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MEXICO. :t %CIS PROM THE " NOTES ON MEXICO, MADE IN fly the Hon. Joel R. Poinzett. NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE MEXICANS. The gentlemen with whom I have associated arc intelligent men, and these who have bad it in their power to pursue liberal studies, e re fond of literature and mime. The Creole* in general possess e we; eaters' talents, and great facility of acquiring knowledge. They are extremely mild and courteous in their manners, kind and rei t erated towards each other, and hospitable to strangers. Their Wooing sin is gambling. The married women are very pleasing is their manners. They are said to be faithful to the favoured lever, and a Minion of that nature does not affect the lady's repute ton. The yoong women aft lively and accomplished. They sing aid play . agreeably, dance well, and know all they have had an Opportunity of learning. If they would leave oft the detonable practice of smoaking, they would be very pleasing arid amiable. This is to be understor I as characterising the society generally. There ate reiminly some young ladies (very few I am afraid) who ito rot smoke--oome married women (many I hope) who have no lover, or if this would be interred to derogate from their charms, who consider him only ass convenient dangler, and are fondly and taithfully attached to their husbands ; and there are certainly many gentlemen who are not gamesters. It is &Bin* to describe accurately • nation composed of such 'nylons ranks. anal of 90 many different castes as that of New • hpain. The most important distinction, civil and political, WWI founded on the colour of the skin. Here to be white, was to he noble ; and the rants Of the different castes is determined by their neater or more distant relation to the whites; the last in the scale being the dine or unmixed descendants of the Africans or Initann. The character of the Indisn population, which exceeds two millions and a half, remains very much the seine as that of the tower class of the natives is demented to have been at the time of the trouquest. The same indolence, the same blind submission to their superior', and the same abject misery are to be remarked. The forms and cern-nooks of their religion are changed, and they are perhaps better pleased with the magnificence of the Catholic rhea than with their former mode of worship. They take a childish delight in forming proceesions, in which they dress them selves most fantastically, and the priests in many pare of the country have found it necessary to permit them to mingle their deems and their mummeries with the Catholic ceremonies- They were oppressed and trodden under Toot by their emperor and ca. ciqu es j and ever since the conquest, they have been oppressed by laws interded to protect diem. For the most part. they arc dis tributed in village s, on the most barren and unprodnetive lar. , ‘, and are under their own caciques, who art charged with the civil government, and with the collection of die tribute, a tax of about ten dollars on each male from ten to fihy year' of age. The castes, that is to soy the neitfros. descendants of whites and Indians; otellstoes, dleaerrulants of the whites and negroes ; *am. lees, descendants of Negroes and Indiana—are stuttered over the country as labourers, or Live in towns as animus, workmen, or beggars. There are some Indians who have accumulated property, and sons few of the castes may be seen living in comfort and re spectability in the cities and in the country ; but these instances ere rare. From the cacique or Indian magistrate of the tillage, to the most abject or his fellow sufferers, they are indolent and poor. Tie only difference between them is, that the cacique does not week at all. By a law passed niece the revolution, they are de clared, together with all the castes. to be possessed of the same rights as the whites. The tribute is abolished; but they will be, as a matter of course, subject to the aiesinis or tax on the in ternal commerce, from which they were heretofore exempt. This delaration will produce no alteration in the character of this class of the population. Measures must be taken to educate tutu.. and lands distributed among them before they can be considered as forming a pert of the people of a free government. The titled nobility are white ('moles, who, satisfied with the en joyment of large estates, with the coesideation which their rank sad weebb confer, seek no other distinction. They are not remark able for their attainments, or for the strictness of their morals. The boilers, who, in fact, exercise much influence over the people, rank next to the nobles. They are the younger branches of noble houses. or the sons of Europeans, and are remarkably shrewd and intelligent. Next in impudence are the merchants, and sip-keepers, for the former are 130 f sufficiently nurnerese to (WTI a separate alas,. They are wealthy, and might poises influence, behave hitherto taken little part in the politics of the country— meet probably froth the fear of losino their property, which is in a nagible shape. The labouring class in the cities aed towns in &Jet all castes and colours—they are industrious and oederly, and view with intereat what is pas mg round them. Most of them read ; and, in the lame cities, papers and pamphlets are hawked shout the streets, and vold at a cheap rate to the people. The labouring elan In the country is composed in the same manner, of different mots. They are sober, industrious, docile. ignorant, and superstitious t. and may be led by their priests, or masters. to good or nit Their apathy, has, in some me mum, been overcome by the lengetruggle for independence, in which moat of them bore a pan; tut they are still ender the influence and direction of the priests. They are merely labourers without any property in the sail; and cannot be expected to feel much interest in the preaer vaton of civil rights, which so little cmieern them. This last ilea ankr.own as such in it well regula:ed society, consists of bezgwv and idlers, drones, that prey upon the community. and ado, baying nothing to lose, are always ready to swell the cry of Impute ilfuntotir, et to lend their aid in favour of imperial ty. ram y. '1 lie it-linnet of this class, where it is numerous, upon the fate of revolutione, has always been destructive to Ilion e. In France they were very numerous t and the atrocities which diagraccd that revolution, ate, in a great meaeore, to be ascribed to this cause. 