribute (as Lord ‘)'ellesli well knows) •Weildl every Lord Lieutenant who deviates into the arms liberal glom. PASMONABLP INrELLIGENCE. Lord sod Lady King gave a grand dinner en thoreday to !And Porchcatcr. Lord Clifton, Liwd Ellenbornigh, Lord Carder, Sir Edward Codrington, Mr. and Mrs. Thowipson, Mr. George For: tescre,./tlr. Pensooby, he. at their house in Dovereareet. The Marquis of Anglesey will have a grand dinner party this day, at his house in Old Burlington-street. {'then Taylor, Pay has issued cards of In for a distin guished party to meet the Luke of Gloucester, on Friday. the Mb instant, at hlt house in Cavendish.square. Mr. and Miss Blackburne have issued cards of invitadeo for • rout on the 14th instant, at their house in Park street, West minster. Sir Thomas Lethbr:Age, kart. will have a &neer party this day, at his house. 'Whitehall-place. The Earl and Counter.' of Li nieitick entertained Emily Martino ricss of Londonderry and a distmoished party; at dinamysterday, at their house in AI snslield. street. The Duke of Gloucester entertained s large party at /limner re. terday, at Gloucester Hawse, Park.la.x. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisluity had a dinner patty yes terday, at her house in Arlington -street. Departures from Long's Hotel, Bond-street:—Eaptein Archer, R. N.. for l'ortrviout'l ; James Lowe. Esq.. for his seat la De vonshire; Captain Lucas, for Paris ; Captain Itaikes, for ditto; a id Mr. and Mrs. Ten*, for Brighton. Arrivals at the Bath Hotel, Arlington.street:—Mr. and Mrs. Beercroft, from their seat in Hotbersetahire; Mr. and bliss Wyatt, from Bath. Departures from ditto :—Mr. and Ma. Wdim„ far Devonshire; and Captain and Mrs. Malcolm, on a tour. Arrivals at Batt's Hotel, Bover-atreet Geofge Jernlng ham, Ban. Lady Jerningham the 31iraesJerningham, sod Mr. Ed. Jerningham, from Cosset' Hail, near Norwich/ Mrs. Salle. bury and family, from the i r seat near dalisbury ; and Mr. and Mrs. Swinton and family. 1011EIGN INTELLIGENCE. DUTCH MAIL. Brussels and I)utch Papers to the Mit instant arrived yesterday. The following is an extract:— Coxsrawriwort.e, llamas 9 6. Counsellor Minsiacky haring signified to the Porte, and the Fo reign Legations here, that he should take upon him, on the 24th of this month, the direction of the affairs of the Russian eoromeire, which had hitherto been managed by the imperial Austrian Inter_ nuncio, the Commercial Chancery. which had been closest for three year*, was opened on that day. The sight of the Russian imperial Eagle, its a presage of the restoration of friendly relations with the Court of St. Petersbutgh, was highly agreeable to the public. The circumstance which we mentioned in our preceding report, as having occurred at the Arsenal of Aliasulonghi, is fully confintt. ed ; but the scene terminated in a manner eery humiliating to the authority of 3laumcordato. After the German officer was shot. and all workmen in the Arsenal, among whop were anne pitiful mechanics and mathematicians, had fled to Zante, it was resolved to punish the Suliot who had committed the murder. Seven hun dred of his comrades immediately rose, and took him under their protection. ftlaumcord•to was in the end obliged not only to give up the intention of punishing the critninal, but even to appease the iuliots by fair words, in order to prevent a dangerous insurrectioTho. This affair so greatly affected Lord Byron, that he passed some day, in violent convulsions, which excited fears for his life. BKAZILIA V LOAN. The following letter (anwrently circular) has been sent to one of the candidates tor the Brazilian Loan : •• York -street, Mav 7. 18 34- "GE ter LE m —We have received your tender for the proposed Brazilian Loan, but it appearing to us that yours and all the other otters have been made under an impremion us to the state of Brazil, which we know to be ernmentis, we think it proper not to negociato the Loan by tender, while the actual circumstances of the Biaziliaa empire are so ill understood. We feel obliged, by the part you and the other candidates hays taken, and shall faithfully perform our promise not to communicate to any one the elm we have received . and if at any future time we should feel it right to adopt the same COUne (We mean that at individual tender) we si►all not fait to Infants you and Misdate candidates without ;•reference or partiality. a We have the honot.r to be, Gentlemen, ,• Your obedient and bumble Servants, (Signed) " BRANT. " GAM E 1110." Mr. Belzoni, we undeiitapoor ; he hu left widow, who was long the sharer of his trials and the par ticipator of his pleasures. His parents, who reside in Italy, are very respectable people, and of good origin, although sudden misfortunes compelled two of their sons to seek a subsistence in England, by exhibiting the extraordinary effects of muscular strength. The aged persons are de pendent upon their children for support. Mr. Francis Belzoni, who it a few years younger than his deceased brother, it is expected will follow up the discoveries of the latter. The following is an extract