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ante NritifSh PreISO. TIMATRR ROYAL, DRITRY-LANF. This iredall. SATURDAY, December IS, Will be performed ytir CAHINST. . . Prince Orlando. Mr. Saplo Count Curroso. Mr. Cattle; liaratilA de Grab I Chateau, Mr. Browne: I..rrenzo. Mr. Moen Peter. Mr. Dou toe: tli!.C..sieulo. Mr. Harley. Wh , retta. Slims straitens: Constautla. MU* eo ,, Y; Blanes, Mrs. Harlow.: Curioss, Mrs. 11. litiglica6. After whirls. IIY CNCI.E . . Gabriel Ornsfuns, Mr. (lattie: la1;71;dford; Lieutenant flat. La.. %Ir. Item; Tam: Tacit. Mr. Kaight ; Jack Needy, Mr. Harley. 1 - 1,11 . Min Purer Mrc. T.. Mre. Urger. uu Munda), blacbet h. The Vaasa) , Fete. and The Miller's Mald. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. Thk Evening. Y• ‘TURDA V. Doe. will be performed A WOSI AN NEVER SEXT or, 'ERE Si 11/OW OF CORNIIII.I. Henry the Slash. Mr. Baker: ►'oster. Mr. I' mons Stepirn ►ester. Mr. C. Amble; Foster, Jun. Mr. tooter; Walter Brown. Mr. Eger bom ; Sir iilldrreY Mseedweil. Mr. Bartley; Master I noneent Lambskin. Mr. Keeley; Clown. Mr. Blanchard. Ago.•. %%elided (the 11 Wow of I...eaten). Mho Chester; Mrs. Foster. him Lacy; Jaue. Miss Junes. in Art V. the Lord Mayor's show. as It passed through Chewable. hs the year 1444. After which. THE EItoREN LAKE. 'the Grand Duke of Bushes.. Mr. Bartley; Prime de Neulinurg. Mr. isms.; Marquis de Fathom. Mr. J. lima's; F.sint de Linsl cri. ?moans Wilhelm. Mr. Keeley. The Prim?... Louise, Mo.. I .oce ; am mese Matilda de Iltuseieldt. Miss M. Tree; Lisuntess de V. uletelii, un Monday, The Fair Penitent, and The Miller and his Men. ADELIWI THEATRE, sTRAND. - TAk Evening. SATURDAY, Der. Is, s UI be presented a new Conde IltlrJetta, OP AN ACTOR. The Principal Characters by Slescrs. Wraith. J. Reeve, 111l11Insn, tutu, Lee. Brown, fauipbell. Sillier, and Elliott; Misses linden, Daly, Searle, and Bryan, he. &c. Tv evueluee with ■ nvw ►'arch] Rurletfa, eallrd IlOitk: 111.1:No ru•.n oNk.; Or. TIO: 011 Mr:borne. 10.11VIIIth;son; ounx 11eIborne. Wr. Chapman c Larry Illeulagui. lb. Power. Louisa Lui• tutor... Ilium S. 110,..tb The Bore mg raging Commenced publishing yestenlay morning at live o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY. DLclasica 18, 182$. The Paris Papers of Il',dnesday, like those of the preceding day, are not remarkable for much intelligence. The chief topic in the liberal Journals is the Abbe de l's APT . . pamphlet against the indemnity to the emigrants, of which we gave the substance on Thursday. From the tarther extracts we sec is these papers, it seems that the ex-Archbishop, albeit an emigrant himself, spares no argument to expose the injustice and impracticability of the project. In particular, lie is severe on the "meritorious devotion" which the emigrants are said to have manifested :o the Royal cause. Besides, numbers of the emigrants returned and served under the Republic and the Empire: yet ail are to be equally indemnified for their " devotion !" The Royalist Papers, on each side, maintain an unbroken silence. The Cottrrier Francais states, that M. DE POLICNAC MIS been offcred the Alinistry for Foreign .IffAira, but that he has raised many objections to the acetptance of it. The Editor adds, that of all the Ministers, public opinion is the least opposed to M. DE 1/Ames, whose frankness a•:3 loyalty have gained him the esteem even of those who tics sat share his political opinions. From the Atoxittar of ‘Vediseadafi Tlle official ;art contains the notice of the Mirada...dots of several Av.:mm.4oo, and a /loyal Ordinaries relatite to the army ; the to !truck says:— •• I iencefoitrard no r:.rngagemer.t shall be made in our army, earvpt fur two )1.1131 and ItHir yr.tr,." (Non-oiritial Part.) - PARIS, DEC. 14. Next Monday, the tteth instant, the Deputies will meet in the 31..af their Shun" to draw lots toe the Omar Deputation which is to go and receive his 3laiesty cm the ucuovion of the ltuyal Sit ting for the °inning of the Session. [Front the Ei.ik dated Thursday.l Cone/ tvviaortr Nov 11 . - - - ' • - The Pone has at length published an o cis report on the est.- cation of the Aloldsvinn officer as bleb caused such a general sen sation. If we way believe the Turkish report, this officet. was se area, associated with s band of robbers. M. de Min:lathy has nut yet presented his credentials to the flees Effendi. He issakulved not to do it till the Divan 'hall have comptettly fulfilled its protoi , e to evacuate the two principalities. A vi ry energetic note is said ti have been presented to the Govern ment of the sultan by several European Ambassadors. to urge the et UnYlliell which bait been so often promised. The Sultan. it is said, twit given formal order; to that (fleet, but nobody will believe the rarity of the evacuation till it is effected. Hot then there will he a much more delicate subject to be treated of, namely, the future fate of Gnreee. It is already known that the l'orte protests aintinst all interference on this subj..ct. land Strangford, in his last eanferente wiji the Heir Effendi, wished to enter into some discus- Mun OR this point, but the !Reis Effendi immediately chanqed the coarvlonion. It ix thusgbt,l.owever. that the cures of the