1 In Mexico these people have been kept in subjection by the strong arm of the rice-regal government; but, it is to be feared that Ciey well heneefot ward be found a very dangettitts 'action. The Poet's exercise an urbounded influence over the higher and the lower orders in Mexico; and, with a few honourable exceptions, are adverse to civil liberty. It mar ant, perhaps, be altogether cor ral. to -onside the influence of the clergy as conined exclusively to :he upper and lower orders er society, but certainly a very large veronica of the middle elm n e exempt from it. Unfortunately ton many who were educated , . the forms of the Catholic Church have emancipated themselves from its superstitions, only to become soptios and infidels. Letters from Maranham of the 9th tilt. by the Caroline, mired at Liverpool, state that the opposition to ti:e Governitioiq of Brazil bad produced Jitter autes, in which some lives were lost and blood spilt. At the e,•:,is of the sailing of this vessel affairs remained in a rerr uriettled and even alarming state, and some fear was nacroiotd by the merchants for the safety of their pro rem. . - - T 6 fallowing extract of a letter from Barranquilia, du May 14, relative to the proceedings at the scat of Government in Colombia, appears in the last ree..ived Ja mica papers:—" Of the Holy Alliance the Executive has etched some late adviers, indicating an cntcrprize ou this tkluntry. On this the Congress have debated with closed ' l / 4 ett; bet whatever may be said or written upon it, the tic is, that neither Sp.tin nor France are desirous of a war with Unite,' States. What part the English Govern- neat takes on this occasion is perfectly enigmatical. If it is talk the friend of ibis Republic, it ought to recognise i: : On principles of commercial policy it ought to rem ruse it. Great Britain, herself styled a free country. ought to recognise the Republic of Colombia as a matter of our?.?, and illustrative of her own far princ;ples of go tt rairatit." An elegant iron halcony has been placed to the f. rat and tennd toots of the beautiful range of houses in the Rue it!i, Paris, by which the inhabitants may visit each other from their w , r,daws without tie/wending into the e, s:reet. These Iltlecnits continue, without separation, along tht Rut Cattigliona as far as la Rue hicrntabon• . ' 11 " 4 of ifronPertos has just been handed about in the I=rlonlPal coffer-houses of Paris, announcing the early ap prarance or a Paper, which might be named the indiscreet, r!:11 which proposes to give the mut es and qualities of the novenas' wlin daily ani se i n t h e capital, their residetcc, ; and fully to satisfy the public curiosity, their pur -1 .its and action will 1;2 taken cognizance of. Messieurs usrelltrs iriil not be aide to clink the lynx-eyed vigi lance of Oda new police. 1 3! o i lot sis Ps kn.—Several snick:es have lately been sroiotteil n Paris. L ast week a merchant named in at No. log, rue Riebe/isn, in perfect good eir ..:nutai.ces, cut his throat with a razor. No one can ac- Aot fur this diperate act. M. Labbev, auctioneer, rue Fear !t. llon - ore, hiving received a Lett: r announcing instantly blew out his brains with a pistol. A !!trl p-rson. named Vermotit. a freeholder of Lyons, re u Paris , near 1 1 1ratnUe, rue St. Vonore, having ! , ta law -wit of Freat isuptertanc.., co • ttcd a similar ea ll'etlnesitay last. ENTKor Tun St. A.—The followinz account of a I •l4wtenk was taken net of a bottle. closely I an , : s al!il, which was r);ck , it sty) near the bathing at Mark Rock. Ituhlin. ‘Vegluesaay la" 1 ;t IL 1. Two 30 wrockrd &Met •`•r" " . .litornea. I am the rit;, , tmn eacapcd front a watery 0 20 is attmber. Ileautuom and his wife wept 11:ape to sec 1 - 6ar..ta4aia. 1 hare only time to let Ina hold?. James Coznell, of Naas., county 11, 7 A II! IkA : ;INC -r Pti r I Take oe tnutton-suet four ;., : ior . .as one clam., su.mr-eandv one drachm. gum ~., 4 ( 1 drachm in fine rwsler. Melt these well to r- :- a gentle fire, and add -.vrortt a spoonful of ,;,,ilttr,itin..s,n.d lamp-black sufficient to ! ire it a roil black FL.I4;:;, . iet , "Ile l o ot enough to ntn. make it into a ba l l, by ' le liquid into a tin mould, or let it stand till rt. r;; ci ' lli ' ur it may be nrou:ded by the bind.—E.:ow.- ntion of lition• bat the y of her o of ha on were Admiral spl C'sdig• endid leiOr a nd 004. GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. QVARANTINE LAWS. We extract the following from a letter we lately received' TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRIT'S', PRESS front our cortespontlent in Boston, a gentleman of great! 1 talent, and intimately connected with the literature of his I London. July 20, 1824. own country:—" In the 44th Number of the North Arne- I binSoi.aw—hi beg kh aastolol:dgl beer(l ibs , Plrd.rdisipace.rhayrtbasariantatnantodaccajailir of li rims Review, there is a high-toned and severe article an : tion, of the abolition of which there is tow fortunately a um very "- i Fincr's Travels and the Qaunterly lieriedr, which will hardly ' distant prospect. be relished in England ; but if cur rood friends over the Accenting to the mots of a went Report of the Committee on , water will persist in abusing us without reasen or propriety, !Fere.ten Trade, in future ships ir w e ith an el d eop . bills of health are to be we think it but justice to the land of our amostors to return I 7:„ n ^. 1 ~.„emr,:tif:7".„Tira;,;,: instead ,74thant.:20,bilistoi:s11% the compliment, at least to the full extent of reason and jest to manage d uty . Y propriety." I . Lest yes (Veit the 'Amber of shjps that performed quarantine Now we, for our own parts, are heertily sorry for the In Englerd was 18 with had, Q• with dean hills of health— spirit which this paragraph ex resets ; h emba ... , in the fits : th , e ar propo . ram of the Ronnie tole Mum being as Ito 37. Theo place, we arc convinced, that if those to whom the mess is t i l s ' 31 r pa tt : e . o r ma s yl l be the " L‘ , 66 4ii,t,"' j 0r.. 4 rul away l n o now w lia i tlrto p r t to ;elf. ceennitted in both itatiotts were to pitch their tents an ' latices; octave or two lower, it would he much more likely to create . remaining 31Ith part—a • amounts neatly to a total harmony, than by displaying their powers of execution on ; abolition of the system. t ,. i w hi c h has' From the ith of Jan? ism. tti, the Sth of July, 1822, the ex ' the falsest ) key of acrimonious recrimination,! Le s nelit ia ure , er ror w et ie servies h 33.. g ire der glitpraaapth ri at ypi lsome mly, amounted to (Mtn tonnage duties, , 1 for too long a period been in vogue with both sides ; and, secondly, it will be something new to us to see abase re- Anti the remainder hew the edi r tind. Thus the average turned to the full extent of reasen and propriety, without , charges of quarantine wife 911; ki ' e st i a , t o the average of tonnage' gresefat going a Mlle over the line of demarkation. This in law! duties mow annually Ilk i Is. pad W. however, the and ; latter WIDOW."' .0 21 and equity constitutes a treespaes again to be reeentiel, (Mee 'a Erie of Qmaranthir that again to he retaliated upon, to an endless infinity al Levi,,l average sinews • Imes i usudned bt comment, in mon ' hitter animosity which answers no one good purpose, and! quenee of th e d erm a...l wi pe it gamm o n ,. has been computed I only tends. as Mrs. Quickly would say, to "an old abusing lat 114,8191. annually.