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FRENCir PAPERS. [From tharrra orr-, Alta, OCT. 4. Yesterday. at two o'clock, Hs Majestvpresided in the Council, w hich sat till half-past four . The Dauphin was present. Yesterday ever.ing his Majesty honoured with his waren the brilliant party assembled at the Duchess of Berry's. On every other day the Xing has been a: the image of the Dauphines', in the It is believed that his Majesty will regularly visit, on the Friday and Sunday each. week. the Duchess of Berry, at her own IMAM, and or. the other days the Daephiness. During the absence of his Eacclleacy the Marquis de triewriont- Totinerre. Baron Re Damas. the Minister for Foreign Affairs, will hold the Peqreailie of the War Department. It appears the: in Prussia reductions in the budget have been or. deed. sh , eh amount to 4,000.000 of Prr.litgl (-towns. The total buil t ert of Prussia amounting annually to fifty millions of erowns, of whi.h one-third was for the War Department, this reduction of 4.0d9.000 crowns is very considerable. Thc chit:sof Cologne. Min. den Erturtit. Stralsund, arol Dantec. will be no longer the seats of Provincial Oevernanent It is said the Minister a War. De Hack. relieve, and the lire Sections of the Ministry of War will firm in future but term w hich arc to be superintended by Witrle. ben, the Adjutant of the King. In all the departments or the Go. voritatent titan will be num:tons reductions. As for the tinny, the erisetions will cot tetrad but to the Staff, the Artillery. and the .Litedwele. The Administration of Commerce will be united with that of the llorne . Lepartir.em. This great measure of ecepoiny will powerfully influence the Assemblies of she Pi : evince: States, which are to meet neat mouth We lure from the Aare) Gazette. of September 29. that some Tatars bare brouglit to Bucharest the news of a change pre. cionvly fhteecen in the Turkish lellailtry. The Grand Vizier. Obalth radio, has been dismissed. and replaced by the Puha of Silistria. Wraith was disliked by the Janissaries, whine party is at presort triamialtant. From the Jolene . : elx Co«trt. - r:r.l All letters from the Levant agree that the t htonlan fleet has our. !trod considerable loss in an action with the Greeks. Even the Afites Gdzerre, edited und:r the Austrian viola:ship, widths the feet [From Ga.lenairs 3fervwger ARIS,.I P OCTO9EI 4. On Saturday the Duke. Duchess. imelledcmoiselle of Orteens, visited the King and Royal Family. A Council of Minis= was hell on Saturday evening at the honor of the Cmint de Villele. On Saturday the Austrian Ambesesdor visited the Count de Viliele. and hi:mined two hours with his Lacelleney. Yesanday the King held a Levee, which' was attended by the Charcellor of France, the Pope's Nuncio, the Neapolitan A nibb. Ulu, Prince Talleyeand, the Cabinet Ministers, the Marshal s, wall a Plat number of Ness. Deputies. and Bliliumytelicers. The Sling and Pio* Family heard mass yesterday in the chapel of the Tutlales. After mass his )Inject appeared at the balcony, and was retired with loud acclamations. Yesterday the King presided ata Cabinet Council, which con . Sinned three homes ikliberatien. The Dauphin was present. The rank:sot' his late Majesty. Louis XVIII., will be deposited in the vault of Om Bourbons on the 25th instari. The coronation of King Charlet X., it is said, will take place in May. -The couriers who were despatched to ditterent Courts. with Intel. licence of the death of the late King. travelled with such sne-.t that the news reigheil Madrid la the night of the Iflth ult., at Berlin on the 21st. and at Visual on the 22d. At eleven o'clock to-morrow morning, s mss in music, of the composition of M. Deerizois„ with toll erchestra, will be Per formed at the Cathedtal or Notre Dame, for the repose of the soul othis late Majes y Louis XVIII. A rte.' masa a requiem by Merart will be ezezuted by the principal performers of the capital. Fasarcn Frills.—Five per Cents.. 10:1. 40:. ; Neapolitan, 90f.; Spanish, lot.; Bank s tack, We cis. ct the following anecdote from the diary of a • Russian traveller, ',rho passed through the Archipelago in leit, in an Austrian vessel, which was driven by stress of weather int" the harnur of Tiles. The captain of a Creek thip of war, • . whieli aerived soon afterwards, le.- quireel lo have the papers of the merchantman examined, which were of course delivered up for that purpose. This was an crration not speedily performed. At last, says the traveller, their scribe, who hail been all W., time examining our petters, was satisfied that we trete not Turks, and that they ought not to prevent our proceedirg to Smyrna, whither we were bound. But at that moment a Jewish merchant, who had embarked with us at Alexandria, showed himself upon deck. The Romaic Captein immediately inquired who lie was, and what mer ellen:lie: he carried witlfaim? and being satisfied upon this head, they said thet"they must take him with them, and tic him up to the main-mast. " But why," asked our Captain. ' Because he is a Jl•w,' was the reply ; !we are ordered by our Admiral to le,e hold of every Turk, Jew, Cr Armenian , we may meet with.' It was invain that our Captain expos tulated with them ; they persisted in their demand of having the Jew and his property. Reteldriven to the last shift, one of the leaders said—' He may be innocent, but he has kired Christ.' 4 This is no argument; replied our honest Captain ; 'once for all, 1 tell you that I shall not give him up freely, such a step being both contrary to law and honour ; but if you will take him by force—here I am, you must fret fire upon me!' fhis declaration had the s!esired eff et. The Chiefs entered into a long consultation, whieh was kept up in the Arnaut language; the resul, of whiez was, that the poor Jew 'ass released of his fears, by th-ir giving up then claims upcn his person and pro- Tat Tae electors and representatives of some of our boroughs are snaking very active preparations for a general election, which it is expett el will take place in the course of the en suing year. /ilr. Grenfell has published a spirited address to the electors of Penryn, in which he tells them that he will never be a party to any illegal practices to accomplish his object ; and that as they bare a right to decide on the grounds upon which they will support a candidate, be has an equal -right tO decide upon the principles en which alone he will accept their support. It is un derstood that many of the worthy and independent elec ten are looking for a more erviitabk customer; but it is to be hoped there will be still found sufficient independ ence, even in IN n-yn, to ensure the return of a representa tive whose faithful and zealous discharge of his Parliamere. tare duties has b:-en attended with so much advantage to the countrv.