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)1 1 1 • - EMMY P.4121.7.4111ENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THIS DAY. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Sewers Laws Amendment Bill-Second Reading. Judicature (Scotland) Bill-Further Consideration of Report. Cotton Mille Regulation Bill-Second Reading. Pirates Head Money Bill-Committee. Toentand Boundarie► (Inland) Bill-second R ea di ng . Customs Lacs Repeal Bill-Further Consideration el Report. Custom Management Bill-Further Consideration of Report. Navigation Laws Bill-Further Consideration of Report. Customs Regulation Bill-Further Consideration of Report. grouyxling Prevention Bill-Further Consideration of Report. GooshAVisrehousing Bill-Further Coosideration of Report. Lls of Alan Trade Bill-LFurther Consideration of Report. Registry of Ships Bill—Second Reading. Exchequer Court(lreland) Bill-Cominittte. Columbia Postage Bill-Committee. "" Alto" ' Reading. Reading. -Third Reading. •Th ird Stock 279/ per t IN d Bonds sib ii7 pin I p er Cent. I 'ons. 914 91 Long Ann. 22 21 15-10 Ditto .4cct. 914 91 Ex. Bills,' 01,00 0 /43 10 Pm 31 per Cent. Ditto, 59 0 /. 53 50 pm 3i pet Cent. Red. 97/ I I Ditto, Smalll3soprn lie* 4 per Cent. 1051 1 Lottery Tickets, 191. Ills. PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS ON SATURDAY. Austrian Bonds (10 tau. per .0 Mexican Bonds 774 4 8 7 St.) 974 Ditto Acct. 77* Bcsailian Bonds Ditto Scrip (11425) 14 i i I i dls Ditto Scrip (1825) 11 4 1 pm Uitto Acct. 18 dis Chilian Bonds 848 4 Neapoltan Bonds 924 Cliorribian Bonds Portuguese Bonds 91 5 Ditto Bonds 0824) ach ( 4 Ditto Acct. 911 i Ditto Acct. 895 4 1 9 Russian Bonds 94 4 4 Dontsh Bonds Ditto Acct. 951 Ditto Scrip (1825) 24 . 4 dis Ditto Inscription 82 Ditto Acct. 24 4 3 dis Exchange 134 Greek Bends 52 14 Spanish Cons. 234 4 34 a Ditto scrip (IWO 54 1 4 1 f Ditto Acct. 24 4 dis ' Ditto Cons. (1823) lin Ditto Acct. 5 i I die Diuo Acct. 19 :ES or SHARES ON SAll7lwAr. NINE!. e • Slave. Paid. Premium Per Chars. A nglo-Mexican £l5O 20 70 A oglo-Chilian lOO 5 2 Mritailian - lOO 6 91 49 4 Colombian lOO 6 2 ( ornwall and Devonshire 5O 6 11 di! General Mining Association Pasco Peruvian lOO 6 l i ll 4 i 11 10, 4 Potosi, La Pa:, and Peruvian 50 5 6 44 6 Rio de la Plata - 100 6 8 9 South Wiles lOO 2 1 dis United Alexlcan 4O 20 Ditto New 4O 10 21 20 Welch Iron and Coal 26 10 104 Vitt Oritifili WOO. DRURY-LANE 7'IIEATRE. This Evening, MuNDAY, May 16. will be performed (Ist time) • Romantic Drama, called FAUSTUS. The Principal Characters by Mcsere.Walleck, Terry. Miley, Knight, Browse, Archer, Redfonl. a•d Penley; bleediunes I. !Sown, litepuena, and Povey. After which, SIMPSON AND CO. er Mr. Peter Simpeon, Mr. Terry; Mr. Bromley, Mr. Browne% Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Bunn; Mrs. Bromley, Mis.W.West. To.niorrow. A Play, and The Sleeping Draught. , HAYMARKET THEATRE. This Evening, MONDAY, Mayl6, will be performed THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Mr John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton; Master Slender, Mr. J. Russell; JUitille Shallow. Mr. Younger; Ford, Mr. Vining; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Williams: Fenton, Mr. Melrose; Dr. tals, Mr. W. Nest: Mrs. Ford, Madame Vestige; Mrs. Page, Mrs. Waylett ; Anne Page, Miss Georg.; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. After which. INTRIGUE. Tom, Mr. J. Russell; 'Ellen, Madame Vestris. To conclude with 'rEKEII.I. Count Tekell, Mr. Vining; Won, Mr. Clarkson; Conrad, Mr. Wil liams; Isidore, Mr. W. VT at; ➢ras de Fer. Mr. J. Russell. Christine, Miss P. Glover. Tomorrow, Fortune's Frolic, Love in • Village, and Turn Out. County Rates 11TOrtgage Bill—Third Reading. . ' " In t Loamy Courts Bill—Committee. Majesty New Streets Act Amendment Bill—Committee. principle West India Company Bill—Third Reading. ship. Church Rates ( Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. " I hi Supply—Report• the wish Supply—Committee. urdersta Bankers (Ireland) Bill Report. 11S Men I Quarantine Laws Bill—Report. !nankin( Judges Salaries (England)—Committee thereupon. After Colonial Intercourse Bill—Further*Cpnsideration of Report. to the K Small Debts (Scotland) Bill—Report. reign Al Cando Company BiH—Further Consideration of Report. • The i Salaries to Judges, &:. (Scotland)—Committee thereupon. s, N . Leasing-making (Scotland) Bill—Committee. pre aion Aliment of Prisoners (Swtland) Bill—Committee. . his Brit Duke of Atholl'a Thil—Committee. own. I Linea Trade (Ireland) —Further Consideration of Report there- ship wh Lns cumman unatic Trustees Bill—Second Reading. prevail ' Lunacy Traverse Bill—Third Reading. other." AVaye and M esna—Commit tee. The a Special Juries (Ireland) Bill—Report. his Esc , Stealing in Minis Bill—Third Reading. dots, an Saline of Writs (Ireland) Bill—Thiel Reading. observe( ' Disembodied Militia Bill—Report. The Lftliet Company Bill—Report. presente .4(iverpeol and Ireland Postage Bill—Third Reedirg. At tw Stains Duties on Licences Acts—Committee thereupon. mood, Weights and Measures Acts—Committee thereupon. Majesty _____ PRICES (W BRITISH STOCKS ON SATURDAY. of the I ass k sttoek 2:10 India Stock 279 i 3 pet Cent . Cent. Rod. 901 i lndia Bonds rili ii 7 pm „ The - ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. In consequence of some eatensive alteration' to be effected In the Stsee and Orchestra of the I heatre, preparatory to the commence ment of the Summer Season of the English Opera, the Public are respectfully apprized that this is the Last Week but Three they will and MR. MATHEWS AT HOME:. This Evening. MONDAY, May 18, and ou Thursday and Satuz'uy, MR. MATHEWS' MEMOHANDUM.HOOK of Peculittrlties,Charaeters, and %limners, collected during his various Trips. Somaa—" Memoranda in Confusion"—" Night Coach"—"Bubbles, a capita! Sorg—" Sailing Match"—'• Old and New Times"—" Publie Olive. Bow-street." PAST lit. % Monopolylogue, to be called TIDE CROWN INtr-.DANGER. Dams open at Seven; the Performance to at Hight. NEW SURREY THEATRF. ;This Evening. MONDAY. May 18, and Five following Evenings, a new Mehi-Hearne. called THE FATAL PRFCFPT ; or, THE ASSASSIN OF SILESIA. The favourite Ballet of VAMOUR BN CORSET; or, THE D %NOY IN DISTRESS. An Irish Comic Song by Mr. Bryant. The favourite Piece called MURDER AND MADNESS; or, A TRAVELLER'S The Evening's Entertainments to conelude with the or Mirdeal Piece of THE COLONEL'S CONE; or, LA FEMME SOLDAT. Being positively the Laic Week they will be Perfortned. On Whit-Monday, a new Musical Pled,', a new Melo-Drame, end a new Harlequin Pantomime. Tie Batson Paess commenced oubliatung on Saturday morning at five o'clock. TA .E• LONDON, MONDAY. MAY 18, 1813. The Paris Papers of Friday contain no domestic intell-- deuce, ezeept the details we give from the Non;:eur, of the presentation of the Duke of Noarnt.