--( Seib of Querelstiac Low. 33.) Thus of God's patience and the King's English." the direct !melba derived to ceramaret from the Woo of qua ;vine in an Eagirod jed fa . thme t ze Ram coniiii.. amount . to We are fully convinced of the truth of the following sen timents, exti acted from an excellent piper in the last num- of the here., by detention, which falls upon Y tie ahlre ttitli four a rrilh still subjected to a Simi her of Blackwood's Magazine, on the subject of the people nutted detendon or 21 days. of North America and Great Britain, and emanating from The public bcaellts, whit* will indirectly access from leaving the pen of a gentleman whose works must crenteand re- trade unfettered,.. expand so the fullest extent of its natural beun spect for his opinions on either side the Atlantic:— darks . , cannot be arinuatay 'adulated, far want of precis. ate. Bat, judfing from the vast nimble deism whale twinhihrih he " The truth is—and the sooner it is known the better — bee, su bjected to dmie. .. mm ai lL r y fi s -- - taverna .... Law, a y. that the rational and good men of both countries have al- Prof- p, ziy.k la he Im mo * W' mom l ik4 m r ime d, ways been friendly to a hearty, unreserved, kind, and free than safailakert astseiaitreenuaal llig defteally. intercourse between the- two nations, ever singe the intie- To wham. Of 10 what. It may be asked. L the proposed removal pendence of that was acknowledged by this, and that the 'Llel o rta a arlet t i s t: be es at tb r 1 ,:c 0 11'.., i tit a rlt° De n s r a.Vl: !ltri: very multitude of both countries, in proportion as they come mime oo pomp Trade o f she iniii — id 3 1 ,...T i Z iesn . e i Z eisees, I to know one another truly, and to understand the real opi- othat quorantine laws see fee their endsomil thin Dion that each entertains of the other, have always been, peullential contailion hos no P" universal esters at and are at this moment, absolutely cordial." and Mauled aremersem of quidootine laws would have been the Assuming this as fact, anti we see no ground on which l eg i timate a c ww q""" aro caaatilcakia of the truth of the (*Pod* the assumption can be impugned, it behoves us to inquire net although ft is t h e i nterim at dolmen and navigate. that what can have given rise to retch an unnatural antipathy we mare d .....d. r t y w e ed ice .shh, country by the between a large proportion of two nations bound to each these baneful laws, the goarandoe or sanitary systesn„ a r r r m ost other by every tie of consanguinity, sprung from a common extended stale, as existing in ether countries and in ant colonies i stock, governed by s'milar laws and institutions, cultivat- : l b e M on et Intrt7firli their ws li th lrb r i i: yn, e _r r y di t ti _l et I mmt i o L, l ing the same literature, and holding the same religious te- sickness, ; lA '; (loamy, during 0ciu " 5 71,...... by ink ; nets, and whose tastes and even prejudices coincide in al- m et es to - &i ntercouroc e upon the mal e abed marm._ mnst every particular. by restraint upon Individual 1--ond by tw i t:Jim:nes to The first great cause of this mischief is the press. On *civics . aid to the Waren of genteel imptrenteht, the e lecd onsid iad ering i _tbe ex er wst w or hat tlitn are s eal m l i ed scli . wt .the s. it to lnersltent ope n . the other side of the Atlantic little is known of the power behind the scen e s, which moves the engines of the di ff erent e i t h er b„...7; ."7" . . r a„. leds . the troth of * Te r op ; o t te dcsct =L ' parties, literary and political, in Britain. We retnember, Woos, is ena g u sesay to conten d f or s h e un i mm i " m a im and in for example, an American paper which believed that Mr. erased strictness td quarantine laws, aceseding to their own prin. Canning was oli tor of the Quarterly Review, and, tense- ciPles; fur math* is DIKOW can be more absurd than to adhere to queenly, that every thing that appeared in that periodical asid thtmc so l d ved mit a gr alas at th e e • ly " et t ich , th t i g tn ualliat re ., o _,,... ing B,l " a gin . fa be k m nod ' ded i : spoke directly the feelings an-I sentiments of his Majesty's sec c o mma , of emomo d, w i t h m k t y te r t r e - p7rbim. ' Government, and the highly respectable party who support I son, Site, your obedient servant, it. :Ve do not mean to say thre all or even many of the A lilatencee Lootctes Or TIM NODES)" I people of Aineeica believed this ; but that there are few W:h001. men in the United States who art. aware that periodical 1 works, in Great Britain, are got op and maintained by emi ' nent booksellers, chiefly for the purpose of , puffing works published by themselves ; and as nothing c.oys the public taste so much as the sweets of incessant laudation, the sa tiety which such a proceeding would necessarily generate must be relieved by a jutloiotts intermixture of piquant Abuse, which, by a most feliciumamanagement, is carefully bestowed on books published by their rivals in business. Jonathan has no cotton of this, and would stare with asto nishment were any one to tell him, that a bitter tirade of twenty pap a against his country and her institutions might have its origin in some such important matter as a personal quarrel of one brother of the trade with another, about the copyright of a spelling-bock. From this happy state of ignorance it is, that the people of America are opt to at tach much greater importance to such flatten than their intrinsic value would at all warrant. if any American doubts this, let him just write a good book of travels in the Unite d States—give Mr. Murray the preference in the disposal of the copyright, and if he, his book, and hie century, are not landed to the skies in the number of the Quarterly following his publication, he may, as Sir Toby says, " call us cut." In America, we are informed, that the moat influential editors are Irishmen—Men, most probably, whose crimes or follies have driven them from their homes, and these, of I course, must look to this country with feelings pretty much akin to these with which Milton's fiends surveyed Fert ilise ; and it is but obeying the commonest dictates of our nature to deprfeinte, in the eyes of others, the