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ib b e r he(Mr. Hume) said. Ile always spoke ean didl y vim sa d he denied as an impossibility, that only twenty clerical i'"7„,nes wat now away frost Ireland. Official documents contra- ' •iro;g- bon, stated the names, and in one diocese alone, signed be gr t hop. there were twenty ! (Cries of " Hear, hear, hear.") ;r o w& ate absent according to the returns. The Right lion. I"dernan was in Ireland; but perhaps he did not know that a Bill " — b ro ught in to enforce the residence of the Clergy in Ireland. its o er . W.) Accordin t the retrns, out of 1,2.111 mt , there nen „„residents to the amoun g tof f nearly u ! The obj of the Ho , ` ale Gintlenisi opposite was to place hint anywnere but on his orsrepreuntation would place him on his gt.lie.la ; but he Bo f ny) hoed the HO Ine ld d v , he tated acts p . (Hear, hetr, wou atten hear.) hi z intv,r would rail i s n the ; i 7 or boo with a oft" who said hat the Irish Catholics were de.c w hit bar. ( c ries hear,") s td yet piiiied a body who opposed i . The aurch and individuals were not plat.vd in the same situ rim; t he incumbent coidd not devise, the individual amid; the poshest had no SUCCCSIIN, the heir of the individual had. pa the law pointed bin out. The incumbent only existed hr the blot the Land. Mr. ()rattan a opinion w ith regard to Chur,h ?me rry was on record, and Mr. Oration was a nun who stood Nit in Ireland as well as in E igland, 114 ever the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Plunkett) had stood oe was likely to stand. Mr. Org:ln la Church property was only a national property, to be uypGeed of at the will an d discretion of Parlia cent . re• meet to all be (Mr. Hume) raid of the Board of First Fruits, It; boo ervinion of the Irish Attorney-General to justify his statc- Mr. PLVNRETT—I said I di I not know that my opinion was co the table of the House. Mr. HINE—I shall read his opinion. (The lion. Alember Ise read it • a nd it was in substance as the lion. Member had sat ed it.) Cries of " Hear, hear," from the Oispositioo side of the flare. Strengeze were then ordered to withdraw, when a division took For the motion - 791 Against it . - 152 Majority against • the Moduli, 73 The °the ( - Wens of the Day were then disposed of, and the House &dimmed at a quarter past Two o'clock. NOTICFS OF MOTIONS THIS DAY. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—To increase the Salaries annexed to the titeat Officers of State, and to high judicial situations of the country, so as to render them more ace pate to the labour and importance of the duties to be discharged, and more worthy of the justice and liberality of the nation. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Labourers Employment Rill—Second Reading. Poor Regulation (Scotland) Bill--Second Reading. Taupe Lunatic Dill--Coomsttitie. Judges in Wales Bill—Ceresaluee. Four per Cents. Acts—Committee thereupon. Assize of Bread Bill— Second Reading. Beer Duties Bill—Further consideration of Report. Law Stamps Repeal Bill—Committee. Growing Crops (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. Tithe Compositiort Act Amendment Bill—Committee. Cutouts (koala and Linens) Rill—Report. Clergy Residence (Ireland) Bill—Report. Ways and Al cans—Committee. Supply—Committe e Slave Trade Laws C., PRICES OF BRITISH Ronk Stock 3 per Cent Reduced, WI I 3 per Cent. Cons. ilic e t t i 1 411,1 3; per Cent. I Szer 3i per Cent. 101 4 per t cut. 1104 Annuities 22 15.16 23 Imperial 3 per Cents. Bank for Act. Cons. for Act. 1169 India Stock 2991 PRICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Scrip Ditto tot Acct. 17a A pin Ditto paid in full, 961 ex die lian lids. 831 Ditto for Acct. Colomb. lids. mil 9 1 ex die Do. Act. 9111 9 4 ca Do. Scrip 24 3 2i 3 21 1 pin Ditto for Ace. 21 3 1 2 , 1 d pin Danish Bonds 1914 l Do. Narks Banco 109 Greek Scrip. 2 3 1 dis Ditto tor Acct. Mexican Bonds 9111 Ditto grip 41 Tin Do. Ace. 91 18 91) i p Neapolitan Rtia. Peruvian Bowls 1301 791 Do. Scrip. pm Ditto for Acct. A pm Itill7-H STOCKS Y ESTE RDA Y. Ind' Bonds, 82 B.S pr. ludia fur Account, South Sea Stock. South Sat Old Annuaire South Sea New Annuities Ex. Bill/1,1,000K 51 48 49 pr. Ditto, COOL 51 48 49 pr. Dit.o, Snull, 51 48 49 pr. Indorsed ditto Lottery Tickets, rL lls. STOCKS Y ESTE 11 DA Y Portuguese Bends, 95 Ditto Scrip Ditto fur Act. 74 1 pin Prussian Bonds 98 Ditto for Acct. Ohm Bonds 11822) Ditto fur Acct. Russian lids. 147 4 Ditto for Acct. 97 Span. Coss. 18 174 i n Ditto fot Acct. 14 Do. S per Cents. (18.:3) 15.5 16 131 16i 16 Ditto fur Account United 31csican Mines 2 di* Fr. acmes, 1941. 380. Do. Ex. 23f. Do. Scrip, 18 174 18 pm Ditto fur Acct. 185 pm Russian Inscription 02 Do. Exchange 13 JIAILS. ARRIVED: I Hamburgh —1 French. Vie StittOft WOO. NEW THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. This Evening. FRIDAY. May 7. will to performed ARTAXERXES. Artaterxes, Madame Valois Arhares. Mr. Brahma : Art:thane*. Yr. • R.on. Mandane, Miss Stephens: liendra, Miss Movey. After whteh, DEAF AS A POST. Tristram Sappy, Mr. Liston. To emielude with EOROASTER ; or, THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR. Tamarrow. The Wintees Tale. THEATRE RiTYAVOYENT - GARDE Ibis Evening, FRIDA May 7. will be performed C The Duke Vivaldi, Mr. Abbott; Rolamo. Mr. Fawcett: Clan!, Min M. Tree: Vesplos, Mo.. Love After which. THE HUNTER OF THE ALPS. Fella. Mr. Junes; koaalvl. Mr. T. P. Cooke ; J )tuo, Mr. Meadow& Helena dl Itoenlvl, Mrs. Faucit To conclude with THE SPIRITS Or Tlir. MOON; Or. THE INUNDATION OF THE NILE. Tu-snorrow, Pride Shall Rave a Fall. APOLLONICUN. To-morrow. SATURDAY. 