•AlasnLA\n. The terms of personal friendship in which the Sovereigns speak of each other will be read with great satisfaction. The King of Seat sr will be represented at the coronation by his present Ambassador, the Count de la PUEBLA. The Duke de l'lsrasrano has declined the honour of the mission. The Courrier Francais publishes the pastoral letter of the Archbishop of T•InAGONA, instituting the tribunal to supply the place of the Inquisition. It begins with a long declamation on the disastrous times during which Spain has been inundated with impious and heretical works. It then laments that " the holy office which used so well to assist the Bishops in performing their duties, no longer eskts," and by way of remedy it finally invests tee Dominican Friars with ali the powers formerly pos 4essed by the inquisitors. The news from Greece is of the most gratifying nature. The defeat of the Egyptian troops near Navarino is con firmed. The loss of the Turks is stated at 2,000 killed and 500 prisoner.% By other % . ecounts we learn that Patras a, closely blockaded by land and sea. The Greek fleets de:idedly . have the ascendancy. S•crolitits, with 35 was pursuing JUaagmu PACIJA on his return to Candia ; and MIAULIS, with 45 vessels, W2B gone in search of Ole Tuaish fleet at Constantinople.. [From the Afonit •Nr of Friday. FAitts. MAY 11 TnAse After Mass, his Excellency the Duke of Northem ber. laud, An:hammier Extraordinary from 'his Brirnn:ic Majesty, to he present at the Ki n* Coronation, was kreseetcti to his Majesty and ths Kar g* l Family in a public audience. a Unite of itigusa, Ilajor.4ence.il of th,! Rtl7l) Guard, whom illaiesti had Appoioted to accompany 'Lc. Ambassador Baum .- ~ La Live, and M. de Viviens, having repaired to his Excelling's hotel, conducted him to the Tuileries in the Royal carriages. The Marquis Dreux Breve. Grand Master of the Ceremonies of France, Marquis de Rochemore, Master of the Ceremonies, and Baron Saint Felix and Viscount de Clean, received the Ambassa dor at the toot of the grand staircase, and accompanied him to the audience. The 3larquis de Riviere, Captain of the Gerdes du Corps, received his Excellency at the door of the apartment of the Gerdes, who were under arms. The King was on his throne and the Dauphin on his right band, and on his left the Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Conde, and surrounded by the great officers of the Crown. ... At the entrance of the Ambassador the King rose, anal his Excel lency having been presented to the King by Baron La Live, compli mented his Majesty in these terms : "Sir.-1 have the honour to appear before your Majesty, charged with felicitations from the King my master on the approach of your Majesty's Coronation. " In expressing the moat ardent wishes for the prosperity of your cajesty, the King my muter is equally induced by his generous principles, and by the cherished remembrance of a private friend. have also the orders of my King to express to your Majesty _ wish which he constantly feels for the maintenance of the good understanding which exists between the two nations, and which is n essential to their mutual interests as to the general happiness of '-iind." ter his compliment the Ambassador presented his credentials King, who pre them to Baron de Dimas, Minister of Fo- Affairs. King replied:— It Ambassador,—l receive with the more pleasure the ex. .ton of the sentiments which you address to me in the name of Britannic Majesty, as they are perfectly in unison with my ~ I shall always remember with gratitude the proofs of friend. which he gave me in times of misfortune. I hope that no eh.- •ance—no event, will ever trouble the union which ought to between two nations made to esteem and to lore each audiences of the King and the Royal Family being finished, Acellency was conducted back to the saloon of the Arobasen- T _As and thence to his Hotel, with the lame ceremonies as were illeinehi in conducting him to the audience. TM hereditary Prince of Schwartzenbiug Sondushauseu was psseenssd to the King and Royal Family in a private audience. At two o'clock the King gave a public audience to Sidi Mall lleud, Envoy of the Bey of Tunis, who complimented hie Majesty on hts accession, and delivered his credentials. The same y the British Ambassador Extraordinary dined in the apartmenta the Dauphin, at a table of 45 converts. (From the Etoik, dated Saturday, May 14.1 The Marquis de Caranian arrived at Milan on the 29th ; the Prince de Hasfeld the same day ; on the 2d of May M. de Tanis. cheff and Sir H. Wellesley. The Ministers of Denmark and Sweden, and in general all the persons holding diplomatic situa tions at Vienna, are arrived or expected every moment, as well as the Duc de Blares, who was at Florence a few days ago. The Emperor will be at Monies on the Bth , and make Ills entry into Milan on the 10th. Workmen are employed night and day in deco rating the principal streets through which his Majesty will pass. On the 13th the Emperor and his household will go to meet the King of Naples. The companies of lifeguards of the Archduke Viceroy, the noble guard of Lombardy, consisting of sixty men, a corn plete regiment of lancers and hussars, two of grenadiers and two of foot, about 10,000 men, form the escort. The city will be illuminated, as well as all the theatres. On his arrival the Emperor will proceed to the cathcdral,when the Archbishop will channt Te De um. [From the Courricr