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1 : 4 MI PRICkS lir BRITISH WitkStock 203 210 if per Cent. Red. iti 7!479 1 3 pet ('ent Cnni. Ditto Aeet. 82 1 : 81 71 per Cent. sii4 .31 per Ct. Red. 1 1161 1 .8 YESTERDAY. Lang Asti. 19 184 Witt Bonds 98 16 did Ex.Billslo.l.ooo, 30 Si 26 did Ditto, 6001.16 20 dis Ditto, Small I 10 dis par Lottery Tickets sTOCKS YESTEIt DA . Greek Bonds Ditto Boods(1825) 18 16 17 Ditto Aeet. 18 184 18 Guatemala Bonds Ditto Scrip 144 dis Mezlean Rondo Ditto Bonds (1826) 594 400 694 60 Di:to A cet,j9l 9 80 194 804 Neapolitan Bonds (1823) 774 Peruvian Bonds 40 Prussian Bonds Ditto Bonds OM 09 90 Russian Bonds (11822) 78 7 4 7 Ditto Acct. 704 if SpanialiCons.l24 13 Ditto Cons. (18n)114 A RES Y ESTE RDA I . ptricr, , , or I.oltEliiN A agrian Bands a Ditto Ace , . latraci lien 714nda 02 4 Witco scrip 20,11 s Ditto Ant. 17 10 din Doonoa Ayres Bonds Worn bian Ronda Ditto Rands (624) 171,..4 7 64 7 Ditto Acct. 674 14 74 7 RI 71 Donis!' Honda Ditto Bonds (1023) 674 7 Ditto Acct. 67{ French Dente. 3 per C 1.241; Exchange 26f. 20c. French nettle* 3 por Ct. 60f. bk. 111. 73e. 62f. Exchange 231.20 c. 2k. 2k. :ICES 01 MIKES. Paid. Premium per Share. Arigna Iron and Coal l4 12 2 1 dia &lawn 4OO n 13 Brazilian Bolivar Cobalt and Copper Colombian Famatina 100 lb I 100 5 61 250 12i J• 11 50 4 Sdis 100 b 400 11 ' 2 2) 40 26 40 10 I 96 26 6 di. Hibernian Psaeo-Perorian ...... Real del Ventre United Mexican Dien New Welsh Iron and Coal Protector Fire ,ARURARCE COUPANTp• 20 2 idis GAS MOIST AS Colt COSITA - SIES. •United General MHWELI.AWEOUS. British Iron British Rock and Patent Salt 10 A British, MO. Colonial Silk 60 2 If is MEXICAN SIX PER CENT. LOAN.—The Fourth Quartar'y Dividend. due on !he lit Day of JANUARY nut. will he paid on the succeeding days between the hours of Ten and Two n'Clock, at the (Jouncing-house of Messrs. Barclay, Her ring. Richardson and Co., No. IL New Brovd.street-mews. The Dividend Warrivita, with lists thereof, numerically arranged, must one day previous to payment. D*.. i itWr ARGI'LL ROOMS. AGRAND MASQUERADE and CARNIVAL, tin der the immuliate direction of SIX NOBLEMEN, will be given at the ARGYLL ROOMS, on THURSDAY EVEN ING. December 29. The high reputation which these entertainmet.ts attained last year has induced the DIRECTORS to engage for the whole of toe MASQUERADES to be given at the Argyll Rooms this ses. snn. And under the sanction of the Noblemen who have honoured them with their immediate patronage. a series of tla.ked FETES will be brought for ward, exceeding all former occasions in brilliancy, splendour, and mayndlcenre. In apportioning the FIRST GRAND MASQUERADE for Thursday, the 29th inst. the Directors have the pleasure to as toupee, that regulations have been made by which the Company will be rendered more select than hitherto. And the Nobility and Gentry are fissured that Tickets will be disposed of to none but persons of rack, lesbian, or talent. Families of distinction who may wish to unite in the festive throng, Gentlemen of Fashion, or Ladies of the Haut Ton, desirous of partaking of the true spirit of the entertainment by assuming characters, are also informed that the annoyance and freedom of disorderly persons will be strictly guarded warns, as officers in Ira. rims disguises will be stationed in the rooms, to secure ease and prevent interruption to the Maar:liters. The Directors pledge themselves that the Masquerade on Thurs day. die 29th inst. will be the most select, splendid, and festive en tertainment ever produced, and worthy in every respect of the im. proved taste, and the fashion and talent of the metropolis. Foe Tickets and Boxes to view the M asrerade apply to the sub. elrnmittee, who sit daily at Mr. CHARLES WRIGHT'S, Opens Colonnade. Haymarket. Mr. Charles 1 Wright is appointed by the Directors Purveyor of the Champagne and other French wines on this occasion. +i .fl I.: , tlttoll. O. 'DI?TAME TIKEA7'RR. Ma Evening, TAM a rt-SS, will Da pirformad Um Commis of 8 STEW TO CONQUER. Martgartla, Mr. Dowtons- Young Marlow, Mr. Browne; Tony Lu m p in, Mr. Llato.n. Igardeastia, Mrs. HlitiCArt ; Mud caliCe.• Mrs. !Aviation. After which the Divettisentent of THE CANE Primelind Veneers, Xt. and Mrs. Noble, be. enatqude with the Fares of KILLING NO MURDER. Kr. Apollo IhivL Mr. Liston 1• Buskin. Mr. Harley. an mond*r. The Merchant of Yeats,: and a new Pantomime called Harlequin. Jack of all Irides. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Thlv Evening. be performedcbeComedy of THE SCHOOL TOR SCANDAL. eh. Pater Timis. Mr. h. /anew; Sir Oliver Surface. Mr. Fawcett; Ilisqba.M. R. Mr. bi los . b J t u r seph x S r u i r j f i tee ;h M r i t ' i Coopers b Cbv lZ7F:lar. Lodi Ta ir tha, M rs. u' Chau:llo , ;"A . lrs. * Canctur a . Mrs. Gibbs.. After which the Extravaganza of GIOVANNI IN LONIION:. Den Olovanal, -- Mitiiia; Veliiri;: - iepoiello, Mr. Keeley. On Monday, Isabella: and a new Pantomime called Harlequin and She Slagle Rose, or Beauty and the Beast. Die BRVIIIIIIPIiraI commenced publishing yesterdAy mem ing at h Altpast floe o'cl.. ch. LONDON, fRIDAY, Decemata Q 3, 1825. The Paris Pap:rs of Tuesday state nothing further con cerning the death of the Emperor At tYANDEN, except that he had quitted Taganrog-on his return to St. Petershurgh for the Christmas festivities. This statement, it will be observed, is at variance with the official despatches received yesterday from Lord CLANwtLLIAM, who, however, it seems, derived his information from the Prussian Con sul it iratsaw. 