ileums and eve% the Chiefs of the Janissaries. would prefer negotiations to violent n:,-astires. but since the fall of the (ihalib Pacts& no con cessions front the Turkish Govetuutent in layout. of the Greeks is to tie expected. Ibushint row Admiral of the Turkish Fleet, toupee. teedfd hum :llitylenc to llouitioun. PARIS, DEC. 1:.. r hive reason to believe that the Principalities of Moldavia N'alachia an nor evacuated. in consequence of fresh remelt. stisices wads by t!.e Allied Courts at the beginning adds month. I Front tin: Coat ritr Franrais of Wednesday ] Itee. 2. It apners that it wan the Tale airiest, and not that of 3layornua, which wits seized by the Constitutionalists : this event has excited a great sensation hue. It is a!so certain that bodies of l'unstite. tionalists hate appeared in ttistly provinces in .►rragrm, AT. , K11111111e:S. Mrsltcll by proscribed Cutistitutionaliies, I Milk , in the ,traits ; they lately captured and wink a shallop ►ound to C.s:hz. having on board a number of oxen from Barbary. It is sod that the Queen of Spain, anxious that on the arrived of tur august father he slw+u]•.l nut witness a misunderstanding an:angst the mcusbets of the Royat Family, bias brought about a Er maid reeur.ciliation ; and this was the cause of the return of the )(giant Iron Francis to the Escorial. The intelligence which we seri:ire from Csdis speak only of the somber of corsairs whtrit infest the coasts of Andalusia. The French garrison continues en good terms with the inhabitants ; it would be desirable that the same harmony should rel:m between the French military authorities, and the Spanish civil powers- The former behold with disgust the persecutions which the latter exer cise towards those imams who way have been misled in their po litical opinions. Vim Neu Fuxin, Drc. 15.—Fiva per Cents. opened at 1021., rimed at 102 f. fx.; Bank Stuck 1,119111 f. ; Neapolitan Relates ; Spanish ditto, 18f. ; Royal Spaniel' Loma, :A Es change on London —one month, INC be. ; three minas, 24f. Wk. —Cowrs Aitheativas, Dec 13. The letter from our Correspondent at Paris will be found to possess considerable interest. It appetite that General ExcELMANs has bad an audience of the Kt No, respecting his compulsory retirement according to the late Royal Ordir•.ance. ens tars X. received him with the kindest urbanity, but dismissed him without hope of relief. It is certain, then, whatever may be said as to the differences that exist between his MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESIY and his Ministers on some subjects, that they are quite agreed as to this ; perhaps the most justly obnoxious that the present King of FRANCE has sanctioned. A claim pre ferred by ExcEI.MANs for the arrears of salary during his exile was evaded, on the pretext that it should be referred for inquiry to the proper department. The Generals of the empire may after this interview consider themselves finally dismissed from actiresereice. Coupling this measure with the indemnity to the emigrants, we may easily see the policy that will be followed by the Ministers of Cu a RLFS X. After the principle of indemnity has been established in favour of individual sufferers by the Revolution, it will next be extended to the benefit of the religious bodies, and the Gallican church will rise again from its ruins, more vigorous and powerful than ever. We do not believe that CHARLIS X. himself is fully aware of the tendency of the course on which he has been persuaded to enter. His own personal conduct since his accession has been marked by an csrnest desire to promote the welfare of his subjects ; and though the flattering distinctions he bestowed on Rice LNANS were WWII WO close upon the Ge neral's disgrace (for such, in fact, it is, be it disguised as it may), we are not willing to impeach the KING of personal insincerity. Laying out of view all the declarations that have been uttered by his lips under circumstances that seem hardly to admit of doubt, the incessant activity of his move ments evinces on his part a strong desire to become ac quainted with the tree condition of his people. In our Cor- respondent's letter there are some curious particulars, illus trative of the system pursued by the French Ministry to keep their Sovereign ignorant of the state of public feeling, and draw off his attention from subjects not likely to re dound to their credit. So managed and surrounded, we really know not how CHARLES X. can emancipate himself from the trammels of his Ministry, unless,—which it would be almost absurd to expect,—the Chambers were resolved to address him in the language of serious truth, and point out the constitutional path in which, for his own glory, and the interests of humanity, he ought henceforward to proceed. From the further accounts of the late dreadful inunda tion at St. Petersburgh, received yestrrtlay through the French and German Papers, it would appear that that tremendous calamity was more extensively destructive than the first advises would have led us to believe. The surviv ing sufferers were not aware of the vast and terrific ruin from which they had escaped. The wretched inhabitants of the lower classes arenow menaced with death by cold and famine. The