Francois of Friday, May 13.1 A private letter from Zante, dated the 16th of April, contains the following details : " The army landed between blodon and Caron, by Ibrahim Pasha. was 12.000 strong, who immediately after their debark. anion directed their course to Navarino. Five hundred Greeks shut sm In that place sustained the first attack of the Turks, directed by- Europesn o ffi cers. Tmi thousand Alainotes marched up to the relief of the besieged, and (headed by their General, Illurtsins) obliged the Turks to draw back upon Alodon and Citron. At the same time 35 Greek vessels, under the conduct of the Vice-Ad mire!, Sactouris, set out in search of Ibrahim Pacha, who withdrew with his fleet towards Candle, to which place the Greeks have pur sued hint. " At the first reports of the landing of the Turks, the President Conduriottis sent Anaguostara. with 4,500 men, to t • of the most advantageous positions. Conduriottis marched from Tripoli= with 7,500 Greeks. Anaguostara hied the Mainotes and then fought the Turks near Narampo. 2,000 Turks were slain on the field of battle, and 500 prissimi have been sent to Napoli de Romania. Conduriottis soon aftgeertuda came up with Mk troops, and joining the other Greeks, they p*sed the Turks, who took refuge in the defiles of Garottni; hut as# later events are unknown. The land of Nestor man smiles on the conquering Greeks. On the Ist of April, the Admiral bltaulis sailed from the pert of Hydra with 45 vessels, in order to meet the fleet from Con sten tinople. FRISCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Mas 13.--Five per Cents. opened at 101 f. 55c.—closed 101 f. 75c. Three pm Cents. 75f. 10c. Rank Stock 21f. 86c. Neopolitan, Five per Cents. 91f. 13c. Spanish Five per Cents. 18f. New Spanish Loan, 57 1 1. Exchange oo London :—One month, 25 ; three moot* 94 85.—Coors AutAess. ague, May 13, 1825. Last night we received the Amsterdam Papers of Friday. Their contents relate principally to the approaching nup tials between the Princess Louts♦ of Prussia and Prince FREDERICK of the Netherlands. The Minister fur Fo reign Affairs, Count VAN REEDE, has departed for Berlin to demand the Princess's hand in form. A steam-boat, to be navigated between Amsterdam and Ilamburgh, is build ing for the Netherlands Steam-Boat Company. The vessel is to be ready for service next Spring, and is intended to perform the voyage regularly in 30 hours. Two other steam boats for this Company will be launched in the course of this Month. A MSTFROAM, 11&r 13.—E:change on London, 39 7: two months, 39 3. A Morning Paper, which has not latterly given much I attention to Greek news, broke its silence on Saturday, with a long and melancholy article on the probable fate of Greece. Patras had been relieved—the Greek fleet had disappeared—and the army had mutinied in favour of COLOCOTRONI. Not only was ODYSSEUS a traitor, but he had induced our countryman, 'l' reetawx ev, to abandon the cause of independence, and ally himself with the Turks. The Egyptian troops landed at Motion were, at the lowest estimate, 10,000 in number, and, with French officers and a park of artillery, they had laid siege to Na varino. This alarming intelligence was received in letters from Zante, of the 9th instant; and its accuracy was such, the Journalist declared, " that both the friends and ene mies of the cause, -in the principal facts agree in their statements." Under these circumstances, the triumph of the Turks could not be doubtful or remote. All that re mained apparently for the Greeks was to prepare, like CAESAR, to fall with dignity. In the course of Saturday, no means were neglected to give effect to this article, and the subsequent arrival of a file of the Orienfal Spectator, con taining some more news of the same stamp, moved the nerves of a few timid scripholders, and frightened them out of the market ; and if the stories by which they were intimidated bad been true—if, indeed, any single fact bad been true— they could hardly, as mere speculators, have been blamed in ahandoniog a cause so utterly hopeless. But the whole of these " ativices from Zante" was as groundless as the wildest tale that fiction herself ever fabricated. Not a par ticle of' truth was there in any part of the " accurate in telligence" in which it was positively stated, " both the friends and enemies of the cause agrerd as to the prin cipal facts." In the very Paper in which this assertion was published, appeared also the official despatch from CoNDURIOTTIa, announcing the defeat of the invaders of the Morea on the '27th of Mardi, and the destruction of a body of 3,000 Egyptians, near Navarieo. It is strange how so absolute, and we bad almost said, so profligate, a disregard of common decency, , soald have been manifested as that of sending forth in the same page two statements an completely subversive of each other. The despatch of CONDL racer its was alone decisive of the falsehood of these " advices from Zante ;" but to leave no shadow of doubt re maining, the Greek Deputies have actually received letters from Zante, to the 16th of April, seven days later than the pretended advices, and in these letters no mention whatever is made of any circumstance which is reconcileable with the disastrous news trumpeted forth with so much parade. If, however, any canfirmation was necessary to the official despatches and commuuicatiens of the Greek THE ITISIi PRESS. Deputies, we have it in the contents of the Austrian Observer, which arrived yesterday. That PArer is well known for its constant and avowed hostility to the Greeks, and it never omits to publish any infor mation it may receive calculated to represent the con dition of the " insurgents" is tha most unfavourable point of view. Its means of obtaining intelligence would enable it to give the earliest account of any mischief that might beial the Greeks. By the extracts in another place, it will be seen that the Austrian Observer admits that the re potted success of the Egyptians in obtaining possession of Navarino was not confirmed, and that so far from the in vaders having attempted to advance into the Mores, they had contented themselves with entrenching themselves in a position between Coron and Motion, where we suppose they will be remain till they are overwhelmed by the Greeks. The mutiny in favour of Cococorao xi rests on the authority of " some accounts" which the Austrian Observer does not pretend to be worthy of belief. At the opening of every campaign, the enemies of Greece have predicted her subjugation. The expeditions of the Turks have been magnified to an irresisible force, but the campaign has in variably ended by the entire overthrow of the barbariane. So we have no fear will this, and in•that feeling of con fidence we look forward to the approaching struggle. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. This morning Mr. Rippon, from the Rank of England, made an important communication to the members of the stock Exchange, to the effect, that the holders of the stock created in 1797, called the Loyalty Loan, will have the option of taking Consols for the amount of their stock at 75 ; or if they do not accept of this boon, Govern ment will pay off the amount at par, on or before the 3d of July next. This would give the holders 4 per cent. for the money ad vanced. It will be recollected this stock amounted in 1797 to eighteen millions and a half, at five per cent. interest. In 1302 sixteen millions were pain oft or rather exchanged for other de scriptions of stock ; subsequently further arrangements were made, leasing about 6190,9040. to be paid off now, or exchanged fur Con sols, as we have before stated. The Government, at the time of the creation of this stock, reserved the power of paying it off three years after the Navy Five per Cents. were paid' off or reduced, or after a peace of two years' continuance. The business in Consols to-day was extensive, but the prices re. mained the satne as yesterday, 91i 1 for money, and 911 for the Account. Compared with yesterday, the South American Securities were lan guid without any apparent cause, and holders seemed disinclined to continue in them : Colombian Bonds were done at 89, and 31exicati Scrip at 13 discount. Greek Scrip was a shade worse than by our last quotation ; it was 54 5, and the Bonds were 511 52. Spanish Securities improved 4 per cent., with reference to yesterday's quo tations ; the Bonds of 1821 were St, and those of 1823, 18A 19. Brazilian Scrip was rather worse ; it was done at 11 premium, and Danish ditto at 3 21 discount. The whole attention of the market is at present divided between the Pasco-Peruvian, the General 31 ining, and the new Potosi Company. The shares of the first were sold at 104 I, the second at 9 10, and the last at ai 5. A new Brazilian Agricultural and Jewel Company came out in the course of the morning, but scarcely any business has been as yet done in it, owing perhaps to jobbers being engaged in making up their accounts for Monday, which is settling day in the Foreign Market. This Company has been sem: time forthcoming ; bat, probably from the cause to which we have alluded, its appearance in the market created leas sensation than was expected. About ten o'c'ock on Saturday morning, as the Duke of York was riding through Hill-street, Berkeley-square, his horse stumbled, in consequence of putting his foot in a hole, and his Royal Highness was thrown off. He was immediately wave* to Iris own residence in South And ley -street, within a few yards of which the accident fiap pened, where he was attended by Sir James Macgregor. , We are happy to be able to state that his Royal Highness did not receive any serious injury by the fall, and was able to ride out in his cabriolet in the afternoon, when he paid a visit to the King, at Carlton Palace, to relieve by his presence the anxiety his Majesty felt for his Royal Highs ness's safety. In the evening his Royal Highness had a dinner party. Yesterday the Royal Duke was to dine with Mr. Lambton, to meet the Duke of Devonshire and a dis tinguished party. The Princess Augusta, the Princess Sophia, and the Duchess of Gloucester, visited the King yesterday. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester attended Divine Service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the King on Sa turday. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Ritzebuttell on the 7th inst. on his tour to visit the districts on the Eibe that suffered by the late inundations. Prince Leopold honoured the Italian Opera House with his presence on Saturday evening. is Royal Highness was present at the Duke of Devonshire 's party on Friday evening, at his residence in Piccadilly. Prince Leopold attended divine service yesterday at St. Philip's Chapel, Regent-street. Yesterday the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Feedore, attended Divine Service at the Royal German Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Doctor Kuper. Divine service was as usual_ performed yesterday at the King's Palace in Pall-mall by the Rev. Dr. Blomberg. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor had an audience of his Majesty. The Earl and Countess e parewood will have a dinner party this evening, at Ilarewood House, Hanover-square. The Earl of Clanricarde has given a donation of 100/. and an acre of ground whereon to build a chapel, to the Rev. Mr. Rush and the Catholic inabitants of Portumna. The Dublin Evening Post of Thursday says—The Earls of Roden, Enniskillen, and Courtown, are said to be con verts in favour of Emancipation. Lord Normanby paired off with Sir A. Hope, in favour of the third reading of the Catholic Bill. The name of the lion. C. H. Hutchinson was omitted among those who paired off on the Catholic Bill. lie was prevented from personally attending by severe indisposition. Mr. J. P. Gran{ voted for the third retling of the Catholic Emancipation Bill. A subscription is now on foot for erecting a statue of his Majesty George IV. in the market-place of thi. town.— Leeds Mercury. Two criminal informations have been filed by Mr. Plun kett, the Attorney-General, against the proprietors of the Cttran Herald.