'Ray N, at Two refloat. The following SELICTION will be performed by Dr. PURKIS. on the APOLIAMICON, a Grand Musical Instrument. Invented and Constructed try Yews. rtitalT and ROIiSoN. Organ 211OdETR, 101. St. Martin's-lAlle. VMDIR Tai 1111111IDIATI PATS/OMAN& UV MIS IRAJEFTY. PART I. Overture, non Giovanni iiinzarti—Air, Huntsman. rest" I Mar- MOAATI)—Air. " Oh. MR, not w..man'e heart is bought" Noittakeri—Divertimeuto. Airs fruut Don Giovanni (Purklai. PART 11. Overture. Fanehon tent!. angnisce" (Carat%) When th wind Mows" illiehogn—Air. Rendre Ifiewitull 31areh and Chorus, Donna del Lago i Admittance. Our shilling. will be continued every Saturday N.9.-Mr. Pinkies dur:::e the Se.:oun. The ineehanscal wnrens of the APOLLONICON are eahlbited daily fro, One till Pour (except dot' hyt ths time of Mr. Purkia's attetodsewei ete.utine Cherubim's celebrated Overture to Anuereott. and Mozart'• ..werture w s' LaClemesiza di Tito." in the e•teeutiuu of which It la ulusvol to lunar,. a grandeur and variety of elect. with a preri•lon and a deliewy of ex:rresaion superior to any other InUruntent in For .ye. The Muaie arranged for and set on the Cylinder* by Mr. khgt.t..nt• Thefntrtsx PaEss commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 152.1. Mr. Hume, in along and very able speech, brought for ward his motion last night respecting the Church Esta blishment in Ireland. The Honourable Gentleman dwelt strongly on the pernicious c u sequencei of pluralities, which he considered likely to undermine the very establish mama connzeted with such an abuse. Ile contrasted, in strong and forcible language, the rrc Ince of First Fruits in Ire:and, amounting, With a church three times as rich as that of England, to little more than 9001., while in this country the amount of the same fund exce:ded 14,0001. The Hon. Gent, cc ne!uded by moving, " That it was deemed expedient to inquire whether the Churc't Establishment of Ireland be net more than commensurat* to the services performed, both as relating to the numbers employed and to the income rec-ivisl. The motion nas opposed at great length by the Hon. Mr. Stanley and by Mr. Dawstir. From the lateness of the hour at which this important debate closed, we cannot now allude to it further. On a division takin:4 placo 4t two o'ccek, Mr. Hume's moticn was negatived by a majori ti of seventy-three. The alarming rumours, which have been some days in circulation, respecting a large French force at Rio Janeiro, will be totally dispelled by the di cisive explanation given, in his place, ly Mr. Canning last night. The Right Honourable Secretary rose early in the evening, and state !, that in reference to the question put to him by Sir James Mackintosh, an evening or two since, he thought it but right to state, that although he had himself no apprehensicn in ti e subject, yet, in order to satisfy the public mind, be (Mr. Canning) had made the nevasary inquiries, and had then to state, that the destination of the French force in question had been fully accounted for to him by Prince Polignae, the French Ambassador. The Right Honourable gentleman added, that the French r.aval force at RioJantiro only consisted of two ships, in place of eight, and that we now bad in that quarter a sufficient number of vessels to protect our increasing commerce, although they arc placed there not from the slightest apprehension of hostility or danger. Mr. Canning, in conclusicn, said, it might be proper for him to state that we bad, at this moment, a force in every quarter more than an overmatch for any number of ships at any foreign stations. This declaration from the Minister produced the strongest impression in the House. ;rd was received with loud and general cheers. Its effect throughout the country will, we are sure, be fully com mensurate. Thus perish all the dark forebodings and alarms that for the past week have circulated in every pos sible shape, respecting the designs of France on the Brazils. Mr. Canning, with the frankness tux' attention to public feelings that have marked his administration since be entered on his present high office, took immediate mea sures to ascertain the truth of these agitating reports, and communicated the satisfactory result of his inquiries from his place in Parliament to the nation. It thus appears that France has no such force as was anticipated, at the Brazils, and that Great Britain has at this moment a power lin every quarter ready to strike, if a single hostile demon stration should be made, and securing peace by our ability for war. We were ourselves persuaded that the French nistry would not, by any such attempt, risk a destructive contest with this country—a contest which would be fol ! lowed by the annihilation of their navy, the ruin of their commerce, and the lust of every colony France now pos- I sesses in .America and Asia. The Journal des Debuts of Tuesday states, that the most absurd reports were circu- I lilted in London respecting the French force at the Brazils : I this force, the Paris journal asserts, is composed of only five vessels ; the Jean Bart of 74 guns, the frigate la Ma gicienne, a corvette, and two brigs. It may be (tltis paper adds) that two frigates which were despatched to the South I Seas, to rethee the Amazoue and Clot inde, on their pas sage, touched for a moment at Rio Janeiro ; and that La Thetis, which was destined for China and the Indian Seas, L'Astree, which returns to France, and was re placed at Brazil by the Jean Bart and La Circe, which took out M. de Gestu, and which returns to France, may have appeared together for a few days in the wa ters of Brazil; and thence, adds the Journal des Debuts, 1 " all this trash of a fiezt that never existed." "We repeat it (this Paper concludes by saying), we have only .fire vessels on the coast of Brazil, and they are not too many to protect our trade and our countrymen on coasts infested by privateers and pirates, and on which internal revolu tions threaten daily the property and lives of his Majesty's subjects." All this may be very trite ; but