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ABOLITION (f the SLAVE TRADE by SPAIN. THE KING. The intrednetion of negro slaves into America was one of the first mesuntres which soy predecessors awhile , ' for the support and prosperity of those " it relotmlo, mem afler their discovery. The iin poomihilsiy of 'miming the Indians to engage in trivia users'', though labours, arising from their ciotooplete i l eisorance of 111 w couiroliesicies of life, Ned the very small priogres4 they had made in the arts of social esistence, require,' that the working Of the Untie*, Nutt Ilia cultivistino of the soil. al Id be ftrilluittled to hands more ruhrist and active than t !nor% measure, which did not create slavery, hot Holy took advantage of that which existed through the barbarity ur the Africans, by saving from &nth heir prisomeos. sand alleviating their sad condition, far from Iwiiig prejudicial to the stegroea transported to America, rotilerrvil upon their! tigt o n ly the incom par able - Messin g of being warm:tell iii the koowledge of the trite God, mad of the only reli t:l9o isi which the Supreme Being desires to be ',dwell by Isis erosion'''. but likewise all 14r ed!...- lige, which 'ice 'salty civilization, without soh 3eetaig Owen iu their state of servitude to a harder coalition ikon that which they endive(' in freedom, when free its their melee country. Nevertheless, the novelty or this system demanded prudence Ot its execution, null thus it happened that the alembic. ti oral:rib staves into Americo depended always on particul .r liceoses, which my predecessors grant ed according; in circunistances of places and times, till the era when mitraiireil slaves was generally iwr mittril, tell, in national and foreign wool.. h' the Royal Proclamations of the eatli of September, 1759. Ilw lith of Aprils 1798, and :4, ezd of A uril, 180-1. in each Or which thwaltffereist places for.their inlitelliettiott erre determined. All this clearly oviiiced that the l'lsriernin wisdom of my predeces sors consielt r-s 1 always these pmvisimis as exceptions tv the law, tail dependent on van:style coodif A I'lioni4ll the Leo me granted the 22,1 of April. 131 J, hall ono expired when Divisor nonviolence re stored me to the Omni, to which it bad drstiaril 111 r, nod of which st , l unjust usurper hail ly iv tempted to ifepi ive sow. the chstiorlianees and dia semimow my Americo, dominions, dining any idetence. • livid my sovereign often tom ; and invilitsitiog tocessatilly Ott the most ap 'animate weans of re-establithing good order iu thew reatate paws a, moil giving Ilwin all the vociiii-ageneroit of which tlwy are capable, I Nava tint b 11.1%; 111 iiereeivaig, that the ciecuonstances Lid toil:it:ad uty eredecesmors to permit the traffic in slaves on the coa.ls of Africa, cud their itstro i'iletion into both Americas, had entirety changed. Iv these trotioces the tiontLer of indigetious has iiic;easvd prodigiously. and even *that • f free Itrgreirl, %littler the Itselt.rtit. o care Liihl Gliverotorsit unit the Christian r iuntaanity of til e Spa n ish proprietors ; the number of the white inhabitants Las likeatse Isrea much augmented, nil the climate is not %low so prejudicial to the latter, its it was before the soil was cleurtul iit w oo d : mil nit jelled to coltivoion. The ailvatistitge, like v a Inch resulted to the inhabitants of Africa I lls it tiaiisi °elution to a country, 1. nub I 41%V sa urgent or exclitsive, since son eitlightened vottoin loos undo takeii the glorious task of civilising in th e ir ()w i t land. At the s tine lime the ge ss. -es progress of improvement in Europe, and the sjii i it o f buiremity shah tkrected its late traits actions its restoring the political edifice which the niukeilisess of a usurped Government had shaken to lid foundation, have excited. ammo; EtlrOpenl l Stivertignr, - a desire to see this traffic abolished ; an .I at the Cosigress of Vienna . , mgreriog on the iirc:ssay of the they ocetipird them selves to foribialing its execution by the most emivable negociatiiiim with those Powers which h i d sr limier, meeting in me that disposition which become sir laudable 1111 lestakilig. T 40.! considerutiom sitoired my Royal staid sir iiiforni itself from en -I,:zhirited i terso l is, Ze/111/11% for the Forlornly or my states, on the e fit cla ',bid' the abolition of the t ra ffic tomb' produce soil thrill. I 1.1%111 . 