The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-02-17 00:00:00

F.4SIIIONADLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Gloucester had a dinner party yesterday at Glou ctsker House. The Marquis of Lans3own has issued cards of invitation for a dinner party on Friday, at Lansdown House, Berkeley-square. E. Ellice, E‘q. M.P. entertained adistinguished party at dinner, yesterday, at hi. house in New -street, Spring-gardens. Mrs. Bennet had a select circle of fashiunables yesterday at her house in Privy-gardens. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have arrived at their house in Park-place, ht. James's, from their seat . Hatfield. Lord Arundel' ha s arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from ardour . . . Lord and Lady Ilaynicg and family have arrived at their house in Seymour-place, from their seat, Honningham, Norfolk. Lord and Lady Forester have left their seat, Willie Park, Salop, for the Duke of Rutland's. Ilelvuir Castle. The Alarchitmess of Tavistock has left town, for her seat, Oakley House, Bedfordshire. Lord and Lady Langford and family arrived yesterday at their house in Berkeley-square, front their scat, Cooper's Hill, Surrey. Dowager Lady Anson has arrived at her house in Curzno-atreet, May Fair, front her son ' s (Lord Anson) scat, in Sta ff ordshire. • Arrival at the 11'atef100llotel, Jermyn-Ereet :—Viae oun t B ev y, from the Continent. De parture:—Ross. Colonel Arden, fur his sent, Pepper Hall, Yorkshire. Charles Fitzgerald, Esq. left Crillon's Hotel, Albemarle-stmt, ignatertley, for the Continent. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel. St. Jamees-atreett—Lord Wilt. froni a tour; the 11.41. Mr. Twiatleton, front a tour; the Rev. J. Billington slid Edward Phillips, Esq. Arritals st the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-stmt:—Captain Dent, from Westmorland ; and the Rev. J. F. Floyd, front 1 ork shire. Departures :—Capiain M'Coy, for his feat, Bay Hail, Vorkshi;e; aed 1). M. Mitchell, Esq. for his seat, Cost Love, ----- Departures from the London Hotel, Albemarle-streetr—Captain Drown. R.N., Mrs. Brown, and Miss flotne; Mr. and Mrs. 1110. rant and Miss Seymour. for their seat. Purbruok Park, Hants. Dayarturiss from Fladong's Hotel, OxforlAtrert:—Sir Thomas and Lady Phillips for Middle Hill. Worcestershire; General Mo. Cnetra for Cheltenham; Col. and 111ra. Schenck, for Hampton ourt; Samuel Tyssen, Esq. for Swanam, Norfolk; John Hodg e*, Zaq. for CbigwelL Essex ; Thomas Stoner, Esq. for Hanley. upon-Thames. The Speaker's Parliamentary Levees for the present Ses glow will commenoe on Saturday, the Ilat instant. Mr. Lambton is spending a short time with Earl Grey, at Devonport. The Earl of ('ork is now on a visit with Lord Clinton, at Mil ill lr seat, Heanton Sate.e, near Hather ki g h . . .. . An high Earl, hitherto in Opposition, is mentioned as likely to succ..eil to the Colonelcy of an Irish regiment of Militia; and the pri sent vacancy in his borough is to be' BllNl up by a Ministerial Member.—/hiblin Freeman's' Journal. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Wingfield, we learn, has re:eked hi■ appointment as Master in Chancery, in the room of Chief Baron Alexander. _ _ _ _ We are requested (says the Tyne Mercury) by T. W. Beaumont, Esq. M.P., in consequence of a misrepresen tation in a Sunday paper, to state what are the " infamous allegations" alluded to in his advertisement of the 19th of January. They relate to an assertion must industriously circulated, of that gentleman having been, within a law period, "under a mental delusion," and to a report as in tamonsly and maliciously invented, of that gentleman's marriage with the daughter of a northern Baronet having been broken off, in consequence of a discovery of his being already married to a fork ign lady. The allusion to an in tended marriage with the beautiful daughter of a noble Earl is totally unfounded.-1 t, Conduit -street, London, February 3. ROYAI. ACADEMY.—Yesterday evening, J. rsianan,' Esq., R.A. give his first Lecture on Sculpture, at the Royal Academy. Sir T. Lawrence presided on the occasion. We were softy to observe a very thin attendance of both Academicians and Students; for, although them was nothing either striking or novel from his former L^ctures, yet there was enough of information and intelligence to de serve a better attendence. Coves T.G.AaDEN Thesvax.—Romeo and Julie, was performed at this house last night. Miss F. H. Kelly 'played Julie', with all that grace and feeling wljeh have hitherto eleiraeti razed her delineation of this favourite of Shakespear.'s. Miss, Kelly was warmly greeted by the audience on her entree, and throughout the performanc received that liberal and encouraging support which she so highly deserves. On Monday, Mr. Young, from the Drury-lane bonnie, played ./Leeniet at the Exeter Theatre; and on Tuesday, Zasget, to full and brilliant houses ; en Friday, king Lair; and this evening, for his benefit, and being the last night of his performing, Sir Perrino.: Marsycuphanl.— Devon Freeholder. I.‘-situen ape, ARG LL-R00315.—A masquerade ' on an extensive scale, task place last evening at the Argyll Rooms. The three large rooms were thrown open for the reception of company, which throng d in crowded attend :lee to th, rooms from an early hour. The gentlemen were not very generally masked, bat the ladies veiled their charms in black silk masks, which they occasionally raised to reveal their beauties to the admiring par; of the visitants of the other sex. Each lady was accompanied by a beau, and so far the a.settibly assumed the appearance of much pro; r:ety ; but such geneemen is went unaccompanied by a fair companion, did not find an introduction difficult fur the ':any, or other entertainments of the evening. There were f w well-sustained characters ; perhaps the best was an it a moan, the father of Langan, in search of his son, accompanied by a dumb child of the pugilist, who pl tyeel many fantastic trick;; anti an , at:i ed in appropriate cestunri, who displayed all the fero city of a Sylvan savage. There ware stone well-dressed Jews, Turks, &c., but they did not " act well their part." Quadrilles and waltzes were kept up with unremitting spirit until an advanced hour in the morning. Tiee best part of the entertainments was certainly the supp:r, which was supplied on moderate terms, in a style and profusion Wittily creditable to the proprietor. Ul7lll/11111 FEB. 'O.—MARRIAGE TN SCOTLAND.