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• [FROM AN MAIERICAN PAPER.) ALi PACH.I. DISIURBANCKS AT JAVA, 6r. When the tit accounts left Calcutta, intelli- genet had beret received from Batavia of several petty bolus reclines, having broken out, mine of which had hero suppressed ; hot with others the result had nut been equally fortunate. The first InsurVection since the restoration of the island so Hutch uuthority, arose from the inhribifients having been exposed to a bevies of oppression.. The men had Ewen compelled to lahoor like slaves °tithe t ;ronnab sit Batavia, removed from their &Milks, and to re quarter which, front the pestiferous Marshes., Droved fatal to a great part ref them. Wearied old) u life co . repuguaist to their expectations and disposition, they joined their families, and sought an us) is. other pant of the cottntrY. The proprietor of the estri'te siho had host their ser vices, endeavoured by his iwrsorial influence and the aid of different chiefs, to induce them to re tort', trod lie in a great measure succeeded; but they found no change ; and at length, with r view of effecting their' dtliverance, resorted • tis Jahns. Th.w are the same people who bravely repelled - the Chinese mid Dutch in 11110, and whose chief, Bogus Raitgin, died in prison after being defeated by the Englivlo troops shortly after the conquest. the pre .rut ot rubion they ordered supplies to be ready heir thesis isa iliffereot parts of the country, matched pruceslily through it, committed no de predations, bat expressed their resolution to main tain their rights. They sent to the English over seer ear a contiguous estate, to inform him that they would do him no harm, but requested to be for. lashed with soppl;ts. The whole eastern ditision of the Much ahoy soon marched against them, ing concerted V' plait of operations tee cut off their retreat, they attacked them; and idler a vino iesistancr, a hundred and sixty are said to Is use hens and live hundred taken 'tri mmers, who were immediately marched to !mini m:lt o. place of confinement was so limited, that they had hardly room to breathe. They ru deaccured to procure fresh air by removing the tiles, and be.ng resisted, they rose by a simulimieous movement upou their guard, defenoelros as they were ; and about 400 of them were bayoneted upon the spot. The rest were secured. put into boat., where some died of their svoutsdr, a greet many jumped overboard. and a few miserable victims are all that survive this awful catastrophe. It is an observation. we believe, of Montesquieu, that the nowt free within% have proved the greatest tyruirts in their colonies. Under a despotic Monarch every part of his domiuions is squally his property. rod at such entitled to his protection. The charac ter of the Dutch in their cohinies supported this maxim, while that of England contradicts it. If the above occurrence be correctly reported, it is not surpassed in cruelty by that of the Black Hole. BRITISH OFFICERS AND SPANISH PATRIOTS. PHILADELPHIA, NOT. 3. We hare taken *Done pinup to :4fi Cr t ftl 11 the pre t.i.tf state of the circumstances in the cue of the ten Poitis!i eflieers on Fridley committed for trial, by the Jud , e% of the Circuit Court now in Ses sion ; and otter the following outline as one which we Wirer may be relied on as far es it tots :--Colotiel J. D. Needham, Captesisis J. D. Perkins, J. 1. Ferrier, Lieu tenants ti Stacey. J. Stacey. best! Charles WebsteN Surgeon' Robert Fry, Strjeasit-lVarier Q. Pearkre, and Frederick Bei*, bald to be ti Cosehek Noble - mini, art the persons implicated in the alleged sooderreratiors. The banns:ice Of the clisrgie was, that they made arrangements him suininer in Baussrls to co:els:lee and create a rem:meat of cavalry, with whit:ll to join the Patriots in South America. Minis this ile*igst they csolonkeil at Antwerp Oil hoard the Aineric.iii ship ParmassJ, trod trrived at New Lou. 111111 rt hew weeks ago. • F thence they Caine to l'hilactelohiti, rota took their 'ohmage on hoard the to -1 4 Elks., of this pent, which vessel thereat but I tst week for Smitten,. They were uccoonitanted by Jultti Williams and litter Won, who were to have served is, the capacity of Serjratits or Commissi rues. tend by whose information to the Spanish Con sul the intruded expedition was diteoreretl and in trrroptril. It spiieured that each moo was fully 'Olivia. .1 with cevally equipmelits, and there wasp() Ilunlit of their intention to take part with the Pi truat. io (*.II ying on They were regular ly drilled twits morning at the Colonel's. quarters, iii .1'1.'646101w, wild arrested, rod mewl, if nut Olt of them, it watt understood, had