blessings which we ourselves have forfeited, and to arraign the jus tic of the law under whose lash we suffer. These men must work incalculable mischief, as our transatlantic brethren will. no doubt, look upon them as unprejudiced evidence as to everything, regarding Great Britain, . when, in fact, as renegadoes, their word is the very last that might to he for a moment relied oe. Another greet cause of the muteal want of knowledge, and consequently of esteem, of each other, which exists be tween the two nations, arises from the very unfavourable specimens they see of each other. We export to America bagmen front Itrimmg, supereargees from the city, ship toasters from 11 - apping, cockney sentimentalists and phi lesephers from Tooley-street, and now and then a Lull headed farmer, whose opinion in his cwn country would never he listened to on any other subject but as to the merits of a dime-hill, and who, at his return, is kind enough to eldieltten the world with his views of Ame rican police, literature, philosophy, and legislation. Each of these claims to he considered as an Eng lish Gentleman, and has his claim allowed by sim ple Jonathan. Besides these, we have a class of nun, such as composed King David's adherents, wor thies whom necessity, not choice, have driven acfPll. ell Atlantic. " Every one that seas in distress, and every one that was in (Ebt, and every one that was discontented.' From habitually surveying such a beteregetteous mass, considering them as representatives of their native country, is it to be wondered rt, that the Americans should hold the character of Englishmen st so very low an estimate? On the ether band, they send to us only their commer cial travellers, men great in the mysteries of piece goods and cutlery, and profoundly ignorant of every thing else. Medical students, bursting with the pride and self-import ence which two years s udy. and the title of lAxtor, in anticipetion, never fails to confer. Braggadocio skippers, who enure us that they are the most rfapeerable and w• altity merchants of the United States, and only sail one of their oven ships for amusement ; or an milk:nil pheno menon from the back woods, who comes home to finish his education (which, by-the-bye, seldom is weil begun) in a Seoteli College, and acquire polish from his vulgar Scotch relations. We certainly do occasionally see an American artist, author, or gentleman, on his travels, but that is rare, anti chiefly confined to the metropolis. The last cause of this misunderstanding of the English character a: hies from the advocates, whom it has been the curse of America to find in this country. To people ignorant of the real merits of the case, the fact that the g reat eulo gizers of America are seditious demagogues, D eists, bias- ithemets, contemners of the laws and venerable institutions of the country, which has the ilierrace and misfortune of 1 producine the:tn, is sufficient of itself to micount for much of the odium which has been cast on the country, damned by their praise, and which of right ought to have tested on the heeels of those who, for other reasons, were execrable in the sight of Eng'.islimt n. We have been I'd into a more lengthened detail titan we at first ieee •ifiel, by this subject, but it is one to which we shall frequently recur, as we have estenlished a corre spondence with every part of the i; sited States, and shall Is stew a considerable portion of our time in attenditte to the literature and politics of that interesting and rising country. ANNUAL DINNER OP THE BLANCHEWS.TOWN PATRIOTIC SOCI6TI The friends to this Society, amounting to 30C, sat down to dinner in a niegnificent pavilion pmpared for the occasion. After the cloth was removed, Mr. O'Connell observed, in proposing the health of his Majesty, that he was educated in the , pure principles of the Constitution. Towards Ireland, there was every reason to believe that he felt nothing but kindoess and liberality. Full of generous confidence, he threw himself amongyt the people without parade and without guards. The reception be met with must show his Majesty that his Irish subjects do not deserve the treatment they receive; that they were not intended to be slaves of a base and grovelling fac tion; but that the God who inspired them with so much gene rosily, bravery, and virtue. intended them to be partaken and the defenders of freedom. The Learned Gentleman proceeded. in a most eloquent manner to state, that the disposition of his Majesty and the temper of the times were favourable to the cause of Irish liberty, to ensure the success of which required only the union and energy of the people. Mr. O'Connell then gave— " The King," four tionifour. Tome God Sere the King." " Old Irelesd."—Y' Paukk's Day." • " Marquis Wegtoley."... , ! ilaneen-coeLgann." 31r. O'Connell took an eloquent review of the public life of his Excellency. In India his wise and manly conduct coo -1 firmed the Welsh power; in Spain be was the man who really upset the crquerer of nations. Ills manly and sagaciour mind clearly perceived, that unless the feelings of the people could be enlisted in the cause of government, that that government would inevitably fall before the power and the intellect of Napoleon. He advised the guarantee of a free constituttoo—the people rallied rotted it—and Napoleon fell. If that constitution was afterwards basely invaded—if the patriots who so bravely defended their coun try—who upheld the Government and expelled the invader; if those great men met with ono other reward than the dungeon or the scaf fold, no reproach on that head could revert to Lord Wellesley; the glory of saving nations was justly his ; the shame and dishonour of violating Constitutions belonged to their Majesties of the Hal Allianc:. The government of his Excellent-sr in Ireland, thou coerced by a powerful faction, who were hostile to the cause of t people, had yet about it the marks of a just and popular adminis trauma There was an evident disposition on the part of his Excel lency's Government to deal out justice purely and impartially. There was no hostility to liberal opinions, there was no persecution of the press. The underlings of Government were no longer per mitted to run riot on the people. His Excellency, coerced as he was, had little opportunity el' showing any marks of favour and encouragement to the injured party; but the Irish were willing to do justice to his motives. They were so long accustomed to insults and oppression that they willingly and sincerely applauded the Goa vemment, merely because it abstained from doing ill. He (Mr. O'C.) was well Inclined to believe that the Marquis Wellesley was disposed to act in this country on those just, liberal, and Statesman- like views which he carried moo effect everywhere else. Ile whose policy bad so much improved and strengthened other countries could not be insensible to the glory of raising his own, of raising her from a state of wretchedness and division to a state of prosperue and independence Such was the task which he hoped was reserved for his Excellency. The spirit of the times, after all, was favour. able to the cause of Ireland. To promote that cause, to im e rove her condition, and to extend her liberties, he hoped, would be yet in the power, as it was in the disposition, of an orator, • scholar, and a Statesman, whose talents and attainments shed so much glory upon his native country There were from lour to five thousand persons outside the tent.