such a force u thirteen ships of war united at Rio together, looked more than suspicious, and their appearance at the Brazils, just at such a peried, still looks doubtful and strange. Ilow mer, the French Government will now see that the eye of this country is watchfully directed to all their movements, and the decision of our Minister will be convincing as to the sentiments of the British Cabinet. If Frame has been endeavouring to feel her way in the New World, and been meditating any ambitious attempts, they will not he further urged in defiance of the power of this country, whose eyes are open to them. As to the arrival of three French ships, so alarmingly announced in a respectable Evening Paper of yesterday, even tkough true, we see nothing dangerous in the occurrence. The French have just the same right to enter the Tagus that we have; nor does it follow, because these ships may have arrived off' Lisbon, that therefore any designs are entertained by France against Brazil. It is altogether a non sevsitur. The liberty of the New World will not be disturbed at present, we are persuaded, by the French Cabinet : all the views of M. de Villele, who is at it.: bead, are financial and pacific; and that Minister is now occu pit d with the most important arrangements respecting the national debt of that great country—an employment of suf ficient magnitude to occupy all his attention. The latest accounts from Mexico, to the 18th of Fe bruary, represent the state of things as much more tranquil 1 throughout that great country. There had been a tumult, it appears, in the city of Mexico early in February, occa sioned by another revolt of the soldiery, who appeared in arms against the Congress, and called for the immediate expulsion from office of all old Spaniards ; but the Repre sentatives of Mexico, greatly to their credit, remained firm amid the revolt, and resisted the demands of the mutineers, who were soon suppressed, and twenty-five of their officers arrested and condemned to death. The Con gress, however, with the moderation that has all through the it arduous career distinguished them, had the sentences o: these men afterwards commuted into perpetual exile from the shores of Mexico ; and the remnant of the muti neers were disbanded and dispersed throughout the pro vinces. Everything subsequently was perfectly tranquil, and business in consequence increasing. Accounts from Alvarado, dated late in February, state, that a constant f ring of cannon and bombs was kept up during the nights of the 18th and 19th of February, between the Castle of St. Jean D'Ulloa and the neighbouring town of Vera Cru7. This destructive warfare can do nothing for the Spanish cause ; Mexico is now beyond the power of Spain for ever. From the calculations made by the great Humboldt more than twenty years since, r has given us the fullest and most authentic accounts of New Spain, the population of that country, including Guatimala, may be fairly taken at I ten millions. Of this mixed population, consisting of Euro pean Spaniards, Creole Whitea, mixed Castes, and Indians.. the propottion of Spaniards was calculated by Humboldt to be about one in seventy of the great mass of inhabitants ; and in 1821, from the cessation for years of any intercourse with Old Spain, they were supposed not to exceed one in every hundred. The highest offices in the civil depart ' ments of Government, in the Law, and the Church, were generally filled by this class. The native Indians are still the most numerous of the different classes that compose the Mexican nation, and are estimated to amount to three ' sevenths of the whole. They reside chiefly in towns and I villages throughout the country, where the laws and regu ' lations of the Government are enforced by their native Magistrates or Caciques, who sprak the Spanish language, and on whom, jointly with the priest attached to :their mis sion, they depend. They are naturally indolent, from con stitution and the climate, and are principally employed in agriculture, but scarcely producing more than they con sume. Such is the amazing fertility of this fine country, that in the vicinity of the city of Guanazuato, the immense plains, with a singleimperfect ploughing, without manure, and assisted, only by an irrigation, which, in the rainy season, is easily directed, constantly bear a produce in wheat, of fifty for one, and often upwards of eighty. In maize, the chief food of the Indians, the increase is infi nitely greater, and varies from one hundred to three hundred for one, and the harvest of a single year constantly supplied the demands of two. In the lower land more sultry regions of Mexico, extending from the foot of the Table-land to the sea, the demand for labour is still less. Ilomboldt asserts, that a spot of 100 metres (not the tenth of an acre) will yield annuallr more than two thousand kilograms of nutritious food. This great traveller further states, than an at pent of land, or about an acre and a quarter, cultivated with bananas of the largest species, is capable of maintaining fifty indi viduals for a year. To many the manioc supplies constant food ; and the abundance of spontaneous fruits, such la the prickly pear, and those which rtquire little cultivation, such as the potato, are Loth to great, that the means of certain subsistence arc within the reach of all the inhabi- 1 tants, with scarcely any labour. This easy acquisition of ' , food, and the absence of all desire for further comforts ofi any sort, with the indolence peculiar to the climate, kept the inhabitants in that state of degradation End subjection in which they were fettered by Spanish tyranny for centu ries. The condition of the Mexicana generally will be ameliorated, as the country becomes settled and the national Government attains strength : hitherto the ab sence of all settled :nstitutions has