hers, in the servite. One of them wore the Waterloo limi t :« to ins button-hole. After a very full exit shitiation of many witnesses on both sides, the Court remanded them all to prison,,where they art to remain till April (the time of their trial), unless they rail give hail, each one in the sum of three d sand dollars. Adr.rtiog to the ostensible state of things in Europe, it Is remit kuble that British Officers should have been associated in the empital of the Nether lands, for waging war against Spain. Either the authority or the disposition of the !English and the !hitch Ousel :intent*, for repressing lisisttlittes agoiost that of: Spain, would seem to be somewhat gues- Il•ttlat)le. Mina the above hi% 'Well in type. we learn that a Special Court will to: 11.1 d in Dceeiaher, fur the t, iul ul the above-unwell (:emlerueli. 'lle following is ais entract of a letter from Sto) rill, dated October 1 Stli :—" One tf the per ique. or whom the Ottoman Porte stands snot to owe is.ihe noted Ali Pacii.e. the pravent fluvertior ul FpnruA tend Th. Otia I y . Ali Pad... can lining into the ark' &force of 4ci,nott men; lost the titre of a r m y coasists of a roll , * of Alt.:titian. 11 On .4 Una tvltn are ilevotril to tom foi life or I-le I, molt to-mined to tao so o i ih rt ,.• sinia he shall leave the tenvercigiity. Alourtar with the tiotreliidity 111 1.,• father. it twine giAiertniiiy : lie is iiinicristitsle of tic! letilli,v•of inve tond e. A yinitig t:ierk Nay, toot - tell Etii.'“oo.yile, kat captisatril, the hr.iit or stung Mill/et:lr. tool he Was its the Juba ut toccabluikatly sprthlitoz hiss t.ltl.Uuaa Ili her coriPauy and that at her friendr ? consiseing of the most mini - able paean a lintkerstev. Praia this society all the stiffireas oftestertieliqiette was Coin- Pletelr lesadied. 'Some time +ince Ali Pacha or. dered that Euphrosyne :nail fifteen of her feliode Aieuds should be drowned iu the lake of J tuuiva ; nt as stone would venture to lily haunt on Euphro syne, he executed the sentence himself on that un fortunate victim. " His second son, Veli Poch*, is • sprightly young man, but dissolute anal prodigal, and without any stesidirteis of character. He appears openly to devise the manners, language, and religion of the Turks, and itsnally talks in Italian or modern Greek. Ali Padua is equally dissatisfied with the vices of Veli. as with the virtues of Asocial.. He is therefore disposed, it is mid, to leers his inheritance to Its third son. Sally Bey, who is yet but a child. The chief Palace of Ali Podia, like him personal character, exhibits a com%ipation of all that is great, with all that is horrific. Dark and narrow passages lead the way into magnificent and spacious apartments. Beyond them are capaCious magazines, where the Pacha has collected ell eons of curiosities, the fruits of his depredations and extortions; being. in fact, no other than a mhber's den upon a grand scale. His different harrins contain Soo females; and in many of his palaces are suhterranerms dungeons, where numerous victims linger out their wretched exist ence in chains." FOREIGN IN TB I. LIG ENC E. DUTCH MAIL. ST. PETERSBURaII. PLC. 3. The Austrian and Bavarian Ambassador* are 011 the point of setting out for Moscow. Since the cold set in the winter is uninterruptedly severe. The large gentntities of snow that have fallen facili- tate the cuunounicatious with the interior of the empire. DECISIIIIMR 10. it is said that a proposal has been made to the Government, iu order to put a final 'top to the ruinous and detestable contr.diand trade, without the use of violent measures, which we besides always insufficient, to open negociutions on the basis of the Sacred AI/inset, of which the result would be, " That every Power which takes a part in the Sacred Aliases should have to provide Mat no goods should he conveyed front or throsgh its terri tories to those of another Strde is which those goods are contraband." As cheating, cunning, and co vetousness, the chief motives of the smugglers, on the one hand, and, on the other, the scandalous in clinatiou of the consumers to extravagance, are di rectly opposite to the spirit of Christianity, Com mercial Treaties concluded on this principle would certainly be the only lllealls conformable to this spirit. The law fel intercourse*: the different na tions of the earth would he stewed by them. A solensit funeral service has. been performed in the English Church here, on account of the death of the Princess Charlotte. MLOUE. DEC. es. Yesterday evening his Royal Nightieso the Prince of Orange, for the first tiu►e since his return to this place, honoured the theatre with his