--The Patri.t. THE CATIIOItc Cr.tany.—A speaker at the Catholic . Association, thus alludzys to the conduct of the priesthood: —" At this moment, when the people are borne dowi. by grievances and want, the Catholic Clergy are preserving then in obedience and loyalty ; the Catholic Priesthood of Carlow, headed by their very pious, patriotic, and illus trious Prelate, Doctor Doyle, were at that moment, to his' (Mr. Finn's) personal knowledge, supporting by their ex ertions and by their charity, the people of that neighbour-I booth, and preserving them from becoming the victims of famine and disease. Those are the mean, by which the Catholic Clergy have engrafted themselves upon the affec tions and confidence of the people, and it was matter of re gret that so few of their brethren of the Catholic Church took the same road." _ _ Poo rt RATeS IV IRF t•N D.—At the meeting of the Ca- 1 tholic Association on Saturday, Ur. O'Connell said he was a convert to the necessity of establishing poor-rates in Ireland for the preservation of the peasantry of Ireland, who, " the moment they were obliged to buy tl!e times series of life (continued the Learned Gentleman) began to starve, being unable to procure work, in order to obtain the means of purchasing, subsistence. There were at this moment, in the town of Carlow, two hundred men seeking employment at two-pence per day, and who, but for the exertions of the Catholic clergy and Dactor Doyle, would base ere now rerisbed from famine, leaving numerous fa milies to share the same horrible fate. Yet in this neigb bourbood, where there arc but thirteen Protestant families, and a church capable of affording accommodation to thirty times the number, they are about erecting a new one, to wards which th e famishing peasant, when his potatoe garden pads a retuni to his laborious toil, must ton• tribute. _ _ The following discovery has been announced at Mu nich :—Lientenant Hcbenatreit has invented a process by which he makes a species of caterpillar spin a kind of wad ding, which is of a fine white colour, and water proof. He made a balloon of this stuff and raised it by means of a chafing dish with spirits of wine, in the large warehouse wlnre he keeps his caterpillars at work. He makes them trace ciphers and figures in the wadding. He accomplishes this by moistening outlines of figures or lett6s with spirits of wine. The caterpillars avoid these tracings, and spin their web around them. Thus any fine figure which has been drawn ia represented in the stuff'. A piece of wadding seven feet square, perfectly puro. and as brilliant as taffeta, was made by about 50 caterpillars, between the Sth and the 2Sth of June.-I'aris Paper. The amount of Irish provisions requir e d to he con tracted for this year, is settled at 21,000 tierces, being more than double the quantity taken by Government last year, as well as the preceding. This increase is thought to have hal some effect in lowering the Funds on Tuesday, as in dicating an apprehension that a greater naval force than mord will be called far • but these alarmists seem to over look that a considerable portion of the beef and pork is ' intended to be applied to the use of his Majesty's land forces cr.ployed in the West India Colonies and at Gib raltar. TI!A ARM The nith regimen: of Poor, now stationed at iVinclies ter, will, it is understood, proceed to Ceylon, to replace the 45th (Nottingham) regiment of Infantry, which i. ordered to Madras to relieve the 30th (Cambridgeshire) regiment of Foot ordered home. The with regiment, now stationed at Chichester, will embark for the Cape of G 4)(1 Hope, to replace the Gist Ost Warwichs!lire) ritclment of Foot, which is on 4 .erell to - Mirelay to relieve the fifth (Lancashire) regiment of Infantry milered The 9ath regiment of the Line, now stationed at Glas gow, will embark for the Mauritius, to relieve the 51ith (lirt.t Essex) regiment of Foot, whicrr ii ordered to Eng . • The 17th Lancers are to be distributed itt Kent, at the stations which itre previously occupied by the 15t 11upsars. The 31st (Huntingdonshire) regiment of Foot is under orders to proceed, on its arrival in England, to Bengal, to replace the :9th Nottitthain) regiment of Infuntry, which is ()Mend home. The V.l division or the 75th regiment of foot has em barkwl at Gosport for Dublin. coat BINA TloN. The following is from the Cork SJkilvri. Reprter of Sa turday last : " The spirit of combination has aeldcm been carried to a more daring length than in an o...eurrt nee which wok place on Monday night, or rather Tuesday morning last, when an attempt was made on the life of a person of the name of Timothy Keily, a journeymen baker, whose offence eonaiatrd in hitting 'slimed the eulployment of a !teen of the name of Scanlan, in place cff another journey man who 1 - -A been discharged. Scanlan and Keily were standing at the door of the fernier's house, near Cap-well, at about one o'clock on Tuesda 7 morning, When a party came tip, one of whom deliberately tired a pistol at the latter, the ball from which struck his hand, giving a slight flesh wound, and was found afterwards, flattened, from haringstruck the wall in the rear of the place where he had been standing. When it is considered that the offence which this poor man had committed, was having kottght the means of earning a livelihood by following the trade to which he was brought up, some notion may be farmed of the code of laws which the coinbinating legislators have enacted, and to which they exact obedience by the terror of death and the perpetration of murder; for in the case to which we are alludin g , it was owing to bad aim or acci dent, not the want of in:ention, that Keily did not fall. Informations of the outrage having I. lodged before the Magistrates, a warrant was issued against the following seven persons, all journeymen bakers—Phillip Raymcrid, Daniel Downes Thomas Driscoll, Wm. Ahern, Richard Cot, Richard L ombard,; and John Cleary, for aiding and