prevented any attention being given to the situation of the great majority of the people. The moat valuable of the agricultural commodi ties of Mexico, and one exclusively produced there, was the cochineal insect: it was raised only in the district of Misteca, in the province of Oaxaca, wholly by the labour of the Indian inhabitants. These insects draw their sub sistence from a particular species of the nopal, one of the cactus tribe of plants. The task of rearing, protecting, and preparing them for exportation, was well suited to the indolence of the natives, in the intensely hot climate pro-' (ieing them. The annual amount'of the cochineal ex ported, when highest, was calculated at about 500,0001. In latter years it had diminished considerably, from the agitated state of the country, and the Indians having devoted their labour to other purse *., Humboldt states, that the principal sources of the wealth of Mexico are by no means the mines, but an agriculture which has gradually been improving since the close of the last century. But impediments of the heaviest kind still oppose the progress of agriculture and domestic communication throughout Mexico. The want of roads and canals, and the restric tions of the comer despotic government of Spain, were severely felt ; the country is so vast—the roads, when existing, so bad, and many of them over barren districts, supplying no resources whatever. Thus no vent was given for the disposal of any surplus produce, and the progress of agriculture was proportionably limited. The mines of Mexico had been latterly abandoned, and inundation has been the consequence of this desertion; they cannot be worked again until the water Is discharged : this the com pany established in this country may accomplish, but the Mexicans had neither the machines fitted for such a task nor the capital to procure them. From these causes, and the troubled state of the country, the produce of these mines, even when worked in late years, had greatly diminished. The celebrated vein of Guanaxuato produced in 1818 only 150,000 mares of silver and 400 of gold, though its pro duce, eight years before, in 1810, exceeded that of all the mines of Peru together, amounting to 600,000 mares of silver, and 2,000 of gold. In the mint of Mexico in 1821, six millions of dollars only were coined, where, in 1810, from twenty-five to twenty-eight millions had issued from that mint. This, however, the spirit of our capitalists, with a protecting government in Mexico, will soon change. All the late accounts from the interior of that great coun try, we arc happy to say, are satisfactory. rie oath of fidelity to the new republic was cheerfully and generally taken, and the inhabitants appeared to be content with the existing government. An arrangement it is said was ef fected, by which the numerous provinces were to have dis tinct governments, the whole united in a confederacy, on the plan of the United States. Some of the provinces had al ready jirined in this union, and established their local go vernments. In the sitting of the Mexican Congress, on the nth of February, a petition was read from the Congress of Oajaca, praying that Govemn3ent might prosecute, with all possible expedition, the negociations entered into with this country. On the 17th of February the Congress approved the report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, relative to the appointment of Pablo de la Llave, as Minister l'leni potentiary to Great Britain. We trust complete tranquil lity will soon settle over the entire of Mexico, and that our relations with that great and rising country will he close and uninterrupted. Such an intercourse will be equally advantageous to Mexico and to Great Britain, both in a commercial and a political view. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Asa's(' ss.—There elegant rooms on Wednesday evening were more numerously attended than any preceding ball this sea.on.— There were present upwards of 400 persons of the first distinction and fashion ; among whom were— Prince Gortchacidr, the two Princes Sangueseko, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke end Duchess of Argyll and the two Ladies Pager, the Duchess of Montrose and the two Ladies Graham. the Duchess of Richmond, the Marquis and Illarchioness of Downshire, the Marchioness of Salisbury, Count Selo*, Countess St. An tonio, Countess Cowper, Countess of Derby, the Countess of Al bemarle, the Earl and Countess of Wicklew, Lord and Lady Bel haven, Lady tiwydyr, Lord Sydney and the two Misses Towns . bend. Lord Castlereagh, Lord Palmerston, Lady de Roos, Lord and Lady Nomranby, Lord and Lady Stuart Lord Cawelor, Lady and Miss Bayley, Lady and Miss Ike -Wisref. Lady Keppell Lord Templetnwn, Lord and Lady Tullamore, the Countess of Mul. grave, the two Ladies Phipps the two ladies Fortescue, Lady and two Misses Codrington. the ;gado( Westmorland, Lord Barnard, Lady Grantham, Lord Graves, bead Ravensworth, and Miss Lid. i dell, Viscountess Melville, the Countess of Harrowby, and the two Ladies Ryder. Capt. Mildmay, Aa &c. The Duchess of Wellington has hissed cards of invitation for three rout.; the 10. h, 2 ith, and Slat instant, at Apeley Misuse. The Bishop of London will have a grand dinner party this day, at his house in St. Jantes's-quare. Lady Farquhar ho issued cards of invitation for a concert on the 2lst instant, in her house in St. James's-street. Lord Bexley will have a dinner party this day, at his house in Great Cieorge-street, Westminster. The Countess of Arran entertained on elegant circle of fashion shies yesterday evening. at her house In Dover-street. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and family arrived yesterday at their house in St. Jaines`s.aquare, from their seat, Woburn Abbey. The Earl of Arran arrived in town on Wednesday, from his scat, Arran Lodge, Sussex. The Earl and Countess of Chichester and family have arrived in town, front their vat in Sussex. The Earl and Countess of St. Germaine and family have ar. rived at their new residence in Seymour-street, from their seat in Cornwall. Lord William Bentinck left town yesterday on a tour. Lord and Lady Charles Toonshend arrived yesterday at Gould's lintel, Jerntyrw.treet, from their seat in Norfolk. W. Becher, Esq. M.l'. and Mrs. Becher, have arrived in town, from their seat in Ireland. Mr. Willoughby and the Misses Whittaker arrived yesterday at the British Dotel,.lermyn-street, from Cheltenham. Mr. and Mrs. Ilenyon and family arrived yesterday at the S t George's Hotel, Albemarle street, from Manchester. Departures from the Coburg lintel, Charles street, Grosvenor square .—Mr. and ltlrs. Hawkins, for Bath ; and Captain Corry, U. N., for Chatham. Arrivals at the Royal Bole!, St. James's-street :—Sir 11. Sawyer and family, from their seat, Devisnslaire; S. Walker, Esq. and family, from their seat, Derbyshire; J. Sparks, Esq. front his scat, Survey ; Captain Hope; the lionuerabie J. Steuart, from France; and 11. Maxwell, Esq. from Ireland. Departures :_The Right Ilon. Earl Elgin and Lord Bruce, to Broom Hall, Scotland. The Duke of Clarence visited the Duke of Sussex and the Princess Sophia yesterday. Yesterday the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Feedore, visited the Duke and Duchess of Clarence. The Princess Augusta visited the Countess of Harcourt On Monday last, the 3d lint. at the Surrey sessions, yesterday. held at Horsemonger-lane, a true bill was found against The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Augusta spent Sir John Phil Swore, Knt., Captain of the Theti■ frigate, Wednesday evening with the Duke and Duchess of Cla- and his second Lieutenant, Mr. Drew, for assaulting Mr. rcncc. James, the author of the Nerd Histor.y; and the latter, The Cabinet Ministers dined with Mr. ('anning on we understand, has since removed his cause into the Court Wednesday, at his residence, Gloucester Lodge, Brompton. of King's Bench. FRENCH PAPERS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. We bare received the Journals (morning and evening) of Tuesday. The following are extracts : The It.direzfrur of Bordeaux contains the billowing intelligence of the _7th Mt. front Bayonne :—" Orders transmitted by tele graph have been given to the division of reserve in the department of the how:r Pyrenees, to hold itself in readiness to marvh for Spain. The general review will take place on the 29th. The pre cise destination of these troops is unktistwn, but it is believed that they will go to Arragon, where die nerdof French forces is much felt., --- - FRENCH Ft . XDS. May 4.—French Rends closed at lo:, 1. loc.; SaM. 11l prem. ; Bank Stock, 1,930 ; Neapolitan, H.ii ; Spanish, 14.—Exchaage on London : one month, tat 10c. I duce months, 24f. 95e. (From the Journal des Debate of Tuesday.i PARI3, MAY 4. The most absurd reports are circulated in London, re...petting a pretended fleet of IS ships, great and small, which have all at once east anchor in the port of Rio Janeiro. Our naval iiirce at I Brazil is composed in all of five ravels ; vie. the Jran.Bart; of 74 guns, the frigate l.a Alagicienne, the corvette !'Echo, and the brigs . l' Inconstant and Le Faune. It may be that the frigates ha Marie-'Therese and La Diligente, which are despatched to the South Seas to replace I:Amasone and La Clorinde, and the cur. vette La Pomone, which Admiral Rousain brought home last year.— it may be, we say, that these frigates, on their passage, have touched for a moment at Rio Janeiro. La Thetis, whica goes to ' China and the Indian Sees ; L'Astxee, which returns to France, and which has been replaced at Brazil by the Jean Bart ; La Circe, which carried out M. de Ueda*, and which also returns to France, may have alto appeared together fir a few days in the waters of Brazil, and thence all this trash of a ant that never existed. We repeat it, we have only Ave vowels MI the coast of Brazil, and they are not too many to protect our trade seal our countrymen on coaats infested by privateers and pirates, and on which internal revolo. dons threaten daily the property and the Hari of his Majesty's subjects. llovernments, moreover, know what importance to attach to all these reports, which are only Stock Exchange manoeuvres. f From the Etoik of Wedneedsy.l MADRID, APRIL. 30. The Consul of' Spain at Gibraltar writes as loiln;rs :—T he United States frigate Fabius has entered this port from Urns, in 185 1 days; it brings the confirmation of the entire rout of the revolu tionary army. General 'entente, at the head ors strong division, was marching! on Lima and t:allao, where there are not more than 2,0011 In. surgents. This lieneral was only waiting to quack them there, foe MIEN naval forces which are coming to hint. They will join a corvette of 18 guns, sent by the Viceroy, Laserna, to cut off the enemy's retreat. This corvette has taken an Insurgent vessel, which had on board the value of ten millions of reals (100,0801. sterling). The Madrid Gazelle indignantly refutes an article of the Car stilatiminel. which asserted, that to defray the expense of the King's journey to Toledo, it was necessary to lay hands on all the funds applicable to the wants of the State. HAMBURG II PAPERS. Ilamburgh Papers to the 13th inst. reached us last night. The following are extracts:— CHRISTIANA, Apart. Count Wide! Jurlslicrg has proposed to the Storthing to petition his Majesty to obtain, through tb^ Embassy in London, the reci procity of commercial advantages for Norwegian ships, in cotif:or mity with the Act of the British Parliament of Pith July, 1112. He ha likewise proposed the adoption of similar measures to obtain such a recipro.ity for Norwegian ships in Denmark. 