4 seen their reports, and desirous to anon ceriatoity In a multi s m•rso grave impost:nice, I transmitted them to my Commit of lite India, sill% me Royal order of die 14. it of Jane. I 5 . 13, that it. might coin ttttttt icate to I its ilisiosiou and advice. II icing culls clyti gill .eye clues's% 1114106.16, Ullll hot stag t 'tutu used 1111: propo•itiost abide the proper Stiptente Tribunal yid berme inr in its deliberation of the h of Fr. binary. 19 16, onswering to the cooliilence elk!' 1 ii.pose in it, and coiuciding a itli its opinion re- Not:ties; the abolition of the bailie in slaves, and co-operating with the King of Great Britain by a 'all nett Ite:sly, e inbrociiig oil the points of recipto cal interests involved its this important transaction, and di kr Ong that the time for the H 1,011 6 0 11 w as . arrived, the interests of my A into icau Stales being iinly ricinicileti with the sentiments of my Royal mail, and the wishes if all the Sotereigns, toy 1•,it:1141s and allies, I have decreed as follows ; Art. I.—r m this slay forward 1 prohibit all my rubjecls, lattit to the Peninsula and in Anirona. (ruin going to buy IS.IIIH'S 011 the CIIIIIPiII of Mesca, sous ii, or the laws. Hall IN'S ti h 4.1 may be hau;lsi on the said coasts shall be de. 4145.51 Gtr its Ilse lost port ut ray elonsitsions, al which the isi w loch ths y ttri irsessporied slasll mime. The ship it s. If. toe: thi r aide the remainder of its cargo, shall lie confis est. it to the Ituyal Treasury, and the purchaser, she Captain, the Mast. g - , alsl fist , bloat be irrevocably coaskmacd WWI year's icAtolosstatiott to able Art. 2 —TEe al..ere pusishareat does not snob to the Trsokr, the Captain, the Master, and Pilot of the vessels, a Welt ni cot Irons any pore or soy dominions, for she roast of north of the Ltur , het.se the 22J of November of sh.. p. tot ,it year,lo "'herb 1 part, hunks, an extensiust of stet mouths, comatiug fruits the shots date,tu complete their a;wilitiou. .Artsek 3.—num the 30th of May, 1620, I equally pro. I.lk, all my snhj. rts, as well in the Peninsula as in America, from going to purchase negroes stony thaw parts of the coast of A (*.Km shell are to the south ut the Lim., order the same pen:Otis a imposed in the first artick of this Jeerer: allowing I.kr wig' the apace of five mouths from the above date to com plete the voyages that may be undertaken before the above. measiorer.i 3illla of May, in which the traffic in slaves shall erase in all soy doinisious, as well in Spain as in America. Art. 4 —llene rho, using the pernsissiani which I vast 141 th. 30d. of May, 1020, to purchase slaves um that part of the coast of Afr.ca which has south of the bee, shall mat I r e allorc.l So carry more slaves thus five to two toms of the tonnage of flair vessel : and say persona cunt in; 'Li. el .:tetanal shall be subjected to the penalty of luring all tic .t sea oo ward, who shall be deviated Ave at the tint port of ivy ot•IITINI.1114 in whirl the ship arrives. Art. h —lbia computation is made without a reference to Om., aka may he lean during She sugar, ur Su those who 0..) lo.sert•o; no hoard IN sailors 1 , 1 oervants. A.I G rut( eZII vessels which nosy awspint Negroes tr.IJ 1 4 „ eny port if my dlitninions shall he sulijerted tos the regula tions peencribed in this d.eree ;anot in ease of onstraseinus them, shill he soolijeetid to the penalthn trunnioned in it. Aud my Royal pkensimullsrlie this the 'donee decree should circulate in me 4luesilsion• of America and Agin. far its punctual ohnervmore 1 centrentikalod it to all Snottime Council of the Indies, simped with my own band, tinder aide of the 24d of September last past ; 1 tbroefire commits(' all my foteroya„ Presidents. Audiewees, Consmandanta, General Governor!, and Ilienolants of she Indies, the ad jacent islands the Philippines* that they keep, fulfil, ent ente, and emote to be kept, fulfilled, ke. ibis nay decree, lye. hhibtM, Ike. 11117. IVREION INrEi.uczneg. DUTCH M4IL. musxtunsw, JAW. 2. Long before the news of the insurrection in Am !myna was known in Europe, an English periodical work, and Out of