I.:mezzos has been visiting the scenes of desolation, and exerting himself to mitigate the distresses and supply the immediate wants of the destitute. A subscription has been opened, to which he and all the Imperial Family have contributed liberally. A Reseript has been issued, direct ing the appropriation of this money. The Est ea soft orders that relief shall be strictly confined to those whose extreme poverty renders it absolutely indispensable. The ravages of this overwliC.ning and prodigious evil have however by no means been exclusively felt by the poor : merchants of eminence have been, in the course of one night, re duced from opulence to beggary. We ell' imagine no situation so intensely horrible as that of the sufferers must have been, while the resistless mass of water was gradually, but not slowly, rising upon them, sweeping before it all the obstacles to its progress, and bearing on its surface the wroek of all the works of man. Powerless and passive, the victim of the elements retains the full possession of his faculties only to fee his own inevitable fate approaching, and to witness the dread destruction that previously ingulphs his friends and kindred. During the late catastrophe at St. Petersburgh, it required only an earthquake to have combined all the elemente in a league against its unfortunate inhabitants. While the wind was shaking down the edifices which the waters were undermining, the Government establishments in the vicinity of the city, which were removed by their position beyond the reach of the inundation, were destroyed by fire ! The suirercts are, by this most untoward accident, deprived of the immediate relief they might have obtained from these considerable magazines. Under such a Government as that of Russia, however, assistance will perhaps be rendered more promptly than under a less despotic system. The supply must be immediate, as the price of provisions of the first necessity had increased in sonic instances nearly tenfold. Rye bread was selling at forty copses (very nearly twenty pence) the pound, and salt at forty-five entices. The Government had attempted to fix a maximum for pro visions, at the usual prices: we may be sure that this measure will prove inerectual; and unless a large and instant supply be furnished, at the coat of the Imperial Treasury, it will only tend to aggravate the distress it is meant to alleviate. Before we close our observations on this subject, we may be pennittcd to ask. why no subscription has been com menced for the gem ral relief of the sufferers by the late inundations:in our own country ? There is, we know, a subscription in progress fur the sufferers in the Island of Portland ; but there arc thousands of individuals in other parts of England who have sustained severe losses by the floods. Why has no appeal been inside in their behalf to British benevolence—an appeal, as the proceedings of yesterday show, never made in vain? It is not yet too late to begin this good work, and we earnestly recommend it to the attention of those who can bring it forward with effect. We refer with pride and pleasure to the proceedings yes terday at the City of London Tavern. Yesterday was one of those days which reflect unfading lustre on our national character. The meeting was one of those resploulent spec tacles which only England can show! It is known that there are foreigners in distress amongst us—exiles from their native lands on account of the political storms which have passed over them. Men of all parties rush forward to relieve the sti&rers. It is a work of charity, and all political dis tinctions arc forgotten. May this undertaking, eyually noble in its origin and o b ject, go on as prosperously as it has begun ! Still let our country, illustrious as the classic soil of united order and liberty, retain the not Ills honourable renown of always yielding a hospitable refuge to the un happy wanderers who seek its happy ►hores for shelter and protection. THE BRITISH PRESS. PARIS. trios 0011 CORRESPDXDEXT.) PARis,lAxEmatirlt The ordonnance relative to the General Officers of the army has been executes! with as much celerity as rigour; and those who unfortunately come within the reach of its operation, find themselves deprived of every hope of escaping the lot to which they are fated. General Exert. MANS, who only two months ago was received by X. with such distinguished tokens of personal estimation, determined on soliciting an audience of his Ifesztres, hoping to find him snore favourably disposed than the Minister of War, M. ('i ramosr-Toxxrat. lie accordingly did so, and his request was graciously accedes! to. This audience took place two or three days ago. The General represented to the KING that he had a very numerous family; that he was a roldier without fortune, and too far advanced in life to enter on any other profession ; and that the pension to which he was to be reduced on the Retired List was by no means adequate to provide for the exigencies of his family. 