—Dublin. Evening Post. The Blossom, Capt F. %V. Beechey, will sail shortly OR her interesting voyage. She will proceed, in the first place, to Rio Janeiro, and thence to the Pacific, where she will be employed surveying the numerous groups of Islands, in that quarter of the globe, and particularly in ascertaining the ,existence of Gomez's Island, and the geopraphical situation of Duck's artl Elizabeth's Islands ; she will ul timately repair to Behring's Straits, in the hope of falling in with Captain Franklin's party, overland ; and should she not succeed in the object during the next year, the Blossom will remain in those seas till the year following. Mr. Law goes nut in her as naturalist ; and, from the ex tensive field which presents itseif in those interesting regions, a valuable boniest may be expected to be reaped, of rare and curious specimens in natural history. It is calcu lated that this most delightful voyage will occupy the' Blossom at least three years.—Hampshire (Atonic*. BIG A M Y.--A case of bigamy, in which the parties arc of high respectability, is at present before the Police Nlagis ! trates of this city ; but the proceedings arc not yet suffi ciently mature to meet the public eye. The Lothario was married to his first wife in the year IRV, but owing to great inequality of temper. three separations and re-unions took place, the last about five years since ; notwithstand ing which the gentleman about six months ago had the hardihood to celebrate the rites of Hymen with a lady who had also been once led to the altar, but survived her wedded love.—DuLtin Freeman's Journal. Freemasonry seems rapidly to extend its influence over Scotland. Under the sanction of the Grand Lodge of Scot ' land a Lodge, has been formtil in the Royal Burgh of North Berwick, named " St. Baldred's Lodge." GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, MAT 3. TI e Austrian Observer has the ft llowing a Cele : CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 11. The second division of the Egyptian fleet of 50 ships, with about 5,000 men on board, sailed front Soda the 13. h of March, and, with. out heirg molested on the voyage by Greek vessels, landed on the 16th between Caron and Motion. As soon as the troops were landed the fleet sailed on the 20th for 31odon, and was on the 24th near the island of Candia, where noon after a division of 95 Greek vessels appeared to observe its motions. This is probably the same flotilla, the sailing of which for Hydra, on the 17th March, was announced in the Journal of that place on the Ifith. The entire naval force of the insurgents, which at the latter end of March was ready to sail in the ports of Hydra and Speztia, in stated by an eye.witness, who lately arrived at Smyrna, to amount to 36 armed vessels, and II fire ships. The report spread here just before the departure of the last mail, that Ibrahim Pacha, immediately after the first landing, had sent a division of troops to Navarino, and taken possession of the port and fortress, while another division had advanced against Ca !senate, is not confimed, but the Porte has on the contrary received positive information that Ibrahim Pacha contents himself for the present with entrenching himself in his position between Ceron and Motion, and waiting for more troops, ammunition, and provisions, meantime constantly exercising his troops, and preparing them fee long and fatiguing marches. Except a few insignificant skirmishes, in which a few prisoners were made on both sides, no action had taken place, up to the 20th March, between the Egyptians and the Greeks in the Morn.* Nothing is certainly known here of the military arrangements made by the Greeks to oppose the progress of Ibrahim Pacha. ,There is no doubt that Conduriotti is appointed Commander.in. Chief by sea and land ; but some accounts say that the go vernment at Napoli, at the desire of the troops, had offered the command of the (loops to Colncotroni, who had refused it. unless all the other chiefs confined with him at Hyd.a were released, and the Itumeliots under Genre sent out of the Peloponnesus, a demand which, for evident reasons, was rejected by the ruling party. We are equally without information as to the motions of the Seraskier, Reachid Puha, and of the Pacha of Negropont, who it is known has been joined by Odysseus. On the 27th February. Thebes and Athens were alarmed at the approach of a corps of 000 Albanians, but it anon appeared that they were going from Zeitocini by way of 3lola and Talents to Negropont, to strengthen the garrison of that place. In general it seems that the ope:ations will not begin with energy, and on a combined plan, till the Sents• kier of Albania shall hare advanced as far as the Gulf of Lepanto, which has hitherto been prevented by the long-continued severe weather and the deep snow that has fall on those mountains. The first division of the fleet equipped here sailed to the Har• dandles on the sth of the month, under tile commard of Niala Bey (Vice-Admiral) Tabu. Bei. Since then a corvette has been launched, and while the works in the docks and the arsenal are urged forward with all possible activity; sailors continue to be pressed to man the vessels intended to join the feet. STOCKHOLM, APRIL 29. Count Lowenhjelm and suite sets out this morning to attend the Coronation of the King of France. A French Paper says, Sweden recognised the independence of the South American States three years ago. It has done more ; for it declared its intention of recognising them already in 1811, when the whole Continent was governed by Napoleon, and was acknow. ledged King of the Indies by all the European Powers except England. This is proved by the report made at the beginning of 1012 by the Crown Prince to till King, on the administration of - -eninent • • • illdsse, in ate the following tranquillity, these advantages which Our relations with destine wars desolate stable government, an extensive sale 1, persisting in its tice that the flags Jitieb Swedish ships ;option in our ports. desolated by intestine t ours will put us with them must . I', Porten. EXCIIAVOES - • ..... HANDURGII, MAY 10.-3 I; ; 359. PETER3BVIICIII. APRIL 26.-105-10. LEIPBIO, 31AY & —6 12. BERLIN, MAY 7.—Three Months, 6 201. VIENNA, APRIL 30.—Three Months, 9 30.