—The Sherif ef Domfrieshire, we understand, was engaged last week In investigating the practice of certain neighbouring' Magistrates in celebrating what are called clandestine' marriages. This practice may be explained in a single sentence. The lore-sick couple appear before a Magis trate, and there acknowledge that they have came upon a needless errand, by testifying to the fact of a previous marriage—an allegation which is very charitably ad mitted as a fact ;—aird all this with the view of soothing the fair one's feelings by oltainiag the signatures of respectable witnesses. The Minister of the parish (as we hear) receives the certificate of this farce as a substitute for the regular proclamation of banns, and performs the usual ceremony of the Church between the parties. The candidates for this easy mode of entering into matrimony have increased prodigiously since the passim , of the late English Marriage Act; and even in Scotland lovers have become so new-fangled that the S asion Clerks have been cheated out of many a fee.—(Assarere Cheord.le. TRADI.—The ropespinners in Glasgow have lately re ceived several foreign ordent, and they are at present throngsr and in better spirits than they hare been at any time since the termination of the war.—Glasgoto Paper. For the last two or three weeks the price of grain row with a rapidity that threatened to be ultimately ruinous to the British farmer, as it must necessarily have opened the ports to the impatation of foreign grain had it conti nued a little longer. Happily for both growers and consumers this rise has met with a check, and we trust that the price will be such that our manufacturers shall it 11 eat exclusively the produce of our own farmers, who, in return, are much better customers than any foreign fanners to our manufacturers.—(;fargoro /brad. Curt x FientllT.—The herring f shery this season, in the Frith of Forth, has been very productive, affording, the fishermen remark. a no at seasonable . compensation to them for the extraordinary deficiency of oysters. Last season the shoal of herrings scarcely ventured farther than Inchkeith ; but some wet ks ago they went so far up as the Queensferry, where they still remain. About 200 boats mumble every morning from the diferent ports of the Frith, of whtch twentv-six belong to Newhaven. The number generally taken by one boat amounts to two, three, or four thousand. On Tuesday, however, owi:ig chiefly to the low tides and the strong gales of wind, none of the bow obtained more than 200.—Edi ibargh Paper. The number of private buildings erected within the city of Edinburgh and its dependencies, during Vie year 18 CI, amounted so 376. Hazard and Co. respectfully remind the Public that the 4 tte ems n :se '1 hursday, when the two first Prizes will be ,tuled to 20,011111. each ' • the Scheme conrainine seven Price s of and every Blank drawn the first day will have a accent "'qua*. or the holder may receive 101. before the loth of 11an h ilua-d and Co.'s 01J Established and Fortunate 1 Ace*, Royal ; 26, Cornhill. and 324, I.llst*or.l-street; and of l'iteat.street ; where Capital Prins 'lave been sold, amounting to maxim FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. Yesterday we received, by express, the Courrier Francais, Journal flee Debuts, and Conslilutiunnel of Saturday ; to gether with the Etuile of Sunday's date. (From the Ebik.] PART& Fre. IA. Advice. from Algiers state that a decided misunderstanding has broken out between the Hey of Algiers and the American Consul. 31. Schaller. The cause of it, it is said, is the animosity which exists between the Algetines and the floors, and the order given by the Dey to put the latter to death. The American Consul hied in his service several Moors, whom the Algenne Prime Minister., at the head of a corps of troops, attempted to seize, in the Hotel of ihe Consulate, in which they were concealed by 31. Schaller, who declared that he would defend them at the risk of his own life. This was the state of things at the departure of the hut courier. It is now certain that orders have been given that the columns of Spanish prisoners (who were to have marched at state) periods, so that all of them should arrive in Spain ere the end of .March), are to remain at the several depots until further orders. Six squadrons of Chasseurs have received orders to reinforce the Army of Omupation. _ _ NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, JAN. 9. IVe have received authentic nears that General Ulysses Andrus° has taken by assault the important fortress of Karistos, in the Isle of Negropor.t. CORTI!, J AY. 18. Letters from Smyrna announce that a Turkish squadron, which wag going in Nude to the relief of Smyrna, has been surprised in the sea of Marmon by &dreadful tempest. It is almost entirely destroyed—fire frigates and six brigs have been cast on shore, the rest arc disabled. From the Jorrmal des Deboto.l OME. JAN. 30. His Holiness has been confined to his bed si xt y four days. lii. state, however, is much more favourable. _ , JAW. 21. We have received letters from Constentinople of ODESSA the 13th inst. The embarramments of the Porte still continue. The recent sue. teas of the Greeks hare deeply wounded their feelings. Not one Turkish ship has dared in appear no the see since the return of the ('apitsu Paella to Constantinople, anti the primates of Ipsara have declared to the Consuls of Europe that they would intercede foe the city of Smyrna, that the repose of the Gulf of Smyrna was not likely to be obtained by any other means so soon as by paying a tri bute; that the Greeks were carrying on anational a Al legitimate war against the Turks, and they were acting conformably to the sa cred principles of the law of nations. The last numbers of the Sprcratenr Oritalal (133 and l 3(, arc very interesting. They announce (which appears encouraging to the Turks, and to make them forget their disasters in Areannia) great victories of the Turks in Candia ; 31; Greek tillages having been burnt, and 7,4 011 Greeks made prisoners. But, says the Sp-flatcar, 18 brigs of war have repa:red to 3lissolonghi, the blockade of which place had been abandoned by the Turks, who had retired into the Gulf of Lemont.. In consequence of which, the islanders, being at once 111:1SLCIN both of the sea and of the passage, have quite time to bring into that place all the provisions of which they stood in need. It is said that they have all kimls of provisions for two years. In addition t., this, it must be remembered that the place is defended by Constantin Hozzari. Beside,. the army, which had blockaded it by land, had retired, doubtless because the Pachas had judged it was useless to wait in vain Mr • place which they had no hopes of being able to take by famine. PARIS. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDEXT.I FEBRUARY 12. The weather continues fine, and we are in the heyday of feasting and festivity. Except that now and then a ci ip- I pled pilgrim importunes the charity of the tees charitable mu' slew, we should not know-110T shall we know till the end of the month, when our furlough of frolic expires— that there is any such thing as wretchedness in the world. Governments, or rather the Sovereigns of Governments, as they arc modified in this our slay, seem fully of opinion that their yaw ' , weer and the general prosperity of their enh jecte can never be both fixed on the same base; and it must be admitted that, taking their view of the subject, they are not very widely mistaken. General prosperity can proceed only from the general difffision of property, and from this arises that substantial power in the great I ody of the people, with which in any great crisis the Sovereign must in vain hope to contend. Every determined struggle with it must he at the risk of his throne. It is the general diffusion of property, and consequently of leisure, which creates that great middle class of knowledge and wealth, to which in England yon owe all your prac tical liberty. At to the representative principle, even if it existed in its purity—which it does not, nor any thing like it—and as to the forms of the Constitution, if they were even any thing more than fLress--which they are not — still without this great middle class, in which the soul and strength, and spirit of freedom resides, the Constitution would become a dead letter, and liberty an empty name. It is the publirpre,s which curbs the will and controls the measures of Ministers in England, and it is by persons moving in this class, and constituting by far the most moral land the most enlightened portion of the community, that presiding energy of talent is furnished, which the press sends forth to the world. It is from this perennial spring of rea son and intelligence that the public mind is fed, and public spirit cherished and kept alive. lied America been peopled Irene any other country than England, she would never have established such a system of government as she framed for herself when separated from her moiler country. Ile r industry, both before her separation and since, has always been directed to productive purposes; she has no host of placcinen to feed upon her labour or to fatten upon her capi;al. Time spirit of such a Government, from the wide' extension of its wealth, must be republican: it cannot, from its very nature, be oppressive, while it remains what it is, iiecnuse the rights of property are co-extensive with the whole population, and there is no supreme will that dares flagrantly to violate them; nor any supreme power that has, or ever can have, the means to silence or to satisfy the numbers whose discontent must be disposed of, before corruption could establish her empire, and the children's bread be given to the .lo s. But a truce with polities. A curious accident occurred vesterday in the Champs Elysers. An elegantly-plumed damsel, mounted on a beautiful charger, accompanied by a gay and youth ful chevalier, and followed by a servant in livery, while riding at a conversation pace, suddenly uttered a piercing shriek, and fell from her seat in a swoon. number of persons from the throng ran instantly to her assistance: among then was observed a gentleman, who rushed forward with violent imp-tuosity towards the lady. The groom appeared thunderstruck, and the chevalier, lost in surprise, fixed his eyes for a moment on the fainting fair out., with an air of pAplezed astonishment ; then, turning to the persons who surrounded them, and entreat ing their kind attentions towards het, lie darted from them with the greatest precipitation, and in a few momt nts wholly disappeared, leaving every one astounded at the singularity of the adventure, which has given rise to many coryectures. At present the whole is enveloped in mystery. The lady was placed in a carriage, and conducted in safety to her residence. The arts here are in a state of great prosp:rity, considering the obstacles which their pros r. as has to encounter. I have just received from Paulin timcrin, a pwoof, on vellum, of a lithographic engraving from his beautiful painting of Venus and Anchises, now placed in the gallery of the .• Luxemburg. It is considered the most perfect specimen which has yet been produce': in that branch of art, and bespeaks the extraordinary talents of the artist, who it very Young. We seem in no condition, however, either bete or elsewhere, to rival the treasures of ancient art. lire appear to hive lost much of the genius, as welt as the strength of our forefathers. If I were a philosopher, I should sit down gravely to trace this to its true cause, but I content myself with t he fact, which is indisputable. But 1 con sole myself with theconvietion that we are improving, and I look to " the coming on of time," to elevate us to the high and palmy state of our ancestors. The Parisians have a great fondness for caricature; but with the exception of sotne occasional good things, they ex hibit nothing which displays the graphic wit and sarcastic humour which so perpetually amuses one in the London print shops. The Boulevards swarm with prints repre senting the expedition of the French army into Spain, in most of which the heroic Duke d'Angouleme cuts a conspi cuous figure. The other day a new lithograph of the tak ing of the Trocadero came out, in which the Duke is tie piced at the head of his troops, sword in hand, leading his foll Avers to victory. The complimentary artist has here been guilty of a slight anachronism—The bake teat nut pre text at the ha jag td that place. The Society of Agriculture, Arts, and Sciences at Macon (Somme et Loire) have proposed the following point for de cision by h Ist August, Int :—For comparing the French and English literature in the department of novel writing, to determine to which nation the palm of superiority should be assigned in that branch of composition. 'I he prize tor the best dissertaticn is a gold medal, value 300 francs. The Edinburgh Reviewers, if I mistake not, have already dis cussed this question. The proposed prize has somewhat the appearance of an aT IN al from their verdict. r Ki 11;.., 1,-se alth 1 3 ,4 e a vett ;uu- , ac w•as d to [ the it of the essrs ;hich Con y un ba- t fie p 4 in k wilt cot. B 0 1 1 . an` am: 0111 1 c nor a• nt. on o n; or iv, a nk I n n sill upo o er of ' ,000, WEST We have receierd the following to intelligence froth Jamaica I I Tow, Dec. 20. At a Special Slave Court, held in the C -House at Matralsra Town, in the parish of St. Maty, on the inst. the following slaves were tried, and sentenced to be trans hr life, viz.:— Jacob, to James Deana, Esq. for runniogliway.