3lr. Stotteb berg made a similar motion with respect to Prussia, adding, that it would be proper to advise the Prussian Government that the Custom-house laws of Norway were different from those of Sweden. ST. PETERSBUROU APRIL 17. _ . A supplement of the Minister of Finance to the 'tariff, maim ing the tea trade at Kiaehta, which has been in force ever since February, 1812, orders. that there shall be henceforward. four sorts of green tea of the ti:st quality, viz.: Vanekung, Holuntung. Tachankow, and Peking, or pearl tea. On each of these, aa well as on tea in chests, a duty of one rouble 83 copecs per lb. is to be naid ; and for all inferior sorts, 31 roubles per pood (381 b). This supplement repeats the strict prohibition of all money transactions in the Chinese trade, and in the barter with China no credit is to be either given or taken. BERLIN, APIA. 27. His Majesty has given orders for the celebration of the seventh century of the introduction of Christianity into Pomerania. It falls this year on the 15th June, on which day, in the year 1124, the Po meramans converted to Christianity were baptized by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, at Otto's Well, near Pyretz. It is ordered to be kept in all the Christian churches and schools of Pomerania as a groat festival. EXCIL HAMM:HMI. Aram 36 IA; 2 maths 36 11. PETEISHCRGII, APRIL 16.—Landon, 11-32; Paris, 91f Ij. AMERICAN PAPERS. We yesterday received a fifef American Papers to a late date. They contain several accounts of piracies in the West Indies. In I:digress, it appears, the New Tariff Bill continues to be warmly opposed, and the advocates of the measure despair of its success. In the sitting o f the Senate of the Bth of April a Bill " to abolish imprison ment for debt" was ordered to be engrossed for a third rr ad ing. On this Bill the New 1 - wk. Advertiser of the 12th ult. observes—" It gives us great satisfaction to find, that after a struggle of several years the Senate of the United States has given a distinct expression of its opinion against the barbarous laws, which, by imprisoning the boor debtor, declares poverty a crime." [From the New York Daily Advertiser of the 13th ult.) NEW VOIX, APRIL 13. From Captain Powers, who arrived here in twenty.nine days from l'ara, we learn, that on the 3d :March, the time appointed for the Brazilian frigate Imperatrez, and sloop of war 'Maranhao), to sail for Para, the Cantina insurgents were in ion of the island of Markin and other small islands ; being very nu merous, it was the opinion that as soon as the frigate and sloop sailed they would enter Para, as that appeared to be their intention, and to overthrow the present Horemnient. 1 From Kingston (Jamaica) Papers to March 13.1 The inhabitants of Spanish Town have been visited by a fever. which is attributed to adam constructed across a river, which caused the water to heroine stagnant. The Montego Bay Paper of the sth 31arch states, that on Thursday sennight a. shoal of whales were seen from the Point Estate, Hanover, passing to the east.. ward ; five or six Of them wete cast on shore. FROM CITRACOA, FEU. M. Our Liberator, Bolivar, has again immortalized Lis name by the most splendid victory obtained by him in September and October last, over t'..e armies of Canterac and Laserna, wliu have been completely overthrown. (From the New York Commercial Ad: --neer of April 12.1 The National Intelligetwer says, the vote taken in the House of Representatives, on friday, fur reducing the proposed duty on iron from 1 dollar and 12 cents per cwt. to 140 cents, we understand, jeopardises (leopards) the whole bill for a revision of the turitl'ot duties on imports. With this amendment of the Bill. some of its warmest friends become its opponents, or at least indifferent to it. The fate of the Bill is therefgre now more doubtful than ever. SOUTH AMERICA. We copy the following from a late file of American papers : N-w On!mom MARcw S. txrirtAct OF A LETTER RECEIVER RT TRZ ZLIEA, RATED TAMPICO, FIR. 18. " There was a tumult in the ci:y of Men ma lest week, rieresintied br the army rising arm the Congress, wed demanding that nN the old Spimiaraii should he put out of (Alice t last the Cnnetts‘ l'°- ntsioed tine, tesisted the attempt ed the mutineers, and had 26 of their officers arrested aucli condemned to stead,. This nuniAinent was, however, afterwards changed to papetual banishment feriae the Republic. The remainder of the orddiers engaged in this affair were disbanded and dispersal in different r arts a the ciannety. The cummonon extemled to distant parts, and we were thi.steued here wi . h • visitation of WO troops. who, it was foreboded, would impede the commercial oiheralklile of the pnwt ; bat nor fears ovrel groundless, they did not arrive. Cleo ythiog is now quiet, boil. here and irithe interior, and the business and prospects of the merelmnes pretty fair." Nrw Vous, Aer.n. 12. This morning we hove received • proof-sheet from OOP Ot OUT Philadelpha CortesPendent*, announcing the arrival at that port of the brig Cato. Captain Du Lines% who tailed from Al varado two do's afon- the ily. -Coptaitt reports, that e collittort firing of cannot. and bombs was Leo ur during the nights of the ' 18th and 19th ult., between the castle of St. Jean d'Ullos and tow , . of Vera Cruz, ad the following particulars had been related by Mr. Stone, supercargo of the schooner Virginia, Capt. Mos ` General Victoria, it appears, notified . Captain Steven?, of the United States' schooner shark, then lying under the guns of the fort at Sacrillcios, that he would fire on all boats pawing from the castle to him, and would therefore not hold himself responsible for any random shot that might injure his vessel or bona, then at was not his intention to do so. On the afternoon of the 17th, • boat was seen comirg from the castle to the Shark, which wr its. mediately