assisting in the attempt on Kelly's life. By the activity and "exertionit of Mr. Ilewson, High Constable, aided by sonic of the peace-officers, these men have be en: appre hended, and were this morning in britlewell, from whence they were to be transmitted togaol in the course of the day. From some information received by the Sheriffs, an attack on Acanlan's house was expected to have taken last night, in consequence of which Mr. Sheriff' Crofts, the High Constable, and several peace-officers, lay in waiting, but we are happy to state that nothing took place to tall for their interference." ACUATIC BXCURSION AND BALL. On Tuesday the friends and subscribers of the Tower Hamlets Charity School, for educating and clothing the children of dn. poor, assembled together on board the Venus steam-packet, for the pur pose of siding the funds of the above excellent establishment, through the medium of an excursion to the Nore and Sheorneas, and a Coronation ball in the evening. By seven o'clock in the morning the vessel, which was eta tioned near the Thames police-office, was crowded with beauty and fashion, and among the company were several persons of dia. tinedon, members of the Coronation Fleet, &c. who seemed to 1 take a lively interest in their work of charity. The fineness of the morning added to the interest of the coin pany, who were enlivened by a band of music. which continued playing several deligliafel airs and tunes during the day. Refresh mend' were provided on board, and the dance was kept up wail much spirit until the return of the vessel in the evening, when it VIM brilliantly illuminadd, and covered with a spacious awning. Various devices with variegated lamps were fixed in every direc tion, and the letters " U IV. R." with a crown, in bonnet of his Illajesty's coronation, were placed at each end of the packer, which presented a brilliant appearance. The view comniandel from London bridge and the surrounding r.eighbourhood was ex. tremely interesting, the lustre of the illumination having the an. pearance of a thine issuing from the water, which attracted the attention of crowds of persons who assembled on the bridge and the banks of the Thames. Ceuntry dancing, quadrilles, the waltz. reel, and hornpipes, were pursued with animation until an early hour yesterday morn. ing, under the direction of :11r. Brown, the Steward. and Corium. Sore Nettleford. The company appeared highly gratified with the entertainment. We are happy to state that the contributions towards the Cha rity were very handlome. WILLIAM RAMSDEN ROBINSON. After the trials bud terminated on Monday evening, Mr. Atm. hams had an interview with Mr. Jusece Gaselr, fir the purpose o obtaining his Lordship's opinion as to what, unucr the peruharcir cumstances of this young gentleman's situation, ought to be done, to relieve hint front his present confinement. His Lordship un • equivocally gave his opinion in favour of the innocence of the young man, and lamented that the Jury who tried the case on Saturday, in which Mr. Dolby was the prosecutor, had given a verdict of guilty. lie, however ' was satisfied that Mr. Justice Burrough. ; who presided during that trial, whose opinion as to the innocene.: of Mr. Robinson was perfectly in unison with his own, upon being applied to, and informed of the acquittal of the young man upon the last three indictments. would et opt measures to prevent sentence being passed upon him, and to obtain his restoration to liber:y. Mr. Abrahams instantly set off post to Mr. Justice Burrough's rust in Kent, and presented him with a letter from Mr. Justice Gaseltc, stati-g the result of the trials which took place on Monday. Mr. Justice Burrotigh said, that being of opinion that 31r. Robinson was not the individual who had committed these mbberica, be should send an order to the Recorder not to passienter.ce upon him wilt the rest of the convicts, and en his arrival in London he should take such measures as would release him tiorn his present unfiotunate state. The Jury, who found the young man guilty in Dolby's case, hate subsequently expressed their regret at the circumstance, as they did it under an erroneous imprtssino,,• end they have expressed their willingness to sign a petition to his Ma jesty to grant a free pardon. • The defence in that case was an at o, proved by the brother of the prisoner (a half.pay officer), and his servant. The brother 'of the prisoner has, unfortunately, a nervous affection, and a little impediment in his speech. It was the manner in which he gave his testimony, and DOI the matter, that excited disbelief on the rail of the Jury. IF-NOVI All NATITNAI (21:1110=.1TY•—The General Hal• kett, just arrived from Sicr: a Leone, in the pert of Hull, has brought over a great rarity in these northern countries —a remarkably fine lire cainelcon. It has attracted con siderable atterrion, and we are given to understand, that a more gratifying or beautiful st,r2ciinen in natural history cannot be con c eived.—} - 0, L. Pap r. The stone on Wednesday evening last was not confined to England alone. In the Channel, and on the CORSE of France, the disturbed elements raged with terrific gran deur. Much agitation was fit on heard the vessels minim up Channel, from whom signal guns were continually fired for pilots, the weather changing successively to the very opposite extremes. The boats which night'y least the French coast, with expresses fur England, did not ct this oixasion put to sea, CO generally did an awful scrota• lion prevail among the maritime people, and which para. culariy evincNi itself in the more superstitious among tht lower class ef our continental ncighbours.—Kntish Ga. FATAL ACCID7NT.—On Thursday morning, as a Unit boy named lledtlington, about seven years old, whose mot ther was going out to make hay, was running along the flags in Lairgate, Beverley, holding a pitchfork by the prongs. and sliding the othtr end before him, be sudden! , met with some obstruction, and the prongs were bolt forced deep into bis hotly, one on each side the groin, which cautA his death within three hours.—rork ( - entrant 1.1 NN, 31'1.v IC—A melancholy accident cecnrred of Monday last at Snettisham, in this county. Mrs. Goilfery, the wifi of Air. Jolla liodferv, • respectable tanner, at that phre., accents psnied by • fernakinend, was taking a ride in a pony rg, and the pony starting from some cause or other, one of the reins broke, and in consequence of the other rein being puked, the pony ran up the bank GO the road side, by which the gig was upset, and the punt ran upon Mrs. Godfrey. A man, who almost Immediately AI came up, cut the harness to intricate the lady, but she had melee so severe an injury, that she instantly expired. Mrs. liotifery, who was very highly respected in the melt of her acquaintance, wt jam recovering from a keg and severs illness, and has left a di► catmint* husband and (one small children to lament their ierepara• Ide loss. 7 I w I ' ~' . .4 . ~ il ' ll 1 . . 