'The Em prison, according to this re presentation of the circutnstances attending his de- Cease, died, after a abort inners, from natural causes- An inflammatory sole throat thprired him of all power of speech f,,r a few days. Before he expired he was able with it's own lips to declare his eldest brother CONSTANTINE his successor ; it Is consequently to be expected that he will ascend the throne without the least opposition. The vast and heterogeneous mass constituting the Russian Empire may therefore hold together during another reign, unless the rash ambition of the new Emperor should convulse it to dirsolotion. The Etoae notices the arrest of some officers of the gar- Titoo of St. Sebastian. In another column, we base ex tracted from en evening paper some account of a conspi racy lately detected in that town. The two relations, however, differ widely in many material points. The Ets , k states that no Spaniard was implicated, and infers that the arrests have resulted entirely from some breach of military discipline. The other information represents the conspiracy ea being purely of a political character. We must wait a few days before we can form any judgment as to its nature or Olt/at. We can hardly suppose that any men would attempt a political revolution in Spain at this moment, talkie they were driven mad by despair. The French funds continue in a rapid course of depre_ c; ation. Fattscit Fyn's—Pasts, Dkc. 20.—Five pm Cants. open! a' 941 30t.; closed at W. lie.; Three per Cents. spatted at 60f. 90r. ; elosel at 60f. 25c. ; Bank Stock 2031 W; Rents de Napl:s, ; Roy al Spanish Loan, 4/tif. ; Harlan Loan 7ssr. ; Ex. rt. azge on London —one mouth, :sr. 2.54. ; three months 24f. 9k. (..a-0 As fair and impartial chroniclers of the day's events, we y...t.Prday published a full repot' of tile proceedings of the Anti-Slivery Society. In the Thfrago Guzette of the lth ult. we find the Address of the Legislative Council of that ;land to the Governor, Sir PILDELICE Rosirrsore, in winch we net! hardly say the question of nrgro slavery is treated in p style very different from that of ihe orators .of Freemasons Hall. The Legislative Council, in the tset of their address, repel with indignation " the calurn • aspersion, shit they are unwilling to begin, or boodle to, the amelioration of the Slave Laws ;" but they claim with regard to a subject of such deep interest to them the right or duly considering the changes proposed to them. They are not disposed to hazard their safety on the sug gestions " of persons who rather speculate on the subject than approach it with the benefit of practical experience, and who," they add, " arc more earnest in their desires than prudent in the means of their accomplishment." The Address, which is of great length, then prrceeds to state in detail the reasons of the Legislative Council for yielding or withholding their assent to the propositions laid before them. We extract the following passage, and re commend it to the serious attention of all those who have reflected upon this important question : " In reviewing the origin of Africa n slavery, and its present con. eermences, the Council deem it but an act of justice to themselves to declare they lament ita But It is not these co- /onies on whom rests the guilt of the original sin. The traffic was of the Alother Country's fostering. Parliamentary enactments and Royal proclamations and Charters alike held out to the settlers of these Islands, as an acknowledged right, the power of cultivating' lb, waste lands purchased from the Crown, by the labour of Afri can ncgroes, brought to these shores by thousands under the corer of the British flag, a bramii of its commerce protected by bounties, and every immunity which the most anxious care could dictate ; • signal proof of which, if the Council are not mistaken, is exhibited by the very instructions from the Crown to the Governors of these colonies, in which, forgetful of the change of policy which Great Britain has latterly adopted, there still continues to be inserted an earnest nesammendstion to encourage the slave trade. The Council refer to this, and they might lengthen their address to your Excel lency by referring to a thousand other sources to show the fart ( which indeed is undeniable) that to Britain alone ita the establish. ment of slavery in these colonies owing. The ancestors of the pre sent colonists, confiding in the good faith of their country, and un der the sanction of these Parliamentary and Royal authorities, became the purchasers at high rates of the lands belonging to the Crown. Trusting to the permanency of the system they found established, they not only expended their own capital, and many of them sacrificed their lives in laying the foundations of another colony appendant to the British Empire in these seas, but the greater number borrowed large sums of money from the merchants of the United Kingdom (which are still due) for the purpose of still further extending the cultivation of the soil. Such was the trust and the system upon which thispolony was founded, culti vated, and brought to the advanced state in which it lately existed. Though the Council cannot conceal from thomselvea, that amid various other depressing causes, the late change in the policy of the Mother Country on this subject has materially contributed to lessen the value of colonial property, yet they cannot suppose his Majesty's Government are indifferent to the misery such changes area calculated to inflict on the inhabitants of the colony, placed as they are in the niidat clan overwhelming slave population, rendered every day more discontented, not by the misconduct of their owners, but by repeated alterations in the rules for their management, effected, as they are well awnre, by the influence of the Mother Country, from which changes thy are led to expect still further concessions, and ulti mate fee, dust) at no distant period. Yet the consequences of this change, and of the iliusiva benefits supposed attendant on it, are an unexampled deterioration of