—West Briton. it is the intention of the Gresham Committee, under whose direction the alterations and improvements ere car rying on, to remove all the little shops situated on the s'c:h side of the Royal Exchange ' as soon as the Lases expire. On Tuesday the work of demolition began, in rat: ne to the ground the one occupied for many yeare by Mr. Leftwich, an eminent newsvender. At the Meeting oe Tuesday the three gentlemen origi nally nominated—namely, J. Rolland, Esq. J. Hare, Esq. and M. H. Knight, Eat. were declared to be chosen csin.ccs cf the estate of Wtessrs. Marsh and Co. The late Rev. Mr. Neil, one of the Ministers of the IVcst Church, when taking a walk in the afternoon, saw an eel woman sitting by the road-side, evidently much in tezicated, with her bundle lying before her in the mud. lit immediately recognised her to be one of his parish toners. " Will you just help me up with my bundle, gutle man ?" said she, as he stopped. " Fit, fie, Janet," raid the pastor, "to see the like o you in such a plight. Do yen know where all drunkards go to?" " Aye, sure," said Janet, " they just go wine a drap gods drink is to hr g.f." An Irishman otzerred, on reading an advertisement in a dady paper for the sale of a caul, at the price of 20 guineas, that the fool who bought it ought to be drowned, to teach him better sense. • To .uses AATIVICIAL CLAIMT.—DiStiI the juice or water of claw in a cold still, one part of red-streak cider, half a pert of Malaga raisins bruised in a mortar, six pzltzds, and the fat mother cf good claret, one pound ; c 'Tor them close in a venal fourteen or fifteen days, then :'.raw off the liquor into another vessel, and to every two gal:ons add half a pint of the juice of mulberries, and a ppt of the spirit of clary ; then take the whites of two new-laid eggs, three spoonsful of flour, and two drachms offsir.gfus ; beat them well together, and put them to the Lquor ; so add two pounds of the syrup of dry, and it wia refine down, and become very rich ; then you may add mare rider to fill up your cask ' and in a month's time it will mot be distin gu i s h e d, b y a good palate, from the beat Reach claret--,Reunemist. Sumas, at. DROWNING.—Jobe Revia, of Westow, near Melton, a man whose hotly and mind were much Mi. payed by =ea:five attacks of ep ilepsy , got out of bed on Sunday the eeth ult., a t twe l ve o 'clock at night, and told his wife be would go and drown himself immediately; but as he had often made similar threats, and had been in the habit of wandering front home for days together, his wife took little notice of the circumstance until Wednesday, when his hat and crutch were found on the bank of the Derwent, below Firby Wood, by so me persona who were bunting. On the same a f ternoo n h e was found near How. "n44111* to which Place it is supposed he had been floated by his clothes.-.E.el. Courant. SPAIN: The allowing atrecinus order . has been issued by the new Minister of Polk:, Gon?alcs, the successor of Anjona GIWZRAL surnatturrworary or PHUICIL OFTIIX DOM TO ALL THE r me :.mrs in THAT lILAIICtt. 0•• entering on the duties of the Bencral Superintendent of Police of the kingdom. and when I hoped that this PO difficult and troublesome office might lose something of its hard burden by the aid ant co-operation of the authorities, and particularly of the Royalist corps. who, ;laced in that secret a•.d intimate hi:Tomer with this establishment which die good of the cause which loth defend demands. ought to be the jealous and useful coadjutors td die branch • my heart is sadly surprised with the cotters which reach ma irom Ali parts, that between the police and the other eon. potations, there is nothing but odious !intrust, fatal collisions, open aril scandalous opposition, which keeps the agents of this so um. p.ertarst branch occupied in defending themselves from the &stks that this division pt lvokes against them, instead of occupying themselves exclusively in the defence and security of religion anti the throne, the only object of the ir.stitution. One would suppose, troll ell the accounts L reecive, that A peat part of the emplores of this branch are not paid by our Sovereign to defend and preaerve his throne, but purchased by In enemies to place victory in their hands. by means of the most scandalous division, conformable to that infallible principle which says—La:vide and Conquer. Has treason and black !imam. sallying from their horrible and dark clubs, contrived to introduce itself into the police, into this sacred circle, the door of which ought to be compietely shut even to the I loyal, if lukewarm or undecided ? But from henceforth let every one treonhle, who, in serving my enders, does not act according to Mn proper spirit. Religion and the King t these are the august and truly sacred obiems, whose de. fence, stability, and glory, are entrusted to the police: treason and nub* an the horrible monsters, whose tbsdute extermination is our principal duty. To aid and protect. with all our force, the 'oval defender of the Sovereign ; to seek his enemies everywhere ; 1 tifollow them wherever they endeavour to hide thetuselves; to in. troduce cuuselvai into their most secret caverns. and persecute them to their total satermination ; these are tLe means of arriving at the desired end. Unhappy he. who. from this shay henneforward, separates himself from Otte path a single step, a single Ile ! The rrolie of a thee. derholt from a dark cloud is not more speedy than the ellEtigatiOD which will oeinake every one in the police. who, faithless to his delicate duty. deviates in the least degree from it. Nor will