ordered ott On the following morning Captain S. lent Lieutenant Hobbs to the Governor of the Cook, to give his rea sons for not suffering his boat to board him. The apology, how. ever, did not satisfy his 11 mous. who expressed • good deal of anger a: Captain Stevens's conduct, as lie hod sent in the WO 01116 American prisoner*, who had been taken In a Spanish.seheonet. Lieutenant Hobbs then returned en beard the Shark, and about an hour afterwards two boats, one with • whiteflag, were seen going from the castle towards the Shark ; but when within reach, the fort (rein Sacrifice)* fired into them, when the castle, at the same instant, commniced on the town. Captain Stevens then supposing that the boats had the American peonnis beforemntionad with them, permitted them to bend, bat !emitted fmm the officer that their object was to express the G overnor's di sa pprobation of Cap tain S . s conduct, and to order him out of the -Mexican ann . Thecou:se pursued Ity Caplan Stevens was not known when the Cato sailed. The American ship Osman arrived at Yet* Urn on the lith ; ard also his Britannic Majesty's ship VAIXOUII, which brought tiolowcius to the British Legation at MMICO. The news from the interior of Metico is are satisfactory charac ter. The oath of fidelity to the New Republic is cheerfully taken, and the appearance in several of the provinces indicate general satisfaction. It is said that an arrangement has been Wetted. by which the provinces are to have distinct governments, the whole united in a cont . ... Jersey. similar to that of the United States. The provinces of ,Mexico. Yucatan. Puebla, CRolltelln, Xslapa (aud one other), had joined in this confederacy, iteml birdied their local governments. One of the articles of the onion provides fur the security and protection of Europeans. Some of the letters, however, express fears that this system of gOVClllllltili will not be long adhered to, and that it does not possess sufficient energy to control the unenlightened population. In the sitting of the Mexican COtIgITS.. MI the fdh of Fe:river,. a petiliell war rend worn the Congress of Osjaca, praying that Go vernment might prosecute with all possible expedition the negocia dons which had been commenced with Great Britain. ifiA: By the snivel last cre..ing of the hrug Prince Edward, Sean, 3D days from La Guayra. we received a the of the El CoSombicor • printed at Caraccas, to the 10th of March. Letters had been re ceived from Bogota as late as the 23d of January. which mention that Biro Aguero (who had revolted from the constituted authori ties of Peru, and had been given up to Bolivar by his own soldier* had been sent to St. Bias, in Mexico. Letters from Bogota also mention the ocenpat!on of Pasto by the seditious commander% A guilongo and Meeharcano. These CMOs tied to the mountains on the approach of General Mites. 111 L XTCO. - _ ... ... On the 17th of February the Congress approved of the Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, favourable to the appointment of De Pablo de h Llave, as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Bri tain. In the same sitting the Report of the Committee, fitting the salaries of the Envoys to Great Britain, Colombia, and the United gates, was taken up for consideration. The first article proposes to give to the Envoy to Great Britain 12.000 dollars pe► annum. and 6,000 otitSt, s ith a Secretary of 4,009. This article was, after some discussion, adopted. A fie of Jalapa Papers to the 2d February have been received The law of the Mexican Republic was sworn to is Japola a few dais halm, and the acceunts from some of the provinces were such as to indicate a general satisfaction with the present Gokernment. The American ship Canton arrived at Vera Crur on the 17th, and also his Majesty's ship Valorous. which brought despatches to the British ',motion at Mexico. In Mexico the Congress was occuplao, on the 11th of February, concerning a quantity of quicksilver from Spain, brought by the American brig Nancy, upon which it was proposed by a Committee to lay a heavy duty. DEFEAT OF THE BRITISH TROOPS BY 7HE ASHANTEES. lllatest? hopes may be l t enertained as to the personai safety of Sir C. 111`C'artliy. there can no longer be any rea sonable doubts felt as to the certainty of a battle having taken place, and of its disastrous result to ourselves. We subjoin an extract of a letter, written at sea, by the Captain of the Elizabeth, who carried the tidings to Barbadoes. and who states a variety of circumstances corroborative of the action having been fought. The fate of Sir Charles is still involved in mystery, and in that mystery there is still hope, however slender, to console his friends and relatives. Some of the accounts of this disastrous affair mention, that the hostility of the Ashantees was instigated by the intrigues of the Dutch Authorities. It is more than suspected that the latter treacherously advised the Africans of the position of the British troops, which led to the un expected attack of Sir C. WCarthy's division. The Da nish Authorities conducted themselves with good faith, and with the most amicable disposition towards us. The following is the extract from the letter of Captain Bunney : k.XTRACT or A LETTER TOON THE PIASTER OF 'TRW ELIZABETH, DATED AT SEA. mazes 4. " I soled front Cape Coast (*Tole nu the 4th of February You will have heard perhaps that Sir C. 31*('Inhy, and all the white merchants. with the Cape Coast Castle natives, had marched into the Bush, to tight the Ashantees. On the Vat of Jar.nary the Ashatitees came down ten thousand strong. Sir Charles, with the merchants and native'', amounted in number to about six thousand men, who were completely muted, after a hard battle, and all..the merchants, with Sir Charles, either killed or taken prisoners, or at least they had not been heard of when I