presence; it was the first time he sat in the magnificent onto : niented bog fitted up fur bins, next to that of their Majesties. The moment that his Royal Highness entered, accompanied by six Aides-tle.Ciainp, in his General's unitbrm. and nearing several Orders, the whole of the numerous audience rose, and welcomed him with lung-cotitinuird acclamations, clapping of hand., and cries , of " lntrg lice she Prince !" ILA Royal Highness seemed much affected by there testimonies of attachment to his person. virmw*, DSC. 13. The Prussian Counsellor of State, 'Von Jordan, who is expected this evening, will. probably make a long stay here, as his miii*isui is said to embrace very important object*. Among other things, it is stated measures will be concerted- between our Court and that of Prussia, to check the abuses nod licentiou*ness of the Press, which threaten Germany with incalculable reds, unless wise and energetic IlltASUflts are speedily adopted. In order to secure to the nations of Germany the enjoyment of a reasonable liberty of the Press, and in general • high degree of civil anti political freedom, it is necessary before all things to oppose • powerful harrier to the license of the Press, and hiltless insuborilkation, which begins to skew itself in so many places. By the sit ties of liberty, who now preach every where from the houie-top*,, Germany eat only be ',lunged either into the most dreadful anarchy, or the most hightful despotism—either of which would stifle for many yeari the seeds of ini rovrmeot in our country. 11AMAtitt:ii, DEC. 25. The Elbe is already full of livening icc—some vessel* which attempted to 4 .4 up the Elbe, have been obhgeil to put back to Cuxhaven. The eta -01 Nuahl craft on the Elbe is not snidely rotois TUC lIMENtIII Fnoh mats, Du , . , 26. It it thought the Puke of IVellisigton will make *cute .cou4,leroble may ut Patio. Numerous vim rWrs continue to ortive et the Isead•tpierters, whetwe it ii lhuuNht that unpollnut Isvgoci:”lons amearry titg uu boot-est the loud French Gores's events. The best stotleroasithog rositiougs to Ore.: sal between the Comm:Haler% tlerablferent corps of the Oiled army and the I'rela4l Magistrates, uhd the ~.tlietcbt 160 I.lllle Ia ltllllllt 4111 CAL The Willie of dlaulrreuil ns not Animists!. The Court at Mussy has referrtil it to the Correctional Ttibunal. lle defended hum& w•itlt Much national LON DON, MONDAY, JANTJARY 5,181 b. Dutch a►sd Flanders Mails arrived last night, with Papers from Brussels to the 3d inst. The Prince of (MANGE visited the theatre at the Hague on the 19th Inn. and war greeted by the enthusiastic' acclamations of the audience. It was his first appearance there since his restoration to his military offices. The Russian squadron, under Rear- Admiral • Von MtlArk (five sail of the line and three fri gates), were expected to be ready to proceed to sea from Portsmouth yesterday ; the rudder of the Truse Swokr/ey, 74 (the only ship remaining under refit), was sent oti from the dock-yard on Saturday afternoon. Admiral NIULLER and the Officers of his squadron were entertained last week by Ad• miral Sir EDWAnD THORNBROUGH. Captain. ALEXANDER, of his Majesty's ship Vingetsr, and MATTHIAS MARCH, Esq. Russian Vice-COrisol, at elegant and sumptuous dinners, provided for the occasion, to which all the Captains of the British navy at that port were invited. The Russian Vice-Consul gave his entertai 1111 l ent at the George Hotel, when the Russian Courul-General (who had arrived from London on a visit to the squadron) . was present. When the squadron has been given nlr to the Spanish Authorities, the Officers and crews will be conveyed hack to Russia in transpoi Is, especially provided for the purpose. A letter from Milford (South Wales), dated on IVerlistsiday last, states the arrival there of the Henry, KITCHEN, from St. John's. Newfoundland, whence she sailed on the Ist November, when a hard frost loud set iu. The Captain speaks in the most affect. nig terms of the deplorable, destitute condition of the inhabitants, occasioned by the recent destruc tive tire and the rigour of the season. Letters from St. John's, Newfoundland, of a sub►equent date (the 1 Ith), contain some further interesting portico lam Numbers of the lower classes who had suffered losses by the conflagration had quitted the Island and gone to Canada, to Nova Scotia, to New Brunswick, or to the territories of the United States, to procure employment. The Governor had wi3ely provided occupation for the able-bodied men who remained on the Island, by employing them in felling timber, at the rate of is. Gil. per day, for the re -construe of the buildings, a Inch, it is