mere lukewarmness be viewed in any other Unlit titan as a crime. It. in other departments, the will: of a zeal truly fervent may 1 e i tolerated, the police cannot suffer this indifference; everything in mist be decision, activity. teeth The sword hangs over the htad of those who dare to think otherwise. If, hitherto, he who hoped the repentance of the enemies of God and the King could be heard without hiwnusi, shall he Dow meat the same indulgence ? No; all hate been in position to do the same as those set Tarifa, Almeira, and Jimena . • but the °Gelid despatches, ts well as the private letters, from all the rro• einem, prove to us that there have beets none of those who declared themselves for that accursed publication, called, wish sacrilegious andacity. the Sacred rode, who, by their countenance, their ae. dile& and their every attitude, did not show very clesrly their sharing the same sentiments, the same ideas, and the same desires with those ll3iI•11. And in what points were they not surprised pre.. paring m !intik out ? No • • no other opinion can be Mcintained : their treason and their apostacy are incorrigible. With then extermination alone min the public tranquillity be secured. But what a difficult under. taking ! Secured in their masonic caverns, walled in in their towers, bidden in their secret cabins, who can combat them ? But let all our wanks show that this is really the ohject towards which our exerthme arc directed—that zeal for religion and the King de lver our heat; that after our idolized! Sovereign and his Roy,' Family, nothing is more dear mos.. nothing so much tieserves-our consideration as those who. urpd he aloyaity without limits. have voluntarily devoted themselves to defers our altars, our throne. and our property ; and I am certain that all the good will assist us in the discovery and persecution of this race of iniquity, who can only live between irreligion and anarchy. ' In the meantime I command, tinder the strictest responsibility, that all the employes in the Police Ter:dote their conduct accenting to these sentiments; that they ' , rewire, by all means, the strictest ' harmony with the other authorities ; and that, convinced, as they ought to be, of the great service the Royalists do, and ought to do, to the muse of God and the King, they promote fcrcibly the ' augmentation of thine corps in aU the villages, however small. thspeosing to them as much talks In their . power, all the prOCction merited by those who so gent:rusty and disinterestedly enlist under the standard of religion and loyalty. 51A RIANO RUFINO GONZALES. Madrid. September 14, 1:1:4. By order of the Superintendent.fleteral of Police of the King. loin. JOSE LOPEZ REQUENA. LISBON P.4PERS. 1.19n0w, Sere. 22. A met number of persons of both ilexes and all ages have come to the capital, to seek an asylum from the fury of ananhy which. rages in Brazil. Some of the more prudent retired first, others were barbarously and atrociously despoiled of their houses, and driven to the most violent and cruel emigration, losing all they pompon!, and prevented from exercising thi.ir ir.dostry, which was their sole' means of support, and which contributed also to promote and mob. tain the prosperity of the country in which they dwelt. While all these persons are in this manner suffering the privations resulting from the the disastrous events in Brazil, there are many who are in absolate misery, and obliged to ask public aid for their daily sup. pen. The King our sovereign, as the most tender father of all his faithful subjects, immediately relieving those who had been ern. ployed in his Royal service, from the well.known events of his vast monarchy, with great ren:et to his royal and munificent l'cart, at seeing the me:ms of effectually succouring all reduced, for this reason has received, with the most gracious approbation, the proposal of his Minister holding the portfolio of the Depart. most of Marine and Colonies, 10 open a voluntary subscription, for the laudable purpose of relieving the unfortunate victims of the hatred which the revolutionary spirit kindled in Brazil against the Portuguese name, since this means affords to eh his other faithful subjects, whom Divine Providence has preserve! from such fatal and terrible mile, an opportunity to, co.upernte in his beneficent and charitable intentions. Such a subscription cannot fail to awaken all those who are proud of belonging to the greet family of the Portuguese nation, and in all those who are trot indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow. creatures, the zeal which the r.oble object intended to be promoted merits. The amount will be con fi ded to moons of tried probity. and all possible care will be taken to Mims those who hays the greatest claim. The names of the subscribers and the sums tub. scribed, will be pehlished in the e-azette. LISBON, SZTT. 24. To-day, at two o'clock, Sir IV. /Montt, Ambassador Extraor. dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Britannic Majesty, arrived here with Lis suite. His },xcelleney larded at the Casdo rodre, where some of the Royal carriages waited for him, in one of which was the Conde de Carvelhats, who conducted him to his hotel. At four o'clock his Excellency, with Mr. Forbes, his Secre tary, paid his first visit to the Marquis tie Palmells, sad soon after the Marquis paid his visit in the usual form. BRUSSEr i S El PERS. (From the ("rack de grarxekel r AAAAA cwt. SEPT. 29. The Journal of this city contains the following extract of a letter from Jassy, of the 1 . -th September:— " We are much astonished here at seeing that several Journals of France and Germany continue to publish articles calculated to mislead public opinion, with respect to the two Prineipalities. Whethet from ignorance or bail faith of the correspondents, they throw doubts on the decision of the Grand Signior to with draw his troops o,:cupying the Principalities. They pretend to be ignorant, that in Wallachia those orders have been long since executed. " As for Moldavia, the same decision haring been announced to the Council of lloyards, they, justly alarmed by what had passed, considering the reographical position of the country, at d the