1U MA 11 S't replied, with his usual urbanity, that he felt extremely sorry fur his peculiar situation; but that the ordonnance respecting the reductions being a general measure, it did not lie in his power to snake any exception. The General then entreated that Isis claim for arrears of pay, due to him for the four years during which he was in exile, might be allowed. His M .v replied, that this claim should be examined into. Here the audience finished, and the General retired, fully convinced that there remained no resource or recompense whatever, either for himself or any of his comrades. For some time put his MAJEary has almost daily taKen the amusement of the chain. This is what the Nlinisters desire, as they are much better pleased that the KING should thus employ his time than devote it to visiting the public establishments. 'We lately had an additional proof of the dread which the Ministers entertain lest the truth should by any means reach his ears. The day that the KING visited the public granaries it was his intention to have likewise visited the entrepo't of wine, an establislonent of far more importance, and of much snore utility to the public, than the former. After his NIA/ESTI( had expressed his intention of inspecting this entreplt, information was given to the persons employed there, all of whom, as well as all the merchant', attended in their ceremonial costume, which is a particular dress for such occasions. The usual addresses were all in readiness, and the arrival of his MA ix/r y was waited for with impatience. However, previ ously to the day fixed for the Royal visit, the merchants were much occupied in the scandalous affair of one of their corporation, named BOMTIEREE, whom the Directors of the depot had forcibly deprived of an extensive collar which he occupied in this public extreplt, because he had at the last election given his vote for the Opposition candidate. NI. Boar PIERRE protested against this act of violence, and the Tribunal of Commerce took his complaint into consi deration, and declared in his favour, but the ?rife/ de la Seim-, NI. IC COMTE DE ( . 11 ADROL, appealed against the judgment of the tribunal. In the interim, M. Boa/smuts discovered a letter which developed the arbitrary and most oppressive conduct of his opponents. The perFecut ion of this Director, exerted against him in consequence of his vote given as an elector, is here disclosed, and r. description given of all the iniquitous mans to which they had recourse dur ing the elections. This letter had got abroad a few days before the intended visit of his MA.; ES I v. The Ministers and the Perfet, on a sudden reflected, that if the KING went to the cntrepOt, it was probable the merchants would lay this affair before him, and claim his protection against the oppression and injustice they were exposed to, by a violent and tyrannical administration. It was instantly decided to be absolutely necessary, at all events, to prevent his MA.11.81 r visiting this establishment ; and the public ' officers accordingly represented this in/repot as unworthy his attention, and the merchants as animated by a seditious spirit. They contrived to prolong his visit at the granaries and at the Canal St. Alartin until it was too late to extend it to any further survey. They thus succeeded in hindering his MAJl.sry from surveying this establishment, where the merchants anxiously awaited his arrival till a late hour ; but neither they nor the public are deceived as to the cause which was the obstacle to a visit officially announced. The captivity of Professor Corstx continues, and France has still the humiliation of seeing its claims prof fered without effect to the Prussian Government. It ap pears that Government has stated, in reply to the Notes of M. de llamas, that the Duke de RICHELIEU, while Mi nister of Foreign Affairs, had sanctioned with his entire concurrence all the measures of security which the Hoi t All lime,. had taken, even with regard to French subjects, that after this the urrestation of M. Coos's bad the perfect character of legality, and gave no room fur any re monitrance. Little is said at the present moment about the interior situation of the Ministry. Some persons, however, still persist in their opinion that the arrival of M. de PoLIGNAC will be followed by a partial change in the Ministry. In the meantime, tout travail a sun prix. WI N nson, Dec. 16.—During these five weeks past his Majesty has not enjoyed so good a state of health as he did (luring his sumtner residence at the Royal Lodge; but the King's health has greatly improved since his return from the metropolis, and he is enabled to resume his accustomed exercise in the Great Park. l'estenlav, at a little before one o'clock, his Majesty left the Royal Lodge in his pony phaeton, accompanied by the Marquis Conyngham, and followed by a second phaeton containing part of the Royal Suite, for an airing in the Grcat Park. his Majesty, after driving about for two hours, returned to the Royal Lodge, where he dined. 'this day his Majesty again took an air ing in his pony phaeton, followed by his attendants, for upwards of two hours in the Great Park. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, and the Duke of Sussex, were of the party at the Duchess of Kent's on Thursday, to celebrate Prince Leopold's birth-day. PRINCE LEOPOLD'S 1/11711..DAY.