this wrtrir is London newspa4wr gave orcosints of an insurrection in .lava itself, wi l i e s t it is trrr was soporeaseil in the origin, but the suppression of which was soul to be attend ed wills such shocking circismitt men, nod the conduct of the iiisurgent islanders was stated to have been so mild, patient, and prudeot, that from this and the severe manner in which it was expressed, added to personal information, there was reason to conclude that some other motives besides humanity sod abhorrence of oppression had auitnated the writers. This, which lorohably prevented most of our Journals, from want of facts to oppear, from making. muck mention of flit atiair, we are happy In flail confirmed, fur the honour or our tuition, in the fulloiting authentic relation of a rr iii , re i n Yl e which we have received from itspectsible awl *ty : " (laving 'rattled, wish indignation. the false an I odious snootier iss which whit passed in the in surtect• at Lobito:lp,, its Decrmlier, 1916, is painted in Vie limes vet‘Apap . er of 13.1. October, 1817. 1 courant determine whether or how far the cause of this isistivectiou is to be ascribed to, or is connected ais, the room to .1 Iva, on bona' the English ship the l'risact as ( .11e, of one Maas Achmet, son of a Sultan of Cheraw:), who was banished diving the finalists pos.essinti of Java to llangeristossisig, as it was georrahy itl'iiruted, but confine myself to what witnessed. " your question reti•-cillig what passed at Indramayo, dotty; my .:ay there in December, 181 G, I answer, that 1 atrs.ril there on the 13th of that mouth, mid rowed to ) boat to the forts which Item sit is great lliOatiet• from the river. The ltesidesit shire told me on my arrival that a band of rubbers or mutitieers, utoboist 700 men, was encamped near the fort, mid that the garrison of lookout:Ivo consisted of only ism. Enropran %rijcaot and rlreria Aistlioysitse of I:ol.pitirte Stul4ll#-Ifi, HIM but a few pounds ur powder; that 1-r,tilea himself. only IwO Europeans acre there ; that by way of precaution, they hull put iii r. I ini•itinti all the boats of the islanders living there, and bud silt on board the public motley mid rill et% u.e we!' its th e i r own , in miter to fly in cafe of sired. lul cud the laden% some all: ;SIMI from Isti board my ship. which lie declined, as Lt hail !wen fur some days in expectation of ussistatire, and thought it most come in day's time hat Ise brgi t ril me, with my pas sengers end boatmen, to remain with him. which we did. _ _ " Having taken some refreshment at this Gen tleanati's house, we went together to look sit Ilse fort, send it was Hot without the greatest indigene tion'that we left it." [The narrator here sap, that eie fort vas entirely dilapidated anal :dowel out of mere walitiameit, 'Those who are acquainted wit's the character of the islanders, koow, that the worst race it in the neighbourhood of ChFribisti, and that I hey have lie n much worse store the cosiviurst of Java.— After I had solid some days at Fottlr Imayo, there ar rived cm the Igth of the month, Lieut. Dolman, with a detachment of 30 lailda rt., having orders to attack the insurgents the next morning early, which was to be done tat the %Mlle 111111 e on three points. " Meantime arrived Mr. NI. 1111 l Mg, who wanted to petsuaole Lientewint I loofnian toot to attack the insurgeists, pretetioling that he el i Id pacily them, for which Le had in isle litany fruitiest. atienintv. " 1 The latter saw that lir, a l e !:altilt-I • 41.11141 tint take or bellow any order), , •it less caun,rl. Awn so civil officer, velioever lie *alight Lc, contrary to 1114 instructions. On whirls I.;eut. Dolman, uccottlitig to his instructions, wart lad at day-lac:lk on Thurs day, the wilt December, from the fort, with his detachment and the garrison. Soon after they were attacked IT at least boo iiisurgeots, %%limn they boldly resisted. l'illratttione, Captain Ilriel came with a detachment, but being oat the other side of the titer, and having s i n bolts, he could afford Lieut. liohitait but small ussistaise•e ; however, lie kept up u constant fire with two held•pieces on the robbers, which did tlit in but little harm, on ac count of the (listener. • " Souse men being wounded, and two) taken pri.oners