thic. tuatiun Call/2tl by the late troubles, represented to his Highness the Hospodsr Stcurdza the consequences that might ensue front the &b. sence of an armed force, considering that, in moments of danger, it inight be diffirult speedily to find the necessary cleans to maiii tain the tranquillity of the country. " This consideration, which was doubtless well founded, has, however, only delayed the accomplishment of the cashes of the friends of peace; for the Ilospodar, sincerely participatirg in their wishes, and desiring, besides, to alleviate the burdens of his corm. hymen, whose welfare is the principle of his administration, has taken the necessary pretnertions and measures, and to prevent delay ha furnished from his private cotters part of the sums wanted to pay the troops, so that on the 2 9 th August the military occupation of Moldavia was effected. " This happy event, and the official notice of the nomination of an extraordinary !Russian Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, have filled all the inhabitants with time most lively joy, as they look upon it as a sure pledge of their fotere prosperity." There is no official account of the evacuation of Molda via and Wallachia, but it is not doubted that it has taken place. Letters have been rec,ivcd from Barcelona, which state that business is much suspended, in consequence of the disturbances in Catalonia. Letters from Madrid, dated the 22.1 ult. state that con siderable interest has bccn excited in that capital by the daily conferences between M. Zea Bermudez and the French Charge d'Affaires and General-en• Chief of the Army of Occupation. It was supposed that these con. ferences related to a new loan, but nothing had transpired on the subject. A number of Wire, the wives of ex-deputies to the Cortex, and of exiled Spaniards, have been ordered to quit Madrid in 24 hours from the delivery of their passports. Misery is stated to be at its height in the capital, money becoming every day more scarce, and the wants of the Go vernment more pressing. The salaries of all the servants of Government were four months in arrear ! In Catalonia, during the month of August only, it is said that i i indi viduals were assaisinatel. THE BRITISH PRESS. INDIA. The following is a copy of the Proclamation, issued by I the Britt&lt authoriths on entering the Assam territories:— " Inhabitants of Avant !—lt is well known to moo th a t som e years ago titellumaesa invaded your territory, and that they have since dethroned the liejah, plundered the country, slaughtered Brahmins and women. and cows, deified your temples, and committed the I most barbarcus outrages of every kina ; so that vast numbers of your connarren have been forced to seek refuge in cur dominion% where they have cent ceased to iorplme our assistance. Notwith standing our regret at witnessing the miseries to which they were subjected, as we were on friendly terms with the King of A Vl* we I could not interfere. But new the nffrers of his Burmese !tikeste have invaded our independent territory of Carter, and there and elsewhere have committed such oumeges, and held a language ow arrogant and hostile, that we are at leorth at war. The wtshetaur opportunity of relieving yourselves from the hands of your oppres sors has tow arrived. t 'our victorious omit hest-tasted the boundary. and ere long we will drive the bneoatians beyond the Barrnahkuond, nor cease until we name {.wee and security to year distracted country. Grew forward, therefete, withoot fear for the present or'. the future. Supple our troops with provisions, for which ready money will. I.e paid, and fail not grim sou have an opportunity to wreak your vengeance on the remnant oft hose who have caused you so many rai3011:113. We ern tot led into your country by the thirst of conguent ; but are forced, ia 6er own defence, to deprive our enemy of the means of annoying us. You may therefore vat 'assured that we will never consent to depitt until we exclude our foe from Assam, and re-establish in that country a Government adsp:ed to_yout wants, and calculated to promote the happiness of all panics AWFUL EXPLOSION._ . . The Calcutta John 8411, of the Isth of Ajwil ' gives the " followino• account of a dreadful accident which occurred on the sth of that month, in the sifting-houses of the paw der-mills at Papattow, near Allahabad The powder-works of l'apamow aresiruated on a rising ground, about three miles to the northward of the cantonments of Allaha had. About half-past four p.m., the deep silence of an Indian day was broken by a sudden anti mist awful explosion. The sen sation in cantonments was, as if a masked battery Of great guns liad opened at the very doors of the bungalows. Essay bouse shook to its foundation, doors dew open, I.ursungthelibolN and bars. anti strewing' the des . rs with glees. (in rustling oat to ascertain the Cattle, a most awfully sublime sight met the eve. Rising nn the eldr.: blue sky to the north, a mighty condensed cloud was behold. upon which the sun shining brightly, showed distinctly in its womb, cloud rolled on cloud, hi wild.ttproar and agitation. The direc tion of the cloti put the cause beyond a doubt, anti we hastened to Pavatr.ow, where we witnessed 'a most heart-rending sight. Two tifting-hotises, said to contain about three hundred barrßs of pow der, by Intro unhappy cattle (which. I suppose, it will be impos sible ever to ascertain). had exploded, and Learly forty persons con nected with the works had been blown up, and scattered around, in a manner too hOrrible for description ; whilst their wives and chil dren, with loud lammtatioos, were endeavouring to discos-a the shattered remains of their relations, four only of whom were found alive, and of wht'm hopes are entertainer!. A long range of the new high wad, building all round the work, was blown away nearly by the foundation ; trees lay torn up by theepots, and the roots of all the mills were *Mitt ed. Great alarm wasentertained for Major Lindsay's family, whose keuse, as superimendent of the mills, is to a short distance. We were rejoiced to find thorn safe end unhurt. Sirs. Lindsay's escape was wonderful; she had re , tired after dinner to a small sitting-room, with two