—Value 101. Abraham Davis, to Ric hmond estate, for ditto—Value 301. Quaw, to Francis Bowen, for ditto.—Vain, London. to Hobert Alexander, Esq. for dilltm—Valae George Bryan, to Agualta-Vale Pen, for Riteo—Value 501. TRIAL. OF THE REBELS. The Court adjourned till the next day, fort the trial of the follow ing slaves, charged with being concerned in rebellious conspiracies, and committing other crimes, to the ruin and destruction eF die white people, and others of thin island, and :or mew, and proniiiting others thereto and also for being M re bellion, and designing to commit murder, felony, •'. to set fire to tertAln houses, out-houses, and Ott:pass' • , in the death of the white people is the raid pari s h. all found guilty on the clearest evidence, and ten to be ' hanged. I leruy Hibbs, to J. Walker. Esq. —Value Charles Brown, to Frontier Estate.—Value NE. James Sterling, to ditto.—Value 651. Charles Iratsmi, to ditto..--Value 801. Rodney Wellington; to ditio.—Value 701. NVilliain Montgomery, to ditto —Value 1001. Richard Cooley, to ditto.—Falue 1001. Morris Henry. to ditto.—Value 901. Ou their defence they denied the charge, agrailid they were well used, and clothed, and were quite hnpoy. One of them, Charles IVatsoo, declared that he never was punished In his life; drat great trust was put in him, and he wa4 as well of as if he was free. Execution of the Rebels.—The above culprits were exoceed at Port-Maria, in the most 'oleic n and impressive manner, onlVid nesday, in pursuance of his Grace's wartimt. Richard Corky ac knowledged his guilt to the Rev,. Mews. (Hod and Cooke. They were unremitting in their ant/Starlet ets the wretched end d eluded beings* - - - - - - - - From the evidence, it appeared beyond dm shadow of a doubt, ' that they defigned to set fire to Friatier works, adjoistias Port. Maria, and to butcher the whites sad free persons of colour, as ' they came to extinguinh the Era, then to come down in the town, and take possesaion of it, while a detachment seised the fort.— ' Putdic ilticcrater. George and Pompey, slaves to Mr. Jame Graham, error of colour, wcre tried (Or being present at a meeting, formlid L e r r. S: purpose of administering unlawful oaths, by drinking human blood mixed wilt rum, and having taken a general oath of fidelity Mid secrecy to each other ; they were found guilty, and sentenced to be transported off the island fur life. 11[1xnaxort, JAN.IO. On Monday morning General Sir John Kean e inspected the 50 11 regiment, at l'p-l'ark Camp, under the ornmand of Lieutenant Colonel Ilarrison, when they went through the different evolutions and firing, in a manner to give entire app0168•10a to the General. The anilina guards in this city were diskontinued at ten o'clock the same morning ; and it is ossifying to have to state, that the ut most decorum, regularity, and grad diitipline prevailed in the ge trdn throughout the tine they were ke . A letter tram Grenada. dated Deem r 17. mentions that the, Assembly of that inland had disgreed to a report from a Committee, recommending amendments in their Slave haws, as they deemed it inexpedient to meddle with them at such a period of alarm. The object was expected to he taken up next year. There is a remark able coincidence in these proceedings with what ban taken place in this inland. The eases are, howerer, similar, and it is no great wo tier that their feelings should be so. There can, or ought to be, but one opinion throughout the Test Indies. Tho letter mentions that all classes in the island were quiet and doing well.—St. Jog° Gametic. Jon. 8. - A latter from Port Antonio, dated the bth inst., states—" Every thing is perfectly quiet here. and has been so during the holidays-- tun the least appearance of any dissatisfaction. Two omipanios of the Portland Militia and the troops were an guard, both of which are now d smisacl." BUFF BAT, ST. nICOROW'S, Jan. B. This morning, at eleven o'clock, their Honours. Robert Gray, Robert G. Kirkland, and David A. lull. Dates. took their seats MS Justices of the Pence, fur the purge/tic of holding a Court of Quar ter-Sessions and Common. Plena, is also a Slave-Court, for the trial of twenty-one slaves. charged with serious crimes, many of a minor nature. The Deputy-Marshal not attending with the venire, the Courts were obliged to be adjourned until the usual period, and a Special Slave-Court was appointed for Monday, the litth Their Worships observed, that although some inconvenience might arise to the Juror, yet the putting ofrthe Slave-Court would be of material benefit to the ceontry at - large, se a slave bad that morning been apprehended, who had given moat important infor mation. such as we understand will enable the Magistrates to dis cover the whole plot. The negroes on eight or ten properties (not before implicated) are named, sad the principal object of the con spiracy has bile° found out. There are nine slaves more in the gee). charged with conspiring against the Government—and one fur anudi.v, and eleven for petty ofirtrtes. The Justices directed the Clerk of the Peace to inform the De laity-Marshal, tha4,it was elsostajollisetyliasey that he should have an office in the parish, as Mauch fhtoovemence arose from there not being one. It is said that one of the principal cor.spiraton (hut who is not yet taken) is the sun of a man who was executed many years ago for rein:Pion. The militia guards were discontinued on the sth inst. The gaol is guarded by ape/1y of Maroons. Motergoo BAY. JAN. 2. NVe have before mentioned_tkat the Magistrate, of this parish, in consequence of infonnation Mt, had remind, considered it neces sary that the militia should be called out, and they have sine; been sedulously engaged in the investigation of the subject. which gave rise to 'beide' that precautionary measures were Farr. Without pre:eading to know more on the subject than has gained publicity, we consider ourselves correct in stating, that improper ar.d illegal meetings have taken place, under the cloak of the festivities usual at this season of the year, at which much of what some would call idle conversation, but which we call infl_mmatory and treasonable language, took place; that there has been no organised plan we can readily believe, but we think it may be attributed to premature discovery. FALMOUTH. Jaw. 11. The militia guards which were mounted in this parish on the 211 oh. at Hyde hall and Good Mope estates, and Falmouth, were 1 1 relieved daily until 51ontlay, when they were discontinued. The full attendance of officers and privates, at their respective stations, at the hour of parade, was a proof of their alacrity and willing. ness : and the general good conduct of