—The anniversary of the birth of his Royal highness was celebrated on Thurs day evening, at the Thatched house Tavern, by a large party of the Prince's tradesmen, who dined together on the occasion, Mr. R. D. Mott in the chair. The evening was passed in the most harmonious manner; and the health of of his Royal Highness was proposed by the Chairman, and received by the company with the greatest demonstrations ol enthusiasm. Several professional singers attended, and the company were kept together till au early Lour on Friday morning. _ The 'Cabinet Council summoned to meet on Thursday as.eniblol vesterday, at the Foreign Office, Downinn etrcct, at three o'clock, which was atteatb.(l by th Lord Cbaneollor, the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Earl of kl'estmorland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Iluskisson. &c. The Cabinet continued in deliberation till near six o'clock. The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town yester day morning from Beckenham. Lady Caroline Lamb has been very dangerously ill at Bracket Hall. Iler Ladyship, we understand, is now gradually recovering. Mr. Mathews opened his American Budget at Dublin on Tuesday night, for the first time in Ireland. It afforded unmixed amusement to a large and fashionable audience. It is stated that General Darling has becu appointed to the Government of New *oath iValcs. LITERATURF. AN APPEAL. TO PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST TIM DECISION OF TUE ASSOCIATE hIiNOD, &e. BY ALEXANDER FLETCUEIL w-. TM " loring whose religions courtship has made so much noise in the Court of Cupid—in the Court of King's Bench—in the Court of Chancery—and in every Court but the Court of Conscience, comes forward, at last, with his " Appeal to puhlie opinion," being " Resoled, like beaten-rejected ghee., to try \net counsel t'othee party might supply." How this watchful sentinel of the souls of Albion Chapel may manage matters in the pulpit we know not, but this we know, that in the press, where the eloquence of shrugs, and sighs, and uplifted hands, is wholly lost, he certainly cuts a very sorry figure. If the lungs only were concerned, it is very probable he would carry away the palni ; but tied down to the every-day weapons of pen and ink, in the management of which his " sudden stops, and circumflexions, And prefacings„ and interjections," arc of no more avail than waste paper, this Director of the Faithful becomes u "one of us," and A LEXAN nsa sinks into plain Sandy. The Rererrnd Pastor commences his Appeal with his pedigree, thinking, as he says, that " a few minutes may be employed in satisfying the curiosity of those who have no acquaintance with the author;" and we are introduced, in a flame of panegyric, to his father, and grandfather, and great-grandfather, in the ascending line, after whitli he descends to the different branches of the genealogical tree, till he comes to himself, when he favours us with an account of his being first licensed to preach the Gospel in the place of his birth, "among a poile where his ears first listentxl to the tidings of salvation." Ills next mission is, by the Synod, to the congregation of Miles-lane. from whence we accompany him, trudging onward with his 7ws lord stuff; and, like a sturdy Scot, turning neither to the right band nor to the left, till we find him within the four walls of ALBION CHAPEL, erected, as he tells his realm, in a tone of triumph, " by his friends, and solely Jiir the enjoyment or his ministration." We are really sorry to see a congregation of' weals, but, we dare say, well-intentioned people, fooled out of their subscription-looney so easily ; however, this encenrage tnent, such as it is, inspires this spiritual eninl,:itant with an abundance of courage; and he &clan's, that all the parties to whom he is opposed shall find thmoselves to be only " potsherds, fit to contend with the potsherds of the earth ;" for himself, it seems, he was mar.ufactured in a celestial pottery, and these fragments of ordinary clay stand therefore no chance with him. This doughty saint, who thus sets all " the potsherds of the earth" at defiance, is constrained to confess ' that, after having fooled and insulted the female t o whom he had ad dressed himself in terms of marriage, by all of a sudden breaking off his engagement, he again. o tter an interval of several years, renewed those overtures, which were again followed by the same rascally termination. But he, how ever, scores all this down, with the ewlest audacity, to the agency of Providence. " Though I take all the blame to myself," says he, " of the renewal of the second corre spondence, I cannot deny that Minx*: PROVIDENCE rERMITTED this unaccountable suspension of Me remem brance if firmer feelings fir ends which I A a AESAID VET REMAIN TO RE LEVI I OPED." This !Oft of' blas phemy may he quite to the taste of' Brother Fletcber's con gregation ; but it would make any one, not an Atheist, stop his ears. As we proceed we are presented with copies of the two letters which he sent to his " Eliza." which ddkil the cause that occasioned him to expose her a second time to mortification and misery. And what is this cause ? Why, his unfortunate brother Robert, who, it seems, is a drunken vagabond, had attacked his