by the robber-, who crux lly murdered them, Lienteitatit Daman retired over the river, where lie made it stand la:truing 11w bridge, till the Resident of Prtatiger. who had come smite bouts too late, appeared in the rear. The insur gents being surrounded, a corps of Igessikkas (out live troops), were too cowardly to defend themselves, and surrendered." The narrator states, " the prisoners were conveyed humid to Indratitap), mill shut up in Coffee Mavt zine, with a guard of Pimy filen. At • in the evening use prisoners began to rim amok and break out, and some escaped. The officers, fearing the consequente3, were obliged to lIPe their endeavours to prevent the designs of the paisonerr. They placed sifllle tutu wills fixed b.tylnirta at the doors, so that *wally of the roldirrs, rusliitig out, ran upon the bayonets. The door MO flies, shot 'split, us 1.141 tin was practicable, and they thet. brgnti to break out, some by the roof, and Mune through the flour. which was raised three feet flow the g 44444 lid, so that it vial necessary to fife 1 . 1 41111 tone to time to Muller their breaking out ; by this time mea►ure throe men were kept in owe, :nut, as it oppeurp, they fell more through fear than hy the balls. " 'Else betta, sisorstiog they lbeg'lltl. ileetbrdilig to the custom of the counny, to rxtvild the :arms or tlw pnsouero nod himd them to bamboos, ass order to remove theist with safely, and the same day I wriat um sward Ito ermilime yoyove. •' This I. a true act taunt of the attars at Ititfra- 2,951,341 WAR TA XES 1 Customs Excise Property Total War Taxes Total Net Re veuue 1,211,940 555,434 11,757,792 12,509,807 525 1 7800159 788,157 4 1,282,205 399,048 1 2,073,389 1,157,203 113,831,181113,897,012 By this Account it will be seen, that, with the exception of the Post Office, there lists been all increase in every item constittsting the permanent and annual duties, making altogether the suns of 732,015/. ; but in the total net revenue there is a falling off to the unionist of 164,1694 Now, al though this decrease must in fairness be attributed to the cessation of certain war duties, or the dimi nution of the arrears th.►t remained to be collected, still the cousetinetice to the Treasury is precisely the same as if it had arisen from a failure in any branch of tl►e permanent revenue, mid the coun try will equally be required to compensate for the deficiency. The financial year being now closed, „taco, anti whatever the Frew. an►l EnglA, on of toured, envy, and jealousy, put in their piper., I.it happened thus, umlaut otherwise ; I was re lies'', 511(11 smite of them ; and thus what they Pny mot write rests upon hearsay, and therefore they •write filsehoods. ” Amoterchtm, Dec.ls, 1617. (Signed) " tOENRA AD BRANDUICT, Captain of the chip Autora." • (ilatierdigni Courant, ✓am. 3.1 PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, JAR. 2. Yesterday. at two o'clock, the Anilmissadors and Foreign !Ministers paid their court to the King• and the Royal Family. o o th e o cc a si on o f t h e New Year. The Marquis Alfieri, the Sardinian Ambassador, eqmplimented his Majesty in the name of the Di plomatic Body. The Duke of Wellington. and a considerable number of foreigners of distinction. joined the Ambassadors to present their congratulations to Ins Majesty. On the 9th of last month, a woman of the Com mune of Aramon killed her child, aged 18 months, who was a4leep in her bed. It appears that the un happy woman was a somnambulist, and that it was in this olive she destrot•ed her child. She has since become deranged, and it can hardly be desired to have her tenses restored, as they would, at the same time, awaken in her the consciousness of her mis fortune. The following is an extract from the letter of a French Officer in the Persian service, dated Au gust 17, 181; " We are all here very happy with Prince Abbas Mirza. This heir to the throne of Persia is one of the handsomest men and the most generous Princes whom it is possible to see. The Prince has made me his Aide-dr-Camp. 1 have under my command 2,000 infantry, with a considerable train of artillery. M. 11. of Caen, commands 1,000 men, and II simi lar command is intrusted to M. B. of M. We re ceive magnificent pay, and we are anxious to find an