highly probable, will be speedily restored. By the liberal contri butions of the more wealthy, the necessities of the destitute, aged, and the ilifirm remaining inhubit ants, have been generously relieved. The friends A of ittnutoi) wit! lo• hapq to leant, litat from tilt. Act of these measure*, the fairest hopes were en- ;slollabed that the poor and labouring class.., will be enathed to support the inclemency of a New. fonnulland winter, without twing exposed to thus,• severe privations and distresses which were expected as the sad consequences of the late awful calamity. It will be wen by Saturday night's that Government 11114 granted 'remission for the impor tation of West'', flour, and live stock, from the Ut:ited States into Newfoundland, by British sub jects in British built ship►. The numerous extracts which have occasionally appeared in thin Paper from the Anecdotes of the late Bishop of Landqrs Life, must have enabled our readers to form a tolerably correct estimate of the character of that excellent and valuable work. The picture they presented was atilloallt edly not Nattering to the prejudices or passions of those who value learning and virtue only as they ' 'ster to the indulgence of their own nar row feelings, and would decry their merit when directed to a nobler and better purpose. It c',nld not be gratifying to the advocates of a part• to find the secret springs of its action laid open, to have the miserable intrigues and machinations of Court in fluence exposed to public view, or to have it me . corded, that a tame servility to 11iiiisterial com mand., a profligate contempt of the interests of the people, and the total absence of an iidependa•nt mind, were qualities .e prized in an Eitgli , li _Bishop between the years 1782 and 1816, than piety, learning, and patriotism. We are, there fore, not surprised that the Anccdntea of Dr. Wat son's Life should have called forth the angry iavr•c live of tt treasury writer, or that The Courire should have opened its columns to give the libel publicity. On Saturday evening the long-thrent cited derimiciatiou ugainst the Anecdotes appeared iii that Paper, and certainly the performance fell far short of what the previous advertisement had promised. Notwithstanding the writer's professed object of . character of Doctor. WATsee, there is no person who, _even from this hostile statement, would not 'pronounce him an exemplary Prelate, and a learned, studious, Land able man. He is represented by his enemy as having " attained high reputation for his scholastic acquirements," and that " had his am bition never soared beyond the 'memoirs of a:college, his memory might have descended• to posterity w►tli an unsullied brightness." Let us examine the charges that are thought to cast an indelible staaiu on his character, and see whether his political life should be thus invidiously contrasted 'with the noiseless tenant" of his academic pursuits. 1)r. W A•rsoN is reproached now, as during his life-time, with having entertained prisseiples which are raid to give hint " an indisputable title to the appellation bestowed tit lloant.sy, by Hoast.ey—that of a Republican Bishop ;" but the opply argument ad vanced iu support of this allegation, is his having, in the commencement irf his Memoirs, said, that "no solid reason can he given why any man should derive honour or infamy f the sta tion whieli his ancestors filled, in civil society."— This opinion might, we think, have beep very inno cently uttered by any man, without subjecting hint to the tuiptstation of being a " Jdetliiiii, " or a MVO -1U110111,4 ; but iu the case of Doctor WATSON there exists not the remotest shadow or pretence of iii flictiog the calumny, fur if his disingenuous cal - Motor had quilted the few lines next Doctor WsTsost would be found among those who were influected by on opposite sentiment. The following is the whole passage from which the above is all unfair and garbled extract : " All families being of equal antiquity, and time and chance so happening to all, that Kings become beggars, and beggars heroine Kings, no solid mown', I think, can be given a by any man should derive honour or infamy from the station which his ancestors filled in civil society ; yet the contrary opinion is so prevalent, that no words need lie ern. ployed in proving that it is so. German and Welch prdigiees • are subjects of ridicule to most Englishmen; yet those oolong's ounielvcs who cannot inscribe on the trunk of ilirir . goicalogical tree the imine of a Peer, Bishop, Judge, Gr. Herat, of any prising elevated above the rank of ordinary • citizens, are still desirous of abetting that they are not sprung from