—1/amber:lg Paper:, May N. • The Hydra Journal of the 18,h Of March, confirms this. We may judge of the talc told by the Journal des Debate of 21st April, under the head of Zante, Jilt March. stating that 4,000 Egyptians had been cut to pieces on the 28th re'arnary.—Note of Austrian Obserrer. Th.? Emperor of Austria and the Archduke Francis Charles arrived at Verona on the 27th ult. and were re ceived by the Archduke Viceroy. The Empress arrived the next day with the Archduchess Sophia. The Queen of the Netherlands with the Princess Mari anne and suite set out for Berlin on the 10th inst. in the evening. The grand saloon in the town hall, where in 1811 the city of Brussels gave a splendid fete to Napoleon and the Empres; Ma i t Lot its, is now fitud up for the fetes to be given on the marrisg of Fresleric, O K second son of the King of the Netherlands. The Spanish cabinet messenger, who passed through this i y some days ago on his way to Holland, returned yester day afternoon on his way back to Madrid, with despatches. —Brussels Paper, May 4. The States of Hanover, on the proposal of Ministers, have consented that the sums required by the inhabitants to repair the dikes, &c. shall be advunced by the treasury, and the amount required borrowed on the credit of the taxes. Sums of 100, 200, &c. at most 5,000 rix dollars, will be received at Si per cent. interest. A Jesuit from France, who arrived a short time ago in the city of Brussels without a passport, was sent back to the frontiers. Letters from Switzerland state that deputations from Some of the cantons will he sent to Milan to compliment the Emperor and Empress of Austria, and that instruc tions will be given them to confer with Prince Metternich on matters concerning Switzerland. By the Sezostris, from Manilla, accounts have been re ceived to the 30th December. All was perfectly tranquil there. The report of an insurrection against the Royal authority in the Philippine Islands, must therefore be with out foundation. The French Government has just made its Commercial Profession of Faith through the Director of the Customs, Monsieur de St. Cricq. The system now adopted by Eng land he admits to be admirable, because her liberality en dangers none of her manufacture*. " And we," he adds, " when we are as forward as England, we will be as libe ral ; but till then we must stand fast by our prohibitory system." He allows that they have small chance in con tending for a share of the export trade against such formi dable rivals ; but then their home consumption is increas ing: 280,000 bales of cotton were manufactured last year into goods valued at about fourteen millions of pounds sterling.-37,000 looms at Lyons, and 9,000 at Nismes are employed in the silk trade, and the population of St. Etienne, in the nesghhourhood of Lyons, bas increased in ten years from 12 to 45,000. Advice* from China to the end of hicember state that the Edict promulgated by the Chinese Government, for the importation of rice into China, duty free, was in force to the beginning of November. The quantity of that article sufficient to exempt a ship from duty, was 4,030 pckuls. The recent embassy from the Burmese to the Chinese Emperor had excited considerable attention at Canton. The Court of Pekin, however, was decidedly hostile to that of Ave. The principal objection urged by the Govern ment of Cochin China, in answer to a late application from•the Burmese for aid, was the apprehension of giving umbrage to the Court of Pekin. It is expected that the Rev. Mr. Stunner will be Dean of Worcester. A FAIT/ULM SSIVANT.—A few days ago, a gentleman of the Society of Friends, residing at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, had just returned home to disner, and the joint, which was a tine leg of mutton, was already on the table; before he had seated himself, however, to peruke of it, a lar„e dog entered the room, and se i s i ng the mutton, dragged it from the table. and deliberately walked with it homeward. The worthy Friend, not approving of the uncererno= nious manner in which the dog had helped himself, resolved to fol low him ; and the faithful creature led the way to the house of his master, Mr. If of the profession of the law, to whom the emu , plainant submitted the following question :—" Friend, thou art a gentlemsn,therefore I think thou wilt give meet candid answerto this question—Supposs thou halst sent thy servant to buy a leg of mat. ton, and, when it was on the table, a dog were to come and take it away, who wouldst thou expect to pay for it, thyself or the owner of the dag ?" The professional gentleman replied--" The owner of the dog." " Then," said the (beaker, " Thy dog has run away with my leg of mutton, and I shall e xp ec t t h ee to pay f or i t Is. eld. The gentleman paid him the Is. 91 and addressed him as follows : —" Sir, I know you are a gentleman, therefore you will not, of course, object to pay me for the professional advice which you re quired, nod which I have given." The Quaker, somewhat astonished, salmi the amount of his cha , ge : Ps. lid. was the reply ; the money was paid, and the latter gentleman was consequently that amount minus by the affair. FOR THE iv R P O R T ° E T C R TI C 4 T ) N A I‘ f ). T ' I . l *4 l.?L e l f u r j 0 7 1 ' 7 S r: ILE which r: h ; me wthilleber"enlieweeillmtbeemwrhaenliil On Saturday the Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of th e e m teatant Society for the Protection of Religious Eike._ raes"shaetCaintyeaorrlylA)honudro,nbyTaavenrnmat .rreshepoegrteaabtler°massevniabslatigilede of t lao " i t es i and gentlemen. At eleven o'clock Joint SMITH. Earl. M.P. took the Chair by invitation of the Committee. The lion. Getitleman w • sass received Chair with very warm and general applause. The CHAIRMAN said that he ought to apologize to the A sembly for taking the Chair on so Important an occasion, be go t that Chair had heretofore been filled by persons of the highe st et „.. — sideration in the country. But, however inferior lie might be to his predecear.ors in this respect, there was one particular in which he would give way to no man • it was that of cordial and