property, and an exposure of the lives of the Colonists to the highly-excited feelings of the slaves, whom extravagant pretensions must end in disappointment." The great obstacle, it appears, which stands in the way of the Silk Trade, in their application for the postpone ment of the introduction of foreign wrought silks till, they shall have so far improved their machinery as to enable them to bear up against it, is—that the yielding to their request would be an abandonment, so far, of those principles of . free trade which have, upon mature deli beration, been adopted, and from which it is not thought expedient to depart. We sadly fear that if this system of free trade is to be persevered in, it must be by a sacrifice of the mercantile and manufacturing interests of this country, to an extent, the consequences of which we tremble to contemplate. The population of this country must be fed, and if their means of obtaining subsistence by their own industry is withdrawn from them, how are they to he provided for, and what is to be the result ? If the mercantile interests of this country are to be put in issue--es they will be—by this experin.ental system. who shall say to what it may lead, and where it may end? We would entreat the advocates of these principles—ere it is yet too late—to pause before they attempt the application of them in the present state of things. Let them take advantage of contingencies. Let them profit by occasions as they arise. But la: them not attempt to benefit the manufacturers by abstract theories of political economy, for which they are not prepared, and which can only produce effects so deplorable as to leave them every thing to apprehend. If we speak on this sub ject with an earnestness that is extreme, it is from the deep and indelible conviction we feel, that, before three months shall have elapsed, if this scheme of policy as to the Silk Trade is not postponed, the consequences to this ' c ountry will be such as no after-wisdom can either avert or recall. CITY . , THVIISDAY EVENING. The Jay passed off on the Stock Exchangti with the most perfect tranquillity. Consols were RO if ; and Re duced Stock, for money, was sold at 79 to 1 ; Exchequer Bills were 30e. 20s. discount. The business in the Fo reign Market was very slender, and the fluctuations not extensive. Colombian Bonds woe 581 .57 ; Mexican 6 per Cents. 391 60; Brazklian Scrip 18 20 discount ; and Greek Bonds 18. The accounts from the eouotry were indicative ; with very few exceptional of returning confident!. Lor.n Coctia•tzr.—lt has been very confidently rtb. moured in London, during the lat‘t few days, that Lord Cochraue is now en his way to Greece, and iliat by this time he must be considerably advanced on his journey. Our London correspo ndent has taken great pains to inquire into the report , a nd us that it is strongly believed by persons who are so interested as to have the best infor mation on the subject.—Edinhurgh Observer. It was stated the other day, that Lord Charles Somerset intended to sail from the Cape for England in the Ariadne, which is speedily expected here. We have seen a letter dated on board that ship, the 16th October, just before the Espvigle sailed, which contains the following passage:— •` Captain Chapman has received a note from Commodore Christian, informing him that Lord Charles Somerset will not go home in the Ariadne, therefe-e we shall probably sail on Friday morning, and hope to eat our Christmas dinner in England." GENERAL BOYEIL—We read as follows in the Frank fort Journal , under date of Borders of the Maine, 11. c. I'2: " If any one imagines that he can foretell the success of the campaign of Ibrahim in the Mares, he must not at tribute it either to the Egyptian or to the European disci pine, but to the individual who is, properly speaking, the lon] of the expedition—'hat is to say, to General Boyer der Hoberal. Camany has had too many opportunities of witnessing the effects of his turbulent mind, and of his Teams of oppression. This man is quite of the Napoleon school—lie was Etat-Major to Napoleon." ILtti.ways ow tits CONTINLST.—It is said that the iron road between Lunehurgh and Brunswick will not be executed. The treaty with an English Coinpany, which was to conduct the undertaking, is to be set aside. On th e other hand, they pursue, with unceasing activity, the exe cution of the commercial communication between tht Danube and MoWavia, along a space of 15 German miles, by means of an iron road connecting Linz, in Upper Austria, and Bodoni', in Bohemia. Already a much more important plan is under consideration, which will have for its object to make an iron road between the capital of Austria and the port of Trieste.—Etoile. THE BRITISH IiRESS. PASUIONARL6 INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Devonshire left town yesterday, foe his seat, Chats worth, Derbyshire, where he will entertain a distinguished party of friends during the Holydays. The Countess of Brisol arrived yesterday at her house in St. James's-square, from her seat, Ickworth Park, Suffolk. The Earl of Thanet has left town for his scat in Kent. The B shop of Ely has arrived at his house c, Dover-street, from the Palace, Ely, Cambridirtaffdre. • The Marquis and Marchioneas of Worcester hare left their seat in Oxfordshire, for Wentworth, near Staines. C. P. Thompson, Esq. has arrived at his house In St. James's place, from his seat in limos Walter Burrell, Eaq. M.L. has arri•red at his seat, Knipp Castle, near Horsham, from Brighton. • Sir George Wombwell, Be. has left Sherwood Lodge, for Sattmundham, Suffolk. General D'Orsey has arrived at the Earl of Blessinton's, in St. Jamates-square, from Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Togood and family left the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, fee