1 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. ' ..-....-__ . ... COURT OF CHANCEIII . , WEDRESDAT, JULY 21. • • •. ?V THE MATTER OF THE LATE GENE OT (117RLXIWICRIT. • - Alt Tel:A*l,oV E reminded his Lor,eship that an order had Men t made by the Court in this eve, directing the RUT of 473,0001, ! i • Rank Annuities, to he sold, for the purpose of discharging certain of the claims standing nenimet the fund in the hands of the Court. The parties interested coosidered that the Pale of the entire stock e sould injure the market, cod wished bis Imr.ishin's pertnissioo to • bring it into the market in divided portions. Mr. ntesslove had the corsent of all the parties in immure of his Application. The Lorin CHANCEI.I.OO (with warmth)-.4l'itat, Mr. Tress- . love. have 1 to do site the market l• Affect the money minket/ ! 1 know nettling of the money market ; I don't nit here to aseYt the r realm:no ••f stock.jobling. D., you wont to lore me into a hAter f I "• attic the market !" I don't undersea/1d sere an applinli r o aw e ; ' 1 can't hoe' , to such a thing. If you think me wrong, Mr. love. I shall be happy t o b e corrected. ' ilr. To itss too K observed that the division of the fund at ilia tin.-of • ale nay ho of service in the Interest of the claimants. The Loan Intoner; LLOtt--I can't listen to it ; I can't under. e •e stnett such a ter.; - ; I cannot, sitting where I do, take any step with a vier to posture the slightest influence on the melte, motet, or any other market. • 1 Motion refuse!. . 1., e . HALSTED AND COLETHORE. . Mt. SHAY - MI:Lt. sti9.'d the cLeurnotances nt this caw. Fe Lail• • ft.' fence!: alsted purchased from therlefendant the Land-tax of an estate for 2210. and rtnnived the legal title deeds. A Megan te arose as to :he right of paying the expenses of the conveyance, amounting to /. ; each party contended that he ought not to p: , ty it. The matter i i was brought into ltancery. Ili% Honour the 'I I mrhenceller de. 1' . ciden that the plaintiff should pay the 7i., and made a decree di- recting Si* Lawrence Halsted to pay the purchase roma, and the •i.l 4, .! Internet Ott it, accuntulsteil niece he had recelrld poreessiot of the purchased property. The gallant Admind appealed tee * e his hcntship, who mfitmed his Honour's decree, and 07- i• tiered the Ailitdral to pay the purchase money and the interer. The Admiral left the country in the iaterim, having been nets Ted in his Majesty's ship Iris to 'Me West Indle, station. Thu object of the petweitt motion was, *at atomiee of the arta' weed on the Admiral's legal agent, might beethetred by MiLord- ship to stand as a valid ma ice on the Admiral himself. Mr. Shad- well's climits had made, thotZgli hushed with victory, the Wrest r and most moderate offers to the gallant Admiral. They proposed. in the spirit of cc:ciliation, that lie should either pay them the . . purchase money and subsequent interest ofthout proceeding. to . turthet litigation, or surrender the purchased property back IJ them. He would do neither. • The LORD 0/ANC Ci.Loa.—They Might ao well Mee lased the , Admiral tosurrender a twenty-four gun ship to them without fi rion 4 t; . 1 1 a shot. Mr. AGAR. fat Admiral ',slated, contended that the proceed . : i ' logs had not rearlici that point of consent:math:o stated on t he • , other side. His client had given notice of • motion to discharge his 1 Lordship's confirmatory order on the ground of its irregularity. That motion :vas not yet dispooed of; the matter of litigation ens fl 1 I still pending; he trusted, the:lore, that his Lordship would not make any conclusive order until that motion ishoidit have been di - & & ! cided. As to the boasted spirit of concifiation, the adrerse party n i ' . , showed no such thing ;,. in fact, they were actuat . : 4 l4rg e tt i g l h all this cane by a spirit of decided hostility , end that no coin. • 1 / man circumstance, viz. the importatann of Tom else I bones. t ' The admirers of that person's politics appointed a ptiblic procession on the occasion of his arrival. Among the other processional am. I ~ . meets. they wanted tanners and floes. Skt Jogrephe hod won several from the enemy in the course of his need battled. and hung them up in Alton Church, which mood near his mansion. The Painites took the liberty of pulling them down, and carrying them I 1 among the other funeral decorations in. del prtitession. le the course of their route they advanced even io far fue to Sir Lenrence's . 1 ' lodge, who having leaned the oat's to which the trOnifi l es of his , , ' hard-earned victones were perverted, ordered thetd to he removed i from the procession, and restored to their motet depository. "WM of the legal advisers of the present proceedings were friends to the summery of Paine, and of course unfriently to the Admiral for his - conduct on the occasion of the proceesion t from this arose the pet jj - ' sent hostility. Mr. Agar concluded a train of ingenious rmee. ' irg by expressing his hope that his Lordship would dismiss the ' nnition. . I The LORD CHANCELLOR Said that the Motion to discharge the order was not disposed of yet. The sum of money win& was the bone of contention in this case was not +ay Large, bat probably it could appear larger in the eyes of an Admiral of the n kite, Red, cr Blue, than an Admial of the Binh ?silky. His lordship re. gretted the filing of hostility in this cased but Admirals would r , sometimes lose their good humour rewards the bar, and sometimes . . Inch good reason. Thew did not generale held very high Videos of the bar. His Lordship remembered ha Admits", and oat of $ , high character too, who candidly told his Lordship that he did not A i think he could do greater service to the erdrntry than by hanging i' ... I . . up 200 lawyers. 11 hen his Lordship expressed his surprise az the . ' opinion, and asked the Gallant Admiral what were, In his esuma. non, rot cmstituents of a lawyer, he said he coesidered every mats - 4 , who could read o f write to be a lawyer. The quarrel on the pee. sent occasion was about 71. Hoe Lordship thonent seine time ago .$ . 