sinew, attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty had that day brought the Meeting together. In those prinept ee he was educated, to those principles he was attached, and he tutee and hoped he should continue to be so to the latest moments of existence. It was with the greatest satisfaction that he observed so lli large and so respectable an assembly before him —an assembly t o which the principles they were gathered together to supp ort universally dear, because they were of the utmost importa nce — , man, because they were the offspring of civilization, and because they tended to preserve the happinees, the peace, and the welfare - of society Those who felt as be did on this important Inbed would rejoice with him that to support those principles so large body of rational beings had assembled. At the present a he would content himself with having made those few observation! and would merely state that the first business of the Meeting w ; ; to hear the Report of the proceedings of the past year, to Which he would entreat the silent and particular attention of his numerous au h d l it r o . nL PELLATT, one of the Secretaries, then read the Report after which, is a M v r er . ; l a ' ar il li z il i on r e " , e and an y d ou s tr i lli d o — h T ea o r say, that I tremble in addressing you, and feel myself to be like s rude Eolian harp that utters wild notes, but depends altogethee upon favouring gales for power to breathe out any pleasing or any spirit-stirring strain. I tremble because I know that of the multi. tude before me there are many who will not teeters with a candid ear, but I know that every word I utter will be liable to perversion, and that what I mean as soothing and conciliating, repre sented as most discordant and most harsh. I tremble because I know I shall be described as net desirous of diffusing • spirit of Christian charity, but as anxious to rouse and extend feelings of dia. cord, and to excite those evil passions which I would for ever din. pease. I)uring the past year the periodical publications of the day, the object of which might to have been to improve and beautify as that is sterile in life, have contained the grossest misstatements ••; our object and our cause, and have directed their weapons againts one who has so often appeared before you, the humble but the rase . ous advocate of your Institution. Throughout th e year A s Cirri:- flan Guardian, and other religious publications, have laboured. te distort that which Is most lovely and most inviting, and the Qi.n'. terly Perinw has stepped forward to abuse the power it possevo: over the public mind, and to attack, through the medium of anonymous publications, those who in public they would not ilars to meet. In that publication we are sold that the general spirit the Dissenter is "bitter and envious," and that of the" blunders-e demagogue." In that publication it is said that "toleration ir universal; it is virtually , conceded, though some obse'ete laws may remain, and is practically enjoyed ; nor can any thing be more n. diculous than the miserable grievances which the Secretary of what we believe is called the Society for the Preservation of Religious Li. I betty, with the utmost activity and zeal for misrepresentation, pro. vides for the edification of Lord Holland at the annual dinner of that worshipful board." I am proud, I ant happy to hare my Dame connected in any war with the name of that grew man to whom this Sjoarterly Reviewer has alluded, and I have just re ceived a letter from him, in which he speaks of our rause, not as out cause alone, but his own. The observations of the Quar terly Review, however. are nothing when compared with the assertions in the British Critic, the avowed publication of the leaders of the Established Church. The article to which I refer does not fairly belong to literature, for it is a criticism on a Bill now before the House of Commons, and in that criticism the Reviewer has thought proper to allude to this Society. It may not excite much surprise in you, and it cer tainly gives me no pain, that I am held up an " a meddling At torney of the name of Wilke, by whom all the petitions are vire parM," and as one who could not have attained such a pitch of Ingenious impudence, without repeated trials and long experience." I advert to those circumstances to show you hew extreme is the appetite for credulity on the part of those who think we ought to be lulled into a stupor which is the presage of death, and to suffer tamely to hear the Clanking of any chains that may fetter the noble mind of man. But though I tremlas I do not despair ; I am encourages) by the large assembly b hold before me. I am delighted t 3 behold among my audi tors the loveliness of youth, and all that is venerable in age. and to trust the same sentiments glow in the breast of each— to see crowding aroulid me those who have scarcely commenced their race of user:sine's, and those who with the experience of years blend a -lore than youthful fervour. I am glad also to see presiding over you the Gentleman who this day fills yeast chair. In that chair we have Fad a P r in ce who does honour tet3 Royal Family and a Royal name—we have had some of Brutal - 'a greatest and best Statesmen—the nephew of the illustrious ['ox, and a descendant of that Russell, the remembrance of whose English worth will never be rooted out of English hearts—sail Ism proud to see on the present occasion in that chair a &inch merchant and a British senator. Though I honour illsetrials birth—though I pay homage to elevated Tank, I confess I am more pleased to see rising up from among ourselves all that is great in worth and all that is devoted to the cause he has pledged himself to support. When Spain was suffering, when the sighs of her unfortunate and unhappy children reached the shores of Britain, then, among the first to welcome the refugees who sought those shores was my lion. Friend. AVlten from Italy the cry west forth, and the sons of Italy were wandering through our metropolis without their "daily bread," then my Hon. Friend stepped for ward to their aid ; and when the lyre of Greece seemed again to awaken throughout the world the spirit that Ird slept the sleep that appeared the sleep of death, then my Hon. Friend deter. mined that, as far as British money and British advice could go, ' Greece should be again free. When Ireland, unhappy Ireland, breathed as from a broken harp the complaints that remitted England—when famine stalked through the land w hit gigentic stride', then my Hon. Friend was the first to stay its progress, and to create those feelings in the grateful Irish bosom which has done much to cement the union of the two countrieS-.