their rest In Somersetshire. Count Chabot hrs arrived at Miller's Hotel. Jermyn-street, from the Duke of Buckingham's seat, A i ington. Hants. Departures from Warren'a Hotel, Regent-street :—Henry Mar ' terman. Esq. for his seat near Southampton ; and Captain and Mrs. Bligh, for their seat in Hants. Departures from the Bath Hotel and Mrs Harvey, for Bath; John Alt Donald, Esq. for SOodand ; and Wm. Tennant, Esq. for Brighton. CONSULTATIONS OF HIS MAJESTY'S MIIVISTEHS. Yesterday morning, after breakfast. the Earl of Liver pool left his country seat at Coombe Wood, near Kingston, Surrey, about ten o'clock, in his ttarelling chariot and pair, to proceed to London, to attend to the important bushiest; of the State, which has for son* time past required his constant and incessant atteiviinnp BM Lordship arrived at his house in Whitehall' at erettli o'clock. During the day the Noble Earl received freqacnt communications from the Bank of England as, to the proceedings of the day. The Secretary to the Treasury was in attendance to trans act official business. About twelve o'clock, Mr. Htirkisson and Mr. Grant, the President shd Vice-President of the Board of Trade, attended uponthe Noblitearl, and introduced four gentle men to him from thalCity, upon thc important subject of comme. cc and tra2e, which occupied their attention till past three o'clock. Tha No Earl afterwards had a long con'ultation with Viscount Melville, the gar' of Hatrowhy, and 111.-ailecrAfiry Peel. At a quarter before live o clock Mr. Thornton, the Bank Dirt cult, waited upon the Earl of Liverpool, to report the proceedings of the day, which we understood were very fa vourable, and highly satisfactory. An °tiler in Council was, we understand, agreed upon on Tuesday. for the purpose otawimilating the coinage of Ireland with that of England. LORD AVIERST. The proceedings of lefredr ."- 7:l7;the East India House, on the motion of Mr. Hume, for the recal of Lord Am herst, will doubtless fix the attention of the public. That Nobleman, holding one of the highest official functions which die Crown of England can delegate to a subject—invested with *powers so extensive, that they are commensurate only with the tremendous responsibility attending their undue exercise--and removed to such a dis tance from these shore*, that half the revolving year is insufficient to enable him to reply to any matter on which he is questionel; such as (Sex/ L ille Canveroqt-General of 11111111,1 e arraigned in /fie nbe - -, before an assembly of Englishmen, and his disgrace and degradation put to the vote, not merely without a bearing in his defence, but, in credible as it may seem, without even* one particle of evi dence adduced or called for in tubstantiation of the charges alleged against him. True it is that tidily such an audience, a thing so re volting to that innate sense of justice which never deserts a British bosom, found very few supporters. But what must be our opinion of the statesman who could make the prepesal, and found the expediency of the measure upon hitown pristine letters? Wit bete no manner of doubt that Mr. Hume mai l = private correspondents in every part of the globe. re, ssellappily, discontented men everywhere--and we say 'not that in many of our distant settlements cases of individual oppression are of rare oc currence. Persona smarting under a sense of private wrongs are not, however, the safest authorities in support of a political accusation. The motion was, that Lord Amherst be 'walled in con sequence of his alleged incapacity, as manifested in his ori- Floating and in his mode of.eonflucting the Burmese war; in answer to which it was stated, by the Chairman of the East India Company, that the Noble Lord's de spatches, explaining the reasons of his administration in those respects, were of so secret a nature, that they had only been seen by himself end two or three of the Direc tors, and could not be, made public without the highest injury to the aff.irs of the Company. Will it be believed in any other part of Eutt Utat a Member of the British House of Commons, aspires to a leading part in the councils of this nation, and who is even deemed by many of his countrynten a tit and proper person to guide the vessel, of the State, should, notwithstand ing that Lord Aniherst'a defence is for the present kept profoundly secret, still persist in a motion for condemning him? We are neither the advocates nor the accusers of this Nobleman in relation to the Burmese war, nor in re spect of his general administration ; but we shall always endeavour to hold up to execration any attempt to hunt down an absent man, &plait whom no evidence b.adduced, and in favour of whom no bearing is granted. THE CURRENCY.—The alarm at the supptwition that the Bank might not be able to pay in specie seems, like the other alarms that preeeded it, to be wearing off. The Bank is gradually drawing to itself sovereigns, es well from the coinage of its bulfkm as from the districts where sovereigns are found not tokhe wanted. As the one and two pound notes are also gMting into circulation in London, the sovereigns are dis by them to a certain degree, and flow eitllet to the to the districts where they are required. _ Thus t um produced by the failure of the country banks, ot traction of their circula tion, will be gradually without further inconve nience.au The operations of the Bank in procuring rove reign., it must b 3 observe kine not merely directed to the furnishing an immediattOply, but to the obtaining gold for the dividends to beitaidie the beginning of next month, in which large see usually paid away. As the January payment, en . eel the national debt, amounts to about nine m * s, the effect produced by it sl oe* will probably terminate the complaints of want of money lately prevalent. It is probable, indeed, that the circu lation will be quite equal to its usual amount, and if 11. revival of confidence in tbeibenks throughout the country should take piece, the Bank of England will begin to feel the necessity of contracting its issues, which it has now so seasonably extended. COUNTRY BANKS.