chapel on the Lord's Day. lie was, however, bound over to keep the peace for a certain time, and during that titne "the /orb'''. AI. lIANnt a" had no annoyance, and his pious serenity I;e 7 .oan to revive; his heart. the amorous functions of which had been suspended by the fright, was co ' g round to the regular beat ; but in the mean time the recognizance to keep the peace ex pired, and the brother recommences hostilities with " re doubled violence and malignity." flow does Sandy deport himself? Why, in this wise—" I sent another officer to him; the measure had the effect for a season. I heard of his reformation. My mind began to he tranquilized. Some months passed joyfully along. Then I began to think my prayers for him were answered. Ms was Me state of matters when our correspondence was renewed.”—(p. 244 We know not what sign or omens this Co nvnoN received ; which he mistook for an answer to his prayers about the lady with whom this scene of cajolery was carrying on ; but certain it is, that while lie was led, as he tells us he was, to think they were answered, this !motherly Sul of his got more beastly drunk than ever. " Alas ! on Saturday week," says this amorous minister of Albion Chapel to Ins dear El IZA, "he Caine I II:1 • ROARING I.ION FROM TOPIIET. His raving and execrations were heard nearly a quarter of a mile off"'—it is always right in these affairs to be exact as to distance—" the neighbourhood was alarmed—" in short, this roaring Um from Tot'uST put the whole place in an uproar ; one may easily conceive die rush there would le to get well out of his way, and the contusions, bruises, maims, and dislocations that would take place in getting clear of the danger. No man could be expected to fulfil a promise of marriage after such an event as this had happened in the world. What project of a holy idlittnee could go on after receiving such a fright? None certainly. It is therefore not to be wondered at that this Reverend Al./011111T, who has manifestly written him self out of breath with terror, should hastily finish his letter to " Eliza" as follows : "'this awful and heart-rending event completely unfits mr hr the present, / o carrying oa our correspondence; and, till the sky brightens, and the storm ceases, it is as impossible for me t 3 write to Now, in my present agitated state of sutilling, as it is lofty in Me sly. Only a sense of imperious duty has extracted this tragical, but true and . fisityil communication from your afflicted " ALEXANDER." Such a tissue of impiety, craft, and hypocrisy, was never, we think, more impudently paraded before the public eye as this Gospel preacher's conduct prevents from beginning to end ; and we are quite satisfied that if this soi-disani Reverend, and a few more of the same tribe, were ducked in a horse-pond for such doings, the example would have infinitely more wsrlidness than all their mi nistry. We have waded thiough all the nauseous pages of this " Are,: A 1.." not from any interest that it has in itself, as connected with the writer of it, who is not, personally, worth the ink wasted in exposing him ; its importance arises only from its adding one more to the many warnings that should put us on our guard against that hive of hypo crites that is daily emptying itself into the •' iiighwar and By-ways" of this iretmpolis, and the tendency which we think it must have to put a stop to that inundation of cant and fanaticism with which they arc overwhchuing the nation. TALES OF IRISII LIFE. ILLUSTRATIVE or TUE MANNERS. CI'STONS, AND CONDI. TION or THE rEoruc. With Designs by GEORGE CltViasttANK. Robins. The designs of George Craikshank are sufficient to render any Tales imtnortal. No author :an have a better auxiliary, whether his aim be to amuse or to enlighten his readers, as t!ie pencil of this admirable artist is equally successful, whether the object is to make us reflect or to make IN laugh. The etchings of " The ‘Vale," and of " (Eriit shot by Redmond," in the that volume; and " Protestant Bill returning from Parade," " Turncoat Watt burnt in Effigy," and " The Dance," in the second, are exquisite sketches of genius and humour. he dif ferent Tatra bespeak strongly the feelings of the writer, which arc those of strong attachment to the scus or Eat x, and anxiety to see those defects amended, and those suf ferings reheveil, which at present so strongly interest the public attention. The Marquis Camden has paid over to the Consolidated Fund the sum of 9,3114. 1%. ncl., being the amount of fees which his Lordship his relinquished as Teller of the Ex chequer for the year 11.411 q. ---............. 1 IXI . XDA 7'/OA' A7' S7'. I'ETERSBC-1;'...7. . , NT. PET Easa, Nin.o. As if every scourge wu to he ut; l il t ed on th t: e day nutt of tile i4 t , f . tinn, the Gnrerwtit nt emattli.hmenn t at Cobeick ivi i id, 4tie ".• of the reach of the ittittui.ttiot, W.le burnt tl,s, (twit g tf,i, i i b. : l ' item 4 , 4.0)11411:emu have het jr talutly in teyn,' • glifir ., e , ,f file city, C. afrirli I ?IIIiiVAUNIS NI. ha , ... , n r - g thing, A.. her. fire, proviaiuns,. and cloth:r!. :,tvri:.1c!„..,67: ammic, 01 , 11141 C curb mitts in r.c.t!• The I:tup.:tar 114. 0.-. given a million of rubloc, - "" 11 / The Ettiptuu Merin . Wm. 