11l . that he should hear no more of the business ; but if people would .. I . lt I quarrel about nothing, his Lordship could nee nemesia is. He re : . membered Lord Thurlow to have said In Weeirritnstser Hall, that 1 I lie would rather hear a dispute about a penny than about 6,61. nit 11.41 t would be more amusing, and lesis injurious. Since the ponies . here wished to come into conflict, his Lordship should help them .to do is-but by a judgment which ore of them would net like. I ~ , , Motion refused. . i ---woom-- t • ' it COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER. i • WEDYEADAT. JULY 21. • e KAY:SAID L. 111110 ICE AND OTnEns. k , ; I Mt. SCARLETT stated the pleiteirit case in this action, which ; / • we b Coati for the recovery o' 6JOI. and GAL from the defendants, e who were Directors of the Pelican Ineurance Office. These to es 1. - sun a w, r: the antount of two policies of insurance effected in the - mon th s of May and June, 11123 , on the life of Colette! Lyon, who t died at (iraveserd • n the 2d of November in the same year. . Th • foLowing wi _senses were called to sustsin the statement of i t 1 Co 11.1 : t . 9 Mr. iVniutcy depo ed. that Colonel Lyon being desirous to obtain I i !, . 1 . so ne money upon grantng an innate'', spelled to the plaintiffs in . i M y 13:3, foe the purp we of erecting it. The plaintiff held some t ' money as ovate. tesecomnieseate him with 6901. Ile imposed as I se ctuil t 3 insure his ife for the sum advanced. Colonel Lyon cap. '• peered , c online,' at r • Pelican Office in May, lirM. The agency . . . of a Mr. Spencer (smce de: ely win employed on the (evasion. Hit ' life hair ng been approved at the office the plaintiff adrarced the 't money. A similar contract for 6501. was entered into the June fol. ?'' Inwirm and the policy was effected on the Uri of July. 1323. The two packs were then put in and read. They p urported to be dn. I's t t i • cumcnts entitling the plaintiff to recover 1.3101. in the event of the li death of C eloael Lyon within seven years after the 16th of July. . . . '," Mr. P. H. Beaumont-1 am • surgeon residing at Gravelled ; . en the Vith of October lu:. I was called on to atter d Col. Leenet. It sub m I found very much indisposed. Ilc was affected with Why n and !sheered under an intermitting fever, which is a emplane 1 prevalent in our neighboutheod at that season of the year. 1 a - - r t tended every day until his death, which took place on the SI of d n November. IChen first I was called in he was very feeble and hal ' not any cherce of reewering. I attribute Iris death to exhaustion,. . produced by frequent attacks of fever. The certificate in the hand '' T • . 1 1 a writing et the witness was then produced ; it was to the effect that * the death of Colonel Lyon was occasimed by intermitting fem. n Mr. Dobey examined-I am a surgeon, residing at - Islington, : Y i . le I knew the late Colonel Lynn vet well, and considered him a I n sum of good health in the year lieM. Eight months before his ' I d if teleath, I met him walking between his house in Alfred-place and *• Rusoell.squarm lie suss then in good health. I visited him he A 9 ' AOctober, at Graveoend and found him then labouring under great 1 If debility. His debility was occasioned by the irritability of Me stomach. I staid with him five hours; he was then in anxious • • .'I I expectation of his sot's arrival in the River. I knew Captain : I _ . Chain, of Hormey ; Col. I.yon and he intercherged visits. • k ' 31r. D. Dobey examined-I am in partnership with the last wit- * nem I knew Cl.e Lyon in lIC2 and 1/ 1 .7. and considered hi t s a • i iii rt • penes in *good state of health. I have linown him to walk io 1823 from AltiMplare. to see Captain Chain, in Ilnensey. The , distance is tone mike. Colonel Lyon stinted frequently from Ite2l i T 1 - to nt.n. 1 considered him in good health when he went t r ' et Gravesend. , t le veieed. . • A Captain (nein examined-I live In Romney-med. I first knee 1 . Colonel byes in 11118. I menoidered biro in good health ohms in• i • ..,.. went to Gravesend. He expressed great anxiety about his son, a whom he expected daily in the Riv.r. 1 I Oa his cross-examination, he stated that he returned from the West Indies in the year 11112. From which tine, up to Colonel d Lyon's visit to Gravesend, they interchanged visits Ca. Lvo., ) , ,i• fired in Chichester in the year Rile. After he left Chichester; in • I . the year IWO, 1 met hint in landau. Josh. Donald-I am a fish-monger, residing in Tottenham- A t • ' ig . court-rood. I supplied Col. Lyon with fish in the year 1822 and • Iy 11813, and during that time I considered Vol Lyon to be a mars . • le enjoving good health. He left London for Gravesend, and thee fe am:eared to be in geed health also. II ' ,„ I'. Jones saw Col. Lyon on the day that the annuity deed we, • ".. executed, and he appeared then to be in good health. a - ('Hess - examined - was not the owner of any part of the money s :i- advanced to Col Lyon. . le Wen. Keppel examined-I was present when Col. Leon er- a _ , muted the annuity deed, at Mr. Spence's house, in Yawata! - road. lie appeared to me at that Mein mad health. le tes S jint ) r e iv hee s e s eed to th ee e e h m ealthlf ee C e"ne rre; eeetteteA the reeegutrC i il 1 . • n. O" The A•• /011Xtr-GESEIIIAL, foe the defend's:in, contended 1, 7 that the present planted' was not entitled to recover, in comequencr . : he of the tonrepresentation made by Colonel Lynn. as odorant state h of his health. The polity of insurance retitled him to rec.:- t \f: fit only on the condition that h e e m a h n in sw la c t re th d et tr i , , i s rf ,e y u m w d usb eametl the 4 1 t i.. 1,. y . questions which were -1. as was effected. Ks tie?s e , e t 'et had been atterded by a physhian for a St. conoith mete time previous to his dissolution, and he referred emir on to one oho had attended him seventh years before. It also arneserd ife that he had medical attendance in the Interval between the citation m. the first and second policy of instituter. Witnewes would appear 1 b e to estabi iii these facts, which would elision* the palsied( to moor td the amount of either of the WHOA for which the Otionel's ties , I he had been insured. • is The tidlowing witnesses were then ailed) :- ter Edward ( o t t. n i: :: c . t w h l c e : el l3 C t i h; n o c f . h M - il a t l y n • a l t r a i t i a e t e a l e im pro reTh rms::il t ail he wre e i t l e a ell an d d e leeere p p i:Et i thL li ti c .. 1: . . e .... .4" usual questions to hins Inspecting Colonel Lyons s health. 1 a'a A ja iri7 : a read t printed t e . ra nn questions, d t o e 1 I i n' e 'do tooknn . applying ll4 henoa down n Ih to ithea lu al l dw h erst i h s e ii e fe4n e eu l°e" r f‘ ed it l ite' l itile pu 'eeti . t lit it .. . l e t ...../ .." ..- F ..as , • .....• , coC f e .11 7m:iv 'ant. env Tel*. teeth , nt! 6 owl. od olteel 'snit r.tl re itr babas lomat set*. lad of 1 -eh* it with t:g r I n Il ,ataril• 4 , %DLL nbist 11 tics irV :tit 197.7 Fro AMP' . •ad nu. hose .10 woto p, with ae of Os w i t h the bY ors Pcirw s e goal •