—We.leave been faveured with the following copy of a notice about to be issued by one of the most respectable country banking-houses in England, to every customer denominated long winded. We trust their example will lie universally followed by other establish ments. Should country battlers be true to, and support each other, deLtol:, —'ll soon be taught that their creditors are not to be run upon with impunity. The notice is in the following form : " al yen. present their tomplimmus to Mr. —, and, in consequence of the panic which appears likely to spread against country banks, as it has already done again-4 those of London, think it necessiey to inform hiso, that they shall at all times prefer payment of the debt due from hkn in their own notes, or in those of the respeetaWe country beaistnn their neighbourhood. They feel it necessary at the seine dine to add, that their clerk has orders to note the name of any pates to whom assistance has been rendered, who may pay in Hank of England notes or gold, in order to prevent those parties from baeleg extended credit in future."— Couskr. v . In proof of the f a l se h o od of many of the rumours which at present prevail in Lomeli, It , may be mentioned that it ' was reported there on Friday that two Scotch banks had Mopped payment. So far from this being the case, we do I not believe that a single sovereign has been demanded in eaehange for a note front the one extremity of Scotland to the other.—Glosgnae Herald. ' A rumour prevailed in the City yesterday that Govern ment had ordered three regiments of cavalry, and as many of infantry, to be immediately raised. We can positively assert that there is no fo un d at i o .' w h atever f or t h e state- sent. I LAST DAYS OF THE LATE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. [From the llattiburgh Papers.l BERLIN, DEC. 13 Early this morning an extrordinary courier arrived at the Fo reign -office, with the news of the unexpected death of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, on his way back from Taganrog to St. Petershurgh. The dismay and the grief which this deeply la mented event has universally excited. is the most speaking proof of the greatness and importance of the loss, which not only Russia, but Europe, has sustained. More particular accounts are impatiently expected. The restoration and the maintan s ance of peace in our part of the world was Alexander's work ; and, as the genius of peace (as nit ingenious artist once represented him) lie has been extolled by 11;a contemporaries, and will be I gratefully remembered by posterity. ltl•tanyacti, DEC. 15. Serena expresses from Berlin have brought the melancholy intelligence of the unexpected death of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia. According to the letters received by the post from Berlin, this event was generally known there, and had spread uni versal grief. Our correspondent writes:—" On the news received from NVarsaw of the death of the Emperor Alexsnder at Taganrog there waa an sortie stagnation on 'Change and the Stock-market. There were numerous sellers st the proration, but very little busi ness could be done." _ _ OUT readers will see. in our article from St. Peternhurgh, that the last public accounts of his Majesty were still from the Crimea, to which his Majesty hail gone from Taganrog. as we already knew, and that they speak of his Majesty as being in perfectly good health. DiecEstprit 16. The above news arrived here. at Hamburgh, in the night of the 14th from Berlin, to which place it was brought by a courier to the office for Foreign Affairs. The death of the Emperor took place on his way back from Taganrog to St. Petersburg!). ST. PETENZIBUROK, DEC. 3. The Si. Petersborgh Journal gives accounts from Symphoropol, in the Crimea, of the 7th Nov., where his Majesty arrived on the sth from Tagairog, having !time by way of Nogatek and Peru:bp i , and was received with great t oy. On the Gth, atter hearing de l . service in the Cathedral, he set out at nine o'clock in the morning, in good health, by the new road. on the south-coast of the Crimea. to the agate of Count :Ilictiael Sentenowitsch ‘Votonr.rw, where hie hiajmuy dined, and ...opped for the night. NOVEMBER 3e. We have received the following official accotinTsi7tii;;;ftof his Majesty the Emperor to Neutacherkusk. the capital of the Don Cossacks. On the 21st of last month his Majesty arrived there, and was received by the Getman of the Cossacks, Lieutenant. General liowaiskr, Adjiitut.Genetal Tschevoitschew, and the other Generals. The Hetinan delivered to his Majesty an account of the state of all the corps of Cossacks; after which his Majesty with•Ramesons suite, went to hear divine service in the Cathedral, and then proceeded to the house's( the Getman. The next day he gave audiences to the Ecclesiastical and Military Authorities, and then reviewed all the public establishments. His Majesty dined with the Getman, and honoured with his presence a ball g iven by that o ffi cer, which his Majesty opened with the Heiman 's Lady. On the 2dth the Etnperor returned to Taganrog. On his tour through the Crimea, his Majesty arrived on the bth at Sym. phoropol, where he was received by the Civil Governor of Taurida, and passed the Gth and 7th at the fine country seat of Count Worontow. General Kologriwow, of the cavalry, died at Moscow on the 19th. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA. The Etoile of Wt (Meshy contains the following article respecting the Imperial Family of Russia:— "Some Journab:, in announcing the death of the Em peror Alexander, have given hint the title of Descendant of Peter the Great. This expression is a very incorrect one. Peter the Great was of the house of Romanow, which family, in the iesson of the Czar Michael Feole rowitz, acceded to the throne in 1613. The Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, died without issue in 1732. The Crown devolved upon Prince Peter of Het stein Gottorp. This Tetrarch assssmed the nowt of Peter ; his son was the Emperor Paul, and the late Emperor Alexander was consequently his grandson. The family of Holstein Guttorp, which now reigns in Russia. is a branch of the ancient house of Oldenbourg, which reigns in Den mark, and which also gave monarchs to Sweden, till it was displaced by Bernadotte. The Emperor Alexander has left no issue by his marriage with the Princess of Baden ; but three of his brothers survive him. First, the Grand Duke Constantine, aged forty-six, who in 1796 married a Princess of Saxc-Cohurg, sister to Prince Leopold, son-in law of the King of England. This mortiage was annulled by the Emperor Alexander; Mc Grand Duke subsequently espoused Mademoiselle Jeannette Gradzinski, now styled Princess of Lowicz. Secentlly, the Grand Duke Nicholas, aged twcaty-nine, buiihand of the Princess Alexandra, daughter of the King of Prussia, by which Princess he has several children. And thirdly, the Grand Duke Michael, who married the Princess Charlotte of Wirtem. berg. It is stated that the conditions of the marriage of the Grand Duke Constantine with the Princess of Lowicz are the same as those of the union of the King of Prussia with the Princess of Lignitz. The latter cannot partici pate in the tiths er sovereignty of . her husband, and the eitiblren are barred from succeeding to the throne. Despatches were yesterday received at the Foreifin Office, Dawning -street. from Lord Clanwilliam, the &holt Am bassador at Berlin, stating, that advises had been received from the Prussian Consul at Warsaw, confirmatory of the death of the Emperor Alexander. This tnelancholy event took place at Taganrog, on t h e Ist lints'''. His Imperial Majesty had been attacked with a violent cold, during his travels in Crimean T army y , which settled in an inflamma tory sore citron, of such virulence as to deprive his Impe rial Majesty of speech for some days. Fortunately, how ever, he recovered so far as to express his wishes; and, conscious of his approching end, he declared the Grand Duke Constantine his successor, thus confirming, by his last wish, the right of that Prince to the throne of Russia. —Stir. The Morninz Post of yesterday, in reference to the doubts expressed regarding the story it publi,shed of the assassination of the Emperor Alexander, very positively re peated its assertion, that intelligence to that effect had been received in certain " high quarters" to which it vaguely alludes. There is every reason, however, to believe, from the incorrectness of the story in many particulars, that it is wholly void of foundation. One part of the statement is, that " about five years ago the Grand Duke Constantine conspird against the authority and life of his brother!" There is not a word of truth in this assertion, for there Was no mutiny of the Imperial Guartla, but of a single regi ment of the line, which was solely excited by the severe discipline of a German Adjutant, named Muller; it was quelled without difficulty by Count Potemkin, and it ocy. curred at St. Petersburgh while Constantine was at NVar saw, ant the Grand Duke's affection for his brother was never for a moment doubted. Extract EAR letter dated Hamblirg>4:cee. 16 :—"ThCjnite portant news of the death bf the Em of Rtissia was re ceived here early yesterday morning, and has spread a new panic among the dealers in public securities, as many en tertain a different view of the future course of the political system of Europe, - and very much doubt long duratfou of peace. At Berlin pnblic securities could not be R id, and in consequence an eminent house was obliged to peed its payments, in which s. , veral merchants here aririn terested. Bills on your city (London) arc in demand And pay two groats higher. Discount here is eight per cent. although the demand for money here has rather subedit el. Exclu n,;e two and a half months R, last post it was 3.5 6, (a difference of half per cent ) The quotation last post day in London : Bills on Hamburgh, 37 6t037 8. • Madame Catalani has set out for Florence. It is said that the King sent her 3,000 francs anti a pair of diamond earrings, for the two concerts which she had given at the Theatre . "the Court.—Puris Paper. Lord Erskine having made a most brilliant speech on some occasion, at the Crown and Anchor, was met the next day by a learnod Brother, who, after complimenting him on his success, observed, that " though delighted, en raptured, by the speech, when listening to it, yet, strange to say, he (the auditor) had not carried off a single idea, he could not even call to mind what it was about. Err kine, throwing himself into an attitude expressive of ad miration, replied, " Nor, to tell you the truth, do I retaina trace of it, it was th e fragrance of the rose, lost as soon as shed." THE LATE ELOPEMENT From Ma:wt.—lt appears, from a letter received from a gentleman belonging to this place, at present residing in London, that Robson has found his way to the metropolis. That gentleman met him, on the evening of Friday last, in the neighbourhood of Covent-gardrn. He was alone; and whether the young lady whom he carried ()Thad arrived in town with him is uncertain. The subscription in behalf of his wife and family is still proceeding, though only slowly.