the several guards reflects not only credit on themselves, but on the commanding officer, Colonel Miller. This is the result, not of good will alone, but of discipline also ; and we, thatfore, feel assured, that the Tre lawny regiment will be found, in any emergency, worthy of the high confidence we must proud repose in it —Cora:war Con rier. A violent and tumultuous a ffray took place at Sola's Market on Saturday afternoon, between some negroes, the issue of which, it was feared, would have . pored fatal to a negro man from Saint George's. This negro, in carrying his load through the market, trod, accidentally, as we leant, on some articles laid out for lade by a negro woman, who, notwithstanding the man immediately apo. logised, worked herself into a violent passion, and having procured the assistance of • man, supposed to be her husband, they both seised the unsuspicious ratan by tile throat, and were not separated from him till he appeared to have been strangled. A scene of dreadful uproar took place, and a military guard was called out, on the approach of which the negroes lied 11l all directions, and in Nee utmost consternation, making a most hide ius noise, leaving their stalls, bowls with provisions, and other articles, to chance, which they hail sadly to deplore; for, as soon as order had been restored, which was in a few minutes, the milers, on their return, to their great mortification, found that they had been plundered by some arttul thieves. who had taken advantage of the confusion to carry off a great quantity of goods and provisions. We under stand that the negro, though much injured in the array, is much better ; he was carried to Gr. Vidal, who afforded every medical at tention to him.—Kingston Cl/4roulele. SOUTH .4.4fERIC'il. the trdope, -Tim took from him dl tte ptovisioos he could spate, fix 111111:11 ilicy paid.—Nut. Air. CADACCAS, Nov. 10, 1023. IMPORTANT NEWS. rem the rettrzulento Ettnewdittary, of 9th inst. It P. 111.1 e have just had the satisfaction of conversing with Geoid Santiago 11Iarine, from whom we hare lams the valiant saints moot of our troops againvt Porto eavelho. At two o'clock yesterday morning the battalion of Anaemessei , commanded by Major Gala, and Ibo lancers of the guard, attend Puerto Cavelho by the way of the Mangle, and surp-iscd the gar rison, to the mituber of live handled Imo, including their chick Cabe& sod Careers, in the inner sown. All were put to the edge ef dee dead. The enomy had hadvflerrashness to contemn ehni retrials of capitulation, whist his Eatillle, General Pan, previously nusde them. Our bated. bid We% firing an the WWI 'all the preceding day, and hilts teteatted keratoid by the reesge at half-past eight at night the ItttarceafitAr afid, wets She Net retiFue, tondrlll t&elp, to 011t.4* Our Itatearliware eel • thar%igrat death& $ * hew arrived honk** have as it i ev e tw ,„ Whim • The ea/render of the citadel *lce the whole garrison were in the inner taws; ths. atorelhan thirty men in the citadel. The va liant Oman's Pam Ilinnutlet. and Merino, have had the glory of terminating, by their united efforts, tie war of Venezuela, and with it all its accompanying evils. Countryttveu!---"l'he temple of Janus is shut. May blessings ate tend the defender, of the country ! MEX:CO. It appears from a late Mexican Paper, that a Field-Marshal. two lirigadier-Generala, lire Colonels, three Captains, and other 011icrrs and Cairns, amounting to thirty, had been actually im prisoned, charged with a cote p iracy to overturn the present Govern. merit. A short address to the inhabitants of Mexico had beam published, congratulating them on the discover) of this dangerous conspiracy, at the moment it was about to take effect, acid which is stated to hare had for ha object •• the restoration of the execrable thrones( Iturbitle. MILITARY AND NAVAL PENSIONS. An Account of the several Sums which, pursuant to two several Ada etch, 3d and 4th of his Majesty, will becumf p_aphle be tween the 6th day of April, 11124, and the sth day of AirrlT,llll2, by the Trustees in whom an Annuity was vested for providing for the burden occasioned by Military and Naval Pensions, and Civil Supgrannuations, viz. 15th April - 1824 - X 1,175,060 15th July . .Ittll - - 1,175400 20th Oct. • - 1/14 1.133.1500 16th Jan. . 1525 - 1,133.000 1:4,620,000 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Saturday morning, sailed from Pmtsmouth, the Phaeton frigate, Captain Sturt, with Commissioner Lewis and family, for ; and irilitam Marks, Esq. his Majesty's Consul in the province of Grenada, for Malaga. Friday, the Tamar, 24 guns, Capt. Bremer, which rived on Thursday, from Chatham, proceeded to Ply. mouth, to embark (it is believed). four Officers and a party of marines for N. &nth Wales and Norfolk Island. SHIPPING INTE E NCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, FEB. IG. INWARDS. _ . ENTERED . .......- Yrouw Maria, Robyret (Borman, broker), from Lisbon. Auguste. Orandin (Simon, broker). from Havre. Emilie, V. Kerk bore ( Dc Die, broker), from Ostend. • Hazard, Sfdly (Schofield, broker). from Dunkirk. Duke of Kent, Pound (Ball, broker), from Rotterdam. Favorite, Billings (Hopkins, broker). from Charleston. Cordelia, Bulby (Burnett, broker), from Saloe. Lord Cathcart, Dipnall (Green and(o. brokers), from Odessa. Oscar. Jamieson (Pirie, broker), from Demerara. Prince of ‘Vaterloo, Page (Drinkald, broker), from Ostend. IEIISII/MIY 14. ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Jonge Hendrick, for Amster dam ; Aurora, ror Riga; Orion, for Elsineur; Eliza, for Kunigs. burgh ; Pelican, for Antwerp $ and Rambler, for flansburgh. CLEARED OCTIVARDS.—The Thames. for Ceylon; Elite, and Earl Bathurst, for Rotterdam y Crisis, for Sierra Leone ; and Eliza, for Plymouth. a !NO 01:7 wait ns.—The Thetis, for Lisbon; Atlantic, Iraq Roston ; Rambler, for Fayel; Cyrus, for Bahia; Heroes, for Calais ; Brittannia, for Tobago ; and Caroline, for Batavia. ---.,•.-• FROM LLOYD'S LIST. name - writ, FED. Lt.—Arrived the FIMCII frigate and Dwarf cutter, and sail* . again for Dublin; Marquis of Queensberry packet, from Jamaica—sailed 13th ultimo. Sailed the Duke of Ma.lbormigh packet, for Lisbon; Providence, Antelope, and In dustry, for ditto; Zephyr, Walton, for Sierra Leone; Lord Mal grave, Orecnslatle, for Leghorn ; Perthshire, Sangster, for St. M ichael`s ; Good Intent, Temkin, far Tamils 4 Paaoy.liail4.jse Seville; and Riga, Royal, for Tobago. FALMOUTH, FEU. 14.