'll lit tiratid Dultea. each - - : 0 1 . 1 . 11 I lie cuicuiercial Funt: of the t 'olunita I.tain IN I I Coati* Scherenitteff - -- M..lltalteleff .. 41,111 pi ..... . - - iirt The losses eil the merchants arc inralctilable. koo chreg r value of t rmo:nem It is hree miilions affi o f r ubles. that 111. Stiglaz has lust wip e „; 1 ; A charitable C ttttt mittee has been formed. and the Prim ( ft , oellor Alexis Kurakin, wh o in appointed its l'residait, hat reee; ;; from his Imperial 3lniesty the folios ing rescrip: I r rieee Alexis itilr•MtWitsCh. The disaster caused vt t t. Petershurffh by an inundation ei ti a, sudden and extraordinary. has tilled my heart with sonaset.i. of Affliction. T he t i mer , o f the snoreme Wirer are just and ros tra tk profoundly tollot.i..,:ve to Itts. a , 7el petyitig the f ate of ;6* who have sit:lived tile Liss ani ruin td their pn.pert, the Coll. merit cannot repair ail the evils of this disastrou s day; tw o 14 4 titipored it on int self as u saervsl duty. to attired prompt and M4, ous sacc . ur tho-e an particular Lace b een ruined. ao; the ineli,.:cat •liey, mire than all others, are entitled tom y wee ., protection. as,tgli theist a gratuite us distrib ut i on of mi a nim t rubles. trout the wavii.v; of the Administration of the 31,1 4 e (time follow the names of the members of the committee.; I. The firm core of the Committee shall be to provide iid a and su:isistrece tier tli.se w his are deprived of both,—and inp ne . e the relief afforded out of. th e s um assigned, shall be gin:s o u, 4 those whose cot:lpletc poverty renders it indispensable. 2. It shall be exactly and faithfully distributed according to ix albumen t mo c k, 3. It shall he given promptly, and without obstacle. These riles will serve as the basis of the operations of the en. rnittee. The sentiment of compassion, of geneeal phiLlanusys and or the ditty owed to God and to your country, Kill pact rr to you and to your colleagues the path you must foll.is is ths great work of charity. I remain, &c. ALL/ANDEL -- --- PARIS,IL New details relative to the horrible disaster at St. Petersha l s, continue to arrive. The whole regiment of Carbinetra got of roof of the barracks—all were carried away. A ship of his at l'ronatadt has disappeared entirely. The buri a l *min d s i i t been torn up, and dead bodies, with human bones and mom, Wu have floated into the Erects of St. l'etersburgh. Among those who have distinguished themselves be thei rage and zeal to relieve, 31. de Beckendorf, Aide-de-cams t. rht Emperor, has been noticed, who any times r us hd water to save unfortunates from perishing through this horrible master. M. de Beckendorffi who voluntarily assisted in saving th e eq. ping, arrived at the Palace exhausted with fatigue, and hie try wet. The Emperor metered clothing for him from his own rot. robe, prepared with his own hands the refreshments Deemer he him, and bestowed on him the Order of .I,lexandre de Neseit: a magnificent diamond forord-hilt.--Etoilr. ST. PETERSIVRGII, NOT. 2;. As the inundation has destroyed all the brides over the Neu. nod made the communication between the different psm of the city very difficult, his Majesty has, by a D ecree o f the '2l. ete. pointed military governors, pro trtopurr, for the several num of the city, under the Chief Governor-General, 31iforelowioch.ta the purpose of affording mote speedy and efficacious sumer tam sufferers. The Conscrrateur reports, that of t.dd the establishment'. it which a great number of workmen were employed. it unions: the Imperial Foundery, on the road to Peterhar, intletol most, and a great many persons perished. It is impooibit to paint the grief that overpowered his Slajesty what he visited Mc ersie On the 211 the Emperor visited the scenes of &rehabsui liT city and neighbourhood, walked about among the ruin. *i:hcat attendants, condoled with the sufferers, and assured them that tbry should be relieved. The schools and theatres are closed. In the churches eelatises seek each other, but often, alas, in vain. lly order of the GOV. nor, 400 soldiers are employed in burying the dead. It is said ;1t the cavalry of the guard have lost many thousand horses. Msty merchants and public officers have even lust their books. Count Aliloradowitsch lies sent expresses to Riga, !Aches. its to order pmvisions of all kinds to this city. CI convoy has abed( been sent from Libeau.) _ _ _ Several pi: viler, were drowned in the prisone. A pound of rye-bread was sold at first for •Itl ropers. and a pound of ask for 4. ctipees ; but an order has been poste .1 up at all the corners of the streets not to ply rnorcithsn the u,val and esnitlishol price. Five hundred oxen were drowned in the s‘aughtet.houn near the Kalinka bridge, and those that arc lett alive ate in a soy eabaosted state. Entire villages are swept awe,. the Sailors Island. Drente Island, Eniilianowka, ()lowa, laa•hta, and l'atharinenhot.taila foundery and iron manufactory at lila,ke (f, urrents Iron, num) are entirely devastated. The Galley harbour in It:myth-I ham 4 an ruined, tbat it cannot be scen whether houses or strects erer cwt there. The imperial islands of Ytlagin and Kammem i.Ostrow hart sobered very