-the two countries that mast together triumph or together expire. But en ties present occaaan I am more cheered by principle, than even by his or by your sup port ; for feeling as I do that religious liberty is so necessary re tar existence of men, though no colter voice were uttered, though I stood as it were in a desert, stilt would I go on in this most glores:s course, and still would I raise my voice, even though the raising a that voice should lead to ignominy and to death. But the meet's of this day must decide who the " meddlers" really ars; and show you that the proceedings against us have been met Sr are wtot a temper and a Charity which I almost fear you will condemn. I a former occasion I reverted to the peculiar exactions which wit especially oppressed dissenting congregations ; anti m vert to them again. First, then, as to those conserved with I's turnpike tolls. lieu are aware that a clause was introduced i: tr the ilill upon this subject when it pas se d through Peahen:, rt. which declared that " no toll ehoald be collected from any persss or persons going to his, her, re their usual place of relieve, worship tolerated by law, on Sunday. or on any day on while divine service is by authority ordered to he celebrated." Tb •-: words appeared to us to be distinctly intelligible; but it shoal.; :..... recollected that the clausg referred only to " persona going to t: , , usual places of worship, and not to those who visited cane ,? Ida Oa: as were it otherwise it walla lead to many abuses. Our frien , t , Wales, who have frequently no regular places of worship. sine sr: therethre forced to emigrate from one plate to anoth er . bare j:11.1. gined that the Act applies to them, but such is not the case, acid I wish them distinctly to understand it, in order that they why be saved much anxiety, and the Society much trouble in mplyieg to their application.. There have been several instances, and genie of them have occurred in this metropolis, in which persons who were entitledhave generally to er payathlleyefxoeutnnaptbnyknwhriativnegbtoeentkfeorle,eadte.tkoeerer ace u etoll;s must but I t 60 him how the law actually stood, such persons have fond ftdriss. and have afterwards remising!! undisturbed. One case, however. he felt it necessary to mention—it occurred at Honiton, in 0681mi:tar of Devon. Mr. James Sims, a respectable minister of tar Baptist persuasion, had been charged this toll on the Sunday while going to officiate ; he summoned the gatekeeper before a alagistrats, Mr. Tucker, of lioniton; but the Magistrate detailed against Rico, on the ground that the Act only applied to his ern perish, rid the minister was at the time out of it. lie then wrote a letter in m-. and I procured the opinion of the A ttorney-fleneral, wbkii 1 inclosed in a communication to alr. Tucker. who acqaidteed It the opinion; the matter was amicably settled, and the tolls asillbei' no longer collected. Does not this anecdote show that tire is no disposition on the part of this Satiety to act tither with vexation or unkindness P In all eases where preens have be , ' willing to give the explanation we mikes! for, we wet no farther.but if they persevered in their wrong doing, it was not era. hr themselves that they had to thank for the consequences. Learned Gentleman then referred to several other cases, in the toll was in a similar manner demanded, and the eases r the exemption was allowed or refused, particularly those v. °centred at Usk in Monmouthshire, at Shmpham in Norfolk. Banbury, at laorngay. at NVoodnesborough, and at liockffe The cases of assessed taxes come under the next head. In re‘et places assmed taxes have been demanded for meming.houses. for ministers' houses. In some instances those demands ?tat - ' justified, and in others in which the nontrary was the cos, obtained redress. The question of poor rates it is import::: me to notice. I have wished that it might be laid :it rest for it.': but it is one that is so constan t ly brought forward. al'd thatt u .; because it is the source of emolument, but tar the ;impose tx ll mean and pitiful vexation. If the meeting-lumaes of the Dionne, s be what the Qilorteslo Review calls them, " trdroos anti tinsigh!l barns," at least money should not be demanded by the parr : officers fur such editicer—maney which they are rot entitled t' obtain, and which by extortion only they can obtain. De subject however the most imi o r t an t case that has occurred is rb:g . of Crayon Chapel, in this metropolis. I n r ev e rting to this tn;: , I must pause to pay • just tribute of praise to time individail who will be at least respected here, and who will be respected to the of time by all those who value the blessings of religious libetts , i that individual has done mu c h t o p romo t e t h e mor a l feelings a great metropolis, and with a liberality which Princes could wesrarly conceive. If you walk to lloatom and from Iltivan to Peking ton, and from Paddington to Somers Town. you will perceive owl the Government during his illdps, in which a words : When Spain and Portsfal are restored to trt countries will the Swedistptrade all the ad the perfection of 's iron ensures. Ou South Ameri • t •rcepted ; intestin those fine c 11 have a stal the product ust meet with al there." It is now es the government, system of n epentlence, gave notic of the South tates in the ports of Wide were well receiv , a ould have the same receptit Now that these fine countries are no longer destol, war, and have a stable government. we hope that in possession of the advantages, which the trade 4 .r• 2" 1 ~~ t b 1 a ( b ■ • e t a 1 A .111 1 a I I a I