—Ditrhani Chronicle. FRENCH PAPERS. tFrom the Mode dated Wednesday.] VIENNA, D ec. In. The diplomatic negotiations between our Cabine t an d the Arn, bassadors of the Great Powers continue, anti there is no doubt buttthey relate to the affaire of Greece ; but it i s i mpos ib le to gay 0h,.. thing positive in this respect. One thing is certain, that die A,„. basso ors from Foreign Powers. accredited to Vienna anti the in., perk,' Chancery of State, receive f r eq ue n t c our i ers , and there pre. veils at this moment great diplom atic activity between th e uth4l Cabinets. The Infant Don Miguel of Portugal still resides at Vienna, sed it is even believed that lie will pass the winter there. Th ere y es been some talk of his making a journey to St-Pcersburgh, but this rumour has not as vet been confirmed. The Queen Dowager of Bavaria and the Princess es h n daughters are expected here Immediately. Every arrligement t o render their journey, at this season of the year, as sgsenhie sv possible has been made, by orders from our Goveninicat, whi c h orders the supreme authorities are eager to obey. Sir Hudson Lowe is expected to remain here some time. MADRID. DEC. 11. "A Colonel, an Adjatent, and a (' ptain of the French of St. Sebastian, have just been arrested. The greatest *tufty i s observed as to the cau s e of this ar r es t, w hi c h h as taken place order. it is said, of the General Command an t o f the •üb-ctivi.io n f Bayonne. Some persons, however, say that there prevails no go o d understanding between the Commandant of the fortress eau the Colonel of the regiment In garrison in this city. Be this as hills, it is certain that the three officers abovementioned have be es rested. No Spaniard is implicated in this affair, which le a d uo the inference that it solely ari s e * o u t o f some b reath of nifl , to itary 'ln *dinner given to the diplomat* b o dy on the 6th instant, 0 1 , Queen's birth-dat, the Duke del Infantado caused to be placid on the table a large ',atoms, on which wasthe represent a .i nn of to Mexi pain can dressed in the modern costume, illumin ate d , and pointing S with lais It Spain w i ll he anhefoy work printe d rbidden,frnoa in af thel t : rei t of J n a t nu n a t t r y y , 1853, t o i ntralute Into in the hpaliiih guage, whatevet may be the subject of It. PATHS. Dec. 20. It was on account of the Christmas feta:Jetties that the Emperor Alexander was to return to St. Petersburgh from rapt:rag. Th. Minister for Foreign Atfairs, Count Netrielrocle, had received let. tent from the Alonarch, several of which related to eo9terenees which had taken place some time vine° at the house of his Eacith lency. and at which the Ambassadors of France led Eogland re. gu fairly assisted. . . . At the end of October, and at the beginning or N ovem h tr, the weather was so mild at Taganrog that the therunmete, of Reautrut was 16 degrees °fittest, or thereabouts. [From the Corislitutionutt of Tuesday.] AIMISBUROJI, Dtc. IS. Accounts from Nanoti di Romania state, that the Creek Senate having convoked all the Polemarelis and Captains, to COI/11111i dim on the present state of &Fairs, one of the French officers who serve under the banners of the Greekv, made the following speech to the Assembly:— " Genilemen !—You have but two ways to take—ether ysa must call all the nation to arms, the Senate must put itself at the need, and light to the last gasp for liberty. or you must throw your. selves at the feet of your tyrants, and resume your old chains. h the fleet case, all the Philttellenes will join you, to conquer or die under the standards of the Cross ; in the second, permit us to return to our own country to bewail the misfortunes o f li teece ." This discourse had such an effect on the minds of all the audi. tors, that it was resolved upon the spot to take arms and mono against the enemy. The Turks of Bulgaria, Macedonia. and Bowfin obey the orders of the Sultan, which enjoins them to remain emludied during the winter; but the Albanians, who are the Seraskier's best troops, return in detachments to their own homes. PIRACIES IN THE WEST INDIES Extract of a Letter from a Merchant at the Havaanah, dared Octe• ber 26, 1825. ' Our commerce here io much annoyed by the canstant derre. ditjae g and outrages eommitted by a number of armed seaootiers, nn West Infliamen and other trading ships passing through the Golf, as also upon the small craft ott the coast. In tact, the heat scarcely ever venture our, except under the protection of sons ship of war, so much dreaded are the desperadoet which man 'low pirates. They consist of renegadoes of several nations, dirty Creole, Spaniards, Portuguese, and offenders front the coasts of South Amerie.a and the islands adjacent. Their vestels are mostly schooner rigged, retrying from eight r, twelve, nr fourteen guns ; besides. they have an immense quart:ty of fire arms, which they are able, in case of emergency, to put in requisition, on account of the number of hands oa board. which :a generally not less than from 70 to PIO men. In bnattliv each man Is 'uppity! with a pike, or an axe. besides his customary lire A rm. : these, however, are but seldom used, as thoy only attack slosh ships as they are convinced can make but hole or no resit:ante; hr when they tire pursued by an enemy of superior fore. they tame. diately set all their canvas, and scud for sum, port or rendevetn, which is generally on the Spanish aisles. Their audacity is car. vied to such an extent that they will frequently run in Close oft our ports ; and, in sight, sometimes, of a regular ship of w.rr, plurdir merchant vessels and sugar droggers. eh: crews of which, if resist ance io made, fall victims to their ferocity. On the 13th instant, an instance of what I have been descrillee took piece. An