the dregs of the people. %Vilbout entering into distrisition concerning the rise or this general prejudice,' I .frerlx corm that 1 Ma on this ocrosiox N store to it onysctl" La vow disce limner. Let this specimen of brae_ rosily and justiee regulate the value of The Courier's credibility and accuracy in other parts of the review. The Bishop was a profound stud logi cal reasoner, and although lie confessed the do minion of a prejudice, salutary perhaps in its influ ence on society, and undoubtedly gratifying to the feelings of those whose ancestors ohtained or merit ed the esteem of mankind, yet he, with every other thinking man, conid see no solid, no logical reason why an individual possessed of no personal dignity or merit, should &live honour from such qualities in any, however remote, of host progenitors ; or why the stain whivli guilt had affixed to one M:111%1 name brand with indelible infamy the cha racter of an imiocent mid worthy descendant. 'With respect to his " republican piiiiciples," we think his reproof its the King, when his Majesty thought proper to tamit bins with them ut the levee, slier a couversatiou with the Venetian A unbossii slur, quite contlusivo, ati the Bishop's own cords are made the sole weapons of this attack. " Sir," said lie, " I look upon a republic to be one of the worst - forms of Lovernruent"—" 1 could s~ . _ not love unties k teoktlthe"—" I lonic noon the tytaimy of any one man to tie /111 intolerable evil, awl upon the tyranny of an hundred to 1w his litiot dreol times as bud." Surh sets the constant sell.. of the speeches and wsititiss of ilia Bishop of N A ill' Upon CoO;tittilioliiiT 1007niri. Ili tit did libeity could not exist {,tat ht tie/• iliffijionderatice of the several constituent pert, in the State—he saw that ihlitettuit of the CtOwto " linifint'ieased; etas inereasing, and (night to be diminished ;"—but tan the question of the Regeiwy, oil un pi mewled Minister endettedined to strip the Crown of its just prerogatires, to clothe himself its the spoilsoof Royalty, olio exerted himself greater energy than the Bishop of LANDAFF, to save the constitution fruits so foul eu invasion ? His principles throughout were those (of a genuine Wnw, who revered each branch of the constito two as necessary for the preservation sit the %thole, and ought to be cherished by every sincere frieild to the Revolution and to the House of Brunswick. Indeed, his sentiments conk, nest well hive borne • ditrefellt tide, coosiicrMg the Source wlienCe they origittated, lie aceluired his ideas of the constitu limo from the study of Loctio, which be afterwards recommended to the Unite 01111/T1.•7411, as " com pleting the wool: of civil government." his erns sioency, or, as he himself calls it, his bleu/ill, lie preserved through the course ut his life, by the ha bit 1w had early formed of rumination.; his opinions to paper, nod frequently retra(7iite; the eurrent of bas thoughts and sentiments. No diversity, there fore, sir this essential [mint can be discerned between his earliest and latest productions ; and Site Bishop of LAN DMA:, in this age of revolutions, amidst the general wreck of indepeudemse, the correlations of storrottisding Statesmen. the desertion of friends, the solicitations of Ministers, und even the sneers and insults of Royalty, has 'Proved himself an ho nest, conscientious, and consistent Mall. But the insist charge against Doctor WATSON. HA a Ds tine and a-Statestualo, is oinbiti.op, accom panied, as it is said, II a spirit of avarice. The character, primbititm can be estimated only by reference to its means or object, and its the case of 1)octor WATSON nothing has transpired to remove the favourable impressioo which the abstract con teraphoion of an ettvated and aspiring mind is cal culated to produce. He is, however, accused of having accepted the Professorships of Chemistry aml in the University of Cambridge, by his own confession, he was lint, at the moment of his election, sufficiently qualified fur either. ilia accus,r, at the saute time, acknowledges that lie had, by intense study, " redeemed his deficielocies," soil the literary world can be appealed to W:111 CCM iirler.ce for the justice of this confession. But it is triumphantly urged, " flow would our patriotic. Whig Bishop have fulminated his indig nant CrMilk.