glared doors, fronting fie works, and was reading when the explosion took place. The door", which were scoured by iron bars, were torn from their hinges. and one of the bars thrown to the opposite side of the room, while the glass, like a shower of hail, strewed the hoot of that room and the adjoining hall. Snch wis the power and effect of this awful explosion, that in the fort, live mites distant, doors were torn open, and broken apparently by greater violence than to tbb car.toninems." GOVERNMENT AND CHIRACTER OF THE Br/LUESE NATION. LTrire the Oriveal ner.ili.] The Government of Ave exhibits in its details a strong resemblance to the feudal monarchies of Europe in the dark ages, the principles of which had - probably their origin in the East. It (lifers, however, from that hateful system in one Most important point: it does not admit of here ditary dignities, which indeed arc utterly inccraipatible with the pure and unqnnlified despotism that it maintains. All honours and empleynients emanate from the Crown, to which they again revert on the death of their possessors. " Princess of the blood, high officers of state, and provin cial governors, receive grants of provinces, cities, village:, and farms, to support their dignity, and as a remuneration of their services, the rents of these essiguments they col ,' ket for their own benefit. Money, except on pressing °e -1 talons is never dilbursed from the royal carers; to one man f ly fees of an - office te: allotted ; to. another a Matron where Certain imposts are collected; a third has land; each in proportion to the importance of his respective em ployment. By these donations they are not only bound in their own personal servitude, but likewise in tat of all their dependents; they arc called slaves of the King, and in turn their vassals arc denominated slaves to them : the condition'e of these grant: includes also services of war, as well as the duties of office." As every man in the kingdom is thus liable to be called oa fer the military sersice of the State, they may be consi dered as a nation of soldiers. They have, however, no standing army, their peace establishment consisting only of the Royal Guard, and a sullicient member of troops to pre serve the police of the capital. When an army is to be raised, a mandate issues to all the Viceroys of provinces and Miongees of districts, requiring a certain number of , men to assemble at a general rendezvous on an appointed day; the levy being propertioned to the population of the province or district, estimated from tile number of registered houses that it contains, and the burden to be borne by each house being determined by the provincial Court. The con scripts thus raised are supplied by the Government with arms, ammunition, and probably a stated daily allowance cf grain, but restive no pay. 1 heir families are considered in the light of hostages, and in case of treachery, desertion, or even cowardice, are sacrificed without pity or remorse. The allegiance of rte troops is thus secured by the most powerful motives ; and men who have no national interest, lied who feel no national pride, are stimulated to vigorous exertion by the einnmon sentiments of mankind. The infantry are armed with muskets and sabres; this latter weapon indeed is used by them not only as an im plement of war, but also for various ether purposes: with It the Berman peasant fells trees, shapes timber, cots bamboos, or defends himself against an enemy or a wild beast ; never travels without it, and generally when on a jot: ney, carries a shield on his left arm. The cavalry consists almost entirely of natives of Cassay, who are much better horsemen than the Burmese. Their horses are small, but very hardy and active; they ride, like all Orientals, with short stirrups, and a incite rein; and are provided with a spear about seven or eight feet long. which they manage on horseback with great dexterity, seldom re quiring or making use of any other weapon. Their navy, sad: as it Is, forms a very considerable force, and was once hie,hly formidable among the neighbouring states. It consists of war-boats, of which every town of note in the vicinity of the river is compelled to furnish one or more, together with a certain number of men, in pro portion to the mageitude of the place. These boats are constructed out of the solid trunk of the teak tree, which is excavated partly by fire and partly by cutting, the sides being afterwards artificially expanded. They carry from fifty to sixty rowers, each of whom are provided with a sword and a lance, and about thirty soldiers armed with muskets. On the prow, which is solid, and has a fiat sur face, is mounted a piece of ordnance, a six, nine, or even twelve -pounder; and swivels are frequently fixed on the cursattne of the stern. When ColonetSymes was in Ava, he was it:formed that the King could assemble 590 of these vessels at a very short notice; hut their Lumber has since been much diminished, rind they are seldom used ex cept on occasions of ceremony, the Burmese having learned to place more reliance on their military force, than on the exertions of a navy so imperfectly constituted. e.s The Burmese, in common with almost every other no. tion to the eastwatd of the Ganges, are sectaries of Buddha, whom they worship under the name of Gadatna. They profess to have derived their religion, more than GOO years ago, from Arrant), into which it had been introduced at a much earlier period from Ceylon, which has ever been the focus of Buddhism. As in mast other countries, it has here also tn.dergcne confide:Ale modifications, in order to accommodate it to the genius and character of the people. The priests are called Rhahaans, and are distinguished, like the priests of Fo, the Buddha of China, by wearing yellow garments; they lire together in convents or col leges, called Kioutr.s, and artgenrrany well-inferrnedlTlCTl, remarkably decent in their lives, and unobtrusive in their conduct, never interfering either in politics or war. There ' were also formerly nunneries of virgin priestesses, but these have. been suppressed, as detrimental to the population of the state. 