opportunity of Nerving nor country in Persia, where it enjoys a high consideration. " The treaty which is to grant to Russia a free passage for its commerce to Indian and the Persian Gulf, sloes nut seem to experience any difficulty. It is equally advantageous to both countries. A cession of some of the provinces bordering on the Caspian Sea, appears, on the contrary, to rank inuotigst the impossibilities. The opiutou of the people is us hostile to it as that of the Soplii, and the hereditary Prince appears altogether opposed to it. A report, which has assumed more ennsi•tener here, is relative to the re.estalAislinieut of a kingdom of Armenia, with the common consent of Persia, Ittv.- lila, and Turkey." THE 13RITISH PRESS. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, ISIS. The Account of the produce of the Revenue for the quarter just ended, has beets made up at the Treasury—awl although in the principal items of the account there appears an increase in the prevent quarter, us compared with the same items its the corresponding quarter of the last year, we lament to find that the general reault does nut prevent an flattering a prospect of future in►prove►neut as we had been previoubly led to imagine. The follow ing is given as AN ABSTRACT OF TUB NET PRODUCE OF TNR RE VENUR IN THE YEARS AND QUARTERS ENDED STH JAN. 1917 AND ISIS. IYeara ended 511. Jan. 1817. 1 1818. 4,979.1 17,571,t 6,337,42. 1,06t,07:7 2,R71.: 251i,1 Qrs. cativo' 91/6 Jim. 1817. j 1819. 1.. 1A17.1811 1,464324 330,00 n 2,134,484 388,132 56,08.5. 2.456.62 A 4,695,07 K 1,564,632 3 ili,ooo 2,1110,017 353.604 255,318 0,200 11 4 114 373 ' 3414.993 36,441 Costume Excise Swoops Po.t ()Mice A asensesl Taxes Laud Tama Mairtilauruns.. Unappropriated War Dutler..l Total Consoli dated Food .. Annual Duties to pay ufl Bahl. Corwin, Gxcire Pensions, Total Au. Permanent and Annual Duties 2,3113:201 534,1,4 and at the auioui.t of 04 loan for r:ie eorsonig year will be in s'ine oneAsure regulated by the revenue of the pas►, it may lie of advositsge to state the produce of the several quarters or die years Miff and 1817. That we might, by comp:lrwin, endea vour to form an ettimate of the real state of our finances, we therefore present the following ABSTRACT OF THE NUT REVENUE FOR THE irtAltt ENDED THE 6TH OF JANUARY. 1817. AND TUC STU oF JANI,4BV. 1018, DISSINGUISHING THE SLYEILAI. QLARTERS. April 5111 July sth .... October 10th January Silt, 1817—lb 1616. L. 15,044,300 13,9142,917 14,502;296 13,831,181 1817 L. 10,533,929 11,552,961 11,623,548 13,667,012 Tula! Net Revenue.... I 57,360,691 47,277,00 Here then appears a deficiency in the total net Revenue of the year just closed, as compared with that of the year preceding, of tio less thou 10,0434441.; but this, we are aware, has arisen ins great degree front the cessation of war duties, as before mentioned. There is, however, another point of view in which we cannot avoid remarking the unfavourable aspect of the total atnount of the year, and that is, in comparing it with the estimate of the probable amount of the revenue for the year, as submitted to the House of Commons by the Finance Committee. This is the more important, as this estimate of the Committee formed the basis or partial justification of the scale of expenditure laid down by the Government for the ensuing and subsequent years. The Estimate of the probable amount of the Net Revenue for the year 1617. E. by the FiNance Committer, was 52,f005,344 Actual receipts Difference 5,227,914 In this estimate, too. the Committee had not in serted the emus remai ee i e to he received upon the assessments of the Mope, ty Tax, and of which the amount outstanding on the fitil of January, 1817, was computed at 2,800,000!., while in the amount of the actual receipts is included the tun) of 1,268,458/. under the head of arrears of the wine tax. In this general review of the state of our f►uaucea we are not conscious of being influenced by. any consideration distinct from u desire to give to the Public a fair and candid statement; we " nothing extenuate, n o r aught set down in malice." lVe should lament as much u the most devoted ad herents of the Ministent aliy deficiency iu the revenue, if the amount were to be taken as a just eke-Owl of national