of a private letter of the r2Vd ult. from Madrid :—" &nee the departure of ;eneral Boor moat, the hopes of an amnesty appear to have been reviv ed. The King will leave Toledo for Aranjuez on the 24th. Since his Majesty's stay at the former place, the party of Don Victor Saez have employed their utmost efibets ao turn out the present ministry, and replace them in part by the old one ; but Ugarte was opposed to it, and the Minis ters have now a firmer tooting than ever. Rumours of changes are afloat ; but they appear to proceed from the in trigues of the Apostolical Junta. Several retired officers who had begged purrnission to sojourn at Madrid, in pur suance of the decree which secured to them their half-pay, have received orders to quit the capital within twenty-four hours. They are reduced to gnat distress ; for not wiz do they receive no pay, hut orders have not even been sent to the provincial treasuries to affbrd them succour. Messrs. Gueohard and Achille JoutiVoy have been here for some days, proposing, but fruitlessly, new projects fur a loan." ihtEanet't.Cotirt at:RATION AT WHITECII•rrL.—The utmost alarm prevailed on Thursday evening in the minds of the inhabitants of ()elicitor -street, ii'hitechapel, and its surrounding neighbourhood, in consequence of the spacious sugarthouses be longing to Mr. Alderman Lucas, is thborne-street, nearly adjoin. ing the Court of Itequests, being discovered to be on fire, and from the extent of the premise. the grt aiest anxiety prevailed for the homes on both side.. and those in Montague -street. The first sym tuns of the conflagration wen , discovered about six o'clock in the evening, by a volume of smoke issuing front the root' of the north wing of the buildings; and in a few moments after flames were perceivable, which in the most incredible manner spread their is. sages, threatening general destruction. Instant communication was datpatchnl to the various stations of the fire-engines, but previous to their arrival the engines belonging to the parishes of Whitecbe. pcl and Spitallields were promptly in attendance; but their wank efforts to abate the devouring element had nut the least effect, mike flames made their progress downwards with a velocity ths:irtibt gars desciiption. About seven o'clock the other engines and stationed themselves in situations best calculated to get free egress to the scene of destruction, and a plentiful supply of water being obtained, the firemen worked with surprising alacrity. Still their exertions appeared to be in vain, and the entire sans_ tore was in one maw of flares; the ponderous girders falling at intervals with trentendotta crashes, followed by most awful volumes of fire. A rot number of town carmen were in attend. ante with their carts, in which they conveyed away as muck of the stores as could be extricated from the burning pile, which were deposited in the warehouses of Mews. tkipm, opposite ; but the whole that could he saved only amounted to about II tons. At nine o'clock the whole of the Moors, with their iron doors, fell is, but fortunately no accident was occasioned, leaving the entire front, nine stories high, standing. The mob that collected was so great that the firemen could hot keep them from pressing towards the premien., although the utmost danger presented itself, front the state of the walls that were left standing; it was therefore necessary to call out the civil authorities, and Mr. Miller, the chief officer of Lambeth-street establishment, and Mr. Garton, of Worship-strert„ attended, with the whole force of the officers, and placed themselves in various directions to keep oft the populace. The peonies.. of Messrs. Croft and Lewis, the livery-stable-keepers, in White. chapel, were now considered in danger, but fortunately they were preserved from falling a prey to the devouring ekinent, which burnt with increasing rapidity till about five o'clock yesterday morning, when it was got under, but not aid the spacious buildings were reduced to a mass cl ruins. The origin of the disaster is sup posed to have been caused by the pan chimney throwi n g out too much heat into the drying room on the attic, where the smoke was disuivered to be issuing from. The premises we are given to es &Wand, are insured, together with the stork, to the amount of 28,22111., in the offices of the Sun, Hernia, Exchange, Imperial, Globe, Union, and Eagle. It is a singular circumstance that, abate 24 years ago, a tire took place upos the mine site, and the troth wail which then escaped the conflagration is now standing. Tin: LAST DAY OF YHA LOTTAIN.—The small 811111. her of Tickets remaining to Draw. have the unprecedented Number of Twelve Capital Prises, including Two of Twenty Thousand Pounds, which, as well as every other Prize, must all be drawn .n. on. . k, and the S.. l., :urel ., v.. s har•2l.dee are on s i inst.,wle.tr a nall t ti th n: tlly .,,nutm whoeltroses. f Indrawn hope to distribute the above at their Old Offices, No. 37, Cornlffil„, No. 11, Holborn, at.d No. 341, Haymarket.—J. and J. tiTeWItION I Contractors. 11 ~~ I