—The Queensberry packet sailed from Jamaica on the 13th of January, and saw the Lord Sidenouth packet going into Port Royal. Feb. 12, exchanged signals with ' his Majesty ' s brig Magnet. On the 20t h January, fell in with a brigantine, waterlogged, with " Admiral Fable, of Antigua," written on her stern, nobody apparently on board, and both masts stripped. Feb. 3, passed a brig of about 230 tons, with only one mast standing, no rudder, and the stern completely open, which shewed a round-house abaft, and a passage to it from the deck ; the wheel painted green : she had a yellow side, with a black rib bon at the lower part, and a worked moulding on the upper part. painted light blue ; her name could trot be seen, and she appeared to hare been abandoned. PtAcmonctr, Fen. 14.--Sailed the Commerce, Adams, for Oporto; Fortune, —, fur Palermo; Maria, —, for Saint Michael's; Prince of (Thum, l'remaync, for St. Michael's; Prothcvs. Lawson, fur Ferrol ; and Duchess of Somcntet, Stevens, for Charente. Cowgs, Frm. 15.—Mailed the whole of the outward-bound. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Duke of Bedford, Cun ningham, from London, for 3ladras. All the outward-bound have sailed for their difrerent destinations, except the Duke of Redford, which ship remains fur passengers. DEAL, Fre. It —The wind shifted to the eastward this day, about live p. ni. when the whole of the outward-bonnd sailed. The Resolution, Gibbs, arrived this morning from Jamaica, and re mains, having been supplied with a new anchor and cable. FEBRUARY 15.—Arrived the Frances Henrietta. Dickenson. from New York, and sailed for the Hirer. A fleet of outward. bound vessels passed about noon. from Ramsgate harbour, and several vessels are passing at the back of thetModwin Sands, bound down Channel _ _ SIIEERNtss, FEY'. 14.—The Thames, Limon, bound to Cey lon, has been got off the Middle Ground, and arrived to-day, with ; out damage. 14:a n rani' 13. Sailed the Thames, Litson, for Portsmouth. vi:u root., FEU. 13.—Arrived the Franklin, Garver. front New Orleans : sailed on the 4th ult.. and front Rehire on the 7th. The Mount, Woolaston, bound to Liverpool, had been on shore in the river, and would remain a few days, to repair her rudder. NEWHAVEN, FEB. IL—Arrived the Gle3ner. Hawes, front Yarmouth, bound to Liverpool. leaky, and must discharge part cr the whole of her cargo. STRANZAEII. FEM. 1.1.—A large bowsprit, measuring . at the centre more than five feet in circumference, a part of ashy s bot tom, copper fastened, and a jolly boat, without any name, were washed on shore on the east side of Luce Bay, early this week. A large mast, about 65 feet long, was washed on shore on the 8411 instant, near Float Bay, between Porpatrick and Portnessock. JAMAICA (KINGSTON), JAN. —His Majesty's :hip Argus will sail from Pon /loyal on the 14th instant, with direttions to see the schooner Judith Farmer safely into the Havannah • and she will also protect any vessels bound through the Gulph, c alling: ofd' Negril and the I lavannah, a. usual, to give the trade an opportu. nity of taking advantage of her convoy. His Majesty's ship Bus. tard is detained until the 13th, to alfottl convoy to the Fan Fan, loading for Honduras. JANUARY 3.—The Hibernia put back, in con.equenee of not being able to get to windward from a strong lee current, and tht: Captain being sick. BATAVIA, OCT. 13.—The Woodman, Ford, arrived hereon the 10th instant, from Port Jackson, leaky. She has been surveyed, and must proceed to Suurabaya, to be hove down, and repaired. The George, of Newcastle, front has put into Eartholm, with damage. 1' ess rt. setae w WITIt.—NO,. 211. off the Cape of Good !lope, Speke, all well, by the George Home, Young, ar rived at Cowes. _ [From the Boston Daily Advertiser.' NEW YORK, JAN. 17. FROM RIO JANEIRO. By the Tuscaloosa, Captain Mott, we hare advices from Rio Janeiro to the •2211 of November. The political concerns of the nation were in a very unsettled state. A friend at Rio writes. " a Iteptiblican form of government is not likely to be established here, although the motto is—lndepen dence or Death." The Irene of the Emperor are constantly un tier arm s . On the 14th, an embargo was laid on all vessels in port—for what cause is not known, but on the evening of the 19th It was raised. At Rio the recent measures of the Emperor were viewed by the I GLARG ow Pot ter.—lt appears by a list just published, Brazilians with disgust. and as clearly indicming Ilia imention of . that from the Ist to the V9th January last, 1,375 persons siding with his European friends. The animosity between the Na.! were convened before the sitting 'Magistrate, in the Police fives and Europeans sins so great, apprehensions bad existed that I Court, of which number there were— it would lead to bloodshed. The grea:est part of the troops were Fined - . . - 322 kept at the Palace, about three miles front town ; this measure, it Sent to Jail. Bridewell, Fiscal% Ac., above - 197 was thought, hail a tendency to preserve the tranquillity of the city, Admonished, reprimanded, and dismissed, sent home and was adopted by the Government immediately after the Cones by passes to their native countries, Vic. 0.16 were put down, because it was said the Emperor could not rely I upon the loyalty of the Brazilian tamps if they were separated from n reference to this list, the Glasgow Journal, says--" We the others. smite murmurs having been heard from the native ci- arc happy to 'emit that crime is decreasing, end it may be tizens, against the recent arbitrary measures, made it more import. remarked that, notwithstanding the cheap whisky, and ant with the Government to prevent a communication between them January being a riotous month, the number of drunk and and the disaffected troops, until the warmth of feeling had some- disorderly persons convened are greatly diminished. " what subsides), which seemed to he the case a day or two before tim A . 11.1f1IILAR CIRCUMITANCF.-I.RICIV, MT. Hancock, Tuscaloosa sailed. The teem, however, mostly remained out of . of Ttegondale, 3 , . town, and some of them had been sent several leagues into the fenheniot lost two fine rams in the following ex. country. traordtnary manner. The rants were coupled together by a chain Lord (•o-hone had arrived with the Don Pedro, 64, in want of roundnecks, graze in a field with a colt ,heir and turned out to repairs. The Pevango frigate, Captain Jewett, was getting ready little more than twelve months old. In the morning, Mr. II an cock went round to view his flock, he found the rams s u s pended by for sea. the chain across the back of the colt, quite dead. 