prosperity. We, however, look upon every shilling produced by taxes *3 burden on the people, indiyettsable, indeed, to a certain degree, but no more a proof of their ability to support it, than the imposing of it is u !woof of humanity or ability iu the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The actual amount of money ex acted in the year is enor►uous, and if contemplated aid) feelings of juNtice, generosity, or even of snuud policy, ought to lie ►wade the limit of Mi nisterial indulgence in military pomp or civil extravagotiee. We have received Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last. Those of Friday contain au abstract of the discussion. in the Chan►ber of Peers, on the Liberty of the Prei.s. The five per Cents. are 641. SO e.—Batik Ac tions, 1,455 f. An important doe ttttt rut respecting the Slave Trade is given in another part of our raper. It is o Decree of the King of SPAIN, prohibiting his sub jects from trading in .h►rrs on the coast of Africa, North of the l.ine,all4l iesiricting the dnration of the trut: south ry' the Line, on the same coast, to two years nod live insitiths, from the date of the decree. We give this day the Dutch account of the late insurrection in Java. It has been pui►lished in the Dutch Papers, with a view to rescue the Dutch Government in that island from the imputation of having contributed to this effect by their itiliu. inanity sind oppression. We may, however, venture to assert. that it would not have happened nutter the liberal and paternal admiuistratio►► of Sir THom As STAMFORD RAFFLES. We rejoice to find that the Subscription for the relief of the distressed Seamen already amounts to 6sol. The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the woe Id, and it is the gallantry of her seamen that has enabled England to sway that sceptre. Grati tude to those who have raised her to that proud pre-eminence, and diffused around her a glory to which no other nation ever attained, is, therefore, the bounden duty of Britons. The commence ment or• the present subscriptiop encourages * confident hope that this duty will be religiously performed. IVe learn from the advertisement on the subject, in the front of our Paper, that upwards of sixty of these gallant but unfortunate fellows were supplied yesterday with food and lodging. This is a national molt-flaking. and we 1,11.1 that the means of carrying it into ellict will not be confined to the capital. Surely the c inertial and sea-port towns, which have benefited so largely by the exertions of this brave chi.* of turn, will contribute their mite in so good a cause. HENRY CHARI.Es LITcHEIELD. EN. has re sighed his situation as Solicitor to the Treasury ; and MAPLE, EMI. the bite Assistant, bur breii tolirnititeil 11111 11111:erlihil f . Citaat.us Boy tit Hiva. EN. a Gentleman front the (lonic UMW', 1114* htt appointed Assistant -----kaq 47,-; e',)4_,' -d!•••.,: _• 0. -- ,x-....._ . r 4'l' -----,--- ,-;'),-•;a%,4 . -- ,-,,i,:i.,,,0- • ..- ..:,;,.,.. - /11••• lieS.• 40 qgt3 )S' J A BRIGHTON,. JAN. 5. ....me...— Ills Rots! Highness the Do!ie of ar rived ut the Pavilion this nf lart frolll Pink. His lloy3l cootome lirra until the return of hi. illostrioo. i I her In Corltme: house. It is now folly expect--; thut the Queen' intends paying a visit to the Prince litgent morrow week. The dinner party of the Prince Regent has th;, evening received all increase or compau s , are happy to state, that hia Royal Ilighliess within the last week considerably improved in I. health. However, it is conjectured, that the Pita. , . Regent will not open Parliament on Triesdiy, ti 27th instant, as the Court mourning dots not expire before February, and, therefore, the observ ance of etiquette will occasion the Sesdon to I:e opened by Commission. The Prince Regent has been pleased to iii;poit;t Admiral Sir George Campbell, brother to Lail Cawdor, one of the Grooms of his NlNjesty's Bed chamber, vacant by the death of the Hon. Chitties Heibert. Sir George returned to London on Fr.- day last. CASTS FROM THE ELGIN MARBLAS, THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AT ST. PETERSBCRGH. A set of casts from the Elgin Marbles are to ho immediately prepared for the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburgh, under the direction awl superintendence of Mr. Ilaydou, to whom M..