'L ue R1:3143ns prtform no Ca'.:v er steel rites. neither are they entitled by late to ally fixed or canapulsory remu neration. They take no care for the things of this wield. but subsist entirely on the charity of the ci:y, the con tributions of which, in articles of food, they receive ready dressed. At the d wit of the mooing, each convent semis forth a c2raiii trarnb_r of its members to collect sup plies for the day, who wa!k through the streets at a quick pace, carrying a box in which the donations are deposited. They keep their eves steadily fixed on the ground, and never mop to solicit; they seldom look at the donors, who appear more desirous to bestow than they are to receive, for charity to the Rhahaans is considered by the Burmese as one of their most sacred dutits. They at but once a day, and as a much larger quantity of provision is usually collected than is surScient fur the convent, the surplus is distributed to needy strangers. and to the pour scholars, who daily attend them, to be insaneted iu letters and in their moral and religious duties. The Burman law, like those of 'the flindoos, arc inse parable from their religion, indeed both are derived from the same source. The Vienna Shastra of the Burmese is one of the hest of the numerous Commentaries on Menu, anti its regulations appear to be conscientiously administered. " It is," says Cul. Syntes," replete with sound morality, and is, in my opinion, distinguished above any other [linden • Commentary, for perspicuity and good sense. It provides spe cifically for almost every species of clinic that can be com mitted, anti adds a copious Chapter of precedents anti decisions, to guide the inexperienced in cases where there is doubt and thiliculty. 1 vial bvenaleal and imprecation are the only absurd passages in the book ' • but on the sub ject of women, it is, to a Etirbpean, offeitsivelyintlecent. Like the immortal Menu, it tells the Prince and the Ma gistrate their duty, in language austere, manly, and energetic." " flitherto," says Dr. Buchanan, "I suspect the laws , or religion of the Burtnese have contributed little to the happiness of the people; hut fortunately they have not, I like those of the Brahmits placed any inrirmountable obstacle in the way of national improvement." The Bur mese, indeed, are happily free from the in t'ignant influ ence of that abominable institution of c•ples, to which India is indebted for a state of society uttet/f incompatible with moral restraint anti mental improvement; and which, in the bands of the Brahmins, has been converted into the most cruel soil degrading system of oppression that ever tyrannised over the human mind. In consequence of this fundamental distinction, the Burmese and the Hintioos, though separated only by a narrow range of moutelins, in marty places admitting of an easy intercourse, exhibit a contrast which could hardly be stronger, were they placed at opposite extremities of the globe. The Burmese arc a lively anti inquisitive race, active, irrastible. and impatient; while the character of their Ben gal neighbours is of the most opposite description. The females are treated with a liberality which is unknown in the other countrica of the East; that morose jealousy which immure' them within• the walls of a harem, and which especially prohibits them from all communication with foreigners, is unknettai among the Burmese. Their wives and daughters have as free intercourse with society as the tidies of Europe; and the management of the household, and many other important concerns, are committed to their charge. They are, "however, considered as of an inferior rank In the creation to men, and their testimony has nut an equal weight in a Court of Justice. No nation, not even the Chinese, to whom, in many par ticulars, they bear a talked resemblance, can exceed them in their fondness for show snd ceremony, in t:te importance which they attach to the distinction of ranks, and to the in signia by which these are designated, as well sain the haughty and arrogant notions which they entertain of the omnipotence of their Emperor, who acknowledges no equal upon Arai. A hulicrous instance of their ignorant self importance and .friaated vanity occurred to Captain Can ning, who was at Amarapoora in lEtle, and who, in a con versation with one of the Ministers, having mentioned the war, which then desolated Europe, was told, that " had his Burman Majesty been applied to at first ;in a proper manner, he would have sent an army, and put the English in nomession of France." Aoatcuvreaat Ptionttex.—The Duey Post contains several paragraphs tending to sliew our improvements in the prices of stock and agricultural produce. We select the following:— " At Mr. Colchester's sale at Stratton pall, on Monday sen night, the first team of four horses sold for upwards of 2001: ; the firs; horse was knocked down at 661.; the second at 5:4 ; and a year-old colt at Sll. Ipswich Butter and Cheese Fair on Wednesday last was well supplied, and purchases were freely made at about cis. higher than last year. Greater part of the butter was sold at 48s per firkin, but some few prime dairies obtained als. Oce.meal cheese was sold at 565. per whey. The show of horses at our fair on Saturday was revilers:, ; tf there had been any good ones, they would, no doubt. have sold at high prices. The number of beasts was very small, and few were sold. The quantity of butter pitched was less than formerly. as a good deal is now carried at once to the buyer.' houses ; prime dairies fetched from 495. to 605., and in one or two instancas 31s. Flet cheese !Id. to 21d. per lb. ; Islebam Es. to Cs. 6d. per stone, and New Derby 701. per cwt. " At the sale of farming stock, at Drockler-hall, yesterday se'nnight four 1,011. and their produce within the year. sold for' the extrt;ttlinary sum of one hundred and twenty pounds ! They consisted of forty shoats farrowed early in the year. and forty !mall pigs. making is all eighty.four with the sows. Everything sold at almost equally high prices, some of the cart hones fetching from 4G. to 451. each." Tuesday evening three trunks were stolen from Haw kins's Bristol coach ; and on the following day two of them were found under a hay-rick at Bris!ington. One had been cut open,, and cash notes and wearing apparel, value up wards of ieo/. taken out. —Gloucester Ho all A few days ago, a fine boy, aged 14, natned Orr, near Longford, accidentally hanged himself. The boy, with some ethere, had been playing and imitating the solemn scare of the execution of two men they bad lately wit nessed in Longford. The burial service was read over the corpse by a Protestant clergyman, as the death was proved to have been accidental. During the night the corpse of the boy was raised, by a party who assernhled for the pur pest, and left on the high road, with a threatening notice affixed to the cofEn—" not to bring Lack the corpse to the church-yard." The afflicted parents removed the remain, to another burial-place, from which it was azain disin ; terred.