'DM colt, it is The press continued tolerably free, and the people spake with supposed, had lain down, anti the rams in gracing passed the contempt of the Emperor. It was even said he regretted the high. chain across him, when rising suddenly he must have taken them handed measures he had taken, into which he had been hurried ly .up with hint. The colt was little injured, except exhaustion by the rancour of the European officers of the army and his househol .1 f at i gue . Aftsrantik AJvcstisa . . Stmettlto Acczottnr—A melancholy accident occurred at Fans! I'Ea•Cauz. the (thick Boy colliery, belonging to Messrs. Dixon, on Saturday We learn from Captain Van Dine, of the schooner Fly, arrived I last. Asa poor man, named John Harrison, of i;i‘hop .1 uekland, yesterday front Alvarado, that the brig Orleans. Captain Smith, I was ascending the shaft, the noose of the rope slipped, and hews. had just arrived there from Vera Cruz. Captain S. stated that . precipitated to the bottom, a depth of thirty fathoms, and literally the castle was short of provisions, and the gartison to be in a stare &wt hirl to pieces. A l'oroner's Inquest was held on the •sly CO of starvation, and that some disturbance luti taken place among 31onday.—Verdict—" Accidental Death."—Dorkoiss Chronicle. TO THE EDITOR OF TIME ARJTIJII FRES,O; FIRE IN WATLING-STREET. TNIVITELL v. BEAUMONT. Mr. Editor,—ln justice to the character of a remeetabie man, Mr. Wrlggiesworth, lair) has been 'hatefully nialigeed in the proceedings against as application for a new wild, decided lest Thursday, I am Wooed di make known rani facts to the rubric, through your Weal& which the rules ef Crittrt forbade being re ceived in evidence. ft is a lamentable indonsistency, that while the affidavits in support of a rule are sifted and canvassed, replied mend opposed by on i nt er - a ffid av i ts f rom t h e appopite party, the aladeeks of each opposite party are precluded from disproof. The. speeienoness of their connection, the grossness of their falsehood, the infamy of the characters making them. may be capsule of corn. plete espepore by !vidence, but nirt a word will be received. In this unemui conflict, the artful or dishonest teplicant is almost sure to prevail. In excuse/it is said, that if affidavits in reply were suffered to be disproved, the would be no end to affidavits. But this is a bad excuse. It need not be so. ff some little ailditirmal trouble be required for an nomination whether AMMO% be true de Nee, it aught not to bst grudged. Substantial tenth sad justice ettOit to be the paramount olnett of all legal investigation, not fealty begetting through them or rid of them. Mr. Wrigglesttorst hems* a witness in this cause in the fol.: lowing manner :-.011 the morning after the trial in the Pleas last July, a Mr. Miran! Batted entered the County Fire Nike. and Informed one of the clerks, that he called in consequence of having just sees an account of the trial in the newspapers. He said that soon after the fire, a man whom he knew, of the name of Brad shaw, bad applied to hint and asked hint to make out false invoices for the Thurtells, as of weds told by him to them, offering him 20 per cent. on their amount for doing so, which offer he had refused. He was in consequence introduced to me, when he repeated this statement, Oil added, that Bessishaw was a man in bed circum stances, amf he a sum of money, would, no doubt, come forward and prove the Mike against the Thunclis. I . ,n , • this tends as I had all others from tits connexions of Thir.-1 refusal to give or promise any thing, and this piece of evidence fell to the ground. He then told me he had Aeon the account of the trial to Mr. Wriggienorth, Who had been the mansee at Meows. Maroon, and who, upon reading it, exclaimed, " Now the murder's out I This accounts for Snowden's sales, *bin al luvium:led me t" he added, that all the goods e* lmitght by the Thuttens went Into Margrave' s , a nd t h a t Mi. Wriggles. worth, trim was a very Intelligent man, and on whom accuracy I might depend„ could prove the whole of the transaction. This. of Coors*, led to an interview with Mr. Wriggietworth and I found him ell that he was deeerib4 I 'hewed him Thur. teil's invoices. noes from Todd's and Lear& he said, were real transactions ; he recognised some of Todd's as copies of invoices which had been deposited with the good s at :Hargraves' by Snow den ; he pointed out certain te r s which he ha objected to and returned • he described the uctions of price at which they had been sold to Margraves, and the successive steps by which they had been introduced ; he said that Snowden had substituted invoices of his own for the original ones of Todd's, which at first had been de posited at the warehouse, and that Snowden had defaced all the old marks on the goods. so that if I traced them I should have great diflimilty in identifying them. Eventually I procured front Messrs. .Margraves copies of Snail/dere* invoices to them, and traced and obtained potemsion of a large portion'of :he goods, when the accuracy of Mr. Wrigglethorth's information became esti blished in every particular. Nothing could be more candid than his testimony front first to last, nor snore kind than his apologies for his former employers, Messrs. :Hargraves' share in the trans. action. A word now on the affidavits of Snowden and Margraves, which. to my utter satorlishment, the Court has declared to have ",aun pletely answered that of Irriggleuronh. How is it completely answered? In these affidavits there is a long parade of denials of things not affirmed, and of averments which are not disputed, and some immaterial circumstance* arc answered, but all that is mete. rial is evaded or admitted. The sum and substance of Wriggles worth's affidavit is, that Thurtell's purchases of gouda from Todd's and Leaf's were clandestinely sold to Margraves through the agency of Snowden, and that tae invoices on the sale and the re. sale were alike. Is any iota of this ilenied ? Does Snowden deny that he sold thew goods to Margraves, as agent for Thurtell No. Does be venture to shear for whom, if not for Thurtell, he was agent ? No. So much for Snowden for the present. Well— Do 31argiaves deny having bought the goods of Snowden as agent." No. 