much ; most of the country houses are in danger a falling. All the wooden bridges are broken down ; was more than an alsheen undo? water ; and, consequently, all tat splendid shops in the Newski l'erspective. At Cronsuult, the sea, rising iiver the great battery, laid the whole town under water, and the inhabitance were forced to take refuge in the second stone.. Many merchantmen have perished; the Imperial Navy suffned extremely, and a ship of the Ime. of 100 guns, stands in the great square. Above one hundred Pe"o"n are missed there. The Isaac's Bridge is destroyed, and its la• mense foundation of blocks of granite was unable to mist ea hay of the waves. A h.rge three-masted vessel was driven againt a house which it ca rice away. The loss in bank notes slot 3 immense; and what addi to the distress is, the setting in of the frost, and the dearness of previsions, which threaten us. A 22 tome loaf costs already is copec.. Count Miloradowitvch rowed about In a boat in the Nevski Perspective, and saved the lives of many Der.olll4 General Bene . endorff also distinguished himself by Ins humane exertions. Tie water was half a yard deep in the moms of the Imperial Palace. ICON WSW:11011, Pee. 2. Letters from fit. Petersburgh state the losses to be tnuch artiste than was at first suppmted. In the city alone, 5,000 rain , are said to have perished. I )nly a small part of Cronstadt is reported to be standing. The loss in raw sugars is seven million• of rubles ; 500,000 ponds of hemp are partly wet and partly alshel SIVIA.F. His 3fujesty has onleted a Committee of l'ustom-haste Officers and Merchants, to examine into the extent of dani4e den to goods deposited in the imcsaritnes of the Custom-house. The whole loss for St. Petersburgh'is estimated at 80,040.01k1 of tables, without r (kerning the daniq.,se done to the buildings. A letter from Berlin estimates the whole at 150 mullets of nible banco, of which 35 millions fall no the merchants. The Ices Ta rr' tined sugar is estimated at 10 millions of ruble*. Illamouttett. Pte.& The letters from St. Petersburgh continue to patiit in the roes: afflicting colours, the dreadful effects of the late calamity. The number of persona I who here perished is variously estimat.druss 4,000 to 8,000; the has of property at 100 million. of rubles. Tee steam boats from the harbour at Cronatadt, lay in the nuddk eat town not far from the theatre. Immense quantities of herrisgi million in value) are washed away. The magazines of hemp Pi oil lying higher, did not suffssr so much. Vast blocks of owavdet lie in the streets, a hich they are now clearing from the ruins of the houses that have been overturned. At least the half of the Sar in the warehouses (thirteen millions in value). is melted. Bra 3 scarcely to be had. A cargo of sugai„salt. and dour, ire coed he seat hither, would he very pmtitahle. The eanlus in PINY COI" I were leaved. and people are pumping wine. mixed with wale-. se , of them. Many streets arc impassable from the quantity of iirMseti fuel, household fornitstre, regains of houses, ac. he. Letters in the lA.:* G'azdte say, that the thermometer is' on the preceding day, was at 0. ex I. above U., rose on the ilea ••• above o.—Mtn<basgle Papers. By letters from Buenos Ayres, dated Sept. 27. it SP7 4ln that the Asia and Aguila, Spanish own of war, lied Leon spoken on the 2.lth August, in lat. 37. S. coast of ebile is sight, by the British merchant brig snipe, arrived ffc c Calcutta at Valparaiso. They did not attempt to 11,:sia her ; and said they were waiting for reinforcements shoe) expected from Spain. We understand that a commercial treaty between 6 ' 41 Britain and the Ihniblic of Buenos Ayres has been du" up, the preliminaries of which are concluded, and t;k l nothing but its ratification is wanted. It is added. preparations are in progress for the arrangement ui a wcr trenty with Mexico, and in the event of a war in fe , a being concluded in the present year, that one of a nature will be entered into with Colombia, and p0t31 6 with Peru also.-211oening psr. It is confidently stated, that in consequence of *fl ak tions from the East India Company, *lover:nett 14re, agreed to increase the British force in Italia, eithr addition of six regiments from this country, or by a n 3,1. , tion to the number of companies in the regiments now Pr; ing in India. The latter plan, it is thought, is must liko to be adopted, which will be a s,:nre.• of much pronto )! for the officers of the regiments now in i • At a numerous meeting of the (*.onitritlge Humboldt, au t iero t he;e G e n ev a, celebrated were Society, held on Monday last, the Baron Alexander 1.64 f very interesting paper was read by Professor construction of the cogs of wheels ; several models wen. 0 Waited to the Society, in order to show the action 0; 7 of different constructions UllOll 001 other, and I " 7 '' r 3, cularly when their form was that of the Lt circle.—Comflidge elected lrav‘nc 1 r o a n t o .n ra l r P y ru rl etr'rberAs7; PRICES OF BRITISH Bonk Stock 030 i Date Acct. 3 per Cent. Red. 954 i 04 3 pee Cent. Ditto Acct 90 i 96 34 per Cent. 31 per Cent. Red. 1011 .Nerr 4 per Cent. Stock Pato Acct. 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