—Dtildin Parer. Dar Ahern Occenarwce.—On Monday evening week, the house of Hugh hlullanny, of Carrowbnh, near Enr.iskrone, in the centity of Sligo, was observed to be en veloped in dames, and in a trw minutes a heap of rubbish alone was visible. On digging in the ruins, horrible to re !etc, the bodies of the unfortunate owner, his wife (far advanced in pregnancy), and three daughters, miserably scorched, and wholly lifeless, were discovered! A cow, heifer, ar.el pig, shared a like fate. So violent and rapid were the Baines, that the people assembled round the scene of destruction, among whom were Mullanny's two suns, were unable to render any assistance to the unfortunate sufferers. As none of the inmates survived, it cannot be' known how the accident occurred—it is supposed, however, that the fire communicated to some Cax which had been stored in the house. and caused the melancholy catastrophe. Mrtitycnony Cass: or Strucr.ow.—The family of 1 1 Mr. J—, the keeper of a fashionable hotel at the west end of the town, has lately ken thrown into the greatest ' distress by the base and unprir.cipleel conduct of a seducer. A Mr. Ceergc 0., the son of an opulent draper in the neighbourhood of Pond-street, was admitted into the fa mily of Mr. J. as the suitor of his daughter. The two families had been long in habits of friendly intimacy, and it was understood that Mr. 0. only waited the death of a near relative, aged 83, to make the young lady his wife. The attentions of Mr. 0. were unremitting ly continued for nearly two years, when about three mont hs since, Miss J. became extremely indbrosed, and in a very desponding state; and confessed to her female attendant that Mr 0., under the mask of introducing her to a relative, Ita:1 one evening, while walking, prevailed on her to accompany him to see an aunt in the vte;nity of Soho-square, where he accomplished the foul purpose which he had been so, long contemplating; and that her utter ruin was inevitable with her family and the world. The unfortunate veurg lady was conveyed to the country, where about a month since she lav in. On being appealed to by her father, the infamous seducer refused to fulfil his promise, and the daughter, we learn, is so deeply affected by her situation, that little hope ie entertained dine recovery. Legal mea sures are taken to punish the seducer, and some fear is felt for his safety, as the only brother of the young lady, an ©Meer in the navy : is hourly expected home (awn AlVers. LITEILITITRE. • TITER ARTICLE FOR THE QVANT&LY REVIEW. DT WILLIAM !lON E. TI er%sre some men whom it is dangeroua fe etraWt, and most unsafe to oppress. Mr. Hone is a man of this stamp ; and 1. is Assailant in the:Quarter& must, by this time, have felt the: stmessiority of fearless truth over mash( d malignity, when they appear together before the holiest tribunal s,f public. opinion. Mr. Hone's vindication of 'himself is manly- and temperate, and the discomfiture of his opponeet is complete, We could wish that the Re:tarred ielee, had ; seen some example of the candour, wbanity, 16 , -4 good faith with which a difference of opinion should always be m eintained; snore especially is this expected from thus! who set themselves apart to inculcate the spirit of meek ness, and to infuse the principles of Christian charity. Tise insidious charge of infidelity Is repelled e..itli a warmth jus tified by the occasion. IVe owe it to the cano! of truth a: well as to the character of Mr. Hone, to extract the pas sage in which he so satisfactorily rebuts the imputation : " Infidelity :s not so good a mine us it was," says the reel welt, " four or live years age," and, therefore, Mr Hone Ina - pblislied a pamphlet, announcing that his cha racter has 'ENN‘zi quite mistaken, that he is a YeTY sound Christirm, and &sat in his opinion 'Christianity is a pule principle—a mental &c. &C. The du!!.. , words he quotes from my pamphlet, which he takes care to say was published nearly three years* aftei his attack upon me. Lord Kamen, I think, remasbei;-tbst it is :a some degree a plea of guilty"to be over-hasty or soliciieus in making a defence. My grounds for answering his first aggression at such a distance of time from the assault, are stated in the pamphlet at cousislerable levzib. These he elects fa conceal, and as be elects alrestsi garble a pasna . r., from the answer I then made to his cli.rgg off Infiseehty; I shall estrifet the paragraph in which that, passage stands. It is introduced by the observation, that, as a I leeks , ilj and pstblisher, I never speculated in any thing opposed tar my own sentiments; that I view there alto °movie Chris tianitt AS opposed to an indestructible seteme of happieesse whick, in its beneficent progress, enabrares individuals, ansf in its final accomplishment will include the whole human. race ; and that I regard Christianity not as a patent of privilew to a few, but a grant to 411—es the Great Charter of man:lnd; defining all rights, prescribing all 'hobs, pro, bilking all wrong, proscribing all rioleace. Upon it every thing that is beneficial or permanent in society is founded • without it the advocates and tspporters of public liberty can neither attain snore nor maintain what they hire.' Immediately after this the liar:graph containing the pass sage garlshal by the reviewer, commences thus--s- 4 ./ was brought up in religious habits, but these are surfaces, pd L principles. They were wort oS by eitcumstances in