American merchant brig sailed from the river Fit. Lavoiroe. with a cargo of flour, staves. wood-hoops, coals. &c. for the 11e. madam ; three weeks after her departure, she made the tag end or the blood of Jamaica, and or :lie 13;11 inst. came off a pole.: e: land called " Care Corrientes... on the south side v 1 this isla: .1, about two o'clock in the afternoon, a hair about three Icae,evs oars the land, and hearing W.S.W. a sail was discovered on the lee quarter, distant about four leegues. At first the Captain user a it was an English merchant ship, which was steering thtouga :le gulf, and consequently teak no particular 110:iee of it, hut en Eitel ing they neared them, and was ins'..ing all sail, he went :dote and with his glass could distinguish that it was an armed schroner, fait of men, with a piratical flag fly itig at the wizen. In conaequoicsai this Capt. Petty thought it advisable to cater his course end rake for this port, and every man on hoard exerted hitin , elf to the tenser. but unfortunately the ship made as much lee as head way, the siral being on the starboard bow, anti at he time blowing a stiff breeze, the ship going with her top-sails reefed. Cv tins time the schr'tret Was making fast op ..n thent ; about five o'clock, Cant. Petty was compelled to the dreadful alternative of either tersakiag hit vessel and escaping on shore with his crew in his boats, or to Tallinn sod calmly see his ship plundered by the enemy, for resistrince, shell once they gain p- , ssession of her. wnul,l be instant death. After snore deliberation with his officers, the Cap•ain dateroiert on the latter course; at this time the American was 0:1:y ^bit a league and half from tile shore. which was dns.•lete to the tx. treme. About halepast rine o'clock the schooner was al:out else: shot astern, and a few minutes afterwards a Shot crossed the sins of the American ; n number of voices now nssottied that t olottator ship to surrender. Cat t. P: toy, with great presence of mind and t• • trepidity, crime forward, and from the quarter deck. ei•h lac !nor pet, offered the pirates whatever supplies they wanted ; but this ro not Iteide I by tire marauder., anti three boats from the pirate. eta of men, boarded the American, sword in hand. Ott reachine decks, Captain Petty and hie officers were called to this vet, selves, which they no sooner did, than they were seie-d, end in most inhuman manrer bound with cords. Pitting the 7erfoson attendant on this dreadful scene, several of the crew cf hbr bt threw themselves overboard, and perished either in the crew o• the shots of the pirates, who had now entire possession of rho • less American brig. The few which remained on be ern wrh tt Captain and his mates were lashed to the windlass. cat•ioet. sT6 other parts of the ship. Some of the Americans, however, al4) resisted this barharcus usage were inhumanly tot:Mired by thee bloodthirsty monsters, who afterwards threw their bodies board. In the mean time, the Captain and reminder of :at cr. after enduring every cruelty from the pirates, were f aced. sr!' barely their clothes on their backa, into a boas, maimed with sort of the crew of the pirate, who were well armed, sad soil 0 " through several heavy surfs, where they lett then. It is impossible to describe the wretched situation of the Cap•vi and the other poor fellows, left during the night on a foreien wee ithunt any tatatenance, and tar distant from the abode at oo.• The climate being warm, they rested till morning. when t h ey :'•• wired that both the pirate and their own vessol had disarrie•e '• It would be too tedious to enter into a detail of the pr i es and aufr:ringa these men endured before they reecho! 3 Sei , t . • town. Soflice it that they supported nature on small she'd-fish • coast, and fruit which the island produces, till they Jaw . ), a small pia e nu the sea-euast, about froi• int • where they were put on above ; as may b e e as ily lireeitted. oo • bodies were teiluced by fatigue and exhatistio The inhabitants, who are accustomed to scerea stmif r !O We are describing, renderei them every rissisotoi,e ; nod the t ere tales, with .Mr. Erytyn his chief officer. were enabled to Pro:lgc conveyance to this city. being u disiaoce of about 00 i• tics. Since his arrival here the Authorities have been made isettees ll -. with the capture of his vessel, and the subsequent harSso , ose the crew of the pirate, end every possible commiscroti.:: a e . o . ••• rim have ,been shown hint. Immediately on Captain Petty's arrival, the Bri•is't the r I n' .4 t w en i ro e :: ciraug in i g great hope , rte tamed that Idle will fall in with the pit tie, a deserii,ll. , was given the commander. I ant now actptaimed • ith u' tihnetilT gulf, and and ma.:e s, innate gentleman, from whom I have gained the at yvirticulors ; a subsc:iption has been enterei ioto, I.r It a. r' officer, Mr. Evelyn. It is high Otte that either the British or Spnniah Gorr"' rrt should Rend out a frigate for the sole purpose of ereVing •' "e seas, which would in time wholly put down theca maraud:ls. 01 4 Ba'ness, judging by an advertisement 11.1'.;11 1"W1 I in a contemporary journal on Saturday, must he tae est place in the British dominions. The notice a1iu,1,,.) te: which is evidently genuine, statcs, that two ladies ot spectable character could he accommodstril with roo:l4‘ , '' and lodging, in a respectable family in that thrir . ioe at twelve guineas per annum. This is a fr.ct ". the consithsation of such ladies as hare abjured the cart.' of matritnony for vnaidealy independence, and tird comforts curtailed by the sinalluass . of their wort'; —Edireburgi Oltrerver. ve NE is I pet In l I Pte' 3 qv the i ion i gill, old 1 gall( and and 143 i mea mull weil for and C. I Geo out br 1 but son earl mil reel is do vsi