\l. Olenin. the President, her written iu the most flat tering terms for that purpose. M.M. Olenin h a s also, us a mark of his estimation for Mr. Ilaydon's talents, present e d la in , for li:s own plisate study, with some casts from the Imperial Cnllectiou, of a bust of Achilles, a statue of Venus, and one of likings, which are considered us the tiliest things in the collection of the Emperor. M.M. °lrian concludes his letter, by hoping that the c..rre spondence thus hr au will not end, and that " Mr. Hayden will continue it for the benefit of the Arts in Itu-sia." It us certainly singular, thut within this last month Mr. Flaydall should Intro received proofs of the Km eat e§t tewiect frion the highest :Authorities in the Alt, has It at Rome mid Petersburgh; and thst the °lily pl tee where he is obstructed and opposed is in the Itoal Acudeiny of his own country, which was I.,ttildt'll oligioady for the es!ablishinent of those very loins:ll,les a hica they Dow so strenuously thwart. The t)nke and f)nche.. of Bi.nronn are - I,eeteil on S.aturday next, at iliri it irlrncr Izi 11.i matoti-pliter, from their bedi, T.Ristuil: 11 .13• A, Deronshile. The Duke of Nouroi.K k Douse, St. Ittueb's-tquitte, Irons his tuat, Faro— hum, Suffolk. Tile Duke of LEEDS entettaini a %elect vatty at (limier yebtertlay, at his house, %%Wittkill. The Earl of OXFORD is arrived at his house in St. Janies's.,quaire, from a tour. The Right lion. THOMAS GRENVILLE h.►s left luau for Lord GRENVILLE'S seat, Dropn►ore. Lord and Lade FO LKSTON F. are has•img the holidays wi►h the tui I and Countess of ILIDNott, at Longford Castle, Wilts. Lord tii;tl Lady ARUNDEL!. are one visit to the Marquis and March►oness of Buctitst.usst, at their seat, Avingtqw., Hants. ./011,11 MANNERS. Esq. is art i.. - rtl at his house Portman-square, from a tour. The Esti of Cinfisi.E t •ave 150 cart loads of coals to the indigent I of Brampton la.t trek; they also received 10 burhels of oat-mead from tin: Rev. Mr. It ANSIIAIi. Ali•+ 1/1: CAMP, sister of M. CIIAL KEMEits, is raw i 4 the new reeruita euh,tect iu the corps ui the Etlitilwrgh Theatre. The beautiful and romantic retreat, Avoca Cot tage, at the meeting of the waters, the property of Juice C. LEES. Esq. presents a scene of sporti‘e mirth and guy hospitality, ulna promises a conti nuation, during the holidays, to the Hon. Mr. BLAQUIERE, ARTHUR HUME, Esq. JOHN ASMIT. Esq. aril one of Mr. Ltxs' brothers, a noted sports- Man." IVe understand that the party have alremlv killed above t2O brace of woodcocks.— f Dublin Paper.) At SI General Meeting of the Freemasons of St. Cyr,. Lodge of Aucliterinticlite, tlity res..f 1,1-41 10 relinquish their usual festivities on the being the Anniversary of St. John, a, au expressnin of homage to the memory of her Royal I ighlit ss the Princess , CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA, wilGbe 110- timely death has occasioned such profound sorrrm. The gold prizesmedul, gisen annually by th:: Duddingston Curling Society to the victor, was played for upon Duddisigston Loch on Thurzoliay, and won by the Rev. Dr. DAvits Last week a dark brown bird, of the eagle cies (oow in the possastion of Cienetul scol was shot by Mr. EV•NS, gamekeeper to the Dus • of BEAUFORT, it Clyne, near SWllll.4ea, It unit sures from the bill to the toil upwards of a yaril and the wings, when spread, cover about a yard and a half. Such was the strength asp! aciivity (II this bird, that, for some minute., six dug. dart tl Hut approach it, after receiving the mortal! SINGULAR MODE OF CATCHING I:MI.—TIPs fOilowing ingenious mode of taking fish is said to he practised by the Chinese. To one stile of a boat is fist board, painted white, is fixed at an angle of about forty-live degrees, the edge melitiitig towards the aster. On moonlight nights the boat is Po placed that the painted board is turned to the moon, from whence the rays of light whitened surface. give to it the appeoronee of mov ing water, on which the fish being tempted to leap es ou their own element, the boatman moil% milli a airing the board, turn: the fish two the boar. Peterthargh hart.) illioMloll AINfAM - . . !OKI; 1,127,1 241,1 6,1t7, 1,163,