earl:- youth, when ' chiwing the'cud of sweet and bitter fancy* * I wondered at the world,, and at myself, and theory after theory arose as the wi:t'es,. watering mil diseppriating Ardently seeking for. oink, I conversed with books tither than men, and hewed out principles as I could ; here a little and there a little: It is said, that many persons commence religiose E 4 first, they don't know why, and a blind zeal pelt* in a religion which s they kw* no: what.' (Joncl on the Canon, vol. i. p. 34) I -On act among that !modal.; for it was by-patient research and painful process that I arrived at that clear evidencS for the truth of Christianity. which, if sincerely anti diligently sought, is found to be irresistible. M: reli;kin is the religion of the N' v- Tei'..unent. As 'fatted mid csetr.j , plated by Christ himself, it ie the perfection of all kiio•V -' which is, and which was, and which is to cone.' It is definite wisdom. It is a pure priwiple, a rzentsl illuminati:o; which, however slimmed by the cares and conflicts of the world, shines out in the solitude of tb s. closet, when thu s eye turn: inward. K 3 regirdi ells. duct in life, it ieshe being held in a bond to do just;:e. love mercy, and pricticu universal charity. There is no release from this obligation, the.tlgh the disregard of it is a stumbling-block to thousands, wliess...zoticeptions of Civil* , tfenitv, being derived from the unebaritabl.:ness of ronalsial i.anisiians, disincline them to explore the setines Irons Sammy vindictiveness and persecution stem tel. • In the words of Erasmus, 'Christian charity Oneida haelfto all.; and he that sloes no hurt to any body though be be bad, and would rejoice if he would grow better, in my ve.- ttlfin loves all as heconicsa Christian to dd.' para, graph the reviewer wholly conceals from his reauer's eyes, save only the.four words printed above in inane; to shaune them. He talks of ' the etheice of cur faith.' I UM.. feigned)) , believe, that no sincere member of that church which is visited by the infliction of his dispasttning care, will think his sneering selection of those fber words, and his dishonest suppression of all the rest, can be evidence of his faith in any article he may haveelr el to subscribe; or of faith in the efficacy of any other than the rpurious princif e es of the two apocryphal avtiJes he dared to write, and has not dared to iuts:ri? e." Among the books published in the prercnt year, wi are likely to flourish ttrough this century, and to ri v 3.0 eminently useful pouularitv, we may name the spityi.l:.l production called A r ature bighead, by Dr. Shaw. :At study of the manifold and wonderful work! of Cod, alv,a , ,s r,T atifyitT, is doubly increased in interest by this pepul;er etbibitten, in which a luminous text is illustrated tbrough ant by many hundred engravines, large and small, plain and coloured. The idea of a succinct display of the wonders and beau ties ofnature, originate with the Abbe La Plu:he. in the beginning of the last et ntury r and his work in seven vr lumcs appeared in Paris about the ye.rl7‘2o, under the title of Spectacle de la Nature. Four volumes only vi , re, how. ever, devoted to nature and art, and the other three a=re occupied by the moral, theological, and rnetaphysi.tat sciences of the day. Two rival translations soon arptarid in London, and ran through Tr.sny editions lit . twf.el the years 112 u and 1760 ; but as new discoveries had been made in every branch of science, and the French at:thar bad crigiaallv ado pted the Cartesian p h ilosop h y, anti he sitated to ackhow.edge even the Copernican system. the work became obsolete, and now ranks among coleus rather Than useful Books. . _ The plan, htwrever, teat :egitimate, tot rittiaincJ tarn executed till the recent arpcarance of this pest and nest interesting novelty, by Dr. p. Shaw. Of course, it be came necessary to adopt no more than the plan of 1.. s Piuche, fur the materiab were superseeed by disco veties and improved obscrrarions on event rubject ail which the French Abbe had treated. The fortn of elegue, as trifling and antiquated, is also &opt, ar.d that Of lectures preferred, a. more suited to the gig. nity of the topics. Again, the Editor enjoyed a further advantage in tho labours of travellers, sceieties, and ares;s, and he has been enabled, by isainil himself of them, s, illustrate every object by such a series of graphical repre sentations, as never before were assembled is a work of this kind, even on any one of its LUMEIOOII StibieCin. A grand monument has thus been raised of homage to the creation ; and the onmipetence and omniscience of the Cte. ator have been brought ir.to contact wiat every ee and understanding, iu a n.cderate compass, and at an econo mical price. Adroitly availing hirr.se.f of his vast asserr.blage of cu rious en.rovitii . r,s, the Editor bas applied to Nature the principle long recognised !n gragrcjliy ; and by printing them of uniform s re in folio, has exhibihvl nature in an arranged atlas of beautiful et:parings. Fir purposes of study, end acquiring much linewled ; :e at little trettble. this atlas is without parallel. It not otilypeintrays a l va rieties of sutijeets in their connexions and ileptnilerci.s., but by the aid of full descriptions of each engraving., entices the most careless reader through the iamier.se of nature's wonders. This " Atlas of Novore" alone. like an atlas of maps, and may be rued:aced witli.ditt or with the volumes of text. The blot of such atlas !ie felicitous, anti it must effect more in promoting the knaw; ledge of the universe. and of its details, than all the b.,oee that ever were printed. . . . . - . On the whole,_ this work, in its entire state, :n int oa. lulus, or in its atlas form, is a great and impottant sitten to our standard literature. It will rendes these studies pnv.f.ar, anti bring them within the reach of every class cal will be hailed as the book specially wanted by •al heads of families. and a:I persons concerned in the oduca tion of youth. By the r:gicg generation thtieselvts it will be coveted, and when poisoned. it will, from its vs ar.:szr.;-.1., be 2tudied wits aridity. • ..: r 1 1 il ~y i i ~ i P • :1‘ 1 , . i A ' 1: 1; ik I ( . -7 I