sailed, which was four. teen days after the engagement, which took place about twenty males from Cape CORSI. Indeed, many of the merchants were seen lying dead, by the natives of cape Coast Castle who escaped, with ; astir heads severed from theirbodies. Their heads were no doubt . I sent in triumph to the King of Ashantee. They are In a great fright at Cape Coast Castle. Sir Charles went out into the Rush lon the 21Ith December, and he divided his force into three pmts. Major Chisholm had all the 'Wine. Sir Charles's force consisted Principally of merchants and inhabitants of Cape ('oat Castle : and a Captain in the army commanded the remainder. The Ashantees, knowing that Sir Charles was the weakest. attacked him, although Major Chisholm wilt not more than 15 miles from hiw; but he knew nothing of the engagement till it was over, when he returned to defend the Castle. There was another force of natives going out in a day or two after I sailed, under Captain Laing, and some more merchants and officers ; but, without they get a force from England, depend upon it the Gold Coast must be abandoned." PIRACIC AND MranEa.—Mr. Sanderson, one Philadelphia Correspondent, communicates the following:— " 31erchantit'oftee-house. Philadelphia, April 11, Noon. "Captain 3liercken, from Havanna'', informs me, that on the 27th of March, two men arrived at the Consuls' Office as D o r a n_ nab, who /awed that the French brig Auguste, Captain —, front Havre bound to Guatimala, with a cargo valued at from 3 to 400,004 francs, and some specie, was boarded by an English brig of war, who informed him the pirates were known to be the south side of the island. The Captain thinking it most prudent, ran down the old Ealiania t•hanrel, where they fell in with, and were chased hy„ an armed brig and schooner for two days. Of (libacro, near Matanms, the schooner gave up the chace, but the brig being a faster sailer, came tip under the American flag, which she changed to the French, and tired a volley of musketry, which By the death of the Bis*s of Chichester and Bath killed two men. They then hoisted a black flag, boarded the brig, , and Wells, much valuable preferment is likely to be at the of Ministers, exclusive of the two Sees. 1)octor where they contmeured very rudely to 'watch and demand di spou l money. &c. Two Frenchmen, fearing the danger. ran below Blomfield is to be raised to the Bishopric of Chester, the with the pirates in pursuit, when the two sailors seized their wounded Captain, and embarked in a small boat alongside , and made towards present Bishop of Chester being translated to Bath and I the land which lay but a short distance from them. They had not Wells. Doctor Carr, Dean of Hereford, is confidently proceeded far before they Were discovered, and a fire opened on I oken of u the new Bishop of Chichester, in which case them which luckily did no injury. In a short time they reached the Living of Brighton will become vacant. The valuable Puerto Escondetto, a small port three leagues to leeward of Ma- . Itec . tory of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in the gift of the King, tanzirt where they were hospitably received by Dr. Ihmingo San tebaner, who sent the two men to Havannah. The Captain lies is also vacated by the death of Bishop Buckner, while that dangerously ill, having received a cut or fracture on the had which i of Bishopsgate will liktw:se fall to the Crown, by the pro destroyedPirate is motion M . its present Rector, Doctor Blomfield. one eye, and a musket-ball under the arm. The a hermaphrodite brig, mounting one gun amidships and five curs c o EYEATII OF TOE LAM' OF Tilt La Ti Ma.ll NNDIIAIe. on each side, sails fast, is painted black, and crew composed uf all Wednesday, after a v:ry short illness, departed this life nations. (From the Kew Redfbrd clfcreory.l the widow of the late Right Hon. Wm. Wyndham, at en Captain Clark, who arrived here on Tuesday front the coast oil advanced age. Her memory will for ever live in the recol- Japan..tak-4. that Capt. Frederick Collin. (fumwrly of Nantucket) levier' of those few friends who, admitted to her secluded were capable of truly appreciating her exalted vie the English ship Syren„ while off the Pelew Islands, about the I c ircle , last of March, 11h 1 3, getting refreshments . antlered about .tut a To the world it is l to of the natives to be on hoar d his ship just as he had filed away ID • early necessary announce the leave the coast—the natives rose upon him, killed two men, wounded, death of a woman worthy to be selected the companion of the Captain, mate, and boat-steerer. and several of his people. The such ft man as the finely accomplished, the truly virtuous crew being so suddenly attacked, Mew to the shrouds; they then and noble-minded Wm. IVvnilham. Mourned as she will rallied, and succeeded in clearing the deck. Ile finally got off, be in the hearts of those who loved her, still snore deeply after having had his miser shrouds cut away, and other damage - will her loss be deplored by those who existed by her un done to his rigging. The natives seized the whale spades, bro ke off the handler, which gave them a very powerful missile weapon. bounded benevolence. Capt. Coffin stated that the cook defended his cards alone, and It is a fact that clueing Capt. Parry's last Voyage of Die drove off every attack with Foiling water. coeerv, the truth of which can be ascertained, that the only two watches which performed well, and could be relied ea during the whole of that trying voyage, belonged to Mr. Fisher, surgeon of the Heels, and Mr. Skcoch, surgeon of the Fury, which watches were made by Mr. ‘Vestwood, No. 0, Princes-street, Leicester-rquare. Th:s eireanns. stance has induced several other officers to supply tAsm eelce with watches from the nine maker, to take with dkaa of the present expedition. 1 I T '~