'l%) they not, by the copies of invoices which th e y have delivered, corroborate and confirm all that is material in Wrigglesworth's affidavit ? Undoubtedly they do. The silence of Snowden to the above most important averments of Wriggles. worth is tantamount to a full confession. This fatal silence was strongly and repeatedly remarked upon by the Chief Justice, while the affidavits were under discussion. How he came the next morn. ing, when delivering judgment, to pats it over as he did, I con f ess myself unable to explain. The affidavit of one Taylor, that Mr. Wriatesworth is unde. serving of belief on his oath, for which bold assertion he gives no reason, is too contemptible to merit further remark. Af fi davits of this de scription Me procurable by the infamous at a few shillings each at any time. Many of this tribe of swearers have been with me, offering to turn upon their erpnloyers if 1 would pay them. I have two letters now before me, front a fellow of the name of Wll3. Reeves, 7 1 flith state, that " under orttain coodhlons" he could put tariff irt informatiOn. I saw this man in gaol. He tol d me employed by the Thurtells on the for. mer trial—that they had not paid him as they promised — and that several firemen were engaged to swear falsely against us t that he knew of two men who would prove everything I wanted; but he intimated that he must be relieved from his then distreas, and he asked me if I would appoint him a fireman wan agent to the office. I refused to give or pfomise him any thing, or to have any . thing to do with him. Rejected by me, this man now swears again for his old employers, and affirms that he saw a quantity of bombasines in the ruins of Thurtell's premises, a fact which is denied by every one else. The obloquy which was lavished upon Mr. Wrigglesworth by a Learned Serjeant, who is rather remarkable for his latitude of speech, I think was cruel. :I! r. IVrigglesworth is a family man, and has always moved in respectability, and formerly in a higher sphere than at present. Rename forward without fee or reward, or the request, or the promise, of either, to further the ends of public justice. Are net these ends likely to be defeated, if men cannot be. come witnesses without being held up to public scorn ? Is it ge nerous to destroy the fame and wound the feeling•. of a man who is forbidden to speak fur himself ? I have made inquiry in the City, and fled that 31r. IVrigglesworth's character stands high. Mr. Nilson. in whine employ he now is, tells me that he has known hint, and respected him, for twenty years ; that before he engaged him he inquired of Mr. Margrave ns to his conduct with hint. 31r. 31argri.ve said that no fault cou ld b e f oun d w i t h hi s i ntegr i ty and moral conduct, and that he should be happy to promote his views in life. I cannot close this letter without noticing two propositions in the judgment of the Learned Judge, in which the interest of the public appears to me very materially comproniimxl. Ora imputes an impropriety in indicting the Thurtclls and the rest, for a crime, while an action was pending between one of the parties and the prosecutor : how is this impropriety made out Do not all jurisconaults agree that the trial of an offender ought to follow the offence as speedily as may be, so that the facts may be fresh in recollection ; that the witnesses may be forth coming ; and that punishments, when necessary. may succeed to the crone, before the impression ,s4hich it has created on the pub lic shall be forgotten. If an action for debt or damages between parties were a bar to nn indictment, offenders, on detection, would frequently raise such actions to ' , revolt a prosecution, or to gain time, ilisnag *bleb witness might be got out of the way, or to induce the prosecutor to compromise; or. if an action were already subsisting, means would be found for protracting it, to de. lay or defeat a prosecution. I cannot conceive any ate good rea son for delaying the course of justice on such an account, unless, indeed, in regard to the prosecutor. Ile lays himself open to sus picion and observation in both the snits; and no doubt there have been instances where b ase charaeters have instituted criminal charges to intimidate a creditor from proceeding in his suit. But these rases are few. They are always viewed with ample jealousy and they are open to exposure. They are eases of nnatexception, which afford no reasonable grounds for delaying the regular ad. ministration of criminal justice. Will any unprejudiced man say, that the ends of justice world have been served, if we hail left the Thurtells to the free exercise of their practices on the public until the final disposal of their claim upon the County Office. The other proposition broadly affirms that neither perjury nor I conspiracy in witnesses are sufficient grounds for a new trial. Ac cordir,g to this doctrine, if a case he got tip against a man by false itnesscs, and a verdict he thereby obtained against hint. c7en to the alienation of his whole properte--and if, in the interval between the verdict and jud,rment, the sufferer be able to bring to justice. and convict the false witnesses, the corrupt proceeding is yet to stand goad—the false judgment i s to proceed ; he is not to hare the benefit of a new trial—but he must sink under known and proved perjury and conspiracy ! I aubmit to the dispassionate Judgment of the public, whether this subjugation of property to the power of fraud and perjury is not really appalling. %I e know to our sorrow the proverbial uncertainty of the Law. We know that, according to the nixie of trial in England, the facts and witnesses intended to be produced, are kept as secret as possi hle, until the hour of display in ('ourt. flow then is a defendant ;rs,lanter to disprove perjured statements, and expose unworthy witnesses, if such appear ? lle cannot—a verdict must go am into him—and if, upon proof of the mi , doimr, he he not allowed relief in a new trial, is he not rendered the victim of h. gallon( ini!stice ? . _ _ The reason assigned for refusing to grant a new trial, upon I proof ot• perjury and conspiracy in the witnesses is, that it might encourage Pale accusations of witnesses. So tiagraitt and positive a wrong is to he committed to prevent the chance of another wrong. An excellent reason, truly ! But has it never etc. cored to our Judges, that by rendering a verdict fraudulently pro- I cured immovable, an encouragement far more aknning is given to getters•up of frandule:lt cases--and to desperate men to become their tale witnesses ? What care men of a base description for the ultimate fate of their instruments, on that they get t vsnlirt and costs ? Into what uncertainty is the possession of property thrown by the above encouragement ? I thus speak of evils which I have stiffeted under. As ?epee. meriting the interests of nearly 415,009 p_•rsmm' of property. I com plain of the jcopart'y in which that property is placed by th e above doctrines. Already are the crimes of inczniliarisin and fraudulent claims increasinp in an alarming clever; and if any thing be done to give them further encouragement, the sooner Fire Insurances be put an end to the better ; for the injuries done to life and property by wilful tire will then eutbalance the value of the indemnity of insurance to honest sufferers. I am, &e. J. F. B.IRBER C•ou:sty Fire Oilice, Lendon. 1 11 111