% apita.t a corrupt Minister. who thus bestowed offices of state upon his ii:Cfficient fol loweis ! How would he have denounced the pro fligacy of the donor, and the insolence of the re ceiver, if the scantlalasis job, as it would then have been called, had come to light ! flow lois brother Whigs, too, would have ridiculed the ides of a probationiny Secretory of State ; of a itan w lto tirecpteti the seals of office, upon the promise ilia lie would learn to use thetii I" This illustration of the Bishop's conduct is more plausible than just. These is a great dill'oretice between the acceptance of au office of high responsibility iii the State, by an unqualified individual, mid that of a professor ;drip. an - university, by a member of the aniver- Alit', of distinguished tsleists, whose wh o l e life had been devoted to littrary acquirements, anti' whose habits of mind rendered him peculiarly su!-• cegtilde of eiseilier - iiiiprariement. Those who had th 4 election for the office in their, .powcr, were sell aware of the fitness of Doctor AVATsoN for its se veral duties. Ohs Essays ow Cliesaistry have rank ed him among the first experimentalists in that la terestioig and useful scielice ; • but with reined to his acceptance of the ProfesisrirsbiP Of Divinity, no excuse seems necessary ; for the study of theology had long been familiar to him, aml must, with the assistance of his high talents, Lave rendered hits eminently fitted for the situation: shall not stop to observe on the inconsist'ericy. or, prrinros, forgetfulness of the writer in lie Caerier. in urging thii pursuit of eledidentic honf,tst crane :against Dr. W•TISON, after having pre vionbly conceded that, " bad his ambition lover soared beyond the honours cf a Calege, his memory might have descended to posterity with wan/lied brightness." But we' have no contrast ; we have not even an accusation of political ambition, unless it he one to have dedicated his 7hcological Triers to the QUEEN. l ie was appointed to the Bia!ppric of Landati even &lure the Duke of RI:TLAND had asked it of Lord SIII:I.BCIINF, and there can be little doubt that lie would not have died Bishop of Liinriatf with only lam)/ a seat to sup;iort the (4 ignity of the purple, had he been the ambitions Prelate he is represented. Was his strong and determined cesitlemnatirtis of the Coalition Aliiti•try a proof or derawell or inordinate 51111)11mi: If he could have di ecended to the degradaiiiiii of biting smerety .4 partisan, there ens nu dignity in the Church winds be ;night Hot sit that Moment' have cormbrei , ded. Pei hap , he had formed too highanestimate oil i.owe talents, and could not . snbmitto follow ?he vir:ilettice of an infer i;r in id. This, too, might lie cc. :r ~J►"YjPpl.. elopience, and impartial persons offirrn, that isi his cane very Strange circuinistances or Irma appear, calcuibilit4l to rentier it diOttilt in decide *is it The MIIJrr is 11141 W 61 be brought before the Fifth Tribunal.—fputch Papers to Ike. 31.) FLANDERS MAIL. ♦IENNA, nre. 2n. The Advertiser of Milan, of the tith, announces, that the villa of E•te, which •belongs to her Royal Highness the Princess or %Voice, upon the lake of Como, is now to be sold, with all its dependen cies.—The greater part of the suite of his Imperial Highness the Archduke Itsiner, who is appointed Viceroy of Lombardy, has already set out, to travel by short stages to Milan. It is said that this Prince, as soon as he arrives in Italy, will espouse his cousin, the Archduchess Maria Louisa of Tus cany. Contit Semen, the Governor of Lombardy, who arrived on the 15th, has had a long conference with the Emperor. it is remarked, that the Governors of the Kingdom of Bohemia, Italy, G►lhcia, and Illyria. are all at the same time in thin city, whence it is inferred that some changes are intended in the civil administration of these provinces. A new system for the general arming in time of war iv also spoken of. l'hoy write from Constantinople, under date of 12th Noventher—‘. (►n the occo.ion of the birth of a successor to the throne, the Grairl Seignior ha• exempted the people from the payment of the ex traordinary contribution, estiu►ated at ten millions of piastres, which was the custoni.,ry tribute opon such an event; hut he list graciously out:tded the usual presents from the great Officers of State and his Ministers." 11UM11.1, DEC. 30. Monsieur Matthreuit has appea!ed to the Court of Cassation itgain't,t the decree made in his cause by the Royal Court of Douay. The First Chamber, in one of its sittings,• has confirmed three projects of law sent up from the Second Chamber, viz, that coueerning the provi sional conttimation of the rising of the resources of the State, after the lit of January, -1818—that cc lative,to the free trade its tea—and that uti the tax upon inheritances. HANOVER, DEC. 19. The opening of the General Asaemnly of the States of the Kingdom took place yesterday, nucler. the direction of M. de Bar, President of the Re gency. THE BRITISH PRESS.